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Evening journal., 1919-11-26

Mr. Jacob Lyon. Homer, Mich.
] wish that you could hear him tell OF
MS many experiences with olntmcnts.
raiyes, dilators, etc, before ne tried my
him iva,
AR. r. r. Page. Marshall. Mich.
Dear SIR ! want YOU TO knov what
your treatment has done FOR me I had
euntrcd with piles for many years ana
used nupposltories and all kinds of treat
ments, but never got relief until / tried
yours; Am now completely cured Al,
though ] am IS years old and The oldest
active blacksmith in Michigan I feel vears
younger since the piles have lef, me
viii surely recommend it 90 ail / know
who suucr this way. You can use nv
letter any way YOU wish and hone II wifi
lead others to try this wonderful remedy.
Yours truly,
There are thousands OF afflicted people
suffering with piles who have never vet
Fied the one sensible way OF treating
Don't be cut. Don't waste money on
'Noiish saives, Ointments, dilators etc, but
,end today for a Free Trial OF my inter
~ method for the healing OF piles
No matter whether your case is OF long
handing or recent deyelOpmcnt-whe
i y occasional or permanent-you should
send for this free trial treatment
No matter where you llve-no matter
what your age or occupation-if Won are
troubled with piles. my method viii relieve
Nou promptly.
This liberal offer OF free treatment is too
important Tor you 20 neglect a single day
W rite now. send no money. Simply mail
the coupon-but do this nOw-TODAN.
Evening journal., 1919-11-26
SPEAKS TO WOMEN
RIGHT FROM HEART

Mrs. Clara Long 23s n. Preston street,
Philadelphia, says: ~ got SO nervous
mat ordinary noises would set me all
IN culver. Friends told me about
Tanlac. | hardly started taking Tanlac
before | began to sleep soundly. ] soon
recovered my appetite Tanlac proved
a medicine OF real virtue and merit"
DO you have dull, throbblng head
aches. dizzy spells, weak back and lack
energy? II you do you need something
to restore your poor debilitated organs
to normal. That something is Tanlac,
the new tonic, appetizer and invigor-
ant, which is now sold here by n. B.
Danforth and all leading druggists.
Evening journal., 1919-11-26
FOOTBALL pLAYER m-RT

Special 10 The Evening Journal.
SEAFORD, Del. Nov. 26.-Jack Twi-
ford, a member Of the Seaford High
School football team, had his knee-cap
Evening journal., 1919-11-26
Cured
His Piles
Now SO Years Old But Works at
Trade of Blacksmith and Feels
Younger Since Piles
Are Gone

The oldest active blacksmith In Michi-
fen - still pounding his anvil IN tho town
n Homer--thanks to my internal method
'or treating piles.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
WHY THE SKY IS BLUE
How the Earth Differs From All Other Planets Of the
Solar System.
Solar System.

The earth is unique among the planets of the solar system in having
blue sky. All the others are either so cloud laden that the sky is never visible
from the surface, o else the air is so thin and transparent that the light Is
unaffected in passing.
The earths atmosphere itself is not blue. If it were. objects nea the
horizon would all have a deep blue color. The blue is due to The action o
dust
If one suspends fine particles such IS soar, milk globules sulphur flowers
or starch, in clear water the fluid Immediately looks blue. This Is because the
particles scatter and disrupt the rays of light as they pass. The same thing
true of the air.. The air is never free from dust Even when it seems
cearest there are myrads Of infnit@imal grains floating everywhere.
When the water vapor in the air COndenseS. it forms droplets around
these dust grains The reflected light from the drops sis white and it is this
white light mingnng with the blue which causes the sky to vary in color from
hour to hour.
In addition to giving the sky its blue color, the air difuses the sunlight
The sky is always much more brilliantly illuminated than the ground, ever IN
the darkest day. 1t is this secondhand light which renders objects visible
yen when they are immersed in shadow. Were it not SO, the interior of
house would be Is dark as night, even when the u a shining brightly
outside.
If the air did not scatter the light rays sunshine would pass through
unchanged, and the sky would always appear jet black and full of stars. Such
a condition exists or the moor which is a world devoid of air. According to
teescopc evidence, the daylight there is harsh. Where the III is shining
the rocks may be dazzIngy bright, while a few feet away there are shadows
is black as ink.
The light from the sky tends to lessen the contrast between light and
shadow. 1t often outlines, brings out perspective, and gives much of the
beauty to terrestrial landscapes.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
Marrow, STOPPING Styles in
Mems Clothing Banished as
Result of Training in Army

marrow, STOPPING styles" in mems
clothing are to be banished as a re-
suit of the war, according to members
Of the International Custom Cutters
association at their thirty-ninth an
nual convention recently held In New
York.
''The man we must fit today Is not
the same fellow, physically, for whom
we made clothes before the war be-
gan" said L. G. Tyler, chairman Of the
committee on fashions. "The rigorous
army training has given him a broad.
deep chest and straight back"
Charles j. Levy Of Toronto, presi-
dent of the association, declared that
garments will show the effect of mil
itary influence.
'Instead of being designed primarily
60 at the narrow-chested man and tA
man with thin legs, the coats will show
broad chests and narrow hips, and
trousers will not be skimpy," he said,
Coats will be q trifie longer and
looser."
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
Girls Who Marry Foreigners
Acquire Same Nationality as
Possessed by Their Husbands

A girl who marries q foreigner with
out fully understanding her legal po-
sitiOn may be counting misery. This
warning cannot be repeated too often.
Girls lightly enter into marriages with
foreigners, quite forgetting or ignor-
ing the all important fact that they
take their nationality from their hus-
bands. That is to say. if q girl mar
rles a German, Frenchman, Chinaman,
Indian, Greek or q man of any other
nationality, she becomes srbject to the
laws of her husbands country, should
she go there, and cannot claim pro-
lection for any injustice or hardship.
To cite an instance of the danger of
such marriage. A girl married an In
dian, went to India with her husband,
and there discovered to her horror
and disgust that she was but one Of
four women her husband claimed as
wives. He made a drudge Of her,
treated her most brutally, threatened
to divorce her and at last drove her
to suicide. Another Cir! married q
wealthy Chinaman and was about to
go East with her husband when she
learned that he had already married
two other girls, who had gone out to
China with him and who were never
heard Of after.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
TIPS FOR POULTRY
GROWERS

Chicks are Matched each year in or.
der to produce pullets to replace such
OF the old hens in the flock as should
be marketed. However, only about
half the chicks Matched and raised will
be pullets, the other half being, of
course, cOckerels. A much greater
number Of cockerels are produced
than are needed for breeding purposes,
and a large part of these should be
sold as broilers or springers as soOn
as they have reached n sufficient size.
1t is common knowledge that spring
chickens or broilers are scarcer early
In the spring or summer than they are
later, and that the price offered for
them is much better early in the sea
son. 1t is to the advantage of the
poultry raiser, therefore, to grow his
surplus cockerels to a marketable size
as early as possible and SO take adj
vantage Of the attractive prices pre-.
vailing at that time.
To bring this about he must hatch
early, for ID Is only early Matched
chicks which can be grown to a suit
able size in time to take advantage OF
the most favorable market. Hatch
early, therefore, and add to the income
received from the sale of the surplus
cOckerels.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
SOMEHOW OR OTHER

Life is a burden to ~everyope's shoulder;
care;
Miss It in youth and twill come when
we're older,
And fit us as close as the garments we
wear.
Sorrow comes into our homes unlimited,
Robbing our heart of it's treasures OF
Lovers grow cold and our friendships are
sighted.
Yet somehow or other we worry along.
Midst the sweet blossoms that smile on
our faces,
From the rank weeds that would poi
son and blight.
And cen in the midst OF earth's beautiful
places
There always is something hat isn't
just right.
Yet oft from the rock we may pick a gay
flower,
And drink from a spring in a desolate
They come to the heart as a heavenly
And naught is so sweet to the eye or
the taste.
Everyday toll is an everyday blessing.
Though poverty's cottage and crust we
may share;
Weak Is the back on which burdens are
pressing.
But stout Is the heart that Is strength
ened by prayer.
Somehow or other the pathway grows
brighter,
Just when we mourned there was none
to befriend:
Hope in the heart makes the burden seem
lighter,
And somehow or other we get to the
end.
Unidentified.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
Without the Wind and Air
Ali Life Would Cease and
Vegetation Would Perish

Everybody knows what the wind is,
Of course. Why, you can feel it, and
see the trees bend before it, and the
dust carried along and leaves over
turned and the clouds moved by the
wind, writes George f. Burba, in the
Columbus Dispatch. The wind is a
movement Of the air; when the air is
still, there is no wind, and when the
air o hurriedly that is what we
call wind. Certainly all of that is
simple enough.
But sit right down here and try to
figure out what the wind is, and where
it comes from and where it goes-and
yet we find that the fellow who wrote
in the Bible that no man knew from
whence the wind came, nor whittier il
listeth, had it about right. 1t is easy
| enough to know the effects of the wind.
The hot winds Of summer burn and
| scorch, and the cold winds of winter
bite and sting. Moisture is absorbed by
the air when the winds are blowing
or the winds dry up the roads, as we
say.
Neither the birds nor the animals
like the wind. They avoid it the best
they can, both in winter and in suro-
mer. They prefer a calm, quiet day TO
a windy day. They make their homes
and nests where they will be least af.
fected by the wind. You will always
find a rabbit sitting where the wind
doesn't blow upon it; it is protected
from the wind always. The same thing
is true Of other animals, and Of the
birds.
And yet the wind is tremendously
useful. If the air were to remain mo-
tionless for a day, if a perfect calm
should come over the face of the earth,
life would cease to be, and vegetation
would perish. Everything would suf.
focate or be destroyed. For it Is the
wind that keeps the earth pure and
sweet and fresh, and prevents animal
life from burning up, and makes vege.
table life possible. 9
And when 1t comes to pure delight,
there isn't anything that exceeds the
wind. To have It pass ove us,.to feel
it upon our cheeks, even when it is
cold and harsh, surely there is nothing
more glorious. To walk in the face of
a storm, as If meeting the wind half.
way-there isn't anything finer than
that, and we are going to miss a lot of
pleasure if we do not get out and face
the wind-and enjoy II.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
Total Deaths in u. S. Army
During War Period, 107,444
More Men Died of Disease

Deaths during the war in the Amer
lean expeditionary forces and among
troops in the United States from all
causes, the war department. an
noupced, numbered 07,444.
In the expeditionary forces the total
was 72,951r OF these 20,S29 resulted
from disease, 4S,76S from injuries re-
ceived in battle, and 1854 from all
other causes.
Deaths from disease among the
troops in the United States totaled
32,737 and from other causes 1,756,
giving a total for the troops in this
country of 34,493.
The figures for the American expe-
dictionary forces cover the period from
April 1, 1917, to February 16, 1919;
those for the troops in the United
States from April 1, 1917, to February
ii, 1919.
The figures show that the total
deaths from disease exceeded the total
battle casualties by more than 5000.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
Alcohol and
Automobiles
Why Passing Of John Badeycorn
Will be Boon to Motorist and
to Motor Industry

Says one motorcar builder who is
also a bit of philosopher:
Old John ~Barleycorn is getting ready
to take the count. BY next July he'll
be groggy and by January /, 1920, the
average citizen Will not be able to fill
q thimble. What will this mean to the
automobile industry? A great deal,
viz:
/. There will be few mOtOrcar acct
dents, because rum has been at the
bottom of most disasters.
2. There will be fewer arrests for
speeding, because it is rum that makes
the auto go.
3. The pest of the roadhouses and
their bars will be removed, thereby en-
BANGING touring for those who don't
care for barrOom lettering and the pur-
suits thereof.
d.. Billions Of dollars spent for booze
Will be available for other purchases.
The motorcar industry will benefit by
this.
8. There will be more alcohol to put
into anti-freeze mixtures-not for the
human system, but the automobiles
system.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
Years Trapping Nets Pair
S1O,0OO-SoIe Residents of
Island Off Cordova, Alaska

For nine years Joseph Ibach and his
wife have been the sole residents Of
Middleton island, about 60 miles from
Cordova, Alaska. Recently they came
to Cordova with 100 blue fox skins,
valued at approximately $4,000, repre-
senting the fruits of one years work
on a spot Of land never visited by any
one except the crew Of the power
schooner that takes supplies to the
Ibachs and brings them to the coast.
The Ibachs never find time drag
ging on their hands. Feeding Of their
foxes alone is a considerable task, as
each animal requires two and a half
pounds of fish, daily. With $50 foxes
on the island, the work Of supplying
sufficient fish for them is formidable
in itself. Seal meat and vegetables
are also fed to the foxes, the vegeta-
bles being raised by the Ibachs.
In summer time the Ibachs some
times add much to their income by
panning the sands on the beach for
gold dust.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
Woman Uses Less Force in
Speaking Is Reason She Can
Talk Longer Than Mere Man

A woman car talk longer than a
icle, because she uses less force in
speaking than the man does. A pro-
fessor has proved by delicate meas
urements that the barytone singer uses
far more energy than the tenor, and
that the bass singer uses more force
than either.
The difference between the force
used by the c~ontraltO and the soprano
singer is marked, and the cOntraltO
who sings in deep tones uses at least
ten times the force of the thrilling
soprano.
The explanation is so simple that
it is surprising that the investigation
was not made before. 1t has long
been known that the tenor or soprano
brings the vocal cords close together
and keeps the edges only vibrating by
the emission Of air. The bass or con-
tralto leaves the space between the
cords wider open and has to vibrate
much nor of the membranes, so that
a considerably larger amount of air is
required and much more force is ex-
pended.
Persons with high, squeaky voices
often seem to be loquacious, and the
reason is now plain-they can talk
with far less effort than those who
take a deeper tone and have to use
more air to utter their words. Thus
a oma can outtalk a man because
she has the advantage Of using from
o~ne-seventh to One-sixteenth less lung
power.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
E%xperimenter Finds SeaWeed
Promising Source of Alcohol

Experiments made at the Pasteur
institute In Paris by M. Kayser indi-
cate that the seaweed Laminaria digi-
tata is a promising source of alcohol.
The plants, previously washed to ex-
tract the mineral salts, or unwashed,
were reduced by evaporation to 10 per
cent. They were then treated with
water containing from 3 to 6 per cent
sulphuric acid for half an hour, at 12l
degrees G. The sugary liquid was
neutralized to 1 per cent Of acidity,
heterogeneous material added in some
cases, and was sprinkled with brew
ers' yeast. Fermentation was readily
induced, especially in the TASKS con-
tanning heterogeneous material, and an
average Of six liters of alcohol per 100
pounds Of dry Seaweed was obtained.
The Investigator believes that with
higher pressure larger quantities could
be obtained and that the residue could
be used for the extraction of mineral
matter and potash as by-products.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
Substitutes for Other Drugs,
but None Is Found for Opium

Opium affords one of the supreme
examples Of how man turns natures
blessings into curses, says a writer.
Undoubtedly opium is among the most
important and valuable remedies of
the whole materia medica. It's good
effects are not, as with other valuable
medicines, remote and contingent, but
Immediate, direct and obvious, and
1t is applied with great success to the
relief Of the commonest and most ac-
tually painful Of human maladies. AS
one great authority has said: "For
other medicines we have n or more
substitutes, but for opium, none." Yet
misused, 1t brings misery and prema.
ture death.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
Alloy of Gold and Aluminium
Has Brilliant Purple Color

It is not generally known that an al
10y composed of seventy to seventy-fve
parts Of gold and twenty-five to thirty
parts Of aluminium possesses a bril-
liant purple color. While the metal is
exceedingly beautiful, 1t has been
found impossible to utilize 4. in jewell
~, owing to it's brittleness. ]. Is curl
Gus that the combination of two soft,
ductile metals, like aluminium and
gold, the one white and the other yell
low. should produce a hard, brittle al
10y Of purple color, having, in fact, no
properties In common with either Of
the component metals
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
Wild Pigeons Formerly So
Numerous Now Absent From
Favorite Roasting Places

Are the North American wild pigeons
of late called passenger pigeons-ut-
terly extinct, as many claim? They
certainly are absent from sections in
which at times they were q veritable
nuisance because of numbers, espe-
clally In roosting places. They Were
SO numerous in flocks that they dark
ened the sky in their flight, and when
the early settlers wanted pigeons for
the table or for the market they in
vaded the roosts with clubs, at night,
and knocked them down by thousands.
Sixty years ago the American wild
pigeons were numerous and hunters
had little trouble in filling their game
bags. The pigeons began to disappear
with the advance Of settlement, but
it is not likely that the ruthlessness
of hunters is the only cause of their
absence ut the present time from for
mer haunts near which settlers are
still few and far between. Perhaps
epidemics swept through the immense
focks and destroyed them. This has
been suggested by a writer in the New
York Sun whose interest evoked the
following from an authority on the
wild pigeon: SIN 1875 inbound vessels
reported passing through great schools
of dead pigeons off the Atlantic coast
which had evidently lost their way in
a fog. A friend Of mine coming from
Europe was a passenger on n vessel
which took three days to pass through
these masses Of dead pigeons. There
were millions of them"
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
Skeletons of Prehistoric
Animals Is Chief Product
of Large Nebraska Ranch

Where do the museums of the coun-
try get their strange and curious
skeletons Of prehistoric animals? If
the skeleton is q "dinohyus' or q ''mOr-
opus" one may be quite sure that 1t
came from the farm Of James Henry
Cook, in the northwest corner Of Ne
braska; and the chances are almost
equally good if the specimen happens
to be a saber-toothed cat or n many
toed horse, or almost any of those
queer animals that belong to the early
Miocene period, writes II. Z. Crawford
in Popular Mechanics Magazine. Most
ranchmen and farmers are quite con
tent to raise the ordinary sort Of stock,
but here is a ranch that is most widely
kI.own because Of it's output of pre-
historic animals. For more than q
decade psychologists from the great
universities and museums of this
try have made regular trips to these
fossil quarries.
The Cook farm and ranch, located
close to the Wyoming line, comprises
some $4,000 acres. On the eastern
edge of the ranch the NiObrara river
has laid bare two hills, from both Of
which scores and scores Of fossil ske!e-
tons have been quarried. In the sum-
mer it is no uncommon occurrence for
representatives of half a dozen eaSterh
institutions to pitch camp near base
hills and spend several months digging
out the fossil bones which, when
worked over in the museum, form the
Queer-lOoking skeletons.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
Savory Dishes.

A good meat substitute which will
be found worth while trying is
Boston Roast.
Soak two cupfuls Of dried lima
beans over night. Drain and put to
cook In boiling water. When tender,
drain and retain the liquid. Press the
beans through a sieve, add two cup.
fuls of pecans or English walnut
meats, chopped fine, half a cupful of
strong cheese, grated or finely cut,
half a cupful Of soft bread crumbs,
one-half cupful of very finely chopped
celery, one teaspoonful of salt, n
teaspoonful of grated onion, a few
dashes of pepper, n egg beaten light,
and enough Of the bean liquor TO mix
into a compact loaf. Grease a bak-
ing pan, put in the loaf and bake one
half hour, basting with vegetable oil
and water, four times. Serve with %
brown or tomato sauce.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
$4,000 TubercuIar Soldiers
Since Beginning of the War

Twenty-four thousand soldiers have
been discharged from the army as tn
bercular since the beginning of the
war, the senate buildings committee
was told by DR.. w. G. Simpson Of the
United States public health service. He
said the history of tubercular pa
tients indicated that they would bo
In hospitals a third Of the time. Ten,
tative plans of the public health serv'
Ice for adding 1900 beds to existing
hospitals .werer described.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
SavorY Rice.

Cook a cupful Of well-washed rice
in a quart Of water for three minutes,
then drain and rinse with cold water.
Return the rice to the fire with two
tablespoonful of chicken fat and an
Onion cut in slices, cook until the fat
is absorbed, then add two cupfuIs Of
chicken broth, two cupfuls of tomato
pulp, a teaspoonful of salt, half n
green pepper cut in shreds, and a dash
of paprika. Cook until the rice has
absorbed all the moisture. Add a
half cupful Of grated cheese and turn
about the chicken on a hot platter.
The cheese may be omitted If not
well liked.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
Nn. M~<~eeQ
NOTES OF SCIENCE

Picked peanut meal is used
! for bait by French sardine fish,
} ermen.
|, A stool attached to a piano
! with a hinged bracket has been
, invented.
; Ecuador has established a
) course in scientific agriculture
at its central university.
According to an English scien-
fist there are 100000 fat glob-
ules In a drop Of milk.
|. For handling cakes OF ice an
inventor has patented mittens
with metal points in the palms.