Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-12-26
CURRENT EVENTS.
Clipped from the Exchanges Which
Come to Our Table.

the temperance advocates are dom
over the lid movement is that the
are so Incorporate about it.
The 10000 sailors on the sixtee
battle ships will have an interesting
story to tell OF how they looped tn
loop of the Western Hemisphere.
The air at Denver is so rarefe,
that it is hard to understand VIII,
the town wants to be the birthplace
OF democratic national platform.
II begins to look as if Governor
johnson might qualify for white
house honors by laying the found
alton for little Ananias club of hi,
own.
A few years ago the people were
crying for protection from the cor
porations. Now the corporations
are begging for protection from the
people.
Japan means to regulate immi.
grafton IN such a way as to relieve
the United States of the necessity
of passing any laws on the subject.
But the American congress likes to
pass la~s.
Great Britain is comparatively a
small bit of land, but it mined last
year $500,000,000 worth of coal.
The coal wealth of the United States
runs into too many billions to look
/, reasonable.
The oldest of the sixteen battle
ships on the way to the Pacific was
completed since the war with Spain.
Spring and fall styles in navies are
expentive, but it is necessary to keep
up with the mode.
One Of the Oklahoma senators is
blind. The other has purchased at
a low rate options on 5000 acres Of
Indian lands which statehood makes
it possible for the Indians to sell
for a string OF beads.
A popular Kentucky doctor says
that sour milk is the elixir of life
and advises all of his patients to
take it. We have been wondering
under what name they were order
ing it in Kentucky since the state
went dry.
None Of the financiers in congress
has more comprehensive monetary
measure than that OF old Kansas
greenbacker who introduced bill
in the legislature providing for
currency that should be more
numerous and limberer'
Most of the Russian officers and
soldiers are defending Gen. Stress
sci in his present trial for needlessly
surrendering a position he was
pow erless to hold. There are occa-
sions when dissertation has the edge
on valor, and the incident at Port
Arthur was one of them.
Somebody asks II there can't be
ian honest difference OF opinion
about the gold standard" There
ian be no honest difference of
opinion where one Of the parties
knows nothing of what he is talking
'bout. There may be honest ignor-
lnce. But it is entitled to no
opinion.
The Swiss minister to Japan
Informs his government that the
Japanese have fully mastered the
swiss and American methods OF
manufacturing condensed milk.
low they acquired the knowledge
not known, but it has long been
pparent that the laps are an
'bservant race.
A is not generally known that the
life Of Senator La Toilette took her
University degree in the same class
18th her husband. As Miss Belle
~ she vanquished Bob La Fol-
~ Il iPint oratorical contest at
be University Of Wisconsin, Before
d marriage shs had been admitted
) the practice Of law.
1h1s should BE- no quarrelling
no19 "a "a sdvince,'' says Mr.. i
|xyan, 'rslative "a of]ces 10 be dis.
ributsd after election.r At the
ln,e tins ~ occasional reference 10
|, ths fsot that there win b such !
Istribution IN case Of success may