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The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
Queer Church Trfhute,

Smoke-farthings were offerings paid
in olden days in Whitsuntide to the
priest, according to the number of Chin
neys in his parish. Sometimes these dues
were demanded by the bishop of the dio-
cese, as an old manuscript records: ''The
bishop of Ellie hath out of evrie parish in
Cambridgeshire certain tribute called
smoke-farthings, which the church
wardens to levie according to the num-
ber of chimneys that be in a parish. -
Peters pence or smoke-money was still
paid at the end of the sixteenth century
in many English parishes. Similar to
this was chimney-tax levied from time
to time to raise funds. This was most
obnoxious to the people, and Pepys in
his diary notes: Much clamor against
chimnsy-money; and the people say
they will not pay it without force" 1t
was abolished in the reign of William
and Mary-Chicago Post.
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
CARE OF YOUNG PIGS.
Writer of This Article Tells why He
Has Abundant Faith in Di-
versity of RatiOns.

When the pigs are three weeks old
they will begin to eat other food be-
sides their mothers milk. To furnish
them this l have a very shallow
trough, easy for them to reach and
out of reach of the dam, and at this
light-lunch counter l provide them
corn meal, wheat middlings, ground
these all at once, of course, but vary
them according to their cost l try
always to have skim-milk and corn
meal for them. The quantity is limited
at first, and gradually increased to
such amount as is eaten up during the
day. They thus early develop the hab-
it of eating, and the grain and milk
fed in addition to the milk of the dam
gives such a start toward profitable
growing that they keep it up to the
end. This makes it possible for me to
keep the sow in good fieah and heart
without depriving the pigs of needed
nourishment.
1t is a common thing to see a sow
with family of clamorous pigs, that
have not thrived to the extent they
would if the feed had been put in them,
grow so thin sucking her family that
she is verify yielding up her life to
the demands of motherhood, which is
of course characteristically motherly
thing to do, and embodies a very nice
sentiment, but it illustrates nc evil
dence of a generous appreciation of
the mothers abnegation by her owner
or feeder. True, we are not raising
swine sentimentally, but we are try
ing to do it proftably, and may often
miss our profit by our stinginess-
The pigs stomach is small, and needs
filling often. For awhile after weaving
l feed four times day, and as the pigs
increase in size | feed three times a
day, all they will eat and no more
From this time on the bill of fare is
covered principally by corn and milk
If the corn gets too dry and hard,
soak it. l feed it heavily ground, also
| try to keep them growing and fat
so if have good market l have hogs
to meet it. By having them fat enough
for market at five or six months old
If the market does not suit me aud !
have a speculative notion that pork
will be higher in month or so, can
keep them that much longer, and still
have them within the limit of most
profitable feeding. 1t may be need
less to add that the market does not
always do what l think it will
Bearing this in MIND, generally sell
when my pigs are ready-W. F. Nc
Spartan, in Farm and Home.
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
A MODERN PIG TROUGH.

trough and as wide as the fence is high
If tight partition has been placed in
front of the pen, the battens and can
be fastened on the back side instead of
having the hinges attached to the
beam (k).
To feed the pigs, the perpendicular
sliding fastener CD can be raised, the
door (a) pushed back beyond the rear
side of the trough (g), and then the door
(a) can be held in position by pushing
down the slide f).
Instead of having partitions in the
trough to prevent the hogs from stand
ing lengthwise in the trough, it is more
cleanly to put pieces of plank on the
back side of a, as shown at h. These
plank need be only three-fourths as wide
as the trough, and straps of iron placed
on their edges and also on the edges of
the trough will double their durability.
H. M. Drake, in Farm and Home.
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
CONCEIT OF THE SOMALI.
1t Is UnbOunded and PrepOsterOus ans
Takes the Form of a Chant
to His Horse.

Perhaps the most remarkable charac-
teristic of the natives of Somaliland is
their unbounded, preposterous conceit.
Englishmen who know their language
have been appalled, by it. When water
ing his camel or his horse, the Somali
encourages the animal to drink by chant
ing to it in a monotone. 1t is at such
moments of extemporary effusion that
the man shines in all his glory. The
subject matter may be the experiences
of the days march, the virtues of the ami
NAL beside him, the charms of his latest
wife, or his own prowess in some blood
less tribal raid. BY great good fortune
the following literal translation of one
of these chants or songs came into my
possession, and insert it without any
comment:
"Will you see man? Then behold
me! l am Somali, as perfect in size
and form as Adam was, after God had
breathed into him His immortal soul.
Look how beautiful my curly hair is.
and how majestic look when wrapped
from head to foot in my snow-white or
jungle-colored tobe, although there be
sometimes only one pie "a small piece of
money tied to it. My house is the desert.
and am born free man. Free as the
wind. know neither king nor master
1 am as Adam was, my own master and
king. In the jungle l tend my camels
and sheep; my only labor is to watch
them feed. In my kerrier my wife, my
dear slave, does all the manual work.
while tending my offspring, and woe to
her if she forgets to prepare my evening
meal. The jedal (whip) shall then have
it's turn to make her remember for next
day. In such state is any man hap
pier than I?"--Golden Penny.
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
Lambs ShouId BE nncLed

There are not great many sheep
that come into the market with tails on,
though there are some. We are of the
impression that the average farmer is
more careless regarding this than the
ranchman. The latter evidently has a
great number to attend to and makes it
more a business to see to it in time.
Lambs should be docked for cleanliness.
if for no other reason. An yewes in
tended for breeding purposes should in
varfably be docked when they are still
sufficiently young not to be injured
Rural World.
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
Remarkable Machine

The potato planter of to-day would
make the farmer of a generation ago
sit up and rub his eyes. 1t requires that
the potatoes be supplied, but will do
all the rest on its own initiative. 1t
picks the potato up and looks it over
or seems to-cuts it into halves, quar-
ters or any desired number of parts,
separates the eyes and removes the seed
ends. 1t plants whole potatoes or parts
thereof, as desired, as near together or
as far apart as the judgment of the farm
er on the driving part suggests. Hav-
ing dropped the seed it covers it, fertil-
ICES it, tucks it in like a. child put to
bed and PAGES off the next row with
mathematical accuracy. = Philadelphia
Press
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
Letter Perfect.

"Now,'' said the professor, suppose
you had tried everything which your
knowledge of medicine suggested
what would then be your course?"
''Supposing the patient continued te
fail?''
Certainly"
'After having presented and col
lected my bill would advise the pa
tient to take trip TO Europe"
But suppose you did not succeed in
collecting your bill upon its presenta-
tion?"
Then l would stay right with him
and depend upon the gratitude of his
heirs. s."-Houston Post.
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
TO THE END-SEAT HOG.
A Lesson That Was Juicy and Efec-
tive Administered by an
Innocent Child.

81 saw an End Seat Hog get his'n
the other afternoon in way that gave
me much surcease of sorrow for the
remainder of the day." said the man
with the punky Porto Rican breva,
says a writer in the Washington Post.
"He was one of these long, rakish
crafts with knobby knees that pressed
against the back of the seat in front
of him when hey was sitting up straight.
/ know, for I'd been compelled to
squeeze past those knees myself, and
even when he scroonched himself a lit
tie bit sideways to let me get by, those
knees of his bored dents in me that
haven't filled out yet
"At Fourteenth and X streets the
car stopped for little girl and her
mother. AS myself and the End Seat
Hog were the only occupants of that
sat, all of the others being pretty well
filled, the little girl pointed it out to
her mother and very politely mo-
toned to her to get on first, which the
mother did. The mother had troubles
of her own in squeezing by the End
SCoS I1oS, DuI olC uloh w ohy Llul
muring.
Then it was the little girls turn.
The little girl grasped the brass hand
clutch with her right hand and swung
herself aboard, in her left hand she
had nice large, juicy cream puff that
her mother had just given her out of
bag full of them. The little girl was
trying to get past the End Seat Hog,
when the car suddenly started with a
jerk. The little girls left hand, the
one holding the cream puff, shot out,
In her instructive effort to find some
thing to lean against or grab hold of.
The hand found something. 1t came
ker-plunk! cream puff and all, right
against the map of the End Seat Hog.
The cream puff smashed all over his
face and the gallery cream rolled in
rivulets down his chops and on to his
collar and necktie and coat and vest
'Scuse me- said the little girl,
politely, and the End Seat Hog glared
at her through eyes half-closed with
punches of sweet sepia-hued stuff He
tried to police himself with his hand
kerchief, but it was no go, and he soon
left the car, scowling, to get rerigged
somewhere"
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
True Value of Pedfgrees.

A good long pedigree tracing back
through good family is valuable in an
animal and shows that his ancestors
have been well bred, have descended
from good stock, and have had good
blood in their veins. This does not
necessarily show, however, that the in
dividual under consideration is a good
individual; it raises the presumption
that he is, but still he might be scrub
individual and never should be
used for breeding purposes.-Midland
Farmer.
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
The Bible and the Empire State
EXPRESS.

A Bible student has recently been fgur-
ing on now long it would have taken the
people to make the journey from Dan to
Beersheba if they could have had the
benefit in the olden times of the Empire
would have made this Journey in less than
three hours, although from reading of the
account in the Bible one would think it was a
long journey, and it was for those days with
their limited means of transportation.
Ezekiel, the Chaldean prophet, had in his
minds eye something like the Empire State
Express when he uttered the words recorded
this up and see if you do not agree with
the idea-From the Troy Daily Times.
The New York Central~is every day add
ing to the sum of human knowledge by its
marvellous passenger train service.
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
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ILLINOIS CATTLE BARN.
Large Enough to Accommodate One
Hundred Animals In the
Height of Comfort.

We submit the plan for cattle barn
which we have used for three years and
consider the best of any we have seen,
write Eastman Bros, of Hancock,
county ILL.,, in Breeders Gazette. We OBJ
tanned our plan from John Clark, of Illi-
nois, who has used barns like it for many
years. The barn is 96 feet by 4S feet. 1t
is a pole barn, with posts 20 feet high,
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
Mistake in a Street Car,

Said man on street car who had
already given up his seat as he nudged
a familiar friend who still kept his:
why don't you get up and give the
woman seat?'
She, who was standing, glared at
him.
"Slr!" she said, 81 will have you
know am lady!"
"Ah! Beg your pardon, madam" he
replied politely, Il took you for a wo-
man!'-Portland Oregonian.
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04

Gated. No other systemic catarrh rem
edy has as yet been devised. Insist
upon having Peruna. There are no
medicines that can be substituted.
If you do not derive prompt and satis-
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DIR. Hartman, giving
full statement of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad-
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columb bus, o.
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
ON BEING A BOY.
What We Used to Think and Do in
the Happy Days of
Childhood.
Governor of Wisconsin.

Distance lends enchantment to the
every man looks back upon his boy
hood days as time of perfect happi-
ness. If he remembers his tribula-
tions, they are now objects for merri-
ment, and the joys of his youth are
enhanced by memory until they are
perfectly glorious. OF course, there are
very few boys who really have a nice
time, but they think so, and thai
amounts to the same thing
For instance" said writer in
Puck, "a boy thinks it is real fun to
go to bed with all his clothes on, and
lies awake for three hours till his
father has sought a downy couch
Then the boy gets out of bed climbs
out of the back window and down a
rain spout, barking his shins and
skinning his knuckles on the way, and
walks three miles across plowed fields
to steal watermelon out of farm
er's patch. And the next day, when
they have watermelon for dinner at
home, do you suppose that makes the
boy feel sore, as it would a man? Not
much. The boy has had his fun, and
the chances are that he'll get up and
do the same old act all over again
day after tomorrow
Again, boy thinks it's fun to put
an empty soap box on top of two logs
and paddle himself up and down a
brook where there are no lighthouses
no harbors, and not more than II
inches of water, counting the mud on
the bottom.
"a boy thinks it's fun to row boat,
too. He will get aboard 8 big, heavy
skiff, with a pair of seven-foot oars,
when the thermometer indicates 90 de-
grees in the summerhouse, and he'll
pull himself around and around in a
ring, and cut SIS and figures on the
water, and think he's having a glo-
rious time.
ga boy thinks it's fun, too, to get
four old bricks and build himself an
oven, and then to make a wood fire in
it, and roast potatoes with skins on,
and eat them without salt
Two boys, who can have unto
themselves small feast like this, ac-
companied by the edifying converse
tion about the extermination of the
Sioux, think they're having more fun
than you or I would at public din
ner of Is courses.
when boy gets over being a boy
and looks back over his period of dis
order. he often wonders how it hap
pened that he lived through it. But it
appears to be pretty generally adj
mitted by medical experts that the
boyhood disease is not necessarily
fatal.
''It does do away with few of its
victims, to be sure, but they are those
who are affected with the acute form
in which 20-foot rivers appear three
feet deep, and double barreled shot
guns are mistaken for Pandean pipes
There is one form of the disease
which ought to prove fatal, but for
some inscrutable reason does not
That is the form which causes the pa
tient to imagine that jewsharps, flies
banjos and horse-fddles produce music
Usually, however, that disease wears
itself out. 1t wears a great many peo-
pie out, too; but that doesn't hurt a
boys feelings in the least"
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
EXCELLENT PIG TROUGH.
1t Provides an Equal Share for Every
Animal and Can Be Cleaned
Quickly,

1t is always desirable to place food
in the pigs trough so as to enable each
pig to get an equal share. A trough
that can be cleaned quickly and easily
is also of great value. These qualities
combined will be found in this plan of
trough. To accomplish this, the swing
ing door (a) should be as long as the
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04

They equal those
that have been cost
ing you from $500
to $500. The inn
mense sale of w. l..
Douglas shoes proves
their superiority over
all other makes.
Sold by retail shoe
dealers everywhere.
Look for name and
price on bottom.
That Douglas uses Cor.
0na Colt proves there is
value in Douglas shoes.
Corona is the highest
grade Pat.Leather made.
Eoef T1V1..
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
behind Her Back,

eyes," answered the other
"And doesn't seem to care for gossip
ing in the least"
"Oh, / don't know about that" an
swered the other, with sniff, "she mere
ly prefers to talk about Helen of Troy
and Romeo and Juliet to paying atten-
ton to what is going on in her own
neighborhood.' Washington Star.
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04

of dollars in medicine which did me no
good. l was persuaded by a friend to
try Peruna. took it two weeks with
out much improvement, but 1 kept on
with it and soon began to get well and
strong very fast. Within two months
was cured, and have been well ever
since. / am a strong advocate of
Peruna. &C. Hershman.
Peruna cures catarrh of the kidneys,
liver and other pelvic organs, simply
because it cures catarrh wherever To-
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
Phenomenon.

Askitt-Why do you consider Blank
erton the most remarkable man of the
age?
Knowitt-Because he originated get
rich-quick scheme that actually made all
the investors rich.-Chicago Daily
News. :.
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
So DeIightfuI.

Fountain Barkeep-What do you
mean by an incandescent cocktail?
Frivolous Customer-A vanilla soda
1t is soda-light-ful, you knowi--Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
Growth.

Our esteemed contemporary, the Ashtabu-
la CO., RecordHerald, gives prominence ON
its editorial page to this important item:
Miss Carrie George has had her limb am
putated for the third time. She is in the hos
pital and is getting along nicely" Growing
country, Ohio.-Rochester Post Express.
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04

He says he's in business for himself now.
manufacturing automobiles" "Yes." And
he claims not one of his machines has ever
been known to break down on the road y
That's right; he hasn't sold any YETI
Philadelphia Press.
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
Radisson on the Chippewa.

A new town in Sawyer county, Wis, on
the Omaha Road. Located on both the
Chippewa and Couderay rivers, in center
of a most fertile and promising hardwood
district Good muscallonge, bass and pike
fishing in both rivers. Exceptional oppor-
tunities for landseekers If looking for a
new location don't fail to see this new
country. For map and full particulars
write to Postmaster, Radisson, Sawyer Co.,
Wis, or to T. W. Teasdale, General Passen-
ger Agent. c. st. P. M. & o. R'y. st. Paul.
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
|CATARRH DESTROYS THE KIDNEYS
Was Miserable Gould Not Stand Up or Walk.
Pe-ru-na Cured.
Was Miserable.
Many Persons Have
Cdtarrh and Don't
Know 1t.

N>N>N~N|N>N~CN~N~ ~N~N~OOC~~NSN~NS>
Mr.. James M. Powell, 633
Troost street, Kansas City,
Mo-, Vice Grand of 1. o.
o. F., of Cherryville, Kan,
writes
"Abouf four years ago /
suffered with a severe ca
farrh 0ffhe bladder, which
caused Confinuedirrifafion
and pain. I was miserable
and could not stand up or
walk for any length of
time without exfrem e
WEAKNESS and pain. Ibe-
gan taking Peruna and it
greatly relieved me, and In
eleven weeks I was COM
pIefeIy cured and felt like
q new man. flames M.
Powell
Hundreds of Dollars Spent
in Vain.
Mr.. Cyrus Her S h NJ a n
Sheridan, Ind, writes:
"Two years ago l was a
sick man. Catarrh had set
tied in the pelvic organs,
making life a burden and
giving NE little hope of
recovery. 1 spent hundreds
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04

One consolation about mean man is. that
assuredly he has no friends-Washingto
Ua) Democrat.
The Ely miner., 1903-09-04
w, l.. DOUGLAS
s3.se & g SHOES SsISE SsT9!

You can save from S3 to SD yearly BY
wearing w. L. Douglas $3.50 or SO shoes.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-08-20
Commissioner Lost Out.

George Whitman, member of the
board of county commissioners at
Hartford City, made a bold stand
against public sentiment there on
Thursday. The merchants and pub
lic-spirited citizens raised purse and
hired Phinney'S United States Band
to render free concert. 1t was
planned to give the concert on the
court house lawn and was so advertis-
ed. At the last minute Whitman, who
is a farmer and president of the
county board, gave the sheriff orders
to swear in deputies and secure the
help of the city policemen to keep the
band off the lot and to arrest the Cit
liens who gathered on the lawn. He
then reported his orders to the citi-
zens who gathered on the lawn. The
sheriff reported his orders to the CON-
mittee which had the matter in charge
and then concluded to ignore Will
mans authority. Whitman was sur
ious when fully $500 people congre-
gated on the lawn and listened to the
programme rendered and not an Of
ticer would interfere.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-08-20
The Danville Mob.

The grand jury at Danyille, ILL.,, has
returned indictments against some
twenty-five members of the moo beat
en- off from the Jail by Sheriff Whit
lock, and the indictments give the
public a valuable opportunity TO
study the nature of the prominent
citizens" that form the average mob
on lynching bent. The leader of the
mob was one Winfield Baker, a vagrant
tramp from Kentucky, who carried
two pistols and fired them about in
most reckless fashion. Assisting him
materially in stirring up the passions
of the mob was one Bessie Armstrong,
town character. The rest, with one
exception, were miners and laborers,
inflamed with liquor, the exception
being an electrician.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-08-20

MORTUARY
Miss Anna Wilson.

Anna, only daughter of M. and
Mrs. G.. NJ. Wilson. died at her home
in South Bend, Thursday evening,
August Ii. age Is years, months.
Deceased was born at New Carlisle,
but came TO Plymouth when she was
six years old and with her parents re-
sided here until about two years ago.
She was bright, intelligent, ami
able girl, favorite with all who
knew her and her death is a sad blow
to her parents and two brothers and
fills with sorrow the hearts of many
other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held at South
Bend Saturday forenoon and the re-
mains brought to Plymouth on the
noon train. Short services were held
at Oak Hill cemetery, conducted by
Rev. A. p. belong.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-08-20
indiana and Chicago.

The Chicago Journal says that if
there are 5000. negroes in Indi-
ana who can not write, there are more
than that number of Indiana novelistS
in the same situation. OF course,
some allowance must be made here for
the photographers natural tendency
to exaggerate. There are undoubtedly
a good many people with literary am
billions in Indiana who have not been
able to plant both feet on the literary
goal, but when we check up the num-
Der of Indiana novelistS who can write
and compare their work with that of
their neighbors across the State line,
the result leaves Illinois, and especial
ly Chicago, among the "alSo-ranS. y
Indianapolis News.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-08-20

A West Philadelphia Sunday school
teacher has a class of a dozen small
boys, ranging In their ages from 6 to
syears. Not long ago the lesson was
from the twenty-second-chapter of
Genesis, upon the temptation of Abra-
ham to offer Isaac for sacrifice. The
teacher told them in as simple Ian
guage as possible the story of the 60
ing into the mountain and the prepare
tion for the sacrifice, and when all was
ready she explained that Abraham
saw kid in the bushes and took that
and killed it. There was an awed ST.
lence for a moment when she had fin
ished, and then one little lad gasped,
with eyes wide with horror: "a
'klji" What, a boy?"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-08-20
Schwab Starts a New Trust.

The latest trust is tailoring trust,
and Charles M. Schwab, the steel king
and millionaireis behind it. The facts
came out when P. A. Schwab, an IN.
Gle of the former president Of the
steel trust, and David J. WEIGH, for
many years the right-hand man Of a
big wooden mill concern, began to
make contracts on mammoth scale.
Both these men have spent many
years in this line of business and are
experts.
Charles M. Schwab is known to
have millions invested in several
enterprises outside OF the steel trust,
but it was a great surprise when it
was learned that he is to supply the
capital to operate the gigantic COM
binatiou in the tailoring business now
il process Of formation.