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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-09-05
HAND BAGS

About four dozen Hand Bags, fancy
Crochet and Embroidered, worth up
to soc and 75c, Choice Ice.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-09-05
RIBBONS

Fancy figured silk ribbon. good
hair bow widths SC. 3s f
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-09-05
RIBBONS
PARAsoLs

Still few parasols left. 1t will
pay you to buy, you still can get
months comfort out OF one and save
quite a little on next year. While
they last, HALF PRICE. 54
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-09-05
Call for youf September
number Of the Pictorial
Fashion Shtet

HANDkERcHIEFs
children's school handkerchiefs Of
fine soft cambria, good enough for any
occasion and cost little if lost. Per
dozen 25c. w
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-09-05

HANDkERcHiEFs
Warranted all linen handkerchief
with neat floral embroidered cor
ner, SC.
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

Do your Christmas shopping early, do IL
early, mother dear
Also sister, aunt and cousin, and all kim
dred far and near;
Make your list tomorrow morning, put
down all those you'll remember
And you'll find that you've forgotten nine
or ten late in December.
Make your Christmas slippers early,
make them for your pastor dear;
Make the doilies and the pillows that de-
prive us of our cheer;
And you'll find the one to whom you shig
the rich, hand-painted dishes,
Sends you back little card that is gold.
tinseled: christmas Wishes!'
Do your Christmas shopping early-but
you'll find, as sure as fate,
That your list will grow the longer at a
simply awful rate,
And on Christmas eve you'll struggle
through the crush, all grum and
surly,
Trying to make one last purchase that
you kept postponing early.
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don't want to begin it wrong, yet ]
don't know the right"
Il don't believe much in saying
things" the young farmer remarked /;
my policy is to do them. And now,
are you going to stay here in this
lonely place much longer? 1t is
showing and 1t is late"
Il suppose / ought to co." she
said doubtfully, but it is so lovely
here in the silence"
Look here" he said suddenly,
don't you keep your tea things in
that little cupboard? l have got to
go to town, and when | come back
III bring something for a little sup
per, and we can watch the old year
out. Then I'll take you home in the
sleigh"
How good of YOU" She held out
her hand to him. "You haven't
bothered me with advice, and you are
doing something to make me com.
Portable. That is just like you, Jack
Norton"
He blushed little, this big kindly
man, who looked upon the little
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

The New Year begins earliest on
the 1S0th meridian, that is at the part
of the world which lies exactly oppo-
site Greenwich, on the magic line
where sailors have to jump a day
either forwards or backwards, accord
ing as they are sailing with or against
the sun.
The earth rotates on it's axis once
every twenty-four hours, so that in the
same period of time the sun apparent
ly circles the earth. Supposing We
travel around the earth In the same
direction as the sun, and at a speed
great enough to keep 1t In sight, then
We get back to our starting point with
out once seeing a sunset, so that as
far as We are concerned it is still the
same day. AS matter OF fact, it is
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19
A SUGGESTION.

YES" says the literary man to his
seat mate in the suburban train, Il
always try to CLEAN some sort of an
idea during my trip to and from town,
While l am on the train ] am on the
alert for a suggestion for joke or a
verse or story"
Good idea," comments the friend.
Sure. Can't waste the time, you
'.now. Why last week l happened to
see man on the train and the sight
OF him suggested a story that brought
me in 5000"
Say, If l was you I'd ride on the
Grains all the time"
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

AcA oOhO "a z
where she might be alone. On the
crest of hill, far up the read, stood
the schoolhouse where she taught. 1t
was closed now and dark.
II will go there Nell said to her.
self, and just then voice behind her
called: Supper is ready"
II don't want any," Nell said
wearily. I'm going out for a little
while, Mrs. McGregor I'll be back
by ten.'
The snow began to fall softly as
she left the house, and by the time
she reached the school it was begin
ming to drift against the fences
There was no fire within, but Nell
lighted one, and when the warmth
began to steal into the room, she
drew the one big chair close to the
hearth and in the peaceful loneliness
gave herself up to her thoughts.
But she was not to remain in peace
long. There was a sound of sleigh
bells without, heavy steps on the
threshold, and she looked up to see
the burly form Of young farmer in
the doorway.
We'll, WE'LL" he said, 81 saw the
light and came in. Who would have
dreamed that you would be here
alone?"
Nell smiled wearily. Il came to be
quiet"
Then you don't want me-"
"Oh, sit down." she said, somewhat
ungraciously.
But he stood by the fireplace and
looked down at her.
What's the matter?" he asked alb.
ruptly.
Nothing" family.
Don't tell me that; / know bet
ter"
IF tell you," she asked, "you
mustn't give me any advice. I have
had so much advice l hate it,"
He sat down beside her. "Tell
ihead," he said, "and I'll promise to
listen like the Sphinx"
You see, it is this way" she said;
my uncle in town is rich. He is
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

They piled it up to here.
1t must have taken awful long
To count just once a year.
They tell me when I go to bed
The last December night,
I'll have to go without a meal
Until the next years light.
Some people think they're awfu
smart,
But l know what they mean;
The next year has to be next day
There's nothing in between.
A New Years days a happy time
For almost every one
1t seems a sort of start of things,
With nothing quite begun,
And everybodys feeling young
And spry, just like boy,
l hope your happy New Year will
Be spilling-full of Joy.
TOMMY.
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

If New Years comes as late again
This year as it did last,
l don't believe I'll get to see
The end, when it goes past,
And when the new one starts to go
Across the calendar,
Last time l watched until I dreamed
| was a New Years star.
Pa says there isn't anything
That folks can see or hear
When midnight comes and Father
Time
Brings in another year.
But maybe he is fooling me.
Why do the people sing
And call it watch-night meeting, and
Why do the church bells ring?
Pa says they got the number Of
The year by adding one
Each New Years to the year before,
And when that year was done,
By adding on another, till
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

exactly one day later. Even if you do
not keep the sun over you on your
voyage, 1t is apparent that you will
reach your starting point with your
calculations one day out, unless you
have provided for this by striking out
an extra day on the calendar. II you
travel against the sun you will have
to add day to the calendar.
The convention that has been estab-
lished with regard to this matter is to
consider the day as beginning at the
180th meridian, SO that the 181st
meridian is always a day ahead OF the
179th. AS the day begins first at the
180th meridian, the New Year comes
first at that point, too. being there
twelve hours sooner than 1t comes at
Greenwich.
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19
Man With the Conundrunn.

The man with the disconnected
whiskers and the undecided ears slid
into the Office and tiptoed apologetical
ly to the desk of the pale hireling
with the indiscriminate typewriter.
Pardon me for interrupting you,"
he said, rubbing his hands together. 81
know you are busy man, especially
at this time of day. But as | was
passing the Office a rather clever little
thought came to me, and l at once
decided to mention it to you, know.
ing that you could work it up in your
own style much better than l could do
it in mine. OF course, | never wrote
a line in my life, and your field of
effort is entirely alien to mine, but
believe in lending a helping hand
whenever | can, for we never know
what little word or action of ours may
tighten the load of a fellow human, do
WEI"
1--WE do not" agreed the pale hire.
ling.
my idea. briefly sketched, was this:
What is the similarity between the
Turko-Italian war and a baby reach
ing for the block representing the
twenty-second letter of the alphabet?"
"One," said the pale hireling, in
tense tones, lis over Tripoli, the other
Ia after W."
mo, MOI" gleefully exclaimed the
caller. Both need blockade"
And the wan moon hung like
wrath over the serrated mountain
tops, while adown the bosom of the
valley the night winds walled like lost
souls.
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

in darkness athwart the churchyard.
Behold an emblem of myself" he
exclaimed; and the sharp arrows Of
unavailing remorse struck him to the
heart.
Then he remembered his early COM
panions, who had entered life with
him, but who having trod the paths Of
virtue and industry, were now happy
and honored on this New Years
night. The clock in the high church
tower struck, and the sound, falling
on his ear, recalled the many tokens
OF the love of his parents for him;
the prayers they had offered up in his
behalf. Overwhelmed with shame
and grief, he dared no longer look to-
ward that heaven where they dwelt.
His darkened eyes dropped tears, and
with one despairing effort he cried
aloud, Come back, my early days!
Come back"
And his youth did return; for all
this had been but a dream, visiting
his slumbers on New Years night.
He was still young, his errors only
were no dream. He thanked God fer
vently that time was still his own;
that he had not yet entered the deep.
dark cavern, but he was free to tread
the road leading to the peaceful land
where sunny harvests wave.
Ye who still linger on the thresh.
old Of life, doubling which path to
choose, remember that when years
shall be passed. and your feet shall
stumble on the dark mountain, you
will cry bitterly, but cry in vain, 20
youth, return! oh, give me back my
early days!"-Jean Paul Richter.
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

Optimism turns up the corners Of
my mouth, and incidentally the other
fellows. But I won't carry it to a
Nirvana state of inactivity. The world
must move, I know.
A smile will carry me more sue
cessfulIy through the c~ming year
than a frown. Besides, it's more be-
coming.
My husband Is not a hero to the
other woman. She thinks her partner
is just as good. I will give her
chance to sound his praises.
will not shake the other girls
false hair in the mans face. If II
's a good match, he will not believe
me; and if II Is an obvious substitu-
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

| big farmhouse, sun
shiny in summer and secure in win
ter. Then she thought Of her life
with her uncle in a dark apartment
In the streets OF the city She knew
that, In way, it was false idea of
duty that would take her back Yet
she had to go, some force that was
in her seemed impelling her.
The wind blew in great blasts
| against the little house, the snow had
| drifted up to the window sills, and
| white lines Of it pointed across the
window pane like ghostly fingers.
Dragging footsteps came up the path.
Nell listened. 1t was not Jack Nor
ton; these were the steps Of an old
man. From the door a voice quavered
"Are you there, Nell?"
Uncle" she said fearfully, "how
did you come here?"
'I met a young man down the
road" he said. 81 wanted him to
guide me to the McGregors. He told
me you were here.
"You didn't answer my letter." the
old man went on, when she had made
him sit down.
"Are you going back with me?"
Now that she was face to face with
his meanness, it seemed to Nell that
she could never go with him.
81 don't know" she faltered.
Here's a grateful GIRL" the old
man stormed, and just then the
1ni oh hhnn iiyo ~,
moment Jack Norton was in the
room, his arms full of bundles, his
eyes beaming.
$50 this is your uncle" he said.
Il thought so when I directed him
here. You'll stay and have supper
with us, won't you, sir? We are 60
ing to see the old year out and the
new year in"
who are your" the old man
growled.
'I?" Jacks eyes flashed from Nells
covering figure to the grimness OF
the uncle. Then suddenly he took
things in his own hands.
I'm tho man your niece is going
to marry" he said.
What" the old man shouted.
"I'm the man your niece is going
to marry" he said securely. He had
seen the Joy in Nells face.
"But she is going home with me-"
Jack shook his head. mo, she is
going home with me. You can come
whenever you wish, sir. The old
house is big enough for twenty
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

tion, he will think that l am catty.
In either case / lose.
Truth is moon reflected in many
waters" says an eastern proverb.
will remember that when questioning
my erring child.
Union and liberty, one and insep-
arabic, now and forever" is a pretty
good motto for married ones. The
trouble is that liberty drifts into in
significance, and union ends at the di-
vorce courts. / will be wise.
Despite the fact that love makes
the world go round, he cannot pay the
gas bill or the rent. will look out
for the bread and cheese and love
will provide the kisses.
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

to go, yet he is sick and old and
alone. / told Mrs. McGregor and
she tells me to stay here. Then all
the family talked about it and every
body advised. They meant well-but
] couldn't stand 1t, IL don't want to
go, but l must"
He started to say something, then
checked himself.
"I'd like to break that promise"
he said.
mo, you mustn't" she said firmly.
you've all been so good to me here,
and If you" she caught her breath,
"ioin the others in asking me TO stay,
Il will make 1t so hard for me
to CO."
He doesn't deserve much at your
hands," the man stated.
"I know" she said YEARLY, but
tomorrow l begin a new year, and l
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

1t was New Years night. An aged
man was standing by the window. He
mournfully raised his eyes toward the
deep blue sky, where the stars were
floating like white lilies on the sur
face of clear, calm lake. Then he
cast them on the earth, where few
more helpless beings than himself
were moving toward their inevitable
goal-the tomb. Already he had pass
ed sixty of the stages which lead to
it, and he had brought from his jour-
ney nothing but errors and remorse.
His health was destroyed, his mind
unfinished, his heart sorrowful, and
his old age devoid of comfort.
The days of his youth rose up in a
vision before him, and he recalled the
solemn moment when his father had
placed him at the entrance of two
roads, one leading into a peaceful,
sunny land, covered with fertile har-
vest, and resounding with soft, sweet
songs; while the other conducted the
wanderer into deep, dark cave,
whence there was no issue, where poi
son flowed instead of water, and
where serpents Kissed and crawled.
He looked toward the sky, and cried
out in his anguish: "Oh, youth, re-
turn! o my father, place me once
more at the crossway Of life, that
may choose the better road" But
the days of his youth had passed
away, and his parents were with the
departed. He saw wandering lights
float over dark marshes and then dis
appear. "Such," he said, were the
days of my wasted life!" He saw
star shoot from heaven, and vanish
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

miserly old man,
and he made me
miserable when /
lived with him.
I'm not going to
tell you about my
childhood, how lit
tie love there
was in it, and
how / was starved
spiritually a n d
mentally, as well
as p h ysi C a ii y.
When / grew old
enough to under
stand that he
could give me
things, and had
not because he
wanted to save and
save, / left him and
C a m o here to
teach; and now
he has written to
me to come back,
and 7 don't want
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19
The Chinese New Year.

"Gar-ne-fo!Toy"-Happy good luck
to you, may you be prosperous, may
your honorable family be prosperous
and may the spirits of your ancestors
rest contents the gist of the Chinese
New Years greeting. The New Year
festival begins the last of January and
continues two weeks.
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19
An Argument for Both.

"And SO you are unalterably opposed
to divorce?" asked the ungenyrate
man of the parson.
81 certainly am, sir" was the an.
sTer.
And the drama?
Most assuredly"
"But did you ever stop to think that
sometimes man cannot play in a GER
tain state because he has been di
voTced there and must settle his nli
mony account before he crosses the
state line?"
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

Old Year-Hello. What Is that
package you are carrying?
New Year-It contains the good res
olutions that signalize my coming.
Old Year (exhibiting similar pack
age)-Huh! If you'd let me know I'd
have lent you these. They're the ones
I brought with me when l came, and
nobody would keep them.
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

nncles, or If you
like it better, there
is a cottage at the
edge Of the farm
where you could
stay If you wish
ed"
The old man
flashed q crafty
glance at him.
would it cost me
anything?" he ask
ed.
Nothing" said
Jack.
Then marry her."
said the old uncle,
"and I'll come and
live in the cottage
alone"
Nell's face was
in her hands, and,
as Jack bent over
her. she whispered,
"Oh, | can't let you
dn itfv
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

Nell went to
the door and look
ed out. AS far as
her eyes could see
there was wintry
whiteness a n d
through the pur-
pie shadows of
the coming night
S n o n e a few
lights, like stars.
Each light repre-
sented a farm
house, and each
house, like the
one in which Nell
was staying, was
full Of happy,
noisy people.
And Nell was
not happy, she
W a n t e d quiet.
Like a hunted ami
NAL she looked
this way and that
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

woman from the
city as a being
from an O t b g r
sphere; she was so
dainty, SO different
from the girls in
his own village.
Nell knew what
she was doing
when she told him
not to ask her to
stay; she had
known for a long
time Of the ques-
ton that trembled
on his lips. She
knew he wanted
to marry her, as
q woman knows
who is wise in the
ways of men.
She thought of
the life she might
lead IL she married
him, a life in the
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

When in doubt I will believe the
best Of the other person. This is
more easily corrected than the irrepar-
able injury of misapDlied censure and
suspicion
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19
"Pm the Man She
Ie Goinu TO

ut is the only way that you can
make my New Year happy" he told
her, and as she looked up into his face
she knew that what he said was true.
(Copyright.)
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

Was there any place where she
could be really quiet?
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

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"And the feast of ingahering the years end
Exodus xxxv 22.
So the year dies. and SO
Into the aftergloW
AL the years days go.
We count them, one by one,
Days fillec with shade or sun,
Days Of great tasks begun
Days Of achievement;
Days when we, weak and frai,
Felt all our courage fail,
When we, benumbed and pale
Met our bereavement.
And far and far away
We find the years first day
But was it sad or gay,
can we remember?
Slowly they die the days,
AS does some ruddy blaze
End in a smoking haze
Or Crumbling ember.
Joys-there were joys to spare;
CriefS-there were griefs to bear
All. and the joys all fair
Spent on the rnOrrOWS
Joys were the Clinking gold
Dropping from out our hold
We, like to niserS DID,
Clung to our sorrows
And this is stranger STILL
Sorrows that worked us i'll
Nor grow as sorrows will,
To things we cherish;
And out Of all the year
We find that sigh and tear
AS blessings now appear
And cannot perish.
So do we count the days
Down all Of times long ways
And with dim peace we gaze
On bond and fetter;
And know at last that all
Of the blind blows that fall
And the cups brimmed with Gall
But make us better.
So dies the year, and SO
Gently we come to know
How fair the aftergloW.
|N Zs!l1|g ez
The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19

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The Detroit times., 1912-09-28
AGED MA NKILLS THREE
AND ENDS OWN LIFE

YORK, Pa, Sept. 2s.--What y be-
lieved 10 have been q triple murder
and suicide was discovered ycsterdsy
when the bodies OF Frank Hendricks
and his two sisters. Esther and Em
ma. were found at their home In New
Freedom. near here.
Death in each case was due 70 bui-
let wounds.
John Caskey, 60 years old. who wae
found dead a few miles from the
Hendricks home with q bullet hoin
through his head, is believed to have
committed the triple crime and then
committed suicide.
Caskey was a recluse who made his
home on the Hendricks farm.
The. two women, each more than
80 years. old. were shot while sewin<
In their home.
Caskey's body was found on the
porch OF his sister-in-law's home a
note at his side said he had ended hi4
life because OF ilfhealth, but 1111<
no mention OF the other two d1111<
fancied grudge IN believed ~ 1[|1
prompted him to commit tho f<IrIc
murder before ending his own He 4
The Detroit times., 1912-09-28
SEEKS MINE PROMOTERS
WHO OBTAINED 81, 900, 900

CLEVELAND. Sept. 27.-while
Postal Inspector Clement 10 search
ing the west for James II. and r.
T. McNicholas, to serve them with
warrants charging the misuse of the
mails In promoting Oregon and
Idaho mines. details OF their opera
tions in Cleveland and northern
Ohio are being brought to light that
chow the rich and poor alike bought
the 81 100000 in stock which the
brothers are said to have distributed,
and on which hundreds OF buyers
claim to have lost heavily
Among those were some OF the
landers ]. b. CoHinberry, mayor Of
Lakewood. swell residence st'
burb: Judge william B. Men, Frank
A. AFTER, : whose family In promin'
emily interested In stahd4tdi OIL;
Terry Ball. Jr., brother-in-law oi
George w. Perkins; Daniel Myers. re.
tired Wholesale druggist: Vaughn
Glazer, the actor, and Terry Turn.
er, the Cleveland third baseman, all
OF whom invested heavily. probably
viii be called before the grand jury
which will Investigate the cases
The Detroit times., 1912-09-28
INVOKES OLD LAW
TO PUNISH DERELICT

wELI.SBURG. W. Va, Sept. 2S.-
Enforcing an old city ordinance which
had not been invoked, the mayor OF
this city yesterday afternoon had
John Weir, tramp. chained to tel
ephone pole, In front OF the postoffice
for hours, ball and chain being at
tached to his legs for refusing to
work on the streets.
The ordinance declares that any
one found guilty of misdemeanor
who refuses to serve time by work
ing on the streets II unable to pay a
fine shall have a ball and chain at
tached to the prisoner and he shall
be placed in public place during the
period of good weather In his sen
tence. The prisoner In this case
spent an afternoon very pleasantly
as the crowd supplied him with
cigars and entertained him to his en-
tire satisfaction. H0 declared ne
would prefer that sort of punishment
to riding on Pullman.
The Detroit times., 1912-09-28
WILL ARREST AREBACH
IF HE SEEKS FREEDOM

BALDWIN, Mich, Sept. 2S.-Prose-
cutor Cutler says Sheriff Bales has
information on which he can procure
the formal arrest or o. M. Arebach,
who is held as voluntary prisoner
during the investigation into the
death OF Henry White Fisher, the
Chicago promoter. The prosecutors
said Arebach would be Immediately
placed in custody again IL he socks
his release. II have purposely with.
held action" he said. for should
arrest him he has the right TO demand
an immediate trial, which would leave
little time for further Investigation
Martin Pattison, of Duluth, copper
magnate, and father OF Mrs. Fisher,
has arrived here with Attorney Spe1.
Ger p. Adams, OF Chicago, TO look az
ter the widows interests.