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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-27

cay. One short
month has brought forth vast change
and now consider myself well man
after months of suffering. Fellow suf-
ferers, Peruna will cure YOU"
DIR. LLEWELLYN JORDAN.
Coco. Havener, M. D., of Anacostia,
D. c., writes:
The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, o. ::
Gentlemen-'In my practice I have
had occasion to frequently prescribe
your valuable medicine, and have found
its use beneficial, especially in cases of
catarrh."
GEORGE C. HAVENER, M. D.
DR.. L. S. Smith, of Williston, Fla,
writes:
81 have found Peruna most va liable
remedy for chronic catarrh of the head,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-27

Then he fixed the fire, and before
preparing for bed went to the door
and looked out into the night. It is
habit shared by all who live in
lonely places, for there is always
the feeling that some one may be
abroad who needs help.
The snow had ceased falling, and
the stars twinkled overhead, but the
wind still blew in gusts that kept
binding eddies in the frosty air.
cit is an ugly night" said Jack,
"and I pity anyone who is not safely
housed. I wonder if-good Lord!"
"Helloa, there! Helloa!" came a
mans voice through the whirling
snow. "Help! help! help!" The last
word ended in a quaver that told of
helplessness and exhaustion.
"Whoop-e-e-e-e!" returned Jack, in
voice that rang like clarion call
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prairie p E.
fentious because it contained two
rooms instead of one, and each room
had two windows of glass-and you
have the setting of a rather interest
ing New Year celebration. Nor was
the inside view of this sod house at
all disappointing to expectations
fired by the sight of. those real win
dows of glass, for there was furni-
ture more than the actual needs of
the occupant demanded. To be sure,
it was nearly all of home manufac-
ture, but it was evidently the work
of one who might have earned iv-
ing as cabinet maker, and some of
it was upholstered.
The owner of this house, Jack Wal
worth by name, sat porting over a
cookbook. He was a merry-eyed
young fellow of 25, tall, athletic, and
in every way good to look at. AL
though many miles from any human
being, so far as he knew, his hands
were clean and his hair carefully
brushed - two characteristics not
very pronounced in the makeup of
individuals in that part of the world,
for they were nearly all men, and
they needed the spur of a woman's
approval to give them proper re-
gard for their personal appearance.
A'These are mighty good recipes"
murmured Jack, as he slowly turned
the leaves of his book, "but they do
require such an ocean of stuff!
Why don't they write some especially
for bachelors on prairie farms-lone-
ly old bachelors who have a banker
ing for holiday dinner like mother
used to make?"
This was said half whimsically and
half sadly, for tomorrow new year
was to begin. and Jack was home
sick. There had been time when
he was quite sure that the opening
day of this new year would see the
beginning of new life for him-a
life in which Nellie Rogers would be
the central figure. Jack turned to
the fly leaf of his cookbook and re-
read the words he had written there
''My first New Year resolution" he
proclaimed, in tone that ought to
have frightened away the most per.
sistent attack of the blues, land Tn
bound to live up to it. 4, Jack Wal
worth, being of sound mind, etc.
have resolved that my life shall not
be spoiled by'-Pshaw!" He threw
the book on the table almost vicious
ly. There was no fun in acting with
out AN audience, and he must try in
some other way to convince himsel1
that he was not so very unhappy
after all.
81 moped all day on both Thanks
giving and Christmas" he said, reso
lutely drawing the cookbook to-
ward him again, land I'm going tt
begin the New Year in a manly fash
ion! I'll stick to my resolution"
Early that morning Jack had de
cided to cook grand New Year din
ner for himself, and the fine wild
goose, shot for that purpose, nov
hung in the outer room all ready fol
the oven. But roast goose and baked
potatoes, while good in their way, die
not seem sufficiently festive to the
fastidious Jack, whose New England
mother had made reputation fol
herself on her holiday dinners. Hi!
soul longed for something in the way
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-27
What Moses Did.

A Sunday school examination was in
progress and the examining visitor put this
question:
was with Jethro%
Following a long silence a little voice
piped up from the back room:
"Please, sir, he married one of Jethro's
daughters. "-Detroit Free Press.
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IncOn sfstency.

Brown-It's curious about peoples beliefs.
They will give entire credence to the most
absurd things, and put no faith whatever in
the most obvious truths.
Black-Yes, I've noticed it. There's
Green, now He hasn't the least confidence
in hash, but he'll eat all the croquettes and
mince pie you can set before him.-Boston
Transcript.
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dllllhCA VI ". -.
Treasury Depart
ment, graduate OF
Columbia College,
and who served
three years at
West Point, has
the following to
say of Peruna:
" Allow me to
express my graft
tude to you for
the benefit de-
rived from your
wonderful rem
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Florida Special via Big Four Route.

Chicago to Jacksonville and St. Angus.
tine, effective Jan. 6, 1902, the 'Big Four"
will operate through Pullman sleepers from
Chicago and indianapolis to Jacksonville
and st. Augustine, via Cincinnati, Queen &
Crescent, Sou. R'y, Plant System and Fla.
East Coast Ry., leaving Chicago at 100 p.
m. daily except Sunday. Dining and OBJ
dress J. c. Tucker, Gen. Nor. Agt., 234 Clark
St., Chicago, Warren J. Lynch, G. P. & 7.
A., or w. P. Deppe, A. G, P. & T. A, Gin
cinnati, 0.
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Give ON New Years Day.

In the Greek church New Years
takes the place of Christmas, so far
as interchange of gifts is concerned.
The father of family gives to his
wife and children presents of money,
which are carefully put away.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-27

The HandsOmest Calendar
of the season Tin ten colors) six beautiful
heads ION six sheets, l0xl2 inches), repro
auctions of paintings by Moran, issued by
General Passenger Department, Chicago,
on receipt of twenty-five cents. Address F.
A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, CHI
cago.
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EXPLAINED.

"You advertised" said the gullible
one, "that you had discovered the key
to success"
"True," admitted the fakir.
s'WeM, it didn't help me little bit"
"The reason for that" answered the
fakir, pleasantly, sis that you have
been buying the key instead of selling
it. It has brought me success. Chi
capo Post.
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ce1DAlLsg9
- -zAND@
Jewell
w ~ M o! TWELVE" comes
NV I'm throbbing on the
Mo MoMI midnight air,
NJ WOUx A requiem-yes, the
WS d'y n g year is
- N -. NJ dead:
<Sh N It's records written.
WLTNSSSW be they foul OF
NNg/lE/////W fair;
mr. ItsmySteries solved

MIIgSSSw be they foul or
sN" Itsmysteries solved
and all it's riddles read.
The New Year came with swift yet stealthy
tread;
No football reached the anxious, listen
ing ear
AS through the portals he so swiftly sped;
But now his firm, majestic tread we hear.
And so the years go, ever speeding by,
And changes come, more strange than
lapse of years.
The past is gone: Why comes the deep
drawn sigh?
Why is the eye bedimmed with unshed
tears?
1t once was ours; we drank, aye, drained
the cup,
Quaffing with eager lips its happiness,
Nor even dreamed so soon we must give
up
Those joys that came our daily life to
bless.
Shall all the ties be severed that have
bound
Friend unto friend, and very soul to
soul?
Shall some Lethean waters there be found
That over torn and wounded hearts shall
roll,
An deep forgetfulness assuaging pain,
Healing all wounds, and leaving not a
scar?
Or shall the ties, the wounds, the scars re-
main?
Shall pain be there our future bliss to
mar?
<"rhe Oracles are dumb" with bated
breath
We silent stand, awaiting some reply;
1t comes not, nor can come until kind death
Shall touch our hearts and bid the
clouds roll by.
Enough-for when lifes fateful strife is
DER,
When earthly joys and pains are laid
aside,
When we look back from yonder distant
shore
And understand, we shall be satisfied.
Charles H. Allen, in Frank Leslies Pop
ular Monthly.
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Sarcasm-Mrs. Fuss-"I have kept my
last hired girl MONTH" Mrs. Flip-'Dear
me! Do you keep her locked up?"-Ohio
State Journal
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=1A0
BACHELORS
=:tzNEWMAR.

WEN a semi
Zard and a some
w h a t preten-
tious sod house
on a western
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Advancing.

Tourist-Are the Indians around here
making any progress!
Westerner-Sure Their medicine man
is a patent-medicine man.-Puck.
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DR.. Llewellyn Jordan, Medical Elk
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b. Chambelin,
Many under
benefited cured cheeuy
a general tonic 'C. B. CHAMBERLAIN M.
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useful, successful. patriotic citizens.
There is no walk in life in which they
have not done good service.
In 1881. at the age of eiehty-one.
stephen Ciirad died. The wife of his
youth and his one child had preceded
him from earth. He had for years
been banker as we'll as merchant The
richest man in the country he had
come to be. and he was able to leave
S3.OOOoOO for the founding and en-
dowment of his projected college. Not
until 1SiS were the three beautiful
soldily-built structures of Grecan ar
ohitecture. with which its work began,
completed, and the immense grounds
enclosed and in order for the opening
Girard had chosen wisely the trustees
for his estate and the methods for
filling vacancies through the years
the centuries he looked forward to for
the seed he planted to continue bring.
ing forth good fruit.
Colonel Mcclure noted in the Phila
delphia Times year ago that: while
no man could have foreseen the whole
development of the century Just clos
ing, the trust which Girard left has
been carried out entirely in accord
ance with the provisions of his will,
down to its minute details. and it has
adapted itself so well to all the
changes of time that it is not only
actually but relatively much greater
trust today than he could have inn
agincd." ChHunccy NJ Dcpcw at the
same time. making the Founders Day
address before a distinguished assem-
bly,. said that the original endowment
OF the college had grown from So
100000 to s26,000OOO, giving it an cs-
tate larger than any university in the
world and that. las the fund grows
the bcnefaction embraces an increas-
ing number of pupils"
This year the Founders Day address
has fallen to President Gilman. of
Johns Hopkins university. it is emf
nently fit that the leading intellccts
of the country should be annually
chosen to review the work of the
quiet French American citizen whose
name his adopted country has as pro-
found cause to hold in honor as the
name of Lafayette.
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Girard and His College.
TWENTIETH day Of
May is Founders Day at
II iirard College, the only in

Th,S TWENTIETH day of
May is Founders Day at
Il irard College, the only in
stitution of precisely the
sam" c'aiartcr--ror fatherless bows
in the world. 1t is the earliest fully
endowed college in America, the first
Of the philanthropir educational gifts
of tn" rich which now count IN to
an annual amount of not less than
S5on0o, '0n. 1t was the earliest college
10 plac" academic training and manual
training side by side as equally hon
urablc, ANA equally necessary for the
boy who was t" follow any kind of
business pursuits with the one who
was to enter what were especially
known as the learned professions.
Specially is it to be remembered that
this was done from its opening day.
before Smorfern industrial training in
this country had any other foothold,
and done not by the wider thought of
the hoard of trustees, but by the direc-
tions - stephen Girards will, He
hmSelfsNvas the man who looked out
with keen insight and foresight to the
future of the country which, in the
second year of the Revolutionary War
and before the Declaration of Inde-
pendenes was adopted, he had chosen
as his home,
Sprung, not from Frances aris-
tocracy~ hut sailor from his boy
hood, a,master of merchant vessels in
still early manhood, filled with the
longing I for liberty, he settled in
Philadefhia at the age of twenty-six
and thek ke became merchant, importer
and exporter. Merchant and mari
ner,' he described himself in his will,
in which, at the age of eighty-one, he
marked sout the broad plans he had
cherishea for the benefit of the city
in which he had prospered, and in
minute detail ordered their carrying
out, Girard college for fatherless
boys, orphans and half-orphans, who
need to be supported while they are
taught, was the one of those plans
which will carry on his name as one
of the greatest benefactors of his
adopted country. OF over six thous-
and graduates 1t has sent forth ninety
Ter cent. as their records of future
life show.--for the college follows out
and notes their careers-haye made
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-05-20
COL. HITCHCOCK DEFENDED.

Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: As a citizen of this city and interested
in its moral welfare. | have been panied On
account Of the coursc OF one of our magistrates,
and the criticisms ui the Times, regarding the
efforts Of Mr.. Hitchcock in trying 10 stop the
sale of intoNirants to minors, Mr.. Hitchcock is
wen known in Scranton and his fitness 10 fill
the position he occupies is unqucStioncd. II he
mas become convinced that the method he has
adopted is the only sure one OF securing the con-
vction of yiolarors of the excise law, then as
one sworn 10 enforce the laws of the munich
palty, he has a right, and is in duty bound, 10
use that method, and should be supported ny
every liw'abiling citizen. lie is not seeking 10
tap any saloon keeper who docs not violate III.
law, and every one who does violate it should
br made To suffer the extreme penalty, This
selling to children is being carried on to an ap
pallipg extent here. No saloon keeper has right
TO sell TO amy minor beer in any quantity, whcth
cr said minor has an order from its parents or
not Yet every day one secs little girls and boys
on the streets who go into saloons anu come out
carrying quantity OF beer in pals.
This is no secret, hut is known to all. Because
il is openly and frequently done, il is not
the less unlawful. Then why This criticism Of
Mr. Hitchcock by men who know that only crirh-
mails will he disturbed 10y his method Of securing
evidence; really The only way. for our courts re-
fuse TO convict man ion violation OF the liquor
laws upon evidence that would be deemed Sutii-
cicnt TO convict man of murder? Why does
scranton hold the uuen,lanle distinction of being
the worst governed city in the commonwealth!
We are reapinG in lawleSsueSs and political cor
ruplion now what mas been sown in laNty Of
law enforcement in the recent pat, Irrespective
of party, or influence any kind, or oi sNmpa,
tby for any man or men We should teach all tue
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day" step which has. for the first
time become necessary, since the post,
from diminishing numbers, limited
means, and increasing need of relief
among its members, is no longer able
TO bear the expense. and meet the
other demands on it's resources"
In larger cities, where the numbers
of the veterans of the War for the
Union are. of course, proportionately
greater, the time is a little farther
In the future when the calls of the
Angel of Immortality shall have so
diminished the numbers and so
Limited the means of the Grand
Army posts that the 'increas-
ing need of relief" from the age in
trinity, and straitencd condition of
some remaining, shall leave the posts
dependent on the public for re
sources" for the fitting ceremonies of
the nations Memorial Day.
Where there are organizations of
Sons of Veterans. the fit celebration
of the day will be for longer time
provided for than where none such
exist. But it is not the children of the
soldiers of the war for the Union who
alone have received the heritage of Il
reunited country with all it's blessings,
from those who, in the four years
from April, 1861 onward, answered
Abraham Lincolns call.
AS the paper from which we have
quoted says. that, "with the first Me-
mortal Day of the now century the
observance of the day" in that town,
will have the character of public
function more fully than hereto
fore"--so should it be everywhere in
the land. more and more as the years
60 on. So should it he. "in memoir
iam,' for all time. of the flower OF
the country's manhood who went forth
BY hundreds of thousands after hun
drcds of thousands, to save the ma
tons life.
AS a speech maker, President Nc
Kincy grows better every day. He
is certainly "a fine specimen of the
growing statesman.
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educational methods which
demand an unreasonable number ana
diversity of studies, cramming or
facts often utterly unrelated to each
other into the youthful mind for the
ne mory to bring forth in some fashion
in written answers at the cnd of a
school term to a set of arbitrary ques-
tionS selected out of the entire mass Of
supposed information poured into the
young mind day by day. By courtesy
we call this education. Education, the
leading of the child out into the world
of Knowledge, awakening and bringing
out "A sense of vivid interest in some
one or more objects that the world
presents to him. is a thing in absolute
oppoSit ion 10 the entire school method
that has the written examination as
its goal: it's be-aI and end-all so far as
grade promotion is to be attained. Yet
without grade promotion instruction
cannot be carried on: the growing child
is not to he kept through all the school
years without promotion until he or
she passes by being fortunate enough
to remember at examination time a
sufficient number of facts in a variety
OF studies to secure a certain percent
age of marks out of Il possible hum
dred.
BY tho way, whether the pupils pa
pers shal! be so marked as to bring the
set average for promotion depends
quite as much on the teachers method
of marking, as by any possibility
child's promotion on the result of his
or her whole terms or years work
depends on the teachers constant OBJ
servation and judgment of the pupils.
We make that remark, and cali
attention to it, because there
are people who actually seem
to imagine that an average
obtained by marking Written answers
to an arbitrary set of questions really
represents an immovable value. They
seem to think that 81 or 30 or 9J or
some other 'nvcrage" number repre-
scntS Il positive. unult"rable value in
Itself; that all teachers must "mnrk"
alike: that in this system there is
neither room for variations of Judgment
as To the worth of each child'S written
Out answer, Eor room for "fav0ritc-
ism" Possibly this might he so if the
answer TO each question could be a sim
pie yes or 'no''-an answer which is
in fact impossible in amy examination.
Vet we keep on with a multiplying
Of school studies, demand on the inn
mature brain to receive II knowledge
of widely differing ideas. memory
test of what it has grasped and re-
lucn,bercd, for term of these hctcro-
Geneous supplies of information. Then
We congratulate ourselves and each
other ON the advancement of modern
methods of education, and on our de
votion to "child study"-thc study of
the child. of the poor little martyr we
ale running lay over stimulus i'm roach-
ing a goal or of the one we are dis
Couraging and making what we call
stupid, because he cannot keep mp with
our arbitrary measure; or of those we
are turning out from the lower grades,
when they must leave them to go early
to work, without having either de-
veloped their capacities or given Them
the practical aid they ought To have
had TO make their wage earning sue
cessful.
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A Great Victory for Labor.

T~HE.; .;,1I, PETALS T. LIS OF ,,,, the settle
II. support the claim in the
tclcgraphic news that a
great victory has been won for or
canizcd labor but not in the manner
apparent at first glance. 1t is true an
advance in wages has been granted
by the street railway company. This
the competent employees fully deserved
and could easily have secured without
strike. The latter in it's destructive
ness to life, property and good order,
has cost many fold the value of it's
gains.
But the prime purpose for which the
strike WAS precipitated. the objective
point of its manpulators, namely. the
iuIlilication of the company's right to
employ whom it pleased when it
pleased, without first pausing to in
uuirc If the applicant for employment
belonged to union and without COM
polling him to join a union as a con-
dition Of getting work. was not real
lied. Article seven in the eleven ar
by both sides ended the strike, very
significantly reads: THE company is
free to employ union or non-union
men ana to discharge them for cause"
All the hloodshcd all the rotng all
the turmoil and disorder of eleven
days of terror in the capital of the
foremost American state has, there
fore. been Intellectual to establish IA
tyrannpus restriction uron the free
ioin of contract guaranteed i'm the
har'er and nature of our institu-
ions.
This. While contrary to what the
tabor agitator fought for, is, in real
tS, a victory. and a great victory. for
abor. 1t is a victory which helps to
preserve the manliness and Scls-re-
spert of every honest workingman by
foilIng the attempt to force him into
certain organizations under penalty. if
he resisls, of driving him into idle
ness and his family into beggary. 1t
means that instead of American man
hood being put under slavery by
coercion it is to have freedom to
choose how it. will govern it's indus
try and lay down the conditions OF
its employment. The honest union
with merit in it does not need to re-
cruit it's membership by use of stones.
pistols ana clubs; its ranks ill gladly
by the free volition of it's members.
Those leaders of labor who think ter
r"riSIn substitute for natural sclcc-
tl"n arc building for n fail.
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mayors OF this city. They should l,r guarded by
the law and taught to obey 1t TO the letter.


All this talk Of the prosecuted saoon.kccpcr'
is simply rot. Not ono Of those who have obcycd
the law have anything to complain OF from, legal
prosecutions. The plea that the large license
fee paid should cnitlc them to indmlgenccs must
not he considered for moment No man can
pay sum sufficient to compensate for wilfuly
violating righteous law; besides after all we
receive from liquor licenses in the city we shall
be poorer than II no liquor was sold here. II VIC
count the expense Of maintaining paupcrs, ja'is
inmates of insane asylun,s and legal prosecutions
in the courts caused by the drinking OF beer and
other intoXioants. Of course. Mr.. Robinson. rep.
rcscnting brewing interests. will always be cN'
pectcd TO assist saoon.kecpcrs that patronize his
firm. but every citizen who has the well being
of the city at heart should stand up for our Off
cias while they attempt to enforce the provi.
sons of the law And this not only as regards
the liquor traffic, but Of dishonesty in office, sup
preston OF brohcls, dance houses. gambling dcns
and sabbath dissertations. Truly yours.
sF. r. Doty.