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Disposinu of the Baby.

Little Freddy was the only child in
the family. He had no little sisters or
brothers to play with him, so when
he was told that a baby sister had
come, he was very happy. But he soon
found that father and mother did not
pay so much attention to him as they
formerly had, and that baby seemed
to be considered Of more account
than he. This worried Freddy; but he
suddenly thought of something which
would help him out Of his trouble.
Some weeks before his father had put
a sign up: Ashes to Give Away; In
quire Within" Freddy remembered
that a man had come and taken the
ashes away. So he got to work, and
one day surprised his father by dis
playing another sign. hung in promi-
nent place: "A Baby to give away.
inquire OF Freddy"
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DR.. TALKS OF FOOD
Pres. of Board of Health.

''What shall eat?" is the daily in.
Qniry the physician is met with. do
not hesitate to say that in my judg.
ment a large percentage of disease is
caused by poorly selected and improp-
erly prepared food My personal expe-
rience with the fully-cooked food,
known as Grape-Nuts, enables me to
speak freely of its merits.
From overwork, suffered several
years with malnutrition, palpitation of
the heart and loss of sleep. Last sum-
mer I was led to experiment person
ally with the new food, which 1 used
in conjunction with good rich cows
milk. In short time after / COM.
menced its use, the disagreeable symp-'
toms disappeared, my hearts action
became steady and normal, the func-
lions of the stomach were properly
carried out and again slept as sound
ly and as we'll as in my youth.
II look upon Grape-Nuts as per-
feet food, and no one can gainsay but
that it has a most prominent place in
a rational, scientific system of feed
ing. Any one who uses this food will
soon be convinced Of the soundness of
the principle upon which it is manu-
featured and may thereby know the
facts as to its true worth" Read THE
Road to Wellville," in pkgs. There's
a Reason"
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
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NO NCRE
where the babies and copperheads
lies. The babies might a-growed up
to be heroes, if they'd had chanst
but they didn't, and they's three hun
dred and sixty-four and quarter 9th
er days in the year to decorate their
graves in. It's almost insult to
to-
"Well. this day don't mean nothin'
no more. 1t used to be set apart that
we might honor the nations dead
but the day, like me and some of the
others here, has outlived our useful
ness and our time. Let it be Decora
ton day, If you want to, but don't
call it Memorial day any more. It's
just holiday for the young folks to
have ball games and picnics, and the
older folks to put flowers on the
graves of their dead.
"Jest look through them trees Can
you tell which is the graves of soldiers
who fought, bled, and died for this
beautiful country? If this day was
what it was named fur, there wouldn't
be a flower in this hull graveyard ex.
ceptin' on a soldiers grave. l reckon
it's little enough we do, even when we
set aside whole day out of a year
to them as give their hull lives, and
mighty promisin' lives some of 'em
was, too.
"Take your flowers. Put 'em on
any grave you happen to see. 1t don't
matter. This is jest Decoration day,
There amt no Memorial day no
more."-Los Angeles Times.
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suggestions were made as to amend
ments, perhaps slight, and my under
standing is that these amendments
were subsequently adopted. All the
cabinet knew for three or four months
before congress convened that this
'bombshell had been prepared. Never
theless, it was kept absolutely secret.
Nobody knew anything about it. AS
Mr. Cleveland himself said, he did not
believe in doing public business on the
sidewalk The message that Mr.. Cleve-
land afterwards wrote was prepared by
himself just after he had returned from
an outing. He had gone down the
river on fishing excursion, and when
he got back the message was written,
occupying him for two days. The mes
sage was read to the cabinet before it
was sent in. do not remember wheth-
er any suggestions were asked or Of
fered, the message being a condensa-
ton of the very powerful Olney note"
did you anticipate that war would
result from the fessage?"
mo. / did not think so, because 1
did not think there was enough in the
controversy to cause a war between
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last years leaves. Then she went
back to the bare mound.
Soon the faraway notes of "Cover
Them Over with Beautiful Flowers"
told that the procession was coming.
Grandmother heard, but she did not
once lift her eyes. She sat directly
upon the middle of the grave, her
skirts spread as far as they would
over the f1owerless mound, and she
was knitting as calmly as If she were
seated on little splint-bottomed
chair in her own room. She paid nc
attention to the astonished group that
stopped before her
"Ahem!" coughed the master of
ceremonies, Henry Blake.
Grandmother looked up. "Howdedo
Henry" Then, looking down again
zone, two, three, widen; one, two
three, turn"
We've come to decorate Comrade
Adamson's grave" hesitated the puz
zled Blake.
"Comrade Adamson's grave DOM
need no decoratin'-five, six, narrow;
one, two"
"You hain't forgot it's Decoration
day, have your" questioned the man
eff I have, I've been the only one
that has," A flourish Of her needk
indicated the aower-decked mounds
"But Comrade Adamson was hero
and he"
Because he was a hero is why
don't want him decorated. That's the
only way to distinguish him from
them as amt heroes"
With little sweep of her skirts
grandmother rose to her feet.
Its jest because jeremiah was q
hero that his grave amt goin' to be
strewed with flowers jest like the one:
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tated. He found his ideas flowed bet
ter when his pen touched the paper
His handwriting was small, but clear
1t was like copper-plate. Probably no
president Of recent times used a pen
with as much frequency as Cleveland
The painstaking character of Mr..
Cleveland's work will be realized when
it is known that he made a personal
examination of every paper that came
before him. This particularly was
true of the records of courts-martial of
officers Of the army and navy
Whether the defendant was an ensign
or an admiral, a lieutenant or a gen.
eral, he could depend on Mr. Cleveland
to give fair consideration to the re-
port of his trial.
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F all the many questions that are
constantly being asked the war
department at Washington to

0F all the many questions that are
constantly being asked the war
~ department at Washington to
answer. the one most frequently put
before it is as to the correct posi-
ton of flying "Old Glory" on Memorial
day at army posts and stations.
To those who have no relation to
the military service it is almost the
universal belief that the flag should be
displayed at half-staff all of May 30;
but this is not so, for paragraph 444
of the army regulations prescribes as
follows:
"444. On Memorial day, May 80, at
all army posts and stations, the ma
tional flag will be displayed at half
staff from sunrise till midday, and i'm
mediately before noon the band, or
field music, will play some appropriate
air, and the national salute of q guns
will be fired at IL m. at all posts and
stations provided with artillery, At
the conclusion of this memorial trib-
ute at noon, the flag will be hoisted
to the top of the staff and will remain
there until sunset. When hoisted to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-29
NO SKIN LEFT ON BODY,
For Six Months Baby Was Expected
to Die with Eczema-Now Well
Doctor Said to Use Cuticura.

"Six months after birth my little girl
broke out with eczema and 1 had two
doctors in attendance There was not
particle of skin left on her body, the
blood oozed out just anywhere, and we
had to wrap her in silk and carry her
on a pillow for ten weeks. She was the
most terrible sight ever saw. and for
six months l looked for her to die. T
used every known remedy to allevi-
ate her suffering, for it was terrible
to witness. DR.. c. gave her up DR..
B recommended the Cuticura
Remedies. She will soon be three
years old and has never had a sign
of the dread trouble since. We used
about eight cakes Of Cuticura Soap
and three boxes of Cuticura Ointment.
James j. Smith, Durmid, Va, Oct. IA
and %, 1906"
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State Pride.

There recently entered the offices of
the civil service commission at Wash
ington dashing young darby of per-
haps 20 years of age, who announced
to the official who received him that
he desired to 'get papers for an exam
nation"
From what state are you?" was the
question put.
The negro drew himself up proudly.
Il am from the first state of the
union, sir" he replied.
New York;"
mo, sir; Alabama"
But" protested the Official with a
smile, Alabama is not the first state
in the union
Alphabetically speaking, sir; alpha
betically speaking" said the negro.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-29
LANDLORD KNEW his CAPACITY.
Would Need to Lay in Supplies for
Student Guest.

Lawyer Hummel entertained US
with his brilliant conversation on the
Lusitania," said tourist.
"Hummel had one night in the
smoking room an argument with a ter
ribly SCARED German about education.
There's nothing like our German
students. You can't get away from
that the German boasted, and his
face, all slashed from corps duels,
beamed with pride
No, you're right said Hummel I
once visited a German student in Hell
1elberg. AS We conversed on dueling
in the students sitting room a waiter
knocked, entered and said politely:
"'"The landlord of the Keg presents
his compliments and wishes to know
If you are thinking of stepping across
this evening, sir?"
"'"What does he want to know that
for?" the student inquired.
because, sir, if you don't" said
the waiter, ''it will scarcely be worth
while to tap fresh barrel to-day"
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made break" Perhaps Crusoe kept
on his short breeches.
Thackeray, whose methods of work
are known not to have been excessive
ly careful, frequently went wrong on
points of fact. In Rachel Esmond
Warrington's preface to Henry Es-
mond." which Thackeray made her
date 177S, she refers to the coming of
Rochambeau to this country. The
French soldier did not come until
1880.
In "Pendennis," Thackeray speaks
of Mohammed's soldiers cutting off the
heads of all prisoners refusing to &C.
knowledge that there was only one
prophet of God. AS a matter of fact,
however, Mohammedans profess be-
lief in all the prophets of the Bible
Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus-but
they believe that Mohammed is the
greatest. A critic once scolded Thack-
cray for this mistake; "for he was a
great reader of Gibbon"
In 1.-THE Virginians" Chaplain Samp-
son is unlawfully arrested for debt dur
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-29
Those VINO knew the Charming re,a.

Those who knew the Charming reia.
lions which existed between the presi.
dent and his wife were indignant at
the publication. That it was abso-
lutely false l quickly discovered for
myself. Crossing the White House
grounds, saw Mrs. Cleveland bending
over a bed of pansies in which she
took special interest. She was a beau
tiful picture that morning. Her eyes
were as clear as crystal, showing that
she had slept well, and her skin with
out a blemish. The alleged brutality
of Mr.. Cleveland towards his wife was
frequently described by the paper re-
ferred to, but never did | see any justi-
fication or foundation for the state
ments it published. Because the presi-
dent and Mrs. Cleveland refused to ex-
hibit their children to tho gaping
crowd reports were published that
they were idiots and that one of them
was blind. These reports were not
only false, but so cruel as to arouse
the hearty indignation of the friends
of the president and his wife.
1t has been often said, and with JUS
tice, that Mrs. Cleveland made an ideal
First Lady of the Land" Probably
Mrs. Cleveland did what no other wife
of a president attempted. At recep-
tons she would take step forward
and shake hands with the caller, re-
turning to her position before saluting
the next in line. This was a task
which only woman of tremendous
physical endurance could carry out
successfully. At the New Years re-
ceptions, for example, 5000 persons
greeted the president and his wife, So
that Mrs. Cleveland took 5000 steps
and shook hands 5000 times on each
of these occasions.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-29
GROVER CLEVELAND
IN tie SUNSET
&H5 BUSY LIE

Cleveland was made candidate for gov
ernor particularly because of his Wig
orous administration of the mayors
Office His most conspicuous act was
the veto of an ordinance of the council
granting contract for cleaning the
city to personal friends. Cleveland
regarded this contract as against pub
lie policy, and, Notwithstanding the
pressure exercised by his closest ad-
visers, he disapproved the measure, and
by this act attracted the attention of
the state. There is not the slightest
doubt that what Mr.. Cleveland did on
that occasion had greater bearing
on his future political career than any
thing he had done.
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UYYRITERS wise in the great things
w of life have frequently made
w bad mistakes in details involv-
ing some technical point on
which they were ignorant. Some of
these are most amusing. For instance,
Sir Walter Besant, in 1.-THE Children
of GIDEON" caused a new moon to rise
in the east at two in the morning. 1t
is the old moon that rises in the morn
ing. The new moon appears in the
western sky, and sets soon after the
sun.
Another author who went astray
frequently with respect to his moons
was Rider Haggard. In king Solo,
mons Mines" he tells of an eclipse of
the new moon, an astronomical impos-
sibility.
It is thought by some that Defoe
was mapping when he made Robinson
Crusoe fill his pockets with biscuit be-
fore he swan to the wreck. But, con-
sidering Defoe's extreme carefulness
as a rule in matters of this sort, it is
open to question whether he really
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THE MOTHERS LAMENT.

and only battle And throughout the fair and
slain, blessed land,
And he was the world On loYe-ordaned and Me-
more, to me; mortal day.
cave countus co. oWerladen faithful band
fame, Tospread on hero graves the bloom
When Sherman marched his legions of May.
to the
But for soldier boy that solaCe IS
In dangers breathing cloud, not mine;
hYS call, Within a southern YALE aar, he
He left my side, and parting said to sleeps,
And in my heart is tNined the myrtle
"If in the battle, mother, | should vine,
fall, For him. and there drooDs
Mu country and her God will and Weeps.
for thee
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y " y ASHINGTON.-The interest
AE in the personality OF Grover
WW Cleveland has naturally re-
called many incidents Of
the days when his was the
most forceful figure in
American public life. Nothing which
he ever did while president attracted
more attention than the famous mes
sage he sent to congress in December,
1895, on the subject of Great Britain
controversy with Venezuela over the
boundary between the latter country
and British Guiana. In an interview
with a New York Times correspond
ent Hilary A. Herbert, then Mr.. Cleve-
lands secretary of the navy, now for
the first time tells the true inwardness
Of that historic episode.
"The foundation for Mr.. Clevelands
celebrated Venezuelan message" said
Mr. Herbert, was the note of Secre-
tary of State Olney to Lord Sails
bury, the British minister for foreign
affairs. That note was written during
the congressional recess, three months
before congress convened, and before
Mr. Clevelands message was prepared.
The Olney note was drafted after a
consultation between the secretary of
state and Mr.. Cleveland during the
summer at Great Gables on Buzzards
bay. Mr.. Olney went there, as have
always understood, to confer with the
president about the Venezuelan ques-
ton. The note was submitted to every
member of the cabinet. 1 remember
distinctly was in Washington that
summer and copy of The note came
to me and Mr.. Carlisle, the secretary
Of the treasury, and Mr.. Lamont, the
secretary of war, and we considered
the policy together.
Il remember that as the note devel-
oped it almost took my breath away,
and was inclined to oppose it's presen-
tation, but before the reading was fin
ished l realized its force and value and
l heartily approved it. Between Mr.
Carlisle, Mr.. Lamont and myself some
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-29
PRESIDENTIAL LOVEMAKING.

4 CCORDING to a story in circula
~ ton at the time, Daniel s. Lamont
was the John Alden of Grover
Cleveland in connection with the lat
ter's marriage. Lamont was sent by
the president to Buffalo to ask Miss
Folsom to marry his chief There was
no Speak for yourself, john" as Miss
Folsom accepted the offer. Miss Fol-
som, of course, knew her future hus-
band very we'll, as she had been his
ward and had come into frequent and
intimate contact with him.
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poison-that commonly called prussic
acid-that possesses anything like the
immediate effect SO loved by the ro-
mancer. Again, Dumas was mistaken
in his description of complete paraly-
sis, as exemplified in old Nortier, who,
unable to move or speak, yet main
tanned his intellectual faculties, and
was able, by winking his eyes in
agreed fashion, to communicate his
thoughts and desires to his family.
Physicians have frequently pointed out
the impossibility of such pathological
condition.-From the Sunday Maya
zine
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-29
A REGULAR cHURcHGoER.

HLEVELAND'S father was Presby-
terrain minister. When the son was
elected president the Rev. DR.. Sun
derland of the First Presbyterian
church in Washington determined to
make every effort to induce Mr.. Cleve-
land to attend his church. Immediate
ly after the Inauguration DR.. Sunder-
land called upon the president, and the
latter agreed to be enrolled among his
parishioners. Cleveland was very reg
ular in attendance. Always a large
crowd assembled in front of the
church to see him entering and leav-
ing The crowd was amazed to find
that when the carriage stopped Cleve-
land would leave the vehicle and start
for the door, while some one else
would have to assist Mrs. Cleveland 70
alight. Then she would hasten after
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-29
a SOLDIERS GRAVE.

The dust that sleeps unthinking and I'm.
knowing
That turf below,
That recks no more Of pale December's
showing
Or long-dayed June amid the meadows
glowing,
That knows not summers birth nor win
ters going
On field or bough,
Was once soldiers heart. It ceased its
beating
In duty's round
We DER the needless sod to-day are meet
ing
To learn the lesson time has been re-
peating
And give all patriot souls that sleep our
greeting
From this poor mound.
Frank H Sweet
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A FRIEND OF THE PEN.

M r. CLEVELAND took great in
W terest in pension legislation. OBJ.
serving discriminating attitude,
which was most important, both for
the public treasury and from the point
of view of those veterans of unblem-
anime each act and all the facts con-
nected with the claim of the benefici-
airy with the greatest care. If he found
flaw in the record he would put a
veto on the back of the act in his own
handwriting. Cleveland rarely die
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the two countries which were so close
ly allied in blood and business. Of
course, such measures as could be
taken with the means in hand to be
prepared in case of trouble were taken
by the navy department, but there
was neither time nor money nor oppor-
tunity to make any extensive prepare
TONS"
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friends. At the same time he was
most convivial with his male acquaint.
ances. He was fond of playing cards
in his youth and spent most of his time
with the boys. AS lawyer he seldom
practised in court, and, while never re-
garded as close student, he had the
facility of grasping legal problem,
which made him invaluable as counsel
gether to his office, his associates
making the arguments in court.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-29
GOLD GLORY" ON MEMORIAL DAY

the top of the staff, the flag will be sa
luted by playing one or more appro
pirate patriotic airs. In this way fit.
ting testimonial of respect for tbs
heroic dead and honor to their patri
otto devotion will be appropriately
rendered"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-29
cLEVELANp,s HOME LEE.

IN ONE occasion a New York paper
- which was especially virulent in
it's treatment of Mr. Cleveland
printed story to the effect that on
the previous night he had gotten beast
ly drunk and had kicked his wife down
stairs, bruising her terribly and black
ing both her eyes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-29
Steam Quenched Oil Fire.

Steam was successfully used re.
Gently in quenching an oil fire at
Petersville, Pa. There are about 80
oil wells in the vicinity Of the town.
and when one of them caught fire the
burning oil flowed through the streets.
Steam was raised in the boilers of
the oil rigs and the inhabitants used
it to put out the IRE.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-29
A BAD CAMPAIGNER.

CLEVELAND was known always as
L. bad campaigner. 1t was an ex-
tremely difficult thing to get him
to take an active part in politics, even
when he was running for Office him.
self. When he was nominated for may
or of Buffalo, quarter Of a century
ago, his political managers were in
despair because of his Indifference
The future president would promise to
speak, but when the time came he
would fail to appear, and then it was
necessary to send carriages for him
and drag him to the meeting. But his
popularity was so great that he expert
enced little difficulty in polling large
vote for mayor. This campaign &C.
Cured during time of political up
heaval, when Buffalo was one of the
doubtful cities of the state. From the
close Of the war up to the '90s no one
could foretell just how the municipal
elections in Buffalo would turn out.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-29
AS FRIEND AND LAWYER.

CLEVELAND was more of a socia.
BILE man than social one He en-.
joyed few social relations in Buf.
falo, rarely visiting the houses of
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-03-05
COERCION
FOR China
JAPAN THREATENS TO FORCE
SURRENDER OF STEAMER sEIz.
ED BY CHINESE FOR BEARING
ARMS AND MUNITIONS.

BERLIN, March 5.-Japan is
threatening to force the uncondi-
tional surrender of the Japanese
steamer Tatsu Maru, which is still
retained by the Chinese government
on West river. The vessel was seiz-
ed at Macao, February by the Chi
nese cruisers on the charge of hav-
ing a cargo of firearms and ammuni-
tion intended for Chinese revolution
lists, although consigned to a mer-
chant at that place.
Baron Hayashi, the Japanese min
lister to China, has handed to the
Chinese government Japan's refusal
to accept China's proposal of a joint
Japanese and Chinese commission to
examine all the charges.
China, through Vice Admiral
Moore, commander-in-chief of the
British China station, has proposed
arbitration. Japan refuses the over
lures, and the coercion of China is
feared here.