Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-05-29

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Well, how are your congressional
garden seeds coming on?
May has delivered real showers of
blessings for South Dakota.
And now they are complaining Of
too much wet in the "semi-arid'
counties west of the Missouri river.
When President Wilson throws out
a hook baited with a postoffice it is a
lesson in alacrity to watch the cork
go under.
Senator Kern of Indiana, is press
ing the resolution for investigation OF
the conditions responsible for the
coal strike in West Virginia.
Marion Record: South Dakota on
the map twice daily! Sterling prais-
ies the standpatters, and Crawford
progress with the homesteaders.
A missouri Judge has ruled that love
at seventy-seven is not a sign of in
sanity. 1t is merely q sign Of old
foolishness, which is not so unpleas-
ant.
After the graduating gifts are out
of the way there will be nothing to
save up for except the June wedding
showers and gifts and the vacation
fund.
According to government statistics
the purchasing value of 81, 600 is only
as much as was 1898 fifteen years ago.
This is some increase. Who is get.
ting the differencep
There have been many days in this
merry month Of May where hod Of
next years coal was about as cheer
full and comforting as anything that
now comes to mind.
Something of howl is coming from
the interests because they are not to
be heard on the subject of the tariff
on the things they are interested in.
The interests have been so long max
ing tariff laws that they do mot fall
readily into the new deal.
The Bulgarians and the Greeks are
unable to divide the possessions they
wrestled from Turkey and are now
fighting each other to make the di.
vision easier. Bulgaria claims that
Greece wants the lions share, while
feeling conscious that the Bulgarians
did some lion-like fighting.
1t is said that the fleet the United
States will send around the world
next year will have double the mug
cling energy of the last one to make
the circuit. In the meantime, the
muzzllng energy of the universal
peace sentiment is increasing in, per-
haps, greater ratio.
The Highmore Herald, having ex>
pressed desire for law and order
league, the Brookings Register offers
to loan one that Brookings has no use
for. To make good measure, Iroquoia
will throw in a perfectly good curfew
law, the same being good as new, az
it has never been used. Iroquois
Chief.
Cuba has set good example to
most of the other Latin American re.
publics by peacefully insugurating q
new president, with the incumbent
retiring and giving place to his sue.
cessor without protest or revolu.
| tion. There is hope for Cuba g future
since it has 80 early learned, appar.
emily, the value of q staple govern.
| How fleetingsis fame except for one
or two who tower far above their fel.
lows. That there are still living two
or three former United States senat.
ors who voted on the impeachment
proceedings Of President johnson
nearly fifty years ago is news to most
people. Their very existence IL for
gotten BY the great majority.
Sioux Falls Journal: Ten govern
ment meat inspectors, employed in
local packing houses, are undergoing
investigation BY agents here from
Washington. There has been some
sort OF scandal involving the agents
for some time, and this finally reach
ed Washington, whereupon Uncle
Sam decided to find out the nature Of
the alleged rottenness.