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The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-08-24

a half dozen senator's the average at
tendance Of senator's, according to Sen
ator Cummins, was four n a half,
The Iowa enator said he had kept
faithful count.
He expressed his feeling of synpa-
thy for the vice-president. who was
compelled to sit silent and preside over
one speaker and ninety vacant chairs.
For undergoing this sort of torture
Senator Cummins held the presiding
pay doubled.
The blame. as Senator Cummins sees
it, rests largely on that system of leg
islating which bars the Senate as q
whole from participating in law-mak-
ing. This is the secret caucus system,
under which, ever since they have been
in power, the democrats have met by
themselves behind closed doors. fixed
up important bills, and then showed
them through,
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-08-24
FINAL Effort MADE
TO PREVENT STRIKE
Mayor Mitchell Hopes to Avert
Trolley Tie Up In New York
Crisis Reached.

New York. Aug. 22.-In the hope of
aVerting a threatened strike OF street
and electric railway employees that
would tie up not only the surface car
lines Of at least three of the borOughs
of the city, but the elevated and sub
ways lines also, Mayor Mitchell has
tened home from P~lattsburg, n. Y, to-
day to confer with the railroad men and
their employers. Members of the
Amalgamated Association of street and
electric railway employees said today
they intended to decide before tonight
wheth9 r a second strike should be
called.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-08-24
Babes STARVING BY
DEAD WOMAN'S SIDE
Mother Believed to Have Been
Murdered-Little Ones Found
In Nick of Time.

body of Mrs. Catherine La Bello, 10. and
two children. Il baby about six months
old and another child n year old, ap-
rarently dying from starvation. were
'ound in an apartment in West wen
~ty-fourth street today.
Police believe the wOman had been
chopped to death with an AK OF Il
Ratchet. There were no wounds on
the children. The woman had been
dend three or fOur DAYS. the notice say.
Three men are under aGrest in con
me- tiCn with the murder. me Of the
men is believed to be the husband OF
the victim.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-08-24
RUSSIANS REPORT
FURTHER ADVANCE
General BrusiIoff's Army Max
ing New Gains Following
Breaking of Stokhod
Defense Line.

Petrograd, Aug. %. (via London).-
vances at some points along the Stok-
bod line, where they broke through tho
Austro-Hungarian d~efenses las week,
the war office announced today. The
capture of 1900 men in this region is
reported by the war office.
The official statement continues:
"On the StokhOd river in the region
of kovel and Rudka- Chervische, fight
ing continues. Our troops made further
advances at some points. The total
captures in this region on Friday and
Saturday were 16 officers and more
than 1850 soldiers. We also took n
cannon, IS machine gun o bomb
mortars, four se%archlights, and a large
number Of shells. cartridges and rifles"
Strike at Hungary.
The Russians are pressing forward
vigorously through two OF h Car
pathian passes which lead to Hungary.
The capture of JablonitZa and Fereskul
on the boundary between Galicia and
Bukowina is announced. ~JablonitZa Is
about 20 miles north of the Hungarian
border.
I'm the region OF Kuty," the state
ment says, I'VE occupied the villages
OF Kereskul and JablonitZa OH the
river Cheremosh and several heights
southwest Of Tomnakik mountain
were repealed by our fire"
On the Caucasian front the Russians
have made advances, according to an
official statement today which says:
The fighting in the direction OF
Diarbekr is developing favorably for
us. We captured a series OF heights
which had been fortified strongly by
the Turks and took a large number Of
rrsenparo
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-08-24
SPAIN WILL INCREASE
HER ARMY TO 10000

Madrid, Aug. 81. (via Paris).-An in
crease in the Spanish army to $50, 000
men on peace footing is provided for in
a military reorganization bill, which
soon will be presented to parliament
by Minister OF War DeLuque. This
calls for an increase over the present
force of 5000 men. Under the new
law. 6S, 900 men will be ~garrisoned in
Morocco. Reserves of the active army
will permit rapid mobilization Of 400. 600
men. The project provides for Off
GERS sufficient for a reserve army of
600 600.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-08-24

Washington, Aug. characterization
OF reports from Panama that a $4,000
acre land concession at the Atlantic
n of the canal is being sought by a
Spaniard named Fernandez, presum-
ably for Japanese interests was ordered
today by Secretary Lansing.
Rumors of n similar nature have
been common since the canal was well
under way, but it was not until several
months ago that they reached a well
defined outline. At hat time it was
commonly believed in diplomatic cir
cIes that private Japanese shipping in
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-08-24
Japs Get Footing In Panama;
Lansing to Make an Inquiry
%Spaniard, Said to Be Acting For Toxic Government, Seeking
60,000-ACre Concession From Panamanian Government
Election May Be Rever sed to Illustrate Deal.

terests were seeking land through
Spanish Intermediates to establish a
base for storing coa at lower rates than
could be had from the American gov
eminent monopoly base. So far " is
known, nothing definite came of the
plan.
The present reports are that Fernan-
dez, acting as an agent for Japanese
concession through the activity OF Ra-
mon Valdez, whose recent election to
the presidency of Panama may possibly
be disputed by the United States be-
cause of alleged frauds and coercioR.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-08-24
PARALYSIS CHECKED
IN BAY STATE, CLAIM

Boston, Aug. 21.-Spread of ~infantile
paralysis in this state has been checked
temporarily at least, according to Ie-
of health today. Only 10 cases were
discovered within the last 4S hours, Of
ficials said, although daily reports re-
emily have exceeded tEt number.
Further preventive regulations, the
outgrowth Of the conference IN Wash
ington on the subject last week. WOW
being considered TODAY
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-08-24
COMPENSATION ACT Is
ADOPTED BY SENATORS

Washington, Aug. 2l.-The work
mems compensation bill 10 provide uni
form compensation for government en-
ployes when disabled and adequate
benefits for their family in cas- OF
death, was passed Saturday by the SEN
ate principally in the same form as it
passed the FNuSe.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-08-24
STOP z N 7 A

London, lug. 21.-Strong German
detachments drove back British COW
ering patrols northwest of High wood
on the Somme front this morning.
They were stopped when they came
under the fire Of the British positions
west of the wood, says today's official
war statements. Bomb attacks on
High wnol We're reUUlsPd
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-08-24
SENATE Will TAKE UP
IMMIGRATION MEASURE

Washington, Aug. 21.-By q to "a
the Senate today voted to take up ~
immigration bill, which the democratic
caucus had determined to POSTPONE un-
Ill next session. Eight democrats VoteU
with TIE re UNliCans for the motion
When debate on the provisions re'at-
ing to AoiatiCs vas begun. galleries
were cIcarc1 AMI consideration Of the .
fca,uee IOceeded in secret.
When G"} 20 on the provisions re 4,
~ to ! 'ia''rr p an "alie"ics w..
c cared an c~n@, ~'c"a'rr + those fcu
tus'es ~prccccde7 in secret.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-08-24
NEARING
THEIR OBJECTIVE
Now Within 500 Yards of Mar
tinpuiCh as Result of Re-
cent GainS-COunter
Attacks Fail.

With the British Armies in France,
(Via L%ondon). Aug. 22.-Not only have
the British held all the gains made In
the Saturday attack through the criti-
cal second day and night following it,
but they have made another important
gain. This morning they are within 500
yards OF Martinpuich as u result of
taking a trench which had held them
up between PoziereS and Highwood.
(This Is the advance north of Bazcntin
Le-Petit referred to in last nights
British official communicatiOn.)
In this position while the British had
been creeping up on both flanKs vicious
attacks Ounter attacks Waged for
weeks. German resistance, strength
ened after the loss of PoZieres, had to
yield at last to the inCessant hammer
ing.
Paris. Aug. 22.-The Germans deliv-
cred a violent attack on Fleury, near
Verdun, last night, says the war state
ment today.
The announcement says:
North of the Somme in addition to
the important captures OF material
mentioned yesterday, we took six field
guns in the wood which our troops car
ried yesterday between Mature Pas and
GuillemOnt.
During the night there were artil-
lery actions on the Somme front.
ION the right bank OF the Mouse the
Germans yesterday delivered an attack,
accompanied by the use OF flaming
liquids against Fleury. Our curtain Of
fire and infantry fire obliged the enemy
to stop short. and inflicted serious
losses on him"
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-08-24
EXTEND SUPERVISION
OF DOMINGO FINANCES

pervision OF Dominican finance soon
il to be extended to internal reycnue
as well as customs receipts. A budget
system also is to be arranged. Presi-
dent Cariajal, it is believed, will accept
the plan and rccogr~ ion of his govern
ment will follow.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-08-24
AGED 80, VENTURES
M AUTO, IS killed
V!r>i1ia Nan Meets Death In
. First Motor Car Ride
Four Others Hurt.

~~"'""r. Vi. Aug. 80 A. w. Garner,
~ N"aH",2,ilie. wrt 30 years old be-
t"EH ~ "ca'"rCd - take a ride in an
a~i''rTu1ri'" and today he is dead. Yes
hi%'" af'"rncon III" car in which he
c@": F#* 20 rihr, plunrcd over a CO.
#1n' mons. f"'rad over five
2 n StruCi' lad killed Garner
Trs four Gtliays including lis
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-09-13
Horseless Farm 5 Long Way i'm
Fut ure.


Some prophets and sons of prop
bets who predict that horses on the
farms will soon lie only a memory
will have passed away and pleasing
epitaphs. will be carved into the
stones which mark their resting
places, long before their prophecies
become fact The introduction of the
farm tractor will not, as some be-
lieve, remove the horses from the
fields and from their pastures, Farm
Machinery" asserts.
The advent of street cars did not
have that effect upon horses, neither
did the bicycle nor automobile. To-
day there are more horses in this
country than there were ten years
ago, and the prices are considerably
higher.
The one thing that. the farm trac-
tor will do is TO supply the need of
power on the farms which horses can
not give. Take away the farm trac-
tors which are in use today and sew
eral hundred thousand horses would
be required to replace them, or if
horses could not be had the lands
would have to go unplowed and until
ed.
The number of tractors now in use
will be multiplied many times within
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-09-13

roosts or on the nests. Death is due to
rupture Of blood vessels in the head
which may be caused by some undue
excitement which arrests blood pres
sure, or improper diet which may also
have effect upon the pressure Of the
blood.
In your case, the trouble is un-
doubtedly one of diet, and l would
suggest if you are feeding ration
consisting of grain, that you cut down
the amount of oats, and add if pos
sible, wheat to the ration. Where a
large amount of oats is fed, the hulls
of the oats are likely to have an ir-
ritating effect on the system, and
this would have some effect on the
blood pressure.
In addition to the grains, plenty of
cooling green foods should be given.
Anything in the green vegetable line,
or If the hens can get plenty of grass
it will furnish the need in this re-
gard. There is no treatment for
apoplexy, and commercial remedies
purporting to cure this disease have
little effect. The best way to get rid
of the trouble is to keep the hens
from excitement and change their
feed as suggested above.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-09-13

Men VINO have learned the roofing business
through years of practical experience are in
charge of every department of the business.
Men who have made life study of the
blending of asphaltS comprise the Generals
Board of Expert Chemists.
Money-the means TO promote efficiency,
increase output, reduce cost, prevent waste
lis at the Generals call in abundance.
Mills-the largest roofing mills in the world
are the Generals. They are advantageously
located at points where cost of fuel, access
to raw materials and quick distribution of
of finished products are most favorable.
Machinery = the most modern known to
the roofing business, equipS each of the
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-09-13
CONTINUED from Last Week.

difficulty can be largely overcome if
the counties will all Join in the work
of building up the state highway de-
partments from which they would be
able to obtain such technical advice
as might be required in the solution
of their several difficult problems in
road construction and maintenance.
There has been for years an insis-
tent popular demand for federal aid
in the improvement of the public high
ways on the ground that such i'm
provement would render more efficient
the delivery of the mails on the rural
routes, would contribute directly to
the parcel post service, and would i'm
mensely improve the conditions of
country life. Many bills have been
introduced in Congress from time TO
time looking to the attainment of
these objects, and at the present SEES
sion of that body bill has been pass
ed by the House by an overwhelming
majority making provisions for the
aid desired. This bill has gone to the
Senate for consideration. With mod
ifications it has been favorably report
ed to that body and will doubtless be
passed at the present or the next ses-
sion of Congress. Both bills provide
for substantial Federal aid to the
States which have efficient highway
departments and which under the di-
rectlon of such departments will ex-
pend on the post roads an amount
equal to the amount provided by the
Federal government.
The proposed legislation conditions
the extension of Federal aid to the
Mates for rood
maintenance and imposes severe but
entirely wholesome restrictions upon
the methods by which Federal aid can
be made available to the States. IL
the States are furnished with well-or-
ganized and competent highway de-
partments, and will conform to the re-
quirements of the law, and cooperate
with the Secretary of Agriculture in
carrying out the methods for the con-
duct of the work which he shall pres
scribe, they will share in the distribu-
ton of the funds appropriated by
Congress for this work. There is to
be no free distribution of these funds.
The States must put up as much as
they take down. The Government at
Washington will play no favorites.
"The construction (of the roads, is to
be done by the States, subject TO the
approval of the United States Secre-
tary of Agriculture, and future Fed
eral aid will be withheld from the
States which fail to maintain proper
ly the roads constructed with such as
sistance." The States with highway
departments will be first to share in
the appropriations made by Congress,
and with this incentive to the prac-
tical consideration of the subject it is
taken for granted that in a short time
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-09-13

United States might be used by the
roads after the Burlington plan for
| the creation Of a railroad forestry
reserve, to the large ADVANTAGE OF the
roads and the benefit Of the public.
The railroad road-sides are in sense
wasted land and very little has been
done to improve them, and as timber
| is growing scarce and cross-ties are
increasing i'm cost it might be possible
for the railroads to turn their idle
acres to practical account.
If it would be a good thing for the
railroads to plant trees along their
lines, why would it not be an equally
good, or better, thing for the people
who build the public roads of the
country TO plan for the planting OF
trees along these roads? Experience
and observation have shown that the
wind has an injurious effect on earth,
gravel and macadam roads, and IL
stands to reason that the growing OF
trees along the public roads would re-
move in a degree this menace. In
England, where the humidity is great
and the annual amount Of sunshine
rather low, trees are not desired
along roads because they tend to keep
them too moist; but in most parts Of
the United States trees are desirable
because they would prevent the roads
from becoming too dry.
Then there is the idea of beauty
which should appeal to the feeblest
artistic sense. The roads most trav-
eled in foreign lands and the scenes
most attractive in our own country
are the tree-shaded thoroughfares de-
signed for use but adorned with
beauty and the great sylvan solitudes
where the hills and valleys are cloth
ed with forests. Look at the condi-
ton of the road-sides along any Of the
public highways in this country, and
contrast it with what it might readily
be if the tangle Of weeds and under =
brush were only cut away and in their
place trees were planted for both use
and beauty. Compare the average
good highway with the average good
railway. The highway and the rail-
way are much the same in structural
form, each consisting of a well-drain-
ed foundation supporting a mass of
broken stone and gravel earring the
wearing service, in the one case iron
rails and in the other some smooth
covering.
The great difference between the
good railway and the good highway is
not in these particulars, however, but
in the care with which the remainder
of the right-of way is guarded. The
officers of the railway charged with
the maintenance of the road are re-
quired to do the things that would re-
duce this cost to the minimum. They
keep the right-of-way clear of OBJ
structions that would interfere with
the safe operation of the trains; they
keep the bitches at the side of the
tracks clear so that the roadbed
might not be undermined by standing
water; they keep the slopes of the
roadway trimmed so that weak places
might not develop under cover of dan
gerous vegetable growth. On the
other hand, the bitches along the high
ways receive practically no attention.
They are supposed to keep the road
way drained, but as a rule they are
CONTINUED on Page Nine)
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Utilizing the Road. Side for Profit

Beauty is economy. Many social
ed practical men" do not think so,
but it is true, just the same. The
hard-headed business men who man
age the Chicago, Burlington e.
Quincy railroad have found that the
two things go together. They have
been studying for ten years the con-
servation Of the timber resources
from which they must draw their
supplies, and within this period they
have planted 100000 catalpa trees
along their right-of- way, which in
time will yield sufficient timber to
maintain the road as it runs through
the cultivated area and at the same
time add immensely to the beauty of
the route, thus combining the two ele-
ments of economy and beauty in a
way to impress the popular mind and
promote the public good.
So successfully has this railroad
been in the forestation of its right
of way, that it has assembled $4,000
additional trees which will be planted
the present spring, and, pursuing this
policy which promises surprising re-
suits, doubtless the whole line of road
in time will be bordered on either side
by luxuriant trees, enhancing the
beauty of the changing landscapes,
supplying refreshing shade from sum-
mer heat to the travellers on their
way and serving as windbreaks when
in the winter time the storm king
holds sway, and all the time growing
timber to make the roadbed smooth
and safe.
The right-of-way of the railroads
in the United States covers an i'm
mense acreage. Estimating that this
right-of-way is 40 feet wide, mile of
road occupies very near five acres, or,
to be more exact, ASS acres, of which
about two acres are the road-sides.
This means that over 100000 acres
of land in the road-sides along the
right-of-way of the railroads in the
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-09-13
Good Roads Department
Conducted Especially for the Banner by Hon. P.
/. Cogrove, President of the Michigan
Good Roads Association.

there will be highway departments in
all the States. With community of
effort and interest in this great work
between the General Government and
the States, and competent direction
and hard service the time will come
speedily, when the public roads Of the
country will be credit to the country
and there will be tall seasons we'll
constructed highways for the bust
ness of the people.
In his proclamation, or preface, as
it is called, President Harrison says:
"All who believe in getting a dollars
worth of goods for every dollar in
vested in construction of maintenance
Of highways are invited to join the
american Highway association and
thus bear witness in an active and
positive way to their cooperation I'm
awork of great economical and social
value"
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f A X M A NJ d
Y O * G. HI A r y


the next ten years, but there will be
as many horses in this country as
there are today, and prices will be
even higher than now.
Farm tractors are becoming a
necessity just as electric street cars
have become-the same as telephones
have supplanted the telegraph in a
way and have taken the place of
messenger boys and quick delivery
of mail. No one will agree that there
are not more miles Of telegraph wire
in use today than ten years ago, nor
can it be aid that there are fewer
messenger boys, yet the telephone is
in almost every business house and
in many households, doing work for
which there was little demand a few
years ago.
The farm tractors will simply fit
into the greater needs to the country
and will do the heavier chores and
drudgery which horses are little fit
for. They will not replace the
horses, but will simply assist them
and make life easier for them. They
will also enable farmers TO breed
better horses because their mothers
will be kept for that purpose instead
Of spending half or more of their
time in doing heavy work.
Let us not dream too long upon the
practicability of the horseless farm
it is long way off, as yet.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-09-13
POULTRY
CONSULTING DEPARTMENT
Poor Growth Of Feathers

Poor Growth OF Feathers
Last year and this year we have
had so many of the Barred Rock
chicks to stay naked; they are even
innocent of any down and the skin is
shiny and glossy and they do not
grow. | feed milk mash, rolled oats,
pinhead oats, chick feed, beef meal
and raw ground bone in the dry
mash, and some beef scrap, all the
grass, clipping. radish tops and let
tuce that | can spare. They have a
run 10x40 feet and | have 200 hens
in it. / have a good warm brooder
coop 10x12 feet with cement floor,
plenty of straw on floor, and had
been heating it with a kerosene
stove and later with a lantern.
give charcoal and grit too. Can you
tell me the cause Of this trouble?
y. IT. M.
The reason for your chicks not de-
veloping feathers as they should is
that you are feeding them too narrow
a ration. The ration you are feeding
them has too much protein or nitro
genous matter. and not enough Of
the carbohydrates and mineral mat
ter are essential for the development
Of feathers.
The milk, beef meal and raw bone
are all strong protein feeds. The oats
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-09-13
Origin of the Word Humbug

The word "humbug" had its origin
as follows: Among the many issues
of base coin made from time to time
In ireland there was none so worth
Dublin mint. 1t was made of what
ever metal was the easiest to get,
lead, copper, pewter, or brass, and so
low was its intrinsic value that TWEEN
ty shillings of it was worth only two
pence sterling. The soft mixed metal
of which that worthless coin was COM
posed was known to the Irish as
'uimbog," pronounced ommbog, mean
ing soft copper, or worthless money.
Thus the phrase "humbug" originated
by person saying: "That is piece
of uim-bog." Don't try to pass off
your uim-bog on me-"