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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-23
A Close Call.

The four small children of Mr. and
Mrs. Tiernet, living on a farm near
Duluth, barely escaped death in flames
which destroyed the family residence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tiernet left their four
small children in the house while they
went to get some wood some distance
away Mr.. Tiernet suddenly observed
smoke issuing from the roof and he
and he his wife hurried to it.
Mr.. Tiernet broke the bedroom win
dow, and, leaping in, he rescued the
baby. The interior of the house be-
yopd the bedroom was a mass OF
flames. To enter there was impossible,
either to seek the other three children
or try to save the contents.
The husband and wife stood by and
wrung their hands in agony, for moth
ing was to be seen of the three older
children. 1t was taken for granted
that they had persisted. To the intense
Joy of the parents the three missing
children soon made their appearance
from the bushes near by. They took
fright when they found the house on
fire
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MINNESOTA NEWS.
All About Butter.

The biennial report of the state dairy
and food commission soon to be pre-
sented to the legislature, will show that
Minnesota is today making $4,000, 600
pounds more butter annually than it
did four years ago when Gov. S. r.
Van SAINT, then dairy governor, first
came into office.
In four years the number of cream
cries has increased from $50 to ISL, and
the product of butter for this year will
equal ~, 600, 900 pounds. At the same
time the quality has increased to
point where Minnesota has won first
place in competition with the world
for both dairy and creamery butter.
Since January. /, 1898, cheese factories
have increased in number of seventy
three to ninety, and skim stations
from fifty-two to sixty-six. This is
gain for the year of Ill new cream
cries, seventeen cheese factories, and
fourteen skim stations. The point has
now been reached where Minnesota
probably produces more butter than
any other state in the union. And
with the fact long established that 1t
produces more -four, Minnesota now
has unquestionable right to the title
Gov Van SAINT has given it of 1.-The
Bread and Butter State"
To supply the Ill new creameries
with milk means an increase of 10000
cows.
Since two years ago the number OF
farmers supplying milk to creameries
has increased from 50,3S9 to So, 800
number of cows from ?,356 to 435,'
TAO; pounds of milk from 1,2l7,7S6,-
$50 to 1851, 642,6l9 bntter from 67,'
726, sOs to ~, 266 3s4; amount paid tc
patrons from 1924, 466 SO to S12,9sS,
$50 81
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equality. The custom which compels
good Japanese wife of even the upper
class to perform certain mental duties
towards her husband and children her
self, and always to act as personal maid
and valet to her honorable parents-in-
law, naturally has the effect OF raising
the position of domestic service and OF
making servants feel as though they were
members of one family with their en-
ployers Indeed, it always seemed to me
in Japan that servants had very much
better time than their mistresses. They
have plenty of freedom; they can never
be hard-worked, for there. is never any
hard work to do in paper house which
has no furniture, no coal cellars and no
stairs. Besides, to the western mind,
japanese house always contains four
times as many servants as are necessary
to do the small amount of work. They
spend their time in being polite to each
other. Of course, they receive very
small wages.
O-Ku is the name given to the part OF
the house where the lady of the house
always resides during the early part of
the day, when her servants must know
where she is to be found; but though
etiquette demands that every morning
she must give her orders and direct the
household work, her servants will only
carry out her wishes according to their
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News Notes.

Representative Bede has recommend
ed the appointment OFF. c. Chamber
lain as postmaster at International
Falls.
The body of man apparently a
Bohemian, was found in the creek at
Glencoe. He was in town Nov. % and
registered as Vincent Major or Mayor.
A revolt in the Polk county Jail has
Just come to light, as the authorizes
have guarded it with the greatest care.
The ringleader was Paul Haswell, a
self-confessed horsethief, who was TAX
en- to Saltwater by Sheriff Sullivan.
A murder in the st. Louis county
Jail, was committed by Frank Van
Dyke, prisoner on trespass charge,
who fatally beat his cellmate, Erick
Lindberg, tailor. Van Dykes wea-
pon was the iron cover of bucket that
had been left in their cell.
Wrangling with the umpire must
cease in Minnesota conference athletic
contests.
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must have a Christmas, too, you know!
There is not peasant IN all Sweden who
will sit down with his children to
Christmas dinner until he has first
raised aloft Christmas dinner for the
little birds that live in the cold snow
without
Which illustrates the kindness of
heart and love of animals Unborn in the
Swedish nature. And that they are
jovial, social folk as we'll as tender
hearted, is evidenced by the overflow
ing hospitality reigning during the days
of "Jul." Feasting and drinking, gift
making, games, music, the days are filled
with merriment, and the nights. 1t is
a season when the farmer can lay toll
aside for a while the crops are in, the
long, monotonous winter stretches be-
fore him. 1t is the time to gather kin
dred and friends about the board, a time
to sing and time to dance. For weeks
before the ushering in of the gala days
all hands about farm have been busy
in making ready; particular attention
has been paid to the brewing of the
'jule Oh" christmas ale), an ale that
is always given little extra strength,
an concerning which quantity must be
allowed for as well as quality-for
ev.ry one that enters is expected to take
a draught. The drinking vessels are of
a size, some tankards and wooden cups
holding quite gallon.
AS every visitor is expected to eat, too,
the preparations in the Way Of cooking
are carried on on large scale. Du
Chaillu, in his Land of the Midnight
Sum-" tells Of the good things offered
in his time-the larder is we'll stocked;
fish, birds and venison are kept in re-
serve; the best "spige KIDD" (dry NUT
ton, or either beef or mutton sausage) is
now brought forward; calf or sheep is
slaughtered, and as the day draws near
waters and cakes are made" A very
popular Christmas feast throughout
Sweden to-day is that consisting of Tut
fish with sauce and potatoes, rice por-
ridge with cinnamon and cream, and
roast goose.
Even the poorest home makes some
show Of Christmas preparation; even
the poorest person spends a trifle to
buy a bunch of oats for the gift to the
birds. 1t is beautiful sight to see the
bird beneficiaries circling down to get
their Christmas offering, and in the be-
slowing of the sweet charity both young
and old unite. The farm creatures get
double portions now. Christmas is en-
joyed by both man and beast.
During the Yule tide serviie labor IS
dispensed with as much as possible; the
whole land rests from toll. And the
rest Is well earned, for the work Of get
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-23
HOOLEY NOT GUILTY.
Well-Known British Promoter Given
His Liberty While Another
Is Sent to Jail.

London. Dec. 19-After three weeks
trial jury in the central criminal
court Saturday found Ernest Terah
Hooley not guilty and Henry j. Law
son guilty Of obtaining money under
false pretenses. Lawson was SEN
fenced to a years imprisonment at
hard labor. Execution of the sentence
of Lawson was postponed to permit
an appeal to the crown cases reserved
court. He was admitted to bail in
100000.
Hooley, whose colossal bankruptcy
and the proceedings therefrom were
the sensation of 1898, was arrested in
London May 10 last on the charge
of conspiracy to defraud. Since his
bankruptcy Hooley had been connect
ed with various promotions, some OF
which led to court proceedings. Law
son, another company promoter, was
taken into custody the same day in
connection with the charge against
Hooley. The technical charge against
the prisoners was defrauding A. F.
Payne of $4,000 by selling him shares
of Siberian gold mines and other
worthless concerns In 1893 Hooley
was the biggest company promoter in
Great Britain. He was a multi-mil-
lionaire and was prominently interest
ed in bicycle, land and meat compa-
MES. He reached the pinnacle of his
prominence in 1896, when he promoted
a tire company, as the result of which
he was supposed to have cleared $12,-
500, co. AT that time Hooley was liv-
ing a sort of count of Monte Cristt.
existence, buying yachts and race
horses and a number of historic coun-
ty seats.
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ting ready has required ceaseless indus
try. Throughout the long evenings the
industrious maidens have labored over
their complex needlework and their
crochet; sewing, painting and carving
have been going on. And then at the
last there has been a grand scrubbing
and polishing for the women; hauling
and fetching and carrying by the men.
No wonder the whole land takes rest.
Gay Christmas costumes are the order
of the day; everybody is clean and be-
| decked. Christmas eve, church sery-
ices are held, and after they are over
the night through is given over to mirth
and frolic. All join in the Jul pleasur-
ing, the dances, blind mans buff, what
ever the sport selected. These people
of northern vitality seem never to feel
blase, are able to keep up the merriment
for what to us more nervous folk seems
an interminable length Of time. All
through the holidays the greeting is gaily
called out: "Glaedelig Jul og godt Ny
taar" merry Christmas and Happy New
Year,. After the thirteenth day of re-
joicing there comes lull of a week, and
then grand finale:
"Tyvende dag Kunt
DanSer julie I'D"
(The twentieth day Canute
Dances Yule out.)
Each land in which Christmas is cele-
brated possesses its own legends and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-23
THREE DIE IN A FIRE.
Oil Stove in Brooklyn Residence Elk.
plodes with Deadly Results-Two
Others Fatally Injured.

New York, Dec. 19.-Three persons
were killed and several injured, two
fatally, in fire in three-story brick
residence at 184 South Ninth street,
in williamsburg section OF Brooklyn,
Saturday
The dead: Alice Swinson, Arden
Reynolds, aged 40; Charles Lincoln
Paynter, aged two years.
Those fatally injured are: Isaac
Smith, aged 60, face and hands
burned; Charles F. Reynolds, injured
internally by jumping from a third
story window.
The fire was caused by the explosion
of an oil stove. Most of those who
lost their lives were caught en- the
upper stories of the building, from
which there were no fire-escapes.
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Benefactor Rewarded.

Charles Madden, one of the early
residents of the city and who for sew
eral years has lived at the Dewey no.
tel, Minneapolis is dead. When his
will was read, John Nelson, who took
care of the old man in his last days,
was found to inherit $23, 900 in cash.
Madden was usually thought of as
pauper, and when his health began to
fail him, Nelson, proprietor of the ho-
tel, gave him a room and waited on
him personally.
A few days ago the old man called
for lawyer and made his will, leav-
ing all his money to Nelson, who, he
said, had been his good friend. His
wealth at that time was not known,
but when the attorney searched the
room he found certificates of deposit
on the Farmers and Mechanics bank
for $685.
The amount of money was complete
surprize to Nelson, who had believed
Madden a penniless man.
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Statues for the Capitol.

The Minnesota State Art society
purchased at the st. Louis fair two
beautiful casts for the adornment of its
rooms in the new capitol. These are
reproductions of Donatello's John the
Baptist and of The ''Gooseman," by
Adam Kraft, German sculptor The
society also secured an option on the
figure representing Minnesota modelled
by Gustav Gerlach of Hoboken, N. j.,
which stood in the colorado of streets
The report of these transactions was
made at meeting of the governing
board of the society. Designs for
furniture jpr the new rooms were sub
mitted, but no selection was made.
The selected designs will be submit
ted to the capitol commission.
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bon-bons, but the presents are not put
upon it. 1t is lighted on Christmas eve
as soon as it begins to grow dark, and
that,of course, is very early in the land
Of the long night. When the many can
dies have burned out, children and
grown folk turn. their attention from the
tree for awhile and are invited to par
take of Christmas sweets. Then, the
crown Of all, the company gathers
around a huge basket from which are
drawn by the head of the house the pres
enrs one by one. Often bit of rhyme.
a sentiment Of some sort, accompanies
the gift, and it takes many hours to
distribute and open the numerous pack
ages. The number of gifts received
seems, to Puritan eyes, wastefully, bur-
densomely extravagant, but to the true
Scandinavian there cannot be too much
of the good thing Christmas.
KATHERINE POPE.
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their tips" make them; whereas private
servants in Japan are what their hearts
and breeding make them. For even
house servants in this land of great peace
have to go through severe course OF
training in etiquette in their youth, {.
training quite apart from that OF their
profession. There is no great gulf fixed
between the duties of mistress and maid
in a native household, or in the occupa-
lions of their daily life. But their ex-
quisite taste, sixth sense, prevents their
ever presuming to overstep the limits
of familiarity prescribed. l remember
once being very much at sea when was
taken to make call on japanese lady
of the well-to-do class. Not being able
to speak a word of the language, l was
unable to follow the conversation which
took place between the charming little
woman who greeted us at the inner shut
tiers and my friend. She was dressed in
the sole gray kimono and obi of mid
dle-aged woman, and her exquisite man.
| ner and gentleness made me feel as
heavy as my leather boots sounded on
the delicate floor mating compared to
her soft white foot gloves. My friend adj
dressed her as San, and seemed to speak
to her just as guest would to the host
ess We had tea on the floor, and my
friend chatted pleasantly for some time
with the gray little figure, when suddenly
| the sound of ricksha wheels on the gravel
path outside caught my ears, and the
next instant there was the scuf1ing Of
many tabi'd feet along the polished
wooden passage which led to the front
door, and the eager cry of 20 Kaeri! o
Kaeri!" (Honorable Return). Our
| hostess pro tenn. rose from her knees,
smiled, and begged us to excuse her hon.
orable rudeness. When she had hurried
off to join in the welcome cry, my friend
said: ooh, am so glad she has comet"
"Who has Gomez" 1 asked. "The lady
we came to see," she said. "Then who
was the charming little lady who poured
out tea for us?" asked. My friend
smiled. ooh, that was only the house
maid" This and many other details
of domestic life were explained to me
later, when read Miss Bacon's admira-
BILE book, Japanese Girls and Women
There found that it is etiquette in
Japan for the upper servants to entertain
any visitor in their mistress absence,
and although her mistress and master
will address her by her Christian name,
and speak to her in the correct infection
of voice for addressing an inferior, ETH
quette demands that visitors should call
her San, and speak to her in tones OF
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TYPES OF JAPANESE HOUSE SERVANTS.

own ideas of what is best for her. No
Japanese servant will ever condescend
to be turned into human machine.
Even in the most perfectly appointed
house he retains his individuality, al
though he will fall upon his hands and
knees when he enters your presence
Very much the same spirit exists in
Japan between mistress and maid as it
does in Italy, and surely from humane
point of view it is better. 1t is not Of
fensive to the gentle heart of Japanese
mistress to let her servants enjoy or
benefit by all the little pleasing incidents
which make up everyday home life in
Japan. When fairy stories or historical
romances are being related by the head
of the family round the bronze hibachi,
the servants may sit and listen at dis
Greet distance, laughing and comment
ing on the story as freely as their SUI
periors.
Foreigners who reside in Japan usu-
ally pay their servants board wages, and
allow them to feed themselves, but this
is not the custom in native house of
well-to-do class, where house steward
is always kept to do the shopping, look
after the servants, guard his mistress
interests and his own, and generally run
the establishment. He is a person of
great Importance, and, of course, of
much higher class than the kuramaya OF
the betto (horse groom), if one is kept,
for these two, like their western brothers
of the stables, generally drink and gam
BILE away the greater part of their wages.
No Japanese servant is so wanting in
good breeding as to give direct notice to
her mistress. Nothing is direct in jap
an, for their language does not contain
the word mo" Nor does mistress. ON
hiring new servant, tell her to her face
that she will not suit her. A polite ex-
cuse has to be sent to her through third
party. When a servant wishes to leave
she asks to visit sick relative. When
the date for her returning arrives mag
nificently worded apology is sent, saying
that the relative is dead and she cannot
| be spared to leave her home. When a
servant is rebuked or scolded he must
smile like Cheshire cat. This etiquette
in smiles is very misleading at first.
often used to think that Taxi, my riksha
bSy, meant to be impertinent when he
insisted on smiling while l was angry
with him, but when he told me of the
death of his little child with burst of
laughter knew that this was only one
of the curious details of etiquette in this
topsy-truvy land.
! DOUGLAS SLADEN.
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Japanese housemaid, for instance, would
not consider that she was lettering her
self by marrying the son of tradesman,
or going into business" as she would in
America, for domestic service in JapaIs
has always been roanked higher than
trade, which until lately was considered
by all Japanese a means of living with
which no self-respecting man should soil
his hands. The tourist in Japan, unless
he has introductions to American resi-
dents in the country, can therefore only
Judge Japanese servants by the rather
rough and ready class of men who have
learned sufficient pidgin English to I'M
derstand the wishes and orders of their
ofttimes changed masters. The travel
er soon picks up enough pidgin Japanese
to make himself understood by his bed
room boy, whose pidgin English is only
skin deep. Pidgin, Prof. Chamberlain
says, is merely a corruption form of the
word business. Hotel servants and
boarding house servants, be they Asiat-
les or Europeans, are pretty much the
same all the world over. They are what
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TO a Higher Place.

At general request of the leading
agricultural colleges, experimental
stations and state universities, Prof
w. NJ. Hays of the Minnesota expert
ment station at st. Anthony Park has
been appointed assistant secretary of
agriculture to succeed Joseph II. Brig
ham, whose death last summer left the
nOSitiOn vacant
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-23
Bad Fire in Boston.

Boston, Dec. ia loss estimated
at 100000 was caused by fire Satur-
day in the Hecht building, five-story
structure at GAL and CAB Atlantic ave-
nue.. The fire started from some un-
known cause on the top floor occupied
by the Reliance Manufacturing COM
pany, picture frame makers.
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Fine Church Burned.

Belleville, Ont, Dec. 19.-St. Michaefs
church (Roman Catholic) was destroyed
by fire Saturday. The building was one
OF the best in the city, and the altar the
finest in Ontario. Some Of the int
rlor decorations destroyed were al
most priceless. Loss, $4,000.
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Steamer Burns.

Baltimore, Md, Dec. 19.-The cruis-
er Topeka, which passed in Cape
Henry, Va, at seven o'clock Saturday
morning, reports that the schooner
Clara Goodwin, from Port Tampa for
Philadelphia, was afire off Diamond
Shoals. No one was aboard.
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may spend Christmas at
home, once again have part in "Tretten
julie doge," the thirteen days of Yule.
Yes, Christmas may come but once a
year in Sweden and Norway, but when
1t comes it tarries-at least among the
peasants and farmers of many districts.
In the cities, too, Christmas day fingers,
the urban folks observing Christmas
eve, Christmas day, Second Day Christ
mas, and Third Day Christmas.
Yule is festivity of antiquity in the
northland, going back to the days Of
the followers of Thor and O6in. Many
pretty customs, and merry ones, have
been handed down there, but none pref
tier, more charming, than that of ire
Numbering the BIRDS" Mr. Thomas,
once our minister to Sweden, thus de-
scribes the Christmas gift to the birds:
ION my way home l noticed at every
farmers house We passed there was
erected in the middle of the dooryard a
pole on the top of which was bound a
large sheaf of grain. why is this?"
asked of my comrade. o, that is for
the birds, the little wild birds! They
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tn Continue Martial Law

New York, Dec. 19.-The president
has promulgated a law, cables the
Herald's Rio Janeiro (Brasil) CORE
spondent, maintaining martial law for
another month and law auth orizing
the government to build % war YES
sells.
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Dies Suddenly.

New York, Dec. 19.-Judge e. H.
Hammond, of the federal district
court, Memphis, Tenn, died here Sat-
urday after an illness of four days
with pneumonia. He was &c years old.
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FEEDING THE BIRDS.

mythical patron or ogre of the season.
In Denmark there is wondrous crea-
ton known as the lubbock" or "Klap-
per-Bock," which is built up of long
pole at one end of which is attached a
beasts head covered with goat skin.
1t is'the duty of the dreadful Lubbock"
to butt children that have been naughty
or ill-behaved.
A traveller in Sweden gives as her i'm
preston of Swedish Christmas that it
is blaze of light. And no marvel that
the residents of the land of long dark
ness seek a contrast to the shadowy
night without. For the services in tho
church candles CLEAN wherever it is pos
sible for candle to be placed; the num-
berless Christmas trees bear a taper on
each branch.
The Swedish Christmas tree is hung
with bright glass globes, ribbons and
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TOURIST in Japan naturally
does not come much in con-
tact with the upper class jap
anese servant, whose social
position in his own country
is considerably higher than
fhot of q croolI fro dccman A
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~ ECENTLY over 10000 Scan
dinavians sailed from our
M I'm shores for a visit to the ma
SA@~ tive land. Taking the long
NNN voyage, spending the hard
* earned dollars, that they