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The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29
He Knew How.

The teacher was trying to demon
strate a simple experiment in the gen.
Grafton Of steam. "What have I in my
hand?" he asked. "A tin can." came.
the answer.
VERY true. Is the can an animate
or an inanimate objectY" 'Inanimate."
Exactly. Now car any boy or girl
tell me how, with Ibis tin can, it is
possible to generate a surprisine
amount Of speed and power almost he.
yond control?" One little boy raised
his right hand. "You may answer
Carter"
Tie ii to a dogs taii|
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29
Rows Dead in snowbank.

Montreal. Que.-Two boys, Roland,
IL. and Gerald Catler, IL, were found
frozen to death in a 10Y bank at
NORM Heights, near here. Both were
inmates Of the Montford orphanage
and escaped from the orphanage in an
attempt to return to their homes.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29
Seattle Cuts carfares.

Seattle.-An ordinance establishing
a 5 cent fare on the municipal car
system in this city was passed by
the council, and signed ar hour later
by Mayor Edwin ]. Brown. 1t becomes
effective March 1, replacing the pres
ent charge of 10 cents, or three tokens
for % cents.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29
Forty Hurt In Wreck.

Jessup, Ga.-Forty persons were in
jured. none seriously, when seven
pullman cars of passenger train No.
So, southbound. on the Atlanta Coast
Line railroad turned over between
AlIen.Hurst and Mcintosh.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29
TWENTY-THREE STRANDED
TUG VICTIMS ARE RESCUED
Lizard Island, on Which They Were
Found, Practically Barrcn-Four
Persons Still Missing.

Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.-After be-
ing marooned five days on the barren
Lizard isle, in Lake Superior, with the
temperature eve ranging we'll below
the zero mark, and apparently without
food, % OF the u missing persons
from the i'll fated tug Reliance have
been rescued by the tugs Gray and
Favorite, according to a meager wire
less dispstch received here from the
Gray.
The fate of the remaining four
missing persons was not revealed in
the cryptic dispatch flashed by the
Gray's wireless. Search for them is
being continued. Those rescued in
clude Capt. d. A. Williams. master OF
the Reliance. Capt. John Mcpherson,
Of the Booth fisheries, a passenger on
the craft, still is missing. The mess
age mentioned no other names.
Hope Of finding any Of the missing
persons alive virtually was abandoned
here earlier in the day, when the Gray
reported the finding Of two battered
lifboats from the Reliance. It now
Is assumed the boats were washed
away from the island after the
marooned men had landed.
The hardships suffered by the band
during their five-day Imprisonment
will, it is believed here, become new
history of the lakes. When they left
the sinking tug none of the men had
food, fuel or firearms.
The isle on which they landed Is
practically barren and uninhabited
except for a few huts left by Indians
and trappers in part seasons.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29

Ames, lathe armory OF the re.
serve officers training corps on the
Iowa State college campus was de-
stroyed by fire. The loss, which in
cluded several hundred thousand
dollars worth of supplies, was esti'
mated at $500, 900.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29
stick Together.

"Whom do you love best, Willie.
dear" asked the fond mother, "yOur'
father or me?"
Willie pondered for q moment and
then replied:
dad"
swell. Willie" said his mother, Il
IN surprised at you! l felt sure
you loved me best"
"Sorry," replied the young hopeful.
"but we men must stick together!"--
Exchange.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29
Kiils Playmate: Is Freed.

Omaha. Neb.-Robert Hyde. IL, held
for the fatal shooting OF Billy Feren-
stein. 3-year-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Max Ferenstein. was discharged when
a coroner's jury returned a verdict
OF accidental shooting.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29
British Troop. Evacuate ireland.

Dublin.-The last Is posts occupied
by British troops were transferred to
the Irish national army. The evacu-
alton Of the British was effected amid
scenes of remarkable enthusiasm and
good will, both sides evincing a de-
sire to forget bygones.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29
irreoul.rs eurn Two Trains.

neutrality-suspicious. derailed and
burned q freight train in transit from
Dublin to Belfast at Castle Belling-
ham. County North. Later a Belfast
Dublin mail train was derailed and
burned at the same place.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29
Given LIE Term for Murder.

Angola, Ind.-Nie Scheffer, on trial
here charged with Staying his brother,
James M. Scheffer, and the latter's
wife, was found guilty Of murder in
the second degree in circuit court and
sentenced to life imprisonment.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29
Vessel on the Rocks.

Detroit.-A large boat Is on the
rocks off Kingsville, Ont, in Lake
Erie. apparently in distress, according
to q wireless message picked up by
che Detroit News station.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29
child Dies in Prairie Fire.

Galloway, Neb.-Beulah Camp, g.
year-old daughter OF a ranchman in
Rotten Valley, near here. was burned
to death in a prairie fire set by her
playmates.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-29
Two Killed In Wreck,

TWO killed. ~ WrecK.
Two men were killed when Canad-
ian Pacific train No. 4 struck a broken
rail near Palliser. B. G.
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

Fogy. In the course of the letters, rich
in literary reference and keen in criticism,
the writer, with a flippancy that is char
acteristically American, is sure to refer
to himself as Little Willie or Your Uncle
Dudley. 1t is his way of informing his
correspondent that he does not take him
self too seriously. In the same spirit,
after particularly brilliant bit of OBJ
servation, he apologized for what he calls
his chatter" For example, in one letter
to Mr.. Brownell, he contrasts Poe and
Baudelaire: will you take it as an i'm
pertinence if / beg you to revise. be it
ever so slightly, your belief that Poe was
a greater post than Baudelaire? While
Poe was far from being Emersons jingle
man, he never struck the profounder
chords of passion so marvelously sounded
by the wretched Baudelaire. Take down
'Fleurs de NAL from the shelf and read
the tiny masterpiece again. There is all
the horror we find in Poe, but also hui
manity, pathos, sex" That is the begin
ming of page and half of Illuminating
comparison, dismissed apologetically as
chatter
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

Huneker, the i. A;gable journalist.
who is always refiecss IL the Course of
these letters. Even the OCCASIONAL saca-
tion brought little resi- In ssp.emper,
1920, he writes back from England
Fancy going 5000 miles for vacation
and then writing $4,000 words in five
weeks. :. !. Worse, lodging about Lon
don for fresh material. =. After forty
years of penwork I'm still bound in the
Ixion wheel of journalism" Again: I'm
writing 100000 words, fiction, for publica-
tiOn October, 1920. I've finished $4,000
thus far. Allons. courage Jacques lie
Scribe (Jim the Penman).'
UH OWELLS'S staggering output is
- the way Mr.. Cooke expresses his
subjects industry and facility, and the
photography at the end of the volume
lists five books of photographed inter-
est, eight books of criticism, twenty books
containing critical introductions, six
books of verse, thirteen books of travel,
thirty-six novels, thirteen sketches and
stories, twenty-five plays, nineteen mis-
cellaneous works and a selected list of
periodical contributions numbering
eighty-two. No wonder that he never
found the opportunity for the rest that
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

March, 1905, said in part: Il don't see
why you so persistently sport the monocle
of pessimism. You are young, gifted and
your style is personal l am to-day just
past As; ten years ago. that is in 1895,
I was scooping beats for the dramatic
columns of the Recorder. From 1891 to
1897 1 wrote a daily column-The
Prompter-said to be, by prominent au-
thorities in the Tenderloin slums, the
best of its kind. Some one else got the
credit for my work for at least five years
that and all the cash. | was a
lofty failure. So YOU see that ego in
Already. l was a dramatic hobo-e To-
day I am a literary cocotte Cheer up.
Walliei Look at Thomas-never the
doubling, ever the serene Thomas"
LOW both of those men worked, Con-
IL slider the total production of Mr.
Howells in all fields of literary labor 1--WE
been writing 5000 words a day." records
James Huneker in the course of one of
his letters. And~thi by hand in hand
writing that was particularly villainous
as possibly the compositor who sets up
this paragraph may remember Robert
Louis Stevenson called 2,200 words day
the labor of an elephant" 1t is James
The New York herald., 1922-11-05
CHRONICLE AND
COMMENT
By ARTHUR
BARTLETT MAURICE

till the end, he commanded admiration
and esteem by the amount and quality
of his work; while his invariable courtesy
and consideration won for him the love
of those who were approximately of his
own age and the reverent affection Of
those of a younger generation who were
privileged to know him.
RoTH Howells and Huneker were gen
- erous in encouragement of the man
who was struggling up in the literary
game. In fact there was a time when
captious critics were finding fault with
Mr.. Howells for discovering too much
genius that often turned out to be only
respectable mediocrity. There was a diff
ferent tone to James Huneker's letters of
encouragement. Each man was gracious
in his own style. For example, Huneker
in writing to Walter Pritchard Eaton in
The New York herald., 1922-11-05
Authors Works
And Their Ways

"Timothys Quest" by Kate Douglas
Wiggip. which is still selling steadily, al
though published over thirty years ago,
has now gone on to the screen. The
filming was undertaken by the Dirigo
Film Company of Portland. Me-, who were
able to stage the scenes at the very part
of country that the author laid the scenes
of the story.
Ralph d. Paine author of many books
of sports and adventure for boys, has now
written his own true story under the
title of Roads of Adventure" One among
the many thri,iing episodes of his life is
his famous filibustering expedition with
Capt. Dynamite Johnny O'Brien on board
the oceangoing tug the Three Friends.
Among the books on the forthcoming
calendar of Nicholas L. Brown is Georg
Brandes's ''wolfgang Goethe" translated
from the Danish by Allen w Porterfield.
The work will be published in two volumes.
The original Danish edition appeared in
the autumn of 1916. The German edition
(Berlin: Erich Reiss) csrne out six months
ago.
Europe in the Middle Ages" by Iernle
L. Plunket is announced by the Oxford
University Press American Branch. The
authors object has been not so much to
supply students with facts as to make
medieval Europe live-in the lives of
heroes and villains, the tendencies of the
classes, the beliefs and prejudices of the
thinkers.
Fast on the announcement that they are
to publish an Outline of Literature and
Art" in conjunction with Newnes. the
English publishers of the Outline of
Science" comes the announcement from
the Putnams that still another Outline is
in preparation. This time it is to be an
Outline of Humor." and the author is
Carolyn Wells.
Edward Simmons. in his just published
book, From Seven to Seventy: Memoirs
of Painter and a Yankee" says: "If 1
had the task of taking to Europe one thing
as the best work of art of America I
should take the tomb from the Rock Creek
Cemetery in Washington which was Gre
ated by those three artists-Saint-G Gaudens.
Stanford White and Henry Adams. Moth
ing we have made in this country as yet.
whether paint. carving or architecture,
can equal it.
In 1890. when Jane Austen, in her teens.
was reading everything she could lay
hands on, best sellers were an unknown
quantity. The fiction Jane knew included
Richardson's Pamela" and "Clarissa Har-
lowe" lin eight volumesl Fielding's Tom
Jones" and Amelia" 1.-The Vicar of Wake
field and Fanny Burney's "Evelina." all
of which were published before 177S It
was. however, the sensational romance
fashionable in her own day, represented
by the WORKS of Ann Radcliffe and Jane
Porter that moved Jane to the mischiev-
Gus burlesques in her newly published
volume Love and FIR erdship." This book
is now in it's second printing.
The New York herald., 1922-11-05


Cookies William Dean Howells; Criti-
cal Study" &c. P. Dutton & Coz. It is
interesting to consider the subjects of the
two books side by side. A greater con-
trast would be difficult to find. On the
one hand, Howells, in whom the puritan
ism of the New England in which he
spent so much Of his young manhood was
grated ON the even narrower puritanism
of the middle West of his birth. On the
other, Huneker, the joyous Bohemian, the
frequenter of queer haunts, the quaffer of
Pilsener. Yet far apart as they were in
outward aspect the esteem and affection
in which each was held in life and is re-
membered after death, were much the
same. Each had that finest of attributes;
the true politeness of the heart.
THE Scribner publication purports to
L present "The Letters of James Glib
bons Huneker." They are nothing of the
kind. They are "Jim" Huneker's letters,
which is very different thing and very
much more worth while Men who
worked with him, or played with him, or
who over tables in Mouldss in University
Place, or Luchow's in Fourteenth street.
or in bierhalle in Munich, or a cafe of
the Paris left bank discussed with him
Wagner or Baudelaire are thinking and
speaking of them as "Jims letters"
"Jim" fitted him much better than James.
That stamps the man. Imagine any one
thinking of a posthumously printed vol
ume of the letters of Mr.. Howells as
bills letters" Can any one recall a
letter of Thackeray's bearing signature
other than the familiar "W. NJ. Thack-
cray? Not even in the correspondence
with Jane Octavia Brookfield. Did
Dickens ever sign himself Charlie? Poe
was Eddie" in letters to his mother-in-
law, Mrs. GLENN. But Huneker was
"Jim" to his intimates, just as O. Henry
was "Bill"
ON the occasion of his first visit to
" New York many years ago Mr.
Howells visited Pfaffs beer cellar, at
Broadway and Bleecker street, famous
gathering place of the literati of the late
COS and early '70s. Shy and shocked he
sat amid the revel and clinking of glasses,
and later penned a description of the
scene in a manner" says Mr. Cooke,
somewhat foreign to his gentle and
tolerant nature" Revelry in any form
had little place in his life and work. His
hardest written pages were those that
savored of mild improperly. In one
scene of "The Rise of Silas Lapham" he
pictured BARLEY Hubbard. a seasoned
newspaper man, becoming helplessly in
toxicated on two Scotch highballs, which
was hardly the realism that Mr.. Howells
professed. The hero of one of his short
stories sees a piano case having on it
the name and address of young woman
He concludes she may have been a little
girl he once saw running barefooted. The
with the child whose active brown legs
he distinctly remembers brings the hot
bushes to the hero's cheeks.
r IMAGINE the hero of Huneker story
l. succumbing to two Scotch highballs
or ducking beneath the bed covers to hide
the bushes evoked by the memory of a
little girls brown legsl In that idea
you see the men poles apart. But who
can say that one had greater humanity
than the other? Beneath Mr.. Howells's
"niceness" there was always a broad
tolerance. Even when he could not quite
see the other mans point of view he was
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

he hoped for; that instead of putting aside
the pen at the age of so, or so, OF 70, he
kept himself in harness until the end
Yet there were responsibilities other than
those of his writing table To turn for
moment from Mr.. Cookies book to Caro-
line Ticknors 'Glimpses of Authors"
discussed in this department last week,
we read. ut would seem that Mr. Howells's
enormous accomplishment in the field of
letters, together with his adherence to the
high standard that he set for himself
might have entitled him to a freedom
from household duties and responsible
ties, yet from the earliest days he cheer
fully shouldered more than his share of
the domestic burdens No matter what
the demands of his work might be he al
ways had time to devote himself first to
his invalid daughter and then to Mrs
Howells, who for many years was also an
invalid demanding constant thought and
care
ITO revert to the Huneker letters 1t
nature appended to a particular letter
may be; whether it is James Huneker OF
James Gibbon= Huneker, or "Jim,' or Jim
the Penman, or o. F. which stood for Old
The New York herald., 1922-08-06
DOG JOINS SUICIDE IN DEA TIL;
COFFINS TRAVEL TOGETHER
Mrs Trowbridge's Pet Collie Laddie Boy, Forced to
Take Chloroform After Mistress Is
Found Dead.

In the shrubbery which borders the
woodland on the estate.
Two days passed and still no mistress.
Laddie Boy could not eat; he could not
sleep. No longer his tail waved on
the drive or threslfed through this un-
derbush. He lay night and day at the
threshold OF his mistresss door from
which many strange people came and
went with never a word for him
Finally on Tuesday somebody who
had been close to Mrs. Trowbridge in
her lifetime. remembered Laddie Boy.
Then they called tall dark man who
went to the house with a small black
bag and bottle. He took Laddie Boy :
head in his arm. poured some of the
liquid from bottle on a cloth and
held 1t to Laddie Boys nose And so
Laddie Boy dozed and dozed and final
ly drifted off to join his mistress
0. B. Davis, undertaken at Port JEFF
ferson, prepared Mrs Trowbridge's body
for burial after she was found deal from
q bullet wound In her Long Island home.
On the same train and in the same car
which took her to New York for burial
in Greenwood Cemetery. Brooklyn. was
another coffin containing Laddie Boy.
Because there is some regulation about
burying dogs in Greenwood Cemetery,
Laddie Boys body is in the canine
cemetery at Hartsdale. He had been the
friend and inseparable companion of
Mrs. Trowbridge for nine years.
The New York herald., 1922-08-06
HIRSHFTELD CITES
BUCHLER TO COURT
Wants Former Aid Held in
Contempt for Refusing to
Answer Questions.

At the instigation of David Hirshfield,
Commissioner of Accounts. the Corpora
tion Counsel. John p. OBrien, obtained
an order yesterday from Justice Lydon
in Supreme Court directing DIR. Samuel
Buchler to show canse why he should
not be punished for contempt and sent
to jail for refusing to testify before
the Commissioner In his investigation
of the Department. Of Markets. The
order is returnable In Supreme Court
at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
When DR.. Buchler. who formerly was
a deputy IN the Department OF Markets
and is rabbi, was called before Mr..
HirscnfieId he demanded the right to
read into the record statement in
which he attacked the investigation.
The Commissioner ordered DIR. Buchler
from the room after the latter had re-
fused to answer questions until his
statement had been accepted.
In his affidavit Mr., Hirshfield re-
cited that DR.. Buchler refused to an
swer this question:
'You recall that you came in to see
me about the time you resigned and
your resignation was to take effect
after months vacation?"
This was pertinent, averred Hirsh-
field, because DR. Buchler had said he
could give valuable information in re-
gard to the working of the department
and then refused to do so. The com
missioner added:
He has been making various sta
ments to the press as to conditions in
the department. which are vague and
of little service unless he can be exam-
ined in the usual question and answer
form
The New York herald., 1922-08-06

Laddie Boy was only a dog-a collie
with deep hazel eyes. waving plumelike
tail, and a serious yet happy mien. He
lived on the estate of Mrs. Mable Nell
son Trowbridge near Mller's Place.
l.. l.. and being only dog and scarcely
on friendly terms with any but his mis-
tress there was nobody 10 tell him last
Sunday afternoon that there would be
no walk that evening along the shrub
berry lined paths Of the estate.
Waiting until long after the accus-
toned hour had passed. Laddie Boy re-
membered that once when his mistress
had been Ill he had run to the drive and
barkcd reminder under her window
and that she had waved at him from
above. He tried this now. but there
was no answering wave.
Laddie Boy watched his chances,
slipped into the house, ran up the stairs
and scratched at her door. That had
never failed him before, but now only a
strange man came out and ordered him
away. Ladde Boy saw through the
open door many unfamiliar faces and a
strange going to and fro. Puzzled, he
ran down the stairs and out on the
drive again.
A long wait brought no familiar fig
ure TO the doorway. so after while
he gave it up and tried to work off
an uneasy feeling by raising rabbit
The New York herald., 1922-08-06

the custom men. and loaded the contra
band without any difficulty. -
Although willing to go into the most
minute details in regard to other mat
tors Burfiend. according to the authori-
ties. refused absolutely to tell them how
much he paid for the liquor. While he
was in their hands the customs men mo-
ticed two pieces of jewelry on him which
they suspected might have been Snug
gled into the country, but he denied
such was the case The authorities
announced. however, that they will try
to find out how Burfend acquired the
Jewels.
The New York herald., 1922-08-06
Federal Men to Drop Matter.

Mr. Clark, who was Acting United
States Attorney in the absence from the
city of Mr.. Hayward. issued the fol-
lowing statement soon after reaching
his office
This office expects to take no action
in regard to the missing sixty-five
cases of liquor, at least until reply
is received from Commissioner Enright.
What action is then taken will, OF
course. depend upon the reply. but 1t
can be said certainly that there is not
nor has there been any intention of
searching police stations or boats or
other drastic action. l hope that the
matter can be satisfactorily explained
through cooperation between the Po-
lice Department and this office"
Beyond this Mr.. Clark refused to dis
cuss the case. He left his office at noon
and efforts to reach him throughout the
rest of the day were unavailing. At his
home in Flushing a woman who an
swered the telephone said Mr.. Clark
had gone to Long Beach with his family
for the day. Mr.. Falk also could not
be reached after he left the Second
precinct in the early afternoon.
Inspector Bailey was at the precinct
for several hours. but reporters WHO
sought to speak to him were informed
by the desk lieutenant that "the inspec-
tor is busy and l cannot disturb him.
At the Custom House it was an
| nounced that the law division at first
had suspected that the thirty-five cases
turned over to II did not represent the
entire seizure when the three prisoners
| Charles Burfiend of S14 Virginia ave-
nue.. Jersey City. John Hike of n
Lincoln street, Newark, and Harry VIII.
son of Il Seidler street, Jersey City
were taken back to the Federal Build.
ing after having been arraigned In ths
Tombs Court. The prisoners mani
tested willingness to tell of bootleg.
ging operations, 1t was stated. A GER
titled chick for 5000 was found in Bur
tends pockets as we'll as s1.492 In cash
Customs officials said they had learned
the launch made trip to the same run
ship, the Minnie Wallace. a week ag,
and succeeded in landing 1875 cases o
liquor in Hackensack. Trucks were
waiting at the pier on that occasion. SAID