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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-06-03
Long Time Between.

The clock struck JAN l and then Feb.
10, but still she was alone.
The Eskimo wife slept but fitfu1ly,
starting from troubled dream every
two or three weeks.
"Will he never Gomez"
Presently, however, she heard the
familiar football
Thanked again." she groaned. cit is
hardly ten years since he was drunk be-
fore
1t was very late.
The gray dawn was already breaking,
and in less than a month it would be
broad day.-Detroit Tribune.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-06-03
Tho Ancient Pure,

For several centuries the purse was
always worn fastened to the girdle. A
cut purse got his name from the fact
that rather than take the time to loose
the purse from the belt. where it was
secured by buckles. he cut the straps
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-06-03

The sea bladder consists of a parent
animal, with It's own air bladder, and
from which to 500 children attach to
it by hairlike membrane The whole
family moves together.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-06-03
Washing Dirty Linen.

Washing dirty linen il pnhlic" is
probably an old proverDial saying. Il
was made famous by Eapoloon. w..o
used it in a speech to the ch;.nlbct Of
deputies in 1914 to intimate that differ
ences between the parties in France
should not become matter Of public
scandal
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-06-03
Duluth South Shore
& Atlantic Railway.

FINEST SERVICE OUT OF DULUTH. NEW
BUFFET DINING CARS LATEST
MODEL.
WAGNER PALACE SLEEPING CARS FOR
CANADA BOSTON AND NEW YORK.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14
DemOcratic Trade Revival.

The condition of the New York
stock market is said to be invariably
the precursor of trade conditions. What
business men may expect, therefore,
is outlined by the following quotation
from the Wall Street Daily News:
There seems to be no legitimate
buying power. No matter how much
stocks decline they offer no temptation
to the public; hence, the dry goods plan
of marking goods down to figures that
will create buying must be followed.
Until a genuine absorption of securities
takes place. it is idle to expect any
permanent improvement in prices. For
the moment, the uncertainties in the
situation will undoubtedly prevent any
general or large buying for long ac-
count. Aside from the fact that farm
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14

our trade relations and impeded our
entrance to the markets of the world"
He has but to consult the trade and rev.
enue statistics of the United States to
learn that such statements are false in
every particular. Hoping that some
congressman will publicly present the
facts so that they may be published
the Congressional Record, we turn to
what we deem to be the policy of the
friends of protection in the fifty-fourth
congress.
The idea of creating renewed ac-
tivity and enterprise in all business
circles" by an increase of our bonded
debt" is so absurd that it has suggest
ed questions as to the presidents san
ity. OF course, such proposition will
not receive moments serious con-
sideration, but the friends of protec-
ton should set themselves to work to
devise means for increasing the reve-
nue. so as to meet our expenditures.
The Republicans have always done this
heretofore and they will not hesitate
again. Their duty is too plain. Reve-
nue. must be furnished, and the presi-
dent offered his cooperation in the
following closing words of his mess
age:
Il desire, however, to assure the
congress that | am prepared to coop
crate with them in perfecting any other
measure than increase OF our bonded
debt'), promising thorough and prac-
teal relief, and that will gladly labor
with them in every patriotic endeavor
to further the interests and guard the
welfare of our countrymen whom in
our respective places OF duty we have
undertaken to serve"
There can he no more patriotic en-
deavor to further the interests and
guard the welfare of our countrymen"
than by the reenactment of protect
i've tariff policy. The complexion of the
senate, however, prevents this being
dono at once. Meantime there need be
no further necessity for deficient rev.
enue such as we have experienced un-
der the German tariff. The protect
ionists must prepare bill for revenue
purposes.
To do this will require the exercise
of much care and judgment But there
are members OF the house of represen-
tatives who are fully equal to the occa-
sion, and 1t is the prime duty Of the
house OF representatives to furnish rev.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14
Pulitzer's Tax on Labor.

There is no necessity whatever for
attacking American labor by increasing
the tariff on raw material used in our
MANUFACTURES of woolens. A gentle in
crease in the beer tax will supply all
needed reyenue.-The World, n. Y.
Would not this be attacking Amer
lean labor" by increasing the cost,
lessening the quantity or deteriorating
the quality of American labor's" dali
ly refreshment? Can this be from the
pen of that Pulitzer who poses as the
friend of labor and forces the people
to such a condition that they must ac-
cept his free bread charity, or starye?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14

enue sufficient for the needs Of the co.
eminent. The existing law does not 60
this. 1t should either be repealed or
amended. 1t is impossible to repeal it
at present. That will come later. But
we believe that it can be amended.
A tariff upon wool and a change from
ad valorem to specific rates of duty on
woolens, should add at least 10000
900 to the revenue. The restoration Of
the Mckinley tariff lumber duties
would add, approximately, S1,OOO,OO0.
A duty of cents pound on foreign
cotton would furnish $5,O00,000 If i'm
ports continued as at present. Flax.
hemp, jute and their manufactures,
now admitted free of duty, would con-
tribute to the revenue. Earthenware,
pottery, hides and skins, glass and
glassware, fruits and manufactures OF
i:5n and steel, provisions, tin plate and
many other articles have all afforded
more revenu. under protective tariff
than they do now. To check the large
imports of such goods, as we are now
receiving, would also stimulate that
American self-reliance, thrift and in
genuity" which, as Mr.. Cleveland tru-
ly says, "can build up our country's in
dustries and develop it's resources" In
such patriotic endeavor" the presi-
dent will gladly labor" 1t would
further the interests and guard the
welfare of our countrymen." Moreover,
it would supply a sufficiency, not de-
ficiency, of revenue. This is what is
needed
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14

districts whose attention and energies
were devoted to other occupations than
agricultural pursuits, but there was
enough of a surplus to export to the
value of $3.50, ,947, Is per cent going
to European countries. The agricult-
ural exports of the country constituted
69.6S per cent Of the whole.
The secretary of agriculture estimates
that there are 40,000,000 of the total
population who do not live on farms, so
that one-third of the population only
was engaged in producing the vast
amount indicated by the figures given.
The year covered by the report, COM
paratively speaking, was not good one
for the farmers. In many sections OF
the west there was a total failure OF
crops in consequence of long-continued
drouths, so that a much better showing
would have been made had the year
been an average one.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14

products are at starvation prices and
that there is halt in industrial activ.
ity, is the coming meeting of congress
and its unsettling consequences. There
is also the question of gold exports
which are likely to take place at al.
most any moment"
Reports from all hands on the gen
eral condition of trade in every line OF
business, and from all authorities, are
indicative rather of the nature of
wake. Perhaps this is the free-trade
notion of revival
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14
The Duty OF Congress.

Free trade and no foreign policy add
vocates appear to be without leader.
The man who poses to be better than
his people appears to be without a
party. Old and tried officials in fl
nance and government are talking to
more earnest listeners, and will likely
again be called upon to reinstate conf
dence, business and stability in Amer
lean enterprises still sorely embar-
rassed. The 54th congress will place
the responsibility of the additional
public debt and the chronic deficiency
in treasury funds exactly where it be-
longs.-Clapp's Weekly Market Letter
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14
Wilson Not In Congress.

The next tariff will be made by the
party of protection. 1t will be an
American tariff, framed with a view
to give American industry the first
chance in the American market. 1t will
lack the sweet simplicity of ad valorem
duties, which hold out the largest re-
wards to the exporters and importers
who do the tallest swearing.-The L.
telligencer, .Sseeling, w. Va.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14
Nothing More Patriotic Than Protection
to American acknowledgements Will
Legislate for More Revenue and In
cidental Protection-Reyenue Wanted.

BY command of the people customs
revenue system, designed for the pro-
lection and benefit of favored classes
at the expense of the great mass of our
countrymen, and which, while inef-
hcient for the purpose of revenue, cur
tailed our trade relations and impeded
our entrance to the markets of the
world, has been superseded by tariff
pollcy which in principle is based upon
denial of the right of the government
10 obstruct the avenues to our peoples
cheap living or lessen their comfort
and contentment, for the sake of ac-
cording special advantages to favorites,
and which, while encouraging our in
tercourse and trade with other nations,
recognizes the fact that American self
reliance, thrift and ingenuity can build
up our country's industries and develop
its resources more surely than enervat-
ing paternalism. - President Cleve-
lands message, December 3, 1895.
Whether the president is wofully ig-
norant, or deliberately misrepresenta-
tive, it is not our business to inquire.
But he must be either one or the other
when he speaks of protective tariff
being inefficient for the purpose of
revenue" and as having "curtailed
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14
Not Always n Blessing.

Irate Uncle-Gallagher, / towld yez
all along that EDUCATION d prove yer
cur-r-rse, an am not bit surprised
at yer bein' here. If yer hadn't never
learnt to wrote, yer had niver bin ar
risted for forgery. Look at me wild no
EDUCATION at all, can't even scarcely
wrote me name, and has bin an Alder
man an a Police Justice. Yer could
have done the same, but, no! Yez must
have an EDUCATION. Gallagher, I'm
ashamed of you!
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14
Deceived.

The cannibal potentate writhed In
agony, while the court physician pre-
pared a large bottle of ginger tea.
"And / thought him such an honest,
fair fighter" groaned the king. If I
had any idea he would strike below the
belt in this fashion never would have
eaten him."
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14
Not q Fighter

How did your great unknown pan
out?" asked the sport.
1--WE had to drop him." replied the
trainer.
Whats the trouble?"
AT almost the last minute he became
incapacitated for work"
How"
"He lost his voice."
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14
Value OF Farm Products.

The annual report of the secre-
tary of agriculture, which has just been
issued, states that the farm products
for the year ending June 80 last are
estimated to be worth $2,300.O00,-
900. The products of these farms
were not only sufficient to feed
all the town and city populations and
large number of people in the rural
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14
What Made Him Think of 1t?

F}arDef-Halr cut, sir!
Customer-No just a shave. Be as
quick as you can, too.
Yes, sir. Pause) Got to make a
train, sir?"
mo. Got to go to a lecture"
(Another pause) Scientific lee
ture?"
mo. Bob Ingersoll."
(Still another pauseD Like to have
your hair singed, sir?"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14

The Landlady-Can you recommend
this turkey?
Marketman-I can, ma'am. With
careful usage, that bird will last you
o month.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14
Old SANDER Refuted.

Eve 'uns use jes' as much water"
said the indignant Kentuckian, las
they do anywher's else-fur baptizin'."
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14
His Reason.

Tim-Why DO you say that your cook
Is like youy bicycle?
Brim-I have to give her blowing.
up about once a week, or she's 20 good.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14
Not Professionally Interested.

Alarmed Wife (waking him)-Henry,
get up! The grounds all in tremble!
Houses are rocking, chimneys are fall
ing, and everybody is out in the street.
It's either an earthquake or the worlds
coming to an end!
Henry (of the Daily Bread reporting
staff)-Let it come, blame it! haven't
any assignment to write it up.
(Snores)
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14
Why?

Herdso-We are told that silence is
golden.
Saidso-Then why don't the free COIN
age people shut up?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14

Elm Timber for Bicycle Rims-The
so-called Blue Rock elm of Wisconsin
is largely used for bicycle rims. A BIZ
cycle factory at Plymouth, Indiana, is
said to have out contrast for 5000 900
feet of this wood. The wood combines
lightness and fiexibility with strength.
This particular elm is undoubtedly a
variety of the American or white elm
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14
Appreciation.

81 wish them things wasn't so high
priced" said Mrs Jason as she looked
longingly at some chrysanthemums. Il
think I'll raise some next year, myself.
They ought to be jist lovely to sprinkle
clothes with"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14

A Perpetual Study. - Farming is a
perpetual study. When we get to work
we often think we cannot take time for
study; but We must study hard if we
expect to make our mark. l believe a
good way for young persons who cannot
attend college to get an education
would be to take from one-fourth to
one-half of their time for study and
the rest for muscular labor.-Corres-
Dondent Mirror and Farmer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14

through Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Alabama and Georgia.
In these several trips have been a
close observer from the car window,
and though had been over most Of the
routes travelled, it was no less inter-
esting to me this time, for the diversity
Of soil and climatic influences are per-
ceptibly noticeable as we pass through
the different sections of country.
No where do the methods of farm
Ing present better appearance Of
thrift and home-like surroundings
ttan In sections where diversified
farming is Systematically engaged IN
from year to year. by which the farmer
grows as many or nearly all the staple
crops required to meet the demands
OF his own wants, and by converting
the products thus grown to higher
rate of values ready for use. such as
beef, pork, mutton. poultry, eggs, but
ter, etc. The all corn, wheat, cotton
or what not class OF farmers are u.s.
ually more dependent upon others and
the uncertainties vi market influences
that cause an unhappy condition in
their accounts.
The crops in localities appeared to be
exceptionally good, but in many, shor.
to very poor crop, and believe the corn
crop has been very much overestilnat-
ed by the reports. Germ is selling too
low to be of any practical value to the
producer in districts where 10 cents
per bushel is as much as it now COM
mands.
OF middle states farmer i. has been
said, plenty of cora, plenty of every
thing" which l would take tn mean he
has plenty of cheap food to allow lib
eral feeding for the various kinds of
stock, converting 1t into many useful
articles necessary for getting on
WE'LL"
In some sections Of the West corn does
not mean SO much for the situation or
the producer has not the advantages OF
obtaining those results, and is COM
PEELED to submit to the inevitable by
taking what ever he can get after
freight and commission are paid
Miello, in Farmers Review.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14
Manurcs.


The dead plant is prepared for feed
ing the growing plant through the ac-
ton of microdemes or bacteria or. to
use name that will become general
among farmers, ferments; low orders OF
plant life similar to what raises bread
or ripens cream. There is much to learn
regarding the processes, but it has been
fairly well settled that each successive
step Is taken by a different living or
ganism. The practical value Of this
comes from the necessary conditions to
have the dead plant-manure changed
to soluble plant food-and this is under
the control of the farmer. According
to Warrington ammonia is made first,
nitrites next, then nitrates. The plant
may feed on all of them, as all are
soluble, but the organisms may change
ammonia and ritrites to nitrates before
the plant feeds upon them, as condi-
lions favorable to plant growth favor
hitriflcation, that Is, heat and moisture
suitable, together with the ingredients
necessary to form the nitrates, which
manure supplies. Light is not favor
able to nitrification. So we conclude
that manure spread on the surface in
dry weather must wait until rains
wash it into the soil. If it is put on
lightly, in the spring, grass may cover
and shade it so that the organisms can
work. II manure is plowed under in
our soil from four to six inches the
moisture and heat will be suitable for
forming nitrates or soluable plant food.
II manure is packed solidly in pit it
will not nitrify If kept wet and cold,
and il put in great heap in winter,
while the weather is cold it will not
produce nitrates until turned over in
the spring, because the oxygen in the
air is a necessity in the process. A
heap of manure left in the barnyard
all summer will waste on the outside,
because it gets too much air, while at
some distance from the outside 1t will
have proper conditions for nitrification,
and when rains come they will dissolve
the nitrates and wash the solution
away. So manure heaps carried over
should be covered to avoid this, and
kept moist and cool to prevent fire
fanging or loss Of ammonia in gaseous
shape. A loose heap of manure will
thus waste away, and in the fall a
load of it is of no more value, If as
much, than a load of green manure.
We must then spread the green manure
at once on the surface or pillow it I'M
der, or put it in condition to make nj
trates and then keep the rains off,
1t is not practical to put manure in
cold storage, nor to build houses for
1T. The best we can do Is to put the
fresh manure on the land. There is
no loss from sun drying, and when
rains come they will wash it into the
soil, where the ferments can reduce it
to plant food.-Prof. James Wilson.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-14
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
ACRICULTURISTS
Some Up-to-Date Hints About Cultiva-
ton of the Soil and Yields Thereof
Horticulture VitiSulturo and Flori-
culture.

THIN THE LAST
t h r ee Or 70 u r
m o n t h S / h a V e
made several trips
amounting to six
thousand miles, ex-
tending through the
states of indiana,
Illinois, Missouri,
Kansas, Colorado,
Nebraska, Iowa,
q n d in to a n d
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-05-29

GEORGE F. STONE, SECRETARY CHICAGO
BOARD OF TRADE.
l have heard that our Lords
prayer has been inscribed on the disc
the size of dime, but on that Grand
Army button is recorded in ineffaca-
Bile and living characters the history
of Grant and Sherman and Lincoln !;
of Sheridan and Thomas and Logan
and Custer and Meade; of Farragut
and Porter the history of the cam
paign of the army of the Potomac,
of the Cumberland and of the west /;
of the march to the sea of Shiloh,
of Vicksburg of Forts Henry and
Donaldson of, Atlanta of the Will
derness of Winchester of Fishers
Hill and Cedar Creek of sieges and
battles and skirmish lines of "days
of danger and nights of waking !"
of weary marches by day and by
night, in cold and storm and heat /;
of parting of lovers and maidens of
farewells of husbands and wives of
prayers and blessings from fireside
and camp ascending on high as a di-
vine incense of agony and death in
prison and in hospital of great cap
tains and heroic soldiers of valor on
sea and on land of the proclama-
ton of Abraham Lincoln giving
freedom to four millions of perse-
cuted race and wiping forever from
the national escutcheon, human
slavery of Gettysburg and of Ap-
pomattox of the downfall of a re-
bellion. wicked as hell itself of the
reunited county and of the per
petuity of the Union with its count
less and unspeakable and eternal
blessings-a priceless gift from the
great Dispenser of good things unto
men
This record shall never fade away
it shall grow brighter and brighter
as the years go by, scattering sparks
of inspiration among the generations
as they come and 60 And when
time shall be no more, when all
things transitory shall have passed
away, when all the sounds of earth
have been stilled, then the bells Of
heaven shall ring in commemoratior
of American patriotism, and the un.
dying fame of the American soldier
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-05-29
The National Cemeteries.

The government has expended
80 100000 on the SO national ceme-
teries. in which are buried $50, 700
honored dead. The most of these
cemeteries are situated on battle
fields of the war, amid beautiful
scenery. The establishment of this
system was begun in the second year
of the war, when orders were issued
to the army requiring accurate re-
cords to be kept of all deceased sold
iers and their places of burial, and
President Lincoln was author lied
by congress to purchase grounds and
have them prepared for use as Gem
eteries for soldiers dying in defense
of the country. On the battlefields
where the Union armies won, the
interments were so conscientiously
made that over 80 per cent of the
dead were afterward identified.
Where time permitted, the confed-
crate dead were also scrupulously
buried and their graves marked. In
most of the southern prisons the
Union dead were buried and their
names recorded by their living COM
rades, often under adverse and try
ing circumstances, and in northern
prisons, as at Camp Douglas, Chica-
go, at Elmiaa, N. Y. and at johnson
Island, o, interments of deceased
confederates were carefully made
and the graves noted for future iden-
tification. In 1853 the first national
cemeteries were established at Chat
tanooga, Stone river and Gettysburg
and the one at Arlington was found
ed in 1864, and the one at Antietam
in 1865. The most beautiful of all
the national cemeteries, and the
greatest as regards the number of
identified dead, is that on Arlington
flights, overlooking Washington, 1t
contains 1865 interments-12.216
known and 4349 unknown. OF the
national cemeteries at Shiloh and
Gettysburg, the Shiloh metropolis
contains 3597 tablets and that at Get
tysburg Just five less. The biggest
national cemetery in point of popu-
lation is the Vicksburg. where 49,
$50 heroes sleep American Agri-
culturist.