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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-07-12
All at the Circus.

With a rather detected air he
walked into the county commission
er's office at Scranton. 'sPm Goodrich,
judge of election in Greenfield town
Ship" he said, as he deposited the
ballot box upon his desk.
ooh, yes, Mr.. Goodrich; making
your returns, eh? Well, how did
everything go your way?" The face
of Goodrich frightened up as the
clerk talked to him in pleasant
tone.
well, to tell the truth, things didn't
go very good. 1 was there, but was
the only one that showed up during
the six hours. All the rest went to
the circus at Carbonate. Suppose
get my pay all right, eh?"
1t was true. Not vote had been
cast. Even Goodrich, the only one on
deck, could not vote, no one being
there to take the ballot from him.
The circus at Carbonate was to
blame.-Philadelphi Record.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-07-12
Music in England.

English musical genius has never
run in the direction Of opera. 1t lacks
the dramatic element; melody, on the
one hand, and massive counterpart
on the other, are rather its distin-
gushing features. To suit the Eng
lish taste, Handel turned his mighty
genius from opera to oratorio, thereby
founding that particular vehicle Of
musical expression with which it may
be claimed that English idionyncrasy
has enriched the world.-London
Evening Standard.
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Rooms Always Waiting.
l saw the babies in the shirt fac
tory's nursery, 140 babies from three
years Ga few among the eldest) down
to three weeks. That was three
weeks ago. There must be new
ones. Because this extraordinary
shirt factory has three sunny bed
rooms always waiting at the DISPOSE
ton of prospective mamas.
A capable young doctor is employed
by the year to spend half his time
in the nursery. Ten maids manage to
do all the work, including every
baby's daily bath-this with the help
of mothers, who have the right to
slip in four times day, ten minutes
each, in alphabetic order; and the 80
minutes aggregated outside the visit
of the lunch hour are not deducted
from their pay.
What does the factory give the
babies?" I asked the young doctor.
"Sterilized, non-tuberculous milk
when their mothers cannot nurse
them; all their first baby clothing,
baths, hygienic surroundings, medical
attendance, pure air, sunlight, warmth,
safety-quoi! the only things baby
needs! Apart from these things the
establishment favors mothers!'
"How?"
Had you seen two girls I saw last
week, you'd be surprised" he an
swered. Both were marriages at the
Marie, very affecting; but as assist
ed at the preliminaries of one in par
ticular, 1 have conceived great ad-
miration for the proprietor of this
factory. To look at him you would i'm
agine him hard-headed, cynical bus
mess man, you would certainly have
been astonished at the tact and pa
thence he employed to persuade way
ward youth to make the mother of his
babe wife. Il refer to the youth
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-07-12
Tho Terrible Malta.

Neither the Naples Camorra, the
Paris Apaches, nor the Black Hand Of
America is the most powerful and ter.
rible secret society in the whole
world. in spite OF the narrowing de-
tails Of theG' CHASTITY work. The palm
must go to the Malta, which flourishes
in Italy, and has done so for more
than 800 years. This society, which
works so swiftly and silently, yet so
surely, was founded in Sicily for pro.
lection against the injustice of foreign
rulers.-London "P, T. O."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-07-12
The First Six Weeks.


France will do tiff only on the
evidence of the 'Baby's Smile" of
Nancy.
why did I stipulate for a first de-
lay of six weeks?" explained Prof
Herrgott the other day to a rich and
influential Paris audience. "And why
is the work called the 'Baby's Smile?'
First, because infant mortality is most
frequent between the ages of one day
and six weeks. And, secondly, be-
cause it is during the sixth week that
the first smile appears on baby's lips!
"Do you not know that? Well, when
a mother has fed baby at her breast
until the epoch when she sees that
smile appear, baby is saved. No
bottle for him! He will not be aban-
doned either by mother or breast"
"On condition that the mother has
the means to keep her baby with her. -
interrupted one of the vice presidents.
What are $40 bills for?" snorted
the professor. Senator Plot is right.
Every mother is a creditor of the
state. Pay your creditors-it is always
good investment. Yes, pay cash for
babies '-Sterling Heilig in New York
Press.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-07-12
Wise Old Noah,

Noah was looking at his famous col.
lection of living wild beasts.
81 could write lot of stories about
the animals" he said, chat would put
the whole collection of nature takers
on the ragged edge, but what would
be the use? I'd get call down from
the White House as sure as fate"
Sternly resisting the temptation to
mix in, he ordered Ham to change the
course of the vessel two points to
starboard and went back to his cabin
to take a nap.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-07-12

will be at the points where one wing
joins another or opposite the four
avenues leading to the capitol park.
There will, however, be other en-
frances at the ends of the wings
where the principal entrances are
now. The reason for changing the
location of the main entrances was
it will enable a person to step right
into the main part of the building in
stead of into a wing.
Every piece of material that enters
the new capitol will be closely in
spected by Secretary Porter, one of
the leading architects of the state,
and if it does not come up to the re-
quired standard will be rejected.
Secretary Porter has opened an Office
in the basement of the capitol where
he has the new west wing constantly
under his sight 1t is the general
opinion in Madison that nobody is
going to cheat the state in the cree
ton of the new capitol as long as
Mr.. Porter is around.
Wisconsin's new capitol building is
| not only immense in size, but it will
be constructed of the whitest granite
ever discovered. 1t will combine the
| white beauty that is marbles best
recommendation with the enduring
qualities of granite, and the COM
bination will give the state an edifice
that should be her browning glory and
| pride for centuries to come.
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National DIRECTORY,

Even the smallest buttons" in a
New Zealand hotel can locate any
man in New Zealand for stranger
in moment. All he has to do is to
turn to the New Zealand directory.
Nothing so well perhaps illustrates
limited population and area con-
trolled by the noted New Zealand gov
eminent as the fact that there is only
one directory, and it is for all cities
and towns and even the country and
is only as large as that of city the
size of innati.-Exchange
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-07-12
Wanted an Excuse.

what do you take when you're,
coming down with cold?"
whisky"
"Wife objects"
Certainly not. She doesn't want
me to be sich?"
Zone more question"
"Well?"
whats the easiest way to start
coId."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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and luxury! According to the depart
ment infant mortality varies between
% pc cent. and so per cent.
A celebrated doctor of the Assist
ance Publique has declared to the
Academy of Medicine that in Paris,
infant mortality varies between five
and 80 per cent.-according to the
mode of feeding and the care given
the infant.
Convinced of the startling truths of
the Nancy experiment, the founders of
the Abatement Maternel are demand
ing money to do for all the poor or
working mothers of Paris what my
shirt factory is doing for it's hands
and what the "Baby's Smile" is doing
for the mothers of Nancy-giving cash
for babies.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-07-12
Strains at a Gnat.

The dean of Westminster has re-
fused to admit a memorial tablet
which was dedicated to Herbert
Spencer into the abbey on the ground
that he was not orthodox in his
Christian belief.
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Senator Plots Good Work.

senator FIOLS 1OOu "OTk.
In the French senate there is a man
who already forced the general gov
eminent to begin handing good money
to families of five children This is
Senator Edme Plot, highly remarka-
BILE personality.
Son of a Burgundian family SO poor
that he was kept from school to work
in the fields, he broke stone on the
highways and worked over all France
as navy; but as early as 1854 he
was taking small contracts on his own
account; and he finally became the
greatest of all French railway con-
tractors
Becoming very rich, Senator Plot
all Burgundy by special kind of
qiberality-the financial helping. of
poor parents.
Actually, he is the great authority
on depopulation; president of the
senate committee relative to subsidies
which the law already permits to be
granted to communes for distribution
to families of five and more, and au-
thor and untiring pusher of bill for
the subventioning of every mother of
a newborn child.
"You ask working mothers to
suckle their babes for a full year
to give you population" he says.
What have they the right to ask
of uOu9 Zach oachi Give cash for
babies!"
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Still Mourning.

$50, Bob Smiths lost his wife. Is
he getting over his grief YETI"
mot yet, I'm afraid You know
how slow some insurance companies
are in settling up"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-07-12
An lnducement.

Rails Uli had been solicited to 90
into variety.
tits the spice of life, you know"
said the representative of vaudeville.
81 would like change of condi-
ment," admitted the bandit chief;
they have been peppering me so
much lately"
Deity lodging volley from the
Moroccan army, he told the press
agent he would see him later.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-07-12

1t is true that the United States has
some reason to dread a conflict with
Japan. 1t is also true-and probably
they realize it in Tokio-that Japan
has some reason to dread a conflict
with the United States.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-07-12
"Baby's Smile"

odUy . 0HlliCs
What Paris had Observation-Disclosures
modern maternity science had not
sufficiently insisted on Infancy in
augurated by charging and municipal
izing the private Oeuvre de la Ma
ternite of Prof. Alphonse Herrgott,
called ''Baby's Smile"
Prof. Herrgott was convinced that
the only way to combat the phenom-
email infant mortality of France was to
prevent any separation of the mother
and her unweaned child
eff I give money at the start" he
argued, chow will it be employed?
Will 1 get results? No."
Therefore he said to each mother
quitting his Maternity hospital:
Nurse your babe from your breast;
and in six weeks come back and see
me. The babe will be weighed and
examined. If it is in fine condition,
I'll give you $40 cash."
1t was the first cash for babies in
France!
And the results were magical. In
course of time Prof. Herrgott had so
many mothers proudly bringing him
their superb babies-and demanding
money at each weighing-that the
private fortune of the good man
melted. Fortunately private donations
and substitutes from the department
came to his aid. Now the municipality
has it in hand; the work extends over
all Nancy, where the infant mortality
has fallen to three and one-half per
cent.-lower than in the rich wards
of Paris, where five per cent. was con-
sidered phenomenal.
Paris Takes Up Work.
In Paris the work has been taken
up by the Abatement Maternel-"The
Mothers Nursing"-to which in the
last ten years of his life Casimir-
Perier gave much of his energies and
considerable sums of money and
which Senator Plot would possibly Sc
lect as a nucleus for his great system
in which the state is to pay cash for
the babies.
You have doubtless heard of French
depopulation; but only figures can
bring home to you the long gathering
result of concentrated French civiliza-
tion-'7ipgling stresses of economy
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and founded as early as 17S4-acts on
the principle of rendering girl-mothers
pecuniarily attractive. It's vast influ-
ence is exercised in every ward of
Paris; and it's unique gesture is to
offer money inducements to young
men to marry their victims-~in a
country like France, where the Gin
quiry into paternity" much more the
swearing of baby, is not enforceable
by law. On condition that they marry,
the Charlie Maternelle will lavish at
tentions on the couple; but, as the
young satisfactory doctor points out,
the girl being nearly always willing,
why should she and the baby lose
their chance to patronage by the back
wardness of an uninterested third
party?
The Hope of the Country.
Mother and child are the interest
ing couple; they are the hope of
France" he says; "and there are vital
reasons why the numerous and highly
organized day nurseries of the Societe
des Creches, while having their vital
raison detre after the child is well
weaned, slow weaned, you understand,
ought not to separate the baby from
it's mother even in the day time!"
The Societe des Creches has so such
establishments in Paris. Twelve of
them are financially sustained by the
municipality; but you would not know
them from the others. All are run on
the same plan. Has the poor mother
legal domicile in the ward? 1t is
the only question asked when there
is room and baby is fed and cared
for all day while mamma works, till
night, when mamma comes to take it
home with her. Apart from these,
many wards contain their own special
day nurseries; not to speak of fash
ionable ladies' recently established
Dolls houses"-very smart and
pretty for those who can gain admis-
sion; while all survivors in the strug-
gle for existence at the age of two
years slip safe into the great maternal
schools, the pride of Paris for ten
years back.
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is a tragic hole-in-the-

Paris.-There is a tragic hole-in-the-
wall in every ward of Paris.
1t is kind of low window, without
glass, in the side facade of the local
public charities establishment Look
ing at it, you perceive it ends in a
closed wooden box, movable and dis
connected with the wall inside. 1t
looks like a dumb-waiter or Gsh-ele-
vator.
1t is Acknowledgement for dishes,
but for babies! Up the dark side
street there comes wretched mother.
What shall she do with the infant in
her arms? She has reasons not to
answer questions. She shrinks from
investigation. Shall she put baby on
a doorstep?
No; everybody in Paris is aware of
the strange, sacred holes-in-the-wall of
the Assistance Publique.
She waits until there is not a soul
in the dark side street. She walks
up to the dumbwaiter. 1t is at the
height of mothers waist
She shifts baby to it. She hesitates
~ Lhool UO uoAC. Ouc pulls USll IOpc
No bell is heard; but the dumb-waiter
slides to one side-and the baby dis
appears!
Perhaps the poor mother stands and
looks moment at the hole. All she
can see is just another waiting box
space-the size of another baby 1t
is waiting for another baby. But, in
side the Assistance Publique, she
knows her infant is already warm and
fed and cared for.
There, inside, a bell is ringing
Dring! dring!
Saving Life For France.
Hey, there, a baby's come! Dust!
quicker than that" calls the greffier
from his little office. Nurses fit to
the hole in the wall-there is a life
to save for France. They lift the
sliding box's lid; and baby looks up
at its new protectors.
1t is the Oldest most primitive and
for great class of cases-the only
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chances of employment? Certainly
it was but yesterday that unencum-
bered girls had preference. Now girl
mothers, even, go before them!
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Aided to Responsibility.
Secretly. Winter jackets. The coal
supply attended to. The landlord
tranquilized about the rent-and in
doctrinated of his duty not to dis
criminate against children in his
house. Furthermore, he is informed
that the girl-mother is at once mans
victim and the states creditor. In
stead Of being cold-shouldered, she
should be aided-to marriage, when
possible-but always to hold up her
head"
How"
"Well, what is the matter with sup
plying her with a f1lled-gold wedding
ring to display on the proper finger?
And why shouldn't her landlord in
struct his janitor to speak of her as
young wife whose energetic husband
has preceded her to Algiers, there to
found home? Or, if she prefers, a
widow? We are not hidebound par
tisans of the impossible, like the
Societe de la Charlie Maternelle,"
That rich and powerful society
1rst of its kind to help young mothers
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babe, of course). Two philanthropists,
a young widow and discreet retired
spend their time visiting the homes of
our work women and girls"
How are those with babies ia
vored?" I insisted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-13
.iIMENJ SHIFTS IN STOCK MARKET Some Points of Strength and Some of Weakness 
 READING LEADS WEAKNESS Less Is Feared From the Japanese War Rumors-Bears Cite Fail
 ures of Contract
 ing Firms.
READING LEADS WEAKNESS

New York June 12-The constant change in the course of prices today seemed to represent nothing more than the shifting sentiment of the room traders, who had the days transactions to themselves. There were some individual points of strength and some weakness. and these had varying sympathetic effects on the list as a whole. The general drift, how ever, was very narrow and operations outside a half dozen stocks were very scanty. There were lengthy periods, in fact, when the market was practically stagnant Less was feared of yesterdays Japanese war rumors, owing to the de- cline of competent authorities to give 1t any countenance.
 An opposing influence was the weakness Of Reading. This was traceable to the filing of the governments petition against the combination amongst the anthracite railroads. The effect of this factor was practically restricted to Reading in the group of coalers. A supplementary in- fiuence on the stock was decline in con- fidence heretofore professed by speculative buyers that the dividend was to be in creased at the meeting next week. In some Isolated instances there was evil dencedence of liquidation, and although this was light, the effect on prices was marked, owing to the prostration of the demand.
 Rock Island preferred was said to be affected by this cause, and American Lo- comotive was another sufferer With the subsistence of the Japanese war scare, the bears were inclined to fall back on infer ential deductions from the difficulties of a great firm of building contractors an- nounced yesterday. A minor failure an- nounced this morning affecting building operations gave point to the expressed anxiety over a possible condition of over extension, which might bring similar en1- barrassments from difficulty of obtaining working capital in other fields.
 Specific rumors of such conditions ex- tended into the dry goods field and set on foot exhaustive inquiries on the sub- ject which served to discredit the rumors entirely The supposition that there might be a resumption of gold exports was not fulfilled today. Discounts were rather easier at Paris, as they were also
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-13
[ n 15 POINTS OFF IS COTTON CLOSE Weather Remains Good and Causes Liquidation DRY GOODS TROUBLES Opening Unchanged to 2 Points Ad- vance-Improvement Expected
 In Reports of the Cot
 ton Crop.
 

New York, June 12.-The cotton market was less active and ruled rather nervous, with the close steady at decline of ' to 15 points.
 Sales for the day were estimated at 250,0O0 bales.
 The opening was steady at unchanged prices to an advance of 2 points, and prices improved slightly on the active months Immediately following the call as result of covering, and a little fresh buying. based on steady cables and bullish private crop advices.
 Some thought that the rains reported in the vicksburg district were too heavy, but generally speaking the weather was considered good, and shortly after the opening prices began to work off under scattered liquidation, and little pressui from local bears, who are expecting im- provement in southern crop accounts should the weather demain good.
 Later offerings increased with Wall street selling on rumors that trouble of some sort was apprehended in dry goods circles, and while no good basis could be described for such reports they remained something of a feature the entire after noon, and in connection with the good weather sent prices off to net loss of about 10Q20 points on the more active po- sitions.
 The close was a little up from the low est on covering. It was reported during the day that cotton was to be brought back here from Liverpool, presumably for delivery on July contracts, rumors having 1t that about 6OOO bales were expected.
 Southern spot markets were unchanged to lac higher.
 Receipts at the ports today, S625 bales, against 6S62 last week and 3412 last year. For the week, 3oOoo, against 2s,S4S last week and 29,770 last year.
 Todays receipts at New Orleans, 1S51 against TAG last year, and at Houston, 4SS, against 1234 last year.
 New York Cotton Futures.
 nnen Hiph Low Close,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-13
New York Cotton Futures.
 Open. High. Low. Clos
Daily Cotton Movement.

Galveston: Firm; middling. IS 1-6; net receipts, S61: gross receipts, S6l; sales l4VOi stock, 62, 105; coastwise, 11S3
 New Orleans: Quiet; middling, 12B; net receipts, 1857: gross receipts 1857; sales, $50; stock, 90270; continent, 5Sl4; coast wise, 20O5.
 Mobile: Quiet middling, 12A; net re- ceipts, B. gross receipts, 8; sales, 30; stock. 9969; continent, 55.
 Savannah: Steady; middling, 12A; net receipts, 51S; gross receipts, 5l9; sales, 5; stock, 37,S12; coastwise, 2S6.
 Charleston: Nominal; net receipts, '; gross receipts, [; stock, 6479.
 Wilmington: Nominal; net receipts, 32; gross receipts, g; stock, 1O6S.
 Norfolk: Steady; middling, 13ss; net re- ceipts, 7O5; gross receipts. 7O5; sales, IA; stock, 22,GO9; coastwise, 435.
 Baltimore: Nominal; middling, l3as; gross receipts, 320; stock, 1885.
 New York: Steady; middling, 1915; net receipts, I'll; gross receipts, 7.T; stock, 175. .669; Great Britain, 100; continent, 1176.
 Boston: Steady; middling, 1915; net re- ceipts, 116; gross receipts, S51; Great Brit ain, 30.
 Philadelphia: Steady; middling, 13.4O; net receipts, 26; gross receipts, 2S4; stock, 1865
 Total today at all ports: Net, 3625; Great Britain, 15O; continent, 699O; stock, 423, ,09S.
 Consolidated at all ports: Net, 17333; Great Britain, 5270; France, g. continent, 8S59
 Total since September 1 at all ports: Net. 9,6S9,242; Great Britain, 1862, 1925; France, SS1 ,12S; continent, 3,294,9Sl; Japan, 235, 404.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-13
Union Springs.

Union Springs, June 12.-(Specal.) )-Mr. J. H. Johnson, an old and respected citi- zen, is critically i'll here and but little hope of his recovery is entertained.
 Miss Minnie Lee Rainer leaves today for Lafayette to attend Miss Denson,s house party. From there the same crowd will enjoy a house party in Roanoke with the Misses Nichols.
 Miss Eliza Bullock of Montgomery is the guest of the Misses Hobdy.
 Miss Willella Rainer has reached home from Rollins, where she has been attend ing school.
 Two handsome new brick stores are nearing completion on North Prairie street, and in one a drug store will be opened by MT. Lee Paulk, thus giving Union Springs five drug stores.