The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-10-20
SNAP SHOTS

For the nerves think Of some one
else.
You WA never Hnd a good me-
chaulc with poor tiois.
When "A fellow sc 10 he boss, we'll
he'll do apou; "a the ,o>s did. Some
times worse.
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laugh today and put Oft the cry till
to;.Urrow.
ONE cannot help rejecting that a
place in the Hall of Fame cannot
possibly do a dead poet any good, and
it might helpa live one to sell thirty
cents worth of verses
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HERE is 4 problem for the class in
county superintendent will take 4
dollar from hard working school
mann, how much more would he
take il he had IA chance and no one
was looking? Don't all speak at
once.
The county is having about all IT.
can do just now To absorb the details
OF the life insurance investigation
aud keep an eye on he beet trust
prosecutions, but it is Only il quesLiun
of time until methods of railway
the linellg ht.
In answer to the accusation that
the New York Life was reasonable
in that during the war with Spain
over Cuba the Spanish soldiers who
held polIclcS were notified that their
policies would not be affected by the
war while the American soldiers re-
ceived notice that the face value of
their policies would be scaled down
10 almost nothing, an official has
replied that no policies were written
on Spanish soldiers during thewar
This means merely that the treason
was too rank even for the much de
.spised Spanards.
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A STARTLING revelation was made
at the meeting of the National Bust
ness league in Chicago IN relation tn
the American consuls. This was t.
the effect that nearly 900 foreigners
hold consular positions for the United
States, that 80 per cent of them have
no sympathy with our institutions OF
policies, and that 20 per cent of theft
are opposed to expansion of American
trade. NJ further argument shoulC
be needed for the reform of the Amer
lcan consular service. Something
should be done at once. The UulteC
States spends millions in waStefu
WHICH IillSuU pCULGi i'C paw
to the support of an adequate consular
service
The fact that County Supcrintend
ent O.. III. Jones Is charged with HAY
lug taken dollar from IL hard work
ing school marin, which the SAM
was the required fee for counter
signing and issuing a certificate. an(
then refusing to countersign the Ger
titlcate as issued by the state super
intendent. would Indicate that The
county superintendent's office is
graft Lhao would make the average
gold brick man turn green with envy
1t wonla further indicate that MI
Jones is an apt undersSudy Of thos
other "refermers," Patsy McNult.
and Homer Metcalf 1t will be re
memnered that last fan the court nc
Judged the aforesaid Homer Metcal
guilty Of having misarpropriated, i
an illegal manner, contrary to tn
statutes made and provided. etc
somr $27 for a clerk who WASH
clerkinl during the time for whic
Metcalf collected the pay, aud
will also he remembered that th
same Homer Metcalf, by his attor
ney, Frank McNulty, alias "Pats,
the Reformer," appealed the case I
the circuit court, and at the term I
circuit court Just passed, comes tt
said McNulty. now states attorne
and dismisses the case against hi
friend. What can de said OF stat,
attorney who deliberately conntves
defraud the county, or county su
erintendent who MAKES war on ".
men? Verify. they are a swe
scenteu bunch Of urelbrmers.n