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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-05
sUBsoIILNG ExPERlMENT,
On slopes That Are Washy Of
Springy Subs0lltng VIII Pay,

On slopes That Are Washy or
Springy Subsoiltng Will Pay.
Last spring we SUBSIDIZED about If
teen acres or corn. Most Of this area
vas loosened seventeen inches deep
and In some places greater depth was
touched. The fields were timothy sod.
The soil was mostly limestone under
laid with yellow clay. One piece. was
was rolling and the other rather fat.
Both have been drained to some ex-
tent.
By suhsoiling we hoped to benefit
the soil in two ways viz: improve the
drainage and deepen the seed bed. As
Is known, the past was the dryest in
many years. After subsoiling there
was no rain to saturate the soil until
late in the fall. The plowed ground
dried out badly as the dry winds SEEM
ed to carry away the moisture more
than from the un-subsoiled land. The
texture of the soil was looser, doubt
less because of aeration, than where
the surface above was stirred.
We cannot say that the corn was
better because Of loosening the SUBJ
stratum. However, the work was
done at a disadvantage. The subsoil-
ing should not be done until late in
the spring, and in this we think lay
our chief error. There must be some
:ompactness to facilitate capillary Mt
traction, and to prevent loss of mois.
!ure by evaporation. We expect to
sub-soil the first blowing we do, and
to compact the surface by drag or
Dther means as soon as the blowing is
finished. We do not anticipate any
trouble from baking rains, since the
texture being loose will not become
extremely compact under the usual
eainfall.
To-day walked over one field that
was subsoiled in part. Although the
--LATEST part was so treated. vet I no.
ticed that 1t was a trifle dryer than
the remainder. A snow was melting
md the ground was thawing slowly.
On the subsoiled portion the surface
was cracked and appeared more por-
pus than the other part, which had
more the appearance Of mortar.
Further, our experience indicates
that subsoiling would pay on slopes
that are washy or springy. In such
places the burrows should run up and
aown the hill. One Of our neighbors
has found subsoiling beneficial to q
Houng orchard. The work Of course
was done before setting the trees
Robt. L. Dean in Indiana Farmer.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-05

Twynn-Poor Ricketts, d nth result.
ed from his fondness for tobacco,
Tripiett--l heard that llsDwas killed
by an explosion.
Twynne-NNcll. lie opened n key Of
powder with lighted cigAr In hls
Mouth.-Judge: :8y5,
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-05
Farm Mecca.

The spring cleaning should be made
to include the stables, shells, rubbish
piles, ETC.. etc.
The Vermont STATEN kills potato bugs
with q mixture Of one pound of Paris
green tn 100 pOunds land plaster, all
costing u cents, while 100 pounds pat.
ent bug remedies cost s. and upwards.
Divide the day up 80 as to have pleh
ty Of tllue to rest and recreate. There
Is no sense IN working twelve hours o
day on the farm. 1t IL the best way Ii
the world to disgust the boys with
farm work. 4
Prof. Shaw of the Minnesota Experl
ilnent station, cautions farmers Il
grow peas on land that has a clay sui,
soil. and states that they will moi
thrive on sandy soil. What 10 the OF.
perlence Of our r6adsss2
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-05

For Protectins Newly-set Plants.
The sketch herewith shows a simple
sontrivance. Short pieces Of board a
:oot long and nine inches wide are
sharpened, as shown in the diagram,
yMsdIs. i;.c ss-.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-05
Grow CabbnEes.

AL farmers should gr9W cabbages in
their gardens, at least sufficient for
home Use. The amountbf food which
small amount of richtland will bro,
duce when planted with cabbages is
enormous. 1t is kind of food that
OFFSETS the excessiv ednount of car.
bon in the form of starth that the no.
tato furnishes. We eat too many pota.
toes. The diet ought tdbe varied with
something that has larger proportion
Of nitrogen, and cabbake fills the bill
as well as any vegetabe crop that We
know. Owing to its being a nitrogen.
GUS crop, cabbage is d rather costly
crop to grow. 1t produces, when well
fortified a greater amount of strength.
giving nutriment than cdn be grown in
any other way. There are times when
the cabbage supply is leyond the de.
mand late in fail. Thdh is when thu,
crop of late cabbages clmes into mar
het. Yet IL the tcabbah-growers will
heel in their crop, SO las to keep. it
through the winter 1T can usually be
depended upon to brfnk fair prices in
the spring. 1t is useless to attempt
cabbage-culture in thid country with.
out plenty of water for irrigation.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-05
crim.on 81 scaraet clover

Crimson or Scarlet Glover.
The Ohio experiment station has
made several experiments with Grim.
son or scarlet clover during the past
four seasons, all Of which have thus
far resulted in failure. The chief diff.
Guilty has apparently been that the dry
weather, which is 80 common in Ohio
during August, the time when this
clover is ordinarily sown, has killed
the young plants after termination.
OF late years this summer drOuth has
regularly extended into the fall.
Whether this clover win endure our
winter is also doubtful point.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19

chapel, two candles fickered instead
lily. The gloomy place was utterly de-
void of establishment, with damp
stained, whitewashed walls. stone
floor, dirty and uneven, and broken
windows patched with paper.
Over the man and woman kleeling
at the steps the priest outstretched his
hands and pronounced the benediction.
When he had concluded they
rose. The weary-eyed man regained his
feet quickly, gazing trifie sadly at
his companion, while the latter, with
scarcely perceptible sigh, got up
slowly, and affectionately embraced her
newly-wedded husband.
AS the bride placed her arms about
her husbands neck he bent, and, lifting
her black veil slightly, gave her fond.
passionate caress.
Turning from the altar, the priest
grasped their hands, wishing them
health and happiness. What bitter
irony! What canting pretense OF
humanity! AS if either could be OBJ.
tanned in New Caledonia, the malarial
island to which the French transport
caused the statuesque warders to grin,
but tear stood in the eye of more
than one of the bridegroom's COM
rades in adversely, even though they
were desperate characters, hardened
by crime.
"We thank you heartily for your kind
Wishes" he replied, land trust that
your blessing will render our lot less
wearisome."
The convict's bride remained silent,
gazing about her unconcernedly.
"Come" exclaimed the officer, ris-
ing abruptly; 1--WE must not linger; al
ready we have lost too much time"
After the register had been signed
the husband again kissed his wife. AS
she raised her lips to his he whispered
a few words, as if to reassure her. then
said, aloud:
Farewell, dearest! In seven years I
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19

immediately behind with their rules
upon their shoulders.
The officer paused at the door, and,
turning, lifted his cap politely to the
bride, saying:
Forgive me, madame. for thus TAX
ing your husband from you, but, aims!
I have orders which must be obeyed."
"No apology is needed, m'sieur," she
replied, with slight sigh. my hus-
bands honeymoon has been brief, in
deed; but, as one convicted of serious
crime, what can he expect? We must
both wait. Nothing further need be
said"
"And you have followed him here
from Paris?'
EYES,"
"Ah! what devotion; Madame, truly
yours is a cruel separation, and you
have my heartfelt sympathy. Adieu."
Thanks, m'sieur; adieu," she said,
brokenly: but the officer had already
passed beyond hearing.-From The
Temptress.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19

ing. He was undergoing term OF ten
years labor and lifelong Punishment.
Tall, bronzed and bearded, with thin
face wrinkled by toll, although still re.
tanning traces of good looks, he re-
manned for a moment motionless, con-
templating with loving eyes the woman
who was now his wife. His attire was
scarcely BETTING bridegroom, for h.
had no coat, and wore the soiled and
ragged gray shirt and trousers of n
miner, while the chains that bound his
wrists seemed strangely out of place.
Yet the spectators of this odd cere-
mony were as. strikingly incongruous
as the principals themselves.
There were but eight persons. Five
were fellow-prisoners of the husband,
comprising the labor gang in which he
worked, while close behind them sat
an officer and two sinister-looking ward
ers, in faded military uniforms, the
butts of their loaded rifles resting on
the floor. The convicts were watching
the ceremony interestedly, frequently
whispering among themselves, and ever
and anon, as either stirred, the clanking
of their chains formed an ominous ac-
compartment to the hastily -gabbled
formula, as if reminding them of the dis
NAL hopelessness of their situation.
Neither replied. The warder who held
the chain to which the five prisoners
were manacled stepped forward and
locked it to the bridegroom's letters.
For few minutes, while before the
altar. the latter had been allowed COM
parativc freedom; but now, the cere-
mony over, he was compelled to return
with his gang to the atrocious fortunes
and dispiriting gloom of the copper
mines-that monotonous. toilsome ex-
istence of French convicts; life with
out rest. without hope, with naught
else beyond hard labor, brutal task
masters.
At the word from the officer the men
filed slowly out-a dismal, detected pro-
cession. Notwithstanding the unifor1 IN
gray dress and closely-cropped heads,
the difference in their physiognomy
came prominently out. 1t was easily
distinguishable that the husband be-
longed to higher social circle than the
others, who, from their ferocious, for.
bidding aspect, had evidently given the
rein to their evil passions, and were nm
dergoing their just punishment.
Through the narrow door they passed
in single file, the warders following
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19

The South is destined to be, and Is rapidly
becoming, the garden of the United States.
Here life Is easier to live, the rigorous win
tiers do not eat up the fruits Of the toll of
summer, nor are the summers SO trying as
used to live only half the year, said q
northern farmer recently settled in the
south, land used to work all the time
then. Now I work half the time and live
all the year through
Home seekers excursion tickets will be
sold over the Monon Route to nearly ali
points In the south at the rate of one first
class fare Zone way; tickets good return
ing on any Tuesday or Friday within 81
days from date of sale. Liberal stop-overs
are allowed. These excursions start land
IA, Is; Oct. 8, 6, 10 and 20. Cali on anv
agent Of the Monon Route for further infor-
nation, or address FRANK J. REED, G. p.
A., Chicago.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19
DlscoNTENT.

Yes. tits that which alters
The strain of him who sings;
When the music falters
The fault Is In the strings.
Lies supremest losses
Never match its gains,
Crowns are more than crosses,
i Pleasures more than pains.
Often we, forgetting
All the good we see,
Spend our lives regretting
Things that ought to be.
OFT, instead Of doing
Little tasks to-day.
Waste our strength pursuing
Great ones far away.
In the quest Of pleasure
Every soul that lives
Grasps the fullest measure
With the hand that gives:
And no balm Of healing
Comes to heart or brain -
Save from fellow feeling
For another's pain.
Not where glories linger
Dearest joys belong.
Not the Hottest singer
Sings the sweetest song:
For one eagle soaring
Ger the mountain chain,
A thousand larks are pouring
Their music Ger the plain.
j. r. Parke, in Detroit Free Press.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19
Her Tough job

ooh, we had the loveliest arrange
ment at our church bazaar last week!
Every woman contributed to the mis-
sionary cause five shillings which she
earned herself by hard work."
How did you get yours?"
"From my husband"
81 shouldn't call that earning it your
self by hard work.
"You don't know my husband. Dos
ton Traveller. -----------'
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19
DETECTIVES TO RIDE WHEELS
Novel Way of Preventing Burglaries in
Pittsburgh.

At the regular meeting of the city
detectives of Pittsburgh, Pa, the other
day two more robberies were reported
from the outer districts. 1t was de-
cided to at once place at least six rapid
wheelmen in the Oakland and East End
districts to run thieves down. 1t was
argued that man on a wheel can
traverse long rural beats four or five
times while an officer on foot is going
over them once. 1t is claimed also that
an officer gliding along on a noiselecs
wheel will be more apt to come on
thieves unexpectedly, either while at
work or while getting away with the
goods, than one on foot. The wheel
men will be placed on such level
smooth, paved streets as Ellsworth
avenue, Fifth, Pennsylvania, Negley
and the boulevards running to Point
Breeze.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19
THE WELSH LANGUAGE.
Antiquity Of the Literature of the Early
BretOns.

Antiquity of the Literature Of the Early
BretOns.
One Breton investigator has affirmed
that Welsh was the language of the Tt
tans, while another has explicitly stated
that it was the mother tongue of Sat-
urn, Jupiter and the other principal
gods of heather antiquity. Upon so
obscure point, we may, perhaps, be al
lowed to retain our doubts; nor are we
called upon to bow with absolute def
erence to the conclusion arrived at by
more modern Cymric scholar, that the
scheme of Dante's "Divina Commedia"
is due to Celtic sources. No one, how
ever, would dream of contesting that
to the Cymric branch of the Celtic race
we owe the origin of the Arthurian
legend.
We do not know whether it will be
one of the duties of the Welsh univer-
sity to endeavor to revive the real, I'M
adulterated Celtic literary traditions,
and to purge and purify them from the
accretions due to foreign influence. We
should be disposed to say that Celtic
scholarship will be more bene6cially
| and more successfully employed in col
lecting the indications of the influence
exercised by the Celtic spirit over the
English language, English romance and
English ways of thought during the
very period when it was supposed to
have been reprcssed, if not wholly de-
stroyed. Criticism, too, will have abun
dant work on it's hands in seeking to
separate the authentic from the spuri-
Gus in the alleged writings of the ear
lier Welsh bards.
In the first year of the century there
was published the "Myvyrian Arch
aeology of Wales" collection of the
most celebrated works in Welsh litera-
ture from a. d. 500 to A. d. 14OO, under
the editorship of Mr.. Jones, Mr.. Edward
Williams, known locally as Edward OF
Glamorgan," and DR.. Owen Pugh. But,
though II poems are there ascribed to
Taliesin, Mr.. Stephens considers that 81
of them are demonstrably spurious, and
that only IL of them are probably gen.
uine-that is to say, belong to the age
to which they are attributed. Few
scholars, however, would be prepared
to challenge the assertion of Renan that
the sixth century was the golden age of
Cymric literature, though its first epocn
is usually taken from still remoter
times and to extend to the date of the
Norman conquest.
But it is not till the second period
that we come across the chronicle Of
Caradoc, somewhat dry record, recall
ing in it's general scheme the more IA
nous Anglo-Saxon chronicle. To the
same period belongs the chronicle of
Godfrey of Monmouth. But as, though
a Welshman by birth, the bishop of St.
Asaph elected to write in Latin. we pre-
sumo that his labors, however interest
ing and important, would not be claimed
by true Welshmen as portion of Celtic
observation-disclosures Standard.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19
ITALIAN SHEPHERDS.
They Lead Solitary Lives in the Lonely
Plains.

They Lead Solitary Lives In the Lonely
Plains.
As to their moral and intellectual
characteristics, these vary not only ac-
cording to their native district, but also
according totheir social station. Be-
tween the prosperous shepherds from
the mountains of Pistoja, imbued with
the proverbial courtesy of the Tuscan,
speaking the purest Italian, acute, in
telligent, a fluent story teller, and often
an extempore poetizer, down to the
wretchedly poor, brutalized peasant
from the Romagna, clad from head to
foot in filthy sheepskins, and who with
difficulty keeps body and soul together
with the proceeds of his small flock of
half-starved sheep, whose only pasture
is on the pathways and byways or fur
lively cropped from forbidden ground;
between two such extremes the grada-
tions are numberless, but notwith-
standing certain traits of character are
common to all. Common to all is the
life they lead, solitary and wandering,
now on the lonely heights of the
Apennines, now on the still lonelier
plains of the Maremma. They are
hardly ever seen even in the larger VII
lagos, and it is only from some lofty
hilltop that they have distant glimpse
of the towns, those modern Babylons,
on which they gaze with mixed feelings
of curiosity and aversion.
Always alone, they necessarily be-
come taciturn, and, therefore, medita-
tive; their life out of doors, without
manual labor or fixed application, leads
them to apply their minds to study the
phenomena of nature, the habits of an
imals, the properties of plants or the
courses of the stars. The necessities of
their nomadic existences teach them to
apply this knowledge, and they become
terrible poachers, clever veterinarians,
tanners, herbalists, basket makers,
stocking knitters, sometimes excellent
ioiners and shoemakers.
Religious by tradition, they are also
superstitious, sometimes brutal and
passionate; they are fearless and bold
among the risks to which they are ac-
customed, but timid and hesitating
when they leave their solitude, ready
victims to any swindler, though sus-
picious, like most savages. = Good
Words.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19

HE nuptial bless
ing was droned
mOnOtonOusly
in French by a
stout, rublcund
pri es t., w h o
wore soiled and
crumpled vest
ments.
The scene
was trang e
and impressive.
Upon d taw-
dry altar, in a
small. hare
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19
NapoIeon,s Reverence.

An old lady in Brussels, who recently
celebrated her Tooth birthday, relates
that when Napoleon passed through
her native village of Fumay, in 1910,
a peasant having fallen on his knees
to ask favor, the emperor said: "Get
up, and never kneel except to God!"--
Chicago Inter Ocean
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19
A CONVICTS MARRIAGE.
BY WILLIAM LIE QUEUX.

Trench convicts sentenced to imprison-
ment are sometimes allowed to marry If
the betrothed follows her lover to New
Caledonia. After the ceremony husband
and wife see no more of each other until
the sentence has expired.1
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19

The small boy may get chilled going in
swim ming, but he gets warmed up when
his mother finds his shirt wrong side out
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19

WHEN anyone has offended me, I try to
raise my soul 50 high that the offense can
not reach it.-Descartes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19

"CoME into the garden, Maud" but Maud
was much too wise. Said she: 20, no; the
corn has ears and the potatoes eyes."-In-
dianapolis journal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19

A SUBTLE DIsTINCTIoN.-"I suppose you
have music at the hotel" "No; but we
have band. "-Harper's Bazaar.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19

.ALIcE-"Oh, Edith, the honeymoon is be-
ginning to wane. Percy called me plain
Alice today Edith-"And yet you are
not so plain, dear "-Tit-Bits.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19

The TALL MAN (angrily)-s'I'n get even
with you, SIR" The Short Msu easily
"You will have to get down on your knees
to do it."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19

SHE-.The secret of my age is intrusted
to time" He-"Are you not sometimes
afraid that time will tell!"-Detroit Free
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19

A MANS best friend are his ten fingers
Robert Collyer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19

states there was hardly one who did not
make mischief with his "reminiscences
until, in our own days, Mr.. Bryce did
something to rectify the balance. And
our want of charity and true insight
are the most inexcusable, since no one
has written more charmingly of Eng
land than Washington Irving. Emerson.
and Holmes. Our journals and public
men are in the habit now, as rule, of
abiding to America and Americans in
the most friendly way, and that must in
time have its effect, if recent unhappy
events do not change it. We should
in my opinion lose no opportunity of do
ing those little graceful acts of kindness
which are the practical sign of broth
erly sentiment. Above all should like
to see an Anglo-American society
started in London, with branches all
over the empire, for the purpose ofpro-
noting good feeling, smoothing over
friction, laying literature before the
public which will show them how strong
are the arguments in favor of an Anglo
American alliance, and supplying the
English press with the American side of
the question and vice versa. Such an
OF ganization would, am sure, be easily
founded, end would be useful work
toward that greatest of all ends, the
consolidation of the English-speaking
races.--A. Conan Doyle, in London
Times.