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The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1894-12-27

if SO, Jason, in his abject humility.
never knew it. 1t may be that she
pitied him-and pity is akin to love,
it's said; or, perhaps, when Master
Cupid so sorely wounded Jason, he had
also aimed a shaft at Doliy's warm
heart.
She knew that Jason's drawbacks
were all plainly apparent. He vas an
honest, upright. industrious young fell
low, forehanded in that he already
owned the tract of land adjoining his
fathers farm and had in the bank suffi-
cient capital wherewith TO make a
comfortable, though modest, start in
life.
But fair lady cannot wait forever for
faint heart, and, perhaps, Mistress
Dolly had grown a little weary Of Ja-
sons procrastination. At any rate,
there came a time when the swain
learned that he must bestir himself.
Dolly's little brother, an imp of great
promise, informed Jason, under the
bond of eternal secrecy. that Dolly
had vowed that if Jason did not speak
e'er the year had flown his subsequent
speaking would avail him nothing.
IF you don't ask her this year you
won't get her at ALL" quoth the lad.
''She means b~usiness!"
The implication that he might be
successful in the event of his taking
time by the forelock filled Jason with
happiness.
''Gug-gug-go long, Jimmy!" he
stammered, DESTROYS of dallying with
his new-found joy as long as possible.
'Sh-sh-she w-w-w-she w-wouldn't
have mum mum-she wouldn't have
me, anyhow"
HIM answered young James,
with a judicial air. you never can
tell about girls; they are always doin'
foolish things. But she'll have you if
you get a 10Y o you and ask her in
time, Jase."
"Dud-dud-dud-"
Jaw, no. she didn't tell me so. o.
counsel! But / know it, all right
enough. l wouldn't tell you anything
about it, though, if you wasn't a pref
ty good sort of a fellow. You gimme
a dime once"
'Bub-bub-but-"
And that amt all l know" inter
rupted the lad, tentatively.
The astute James reasoned that this
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1894-12-27
DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR.

The gray Old Year. who saw him die?
/, said the poet, l saw him die.
l stood by his bedside all the while,
And he gazed at the world with a saddened
smile
On his dear old face, while he slowly said:
They're tired of ne now and wish me dead"
And he shook his crown OF W hair,
White as the snow III the midnight air,
Then lowered his kingly head to hear
The first football of the gay Young Year.
At last il came, a silvery bell.
All! that was The Old Years funeral knell.
He rose, when he heard the first faint swell,
And waved his hand In a mute farewell
To the sleeping earth that awoke to cheer
The birth of The snow-clad, white-robed year.
Then Father Time took the Old Years hand
And drew him away TO that mystic land
Where all the ghosts Of the dead years 90,
Into the world OF the long ago.
Then the New Year took the vacant place.
My eyes were filed turned my face
AS there came through the stsrlit night the
knell
OF the dy ing Year NR4fts weird farewell.
-Mary E. Mannix, in Good housekeeping.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1894-12-27

She expressed pleasurable surprise
upon discovering his identity, as if,
artful maiden, she had not been wait
ing all the evening for his coming!
Earlier in the evening, parents, broth
ers and sisters, in obedience to a hint
from Jimmy, had retired previous to
their usual wont, leaving Dolly to
carry out her declaration OF sitting up
to watch the Old Year out and the New
Year in. But Gran'pap Trilligan had
not been included in the harmless
plot, for the reason that he usually re-
tired early, anyhow. But tonight the
macy of age, had determined to be in at
the death of the passing year on his
own account.
There was no use in arguing with
gran'pap, and sc he was left to do his
pleasure, in the expectation that he
would oon forget thiS determination
and totter off to bed. But gran'pap
was made of sterner stuff, and having
seated himself in the rocker before the
fire with the intention OF remaining
till midnight, there he sat, for the
time being, as firmly planted as the
Rock of Gibraltar. albeit he soon dozed
off and babe fair to sleep away the
last hours of the expiring year.
But JasOu's resonant knock had
aroused him and now the GA man YVES
wide awake aud sternly determined t.
stay so. lie regarded the visitor
critically and with visible disapproval
What on earth could be Jason's reason
for coming there at such an unwar
ranted hour? Gran'pap did not ap
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1894-12-27

huckled q bit
when he bent his bow and sent an ar
row straight at the heart of Jason
Claggett
Jason was two inches over six feet
tall. But those seventy-four inches
were seldom or never stretched out in
perpendicular sequences; for many
weary days OF trudging behind the
pillow and many others spent in pick
ing legions of tobacco worms had bent
Jason's back and invested his knees
with a prominence which might have
suggested to a casual observer that
their owner had been just about to
kneel and then had had doubts about
the ACCESSIBILITY of SO doing and was
yet undecided.
Nature had crowned him with an
abundant thatch of flaming hair. and
the sun and wind had given him a
complexion hardly less red than his
locks, and then poor Jason suffered
badly. 1t is hardly needful to add
that he vas bashful, painfully and
seemingly hopelessly so.
As might have been expected, the
object of his affection was exactly his
opposite-it is thus that Cupid loves
to work. Dolly Trilligan was pretty
and short and inclined to chubbiness
"a fresh, wholesome, country lass.
Being in love with her with all the
strength of his great, awkward, BASH
full being, it followed naturally that
Jason's bashfulness was painfully aug
mented when in her presence, and he
was abjectly and helplessly dumb
when he would have given the world
and all to have appeared to advantage.
He would willingly have parted with
his right arm to have been for a brief
space endowed with the read mess of
tongue that would have enabled him
to pour out the old, old story and ask
her to become his wife.
Time and aga in he had made up his
mind boldly, almost fiercely, to put his
fate to the test, but upon each occa-
sion when the supreme moment came
his courage had deserted him before
the flash OF her bright eyes, and he
had sat dumb as the lamb before the
shearer. Often he had vowed To tell
her, though he died on the spot. and
each time he had found himself re.
duced to what he felt to be the verge
of suffering imbecility, and had
crawled away, hating himself and his
cowardice.
And so it came To pass that, since he
had first begun worshlping at her
shrine, the weeks had grown into
months, and still he seemed no nearer
the contamination Of his hearts desire
than at first.
] think Mistress Dolly had encour-
aged him a wee bit at times and
smoothed the way for him as mucn as
maide2ly modesty would permit, but
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1894-12-27

"I-Tn ask herr" broke in Jason,
Armly.
"Gee-whizz!" calculated the lad, as
he jingled his booty in the palm OF his
hand when safely out of Jason's hear
ing. "Why didn't / think of this be-
fore? I might have made as much as
ten dollars out of Jason if l had started
in early enough"
All the rest of the afternoon Jason
was in a tremor of excitement, alter
nately in the seventh heaven of de-
light and the lowest depth of despair
ing doubt. Dolly was his for the ask
ing-Hurrah! Jimmy had said SO, and
Jimmy ought to know. But it was too
good to be true-he could not bring
himself to believe it. His for the ask
ing? Oh, Jimmy must be mistaken!
And thus the teeter-board of his spirits
rose and fell.
The chores were done in a whirl of
conflicting emotions. Dolly would have
him-he gave old Tokus, the horse, a
double allowance of oats. No, it could
not be true-he kicked Quinine, the
dog, half way across the barn lot.
When the evening meal was over Jason
HE'D him to his chamber and arrayed
himself for the coming ordeal. He oiled
his ruddy locks with odoriferous un-
guents and anointed his boots lavishly
with mutton tallow. IT is no light
task to deck ones self for such an err
rand as Jason's, and it was we'll along
toward nine o'clock before he set off
across the fields for the Trilligan
homestead.
As he drew nigh unto the house the
mighty import of what he was about
to do burst upon him and his courage
deserted him, and he tramped back and
forth in the snow for many minutes.
torn with doubts and fears and weak
and trembling at the thought of the
terrible ordeal SO near at hand. He
shook in every limb. and his heart
rose in his throat till It almost choked
him.
He felt as if he could never do it in
the world. But he must-he must.
And, nerved to ~momentary courage by
his desperation, he bolted toward the
door and bestowed upon it s. thunder
Gus knock, and then. startled at his
own daring. was on the point of flee
ing ing~loriously when the door opened
n Miss Dolly stood before him.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1894-12-27
The Fruit Of Resolution.

No man ever gathered a harvest
from his field who had not first resolved
to gather one. No man ever won a
victory or conquered an enemy, whose
success was not the result of resolu~
ton and planning. No man ever ac-
complished better things who did not
first resolve ard attempt better things.
Shall we form good resolutions for the
new year? Certainly, if we would rem
der better service in the future than
in the ast.-UDited Presbyterian.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1894-12-27
ODDITIES.

Queer Ways of Celebrating the Nev v..~
In China.
The custom OF giving presents. and
particularly that of exchanging New
Year calls, is essentially Chinese. The
coincidence of these two rather pecul.
lar acts of brotherly love coexistinp
in Holland and Scotland should furnish
cause for thought. 1t is a little singu-
lar, certainly, that the Chinese, who.
are not IN over charitab bic or forgiving
race, should enjoin the forgiveness of
all de BITS at the beginning of the new
year.
1t is an amusing spectacle in China
town to see the creditor m~ercilessly
hunting down the debtor during the
few days that remain. No one is ex-
empt from this necessity, for IN order
to pay his own debts he must in turn
collect what is due to him. The debtor
who cannot fulfill his obligations by
New Year goes into bankruptcy by the
operations of a custom stronger than
law. He undoubtedly earns the con-
tempt of his fellow men. but at least
he is free from their persecution. His
debts are forgiven, with quite as much
sincerity as could be expected under
the circumstances.
Besides, this painful phase Of
Chinese yuletide, there are other
preparations to be made for the fitting
celebration of the great three-day
festival, beginning with the first day
of the first month. The red peach
pa per which has been removed from
the doorway must be replaced, and
therefore about this time the profess
sional letter-writer of the Chinese
quarter takes his station on the street
corner, and is busily employed in writ
ing sentences of good omen. Naturally
some of these gentlemen are more
popular than others, a letter-writer
who claims to have passed one of the
interior civil service examinations. or
who at one time has been connected
with a fashionable joss-house, being
more in demand than he who has
picked up his smattering of knowledge
at school, or by what is an important
factor in Chinese education, self-help.
1t is quite customary, also, to bring
these red paper slips to the joss-house,
where for "A tritiing fee they are
stamped with the seal of the joss
Certainly it is worth taking some
trouble with a little piece OF paper
which is to do duty for an entire year;
for as soon as the slips have been pre-
pared and stamped they are glued to
the doorposts, against the time when
the evil spirits shall return and make
the last state of the man worse than
the first. The moral which the Saw
Jour pointed out to His disciples hat
spasmodic effort is inevitably followed
by reactions unfavorable to true spir-
itual development is fully borne out
by the history of the Chinese people.
H. Burden Mcdowell, in Harper's
Mapaziua
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1894-12-27
He Was Ready.

"Are you ready to meet hat solemn
event in every mans existence, the
New iear?' asked the meditative man.
you bet am .eplied his flippant
friend. II hav, more material for
swearing off than . ever had before in
my life. "-Washington Star.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1894-12-27

"Warl,' said gran'pap, s~entent;or,
ly. 1.-THE best thing for me to do ia g.
git along off to bed! I'm too old 70 hs.
settin' up at this time o night"
Tom =. MoRoAy
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1894-12-27
His Reformation,

Jack, dear, | hope you've de.
tcrmined to swear off on something
New Years day"
II have"
What is it? Cigarettes?"
INC. Milliners' bills."-Brooklyn
Life.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1894-12-27

Johnny" said %Johnny's papa on
Christmas eve, 'do you believe in
Santa CLAUSE" II think So" Johnny
answered. But can tell you better
o-morrow morning -Harper's Razar.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1894-12-27


M away to fading days;
One back to dying embers, one
TO hearthstOnes fresh ablaze.
Brisk winds from of bleak hillsides play with
the feecy snow.
While mirth and cheer are plentiful where
home fires brightly glow,
And sweet content and happiness hand in hand
together go.
The reign OF winter weakens as freshly passing
time
The breath Of springtime hastens to melt the
trost-k kings rhine.
While the god OF day rides higher on each
days heavenward climb.
Bud and blossom take their places as the sea.
sons come and go,
And the stream OF time incessant keeps up its
onward flow,
And springtime glories vanish when comes the
summers glow.
Anon with waving LEAKAGE appear bright tints
of emerald green,
Where floral wealth and beauty catch rare hues
OF rainbow sheen.
Then brilliant banners float, in turn, waved by
an autumn queen.
Full soon the frost-king strolls abroad with
sharp and chilling breath,
Reckoning winters coming onward, where 1t
closely followeth,
Until field and forest recognize the seasons
annual death.
A robe OF spotless ermlne over mother earth is
spread.
The streams are bound with icy chains, each
hill lays bare it's head,
And December comes to find once more the
old yeaY dying dead.
Clark w. Bryan, in Good Housekeeping.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1894-12-27

Last night this little belt was placed
Around the world. You see
II spanned my Arabella's waist,
And She the world to me!
IN. Y. Herald
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1894-12-27

" IkN ITH a New Years January comes
AIJN a parting of the ways,
WIZ One leading TO new glories, n
h AVA to fading days;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-10

He Will InAtct TOrtures ON Himself
for Penancc, bat Never Kills . Mos
quito.
From the Spectator.
Asia exaggerates all things. and the viz
tue Of penance among the rest, but the viz
tue is still believed In, even In western
Europe. The writer has seen a gentleman
of Bengal. remarkable at once for wealth
and fairness. crawling. stretched at full
length, along q road before the image of
Juggernaut, suffering, in fact, torture such
as no one would infiict upon a convict. And
he has known one of his own clerks a
man of singular ability and bonhomie. who.
being suddenly struck, through the death
Of an only son. with the conviction of sin
committed In a past existence. departed at
once for Benares to live there on aims,
seated as a naked Sunyasee. covered with
dust. by the holy rivers side. There are
thousands of men I'm India at this moment
who. under this impulse are enduring tor
lures or making painful pilgrimages. or
living the lives of hermits in the forest.
The second aid is ceremonial purity. the
living by rigid rule Of life, SO rigid that II
Catholic bishop would call his ''sanctity"
and which the Hindoo believes may be pre-
served to every member of hts creed who
VIII walk according to his law. With the
crates. as 1t did among the Hebrews, into q
reverence for meaningless ceremonial,
chiefly restrictive. which to men who are
free Of burden seems positively silly, but
with minority. a small minority, II pro-
duces lives Of singular refinement, and
characters with something Of divine grace
and beauty.
One such Hindoo it was the writer's
privilege to know Intimately, and he Is
assured. though his friend never killed a
mosquito. but always blew IL on that few
Christians have rivaled him In the perfect
ness of his daily life. And the third aid,
which has for the Hindoo unbounded value,
Is external and consists In what to make Il
Ineligible to our readers we must call
accruins grace. coming from the divine DO
tentialfty residing In certain places. say
Benares. as the one best known here, or I'm
rivers such as the Ganges: or even In per
sons, such as the few living saints whose
touch confers some degree of vitalizing
merit. There are temples and even trees,
living under which renders Il. In Hindoo
opinion, easier to be pure" that is, to live
the life through which alone man can at
tain to better life, and ultimately to alb
sorptiou.
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DIED.

CROSS. The death Of RICHARD e. CROSS. late
lieutenant colonel NTH New Hanpsi.ire vclsn-
ment No. GO. Union veteran Legion. ars re-
qnested to attend his funeral seryi,es at w.
II. Lees UNDERTAKING establishment. rsnnsyl.
sharp "Wednesday, 18Th instant, 1894: BY
command James Tanner. Colonel: Charles II.
GRAY. Departed th.s iifs s.ptemssr a. isss. at
Jonathan ii. Cry, In the seventy ninth year
Funeral from her late residence l4S4 Rhode Island
avenue northwest, "Wednesday at 2 O'Clock.
Friesds invited interment private.
xsaeosti. D. C. JOSEPH Z. RUSSELL be-
forty -nfsh year Of his age. -
Beautiful toiler. thy worh all done;
B Bess,it,, , sssi mt, INTO s,ors gone;
Goi sivetA thee rest
Rest from all SORROWS and watching aud feau;
ss: "as . ss a ssoss1fs y
Al home with the blest
Int.rmcu, in St. Mary's county On wednesday.
(st- Aary's papers please copyl
TURTLE At Washington n. G., September 10.
1894. Major THOMAS TURTLE. corps Of en-
gneers, Z. s. A.
TURToN. Fell ssleep on Monday. September II.
1884. at 2:1s an. SARAH Ann. wife Of the
late John Is. Turton' In the siry-cishth year
Funeral win take place from her late residence.
18th instant, at pm. Relatives aud friends
invited TO attend
1894. Rev. SAMUEL TwEED1LE, aged sixty.
eight years
Funeral at Frankfort. Ia. Tuesday afternoon.
September Is Mt O'Clock
VAUGHAN. On September II. 1894. at 7:4o pm,
at ms rnSf1 str zs.4fl -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-10

Gov. Greenhalge Of Massachusetts, has re-
ceived from Washington the battleflags of
the fifteenth nineteenth, twenty-third and
ffty-eighth regiments Of Massachusetts, in
fantry, captured on southern battlehelds,
which have been retained at the capital for
many years
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-10

ITCHCOCK-McOORMICK. On Saturday, Sep
tember Is. 1894. by the Rev. T. ID. Bstley. st
the residence Of the groom. l02 5th street north
east. ARTHUR l. HITCHCOCK and HAliliIE1
MCCORMICK.
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Lady Henry Somerset has told how
she was first drawn iutO temperance
work. She had seen two children, q
boy and girl, sip wine ut their fathers
table, and heard the guests laugh at
the precocious little ones. She had
seen the boy 60 to o drunkard's grave
when twenty.four years old.
'But what of the girl?" she went
on.
"The girl was happily married, and
became the mother OF lovely children.
The fatal seed had been sown, howev-
er. The young mother became q slave
to strong drink. Iprayed with her
and xept with her. She asked ME one
day if would be total sbstainer II
she renouuceL strong drink forever.
The proposition was strange one,
ond asked twentyfour hours for con-
sidelaton. When I saw her again
she said 1t was too late. felt that II
I had given her promptly the answer
she would have received, she might
have been saved. To-day her home is
shattered, but l resolved to do in fu.
ture all I could for God and humanity.
California Prohibitionist.
In the eyes of God one good deed is
worth ten thOlsan we'll s,undi1s
words.
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In the case of The Finance Company of Pennsylvania ct
al, Complanants, versus The Charleston, Clncnnatl
and Chicago Railroad Company, ct al Defendants.
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United States Circuit Court Of Appeals.
FOURTH CIRCUIT---NO. 5S.

Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company,
Appellant,
VERSUS
Richmond and Danvle Railroad Company,
Appellee.
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The first item for repairs of cars etc. and was not con-
tested.
The second under contract between the R. D. R.
r: and the c. c. c. There is overhead crossing att
Backsburg the c. c. r. R. running the r. g. D. r. r.
The R. D. R. contracted to perfect this crossing charge
the cost of construction to the c. Q. & G.
The third item for freight shipments COAL rails
OIL &c. consigned to the c. c. c. r. it's own use
These articles were turned by the r. agent to-
charged with all back charges, and paying them.
The fourth item O955S balance on freight exchange
found to be due by the G. c. & c. to the II. D.
Upon the report of the Master the application of the nterye
to be paid out of the proceeds of argued before
Simonton Counsel for Trustee making no objection to Re
form of the petition but arguing solely the right petition
to priority the bond-holders.
Judge Smonon's decree filed 18th July 1S93 dsaOwng
the second em for crossing at Backsbug ordering
that the est Of the claim of the Richmond and Danve Rail-
road be allowed and be paid out of the proceeds sae
On August a. $685. Judge Simonton filed decea order in
the After referring to the decree of July 1s93 he d
rects the Special Master the Receiver pay R. D. r.
Company s3 95 with interest December H. 1890
This amount is made up of
" $50 II
az Freight Exchange. ...".......... ,O95 So
s13593 96
sls42l a5
To this the Boston Deposit Company have
have filed assignment OF errors and their appeal has been
lowed
The only two assignments of
(D That the Court erred ordering the SUM of S.
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In the eyes of God one good deed is
worth ten tholsan well s'undigs
words.
The herald., 1894-10-03
EDUCATIONar.

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is the largest and best equipped institution in
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me commercial course is not surpassed on this
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The teachers OF this college are eminently
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N. lNSKEEP, secretary. S-l91yr
The herald., 1894-10-03

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