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The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-07-22
SAVED BY AN UMBRELLA.
Copyright, 1915. by the Mcclure News
paper S~yndlcate.l

copyright. 1915. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
IRA was a little girl who lived In
far-off Australia. Her home was with
an English family named Winston. but
her real people were dark skinned ma
tives. who lived in the plains and were
known as bushmen. When a baby IRA
had been very III and her mother called
In the white lady to see what the
strange peoples medicine would do.
Mrs. Winston gave the infant some
simply remedy and II got well, but
when h mother died a few weeks
tater on h bushman father brought
AZ 70 the big house on The plantation,
where the Winstons lived. n the
white lady kept the tiny brown baby
dll nov she was a bright child Of III.
One day the bushman father came
90 get his child back. but IRA did not
want to go into the plains ard live a
wild life in grass huts. But the father
insisted, so that Mrs. Winston. know
Ing she had no claim to hold the child.
sadly told IRA that she would have to
return TO her father.
May. the baby OF the Winston fam
fly. was but 3 years old. and IRA
seemed devoted TO the child.
One bright afternoon IRA, feeling
sad about her having to return to the
near the sheep fields. They had a
little basket OF lunch. and IRA picked
up a big red umbrella as she walked
through the hall.
That umbrella will only be in your
way. child" said Mrs. Winston, as she
put a few more apples and cakes into
the basket and tucked May into the
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The Last Straw.

Mary James master is a slightly
eccentric bachelor. He has one most
Irritating habit. Instead of telling her
what he wants done by word of mouth
he leaves on his desk, or on the kitch-
en- table, or anywhere else where she
Is likely to e 1t, a note CURLY direct
ing her to Dust the dining room" or
Turn out my cupboard" and so on.
The other day he bought some note
paper, with the usual die-sunk ad.
dress imprinted upon it, from the sta
toner, and ordered it to be sent home.
Mary Jane took it in, and the first
thing that caught her eye was a note
attached to the package. She read 1t
open-eyed.
Well" she said, he's asked me 20
do a few things in hts blessed notes,
but this is the limit. l won't stand 1t
no longerl"
For the note read: .
die Inside This Package London
Mail.
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Caves Supposed to Be Possessed by
The Devil" into Which None
Willingly Enter.

Ancient caves in different parts Of
Mexico often contain the skulls and
bones Of former inhabitants, whether
prehistoric or of later times, some
times containing fine fashioned flint
implements.
THE natives. as a rule, fear to 90
into these places. DO not enter. Sc
nor they win say, as, with Anglo
Saxon lack Of superstition you deter
mine to explore them: some evil be-
falls those who NEEDLE with the re-
mains of the dead
And IL they are prevailed upon to
assist they cross themselves devoutly
before descending OF entering. Weird
tales they unfold afterward of men
who have gone into such places and
found their exit barred by some evil
spirit, they themselves having been
encountered dead and cold upon the
cavern floor when discovered by their
relatives. who had searched for the
missing one!
According . the poems, the scenes
Of murder or wickedness which may
have taken place In such situations are
enacted again to the terrified vision
of the unhappy witness who had the
temerity to venture into those places
possessed OF the devil, for the king
of darkness is an ever-present and
active elemen. Of the poor Mexican's
superstitious world"
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Raise DUN Foodstuffs or
Maintain Control of Seas
From the New York Annalist.

From the New York Annalist.
Afterward the world will be food-con-
scious as n never was before. A country
that imports Its food, as Great Britain
does, and as any Industrial nation tends
to do, will have a new sense OF its yul-
nerability on that account 1t Is clear
that In modern war, az In war Of prtmi-
tive times, a tremendous advantage lies
with q people who are self-sustaining. 50
that those who fight may be fed for an
in~determinate time by those who remain
at work. Indeed. conditions are imagi-
nable under which such a state OF self
sustainment would weigh very heavily, II
not conclusively, against the gold OF q
country that had TO buy food for itself
and its army, too. Gold Is an asset In
war only so long as It can be exchanged
for the goods required to be consumed In
war. II the world were so upset, or IL
labor In such masses had been diverted
from pursuits OF production to the field
Of war as greatly to diminish the output
Of essential goods, so hat no people pro-
duced q surplus Of food to sell, then the
belligerent country unable to feed itself
would be at a tremendous disadvantage,
though 1t had all the gold In the world.
Or IL q ~food-importing country lost con-
troll Of the ocean highways, or the right
OF free access thereto, no clairvoyant fac-
ulty would be required to forecast its
fate.
England Must Control Seas.
II the positions OF Germany and
Great Britain were reversed the British,
who buy their food, could not persist In
war. Germany, on the contrary, out Of
her own resources, or with those of Aus
tria-Hungary combined, Is s~elf-sustaining.
She can subsist within an iron ring of
enemies. She cannot be starved. And
this IL all the more interesting in view OF
the fact hat Germany was travelling fast
a road which leads to food dependence.
There, as In other modern countries, there
was a drift OF population from country
to city life, from agriculture to industry.
The war catches Germany, by chance, at
Just the point Of equilibrium. She can
feed herself, do it perhaps for years con-
secutively, but II requires an intense con-
~servation OF all food producing means. At
the end Of another generation 1t might
nave been impossible. Germany In an
other Is years would, In the way she was
tending, almost certainly have become a
~tood-importing country, Notwithstanding
the fact that German agriculture IL bet
ter financed and organized than Agricul-
ture anywhere else In the world. Thanks
to the rural credit system imposed upon
The people against their understanding q
century and a half ago, capital has been
very cheap and very accessible to the
herman agrtculturist. q
This country had so long produced an
excess OF foodstuffs for sale to Europe
that the possibility OF its ceasing to pro-
luce a surplus did not suggest itself at
al to any but statistical intelligence until
/ few years ago. It was at first hard to
imagine. But once people began to think
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Eir.t-e.t the right Wife.

The American Magazine has a depart
nent entitled 1.-The Family's Money" 1t
Jeeks to tell how to make Il 60 grow.
4 discerning correspondent offers this
mggestion: er.
We nave noticed your new department.
Nv wife, who comes from the middle west
md 10 intensely practical, says this Is the
line TO tell you something h Is sure OF.
Ifter long observation. She says:
Let the married folks go; It ts too late
10 help them. But do tell the u UNI
married men TO pick out wives who come
81 families OF some m~eans-people who
Know the value of money. This idea that
door girls make thrifty wives Is not sound.
rhe worst spendthrift wives / know came
rom poor families. Not knowing the
value of ~money-never having seen much
~oefore-they are absolutely reckless with
heir husbands coin. They don't know
where the money came from, how hard II
same, and they have no idea OF using II
iu~diciously. The young wife. who has
Ieen something OF money all her life. hav-
ny lived IN q family partly composed OF
successful men folks, Is more likely TO
nave business sense. When she marries a
poor man she will investigate his affairs,
understand them. n be Of some business
use in the household. Two can squeeze
nennies tighter than one."
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-07-22
Mr. eryan,s Man Of straw.
From the Houston POSE.

Mr.. Bryan's Madison Square peace
gpoech was interesting, II was delivered
With all the oldtime Organic fire, and IL
was Organic in the further sense that IL
was Irrelevant and untimeIy.
Tonight 1 plead against war with Ger
many" he exclaimed. SHOULD similar cir
Russia I would plead just as ardently
against war with any of those countries"
True enough, but who Is demanding war
! tn Germany? Certainly the president is
aot demanding UGH a war. The press is
OF demanding wal and so far as we have
en- able to ascertain, no portion OF the
t-opie rave been demanding war.
Mherefore the necessity of pleading when
there is nowhere in the country the slight
est desire for war with IN country?
Mr.. Bryan is merely campaigning
against nobody and pleading against a
sentiment that has no existence.
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Some R~efreshment.

An admiral. during the
at Newport, told a story at q gar
den party.
The navy is as abstemious from
ethical reasons" he began, "as old
Stingee was from miserliness.
"old Stingee was entertaining a boy
hood friend one evening at his shore
cottage. After a couple Of hours Of
dry talk the old fellow said, genially:
would you like some refreshment
"a cooling draft, say-GeorgeT
Why, yes, I don't care IL ! do
said George. and he passed his hand
across his mouth and frightened up
wonderfully. Fur
"'Good!' said Old Stingee. I'll just
open this window. There's q fine sea
breeze blowing"
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-07-22
Those Connected Americans.
From the Frankfurter Zeitung

TIL psychologist finds no difficulty in
explaining why the American holds such
a distorted view OF the significance and
power Of his nag: The Americans are
they are, thai America as q nation is
without a compeer, that America has
reached the highest stage of civilization,
that the American men are smarter, more
honorable and more Industrious than the
men Of any other nation, and that Ameri-
can women are more beautiful, more vir-
tuous, and more ladylike than their sis
ters throughout the world. At every ma
tional festival the people become Inebriat-
ID on ''spread-eagle speeches" which IS
an American expression for something
specifically American, namely, for a hy-
per-patriotism which looks down on every
other nation with a compassionate smile
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about II seriously Il was obvious that In q
comparatively short time the United
States would not only cease to sell food,
but would ave to produce IL more eff
GENTLY In order to supply its own needs.
Then imaginative economists proved, by
projecting the rate OF the populations In
crease In contrast with a diminishing rate
OF food-producing potentiality In reserve,
that In a few years the United States not
only would cease to be a seller OF food.
but would. In spite OF anything Il might
do to postpone the inevitable, become In
time an importer. And this they were
wont to say, will not be the calamity It
sounds. 1t win mean only tha we shall
be exporting things OF greater value thar
rood. AS our agricultural exports fall our
exports OF manufactures will rise. We
b have to buy our food, but q nation
that can afford to buy its food IL q pros
Porous nation. indeed. Consider Great
Britain. She exports skilled labor In the
form Of highly fabricated goods and I'm
ports raw food. It In q profitable ex-
change" And with that consolation the
u~neasiness produced In many minds by
the rapid drift OF population away from
the farms and to the cities was somewhat
relieved. '.
Enaiand's Fate q Warning.
But while 1t Is possible to contemp!
with economic complacency q condition
food dependency even for a country !
this, It II not possible from any OF
point Of view to see IL In q comfort.
light. Tho vital Importance to German
OF the power OF seIf-sustenance and the
latent peril to Great Britain In her food
dependence. will not be easily forgotten.
Great Britain, OF course. Is long past the
point Of choice. Her Ian II unable to sus-
tain her population. She could never be
self-sustaining. Her future existence de-
ponds upon her ability to command access
to the worlds surplus OF foodstuffs, and
1t IL a commodity that II continually
shifting. But Germany may yet choose,
and who N doubt that a country In her
position, that any country. indeed. would,
on taking thought, choose to produce Its
own food?
To hold its own with industry in the
world. agriculture will have to be better
financed and more esteemed. That Ia to
say. Just to keep pace from now o n with
the rate at which the non-food-producing
population Increases, agriculture must ind
new standards. The countries that v
produced the cheap food OF the last CEN
fury have practiced not agriculture 30
much as soil mining. The old soil Of Eu-
rope could not have sustained tho great
increase in population without the grain
mined out Of the virgin soil OF North and
South America. Now that In at an end In
this country. II viii soon be at an end In
Canada. The great; era of cheap food IL
forever gone. SO. II the worlds population
goes on increasing. the food supply In the
next generation and beyond will be- a prob
lem to reflect upon. And the lessons OF
this war will quicken thought in that d.
rection- ....
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Discusted.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
One day, while her grandfather was
paying a visit to Florence's home, the
little girl said to him:
'tGran'pa, your talk about perseVer-
ance winning Is all n~onsense."
well, well. child!" cried the grand
fathe- why do you say that2'
why" said the little girl, I've
" orked all the afts noon blowing soap
bubbles and trying TO pin them Oh
mothers hat
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-07-22
What He MIuht Do.

A man dropped into a cafe one aft.
ernoon and saw his Scotch friend
Sandy standing at the bar INDUCING in
"a lone one" He walked up to the
bar and greeted Sandy.
''Will you have another one with
me?" .
No, thank you" said Sandy, but
you can pay for this mi II you will"
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Divided Ownership.

A gentleman while taking a morn
ing walk down a country lane met a
boy driving some pigs to market.
who do these fine pigs belong tor"
asked the gentleman.
WELL" said the boy, they belong
to thad theer big SOW"
mo, my boy" said the old gentle
man; II mean who is the master OF
them?" r
WELL" replied the boy, "thad theer
little un 'es a beggar fer fighting" a.
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LonlcaI.

why are you so violently opposed
to woman suffrage?"
Women haven't got the intellect to
grapple with problems Of state. Why,
even we men don't know what we's
talking about half the time when we's
discussing politics." @...
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loves Dilemma.

They are both in love with you.
Fantine. Which one do you PREFER
II can't decide to save my life" said
the summer girl. "One has a gorgeous
roadster and the other has a stunning
motorboat."
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Would Hurt Business.

Are you still selling those illumina.
ted signs reading, Nix on war talk? "
mo. / got discouraged and quit"
What happened?"
II tried to sell one to a saloon
keeper." Sci. -- .s.f.
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His Aim.

What are you doing down there
at the clock in the hall at this time
Of morning. 49,.
Arbitration, m'dear; tryin' to stop
a disastrous strike" 4. 81 a
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Counter irritation.

Does that man wake you up at six
o'clock in the morning, running the
lawn mower?"
Not any more. l get up at FIVE and
ask him to lend II to me for an hour"
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seythe SONG.

Mowers, weary and brown and bHthe,
What Is the word meth.nks you know,
Endless overword that the scythe -
Sings to the blades OF grass below?
Scythes that sing in the grass and clover,
Something, still that th1y say as they
pass;
What Is the word that over and over,
Sings the scythe to the flowers and
grassg
Hush, ah hush, the Soy .Js are saying,
Hush, and heed not, .-a- yyieep' .
Hush, they say, to. t. ling,
Lush, they sing 10 : ID
Hush-'tis The lula t.F -
Hush, and heed ncs. .p s.
Hush, ah hushl anu SC a
swinging
Over ~ lover . gy9
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Your objection to special privilege
probably is based on the fact that
you are not permitted to enjoy 1t.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-07-22

Oxen and sheep are believed to fat
ten better in company than when kept
alone.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-07-22

It's useless to be good unless you're
good for something.
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Bacomino Bald

Mamma, l wan a new h%airbrush."
why. Tommie?"
Because my old II is getting
bald" ,
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Used force.

Lady-Have you good reference?
Bridget-Foine! OF held the poke
over her till / got It'll
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It is easy to pick out the man from
the small town. He is the man who
wears rubbers. ....
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It isn't always the loser in a pugillS
tic contest that gets the swelled head.
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When things fail to come our way
we can turn about and follow the line
| of least resistance.
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Guineas we're last issued in England
in 1913.
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Uncle Sam is in duty bound to takG
car of his trade relations.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-07-22

British yeomanry forces were first
instituted by Lord Chatham in 1871.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-07-22

Some men climb up in the world,
and a lot more remain at the bottom
because the elevator isn't running.
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CHARGED WITH BEING AFORTJNE TELLER,
WINS FREEDOM BY READING JUDGES MIND

What Ia believed to be the most
remarkable exhibition Of clairvoyant
powers ever demonstrated was wit
messed recently in q New York court
presided over by Judge Rosalsky.
Professor Bert Reese was brought
before the Judge, charged with being
q fortune teller. The professor was
willing to have his powers tested.
The Judge wrote three difficult ques-
tons OF q slip Of paper. without
seeing the paper Reese repeated the
questions and answered them cor
rectly. Reese was Immediately re-
leased
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Russia has forbidden the export of
poultry, dead or alive.
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Railways in Spain total s.877 miles
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There Are Othnra

There Are Others.
Mars has high aims these hot
times"
Yes, and SO has Mercury"
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Drink Denlson's Coffee,
For your health's sake.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-21
WHO WANTS DYNAMITE SHIP Z
Ordered From New York Harbor an6
Has No Place to Go.

me German dynamite ship" Magde-
burg. anchored for thirteen months in
New York harbor in violation of the
anchorage laws governing ships loaded
with explosives. has been formally and
officially ordered out of the harbor. The
order comes from the government and
had its inspiration in Washington.
What is to become of the German
steamship is now a question. Many
anchorages have been suggested. but
at none will she be welcome. Should
she attempt to leave port, the Brit
lsh cruiser in wait off Sandy Hook
would probably get her. Should she at
tempt flight and be fired upon. her car
go. If detonated by shell, would leave
no trace Of her. Besides. with the
dynamite in her hold in deteriorated
condition after SO long time, it is a
source of constant danger. and may ex-
plode almost spontaneously with just
the slightest friction.
SO far no one is interested in the
Magdeburg except the army. the navy.
the imperial government, Washington.
yachtsmen, bathers and the keeper of
the Stratford shoals light. 1t carries
contraband material, but all of the
above mentioned factors in the stua-
ton wish heartily that it had sneaked
over year ago and got rid of the sub
stance which has worried every one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-21
to sell stock; attorney. George f. En-

to sell stock; attorney. George E. EN-
mons.
Estate of Marie L. Scholl: order to
sell personal estate; attorney. r. D.
Daniels.
Estate of Mary Z. Martin: will ad-
mitted to probate and letters testament
tary granted to George n. Henning
bond, $1,000; attorney, L. r. Alden
Estate of Annie L. Lawrence: order
to sell stocks; attorney. George E
Estate of Rebecca NJ. Laughlin: order
to mail copies of publication: attorney
G. Percy McGlue.
Estate of Frances X. Newbold: will
admitted to probate and letters tesla
mentary granted to Fleming Newbold
and John l.. Newbold: bond, $1,000: at
torney, G.. Thomas Dunlop.
| Estate of Thomas X. Lynch: letters
of administration granted to Catherine
\. Lynch bond, $4,000: attorney, J. r
| Fague.
In re Samuel A Walker: petition 70,
leave to invest funds: attorney. JOSEPH
Solomon.
Estate of Calvin II. Chadsey: order tt
pay attorneys fees: attorneys. Crandal
Mackey and George F.. Curtis
Estate of Thomas X. Lynch: petition
for letters of administration filed: at
| torney. Joseph r. Fague.
Estate of Annie L. Lawrence: petit.
ton to sell stock: attorney, George +
| Fleming
! Estate of Elizabeth Sorrell; will dat
ed April !. 1915, fled
| Estate of Ella F. Lushy: petition 70,
probate of will filed; attorney. Georg;
c. Gertman
Estate of Louise c. Payson: will dat.
ed April IS. 1914, filed. with codicils O.
october Il, 1914, and January 23, 1915