Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-05-25

from taking sides as it is for some
individuals.
None of the presidents of the
United States succeeded in accai aai.s,.
lating fortune of million dollars.
1t must be that something besides
brains is required to make money.
Mr.. Blaine's estimate of the value
Of each immigrant to the United
States was $500. The coming of
- -, 600 between daylight and dark,
makes at that rate, an addition of
S1S,000,000for the days work.
Nan Patterson's yearning to be at
home with mother forever more
seems to have expired in two days.
Ma evidently sat Nan to sweeping
and washing dishes. Nothing like
regular employment to cure girl of
Mans calibar of love of home.
Some people are just like those
yellow dandelions always bright
and CHEEKY and reflect every bit of
sunshine that can be found. Like
the dandelion, by the way, they are
often sneeringly dubbed common
place.
Since January !, 1913 motor car
accidents have occurred in New
York, in sixty-two of which men,
women and children were run down
and killed. Still there is dearth
of motorists in Sing Sing like unto
the dearth of rich men in heaven.
The fire losses last year were 229
millions. This is ~ millions more
than the average for the preceding
five years, and it is greater than in
1871 when Chicago was burned.
The figures show much carelessness
and some crime, for which the insur-
ing public pay in higher rates.
An Iowa man reports that he has
just sold 10000 pounds of wool at
% cents pound, and 20 ewes at
Sl2 each, whereas during Cleve-
lands second term he was offered
only ii cents for wool and sheep
were unstable. This "reminiscences
help to explain the 100000 plur.
atty of last year.
| Over in Wisconsin the merchants
have agreed among themselves thai
they will not buy butter and eggs
and other farm produce from
farmers who patronize the mai
order houses Montgomery Ward q
Co., and Sears, Roebuck & Co., and
others or of travelling agents of Chi.
cago houses who 60 through the
country taking orders.
| There is but one issue and that is
the restoration of civilization in Chi
cago. There has come to be pop
ular feeling in Chicago and else
where that the innocent bystander'
is an offender and derserves to be
killed. To such depth has educa.
ton in lawlessness come. Who is
the "innocent bystander"? a citi.
zen who exercises the right of pass
ing along the street.
! On complaint of the Farmers
Association Of Canada, the Dominion
board of railway commissioners has
ordered railway companies "tc
restore the equilibrium between
the freight rates on grain and it,
products by reducing the rates nov
charged on grain to the same basis
as charged on the milled products
thereof" Formerly the rates were
the same on wheat products ano
unmilled wheat.
| Portland wants Dan Patch, Min
nesota's star PAGER, as an attraction
for the Lewis-C Clark exposition. The
managers of the big show have
made overtures to M. w. Savage
the owner Of Dan, and say that the
speedy Minnesota horse will bt
played as a star attraction if the
owner will send him out. He is
wanted for number of exhibitions
against time. The management has
been informed that for the neat sun
of $4,000 the horse may be secured
l,,x N, ,,ot haya not accaptad The