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The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-08-22
EDUCATIONAL MATTERS.
BY SUPERINTENDENT MORTON.

1t is said that, when Jupiter offered
the prize of Immortality to him who
was the most useful to mankind, the
court of Olympus was crowded with
competitors. The warrior boosted
of his patriotism, but Jupiter thund-
cred; the rich man boosted OF his
muniticence, and Jupiter showed him
n widows mite; the Pontiff held up
the keys of Heaven, and Jupiter
pushed the doors wide open; the
painter boosted OF his power to give
life TO inanimate canvas, and Jupiter
breathed aloud in derision; the
sculptor boosted OF makinggods that
contended with immortals for hui
man homage-Jupiter frowned; the
orator boosted OF his power 10 sway
a nation with his voice, and Jupiter
marshaled tie obedient hosts OF
Heaven with IL word; thepoet spoke
OF his power to move even the gods
by his praise-Jupiter blushed; the
musician claimed to practice the only
human science that had been trans
ported TO heaven-Jupiter hesitat,
ed; when seeing Il venerable man
looking with intense iterest upon the
group OF competitors, but presenting
no claims, "who art thou?' said the
benignant monarch. "Only a spec
tator, said the gray.headed sage
"all these were once my pupils"
Grown him! crown him!" said Jup-
tier. Grown the faithful teacher
with Immortality, and make room
for him ut my right hand. Indiana
School Journal.
So it may be said by the profess
sional teachers of our county, while
we + not farmers, mechanics, mer-
chants, lawyers, doctors ministers,
editors or statesman, we can say as
we look upon them now in their vari-
u vocations, they were once our
pupils. The teacher makes success
in all these employments possible.
and his calling is Justly ranked, by
men of thought, as the noblest Of all
the professions, and one not to he
laid aside, but to befollowed through
life us other professions.
Nellie Barker who attended our In
stitute part of the session, will teach
in the Gettysburg schools.
Edith Anderson will teach in Hi
nOis.
Clara Brown who has been teach
ing in Illinois for the past few years
is at home for this year. She will
teach in county if a desirable school
is offered her.
+. T.. Mckinney is at home from
Brookings. He will teach in Pleas
ant Valley.
Harry Fross returned from his trip
to the northwest and will teach in
Glendale.
Cora Rudd who has attended at
Madison for the past two years will
teach in the north part of the coun-
ty.
Rockdale has two new school hous-
es ready for occupancy.
School clerks and treasures have
the thanks of the Supt. for prompt
ness in sending in their reports. In
some instances the report OF the
clerk could not be made in full be-
cause OF the teachers failure to make
out a complete report at the end of
the term. hope that the teachers
will be more faithful in this particu-
lar in the future.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-08-22
Tirst publication Aug22t6
Notice for Publication.

Land Office at Huron, South Dakota, Aug
II. 1898. Notice y hereby given that the fol
lowing named settler has fled notice OF his
Intention to make final homestead proof in
support Oi his lain. and that said proof will
be made before the Clerk of the Circuit Court
Tor Hand county, South Dakota, at Miller, =.
d.. on September 2Tth, 1895, viz:
IRVING PARIS,
Under his II'd entry 40. 13l65for the north
cast quarter section 10, township lib range
6s. lie names the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence upon ana
cultiN alton OF said land, viz: Robert wilson,
thar!es walton, William Walton, George Me
earthly, all of Miller, =. D.,
II NJ. DAVIS. Register.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-08-22

Tho pse Of sCastoria' is so universal and
its merits so well known hat II seems u "orh
of su~pererogation to endorse it. Few are the
intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy reach"
CARLOS MARTYN, d. D.,
New York City.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-20
LONG LIVE THE SHORE.

| Soft and low, like winterly wind
| nipping the end of a wobbly shingle, a
gutteral cadenza Of melodious snorts
| awoke the Oklahoma legislature to the
fact, the other day, that a Populist
member had dropped to sleep and was
rendering a Wagnerian largo on that
| human instrument which is part the
work of nature, and part the mechan-
ism OF Ia grippe.
| 1t was only snore and it created
great merriment, it is said. But why
merriment? It is true, forsooth, that
there is something about the yodle of
an over wadded nose that sounds like
the whirr of a consumptive grasshop-
per with saw-dust on his lungs, and as
the musical frenzy swells till the over
exerted nozzle thumps and reddens
with violence, no man can restrain a
laugh.
Still it is no matter for fun. Bless
the legislative snOre. Give us more of
it Let its clarion tones echo and re-
echo in the mind Of man, and thunder
among the crags and peaks of national
life.
Take the present congress for in
stance. If each and every one of those
spawned and lop-sided and ring-boned
statesmen, had been charmed, by the
crack of the finger of some master
hypnotist, to fall into a deep sleep and
enter on a protracted nasal rendition
of some orchestral chef d'oeuVre, what
blessing it would have been to the
country. Better the rip-snorting, up
and-at' em-again snOre than a tinker
ed tariff. Better the gurgle of a Grip
pied snout than Il new-fangled cur
rency plan that Will not work. Better
the whoop and strangled misery of
heavy sleeper than laws that are I'M
necessary; laws that are made 10 foster
private snaps; laws that are made sole
ly for law and law-tinkers; laws that
are framed to be killed for considera
ton; laws that are put through for a
considerations; laws that are passed be-
cause no one cares to object.
Let the legislative sEOre live. Fit
the legislative halls throughout the
coutry with reclining chairs ana en-
power a good, live, energetic man to
watch the legislator, and, when he
quits snoring and threatens to wake, to
shoot with squirt-gun a stream of
strong chlorof0rm into his face and
send him TO sleep and snoreS again.
Oklahoma is new and needs some
laws; the older states do not. But even
the legislative snore in Oklahoma, new
as it is, is MISUNDERSTANDING
when the snorer is Pop.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-20

able improvements, were not really neces-
sary TO make it first choice of the people
or TINS section as a newspaper, but the
Murdocks have formed a habit OF pro-
gressiveness that cannot be easily over
come. especially in wide awake Wichita
lahoma-
Sterling Bulletin: The interest in the
revival meetings at Wichita has become
SO general that business houses were
closed the other day from 10 TO II, and a
great crowd of business and professional
men attended Major Coles meeting y
boom OF this kind in Wichita will leave
blessings in its wake and arouse an inter-
est IN land where corner lots never lose
their value.
Lyons Republican: Put this and that
together. The Wichita Eagle announces
with good deal of boom-tone of other
days that nearly every train stopping at
that town leaves half its load or passen-
gers. The Wichita Beacon about the same
time 1nnocently remarks that AN cpl
dennic of mendicants has struck the city.
IL IS the half that takes its passage On
the trucks that stops Off there evidently.
Ponca City Courier: The Wichita Ea-le
has bought that new head letter, changed
makeup and heading, and is generally
improved in appearance. Now ell the
first page of the Eagle needs TO be per-
lection is to put less leads into its head
lines, change the bulletin OF news 10 the
for first page date line. The Eagle is the
sum OF excellence an a newspaper II is
the coming paper Of the golden belt"
Enid Wave: The Wichita Eagle OF to-
day publishes list of towns containing
men who have an income of over 5000 q
year and come in for taxation under the
new income tax law. Enid is credited
with ten and the article says that the in
formation comes from the postmasterS.
wilcox must have enumerated the mil
honaire's club in the list. in fact, the
Curly Bassett and Ned Sisson, who have
anywhere near such an income Judge
Perry might have been counted in the hist
but he has gone to Texas to enjoy his
v-aa1fn
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-20
BEHOLD. THE SPOKEN WORD.

Perhaps we are not so far away
from a Utopian contamination of So
ciety and laws as we sometimes think,
and perhaps we are approaching Il
higher stage Of perfection and not de-
parting therefrom, as most of us have
some times suspected.
Mr.. Milliken, an eX-official of Guth-
RE, o. T., has presented himself at
the penitentiary of Kansas uneScOrted
has donned his suit of stripes and gone
into the degradation of Imprisonment.
He did not do this voluntarily. He was
charged with embezzlement and he
fought the charge persistently. But
he was convicted and sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary. He gave
his word, SO he says, to the sheriff that
he would go alone to the penitentiary
and give himself up. Rather strangely,
to be sure, the sheriff granted his re
quest and Milliken carried out his
pledge. The desire to escape in him
musthave beenas greatasin any other
man, but it must be said for him that
the sacredness in which he held his
promise is unprecedented.
That was all there could have been
in the matter. Milliken held his word
TO be inviolable. Although he is an
embezZler and a convict his example
ought to stimulate every man to an eff
fort to be more honest in spoken words.
The business life of this country. its
monetary system, its social benefits are
the most complete when confidence be-
tween man and man is sure. Nearly
all the rotteness of politics and the de-
ceit of business result from the light
ness with which the spoken pledge is
given and the ease with which it is
broken.
When men fail to find the spoken
pledge valid, they demand a written
pledge and when they find the written
pledge equally as weak, as they have,
confidence in business, social and poll
teal life is gone and the disastrous
consequences to the country can not
be reckOned either in d)llars ana cents.
in loss of national character and in the
degradation and savagery of social
life.
When the spoken pledge is held in
Violable, the rOttennesS of politics will
disappear, the hypocrisy of bigots win
fade away, and userer viii die of in
anition, and there will be no tempta-
ton for officials TO plumber or prisons
FOR punishment.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-20
SPEAKING OF WICHITA.

Marion Record: Wichita thought She
Otto send good man to the legislature,
and it seems she did.
Manchester Journal: To read the wich-
tia Eagle one would actually suppose that
town to be on big boom.
Kansas City Star: Wichita is talking
of organizing a business mems aSsocia-
ton in which there Will be no corkscrews.
Emporia Republican: From the num-
Der of arrests that are made in Wichita
for blackmail, libel, etc, one would think
there is q calamity campaign on down
there.
Caldwell News: The Wichita Eagle IL
lustrates the New Year resolution in
dustry in a very forcible manner in its
issue OF Jan. l. And it is good deal that
way, too.
better opinion of prohibition than could
be expected of a man VINO has formed his
judgment of that policy from what he has
seen in Wichita.
the only city that ever handled the state
(. fair without deficit. Certainly. The de-
felt was always in the pockets OF the WIS.,
itors 10 the windy wonder.
Enid Wave: 1t is said that the Wichita
shade trees show indications of budding
early in the spring. 1t may be half con-
cealed sign of q coming old time boom. or
hair. - 49,
Larned Eagle-optic: Topeka has furn-
ished from one tc score of applicants
for every position within the gift of the
legislature and the governor elect, Yet
Topeka papers refer 20 AtchiSol and
Wichita as hog towns"
Jetuore SunfioWer: Wichita is on the
boom and Marsh Murdoch is happy. There
IS nothing more gratifying 10 the editor
Of the Eagle than 10 have the newspapers
say pretty things about that beautiful
city, and he never fails 10 reproduce every
thing they say in its favor.
Kansas City Star: Wichita wants a
stale normal There will never be but
one state normal where the girls in the
walk around wear blue sashes and white
mule dresses at commencement. aid
dove colored alpacas at the oratorical
contest and that normal VIII be at En-
pory' world without end.
Woodward News: Sir she exclaimed
in a rage. my residence is in one OF the
outlying districts of'--Beg-' pardon, -
he softly interrupted. didn't know you
were from Wichita who said I was
from Wichitat" she snapped. why. er-
well, you see-dion't YOU say you lived in
one OF the cut-iiesng districts: :"
Alva Republican: The Wichita Eagle
says, that the Eifty-third congress has
and DO something fer the people" For
Gods sake. Colonel. don't call attention
70 it Haven't they done for the people
al the poor devils can possibly stand?
Now don't put this FifJy-third congress
up 20 do more Geyilrnent-
Anthony Bulletin: The Wichita Eagles
list of cities in the Seventh district. that
come under the income tax places An
thony with i've subject 70 the tax. Now
every citizen wants TO know who the five
wealthy Individuals or concerns are, and
Up 20 date We have been unable 10 ger
anyone 20 plead guilty Il is possible
that Ar- Huffman Is mistaken
Ava Pioncer: That ns~ head and dress
OF the Wichita Eagle. and other notice
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-20
GOING IT BLIND.

1t is wonderful, the amount Of labor
bestowed upon labor-saving devices. 1t
is Il queer paradox that our greatest
sacrifice of comfort comes of our try
ing to be comfortable. We tart out on
the idea-usually false one-that
money. social position or political dis
tinction lead directly TO some haven
of perfect eaSe-SOme harbor of refuge
from the wants and currents that op-
pose Us, some terrestorial Nirvana of
bodily comfort and mental rest. Pur-
suing the idea. we delve and suffer and
invent and sometimes lie and steal
needless of the welfare OF others. only
that some improvised pet project of
our own may pan out or turn ND as
we have planned IL II matters not
that health has been sacrificed. that a
reputation for greed. or the suspicion
of native Of acquired dishonesty At
taches: it all goes with the purpose TO
get what we VIII never get. and to be
what we never can.
The time comes. usually late in life.
when we realize that il is a phantom
ghoSt-a mere jack-'o-lantern mental
conception, leading Us hither and
thither-everywhere save where we
would 90. and what then: We sit
down calmly 10 revise the ideal. We
see where we have fallen, mark where
we have failed and realize for the first
time that the best Of life has been
-
If there is n half joint in nature: il
there is one thing wanting in the Great
ed universe il is mans want OF ability
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-20

Nation stopped long enough at the
Coos camp to obtain fresh supplies, and
continuing the chase, overlook the
refugees at Cookbook.
The attack began at once. Not hav-
ing had time TO replace the bows which
the Passaconaways had broken the St
Francis warriors were obliged to seek
q hand-to-hand conflict Joe's follow
ers expended their arrows upon their
assailants while the latter were cross
ing the brook, and laid number of
the enemy low in the skirmish-
All were down at last except Joe and
Maitou, and both were grievously
wounded.
Then the two leaders faced each
other for the final struggle, with des-
peration inspired by hate.
Near Joe covered the guilty Prioux
When Maitou saw for the first time the
form of his promised bride his rage
overwhelmed all discretion, and, hurl-
ing his spear at the girl, he drove the
weapon through her heart The next
instant the tonahawk of his rival had
cleft his skull, and he fell to the earth
to rise no more. Joe then proceeded
to dispatch single-handed all of the
wounded st. Franciscans, wreaking
savage vengeance upon their bodies
The victorious warrior cared for his
surviving friends and returned to the
Coos camp for assistance to bring back
the wounded and bury the dead, among
whom the body of Prioux was given
the place of honor. The corpses of the
enemy were thrown into the brook.
His tribe, dreading a descent from
the st. Francis nation in the spring,
however, moved to the south of the
White mountains, but Joe remained
and built a hut over the grave of
Prioux, the cause of all this disaster,
and there was found when the paleface
came
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-20
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

I Mrs. Hatch is working for place at To-
peka in order to be near her son, Clyde
MattoX.
The Alva Milling company, with a CAPT.
tai stock of $4,000, has been granted a
charter.
The contract with Illinois for the keep
ing of the insane of Oklahoma expires
March 5.
Over 2.400 feet of new water main have
been put in the ground at FL Reno during
the last month.
The governor will move his office in
Guthrie this week. He is trying to get
near the legislature.
The Guthrie Leader believes that the
present legislature will abolish capital
punishment in Oklahoma.
1t is about time the legislature took a
recess to give Bill Little a chance to go
home and feed his shoats.
An epidemic of boy babies has struck
Enid and unless the situation soon changes
the city council will be called in extra
session.
Justice of the Peace Bradley of Enid is
the only officer in the strip who is today
holding the office to which he was ap-
pointed.
Judge Pitzer says he is in favor of the
freedom of the press, but his private opin-
ion is that a few of the Populist editors
should be dehorned.
John Hoenschiedt in the Oklahoma Star
spells it "terpentine." This is in revenge
Tor the way some of the Oklahoma City
people pronounce his name.
There is dark, ominous story going the
rounds that Senator Orner will not talk
to a newspaper man without first present.
ing him with Havana cigar.
There is a man at Enid who sells wood
for the farmers for a commission, and
isenberg of the Wave declares that the
income tax collector has him spotted.
Horace Speed telegraphed from Wash
hinton the other day that the decision of
the secretary of the interior was favor
able to Tecumseh getting the railroad.
Bill Cook when captured said he was on
his way to Mexico and really intended to
quit the highway business. He certainly
would have quit if the Mexican govern
ment had caught him at it.
Wednesday, Governor Renfrow received
word that his father was dead. He was
a sterling old gentleman and of a fine
character. He was Sugars of age and had
passed a large portion Of his life in Ar
kansas.
Senator Scott of Oklahoma City will
make a speech in the council some day
that viii bring the blush of pride to the
cheeks of every one present, but Scott
isn't going to make the speech until the
opportunity arrives.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-20
Facts and Figures of London.

Some facts about London life are
presented in the annual reports of the
police. There are eighteen miles of new
streets against thirty-one the previous
year.
Thirteen thousand houses were add
ed.
There are 10,S00 cabs while the omni-
buses and street cars number $500.
Londoners are careless people. They
left $4,000 purses in cabs, ninety-four
watches and forty-three clocks. The
number of articles left in public con-
veyances was 2S,270, and the numebr
of persons reported missing. IS, 269.
Fifteen thousand articles were re-
turned to their owners, and $4,000 miss
ing persons were restored to their
friends. There is no doubt that many
of the remaining $4,000 came back OF
their own accord.
The police buried sixtty-six bodies
which We're never identified.
Serious crime in London is decreas-
ing
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-20

Mr.. Cleveland's Grandparents.

Not many Baltimoreans, perhaps.
know it, but in Area B, in the most ele-
walton portion of Mount Olivet ceme-
terry, near the preachers lot, rest the
remains Of the maternal grandfather
and grandmother of President Cieve-
land. The grandfather of Mr.. Cieve-
land was the Rev. Abner Neal, a Me-
thodist local preacher, who at one time
was the proprietor of the Methodist
Episcopal church book store. On the
monument erected on the Neal lot are
the following inscriptions:
Mrs. Sarah Neal, died Oct. 1854, in
her S4th year."
Rev. Abner Neal. her son, died April
10, 1924. in his 61st year"
Barbara Neal, his wife. died June
is. 1884, aged 81 years.
In the same lot lie the remains Of an
uncle of Mr.. Cleveland-'Joseph Neal,
born Jan. s, 1866, and who died Sept. p,
1885, also the remains of the Rev. J.
A. Gore of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and his wife, Sarah, who was
an aunt of Mr.. Cleveland. The graves
are in the very best condition, and are
always kept so.-Baltimore American.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-20

Chairman Wilson feels that he is
liable to the accusation that he got
his London DINNER under a mis-state-
ment of facts and says he will never
be satisfied until the last rag of protec-
ton is removed. The trouble is that
his policy is rag producing instead
OF a rag removing one, showing that
he is badly mixed in his ideas. Wilson
will have TO have one of the mountains
of West Virginia fall on him before he
will be able to aSsumilate the dose he
p0t
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-20

to discern the things for which he is
naturally fitted. The tree grows SYM
J materially, by the operation Of natural
laws, the budding flowers give out
their perfume, and with their many
| hues delight the eye; the unconscious
brute feeds upon the green and lies
down to perfect rest, but man, the only
being of intelligence, systematically,
and almost universally, fails in the at
| tainment of that for which. he is fitted
by nature. Where is the deficiency
Who can tell where native, human
tendencies leave off, and personal re-
sponsibility begins? 1t seems almost
as if, by design, he is not to know
how best he may fulfill his mission.
The qualities are inherent-God given,
but he walks in a light which he can
not see. 1t may be one Of the econo-
mics Of nature that the major part of
time and talent should be lost. What
with our unbridled ambition, our ever
acting inventive genius, all physical
effort would cease, and bodily COM
forts would multiply to the limit of
perfect safety. Nature seems to say:
L have been lavish with my gifts, but
sparing with my secrets. Man-prOud,
boastful, intelligent, but half enlighten-
ed man, take Of my mysteries and
make Of them what thou canst. Re-
gale and comfort thy body by the eff
fort of thy hands, and feast thy mind
upon thy gleamings Of truth from my
illimitable stOrehouse. 1t is the pur-
suit. and not the requirement OF earth
ly glory that brings the highest enjoy
ment accorded to mortals.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-20

Carlisle is able to keep the treasury
department from running behind more
than 100000 Il month. a little Re
publican management and prosperity
viii put the affairs of the government
in good shape.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-20

Dakota, having tired of quarterly
residents, has had bill introduced re
Quiring a years residence instead of
three months in order 10 be eligible 10
take grist 10 their non-friction
divorce mill.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-20

1t was an oklahoma man who said
that if he was running newspaper
In Paris the citizens would probably
come and ask him TO keep the news
of the crisis out of his paper fer fear
II would hurt the town.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-20

That woman burglar in Colorado de
served better success. If the average
man should wake up and find a woman
going through his pockets he would
turn over and go 10 sleep rs usual.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-20

Clause SpreckleS says the Hawaiian
government i Il sham. but he says it
after satisfying himself that he is on
the other side Of the world from
Hawaii