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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
EASILY FOUND THE cATAPULT.
How tisping Engineer Spoiled Sport
of Rioting Miners.

One of my friends who is a men,
Der of the peace society is greatly
disturbed over the invention of Hud-
son Maxim's new noiseless gun. He
does not fear it half so much because
of its possible use in warfare as of its
value to assassins.
What chance has any of our kings
or presidents if this gun Is to be
introduced?" he was worrying yester-
day.
Which just reminds me of a play
full trick bunch of rioting Penn
sylvania miners once played on the
troops who had been called out to
quell them. The miners would hike
away up the mountain somewhere
above the camp, select good, springy
sapling, and use it for a catapult to
lombard the mark with stones all
night long.
1t was simply impossible to tell
where the stones came from In the
darkness. The presence of numerous
habitations around the mountains
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
She Was Arrested Attired as a Man.

Johnson could not be placed in the
detention rooms for men, despite her
attire and for obvious reasons could
not stay in the part of the big build
ing assigned to women, the assistant
commissioner was puzzled to know
how to care for the detained woman.
Finally she was placed in a private
room in the hospital.
Miss Johnson's hair, which is cut
short, has tinge of gray and on her
lip is a faint down which she says has
been the bane of her life. The wear
ing of mems clothes for Is years has
enabled Miss Johnson to take on some
of the ways of man, and when she
talked she wore her fedora hat tipped
on one side and held her small hands
in her trousers pockets.
81 have worked as a man because
1 have had to-" she said. 81 have al
ways lived an honest and respectable
life. 1 have travelled across the Allan
tic both ways, with three men in the
room assigned to me, and they never
knew my sex was different from
theirs. Why should 1 be denied the
right to earn my living as am doing?
Hundreds of women in Canada are
wearing mems clothes in order to earn
an honest living simply because they
are obliged to do so. A woman of my
age can get no employment in the
United States, especially if she is not
strong"
There is nothing in the immigration
laws as to the proper clothing for
aliens, but the laws of the state forbid
women to wear male attire.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
INFLUENCE OF THE MULLAHS.
No One Dares Lay SacriIegious Finger
Upon Their Persons.

Ever since the beginning of the now
constant troubles in India good deal
has been heard about the mullahs,
says Pearson's Weekly.
A mulch, or, as it is more properly
written, mollah, is title given in
India and throughout the east gener-
ally to a religious leader of any de-
scription.
Thus the sultan of Turkey is a
mollah, because he is the supreme
head of the Moslem world. The hostile
Somali leader who caused us so much
anxiety between 1901 and 1905 and
whose name occasionally crops up
even now in the daily papers, was also
a mollah. And there are hundreds of
others.
To most of the more conspicuous
among them we prefx the adjective
mad" This, however, must not be
taken to mean that they are insane,
the word being used rather in its
oriental Specification Of inspired"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
Woman Chosen City Alderman.

Mrs. H. ]. Gates has just been elect
ed one of the six aldermen of Magee,
Tenn. For several years she has
taken an active interest in the educa-
tional work of her town and wanted
to be elected alderman because 1t
would help her in this work. She is
reported to have made about the most
aggressive campaign ever witnessed in
Magee, if not in Tennessee. The town
people seemed pleased with her cleo
ton, and even those who voted against
her believe she will make frst-class
alderman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
SENTINELS EVERYWHERE.

DR.. Doty has a sentinel on duty at
Port Said, and at every big port in the
world, and that sentinel's duty is to
keep a close watch on the situation
there and to watch every single ship
that passes on her way to American
waters. This sentinel is not watch
ing for the plague and cholera only,
but he must keep a record of every
single case Of sickness, no matter how
mild or how harmless, so far as in
lection is concerned, and make a re-
port in writing or by cable to Dr.
Doty. This report reaches New York
weeks ahead of the arrival of the YES
sci that is being watched, and it is
then sent back to all the ports that
the vessel is likely to stop at on her
way to New York from Suez. At each
of these ports an American health Of
ficer goes aboard and finds out how
that case of sickness is being treat
ed and the condition of the suspect.
The result of this vigilance is that
when the ship gets to New York her
skipper learns within five minutes
after he drops anchor off quarantine
that DR.. Doty knows more about the
health of his crew and the condition
of his cargo than he does himself. He
has to tell DR.. Doty everything he
knows about that case of sickness, and
when he gets through answering ques-
lions, DR.. Doty knows exactly where
that case Of sickness probably orig
mated, and he knows how everybody
on board that ship is, even down to
colds and pains in the back. AS every
body knows, the cholera is prevalent
in Russia, and the map reproduced
here, which is a reproduction Of that
tell-tale globe at quarantine, shows
that it is not only in st. Petersburg
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

There more Catarrh in this section Of the country
than all other diseases put together and until the last
few years was supposed to be incurable For great
many years doctors pronounced 1t local disease and
prescribed local remedies and by constantly failing
to cure with local treatment pronounced it ncurabe
Science has proven Catarrh to be constitutional dis
ease and therefore requires constitutional treatment
Halls Catarrh Cure manufactured by F. j. Cheney
d Co.. Toledo Ohio is the only Constitutional cure on
the market 1t Is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to teaspoonful. 1t acts directly the blood
and mucous surfaces OF the system. They offer one
hundred dollars for any it fails to cure. Send
for circulars and testimonials.
Address: F. ]. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consultation
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

Germans have one ship and one com-
try to watch the Japanese have doz-
en- ships and as many countries to
keep tab on. There was time when
the cholera made Roadway in Japan,
but that was in the days prior to the
regeneration of the most wonderful
people of the modern world.
To-day there is cholera and there is
also the bubonic plague in Japan, but
both are held splendidly under con-
troll by the Japanese sanitarians.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
BREAKS A COLD PROMPTLY

The following formula is never
failing remedy for colds:
One ounce of Compound Syrup of
Sarsaparilla, one ounce Toris Com
pound and one-half pint of good
whiskey, mix and shake thoroughly
each time and use in doses of table
spoonful every four hours.
This if followed up will cure an
acute cold in "a hours The ingre-
dents can be gotten at any drug store.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
Fuiiyama Modernized.

The beautiful mountain peak of Flu.
jiyama, which is regarded by the Jap
anese as little short of sacred, is to
be modernized by electricity. For the
benefit of tourists the mountain top
and the trail to it will be illuminated
by electric lights. Hotels and refresh
ments houses will be erected on the
mountain slope, as well as telephone
and telegraph stations.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
Girl Baby Has Two Heads,

Bridgeport, Gonna fine, healthy,
two-headed girl baby, weighing eight
pounds, has come to Mr.. and Mrs. 10.
seph Falco. Mother and babe are in
the Bridgeport hospital and both are
doing very well indeed. Doctor and
nurse say the baby will live, in all
probability. Joseps Falco, the father.
is business man and a well-kncwE
resident of North Bridgeport. Mrs.
Fa1co is the mother of four bright
healthy children.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
Have Little Care for the Morrow.

In the Congo the extravaganza OF
the average white man is astonishing.
Champagne is the invariable order OF
the day for men getting few hundred
dollars a year, and the official usually
lands in Antwerp after three years
with enough money for spree. when
he must sign and go back.-World's
Work,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

with little tacks. Every one of these
tacks indicates that at the place
where it is sticking there is to-day, or
was yesterday, case of the cholera,
the bubonic plague, or the yellow
fever, and DR.. Doty, the officials of the
United States marine hospital service
in Washington and the army doctors
know all about every one of those
cases, where it came from, how many
there are that are affected, whether it
is a mild case or bad one, and ex-
actly what the health authorities in
those particular sections of the world
are doing to combat it.
When the visitor to DR.. Doty's Of
flee hears the story those little tacks
tell he realizes what a splendid sys-
tenn it is that guards the western
world from the Asiatic scourges, and
how impossible it almost is for any of
those scourges ever to get foothold
as is the work of American medical
authorities, they are ably seconded by
the work of the foreign departments,
and to-day every citizen of every part
of this country owes a debt that can
never be paid to the splendid men of
Germany and Japan whose work holds
in check the spread of the cholera and
the plague-one guarding the western
world and the other the eastern from
tier against the advance of the dis
ease.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, fatulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness or nervous prostration.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address. Lynn, Mass.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
JAPAN'S HEAVY BURDEN,

On the other side of the world the
Japanese are bearing the burden that
the Germans are shouldering on the
other side, and they are making a rec
ord every bit as creditable as that of
their brethren of another race. India,
the home of plague and cholera, is d.
rectly in the path of Japanese COM
merce with Europe. and where the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
PRAISE FOR JAPANESE,

DR.. Doty said the other day that the
japanese health regulations are TO-
day second to none in the world, and
that the Japanese sanitarians have
forged to the front as among the very
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
DANGEROUS City "PIayurounds,"

New York city streets make dan
gerous Fairgrounds. but they are the
only ones that thousands of little peo-
pie have. Not day passes without in
jury to children by vehicles, and about
nine are killed each month.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

Duty is the sublimest word in IAN
guage, and sums the whole or nfe.-
Lee.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
Very Unkind.

Stage Door Johnny-Now what do
you think is the first necessary for q
nice little supper?
Experienced Show Girl-A nice big
lobster.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

WE SELL GUNS AND TRAPS CHEAP
n. W. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis, MINI.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
III.
x<nE
What He'd Seen.

mo-" said the eminent scientist, Il
have never seen a Plymouth rock hen
lay a cornerstone, but l have fire.
quently seen a pineapple layer cake"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

Wealth Not the Great Thing.
It is not wealth that gives the true
zest to life, but reflection, apprecia-
ton, taste. culture.-Smiles.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
Pettit's Eve SaIye Restores.

diseased A or INJURED All druppst es or How
ard Bros, Buffalo, n. Y.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

If Your Feet Ache or Burn
get a Csc package of Aliens Foot-EaSe. 1t gives
quick relief. Two million packages sold yearly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

The gold production of the United
States, In round figures, is 100000
ounces year, and of silver $4,000, 900
ounces.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
SAVE YOUR MONEY. buy GOLD SEAL

Overshoes and Rubber Cheapest
because wear longest. Ask your dealer.
Not sold by mail order houses.
Goodyear Rubber Co., st. Paul, Makers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

| A good firm to ship your cream to
MILTON DAIRY CO., ST. PAUL.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

The keener the critic the more cut
ting the criticism.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

Your use of leisure throws . light
on the whole of your life.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
Iponortant To Mothers,

Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

Even in fishing for compliments it's
the big ones that generally get away.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

There isn't much meat on the bone
of contention.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

Proof is inexhaustible that
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound carries women safely
through the Change of Life.
Read the letter Mrs. E. Hanson,
3O4 E. Long ST., Columbus, Ohio,
writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
81 was passing through the Change
of Life, and suffered from nervous
ness, headaches, and other annoying
symptoms. My doctor told me that
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound was good for me, and since taxi
ing it feel so much better, and I can
again do my own work. 1 never forget
to tell my friends what Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound did for me
during this trying period"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

Mrs. winslowfs Soothing Syrup.
For children teething softens the gums reduces In
fammaton sllays pain cures wind collie. 25c bottle.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

and Mini, Novgorod, but at various
other places as well.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30

EW YORK.-In the office
of DR.. Alvah H. Doty
health officer of the port og
New York, at quarantine.
there is a big globe, such
as is used in the public
schools. that is covered
The Washington herald., 1908-07-09
SHERMAN'S WHISPERS.
In Irreverent Quarters They Are
Serious Issues.

From the Baltimore American.
In some irreverent quarters the most
serious issue yet raised in respect 10 the
Republican ticket Is the comparatively
unimportant matter OF the Hon. James
S. Sherman's side-whiskers. In New Eng
land and the upper part OF New York this
style OF facial adOrnment occasions no
surprise; It is indigenous and proper. but
in the same localities the long flowing
beard OF the Rockies or the rainbow mus
tache OF the Gulf Of Mexico would be
distinctly banal This goes to show that
in the matter OF whiskers z. Pluribus
Unum must be translated according 70
climate
II has been suggested that Mr.. Sher-
man might have them shaved of. But
the photographs have gone out and the
impression has been made. We recall
with much interest the awful predica-
ment Of an esteemed contemporary IN
this city that got hold OF an old photo
graph when Morton was nominated for
the Vice Presidency and showed 20 the
community the next day a genial gentle
man with a finer pair of muttOn-ChOps
than even Mr.. Sherman can boast But
Mr. Morton had taken time by the fore
lock-or. 10 speak more plainly, by the
ide-whiskers-and his face for the cam
paign was as smooth as a tariff plank.
Some Of our opponents seem 10 think
that Mr.. Sherman's side-wil.Skers will
lose him a few votes. but this IS a mere
expression OF prejudice. which we should
not heed. AS a matter OF fact. whiskers
stand for the American quality. They
come from whisk which means to move
rapidly-tO sweep. As a campaigner, Mr.
sherman knows how TO move rapidly,
and with Taft he will sweep the country.
The Washington herald., 1908-07-09

most prominent in the printed agitation.
Mr.. Lincoln steffens, is reported as say
ing:
I'VE Americans have been cut on mar hunt
We are crng to have somebody put in Jail: To
make some individual suffer: and we may mob like
catch some victim some dAy. and we may wreak
upon him hate. | hate this hate and this
hunt have bayed my bay and am sick Of IL"
This makes 1t plain that. though Mr.
Steffens has been an instrument for good
he, too. has wrought blindly and
without the right motive. Investigation
Of wrongs should never be undertaken
in the spirit Of hate. unless II be hate for
the wrong itself; certainly not for the
individual who perpetrates the wrong.
II we are ever content to buy tempo
| rary ease at the cowardly expedient Of
letting those In power wrong us. because
it seems cheaper than It is to fight the
Ill, let us. then. frankly confess that in
! our conduct Of life our god is selhshness-
our ideal ease. But we refuse 70 believe
| that the American spirit is so sordid. so
cowardly. There can be no peace when
the good that is in mems hearts and souls
is in revolt
The Washington herald., 1908-07-09
Taft and Travel.

From the Baltimore sun
II the Hon. William II. Taft proposes
TO do any great amount OF travelling dur
ing the campaign and after. and breaks
down two locomotives on each trip. he
may be harder on the railroad companies
than Roosevelts policies were. We wish
to be perectly fair to Secretary Taft. and
so we cheerfully give him the benefit OF
his denial. He protests that IL was not
the strain of pulling his weight that
caused the collapse of the two mogul en-
gines that were attached 10 his train. II
IS entirely natural and to be expected
that his denial should have been made.
Ii is entirely natural that Mr.. Taft
should refuse 10 admit that a railroad
which succeeded in hauling the great
Krupp gun all the way 20 Chicago should
have been without sufficient motive power
TO haul him. But appearances are against
the candidate. A locomotive is a costly
piece Of machinery. and II this distin-
guished passenger and man Of weight is
10 send two Of them TO the shops when
ever he travels. the last state of the rail-
roads will be worse than the first.
The Washington herald., 1908-07-09
Just Fishing.

or all the various forms Of summer
recreation, there is none to compare. as
we see it. with plain. old-fashioned fish
ing. Not blg-fish fishing: not angling for
the monsters of the Florida coasts. or the
California waters; not specific effort, such
as one goes thousands Of miles out of
ones way TO reach-salmon fishing. for
instance-but just fishing; wetting a line
where the catch ranges from half-pound
trout and Dream to one-pound cats and
suckers. Even an occasional mud-turtle.
or an eel. helps the cause along ma
terially. Ordinarily. common-folks fish
ing is what we mean.
Nothing fancy Is needed for this splen-
did sport No reels are necessary: no
artificial bait permissible. No undue ad-
vantage Of the fish is taken by one who
gets all the true pleasure possible from
fishing. Just few canebrake poles, a
reasonably stout line-not TO cost more
than cents per yard. however, few
healthy worms. and a modest supply OF
live minnows. and the outfit is complete!
Not all the wealth Of Rockefeller can
add one whit to that kit calculated to
enhance the f1sherman's JOY in the slight
est degree. You may FISH from the banks
OF the stream you select. IL you please
but 1t is better that you operate from q
boat. II must be a paddle boat, how
ever; not one OF those impossible thing!
fashioned for row-locks. and. Of course
it must not be canoe. It should be con.
structed OF rough plank. and If It Leak
The Washington herald., 1908-07-09
IAN Era OF Peace"

There is wave Of expressed satisfac-
tlon running through a certain portion Of
the press over the fact that people general
ly seem % be turning a deaf ear 20 those
Rgitators who have pointed out the evils
In Industrial conditions. and who, by
the less polite. have been stigmatized as
''muck-rakers." In this they are following
the line laid down by Senator Foraker
some time ago. who expressed the opinion
that it would be better for the country
II the magazine writer's and the investi-
gators would mind their own business
and not stir things up so much. The
Kansas City Journal is one Of the news
papers that glory over what they call
''An Era Of Peace" and It says:
The past nine months Of financial stress and
Industrial depression have presented a remarkably
Instructive lesson as to the fatal consequence Of
Iowing dragons teeth by encouraging the orators in
high places and low places who have gone over
he country spreading the propaganda Of doubt and
astrust in relation 10 tho established order Of so
riety."
And yet it seems rather a cowardly sort
Of refuge 70 hunt silence when wrong is
triumphing, simply because an exposition
Of the right may hurt business The man
who thinks that the agitation over i'm
pure food. over wrongs in industrial cen
teT5 over the iniquities OF certain monop-
plies. over the discrimination in railway
rates, over q thousand and one injustlces
wrought by men and corporations, backed
by the money power. has all been fruit
less simply ignores the facts.
It has been a period OF streSs; IL has
hurt TO have the wrongs exposed. but
the wrongs have been and are being
righted. It is all very well to wish for
Industrial peace; 10 hope that the agita-
ton against wrongs may stop. but It will
not stop, ana Il should not. so long as
the evils endure. One Of the writers
The Washington herald., 1908-07-09
Toward Prosperity.

Prom the Philadelphia North American.
The steel trust. In the face Of a sharply
slackened demand. has been maintaining
tor prices. fixed in a period when the
supply could not keep pace with the de-
mand. The agreement 70 reduce prices
on all output except rails is simply a dis
play Of economic sanity.
II will mean the placing OF tremendous
orders by buyers who have been holding
of for the coming Of the inevitable II
will mean the unemployment OF thou
sands Of men in reopened mills II will
mean the use Of structural steel at pos
sible quotations, and the consequent re-
vival Of the now stagnant building trades
IL VIII mean a stirring Of industry that
Will be felt in every channel Of American
trade
The steel trust, thanks 10 its monOp-
olistic character. tried 70 hold prices al
the old levels, counting itself strong
enough to override all natural economic
laws. The error that hurt labor and all
branches Of industry has been acknowl-
edged at last. We are oae step nearer
the prosperity that is the nations natural
due
The Washington herald., 1908-07-09
That Deficit.

From the New York Post
Few business men. comparing their
balance-sheets Of July !. 1905. and July /.
1907, can have faced a more disagreeable
showing than the Treasury az Washing
ton. A year ago. there was a surplus on
the years operation OF $S4.OO0.Oo0. To-day
there is a deficit Of $50, ,o00. 900. Net show
ing TO the bad. s14.0O00O0. In private af-
fairs. such a black result would raise an
instant demand for the most severe econ
omies. Only by drastic retrenchment have
railroads and other corporations been able
to stand UP against the depression. But
what Federal official has lifted UP his
voice for economy Not the President;
not Mr.. TAFT. What plank in the Repub-
lican platform looks TO keeping down
the expenses Of the government? The eX-
penses have, in fact. been recklessly in
creased in the face of shrinking rev.
enues. Next years deficit is morally GER
tain to be greater than this But econo-
mixing IS a lost art at Washington.