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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13
THE GIRLS OF LIMERICK.
Pretty of Face and Full of Wit, Says
One Who Has Studied
Them.

If asked 'sWhere are the prettiest
girls in the world?" will Immediate
ly reply, in Limerick, Ireland. There
is freshness of face, lustrousness of
eyes, healthfulness of color and COM
pleXion about the Limerick girls, en-
masse, that carry off the sweepstakes
trophy. The girls of Cork and of the
lakes-in fact, of the country all the
way down from Dublin-are some
what of the Limerick order. In form
they constitute happy medium be-
tween the rotund English maids
across one channel and the sylph-lil1e
Partisan demoisselles beyond the
other, says writer in the San Fran
cisco Argonaut.
But the Limerick face is the per-
lection of female beauty-a human
ceramic without blemish. The Linn
erick girl is also the highest example
of exquisite wit and ngenuousness-
an extraordinary assimilation, to be
sure. In other words, while she is not
insensible of her sparkle of words
she seems like one who has never
looked frequently into a mirror. She
has regular and sometimes very pref
ty teeth; and if her nose is often in
clined to retrousse and there is an
"Irish expression of mouth" these
but adds piquancy to her other beau
tiful features.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13
Too Hard Night Work for a Pupil

Il % f1aTu :" OTlA IOr
A teacher in the Dallas county pub
lie school has received the following
letter:
"Sir: Will you in the future give my
son easier some to do at mites? This
is what he's brought hoam two or
three mites back: IF fore gallins of
bere will fill thirty to pint bottles,
how many pints and half bottles will
nine gallins of bere flip
SWELL, we tried and could make
nothin' of it at all, and my boy cried
and laughed and sed he didn't dare
to go bak in the mornin' without dom
it. So had to GO and buy nine gal
lin key of bere, which / could i'll af-
ford to do, and then he went and bor-
rowed lot of wine and brandy bot
ties; we fill them, and my boy put the
numbers down for an answer. don't
know whether it is right or not, as
we split some while doing it.
''P. S.-Please let the next some be
in water as am not able to buy more
re."-Mobile Register.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13
TRADE IN HUMAN BEINGS.
the SOudan Despite the OBJ
jectiOns of England.

A human being may be bought to-
day in the Soudan for $50.
That is to say, if you are econom-
zeal IN bent you may secure your
slaves at this figure. They will be
but IA years old, however, and not
very strong. TO get mature, ro-
bust and experienced slave you will
be obliged to pay considerably more.
The maximum price is $500.
And much of this goes on under
the British flag. England has done
her best to put check to the slave
trade. 1t ii so firmly rooted, how
ever, that although 255 agents of the
British government, each equipped
with a camel, are constantly en-
ployed in trying to stamp out the
man trade, it fourishes in spite Of
them, says the New York World.
Most of the 25 offenders convicted
during the last 10 months were
sheiks of the Rashidas, one of the
most troublesome and dreaded tribes
of the Soudan. The activity against
them, however, has driven most of
them into Italian territory.
The slave trade at Jeddah has been
the most serious. The principal traf-
fic is from Massaua and the coast to
the northward in Italian territory,
Abyssinia, Hodeida and Yemen. Ye-
men is noted for the export of the
slaves who are procured from Abys-
sinia.
AT Jeddah there are - wealthy
slave merchants whose names and
depots are well known.
The prices of slaves are: Male or
female, IA years old, about $50; IA
to 20 years, $500 to $125; 20 to 80
years, $3.50 each.
In Medina and Mecca the prices of
both sexes rise so per cent. and up
ward, while some readily command
from $500 to $500 each.
A traveller who recently crossed
Abyssinia, entering by the leila
route and leaving by the Blue Nile,
said that slavery, existed in that por-
ton of the country under the con-
troll Of Menelik, but in a restricted
and comparatively humane form.
The powerful chiefs alone are per-
mitted to acquire domestic slaves,
who become in effect members of the
household.
There are no auctions nor open
sales. In the country of Godjam,
however, which is nominally subject
to Menelik, the institution of slav-
cry openly exists, and public sales
take place in the ordinary weekly
markets.
The supply of victims for this traf-
fic is obtained principally by organ
lied raids upon the country inhabited
by mixed Shangalla tribes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13
BsLiNDA STARTS TO PRAcTfcE

Oh, the anguish in my brain,
Almost driving me insane:
Oh, the wheels that start to turning In
my sorely tortured head,
Like tie inquisition wheels;
And my reason shakes and reels,
When Belinda starts to practice, hours
before I'm out of bed!
Up and down the minor scale
La wild chromatic gale,
Till 1 grit my teeth and shudder as I
wish 1 might be dead!
Oh. there's something doing there,
And I tear
My hair
And swear
When Belinda starts to practice, hours
before I'm out of bed!
Heavens will she never tire!
And l threaten vengeance dire;
Hurl my pillow at the mirror; while the
frenzy overhead,
In another CHASTITY key,
Sails upon the wild high &C.
And Belinda starts to practicing before
I'm out Of bed.
One of us must surely die
And no doubt it will be IL
For no mortal can withstand that awful
horror overhead;
Twill be sad to die, I know
But I'm quite resigned to go,
When Belinda starts to practicing before
I'm out of bed!
San Francisco Bulletin.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13
GROWTH OF TRUCK FARMING.
Small Beginning of the Business of
Shipping Fresh Vegetables and
Fruits to the Cities.

No longer ago than 1S47 clerk on a
some friends in New York of the fresh
vegetables to be had in the southern
city. 1t was winter, and his statement
was challenged by one of the listeners.
On his next trip north, therefore, he
brought ba sket of vegetables, includ-
ing two boxes of Strawberries. They
were placed on exhibition in shop
window and attracted endless atten-
ton. says Youths Companion.
That was the beginning of the bust
ness of truck-farming in the United
States. Until the middle of the CEN
fury the fruits and vegeta bles raised
on nearly all farms were intended for
home consumption, or for sale in mar
kets close at hand. To-day California
fruit and vegetables go all over the
world, and the northern cities live all
winter on garden produce raised in
Florida or the gulf states.
Many of the improved facilities now
offered by the railroads are directly
due to the handling of perishable ag-
ricultural products. Routes have
been shortened, cars ventilated, refrig-
Grafton provided, and the number and
speed of trains increased, until veg
etables are now landed in good condi-
ton thousand miles from where they
were raised.
Intensive rat Their than extensive farm
ing is the watchword of the prod
of garden truck. The average size of
! the farm is only about Is acres, but
some of the ten-acre plots are so well
| cultivated that they produce $4,000
worth of truck in a season.
In the neighborhood of Boston much
of the land used for this purpose is
under glass, and the soil in which the
vegeta bles are started is carefully ster-
ilized by steam. The expense is, of
course, great, but the extra quality of
the product and the higher price at
which it sells make the profits larger
than in any other part of the country.
The services of electricity even have
been enlisted, and many of the green
houses are lighted at night by large arc
lamps, by which an improvement of
Is per cent. in the growth of the plants
and of ten per cent. in the quality is
secured.
To the money value of the truck
farms must be added the greater serv-
ice they perform in placing fresh veg
etables within the reach of almost
every family, even in winter. That is
contribution both to general comfort
| and to public health.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13

door open, walked in upon scene
which was, to say the least, unusual.
Mrs. barrow was repeating for the
third time '.Now Islay me down to
sleep" at the dictation of Master Dan
;el.
"And make Mommer better, and
nices to her little boy Dannie what
the angels sended and the doctor
bringed," continued the youthful in
structor in religious training.
'sDannie, let me out. Pleased" i'm
plored his mother
"And make Mommer better and
more nicer to little Dannie what the
angels sended and Doctor Morrison
bringed," repeated that young man
infeXibly.
His mother mumbled it after him.
Then Master Dannie lifted up his voice
in song, probably intent on bringing
the meeting to an appropriate end,
his clear little treble piped out:
''Dare to be a Daniel.
Dare to stand alone,
Dare to have a purpose firm,
And dare to make 1t known"
He was proceeding to arrange terms
of personal immunity from vengeance
when Mrs. Wentworth slipped past
him and turned the key of the cellar
door. Master Daniel recognized that
his flank had been turned, and tacit-
ly admitted by attempted fight the
impending triumph of the enemy.
Like Cronje, however, he had fingered
too long in the presence of a superior
force.
''The little imp"
These were, I regret to have to
chronicle, the words used by the au-
thor of "The Passing of Corporal
Punishment" as, with very red face,
she flashed past the relieving force
and swooped down upon the flying be-
sieger. Pursued and pursuer disap-
peared together into an adjoining par
lor, whence presently issued the
sound of something falling at regu-
lar intervals upon soft substance,
accompanied by prolonged and pro-
tested youthful wall.
Mrs. Wentworth drew her own con-
illusions, smiled and withdrew from
the field of battle without the caramel
custard recipe. She had OWNED the
sad fact that in the next room re-
version to barbarism was occurring,
and that Master Dannie was under
going the same old savage, uncivil-
lied and cruel treatment so long en-
dured with what futile wrigglings)
and in after years so ignorantly sane
toned, by generations of his ances-
tors. Next day the North Side Moth
ers' club, with the exception of two
members, was surprised at the an
nouncement that Mrs. Daniel OAR
rows able paper on "The Passing Of
Corporal punishment" had been with
drawn from the hands of the printers
by it's authorizations Magazine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13
POLITICAL BANNERS.
Progress in Their Manufacture from
the Old-Time Canvas to the
Modern Net

"Fifty years or Whereabouts ago."
said veteran sign painter, reports the
New York Sun, "they made all the po-
litical banners swung across streets of
canvas. The pictures and the names
and all that were painted on them, or
painted on cloth and sewed on them.
''Such banners were like great sails,
and of course they caught the wind and
bellied out with a tremendous pull.
Later this pull came to be reduced
somewhat by cutting round holes in the
canvas to let the wind through.
cit was not an unusual thing in those
days to attach weights to the banners
to hold them down in high wind.
Sometimes the weights broke loose and
did serious damage.
81 remember one case in which citi-
zen sued New England city for dam
ages for injuries suffered by being
struck by such a weight that got loose
from banner and fell. Later, bags of
shot were substituted for iron weights
as likely to do less damage if they got
away.
"NeXt to canvas banners with holes
in them to let the wind through and to
deliver the great strain came the net
banners of to-day. And in. case of a
heavy blow, in which even network
banner might be damaged, the banner
as now rugged can be brailed in against
one of the supporting poles; in effect,
furled, to be hauled out into place
again in favorable weather.
Everything has been improved, of
course, in the last so years, but don't
know of anything that has undergone
a greater improvement than the po-
litical banner"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13
HUMOROUS.

Deacon Jones-"Boys, you shouldn't
pay ball to-day. Sunday is day of
rest" Bad Eyes, sir; we know
that; but We amt tired. Boston Her
aid. - s..
That's Muggins' boy. He's smart
as whip" SWELL, let's get away
from here, then. 1t isn't safe to be
near smart boy indianapolis
News.
Il see that baseball player named
Chance is going to marry Miss Pan
cake" "Well, she may be taking a
chance, but he isn't. "-Cleveland Pain
Dealer.
what is the situation to-day?'
asked the sultan. TWhy,". said the
grand vizier, 81 have received a num-
Der of new claims which hope to keep
unsettled Punch.
''What does Algernon call his horse
less carriage mobile. an automobile
or a locomobile % 'He called it just
'nobe' at first, but / really cannot re-
peat the names l have heard him call
it since" indianapolis News.
Her Father-"Well, sir, what can I
do for you?" Her Lover-"I-er-
called to see if you-er-would give
assent to my marriage to your daugh-
ter" Her Father-"Not cent. sir;
not cent. Good day!"-Philadelphia
Press.
Maria ge," remarked the woman of
the world, "brings man out" 81
guess that's right" sighed the unso-
phisticated woman. "Since I've been
married my husband has been out
about five nights every week."-Phila-
oelphia Record.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13


I" For fifteen years have noted the
effect of your Vegetable Compound in
curing special diseases of women.
81 know of nothing superior for
ovarian trouble, barrenness, and it
has prevented hundreds of dangerous
operations where physicians claimed
it was the only chance to get well.
liberation and Inflammation of the
womb has been cured in two or three
weeks through it's use, and as find it
purely an herbal remedy, 1 unhesitat-
ingly give it my highest endorsement.
-Fraternally yours, DIR. P. VIRoQUA,
Lansing, Mich. 5000 forfeit if above tes-
timoniaf is not genuine.
IF you are ill do not hesitate to
get a bottle of Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound at
once, and write to Mrs. Pink
ham at Lynn, Mass. for special
advice; it is entirely free.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13
A Nickel Plated Fact.

The average man would be better
off if he could only look for a ten
thousand dollar job with the same
persistence, perseverance and pa
thence that he displays in looking for
twenty-five cent goff ball.-Judge.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13
A Curious Custom.

No document can have the authority Of
the imperial throne of China unless it bears
a red mark placed there by the sovereign.
With this seal upon it, the paper becomes
official. The genuine Hostetter's Stomach
over the neck of the bottle For fifty years
it has been the recognized remedy for stom.
ach, liver and kidney complaints. 1t will
cure dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation and
biliousness, also prevent malaria, fever and
ague.
The best way to avoid anyone you do not
wish to meet is by keeping straight ahead.
Washington Qa.) Democrat.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13
He Deserved 1t.

Physician can offer you no hope
of recovery, my poor man; l trust
that you feel reconciled.
Invalid (faintly)-I guess do. 1
think I have a cinch on Heaven. I
have lived all my life in a fat in
Brooklyn, and leave behind me a
healthy mother-in-law and three
pairs of twins, brought up by hand
Harlem Life.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13
DANDRUFF WON'T WASH OUT.
The Germ That Causes 1t Has to BE
Destroyed, to Cure Dandruff.

Many woman spends an hour twice a
week securing her scalp, thinking scrub
bling off the scurf will cure the dandruff.
she has spent 26O days of u hours each, or
two-thirds of year of her life, in that vain
hope; vain, because you can't cure dan
druff without killing the dandruff germ,
and the only hair preparation on earth that
will do that is Newbro's "Herpicide also
a delightful hair dressing, and thorough an
tiseptic against all contagion from use Of
hair dressing
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13
Her Circulating Medium.

"She's very cautious woman Especial
ly about gossip. No woman ever heard her
retail any scandal
But l am told that stories confded to
her IN secrecy do get out somehow"
Yes, l know. You see, she tells them all
to her husband. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13
PRINCESS VIR0QUA, N. D.
Endorses Lydia e. Pinkham'S
Vegetable Compound After
Following Its Record For
. Years.

stDEAR Mrs. PINKHAM Health is
the greatest boon bestowed on human
ity and therefore anything that can
restore lost health is blessing. I
consider Lydia e. Pinkham's Veg.
etable Compound as blessing to
State and Nation. It cures her moth
ers and daughters and makes them
well and strong.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13
To Suit the Case.

Jake-Cora has an aquiline nose, hasn't
she?
Fake-How could I know? She always
turns it up at me-Harlem Life.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13

Sometimes man is judged by his appear
ance and sometimes by his disappearance
Chicago Daily News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13

1t is not hard to let your moderation be
known to all men, so far as the virtues are
concerned.-Ram's Horn.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13

Piso's Cure for Consumption Is an infalll-
BILE medicine for coughs and colds w.
Samuel. Ocean Grove, N. j., Feb. II, 1900.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13

A Dose in Time Saves Nine of Hale's
Honey of Horehound and Tar for Colds.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13

Some men walk as if they were the smart
est on arth-Washingto Qa.) Democrat.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13

The less luck a man has the more he de-
spises it.-Chicago Daily News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13

Half an hour is all the time required to
dive with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-13

stops the Cough and Works
Off the Cold
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price Csc.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-05-02
AFoRMIDABLE UNDERTAKING
To Float Monster Steel Dry Dock
Down Atlantic Coast.

40 AOdb MOuSCer SLeeI Ory DOCK
Down Atlantic Coast.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-The big steel
floating dock to be located at Algiers,
La, near New Orleans, and now build
ing by the Merriam Steel company, is
practically completed, and Admiral En-
dicott who designed the big structure,
went to Baltimore today to inspect it.
1t is the largest floating dry dock in the
world, and now that it is com plete quite
an interesting problem arises as to how
it shall be fioated down the Atlantic
coast and into the gulf of Mexico up to
Algiers.
AS it is more than half submerged,
the towing of such a vast and unwield.
ly bulk is a formidable undertaking. The
start will be made some time in Septem-
ber, number of powerful tugs being
utilized. Slow progress will be made
on the long trip. The deck is 525 feet
long, $50 feet across the entrance, with
a depth Of 20 feet over the sill. It has
lifting capacity of $4,000 tons, and in
an emergency it's high decks will give
it additional power at $4,000 tons. It
has cost $4,000.
The contract calls for placing the dock
in position at Algiers, so that the tow
ing of the structure through the Allan
tic and the gulf will be made at the
risk of the contractors.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-05-02
NARROWLY ESCAPED ROPE
Negroes Were Anxious to Hang a
White Man.


White Man.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May i-Charles
Russell, white man, who conducts a
meat market at Warner, a small mining
town miles from the city, narrowly
escaped lynching at the hands of q mob
composed of 500 negroes last evening,
and was hurried TO Jail here for safe
keeping
The cause Of the uprising was the
death Of Walter Morehead, a negro OF
Warner, who was Shot TO death while
sleeping under a uesrle which spans
Five Mile creek. 4 white man named
Jesse W1lke was said to have done the
killing, and the negroes thought that
Russell had a hand III it, though the
evidence did not bear out this suppOsi-
ton.
Coroner Paris when he reached the
scene found mob Of 500 armed negroes
under great excitement. Negroes bear
ing Wlnchesters thronged about the
coroner wherever he went. He told
them TO put up their guns and go home,
and many OF them did so. Russell, sus-
peored OF the killing, was taken in
charge by the coroner, but later, when
his innocence was established, he was
allowed to go
Excitement among the negroes broke
out afresh, and the coroner sent mes.
sage TO Sheriff Burdin to hurry deputies
to the scene. Russell was taken in
charge, but the negroes refused to be
placated, and made ali kinds of threats
1t was determined to conclude the in
vestigation III Birmingham, and as the
train approached the station the coro-
ner, jury ana suspected men were hur-
rled aboard the cars, and left before the
negroes fully real.z, q what had hap
Dened.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-05-02
Nhe1 Oh1nqs.
7. P. EDWARDS, NJ. D

Other things Fever besides Johnsous Chill and
Fever Tonic Hut nothing else makes the character
Of cure that Johnson Chill aud Fever Tonic makes. 1t
leaves the eyes bright the skin clear the appetite good It
nu the liver the very best possible condition. It
when nothing else viii. It IS 100 times better than
ounnc 1t has received the unqualified endorsement of the
yery best IN this country.
The fame of Johnsons Tonic and the widespread popu-
arv enjoyed led miserable and unscrupuous knaves in
business initiate closely they dared the and
appearance Of this wonderful medicine
Countereters of money honorable than those
who would eopardze the lives of people for gain. If you
have fever nothing else but Johnsons Chill and Fever
Tonic If you WELL keep well by using Johnson's Chill
and Fever Tonic.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-05-02
SHE DIED ON STREET CAR
Aged Lady Breathes Her Last Among
Passengers.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May 1.-The first
death on street car recorded in Flor
ida took place when Mrs. Sophia Davis,
an aged lady who was well known in
this state and Georgia, expired on car
of the Main street line.
Mrs. Davis had been i'll for some time
and was being moved to the home of a
relative. Shortly after boarding the
car the lady tainted and examination
showed the pulse had stopped beating.
The car was stopped and Mrs. Davis
hastily removed to a nearby residence
and a physician summoned. He pro
nounced life extinct
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-05-02
EXPRESS ROBBERS OWN UP
Probably Now on Their Way to tho
PenitentiarV.

Probably Now on Their Way to the
Penitentiary.
MACON, May 10. w. Chestnut of
Jacksonville and Cliff Jordan of Ma
con, charged with robbing the Southern
Express car on the Central of Georgia
railroad, pleaded guilty before the police
recorder this morning and were bound
over to the grand jury in the sum of
$1,000.
They will probably be sentenced to
the penitentiary at special session of
the criminal bench of the superior court
this afternoon.
The grand jury promptly returned in
dictments before noon, and at o'clock
both men pleaded guilty in the superior
court and were sentenced to seven years
each in the penitentiary.