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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-08-10
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Mo positively guaranteed to
cure IMPOTENCY resulting from indescret-
ions OF, debility. gives vitality and vigor to
old and middle aged restoring the desires,
ambitions and aspirations OF youth and
health. fitting for success and happiness in
business; professional and social and mar
ried life. So package or3 for S.. Refuse
cheap substitutes. Sent anywhere prepaid
on receipt of price and guaranteed by
The Kidd Drug Company, Elgin, Ill.
Retail and wholesale by A. S. James. drug
gist, Ely; N. j. Benson, Tower; II. A. Solder
gren. Virginia; Dowling's Drug Store,
Eveleth; s. f. Boyce, Duluth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-08-10
GIFT Of olG Eggs en- Honor.

GIFT OF Old Eggs Tn Honor.
The Chinese honor their guests by
placing before chem the Oldest eggs OBJ
tainable, which are considered their
greatest delcecy. - go.
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Through Sleeping Car Service, Duluth te
Houghton and Calumet.

Commencing Sunday the 18th inst,
a Pullman sleeping Car for the Mich
igan Copper country will be attached
to Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic
Ry., train leaving Duluth 700 p. M,
daily except Saturday, arriving
Houghton $40 a. M, Hancock 5:55 a.
M, Calumet $50 a. m.
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Female Regulator Morn cases s. . Of Of
pages, Irregularities, DISTINCTIONS and Sup
pressions. 81 package or for SIS. Refuse
substitutes. Sent anywhere prepaid ON re-
ceipt of price and guaranteed by
THE KIDD DRUG COMPANY, Elgin, Ill.
Retail and wholesale by A. S. James, drug
gist, Ely; N. J. Benson, Tower; H. A. Sober
gren. Virginia; DOwlings Drug Store,
.Eveleth;, $. f. Boyce, Duluth.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04

composed of carbonate and sulphatc Of
soda. similar to the Du Pont group.
Taking these deposits as "a whole the
soda Is found In solid formation, AMI
varies in thickness from few inches 70
fifteen and twenty feet. and in surface
area from Il few to more than 100 acre
Nine lakes have been discovered in Ma
trona county.
A small plant was erected a few
years ago at the properties of the
Wyoming Syndicate Improvement
company. but at the time of its erec-
tion the company anticipated the con.
struction of the extension of the Chi
cago and Northwestern railroad from
Casper, Wyo., up the Sweetwater val
ley. i'm which event the road would
have passed the company's property.
This road was not built, and with a
wagon haul of sixty miles 1t was found
impracticable to operate the plant.
a few miles northeast of Casper Is
the Gil soda deposit. This Is u very
large lake and is practically pure sui
phatc of soda.
Carbon county has numerous small
soda lakes and one that Is quite large.
This ore is situated about twenty five
miles northwest of Rawlns. The soda
from all the Carbon county deposits
has been found to be almost pure sui
phate.
In Albany county there are three
groups of sulphate of soda, as follows:
The Rocn Creek group. lying about
twelve miles northwest of Rock creek:
the Union Pacific group. thirteen miles
southwest of Laramie. and the Downev
group, twenty-five miles southwest of
Laramie. These are all large lakes.
some of them being very deep ami
covering hundreds of acres.
Perhaps the greatest curiosity among
all the soda deposits of the state is the
soda well drilled recently at Green
River. that is now furnishing water
that contains "a per cent. of sal Soda
and this soda is more than 9S per cent
pure. Chicago capitalists have re-
Gently purchased a large tract of land
here and are now laying plans for the
erection of a plant.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04

Ute Indians. who once lived in this Sec
ton, say II was burning many years
before the first white man crossed the
continental divide. The supposition Is
that the coal was ignited by forest
fire at an early date in the present cen-
tury.
1t has smoldered and steadily burnt
until this day. At night. when TIE
moon Is dark. is the best time to see
The fire. Then 1t Is that 1t resembles
the regions of inferno as given US Ill
the word painting on Dante. The earth
covering the coal is loosened by the
heat and falls away. exposing the
sheets of fire.
The escaping gas probably assists IL
stripping off the rocks and dirt, ana
wherever the vein of coal approaches
the surface the fire can be seen. The
first fire saw was fully so feet sp'a =.
IL had peculiar red tint. while the
burning gas coming up at the base or
the coal vein added a bright blue color
ing to the scene. In many places the
surface Of the mountain has sunken.
showing where the fire has burned out
its course.
Previously a shaft had been sunken
in the mountain and into this shaft the
water was permitted to flow. The
shaft was soon filled. but the fire was
above the level of the water, and the
effort was a failure.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04

saw after she had climbed the dark
stairs behind the store and peeped
into a room that Was in semi-dark-
ness. while she repressed Lee Chung
with a warning finger that enforced
silence. 1t was a roord OF considerable
dimensions. with Il low ceiling. The
windows We're so ill-rlnced, besides be-
ing barricaded, that the room was in
twilight gloom, although the day was
bright without. Its furniture was Gu
riously disposed close against the
walls, thus leaving d wide space in
its midst. And in the room the wo-
man Suey Yep was taking part with
the little Lee Moy in what was evil
IDENTIFY a daily occurrence.
with palms folded s',ppliantly before
her, she regarded Lee Moy with II
look Of ircxprcssible love tinged with
sadness. He was hitting wildly about
him with top whip. and shouting
angrily, his language being punctuat-
ed by strong Anglo-Saxop expletives.
"D--n you. mother! Why cometh
not the SUM-"
She submitted with the patience Of
an oriental tn the imperious language
of my lord her Man Child.
"Oh. son of mine." she replied with
infinite tenderness. "the sun Is still
at Pckin, driving his hair-for he hath
but now risen from his ocean bed.
When he hath had his morning meal
and washed his face with dew and
dccl;cd himself with marigo,ds, he will
mount clouds oe purple and gold and
amber and come t. San Francisco"
"Do they of Pekin see more of him
than we do?'
"Yes, son--oh, would we We're there!'
she sobbed for the sun always shines
there, but here it is mostly dark"
I'VE will 60 there. mother. at once"
He held up his hand tor his mother
to take.
but it is long and stony road
from here tn Pekin, AID We must eat
and drink before We start"
She led him to little table. and set
cakes before him, and q cup OF tea
which she fortified with a generous
drought Of sam shu.
When he had satisfied his appetite,
she prepared him another cup similar.
ly sophisticated, and set it before
him.
Drink once more" she said, "for
when we have left San Francisco VIC
shall have no more tchah tea) till
we reach Pekin."
And thu little nan drank as he was
directed. ana prepared for his daily
flight across-the world.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04
A BURNING MOUNTAIN.
Has Been on Fire for Over a Hun
dred Years.

\ mountain. which has been on fire
for more than one hundred years, is
situated just west of here. So close
Is it that it's shadow envelops the town
at J.. m. at this time Of the year and
yet the beautiful hereabouts think NJ
more OF 1t than of the beautiful Grand
river, which washes at the feet Of the
huge pile where the fire has burned No
long. To the tenderfoot, however, the
gittering patches of deep red hre.
where 1t breaks out on the side of the
mountain. and Is exposed to view.
there is nothing in all this state qui :
its equal, writes the Newcastle. cor
respondent of the Kansas City World
The fire Is fed by big vein of coal
which the mountain contains. jus.
how the coal became ignited is not
known. The oldest resident says II was
on fire when he came here. and the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04

of the company to discover any trace
of their lost property. an advertise
ment was issued begging the public.
should it meet with a wandering
bridge, to return it to it's owners with
all dispatch, when substantial re-
ward would be given in exchange.
On the Belgian railway line between
Antwerp and Termonde a catastroph:
was thought to have occurred early
in the spring OF 1897 The passengers
at the intermediate stations between
these places. after waiting for some
former place at eight minutes past Z
in the evening. We're not little
alarmed when no train was forth
coming.
Many people thought an accident
had happened, Others shook their heads
and thought of all the kidnapping
stories they had ever read, while the
light-hearted suggested that the er-
rant train had lost it's way. AS u
matter of fact, there was no accident
and no trainnaping, nor did the en-
gine lose its way; indeed. the only
individuals who lost anything were the
officials who lost their heads and. by
an unaccountable oversight, forgot to
dispatch the train.
Railway wagon No. 6O,iIi is the
property of the London and North
western railway, and fifteen months
ago 1t was missing, with its contents,
consisting of one ton of copper. To-
ward the end of August the wagon
turned up on siding at Leicester. but
how it got there passed the under
standing of all railway men.
year ago an advertisement APP
peared in an English country paper
stating that a reward of $50 was
offered by a great engineering firm 10
any one who produced full grown
torpedo that had been lost about a
mile and half east of the Trow
rocks. 1t was comforting to learn that
there were no explosives in The tor
pedo. Strangely enough, IA month
later, similar fish" put in an ap-
pearance at Aldenburgh, in Suffolk
The torpedo was marked with n
crown and numbered 2414 X, and
though originally charged with a work
ing pressure of 1,0J0 pounds, when IL
was recovered it was exhausted.
Early in 1897 a peculiar case was
tried at Woolwich regarding an eX-
traordinary piece of lost property. 1t
appeared that "A man bought for S15
a boiler, whose size can be estima te
from the fact that it took six horse $
and twenty men to move 1t. While
this operation was being carried out
the boiler, by some remarkable freak,
managed to lose itself, and where it
went to no man knew nor could they
find out. though the police were nut
on its track, and it was requested to
return to its sorrowing friends.
Some years elapsed, and then, when
a surveyor in the office of works was
estimating the value of a fine crop OF
scrap iron that piece of ground
known as "No Mans Land" had yield
ed. he spied the boiler; but beina; ig-
norant of it's history. ordered it to
be sold at auction. at which sale II
realized $l2,50. Then the original own
er recognized his long-lost property,
and sued the surveyor for the $75 1t
cost him. Eventually the judge
awarded him $50, while the surveyor
received 81 for the trespass. Il was
learned that the three-yeSrs-lost
boiler had hid itself on piece of land
quite near its owners residence.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04
PATHETIC CHINESE INCIDENT.

A Mothers Attempt to Dispel the
Blindness of Her Child.
From Lippincott5 Magazine.
This Is what the Fair Samaritan
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04
Not Encouraging.

"Belipda didn't answer the letter in
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04
BIG THINGS LOSE THEMSELVES
A Railroad That Lost q Twenty
Eight-Ton Bridge.
From the New York Press.


Human nature will insist on losing
and mislaying things, but when the
articles get to be as big as a boiler
or bridge, human ingenuity fails to
understand how it happened.
A short time ago western railroa 1
had to issue a pathetic advertisement
in the local papers. They had fixed
a twenty-eight-ton steel fridge on
three fiat cars chained together AMI
dispatched it to Dayton, Ohio, with
their blessing.
At an intermediate station the bridge
was observed to be bearing the jour-
ney extremely well, and was seemingly
In the best of spirits; nevertheless.
when the train arrived at it's destina-
tion not a sign of the bridge could be
discovered, and owing to the inability
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04
The Art of Silence.

"A man shows character even In the
way he moves his chin"
IL think he shows more character in
the way he doesn't move it."-Chicago
Record. '' 4''t
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-04

which | told her l wanted to come and
visit her"
"Well. ! suppose She thought the invi-
tation you gave yourself was cordial
enough"-Dctroit Free Press.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1900-03-01

- Gin efgenurtiger Sail
bon pbpiifder 9lniteduus bat iih gu
90ppingen in 8iirttembers ereignet.
BORT bate Elm 2e6rsebilfe bon Solsz
beim Selbftmorb periibt. Hun lpurbe
bem 22idbrisen Sienfttnedt bes
Bidders IaseI bonn Sberamt mitgez
tbeilt, bab er tpesen @erfdumens Der
Notwithstanding 5u bier Sagen
9efdngniB berurtbetIt fet. Dies nabm
er fib febr gu Ser5en unb Guberte gu
ieinem 9isnitBerrn, es tpdre pobI bas
Bette, tpenn er es aud pie Der Sol5<
beimer 2ebrer ma6te. Der 8rptberr
eripiberte ibm, bab bies bic grDbte
0ummbeit ipGre. Der &ne9t fragte
bierauf, OBJ er I'm 0ienite blsibsn
biirfe, tpenn er feline Strafe perbiiBt
bate. Der Oisnitberr beripra9 ibm
bas ni9t nur als feGbitberi itdnblia.
fonbern perii6erte ibm nod. bdB er
ibm ieben Sag bic s8efper" in ben
4rreit I6iden ipolIe. Dtit bieIer Qus>
tunft anf6einenb aufrieben, perlieb Der
8nedt bus 3immer, be9ab iid duf ben
SduSbobtn unb - Itiir5te iib gum
Senfter bindus. Sbne 9eiinnung
purbe berShtperberlebte In bas &rdns
tsubaus sebra4t.
= WtdaeI Eobtds, elm
fsbr tpoblbabenbsr 2anbpirtb in Reaz
bdIom in llngarn, mar benz Srunte
ergeben. Seine Srau trGntte fi1 burs
iiber. unb ala bteIsr Sage eine bur9
bic Srtidaft fommenbe 3igeunerin ihr
iagte, fie bsfdBe elm @tirir segen
Sruntfu4t, srtff Srau Sobios Ipfort
gu, 5iinf Rrpnen iOIlten atsbalb, bic
reItlt6en fiiuf Sronen follten be5abIt
lpsroen. ipenn bas WiitteI gspirtt babe.
unb es tpirtte griinblib. Die 3igeus
nerin nabm ibre flint &ronsn unb pers
i4pdnb, bic 6rau aber fdiittste ben
Snbalt bes erbaltenen SldId6ens ibz
rem Mdnne in ben Wein. Gr trdntI
Feitbem tbatfd9Ii1 teiuen Sropfen'
ms1r, benn am anbern Rorgen mar er
tobt. @r mar bersiftet tporoen. Die
Geb0rbe fabnbet nun mad Der tGugsn
3iaeuHerin.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1900-03-01

@er5enfee. S:.r ftiir5tr iidb
bsi Der 9baGsutbriide Subtrt SriiGs
barb bon ltebsrftprf, 3antOn Jrsiburg,
in bic Qare unb fanb ben seTu9ten
Sob. Sin bon ibm binterlaIeEer
8rief gibt ausfunTt ii6er bic llria9e
bieTes SslbItmorbes: 2isbesgrarr. -
9as bem Sectious6sf glrnolo GaTer
9e66renbe @obu6dus branute faIt
ppIlitGnbig nieber,
@robpangsr. Sisr po6nt
eine 80 Sabre aIte Surgfrau GIiIa6es
tba Smgriitb. sic lit nod riiItig unb
eebt ale Sage our STRIDE. @ibrenb
rs Sabrsn mar iie nur Elm ein3iges
Mal trant. Sbr 8ruber, ber pOr eini>
gen Sabrsn Itarb, mar SO Sabre alt.
2auIanne. 9ret gefd6rIidje
8erbre6er finb aus Der tantondlcn
Gtrafanitalt entipi6sn: Samuel Sens
ton. ipssen Mprbes gu 27 Sabrcn
3u9tbaus berurtbeilt; 2uigi Mqrtini.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-12-21

"As Il matter of fact" says n coura-
geous writer in the Boston Transcript,
'the common rat is q vastly more intel
ligent creature than the squirrel OF the
average cat. am more than half con-
vinced that the resources of the rat as
n household pet would if fairly tested
prove very great. The rat is undoubt-
edly capable of q higher and more inti-
mate form of domeStication than that
which he now CONT only assigns tD
himself. He is ut present a resident of
cur houses on unwelcome terms, and
ne makes himself, quite naturally, as
much an enemy of the household as
possible.
let the rat be welcomed and made a
friend of til" Il: IS. as has been done
in II few cases. i. Id lie becomes a diff
fcrent sort G. fellow altogether. No
longer forced 10 steal his food, he be-
comes a playmate and a companion.
The sleek and we'll groomcd gray rat is,
barring the ordinary badness of his
tail. quite as pretty and graceful, n
creature as the squirrel, and there is no
reason why we should not become so
much accustomed TO the appearance of
his tail that in time we should regard it
us quite ornamental"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-12-21
known.
Black Diamonds.

Black diamonds are comparatively
rare and corrcspondingly high priced.
They are three or four times as hard as
the white ones, and fire cannot harm
them, however great the heat, but If a
drop of water should touch them while
heated they will explode and leave
nothing but a little heap of sand in
their place.
Their beauty is not remarkable. but
on account OF their extreme hardness
they are invaluable for dressing sur
faces impervious to the friction of any
other material. The largest black dia-
monds are set in the end of round
short bar of steel, with n handle Of
wood, and are used in dressing emery
wheels that have lost their "trueness." /"
A black diamond is the only substance
that will not be ground away by con-
tact With the emery surface.
Black diamonds are also used as
points in scoring pencils which are
used by sealers of weights and meas
ures to mark glass receptacles. They
are used by dentists for drilling teeth
before filling them with gold. In ap-
pearance they look more like a shining
little splinter Of iron or grain of coal
tlan II precious gem, and their chief
mission is n distinctly commercial and
not an ornamental one.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-12-21
HOT SPRINGS.
OF this charming all.the. year, -roun
resort Rand McNally's Official Rail
road Cnida has tha fol)owinu ,,ot;ca

OF this charming all-the- year -roun
resort Rand McNally's Ofilciai Rail
-road Guide has the following notice
thrci'ghe,lt the year:
!1ot SPRINGS, county seat OF Fall
River county, So. Dak.-In the Black
Iill district, about 80 miles south OF
Deadwood. Population, 1923; during
3,ooo. Railroads, FL emont, Elkhorn
Il Missouri Valley; Burlington Route,
same depot. Business Interests
varied. Surrounded by fertile farm
ing aud grazing region, which is large
" devoted to sheep and cattle raising
Has productive gold and silver mines
near by. Hot Springs is rapidly grow
ing in Importance as health and
pleasure resort. Has beautiful noun
tain scenery on all sides, with every
facility for bathing and out-of-door
sports; its elevation, $3.50 above tide
water. and proximity to extensive pine
forests, preserves remarkably dry
and equable climate'and the excellent
quality of the thermal waters of its
eight springs. have gained for it much
favor from tourists and persons affiict.
ed with rheumatism, asthma, hay few
er, nervous prostration, gout, disorders
of the stomach, kidneys. liver and skin
chronic aud venereal diseases. Fall
River, Cheyenne Falls. Wind Cave and
other features of interest in the vicini
ty. Leading newspaper, ''STAR.'
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-12-21
A T,,.nker,. Dam.

There is no profanity in saying that
any certain thing sis not worth tink-
er's DAM" although it is so considered
by many. The expression originated
many years ago, when tinkering, or
mentling, lsaky vessels was much crutl-
er than ii is now.
In former times the use of rosin to
check tie TOW of solder when placed
OH tin WAS not generally understood, at
least by the rowing thinkers. When one
Of these gentlemen Of the road found a
joD. such as nending wash boiler OF
other tin housshold utensil, he would
get from the housewife or domestic a
piece Of soft dough. With this he
would build Il dam around the place
where he intended to put his solder.
Inside of the circle thus formed he
poured the melted lead. When the
metal had cooled. he would brush
away the dam of dough that had con-
fined 1T to the desired limits. The heat
had hardened the heavy paste and
baked it thoroughly. so that it was alb
solutely Of no use for anything else. 1t
became one of the most useless things
in the world, and there was not enough
of it even to be worth while CARRYING to
the pigs.
Hence the expression. which was
originally intended to convey certain
idea, appears to have been retained,
while the origin is not generally
l,nnUn
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-12-21

The Legislators elect known whom
their constituents favor. Fall River
county, for instance. endorsed MIR.
Gamble, and even had the county not
spoken its opinion at the convention
the legislators elect would know the
sentiment of the people well enough
to vote for the man they desire to see
elected senator. Mr.. Gamble has had
sufficient congressional experience to
make him the logical candidate and
having given the very highest salts
faction to the people of South Dakota
in all of bis acts as congressman it
seems to us that the burden of proof
is upon those fellows who oppose him
to show just why it is that they think
he should not be elected. Let the
people hear what the objection to him
is-if there is any, as is intimated oc-
casionally by some penny-a-liner in
the daily papers published outside of
the state. 1t would be most unfair to
MIR. Candles supporters to permit
them to innocently support him if
there is any thing seriously wrong
with him-or if he does not rightly or
properly represent the state in some
particulars which the public is not
aware Of. The republicans of the
legislature will be looked to by the
people of South Dakota most critically
this winter and will be watched with
eagle eyes to see that they stand stead
fast for what they are fully aware
their constituents desire in this par
ticular. If Mr. Gamble is not the best
man it is the proper time right now
for those who may believe to speak
out, and give the people an opportunity
to decide. These last hour oppositions
with "serious objections" advocated,
are only to frightcn or drive legisla-
tors from their former views-to drive
them from the will of their constitu-
ents. III II. j. Gamble is not elected
U. 5. senator by the legislature this
winter we believe the wishes of the re-
publican party will not be carried out.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-12-21
y Morocco Superstition,

In paper to the Anthropological in-
stitute DIR. Westermark showed from
investigations in Morocco that the
Arab ginn. or gnun. is regarded as a
special race of beings created before
Adam, of no fixed form and assuming,
like Proteus. who was perhaps per-
sonage of the same extraction. almost
any shape they please. Bad ginns at
tack mep. but are kept away by salt
or steel and verses of the Koran. The
author .supposes that the belief in ginns
has come down from saltless and
ironless age. but was absorbed and de.
veloped ut later time under the influ-
ence of Islam.