davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Times-promoter., 1908-02-07
Shows Gains.

The last report of the Presbyterian
Congo missions says: "The work is
gaining in quality and quantity. There
has been great increase in the in
tensity and extensiveness of the work.
The results are worthy of all the sacri-
fees made. The government and the
conscienceless Catholics are our chief
source of embarrassment"
Times-promoter., 1908-02-07

Husband-What is the difference bo
tween the love of a lover and the love
Of a husband:
, Wife-About 800 degrees Fahren.
heit.-Harper's Weekly.
Times-promoter., 1908-02-07
The STORY.

kID UT what II the story is true?"
I'D and as the question kept press
ing itself In upon her, she tapped her
daintily-sandaled foot impatiently upon
the polished marble floor. as though
Times-promoter., 1908-02-07
Naed Cotton Hand Looms.

The Aeyival Of the cotton hand lcom
is thousyht to. be the solution Of the
question Aof the Industrial regeneration
VI India. This year there wore G2un
Times-promoter., 1908-02-07
GOOD MANeER ARRANGEMENT
Plan by Which Grain and Hay May
Be Fed at Same Time.

The sketch shows my hay and
grain rack for cows which is a great
help when these two feeds are given
at the same time, writes a farmer in
Farm and Home. The hay is put in
space a, and then the grain is
poured in at b, and the cow eats 1t
at c. The part of the rack holding
Times-promoter., 1908-02-07
Pay $4,000 Men In Twenty Minutes

At the Baldwin Locomotive works.
Philadelphia, the clerks are so expert
in handing out wages on payday that
$4,000 men receive their pay in less
than 20 minutes.
Times-promoter., 1908-02-07

Scripture Authority.-Kings, 1O:1-13.
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NEWS NOTES.

Minneapolis. @. Reed, Civil
war veteran, was held up and robbed
of S35 and watch and chain.
Waterville. Commercial club
of this city has record for road build
ing of which it is justly proud.
Biwabik.-The present week has
marked the opening Of the new
$50, 600 high school building and the
starting of the new electric light
plant.
Moorhead. - Treasurer Elect O..
Paulson formally took charge of the
Office of treasurer of Clay county sue
ceeding Hans P. Strate, deceased.
The auditing and checking up the
books by a deputy state examiner
was completed last night. The total
funds on hand amounted to $67, TAO. SO.
Crookston.-The Polk county grand
Jury, after being out for several days,
returned forty four indictments
against five men in this county on
the charge of selling liquor to minors,
breaking the Sunday closing law or
in other ways breaking the liquor
laws.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-31
Accident Qualifications.

Run over by an automobile, was
hep" said the city salesman. I'll bet
he was big man-six feet high and
weighed 200 pounds, or something like
that
Five feet liz and weighed $780,"
corrected his informant
Il knev it," said the city salesman.
I'm casualties of that kind you may
generally figure on unusual physical
proportions of the victim. In fact, if
proof is needed that large bodies move
slowly, it can be found in the Stats
tics of street accidents. Barring the
children, most persons who figure in
such accidents are heavyweights. OF
course, little people are by no means
immune, but in the majority of cases
where pedestrian has got tangled up
with an automobile, horse car, or a
street car. the description o. his per-
sonal appearance brings out the fact
that he was five feet II inches high
or more, and was possessed of unusual
avoirdupois.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-31
21,424 TONS OF GOLD DUG.
Since Columbus Discovery Over $12,.
6oo,000,00o Has Been Mined.

Since Columbus found his new
world, 21,424 tons of gold have been
dug from the mines Of the earth.
Their value is over $12, 100000. OF
this vast total 10 per cent, or nearly
one-fifth of the whole, has been mined
in the last ten years; 80 per cent, or
almost third, in the last 20 years; Al
per cent in the last 80 years; 81 per
cent. in the last 40 years, and 6S per
cent, or over two-thirds, in the last
half century.
Assuming that an increase occurs In
the annual output, this amount will be
doubled in 80 years, while If an an
nual increase of per cent. is OBJ
tanned, the doubling will take place in
less than 20 years. H. F. Van Wag-
enen predicts that as result of the
creation in so short time Of SO i'm
mense an amount of indestructible
wealth as this, general advance in
the market price of all commodities
may be expected. Interest rates will
certainly decline.
Wages should rise, for with this
amount of new capital arising in the
brief period every department Of hui
man activity is bound to be stimulated,
and this will create an enormously in
creased demand not only for all those
things that machinery and art can
produce, but also for those that can
only be brought into being by human
hands and human service.
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Narrow Escape,

ST. Paul.-Five little children had a
narrow escape from burning to death
when the home of Elmer Dazelle, So.
st. Paul, was completely destroyed
by fire, the result of a gasoline explo-
sion. The house was burned to the
ground and only a few pieces of fur
niture were saved.
The little children were playing in
an adjoining room when the stove ex-
p1oded, it is thought, from leak.
Mrs. Dazelle, who was getting supper,
made rush for her little ones, and
by the time she had taken two of
them outside of the house the flames
had spread into the room where the
others were. Grabbing them the best
she could the frantic mother dragged
the small children out of the burning
house just as the flames took posses
sion of the room. The family was
taken care Of by the neighbors.
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Hinke says that ''it is the finest Ellil
hymn which has been found thus far,
fifty celebrating the majesty and power
of the god of Nippur. In some of it's
expressions it approaches the psalms of
the Old Testament"
The inscription recites the historical
circumstances under which the land
was given to Nusku-ibni, high digni-
tary of Ekur, the temple of Ellil at
Nippur, declares curses upon any Of
fetal who appropriates the land or
interferes with the rights of the own
er, and offers an invocation to the
gods and asks them to mete out GER
tain punishments to an offender. The
names of II witnesses of the grant
are given. The symbols at the top of
the stone are outlines of shrines, orna-
mented with a spearhead, pointed
shaft, skepter, a tiara, the head of a
lion, the head of a vulture, scorpion,
a five-pointed star, crescent, a sun
disk, a lightning fork, serpents, tor
toise, etc.
The translation given by Dr. Hinke
of the hymn to Ellil is as follows:
Ellil-the lofty lord. the ruler of heaven
and earth,
the prince, the lord of all.
the king of the great gods, whose equal
as a god
does not exist in heaven and on earth,
upon the giving of whose command the
PROSTATE themselves, reverently pay hon.
age,
and upon whose decision the Anunnaki
wait in submissive awe, stand in humble
fear,
the lord of lords, the word of whose
mouth
no god can set aside,
the potentate of the Anunnaki, the lord
of the blackheaded,
the sovereign of lands, the ruler of king
doms.
The god whose splendor is overwhelming
(?) and filled with brilliancy,
with whose glory the whole extent of
all habitations and all dwellings, are
with whose majesty the lands are COW
cred,
whose rule cannot be rivaled, whose di-
vinity cannot be equaled,
whose decision is weighty, whose COM
mand is lofty,
whose law is supreme, whose ways are
wonderful,
who rules heaven and earth, who sus-
tains the lands,
who calls the faithful shepherd, who ap-
points the governor of the earth,
forever-with the light of his gracious
countenance, with his shining face
he looked faithfully upon Nebuchadnez-
Ear, the prince, his favorite,
se, cd 70 nc ofI orfn
that he might shepherd Shumar and
Akhad.
that he might renew the sanctuaries of
the city of dwellings,
and regulate the tithes of Ekur and Nip
pur,
he broke the weapon of his enemy and
the scepter of his enemy he placed in his
hand,
life of eternal days he granted to him
above any preceding king he magnified
his name.
Because of the regulation of the tithes
of Ekur. because CT TIL magnificent
sacrifices.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-31
CUBS FOOD
They Thrive on Grape-Nuts.

Healthy babies don't cry and the
wellnourished baby that is fed on
Grape-Nuts is never a crying baby.
Many babies who cannot take any
other food relish the perfect food,
Grape-Nuts, and get well.
my little baby was given up by
three doctors who said that the con-
densed milk on which 1 fed her had
ruined the child's stomach. One OF
the doctors told me that the only
thing to do would be to try Grape
Nuts, so I got some and prepared it as
follows: 1 soaked 11s tablespoonfuls
in one pint of cold water for half an
hour, then strained off the liquid and
mixed IL teaspoonfuls of this strained
Grape-Nuts juice with six teaspoonfuls
Of rich milk, put in pinch of salt
and little sugar, warmed it and gave
1t to baby every two hours.
I'm this simple, easy way saved
baby's life and have built her up to a
strong healthy child. rosy and laugh
ing. The food must certainly be per-
feet to have such wonderful effect as
this. can truthfully say I think it
is the best food in the world to raise
delicate babies on, and is also deli
cious healthful food for grown-ups as
we have discovered in our family"
Grape-Nuts is equally valuable to
the strong, healthy mar or woman. It
stands for the true theory of health.
There's a Reason. Read The Road
TO Wellville." in pigs.
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Peculiar Features.

There is an immense amount of
very curious information about the
formalities of land cessions in DR..
Hinke's book, but in view of the ma
ture of the controversy regarding the
Temple library at Nippud the lit
erary features of the inscriptions are
of most immediate interest. The
boundary stone erected under Ne
buchadreZzar l., which is under special
consideration, contains a transcription
of "a magnificent and typical Baby
lonian hymn" The stone was found
at Nippur on the northwest side of
the Ziggurat, within the temple area,
by DR.. Haynes, in February, 1896, at
the close of the third Babylonian ex-
pedition of the University of Pennsyl-
vania. It Is a conical block of black
limestone, 40 centimenters in height
and 1872 centimeters in circumference
at the middle. The inscription con-
sists of heading of two lines placed
among symbols at the top, and 155
lines OF text, arranged in five columns.
The stone is slightly damaged, but
the few lines which have been partly
lost have been almost completely re-
stored from the context. The stone
has several features not found in
other monuments of this kind. One is
a drawing Of the piece of land to
which the inscription relates. The
second is beautiful hymn to Ellil at
the beginning of the inscription. DR..
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-31
This Deer Needs a Lid.

McKinley.-The people of Mckinley
believe this town has the most Won
derful deer in existence. The animal
is the property of Joseph Ahlin, village
alderman, and could easily be made
an issue in the nature-faking discus
sion. This animal is one of two
deserted doe fawns that were picked
up in the woods near here early in
the spring.
In its earliest infancy the animal
displayed a pugnacious disposition,
and later through the connivance of
local persons acquired taste for
lager beer. Now the deer visits GER
tain saloons daily, has knocked down
and badly injured a boy that leased
it, has whipped a terrier dog belong
ing to the mayor, DIR. j. G. Farmer,
has made trips of week into the
woods and then returned safely to
town, and in addition has won the
hearts of this people, who VOW ven-
geance on the hunter who shoots her.
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Curses Upon Offenders.

Then follows the statement of the
grant of land. Here is the curse d.
rected against him who shall deny
the legal giving of the land:
May Anu, the king, the father of the
gods, in anger overthrow him
and annihilate his life,
ELL, the lofty god, who appoints
the fate of gods, appoint for him
an evil fate, so that calamity, misfor-
tune
and the commands of men may Cypress
him.
Ea, the king of the ocean, the lord Of
wisdom,
take away from him gladness Of heart
happiness of mind,
abundance and fullness, so that
lamentation may seize him.
Sin, the lord of the crown of splendor,
darken his face, so that he may not have
merriment CD
Shamash and Ramman, powerful gods
the lofty judges. give him
evil plans, and with a Judgment Of
justice
and righteousness may they not judge
him
Ninib, the lord of confines and bound
aries, tear out his boundary-stone
Gula, the great mistress. put lingering
sickness
into HIS body. 50 that dark and bright
red blood he may pour out as water.
Ishtar, the mistress of lands. whose fury
is like flood,
reveal the difficulties to him, so that
he may not escape misfortune.
Nuska, the powerful lord, the mighty
scorcher.
(the god, my creator. be his evil demon
and may he burn his root.
The inscription apparently estab-
fishes the fact, says DR.. Hinkle, that
Nebuchadrezzar was a.. usurper and
that the first kings of his dynasty
were contemporaneous with the Cas-.
site kings. At first he battled in vain
against the Elamite and Assyrian SUI.
premacy, but after repeated reverses
and late in his reign he was able to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-31
MINNESOTA NEWS
Interesting Items Gathered in the
Gopher State
Shows Falling Off.

Northield.-The thirteenth annual
convention of the Minnesota state
dairymen opened here with about $50
members of the association present.
The programs are being held in the
Ware auditorium and the dairy hall
is in the Holland block on Division
street. President L. A. Sweet of
Fairmont presided at the meeting.
Rev. w. R. Keesey of the local Metho-
dist church made the invocation and
Mayor Ferguson made the address Of
welcome, which was responded to by
Secretary Morley in the absence of 8.
b. Schilling of Chicago, who was call
ed West by the death of his mother.
Secretary Morley in his annual re-
port showed that there was falling
off in the amount of dairy produce in
the older dairy sections of the state,
and also noted gains in the newer
dairy districts.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-31
Averts a Panic.

Duluth. James J. Laudergan, stage
manager at the Lyceum theater, did
the right thing at the right time and
avoided possible panic at critical
time in the progress of the show,
'"The Rollicking Girl" An audience,
with the terrible disaster at Boyer
town, Pa, fresh in mind, saw SER
pent of flame shootup above the stage
but before a panic could be started
the fire was extinguished in a rather
remarkable manner by Mr.. Lauder
gan.
There is a swinging scene in the play
in which girls occupy swings wrapped
in imitation moss, Illuminated by cleo
trio lights. One of the light bulbs
burst and instantly the moss was in
flames.
In the moment of suspense, big
James Laudergan walked calmly upon
the stage, and.as if it were what he
was accustomed to do every day seized
the burning rope, climbed it hand over
hand until he reached the fire and ex-
tinguished it with his bare hands.
He descended and walked off the
stage as calmly as he had entered it,
although his hands had suffered in
extinguishing the fire.
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protection Of Nabu, the god of agri-

protection Of Nabu, the god of agri-
culture.
can interesting reference to bound
airy stones in the religious literature"
says DR.. Hinke, occurs in the Shurpu
series, in a prayer which is remark
able for its ethical contents. The
priest intercedes for the worshiper
and implores the deity to forgive him,
asking the following questions: Has
he drawn a false boundary? Has he
omitted to draw true boundary? Has
he removed the confines, the limits
or the boundary stone?"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-31

site, dynasty and the date of this one
in particular is about 1900 before
Christ. In all royal grants of land two
documents were used; one, a large,
conical block, to be placed upon the
field in question for the information
of the people in general; the other,
a private document or tablet, to be
held by the owner as proof of his title
Curses inscribed upon certain stones
show that they were public monu-
ments, which could be removed. The
absence of curses in the inscriptions
upon other stones shows that they
were private documents. Boundaries
and boundary marks were sacred to
the god Ninib and were also under the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-31
Income From Mines.

st. Paul.-State Treasurer @. @.
Dinehart received about $4,000 in
checks for royalties on ore taken from
mines owned by the state and other
sources made the total about $37, 900.
The Consumers Oil company of
Cleveland contributed $S,56O.S7 in
royalties and the Albert Iron company
S3, S31.64. These amounts cover the
royalties on ore taken out during the
last quarter of 1907.
The grain inspection department
turned in SIG, 650.35, and the hay in
spection department $3O9.75.
A check for 81 ATS was received from
the federal governmental for aid for the
soldiers home.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-31
Those Dams,

Washington.-So much interest has
been awakened in the various propo-
sitions advanced for modifying the
project relating to the dams in the
Mississippi river between st. Paul and
Minneapolis and the utilization, if
possible, of the surplus water for
power purposes that efforts have been
made by Representative Stevens and
Nye to obtain from the engineer
officers of the war department. ex-
pressions as to the existing status of
the improvement, and what would be
necessary in the way of legislation to
accomplish the objects desired.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-31
Million Dollar Day,

Minneapolis was million-dollar
day the 21st at the Chamber of Com
merce, record-breaker for this date.
Never before, except in the fall, has
there been such business. Grain Of
a value of $1,O70, 076 was handled in
the cash market.
The railroads entering Minneapolis
brough 1907 cars into the yards over
Sunday, making a record movement
for the time of year. More grain has
often beenreceived in a day, but never
so late in January, when the crop rush,
ordinarily, has long since subsidized.
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archaeological circles, the freedom with
which it was denounced in many scien-
tific quarters as merely an application
of what is figuratively known as
'whitewash," are almost unprecedent-
ed in any similar case. 1t may as
well be said that among the alumni
of the university there still subsists a
strong feeling of dissatisfaction that a
more positive course was not taken
by the trustees, and movement has
been begun to make concerted rep
resentation in favor of again forcing
the issue between Prof Hilprecht and
his scientific accusers.
May Publish Stenographic Report.
1t was intimated to representative
of the Philadelphia Ledger by trus-
tee of the university that the board
might yet determine to give to the
public the stenographic reports of the
hearings in the Hilprecht matter, held
by it's special committee in 1905. In
this connection the statement was
made that the verdict of the commit
tee generating Prof. Hilprecht was
purposely couched in mild language
in order that it might not wound the
feelings Of certain members of the
university who had conscientiously
believed, that he should be compelled
to answer formally the charges made
by Rev. DR.. John P. Peters of New
York and others.
las this considerate course has not
won their appreciation" it was added,
IAN entirely different one may be
adopted"
Of course, no official of the univer-
sity will concede at this time that
the board is at all likely to reverse it's
action of 1905 or to take any steps
which will mean the severance of
Prof. Hilprecht's relations with the
institution.
There is said to be a disposition on
the part Of the trustees to rely upon
the, results of the examination of tab
lets brought from Nippur that has
been in constant progress at the Mu-
scum of Archaeology during the last
two years and half to obliterate the
unfortunate effect of the revelations Of
DR.. Peters, Prof. Prince of Columbia
university, and Mrs. Haynes as to the
real nature of the discoveries at Nip
pur, in their bearing upon Prof. Hill
precht's publications. 1t is declared
that the translation of the tablets,
which until the beginning of the con-
troversy had remained for five years
boxed up in the cellars of the museum,
is yieldNg results of the most brilliant
character, far exceeding the expecta-
tons to Babylonia.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-31
The "TempIe Library" Exists.

DR.. A. I. Clay, assistant professor
of Semitic philology and archaeology,
has done much very remarkable work
as an interpreter of the cuneiform
texts brought from Babylonia. AS to
the identity of the supposed Temple
library" at Nippur, he said. when in.
terviewed on the subject:
you ask If there was Temple IL
brary at Nippur? Most assuredly
there was. Nearly 20 years ago DR..
Peters found tablets in the mounds at
Nippur, which he designated as relics
of a library. We have at the museum
many religious texts of the early
period in Babyloniah history. But
these are exactly what you would ex-
pect to find, for every Babylonian city
had its temple and cultus, and in con-
necticn with them schools for scrihes
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-31
Had Done His Best.

Uncle Hosea did not feel able to
contribute more than rs cents to the
missionary cause, and was not particu-
larly enthusiastic about giving even
that
"You ought to give as the Lord has
prospered you," said Deacon Iron
side
81 don't think the Lord'll ever ac-
cuse me of bein' ungrateful," an.
swered Uncle Hosea. six of my
boys Is preachers"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-31
What Hubby Missed.

II was telephoning the other night
said the girl, "and a voice crossed.
mine, a whispering voice. l couldnt
help wondering what the game was
What are you whispering for? J
asked.
Hush she said, still in the whis
per. I'm trying to talk under my
breath. I don't want my husband tc
hear. Please get off the wire. Won't
your
81 got off the wire, but couldn't
sleep very well that night for wonder
ing what it was she didn't want heI
husband to hear"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-31
Neatly Put.

Homer Folks, the secretary Of the
State Charity Aid society Of New
York, referred in recent address to
the awkwardness that charity work
ers feel In making public appeals for
funds.
"And few charity workers." Mr..
Folks added, "can carry off that awk-
wardness with the neatness of the col
ored preacher who reminded his con-
gregation that:
Brudren, All KANT preach hyah
an board in helm"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-31
Money TO Europe.

Biwabik.-The books of the post
master of Biwabik show that more
than $50, 900 went through this Office
to different portions of Europe during
1907. About $50, 600 went through the
Aurora postofice and SIS, ZOO through
the Mckinley postoffice.
No figures are obtainable as to the
amount sent by the, banks, but this
$145, 900 represents money sent home
by foreigners working in the mines.
High officials of mining companies
estimate that more than a million
dollars reposes in old socks on the
range, and that the amount may be
larger since the recent financial furry.
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Prayer on a Boundary Stone.

The archaeological publication last
issued by the University of Pennsyl-
vania is a volume of Series D, edited
by Prof. Hilprecht and entitled "a
New Boundary Stone of Nebuchadrez-
Ear 1. from Nippur." The author is
DR.. William j. Hinke, assistant profess
sor in the Auburn Theological Semi
nary. Boundary stones first appeared
in Babylonia under the third, or Cas-