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The Ely miner., 1897-01-20
II FEAR YOU HAVE HURT YOUR
SELF"

swept round bend of the road. The
old mans face glowed with pride and
love when she waved her hand to him
and vanished; and, swinging swiftly
round, he planted his foot on round
stone which rolled on the hard road
and threw him violently to the ground.
II fear you have hurt yourself. May
1 help your" said voice beside him.
The squire looked up angrily and
saw that he had fallen near to the gate
of the red house, just as DR.. Massey
was coming out.
THANK you, sir; need no assist
ance," he said, haughtily.
Az he spoke he scrambled hastily 10
his feet and gave sudden cry of pain
as he put his wrenched foot to the
ground.
"You have hurt yourself more than
you think" persisted DR.. Massey.
"Here is my carriage. Let me drive
you home"
The Ely miner., 1897-01-20
AGRICULTURAL HINTSl
WORKING The ROADS.
Farmers Can Wen Afrord to Devote The

Farmers Can Well Afford to Devote Their
Time to This Task.
Much has been said and written about
country roads and the proper way to
construct them to insure good ones the
year round. But much of it applies only
where gravel or crushed stone can be
obtained with which to make a road
bed unaffected by rains and standing
water. In many sections of the coun-
try gravel can be had by hauling it
from creek and river beds, and where it
can be so obtained or purchased at a
low figure the best possible use of time
and money is in securing and spread
ing this upon q read bed previously
graded into the proper form. If the
gravel is dumped upon perfectly fat
surface it becomes mixed with the soil
during wet weather and soon is lost.
ASfT SunHner
The Ely miner., 1897-01-20
Kindly Advice.

Farmer Hayseed (the Greatest Liv-
ing Skeleton at Dime museum)-Hello.
Who be you? You amt working here,
air you?
Living Skeleton with dignity am
engaged here.
'Wal, do tell! Say, my friend, you
amt lookin' well, and ef I was you,
I'd change my boardin' place."-N. \.
Weekly.
The Ely miner., 1897-01-20
THE SQUIRE'S TROUBLE.

T WAS really a red
house, but it acted
upon the squire's
irascible tempera-
ment like the red
rag of proverb, and
he never caught
sight of it with
out flushing ang'ri-
~ and bursting
forth into a vol
ley of furious ep-
The Ely miner., 1897-01-20
SWINGING CATTLE CRIB.

Description of Convenient Contrivance
of This Kind.
There are almost as many varieties
of cattle cribs as there are individual
harms in the country, and it is not too
The Ely miner., 1897-01-20

Clean up the orchard, saw and cut out
the dead branches and burn or move ALI
rubbish so that it will not harbor insect
pests.
The Ely miner., 1897-01-20

A bent and crooked tree is always an
eyesore. The time to train them Is
when they are young.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-23
WHEAT AND SILVER.
The Remarkable Change in Their
Relative Values.
Increased Prices for Agricultural
Products Due Largely to Home
Demand - Prosperity
Growing.

Especial Washington Correspondence.1
The year ending September /, 1897,
seems to have been especially devoting
itself to humiliation of the theory that
wheat and silver went ''hand in hand.
A statistical fiend here has recently dis
covered that on December l, 1876, an
ounce of silver and bushel of wheat
were of the same value in the New York
markets. Following up this discovery
he has traced the course of those alleged
"friendly" articles during the year and
has discovered that by September l,
1897, just ~ months, bushel of.wheat
was equal 10 two ounces of silver in
value, wheat having risen rapidly. while
silver fell with equal rapidly. Here are
the figures showing the years fall OF
silver and rise of wheat. And a compar-
ison of those figures with the official
records rs published by the bureau OF
statistics of the treasury department
shows that they are accurate.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-23
THE GOLD RESERVE GROWING.
A Great Change in the Treasury Tn
der nepublIcnn Rule.

1t beats all how things continue to
come the way of the republicans. Not
only has the passage of the tariff law
brought prosperity to the people; not
only have the farmers been blessed
with bounteous crops, but money is
piling up in the national treasury in
a way that has not been seen before in
three or four years.
The gold reserve, which gave Mr..
Cleveland's administration so much
trouble, continues to grow, in spite Of
the predictions of the silverites that it
would be depleted to such an extent as
to require bond issue before McKin-
ley's administration was six months
old. The gold reserve now amounts to
almost 100000, or $50, 10000 more
than the legal requirement, and the
gold is accommodating so rapidly that the
treasury officials do not know what to
do with it. Not only is the green back
endless chain" of which Mr.. Cleveland
used to complain, not drawing the gold
out of the treasury, but people are ac-
tually exchanging gold for treasury
notes.
Surely this is a great change from
the conditions which prevailed during
Mr.. Cleveland's administration. but it
is change that might have been ex-
pected. There has never been any diff
ficulty about running the treasury un-
der republican control. Never until
the democrats gained full charge of
the government had there been time
when the revenues failed to meet the
expenditures, nor had there ever been
any complaint as to the inability of the
government to maintain its gold re-
serve.
Republican times are coming back to
the treasury as well as to the people
Cleveland Leader.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-23
THE CAMPAIGN IN a..
All Signs Point to n Rcpuh,,.
tory i'm Noven,h" VI

Ns ." November
The OHIO campaign is now =,
presents an outlook of hope w. ~, aa
republican party. Chapman iOr ths
democratic candidate for oon 'ue al'a
his opening speech at Coh,mhOr,
week defined the issue of that nar,l as
free coinage of silver at sixteen aye
The Cincinnati Enquirer is rura, " one
Mclean senatorial boom on the li1s a
mud-slinging and personal det,m ussa
OF the republican candidate for sa aa'na
So the silver democratic com aae
shapes up as defense of an issna ,t pa'sa
ceived emphatic condemnation -
hands OF voters of Ohio last Nov.
Der, with personal abuse and viliso..,
thrown in for effect. Besides tbis ;s
emit weakness in issues, the silver do .s
Gratis have to make the campaign NV
this year. The populists unitsd a .,.a
them in 1896, and yet the fusion - WV wa
were defeated. Now the populist. h'
taken the middle of the road, and ora as'
ing it alone; and they will take d y.
votes. at a low estimate, which wen, NV
the fusion total last November
On the other hand, the republic,r,
full Of hope and courage. An era.
prosperity has dawned upon the cors
try, and Ohio is enjoying her full sb,..
thereof. Her farmers are busy and nra'
Gus now, while year ago thev rs,.
struggling against hard times h.
prices for their products, and tls a.,
eral stagnation. Ohio railroads !.
busy: Ohio factories and mills A.. ,ns
ming full time. tits hard TO tigdasLirsd
workman in the state who has n,
steady employment. Thus themsS,r
, les, as we'll as the farmers. are n nn.h
better plight than they were year
ago.
The object lesson on the taria 4.
fosrled by the Wilson law. has set,Is
that question 50 far as the people 4
Ohio is concerned. They are NOT %.
ing TO vote for reversal Of tbe pro.
tective policy. The demasogues Who
for years filled the state with lameats.
tons keyed TO the ,uncot the tariff 4
tax" are not in evidence this wear
Those of them who still suryiyearewaI.
ing calamity" and erdeayorrg tocon.
vince the busy masses than the tinesare
not good, after all, and that The only
remedy is the adoption q a i).eeat ST.
yer dollar standard: that MeXcaAlnr
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-23
ABOUT WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE.

Chauncey Depew expects to purchase
farm of from 200 to 300 acres within
ten miles of Boston. He has not yet
decided on the exact location.
Mrs. +. w. Fackler, of Dayton, o., has
fallen heir to an estate in Germany
valued Mt $4,000. Her title to the estate
was established by family Bible in
her possession.
Rev. Mr.. Saunders, member of the
eastern Ohio United Brethren confer
ence, recently resigned because the con-
ference decided that its members
should not use tobacco.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-23
THE PASSING or HARD TIMES
business and Industry Helped BY the
DlngIcy Law.

\ careful study of the bushes a.t1i.
tion at the end OF September giyesbln-
dant assurance that the hard tines
which were ushcred in by the CleysAa |
panic OF 1898 have indeed passed away
The years harvests have been in is
main satisfactory. and there has beena
very considerable advance in the prices
OF agricultural products, due chiefly 10
an extraordinary foreign demand for
American breadstufIs, Hence the farm,
ers are once again prosperous Inc car
riage of their produce has given IN
creased business TO the railroads.
Joined to the increasing tonnage result
ing from a general revival OF business
activity in the last few months, wnIea
followed or anticipated the passage q
the Dingley tariff bill, the heavy snip
ments of agricultural PRODUCES aNs
also made the railroads prosperouS
Railroad securities have advanced y
price from ten to fifteen per eelH NV
increased business of the railroa's HAs
created an increased demand ior eal'
and locomotives, and hence the ouiu'.
of railroad rolling stock have IlO.
do and are also prosperous. me W
trade has been helped by TINS aen',
for cars and locomotives as wen az
the general uplifting Of all puslu..
conditions. The prosperous iaFI'
are not only paying off their mor.g.s ~.
but they are making more iipera' =,
chases of agricultural implements =.
OF all kinds Of goods, wares anu ~ !,
chandise than they were la'eiy ay', -
make, and hence the agrlcul'ui,.a. =. =
plement manufacturers ana the CIV.
country storekeepers are also Pm I'm.
Gus. As the cotton and woolen r'
facturers supply the stores Wills .. -,
part of their stock in trade the! a a.
PROSPEROUS. And so we might 60 O-s
Illustrating by familiar facts inc lind.
change that has taken place IN V ~.
ness and industrial conditions - IN, s
country within the past few niV =,
The change has been gradual au s,ss.
sudden. In the iron trade II ia" IA,
oped slowly but surely Even s :.
as three weeks ago the impro'ein',s r,
iron and steel prices had Deen .rsst,
slight, but within these 'nree rteI
there has been a more samaud
advance, with increased nc irc,
The present condition OF 'i y III
trade and of all business IN ns (
country can truthfully be saiu Using,
a most healthy character, p.o n,llirs
winter of continued activity IN a. ~ vii I'D
with employment for all VINO p a
Ing to work.-Iron and Steel Du''
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-23

"a silverite organ says: "There are
not lacking signs that the Klondike
gold craze is carefully planned con-
spiraey" by the gold bugs. OF course.
But the gold bugs will agree to abandon
their conspiracy If the calamity howlers
will abandon their conspiracy to burr
up the country with drought.-Louis
vile Courier Journal (Dem.).
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-23

DHow do the free silNei ING 81
trnde theorists who are eharglu s,,r
the advance in wheat to the snV n u
abroad account for the ad'an. .s bed
other farm products-corn, IN hops
pork, wool, cattle. horses, sree et i thsi
tobacco and potatoes? The ia.u, LAY,
IL is due to the increased co ,i.t,e ecor-
at home. People who earn i,. a.arpipg
omize in eating. Those whose Cor Cor food
are increased spend far more re. - Nhep
and get that of a better quana, stats
the working people of the unl' ,Ssy bsJ
are employed at good wass a when ~
more food and clothing td'a-' 10 nav. .
employed or working for ma, na.i .se prs'
is n protective tariff that ucs 10Y, Tribuus
ness.-Cincinnati Commerce. 4.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-23

vAnd still prosperity g wat 70
least half the factories in tne day al
diana gas belt are running
nipht.--Toledo Blade.
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-25
Weights of Farm Products.

The following are the standard
weights of most of the farm products,
as fixed by the statutes of the different
states:
60 pounds of wheat make a bushel,
20 pounds of ear corn one bushel
So pounds of shelled corn one bushel.
4S pounds cornm cal one bushel.
so pounds of peas one bushel
Sc pounds of rye one bushel
30 pounds of oats one bushel.
AZ pounds of barley one bushel.
so pounds Irish potatoes one bushel.
80 pounds sweet potatoes one bushel.
81 pounds onions one bushel.
32 pounds of cotton seed one bushel.
30 pounds of wheat bran one bushel.
so pounds coarse salt one bushel.
IS pounds of fine salt one bushel.
1856 pounds of flour make one barrel.
200 pounds Of beef or pork one barrel.
go pounds white beans one bushel.
45 pounds castor beans one bushel
90 pounds clover seed one bushel.
As pounds timothy seed one bushel.
So pounds flaxseed one bushel
A pounds hemp seed one bushel.
14pounds blue grass seed one bushel.
So pounds bucl1wheat one bushel.
3S pounds dried peaches one bushel,
"a pounds apples one bushel.
56 pounds turnips one bushel.
% pounds peanuts one bushel.
Florida Agriculturalist
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-25
HERE AND THERE.

"A hen that is easily frustrated
soon gets rid of promising brood of
chickens The greater the danger In
sight, the more reason why you should
keep level head.
Before gathering corn it would be
well to go over the crop and select seed
for another year. In fact, this ought
to have been done while the plant was
intact, stalk, blades and ear.
Every poultry raiser should have a
Matching house, be it ever so small; if
little dark, so much the better. ANY
place will do where the hens may sit
in peace and quietness, provided it be
clean.
Instead of sowing turnips broad.
cast, it is better to put them in drills.
just far enough apart TO permit horse
cultivation to keep the weeds down. 1t
is possible to raise 500 bushels an acre.
If the disc harrow is used sufii-
GENTLY often to allow no green growth
TO come up between the times of plow-
ing and seeding, good work can be
done in killing out the Hessian fly.
Farmers formerly kept their hogs
two and three years before they had
gained marketable weight. Now they
are sold at from eight to nine months,
and the flesh is in every way improved
for food.
Many farmers never find the full
worth OF the harrow. and il is a com
mon mistake. when preparing the
ground. not to harrow deep enough.
The clods just beneath the surface
often do more harm than those above
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-25
SHE WAS A NEW WOMAN.
But when the Dogs Began to Follow
Her She Weakened.

There is no earthly doubt as to her
being a new woman. She was not born
new woman, neither was new woman
hood thrust upon her; she achieved it
and is unreasonaIbly proud of the fact.
Nature cast her in round, soft, com.
Portable mold. But she has risen su.
perior to nature. Size believes with all
her heart, with all her soul, with all
her mind, in the right divine of woman
to govern, wrongly, perhaps, but still
to govern. She is one of those Patrick
Henrys in petticoats whose burning
eloquence brings conviction to the souls
of hundreds who already agree with
her. AS already stated, there is no
earthly doubt as to her being a new
woman-in theory, at least. In prac.
tice? Well, that's different.
She's the sort of woman who shrinks
and climbs on the table if anyone sug-
gests that there is a mouse in the
room. She believes the placid old fam
lily horse the fiercest sort of steed,
and knows that her life is in danger
every time she climbs into the phaeton.
She stands paralyzed with terror if she
spies a COW at the far end of the field,
and would probably faint if a little
garden snake crossed her path. The
dogs of the neigh ghbors-she lives in the
country, where no household is COM
plete without several of them-till her
mind with mad, unreasoning fear.
One day she went down to the VIII
lage and was tempted to buy some pies
for the family meal. AS she was bear
ing them home in triumph a large New
foundland, waking from his MONDAY
nap, stalled out to meet her, shifted
at her pies and fell solemnly in behind
her. At the next place she passed two
more went through the same ma
neuvers, then one, then three, then
two, and so on till every place she
passed had yielded its quota of dogs.
One by one they fell into line. Smell.
ing her pies and following her loving
ly, they joined in the procession, pac-
ing solemnly after this timorous new
woman.
Her heart was as water and her
bones were as wax. She knew that il
would be heroic thing and worthy
of her new womanhood to die in de-
Tense of her pies. She saw visions Of
the neighbors finding her mangled
corpse, but still faithful to her charge;
of slender white shaft i'm some peace
full cemetery bearing the inscriptions;
Faithful Unto Death Then she
thought of her motherless children, her
sorrowing husband, with only heroic
memory TO console them, and her cour-
age failed her She felt that it was
better TO live a new woman than TO die
hero.
So she gently laid the pies down on
the path that the dogs might devouf
them in peace and unmolested spec
swiftly homeward.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-25
HOW THE GOLD is WORKED OUT
scenes and Conditions at the Klon.
dixie Diggings.

An interesting letter telling of the
recent trip of the steamer Excelsior to
Alaska has been written by Capt. J. f
Higgins, of the steamer, to a friend in
San Diego. He says;
"The word Klondike means deer river
and is called Reindeer river on the
charts. 1t empties into the Yukon so
miles above the big river. Bonanza
creek dumps into Klondike about two
miles above the Yukon. Eldorado is q
tributary of the Bonanza. There are
numerous other creeks and tributaries
the main river being 300 miles long
The gold SO far has been taken from
bonanza and Eldorado, both well
named, for the richness of the placcrs
is truly marvellous. Eldorado, 30 miles
long, is staBed the whole length, and as
far as worked has paid AS each claim
is 500 feet long along the creek bed,
there arc 100000 feet to the claim. Sc
uniform has the output been that one
miner who has an interest in three
claims told me that if offered his choice
he would toss up to decide. One of our
passengers, who is taking 81 900 with
him, has worked 100 feet of his ground
and refused 100000 for the remainder,
and confidently expects to clear up
100000 and more. lie has in a bottle
$212 from one pan of dirt. His pay
dirt while being washed averaged $3.50
an hour to each man shoveling in Iw1
others of our miners who worked their
own claims cleared up $4,000 from the
days washing. There is about Is feet
of dirt above bedrock, the pay streak
averaging from four to six feet, which
is tunneleG out while the ground is
frozen. OF course the ground taken out
is thawed by building fires, and when
the thaw comes and water rushes in
they set their sluices and wash the
dirt. Two of our fellows thought
small bird in the hand worth a large
as one in the bush and sold their claims
for S45,000, getting $4, 500 down, the re-
mainder to be paid in monthly install'
ments of $4,000 each. The purchasers
had no more than $1,000 paid. They
were 20 days thawins and getting out
dirt. Then there was no water to sluice
with, but one fellow made rocker and
in ten days took out $4,000 for the first
installment. SO, tunnelng and rock
ing, they took out $4,000 before there
was water to sluice with.
"Of course these things read like
the story of Aladdin, but fiction is not
in il with facts at Klondike The
ground located and prepared can ba
worked out in a few years, but there
is still an immense territory untouched
and the laboring man who can get there
with one years provisions will have
better chance to make stake than IN
any other part of the world.'-saR
Diego (Cal) Times.
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-25

this one-sided system that has proved
so disastrous to southern cotton farm
ers, and they are just now beginning
to get out of the rut by practieing ro-
tatiop. Rotation as now carried on Is
very closely allied to fertilization, be-
cause the insertion of certain crops in
the series means the enrichment of the
soil in one of the three essential plant
food ingredients. When we speak OF
plant food ingredients we naturally re-
fer to nitrogen, phosphoric acid and
potash, because these are the elements
that are usually deficient in the soils
and are practically the only ones
that the farmer has to consider in ap-
plying fertilizers. OF these three men,
toned, nitrogen costs most when pur-
chased on the market in the shape OF
commercial fertilizers. Hence any
plan that will admit of a reduction in
the cost of applying this element OF
fertility should be "a boon to the farm-
er. Fortunately however, the means
is very simple one. Certain of the
so-ealled leguminous crops, like clover
or peas. possess property peculiar to
themselves of absorbing nitrogen from
the atmosphere and storing it up,
hence If farmer includes one OF
these crops in his rotation he is
adding just as much nitrogen
to his soil as these crops will absorb
from the air, that is, provided he takes
the proper means to keep this nitrogen.
This can be done either by turning un-
der the crop of clover or peas or else by
feeding the hay to the animal and re-
turning the manure to the soil. In
the latter case there is some waste in
nitrogen, but it is more than compens-
ated for in the double benefit derived
from the clover as forage and fertilizer.
1t will be seen from the foregoing
that the most costly of the three
plant ingredients, nitrogen, has
already been provided for through
the growth of clover or peas.
1t only remains, therefore, to put
on some phosphoric acid and potash tc
furnish all of the needed plant nour-
ishment. About 200 pounds of acid
phosphate and $50 of muriate of pot
ash to the acre, would be considered an
average application. Many farmers
follow this plan entirely of simply ap
plying the mineral fertilizers referred
to to their clover or peas, which in turn
keep the soil supplied with nitrogen.
1t is not necessary to fertilize the crop
which follows clover or peas provided
the plan recommended is carried out.
This system is cheap and effective and
will no doubt prove profitable on any
farm.-M. j. Shelton, in Farmers Home
journal.
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-25
Two Glasses of Farm ers.

The cultivation of cotton is about
over for the season, and in many
places picking has begun, and in few
weeks the fieecy staple will begin To
roll out from the ginneries in bales
ready for shipment. Then the farmer
will begin to sell and the railroads to
haul the crop to market. In the ag-
gregate the crop will bring into the
state large sum of money, say $780,
600, 900, but many farmers who have
not kept up with the improvement is in
cultivation, nor realized the tendency
of the times, will find that their cotton
has brought them little clear profit.
They will be out years hard
work, by the side of which
the reward seems Insignificant.
On the other hand, many farmer will
sell his cotton, deposit the money as
net earnings and go home contented,
because he has there all the prime nee
essaries of life, and is to that extent in.
dependent of the usurer, while his stock
is busily engaged turning feed prod
ucts into food products for man. There
is big difference in FARMS in seasons
and in farmers. Those who pursue old
processes, old habits and old customs.
who will not perceive the signs of the
times, should accept failure and try to
be content. The up-to-date farmer is
all the time on the lookout for better
methods, and is never content with the
status quo.-Texas Farm and Ranch.