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The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16
Would Solve Servant Question.

A certain West Philadelphia family
has an invariable rule that the chill.
dren shall take turns in saying a
grace before meals. This grace fol.
lows set form, but at the Sunday
dinner, when papa is at home, an ex.
tempcre addition or enlargement is re-
CURED.
The household had been suffering
from long succession Of incompe.
tent cooks, and the other Sunday, as
the family assembled at the table, the
mother lamented that she feared the
dinner was spoiled, and that unless a
good cook could be obtained imme
diateiy contemplated trip to the
country would have to be abandoned
It was little Ernest's turn TO say
grace, and he echoed the prayer OF
all present:
BLESS, oh, Lord, this food for our
use, and us to Thy service, 70,
Christ's sake. And Lord, please send
us q good cook before Friday"
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16
A Bit Of Family History.

The editor and wife had anothe,
square meal Sunday on account of re-
celying an invitation to dine at tina
hotel. Perk said he was afraid wa
wouldn't accept, but We did. For thu
benefit of Cur lady readers we win
state that they had chicken and the
stuff that goes with such layout, and
strawberry shortcake and lettuce. Our
wife wore her blue and white and
looked real dear. Mrs. Perkins had a
new skirt and looked too sweet for
anything. The editor wore his Sun.
day, Monday, Tuesday, "Wednesday.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday suit aud
was sick all night.-White Is. d.
Leader.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16
orlaln of the Dictionary.

The average person seems somehow
to think of dictionaries as the inven-
ton of DR.. Johnson, and altogether
modern product. DR.. Murray correct
ed that idea. They were not the work
of one or several men, he told his
audience, but a growth developed
through the ages. They began with
the glosses-that is, the explanations
in easy Latin or English-or hard
Latin words, written by the monks
between the lines of the manuscripts.
The CLOSES grew into traslations, and
collections of CLOSES by this monk or
that from all the sources available to
him made glossaries or dictionaries.
Little by little English supplanted the
easy Latin explanations, and the
words were arranged in a rudiamen.
tary alphabetical order, thus forming,
so long ago as 1000 A. D., Latin-Eng-
lish dictionaries. The uneducated
Normans overthrow English learning:
and It was not till the fifteenth CEN
tury that the revival came.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16
THE LAST WORD.

The Barber Had an Opinion OF His
Own on the Temperance Question.
Mary Noailles Murfree of Murfrees.
boro, Tenn, better known as Charles
Egbert Craddock, is the greatgrand.
daughter of Col Hardy Murfree, the
Revolutionary hero, 2adshe has on the
tip CT her tongue number of stories
which, according TO tradition, Col, Muir.
free used to tell with great success.
One of these stories concerns a
Judge and a drunken barber. The
Judge was being shaved, and the bar
Der, whose hand was unsteady from
drink, cut him four or five times. Re-
garding gravely in the mirror his coun-
tenance bleeding from all these cuts,
the Judge said:
Friend, you now perceive, ] trust,
the evil effects of intemperance.
Tntemperance does make the skin
rather tender, sir" was the reply
New York Tribune.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16
ExPERiM ENTS.
Learn Things Of Value.

Where one has never made the eh'
pertinent of leaving of coffee ana
drinking Postum 1t Is still easy 10
learn all about 1t by reading the ex'
periences of others.
Drinking Postum is a pleasant
way to get back to health. A man OF
Lancaster, Pa, says: my wife was
a victim of nervousness and weak
stomach and loss of appetite for years
and was a physical wreck; although
we resorted to numerous methods OK
relief one Of which was "a change
from coffee to tea, It was all to no
purpose.
I'VE knew coffee was causing ths
trouble but could not find anything 70
take its place and cure the diseases
until we tried Postum Food Gomez.
In two weeks time after. we quit COZ
fee and used Postum almost all OF her
troubles had disappeared as IL by
magic. II was truly wonderful. Her
nervousness was all gone. stomach
trouble relieved, appetite improved
and above all nights rest was com
plete and refreshing.
"This sounds like an exaggeration,
az It all happened SC quickly. but We
are prepared TO prove II. Each day
there IL improvement for the better.
for the Postum Is undoubtedly
strengthening her and giving her rich
red blood and renewed life and Vita
ity. Every particle Of this good work
is due to Postum and to drinking Pos
tum In place of coffee" Name given
by Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich.
Ice cold Postum with a dash OF
lemon Is a delightful cooler" for
warm days.
Send for particulars by mail Of En-
tension of time in the $7,5o0.00 cooks
contest for 7s5 money prizes.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16
WHAT Is A GENTLEMAN.
England Decides His Status by Lava
and Judicial Decisions.

England, having enriched the yo-
cabulary OF the world by the great
name of gentleman, has now increased
the obligation by judicial definition:
or, to speak by the card, by judicial
declaration approaching a definition.
In a certain case tried In London the
other day the counsel objected to .
certain letter, because 1t described q
house painter as "a gentleman" This
objection obviously called for a ruling
by the bench. The bench began by
stating that, in view of the Heralds
college, no man was a gentleman un-
less his grandfather, father or the man
himself was entitled to bear arms, or,
to speak in modern fashion, possessed
armorial bearings. In mitigation OK
the rigor Of this ruling, which would,
Of course, have barred the house paint
er, the bench pointed out that the jury
would observe that not only the coun'
sci on both sides, but even the bench
itself, had addressed them as gentle
men; and further, the bench opined
that much of them as were possessed
or votes were invarlaDle greeted Win
the title Of gentleman, at least at po'
litical meetings where there was
question of disposing Of said votes.
The learned Judge then went on the
other tack by pointing out that while
the house painter had, 1t was true, Q
card, nevertheless a card was not the
same thing as a coat Of arms; yet
said the Judge, the good painter has
1T least one characteristic which Ii
thought invariably to be the mark OF Q
gentleman, namely, the govt. II any
one after reading the above ruling Is
still In doubt as to what a gentleman
is, then there is no virtue in law. Lex
it be recorded that the legal luminary
bears the fascinating name Of Justios
Darling.-Harper's Weekly.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16
THE SCIENCE OF BUILDING.
Exactitude Which Charaeterlzes the
Construction Of Skyscrapers.

Many of,tbe great steel structures
that are being built in every city are
are planned and nodded In some dis
tant city--like the material for Solo,
mons temple of old-hundreds of
miles away. II is in some rolling mill
town of Pennsylvania that most of the
gigantic framework for the modern
skyscrapers are built. All that re-
mains to be done is to put them to-
gether, and the building rises up like
house OF blocks.
Every piece is fitted together and
numbered before II is taken away
from the steel mill. So exact are the
measurements that not even the drill
ing of hole is necessary for fitting
the rivets which fasten the plates and
girdens together. The watchlike pre-
cision with which these parts are
made was shown in the construction
of one of these buildings which is now
being erected in Chicago.
One of the large cross Orders was
missing In the framework of the sec
ond floor, and though it did not inter
fere with the placing of the frame
work on all sides and above it, the
contractor was worried to know what
had become of it. When the frame
work had grown as high as the sixth
or seventh story and the missing
piece had not been found around the
railroad yards or heard Of from any
other source, he wrote to the steel
mill, describing it as closely as pos
sible, ordering that il be duplicated.
BY the return mail he received the
following reply:
'As ground space IS more valuable
in Chicago than here in the country,
we are storing missing grder for you.
We knew that you would need steel
derrick on that floor, and kept the
girder out so you would have room.
Will ship 1t after the remaining
stories have been completed"
The mill men had figured correctly
on the building hundreds Of miles
away, and the girder could not have
been placed in position, even II 1t had
been on the ground, on account of the
derrick,
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16
The Colored Band.

Wen de colod BAN comes ma'chin' down
de street
You kin hyeah de ladies all erroun' re-
peat:
Amt dey handsome2 Amt dey gran?
Amt dey splendid? Goodness, lam!
wy. -dey's pu'fect f'om dey fo'heads to
dey feet!"
An SIGH steppin' to de music down de
line,
'Tain't de music by itself dat meks II
fine;
Hits de walkin', step by step,
An de keepin' time wild Hep
Dat meks common ditty SCUM divine.
Oh. de white ban play hits music, and
hits mighty good to hyeah.
An II sometimes leave a ticklin' In yo'
feet;
But de heat goes into business
Fu' to help erlong de eah,
Wen de colo'd ban goes ma chin down
de street.
Paul Laurence Dunbar in New Orleans
Ttmes-Democrat.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16
A SAD MISTAKE.
The Difference In Word Did the Ed.
tor Out Of Spring frys.

The Difference In Word Did the Ed.
tor Out Of Spring Frys.
"Ah! Good morning. Mr.. Editor"
said the rurallooking visitor, briskly.
entering the sanctum. I've brought
you In some nice spring poultry, which
l."
exclaimed the busy editor, savagely.
exclaimed the bsuy editor, savagely.
II don't want It! Haven't any room
for t."
The rural-appearing visitor hurried
Sout,. looking scared. The society re-
potter got his breath and gasped:
"'whlwh.what's this? No room for
spring poultry?"
Poultry! Great heavensl" and the
editor got up and tore his hair. II
thought he said poetry."-New York
Times.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16
Books.

All, Mariana seemeth me,
Like nothing else so much to be
As rare volume, richly bound,
In which, when opened, there Is found
No knowledge, sense, nor sentiment,
But litter unintelligent
While Isabelle Is like a book
Made for the uses of a cook, =
Which may be handled carelessly
AS never other tome should be,
Within discover her beadroll,
Collects for body, not for soul. .
And Araminia Is a tract
With wordy controversy packed,
Not with the things of mild report
Informed but full of smart retort,
Cad! while a true man knows himself,
Such will be left upon the shelf.
But Daphne doth the heart delight,
Like volume bound IN vellum white,
Wherein may all men plainly see
Sweet wit and dainty poesy,
Wide thought Of human joys and woes
And wisdom such as love bestows.
&C. Leech in the Era
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16
STORY OF THE GOOD BOY.
No Honesty Is the Best Policy" for
Him Any More.

Him Any More.
a newsboy picked up a $40 bill in
front of one of the big hotels yester.
day. Another young artist of the
brush that is black, but artistic, saw
the pickup and guessed it was money.
He made loud plead for division.
"Halvers, or I'll squeal," he yelled.
While Red was hesitating an elder
ly, benevolent-looking man stepped
out of the hotel and gazed at the pave
ment in an inquiring manner.
Red saw the man and guessed that
1t was his money. He impulsiyely
ran to him and inquired:
I'D you lose somethin', misterT
why, yes, little man, just dropped
a bill. Did you see it," he replied
with a winning smile. -,..
This it?" said the boy. extending
grimy paw in which was gripped
the bill. s.
The other boy stood the picture of
alarmed establishment.
The old man took the bill and said:
"That Is it, little man. | am glad to
have it, but it affords me greater
pleasure to know that there is such
an honest, bright boy in the lowly oc-
cupation which Is your start in life.
I predict that you will be a great man
some day. Honesty is the greatest Of
virtues. Thank you, my good boy"
Red stood very still until the old
man had entered the hotel. Then he
said things. The things he said show
ed the perfection of his training in the
slums. They were emphatic. but I'M
printable, and the end of the long
sentence was "an' l fought I'd get
half of de X and make a reppytashun
for bein' honest, and beat Swipsy out
o de cut"
And Swipsy looked at him in silent
scorn several seconds before he stalk
ed away, leaving the good boy to
meditate--and-sw - Kansas City
Journal.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16
CHAPTER X.
The Dying Father.

"Avice!"
II was sick mans feeble call, but
in an instant the slight, graceful form
of the girl thus summoned rose weari-
ly from the sofa on which she had
thrown herself. and approached her
fathers bedside.
His eyes, made larger by Illness,
rested with passionate devotion upon
the young face on which her first grief
the knowledge that her best friend
was slowly passing away from her
had already left Its impress.
What Ia 1t. dear papaf" she said,
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16
BRUIN HAS A HEART
CAPABLE OF STRONG FEELINGS
OF AFFECTION. ..
At Least, Here Is Story Which Goes
to Prove it-Bear Cub Always Kept
Friendly Feeling for His sene-
factor.

"Its funny how people like bear
Stories" said a man who was showing
a friend around the bear pits at the
Geological Park, in the Bronx. Only
the other day stranger was here and
he showed me newspaper that con-
tanned story from Gloucester, Mass.
of two of the crew of fishing
schooner who had bumped into an Ice
berg while they were in their dory,
and how a polar bear showed up and
growled at them, and then drifted
away with the iceberg.
"The stranger asked me II thought
1t was true. / don't see anything
strange about it, although am not
so we'll up on polar bears as I am on
land bears. suppose polar bears like
20 peregrinate, and this one that was
seen by the Gloucester fishermen was
probably making a voyage for his
health.
"A good many years ago was in a
lumber camp in Minnesota. Becoming
tired of the long and dreary winter, I
concluded to go South. The Missis-
sippi River was frozen over at that
point, and as | was, hardy and had
plenty of time, started on my journey
on skates. - ..
after | had been out several days
encountered brown bear that was
Just emerging from its cubhood. 1t
seemed to be friendly and / tossed 1t
some Of the proyender from my bag.
ut evidently appreciated this, for II
made no effort to leave me. 1t fol.
lowed me all day, and when I went
ashore in the evening to pass the
night, 1t would have followed me If I
had not escaped from it by strategy.
when l went on the ice next morn
ing the bear showed up. don't know
where it had spent the night, but 1t
Joined me, as have stated, in my
journey.
"A day or two later I found as I
travelled farther South that the fee was
becoming unsafe, and left the river to
resume my journey by land, in a leis.
urely way. The bear stuck to me.
II had become very affectionate. Then
it occurred to me to turn into 1t a
source of revenue. ,.'j
Il adopted it and taught il various
tricks, lingering in the vicinity where
| had quit the ice. for more than a
week When | went out to forage
secured the bear to tree. On my re-
turn it always greeted me as fondly
as a dog would have done.
"Then / started with it giving bear
shows in the various towns. When I
got to Keokuk found a bigger show
than mine in town, and as was get.
ting tired of the business, l sold my
pet to the manager and resumed my
Journey like a white man.
Some years after that while was
In Colorado went to show and in
passing the animals / saw a bear
which looked familiar. | spoke to ii
and it recognized me. II cut up such
capers that l persuaded the keeper to
let me go into the cage, and when I
got there that bear was so affection
ately demonstrative that / was posi-
tive of its identity.
When quit the cage it moaned, and
not long after | ran across the show
man again and the keeper told me
my bear died of broken heart soon
after | had left 1t. / am convinced
that bears can love, and anything that
can love never forgets. "-New York
Sun.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16
Yves. Point Buildings.

During the next few years 100000
will be spent in new buildings at the
Military Academy at West Point.
which win make that institution equal
in It's architectural features, dormitory
conveniences, lecturerooms, laborator-
les and other buildings TO any OF the
great universities of the world.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16
Returned the Kiss.

when got to town to-day my Oh
girl met me on the street and ran
right up and kissed me-"
"Oh, see-and you kissed her
back?"
NO; I kissed her sister. She's
prettier." = Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
II there is anything more annoying
than callow youth 1t is imbecile age.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16

co.n's kidney nu,
DO freedom from
- trouble pos pos
~ carry q sln
inssdlicatioa TO the |,
.s,. that brings sS = :
sases' -. are
a Ma back, and ,,, LON
%s..scome. swelling i,
smSs ard dropsS
Locx HEvrN, IA .
II, ". Ammumen
few weeks ago ! !
.,rial box Of poan ! : ,
sI,s for myself, and
M they as are said .l,, 70
|-.band vas kscSoo
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16
IT WAS PREsENrAeLH
Soldiers Wife Sat Up All Mai,
Mend the FIau Tattered In 81

Mend the Flag Tattered In Bs,,I.
One of our leading generals ON i,
return from the Philippines, bron.s.
with him a flag all tattered with SAa
let's which he had captured from ~
enemy, and which he showed v,.s
pride to his family and household y
Next morning this trophy was "a !.
presented to the commanderincb,s.
When he came to look for the Gag i
was missing.
Where is my flag?" he cried in "a,
sternation. what has become q, y,
His wife brought it to him with
smile Of proud satisfaction.
81 sat up all night and menaed 4
and now 1t looks nearly as good =
new" she said.-Springfield Rem,
lican.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16
Do Your Feet Ache and Burnt

Do Your Feet Ache and Burnt
Shake into your shoes, Aliens Foot
Ease, a powder for the feet. 1t makes
tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures
Swollen, Hot, Sweating Feet, sCorns
and Bunions. At all Druggists aud
Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE
Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy, N, 7.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16

When trouble finds woman. inces.
SAINT weeping is apt to spoil her eyes;
with a man 1t Is the end Of the nose
that most often tells the tale.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16
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The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-16

The wife OF
liant Irish ag
great courage
bands success
agement. ",
ton in Soutt
a friend Gale
to have a 4
toned in fro
tel of which
the owners,
mob would 7
wreck the bT
any such tn
in the hou
blinds pulle
window VIII
seen from
something
did-Every
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-31
$ u Or IS
FANS FORM
A BASEBALL LEAGUE
Managers Meet and Decide to have
One Next Year-Six Factories
Represented.

A baseball league, composed of the
factory teams of Perth Amboy. Will
be organized next year. Following a
suggestion in the Evening News, the
managers of several of the local fac
tories held a meeting and the idea
was agreed to.
There will be six teams in the
league as follows: Raritan Copper
Works; Standard Underground Cable
Works; Perth Amboy Terra Gotta
Works; Roessler- Hasslaoher Chemical
Works; American Smelling & Re-
fining Company and the Standard
Terra Gotta Works.
1t is the plan to play a game every
clear Saturday. The diamond at the
Raritan Copper Works, which Is the
best in the city, will be used.
Next year it will be put in first
class order and a man will be paid to
take charge of it.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-31
SHOES FOR
Speciality Made of FOOtgear for Per-
sons with Crippled Feet and
Short Legs,

with all that is published about COM
fort for the feet and Improvements made
by men in the regular trade" said a shoe
manufacturer in Brooklyn, nothing has
been said about men who make a spe-
cialty of extension shoes for cripples
and deformed persons. 1t is not so long
ago that it was almost an impossibility
for a man with a deformed foot or a
short leg to hide his misfortune. We all
remember the heavy, thick-soled blocks
with high heels, that made a man feel
almost al uncomfortable as though he
had a wooden leg. You see very few of
them now. Manufacturers have been i'm
proving on the extension shoe, as it is
called in the trade. by the use of springs
and other -contrivances, until they IAN
make a deformed foot look very much
like any other foot, unless it is a very
bad case. A man with one leg two or
three inches shorter than the other can
have a pair of boots made so that no
body need know it but his shoemaker.
Customers in our particular line have
as many pairs of shoes as other men, In
calf, tan and patent leather, and In all
the fashionable shapes, too. They have
to pay about three times as much for
them as men with both feet alike do;
that&zell the difference"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-31
LOCAL MEN MAY
ENTER CYCLE RACE.
Contest on C0ney Island Cycle Path
Attracts Much lnterest-Hand-
some Prizes offered.

Wilbur Skidmore, manager for
Jorgen Hanson, the crack bicycle
rider, OF this city, is going tohry and
make arrangements foS~HAson to
enter the twenty-five mile raceA to be
held over the Coney Island cycle path
on Labor Day.
Mr.. Skidmore claims that Hanson is
in fine trim, and that he has entirely
recovered from the accident, which
put him out of the bicycle world a
few years ago. Friends will also try
to persuade H. P. Hansen. the local
Danish champion wrestler, to enter
the same rae
The prizes offered are we'll worth
trying for, and as the entries are open
to all, there is no reason why a local
man should not get one. Thus far
the Bay View Wheelman's Club, of
Newark, the Times Bicycle Club, of
Philadelphia, and a number of single
riders have sent in their entry BLANKS.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-31
Lived as an Ok.

DIR. Edward Stanton, a character of
Kokomo, Ind, for 60 years, died recent
ly, aged 80 years. Years ago Stanton
lost his practice and fortune, and it
affected his mind. Since then he had
imagined himself an OK and grass and
hay was his principal diet. He walked
on all tours in the pasture of the county
farm, grazing constantly with the cat
tie. horses and sheep. He almost lost
his power of speech, and of late years
his conversation consisted of cultural
sounds, resembling those of an animal.
He died suddenly, with mouth and stom-
ach filed with grass. 1t is thought pois-
onous herbs killed him.