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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-27

/ try will continue to prove their supe-
riorty to foreign concerns us other
American industries have proved
theirs. Germany has assumed a hos
| tile attitude because OF nsistent home
competition. but Germany is not in
"A shape where she can afford to shut
| out American meats. pound of
beefsteak in the kasers realm costs
| approximately AS much as a days
wages of unskilled labor. and the
lower classes will not stand for Il
tariff that will raise the price still
higher. AS an example of conditions
in Germany. official reports state that
during the last three months the
slaughter of horses for food In that
country has amounted to 52,oS4, and
of dogs for food, 2,4O5 head. With
her subjects forced to the consump-
ton of horses and dogs Germany
will not long submit tanely to pro-
hibition OF American meat imports
Much the same condition prevails IN
other European countries. Holland is
largely dependent upon this country
for her supply of butterine for the
manufacture OF the famous pure but
ter OF Holland, and she Is bound to
have 1t.
The recent agitation and the conse-
uuent Improvement in conditions
should result in better and more eX-
tensive markets than we have ever
enjoyed, and an added impulse to
the packing industry of this country.
:.s-i.
LAF'E YOUNG'S ILLUSTRATIONS.
Minneapolis JournaLl
Mr. Lafayette Young, who went
abroad with the Taft party, confesses
that he came back worse standpat-
ter than ever before. 1t certainly does
seem 80 when he uses such arguments
as he is credited with in an interview
in the Minneapolis Tribune this morn
ing "The producers OF wheat In Min
uesota' he says, do not want Tree
trade with Canada. The millers DO.
tho. Like all manufacturers. they want
the raw material at the lowest price. In
other words they want to buy on
free trade basis and sell on a protective
basis"
The illustration Is rather unfortunate
for the standpat side of the question
since the miller has nothing to sell on
a protective basis. He sells in the free
markets of the world. He cannot
charge what he would for his -four at
home because the business is not SYM
dicated as some others have been under
the tariff. He cannot rake down an ex-
tortionate profit at home and sell MS
surplus abroad for less than cost as
can be done in trust lines, which have
the shelter" of the tariff.
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-16
A BOYS BREAKFAST.
There's a Natural Food That Makes
Its Own Way.

There's boy up in Hoosick Falls,
N. Y, who is growing into sturdy man
hood on Grape-Nuts breakfasts. 1t
might have been different with him, as
his mother explains:
my 11-year-old boy is large, well
developed and active, and has been
made so by his fondness for Grape
Nuts food. At five years he was a very
nervous child and was subject to fire.
quent attacks of Indigestion which
used to rob him of his strength and
were very troublesome to deal with.
He never seemed to care for anything
for his breakfast until l tried Grape
Nuts, and I have never had to change
from that. He makes his entire break
fast of Grape-Nuts food. 1t is always
relished by him and he says that 1t
satisfies him better than the ordinary
kind of a meal.
Better than all, he is no longer
troubled with indigestion or nervous
ness, and has got to be splendidly
developed fellow since he began to use
Grape-Nuts food" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
There's reason. Read the little
book, "The Road to Wellvills." in pkgs.
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her off their hands. One tramp had
his feet cut off, and pa tried to show
him how much he would save in shoes
the rest of his life, and that he was
in big luck. We left ra at Pough-
keepsie to settle the cases, and went
on to New York, and weheard the people
had lynched him, but he skowed up
in couple of days with money left.
Now all the lawyers In New York are
after us, with claims, and they have
attached most everything, and the
show is up against it.
What a difference it makes who
wants damages. When we were work
ing the railroad for damages. 1t was
cinch, and like getting money from
home, but now that the people are
working us for damages, for being
smashed up under our tent, we look
upon it as crime, and tell them it
is an act of Providence, and that the
show is not to blame for a wind
storm. But the lawyers can't be
very pious, for they won't believe in
the act of Providence racket, and we
shall have to cough up all the profits
Of the season.
Since we got settled in New York for
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-16

man and woman from New Hamp-
shire in one berth, and when the monk
go. IN their berth and began to talk
the Newport language, the old man
thought it was me, and he said: Now,
bub, you go away to your pa"
The monk went out, and got into an
other berth, and crawled under the
bunk, and when the woman came i'll
to go to bed, she looked under it TO
see If any man was there. When she
saw our baboon she yelled fire." ami
tho officers of the boat pulled him out
by the hind leg, and tore my pant
leg of. Pa and | had to sit up the
rest of the night with him, and when
we landed him with the show at
Madison Square Garden we felt re-
lieved.
Ono woman on the boat has fol-
lowed us ever since to collect dam
ages from pa, cause his oldest son,
the monk, proposed to her. Gee, il.
seems to me woman ought to know
the difference between a baboon aud
man, but some women will marry
anything that wears clothes.
The monk took to me so, pa said
I must teach him everything I could
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-16

ager of the Four Hundred show de-
cided to Danish the baboon, and orr
show sent pa to Newport to buy the
baboon and bring him to our show at
New York.
We had the darndest time get
ting him away from Newport Pa
couldn't do anything with him, but
he took to me, cause he thought was
his long-lost brother, and l could do
anything with him. We got him IN
our stateroom on the boat, and took
his clothes away from him, cause he
only wears his clothes when he is
being dined and wined, and we chained
him in the upper berth. He just
raised the very deuce on the way
down to New York. After pa and
got to sleep that baboon got my
clothes, and put them on, slipped the
chain over his head, jumped through
the transom, and went into every
berth where the transom was open
and chatted with the people who oc-
cupied the berths. There was an old
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-16
WASHINGTON AN ATHLETE.
History Shows That Father Of Our
Country Was Fond of All
Kinds of Sports.

When Washington was commander
in chief of the army, ON one occasion
ne went to the quarters of Col. Tim
o:hy Pickering, who had negro serv-
ant named Primus He found the
colonel absent, but to Primus' apol-
ogy replied:
''It does rot matter. I am greatly
in need of exercise, and you must
help me to get se.ne before your mas
ter returns"
Under Washington's direction, the
negro tied a rope to neighboring
tree, breast high. Primus was or
dered to stand at some distance and
hold it horizontally extended. Wash
ington ran forward and backward for
some time, jumping over the rope as
he came, and went until he was salts
fed with his exercise.
He learned fencing when quite
young. His teacher was an old SOL
der, who had seen service in the
Inales. His stone-throwing feats
across the Rappahannock, over the
Palisades, and to the top of the Nat
ural Bridge in Virginia, are mentioned
by all his biographers.
Gen. Washington was splendid
horseman. There was no animal he
could not master, and he never, lost
his seat in the saddle. Fox hunting
was one of his favorite amusements
and at the meet" few of his friends
or neighbors were better mounted than
he. He usually rode a large, fiery
animal of great endurance called
"Blueskin." The names Of some of his
other horses were "Chinkling," wal
iant," "Ajax" and Magnolia"
The names of some of his hunting
dogs were Vulcan" "Ringwood,'
Singer" "Truelove," Music, /"
"Sweetlips,' Forester" and Rock.
wood" During the season he hunt
ed two or three times week. His
pleasure was not the find, bat the
hunt, for he admits in his diary that
the foxes nearly always escaped, but
the main end in view, excitement and
recreation, had been achieved.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-16
A VISITORS IMPRESSION.
French NobIeman's Memoirs of Val
ley Forge While Washington
Was There.

A young Frenchman, Chevalier de
Pontgibaud, who entered America to
become volunteer in the revolution.
airy army, has left this description OF
Valley Forge in memoirs which are
preserved in France:
"Soon l came in sight Of camp,
where it lay in a rather struggling
formation, but in good position and
well arranged from a military point
of view. In my ideas of it, it had
figured as camp like the great Euro.
pean camps that l had seen, where
there were flags and banners every.
where, shining weapons, brilliant uni
forms, and all the other pomp of war
81 was bitterly disappointed, for
all that l saw when l entered were
few militiamen, dressed in all sorts
of ways, and most of them without
shoes. They seemed to be very poorly
armed.
"On my way to the headquarters Of
Gen. La Fayette, to whom / bore let
tiers of introduction, / saw soldiers
wearing wooden nightcaps under their
hats, while others wore rough, cheap
wooden blankets instead Of overcoats.
l found out afterward that these were
the officers. Even some of the gen.
erals wore these blankets"
Later, when La Fayette had made
the young volunteer his aide-de-camp,
he was presented to Washington, and
he describes him thus:
"His appearance alone gave con.
fidence to the timid, and imposed re-
spect ON the bold. He looked just as
a man born to command should look:
he was very tall, had noble face, a
gentle glance, exquisite courtesy of
language, and perfect simplicity of
motion and expression. His firm,
wonderfully sedate bearing harmonized
exactly with his appearance.
Call the generals around him bowed
to him as much from liking and re-
spect as from duty. Amid all the
trials of the war, under fortune, evil
and good, Gen. Washington never
once belied his reputation for gentle
ness. magnanimity and goodness"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-16

Maj. Gen. Trotski, who was recently
made commander of st. Petersburg,
was born on July rs, 1S47.
Capt. Stubs, secretary Of Liverpool
Orphan institution, is one of the few
living persons who served on Nelson's
flagship Victory.
Geza Won Fejercary, the recently APP
pointed premier of the Hungarian
cabinet, has received almost every
decoration his country can bestow.
Nine. Loubet, wife of the president
of France, has interested herself in
the poor of Paris, particularly in the
children of the poor and orphans.
Mrs. Poultney Bigelow is favorite
in English society. At Cannes, in
London and in the country she is
equally popular. Mrs. Bigelow is q
moralist-a witty moralist.
Archibald Stuwock, formerly loco
motive engineer of the Great North
ern railroad of England, recently en-
tered his ninetieth year, having joined
the road in 1850 when it was a narrow
gauge system.
After residing in Japan 20 years
Prof. Baelz has returned to his home
at Stuttgart. He was one OF the
savants imported by the Japanese
government with the view of Euro
peaniziug the country. For quarter
of a century he was professor at the
Toxic university. Most of the prom
inent physicians in Japan are his
puDilS
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-16
WAsHINGToN's BIRTHDAY.

When God of old this orb had made,
And raised the earth from out the sea-
BE sep'rate thou" tn Almighty said,
A land of Hope and Liberty.
Let mountain range and prairie wide
Roll DER thy face in majesty;
From snow-capped hill to flowing TIDE.
Be thou the Land of Liberty.
Sons! gather here from ev'ry land,
From bondage chains forever free,
And guided by Omniscient Hand
Let fly the flag of Liberty.
Let truth abound and virtue reign,
And strife and wrong thy borders nee
To God, your Father, raise the Strain,
And sing the Song Of Liberty.
In future years shalt thou arise,
Unique in earthly records be,
Let gladstone paeans cleave the skies
All hail! first Son of Liberty.
Rev. f. P. Duffy, in Rams Horn.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-16

that men do, so I thought it would do
no harm to teach him to chew to-
bacco, cause he could already smoke
cigarettes, so I borrowed chew from
he boss canvasman, great big
chew of black plug tobacco, and the
monk grabbed it, and chewed it awhile,
just before the afternoon performance,
and swallowed it. l knew that ses-
tied the monk, and when the audience
came along by his cage, and pa was
trying to get him to perform, as
he did at Newport, eating dinner like
a man, the monk turned pale, and his
stomach ached, and he stood on his
head, and held his stomach in both
hands, and kicked the table over.
Then he hit pa a swat with his foot
and wound his tail around pas neck,
and laid his head on pas shirt bosom,
and was seasick.
Pa said: well, this beats every
thing. What did you do to him?"
l told pa l had only been teaching
the monk manly tricks, and pa said:
well you have overdone it." And
then the Humane society had pa ar
rested for cruelty to animals. But
the monk got over it, and now he
tries to be a masher, and winks at
women, and flirts with them just as
the men do at Newport.
We thought we were smart when
we held up the railroad for damages
back in Pennsylvania, after the wreck,
but we are getting dose Of our own
medicine. At Poughkeepsie there
came up a wind and rainstorm that
blew the tent down right in the
midst of the evening performance, and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-16

One of the greatest triumphs of Lydia
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-16

scared everybody half to death. Sew
eral people were hit by tent poles and
hurt some, and it was the widest
scene ever saw, and people who got
out alive ran away in the dark, and
somebody said the animals had all
got loose, and some of the people
never stopped running till daylight the
next morning.
Some run into the river, and the an
balances carried the injured to hos
pitfalls. Pa stampeded with the e.e-
plants, and never showed up till noon
!, the next day. By that time at least
0G0 people had filed claims for
damages, and all the lawyers, from AL
bany to New York, were on our trail
The managers appointed pa to set
tie with the injured, and the way he
argued with those people was cau-
ton. One old woman was killed, aud
pa tried to show her relatives that as
she was old and helpless, and more or
less burden to the family, they ought
! to pay the show something for getting
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-16

by the physician and he says I have no signs
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Mrs. Pinkham invites all ailing
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-16
BURIAL OF WASHINGTON.
Detroit Woman Has Paper Contain
ing Account Published at
the Time.

Mrs. Martha Shippey, of Detroit, is
the fortunate possessor of an interest
ing relic of by-gone days in the shape
of an issue Of the Ulster County Ca
zette, published at Kingston, N. Y,
and bearing the date of Saturday, jan
uary 4, 1900. The paper is a curl
GUS example of journalism of the day,
in makeup and material. The greater
portion of the issue is taken up with
an account of the death and funeral
of George Washington, the columns
being inclosed in heavy obituary rules
and the story written in the elevated
language Of the period. The account
of Washington's burial reads as fol-
lows:
WASHINGTON ENTOMBED.
George Town, Dec. 20.
"On Wednesday last, the mortal part
Of Washington, the Great-the Father
of his country and the Friend of man,
was consigned to the tomb, with sol
emn honors and funeral pomp
"a multitude of persons assembled,
from many miles round, at Mount
Vernon, the choice abode and last
residence of the illustrious chief.
There were the groves-the spacious
avenues, the beautiful and sublime
scenes, the noble mansion-but, alas!
the august inhabitant was now no
more. That great soul was gone.
His mortal part was there indeed; but,
ah! how affecting! how awful the
spectacle of such worth and greatness,
thus to mortal eyes. fallen!-Yes!
fallen! fallen!
''In the long and lofty Portico,
where oft the Hero walked in all his
glory, now lay the shrouded corpse.
The countenance still composed and
serene, seemed to depress (sic) the
dignity of the spirit, which lately
dwelt in that lifeless form! There
those who paid the last sad honors to
the benefactor of his country, took
an impressive-a farewell view.
con the ornament at the head of
the coffin was inscribed Surge ad
Judicium-about the middle of the
coffin, Gloria Deo-and on the silver
plate,
GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Departed this life on the 18th December,
1893, Act. IS.
Detroit Free Press.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-16

We have added to the show the most
remarkable animal that ever was-a
baboon that dresses like a man, and
eats at table, using knife and fork,
and a napkin. This baboon has been
playing an engagement with the Four
Hundred at Newport, dining with the
crowned heads at that resort, but the
confounded baboon got to be too hu-
man, and he fell in love with an heic-
ess, and scared one of the Willie boys
that was also in love with her.
His friends were afraid the baboon
would cut Willie out entirely, or get
jealous and injure Willie, so the man
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-16
His Answer.

Washington was asked why he had
cut down the cherry tree.
Because" he replied, Andrew
Jackson is going to monopolize the
hickory"
Thus. with precocious foresight, did
he lay the foundation Of his career
Judge.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-16
All Salute His Memory.

On visiting Mt Vernon recently,
as the boat drew near the landing
several guns were fired. Asked the
reason, the captain said that no YES
sci passed by Washington's home, no
matter under what flag 1t sailed, with
out extending to his memory this sa-
luta
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-16
Could Not Tell a Lie.

Tourist-You say you saw Wash
ington at Valley Forge?
Old Negro-Well, Ise KANT 'zactly
say Ise saw'd him forge, but / seed
him at de, valley, sab.
Tourist suppose you held him
when he was a baby?
Old Negro-No, sab. l KANT tole a
lie. Youse see, sab, Go'ge Washing
tum wasn't bohn dem. Y. Herald.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-16
The Old Excuse.

The sparrow had just shot Cock
Robin.
"Mistook him for a deer while cut
hunting" he explained.
This was really the origin of the
tlme-honored custom.-N. Y. Sun.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-16

4 Newport Monk Is Added to the
Show-The Boy Teaches Him Some
MANLY Tricks"-The Tent Blows
Down and a Panic Follows-Pa
Manages the Animal Act Which
Ends in Novel Manner.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-16
Latest Thing at a Wedding.

Mrs. Knicker-Was it a fashionable
wedding?
Mrs. Bocker-Yes, indeed; the bride
was attended by Divorce of hc2or--
N, Y. Sun.
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PECK'S BAD |
BOY WIT III
THE CIRCUS |
By HON. GEORGE w. PECK
Author of Peck's Bad Boy Abroad" Etc.
a G. ]
Author Of "Peck's Bad Boy Abroad" Etc.

Copyright by J. b. BowlesJ
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lydia E. Pnkhams Vegetable Compound; Komans Remedy for
oLD-WoRLD NOTABLES.

Mammoth Catalogue Free 70
,Threshermen. Write for it.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1906-03-23
May Cut off Excursions.

People who have enjoyed excursions
may be deprived Of that diversion the
coming summer.
An old railroad man, one who has
for wears been identified with theman-
agement Of trains, said that the
ministers had gotten active and had
inveighed against the Sunday excur-
sions. and that the railroads had it in
their power to cut of the privileges
which had been extended to the clergy.
"Let 'em all pay full fare, said the
railroader. "WOuld serve 'em right.
The legislature has made a two-cent
rate all right, and the railroads can
afford to cut of few cheap trips and
curtail the OH. business TO still
greater extent. That will be about all
for this time
The impression prevails in some
quarters that the railroads will comply
promptly with the two-cent rate pro-
position, putting it iuto effect 80 days
after it has become a law-as required
bv the code. IL is also said that the
Sunday excursions will be maintained
by all the roads, as they have always
paid handsomely and afforded
chance for ofiice-bound people 10 spend
day in the country or at the sea
shore.