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ever, are a pure speculation, and too
high or too low is generally the YER
dict. But before the ammunition hoists
can jerk up more food, the distance
has decreased, and $500 yards will be
the sight. By that time the work is
warmer, for some of the smaller guns,
the six-inch and 12-pounder quick
firers, are being worked by sweating
crews. Already, too, the Via Dolorosa
to the cockpit is marked by its sig
nificant trail. Ammunition is being
flung up 20 rounds at time to be
spent as fast as guns can speak, for
to a ship in the midst of the work
everything has ceased to exist but the
enemy's hull in front of it. By this
time small casualties have overtaken
the ships. With the best of good for
tune she cannot hope to escape being
hit somewhere. The mighty, yet deli
cate mechanism of battleship is vul-
nerable at hundred points. Batteries
are working with diminished crews,
hydraulic ammunition hoists are
smashed, and consequently supply par
ties are passing up shot by hand, and
forward a stoker fire brigade is ex-
tinguishing small fires.
"The fleets are now but 500 yards
apart, but the best gunners being dead,
accuracy of fire will have diminished.
Possibly, too, the fighting line will
have been replenished by staff add
tons from stokehold or magazine, for
a modern battleship carries no re-
serve of men. Now, though the range
is hazardous, the luck of the torpedo
might be attempted by the enemy.
Rendered desperate, the losing bat.
tleship must now resort to it's last
weapon of offense, the ram. On the
first bugie, Prepare to ram, all guns
are laid on the bow and made ready to
pour broadside on the opposing ship
Every man not working the quica-
firers must protect himself from the
enemy's projectiles and take cover
Granting your opponent, however, un-
summation Infinitely difficult to
achieve. Miscalculate your distance by
score of yards, and, missing your
mark, your adversary's 40 tons of steel
itself must be showing into you. And,
further, as fact, the torpedo will
even prevent navigable ships coming
too close together. Nor is it fair to
say will many ships surrender. For,
though its vitals be torn and bare,
only absolute destruction can tut all
Its weapons out of action. Defeat
must mean not retreat, but aanihila-
ton"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-27

New York.-With the coming depar-
ture Of the Atlantic fleet to Pacific
waters-waters which may be any
thing but pacific before the "far-fung
battle line is withdrawn from these
seas-considerable interest arises in
the personality of the men who are to
command the vessels of this vast
armada.
Who are they, these sea warriors to
whose vigilance and skill will be in
trusted the management of the most
powerful fleet that was ever gathered
under one flag and which is soon to
undertake a voyage unparalleled in
its character-one that was recently
ineptly likened to Nelson's splendid
sweep from Brest to the West Indies
and back to the Notwithstanding day of
Trafalgar"
There may be no Trafalgar-like
clash of ornaments anywhere now
impending in the path of this great
fleet of warships; yet it is still inter
esting to recount the records of the
flag officers and captains, says a
writer in the New York Times.
New Yarn About Evans.
There are now three rear admirals
and 16 captains upholding in this
fleet the honor of the flag. The rank
ing officer, Rear Admiral Robley D.
Evans, is not only the senior in the
fleet; he is the senior rear admiral in
active service-the officer next in rank
to Dewey, admiral of the navy.
The record of Rear Admiral Evans
is too well known to require any ex-
ended reference in this story of the
fleet and commanders.
Many anecdotes have been told of
Evans-the man whom Kipling has
described in verse as the one who has
lived more stories than most other
men-himself and Zogbaum included
could invent.
Here is one that has been recalled
by an old notebook which the writer
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-27

an authority on international law, and
there are few in the naval service to
whom the government would sooner
intrust an important matter of diplo-
macy. But his diplomacy is suggestive
of his 13-inch guns, clean-lipped, GER
tain, and direct. He has no subter-
fuges. What he thinks he says, and
what he says all the world may know
And he has the kindness which
ever goes with strong natures. This
had expression in the brief report
which he made after the battle of
Santiago: $50 long as the enemy
showed his flag our men fought Hbe
American seamen, but after the foe
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-27
BRIEF NOTES.

neapolis-George P. Mullen, a
conductor on the Great Northern, was
fatally injured while making cou.
ping in the East Side yards, and died
at st. Mary's hospital.
Minneapolis - Minneapolis finally
knows how many saloons it has, and,
strange to say, all the saloons in
operation have paid for their licenses.
The official count by the police shows
that there are 426 saloons in actual
running order, and the same figures
are shown on the books of the city
controller.
Mankato-The persistence of the
city council has resulted in the Man.
kato fair and Blue Earth County Agri-
cultural society's getting $500. The
council granted a request from the
association for an appropriation of
this amount, but Mayor Andrews We
toed 1t on the ground that it was
illegal. It was unanimously passed
over the mayors veto, and he then
signed it.
st. Paul-Little 4-year-old Thomas
O'Grady, 563 Thomas street, was run
down by a street car near his home
and his right hand was so badly
crushed that it had to be amputated
at the wrist.
Minneapolis-Os Olson, a sewer
laborer employed by the city, was
caught by a cave-in on Girard avenue
north, and was rescued by his fellow
workmen.
Washington-Postal receipts at St.
Paul for August aggregated $77,538, a
gain of 1 per ceIt over the same
month last year.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-27
had surrendered they were as gentle
an American women"

had surrendered they were as gentle
a. American women"
Rear Admiral William H. Emory,
who commands the Fourth division,
was born in the District of Columbia,
and entered the Naval academy in
1862. He was a member of the Greedy
relief expedition. Promoted to lieu
tenant commander in 1887, he was de-
tailed as naval attache at London, and
was neAs assigned to the command
of the Pc rel. Subsequently he was
chief of sta e on the flagship Brooklyn,
then became a member of the board
of inspection and survey, and, after
his tour of duty there, was assigned
to the Monongahela.
Of the 16 captains in this fleet, per-
haps Capt. Richard Wainwright, in
command of the battleship Louisiana,
is the most widely known. Few need
to be reminded that it was this gal
liant officer who was in command of
the little gunboat Gloucester at the
time of Cervera's sortie from Santi-
ago, when the Gloucester made dash
for the two Spanish destroyers, and
the rest is history.
There is a sentimental reason why
Capt. Herbert Winslow, whose pen
nant flies from the battleship Kear-
sarge, should be in command of that
vessel. Capt Winslow is the nephew
of Capt. (afterward rear admiraD
Herbert A. Winslow, the officer who
commanded the old corvette Kear-
sarge when she engaged and sunk the
confederate cruiser Alabama off Cher
bourg in 1864. During the first part
of the war with Spain Capt. Winslow
was attached to the auxiliary cruiser
ST. Louis. He was shortly afterward
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-27
Ied. Furthermore, the sheets

concealed. Furthermore. che sheets
are drenched in alum as a protection
against fire. All spare wood has been
iettisoned, and fire and collision par
ties stand to quarters. Watertight
doors are closed and at each a man is
stationed, and collision mating is
preparea-Upper deck quarters; out
collision mating would be the order
Steam pumps are also in readiness
Each ship has been marked by dis
tinctive band of color round her fun
mel for in the smoke of battle, you
know, it is good to know your friends.
Gunnery instructions have taken
charge of the barbettes, which contain
the great Pinch guns, and the cap
tains of the smaller weapons are at
their posts.
Whether by quickfirer, shell room,
or torpedo tube, every man, through
months of training, has learned his
place. Even the band knows its sta
tion-it is to collect the wounded.
Guns are loaded and the ammunition
hoists seem to be in order; and sup
plies of drinking water are arranged
along each deck.
''The coming tower is the brains of
the ship, and the captains place of ac-
ton is there. 1t is the .cynosure of the
enemy's guns; the post OF signal honor
and acutest danger. Beneath him is
20, 900 tons, mainly steel, and before
him is the something he has either to
burn, blow up, or sink.
"Sight for 5000 yards" wings down
the tube, and the game of long bowls
Commences. p The two great forward
guns eoar out a welcome, and the
sighting lieutenant bends forward to
mark the damage. First shots, how
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-27

detached and detailed to the command
of the Fern, commanding that vessel
throughout the rest of the war.
Next in rank to Capt. Winslow, of
the Kearsarge, is Capt. Samuel P.
Comfy, of the Alabama. This officer
is also one of the old war veterans,
having served throughout the CAM
paign on board the battleship Indiana.
The Minnesota, one of the newest
of the big battleships, is commanded
by Capt John Hubbard. This officer
is we'll known to New York's naval
militia, he having been attached to
the cruiser Yankee which carried the
citizen-sailors to the Santiago cam
paign.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-27
MINNESOTA NEWS
lleloo
Interesting items Gathered in the
GOpk1es' State
Killed by Electricity.

neapolis-Joseph Blichfeldt, the
16-year-old son of John P. Blichfeldt,
2936 Portland avenue, was instantly
killed at Thirty-third street and Chi
cago avenue, by live wire. He mis-
took the wire, which hung low, for a
twig of a tree. His fingers were
burned by the current and he died
almost instantly.
Harold Birkelund, the 14-year-old
son of K. B. Birkelund, $500 Tenth
avenue south, who was walking with
the Bliehfeldt boy, tried to pull the
wire out of his hand by using the
handle Of his umbrella. It was only
because the handle was entirely Of
wood that he escaped the fate of his
mate. AS it was he received a severe
shock. Before he could give the
alarm and the current could be shut
off the Blichfeldt boy was burned ter
ribly. Physicians worked over him,
but could do nothing.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-27

kept during the war with Spain, and
when his dispatch boat was with the
fleet that was then blockading Ha-
vana.
Many of the navy men had grown
FESTIVE under the restraint which had
been imposed by an order from Wash
ington, prohibiting the ships from
firing at the Havana defenses until
first fired upon. This was in the early
days of what has since become to be
known as the Christian Endeavor
blockf de-" and to many it was little
short Of exasperating to remain in
active and to watch passively the
construction of line after line of de-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-27
Mine Valuation.

st. Paul-The state tax commission
has prepared statement Of the valu.
alton fixed on the iron mining prop
critics in the state, showing the total
to be $1S2,838,157. The valuation last
year was S70,00O,000. This covers
only the mines and does not include
the personal property, consisting Of
engines, shovels and other machinery
used in the operation of the mines.
This property will amount to about
$3,000,000, so that the total value Of
the mines, with the equipment of ma
chinery, will amount to nearly $780,
000, 900.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-27
New Charter Defeated.

Observation-Disclosures voters de-
cisively turned down the proposed
new city charter in the special elec-
ton held for the purpose Of consider
ing the new instrument drawn up by
a commission appointed several years
ago. This is the third time the char
ter has been before the people, hav-
ing been defeated twice before at
general elections.
One great disappointment to the
friends of the charter was the small
vote cast. In the business districts
SO few voted that the judges at the
polling places had practically nothing
to do all day. In the residence dis
tricts the vote was correspondingly
small, and in scarcely precinct was
the vote more than half as large as in
the last general election.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-27
Grapes.

Internationally one who is in
doubt as to being able to raise tame
grapes in Stark county, N. D., may
satisfy their skepticism by examining
H. P. Dinius's vineyard, says the
News. He has several large, healthy
looking vines, which he leaves to run
on the ground, not training them at
all, and by lifting the vines one may
see the large clusters of fue looking
fruit growing in the same manner as
melons or cucumbers. The vines are
only two years old, are bearing wei
and look strong and hearty .
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-27
Kills Himself with Dynamite.

Moose Lake-While Anton Suista, .
farmer who lives about twelve miles
west of Moose Lake, was returning
home with his family from a Polish
wedding, a boy about thirteen years
old, who was driving, it seems did
something that displeased his father,
whereupon the parent punished the
boy, made him get out Of the wagon
and told him he would get more when
he got home. The boy went to a
neighbor and borrowed some dyna-
mite, saying they wanted to blow out
some stumps. He went short dis
lance, dropped the dynamite and
threw himself on it in time to be torn
to pieces.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-27
Good Roads.

Minneapolis The state highway
commission has just made the first
payments this year out of the fund at
its disposal for the improvement of
roads in the state. The first counties
to receive their share of this money
were Hennepin and Olmsted, Henne-
pin $1,000 and Olmsted $500. This
money Is to recompense the counties
for one-third of the expense incurred
In the construction of roads desig-
mated by the counties as state roads
and built In accordance with the reg
ulations of the highway commission.
The commission has fund Of $685.
600 at its disposal to be used in aid
ing counties in building roads THIS
year.
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11

punish ment of those WHO sell to
minors. The Woman's Chris.
tian Temperance Union knows
better. We teach the minors
not to buy.
1t one wishes to know any
thing about the W. e. T. u it
may be found in a little book
entitled IA Brief History of
the W. @. II. U. A copy has
been douated to the Public
School Library.
The Kansas City (Kan.) W. c.
II. U held a sane Fourth, "A
clean Christian. patriotic cete
bration" IN the new city park.
Extracts From
DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES
The WOmaa's Christiaa Temperance
Union.
We believe in the coming of
His Kingdum whose service is
perfect freedom, because His
laws, written in our members
as well as in nature and in
grace, are perfect, converting
the soul.
We believe in the gospel of
the Golden Rule, and that each
mans habits of life should be
n example safe aud benefcent
for every other man to follow.
We believe that God created
DO th man and woman in His own
image, and, therefore. we be.
lieve in one standard of purity
for both men and women, and
in the equal rights of all to hold
opinions and to express the
same with equal freedom.
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11
The Monks of st. Bernard.
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
The beneficeut work of the
monks of the Grand st. Bernard
Hospice has not been made USE
ess by railroads and tunnels.
1t is reported that last winter
| 800 snowbouu1 ami exhausted
travellers were entertained.
Among them were English and
American tourists, some of
whom would have perished but
for the monks ana their dogs,
but more than 1000 of them
were penniless Italians tramp
ing it across the mountains in
search of work in Switzerland.
Prince and peasant fare alike
at the hospice, and there is no
question of payment; each drops
what he can afford into the Of
ferlng box at the door.
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11
Celebrated.

The Yates family celebrated
the 4th of July by having
pleasing picnic at the Paint
Banks on oalt river. Three
generations were present. They
were: W. r. Yates and family.
T. ]. Yates and family and
grandson Collins Buchanan. j.
A Yates and family. AL Yates
and family, Mrs, F. H. Hagan
and husband, Mrs. H. Fl. Green
and husband, Mrs. Lucretia
Flanagan, Mrs. Ann Morrison
and Miss Minnie Buckman.
1t was a delightfully."- pleasant
day for all of them.
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11

A school ma'am giving a rea-
son for not marrying said all
the good men were married. By
way of explanation it may be
said that all married men were
not originally so, but many OF
them have been m married long
enough to be tanned and trained.
La Belle Star.
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11

Cheyenne, Wyo.. July 3.-The
board OF sheep commissioners of
Wyoming have appealed to the
Bureau of Animal Industry to
assist the Wyoming aockmas-
ters in investigating and stamp
ing out an epidemic which is
killing thousands of sheep and
threatening the sheep industry
of the entire state, Chairman
Delfelder says that sheep are
dying by thousands 1t is be-
lieved the trouble is caused by
a small fly which enters the nos
trlls of the young lambs, later
developing into grubs and, by
burrowing into the brain cause
the death of sheep.
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11

Col. W. II Youell left Sunday
for st. Louis. He thought it
more than probable that he
would go from there to Bill.
ings, Mont, where he would as.
sist in crying" the sale of
$500 head of horses and a like
number of cattle.
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11
The Little Done The Vast UndOne.

The little done sustalneth no
MAJ 5 soul;
It knows 1t for an atom of
whole
A tiny atom scarce worth heav-
ems seeing,
Or mans acclaim or cen a mo-
cnt's being;
Ard this although i fellow or a
state
Ho'd the accomplished thing as
tru y great.
Nay, not the thing that's done,
but what's undone
Gives strength and comfort un-
derneath the sun;
The potm ms that the poets never
write,
Yet dream and drink through
many summer night;
The statues chiseled when the
imperial mind
Is by no need of handicraft con-
fined.
The vast that beckons. stoops,
but never yields
It's fuller brightness in these
earthly fields
These are the things that lift
the spirit up,
And place unto its lips the liv.
ing cup,
That give unto the soul of man
the strength
To bear with all the years in
furious length,
New sOrleans Times. Demo
crat,
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11

Did you ever notice when a
green looking country boy comes
10 town with his trousers about
a couple or three inches short
and probably wearing govern
ment socks" that the "city
chaps as they term themselves,
always find some way to make
fun of him, and make remarks
about him, asks the Cameron
News. On the other hand the
city chap will go around with
his trousers turned up about
three or four inches, wearing a
pair of hose that look like a
sieve and a hat on his head that
is pinned up in front until he
looks like bronco buster Still
there is no laugh coming from
that side of the question, from
! the fact that he lives in the
city,
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11

Mrs. Otis Norton, of st. Louis,
and Mrs. Josephine Cox of Ne
vada, are visiting their sister,
Mrs. H. B Mudd and and nu.
merous friends in this city.
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11

DR.. A E. Kidd, eye, ear. nose,
and throat specialist at St.
Mary's Hospital of Quincy aud
associate of DR.. Woods, will be
at the New Monroe Monday,
July IS, from 9 a. m. to 2 p. m
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11
Her FaVOrite

Margaret and her little play
mate, Elizabeth chanced to be
overheard as they were walking
home from school.
whats your very favoritest
color Eliza beth was asking.
Margaret looked thoughtful
for moment and then said, en-
Enthusiastically:
"Plaid!"-Ex.
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11

Thomas Fitzpatrick, Jr,, of
Hannibal, spent Thursday in
the city with his parents. T. E
Fitzpatrick and wife
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11
Red Letter Day.

July 21-Loyal Temperance
Legion Day, the birthday of
Miss Anna A. Gordon.
A lovely program has been
prepared Some Glad Day."
and many of the stirring songs
should be sung the world
around on July 81.
Forty states are now regular
ly enrolled In the Loyal Tenn
perance Legion Training
School. Each and all our
legioners join in the effort to
make 1907 the grandest record,
of accomplishment the Legion
mas ever known.
Miss Gordon wishes herself
lost sight of in our enthusiasm
for the dear cause, and she is
just right.
Just the same we would like
TO make her glad. And we
can, by observing the delight.
full program
The Kansas City (Mo. } coun-
Gil has an ordinance foroidding
the smoking Of cIgarets by any
members of the police or fire
departments.
A Minnesota nrw spa per tells
US that the only effective RENE
dy for the cigaret evil is the
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11
Quiet.

There is lull in the storm
over the late Capt. W. Hamilton
Byrd's estate.
The widow, second wife, was
Miss Ruth Ell, Ped dicord, of
Palmyra, one Of the old fami.
lies of that aristocratic burg.
r Manning Walker and A H.
Green of this city, and Obid
White of Palmyra, were ap-
pointed by the court to set aside
a living for Mrs. Byrd until the
matter was settled in the courts.
They gave her the cottage
home in this city and 100 acres
of the famous 720 acre Glover
Dale farm.
Their action disposes of the
matter, temporarily, at least.
st. Louis, July 5 Milton
Sidener. a cattle dealer of Shell
bina, Mo-, made two trips to
the Four Courts and two trips
to the Dispensary Wednesday
morning, and then started out
to find "friend" who he said
would see him through the
trouble. incidentally he said
he wanted to borrow carfare
also. Sldener's trips were due
to the effects of knockout"
drops given him Tuesday night,
short time before he was rob-
bed of his money, $40, a rail-
road ticket and his gold watch
and chain. he said he sold a
carload of sheep in East st.
Louis Tuesday aud then came
across the river to have "little
fun"
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11

Mrs. S. a. Baynum and
daughter, Mrs. Charles Bush
and Master Porter, went to
Shelbina, Saturday, to visit rel
atives.
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11

Willie and Miss Myrtle Long
mire left Sunday for the James.
town Exposition. They will
have a nice trip.
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11

The Loyal Temperance
Legion will meet next Sunday
at the Methodist Church imne-
diately following the Junior
League.
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11

Through the courtesy of the
DEMOCRAT this space is reserv.
ed for the w. G. II. U. 1t is
edited by Ella L. Shearman,
District Press Superintendent
of the W. G. T. u, who is re-
spor sible for all statements
which appear in this column.
Our Watchwords: Organize,
Educate, Agitate.
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11
OUR PRINCIPLES.

Total abstinence, Prohibition
of the liquor traffic, One stand.
ard of morals for men aud WON.
en-. The education of public
sentiment for right.
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11

Prof. John Davis of Stoutsville
was with Monroe friends Friday.
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11

]. r. Hull, M. D, spent the
latter portion of last week at.
tending to professional business
in Peoria, Ill.
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11

Mrs. Samuel Webster has been
with Quincy friends.
Monroe City Democrat., 1907-07-11
No Wonder.

No Wonder.
II once had brain storm"
"How did it hdppen?"
II was trying to explain to a
Boston girl just what is meant
by the term 'pie-faced mutt"
Grammar a Ia Mode.
Teacher-What is the future
of Il love-" Lulu? D
Chicago Child divorce
Ex.