The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-08-03

P. p. BLISS, Editor and Proprietor.
SCOTLAND, SOUTH DAKOTA
Abbess Hilda, a stately figure who
walked in the great procession OF WON
en- suffragists to the Albert hall in Lon
dof, is only one of many who once
figured conspicuously in that nations
eye. Ladies of birth and quality used
70 SIT IN council with the Saxon Witan,
IN Wightred's great council" says
%siordon, lat C~econceld, in 694. the alb
nesses sat and d~eliberated, and five of
them signed the DEGREES of the council.
along with the kings, bishops and
noples. f2onr ahhesses ware summoned
10 parliament under later reigns, the
~abbesses of Shaftesbury, Barking, st.
mary, of Winchester. and Wilton. In
the time of Edward III, the countess of
Norfolk, the countess of Ormond, the
countess of March, the countess Of
reflproke and the countess of Athole
were m to parliament, but APP
Parehtly they were not expected to APP
pear personally. These women were
content to appear by proxy.
'Ihe name of Oshkosh has passed in
10 the English language as 81 favorite
oppression with some Of the humor-
ISIS. commented John Strange, late
lieutenant governor of Wisconsin. ''but
IL IS u serious name among our people,
ana Is OF Indian origin. The name Is
tlal oil the great chief who was at the
mead OF the Menominee tribe three gen
eratlons ago. His grandson is today a
powerful chief on the reservation of his
people. The chief Oshkosh of today is
blessed with a prefix name of Reginald,
ana is, OF course, well. educated. This
Menominee chief and his fellow tribes
men live near the town of Shawano, on
Wolf river, and they are immensely
rich. The Indians of this generation
are inclined to farm and add to their
wealth, but they also have 1000. 0OO, 900
ieet of virgin timber, which is coveted
by the ambitious white man."
h best walnuts in the world-at
least they have that reputation-are
those grown around Grenoble, France,
and ii singular fact about them is that
ut leaSt quarters of the entire
production are transported across the
ocean to be eaten in New York, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, Chicago and other
large American cities. The calcareous
son OF southeastern France appears to
De particularly favorable to the wal.
nut. ON the rising and at the base OF
the french Alps the nut trees often
form yeritable cultivated forests. The
hnest variety. the mayette, has a light
coiored shell, and q broad, flat base,
on which 1t readily stands upright.
After the fire that destroyed the Gin.
elnnatl Chamber of Commerce buildina
recently, oXyacctylene-cutting torches
Were employed to sever the steel
beams which lay in a tangled, twisted
mass over the place where the bodies
OF SIX victims OF the fire We're supposed
TO be. The intensely hot flame, con
centrated in a blow-pipe pencil, cut
through he huge | beams, some OF
which We're SO inches broad, in from
TO . minutes. Frequently the same
beam was cut in several places, in
"lasf lnat the pieces might be the
more RAPIDLY removed. BY no other
method could the work have been nor.
formed so quickly.
In the west, says the Kansas civ
Journal many of the farmers are
la,t ! patches Of alfalfa on the
found out that a field OF growing ali
aaila cools the temperature from 10 to
~ degrees on a hot day. Alfalfa IA
iilleo with moisture and Isl death ia
i1ot WINDS, which usually come from
son the farmers do not aim now to
plant their wheat on the south side III
their homes. Winds passing owe,
Wheat stubble after harvest time viii
f#iss the temperature from 10 TO 60
degrees.
The German General Electric socia+y
now manufactures metallic fila NOM
lamps 10 De run at the low tension nj
II Volts. giving lights of 10, l6 and 81
candle power. They cost about hail
price OF metallic tilament lamps {.
ana are said to be very durable rrhe5r
atlmentatlon is rendered possible hv
means or transformers, which reduce s
me tension With high tension the Al
Htaents nave to be long and thin. but
those used with low tension are shar..
er. thicker and cheaper. It is assarted !
mat the light yield of a lamp is in. :
creased when used at low tension. +.
y
When the census returns are com. !
plete. II VIII show that Johannesbure !
laas q population within its mnnicina1 =
area of close upon 100000. incI,dina !,
whites, natives and colored. Rourhiv =
: mas peen ascertained tha there ara -
~ ,ooo Europeans. The natives tot.i :
,vs, i4o. or whom only $500 are female p
Inc eoiored community includes Asia. 2
les. Chinese, ETC.. and totals. 19I41 ~ :,
municipal census for 1905 gave tls q
as a5,12s, as against 1at ooo e
oday. i-i'o0o y
Nhen the QuakeIs came to Pennsv,. 10
..,N - luS-, lie only Indians in fba ~
le~ighhorhood We're the Deiawares wbo !,
saa 5ust been terribly beaten by the a. :,
i've Nations and forced into a ]treatv :, =
y Which they submitted to be caliea =
Veiaen \ to surrender their toma- !,
AVIS Il was with these defeatad v
inundated Indians that Willia,n q
made his famous treaty. nnSar 8
ne nlg elm. But he also had to treat q,
sith the Ffve Nations. a.
-, -
The common valaets of bee lknor,, !,
y the honey bee. Is thought bv soma :,
len ant eesi..sss; to nave It's oripinaI ~ =
among the woods and monnfains =
! central Europe. The bee Was N,,n :
.aoWn In North America until the tinna
the settlement from the old worid.
" II a thriven and multiplied ennr
nohsly IN Its new home. especialIv IL e
f ~ great west, where 1t is stiI know II
the Indians as the white mans !
.;
buring2 the decade of ea-teaa 81
aritai expended on railways in NJ IL
.nltea Kingdom was s6T1.57Yono an Il,
lorsase OF only II per cent, comm raa Il
elnSthe preceding decade. While ~, a a
NcN AA-t4O AAAE w NA III ~