Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-10-14

Somewhere in Africa someone
knows that Cook and Peary will be
shopworn heroes by the time he re-
turns.
1t is too late for Dr. Cook to take
a lesson from Hobson S book, or is he
going to let the women hug the her
oism out of him?
With the efforts of 10000 soldiers
Spain has succeeded in whipping 49,
900 Moors. Oh, Spain is a military
nation, all right.
One of our astronomers thinks the
earth will mix in with the comets tail
about May 10. Chance here for every
one to snatch souvenir
Onthe Chicago Board of Trade re-
Gently the same lot of wheat was sold
20 times within 80 minutes-which is
coming near to sale-a-minute record.
With the advent of cooler weather
the night riders inKentucky are begin
ming to wake up from their summers
idleness and evince taste for more
adventure.
Tho al mo n fn md
express desire to start life on a
claim is Lewis Hammond, who came
from Iroquois Saturday and gave his
age as 81 years.
The old boast that we would soon
make the Pacific an American lake
receives rather fantastic commen-
tary by the fact that Japan is far
ahead of us in the carrying trade on
that big sea. Here is one of the prob
lens to which our statesmen must ad-
dress themselves
Of the 1921 vessels that passed
through the Suez canal in 1908, only
one carried the American flag, ex-
elusive of warships and military
transports. This lone representative
of the American merchant marine
was vessel Of 626 tons. This is a
poor showing for nation of 9O,0O0,-
900 people, with 10000 miles or so of
coast line.
Canada, with its 5000, 900 population,
buys half again as much American pro-
ducts as does France, with it's 40, ,000,-
900 population. The figures for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1909, were
$1OS, 900, 900 for France and 1894, 900, 900
for Canada. American craftsmanship
would lead us to cultivate this trade
with Canada, instead Of passing legis-
lation that must arouse animosities and
divert it into other channels.
That the advice of priest of the
Catholic Church to penitent at the
confessional is entitled to no special
privilege under the law as to it's in
violate character is the gist of a de-
cision rendered by Judge Miliken at
New Bedford, Mass, a few days ago,
in the suit Of Manuel Amancio for
$1,000 damages against Father Nav
assos on the charge of having induced
the wife of Amancio to leave him.
While Wilburn Wright was making
his sensational flight over New York
city and up the Hudson, Monday, 10
balloons lazily foated without the wind
southeastWard from St. Louis. The
Wright machine was under complete
control, going both against and with
the wind; the balloons were at the
mercy of whatever air currents were
encountered. This is the difference
between flying and floating mastering
che air and being the sport Of zephyrs
as well as of the storms.
An application was made to the state
pardon board Friday for cemency for
Frank Matejouesky, who was sent from
Stanley county on a horse rustling
charge, which application was opposed
by States Attorney Johnson, of Stan
ley county, on the grounds that the
effect upon rustling cases in that county
would be a bad one. The board has not
yet acted on the application. They
have fixed December L, as a day for
hearing a number of applications now
before them.
-Four great American railroad sys-
TENS have reported their operations
for whole year without a single pas
senger killed. These were the Penn
oluvaniu. fhd RurIinoran tho North