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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29
TREES FOR FARMERS.
Department of Agriculture Distrib-
uting Rare Varieties.
Especial Effort to Encourage the
Growing of Nut Bearing Trees
Almond Is Already Flour
ishing in California.

The United States government has
inaugurated new kind of gift enter
prise. 1t is giving away trees, young
seedlings of improved varieties, and is
starting in to distribute them broad
cast over the country. A building IN
the rear of the department of agricul-
ture has been set aside for the purpose,
with force of men to pack the trees,
some of which are simply tied In
bundles for mailing. while others are
shipped with their roots inclosed in
small tin cylinders.
Special attention is paid to nut
trees, with view to encouraging the
cultivation of improved varieties of the
pecan, the Persian walnut, certain
other kinds of valuable walnuts from
Japan and the hazel nut. AS for the
last named nut otherwise known as
the filbert), which does not seem to be
fully appreciated in this country,
though greatly priced in Europe, no
grated seedlings are now ready for
distribution, though they are being
propagated. High hopes are enter
tanned for a new species from Wash
ington state that grows on tree 60
feet long, which, because the stem is
too slender to hold itself upright, runs
along the ground line like vine. The
wine" bears pods, in each of which are
found two filberts in place of the usual
single one.
Last fall "bud wood" of the veritab BILE
Jordan almond was obtained for the
first time from Spain, and before long
grated seedlings of this unequaled
variety will be furnished to growers in
California. Almond growing is already
an industry of great Importance in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29

fashioned anchor, over which they
have been pronounced by the United
States government to be a great i'm
provement. Heretofore there was a
great deal of gearing attached to the
use of the ordinary ships anchor, and
a great deal of time was consumed by
the ships crew in weighing and max
ing anchor. The tremendous stock
of the anchor was always in the way,
being clumsy thing to handle.
One great advantage of the newer
anchor is that it is without a stock,
making it less formidable to the sailor,
and taking up less room on deck. But
that is not its chief virtue, by any
means.
The old-fashioned anchor will not al
ways stay put after being dropped
overheard. The stockless anchor, aft
err reaching landing place, plows it.
self into the floor of the ocean with a
grip that will never let go while there
is a bottom to clutch.
The stockless anchor is an Amer
lean production. Heretofore, almost
all anchors of large size have been
made abroad.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29

her trim, energetic figure, bustling
about the platform.
Her position as station agent is
unique, and interest in her work be-
comes personal when it is known that
she is only % years old, and widow,
who is working to support toddling
baby of two.
In the year that she has been agent
Mrs. Gumprecht has inaugurated a
new regime, and the villagers who for
merly found the station a convenient
loafing place, have been forced to seek
a haven elsewhere. Men inclined to
hang around are peremptorily ordered
off, and it has come to be pretty gen.
orally understood in the community
that the agent is to be obeyed. She
keeps a watchful eye out, too, for
children, and never allows them to play
about the station or the tracks. Her
own baby is kept safely at her home,
mile distant.
Unlike many widows, Mrs. Gum
precht did not get her position by be-
coming the successor of her husband
in the place, but was led to apply for
it through the belief that she was COM
petent, and the knowledge that the
male agent, disgruntled, was about to
depart. She is paid $50 a month for
her services.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

But 2R per cent. of the people of
Bulgaria are Moslems.
Prominent citizens of Hamburg are
discussing the project of establishing
a university in that city.
The university at Foura Bay, Sierra
Leone, is said to be the smallest in
the world. 1t has five professors, but
less than 20 students.
The railroad companies of this coun-
try gave last year for the support OF
the 1877 railway departments of the
Young Mems Christian association
$4,000.
The position of professor of forest
ry has been created at the University
of Michigan, and Hilbert Roth, of the
bureau of forestry of the United States
agricultural department has been ap-
pointed to the professorship.
The Bible is now widely read in In
dia. At Singapore it is stated the Brit.
ish and Foreign Bible society will sell
the Scriptures in over IS languages
and dialects. The Bible has also Jeen
and dialects of Africa.
The Presbyterian church of Chey'
enne, Wyo., has bought a Gospel wag
on for the use of the pastor at large
and the Sunday school missionary OF
the state, that they may penetrate into
the interior of the country. The mem.
bership of the church has doubled in
21a years.
Among the questions recently sent
out by school examiner, says Chris
tian Work, was the following example
in arithmetic: "If one horse can run
a mile in one minute and so seconds
and another in two minutes, how fan
would the first horse be ahead in a
match race of two miles?" A scholar
returned the question with this at.
tached: 81 will have nothing to dc
with horse-racing."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29
GROWTH OF A NEGRO COLONY.
Remarkable Progress of Calhoun
School and Settlement in
Lowndes County, Ala.

At lantern talk given recently
Rev. Pitt Dillingham;, principal of the
Calhoun school and settlement in
Lowndes county, Ala, read paper
illustrating the remarkable growth
of negro community which Calhoun
is building. He said:
"There are rs families in this
group, and five square miles of plan
tation country have been broken up
into 50-acre farms. The negroes have
paid $4,000 on the land during the
past six years. During the same time
81, 900 in taxes have been paid and
over $500 a year as tuition money.
Most important of AL, standards of
family life have gone up. Yet we are
told the negro will not work and
cannot save.
Calhoun is combination of farm
and home and school and church,
building central neighborhood in
it's own county, and stimulating the
growth of other neighborhoodsw where
these four things are being American
lied and taught to pull together.
Good farms and homes within sound
of school and church bell make its
objective.
Calhoun is giving industrial edu-
cation to over 300 students, it reaches
about 500 more annually in the public
schools through its graduates and
students. In its country there are
$4,000 negro children of school age:
one in four goes to school. There
are 1000 white children; one in two
goes to school. Calhoun is working
on Hampton and Tuskegee lines. It's
popularity is that it combines school
and settlement work, like the Speyer
school recently established by teach
ers' college of Columbia university.
It's county contains $1,000 negroes
and 1850 whites by the last census,
and was selected for Calhoun's ex-
pertinent by Booker Washington be-
cause it was the blacklist county in
Alabama. A southern white man
helped start the land movement by
selling his own plantation, and he
still superintends the buying of lana. :
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29
HUMOROUS.

Jealousy. - eyes," said the actor,
"Starr, the tragedian, is mad, hope
lessly mad" 'Overstudy?" asked the
Crittick. mo, it was his understudy
that made him mad. He made bigger
hit in She part than Starr."-Philadel-
phia Press.
The Way of It.-'T would like to find
out how many idle men there are in
town." "Well, just start some labor
ers to digging a sewer" "But they
won't be idle" 'No; but every idle
man in town will stand around and
watch ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Record.
Sure Sign of Foolishness. - Miss
Withers-'I presume Mr.. Flipp made
his usual weekly call on you last
night?" Miss Callow-"Yes, and I
must say that he made fool of him
self" Miss Withers - proposed to
you, h?"-Richmond Dispatch.
Miss Dora Ito Maj. Putter, who is
playing an important match, and has
just lost his balD-"Oh, major, do come
and take your horrid ball away from
my little dog. He won't let me touch
it, and I know he must be running his
eth!'-Punch.
Accommodating.-"May I ask you
for the loan of dollar?" Certainly"
(After pause)-"Well, where is it ?'
"Where is what?" "Why, the dollar"
BLESSED if I know. Wish did-Td
divide with you. Haven't got an eX-
ira cigar in your clothes, have up
Kansas City Journal.
''They say when the great pianist
played in this town the people went
Wild" remarked the comedian. "They
did the same when I played" remarked
the young lady who blows the cornet.
"Were they demanding that you come
back?" 'No; they were demanding
their money back.'-Chicago Daily
News
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29
SHE HANDLES BAGGAGE.
Aad VITA 1t Mrs. Gumprecht Com.
Dimes the Care of a Long Island
Railway Station.

Young, slender and distinctly FEM
mime in manners and speech, who
would suspect her of being past mis-
tress in the art of baggage singing?
Yet that is exactly her speciality. And
she combines with it the care of a
railway station, and fills the position
to the satisfaction of the road and it's
patrons.
Her name is Mrs. Anna Gumprecht,
and she is to be seen any day at Glen
dale, L. l., less than so miles from
New York city. From seven in the
morning until seven at night she is
kept busy, and travellers over the road
are quite accustomed to the sight of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29
District Is Curtailed.

Advices received from Washington
are to the effect that the new Cass
Lake land district has, been curtailed
to the extent that one million acres Of
land formerly in the Duluth district,
but which was lately put in the Cass
Lake district, has been turned back
to the Duluth district.
These lands are in Itasca county
and are described as north of the line
between townships "a and IS, fourth
meridian, and north of the line be-
tween townships 152 and 153, fifth
meridian.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29
Telephone EARNINGS,

S. j. Johnson, public examiner, has
just received statements of additional
gross earnings of three telephone
companies amounting to $5,436.21 on
which the tax aggregates $1,000.
The companies are as follows: Luz
verne Telephone company, additional
earnings $2,202.3O, taxes $66.07; Fair
mont Telephone company, additional
earnings $1,052.30, taxes $31.57;
Southwestern Minnesota Telephone
company at Pipestone, additional
earnings $2,1S1.61, taxes $65.45.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29

known that influences the the
pathology we'll understood is cod
given build the tissues With
knowledge pathology these medicines have dap
Not long since held high favor
of we'll known anisepc and germde properties This
drug Brompton Chest hospital London and ia
voable reports given in regard its proportion
would temporarily at least The
difficulty that enough be taken the system to destroy
all bac troubles the Digestion and has other dis
agreeable effects that it has fallen into disfavor.
medical opinion throughout The civilized world
that those take the disease those who have
the inherited disposition already affected and in the ncpent
state CAN BE CURED. But only by exercise in the open
light and nutritious food
This is curative, in that it strengthens the contu
eliminate the germs
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29
STOCKLESS ANCHORS.
Sixteen of Them, Weighing 10000
Pounds Each, Are Now Being
Built for the Navy.

Sixteen stockless anchors, weighing
$500 pounds each, and six others,
weighing $4,000 pounds each, are now
being built at Chester, Pa, for the
United States navy. What 16,5oO-
pound anchor looks like may be seen
from the accompanying picture.
These anchors are fashioned on a
plan quite different from the old
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29


Uittle Trees in Cylinders Sent Out by
Agricultural Department.
that state, but the planters have not
been able to produce nut equal to the
far-famed Jordan, which is preferred
to all others by confectioners by rea-
son of its beautiful shape. Many mil
lions of pounds of Jordan almonds are
now imported into the United States
annually, but the prospect is that in a
few years from now we shall be in a
position to export them.
The government, says the New York
Herald, employs the services of half a
dozen agricultural explorers" as they
are called, whose business it is to ran
sack every corner of the world for
whatever seems desira BILE in the way of
new or valuable plants. The same man
who secured the Jordan almond, not
withstanding the obstacles thrown in
his way by Spanish growers, sent over
not long ago bud wood" of some Won
derful Persian walnuts, which are six
times the size of the ordinary ones and
deliciously favored. The wood has
been used for CRAFTS on common wal
nut seedlings and already some thou
sands of the grated trees are on hand.
The growing of Persian, otherwise
known as English" walnuts, has be-
come an important industry in south
ern California the last few years, the
annual crop amounting to more than
100000 pounds. When ripe the nuts
which are inclosed in a husk-are
gathered by Earring the trees, to shake
down those that are ready to fall and
then they are dried in the sun or by
artificial heat, so that they may keep
we'll and not turn rancid. Once in bear
ing, a plantation of Persian walnuts is
one of the best paying properties un-
der the sun. The trees do as well as
far north as southern New York.
Experience has shown that pecan
trees grown from the big paper shelled
seeds cannot be relied upon to repro
duce their like. Hence, it is preferred
to send out grated seedlings, the "bud
wood" being obtained from the freak
trees already mentioned. Such seed
iings may be, counted on to yield huge
nuts, which, as soon as they come to
be grown in large quantities, are likely
to be the most priced of all nuts in this
country, even surprising the Persian
walnut in popularity. A grove of these
trees may easily give an annual profit
of $1,000 an acre to anybody who has
patience to wait ten years for them to
come into bearing.
The cultivated chestnut is expected
to take care of itself from now on.
Nurserymen are growing superior
varieties of the trees, improved by
grating, and before very long the
nuts, of giant size and exquisite flavor,
will be on the market at a moderate
price. AS yet they are only for rich
folk. Use, by cross fertilization, has
been made of the European marion,
which is as big as horse chestnut, and
of the japanese chestnut, which is
nearly twice as large as the marion,
the pollen of the foreign species being
employed to fertilize the blossoms of
our native chestnut. One of these Gull
fivated chestnut trees will yield clear
profit of $40 to $50 per annum.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29
Sufficient to the Day.

81 was just telling my daughter"
said Mrs. Noosens, that it's really a
shame for her to play the piano ON
Sunday"
"Why did you mention Sunday par
ticularly?" asked Mrs. Peppery.-Phil-
Rdelphia Press.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29
News In Brief.

Moses Letter who was in Jail at
Little Falls on the charge of larceny,
escaped by digging his way through
the solid wall.
The eighty-ninth anniversary of
the independence of Norway, which
occurred May II, was generally OBJ
served ~ the Norwegians of Mime
apolis.
George r. Folds, well known in
Minneapolis and st. Paul, has been
appointed assistant general manager
of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad
company.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29
Charged with Forgery.

George w. Rentschler of Marquette
was arrested at Duluth on a charge
of forgery and check raising. He
was armed with a check book on the
Scott Graft Lumber company. The
arrest was made on his attempting
to pass a check, purporting to have
been made by the lumber company in
favor of Van Vernet for 500.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29
Onions Make Fine skin.

The women of Bermuda are noted
for their fine compilations. This is
partly accounted for by the fact that
they eat plentifully of onions.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29

Exercise in the open air and sunlight are the
best preventves of consumption. Continental coun-
tries expending vast of money in fitting up
open-ar hospitals, where patients be kept under
efficient control
King Edward has received donation OF
f2 100000 to aid in arresting the spread of tuber
culosis. With this fund he plans to construct hos
pitfalls where science and nature will wage
against the disease
Medicines as such, have proved of little value.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29
Young Ladies in Scarlet.

The mourning color for unmarried
women in Brazil is scarlet, and the
young ladies look quite gay in it.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29
Grasshoppers Poison.

F. L. Washburn, state entomologist
at the agricultural experiment station
at ST. Anthony Park, has issued a
pamphlet describing a new remedy
for grasshoppers, and makes COM
ments upon certain old methods. He
calls the new remedy the Criddle
mixture and he says that the differ
ence between this poisoned bait and
others consists in the substitution of
refuse for the bran so commonly
used. This mixture is made of one
part Paris green, two parts salt and
forty parts refuse. Enough water
should be added to make it soft with
out being sloppy. 1t should be scat
tered about the fields well, in quanti-
ty according to the number of grass
hoppers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29
The War Against Consumption


of Health andC OF SateTub
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-05-29
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Aid for the Schools.


State Superintendent j. w. Olson
ents and school officers that applica-
tions for state aid, under the new
law, must be received at the depart
ment of public instruction before
July 10.
The recent legislature increased
the state aid for high schools from
$1,000 to $500; for graded schools,
from $500 to $3.50; for semi-graded
schools, from 5000 to $3.50, and for
rural schools, from 100 to f25.
Last year 141 high schools, 119
graded schools, 244 semi-graded
schools and TAT rural schools quail
fed under the law. Owing to a de-
fciency in the appropriation, how
ever, only the graded schools received
the specified aid. 1t is expected that
many new applications will be made
for the increased aid this year.
A high school to receive aid must
have been in existence at least one
year preceding the application, must
admit students of either sex without
charge of tuition and must have reg
ular courses in all subjects prescrib-
ed by the state high scnool board.
Graded schools must have at least
four departments in charge of prin-
cipal and teachers, and must be
equipped with suitable school build
ings, substantial library and all ap-
paratus necessary for doing efficient
work.
The department of public instruc-
ton requires of semi-graded schools
that the school building and each
room be clean, well swept, properly
heated and ventilated; that each
room be supplied with sufficient
blackboard space and Webster's in
ternational dictionary.
The department makes practically
the same requirements of rural
school with reference to the care of
the building as of a semi-graded
school, The law stipulates that it
must hold at least eight months
school during the year.
Climate and Crop Bulletin.
IhC rain III SouIhSAh anu
eastern parts of the state continued
into the 18th, and at few points IN
the extrme southeast into the 18th;
there were light scattered showers
again on the 18th which visited most
parts of the state. The temperatures
in the early part of the week were
rather low for rapid growth, but on
the 18th and after that date they were
considerably higher with decided
improvement in the growth of pas
lures, gress intended for hay, gar
dens, the small grains and the foliage
of trees. In the western part of the
state north of Big Stone, Stevens,
Pope and Stearns counties there was
little or no rain till the 18th, allow
ing of almost continuous work in
seeding fax and barley and prepar-
ing for these crops. Spring wheat,
oats and early barley are growing
nicely with good stands which are be-
coming thicker by stooling, and the
early fax is coming up.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-27
SPEECH LOST BY
SCARE OF MOUSE
Miss ESteIIa Beaver Loses Use
of Vocal Powers.
AN UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE
Attending Physician Thinks
Voice Will Return.
AN UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE

One small mouse which ran across the
feet of Miss Estella Beaver, head mil
liner at the George Innes Co. dry
goods store, has served to cause her to
lose almost complete use of her vocal
powers. Last evening Miss Beaver was
hardly able to make herself under
stood. The worst of ii is that every time
she talks her power of speech continues
TO diminish. 1t is feared that she may
become totally void OF her vocal powers
ter occurs soon.
1t was about 10 o'clock last Monday
morning when Miss Beaver, who was at
work with others at the Innes store, was
frightened by mouse which ran
across the floor. Miss Beaver has always
had a great fear of mice and the appear
ance of that one caused her to be very
nervous.
Just at time when Miss Beaver and
other employees thought that the mouse
had been frightened back to its hole,
the animal again appeared and ran d.
rectly across Miss Beavers feet. She
screamed and the fright completely I'M
nerved her. She was compelled to go
home.
Just before she left the store Miss
Beaver found that when she tried to talk
it was almost impossible for her to make
herself heard. The next day her voice,
when she tried to talk, grew weaker. and
IT has continued to do so every day since.
Last evening it was with difficulty that
Miss Beaver could make herself heard
al all
On the second day after the mouse oc-
currence at the store Miss Beaver visited
specialist He attributes the cause of
Miss Beaver losing her voice as due TO a
temporary partial paralysis of the vocal
organs
He is of the opinion that Miss Beavers
power of speech will return in time, but
for the present the prospects for an early
recovery are poor.
Miss Beaver has been in the employ of
the lines Dry Goods company for the
past five years. She resides with Mrs.
John Kelly at the corner of English and
Water streets. During the past week it
has, of course, been impossible for her
to be at her place at the store. Miss
Beavers parents reside a Columbus, o.,
they having moved to that city about one