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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-15
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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-15

NJ longer DO the guns of battle roar IN
Europe And what splendid relief the
consequent silence is,
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-15

Luxembourg is now a Republic And
Luxembourg is 50 small that there will
never be room there for revolution
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-15

II Is said the work Of the Red Cross is
work Of love ii 50, all the better, for
Ger tainly it is a great work.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-15

Every Evenings classified advertise
ments bring results Proved to the satis-
faction Of many and will be to you.-Adv,
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-15

depth bomb ia destructive az a great
distance by reason of the fart that water
carriesa shock undiminished much farther
than air does
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-08-01

A new wing of the Monmouth
Memorial Hospital, of Long Branch,
N. T., was dedicated last week. The
wing, which cost $150,000, is gift
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Wimpf
heimer, of New York, in memory Of
their nineteen-year-old son, Private
Jacques Wimpfheimer, who died in
service in a Hoboken hospital a
year ago last winter. The new
wing doubles the present capacity
of the hospital in the number of
beds, besides adding operating
rooms.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-08-01


Major Julius A. Adler, 306th In
fantry, Seventy-seventh Division, a
member of the staff OF the New
York Times, was decorated again
for gallantry in action when Col. A.
Sapelli, Italian Colonial Troops, rep
resenting King Victor Emmanuel,
of Italy, pinned the coveted Italian
War Cross upon his coat. Major
Adler wears the Distinguished Ser
vice Cross and the Croix de Guerre'
for gallantry in action in reconnoi-
tering alone in advance Of his COM
pany in taking St. Juvin, October
IA, 1918.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-08-01
August l, 1919.

Alfred Patek, a widely-known
newspaper man, died at Denver,
Colo, last week, where he had been
in poor health for many months be-
fore his death. After graduating
from college he took up journalism
and later on was editor of the St.
Louis Star. He joined the staff of
the New York World, and subse-
quently became feature writer for
the Hearst Syndicate. In 1900 he
came to Denver and was managing
editor of the Post and the Times.
For short time he was private sec
rotary to Governor Adams, who lat
er appointed him State immigration
Commissioner. At one time he was
field secretary and director of pub
licity for the National Jewish Hos
pital for Consumptives.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-08-01

The committee in charge of the
new Jewish hospital campaign for
Washington Heights, New York,
announces that it has determined
to erect wing of this institution
in honor of the late DR.. Abraham
jacob.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-08-01

DR.. Berthold Louis Ullman has
been made head of the department
of Latin at the State University OF
Iowa. For ten years he has been
a professor of Latin in the Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh and has lectured
for several summer quarters at the
University of Chicago.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-29
His Suggestion.

"The majority of people in and
around W%ayOverbehind declined to set
their clocks ahead, and are still going
by old time" said Farmer Hornbeak.
ut seems TO me that a government
commission should be appointed to in
vestigate the matter. Those Of us
who are outraged by the refusal Of
those mOss-grOwn procrastinatOrs to
act in harmony with us will feel that
we are going TO be avenged, and the
commission will move so slowly that
It will not be ready to commence to
do anything until after the time has
been changed back again, and then
there will be no cause for action. Ac-
cordingly those nonprOgressive but en-
tirely worthy persons will not be dis
turbed, and the rest of us will have
the happy consciousness Of having
done our whole duty when we shouted
into their affairs.-Kansas City Star.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-29
NTOTHEUNKNOWN
Adventures IrresistibIy Lured to
UntraveIed Paths.
Martin Johnson and His Wife, Setting
Out for the South Sea Islands,
Explain Yearnins That Calls
Them to the Jungle Land.

To perpetuate the work that Jack
London commenced and to film the un-
explored mysteries of the jungle land
that vast unknown bush country Of
the South Sea islands; to bring back
Photographic records of the habits,
customs and mannerisms Of tribes Of
which no white man has any knOwl-
edge; TO e%ndanger their lives In the
trOpic heat to rub elbows with natives
who are afflicted with leprosy, ele-
phantiasis and other dangerous forms
Of contagious disease. All these items
mean. nothing at all to Martin Johnson
and his pretty wife, Osa, who will
leave New York Monday for Australia
prior to invading the vast bush
try, the unexplored interiors Of which
no white nan has ever seen, writes
the New York Sun. IL am anxious to
go to the South Sea islands because It
is the nearest place to paradise on
Gods EARTH" said Martin Johnson.
There are no strikes there, and ii is
a far safer place than in your little
old New York. You may have Broad
way If you like, but as for me I want
to get away from your talk Of 'Bolshe-
vhiskey' and everything that has any
thing to do with it at all. Pro or con
IL doesn't make any difference. And
then again." Mr.. Johnson continued,
there Is the lure of discovering things
no white man has seen. There is the
great adventure about 1t. 1t is a yearn-
Ing TO get away from all this back here
and be out in the great wild. 1t is the
unfathomable unknown, the insoluble
wilderness that lures me-" For Mrs.
Johnson, this represents her second
trip to the bush country, and she prob
ably IS the first woman from the
United States to achieve such a dis
tinction. The morality Of the natives
OF the South Sea islands Is eulOgized
by Mrs. Johnson, who deprecates the
morality of the white people, declar-
Ing the former to be Of a higher stand
ard. mo man covets his neighbours
wife there" she said. "Only in one In
stance dlu 1 see the penalty that q
paid for alternating the affec-
tons Of another woman's husband.
They hanged her to a tree and eXecut-
ed her by slashing her body. A man
lives three years with a woman before
he marries her, in the Solomon islands.
In all that time he is never permitted
to meet her In the open or mention
his name to her, or she to him. Their
coming together Is decreed by order Of
the chief. The man is told who his
mate Is to be and where, he can find
her. In the dead of night he goes to
her. If they like each other they are
married In three years. If not, then
their children are given over to the un-
married brides or bridegroom's
parents"
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-29
HIS DREAM FADED
Soldiers View of Pure Delight
Abruptly Dissipated. -.
Officer Of the. Day Had His own
Ideas Concerning the Wine
Cellar and the American
Fighting Man.

How would you like to have six
prisoners, whom you were guarding
and who apparently had no means OF
escape, suddenly disappear from sight,
and TO all appearances from the race
of the earth?
Such was the experience of q Sew
enth infantryman on guard not long
ago.
According to the guards own story,
he was in charge Of six prisoners who
were digging a hole near the rear Of
the Liberty hall at Andernach. On
three sides were walls Of such height
that it would be impossible for the
prisoners to scale them. On the re-
naming side was the guard, bayonet
fixed and ever on the alert for disor-
ders among his charges.
"FOr an instant" said the guard, Il
glanced away from my prisoners.
When | again looked in their direction
they were gone. For a few minutes l
was almost paralyzed. began to
think I had lost my mind or that
nightly recreation in the wirtschafts
had permanently affected my eyesight.
| knew they couldn't get over the
walls, l was sure that they had not
passed me, and yet in the fraction Of
a second they had disappeared from
sight"
Visions of serving the sentences OF
fho civ f,o;tirnc AncbaI thrnrnh tho
mind of the guard. Then he decided
that some action must be taken, and
taken Immediately. He rushed TO the
edge of the hole and peered into its
depths. At first he found no clew TO
the mystery. Then in one corner of
the excavation he saw a few loose
bricks and an opening into what
seemed TO be an underground passage
way. With one jump he reached this
opening, and showing his gun and bay
onet ahead of him, he crowded his
way along a narrow brick-lined tun-
mel. A few steps along this and he
found himself in a large cellar, amply
stocked with ancient vintages from
the vineyards along the Rhine.
Seated on the wine casks, and evil
IDENTIFY very much at ease, sat the six
prisoners, smiling at the discontinue
of their guardian.
With his charges Once more in hand
the mind of the infantryman instant
ly formulated a plan. Hurrying the
"willful six" back into the daylight,
he began to brick up the entrance to
the discovery with a plan for future
reference. =
Just then the officer of the day
came on the scene.
Result-The secret p~assageway and
wine cellar came into official notice,
was ordered "Out Of bounds to the
A. f. f." and Seventh infantry dreams
Of q private wine cellar went the way
Of the gOof and dOdO.-From The
Watch on the Rhine, Andernach, Ger
many.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-29
Remarkable Twins.

Darius Cobb, artist, who died recent
~, and Cyrus Cobb, sculptor, were
twins whose similarity, not only in eX-
ternal features but in the nature and
development of their talents, Is one
Of the most remarkable in scientific
history. At fourteen both were paint
ing views Of the Mississippi river.
At sixteen they were both leading or
chestras, having simultaneously taken
up the study Of music. About the
same time they both wrote poems for
a paper published by the father, the
Rev. Sylvanus Cobb.
When the twins were nineteen years
old they started painting, profession
ally, Cyrus painting the portrait Of
their father and Darius that Of their
mother. At twenty they added litho-
graphing to their accomplishments.
In the Civil war they enlisted and
fought side by side. At the close Of
the war came the first diversity in
their activities. Cyrus then devoted
himself to sculpture, designing a num-
Der Of soldiers monuments and his
toric figures. Darius became q his
torical painter. His head of Christ,
upon which he labored "a years, was
regarded as his masterpiece.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-29
FAR FROM VICTORIAN AGE
Present Period Would Be One Of Be-
wilderment TO Man Who Lived
In That Era.

Suppose some placid gentleman OF
the Victorian era, who went calmly
to his eternal sleep certain that the
world had settled at last into final
and accepted form, should be awak.
ened and permitted to gaze upon the
world today.
What would be his refectionsf
He would see the world wiping a
tear from its eye because Of what II
supposed was the tragic fate of two
young British flyers who had essayed
to fly across the Atlantic-and had
almost achieved the Icaian feat. He
would see the world, in the same mo-
ment, applauding furiously the feats
of Yankee flyers engaged in the same
effort In q surer way.
He would see Russia, which he had
pictured as an enduring fabric with
an everlasting Zar at the top, q
proletarians conducting a new and
deadlier tyranny. He would see Ger
many, which he had remembered as
a SNUG and promising little empire,
on its knees supplicating mercy that
Is less than justice from an out
ragged world. He would see the Unit
ed States, which he had pictured as
about a million miles removed from
the affairs Of Europe, a towering fig
ure in the great peace conference as
1t has been the deciding figure in the
great war. He would see these and
other marvels, and he would hear Of
an unbelievably horrible war that had
wrought its deadliness with weapons
strange and terrible like poison gas
and airplanes and submarines.
What a whirling, aching head that
Victorian relic would have after he
had looked over this new world Of
ours for half an hour Duluth Her
aid.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-29
Ciqarette RinQs.

Aristocratic women in London are
wearing gem ring cigarette holders.
It's the very latest wrinkle. The rings
are advertised in British magazines
as made by his majesty's jeweler. You
have to be aristocratic or plutocratic
to wear one, because they cost from
$3.50 to $500 apiece.
The rings are gold or platinum, set
with precious stones. You press a
tiny catch on the side and up springs
a dainty metal finger with a circlet at
the end through which you insert your
cigarette and then puff away. The
women wear the rings on their fore
fingers. The holder, according to the
advertisements. prevents nicotine
from coloring the fingers. So far the
rings haven't reached this country,
but American jewelers. expect the fad
will soon appear on this side Of the
water.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-29
REFUSED TO BE CHILDISH
Chief Reason Why Elderly Lady Was
Pronounced by All to Be
Grand Success.

She Is the dearest little old lady Of
seventy-three any n ever saw. She Is
very happy and always immensely
busy. She knitted q great many sweat
ers and pairs Of socks for the soldier
boys. And now, when we're nc longer
needing socks for u boys she is EN-
brOidering an exquisite dress for the
tiny baby of the girl who used to be
her maid.
"Why are you SO very happy" she
was asked one day.
I'm happy because I'm not child
ish," she said very emphatically.
"Now, I'm not, am 1? Did you ever
hear any one say that I was childish?
sand l am seventy-three years old"
she boosted. Nov, the woman next
door Is only sixty and she Is very,
very childish. Why, l have to comfort
and pet her often when I'm longing
to laugh at her. She isn't wise enough
to keep from being childish.
"When l was young I used to watch
the people in my family get childish"
she continued. 1T amused me at first,
and then when I saw how people out
side of our family regarded them as
nuisances l determined then that /
never would be childish and a-nuis-
ance. / watched and watched and
then l discovered the secret. If you
don't want to get the least bit childish
you don't ever dare pity yourself. You
have to think, think, think of other
people and ways In which you a
help them. The worst. thing people
can do Is to think of themselves"
Outside the visitor me the grocer
boy. "Do you hear herr" he asked.
isn't she a dear and not a bit child
ish, either"
"She's a grand success" she re-
turned.
"You bet !" he agreed.-Indianapolis
News.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-29
FREAKS ENTITLED TO FAME
European Families That Had More
Than Ordinary Claims to
Worlds Attention.

There is living at Bilbao, Spain, q
family Of seven who between them
possess no fewer than 1874 fingers. One
of them has % fingers, another Il,
while Of the remaining five each can
boast a couple Of hands with y fin
gers apiece.
At KOshilivo, Russia, a very similar
phenomenon exists in the fifty or more
descendants Of a peasant with extra
fingers on his hands, who married al
Of whom are lowered with from one
to five fingers in KEGS of the normal
number.
The last surviving member Of what
regard to weight was, in the person
Of Charles Atkins, a few years back
inferred at Harrow, England. He
weighed 476 pounds, his brothers, who
predeceased him, being no less than
504 and $50 pounds.
The family record for longevity has
not been beaten since Robert Parr, the
great-grandson Of the celebrated
Thomas Parr. died in 1857 at the age
of one hundred and t~wenty-four. His
father lived to celebrate his n hun.
dred and ninth birthday, his grand
father reached one hundred and thir-
teen, while his greatgrandfather was
152 at the time of his death.
There is mentioned in the Harleian
Miscellany a Scotch weaver and his
wife who were the proud parents Of
60 children, so Of whom reached their
majority.
Large as this family was, its fame
pales before that of a Russian, one
Ivan Wassilig, who was the proud ia
Their of 81. By his first wife he had
90 children in the following order:
Four times bankruptcies at a birth,
seven times triplets and is times
twins. BY his second spouse he had
twice triplets and six times twins.
Undoubtedly the record for misfor.
tune belongs to a Belgian family
named Adnet. The father, Jean Adj
net, was drowned his wife committed
suicide, while Of his two sisters one
was killed by the kick Of a horse and
the other by a blow received from q
falling scaffold.
Jean Adnet had six children, four
son and two daughters. OF these the
latter persisted through the overturn-
ing of a pleasure boat. One of the
sons was stabbed in a drunken brawl,
heavy wagon, while the remaining
two, who emigrated to America, were
slain in 1891 while fighting for Bal
maceda against congressists.-Stray
Stories.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-29
Abolishinu Trench Foot.

In the first winter Of the war we
used to hear much about trench foot
due to standing long in the icy water
and mud of the trenches. 1t was an
inflammation that ranged from a sort
of glorifed chilblain to a condition of
gangrene.s
Col. George G. Nasmith, who com
manded the Canadian Mobile Labora-
tory with the British expeditionary
forces in France, says In the Medical
Record that this vanished from the
British army when it was discovered
that the periodical removal Of puttees,
drying and chatting the feet and legs,
covering them with whale oil and put.
ting on dry socks was an absolute pre-.
ventive.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-29
Far From Other Cities.

What is the most out-of-the-way
place in the United States? A Utah
man dominates Huntsville, in that
state, for the distinction. Huntsville,
ne says, is the last p~ostoffice for sew
eral hundred miles to the south and a
hundred miles to the east. The mail
that reaches there goes through so
much hardship that the wrappings are
usually worn out, for 1t must pass
through the hands of three star route
contractors before reaching it's des-
tination. A letter from Huntsville, he
says. had just reached him at Green
River, 60 miles away, which had been
16 days on the way.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-29
Use Of Chemical Products.

The interest in chemistry and chem
ical products has greatly increased
in the United States owing to the fact
that this country has been forced by
the war to depend upon It's own re-
sources In this direction. The follow
ing uses are ascribed to these chem
ical products: In making soap and
paper pulp, mercerizing cotton and
purifying mineral oils, caustic soda Is
used; soda ash is necessary in the
manufacture of soap and glass; sill
cate of soda DIETER known as water
glass; Is utilized in the manufacture
of soap and in dyeing and printing cal
leo, finishing cotton goods, preventing
wool rot, bleaching jute and preserv-
ing eggs.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-29
Boy

The boy scouts organization was
founded In England in 1910 and intro
duced In the United States the same
year. The object is to develop patriot
ism, discipline, courage and self-control
In boys, as well as to put the Golden
Rule into daily practice. The unit Of
the organization is the patrol" Of from
six to eight boys; a troop" comprises
two or more patrols" and the scout
master Is the officer In charge of a
troop. Lieutenant General Sir Robert
Baden-Powell was the father Of the
boy scout movement In England and
Ernest Thompson Seton In the United
States.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-29
But She Brought Him.

"Dorah," said the literary woman,
81 wish you would 90 down to the
library and bring me 'Flavius Jose
phus.'"
The new girl left the room and has
tened to execute the commission.
Presently a terrific noise was heard
and Dorah pushed the door open with
her foot a moment later, dragging in
by the collar a reluctant Newfound-
land dog.
"Here he Is, Mrs. Dinnis," she said,
but We ought not to have stint me f'r
I'm. It's a mans job. The brute
thried IN bite me an I had 70 night
In N'ry fut O ths way"
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-29
Used Theater Programs Cleaned.

Conservation has extended ever to
rumpled theater programs, left in the
seats by the patron of a theater, ac-
cording to Popular Mechanics Maya
zine. Between 200 and 300 are picked
up each night, piled in stacks Of so
each, and pressed fiat in a bookbind-
er's press for "a hours. Emerging fiat
and unwrinkled from this process,
they are then run through rubber roll
ers, which erase all fngerprints and
stains. 1t is said that 1t Is impossible
to distinguish these reclaimed pro-
grams from those just Off the printing
press.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-29
He Had a Reason.

A Terre Haute doctor met a friend
In Main street the other day and was
telling him how busy he was. "But l
took off enough time to 60 to a ball
game the other day." he boosted.
well, did you enjoy itT' asked his
friend.
"Yes," returned the doctor very en-
Enthusiastically indeed. II made SIS Off
one of the players. He broke his leg
and 1 got to set it."-Indianapolis
News.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-29

Herman J. Stitch, an American court
reporter, wrote under most rigorous
rules at the rate of 800 words a min
ute for five consecutive minutes, and
then presented a transcript that with
only two immaterial errors almost
reached perfection, the percentage of
accuracy being 900. Mr.. Stich's per-
Torrance Is described as the finest In
the history Of shorthand.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-29
The New Version,

"Gabe Gosnell got buncoed good
and plenty on his trip" related Burt
Burt of Petunia.
Jaw, WELL" returned old Riley Req
zidew. IN fool and his money 60 to
Kansas City."-Kansas City Star.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-29
Welcome Home pa,

Papa" Billie asked, sis a trillion
more than a billion?"
"Yes," Billie was answered.
Then. papa. I'll bet there's q trialion
people lookln' at the parade"