The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-07-24

1stTo sasc"bni, known to everyone a
The composer Of Cavaileria Rusttcar,s
has written a new opera, IL picco}o
Marat.' ''rhe theme is found on the con.
Tic of ideas between the autocrat and
the democrat, between oppression AND
ereedom. The opera Is symbolic of man,
periods and would just as readily appl!
TO the stirring times OF the American
revolution as 1t would to the icnch
revolution, or the Russian. Tho charac.
tiers represent IDEAS. There Is a character
for Justice, truth. freedom; and, for tyr
amy. ignorance and wrong.
There have been found In the Philip
pines two fruits entirely unknown to
Europe and America One OF these Is the
DURHAM, which grows on a lofty tree some
what resembling AN elm. American sol
diers in the Philippines have dubbed the
DURAN the vegetable ~)imburger." The
other is the mangosteen, but the exauis-
itely favored liquid 1t contains has not
yet been successfully preserved for ship
ping.
The peace treaty with Germany, so far
Is a war treaty, not q peace treaty
Deputy Henry Pste has declared to the
committee Of tie chamber of French
deputies. He pointed out that Germany
viii have one officer f.f every 800 men,
thus furnishing framework for an army
much superior to the 200, co provided In
the treat.
Tuesday. the DAY OF the ton Of
prohibition, only ,nc arrest YVES shown
on the police docket Of Milwaukee,, this
being on q charge OF disorderIy conduct.
Several successive dAya withop: arrests
for tatoxicattou is without precedent, ac-
sarding to the Oldest officials around the
police courts. There were III arrests IN
June for drunecnness.
IN reply TO IN suggestion that British
gpinners might sat along with empire cot
ton instead of that from the United States
James I. BroadInent, of the Manchester
chamber of commerce said. You may
just as well get going with the other Eng
fish speaking people who helped to safe
guard the liberty of the world and let us
keep control of the cotton, The question
of where 1t Is grown should be only In
ctdcntul,"
Prohibition Is costing the Bell Telephone
Company thousands OF dollars. Persons
under the influence of an intoNicant be-
come talkative and want to phone not
only their friends in cafes but to their
friends who are far away, Since July !
phono calls nave decreased. Bell officials
say.
!. + Chase, complaining witness In two
charges against 81 prominent Bisbee men
arrested for alleged participation In the
deportation cases of July II, 1917. has
served Il term in the Arizona state peni-
tertiary for, murder. Pete Ceguin and J.
+. Holman, other compliments are men,
bers of the I. ". w
The Royal Air Force OF Britain discov-
cred. in training its aviators. that a large
percentage of men only use one eye at
q time, and, not having good eye bal
ance. could never land correctly. They
therefore started an eye drill that made
good pilots out of many men who would
otherwise have been useless In aviation.
The Rev. Eugene Bell. Of shelbyviilc,
Zen, has appealed from the Judgment
of the local court whereby he was fined
the equivalent Of s25 for criminal careless
ness IN accidentally causing the death OF
his wife and q friend in an automobile
Incident.
Tho government of India has appointed
= committee to consider how to improve
tho cotton cultivation of that country.
The committee has reported that 1t Is de-
sirab,e the Lancaster cotton industry
should cease to be so dependant upon
tho American supply.
Owners of the official pictures Of the
willard Dempsey fight anticipate little
trouble in showing them all over The
United States. inasmuch as the official
permit Tor the fight called 1t a booking
contest" There is no federal ban on
QNctuTeS Oh pOXiIlE contests.
Emmanuel Rrousse and Andre Lefevre |
prominent members of the French cham
Der Of deputies declared in the chamber
THIS week that the steady Increase In tho
cost of living was largely due to continual
increases In wages.
The fear entertained by some that be-
cause the effect of the income tax is to
cut the salary of the president from $75,c6
to 5000, there will be a dearth of candi-
dates, seems to be %unfounded, Says =
washington osTssTosaaat
What is probably the marriage record
OF the United States is held by S. j. |
killow, Of Walnut Ridge, Ark. a veteran
of the civil war, who recently married for
the 18th time. He has reared but two
sHitdTefi. g.
Marriage asencies In Japan are now
limited to rs pesos fee on Zach match
made. One peso for an introduction, s for
q Int for a life partner and the rest for
xctIAlly binding two together are the
legal prices.
The municipality of Portland. Ore. win
engage In the construction of 5000 houses |
at once as o means of absorbing the sur
plus labor and Of utilizing some of the |
Immense lumber supply of hat state.
Milwaukee hnd just settled it's icemen.s !
strike. when the caddies on the golf course
Went Out. Inc caddteS imply rave to
nave q cents an hour. instead Of the
p~ittance of GO they have been receiving.
North Dakota has a bank for every
sfS of its population, leading all other
states In the number of banks per capita. !
South Dakota comes second, then Ne
braska. Iowa, Kansas. with Missouri slxht
in line.
iwauk and other great lakes har-
0ors VIII become ocean ports at once, ac-
nording to plans OF the United states ship
ping .oard to hav a fleet OF nearly %
ships plying from the Great Lakes direct
to Europe.
Icebergs outside the harhor OF ST. Johns
Eave htndered fishermen to such an ex-
tent tnat the governor has requested 4
Warssip to fire5a few shots at the bergx
rith the hope Of breaking them up.
uashteen principal Japanese banks have
crEarizcd o financial syndicate i tor the
purpose of advancing a loan to China as
2 member OF the proposed new four power.
groupr-the United States. Creaf
Britain, Frantse and Japan. ~
Beia Kuhn says there is d press cam
paign against the, Hunfsarian legation Il
ytcnnx and asks satisfaction Of the
Austrian government for the Official en-
enlargement given the campaign.
The Rote Fsahne and the %yolkereeht