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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14
LITTLE PEOPLE OF TRADE.
Mistakes and shortcomings of En-
ployes in Department Stores
| of the City.

The head of the glove department in
one of the great State street stores was
appealed to by a displeased customer
whose request to have a glove repaired
while she waited had been refused. The
man in authority at once proceeded to
cast oil upon the troubled waters, relates
the Chicago Record Herald.
"You see, madam he said, with great
suavity-he is relative and namesake
of a distinguished ex-governor of the
state-"our little people do make such
foolish mistakes-they are limited,
these little people-they think at times
that they are more important than their
customers.
Here is your glove, madam, mended
while you wait, as it should be- Thank
you for making the complaint-it shall
be tonic to our little people"
The little people" were small only in
the sense of being systematically dis
obliging, but under the kindly training
Of their young adjuster their ideas of
discipline and business are likely to en-
large. Their head who so leniently
protects them, gave further illustra,
ton of foolish mistakes" on the part
of little people"
II was in New York last week buying
gloves for the house, and stepped into a
wholesale place, where encountered a
new saleswoman, who looked me over
as if hesitating about waiting on me at
all. l asked for certain style of driving
glove which is sewed with saddlers' silk,
professionally known as 'saddler-
sewed' The young woman yawned,
looked at the clock-it was lunch hour
and took down few packages of gloves,
which were not the kind wanted. The
name of the firm serve would have COM
PEELED her immediate attention, but J.
wanted to see what she would do next.
She looked at me with an icy stare and
said:
I'VE don't keep the goods you want.
| think you would be likely to find them
in harness-shop. We are not saddlers
here"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14
TOLD OF THOSE WHO WRITE.

Ernest Treeton, writer of serial
stories, has lately told of the young
woman amateur who CHANGED to get
an unfinished story accepted by a
weekly paper for immediate publica-
ton. Months passed and the thing
went on. A desperate editor wrote let
ter after letter imploring her to wind
up. The unhappy girl wrote despair
ingly that she couldn't stop it; the
elongating thing had wound round her
as the sea serpent wound about Lao
coon. Finally the editor himself
ended it,
Miss Betham Edwards in her Home
Life in France" writes: 1.-The best
contemporary French writer's often use
English words not as yet naturalized,
without italics or quotation marks.
Thus Cherbuliez wrote of the hall in
stead of lie vestibule' in one of his
novels; Brizeux makes lady conju-
gate the verb 'luncher' in one of his
plays. Flirt, croquet, garden party,
five O'Clock, and variety of similar
expressions are employed as if be-
longing to the French tongue Eng
lish names and pet names have an
especial attraction for French ears
There is pitiful story of Philip
Bourke Marston, the blind English
writer. One day particularly good
idea came to him and he sat down to
his typewriter with enthusiasm He
wrote rapidly for hours and had near
ly finished the story when a, friend
came in. Read that" said Marston
proudly, "and tell me what you think
of it." The friend stared at the hap
Ply author and then at the blank sheets
of paper in his hand before he was
able to understand the little tragedy.
The ribbon had been taken from the
typewriter and Marstons toll was for
nothing. He never had the heart to
write that story again.
Hall Game thinks that the novel of
the future will become more and more
the religious novel and that it will
only be accepted, whether by the plow-
man or the philosopher, in the degree
in which it unites with the simplest
pictures of human life the deepest
problems of humanity. Il think it
will be realized he says, that the
capacity of the novel for any work
whatsoever, whether of simple enter
tainment or of deep teaching, is en-
tirely without limit; that there is no
vehicle so capable of reaching a wide
area, no medium SO adaptable to the
needs of man in all his stages of in
tellectual development; in word,
that there is no pulpit with a sounding
board that will send the human voice
so far
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14
"THE DEAR OLD DAYS"

Gimme back the dear old days-aIl the
boys in line
'"Boy stood on the burnin dec, an
"Bingen on the Rhinen'
"'Twas midnight; in his guarded tent
we spoke il high and low.
While Mary trotted out that lamb whose
fleece was white as snow"
Gimme back the dear old days that Mem'ry
loves to keep,
With pilot tbs a fearful night-there S
danger on the deep!
The oId-time awkward gestures-the jerk
meant fer a bow
We said that "Curfew should not ring,
but, Lord! it's ringin' now
Gimme back the dear old days-the path
way through the dells
To the schoohouse in the blossoms; TIE
sound of far-off bells
TinkIin' 'crost the meadows; the song OF
the bird an Iook:
The old time dictionary. an the blue-back
speilin' book!
the place
Where stood the old log schoolhouse; an no
familiar face
Is smilin' there in welcome beneath morn
in sky
There's bridge acrost the sfver; an we've
crossed. an said "Goog-byr'
Frank L. stanton. in Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14

on the front and back edges. AS be-
fore directed, do not use scratch awl
or lead pencil for this purpose. but
use the bench knife, or the sharp
point of pocketknife blade. With
the back saw proceed to cut off the end
just outside, but close to the line, in
the same way as has already been de-
scribed for backsaw practice in Fig.
"a, after which the end may be planed
smooth (but never beyond the line)
on the bench hook or shoot board, as
directed for the first end
When using the plane on it's side,
care must be taken not to tilt the
plane up as it pressed against the end
wood being planed. In this position do
not hold the plane by the handle, but
lay the right hand firmly ON the side of
the plane, just over the plane iron, and
press the plane firmly down on it's side
at the same time it is pushed forward
and pressed against the wood being
planed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14

planning has been done with care, the
two opposite sides will be parallel.
Having now by planning reduced the
piece of wood to the required width
and thickness, it only remains to cut it
off to the length at which it is to be
used If the ends are to be planed
smooth, which is usually the case, one
end is first planed at right angles, not
only to the work edge, but also to the
face side, testing with the try square
as the work progresses.
The most common and indeed the
easiest way to plane the ends of such
a piece of wood is not to place it in the
bench wise end up, which is difficult
way of doing this work, but to lay it
on the bench hook, as shown at A in
Fig 4S. and, having turned the jack
plane over on its side on the work
bench, and with the face of the plane
against the end of the piece to be
planed, proceed to plane off the end
wood, avoiding all fitting of the plane
during the process.
An important point to be observed
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14

plane one of the edges straight and at
exact right angles to the first surface.
The test is by using the try square as
shown at A in Fig. Al.
This first trued side aSS first jointed
edge at right angles to each other are
called respectively the face side and
work edge of the piece, and in every
case they must both be marked with a
pencil, as shown at B Gig. 4O. These
marks should be placed at the angle
which separates the two trued sur
faces, as shown in the illustration.
This will indicate the corner at which
the two surfaces are in the required
relative position to each other.
For the third step in planning up our
piece set the marking gauge to the re-
quired width of the piece-we will say
in this case four inches-and, placing
the head of the gauge firmly against
the work edge, gauge or mark the
piece on both Sides All wood outside
of the gauge line is now planed off,
but great care must be taken to plane
only to the gauge line, as q shaving
carelessly taken below the line will
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14
IN DARKEST AFRICA.

The French government intends to
make experiments in it's Congo col
ony in the cultivation of wild cof-
fee tree discovered by the explorer. NJ.
Chevalier.
Miss Jane Nathan, who is the first
South African-born girl licensed to
practice as dental surgeon, has re-
turned from her successful studies in
Europe to begin her profession at Han
over, Cape Colony. She is also be-
lieved to be the first South African
girl to take any medical degree.
DR.. Robert Koch had a caravan,
consisting of 70 men, when he visited
Morogoro, in German East Africa, last
month. The natives called him 'the
great medicine man" and were aston
ished at the size of his expedition,
which had for its object the study of
the plague and of kind of fever
which is communicated by the papasi,
or bedbugs, and which has made one
road almost impossible 1t is not
deadly, but makes invalids of the vic
TINS for weeks.
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and guarded against is the splinsertns

and guarded against is the Spinterth9
or breaking of the forward corner as
the plane passes it in the act OF sut-
ting shaving from the end of the
wood. This can be avoided by plac-
ing thin strip of wood of equal thick
ness throughout-say one-fourth to
three-eighths of an inch An thickness.
in front of or between the piece to be
planed and the cross head piece of the
bench hook, as is shown at B in the
illustration. This thin strip will re.
ceive the thrust of the plane against
the fibers of the piece at the forward
angle of its end, and while it's own
corner will be more or less broken, the
piece being planed will be protected
and remain intact.
The shoot board will be found to
work much better than the bench
hook for all such purposes as above,
and this is especially true when the
pieces are wide, so as to present an
end of considerable length to the
plane.
Having succeeded in planning one end
of the piece true and square, next lay
off the required length on the face side
of the piece and with try square
placed against the work edge, draw a
sharp cut line on the surface, and also
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14
-Four Facts For
Sick Women
To Considez
Lydia E. PinEham's Vegetable Compound
Has an UnequaHed Recoed of Cures
Mrs. Pnbkam's AdUice Is Confsden-
faL, Free, and alsoays Helpful

FIRsr.-That almost every operation
in our hospitals performed upon women
becomes necessary through neglect of
such symptoms as backache, irregular
and painful menstruation, leucorrhea,
displacements of the uterus, pain in
the side, burning sensation in the stom-
ach, bearing-down pains, nervousness,
dizziness and sleeplessness.
SECoND.-The medicine that holds
the record for the largest number of
absolute cures of female ills is Lydia
E. Pinlham's Vegetable Compound.
1t regulates, strengthens and cures
diseases of the female organism as
nothing else can.
For thirty years it has been helping
women to be strong, curing backache,
nervousness, kidney troubles, all utter
inc and ovarian Inflammation, weak
ness and displatements, regulating
menstruation perfectly and oVercom-
ing its pains. 1t has also proved itself
invaluable in preparing for childbirth
and the change of life.
THIRD.-The great volume of unso-
licited and grateful testimonials on file
at the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, many of which are from time to
time published by permission, give alb
solute evidence of the value of Lydia
e. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound and
Mrs Pinkham's advice.
FoURTH.-Every ailing woman in the
United States is asked to accept the
following invitation. 1t is free, will
bring you health and may save your
life.
Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation
to Women Women suffering from any
form of female weakness are invited to
promptly communicate with Mrs. Pink
ham, at Lynn, Mass. All letters are
received, opened, read and answered
by women only. From symptoms given,
your trouble may be located and the
quickest and surest way of recovery
advised. Out of the vast volume of ex-
perience in treating female ills Mrs.
PinAham probably has the very knowl-
edge thatwin help your case. Surely,
any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish
if she does not take advantage OF this
generous offer of assistance.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14
FIG. AZ.

wood so that a smooth, close-itting
joint or connection cannot be made
after it's use. The skew chisel style of
knife shown at B is the best, and
should be held and drawn with the
short corner toward the operator
AS we have already stated in article
l, it will be necessary for all those
who wish to become even partially
proficient in using woodworking tools
to do a moderate amount of practical
work with each tool separately before
trying to use them as a whole in the
construction of any desired article.
The following directions and sugges-
tions will be found helpful, and if car
ried out will greatly assist the begin
ner in his future work
If we wish to plane a board or a
piece of stock of any size to required
dimensions the surfaces and edges
must be planed straight and true. The
first test for true surface is to try it
with short straightedge, as at A
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14
ATAX|A FOUR YEARS
FOLLOWS MALARIA CONTRACTED IN
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.
Victim Had Become Helpless When He
Tried DIR. Williams Pink Pills, but
Was Cured in Four Months.

Victim Had Become Helpless When He
Tried Dr. Williams Pink Pills, but
Was Cured in Four Months.
Because he did not know that there is
remedy for ataxia, Mr.. Ariel endured
four years of weakness, pain and the
misery of thinking his case incurable.
cat the outbreak of the Spanish
American war;" he says, 81 went with
Company B, Eighth Regiment, M.V.M.,
into camp at Chickamauga, and while
there my system became thoroughly
poisoned with malaria. When I was
mustered out, I carried that disease
home with me. After while locomotor
ataxia appeared"
Chow did the ataxia begin?"
st first noticed a pain in my ankles
and knee joints. This was followed by
numb feeling in my legs. At times ]
had to drag myself around; my legs
would shake or become perfectly dead.
had constant trouble in getting about
in the dark. I kept light burning in
my room at night as I could not balance
myself in the darkness. Even with the
aid of a light I wobbled, and would
reach out and catch hold Of chairs to
prevent myself from falling?"
"How long were you sufferer"
"Four years i'll all. During the last
three years I was confined to bed, some
times for a week, again for three or four
weeks at time. When I was lying
down the pain in my back was fire.
quently so severe that had to be helped
up and put in a chair to get little re-
lief. I had considerable pain in my
bowels and no control over my kidneys
The worst of all was that the doctor
could give me no hope of recovery"
How were you cured?"
"I read that DIR. Williams Pink
Pills had cured locomotor ataxia and
one or two friends spoke to me about
them. In the fall of 1908 began to take
them for myself and I had not used
more than one box before I found that
the pains in my knees and ankles were
greatly relieved. Four months after.
ward becamea perfectly well man, and
am today enjoying the best of health. :
Mr.. Edward II. Ariel lives at No. A
Powow street, Amesbury, Mass. Every
sufferer from locomotor ataxia should try
Ilr. Williams Pink Pills without delay
All3 druggist can supply them.
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may be twisted Or as the carpenter

may be twisted, Or as the carpenter
would say, winding. or in wind.
To test surface for wind, two short
straightedges are used. each being of
equal width throughout. One of these
is placed on edge near to each end of
the surface to be tested, as in Fig. 46.
Stand back and look across the top
edge of one to the top. edge Of the
other, and IL the two tops agree, as
at A Gig. 46). the surface of the piece
is free from wind.
If the top edges of the winding
strips do not agree, as at B, the wind
or twist of the surface can be readily
seen, and the high corners must be
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14
EDUCATIONAL MATTERS.

The income of Oxford university is
slightly under 10000 a year.
Swedish school children under the
guidance of their teachers annually
plant about 100000 trees
Prof. Molisch, of Prague, says that
photographs can be taken by the light
emitted by raw potatoes and hard
boiled eggs.
DR.. William Royal Stokes and DIR.
John. S. Fulton, of the Maryland
board of health, insist that they have
discovered a curative serum for ty-
phoid fever, after four-years' search.
Prof. Giuseppe Levi, of Milan, will
soon visit Paris to demonstrate before
the Academy of Medicine his new cure
for tuberculosis by means of iodine in
jections, the composition of which is a
secret He claims that 40 to so injec-
tons will bring about complete cure.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14

A, are called auger bits, and can be
bought in sizes ranging from one
fourth to one inch by sixteenths. At
B are shown the gimlet bit and the
twist drill for wood. These bits are
used for boring very small holes for
all purposes, especially for wood
screws, and can be bought in sizes run
ming by thirty-seconds from one-six-
teenth to three-eighths inch in diam
eter. For very hard wood the twist
drill is the best and will stand more
hard usage than the gimlet bit.
At C we illustrate the rose counter
sink-bit and the brace screw driver bit
The former is used to ream out after
the holes have been bored for the
heads of wood screws. The latter is
used in the brace as a screw-driver for
driving large wood screws in hard
wood
In Figs. AZ and 43 we illustrate the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14
FIG. Al.

best forms of carpenters hammer,
screw-driver and scratch awl. The
screw-driyer should be, for general
use, six inhces long, and the hammer
may weigh from II to 16 ounces.
These tools are so common as to need
no description or instructions as to
their use.
At A in Fig. Al is shown an i'm
proved style of adjustable dividers. A
pair eight inches long will be con-
venient size for general use. At B and
C in the same illustration are shown
two common forms of bench knives,
one of which should always be used to
lay out work for the back saw or
chisel, instead of using a pencil or
scratch awl. For fine work the di-
mansions marked by a pencil are too
indefinite, and the scratch made by the
scratch awl is too rough, breaking and
tearing, as it does, the fibers of the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14

j sighed Rose Cantrell, as she Sazed
upon young vision of loneliness enter
ing the ballroom with her chaperon.
81 am glad you are not" said the
man standing beside her. your lit
tie friend there is a beauty and no
mistake; she will make two hearts
paIpitate tonight, from all accounts.
Who do you think will win out, Ste
phen, the stalwart, or Lionel, the Glib
sonian? l understand they are both
devotees at the shrine of the little
deDutante."
alas, I fear the conditions favor
Lionel night" replied Rose with a
sigh. He is dangerously handsome
and fascinating. Stephen is too mas
siye and Overwhelmingly in evening
dress. He would look better in uni
form or in a careless hunting COS
tune. Lionel is in his element on such
81 occasion"
"She is diyinely tall" said the man.
still gazing at the young girl. did
you tell me she was an orphan? She
seems to be chaperoned by Mrs Wes-
ton
''She stays with Mrs. Weston while
her parents are travelling" replied
Rose
What are they travelling for, and
why doesn't she travel with them? ?"
persisted, her interlocutor.
Rose sighed and regretted the curl
osity of her friend, Tom. She also
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14

planned off until the surface agrees
with both tests given above. Two
winding strips should be carefully
made and kept for this purpose, and
also to be used as short straightedges
when needed. They may be from IL to
16 inches in length, one and one-halt
to two inches wide and from one-half
to three-fourths inch in thickness.
They are tested for accuracy in them
selves by laying them side to side, on
edge, on fiat surface. and if in this
position the upper edges agree, then
turn one of the strips other end to,
and if the upper edges still agree the
two strips are correct.
Having obtained true surface, as
above directed, the second step is to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14
Woman Webster

The late Mary A. Livermore was once
called "the Daniel Webster of American
women" because of her majestic miee
solidity of character, Doric simplicity
of thought and weight of utterance
Mrs. Livermore's type of eloquence, in
it's stateliness of form, its premeditated
art, is not initiated to-day by women
who address assemblies any more than
American men are initiating Webster OF
Everett. The modern type is more di-
rect, conventional and less ornate
Webster in one of his letters to CORE
spondent anent eloquence quoted the
sentiment: Nothing is beautiful which
is not true" and Mrs. Livermore had a
no less lofty ideal.
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regretted that Pearl had confided to
her secret that was not to be inn
parted TO a third person. Fortunately,
his inquiry.
Throughout the evening Rose
watched with interest the division of
the greater share of PEARLS dances
between the tall, broad-shouldered
man in whose eyes was a world of
silent alteration, and the gay, hand
some youth who danced with such
reckless abandon.
1t could hardly be expected, sup
pose. cogitated Rose, "that a girl so
young and inexperienced as Pearl
would make the sensible choice and
take Stephen Still Pearl is wise be-
yond her years. l wonder if she will
tell them what she told me- 1t should
make no difference to man in love,
but I imagine Lionel will shy at the
disclosure but Stephen, so capable of
the grand passion, ought not to mind
anything"
A few days after the ball Pearl came
to pay a visit to Rose, who proposed
on rainy afternoon that they tele-
phone Tom to come and divert them.
Whom shall l ask him to bring
with him, Stephen or Lionei?" she
asked. turning to Pearl.
Both replied the sagacious
maiden, with an enchanting smile.
''The Lady or the Tiger thought
Rose. as she gave Tom his instruc-
tons.
The three men promptly responded
to the summons and when Rose was
serving tea, Tom casually remarked
to Pearl:
You have come to the city in my
absence, Miss Craig"
eyes, she replied. "You have been
away two years, haven't you? and my
guardian, Mrs. Weston, only moved
here year ago."
az believe Rose said that your par
ents are travelling"
Rose tried to divert his attention,
but his eyes were fixed on Pearl, who
appeared quite at ease
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make the piece too narrow for the re-
'quired use. If the planning has been
done with care and accuracy the two
edges of the piece will be parallel and
the width correct
The fourth step is to reset the mark
ing gauge to the required thickness
say three-fourths inch-and with the
gauge head placed and held firmly
against the face side mark or gauge
around and around the piece and again
plane off all wood outside of the
gauge mark, and here again, if the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14
FIG. 43.

in Fig. As. The stlsightedge must be
applied to different parts of the sur
face, and also in different positions,
and the wood carefully dressed off with
the plane until every part of the sur
faas fits to the edge of the straight
edge. If the piece being planed is mar
row, the back edge of the try square
used as shown at B will be sufficient
for making this test. 1t is usually
the case that while surface is ap-
parently true by the test lust given it