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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22
FRENCH MACADAM ROAD.

<Lccated Between Fontainebleau and Sens.)
the principal aim in building road by
the use of crushed stone should be to
thoroughly pack and firmly unite every
part of the material used. The only
way to accomplish this is to roll every
layer of dirt, stone, gravel or other ma
terial separately. Before any of the
stone is deposited, the subsoil should be
thoroughly hardened by rolling with
heavy roller. A layer Of stone, if it is to
properly pack and form a hard road
bed, must have. above all, a solid foun-
dation. Stone deposited upon loose
gravel, on soft ground, or in bed of
mud can never be successfully packed,
either with a roller or by travel.
So, too, if it isintended place layer
of gravel, or smaller crushed stone, or
screenings on the surface, the layer of
crushed stone beneath should first be
thoroughly hardened and packed. 1t
is mistake to suppose that the two
can be packed and rolled together.
Material, to be thus compacted, must
be uniform in character and size, and,
while the angular pieces of stone will
shift about under the weight of the
roller until they are all firmly wedged
in place, round particles of gravel, Or
smaller pieces, loose dirt or sand.
when mixed with these angular pieces.
will prevent their being thus crowded
together and compacted.
The above explanations are the re-
suit of careful study of the instruc-
tfons issued by the state highway
commissions of Massachusetts, Cali
fornia, New Jersey and Connecticut,
and indicate the principles followed in
those states in the construction of
roads by state aid. The same principles
are laid down in treatises upon maca-
dam roads as built in Pennsylvania,
Alabama, New York, North Carolina
and Ontario, and they constitute the
fundamental rules laid down by ex-
perienced road engineers all over the
world.
The building of macadam roads of
fers opportunities for manifold mis-
takes and for an enormous waste of
public funds. If ever it be true that
what is worth doing at all is worth do
ing well it is emphatically true in the
building of stone roads. A macadam
road, when once properly constructed,
needs little repairing and lasts for gen.
erations, as has been indisputably and
repeatedly proven in England and on
the European continent. A stone road,
poorly built, for want of successful
rolling, even with excellent material,
is but poor highway at best. Many
so-called macadam roads, recently built
by inexperienced men or without the
proper use of good road rollers, are con-
tinuaily going'to pieces by the wearing
of ruts and the subsequent combined
action of water and travel. Every good
macadam road testifies TO the value of
durable highways, while every stone
road improperly built throws shadow
of doubt upon the movement for better
highways. Those who believe in good
roads cannot afford to have their work
thus discredited.
OTTO DnPNEp
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22
WINTER DA,RYlNG.
II the Cows Are Well Protected and
Cared For 1t Pays.


There is always demand for extra
good milk. We are in favde of selling
milk when from five to eight cents per
quart can be obtained. In the suburbs
that is not high price because the own
er of mich cows have to pay high for
all the feed they buy. Itrequires much
bran, shorts and inseed meal to keep
the cows to their milk. That is to say,
such cows as come fresh in December
and succeeding months. The shelter
has to be closely watched and the stalls
well Uttered and water has to be tenn
pered before giving it to the cows or
they will not drink it. We again re-
mind our readers that it is not good
practice to wash the cows bags. 1t
makes the skin tender and is apt to
crack the teats, which by the necessary
milking twice day are hard to heal
up. Now, no sensible person will i'm
agine that we oppose warm water for
wash absolutely necessary, but when
a soft brush and clean soft cloth can
do the work use no water.
Jersey cows are not of the kind to
pour out great quantity of milk for a
mess; but most people of experience
know that their milk is very rich, con-
tanning ofttimes twice as much cream
as that of ordinary stock, hence their
milk should bring an extra price be-
cause it is worth it.
Many people give larger rations than
common so soon rs they notice that the
cow is springing bag. For a young
cow liberal feeding may be allowed, but
the older cows seldom develop larger
uddcrs nor is it desirable. Our expert
ence teaches that high feeding up to
the time of calving is very dangerous,
because it increases the parturition
fever, more or less of which is always to
be expected. Hence, we counsel to with
draw the feed of the usual rations one
third, and when the udder is much dis
tended, even more than that. After SO
or As hours, if the cow is ready to eat,
commence to increase the feed and in
a few days thereafter you may give her
all the feed she can assimilate, and you
will find the flow of milk correspond
ingly ncreased.-Charles W. Murtfeldt,
in st. Louis Republic.
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$500 Reward $500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased
disease that science has been able to cure in
all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity Catarrh
being constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work The
proprietors have so much faith in it's cura-
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials.
Address Il. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22
DRYING VEGETABLES.
In California 1t Has Become Quite an
Important Industry.


Important Industry.
In California the drying of vegetables
has developed into an important in
dustry. Potatoes, carrots and other
tubers are poured into the hoppers of
cutting machines, where rotating blades
slice them quarter Of an inch thick.
They are then slightly sulphured in a
wooden chamber. If this process is over
done the vegetables will taste of the
fumes; if too little, bacteria, attracted
by the starch, will develop. A little sui
phuring is necessary to prevent decay
and to preserve the color. The tubers
are now revolved for a few hours close
to a hot pipe in an evaporation, which
is sort of Ferris wheel, consisting of a
brick oven with glass windows. At the
end of this time the potatoes are taken
out in the form of dry chips. 1t re-
quires six or seven pounds of the fresh
to make one of the dried. AS bacteria
do not take kindly to onions, they are
only slightly sulphured. 1t takes 90
pounds of the fresh onions to make one
of dried, they shrivel up SO much. Nine
parts of fresh carrots are required to
make one of the dried. The industry is
proving very profitable, as there is a
great demand for the dried fruit and
vegetables in the country and at mines.
If steam comes into use in the process
the starch in potatoes could be sterilized
and partly cooked before they are evap-
Grated. In this way they would be rid
of sulphur.-Cbicago Inter Ocean.
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"MY WIFE'S LIFE"
How | was the means
of saving it.

When the lungs are attacked and the
symptoms Of consumption appear, then
begins the struggle between affection and
that destroying disease which Stays its
thousands annually. It is a happy issue
to the struggle when disease is conquered
and health restored. Such an issue does
not always end the struggle, but it did in
the case of Mr.. K. Morris, Memphis, Tenn.
who saw his wife wasting and weakening
and physicians helpless, and then sug-
gested the simple remedy that wrought
the cure. He tells the story thus:
"Seven years ago, my wife had severe
attack of lung trouble which the ply
sicians pronounced consumption. The
cough was extremely distressing. espe-
cially. at night, and was frequently
attended with the splitting of blood. The
doctors being unable to help her, in
duced her to try, DIR. Ayers Cherry Pectora1
and was surprised at the great relief it
gave. Before using one whole bottle she
was cured, SO that now she is strong and
quite healthy. That this medicine saved
my. wife's life have not the least doubt.
I always keep DR.. Ayers Cherry Pectora1
in the house. Whenever any of my family
have cold or cough we use it, and are
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22

promptly cured."-K. MORRIS, Memphis,
Tenn.
The question: "Is consumption cura.
blee" is still debated, and still debatabie.
1t is easy to say that this was not case Of
consumption. Yet the physicians said it
was; They should know. As matter
OF tact, DR.. Ayers Cherry Pectorai has
wrought SO many similar cures that it
seems to argue the. curableness of con.
sumption. In its earlier stages, by the use
of this remedy. There is no better medi-
cine for pulmonary troubles than DR..
Ayers Cherry Pectoral. 1t gives relief In
cases of Asthma, and Bronchitis, where re-
lief has been heretofore unattainabie. 1t
promptly cures Coughs and Colds. La
Grippe, and all affections of the throat
and lungs: Heretofore, DR.. Ayers Cherry
Pectoral has been put up in full size
bottles only, at $I.oo per bottle. To meet
worldwide demand for a smaller pack
age, the remedy is now put up in half size
bottles, at half price-5o cents. Write for
DR.. Ayers Curebook Gree and learn more
of the cures effected by DR.. Ayers Cherry
Pectoral. Address J. c. Aver Co., Lowell,
Mass.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22
OTTO DoRNER
Sensible and Effective.

The executive committee of the united
wheclmen of Montgomery county, o.,
drew up simple but practical, COM
plete and inexpensive plan of road i'm
provement, setting forth the needs of
the county roads, the methods best
adapted to keep them in repair, and the
estimated expense, and petitioned the
board of county commissioners to adopt
it, and pledged candidates to it prior to
the election.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22
AN INNOVATION IN RA1LRoADlNG.
A ParlOr-Cafe Car Now Running ON
Daylight Special of Illinois Central
Between Chicago and st. Louis.


A Parlor-Cafe Car Now Running ON
Daylight Special Of Illinois Central
Between Chicago and st. Louis.
The Illinois Central has substituted for
the parlor car, formerly running on its day
train between Chicago and st. Louis, new
composite parlor-cafe car, built for the Com
pany at the Pullman Shops especially for
service on it's fast, vestibule, solid Daylight
Special train to st. Louis. The parlor, in
the Empire style, is finished in mahogany,
with darker panels of the same, the latter
being richly inlaid with marquetry com.
posed of various shaded woods. Its furnish
ing includes easy, luxurious revolving arm.
chairs, upholstered with green frieze plush.
The ceiling overhead lin which are fixed
brilliant Pintsch gas chandeliers of the lat
est pattern) are decorated in gold, and
in color and design are in harmony, as also
is the rich Wilton carpet on the floor be.
of the rest of the ROOM. The cafe is in
general design and color scheme in harmony
with the parlor, and has tables at which par.
ties of four can be seated, and tables at which
couples can dine tete-a-tete. A complete
kitchen adjoins the cafe, and meals will be
served en- route from a varied menu at rea-
sonable prices; the cafe feature to be con-
Quoted in the same general way for patrons
of the entire train as are the cafe cars on
the Central running West out of Chicago,
and which have proved so popular. The car
also contains gentleman's smoking room,
in connection with which is a buffet from
which cigars and liquid refreshments can be
obtained. The car as whole is of substan-
tial construction and elegant finish. The
features of this car are particularly adapted
to Hot Springs Ark, travel, the Daylight
special leaving Chicago every forenoon. max
ing the run to st. Louis in eight hours, and
giving good connection in Union Station
with trains for Hot Springs.
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sunk, the nut left off, so the seat will re-
volve. The seat is II inches high. A
hoop (e) is fastened with staples on the
upright board (d) to hold the bucket
So it will be II inches from the floor to
its upper rim. use two-gallon tin
pail. A heavy wire is used for a hoop.
The piece d is two by four and six inches
long fastened to the underside of the
seat.-Lyman Parmelee, in Farm and
Home
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Society Note.

Nellie Chaffie tried very hard to get some
conversation out of young Clamwhooper,
but he answered in monosyllables. At last,
hearing violin playing in the next room, she
asked:
"Do you play the violin?"
ssNo; that's fellow in the next room,"
he said, with sudden outburst of loquac-
ity.-N. Y. World.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22
whaline Fleet I'm Daneer.

It is predicted that the vessels of the
whaling fleet, most of whose underwriters
are in San Francisco, have been caught in
the ice and some may not last through the
siege. Danger also threatens those who neg
lect what are called drifting ailments, for
they may not last through the crisis. Re.
sort to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters at once
for incipient rheumatism, malaria, consti-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22
AGRICULTURAL HINTS
POOR STONE ROADS.
Few sMacadam' ROadways Are Dc-
ing Built PrOperly.

Few ssMacalamv ROadways Are Hc-
ing Built Properly.
Interest in the movement for better
highways shows itself most strongly in
the growing custom of using crushed
stone for road improvement. The stone
crasher companies have evidently been
DONG an excellent business, for both IN
the cities and in the country do we find
that stone has been used as road ma
teriai.
It as greatly to be deplored, however,
that while so much excellent material
is being employed. the methods
adopted are so very faulty. In too
many cases the men having the work
in charge are content simply to deposit
the stone upon the highway, frequently
throwing it right into a muddy spot,
and doing nothing further after the ma
terial has been put in place and spread
In many of the towns and cities where
road roller can be afforded the officials
undertake to finish their work by plac-
ing layer of gravel on top of the
stone, and then rolling it until the
entire material has been packed and
hardened.
All of these attempts at building mac
adam roads are failures, when regarded
from the standpoint of intelligent and
scientific road construction. The val
liable feature of stone or macadam
road is its absolute compactness. and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22
HANDY MILKING STOOL.

Although Made ut Home, 1t Has Given
General Satisfaction.
l have used milking stool made and
illustrated on the plan described below
for six years. The seat board (a) is of
two inch plank, nine inches wide, IA
inches long. The stool board (b) is two
inches thick, nine inches broad and long,
cut round. A three-eighths-inch bolt
(c) is put through the middle. the head
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22
Usually the Way.

Kenna-I understand you've bought dog
to keep burglars away?
Henna-Yes.
'You are not troubled any more at night,
then, supposed"
"Only by the ."-Up-to-Date.
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What 1t Was.

smack in the hall last night.
Alice-Yes, Mr.. Upsley made that noise
with his lips when / told him you had
cleared $4,000 in wheat deal.-Cleveland
Leader
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Good season for Agitation.

The coming six months will afford a
splendid opportunity to agitate for bet
ter highways, develop popular senti-
ment and force it upon legislatures.
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We believe some congregations give their
other preachers.-Washington Democrat.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22

could not get along without Piso's Cure
for Consumption. 1t always cures.-Mrs
e. c. Moulton, Needham, Mass, Oct 90, "a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22

Women have great respect for a woman
who has her hair done up by professional
hair dresser-Atchison Globe
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22

A man is sometimes compelled to put ur
with those he does not love-pawnbroker
for instance.-Chicago News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22

Law is dry study, but pretty woman's
tears often have the desired effect on the
jury.-Chicago News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22

We presume there are many women with
pretty neeks unexposed.- Dem
ocrat.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22

On the shoulders of the young and hale
poverty sits but lightly.-N. Y. Independ-
puf
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Confectioners should make their candy
over bon-bon fires.-Chicago News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22

bumped and bent. Lame back did it.
Straight and sound. st. Jacobs Oil did it..
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22

a, woman doesn't object to her naughty
children if others are worse. - Atchison
Globe,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22

Fits stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use of DR.. Kine's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 81 trial bottls&
treatise. DR.. Kline. 933 Arch ST., Phila. Pa.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22

When a railroad man is lame, he says he
has fat wheel.-Atchison Globe.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22

Crippled for years? Pshaw! Why st. ia
cobs Oil will cure sprains right off. Sure.
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Struck 1t Rich.

II see Plimley's wife has a new sealskin
coat"
eyes, he's had streak of luck"
SLOW was that?"
SCOT his thumb smashed the day after
he took out an accident policy for $50
week. Cleveland Leader.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22

Black, deep bruises cured by st. Jacobs
Oil. 1t wipes them out.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22

Age makes some people wise and others
only stubborn.-Chicago News
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22

Never plant trees on prairie or
sward land until it is thoroughly sub
dued.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22

THE phrenologist goes ahead without
waiting to be sure he is right.-Picayune.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22

To Cure a Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure 25c.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22

Sore and Stiff? Cold. St. Jacobs Oil the
Cure. 1t warns and relaxes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-22

No mistake. Thousands have been cured
Promptly of neuralgia by st. Jacobs OIL
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Passport to Greatness.

No physician can be considered great TN
OF transmitting it.-Washington Post.
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Surely. Often after 10, Is, 20 years suf-
fering, st. Jacobs Oil cures rheumatism.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-05
KNOW THEIR POWERS,
Tho Eternal woinnniy In tho Rough Girl.
of New York.

Tho Eternal wonnnly In tho Rough GIFTS
of New York.
In tho girls Of the rOugher tenement
house districts tho eternal womanly
wears such disguise Of tho eternal
gamin that 1t cannot always be recog-
nized, Their pertness and sauciness arc
only r.arponed by their precocity aud
their tomhoy habits Of street Arabin.
A reporter recently had occasion to visit
lower Washington street TO ascertain
the facts regarding tho murder Of boy
down there. He was obtaining his in
formation from the boys of the neigh
burhood, who might have been play
mates Of the dead youth. \ circle OF
them, together with three or four girls
of / . or l6 years, was gathered around
him.
A big, hulking youth about 20 years
old aroguted to himself tho place OF
spokesman. He was evidently the ty.
rant, the bully Of tho street yOune
"Bill the Brute" who had not yet &C
quired u wife to beat and was conse
quently an object Of great interest t.
these misses, whose skirts had not yet
grown down to their ankles With hi
big, harsh voice he silenccd every inter
ruption of his tale, saying:
"Shut mp there I'm tellin this yarn.
OF course this adjuration, which
forms a part of tho ordinary courtesy o
the ncighhorhood, did not quiet thu
girls. They chaiIcd him and the report
er and giggled until at last the spoake
said to the reporter:
Don't mind them. They're II
count They're nothin but girls.
"Of course ho'll mind us, smarty,
instantly retortod one of tho girls
yves the makin's Of ladies.
1t was the eternal womanly Of stree
Arabia. New York Tribune.
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the straight lines ON the forehead, al
ready mentioned, come the arched win
kles Of the forehead, found above tho
root Of the nose. These often tell Of
long and painful mental torture. They
arise from u cruel physical suffering OF
of still more great development Of tho
vertical wrinkles and the resistance oil
the skin above.
Tho crows feet mark the passing OF
the fortiuth ycar md are characterized
by burrows which divorge from the ex-
tornal angles Of the eyes in all direc'
tiona, like the claws Of bird. from
which they are named. The wrinkles
of tho nose, which descend from the
uostrils down each side Of tho mouth,
are, perhaps, the first to appear. These
burrows arc created in laughing and
mastication. A simple smile Ia suili'
cicnt to produce them, so 1t is not sur
pri4inp that tho repetition Of the COM
nonest acts should soon be- craven on
the face. They arc also hereditary. The
wrinkles Of the checks and chin follow
tho oval Of the face and are caused by
diminution Of the fatty substance un
der the skin, which then falls into
folds. Tho small wrinkles which form
a network in tho lower parts of The
| checks near tho ears have the SAINT
origin and only appear in old ago
Those found in tho upper eyelids an'
sometimes in the lower, which give thu
eyes an air Of fatigue, are tho results o
hard living grief or worry. Now Yorl
! Ledger
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-05

Why does milk turn souri, 1t is only
because it hos been exposed to oxygen.
which originates fermentation and
thus produces acidity. II fresh milk
warm from the COW is preferabe-is
heated to temperature Of 100, so AZ
to kill the germs in it, and is then put
in bottles that have been storilizod by
heating to the boiling point, such milk,
if kept corkod, will keep sweet during
tho hottest weather for "a hours. In
stead of using n cork small piece Of
cotton may he inserted in the neck Of
the bottle This heating of the milk
prepares it all the better for use Of bn-
hies. In fact, milk ought always to ho
thus heated before being used by old or
young. The advantage of doing this
while tho mill; is warm from the COW
is that less of the cream rises than il
the milk is first allowed TO cool. -
American Cultivator.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-05

When Mira Frances Hodgson Burnett
was first presented to Du Maurier, who
was, in poins Of fact, rather an under
sized man, she exclaimed:
"Oh, am so glad that you ire not
six feet tall"
"But why?" asked Du Maurier
because for these many months,
replied Mrs Burnett, who ia consider
ably below medium height, you have
simply denied us tho right to live. You
have made us feel that woman who is
not six feet tall has not the right to
exist"
"Oh, that is only trick Of minow
laughed Du Maurier. II have started
again and again to mako my heroine n
little woman, hut before 1 know it sho
has somehow grown way beyond my
own recognition. "-Amorioan Queen.