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The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-04-18
Left the Squire Thjnkinu.

A ~well-known Hampshire squire, not
ed for his shabby coats, was II day
leaning yer q gate which commanded
a good view of his broad acres.
A well-pleased smile was on his lips
when he was startled by the sound of
a wheedllng voice near him.
"Gle us a hand, old chap, to help
my poor old donkey up the hill"
The squire turned, and, with the
smile deepening in his face, pushed the
little cart behind with so hearty a
good will that the coster exclaimed
with admiration:
well, I'm darned If you amt a
good old sport. / say" he went on In
a whisper, "Tve knocked over two or
three Of the squire's rabbits, and I'm
darned If you shan't have one."
Whereupon. with a great appear
ance Of secrecy, he pulled out a fat
young rabbit from under a sack in the
cart, and trotted away, leaving the be-
.wildcred squire with II of his W
rabbits dangling from his hands.-Lon-
dor Tit-Bits.
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Lost Print Snop-LoyaI Yet.

EO5I TTIItk SffSP--~JSf
He ran a weekly paper in the patriotic
west.
1t wasn't much to blow about, but he
did his level best
To satisfy his readers of the things that
they should do,
To offset the Teuton's efforts 'gainst the
Red and White and Blue.
He printed for the Red Cross, the Y. NJ.
G. A. and such:
Found space for editorials touching on
the heartless Dutch:
Gave freely of his stock in trade-all open
and in view;
But he jeopardized his print shop for
the Red and White and Blue.
'.Pretty tough" the sheriff murmured as
he locked the sanctum door,
But We amt been usin' judgment like
you allus did afore,
Cuz I've heard we on the telling
men they'd surely rue
The day they wouldn't donate to the Red
and White and Blue
"Of course" the sheriff volunteered to
sort Of soothe his pangs.
"Ye never had to pay out much and we've
got a lot of bangs.
For a bunch Of silly matter you may have
printed for a few,
And turned down some bully readin' for
the Red and White and Blue
I'm darn sorry for that printer, for he's
had his mind firm set,
To boost the third loan venture the
hardest he had yet;
But, perhaps a thankless public may
awake to visions new,
When they miss his weekly boosting for
the Red and White and Blue.
1t may be that few men reason how much
the printer pays,
Long beside the banks and merchants
when Uncle Sam goes to raise
A million or u billion to pay the Nations
due,
But he doubles up their giving for the
Red n White and Blue.
i wonder if when Gabriel calls aloud on
Judgment Day,
Come We hence, all saints and sinners
for thisd day you're due to pay"
He'll give credit to the printer or compel
the mar to sue
For most valued service rendered for thu
Red and White and Blue.
II He don't profit I've a notion to tax
my chance with him.,
For if he don't get by easy my chanc'
is mighty slim;
And I'm sure the very devil must appre
ciate him too,
For the work he did so freely for tn
Rec and White and Blue.
Sigh Jackson, in the Ipswich. 5. d.,
Tribune.
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Foch's Army 100000.
From the Philadelphia Telegraph.

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
General Foch commands the largest
single army under II man in all history.
The French have under arms nearly A.
O0 COCO men. The English army In France
is at least half of that. America will very
shortly have 1000, 900 men on the battle
front.
There will be 100000 soldiers under
General Foch on one front and moving in
the same direction.
Hindenburg does not have that many on
any one line or In any one army.
Napoleon's largest army was GO0.UC. and
he never had over 1000, 900 soldiers in uni
form I'm his empire.
Grant had 100000 under his command
during the last year of the civil war.
Wellington's largest army was under
~ ,0O.
Won Moltke did not have in any one
army,in the Franco-Prussian wal a quar-
ter of the troops now obeying the COM
mands OF Hindenburg.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-04-18
WHERE FARMING
IS PROFITABLE
The Future of Great Possibilities.

Some idea of the great wealth that
the western Canada farmer had in
view a few years ago Is now being real
ized. The amOun received from the
sale of wheat, oats, barley, flax and
rye in 1917 IA $270,000,000 while the
sales of live stock at Winnipeg alone
1etted $4O,O00,00O additional. OF this
sum hogs alone gave over eleven mill
Ion dollars. The increases at Calgary
End Edmonton were over 6H million
dollars.
This money, SO easily earned, is be-
ng spent in improvements in farm
property, purchasing additional land,
'uying tractors, automobiles, and i'm
proving home conditions, providing
electric light, steam heat, new furni-
rure, pianos, buying Victory bonds,
paying up old debts, etc.
Over five hundred tractors were sold
n Southern Alberta in 1917. One
Implement agent reports that the in
.rease in his business in 1917, over
hat Of 1916, was equal to the total
business in 1915. 1t is the same story
all over the country. And 1t is not
his evidence alone which proves the
advancement and growth Of the three
prairie provinces, but the large in
.rease In the number of settlers; the
Improvement in the extent Of the cul-
ivated areas and agricultural produc-
lion; the increase in value Of which
over 1916 was $77,OOO,O0O.
This wonderful progress that has
beer made in agriculture in Western
Canada is but the beginning which
marks the future Of the greatest agri-
cultural country on the continent,
showing a future Of great possibilities.
There are millions of acres yet I'M
titled, and Of land as good as any of
hat which is nov giving its owners q
:eturn of from twenty to thirty dollars
an acre, figures that in many cases
'epresent the cost of the land, with all
cultivation costs included. 1t Is true
hat the cost of production has in
creased during the past few years, but
The price of the product has also in
creased to q figure which leaves a
large balance to the credit Of the pro-
Queer.
The following table shows how this
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ruary, amount $113.6O, and March
$l52.SO, was accepted.
On motion the report Of l.. A.
Sticky, clerk Of courts, fees collected
March, 1918, amount $3.50, was ac-
cepted and approved.
ON motion the salaries of the various
county Officers for the quarter ending
March 81, 1918, were allowed.
i On motion the following bills wer,
allowed on the county fund:
w. w. Cobb, auto hire, $10.50.
l.. Patterson, auto hire, $50.
Frank Daub. salary. $4,000.
Joseph V. Wagner, salary n mile
age, $1,000
w. A. Cobb, salary n mileage
$500.
L. Patterson, salary and mileage,
$500.
Charles Dirks, salary and mileage.
S41.00.
l.. A. Eads, sheriff, attending com.
missioners, $500.
Motion to adjourn to Saturday, April
Tyndall, S. D., April 6, 1913.
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
Present: All members and county audi
tor.
on motion the following bills on the
auto fund were allowed:
Loring M. Melick, dragging, $S.40.
Fred Il. Dawes, dragging, $77.35.
Nick Peters, dragging, $4.20.
A warrant on the bond sinking and
interest fund, for the ~semi-annual inter-
est on the court house bonds, amount
$1,625. was ordered to be Drawn.
On motion the following bills were al
lowed on the county fund:
Russell Grader Mfg. Co, $42.24.
Tyndall light plant. current $13.25.
Bills for farmers institute at Tabor,
$. d.:
Leo NJ. Fitzpatrick, postage and ex-
press, S1.04.
Hattie Hatwan, supervising, 1885,.
Albert Vlasak, treasurer, hall rent,
$4,000.
Matuska & Koletzky, hall rent. $500.
George D.. Petrik, labor, $4,000.
j. A. Dvorak. printing, $2S.10.
Chastka Bros, merchandise, S1.25.
On motion the salaries of the deputy
treasurer and deputy auditor, were
raised to s125 per month beginning
April /, 1913.
The following bills were allowed on
the county fund:
Emerson-B rantingham Co., repairs,
$211.57.
w. A. Cobb, auto hire, $3.50.
Frank Daub, auto hire, $500.
l.. Patterson, commissioner salary
and mileage. $1,000.
Joseph V. Wagner, commissioner sal
airy and mileage. $500.
Charles Dirlks, commissioner salary
and mileage. $500. ,
w. A. Cobb, commissioner salary and
mileage. $1,000.
Frank Daub, commissioner salary
and mileage, $500.
The following names were added to
those in the jury box:
II. NJ. Croft, Joseph Blacknik, Henry
King, Amos Stafford, Erwin kilker,
Walter Ritter, George Schorer, Walter
Macy, Ed Kostlan, j. +. Weisser, Peter
Ratzlaff, Vac. Kortan, Roy Brockman,
s. j. Z~olnowsky, John Paddock, franz
Edwards, Christ Moser, Max Bridgman,
Nose Hackett, Vino Sip, Dave HUB
regtse, John Sykora, Carl Johnson,
Frank Zoinowsky; w. e.. Sheffield
Jacob Koehn, II. X. Engel, Fred Kibble,
Lance McLachlan, Frank Soukup, w.
J. Wormsbecher, Frank Cerny, Joe
Wallace, Dan Remboldt, John w.
Slater, Thomas Kane.
On motion the board adjourned to
April %, 1918, 3 o'clock a. m.
L. Patterson, Chairman.
Attest:
Stanley Kramar, County Auditor.
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Cuticura Beauty Doctor

For cleansing and identifying the
skin, hands and hair, Cuticura Soap
and Ointment afford the most effective
preparations. For free samples adj
dress, "Cuticura, Dept. x, Boston," At
druggists and by mail. Soap 25, Oint-
ment % and 50.-Adv.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-04-18

Red-blooded men of courage are on
the firing line-and there are many
aremic, weak, discouraged men and
ONE left at home.
At this time Of the year most people
suffer from a condition often called
Spring Fever. They feel tired. worn
out, before the day is half thru. They
may have frequent headaches and
sometimes 'pimply" or pale skin.
Bloodless people, thin, anemic peo-
pie, those with pale cheeks and lips,
who have q poor appetite and feel that
tired. worn or feverish condition in the
springtime Of the year, should try the
refreshing tonic powers Of a good al
terative and blood purifier. Such q one
Is extracted from Blood root, Golden
Seal and Stone root, Queens root and
Oregon Grape root, made up with
chemically pure glycerine and without
the use Of alcohol. This can be OBJ
tanned In ready-to-use tablet form in
~sixty-cent Walls, as druggists have sold
1t for fifty years as Doctor Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. 1t is d
standard remedy that can be obtained
" tablet or liquid form.
A good purge should be taken once
a week even by persons who have a
movement daily, in order to eliminate
matter which may remain and cause a
condition Of administration, poison
Ing the whole system. To clean the
system at least once q week is to prac-
dee health measures. There Is nothing
so good for this purpose as tiny pills
made up Of the May-apple, leaves Of
aloe and jalap, and sold by almost
all druggists in this country as Doctor
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, s~ugar-coated,
easy to take.
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Percentage increases are shown too
in another way, leading to the same
conclusion, from consultation Of the
Department of Labor's review Of
prices. Taking 100 as the index mum
Der of normal production in the de-
cade from 1890 to 1900, the increases
in prices Of farm products have
his needs. Pct.
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DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the
original little liver pills put up 40 years
age. They regulate liver and bowels. AID.

They love their land because it is
their own, and scorn to give aught 9TH
er reason why.-Hallock.
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SIOUX CITY PIG. CO., NO. 1e--1e1s

Anybody can follow a well-trod road,
but 1t takes courage to be a pioneer.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-04-18

If the beauty Of the average mans
mind isn't more lovely than his face
it is entitled to sympathy.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-04-18

A woman usually has a rug in front
OF the mirror to cover the hole in the
carpet.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-04-18
Accounting for X.

"He wrote me a very lame apology"
"But, then. you know, he's sprained
his wrist"
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-04-18

Good reading acts upon the mind
like furniture-polish in the parlor.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-04-18

Point Of view sometimes blunts the
intellect.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-04-18

When a barre, :, rnols*sas burst on
, Trse!apJ. "a. street. d"sMeu We're
oalleA OK 70 ::'Ish IL. y, ~ 50 traffic
cevsd n-pesa<
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-04-18

Ants preach frugality, but do not
cay Il word.
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Not Against Him.

docs he understand women?"
"Yes, but he has some good quail
ties. "-Chicago Daily News.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16

1t is a tie between evening gowns
ard negligees when we make COM
psrisons and draw conclusions as to
the most fascinating things that wom-
en- wear. The negligee may adopt
aay style it will, be of any gay color 1t
likes, follow no set fashion, for 1t is
one garment at least in which any
Woman may indulge her fancy-if 1t is
whimsical so much the better. 1t is
for the eyes of her household and she
may do as she likes with it.
The lovely negligee which has a
representation to many eyes here must
have been inspired by a simple classic
robe and elaborated with lace and
floating draperies Of crepe. 1t is of
pale pink satin, with a wide border of
heavy lace about the bottom of the
satin slip. There is a short bodice
with band of lace across the bust. The
skirt portion of the slip appears to be
laid in narrow plaits across the front.
The satin slip with picot edge at
the bottom makes a brilliant founda-
ton for soft draperies of crepe geor-
gette. AS to the intricacies OF their
hanging, that is something not at all
easy to tell about. Every negligee
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16

year. These Shias are the ~"dissenters"
of the Mohammedan faith; the SUM
or orthodox Moslems do, but go instead
to Kerbela and Nedjef-cities sacred
to the memory of Ali, nephew of Ma
homet, founder of the Shia sect. From
all over Persia, Kurdestan, parts of In
dia and even Tibet, these zealots come,
their long arduOus journey by mule or
camel sometimes occupying a whole
year. They bring with them the dried
and sailed bodies of their dead, for
burial outside the walls of Nedjef-
and, like the Mecca pilgrim, the Shia
who has been to Nedjef can paint his
beard a bright red and enjoy the title
of "Haji" the rest of his life. To Ned
JEFF every good Shia is supposed to go,
at least once in his career-if ne can
afford it, and, in the shadow of Ned
JETS walls he expects his home to re-
pose, If his children can raise the price
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16

Patterns of refugee garments for
women are now ready and are known
as official American Red Cross pat
terms, numbering from Isl to 1853 in
elusive. Making these garments is a
work that every woman ought to do
with a of gratitude that she is
thus able to contribute something to
the bodily and spiritual comfort Of the
women who have been caught In the
maelstrom of war, Their case is pitt
full. They have been driven from
their homes and are dependent upon
charity for the bare necessities Of life.
1t is inspiring to know that the wom-
en- are responding to calls for needed
garments and comforts for fighting
men with untiring enthusiasm.
Knitting has become the habit with
many, and they are providing the
ers and helmets that the men use,
in great numbers. Some Of them de-
vote their time to making just one sort
Of garment. A lady Of Coldwater,
Mich, who Is eighty-two years old, Is
sending us beautiful sox which she
knits at the rate of one a day. This
Is a fine contribution to Red Cross
work.
Another old lady makes only COM
fort kits, and is now well on toward
the three hundredths kit. But most
women really like to vary the work
they do; those who knit undertaking
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16

sweaters, wrlstlets, sox. etc, in turn,
and resting up from knitting with work
on surgical dressing, hospital linen
or refugee garments by way of va
riety.
Mrs. Charles G. King, superintend-
emit Of the department of knitting and
comforts for fighting men, in the Cen
trail division, which includes the states
of Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska, ILL
nois and Iowa, reports that 10,723 ar
ticles vas the remarkable record OF
one days inspection and packing OF
knitted goods from the state of Illinois
alone, exclusive of the Chicago chap
ter, on January 18th.
| Mrs. John Glass, superintendent of
the department Of surgical dressings,
has received a letter from the asso-
ciate director Of bureau of develop
ment, national headquarters, in re-
gard to the remarkable output Of the
drive for surgical dressings:
'The response to u appeal from all
over the country has been very inspir-
ing, and the Central division has had
no small part In enabling us to take
care of the special request we received
from France. l hope that you will
express to all those concerned our
great appreciation Of the work they
have DONE"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16

an Arabs tent, and claim asylum. And
your enemy cannot follow you to this
haven; your host, too, is bound by the
law of the desert to protect you-to
fight for you if he husband, after
you have eaten a meal with him, he is
further bound to respect your person
and property for "a hours after your
departure. But by another law of the
desert, when you have gone "a hours
from your hosts tent, 1t is quite good
form for him to chase you, and to kill
dand rob you, if the whim seizes him.
= In these MesopOtamian towns, too,
live thousands of Jews, dressed in
flowing white gowns and sandals, call
ing each other "Yusuf" (Joseph) and
''Ibrahim" (Abraham), living now just
as they did in Christ's time, Staying
sheep to seal q vow, or bind a contract,
The tourist of the future, going around
the world by way of the Bagdad rail-
way, can get a stopover at old Nine
veh, the same Nineveh that was de-
stroyed, and from whose startling
ruins Layard dug up the Creation
Tablets" odd cunelform records telling
of the making of man, of his fall, and
of the overwhelming world food. You
cross the great wheat plains of Celicia,
where 81. Paul was born, and pass
through Haran. the town from which
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ADEuudlu SldIltu Ou Ills NOyuSS VA -
ploration to the Land of Canaan.
Scenes Along the Tigrls.
As your train winds along the swift,
muddy Tigris, you will see Arabs trav-
cling by "kelek," which is a raft Of
poles supported by the inflated skins
of goats. These same old RATS, by the
way, are pictured on the inscribed
walls of Nineveh. These same picture
walls show men crossing the river by
the aid of inflated goat skins, each man
supporting himself on a skin and pad
ding with his hands as q child paddles
in his swimming pool with water
wings" And to this day, at Mossul
(Which is opposite old Nineveh), the
Arab wOrkmen cross the river by
means of these skins. From faraway
Persian provinces, from Kurdestan and
mountain countries long camel cara
vans come trekking in, bringing wool,
hides, carpets and skins Of dates. And
when they go back, they carry cases of
American kerosene, or bales of "piece
goods" from Manchester, or cube sugar
from France.
Nearing Bagdad, the river towns
take on an air of greater hustle. The
people will no longer throw rocks, or
run shrieking at sight of the train and
the 'ferenghies" (foreigners). They
will come peddling all manner of ed
ibles, from curdled camel-milk to Turk
ish nOugat and pistachio nuts. And in
the crowded, dusty bazaar streets
rooted over like tunnels to keep out
the heat-you will see offered for sale
hand sewing machines, dollar watch
es," graphophones and tons of gaudy
calicOes.
There is another class of tourists,
also, who stream across Mesopotamia
by tens of thousands, every year. And,
TO handle this traffic, the f~ar-sighted
Germans planned a branch railroad
from the Persian frontier down to Bag
dad, thence southwest through old
Babylon to the holy cities Of Kerbela
and Nedjef. The Shia pilgrims, this
strange tourist horde is called, and
from this pilgrim trade alone the Bag
dad railway will-when open to nor
nal trafiic-derive millions of dollars
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16

Y Y YHEN British guns came
NM pounding at the age-old
" walls of Bagdad, ancient
home of Sinbad the Sailor
and Haroun-al-Raschid, a new epoch
began in the history of this long dor
mant middle East. The romantic city
of golden minarets and dangerous
dreams awoke to new life-to play a
big, eventful part in the giant upheaval
that is changing the map Of the world.
Gone forever, now, is that favorite
phrase, "The Changeless East" says a
writer in the Los Angeles Times.
Today the British hold MesOpotamia,
the richest province in the Ottoman
empire. They have built their own rail-
road from the Persian gulf to Bagdad
through 600 miles of changing land
scape-a landscape of dense date
groves, of fertile fields, of wild marsh
es, and sandy desert. Bagdad, the
key to the middle East, is theirs.
The Bagdad route proper begins at
Scutari, a suburb of Constantinople on
the Asiatic side of the BOspOrous, runs
southeast of Aleppo, thence off east to
the Euphrates and Tigris country
with network of branches-and thence
south along the winding Tigris to the
hot waters of the Persian gulf.
For sheer human interest, no trip
in the world can compare with a jour-
ney owe the route of the Bagdad rail-
way.
And, when the great war has ended,
and trippers are again making the tour
of the world, it is inevitable that
hordes will fOrsake the Suez route to
go by rail via Nineveh, Bagdad, and
the old Garden of Eden.
Region older Than History.
1t is a region hat was old when his
tory began-the veritable cradle of the
race-the home of the PhOenicians, the
Chaldeans, the Assyrians and Baby
ionians. And remnants of some of
these old races are still found there,
living now as they lived so many thou
sands of years ago. Among the desert
BedOuins the covenant of bread and
salt is still kept, and the law of asylum
is strictly observed. If you are being
pursued by an enemy, you can run into
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16

has a fashion of it's own. These dra-
peries which are SO gracefully pictured
are of light pink georgette. They aye
finished in points weighted with silk
and silver ornaments and balls.
Beginning with an underslip of satin
and finishing with a coatee of lace, or
a mantel of crepe georgette, almost any
woman may fashion a negligee suited
to her own style and figure. She is not
apt to finish 1t without bringing lar
row ribbons into the play of lovely
materials and she will not wear it
without slippers that are dainty enough
to rank in the same class as the negii-
gee. ~
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16

will say, "Oh, Lannier place." whereas If you say it after the latter fashion
the correction will come, "Oh, Lanear placer"
All these considerations will establish in the fair mind the absolute
truth of Rutherfords statements concerning his famous mouse
Rutherford happened to be visiting a Maryland town that summer. He
had gone to bed. when a strange sound came from the window sill.
Gee crckeE" said Rutherford.
He flashed a pocket electric light or the spot from whence the sound
seemed to come, but sw NJ cickets.
He depoyed out of bed toward the window.
There on the window sill Rutherford saw-a mouse.
Sure!
The mouse was singing merrny away.
"Chirp, chrp chirp" sang the mouse.
Rutherford says it chirped a regular tune for al hour, much AFTER the
fashion of Indian tomtom music its monotonous but sweet sound lulng him
to pleasant dreams at last