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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-13
BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.

Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, Formerly
Editor of "Pecks Sum-" Author Of
"Peck's Bad Boy" Etc)
Copyright, 1905. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
The old grocerman was sitting in the
old grocery one fine spring morning,
looking over his accounts, as they were
written on quire of brown wrapping
paper with a blunt lead pencil, and
wondering where he could go to collect
money to pay a note that was due at
the bank at noon on that day. He
was looking ten years older than he did
the year before, when the Bad Boy had
played his last trick on the old man,
and gone abroad to chaperone his sick
father, in a search for health and ad-
venture. The old man had missed the
boy around the grocery, and with no
one to keep his blood circulating, and
his temperature occasionally soaring
above the normal, he had failed in
health, and had read with mixed feel
ings of joy, fear and resentment that
the Bad Boy and his dad had ar
rived home, and he knew it could not
be long before the boy would blow in,
and he was trying to decide whether
to meet the boy cheerfully and with
a spirit of resignation, or to meet him
with a club; whether to give him the
glad hand, or form himself into a col
umn Of tours to drive him out when
he came.
He had accumulated a terrier dog
since the boy went away, to be COM
pany for the old singed cat, to hunt
rats in the cellar, and to watch the
store nights. The dog was barking
down cellar, and the old man went
down the rickety stairs to see what
the trouble was, and while he was
down there helping the dog to tree a
rat Under a sack of potatoes, the Bad
Boy slipped into the store, and finding
the old man absent, he crawled under
the counter, curled up on a cracker
box, and began to snore as the old
man came up the stairs, followed by
the dog, with a rat in it's mouth. The
old man heard the snore, and won
dered if he had been entertaining j
tramp unawares. when the dog dropped
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-13
wrench was sweat out Of him. Say. does
voalr dog like candyf"

wrench was sweat out Of him. Say. does
your dog like candy?
20, yes, he eats little" said the
groceryman, and the boy tossed q
piece of candy such as he gave the
king OF Spain, with cayenne pepper in
it, to the dog, which swallowed it
whole and the old man said: Now,
suppose your father is cured, you will
all stay at home for awhile, and SET
tie down to decent citizenship, and
take an active part in the affairs OF
your city and state? Gee, but what
is the matter with the dog?" added the
old man., as the dog jumped up on
all fours, looked cross-eyed. and tried
to dig hole in his stomach with his
hind leg.
20, no, we shall never stay home
much more" said the Bad Boy, get
ting up on a barrel and pulling his feet
up to get away from the dog, who
was beginning to act queer. "You see,
dad got cured all right, of few dis
eases that were carrying him off, but
he has taken the Jumps a disease
that is incurable. When man has
the Jumps he can't stay long in one
place. but his life after taking the
disease is one continual round of
packing up and unpacking, his litera-
ture is time cards and railroad guides,
and his meals are largely taken at
railroad eating houses, sitting on a
stool, and his sleep Is uncertain cat
maps. Say, that dog acts as though
the mcuthful he took out of my pants
under the counter didn't agree with
him." added the boy, as the dog
rolled over and tried to stand on his
head.
Dog acts kinder like he had some
thing on his mind" said the old man,
as he got out of the dogs way, so
he could do his acrobatic stunt.
Say" said the Bad Boy, eff you have
never been vaccinated against mad dog,
you better take something right now, for
that dog is mad, and in about two min
utes he is going to begin to snap at
people, and there is no death so ter
rible as death from a mad dog bite.
Gee, but | wouldn't be in your place
for a million dollars And the boy
stood up on the barrel, and was be-
ginning to yell mad dog" when the
old man asked what he could take to
make him immune from the bite of a
mad dog.
Eat a bottle of horseradish," said
the boy, as he reached over to the
shelves and got a bottle, and pulled
the cork. Eminent scientists agree
that horseradish is the only thing that
will get the system in shape to with
stand and throw off the mad dog virus, !"
and he handed the old man the bottle
who began to eat it, and cry, and
choke, and the boy got down from
the barrel and let the dog out doors
and he made Decline for the lake.
Hes a water dog, all right" said
the boy, and as servant girl came
in to buy some soap, and saw the old
man eating raw horseradish and chok-
ing and looking apoplectic, she asked
! what was the matter with the old man,
and the boy said mad dog just es-
capped from the store, and that the old
man had shown signs of madness ever
since; the girl gave yell and rushed
out inEo the world without her soap. LET
this be a lesson to you to be kind to
dumb animals" said the boy to the
old man as he finished the bottle OF
horseradish and put his hands on his
stomach.
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Advancing the Farmers Interests.
Travelling agents and statesmen are
now sent from the home Offices Of the
Chicago packers into all South Amer
lean and Asiatic countries. They are
going into every land, no matter what
language may be spoken or what
money be used. They will exchange
their goods for cowries or elephant
tusks-anything to sell the product
and get something in return convert1'
BILE into money. It may seem odd to
some folks, but travelling men, carry
ing cases with samples of American
meat products, can be seen in the des-
ert of Sahara, the sands Of Zanzibar
or in Brazil, "where the nuts come
from" Great is the enterprise OF the
Yankee merchant. The greater the
market, the greater the price and sta,
bility Of the price of the product and
all that goes to make it in it's various
stages.
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Good But Wrong Kind.

Minister (mildly)-Pve been wanting to
see you, Mr.. Kurd, in regard to the quality
of milk with which you are serving me.
Milkman (uneasily)-Yes, SIR.
Minister livery mildly)-I only wanted to
saw, Mr.. Kurd, that use the milk for dae-
tary purposes exclusively, and not for chris
teninp-Stray Stories.
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FREE BOTTLE
1O145

Send this coupon with your name and
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Gtre Full Address and Write Plainly.
The 100 bottle contains nearly three times
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"Just LAUGHED"

Artist-Haye you taken my picture to the
exhibition?
Porter-Yes, sir It seemed to please the
rentlemen very much.
"Waat did they say?"
"Oh, they didn't say nothing; but they
laughed that hearty."-Stray Stories.
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to rest cure, and when we had our
tickets bought the doctor attached our
baggage, and had a bill against dad
for $3.50 for consultations, operations,
advice, board and borrowed money
and he had dozen witnesses to prove
every item. Dad paid it, but we are
going there once more with keg of
dynamite for that doctor. But dad
thinks he got the worth of his money.
"You remember before he went away
he thought the doctors who operated
on him for that 'pendicitus left a
monkey wrench in him when they
sewed him up. Well, after he began
to drink that water he found iron
rust on tbs towels when he took
hath. and ne believes the monkey
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-13

There would be fewer failures in the
business world if there were fewer men
ready to drop their business on the smallest
provocation and discuss such questions as
who was the father of the American navy.
-SomerYille journal.
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The Norwegians.

There are practically no illiterates
In Norway. The men are perhaps the
finest in the world physically. Army
service is universal; only 2.3 per cent.
of youths are rejected for physical de-
fects.
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Mothers Are Helped
THEIR HEALTH RESTORED
Happiness Of Thousands Of Homes Due
to Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com.
pound and Mrs. Pinkham's Advice.

A devoted mother seems to listen to
every call of duty excepting the SUI
preme one that tells her to guard her
health, and before she realizes it some
arrangement of the female organs has
manifested itself, and nervousness and
ir-itability take the place of happi-
ness and amiability.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-13
None Too Tainted for Him.

''Would you refuse a tip from me if you
knew it was tainted money" asked the
customer in the restaurant as he finished his
meal. 1850 - %
No, sir" replied the waiter; "Pd not
refuse it, sir, even if you had run it through
that piece of Camembert cheese, sir!"-
Yonkers Statesman
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-13

The western farmer who cannot move
his crops does not despair. He keeps
his crops at home and feeds them to
the hogs. Then he moves the hogs
Philadelphia Inquirer.
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am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption
saved my life three years ago:-Mrs. Thos.
Robbins, Norwich, N. Y, Feb. IL, 1900.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-13

The genuine has date and number
stamped on the label-take no other from
your druggist.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-13

A loud mouth doesn't always put up q
sound argument-N. Y. Times.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-13

He that will keep a monkey should
pay for the glasses he breaks.-Selden.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-13
Loss and Gain.

"Did your husband find that golf i'm
proved has health?"
eyes. 1t improved his health. But I'M
less he learns to play better it will spoil his
disposition. "-Washingto Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-13

A leader should not stride forward too
fast, otherwise he may be hidden from his
followers by the curvature of the earth
Century.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-13

The Bad Boys Return Home-He
Treats His Uncle to a Turkish
Cigarette-He Meets the New Dog
and Feeds Him Cayenne Pepper
The Grocerman Eats Bottle Of
Horseradish.
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Lnndon,s Cemeteries
Advancing the Farmers Interest

There are % cemeteries in the coun.
ty of London.
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Ex-Governor of Wisconsin. Formerly
Editor of "Peck's Sum-" Author Of
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terial in hand to complete it. To Miss
Stokes these monuments appear to
have belonged exclusively to sanctu-
aries. They were terminal and mark
ed the bounds of sanctuary and shell
tered trespassers according to the law,
as sinners are sheltered in the church
until they come out Of it."
Doctor Healy, the wel-known anti
.quarian of Kells, enthusiastically sus-
tains Miss Stokes in this belief To
prove his theory he drove me to iris
tel Kieran, where, near the ruins of
an old Celtic church, are three crosses
and in the river Blackwater, in sight
Of them, the remains of a fourth cross
just far enough from the farther bank
to be reached by good jumper. He
said he believed the shaft and the rest
of the cross would be found in the
bed of the river, and some day, when
he had the courage, he meant to dive
down and find out.
Miss Stokes catalogues ffty-fve
high crosses in Ireland, only four of
which are without circles. Besides
ments said to be high crosses which
she was not able to verify. Many
crosses, no doubt, were demolished in
the Cromwellian raids, and of those
left some were mutilated in later re-
ligious agitations.
The Irish crosses are all massive,
quite thick and vary in height from
eight to thirty feet. Sometimes they
are of one solid piece, sometimes in
three pieces, namely, the base, the
shaft and the crossarms. Besides the
popularity in shape already mention
ed, the special feature Of the Irish
crosses is their sculptured symbolism,
the sides and the under parts of the
arms being used for that purpose as
we'll as the front and the back. do
not know a sculptured cross withou:
some symbolism. The ornamental
forms are used to fill up, and do not,
as in the Scotch and British crosses
and recent American adaptations, con-
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college, Dublin, is without doubt the
work in the world
The monks and nuns of this age,
who must have had something to do
with the crosses, were of different
order from those who came in with
the Anglo-Normans in the time of
and went whittier they would, and
moved their habitations when the
tribe moved. They were of a heroic
type, with giant hope, giant mind and
giant power. Their power was large
ly that that comes from personality
They were the Elijahs, or John Bap-
lists, Deborahs or Miriams of their
day.
The form of the crosses is peculiar
to Ireland and may be said to have
originated there. If occasional in
stances of the type are found in Eng
land or Scotland, they are, as it were,
''stragglers" from Ireland and not ma
tive to the soil. They are not to be
COMPOUNDED with the much later Goth
ic wayside, memorial or market
crosses of England.
The purpose of the Irish crosses is
not very plain. They were not sep
ulchral memorials, that is, placed over
burial places, though some of them
are dedicatory or commemorative Of
Irish kings and Irish saints, such as
Ct Do+YioI- ond Ct CO1uO,Ia rTboro
are, however, many sepulchral slabs,
incised most beautifully and worthy
of the closest study, which go back
earlier than the crosses and continue
along with them.
Margaret Stokes is the greatest au-
thority on Irish crosses. She died a
few years ago before completing a
memorable book on the subject. The
Royal Irish Academy may have ma
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Fjlcb Crosses y ireland

stitute the feature of the cross. Pleas
ing as these forms are to the eye, they
are, as the crosses themselves be-
come subservient to them, signs of
decadent art and a lack of spiritual
ity, just as church windows, devoid of
thought and symbolism and subject
ed entirely to the sense of form and
color, are signs of decadence, the
work of mere artists and not prophets
as we'll
The scene symbolically represented
in the center Of the cross is generally
Christ crucified, arms extended, and
on either side man with sponge
and another with spear On the re-
verse side of the cross in the center
Christ is represented symbolically in
glory, with his arms crossed, not ex-
tended, in one hand a pastoral staff
and in the other a cross. Sometimes
in the center "The Fall of Man" is
represented and on the other side
1.-THE Crucifxion" Other scenes SYM
bolically represented in panels on the
arms and above and below the center,
and on the sides, are "The Dextera
Del, or Right Hand of Cod" Adam
and Eve" "The Expulsion from Para
Disc" Noah and the Ark" "Melchise-
dek," "The Sacrifice of Isaac" David
with the Harp" David and the
Lion" Daniel in the Lions Den"
1.-THE Three Children in the Fiery Fur
mace" "The Alteration Of the Magi,"
"The Flight Into Egypt" "The Five
Loaves and Two Small Fishes" "The
Baptism in the Jordan" "The Martyr
dom of st. Peter" and "The Twelve
Apostles" Other subjects not yet de-
ciphered may be aspects of Scripture
events we have lost sight of, or illus
trations of local legends and heroes,
or incidents in the hagiology Of the
age They are all reyerently repre-
sented and, if they do at times seem
somewhat grotesque, are, as whole,
most beautiful
The sculptures are in relief, show
ing that the worlzmen must have been
well up in their art and must have
had good tools well sharpened to work
with
These crosses are found not at Kill
larney or Barney, or in the beaten
track of tourists, but in rather out-of-
the-way places. Yet many of them
may be reached quite easily. Day ex-
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HORSE WOULDN'T EAT OYSTERS.
But Crowds Curiosity Made Place by
Fire for His Master.


One bitter cold night recently a sol
emn-faced man drove up to a tavern
near Westchester and made his way to
the sitting room after seeing that his
horse was taken to the stable. There
was large crowd of guests huddled
around the stove, and he had to take a
distant seat, where it was not much
warmer than outside. AS soon as a
waiter appeared the man said:
Get two dozen oysters. on the half
she'll and take them out to my horse.
When the waiter passed through the
room on his way to the stable every
body but the new guest followed him
to see the remarkable horse feed on
raw oysters. In few moments the
disguised crowd, headed by the waiter,
returned to the room to find the own
er of the horse comfortably seated by
the stove.
"The horse wouldn't look at the
oysters" said the waiter.
81 didn't think he would" replied the
man. Hand them to me, and bring
me bottle of ale. New York Press.
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Celtic churches were no more than
fair size Irish cabins, ard when larger
accommodations were needed, other
cabin-like structures were built adj
joining the first There is left in
them no mark of beauty-not an arch,
not pillar.
The only other architectural re-
mains that could possibly be contem-
poraneous with the crosses are the
round towers; but, remarkable as they
are in construction and height, and as
ISOLATED in Twenty-Five instances with
crosses, they cannot be called beauti-
full. The crosses seem as incongruOus.
with the towers as the Sphinx seems
with the pyramids, and yet tnere may
be some mysterious connection be-
tween them. The towers may have
been for bells, for refuge, for warn
ing, or even for phallic worship in
very early days, but just why SO many
beautiful crosses should be beside
them no man surely knows.
The crosses stand above everything
else as examples of the art, civiliza-
ton and spiritual life of the period
500 to 1850 A. D. There are a few
other examples in museums and
libraries. There are steel sword
sheathes delicately engraved and some
Of the work is said to have been done
by wonderland women at times used
the sword. The brooches worn by
men and women have charm pc
culiarly Irish and are evidences of
taste and art in dress. The holy yes
sells used in the sanctuary have an
esthetic as we'll as an archaeological
value, from the stone chalices with
two handles to the silver ones carved
and wrought in gold.
The crosier of Kells in the British
museum is an artistic piece of silver.
showing great refinement. The Irish
of that period had marvellous ability
in Illuminating missals, gospels and
psalters ''The Book of Kells," which
can still be seen in all it's beauty and
freshness ir the library of Trinity
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cursions may be made from Dublin by
train and car or train and bicycle to
Monasterboice, near Drogheda, where
there are three splendid specimens,
a Celtic church and round tower; to
Kells, where there are three more,
round tower and other relics; to Cas-
tledermot, to Moone Abbey or to
Durrow.
The most interesting excursion of
all is that to Clonmacnoise, on the
Shannon, fourteen miles below Ath-
lone, made by jaunting car, by bicycle
or by chartered boat Two fine crosses
are there, besides $50 carved sepul-
chral slabs, two round towers, eight
Celtic churches, an Anglo-Norman
nunnery and an old border castle.
There is not in Europe" writes Pc
trie, the archaeologist, ga spot where
the spirit would find more matter for
melancholy reflection than among the
ancient ruins of Clonmacnoise. It's
ruined buildings call forth national as
sociations and ideas. They remind us
of the arts and literature, the piety
and humanity which distinguished
their time, and are the work of a peo-
pie who in a dark age marched among
the foremost on the road to life and
civilization"
The native mind was dwarfed and
the Celtic fire in poetry and art ex-
tinguished by the English invasion
under Henry II and John, pensioned
ecclesiastics lending their assistance
to the politicians in the stultifying in
fuence. After centuries of smolder-
ing the fire seems to have started up
again A renaissance in literature and
art has begun in Ireland. Here in
America, whittier one of their saints
is said to have sailed more than
millennium ago, the Celts are already
a great force in the thought of the
day. There Is something heroic in
them, or their ancestors could not
have done what they did. The Celtic
crosses are standing witnesses of
! their genius and character.
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