The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-16

P. A. BLISS.
scoTLANp. SOUTH DAKOTA
I'm the employ of Ralph T.. Fuller,
81 Cleveland, is u Japanese butler
named Yanlalnoto. who is a baron in
his w country. When Nine. Tamaki
Miur1, the japanese prima donna, was
singing in Cleveland. Yarnamoto said
he had gone to school with her in To-
kto, and would Introduce her to Mrs.
Fuller, but that she must not know
ne was q servant man" So for one
evening at q dinner in homo OF Ma
dame Miuri. Yamamoto was the guest
OF his employer n again a noble OF
Japan.
you have" a shopper In one of the big
New York department stores said to a
s~alesWoman the other day. How much
is 1t, please?" Two dollars and ninety
cents" WAS the staggering reply as the
clerk brought forth from a case a small,
daintily wrapped package; "and you're
lucky to get this, for were not getting
any more of them now" 1t was a
French soap. and the high price, it was
SAID, was due to the exquisite perfume
used in its manufacture.
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The quarterly court of the Tennessee
county in which Chattanooga is stu
ated. has ordered an appropriation Of
$4,000 for widows pensions, to become
available July l. This is the maximum
appropriation in counties whore juven-
lie courts are held. The act was passed
by the last legislature and provides
Tor a pension of $40 a month for the
eldest child less than 16. and SIS
a month for each additional child. Pen
sions will be under. tho supervision OF
Juvenile courts.
An intensive study OF the question of
pneumonia will be made by a commits
sion appointed by Director Wilmer
krusen. of he department OF health
ana charities Of Philadelphia, The re-
cent epidemic of grip and pneumonia
accustomed he appointment. The city
laboratories will be placed at the dis
pesal OF he commission. DR.. David
ftlesman, professor of clinical medicine
IN the University OF PENNSYLVANIA, and
the Philadelphia polyclinic, will be
chairman.
The president Of the japanese Cit,.
zens association of Hawaii set a good
example to other hyphenated Amerf-
Gais IN these words in a recent adj
dress to his associates: You who
were born In Hawaii are not the sons
OF tne emperor lof JAPAN. If trouble
should come with Japan. YOU mnst re-
member that you are the sons Of the
president, NOT of the emperor. Aim to
work for the best examples Of cifi-
zenship and then aim to work for
peace"
hudson, Maxim, who has bought a
nome in Colorado, to which he plans
remoya OF himself and family directly
the brutal powers of Europe beei,
their American invasion, is hardly Co
ing that state a favor in advertising il
as least accessible of all from the pros
porous Atlantic seaboard on which he
sApects the enemy host to land. What,
roo, II Honduras should go loco. land al
Gaiveston n march rorthi
1here is more han one
motorcar for every mile OF highway In
the United States, 1t was only last year
aaaat nnuai production practically
caught up with the records established
py the buggtes at the height of their
popularity, When q years output was
ABOUT ~l.000,000. In 1915 nearly 900
U00 automobiles We're sold in tbis
country and 300. 600 orders remained
untitled.
"A droll report comes from Rirrninr-
nam, Ala, of the success of a cotfop
planter In producing a cotton nlant
mat smells SO strongly OF asafetida
tnat al insects AVOID it; the result was
optalned by sprinlAiing several genera
lions Oh the piantw with nux vomica. II
- ina the new plant has solved
the boil weevil problem, by. depriyine
the Weevii OF its food.
Francis r. Reilly, of Reading, pa.
Drought equity proceedings in co,rt
against Samuel Il. Blatt, his partner
asklhs Iof a dissolution for their part
giving rs the reason thai for
three months Blatt had refused to
speak to him and their only means of
during that time had
been through employees.
Write poetry by all MEANS a pro-
Iessor in h University Of Minnesota
has encouraged his class boldly. aBnt
aont snow 1t to any one he adds. es-
his right to be called not
only diplomatic but q sincere worke or
for the general welfare.
government of India has sue
ceeaeo IN improving h quality of the |
cotton crown in some of Its territory
distributing better seed and induce
ing natives to use modern imple- |
Fan brakes. to displace the air be-
neath car and thus retara it's motion
and also to keep the hub brakes cool.
nave been fitted to some automobiles
lsed IN mountainous portions OF Switz-
One OF the simplest camp stoves is |
ne invention of a Nebraska man, con-
listing Of a long sheet metal box with
hinged door at one end and a smoke
pipe. which can be packed inside, at he
,ther.