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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-01-04
DlsEAsESsTO GUARD AGAINST

0 The Census office recently issued !
q statement relative to the prin-
scipai causes OF deaths inl915. We
learn from this statement that there
are certain diseases that we, have been
syeF5 much afraid OF which we have
Sel.y little reason to fear.
by fear smallpox Few sicienswith
1t p very few die with it.
Way fear snake bite? Yellow fever?
cholera? Plague? Or meningitis?
On tho other hand. we have been too
indifferent about heart disease. Heart
saisease Is now the leading cause OF
death in America. How many adults
have a yearly physical examination?
How many OF those who discover that
they have a heart leak adjust their
work SO as to keep their heart muscles
strong? How many men with heart
leaks discontinue the use OF NSbacco?s
Second oh he list OF causes OF death
IS tuberculosis. In eleven years the
consumption rate fell Q than 25
per People are guarding against
this disease-better than they did 10
years CO.. But there is still room for
Improvement. We are still careless
about drinking raw milk from tuber-
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-01-04
The Grange ~yma

Once upon q time Il traveller brought
two parrots honie with him from q
voyage. He kept in 4 cage in his state
room OH the ship and they had grown
home he gave one Of them to his sister
and kept the other in a a in his own
home. The n he kept seemed very
lonesome and would often stay huddled
UP Ill his cage OIL day, not noticing any
one.
One day a large rat ran through the
room aEd when the parrot saw it 1t
made q strange Kind of noise and the
rat stopped to SEQ what i of a bird
1t was. The rat would not come very
near, but looked at the parrot as much
as to say: i never saw anything like
you before. l Wonder what it can be-"
Inc next day the rat paid the parrot
another visit aud this time he came a
little nearer and stayed a little longer.
AT last one day the rat went quite
close to the age n the parrot quickly
shot out it's beak and in a second the
rat was in the cage. The parrot took
the rat up in its claws and held it just
as one would a baby and rocked bac
and forth with it. After thai the rat
lived with the parrot and did not seem
to want to go away, but would follow
the parrot about the cage and eat out
Of the anne dish.
One day the MAJ tool the parrot out
Of the Gage but he did not let the rat
out for fear it would run away and the
parrot would be lonesome again. The
rat watched the door Of the cage until
the parrot came back and then ran up
and Struggled close to 1t as though
afraid 1t would be left alone again.
At last, day the man let them
both out to see what they would do,
but the rat just followed the parrot
about and would not let it out of sight.
When the mans sister brought the
other parrot to visit its mate the trav-
eler's parrot grabbed up the rat and
held 1t close In its claws until the
other parrot had gone.
These strange pets lived together for
a great many years and grew moro
fond Of each Other every day.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-01-04
If They Could Keep It up.

There have been big men in Wall
street who did all the work themselves,
h attended to every minute item
who We're from Missouri in regard to
every point in any proposition put up
TO them. One of these. marvels was
amor the very greatest financiers the
country ever had; but he didn't last
long, and there have been few others
III him. If a man with the first or
der of brains and ability could only
keep it up, there is nothing to pre-
vent his owning the United States. II
=. ii. Hartman could have kept on
10 or 20 years longer at the pace he
was going he would have gobbled up
all the railroads in sight, and he was
Just getting a strange hold on the big
banks. He conquered every square
foot of territory as he went along.
There was no force on earth to stop
him except premature death-and now
he is almost forgotten.-A. w. Atwood
In the Saturday Evening Post.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-01-04
international Advertising.
From the National Magazine

%'e IA
A member Of congress has
that the tie OF friendship between the
entente alliance N the United States.
evidenced since the outbreak of the
European war, is the result Of business
relations established years ago. The
creation Of these bonds through adj
vertising is now recognized as a poten-
tial international force. One ude
Of economics insisted tina Pears Soap
is almost as well known in the United
States as in England, and that the ex-
ploitation Of this avowedly English
product for many years was a vital in
fluence in paving the way for the
Anglo-French commission when they
visited this country to negotiate a war
loan. The quality Of u people may be
estimated by its soap as well as its
styles.
The same is also true Of Lea G. Per-
rims Sauce, JeWsberry & Brown, Sir
William Levers Lifebuoy soap, Crosse
& Blackwell's marrnalade, Lipton's teas
n scores Of other foreign made ar
ticles exploited in the United States. It
might not be ethical to preface a dip
lomatic report or state paper with men,
ton Of the advertised products that
have led to an app~reciative acquain-
tanceship between nations, but it would
be only a recital Of q basic fact. Vichy,
Pinaud's, and other products have
helped us to understand our French
cousins across the seas, and the famiI-
iarity with the products Of that nation
is OF even more Influence than tho
memory Of favors II loans granted to
Franklin during evolutionary times.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-01-04
GIVE "sYRUP OF Figs
q TO cONsTlPATED CHILD
Delicious "Fruit Laxative can't harm
tender little Stomach, liver
and bowels.

Look at the tongue, motherl Il
coated, your little ones stomach, live1
and bowels need cleansing at once.
When peevish, cross, l~istless, doesn't
sleep, eat or act naturally, or is fever
ish, stomach sour, breath bad, has
sore throat, diarrhoea, full Of cold, give
a t%easpoonful Of California Syrup OF
Figs" and in u few hours all the foul,
c~onstipated waste, u%ndigested food
and sour bile gently moves out Of Its
little bowels without gripping, and you
have a well, playful child again. Ask
your druggist for a 50-cent bottle OF
California Syrup Of Figs" which cone
tains full directions for babies, chill.
dren of all ages and for grown-ups.-
Adv.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-01-04
Mr.. and Mrs. Hat. New Home.

Once upon q time Mr.. and Mrs. Rat.
with their three little children, had to
leave their nice home in the hen yard
and find another place to live. They
had to leave In a hurry, for the hens
were very cross and kept pecking at
h little ones. 80 Mr.. Rat thought they
all had better go at once.
First came Mr.. Rat. then Mrs Rat.
and close beside them ran the little
ones. Down the street they ran, Mr..
Rat looking from eide &c s!de@to see Il
he could see a place that they could use
for q home. 1t was getting almost lark
and still they hadn't found any place
to sleep, and poor Mrs. Rat was get
ting very tired.
All at once. MIR. Rat spied a house.
Tets go in there" he said; Il am sure
we can find some shelter, IL only for q
night or two. until ] can find a place
where we will all be safe" So they
crept very carefully towards the house.
making as little noise as possible. As
n drew near, Mrs. Ra spied some
thing lear the door that looked SNUG
ana warm; and, al they came nearer,
they thought 1t was q nice little nest.
open at one end. In Afr. Rat walked.
followed by Mrs. Rak and the children
It q q soft bed in one corner. a dish
with some water In 1t, and, higher up,
9. stick went from one enc to the other.
Mr. Rat climbed up on it. looked the
place over and decided II WXss all light.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-01-04

WINTER THE TIME TO WALK
Exercise In the Cold Air VIII BE Found
Both Enjoyable and Rene.
fetal.

.tx,5, 45% E E3 49,
Winter weather diminishes greatlN
the time spent in the open air by thosd
who ride in motorcars. 1t comes mean
putting bicycles out of use. From
steamboats, to canoes there's almost
entire cessation of water outings.
All of which means that more walk,
ing instead of less ought to be done
in cold weather. There isno other way
Of moving about in tlie open air, which
keeps a healthy persons feet SO warm
and brings such a glow OF Warmtllfrom
the body itself. II the pedestrian is
properly clad, especially in respect to
keeping dryshod, all of the effects Of
winter walking should be beneficial.
With a little care and discretion such
exercise can be made as agreeable as it
is wholesome. Rightly timed and kept
within bounds, winter walking is d
good precautiop against the i'll effects
of sedentary life and too much indoor
air.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-01-04

culcus cows. Many consur1ptiyes Ere
still reckless about splitting.
Pneumonia Is third or the list. Heart
disease. tuberculosis u pnelmcrtA.
caused one-third of the 909, 1856 Deaths
There we're ss..s26 deaths from this dis
ease. To this number should be added
40. 7G2 deaths from influenza.
We are far too careless about pneu-
r1onia. Recent discoveries indicate that
pneumonia is catching. And yet pnea-
monia Is not reported to the health de-
partment. Nurses caring for pneu-
often fail to destroy the sputur1.
Proniscuons splitting is freely indulgeds
n Ventilation Is disregarded. People
overeat. That drunken men are prone
to pneumonia and prone &c die when
they get the disease is we'll known. but
seems tosoccasion no reasonable fear.
The three above mentioned diseases
and eight others-Bright,s disease,
cancer. apopiexy, ~diarrhoea,. arferiai
diseases, influenza, diphtheria. and ty-
phoid fever--caused t~wo-thirdss o sthe
more than 100000 deaths. We are
nearly ready to forget typhoid feyer.
In Is years the deathsrate from this
disease has decreased two-thirds.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-01-04
smiling as she always does" Then
Mona told her all about the smile fairy
Tho Hardest Job.

What is the hardest job, you ask
the most excruciating task2 Go. ask the
sad and heartsick jay who loses on cleo
ton day. You know how bitterly he
fought to get the public snap he
sought. For weary weeks he drilled
around, wherever voters could be found,
and handed hot air to the rubes, and
flattered all the hicks and boobs. He
spent much coin he could not spare for
punk cigars n railway fare. and all
the dicers odds and ends that statesmen
think will gain them friends He made
a long and ard campaign; he toiled
around in mud and rain, and talked his
tonsils out Of whack, n got lumbagc
in his back. And when election day was
done, he found the other fellow won. No
doubt when he was all alone, he filled
the air with sob and groan, and cussed
the voters. in despair. as being chumps
beyond compare. But on the street he
wore q grin, as though he'd really hate
to win. TO try and hide ones crouch
and bile, behind a large three-cornered
smile, to spring a laugh when one would
sob-that surely is, the hardest Job!
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-01-04
SOUR, ACID sT0MAcHs,
GASES OR iEDiGEsTloN
Each "Ps2e's D%iapepsinp disests 5000
Grains food, ending Eli stomach
misery in five minutes.

Time 1t! In five minutes all stom-
neh distress will 80. No indigestion.
heartburn, sourness or belching Of
gas. acid, Or quotations Of undisested
food, no dizziness, Dloating, foul
breath or headache.
pape's D%iapepsin is noted for it's
speed in regulating upset stomachs.
IL is the surest, quickest stomach rem
edy in the whole world and besides 1t
is harmless. Put an end to stomach
trouble forever by getting a large
hty-eent case Of Pape's D%iapepsin
from any drug store. You realize in
hve minutes how needless it is to suf-
Ter from indigestion, dyspepsia or any
stomach disorder. It's the quickest,
surest and most harmless stomach
doctor in the world.-Adv.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-01-04
The Smile Fairy.

Once upon a time there was a little
girl by the name Of Mona She mad yell
low curls n big blue eyes and most
of the time she was laughing and Jump
ing around as happy as any little girl
could be. One morning, however, when
she woke up she didn't smile but
pouted up her lips and screwed up her
Mother ross-Patch" herself. When
nurse came to dress her she was still
looking cross and after she had her
bath and slipped on her favorite dress
she was still pouting.
When she came down to breakfast
she didn't ruiz to kiss her father as she
always did, but hung back looking very
sulky. Even when her father tossed her
high chair and unrolled her bib SO angri-
ly that she upset her mug of milk and n
chair and unrolled her bib so angrily
that h upset her mug of milk and it
ran down on the table cloth and all
oysf her clesa dTsss.
and she vas glad when it was time to
go to- bed. Nurse undressed her. put on
her cool fresh %nightgown and then
turned out the light as she said "4oou
night dear, / hope tomorrow you will
get up from the right side OF the bed"
Little Mona lay there very wide
awake looking at this moon shining
IA4S06H u Aoc ~ was on OI1Slk
it made the room almost as light as day
and she could see her dolls sitting up
very straight In their chairs. Tor she
had been 30 cross she had neglected to
put them to bed.
AS she lay looking at them she heard
someone close beside her say: HOY
do you Dc? 2" and, as Mona looked up she
saw a tiny fairy sitting on the pillow
b~esideAser. Shs wasn't much larger than
Monass biggest finger and h had on
a dress OF silver that sparkled in the
moonlight.
-. ~" he are you? asked Mona. Il am
h little smile fairy. I have never had
to visit you before for you have always
been UGH a happy little girl until to-
day." answered the fairy.
At this Mona sat up in her bed and
looked at her little friend. The fairy
looked so happy d was smiling SO
sweetly that Mona began to smile too.
"That's better" said the fairy. Nov
you look Just as you should look and /
will love yeu.' That made Mona smile
all the more and. in a few minutes, they
were laughing together like old friends.
When Mona yoke the next morning
h looked for her little fairy friend.
but couldn't see her. She remembered
how they had laughed together the
night before N it made her emile. She
was still smiling when nurse came to
dress her and the very first thing nurse
SAID was: Why hsre u our little girl
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-01-04
Cost Of Discharaina Employees.

Hiring and firing all large em-
p!oyers or labor 10y recognize. forms
the greatest leakage in modern bust
ness. In many establishments the men
known as the fortune tellers." It is
the one place in which everything is
~haphazard. MI. Magnus w. Alexander.
one OF the engineers OF the General
Electric company. has demonstrated
this great waste mathematically. TAX
ing the employment statistics Of ~
metal factories, located In six states,
he has found that these places en-
ployed 1924 persons at the beginning
OF the year. and 43,971 at the end.
Their normal increase in employees.
therefore. was 6.697. Had matters
worked efficiently, these factories
should have employed only 6.697 men
or slightly more. making due allow
ance for death. sickness. and other
natural causes of dismissal. In real
tty. these factories had hired 45,571
new people. We must ponder these fig-
ures carefully to get their full signific-
ance. In order to obtain 5000 new
employees. these establishments. all rep
resentative and efficient American
concerns. had to Employ $4,000! Out
OF seven men taken on, only one stayed.
After making liberal deductions. Mr..
Alexander calculates that these u
factories employed a4,500 men ant
women whom they We're unabl to re-
tain. Each person represented an eX-
pense ranging from $50 to 5000. The
companies had to keep a clerical force
to hire these people and place their
names on the pay roll. They had to
pay foremen and assistants to instruct
them. They had to stand the expense
of damaged and broken tools due to
1nexperience. The reduced rate of
production represented another posi-
tive loss. and then there was the spoiled
work which new hands turn out in
such abundance. Mr.. Alexander takes
the lowest estimate. $50 per man, as
representing this loss. At this rate,
hiring and firing" caused a waste in
these factories Of nearly 81, 900, 900 a
year. At the highest estimate, 5000,
the practice resulted in a waste of $4.-
0OO 00O
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-01-04
GETTING RID OF BLUE MONDAY"
Less Food and More Exercise on Sun
day Will Do 1t.

A0y lis
From the Pittsburgh Chrontcle-Telegraph.
Grouchiness is more prevalent on
Monday morning than at any other
time in the week, and to such an extent
that life is made disagreeable, temper
arily, for many families and for many
co-workers. That such manifestations
Of i'll feeling are detrimental to private
and public interests is widely acknowl-
edged, but it has remained for DR.. Sam
uel G. Dixon. state commissioner OF
health. to call public attention to the
Monday morning crouch and to tell
how it can be done away with.
THE majority Of people," DR.. Dixon
say are p to fall into two general
divisions. One class tries to crowd too
end and the beginning of the next
weeks labor. They take up their bust
ness on Monday morning exhausted and
overtired, instead of refreshed by the
day Of rest The other class goes to ex-
tremes by overeating and underexer-
cising, and the result is equally IN
happy"
To these causes the doctor could have
added the hang over from Saturday
night, for that there is more dissipa-
ton then than, during any other night
in the week is beyond dispute. This is
followed by late rising on Sunday morn
ing and, if the stomach will permit, the
eating of three meals, which are always
heavier on Sundays than on other days.
The remedy, then. lies with the indi-
vidual, and it consists in abstinence
from liquor Saturday night and less eat
ing and more exercise-nothing better
than a long walk-on Sunday. By fol-
lowing this plan what Is known as
blue Monday" will be wiped off the So
sial and business calendar and every
body will be fit to enter upon the du-
ties Of the week.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-01-04
THICK, GLOSSY HAIR
FREE FROM DANDRUFF
Girls! Try II! Hair gets soft, fluffy and
beautiful-Get rs cent bottle
of Danderine.

If you care for heavy hair that glis-
tens with beauty and is radiant with
life; has an Incompatible ~softness and
is fluffy and lustrous, try Danderine.
Just n application doubles the
beauty of your hair, besides it imme.
diately dissolves every particle OF
dandruff. You can not have nice
heavy, healthy, hair if you have
dandruff. This destructive scurf robs
the hair of its %lustre, its strength and
Its very life, and If not overcome it
produces a feverishness and itching Of
the scalp; the hair roots famish,
loosen and die then the hair falls out
fast. Surely get a 25-cent bottle Of
knowlton's Danderine from any drug
store and just try it.-Adv.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-01-04
Garrett prospers.

Under the caption. Men in the News"
lowing: t~
Garrett Droppers. United States minis.
ter to Greece. whose name already begins
to appear as that Of an important person.
age In Athenian affairs, during most OF
his career has been an educator. A Iiar-
ward A. b., he further specialized in eco-
nomics and finance at the University OF
Berlin, then went to japan to teach in the
Imperial University at TOXIC. and re-
NAMED there from 1883 to 1888. For the
next eight years he was president Of the
University OF South Dakota. and had rea-
son To understand, befors he left. some OF
the infelicities of being an administrative
educator In a region where politics and
education are sometimes mixed. He then
went east snd held a chair in Williams
college. wnliamstown. Mass. until he was
summoned by President Wilson to go to
Athens. While In Massachusetts Profess
sor Droppers served on a state commission
TO Investigate commerce and industry.
Whether IN South Dakota or in Massa-
chusetts. he has been q radical member
OF the academic and political worlds and
as a citizer NE has followed the Kuerdon
OF progressive ~lse1s-s nj whatever party.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-01-04
Mr.. and Mrs. Sparrow.

Once upon a time MI. and Mrs.
Sparrow built their nest in a very
funny place. Where do you think 1t
was? High UP on the fire escape OF a
Dig apartment house. They We're not 4
bit afraid Of the people they saw
around them and would twitter and
chirp in a friendly way whenever the
windows were opened.
Mr.. Sparrow would fly away each
morning to find some nice tidbits for
Mrs. Sparrow and the five little spar
rows and Mamma sparrow would cud-
die the little ones in the nest until
their papa came back with their break
fast.
One morning he came back with just
a few seeds in his mouth and told Mrs.
Sparrow that was all he could find
tor Jack Frost had been there the
night before and everything was frozen
hard. The next day he went out to
look for food and after a long time
came back to his home and family with
nothing at all in his bill. He told
Mamma sparrow there was nothing to
be had for everything was frozen hard
as could be.
A little later he started out again
but didn't find very much and soon
the sparrows were all very hungry and
began to cry peep. peep" for food.
"Oh. dear. what shall we do?" piped
Mrs. Sparrow. and poor papa sparrow
looked very sad and hoped out Of
the nest and said he would go again
and see If he couldn't find something
for them to eat.
Mrs. Sparrow began to chatter and
the little one began to peep. peep, for
their breakfast. and Mr.. Sparrow
promised he would do his best to bring
.hem something nice to eat.
All at once a window quite near
them opened and someone said: What
ever is the matter with the sparrows
this morning. they have been chatter
Ing and fluttering for hours" Mrs.
Sparrow said. Hush. hush" to her
babies and they all stopped at once
and Just perked their little heads out
about.
Mr.. Sparrow found courage to hop
but of the nest and even go quite near
the window for he thought he might
find something to eat. but the window
ledge was quite bare and he hoped
away again. Z
He heard Someone say. 81 won't hurt
you little birdie, but he only gave a
sorlorn little twitter and hoped back
10 the nest. Then he heard a wee little
7oice say. "Tant ! dive the brides some
Of my cake. and soon all over the win
dow sill was sprinkled crumbs enough
to feed the little family of sparrows for
several days and Papa Sparrow spent
the rest of the morning bringing
crumbs to his little family. Every
day Mr.. Sparrow finds that crumbs
have been sprinkled on the window
ledge by his little friend.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-01-04
Church Gave Away Apples.

The big red Western apple was the
text Of a recent ermon by the Rev.
Christian It. Reisner in Grace Metho-
dist Episcopal church, New York.
Twelve hundred apples were given
away to the congregation.
Doctor Reisner used the apple to IL
lustrate that as sunshine, proper nour
ishment and care will grow fine apples
SO will clean living, good government
and religion develop fine citizens. He
praised the efforts Of Billy Sunday,
and said the evangelist has been so
successful that he has even got Bos.
ton awake and interested in his form
Of religion.