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The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-03-26
Just Folks
By EDGAR A. GUEST
n LITTLE SOULS.

He shall never live long who serves
only himself,
He shall never be great who thinks
only Of pelf.
Though he grow to be gray
In his own narrow way,
He shall find that the gold
He has labOred to hold
Is an empty reward for his long years
Of strife.
And too late he shall learn he has
wasted his life.
He shall never be wise who thinks
only Of gain,
And tolls for but what he. himself,
may attain.
He shall sigh at the end
For the smile of a friend
And shall reap from his years
Only hatred and sneers.
And alone he shall sit at the end or
his days
And wish he had travelled by kindlier
ways.
He shall never be big who has never
been kind
But shall always be little Of soul and
of mind,
He may scramble and fight
BY the stern rule of might
And may get to the peak
BY destroying the weak.
But there he shall fin6 that his con-
quests are spoiled
And robbed of their charm by the way
he has toiled.
The service worth while is the service
men give
That others in sunshine and laughter
may live.
The big men are they
Who will pause on the way,
To play for another
The role Of n brother.
The great men are they who are gen.
tie and kind:
They live when they die In the
friends left behind.
Copyright by Edgar A. Guest)
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GONE people tink war ees no stop
~ pa yet. Other night / go see fighta
Tor prize and heesa enda up weeth
beega scrap over somating, / dunno.
one place gotta whole lot rope on and
aSka mar wat deesa for. He say
ring Tor maka fight cen. But hees too
MOCHA square and no mocha go
round for ring.
Freely soon two Teller come out
Weeth no moocha clothes on only n
leetle bit. l gotta idee they tink hees
Saturday night and try for TAXA bath
cen water bucket.
one man whosa all dress up llka
sunday maka speech for eXplaina fista
Dout. But he no saw wOt gonna fight
OOut. Desc two feller whosa leava their
clothes home maka friens weeth shaka
hiIhis. NeXta meenute somebody ringa
de"net bell and beega fight breaka
weeth dees two Teller whOsa
ready for 60 to bed. When da bcll
ring seema lika both tink other one
gotta heeS lunch. SOmatime love and
hug n no fight. Other time all fight
and no hug. Somebody holler break !"
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-03-26

thank him enough and off he ran to
make a new door TO his home in the
wall.
Some time after this all happened
Mr.. Mouse grew bold again and ran
out Of the pantry one day and Puss
saw him.
Around the kitchen she chased him,
and by and by she had him cornered.
He could not get back to the pantry,
and Puss was very sure of getting
him, so she sat quite still and
watched poor trembling Mr.. Mouse,
who was sure his end was near.
But he had a friend close by,
though he did not know it, for right
over Puss' head was the new home Of
Madam Spider, and when she looked
down and saw what was going on she
knew 1t was time TO pay her debt Of
gratitude 10 Mr.. Mouse.
Madam Spider let herself down by
q slender thread right over Puss.
Then she swung herself right into one
Of Puss' eyes.
Puss bent her head and brushed
her eyes with one paw. 1t took only
a wink of time, but 1t was enough.
Mr.. Mouse was saved. for when Puss
opened her eyes again he was gone.
Madam Spider, too. was safe up in
her home again. feeling very content
ed, for had she not saved the life Of
Mr.. Mouse, who ono had spared her
home?
That night, when Mr.. Mouse was
thinking over all that had happened,
he suddenly remembered the Spider
that saved him.
why, i do believe It must have
been Madam Spider, whose home /
spared a long time ago." he said.
well, well! You can never tell when
you will need a friend, and even the
weakest ones sometimes are able to
DO the biggest deeds Of kindness"
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Rann-dOm Reels
BY HOWARD L. RANN

o venture out after day with ones
family. What we need in this conn.
Try Is a law requiring every auto.
nlooiie driver to drink nothing bur
put'erlnllk for forty-eight hours be-
lore starting out for a record RIM
through the main streets. A man
win a new automobile can do enougb
hafm TO himself without having TO
uouGe a relay Of Orieyed Joy riders
TO whom death in any form would be
sweet.
Inc best kind Of joy ride to take
Is mat which a careful husband and
lather uses when he hauls a carful
II wife and children out in the u
~. one of the incest sights we know
7 is that Of a man who would rather
Ide at fifteen miles an hour, accom-
}anied by six pounds of cold chicken
ana nine hundred pounds of family,
nan snort owe the roads like a run
way freight engine and fresco the
.ineaments Of sane people with dust.
(Copyright.)
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uard 10 weave this beautiful pattern,
and now you are going to destroy II.
"Of course i canno protect myself
against such a big, strong animal as
YOU, Mr.. Mouse, so | must submit,
Oh. dear; oh, dear; how miserable ]
am"
Mr.. Mouse grew thoughtful. y!
suppose / am big and strong and ought
not to take advantage of such a lit
tie frail creature as she IS" he
thought. II 'on't break down her
home"
Don't worry, Madam Spider" said
Mr.. Mouse. Stay right where you
are. | car easily make another home
by night time, and / do not think
Puss will get me up here, so make
yourself eay;> your home shall not
La destroyed"
Madam Spider said she could never
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-03-26

and both pusha some more cen da
face.
Man weeth deenerbell ringa for
supper and stoppa da fight. Both
fighter getta scared and no sect to-
gether. Pretty soon bell ringa for
breakfast and fight breaka Dose all
over some more.
| gotta gooda time but I dunno wot
for everybody tighta SO mooch. / tink
hees better fight eef somebody stoppa
dat guy from play weeth dinner bell.
Jusa getta start and ringa da bell and
putta fight on da bum.
| no understands wot for nobody
smasha dees Teller whosa all dress up.
He starta all da trouble and no getta
push cen da face once.
Wot you tink?
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friend Of his. The poet dreamed of a
cat and the dream consciousness, for
some reason, suggested the word 'tip.
cat" The faculty of verbal associa-
ton got to work and produced the fol-
lowing doggerel:
Call in the tipcat, cut off it's tail,
Fold up some eggs in a saucepan:
Sit on the rest like an elderly male
And gulp down the rest as a horse can.
The analysis is an interesting exam
pie of the verbal association found In
dreams. "Tipcat" suggested a cats
tail-its tip. Cut off its tail" suggest
ed a cooking recipe and led to eggs In
a saucepan" Eggs suggested sitting"
while "gulp"-which the dreamer noted
appeared a gallop-suggested a horse.
II is a singular fact that the dream
consciousness sometimes gets in a mer-
nv mood when it is fond of making the
most ridiculous combinations Of words
and perpetrating the most atrocious
puns.
(Copyright.)
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UNDOING

BY George Matthew Adams.

Sy George Matthew Adams.
FORMATION is always better than
Il reformation. The mended article
Is never rs valuable as the original ar
tlcle. The field neglected and given
over to weeds is never so fertile again.
In like manner, the cells Of a mans
Brain, given over to foolish and un-
profitable Thought are never so plastic
for useful Thought tracks again.
Everything is Easier and Better y
always done Rhythm the first pace.
The process Of Undoing works
havoc, not only upon the Character of
the one who Works or Thinks wrong
ly in the first place, but in many in
stances upon countless multitudes,
while the time spent in Undoing rep
resents an irreparable loss. Every time
you start a new duty or piece Of work.
bring to the front of your Mind this
eternal truth
Everything Is Easier ant.- Better IL
always done Right-iu the first place.
If we all could cut view our acts IL
the light Of Eternity-not forgetting
that q single effort is never lost from
Influence, we would set on guard our
most trustworthy Sentinel to warn Us
against doing things Wrongly in the
first place-which always means I'm
doing for us or somebody afterward.
Why not write this down as II Of
vour daily MottOeS-
Everything is Easier and Better If
always done Rhythm the first place.
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PUSS, MOUSE, A SPIDER.

ID ROWN MOUSE came out OF his
right on a shelf in the pantry. The
hole was hidden by pans, and Brown
Mouse never thought Of such a thing
Is that the pans might be moved.
One day he was bold enough to run
out in the daytime and stayed, and,
getting a bad fright from seeing Puss
come into the pantry, he ran out of
the door into the kitchen and out into
the yard.
Here he managed TO escape by run
ming under the steps, where Puss
could not follow him.
All day he stayed there and all
night, too, and il was not until the
next day that he could get back to his
own home.
But what was his surprise, when he
went to the hole in the wall TO find
the par had been removed and that
Madam Spider had woven a web right
over the opening and was sitting
there, waiting for a stray fly.
You have closed UP the door to my
house." protested Brown Mouse. Il
am afraid / shall have to tear away
your web, for I really must get in.
You know, 1t isn't safe for me to be
out here"
'Oh, dear, what shall / do" walled
Madam Spider. 1T took me so long
to find this place, and | worked so
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-03-26
Last Night'sDreans
What They Mean
DO you DREAM OF CATS?

vIyHILE dogs are regarded with favor
w by the mystics as dreamland pets,
cats are looked upon askance. The
chief trouble with them seems to be
their occult relation TO SANDER ana
gossip; which is probably why you
call that gossiping neighbor or yours
an "old cat" Some people whom you
regard as your friends are talking
about you when you dream OF cats LII
the cat appears gentle or sleeping 50
much the worse. But don't be alarmed {;
to be gossiped about is the common lot.
Just drive the dreamcat away n all
will be well. If the animal makes OH
In response to your energetic scat!
you will triumph over many obstacles
But choose your ~confidants carefully
when you see dreamcats. 1t is not a
good sign to have the cat attack you'
for 1t means that the obstacles you
will have to overcome will be great
Dreamcats also, strangely enough
seem to have a connection with rod
bers. Ii you beat or kill a cat in your
dreams you are going to catch a thlei'
and If 1t is a cat you neve saw before
you will recover all he may nave
stolen from you. These are only gen.
eral rules; the mystics are not agree
ing OF all with regard to the details OF
cat dreams.
Havelock EHis, I'm his book "lhe
World of Dreams" gives an amusing
aka pie Of a cat dream by a poet
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dry and that dirt particles will he
forced In by the rush Of air. Here
again cream Is useful.
Exercise or exposure usually cause
the pores 10 become unusually active
resulting in a thin film Of oil Over the
skin, and a resulting shininess. Mod
ern standards declare that this LIS not
beautiful, so the powder box comes
into its OWL Powder is as necessary
as soap, almost. Indeed, ii is a cues
ton whether pure powder on the skin
is not better than impure dirt par
ticles. However, powder and all other
applications should be thoroughly
washed off before one retires. leaving
the skin free and clean for the third
of the day spent In rest.
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The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-03-26
BEAUTY

n HOST women think that beauty cul-
lFA ture consists in an amazing va
riety OF bottles and jars and boxes,
with salves and liquids to be applied
externally. A few others scorn all cos
metics and pin their entire faith 10
plain soap and water. Whereas, the
real beauty culture steers a middle
course between these two extremes,
and starting - making the body clean
and pure within, uses q few external
applications to help out the good work.
For example-cold cream alone will
not make q good complexion. But
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-03-26
Beauty Chats
BY Edna Kent Forbes

neither, these days, will soap and wa
ter. An excellent digestion and "a
healthy body, come first, but even SO.
art will seep into the pores and soap
alone Will not clean 1t cut. Air that
cream of some sort must be used to
soften II. Too hot sun burns the skin,
and cream must be used to soothe II.
A few hours ride through a swift wind
in IN auto, means that the skin will
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-03-26
Sour Cream Drop Cookies.

Melt one-third of a cupful Of short
ening in one-third of a cupful Of boil
ing water; add one cupful Of molasses,
one teaspoonful of soda, one of ginger
and one-half t~easpoonful of cinnamon,
a little salt, and wheat -four to make
q drop batter. Have the cakes thick
enough not to spread too much and
bake in a moderate oven.
Copyright, 1920. Western Newspaper Union)
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"CONV ERSATION."

Overheard In Shippensburg, Pa
Man at front door, woman sticking
her head out of upstairs window.
Man has been trying to ring the
door-beIl.)
Woman-Chon, did you bell7
Man-Yah, did l..
Woman-Vell, IL didn't makel |
think the battery is all.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-03-26
Coconut Macaroons.

Beat the whites Of two eggs until
stiff add one cupful of sugar, lightly,
a little at q time. then fold in one cup
full Of cOrnflakes and two tablespoon
dash of salt and a cupful Of cOconut.
Drop on buttered sheets. This makes
"A small macarOons. Bake in q mod
crate oven until brown.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-03-26
Hermits.

Take n cupful of shortening, one
and one-half cupfuIs of sugar, three
eggs, one cupful Of stoned ~raisins,
chopped fine, one t~easpoonful Of soda,
one-half a nutmeg, grated, and a tea
spoonful Of cinnamon; flour to roll.
These cookies keep indefinitely and
are better when they are a week or
two old.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-03-26
Superior Sugar Cookies.

Take two cupfuls of sugar, n cup
full of shortening, four eggs, one tea
spoonful of soda and two ~teaspoonfuls
Of cream of tartar, n t~easpoonfu' Of
lemon or vanilla. Bake quickly, with
-four enough TO handle.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-03-26
The BASTARD!

Dearest, do you Know that at
the DeSWelles' tChlght at dinner.
| could distinctly hear you inhal-
ing you-. SoupT'
"Gavesdropper!"
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-03-26
BOOK '~oos OK

Nothing great was ever achieved with
out enthusiasm.
To each man IS given a marble to carve
for the wall;
A stone that is needed to heighten the
beauty of all;
And only his soul has the magic to give
ii a grace;
And only his hands la the cunning to
put ii in place.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-03-26
THE JOY RIDE.

THE JOY Ride is a successful meth.
l. cd of killing dull care and anv.
thing else that gets in the way.
There are two kinds of joy rides
drunk and sober. Most of the auto
mobile accidents which are played
up on the front page every few min
utes are due to the joy rider who IS
so full of booze that he can't tell
whether he is in the road or the riv-
'er. Every once in a while an auto
mobile viii fall into the palsied grasp
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-03-26

death-defying alcoholism meet each
> other head-on.
of some driver who has become
soundly saturated up to his eye
flashes, after which he starts out to
see how fast the car will run when
1T is opened up to the bright blue
sky. When two JOY riders who are
in a state Of death-defying alcoholism
meet each other head-on, there is a
noise like blowing up a munitions
factory, followed by the still, small
voice Of the hospital inferno.
If every JOY rider could be taken
u of the front seat and tested for
alcohol before being allowed to run
down other people, it would be safer
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for weeks and is always a welcome ad,
dition to any meal.
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Millions, literally, know Blanche
Sweet, understand her ute little ways
and believe in her friendship. Yet
none of the millions ever has heard
her speak a word. She is Il Q class
with the highest salaried stars Of the
movie" screen.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-03-26
For the CookY Jar.

A well-made cOoky, if kept in air
tight cans or receptacles, will keeI
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-02-27
DO YOU WANT IT?

Everyone buys clothes. Everyone
attempts to buy good clothes. If you
have paid $50 or more for a suit, you
have been told that the material in it
was "all WOOL. You have been .oli
this in face of the fact that there is
not enough wool produced each year
in the world to supply one suit of
clothes to each citizen of Europe and
the United States.
The truth of the matter is, those Of
whom you bought took advantage of
your ignorance. Merchants do this in
most cases unknowingly because re-
tailers cannot tell what the manufac-
turer put in the suit. They didn't lie
to you in words because possibly the
fibers in the cloth were every one wool.
getting suit made from bright new
fibers right off the sleeps back. In
reality ninety per cent or more Of that
suit YVES "shoddy", old wool, which had
already been worn out one, two, three
or more times but had been collected
by the rag pickers, reworked, recol-
ored and made into brand new suit.
There is now a Truth In Fabrics law
before Congress, designed to correct
this evil. 1t will compel manufacture
ers Of any cloth purporting to contain
wool to indicate the amounts of vir-
gin new wool and 9hoddy (wornout
WOOL in its makeup. Then when you
go to buy suit, dress, bed blan-
ket, or other wooden article, you will
know what you are buying and you
will not have to pay virgin wool pric-
&c for shoddy. When the public in
sists on virgin wool in the garments
TREY buy, they will get it.
As the wool market now stands the
clothing manufacturer is not compelled
to buy virgin wool in proportion to de-
mand for cloth. If the market price
looks too high he quits buying and us
es more Ghodly. Such condition of
instability in the demand for wool is
not conducive to wool production.
There are those who fear that The
Truth in Fabrics Law, with its ac-
companying higher and more stable
prices TO farmers for wool, would re-
suit in still higher clothing. Such is
not necessarily the case. A ladys
dress takes about five pounds of wool;
a mans suit, three and one-half
pounds. The farmers received sixsy
cents per pound for their wool through
pools last year. That makes So worth
of wool in a dress. The price of wool
to the farmer could double and still
add only So to the cost of material.
The people are entitled to know what
they buy and farmers are entitled to
fair and stable market.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-02-27

have material with which to construct
platform that will be wide enough
and long enough to support every
special interest, every disgruntled ele-
ment, every individual who has an
FAX to grind"
A typical assortment, which The
Tribune culls from its daily mail, in
cludes declaration for a square
deal for labor, capital and the pub
lic," without specific statement of how
the Utopian result is to be achieved
for the suppression of Bolshevism in
Russia in order to eliminate the
source of infection, but whether by
force of arms or by persuasive mis-
scenarios is not stated, for the arbi-
trary increasing of the value of the
dollar by the simple expedient of
burning the governments paper cur
rcncy; for higher wages for all school
teachers; for the seizure of all unde-
veloped land by the government, with
out compensation, to be sold at auc-
ton, for reduction of the high cost
of living" and for universal profit
sharing between employers and en-
ployees.
With these, but scant half-dozen
of the 800 ALREADY in, with more com
ing" the supply would seem to be am
pie. But the Tribune has to remember
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-02-27
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Congress is influenced mostly by The
voice of their constituents. Do you
want this law which will compel man
ufacturers to tell the truth about the
cloth they sell you and which will i'll
sure an adequate supply by making
wool production profitable? Public
demand will put it over. Write Sue
cessful Farming your wishes and we
will sec that your vote reaches the
proper congressional committee. Let's
drive another peg in the casket of il
Legitimate profiteering Successful
Farming, Des Moines, Iowa.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-02-27

Do not fail to note the offer made
by that sterling newspaper, the ST.
LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, else
where in this issue. In spite of the
enormously increased cost of produc-
ton, the DAILY GLOBE-DEMO-
Graf, except Sunday, is offered at
the remarkably low rate of $500 per
year-or in complete clubs of three
or more, at the net club rate of $3.50
for each yearly subscription. The
DAILY GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, includ-
ing Sunday, is offered for $3.50 per
year, or in clubs of three or more at
the net rate of $500 for each yearly
subscription. Again we urge you to
read the offer and send in your order
AT ONCE. Address the Globe Print
ing Company, Publishers, st. Louis,
Missouri. 4-6t
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-02-27
NOTICE

Extract from Amended State In
come Tax Law 1919: "All persons
having an income during the year
1919, of $1,000, or more, if single, or
$4,000, or more, if married, shall make
return of such income, under oath, to
the County Assessor of the county in
which he or she lives. The Assessor
will furnish blanks on request. The
returns must be in the hands Of the
Assessor before March LIST, 1920.
F. M. HORTON,
Assessor for st. Francois County, Mo.
7-3t.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-02-27

that planks alone do not make a plat
form. There must be nails of reason
and logic, which will tie the planks to-
gether and make them an indivisabIe
unit, without which the whole will col
lapse like house of cards. There
must be carpenters who will put
planks and nails together, and in these
days the laborers' loyalty cannot he
bought for mere wages-or campaign
funds.
Hauling planks to platform site
is an easy job; mule can do as mucn.
Putting them together into solid
structure is the task that demands in
telligence.-Omaha World-Herald.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-02-27

Governor Frederick D. Gardner, in
a letter to the Democrats of the Third
District, writes: "The Democracy of
the Nation and State feel sense of
gratitude for your victory. Under the
existing circumstances we came cut
with flying colors. am glad to see
the Democrats getting together over
the State, all of which is an indication
of a great victory in the fall"