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MAKE ONE EQUAL TO FOUR
American Army Officers Way Of Ac-
counting for Victories Of
the Japanese.

How Japan made one of her soldiers
equal to four Russians is told by Mai
Louis L. Seaman, United States army
surgeon. The army and public are in.
debted to Maj Seaman, says the Cleve.
land Plain Dealer, for the first detailed
information about the hitherto un.
equaled efficiency of the medical de.
partments of the Japanese army and
navy, and in the article referred to he
adds some important supplementary
information.
Ten years ago Japan began to pre-
pare for war with Russia. 1t was esti.
mated that Russia would have some
100000 available soldiers, against
100000 for Japan. How to equaiize
these forces in fighting efficiency was.
the problem which confronted the Jap.
anese general staff. and in the solu'
ton of it the medical officers were a
most potent factor. 1t was known that
in war, generally speaking, four men
die from disease to one who succumbs
to wounds. Japan proposed to eliniin-
ate disease, and Maj. Seaman tells low
they set about it and how admirably
they succeeded. His conclusion may
be summed up in the statement that
for the first six months of the war the
Japanese loss from disease was only a
fraction of one per cent. Up to August
1 1852 cases had been received at the
Hiroshima reserve hospital from tia,
field, of whom $685. were wounded.
Of the total number up to that datA
only "a had died. Quite as surprising
as the amazingly low death rate is tina
fact that only about one-third of tina
total cases were men suffering frori
disease.
Japanese medical officers went in ad-
vance of the troops, examined the water
supply and camping grounds and re-
moved conditions that threatened the
health of the troops. The work of tho
surgeons was thus confined mainly to
the permanent hospitals. Owing to the
"merciful'' character of the modern
rifle most of the wounds were COM
parativeIy slight and most of the wound
ed were soon in the ranks. First aid''
treatment was sufficient to allow most
of the wounded either to return to the
ranks or, at all events, to reach base
hospital without calling on able-bodied
comrades for assistance. A veritable
revolution was wrought in the military
branch of the healing art.
The Japanese while protecting them
selves succeeded in turning against theis
foes all the microbes and kindred NOR
bific agencies that have played such
havoc with armies.
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s'pose was my sins, and then he looked
at dad, and held up one hand, and dad
was pale, and there was no funny bust
ness about dad any more, and then
they set the platform down and the
pope sat in chair, and those who want
ed to went up to him, and he blessed
them.
Say, for awhile dad dassent go up,
cause he thought the pope could see
right through him, and would know he
was Baptist, but the rest of the Amer
leans were going up, and dad didn't want
to be eccentric, so he and l went up.
The pope put out his hand to dad, and
instead of shaking it, as he would the
hand of any other man on earth, and
asking how his folks we're, dad bent
over and kissed the pope's hand, and
the pope blessed him. Dad looked like
a new man, good man, and when the
pope put his hand on my head, and
blessed me, my heart came up in my
throat, cause l thought he must know
of all the mean things had ever done,
but can feel his soft, beautiful hand
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-07

on my head now, and from this out l
would fight any boy twice my size that
ever said a word against the pope and
his religion. When we got outside dad
says to me: "Hennery, don't you ever
let me hear of your doing thing that
would make the good man sorry If he
was to hear about it." And we went to
and all night, and just thought of that
pope's angelic face, and when one of
the Americans came to our room and
wanted dad to play cinch, he was in
dignant, and said: 81 would as soon
think of robbing child's bank" and
we went to bed, and if dad wasn't con-
verted man l never saw one.
Well, sir, trouble, and sorrow, and re-
ligion, don't last very long on dad. The
next morning we talked things over, and
1 quoted all the Roman STUFF I could
think of to dad, such as "In that elder
day, to be Roman was greater than
a king" but before could think twice
there was commotion in the streets
and a porter came and made us take off
our hats, because the king was riding
by, and we looked at the king, and dad
was hot. He said that fellow was moth
ing but a railroad hand, disguised in a
uniform, and, by ginger, if we had seen
that king out west working on rail-
road, with canvas clothes on, he would
not have looked like king, on bet
There was nothing but his good clothes
that stood between the king and dago
digging sewers in Chicago.
After the king and his ninespots had
passed, dad said: when you are in
Rome, you must do as the Romans do"
and he said he wanted to get that heavy
feeling off his shoulders, which he got
at the religious procession, and wanted
me to suggest something devilish that
we could do, and told him we better
go and see the "Catacombs" He want
ed to know if it was anything like "a
trip to Chinatown" or the "Black
Crook" and 1 told him it was worse
Then he asked me if there was much
low neck and long stockings in the
9Catacombs, and l told him there was
a plenty, and he said he was just ripe
to see that kind of show, and so we
took a carriage for the "Catacombs, :"
and dad could hardly keep still till we
got there.
1 suppose I ought to be killed for
fooling dad, but he craved for excite
ment, and he got it. The "Catacombs'
are where Roman citizens have been
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this is a morgue," but to cheer him up
I told him his head must be wrong, and
I pointed to about hundred dried
corpses, a thousand years old, in cor
ner. with grinning skulls all around,
and told him that was the ballet, and
told him to look at the leading dancer,
and asked him if she wasn't a beaut,
from Butte, Mont, and that killed dad.
He leaned against me, and said his
eyes must have gone back on him, be-
cause everything looked dead to him.
I told him he would get over it after
awhile, and to stay where he was while
1 went and spoke to one of the ballet
that was reckoning to me, and I left
him there. dazed, and went around q
corner and hid.
People were coming along with
torches, all the time, looking at the
catacombs and reading the inscrip-
lions cut in the rock, and after awhile |
went back to where / left dad, and he
was gone, but after awhile found him
standing up with the stiffs. He was
glad to see me, and wanted to know il
thought he was dead. | told him was
sure he was alive, though he had death
ly look on his face well, sir" says
dad, st thought it was all over with
me, after you left, for man came along
and moved me around, and took hold
under my arms and jumped me along
here by these stiffs, and told ME if
didn't stay where l belonged he would
break me up into bones, and throw me
into a pile, and l thought would have
to do as the Romans do and stay here,
and before the man left me he reached
into my pocket and took my money,
and said I couldn't spend any money in
there where l was going to stay for a
million years, and, by gosh, was so
petrified I couldn't stop him from rob-
bling me. Say, Hennery, they will rob
you anywhere, even in the grave, and
if this Catacomb show is over, and the
curtain has gone down, I want to get out
of here, and go to the Coliseum or the
Roman amphitheater, where the wild
beasts eat people alive" And so " left
the Catacombs and went back to rown,
and dad began to show life again.
Say, you tell the folks at home that
dad is gaining every day, and his va
cation is doing him good He has prom
Used to kill me for taking him to the
Catacomb show, but dad never harbors
revenge for long, and guess your lit
tie nephew will pull through. l wish
had my skates, cause dad wants to go
to Russia. Yours,
HENNERY.
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pie, when you get to Rome and see the
churches thicker than saloons in Mil
waukee, and everybody attending
church and looking pious, you catch the
fever, and try to forget bad things you
have done, and if you get chance 20
see the pope, you may go to his palace
Just cause you want to see everything
that is going on, and you think you
don't care whether school keeps or not,
and you feel independent, as though
this religion was something for weak
people to indulge in, and finally you
come face to face with the pope, and
see his beautiful face, and his grand
eyes, and his every movement is full
of pious meaning, you "penuk" right
there, and want to kneel down and
let him bless you, by gosh.
Say, never saw dad weaken like
he did when the pope came in. We
got tickets to go to his reception, but
dad said he had rather go to the cata-
combs, or the lion show at the Coliseum
He said he didn't want to encourage
popes, because he didn't believe they
amounted to- any more than presiding
elders at home. He said he had al
ways been a Baptist, and they didn't
have any popes in his church, and he
didn't believe in 'em, but some other
Americans were going to see the pope,
and dad consented to go, under protest,
1t being understood that he didn't care
two whoops, anyway.
Well, sir, we went, and it was the
grandest thing you ever saw. There
were guards by the thousand, beautiful
gardens that would make Central park
look like hay marsh, hundreds of
people in church vestments, and an
air of sanctity that we never dreamed;
Jewels that are never seen outside the
pope's residence, and we lined up to see
the holy father pass.
Gee, but dad trembled like dog
tied out in the snow, and the perspira-
ton stood out on his face, and he looked
sorry for himself. Then came the pro-
cession, all mobiles and great people,
and then there was a party of pious
men carrying the most beautiful man
we ever saw on platform above us,
and it was the pope, and he smiled at
me, and the tears came to my eyes, and
l couldn't swallow something which
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-07
Copyright 1905. by Joseph B. Bowles)

Copyright, 1906. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
Rome, Italy.-Dear Old Friend: You
remember, don't you, when you were a
boy, playing tag, you're it," and
button, button, who's got the button?"
that one of the trying situations was
to be judged to "go to Rome which
meant that you were to kiss every girl
in the room.
never got enough "going to Rome"
when attended church sociables and
parties, but always got blindfolded, and
had to kiss anybody they brought to me,
which was usually boy or colored
cook, so l leased dad to take me TO
Rome, and when he got over his being
ratified and robbed and burned by lava
at Vesuvius, he said he didn't care
where he went, and, besides, I told him
about the Roman Coliseum, where they
turned hungry tigers, and lions, and hy-
enas loose among the gladiators, and
the people could see the beasts eat them
alive, and dad said that was something
like it, as the way he had been robbed
and misused in Italy, he would enjoy
seeing good share of the population
chewed by lions, if the lions could stand
1t. l didn't tell dad that the wild ami
NAL show had not been running for a
couple of thousand years, cause
thought he would find it out when we
got here.
Say, old man, / guess l can help you
to locate Rome. You remember the time
I spoke piece at the school exhibition,
when put my hand inside my flannel
shirt, like an orator, and said: "And
this is Rome, that sat on her seven
hills, and from her throne of beauty
ruled the whole world" Well, this is
1t, where l am now, but the seven hills
have been graded down, and Rome don't
rule the whole world little bit; but she
has got religion awful.
The pope lives here, and he is the
boss of more religious people than any
body, and though you may belong to
any other kind of church, and when
you are home you don't care CONT
mental for any religion except yotr own,
or your wife's religion, and you act
like an infidel, and scott at good peo-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-07
THE MONTHLY TRIAL
HEADACHE, DIZZINESS, BEARING
DOWN PAINS.
A Woman Tells How She Has Become Well
and Strong after Years of Misery
Due to Irregular Functions.

A Woman Tells How She Has Become Well
and Strong after Years of Misery
Due to Irregular Functions.
The fact that one woman is bright.
eyed, rosy checked, strong and cheerful,
while another is pale, weak and de-
pressed, is due more often than other
wise to the regularity in the one case
and the irregularity in the other of the
functions that are peculiar to the sex.
When these are disturbed everything
goes wrong; pain and discomfort are
felt all over the body; the sensations are
often terrifying.
For four years" said Mrs. Davis re-
GENTLY, 81 suffered understandable misery
from sick headache every month, &C.
companied by fainting spells, shortness
of breath and severe pain in my left side.
There were also bearing down pains, at
times so acute that could not stand up,
and my head was full of ringing sounds.
1t seemed as If everything was going to
hit me in the eyes. was compelled to
lie down with closed eyes for hours to
get little relief. When attempted to
arise everything would whirl around and
1t would grow so dark that I could
scarcely see any object"
Couldn't your doctor help your"
give doctors in all treated me, but I
got 10 lasting benefit. Besides used a
lot Of advertised remedies. The only
medicine, however, that had the de-
sired effect was DR.. Williams Pink Pills
and they are truly godsend to women.
] did not have much faith in them when
I began to take them. ! found myself,
however, 80 much better after using two
boxes that began to believe in them.
They checked right away the decline
Into which I was going. My troubles
kept lessening and finally disappeared
altogether" !;
"How long did 1t take for q cure?"
"After I had used several boxes my
health was all right. had taken on
flesh and was strong and hearty. feel
today in spirits more like girl of six
teen than a woman Of my years."
Mrs. o. Fl. Davis address Is Carmel,
Maine, r. B. D., No. 2. DR.. Williams,
Pink Pills are confidently offered to
women for the cure of anaNnia, chloro-
sis, painful and irregular periods, and
all forms Of weakness. They are sold
BY every druggist.
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in life when woman's great change
may be expected.
These symptoms are all just so many
calls from nature for help. The nerves
are crying out for assistance and the
cry should be needed in time.
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound was prepared to meet the needs
of woman's system at this trying
period of her life. 1t invigorates and
Strengthens the female organism and
builds up heweakened nervous system
1t has carried thousands of women
safely through this crisis.
For special advice regarding this i'm.
portant period women are invited to
write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass.
and it will be furnished absolutely free
of charge.
Read what Lydia E. Pinkham's Com.
pound did for Mrs. Hyland and Mrs.
Hinkle:
Dear Mrs Pinkham:-
at had been suffering with falling Of the
womb for years and was passing through the
Change of Life. My womb was badly swol-
len; my stomach was sore; ! had dizzy spells
sick headaches, end was very nervous.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Coz
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A Hot-Weather Hint.

Do you know that the two essentials for
good health in hot weather are-keeping
the system clean and regular and tonic
for the Stomach and Bowels.
Mull's Grape Tonic is a valuable rem
edy for hot weather. 1t cleanses the sys-
tains nearly SO per cent. Grape, which is
the best hot weather Tonic known. 1t is
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Summer weather. 1t fortifes the system
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Heat prostrations, Summer Bowel and
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There is nothing SO dangerous in hot
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buried for thousands of years, in graves
hewn out Of solid rock, and they are
petrified, and after they have laid in the
graves for few hundred years the
mummified bodies are taken out and
stood up in corners, If the bodies will
hang together, and if not the bones are
piled up around for scenery.
We had to take torches 10 go in, and
we wandered through corridors, gazing
at the remains, until dad asked one of
the men with us what it all meant, and
the man said it was the greatest show
on earth. Dad began to think he was
nutty, and when 1 laughed, and said:
THAT is great" and clapped my hands.
and said: Encore" dad stopped and
said: ''Hennery. this Is no leg show,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-07
LASTING RELIEF

MY nightly rest was broken, owing
to irregular action of the kidneys.
was suffering intensely from severe
pains in the small of my back and
through the kidneys and annoyed by
painful passages of abnormal secre-
tons. No amount of doctoring relieved
this condition. I took Doan's Kidney
Pills and experienced quick and lasting
relief. Doan's Kidney Pills will prove
blessing to all sufferers from kidney
disorders who will give them fair
trial"
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y,
proprietors. For sale by all druggists.
price so cents per box.
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His Philosopher.

Young Mother-John, you are simply
undoing all my training! You must not
give the baby everything in the house.
Helpless Father-Its not my fault!
If don't give him everything he wants,
he yells.-Detroit Free Press.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-07
The Comment.

did my diamonds call forth any COM
ment?, asked Mrs. Cumrox.
eyes, indeed" answered Miss Cay
enne. 81 heard several people refer to
you as the human chandelier. Wash
ington Star.
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Knew Him.

when my husband comes home and
tells me he has had corking good
time" said Mrs. Gayman, II always
know he has had an uncorkiag good
time. "-Chicago Tribune.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-07

First Duke-"Well, do you think Miss
Van Bullion intends to buy your" Sec
ond Duke-"My dear boy, / don't know
Some days 1 think she does At other
times / fear she is merely shopping
Hartford Times
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tits true that all the worlds stage
said the philosophical boarder, "and most
of the men and women on it are giving
vaudeville performances without knowing
it."-Chicago Tribune
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-07

Do You Use Your Own Judgment
Lion Coffee is a package coffee that
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it left the factory where 1t il roasted
and packed.
The beans are picked and carefully Sc
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The most scrupulous care is taken with
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Some of the results of this scrupulous
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All loose Tor bulk coffee is open to
doubt-to put it mildly. The buyer does
not know, the seller does not know, where
the bean came from, or how it was
roasted, or where and when; how many
hands handled it, what kind of hands
they were, what contamination it rel
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Lion Coffee is pure, fresh and clean
that much is certain. Loose coffee
there isn't anything at all certain about
1t except that wise housewives will not
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All grocers know the above to be true,
There may be very few left who will
try to persuade you another way.
If they do, just ask them how they ac'
count for the increasing popularity of Lion
Coffee in millions of homes for the past
quarter of a century!
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Some of the men who have been trying
the get-rich- quick game find they have
learned the get-in- jailquick game also
Chicago Chronicle.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-07

1t may be, sometimes, when things are
not coming our way, that we are not just
in the right place.-Puck.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-07

None are too wise to be mistaken, but
few are so wisely just as to acknowledge
and correct their mistakes, and especially
the mistakes of prejudice.-Barrow.
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SUMMER BOWEL TROUBLE
Indigestion, Diseased Stomach
Impure Blood, Sores, Pimpies
Bad Complexion come from


Poison in the Observation-Disclosures
and terrible gripping pains are sy mptoms of
typhoid fever and decayng intestines which is
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SON is liable to heat prostration or sun stroke.
A physic won't cure Constipation you know this
from experience. Your intestines and digestive
organs are practically dead or you would not be
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Mu11s Grape Tonic is tissue builder-a food
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he locked the horses tail Agreed" said
the horse, as he nipped off the mans ear
Life
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at wrote you for advice and commenced
treatment with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound as you directed, and am
happy to say that all those distressing symp-
toms left me and have passed safely through
the Change of Life, a well woman. l am
recommending your medicine to all my
friends. Mrs. Annie f. G.. Hyland, Chester
town, Md.
Another WOman's Case.
"During change of life words cannot ex-
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had a cancerous condition Of the womb. One
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and to write you for advice. Your medicine
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/ advise every woman at this period OF life
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vice. Mrs. Lizzie Hinkle, Salem, Ind.
What Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
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It has conquered pain, restored
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In Kansas.

Visitor-Are you literary?
Kansan-You bet. We have the six besi
cyclone cellars in the country.-M Y
Sun.
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My son, if you want to leave your foot.
prints on the sands of time, it does no
good to order out the carriages; you'll only
leave wheel tracks behind you.-Bufflio
Express.