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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-02-09
ROOTS FOR LIVE STOCK.

On account of the large amount OF
water they contain, cows on roots are
never as thirsty in winter time as they
otherwise would be.
If roots have not been cleansed OF
all particles of dirt when placed in
storage in the fall, they should be
cleansed with plenty of water prior to
feeding.
The dairyman who feeds roots to his
cows in midwinter is always wise
one, no matter how plentifully his
silo, hay NOW and granary may be
stocked.
Besides their intrinsic value to milk
production, roots fill that want in a
cows diet in winter of something
green" which aids in assimilating
other foods.
A neighbor Of mine had a cow to
which he fed a bushel of turnips daily,
and, although on hay diet besides,
he said she never drank any water in
three weeks, although offered it daily.
George E. Newell, in American Gull
tivator.
Taking the clean roots. an admira-
BILE way is to place them in a box and
proceed to chop them up with sharp
spade. This can be very expeditiously
accomplished. and then the feeding to
cows should be done in fixed boxes in
front of their stalls.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-02-09
ANIMALS HAVE SENSE.
They Respond Readily to Kindness
and Are Sure to Resent Cruelty
and ROughness.

The farmer cannot too fully under
farm with which he is brought in
daily contact will partake more or less
of his personal moods. If he kicks
open the barn doors in the morning
and thumps the old mare with the
shovel or pitchfork to let her know
that he is boss of that ranch, even the
hens will be nervous and out Of sorts
all day. It is the placid, even tenn
pered farmer who has docile stock. If
he leaves the kitchen door for the
barnyard singing "The Sweet By and
By" he will find his cows placidly
chewing their cuds and his hogs grunt-
ing contentedly in the morning sun.
A horse understands when he is
sworn at, and it embitters a COW to
threaten to break her back with a
straw cutter. A pig in the pen which
receives CHEEKY "Good morning"
from the owner will fatten twice as
fast as the one which climbs up to re-
ceiye blow from club. 1t is so with
the fowls. The farmer who puts on
benevolent, fatherly expression as he
scatters the grain will find every hen
doing her best that day to lay an egg
to prove her gratitude and confidence,
while the one vino scowls and mutters
and tries to knock some hens head off
with a clothes prop will find himself
feared and detested.-M. Budd, in Ne
braska Farmer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-02-09
TENDER CLOVER HAY.
With Sliced Roots Added to 1t, Il
Constitutes the Best Winter
Feed for Sheep.

The best possible dry feeding of sheep
is early cut, tender clover hay, with the
. addition of sliced roots. This is the
best possible dry, coarse feeding for
the winter. Ewes may be kept in the
best condition on this feed without
grain. The addition of some grain
later, when the lambs are to be thought
of, will be necessary, but only a mod
crate ration need be given. Sheep are
naturally herbivorous, and mischief is
frequently done by overcrowding them
with grain, when their digestive APP
paratus is suitable only for herbaceous
fodder. Grain eating animals do not
need large stomach, nor series of
them, for gradual reduction of the
hard and concentrated food to soluble
pulp. Doubtless. the majority of sheep
lost during the winter feeding season
die on account of misunderstanding
of this natural condition and require
ment.
Bulky food is essential to an herb
ivorous and Eliminating animal. Some
times, for instance, cows have been fed
whole winter on finely ground corn
meal without any coarse food what
ever, even hay. The result has been
that, Illumination not being required
for the due maceration of the food, this
function was wholly suspended. The
size of the stomach even decreased,
shrinking, as the common adage goes,
"to the size of the ration" Life was
preserved, doubtless, and this might
have been useful in times of shortage
of coarse fodder, but we never heard of
any person but the discoverer of this
new method of feeding in the winter
who tried the experiment. This is
typical instance of natural require
ments of herbiverous animals.
Nature has been an exemplary pro-
wider for her own needs, and the natural
habits of feeding of any race of animals
which has been in existence for we
know not how many thousands of years
cannot we'll be set aside or disturbed by
modern invention. The shepherd must
take his flock as they were made and
now exist. And the closer he can i'm
itate the natural methods and habits
of the race, the better success he will
meet with in rearing the fock.-Amer-
lean Sheep Breeder.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-02-09
A WARM HOG HOUSE.
SOws and Litters Described for
an IRquirer's Benefit.

The accompanying cut should fur
nish what you wish. The size can be
changed to suit your own notion, If
you do not raise corn, the crib can be
dispensed with and the alley can be
made little wider, with bins and
boxes for bran, middlings and peas, etc.
To make warm, it should be double
boarded, with building paper between.
The two partitions between the brood
pens should be made to slide in like
granary boards, so they may be taken
out and all thrown into one room for
fattening purposes. Yards can be
made at back for runs. The doors
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-02-09
NEVER ATE FOREIGN MEAT.
But He Found Out 1t Doesn't Pay to
Be Too Sure Until One Knows
All the Facts.

A certain Maj. Brownjones, who made
it his boast that he never allowed
American or colonial meat to be served
at his table, recently visited an old
comrade in Liverpool. One night at
dinner a most delicious saddle of Zap
parently) Welsh mutton appeared, to
which the major did ample justice.
"Ah!" he observed, 81 wish that my
butcher in London would send me stuff
like that; and yet he deals only in the
best British meat"
"Well," said his friend, .as a matter
of fact, you have been eating New Zea-
land mutton; but it's only fair to say
that l get it from friend who is a
large wholesale importer"
by Jove, you don't say sol" eX-
claimed the guest; 81 wish he'd tell me
where I can get the like in town.
''We'll go and see him tomorrow"
said the host. The visit was duly paid
to the meat-monger, who smiled when
he heard the Londoner's eulogy and ex-
PLANTATION.
'Tell me-" he returned, after listen
ing to the epicure's remarks, Sin what
part of London you reside, and I dare
say can give you the address of retail
butcher who will supply you with ex-
actly the same sort of mutton as that
which you like so much" The major
handed him his card.
"Ah!" observed the importer, there's
the very man within two streets of your
house. We supply him with all his
meat. Here's his address," he added,
handing a slip of paper to the seeker
after succulent joints.
The major read, the major started,
the major frowned-the major, truth to
say, cried vengeance; and no wonder,
for the address was that of his own
butcher, who dealt only in home prod
uce.-London Sketch.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-02-09
Balanced Ration. for Hens.

The balanced ration is as necessary
in the poultry yard as in the COW yard,
and man that feeds an unbalanced
ration is wasting large part of his
food in either case. If food contains
40 per cent. more fat-forming parts
than heterogeneous parts then there is
bound to be large waste. If the fat
is laid on, it is wasted and worse than
wasted, for egg production; and if it
is not laid on it is as certainly wasted.
Most of our people feed an excess of
fat formers rather than an excess of
protein, the latter being the more cost
ly food. The man that got eggs all
through the fall was the man that fed
a balanced ration, and he will be the
man that will get good yield of eggs
through the coming monthss-Farmers'
Review.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-02-09

| ne meant it. I just wonder who die
| write that?"
When a woman's curiosity is fully
aroused, nothing but the facts in the
case will satisfy her, and Miss Hetty
was annoyed to find herself growing
| more and more curious regarding the
identity of the sender of the valen.
| tine
| std be serving him right if 7 set a
light in my window to lure him on
and then dash dipper of cold water
over him when he came to the door,
she said, with unwonted severity. 81
just ought to-now that writing does
look kind O. familiar, even if it is wrote
back-handed with view to conceal
ing it."
She had slipped the sheet of paper
into a drawer of her workable, and
now she took it out and looked at it
again.
'I've seen that writing before" she
said positively. Now I'm just going to
set here an look at it until I've stud
fed it out where I've seen it,"
She put aside her sewing and sat
very still gazing at the sheet of paper
spread out in her lap. Having once
formed resolution, Hetty Dryden
chung to it tenaciously, even the Ugh it
was of trifing Importance. For fully
ten minutes she sat looking at the writ
ing in different lights. Then sug-
gestion of smile came into her face,
and her eyes twinkled merrily. She
laid the letter on her table and walked
across the exquisitely neat little room
to an old-fashioned mahogany book
case. Opening the glass door of the
bookcase, Miss Hetty stepped upon a
hassock and took down small vol
ume of Byron's poems bound in green
and gold. Opening the book, she read
on the yellow-tinted fy-leaf:
ITO Miss Hetty .Dryden,wi many
good wishes for merry christmas and
happy New Year. frpm her friend
and well wisher. Jared III. lawson"
The writing was eight years old, and
Hetty had not looked at it for at least
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-02-09
PLAN OF HoGHoUsE.

TIT, Feed Troughs; AAA, Places at
Bottom of Crib to Scoop up Corn: B, Nest
with False Floor, three or four inches
above Level of General Floor to keep it
dry; CCC, Outside Runs: ODD, Doors in
Alley, to change hogs from one pen to an
other.
opening into the alley from the pens
are very convenient in changing hogs
from one pen to another.
The brood pens should have south
ern exposure, with large window for
each pen, made low down, SO the sun
shine can reach the little pigs. Notice
the temporary floor in the nest part,
to keep bedding dry. This can be re-
moved when you wish to fatten hogs
The partition boards, etc., can be laid
on brackets or pins above, where they
will be out of the way and always
handy to get when needed. The floor
should slant back from the feed
troughs about four inches in the 12
feet.
Don't be afraid to have plenty of
windows, for hogs need lots of light
If you wish to raise early pigs and
are afraid of their freezing, build
temporary house over the nest about
five by six feet. This should be made
tight and warm, with door in front
large enough for the sow to go in and
out easily. If the weather is cold,
keep this door shut at narrowing time,
and when the pigs are four or five days
old remove the temporary pen from
over them, so they can get sunlight
and exercise. Don't neglect doing this,
for upon this may depend your sue
cess.-Country Gentleman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-02-09
MOVABLE HoGPEN.

board, using four crosspieces of same
size seven feet long. Lay the floor
lengthwise. Side one side with inch
boards six feet high; opposite side for
four feet. For plate to nail boards use
two-by-four-inch scantling. Use a
two-by-four at each end for rafters, to
which end boards are nailed. Roof
with matched flooring. The runners
are sloped at each end, and there is a
door in each end of the pen. This
portable shelter will be found of use
to every farmer and will cost little to
make.-Orange Judd Farmer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-02-09
piTH AND POINT.

In the alphabet of egotism there Is
but one letter.-Chicago Daily News.
If time was money the idle boy
would. be millionaire.-Gold Days
Enthusiasm is often bought, las Ia
Dor is bought, at SO much day.
Atchison Globe.
Spunge-"Talk is cheap" Kostick
You seem to think so, from the way
you use my telephone. baltimore
American.
''They say music will cure the
blues" "That's so; when hear some
kinds of music L quit feeling sad and
get mad."-N. o. Times-Democrat.
B'Jove-"Did I understand you TO
say that Willie Goodleigh had an aw-
full load last night?" B'Jinks-"Yes;
he was trying to teach Miss Heavy
weight to skate. Town Topics.
intellect doesn't amount to any
thing" what do you mean, Mi
nerva?" '"The most intellectual wom-
an in the world can be squelched in
three seconds by a dressmaker."-I
dianapolis Journal.
Mrs. Lash-"What did you get baby
for birthday PRESENT. Mrs. Rash
81 took four dollars and ninety-nine
cents out of the little darhng's bank
and bought him this lovely lamp for
the drawing-room." Boston Beacon.
Edith know he has lots of
money; but for all that don't see
how Blanche could marry him.
Bertha-"Perhaps you have not heard
that he has been refused by no less
than three life insurance companies y
Boston Transcript.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-02-09

trier," she said, "you have letter fo1
me, haven't your"
Joey's smile developed into an actual
grin, as he said:
"No'm, it amt no letter. It's some.
thing better than letter."
He had been tugging away at his
reefer with his mittened hands as he
spoke, and he now brought out large
square, el:.5o.rately embossed envelope
addressed in an apparently disguised
hand to Miss Hetty Dryden.
'There!" said joey, tri1gnphantly, as
he held out the envelope; ''SVho do you
reckon sent it ?"
''Some one with little to do, said
Miss Hetty, rather severely. She was
far from being acrid or severe in her
speech, but she felt rather annoyed as
she looked at the missive in her hand.
Some one, she thought, was taking lib
critics with her, or, perhaps, holding
her up to ridicule, and kind and gentle
as she was, she had spirit enough to
resent either offense.
"Why don't you open it?" asked Joey.
"Oh. will presently" she said.
She got joey seed cake and be went
,on his way, disappointed and little re-
beilious because Miss Hetty had not
opened the envelope containing the val
-entine in his presence.
Hetty sat down by her work table and
took a pair of small, shining scissors
from her workbasket. The frown had
come back to her face, which still had
a youthful look, although she would
be 80 her next birthday. There were
but few strands of gray in the shining
brown hair lying in natural waves over
her white temples. She had not yet
-come to glasses" and the little excite
ment of receiving the valentine had
flled her brown eyes with sparkle
and brightness and brought a flush
to her cheeks that made Miss Hetty
a very pretty woman at that moment.
Indeed there were those in the village
who declared that Hetty Dryden was
a mighty good-lookin' woman" at any
time. 1t was her choice that she was
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-02-09
sheen Running I'm Fields.

In an article from the Ohio Expert
ment station 1t is sugg ested that when
sheep run out in the fields in the win.
ter they destroy many insects, as well
as weed seeds. There are places along
theferce corners and hedgerows where
the grass is too green to be burned
being thick and matted down, and the
sheep will feed that closely, and any
insects which are harbored there
which is such a place as many choose,
are either trampled to death or left
so much exposed to the weather as to
cause them to perish. We usually
burned such places as clean as we
could to get weeds and dry brush out
of the way, and then trusted the sheep
to do the rest, when we kept sheep.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-02-09

a spinster, living alone in her little
white and green house, at the end of
the long village street. Had she been
given TO such vulgar boasting she
could have told her friends that she
had had plenty Of chances" Indeed, it
would have taken all of the fingers and
even the thumb of her plump right
hand for Hetty Dryden TO have count
ed up" the offers she had had right
there in Hebron during the past 90
years. More than one elderly widower
had gone disconsolately from her gate
during even the last five years, cha
grined and rebellious because Miss Het-
ty firmly, but kindly, declined to
change her name.
The last rejected sutton had been
Hiram Dyer, widower of but eight
months and the possessor of eight Jaw
full" children who had undoubtedly
been largely instrumental in worrying
and wearying their poor mother into
her grave.
"Mebbe this is from Hiram Dyer"
Hetty Dryden said, as she shipped off
the end of the envelope containing the
valentine. 'He said I'd hear from him
again. If felt sure it came from him,
I'd send it back. don't want him nor
his valentine, either"
The valentine that Miss Hetty drew
from the envelope was not made of
paper lace and tinsel and embossed
doves and flowers. It was instead
squarly-folded sheet of blue lined note
paper, on which was written in an evil
IDENTIFY disguised hand:
This night at eight,
For to know his fate.
Your valentine will wait
At your front gate.
If from your east window
A light doth shine.
He will enter in
To claim his valentine.
If all is dark
He will go away,
Leaving forever unsaid
What he wants to say.
o, be not cruel nor unkind.
But let light shine
For your valentine"
The flush in Hetty Dryden's cheeks
deepened as she let the bit of paper
fall to her lap.
"Such nonsense! I'd probably never
hear the end of it if was goose enough
to really set light in my east win
dow. But I'm not going to. Seems to
me I've seen writing like that be-
FORE"
She held the sheet of paper out and
looked at it quizzically. with her head
twisted little on one side.
ut doesn't seem possible that any
man in his right mind would do any
thing so silly as to make up jingle like
that and send it to woman, even if
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-02-09
A MOVABLE HOGPEN.
Quite Strong, Yet Light Enough to
Be Drawn from Place to Place
by Two Horses.

A movable shelter for shoats or
brood sows which can be drawn from
one part of the farm to another by two
horses is shown in the illustration. 1t
is very easily made. Construct shed
IL feet long of two-by-eight-inch
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-02-09

And even helped him choose the seal.
Two hearts bound with fetter.
1.-The rose is red. the violet's blue,
Sugar is sweet. and so are YOU"
And Jacks papa sent to mamma,
When he was just eleven,
The same rhyme for valentine.
She being aged seven.
The envelope was tinted pink.
And up within one corner,
With bow and arrows, wings and all.
Sat Cupid. little scorner.
''The rose is red. the violet's blue,
Sugar is sweet. and so are YOU"
And Master Jack shot out last night
AS swift as any rocket.
But not before 1 caught a glimpse
OF something in his pocket
1t was letter-bless the boy!-
And / knew in a minute.
The next day was Saint Valentines.
And so, just what was in it.
''The rose is red, the violets blue,
Sugar is sweet, and so are YOU"
Eleanor A. Hunter. in Golden Days.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-02-09

/ have known cows to lose appetite
and shrink in milk yield, following the
feeding of dry roots. The earth and
clay cInging to the little rootlets did
the bad business.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-02-09

Man hates the comic valentine
Because, In sooth,
He always knows that It contains
A grain of truth.
-Rrooklvn life.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-02-09


ACK'S grandpapa to
grandmamma
Once sent a piece
of folly
Twas long ago, when
he was Jack.
And she. Of course.
was Dolly"
Saint Valentine in
S pire d I h e
rhyme
He put within the
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-07-22

NEW YORK. July z1.--Lieutenant c.
a. Totten has given utterance to a stir
ring prophecy on the present interna-
tional crisis. at New Haven. Conn. He
calls China the "dragonian one" and
compares the reported massacres in
China with the crime Of Benjamin
against one lone woman. for which all
Israel nearly wiped out the whole
tribe"
Universal war before universal
peace. it must come" says Lieutenant
Totten. The duty Of the civilized
world is to advance against the bar
barrie world.
Il believe that confusion viii confuse
itself more and more. year BY year. un-
III the long predicted crash involves all
concerned in a worldwide confiagration
infinitely hotter than the Hoboken fire
and lust as sudden.
America must prepare for it. The
Anglo-saxon world must be in at this
death-England, Ireland, Scotland and
Wales: the Germans. If they are wise,
for it is the balance Of power that is
on deck. II is our last chance. and we
must improve II. our best opportunity.
I'VE are at the parting Of the ways.
Events have thrust US into outside
matters; the very operations Of peace,
the natural ones-commerce and vast
international treaties OF reciprocity all
over the world-have silently involved
US in maze Of environments that we
cannot escape. Before its magnitude,
the destruction Of the Maine was
naught. Yet the latter led logically to
war as just as our revolution. Why,
even Mr.. Bryan took up arms then.
Now, shall we withdraw from the con-
cert of the civilized nations in this
common demand for future peace and
vast indemnity for the recent outrage,
or not?
Let US prepare for war, anyway. II
We have any sense left. Matters OF
party policy are but farces before such
issues as confront US"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-07-22
Idaho Democrats and Silver Re.
pubIicans Fuse Without Pops.
POPS DISLIKE MARITAL LAW
Democrats Commend The State AdmInIslra.
tiOn and Declare for Law, Order
and Arbitration Fusion State
Ticket Nominated.

PocATELLO. Idaho. July 21.-The
Democrats at 3:S0 unanimousIy voted
to confer no more with the PopuIlsts.
It resulted from the PopuIist ultImatum
that the Democrats adopt resolution
demanding the immediate abolition Of
the martial law and permit system in
ShOshone county.
The Democrats offered the Populisls
the congressman. auditor and mine m
spector, and the Silver Republicans the
senator and secretary az state. The
latter accepted. The Democratic con-
yentIon instructed its committee 10 re-
fuse to yield. The Populist convention
then. as a prerequisite to yielding. de-
manded that the Democrats adopt the
following resolution:
Resolved that we demand the Imme-
diate discontinuance OF martial law in
shOshone county. under which the per-
niclous system OF permits to aeek en-
pIoyment has been Inaugurated: ana
we demand the abolition Of said sys-
TEN. We further demand that all civil
and political rights guaranteed BY the
constitution and laws be Immediately
restored to all citizens"
After sharp debate involving the
Occur d'AIene policy Of the state adj
ministratIon. the Democratic convention
unanimously voted to close negcta-
tons with the Populists and to fuse
with the Silver Republicans.
The Democratic convention then
adopted the platform. It Indorses the
Kansas City platform, especially the
financial plank: it indorses the pres
ent state administration. and commends
it for Its wise and economical manage
ment Of state affairs in behalf Of the
best interests Of the people" It con-
demns lawlessness in all It's forms, and
guarantees TO every person in the state
equal protection. and. to al. the rights
and privileges guaranteed under our
constitution and laws. II favors laws
TO refer the differences between capital
and labor to arbitration
Tonight the Democratic state eonven-
ticn completed the nomination OF its
ticket, which follows:
Governor. Captain Frank N Hunt
Supreme Judge. Judge C. o. Stocks
lager.
Congressman. Captain James Graham.
Treasurer. DR.. J. ]. Plumer
superintendent Of Schools. Miss Per-
meal French.
Attorney general. Frank Martin.
Lieutenant governor. Thomas F. Ter
rill
Auditor. John S. Barrett.
Mine inspector. c. H. Harvey.
Presidential electors. E. J. Dockery.
S. j. Richa and James N. Reid.
C. J. Bassett. Silver Republican. was
indorsed for secretary Of state. and the
nomination OF Fred T. Dubois for
United States senator was also indorsed-
The Silver Republicans nominated
Dubois for United States senator and
c. ]. Bassett. for secretary Of state The
Populists nominated full state ticket.
headed by T. L. Glenn. Of Bear Lake,
for congressman, and J. w. BaIlen-
tine. of Blaine county for governor