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The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-04-08
WOMEN WHO
CANNOT WORK
Read Mrs. Corley's Letter and
Benefit by Her Experience

Edmund, SCI was run down with
and female trouble and suf-
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All Run Down
NoWFee!sFine
Eaf0nic Ended
His

"Eatonic Is the only thing I have
found to stop my heartburn and /
think 1T has been a great help In
nervous SPELLS" writes G.. @. Johnson.
An upset stomach may cause lots
of suffering all over the body. Batonic
helps in such cases by removing the
cause Of the misery, because 1t takes
up and carries out the excess acid
and gases and keeps the digestive or
gans in natural working order. A
tablet after meals Is all you need. Big
box costs only a trifle with druggists
guarantee.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-04-08
ll,onor,snt "a Mothers

A man is "just as young as ever
until he begins to puff on the thirC
flight of stairs.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-04-08

Watch cuticura Improve Your Skin.
On rising and retiring gently smear
the face with Cuticura Ointment.
Wash off Ointment In five minutes
with Cuticura Soap and hot water. 1t
Is wonderful sometimes what Cuticura
will do for poor compilations, dandrufr.
itching and red rough hands.-Adv.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-04-08
Something to
Think Ab0ut

By F. II. WALKER

THE TOAD beneath the harrow knows
Exactly where each tooth point goes;
The butterfly upon the road
breaches contentment to that toad"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03

that of the Marie Celeste. AS in the case of
the Deering, no one was found aboard the
Marie Celeste, which has furnished material
for endless speculation and has been made the
basis of more than one novel OF mystery. The
Marie Celeste was a brig which sailed from
New York in September, 1872, under Captain
Ben Griggs. There were thirteen aboard. in
Guiding the captains wife and seven-year-old
daughter. Their twelve-year-old son had
begged to be allowed to go, but the captain
decided that the boy must stay in New York
and attend school. The brig was found on
December BY the British barque Del Gratia,
abandoned in perfect condition near Gibraltar.
Captain Boyce of the barque found the remains
of a half-eaten meal in the cabin Of the Marie
Celeste. One of the members of the captain's
family had just cracked an egg whf,, thers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03

lieved in NARROWING and in free use of the
plank. To-day, even if Bolshevist crew came
into possession of a ship, it is hardly likely
that the skilled men aboard would meet any
harsh fate. They would be needed to navigate
the ship even more than in the old sailing
days. Who does not remember the passage
from Treasure Island where Long John Silver
says to his too-eager cutthroat companions,
I'VE are all foremost hands. We can steer
course, but who is to set one?" One can I'M
agine the satisfaction with which the officers
of the Deering would be received on a craft
just taken by the Bolsheviki, with the nearest
Soviet port thousands of miles away and no
one among the proletariat faithful possess
ing seamanship enough to navigate the ship.
Even if the question of piracy is to be dis
missed, the case of the Deering ranks with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03

peen found In proportion to those believed to
exist. There is the Rockal seventy or eighty
leet ABOVE the water, about 200 miles north
east OF the coast Of Ireland. That rock has
peen responsible for the destruction of MANY
SNIP There are similar menaces to nayi-
gaeion called the Rocks of Penede de St. Pedro.
Wn1ch were Landed on in 1852, after manv
Duech SHIPS had been lost there Atkins Rock
ngures IN Purdys Memoir of the Atlantic
ocean 1t was first spoken Of in 174O. The
mate on ship from which it was esped threw
oVerooard barrel to mark the spot. But
when ne put about, neither the island nor the
oarrel could be found. The island was de-
scrioed as covered with seaweed and about the
SIZE OF ships dory turned bottom upward.
because OF this rock-six vessels being missing
from Glasgow in 1821-the British Admiralty
authorized search. Five vessels made sew
eral cruises during two seasons but found
nothing.
Such are some of the darkly mysterious
agencies believed to have caused the loss If
ships in earlier days. When the wireless
came into general use it was believed that
much Of the dread mystery of the sea would
be done away with. Yet all the ships which
disappeared during the early months of this
'NAS SQoAppSu WIFI wireless. ttne of
these ships was the American steamer Hewitt.
winch left Sabine, Tex, for Boston and Port
land Me-, on January 21 and has heen
posted overdue since February 5. Others
were the Norwegian barkentine Florio. ont
from Norway since December l, bound for
hampton Roads; the Norwegian sailing ship,
Svartskog, out from Hampton Roads since
october, bound for Norway with crew Of
fourteen, and Spanish ship of the Larrinaga
Line, missing since March. The Florio was
spoken IN foreign waters when she was four
teen days out of port Since then nothing has
been heard from her. On that ship Captain
hnudsen and his young wife were on their
honeymoon.
Ii these ships were seized by Bolshevik
pirates, the Deering and the Hewitt fell into
unlawful hands in American waters, The
Deerlng was ashore at Diamond Shoals with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03

proved In an official account, issued by the
State Department, concerning the seizure of
the Cuxhaven fishing schooner, Senator
Schroeder, by mutinous crew. The
Schroeder, according to the official statement,
was confscated by its crew in the name of the
Soviet government and taken to the port of
Murmansk. Later the crew again stole the
vessel and returned it to Cuxhaven. After
being kept in Jail at Murmansk for while
the captain, engineer and mate were taken to
Petrograd, and later were allowed to return
to Germany. All the mutineers, on the return
of the craft, were captured, tried and SEN
fenced to prison.
The Bolsheviki are said to be DESTROYS of
securing ships, and plot for the seizure of
many vessels was uncovered in a police raid
IN New York last year, according to members
of the bomb squad. Rear Admiral L. Nj.
Mutton, commandment of the Mare Island NAVY
Yard, is authority for the statement that it
would be possible for vessel to hoist the
black flag and prey upon commerce for linn
tied period without detection. The inevitable
discovery would come when the pirate craft
had to put into some port for repairs.
The case of the Schroeder has served to re-
call that of the Bounty, which was seized hv
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03

mutlnous crew, December %, 1887. In this
case the mutjny was unprecedented and arose
from the crews dissatisfaction with its treat
nent at the hands of Captain Bligh. who was
an exacting though brave and efficient officer.
Inc captain and eighteen loyal men were set
adrlft IN small boat in the South Seas, where
the Bounty had gone for cargo of bread
fruit trees for the government The mutneers
landed at Pitcairn Island and burned the shin,
Here they founded colony, taking native
women as wives. In 1914 they were found.
peaceful, law-abiding community, ruled bv
John Adams, one of the mutineers In 1880
the colony removed to Norfolk Island, west of
Pltcalrn. Descendants of the Bounty's mutt
neers are still living and occasionally writing
magazine articles.
Inc bounty's case was one of the few where
muunous uprislngs did not lead to open piracy
Generally mutiny was followed by the hoist
ing OF black flag, on the theory that the
crew had committed a hanging offense
anyway.
Ii BoIsheylsm is responsible for recru-
oescence OF piracy, it will not be the first time
that the pirates calling has had the sanction
OF government in one form or another. In
Homeric days piracy was an honorable calling
FROM the eighth to the eleventh centuries the
Morse Vikings, who ruled the northern seas,
were national heroes The Moslems who
preyed on Mediterranean commerce. and the
baroary corsairs, who struck swiftly in their
galleys, which were patterned after the craft
OF ancient Greece and Rome had more or less
OF government connivance behind them always
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03

1t was only when the laws of the sea became
harsh that the pirate had to go "on his own
and carry on his work without hope of support
elsewhere.
If the Bolshevists have revived organized
piracy they have chosen historic setting for
their first pairing of the black flag with the
red. The coast where the Deering went ashore
with all her sails set was patroled bv tha
murderous Edward Tench, blackboard. who
@aecned Tor the commerce in and out of
charleston Harbor and made free with every
'hlhg tnaV promised rich returns. Tench be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03

came the strange summons which took them ali
on deck. There was no sign of disorder.
There had been no mentiotSs of bad weather in
the Captains log, which was completed within
1orty-elght hours of the day on which the
ship was abandoned. The briggs small boat
was IN place, which deepened the mystery.
The case of the Marie Celeste attracted
worldwide attention. The shrewdest minds
could make nothing satisfactory of any solu-
ton. One theory was that tidal wave
washed everybody overheard. This was held
untenable because wave of such proportions
would have done some damage to the ship.
Another theory was that the captains family
had gone swimming and that in trying to
rescue some one the captain and eventually the
Continued on merit paael
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03

all sails set. On the same night an unknown
steamer passed close enough to the Frying Pan
Shoals Lightship to be spoken. The Iightship
endeavored to get the steamer to take mes
sage but received no response. The theory has
been advanced that this was a Boshevik
steamer, to which the crew of the Deerinc
was transferred. If the captain and the entire
crew were lost in rough water while trying to
make shore in small boats, as claimed by
officials of the Weather Bureau, it is believed
that some trace Of them would have been
found AS it is, the only hint of the reason
for the Carol A. behring's strange abandon
ment is found in a message picked up in
bottle. This message has been proved to be
in the handwriting of the behring's mate and
said that the writer had been taken prisoner.
The daughter of Captain Wormwe of the
Deering has been insistent all along that her
father and his crew We're the victims of
pirates. The theory has been advanced that
Bolshevki smaller boat, DESTROYS of get
ting away from this country, were on the
lookout for an oceangoing craft which they
could SEIZE They made the effort to take the
Deering, but the ship was beached. Realizing
that it was necessary to leave no trace behind
the Bolshevilli may have transferred the crew
of the Deering to their own vessel. Wreckers
at work on the Deering are said to have estab-
lished the fact that the vessel was thoroughly
looted.
Another theory concerning the Deering was
that she collded with the Hewitt and the
crew was transferred to the latter vessel which
later sank with all on board. This theory was
exploded when it was found that the Deering
bore no marks of any collision. The Weather
Bureau officials have been insistent from the
first that no question of piracy has been in
voved, and that the behring's crew attempted
to escape in the ships launch and small boats
in rough weather and were swamped, and that
the Hewitt and other ships missing since the
first of the year were lost in a series of gales
which swept the coast.
That Bolshevist piracy exists has been
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
Taxicab Drivers Find
Insurance Hard to. Get
Reckless Operation of Hired
Vehicles Is Underlying Cause
of This Condition

Most of the taxicabs driven to-day
are without any insurance protection
and usually where q suit is commenced
it is found that the driver who owns
the car has no means with which to
pay a Judgment. Further, il the taxi
cab is attached after judgment is OBJ
tanned, it usually is found that the cab
is chattel mortgaged. leaving little for
the party suing.
Insurance companies fight shy of
covering taxicab operators or organiza-
tions. The individual who owns a
taxi in nearly every case cannot get
insurance and only the best companies
operating cabs have a chance of cover
age. This condition proceeds directly
from the manner in which taxicab
drivers operate in the City of New
York. A stranger coming to New York
might readily get the impression that
there is a special provision under the
law giving such drivers the right to
disregard traffic rules and to operate
as they please, without consideration
for other vehicles and pedestrians.
Action could we'll be taken .imme-
diately to safeguard public welfare and
put an end to such nuisance. To i'm
prove upon this condition plan could
be worked out to prevent taXicab
owner or firm from obtaining a license
to operate such a vehicle unless a bond
of suitable amount was furnished for
the purpose of protecting the public
against personal injury and damage to
other property. This would naturally
force the taxicab driver to be more
careful 'and take greater pains in pro-
tecting the rights of others. If acci-
dents did occur the owner of the taxi
cab would, of course, be liable to the
extent of the amount of his bond at
least. l.. H. G.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
New Steam Car Has
Six-Cylinder Engine
Rear Axle Is the Motive Part of
the Automobile as Worked
Out by Goats
hspored sy'
JOHN JLxoNS
&cretcry Of Sote

Announcement is made by George A.
Coats, of Indianapolis, that he will
manufacture and market a five-passen-
ger, siX-cylindcr steam touring car of
l10-inch wheelbase, with electric light
ing and starting, to retail at about
$1,000. On the same chassis he will
also build commercial speed wagon.
The boiler is of the combination fire
and water tube type, so arranged that
The insulated steam line leads directly
to the rear axle, with divided flow to
each half of the axle.
1t is engine, axle and differential
function all in one, the engine in its
housing being just about the size of
the ordinary rear axle gear case. 1t
is without doubt the most compact en-
gine in automotive practice. The hous-,
ing of each half of the axle carries
three fixed cylinders, set at 120 de-
grees apart, or one-third the circle.
These cylinders are exactly like those
of the automobile engine, with poppet
valves, pistons and connecting rods.
The bore is 2M inches, stroke inches.
The three connecting rods in each half
are pivoted to Crank pin integral
with the drive shaft of each wheel.
At a speed of forty miles an hour the
engine is running at 500 revolutions a
minute.
1t is reported that in actual tests
the Coats cars are doing from twenty
to forty miles on one gallon of kero-
sene, and one filling of the water tank
runs the car from 800 to 500 miles.
The Coats car, completely equipped,
weighs less than 1900 pounds. 1t has
less than forty moving parts. 1t elimi-
mates carburetor, timing gears, mag
neto, clutch, gear shift, fywheel, ac-
celerator, propeller shaft, universal
joints and differential.
The origin of the enterprise is in
teresting. At the beginning Of the war
the Norwegian government sent an en-
gineer to America to study the develop
m0t of internal combustion engines.
He had completed his reports and was
preparing to return home, when Mr..
Coats met him. The inventor laid be-
fore Mr.. Coats plans for steam on
which he had been working for years.
These plans so interested the Indian
apolis man that he promptly employed
the engineer and established him in an
experimental shop with a free hand.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
Sharp Cut in
Coverage ON
Auto Collisions
Deductible Forms Only Now
Written by Several Com
paRpies for Manhattan, the
Bronx and BROOKLYN

Announcement has been made by sew
eral leading insurance companies that
they have discontinued the writing of
full coverage automobile collision in
surance in the boroughs of Manhattan,
Bronx and Brooklyn. Hereafter insur-
ance will be written only under the
500 and $500 deductible forms. In other
words, the first $50 or $100 of cost for
any accident will have to be borne by
the operator of the automobile. This
step has been taken, it is stated, be-
cause of the increase in traffic accidents
and the consequent increasing loss ex-
perienced in automobile insurance. The
onl ~ other way to handle the situation,
it is stated, would be to increase rates,
and this was decided would be a bad
plan at this time.
Careless operation of motor vehicles
is the cause of 2 great many accidents,
and it is stated by the insurance com
panies which have taken this step that
they believe the new arrangement will
mean greater care in operation as far
as motorists are concerned and greater
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
The Scrap Pile
Automobile dealer. are facing . sell

Automobile dealers are facing sell
ing season in which many OF them Will
have to do business with persons who
already own cars. The percentage OF
trade-in business is going to be larger
than usual This means handling
many used cars, or, in other words,
two sales to every deal. This situa-
ton can be met and handled by the
trade to its very decided advantage II
the used cars are properly prepared
for the second owner. The buyer Of
a used car is customer, too, and if
a new car some day, or, in any event,
a likely buyer of another traded-in au-
tomobile.
Dealers who value the good name Of
their houses will see to it that the
secondhand cars they sell are just
as good advertisements for them as
brand new machine would be. 1t is
radical idea advanced by one dealer
that it should be almost needless to
have used car dealers and that Gus
toners should be educated to buy di-
rect from dealers OR branch houses
representing new cars. The success OF
any sum pan 0CPcHoo
the care taken by the dealer or branch
to see that the public gets something
worth while in Che way Of second
hand car when it buys. In other
words. "junk" should be eliminated
and no car sold unless the dealer is
sure it will be a good advertisement
for his line.
If this plan is universally followed
a new era in merchandising second
hand cars will be begun.
What will the automobile OF the fu-
ture be? Our guess is that it will be
very completely equipped, thoroughly
comfortable machine, with adequate
space for tools and impedimenta and
those easily got at, and with all engine
and other parts actually accessible.
1t will be self-lubricatng and will
have modern brakes. One expert says
that of all the things about an auto
mobile the brakes Of the average car
to-day are small, if any, improvement
on those of ten years ago. Brakes
haven't kept pace with Improvements
in many other respects.
ACCESSIBILITY" is found in the cata-
logue more often than in the car. Why
not an engine from which oil and
water may be readily drained? Why
not construction such that carbureter,
ignition and valve adjustments can be
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
Merchants Association
Acts on Truck Overloads

The Merchants Association has
adopted resolutions condemning the
overlooking Of motor trucks and their
operation at excessive rates of speed
on public highways.
This action was taken upon the rec
ommendation Of the associations spe-
cial committee on highway develop
ment, the members of which are:
Lee J. Eastman, president of the
Packard Motor Car Company, chair
man; Glenn A. Tisdale. president of
the Franklin Motor Car Company;
George S. Ward, president of the Ward
Baking Company; Walter j. l.. Banham
general traffic manager of the Otis Ele-
vator~Company; Nelson P. Lewis chief
engineer of the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment, and Lothar w. Faber
president of the Eberhard Fnber Pen
Gil Company
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
Motor Car Exhibit
In April at A. C.. A.

private showing Of high grade cars
of various classes is to be held at the
clubhouse of the Automobile Club of
America in the week of April 4 to 9.
This spring motor exhibit is planned
to afford to clubmen of New York an
opportunity to make a leisurely exam
! nation and comparison of the chassis
and coach work. The exhibition will be
held in the clubs assembly hall.
Among the cars to be on exhibition
are Lexington, Dodge, Ambassador. La
fayette, Velic, Paige-D Detroit, Packard.
Pierce Arrow, Rolls Royce, Cole, Hud
son, Essex. Cadillac, Stevens-Duryea.
Rauch & Lang, Haynes, Locomobilc'
Kissel, National, Marmon and Lincoln,
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
reached with real ease? Echo. -.
plies the answer.

plies the answer ny
The man in the street WALK -.
his head down. ""a
A great many pedestrians appsre,,,-
are fully aware of their own HIM!
but just as completely unaware II q.
Watch the people on foot a. . TO-.
crossing where there is police rsn.,ls als
ton Of pedestrians. They don't Iste. Istes's' =
and some are always to be found -" ="
ing to dash across anyway. They .sy "
at the delays and regard themseIv.sasls .asls
abused and the whole procedn,s ~
silly. This is all because they ars a. ~
used to police control, as the rnoto.;o. 10.
is from the moment he become:
automobile operator. Tn, ays,.s sa
pedestrian has far greater nAsd ~ ~
ing taught respect for the -;ght. 0s :.
others on the highway than the a,<s ~
age motorist When motor traffir ss' .ss'
.he signal to halt, it halts. Thar -. -
real respect for the ordinances IT,
on Fifth Avenue, at those cro..;osss
above Fiftieth Street, where there -.
no police at the intersections wv
the green light shows the north 80
south bound cars stop, even thousi
there is no traffic cop No irving 3.
sneak one over. Just imagine. II vas ~
can, pedestrians showing respect r..
the law that way.
Rules of the road ought to be tau.s.
in the schools everywhere, so that IL
another generation we would hays
pedestrian class able to protect its ors
safety by doing what most motori,,.
do to-day, and that is respect the law
The necessity for increasing the p,i..
of Illuminating gas is based on The s,.
cessive use of gasoline as fuel py user
of motor vehicles-that is, acco rdine /.
a statement made by person intsr.
ested in the gas company. 1t Is inter.
esting to note that in defiance Of H.
laws Of supply and demand, which nor.
mally govern prices, gasoline has iust
been reduced again in price.
A dangerous practice Of tsxieaA
drivers when carrying trunks on ths
front seat is to let part of the trunk
project beyond the line Of the runn;ur
board. This is apt to sideswipe pass.
ing car or to cause q smash-up.
G. E. T. s.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13

That fabrication Is not necessarily the
thing for automobile springs IL the
interesting statement made in the ac-
keep. 1t is from the pen of II. c.
Rvokaw, technical director OF the
Vest Side Y. NJ. c. A. automobile
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
Motorcar Show Revives
Interest i'm Auto Market

"Without question the Automobile
Show revived the motor car market"
says D. w. Voorhis, Brooklyn manager
of the Hudson Motor Car Company of
New York, Inc. at also proves that
the period of readjustment is one of
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13

According to the figures given, Sd per
cent of the sales of the year are made
between May l and September 80. A
mild winter, such as the present one,
may cause heavy sales somewhat earlier
this year. Allowance should be made
also for heavier sales in the earlier
months in the Southern States.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
Mack Trucks in Storm Work

In discussinAHast Sunday the means
used to dispose~of the February snow.
storm no mention was made Of 100
two-ton Mack DUMP trucks which wers
delivered to the Street Cleaning De-
partment at the same time as the othsr
equipment mentioned. They assisted
materially in snow removal this yeas.