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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-19

my health 30 can do al my work and
I am 80 grateful that ] am recommend
Ing It to my friends. Mrs. D. n.
ALTERS, r.. r. A, Oregon, III.
Onlywomen who have suffered the tor
lures OF such troubles and have dragged
along from day to day can realize the
relief which this famous root and herb
remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham' 8 Vegetable
Compound, brought to Mrs. Alters.
Women everywhere in Mrs. Alters
condition should profit by her recom-
mendstion, and il there are any COM
plications write Lydia E. pinkham'a
Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass, for advice.
The result Of their 10 years experience
is at your service.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-19
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications as they cannot reach
only one way to cure Catarrhal Deafness.
and that Is by a constitutional remedy.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE acts
of the System. Catarrhal Deafness is
caused by an infaIned condition OF the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube IL inf1amed you have
,umhling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when 1t is entirely closed, Deafness is the
asult Unless the Inflammation can be re-
NAL condition. hearing may be destroyed
forever. Many cases of Deafness are
caused by Catarrh. which is an inflamed
condition Of the Mucous Surfaces.
Z ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for any
case of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot
be cured by HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE.
All Druggists 75c. Circulars free.
F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-19

danger, for the German will be seeking
by the most ingenious and sustained
effort to win the French nation into
making separate peace, q peace which
VIII W, pc as attractive. in German propa-
ganda, AZ that peace without indem-
mites or annexations"w which lured
Russia to ruin at Brest -Litovsk. Not
less appealing bait will be held out to
Italy. like France invaded and far more
than France exposed to internal dam
gers OF a disruptive sort.
\ Germany means to win the war by
her peace offensive, now that her war
offensive has failed. The element Of
time Is just as much against her in
the new operation rs In the old. Turkey
and Bulgaria are becoming restive;
Austria Is on the edge of revolution
to be sure, like a donkey on noun
tain trail, Austrian Rtesnen seem all
ways to select the outer and danger
GUS edge, but the present situation 10
more critical than any that has pre-
coded. Ii German peace operations
were delayed over a long period, Tur-
key and Bulgaria might escape the
German leading strings and make sep
arate peace with the enemy. Even
Austria might break under the strain.
We shall have next winter. therefore,
to repel the peace offensive designed
to enable Germany to keep a respect
able, large share of the provinces
she has conquered. We shall have the
peace offensive supplemented by much
military threatening. Internationally
the promise to devaatafe all OF France
still in German hands, as we'll az Bel,
GUM, in the fashion Picardy was de-
vastated in the Hindenburg retreat,
will be one gentle German hint to
France as to the advisability of COM
ing to an arrangement. And until that
peace offensive is defeated we must
face the fact that we may still lose
the war
But II the peace offensive fails, as
the war offensive has unmistakably
failed, there is still ahead of US at lea st
one year more of terrific and costly
to win the war in the only way that it
can be won--namely, upon the battle
field. And In that time each temporary
reverse, each check, each delay, will
serve the Germans as a new basis for
their peace offensive and a new foun-
dalton for their argument that no mill
tary decision is possible. OF the three
stages that have to be covered before
we come to the point where real peace
is possible we have but passed the
first, or are just coming to the end
of it. 1t has been in a sense the most
critical of all, but It has also been
the simplest, because IN the face Of a
peril which no man could misunder
stand all effort and all energy were
concentrated naturally upon the task
of stopping the enemy. 1t will be less
easy to get the same concentration in
the other two stages.
We shall have to be on our guard,
therefore, both in the matter of pessi-
mism and optimism. At the present
moment there is a dangerous degree of
optimism afloat. The reaction from
the depression of recent months is nat
ural and proper but it should not lead
to exaggerated hopes. We have blocked
the enemy and we have DEBATED him in
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-19
Killing Places.

Frenchman was waiting at railroad
station I'm Ireland when a couple of-ns-
tives sat down beside him.
Fad one: Sure, Pat, it's down to Kill
mary I've been, and I'm on me way back
to Fitzpatrick"
s"fe don't say So" said the other. ITS
mesif that's just after bein' down. to XII
kenney. and j stop here bit before I
go to Kiimor." 80. :.
What assassins!" exclaimed the
Frenchman. Would that 1 were safely
back in France,"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-19
Gallantrx.
SdIVaNtry.
From the Chicago Daily News

From the Chicago Daily News.
An amusing little incident occurred q
few days ago in crowded tramcar on the
Dublin to Blackjack line. A lady. wishing
q seat,.looked smiling1y round. A poftIy
handsome old gentleman Immediately
stood up and politely offered the lady his
place. Oh, you're jewel, SIR said the
lady. as she bowed her acknowledgements
for the courtesy. Not at all, madam"
replied the gentleman, with an engaging
smile I'm jeweler; have lust Get the
jewel Could anything be more gallant
than that?
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-19
Milling Corn Flour.

1t has been found possible to use
much of the wheat-milling machinery
Of the United States for milling corn.
In this way the output Of cornmeal
was almost doubled within five months.
Instead of using 100000 barrels of
wheat flour eacl, month, America can
now depend upon corn products for
all breadstuff demands.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-19
Ilolllp RLuEa

No, Mr.. Grocer, that's mostly water.
Since the war started it's more nearly
all water than ever. Give me Red
Cross Ball Blue, that's two-ounce
package OF real goodness. You should
see my clothes I just cant keep
from smiling out loud.-Adv.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-19
NOW RAISES
600 CHICKENS
Oregon, took Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound Far An or.

1ulC CfO0Ole which
pulled me down un-
I'll I could not put my
loot to the floor and
could scarcely do my
work, and 40 / live
on . small farm and
raise six hundred
chickens every year
i msde it very hard
Tor me. "
l saw the Com
pound advertised in
our paper, and tried
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-19
Superior Attitude,

rs Giibwitz Il man OF large ideas!'
"ln one sense"
How is thai? 2"
Anyone who disagrees with his
ideas looks extremely small to him.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-19
His State.

'ionr friend Is in Il grave revery."
That comes from his being buried
IN thought"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-19
"A Nav Exen.,.

From the Louisville Courter-Journal.
Did you mail that letter | gave you
yesterday. d
N-,o, my dear. I whistled to the man
in the postal asrplane. but he wouldn't
come down after IT. 81 3.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-19
The laxative Pest.

EokEs-Here comes Talkalot.
pok,ls-Do YOU know him to speak
TO?
Hokus-No, merely to listen to-
Town Topics.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-19
Insane.

. From the Stars and Stripes France. 81
co,pora.-say. Sarge, in what state
would man be If he fell into the river
Seine?
sergeant-A wet state, I guess
Cerporal-No, insane
corporal now pysyafo).
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-19
Good Reason.

Fe-"an d-er-why do YOU want to
get a livorce?' She-"Because I'm
married of course
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-19
Costly capituletion.l

sWnr is mighty expensive busineSs.1
YES, the presents have to make
my wife after we quarrel almost bank.
lupts me."-Boston Transcript.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-19

Human laws change, but science Ia
eternal.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-09-19
SEES one OR TWO MORE YEARS or WAR

Military Expert Points Gut That the Kaiser Has Several Danu
erous Weapons (0her Than Bayonets and Guns) In His
Hands, and Armies Capable Of srkinq Terrific Blows, All
though Those Forces Have Been Right Soundy MauIed
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name on 18th street just north of E
was Ruth Ann Clarke.
Moving on from 1S49 to 1854 the
Rambler finds that the east part of the
lot at the northwest corner of 18th and
e stands in the name OF William Grea-
son. his purchase being made between
1S4e and that year. 1t was also about
this time that William Ebbitt appeared
as the buyer of the old Forrest prop
erty at the corner of F. and 14th and
other land east of it. Five years later,
in 1859. the names of Andrew Harper.
Sarah Kennah and Louis Vivans had
passed away from the corner lot and
in their stead were those of William
Greason. Sarah Greason and c. NJ. KEEL
Ter William Greason owned the cor
ner third of the lot. Sarah Greason the
west part and Keller the north part.
The owners in sequence along i street
toward the west were w. O.s ONeal,
Allison Nailor, -jr.: J. NJ. Carlisle, b. o.
Taylor, E. H. Pendleton, John A. Blake.
G. A. W. Randall. Eliza Mclean and
two or three others. Most of the land
on the east side of 18th was in the
name of George Bomford. William Eb-
bitt owned the east part of the lot at
the corner of 14th and F. all of the lot
adjoining and part of the next lot on
the east.
Carrying this story along ten more
years to 1869. William Greason was
still the owner of the east part Of the
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him too closely for his board BILL
1t was said that he was a son OF q
good family in King William county.
Va. but nobody ever gained from Beau
any information about his family, al
though he always insisted that he was
Beau slipped down grade and took ON =
shabby-genteel appearance. He loftered
in the offices and bars of the hotels. He
told stories, and they were the same
stories, year after year. Everybody
knew him and he knew most Of the.
Washington people who came down on
the Avenue.
1t was one of the jokes Of the town
to introduce Beau as Gen. Hickman
to strangers in the hotels. and then
stand off while Beau told his line OF
stories and borrowed q quarter-that Il.
he never pretended to borrow, but SIM
ply asked for it, his usual formula
being. Now. don't you think that story
is worth quarter" And he usually
got it-from strangers. II he were ask
ed to take cigar, he would usually:
take one; IL asked to take a drink, he
would usually say he would take the
price, and sometimes he would also
take the change which the barkeeper
laid down. In his fafrer days he often
went to New York. Philadelphia, Ba1ti-
more. Richmond and Norfolk. and IL IL
believed that Beau never paid anything
on these trips for board or Transports
ton. For a long time he took his meals
in Leonard Russells marble saloon.
and there he always paid for what he
ordered He was once arrested for
vagrancy. but convinced the justice
that he had an account with Jne Bank
of Washington and was discharged.
There was also story around the
hote's that Beau had a deposit of con-
siderable size with Riggs & Co.
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Davidson land--were in the ownership
of Cornelius Mclean. In 1929 the i'm
provements on the Forrest lot, at the
southeast corner of 14th and +. were
assessed at $500. The Thomas Law
lots. on the west side of 18th street
south of F street were in possession Of
the Bank of Washington, and the lots
on the same side Of the street north of
f, that in 1902 We're In possession Of
the heirs of David Burns, were in 1929
owned by Michael Nourse and Mary
Dougherty, each lot being improved by
a small house.
Skipping ten years through the rec
ords. to 1889. the three parts of the
lot at the northwest corner of 18th
and E streets were still owned by An
drew Harper, Sarah kennah and Louis
Vans. The William O'Neal lot was
in possession of his heirs. the Coulson
lot was owned by Clayton Powell. the
John Mason lots were intact. lot had
passed from the Bank of the Metropo-
lis to Blair & Rives. the Frederick
ReitZ lots were intact and the Cor
nelius Mclean property stood in the
name of Eliza Mclean.
Col. George Bomford had become the
owner of a good part of the property
on the east side of 14th street between
e and F. Passing over another decade
to 1s49. Andrew Harper. Sarah Kennah
and Louis Vivans were still the owners
Of the land at the northwest corner Of
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all the sugar we use in making con-
fectionery could be sent to Italy IL
would double that country's supply
In 1917 we spent for candy twice as
much as is needed to buy Belgium fits
food supply for one year. The amount
of sugar VIC use in making confection-
cry is in the neighborhood of SOC .06e
pounds per annum. and this sold at the
low rate of 25 cents per pound equals
5000, 100000. In fact, we are now spend
ing two-thirds as much for our candy
as we are spending for butter, and one-
third as much as for our wheat flour.
IL the women and children could cut
their candy consumption in half we
should have hundreds OF millions of
pounds more sugar for export. and at
the same time much larger sum TO
give to such charities as the Red Cross
and the Y. NJ. G. A. war fund.
Moreover, candy Is the most expen-
sive form in which sugar is sold. Candy
costs all the way from ) cents to .
dollar pound according TO the varie-
bought. The price of sugar as regu-
lated by the food administration 10
practically restricted + or 10 cents
a pound, and the candy in which the
same sugar contents are sold At one
dollar must be. one would think. IS
cents pure profit.
Another extravagant place to buy
sugar is in some OF the New York city
hotels. One of the largest has on It's
menu this item: Sugar, two Jumps.
cents: powdered sugar, portion. 10
cents.
I do not know the exact size of the
portion of powdered sugar allowed.
but 1 venture to say 1t is not more than
one or two tablespoonfuls. The amount
indicated by Jumps is better defined
They are cubes of white sweetness or
the dominoes which are a bit larger.
In order to see just how much this ho-l
tel gets for its sugar, have weighed
out pound on my post Office scales
BY actual count it contained sixty-tyo.
dominoes or Jumps. which, at the -ats
of cents for TWO, equals $1.55 per
pound.
1t may be that the hotel charges this
high price to restrict the consumption.
but ] doubt it. In the height of the
roasting ear season / have paid there
as much as 25 cents for one ear OF
corn. Now it takes 600 large ears to
make a barrel of field corn, which even
at the present high prices cost but lit
tie more than one cent per ear. At the
rate of rs cents per ear. that hotel
gets $3.50 a barrel for its corn. and. II
so, why not this price for sugar?
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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the submarines and other dangers to
shipping Europe would have her nor
NAL supply and to spare.
A short time ago l published letter
from Louisiana. showing how our cane
sugar area is confined to Louisiana and
Texas. The sugar lands there are COM
paratively limited. and we shall not
be able to grow enough cane sugar for
our needs. outside our colonial posses
sions. 1t is different with the Philip
pines, Hawaii and Porto Rico and the
from Denmark They all have good
sugar soil, and the Philippines could
feed large part of our people.
AS to our beet-sugar area, it is so
great that we could grow enough beets
to supply every pound of sugar we use
and still have surplus to sell to other
parts OF the world. The sugar beet can
be grown anywhere from Maine to CAL
ifornia and from the great lakes to the
Ohio river. 1t needs cool nights and
moderately warm days, and it thrives
best along the isothernia1 line Of 10
degrees. / have seen it in Utah and
California, where are some of the larg-
est beet-sugar fields of the world.
The sugar beets look much like those
in your garden, and they are culti-
waited in about the same way. The seed
is sown in rows about eight inches
apart, and when the plants come up
they are thinned, so that they stand
six or eight inches apart in the row.
In Utah the seed is drilled in. and
there are drills that plant several rows
at time. The beets are .hoed and
kept free from weeds. 1t takes about
five months for them to mature. after
which they are dug up much like pota-
toes and taken to the sugar factory.
The beets are not large. They weigh
from pound to a pound and half
each, and the smallest beet has the
sweetest juice and makes the best
sugar. The beets produce more or less
sugar according to the percentage of
sugar contents in them. This varies
in different localities. In the region I
make one pound of sugar.
l was interested in the beet-sugar fac
tories. They have modern machinery
based upon cost efficiency methods,
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bler's notes here being very cloudy. The
west part of the lot had passed to
Charles Edmonston. Allison Major had
increased his holdings in the block and
William w. Rapley. William Shoemaker
and Charles q. Ball had come into the
record as property holders there. The
sign on the Greason House Is still there
and the property is still in possession
of the descendants of William
There are many stories connected
with this venerable resort, which old
Westinghouse, especially the old
southern set of Washingtonans, can
tell. During the civil war Greason's
bar, in connection withs the hotel, was
a meeting place for men whose SYM
pathies had been with the south, and
after the war men of the "unrecon-
structed" kind used to sip their toddies
there. There comes up in the memory
OF the Rambler the belief that Gen.
Alfred Pleasonton, one of the distin-
guished federal cavalry officers of the
civil war, boarded with Greason for
long time and died there. Old William
Greason had two sons, George and John.
who presided over the bar for many
years. One OF the celebrated places on
f street west of Greason's was Schnelrs
brewery, restaurant and hotel. Ad-
joining Schnell's was John Usher's
place Of refreshment.
In that "ramble" in which was retold
the story of the carnival in February,
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18th and E. Allison Nailor. jr.. had
become the owner of part OF the next
had been passed to Henry Ranall, or
Randall. and others in trust. the Blair
& Rives lot stood in the name Of
Rettchie & Heiss. John c. Rives APP
peared as the owner of a part of lot 6,
the Eliza Mclean property was intact,
and the lot at the northeast corner of
f and 18th had been divided into three
parts. which were owned by w. ].
Stone. Thomas Miller and S. r. Hobbie.
The Richard Forrest property at the
southeast corner of + and 14th had
passed to r. w. Reed and w. /. Smith.
and some of the new names along the
south side Of F street were Euphemia
Manning, Joseph S. Wilson, f. r.
Woodyear and Z. II. Newman. a new
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half being owned by Thomas Thorpe and
the east half by Michael Dulin. 1t was
improved by a $500 structure. which
seems TO have stood on DIlin's part at
the corner. The lots OH the west side of
18th from F TO near the corner of K were
in the names OF Thomas Law and the
heirs of David Burnes. a small bit OF
whose farm this part Of the city was laid
down. There were no buildings on 1"tn
street between the DuEn house at the
corner of r and the little house which
stood on part oil the big lot at the COZ
ner of e and 18th.
Between 1902 and 1907 few changes
took place in the neighborhood. The as
sessrnent on the house on the corner lot
at 9th and f had been reduced from $500
TO 5000. Thomas Triplet and Robert Ellis
had bought halves of the lot on the east
side of 18th south of +; Salley Wheaton
had bought the F street lots that had
been owned by Collin William and John
Johnson: Edward Fennell had bought one
of the halves Of the George Betz and Jo
seph Bentley lots. and Morris Lambert
had bought half of lot %, which was Mc-
Der1nottroe's. adjoining the lot at the cor
ner of F and 18th. A few small houses
had been built on the west side Of 18th
between f and E.
Skipping through the records from
1907 to 1929 one finds that the lot at
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nose is a little hooked, her lips narrow
and her teeth black. a defect the Eng
1ish seem subject to from their great
use of sugar"
Sugar came to this continent with
Columbus He is said to have planted
it in Santo Domingo in 1888 A little
later it was introduced into Cuba, and
after negro slavery was inaugurated
there the industry rapidly grew. In
the seventeenth century, when the is
land had only $4,000 people, it had 100
sugar plantations Today Cuba pro-
duces more sugar than any other part
about 6,000,000.000 pounds, in com
parison with India a. little more than
5000, 100000 and Java about $780,
000,0 During that year Europe
produced 10000, 100000 pounds of beet
sugar, the product coming mainly from
Germany. Austria and Russia. with
smaller amounts from Belgium and
France. All of these countries formerly
exported sugar to England. and this
supply has. of course. been cut off.
AS to cane sugar it is raised in
scattering patches throughout the
tropical world. / have seen the cane
growing in Porto Rico. Cuba and others
of the West India Islands. Some of
the finest sugar lands of the world are
the volcanic soil of Hawaii and Java,
Philippines that might be used for the
crop. British India has at times led
the world in cane-sugar produce
ton, and the crop of Java is SO great
that it has now a surplus of 1000. 1000.
600 pounds for export. 1t is tied up
there because the merchant vessels
belonging to the Dutch which usually
bring the sugar to the United States
and Europe have been kept in New
York owing to our refusal to give
them cargoes of grain to carry across
the ocean to Europe
Among the other cane sugar coun-
tries are Australia. Fiji and some
scattering islands of the Pacific and
Indian oceans belonging to England.
The cane grows well in Brazil and
Argentina. and I have seen it twice as
high as my head in the irrigated val
leys of Peru. There are also irrigated
sugar plantations on the banks of the
Nile near Cairo. In fact. the cane
grows here and there in the tropics. all
over the world. and if it were noe for