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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-12-21
WIN he Preserved.

Santiago de Cuba, Dec. 16.-Gen.
Wood, governor of the military depart
ment of Santiago, is determined to pro-
tect what is left of the surrender tree
the tree beneath which the Spaniards
consented to the capitulation of San
tiago-and has had it enclosed with a
wire fence, issuing an order imposing
a fine of 500 or Imprisonment for 100
days as penalty for mutilating the
tree, which is already not q little in
iured by relic hunters
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-12-21
killed by a Falling Wall.

Chicago, Dec. 16.-The collapse of a
wall during fire in livery stable on
Cottage Grove avenue Thursday night
killed two firemen and injured ten 9th
ers. The dead are Lieut.. Matthew
Meyer and Patrick O'Herne. The seri-
ously injured are Michael O'Hara, skull
fractured; Thomas Dillon, skull frac-
tured; Edward Creuiscuo, back broken.
The building was two-story brick
structure. The lower floor was occu-
pied by the Palace livery stable, while
the second story contained living
apartments.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-12-21
Train Kills Eight.

Buffalo, N. Y, Dec. 14.-Eight men
were killed and four injured at
Winspeare bridge, near Corfu, on the
New York Central railroad, Tuesday.
They were Poles, with the exception of
John Warner, their foreman who is
among the killed. The men were en-
gagged in shoveling snow. All were
frightfully mutilated. The men
stepped from one track to avoid an ap-
preaching train right in front of a fast
express train running in the same d.
rection as the first. and were literally
ground to pieces.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-12-21

Sir William Vernon Harcourt has re-
signed the leadership of the liberal
party in the British house of commons.
The federal assembly has elected Mr..
Mueller, who was vice president for
1898. to be president Of the Swiss con
federation.
Lord Curzon. the new viceroy of In.
dia. left London for his new post of
honor.
1t is announced that the British oc.
cupation of the island of Crete is to be-
come permanent.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-12-21
Endea IL. session.

Kansas City, Mo-, Dec. 1.-THE an
nual convention of the National Build
ing Trades Council Of America came to
an end Friday after the convention had
elected officers and decided to hold the
next convention in Milwaukee during
the second week of December, 1899.
Edward Carroll. of Chicago. was elect
ed president.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-12-21
WAR NEWS.

The Fourth regiment of United
States infantry, now at Fort Sheridan.
Ill, has been ordered by Secretary
Alger to proceed to Manila.
Col. William Jennings Bryan's resig-
nation as colonel of the Third Nebras-
a1a regiment has been accepted.
Spaniards and Cubans had a fight in
the streets of Havana and three of the
latter were killed and others wounded.
Secretary Alger has designated Gen.
Ludlow to act as first military gov
ernor of Havana city.
Mai. Gen. Brooke has been desig
mated to be the first military governor
of Cuba.
The warships Brooklyn, Texas, Cas-
tine and Resolute have been ordered to
Havana.
The transport Michigan, having on
board the First and Second battalions
of the Second Illinois infantry, and the
Panama, with Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
and his staff. arrived at Havana.
The Cuban evacuation commission.
Gems. Wade and Butler and Admiral
Sampson, recommends that an army of
$4,000 is requisite to maintain order in
Cuba.
Aguinaldo. the insurgent leader in
the Philippines, demands of Spain a
ransom of $2O,O0O.OOO for the 10000
Spanish prisoners in his possession.
The government has sent 10000
pounds of turkeys and 1000 pounds of
cranberries to the soldiers in Cuba and
Porto Rico for their Christmas dinner.
The American and Spanish peace
commissioners in Paris were received
by President Faure at farewell audi.
ence.
Nine thousand Spanish soldiers from
Cuba were said to be literally dying
from hunger in the streets of Madrid.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-12-21
Passed In a Hurry.

Washington, Dec. 16.-The house on
Thursday surpassed all previous rec
ords in the expedition with which It
passed the pension appropriation bill
This bill in days gone by has keen one
of the most fruitful themes Of acri-
monious partisan debate, but Thurs
day, although carrying 100000 more
than the act for the current year, It
was passed in 20 minutes without a
word of criticism
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-12-21
MARK ETS.

Minneapolis, Mimi. Dec. II.
Wheat-No. northern. 64@65c
No. northern, 62@6Sc: May, 641c.
Oats-No. 3 white, 22@2Sc.
Corn-No. 5. CSC.
Cattle-Steers, $3.50 $50 cows, $2.70.
Hogs-$3. 2O@3.40.
Sheep-Muttons, $3.10@4.25; lambs
$5.25.
Butter-Creamery extras, S292S15c
creamery, firsts. 2o@2lc; dairy. fancy
1920.
Poultry-Turkeys, 7@Sc; spring
chickens. rose.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-12-21
Can't. sissbee Ordered to Havana.

Washington, Dec. 16.-Capt. Sigsbee,
of the Texas, has been ordered to Ha-
vana by rail and steamer to take COM
mand of his ship there. The order is
the result of the hasty departure of the
Texas under recent orders. Capt. Sigs-
bee was at Albany at the time and the
orders to sail were obeyed so promptly
that Capt. Sigsbee had no time to reach
his ship and in the nautical phrase he
and other officers were cleft on the
beach"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-12-21
GIVEN TWELVE YEARS.
Gideon w. Marsh, Former President
of Keystone National Bank, Sem
fenced at Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, Dec. 14.-Gideon W.
Marsh, former president of the wrecked
Keystone national bank, was Tuesday
sentenced by Judge Butler, in tine
United States district court, to inn
prisonment of IL years and 8 months
and to pay fine of $500. Marsh was
charged with conspiracy in making
false entries in the books and making
false reports to the comptroller of the
currency.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-12-21
Eighteen Were Lost.

Baltimore, Nd, Dec. 15.-Eight add.
tional survivors of the crew of the lost
ship Londonian were brought into this
port Wednesday night by the North
German Lloyd steamship Maria Rick
mers. These with As previously rescued
by the Johnston line steamer Vedamore
complete the list of survivors. Is hav-
ing been lost in an attempt to leave the
disabled ship in one of her small boats.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-12-21
An Awful Disaster.

New York. Dec. ia wagon con-
tanning eight persons was struck by a
train on the Pennsylvania railroad Fri
day night at the Allenwood crossing. a
few miles from Manasquan, N. j., and
four were killed, two fatally injured
and two others seriously injured.
The dead are Mrs. Ellen Allen, Bes-
sic Allen, her daughter; Mrs. Allie AL
ger and Jennie Crammer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-12-21
Personal AND POLITICAL.

Frank Moran. one of the most widely
known minstrels in this country. died
in Philadelphia aged 70 years.
Calvin S. Brice, railroad financier and
former United States senator from
Ohio, died from pneumonia at his home
in New York, aged SO years.
Henry A. Rice, ex-governor of Massa-
chusetts, died at his home in Boston,
aged SO years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-12-21
Gen. Lee Reaches Havana.

Havana, Dec. 14.-The United States
transport Panama, one OF the first
prizes captured in the late war, arrived
Tuesday evening with Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee and staff. The United States trans
port Michigan, which left Savannah on
Saturday last, day before the Panama,
has arrived with two battalions of the
Second Illinois regiment.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-12-21
FOREIGN.

Pr the explosion of shell at Fort
Constantine at Cronstadt, Russia, nine
soldiers were killed.
The ashes of Columbus were trans
ferred from the cathedral in Havana to
a steamer to be taken to Spain.
Four Belgian traders were allied and
eaten by the natives of Upper Ubanghi,
Africa.
Seventy soldiers were massacred in
the upper Congo by natives.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-12-21
DOMESTIC.

Counterfeit standard silver dollars Of
the year 1890 are in circulation in great
numbers in the Mississippi valley.
Nate Thomas and Clarence Emmons
were killed and Will Markley fatally
injured by an explosi on in a grist mil!
Ut Pettisville, O..
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-12-21
DEATH OF CALVIN S. BRIcE.
Ohio and Noted Financier Ex-
pires in New York.

New York, Dec. 16.-Former United
States Senator Calvin 8. Brice died at
3:15 o'clock Thursday at his residence
in this city of pneumonia. He con-
tracted severe cold one week ago. On
Friday last he took to his bed, and on
Monday morning his physician said
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: x Young Folks Column Il 8


victim to the disease that had stricken its
master. The animal was then i'll. and but
for the smallpox eruptions appeared to
have distemper The dog grew worse.
and on the next day the .eruptions were
more decidedly developed, and its copii-
ton told without doubt that it had coniiu-
ent smallpox.
The matter was reported to the health
board. Thomas heard Of it and begged
that the dogs life be spared. He pleaded
SO earnestly for the life of his pet that
the authorities decided to have it removed
to the smallpox hospital. An attendant
from the hospital was sent for it. and the
little dog, comfortably wrapped in a
warm blanket, was put in basket and
taken out for treatment.
The same attention is being given to
the dog that is given to the other pa
tents at the hospital, and unless it en-
counters some unlOoked-fOr difficulty will
recover.
Thomas and the dog have been for
years constant companions, and one WAS
never seen without the other. He lived
in locality where the disease had been
the hardest to stamp out and where it
was first found in a violent form.
The little dog slept in the same bed
with its master and was with him when
he was taken to the hospital. The pbysi-
clans with the smallpox ambulance had
to throw the animal out of the room. as
he made a fierce attack upon them when
they approached his masters bedside.
Thomas asked then that the dog be taken
with him, but this request was refused.
The man seems as anxious abou! the
condition of the dog as he does about
physicians not to neglect it.-New York
Herald
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-22
Late Paris Fashions

Remember that sleeves of different
material from the waist have come in.
So far. however, they are generally of
embroidery or guipure, or of something
that recalls the trimmings of the gown.
What l am very fond of is the princess
dress with draped waist top. which is so
effective in summer stuffs. a princesse
gown of white cloth is heavily soutached
OH the skirt, and opens at the throat over
a tiny yoke of white mousseline de sole,
This is edged with pointed revers en-
broidered with white soutache and tiny
threads of gold that give, together, the
effect Of SPIDERS web. Starting from
under the arm on the right side is a dra-
perry of mousseline de sole which crosses
to the left, and is finished with a chou
and ends. This is bordered at the top
with a narrow galloon of embroidery
like the revers. The sleeves arc entirely
Soutached.
The straight collars round the neck
may be trimmed i'll almost any sort of
way that suits the fancy, with the pres
ent styles, One sees them perfectly plain,
to begin with, without ears, frilis. any.
thing. One sees them with little pattes,
or ears, cut on the collar, which is stiff
fened and trimmed with many rows of
stitching, rounded up on to the pattes.
One also sees >neckgear with loops of
mousseline de sole as garnitnre, held in
the middle by a fancy buckle. Nearly
all the theater blouses in Paris just now
are made with little square deeolIete.
with which is worn round the neck n
dog collar of pearls, naturally. if one has
them, but if not, of jets, of filigree silver,
of any sort Of pretty fancy that one may
choose to adopt.-Harper's Bazaar. =.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-22
Ring Lore.

Cromwelrs ring bore his crest-a lion
rampant.
The finger ring was the earliest orna-
ment worn by man.
Betrothal rings were used in Europe in
the Ninth century.
Every Roman freeman was entitled TO
wear an iron ring.
Wedding rings We're used in Egypt g.
600 years before Christ.
Augustus wore a ring charm to protect
him from thunderstorms.
Chaucer alludes more than once to the
thumb ring as common i'll his time.
Roman amba ssadors sent abroad wore
gold rings as part Of their state dress.
The state ring of the Pope is set with
large cameo bearing the portrait of
Christ.
Early Celtic rings were made in inter-
laced work cftcn of very intricate nat
terms.
When peers are created in Great Brit
ain Il ring is used during the ceremony
of investiture.
The ring of the Jewish high priest WAS
invested by tradition with MANY mystic
powers.
Greek legends declare that the mystic
ring of Gygcs, the King of Lydia. made
the wearer invisible.
Down to the Sixteenth century every
physician in Europe wore ring as a
badge of his profession.
In the latter Roman Empire rings cut
from solid stones, generally agate or
onyx. became fashionable.
Lorenzo de N1edic wore ring that.
according to tradition, had once belonged
to the Emperor Nero
Ang!o-Saxon rings were fashioned aft
or knotted cables, the knot being worn
on the outside of the hand
Most of the medieval kings wore and
used signet rings because they were I'M
able to write their own names.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-22
Possibilities and Limitations.


Probably no one in their right mind
ever honestly echoed the poets wish to
see themselves as others see them. New
! ertheless, were it possible it would be
| wholesome and salutary discipline for
which we should all be much the better.
A hall of mirrors i'll which we could see
| OH every side our uncouth attitudes, our
awkward gestures, our grotesque grim
aces, would conduce not to vanity, but
humility.
To really know ones self and realize
ones possibilities and limitations is per-
maps too much to be expected. 1t is only
our neighbors that we perceive. How
often must everyone have wondered what
Xpossessed such and such a woman to
buy all article so utterly unsuited for her
why fat women will wear plaids, and
thin ones stripes, and sallow ones affect
art green shades, and elderly ones sailor
mats; We sigh ut their mistakes, and
th1nk that if only they could see them
selves as others see them, these sins
AGAINST taste would have been SO easily
prevented
1t is the same way in the other af-
fairs Of life. If only we could realize our
limitations, what successes might we not
acmeve, what humiliating failures might
we not be spared! Who has not seen
some elephantine girl playing at being kit
ten'sh, and longed to say, "My dear, you
Wv AAo JooeAc, anu Imposing, ana hand
some, when you are dignified. When you
giggle, and attempt to be coy and cum
nlng, you are simply ridiculous. Study
yourself and You will find what Won can
no., ana what had better be left undone,"
Another absurdly pathetic sight is to
Denoid people who are pretentious, and
so, lnsuHerable. They affect to be liter
ary, without having any knowledge; they
pretend to be artistic and bungle art
terms in kind of jargon they pick up:
they pose as musical and applaud in the
wrong places; they interlard their con
Versation with misused. and misDro-
nounced quotations from foreign Ian
guages. Alas! one cries, if only they
would come down to plain United States
and talk about butter and eggs, and pa
per patterns, or whatever it is they know.
how interesting they might really be.
Why can't they know themselves well
enough to know they can't do that?e =
The trouble is that i'll our besotted van
ity we all believe ourselves capable Of
filling any role in life, and so we. 20
laundering on. If we would only sit
down and study ourselves we should know
that; we are not all young and fair enough
and verve to be piquant, but that these
are not all that is in life. There are 9th
er things There are places that we
may all occupy with credit to ourselves,
and to the admiration of our neighbors II
only we will find them, and not persist in.
the impossible feat of fitting round beg
into q squire hole. The best advice ever
vet given to a woman is still Know thy
self, and try to get your neighbors'
point Of view on your eccentricitieS and
Abilities Orleans Picayune.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-22
Took His Feet Down,

Few people, perhaps. are aware of the
absolute aversion with which the late
Lord Tennyson regarded the accident of
mistaken identity" He positively hated
to be taken for any other than the man
he was, and would sacrifice any comfort
rather than submit to it. \ correspond
ent of the London Telegraph sends an
amusing anecdote on the point. In COM
pany with a few friends the Poet I.au-
reate one day entered public reading
room, and sat down in large armchair
before the fire. Much to the amazement
of the other occupants of the room he
then proceeded to elevate his feet until
they rested on the chimney piece in the
fashion we are led to believe is real
American" No expostulations on the
part of his friends respecting the inele-
gance of the position were Of the slight
est avail. Suddenly brilliant inspira-
ton seized one of them-the father of
one of our leading actors of today. Co
ing close to Lord Tennyson. he whispered
in his ear. stake your feet down, or
they'll mistake you for Longfellow." In
an instant the poets boots were ON the
floor, and he assumed the ordinary posi-
ton Of an Englishman.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-22
Power of Railway MaSnaxes,

1t lies in the theory of modern society
that men should succeed or fail accord
ing to their abilities. says Prof Henry G.
Adams in the Atlantic. AS Il matter of
fact, Il railway manager has it within his
power, through the manipula ton of rates.
to make or to destroy; to determine which
persons i'll the community and which COM
munities i'll the state shall attain COM
mercial success, and which shall struggle
in vain for it's attainment: Sup
pose, for example, that one cattle-dealer
in Chica go is selected by pool of rail-
ways to control the shipment of meats
from Chicago to the seaboard, and that.
in order to secure him this control, he
receives a rate 10 per cent. less than the
rates charged other dealers; it is evident
that the favored shipper will quickly de-
stroy the business of other shippers by
bidding more for cattle than they can
afford to bid. Admitting that the dis
elimination is not approved by common
law, what remedy has the small shipper
which is sufficiently speedy in its action
to rescue the business which he observes
to be slipping from him? He has nc
remedy; and for this reason is it essen
tan that determinations of the sort re-
fcrred to should be made Il statutory mis-
demeanor, and that some special method
of procedure. more rapid in its operations
than an ordinary court, should be es-
tablished to cause the railways to desist
from their wrongdOingS.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-22
Transient Fame

The cold fact is that the great mass of
regulations. in literature as elsewhere. are
small affairs, and transient at that; com
cts rather than stars, and not especially
brilliant while they remain above the hori-
ION. Like our little systems of theolo-
gy, metaphysics, or what not, ''they have
their day and cease to be- and while
they last they generally cause less stir
than did the little systems.
Something was done lately in commen-
Grafton of Thomas Haynes Bayly 1797-
1880, the most popular English song
writer of his age after Tom Moore; his
lyrics were known in every drawing room,
fifty years ago, but how many in our gen
Grafton had ever heard of him? Some
body the other day called attention to the
fact that Philip James Bailey, author of
the brilliant if erratic ''Festus'' QS39). is
still living; this was IL surprise to the
SupertiuOus veterans who had read the
book and remembered it. Yet these two
were in their time larger figures than most
of our living poets. So perishable and
pcrfdious a thing is Fame The young
writer whose heart swells with innocent
joy at beholding his first illusions in prin,
may fondly fancy himself on the high
road to immortality. He is pathetic
spectacle to his seniors, reminding them
of the
old man in !; boat
Who cried, I'm atloat, I'm afloat!''
Alas, many have tioatcd OH what seemed
Il full tide of renown, only to be stranded
before their voyage had run a lifetime
Frederic, NJ. Bird in Lippincott's.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON.
His Personality ut the Time He NJ ade
Declaration of indie pendanc.

AAAS AoAso""Asy ~ JIG AAm he nj 0de th
Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson, to whom this mo-
mentOus work had been intrusted. came
q young man to Congress, preceded by A
decided reputation as man of ability
and vigorous and felicitous writer. His
engaging manners and obviously great
talents secured to him immediately the
regard and affection of his fellow-mc1n-
bers. He was at once placed on a com
mittee to draft the declaration of the
reasons for taking UP arms, and then
on one to reply to the PROPOSITIONS of f
Lord North. So well did he do his part
and so much did he impress his asso-
clates, that when the resolution for indie
pendence was referred, he was chosen to
stand at the head of the committee and
to him was entrusted the work of dra it.
ing the declaration. No happier choice
could have been made. 1t was in it's
ton OF Washington to lead the armies
This was not because Jefferson was the
ablest man in the Congress. In intel
lectual power and brilliancy Franklin
surpassed him, and John Adams, who
like Franklin, was on the COMMITTEES
was stronger character, better lawyer,
and much more learned man. But for
TINS particular work, 50 mOmentous To
America, Jefferson was better adapted
than any other of the able men who sepa-
rated America from England. He was
above all things, the child of his time
He had the eager, open mind. the robust
optimism, the desire for change 50 char
acteristic of those memorable years with
which the Eighteenth century closed
Instead of fearing innovations, he wei.
coined it as a good in itself, and novelty
always appealed to him. whether it an
peared in the form of plough or a GOV
eminent. He was in full and utter sym
pathy with his time and with the great
forces then beginning to stir into life.
Others might act from conviction on the
question of taxation; others still because
they felt that separation from England
was the only way to save their liberty:
but to Jefferson independence had come
to mean the right of the people to rule
From ''1he Story of the Revolution" by
Senator III. G. Lodge in Scrihner's.
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lovely. Twas. Just exactly the way you
nX yours when you haSe company--can-
sweet. Everybody thought SOL .s
What are you talking ahouty' asked
the mistress. - r .S% s. ,..#.
why answered the maid, ''the lunch-
con my sister gave today. l didn't have
time to ask you, but knew you Wouldn't
mind. SNnthing's broken. a ~ >s9x
5 Aud unwrappmg her bundles, she dis
closed to her mistress astonished eyes the
very pick of all her cherished wedding
china aud glass, not to mention sundry
pieces OF silver. They had adorned the
luncheon, and the table was perfectly
lovely" 49, - I s.-.: Il