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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-02-09
Fresh bread at John Grants.
Felt shoes at so cents at KOrb'S.
Sam Rapson has a full stock OF


Felt shoes at so cents at Korb's.
Sam Rapson has full stock Of
masks.
Ed. Mcintosh and daughters, three,
visited Duluth Monday.
Sam Sax returned Tuesday evening
from a business trip to Duluth,
Rev Smerekar made a visit to the
other range the first of the week.
E. J. Gray, of Winton, visited with
his family at Lester Park over Sun
day.
John d Rockefeller has donated
800 to the Hibbing M. E. church So
ciety
Mrs. p. Schaefer and children are
visiting relatives aL Soudan this
week.
Manager John Pengilly returned
Tuesday evening from Il visit to
Duluth.
Jos. Bracco came up from Tower
Tuesday evening to transact business
in the city.
II. Jaedecke, the Ishpeming cigar
manufacturer was in the city u few
days this week.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-02-09
One Half Price.

? We always live up to our offers.
IS We do as we agree. When we
g say 81 Price, it means u saving
Q to the purchaser Of exactly one
nhalf Of the former price.
q Pants at zone Half Price" this
= month at the
b Ely Clothing Company.
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Pants at Half Price.

During this month we shall
close out about 200 pairs of Mems
Pants at ONE HALF of the regular
! price. The best opportunity ever
Z offered in town. Don't miss it.
, Ely Clothing and Dry Goods
Company.
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HOODS PILLS cure all Liver Ills. 25 cents.

This same block of clay would make notice.
able reflections in comparatively crude in
struments, while delicate ones would flutter
perceptibly
One of the bricks, a plain white one. hy-
draulically pressed, possessed no magnet>
ism. A certain amount of lime enters into
the composition of white brick. such as
was used, and its presence undoubtedly had
much to do with the absence of magnetic
gained magnetism in the presence of a dy-
namo, though the surrounding of the bricks
by wire coils made no perceptible difference.
Heating the bricks served in n measure to
decrease the magnetism, though in each case
minute amount was retained.
To Just what cause this is due neither
gentleman is ready TO state. 1t is the pres
ent opinion. however, that there is more or
less magnetic in the clay of which the
bricks are made. The mode of manufac-
turing is also thought to have something to
do with the phenomena. AS stated above.
the presence of lime served to decrease the
greater power. The professor thinks the imr
portance of his discovery obvious. The
slightest trace of unsupported magnetic
power in the structural part of laboratory
is necessarily fatal to nicely Of electrical
measurements.
That clay, when worked ever so little by
human agency, gathers magnetic properties
has been thought for some time. Eminent
Italian scientists have made innumerable ex-
periments in that line during the past half
dozen years. Their greatest proof was found
ancient pottery which had been buried for
centuries Crude as they were, magnetism
was found to exist in no uncertain guam
titles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-26
THE YEARS OIL RECORD
NEARLY S2,0OO,OOO OUTLAY IN BOR-
ING FOR PETROLEUM IN 1898.
Since Gas Was First Discovered I'm
Indiana 3,34s Gassers and 7,21s Oil
Wells Have Been Sunk.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
MONTPELIER, Ind. Dec 25.-During the
year now closing in the Indiana oil field
there were l,102 wells completed at the
nominal cost of 1.76S 200, or an average of
81 600 a well. OF that number 344 were dry
holes or gas wells, entailing a loss to the oil
operators of $55O,400. This is about the ac-
tual cost of a well completed and put to
pumping in this field, while with dry holes
the operators could realize about 100000 out
of the pipe, derrick and other material
around the dry holes, which, deducted from
the above would make a net loss to the
operators of at least $500 There were
sixty-one more wells completed the present
year than last year, while in dry holes
there is an increase over 1897 of sixty-four
wells. During the year 1896 old oil wells were
abandoned as they had run out and the
pipe was pulled out and the material moved
to other new locations. But very few peo-
pie are aware of the great number of wells
drilled for oil and gas in this State. For
the benefit of the readers the following table
has been compiled, showing the entire num-
Der of wells completed in the State by
years, along with the dry holes or gas wells
They are divided as folloWs:
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VOLCANIC BATHS.
Bather CIings to a Pole Across the
Crater and Dips in lce-COId Mud.

San Francisco Bulletin.
Volcano baths are the proper thing now
adays in certain parts of California and
Mexico. Down in Mendocino county Cali
fornia, such baths have become most fire.
quent
The volcano bath is not water bath, nor
is 1t fire bath or a lava BATH as might be
supposed. 1t is mud bath, and no or
binary mud bath at that. 1ce-cold mud of
q blush tint and of the consistency of
freshly mixed mortar is the element into
which the bathers plunge, splashing and
spluttering. The way they manage it is
unique; A sapling is felled in the forests
near the volcano craters, stripped of its
limbs, carried to the center and placed
across it, so that each end of the pole rests
on firm ground. Fancy yourself sliding out
on one of these saplings stretched across a
craters mouth. then slipping gently off into
the middle of a gurgling, bubbling, ice-cold
mass of mud and swinging yourself there,
suspended by your hands until fatigued
Ihen. with Just life enough to crawl back
along the log, you reach unyielding ground
again.
Once plunged into one of the orators -
mud with all ties to the sapling above sew
ercd a person would be lost forever being
ssWaloWed up in the murky depths in an
instant Tor vastly quicker in action and
suTer of its victim than quicksand is the
mud of Mendocinos mysterious volcanoes
:, CLEANLINESS has nothing to do with it, IT
Is not tnat Tor which people face the dam
gers or the volcano bath. The mud which
IS belched forth from the earth's interior
IS supposed to contain important medicinal
There are about twenty-five of these
singular mud-healing volcanoes in Mendo-
emo county, and they are among Califor-
ma S many wonders They are situated high
on q mountain side, seven miles from Cahfo
AT this time Of the year they are unusuaiIv
ssctive. Their gurghng roar may be heard
Tor a. distance of several miles when they
are most violent The mud freouentIyy
SHOOTS over the rim of the crater. flows
down the mountain like a lava stream and
enters one of the Eel rivers tributaries
called MUD creek. 1t fills the craters which
are about five feet above the earth's sIIr-
Ia rae. and bounded with circular base or
Immature crater from four to seven feet in
diameter at the base and two to three feet
at the top Prospecting parties have hewn
down sapiings fifty feet in length and pushed
tnem into the mouth of the crater. some
OF these have disappeared altogether. Others
remain near the surface, playthines Of tho
muddy element, which losses them ahout
IKE Iishermen's bobbins in a rough sea. A
significant coincidence is the fact that whom
Ine ocean, twenty miles away is unusually
tough, me volcanoes become intensely ac-
tlVes belching forth not only their burden Of
Ice-cold mud but volumes of warm vapor.
to control their action '
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air of pride that sat well upon her, and
seemed to sink into reverie.
DO you think it was worth it?'' | said
softly.
Worth it, Yes many times over. /
would have been with him during this war
had it not been that l felt l had to stay
here with Mercedes" Her voice broke a
little.
OF Mercedes, the lamb of the flock. it is
difficult to speak without tears. She has
been for years a cripple, being injured in
an accident so severely that she has never
walked since, save for the short time when
she was benefited by the treatment of a
famous specialist She rallied, and was able
to walk little with crutches Hope revived
in the mothers heart, when again a cruel
fate INTERVIEWED and Mercedes had another
fall; this time injuring her so seriously that
as | write these words, no one knows wheth-
er Mercedes will live to see Christmas or
not. Father and the little daughter were
devoted to each other, and the hope of see
ing him again buoyed her up; but after the
first glow of joy was over 1T evident
that she was sinking. If she RECEIVERS it
will be little short of a miracle. She is a
child of almost angelic disposition, and in
all her years of suffering she has not only
not uttered one word of complaint but has
been many times the light of the house,
hold.
There came the sound of crutches against
the floor. In at the open door came Gen
eral Garcia, tenderly supporting his little
crippled daughter The warrior who had
never fiinched before the enemy looked
melted to his very soul. He lifted her into
an easy chair and bent over her with in
finite pathos. There was a mist before my
eyes as l quietly slipped out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-26
AN AMERICAN COUNTRY LAWYERS
He Turned Out Not to he Such a.
Singed Cat as He Looked.
Northwestern Advocate.

4
Two or three years. ago an important rail-
road case, involving. the interests of a num-
| Der of clients. was being heard before
| judge in Boston. Nine attorneys were en-
gagged, one of them being country lawyer
from Ohio. The latter, after saying good
morning to the judge and the other attor-
neys. took a seat in an obscure corner of the
courtroom to await developments. The other
| attorneys were all eminent in the profession
| and were known to each other. They had
never heard of the country lawyer FROM
Ohio, and as the case progressed they ig-
the various interests which they represented
| and at the expense of the interests repre-
| sented by the one man. So little impression
did he make and so little knowledge did he
appear by his silence to have of the case
| that they began to joke about the sorry APP
pearance he was presenting Among those
| banks, United States senator from Indiana,
| The eight attorneys invited Senator Fair<
| banks to lunch with them, he being looked
upon as neutral party During the lunch-
| con frequent humorous illusions were E'ade
| other side After awhile Senator Fairbanks
remarked: Gentlemen, I have had good
| deal of experience with country lawyers and
have learned not to desptse them. Your
| conduct of this case is. of course, not my
affair, but 1 advise you to be on your guard.
| for if that country lawyer over there in the
corner of the courtroom wakes UP he IS
| likely to give you trouble. l kept my eye
on him this morning and | have come tc, the
The distinguished lawyers laughed in der
rision. and when at the close of the day the
country lawyer was Iounu 10 pe sun dp-
parently Indifferent to the movements of his
opponents, they tainted the senator with his
| manifest misjudgment of this man. The
country lawyer said nothing bearing on
| the case for four days. He simply listened.
When his opponentsl had completely dis
closed their plans and had irrevocaby COM
mitted themselves to a certain line of action
| the country lawyer interposed few OBJ
| jectons in the interest of his client, which
were sustained, and so conducted his case
afterward that his opponents were not only
| overruled but were soon quarreling among
| themselves. Singly and together they found
| case.
This Country lawyer is now one of the
most renowned diplomats. He was william
| r. Day, ex-secretary of state and chairman
| of the United States peace commission. He
| is still a quiet man, but the representatives
| of the nations of the world have found that
as Senator Fairbanks said. he knows ms
business
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should be the same in the case of Amer
lean and other vessels. If the United
States were to agree as we believe they
would, to such terms as these we could
have no possible ground for refusing to
give up our rights under the Clayton
Rulwer treaty. That treaty was, no doubt
sincerely meant on both sides 20 be an act
of friendship It has turned oGt 20 be at
best an instrument of mortmaia: at the
worst. a troublesome cause of friction; and
it should, therefore. be got rid of.
The force of circumstances" is often the
most ironical of goddesses. but sometimes
she brings about things which are curious
" fitting and appropriate. When one-half
of the Anglo-SaXon race holds the water
way between the Mediterranean and the
Indian ocean, what could be more appro-
pirate than that the other half should hold
that between the Atlantic and Pacific?
When the Americans hold Lake Nicaragua
as we hoiu Lake Timsah the wheel will
have come full circle. 1t is not for us to
delay but 20 hasten that suspicious hour.
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The "OId Man" Humbu~.

While the peaceful winter is being dis
turned by fearful newspaper disclosures of
the seniity of Senator Hawley. ard while
we are being impressively told that his re-
electlon to the Senate will cover Connecticut
win neglect and humiliation. the news from
washington is that the President of the
United States, the secretary of war and the
commanding general of the army are in con-
sultatlon with this useless old gentleman.
planning for the necessary legislation Ia
perIect the organization and increase the
sI1e OF the army. His vast knowledge of
military affairs, his practical experiences in
the field, and intimate knowledge of the war
from which We are slowly emerging have
evidently convinced these high authorizes
mat. however senile at home, he is in ex
seIient mental and physical health at Wash
rrp9sLon. What humbug, 10 be sure this anti
51&Wley crusade is! The secret is not that
ne has outlived his usefulness and grown
ueSItplt and feeble in Office. but that two
olher men want his place That is all there
y 10. 70 IT.: The trouble with their campaign
= lIiat there is no reason under the sun WHY
for either "SiuS
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Malfeasance.
Case and Comment

Away back in the North Carolina noun
t tal there lived in the eighties justice of
sne peace Sl1ted with great store Of COM
vantages; He was the owner of a large ard
Wen conducted farm but found time. never
theiess TO devote to his profession. as he
C3lled IT, and was quite jealous OF his pres
uSe ana watchful of the conduct of rivals
IN the neghborhood Suitors brought he
lore him on the defendant side were some
t tiInes shTewd enough to take advantage of
mis- Weahness OF the squire. On one oc-
caSion the station agent of the Richmond e
aDanville Railroad appeared to defend a suit
brouSht by mountaineer for killing y
sclub cow, and while watching for the VIII
ncsSes be spoke of neighborhood rumor
mat squire b., j. p. living a mile or
Two away had been guilty of taking Some
iiiIeSai fees in recent case tried before him.
he's les th SAID Squire L.. 4 been thinlIin'
ponderin' on jst what Squire BIS been
guilty OF. Now, as a matter of course lie
nalteasance. for he taken fees he hadn't
orter nave tuck, and in my opinion it don,t
miss malpractice fur" N0ii
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Few COunterfeits.
Washington Special


Al the present time there are few in1nor
iant counterfeits out A year ago an cpl
ucInic OF small counterfeiting was threat
entu, out IL seems 10 have been pretty we'll
suppressed. A short time ago a coiner who
nae Just been released from the penitentiary
organized grcen-Goods game using silver
collars instead of paper currency as a basis
ior ms operations. 1t was his habit to
Hash a genuine bright silver dollar fnan
a would-be purchaser as. evidence OF his slSiil
IN manufacturing counterfeits The game
was exposed, and 4 queer panic broke ont
all through Louisiana and Mississippj in con-
sequence. Colonel Wilkie, chief of the secret
service, was flooded with telegrams and let-
tiers from that part of the country inform
ing him that countless thousands of bogus
silver dollars were in circulation there
2bouts. Ii has been matter of considerahla
difficulty TO quiet the alarm and to reassure
the people OF those two States. The situa-
uon is complicated by the fact that large
store Of bright new silver dollars of the Issue
of 1889 has recently been distributed in New
Orleans and surrounding towns These
by everybody.
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The Gamblers of Georgia.
w. E. Curtis's Atlanta Special to Chicag
Record.

w. E. Curtis's Atlanta Special to Chicago
Record.
The colonel of the Third Georgia is a man
without feet John w. Gambler. judge of the
were cut off by railway car some years
ago and have been so Skillfully replaced
by ARTIFICIAL ones that you would never sus-
pect his infirmity. He walks easily and
comfortably with a cane and never shirks
any duty or loses any pleasure that belongs
to a man with all his members and facuI-
ties. Among other things he has been ac-
tive in the militia since he was sixteen years
old, and for a dozen years has been the
colonel of the crack regiment of Atlanta
which volunteered en- masse at the begin
ming of the war. Then Gambler became a
national issue. The surgeons and inspectors
of the regulars said they'd be hanged be-
fore they would muster a man without feet
into the army, and the authorities at Wash
ington sustained them. The Georgia delega-
ton went to the War Department and the
White House Cay after day and for time
it looked as If Georgia would again secede
from the Union. but finally the government
backed down and Gambler marched off to
camp at the head of his regiment Just how
1t was done nobody seems to know Some.
say he wasn't mustered in at ALL but he
made good officer and kept a good camp
men out of a total of 1 800: one of them died
from cholera morbus after eating three
plates OF ice cream and a lot of green
apples, one was shot. another had Appendix
citis. another spinal meningitis and the
other two died of fever
The Gambler family appears to be con-
spicuous in Georgia. The colonels brother
IS the Episcopal bishop of this diocese, and
several terms in Congress. is now the Gov
ernor of the State. The latter is 4 little
man. with bushy gray whiskers and one
eye He lost the other by accident when ne
PtoWboy Of Pigeons Roost" and say ne is
very smooth citizen.
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Per LII 7

A curSory view only of the peculiaritieS of
number of these metals can be given here,
leaving the student to pursue the investiga
ton at leisure. Gallium is the costliest of
metals. a single pound being worth small
fortune. It's use is confined to scientific pur-
heat is utilized. The warmth of the hand
seems to melt this sensitive plant of min
erals.
Calcium, used for light, burning with daz-
zing effect at red heat Didymium is found
in gneiss, first in England. Tantalium was
discovered in Sweden in 1902. Yttorium is
very rare metal, found in Scandinavia and
of little known service to man. Strontium,
used to color fireworks a bright crimson. is
combustible metal quite dangerous to
handle.
Vanadium, found chiefly in Mexico and
Chile. although first discovered in Swedish
iron ore in 1880. ThOrium, found in Norway
combustible below red heat, was first known
in 1929 Chromium, discovered in 1897 COM
municates beautiful colors TO substances
into which it enters, hence it's name.
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THE COSTLY METALS.
Long List of Rare Ones Far More
Priceless than Gold.
Engineering Magazine.

LIIg IIIttIIlg NIdga1IIIt.
How many know that gold and silver and
nickel, of which our coins are constructed
while precious in themselves and of great
est value as a circulating medium-are not
the most costly of metals? They stand, in
fact. far below n score of others known in
chemistry and the arts and sciences, and
which are procured with the greatest diff
ficulty and expense from their recesses in
the mineral world. Not only the pick and
the shovel. but the intense heat of crucibles
or powerful acids are required to separate
and purify them from the dross with which
they are surrounded in their natural state.
Here is q table of comparative values
While this list is approximately correct, it
does not assume to be absolutely accurate
for the reason that the values of the metals
in the commercial world are constantly sub
ject to variations. The new found alumni
ium for instance, which is extracted from
clay by wonderful process, and which
promises to become of greatest value to
mankind, has been cheapened in the cost Of
production during the past ten years from
about IS to about 50 cents per pound.
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MAGNETISM IN BRICKS.
Experiments Made by Prof. Lawrence
at Rochester University.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Probably the idea that humble red brick
would ever play any part in electrical ex-
peIiments has occurred TO few. However
this is just what certain lot of bricks
composing a pier at Reynoldss laboratory
did and will continue to do so long as they
are within reasonable distance of the deli
cate electrical instruments used in the lab
oratory. suspicion that the above con-
tingency might exist has been in the mind
OF Prof. Henry T.. Lawrence, of the Uni
Yersity of Rochester, for some time past
That 1t is a reality he now feels sure, and
the methods he used to come to that con-
clusion are most interesting
The professor. in collaboration with Otis
a. Gage, a special student in electricity
began series of experiments covering some
months. The performance of the mag
netometer which was used in measuring the
magnetic power of a steel bar was the first
cause for suspecting that the bricks were
other than what their appearance would
lead one to think. The magnetometer had
rested on a brick pier for the purpose az
making IL plumb. Not long after Prof
Lawrence. while in Ann Arbor. heard of q
similar experience occurring there On his
return the experiments went on with more
zeal than ever. Bricks of all varieties were
put through any number of tests, and the
great majority were found to be magnetic
Those manufactured by water power
known as hydraulic bricks proved to be
exceedingly strong, one equaling the power
or q steel needle % centimeters ia length.
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DECEMBER WELLS
Operations in the Indiana field for the
month of December make a great showing
as the banner month of the year. This is
in all probability due to the advance in
the price CT the product. This is great
increase over December a year ago, as at
that time there were only ninety-eght wells
completed, while this month there were 1885,
Tho daily output of the 1S5 wells amounts
to 2,755 barrels, or an average of twenty
one barrels daily. OF this number of COM
pleted wells there were seventy-two that
failed to produce oil, but large portion of
them were good enough to attach to a gas
line, as they were located in the gas field
and were drilled for that purpose For in
stance, take Madison county; nearly every
well completed there this month was drilled
to replenish the gas supply 1t is evident
that there is no place cheaper to operate
for the crude product than right here in
Indiana. The shipments of Indiana and
Ohio oil are double or nearly so to what the
runs are and that alone is in favor of the
price being steady. The recapitulation
shows the amount of work done for Decem-
Der against that of November:
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A Distinction.
Puck

I'm the romantic novel the hero and
heroine married at the end of their
troubles"
"Yes2"
While in the realistic novel they marry
at the beginning