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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18

The Grand Prairie of Administering on
both sides of the Little Rock & Memphis K.
R., and extending along it's tracks for miles
offers special inducements to home-seek.
ers. The best pasturage, the richest cereal
lands and finest farming country in the New
South. This Vast Tract of Land now
thrown open to settlers. Come and buy
while you have the chance to make your
own selection. For any information, call
on, or address, Rudolph Fink, General Man
ager Little Rock, Ark, w. H. Morrison,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
A Partner in Crime.

"Parson," said the dying man, "do you
believe in a deathbed confession?"
Under certain circumstances" said the
reverend gentleman.
"Well, it is this way. Years ago I was a
passenger on the Great Consolidated Street
railway"
eyes, go on"
"Oh, | hate to tell it"
"Go on"
"And one day in a moment of vicious in.
sanity, l beat them out of a nickel fare!"
He sank back exhausted.
"Listen," said the reverend man, sit may
comfort you. Can you hear me-"
eyes, yes"
"You needn't feel so worried about beat.
ing that gang of robbers out of a paltry
nickel beat EN- every chance l get!"
And the dying man passed way with
peaceful smile.-Cieveland Plain Dealer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18

CROSS SECTION OF DRAIN.
Fc. I

roads in charge, certain portions of
the worst places which now call for
annual repairs should be permanent
Nv made over, even if it takes a higher
appropriation yearly for a few years.
Take, for instance, a stretch of road
where the soil is springy, or for any
cause the drainage is imperfect. No
permanent improvements can be made
in such places without proper drain
age is effected.
To do this adequately open a ditch
four feet or more wide and three and
a half to four feet deep in the center
of the travel. Fill this with rough
stones. placing the first ones thrown
in SO as to form an open drain; fill
in the stone till within a foot of the
top, using the smallest stones for the
top: if a crusher is in use the coarser
of these, which is best. then cover with
evergreen boughs or straw and finish
with gravel. The idea is shown in Fig.
/. The important thing is that these
drains always lead to and end at a.
open culvert. This is an effectual
remedy for ''honey pots" or slough
holes when the frost is leaving the
ground in spring.
The town of Winthrop. in this state.
is noted for it's good roads. Nearly
80 years ago the town discarded the
district system, and elected a road
commissioner who has held the place
to the present time. From almost i'm
passable highways in the spring of
the year, that is. over certain portions,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
Confinement and Hard Work

Indoors, particularly in the sitting posture,
are far more p%rejudicial to health than ex-
cessive muscular e~xertion in the open air.
Hard sedentary workers are far too weary
after office hours to take much needful exer.
else in the open air. They often need a tonic.
Where can they seek IMMIGRATION more
certainly and agreeably than from Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters, a renovant particu-
larly adapted to recruit the exhausted force
of nature. Use also for dyspepsia, kidney,
liver and rheumatic ailments.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
Misled by the Papers.

"Now, Henry" said the dear old lady,
II do hope you will never play baseball"
"Why not, grandma" asked Henry, with
natural surprise.
Because it is so very dangerous"
Dangerous! Why, grandma, it isn't any
more dangerous than any other game"
at is exceedingly dangerous" said the old
lady, in a tone of deep conviction.
"But, grandma, you never saw a game,
and don't know anything about it."
Perhaps / don't, but l know it is highly
dangerous. Almost every day the papers
tell about men who have died on the bases
Baltimore American.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
Try Aliens EOOf.Eaae.

A powder to be shaken into the shoes. At
this season your feet feel swollen and hot,
and get tired easily. If you have smarting
feet or tight shoes, try Aliens Foot-Ease.
1t cools the feet and makes walking easy.
Cures and prevents swollen and sweating
feet, blisters and callous spots. Relieves
corns and bunions of all pain and gives rest
and comfort. Try it to-day. Sold by all
druggists and shoe stores for Csc. Trial
package FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted,
LIE Roy, N, Y.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
Fooled Again.

A savage light shone in her eyes as she
s~tealthily approached him whom she
hated. The lethal weapon was in her
grasp. He, all unconscious, remained pas.
sive.
A wave of disappointment swept over her
mobile countenance.
The fly she had been making a sneak on
was on the other side of the screen.-Cin.
cinnati Enquirer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
DEVICE FOR MARKING MILK.

of pans used each day. 1t is also often
desired to mark a particular cows milk,
in order to observe its quality. A label
and method of attachment is shown
in the cut. A strip of ~pasteboard has
it's end bent over and wire inserted as
shown. The fold is glued down, thus
holding the wire. Bend the double wire
and hang it over the pans edge.-N. Y.
Tribune.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
The MILK.

1t One to See at a Glance
just When to Skim.
Where the milk is set in shallow pans
it is wise to mark each days milk, as
Tuesday morning." Tuesday night"
etc. In this way one can see at a
glance just when to skim. and does not
have to stop to reckon up the number
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18

Love alone makes the heart rise to know
the secret of all being. Failing in this knowl-
edge, man may know many things, but
nothing truly; for all such knowledge stays
with outward shows.-Henry Jones, NJ. A.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18

Since P. M. Sharples, of West Chester,
Pa, has delivered to Mr.. w. /. Moody, OF
Nashua, Iowa, 500 Dairy Separators for use
in the new system whereby the farmers are
saved 10 cts. per 100 lbs. of milk, ne has re-
ceived orders from five other Creamery
Managers for similar outfits.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
Frea Trim tn Alaaka.

From St. Paul to Alaska for nothing.
Two tickets given away. Enter the "Klon-
dike' word contest. Limited to the first
500 subscribers. You won't see this again.
Address Home & Garden, Newspaper Row,
Paul. MINI.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
The Girl.

"I'm sure I'll never be able t. walk vi
the aisle with papa"
"Why not, my child?"
Papa is SO ridiculously low-geared."-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
Facts About Alaska

Great Northern Railway, for Facts About
Alaska" or send ten cents in stamps for
ALASKA, Land Of Gold and Glacier" a
beautifully illustrated booklet, containing
maps and descriptive matter.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
Insulted.

Tenspot-Why are you so angry at the
doctor?
terrible tired feeling he told me to show him
tongue.-N. Y. Truth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18

Fits stopped free and permanently cured
No fits after first days use of DR.. Kline
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 81 trial bottle 4
treatise. DR.. Kline, 933 Arch ST., Phila., Pa.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
Fun for Her.

docs Miss Merry smile upon your suit,
Chumpley!"
Smile? She laughs till you can hear her
a block every time l propose detroit Free
Press.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18

All the talent some men have is a real
loud voice.-Washington Democrat.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18

The only worthy end of all learning, of
Ill science, of all life, in fact, is that human
beings should love one another better
Eliot.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
Cheap Excursion to Virginia Springs.

Wednesday, August 25th, the Big Four
and C.. & o. railway will sell excursion tick.
cts to White Sulphur Springs, $l4.OO, and
Virginia Hot Springs $50 good return
ing ten days. Call on or address j. G. Tuck
err. G.. N. A., No. 234 Clark street.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18

He-"Would you scream if I should kiss
your" She-"And if were to allow you to.
would you squeal?"-Indianapolis journal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
Near Old Boston Again.

visitor-I hear there is sickness next
door. Is it contagious?
Phillips-Oh, not at all, madam; merely
contiguous.-N. Y. Truth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18

A man will get up earlier to go fishing
than for any other purpose.-Washington
Democrat.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18

Iowa farms for sale. 81 per acre cash, bal'nce
! crop until paid. j. Mulhall, Waukegan, III.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18

Piso's Cure is a wonderful Cough medi.
cine.-Mrs. w. Pickert, Van Siclen and
Blake AYES, Brooklyn, N. Y, Oct. 26, 's4.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18

Halls Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price 75c.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-21
MINES AND MINING.

No industry of California has more i'm
portant interests at stake in legislation
this winter than that of the miners. Both
in the State Legislature and in Congress
measures are pending which will affect
the mining interests in many ways, and it
behooves the people and the press to give
every assistance possible to the miners in
obtaining the desired legislation which is
needed to advance the welfare of their in
dustry.
The mining men themselves are show
ing commendable vigor and unity OF pur-
pose III prom oting the adoption of meas
ures they desire. The executive commit
tee of the mining association is doing good
work i'll this direction, and in addition to
urging the enactment by Congress of
bill providing ior a commission to deter
mine the mineral or non mineral nature
of land In railroad grants, is having pre-
pared for submission to the State Legisla-
ture a number of measures which it is
believed will be of great benefit to the
mining industry.
In this connection it is gratifying to
note that Senator Perkins is preparing
bill providing for the esta blishment of
rank. The California Senator will have
the support of Senators from ali the West
ern States and considerable number from
among the Representatives of the larger
mining States of the East. There is, there
fore, some grounds for the expectation
that If the bill be pushed forward with
vigor it will find sufficient approval in
both houses of Congress to become law.
This would be great advantage to the
miners, inasmuch as it would give their
industry a representative in the Cabinet
and would lead to the settlement of many
of those vexed problems of mining law
which are now so detrimental to the in
dustry.
In order that the advocates of the ap-
polntment of the proposed Secretary
should have the full benefit of pubic sem
timent in its favor that sentiment should
now manifest itself as speedily as possi-
bic through the press and through the
voice of the boards of trade, cham bers of
commerce and similar bodies, as well as
of associations of miners.
From the Great West there should go
unanimous declaration from all the States
and Territories in favor of the measure
Much benefit will. no doubt, be conferred
upon the miners by the enactment of the
bills winch they are now urging, but all
of these com bined would not be so adyan-
tageous as the accom- plishment of the
appointment of a Secretary of Mines and
Mining. Such an official is necessary and
such an official we can get if we work
for it.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-21
THE ARBITRATION TREATY.

In his address before the House OF Lords
on Tuesday Lord Salisbury, in alluding to
the proposed treaty of arbitration with
the United States, said he could not speak
fully on the subject because the agree
ment had not yet been ratified. He de-
clared, however, that he felt at liberty to
say that the British people must not
think that they are living sin the millen-
nial dispensation." The only conclusion
to be drawn from his remarks, therefore,
is that Lord Salisbury is not an enthusiast
on arbitration aad that he does not take
the sarguine views of the subject which
are so common among people who have
had less experience in dealing with inter
national questions.
Lord Salisbury was wise in reminding
Parliament that the agreement had not
yet been ratified. There are increasing
evidences that it will have good deal Of
opposition in the Senate, and may be ma
terially amended before it is adopted.
While the people of the United States ap-
prove of the general principle of arbitra-
ton, they are not likely to enter into an
agreement for permanent arbitration until
they see clearly the end to which such an
agreement would lead them. 1t has been
suggested that the proposed treaty would
involve US in something like IAN entan-
Cling alliance" with Great Britain, and to
that of course no American statesman
who has due regard for the precedents
OF the Republic will consent.
Lord Salisbury stated that the relations
of England to the United States are full
of small differences which are sometime es
exaggerated and cause irritation and en-
nifty. He thought that the formation of
a tribunal of arbitration would serve to
take these questions out of the domain of
politics and to that extent would tend to
the maintenance of friendliness between
the two countries. He also declared that
another advantage to be derived from the
treaty would be that Minister dealing
with a subject involving the honor of his
country would have in. the Court of Arbi-
ation shield from the attacks of .'iin-
goes" since, as he says, it would be i'm
possible for the opponents of Minister to
say he had trifed with the honor of his
country when he had submitted the mat.
ter to the decision of an impartial tribunal.
There can be no questi ion of the gen.
eral correctness of these statements. The
proposed treaty will not be the beginning
of the millennium. 1t will not be the final
solution of all problems between England
and America. 1t will, however. be helpful
in settling those minor disputes which are
continually recurring. This view will
doubtless be taken by the Senate when the
subject comes up for settlement. We are
not going to enter into an entangling al.
lance with England, but we can make
some agreement with her that will be for
the benefit of both countries. Ii Secretary
Olney has gone too far it will be the duty
of the Senate to amend the proposed
treaty and this We can expect to be done
without fail
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-21
PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.

Lord Charles Beresford will soon be pro-
NOTED to flag rank, it is said He will be the
youngest rear-admiraI in the navy.
Miss Knight of London has been appointed
professor OF anatomy and pathology in the
Lhudiana Medical School, Northwestern prov.
inces, India.
1t is said that the late Joseph B. McCullagh
never attended place of amusement or any
public meeting, and never was the guest at
any entertainment.
On December 81 Thomas Burns, diver,
leaped from the Firth of Forth bridge Scot.
land, a distance of $50 fee t. into the sea, and
was picked up uninJured.
Horatio, Earl Nelson, who is "a years of age
is now the only surviving peer who was alive
and in the enjoyment of his title when the
Queen came to the throne. He is the third in
descent from the hero OF Trafalgar.
The late General Francis A. Walker was
fairly loaded with academic honors The de-
gree of Ii. d. came to him from Amherst and
Columbia colleges and the universities of
Yale, Harvard st. Andrews and Edinburgh.
He received the degree of Ph.D. at Yale
in 1875.
The family of Mrs. Mary Ragland. widow
of 83 living near Port Gibson, Miss, objected
to her marriage with l.. H. Lyman. neigh
boring farmer OF 70. who had courted her for
two years; so the lovers eloped and were
united in matrimony at the courthouse by a
Supervisor.
An English explorer, Edward A. Fitzgerald,
has set out with an elaborately equipped party
to climb Aconcagua, on the borders of Chile
and the Argentine Republic. This mountain
is $4,000 feet high-the highest peak outside
of the Himalayas -and If Mr.. Fitzgerald sue
ceeds he win have climbed the highest noun
tain yet ascended.
Thomas ]. Martin, a barber of Dowagiac,
Mich, shaved many eminent men in times
before the war and during the war. For long
term OF years he was employed on steamboats,
on the Mississippi, Ohio and Cumberland
rivers, and among his customers were Gener-
ais Twigg Pillow, Taylor, Buell. and Lyon and
Presidents Polk and Lincoln.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-21
THE NICARAGUA CANAL.

The memorial adopted at the mass
meeting of business men in this City on
! Tuesday requesting Congress to enact the
Nicaragua canal bill now pending was
| undoubtedly an expression of the prevail
ing sentiment of the people OF California.
The time has come when some beginning
should be made in this important work,
and the specdiest way to begin is by the
adoption of the bill which is now before
Congress.
That there are features in the bill to
which objection might be made is beyond
question. 1t is certain, however. that 1t
would be impossible to devise measure
which would be satisfactory in all OF its
details to everybody. The main issue Is
the simple one of promoting the construc-
ton of the canal as promptly as possible
under conditions which would place 1tand
maintain it under the control of the
United States Government. These essen
tial points seem to be well secured by the
pending bill, and this beng so there Is no
reason why it should not be supported by
all who really desire to see the com pletion
of the work.
Senator Turpie of Indiana in speaking
himself in favor of the construction of the
canal, but asserted he was opposed to
letting it go into the hands of a private
corporation. This was an unfair state
ment OF the true nature of the proposed
bill. A sufficient guarantee is provided in
the measure for Government control to
make it certain that the corporation which
is 10 nominally build it would be in every
respect subordinate to the Government
Senator Morgan in presenting the bill
stated that every detail of it had received
the unanimous approval of the Nicaragua
Canal Committee in the Senate, and this
statement being undisputed is clearly a
satisfactory guarantee that the objections
made by Senator Turpie are not valid.
If we are to have the canal at all we
must agree upon some method of con-
structing it. Nothing can be gained by
wrangling over the details involved. The
construction of the work by the Govern
ment directly is virtually impossible. 1t
is not certain that majority of the MEM
bers of both houses of Congress would
favor such plan and it is practically sure
that Nicaragua would object to it. The
one way to obtain speedy beginning of
the work is to enact the bill now before
the Senate and since the essential point is
| the construction CT the canal there ought
to be no serious objections to adopting the
only means of obtaining it.
The interests of California in the canal
are great, but they are not greater than
those of other sections of the country.
The whole Union would be benefited by
the opening of this new waterway be-
tween the Atlantic and Pa chic coasts. 1t
should be constructed by the aid of our
| Government in order, as the memorial
states, that it shall remain under the
control of the United States Government
an American canal under American con-
troll" If we can achieve that much we
will have gained all that is essential to
National welfare in the construction of
the great work, ana it is to be hoped there
fore that Congress will cordially respond
to the request of the memorial.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-21

Commons Will be called on to continue
liberal expenditures for national defense;
measure will be introduced to promote
primary education by securing the main
tenance of voluntary schools; bill will
be offered making better provision for
compensation to working people who suf-
fer from accidents; attention will be paid
to the water supply of London, to agricul-
ture in the kingdom and TO the DISPOSE
ton of goods manufactured in prisons in
other countries; the Irish problem will
receive attention, and efforts will be made
to relieve that country of some of the ills
ffom which it now suffers.
This is certainly broad and long pro-
gramme of work. 1t is notable from the
fact that home affairs are treated as OF
much more importance than the foreign
difficulties in which the empire is IN
vowed. There can be little question that
the bills which will be most earnestly de-
bated in Parliament will be those relating
to education, agriculture, compensation
for workingmen injured by accident and
the promised relief for Ireland. Such
programme would not have been so
strange had it come from Liberal Min
istry, but it is striking evidence of the
changed condition of public sentiment in
England that high Tory administration
should direct itself TO remedying the evils
of workingmen and farmers at home in
stead of seeking prestige by brilliant
display of British power abroad.
Until the bills providing the proposed
relief are introduced it will be impossible
to intelligently criticize the policy of the
administration The bills may provide
for efficient remedies for the evils which
exist, and on the other hand they may be
| nothing more than temporary expedients
intended to silence the cries OF the clam
orers. 1t is not yet known which of these
is to be expected. Not mucn has hitherto
been done for farmers, for workingmen
and for Ireland by the Tories, but this is
no proof that something may not be done
by the present administration.
Agricultural distress in Great Britain
affects the great landowners as we'll as
farmers, and ever since the days of Lord
Randolph Churchill there has been such
thing in England as Tory democracy,
devoted to the welfare of the common
people. The influences resulting from
these may determine Lord Salisbury to be
almost as radical in his measures OF relief
as could have been expected from Ii beral
Ministry. The world Will nave to wait
therefore for the introduction of the bills
before it can determine how far the Sails
bury government deserves the support of
the British people.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-21
THE QUEENS SPEECH.

The speech from the throne at the open
ing of the session of the British Parlia-
ment has long since become very little
more than an idle ceremony. Her Ma
iesty's Ministers who frame the speech
for her make use of it merely to outline
the business to which they will call upon
Parliament to attend. 1t is not until the
bills dealing with this business are actu-
ally introduced that the public is made
thoroughly acquainted with the course
which the administration intends to
pursue.
In the speech delivered on Tuesday her
Majesty's Ministers give very little infor-
nation concerning their course of action.
ALI that can be gathered from the address
is that the march into Upper Egypt is to
be sustained and the country annexed to
Egypt and placed under British protec-
ton; the depressed condition of the sugar
industry in the West Indies is to be con-
sidered and possibly some measures may
. be devised to protect it, the House of