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Toil and Study—See [Missionary, A, in the Making].
TOKEN, VALUE OF A
The following incident appeared in a New York daily:
Bent with age but bright-eyed and alert, James Swift, eighty-four years old, was committed at his own request to the almshouse yesterday by Magistrate Krotel, sitting in Yorkville Court.
“I’m goin’ to start for California just as soon as I come out of the almshouse,” Swift told the magistrate. The old man displayed a silver watch with copper chain, which, he said, was a perpetual pass over the Union Pacific Railroad. It had been given him as a token that he was one of the men engaged in the construction of the road, the presentation being made on the occasion of the driving of the last spike in May, 1866. All he had to do, he said, when he wanted to ride over the road was to show the timepiece to the conductor.
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TO-MORROW, UNCERTAINTY OF
To-morrow? Shall the fleeting years
Abide our questioning? They go