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West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-03-01
fvr sale.

A good house, very cheap. In
quire Of Mrs. Landwert, .uppel
Wells street. I2t
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he had Eeen some close friend or re-
lation. And, strange as it may seem,
things began to go wrong right
away. A draw head went out al
most everyday for week, and one
of the driving rods snapped off and
nearly ended us both, the second trip
we made without our mascot
Then poor Joe suddenly sickened
and died, and I had a green cub in
with me who got me into trouble
every day, and then l had a narrow
escape from running into work
train, and-well, 1 quit and came to
Colorado. l thought I'd better do it
before something serious happened
'Then you attribute your good luck
to the presence of Mike?"
MOO, I can't say I do" said Mr..
Mccarthy. "I'm not superst It. Gus,
you know, but 1 did feel awful safe
when Mike was along"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-05-23
FOREST PROTECTION.
New jersey Legislature Has just
Passed a Law Which All Other
States should Copy.

Through Senator Minch, our coun-
ell has succeeded in getting law
passed by the New Jersey legisla-
ture, on forest fires. A law that we
urge all good citizens to understand
and sustain.
Friends of forests in other states
may do well to seek similar legisla-
ton in their respective commoI-
wealths. Animal and plant life ana
health are so dependent on forest
conditions, as influencing climate,
that forestry is an interstate ques-
ton. 1t is also such a question in
respect to streams for water power.
and for navigation. For prevention
of floods and the regulation of rain
fall. The rainfall section of it alone
is one of many millions year to
any one of the United States. If
rain comes at the right time farm
er may clear say $500 year more
than if not so coming. Every 10000
such farmers in that state have 49,
100000 annually at stake. Similar
figures apply to climate respecting
well as a farmer, may lose $500 by
sickness that would be prevented by
wise forest regulation. Forest foil
age is the chief protection from ma
larial enemies in the air; and the
great dispenser of healthful oxygen.
Forests are the main and practical
ly the only regulation of rainfall.
Fire is the greatest of the many
enemies to the forest. The person,
or the corporation, starting such a
fire should suffer severe penalties.
To this end our forest council has
secured the passage of the law re-
ferred to. We believe it to be one
of the best ever enacted for this
purpose. 1t will repay citizens to
understand this law and sustain it.
The great work for good citizens,
under it, is to secure investigation OF
forest fires, and see that each town.
ship committee selects fire marshal
Local civil engineers are often the
best men for marshals.
Citizens of other states not hav-
ing good laws protecting from for
est fires should demand similar ac-
ton to that of New Jersey from
their respective legislatures, andthen
sustain the same. Forest fires are
usually of far more damage than
they are assessed for.-George May
Powell, President New Jersey Forest
Council.
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FAMOUS OLD HIGHWAY.
Cumberland Road, Constructed Near
Iy One Hundred Years Ago,
~ Still in Fair Condition.

The most remarkable highway built
in the United States early in the CEN
fury was the so-called Cumberland
road, which was to extend from Cum
berland, Nd, through southwestern
Pennsylvania, over the Allegheny
mountains to the Ohio at Wheeling,
w. Va, and then on to- st. Louis. 1t
was so we'll constructed that it is a
good road to-day. Henry Clay was its
protector and chief supporter, and his
services in it's behalf are commemo rat-
ed by monument near Wheeling. We
are told by letters written at that
period that there were sometimes 20
gayly-painted four-horse coaches each
way daily. The cattle and sheep were
never out of sight, and canvas-covered
wagons were drawn by six or twelve
horses"
On this great road, which eventually
passed into the hands of the states
through which it runs, the government
expended no less a sum than $1,000, 900.
Within a mile of it on either side the
country was wilderness, but on the
highway itself the traffic was as dense
as in the main street of large town.
Ten miles an hour was the usual speed
for coaches. From Baltimore to Wheel
ing ran lines of freight wagons which
carried ten tons, drawn by II horses,
and with wheels ten feet in diameter.
When Charles Dickens visited Amer
lea in 1912, he travelled by stage coach
from Cleveland to Sandusky, o. De-
scribing his experience, he wrote:
sat one time we were all thrown to-
gether in heap at the bottom of the
coach, and at another we were crush
ing our heads against the roof. Now
the coach was lying on the tails of the
two wheelers,, and now it was rearing
up in the air. The driver, who GER
tainly-got over the ground in man
ner quite miraculous, so twisted and
turned the team, in forcing passage
corkscrew fashion through the boys
and swamps, that it was a common
circumstance, on looking out of the
window, to see the coachman with the
ends of a pair of reins in his hands,
anu VIZ
leaders staring unexpected at one
from the back of the coach, as if they
had some idea of getting up behind. A
great portion of the way was over
what is called "a corduroy road which
is made by throwing trunks of trees
into a marsh and leaving them to set
tie there. The very slightest of the
jolts with which the ponderous car
riage fell from log to log was enough,
it seemed, to have dislocated all the
bones in the human body. 1t would
be impossible to experience a similar
set of sensations in any other circum-
stances, unless perhaps in attempting
to go up to the top of st. Pauls in an
omnibus"
This description serves to illustrate
the condition of our country roads,
generally speaking, as they were 25
years ago, except in a few wealthy
communities. There has been won
derful change since then.-Pearson's
Magazine.
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Underground Mountains.

A very curious result of recent OPP
erations by the trigometrical survey
in India is the conclusion, stated by
Maj. Burrard, that there is in the mid.
die of India an underground, or buried,
mountain range, thousand miles in
length, and lying about parallel with
the chain of the Himalayas. This con-
clusion is based on the singularities
of the local attraction of gravitation
in central India, the plumb-line being
DETECTED southwark on the north side
of the supposed subterranean chain
and northward on the south size,
leading to the inference that great
elongated mass of rock of excessive
density underlies the surface of the
earth between the two sets of observ-
ing stations.-Youth's Companion.
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burden of its weight of buds and leaves,
bends to the earth and the tip takes
root, and new plant soon bursts out
at this spot. This popularity has
gained for the fern the popular names
of walking leaf" and jumping fern
Several grasses and sedges develop
creeping stems of great length, which
give rise to new plants at every point
or at intervals. The familiar quitch.
twitch, or couch, is of this character;
but the most striking examples are to
be found in maram grass and sea sedge
that occur on sand dunes by the sea.
These plants Of the seashore make
ropes of their enormous creeping root
stocks wherewith the sands are tied
together, and many banks that would
otherwise wash away with its first
high tide are held intact.-Philadel-
phia Record
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-05-23
Scarcity of Hired Help,

The continued scarcity of hired
help is not an unmiXed evil. The in
evitable result must be machinery in
doors and out; better business prin-
ciples will be applied; greater atten-
ton given to that which is of most
worth, useless and Improbable work
dispensed with. When stern neces-
sity compels one to rest from la
Dor awhile, he will find that there is
deal of Improbable and awkward
work done indoors and out, and that
many hours have been given to toll
that might better have been used in
devising ways to accomplish the same
end with less work.-Farm and Fire
side.
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PLANTS WHICH WALK.
Several Well Known Specimens
Have Acquired the Habit of
Jumping or Creeping.

Not-a few plants are possessed of
the actual power of migration, not
merely by their seeds becoming scat
tered, but by an actual geographical
movement from year to year. The
common purple orchid, for instance,
forms new bulb each year, and each
year the new shoot appears nearly an
inch from the root occupied by last
years stem. Tulips planted in the
shade will often find their way to a
sunny spot. There is North Ameri-
can fern which sends out long, grace
fully-arching frond, which, under the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-05-23
NAVIGATING LIONS.
Monsters That Postponed the Work
of building the Railway at
Uganda.

Lord Salisbury's announcement
some time ago that the works on the
Uganda railway had been stopped
for three weeks by the ravages of
two man-eating lions was so far from
being an eXaggeration that it under
estimated the actual truth, says the
London Spectator.
Although the progress of the rail
way was perhaps suspended no
longer than three weeks, the depreda-
tions of the enemy lasted from March
to December. During that period %
of the governments Indian workmen,
and it is believed fully twice as many
others were more or less severely in
jured.
The terror inspired among che In
dians was so great that they flung
themselves on the line in the track of
advancing engines, so as to leave the
engineers no choice but to run over
them or to transport them to Nom.
hasa, for they were willing to give up
their pay as well as their employment
rather than remain.
Mr.. Patterson, one of the engineers
of the line, describing the panic that
prevailed, says that the savage ami
mails feared nothing, neither fire, nor
weapons, nor the approach of the
white men. They would carry man
in their mouths as cat carries a
rat, and thus burdened make the tour
of the Enclosure, looking for convent
ent place of exit. They would rot
look at goats or other animals when
human prey was to be had. The ma
tives that remained hung their bells
to trees, or placed them on the top
of water-tanks, or wherever they
thought they would be out of the
reach of the enemy. 1t would be use
less to supply the coolies with fire
arms, az they were not accustomed
to their use.
The lions survived many attempts
to destroy them, but were eventually
shot by Mr.. Patterson. They were
about four feet high and nearly nine
feet long.
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Raise Your own Fruits.

Much land is not well adapted to
fruit trees, and crops other than
fruit trees may be more profitable
for market, but all summer and fall
fruit should usually be grown on the
farm, anyway. The home should
have an abundance of apples for use
until winter apples are. ready, and
there is no better way of getting
good varieties than by grating.
Trees should be planted where want
ed, and then get scions from trees
in the neighborhood if there are va
rieties that please. Then it makes
no difference whether one has the
name correct or not.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-05-23
Raising Quail for Market.

Raising quail and pheasants is be.
ing successfully done by F. J. Wilson
an Ohio breeder, who feeds the young
chicks on ants and eggs until they
are two weeks old. After two weeks
he feeds hard-boiled eggs made fine
a little clover chopped fine and occa-
sionally a little curd, or curd daily
instead of eggs. Quails can be raised
in the same way with much less
bother, for at week old they can be
let run with their bantam mother,
and she will take the best of care of
them, and bring them in to roost
every night.-American Agriculturist.
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be feet long, while eff is 20 inches
long. The handle, cd, may be fas-
tened by driving nail through the
sidepiece, but eff should be keyed so
it may be removed from the frame
and passed through the spool of
wire as shown in the drawing. The
wire is easily handled by drawing it
over the ground with this simple de-
vice.-W. Gordon, in Orange Judd
Farmer
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HANDLING BARRED WIRE.
Clever Little Device Which Saves
Considerable Hard Work and
Lacerated Hands

Handling barbed wire with the de-
vice shown herewith is very much
easier than by the old way. 1t saves
clothes and lacerated hands, and
works well on uneven ground and
through brush. Two strips, alb, 1
inch by 21b inches wide and 80 inches
long, are used. Two inches from the
end of each strip an inch hole is
bored. Two round sticks 1 inch in
diame are necessary. Hard wood
broom handles will serve the pur-
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Not Prepossessing.

'What an awful villain the prisoner
is" whispered lady in the police court
to her husband. 81 should be afraid
even to stand near him!"
"Hush!" warned her husband "The
prisoner hasn't been brought in yet.
That's his lawyer.'-Tit-Bits-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-05-23
OUR PAS 7
BY
MAURICE MHETERnINCH.

and slowly decayng beneath the weight of oblivion The
BARE walls crumb1e shadow slowly
thing there and rigid memory
slowly decomposing lights for with usory gam
But from this animation derived only expiring
ecton all would appear be definitely mooness
divided from present and future by again
be crossed.
In reality alive and for of endowed
founder life either present future reality
hobed OF exence
with the spirit which return to shall find all their
wealth there, and others lose what they have.
LET US ENVY THE PAST or NO MAN. Our own past
ourselves and for ourselves could
other could have taught the
teach the strength that alone And
somber radiant still collection of
masterpieces the value OF which known but
foreign masterpiece could equal the action
accomplished the kiss received the thing of beauty that
deeply suffering underwent the anguish
unclaimed that wreathed smiles
ourselves what and shall be; and
sphere there from the happes
unfortunate who could foee1 how great
the another the
he himself leave in life
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-05-23

Fits Permanently Cured. No fits after
first days use of DR.. Kline's Great Nerve
Resterer. Free SO 90 trial bottle. DIR. r. H.
Kline, Ltd, 931 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-05-23

Leisure hours are the best or the worst
part of our lives.-Ram's Horn.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-05-23
Second Kings, Fourth Chapter, Tenth
Verse.

If you read this verse you will fnathe ba-
sis for the little story printed in The Four
Track News for May, which is entitled
'.The Prophets Chamber" The Four-Track
News will be sent free to any address in the
gle copies, cents. Address Geo. H Daniels,
Publisher, Grand Central Station, New
York.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-05-23

A lot of good people enjoy telling bad
news.-Chicago Daily News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-05-23

do not believe Pso's Cure for Consump.
ton has an equal for coughs and colds
John +. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb.
Is, 1900.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-05-23

Those who complain most are most to be
complained of.-M. Henry.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-05-23

To Cure Colo in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund moneyifi it fails to cure. Csc.
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Mrs. Mamie Herbert, Sc Elmwood Ave.,
Buffalo, N. Y, Treasurer Empire State
Fortnightly, Buffalo, N. Y, After Eight
Years Suffering Cured by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound

"DEAR MRS Inflammation and liberation of the
laid low and robbed life of its joys for For eight years
frequent pain and misery and then Lydia e. Pinkhams
Vegetable Compound to the greatest boon have
known, for brought life and health used several
bottles of Compound and your Sanatve Wash My improvement
Slow but from the first bottle felt that BETTER
kept courage and continued the None of friends
dreamed that would be well again. but have enjoyed life
to its fullest for three Mrs MAMIE HERBERT
$4,000 THE ABOVE LETTER NOT GENUINE.
When troubled with Irregular suppressed painful
menruation weakness eucoha displacement liberation of the
womb that feeling inflammation of the ovaries, bacace,
boang atuence general debility Indigestion and
are bse With such symptoms dizziness faintnes ssud
r1labiy Seepessne melancholy call
gone and want feelings blues and hopessness,
they should remember there tried and true remedy Lydia
Pinkha's Vegetable Compound troubles.
Refuse to buy any other medicine you need the best
Mrs. Pnkam invites all sick write advice.
She has guided thousands health Address Lynn Mass
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The man who is proud of his brains needs
more-Puck
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in long perspective. 1t slumbers
ted city shrouded lin mist. A few
peaks mark its boundary, and soar
predominant into the air; a few
important acts stand out, like
towers, some with the light still
upon them, others half ruined,
The evening world., 1902-03-12
WlFE'S INGENUITY
Saves Her husband.

The author Of the "Depenera,io,
of Dorothy" Mr. FRANKLIN KI,saiia
22s " 25th 81 New yorr ci,n ~
the victim ~ n ,,,,Ia hn- n,a. ia. Ia,
h. can h.s, ,.,, ,ha pia,
81 mus, confess ,h,, hau. I'm '.i .
vic,Im ~ ar inno..n, en .ne
Witch ,urrad o,,, al -, ..ep.'oh'
howeysr ' -" ''' '"e oes''
~ "a .
In, TO- 80 -. rs "nn.I 'ne DO,
irhr,na ."a. .ones served
,",tans T.. W NY e.reoiaI sohvo-
sha.Is 90 a, W J'us; maze ,he
,.a, 80, 81 'un. anu, anu had an idea
- ",,,,,,,oa, ou' "'' "o'n WITHOUT u as
The evening world., 1902-03-12
COURT ADJOURNED
BY SLIGHT FIRE.
BLAZE IN F0UR-MILE HOUSE
SCARED JUDGES.
All Caused by OSertarniax Of
Grsrsc Pm" In mayor of York.
ville's" Hotel.

The overturning NJ pan of gr.,..
on ted hot stor. created conslder,bI.
excitement In ~" neighborhood n,
fh'y-seventh street and Third avenue.
to-day, and caused The adjournment, n,
Two courts anh the fleeing from IN.
courthouse Of Two Justices. LAWYER.
court attendants and litigants
The fre occurred In the basement OF
the ho~tclry known a. the Four. Mile
House, an old land mark. conducted by
sam Wolf. populariy known as the
Mayor q. Yorkville."
Great volumes ot smoke poured from
the building. which Is but two doors
from the courthouse.
The Fire Department soon extlnguI.h-
ed the flames.
Slight as the fire was. It's smoke In
yaded the court-rooms of the Seventh
District Municipal Cour, and the Fourth
District Police Magistrates Court In
such large quantities that Municipal
Court Justice Joseph and Police Magis-
tratc Mayo and their respective attend
ants scrambled Ia escape from the
building The two Justices temporarily
adjourned court. and returned only
when they were convinced tina, the fire
xaS out
The evening world., 1902-03-12
THINK NAVAL
PARK ASSURED.
CANTOR SAYS BLACKWELl'S
ISLAND PLAN is SAFE.
Admiral Taylor Point. Oat Ad-
vast.sss of Proposed
Improvement.

President Canto<. ~ the borough ~
Manhattan. said to-day that he vas
assured the bill before the Legislature
TO lease Rlackwell's Island to the Fed
eral Government for n naval park. drill
ground. SC would be reported favor
ably and passed to-day.
II. said the Mayor would give hear
Ing on the bill. as required 10y law
and that ne as well as Rear Admiral
Taylor would appear and explain the
bill ami urge the Mayors signing In
his mail to-day the Presidcn, received
n memorandum from Admiral Taylor In
regard TO the Island. which I. as fol.
lows
Tho lease o' this Island 70 the navy
appears expe iient both for the navy and
the city The island would he useful to
the navy as receiving depot for sea-
men and marines II would proha bly,
he used no, 80 much for recruits and
green hands rs for men already If con-
siderable lengths ~ service. who re-
enlist and who would await there their
detail 70 some ship: their drill and in
structon continuing DURING their So
Journ on the island \ force NJ marine.
would doubtless be likewise KEEP, there.
These two bodies Of men would probably
amount 20 from so 10 ecp including n
small! force OF permanent men veterans
who are no longer available FOR sea ana
who would be charged with keeping IN.
station in n condition NJ nratncss'
The evening world., 1902-03-12
DECAP|TATED BY
BOATS HAWSER.
D0h0HUE'S NECK CAUGHT
between MOOSE AND POST
steamer Rhode Island Swipus
Away and Man IL Instantly
KILLED.

Thomas Dorohuc a workman on tn.
Providence line pier at the foo, II Mur-
raw street. and living in Jersey CITY.
Vas Instantly killed to-day In peculiar
accident His head was almosf gu, on
hv I'm. from the steamer Rhod. Isl.
ana while h" vas trying to make :
last TO a mporing post
ihe line was very heavy and had Just
nr"n thrown To the pier from the
steamer. Donohle was carrying the
noose around his shoulders As he
reached 'he post he raised ;he loop to
throw u over. The moose. IN dropping
down 'eii around his ne.k
hr'ore he could eStricat. himself the
steamer swung from the pier draw wing
IN" n. isut. and pononuc's heal aas
eausht bsiw-sn the heavy rope and the
ppst' As the steamer swung Ulck and
me line slackened his body dropped -o
'he pier. li..les..
The evening world., 1902-03-12
STEAMSHIP WRECK
ON SABLE ISLAND.
VESSEL REPORTED MAY BE
HUR0NIAN.
Allan Liner IL Long Overdue at
HnIifax-vesaeI sent Oat
to Investigate.

HALIFAX. March l..-ft is reported
that the Allan line steamship Huronian.
which lcf; Glasgow for ST. John. y II
Feb. II. and has not since been reported.
has been wrecked ON sable Island.
No definite information Is available as
there has been no Communication with
the Island since Christmas.
A steamer passing close to IN. island
two days ago reported arge vessel.
supposed to be a steamer. on the bar.
This may be the ship Crotton. which
has been hanging on the bar for several
years.
The Canadian Department q, Marine.
however. evidently believes new wreck
has occurred hs officials last night
wired to the Government steamer Ab.r-
deem 10 proceed 70 Sable Island and as
certain the facts
The evening world., 1902-03-12
.PURSER TALKS Of
W9!MAN'S ACTIONS.
MRS. BIG0l0IN AVOIDED ALL
ON STEAMER. HE SAYS.
She 10 Vow In Brus.eI.. aud q. Re-
ported as Complaining that
she Was Abducted.

\ report from Brussels that n soman
named Mrs Biro,din and her two chin
dren wer. in that city. claiming ,ha,
they had he~n abducted Srom New
York and brought to Autwcrp on III.
steamship vaderiand- Of the Rel star
line. was discussed by Pur--r smv.r.
n tha; vessel. to-day.
lie claimed 70 remember the woman
and 7er children well. hut AZ the pff, ,e-
% III" COMPANY It was said that her
name did not appear on their lists
My reason for remembering the wom-
an so we'll said the purscr. lis because
OF her strange actions during the yoy.
age Tho woman had regular sec
ond class passage for herself ana rhiI.
dren and made no complaint to me or
any one else that she had been adduct.
cd or was in any other trouble
Her strange actions We're commented
upon hy the other passengers The
woman spoke 10 no one. and when any
body tried 20 draw her into conversa-
ton she would NOV" away. making
some disconnected remark
During the yoyag" she spent her
time dresses. II seemed to me. for her
cail.ren"
At the offices Of the company /, Vas
said that the woman nigh; hay. bought
a tick.: under another name. but -.
one could explain how Pur..r smy.rs
could know the womans name II she
sas not ON the passenger liz,
rs IN" Naderland sailed ~ noon to-
day. further questions could bs put to
tn" purser. but the cas-. will be !nyc--
tigdted by the American line ofYic.nls
on the steamships return.