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The Ely miner., 1901-05-24

II XPLORERS need not go far from
II home to find field for the ply
ing of their vocation. The wilds
of Africa, the interior of China, the
mountain Businesses of South Amer
lea, the ice-clad fields of Greenland
are all as well known as is a vast
portion of Canada, if we are to judge
from the report of the director of the
geological survey of the dominion
says:
There are more than 1,25O,0O0 square
miles of uneXplored lands in Canada. The
entire area of the dominion is computed
at 8, 450, ,257 square miles, consequently one
third of this country has yet been untrav-
eled by the explorer. Exclusive of the in
hospitable detached arctic portions, 954, 900
square miles is for all practical purpose
entirely unkno wn.'
The same report gives a careful
analysis of this broad statement and
proves the truth of it. The director
begins at the far northwestern point
of the British possessions in Ameri-
ca and outlines the unexplored pos-
tions of the country from there to
the Labrador peninsula. To the geo.
graphical student the report contains
some startling and interesting state
ments. For instance, it is said that
there is vast tract of land lying to
the south and east of James bay of
which practically nothing is. known.
That territory is within a radius of
500 miles of Buffalo, where a great
exposition of the growth of the
Americas is now being held; it is not
as far north as is Prince Albert and
Edmunton, in the western provinces
of Canada, where agriculture -four
ishes, and yet white men have scarce
ly penetrated it's dense timber, and
virtually nothing is known of its re-
sources.
Beginning at the extreme north
west of the dominion, the first of the
unexplored areas is noted as being
between the eastern boundary of
Alaska, the Porcupine river and the
arctic coast, about $500 square miles
The Ely miner., 1901-05-24
One Third Of Canada
Is Practically Unknoo0n
The Dominion Offers Golden Opportunities for the Seeker
After Adventure in New Lands

could only make preliminary explo-
ration. On the south coast of Hud-
son bay, between the Severn and At
tawapishkat rivers, is an area $4,000
square miles in extent, or larger than
Nova Scotia; and lying between
Trout lake, Lac Seul and the Albany
river is another $4,000 square miles
of unexplored land.
South and east of James bay and
nearer to large centers of population
than any other unexplored region is
tract of $4,000 square miles, which
may be compared in size to Portugal
The most easterly area is the
greatest of all. 1t comprises almost
the entire interior of Labrador pen
insula, in all 2s9,OOO square miles, or
more than twice as much as Great
Britain and Ireland. Two or three
years ago Mr.. A. P. Lowe made a line
of exploration and survey into the
interior of this vast region, and the
same gentleman also travelled inland
up the Hamilton river, but with these
exceptions the country may be re-
garded as practically unexplored.
The Arctic islands will add an area
of several hundred thousand square
miles of uneXplored lands.
It is hard to realize what these
figures, representing immense tracts
of virgin land that have never been
explored or ''prospected" by white
men, mean. It is also hard to realize
the truth of them. That a tract con-
tanning 1000 square miles of territory
could lie within comparatively few
miles of the city of Winnipeg, and
with great railroad running almost
along it's borders for a number of
years, and yet be untouched by white
men seems almost impossible. Trap
pers have probably been through
much of this unexplored territory in
the days when the Hudson Bay COM
pany was pursuing an active CONNER
cial campaign in the great territory
decided to them by the English crown.
But they were seeking only for furs,
The Ely miner., 1901-05-24
Scotch Wit.

A drunken Irishman was once lodged
in the cell of Scotch country police
station, when he made tremendous
noise by kicking the cell door with his
heavy hob-nailed boots.
The constable who had charge of the
police station, going to the cell door,
opened it little and said:
"Man, ye MIGHT pit aft yer butts, an
I'll gle them bit rub, so that ye'l be
respectable-like when We come up be-
fore the bailie the morn"
The prisoner, ,fattered at the request,
at once complied, and saw his mistake
only when the constable shut the door
upon him, saying coolly:
''Ye can kick AVA moo, my man, as
lang as ye like. London Spare Mo-
mentS.
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erts, and afterward sent as prisoner
to ST. Helena accompanied by his wife,
has lost her mind.
Mrs. Cronje has many admirers in
every part of the civilized world, in
Guiding England. In such esteem was
she held in France that the women
of that country presented her with
a beautiful jeweled locust, which cost
$1,000, as mark of their esteem and
appreciation of her noble qualities.
The gift of the French women was
fit for a queen, but to Mrs. Cronje it
was valueless save for the apprecia-
ton of her which it expressed. In ap-
pearance and taste she is but the or
binary Boer housewife to whom Jew
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Absent-Minded Englishmen.

Some stories about absent-minded
men are rather difficult to swallow,
but a correspondent, of whose in
tegrity we are convinced, vouches for
the following:
I have Che says) a friend, still at
large, who went home the other day
to dress for a party, but unhappily
wound up his watch before taking off
his clothes. This set up sequence
of automatic actions which ended in
his going to bed instead of going to
his party! Can anyone beat that?
Another example is sent to us:
A friend of mine Ga correspondent
says) was recently married. Before
his marriage he had always lived with
his mother. One evening, fortnight
after returning from his honeymoon,
he went straight home from business
to his mothers house. What hap
pened afterward is his own secret
London News.
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NapOle o u, w q -"P COS -ose'"o'
met hero's death while fighting un-
der the English flag and as an English
officer in the Zulu war in 1879.
In this busy age of the world a
cradle in which prince of the house
of Napoleon has slept, means but lit
tie to the world at large. When the
modest gift was made few days ago
Paris applauded for day or two, and
then quickly forgot all about the
cradle, the prince and the ex-empress.
To Paris under republican rule the
cradle did not mean much, but it did
mean much to the aged mother who
presented it. Her son was the idol at
whose shrine she worshiped all the
years of his life, and for whom, since
his tragic death, she has never ceased
to mourn. He was born March 16, 1856,
and with his mother passed through
all the stirring scenes attending the
downfall of the second French empire.
He was with her when she escaped
from the royal palace and fed to Eng
land at night. When her husband died
the year following the fall of his
throne, the grief-stricken mother CEN
tered all her great affection upon the
son, and his death in 1879 was blow
from which she has never fully recov-
cred.
Ex-Empress Eugene is now in her
seventy-sixth year, and resides quietly
at her home in Chiselhurst, England,
near which place the body of her son
is buried.
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Falling out of Your Boots.

The fact that persons who fall
great distances often lose their boots
in the descent has not yet been ex-
planned. Perhaps the most recent
case is that of Mr.. Charles Names,
of St. Agnes, who was unfortunate
enough to fall distance of 120 feet
in Polbreen mine. During the fall
both his boots (Which had been
tightly laced) came off, and were
discovered in the shaft fathoms above
him. The phenomenon is not con-
fined to miners. l know case of a
young woman falling downa a plump, y
losing her boots in the same pc
culiar manner.-Cornish Post.
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to high political office, nor is he liable
to make so many errors in the latter
case as in the first.
Our warships are typically Amerl-
can, and they have been christened oy
typically American women. AT the
present time Miss Helen Deshler, OF
Columbus, o., is the heroine of the
hour, for to her was granted the hon
or of christening the battleship ONO.
Gov. Nash, upon whose shoulders
fell the task of selecting some one
to name the new ship, might have
looked for much longer time and
then have failed to find any of Ohlo's
daughters more typically American
than is Miss Deshler. She is as yet
but a schoolgirl, not past 16 years OF
age, but she is leader in the young
element of Columbus society, and be-
cause of her relationship with GOV.
Nash, and the social prominence such
relationship has given her, she is well
known all over Ohio.
The selection of Miss Deshler was
more as tribute to the daughter of
Gov. Nash than because of any rela-
tionship existing between himself and
the young lady. The governor was
blessed with but one daughter, and
she died few years ago. During her
lifetime she was fairly worshiped by
the father, and she and Miss Deshler
were almost constant companions. 1t
was due to this friendship that Miss
Deshler was selected to christen the
Ohio. She is a daughter of William
G. Deshler, of Columbus, and cousin
of Mrs. Babcock, Gov. Nash's step
daughter.
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with those OF her
husband, n a p o.
leon Ill, and the
second + r e n C b
empire, recent l y
attracted some at
tentionin Europe,
and especially in
France, by pre-
senting to the mu-
nicipality of Paris
the cradle of her
son, Prince Louis
Nn@o1a uy n
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charming society
young W o m e n ..
This time it is a
granddaughter of
Gen. Grant, Miss
Vivian Sartoris,
that we are to lose
by her marriage
w j t b Archibald
Balfour, of Lon
don, the engage
ment of which was
r e C e n t ly a n :
nounced.
Last wear it was
The Ely miner., 1901-05-24

popular colors. Many of the pique
gowns are strictly tailor-made, while
some are elaborately trimmed with
bands of insertion or open-work en-
broidery. Fancy polka dot piques
and grass linen in ecru are also num-
bered among the popular materials.
A neat and sensible golf suit on the
tailor-made order is of white pique.
The skirt comes to just below the
ankles, with wide hem and numer-
Gus rows of stitching. The bodice is
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menC or the en-
g a g e m e n t o f
Princess Beatrice
of SaXe-Coburg, a
granddaughter of
the late Q u e e n
Victoria, and a
niece of King Ed
ward.
The man who it
is said has won
t h e b e a r t and
hand of the Eng
Ii S b princess is
Grand Duke Will
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over the prov OF
amagnifcentwa a war
ship as it glides
from the stocks
into the waves OF
the old ocean. The
official whose duty
it is to choose the
young lady f o r
the pleasant task
of christening a
warship finds it a
harder j o b t o
please than it is
n MON
The Ely miner., 1901-05-24
-Samner Styles for the
Athleticallv Inclined Woman.

II TQUESTRIANISM is to be the fad
IT, of the summer for the athletic
ally inclined woman. Golf will
still hold place, but it promises
to be of second Importance only
Tennis will also find few faithful
followers, but cycling is thing of
the past in fashionable circles. The
advent of the automobile sounded the
death knell of the bicycle. But even
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mind of another
victim sent there
in company with
a noted prisoner
of war of Eng
land.
Advices from St.
Helena con t a j n
the sad news that
Mrs. Cronje, wife
of the ia m o u S
Boer general cap
tured with h j S
army by Gen. Rob-
The Ely miner., 1901-05-24
A Royal Cradle.

Ex-Empress Eugene, deposed en-
press of France, whose fortunes fell
The Ely miner., 1901-05-24
An American Belle to Wed.

Another foreigner is to carry away
from America as bride another of our
The Ely miner., 1901-05-24
A Royal Engagement,

Along with other doings of the Eng
ish royal family comes the announce
The Ely miner., 1901-05-24
Christened the "ohio."

Not every American girl is granted
the honor of breaking a bottle of wine
The Ely miner., 1901-05-24

Another Victim of St. Helena.
The prison place at which the great
Napoleon died has now claimed the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-10-02
Australian Mails Record Trip.

The most important mail that has left
australia in years for London recently made
q record-breaking trip. The mail consisted
OF 347 sacks and contained many documents
! Vt the British parliament At Sidney it
2. As put on board the steamer Ventura, a
steamship sailing under the American flag
{ I'D built only last year for the Oceanic
+ steamship company at the Cramps ship
$ard in Philadelphia. The trip across tho
n lcihc occupied just 81 days, the former
I! ne having been 20 days. From San Fran
e SEQ the mail was hurried east on special
q It trains on the Southern Pacific Ogden
tlne), Union Pacific, and Chicago, BurIing.
N and Quincy railroads, but arrived in
C..icago too late to connect with the fast
7"1l train OF the Lake Shore and New York
1 atral, which is a 24-hour train from Chi
raso to New York. A special train was made
a and attached to one of the fastest en-.
g...es on the Lake Shore line. The regular
tim was overtaken at Toledo, and the hom
q half lost time was made up. At Buff
faio the regular train was made into two
;tions by the New York Central with the
Ellil cars, including the Australian mail, in
she first section. New York was reached
I lree minutes ahead of schedule time At
New York the mail was delivered to the
ampania and that vessel left on regular
time. Barring accidents or unusual delays
at will be delivered in England in several
days shorter time than ever before.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-10-02
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

1t IS not, of course, possible to
seize hold of the hands of clock and
push them backward or forward a
tenth or twentieth part of second,
which is about the limit of error that
is allowed at the Greenwich observa-
tory. so another method is devised.
Near the pendulum a magnet is fixed.
1t it is found that the pendulum is
going either too fast or too slow a
current of electricity is switched on
and the little magnet begins to pull
at the metal as it swings to and fro.
1T only retards or accelerates the mo-
ton by an infnitesimal fraction of a
second each time, but it keeps the OBJ
Grafton up, and in a few thousand
swings the tenth or the twentieth
part of the almost invisible error is
corrected, thus making the clocks
keep step" at the proper instant OF
time.-London Daily News.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-10-02
o. S. AGAINST THE WORLD.
Prof. Suess. Eminent PubIicist and
Paleontologist, Discusses Our In
dustrial Preponderance.

Prof. Edward Suess, the eminent
publicist and palaeontologist, has
given an interview respecting the in
dustrial and political preponderance
of the United States that attracts
much attention, especially as it con-
firms the anti-American views of con-
tlnental manufacturers and econo-
mists.
The professor, surveying interna-
tional relations from the standpoint
of political philosopher, observes
that while the French revolution was
,ccasioned by the abuses of the privi-
.eged classes the present situation has
been caused by revolution of material
conditions. The declining national
sentiment should be replaced by a
movement for the common defense of
the central European states against
the American trusts which are moving
to conquer the foreign markets more
surely than they could be conquered
by battle ships. The American balance
OF trade has reached an unparalleled
figure. 1t was serious question if the
present political units of central Eu-
''~AS oeA OAS To hdhc II
effective defense, taking into account
the physical conditions. The present
shifting of the center of gravity of the
worlds forces would create three
great units-China, Russia and Amer
lea. When China was equipped with
railroads the people would find that
she had the most capable merchants
and the cheapest labor. Russia would
have the largest army and be the great
est peasant state. European capital
would flow to the United States and
would be an important increase of
her economic prosperity. Of the three
the United States had decidedly the
lead. Its policy was commercial ag-
erosion, beyond doubt, and states like
the American union and Russia had
gained far more in the way of the mo-
biliza tion of their powers from the
construction of railroads than such
countries as Germany and France.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-10-02
BIG RAILROAD IMPROVEMENT.

A unique excursion was recently arranged
by the Union Pacific Railroad company.
About sixty newspaper men, representing
the leading Journals of the country, were
invited to take trip on the Wyoming di-
vision, The Overland Route" for the pur-
pose of viewing the stupendous engineering
achievements recently made on that line.
Inc train was made up of two private
cars, three Pullman palace sleepers, dining
car, drawn by one of the new compound en-
glnes, with an observation RECONSTRUCTED
on the same plan as trolley car-ahead OF
the engine.
One hundred and fifty-eight and four
tenths miles of new track laid, reducing the
mileage between Omaha and Ogden by 80 A.
miles, and reducing gradients which varied
from 45.4 to 97.6S feet to the mile to maxi
mum OF 43.3 feet, and curves from to de-
grees, while great deal of bad curvature
has been eliminated entirely.
mountain removed and lost into a
chasm; huge holes bored hundreds of feet
through solid granite, an underground river
encountered and overcome; an army of men,
with all sorts CT mechanical aids, engaged
in the work for nearly a year; the great
Union Pacific track between Omaha and
Ogden made shorter, heavy grades elimi-
mated, and the business of the great Over
land route flowing through a new channel,
without the slightest interruption
Millions of money have been spent to re-
dnce the grades and shorten the distance
This reduction is the result of straighten-
ing unnecessary curves, and the construc-
ton of several cutotfs between Buford and
Bear river, Utah.
The curvature saved is about one-half.
the grading about the same, while the angles
are reduced nearly thirds. The SUI
perIorlty of these changes is apparent to the
practical railroad engineer. 1t is also ap-
parent to the operating department in the
reduction IN operating expenses, and to the
traveller IN the increased speed the trains
can make.
The new line runs due west from Buford,
avoiding the high hills and eighty-foot grade
from Cheyenne, and piercing through cuts
and the big tunnel, crosses the Black Hills
at grade of less than one-half (433 feet)
over mountain attitudes
From constructive standpoint the line
IS remarkable for the amount of material
required in the construction of immense
entertainments and the building of large
tunnels through solid rock The construc-
ton of the new line between Buford and
Laramie alone has involved the excavation
of SOC, 900 cubic yards of ma terial, one ird
of which Exclusive of the tunnel excava-
tom has been solid rock, of something over
10000 cubic yards per mile.
Too much credit for this work cannot be
gwen to Horace q. Burt, president of the
Union Pacific railroad, and his assistants
The excursion was replete with many in
teresting incidents, and the splendid hos
pitality of the Union Pacific officials was a
revelation. The newspaper men evnced
their appreciation in many ways, particu-
larly in a resolution of thanks to the Union
Pacific officials, General Passenger Agent
I.omax, and Messrs. Darlow. Park and
Griffin.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-10-02
THE LAW.

IT'S q truth as old as the soul of things
Whatsoever ye sow. We reap
IT'S the cosmic law that forever springs
From the unlmagined deep.
IT'S shown in the manifold Borrowings
OF the race; in remorse with its secret
stings;
That he. who grief to his brother brings,
In his turn some day shall weep.
To the man who hears his victims cries
And hardens his heart at the sound
At last a Nemesis dread shall rise
From out of the void profound.
Who sows in selfshness, greed and hate,
Shall gain his deserts in the years that
wait,
For the slow and remorseless wheel of
Forever turns round and round.
If We give out mercy and love and light,
The same shall return to you;
For the standards of right are infinite
And the scales of the gods are true.
BY its good or evil each life is weighed;
Its motives and deeds is its record made;
In the coin ye pay We shall be repaid.
When your wages al last fall due.
Against each life an account is set,
In details exact and just.
Ye cannot evade the uttermost debt,
For We face the decree: Thou must"'
Ye scourged by the scorpions of regret
Through aeons to come ye cannot forget,
For the dead are not dead. but are living
yet,
Though their bodies have long been dust.
Ye are masters of your own destiny;
In the realm of soul ye are kings;
For God. in His wisdom, has made you
free,
That We reach unto nobler things.
This priceless jewel of liberty
o. cherish and use it worthily
M oh he dan hal IN he
As the gray earth onward swings.
j. A. Edgerton. in Banner of Gold.
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CLOTHES MAKE SAVAGES SICK
Even the Wearing of Pajamas Has
Caused Serious Nervous
Disorders.

Does the introduction of civilized
clothing among savages breed disease
and infrmities?
1t has been observed recently in the
Philippines that the savages who have
adopted civilized clothing have suf-
fered in their general health. The
wearing of high silk hat. for exam
pie, has produced brain trouble, while
even the strain of wearing pajamas
has caused serious nervous disorders,
says the New York World.
So serious have been the results in
some cases that the physicians sent
out to care for the soldiers have men
toned the new dangers in their re-
ports.
The United States troops in Guam
and in Samoa have in one way and an
other distributed considerable cloth
ing among the natives. In many cases
the natives who had gone naked all
their lives were dressed up in smart
suits to make them presentable as
servants.
The sudden wrapping of their bodies
enfeebled them. In many cases their
systems soon showed the effects and
they fell prey to lung and pulmonary
diseases.
Before the coming of the white men
these diseases had been practically I'M
known in these regions.
The introduction of the Mother Hub
bard wrapper for women by the mis-
sionaries in the South Pacific has also
had very serious effect upon the gen
eral health of whole tribes of natives
still more remarka bic instance of
the i'll effects of civilized clothing upon
people unused to it has been observed
in the case of the japanese. The haste
which they have made to adopt west
ern civilization is said to have had a
national facilitating effect. AS prom
inent an authority as Prof. Starr, of
the University of Chicago, states that
the japanese as nation are suffering
from brain troubles as the result of
too much DIRE ssing.
Japan. a s all the world knows. was
barbarian country so years ago. COM
pared with America. The awakening
of the Japanese nation did not come
until the ChineseJapanese war. Since
then Japan has progressed with leaps
and bounds. The case of her soldiers
and their choice of uniforms is put
forward as an example of the injurious
effect of too much clothing. Thou
sands of men accustomed to the light
oriental garb have adopted the heavy
uniforms of the German army, even
to the great Hessian boots As a di-
rect result the general health of the
army has suffered