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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-05
SHEET MUSIC WOULD
MAKE HIT WITH BOYS,
BY FRANK j. TAYLOR.
United Press Staff Corresoonder


With the American Army in France
(by maiD--The boys want music over
here in the trenches. If you w>nt to
make a Lit with soldier boy. send
him some Of the latest song hits, SO
that he and his pals can try to "har-
monte" on them during the long eve
nings they spend in the trenches or
among the ruins Of somewhere in the
woods. b.
European officers say the American
army is the most musical in the world.
The boys are always going about their
work. whether it's marching into the
trenches or filling up a she'll hole in
the road, with a Song.
A song to sing is a great thing. 1t
boosts up the spirit and the morale
end makes a man forget the things
army who can't sing always whistle.
strument Of some kind. often nothing
more than a couple Of strings over a
cigar box With a handle on .t-but
something that will make tune.
Tho boys usually got near "hut"
that has a photograph now and then
and try out the songs. But they want
new ones, the latest ones from Amer
lea. the soldier songs that take so
long to drift across tho seq, unless
someone sends sheet music.
So If you want to make a hit with
"doughboy' send him some sheet
music, the latest thing you con get
from Broa dway. The bes. way to send
1t Is in an envelope, sealed tight, as
first class matter, for otherwise it may
be lost
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-05
Sir John Mahaffx.

King George has just bestowed a
knighthood of the Grand Cross Of the
Order of the Empire upon John Pent-
land Mahaffy, who thus becomes Sir
John Mahaffy. He is the provost and
president of Ireland's principal college.
Trinity, at Dublin.
He has long been recognized as the
most eminent of the Emerald Isle. He
is president of the Royal Irish acade-
my, governor Of the National Gallery
at Dublin, etc. He. is q large land
owner in County Monag IN He is a
former cricketer, is celebrated as al
explorer and is the pioneer in the de-
ciphering of the ancient papyri found
in Egypt and elsewhere. He is vol
luminous writer. His works include
problems Of Greek History" and
Empire OF the Ptolemys."
All sorts of witty saying are credited
to him. including his description of
Ireis nd as "a very curious country in
which the impossible was always hap
pening and the inevitable never came
off"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-05
The Thresher,, Dinner.

From the Dubuque Telegraph Herald.
The farmer Of this new era who comes
50 help at q threshing bee will carry his
own dinner. The war board has set its
face against the old fashioned 'threshing
dinner" in the preparation OF which each
farmers wife We'd with her neighbor in
quantity and variety of edibles.
The war board has not done this be-
cause 1t is sorry for the poor farmers
wife. sweating in her fiery kitchen. break
ing her back over the oven and dishpan
What the war board is thinking about
is the waste Of food.
But the result will be the same. For 1t
has become bad form, even IN the coun-
try. to try to Guido ones neighbor in the
amount Of food served. The rivalry for
the remainder of the war will be In find
ing nourishment for the workers without
waste. and without use of those foods
which are needed by our allies.
No longer is cottage cheese to be a
side dish, added to a dinner already too
rich in protein by heavy meats and by
vegetables cooked with bacon or salt pork.
Cottage cheese Is to take the center Of the
table. Thanked with hard boiled eggs it
becomes the piece de resistance. In vain
let the farmland raise his voice In scorn.
His insides will be supplied with strength
and energy as never before
With the necessity for saving food
comes a great stimulus to the study of
should be rare to housewife working
her body to the point where she Is left at
night without the energy to work her
brain. Hereafter, she Is to work her brain
first that she may save her body.
1t Is the most necessary reform which
could be applied to any department Of
rural life. The pass1ng Of the threshing
dinner In accordance with the request Of
the war board will hut mark a milestone
on the way of progress.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-05
Good Work Slowly Done.

FROM tn0 fhllaQelpnlA EODIC Ledger.
Some of us are trying to live our lives
all at once. We would cramp the slow
development of years into the coming
month or week: we would compress the
work OF an hour into the next five min
utes. Nature-patient. tireless. cunning
laborer that she is--does not favor this
plans. She takes her time-"Because 1t
Is hers!" some one makes prompt answer.
She has command of all the time there
Is She can be as deliberate as she
chooses. We must make haste because
our little lives are so soon clipped off. The
darkness too early rounds our day. Our
work must be put through with speed and
under pressure or we shall not finish"
The best work even by these feeble
not in fever but In a calm. Art (and
the exception proves the rule) achieves
most nobly when 1t achieves with tran
guilty. The personaI circumstances Of
the artist may be- distressing. He rises
above them. His dream translates him
TO the skies above hts mundane environ
ment. His, passion for the truth leads
him to forget that he is poor and hungry
and misunderstood. He writes his book or
paints his picture or composes his sonata
In a land where it is always summer and
the skies are blue and tears are never
shed and none ever dies. BY the force
OF creative Imagination. he establishes
Tor himself new heaven and new
earth. and his spirit is tranquil because
1t Is triumphant over the pinching and
gnawing circumstances.
Artist or artisan, each Of US must learn
to make the pilgrimage a step at time.
Let not an anxious forecast corrugate the
brow with the thought OF a morrow suffi-
Client unto itself. Epicurean delight lives
for the moment; and mans more seri-
Gus purpose IN existence would often do
we'll to follow tho example,.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-05
WHOLE ENGLISH
TOWN FOR SALE

London (by maiD-Any man whose
ambition is to own a whole town will
have an opportunity to satisfy his de-
sire here next month. BY direction Of
Lord Stalbridge, the owner, the entire
town Of SALISBURY will be put on the
auction block, including private houses,
banks, postoffices. stores, offices hotels
and three saloons. The town is located
in picturesque part of Derbyshire,
perched on the top of hill in the midst
of rolling farm country. The nearest
railway station is three miles distant
at Semley. Sales of great estates are
frequent in these days, when taxes are
eating up profits and many of the
younger generation Of the nobility are
losing their lives on the battle fields
This is the first sale of an entire town
which has been arranged.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-05

to pay higher price for almost anything.
On an article that formerly sold for
500 to Increase the price to $40 is 20
invite criticism and investigation, but
nothing ts likely to be aaid II dime q
charged for an article that formerly sold
for nickel. although there may be moth
Ing to warrant the 100 per cent Increase.
High cost of material, higher wages and
Increased overhead expenses are the
reasons most generally given for an in-
creaes in retail price,
In st. Louis an Investigation was con-
Quoted when shoe shining establishments
raised the price s to 10 cents. Testimony
showed the increase cogt Of materials to
be less than 10 per cent; rent, lights and
heat less than 20 per cent and labor about
30 per cent, with no increase Whatsoever
IN many Items. yet the public was asked
for 100 per cent increase.
This is only an example Of price in
creases on small articles. yet these small
items, according to statistics, represent
approximately 50 per cent OF household
expenses.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-05
A Fable For Loafers.
From the Jayhawk.


II you have anybody working for you
and they lie down on the job, don't fire
them at once-justr call them in and tell
this story.
Down In Virginia farmer had an or
and mule that he hitched together to
pillow. One night, after several days Of
continuous blowing, and after the OK and
the mule had been stabbed and provendered
for the night. the OK said to the mule,
We've been working pretty hard. let's
play off sick tomorrow and Ito here In
the stalls all day"
You can If you want to- returned the
mule. but believe I'll go to work.
So the next morning when the farmer
came out. the OK played off sick; tho
straw. gave him fresh hay, bucket OF
oats and bran mixed. left him for the
day and went forth alone with the mule
to plow.
All that day the OK laid In his stall.
chewed his cud and nodded, slowly blinked
That night when the mule came in, the
or asked how they got along blowing
alone all day "Well," said the mule, "it
was hard and we didn't get much done.
did the old man have anything to say
about MOI" interrupted the OK.
NO" replied the mule.
well, then" went on the OK, IT believs
I'll play off again tomorrow; It was csr-
tainly fine lying here all day and resting"
That's up to you." said the mule, but
I'll go out and plow."
So the next day the OK played off again.
was bedded down with clean straw,
provendered with hay bran and oats, and
lay all day nodding. blinking, chewing his
cud and gently swiahing his tail
Whom the mule came in at night the or
asked again how they had gotten along
without him.
did the old man have anything to say
to you about me?" again inquired the OF.
NO" replied the mule, mot to me, but
he did have a damn long talk with the
butcher on the way home"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-05
War Mission, in the Washinaten star.

War Mission, Ia The Washin0ton Star.
addition to over Sd national arssnais,
Great Britain has now 6.o5e government
controlled factories, all working DAY and
night on munitions and supplies. In Octos
her. 1917. about zO0 900 men and about
10000 women were engaged ID munition
work proper. In July. lS17. the number o.
women employed In government work 0f
alf kinds stood 1066, 900. According TO the
board Ct Nads Labor GAZETTE Of Noven-
ber ls. 1871. the number had risen to !. ~. :,
900 before the latter date. Women do -
to 20 per cent Of All the machine work
on shells. fuses and trench warfare sup
plies, and have contributed lao trainese
mechanics to the Royal Flying corps. In
one way or another about 8, Co., 00 British
women are working for their country In
her need, many Of whom never worked IN
their lives before.
Turning to the fleet, what shall say.
what can ! say that will be at al ade-
quate to the theme, OF tho work done by
the British navy? It would be almost
ludicrous, In review OF Britain,s share
in the war, to dismiss In sentence ths
absolutely vital part borne by the fleet
did not feel assured that every intelli-
gent man and woman In the United states
knows az we'll, II not better, than that
tho civilized world owes its existence to-
day 70 the unparalleled services rendered
by the navy Britain's ships have kApt
open the ocean highways and penned the
Hun in his few protected harbors Tho
navy has tripfed its personnel and
doubled Its fighting armament. It has
transported over the face of the waters
mules, 10000 vehicles. 5000, 900 tons OF
explosives. 5L00o. 900 tons Of oil and fuel.
and l3o.0oo.0oo tons OF food and other
stores.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-05
English Estates Sold.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

FROM lHe cleveland RAIN Dealof.
Britannia still rules the waves. but
beneath the waves lie unseen terrors,
menacing the nations commerce, Its food
supply, It's very life. The nation cannot
trust its sea borne trade now. It must
utilize every possible means to provide the
necessary sustenance for it's armies, and
for those who supply the fighting men,
And the British government rises to the
occasion.
Before the war Lloyd George fought
long and well to compel the breaking up
of old estates, to make possible the cult
walton of land long idle, to give the la
borer chance at the soil. He failed, for
the British are conservative by instinct
and the old way seemed easiest. They
have learned their lesson now.
In three years past the British govern
ment has taken over outright no less than
100000 acres of British soil. purchasing
some, renting more. 1t has, indeed found
necessary the establishment OF the great
department to handle this work Of ma
tional regeneration. ] is q great change.
and one that should not be regretted The
England which makes peace will not be-
the England of its fathers, but better
one.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-05
25a Miles an Hour.

From the New York World.
at would be easy for any British air
plane manufacturer to produce a machine
wt:c., could make better than $50 miles an
hour declared Capt. W. g. Aston, one of
the leading English experts on air me-
chanics here the other day. This could
be accomplished by merely altering the
curvature of the planes. But this would
mean q minimum landing speed of about
$50 miles and hour, and there is the great
difficulty.
THE machine would be unquest!onably
flyab!e. but It's successful landing would
require an airdronle five or six miles long.
to say nothing of extraordinary skill on
iii. raTt % the pilot"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-05
"PoTA7o TRIPS" IN AUSTRIA.
From the phi,adclnhia Public Ledger.

From the lPhfladelphia PUBLIC Ledger.
London.--One singular outcome of
the exceedingly grave food shortage in
Vienna is the institution of potato
trips" The people Of the Austrian cap
ital, carrying knapsacks and baskets,
make their way into the country to
bargain with the farmers for few
vegetables. In most cases the farmers
will not sell from their stocks for
money. but will barter for other food
stuffs.
The price of potatoes, says the Hague
correspondent of the Times, has been
driven up to a crazy height If one
city dweller finds a willing seller who
allows him to enter the field and dig
potatoes. other would-be buyers will
not be denied. Some farmers at STAN
Inersdorf have demanded as much as
six shillings for two pounds of potatoes.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-05

The title Of hero O.. two wars" may
rightly be given to John Henry Quick.
who also bears tho tito OF Sergeant
Major in the U. S. Marines.
Quick got into the Spanish American
war as quick as he could when it broke
out. At one time during his service
in Cuba the enemy lay in ambush for
the American forces. Aid of the U. S.
S. Dolphin was needed
Quick risked his life to stand on
prominent crest OF land near the enc
my and flash signals to the ship In.
forming her commander where to fire,
to rout the enemy. Despite tho fact
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-05
What Is the Answer?

From the Washington Tines
Five people were discussing the game
of golf.
Golf might be described as billiard.
gone to grass" sad ore. Spleen on the
green. suggested another. The last
flicker of the dying fire OF athletics"
put in q third. who was evidently an
ardent footbalIer. THE misuse Of land
and language" was the contribution of
tennis player. The fifth man said. Golf
IS sivnpiyeaa game wherein the bail lies
badly and the player well!''
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-05
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THE VALUE OF CHEER.
From the christian Hera1a.

western court has awarded a
; goodly sum to a nurse who en-
: livened rich mans declining years
; with good cheer. The court said
; that it was impossible to separate
physical benefit from good cheer.
and that while good cheer itself
might not have definite price. the
physical benefit resulting from 1t
certainly has.
Many millionaire, when Ill
: health or failing strength compels
him to drop the pursuit that has
absorbed all his life. thought and
interest, might be willing to give a
large sum to be able to feel cheer
full To those who think that get
ting rich is the main aim in life
and the highest achievement it
must seem strange that poor man
should have cheerfulness to spare
to rich one. But such Is the way
= of the world. The most precious
: things cannot be measured tn
= money.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-05

that bullets sputtered and fell around
him he stood there nonchalantly as if
IN camp and wigwagged the message.
Congress awarded him congress
sional medal Of honor for his conduct.
When America got into the world
war Quick got in, too. On June he
volunteered to assist in taking a truck
load OF ammunition and material into
the town Of Bouresches, France, over
road swep: by artillery and machine
gun fire, thereby relieving critical sit
uation. For this he was highly COM
mented and cited by General PERISH
ing.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-05

less of an absurdity in all cases. and 1t
Imposes severe hardship and even great
cruely In not a few.
Citizenship in tho only important, or at
least most important. sense Of sincere
allegiance and loyalty Is not determined
by marriage, but by personal intention
and purpose-by inherited or reasoned
preference. new and particular need
for abandoning Anticipated notions as to
woman political standing Ia created
wherever the sex discrimination as to vot.
ing has disappeared.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-05

Paper matches are built into a new
pa per box for cigarets.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-18
GERMANY SHOULD BE MADE TO
PAY.

After four years of desperate war
against overwhelming odds, never
able to increase its armies to more
than about one-fourth of the opposing
armies, the Confederacy collapsed
and Grant marched VIGOROUSLY into
Richmond. During that four years
of struggle the South was completely
cut off from all intercourse with the
outside world by sea, as well as from
the north and west by land. 1t was
shut up to itself and within itself
it had made no preparation for war;
il had to create over night a govern
nIent and an army and fiscal sys-
tenn: it had to create the industries
needed for the making of war sup
plies-practically from the founda-
ton up. Every port from the Ches-
peaAe Bay to the border line of Mex
leo was blockaded.
For four years, despite these APP
parently insurmountable obstacles,
the South with an army of about
100000 as the total number engaged
during the war fought against armies
four times as great in number, back
ed by the tremendous resources in
money, in foodstuffs, in munition-
making facilities Of the Union, which
had the commerce of the world open
! to it. Moreover, the sentiment of a
large part of the world was in favor
Of the Union because civilization had
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-18
G. S. & F. RY.
Effective Nay 18th 1918.

Effective Nay 18th 1918.
Trains 1eav% Cordele:
200 P M.-For Jacksonville AnG
Pslatk2, via Valdosta.
6:35 P. M-Local for Tiftou
3:O8 A. M.-Jacksonville and Palat-
ka, via Valdosta or Triton
1850 A. M-For Jacksonville, Wis
Triton, connecting at Triton for Val
dosta.
2:10 P. M-For Macon. CONFLICTING
for points North.
$50 A. M-Local for Macon, con-
Meeting for points North.
2:25 A .M.-For Macon and points
North. Dixie Flyer"
2:O8 A M-For Macon and points
North, THE Southland"
Schedule shown as information to
the public; not guaranteed,
~ W. JAMESON, C. 3. RHODES,
Agt.. , T. D. Macon. Ga. G. P A.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-18

He does not explain, nor even men
ton, his vote against the food con
trci bill.
He does not explain, nor even men
ton, his vote against the nitrate bill
He does not explain, nor even men
ton. his vote against the railroa
control bill.
He does not explain, nor even men
zion. his antagonism to the selectly'
draft act after it had become law.
He does not explain, nor even men
ton. his persistent opposition to near
" III of the important administra
ton war measures.
He does tell how he voted, for thu
appropriation bills-bills that wer'
assed without a roll-call, without
sngl, dissenting vote being cas-
against them.
He lies straightout-lies is harsh
coarse term, but he absolutely lies
about newspapers and the postal rev
enue increase bill, by declaring tina
the newspapers of this state are op
rosed to him because. he has forced
them to pay more postage. Senator
Hardwick knows that the new posta
regulations will not cost the 2Ol
weekly newspapers of Georgia on
single cent extra, and that it viii
hardly affect even larger dailies o
tie state.
He descends to the level of a down
right demagogue, by seeking to ar
ray the poor against the wealthy, b!
endeavoring to prejudice the rura
citizens against the people of Snc
city, by trying to line class against
class.
He even goes so far as to cast as
pensions on the honesty of the mo.
tiyes whivh have actuated Presiedn
Wilson in various Of his official deeds
lie would have his audience believe
that Wilson is aspiring to kingly
power. and he does not hesitate a
leE cling at the head of that grea
and good man insinuations of a des
picable nature, along the line thai
the president stopped to things little
and mean.
IIardwick boasts of his opposition
&c tue dCullHIo Il IJlUu- DIT q JILAC HAiCA
desperation is the keyword, at tins
wheI every American should stant
shoulder % shoulder behind the com
mander. in-chief President wilson's
indictment of him, to the effect thai
he has been "a constant and active
opponent of the administration, i;
something in which he glories, when
it is his everlasting shame, and a
fact that is humiliating to the state
of Georgia
Senator Hardwick fails because he
is guilty, because the facts are against
him, because he dare not discuss these
facts, because he is afraid to look the
truth in the face!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-18
Trains DePart.

SeabOard Air Line.
Leave Americas for Savannah and
intermediate stations and points east:
1891 p. m. 1:2O a m,
Leave Americas for Helena and IN
ermediate points
$40 pm
Leave Amecrius for Colu Qbun,
Montgomery and points West
sos p m.