Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-03-06

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Always pay debts and compliments and you will succeed.
Don't put yourself under a cloud with the idea of testing
''When you are through pumpin'-leave the handle. Bur
The loss cannot always be measured by the length Of tile
funeral procession.
Sympathy, like advice, costs nothing. Unless you get it
If you have too much money, you All easily acquire more.
1t is the same with taking on fat.
The nal who is too proud to beg and too honest to steal
should not aspire to a state political job.
F. F. Brinker, the commissioner of school and public lands,
who has just got it where the chicken got the axe for crooked
work with the state funds is probably not the only state official
who will be caught in the legislative drag net.
1t begins to look as though Geo. w. Egan was not so very far
from the truth when he said that there was a big graft going on
in this state under the Wesley administration. There is al old
saying that Truth crushed to earth will rise again.
THE HERO.
1t is easy enough to look pleasant,
But the fellow worth while
Is the one who can smile
When he slips and sits down in the slush.
Champ Clark tells of a Missouri lawyer named Strange, who,
being i'll and fearing he was about to die, called his wife to him,
and said, Now, my dear, when I die, [ would like you to put a
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A young woman, who had but recently come from the old
country and was unable to speak the English language went to
a butcher shop for a soup bone. After trying in vain to make
the butcher understand her wants she exposed her ankle and
made her hands go as if saving it off. He grasped her meaning
and she got her soup bone. When she got home she told her
husband what a time she had making the butcher understand and
how she finally succeeded. He told her it was alright for soup
bone, but when they wanted round steak he would do the order
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THE BARKER-WAY MILL.
Some time in March there will be staged in the Codington
county courthouse arena a fight to a finish between Pretzel Way,
the lightweight and heavy-wind champion Of WATERFOWL and
'Porky' Barker, the heavyweight champion of Poverty Flat -
The match will be at catch weights, both men to weigh in at
the rlngside. "Pretzel' viii have behind him in his corner
"Wash" Case, who is somewhat of a scrapper himself, while
"Porky" will have back Of him 'Packy'' Mcfarland, the man
with the terrible walop. Judge Carl Sherwood will referee the
match and Vaud Hopkins will act in the capacity of time-keeper.
Sheriff Elkins will act as official ofceremonies. Among
the notables who will be at the rngside to witness the contest
will be jim Jam Jems, Sis Westwood, Battling Abe Shern,
Lefty Egan, "Spider'' Awful Jaw, and a score of other top
notchers. A
The fight will be for a purse of SIS, 100000 with Marquis of
Gooseberry rules. Winner to take all the gate receipts.
Arthur Wallace, manager of the Idle Hour, will be at the
r1ngslde with his moving picture machine.
The winner of this fight will Immediately challenge Jack
johnson, the big stick Of licorice.