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

Alcoholism is very potent factor.
The white mans fire water has been
very largely responsible for the rapid
physical deterioration Of the Indians.
theoretically it is illegal to supply
alcoholic liquor to an Indian; prac-
tically he has little or no difficulty
in procuring all he desires. As might
be expected, there is very great
amount of immoderate drinking.
1t seems to be a reasonable conclu-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06

cordance with which the male Indians
hunted, fished and made war, and left
their squaws to till the fields; but
much is due to the degeneracy here
noted.
The Indian of to-day is emaciated,
STOPPING, inferior to the white in ply
sique, he does not present the full
chested, virile, robust figure which
characterized his ancestors before
they came to enjoy the influence of
the white mans presence among
them.-From the Monthly Bulletin of
the State Department Of Health.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
Worthy Guardian of Flock.

The proverbial sagacity of the shep-
herds dog is well known, and strik-
ing example Of this was seen in Gull
ter the other day. A flock of sheep
was being driven along the road,
and in passing the village the shep-
herd entered one of the shops for a
In his absence a motor car
came up, but in a twinkling the dog
was forward and had the sheep
cleared to the side of the road for the
car to pass, the same as If his ;ras-
ter had been there.-London Mas&
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
Wonderful.

"This is a remarkable world" ex-
claimed O'Brien. 81 was walking down
the street this morning and 1 met
man I hadn't seen for about twelve
years."
Eyes," rejoined Murphy, sit is re-
markab]e world. I Just had an expert.
ence much like that myself. l was
walking down the street not ten min.
utes ago and / met two men-two,
mind you-that I'd never met before"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
PHYSICIANS Mean Trick.

A doctor was one day stopped in the
streets by one of his woman patients
whose malady was purely imaginary.
The doctor, who was known for his
intolerance of and nonsympathy with
such invalids, after listening some
what impatiently to the woman's de-
tailed account of all her feelings and
symptoms, told her to shut her eyes
and put out her tongue. She prompt
ly did so. On opening her eyes in a
few seconds the doctor was nowhere
to be seen, and the woman awoke to
the fact that he had left her standing
by herself in busy thoroughfare with
her eyes shut and her tongue hanging
out
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
Always a Way.

"The cook has furnished rather
small portions" said the hostess. "The
woman guests won't eat much, but
how about the mem"
"I1l circulate around and nominate
each of 'em to make an after-dinner
speech" responded the host. THAT
will effectually kill off their appe-
tites."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
Exceptions.

"You don't have to be enthusiastic
to succeed in some things" said tbs
clearinghouse philosopher; 81 once
saw a man achieve speed of mile
a minute sliding down mountain
side, without the slightest effort on
his part and without having had any
ambition to do it."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
Defined.

"Say, pop, what's civil service?"
"Eh? It's an act governing the
service in the department, the Gus
toms, the postal, the government print
ing"
But, dad, what does it mean?"
Mean? 1t means where busy man
rushes into the postofiice to buy some
stamps, falls in line, waits an hour
and 20 minutes before reaching the
window-then, after rendering hun
dred-dollar bill, hears the tallow-faced
clerk murmur pleasantly:
Wholesale stamps at the next win
dow, pleased" bohemian.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
tuberculosis and Alcoholism Are Deci-
mating the Red Men with
Frightful Rapidity.

tuberculosis is very prevalent
amcrg the Indians at all reservations
and is responsible for one death in
three, if not half the total deaths. 1t
is impossible to get the actual figures,
for it seems to be nobody's business
to ascertain them.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06

1t was 35 years
ago that the ghost
of G a e S ar i S m
walked abroad in
America. 1t walked
again recently and
there was just as
much substance of
the spirit as there
was when August
Belmont in the
Democratic con-
vention at Balti-
more saw it strid-
ing through the
convention hall.
In his speech at
that Democratic
convention Mr..
Belmont said that
Grant, aided by a
corrupt congress, a
con gre SIS from
which all love of
liberty had depart
ed, was assuming
all the functions
of government of
whatever kind, and
that the bayonets
of the military des-
potism already
were flashing in
the sun. The New
Yorker declared
that "Caesarism
and centraliza-
ton" were under
mining the very
foundations Of our
federal system and
sweeping away
all constitutional
bulwarks."
The republic,
however, still lived
and last year Dem
ocrats and many
Republicans, 80
wears after, were
crying "Caesarism
and GENERALIZATION"
and in the same
breath declaring
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
STYLES Freakishness.

IT want to be dressed in the height
of fashion," said Mr.. Suddenroll
"Ill see to it that your clothes fit
you perfectly" replied the tailor.
"But that's what I'm in doubt about.
Is it fashionable just now to have
your clothes fit?"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06

e v e n / n g up
p / &C e at the
polls. The poll
ticians, the men
who make a
business of pol
itics, have a
wisdom of their
own, and they
have a respect,
though it be a
selfish and a re-
luctant one, for
that which the
people are bent
on doing
If all the dire
things had hap
pened to this re-
public that poll
ticians just be-
lore national
conventions had
predicted would
happen to it If
a man not their
C b dice were
elected presi-
dent, there
would not be a
shred of liberty
left in the land.
The people,
however, seem
to be satisfied
that they have
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
Not Worth the Time.

No man resolved to make the most
of himself can spare time for personal
contention.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
A Non-Expert Opinion.

81 say, Jim, what do they mean by
fearsome' in this here game of golf?"
Don't know, Dick, unless it's the
way some folks play"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06
E9zsa|

en- round. 1t is held, seemingly,
that in short terms of office lies
the greater safety for free institu-
tons.
1t has been asserted and argued
to the limit OF patience and endur-
ance in Washington and elsewhere
that the campaigning times, with
their attendant excitement, coming
as they do with barely a space be-
tween, tend to the breaking of the
health of the business life. Pros
perity, however, has been so gen.
orally a part of the country's his
tory that little heed is given to the
complaining cry. The fear of a DOS
sible instability of institutions that
might follow change has out
weighed the fear of a possible but
temporary commercial instability.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-06

ASHINGTON.-The po-
litical activities Of the
American people are
practically ceaseless.
National, state and To-
cal elections follow
one another in unhrok-
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-08
"Who Is NY Brother2o

The following story-4which Raw Stan
nard Baker tells in the September Amer
lean Magazine, in his article, '."The Faith
of the Unchurched"- lis of staggering sig
nificance:
Zone Sunday morning the sixth of
last December, 1 went to one Of the
famous downtown churches in New York.
1t was about half filled with a fine ap-
pearing audience; the sermon was good
sermon, poetic sermon; the minister was
an able man; the music was excellent.
1t was all very respectable and admirable
and dead Nothing happened; no one
expected, or wanted anything to happen.
People had come to see their neighbors
OF the same limited class and to be seen
by them, and to enjoy half hour of in
tellectual stimulation.
In the afternoon of that same Sun
day l went to see the tuberculosis exhibit
in the American Museum of Natural His
tory. 1t was thronged with people; on
that day 1918 persons visited the exhibit
more people, perhaps, than attended all
the protestant churches on Manhattan Is
among those throngs-Protestants, Catho-
hes, Jews, rich and poor-and talked with
many people, seemed to feel great
surge of faith in the possibilities of a
newer, finer, sweeter life in New York
city. With out creed or doctrine, or
church edifce, / felt that here, indeed,
was the true spirit of religion. It may
have been blind, but it was big, big; and
later its blindness will pass away. 1t
was symbol of a new way of visiting
the fatherless and the widows in their
affiiction. One of the test questions of
any true religion is this: Who is my
brother% and here among score of ell
bowling races and nationalities of rich and
poor, / caught the grandest of grand
answers"
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-08

,
enter it you hear sound--a sound as of
some mighty poem chanted. Listen long
enough, and you will learn that it is made
up of the beating of human hearts, OF the
nameless music Of mems souls-that is, if
you have ears. If you have eyes, you will
presently see the church itself-a looming
mystery of many shapes and shadows,
leaping sheer from floor to dome. The
work of no ordinary builderl The pillars
of it go up like the brawny trunks of
heroes; the sweet human flesh of men and
women is moulded about its bulwarks,
strong, impregnable; the faces of little
children laugh out from every corner
stone; the terrible spans and arches of it
are the joined hands of comrades;, while
ups above are inscribed the numberless
musings of all the dreamers of the world.
1t is yet MISUNDERSTANDING and built
upon. Sometimes the work goes forward
in deep darkness, sometimes in binding
light; now beneath the burden of unutter
able anguish; now to the tune of great
laughter and heroic shoutings, like the cry
of thunder. Sometimes, in the silence of
the nighttime, one may hear the tiny
hammerings of the comrades at work up in
the dome-the comrades that have climbed
ahead"
Referring to this speech in its review of
The Servant in the House, the New York
Sun said: Zone of these dreamers is
Charles Ram Kennedy; one of these mus
ings is The Servant in the House.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-08
CRUSHED UNDER FREIGHT.
Man Without Known Home Fatally In
jured Mondav.


William O'Hearn, about 40 years of age,
was run over by a south-bo freight
train at Westminster late Monday after
noon and both legs were crushed between
the hips and knees. He was brought to
the, Memorial hospital ON the same train
and died ,, there about o'clock that even
ing, The, man had been employed as a
minister for three days and nothing was
known of him though it was understood
that he came from Peterboro. N. III. The
body was taken to Bonds undertaking
rooms and efforts made to find the mans
home. The authorities at Westminster
were unable to throw any light on the
matter and telephone message from
Peterboro stated that the man was un-
known there. When brought to Brattle-
boro the man was unconscious from loss
OF blood. An examination of his injuries
showed many bruises upon his body and
two fingers crushed on his right hand in
ADDITION. to the injuries mentioned above.
A search OF the mans clothing revealed
nothing except razor, comb, necktie and
Few small articles. He had no money nor
anything about his person to indicate where
ne came from. His employers at West
munster SAID that the man came there last
week and was given work with Others and
that he was looked upon as a tramn AS
the man was brought here from Westmin-
ster the authorities in that place ordered
the burial of the body here at the expense
of that town. '"e eApeN'e
Funeral services Were held in .Rond's
funeral parlors yesterday morning at 10
O'Clock. Rev. ID. E. Trout officiafed and
the burial was at West Brattleboro,
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-08
How Flies Seek Food

Common opinion" says E. T. Brewster.
writing on the house-fy in McCinre's for
September "has it that the fiy meditates
profoundly on the conduct of life knows
what he wants and why he wants Il. and
deliberately Joins the assembly around the
top of the kitchen screen door to wait for
the chance to dodge in when the cook
comes out.
"As matter of fact, the 1y Is no spcb
rational thinker. He has one sunreme
motive in life, and that is-to move toward
the strongest smell. He enters the house
because there are more smells inside than
out, and, once in, he frequents the kitchen
because there are more smells there than
in the parlor. The f1y does not find its
food by sight, but by odor only. In fact,
the fy's sight is extremely poor; for ma
tnre has never solved the optical problem
of making q small eye see as clearly as
large one. The customary swarm Of flies
around the kitchen door means only that
the kitchen windows are opened at the
bottom. and since the top of the door is
the highest opening in the room. that,
rather than one Of the windows, is carry.
ing the out-draft and the smell of yester-
DAVIS SOUP The moral is, adjust the
ventilation 20 that the out-draft shall be
through a screened window. No fiy will
ever see a door open and deliberately iy
in.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-08
The Proper Food for Poultry.

With all the diversified beliefs as 10 the
proper diet for fowls to induce the greatest
egg production, it is almost universally
conceded that some meat or animal food is
needed For this purpose the handiest and
most satisfactory article is Pages Per
fected Poultry Food" II. ii. Runnells OF
South Newbury, VT, expresses the almost
universal sentiment of all who have care
fully used this food. He says: Having
sold Pages Perfected Poultry Food for
several years past, we unhesitatingly COM
mend it to all keepers of poultry as the best
food on the market for laying hens. We
have already placed our order for the
coming season, and in few days will be
ready to serve our customers again. As a
food for the cold season, We think it has
no equal"
II you want to know more about this
food and the best ways of using it, write
TO C. s. Page, Hyde Park, Vt, for his
booklet. Profitable Poultry" 1t win be
sent free, postpaid, to anyone mentioning
this paper.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-08
Alcohol at Six Cents a Gallon.

When the people of the United States
heard the announcement that Uncle odii,
was about to permit the manufacture anu
mse of denatured alcohol without the IN
ternal revenue tax, there sounded from
the general throat peans OF Joy ana praise
The fact that, in a measure, dlsappol1
want followed has nothing to do with the
sat;sfactiou with which the announcement
was received In the whole history OF the
arts and of the industries there has been
~ demand so Unsuitable and imperious as
mat for cheap fuel and cheap light and
h In%e among the workers is always ready
~ take fire instantly at the suggestion OF
promise of either. 80 ca
Rut If disappointment was all that hrst
came of Uncle SamuePs generosity nearly
everybody, at least, was educated 10 un
r. vii renuire. therefore, no long-Wlnded
avnianation to make perfectly clear the
meaning of the news which is now to De
,lnbl;sbed for the first time in the pages
r. The Technical World Magazine.
u Chean alcohol is here; and the dreams
and homes of manufacturers, OF farmers
and Of the housewife have come true N
deed the widest imaginings OF the mos
sangiline of those who saw conline 1 "a
san luton in the freeing of denatured al
peSoiu from the tax, viii fall short OF real
ties Alcoholic highest grade OF WINE
sniritsHcan be made-is being mademhas
already been made-in huge qHa md;nn raw "a,
a cost of six cents gallon incsuu ,,oaassaS
materials and all manufacturing processes
Ont of one of the commonest; hereIo-
fore most useless and desplsed OF an .nt
v wdsasb product rod is being extracted Saw
I 1aat which has been not only worthless
u,; ;a.n mn'c on the hands of the lumberman
If n1i this great lumber producing country,
hut which has been and is, also, source e
of danger and Of great eHP Stina as anJ heat
now ru, Which can outshine kerosene,
n lns heat p p anthracite and sell below both.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-08
A Lighted Street as Business Asset

That good streetIighting, or even spec
tacularly brilliant illumination, generally
pays a city in dollars and cents, is as
serted by a writer in The Illuminating
speaking, he says, the value of property
on business street is proportional to
the number of people who make use of
it as thoroughfare. Thus
"A corner lot on Broadway is worth
more than a lot in the latest subdivision
on Long Island, simply and solely because
a greater number of people pass the
Broadway, corner during the day.; 1t not
of street on the same block have con.
siderably different values, due to the same
cause. Anything which adds to the traffic
OF a given street must, therefore, add to
the value of the abutting property While
conditions of accessibility to necessary
utilities, such as railway stations, hotels.
banks, public buildings, ETC., have doubt
less preponderating influence in deter
mining the traffic Of a street, it is equally
true that no subsidiary condition has
such vital effect as the lighting. Gin
clnnati has long open square in the
center OF its business section, which natur-
ally affords a prominent location for bus
mess. 1t happens that one side of this
square has been brilliantly lighted up,
mostly. by private enterprise. As re-
suit nine-tenths of the pedestrians in the
evening take that side Of the square, with
the result that it is far more valuable as
a business location than the opposite side.
The merchants on one of Newark's main
business streets saw that the bulk of traf-
nc tailed to pass them in the natural
course OF business; they installed bril-
liant system of streetlighting, and forth
with their street became the center of at
traction; and similar instances can be
cited III numerous other cities. It would.
OF course, be absurd to expect to create
popular business street out Of a thor
sosughtare lying far. beyond the natural
I, OF traffic; but there is no question
Ihat any, street directly tributary to
business thoroughfare can be fully doubled
N value by the installation of spectacular
lighting
IN a more general way, lighting the
entlre business section of a city up to the
Tor the CITY as a whole what the lighting
OF particular street does for that sec
ZION; 1t increases values by increasing the
ttrafilc, not only from the city itself, but
ron the surrounding country and near
oy,,townss. That good light increases the
value OF residential streets by making
t H more desirable needs no argument.
1000 1000 street-llghtlng, more than any other
tnlng gives to city an air of progress
slveness and prosperity. Nothing sue
eeeds like success to appear prosperous
Is me trst step to being prosperous"
Lighting, of course, is a business asset
from from an even broader point of view than
this. It is, for instance, an efficient meas
ure of public safety and even of santa
ton Before the days of systematic street
lighting only those ventured out at night
who had urgent business or ample BODY
guard. City streets have become safe lust
e, the extent that they have been well
lighted.-Literary Digest.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-08
JUST JUNK.
Much Money Made in "Old Rags, Bot
ties and Bones.''

ties and B0neS.'
Up and down the dirty back alleys
drives the junk man, singing his mourn
full, nasal cry, loading his rickety wag.
on with broken scraps and pieces OF
old iron-an object of pity or Of ridicule
to most of the uniformed public.
Let him be admired or envied rather,
for, if not he, himself, at least his en-
ployer is probably making more money
than nine out Of 10 professional men.
Better than that his work is of the ut
most importance in the world and, in the
aggregate reaches proportions almost be-
yond the delief of the casual man in the
street.
Men whose business equipment in the
beginning of their commercial life con-
sisted of a few gunnysacks, an old wagon
and a spawned horse have grown rich
in few years gathering junk.
| know two young Hebrews who began
to gather junk eight or nine years ago
with an outfit that kept the agents of
the Humane society awake nights. They
had been fairly well educated, they were
energetic and ambitious and thrifty.
They worked hard and gradually i'm
had three or four of their countrymen
helping them, "hired men" working by
the day. Things, especially junk, began
to come their way. -Four years ago these
young men had haved up 81, gathered
in the alleys and back yards of a large
city. Then they leased one-quarter of a
block of vacant ground past which ran
railroad track connecting them with
the main line. Today these Hebrews
have a business aggregating between $780,
600 and $500 a year. They deal in
carload lots now and have contracts with
the most important concerns in the coun-
try.
When one considers junk in a national
way one is more than ever surprised. The
managers Of FIVE great iron and steel
works estimate the mill consumption of
this old material for 1907 at II TO 20 and
one-balf million tons. If that isn't suf-
fciently impressive one has only to reck-
on the average price by the ton. Some
kinds have gone down to 81 and Others