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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-06-16

dress clothes and sit on verandas, or
eat and drink, and talk Eyetalian, and
ride in gondolas, and play guitars, and
smoke cigarettes, and talk love. 1t
is so warm you can wear your sum-
merpants, and the water smells of clans
that died long ago. 1t is just as
though Chicago was flooded by the
bursting of the sewers, and people had
to go around State street, and all the
cross streets, and Michigan avenue, in
fishing boats, with three feet of water
on top of the pavements. Imagine
the people of Chicago taking gondolas
and riding along the streets, landing
at the stores and hotels, just as they
do now from carriages.
We had been riding in gondolas for
two days, getting aground in the mud
when the tide was out, and going to
sleep and waiting for the tide to come
in, when it seemed to me that dad
needed some excitement, and last night
gave it to him.
We were out in our gondola, and the
moon was shining, and the electric
llSulS mdQe Tie canal near the RldlCO
bridge as light as day. The Rialto
bridge crosses the Grand canal, and
has been the meeting place for lovers
for thousands of years. 1t is a grand
structure, of carved marble; but it
wouldn't hold up a threshing machine
engine half as well as an iron bridge.
Well, the canal was filled with thou
sands of gondolas, loaded with the
flower of Venetian society, and the
music just made you want to fall in
love. Dad said il he didn't fall in love,
or something, before morning, he
would quit the place. l made up my
mind he should fall into something, so
began by telling dad it seemed
strange to me that nobody but Eye
Italians could run a gondola Dad said
he could run gondola as well as any
foreigner, and told him he couldn't
run gondola for shucks, and he said
he would show me, so he got out of
the hen house where we were seated,
and went back on to the pointed end
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-06-16

head out OF water, but nothing showed
| above the water where Garibaldi was
except a red patch on his black pants.
Dad was yelling for help, and finally
the gondolier got his head out of tho
water, and said something that sound
ed like grinding butcher knife on a
grindstone, and l yelled, too, and the
gondolas began to gather around us,
and the two men were rescued The
gondolier had been gondoling all his
life and he had never been in the water
before, and they thought it would
strike in and kill him, so they
wrapped him up in blankets and put
him aboard his canoe, and he looked
at me as though 1 was to blame. They
got boat hook fastened in dads pants
and landed him in the gondola and he
dr1pped all the way to our hotel, and
he smelled like fish market.
asked Garibaldi, on the way to the
MOTEL, il he was counting his beads
when he was down Under the water
with nothing but his pants out of the
water, and he said: you're dam
right" but don't think he knew the
meaning of the words, because he prob
>aoly wouldn't swear in the presence
OF death. Dad just sat and shivered
all the way to the hotel. but when we
got to our room asked him what his
ioea was In jumping overheard right
there before folks, with his best
clothes on, and he said it was all Carl
baldi's fault, that just as dad was get
ting a good grip on the paddle, the
gondolier heaved a long sigh, and the
onions in his breath paralyzed dad so
he fell overheard.
Then you don't blame your little
boy, do your" says I, and dad looked
at me as he was hanging his wet shirt
on chair Course not; you were
asleep in the cabin. But say, if I ever
hear that you did tip that gondola, il
Will go hard with you," but I lust
looked innocent, and dad went on dry
ing his shirt by charcoal brazier and
never suspected me. But am getting
the worst of it, for dad and his clothes
smell so much like clam bake that it
makes me sick
We'll, old friend, you ought to close
up your grocery and come over here
and go to Vesuvius and Pompeii with
US, where we can dry our clothes by
the volcano, and dig in the city that
was buried in hot ashes 1000 years
ago. They say you can dig up num-
mics there that are dead ringers for
you, old man
o, come on, and have fun with US.
Your friend,
HENNERY.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-06-16

of the gondola, and grabbed the pole
or paddle from the gondolier, and said:
Now, Garibaldi, you go inside the
pup tent with Hennery, and let me
punt this ark around awhile"
Garibaldi thought dad was crazy,
but he gave up the pole, and just then,
when they were both on the extreme
point of the gondola, and she was
wabbling some, l peeked out through
the curtains and thought the fruit was
about ripe enough to pick, so l threw
myself over to one side of the gondola,
and, by gosh, if dad and Garibaldi
didn't both go overheard with splash,
and one yell in the English language,
and one in Eyeialian, and / rushed
out of the cabin and such sight ysu
never saw.
Dad retained the paddle. and had his
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-06-16

ed with the plotters who caused the
death of the Grand Duke Sergius.
From day to day since the raid on
the revolutionary headquarters the po-
lice have made arrests as rapidly as
the reports of the secret service agents
warranted, until it is known that some
300 prisoners have been taken. Every
possible secrecy has been maintained,
and not one word of official informa-
ton has escaped from the authorities.
1t is, however, known that many of the
prisoners are members of the Russian
nobility, and the positive documentary
evidence against several of them is be-
yond question. In the case of Prince
Obolensli, the assassin of Grand Duke
Sergius, in spite of the public excite
ment and the pressure to know the
fullest details, the police have stead
lastly pretended that they have been
unable to identify their prisoner and
that his name and history are IN
known. This policy is pursued out of
consideration for the other members
of the distinguished Obolenski family,
and also to conceal the truth of the
widespread cancerous growth of revo-
lutionary recruits in official and aristo-
cratic circles.
The terror of the car as a result of
the disclosures as to the spread of nihi-
lism among the upper classes could
hardly be more clearly shown than in
his punishment of the official in his
own household whom Prince Obolenski
indicated as being implicated in ter
rorist plots. After the arrest of this
man the car personally examined the
evidence against him and ordered him
brought to his library What took
place at this interview has not; of
course, been told, but it is known that
the emperor personally named the pun
ishment. Seeking to find something
measurably worse than death, the en-
peror directed an immovable iron mask
to be riveted over his face. Chained
to little window in the prison tower
overlooking the palace he was kept in
solitary confinement until he died, an
awful example to any other conspira-
tors who may be partaking of the
cars bread.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-06-16
Dad Plays He Is an Anarchist in
Geneva-In Venice They Give Aims
and the Bad Boy Upsets Con
dola in the Grand Canal.

BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.
Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, Formerly Pub
Usher of Peck's Sun, Author of "Peck's
Bad Boy" Etc)
Copyright, 1905 by Joseph B. Bowles.)
VENICE, 1TALY.-MY DEAR OLD
CHUMIRENO: Dad couldn't get out of
Switzerland quick enough after he got
thaWed out the day after we climbed
the tourists in Geneva were there be-
cause they did not want to go home
and say they had not visited Switzerland,
so they just jumped from one place to
another. The people who stay there
any length of time are like the foreign
residents of Mexico, who are wanted
for something they have done at
home, that is against the law. There
are more anarchists in Geneva than
anything else, and they look hairy and
wild eyed, and they plot to kill kings
and drink beer out of two quart jars.
When We fouRd that more attention
was paid to men suspected of crime in
their own countries, and men who were
believed to be plotting to assassinate
kings, dad said it would be a good
joke if a story should get out that he
was suspected of being connected with
syndicate that wanted to assassinate
some one, so told fellow that I got
acquainted with that the fussy old man
that tried to ride a glazier without
any saddle or stirrup was wanted for
attempting to blow up the president
of the United States by selling him
baled hay soaked in solution of dy-
Mantle and nitro-glycerine
Say, they will believe anything in
Switzerland. 1t wasn't two hours before
long-haired people were inviting dad
to dinners, and the same night he was
taken to a den where a lot of anar-
chists were reveling, and dad reveled
till almost morning. When he came
back to the hotel he said his hosts got
all the money he had with him,
through some game he didn't under
stand, but he understood it was to go
into fund to support deserving anar-
chists and dynamiters. He said when
they found out he was suspected as
sassin nothing was too good for him.
He said they wanted to know how he
expected to kill president by soaking
baled hay in explosives, and dad said
it came to him suddenly to tell them
that the president rode on horseback
a good deal, and he thought If a horse
was filled with baled hay and nitro
glycerine and the president spurred
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-06-16

me off my feet, lasted but the fraction
of second. AS soon as l had recov-
cred my presence of mind, saw a yell
lowish column of smoke rising from
the ground, while there reached my
ears great, crash of broken glass in
the direction of the arsenal At the
same moment several people ran out
on to the square. saw them look and
then run toward something in the
snow. l fastened my steps and per-
ceived carriage drawn by a dying
horse. The impression was like a
frightful nightmare.
"The police had formed a circle
around the debris Of the carriage and
kept away the public. after making a
passage for the grand duchess, who
came running without any hat, simply
a fur wrap thrown over her shoulders,
There she was kneeling in the snow he
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-06-16

the horse and the horse jumped in the
air and came down kerchunk on an
asphalt pavement, the horse would ex-
plode, and when the rider came down
covered with sausage covers and horse
meat, he would be dead, or would want
to be. Dad said the anarchists went
into executive session and took up a
fill the emperor's saddle horses with
cut feed like dad suggested.
We'll, the anarchist story was too
much for Switzerland, and the next
morning dad was told by policeman
that he had to get out of the country
to pack up, and here we are in Venice
Well, say, old friend, this is the place
where you ought to be, because nobody
works here, that is, nobody but gon-
doliers. We have been here several
days, and 1 have not seen a soul do
ing anything except begging, or SELL
ing things that nobody seems to want.
If anybody buys anything but onions,
it is for curiosity, or for souvenirs, and
yet the whole population sits around
in the sun and watches the strangers
from other lands price things and go
away without buying, and then every
body looks mad, as though they would
like to jab knife into the stranger
The plazas and the places near the
canal are filled with hucksters and
beggars, and you never saw beggars so
mutilated and sore and disgusting. I
never supposed human beings could
be so deformed, without taking an ak
to them, and it is so pitiful to see
them that you can't help shedding your
money.
AS hard hearted as dad is, he
coughed up over $40 the first day, just
giving to beggars, and he thought he
had got them all bought up, and that
they would let him alone, but the next
day when he showed up there were ten
beggars where there was one the day
before, and they followed him every
where, and all the loafers in the
plazas laughed and acted as if they
would catch the cripples when dad got
out of sight and rob the beggars. Dad
thinks the way the people live is by
dividing with beggars. A man who has
a deformity, or sore that you can see
half block away, seems to be con-
sidered rich here. like a man in Amer
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-06-16
Smallest colored Adult

Rock Island, Ill, claims the small
est colored adult in America in the
person of Minnie Dimery. Her height
is AZ inches and she weighs 40 pounds.
She is 43 years of age. Though we'll
formed and healthy, she is below the
average in intelligence, her mental de,
velopment being that of child of six
years. Her parents and brothers aud
sisters are normal in every respect
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-06-16
The Shark in Commerce.

The shark, which is so abundant in the
waters of Central America, is to be
utilized in commercial products. A
company has been formed which con-
verts sharks fins into jelly and timed
soup, makes fine machinery oil from
their livers, handsome leather equal
to alligator) from their skins, walking
sticks from their backbones, and nu-
merous articles from their jawbores and
teeth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-06-16

British Post Office Department.
The British post Office department
uses about 250,00O envelopes for tele-
grams during "a hours.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-06-16

BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.
(Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, Formerly Pub
Usher of Peck's Sun, Author of "Pecks
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The Outlook's magazine number for Sep
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McClures has always something that
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the first half OF Miss Tarbell's study OF
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Seventy-five full page illustrations in color
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Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-01

Four big subjects are treated irst hand
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Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-01

The beneht and lasting Joy Of creating real
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O. Henry's Unfinished Story" in the Au-
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than the compelling force Of the tragedy
the conditions suggest. only o. Henry
knows: but down in Texas the authors
native state, the official organ of the State
Federation Of Labor lifted the story bodily
from the magazine and accompanied It with
an editorial giving it direct application to
some department store owners whom they
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The Deschanos" by Junius Hampstead
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