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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01
Legal Cross Purposes.

Ray Morris. in the September Atlantic.
The main fabric of American railroad
legislation rests on two principles, which
are all but irreconcilable with each other;
first, that carriers serving the same or adj
jacent territory must complete with each
other; second, that rates for like and con-
t-emporaneous service under substantially
similar circumstances and conditions must
be the same to all comers-that is to say,
not cornpetttive-and that one city or ter.
ritory must not be built up at the expens.
of another (long-and-short-haul clauseN,
q process which Is directly and naturally
the result of competition. The act to
Regulate m prohibits pooling. ana
the antitrust law apparently makes every
kind OF trade agreement between persons
engaged in the same kind of business an
act of conspiracy, so that congress has
strongly affirmed the competitive princi-
pie; yet the 1905 revision of the INNER
act makes It specifically impossible for q
carrier to change its rates without Civ
ing 30 days prior notice to the Interstate
Commerce commission, unless the COM
mission exenlpts 1t by special action, an
exemption which the commissioners have
been very loath to give. This provision
is. OF course, along lines the reverse OF
competitive. since q 3~0-day-notice cut rate
to move competitive ~traftice is about as
effective a device as setting a tortoise to
catch a squirrel. So the railroads are
told with blunt plainness that they must
compete, and are then Immediately re-
minded that they must not.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01
ALBERTpS LOSS IN
U. S. MINING STOCK
Believing America q Golconda,
Danish Kings Friend Specu- :
lated in Hidden Gold.

Copenhagen, Denmark, Special: +.
A. Alberti, formerly Danish minister
, of justice, lost most of the great sum
of money he confessed to embezzlins
In specializing in American mining
stocks. so the ruined and disgraced
%financier, who was almost reverenced
by the peasants OF the Kingdom, states
In a supplemental confession.
Alberti says that alluring reports
made hin believe America to be q
veritable Golconda. Nevertheless he
o the %precaution to speculate
through British brokers and for Ia
years he has come to London twice q
year to consult with his agents here.
Up in tho Millions.
The exact amount which Alberti en-
bezzled and lost is not known yet:
probably 1t Is several millions of dol
lars; at any rate, more than the sum
first stated. 50. 500, 900. The Danish
Farmers Butter Export association
peasants are ruined who confidently de-
posted their all in the Bondestandens-
Sparkasse, the savings bank Of which
Alberti was president, which was closed
by government order.
Already the finance minister is con-
sidering the a~dvisability of giving state
aid to the ruined depositors. This, al
thought the nance ministry and the
National Bank of Denmark will lose
through Alberti's wild speculations. The
Observation-Disclosures owes the
treasury $3.50. 900. Of which $415. 900 is
we'll secured. it is said.
Albertl confesses he began to faisify this
savings banks accounts in 1894, seven
years before he became minister of jus
tice. One of his methods, it is stated, was
to take the savings bank's bonds and de-
post them in local banks getting large adj
vances on them. The banks that made the
advances nope they will lose nothing be-
cause the bonds were issued to bearer.
"Amerlcans'' Albert borrowed from sew
Loved Peasants.
Naturally Alberti's downfall Is dsplored
most by those who were his
warmes admirers and supporters. His
resigned as minister OF Justice July % last.
announcing that he was in I'll health.
Really Albert. who was a kings council
lor, left the cabinet because the radical
opposition attacked his personal honesty.
A parliamentary committee was appoint
ed August A to investigate the charges OF
nounced that the committee would espe-
cially inquire into his Connection with GER
tain banks through which, his accusers
said, he transacted private business under
an official cloak.
Alberti and his friends insisted he was
being sacrificed by court circles because
''he loved the peasants" Within the
month his supporters threatened a politi-
cal upheavaI should the committee report
against him. His confession astound
those who had been loyal to him.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01

should / pick my words, hen my love
was in danger? He had had no mercy
and no pity. Why should / shrink from
exposing him? Heaven a dealt with
him patiently and given him life, n
he did but abuse it. l could keep ST.
lenee no longer and told Sir Anthony
all with a singing tongue and gliding
words, even at last how my father had
given me a hint of the very plan he
had now carried out of coming down
to Cotton and by goading his brother
into some offense which might leave
his estate at the mercy of the authors
ties.
i did not think he meant it," I said
bitterly. But I might have known
that the leopard does not change it's
spots. How you. who knew him years
ago and knew that he had plotted
against you since. came to trust him
again, to trust your daughter TO him
passes my fancy"
He was my brother the knight
%murmured, leaning white and stricken
on my shoulder.
And my father-heaven help us!" I
rejoined.
Concluded Next Werk.)
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01
Concluded Next Wcek.)
Denmark and Iceland.

FROM t1e independent. .-H
Iceland is a large island. having about
as many square miles as Kentucky, but
having n population of only about $4,000.
that is. about that of Des Moines. Ia,
or Lynn. Mass; and yet 1t has large polit-
ical ambitions, which are likely to be
g~ratiGed so as to make 1t a kingdom,
independent. yet not separated from Dem
mark. In 1871 Iceland was allowed a sep
arate governor-general and two houses
of its parliament, or althtng, half Of the
members of The upper house being nomi-
mated by the king. In 1908 the governor
general was withdrawn and replaced by
a minister for Iceland residing there at
Reykjavik. while the althing consist OF
40 members, OF whom six are appointed
by the crown. Yet this approach to
autonomy does not satisfy the people, and
a committee composed of members of the
Danish and Icelandic ~parliaments have
agreed on a new plan that is likely to
be adopted. Under it Iceland will be a
kingdom. as independent as Denmark, but
under the same king, just as Austria and
Hungary are under one emperor. The bill
provides that Iceland shall constitute a
free, autonomous and independent coun-
try, united to Denmark by a common
king and common interests and forming
with Denmark a state federation-the
United Danish empire. If the bill passes
King Frederick will be entitled to call
himself king of Denmark and king of
Iceland. Various concessions have been
granted to Iceland. giving a greater de-
gree of independence. The Icelandic
will contribute to the kings civil
list. and Icelanders and Danes will enjoy
equal rights in both countries. 1t is pro-
vided also hat the law may be revised
25 years IL either party objects to
Its continuance, but not so as TO affect
union with or a common min
istry of foreign affairs. When approved
Iceland will be even more Independent of
that Canada is of Great Britain.
for she will have no governor-generaI.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01
The ProdiqaI's Father.

From Putcam'S and The Reader,
In the parable of the Prodigal Son, It
is not the poor wretch himself who's
miserable motive for returning is plainly
indicated-that instead of pining in cold
and unger he may be warmed and cloth
ed-who is the hero Of the story; still
less is 1t the hard and virtuous elder
son. The hero of the tale is the patient,
tolerant. loving father, who had acted,
as a censorious critic might say, foolishly
and culpably. in supplying the absolute
boy with resources, and taking him back
without a word Of just reproach. A sad
lack OF moral discipline. no doubt. II
he had kept the boy in fear and godli-
ness. IL he had tied him down to honest
work, the disaster need never have hap
pened. Yet the old man, who went so
often at shutdown, we may think, to the
crest of the hill, from which he could
see the long road winding over the plain
to the far-off city, the road by which
he had seen his son depart, light-heartedly
and full OF fierce, joyful impulses, and
along which he was to see the detected
figure, so familiar, so sadly married, STUN
bling home-he is the master-spirit Of
the sweet and comforting scene. His heart
is full Of utter gladness. for the lost Is
found. He smiles Upon the ervan he
bids the household rejoice; he can hardly.
in his simple joy of heart, believe that
the froward elder brother. is yexed and
displeased: and his words of entreaty that
the brother, too. will enter into the spirit
of the hour, are some of the most pa
thetic and beautiful ever framed in human
speech: Son, thou art ever with me.
and all that l have is thine; it was meet
that we should make merry and be glad:
for this thy brother was dead and Is
alive again, and was lost. and is found"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01
Breaking the News.

$50 Ha4E9 4 EOIIl Iu0 &NSW 1OEh II lIlGS.l 4G.a
At a dinner OF THE Fossils given
recently at the Republican club, James
M. Beck was OF the speakers. THE
Fossils" is an organization composed
( former amateur journalists, and Mr..
Beck, as one of the organizers of the
National Amateur RECONSIDERATION in
Philadelphia in 1875, has never lost his
interest in this most admirable training
school for young writer's.
I'm looking back upon chose days
when the publishing of amateur papers
seemed the most fascinating thing in
the world" said Mr.. Beck in the course
OF his address. II feel indeed tina / am
| quite in the fossil class. The organi-
cation of the National Amateur Press
association seems almost prehistoric.
In looking back through the years it il
almost as misty Is the Stone age. /
was q very small boy. when I took part
In those weighty deliberations. I Feel
like h youngster who said to his ia
ther:
" Father. was writing done on tab
lets OF stone in the old days?'
my son. replied the dutiful
parent.
-Gee!' unused the boy. Then ii
must have taken q crowbar to bresl,
the news"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01
Tho Good Ships clinner,

There was a time when our American
wooden sailing ship-the clipper-ship-was
a thing of speed and beauty, chiefly dur
ing the years from 1913, when tea began to
come here from China, to the beginning
of the civil war. 1t warns the blood to
think, in these present days Of steel, Of
the sight of one of the craft running out
to sea by the green highlands of Never
sink before a light breeze, under three
skysails. the foam curling along her keen
slender bow-for the clipper could, with
her lofty masts and sharp body, go out to
find the winds. while the fu~ll-bodied ships
We're compelled to wait for them. Cap
tain Arthur H. Clark, who has written a
study of these sea-witches and their can
tains for the June Harper's Magazine.
says that even today there are not mora
than 80 ocean mail steamers whose speed
excels the best 24-hours' run OF the Am
erican clipper of SO years ago.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01
Cooks BOOK FREE
TO HOuSEkEEPERS

a collection of choice recipes for bak-
ing and other domestic sciences has
just been compiled by Mrs. Janet Me-
kenzie, OF the Boston Cooking school.
This cooks book will be sent free to
any housekeeper purchasing a 25-cent
box of the celebrated X. C. Baking
Powder and sending the coupe to tho
Jacques Manufacturing Co, Dept. "a,
Chicago. The object Is to introduce
into families the best baking powder
made at about half the Trust price,
as well as to give away a Cooks Book
containing the latest developments In
the science of cooking. etc. The large
announcement of the Jaques Manufao-
turing Co., elsewhere in this paper,
gives further particulars, well worth
reading and following.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01

The rapidly increasing price of rubber
has caused the cultivation of groves Of
rubber yielding trees in many parts OF
the world during recent years; but the
bulk of the product still comes from the
iungles. The Congo and Amazon valleys
supply the greatest portion of the rubbeF
crop. The most recent figures give the
worlds production of rubber for the sea-
son 1866 as $500 tons, Brazil leading In
production with 10000 tons. Bolivia, Gem
trail America and Mexico gave a com bine6
total OF 1890 tons; Africa, &,e0o tons, ana
the balance came from Asia and the EasG
Indies
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01
Why Not7

The verse you write
You say Is written;
All rules despite.
But not despitten.
The gas you light
Is never litten.
The things you drank
Were doubtless drunk;
The boy you spank
Is never spunk.
A friend you thank
But never thunk.
Suppose you speak.
Then you have spoken:
But If you sneak,
You have not snoken.
The shoes that squeak
Have never squoken.
A dog will bite,
Likewise has bitten
With all his might,
But5not his mitten.
YouSfiy your kite,
But not your kitten.
tIarper's Monthly.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01
Still Growing.
From ~Lippincott's,

A crippled peddler came hobbting to
our door one day. and my aunt sym
pathetically inquired the cause OF his
lameness.
be YET" he asked. mo. 1 s'pose not.
It's jest my luck. Well, mebbe o
know OF two kind hearted old ladies
Twin torether-you can't mistake EN-;
one has a squint an the other a a
mole alongside her nose. No? Well,
I'm not gotn' to miss EN- for not askin'.
I want to see them old ladies mighty
bad"
1t transptred from his artlcss ram
blings that he had fallen when a child
and injured his hip in uch a way as
to check the growth of his left leg.
left leg is
Yes. mum, Tn a-comin' to that
presently. a year ago I sold a paper
OF pins to two old ladies in Broom
method would lengthen that leg.
Seemed to me I'd heard OF leg pullin'
in tina connection, an 1 lodged that
I might as well give it a try. SO I told
'em to go ahead with their absent
treatment. Mebbe you can guess how
actually began to grow by the ~follerin'
week. 1t KEEP on CROWN steady, and
within six months l was again in
B~roou1wich with two ekal legs IN a
heart fulI OF gratitude for them kline
ladies'. Well, they was gone. I never
had no chanel to han EN-. I didn't
mind that SO much, but In another
month ] seen my left leg was still
a-growin'-didn't know enough tor stop,
I went to Broomwtch in a hurry an
tried to find out where they'd moved,
but nobody knowed Well, good day,
num-, TIL be joggiu' along, for Eve got
to find them old ladies and switch
the treatment on the other leg
Needn't tell me there's nothing in
Christian Science.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01

Advent of American GaIalith.
From Daily Consular and Trade Reports.
A New York business mar writes te
the bureau Of manufacture that he has
Investigated the matter of producing
galalith from SKINNED milk in Europe
and purposes manufacturing it in the
United States.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01
The Tactful Doctor.
Success Magazine.

A physician in a small town In north
ern Michigan got himself into a serious
predicament by his inability to remem.
Der names n people. One day, while
making out a patients recipe. his Wis
ttor's name escaped him. Not wishing
to appear so forgetful, and thinking
to get a clue, he asked her whether h
spelled her name with an 9 or l.. The
lady smilingly replied: Why, doctor.
my name is HILL"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01
Vary Poor Actor.

Mrs. Kidder-The play Is very real
istic. The actors are actually shooting
at each other.
MA Kidder-It Isn't realistic enough.
Mrs. Kidder-How SO?
Mr.. Kidder-.None OF the actors ara
getting killed.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01

err"
Yes. and this is-let me ee-can
this be me old friend Tom Grigson7s
That's who 1t is. / haven't seen
you for-for-"
"Twenty-seven years"
That's right. Twenty-seven years!
Well. Well! What are o doing now,
Bill?"
you a member of any church. Tom?"
Not yet; I'm a life Insurance So
licitor. l represent the best company
in the world. Carrying all the insur-
ance you want, Bill?"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01
1t Would Seem So.
F,rom the ch;capo Naw,

From the Chicago News.
Beauty is only skin Deep remarked
the party with the quotation habi
And II some portraits OF handsome
women are ~accurate." rejoined the
peevish person. beauty is quite q dis
lance outside the cuticle."
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01

Turkey imported ii used last year
|, 1856, T6O pounds of ordinary soap ana
61.130 pcunds Of toilet soap.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01

Comparison Of prices shows that Nv
Ing expenses In New York City are ia
per cent MORA than three years axo.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01
Wanted 70 Know.

Novelist (readtng his MSS.)-"As tb,.
point Helena Montmorency drew herself
/. =.
Publisher.-where did she Sc, the pu,-
Iey7
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-24
Olives in Carolina.

1t has been the generally accepted
belief that olives were first grown in
America by the Mission Fathers, OF
California, but the first olives in
America were planted on the coast OF
South Carolina long before colonial
times. During the American Revolu-
ton there was a ten-acre bearing
olive grove on the south shore OF
Port Royal entrance. When the Civil
War commenced some of these trees
were living. At its close only the
stumps remained. 1t is supposed that
soldiers had encamped there and cut
the trees down for frewood. The
surrounding woods is said to be full
of wild olive trees, the birds having
carried the seeds from the ancient
trees The old olive grove was on
the Foot Point" plantation.-Phila'
delphia Grit.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-24
AN HONEST DOCTOR
ADVISED PE-RU-NA.

.rR SYLVESTER E. SMITH, Room
wi 2Is. Granite Block, st. Louis, Mo-,
.rrites: "Peruna is the best friend q
click man can have.
"a few months ago / came here in q
w,etohed condition. Exposure and
Sampness had ruined my once robust
health. / had catarrhal affections Of
the bronchial tubes, and for time there
vvas a doubt as to my recovery.
envy good honest old doctor advised
me- to take Peruna, which / did and in
a short time my health began to inn
nrove very rapidly, the bronchial
trouble gradually disappeared, and in
three months my health was fully re-
stored.
"Accept grateful mans thanks for
his restoration to perfect health"
Pe-ru-na for Ills Patients.
A. w. Perrin, M. D. s., $50 Halsey
st.. Brooklyn, N. Y, says:
~ am using your Peruna myself, and
am recommending it to my patients in
all cases of catarrh, and find it to be
more than you represent. Peruna can
be had now of all druggists in this Sec
ton. At the time I began using it, it
was unknown"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-24
ITCHING HUMoR ON BOY.
His Hands were a Solid Mass, and
Disease Spread All Over Body
Cured in DAVIS nv CuticuEa.

Zone day we noticed that our little boy
was all broken out with itching sores. We
first noticed it OH his little hands. His
hands were not as bad then, and we didn't
think anything serious would result. But
the next day we heard of the Cuticura
Remedies being so good for itching sores.
BY this time the disease had spread all
over his body, and his hands were nothing
but solid mass of this itching disease.
purchased a box of Cuticura Soap and one
box of Cuticura Ointment, and that night
took the Cuticura Soap and lukewarm
water and washed him well Then / dried
him and took the Cuticura Ointment and
anointed him with it. did this every
evening and in four nights he was entirely
cured Mrs. Frank Donahue, POS Fremont
st., Kokomo, Ind, Sept 16, 1907"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-24

A certain Sunday school class In
Philadelphia consists for the most
part OF youngsters who live in the
poorer districts OF the city One
Sunday the teacher told the class
about Cain and Abel. and the fol-
lowing week she turned to Jimmie, a
diminutive lad, who, however, had
not been present the previous SEES
sion.
Jimmie" she said, Il want you
to tell me who killed Abel"
"Ain't no use askin' me, teacher, !"
replied Jimmie; Il didn't even know
he was dead. Harper's Weekly.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-24
What It Costs to Run New York.

w NAT IL costs to Kun New York.
The State of New York is the larg-
est in the Union, and it takes a good
deal of money to run it. According
to the figures furnished the Roches-
ter Post-Express by Senator Arm
strong, chairman Of the Senate Com
mittee on Finance, it took about $780,
100000, exclusive of trust funds, to
meet the appropriations of the regu-
lar session of the Legislature recently
adjourned AS would be expected i'll
an enlightened commonwealth, the
greatest expenditures were for the
benefit of charities and schools. Hos
pitfalls received $5,661,11S, and the
common schools (not including nor
NAL schools and academies) $4,665.-
625, a sum exceeding by half-mill-
ion the appropriation of last year.
Charitable institutions other than
hospitals received $2,589,759, and
the judiciary $1,368,696. The re-
mainder of the $30,0O0,000 was dis
trtbuted among the score of other de-
partments of State work in amounts
ranging from $4,000 to 100000.
One conspicuousit item is that of $780,
coo for printing, which seems very
excessive. The total appropriations
exceed by nearly $3,060,O00 those of
last year, but the law allows the Gov
ernor to cut out unnecessary items in
appropriations bills, and he consider
ably lessened the amount.-Leslie's.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-24

If man and woman live together
in perfect accord, perfect friendship
and sympathy, growing together, help
ing each other, studying each other,
they will find that they can get on
we'll, form complete society of their
own, without much help from the out
side, moralizes the New York Journal.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-24
Mistaken lmpatience,

"He says he is an anarchist" ex
claimed the citizen who is always
being shocked.
Nonsense" answered the calm and
collected person. "He is merely one
of these impatient people who can't
wait until the Fourth of July for the
excitement of promiscuous explo,
sions. Washington Star.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-24
Never Bankrupt.

"Have you ever been bankrupt!
asked the counsel.
81 have not.
"Now, be careful, admonished the
LAWYER. did yoI ever stop pay
nent?"
YES"
"Ah, 1 thought we should get at the
ruth F" observed counsel, with an un-
,1aosant smile. when did this sus-
,ension of payment occur?"
when / had paid all l owed. -
london Opinion.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-24

1t is reported that student of the
Electro-Technical Institute of St. Pet
ersburg, named Freudinberg, has in
vented an apparatus for exploding
mines by wireless telegraphy. Nu-
merous experiments already made
are said to have proved remarkably
successful. The apparatus is also
claimed to be suited for directing
Whitehead torpedoes at long ranges.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-24
DON'T CUT YOUR CORNs.

If you suffer with corns, bunions, sore,
callous spots on the feet or soft corns be-
tween the toes, go to your druggist or send
25c. by mail for ABBoTT's EAST INDIAN CORN
PAINT. 1t cures quickly and permanently
without cutting, burning or eating the
flesh and leaves no pain or soreness. Ad-
dress THE ABBOTT Co., Savannah, Ga.