The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-03-04

country loses bright man. Many
a household has been made happy by
Nye's entertaining funnyisms. The
world will miss "Bill'' but his works
will live forever.
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The morning papers lay on the seat
beside him in the elevated train. He
was reading with eagerness a sheet |
which he had not bought OF news
boy. which had no market reports or
stock quotations. and which told him
absolutely nothing of the business
which an hour later would absorb his |
keenest attention.
1t was the weekly paper printed in
the little town where this prosperous.
well dressed New Yorker had been
born and bred. Many man who has
carved his fortune in this city halls
the little country paper every week as
a welcome messenger. 1t tells how
the crops are furnishing, how the fem
ces are being whitewashed every
spring, and, perhaps, once in awhile
there is a paragraph about the dear
old mother, who has got into print by
entertaining the sewing circle
And the prosperous New Yorker
reads it entire, while the metropoli-
tan sheets lie beside him unheed.-I
New York Herald.
And more than that, the country
paper, in proportion TO its circulation
is far more of a power socially and
politically than its pretentfous city
neighbor, for in the very nature OF
things it is more directly part OF the
community in which it exists, and 1t
is not primarily purely business en-
terprise. And yet the average coun-
try editor oftentimes fails to realize
this power, and in many instances
neglecta to improve his paper and bis
,, local opportunities to his own detri-
ment and that Of his Constituency
Minneapolis Tribune.
Shrove Tuesday. the close Of the
carnival season, fell on February I8.
and Lent commenced on Wednesday,
February 18th. Easter Sunday, the
last Sabbath in Lent, this year falls
4 on April 5. The establishment Of the
] Christian festival Of Easter, typical
q Of the resurrection Of the Lord, was a
c matter of much controversy in the
church for centuries. but was finally
/ established by the Gregorian calendar
adopted by the Roman church in 1852
j. and Easter is always the first Sunday
1 after the full moon which happens Oh
5 or next after March q. which date is
the beginning Of the ecclesiastical
! year Therefore, the earliest date
! upon which Faster may occur is March
! 81, Easter is the following Sunday. .
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The Respondent man is his owE
greatest enemy, and few people have
: time to sympathize with him. Times
;, may be hard and your resources few
> bat close your teeth and with your
shoulder against the wheel push
along Do not dispairingly sit on a
curb stone and grumble-you cannot
t gain the confidence of your neighbol
: in that way, and il in this condition
:. there is nothing you need so much a;
S confidence. If you spend your time
n in public places grumbling about the
times, the people and the govern
; ment, probably your wife is diligently
q at work earning livelihood for the
q family. while your dnty is to do this
And when the tide turns, as it doe:
for all. remember to save little, FOL
: the stormy times may return, and the
past has shown you in order to sue
coed you must nelp yourself. Trust
u to no one doing for you what you
q neglect yourself. You viii find thi;
: rule without an exception.-EX.
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A European statistician, whose
data receives the approval Of the
= Statist. puts the public debt Of TIKI
European nations at so, 800, 600. 600
: or about s64 per capita for the popuIa
e ton. The heaviest per capita indebt
], ledness. $3.50. is found in the country
IS least able to bear it. Portugal. Mex
d comes France with S135 per head O
e its population. France hasa perfect
}. genius for enduring taxation, but The
= recent protests against the proposed
income tax would indicate that tt
! end of its patience is pretty nearl.
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