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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30
UNION OF SERVIA AND
MONTENEGRO is NEAR

Paris. Special: The Figaro, under
stands that Servia and Montenegro
have definitely decided to proclaim
their union. 1t had been intended to
make the announcement on the ami
versary of the battle of Kossovo, but
"a of the murders at
sarayevo 1t was postponed. The delay
will be brief.
Both states have decided to proceed
gradually, and but for the assassina-
tlons they would have proclaimed a
customs union and nave agreed upon
Two common ministries for finance and
foreign affairs.
All particulars for these negotiations
nave already been drawn up, says the
Figaro, in the %strictest secrecy, and
under the leadership of Russia, who.
from the beginning, has been informed
concerning the affair.
So far as the d~ynastic situation is
concerned, nothing will be changed
whilst the present sovereigns are living.
After their death both states will form
one state under the sovereignty of
Servia. -
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30
PRINCE Of WALES
IS NOT BAD SPORT
Son Of King Edward Of England
Is Well Liked at OK
ford University.

London. Special: The Prince Of
Wales, who has just completed two
years at Oxford. Is finding his exploits
at that institution Of learning under
critical review in the newspapers. An
undergraduate, who has bad an oppor-
tunity to see much of his future king
Of England, notes his impressions In a
seemingly frank manner
Viewed impartially,,' he says, the
princes career has been neither bet
ter nor worse than that of the average
tiled undergraduate. He has embarked
on many Of the manly sports of
youth, and excelled in o Perhaps
the best comment on his good spirit and
his lack Of side. was the fact that he
played consistently at association foot
ball with the Magdalen college second
eleven,
For a long time he was the despair
OF his equerry but as a concession to
popular opinion, expressed and unex-
pressed; he a acquired some skill in
the saddle. and with 1t some of the
stand that falls only to hunting men
at Oxford.
That the prince should a an equal
footing with all in undergraduate life
was, OF course. an innovation attend
ed, as n might expect. by advantage
and drawbacks. The curious interest
with which he vas pestered II his
early weeks cor wore off, but the
natural desire to be intimately associ-
ated with a prince SO easy Of access
was harder to kill.
.Magdalen second eleven last season
proved far more attractive to many
men than the college senior team,
Little or no concession has been made
to his royalty. I saw him the other day
waiting at the door of one of the lead
Ing doctors In Oxford. On the other
hand. he a had freedom and ease
which he will never again enjoy; he has
mixed unostentatiously with people OF
all ranks; he has endured bravely and
well the discomforts of camp life as 3
private; and has been treated with 4
quiet. we'll bred respect by every mem
Der OF the university"
III prince has rather startled his uni.
verslty companions lately by takine
to the pipe n giving up, for the mo.
ment. tho cigaret. A picture of him
with the Oxford officers training CORPS
shows the prince putting at a great
bull dog pipe. n apparently enjoying
1t. The next day, however, he left his
regiment, which had not finished its
training. and came to London. Cos.
sips are saying hat Queen Mary hav.
Ing seen the picture sent for him.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30
Wanderers Returnino.
From the Washington Tir

rioui tHe washington Times.
In the mind Of a certain type of man
the best place for him is some other
place. 1t is not the same spirit as that
which actuated the early American pio-
neers. They moved on because of neces-
slty; there was not a living for them
where they We're. If there had been the
majority would have stayed and made it.
Inc modern type could make a good liy-
ing where he is, for he is not law, but
he is not content unless he is moving on
70 some promised land of high wages or
double crops.
The spirit Of discomfort led to the
abandonment of many good farms in the
east by men who had heard that the west
was the only place for quick fortune. The
Ner1nonter went to Indiana, only to find
his Hoosier double had moved to Nebras-
ka, while in turn the Nebraskan had been
draWn to the golden apples OF Oregon.
westward the star of empire. etc.
Then, the Pacific barring further wan.
derlngs toward the setting sun, Canada
became the magnet; The Canadian gov
advertisements of the Canadian railroads
pointed out wealth in the dominion wheat
fields. In 1913 there were 1881 Ameri-
make Canada their home, and in that
year only 3S,3l7 men came back to the
United States.
Now, it would seem. the tide has turned
In the IL months ended June /, only 6s.-
1856 American citizens emigrated TO Can
ada, while In the same period 44,127 re-
.uiiieE, many OF thefn seeking Informal
ton from the department of agriculture
as to the best place to settle. The bal
ance Is still in Canada's favor, but the
change of figures is much more encour-
aging to the United States.
Perhaps the wanderers have found the
limit of their roanings, so far as this
continent is concerned. Now maybe they
viii settle down for their own good, the
good of this country and the happiness of
their families.
1t Is the women and children who suffer
most from mans passion for going som e.
where else"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30
Control of Timber.
From the Duluth Herald

T IOuI8 III oulullI 1 clo. la#
Timber is a public necessity like water
and coal and food. 1t Is an essential to
shelter.
All timber at one time belonged to tho
public domain. Very little belongs to the
public domain now.
report Just made by Commissions
Davies Of the bureau of corporations
gives some startling revelations about the
situation of the remaining timber supply.
Two men hold 40 per cent of the tim
Der in southwestern Washington. Five
Oregon. Six men. have 10 per cent of the
timber in northwestern California. Ten
men have more than half the redwood
area. Four holders have half the timber
in north central Idaho.
A small handful-comparatively-of tim
Der owners, 1884, hold in fee more than
tire United States; and as these men own
no land at all in a great many states, the
bulk of their holdings in the timber eoun,
counties investigated they own one-sev-
enth of the total area. Their holdings
amount to 1o5, 100000 acres-an area four
fifths the size of France, more than the
entire state of California, twice the area
of Minnesota. Sixteen holders own near
ly $1,000, COO acres, or almost as great a
territory as the state Of Minnesota,
land in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
is held by 80 timber owners.
1.-THE control of our standing timber in
a comparatively few enormous holdings
says Commissioner Davies. Speculative
ly held far in advance of any use there
Of, and the great increase in the value
of timber resulting in part from such
speculative holdings. are underlying facts
that will become more and more important
elements in determining the price of lum-
Der as the supply of timber diminfshes.
This was all ours: now it is theirs; and
they and their heirs will use to exploit
us what once was ours.
It was foolish to let 1t go. An element
of loss not figured In this report, if it
could possibly be figured at all. Is the
waste through private ownership. AL
ern Minnesota will illustrate it. The
cream of the timber was taken, and much
of the rest wasted in cutting or burned.
Forests have been leveled, and forest
places laid waste.
! When 1t Is embere that European
| governments have forests from which
they have been cutting all they needed for
centuries, and have remaining forests
! greater than they started with, it will be
realized what a tremendous and meal
oulable loss has been entailed by letting
our heritage of timber go into private
hands.
But it has gone, and the milk is split.
We can keep the rest from going If we
Will. We can preserve our remaining
forests, and we can grow more.
We must do this, If we are to have any
means of defense against the peril Of the
present close ownership of the timber
supply outside of the government domain.
BY conserving what is left, the govern
naent can keep timber prices down to a
level Of decency. and prevent The ex-
ploitation of the public by a timber mon.
| ODOly.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30
MIMI

VIZ
''bitter?"
Why do we say "as dry, as a ish?"
Or as dead as a door nail?"
Or as "sick as a whistle? '
Boston Transcript.
Wen, II you insist, why do we say "as
Or 9r "a. .as aF mad as IS a a ,o nattsrT"
Or "as plain as day?"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
ject is keen. why do we say las bright
as a button?"
Or "as sound as a nut?'
Or "as happy as a CLAMP"
Or "as wise as an owl?"
Or "as gay as a lark?"
Or "as fine as a fddle?'
Or 'aS brown as a berry,
Springfield (Mass.) Union.
Since the matter is up for discussion.
why do we say "as good as gold?"
Or "as mad as hops?"
Or "as fine as silk?'
Or "as true as %steel?'
Or "as soft as nush?'
Chicago Record-Herald.
Carrying 1T a little further, why:
"As sharp as a tack?'
LAS crazy as a bedbug?"
"AS gruff as a bear?'
LAS blind as a b~rickbat?
La Sale Extension Magazine.
Just to add a few that have been over
"As sober as a judge?" or Full as a
A mad as a Turk?' or ''Tickled to
death?"
A red as a lobster?' or pale as a
ghost?"
4 quick as a hashT' or "slow as a
The Craftsman
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30

Browning. Mont.-spo-Pe, once q
mighty hunter of the Blackfoots, but
for a third of a century a prisoner Of
the government in an eastern prison,
has returned to his people. He will
spend the remainder of his days with
his daughter, Mrs. Takes Gun, who
lives near Browning.
OF the old Indians family only this
one daughter remained to welcome
back the father who was taken away
by the palefaces 33 years ago. She
was a papoose when Spo-Pe, carrying
out a vow of vengeance. slew a white
man, SO that h soul Of his mother,
father and a cor Of his people might
find rest in the happy hunting grounds,
whittier they had been hurried by a
troop of United States cavalrymen.
Mrs. Takes Gun. when Sho-Pe went
away, was just a little girl; her name,
Ne-tang-nik-ke. rendered in the
tongue of the palefaces, was Kills
Alone. Her baby sister, not yet
christened when the father was torn
from the tepee to answer to a charge
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30
Or Getting Ahead.

From the Webster City Freeman,nrib II re-
making out a note for $1,000 payable to
himself is on mS q myth ant jn6 6us IT Us a ve gooe
man can do with great profit to himself.
This young man, so the story goes made a
years. The note drew 8 per cent inter-
est. The young man put $40 in the bank
each month and at the end of the year
drew out $50 to pay the interest. He then
invested the $50 in interest bearing paper,
He remained firm in his determination to
pay off the note at maturity and did so
with his $40 a month. and had quite a
neat sum left, the interest having aided.
This gave him quite a start. He then
signed a note for 5000 payable In five
years and is now working to pay that OH.
At the end Of the five years he Will nave
quite a snug little fortune and Will have
acquired habits of industry and frusaity
that must eventually make him the build
err Of a large fortune. 1t is worth trying.
The young man who tries 1t must prae..
tee self-denial and perhaps hardships II
hip make strong. self-<ehant men.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30
PAID AGENTS after
RUSSIAN EMlGRANTs
Steamship Company, It Is Said.
Has 1000 Emissaries
in Field.

st Petersburg. Special: A political
he Russo-American Steamship COM
pany nj the minister Of the interior
is giving It some support
The Nationalist Slav organization
and the societies whose main purpose
Is anti-Jewish a issued from their
bureau In Wilma q manifesto against
the emigration traffic. It says that the
Russo-American company has 1000
agents spread over the six northwest
ern provinces Of Russia. Their activ-
ity Is specially damaging in depicting
h countryside Of young people before
h harvest. Agents get from 80 to
40 rubles for each emigrant, and they
e u from 150, 900 to 200,0 0 a year.
When the conscript lists for the army
are prepared from the birth registers
of 20 years earlier, it is found that
about 25 per cent of those who should
be recruits have gone abroad without
passports. And the young Russian
emigrants, peasants of the healthiest
stock, usually draw after them their
brothers, sisters and families.
Althert the government campaign
against the company's agents has been
confined to banishing them into the
their work has been helped and ex-
tended. A case is mentioned Of a Jew
lsh agent who had been banished into
the interior for three years for
ing Tor young emigrants. He says hat
In the region to which he was sent he
secured more emigrants in three years
than he had previously done in six
years in his native district.
Meanwhile TIE government has
drafted a new law on Russian citizen
ship. Some of its provisions are of
great importance to Russians who
have migrated. Hitherto, the law has
been,. Once a Russian, always a Rus
SIAN" This created dual nationality.
A Russian subject by birth might
naturalize as an American. but if he
returned to Russia he was regarded
as q native Russian subject again.
The new law defines as a criminal and
an outlaw any Russian subject who
has taken out foreign naturalization
papers without legally divesting him
self OF his Russian status. Such Grim
lnals' include persons who up to 81
years of age have not done their mill
tary service and deserters or ~reservists
who Ignore the summons sent them at
wartime. Married women cannot lay
down their Russian citizenship separ-
ately from their husbands, no N
persons against whom any proceedings
or lawful liabilities are pending in Rus
STA. Persons who have lawfully ac-
CURED q new citizenship must COM
municate the fact to the authorities of
their native district in Russia. Per-
sons who have wrongfully acquired
foreign citizenship are forever exiled
from Russia and will be criminally
prosecuted should they return.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30
The TANGO In Church.

Mother, like countless other moth
ers, had been doing much tangoing
and hesitation Of late. She had taken
dancing lessons. She practised the
various steps at home with father. Lit
tie Frances had heard much of the
lingo that goes with the tango and the
hesitation. She knew all of the
phrases.
A few days ago Frances went to
church with her mother. Frances had
not learned all of the ceremonials of
the church, for, after the mother knelt
outside the pew, Frances looked up at
her and whispered:
Mother, what did you do the dip
for?'-Indianapolis News.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30
Of murder. has died, as has spo-Pe'l

Of murder. has died. as has spo-Pel
wife.
A pardon from President Wilson re-
leased Spo-Pe from his long imprison-
ment. Mrs. George Hamilton, a little
Blackfoot squaw, was principally in
strumental in bringing to the know
ledge of those in authority the story of
his wrongs and in arousing from its
long lethargy the dormant memory of
the days that used to be before the
white men had taken almost all Of the
Indians hunting ground in the west.
While the government may no give
Spo-Pe an allotment Of land, it has
promised to take care Of him as long as
he lives. This much, it is believed is
due Spo-Pe as some slight measures Of
PREPARATION for the wrong that was done
him and for the Imprisonment for SO
years for a crime hat was in reality
not a crime, but the execution of a
vow-a pious vow, as the Blackfoots
looked upon ito avenge the Staying
of his people and to give rest to their
restless souls.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30
carelessness Cause of Fires.

More than SO per cent of all fires the
coused by simple carelessness, which
is unnecessary and criminal. Repairs
to dilapidated buildings, the removal
all f~re-breeding material, care in burn
ing weeds and rubbish, the placing Of
engines at a safe distance from build
ings, the removal Of oily waste, proper
ventilation-in brief, plain common
sense, will minimize the danger from
this class of fires.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30
The Athabasca Trail.

My life is gliding downward; it speeds
sWifter to the day
When it shoots the last dark canon to the
Plains of PARKWAY,
But while it's stream is running through
the years that are to be,
The mighty voice Of Canada will ever call
to me.
l shall hear the roar Of rivers where the
rapids foam and tear,
L shall smell the virgin upland with The
balsam-laden air,
And shall dream that I am riding down
the winding, woody vale,
With the packer and the packhorse on
the Athabasca Trail.
1 nave passed the warden cities at the
Eastern water gate,
Where the hero and the martyr laid the
corner stone of state,
The habitant, cureur-des-bois-and hardy
voyageur,
Where lives a breed more strong at need
to venture or endure?
I have seen the gorge of Erie, where the
roaring waters run,
7 have crossed the Inland Ocean, lying
golden in the sum-,
But the last and best and sweetest is the
the ride by hill and dale,
With the packer and the packhorse on the
Athabasca Trail.
I'll dream again of fields of grain that
stretch from sky to sky,
And the little prairie haInlets, where the
cars go roaring by; .
Wooden hamlets. as / saw them-noble
cities still to be,
To girdle stately Canada with gems from
sea to sea.
Mother of q mighty manhood, land Of
glamour and of hope,
From the eastward sea-swept islands to
the sunny western slope;
Ever more my heart Is with you, ever
more till life shall fail,
I'll be out with pack and packer On the
Athabasca Trail.
Arthur Conan Doyle.
Jasper Park, Alberta. June IS, 1914.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30
PRIZE FOOD.
PaIatabIe, Economical, N%ourlshins.

Ss~NNS'Sg
A Nebr. m has outlined the
prize food in a few words, and that
from personal experience. She
writes:
After our long experience with
Grape-Nuts, I cannot say enough in
its favor. We have used this food al
most continually for wen years.
I'VE sometimes tried other adver-
Used breakfast foods but we invariably
returned to Grape-Nuts as the most
palatable. economical and nourishing
of all.
When I quit tea and coffee and
began to use Postum and Grape-Nuts,
l was almost a nervous wreck. I was
80 irritable l could not sleep nights,
had no interest insaife.
After using Grape-Nuts a short
time I began to improve and all these
ailments have disappeared and now 1
am a well woman. My two children
nave been almost raised on Grape
Nuts, which they eat three times a
day.
They are pictures Of health and
ave eve had the least symptom Of
stomach trouble. eve through the
most severe siege Of whooping cough
tney could retain Grape-Nuts when all
else failed.
Grape-Nuts food has saved doctor
Dilis. and has been, therefore, . most
economical food for u.s."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read 'tThe Road to Well
vile" In pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above IetterS A new
80 appears from time to time. They
sIc genuine true, and fun Of human
interest.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30
Snakes Got His Roll.

Il lost 1926 trying to kill rattle
snakes, and now / am going to walk
back to my home in Brooklyn" ex-
planned a man about forty-five years
old, who said he is Ezra Sellen.
Sellen said he started for a walk
from his boarding place, encountered
a lot OF rattlesnakes, killed some, fed
from the others, waded a stream, and
then missed his roll OF bills. He said
ne a just money enough left to ride
to this city and took the state road
out OF town.-Middletown On. W Dis
patch to New York World.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30
A Race of CoIored Giants.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledge

an l. oDlIS ASdSSI.
Rev. G. Lea Wilson, who conducts a
mission in the district of the White
Nile, 1000 miles south of Khartum. has
arrived in England with interesting
facts about a race of colored giants,
who inhabit the Bahr-el- Ghozal, 200
miles west of the river. These natives
practice neither cannibalism nor hu-
man sacrifices and have some admir-
able traits. Unlike their n%eighbors, they
are never cruel to women or children,
n their habits OF decorating them
selves are somewhat akin to the people
Of civilization.
For reasons unknown even to them
selves, the adults have six of their
lower teeth removed. OF those remain
ing. however, they take the most scru-
pulous care, cleaning them daily with
a native brush and wood ash. They
take much pride in dressing their hair
powder their faces and wear ostrich
feathers. They believe in a supreme
being, to whom they make sacrifices
through their chiefs or witch doctors.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30
Women Change Subject Too often7

Women Change Subject Too often7
In the Woman's Home Companion
Margaret Busbee Ship, writing a love
story entitled Sweet Margaret" pre-
sents a character who comments, as
follows, on woman's conversation:
Il Y had a sister, and / have
never known how to talk to women.
They embarrass me; they er -
change the subject SO often. / lever
seem quite to catch up"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30

graphical objection to either of them, If,
indeed, there could possibly be a geo
graphical reason against the right man for
such an appointment. Each has done a
share Of public service, and made a mea-
sure. of personal sacrifice in the doing Of
1t, that deserves consideration. Each is
known to and has received high mark of
the confidence of presidents representing
both the old political parties. In short,
there is every reason for the belief that
the appointment might logically lie be-
tween these two,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30
DAISY FLY KILLER
Absurd Comment.

Theodore Dresser. the r~ealist. aaia
of an idealist at the Players club I'm
New York:
"The mans comments on Life se
ludicrous and absurd. They remind nsa
of the old lady's comment on the worH
of the militant suffragettes.
After the s~uffragettes in London
had slashed a Valesquez, a Bellini and
a Gentle, the old lady said, with q
kind of sanity expression:
But, thank goodness, they're All
old pictures that are being slashed-ss
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30
Can't Find This Perfect Woman.

Belgium has been trying to discover
the perfect woman According to a
symposium in Brussels, she must pos
sess the figure of an American, the
elegance of an English girl, the hair of
an Austrian, the eye of an Italian and
the profile of a Spaniard. So far the
creature has eluded discovery.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30
FULL BABYLONIAN FLOOD
YARN TO BE MADE KNOWN

London. Special: DR.. Stephen Lang
don. professor of A~ssyriology at Oxford
university, and the only American
holding a PROFESSIONAL chair at the
senior university, said today:
Il would esteem it a favor If you
would cable to the effect that scholars
and arc~haeologtsts had better wait for
the full account of my discovery Of the
new Babylonian version Of the flood
and the fall Of man translated by me
from a tablet found in the museum of
he University Of Pennsylvania. / ask
this because the reports so far printed
in American newspapers are inaccurate
and misleading.
Il am preparing a full and correct
account, n this should be read and
digested before anv judgment is pro-
nounced on the work, as the clippings
which have reached me from the Uni
ted States are misleading and dis
tressing."
Professor Langdon promises hat his
manuscript will be ready in a few days.