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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-01-20

New York.-On a dark, stormy
night in October Stanislaus Mazurowski
left his humble home in southern Po-
land and swan the Vistula river near
Sandomiera, on the border between
Russia and Austria. In this manner he
escaped military service in the Russian
army in Manchuria, and started on his
long journey to America
Concealed in tightly sealed rubber
case Mazurowski carried with him a
letter to the American people from
Polish woman of noble birth. His cap
ture with that letter in his possession
would have meant death not only to
himself as deserter, but death also to
the fair woman for whom he was act
ing as messenger. knowing this, every
possible precaution was taken that he
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should escape the vigilance of the Rus
sian army and police, but the precau-
lions would have all proven fruitless
had it not been for his own powers of
endurance, his determination to escape
the assistance of a devoted wife, who
managed to throw the officers off the
scent until her husband should be we'll
over the Austrian boundary.
= The sealed rubber package carried by
Mazurowski on that night contained a
message to the newspapers of America
which they were asked to give to the
mothers of America. 1t tells of present
conditions in stricken Poland; of hus-
bands ordered to the front who, rather
than leave their families to suffer, kill
them before joining their regiments; of
lovers, who, rather than leave their
sweethearts to become the prey of
licentious army officers, kill them and
then themselves. 1t tells of conditions
SO revolving and so terrible that it Is
almost impossible for the enlightened
people of this free land to believe them,
and yet this noble Polish woman asserts
they are true.
The Appeal
Her letter to American mothers is as
follows:
When several years ago, at the wish
OF Car Nicholas H., the first peace
conference gathered at The Hague, it
was received by the friends of humani-
ty with applause. 1t seemed to herald
the dawn of new era We Poles alone
knew that the whole project of Mura-
wen was fabrication to mislead the
civilized nations. The car announced
peace, but in his own land there was
no cessation of strife. At the time of
the conference half the provinces were
under martial rule; and now, while
second conference is about to take place
not this time on the initiative of a
despot, but of an elected leader of the
American people-Russia, unmasked, is
conducting in the far east such devas-
Eating, unnecessary war as is unparal-
leled in history.
1t is not war; it is a massacre! All
scientific and technical progress intend
human race is being used for the work
of devastation. A hail of bullets COW
ers whole regiments. Battlefields are
SO thickly strewn that it is necessary
to burn the bodies or to place the dying
and the dead in one grave. New regi-
ments of victims crowd from all portions
of that great country which Russia
claims, to hail, by order of their SUI
periors, the "peace-loving car
1t is said that the government of the
car did not wish this war. No, it was
not war that was desired, but new pos
sessions! Therefore it preached dis |
armament to deceive your alertness, |
that it need not fear foreign ornaments. |
The Gear, Not Russia.
The Russian government, you must |
not forget, governs unchecked by the |
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Your homes are not surrounded BY
gendarmes and spies. You can move
the consciences of your brothers; YOU
can demand that they put an end to
this horrible massacre, which sets on
the twentieth century in its infancy a.
brand of shame.
If you will not do this, if our voice
rouses no response, then there are no
longer any human beings; there is only
a silent, unpeopled desert, on which
hyenas dwell. Then the proposed con-
gress of peace is, like the first, per-
fidious comedy, proclamation, a deri-
sion of the untold misery of wretched
people.
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News Notes.

William Goodman, living nine miles
southeast of Winthrop, while driving,
was killed by a Minneapolis & st.
Louis passenger train.
Judge w. L. Window, of Duluth,
fined John Knutson, wife beater, $50
and costs, with alternative of sixty
days in Jail
w. A. Avery, of Detroit, has sold
? 600. 900 feet of his pine tributary to
the Duluth & Iron Range road, and
gave an option to prospective pur-
chaser for 80, 900, 600 feet.
George Norman, an employe at the
Great Northern slpps, St. Paul, fell
into a cinder pit in the shops and sus-
tanned several severe cuts and bruises
about the head.
Somewhere in ST. Paul or Mime
apolis there lives a girl, Nellie .Ker-
burn by name, to whom S., 900 has been
left by c. c. Maxson, the young
Frenchman who was killed at Kerk-
hoven.
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its vitals. You now see only defeats
on land and sea; we look upon mis-
cry that brushes millions
1t is not enough that our brothers are
perishing by thousands in a foreign
land, paying with their blood for the
perfidy of that government which tore
from them their freedom and their
fatherland. Our people are brought 10
the last stage of misery. Tens OF thou-
sands without work-fathers who can
not feed their children-walk the streets
of Warsaw and Lodz.
Yet there is not enough misfortune
Mobilization is announced. Another
40, 600 victims are drafted from POLAND
the land of graves and crosses.
Savage Despair.
You cannot imagine the savage de-
splir which overpowers the masses torn
frSm the plow, from the hearth, from
wife and children. IF We are going 10
perish, let us perish in our own country!
Let us die by the hands of those VINO
a,e our enemies!" is the cry OF the re-
serves. "The very stones cry out Wnen
they take US. They clamor to the peo-
Die of Warsaw. We are not going to de-
fQnd, Russia. Our country is here"
You do not know that women throw
themselves under the wheels OF the
trains that carry their relations to the
far east; that cases Of sudden death
and madness occur every day; that in
pultusk, Czanstochowa and Lodz, SOL
,iiers fired into the people and killed
many. In Gostynin, when the order was
given to decimate the resisting reserves,
the colonel, Dzwonkowski, a Pole, shot
himself in front of his regiment.
In Kutnow the women, maddened'
With despair, threw themselves upon the
Russian officers, then knelt upon the
tracks, raising their hands and calling
the vengeance of Heaven upon the car.
The Russian government lies when it
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Found.

After h1Gy years of q miidewed and
hidden existence, the original draft of
the constitution of Minnesota was in
advertently exhumed from a dusty
pile of miscellaneous documents by
George B. Brown, an assistant in the
secretary of states office. For the
past thirty years every secretary of
the state has had had nearly every
year calls from persons who desired to
see the original draft of the constitu-
ton.
Search after search has been insti-
tuted in the Office and the records have
been overhauled more times than could
be counted on the fingers and toes, but
still the historic document eluded and
detisd every search made.
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POLISH PEASANTS FORCED TO FIGHT
FOR HATED RULER.
SOLDIERS KILL THEIR FAMILIES
Rather Than Leave Them to a Fate Worse
Than Death. Fathers and Lovers Murd err
Their Loved Ones Before Leaving for the
Front-Stirring Appeal of Polish Woman
to All American Mothers.

people. 1t is untrue that the govern
ment of the car is Russia. That gov
eminent never receives the sanction and
mandate Of the people. The government
acts, Russia is silent. 1t is false that
Russia is Russia. Russia is Poland, Fin
land, Lithuania, Armenia, Georgia.
Russians are Tartars, Kurds, Yakuts
and other peoples harnessed under the
yoke of despotism.
1t is false that necessity compels Rus
STA to the war. The moral necessity was
to evacuate Manchuria at time set by
herself 1t is false that the interests of
Russia required further occupation.
Not the interest of the people is here
at stake, but the interest of a handful
of titled and untitled parasites, who
send ,the people to massacre and to be
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-01-20

the Russian papers report that a hero
who received a decoration for courage
on the battlefield had not even a shirt
on which to pin the symbol. 1t is false
that the injured rise from their beds
and rush into the lines eager to fight
again. The injured have no beds; the
moneys appropriated for the purpose are
stolen.
We knew all this long before you did.
You saw only the immense empire
which haughtily spread over two hem
ispheres; We saw the vermin gnawing
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Agents Not Liable.

According to a ruling handed down
by the supreme court, agents OF wild
cat fire insurance companies cannot be
sued for loss under these worthless
policies in the event the company itself
refused to make settlement. The spe-
cific was that of NJ. Webster & Sons of
Houston county, who brought suit
against the agent, P. Ferguson, under
the law of 1896 The majority of the
justices held that collection could be
made from the agent, but Justice
Douglas presented dissenting opinion
on the ground that the assured was de-
ceiyed and believed the policies valid.
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japanese bullets and grenades, to strew
the valleys of Manchuria and fill the
mountain passes; that he must be vic
torious regardless of cost.
A Polish woman protests against this
lnlqultous determination. She calls not
in the name of clique or party but
In the name of those peasant women
who threw themselves under the car
Wheeis; In the name of those mothers
VINO with their little children are thrust
helpless into the streets: in the name of
those who suffer, weep and curse.
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To you, free people, I direct my ap-
peal. How long will the principles of
humanity be the laughing-stock of tri-
umphant militarism? How long are we
TO measures culture by the Improvement
of deadly weapons?
To American Mothers.
Women of all nations, let your moth
erly hearts be filled with the suffering
Of Polish mothers! You have a voice.
Your lips are not sealed by the censor.
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Real Cruelty

Beggar-Kind sir, could you help a
victim of the trusts? 1 am starving!
Citizen-How are the trusts respon-
sible?
'They shut down the factory where
my wife had a job, sir!"-Puck.
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ucts, Portland and native cements, etc
that will prove especially interesting
and instructive to those engaged in the
industry.
Arrangements have been made with
all the railway companies for reduced
rate to persons attending this conven-
ton
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Legislative Notes.

There Is some talk to be heard in st.
Paul regarding the matter of the ap-
pointment of new public examiner and
the possibility that the present examiner,
S. T. Johnson. may be held over by the
present administration.
A definite and complete plan for the
drainage of all swamp lands owned by
the State of Minnesota is provided by
bill introduced in the house by Repre-
sentative A. L. Cole of Walker.
It is likely that the appointment of
Oscar Tankenoff of ST. Paul as a mem
Der of the dairy and food commission
staff will be recalled by Gov. Johnson and
that another person will be appointed.
The house and senate adopted a joint
resolution urging congress to pass the bill
introduced by Congressman STEVENSON,
permitting the Importation. free of duty.
of Canadian wheat for seed purposes.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-03-26

Miss Bailey's new responsibility con-
tinued 10 behave beautifully. He was
peacefully disposed toward the other
boys, who feared and venerated him
as a member of the Clinton street
gang" He fell promptly captive to the
dark and gentle charms OF Eva Co
norowsky and to the calm dominion OF
teacher. To the latter he showed a
loving confidence which she met with
a broad minded tolerance, very Won
derful to his eyes in person of au-
thority. She seemed really to under
stand the sweet reasonabieness Of the
"reminiscences with which he enter
tanned her. And il she sometimes de-
plored the necessity of so much lying.
stealing. fighting and late hours. we'll
so, of late, did he. She asked him
quite calmly one day what~he had had
for breakfast on the morning OF his
first day in room Is, and how he had
chanced to be so drunk. and he, with
true economy, answered two questions
with one word:
Beer"
And Where" asked teacher, still
carefully unimpressed, did you get it?
From your father?''
Nav" said Isidore, whose manners
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"Oh. Isidore." cried teacher. in
voice in which horror, pity. reproach
and wonder mingled. And you have
no mother!" And Isidore,s answer
was his professional whine. : most
heartrending and insincere
Gradually and carefully teacher be-
came slightly censorious and mildly
didactic.- and slowly Isidore Diamant-
stein came to forsake the paths of evil
and to spend long afternoons in the
serene and admiring companionship of
Morris Mogilewsky, Patrick Brennan
and Nathan Spiderwitz. But when,
early in December. he found a strand
ed comic valentine and presented IL
blushingly to Eva Gonorowsky, Miss
Bailey found that success was indeed
most sweet.
Shortly after the incident of the val
entine Mr.. Diamantstein came to room
Is in radiant array. His frock coat
was new and of a wondrous fashion.
his tan shoes We're of superlative
length and sharpness of toe, both his
coat and vest were open to the lowest
button and turned back to give due
prominence TO the bright blue shirt
beneath. His hair shone In luxurious
and oiled profusion, and in the collar
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were yet uniformed. ''He don't never
get no beer. He amt got can even.'
Then where"
ITO the sloon.'
"And which saloon?" Miss Bailey's
quiet eyes betrayed no trace of her
determination that the proprietor
should suffer the full penalty of the
law. II thought little boys were not
allowed into saloons"
Well" Isidore admitted. II amt
gone in the sloon. I tells the lady on
our floor that my papa likes that she
should lend her can und she says,
He's welcome. all right. Und 1 gives
the can on a man what stands by the
s'loon. und l says: My papa he has
a sickness. und beer is healthy for
him. On'y he couldn't to come for buy
none. You could 10 take a drink for
yourself Und the man says, Sure
Und he gets the beer und takes the
drink-a awful big drink-und / sets
by the curb and drinks what is in the
can. It's awful nice for me-"
Miss Bailey's hope for any real or
lasting moral change in Isidore was
sadly shaken by this revelation. Six
and half years old. and deliberately
plotting and really enjoying a drunken
debauchl Surely. the reformatory
seemed inevitable. Suddenly she be-
came conscious that the chain OF cir
cumstances in Isidore's recital was not
complete.
But the money" she asked; where
did you get that?"
Isidore's eyes were wells of candor
as he answered: "Off lady"
And why did she give II to you?"
"'Cause / tells her my mamma lays
on the hospital und / like should buy
her orange on'y amt got no money
for buy none"
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der man. But now I marry, maybe.
again. / amt no more vidder man. I
was loafer on beautiful yonge lady"
"OhI-you're a lover. Mr.. Diamant-
stein Why, that's the best news I've
heard for ages, And your new wife viii
take care of the boys. am so gladi"
she's a beautiful yonge lady" the
Lothario continued. but easy scared!
oh, awful easy scaredi So don't tell
her nothings over those devil boys"
Now, Mr. -Diamantstein-" teacher
began. admenishingiy, but he inter-
rupted.
Il tells her like this: Say, amt 1t
nice? l got three Ieetle poys-awful
nice leetle poys-no one amt never
seen no better leetie boys Und she
says she won't marry nit me. Amt 1
tell you how she's easy scared? But 1
tells her all times how my leetle poys
Is goot. how they makes for her the
work, und the dinner. und the beds.
Und now she says she Will marry nit
me und I'm a ioafer on beautiful
yonge uptown lady"
"Mr. Diamantstein," she said heart
lily, Il wish You joy. I'm sure you de-
serve II. and / hope the young lady
will be as good as she is beautiful.
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less band OF his shirt a chaste diamond
stud, not much larger than a butter
plate. flashed and shimmered through
his curled, black beard. 1t was lunch
con time. and teacher was at liberty.
Say. Missis Pailey," he began,
what you think? I'm a loafer."
Did you give up your position ?"
asked Miss Bailey. ''or did you lose It:
You can easily get another, / hope"
You not understand" cried the guest
eagerly. 81 was one great big loafer."
and he laid outstretched hands upon
the blue bosom of his gala shirt, "one
great big loafer man."
mo. I'm afraid I don't understand"
confessed Miss Bailey. Tell me about
IT."
We'll, I was a vidder man." Mr.. Dia-
maDtStein explained. Mine wife she
die. From long she die. und I'm a vid-
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Baltimore or.oIe

The Baltimore oriole. or Baltimore fire.
bird. is a beautiful bird very common in
North America, from Canada to Mexico
They come from the south In May and in
the trees and vines near to houses build
their hanging nests of moss and fibers,
skillfully woven together
Threads. strings and horsehairs are
used in building their nests which are
about seven inches long. with sharp bills,
pointed wings and rounded tail The
plumage is beautiful. especially in the
males, being a glossy black, mixed with
bright orange and yellow
These were the colors OF Lord Balti-
more's livery, hence the name Their
song is pleasant. especially in the mating
season. They are Valuable for their de-
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Julius Caesar

This extraordinary man was the greatest
warrior OF his age. He Is said to have
Fought In no less than fifty battles. in
which he and his large army slew about
1.l92.OO0 men, He. like Napoleon was
man that would never give up until he
had either conquered or fallen
He was made ruler of Rome after he
had won his great victory over Pompey.
II is said that in his battle with Pompey
he lost only about 200 of his men. while
Pompey's losses amounted to Is. 0O0s killed
and $4,000 taken "a prisoners. During
one OF his campaigns he defeated the
forces OF Pharnaces with such ease that
In writing to the senator's at Rome he
said: "Veni. vidi. vfci"-I came. / saw,
conquered. Caesar was assassinated
In the fifty-sixth year of his age by his
own subjects. led by Brutus and Cassius.
who assembled around him In the senate
house and stabbed him to death with their
daggers- William Tierney.
9i9 Goodrich avenue: Cretin high school.
grade A commercial: age 10 years.
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A Dangerous place

One day last August I went TO pick
hazelnuts with my sister and three other
girls. my brother and two boy friends
When we came to a nice place where We
intended to start there came a man in a
milk wagon. He jumped out and scolded
US In language we could not under
stand. he was very angry and said we
were on his property. We then went on
the other side When We had picked for
some time one of the girls heard some
hummlng close TO her. She thought there
We're fys around her. but she was mis-
taken. Right after she was stung IN the
arm and her screaming started the whole
party TO run 1t certainly was not safe
picking hazelnuts in this neighborhood
Bernard J. Aufang
500 Blair street: st. Agnes school grade
fourth; age IL years.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-03-26
A Christmas Eve

1t was Christmas eve. In the dispensary
OF the German hospital. Philadelphia. thir-
ty-seven little pale and ragged children
were gathered
There was large Christmas tree in the
room and the eyes and mouths OF those
poor children We're wide open as they
watched the bright lights on the tree. The
sister who had charge OF this department
each child. and the girls received warm
dresses and the boys were supplied with
coats.
After this nuts. fruit and candy were
served. One OF those present said. 1T Is
the happiest Christmas eve ever spent" :"
She was so happy because she had helped
to dress the dolls for those poor little
waits.
II you help to make others happy you
will be happy yourself
-Beda Hultkrans.
e54 East Tenth street: Franklin school,
grade B sixth: age II years.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-03-26
A Nest In a Gun

Birds often choose very strange places
Tor their nests. A pair are said to have
tried to build in the funnel of a railway
engine, and 1t is not an uncommon thing
to find some bold enough to make a nest
In the very scarecrow which is meant to
scare them away. But perhaps the most
unlikely place of all is in the muzzIe of a
cannon. When Cromwell seized and held
Windsor castle he planted large gun in
the curfew tower to overawe the town OF
Windsor, and to command the bridge over
the river Thames. But Cromwelrs gun
mas been out of service many a year, and
to fire il now would cause a very unusual
effect, for right in the mouth of the can
non a pair of starlings have built their
nest year after year. The keepers of the
tower do not allow the birds to be dis
turbed, and in the very room from which.
in the olden days, the gun used to roar at
the royalists, the parent starlings teach
their young to fly. Edwin J. Gruber.
261 West Third street: Cretin High
school, grade first commercial; age IA
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-03-26
A Small Fire

One time when my mamma and / were
home. mamma cooked some coffee on the
gasoline stove the door few open and
there was some paper near by. when in a
minute IL catched a fire and It burned a
little on the wall. and then mamma ran
and got the broom and made II to go out.
W. nSn r,,,,, se sad .au -, az uee cale ano
to drink. / said. No In a frightened
voice. And she asked me why. and 1 said
that was very frightened and that ended
my meal.
Papa soon came home for supper and he
saw the burned walls He asked what we
have done. And We were all glad il did
not burn the house.
-Bayard Parker.
st. James Mimi; Armstrong school. grade
3 fourth; age years.
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THIRD PRIZE
Faithful Rob

One winter night when ii was showing
hard we heard knock at the door /
went and opened IL and just as I was
shutting it felt something cold around
my feet L looked down and I saw a
small dog. l took him into the house
and fed him and made him a warm bed
/ named him Rob. About a wear and a
half after. my little brother Arthur was
out on pond near our house with Rob.
The ice on it was not hard enough and
all at ONCE Arthur fell through. Rob did
not walt for help TO come. but jumped
into the water to save his little master
Arthur held onto Rob's collar until he
took him to the shore and two men who
were passing carried Arthur home
Sylvia Novotny
762 Pleasant avenue: Monroe school. grade
A seventh; age l2 years.
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girls name) could wear black stockings
that We're boughten.' thought Alice. I
Will not play with her." she said firmly
AS she was looking out her doll fell.
Quickly Ettie went to pick il up. Thank
you. said Alice. coldly. "Oh. don't men
tion 1t. said Ettie. cheerfuily
After while Alice began to change
her views on Ettie. With Elites con-
tinuous cheerfulness Alice and Ettie be-
came very good friends and Alice was
never lonely after that
Fannie Lifpitz
GAL John street; Franklin school grade A
sixth: age l. years.