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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25
a TRAINING GRAFT

ravine runs bosterous stream Of water, which is
pretty we'll swollen spring the but which is
nearly dry during the summer.
At the bottom of the ravine would have hard
time to imagine himself in the center of large
eminent institution But following it toward the lake.
you brought to the point where the ship basin
begins. of landlocked harbor been dug out
in which several goodszed gunboats could be sheltered
safety during the storms the lake. large
wel-equpped boathouse has been built at the point
where the basin connects with Lake Michigan, and
there abundant facilities for the housing
and other craft which will be used by the embryo
sailors in their practice maneuvers
An artistic bridge has been constructed across
ravne about so feet above the stream water
connects with road running directly into the center
of the reservation The high bluffs each side of the
basin give stately effect to the general Ct the
reservation from the lake. At the top the highest
bluff overlooking the lake and commanding widest
view of the entire surrounding country is the admnstra
ton building handsome structure built pressed brick
In the center is high tower with windows various
stages. At side of the administration building
three smaller buildings which will probably be used for
officers or instructors dwellings
The main instruction buildings, lecture halls and
dormories for the regular members of the institution
are in close proximity to the administration building
The larger of these have been completed and
tcay ready for 1t would be possible the
institution to be opened this fall so great has the prog
ress been made it, but it is likely that
opening will not take place until July 1910 when
Admiral Albert E. Ross, who has been in charge
construction since its inception says will completed
1t is planned to care for between 1000 and 5000
many more than this number could be taken care of
emergency Several thousand weldriled sailors can
be turned out each year. and the result will greatly
increased efficiency among the and file composing
the United States navy.
Bids were recently opened in Washington for new
work the Naval institute which will aggregate half
million dollars James Corse of Racine
contract for the construction of the ocers houses which
include commandments house for $4,000 six junior
officers houses at $4,000
The principal work of the coming year. however
be on the medical department buildings will in
vove an expenditure of $313000 and will finest of
their kind in the west They include hospital which
will cost $234000; senior medical officers house. $4,000
junior medical officers houses $38000 hospital
dry $4,000 The Noel Construction Company of Balt-
more was awarded this last important contract
Before the station is completed the gunboat Nashville
will have arrived In Chicago which will be utilized as
training vessel by the Illinois militia Great prep
arations are being made for the reception Nash
vle but 1t is likely that the may in con.
nection with the new station when it is completed.
The ancient manofwar Wolverine formerly the
Michigan the oldest iron the United States
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25
lob WOULD KEEP HIM BUSY
Had Given Him a Big
Contract.

IN the height Of the recent wheat I'd
multi Broker Patten, discussing the
governments wheat estimates with .
reporter, said calmly:
"But some of the men the govern
ment takes its figures from are green
horns. Perfect greenhorns. AS bad
as the Dutch sailor, you know.
1.-THE captain said to the sailor,
when the ship came to port:
"'Take a boat, run ashore and buy
two dollars worth of vegetables
1.-The sailor didn't know what vege-
tables were, so as soon as he struck
land he said to 'longshoreman:
"'What is vegetables, mater
"'Oh, dried peas, for instance the
Iongshoreman answered.
$50 the Dutch sailor spent his two
dollars on a huge sack of dried peas.
when he drew near the ship again
with his load the captain called him
from the bridge:
"Well, have you got those vege-
tables?'
"'Aye, aye, SIR said the sailor.
"'Then,' said the captain, hand
them up to cookie one at time
"'Shiver my timbers!' said the
sailor, I've got job before me now,
and no mistake!"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25

plates forming joint-stock mining
company from subscriptions of Chi
nese merchants in China and abroad,
so as to retain profitable enterprises
in Chinese hands.
H. E. Ma Tung applied for permits
sion to resign from the grand council
on occasion of mourning for his moth
er, but will only give 100 days leave
of absence.
Chao Ping-chun, vice-president OF
the ministry of interior, has been or
dered to retire owing to his opium
habits.-North China Daily News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25
Independence Day is Near

Good fortune and soicitous combined have pre-
served to Americans the most sacred building in the
United States, Independence hall
1t is possible to hold Fourth Of July celebrations in
the shadow the very structure which the birth
signing the declaration of independence the most
potent doctrine for freedom the history of the world
The nation has not ignored the chance.
There many patriotic Americans who make it
duty July to journey to Philadelphia pilgrimage
the shrine of liberty, there to raise their voices in
thanks rejoicing the great deed that there
accomplished
Since that day. now distant $50 years. when Charles
Thomson rising in his chair for the first time the
final draft of that momentous document which Thomas
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25

Eighth ST., Canon City, Colo, says:
Three years I suffered with rheuma-
tism, dropsy and kidney complaint,
and became utterly helpless. found re-
lief after using two or three boxes OF
Doan's Kidney Pills and kept on until
cured. Doan's Kidney Pills have
been blessing to me-
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25

Fifth street, one square distant. He TOOK
his place on the balcony, which was then
the favorite rostrum of the day. Crowds
had assembled to hear him, gathered by
the ringing of the liberty bell. 1t was a
memorable celebration, and the first In
the history of the nation.
Later, long years after, Edwin Forrest.
the most noted of American actors.
whose love for patriotism and the insti-
tutions of his country was deeper even
than his regard for the stage, stood on
the same spot, and on Fourth of July
morning read the words of Jefferson as
no man has read them before or since.
A great crowd was present, perhaps the
largest ever assembled, and the actor
during and after the reading was cheered
again and again.
After the evacuation congress re-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25

leaf chemist will elaborate the sugars
and starches which the plant world af-
fords. AS sugar, the products will
pass from the leaf to be stored up, as
in the case of the potato, for example,
so as to afford storehouse of food
wherein the plant may draw for it's
sustenance, and for the development
OF its leaves and flowers when occa-
sion comes. All the vegetable es-
sences and acids, the scents and gums,
the juices which yield india rubber,
the fiavoring of fruits, and even the
color of the flowers, are similarly the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25
NATURE THE GREAT CHEMIST

the carbonic acid gas from the air.
Then it is decomposing this gas into
its component elements-carbon and
oxygen. The carbon it is retaining as
part of the plants food, to enter into
combination with water; and the oxy-
gen it sets free into the atmosphere.
By night this process ceases, for light
is an essential feature in the opera
ton.
Out of the carbon and the water the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25
Bits from the Far East.

1t has been discovered by the min
istry of civil Office that there are some
$4,000 dismissed or degraded officials
who are entitled to reinstatement by
special grace on the occasion of the
new reign, and these officials are
availing themselves to pour in their
applications to be restored to their
ranks.
AS Mongolia is rich in minerals and
foreigners have been casting longing
glances on it, the ministry of agricult-
ure. industry and commerce contem-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25
In the Fertile Azores.

Ponta Delgada, with population OF
$4,000, is the largest city in the Azores
islands. The climate is very even,
and European and tropical plants
thrive to perfection. The productive
ness of the soil is remarkable.
Oranges, lemons, pineapples. figs and
other fruits are cultivated with great
success.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25
Always Performing Feats Which High
est Exactitude Of Science Can
not Rival.

The bursting leaves Of spring time
illustrate nature as chemist who per-
forms feats which the highest exacti-
tude of science cannot hope to rival.
In a leaf the living matter is the chem
list and the cell is his laboratory. By.
daylight the leaf chemist is absorbing
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25

Presidents of the United States senator's representa-
tives justices of the highest courts and foreign am
bassadors have poured forth their eoquence at bertys
cradle The municipal authorities of the city of Phade
phia are careful to see distinguished
is always hand orator of the day.
The pomp of military circumstances has sometimes
been called upon prestige the OCCASION and the
best musicians the land have been proud to play par
airs in the shadow of the seeple where hung the
bell that rang out independence.
The first reading of the declaration was that by
Charles Thomson the secretary of when he
the completed paper to the who had framed
it. Thomson did not however read the declaration from
the balcony of Independence hall to the people crowded
outside to hear for the first time what terms the colo
nsts should King George that his control of the hir
teen colonies at end.
That privilege was reserved for John Nixon promf-
nent member committee of safety In honor of the
occasion delegates to the congress filed in the July
sunshine to listen to the sacred words.
Nixon has been described master elocuonst with
voice so clear and distinct that it heard clear to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25


the navy has been growing at rapid The compile
ton of each batteship meant the employment of
BOO additional seamen and occasionally it necessary
to resort to strong to sufficient recruits
The heads of the department took the problem
hand and recognizing that the greaake district had in
the past furnished large number of the navy
1t was decided to establish vast station at the
most favorable site that could be Accordingly
after dozen sites had been submitted examined the
Lake Bluff site selected the centrally located
and as possessing more natural advantages than any
other.
The site of the institution is about hour and
hafs ride by railroad train from the city
and little by electric line Tpe is through
the aristocratc suburbs of Evanston ake Forest High
land Park, Wmette and Winnetka The station is To-
Gated about mile and half beyond station of Lake
Bluff and is marked by trim little depot of the electric
line. You first apprised of the fact that Uncle Sam
is engaged project from the signs which pen
fully adorn the boundaries of the warning
passerby that he is in vicinity government prop
erty, and that he should keep off.
The larger buildings of the station are so completely
hidden by trees that the general public passing by the
trains on the way to Milwaukee Waukegan would have
idea of the extent of the institution it
tower Of the administration building which itself
from the lake front The hills intervening
the neighborhood almost completely the large
buildings from view.
Extending from the fence which separates the main
enclosure from the thoroughfare are the smaller
brick buildings which housed the applicants for
admission to the station pending the time when their
qualifications and general health examined into.
There half a dozen neat two-storied brick
buildings admirably lighted and finished in which the
recruit will be housed comfortably any average
Chicago hotel They extend in a toward the lake
front where the larger buildings located in which
will be housed the regularly admitted members
institution
The first structure which approaches at the main
entrance of the grounds is the general Office building,
which is occupied by the government inspectors,
tractors and engineers charge work This is
compact twostory structure and is situated proximity
to the electric trolley line, which built into the
grounds facilitate the transportation
ton materials
All last summer and fall more than 1000 men were
engaged upon the greatakes naval station desg
mated in the official reports of the secretary Of the navy
The result of their efforts is in the practical
completion of the "a buildings Of which the station is
composed and this spring and summer will the
completion of several more large structures
Proceeding toward the lake from the inspectors
offices gradually descends deep ravine bordered
each side by large Nature has been exceedingly
to the neighborhood about Lake Bluff and it is
doubtful if picturesque region anywhere about
Chicago could have been chosen At the bottom of the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25

bloating, ETC., are
troubles that COM
monty come from
sick kidneys. Don't
mistake the cause
Doan's Kidney Pills
have cured thou
sands of women af-
ficted in this way
by curing the. kid
neys. Mrs. G. r.
Foresman, 113 S.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25
NERVE.

Excuse me, can I speak to your
typewriter a moment?"
"You cannot; she's engaged"
That's all right; I'm the fellow
she's engaged to-"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25

product of constructive chemistry
which beats mans best efforts to imi-
tate. Man follows nature, but at dis
lance
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25
How TIE WENB4RRACKS'IVIZ LOOK

ground 100000 the cost of
S25O000 the maintenance during
The first legislation for the passed by
in 1902 authorizing the appointment
site the great lakes Lake Bluff selected
In 1904 the work begun Included in buildings
six miles of road at $5O000 five 100000 sea
wall and harbo $4,000 and walls otaing $4,000
The total cubic contents of the buildings 100000
The approximate cost of the buildings follows:
Administration building $20O00 instruction building $4OO
900; drill hail. 100000; four dormores 100000 mess hall
3000O house, s115O0 house. $40 900; recev
Ing building 5O0O six receiving one receiy
Ing gallery $00000 store $700OO house.
stables s25000 brig (prison) s25OOO house
SOOO0 ten officers houses $4,000; hospital buildings
Including medical officers houses,
Since the United States took place in the ranks
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25

navy, as well as
the first vessel of
its kind to be
used on the great
lakes, will a ! S o
probably be seen
more frequently
in the vicinity of
Chicago than for
merly. But just
what the plans of
the navy depart
ment are for the
equipment of the
station with prac-
tice vessels are a
secret at present,
and it is unlikely
that their plans
will b e m a d g
known for some
time to come.
1t was the work
of the Illinois ma
val militia dur
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sized city that Uncle Sam has been
silently engaged in building in the
last five years.
That is what another year will
bring forth up at Lake Bluff, when
the greatest naval training station
in the world will be opened and
ready for business, if all continues
to go WELL
1t will be completed July 1, 1910,
and the total outlay up to that time
will approximate s3,50OO0O. OF this
$2,5OO,000 is the cost of 80 buildings,
S20O,0O0 the cost of 1S2 acres of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25
WOMEN SUFFER NEEDLEssLY
Many Mysterious Aches and Pains Are
Easily Cured.

Backache, pain through the hips,
| dizzy spells, headaches. nervousness,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25

Jefferson wrote, but which underwent
many changes before meeting with
the final approval of the delegates to
the continental congress, not an indie
pendence day has been permitted to
pass without a proper celebration in
the public square back of Independ-
ence hall
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25

Many an anticipated trouble looks
like mountain in size. but after it
has passed it looks more like pin
head.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25
A Rich Error.

A Rich Error.
Printers errors are always funny"
said Gen. P. P. Parker of the Arizona
G. A. R., land I'll never forget one
that was made over Memorial day
sermon some years ago in Phoenix.
''The Monday morning report of this
sermon began:
""The Rev. DR.. John Blank creased
the pulpit on the occasion'-and so on.
"'Graced,' of course, is what was
meant"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-25

HICAGO. IT b 7 e e
thousand e m b Y o
] a C k i e S daily ma
n e u v e ri n g on the
lake front on the far
north shore. Half a
hundred o fife ers,
commissioned an d
non commissioned,
engaged in tr a n S
forming raw recruits
into full-f1edged sail
or men. Half a
dozen trim gunboats
and practice vessels
stationed in the vi
ninitxy nf Tho GOOD
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-04-10

Spokane, April 10.-Fifteen thou
sand trees and thousands of shrubs
and vines were planted on Arbor Day
in Spokane by school children, the
Spokane Tree-planting association,
the Spokane Floral association, wo-
mans clubs and other organizations
under the direction of Aubrey Lee
White, president of the city park COM
mission They were assisted by J. G.
Seupelt, city forester; Chas. E. Balzer,
park superintendent; Chas. E. Jewell,
botany superintendent; J. Herman
Beare, principal of the North Central
High School. Mrs. H. w. Allen,
president of the Washington State
Federation of Women's clubs, direct
ed the work of these organizations,
which planted trees and flowers in
every block outside the business dis
trict. After ornamenting their
grounds the school children and 1000
high school students took up the
work on public grounds and vacant
lots and set out trees, shrubbery AMI
plants.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-04-10
What do you think OF Stubbs?"
visitor asked one of the ex-railway

what do you think of Stubbs?"
a visitor asked one of the ex-railway
lobbyists.
WELL" he replied, che reminds
me of the story of North Carolina
wedding. They as the Lord have
jined, teno man put asunder, says
the parson.
'Parson,' says the bridegroom, ]
rises to question your grammar in
that sentence. We wants the wed
ding done right ~
when the smoke had cleared away
the bride looked around on dead
minister, a dead brother, dead
bridegroom and several other dead
men lying near, and sighed:
Them new tangled, self-cockin
revolvers,' said she, sure has played
hell with my prospects. boston
Transcript.
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Receipt That Cures Weak
men---Free
Send Name and Address Today
You Can Have 1t Free and Be
Strong and Vigorous.

have in my possession prescrip-
ton for nervous debility, lack Of
vigor, weakened manhood, falling
memory and lame back, brought on
by excuses, unnatural drains or the
follies OF youth, that has cured so
many worn and nervous men right
in their own homes-without any
additional help or medicine-that /
think every man who wishes to re-
gain his manly power and virility,
quickly and quietly, should have a
copy. So, 1 have determined to send
a copy of the prescription, free of
charge, in a plain, ordinary, sealed
envelope, to any man who will write
me for it.
This prescription comes from a
physician who has made a special
study of men, and I am convinced it
is the surest-acting combination for
the cure of deficient manhood and
vigor-failure ever put together.
think l owe it to my fellow man
to send them a copy in confidence.
seithat any man, anywhere, who is
weak and discouraged with repeated
failures may stop drugging himself
with harmful patent medicines, Sc
cure what, I believe is the quickest
acting, restorative, upbuilding, SPOT
TOUCHING remedy ever devised, and
so, cure himself at home quietly and
quickly. Just drop me a line like
this: DR.. A. E. Robinson, 4705 Luck
Bldg, Detroit, Mich, and will send
you a copy of this splendid receipt
in a plain, ordinary sealed envelope
free ofcharge.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-04-10
STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE.
Carefully Classified.

1t is usually the ignorant or con-
fused frequenters of library who
are responsible for amusing mistakes,
but occasionally an over-haughty
guardian of literature gives occasion
for a quiet smile to those she serves.
To a request for ''Prometheus I'm
bound" one such replied, with chill
ing decisiveness, 1--WE have no un-
bound books"
More recently, school teacher,
wishing to extend her rather scanty
knowledge of the stories of Edgar
Allen oPe, in view of the centenary
of his birth, inquired at the delivery
desk of a rural library for "The Gold
Bug" adding, 81 can't seem to find
it in the catalogue, but I'm sure you
have it. A friend of mine had it out
last week"
The librarian glanced at the card
catalogue drawer over which the
teacher had been porting, and smiled
a superior smile.
''No wonder, Miss JONES' she ex-
planned, with patient gentleness
You're looking under Fiction Turn
to Entomology and you won't have
any trouble"
Smiling in her turn, different and
more genial smile, the teacher turned
to Entomology" and there, indeed
duly classified with learned works on
ILepidoptera and Coleoptera, she
found the unscientific but fascinating
insect invented by that master OF
mystery tales, who did not even know
that beetle is not bug.
1t was almost too good a joke to
spoil; but instruction and correction
become second nature to teacher;
and besides, there was her duty to
the public. When she parted with
''The Gold Bug" under her arm, she
left an enlightened but crestfaller
| librarian.
Oddly enough, mate to this anec'
dote comes, at almost the same time
from the other side of the continent
The president of a western woman's
club, also brushing up her knowledge
of Poe before writing paper on his
life, sought at the local library fol
that weird tale of horror. "The Phi
and the Pendulum"
he was referred to the card cata
Ilogue ana advised to look under
Mechanics" or "Horology."
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KAISER A $40 MAN
Would Make Good Commercial
Traveller in the United States.

Would Make Good Commercial
Traveller in the United States.
Chase S. Osborn, of Sault Ste
Marie, Mich, is in Berlin. There are
few places on the earth which he has
not visited. He and his wife are
about to start for some of the inter-
ior regions of the Balkans. Mr.. and
Mrs. Osborn were driving around
Potsdam the other day when the met
the kaiser and his party. The kaiser,
who recognized them as Americans,
spoke to them and remarked it was
a fine day. 1t really was a fine day.
so the imperial observation was made
without an effort.
1t is well known that the kaiser can
spot Americans with more than ordi-
nary accuracy. 1t is also well known
that he likes to talk to them. More
over, he knows how to talk American.
Mr.. Osborn says the kaiser is mere
sovereign.
GAS the generality of sovereigns are
to be judged" he went on, ''some of
the kings and emperors of Europe
wouldn't be worth $25 week outside
their present occupations, but would
put the German kaiser in the $40
category right at the start. l admire
him very much. If he were not the
German emperor, he ought to be one
of our American industrial or finan-
cial captains, to say nothing of what
he would be after an experience and
promotion. I am sure he would
make first rate commercial traveller
in the United States, supposing. OF
course, he were not an emperor"