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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL.

Howard university. of Washington,
an institution for colored students, has
conferred upon John Wanamaker the
degree of LII. ID.
Green Fluke. one of the three col
ored men who were in the band of
pioneer Mormons who founded Salt
Lake City, is still alive in Idaho.
The late Perley Derby. of Salem,
Mass, was one of the best-known
genealogfsts in the United States. and
for 80 years had been employed to make
genealogical researches in nearly every
state in the union.
1t has been decided to erect club
and reading-room at Broadstairs, in
memory of Charles Dickens, who wrote
many of his books there. A Dickens
fete" will be given there in the first
week of July, to raise money for that
purpose.
The city of Leipsic, for many years
the residence of Robert Schumann, is
soon to have monument to the great
musician. The model has been made by
Werner Stein, who received the order
III IL lIOH wealthy "oIldH Ol lndt
city, an amateur of music. whose name
is not revealed.
Gov. Mount, of Indiana, intends to
give attention to the grave of Lincoln's
mother, in that state, as soon as possi-
BILE. Il have been at the grave" he says,
''and it was in a very neglected condi-
ton, weeds growing over it, and the
half-acre in which it is situated having
a weird, uninviting look"
The woman who is now claiming a
part of the late Jay Gould's estate says
she was married to him in Canadian
town on certain date. Gould was at
that time in constant correspondence
with his former school-teacher, James
Oliver, now resident of Burlington,
Kan. Mr.. Oliver kept Gould's letters,
which are said to show that the mar
riage could not have taken place in
Canada at the time named, as Gould was
not there then.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07

rection of building object roads at
agricultural colleges and experiment
stations" continued the secretary
''in accordance with the provision
made by congress for aiding those in
s,ituIions in disseminating informa-
ton Oh the subject of road building.
Cooperation has now been established
by the director of roads under which
the manufacturers of road machinery
furnish the necessary plant free of
charge, the county or city authorities
provide the material, and the labor
of men and teams, and the government
furnishes an engineer to oversee the
work and instruct students and Wis
itors, and pays for one or two skilled
operators for the machines. In this
manner a very slight outlay of public
funds accomplishes large amount of
instructive work. The work will be-
gin at the New Jersey agricultural col
lege, at New Brunswick, where fund
of about $1,000 will be provided by the
local authorities, and at Geneva. N. Y,
where contributions have been made
by the city, the experiment station and
private individuals amounting to about
$1,000.
I'm sections where stone is very
scarce" said Secretary Wilson. las in
central Illinois, experiments are be-
ing made for the construction of brick
roads. At Monmouth road has been
made of single course of vitrified
brick set on edge, laid on sand, seven
feet wide between curbs of oak plank
and borders of broken stone to dis
lance of two feet on each side. This
road has not been in use long enough
to be fully tested, but has given very
favorable impression at the outset. 1t
has been recommended that an expert
ment be made with brick trackways
for wheels and gravel between for the
tread of horses, and it is quite pos
sible that steel trackways may be prof
itably substituted for brick.
Gravel roads cost less than macadam
and vary from $1,000 to $4,000 per
mile. The seyen-foot brick road at
Monmouth, ILL.,, cost 90 cents per run
ming foot, or 81, $50 per mile. The eight
foot brick roads at Cleveland range
from $4,000 TO 1000 per mile, but this
included heavy grading. Material for
steel roads of the heaviest class of pres
ent design cost, in small quantity, about
$500 per mile The amount of ma
terial, however, is less than 100 tons per
mile, and if the present prices of steel
should be maintained material for long
lines OF road could be furnished for
about s.. 900 per mile. The lighter class
of steel rails for ordinary country roads
need not exceed so tons per mile, and
need not cost much over 81 900 per mile.
The cost of grading and track-laying
will be additional. but that need not be
heavy on the western prairies, for the
rails are all prepared to be bolted to-
gether."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07
IMPROVED ROAD MAKING.

An Interesting Interview with the
secretary of Agriculture.
The importance of good roads is rec
ognized by all, and so is the expense
necessary to produce them considered
of equal significance. Upon the sub
jec1 William E. Curtis, in the Chicago
Record, says: Secretary Wilson has
given directions to Gen. Roy Stone,
chief of the bureau of good roads at
the department of agriculture, to con-
struct sample steel roadway at the
most convenient location he can find
at the Nashville exposition, where 1t
NAV be seen and studied by the visit
ors who will attend during the sum-
mer Secretary Wilson thinks the
steel trackway for wagons is the east
est solution of the good-roads prob
lem, particularly in the west, where
stone and gravel are scarce and the
soil is deep and sticky.
NO road material promises so much
hope TO the western farmers as the flat
bars of steel at the present cost OF
manufacture" said the secretary,
land | propose to have sample roads
built. not only at the Nashville ex-
position. but at different points
throughout the country, where they
will afford practical object lessons to
county commissioners and other of
ficials having the highways under
their charge. The steel manufacturers
are taking hold of the matter with
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07
COOPERATION PAYS.
A Wisconsin Dafryman Points Out
Some of Its Advantages.

The success of the cooperative sys-
tenn is brought about in the main by
its predominating simplicity. No bust
ness enterprise can meet with success
without complete understanding of
its details by the promoters. In the CO.
operative system in vogue to-day the
monthly statement issued shows TO
each and every patron the part he has
enacted to accomplish the given whole.
He sees just what he has done, and what
it has benefited him in dollars and
cents. He sees just what his employees
have accomplished, and sees just what
they receive for the same. He knows
the value of his milk product for the
month in point of lest. He knows the
test is true, unbiased, ard he questions
il not. His weights are actual. He
has full confidence and pride in the en-
tcrprise and realizes that he himself is
part of the corporate body, with
rights unquestioned. On the other hand,
in the case of the homeopathic cream
cry, the patron is in no way consulted
as to the management of its affairs.
He has no voice in the selection of its
officers. If he questions the accuracy
of his weights or tests or insinuates
that the price for his product is less
than he reasonably supposes it should
be, he is trespassing upon dangerous
grounds. He has no right to an in
sight of the working OF its affairs. He
is simply expected TO be patron. whose
duty is merely to furnish the material
from which others are to make profits.
The marked success of the CO.
operative creamery is noticeable in al
most every locality in which it has been
established. 1t almost invariably in
creases the area of its territory and sup
plants all other systems. its honest.
open, simple methods winning the adj
miration of all observers. In my coun-
ty, where five years ago the cooperative
system was unknown. there are to-day
in successful operation 16 creameries,
averaging in receipts 5000 to 10000
pounds of milk per day. and in the sum
mer months some of them reaching
over 10000. Almost every one of these
factories supplanted other systems, and
it is a noticeable fact that in nearly
every instance the same territory under
the cooperative system has largely in
creased, and in many cases doubled its
product, owing to the popularity of the
system and the mistaken confidence of
the producers. l predict for the sys-
tenn a successful future.-H. S. Bell, in
Orange Judd Farmer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07
ALL ITS PEOPLE ARE CRIMINALS
Town in Italy Composed Almost En-
tireIy of Lawbreakers.


There is town in Italy in which
the majority of the population is Grim
inal-so large majority, too. that co
more than one occasion the entire pop
ulation has been designated as csim-
inal and outside the law, by official
edict. The recent attempted assassina-
ton of the king of Italy revives the
CORY history of this district, since the
would-be assassin, Pietro Acciarito,
came from there.
The town of Artena and the surround
ing district have been celebrated for
hundreds of years for the abnormal
number of brigands and other Grim
inals produced there. The statistics
afford ample proofs of the truth of the
doctrine of heredity. Whole families
for generation after generation have
borne the hereditary criminal faint,
which has been strengthened by the
influence of environment. As far back
as the twelfth century the records show
Artena to have been the home of nest
of brigands, and the place has never re-
deemed its reputation. As early as 1855?
Pope Paul ". proclaimed the entire
population as criminal and outside the
pale Of the law.
The man who is elected mayor of the
town takes his life in his hands, In fact,
TO aspire to the mayoralty is felo de Sc,
seeing that every mayor for the last
siXty-odd years has been assassinated
Three times in the present century
the entire adult population has been
indicted for criminal conspiracy. In
1890 80 heads of families were tried for
murders, robberies, arson and a score
of lesser crimes. No one has ever been
convicted. however, because it would be
certain death for anyone to testify
against resident. There are doubtless
some honest people among them, but
they are in such hopeless minority
and the state is so utterly unable to af-
ford them protection that no testimony
for the crown is ever obtainable
In 1872 when 20 citizens were on trial
for various crimes, the charge began as
follows: AT Artena a classic ground
for crime. where vengeance is barbar-
ic amusement. even among persons of
the same family, offenses have during
the last 20 years increased to terrible
extent. Whole families have been ex-
terminated and there have been horri-
BILE murders, fires and robberies. which
have spread terror in all the surround
ing districts"
Lombroso. the criminologist. ex-
presses the opinion that the location of
the town has much to do with the abb
normal development of the criminal
instinct. 1t is situated in the shadow of
perpendicular cliff. and the suns rays
never fall upon it.-St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07

much interest, and are making expert
ments on their own account, which
have already brought out valuable
suggestions as 10 the details of con-
struction The Cambria Iron company
of Johnstown, Pa, has joined heartily
in the work of the department, and is
cooperating in the development of
our plans. The result has been that
very promising designs and methods
of construction have been evolved,
sufficient, at least, for experimental
construction. and the Cambria COM
pany will soon be prepared to furnish
the trackway for experiments or for
larger use.
The advantage of the steel roads
in the reduction OF the pull required
to move a load from an average of
40 pounds per ton on macadam road
TO eight pounds on the steel track is
sufficient to overcome many objec-
tons" continued the secretary; but,
in fact, the objections to steel roads
have mainly disappeared under the
present Investigations. The obstacle
of original expense is overcome by
the reduced price of material, and the
anticipated high cost of maintenance
avoided by doing away entirely with
wood in the construction.
The danger of horses slipping on the
rail in going up and down hill is met
by indenting the rails used on grades
sufficiently to catch the caIks of the
shoes without roughing the tread for
wheels
''The difficulty of low joints is met
by making the joint stronger than any
other part of the track, and the dam
ger of forming a rut alongside the
rail is overcome by making every rail
joint serve as 'remount' for wheels
The form of rail proposed is an in
verted trough with slightly-raised
bead on the inside. The rail is i'm
bedded in gravel laid in a trench
which is well drained. A little gravel
is spread between the rails for the
horse path. The rails are tied to-
gether at the ends and in the middle
The present design is for an eight
inch tread, seven-sixteenths of an
inch thick.
"In addition to the steel road, an
other recent departure is in the di-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07
Over a Ton a Day.

Last year 425 tons of steel were used by
the Winchester Repeating Arms CO., New
Haven, CT, in the manufacture of rifles and
shot guns. This enormous amount repre-
sents a consumption of over a ton day.
This information may surprise people who
are not familiar with the great demand for
Winchester guns, but it will not anyone
who has used Winchester, for they ap-
preciate the excellence and popularity of
this make of gun. Winchester guns and
Winchester ammunition are unequalled for
their many points of superiority. Uniform
ity and reliability are watchwords with the
Winchesters and the results their guns and
ammunition give show the great care taken
in manufacturing them. Send for large
illustrated catalogue free.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07
BEAUTY is BLOOD DEEP.

urc, neallny DAOO0 Mean8 Be8 M
Complexion Intestinal Microbes
Poison the Blood When the Bowels
Are COnstipated. Drive Them Out
by Making the Liver Lively.
Beauty is skin Deep" That is wrong.
Beauty is blood deep.
A person constipated, with lazy liver,
bilious blood, dyspeptic stomach, has PIN
Piles and liver spots and sole leather COM
plexion.
No one with a furred tongue, a bad
breath, a jaundiced eye, can be beautiful, no
matter how perfect are form and features.
To be beautiful, to become beautiful, or
remain beautiful, the blood must be kept
pure and free from bile, microbes, disease
germs and other impurities.
Cascarets Candy Cathartic will do it for
you quickly, surely, naturally. They never
grip nor grippe, but make the liver lively,
prevent sour stomach, kill disease germs,
tone up the bowels, purify the blood, and
make all things right, as they should be.
Then beauty comes of itself and to stay.
Buy and try Cascarets to-day It's what
they do, not what we say they do, that will
please you. All druggists, lOc, 25c or SOC, or
mailed for price. Send for booklet and free
sample. Address Sterling Remedy Co.,
Chicago, Montreal. Can, or New York.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07
Home-seekers. Look.

The Grand Prairie of Administering on
both sides of the Little Rock & Memphis r.
r., and extending along its 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. III. Morrison,
Gen Frt & Tiki. Agt, Little Rock, Ark,
Little Rock & Memphis Railroad.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07
The Shoe ON the other Foot.

Miss Strongmynd-Have one of my new
brand of cigarettes-I assure you they are
delicious.
Miss Bloomer-Thanks, dear, but I've
stopped smoking.
''You astonish me. never dreamed that
you would become backslider."
Don't think so hardly of me, dear; I've
only stopped till I'm married. You see,
the trouble is, Cholly complains that the
odor is disagreeable to hin" yellow Kid
MAGAZINE
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07
Mistake. and Mistakes.

1t was the eve of their bridal day.
Perhaps, after ALL" he faltered, gazing
tenderly yet seriously down into her lus-
trous eyes, "we shall make a mistake in
marrying"
''How you frighten me, Edwin" she ex-
claimed, with a shiver. Come, let us re-
hearse again, and make assurance doubly
sure Detroit journal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07
StOrieA.

She did not proclaim her story to the
world She was proud.
Fourth" she said to the elevator boy,
in a loud voice.
That is to say, she proclaimed the third
story below hers, and then got out and
walked the rest of the way up.-Detroit
Journal
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07

Dwarf pears and grapes are two kinds
of fruit that are especially adapted to
small places, especially when it is de.
sired to combine the ornamental and
the useful.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07

No matter in what part of the house a
man leaves things. woman will always
move them.-W ashington Democrat.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07
..Star Tobacco.v

As you chew tobacco for pleasure, use
Star. 1t is not only the best, but the most
lasting, and therefore the cheapest.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07

neighbors as they are with prominent Off
Gals they happen to dislike.-Atchison
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07

"A physician who has much practice never
signs his name doctor. Wa shington Dem
ocrat.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07

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, 1897-07-07
Up to His Looks.

national capital is still new to his honors.
One day newspaper woman, full of busi-
ness, burst into the Office of this secretary's
chief The great man was out. Can you
tell me when he will be in?" she asked.
Really" drawled the clerk, II haven't an
idea" "Well," said the newspaper woman,
as she turned to go, Il must say you look
Washington Post.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07

Doesn't it make you sad when you think
of the poor?" "Why, no, not particularly.
1t makes me mad, though, when | think of
the rich. Indianapolis Journal
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07

1t is needless to say that man must pos
sess good eye to thread his way.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-07

Halls Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price 75c.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-09
HALE An INCH UP.

Ex-senator Edmunds put it about
right the other day when, in speaking
OF the condition of business, he said:
We are now about half an inch from
the bottom, going up" This well de-
scribes the situation. The bottom has
been reached and the start upward
has been made. Progress so far is
slow and hesitating and occasionally it
looks as If there We're none. But there
is. For instance, there is no scare now,
and there Is some confidence The
large gold reserve in the United States
treasury, which exceeds $144, 900, 600 and
is growing every week, shows popular
confidence in the governments finan-
cfal strength and integrity. Assurance
was given by the result Of the national
election that sound money is secure
against rash experiments and that the
revenue will soon be brought up to or
above the expense-paying point Hence
there is a general feeling of security
and tranquility so far as the affairs of
national finance are concerned This
feeling is further demonstrated by the
enormous reserves now held by the
New York banks, the aggregate being
| nearly S60,000,000 above legal require
ments. 1t is understood, of course, that
this money is not owned or locked
| up" by the banks. 1t is placed there
| for safekeeping by many thousands of
| depoStors who can draw it out when
| ever they please. 1t is available for
| loaning purposes at very low rates, but
| nobody seems disposed to borrow it.
| Its presence in the banks is conclusive
proof of the confidence felt in those
| institutions.
| With growing confidence in financial
stability will soon come confidence in
business ventures. There is money in
plenty all ready for use when it's own
ers think it will pay them to use it.
The economic policy of the nation will
soon be established and then business
men will know something about the
conditions under which business can be
done When they do they will begin to
be active and soon we shall forget that
there ever was a panic and a long de-
| preston.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-09
MISS DOLBY AND JENNY LIND.


Miss Dolby, when Jenny Lind came
to England in 1S47, was slim wasted,
tail. dark girl. well proportional, quite
solid and unethereal, but most earn
est and conscientious student, gifted
with a superb deep contralto, and a
bonhomie and homely grace of her own
that won. without exactly fascinating.
the public at first She was equally
good at a rousing Scotch song or
fireside domestic ballad John Hallah
wrote the famous Three Fishers" for
her in his later days.; but in oratoria,
and in her own way, Miss Dolby was
supreme-not second even to Jenny.
Certainly she never had that extraor-
binary and weird magnetism which
made unmusical people like Stanley
afterwards the celebrated Dean of
Westminster rave about her great So
prano rival, Jenny; but the Dolby was
better looking than Jenny, though new
er downright pretty-very dark and
handsome, one might call her, with a
certain embonpoint after thirty which
she bore gracefully, but which did not
add to her grace.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-09

While some curious Connecticut peo-
pie are doing what they can to impede
the good roads movement in this State
public-spirited people in other States
are heartily pushing similar move
ments. For instance, a good roads bill
has been introduced in the New York
legislature with the assurance of strong
support. 1t provides for a State high
way commission of three members, to
be appointed by the governor and con-
firmed by the senate, and who shall
serve for three, four or five years, re-
spectively, as the governor shall des-
ignate High salaries are to be given
the commissioners, $1,000 each, and
they are to have $4,000 for Office ex-
penses annually. Their duties will be
comprehensive, beginning with the
compilation of statistics regarding the
highways and preparation of map to
important enough to have State aid.
They are to determine on the method
of construction of roads and advise all
local officials. The details of the bill
indicate a very exhaustive plan. 1t
provides for the annual levy of State
highway tax of one-tenth of a mill.
This is the New York way The Con-
necticut way need not, perhaps, be so
elaborate as that. but it shouldn't be
picayune and foolish. It shouldn't be
so picayune and foolish as to fall in
with the proposition to repeal the pres
ent law under which the Highway
commission works The Hartford
Times well says of this propositions:
The latter is rather drastic remedy
for whatever dissatisfaction there may