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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-09-16
MAKING TOO LIGHT OF 1T.
Drug Clerk Who Needed to Learn
the First Principles of
His Business.

Il notice." said the chemist to his assist
ant, IN Smiths Weekly yarn, that gen.
tleman came IN with prescription, and that
you took it and gave MIN the stuff in about
three minutes. What do you mean by
that"
1T was only little carbolic acid and
water" replied the assistant. Il simply
had to pour a few drachms of acid into the
bottle, and fill it up with water"
Never mind if you had only to do that,
the chemist declared. Don't you know
that every prescription must take at least
half an hour to prepare, or the customer
will think he isn't getting anything for
his money?
When a prescription for salt and water
or peppermint and cough strip is handed
to you, you must look doubtfully, as If II
were very hard to make up. Then you
must bring it to me, and we will both read
it and shake our heads. After that you. GO
back to the customer and ask MIN II ne
wants it to-day. When he says yes YOU an
swer that you'll make a special effort.
Now, a patient appreciates prescrlp-
ton that hes had so much trouble over
and when he takes it he derives some bene-
fit from it. But don't you do any more OF
that three-minute prescription business
my boy, II you want to become tlrst-ciass
chemist.
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SLIPS OF SCIENCE.

The compound chemical lecithin
tends TO promote the growth of giants.
The practical use of the searchlight
Is only 700 yards, while a torpedo can
be used effectively at from 1000 to
1000 yards
Dentistry is a modern science, but
the need for it existed thousands Of
years ago, cavities having been found
in teeth of the stone age.
Astronomers are uncertain whether
the planet Mercury rotates in about "a
hours, or in So days. Spots now visible
are expected to settle the question soon.
The percolation of a liquid through
q porous solid is much affected by the
temperature. 1t has been found that
the internal friction is reduced as the
temperature rises.
John Burroughs, after careful
study covering many years, is Of the
opinion that animals do not think, but
have q keen perception, and live en-
tireiy in and through their senses.
New York state has recently made
an appropriation of $1,000 for cooper
alive photographic work with the
United States geological survey. It is
to be used in maintaining records of
the rise and fall, the ordinary over
flow, floods and droughts Of many of
the streams in the state
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-09-16
POULTRY BREVITIES.
ar feed damaged grain.

Never feed damaged grain.
Large, uniform eggs hold customers.
Green bone will not take the place of
grit.
Kaffir corn is an excellent wheat sub
stitute
The honest poultryman is not afraid
to date the eggs he sends out
A hens profitable laying seems to
be limited to the first two years of her
life.
Statisticians assert that more money
is spent in this country for eggs than
flour.
Don't hold the eggs longer than a
week. Always make it rule that the
product must be fresh.
Oyster shell should always be placed
before the fowls. IL furnishes consid-
cradle lime, invaluable for the manu-
facture of eggs. But oyster shell will
never do as a substitute for grit; it is
too soft.
The laying hen is more hearty
eater and a heavier drinker than the
one not laying, but it is seldom that
her food makes her overfat, as she has
a double use for it-she uses it for sus-
tanning the tissues of the body and for
manufacturing eggs.-American Poul-
try Journal.
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BY STRANGE ACCIDENTS.

A Jersey mosquito caused the death OF
a barber named Rosho Dorso at Har-
rison.
William P Steele, of Princeton. Md,
died few months ago while setting up
a monument over his wife's grave
The stone fell, crushing his head and
chest
Emanuel Beveler, of Sterling, Ill, cut
his throat on his high collar. He was
riding bicycle, and in trying to avoid
a passing horse was thrown. In his
fall his collar cut his throat
While carrying a keg of beer intended
for picnic in Reading, Pa, one day re-
Gently Elmer Kerchoff stumbled over
a wire. The keg slipped so suddenly
that the jar disclocated his neck.
Margaret Kirchbaum died of eating
hot potatoes. She was in a hurry to go
out and gulped several hot potatoes.
She died in great agony. The autopsy
showed that her throat and the lining
OF her stomach had been so badly burned
that the swelling had caused her to choke
10 death
Francis Birdwell, Boston ornitholo-
gist, climbed high up in tree at Rio
Pecos. N NJ, after birds nest. The
rope he was using caught on limb, and
when he slipped and fell, loop caught
him around the neck and he was slowly
strangled to death. His bride Of a
month stood at the foot of the tree, but
was unable to help him.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-09-16
FINE FEED FOR THE HENS.
That Will Surprise Those Who
Have Never Fed It.

Save small amount of unthreshed
grain for the poultry. You will save
the thresher's bill on it, and the poul-
try will even pay you nice profit for
the privilege of working it over for
their own benefit, by an increased sup
ply of eggs, and thriftiness and growth
among the flock. Wheat is best for
this purpose. but rye and oats are also
excellent. If so desired, you can select
purpose, as the main object is to fur
nish the poultry with some interesting
employment. Save enough of the un-
threshed grain to furnish one good
sized bundle for every 80 hens in the
flock daily. Whole grain can with adj
vantage be scattered among the straw
1t will prevent the greedy ones from
Cutting themselves, while the small
and weak ones have a chance to get
their share of the grain. After the
straw has been thoroughly worked
over and all grain picked out, it should
be all raked up and removed before
bringing in a fresh bundle. If possible,
the unthreshed grain should be placed
under a shed or in barn to keep dry
If unthreshed grain cannot be OBJ
tanned, dry fresh straw and chaff will
be a good substitute to sprinkle the
grain among, if frequently changed,
but it will not give as good results as
the unthreshed grain, owing to the
amount OF healthy exercise which the
unthreshed grain will furnish.-Mid-
land Farmer.
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her eyes and smiles. By the different
sleeves. she manages to convey to her
admirers all sorts of messages.
Between the sexes in Japan there is
very little difference in the main feat
lures of dress, and little children are
only beautiful little miniatures of their
parents, more gaily and richly dressed.
A tiny girl may wear the richest en-
broideries and stiffest brocades of
flaming scarlets and gold made in eX-
actly the same way as the soft gray or
brown kimono of her mother. In tiny
children the distinction of sex is
shown by the color of the clothes, not
the style in which they are made.
Boys wear yellow, girls red.
Under his kimono a man of the up
per class wears a sort of killed, divided
skirt, something approaching the ma
ture of trousers. This is called the
hakama, and is always made of stiff
silk. A woman wears, instead, an I'M
der-kimono. Both sexes wear two
little aprons round the loins, called
the suso-yoke, Neither a mans obi nor
his hair are, of course, his glory and
pride as they are with a woman; the
narrow male sash is not an item Of
great Importance, for although it is
always made of rich silk, it is worn
not Sc much for show as for use, to
keep his kimono in place, and to serve
as waist-belt through which he can
draw the rich chain and netsuke (but-
TOM of his tobacco and pipe-case, and
if he is merchant, his lOng-handled
inkpot and pen-holder.
In the severest weather both the
sexes wear padded kimonos, and the
men have a short haori, or over-jackeI.
which only reaches to about their
knees. A woman's complete outfit
costs much more than a mans, al
though the actual number of the gar
ments she wears at one time are few
er. Prof. Chamberlain, in his Things
Japanese" says: "A Japanese lady s
dress will often represent a value OF
$500, without counting the ornaments
for her hair. A woman of the smaller
shop-keeping class may have on her,
when she goes out holiday-making.
some $40 or $50 worth. A gentleman
will rarely spend on his clothes as
much as he let's his wife spend on
hers. Perhaps he may not have on
more than $50 worth. Thence, through
a gradual decline in price, we come TO
the coolies poor trappings, which may
represent as little as five dollars, or
even two dollars, as he stands"
DOUGLAS SLADEN.
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syncrasy in dress by binding up their
loins so closely that they cannot walk,
and are compelled to shuttle along
with that peculiar rythm of movement
which is quite their own.
Although a Japanese woman seems
to be much more simply dressed than
her western sister (and certainly she
has reduced the number of her gar
ments down to a very fine point, she
is none the less daughter OF Eve IN
her love of personal adornment. For
instance, every time her hair is taken
down, two hours are spent IN re-
dressing it, and nothing would induce
her to go to a picnic or to the theater
without popping into the sleeve or her
kimono her little dressing-case made
of scarlet brocade, which contains her
steel mirror and diminutive boxes OF
lip-salve, face powder and eyebrow
renoyator. nor would she go to her
temple to pray if her obi did not sit
Just as an obi ought to sit, and has sar
ever since they were adopted by her
remote ancestors.
Undoubtedly with a Japanese wom-
an the richness of her hair ornaments,
and the splendor of her obi, constitute
her chief vanities and extravagances
in dress, and it is, after all, only IN
her short years of m0usmeehood that
she has much opportunity for annoy
ing other women, or pleasing the op-
posite sex by the beauty and variety
of these vanities of the flesh. OF the
young wife, the husband demands that
the wearing of her fine trousseau shall
be reserved for his own and his par
ents' eyes only.
The older a woman grows, the sad
der and duller her clothes become Gas
a child she is Respondent as a butter-
f1y). and the less ostentatious the 1ne
chignon of glossy black hair which she
niles on the top of her head to pro-
claim her wifehood in the eyes OF the
world: and, alas! if she is left wild
ow. her fine head of hair is shaver on
to show her desolation.
In Japan the wedding ring is not the
sign manual of a married woman, but
the dressing of her hair, and not the
length of her kimono sleeves. A nous
NEE must not have such long sleeves
as a matron, and her hair is less elab-
orately dressed. The tying of an obi
in front of the waist instead of behinC
places a woman amongst the un-
classed, but such sight is never seer
outside the limits of the Yoshiwara
nous length and variety standing out
from woman's head like hatpins on
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a pincushion, are also the signs by
which We shall know the women who
are compelled to live in the city OF
no night" Women of the higher
classes only adorn their heads with
veritable works of art in dull gold
lacquer, carved tortoise-shell, and
coral; they are careful never to wear
the skewer-like ornaments with which
all the world is familiarized in paint
ings and on fans, used by their less
fortunate susters.
The magnificence and richness of a
girls wedding trousseau does not -
much denote the wealth of the par
ents as their devotion to her as a
child, for her mother begins to save
up and purchase, bit by bit, her
daughters wedding outfit from her
very infancy, and her bridal dress,
which is always white, does not signf-
fly her virginia. nature, as it does with
us, but her burial shroud (for white
is the mourning color in Japan, and,
therefore, never worn by children) i;
for a bride goes to be married dressed
like a corpse, to show that from
henceforth she is dead to her own par
ents, and although her trousseau
should be large enough to supply her
with clothes for the rest of her life.
she must pay her first visit TO her own
people after her marriage in a kimono
bought by her husband, and stamped
with his crest.
A Japanese woman fiirts (as far as
she knows the meaning Of the world,
with her sleeves and fan, and not with
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-09-16
METHOD THAT SAVES WORK
Experience of a Farmer Who Keeps
His Poultry House Clean with
Little Effort.

I use no droppings boards, and by
keeping the floors of the houses well lit
tered with dry leaves, which absorb all
the moisture in the droppings, find that
1 can let the droppings remain for weeks
and yet leave the house free from bad
smell, and as the droppings are hidden
in the leaves, cleaner to look at than
half the houses l see that are cleaned
daily In winter | have let my houses
go without removing the droppings for
several months l don't advise others
either to do without droppings boards
or to let their houses go so long un-
cleaned, unless they are sure they can
control the situation If there is much
looseness among the fowls it will not do
at all to let Groppings accumulate. With
some kinds of litter the droppings can
not be allowed to accumulate. Dry
leaves have found better than anything
else, if one has them in sufficient quaint
ity to keep the litter always deep on the
floor of the houses. In England many
farmers use peat moss, and allow drop
pings to accumulate in it for nearly a
year In Rhode Island the colony plan
poultry farmers seta board on edge on the
floor just forward of the outer roost.
and throw dry earth, few shovelfuls at
a time, from the other side of the floor
on the accommodating droppings. This
accumulation of earth and droppings is
removed once or twice year. Poultry
manure normally is of such character
that if one takes proper care of it where
it falls in the house it is not necessary
that it should be promptly removed;
and the small farmer taking advantage
of this fact can arrange his roosts and
their surroundings so that he can clean
when convenient He is not required
to choose between taking time to clean
the houses daily or having houses in
condition to be ashamed of.
Poultry keeping ought to be an i'm
! portant feature on every farm, and a
pleasant feature of farm work. 1t may
be if the farmer will only study to adapt
his stock and his methods to the ca
pacity of the farm under conditions sat
| isfactory to him. H Robinson, in
Farm-POultry.
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WHAT'S THE USE
To Keep a "Coffee Complexion"

A lady Gays: Postum has helped
my complexion so much that my
friends say l am growing young again.
My complexion used to be coffee col
ored, muddy and yellow, but it is now
clear and rosy as when I was girl.
/ was induced to try Postum by a
friend who had suffered just as I had
suffered from terrible Indigestion, pal
pitation of the heart and sinking
spells.
After had used Postum a week I
was so much better that was afraid
it would not last But now two years
have passed and I am well woman.
I owe it all to leaving off coffee and
drinking Postum in its place.
81 had drank coffee all my life.
suspected that it was the cause of my
trouble. but it was not until I actually
quit coffee and started to try Postum
that I became certain; then all my
troubles ceased and I am now well and
strong again" Name furnished by
Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
Look in each package foF a copy OF
the famous little book, "The Road to
Wellville."
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vet there is little trouble in keeping the
fiocks separate Each house shelters
60 hens, and l keep ten cockerels with
four fiocks They have unlimited range.
The eggs hatch better than when a cock
is kept for every Il or Is hens. The
interior of the house is also shown. The
platform is whitewashed and dust or
sand is sprinkled on it, The perches
are 2 or 8 inches in diameter. Between
the floor and dropping platform is an
other platform 2 feet wide on which the
nests are placed.
The nests are sometimes boxes made
of short pieces of board, but usually are
small boxes bought at the grocery for
cents each. In the corner opposite the
door is usually barrel of road dust The
hens use it for dust bath, and use it
for the dropping boards. They also use
it for a nest box, which disapprove of.
The cost of two houses was as follows:
Lumber. $7S5 (the pine lumber was
secondhand, and got it for half price, ;
nails, 80 cents; glass and putty, SO cents;
hinges and locks, 40 cents; paper, ce-
ment and nails, s725; freight on paper
and cement, $1.25; total of s17.74 for ma
terial; six days labor at 81 per day would
add Sc, making the total cost S23.74. or
not quite s12 for each. Two other houses
made of new lumber and battens instead
of paper, which cost s20.25 oil and paint,
s1.1S; IA pounds nails, Sc cents; three
windows, s1.05; wire netting, S1.05
hinges, locks and hasps, SO cents;
days labor, Sc, making the total cost
s31.04, or s1552 each.-Mrs. E. E. Dat
ton, in Orange Judd Farmer
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STOLEN SQUIBs.

Binks-How does your new son-in-law
strike you?
Hinks-For Y usually.
Mrs. Auger-I can't see why my hus-
band should be jealous Of me.
Her Friend-No one can my dear
Mr.. Smith had hard time to get his
daughters off his hands"
Eyes, and hear he has to keep their
husbands on their feet"
Poor Giblets!" What now7" HE
has been off on a vacation for month
and the doctor ordered him to go back
to work for his health"
An Atchison husband lowered at
deaths door so long his wife remarked
that she supposed he was having his
usual trouble finding the keyhole.
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DIVIDING HENHOUSE DOOR.
A Combination of Especial Value
Where Poultry Is Kept in Same
Place the Year Round.

for poultry houses. This is a comhina-
ton for both summer and winter use.
Laths or Stats are nailed on lower half
extending to top of door. This covers
the space filed by the upper half of door
so that the latter may be opened at any
season for ventilation When upper half
is closed and secured by the button on
the lower half the whole becomes solid
door.
This arrangement is also useful in
ventilating the poultry house during
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-09-16
Cure for Egg-Eating Hens.

The following is recommended as a
very effective remedy for egg-eating
hens: Remove the inside of a number
of eggs and fill in with cayenne pep
per and mustard, equal parts. AS fast
as eaten, replace with more for three
days, at the end of which time you will
find the hens will leave eggs alone.
The egg-eating habit is very bad
one. The older hens will soon teach
it to the younger ones. Better take
the matter in hand before it gets toe
far along.
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CHEAP POULTRY HOUSES.
Valuable Suggestions from an ILL
nois Lady Who Has Made Hen
Keeping a Success.

keep about 300 fowls and have sew
eral small houses such as shown in &C
companying illustration. The houses are
built. some of pine and some of oak lum-
Der. They are feet wide and 10 feet
long. Z feet high in front and Az feet
at back. Stills are 2x4-inch oak, caps
2x4-inch pine They have one window
of six lights 24x3O inches in front, 8
feet from the ground one small window
without glass, but wooden shutter, 2
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A VENTILATING DOOR.

warm days in winter. Such ventilation
with plenty of sunlight to keep the place
dry, and litter in which the fowls may
scratch for food so as to get exercise. are
primary requisites to success with poul-
try in winter The house must be kept
free from vermin and provided with dry
earth for a dust bath.-A. D. Ortley, in
Farm and Home.
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feet square, in end opposite door, for
air and ventilation; two exits for fowls
in front Have platform length of house
5 feet wide under perches to catch drop
pings. This is kept covered with dirt
or dust.
Between dropping boards and floor is
a platform for nests. All platforms
and perches are removable. Houses have
earth floors. Each house has one large
door placed in the end, close to the front.
The exits are 12x16 inches, placed close
to the ground. On stormy days the door
is kept closed, the fowls going in and out
through the exits. The windows have
strong, fine meshed wire nailed on the
outside
These houses are about rods apart.
and there are no fences between them,
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I had no appetite. When doctors failed
to help me began using Doan's Kidney
Pills and improved until my back was
strong and my appetitereturned. Dur
ing the four years since stopped using
them have enjoyed excellent health.
The cure was permanent"
(Signed) George W. Renoff.
A TRIAL FREE-Address Foster
Milburn Co., Buffalo, n. Y. For sale
by all dealers. Price, so cents.
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Not Far OFF.

Teacher-Now, then, what do We mean
by composition?
Little Girl (eagerly)-Please, miss, com
position is the art of bringing simple ideas
INTO complication-Manila Times.
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St., Philadelphia,
Pa. , a man of good
repu ia tion and
standing, writes +:
" Five years ago 1
was suffering SO
with my back and
kidneys that l
often had to lay
off. The kidney
secretions W ere
unn a t ural, my
legs and stomach
,-o11ar, nn1
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~ II ing, too subtle for the ordi-
TN nary tourist to discover.
a. Not knowing the lam
guage of clothes, they at
first sight seemed to me delightfully."-
simple, if, from a feminine standpoint,
rather lacking in excitement. IN a
country where millinery is an I'M
known quantity, and the style and cut
Of your gowns never change, what can
the ordinary woman have to think
about? Imagine a land without fash
ion papers or advertisements Of
straightforward corsets!
A woman's wardrobe appears to
consist of an outer and inner kimono,
a gorgeous Obi or sash, some exquisite
hair-combs, and fan, while, instead
of watch, she carries a valuable to-
bacco pouch and pipe-case.
There are, Of course, a few more
articles of seemingly less Importance,
such as the tabi, or thick, white foot
gloves, which serve as both stockings
and slippers, and the high wooden
clogs or gaia, worn in place of boots,
and always put on at the front door
on going out, and knocked off there on
entering the house; and last, but not
least, the dress-improver or obi-age.
which supports the butterfly sash, and
gives it the correct hump.
But if women in Japan do not tight
lace their straightforward corsets,
they make up for this western lido
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had TO GIVE UP.

Suffered Agonies from Kidney Disorders
Until Cared by Doan's Kidney Pills.
George W. Renoff, of 1858 North 18th
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N JAPAN nothing is as SIM
pie as it looks, for every
thing has a double mean
ing, too subtle for the ordi-
nary tourist to discover.
Not knowing the lam
guage of clothes, they at
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-05-26
Orange Cultivation.

Intakes five or Six years be.
fore the orange plants IN Jaifa
produce fruit on account OF lack
OF care in cultivation, the Arab
planters being very negligent in
warding of plant disease, and in.
protecting the plants from injur.
ious= Insects As-areeegnitiot,- of
the work done in America in the
.hybridNing and cultivating
OF oranges, America oranges are
now selling in London and TAX
ing theil. placein other European
markets. As a recognition Of
the superiority Of golden grain
belt beer, the number Of regular
patrons is steadily increasing.
Being breMed from--tha-finest
barley malt and hop, the great.
est care is taken to make this
tonic an ideal beverage for daily
use. Order 81 your nearest
dealer or be supplied by John f..
Essler, Bemidji.