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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
GOSSIP OF THE DIAMOND

Manager Murray made a good move
when he pulled Lefthander Foxen
from Jersey City. He has more than
made good.
Managers who stand for players
who insult umpires are worse than
the players, and poor baseball assets, "
declares an eastern baseball man.
Thomas Tuokey, pitcher of the
Meriden team of the Connecticut
league, has been sold to the Boston
Nationals for 81 500. 1t was announced
that Capt. Gus Soffel of the Meriden
team will go with the Boston team at
the end of the Connecticut league
season.
Jimmy Kane of Cincinnati is the
highest man in the National league.
He weighs about 122 pounds, but is as
fleet as any fielder in the game and
can stick nicely.
The Cincinnati Reds will surely
have a great string of young pitchers
on hand next spring. They have al
ready signed about a dozen, the latest
UC1n6 4tuooOI L Olu VI 1AIAoutd III tAO
Southern league.
Big Ed Walsh of the Chicago
Americans has pitched more games
than any other big league pitcher. He
has now performed in excess of 80
games, which is a seasons work for
many so-called crack pitchers. He
certainly is willing horse.
Chicago, Pittsburg and New York
are glancipg behind at the buzzing
noise and the cloud Of dust which Ii
bearing down on them. It's the Phil
lies.
Herman Shaefer has been made field
captain of the Detroit Tigers in place
of Coughlin. Shaefer Is the pepper
merchant of the club outside of Hugh
ey Jennings himself.
The latest spoden of as manager Of
the Highlanders is Jack O'Connor. the
old reliable catcher. 1t looks. how
ever. as if it was only sum0r.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
LIFE OF THE AVERAGE
BALL PLAYER Is SHORT
Strenuous Training Each Spring and
Temptations to Drink Hard
on Majority.

Just now while the annual Cy Young
and George Van Haltren stories are
going the rounds and the baseball
writer's are using up reams of paper
telling how long these men have been
in the game, lot of folks are wonder
ing why so many ball players last
few seasons, go back to the minors,
and then disappear entirely.
The average baseball life is gen.
orally conceded to be somewhere be-
tween 10 and IL years. A man may
work in rolling mill II hours a day
for 20 years, he can make duplicate
watches and high-grade works of art
for score of years, he can engage in
all sorts of work that requires skill
and good eyesight for perhaps twice
as long as an average ball player re-
tains his skill, and there must be some
good reason for this.
1t is noticeable fact that sll the
ball players who have been "a the
game for years and who still play as
they used to, never lay off AMI loaf
for long periods. Ball players by the
hundreds quit all kinds of work when
the season ends in the middle of Oc-
tober and do not do a tap of work
until March, when their clubs so
south.
Then the winter laggards have to
swelter and work in hot climate to
get down to playing weight. Taking
off weight rapidly always saps a mans
strength, as those who grow fat in
the winter are in weakened condi-
ton for several weeks and capSaot do
themselves justice.
The temptations to drink and lead
fast life are greater in baseball
than in the more prosaic occupations.
A star ball player is much sought,
and hundreds of hangers on in places
where a ball player shouldn't be are
tickled half to death if the diamond
hero will join them in a good time"
A lot of the younger fellows fall for
it and in consequence come back in
the spring in mighty poor shape.
An observer could name two dozen
veterans of the American league wac
slow up just little each season, who
work. and work to distraction each
spring to catch on by the time the
season starts, yet who spend their win-
tiers in luxurious idleness. 1t seems q
queer way of doing.
Some one has suggested that club
owners sign up their players In q IL.
months contract, and run a wood
chopping brigade or pedestrian club
in the winter time. But the managers
and magnates have enough woes keep
ing the men going during the season.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
Pity and the PICTURESQUE.

There was a widow Cher husband
had been dead for a fortnight) who
lived in humble and honest way, and
who achieved triplets at stroke. Two
newspapers, touched, and rightly, by
her indulgence, decided that candy
shop would be a pleasant thing for
her They ran a human story that
fairly dripped mercy and loving kind
ness, telling of the tenement home,
the bereavement, and the scheme for
ready bargains in caramels and choco.
late kisses. The public, which is
everything rather than stony-hearted,
sent back $1,000 and the widow was
able not only to start her shop, but to
include soda fountain. This is the
same public that throws newspapers
and banana peels into the hospitable
gutter. and thereby cuts off the ap-
preparations for tenement house in
spection; splits on the sidewalks and
in public buildings, and thereby null.
tiplies disease. The average person
responds to obvious signs of sympathy
rather than to bigger and more distant
good.-Collier's Weekly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
CHE WAS NO HAsBEEN.
Cmoking Car Just the One Old Woman
Was Looking For.

Madam" said the brakeman as the
train stopped at a village station and
a little old woman started to enter
the smoking car, 'the car back is the
one you want"
How do you know? she tartly
asked.
Because this is the smoking car"
She pushed past him and climbed
up the steps, and after taking seat
she pulled out and filled pipe, struck
match on the sole of her shoe, and
after drawing few puffs she said to
man smoking a cigar across the
aisle:
THAT young Teller out there don't
know half as much as he thinks he
does"
How SOP" was asked
e ''He took me for an old woman that
had never rode on the cars before, and
told me this was the smoking car"
"And you wanted this carr"
''Why, never ride in any other
not unless my pipe is broke, my to-
bacco all out and none O. you men
snlks will lend me a cigar"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
HOW UMPIRE TIM HURST
HANDED IT TO COOLEY
Latter Tried to Be Put Out of Contest,
But Veteran Was On to
His Game.

OF all umpires before or since there
are none that have had so much news
paper space accorded to them as the
chubby little umpire, Tim Hurst, says
the Washington Post. There has
never been one who has ruled the field
with the same rod of iron as has Sir
Timothy, and this in the days when
ball players were men who would as
soon trim an umpire as they would at
tend to any of the ordinary avocations
of the day.
Such fistic giants of the grassy dia-
mond as Pat Tebeau, Jimmy McAllis-
ter, Jack O'Connor, Glasscock, Virgil
Garvin and many others too numerous
to mention, who made it point to go
after the umpires of decade and more
ago, never tried any of their games
on Hurst and came out of the big
end of the horn Tim always won out
hands down, and, in addition, made
the other fellows eat crow of the bit
terest variety. Hurst always adapted
himself to the situation in hand, and,
as the song goes in the opera of ''The
Mikado," he invariably made the
punishment fit the crime"
Bill Bernhard, when in Washington
last year with the Cleveland Club, told
story concerning Hurst and Dick
Philadelphia team, as was Bernhard
himself. The story, which has per.
haps never before been in print, treats
of one day when Cooley, in running
backward to make difficult catch,
fell over on his head, and, in addition,
got such a shaking up that he asked
his manager to allow him to retire
from the game, but Dick was swell
batter, and the manager, thinking
| that he was taking, refused his re-
quest.
But Cooley was surely hurt badly,
for he began to miss balls and also to
strike out, and then he suddenly
thought of plan that would enable
him to get out of the game, and he
started in to abuse Hurst, but Tim was
| wise to the situation, and he let Dick
"chew the rag" to his hearts content,
ouu, IL was CoIi-
mated by Tom Sampson, the mathe.
matician of the Philadelphia team,
that Dick did enough to be fined, at
the smallest calculation, $1,000, and
to be put out of the game for 355
years.
Every decision made Dick would
come running in and would abuse Tim
frightfully, but Hurst, with knowing
smile on his face, would wave him to
one side. Finally after an unusually
fsrvid burst of billingsgate, Dick,
sticking his face close up to Tins,
shrieked:
Going to chase me from the game,
eh?"
"Naw," leisurely replied Tim; 'Tm
going to keep you in the game, just
to show the people what bum ball
player you really are"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
FRIENDLY TIP
Restored Hope and Confidence.

After several years Of Indigestion
and it's attendant evil influence on the
mind, it is not very surprising that
one finally loses faith in things gen.
orally.
AN. Y. woman writes an interesting
letter. She says:
Three years ago I suffered from
an attack of peritonitis which left me
in a most miserable condition. For
over two years I suffered from nerv-
BUSINESS, weak heart, shortness OF
breath, could not sleep, etc.
'My appetite was ravenous, but I
felt starved all the time. had plenty
of food but it did not nourish me
because of intestinal indigestion. Med
zeal treatment did not seem to help,
I got discouraged, stopped medicine
and did not care much whether lived
or died.
zone day a friend asked me why I
didn't try Grape-Nuts, stop drinking
coffee, and use Postum. I had lost
faith in everything, but to please my
friends I began to use both and soon
became very fond Of them.
1T wasn't long before got some
strength, felt decided change in my
system, hope sprang up in my heart
and slowly but surely I got better. I
could sleep very well, the constant
craving for food ceased and have
better health now than before the at
tack of peritonitis.
my husband and I are still using
Grape-Nuts and Postum" There's a
Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full OF human
Interest.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
ECZEMA FOR SIS YEARS.
Suffered Torments from Birth-In
FrisntfuI Condition-Got No Help
Until Cuticura Cured Him.

Il had an itching, tormenting ecze-
ma ever since I came into the world,
and am now man 55 years old.
tried all kinds of medicines l heard
of, but found no relief. was truly
in a frightful condition. At last !
broke out all over with red and white
boils, which kept growing until they,
were as big as walnuts, causing great
pain and misery, but I kept from
scratching as well as I could. / was
so run down that I could hardly do
my work. used Cuticura Soap, Oint-,
ment, Resolvent, and Pills for about.
eight months, and can truthfully say,
am cured. Hale Bordwell, Upton,
Ia, Aug. II, 1907"
81 cheerfully endorse the above tes-
tfmonial. 1t is the truth. know Mr.,
Bordwell and know the condition he
was in. Nelson R. Burnett, Upton, Ia. -:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
. EAT EATEM'S EATABILTTY
EASILY THE MOST
EATABLE
EATING EVER EATEN.

think the idea Of changing a green
hillside into treatise on indigestion,
and making all the pretty trees along
the roadside point their branches in
the direction of a drug store is wrong,
but maybe I've too much poetry in my
veins and not enough business.
! took a little trip from New York
to Philly last week, and it was then
that the foregoing thought hit me a
belt in the thinker
It's only a. question of a short time,
Bunch, when our American scenery
will be changed to pill news.
I looked out the car window with
the laudable intention of sdmiring all
the geography as it rushed by, but be-
fore I could enthuse over two spruce
trees and Is blades Of grass, large
sign shut off my view and caused me
to see this:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28

pocketbook could reach, a line of
hacks, river-going hacks which had
been standing so long in the shadow
of the falling water that they seemed
to be giving each other the Mime
haha. Qndian joke.)
Eighty-seven hack drivers with
tears in their eyes and beer in their
| voices, when possible, coaXed Peaches
and me to jump on board their cata-
marans and be commissioned over to
the Falls, but after long and bit
ter fight our consciences won the vic
tory, and we walked.
Like all great things in this world,
Bunch, the Falls of Niagara started
out from a very small beginning and
gradually worked itself up to fame
and fortune.
When it started out away back in
the woods the Niagara river had no
thought of getting itself in the school
books and becoming a national pct,
like prize fighter.
On the contrary, Bunch, it started
out to be just plain, ordinary river
rolling gently on its rocky mattress,
but one dark night it suddenly fell out
of bed and created such sensation
that it has kept right on falling out
of bed ever since.
This is the only record in history
where a reputation has been made
by falling out of bed.
Peaches and walked down to the
edge of the Falls, and for eight min
utes we stood there without speaking
word.
Peaches afterward acknowledged
that the Falls had wonderful in
fuence over her, because that was
the first time in her life she ever went
eight minutes without saying some
thing.
To stand there, Bunch, and watch
those thousands and thousands of gal
Ions of. water pushing each other over
the edge of that precipice and then
falling with roar into the depths be-
low makes all the poetry in ones sys-
tenn come to the surface and beg to be
let out. Yours for better scenery,
JOHN.
Copyright, 1908, by G. w. Dillingham; Ca.)
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advertisements are stuck, like a lot
of secondhand court plaster, all over
the face of Nature.
1 love to read the advertisements in
the newspapers and the magazines,
but also love to be permitted to stop
reading them when the dinner bell
rings, which is an impossibility if
you're travelling on the railroads in
our dear land of liberty-God bless it!
In these days, Bunch, you'll find that
the something which once was a beau
tiful landscape is covered with a
board fence wherein it says:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
HIS OPINION OF FIELDING.
At Least, Only Kind Young Broker
Knew Anything About.

A young broker in Boston, while Wis
fling certain household in the Hub
not long ago, encountered number
of young women graduates whose con-.
versation suddenly turned to dis,
cussion of the development OF the
English novel.
The dealer in stocks and bonds
speedily found himself "out of it."
Presently, during lull, one young
woman asked him:
What do you think of Fielding, Mr..
Brown"
ooh, fielding is important, of course"
quickly responded the broker, Abut
1t isn't worth much unless you've got
good pitchers and men who can hit
the ball."-Harper's Weekly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28

Dear Bunch: Yours from Nice re-
ceived; also Alice's letter to Peaches.
I'm wise to the good time you're hav-
ing, old pal, and, believe me, I wish
we were with you.
1t must be aces to travel through
the Riviera and pipe the forget-me-
nots and the magnolia blossoms bloom
ing all over the place, while the air
is laden with the scent of roses and
the song of the nightingale makes mu-
sic for the midnight lunch-what!
Not bad on the poesy thing this
morn, eh, Bunch?
Holy mackerel! I'd like to see you
travel over this part of the universe
and get peep at any forget-me-nits
or maggieolas. Nothing doing.
Over here, Bunch, the wild-eyed ad-
vertiser is abroad in the land, and his
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
Deaths of Presidents.

Washington's death was due to
acute laryngitis; Adams, Madison and
Monroe, practically to old age; Jeffer-
son, chronic diarrhea; John Quincy
Adams, paralysis; Jackson, dropsy;
VaVn Buren,, catarrhal affections OF
the throat and lungs; William Henry
Harrison, pleurisy; Tyler, cause of
death not given by biographers; Polk,
cholera; Taylor, cholera morbus, COM
bined with a severe cold; Fillmore,
paralysis; Pierce, dropsy; Buchanan,
rheumatic govt; Lincoln, Garfield and
Mckinley, assassinated; Johnson, pa
ralysis; Grant, cancer at the root of
the tongue; Hayes, neuralgia of the
heart; Arthur, heart trouble, and Ben
jamin Harrison, pneumonia.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
Amhidextrous Pitcher.

It is the general opinion that no
pitcher can ever throw both right and
left handed with equal skill. Back in
the sos when Jim McAleer and Ed
Mexican were playing with Youngs-
town, in the Iron and Oil league, an
ambidextrous pitcher by the name OF
keenan, played on the same team
This man could work equally well
with right or left. On July 4, 1885
McAleer says he pitched two games
against New Castle, twirling the morn
ing game with his right and the after
noon performance with his left hand
winning both games
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
Jeffries Likes Baseball.

James J. Jeffries is about to take
a hand in baseball. Unless the unex.
pected happens he will buy an interest
in the new Los Angeles, CAL, fran.
chise, which was awarded at the last
meeting of the Pacific Coast league
Jeffries has always been baseball
crank. When he was travelling about
the country defending his title against
all corners he never overlooked a
chance to take in a game, and since
he has retired from the ring he has
been an ardent supporter of the An
gels. Several prominent sporting men
will join Jeffries as stakeholder.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
Not the Enulish Kind.

England neither sees fun nor sor-
row in our drama. The island cannot
possibly double up in mirth when one
stage character tells another that he
spent month in Philadelphia last
week. Our jokes are for home con-
sumption. So is our pathos. Just the
same as our national game, our style
of roofing and the way we pronounce
"ham."-Detroit News-Tribune.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
Lone Deferred

Meeker-Yes, I'm perfectly willing
for my wife to have the isst word,
but
Bleeker-Then what's the trouble?
Meeker-The trouble is she hasn't
reached it yet, although we have
been married II Chicago Daily
News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
Without a SinuIe Leaf.

A curious tree grows in one of the
numerous islands which are studded
about the Pacific ocean. 1t grows, at
its full height, to nearly 80 feet, with
branches spreading like a huge UNI.
brella, yet it is completely leafless, the
species having never been known to
show signs of single bud. It's sap
is useful as medicine, but as fuel
the wood is worse than useless, being
as hard as iron and quite as difficult
to burn.-Home Notes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
Venerable Clergyman Dead.

Rev. Angus Bethune, vicar Of Sea,
ham, England, who has died at the
age of 81, discharged his clerical du.
ties to the last. He was 81 years Q
clergyman in the diocese of Durham
and 40 years an incumbent of one
parish, and had served under sever
bishops of Durham.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
minor Ieauuers come HIGH.

According to a baseball official who
knows, purchase prices for minor
league players are running pretty stiff
this season. The $1,000 paid by the
New York Nationals for Pitcher Mar
guard is sample. That amount was
paid. too. One American league club
bid $500.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
Eternal White Lies.

1t is an amusing fact that every
woman claims to -aave a little dress
maker" who makes her the very latest
and the most stylish dresses for
hardly anything" That cheap dress
maker and the chat made myself
are myths which no one believes, but
which are eternal! -Moda. Milan.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
Plaster Portraits Popular.

Plaster portraits are the fashion
able form of counterfeit present
ment" in London. They are done in
the form of miniature busts or bas-re-
liefs at the lo~ price of half guinea
($2.50) apiece. They are modelled by
clever artists from the sitter in As
minutes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
Feels Small.

Yeast-They say man is smaller
at night than he is in the morning.
Crimsonbeak-Yes, 1 know I feel
awfully small at night when find my
wife waiting for me to open the front
door!-Yonkers Statesman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
FOOLISH QUESTION.

ooh, Willie, wot yer goin' ter
shoet?"
Indians, of course! You didn't sup
pose was goin' out to hunt sparrows.
did yOu?"
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JOHN HENRT
ON
AMERICAN
SCENERY.
BY GEO. v. HOBART, cHUeH MHueH.~

| heart of civilization, and that after
we reached the real country the land
scape would assert its rights and be-
gin to happen.
In about 20 minutes glanced care
lessly out the window, and I'll be dog
goned if 1 didn't see another board
fence with this on it:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28

And Usually Profitiess.
Sarcasm is seldom convincing.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28

Now 1 leave it to you, Bunch, II It
isn't discouraging.
Can you beat it in. Europe? Can
you get close enough to it to tie it?
Then 1 looked up and out and saw
yes, Bunch, another mile of fence
some of which bore this legend:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
SMOKE
YELLOWFINGER'S
CIGAROOTS
And Die Lingering, But Dopey

Then / tried to figure the thing out,
and presently came to the conclusion
that the train must still be In the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28

winked my eyes once or twice and
took another look, and there, spread
carefully over the map of New Jersey,
was sign which said:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
"The WiIdeyed Advertiser Is Abroad

For ten minutes sat there, Bunch
with my eyes shut, and when finally
/ took little peep out the window il
resulted in this:
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-11

Horace G. Newport ct PIX to G. 7
Newell. s275. Lots and s in block
in Newport's addition to Hermis-
ton. ore.
Christian Hellberg ct uX 10 p. IL.
Wilson, $4,000. South half northeast
quarter. and northwest quarter north
east quarter section SO and that por-
ton OF south half southeast quarter
and eats half southwest quarter sec
ton 2j lying south of the center OF
the county road, all containing zoe
acres. in township north, range 36
Il. w. NJ.
Christ Hellberg to A. l., Demarls
$4,000. South half southwest quarter
section 30, north half northfest quar-
ter. west half northeast quarter oi
southeast quarter and northeast quar-
ter southfest quarter section 81
township north. range 32 e. W. NJ,
containing 800 acres
Peter II. Wilson to Shristian He'll
berg, $270O. Lot OF northeast
quarter and lot of northwest quar-
ter section IA. township 6 north,
north. range "a. r. w. NJ, except 10
acres heretofore sold.
Frank Ransom ct ux to a. p. Nc
Knight. $1,000 Beginning at a point
on north line of southwest quarter
northeast quarter, section 20, town
ship north. range 35, F.. w. NJ, at
point Is feet west Of center of said
northeast quarter Of section 26, run
ming thence west 33 1919 rods. thence
south 10 rods, thence east 33 1918
rods. thence north 10 rods.
Melissa Sans ct vir to A. r. Pat
rick. $1,000 and other considerations
block S in Riverside addition to Mil
ton, Ore.