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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20
A Railroad Across the Sahara.
c. M. Keys in the Worlds Work

c. M. Keys in the Worlds Work.
Up in Algeria, running down from
the coast through Biskra to a little
village called Tuggurt, is a French
government line with a name and in
tentions that suggest something Won
derful. 1t is called the Trans-Sahara
railway. At the present time it is a
little narrow guage road only 1876 miles
long. 1t is planned to cross the great
Sahara desert and to reach ultimately
Lake Chad on the northern border Of
Nigeria. The distance is 1,400 miles
and the country through which the
road would run apparently offers moth
ing to induce railroad building. On the
face of 1t, 1t looks like an official rail-
road dream rather than like a real pro-
ject; but in those countries where gov
ernments build railroads, they seem to
be built sometimes without the slight
est regard to traffic possibilities or
money making possibilities.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20
Otd-Time Lamentations.
From the Milwaukee Journal

A few flnanciers of the old school,,
among whom is Mr.. George R. Sheldon,
treasurer of the North American company,
who cling to high tariff ideas, refuse to
read the signs Of the times and think that
a manufacturer should not hazard a move
without a huge tariff to give him a cast
iron hold on the home market, say that
the country cannot have prosperity until
the republican party is put back into pow
er and high tariff restored.
The president Of the United Shoe Ma
chinery company, who through leased
machinery, has an accurate gauge on the
| on the eve Of the greatest boom ever
known. Many other leaders In business
express similarly optimistic views. The
Steel corporation has recently added s per
cent to its working force and is running
at 70 per cent Of capacity. Hundreds OF
instances of buster manufacturers and
merchants In the last few weeks might
be cited. Yet despite improving times.
the magnates sigh for the old tariff flesh.
pots which will never return.
During the recent strike workers in the
highly protected textile Industries OF
Lawrence. Mass, testified that they could
not earn a living wage by laborfng the
longest days. Steel workers, in one Of the
seven days in the week. and the 12-houl
day is still ommon. The wage is so low
that a semblance to a living wage can,
not be earned IN a day less than - hours
day.
The tariff proposed to help the work
men. But high tariffs have meant the
fat dividend and the lean wage. The
of labor under a liberal immigration law
has pounded the wage down and showed
all the excess tariff profits into his owl
pocket. When anyone made an assault
emitted u howl that could be heard across
the country.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20
The Railroad Scrap Heap.

Safety first" as a railroad axiom and
example has become popular property,
and great good 1t has done. There Is an
other railroad device that could be of
great service in private and in individual
affairs If we did but apply it with the
perseverance which Is the root Of it's
efficiency. 1t is the scrap heap" A few
scrap heap as a possible source of reve-
nue.. Examination proved that a good
claimed from such heaps, and scrap
docks or retaining shops were estab-
lished as collection centers. When these
revealed the amount Of material that
way to permanent buildings with ma
chinery to facilitate the work, and now
complete establishments Of this kind are
in operation on many roads.
In one shop near Chicago there were
handled last year 143, 142 tons of scrap
at a cost ssa % Of :, So So G SS The The scrap sales
the material reclaimed from the scrap was
$421. 497. This was handled and made serv-
iceable for s 1856. or at a rate of cost of
$12.76 for each 500 reclaimed. Among the
important items saved In this one plant
during the year were 2,307,34 bolts Of
various kinds and sizes; 40 tons Of nuts;
and 600 scoops. There were also switch
stands. couplings, hose and fittings, brake
beams, jacks and drills, trucks and wheel
barrows, etc. to the value Of $780, 900. be-
| sides $500 steel wheels for retiring, and
5000 tons Of round and fiat iron recovered
for re-roltng. But the reclamati Of old
and worn material Is by no means all
that comes from this system. A great
and important element IS the replacement
of defective material. All material Is care
fully inspected before it is sold as scrap
and a good deal Of it Is found to have
makers defects. These are set aside and
inspected by representatives Of the con-
Germs selling them and on being passed
are replaced, and thus a vast saving to
the road Is effected.
The poor man will never get ahead as
he ought until he learns thoroughly the
lesson contained in the scrap heap" It
matters not much whether a man gets
high wage or not II he has no care for
the scrap heap. AT the end of the year
his balance sheet will show nothing. Nor
does it help him to cry out against the
high cost Of living as the cause Of this.
He makes his part of the high cost of liv-
Ing, and 1t will be always SO until he
learns to take care of his contribution to
the scrap heap and sees that he gets back
all hat is available.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20
MRS. j. A. WHITMAN.

on desert sands, or returned crushed
and broken after years of fruitless
prospecting. Whitman courted success
and won 1t.
A few days 6 he arrived here on
the Moana on his way around the
world. He has a fortune, the exact
amount Of which he hardly knows him
self-a fortune dug out in large mug
gets from the district known as Slugg
hill. He also has a wife who after the
desires of his youth, is young and
pretty.
Whitman is a bit grizzled from IS
years Of mining In Kalgoorlie. He has
his fortune and he has paid for it.
During the trip the Wittmans were
the most transformations people aboard.
The prospector has no desire to cut a
wide swath.
He is not going to charter any spe-
cial trains.
He spoke lightly of the nuggets taken
from his holdings in Slugg hill. Some
Of them ran up to 1876 ounces and were
worth $40 an ounce. These specimens
he presented to his wife when they
were married in Perth a yea ago. They
are being preserved as souvenirs.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20

The British navy strangled Napoleon.
France and Russia hope that even in
the event that their armies should meet
the worst reverses at the hands OF the
German forces, the navy CT Great
Britain will plunge into the contest and
strengle the kaiser by cutting off his
food supplies.
England has the most powerful navy
the world has ever known, enmasse and
as to single great ships. The super
d~readnaught Queen Mary and her sis
ter. the Tiger, combine terrific fighting
power and tremendous speed. Each
carries ten guns Of 1876 caliber or over,
has nine-inch armor plate and makes
over % Knots an hour. The initial cost
or the Queen Mary was ,125, $50.
Great Britain has seventeen other
superdreadnaughts. All carry ten guns
ot $50 callber or over, n all make
at least % knots an hour. The Lion
n the Princess Royal are thirty
Knot ships. All experts say that the
english fleet should take command of
the sea at once and drive the German
nag, both naval and commercial, from
1t. Germany has "a dreadnaughts, in
Guiding the old ones, but no ships in
the superdreadnaught class.
Blockaded by sea and her food sup
Jl1es cut off from North and South
out America and Russia, Germany
would be forced to subsist from her
w products and those of her ally,
Austria, which would be no easy task,
since In normal years Germany i'm
ports about $1,5o0.o00 more of ag-
ricultural products and foodstuffs
h she exports. Germany's ex-
ports have been chiefly chemicals,
textiles, base metals, machinery and
miscellaneous manufactures.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20
No Menace In sanatorlum.

DR.. Edward L. Trudeau, who built
the first tuberculosis sanatorium in
the United States In 1885, says:
When I bought the FIRST land on
which the Adirondack Cottage sanato
rum is built, I paid $25 an acre for it,
but the price was then thought alb
surdly high. My last purchase OF i've
acres cost me $4,000. To my knowl
edge, there has been an employe
who came to the sanatorfum In sound
health who developed tuberculosis
while there; and a sanatorium al nc
more endanger the health of the neigh.
borhood in which It is built, even II
the residences are at its very gates
than it could II it were placed on tor
OF a high mountain miles away from
habitation."
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20
WOULD MAKE A POLITICIAN
Little Wilile's Capacity for Sticking to
Ono idea singularly Like Way
of Rabld Partisan.

EE
THE late Adlai b. Stevenson" said
q Republican leader Of Bloomington,
hadn't, after all. much use for poll
tics. He once explained to me why
this was.
He said that party politicians be-
lieved their side to be always right,
and the other side to be always wrong.
Whatever the other side advocated, 1t
was horrible and Internal; whatever
their own side advocated vas holy.
He said the partisan couldn't un-
derstand that you might arrive at the
right thing by more ways than one
and thus the partisan was like the ur-
chin whose teacher said:
Willie. what does six plus four
make?'
Eleven
No. Try again
Twelve.
mo.
Thirteen
"cNo, no. no. You're Just guessing.
But why couldn't you have guessed
that six plus four makes ten?
Because it don't make ten said
Willie. Five and five makes ten-I
remember that"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20
SWEATING tho Schoolnas+er.

Nations are made by their schoolmas-
ters. The school is the molder of national
character, the teacher the molder of a ma
TONS ideals. The power of the teacher
wanes, however, and education loses in
effectiveness when pupils, instead of re-
speeding their p~receptors. grow cynical to-
wards them.
Such a situation now exists in the Unit
ed States and Is periling our educational
system, according to speakers at the con-
vention of the National Education asso-
for a college instructor who gets a salary
that is often no bigger than the allowanc
this student gets from his parents for 'ln-
cidentaI' expenses? How can the student
take the professor seriously or be INSPIRED
by his ideals when he knows the salary
Of his mentor to be no larger thar the
salary of a clerk in his fathers office
The professor, too, has less confidence in
himself when he comes before his class in
a coat that shines from too prolonged
wear.
The salaries of professors and teachers.
in view Of the high cost of living, are In
effectiveness just about one-half what
they were 20 years ago, according to
President Dabney of the University of
Cincinnati, who addressed the association.
1t is useless to Expect men of greater abil-
ity to enter the teaching profession in
view Of such ar economic predicament. Nc
matter how strong a love a man may
cherish for the profession he will think
twice before entering 1t. No one likes TO
enter a field of endeavor that makes no
provision for old age-save a Carnegie
pension.
We have been finding fault a good deal
OF late with our educational system. We
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20
k Il complete.

Mr.. Fred Kerr, the actor, was play
ing at Ranelagh, and at the Lake
hole drove eight successive balls
straight into the water. He had no
moro left In his bag, and there was
nothing more to be done-except one
thing. Selling his bag of clubs, he
walked dramatically to the lakes edge.
Then in a broken voice he said:
"Old pond, have these as we'll" and
turning. with a sigh. walked home.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20
Couldn't Corner Him.

Count" said the lady to the for.
etgn nobleman at the charity bazaar.
won't you buy this rose. 1t is only
S."
Il am very sorry" said the Count
with a courtly bow, "but re price is a
leetle too high"
The lady kissed tho rose. "And
now, Count will you buy it,"
mo. madame" he said, with a still,
deeper bow. Now 20 rose is price
less
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20
On the Cane.

Breathless Would-Be Passenger
Station-master, when does the halt
past five train leave?
MISUNDERSTANDING.
Passenger-Well, the new church IL
81 minutes past, the post Office clock
is rs minutes past. and your clock In,
80 minutes past. Now, in the name q
goodness, what clock am I to go by3
Standardization a go by any
clock you like, but you can't go By
the train-it's gone.-Pearson's Week.
ly.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20

have charged it with lack of efficiency. In
dividual employers are learning that high
efficiency goes only with ~contentment on
the part of employees, with a sense of Sc
curity in their jobs and their future. What
Is true of the factory is true of
the school teacher. Cease to make teach
ers intellectual proletarians-men without
possessions, without hopes, without prom
Use in the future-and their efficiency will
go I'D.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20
miner DIGS FORTUNE
And WINS HIS GIRL
Rainbow Chaser Realizes His
Dream, After 20 Years
Search.

San Francisco.-J. A. Whitman ,ert
his home in New South Wales 20 years
ago for desolate Kalgoorlie, in western
Australia, with the determinatinn ~
piling up a fortune. marrying the nret.
test girl in his home district and liyinp
happily ever after. He meant to follow
the rainbow to it's very end.
Other young men with the same kind
OF dream ave left their bones to bleach
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20

ton by the Germans with the Aus
TRANS and Italians.
But, as stated. the Germans in all
probability would not leave their home
waters, relying on their allies to con-
troll the situation in the Mediterranean.
1 consider the German fleet for Its
size to be inc a more efficient condi-
ton than the English fleet. Its gun
merry practice is excellent, being the
main part Of efficiency. The homo
the English fleet.
The English fleet is larger and in
good condition.
The only way Germany can equalize
numbers is by making night attacks
with d~estroyers and submarines on he
main English fleet, which will be
forced to remain at sea to control the
commerce lanes. Naturally such night
attacks will affect the morals Of the
English and make them less efficient
to Withstand the final battle attack.
Socialism Demoralizes French.
The French navy never has been
noted for its efficiency. The French
are not natural sailors and up to re-
cent times the administration and So
clallsm have almost demoralized the
navy. This has been only partly rem
edied In the last four years. The in
terror workings of the fleet have been
BAD, as indicated by the powder and
other scandals and explosions on sew
eral of their naval vessels.
Russia has practically no navy: 1t
was either destroyed or captured in the
war with Japan.
Since that war Russia has not been
able to add materially to her fleet. The
Russian navy was in a bad moral con-
dltlon during the Japanese war and 1t
has not improved in this respect.
Therefore the chief naval defense in
Europe for the triple entente will rest
on England.
Japan has an exceedingly efficient
navy. Under her alliance with England
she will take up arms against Germany,
reducing Kiao Chou, the German for
tress on the Shang-Tung Peninsula,
China, and selling other German
islands in the Pacific.
Ono Side to Grab Turkey.
The whole aim and object Of the war,
leaving u minor details, resolves it
self into the following single point:
Who will control the Dardanelles? If
the triple alliance should be success
full Austria will advance her territory
directly to the Turkish straits.
If, on the other hand, the triple en-
tente should be successful Russia viii
absorb most Of the Balkan states, Tur-
key being swept over into Asia Minor.
England will not like Russian acqui-
sition Of Constantinople but cannot
help herself, because at the end Of a
successful war a large part of the Rus
sian army will be in complete posses
sion Of that territory. Russia thereby
will ave gained her ~long-sought outlet
on the Mediterranean which England
for centuries has prevented.
Nor will England like Austria gain
ing possession of the Dardanelles, be-
cause such possession will enable hos
tile command Of the routes to Egypt
and India and the rest of the far east.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20
WORLDS FATE HELD
BY The Great FLEETS,
SEA fights IMPORTANT
Britain Will Have to Destroy
German Fleet to Retain
Mastery.
ALL POWERS ARE INVOLVED
United States Naval Expert Outlines
Strength and Probable Cam
paigns of European War
Fleets.
ALL POWERS ARE INVOLVED

by d WCII1DGT I Ii0 SSISTdI OoaId VI
the United States Navy.
Observation-Disclosures from the
naval point OF. view. I consider the
following will be the probable general
condition If all the world 1--WE are
involved In the Austro-Servian and
Russo-German wars:
The English fleet in the North sea
will endeavor to destroy the German
fleet.
This is absolutely necessary because
England requires food stuffs from the
them she will have to establish COM
plete control Of the sea so that COM
merce may pass freely across the At
lantic.
French and German Plans.
The French navy undoubtedly will be
| assembled in the Mediterranean to OPP
pose the fleet Of Austria. If successful,
| the French will be able to prevent the
transportation Of troops across the
| Adriatic sea to the Balkan states.
The policy Of Germany probably will
BIZ to hold her fleet behind fortifca-
| tons until the land forces have been
| successful, at the same time attacking
the English battle fleet by means OF
torpedo vessels and submarines and re-
ducing it so that the German fleet will
more nearly equal it.
MIGHT Invade England.
When Germany has defeated Russia
and France on land, her next move
would be to engage the fleet Of Eng
land.
1t the latter should be beaten an in
vasion of England would follow.
1t would not be necessary for Ger
many to attack the colonies of Eng,
land. If the plans outlined above should
be successful, Germans occupation OF
England would cause the colonies tc
fall like rip apples into her lap.
Germany might, In the first part OF
| the war, endeavor by means of dread
nought cruisers SO to harraSs the com
merce Of England coming across the
Atlantic that the food supplies Of
England would be reduced. These sup
plies are absolutely vital to Eng
land because she is not self-sustaining
In order to save herself from starva'
ton the English fleet must hold thu
German fleet closely to German waters
And English ~dreadnought cruisers
must cruise along the European end O.
the m anes.
Fixes Scene of Battle.
The operations Of German battle
cruisers Independently or the CONNER.
cial leet Of England would be limited
because of the necessity of returning
to German ports for coal. All opera
ions consequently will take place II
the eastern Atlantic.
1t Is not anticipated that the Ger
mar navy will be able to cut h cable
connecting England with Canada o.
the United states in the initial stage
| of the war. But this will certainly fol
low if the German fleet should be sue
cessful in the SECOND stage of the wa
in driving in or defeating the mail
English fleet.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20
Fathers Wise.

PA, what is the short and ugly
word?"
"'Pay,' my son."-Birmingham Age
Herald.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20

Try Murine Eye Remedy for Red, Weak. Watery
Eyes and Granulated Eyel!ds:. No Smartlng-
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By mail Free. Murine Eys Remedy Co., Chicago.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20

Never refuse to marry a girl be-
cause her father is rich. It Is false
modesty.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20
More Eadn.

Silas-What's your son studying at
college?
Hiram-Pharmacy.
Silas-Some new-fangled farming,
eh?-Judge.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20
Fixes Scene of Battle.
Work for French Fleet.

The English battle fleet in the Med
i~terranean probably will be with
drawn to the North sea CT English
channel, leaving the defense of the
Mediterranean to the French entirely.
The English will retain their torpedo
sdestroyers and submarines at Gibral-
tar, and thus prevent a possible juno
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20

A cat will not look at a king If there
is a mouse in sight.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20

A man has to be Of some conse-
Quence to meet a Waterloo.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-20
friends.

Men without enemies have but few
friends.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-09-09

sion TO talk with attorneys, or to see
anyone. Lighthill and Rake made
the same statements.
Rake said he had been here 10
years, and has family. Lighthill
has lived here Is years, and Doherty
35 years, and all have families.
Bail Of $500 Is reasonable and
Just" said Justice Jeffries to Assist
ant Prosecutor Jasnowski, who took
charge of the remand proceedings.
after Mr.. Frazer left. Jasnowsh sug.
gested 81 500, as Mr.. Frazer's request.
but the $500 bail, with one surety,
was accepted.
Sol Berman, Doherty's bondsman,
who was present, interjected: "Im q
professional bondsman. they say, so
I'll just go on all three bonds. I
never took a nickel for bond in my
life. I've got 100000 and that viii
do for the bonds"
He was promptly accepted, and
the men were released to appear
from day to day as wanted. Then
Mr.. Jasnowski left.
Frazer Is four-fusher," said JUS
tice Jeffries. holly. Menace, he calls
me, does he? Well, to my mind, the
greatest menace is despot who In
sists on a man being imprisoned and
kept apart from his attorneys and
family and friends, before he Is found
guilty of anything.
I'll take the matter up In the reg
ular way, as he suggested. That
means contempt proceedings. cant
say Just when I will start them, but
! will get an attorney to act as friend
of the court, and will proceed. as the
remark was certainly contemptuous.
Ill show Frazer that he can't run
over me-"
Then Justice Jeffries said: who
ever says that had any part in get
ting Doherty this position, tells an
absolute lie. did help Andrew
Rake to get his job. So did Con-
gresham Doremus, and so did Judge
Connolly. And was stunned when
read that Rake was crooked.
don't think / ever knew Doherty to
speak to, until this morning"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-09-09
Effective BRENNAN TELLS
IN The STAND HOW HELURED|
ELINNAN INTO GRAFT TRAP

were excluded from the courtroom on
motion OF Attorney j. Shurley Ken
nary. Attorney James Mcnamara.
chief counsel for the defense, read al
OF the various Wabash petitions, and
the action taken on each, into the
record. long-drawn-out proceeding.
interesting as the rattle OF dry bones
Defendant Nearly Asleep.
Aid. Gilman. his air OF calm and
repose still with him, yawned. md
nearly dozed into slumber several
times. as he lolied in his chair. his
head resting on his hand and one
elbow on the press table, across from
that covered with files, and the data
OF the attorneys.
The intense enthusiasm caused by
the opening Of the long-delayed trial
was evidenced by q boost of two
count 'em, two-in the attendance
records.
There were 23 present. Saturday.
and 25, on Tuesday. But five of the
% were sound asleep at 10 a. m. and
slept diligently though silent. during
the rest OF the session.
Prosecutor Frazer lay in his chair
and gave an excellent imitation of
Rip Van Wrinkle after the bowling
game, though, Of course, the prose
cutor was entirely conscious every
minute.
Mr.. Mcnamara finished with Ingalls,
at 1895, and Detective Walter J..
Burns was called by Mr.. Frazer.