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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
A RABBIT IN ITS MOUTH.

claim that the RATHER was as big
around as stove pipe. For an in
slant it raised it's head in the air
and looked at them; then it dropped
the rabbit in the road and made a
straight start for the terrified ne
groes. It's rattles sounded like the
beating of snare drum, making a
hideous noise. The entire crowd of
workmen, instead of turning upon
the snake and dispatching it, took
flight down the road, and had foot
race which will not soon be seen
again. The horses also saw the snake
and stampeded, and pandemonium
reigned.
Half an hour later the negroes re-
turned to the place and found that
the rattler had recovered the rabbit
and was out of sight. A party with
guns searched for the snake, but he
could not be found.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
Monkey in an Engine Cab,

When engine No. 326 of the New
York Central went into the freight
yards at Tarrytown one night last
week strange face peered out of the
cab window. The train carried some
animals belonging to the Boston show
When it STOPPED at a way station few
miles above Tarrytown, Admiral Far.
ragut, one of the largest monkeys, es-
capped. When the train started, the
monkey made a quick scramble for the
front car, when the glow of the fire in
the cab of the locomotive appealed to
him. The Admiral made his way over
the tender and entered the cab, to the
surprise. of Engine Driver Edwards and
Fireman Martin Kelly. He was made
comfortable, and allowed to continue
his ride to Tarrytown, where one OF
the keepers took him in charge.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14

pocket and landed in an immense
crawfish hole. He made a dash for
it, but discovered that the hole was
of untold depth. He proceeded to dig
it out, but after having dug hole
large enough to hold the country
church nearby he lost the location
of the crawfish hole and gave up in
despair.
A few days afterward several
schoolboys were passing through the
swamp some distance from where
Jim had excavated, when they dis
covered what was the largest craw-
fish they had ever seen emerging
from an immense hole. They all
bounced upon the monster and killed
it, and around it's body, in a tangled
mass, was wound gold chain with
Jim's valuable chronometer attached
to the other end.
It is supposed that the watch fell
upon the monster when it disappear
ed in the hole few days previous
and that in it's efforts to escape the
chain became fastened about its
body.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
SIGNED THE PLEDGE.
Why Nathan Beeswax Joined the
Abstinence Brigade.
Reformed by One of the Finest Cases
of Katzenjammer on RecOrd-A
Night of Riot Followed by
RemOrSe,

"Fellow citizens, I'm SICK" said
Nathan BeeswaX last night to a
Charleston News and Courier man and
a group of other admirers. There
was too much refreshment circulating
last evening. l began with beer, shift
ed to old Pepper, finally worked my
way round to Mumm's extra dry and
then went off in a trance. When l woke
up this morning 1 thought was some
body else. 1 caught glimpse of my
reflection in a mirror and my face
frightened me so 1 screamed. You
can't imagine how I felt, because l
broke the record of misery. No man
ever did feel like l did and live. l
reached for the ice water pitcher and
took gulp. For minute l thought
I was in Heaven. That water tasted
like ambrosia and nectar. Thirsty?
Don't ask me trivial questions. The
temperature in my system was so high
that my breath set my moustache on
fire. 1t was completely destroyed. No
insurance. l made four efforts to get
out of bed before 1 realized the fatu-
Gus futility of essaying the impossi-
BILE. l moaned in my agony. l was
hot one minute and cold the next.
while clammy and continuous per-
spiration added interest and enjoy
ment to the proceedings. Every lit
tie while strange rigors would seize
me and when l finally dropped into q
fitful slumber 1 dreamed that an ALI
gator was lying beside me and Tanning
me with his long red tongue. Night
mare? No, sir; this was an alligator.
Holler? Why, I'D bet 81 they heard
me yelling on Edisto island. Now
hearken to me: Nathan BeeswaX. as
a booze comedian, is no more. I've
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
TWO-YEAR-OLD SMOKER.
Tiny Tony Began with n Pipe and
Now Can Tell a Good Cigar
from a Bad One.

Allentown, Pa, can boast of having
the youngest tobacco smoker in the
state, if not in the world. He is
Tony Cerantino, son of August Ceran-
tino, and though only two years and
three months old, smokes cigars like
veteran, no matter how strong
they are.
The tot learned to smoke six
months ago, beginning with a pipe,
which one day his uncle had left ly-
ing on table. Tony was alone at
the time, but he lit that pipe all him.
self and was putting away contented-
ly when he was discovered. Of
course, the pipe was taken from him,
but he watched his opportunity and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
THE PANTHER LET GO
Man Strangely Saved by Beasts
Act When Near Death.
Brute's Jaws Closed over the Blade
of Hunting Knife Which En-
tered Roof of Mouth and
Pierced the Brain.

"You would like to know how came
by these marks, young man?" said the
old hunter in answer to a question put
to him by New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat man as to how he got so many
scars on his face. ''In order to tell you
l will have to take you with me some
miles over long road, then along
narrow trail that leads off from the
road into a dark wood. These woods
and widest of the Black Hills, in Wy
oming, and are known to hunters in
that vicinity as one of the most dam
gerous places to hunt. This is on .ac-
count of the many cavities in the
rocks, which are huge boulders scat
tered over the ground. These offer eX-
cellent hiding places for large game,
which is plentiful there. In these
cavities the panthers and wildcats
make their lairs. They are undis-
turbed in this wild place except by the
occasional hunter who has pluck to
venture in these. parts. Well, L was
one of these. [ followed the trail all
day and by night had reached the
shadow of the dark wood. There was
a faint moon in the sky and by its light
L could but family distinguish my
surroundings. All around me lay
great black objects of different shapes,
which L knew to be boulders.
''The silence was something awful,
and it seemed to me as l stood there
in the deserted spot that there could
not be a sound in all the world. Not
the rustic of leaf stirred the air, not
the chirp of cricket, not the hum of
an insect. 1t was awful. stood there
in the midst of it, fearful to awake
an echo. If the silence was grand the
awful wall that startled me was ter
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14

! joined the Apollinaris brigade. Are
you on?"
'How did you happen to accumulate
such a riotous jag, Mr.. BeeswaX?"
| asked one of his auditors.
"Well, the material was available,
my boy, and the time somehow seemed
to be opportune. I had been unhappy
for several weeks and l yearned for
| the company of few frollicking SEN
sations. | wanted to feel glad, as it
were, and forget about bet | made
on horse last week that stopped in
| the stretch and asked for water. l
opened the performance with beer,
but l soon came to the conclusion that
| if l wanted to experience that Joy
which passeth all understanding [
would have to switch. So | chased
whisper across the bar and a bottle
of crimson fluid connected with my
good right hand. That was the begin
ming of the end. Ere long l was too
merry for anything. My money also
began to annoy me. l couldn't spend
it fast enough and when | met stran-
ger from Mount Pleasant | asked him
if he would allow me to give him $40.
He said he would oblige me with pleas
ure, but he'd like it better if I'd make
it $50. The suggestion pleased me so
that l wept from sheer joy and handed
him the $50. / was now at the cham
payne stage Of the game and the rap
ids were just below me. Vaguely re-
member meeting a longshoreman and
asking him who his favorite poet was,
but | can't recall what he said. Short
ly afterward the automatic piano be-
gan to play The Holy City, and when
the instrument reached that 'Je-ru-
salem note my soul slipped out of its
socket and l passed away. But this
morning-don't worry, l won't go over
it again. Hereafter address your let
tiers to me in care of the Total Abstain
ers' society. Are you on? Then break
aWaVt'
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14

rible. 1t went out of the darkness
somewhere near me.
at seemed to have sounded in my
eye. 1t woke an echo that went
sounding through the woods again
and again, then back once more to
me. There was no need for me to
try to see what it was. l knew it
was a panther. Was it behind me,
in front of me or at my side? I
could do nothing but wait for an
other wall or hear it stir. See I
could not, the darkness was so in
tense. 1 stood ready to fire at the
first chance. Like thunderbolt
something 1eaped upon and over
whelmed me. / felt it's sharp claws
sink into my flesh. It's hot breath
was upon my cheek as it bore me to
the ground. Already it's teeth were
sinking into my side and 1 felt the
hot blood trickling down. My arm
got twisted under me in the fall and
was powerless. The great eyes. like
Goals of fire, were staring me in the
face.
MY strength was going and I
could feel myself growing more and
more helpless. l managed to wrench
one hand from under me and get my
knife. The beast was crouching over
me, and made a wild pass at him.
The knife missed it's mark and glided
harmlessly over its hide. / did not
have the strength to strike. l raised
my arm to make another pass, but
found l had hardly enough strength
to hold the knife. The beast, with
open jaws, made a lunge at my arm.
1t caught my hand, and it's jaws
closed over the blade of the knife.
With a howl of pain the beast Jump
ed high into the air and rolled over
and over on the ground. / was free,
and going over to my enemy saw that
the blade had entered the roof of the
mouth and pierced the BRAIN The
beast was helpless, and lay grooming
until morning. I lay down and slept
with my head on the soft skin"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
Girls operate a sawmiII

The four daughters of a Pennsyl-
vania sawmill owner have announced
that they intend to operate the mill
until it attains an average output of
10000 feet of lumber each working
day. The young women began work
ing the mill little over a year ago,
writes a reporter in the Brooklyn
Eagle. 1t is 35 horsepower mill, and
the energetic managers operated it
so we'll that in short time the av-
erage output per day was $4,000 feet
of lumber. which was the best output
by several thousand feet of any mill
in the locality-all operated by men.
Encouraged by their success, the
young women are endeavoring to in
crease the output to the figure men
toned above.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
STREET ACCIDENTS.
Five Women Day Are Hurt i'm Chi
cego Because They Are Guilty
of '.Rubbernecking."

Five women day, according to the
police reports, are hurt in the shop
ping district by street cars or other
vehicles running into them, says the
Chicago Tribune. Some of the cases
are serious, and demand the removal
of the injured persons to hospital
or their homes. The great majority
of these accidents, crossing police
men declare, are due to what is vul-
carly called ''rubbernecking."
mine women out of ten who are
hurt by street cars or vehicles drawn
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
beginning of an Eruption.

Mr.. Whymper thus describes the
commencement of an eruption of the
volcano of Cotopaxi: "a puff of steam
was emitted and then brief pause.
Five minutes later a column of inky
blackness began to issue, and rose up
straight in the air with such prodigious
velocity that in less than three min
utes it was 10000 feet above the rim
of the crater. The top of the column
was about 100000 feet above the level
of the sea-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14

the wagon. When it arrived no less
their fists in the suspicious Mr..
Grants face and calling him names
other than his own.
At the police station. Miss Bacon
again propounded her question of
"Why?"
'Yes, 'why?'" asked Lieut.. O'Con-
nor, turning to Grant.
That individual looked ,perplexed,
stammered for a moment, then a
white light spread over his face.
''I've got it," he exclaimed. I've
got it, sure!"
Pulling Lieut.. O'Connor to one side
he whispered
"He'S woman
That was the beginning of the end
of Miss Bacon's masquerade. Under
a cross-fre of questions she lost her
defiant air, admitted her identity,
then wept copiously-just like any
other woman.
The girl said she was the daughter
of A. C. Bacon, a druggist in Mid
land, Mich. She was graduate
nurse, she said, and for three years
was employed in a hospital at Mount
Pleasant, Ia. From Mount Pleasant
she went to Geneva, Wis, where she
acted as nurse in a sanitarium, and
arrived at the conclusion that her
sex did not have an equal chance
with the men.
$50 | cut off my hair" she con-
tinued, land bought a suit of mems
clothes, hat. collars. necktie, and
that sort of thing. Ny other apparel
1 left in my trunk. When I reached
Chicago it was as Erb Bacon and not
Edith Bacon. / went direct to the
Midland hotel, where 1 registered
Tuesday night.
''The next day I started out, look
ing for work What kind? Oh. any,
thing that a man works at. I was
not particular, but preferred a po-
sition as clerk"
Soon after Miss Bacon's arrest a
cousin who is connected with the
Presbyterian hospital called at the
station and secured her release.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
LARK ENDS IN TEARS
Young Woman Nurse Masquerades
as Giddy Youth.
Her Arrest by Policeman Anglers a
Chicago Crowd and His COpship
Is Threatened with Seri-
Gus Trouble.

Edith Bacon, of Chicago, "a years
old and more than comedy, regretted
she wasn't man, and the more she
turned the matter over in her mind
the more determined she became at
least to pose as one.
So she formed plan and carried
1T out. That is why she was pris-
oner at the Desplaines street sta
ton yesterday, says the Chicago
Tribune, and it also reveals the
cause of an uneasy half hour for Pa
trolman Grant, who made the arrest.
Miss Bacon, clad in male attire,
was marching jauntily along at Mad
ison and Canal streets when Police
man Grant saw her. There was
something-the policeman himself
cannot tell just what-that aroused
his suspicious. Approaching the
masquerader he laid his hand on her
shulder.
Miss Bacon turned, eyed the police
man for second, then propounded
distinctively MASCULINE interroga-
tive that sounded like "W'at ELL"
Grant backed away, rubbed his
chin thoughtfully, then stood like a
man frozen to the sidewalk. He was
still suspicious, but he didn't know
of what. In the meantime crowd
gathered.
well, are you going to arrest me?
And what for?''
Miss Bacon put the question in
such straightforward way that
they were echoed by the crowd.
''The copper's been drinking sug-
gested one man.
''Yes,. and I'm going to report
him." volunteered another.
Finally the crowd became threaten
ing, and Patrolman Grant decided to
go ahead without respect to the time
honored adage of "Be sure you're
right He grabbed the supposed
youth by the arm, dragged "him" to
the nearest patrol box, and called
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
EATS CIGAR BUTTS.
James Haley, a Denver Prisoner, De-
velOps an Appetite Which Is
RavenOusly Keen.

Chewing the burnt ends of cigar
butts is the substitute for morphine
used by James Haley in the West
side Jail, says the Denver (Col.) Post.
Haley has been for years con-
firmed ''dope fiend." He was sem
fenced about two weeks ago to the
Jail for 80 days on the charge of va
grancy. For two days of his confine-
ment Haley stood the separation from
his beloved drug with stolid indiffer-
ence Then the awful cravings came
over him with rush and he cried like
a child for the usual number of shots.
He rolled around the floor of his cell
in agony, clutching at his stomach,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
TERRORIZED BY SNAKE.
Enormous Rather Frightened n Big
Crowd of Workmen and SIAM
peded Their Horses.

A huge rattlesnake is roaming at
large on the outskirts of the city of
Tampa, near Hyde Park, and as re-
suit, says the Florida Times-Union,
the ladies and children of that Sec
ton are in constant fear.
While the colored worllmen en-
gagged on the boulevard which is be-
ing constructed by Cushing & Weir
for the county, were at work grad
ing the roadbed and hauling off the
sand, they were confronted with a
rattlesnake which came out of the
thicket. The reptile was nine feet in
length at least, and had full-grown
rabbit in it's mouth. The negroes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14

INDUCED himself repetitiously, and
raised such racket when deprived
of his Smoke that at last he was
permitted to go ahead.
From the pipe he went to cigars,
and has become quite connoisseur
in the tobacco line. He can tell a
Lehigh county political candidates
"two-fer" from a clear Havana after
taking one puff.
The use of the weed has had no
deleterious effect on the young fell
low, who, so far from being stunted
in growth, or mentally dull, is an I'M
usually bright child for his age.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14

by horses have only themselves to
blame" said an officer who for sew
eral years had guarded a State street
crossing. Il have seen dozens of
women injured down here in the re-
tail district, and l never saw one who
met with an accident who was not
'rubbernecking.'' For instance,
woman will start to cross the street
with an armful of bundles. Half way
over, in the middle of the car tracks,
she turns around to look at woman
who has passed her from the oppo-
site direction. Perhaps it was the
woman's hat or the hang of the skirt
that has caused the other woman to
stop and take her in At any rate,
she stands there like a block of
stone, deaf to the changing of the
car bell and the shouts of the people
who see her danger. Finally, after
she has Toasted her eyes on the hat
CT skirt, OF whatever it was that
caught her fancy, she wakes up and
finds a street car or vehicle of some
kind bearing down on her. She is
confused, and doesn't know which
way to turn. The chances are 100 to
one that she will step in front of the
car or carriage, if she has to run
five feet to do it, and then the am
bulance is called. She tells her hus-
band and everybody else that the mo-
torman or gripman, as the case might
tie, tried deliberately to run her
down.
THE same thing is true of a great
many men who are injured down
town. Two men out of five Chats
a conservative estimate) will turn
around ten times in walking one
block to look at women who attract
their notice. And, do you know, it's
a habit with a whole lot of men. I
know some of the most respectable
men in Chicago, who in every other
way are model husbands, who are
victims of this habit of 'rubberneck-
ing If woman attempted to firt
with them they would take to the
woods, but they will turn around and
secretly admire some woman they
never saw before and never expect to
see again."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14

ia an oven and by this means kept
alive.
The infants were born three weeks
ago. One weighed 31a pounds and the
other three pounds. Both are girls.
At the time of their birth the physi-
clans said they considered it impossi-
BILE for the frail little bodies to be
kept alive, although it might be posi-
BILE with the aid of an incubator for
several weeks to nurse them until
they could gain more vitality.
The oven of a large range was i'm
mediately converted into an incuba tor
and the little girls grandmother took
charge of them. By constant watch
ing the heat was kept uniform. The
infants were kept in a basket in the
oven for three weeks and are now in
a healthy condition.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
Housebreaking in Peru.

Burglars in Peru, when about to en-
ter a house, supply themselves with
sponge and a bucket of water. With
the sponge they moisten the mud
covered domicile, and the thin coat
ing is easily dissolved. Then they
readily cut through the thin frame
work, and make a hole large enough.
to pass through.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
Wooden Leg Always Moving.

"A Brooklyn topper has wooden leg
which travels considerab bly,. He walks
it off to the pawnshop. pledges it. and
his wife redeems it, walks it back
home. and straps it to her lord. that
he may toddle off to work. Thus the
wooden leg is almost constantly on
the move.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
I'm BILLETTS' WATCH.
1t Was Carried Off by an Immense
Crawfish and Recovered in
n Strange Way.

Jim Billets, farmer in Anderson,
north of Burgin, KY, while cleaning
away some brush lost his fine gold
watch, which was jerked from his
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
No Respecters of Religion.

To attract English-speaking patrons
the managers of sanitarium in Tus-
cany placed the following notice over
little fathers of the poor of St. -
harbor all kinds of diseases, and have
no respect for religion"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
UNIQUE INCUBATOR.
Lives of Twins Saved by Keeping
Them Warm for Weeks in n
Kitchen Stove.

That an oven may make a good baby
incubator is proved by the fact that
the twin babies of Mr.. and Mrs. j. w.
Simmons, of Des Moines, Ia, were put
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
Teeth Made of Paner

A Vienna aentist reports having
made considerable success with arti-
fetal teeth made of paper treated by
a process of his own invention.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
Timber That Never Decays.

The timber of the redwood tree of
California never decays. Fallen
trunks, which have been overgrown
by new forests, are as solid as the day
they fell.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
speed of Ocean steamers.

In the last sixty years the speed of
the ocean steamers has been increased
from 80 to 90 knots an hour.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
A Simple Cure.

The latest cure for drunkenness is
laughter.
The daily sentinel., 1902-08-18
Wants and For Sale.

For Rent-Newly furnished room,
with board. 13l White avenue.
Wanted-Girl for general homework.
Mrs. G. 3. Rich, 62S Ouray avenue.
For Rent-rwo houses with or with
out furniture. Apply corner South and
Seventh.
For Sale-Good- pay ing laundry, splen-
did location. Big bargain for some.
one. Inquire at this offic.
HOUSE Work-all it's branches neatly
and quickly done. Wall paper cleaning
. speciality. Address, City. P. o. box
2lA. Phone $50 black. Victor Tharp.
Formerly Avsnsss 4 ThsEp.