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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31
HOW TO GET GOOD ROADS.
Enemies of Mud Should Unite in q
Campaign for n Principle,
Not for Details.

One great reason for the prevalence of
bad roads throughout the United States
is lack of agreement and united action
among the advocates of Improvement
Everybody prefers goods roads to bad
Everybody knows that the roads can be
improved only by the expenditure of
money and labor. But here the agree
ment ends. There is great variety of
ideas and schemes for securing the de-
sired object. There is no end of discus
sion, but very little is accomplished
Some people would rather travel
through mud than to have the roads i'm
proved by any other plan than their own
"pet scheme" Thus road reformers
themselves sometimes actually hinder
the cause to which they are devoted.
If the roads of the country are to-be
made good within the lifetime of the
present generation, it is high time the
advocates of good roads should unite in
support of few general propositions,
and go to work in favor of general
plan. If national good roads movement
ever gets started, nothing can stop it. 1t
will sweep everything before it. But the
difficulty is to get it started.
One great advantage possessed by the
national aid plan, which is now becom-
ing 80 popular, is that it is general in
stead of sectional or local. 1t is as broad
as the whole country. 1t can bring into
harmonious united action the friends of
good roads in every state, and it is the
only plan yet proposed that can do this.
The friends of national aid will make
a mistake if they undertake to work out
details in advance. They will disagree
among themselves and give objections
every advantage. They should go to
work for the general principle and leave
details to be worked out later. This
was the plan of action adopted by Glad
stone. When his opponents asked for
details of any great reform which he
advocated, Gladstone would answer:
There will be time enough to work out
the details when we get the power" The
advocates of national aid will do well
to emulate the example of this great
English statesman. They should or
ganize everywhere and fight for the prin-
ciple, leaving details to be worked out in
due time
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31
TIE GOLDEN WEDDING.
MIMI.

Fifty years of life together!
Dearest. Law your hand in mine;
List, this IS our Golden Wedding
With its radiance divine
Fifty years of storm and sunshine
Fifty years of faith and love
Fifty years of life together,
Thanks to Him who reignS aDoVes
When I wooed you IN your beauty
And our lives were in their Spring,
When we pledged our love In union
And 1 sealed it with this ring,
Heaven itself was dimmed In vision
BY the rapture in my breast;
But to-day my love Is stronger
Fifty years has been its test!
When upon your brow descended
From Gods hand the gift came down.
Woman's regal right of mother,
Royalty you wore the crown.
Dearest, how / loved you, loved you
With a strength l scarce dared own,
Feryid with a strong mans passion
Wife. that love has greater grown!
Midst your hair the threads OF silver
Came as years they slipped away,
But our lives were bound more closely
By the love-links forged each day.
Stalwart sons and gracious daughters
Were the gifts you gave TO me.
/ had but my love to ofer-
Still it's incense circles thee!
Fifty years of life together!
Close ah, close the shadows steal
And our feet the rivers margin
Touch unnoticed as We kneel
Closer, closer, let your heart-beats
Throb with mine this glad to-day
Fifty years of life together!
Storm or sunshine, Love held sway!
A. J. McDougal in Canadian Magazine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31
MIXING UP MATERIAL.
An Authors Method of Fixing Up His
Characters So as to Offend
No One.

There's a good many queer things
in this world" said Miss Jowders
meditatively, to her friend, Miss
Barnes, but the queerest of all is
folks. Now did you ever take notice
of that young man that spent the
fore part of August here, friend of
the Samson family?"
81 did," said Miss Barnes, ''but he
knew how to eat; he was the hearth
est boarder / ever had. But it's his
trade that's so queer-he's a story
writer, and he's always looking for
what he calls material He seemed
to think everything and everybody
here was material, and 1 said to him
outright one day, You may get into
trouble if you take Branbury folks
and put 'em right in a book, faults,
failings and ALL
But he laughed and said 'twould
be all safe the way he did it, and
then he explained his method. Il take
the old mems traits and give 'em to
old ladies' he said, and if there's a
naughty girl / turn her into little
boy, and any middle-aged folks ]
make into young ones. Then L lay
the scene in Canada, where I've never
been,' he says, 'and set the time back
so years, and there you are!' Now
did you ever hear such talk as that
in all your days? But they tell me
his books sell just like hot cakes
Youths Companion.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31
The Boy and the Farm.

Teachers and farmers, teach the boys
and girls to be honest and upright in
every sense, but by all means teach
them to work. 1t won't hurt them to
do little farm work. Send them to
college If you can, but let's keep all
the college boys and girls on the farm
that we can, and then the farmers in
terest will be- looked after better. We
will have better schools, better
churches and better society. Insist on
trying to keep the boys on the farm
after they have received their educa-
ton They can keep the farm books
and will lend an air of intelligence to
the town. We need more educated peo-
pie on the farms, when we will have
less boys and girls going to the cities
from the FARMS. o. Gates, in Farm
and Hona
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31
To Keep the Crows Away.

All sorts of devices are IN vogue to
brighten crows from the cornfield. One
of the most simple and effective is an
old looking-glass. If par! of another
is affixed to the back so much the bet
ter, but the one side will keep the var
minis guessing while the corn IS get
ting beyond their reach. The plan is TO
nail a two or three-foot arm to an up
right, and from this arm suspend the
glass by bit Of cord, say three feet
long. The slightest disturbance in the
air sets it winding up only to rhn down
again, the while flashing it's peculiar
light over a large area. This easily
constructible, inexpensive device at
tracted the notice of flock 20 rods or
more away. Not crow has been seen
to alight on the field since the glass
was set agoing.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31
COST OF BAD ROADS.
1t Is Without Any Doubt the Greatest
Money Loss Sustained by
American Farmers.

The waste of power and CONNER
cial loss occasioned by bad roads was
forcefully put by Mr.. G. A. Denham in
an address delivered at the Kentucky
Commercial convention. He said: In
order to form some opinion of the
cost of bad roads to community,
and to the individuals of that COM
munity, let us assume some railroad
station as starting point for main
public highway which.~for the pur-
pose of Illustration, we assume will
run through a good agricultural COM
munity in some sections of our state.
Let us further assume that the top
ography of the section will give us
average grades, and the soil will aver
age in fertility with the remaining
part OF the state. The farmer on each
side of such highway for a distance
OF, say, two and one-half miles would
probably come to it to travel over
1t to the market, the railway station
at its terminus.
Let us further assume that main
highway is ten miles long and that it
therefore forms the outlet to market
for a section of country five miles
broad by ten miles long, embracing
fifty square miles of farming terri
tory; counting four farms to the
square mile, such territory would
embrace 200 farms of 100 acres each.
The average distance travelled by each
of these farmers in going from home
to the railroad station and return
would certainly not fall under 121s
miles. An average of two round trips
per day would give 25 miles as day s
journey, which is certainly more than
loaded team can perform over a bad
road. Lei Us further suppose that the
farmers of this territory, will produce
a surplus for market, averaging each
farmer to have 100 bushels of wheat,
so barrels of corn, five tons of hay,
and five tons of miscellaneous prod
ucts. Counting that~the average team
can draw over the average bad roads
a load of 1000 pounds, we will find
that this territory will produce for
market 1,200 wagon loads of wheat.
1,750 wagon loads of corn, 1000 wagon
loads of hay, 1000 wagon loads of mis-
cellaneous products, making i'll al
1880 wagon loads. Then, if it is pos
sible to make two round trips per day
as an average for this territory, 1t will
require driver with span of horses
and wagon 2,475 days to move these
surplus products to the railroad sta
ton. Counting the cost of the driver,
wagon and team at $3.50 per day, the
cost Of transporting these products
will amount in the aggregate to
$6,1S715.
1t is a well-known fact that a team
can draw twice as much freight over
good road as the same team can
draw over bad road. If this be true
and this same road should be made
into a good road with easy grades,
with smooth, hard surface, this same
work could be done for just one half,
or for $3,093.75. Just think of it! A
joint stock community paying out
more than $4,000 per year for the lux
ury of bad roads; an annual tax on
each of them of more than SIS. In
four years this annual tax would pay
for building ten miles of good roads.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31
HILLSIDE CULTIVATION.
An Idea from Switzerlan nd That Might
he Modified for Use In This
Country.

The cut, reproduced from a Swiss
horticultural paper, shows how cultiva-
ton is accomplished in Alpine vine
yards where the land is stacked up on its
edges. The anchoring machine is the
main feature illustrated. The horse goes
back and forth along the ridge and the
man at the cultivator has only to guide
his implement without the bother OF
driving. OF course two men are needed
in this one-horse affair, and the culti-
vator goes back empty every time, but
labor is relatively cheaper in the in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31

terror of Europe than here. A boy could
manage the motive power, and otherwise
inaccessible slopes of land, highly suit
able for special crops can be well culti-
waited. The hose is considerable of a
nuisance anyway on land closely plant
ed with valuable fruit crops, however
necessary he may be for extended agri-
cultural operations, and it is possible to
imagine some such continuance, utiliZ-
ing the power of a gasoline or other
easily managed engine, as a great con-
venience in the intensive culture of
choice, closely planted crops, in level
places as we'll as hillsides. The horse
takes good deal of room, he is not
careful of valuable plants, and the pack
ing of the soil by his feet is not always
beneficial Many truckers and growers
of high-grade fruits would doubtless
welcome a practical device that would
dispense with a horse in the row while
utilizing HORSEPOWER tools for cultiva-
tion.-Rural New Yorker.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31
Modern Conven1ences.

The Abilene Democrat tells of man who
stopped over night in a small town near
there and registered at the hotel pointed aat
to him by the conductor as the best in town.
In the morning he wanted to take a bath and
consulted the proprietor about it. The pro-
prietor shouted back to the rear: Here,
Tom, this here gent wants to take bath.
Bring the 6xin's." Tom soon appeared, car
rying a cake of yellow soap, towel and a
pick. Whats the pick for?" asked the
guest. "Why," said the proprietor; you'll
Star
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31
SIMPLE ROAD SCRAPER.

being short, parallel and straight. Holes
are drilled to fasten chain, which is at
tached to doubletree. A plank may be
used for the driver to stand on or for
other weights. By simply dragging this
weighed iron band over the roads they
many be kept in quite fair condition,
especially if drained and properly
rounded-T. E. Dewey, in Farm and
Home.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31
Got Tired of the Gun.

A Clay county man, says the Plattsburg
Democrat Lever, took his pastor out hunt
ing one day. They had but one gun be-
tween them and the preacher carried it.
After they had been out half an hour he
man felt something pok:ug him in the SIDE.
preached poking him with the muzze of the
gun and fumb!ing over the hammers Say,
brother" asked the minister, how do you
let these things down. The man has
sworn off taking preachers hunting. Kan
sas City Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31

The average weight of dirt which
falls from muddy udders during milk
ing is 80 times greater than that which
falls from the same udders after wash
ing, and when the udders are bat
slightly soiled it averages "a times
greater.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31
HANDY ROAD SCRAPER.
1t Is n Simple Continuance But Does
Well the Work for Which
1t Is Intended.

Good roads on the farm are essential
and scraper helps materially to keep
them in condition. Take heavy wagon
tire and bend as shown in cut, the ends
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31

A woman gains weight might fast when
she has habit of sitting on her husband 8
lap.-N. Y. Press.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31

It is much easier to come down from the
heights than to climb out of the depths
Town Topics.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31

How the short haired women dislike the
long haired men!-Chicago Tribune.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31

Worry is bad bedfellow. Kick it out
Chicago Daily News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31

Better visit the potato patch every day
OF the bug xaay get the start of you. -
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31

WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTIsERs
please state that you saw the Advertise
ment In this paper.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-31
Mrs F. Wright, of Oelwein, Iowa,
is another one of the million women
who have been restored to health by
Lydia E. Pinkharn's Vegetable Compound.

Overshadovng indeed
table Compound compared with medicines
experiments.
a of
which he
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-26
The Dawn and Oresonian.

For the large number of people in the
Northwest whose mail facilities will
not permit them to take daily news
paper, the Weekly Oregonian is especi-
ally designed. 1t is edited expressly
for readers in Washington, Oregon and
Idaho containing, besides all the i'm
pOrtant news of the Columbia river ba-
sin, a systematic presentation of the
news of the world, supplemented and
elucidated by editorial comment, writ
ten from the beginning to the close of
every week. Illustrated stories, trav-
cling correspondence and feature ar
ticles add to the attractiveness of The
Oregonian. The regular subscription
price of the Weekly Oregonian is $3.50
per year. Given in connection with
this paper for II months for only $3.50:
saving on the subscription price of the
two papers of Sl.3O.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-26
Timber Land Act, June 3,1878
Notice for Publication

United States Land ONCE, North Yakima
Wash. September Goth, 1903.
Notice is hereby gwen that in compliance
with the provisions of the act of congress of
June Sd. 1878, entitled. IAN act for the sale of
timber lands in the states of California. Oregon,
Nevada and Washington Territory as extended
to all the public land states by act of August 4,
1892
Fred Hahn
of Ellensburg. Comfy of Kittitas. State of Wash
ington has this day filed in this Office his
statement, No 1886, for the purchase OF the e.
il of section No. Is. in township No. 20. arrange
No 49, e. W m, and will offer proof to show that
the land sought is more valuable for its timber
or stone than for agricultural purposes, and to
establish his claim to said and before Clerk of
Superior Court of kittitaS County. Washington,
at his Office ElenSburg. said county, on Tuesday
the 18th day of December 1903.
He names las witnesses Ellis Jones. Ed. +.
Kingry. Ed. r. Mcdonald aud Alvey Tucker, all
of EllenSburg. Washington.
ANY and all persons claiming adversely the
above described lands are requested to file their
claims in this office on or before said 18th day of
September, 1903. HENRY V. HINMAN
IS Register
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-26

moss But he doesn't paint the picture
Of the man whose tongue is parched
with fever, who tumbles and losses in
his hot room and narrow bed while the
bacilli of the bucket and the we'll are
striving for his life. That wouldn't be
a poetic theme, and he has nothing to
do with theme that is not poetic.
AS matter of fact the old we'll and
its familiar bucket have been the means
of diseasing whole neighborhOOds. The
microbe is everywhere, and the easiest
vehicle for its introduction into the body
is perhaps the water we drink. We
can't keep the microbe out. We can
prevent its harnfulness.
THE DANGER OF DISEASE
does not lie in the strength of the
microbe but ir the weakness of the
body. When the blood is impure the
microbe has a vantage ground from
which to operate. When the blood is
pure disease fails to find a breeding
ground, and the ncrobe strives in vain
against the man. Nobody can be healthy
when the blood is impure. faint the
blood and every organ fed and nourished
BY blood must share the faint. Keep
the blood pure and plentiful and the
body is made strong to resist the assaults
OF disease.
III honestly believe that would have
been in my grave to-day had it not been
for your medicine and the mercy of the
good Lord" writes Mrs James r. Moss,
Of New London, Stanly Co., N c. "ln
the fall of 1892 took hard cold, which
seemed to settle in my head, terminating
in catarrh of the head. It bothered me
all the time, but l did not think it was
serious until the spring of 1898, when
my health became SO much impaired:
MY blood was all out Of order, and had
to 20 to the doctor He gave me ned'-
cine which helped me for short time;
In the winter of 1895 got worse than
had ever been. My tonsils were en-.
larged and my neck swollen al! out OF
shape my throat was sore and ! could
not cure it. My husband went for the
DOCTOR but he gave me no encourage,
ment. He helped NE little, but 1t Gid
rot last Ion" ~ {" "" '''"''"" we f''
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-26
Additional Local.

The scarlet fever quarantine has been
lifted
Gus Nesselhouse was in the city yes
terday
James Harrison registered in Taco
ma yesterday.
John Lynch, of North Yakima, was
in the city yesterday.
Archie O. Wishard was granted a
marriage license at Seattle this week.
Mudd Bros. of East Kittitas shipped
2400 lambs to Carstsns Bros. of Seattle
last Tuesday.
John Burke has moved back from
Thorp and is now living in the south
part of town.
j. ID. Hill who has been i'll with tv-
phoid fever for the past six weeks, is
convalescing slowly.
Miss Cora b. Hill of North Yakima.
visited with her brother j. ID. Hill.
and family, Thursday.
Mr.. Burcham from the Sound has
been visiting friends in lIllensburo and
the West side this week.
Mrs. II. ID. Doty returned last Tues
day from an extended visited with rela-
tlveS and friends in Illinois.
Uncle Billy Hall has sold his proper-
ty in "Slow Corners" to Hand Bros,
who took possession at once.
Thomas kenney has moved over from
Tacoma and is now employed by Pal
mer & Martin on the express dray.
The first annual convention of the G..
f. society of the 18th district will meet
in North Yakima, Nov. 2Sth and 10Th.
Jesse Hail and Robert Noel made
business trip to Thorp Tuesday. the
latter to remain a few days hauling out
lumber for the fumes for the Cascade
canal.
Mrs. Street and l.. +. Street. of
Brookston, Ind, mother and brother of
Mrs. w. NJ. kenney, are expected to
arrive here Saturday noon. Mr.. Street
comes for the benefit of his health, be-
ing cOnsumptive.
Rev. Sheldon expects to leave soon
for TOppenish where he will conduct a
revival meeting for short time. From
there he goes to Spokane to labor in
that vicinity up to the close of the
conference year.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-26
Advertised Letters.

The following uncalled for letters re
main in the Ellensburg postoffice:
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-26
Summons.

IN the superior Court of kttitaS County
State of washington.
The st. Louis Brewing and Mailing
Company, IL corporation.
Plalntiff.
VS.. No. 1921.
John Schamehorn and ... BrunSon
partners doing business as
SchamehOrn and BrunSon'
Defendants.
The State of Washington to the said John
Schamehorn and - l}runSon. partners doing
business as Schamehorn and I5runSon, defend
ants:
You and each YOU are hereby summoned to
appear within sixty days after the date of the
first publication of this summons. tO-Wit: with
in sixty days after the 22nd day of October 1903.
and defend the above entitled action in the
above entitled court. and answer the complaint
of plaintiff and serve IA copy of your answer
upon the undersigned. attorneys for plaintiff al,
their Office below stated, and in case of your
failure so 10 do. judgment will be rendered
against YOU according to the demand of the
complaint. which has been filed with the clerk
OF said court.
That the object of plaintiffs action is to OBJ
tain judgment against said defendants and
each of them on account of goods. wares and
merchandise sold by plaintiff to defendants, at
their instance and request and for rent and for
moneys advanced to them.
PRUYN & SLEMMONS,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
PoStoffce address: EllenSburg kittitaS
County. Washington 25Oct.l
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THE OH WELL.
A Story of Moss, Microbes
and Medicine.

Il is the Office Of the poet to idealize.
He paints pretty and pathetic word
pictures which touch the heart and dim
the ewes. But he does this regardless
Of physiology or pathology. When he
sings song of the old we'll OH the
farm and OF the moss grown bucket in
which the water was drawn, he hasn't
thought of the bacteria which find a
fertile breeding Ground in many an old
we'll. He pictures the hot, thirsty dav,
and the bucket beaded with trickling
drops which shine like pearls against the