Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-05-19

Grain is not only growing, but it,
too, is waving, Annie dear.
Meers will fly the eagle, July 4.
That town is not on the dry dock.
Oats and barley are doing remark
ably we'll. The snow and freeze did
not harm them in the least.
The country is still bearing up
bravely over the news of Senator
Aldrich's coming retirement.
The Sioux Falls-Argus Leader
thinks Willie Hearst will find it diff
ficult to convince jury that Henry
Waterson has damaged his reputation
100000 worth.
Every thing is early this year. April
flowers came in March, May flowers
are here in April, and June bugs
will be due in weeks. The Fourth of
July can be looked for most any
time after Memorial Day
The Senate one day last week passed
the House bill instructing the War
Department to raise the battleship
Maine from Havana Harbor, all
bodies found to be inferred at Arling-
ton and the mast to be placed near
the graves. The bill appropriated
800, 900.
Speaking of Mr.. Wickersham' s
address to students at George Wash
insMon university, saying that the
underlying principle of civilization
is to protect the individual from the
group, there is, just now, a deep
seated desire that 90, ,O0e,O 900
individuals be protected from the
Cunningham Guggenheim group.
| World sentiment is going to force
arbitration on the nations land.
The nations are getting closer togeth-
er. Business makes strong bond.
Humanity and brotherhood are
powerful sentiments; and people
are beginning to see that the consid-
GRAFTON or ornament contract is the
blood and treasure of the common
people.
Belgium, Holland, Denmark and
Norway in turn have entertained
former President Roosevelt and his
family III most royal fashion. Roose-
velt's peace speech in Christiana
was recently received rather coolly,
for, while boldly ADVOCATING arbitra-
ton, reduction of armaments and a
peace league of the nations, he did
not altogether leave out physical
force as last resort.
Gov. Patterson, Of Tennessee,
whose recent pardoning Of Col.
Cooper, the slayer Of ex-senator
Carmack, shocked the county, an
nounces that he is candidate for a
third term in the executive office.
He has explained this move in state
ment of 1000 words. Tennessee
ought to repudiate him. Any governor
with record of having pardoned 1872
murderers is menace to society.
South Dakota women are among
the most energetic and capable to be
found anywhere. No less than twenty
two counties out of the fifty-fv IN
this State have elected women to look
after their school matters. Woman
has the thin edge of the political
aspiration wedge inserted and she
will remain in the game. Services
are the things that count and women
are capable of delivering the goods
That old Nile Of the West, the
Missouri has been gnawing greedily
at the point Of Union county above
Sioux City and has succeeded in
deyouring way into the Sioux River
opposite Riverside Park. Farms
slowly crumble and huge blocks of
rich earth totter and sink into the
frothy month Of the voracious stream.
Its heartbreaking to see acres of
fertile corn lands go down into that
liquid pit and hear the haunting
gurgle for more.
| AT a point in Beadle county, this
state, where three farms come to-
| gether,,a "a Huron man travelling that
| way few days ago, made mental