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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-11-05
Good Plan.

He-Smashit is ar inventive genius,
She-In what way?
He-He lost his golf ball yesterday
but went over the course with a snow.
ball, and froze out his opponent.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-11-05

sometimes a man accoinplishes great
Things by getting other men to do them
TOR him." says the Chicago News.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-11-05
of Wheat Land
in Western Canada
WILL MAKE YOU RICH

50 bushels per acre ha We been grown. General
average greater than in any other part ui the Con-
rinent. Under New Regulations it is possible to
secure ] Homestead Of loo acres free, and additional
100 acres at $50 per acre.
The development OF the country has
made marvellous strides, 1t is a revela-
ton, a record OF conquest by settlement
that IS remarkable Extract from cor
respondence Of a National Editor, who
visited Canada in August last.
The grain, crop Of 1908 will net many farmers
5000 to $500 per acre. Grain-raisina, Mixed
Farming and Dairying are the principal indus
tries. Climate is excellent: Social Conditions the
best; Railway Advantages unequalied: Schools,
churches and markets close at hand.
Lands may also be purchased from Railway
and Land Companies.
FOR LAST BEST WEST
pamphlets, maps and infor nation a. -
how 10 secure lowest Railway Rates, Apply Il
y; d. Scott. Superintendent OF Immigration,
ST.. St. Paul. MINI. ii. MaeLashlsn BoxssI6
Boz New York Lie Buildinr. Dmahn Nal
Authorized Government Agents
Pissss aay whore ron 80 thts sdysrtissmsnk
A ~ ETAt
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-11-05
Feminine Revenge.

Feminine Revenge.
Mrs. Tellington-After the quarrel
you had. why did you invite her to the
ball?
Mrs. Swellington-Because 1t will Just
break her heart when she feels in duty
bound to refuse the invitation.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-11-05

AGENTS make SIS to $40 WEEKLY SELL
ing our household specialties. Write for
FREE illustrated Catalogue. FIRST MA
TIONAL Us. MAIL ORDER BUSINESS.
Box 177l. New York q Parkrow).
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-11-05

ting worse. I have to praise Doan's
Kidney Pills for my final relief and
cure. Since using them l have gained
in strength and flesh and have nj sign
of kidney trouble"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
Fost5r-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-11-05
From Harper.s Weeki,

6EETstaA ~ ~ Y oWHS SSh fElUaAHeMf
The colonel had demonstrated vigor-
.ously with Uncle Eph about the old
darkey's persistent excursions into the
state of inebriation.
Uncle Eph, though he promised
faithfully to refrain from frequent dips
into the flowing bowl, failed to live
up to the colonel's expectations.
On numerous occasions the colonel
saw Eph under the influence of liquor.
but the darkey when taken to task,
stoutly denied the accusation, affirm
One evening the colonel met Uncle
Eph in a condition which made it
plainly evident that the darkey was
caught with the goods on"
"Eph," began the colonel, seriously,
7 thought o told me that you had
given up drink"
"Ah, sho' did, Massa Kern'l; ah slio'
did" replied Eph. But lately ah dun
took up drinkin' an glib up lynn"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-11-05

Ma says she sometimes wishes she. was
a river and could stay In her bed.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-11-05

NJ. WILSON'S eooT-srG ezhC, or ChiIdrsp
Setning; softens the suIs. REDUCES iuraus;nasop ar
sspa1ntc ufes w'rS "citr %NcArt4 . occIa
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-11-05
LYDIA r.. PINkHAEN'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND

Mrs. Maggie Gilmer, OF Vest
Union, s. C.,Writesto Mrs. Pinlham:
81 was greatly rundown Ia health
from q weakness peculiar to my sex,
when Lydia q. Pinkham, . Vegetable
Compound was recommended 70 me. 10
not only restored me to perfect health,
but to my delight am = mother"
Mrs. Josephine Hail. Of Bardstown,
KY, writes:
II was q very great sufferer from
female troubles, and my physician failed
TO help me. Lydia =. Pinkham,s Vege-
table Compound not only restored me
to perfect health, but I am now proud
mother,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-11-05
G FOR NJ

For thirty. Years Lydia u. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
andhaspositively cured thousandsof
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fbroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ingg-down feeling, fatulency, mdiges-
ton, dizziness ornervous prostration.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her FOR advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-11-05

Bobby can't satisfy my father and
mother no way.
Teacher-Why, what do you mean?
Bobby-Maw won't let me stand on
my head and paw is always kicking
cause I wear out so many pairs Of
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-11-05


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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-30
CHINA

n RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has be-
gun his new career as a maya
= zine writer without waiting until
the end Of his term of Office. His first
contribution to the periodical publica-
ton which has engaged him deals with
1.-THE Awakening of China" end is OF
great interest, especially to the residents
of the Pacific coast, to whom the word
"China" is not as vague and remote
as it is to fasteners. Mr.. Roosevelt
in California would be a hereto as
far as the Chinese question is con-
cerned, for he refuses to believe there
would be any danger that Chinese
might come to these shores in such
great numbers as to disturb the bal
ance of population. He speaks of "the
yellow peril, whatever that may be-"
Then he goes ahead and discusses the
question which he has just said he
knows nothing about. In spite of hav-
ing used the expression, Whatever
that may be-" he proceeds to write:
THE best way to avert possible peril,
commercial or military, from the great
Chinese people, is by behaving right
eously toward them and by striving
to inspire righteous life among them.
Our Christian missions have for their
object not only the saving of souls,
but the imparting of life that makes
possible the kingdom of God upoa
earth. AS Bishop Brent has said, now
is the time for the west to implant its
ideals in the Orient and in such a
fashion as to minimize the chance Of
a dreadful future clash between two
radically different and hostile civiliza-
tons If we wait until tomorrow, we
may find that we have waited too
long"
Any man who can thus intelligently
discuss the Yellow Peril has no need
to say, whatever that may bel"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-30
THINKING IN MILLIONS

n HE philosophy of the mental pro-
cess of great accumulators has
"A never been analysed, but their
prodigious gains no doubt are in some
respects traceable to a well defined
mental habit Of thinking in large fig
ures. 1t is said John d. Rockefeller,
on being asked what his profits had
been on certain transaction, replied:
II do not know. think 100000, but
ask my secretary. He has all the de-
tails"
A man whose mind is so con-
structed that he can set in operation
causes which produce gigantic financial
effects would be an ideal public servant
If there were an ideal social organiza-
ton. No one can find fault with John
D. Rockefeller's ability, and no one can
find fault with men who have taken
advantage of the unexampled oppor-
tunities given them by our form of
industrialism to grow rich from the
proceeds of labor and brain power.
But surely it is a pity that the work
of these magnificent managers has not
been used in behalf of Americanism,
and for the purpose of producing the
greatest good for the greatest number.
We have seen the statement made
that committee Of American million
aires, acting together and devoting to
the subject the same amount of intelli-
gence they apply to the conduct of
their personal business affairs. could
literally abolish restitution and pow
erty in the United states, and produce
conditions in which there would be
work for willing workers, and rewards
for all who are willing to work. The
waste of human energy under present
conditions is huge, and deplorable, and
what are we going to do about it?''
Is the spirit Of organization which
characterized the American people to
stop with governmental and trust or
ganization? The minds that are able
to think in millions for their own selfish
purposes should be used to think for
| the nation.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-30
GENTLEMEN FARMERS"

4 ENCOURAGEMENT is made that
N Henry E. Huntington is to retire
IA from railroading and become a
gentleman farmer" The president of
Rodsevelt's country life commission
says patronizingly to Californians:
"You are all gentlemen farmers out
here" Thanks, awfully old fellow.
Dee-lighted.
Now let us recover from our spasm of
politeness and, Joy and inquire, What
IS a gentleman farmer, ANYWAY?
Is 1t possible that Huntington and
the Roosevelt commissioner mean to
insinuate there are masses" and
"cIasses" of farmers? What crazy no
ton is this which is corrupting Ameri-
cans and interfering with old-fashioned
Americanism? Who was the first So
called American who dared to say,
what so many people are now saying,
that a man is not a man for all that?
What is q gentleman"
We used to think gentleman, in the
American sense, was a man who tried
to obey the Golden Rule to do unto
others what ne Woulu ike OlnSiS W w
unto him; and who scorned to treat a
fellow human in a way in which he
himself would not like to be treated
But 1t is evident the American air is
infected with a new definition of the
word gentleman" According to ideas
that are far from being ideal, gen.
tleman is a person who is in posses
sion Of a great amount of wealth. But
may not farmer or any other Ameri-
can engaged in any kind of occupation
be a gentleman" Surely we are not
to believe the workers who are the
makers of America are not to be in
cluded in the term gentleman" and
that it is to be restricted until para
phrasing Wordsworth, one may write OF
The good new rule, the strenuous plan
That he should take who has the power,
And be a gentleman.
Hail, Huntington! Thee, on thine
exalted eminence, all the common farm
ers and the rest of the common people
the vulgar persons who work for q
living-adoringl salute.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-30
CANNY CARNEGIE

~ CARED by talk of the growth OF
Socialist sentiment and of trust
~ busting" and apprehensive OF
possible consequences to the fortune he
has accumulated and the industries he
has founded, Andrew Carnegie is using
bonds for his charitable requests.
When he decided to retire from active
business and sold out his interests to
the steel trust he received as part pay
ment $25, 0OO, 900 in per cent first mort
gage gold bonds. These bonds yielded
an annual income of S12,50O,OO0, which
enabled Mr.. Carnegie to be a philan-
thropist on a large scale, without i'm
pairing his capital. When the radicals
began to talk rather loudly, and well
known New York scholars and literary
men openly announced sympathy with
Socialism, or Joined the Socialist party,
Mr.. Carnegie hit upon plan to pre-
serve the business enterprises associ-
ated with his name, and to make his
bonds highly respected. He used them
in his benefactions instead of cash.
When he founded the Carnegie insti-
tuition In washington lOI the Pun pOSS
Of furthering scientific research he en-
dowed it with $10,OO0,0O0 steel bonds,
which yield the institution an annual
revenue of 100000. He planted a few
millions Of bonds in the Carnegie hero
fund, and more went to the establish
ment of the great library system Of
New York. 1t is asserted by those IA
miliar with his methods of transact
ing business that in nearly all of his
foundations where income is stipulated
1t is provided by United States Steel
bonds, which are deposited with trus-
tees. The charities naturally will be
interested in protecting these bonds,
for if they fail their income ceases.
Carnegie's friends say he proposes to
give away every one Of his steel bonds
before he dies, and to take care of his
family with other kinds of securities
Thus Canny Andrew has placed upon
those who have accepted steel bonds
the responsibility of protecting them.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-30
CHRISTMAS

N ANITA CLAUS is expecting a rush
of Christmas business. The work
~ of preparing for the Christmas
festivity for the boys and girls of Los
Angeles to be given under the auspices
of The Herald will now go forward
apace. We have no doubt the festivity
win be successful. The Y. NJ. c. A.
building will be the scene of the jolliest,
happiest Christmas tree party ever held
in Los Angeles. The only matter which
gives us the slightest cause for pos
sible worry is the tendency of some of
the best of men and women always to
put off until tomorrow what they might
as well do today.
We urge our friends to give to the
Christmas festival early. A rush of
gifts at the eleventh hour or the last
minute might upset plans and cause
more or less embarrassment. In con-
nection with an undertaking of this
kind a great deal of thinking must be
done, and from the workers who have
been chosen by The Herald to act as his
stewards Santa Claus will expect gem
eralship. Now, generalship will be
aided greatly If those in charge OF the
Christmas tree festival can look ahead
and do some calculating, figuring and
planning. There is not much scope for
generalship unless there is reliable in
formation on which to act. Therefore,
let us know ahead of time" what you
propose to give toward making the fes-
tival the greatest success In the Christ
mas history of Los Angeles. The Herald
will publish list Of all donors of gifts
or subscribers to the cash fund. If our
friends do not wish to have their names
printed let them send initials or pseu-
donyms. OF course 1t would be pre-
ferable to print real names. Those who
cannot afford to send big gifts may rest
assured small gifts will be appreciated.
Dimes are acceptable as well as doll
lars. AS the college song says, LET US
all unite in love- and make Tho
Herald's Christmas tree festival the
most successful in California.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-30
PUBLICITY

I'VE agree with the Municipal
w league that 1.-THE people ought to
be given an occasional oppor-
tunity to concur in the findings of the
police commission or any other public
body. Not long ago a police case was
tried in star chamber. The policeman
who was accused was exonerated and
restored to his place without loss of
pay, and the public does not know why
he was accused, why he was tried, why
he was exonerated and why he was
restored to his place without loss of
pay 1t may guess, or it may have
hearsay evidence; but 1t was deprived
of the means of obtaining information
with regard to a puzzling case which
involved not only regular policeman
employed and paid by the citizens Of
Los Angeles, but a special policeman,
employed at a popular amusement
park.
If secret sessions and inquiries of
any kind were ever useful the period
Of usefulness has been passed long ago,
If for no other reason than this: When
the public today is kept in ignorance
of public affairs, depend upon 1t the
very worst construction will be put on
the secret proceeding. If any public
official is afraid of publicity with re-
gard to any transaction connected with
his office there must be a reason for
his timidity. If no good reason Is
given the public Will always guess a
reason, and If that reason puts a
blacker cast on the proceeding than
it would have if it were conducted
openly, those who have kept it dark
have themselves to blame for the pub
lie misjudgment. Eternal vigilance is
the price of liberty. Vigilance implies
publicity, doesn't It? If not why not?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-30
SEEMING INCONSISTENCIES
DUE TO PHYSICAL CAUSES

PASADENA. Nov. 29.-[Editor Her
add: Expressions of surprise and mys-
tification occur often in the Letter BOX
at the seeming paradoxes in human
affairs. Smart" in issue of Novem-
Der 81, cannot understand why other
wise kindly people will join in a man
hunt for some poor unfortunate VINO
has been guilty (God. save the MARK
of trying to escape from unjust ana
cruel confinement in one of those nor
rible bIots on so-called civilization
our American prisons.
"Suart' further wonders at the inn
moral density of lawmakers, which has
made it a crime for a brother to assist
his brother in financial distress II that
brother at some long past period had
the misfortune of being caught under
that clumsy iuggernaut of our criminal
proceedings in which the lawyers, bail
ifs and Justices often display fouler
moral delinquency than do the unfor-
Inmates on trial.
In the same issue IS" is nonplused
because the Humane CD society pro-
poses to bride children into becoming
spies on their neighbors in the inter-
est of the dog tax, and wonders why
the change in the location of the Los
Angeles public library should be ex-
cuse for heavily increasing the ex-
penses of it's administration, when at
the same time it has greatly impaired
it's accessibility to the great majority
of our inhabitants.
For careful students of scientific lit
erature, dealing with the growth of
human character and institutions,
these incidents are THE INEVITABLE
RESULTS OF WELL KNOWN PLY
SICAL CAUSES. More or less popular
versions Of such literature are within
the reach OF anyone. PULEA.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-30
MIND BUT AN ATTRIBUTE
OR MANIFESTATION OF MATTER

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26.-[Editor
Herald: Your correspondent, r. N.
like some others, talks about consider
ing the claims of mind and matter; but
DOES he consider? Does he not rather
assume and advance as unquestion-
able fact something that is but specu-
lation; something we do not know, and
which it is as yet extremely doubtful
If we ever shall know?
1t is so easy. You have only to shut
your eyes and forget that there is
monistic theory, and that Ernst Hack
ell and few other such negligible per-
sons ever existed, and, like a boy on
a toboggan, away you slide down, down
the delirious sleeps of rash and I'M
warranted assertion.
Now, to people of such preponderating
mentality-people who are all mind, or
SO nearly all mind that matter doesn't
matter-I feel l am putting no poser
when / ask them to explain-and
ask humbly, as one lacking knowledge:
If mind is something quite separate
from, anteeedent to and independent Of
matter, how is ii that mind only
evolves and develops from the lower
rms of life upward. How is 1t, again,
that an injury to the physical and
materially brain or other members of
the physical body can cripple the
minds action? Even the physical func-
ton and condition of sleep can stop
the action of this "all-controlling" and
independent mind. Strange this--and
contradictory 1 have heard "psycholo-
gists'' do some considerable word-spin-
ming on the subject, but I crave ex-
PLANTATION that REALLY EXPLAINS.
For controlling force, mind seems
in many ways strangely subordinate
to matter which it is said to control.
Reminds me of an old Punch cartoon,
where the strapping big wife stands
with rolling-pin in ominous poise, while
the masters" voice, from under the
bed, declares: "I WILL be master in
my own housed" If mind at times
sways the body, so also does the body
often sway mind. Are they not inter
active manifestations of one and the
same thing? V. 5.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-30
DISTINGUISHES FREE LAND
FROM CHANGE OF LANDLORDS

LOS ANGELES, Nov 2s.-[Editor
Herald: "a Looker-on" says that
'land under the cooperative common
wealth will be rented from the com
munity" If so. rent is not abollsneo[
there is just q change of landlords. 1
would just as soon be roppeo py OIe
individual as by q community OF ROD
bers. The system of robbery is not
changed, but more go Into the pusl-
ness-which seems satisfactory TO a
LOCKER on" as he expects to be one Oh
the new landlords.
Now the Voluntary Socialists believe
that occupancy and use shall be the
only title to land and that lnteTeSt
profits. taxes and rent shall be aDol-
ished-that these four things constr
tute the robbery of the individual; and
that the nature of the act is not
changed by the transfer of landlords,
but by abolishing them altogether.
viii "A Looker-on" tell us what
kind of a title his community VIII nave
to the land it rents out to others thae
have no title? Has it a natural right
to If and the renter not? Or has II
lust the might to take it by exproprla-
tion? Or will it buy and pay for It, as
the political boss, Victor j. BERGER
saws they will? If so, what VIII you
pay for it with? -
II will be we'll for "a Looker-on" to
become a 'looker-into" his system pc
fore he undertakes to stralghteh Out
the 'befogments" of others.
c. w White appears in recent issue
of The Herald with new baton OIL
assertions as to what will be under
MARKHAM Socialism. One of them IS
"It will not force one to work where
one does not want to.
Let me quote from the great hngllsh
Socialist author, Sydney Webb where
1n01lS
trial state can be run without strict
subordination and discipline. without
obedience to orders, is to dream not
of Socialism, but of Anarchtsm.
Mr., White seems unable to grasp the
,ogic of his nosition, so it is necessary
to prove my contention from his own
authors. which 1 have done. II ne
really believes in hberty, he should JON
with the Voluntary Socialists anu q 5t
having TO misrepresent the State So
cialists by contending that they believe
in liberty. Z. L SEn@ANAN>"'