THE DEBT WE OWE THE PIONEEES. 505 



A week from to-day the Pioneer Society of our county will meet at 

 Corunna and listen to eulogies upon no fewer than six of their number who 

 have dropped from the ranks during the past year. We shall then consider 

 earth's duty to them fully discharged, but why should we wait until they are 

 dead to say kind things of them? We write flowery obituaries for them, but 

 methinks a little timely appreciation would be more to the purpose. 



^'e have not a lifetime in which to consider the question, for before many 

 years have rolled away the pioneers will all be gone to settle in another new 

 country. We surely should not neglect this privilege of learning the details 

 of a marvelous change, from the people who made it. The opportunity is 

 going, the pioneers are dying, and the time is now. 



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