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The Ely miner., 1895-07-24
GENIUS, WORK AND DISEASE.
Successful Generals Who Studied Their
Battles in AdYau.e.

Successful Generals Who Studied Their
Battles in Advance.
Genius, say some, is but a capacity
for hard work. This is not a whole
truth; there must be work in accord
ance with law. The miner who digs
for gold on the seashore will never
find it, though he dig ever so
laboriously; but if he study gold and
the geologic strata in which it lives, he
has begun to put himself into harmony
with law. Mere work, unless properly
directed, is like riding hobby-horse;
there is en- ergy and motion, but no
progress.
For years Napoleon was living in
miniature the battles he was to fight,
analyzing stragetic moves and posi-
tions, and training his mind to thus
grasp a new situation on the instant.
Won Moltke studied the military
topography of all Europe. and with
marvellous foresight thought out how
to win. His victory was no triumph
of mere fortune or special inspiration.
1t was but the logical outcome of his
trained mind, and trained mind ever
lights the torch of it's own inspiration.
Leonardo da Vinci always carried in
his girdle his sketch book, in his walks
in Florence, constantly looking for
picturesque faces. I'm the silence of
the night" he would counsel himself,
"recall the ideas of the things You
have studied. Design in your spirit
the contours and Outlines of the fig
ures you have seen during the day.
There is theory held by scientists
that genius comes from disease. Dis
ease, insanity, depravity and other
failings often do occur as consequences
due to over-concentration or misuse of
powers, but they do not create genius
any more than the vultures of the
plains create the carcass upon which
they feed. The genius, too, being of
finer mental material. is more likely to
show a flaw, as Dresden china reveals
a mar not noticeable in red-clay
fower-pot. In support of the disease
theory, the most insignificant, COM
monplace ailments of ordinary human
ity, when found in genius, are magniz
fed and exaggerated. The weaknesses
thus pointed out are, it is worth not
ing, usually shown in the part of mind
or of body where the genius was not
exercised. Science Review
The Ely miner., 1895-07-24
NOT so LIVELY.
Midsummer Dizziness Makes Itself Felt IN
Business.


New YORK, July 22.-R. G. Dun &
Co. IS weekly review of trade says:
1.-THE weeks news Is not entirely encour-
aging, but is all the more natural because
there are signs of midsummer dullness Wheat
prospects are not quite so good as last week,
but still there are lowerprices, as corn and cot
ton have been lowered The exports of gold
and the less favorable treasury returns for July
are not unexpected and mean nothing as to
coming business. There is perceptible de-
crease in the demand for most manufactured
products and the actual distribution to con-
sumers naturally lessons in midsummer There
are still numerous advances in wages but
strikes grow more numerous and important
Money is still abundant, and, while there is
/ much more activity in commercial loans, it Is
not what would appear if all industries were
fully employed The volume of exchanges
continues nearly as large as in 1892, because
OF the delay in spring operations and, though
, rapidly shrinking to summer proportions, is
"a per cent. larger than last yedr
The future turns on crops. and the market
reflects prevailing belief that the crops
are to be fair Stocks carried over are such
, that yield of 1000 900 bales OF cotton and
l2o 100000 bushels or wheat would meet all
needs, but lower prices prophecy larger yields,
, and of corn probably the largest on record.
western receipts of wheat not half last
yea s,express disappointment at prices, while
exports for the week, about quarter OF last
years, show that foreign dealers not
regarding the situation with anxiety. Nor
do British accounts indicate any anxiety about
cotton, while efforts are reported by some
American mills to sell part of the large stocks
taken some months ago, apparently exceeding
their needs for tho year. If unfavorable to
some spectators, these are cheering indi-
cations, for 1t is better to have fair crops than
to get higher prices for what remains.
Orders have SO accumulated in iron prod
uctS that some works fOrego the usual sum-
mer rest and eastern furnaces soon to begin
blast will add about 5000 tons weekly to the
production. Yet the week has been in new
began, as many hesitate to buy after so great
an advance. The average of all prices is per
cent higher for the week and 28. 3 per cent.
higher than February 1.
Wool advanced in the first half of July, and
is now per cent. higher than year ago.
Manufacturers do not support the advance
| and are buying only for immediate needs.
Cotton mills continue to enjoy large busi-
ness, and several have advanced wages during
the week. New business in boots and shoes
Is limited. Foreign tr de continues unfLvor-
able, with decrease of 10 per cent. in ex-
ports this month and an increase of 25 per
cent in imports.
Failures in eleven days of July show liabil-
tiles of s3503,982 this year against s.. &c., ,306
last year. Failures for the week have been
256 in the United States against 226 last year,
and 80 in Carada against A last year
The Ely miner., 1895-07-24

Of the toiliDg masses became more miserable
with the passage from the eighth to the ff-
teenth century, as charged by Mr.. Harvey.
Leber, Malthus and Hyndman were also cited
in contradiction of the silver champion s
fifteenth century statements.
Mr. Harvey said he had not intended to ar
que with Mr.. Horr that the monetary COM
mission from the report of which the quota
tion was made, did not know what it was talk
ing about He declined to have his mind di-
verted from the regular argument
and logical arrangement OF the debate
He declared that the debate SO
far had settled the questions as to what was
the money of the constitution. what was the
unit OF value as fixed by the trainers Of
the constitution, in favor of his book
The contestants became involved in short
and sharp argument to the reason and un-
derlying motive OF Mr.. Harvey in omitting
to state in his quotation OF the act making
legal tender of foreign coin, that congress, in
the same act, also made gold coins legal ten
der. The New Yorker insinuated that the au-
thor did so to mislead his readers into believ-
ing congress considered silver the most i'm !
portant. which was not true.
Mr. Harvey retorted: When a man is dis
cussing cattle he does not talk hogs When a
man is discussing silver and the manner in
which it was treated by our forefathers. and
comparing it with the way in which it is
treated by you people now. 1t was
not necessary TO re1er TO now tney treated gold
or copper" He added that he had left out
what unnecessary for him to state in
esta blishing the principle that the laws made
foreign silver legal tender.
After some discussion as to whether the
statute had been quoted correctly in Coins
School, Mr.. Horr proceeded in defense of the
law of 1873, and claimed that no law had ever
been passed by congress which was freer from
faint He defied Mr.. Harvey to produce one
nis charge that it was a scheme to demon
law was passed because experience showed
that gold would not circulate under the ratio
of Is to /. The cheaper dollar, which was
silver. had driven the gold currency out Of the
United States The history of that legislation
would ear him out in stating that that and
The Ely miner., 1895-07-24
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


1T is reported that Cleveland Ro.
man. Catholics are considering serious
ly the adoption of Salvation army
methods.
MIR. Gladstone, who was at Eton
with the late Bishop Selwyn, has
given bell to Selwyn college, Cam
bridge, which was named after the
bishop.
in some of the schools of Germany
the pupils acquire knowledge of the
weeds which injure vegetables. The
weeds are pictured on wall maps, in
natural colOrs.
-Fifty-four ministers, eighteen
from each of three Presby terian bodies
in Scotland, have for some time been
engaged in drawing up scheme for
Pres esbyterian union in Scotland.
The College Settlements associa-
tion has recently issued from the Phil
adelphia Settlement the first number
of The College Settlement News, which
will appear monthly. and will give an
account of all events of interest in
the different settlements of the asso-
citation.
"A check for So, 900 was recently re-
ceived by L. ID. Eldridge, treasurer of
Middlebury (Vt.) college. for the es-
tablishment of an Emma Willard
scholarship. The money is given by
the Emma Willard association of New
York city, an organization composed
of alumna of Troy Female seminary,
of which Mrs. Russell Sage is presi-
dent.
AT recent meeting in support of
the Church Army, church of England
organization somewhat similar to the
Salvation Army, the arch bishop of
Canterbury said that the church had
to a great extent lost touch with the
working classes. He attributed this in
part to the fact that the phraseology
used by the educated classes is differ
ent from that of the poorer classes,
and urged that a number of working
men, or men belonging to the so-called
working classes" be chosen to speak
to the masses in their own language.
AT st. Clement Danes, the law
vers' church, near Temple Bar, in Lon
don, the old custom of beating the
OOuhuS WdS OOSCINCu CH ASCtuSlDn
day. The parish officials, armed with
blue and yellow wands, headed by the
beadle and followed by number of
schoolboys carrying bamboo canes,
marched to Temple Bar and the other
marks of the boundary of the parish.
These the boys whacked with their
canes, which is an innovation, for in
olden times it was the boys who re-
ceived the whacking in order to inn
press on their memories where were
the parish limits.
| AT the gathering of the Congrega-
tional Home Missionary society at
Saratoga Rev. James Tompl1ins, of
Chicago, declared that l.50O, 600 of the
population of Illinois are practically
without religion, many of them be-
ing literally heather. He said that
the large and complex population of
Chicago offered great call for mis-
sionary effort and presented difficult
problem for solution. Notwithstand-
ing the growth of the religious denom-
| nations and the vast mum Der of church
edifces there is large body of citi-
zens who never have morality preached
to them, much less the principles cf
religion.
The Ely miner., 1895-07-24
Buried in a Cellar.

TORONTO, Ont, July 1.-THE bodies
of the murdered children of Benjamin
f. Pitzel. Alice and Nellie, were found
in the cellar of a cottage at 16 ST. Vim
cent street in this city Monday.
1t is claimed that the children were
murdered by II. H. Holmes, the insur-
ance swindler, who is also charged with
the murder of the father, on whose life
The Ely miner., 1895-07-24
Vestern associatiOn:


KALAMAZOO, Mich, July 2O.-Four-
teen of the twenty-four trustees of the
state asylums attended the joint board
meeting here. Reports showed 4,35O
insane people in the state, of which
1,43S are at Michigan asylum. In ten
years the expense of maintaining
the insane asylums in Michigan has
increased from 100000 to $3.50, 600,
which is paid by the state.
The Ely miner., 1895-07-24
STAMBULOFF is DEAD.

The Bulgarian Statesman Assassinated in
the Streets of Sofia.
SOFIA, July 20.-Stefan M. Stambu-
loft, eX-prime minister of Bulgaria, died
at half-past o'clock Thursday MORN
ing from the effects of the wounds in
1icted upon him Monday evening when
he was returning to his home from the
Union club.
Only 40 years of age, he had earned
for himself the title of the Bismarck
The Ely miner., 1895-07-24

"God protect Bulgaria" His death has
intensified the bitter feeling that ex-
lists between his partisans and the sup
porters of the present government, and
it has been freely charged that Prince
Ferdinand and his ministers were di-
rectly responsible for his assassina-
ton
The Ely miner., 1895-07-24
FOR AND AGAINST.
Harvey Meets Horr in the Arena
of Debate.
The WOrdy Battle Takes Place in Chicago
-"Coin's Financial School" the Cen
ter of Discussion-Synops of
the Arguments.

CHICAGO, July la-Two men met in little
room at the Illinois club Tuesday afternoon,
and began spirited contest of national mo-
ment. one fighting for silver and the other for
gold with all the intellectual powers facts and
authorities at their command. One of them was
Roswell G. Horr, once a member of congress
from Michigan now an editorial writer for the
New York Tribune, and the other was w. H.
Harvey. of Chicago. author of Coins
Financial School, Mr.. Horr championed
the cause Of gold, while Mr. Harvey threw
down the gauntlet for silver
man with a watch sat at table near the
speakers, and whenever one had spoken eight
minutes he would tap loudly on call bell
This gave the speaker warning that he had
two minutes more to conclude his statement
BY these stages of ten minutes each the
speakers will proceed for eight days. using
only the afternoons and resting Sundays.
The Battle On.
Copyright, 1895, by Azel F. Hatch.
1t had been agreed between Mr.. Horr and
Mr.. Harvey that previous to entering upon the
discussion each should briefly outline the po-
sition he proposes to occupy in the debate.
The Ely miner., 1895-07-24
BASEBALL.

Standing of the Various League Clubs
for the Week Ending July 10.
The following tables show the num-
Der of games won and lost and the per-
centage of the clubs of leading baseball
organizations National league:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-06


poration whose capital is represent
ed by shares of stock that does not
own some real estate. Each share
of stock represents valid title to an
interest in this land. The aggregate
stock represents the.ownership of it
ALL And yet these landed interests
are transferred from one to another
with no greater formality than
written assignment on the stock GER
tif1cate, recorded, for convenience,
on the stock register of the company.
There is no reason why land titles
could not be transferred as simply
and as easily. It is too much to ex-
pect any lawyer in the legislature to
frame and introduce such a measure,
for no one cares to reduce his in
come; but there are enough men,
bers not lawyers to do it, and they
can do nothing that will more bene-
fit their state than by making the
Torrens system part of our land
laws.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-06
sTRUCK THE KEYNOTE.

Ross Clarke, in presenting ana
commenting on the report OF the
committee of the Municipal league
appointed to investigate the salary
list OF the city, struck what is the
keynote of the whole movement
when he declared that the move
ment to place the service on civil
service basis must go hand in hand
with any retrenchment of salaries.
That a reduction in salaries Is IN
evitable is plain. That their mann
tenance on the same plane as when
values of all kinds were inflated,
and while the people whose pockets
must furnish the money are reduc-
ing under the compulsion of neces-
sity their expenses, is not as absurd
as it is wrong and unjust. we nave
been ricochetting ever since the war,
the forces working to bring US back
to the ante-bellum scale of living be-
ing met with spaSmS of imitation,
causing a rebound. Everything in
dicates that at last all the gas is
out of the balloon, and we are down
again to an era of small economies.
But while salaries in the trades
are coming down there is a diff
Guilty in bringing down equally the
salaries of public officials and en-
ployes. This difficulty is involved
in the manner of their appointment
and the tenure of their Office. If
an officer is elected, it involves the
devotion of both time and money
for a long period prior to his cleo
ton. 1t also involves after installa-
ton appeals for contributions from
all sources. Charities of all kinds
regard the official as their legitimate
prey. Campaign committees assess
him with the nonchalance Of the
pirates Of Tariffa. If there were
but one of these it would not be so
bad, but there are committees and
committees, and each one levies
tribute on the unhappy employe or
officer
Not only will permanency of ten
ure, dependent only on good be-
havior, give the city better service,
made without stirring up that OPP
position, with it's basis of justice,
that will be encountered if the en-
ploye is still left subject to the as
sessments Of the committees. Just
as capitalists will let their money
out at a lower rate for a long term
than for a short one, so men will
work for less wages if assured of a
tenure not liable to be interrupted
by a change in the political control
The Municipal league should bend
it's energies to securing the enact
ment of civil service reform in the
city government as a companion OBJ
ject with the reduction of expenses
and it's other laudable purposes.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-06
TOUCH OF ARCTICS.
Terrific Cold Experienced in
Eastern States and on
the Coast.
MANY SHIPS IMPERILED.
La Gascogne Now Two Days
Overdue - Fears for
Her Safety.
BLIZZARD IN NEW YORK.
From 20 to 81 Below Zero
Registered--TpainS
BlOckaded.

NEW YORK, Feb. Sowing to
the intensely cold weather that has
prevailed along the coast for the
past twenty-four hours, all the
steamships arriving at this port to-
day presented an imposing and
beautiful spectacle, with their hulls.
decks, spars and rigging coated with
ice from six to ten inches in thick
ness. The steamship Justin, which
reached quarantine about noon.
looked like a modeTate-Sized float
ing iceberg. Her decks, rails and
rigging were a solid mass of ice.
Her sailors experienced considera-
BILE difficulty in getting about the
decks, and suffered much from the
severe cold. The steamship Ar
daancorrach, from Cienfuegos, had
fine, warm weather until passing to
the northward of Hatteras, when
the wind shifted to the northwest,
accompanied by heavy seas. and the
thermometer rapidly fell. When the
vessel sighted Barnegat early this
morning the wind was blowing with
terrific force. Great seas broke
over her, and the spray froze in
stantly on reaching the decks and
rigging.
The little British schooner South
ern Cross, which arrived from the
Mosquito coast laden with a cargo
of cocoanuts, on being towed in the
Narrows, presented the appearance
of an ice ship, her decks, sides and
house being covered with ice three
feet in thickness. The little vessel
had been on the coast for over five
days, owing to strong head winds,
and when Barnegat was sighted last
evening the wind hauled to the
northwest and gradually increased
in force. The vessel labored and
plunged heavily, shipping large
quantities of water which frOze as
quickly as it touched her decks. Her
sails, rigging and everything on
deck soon became one mass of ice,
causing much danger and difficulty
in navigating the vessel, particu-
larly as a portion of her crew were
Mosquito Indians and unable to
withstand the fierce weather. Two
of the Indians were severely frost
bitten about the hands and feet.
Fortunately tug fell in with the
Southern Cross when about twenty
miles south of Sandy Hook, at l a.
M, and towed her safely into port.
Incoming steamers today report
having seen nothing of the French
liner La Gascogne, now two days
overdue from Havre.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-06
FOR FREE COINAGE.
Silverites of South Dakota Adopt
Memorial.

Silverites of South Dakota Adopt
Memorial.
Special to the Globe
PIERRE, 5. D., Feb. 5.-The most i'm
portant event of the day in the legisla-
ture was the passage through the house
of a joint memorial to congress to grant
relief for the present financial distress
by passing bill for the free coinage Of
silver. A sharp debate took place,
MessrS. Russell. Of Yankton; Henry
and Cindel. of Lawrence; Trueman. of
Bookings; Donohue, of Hughes, and
others strenuously contending that the
Republican party could not go further
than the Yankton platform, which
limited coinage to the American prod
uet, and Messrs. Glass, Hair, Dowdell,
Crothers and Reed contending for the
memorial as drawn. The bill finally
passed by vote of 43 to 80, 90 Republic
cans voting for it aud 50 against. while
all the Populists voted aye. On the
melton Of Glass. the speaker was in
structed to communicate with the
legislatures of other Northwestern and
Southwestern states to urge them to
join in the memorial.
The matter will come up in the
senate tomorrow. and sharp
debate will be had. 1t is more than
likely that the memorial will be
amended so as to limit the coinage to
the American product. Donohue's bill
anneXing NoWlin, Pyatt, Sterling aud
Jackson counties to Stanley for judicial
purposes, and MichaePs bill allowing
counties to compel railroads to put in
crossings, ana Mr.. McCaughey's bill
providing Tor uniform system of
blanks and books for county and state
officers, to be arranged by the secretary
of state. auditor and public examiner.
passed. The bill providing that no
state or comfy printing shall be done
outside the state was reported 'unfayor-
ably. In tho senate Mr.. Rice's bill
providing that the state treasurer and
his depository banks must report
monthly TO the governor, also Mr.. Rice 5
bill fixing maximum telephone charges
for business houses at 81 and IS for res
licences, passed. A dozen other bills of
minor Importance passed, and Mr..
Hebal's measure providing that one
member Of the board of charities and
correction should be woman was lost.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-06
HILLS CLASSIFICATION.

In a recent address delivered by
Senator David B. Hill in New York
he classified those who are and who
are not desirable members of the
party, and laid down the lines on
which the party must move, the
standards it must adopt, if it would
retrieve its disasters. Let us open
the Democratic doors wide for men
of education, men of thought, men
of business, men who work with
brain and hand, honest men whether
rich or poor, men capable of inf1u-
encing public opinion and obtaining
recruits for our cause. This is the
way to strengthen our line and pre-
pare for future conflicts"
Having thus defined those who are
desirable either as members or as re-
cruits for the party, he proceeded to
define in equally clear terms the
element that is not only undesirable
as members, but whose connection
with the party has been a principal
cause of it's defeats, and has been
steadily repellant force acting
UPON Tic GLASS; dDONS QeSCIIDed III
other parties and preventing them
from affiliating with it. Of this ele-
ment and the treatment to be &C
corded it, the senator says: zig
norance, brutality, dissipation,
speculative sporting, avarice and
freebooting are not to be regarded
as desirable qualities for Demo-
cratic membership anywhere, much
less for prominence in Democrtic
councils
Either Senator Hill has been
very much misrepresented and ma
ligned by partisan press, or these
sentiments indicate radical change
of opinion. Of the two, we prefer to
accept the former explanation, and
to believe that the senator, in this
latest expression Of his views. is
perfectly sincere. The test of his
sincerity will, however, very soon
be made. Washington advices tell
US that he is made the chairman of
a subcommittee, with Senators Plat
and Coke, to investigate the charges
made against Marshal Campbell,
and to report directly to the senate
Here in Minnesota all the parties to
this contest are known. Their rep
utations have been established in
the years of their active lives here.
They are Democrats, and into which