The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-12-25
On A VACATION

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The Following is From The Penn Of
Ye Editor Now ut Willow
Greek
Dear Herald-Advance:-
| thought perhaps you might
want to receive a line from the
old man, even if he had become
a deserter and tramp-for
there always remains something
OF q tie between those whose
early lives have been associated
with us, even though they may
have wandered far from what
we have considered the peoples
path, and so I'll take the liberty
of sending 9 few words.
Travel on the railroad is notic-
ably light, there being far fewer
people on the train than when
we made this same trip early
last summer, The writer sup
posed that he was alone on the
train, so far as acquaintances
were concerned, and he indeed
was until Mobridge was reached,
but at that point Mr.. Orville
Miracle and his mother Mrs.
James Miracle, got aboard the
train and charged us with hay
ing hailed from Milbank. Re-
collecting some recent sensation.
al reports regarding the town,
we were getting ready to make
a vigorous denial Of ever having
oeen in the place, but we re-
membered what trouble one
Peter, an old friend of our, once
got himself into by denying that
he was an associate of a certain
Gallilean, and we made a clean
breast of it, and acknowledged
that that was our town, but that
we were now fleeing from it at
the rate of forty miles an hour,
and when Mrs, Miracle put the
old question, ''can any good
thing come out Of Nazereth or
Milbank, we promptly answered
in the affirmative by stating
that we ourself had just left the
latter place the night before,
but whether it was for the good
of the town or for our own good
we couldn't positively state, but
that we sincerely hoped that
there would be an improvement
in both cases, as there was
plenty of room for it. Mrs Mir
acle was on her way to Great
Falls, Mont, where she is to
keep house for her son, while
the latter and his wife make a
trip to California James Mir.
acle goes to Hot Springs, Ark /,
for the winter.
While making this long run of
about 800 miles without change
of cars, oyer a smooth road, and
surrounded with comforts and
luxuries that even kings and
emperors a few years ago could
not command, our mind natur-
ally turned to the contrasting
picture of war. .despoiled Europe
where at present travel of any
kind is next to impossible, and
where even in times of peace q
ride of 9 hundred or two miles
is almost sure to bring . de.
mand for Q passport and moro or
less trouble and inconvenience,
to say nothing of change of
language, money, and other an
noyances, and | wondered II we
as Americans, really appreciat
ed the greatness Of our country
or the magnitude Of our bless.
ings. It's question If the poor
lest newsboy or bootblack IN St.
Paul or New York hasn't q more
priceless heritage in his Ameri-
can citizenship and opportunities
than will decent to any son or
daughter of Emperor William or
Gar of Russia. It's q good
thing sometimes to stop and
weigh some of these things,
"lest we forget, lest we forget. >
Our train was over six hours
late owing to the extremely cold
weather, it being reported 38
below as we crossed the North
Dakota line and upon arriving at
Three Forks it was nearly eleven
p. m, SO we put up for the night
at the Sacajaweah hotel 1--WE will
give subscription to the Herald
Advance and a piano to any of
our readers who will correctly
pronounce this name If they
have had no previous struggle
with it,.
However, the next morning
we located the Milbank colony
at Willow Creek, and found them
all in thriving condition. Nelson