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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-06

ket gardens on either side had the
garments of the "workers"-blue
shirts and breeches. The SISTER" who
received the reporter wore dress of
similar material.
In the bare reception room one
sound predominated over all others.
Outside were sunshine and the song
of life-the click of the windmill,
locusts, and bees buzzing in corn
field, the chatter of children, the
sound of hammers as the workers
raised big tent for the camp meet
ing. Inside was the sound of hymns
pounded out on hard-toned piano,
persistently, monotonously, eadlessly
until the visitor thought of the most
maddening in the list of ancient tor
tures-the steady drip of water on a
man or woman's head.
"You have been very successful
here!" began the reporter.
1.-THE Lords blessing has been upon
u.s." The SISTER" answered absently,
as If in a dream or listening to the
torturing hymns.
Home Is Gift of Believer.
You own this placer"
Eyes. 1t was given to us about two
years ago by Mrs. Garretson-Mrs. w.
p. Garretson. She saw the true light
the light of the Lord in faith-she and
her son and her two daughters. We
have been here about year and a
half There are 80 acres of land and
80 grown people, some of them mar
ried, but mostly young men and
women, and about as many more chill
dren. They have given up all their
worldly goods and followed Him."
you must have plenty of money,
them"
"Oh, no." with smile. People with
worldly goods are not eager to give
them up and follow the Lord"
Gradually more facts came out after
persistent questioning. Six years ago,
Mrs. Alma White, wife of Methodist
preacher in Denver, was inspired to
preach on her own account. The con-
ference of the Methodist church
would not make her full 1edged
minister. But "the Lord blessed her
in singing" so she started her own
church. She calls it the Pentecostal
Union, her neighbors, "The Pillar of
Fire.; the public, the Holy Jumpers.
The SISTER" who was talking called
it ''the holiness movement-the Meth
odist church as it was in the days of
Wesley, before people thought only
of worldly things and the ministers
of preaching and prayer for wage"
Mrs. White is still the head-the
Mrs. Eddy, the Mrs. Piper-of the
Sect She lives in Denver, where the
Holy Jumpers have Bible school and
$50 missioners and the union got
charter in 1902 Mrs. Whites brother,
c. W. Bridwell, is the head of the
farm at Weston, which is the eastern
headquarters of the sect. There are
other mission houses in Los Angeles,
and Lafayette, Ind, with dozen mis-
sionaries each.
Have Biblical Authority.
What are the peculiar ceremonies
of your sect? You march and dancer"
ooh, yes" the girl replied. care we
not told in the Bible how David
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-06

These Jumpers seem to be de-
cent enough, though" the farmer add
ed, "only they keep mostly to them
selves"
Thus primed, the reporter walked
down the Delaware and Raritan canal
to the Holy Jumpers farm to meet
one of the most curious experiences
to be found near New York.
Reporter Unconvinced.
He went to scott; he could not stay
to pray. The hymns, sophistry, and
the plight of 80 little children were
too uncanny; his sense of humor too
acute. Yet, as he left, one question
was burning in his mind: Are these
simple, possibly misguided people
solving the great social question of
cooperation by the mere force of
their religious zeal, where others have
failed, especially in the famous Brook
Farm experiment, by an excess of the
DRY and knowledge!
'Zarephath." A big sign at turn
of the road bore the name of the Holy
Jumpers settlement. Lower down, at
the entrance to the dooryard, was
an arch and "The Pillar Of Fire" on
T.
A saint" passed on bicycle. He
wore the uniform of the sect-a black
shirt and helmet. The men in the mar
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est, gliding swiftly and fast on their
them list of the women homestead
ers, their timber estimator has given
them descriptions" of the women home
steaders' timbered lands. The enemy
and his tools make personal estimate.
stealthily approach the cabins; and if
the homesteader be absent, as she has
right to be in the worst cold Of the
winter, count it gain, the enemy goes
to land Office and swears against her
abandonment and other homestead
crimes. If she lack money to carry on
the legal battle, or if she lose therein,
the enemy, openly or by means of his
tools, obtains possession Of the land.
But let us return from the hostile
to the friendly. What of social life
here in this novel homestead land?
Democratic, interesting, unusual. Who
compose society" College graduates
and lumber-jacks; professional folk
and unskilled laborers; many men and
women of many kinds come together
up here in the woods, and one as good
as another. The woman homesteader
finds the lumber-jack respectable,
friendly person, and after she has got
over her first foolish fear of the woods
man she makes friends with him;
learns what she can of his woods lore,
gives him story book and magazine.
The woman homesteader may live
with small boy as sole companion,
but small boy of the north woods is
no such puny creature as you might
suppose, not such weak defender
The north-woods boy begins to use
gun and AK about as soon as he is able
to walk alone, always looking forward
to the day he is to cut down his tree,
shoot his deer. A small boy of IL can
split wood, bring water, hoe and weed,
walk ten miles to town if necessary,
very acceptably enact the role of
'help" to the woman homesteader.
The small boy at hand, the gun above
the door, the woman homesteader
dwells unafraid in her isolated cabin.
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Learn From Wild Comrades.

Strange as it may appear, there are
men who make living by teaching
larks to sing. 1t might be imagined
that this is much the same as paint
ing the lily, but it is fact that the
ordinary cage lark requires a con-
siderable amount of training before it
can sing we'll.
The man who undertakes the educa-
ton of larks has to be up long before
daybreak In the spring before the
break of day, he goes out into the
country, taking great number of
cage birds with hi-1, that they may
hear the wild ones sing.
The wild lark always sings its best
soon after dawn; later on in the day
it's song cannot compare for beauty
with it's earlier efforts. The birds first
begin to sing as they run about the
long grass, but they sing their very
finest. lays little later, when they
mount high into the sky. AS they
soar until they appear to vanish into
the azure, their song becomes more
and more beautiful
The imprisoned birds seem 20 re.
member every note they hear.
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PRESCRIPTIONS in LATIN.
The Public Should Haze Them Trans.
lated by the Druggists.

What virtue is there in the secrecy
with which the doctor hedges about
his profession?
professional etiquette" occupies a
prominent place in the curriculum of
every medical school, and when strict
ly analysed professional etiquette"
seems to mean doing what is best for
the doctor, individually and col
lectively."
Among the things that "is best for
the doctor" is the writing of his pre-
scriptions in Latin, and thus keeping
the public in ignorance not only of
what it is taking for its ills, but fore
ing call upon the doctor each time
a prescription is needed.
In plain and unmistakable English
the writing of prescriptions in Latin
makes business for the doctors.
Let us say that you have the ague.
You had it last year and the year be-
fore. Each time you have visited the
doctor and he has prescribed for you
in Latin. You have never known
what he has given you for the disease,
and so each time you are forced to go
to him again and give him an oppor-
tunity to repeat his prescription-in
Latin, and his fee-in dollars.
If you ask the doctor why he uses
Latin in writing his prescriptions, why
he writes aqua" when he means wa
ter, he will give you technical dis
sertation on the purity Of the Latin
language, and the fact that all words
are derived from it, etc. 1t will be a
dissertation that you may not be able
to answer, but it will hardly convince
you.
1t would be good thing for the pub
lie to devise a little code of ethics OF
its own; ethics that will be "a good
thing for the public individually and
collectively"
Let us apply one of the rules of this
code of ethics to you, the individual.
You call in the physician when you
have the ague, the grippe, or any OF
the other ills to which human flesh is
heir, and which you may have again
Latin, and you take this, to you, mean
ingless scribble to the druggist to
have it compounded. Right here is
where you come in, if you are wise.
Say to the druggist that you want a
translation of that prescription. 1t is
your privilege to know what you are
taking. While the doctors code of
ethics may not recognize this right it
Is yours just the same.
With the translated prescription in
your possession you have two distinct
advantages. You know what you are
taking, and should you wish to call
some other doctor at some time you
will be able to tell him what drugs you
have been putting into your system,
and also if you should have the same
disease again you can save yourself
a visit to the doctor, and his fee, by
taking this translated prescription to
the druggist once more and having 1t
refilled.
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'it is largely arranged as the spirit Of
God moves u.s."
Life of the Little Jumpers.
Scriptural Injunction is followed in
the kitchen as well as the bare little
chapel. Pork is eschewed as unclean;
so are fish without scales" Fruits
and cereals form the bases of the
favorite dishes.
What of the 80 little children who
live in such surroundings? They pray
as they play. Their ills are treated,
too, with oil poured on their bodies
and by prayer. They learn to jump
and go to the meetings and give
strange testimonies"
Here is a prayer which the Jumpers
credit to Glenn Plank, aged three:
Dear Lord, we thank you for help
ing us to sing songs. 1 thank You for
making my ear well. Supply our needs
for this day and send in some dollars.
My shoes are awful bad, send me in
some new ones, for Jesus sake.
Amen"
Services for Children.
The children have special services
to pray for clothes and the mission
aries. They have prayer meetings
every morning from $50 to 1880
o'clock. They also have praise serv-
ices' distinct from those of their eld-
ers. They range in age from babyhood
to 10 or IL years. I'm the school term"
one of the Jumpers explained, 1--WE
also teach them in secular knowledge,
including some of the high school
branches"
Indeed, children may be called a
star feature at Zarephath. The farm
was given by Mrs. Garretson for a
children's home as we'll as for mis-
sionary work, and in the notices Of
the camp meeting the building is
called "children's home"
Characteristic of the sect is Bird
wells description of the children
when he recently returned from the
west Their enthusiasm evidently
filed his heart with gladness, for he
says:
1--WE were delighted once more to
meet the children and to hear them
pray and testify. God is certainly
blessing this department of our work
and helping the little ones to become
faithful in His service. They have
their little trials and experiences, and
win battles which mean more in their
lives than any of the great historical
conflicts of this world"
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danced before the Ark of the Cove
nant, yea, and was exceedingly glad?'
Did not Miriam dance with joy when
Israel was delivered from the hands
of the Egyptians and the Red sea
flowed back and COMPOUNDED the enc
mics of the Lords people? Again, in
the New Testament the dance is men
toned as part of religious worship"
"Yes, and singing-'even with GYM
balls and spawns.'" quoted the re-
porter.
"Yes-yes-we use cymbals, drums,
too. And we often sing to the music of
banjos and guitars"
"You have harps, too?"
1--WE play on autoharps. But most
of our music is on the piano. AS we
sing, we dance as they did in the old
days, marching about, and jumping up
and down in our gladness. That is
why they call us Jumpers
These were the words of the re-
ligionist, tie sentimentalist. On the
other hand, strangely bald and
strangely compounded of Scriptural
phrase and modern sophistry is the
official explanation of the jumping
habit. Here it is:
Why They Jump.
After they had organized into a church,
entirely independent of everything that
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-06
A GIidinu Boat.

The new gliding boat made in Paris
by Levasseur and Lem consists essen.
tally of light, pointed main sec
ton, which is connected by a light
wood platform two feet long to a
fiat tail 80 feet long. The forward
section contains the motor, from
which shaft runs to the propeller
in the TAIL The rear end of the tail
is almost submerged, while the for.
ward end and the main boat float on
the surface and are almost lifted out
of the water by the action Of the pre-
peller. The new 5O-horsepower eight
cylinder Antoinette motor is used.
In calm weather the new form Of
boat glides very rapidly on the sur.
face of the water and in rough water
this being the special advantage
claimed over sliding and ordinary
boats-it is able to run at a fair speed.
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about shines the inviting red of the
wild Strawberries; in midsummer
bushels of blueberries are to be had
for the picking; there is the famous
wild red raspberry of the north, there
are wild gooseberries, blackberries,
dewberries, June berries; in early
autumn the swamps yield unworked
crops of cranberries, which berries go
so we'll with partridge and duck, con-
sort excellently well with the venison
the neighboring trapper, a mighty
hunter, CALAMITY presents to the wom-
an homesteader.
But not all our neighbors are gal.
liant, there is one company of neigh.
bors that go in for the opposite thing;
a company that, as native puts it,
"have picked on the women" These
neighbors are men interested in saw
mills and numbering; and there not
being timber of high value left, they
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-06
LOO-cARzN HOME. ~

The woman homesteader is feature
of our modern pioneer life of no par
ticular novelty. We have heard of her
these several years back, encamped in
sodhouse out in Dakota, holding down
claim in Oklahoma; and it would
seem there were no new word to say
of her. My apology for the word, is
that the homestead land of which !
write is rather different from home.
stead territory commonly known, my
women homesteaders, amid more pic
turesque surroundings than the ave-
rage.
The homestead land of which !
would speak, is located on the Allie
ghany side of the Mississippi river; in
the north rather than west, in the
pine woods of northern Wisconsin.
The reason the land has but lately
been taken up" that it is jack-pine
region; region which until recently
was considered worthless, in the past
timber and soil held of no value. But
the country's fast increasing popula-
ton, fast decreasing timber, the re-
claiming the country over of various
sorts of supposedly barren regions,
these all combined have led to the
demonstrating of the long unclaimed
public lands, have brought the settler
into the forest.
And among the first settlers to come
is the woman homesteader, every here
and there in this locality you come
upon her unmistakable cabin-neat,
trim, thrift-suggesting, a contrast to
the natives.
Notwithstanding, you will agree
with me, has more chances for pic
turesqueness than demonstrating in
dreary, treeless land Here we have
beauty of landscape; the woods abound
in interesting wild life and furnish
sport for those with sportsman in
stinct, game for the table. Until re-
Gently this was sportsman land pure
and simple, and the holidays spirit is
not yet utterly routed, the farming of
us north-woodsers is tempered by
play; we have put our hand to the
pillow but now and then we go a-fiish-
ing and a-hunting.
Come to our log cabins when you
will, you shall find fare that shall
tempt you to stay, fare possible only
in such neutrality-suspicious.
and rural locality. Our cultivated
fields, these fields intruding on the
forest, are near trout stream and
springfield lakelets; farm labor gives
us the fine big north-country potatoes,
fisherman's luck provides brook trout,
rainbow trout and black bass. About
the time we put our potatoes in the
root cellar, venison is to be had.
Earlier in the season wild duck and
partridge graced the table.
Only the uniformed would speak Of
our northland as a cold, barren region
1t appears to us a land of plenty, a
land of natural plenty. To be sure we
are planting small fruits of various
sorts, enjoy our garden currants,
gooseberries, and strawberries; but IL
we should neither toll nor spin, the
land would yield us goodly fruit
cvop. In early summer everywhere
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sation with the reporter, the monoton.
GUS notes Of the piano had been merg.
ed with the click Of the windmill, the
hum OF bees, and the chatter of chill
dren. Then a man and a woman began
to talk in the next room. They might
have been quarreling. Their voices
were pitched high, now both speaking
together unintelligibly. Then followed
silence for a moment, then a single
voice in great excitement:
In Fervent Prayer.
"Oh, help, help us-Show us the
way-Oh, we've done wrong-We
thank Thee-We bow before Thee
Help-help us-O Lord"
The communistic plan OF Zare.
phath is a success, If the rich fruits
of field, garden, and truck patch count
for anything. At the beginning of
every week the work of the colony
is divided among the men and women,
with little or no distinction between
the sexes. The men wash dishes,
cook, and make beds, just as the older
boys pillow and the women work in the
gardens. In the Zarephath building
the men are lodged at one end, the
women at the other, and the children
on a lower floor.
They eat two meals day. Break.
fast is at in the morning and dinner
at 4. Each is preceded by prayers, and
perhaps with testimonies, singing, and
marching.
Cali of these services, the prayer
meetings, our marriage service, and
the ceremonies at the graves have no
regular ORDER" explained the sister;
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-06

New York.-Hi6den on little New
Jersey farm, a community Of sixty
persons, one-half of them children,
are trying to vitalize a complete re.
action against money greed, hypoc,
risy, and the present-day Christian
church and to keep it alive by re.
lisious hysteria.
They depend on faith" d. e.,
prayer for food, clothing, and the
bare necessities of life.
They have followed the injunction
of Jesus to sell their goods, give the
proceeds to the poor, and follow Him.
Medicines asi physicians are for
hidden. and their only treatment for
disease consists of prayer and anoint.
ing the body with OIL
Officials of the state of New Jersey
say that if any one dies after such
treatment those concerned are guilty
OF criminal negligence and indictable
for manslaughter.
The community is managed on the
cooperative plan, no one receiving
wages for work, and all supplies go.
ing into common fund, the men and
women sharing the work on an equal
basis.
Converts are kept in high state of
religious excitement by conglomera-
ton of Biblical text, sophistry, and
slang, and talk of modern saints and
miracles.
Seeking to live according to Bibli-
cal injunction, they work themselves
into a frenzy, march, dance, and leap
high in the air, hence their name,
Holy Jumpers.
A member of the community has al
ready been taken to the Somerset
County Insane Asylum suffering from
religious mania.
What the Jumpers Are Like.
Such, in brief, is a summary of the
lives of the Holy Jumpers on their
farm near Weston, a. station on the
Reading railway five miles southwest
of Bound Brook. Attention was at
tracted to them by report that they
are to invade New York in the man
ner of Elijah" Dowie and his Zion
lists. What manner of people are these
who would fill Broadway with their
cries and wild dances? The question
led to visit to Weston.
Where are the Holy Jumpers?" the
reporter asked farmer he met on the
way.
Right down thar on the towpath
where yer see that barn and wind
MILL" he replied. do they jump? Yer
bet they do. I was at their prayer
meeting last Sunday. One of 'em-
Brother Hartman, they called him
man as big as you, six feet high.
WAL, Brother Hartman yelled Halle
lujah!' jest as loud as he could, gath
cred up his legs under him, and
jumped-it looked as if he jumped
most as high as that thar lamppost.
They're praying most all the time,
too Some weeks since one of the
fellers here was a-comin' up the tow
path and CHANGED to look over toward
the Jumpers place. Sure as I'm here,
thar was Holy Jumper standin' atop
their haystack, his hands up in the
air, praying for all he was worth.
Guess he was praying about the hay.
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are casting envious eyes on our poor
lead pencils of jack-pines. As means
of getting hold of the pine, they enter
contests" against women holders of
land whereon merchantable jack pine
grows. Now contest" is about as
much dreaded up here as is forest
fire, contest" means lawyers and
court fees and appeals and more legal
drain, less money to put on the land.
But the woman homesteader tries to
meet this difficulty, too, with proper
pioneer pluck, tries to show valor in
the battle with the enemy. And some
of us even so so far as to see the pic
turesque as well as the craven side of
the contest business, for there is a
picturesque side. When the woods are
all white and silent with the whiteness
and silence of midwinter, the enemy
and his allies steal forth into the for
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The Appropriate Location.

Caustic Critic-Why did you put
that joker at the very end of the num-
bers in your entertainment program?
Member of Committee-Wasn't that
all right? I thought wag ought
naturally to come at the tail end.
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A Theory.

why do men swear?" asked one
woman.
TITS due to the vanity of the SEX"
answered Miss Cayenne. "They want
to be noticed even when they can't
think of anything Of real importance
to say"
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Business Appreciation.

Herr Hirsch-That man Levi has
got his eye on our Rosa. He's thun-
dering good man of business and he
can have her If he wants. He once
got some money out of me in payment
for some things I had of him..
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Reasonable Explanation.

II wonder why dog chascs his
tail?"
"a sense of economy"
Economy"
Eyes; can't you see he is trying to
make both ends meet?"
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"The Carthagenian mercenaries," he
said, "encased their prisoners in ce-
ment that, as it hardened, contracted.
You can't imagine how uncomfortable
this was"
ooh, yes, I can," she answered. Il
once had on a tight bathing suit when
It began to shrink"
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A Knock.

Jimmy" said the father, there's a
rip in your bathing suit. Go and sew
it up"
'But papa" growled the boy, moth
er will sew it for me-"
Never mind. want you to learn
to sew yourself. For" said the father,
"some day you will get married, and
then you won't have any mother-you
will only have wife"