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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-06-21

j. N. Grow came home Tuesday
evening from Lead, where he at
tended the gathering of the Masonic
bodies. Mr.. Crow made the address
to the Knights Templars, inviting
them to come to Mitchell next year
for the grand commandery session
and the Sir knights accepted the in
vitation. All the other Masonic
bodies, the blue lodge and Royal Arch
Chapter and the Eastern Star ladies,
were extended similar invitations and
they all accepted. Mitchell has not
entertained the Masonic bodies in a
number of years and she will be
pleased to have them here nert year.
Tuesday evening Mr.. and Mrs. T.
G. Burns entertained the members
of the former 500 club at their home
on Sixth Avenue east. Six tables were
in play and the pleasures of the
evening were many aside from the
card playing. Light refreshments
were served and at the close the win
ners were announced as Mrs. Will
liam M. Smith taking the lady's
prize and S. G. Boyce securing the
gentleman's head prize. Mary Louise
Burns Entertained the company with
splendid %flusical selections on the
piano. Mr.. and Mrs. Burns enter
tanned their guests in a most delight
! full marne~ "-N 80 caaog -, :
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15
WHEN MONEY WAS SCARCE
/, Practically UnobtainabIe During Period
of Missouri's History.

However scarce money may be at
times at the present" said an old Mis-.
sourian, "the oldest inhabitants will
recall when it was almost unobtain-
able and other commodities had to be
used as media of exchange. The
VOLTS scalp was worth dollar be-
cause it was state bounty upon the
death Of a wolf, and venison hams
and deer skins also had purchasing
value. Skins of the fur bearers were
likewise abundant and valuable. When
the first sheriff of Audrain county, in
1887, went to Jefferson City to deliver
the county revenue, he met an old
friend on the way who, needing
money, wanted to borrow the actual
coin part of the county's revenue. The
good-hearted sheriff lent it to him and
went on to the capital and delivered
only the scalps. BY the time of the
next settlement the loan was repaid
and the sheriff made his next settle.
ment complete. No note or other OBJ.
legation than the mere word was
given."-Columbia Herald.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15

Shanghai, China-What sort of
man is the missionary, when seen on
his native heath? China is the best
place to make answer to that question,
for here are to be found the greatest
variety of missionaries, from the
China inland lay worker, with zeal as
his chief equipment, to the eminent
author and scholar and cousellor of
statesmen, such as DR.. Arthur H.
Smith, of the American board, DIR. W..
A. P. Martin, of the Presbyterian
board, or DR.. Timothy Richards, of the
English Baptist society. Between
these extremes range all sorts and
conditions of men.
The American conception of mis-
sionary is a man with book going
out among the natives preaching
preaching, preaching, always and
everywhere preaching, 'as dying
man to dying men," In experience
one finds very few of these flaming
gospel firebrands. 1t is rather uneX-
pected and disappointing to discover
missionaries plodding along a routine
way, pretty much as does a clergyman
at home.
The Missionary's Big House.
OF necessity, since he early learns
that he must look upon himself as an
expensive piece of board property,
the missionary must take thought for
a comfortable home and physical sus-
tenance. Thus arises that much moot
ed question, the missionary's resi-
dence. Times without number it has
been charged that the missionary
dwells in a palatial house, and sub
sists on the fat of the land, with an
army of servants to minister to his
wants.
There is some ground for this criti-
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cism. But first let me say that, in
common with most others who have
investigated the subject, DO not be-
lieve in an Europeans trying to live
as natives live. The China Inland
Mission early adopted that method,
and it has been obliged to maintain
hospital and sanitorium, and to in
valid-home large percentage of it's
workers AS a consequence, the prac-
tice nf conforming to the native life
is less general even in this organiZa-
ton than formerly. A white man can
not live as a yellow man, and keep
his health; serious and costly mis-
takes have been made by missionaries
attempting to do so. AS to the wear
ing of native dress, little need be
said; most missionaries in the in
terror do so, in order to appear incon-
spicuous, and because Chinese clothes
are comfortable, cheap and easily OBJ
tanned. There are disadvantages in
living a hundred miles from button.
Nevertheless, in many cases-by no
means in all-the error is made on
the side of failure to conform as close
ly as possible to native style. My own
Judgment has affirmed the criticism
made to me in numerous specific
cases, that the dwellings of the mis-
sionaries are entirely too sumptuous
for persons of their vocation. Rightly
or wrongly, the church and the world
associate the idea of sacrifice with the
missionary's calling; the natives, too,
quickly come to see the apparent dis
crepancy between the preaching of
self-denial and the practice of material
luxury; some of the most serious
structures upon the missionary's style
of living nave come to me from native
preachers. Often, am convinced, the
fault lies directly with the boards at
iome; some missionaries have lament
Cd. ~ hearing. the Ella borateness
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15
eARYs ECZEMA GREW WORSE.
Hospitals and Doctors Could Not Re.
lieve Him-But Cuticura Remedies
a Speedy, Permanent Cure.

Eczema appeared when our baby
was three months old. We applied to
several doctors and hospitals, each of
which gave us something different
every time. but nothing brought relief.
At last, one of our friends recommend
ed to us Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment. A few days afterwards i'm
provement could be noted. Since then
we have used nothing but Cuticura
Soap and Cuticura Ointment, and now
the baby is six months old and is quite
cured. All that we used was one cake
of Cuticura Soap and two boxes Cuti-
cura Ointment, costing in all SLIPS. G.
F. Kara, 343 East 65th Street, New
York, March 80, 1906"
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and chivalry and devotion and sacri-
flee and courage. In word, he is in.
vested with halo all his own.
Occasionally l have met a mission
airy, usually young and second-rate,
who takes himself quite as seriously
as his friends at home take him. and
who, we'll aware that he is one of the
about wearing his halo with all the
self-consciousness of a girl with a new
Easter hat. Most missionaries, on
the other hand, feel foolish because of
the false attitude in which they are
thus placed by their idealizing adj
mirers at home. Some of them have
used quite unmissionary forcibleness
of speech on this point. They say
that they are neither extraordinary
saints nor heroes, and that they are
not living lives of physical hardship
and sacrifice; those who really have
hardships say nothing about them.
That in reality they do not correspond
to the image of themselves ever being
held up in sermons, speeches and
articles, no one knows quite so well
as themselves. If permitted to speak
frankly, they would say, as many have
said to me, that they have fewer pa
terial discomforts than the average
home missionary or country pastor;
that they are ordinary men and wom-
en-, with all the limitations of human
nature, who are trying to do one sort
of Christian work, which, whatever it's
glamour when seen ten thousand
miles away, is in actuality beset by
all the difficulties and discourage
ments of religious endeav9r at home,
besides certain other hindrances due
to the non-Christian training and be-
liefs of the natives. They would plead
for a little less romance and e little
more reality lin dealing with the for
eign mission propaganda; for neither
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15
A WALKING Map,

"The maps we have been giving as
premiums to subscriptions caused a
little temporary excitement in our Of
fee the other day." says the editor of
the Adams Enterprise. ben Spudge
called and casually remarked in the
presence of seven intending sub
scribers that the said maps weren't
worth the paper they were printed on.
AS this observation caused the seven
intending ones to keep their cash in
their pockets we proceeded to make a
map of Ben's countenance, and we
succeeded so well that he is now the
best walking advertisement our map
industry ever had. Call again, Ben,
old boy!"-Atlanta Constitution.
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Martins Revenge.

A correspondent tells the story Of
two house martins nests built against
an attic window of farm, to which
the birds came for several successive
years. Last spring, however, before
they arrived, sparrow took up her
abode in one of the nests.
Shortly after the martins returned
as usual, and one day the farm people
noticed that the hole of the nest
which the sparrow occupied had been
blocked up. Next morning a boy
climbed up to ascertain the meaning
of this, and not finding any outlet
broke away part of the nest, to find
the poor little sparrow dead on her
eggs.
The house martins had walled her
up for daring to take possession of
their house.-Country Life.
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and impressiveness of their residences.
They deplore the contrast between
their houses and those of the wealth
lest natives. The missionary, they
reason, should be the last person con-
spicuous for evidences of worldly po-
sition. The theory that it is neces-
sary to impress" the heather is ut
terly fallacious; the disciple cannot
improve upon the spirit of his Mas.
ter, the lowly Nazarene
Inside the missionary's home one
usually finds manifest evidence of
painstaking economy 1t is as diff
cult for the missionary, living, as he
must, on imported foodstuffs and
wearing, for part of the time, at least,
imported clothes, to ''get along as it
is for his brother clergyman at home.
No little scrimping and saving is
necessary to make ends meet" the
missionary's salary is on the average
about a thousand dollars a year, and
even in China or Japan, one cannot
1--we like a prince on this sum.
AS 10 missionary HaloeS.
Now l come to a delicate question,
which long investigation of the sub
ject causes to appear more serious
than might at first be supposed,
namely, the question of the mission
ary's halo. The great bulk of church
people who give thought to the mat
ter at all have become accustomed to
think of every missionary as saint
and hero. He is praised and prayed
for as Christianity's knight Grant,
without fear and without reproach. ;"
Our noble missionaries is one of the
stock phrases of religion. The man
or woman who engages in foreign
missionary work is commonly regard
ed as a person of peculiar scantity
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15
HERE'S A NEW DEFINITION.
And Many There Are Will Say Senator
Plat Was Right.

A rather cynical joke has been re-
emily credited to Senator Plat.
The senator, on his last visit to the
Manhattan Beach hotel, allowed a
pretty little girl, a western million
aires daughter, to be presented to
aim.
The little girl, in the course of one
Of her many chats with the aged
statesman, said:
Tell me, won't you, senator, what
political economy is?"
Political ecoEomy, my dear child"
Senator Plat is said to have replied,
is the art of never buying more
Fotes than you actually need"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15
Rural Delivery Increase.

It is now only fourteen years since
an appropriation of $4,000 was made
for experiments with the project of
rural free delivery. AS recently as ten
years ago the appropriation for this
new service amounted to only $4,000;
last year it was more than $4,000, 900,
while this year rural free delivery will
cost $S7,000,000.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15
Miniature Work-Box.

the single strip of ribbon forming the
bottom and ends, and extending out
further into two flaps. To one Of
these are tackled two or three flannel
leaves for pins and needles. The
other is for tying over the top with
narrow ribbon, and serves as cover.
Rose Pin Cushion.
For the rose pin cushion, buy, or
make, a small foundation-the one in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15
An Estimate and a Hope.

you've heard her, you say?" re-
marked Mr.. Dudley. "Ah! She GER
tainly has the gift of song"
'Well, l hope that's what it u.s." re-
piled Miss Knox. 81 should hate to
think she paid anything for it."
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WITH PALM LEAF FANS.
Make Pretty Decoration for Sewing
room or Bedroom.

A very inexpensive thing to do il
one has a large number of friends
whom she wishes to remember, and
does not mind giving them the same
things, would be to buy one or two
dozen calendars-just the little r.
sheet ones-and the same number of
small thermometers, which may be
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15

the illustration is
two inches wide
by three high
and use two-inch
pink satin ribbon
for the covering.
The petals of the
two little roses
at the top are
formed loops,
knOtted once. of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15

had for five cents each. Tack calen-
dar to the lower Ieft-hand side of
palm leaf fan; to the upper right-hand
side fasten a thermometer, and tie
good bow of corn-colored ribbon to
the handle, up against the fan. This
makes pretty and really useful
adornment for bedroom or sewing
room.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15

OF course this world may be grow
ing better, but lot of new jails are
erected every year.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15

slightly narrower double-faced satin
ribbon. Yellow artificial centers are
used, and either bit of green foliage
or bow of pink ribbon completes the
gift. An additional touch is given by
placing few fancy-headed pins on
the cushion.
Bodkin Holder.
For the fancy bodkin holder, cover
a small cotton roll with ribbons and
then with alternating rows of narrow
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15
Hides, .PeIts and Wool.

To get full value, ship to the old reliable
N. w. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis, Mimi
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15

If a man who owns an automobile
is a bachelor, it's his own fault.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15
Cash for Cream and Poultry.

Top prices, quick returns, square deal.
Ship to us to-day. Write for tags & prices.
r. E. COBB, st. Paul, Mimi.
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Time Needed.

Going to lunch now? Why, it's
only II o'clock"
'Well?"
well, surely you're not hungry 80
early as all this"
mo; but l will be by the time
the waiter condescends to serve me-"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15
TO MAKE FOR XMAS
LITTLE GIFTS THAT MAY BE
MADE At SMALL EXPENSE.
A Miniature Work Box, Rose Pin
Cushion and Other Things That
Will Prove Acceptable
to Many.

Most of us have begun to think in
earnest about our Christmas giving,
and every woman who enjoys fashion
ing her own gifts is on the lookout for
attractive little things that come with
in the limits of her purse and her
needlework ability.
The designs here pictured and de-
scribed are all easily made, and have
the further recommendations of
daintiness, Responsiveness and util-
ity.
Travelling Work-Box.
The miniature work-box is SPLEEN
did continuance to put in ones travel
ing bag. But four inches long, there
Is, nevertheless, room for tiny pair
of scissors, thimble, an emery,
needles, pins, roll of linen tape, card
Of darning cotton, two small wood
shuttles of thread, hooks and eyes
and few buttons. For the case pref
ty ribbon should be selected, a trifle
less than two inches wide. Cardboard,
ribbon-covered, does duty for the two
sides, which are neatly overcast to
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Sits, or eyelets,
through W b i C b
narrow ri b b o n
may be run to
hold the spools
in place. Cover
the shapes with
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silk or linen, buttonholing the Sits. a
spool of black silk, and one each of
black and white cotton make a good
combination.
M. H.
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Bodkin Holder.
Fancy Rodkin Holder.

est insertion and beading. Tie a bow
of ribbon at each end, and put a bod
kin through each strip of beading.
A Thread-HoIder.
For the thread-holder cut two
hearts of pasteboard, making tiny
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-14
DANGER OF FLOOD.
as to Conditions Of
Potomac River.

There was considerable apprehension In
this city today as to the flood conditions Of
the Potomac river, and Prof. Edward B.
Garriott of the weather bureau was called
up many times on the telephone for in
formation as to the outlook. Speaking to
a Star reporter this afternoon, the professor
said he does not apprehend any serious re-
suits hereabouts from flood conditions The
noon report from Harper's Ferry reported
the Potomac river there at fourteen feet
and still slowly rising.
THE river would have to rise ten feet
higher" Prof. Garriott said. before It
would damage us any,"
The outlook is that this city will get
it's highest river reading at high tide be-
tween and o'clock tomorrow morning,
when it may reach six or seven feet and
will then recede. 1t was explained that it
would be necessary for the river to rise
nine feet to get to the level of the lowest
wharf on the river front.
Alarming reports were received today
from points. on the Ohio river, where the
waters are said to be rising rapidly. At
Pittsburg the river Is thirty-three feet, the
highest II has been for many years, the
record reading there being thirty-five feet.
Reports from along the Ohio state that the
river Is above the danger line or flood
stage, as a result of very heavy rains Of
the past two days on the Ohio water shed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-14
FLOOD AT CUMBERLAND
RIVER RISING AND RAILROADS
INTERRUPTED.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md, March 14.-The
flood now raging has paralyzed traffic on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad west OF
Grafton. Express trains No. II, due shortly
after 10 o'clock last night; No. 4. at
o'clock this morning, and No. 2, at about 6
o'clock this morning, have been abandoned.
The worst flood was early this morning be-
tween Cedar Cliff and Seymour, where
tracks were inundated. The water has sub
sided somewhat, but the road is troubled
with persistent landslides. AS fast as the
big slide near Luke is cleared and train
gotten through more earth and rock come
down.
The JCasselman river between lockwood
and Sand Patch. on the PittsbuFg vision
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, has
caused great damage. Farmers residing ON
low grounds are hemmed in second stories,
with their families, without boats or aid.
Houses stand in vast expanses of water.
with first stories hidden, and many families
are in jeopardy. Baltimore and Ohio ex-
press No. 10, due from Pittsburg at about
23O this morning, has not reached Cumber-
ldnu yet II Is DIT biuWell, WIFI ldnQSlOcS
on both sides. The Pttsburg division is in
bad shape, flood and landsldes being re-
ported at many points between Cumberland
and Connellsville and the latter. point and
Pittsburg.
Water entered the low section of Berlin.
The Baltimore and Ohio officials have ad-
vices that the water has fallen four feet at
Piedmont and that the North branch is at
standstill.
Ar Cumberland the potomac hac boan 70
ceding since 4 o'clock this morning, while
Wills creek, always a disturbing element,
is at a standstill. Patterson's creek, one of
the main tributaries of the Potomac below
here, is falling slightly, while Magnolia
branch is out of its banks. But the rise at
Magnolia is slow. The Potomac has backed
Sleepy creek out along the Baltimore and
Ohio tracks. The water will get over the
track late this afternoon at the present
rate of rising. The low section of Ridgely,
opposite Cumberland, is flooded. The water
entered number of houses on Paca, Beall
and Johnson streets, Cumberland, and Back
street, Piedmont, was inundated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-14
WALL STREET SLUMP
Prices Swept to Lower Level
With General List.
UNEASINES IS GROWING
637 600 Shares Dumped on Market
During First Hour.
VERY MANY SELLING ORDERS
Individual Stocks Unloaded at Rapid
Declines-U. s. Steel Liquidated
In Enormous Volume.

Panicky conditions swept all over the
New York stock exchange this afternoon,
led by a drop of 17k points in Reading.
Prices ran off without check and the de-
mand had apparently become exhausted.
When Reading fell to 961z panic swept over
the exchange and the whole list slumped
without any manifest point of resistance.
Union Pacific was weakest, next to Read
ing, and ran off IA points before meeting
any check.
11A; National Lead, liz; ST. Paul, Anal
gamated Copper and Smelling, 81 to 2;
Brooklyn Transit, SIS; Atchison, ~; North
ern Pacific, 7; Great Northern preferred,
81: United States Steel preferred, 4, and
like violent declines throughout the list.
There was quick recovery from the low
est figures in some shares, Atchison rising
to S61s and Reading to 80. The market con-
tinued feverish and erratic, however,
United States Steel preferred falling to
was largely dealt in at from 1872 to 133
Northern Pacific rallied points to 125.
At o'clock the rally from the lowest was
still under way, with Baltimore and Ohio
up 3lk Reading 81 and Union Pacific 2h
from the lowest At 2 o'clock Reading sold
at par.
After the rally had held about half an
hour there was a renewal of heavy selling
which carried the market to the low points
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-14

Flood conditions throughout Musklngum
county are unprecedented this morning and
are growing worse every hour. Both the
Muskingum and Licking rivers are out of
bounds in this city, and more than a hun
dred homes have been invaded by the high
water.
1t is believed that three hundred families
will be homeless here by tomorrow, as the
crest of the flood will not be reached before
that time. With the exception of the Gin
cinnat and Muskingum Valley railroad
connection with the Pennsylvania at Trim
way, sixteen miles north, every railroad en-
tering the city is tied up.
The high waters have crossed West Main
street to a depth of four feet. and interur-
ban traffic from Columbus and Newark has
been abandoned. The southeastern Ohio in
terurban has suffered thousands Of dollars
loss from washouts between here and
Crooksville, and it will be month before
traffic will be resumed.
Fifty Families Flooded Out.
LIMA. O., March 14.-The heavy down.
pour of rain in this section has raised the
Ottawa river beyond it's bounds, the small
waterway being unable to drain the dis
trict on the crest of Ohio's watershed.
Fifty families were forced to move out Of
their homes here last night
Oil operators have sustained heavy losses
throughout northwestern Ohio. Pipe lines
have been unearthed and power plants rem
dered useless by the high waters. wheat
is washed out in many sections of this
county and adjoining counties.
Three Deaths Reported.
CLARIFIED, Pa, March IA warm,
heavy rain, causing a rapid thaw of snow
and ice on the mountains, has swollen the
west branch of the Susquehanna river
above it's banks in many places in this
county and at other up-river points. 1t is
reported that a man, woman and child
were drowned at Mahaffey by the sudden
rise of the water.
There is an eleven-foot flood here and re-
ports from other points show the water to
be higher than at any time since 1881. A
horse and buggy, which foated down the
river were taken out of the water here.
There is no clue to the owner of the team