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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27
INSIDE A GREAT DAM.
Interesting Description of the W Ork-
ings of n Mammoth I'm
dertakinE.

Down in the hole, $50 feet below the
completed part of the wall, in a chasm
of natural powders and masonry
rocks, the pumps drum and gurgle,
taking out of the pit for their daily
task half million of gallons of wa
ter. Far overhead the buckets go fly
ing swiftly by along the cable ways,
then stop as suddenly and slide down
to the ground, to rise again empty a
minute later and be swept out of sight
over the edge of the wall, says a de-
scription of "the Greatest of Power
DAMS" in Leslie's Monthly. Great
hooks suspended from heavy chains
swoop down, grasp an enormous stone
and then, far above the confusion,
slide through the air again to lower
it to it's place on the wall as accurate
ly and gently as if it were mere peb-
BILE. The great cranes that raise and
lower their enormous arms and circle
around in narrower radius add to the
orderly confusion. Far above the hole
towers the huge dirt wall of the cof-
fer dam with it's lattice work of sup
porting beams, the ends of great logs
sticking out through the sides, and on
top the scaffolding of the cable towers
standing high against the sky, looking
altogether like nothing so much as
the familiar drawings in tEc back of
Caesars commentaries of the Roman
method of attacking walled town.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27

Aching backs are eased. Hip, back, and
loin pains overcome. Swelling of the
limbs and dropsy signs vanish.
They correct urine with brick dust sedi-
ment, high colored, excessive, pain in pass
ing, dribbling, frequency, bed wetting.
Doan's Kidney Pills dissolve and remove
calculi and gravel. Relieve heart palpita-
ton, sleeplessness, headache, nervousness
SALEM, IND, Feb. 5, 1901 received
the trial package of Doan's Kidney Pills
and I must confess they did me wonderful
good. 1t seems strange to say that I had
tried several kinds of kidney medicines
without doing me any good. had back
ache, pain in my bladder and scalding
urine, and the sample package sent me
stopped it all In few days, and with the
package am now using from our drug
store l expect to be cured permanently. It
is wonderful, but sure and certain the med
icine does its work. I was in constant
misery until I commenced the use of
Doan's Kidney Pills" -CHAs r. Cook,
P. 0. Box 80, Salem, Washington Co., ILL.,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27
TO 0KEEP" THE CIDER.
Brown Tried q Formula Rec MN cad.
ed by Smith and There Was
Trouble in the Cellar.

sit is a plebeian taste, l will admit"
said Brown, "but / plead guilty to q
liking for cider. l suppose my early
boyhood days, when 1 used to extract
it fresh from the press through the
medium of straw, are responsible for
my desire. But give me glass of
cider just at the point when it COM
mences to sparkle with life, and
would not trade it for all the fancy
drinks ever invented.
Fall weather reminded me of it the
other day, and CHANGED to speak of it
in the presence of Smith, bemoaning
the fact that there were no means to
keep cider from working and becoming
hard
"That reminded him of a formula
that had been in his fathers family for
years. He said he had tried it and it
had always been a success. He guar
anteed that if it were put up according
to the formula it would keep for years.
"He was so enthusiastic about it that
/ had him furnish me the formula
Then while my wife was away I sent
to my old home-place and had barrel
of cider sent me from the cider mill
that used to play around when I was
boy. carefully followed Smiths di-
rections and bottled the whole barrel
and then regretted that didn't order
another barrel at the same time.
When had it all nicely stored away
down cellar / thought of the many
pleasant times 1 would have during the
long winter evenings.
"The other night was reading my
paper when there was an explosion
down cellar that sounded like a re-
port of 13-inch gun. I seized a
lamp and started to investigate. /
was half way down the stairs when an
other explosion took place, filing the
cellar with flying glass and causing me
to beat hasty retreat.
"Since them" Brown continued, ac-
cording to the Detroit Free Press, "my
bottled cider has been going off at in
tervals, with now and then louder
crash, as it sweeps off from the shelves
the canned fruit that my wife has been
putting up all summer. No one has
dared to enter the cellar since the bonn
bardment commenced, and / shudder
to think what my wife will say when
she gets home and sees the ruin that
has been wrought among that precious
canned fruit of hers"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27
COURAGE OR FATALISM7
Japanese Soldier Who Went to the
Front Expecting to BE
Killed.

The little lieutenant who lived just
across the street from o. K. Da-
Wis, the New York Suns war CORE
spondent in ,Tientsin, said to him one
day:
Il should be very happy to have
you visit me in my home in Japan
after this war is over, but I expect
to be killed"
He was perfectly sincere and unaf-
fected, says Everybody's Magazine.
His belief did not alter his attention
to duty in the slightest. He went
wherever he was ordered as gayly as
If it were to feast, no matter if
che field was swept with bullets.
When l saw him in Picking day or
SO after the legation had been re-
lieved, he said, simply:
perhaps / shall not be killed this
time, after all"
Would you call it courage when
such a man as that leads a little col.
u1nn against a stone wall, and, when
he can't get over at first, sits down
and waits until he can? He hasn't
any conception of courage. He is
brave, but with the bravery of a bull
dog. There is more real courage in
the old hen futtering over her little
chickens to protect them from the
threatened hawk. If it were not for
them she would flee fast enough from
the danger.
There you have the essential differ
ence between courage and bravery
and between the American soldier
and the japanese or Russian. The
orientals, counting the Russian as an
oriental, are dangerous men to meet,
because they have no care for the
result. How much more dangerous
is the man who sees through the
end and discounts it ALL. yet goes
ahead to the desperate finish.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27
COMBINING WITH THE DEAD.
A Strong and Universal Tendency Of
the Living That Has Survived
Attempts at Suppression.

The tendency to commune with the
dead and to pray for them is strong
and universal. 1t survives whatever
systems of whatever creeds men may
invent for its suppression. Samuel
Johnson is professedly stanch Prot
estant, bristiing with prejudices, but
a delicate moral sense enters the rug
ged manhood of his nature, says a
writer in Donahue's Magazine. In
his departed wife after the manner
dear to the Catholic heart, but forbid
den to the Protestant. He keeps the
anniversary of her death and he COM
poses a beautiful prayer, full of Cath
Ole sentiment, for the repose of her
soul. Tennyson has the same thought
beautifully expressed in his "Morte
d. Arthur" He makes this hero say:
More things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams Of. Wherefore,
let thy voice
Rise like a fountain for me night and
day"
The great Cardinal Newman, before
he found rest within the bosom of the
church, penned these beautiful lines:
Help, Lord. the souls which Thou hast
made,
The souls to Thee so dear,
In prison, for the debt unpaid
OF sins committed here
Later in life, when his wanderings
in quest of truth were over, he wrote
that exquisite poem, ssThe Dream of
Gerontius," in which he causes the
angel to say to the souls it tenderly
consigns to the golden prison:
Farewell, but not forever! brother, dear.
Be brave and patient on thy bed of sor-
row;
Swiftly shall pass thy night of trial here.
And I will come and wake thee on the
morrow,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27
LADY ON EDITORIAL
STAFF OF LEADING
RELIGIOUS WEEKLY
Sends the Following Grand Testimonial to
the Merits of Cuticura Remedies in the
Treatment Of Humours of the
Blood, Skin and Scalp.

81 wish to give my testimony to
the efficiency Of the Cuticura Rene
dies in what seems to me two some.
what remarkable cases. had a
number of skin tumours small
ones-on. my arms which had never
given me serious trouble but about
two years ago one came on my
throat. At first it was only about as
large as a pinhead, but, as it was in
a position where my collar, if not
just right, would irritate it, it soon
became very sensitive and began to
grow rapidly. Last spring it was
as large, if not larger, than bean.
A little unusual Irritation Of my
collar started it to swelling, and in
a day or two it was as large as
half an orange. I was very much
alarmed, and was at a loss to de-
termine whether it was a carbuncle
or q malignant tumor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27
GOOD ENOUGH IF YOU SING.

Sing! Let your heart be happy;
Pretty good world of ours!
Plenty of joy and contentment.
Plenty of sunlight and flowers;
Love enough here for the millions;
Share it wherever it's found.
And sing till great, gladstone chorus
Re-echoes the world around.
May be that fortune has shunned you;
Just think it is better gone by.
And spring to your feet where you're
signing,
And carol a song to the sky.
Sing! There's sun In the heavens!
Help it to brighten the day;
Sing, and the world will be better,
And roses will bloom by the way.
Sing. for you know it's contagious;
Others will join in your song,
Begetting the love and the laughter
That carries this old world along;
All nature around you will hum 1t,
While beacons of goodness will swing
Out from the gloom of the darkness
It's a good enough world if you sing.
George r. Harrison. in Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27

tended down into my chest was all
gone, and my neck now seems to be
perfectly well.
About five or six years ago my
sister had a similar experience. She
had two large Jumps come under
her right arm, the result of a sprain-
They grew rapidly, and our physi-
clan wanted to cut them out. I
would not listen to it, and she tried
the Cuticura Remedies las I did .
few months ago) with magical effect
In six weeks time the Jumps had
entirely disappeared, land have never
returned.
"Ihaveg great faith in the Cuticura
Remedies, and I believe they might
be as efficacious in similar cases
with other people, and thus save
much suffering, and perhaps life. I
have derived SO much benefit from
the use Of them myself that I am
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27

constantly advisin G
others to use them. Re-
Gently I recommended
them to an Office boy for
his father, who was dis
abled with salt rheum.
The mans feet wero
swollen to an enormous
size, and he had not
worked for six weeks
Two bottles of Cuticura
Resolvent and two boxes
of Cuticura Ointment
worked a perfect cure
You never saw q more
grateful man in your life.
81 am very much in
terested in another case
where I have recon-
mended Cuticura just
now. My housemaid's
mother has a goitre
which had reached Q
very dangerous point.
The doctors told her
that nothing could be
done +; that she could live
only two or three weeks,
and that she would die
of strangulation. She
xuas confined To her bed
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27

SOUTH BARToNv1LLE., ILL, Feb. 8,
1907 received the trial package of
Doan's Kidneys Pills and have bought
several boxes of my druggist They have
done me much good. / was hardly able
to do any work until began taking them;
now I can work all day and my back does
not get the least bit tired" BIRD GRAY.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27

Do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton has an equal for coughs and cdds.-J.
F. Boyer. Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. Is, 1900.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27

1t is great misfortune not to have sense
enough to speak well and judgment enough
to speak little.-Cato.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27

Bill-"Why do they call it Cripple Creek.
40 you supposew Perhaps because
the water Is limpid. Yonkers Statesman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27
MANY school Children Ar. s,ck,v.

Many School Children Are Sticky.
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Chill.
dren. used by Mother Gray, nurse in Chill
cure Feverishness, Constipation and destroy
Worms. All Druggists, &c Sample FREE.
Address Allen s. Olmsted, LIE Roy, New York.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27

The man with the muck-rake has = large
iamiy-mostly rakes.-United Presbyte.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27

A mans bull-headedness is hi. worst an.
emy.-Chicago Daily News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27

Iowa Farms "a Per Acre Cash,
bal. Hcrop till paid. Mulhall, Sioux City, La.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27

stops the Cough
and works off the cold. Laxative Bromo
Quinine Tablets. Price 25 cents
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27

Flattery gilds the goose it intends to kill.
Rams Horn. " A1A''
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27

Any one can dye with Putnam Fadeless
Dye, no experience required.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27

my friends tried to persuade me
to consult my physician but dread
ing that he would insist on using
the knife, I would not consent to
go. Instead got small bottle of
Cuticura Resolvent and a box of Gu
ticura Ointment. / took the former
according to directions, and spread
a thick layer of the Ointment on a
linen cloth and placed it on the
swelling. On renewing it I would
battle my neck in very warm water
and Cuticura Soap. In few days
the Cuticura Ointment had drawn
the swelling to head, when it
broke. Every morning it was opened
with a large sterilized needle,
squeezed and bathed, and fresh
Ointment put on. Pus and blood,
and a yellow, cheesy, humorous
matter came out. In about three or
four weeks time this treatment
completely eliminated boil and
tumor. The soreness that had ex-
CuTIcURA REMEDIES are sold throughout the
bottle Gin the form Of Chocolate Coated Pills. asc Per
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27

II woman ever turns a deaf ear TO her
mirror telling her she is beautiful, it Is
probably to see if she doesn't look still better
In profle.--Puck.
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Horn.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27
PROVE DOAN'S FREE HELP.

Those who doubt who think because Kidney
who feel discouraged,
Kidney Pills.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-27

and was unable to speak, when her
daughter, at my suggestion, tried
the effect of the Cuticura Ointment
and Cuticura Resolvent. Strange to
say, she was very shortly relieved OF
the most distressing symptoms. The
swelling seemed to be exteriorized,
and she is now able to be around
her house, and can talk as well as
ever.
cit seems to me that have pretty
good grounds for believing that
Cuticura Remedies will prove sue
cessful in the most distressing forms
of blood and skin humours, and II
you wish to use my testimonial as
herein indicated, I am willing that
you should do SO, with the further
privilege of re vealing my name and
address to such persons as may wish
to substantiate the above state
ments by personal letter to me-"
Chicago. Nov. IL, 1902.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-01
Price of Beef.

'The price of beef in the eastern retail markets is bound to come down in the very near future," said a Chicago man at the Florence.
 ''There has been a cut in prices of cat tie on the hoof in the Chicago market amounting to almost 90 per cent. without any corresponding reduction in retail prices. The beef trust may be able to hold up prices for time, but there are a sufficient number of independent packers to create competition that will force re- auctions.
 "The independent packers, of course are no more anxious than the trust mag mates to see prices cut, but they want the trade, and can only get 1t by offering in- ducements to buyers, The existence of a packers combine was responsible only In a secondary way for the advance in beef. Natural conditions sent prices up and natural conditions will bring them down, fight against 1t as the packers may"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-01
Hunting Dogs and the TroIIeys.

'Field sportsmen are stirred up over the new rule of the Birmingham Railway Light and Power company, which pro- hibits them from carrying cogs on the cars" said a Nimrod yesterday. Many sportsmen go to distant counties to shoot, but many others have been in the habit of hunting in the fields of Jefferson county within walking distance of the trolley lines.
 ''If a working man who has only half q day to spare wants to have little field sport he goes to the country round about some of the suburban towns-East Lake, Cate City or Besscmer. He has been In the habit of reaching the coun- try by the street cars. but under the new rule he is practically cut off from his sport
 Tt is hoped that the Birmingham Rai.- way, Light and Power company will quickly rescind it's order and allow sports men to be accompanied by their dogs as formerly"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-01
BIRTH OF BASKETBALL.
he New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 Hundreds of young men are now play ing basketball who probably have but a vague Idea regarding its origin or realize that for so young a sport it has had a most unusual career. Started first as a game for members of the gymnasium classes of Young Mems Christian associa- lions, 1t has now attracted the attention of all classes of athletes. as Is seen from the scores of associations that now exist. including intercollegiate, interscholastic, Christian associations and even profess sional.
 Basketball had it's birth in Springfield, Mass, eleven years ago. pr. James Nat smith has been given the unquestioned honor of inventing it, for it was an in veftion pure and simple. Unlike base ball, football, hockery, golf and other sports, 1t was not evolved into its present standard through years of growth with gradual Improvements, but leaped with one bound into its present position. The method of playing the game today and It's rules differ only in the merest details from the first games played eleven years  ago.
 Dr. James Naismith brought out the game while he was instructor in the Young Mems Christian. association train ing school in Springfield. Dr. Luther Gu lick. who is now in Brooklyn, was also an instructor in the school at the same time and he had a share in bringing the game to perfection. He has always main- tained an unflagging interest in the sport, and is the chairman of the basketball committee of the Amateur Athletic union.
 The game was the result of a general demand at that time for something which would present new features in regular gymnasium work and fill out other re- quirements for the necessary physical in- struction in the training school. Tho new game, whatever it might be, was obliged to stand a severe test. for seven require ments were demanded of 1t, namely, q game that could be played on any kind of ground, a game that could be played by a large number of men at once, game that should exercise a man ait around, game that should be so attractive that men would like to play it for its own sake, a game that should have little or none of the reputed roughness of Rugby or Association football, game easy to learn and a game scientific enough to be interesting to older players.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-01
LETTERS TO EDITOR
A New Plan for Primary.
Itor Inf Inc Age-Herald:

To the Editor of the Age-Heraid:
 The public will be glad If you can find out where the demand is coming from to put the captain of police, the night cap tain of police and lieutenant of police on the ballot a. the coming primary.
 Those Investigating have so far found nobody advocating 1t but candidates them selves and she young statesmen who suc- ceed in dragging the department back into politics few years ago when the chief of police was first put up for election.
 If the idea is to get up a mess sure enough, why overlook such a beautiful chance as putting on the ticket all forty seven policemen, including the patrol wagon and first and second hostlers? With badge No. going to the man who gets most votes and so on down the list. Should the police wagon come in strong enough on election night to tie the tail end policeman, the public would get a chance to stop work some day and vote off the tie in an extra primary. This att tentioni would give more dignity to the force. An additional advantage under this plan would be that all those patriots whose habits and avocations have tendency to invite controversies with policemen could see that the right men always got In, besides livening up business through circulation of more money.
 Moreover it would prove that our ex- ecutive committee is always governed by principle, and having once decided what is right, proposes to see everybody from chief to desk sergeant treated alil<eS
 However. if above plan should not meet favor. why not revert to the original idea of the police commission bill and give it fair trial.
 Right now as a direct consequence of once putting the chief before the people, we have the disgraceful spectacle of a department split wide open-officers and men pickering with each other, some in- terests being threatened and others being favored, in order to get votes. Meanwhile the city treasury continues to foot bills.
 Politics makes towards of us all and a chief of police hustling for votes is different man from chief of police hust- ling to hold his job by doing his duty. We can never have the latter until he is re-. leved of the necessity of being a politi- clan. This holds good all down the line.
 Let the taxpayers who have carelessly left these matters to interested parties come out and demand that all elections and the sole management of the police department be thrown back on the com mission as the legislature intended, and then proceed to hold the commission sternly responsible for fearless officers, good service and peace.
 GEORGE B. WARD.