The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-12-02

oy Alfred A. Winslow, United States
consul at Valparaiso, Chile. He reports
o department Of commerce and Ia
Dor that the mount of money invested
by Britons IN South American indus
tries mas reached the enormous sum of
3,200,023,300. Prospects for business
here are unlimited, but American man
ufacturers n business men must seek
U earnestly and furnish better goods
than their European competitors to
capture 1t.
A cairn and cross nave beer eret.ted
on killingstringan moor. e BALKAN
trae, in memory of Robert Cunningham,
postman, who persisted there IN the
great snowstorm of last winter. At
the unwilling the postlnen from the
surrounding districts attended 80 uni
form n the cairn is built an in
crsbed block of granite, and along with
a memorial tablet in Ballantrae parish
church, ii is the outcome Of a public
subscription. The cross is a gift from
h postrnen's federation In memory OF
a cornTade who lost his life on duty
London Globe.
In the British p~ostoffice savings bank
N 1901 there We're is, al $50 deposits, of
ths value - SA,2l7, GSS, and last year
as.S1S.Ssl. representing sA.170,7S2. In
ss9ss s,SeS-244 Withdrawals were made,
s~nTolVing 1:s,4Ss.SS2. and last year g.
s2-.2Ss- representing 1885,, 400. The
interest credited TO depositors in 1905
vas as.T72, 7ss, as compared with ss,-
sssTsfS 10 1881, and the total standing
20 the credit Of depasitors on savings
ssa1ks account on December 81, 1908,
IVES 126D, ses-2l4, ea Increase of ES,l4S,-
aSs In the year.
II was the custom one hundred years
aEa 10 purchase British army commits
s1aas 1ar newly born babes, their rank
g~T'cETsss4Hg as opportunity occurred.
Ns1S "a These fortunate infants was the
saa of Sir William Honeyrnan. One
cay q caller heard Lady Honeyrnan
shart from her bedroom door: Jean,
wha1s . NATTER What's all that
cTyzag in the nursery f And Jean an
susrsas "Oh, my iedy, there's naething
The matter. 1ts only the major {still
IA lntant5 greeting tcrying) for his
1~arr71ch..
NO less competent an authority than
In n Sieraoas, editor OF the Araster-
nan Telegraph. who is now in this
country, estimates that Dutch people
nave invested at h present time IN
american securities between $3.50, 0o0,-
BOO to $500, eoo. 900. In p~rorating this
enormous UNI among the estimated
population of thrifty Holland, which is
placed around 5000, 0o0, we find the in
teresting and startling fact that IL the
wealth We're equally distributed, 1t
would work out al nearly 500 a head
Tor each one of the population.
The Berliner Tageblatt OF recent late
contains an article under the headline.
Der Smart Peary," In which it is re-
iated that some of the explorers schoo
companions a invited him to a frolfc
where their friendship OF long ago
might be renewed. .Peary answered
that he would be glad to meet the old
1rlenus once more, but must have 500,
as lnat was his price for an yeninp
Ihereupon the friends dispensed with
Ine society Of the ear friend OF their
youth, and have been convinced that
ne has added much to his business
knowledge"
The railway station of Bragulia, Ser
Via, IS SO infested with snakes that spe-
ciaI precautions are taken when trains
stop there to prevent the reptiles from
entering the compartments. An Eng
HshWoman coming from Constantinople
was appalled, to find a small snake
colled round the handle of her travelling
bag: The consequent search resulted
IN the discovery OF several other snakes
among the passengers rugs.
The news that the king and queen
have consented to allow their names 10
be assigned to the western towers Of
Truro cathedral is extremely welcome.
MANY OF our cathedral towers bear
names connected with some saint or
some great local notability, but we be-
Iieve II is a new departure Of recent
years 70 give them q royal aspect. The
Kindly actiSn Of the king and queen win
oe much appreciated in Cornwall.
a. curious and interesting ceremony
Y reported by the Journal Italie as
nAV1nE fnknn nIn0n az t1N 49, Ss.--G ~, ~
pope recently received a party Of clerf-
Journalists, and his holiness was
asked to bless their stylographic pens.
The pope. 1t Is said, received the re-
uuest pleasantly and blessed tho pens,
according to the name In which the
swords OF soldiers OF the church were
blessed in former times.
a British gnnboat returning from Der
ing sea reports new changes Ia the
bogoslov islands, which were created
on the Alaskan coast. five years ago
first two separate islands are now mad
Into one BY he rising OF the ocean
moor between. Vegetation Is already
beginning to appear on the newborn
fslets.
One aof the main features OF the agrt-
cultural exhibition at Alfahabad, India.
next month will be the tillage field, on
which MS large as possible a. choice OF
plpWs n other Implements OF tillare
Will be regularly OF work, so.that vis-
1t0rs can see for themselves the depth
and Quality OF the tilth. and the weight
q draft of h various implements.
Beach con1bers reaped q plentiful
harvest along the Thames empankment
recently, the tide being so low that IA
various places the river bed was barred