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The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-18
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Saved hx BAD Grammar.

Oliver Sumner Teale has friend OF
impressionable age who recently at
tended a child's party principally pc
cause the child's inamorata was to oe
among the grown-ups present. AS tho
story goes the smitten ones took occa-
sion to slip off to quiet spot for a
little quiet conversation. There were
plenty of other adults to watch the In
fantile jewellers, and the desertion was
not noticed except by the niece Of the
young lady who was abandoning duty
for pleasure. The tiny maiden saw
her aunt and her escort settling them
selves in a coy corner, and reached II
at critical moment, so critical, that
every one in the place was startled by
a piping voice, exclaiming:
kiss me, too, aunty!"
But aunty was equal to the occasion.
Before the knowing smiles had time tn
vanish from the faces of those in the
secret she was heard replying, calmly.
but reproachfully:
Certainly will But how careless
ly you speak, Mamie! Do not say
Kiss me two say Kiss me twice -
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-18
MACHINE FOR RIPPING SEAMS.
Colorado Woman Has Invented a
Special Tool for the Task,

A Colorado Woman Has Invented a
Special Tool for the Task.
A Colorado woman, Mrs. A. M. Min
ter of Petersburg, has made bid for
a fortune and the gratitude of the rest
of her sex by inventing new weapon
for the sewing table. She calls it a
seam ripper.
1t is a double edged knife with one
edge jagged to do the ripping. A
hook is attached to the knife and
with this the threads of ripped seams
can be pulled out by slight turn of
the wrist.
The ripping of seams in making
over old clothes is the meanest part
of such task. Mrs. Minter says her
implement makes it easy.
The idea came to her where she was
ripping up some baby clothes. She
had worked on them in turn with scis-
sors, knife, razor and corn knife
and none Of these was satisfactory,
so she invented special tool.
She has patented 1t since, and she
says she has received an offer of $1O.-
600 for the patent, but she expects to
receive even a bigger price for her
simple continuance.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-18
A MARYLAND Wonder.

Upper Cross Roads, Md, June 18th.
Never in tile hiftory of medicine in
this state has anything created such
sensation by its marvellous cures OF
the most extreme cases as Dodds
Kidney Pills ..~s
This wonderful medicine seems to
know no limit to its wonder working
power. Long standing cases that
have defed the most expert medical
treatment seem to yield easily to this
new conqueror OF disease.
Hundreds have testified TO the yir-
tue Of Dodd's Kidney Pills. They tell
of severe cases of Rheumatism Lum'
bago, Backache, Female Trouble, Ner'
vous Diseases and even Dropsy, Dia'
betes and Bright's Disease cured BY
this medicine.
Among those who have been bene
flied may be mentioned Mrs. John
Cooney of this place.
Mrs. Cooney says:
81 believe Dodd's Kidney Pills the
best remedy ever known for Kidney
Trouble and weak back.
"They are without exception the
best medicine have ever used.
81 will always praise them highly
for | know that they are good"
Mrs. Cooney is only one Of many
who say of Dodd's Kidney Pills:
"The most wonderful remedy We
ever heard Of"
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-18
TOAST OF JOHN ADAMS.
Inspiration for Charming Sentiment.
Found In Picture.

Inspiration for a Charming Sentiment
Found In a Picture.
When Lafayette visited London
county he was entertained with other
eminent guests by President Monroe
at Oak Hill. Leesburg, too, the his
toric town nine miles from Monroe's
country seat, accorded him honors on
that occasion, and az a dinner at that
town John Quincy Adams delivered a
famous toast to the surviving patriots
of the Revolution, who, he said, were
like the Sybilline leaves-the fewer
they became the more precious they
were.
On the return to Oals Hill, another
Of Monroe's guests said to Mr., Adams:
Excuse the impertinence, but would
you not tell me what inspired the beau.
tiful sentiment of your toast to-day?'
why" replied Mr.. Adams, lit was
suggested this morning by the picture
of the Sybil that hangs in the hall Of
the Oak Hill mansion
How strange" remarked the less
brilliant guest. 81 have looked at that
picture many times during the past
years, and that thought never occurred
to me."-Leslie's Monthly.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-18
Cool Air Over Forests.

When a balloon passes over for
est it descends and ballast must be
thrown out to keep 1t up. Prof. Moull-
lefert of the French national agricul-
tural college of Grignon says this
is due to the existence of
prism of cool, moist air,
produced by the abundant trans
piration Of the trees and extending to
a height Of from 5000 to 5000 feet
above the tree tops. Prof Mouillefert
also says that while forests drain the
soil underneath them they keep the
upper layer to depth of four or five
inches moist.-Youths' Companion.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-18
What Was Shall BE.

How fair the fields aforetime cleaned.
Arrayed with bloom that lured the beef
And how the wind-wrecked woodland
dreamed
Behind its varied tapestryi
Song mounted silvering up the sky,
Rang rapturous through the naves OF
blue,
Close seemed the silences to lie
To music such as Ariel knew.
What was shali bel o heart OF mine,
In earth's renascence-blade and
bloom
May we not rightfully divine
The vernal light beyond the tomb7
Clinton Scotland In Independent.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-18
One on Dad.

The father of the small boy was to
make a speech at public dinner. As
1t was his first attempt there had been
a great deal of talk and fiippancy
about it In the family. When the inn
portant night arrived and the child
and his mother were left alone the lat
ter remarked;
81 think father must be making his
speech just about this time hope
they'll applaud him"
"why?" asked the son.
well, to encourage him."
"Oh; do they know he can't speak,
too?"
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-18
Baptized and Spanked.

There was a "baptizing" In the
creek near Fredonia, Kas., the other
day. One of the candidates was a
girl of twelve years. AS she went UNI
der the water she had her month
open, and when she came up she was
spluttering as half choked people will.
Then she was led crying to the bank
and her mother seized her and shook
her and spanked her before the whole
crowd. And one cannot help wonder
ing how much Of the gentle spirit OF
sanctification the girl got between her
choking and spanking.-K Kansas CitN
Journal.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-18
Worst Ever.

Hear about the terrible affiiction
that befell our friend Blank las,
night?" asked Enpeck, as he boaraea
downtown car. J.
mo-" said Meeker. What was ~
my wife eloped with him." replieO
Enpeck. with a suppressed chuckie.-
Chicago News.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-18
woRKMEN FIND A TREASURE.
Quit Their Job and start for New
York for a Coed Time.

y
Stories OF a rich find OF ancient
treasure by six laborers are being CIR
culated among the American and for
eign workmen employed on the extern
sive Improvements to the N. c. X.
Railway in the vicinity OF York Ha-
ven. "3n
About one week ago an American
gang boss set six men to work tearing
down and carting away the ruins OF an
old house, which fire had destroyed
about fifteen years ago.
The men had made little progress
upon the work when the six appeared
before the boss and informed him
that they had decided to quit and re-
turn to New York. When asked to ex-
plain their sudden decision, Antonio
Luigi, known on the contractors book
as %, said: I'VE no lika disa job.
Gotta better job" ma .E sea
The laborers then disappeared from
the vicinity. Luigi, who it seems had
not gone farther than Harrisburg,
where he separated from his COM
pantons, turned up rev hours laIeT
in Goldsboro. He had a roll of crisp
bank notes of liberal size and spent
money freely in treating his friends.
The foreigners say that Luigi told them
that he and his companions while at
work upon the ruins of the old house
discovered a rusted iron chest which
when broken open was found to CON
tain a large sum of money in ancient
gold and silver coins. To substantiatc
his story Luigi, it is said, exhibited a
handful of American and Spanish gold
coins of early dates. When asked how
much was in the chest he would say
many hundred dollars"
The story goes that the sum found
was in the neighborhood of $4,000,
says the New York World. Luigi has
disappeared. ~ III Al
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-18
WOMEN WHO DON'T WEAR STAYS
Dressmaker Does Not Like Them for
Reasons She Gives the Public.

Dressmaker Does Not Like Them for
Reasons She Gives the Public.
In these days there are few women
who do not wear corsets. A few, how.
ever, regard these appliances as in
furious to health and perfect figure
and accordingly will have nothing 10
do with them.
"Corsetless women may be things Of
beauty, but, as far as am concerned,
they are not joys forever" complained
dressmaker Indeed, they're the
very-well, awful trials. oh, yes,
know you've heard a lot about unfet-
tered grace, curves out of a prison,
the perfect understanding of beauty
as to her own strongest point and all
that. l could say it or write it my
self If anyone would bid high enough
for my time. Talking is so very cheap,
though, and what some masculine en-
thusiast says about something of
which he knows nothing won't hold
water as far as I am concerned.
Il happen to have for a patron a
beauty who is so stuck on herself
that she won't wear stays-nothing
must hamper those curves of hers!
Every time / try to fit her VOW it
will be the last time. She is never
the same size twice. Whatever it's
due to can't tell-she may eat or
drink more or less or she may be
breathing much more deeply. Or per-
haps she's sometimes more pulled up
with pride. At any rate, she never
measures the same. dress other
fashionables in way most pleasing
with no trouble-for this one dresses
are never done and never right"
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-18
ADVANTAGE Of Rlche.

Physician-The truth can no longer
be hidden, madam. l am obliged to
tell you that your little soi is --er---
weak-minded; that is--vell. 1t must be
said--he is an idiot.
MANDY, whar's Innocence JinlSlns?"
"No one will ever motto, it."--,New
York Weekly.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-18
Not Too Healthy.

Shopkeepers in old Greenwich viii
lage have quaint way of taking their
customers into their confidence In the
signs they put in their windows. On
the window of little cook-shop in that
region is Inscribed in green paint the
following legend: Good thiIgs to eat:
healthy; but not too all fired healthy"
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-18
Willing to Do II, Anyhow.

Host (pairing off his guests) -Mr.
Makinbrakes, you will please take MISS
Gumwell out to dinner.
Mr.. MISUNDERSTANDING. But
great Scott, where? Don't you have
dinner here in the house?--Chicaso
Tribune.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-18
Cause Of the Mirth.

Bridget" said Mrs. Hyfyte, your
lady friend mustn't stay so late nere'
after. Her uproarious laughter woh0
me up at o'clock this morning !.
"Yis mum; / was tellin' her aoous
you tried to make cake wan day =
Indianapolis Sun.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-18
Good-Niuht.

The day has gone to sleep. within the
wales,
Shadows are Graded In the em'rald
grass,
And on the heights the roseate sunset
Jales,
And from the clouds the crimson colors
pass.
Good might, sweet dayi The stars come
out on high.
To watch the pathway which your foot
steps trod.
And pave with vastness the great deeps
of sky,
And bring our souls In fuller touch with
God.
Eliza A. Otis n Los Angeles Times.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-18
DO Your Feet Acne and eurnl

Shake into your shoes. Aliens foos
Ease, powder for the feet. 1t makss
tight OF New Shoes feel Easy. cure
Swollen, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns
and Bunions. At all Druggists sns
Shoe Stores. 25c. Sample sent FREE.
Address Allen s. Olmsted. Leroy, NJ j.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-18
cutiGuraS So
When

Every child
an Inherited
dency to dist
mours of the
becomes an oil
sollcitude, not
Ing, but becai
that the disna
and mar Its fu
perity. Hence
mothers of SUI
quaint themse
purest and N
available, viz,
Warm baths
cleanse the SKI
scales, gentle
Ointment, to
and inhammat|
and mild doses
cool the blood
ell that can b.
relief and per
tured infants a
fort of worn-o
Mtuionsof Y
assisted by C.
serving, purifI
skin, scalp, ha
Ing irritation
Tor many sana
which readily
Sold throughout IN
brm Of Chocolate q
msn,, Soc, SOAP, 25c
sa.i Paris, 5 Rue de
Potter Drug 4 Chem
e. Send for" Ho /
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-18
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nuErrxr.D, Iyp.

nuzrrxIp, In.
~ rheumatism.
~ no relief from
e.. Ibegan TO inn
,.sing Doan's san
-. two boxes at q
20 and, although
see, / am alnio.
20 ives trouble
Al with my water
~ up four and Nv
sht That trouol1
IN and once mo-
~, the night throu
Ssckache Is all gol
tssnk you ever so !
a. wonderful m e
mans kidney Pills.
JNo. H Hi
President Ridgeville
Indiana, sta
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1903-08-28
u. S. BOAT
FIRED ON
Attacked on Lake Erie by Canadian
Cutter


The Silver Spray, a fishing boat owned
at Erie, was fired upon in the middle
of Lake Erie by the Canadian revenue
cutter Petrol. The Petrol is kept CON
stanly on the lookout for United States
boats poaching on the Canadian side
of the lake..
About noon she came upon the Silver
Spray on the Canadian side of the lake
and at once ordered Capt. Chris Chau
to stop. The Petrol is a strong steel
craft, and it is said, attempted to ram
the American boat before she could
comply with the formers order. Capt.
Chau, remembering the fate of several
other boats from this side, which had
been captured and confscated, two
from Erie, only last season decided to
try to escape, and started ahead at full
speed The captain of the Petrol
opened fire with all the guns he had on
board and before he ceased firing some
20 shots had struck the Silver Spray
One ball passed completely through
the smokestack and into the pilot
house, in which Chau stood at the
wheel. Two others also lodged in the
pilot house, one of which came within
a few inches of the captain scattering
q myriad of splinters about his head.
Two shots enetered the toilet room,
two the cabin, two penetrated the
cabins roof, three lodged in the after
hurricane deck and others in various
parts of the vessel.
The chase was kept up for several
miles, Capt. Chau finally got across
The dividing line, and the Petrol gave
Up the pursuit.
Capt. Chau says he was only looking
,or some of his nets. which had drifted
oward the Canadian shore. Inter
national complications may ensue.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1903-08-28
NEGRO PEGS
FOR LAWYER

On warrant from Surry county,
William Jones, a negro, was arrested
at Petersburg, Va, charged with as
sault with intent to kill and rob one
William Green. The details of the
affair are not known beyond the fact
that Green was knocked down and was
being robbed, when the assailant was
driven away. The assault occurred
over two months ago and the assailant
fled from the county.
The responses to the appeals of Doc
Bacon, one of the negroes, condemned
to be hanged at Boydton on the End Of
September for attempted criminal as
sault on Mrs. G. E. Geohegan, at Chase
City, for money to aid him in getting
stay of execution and new trial are
coming in very slowly. Bacon wants
to raise about 5000 to secure the SER
vices of lawyer. As some doubt has
arisen as to the negroes guilt-caused
not only by own persistent declara-
ions of innocence, but by the equally
positive assertions of Anderson Finch
that he had nothing to do with the as
sau1t-it is thought the governor will
be asked to grant a reprieve for Bacon
until a full investigation can be made.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1903-08-28
WHAT THE CONSEQUENCE.


But few short years ago labor
leaders were looked upon with distrust
and suspicion, and everyone had a
roast for the Unions business agent,
or walking delegate" Honesty OF
purpose of business agents and labor
leaders, however, worked a big change,
and now the recognition of labor's
head officers and representatives is tho
rule instead of the exception" writes
Charles w. Fear in the Western La
borer. At the present time consider
able discussion is being INDUCED in
by leaders in both the democratic and
republican parties as to the advisable
ity OF nominating a representative la
Dor leader for vice-president by the
next national convention. This senti-
ment has reached the stage of being
discussed in the leading party organs
of the country, and it is recalled to
as mind that Theodore Roosevelt and
John Mitchell have been coupled to-
gether as running mates in 1904 by re-
publicans, while w. R. Hearst and H.
w. Steonbiss, general secretary of the
National Building Trades Council. have
been spoken of favorably in demo-
cratic circles. Should either combina-
ton be successful it would certainly be
interesting to know what effect the
nomination of a laboring man for vice.
president ~ one of the two old parties
would have an the labor vote. Unity
d aclion BY 1aboring men Of the United
States is being counseled by labor lead
ers, and large percentage of the men,
bers of the older organizations act
along this line. 1t is an open question,
though, whether the nomination Of
one of their leaders for the second place
on either of the tickets would influence
their voting in national politics. La
Dor Unionist.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1903-08-28
SWAN THE RAPIDS.
J. w. Glenister Successfully Accom-
plished Feat.

J. w. Glenister. the New York City
.thlete and swimmer, successfully swan
Niagara Rapids. He is now at hotel
n Lewiston, N. Y, in a badly battered
md bruised condition. For several
tours he was unconscious. He is badly
sashed on the head, arms, back and
limbs from coming into contract with
he rocks.
He entered the rapids at the Cantil-
yer bridge, from which he was to have
Jumped on Sunday and was stopped by
The police and was taken out of the
water 20 minutes later, half dead, at
he Devils Hole, at the end of the
'apids by Captain Peter G. Donnellen
If the life-saving crew, and a number
If Italian workmen who were on their
way to work on the railroad.
Glenister, in raving condition, was
quickly taken to Wagner's hotel in
Lewiston and put, to bed. He was
brought to Buffalo in the afternoon
Moving pictures of the daring swim
we're taken.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1903-08-28
MINISTER'S SAD
DOWNFALL
Love For Married Woman Made
Him Robber.

Through love of a married woman
the Rev. A. l.. Blazor is under arrest
81 Salt Lake City, Utah, charged with
A0idisas up street car and robbing its
eeSilpants.
Iaz0r was formerly minister of the
AIethoVist church and held pastorates
in California, Colorado and Illinois.
While he was in Illinois, according to
the story, he fell in love with the wife
of one of the members of his flock,
when it seems that he was forced to
leave the town and the church.
He sought relief from his troubles in
liquor, it is said. When the recent war
broke out he enlisted in the regular
army. His recklessness became the
talk of his company, used to reckless
deeds. He returned with his regiment
to the United States, coming with it
to Fort Douglass, which overlooks Salt
Lake City. He is reported to have
been drinking heavily recently.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1903-08-28
ORDERS 1900
MEN LAID OFF
Pennsylvania Railroad Making Whole
sale Reduction in Force.

The Pennsylvania railroad has order
ed wholesale reduction of it's working
force, and by the end of August the
corporation will have laid off about
1900 men. One of the officials here
when asked the reason for this re-
trenchment said:
''We are handling as much freight as
ever, but we have been working under
too great an expense. The discharge
of so many men will not affect the
system, nor does it mean that bust
ness is decreasing. We have laid off
about 200 men in the Altoona shops be-
cause of the enormous expense we have
beeen under putting in new machinery.
We must reduce the payroll so as to
make "a financial showing for all the
business the lines are doing"
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1903-08-28
PROTESTS CONTINUE.
Georgia Aroused Over the De Girls
Whipping

Letters of protest from Georgia and
the entire country are coming into
Governor Terrell protesting against the
whipping of Mamie De. Girls, the Dia-
mond Queen. The report of the pris-
on commission was in the nature of
a Scothch verdict-'Not guilty but pay
the COSTS" Warden Allegood it seems
has been absolutely, falsely and mali
eiously" charged, but it was thought
that his resignation should be accepted
because "his usefulness may have been
impaired.
The Allegood incident has had an
evil effect in all the Georgia penal in
stitutions, especially among negro con-
victs. At Milledgeville about rs negro
women an the state farm have been
showing spirit of lawlessness. They
seem to think that whipping has been
entirely abolished Captain Foster has
felt it necessary to go to the different
squads and tell them very plainly that
there was no change in the laws and
unless the went on with the work in
the usual way they would not only get
whipped. but get more of it. This had
the desired fleet and things are now
much be y.
They do not mind working for men,
but have no patience with orders from
women. Yet it is absolutely necessary
to have a matron at the buildings. A
greet many are in for murder.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1903-08-28
JOKE RsULTED IN DOUBLE
MARRIAGE.

Its all get married. said Miss
Bertha stienforth. as7she was leayine
her home in Coyington. KY, with an
other young lady and two young mer
the other night, the party being bound
for a soda water fountain at the corner
The remark was taken seriously, anf
within half an hour or shortly afte'
. midnight Miss Stienforth was Mrs
John w. FIillman, and Miss Lulu Mehl
man became Mrs. Charles A. Ebrenz
The midnight double wedding caused
quite a sensation in the town, as the
parties are very well-known.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1903-08-28
SCENTED MURDER; SAW SNAKES

Patrolmen Crabtree and Lee of In
Annapolis, Ind, neither of them drink
ng men. had an experience with snakes
hat nearly turned Crabtree's hair gray
md robbed Lee of the power of speech.
md it is still question which one of
he policemen can take the longest
'teps in the shortest period of time.
While walking along the canal bank at
Brighton Beach the patrolmen happen
I'D to glance in the water. Several
feet from the shore they saw very
fuspicious looking box moving slowly
along with the lazy stream towards
White river. They scented another
ghoul horror, but when the box was
opened nothing was found but dead
snakes.