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The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-03-25
Hsek,ess Brand Of Courage,

We can't help admiring the courage
of an old maid who makes a suitor
propose twice before accepting him
although she knows he's her last
chance.-Birmingham Age-Herald.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-03-25
The Thirsty Oak.

AN oak tree of average size, will
100000 leaves, lifts from the eartl
about. one hundred tw~enty-three ton:
Of water during the FIVE months it ii,
in leaf. r.r
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-03-25
A LEGACY.

Johnston has inherited a wonderful
collection Of art works. antiques and
bric-a-brac." From an ancestor who
was q connoisseur, / presume" mot
exactly. From an uncle who was q
pawnbroker." %
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-03-25
Optimistic

Chivalry was founded invariably BY
knights who we're content all theiI
lives with their horse and m ant
daily bread.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-03-25
Daily Thouqht,

It Is only the man who deserves q
kindness who knows how to be CRATE
full for it.-Arnold.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-29
AN OBJECT

A city daily tells Gs how a certain
municipal farm is to be made "a prac-
teal demonstration and IAN object
lesson'' to the farmers in the sur
rounding country. 1t is a rundown
farm, considered almost worthless"
st the present time-but we venture
the assertion that it cost the city some
thing anyhow. Great results are pre-
dicted in the restoration of this land
by Intelligent" farming and by the
Uee of many c~ar-roads" Of street
sweepings and manure from the city
stables. Intelligent farming will help.
hut we resent the idea so often ex-
pressed or implied that farmers are
lacking in agricultural intelligence.
Perhaps any of the farmers who are
to be enlightened by this municipal
demonstration or object lesson could
teach the city farmers something about
restoring rundown lane with many
carloads of street sweepings and ma
nure. If these municipal farmers
want to make a demonstration help
full to real farmers let them build up
this land without manure other than
what the farm produces and pay for
everything out of the farm at the same
time. Such a demonstration of intel
Iieent'' farming would be worth some
thing to any COMMUNICATIONS
Stockman and Farmer.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-29
NEWSPAPER AS TEXT BOOK.
(Gastonia Gazette.l

(GastOnia GaZette.)
The ought to be used as
a high school textbook and as a lab
oratory-that is the doctrine which
Merle Thorpe, professor of journalism
in the University of Kansas, who set
before his students in a new course OF
high School Journalism in the sum-
mer session of the University of Cali
fornia at Berkeley from June Fl to
July 81"
The above item from The Fullerton
(Col.) News strikes us as being timely.
If the newspaper is considerably such
a power in the world, generally speak
ing, why should it not be used to more
advantage in the school room. Prof.
Thorpe says that public school teach
ers are very negligent of the friend
ship of the press, seemingly Indifferent
to it's influence and helpfulness and
states that he has visited communities
in which the teacher was scarcely &C
ouainted with the editors of the home
paper In their public gatherings,
commandments and school openings
they seemed to think the only persons
of Importance are the school trustees.
Aside from this feature of the use
of newspapers, another and more val
liable use is that made in the vfsuaEiz-
ing of the study Of history, civics,
English and the like. Current events
history in the making and world facts
are all cleaned from the newspape2
and appeal more strongly than do tn
same facts gachered from textbooks.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-29
JUST A LITTLE TOO MUCH.

They had been engaged three yeas
but there seemed no indications that
the good ship matrimony was lowering
in the of1ng. She was getting rest
less, but when she touched the sub
ject he dexteriously turned the con-
yersation.
Recently he turned it of to physi-
ology, a science of which he was a
student.
@Yes," he said airly, tit is a strange
but Northumberland fact that the
whole of the human body changes
every seven years. You, my dear, are
Miss Jones now. In seven years you
will have completely changed. Not a
particle of your present self will be
left; but all the same, you will be
Miss Jones'"
"Oh, shall II" said the angry dam
sci, tugging away at the third finger
OF her left hand. 81 assure you I
won't If ! have to marry a rag picker.
OF all the impudence-Here's your
ring, and I never want to see you
again!"
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-29
ARMY AND NAVY OFFICIALS
/. ASSEMBLING INFORMATION
New Plans it is Believed Will Call for
Large Number Submarines, Bat
tleships and Dreadnaughts.

Washington, July 25-Pending Pres
1dent Wilson's return from Cornish, N.
H., when he will formulate with Sec
rotary Garrison and Secretary Dam
iels what the white house has an
nounced will be a sane, reasonable and
practical program of national defense,
army and navy officials are busy as
sembling the information upon which
the new military policy will be
founded.
No announcements have been made
as to what the army and navy boards
at work o nthe needs of the respectiv
services have concluded but it is
known that both have been veil adj
yanced. It has been planned to lay
the reports before the respective secre-
taries within a month or six weeks
but in view of the white house state
ment it was regarded as probable to-
night that they would be rushed to
completion and submitted within a
few days.
1t is definitely known that navy
plans contemplate a big increase in
submarines, the building of thirty and
perhaps fifty being recommended, that
several battle cruisers will be urged
and at least four dreadnoughts, and
that a big increase in the auxiliary
fleet and in navy aircraft will be
sought. Several additional navy yards
to serve as submarine bases also will
be suggested, it is thought.
Such a program would carry with it
Of necessity an increase in navy per-
sonnel and probably the enlargement Of
the academy at Annapolis, where navy
officers are trained.
Army plans look to the building. up
of an army of 100000 men, regulars
and militia, within territorial United
States. This has long been the figure
at which army officers placed the needs
Of the country for defense.
To make the plan efficient it is be-
>1ieved some scheme to federalize the
militia will be advanced and also that
methods of building up reserves for
both the regulars and militia will be
proposed.
Another feature to receive attention
probably will be plans for training Of
fcers for the volunteer forces. En-
Iargement of West Point may be re-
commended.
This general plan contemplates, in
is understood, only the mobile forces.
The coast artillery, g~arrisons for the
canal zone, Hawaii, the Philippines,
Alaska and Porto Rico will be consid-
cred separately. Great attention will
be given to fully presenting to the
president the material problem. Army
officers hold that ample equipment of
field guns, rifles, machine guns and
heavy field ordnance must be made in
advance.
Field gun ammunition and small
army carriages car be turned out in q
hurry. 1t is said private plants to
make these have increased many folc
under the stimulus of European con-
tracts.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-29
BLEAsE WILL BE A CANDIDATE.

Hot Springs, N. c., July 21.-Ex-
Governor Cole L. Blease, of South Car
DINA will lecture Friday night at 8
O'Clock at the auditorium of the South
ern Normal college here. Blease says
that unless conditions in South Caro-
lima politics change very rapidly and
materially, he will be a candidate FOR
governor next summer. From state
ments made by Blease it is predicted
that the only change of conditions that
defeat tbs prophecy is death. 81 have
pardoned," says BIease, about LOO
people. I feel / have acted according
to my best knowledge and conscience.
Only W. Of the number pardoned, 10
my knowledge, have been r~e-sentenc-
Ell. My religion is: DO unto others as
you would have them do unto you"
The governor, accompanied by L. B.
Roach, of Columbia and G.. H. H. Kelso,
a private detective, is well pleased
with Hot Springs, and will remain
here until Saturday.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-29
PRESBYTERIAN STATISTICS.

There are now 1926 missionaries
from our church in missions abroad"
says the foreign mission secretary Of
the Presbyterian church. U. S. A. ITO
furnish personal support and living
accommodations and the actual neces-
sites of the work for appropriation OF
$1,012.50 per missionary. To cut this
down or to threaten to cut it down is
a shadow upon each m~issionary's
spirit.
"Let it be remembered that upon
amount the. missionaries themselves
are maintained, and that in addition
they employed 5,766 native workers,
and conducted 1,781 colleges, training
schools. medical schools. theological
seminaries, high schools and elemen-
tary schools with 64,687 pupils, 3,1G4
Sunday schools with 154,139 pupils,
173 hospitals and dispensaries with
3O5, O35 patients. and ten presses is
suing 95, 1O5,452 pages last year. All
this costs less than one-half the an
nual budget of Columbia university
alone"
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-29
LEADS THE UNITED STATES.

North Carolina has more Whole-time
County Health Officers, twelve al. told,
than any other state in the Union, said
DR.. Stiles of the United States Public
Health Service to the Country Life
Conference at the University the other
day.
Adequate attention to public health
and sanitation calls for competence,
courage, energy, initiative and freedom
from dependence upon private practice
on part of the county health officer.
Anything short of this will still leave
the people of any county scourged by
postponeable, preyentable deaths year
by year.
The whole-time health officer is the
thing and DR.. w. s. Rankin, our State
Health Officer, is shouting it all over
the state. He has put North Carolina
into the lead. acknowledgements
News Letter.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-29
TRUE NEUTRALITY.

The Literary Digest, the well-known
and indispensable current event week
ly, has shown a most admirable edi-
tor1al on neutrality in dealing with in
ternat1onal happenings, says the
North Carolina Christian Advocate.
All others seem either to be pro-Eng-
ish or pro-German, but The Literary
Digest is like the little baby-neutral,
in that it resembled neither father nor
mother. Its admirable tone may be
gathered from the following item
clipped from a recent number:
Although the wrong done to Amer
lean oversee commerce by Great Bril-
ta1n's starvation blockade" of Ger
many has been overshadowed in the
public's mind by the killing of Ameri-
can women and children by German
~torpedoes, our press shows almost as
little inclination to yield ground on
the n issue as the other. In both
cases, they seem to feel. this country
speaks for all the neutral nations in
behalf of the rights that are theirs By
law and usage.
While our State Departments pro-
test of there months ago against Eng
lands resort to a course of action pre-
v1ously unknown to international law
has not yet been answered, a British
memorandum dated June II has again
brought the matter definitely before
the court of public opinion. In this
memorandum the British government,
after describing in detail the steps it.
has taken to alleviate the hardships
suffered by American shipping nuder
its blockade policy, concludes that it
can scarcely admit that on the basis
of actual facts any substantial griev-
ance on the part of American citizens
is Justified Yet hundreds of ex-
porters and importers are besieging
the State department with petitions.
the Washington correspondents tell us,
seeking relief from the British m
barge.
One committee that conferred with
Secretary of State Lansing spoke for
importers who have $50, 600, 900 worth
of articles tied up in Germany because
Of the refusal of the British govern
ment to allow them to come through
to the United States."
American food products packers are
pushing Washington to have England
free their more than $4,000, 900 worth
of merchandise tied up at present In
British prize courts.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-29
HENDERSON COUNTY SCHOOL
TEACHERS TO MEET SATURDAY.

The public school teachers of Hem
derson county will meet at the graded
school building in Hendersonvile on
Saturday of this week at IL o'clock Tor
the purpose of organizing for the COM
eing years work.
Those expecting to teach in Hender-
son county this year are required to
attend this as well as all the other
meetings of the Henderson County
| Teachers association.
Some of the public schools will soon
open and it is necessary that the or
g~anization Of teachers be perfected.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-29
Il BEAR WALTON WELTERs.

Mr.. G..F Lewis of st. George, s. G.,
is spending a few days at the Oates
cottage.
Miss Sallie Merrell of Fletcher, who
taught the Middle Fork school last
year, has returned to begin school
again
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Mooney and
daughter of Kings Mountain were at
this place last week.
Miss Ella Jay Connor of Canton is
spending a part of the summer with
her grand parents.
Miss Mollie Williams of Fair View
passed through this section recently.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-07
E R D


He rests. half buried In che drift
or waterless and silent strands:
His fingers clutch a hooking gift
The worthless. wind blown desert sands
He thought 10 close his hands upon
\ heavier and yellow prize.
But now his lusts for gold have gone.
shrivelied beneath those blazipg skies.
The lizard hits about his form,
The buzzards circle In the height;
II there be mercy in yon storm
Nay he be covered deep ere night.
And may the ripping sands smooth Ger
Upon the deserts face the spot
Where ends his quest forevermore.
The quest OF him the desert got.
The trails to distant water holes
His piodding feet shall ne'er ~retrsce.
For unto stlll more distant soals
The prospector has turned his face:
These shifting sand hills lose their glow.
The breeze no more Is furnace hot.
And when the storm ends none shall kno "
Where rerts the man the desert got.
ARrHUu CHAPMAN.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-07

From ne Washington star.
We had a rcformst lion down TO Pohick on
the Cr!ck.
We thought at nrst our town was most
superior to Old Nick.
We had stunned the various foiiies. no; to
mention real crimes.
Till suddenly wa kind O felt we was behind
the times.
We read about the ways a man would go
from place to place
And. FOR a modest fee. rebuke a city face
to face.
And talk about is vices in a loud an
boisterous way.
Arousln' all The nelshbors by his eloquent
display.
We hoped tina; he'd improve our moral
status, more or less.
An brought him on 10 lecture on our
general worthiessnsss
He called US awful sinners an abused us
right an left,
His style was most %eNcitin'. though It
wasn't very def.
lie said our checker players was a 10. o.
gambl!n' folks.
An roasted ;hem that wasted precious
moments teilin' Jokes.
lie said he'd wake US up. We must admit
he done the trick.
cause were feeling real sporty down 20
Poh'ck on The C-iOk.
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Evolution


Prom the Ciertidhd PAN Dealer.
\ monkey sat upon a limb
A snake crawled up and threatened him.
The monkey lid, he knew not why;
And yet the serpent stayed near by
And that was FEAR
\ Ion crouched upon a rock
And VOTED no; OF strength nor shock;
His thews. his slnews and his stealth
90; him his everlasting wealth.
And all hts hard won home at length
Was won by strength
Man was evolved. The monkeys hand
lie had-aud his own irebrand'
He Went and got his daily fenst
with spear and arrow--which the beas'
Had never found. And. very soon.
Meath scorching sun and chilling moon.
At last he found the secret OF
4 sll-and put II far above
The rest. And 1t was love.
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Resurrection: August, 1914.

AUrtd OHirdnf in the Atlantic Monthly.
The deiuge nrst and after It the dawn
The misery Of dull enduring years.
The hopeless travail and the desperate
tears
or patient peoples overwhelmed and worn
Beneath "A hurthen hardly to be borne.
The whiriwind leaps: the starry splendor
clears:
swift disslpates the sitting fog OF fears.
Triumphant breaks the resurrection
morn.
Word
That stilled the billowy waves OF CALI
lee.
1t came at last. inscribed upon n sword
That flashed in fury over land and sea.
We sought our knees, and To- the risen
Lord.
The stone rolled back. was greeting you
and me.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-07

ther thIrty-eighth annual dinner at the
Hotel Brevoort on saturday, March 90.
The eighteenth annual championship
tourney of the PENNSYLVANIA Chess AS
ISOLATION was played At Philadelphia on
February 20. when $. r. sharp and II. +.
whitaker were tied for first and second
prizes. The latter. however, had 10
leave Philadelphia for Washington. and
so sharp was declared champion. There
we're sixteen competitors In the cham
p%ionship class. The third and fourth
prizes were won by NJ. Freed a..
Teite'baum with q score of . to l..
while Sharp and Nhitaker won four
games each. In the general tourney w.,
~. stewart won the first. Il. II. llornsr
and 7. Il. Moor the second and third
prizes and \. DAVIS and K e.. Ss"e.
were placed fourth and fifth. Champion
Sharp also won the championship IN
1908 and 1918. Other champions were
8. w. hampton. W. T.. Shiplcy ttwice).
W. j. Ferris. G.. j. Newman. \. Sold.
berg. w. H. Hughes. :. M%lotkowski
three times) and :. Stadelmann.
Appended are two games PLAYED in
the Trebftsch tournament at the Vienna
Chess tit recently
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The ~Perisc0pe.

From tie Ciereldnd PLAN Dealer
The lighting deck served very well,
The bridge was handy. too;
4. greNsoin- tale the tops could tel.
when fighters swHrmed the blue;
But now the fighting fashions flop,
with problems new we cope.
And from the sea with sudden pop
Appears he periscope'
The periscope IA all we see.
But In the craft below
The captain notes upon his lee
The huge and naughty Zoe.
The shot IL htted to ia frame.
They loose the starting
And then. az silent az 1t came,
Down drops the periscope:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-07
The Curio.

The Curio.
Hell occupy a crystal case
4 hundred years from now,
His joints all wired together and
4 label on his brow,
With queer Egyptian pottery
And Babylonian bricks,
And idols OF the Ming-ho age
His treasured bones vii! nil,
The folks will come and crane their necks
To read his humble name
Upon the tag that classiies
His everlasting fame:
Josiah Hicks, who lived ana died
Amid Manha.,an's strife
At eighty-hve, and never danced
The tango.
Argentine,
Fox trot,
Lame duck,
Hesitation.
Castle walk.
Or make In his life."
NINA IavISs.
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RUY LOPEZ.

tdl The simplest continu alton. B-o5 II not
considered good and leads to very complicated
positions. which In most instances are favorable
or black.
(bl 1fPxP instead. q. R-K, Poe 10 Kt-pB.
B-K3: IL. ktxkt, PNKt: II. RAP, B-K2: Il.
BSB .PxB; II. RAP. Or: i6. o-K2. Castles;
10 Just as good as 10. R-x. which is sens
orally played here.
ID P-kBi played by two masters In 1877 IN
not considered good
tl B-KKt5 and Kt-Bs would have been
better
n wins a pawn but loses the game. R-KKts
was better.
% n IL. oKtSP. IL. P-KB4: PIP: IT.
oktIP and white gets a strong attack.
~ II -. II. Bob. ~. Q-K3 threatening
O-R6.
% or 10. .P-KBt 20 oR-K, RIB obest,
for II 20. d. Q-Q2. or Q-o3- Ok,
RIB: %. Is Ri. etc.. II. R-k5. ToB3: ~.
BSP and white has the advantage. -
y II 20. ...PxB n. Q-R5. p KB<; n.
BxP. &C. 80
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rather ofh'eTs o. 'h' corporation i"'
whose n~'tllSeh'" no "''o' 'hH W. '"'t"
tained against the corporation W VIZ
absence o' salh'e, ihp'HtS vs. "'"'''
In commenting on tH' "e''S''' VI ~
Missouri courts M I'"'IlS - N'u''
CITY Basehill COMPANY '"e D"'",' SnSs
That MI fu'NG pau ul0 wv ,',''H wv
took q 'l'ol'" seat ,i' ~ El'." s''',''
where Il" could see IN" "''lNs on w
halI' Tie 'tl'i H"N'N''' !" zee ~
Us ~ "i Itr,, 80 rt, rosc T,re
',,.HH s,, 49,, E,rs,y IJty R,sah,u
,,J"m h., nI,in,lr did M, watch
,t" ,',,, -, .liI,..r, - A.. should I'm,
~. ..,,,t o,nt.s rruosiur counsel 'Ir
IVA k,ns,s rity R'u.s had kent their
' 49,, ~. h,u u,,L tb. ,,.ur,cv do
played they would have attained a
higher place in the race for the PEN
utnt." The court j. we'll yersed in the
national pdstime, saying about 700
balls are pitched during a game and In
the preliminary practice of the two
clubs, and An average of 10 per cent, Of
such balls ar" fouled BY the hatters in
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-07

\ dealer is held not guilty OF unfair
trade in Walter Baker Il Co. W. Gray.
ll3 e. c. \. AZ. l92 Fed. 92l. annotated
in 81 l.. r. A. ~, 50 500. because
when an article is called for which has
been manufactured under the name OF
the maker for a long period OF time
until the trade has become familiar with
II by tina, name. he either delivers goods
put up by another maker under the
same name or fails to call attention 10
the fact that there are two makes. and
give the customer the opportunity to
designate which he desires, where the
rivals product IL put up by the maker
under his W name. and the labels
upon Il are such as clearly to distin-
guish it from the goods OF the original
maker.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-07

Prom TIE Washington sta,

rom me VnShiVUfoH Sf"
cd what constitutes Society,"" inquired the
Man from Mars.
II a gathering OF wealth and intel
lectual stars"
"Ho. no. replied the rustic youth who
wore a grin serene.
Oh soclety's our Mayday dance upon the
village green"
Not So" the housemsid sayiy said.
That Isn't 1. at all.
To find society you should attend the
coachmen's bail"
The serious woman said. III for society
you search
md the very hes, there Is BY coming
10 my church"
s;udious one remarked. The very
highest social force
You may discover IL you will attend our
lecture course"
And some said thar society was made for
ga OF chance,
And others mentioned art and brains and
beauty and the dance,
The Man from Mars looked puzzled and
remarked, 'It seems to me
Society Is all mankind, Including even me.
And each OF US looks Just beyond his own
familiar sphere:
The impulse Is what made me leave my
home and come down here.
a picture which We fll with fays
and elves
when we meet them. md that they
are persons Ike ourselves"
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ThnlI to tho Wind.

Oh, the wind Is in the cedars. and the
wind IL In the palms,
And | listen to It's murmur IKE the sound
= of many psalms
oh, the wind is In the mangroyes, and
the I've oaks how they sway.
And the leaves OF the banana bear the
burden OF It's lay
And the urns Of the hibiscus spill the
scarlet OF their hre
on the wind that breathes among them
its Old whisper of desire.
And the oleanders waver, and the rhodo-
dendrons find
something woolng. something suing. in
the grooming OF the wind.
And Its sing song never ceases. for the
wind will have Its NIL
In the green Bermudlan valley. on the
green Bermudian hill,
Come the dawn across the water with
its shifting peacock dyes.
Or the pageant OF the planets marching
up the midnight skies.
oh, the wind Il in the baInboos. with It's
immemorldl strain.
Sweeping Ike the tides Of slumber from
the haunted Spanish main:
I may not escape Its magic Il will gyve
me. 1t will bind.
And my spirit will forever he a thrsil
unto the wind,
CLINTON SCOTLAND.