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and for machinery at these places the
sum of $9,5S9, $1,000, making the total
of the real maintenance cost of the
shore part of the establishment $780,
694 ,26390. Of course this latter fig
ure does not include the work done at
the yards on or for ships; it is solely
the cost of keeping the yards in such
shape as to fit them for doing their
work for the floating part of the estab-
lishment. This cost alone of main
tanning the shore plant was more than
two-thirds the cost of the floating
part, the fleet.
Extravaganza of Shore Plants.
Enumerating the various other ex-
penses of the yards and stations, the
pay inspector makes the fiat assertion
that over half of the total appropria-
tons for the navy are absorbed by the
shore plants. OF the finished product,
the warship in commission and be-
yond the control of the land establish
ment force, there is, he says, little to
say. Admitting the absolute necessity
for that product, finished as it is to-
day, it's administration, away from the
navy yards, is apt to be economical
enough, comparatively speaking. 1t is
about the accounting for the necessity
for the expenses of the huge establish
ment that supports the fleet that there
should be concern.
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DESTROYLR OF EfK FHCATAUR'. CLASS.

the maintenance of British battle
ship. But it is likely that he has in
Guided in this estimate the cost of the
establishment which maintains the
ships. No mathematician has yet fig
ured out the cost of our ships of war
ON lines which would include the cost
of yards, docks, etc. If this were
done it would be found that under our
present very absurd system, or rather
very absurd lack of system, in con-
Quoting naval affairs, the cost of main
tanning British battleship would be
poor, cheap, and tawdry thing in COM
parison with the cost of maintaining
an American war vessel of the same
type.
Over a Billion Since Spanish War.
The new navy, which dates from the
Spanish war, has cost to date $1,244,-
$4,000. Of this sum $309, 100000 has
been expended on ships. The rest has
gone to the maintenance of the naval
establishment. The cost of mainten-
ance of individual types is shown in a
series of tables prepared by the bu-
reau of supplies and accounts and in
corporated in the annual report of the
paymaster general of the navy. Dur
ing the fiscal year ended June 80,
1907. the cost of maintaining the 16
battleships which are now in the Pa
cific was as follows:
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80 BUSHELS OF OATS
TO The ACRE.
WHAT Mr.. kALTENBRUNNER HAS
TO SAY ABOUT HIS GRAIN
CROPS IN CENTRAL
CANADA.

Writing from Regina, Saskatche.
wan, Central Canada, Mr.. A. Kalten-
Drummer writes:-
Some years ago took up home
stead for myself, and also one for my
son. The half section which we own
adjoins the Moose Jaw Creek; is a
low, level and heavy land. We put
in 20 acres of wheat in stubble which
went 20 bushels to the acre, and 30
acres of summer fallow, which went
rs bushels to the acre. All the wheat
we harvested this year is No. Hard.
That means the best wheat that can
be raised on the earth. We did not
sell any wheat yet, as we intend to
keep one part for our own seed, and
sell the other part to people who want
first class seed, for there is no doubt
If you sow good wheat you will har-
vest good wheat. We also threshed
5000 bushels of first class oats out of
160 acres. 80 acres has been fall
blowing, which yielded 80 bushels
per acre, and so acres stubble, which
went 30 bushels to the acre. These
cats are the best kind that can be
raised. We have shipped three car
loads of them, and got SO cents per
bushel clear. All our grain was cut
in the last week of the month of
August before any frost could touch it.
Notwithstanding the fact that we
have had late spring, and that the
weather conditions this year were
very adverse and unfavorable, we will
make more money out of our crop
this year than last
For myself feel compelled to say
that Western Canada crops cannot be
checked, even by unusual conditions"
Information regarding free home
stead lands in Manitoba, Saskatche-
wan and Alberta may be had on appli-
cation to any Canadian Government
Agent, whose advertisement appears
elsewhere. He will give you informa-
ton as to best. route and what it will
cost you to reach these lands for pur-
poses of inspection.
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if these ships ever get into war.
There'll be no hit or miss or reckless
helter-skelter shooting then"
Congress and the navy itself have
long been divided over the relative
value of the battleship and the
armored cruiser. In spite of much op-
position on the part of those who be-
lieve that battleships, vessels which
cost but little more to build, are in
finitely superior to the armored
cruiser, ten vessels of this type having
been recently added to the American
navy. The opponents of the armored
cruiser can now point to the vast
sums which it requires to maintain
them. The tables prepared by the
paymaster general show that while
the battleships average a little more
than 100000 a year, the armored
cruisers average more than 100000.
The squadron of this type, which is
under the command of Rear Admiral
Dayton, and known as the big Four"
is composed of the West Virginia, the
Colorado, the Pennsylvania, and the
MARY ldIlu. TOT Tie Usual ouu0u d uuS
80 the West Virginia cost $755, 151.47,
the Colorado $706,057.16, the Pennsyl-
vania 735,111.49, and the Maryland
$685., 526.O6
Cavalry of the Navy.
The armored cruiser has been COM
pared to cavalry. A distinguished
naval officer says that it is not COM
parable to cavalry. Moreover" he
adds, mo one has proved that navy
needs anything comparable to the cav
airy. 1t is not comparable to the cav
airy for the reason that it has not
nearly the same speed, relatively to
the other vessels of a fleet, that the
cavalry has to the other branches of
an army; and because it has not near
ly the same power, either offensive
or defensive, relatively to the other
ships, that the cavalry has to the
other branches. And a person would
have to labor hard to prove that a
navy needs something comparable to
cavalry; for how can one find on the
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open sea, and within the restricted
space which even the largest enemy's
fleet can cover, any opportunity for
those quick surprises, or those sudden
attacks on exposed lines of commune
cation, stretching away for miles,
which is one of the principal employ.
ments of cavalry; and can one even
imagine a squadron of armored
cruisers making charge in battle
against battleships at all comparable
to those charges of cavalry which
again and again in history have been
hurled with irresistible violence
against vulnerable point?"
This officer does not wish to be mis-
understood as questioning the useful
ness of armored cruisers; he merely
questions the logicalness of an oft-re-
peated argument. "But at the same
time," he says, "it may be well to
point out that, though We can find a
use for our armored cruisers, now that
we have them, yet nevertheless, if we
had ten battleships instead of our ten
armored cruisers, our fleet would be
much stronger"
Cost of Establishments.
AS has been said, no one has yet fig
ured out just what our ships cost
when the cost of the establishment is
included. The one who has made the
nearest approach to it is Pay Inspector
John A. Mudd. In paper which is
o,,h1icho1 IN, he inc INT fhiC
distinguished officer says that of the
hundred millions annually appropri.
ated for the navy's support $4,000, 00O
in round numbers is spent to pay the
wages of labor in navy yards.
This amount, says the pay inspector,
is nearly equal to what it costs to sup.
port the feet in commission. The &C.
counting for the actual disbursement
of these eighteen millions is thorough
too thorough, perhaps. The accounting
for why the money was spent is
simply the unregulated and generally
unexamined show of results, with lit
tie or no proof that the results equal
the values expended.
For the fiscal year of 1906 he adds
that the cost of maintaining all ships
then in commission was $23, 655, 950.41
Returns for this year show that there
was spent for repairs to hulls, ma
chinery, and equipage of the ships
$3.50, 309.01. Thus the total cost OF
the floating part of the establishment
during the year, excluding cost of new
construction 1881, ,556.5S alone)
was $29, 206, 259.42. 1t cost during the
same fiscal year to maintain all the
navy yards and other shore stations
$11 lis, 080.S1. Besides this there was
expended for buildings. chattels. etc.
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THOUGHT ExPE RE
RE NEEDED.
Therefore Mr.. Locke / ysrstfulIy Parted
with the Fern.

The one special charge which Mrs.
Locke gave her husband on the eve
of her departure for a fortnight's visit
to a friend was her fern-her beauti-
full, wide-spreading fern. Don't for
get it while I'm away visiting, will
YOU, Henry?" she pleaded; and Mr..
Locke answered that the fern should
be forever on his mind till she re-
turned.
Therefore, when on the evening of
her arrival she noticed with a start
that the fern was not in it's accus-
toned place, she turned reproachful
eyes on her husband.
Now, my dear, let me tell you,"
said Mr.. Locke, glibly, ''if ever man
kept his word, did. That-er-that
fern was on my mind day and night
/ scarcely ever forgot it. l watered it
oh. must have watered it four or
five times the first two days. l wanted
to be sure it had enough.
Then the water began to run GU.
of the saucer. SO left it alone-en
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DISPLAY NO SPECIAL BRAVERY.
Men Who Risk Their Lives Because
It's in Their Business.

A man was telling the other day of
what he thought the bravest act he
had ever seen-that of well-shooter
in the Oil country, who, after dropping
a can of nitroglycerin into a well,
found that the gas was forcing it
out again, and who stood with his
arms ready and caught the torpedo
when it reached the surface, says the
PunXsutawney (Pa.) Spirit.
Considering how deadly an explosive
it was to handle, it seemed an act of
splendid bravery on the part of the
operator. But Mr.. Elliott, down at the
gas Office, who has caught few of
these hot deliveries himself, smiles
disparagingly as he remarks:
ut perhaps requires some courage
to make business of shooting oil
wells, but as for catching a torpedo
when it is forced back by the gas,
that is nothing more than a matter
of nerve.
"The fact is that If 1t were allowed
to shoot up in the air, 1t would strike
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The paymaster thus pays his r..

The paymaster thus Bays his r..
spects to the bureau system of tho
navy department: THE bureaus. he
says, "do not represent principalities
within clear, uncrossed dividing lines
There are portions of the personnel re-
source that, directly or Indirectly, are
under the influence of more than one
bureau, and there are portions of the
money resource that cannot be ex-
pended properly by one bureau with
out advice or suggestion from another
This necessitates coordination in or
der to accomplish. What an accept
able, inspiring word coordination is!
The mention of it brings ones
thoughts to peaceful achievement, to
modern triumph over that business
demon, waste. In the navy it means
something like the general peace in
Europe, where the dusty boundary
stone is not needed to mark division
between neighboring mighty states,
the demarkation being more clearly
shown by unbroken lines of waiting
bayonets. Such is coordination to-day
among the bureaus.
Defects in Present System.
knowing that navy yard work,
even under businesslike administra-
ton, cannot be done, with the neces-
sary government methods to contend
with, as cheaply as similar work in
commercial shops, let us be liberal
minded. Then, also knowing that for
every boat tiller made there are thou
sands of pick handles and lawn now
ers, let us admit that the minimum
price of boat tillers made at the yards,
one dollar, is a just and proper value.
Does this give excuse for manufactur-
ing others at three dollars each?
When 40 metal stateroom boxes, for
officers uniforms, were made at one
yard for 1857, was it good policy to
manufacture 40 more, at the same
time, at another yard not many miles
away and with the same resources, at
a cost of $1,25076? Where one yard
was able to make SOS ditty boxes for
$1,S9977, was it just to the Money for
the Navy to spend $4,259.66, at the
same time, at another yard, in making
a similar number?
Turning to furniture: A mahogany
desk for cabin cost $136.76 at one
yard, while at another, one made for a
sister ship cost $3.50, there being no
cents wasted on this latter price. An
oak desk cost $112.07 at one yard and
$163.30 at another.
Curious Variations In Price.
"To make and fit into battieship
six galvanized boxes, for fire clay,
3Gx24x15 inches, cost at one yard, for
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the job, $167,01, and at another yard,
to make similar boxes and to fl. them
on board a sister battleship, IL cost
$3S4.12. These same boxes, untitled,
cost at one yard six dollars eaeh; at
another, $S.47, and at still another.
$2O.s4."
The pay inspector asks if Change
in the method of appropriating money
looking to the increased economical
efficiency of the shore plant would
affect the fleet, and answers his own
question in the affirmative YES" he
says, materially, perceptibly, abso-
lutely, at once. Every time navy
yard clerk bungles or shirks his work,
the fleet feels it.; every time navy
yard mechanic goes to sleep in the
bowels of the hull on which he is
working, the fleet feels it; every time
supervising authority on shore is
overcome by a feeling of laissez faire,
the fleet feels it; every time two de-
partments at navy yard waste hours
in friction, in bumptious quarreling,
the fleet feels it. The fleet is as a
seismometer, for ineficiency on shore.
The shock of the full-paid workman
idle at his job may not attract or
binary notice, but it is recorded there
just the same, and it's mark may be
deciphered by those who search and
weigh and measure" IN. Y. Times.
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tirely untouched, my dear, for the
next three or four days, just as you
would treat a person who had over
eaten.
Then when it began to look trifie
dry watered it again, very faithfully,
but it began to look curious, very Gu
rious So just took it around to the
florist, and he said he'd better look
after it for a week or so.
He told me that both Jennings and
Wilkinson had brought their wives
ferns to him the day before same
kind as yours. He says ferns are
something like chihren-they miss
the person they are used to, my dear"
Il Think very likely they do" said
his wife, d-yly.-Youth's Companion.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-08
Menu ThorouuhIy Varied.

James Mcneil Whistler once visited
an artist in Paris who was not over
burdened with this worlds goods, and
was surprised at the sumptuous lunch
provided. On being asked how he
managed to live SO well, his host re-
piled: Il have a pet monkey, which l
let down from my window by a rope
into that of my landlady, and trust to
Providence. Sometimes Jacko returns
with loaf, sometimes with ham.
His visits are full of surprises. One
never knows what may appear"
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the derrick or fall on the ground near
by, and would surely explode. That
would mean certain death to every.
body near So that the man who
grasps the torpedo when it comes up
to the top of the ground is doing what
every man does in the presence of
threatened death-he takes the best
chance he has; there is no time to
run"
Thus do we see hero pulled off hia
pedestal. But the world is still full
of bravery, courage, valor and gal
lantry, and history abounds in inspir-
ing examples. The man who risks
his life to stop runaway horse or to
kill mad dog in the street may be
as brave as were the Spartans at
Thermopylae.
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Stand up.. Knocked Down,

The London Lancet urges pedes
TRANS to stand up for their rights in
the streets which the automobiles
are wrestling from them. But the re-
suit of any such heroism on the part
of pedestrians would be more cases
for the doctors and the surgeons, and
the Lancet is the organ Of the medical
profession.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-08
Rely on Yourself.

All things come to him who hustles
while he waits. Don't sit down with
folded hands or stand with arms akin.
DO set until tue occasion tells you
what to do; don't wait for something
to turn up or somebody to come along
and take you by the hand to lead you
up, without any labor on your part, to
the heights others have gained by
push and perseverance.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-08
LYDIA E. PINKHAM

Nature and a woman's work COM
bined have produced the grandest
remedy for woman's ills that the
world has ever known.
In the good old-fashioned days Of
our grandmothers they relied upon
the roots and herbs of the field to
cure disease and mitigate suffering.
The Indians on our Western
Plains to-day can produce roots and
herbs for every ailment, and cure
diseases that battle the most skilled
physicians who have spent years in
the study of drugs.
From the roots and herbs of the
field Lydia E. Pinkham more than
thirty years ago gave to the women
of the world remedy for their Pc
culiar ills, more potent and effica-
cious than any combination of drugs.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound is now recognized as the
standard remedy for woman's ills.
Mrs. Bertha Muff, of 515 NC. St.,
Louisiana, Mo-, writes:
complete restoration to health
means so much to me that for the sake
of other suffering women I am willing
to make my troubles public.
"For twelve years had been suffer.
ing with the worst forms of female ills.
During that time had eleven different
physicians without help. No tongue
can tell what suffered, and at times I
could hardly walk. About two years
ago wrote Mrs. Pinkham for advice.
I followed it, and can truly say that
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and Mrs. Pinkham's advice re-
stored health and strength. 1t is
worth mountains of gold to suffering
women"
What Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound did for Mrs. Muff,
it will do for other suffering women.
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Months

These figures show that it costs
considerably more than 100000 a
year to keep batt4eship in commits
sion. The Connectieut. fiagship of the
fleet, may be chosen as an example
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Gently made by Admiralty Secretary
Edmund Robertson. By this it is
shown that it costs $1,157, 500 to keep
a British battleship in commission one
year. A destroyer involves an annual
outlay of $Ss,5OO, torpedo boat $780,
500.
1t was with cable brevity that these
figures were transmitted. The enor-
nous sum required to maintain a bat
tleship for a year makes one wonder
If there has not been some error in
transmission. That a vessel costing,
say, 100000 should in the course Of
less than six years equal it's entire
original cost in the mere matter of
maintenance would seem inconceiv-
able at first glance. But when one
compares the figures given with our
own expenditures in this direction the
calculations do not seem to be so
much astray. The fiat cost of main
tanning an American battleship in COM
mission in no instance equals, or near
ly equals, the sum which the admir-
atty secretary finds is necessary for
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-08

Some people are always looking for
an excuse to make an excuse.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-08

The fact that some men are self
made is stamped on the wrapper.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-08
We Want Your Cream.

The only way to get rid of your past
is to get future out of it.-Brooks.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-08

Stack Covers, Awnings, Tents.
Flags etc. For information and prices, write
American Tent & Awning Co., Minneapolis
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-08

Write to-day for tags and prices. North
Star Creamery Co., Minneapolis, Mimi.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-08

We Pay Top Price for Cream.
Cash every day. Write for prices and
tags. Miller & Holmes, st. Paul, Mimi.
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~ ~ vASHINGTON.-A cal
culation of the an
~ nual cost of main
" tanning individual
types of craft in the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-29

ish war period. Although these in
creased disbursements are very general
and are shown in nearly every account
except that of interest on the public
debt, some of the heaviest of them
were for important permanent i'm
prOVements.
The Panama canal during the closing
year will have cost the government
S3S, 100000 as against s27 10000 for the
year 1907, and the work this year in
connection with the reclamation of the
public lands will be shown to have
cost about S13. 600 0O0 which is not far
from last years figures.
Postal Deficiency.
The deficiency in the postal revenues
for the present year will prOba bly,
reach Sl3,500,0OO as against $500, 600 for
1907, making a difference of six mill
lions. This is the largest postal deficit
in the history of the government except
in 1905, when ii reached nearly SIS
000, 600. The records show that there
has been postal deficiency every year
since the establishment of the service
with the exception of twelve, when
small SURPRISES were shown. The eX-
penses for the rural free delivery this
year are not expected to fall below
So. 900 .000.
The decrease in the amount of re-
ceipts of SEA, 900 900 and the increased
expenditure of $50. 600, 900, make a diff
ference against the treasury for the
fiscal year of Sl44 000 900.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-29
PATTERSON HOLDS HIS JOB

Memphis. Tenn. June 2S.-Further re-
turns received from yesterdays Demo-
cratic primary election in this state ndi-
cate the certain nomination OF Governor
NJ. r. Patterson over former United
States Senator Edward W. CaTmack. Re
liable returns received by the CONNER
ciay Appeal give Patterson 734 delegate
votes and Carmack 3S4 Carmack's fol-
lowers. it is said, will probably contest the
election in two small interior counties
charging fraud. The loss of the delegates
involved will not affect the result. Gov
ernOr Patterson popular majority is
about 1900 votes The election was held
on the county unit plan. Senator Carmack
favoring statewide prohibition and Gov
ernor Patterson announcing for local OPP
ton. The governor said. however. on the
stump that If the Democratic platform
called for state wide prohibition. he would
sign such bill if passed by the legisla-
ture.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-29
REPUBLICANS DEMAND
STRICT ACCOUNTING

Lisbon. June 2S.-A mass meeting or
ganized by the Republicans and pre-
sided over by Bernardino Machado. the
Republican leader, today passed a res
olution demanding an investigation of
the advances of money TO the royal
family and the misuse of public funds
during the regime of the late King
Carlos. A strong force of police sur
rounded the meeting place. but there
was no interference with the speakers.
some of whom were most violent in
their expressions. No untoward Incl
dents took place.