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The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29
THANKsOlvIN

TO the popular mind the word
Thanksgiving" stands for a day OF
festivity. But they who lose it's SUBJ
Jective meaning in mere creature en-
Joyment suffer a misfortune and miss
an opportunity.
TO our fathers. Thanksgiving was a
sacrament. 1t was one of their acts
OF religion to set apart for 1t an an
nual day. Heaven had blessed their
~harvests, and they wished to express
in a special way appreciation Of it's
favors.
Nothing in their example was more
sane and sensible than tie creation of
this November family custom, now be-
come national. There have been
changes of our social life since the
old time. These have made il less easy
to observe the day so generally with
public rites of worship, but the ordi-
nance holds its place with pleasing fit
ness, and with ample reason.
We have a thousandfold more to be
%devoutly glad for than our fathers
had; and the feeling and the faith
they carried with them to the solemn
assembly" we can radiate in brighter
homes and wider activities of kind
ness.
The unfolding Christian age has
given us the larger thought of the
meaning and mission of freedom and
of civilization; the grander type and
idea of benevolence; the tenderer be-
liefs that sweeten life and death with
hope. For all these let us thank God.
Gratitude is not only "a natural
function of the healthy SOUL; 1t is
its wealth. Invest 1t. It's interest will
enrich the character, and uplift the
whole life.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29
BoER SETTLERS.
Nineteen of Kruger's Subjects Ar
rive I'm Butte.

Nineteen of Kruger's Subjects Ar
rive In Butte.
Butte, Mont, Nov. 25.-Nineteen men
from the Boer army have arrived In
Butte and are in charge of the local
Boer society. They say thousands Of
Beers are coming West to locate. The
men declare that England will never
be able to subdue the Beers. though
many of other ~nationalities who have
been fighting with the Beers have left
and are coming to America. There also
arrived in Butte a dozen Roumanian
refugees who, among thousands. are
being sent to this country by various
Hebrew societies. The refugees tell
horrible stories of prosecutions, and
say thousands of their country people
are killing themselves to escape perse-
cutions. Many attempt to flee to Ger
many. but are driven back. The men
say about II, 900 refugees have already
been distributed through the Western
states.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29
BANKED IN FITS SHOES.
Precautions which Saved n Mime
nPolis Man I'm Chicago.

Chicago. Nov. 25.-George Beyerle OF
Minneapolis, who has been visiting
friends in Chicago, took the precau-
ton TO place $3.50 which he was carry
ing in his shoes before starting down
town. He made a mistake in getting
off an elevated train at Halstead
street, and was there accosted by a
woman, and later by two e m OF
whom said the woman was his wife,
and displayed a star and put Beyerle
under arrest. Then the pair decided
upon robbery and compelled the victim
to surrender Sc. The footpads fled and
Reyerle reported the Ease at the Des-
PLANES street station, expressing
great delight at having used his shoes
as a bank.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29

holds for US? We viii go to your
home and this very night become hus.
band and wife,"
She shook her head, although she
did not draw back when he took both
her hands in his.
No, Leon. Not today"
why not?'
"It's-well. it's unconventional"
He laughed lightly, for he knew his
victory was won.
This has been ar unconventional
Thanksgiving, darling. 1t is a real
one, though. / never knew what the
word meant until I could give thanks
for you and your love-"
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29
ArTEMPT ON HIS IrEE.
Illinois Politician Receives an In
fernal Machine.

Illinois Politician Receives nm In
fernal Machine.
Charleston, ILL.,, Nov. 25.-T. NJ. Con-
er, Jr., an attorney and Democrx tic
politician, yesterday told the details
of an attempt on his life by means Of
an Internal machine. A box came to
Mr.. Golfers office by express last Mon
day morning and was opened while
the express messenger was present.
The label was typewriter and said:
Sample puzzle box. Open, pull string
with quick jerk. the result will be
surprising" Mr.. Golfer gave the
string "A jerk but 1t broke. The box
was then pried open, disclosing three
sticks of dynamite fitted with fuses
and wrapped in combustibIes. A hum
dred match heads were glued to a
stick and were so arranged as to ig-
mite by striking sandpaper when the
string was drawn. About half III
match heads ignited but failed to fire
the fuses. There was enough dyna-
mite In the package to wreck the whole
side Of the public square in which
Golfers Office is located. The package
came from Aurora, but the express
agent there Toes not know who sent
it. Golfer knows of no enemy who
would seek his life. Detectives repre-
senting both Mr.. Golfer and the Amerf-
can Express company are at work on
the case.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29
o IN FLOUR.
Good Showing Made by the Pills
bury-Waxhburn COmpnny.


bury-waxhburn Company.
London, Nov. 25.-American 1our and
American milling methods received a
vote of confidence at the annual meet
ing of the British Pillsbury-Wash-
burr comrany. The reports. showing
net profits for the year of $50, 900,
were greeted with cheers and en-
thusiastic praise for Yankee manage
merit. Commenting on the state OF
American -four in Europe, Charles
Taylor Fox. manager of the Pillsbury-
Washburn foreign office. said:
THE bakers and breadeaters OF
Great Britain and ireland consumed
more than 1900. 900 barrels OF Minneso-
ia -four during the last year. We have
broken into France and Germany, des-
pite the supposedly prohibitive tariffs,
and we are shipping goods TO such re-
mote corners as Finland, Egypt and
Malta. We expect an extensive trade
with South Africa of which several
government orders for the British
army are the forerunners."
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29

Outside the sleet confined to fall. Zoe
turned from the dreary picture framed
by the window with a sigh that
sounded strangely like n Of con
tent.
They talked fitfully. Both avoided
referring to the past, and the present
held little in common for them. Yet
as they talked of the events of the
day, OF books, and of people whom
they both knew. an unconscious change
came vef them. As In the days of
old, h was aware of a tender defer
ence shown toward her, a difference
that was genuine and had in it moth
ing of patronage.
After a time BARLEY glanced at his
watch and rose to his feet.
Il am going to raid the surrounding
country and see what / can do in the
way of a Thanksgiving dinner"
mot in this storm" she cried, and
her clear dark eyes fell before his.
II have an umbrella. Besides l am
used to storms"
He was gone some time. When he
returned, she was at the door to meet
him.
Il see you were successful" pointing
to the bundles he carried.
He shook his head. "You will think
it a poor success. At the agents
home dirt was too plentiful. / saw
we could not think of dining there. l
made my way to another house, only
to find 1t locked. However, there is
a postoffice near, where the agent as
sured me / would find a store There
well, the contents of these paper
bags will tell the story"
She laughed as merrily as a child,
and began to peer into the bags. Soon
they were seated, she in the chair, he
on the bench in front of her. Sheets
from a newspaper he happened to
have in his pocket were spread over
their laps, and On these they placed
crackers, cheese, peanuts and sticks of
red and white striped candy.
I'm sorry" BARLEY began, cycling
the spread with evident d%isfavor, "but
1t is the best the land affords. Here is
a part of every eatable thing in the
merchants stock, saw gum, molasses
and articles that must be cooked. 1t
Is a poor Thanksgiving dinner to offer
you, Zoe"
The name slipped from him un-
awares. She blushed and began to talk
lightly. All constraint vanished. The
burden of years seemed to have fallen
from them. Suddenly she looked up,
an arch smile curving her lips.
Think of the tables at which we
expected to sit today. Remember the
various delicacies, the silver. china,
embroidered linen and flowers, then
note the contrast. Is not this a
strange Thanksgiving"
He leaned forward, and again her
eyes sank before his. Il remember 1t
all, and yet l feel like returning thanks
because I am herewith YOU"
Just then the station agent entered.
A freight train came in sight and
halted. Zoe retreated to a window
while the men went out and in the de-
pot. After a short time the train
went on, and the agent again left the
travellers alone.
BARLEY came at once to her side. I'm
an hour there will be a train going
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29

low traveller. He stepped forward,
lifting his hat.
A glance into the strong face lighted
by frank gray eyes, and she gave a
little cry, a soft rose-pink flush STAIN
ing her cheeks.
Leon BARLEY! How do you hap
pen to be here?" and she timidly ex-
tended her hand.
Il am on my way to spend Thanks
giving with my old friends. the Her
Tingtons, at Latimer."
And I to eat my Thanksgiving tur-
key with my cousin. Lulu Myers"
A moments silence fell between
them. The station agent had retired
to his little den. which contained his
desk, leaving the two travellers in pos
session of the room. There was a brisk
fire in the stove, and the air was laden
with the fumes Of the soft coal. Aside
from the stove, the sole furniture Of
the roo consisted of a wooden bench
which extended along two siles. The
u~ncurtained windows were dingy and
dirty.
Outside there was only the shining
tracks and the fields. At a little dis
lance a solitary farmhouse could be
seen.
They were reused by a dash Of froz-
en- sleet against the windows. Bart
ley advanced to the door Of the little
inner room, saying:
II will see IL there Is not some way
cut Of our trouble"
Left alone, Zoe Freeman drew her
cloak around her and let her mind
wander back to the past. Fifteen
years before she had been the prom
ised wife of Leon BARLEY. They had
quarreled and, in a fit of piQue, she
had married Robert Freeman. Wealth
and social position had been hers, but
Freeman soon became a helpless in
valid, and life held little for her save
the cares and duties of a nurse. A
year ago death had set her free.
Leon BARLEY had never married.
They had met occasionally. but never
since Freeman's death.
Here her thoughts were interrupted
by the return Of BARLEY.
1T is as you feared. There is no
way you can reach Latimer before 5,
There are few passenger trains upon
either Of these roads. ] am very sorry
for your disappointment"
Her face flushed, then paled. I'VE
must wait with what patience We can"
she said, unconsciously using the plu-
raj.
He brought for her from the inner
room the only chair In the building.
A few moments later the station agent
said:
Pm goin' to the house awhile"
He strobe away. and they were alone.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29

The train due at Paris Junction at
D:35 was ten minutes late on Thanks
giving morning. As 1t halted before
the little station, which stood amid
bare brown fields at the crossing OF
the two railroads. a gentleman and a
lady stepped to the platform.
The lady gathered her sealskin cape
around her and hurried into the depot.
She was a plump, m~iddle-aged woman
with a clear, dark face. When the
gentleman entered the room, she vas
addressing the station agent.
"How long before the next train
west on the other road?" she asked in
a voice of peculiar sweetness.
The man started and drew nearer.
There won't be mother tran till
.4:1O."
But there is one due in a few min
utes."
Its gone. Your train was late"
She gasped. What am / to do? I
must be at Latimer before q"
Il don't know"
She turned appealingly to her fer-
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29
K MENU.

Oysters.
Cream OF Game.
Red Snapper a rIcarienne.
Tenderloin PiQue q la Provencale.
Stuffed Tomatoes. Broiled Mushrooms.
Roast Turkey. Cranberry Sause.
Caulifower. Stuffed Eggplant.
Saratoga Potatoes.
SQUADS en- Compete.
Roast Saddle of Venison.
Macedonia Salad. Plum Pudding.
Cheese. Coffee. Fruit.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29
Ex-Treasurer Borsard Sentenced.

Chaska. Mimi. Nov. 25. - Gerhard
Bongard, the defauiting treasurer OF
Carver county, entered a plea OF gull
ty as charged In the Indictment. and
the court sentenced him to hard labor
at saltwater for the term OF three
years and six months and to pay Q
fine OF $500 and costs OF prosecution.
amounting to about $1,000.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29

Des MoiDes. Iowa, Nov. rs. - The
state treasurer has made a statement
to the public saying he would not at
tempt tc hold his office longer than
this year however the courts might
decide the Titus amendment. 1t is his
intention to turn the Office over to
Treasurer-elect Gilbertscn the first OF
the year. This practically settles the
dispute as far the the state Offices are
concerned.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29
Ral.in Cake.

Cream one cup of butter and two
cups Of sugar. Add one cup OF milk.
three eggs. two cups of raisins ~(stoned)
one grated nutmeg. a tablespoonful
each of grated cloves and cinnamon.
about four cups of -four. two heaping
teaspoonfuis Of baking powder. Make
about as stiff as pound cake.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29
Election Day Carri.x.a.

Mrs. Nuvote-I hear that they send o.
carriage for you on election day, liz you
SO desire?
Mrs. Cam Payne-Yes, if you are not
inclined to go otherwise.
Mrs. Nuvote-Then I'll ask for a cat.
rage, and use Il to make some calls
after / have voted. i hope our party
VIII have bang-tafl horses.-Denver
News.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29
MAY BE MURDER AFTER ALL.

Arrests to BE Made I'm the Reno In
cincration Case.
Duluth, Mimi. Nov. 25.-Arrests will
probably be made in the case of Ope-
rator Quigley, found dead In the burned
station at Reno a few days ago.. Sus-
picion tina murder was lone has been
aroused by newly discovered circum-
stances.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29
sa5 900 TO H TON.

what Ore From Newly Discovered
Ledge in A1n-Ea Will Run.
Tacoma, Wash, Nov. 25.-The richest
ledge in the Atlin district has been un-
covered in the Glener group on Taku
Arm. 1t is eighteen feet wide and is
said to run $25, 900 to the ton.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29
International live stock Exposition
bee. Ia. 1QnU.

For this interesting exposition the
Chicago Great Western railway will, on
NOV. 80 and Dec. /, sell excursion tick
cts 10 Chicago. good to return Dec. 10th.
at a fare and one-third for the round
trip. For full information inquire OF
j.. +. Elmer. G.. A. p. d., corner Fifth
and Robert streets. st. Paul.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29

If you would nave a good servant,
select neither a friend nor a relative.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29

MHRRIAGE PAPER.
Best Published-FREE. +,
J. w. GUNNELS, Toledo. Ohio
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29

The palm tree ought to be able to
start a spanking breeze.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-29

Joy softens more hearts than tears.
Madame de Sartory.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-11

crowd so painfully the living quarters
of the mansion.
The writer, though he has seen the
plans, is withheld from printing any
further details by request of COL
Bingham, who is obliged to reserve in
formation until the president has given
his decision 1t may be said, however,
that the new state dining-room will be
one of the most beautiful apartments
ever imagined, being designed after a
mode as original as it is exquisite. Ii
congress does not interfere inoppor-
timely, the nation will owe to Col.
Bingham lasting debt of gratitude for
the improvement of classical struc-
ture. That it is extremely difficult to
modify such building without injur-
ing it architecturally is obvious
enough.
When Mrs. Benjamin Harrison came
to Washington, she remarked, joking
ly. that she was leaving a house with
twelve bedrooms for one with only five.
In measure, therefore, the change
for her was come down." The fact
is not to be denied that the white
house is very eramped place for the
chief magistrate of this great nation
to live in, and many persons of wis
dom are of the opinion that the coun-
try ought to provide him with dwell
ing of his own short distance away,
so that he might use the present exec
utive mansion merely for official pur-
poses. Some day. very likely, this
idea will be carried out, but not by
this congress, nor within twenty years
from now.
Among many reasons for charging
the white house, perhaps the most
cogent is that the mansion today has
no adequate room for meetings of the
cabinet. When the government was
first started, the cabinet had only four
members, representing the departments
of state, treasury, war and justice. For
that number the space allowed might
be sufficient but the presidents adj
visory body has been increased to
eight, and in consequence it is absurd
ly crowded. The apartment occupied
Oll utoudyS anu WITCH luSSS-
ings are held adjoins Mr. McKinleys
private office, and it is of very moder-
ate size, about half of it being taken
up by the long mahogany table that
serves as a council board. 1t ought to
be fully six times as large, with ca
pacious desk for each secretary, in
which to keep documents, ETC., and
there should be space enough for geo
graphical globes, big maps, and va
rious other paraphernalia.
The condition of affairs described is
certainly not creditable. and is likely
to be made even worse by the creation
of new cabinet members. Already
there is serious talk of colonial sec
retaryship, and much pressure is be-
ing brought in favor of proposition
to appoint a secretary of commerce. In
addition to the two departments over
which these officials would preside,
third is recommendations de-
partment of labor, which, as matter
of course. would also be represented
in the cabinet. Thus that body wound
number eleven persons, with possibly
more to come.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-11
LANES LOSS OF NERVE

Jim Lane is in town, | hear" said
the little man with the scrubby beard
as he threw down a winning king full
and raked in the stack of chips from
the middle of the table.
Who's he?" asked a man across the
table
Jim Lane answered the first
speaker. was the nerviest and best
gambler in all probability who ever
stacked a deck of cards in this great
and glorious poker-playing country.
He knows every trick that was ever
played with cards and can work those
same tricks better than any other man
/ ever saw or heard of. | don't mean
sleight-of- tricks | mean the reg
ular professional gamblers tricks. the
tricks that are played to win money
dishonesty. He must be 80 years old
If he's day, but you wouldn't think 1t
If you were to put your eyes on him.
He's got little, thin, boyish face, and
light mustache that will never grow
any larger than it is, and altogether
he has about the most innocent APP
pearance you would strike from New
York to Frisco. I've crossed the con-
tinent by stages, winning my car fare
at the great American game, and |
never saw his equal in the lamb-like
innocent way. But, oh. how that little
fellow has fooled the best of them. In
fact, | think he was only caught at the
game once. and then the man who
caught him didn't dare to squeal be-
cause he was working the same identi-
cal game Jack Hale, who was known
all over the west as Dopey Hale,
caught him. At that game Jim Lane
lost his nerve. He never got it back,
either.
Lane was a natural born gambler
He couldn't keep away from the cards,
onto his DOPE It's a disease. An old
uncle down in San Bernardino county
had died, and the bulk of his fair-sized
pile went to jim The young fellow
started in to spend it right and left.
until he struck a stiff poker game at
the old Fleming house in Frisco one
night. There were a lot of slick guys
In the game, and they let the young
chap win just enough the first night
TO get the fever in his blood: the next
night they made his pile look sick, and
the rest of the week they kept him
busy writing out checks to square him
self. Then the gang who fieeced him
left town.
"A bartender In the house tipped
him off one night as to the character
of the people who had got into his roll.
He went home and thought it all over.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-11
An English Restaurant.

Different countries produce different
foods. Perhaps that is the reason why
a description of railway restaurant
in England sounds so curious to Amer
lean ears. This terminus restaurant
corresponds to the American lunch
counter where pie and coffee are the
staple refreshment of hurried hungry
man. Patrons crowd the English
place three deep and wait for the front
row to finish eating and depart. One
elderly woman drinks hot spirit and
water and eats sandwiches; beside her
country couple devour buns and milk
how British buns" sounds!-and
busy man eats sponge cake and drinks
port wine. Can one imagine a Chi
cago broker rushing into quick
lunch counter with a demand for
sponge cake? He might as well ask
for coach and four In this London
restaurant mother of a family re-
gales herself and her meek husband
with ginger beer and cakes, and
nervous young clergyman asks for a
glass of milk. Buns, sponge cake,
milk and beer-the menu is a little diff
ferent from those on this side of the
water.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-11
Care with Matches.

1t is a curious sort of economy that
makes housekeepers buy cheap
matches, and ignorance or careless
ness that prevents them from teach
ing every member of their household
how to use them properly. The really
safe matches are those that can be
lighted only on the box, and these
should be used. Every child should
be taught that match must never be
thrown away while burning, and never
shaken to extinguish it; 1t must be
held still in the fingers and blown out
Many valuable lives have been lost and
much property destroyed from the
careless using of matches. An UNI
lighted match dropped on the floor
may be as dangerous as loaded re-
volver Matches are so common that
their danger is overlooked, but the
statistics of every fire department in
the country will attest to their deadli-
ness unless carefully used.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-11
Lang on an Authors Grievance.

From Longman's Magazine: One
grievance, if no more, authors labor
under-the running out of copyright
by erfiux of time Think how Scott, his
debts paid, would have provided for his
family had copyright lasted longer.
The heirs of Keats and Coleridge, men
neglected by purchasers in their day,
would have been bequeathed COM
petence. Most of Dickens works are
now out of copyright-a real hardship
while an authors sons and daughters
are in the land. Surely copyright
might be protected "for two lives" at
least. The authors literally created"
the property. which, in their lifetime,
many of them did not enjoy. If we are
to have property at all. the authors
property ought to be the most. not the
least. sacred. The present law does not
injure many novelists; their books
rarely survive their lives: in this
world they have good things. The law
Injuries men who in this life, like Cole
ridge and Keats, have not good things,
but who might, if permitted, provide
for their descendants. If anything is
unjust. this part of the law of copy
right is unjust