Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-03-20

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A reputation for hospitality costs money.
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There are more lemons than plums in the political orchard.
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Whenever you see a man with a dyed moustacbe, look out
Governor Byrne evidently believes that prevention is better
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The fellow who cuts off his nose to spite his face cant very
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Considering the kind of a man she marries it is 10 wonder
the average bride bushes.
You never get anything for nothing. You may not pay cash
for lt-but you pay in some way.
Many a man goes to bed feeling like a king and wakes up in
the morning feeling like the deuce.
Some men haven't any more caution, when they happen to
get hold of a little money, than to show it to the family.
The successful man strikes when the iron is hot. but there
are Others who fail to recognize "a hot iron when they see it,
Speaking of puns, when Ben and Annie finally married, a
friend observed that he was Bennie-ftted and she was Annie
nav. l heres are red two k'nds of no,account darn nuisances. One al
ways orags about what he used to do and the other blows about
"n"'" III . sons' 10 To- "
If you want to cheat your grocer, rob your neighbor, and
betray your friends wife-get an artistic temperament. y That
will excuse you for all sins.
Gov. Byrne has turned down very nearly all of the old state
wood phe' somewhere himself
When Adam got his apples in the raw state it wasn't so bad
after all. But when Eve started in to experiment with apple
pie, there was trouble in Paradise.
The democrats have got everything their own way with the
national law making machinery and if they don't reduce the high
cost of living they cannot keep on charging the cause up to the
tariff.
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Coe l. Crawford is getting the ''Stalwart Indians to shoot
at him and then he will make a run for the ''progressive'' fort
and demand protection. Just like the motion pictures of from
tier days.
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The only change made in the state game laws was the abolish
ing OF the county game wardens. They might have gone a little
farther and cut out the state game warden for all the good he
can do to the poor prairie chicken alone and single handed.
The editor of S'Jim Jam Jems' is now being tried before a
jury in the federal court at Bismark, N. d. on a charge Of pub
hsh1ng obscene literature. Jill Jam Jems'' has been telling a
little truth and he ought to- know by this time of his life that it
Is a dangerous proposition to tell the truth in print.
According to a law passed by the last state legislature it will
be unlawful for a candidate for any kind of a public office to
even offer a five cent cigar to a voter. Now we will get more
cabbage in the kraut. Those fellows re sent to Pierre to make
laws certainly had their heads working when they passed some
of the new laws.
There is one thing that James G. Mcfarland of Codington
county did do when he was a member of the house of representa-
tlves that will make him live long in the hearts of the poor people
OF this state and that was the Mothers Pension Law which he
introduced and was the cause of putting through both houses.
Under this law a poor woman who is left destitute by the sickness
or death of her husband is not compelled to give her children
without making it a cas- Of charity. This is one of the best laws
ever paced p e q, on the statute books of the state Of South Dakota.
that his heart was in the right place.
BEATING THE BISCUIT SHOOTER
A timidlooking little man took a seat at the counter of the
Eagle Cafe and ordered ham and eggs. He looked bewldered
when the waiter turned his face toward the kitchen and yelled
vociferously:
"a mogul with two headlights,
A second later the little man said:
Beg pardon, sir, I'd like to have those eggs turned over ?
Blanket the headlights yelled the waiter.
An engineer next took his seat at the counter.
Wheat cakes and coffee for mine, he said.
Runnlng orderS!3 yelped the waiter 5h"iskly.I and turned