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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24
lie Frances in curvetting Handsomely.

He Frances in curvetting Handsomely.
place where man is seen with his
wife. She is always spoken of by him
as my little stay-at-home," when he
doesn't politely refer to her as my
dull thorn" or "my stupid one"
I saw one Chinese lady, richly
dressed and thickly painted, sitting de-
murely beside her imposing looking
husband. She was smoking beauti-
full gold water pipe that my Chinese
friend assured me, cost no less than
$500 in gold, or nearly 5000 Mexican.
A strange distinction is made by
serving with special cups women who
are notorious. The attendants are
supposed to know them all, and when
they come in attended by their Chi
nese gallants, instead of receiving
their tea in thei lowered cups that
everyone else has, they are served
In cups of plain igreen china.
The play is wali under way when we
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24
A Bow on Cleruymen,

Bishop Potter, at an ecclesiastical
dinner in New York, read Coopers'
town schoolboy's essay on CLERGY.
men," The essay, which created much
amusement, was as follows:
There are kinds of clergymen
bishups, recters and curates. The bish.
ups tell the recters to work and the
curats have to do it, a curate is a thin
married man, but when he is recteI
he gets fuller and can preach longer
sermons and becums a good man.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24
The Farmers Retort.

What do you call yeour red auto
mobile, mister?" drawled the old farm
er at the drawbridge.
1.-THE Fool Killer" bantered the
man in goggles. 81 call it that because
it kills all the fools who happen to
cross in front of it.
The old farmer cleaned his pipe
with straw and then replied, evenly:
THAT so, mister? Wall, is there
any chance of it blowing up and kill
ing the fool inside?"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24
It's "swee-Yah.v Not "Wee.Yah.v

Ed Killian, the phonetic expert of
the Detroits, has discovered that
Hughey Jennings war cry was "swee-
yah!" not "wee-yah!" as supposed.
Jennings says that is correct, the yell
being shortened from that's the way,
ah." If that explanation is right it is
evident that Hughey didn't have much
occasion to use his war cry against
the Cubs last fall.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24
Jerry Freeman Looks Like Star

Jerry Freeman, Washington's new
first baseman, is at last commencing
to look slender and gazelle-like. His
'bay window" has disappeared. Jerry
spent half his time in Galveston in
Turkish baths and that helped him
greatly. Cantillon dominates him tAe
star first sacker in the league.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24
House of Commons vegetarians.

Vegetarian meals are great sue
cess in the British house of commons.
A special vegetarian table d'hote has
been provided in the members dining
rooms for some time. Perhaps not
more than dozen members adhere
strictly to the use of "no flesh, ne
fish," but many are adopting a dietary
containing reduced consumption of
moat
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24
Explicit.

"This is an age of STEEL" said the
after-dinner speaker
Permit me to suggest" interrupt
ed the chairman, courteously, "that
for the benefit of the reporters pres.
ent you spell that last word"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24
BASEBALL SPORT
ALL OVER GLOBE
MANY TEAMS ARE ORGANIZED
THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA
AND LEAGUE is LIKELY.
GAME POPULAR In FAR EAST

Japanese Greatly Interested in Ameri.
can Pastme-Thousands Wit
messed Contest Between st. Louis
and Hawaiian Clubs-Game De-
scribed by Leading Newspaper.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10
HALTED.

There is an extraordinary falling off
IN the volume of immigration. Ocean
liners that have been carrying two
and three thousand immigrants on a
single trip westward now do not carry
as many hundred. The cry of hard
times, very much exaggerated, has
gone forth in the districts Of Europe
from whence our immigrant supply is
drawn, and 1t has turned Jack hordes
of people who were preparing to emil
crate to this country or who were on
their way to the seaport.
These people are quick to take alarm
but slow to confidence, and it will be a
long time before they can be assured of
conditions here to warrant their COM
ing. The departure of a multitude of
aliens since the financial stringency be-
gan has greatly relieved the labor mar
ket, and if immigration is as light this
year as it promises to be there will not
be that congestion in labor employment
which there otherwise would be.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10
THE RIVER TUNNEL ROUTE.

1t is too soon to Judge how adequate
and satisfactory will be the service be-
tween Manhattan and Brooklyn by the
new river tunnel opened to traffic yes
erday. That on the first day the
oight-car trains running on three min
utes' Roadway, ever in the rush hours,
carried all the passengers comfortably
is not surprising, but that this new
means of transportation between the
two boroughs made no considerable
difference in the bridge crush is, and
leads one to wonder what route the
tunnel passengers took before the bore
was opened under the river.
The prospect is therefore not sure that
the tunnel is going to prove a very
great relief to the present congested
conditions of traffic, though this may
come as soon as the subway route
reaches further into the heart OF
Brooklyn and transfer arrangements
are made with the surface and elevated
lines in that borough. But the opening
Of the tunnel was a great day fol
Brooklyn and was celebrated accord
5ngly.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10
PUTTING THE ENEMY TO SLEEP.

A Massachusetts man, Carl M. Whea-
ton by name, will deserve to go down to
undying fame if an invention which he
ever materializes. The de-
vice is a bomb containing an exceed
ingly powerful anaesthetic which, when
discharged into the ranks of an enemy,
will literally, not iguratively, put them
all to sleep, and render them as help
less as though dead. The inventor says
the effect win be immediate. AS soon
as the bomb lands, all within reach
will straightway depart tovthe land of
Nod. Instead of the oar of artillery,
the scream of shrapnel and the groans
of the wounded, the battlefield of the
future, if this Bay State man can bring
it about. win resound to multitudinous
snoring.
Instead Of military trappings and
cartridge supplies. the proper uni
form will be pajamas. and the proper
equipment bed sheets and "comforters.'
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10
A CURRENCY u

With so many currency bills intro
duced in Congress and so many widely
divergent opinions as to the proper
method of reform the LANCER is that no
currency bill will be passed at all, and
that Congress will leave us in the same
condition as last year. We would all
like to s@e an ideal currency law en-
acted, but we can't all agree as to what
an ideal law is. Senator Aldrich, for
the Senate finance committee, has pre-
scented a definite and clear proposition
which is now in the llmelight of public
discussion.
During the financial panic last year
the national banks lost in currency
sl96, 600, O0o, and in addition the New
York trust companies lost $13, 200, 900.
From September l to December 1 The
national banks took out more than
$52, 900, 900 in new circulation, which also
disappeared. Altogether, the total of
1904, 900, 900 in gold. legal tenders and
national bank notes were privately
boarded by individuals. Under this tie
mendous drain of currency the credit
of the whole nation tottered, and it Is
marvellous that it was not attended by
hundreds of bank failures and wide
spread bankruptcy.
Under the Aldrich bill national banks
with approved securities, to be de-
posted as collateral, can procure from
the Comptroller of the Currency notes
to the amount of rs per cent. of their
market value, the circulation to be
issued not to exceed $3.50, 900, 900 alto
gether. This is enough to meet any pcs
sible emergency. There are conditions
named in che bill that are strict enough
to exclude many of the smaller banks
from it's benefits. Blu it is now not 6
question of favoring a bank but OF
meeting the exigencies Of a great tlnan
clal crisis. And, moreover, it is abso'
lutely necessary to have a currency bill
passed, and the least that can be sait
Of the Aldrich bill is that it is better
thar none.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10
HOW TO RELIEVE CONGESTION.

The Police Commission in its report
to the Board of Works makes some
very good suggestions regarding the
congestion of travel at the -Four
Corners" but the board is left in a
state of uncertainty as to how they
shall be carried out. For example, the
running of cars through Park place
and Centre street. We believe that
energetic efforts were made not very
long ago to get a trolley line through
those streets, and they failed. The sug-
gestion that Military Park be mutt
lated will not be considered.
Nor is it clear that the Public Service
Corporation is responsible for the a
ural flood of traffic and population
to and across the "Four Corners
Several well-meant experiments have
been made to divert car travel fror
that point, and they have failed. l.
does not appear, either, that Lafayette
street. which was opened for a thor
oughfare at a large expense to hell
relieve Market street, is doing tn
work intended. Perhaps the Police
Commission will find upon investiga
! ton that the entrance of the street r
Broad is blocked every day by tn
large trucks of a single business firm.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10
IN VEIN.


A Rustic IraVestys
I'll stake you to those Happy days
or boyhood on a farm"
For I've been up against those lays,
Appreciate their charm.
The yellow Fields Of Golden GRAIN
The "Churchyard on the HILL"
l never want to see again
And hope I never will.
The Cosy Nook" and "Babbling Brook, y"
Are always on the list
OF fction's sweet romanoes:
Yet never did exist,
The Maiden fair, with golden hair"
Who did the milkmaid stunt,
Was big and clumsy as a bear
Or just a little runt.
The 'Old Turnstile." the same old "Smiis,"
The same old ~'Silvery Moon
Where Hand in hand we whiled away
Those balmy nights in june
Are all a hoax, they're only jokes,
Entirely out of line;
Because we hustled out at five
And went to bed at,nine.
I plowed, and hoed, and digged, and sows1
From early morn till night.
My clothes were patched, and reeted, ano
matched,
[ was a perfect sight.
I was n bum, a big rum-dum,
And didn't lave a dime;
So took my junk, and packed my trunk,
Twas "Twenty-thrce' for minei
Bohemian.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10
BIG CONSTRUCTION WORK AT OVER
BROOK.

1t is time tina the public attention
should be given more closely to the
enterprise of the county authorities In
the construction of new insane hos
pital buildings at Overlook. The
development of the enterprise already
promises an expenditure of $S,0O0,O 900
for buildings that will not accommo-
late more patients than are now
housed by the county. The work was
ordered and begun by a former Board
of Freeholders and is continued by the
present board on the same general
lines. There has been the usual ma
neuvering in regard to contracts, and
one large contract given was rescinded
and again restored by threat of prose-
cution. Why the change was made no.
body can clearly explain, as no econ
omy was involved. A method of days
work introduced in two departments
of the construction has also beer aban-
doned under fire.
Having begun the construction OF
this extensive plant, the county VIII
have to complete it, and a large
amount of additional bonds must be
issued to pay the greatly increased
cost. 1t will be remembered that after
the State Reformatory Commission had
started in to build the reformatory 1t
WAS discovered that to complete the
structure on the commission plans
would nearly bankrupt the State treas
ury, and q halt was called AFTER the
commission had put up a ~pretentlous
dome to rival the Invalides in Paris. If
there is no large dome at ov~erprook'
there are other features to match IT,
and they will be even more expensive.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10

Elihu vedder, the noted painter, lives
in Rome, where he has a beautiful apart
ment, and in Capri, where his white villa
looks down on the sea.
"Elihu Vedder,'' said a New York illus
traitor the other day, lis as Bohemian as
ever. Fame has not spoiled him. l Wis
tied him last year., and his Bohemian ways
were delightful.
"Yo know they tell a story Of a visit
that he once paid to Alma Tadema in
London, to Alma Tadema in that glitter
ing house, which Mrs!A. It's money made
in grateful, comforting cocoa, bought.
1.-The morning after his arrival, very
early, before even the servants were up,
Vedder began a thunderous knocking on his
hosts sandalwood door. :
"Alma Tadema turned in his gold bed,
threw back the lace c~overlet, sat up.
"'Who's there? What is it?' he cried,
in a startled voice.
az say, Tadema,' shouted Vedder,
where do you keep the scissors that you
trim your cuffs with? New Orleans
States.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10
JERSEYS RAILROAD" COMMISSION.

From the facts gathered by the State
Railroad Commission and embodied in
a report to the Governor covering a
period from July 20 to December l.,
NOT many of the los persons killed on
railroads in New Jersey out of a total
number of 306 casualties owed their
deaths to negligence on the part of he
companies. Only eve of the killed
were passengers, while forty-two were
railroad employees. Grade crossings
were responsible for eight deaths.
Details of these casualties, a repro
duction of national statistics, and a
report that the railroads have generally
complied with the law in regard to
reporting accidents appear to all
the work accomplished by the commits
sion except the discovery that wages
for watch tower men are too low to
insure the services of competent men.
The paucity of this achievement must
not be laid to the commission, but to
the limitations put on its powers by the
statute creating it. Perhaps a perusal
of the report may help to convince the
Legislators hat the State wants a COM
mission with authority to do something
not one limited to merely the power to
talk about and advise what ought to
he done.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10

OXFORD, Pa, Jan. 1O.-'Go to the
grounding, thou sluggard, consider his
ways and be WISE" is the paraphrase
of the old proterb which Thomas Coch-
ran, of Elk Township. Chester County,
claims led him to discover the secret
Of long life.
Cochran has just passed his 1o5th
birthday, and is an active a with all
his senses acute and his mind and
memory unimpaired.
He attributes both his long life ana
good health to the fact that during the
winter season he remains in bed, never
coming downstairs. He adopted TINS
mode Of life some years g upon learn
ing of the extreme age to which some
groundhogs live.s
Cochran argues that this could only
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10
OPPORTUNITY FOR THE GUARDsMAN

A wise and sagacious step has been
taken by the War Department at the
instance of the President in providing
for appointments to the rank of second
lieutenant of the regular army from the
National Guard of n representative
from each State and territory who
be duly qualified. This opens to
Young men in the National Guard OPP
portunities to secure commissions in
the regular ARMY, and it's effect should
be to encourage the enlistment Of The
best class of young men in the Ma
tional Guard.
Another result will be effected. A
closer relationship will be established
between the National Guard and the
regular army by the graduation OF
young men from one into the other,
The idea is carried out that the Ma
tional Guard is a school for the soldier
rather than a mere military police
force, and that its principal character
is that of a nursery for the immediate
achievements that the regular Amy
will need in any great emergency
Every ambitious young mar who be-
longs to the National Guard can now
feel that he carries a marshars pator
in his knapsack.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10

much lower than the local estimates
where the property is located.
To be sure, the local assessors In Jer-
sey City didn't display the zeal in rails
ing valuations on private property h a
they did in lacking them up on railroad
property, though in the latter case their
valuations were very moderate. The
second-class railroad property in Jer-
sey City is worth a great deal more
than her local assessors fixed as Its
value, but the city authorities have
too much ground for the belief that
the State board will come far behind
the city assessors when they come to fix
its valuation in the future.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10
JERSEY crrY,s REVENUE Loss.

Jersey City expects to be hard hit by
the effect of the decision Of the Court
Of Errors and Appeals against the right
OF municipalities to make the assess
ments on second-class railroad prop
erty. Mayor Wittpenn estimates that
the city will lose about 100000 IN rail-
road taxes by a return to the assess
ment of this property by the State
Board Of Assessors. 1t is a conspicuous
habit Of that board to display a rather
poor opinion of the value Of railroad
property. it's assessments being very
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10

TO LIVE A CENTURY INITIATE
GROUNDING, HE SAYS AT los

be the result of their habit of sleeping
all winter, and concluded it would
work equally well for human beings.
He, therefore, commenced the practise,
and found 1t so successful that he has
never been out of the house during the
winter season since.
With the first cold snap, he goes to
bed and stays there until the second
day of February, which is grounding
day. Even then Cochran does not
venture out himself, but watches the
tpeople going to Candlemas service. and
if he sees their shadow goes back to
bed again; otherwise he remains up
and resumes his usual duties.
He contends that h~ibernation is the
secret of the long lives of ancient bibli-
cal characters, and sees no reason why
the people of today should not live to
be as old as those Of ancient times
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10
Good Reason.

Captain Pritchard, of the Mauritania,
was talking about sailors. I'VE are a
bluff lot he said. Ibid you ever hear
about the sailor and the parrot? Well, an
old lady was returning from abroad with
A parrot, Of which she was very fond.
she i~ntrusted the bird, with many ad-
monitions, to a sailor for the voyage.
~Seasickness, or something, killed the par
rot the third day out. The sailor, know
ing how upset the old lady would be.
could not bring himself to tell her the
sad tidings, but asked a companion, fam
Gus for his skill in such matters, to
break the bad news to her very, very
gently. The man assented. Approaching
the old lady with a tragical face the
famous newsbreaker touched his cap and
said. I'm afraid that ere bird % yourn
amt goin' to 1--we long, ma'am.' oh,
dear!' exclaimed the old lady in alarm.
'Why?' ''Cause he's dead, was the reply.
Chicago News.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10

PAULSBORO, Jan. 10.-Gypsies are
infesting South Jersey towns in unusual
numbers this winter, and in many IN
stances are decidedly unwelcome visit
ors. Action has been taken by the resi-
dents of Millville to clear out the gypsy
bands that had settled near that town,
especially those encamped for the win
ter at the Ford farm. Then came a
protest from Clayton residents, where
suburban h%en-roosts have suffered, and
in other sections legal action has beer
taken to Gust the invaders.
A contrast to the widespread pro-
tests is found here, where in one in
stance, at least, certain members of a
gypsy band have been turned to good
account. A church fair was being held
in which the ladies' aid society of the
Paulsboro church planned realistic at
fractions.
While a Dutchman serving sauer
kraut and an Uncle Sam" attending a
postoffice proved profitable as money
~raisers for the church fund-though Iot
particularly new-the greatest attrac-
ton centred around the booth in which
a real gypsy was employed in telling
fortunes.
This was q novelty, indeed, and the
timid young girls of the church, and
the bashful young men, who had a de-
sire to sneak away to one of h camps
to peer into the future through the
medium of a gypsy s~oothsayer, could
here visit the fortune-tellerl openly,
with the knowledge that the good
cause for which the money was ex-
pended would overcome all scruples.
1t is needless to say that the gypsy
booth proved more profitable h a all
the other sources of income from the
fair. The fortune-tellers were salts
fed with a small sum for their even
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10
CHURCHES UTILIZE GYPSIES
TO SWELL THE TREASURY

ing's work, and there Is promise Oh
other churches holding special 1alrs
during the gypsy invasion.
One of the sections where the gypsles
are taken as a matter of course each
year Is known as the Bridgeton Lily
Pond. lust on the outskirts oil BRIDGE
tom on the pike leading from Bridge
ton to Deerfleld, there is a peautllul
little pond of clear water that is the
special delight of the rowing pahos
and their horses during the summer
and it makes an ideal winter encamp
ment, from the fact that there Is a
dense growth of low cedars n taller
trees at n side OF the
pond. y
This growth shuts off the north Wind'
and when the tents and wagon-homes
are settled on the sunny exposure Win
this protecting evergreen background
the encampment finds comparative
comfort even during the most severe
weather.
This spot has been known as the
''gypsy camp" for years past, n IL is
taken for granted that the bands VIII
return each summer, but there mas
never been such a large winter camp as
the one now settled at the Lily Pond.
The Gypsy Harrison" n the gypsy
Dave encampments are both popular
here, and they keep out all other oanos.
1t is said that Harrison and ms mother
are the richest gypsies in South Jersey,
and, although the Bridgeton Lily Fona
is their favorite eneampment, Harrl-
sons mother carries an account IN one
of the banks at Plainfield, ana her
credit is recognized as A No. through
out South Jersey.
Harrison, who is the leader OF TINS
| band, married the daughter of GYPSY
Dave and thus combined two rival
bands.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10

Instead of dying for their country men
will fall asleep for their country, and
the victims of insomnia will be the
foremost in the fray. War will no
longer be what General Sherman called
1t. 1t will be stripped Of its terrors
and it's glory, for who would worship
at the shrine If the military man whose
only danger was that of taking an in
voluntary snooze? Truly, the possibili-
ties of the invention are limitless!
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10
A KipIlng Poem.

To the Editor of the Evening Star;
In what poem of Kipling's is it that the
line occurs Mother O. mine, o mother
o. mine?" G. N. l..
1.-THE line appears in the dedication of
his ''The Light That Failed" The verses
are as follows:
IF 1 were hanged on the highest hill,
Mother O. mine. o mother o mine'
1 know whose love would follow me still,
Mother o. mine, o mother o mine!
IF l were drowned in the deepest sea,
Mother o. mine, o mother o. mine!
l know whose tears would come down
TO me,
Mother o. mine, o mother o. mine!
'If l were damned Of body and soul,
Mother o. mine, o mother O. mine.
L know whose prayers would make me
whole,
Mother o. mine, o mother o. minel''
Ed