Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-07-04
CURRENT EVENTS.
Clipped from the Exchanges Which
Come to Our Table.

it has escaped the danger that it,
jail is also its city hall.
The spectacle of mayor in jai
ought to convince even japan that
Frisco is not wholly abandoned.
A Paris banker who died lately
wanted the world to be wiser if mo-
happier. He left S5,O0O,0O0 tor the
study of microbes.
Navigating the air, discovering
the north pole and electing demo
cratic president are three dubious
problems of the future.
Wheat slipped up over the dollar
mark because our crop up here was
in such splendid shape. The wheat
raiser does not care how high it
goes
The extra cent on spool OF
thread is fresh reminder that a
trust seldom moves, except in one
direction, when it changes its price
marks.
Tennessee sends a fiddling ex- gov
ernor to the senate, and San Fran
cisco sends it's fiddling mayor to
iaiI. The old Cremona is not a
mascot in crooked fingers.
The "snub issue" at Sioux Falls
reminds us of the good old days
when Andy Lee was governor. Andy
used to get lost occasionally, but no
one ever heard of his being snubbed.
Illinois has just enacted g new
law, which went into effect Monday
making it misdemeanor to smoke
.cigarets in public. This almost
pays for the expenses of the legis-
lature.
A Illinois Judge has decided that
the law prohibiting divorced persons
from marrying within a year is
unconstitutional. Divorced parties
nave some rights in this country
after all.
The Wholesale Whisky Dealers
association fears that both national
political parties will be forced by
public sentiment to take stand
against the saloon in their 1908
platform.
There are 10000 sweet girl grad
yates in the country this season,
according to Jane Adams, but she
fails to estimate how many of them
can make bread, bake pie or sew
on buttons.
Uncle Sans net cash balance is
nearly S100,000,000 larger than at
this time year ago. Absurdely
large, say the democratic papers;
and yet it is easier to point with
alarm to deficit.
The Chinese minister says we
could wallop Japan all right, and
the Japanese minister says we have
more men and more money than
Japan. Are these eminent orientals
Sticking" us on for purpose?
The japanese are opposed to the
reelection OF President Roosevelt.
They probably realize with Mr..
Roosevelt in the chair the matter
the matter of an apology would be
deferred for at least another quad.
rennial
The crown prince of Siam who is
about to take trip through Europe
has been provided with a million
dollars for expense money. This
seems large, but ii must be recalled
that the prince has to buy Easter
bonnets for seventy wives.
Alphonso Taft was third in the
Yale class Of 1888: his son, William.
H. Taft, was second in the class OF
1878, and now the third Taft leads
the Freshman class of this year.
Those Tafts seem to have the faculty
of getting their lessons.
Just to celebrate the opening OF
the Hague conference, the govern
ment opened bids for two 10000
ton battleships to cost something
over $lO,OOO,OO0. We will have
peace il we have to fight for it and
we aim to be always ready to fight.
Two Omaha people, man and wife
both over 20, have been begging for
living but it has just been dis
covered that they had 5000
boarded away. They deprived
themselves Of the necessities Of life
in order 10 increase their hoard,