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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06

was given vote and had as much
voice in affairs of state as had the
richest. This was the foundation Of
modern democracy; a government for
and by the people. Such scheme was
regarded as sheer madness by many,
but it's instant success proved it's
worth. Popular elections, limited
terms of Office and a public rendering
of accounts by every officeholder were
the three chief features of these laws.
The people at large were put in
complete control of public affairs. Any
man over 80 could vote. Scion also
appointed a senate, to which were
eligible only such men as had ac-
quilted themselves highly in public Of
fee. This body's duty was to advise
the state. But the people had full
ing senators authority only as long as
they held the voters confidence.
Popular government without anarchy,
liberty without license, fair play for
rich and poor alike and the general
uplifting of people and country
these were Solons aim And he
achieved tn m
"o e For the first time
.,',, the plain people
N"' received freedom
and justice
Thousands of Athenians, under the
former unjust rule had emigrated To
restore this deficit Scion tried to in
duce these expatriates to return and
also offered inducements for foreign
ers to settle in Athens. To avoid in
discriminate immigration he forced
each newcomer to pay an annual tax
and to provide himself with bonds
man who should be responsible for
his good behavior. Commerce and
manufacture were also revived and
greatly improved.
Most men would have been satisfied
at all this. Scion was not. To learn
more about government he left Greece
in his old age and travelled for ten
years in the various best-governed
countries of the world, trying to &C.
quire new ideas for the aggrandize.
ment of Athens. On these travels he
was welcomed everywhere as the
greatest man of his day. King Croe-
sus of Lydia, the richest monarch in
the world, and other sovereigns, de.
lighted to do him honor.
He returned at last to Athens and
strove to put into effect the new re.
forms he had gathered during his pill
grimage. In $50 B. c., at the age of
80, the Father of Democracy died,
having accomplished more for the
people and for posterity than any 9TH
er man who had ever lived.
(Copyrighted.)
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
L landmark of MarhIehead of Much
Historic Interest Will Be Taken
Over by Town.

BY the action taken at meeting
of the Marblehead (Mass.) Historical
society, when it was voted to pur-
chase the famous Lee mansion on
Washington street for a permanent
horne. one of the towns landmarks is
to be preserved.
The Lee mansion was built in 1853
and was the home of Col. jeremiah
Lee, a revolutionary patriot. Its orig
inal cost is said to have been more
than $4,000. The structure is of
three stories and is located on one
of the towns principal thoroughfares.
It was built of brick, covered with
wood and is in fine state of preser-
walton.
That Col. Lee lavished considerable
money upon the interior of the build
ing is shown by the expensive cary
ings in mahogany in many of the
rooms, the fine stairway and TIE pa
DOT on the walls, which is said to have
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
LYCURGUS - Father of Equality.
Patriotism and Socialism

were thenceforth subjected to an end.
less course of discipline, pain and
work. They were taught to go for
days without food or sleep; to endure
tortures, perils and hardships that
would kill an ordinary man. They
were trained by the severest system
of athletics and instructed in the use
of every weapon.
AS result, every Spartan lad, by
the time he reached manhood, was
not only an ideal soldier, but consid-
cred it childish to give signs of pain
or fatigue. He was perfectly de-
veloped human machine. There was
little or no home life for him. His
future was at the service of the state,
not of himself. Sickly children were
put to death. A stupid man had no
chance in life. Power of body and
shrewdness Of mind alike were neces-
sary for success, or even existence in
that stern community Sobriety and
,u. strict temperance
Debt to Spar - .t'
tan Reformer.
words of the
country. Boys were made to gaze on
the antics of drunken helot to dis
gust them with tipping. They were
shown the reasons for other nations
fall, to warn them against the same
faults. To promote personal equality,
every Spartan was obliged to contrib
ute his share Of food to a common
table. At these public tables on
terms of familiarity, all were forced
to eat, from king to commoner.
Women, in olden times, were looked
on as little better than slaves. Ly.
curgus changed all this. To him WON
en- owe much of their present high
position. For he gave their sex it's
first impetus toward betterment by
declaring women the equal of men.
AS mothers of future warriors he de-
manded that they be treated with all
reverence. Girls were taught wres-
thing, boxing, running and other ath-
letic sports and acquired the more
rugged virtues of courage and self
sacrificing patriotism. A Spartan
mother never Wept at her sons death.
But if he were coward she went into
mourning.
Having lifted his country from bar
barism to high civilization and set it
on the road of progress, Lycurgus an
nounced that he was going on a long
journey and made the Spartans take
solemn oath to abide by all his laws
and reforms until he should return.
Then, sacrificing himself for the land
and people he loved, Lycurgus left.
He never returned. No one knows
what became of him; whether he
killed himself or hid somewhere in
voluntary exile until his death, in or
der that Sparta might forever keep
the oath to obey his precepts until he
came back to take up again the reins
Of government.
(Copyrjghted.)
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06

A young nobleman had just come
back to Sparta. He had left home
years before, for what his friends
He bad actually been dissatisfied with
the wild, barbaric lawlessness of Spar
ia and had gone to Egypt, India and
other civilized lands to study the art
of good government. Now that he
had gained such knowledge he pro-
ceeded to put his learning to instant
use. Thanks to his high rank and the
favor he enjoyed from King Labotas
OF Sparta, this returned traveller, Ly-
curgus by name, had free field for
work.
He found Sparta groaning under
misrule, ignorance and barbarism.
The mobiles ground down the people.
The people hated the mobiles. The
government was lax, the country poor.
Lycurgus' first step was to confscate
all property, divide it into equal por-
tons and distribute it fairly among
the Spartans. He next broke up the
old tyrannical system of arbitrary
rulership and ordained senate of %
men elected for life), all of them
over 60 years old. Instead of one
king, he chose two. These were to
rule Jointly, more as high priests
than as sovereigns, were to serve in
the senate and were invested with
less power than has the president of
the United States.
Every citizen was voter. The
senate was elected by the people and
it's commands could be set aside by
them. Senators were at once law
All Mar EQUAL. makers, under ap-
Government by direction of Ly.
'"e eoP'e' curgus, and judges
in civil and criminal trials. In addi-
ton to these were appointed board
of magistrates (known as ephors)
whose duty it was to protect the peo-
pies rights and to act as restrain
ing influence on the kings.
Lycurgus also divided the populace
into three classes: Warriors, trades
folk and helots Tor slaves), assigning
especial duties to each.
Now that he had arranged for the
peoples temporal and political well
fare by system of socialism and pop
ular government, Lycurgus turned his
attention to a still greater need. Spar
ia was small, rather barren country,
sandwiched in among larger, richer
lands. Lycurgus saw It was only a
question Of time before one of these
stronger powers should seek to an
mex Sparta. Against this he guarded
by making his country so dangerous
to any of her foes that none dare at
tack her.
Sparta's only hope was in her army.
So he made practically all the popu-
lace one vast army. 1t was a clear
case Of the survival of the fittest.
From the age Of seven boys were
placed in the care of the state a0E
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
HONORS WERE WITH FARMER
Mail Carrier Must Have Realized
That He Picked Out Wrong Man
to Have Fun With.

The new mail carrier on the rural
free delivery route glanced at the
name on the letter box by the road
side, stopped his horse, and spoke to
the roughly attired farmer with the
old SLOUGH hat, who Nas resting his
sun-browned arms on the gate and
looking at him.
II see," he said. your name is
Holmes"
Eyes"
Beverly CO."
Eyes, I'm the man that lives here"
"Any relation of Sherlock Holmes?"
gravely asked the carrier.
mo, sir" answered the farmer, "but
I'm detective enough to know that
you're not very good judge of hui
man nature. You took me for an igno-
Janus because I've got my old work
ing buds on. I'm Sherlock Holmes
enough to look at mans face and
eyes before 1 size him up as "a
Some mail for me? Thanks youths
COMPANION.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
HIS PLEASURE A LATE ONE.
Probably MIR. Hogan Did Not Realize
just What Might Be Made of His
Expression.

Casey was dead, and to do honor to
him the members of the Thirteenth
district Tammany organization at
tended the funeral in body, says the
New York Press. Slowly and sadly
they filed past the coffin and took a
last look at their departed comrade.,
At the door each man paused to shake
hands with the Borrowing widow and
to murmur a few words of coincidence.
When it came to Mr.. Hogan's turn, he
retained possession of her hand, while
he delivered lengthy Grafton con-
corning the good qualities of the de-
funct Mr.. Casey.
"Sure, tbs plain you knew my hus-
band we'll, sir" said the fearful Mrs.
Casey.
"Only by sight, ma'am, only by
sight," Mr.. Hogan fastened to ex-
plain, 81 never had the pleasure of
meetin' him til to-day"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06

mons and Gentiles to have done with
the unseemly fight. the bitterness and
enmity that have in the past undoubt.
eddy retarded progress.
Only few years ago the majority
of the Mormons would not engage in
business enterprises in which Gentle
capital was interested, or at least
were opposed theoretically to doing
so. To-day there are many large en-
terprises in the city and throughout
the state in which the capital invest
ed Is about equally divided.
On the site of Brigham Young's old
adobe tithing-house. for example.
where the faithful were wont for
years to pour into the Golfers of the
church one-tenth of all they made. is
being erected a 100000 hotel. AL
though this is known most generally
as Mormon enterprise, as matter
of fact a large part of the capital has
been furnished by Gentiles.
The non-Mormon residents of Salt
Lake City are coming to realize that
the heads of the Mormon church are
good business men and can be relied
upon to carry large undertakings
through to ultimate success. Owing
to this fact the Mormon people no
longer have any difficulty in securing
outside capital should they see fit to
seek it.
One of the most striking illustra-
tons of the business commingling OF
Mormon and Gentle is to be found in
local sugar company which was
originally Mormon enterprise.
The sugar trust desired to absorb
this company, as 1t had absorbed
many others, and went about it in the
same old way. The heads of the trust
soon discovered that they were deal
ing with a business organization
which was every bit as clever, eff.
cient and strong as the trust itself,
and, in fact, could give the trust
some pointers in the line of shrewd
business methods.
The trust agents also discovered
that if they were to enjoy any of the
profits of the magnificent business
the sugar line, they would have to do
it on the Mormon basis and not on
the sugar trust basis.
Accordingly, the trust submitted a
proposition to the presiding bishop to
pay large price for certain part OF
the stock in the Utah company. The
purchase of this stock was coupled
with the express condition that the
sugar trust would in no wise inter.
fere with the management of the com
pany or attempt to dictate its policy.
With this understanding the bishop
submitted the trusts proposition to
the Mormon stockholders, and SUI.
ficient number to give the trust the
interest it sought sent in their stock.
Only a few years ago the subject
of Mormonism protruded itself into
the social, business and civic life OF
the city. It was the burning question
everywhere, and feeling always ran
high.
This is all changed, for were 1t not
for the monumental temple of exquis-
tie architecture, the rounded dome of
the great tabernacle and the forbid
ding wall which surrounds the
grounds of the Mormon places of wor.
ship, it would be possible to remain
in Salt Lake City many days without
having the fact forcibly thrust home
that this is Mormon stronghold.
GLEN STERLING.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06

Jack O'Connor of the Little Rock
club says he Is rounding up bunch
of Southern league youngsters for the
St. Louis Browns and that he will re-
place McAleer as manager next sea-
son.
The New Orleans club has a
monkey for mascot. Enraged be-
cause the home team was losing the
monk broke from his cage and started
a panic in the grand stand.
The Cubs have signed Right Fielder
Henry Happy" Smith, the leading
outfielder in the California State
league, who has been batting 1876 for
80 games.
The Boston Red Sox have signed
Pitcher Karger, formerly with Cincin.
natl, and now with st. Paul.
Hickman of Toledo leads the Amer.
lean association in home runs, He
has made five, Peitz of Louisville has
made four.
James of Columbus has a corner on
triples. He has made ten. Woodruff
has six and O'Neill and Hayden five
each.
Jesse Tannehill, released by the
Washington American league team to
the Minneapolis club of the American
association, says he will not report
to the latter team. He objects to the
$3.50 salary offered. He also says he
has bad arm.
The Brooklyn club has purchased
Left Fielder Wheat of the Mobile
Southern league team. Pitcher Fin.
layson of Brockton, New England
league, and Myers, shortstop, of An,
derson, S. C.
Cobb of Detroit is the leader of the
major leagues at stolen bases, having
swiped SO sacks. Hans Wagner of
Pittsburg is second, with a total
of "a.
Reulbach and Overall of the Cubs,
Camnitz of Pittsburg and Fromme of
Cincinnati are the only National
league twirlers who have pitched one.
hit games this season.
Bescher of Cincinnati compares
favorably with the speedy players
with a total of 81 stolen bases to his
credit.
Downs of Minneapolis has fond.
ness for doubles. He has made &c
two-baggers. Hickman of Toledo has
% to his credit. Hayden of Indianap
oils has 81, and Carr of the same
club 20.
Oberlin, McGlynn, Liese and Cheney
have the only one-hit games of the
year in the American, association.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06

The old Salt Lake City, the city
which Brigham Young founded, ruled
with an iron hand and loved because
he believed that it was ever to be the
stronghold of the church of the living
God, has passed never to return. In
it's stead has come a modern city, a
young giant among the business GEN.
tiers of the great west.
The fear of Mormonism, or. more
properly speaking, perhaps, the gen.
eral conviction that the influence and
spirit of Mormonism were such as
were bound to retard progress, has
passed or is rapidly disappearing.
Although the Mormons have ever
strenuously maintained that they
were for everything that would bene-
fit the city and community generally,
it is true that their ideas of what
would bring this about were frequent
ly running counter to those of the
Gentiles. This was bound to be the
case because the church looks at tenn
poral things through the spiritual
eye.
Although it is undoubtedly true that
the Mormon church ardently desires
the welfare of Salt Lake City and of
the state of Utah, it is equally true
that progress in its real western sig
nificance did not strike Salt Lake City
until the people at large had become
convinced that the Mormon church
did not have quite so firm grasp on
the affairs of state as it did In days of
it's early leaders.
Whatever the cause for the change
may be, there is no longer any doubt
that it has come, and that neither cap
ital nor people need longer avoid Salt
Lake City and Utah for fear of Nor
mon influence.
The change which has been
wrought is so marked that the trav-
eler of to-day would recognize little of
the Salt Lake City with which he was
familiar ten years ago.
Formerly the lines of demarkation
in the business of the city between
Mormon and Gentle were very tightly
drawn. 1t was carried to such an ex-
tent that the Mormon stores were
patronized solely by Mormons while
solely by the Gentiles.
To-day it would be very difficult for
the visitor to tell whether he was in
a Mormon store or a Gentle store.
So far as appearances go Gentle and
saint do their trading just as they do
in any other city, namely, buy where
they can get what pleases them and
buy where they can buy the cheapest.
Doubtless sentiment would cause
many Mormons still to favor their
own tradespeople where things were
about equal, but clannishness Is be-
coming less and less of factor in the
business life of Salt Lake City.
1t can safely be said that both the
Mormons and the non-Mormons are
pleased with this changed condition.
The Mormons certainly are, for they
are shrewd, sharp business people,
having in their church organization
one of the best business organizations
anywhere on earth.
This business organization realizes
through it's heads that what is good
for Salt Lake City is good for the
worldly portion of Zion. And the
worldly portion of Zion is a tremen-
dously large proportion of the worldly
interests of Salt Lake City and of
Utah.
And so it is that in studying the
problem of this city and of the state
as it is affected by Mormonism, one
cannot help being struck with the evil
dent desire on the part of both Nor
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
! MATHEWSON'S IDEAS ON
: THE ART OF PITCHING
BY "Christy" Matthewson.


1.-THE proportions of qualities
: needed for good pitching are
about as follows: Fifty per
} cent. control, 80 per cent. luck,
10 per cent. speed, 10 per cent.
; curve.
Gall the speed, the fast jumps,
} the cross-fres, the spit balls, the
big curves and the head are
: worth nothing unless a pitcher
!. has control.
"The most disheartening
thing in the world for a young
: pitcher is for the team to fail
|, to hit behind him. That has
} broken the heart, of more new
corners than any other one
; thing.
! "The team has never been
} lucky enough to hit well behind
Marquard, and that is largely
; responsible for his failure to
|, get good start. He has every
} thing that goes to make good
pitcher. Let them get few
, runs ahead for him and see
what he will do. He needs con-
} fidence.
"The most puzzling thing in
; the pitching business is how a
man can go in without any
} thing and win his game.
"The only man that has got
; ten a base on balls off me this
season when l didn't give it to
} him purpose was Clements of
Brooklyn"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
THE NEW WOMAN
Made Over by Quitting Coffee.

Coffee probably wrecks a greater
percentage Of Southerners than Of
Northern people for Southerners use
1t more freely.
The work it does is distressing
enough in some instances; as an illus
tration, woman Of Richmond, Va,
writes:
Il was a coffee drinker for years
and for about six years my health was
completely shattered. I suffered fear
fully with headache and nervousness,
also palpitation of the heart and loss
of appetite.
MY sight gradually began to fail
and finally I lost the sight of one
eye altogether. The eye was op-
Grated upon and the sight partially
restored, then I became totally blind
in the other eye.
my doctor used to urge me to
give up coffee, but I was willful and
continued to drink it until finally in
case of severe illness the doctor in
sisted that must give up the coffee,
SO I began using Postum, and in a
month felt like new creature.
Il steadily gained in health and
strength. About month ago I be-
gan using Grape-Nuts food and the
effect has been wonderful. I really
feel like new woman and have
gained about Is pounds.
Il am quite an elderly lady and be-
fore using Postum and Grape-nuts I
could not walk a square without ex-
ceeding fatigue, now I walk ten or
twelve without feeling it. Formerly
in reading could remember but little
but now my memory holds fast what
read.
Several friends who have seen the
remarkable effects of Postum and
Grape-Nuts on me have urged that
give the facts to the public for the
sake Of suffering humanity, so, al.
though dislike publicity, you can
publish this letter if you like"
Read 1.-THE Road to Wellville," In
pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full 0t humaa
interest.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
lTCHED FOR TWELVE YEARS.
Eczema Made Hands and Feet Swell,
Peel and Get Raw-Arms Affected,
Too-Gave Up All Hope Of Cure.
Quickly Cured by cuticura.

ct suffered from eczema on my
hands, arms and feet for about twelve
years, my hands and feet would swell,
sweat and itch, then would become
callous and get very dry, then peel
off and get raw. tried most every
kind of salve and ointment without
success. I tried several doctors, but
at last gave up thinking there was
cure for eczema. A friend of mine
insisted on my trying the Cuticura
Remedies, but did not give them
trial until got so bad that I had to
do something. I secured set and by
the time they were used could see
vast improvement and my hands and
feet were healed up in no time. have
had no trouble since. Charles T.
Bauer, Volant, Pa, Mar. IL, 1908"
Peter Drug & Chem. Corp- Sole Props, Boston.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
The Water Bite.

He was six years old and had never
gazed into the mystic lens of a mi
croscope. Several slides containing
animalcula had been displayed to his
astonished vision. He was too amazed
to make any comment until he came
to one slide that seemed more wriggly
than any of the others. 1t was merely
a drop of water.
The little fellow gazed at it long
time, with all its nimble particles of
animal life, and finally exclaimed to
his mother:
"Oh, mamma, now know what it is
that bites you when you drink soda
water.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
Quaint Inscriptions on Bells

The inscription on church bells are
often quaint aud interesting and fire.
quently relate to historical events.
They are more often than not in
Latin, sometimes bad, but nearly al.
ways terse and vigorous. The II
o'clock bell taken down in the French
revolution bore the inscription: Ego
sum vox vitae, voco-orate-
The Honly Ghost bell at Strasburg
bears the motto: 20 Rex Gloriae
Christie. veni cum pace" and is only
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
And the Old Man Grinned.

Duke" said the heiress, eagerly,
"did you see father?"
yes"
'Well?"
1--WE talked about the weather."
What? Lose your nerve again?
Why don't you brace up and talk like
a mama subject of king on whose
domain the sun never sets!"
Cant" moaned the duke. Gall the
time 1 was in your fathers office he
kept grinning at big painting"
What painting?"
1.-THE battle of Bunker HILL"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
Hen Lays Remarkable Eoo.

One of the hens belonging to Mrs.
William Childs last week laid an egg
which was a curiosity. In long cir
conference 1t measured nine inches:
in short circumference, seven inches.
After keeping the egg for several
days, Mrs. Childs broke the shell.
when to her surprise she found on the
inside another egg well developed
with a hard shell. The inclosed egg
was as large as the ordinary egg. the
space between it and the outer shell
being filled with the natural contents.
the yolk and white of the egg.-Dan.
vile American.