sentences:  In collaboration with priests Felicijonas Lelis and Kazimieras Kazlauskas held in the Kretinga Monastery, Tumas established the monthly magazine "Tėvynės sargas" (Guardian of the Fatherland) in January 1896.Due to the Lithuanian press ban, it had to be printed in East Prussia and then smuggled into Lithuania.Tumas almost single-handedly edited the magazine from the December 1897 to the April–May 1902 issue.