Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-08-12

IKE. SOU LII DAKOTA, |
Boone Republican: The Germans
may take Warsaw, but we apprehend
this is a long ways from whipping
Russia.
Col. Bryan, in charging fat $500 for
an address on peace, should reflect that
plenty of jingoes will talk on war for
nothing.
The twine plant at the state prison
is proving a great financial success.
More than $4,000 worth of twine
was sold this season.
With the threshing under way, re-
ports of large yields are being made.
Sphinx county reports that barley is
yielding Is bushels to the acre.
1.-The farmers who this time last
year were praying for rain may de-
vote their whole time to praying for
peace says the Detroit Free Press.
Are the Latin Americans to be tax
en- into full partnership in whatever
Mexican venture is decided upon?
Are they going to do their share of
the lighting if it becomes necessarily
Now if Auguet will hold fast to it's
present course until the end, the far.
mer OF South Dakota, especially those
with the big corn fields, will feel like
buying an iron cross for the weather.
man.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor has reiterated
his charge that foreign influences are
working to cause strikes in the Unit
ed States, and has urged all workmen
to discountenance such attempts.
Secretary McAdoo urges that
United States marine is essential to
American defense. "There is too
much talk" he says. "The time for
action is now America is endanger
ed by her dependence on foreign
ships"
1t is about time to NOW the weeds
along the highways and by-ways.
Remember how you always admire
the public spirit of the fellow who
mows all the weeds along his own
premises. Let your neighbors have
chance to feel that way towards
you each year.
About the quickest way to get the
price Of our land up around the one
hundred dollar per mark is by the
silo-good roads route. We have the
alfalfa, that's settled, now the big
silo we'll filled and the good roads will
lead us straight into country of one
hundred dollar land-you can't miss
it.
In the movement to take possession
OF the fort and the national palace at
Port al Prince, the United States
naval force opened fire on the Hay
items. The Hattien senate has cabled
protest to Washington and the mat
ter there rests with the Americans in
the saddle.
Secretary Lansing, so the dailies
say, is going to make strong repre-
sentations to the warning factions in
Mexico to cease their scrapping. We
don't know what the secretary has
up his sleeve, but the only strong
representations that we know of this
case would be an army of half mil
lion men with some of those 42.cen-
timeter guns.
Developments demonstrate that a
system is in vogue by which Ameri-
can mechanics are being recruited
and shipped to England to work in
the munitlon factories. English
workmen have failed to come any,
where near the war requirements of
England and it is combing the United
States that it may be saved from it's
own inefficiency.
The following humorous incident
regarding an aged German and his
wife who were much given to quarrel
ing, is related by an exchange: One
day after particularly unpleasant
scene, the lady remarked with sigh,
well, | wish var in heaven" 81
wish | vas in a beer gardenl" shouted
the husband. "Och, ya," cried the
wife, always you try to pick out the
hest for vOnroolf