Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-08-01

A traveller in Texas is now entitled
Sy new law to sheets nine feet
long on his bed. Nothing is said of
extra blankets, but the question at
this season excites little interest.
If King Oscar will only come
over here himself, he will see how
unlikely it is that the Swsaes who
have emigrated to the United States
can ever be induced to 60 back to
Sweden.
The postoffice department now
claims that the railroads have been
shortchanging it on car space.
Maybe that is why our love letters
come to the office with the corners
rubbed off.
As battle ships now call for &c.
100000 or $S,000,0OO each, the
Panama Canal will evidently be
worth more than its cost in strength
ening the navy in its power of
rapid combination.
In every month of the last fiscal
year both the exports and imports of
the United States exceeded 500,
600, 900 each. The era of the Ding
ley law is also by far that of our
greatest foreign trade.
In the opinion of the Sioux Falls
Forum, the capitol about to be
built Of Bedford stone "will stand
as a monument to broken pledges
and perpetual disgrace to the
reform administration
A practice cruise to the Pacific
would be no holiday journey, and
the experience would make good
sailors, Such voyage would show
that the run of the Oregon was just
an average achievement.
1t is said that shortage of coal
would embarrass our navy on the
Pacific. This problem must be still
more serious for Japan. Those who
fear speedy bombardment of our
western coast may rest easy.
1t is remarked that Jesse r.
Grant halls from republican state.
AS there were no other kind in the
North in the last presidential cleo
ton the democratic favorite sons
have no advantage over each other.
Another prosecuting attorney, this
time one down in Mississippi, has
filed a suit to recover several mil
lions from the Standard Oil com
pany. That's right, gentlemen; hop
onto bald old man just as though
he was Of your size.
After August first it will be per-
missible to write on both sides of a
postal card against which country
postmistresses protest that it is hard
enough now to get through with
their reading and close the office for
supper.
Last year the United States
imported $4,000, 900 of fruit and
nuts and exported S17,000,000.
American apples would nearly bal
ance the account if foreign countries
could get enough to meet the
demand.
Tennessee's governor pardons
pistol toters on the ground that the
offense is technical 1t must be
comforting to Tennesseean to feel
when fatally wounded in a pistol
scrimmage that the affair is only a
technicality.
The president says the Pacific
cruise was projected to ascertain the
defects of the fleet. One of the
already ascertained defects of the
fleet is that it cannot 60 overland to
California, while Japan appears to
object to its going by sea.
King Oscar, who asks his ex-sub-
iects to return to Sweden and build
up the industries of the country,
evidently doesn't know how well sat-
isfed they are over here, running
the politics of Minnesota and help
ing jim Hill subdue the northwest.
Sydney Talbot, an American, aged
80, who has been earning S25 per
week as engineer on an ocean going
tug has just been taken to the hos
pital for treatment, but expects soon
to be back at his work. Mr.. Talbot's
case puts to shame the DIR. Osler