Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-04-19
KAMPEsKA AND HIGHLAND.
This and That.

ness, part Tor winch tney are palu
either in salary or in revenue from
the business.
True he carries with him the re-
sponsibility of having to be able to say
something worth while, he must have
born within him or acquire, or both,
force, wisdom, keenness, ability, apt
ness, tact, knowledge Of the affairs of
men; he must maintain this state,
this ability, etc. But he has time,
or as We say is supposed to have time.
With the rural correspondent it is
different; that is, with some of them.
He has not time to write things even
il he could and would. He barely
has time to learn, or endeavor to so
do, the trite commOnplaces of his
vicinity. He arises at five o'clock a
M, he has horses TO feed and curry
and harness, he has cows 70 milk, and
feed, calves to feed and fuss with, he
has hogs and pigs TO look after, he
has chickens to care for, he has his
stables to clean out and bedding to
get in-each day these things con.
front him, The crops, getting tools
ready and keeping in repair, getting
the seed ready, sowing it, after The
lllEI tIObs VIC oiidll 5lIli, 'plltS Gull II
and potatoes, etc. mi to haul,
fences TO fix, buildings to repair, gar:
den to look after, the yard TO fix up;
then comes the tending of the cult.
waited crops, the circus, Fourth of July
and c~hautauqua, then the harvest, the
threshing and stacking, corn picking
end blowing. After meals he must
Immediately arise and hasten to the
eve needy work, in the evening come
the chores again; when at last he is
finally within, the children clamor for
his knee and for bed and his own eyes
made weary by long hours of wakeful
ness and outdoors and labor grow
heavy and he cannot read or study or
think or write.
True he need not have ability like
the editor to write things hat count,
he is not paid for that, it is not a part
of his business. He escapes the re.
sponsibility of the editor.
Snow in April-the middle of the
months not uncommon in South
Dakota, but II degrees above zero is
hardly an annual occurrence, even
here. Our thermometer Sunday
morning reported that temperature.
However, outside of the low, wet,
places it came when the soil was fair
ly dry. If such as that should happen
with a wet soil and following warm
days we fear for seed in the ground,
especially if it be lacking in strength.
1t seems to be the prevailing idea
that wheat will have a big price al.
tached to ii this fall and so many are
going in strong for wheat. They'll
likely win, too, if the season grants
them a crop of that cereal. As to the
value of the potato crop opinion seems,
to be pretty evenly divided. Per-
sonally we believe they'll pay. AS TO
barley, some feel it will take a tum.
Bile in case of a good corn and oat
crop. thinking it will now be but a
feed crop with prohibition sweeping
the country. (NeIl, give us the pro
hibition. anyway Beans are in IA
yor, no doubt properly worth con-
siderable attention. Some are PIN
ming their faith to the onion. Most
ANY old thing" that you can raise toI
sell bids fair to have the price.
The campaign for more food is by
no IA far fetched or untimely.
The world needs food and we, Amer
leans, may yet need food. nightly.
One of the most remarkable utter
ances we have eyer known is report
ed to have come from an editor of a!
leading paper in Germany. He said,
or wrote, that Germany would make
her own International law. Think of
1t, mister,-such an %idea-such impun-
dent arrogance, such ignoring of 9TH
ers' rights and the customs of civili-
2atfon. And then German autocracy
SIynn1JarcN xuhx,S4h 40 x,yn,1l Il, - ~, .,xat "a
All! sir, this world war is but7the up
heaval of progress throwing off the
shackles of despotic government. IT.
is we'll.
AS far as we can see or are ac-
quainted with the trackage matter we
would surely vote for the spur Of
railroad to the wholesale houses. No
mans private property ought to stand
in the way. 1t ought not be taken or
impaired without reasonable conpen-
sation, but the growth of a city IL
bigger than the growth - any one
mans real estate OF common proper
ty, The big business houses must
needs have trackage facilities to 40
business; they will not build in Il,
place where they cannot acquire them
Lost the case to the state In lasr3
weeks writeup of the mock trial
should have read ."lost the case for the
state Little word often makes a.
vast difference. 1t often puts Ihe
Joker in statutory snaetments.
Yes, about Jim Reddy. We must.
not forget James. He is worthy.
Well, not much only that we noticed
that all the grain In the bins Of the
granary where he lives was nice and.
dry, and how do you suppose twas
done? Well all the bins were singled
on the inside. II kept out the snow
and rain
And lin, you know, doesn't like a
hog house with cement floor: Says
he can't raise pigs. good early pigs,
on a cement floor nd lin Is hog
raiser from AWAY back. And Jim
sasys II doesn't payssto be small Of
dishonest, and he says manss wife
and children are worthy the bestffhe|
give them
Wereceiyed word from Ben Oquist
Who IT, nom at Lake Norden. saying I'D