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ever since I had been in bed and that if I got up and got drink I could scratch my back against the door jamb at the same time.
 T slipped out of the bed quietly so as not to wake you and got my drink and scratched my back and then as l started to get back in bed I stepped on your slipper with that jagged buckle on it, and almost ruined my foot.
 T got back in bed and nursed my foot for awhile and then as I had about concluded tha tthere was nothing for me to do but get up and smoke and read awhile I heard cat telling a
 piece of scandal to another one on the back fence, and if half he said was true, the one he was talking about ought to have been electrocuted nine times until all his lives were lost. Then I got scared at something thought I saw fit across the room and
 When we get over to the movies, !" interrupted Imogene. twill you hold my hand if bears or anything come" Honey" said Andrew, laughing, "1 I will hold your hand for fear bears or something will come." Copyright Twenty first Century Press, Inc.)
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Bur ges 5sdti@s sfd5ies
 By THORNTON W. BURGESS
Straight Into Old Man Coyotes Mouth Don't jump bindy lest you leap
 From bad to nd get in deep.
By THORNTON W. BURGESS

Old Man Coyote understood perfectly the Jerry Muskrat was trying to warn some one when he made that big splash out there among the Black Shadows that covered most of the Smiling Pool. And he guessed right away that that some one was Peter Rabbit You see, Old Man Coyote is smart Yes, sir, he is smart. He knows all about the habits of his neighbors. He makes it his business to know. If he didn't he would find it harder work to get a living than he now does.
 That was warning for Peter Rab- bit" thought Old Man Coyote. T made a mistake. That is just what I did made a mistake. I shouldn't have walked right out to look al that little landing of Jerry's. He saw me and he has tried to warn Peter I am certain that Peter isn't far away. There are two things I can do: I can just keep perfectly still until Peter makes up his mind that the danger is over, or I can hunt for his tracks and then follow them. The chances are that Peter is just above me, some where along the Laughing Pool. He would naturally go that way because there are plenty of bushes along the bank while there is little cover for him to hide in on the bank of the Smiling Pool I'll just circle around to place a little way up the Laughing Brook and wait for him."
 'So, without making a sound, Old Man Coyote circles around to a point on the bank of the Laughing Brook just lit tie above where Peter was hiding, and there he crouched down to wait. lie hadn't rustled leaf in getting there. He had put each foot down as carefully as if he were walking on eggs and didn't want to break them
 Now, as you know, Peter Rabbit had heard the warning of Jerry Muskrat and had underst ood that Jerry had seen dam ger of some sort. But there was no way for Peter to know what that danger was or where it was. Not knowing, he had done the wisest possible thing-he had continued to sit perfectly still.
 But after a while Peter had begun to get nervous. He hadn't heard a single suspicious sound. He hadn't seen thing that suggested danger. But he had felt
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Peter Rabbit

danger drawing nearer and nearer. You know you can feel things that way. The trouble was that Peter couldn't tell from which direction that danger was drawing nearer and nearer He grew more and more uneasy. It didn't seem possible to sit still a second longer. He felt that he must run. But, not knowing in which dl- rection the danger lay, he didn't know which way to run to get away from it. He might run right into it. So he con- tinued to sit still.
 At last, however, Peter could stand 1t no longer. He felt that he simply must get away from there. If Jerry saw the danger it must have been back there by the Smiling Pool" thought Peter. "lf l go up the Laughing Brook l probably will be all right
 So Peter very carefully left his hid-
 ing place and began to tiDtoe along the bank of the Laughing Brook, stopping every other step to look and listen, He heard nothing and saw nothing, and little by little his fears grew less. And then he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-05
THOUSANDS OF E[KS GATHER AT CHICAGO FOR ANNUAL MEET
By Associated Pres,

Chicago, July 4-Thousands of Elks from all parts of the country gathered in Chicago today for the nationaL con vention of the order which opens tomor- row. While a programme of entertain ment for the early arrivals was provided yesterday and today, the convention will be officially opened at public meeting in the Auditorium theatre Monday night. Gov. Frank Lowden has been invited to deliver the address of welcome and Mayor William Hale Thompson will pre- sent the key of the city to grand lodge officers. Frank l.. Rain, grand exalted exalted ruler of the Chicago lodge, also will speak,
 The climax of the weeks session will come on Wednesday night with an Amer : icanism parade and pageant in honor of the 70,000 Elks who served with the colors during the war. Every state in the Union will be represented by floats, asd lodge delegations and marching c1ubs from all over the country headed by their own bands, will participate. Gen. John J. Per shlng, who is a member of the Fl Paso Lodge of Elks, has been invited to lead the parade.
 A delegation of 1S0 California Elks which arrived yesterday, is boosting San Francisco for the next convention and William M. Abbott for the next grand exalted ruler.
 E. P. Mahaffey of Bend, Ore, is plan- ming to present a proposal to tax every Elk in the United States "the price or good cigar to establish an Elks' hunt ing and fishing reservation of 10000 acres in Oregon.
 Among the arrivals from distant po1nts was Thomas J. Wolf, exalted ruler or the Philippine Lodge, accompanied by six delegates, who represent ASA members or the order residing in the Philippine ls- lands.
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hoped out from a clump of ferns to discover Old Man Coyote only few rect in front of him, grinning as only one who is hungry can grin when he sees good dinner coming straight into his mouth!
 Peters heart jumped. It jumped so that he was certain it turned right over And then Peter himself jumped, and IL looked as if he was jumping straight into Old Man Coyotes mouth!
 (Copyright, 1920, by T. W. Burgess)
 The next story: 'Old Man Coyote Post pones Dining"
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For the Good of
 the Community

nNE of the marked features of the O stock and bond market at this time is the many offerings of securities of the most unquestioned certainty, surety and stability at high rates of interest
 Opportunity to safely invest money at and per cent was never so great. Never before were so many securities of un- doubted worth offered the public at these rates of interest In cases the terms of purchase are so elastic that an office boy could invest.
 All through last year the government and the press urged people to beware of fake stock and wildcat investments. The State of Alabama enacted blue-sky law to protect the innocent from vendors of worthless securities.
 Still millions on millions were ex- changed for pieces of paper.
 The Saturday Post thinks bankers and brokers dealing in legitimate securities could put at end to senseless and losing in- vestment if they would get little closer to the people. It says:
 If fraction of the talent, at times approaching genius, which our financiers employ in making money in Wall Street were devoted to devis- ing machinery for the distribution of high-grade securities to our large body of new and inexperienced in vestors throughout the country, there mO1111 not ha CO vast a loss in vision ary and fraudulent. schemes
 With little more incisiveness the same idea is repeated by the Post in this para graph:
 What is known as big business and moderate-sized business as well had better get over it's dignity and apply to the great financially un- sophisticated public for funds with the same skilled human appeals as are employed by fakers and swind lers"
 The fakers strike out boldly and inti- mately. They are not afraid of commit ting themselves to positive indorsement of that which they are selling. They rent ground-floor space They lay violent hands on all the permitting newspaper space.
 The faker gets close to the unsophisti- cated. The Post suggests that the honest broker and banker be as human as the faker and the sWindler.
 The farmer and wage earner, many salaried men and small business men have more money than they once had and many of them are looking for something more than savings bank interest rates If these men were in personal touch with bankers and reliable and well-estab- lished brokers they would invest hun dreds of millions in the superior class of securities that are now being offered. But the average wage earner and aver age farmer has not the slightest idea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-05
More Truth Than Poetry
 -By JAMES L MONTAGUE

 Slim little maid with the grim little frown, Toling problems till late in the night Rubbing numbers and writing them down, Always despairing of getting them right; till Put dimple instead of bout; Never problem solved by Maybe we'll figure them out Problems and problems, they to all, To and tangle brains; easy And do We solve today and tomorrow find A bigger still that to be done, And oh! but the world supremey unkind With of trouble and little of But what do but keep begging On all of the that do the
  To play for while to sleep Then back to the problems, the before, For mosto of UT are all of the still held in store. And whe the eGreatP at last shall appear, To that cannot find We'll to and for after We'll toll till brows all furrowed and lined Through Till reams of solutions scattered about. We'll and broken and IS will figure it out
 WE'LL NEVER GET ONE country platform
 WATCH HIM tailoring hell enough another ~ CAUTION CURIOSITY visit the America batefields while million American dughboys touring Europe
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-13
TEACHER SHORTAGE
MAY BE BENEFIT
S. d. University Professor AS
serts Result viii Be Closing
of One Teacher Schools and
More Consultations,

Yermilion, S. d, May 10.-"The
= drop Of so per cent. in enrolment in
normal schools, as reported from New
York, and the pitiful increase of only
80 per cent. in teachers salaries in
the past six years, need not disturb
us here in Siouth Dakota" said DR..
w. A. Cook, head Of the department
of education Of the university Of
South Dakota, yesterday.
Teachers completing both the two
year and the four year courses at the
University are being placed this
spring at salaries approximately SO
per cent. higher than a year ago."
he continued. The tax payers, and
school boards Of the state are going
into their pockets to meet the emer-
gency and I have no fear of the out
come.
"The shortage of teachers in sec
tons which offer less liberal increases
Of salary than this state is giving
is not an unmixed evil, for it is re-
sulting in the closing of many schools.
and in the transportation of their
pupils to better, consolidate schools.
The old one teacher plan will be
gradually abandoned"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-13
The Prosperous Chinese.
From the Chicago News.

Pursuing their traditional course Of
applying the rule Of contraries, the peo-
pie Of China, while the rest OF the world
has been lamenting the tremendous
shrinkage in the purchasing power OF
Its money-whether dollars or pounds,
francs or marks, rubles or 1ire-have
had the satisfaction of seeing their cur
rency increase in value, keeping pace
with the advancing cost OF living. Now,
u ever, one might reasonably expect to
ass=sses
smile that is childliks and bland,
The part that silver plays in China
IL thus described In the April number Of
the Americas:
It performs double duty as q COM
modify and a currency. In its first
role It affords the bushes men OF the
orient their speculative medium to a
more complete extent than is afforded
by any commodity or agency in the
western world and in its second role it
gives the means of boarding wealth and
AFFORDS a medium of exchange.
In 1915 the average price OF silver in
saa 57Sc6 Sttatss@wss-: ;.S an
ounce. In 1919 1t had risen to $1.37h an
ounce. Therefore, an important part Of
thea accumulated wealth of the Chinese,
together with their wages and the prices
OF all h products they have to. sell.
has u h8a doubled.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-13
France Stands by the Peace
Treaty..
Princess xenia de WaIdeck.
BY Raymond Poincare. Copyrighted.


me genus OF france, said Michelet "s propaganda" ID most
surely In the "a in which h 10 understood the word "propaganda" he was
right Franc always has been and remains he especte spokesman of.
great ideals which, conduct" the human race. But III is patheticaIy awk-
ward al n art Of setting forth her wv qualities and actions For III
several months it has been from vanquished Germany that all propa-.
To- u s.
In the eyes of o. many American journals too many Italian Journals
and ever some English journals, France is drunk With victory, devoured
with ambition, n poisoned by imperialism; she is under the domination,
OF a miitaryc caste, at h head of which is Marshall och, who pulse levery
thu strings of thu civilian government. To these journals it a lot at
Berhn tina IuttWItz kapp tried h coup detat 1t was It Paris.
II Milerand had Frankfort occupied lot because tn rechswehr, In
generals staff wanted in this va ito launch vas enterprises
ss =
That such calunnies should be current in Germany is only Il be X
pechd, but that they should ind a hearing amongst our alies-that is IN
dee a source of astonshmen M sorrow. Occupation OF tn left bank Of
tn Rhine ws in M minds OF those who thought it necessary IS Iii ony
debt n surely present events hav lot put in the wrong those men who
thought those pledges indispensable to he execution If h treaty and peace
in Europe
/ do lot know whether in France there hav not met during the val q
few ferys spirits, h secretly nurtured# the fugitive idea II territorial n
nexation. tut / affirm tina never, either rim h meetings OF tn government,
or in the chambers,w vas the possibility admitted Of tearing away from h
enemy, against the will o tn population, n portion Of its sol and #
deputies # a t
= - - . - So
Neither in the chamber nor in the country has anyone arisen since rati-
fcaton Of the treaty to demand a change ain the text that was signed. Those
very who in the Tribune had fought the treaty for its insuffciency,
those who had complained they found in it only advantages for u allies
n disappointnents for France, those who without going SO far IS % reject
it., signed it reluctantly n with expressions Of anxiety, these nevertheless,
have baricaded themselves behind the My rampant left them n have
considered themselves honor bound to respectable signature of h govern
ment n republic. To reproac France with pretended imperialism, which
is a contradiction Of all its conduct sis to calumniate its intentions and tt
outrage truth.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-13
WOMAN JAILED FOR BEATING
AND ROBBiNG HER HUSBAND

Sioux Falls, S. D., May 1o.-Mrs.
William Felix, of Huron, has been
brought to Sioux Falls and lodged in
the M~innehaha county Jail for safe
keeping pending her trial in the Bea-
die county circuit of the charge of
conspiring with Albert Latham, Of
Des Moines, Ia, and another man to
beat up and rob her husband. They
secured 81, 200 as the result of the at
tack, it is said. The husband was in
a serious condition for weeks. When
the men refused to turn her husbands
money over to her the woman made a
confession. Latham now is awaiting
trial. The other man has been
apprehended.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-13
McAdoo stock up.


From the Springfield Republcana.
The feeling that Mr.. McAdoo's can
didacy is gathering strength seems to be
widespread. Nothing positive accounts
for such a development; It is q negative
result due as much to things that
haven't happened as to things that have
happened. The complete elimination Of
mr.. Hoover from democratic caicuia-
tons, Mr.. Palmer's failure to make a
favorable impression on the democratic
consciousness-as Indicated by his
beggarly showing in the Michigan pri-
maries and Mr.. Bryan's fist shaking at
titude e. combined to make Mr.. Nc
Adoo look like the Judge Parker of 1920.
Mr. Bryan could support Mr.. McAdoo
with ON sincerity anu enthusiasm be-
cause they are not far apart on the issue.
Gf government ownership of railroads.
Ii will be recalled that Mr.. McAdoo ia
vored holding the railroads under gov
e-ncse. for Ave yeers In
order to try out government manage
mept under fairer conditions. AS sec
rotary of the treasury Mr.. McAdoo was
not eea.re.lea By Wall street. aaa4s..FAsdc-
Adoo on labor questions had had nd At
tack VI P~almu1ilAs, watch Nr. Bryan
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-13
CONVICT ESCAPES
FROM s. D. PRISON
Otto Lehman, Of Mitchell, Was
Serving Time for Grimm
al Assault-Was Eli
gible for Parole.

Sioux Falls, S. D.. May s. Otto
Lehman, a prisoner at the South Da-
kota state penitentiary, escaped from
h a institution while at work in the
fields.
f. Lehman, whose home is at Mitchell,
was sentenced to serve four years in
June, 1918, for assault with intent to
commit rape. He is about 80 years of
age n has a wife and children living
at Mitchell.
Although his absence was discov-
cred about 10 minutes after his es-
cape, a thorough search failed to re-
veal any clue as to his whereabouts.
During his confinement in the pen
itentiary, Lehman's conduct has
been good and he had been made a
trusty. He a but a veal of his SEN
tence left to serve and was eligible
for parole.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-13
HI DAISIES.

THE DAISIES.
On April nights, mild, soft and beau
While you remember, mediate or
dream,
The daisies to the heavens blue rise up
And there are changed to stars that
Whitley CLEAN.
When on the boundless ocean in the
east
The sun pours forth his beams of
sparkling light,
Then to the fields the stars descend
again,
And the are changed once more to
daisies white.
So when, with bushes covered. you
pluck off
The daisies petals fair. in secret
hours,
They tell of love or Of fo%rgetfulness;
IT'S this that gives them their divin-
ing powers:
The future they foresee-they have been
stars;
Love too they comprehend-they have
peer flowers!
Amado Nerve. translated in Mexican
Review.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-13
y! hnH hk!N ACl nlLI
n HlVU IELLUW
TRAIL MEN MEET
Big Attendance of Wyoming
Men Expected at Pierre,
S. d., on May 90.

Huron, S. D., May 10.-The state Of
Wyoming will be well represented at
the Black and Yellow Trail ~associa-
ton meeting to be held at Pierre, S..
d., May 20 and 81, according to word
received here recently from w. c..
Thorn, Wyoming state vice president
Of h trail organization in Wyoming.
In the communication 1t was an
nounced that Wyoming expects to do
something definite, to aid in the bet
tering of the Black and Yellow trail
as a national highway, and the repre-
sentatives from that state at the
meeting will be prepared to take ac-
ton on the problems which will be
brought up at that time.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-13
PARKER MAN HELD FOR
YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH

Parker, S. D., May Charges
with manslaughter In that he con
tributed, through an alleged illegal
operation, to the death Of Miss Lottie
Henning, j. w. McCaughey has been
bound over to the approaching term
Of the circuit court. He has been
placed under a bond Of $4,000.
It is claimed that the young wcm-
an was taken from the restaurant he
operated to a local hospital and that
she made a complete confession Of
the whole affair.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-13
w. c. r. U. CONVENTION
HELD AT PARKER, S. D,

Parker s. D, May "a district. "
c. T. U. convention was held here this
week, commencing Tuesday. A fea-
ture Of the program was an address
by the state president, Mrs. Mitchell,
of Brookings.
The following officers were elected
for the coming year: President, Mrs.
Clara Hanson, vi wakUIda, vice
president, Mrs. Mary Rowen, of
Parker; secretary, Mrs. Yorker, of
Beresford; treasurer, Mrs. Hattie
Withee, OF Parker.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-13
ELK p ONT WILL HAVE
FINE SALES PAVILION

Elk Point, S. D., May 10.-With $50
shares of stock pledged at $500 a
share, the erection Of a stock sales
pavilion in this city is assured. and it
is expected hat the work Of Its erec-
ton will begin soon. The size Of the
pavilion favored is 50x150 feet. a two
story, brick building with a seating
capacity Of 500 in the sales pavilion,
then entire second floor to be used for
gathering Of all kinds with a seating
capacity OF j. 900 persons The antici-
pated cost of building and equipment
is $4,000.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-13
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE
TO VISIT 8. DAKOTA INDIANS

Washington Bureau of The Tribune.
Washington, May 11.-Indian agen-
cies and reservations in South Da-
kota will be investigated by Chair
man Snyder, Of the House Indian
committee, and a number of mem
bers of that committee who have
started on an inspection of agen-
cies and reservations in numerous
states. The committee will be absent
from here about six weeks. The pur-
pose is improvement and reform Of
the Indian service.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-13
SOUTH DAKOTA LUTHER
LEAGUE AT SIOUX FALLS

Sioux Falls, S. D., May 1o.-Several
speakers Of prominence from over the
northwest are on the program OF the
annual convention Of the South Da-
kota Luther league is in session here
and continues through Sunday. The
programs today and Saturday win be
held in the Grace Lutheran church.
The convention will conclude with a
bis meeting Sunday evening at the
coliseum.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-13
PLANT TREE IN MEMORY
OF NURSE WHO LOST LIFE

Yankton. S. D.. May 10.-Founders'
day exercises were held at Yankton
college Wednesday with a double OBJ
servance. May 8 Of each year is set
aside in memory Of DR.. Joseph Ward,
founder and first president Of the col
lege. This year there was combined
with it the planting Of ar elm tree on
the campus in the name Of Christine
Iverson Bennett, former student, who
gave up her life serving Turk and
British wounded in her hospital at
Busrah, Arabia, where she and her
husband were medical missionaries.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-13
HANCOCK MURDER
TRIAL TO START
Valentine, Neb., Rancher Is
Charged With Shooting His
Brother at Their Ranch
az, In South Dakota.

Deadwood, S.. d., May 11.-One of
to come up before the United States
district court term which opens here
on May 10 is that of David Hancock
of Valentine, Neb, who is charged
with numbering his brother. Han
cock, who is a wealthy -ancher, is
alleged to have shot and killed his
brother, Larkin Hancock, last fall fol-
lowing an argument over the location
of a fence. The tragedy occurred on
the Hancock ranch in South Dakota.
1t is understood that the attorneys for
h defense will try to prove at the
trial that the killing vas accidental.
Hancock is now out on $4,000 bond.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-13
is GIVEN OFFICE HE
QUIT TO GO TO WAR

Yankton, S. D., May 8.-The Kank-
ton county commissioners approved
the bond Of Howard II. Warren as
states attorney to replace A. L. Wy
man, resigned, and Warren is now
holder of that office. Mr.. Warren
was states attorney before the war.
Upon his resignation to enter the
service Mr.. Wyman was appointed
and was elected for the following
term and now steps out again for Mr..
Warren, who is likewise republican
candidate for that office at the No
vember election.