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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17
AGRICULTURAL HINTS
A HINT FOR WINTER.
An Effective Way of Fastening the
Farm Sled Tongue.

have experienced so much difficulty
IL getting tongue that could be kept
in my sled that have given consider
able attention to various methods. The
usual one is to cut two mortises in the
roller about foot apart. A sapling is
tteu secured and split or ripped back
two or three feet and spread apart SO
that with lemons on end of each part
dressed 10 right size it can be inserted
Il these mortises and held by pegs
1hre-gh lemons back of roller and the
norfIse holes filled with wooden
wedges. The objections to this method
are numerous. In the first place the
tongue can never be anything but rough
and ugly. Why should we take SO much
pains 10 have buggy and wagon look
decent and then be content with an
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17
WEIGHT OF CHICKS.
Increase Is Most Rapid During the
First Forty Days.

Mr.. ". Fl. Brundige, Bridgeport. Ala,
desires us TO give some weights of
chicks, and we do so, as it viii prove In
teresfing to many.
He writes: Iwould be pleased if you
would publish in your next issue the
weights of Brahmas, Langshans, Ply
mouth Rocks and Wyandottes, chicks
from one to fifteen weeks old. That is,
what they should weigh when you are
raising for breeding stock. Also the
weights from one to ten weeks old when
you are forcing for broilers. Give the
weights of each week.
To test weights we took ten chicks of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17
Shake Into Your shoes.

Aliens Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet
It cures painful, swollen, smarting feet and
instantly takes the sting out of corns and
bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery
OF the age. Aliens Foot Ease makes tight
or new shoes feel easy. 1t is certain cure
for sweating, callous, hot, tired, aching feet
Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and shoe
stores, 25c. Trial package, FREE. Write to
Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy, n. Y.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

did you ever run after a ferryboat only
to find that it was coming in2'
''0h, yes, and at the time was counting
my wife and thought was winning out in a
hard fight, she and all her relatives were
combined IN an effort to make my escape
impossible. '-Philadelphia North American
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17
800 Reward 500.

to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure III
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 Cata1rh
Cure Is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature In doing its work The
proprietors have so much faith In its eura-
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails 10 cure
Send for list of testimonials.
Address f. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

There is no economy in wintering
more cockerels than will be wanted for
breeding. The sooner the others are
marketed the better-St. Louis Re-
public.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

Because 1t Is made from selected stock OF
the best grade of leaf that grows. The ingre-
dents used in its manufacture are absolute
ly pure-nothing injurious to the system en-
tiers into 1t.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17
Al Harvard

The Old Maxwell, how are Won getting
On with your work, George?
The Young Man who is on the football
-team)-Out of sight If we don't throw
Yale down this year, I'm lobster.-Up-to-
Date.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

Merely Wondered WAS there any frost
last night II think not. Why do You
ASK II merely wondered whether next
years peach crop had been destroyed al
ready. '1Pittsburgh ChronicleTelegraph
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

A person looking out for old people al
ways makes good Washing
ton Democrat
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

1t is often the case that feeding
broken oil cake to fowls twice a week
viii promote laying, when other foods
will fail.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

Nothing tries a fellows patience more
than to find all the windows locked when he
tries to raise them suddenly In the morn
ing.-Washington Democrat.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

Piso's Cure for Consumption has no equal
as a cough medicine-F. M. Abbott, 1888
Seneca St., Buffalo, n. Y, May 9, 1894.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

The Office never gets left when If start
out to seek the man.-Chicago News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

Fits stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use of DIR. Khne's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 81 trial bottle +
treatise. DIR. Kline, 933 Arch st, Phila-, Pa.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

"At Newport And you?" First Ocean
Wave Atlantic City. have no crest, You
see.".Detroit journal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

Where? Have pains and aches everywhere.
Cured by st. Jacobs Oil-they' re nowhere.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

How My Throat Hurtsi-Why don't you
use Haless Honey Of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure In one minute
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

The weather seems delightful when
Rheumatism is cured by st. Jacobs Oil.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

| A quickstep. Step out when St Jacobs
Oil quickly cures your lumbago.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

We should call learning to ride a bicycle
In the hot sun, work.-Washingto Demo
GRAFT
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

A large head may be as empty as last
years birds nest.-Ram's Horn.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

Gone surely when st. Jacobs Oil cures
A bruise Leaves no sign.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

Always taking off and never putting
hack. will exhaust the richest soil.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

A cats heaven would have to be full of
mice.-Ram's Horn.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-17

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, 1897-11-17

She-fI hear you have Just got married:
is it too late to offer congratulations He
oh, yes; / was married three weeks ago."
-Iif-Rits
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-03-13
tuberculosis IN Vermont.

Only four and onc-half per cent.
of the cows of Vermont are tonnd
diseased so far as the cattle commits
sioners have inspected them. AS
under the test of tuberculin any ami
NAL having Il trace of the disease III
its system will show the reaction
which indicates the presence of tu-
berculosis, this does not indicate any
serious danger. The commissioners
are only called when disease is sus-
pected. Probably if all the cattle in
the state were tested not more than
two per cent. would indicate the dis
ease. In many of the cases also ma
ture has conquered the tubcrculous
germ, encysting 1t so that it remains
surrounded by fats through which
no blood circulatcs, and therefore,
there can be no danger of propaga-
ton of the easc.-American Cul-
tiVatOr
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-03-13

cents pound for sugar and 81 a
gallon for syrup, which means good
paying prices.
The Rutland railroad has recently
made arrangements for three steel
bridges between Bellows Falls and
Rutland. This road has, in its 100
miles of line, just 20 bridges, count
ing everything except covered cul-
vcrts. One bridge on an average of
mile is rather more than its share.
The 2Ist annual meeting Of the
Vermont state dental society will be
held at Montpelier the 18th, 18th
and 10Th, of March. A banquet
will be held Thursday evening, and
the opening session will be on the
evening of the first day.
Madeline, the IS-months-old
daughter of John Putnam of Mill
Village, who accidentally took two
swallows of Il solution of morphine
about 5 o'clock Monday night, died
Tuesday morning. 1t appears that
there was vial containing NOR
phine on the table and the child, be-
fore any member of the family could
prevent her, drank enough to cause
death. Mr.. and Mrs. Putnam lost a
child last summer by drowning in
the mill pond.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-03-13
AROUND THE STATE.

Rev. J. M. Duglue, rector of St.
Mary's cathedral at Burlington from
1859 to 1861 and for many years
thereafter rector of St. Augustipe's
church at Montpelier, is critically i'll
at St. Joseph's hospital IN New York
city.
Milton B. Wiseman, an employe
in w. w. Broughton's lumber and
feed mill at Poultney, was killed on
Wednesday morning by the bursting
of an emery wheel.
Nathaniel Chamberlain, an aged
resident of Barre, well known in
Methodist circles, dropped dead
Tuesday from heart failure.
The people living in the vicinity
Of Perry Hill, Waterbury, were
startled to learn Friday morning that
Bert Murray had tried to commit
suicide by shooting some time be-
tween 10 and II o'clock Thursday
evening. DR.. Grout removed the
bullet from Murray's body and he is
reported out of danger.
The outlook for good maple sugar
prices is fair. ]. A. Beers, an en-
tensive producer Of Vernon, has con-
tracted all the maple sugar and syrup
that he produces this season at 10
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-03-13
A Boys Theater,

On very stormy afternoons the
boys played theater in the large
garnet of the Boys Hubert street
house, convenient closet, with IL
door and a window, serving for the
castle of Elsinore in Hamlet for
the gunroom Of the ship in "Black
Eyed Susan OF for the studio of
Phidias in The Marble Heart as
the case might be. 1.-The Brazilian
Ape requiring more action than
words, was a favorite entertainment
only they all wanted to play Jocko
the Ape, and they would have made
no little success out Of the Lady of
Lyons" if any of them had been
willing to play Pauline Their cos
tunes and properties were slight
and not always accurate, but they
could launch the curse of Rome"
and describe 1.-TWO hearts beating as
one in a manner rarely equalod
Oh the regular stage. The only thing
they really lacked was an audience,
neither Lizzie Gustin nor Ann
Hughes ever being willing to sit
through more than one act at d
time. When tho boy, as Virginius,
stabbed all the feathers out of tho
pillow which represented the mar
tyred Virginia, and when Joe
Stuart, as Falstaff, broke the bot
tom out of Ann Hughes clothes
basket, the license was revoked, and
the season came to an untimely end.
"A Boy l Knew by Laurence
Hutton, in st. Nicholas.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-03-13
Outrageous ExtortiOn.

The large and greasy bandit bow
ed low before the countess. Opening
package, he disclosed an ear.
"This, miladi, said he, "is the car
of the worshipful count. .
1.-The ransom, said the princess,
toying with her fan, was set at
10000 plunia
"EXactly,' said the bandit, "and
lemains at the same figure"
"This,' said the lady, her bosom
heaving with emotion, sis outra-
geous. 1t isn't business. AS rea-
sonable man you cannot expect me
to pay full price for remnant. ~
Indianapolis Journal.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-03-13


Major Parsons of the Nineteenth
Maine told this story:
"There j.; some doubt as to what
part the Nineteenth Maine played
in the war. though most Of the boys
think 1t put down the rebellion. The
fact is, tho Nineteenth ate up the
Southern Confederacy. They stole
pigs, robbed hen roosts, cleaned out
orchards and cellars and foraged the
country so thoroughly that the re-
bellion had nothing left to feed on
and SO lay down and died"
Then AL Wells of the same regi-
ment took up the thread of the story:
"We were sweeping along one day,
dining on the fat of the land, as
usual. Another troop was ahead,
and between them and us rode Gen
eral Hancock. Az the general was
passing one plantation the aged
proprietor came out and stopped the
generals party.
General, said he, Il want some
sort of safeguard. These troops that
have just gone by stole my pigs,
lifted my hen roosts and emptied my
cellar
=" I'm sorry, said Hancock.
" Yes, replied the old man, 'they
stole everything but my hope of linz
mortality. Thank God, none of them
can steal that.
Don't he too sure about that,
retorted the general. THE Nine
teenth Maine is coming next. -
Lewiston Journal
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-03-13
Seeking HIS Wife.

John Hoffman, wealthy farmer
living near Montpelier. is looking
for his runaway wife who dlsap.
peared last week Friday. Hoffman
thinks she is with tam hand named
Burnham who disappeared about the
same time. "A letter received BY
Mrs. Hoffman's mother the missing
woman said she bad left her hus-
band because of his abusive treat
ment OF her, and would never return.
She is daughter of A. III. Cutler,
Il farmer living just outside OF Mont
pelier, and niece of the late NJ. NJ.
Cutler, president of the Union NIu-
tual Fire Insurance company. The
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-03-13
EMERSON AND WEBSTER.
The Great Political battle Between the Two
Mnstcr Minds.

The Great Political Battle Between the Two
Master Minds.
1t was the detection OF Daniel
Webster that completed the CONVEX
sion of Emerson ard turned him
from an udhCrent into proragan-
dist of abolition. Not pity for the
slave, but Indignation ut the viola
tion of the moral law by Webster
was at the lotion of Emerson an
ger. After the eth of March, 1850,
he recognized in Webster tho en-
bodiment Of all that he hated. In
his attacks on him Emerson trcm-
bled TO his inmost fiber with antago-
nism. No other nature ever so
moved him, lut it was time to he
moved, and Webster was man of
his size. Had these two great men
of New England been matched in
training as they were matched in
endoW meIt, and had they then faced
ea>h other in debate they would
not have been found to differ SO
greatly in power Theii education
dif4cl cd so radically that it is impos-
sible to compare them, hut if you
translate tho Phi Beta Kappa I'D
dress into politics you have some
thing stronger than Webster-some-
thing that recalls Chatham. And
Emerson would have had this adj
vantage-that he was not afraid. AS
it was, he left his library and took
tho stump.
In an address he said of Webster:
"In Massachusetts in 1716 he would
beyond all question have been ref
ugee. He praises Adams and Jeffer
son, but it is past Adams and JEFF
forson. A present Adams or Jeffer-
SON he would denounce. But Gre
thing appears certain to me-that
the Union is at an end as soon as an
immoral law il enacted
The evaporation of Emerson did
not subside, hut went on increasing
during the rext four years, ard in
1854 he read his lecture on 1.-THE Tu-
gitive Slave Law" at the New York
Tabernacle, in which he said: II
never felt tie check Oh my free
speech and action until the other
day, Wien Mr. Webster Iy his lcr-
sonal influence lroueht tie fugitive
slave law On the county. say M.
Webster, for though the bill was
not bic, ii Is yet notorious that lie
was the life and soul of it, that lie
gave it all he had"
1t YVES too late for Emerson to
shine as q POLITICAL deluttr. Long
fellow w1otc in his diary, 1T is
rather painful to see Emerson in
the arena Of olitics, Missed and
hooted at by young law students. y
Emerson records similar expert
enco at a lat on date, The mob roar
ou whenever ! attempted to speak,
and after several beginnings it'll.
drew There is nothing painful
here. 1t is the sublime exhibition OF
a great soul in bonds to circum-
stance. Emerson by his writings did
moro than fly other man to lescle
tho youth of the next generation
and fit tltm for the ferCe times to
follow. twill not lie denied that he
sent 10000 sons to the war.-John
Jay Chapman in Atlantic.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-03-13
Free Pills.

Send your address to H. E. Buck
len 4 Co., Chicago, and get free
sample box of DR.. Kings New Life
Pills. A trial will convince YOU of
their merits. These pills are easy
in action and are particularly effcc-
tive in the cure of Constipation and
Sick Headache. For Malaria and
Liver troubles they have been proved
invaluable. They are guaranteed to
be perfectly free from every delete
rious subsistence and to be purely veg
etable. They do not weaken by
their action, but by giving tone to
stomach and bowels greatly invigo-
rate the system. Regular size 25c.
per box. Sold by A. b. Morgan,
Druggist.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-03-13
Strange Graft for Lake Champ ain.

A strange craft is being built at
Burlington which will plough the
waters of Lake Champlain next sea-
son. 1t is termed a hydrocycle and,
as its nature implies, it is Il distant
kinsman of tho bicycle. The novel
boat is made of two boats, each one
in the neighborhood Of IS feet long,
placed side by side and connected.
In the center is the frame of BIZ
cycle, on which the rider sits and
pedals, steering by his handle bars
the same as on any "bike." The
hydrocyclc now being constructed i,
Il tandem and carries two passen-
gers.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-03-13
Cold.

An acute cold is very disagreed
BILE and if neglected may prove
very serious. In its early stages it
may be avoided by use of camphor.
If tho chest seems tight, rub it
thoroughly with equal parts Of
sweet oil and camphor and wear 4
compress during the night of flannel
saturated with the mixture, heated
and covered with dry flannel. Three
or four drops OF camphor in n glass
of hot wat~r, taken at night, is ex-
cellent. If the throat is little sore,
use a gargle of ten drops of cam
phor to a tablespoonful of water,
being careful not to swallow this.
Rubbing the nose with sweet oil and
camphor and inhaling the fumes of
the latter will help matters when
the head feels full with a fresh cold.
New York Ledger.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-03-13

The blacksmith bellows is at
tributcd to AnachOrsis, the Scythi-
m who Is said also to have been
the inventor Of the potter's wheel,
of ship anchors and other pieces of
mechanism and the liscoverer of
the valuable properties of finder.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-03-13
DeWitt's Collie & Cholera Cure.
Quickly cures Dysentery and Oiarrhea.
Petition TOR Divorce,
STATE OF VERMONT. /
WINnSnR COUNTY SIS

STATE OF VERMONT,
WINDSOR COUNTY, SIS.
Whereas, Elmer H. Fletcher of Chester,
Vt. has duly filed his petition to The Ccun-
tv Court. setting forth his legal marriage to
GeorgianEa Blanchard of Versennes. in the
state of Vermont. that he hath resided for
two years in the State of Vermont. that he
the said GcorgiunEa hath violated the
slme. for that she hath wilfully deserted taA
petitioner for three consecutive years,
wherefore tho petitioner prays for II bill of
divorce from the said Georgianna.
And whereas it appears that the said
Georgianna is without this State, 40 that
the summons of said Court may not be
served upon her
the said Georgianna Fletcher 20 mott.
fed and required to appear in and
before said Court and make answer. If
any she have, and abide the order and
Judgment of said Court in the premises.
at the term thereof next to be held
at Woodstock in an7 for the county of
Windsor in the State of Vermont. on the
fourth Tuesday of May. A. ID. 1897. upon
the first day of said term. by publishing the
substance of said petition, together with
this order. for three successive weeks, in
the Spirit OF the Age. u newspaper pub
lished at Woodstock in said county, the last
publication to be at least six weeks prior
to said term of court. which shall he deemed
sufficient notice to said GeOrgianna
Fletcher
Given undcr my hand, at Woodstock. in
the county of Windsor. this 4th day of
JAY READ PEMBER.
GEORGE J.. FLETCHER,
Atty. for Petitioner.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-03-13

President Mckinley in his inaug-
ural address seems to place quite as
much Importance in reciprocity as in
protection, hopeful indication that
he is not altogether indifferent to the
Importance of finding foreign mar
ket for our products. 1t would be
better to let the tariff alone for a
while the best business men III the
country have declared that industrial
matters would right themselves if it
were left as it is, and if anything is
to be done it should not be in the
way of restriction of trade relations.
American manufacturers have got to
find markets outside of this country
or many of them must go out OF bus
mess, and in order to do this some
courtesy must be extended to for
eigners who have goods to sell or
exchange. A narrow, prohibitive
policy has been tried, but it failed,
as such inconsistent and unjust sys-
tens always will.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-03-13
A ROYAL Poet.

The emperor of Japan grinds out
poetry by the yard. The Japan Mail
of Yokohama says: The emperor
seems to he very prolific poet, for
we are told by the Chuo that, dur
ing the last ten years, Baron Taxa
saki, who may be considered to oc-
cupy the position of poet laureate in
Japan has seen more than $4,000
couplets composed by the sovereign.
His majesty has penned 1900 coup
lets in the course of this year.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-03-13
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1SUckl lens ArllcLS alVe.

The best Salve in the world for Gus
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt Rhcum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilbains,
COrns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price % cents per box.
For sale by A. b. Morgan.