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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-10-13
lin Old maids Song.
BY r. PAGE IRVING.

THE boarders used to lok acros the
clearinghouse table at the Old
Maid with keen, psychological sort of
interest.
why should she look so happy?" the
elder, who was something of belle,
would demand. "She can't have any
admirers
"Why should she. look so happy?' the
younger, who spoke of Art and Mis-
sions with capitals in her voice, would
ask. 'She can't regard being secretary
to that lawyer as noble calling"
And the wives of the clearinghouse
used also to puzzle over the Old Maids
joyousness, "for she has no husband"
they said, "and at her age can hardly
hope to get one"
But I never marveled at the gentle
spinster's radiant face after we had
heard the Singer, not because hearing
his voice was enough to provide his
hearers with fund of inner joy for the
remainder of their days, but because of
the song he sang.
Now the Old Maid had lived so long in
the clearinghouse on the square that
it had become second nature for her to
choose the less furnished spoons in the
holder and to avoid instinctively the
top slices of bread on the bread plate.
She was familiar with all varieties of
clearinghouse servants and she knew
that all alike despised her as "the fourth
floor front" She knew by heart the
landlady's stories of pressing present
need and of past affluence. She had
nothing to learn in the matter of sub
stituted gas jets and her feet were
trained to skip the torn spots in the
stair carpet. Altogether there was moth
ing in the Old Maids position in her
clearinghouse to account for her Sc
renity.
Downtown the Old Maid was stem
ographer in law Office. where pretti-
ness was at discount as hindrance
to unremitting toll. She did not realize
that her chief attraction to her employ
ers was this lack of distracting features
and complexion. Long as she had lived
in the sordid but educating boarding
house she had not learned everything
that was to be learned about motives,
and she believed that her fathers old
friendship with the lawyer had much to
do with her position.
Before that remote day, when the Old
Maid first came to the law office and the
clearinghouse, she had lived in the
country. Even yet when the spring
rains came down and drenched the
grim pavements she had swift, fleet
ing sense of late SHOWS melting by the
rim of the brooks and of timid flowers
pushing through the soft earth. And
whenever there was the fresh odor of
new-growing grass and new-sprouting
leaves in the city parks her mind turned
toward peaceful, pastoral ways, and her
eyes were filled with visions of billowy,
poisoning trees, of plowmen NOV
ing across upland fields, of the waking
up of life and industry. In short, the
Old Maid was poet, although the crude
little expressions of her emotions never
met the keen eyes of critics, or even the
kindly eyes of her friends.
Well, once upon time the Singer
came to the clearinghouse on the
square. He was young and his audi
ences-they were largely feminine
declared that nowhere else was there a
singer who caroled out songs and
sobbed out ballads so knowingly.
Whether 9y pot he was peerless is a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-10-13
"HelI Ter sartain Creek. -

Hell fer Sartin Creek in Bloody
Breathitt," which gave it's name to one
Of John Fox's story books, says tho
indianapolis Journal, is, of course, q
real Kentucky rivulet, and it seems to
be doing well. ut may cheer you to
know" writes its historian, "that Hell
fer Sartin Creek now has Sunday
school. It is called Hell fer Sartin Sun
day school, Chicago Tribune.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-10-13
In Chicago.

20, mamma" the beautiful girl exclaimed,
che .adores me SO, and he is SO noble and
handsome, and"
eyes, my child"
"And he brings such lovely references
from his last wife"
Mother and daughter mingled their tears
of joy. Presently they grew somewhat
calmer and were able to speak of trousseaus
and things.-Detroit Journal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-10-13
Undecided.

Country Parson-Do you take this
woman for better or worse?
Bridegroom-Wa-al, l swow, parsoD,
now you've got me; her folks think I'm
takin' her for better, an my folks think
I'm takin' her for worSe.-Tit-Bits.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-10-13
Sad Naturally.

Gotham-People are so different here in
Boston. See how sad everybody looks.
Backbay-Naturally. How could they
look otherwise when they think of the un.
fortunate people who cannot live in Bos.
ton?-Boston Transcript.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-10-13
The Old Man.

A son is surprised sometimes, when his
father unbends little, to find what good
fellow the old man really is.-Somerville
journal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-10-13
Slightly Marked Down.

"Does she really belong to the 40O?"
"Um-well I should call her about three.
ninety-eight"
Internationally Journal
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-10-13

When lumbago sets in St. Jacobs Oil
Sets out to cure and cures it.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-10-13
Glad He Was Glad.

Yost-I was so glad to get home again
that l was glad went.-Up-to.Date
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-10-13

Everybody says go up higher" to
the man who is getting there. Rams
Horn.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-10-13
star Plug Is Strictly High Grad

No expense is saved-no false economy is
practiced-in the manufacture of Star plug
tobacco. 1t is strictly high-grade in every
particular.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
FOREIGN.

Maria Van Vandt, the American
opera singer, has been nominated by
the French government as an officer of
the French academy.
The insurgents in Crete attacked the
Turks and some severe fighting ensued.
1t is believed this action will precipitate
the interference of the powers.
Advices from Modevideo are to the
effect that the revolution in Uruguay is
spreading and that the government
troops have suffered two defeats.
PriL ce IIohenlohe, the German
chancellor, made a statement in the
raichstag indorsing Vce-Admiral Won
HCllmann's Tequisition for ten cruisers
and thirty-eight other naval vessels.
Premier CanOvas assured the Span
ish again that he still has confidence III
Gen. Weyler, and that reforms cannot
be put in effect in C:,ba until the mill
tary operations are more advanced"
A French force under white officers
has ooor~ied the town Of Boussa, in
Africa, and the British Niger company
threatens to repel the invasion by
force
The Turks are rushing preparations
to make descent upon Greece from the
north. Fighting was renewed in Crete
and many were killed on both sides
The admirals are planning to blockade
GrGece.
The Greek government made reply tC
the Identical note of the powers de-
handing the withdrawal of Greek land
and naval forces from the island OF
Crete. The answer offers to withdraw
the Greek fleet, but declares that it
would be impossible to withdraw the
land forces, as the Cretdn8 would there
by be left at the mercy of the Moslem
fanatics. Greece proposes to place her
troops under control OF the powers for
the protection of the Christians in
Crete. The answer is regarded very
favCrably in official circles and it is be-
iieVed the crisis will soon be over.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
GLEANINGS

Whealmer of Sioux Falls, S. D, are
required by a new ordinance to ring a
bell 50 feet from a pedestrian they de-
sire to pass and to slackens peed. un-
der penalty Of arrest.
Elan Rusel, weight 200 pounds, of
Flainfield Ind, is the proud papa if a
10 inch baby which weighed one pound
and half at its birth, and at the end
of three weeks weighed three pounds.
Mrs Russell's weight is $50 pounds.
Mrs. F. c., Austin Of Orange City
Fla, has a rose bush eight feet tall
more than a score of varities Of roses,
13 Of which, ranging in color from the
jacqueminot to white, have BEEN in
blossom at one time, ar1 some Of
which are always in bloom. The stock
is a Captain Christy, growing upon a
with a spreal of six feet which sustains
Mccartney root, and several varities
are engrafted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
GLEANINGS FROM SCIENCE.

A seamless steel boat, made from
one piece OF metal by hydraulic pres
sure, promises to De very desirable.
1t Will last d great while anu cannot
leak.
A new antiseptlc called microcldine
mas been discovered. 1t IS powder,
formed OF napthol and soda. IL is al
most harmless, and is neither poison
Gus nor irritant.
1t mas been demonstrated that while
NE greatest velocity impaired 10 a
cannon ball scarcely exceeds 6p0 metres
a second-aboul l, 500U miles an hour
meteors from space penetrate the air
with a yelocIUy, 1t Is claimed, OF 10000
sometimes $1,000 metres per second.
The latest plan to improve The draft
of the furnace of ocean steamers is to
increase the height of the smoke
stacks. The new steamer Scot, of the
Cape Mail Line, is improved with
smokestacks 1ZO feet high above the
CRATES, being the lottiesC stacks ever
put INFO a steamer.
The tunnel that Will connect Butler
Valley CPa) With the bottom OF the
mammoth Ebervale vein VIII be one OF
the greatest engineering feats of the
century. 1t VIII open an almost ia
exhaustable supply of coal and will
serve as a drain for all the collieries of
that vicinity.
Steam pipes have recently been made
of ramie fiber, or China glass, hardened
under tremendous hydraulic pressure,
and possessing a thistle strength equal
to two and one-half times that OF steel.
China glass is Unaffected by moisture,
will not shrink nor swell, is a noncon-
ductor of heat and it cannot rust.
The addition of aluminium to mol
ten steel before pouring an ingot has
been found to render the metal per-
fectly sound when cast. The action
seems to be entirely chemical, and Is
about twenty times more powerful than
of silicon. The amount used is from
four TO eight ounces a ton, and when
used manganese can be dispensed with.
were offered for the outlaws. A party
went to the home OF the YOungers,
where they were believed to be. The
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
WHEELING IN THE May DANCE.

A correspondent in London writes:
cat Ranelagh the other afternoon a
novel form Of entertainment was in
troduced with great success, dancing
on bicycles, says a writer in the Lon
don Graphic. Ten ladies took part in
it, eight Of whom danced Cor bikedO a
set Of lancers with ease aud grace.
They were all dressed in cream, with
dark-red ribbons round their sailor
hats, matching exactly the profusion Of
fine carnations with which all the sta
tionary parts of their bicycles were
decoated. Two sisters, with waists be-
hind, were especially graceful and ex-
pert. After the lancers they "biked"
a waltz, and either a schottische or
reel, I cannot recollect which. But
know the general impression left upon
my mind was that musical hiking was
a much prettier thing to watch than
dancing on skates
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
THE HUMOROUS SIDE THINGS.

Only a Partial Success Sorry to
hear you are troubled by sleeplessness.
Ever try eating large raw onion be-
fore going to bed?" Yes, Tried it
last night Kept everybody awake the
whole night except me-"
Don't talk too much; try and be
d good listener" said a father to his
little boy; but when he caught the Lad
with his ear to a keyhole one day when
his sisters beau came to see her, he
Thought the boy didn't fully catch on
to his Leaning
There is a certain way of distiDg uish
ing a man from head waiter at a
swell party, Notwithstanding they may
be dressed the same The waiter gen
orally has towel on his left, arm
and the man generally has young
,ady there, if he is agreeable.
derstcod.-Mistress Ito servant
returning from church,: What was
the text today JANET Janet: 1T
Was a lectir men," Mistress: And
the minister's heads were-?" Janet:
"Heeds, mem, he had only yin, an
right tooSy yin, tae!"
A French marquis was riding out one
day, when he passed an old priest trott-
ing along contentedly on a quiet DON
quis, How goeth the ass, good father?'
: On horseback, my son-on horseback
replied the priest.
A little bit of girl living near one
of the cities ran into her mother from
the roadside with some early spring
blossoms in her hands, and, full of the
outside glow, exclaimed, "Oh, mann
ma, how nice it is to live where some
body doesn't own everything" .n.
A Practical Party-Tourist fisher
man in Scotland No Amy fish about
here my man?" Scot-"Nae! yell get
nae fish ABBOTT here" Tourist fisher
man No. 2-"But this must be the
place little fat man In kilt directed
us to as a good swim Scot-"Eh!
that Sandy Macintosh, an he's liar.
A man that can tell a delebeeret lie
wi'out it's in the way o gain, is a maist
immoral character"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
AN EXPENSIVE POST.

1t was recently reported that the post
of military attache to the American en-
bassy to London was vacant, and had
been offered to three officers, all of
whom have declined it on the ground
that their salaries could not support the
dignity of the job. 1t is a very pretty
place, and one that has not been used to
the rank of major, and gives him little
to do except to look handsome and to
adOrn London society with his presence.
He Is entitled to wear the most decora-
tive clothes Of any one connected with
the embassy. When he rides out with
the ambassador he goes on the front
seat inside, and not on the box seat
with the coachman, as ill-informed per-
sons have enormously supposed. OPP
portunities to meet folks that really are
folks come to him daily. He dimes out
nearly every night, and seldom is at
loss for a hearty meal of nourishing
food. His chief expenses are for lOdg-
ings and cab hire, but the hesitation Of
worthy officers to accept the place in
d1cates that even those expenses may
be too considerable. The real trouble
must be that the majors in Uncle Sans
army are middle-aged men with fam
lilies, and a salary that might maintain
the attache himself well enough in
London will not also maintain his fam
lily, either at home in his absence or
with him abroad. If lieutenants had
rank enough for the place, it would
probably be easy to keep it filed with
young, unmarried officers Of the requis-
tie stature and comeliness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18

notice of sale of land taxes and to
valuation of property for purpose of
assessment
Madison, March 1.-THE senate killed
the assembly bill which forbade an
alien from holding any public Office
whatever in Wisconsin. Senate bills
were passed appropriating $4,000 for
the Improvement of the Bayfield, fish
hatchery and empowering street and
electrical railways to acquire property
by the right of eminent domain.
True's assembly bill was concurred in,
permitting the taking of all kinds of
material for the improvement of high
ways from unimproved lands adjacent
thereto. Senate bills killed were: For
bidding the filing in Of lakes; changing
the method of taxing light and power
plants. and changing the vaccination
laws.
The assembly passed bills providing
against the adulteratiOn of food and
drinks; limiting the interest charged on
chattel loans to II cents and changing
various town boundaries in Richland
county. Favorable action was taken on
"a proposed constitutional amendment
which will enable Milwaukee to have
another circuit judge. The bill to en-
power county boards to put registers OF
deeds on salaries Was ordered to third
reading. Among the bills killed was
one which proposed to repeal the law
in regard to the publication of laws in
newspapers and another making clerks
of the courts salaried officials.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
Priest and Man.

Priest 2QC Man.
Time-Sunday evening at 10 o'clock.
Scene-A horse car on Broadway, New
York. Among the passengers are two
Italians, one very drunk, the other toll
erably drunk. Very drunken one, max
ing noise, disturbing passengers and
frightening ladies. Enter intellectual
looking but stalwarth priest. Observes
situation, speaks in Italian to less
drunk Of the two, saying: Tell your
friend that he doesn't know when he is
well off. Keep him quiet or he will
get into trouble"
Upon complaint OF passenger very
drunken man is put off Other begins
abusing priest. Ask; in English. in
rapid succession: Are you a priest?
Are you spy? Are you an Irishman?"
Priest retains self control perfectly
until these questions are repeated sew
eral times in steady rising tones. Then
suddenly he responds: Yes, I'm a
priest, I'm an Irishman, and I'm a
man. Shut up or III knock the head
entirely off you
Half drunken Italian subsidies. Lady
on opposite side of car says impulsive-
ly:
Thank you! I'm afraid of these peo-
pie
Priest, speaking from the man and
the Irishman side Of him, Madam, no
man shall hurt the hair of a woman's
head in this car, no matter how treach-
erOI1c he iC while T'ra hero -
Order reigns in Warsaw.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
Wisconsin Legislature.

Madison, March 10.-In the upper
house Senator Roehrs bill, making ply
steal education a part of the regular
school curriculum in all normal, high
and city schools entirely or partly main
tanned by the state was passed as was
also the bill amending the statutes re-
lating to damages from defective roads,
requiring notice of claims to be MADE
within five instead of ninety days. The
Dane county drainage bills, No. PA and
245 s, which had been reported for in
definite postponement. were on motion
of Senator Welton, laid over for one
week. A senate bill was killed. appro-
priating $1,000 to James Purcell. of
Madison, for injuries received by a fall
in the capitol park
In the assembly the bill looking to
the creation of pardon board was
killed 81 to 43, thus that question being
settled for this session. Bills were in
PRODUCED by Mr. D. F. Jones, amending
the law relating to executions; also for
the better protection of the public
health. Mr.. Hall spoke in favor of his
resolution for only day-to-day adjourn
ments till April 5, rules of course pro-
viding for adjournment over each Sun
day. The resolution was rejected so to
AZ. Mr.. Barnum's heroic resolution in
favor of Cuban liberty was unanimously
adopted by a rising vote. Among the
house bills passed were those giving the
county court of La Crosse county Grim
inal jurisdiction; relating to the Ripon
court; requiring assessors to
make return Of all property exempt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18

sandbagging citizen has been identified
as that of Cornelius J. B. Van Der
Digs, a native of Amsterdam, Holland.
who was compelled to leave that coun-
try.
The town Of West Boylston, Mass,
that lies in the midst of a tract of land
to be used in the construction Of the
mammoth Nashua river basin which
is TO supply the city Of Boston and its
suburbs with water, will be completely
obliterated.
Cripple Creek district was credited
with a production of $4,000, 900 in gold
last year, and the state Of Colorado with
about $4,000, 900. Judging from the
value of the ore mined in the first two
months of 1897, this years output will
reach fully $15,OO0,OOO.
The will of the late Cornelia V. K
Thayer, of Lancaster, Mass, widow of
Nathaniel Thayer, beQueathed nearly
5000, 900 to charity. The largest bequest
was $4,000 to the Domestic and For
eign Missionary society Of the Protes-
tant Episcopal church for domestic mis-
sions.
Miss Isabelle Fulton Of Decatur, H.,
threw herself in front of Pennsyl-
vania railroad engine at Reading and
was cut to pieces She went there a
week ago on a visit to her sister, one
of the faculty of the girls high school.
She had been suffering from nervous
troubles.
I CyoI,,, 1NoJ e n
Duprie and Mrs. Peter Ross drove to-
gether to a road-house near KaukunG,
/ Wis. Peter Ross followed them, killed
| his wife, MORALLY wounded the other
woman and Schnaubel, then went to
| Kaukauna and surrendered. He says
! his wife deserted him.
Col. Lucien Losier, who commanded
Pennsylvania regiment of volunteers
during the civil war, died in Brooklyn.
John G. Rennlab, manager of a hospital
/ ir Sweden, who had absconded with
public moneys, shot and killed himself
in a New York hotel just as officers
entered his room to arrest him.
President Mckinley, accompanied by
/ his mother, attended the Metropolitan
| M6LQOulSL COuTCu Ill w dSuluSLU L LS
sermon was delivered by Bishop John
P Newman. The president was cheered
by the crowd as he alighted from his
carriage. Two thousand people were
unable to gain admission to the church.
In the North Carolina house Of dele
gates the amendments and substitutes
for the bill to repeal the lease Of the
North Carolina railway were tabled,
thus disposing Of the matter for this
season. Both sides claim to be satisfied
but the practical result is that for the
present the ninety-nine years lease to
the southern stands.
A Mexican woman named Luiz San
tGs Rodriguez and her three daughters
were drowned at ranch 20 miles from
Brownsville, Tex. One CT the girls
while bathing in lagoon went beyond
her depth. The two sisters rushed into
the lagoon to save her and also began
tC sink. The mother then threw her
self into the water to save her children,
and was drowned with them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
SOME ATTITUDES.

The famous Mount Hood of Orego
is $50 feet high.
Pine Knot is the highest place
Kentucky, 1923 feet.
Warren is located on the highest lant
in Illinois, 1,0O5 feet.
Caro- Blanco, 14,269 feet high, i
said to be the highest in New Mexico.
Shreveport is the highest town in
Louisiana, and it is only 1913 feet abov
the level Of the sea.
Lake Titicaca, in Bolivia and Peru
is $1,000 feet above the sea level. 1t
the highest lake in the world, being 10
miles long by IS in width
Mount Lebanon, from whose side
were cut the cedars for Solomon's tenn
pie, is believed to be the highest eleva.
ton in Syria, 1000 fet.
The river Jordan makes the creates
descent in the shortest distance Of an
stream. During its course Of 120 mile
it has p falls and descends 1900 fee
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18

forty-hves. And when the evening is
over he hangs up his black-thorn stick
and his hat, and they remain hung up
until the 18th Of March next year And
then on st. PaIrick's day in the mid
night
He is dreaming Of Killarney,
And he wanders round in Cork,
And he sees the stone of Barney
In the bosom of New York,
And in all his widest snoring.
Kicking swiftly as he can,
He is with his boot heels scoring
Some Internal Englishman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18

At Minneapolis the trial of ex-City
Clerk Haney for offering'a bride of $500
to Alderman F. G. Drew terminated
suddenly, the court directing an &C
quittal. Drew refused on the stand to
connect Haney with the matter. He adj
mitted finding an envelope addressed
to him containing $500. He kept the
money and professed ignorance Of the
sender. Before the grand jury Drew
had sworn that Haney gave him money
for his vote in the paving contract.
Judge Smith entered an order that the
alderman be held to answer to the
charge of perjury or larceny.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
SHOT FOR D1soBEYING ORDERS.

The last time British soldier was
shot for disobedience Of orders is be-
Iieved to have been during the month
of April, 1860, when private of the
Fifth Bengal regiment was court
martiaIed and shot for disobeying the
orders of a IaIce corporal by refusing
with two others to take a comrade to
the guard-room. The one who was
shot was on duty at the time.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.