Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-07-04

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Taft, at the Yale alumni banquet
told story. Taft's story was of a
Kentuckian who had voted each year
the regular republican ticket, until
finally republican governor had
been elected. Then he went down
from his mountain home to Frank
fort to see if he could be of further
help to the party. Finally his
money gave out and he drove out of
town. Asked where he was going
he replied. II have heard a great
deal of talk about the office seeking
the man, but have not seen any Of
it. If you see any Office seeking the
man, however, say that you saw Jim
Scrubs going down the Alexandria
pike and that he was going damn
slow"
Somebody who is doing the stunt,
editorially, on the Sioux Falls Press
is engaged in a strenuous endeavor
to make it appear that white is black
that truth is falsehood- that the
public service of Kittredge, Burke
and Martin is something other than
what the open record proclaims it to
be. If the dyspeptic writer who is
penning those editorials had received
proper training in his youth, he
would know how wicked it is to
bear false witness wilfully and per-
sistently against his neighbor
There are indications that the Press
has played its hand pretty nearly
out. With the stone tissue" the
general exposure of insurgent bad
faith, etc, etc, the fress is kept
pretty busy these days trying to
sweep back the tide that is steadily
rising and will soon wash away the
foundation from under it.
Do not pull up the dandelions in
the lawn. If you do hundreds of
others will flock to take their places.
Professor Bailey, of North Dakota,
who has had such success with weeds
OF all kinds has been dandelioning
this year with an anti dandelion
spray that makes the plants wish
they had not. He says: eve find
that iron sulphate kills dandelions
with one spraying, but where the
roots are thick it may be necessary
to spray several times. We recon-
mend the use of iron sulphate at
the rate of one pound to each four
gallons of water. You can spray it
on the plants with any spray that
will throw fine misty spray wet
ting the leaves. Do the work in
the morning when it is not liable to
rain. The leaves will die after the
second or third day. We have not
been in the habit of recommending
this substance for other weeds than
mustard and king heads, but of late
we have been getting such good
results with dandelions that we
think it worth while for others to
try it. 1t does not injure the grass. "
If this proves to be true it is one of
the discoveries of the century. Any
one who can throw a scare into the
dandelion deserves a statue.
We recently saw one of our citi-
zens going home with, small basket
of fruit. A few evenings after we
passed him again and he had small
package of candy. On both occa.
sions he walked with some gentle
man who remarked to us that the
man with the candy was good fell
low, but he blew in all he had 80
foolishly. We merely smiled in
reply, but could not help, in our
mind, as we walked along, drawing
a contract between the two men.
One was smoking cigar that cost
as much as candy. Burning into
ashes and blowing out into the air
money the other spent for nicnacks
that brought smile of happiness to
the cheeks he once thought so rosy,
and gladdened eyes still sparkle
like a thousand diamonds with their
tell tale love for him; carrying
home, one by one, the sweetest
memories of life; building evening
after evening an image IN little
heart of Home, Sweet Home" that
no time even into eternity, would
destroy. Nourishing and kindling
new love that would in old age
look back to those happy home
comings and bless his memory as
The dearest mana that ever lived.