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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-22

Judge J.. L. Meighen was in
Sioux City Monday.
Adolph Becker left last Sunday
night for a business trip to Mime
apolis.
Henry Brown and Earl Homan
of Kaylor, were Scotland visitors
Monday.
FOR SALE OR RENT--A good
dwelling house in Scotland. In.
quire of J. B. Gano.-Adv.
Mrs. Robert Benz and baby, of
LeMars, Ia, arrived today and will
visit her brother, Joe sheckel.
|. a. Johnston returned on We'd
nesday fnom a trip to Nebraska
where he looked after, his farm
that he purchased last fall.
Mr.. Harvey, brother Of Mrs. G..
B. Everett, is quite sick at the Ev.
erett home, suffering with brights
disease and complications.
J. G. Ser, of Belvidere, made a
hurried visit to Scotland Tuesday.
He spent the afternoon with his
father, Christof serr, and his sis
ters, and left for home on the even.
ing train.
The Maxwell Mennonite colony
shipped a wagon load of broom
corn, raised on their farm, to Sioux
City Tuesday. They still have a
good supply which they will man.
ufacture into brooms.
Mrs. |. 81. Johnston visited her
daughter last week at the Normal
school at Springfield. She was a
victim Of the blockade and did not
get home until Monday morning,
no trains having run on that line
since Thursday before.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-22

Mrs. Grimm, who has been liy.
ing near Olivet, is here this week
visiting at the home of her brother,
A. F. Miller. She will leave soon
for H%urds6eld, N. D., with her son
Roy Grimm, who is moving to that
place.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-22

We have rented the Stafford
pasture and will take COWS for
pasturing. Rates 1925 per month,
payable in advance.
ADV. sabatka Brothers.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-22
AN
Ole n E W .EDISON N.
want lovers Of all classes Of music to come to our store
and permit us to demo nstrate the NEW EDISON 1.-The
t product Of the laboratories Of Thomas A. Edison.
NOT A TALKING MACHINE

The New Edison is not a talking machine" Il is The most
wonderful musical instrument ever devised. II does what no other
invention has ever accomplished. It Recreates the human voice
and the music Of hum an. played instruments with such fidelity
that the original cannot be distinguished from the Re.Creation
when brought into direct comparison. Music's Recreation is
Thomas A. Edison's new art.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-22

Michael Gaul, from south cas-.
OF Plumb. is moving into the Kad.
leo house, west Of the depot, hav.
ing purchased the property some
time ago.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-22
Be Our Guest

Cometo our store today, or any other day convenient for you.
Come in for rest and mental refreshment on your next shopping
tour. Be our guest at a private Edison musicale. No obligation
no embarrassment, no sales soliction. just come in, sit down
and listen.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-22
Critics Fail to Detect Difference

Remember, these great artists stood beside the New Edison in
Carnegie Hall, New York, symphony Hall, Boston the Astor
Gallery and other shrines Of music. They sang in direct compar-
ison with the New Edinons r Oreation Of their voices. More than
100000 music lovers and critics attended these and similar dem.
onstrations throughout the United States and Canada, and went
away m arve]inR at their inability to distinguish between the original
and the New Edison's Recreation. The music critics of nearly 800
of Americas leading newspapers reviewed these demonstrations
and in their reviews admitted that they were unable to detect
the slightest difference between the living and the Re.Createdmuec.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-22
Direct Comparison with Artists

When MI. Edison perfected this new instrument did he ask great
artists to listen to the New Edisons Recreation of their singing,
or playing, and then give their opinion of the results? No, instead
be submitted his new invention to public comparison with such
great artists as Marie Rappold, sopranos, and Arthur Middleton,
basso of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Julia Heinrich, so.
prano, late of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Thomas Chain.
ers, baritone, of the Boston National Grand Opera Company; Al
ice Verlet, soprano,o of the Paris Opera; Hardy Williamson, tenor,
late Of the Century Opera Company; Christine Miller, contralto;
Elizabeth Spencer, soprano; Marie Kaiser, soprano; Ida Gardner,
contralto; Helen Clark, soprano and Betsy Lane Shepherd, So
prano, and other noted singers.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-18
Hoaxed the Naturalist.
TIE END.

One of the most remarkable books
ever published is the photographic
Wirceburgensis," written by a Wurz-
burg naturalist named B%ehringer in
1926. Probably very few copies are III
existence, as the author destroyed ali
that he could get possession of soon
after the book appeared. He had been
victimized by some practical jokers.
who had made a great variety of arti-
fetal fossils and hidden them in a
quarry. to which they then enticed the
professor. Behringer was overjoyed
by so rich a find and had no suspicion
Of the trick, although many of the fos-
sils were Of a very grotesque charac-
ter. He took his treasures home, made
elaborate drawings of them and wrote
a minute description Of each, as well
as an exhaustive commentary filed
with ingenious and plausible theories.
When he had published the book the
jokers confessed, and then, Of course,
the professor did his utmost to sup
press the work.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-18

TITS all right for a vacation. but e
amt noways u white mans stddy
work. Well, We had our vacation"
"Then you're not going back to the
minesT'
Not any," stated Yank emphaticany.
Nor home?"
mo"
"What them"
I'm going to take up a farm up thar
whar no Pine boys is settled. and I'm
going to enjoy life reasonable. Thar's
good soil. and thar's water; thar's
pleasant prospects and lots Of game
and fish. What more does a man
want? And what makes me sick r.
that It's been thar all the time and it's
only just this minute I've come to see
It,"
Mines for you. Johnny. or homer"
asked Talbot.
ME, homr:" cried Johnny. why
he checked himself ana added more
quietly: No; I'm not going home.
There's nothing there for me but q
good time, when you come right down
to it. And mines? 1t strikes me that
fresh gold is easy to get. but almighty
hard to keep"
you never said a truer word than
that, Johnny" l put in.
Besides which l quit mining some
time ago, as you remember" went on
Johnny, "due to an artistic aversion to
hard work." lie added.
ANY plans:' asked Talbot.
Il think Ill just drift up to Sonoma
and talk things e with Danny Ran
dali" replied Johnny vaguely. He
had some sort of an idea of extending
this express service next year"
And you?" Talbot turned to me.
81" said firmly. lam going to turn
over my share in a business partner
ship with you, and in the meantime I
expect to get Il job driving team with
John Mcl,lynn for enough to pay the
board bin While you rustic. And that
goes" | added w%arningly.
Thank you. Frank" replied Talbot,
and / thought ! saw his bright eye
dim. He held silent for a moment.
"Do y"1 know" he said suddenly, II
believe we're on the right track. 1t
isn't the gold. Tha, is q bait, n glitter
ing bait. that attracts the world to
these shores. It's the country. The
gold brings them. and out of the hordes
that come some, like us, will stick.
And after the gold is dug and scattered
and all but forgotten we will find that
we have fallen heirs to an empire"
TIE END
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-18
cApTER xxx CONTINUED

"Is that d plutocrat?" demanded
Johnny graphically.
cit is!!' we cried.
Our sense Of our own financial i'm
portance being thus refreshed, we adj
vanced in rigid military formation to
the bar and took drinks. Two
million dollars was the amount we had
chosen as representing the value Of
our interests. In deciding upon this
figure we considered ourselves very
moderate in refusing to add probable
future increment. 1t might also be
added that we equally neglected to de-
duct present liabilities. Nobody ever
guesse, what this mysterious perform
ance CT ours meant. but every one
came t. expect it and to be amused
by it. IN a mild way we and our fool
monkeyshines came to be a well known
institution.
Having nothing else to do, we en-
tered heartily into the life and pleas
ures Of the place. and we met many
Of the leading citizens.
From them l heard of the state Of
SoAAAlClS1dl uhulio, viii us SSSIC1uS
of consignments and auctions. it's ru-
mors Of fleet clipper ships, its corner
of the market, its. Cuttings with I'M
fOreseen cargoes of unexpected vessels
and all the other complex and delicate
adjustments m changes that made
business so fascinating and so uncer-
tain. All these men were filled with
a great optimism and an abiding en-
thusiasm for the future. They talked
OF plank roads. Of sewers. of schools,
churches, hospitals, pavements, fills,
the raZlng Of hills, Wharves, public
buildings, water systems. and they
talked Of them so soberly and in such
concrete terms of accomplishment that
the imagination was tricked into ac-
eept1ng them as solid facts. Often 1
have gone forth from listening to one
of these earnest discussions to look
about me on that wind swept. sand
blown, himsy, dirty, sprawl1ng camp
they called u city, with its half dozen
magnificent brick buildings that any
New England village could duplicate.
and have laughed wildly until the
tears came over the absurdity Of it. 1
was young. l did not know that a city
Is not bricks, but men; is not fact, but
the vitality Of a living ideal.
In the town outside we made many
other acquaintances, Of all classes of
society. In 1S49 no social stigma, or
very little, attached to any open asso-
citation. Gamblers were respectable
citizens. provided they ran straight
games.
Among tho others we came across II
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-18
This Represented All That Remained
of the Ward block.

the fire stopped advancing. sup
pose the wind must have changed,
though at the time 1 did not notice it.
At any rate, l found myself in the gray
dawn looking rather stupidity at a row
Of the frailest kind of canvas and
scantling houses which the fire had
sheared Clearly in two and wondering
why in thunder the rest Of them hadn't
burned.
A dense pail Of smoke hung over the
city and streamed away to the south
and east. In the burned district all
sense Of location had been lost. Where
before had been we'll known landmarks
now lay a fat desert. The fire had
burned fiercely and completely and In
lack of food had died down to almost
nothing. a few wisps Of smoke still
rose, a few Goals glowed, but beside
them nothing remained to indicate
even the laying out Of the former plan.
Only over across a dead acreage Of
ashes rose here and there the remains
of isolated brick walls. They looked
through the eddying mists and smoke
like ancient ruins separated by wide
spaces.
1 gazed duly across the waste area,
taking deep hreaths, resting, my mind
numb. Then gradually 1t was borne in
on me that the Plaza itself looked rath-
err more empty sided than it should. A
cold hand Gripped my heart. l began
to skirt til. smoldering embers Of II
shanties III. wooden warehouses tr!
ing to follnT where the streets ha,
been. Men we're proving about every
where, blackened by smoke. their cloth
ing torn and burned.
Can you make out where Rigging
store was" one of them hailed me-. ~
had II little shanty mex door and some
gold dust, Figure ! might pan it Out
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-18
stronger pun of wind sent wnlrnng
aloft a shower Of sparks and brands.

olfOuHCA pun VI IIlu SCuL WulTIlOR
aloft a shower Of sparks and brands.
We started Mt double quick in the di-
rcction of the fimsy small structures
between tho old FL Dorado and the
Parker House. Some men. after q mo-
ment, brought ropes and axes. We
began to tear down the shanties.
But before we had been at work FIVE
minutes the fire began to run. The
wind from the sea increased. Blazing
pieces of wood few through the air
like arrows Flames stopped in their
stride and licked up their prey and
went on re .oicing. Structures n min
ute dark and cold and still burst with
startling suddenness and completeness
into rioting con%t1agration. Our little
beginning of a defense was attacked
and captured before we had had time
to perfect it. The half dozen shanties
We had pulled to the ground merely
furnished piled fuel. Somewhat de-
moralized, we fell back and tried rath-
cr vaguely to draw a second line Of de-
Tense. The smoke and sparks suffo-
Gated and overwhelmed us, and tho
following flames leaped upon US as
from behind an ambush. Some few
men continued gropingly to try to do
something, but the most of us were
only too glad to get out where we
could catch q breath.
Almost Immediately, however, we
were hurried back by frantic mer-
chants.
Save the goods" was the cry.
We labored like slaves, carrying me
%clandise, fixtures, furniture. anything
and everything from the darkened in
teriors Of buildings to the open spaces.
| worked as | had never worked be-
fore. and not once did | know whose
property ] thus saved. At first |
CROPPED in the darkness. Selling what |
could, then gradually, like the glow of
showing dimly and ruddily the half
guessed features of the place. 1t glow
cG. this light, increasing in power as
heating metal slowly turns rcd, and
then the flames licked through, and,
dripping with sweat, 1 abandoned that
place to its enemy.
All sense Of time and all sense OF To-
cality were lost. The world was a
strange world of deep, %concealing shad-
W and strong, revealing glares and a
mist Of smoke and hurrying, shouting,
excited multitudes. Sometimes | found
myself In queer little temporary ed
| dies of stiffness, where a certain calm
and leisure seemed to have been insu-
lated. Then for a brief moment or so
| rested. Occasionally l would find
myself with some stranger, and we
would exchange brief explanatory 70
marks.
Whole city is going"
Looks like it,"
Hear a roof fell in and killed tx esa-
ty men.
probably exaggerated"
Probably. Don't catch me under nn
falling roofs! When she gets atrr !:
get out"
Same here"
Wei 1 suppose we ought to try to
do something"
Suppose So"
And we would go at it again.
AT the end Of two or three hourS-nc
man can guess time in such Il situation
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-18
Mortified.
II never was so mortified in my

life"
"What's the matter now?"
"You know that little gown I bought
for $1G.5O that looked as though it
must have cost four times that and
was so becoming to me? 1 new
dreamed any M would guess its price
or. where l bought it."
. "Well, did any one?"
Eyes. I wore it for the first time
last night at q dinner dance, and there
were just sixteen other women there
with gowns exactly like it.'-Detroit
Free Press.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-18
the ashes If l could only find the

place"
had no time to help him and loft
him prowling around seeking for 4
landmark.
The Plaza was full Of people. l made
my way to the northerly corner and,
pushing n passage through the by
ISLANDERS. contemplated three jagged,
tottering brick walls, a heap Of smol-
dering debris and a twisted tangle Of
Iron work. This represented all that
remained of the Ward block. 1Ae
change OF wind that had saved the
shanties had destroyed our fortune.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-18
pouaIas JerroId In School.

Douglas Jerrold wrote BLACK Eyed
Susan" when he was twenty-one and
contributed to Punch the immen. $
popular "Caudle Lectures not long,. s.
erward. But at nine years of age YOU ;
Jerrold had been scarcely able to read.
and it was not until he was apprenticed
to a printer after serving for some time
as q midshipman at sea that he showed
either desire or capacity for intellectual
improvement.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-18
Copyright, 1913. by Doubleday, Page 6 Co.
SYNOPSIS

Talbot Wards challenge to Frank Mum
roe to a personal encounter to determine
whether Munroe is fit to make a trip to
California in search Of gold Is accepted.
Munroe gets a hammerlock on Ward and
wins the bout.
They choose the Panama route. Ward.
1t develops, Is an old ~campaigner. On
board ship they meet Johnny Fairfax and
Yank Rogers. The four become partners.
Arriving at Chagres, Talbot Wards
knowledge Of Spanish and his firm treat
ment of the native boatmen help wonder
FULLY. The party enters a tropical forest.
They reach Gatun, and, after passing
through several villages where Ward al
ways automatically handles the natives,
they arrive in Panama.
Ward forces steamship agent to refund
passage moneY because ship isn't availa-
BILE.
Yank has provided accommodations for
all on board a sailing ship. They arrive
in San Francisco.
Ward puts 1t up to each man to get
1920 in one day. Munroe makes s25 as a
laborer. Johnny CANDLES and gets S22O.
waro asround the party by telling
how, by shrewd business deals in one day
In the Golden City, he accumulated sew
W5ld dec:oes that he Will not 70 EI1r.
the party to the mines, but will stay in
San Francisco, where he thinks more
gold is to be found.
The party dig their first golo. Tney are
not much encouraged when told tina the
value of their first pan is II cents.
Don Gaspar. a Spaniard. and his man.
servant Vasquez join forces with the trio
and the gold is divided into five parts.
After working like beavers several day
the miners decide to take a day off and
attend a miners meeting in town.
For SIS a week in gold and a drink of
whisky twice a day Bagsby promises to
lead the party to a rich unexplored min
ing country.
A band Of Indians come into the camp
TO trade. They are thankful for blankets.
Later the Indians attempt an ambuscade.
but are routed by rifle shots.
Johnny gets into an alteration witt
Scarface Charlie. Johnny's splendid nerv,
attracts Danny Randall. who is seeking
honest men in the camp.
Scarface Charlie sends johnny a cha.
ienge to meet him at the main salooo.
Johnny, with another great display u
nerve. drops Scarface Charlie
1oIiHiS anu nS express HleS5HlGS:
friends arrest two of the Hounds wins
are tried for robbery. The lawlcss ele-
ment controls the trial and tho Hounds
are freed.
Robberies grow more frequent as The
lawless element holds sway. Mcrally
and Buck Barry are murdered after the
lawless element gets control of the city.
Danny Randall organizes a vigilance
committee. 1t is decided to publicly hang
the leaders Of the lawless element.
The camp buzzes with excitement. Out.
bursts of the friends of the doomed mer
are checked by the determined attitude
of Danny Randall and his committee.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-18
Clock Watchers,

Said a Boston business mar the other
day, IF there is one thing l hate NOR.
than another it is to see one Of my en-
ployees watching the clock"
eyes. sir" said the young man who
had been called On the carpet. "Ill
call the ~timekeeper's attention to what
you said. sir.'-Chicago Herald.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-18
CHAPTER XXX.
Tho Catastrophe.

90 things went along for a month.
Christmas drew near. Every
joint in town was preparing for
- q big celebration. and we were
fully in the mood to take part in it.
The Ward block vas finished. From
top to bottom it had been swept and
cleared. Crowds came every day to
admire the varntsh, the glass, the fire
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-18
He Named Il.

"'Who can name Il word with an T. iu
it," queried the teacher of the juveni !.
class.
NEEDLE" exclaimed a bright little
miss.-kansas City Star.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-18
A Suggestion.

"He's his W worst enemy"
''Then he ought to apologize to HIM
self and start all over again."-Detro!t
Free Press.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-18

you have a few thousand on that last
note. And then you leave on today's
Panama steamer. And, say, If they
won't do It, you come to me-"
The young fellow took his advice.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-18
Up AGAINST It.,

After all. it's nc crime to be poor"
Maybe not. but no poor man can nf-
ford to hire Il lawyer to prove that ie
isn't guilty."-San Francisco Chronicle.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-18

If thou art terrible to many tt4n be.
ware Of many.-Ausonius.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-18
CHAPTER xxxII.
The Vision.

The Vision.
w yiTII1N ten hours men were at
M work rebuilding. Within ten
wv days the burned ares was all
Eahlilt Il tool l1a i,1ct al,o.14
The Washington herald., 1917-04-16
Pretty French Stowaway
Wed to Dane by Skipper

Philadelphia, April 15-The marriage at
sea of a stowaway bride who had been
hidden in a cask in the hold Of his ship
for forty-f1ve days was a story brought
to this city yesterday by Capt John
Forsyth, master of Philadelphia
schooner
The bride was a pretty French girl of
20, who gave her name as Lucienne
Gorin. and the bridegroom was Axei
Olsen, a Dane, 19 years old.
I'VE were well out to sea-" said the
skipper. when 1 was surprised to sec
a girl on the deck.
TT appears her parents objected to
her marrying Olsen, and they decided
to come to America and be married
Olsen smuggled the girl aboard and hrd
her away in a huge cask In the lower
hold Of the vessel. Twice a day he
brought her food.
'I told Olsen the immigration authori-
ties would not allow the girl to land.
I then happened to think that the laws
Of the United States invested me with
the power to perform q marriage cere-
mony. While the ship was hove to I
made them man and wife"
The Washington herald., 1917-04-16
Kiss for German Officer
Leads Clubman to Resign

Baltimore, April 16.-As result of kiss
ing one Of the interned German officers
on the brow. E. A. Seidewitz, a familiar
figure in the business life of the city, has
ceased to be president Of the Rotary
Club.
HIS resignation came voluntarily. fol-
lowing considerable adverse criticism of
the act, and 1t was accepted by the board
yesterday.
Mr.. Seidewitz said today that the kiss
was give on Good Friday in "a spirit
OF American humanity" The episode
took place In the barroom Of the Hotel
Junker. He disclaims emphatically that
any act Of disloyalty was even remotely
intended and that his whole motive IN
showing friendliness to the German Of
fieer was one of good viii and that the
KISS was in reality a good-natured jest
Some fanatics" he added, Thought 1t
an act not consistent with loyalty be-
cause am of German birth.
The Washington herald., 1917-04-16
X. C. SUPREME BOARD
| CALLS FOR PATRIOTISM
Resolution Assures Devotion of Or
ganization's 100000 Members.

The supreme board OF directors of the
Knights OF Columbus, IN session at the
Willard Hotel at its meeting last night
adopted resolutions calling upon the en-
tire membership to omit no word or act
that would aid the country In the present
crisis. The text Of the resolutions read:
Realizing that the crisis confronting
our country calls for the active co-opera-
ton and patriotic zeal Of every true citi-
zen, We hereby reafirm the devotion of
10000 members OF this order IN this coun-
try to our republic and its laws, and
pledge their continued and unconditional
support of the President and the Con-
gress of this nation in their determination
to protect its honor and Its ideals Of hu-
manity and right
Resolved. further. that a copy of this
resolution be sent to the President and
to the House of Representatives and to
the Senate Of the United States OF
America"
The direcors also took action on the
question Of whether they should continue
to hold valid the insurance policies of
their members who may elect to serve
under the nag.
The board also decided to expel any
member who shall bear arms against the
United States.