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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
A TOUGH QUESTION.

"Say, pop, what's the, race prob
len?"
"Picking the winners, my son."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

Miss Annie Carlson arrived from
Hibbing Wednesday, called home
by the death of her brother.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

A. M. Peckham, of Loney &
Peckham, Superior, was in the city
Tuesday on insurance matters.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

/ Now is the time for some enterpris-
ing Yankee to lay the foundation of a
big fortune By getting 'possums into
the northern market J
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

AIlNnDV Leave your laundry at
LhUNUI1I H. A. STEMS barber
shop. All work guaranteed. Lost
articles replaced. t. f.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

Rev. Father Bilban was UP from
Virginia Tuesday on a visit to Rev.
Father Buh.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

Mrs. John Graham, of Bessemer,
Mich, is in the city on a visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Coad.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

J. G. Russell went to Duluth
Wednesday to accompany his FAM
lily on visit in the east.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

M. E. Gleason and sons spent a
few days near Two Harbors this
week on a fishing trip.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

Arthur Lindgren arrived Tues
day from Rice, for a visit with
friends.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Spooner be-
came the parents of a baby boy
Wednesday.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

Myron c. Woodland, of Tower,
was in the city Tuesday for several
hours.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

Tom Harri was up from Eve1eth
last evening to attend the Alumni
banquet.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

VIM. Prout is home from Ely,
Nevada, after spending several
months there.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
FIRST BANQUET
Alumni Association Gathers
Last Evening

The Alumni Association of the
Ely High School organized several
weeks ago with Miss Cora Thomas
president; Miss Emma Baribeau,
vice president; and Walter Eisen-
ach, secretary and treasurer, held
its first meeting and banquet at the
Central School building last even
ing. The menu served consisted of
Veal Loaf Fruit Salad
Parker House Rolls
Olives
Ice Cream Cake
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

Fred Childers left Tuesday for
Winnipeg.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
LOCAL HAPPENINGS,

w. 7. James was in Duluth sew
eral days this week.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

C'wvrrr-r~-rvry--1-r------r- s--r-
Blue-grass blade., 1909-01-24
\, the r,oouy least nso Power ,o-day,
every oSeLt.st ard philosopher
would SWING at the end OF
Ro9e.
10y Dr. j. 4. Bowies.

by III. j. 1. DOMlCos
at the END OF every three hundred and
sixly-i,Ne Gay our beautiful earth Completes
las journey around the majestic sun, the
parent OF US ali; and during this DrleI per
lod fuy mllllon men, women and children
lave completed the journey OF life, and
gone pack INTO the bosom OF Nature from
whence they came, and are soon forever
iDIgotten.
During the more than five hundred thou
sand years of mans sojourn On the earth,
trillions of human beings have come and
gene, and OF this vast and mconceivable
number only a few are embalmed in the
memory of the living.
On a very small sheet of paper can be
written the names of every man and wom-
an in the history Of the world, who have
made the progress of the race possible;
few men and women have fought all the
battles against superstition; had it not
been for the immortal few who fought and
died in their heroic struggle 10 break the
power of the hideous monster OF superstl-
tion. civilization would still DC locked up
in the womb of the future.
Inc INFINITE DltSSlHSS VIZ" ~
human race by few brave men and noble
women have all been achieved without
shedding one drop of human blood; their
only weapons have been the battle-axe OF
reason and the torch Of science.
This little band of immoral men have
carried the torch of science into every
land and under the stainless flag of reason
they have marched through ali The cherless
centuries. shedding light where all before
was darkness; their flag stands for all that
is good and pure in the life of men and
of nations it has never been stained with
blood nor wet with tears.
Blot from the records of the human race
the achievements of the heroic few VINO
have persisted in the flames, in dungeons
and in exile for their devotion to truth
and the whole earth today would be envel-
oped in a mantle of darkness, and the en-
tire human race would still be living in the
dens and caves of savagery. The railroad,
the steamship, the telegraph, the telephone,
the phonograph the sewing machine, the
reaper and mower the trolley car, the cleo
trio light. and all the multitudinous arts
and industries that now fill the world with
comfort, joy and happiness, would still be
locked up in the womb of the future
Blue-grass blade., 1909-01-24

ana devils, anu Us anu "iINhSo "OuiN
still be toTmenting us. The fires of perse-
cution that reduced to ashes Iiuss, jerome,
Wycliff and Savanarolla, would be re-
kindled, and the higher critics of today
who are honestly trying to separate the
gold from the dross in the Holy Book,
would soon be reduced to ashes with flame
and tagot.
| wish | had the power to impress all the
people of the earth with the infinite impor-
lance of completing the sacred work SO
grandly and nobly carried forward by the
Volneys and Humboldts, the Humes and the
Gibbons, the Diapers and the Haeckels, and
their immortal co-workers who have Sc
cured for us every blessing that we now
enjoy.
If the people now living had to endure
the agonies and the horrors inflicted upon
our ancestors by the priests of superstition
during all the long dark night of the middle
ages and down to the beginning OF the
nineteenth century, when the priests OF
superstition ruled the entire world, 1t
would be infinitely better for every man.
woman and child to commit suicide, and
find peace in the eternal sleep of death.
Only little over hundred years ago
and almost within the memory of aged men
now living there came an exile to the hos
pitable shores of the United States, whose
labors for the human race were infinitely
more valuable than all the gold and silver
that were ever dug from the bowels OF the
earth This man repudiated the gods and
devils and ghosts of superstition, and by
worshipping at the sacred shrine or Ma
ture he became one Of the immortal found
ers of the ennobling science of chemistry.
He discovered the composition of the at
mosphere. which had been sealed book
through all the countless centuries; he
discovered carbonic acid, deadly poison
to animal life, but an essential food FOR
every tree and plant in the world; he DIS
covered that the man and the tree lived by
breathing each others breath; he discov-
cred why it is that our mothers our wives
and cur daughters attend their flowers with
a devotion closely akin to the sacred SEN
timent of friendship
At the time when he made his discovery
of oxygen and carbonic acid, all Europe was
besotted with superstition, and pestilence
and famine were sweeping over the land
with bosom of fury and destruction; the
pigs the dogs, the cats, the horses, the
cattle, the men, women and children all
lived togeuner in the same miserable abodes
and were dying by hundreds of thousands
by breathing the deadly poison OF carbonic
acid in each others breath, and creating
the richest soil for the growth of the germs
Blue-grass blade., 1909-01-24
BLUE GRASS BLADE
Persistence of Superstition

CopeInicus, Calico, Servetus, Bruno, by
patia Spinoza Noltaire, Paine, Jefferson,
Draper. Franklin and lngersoll were not
porn 10 die; their names are as imperish-
able as the stars they are a part of the
immortal number OF the real redeemers
and saviors of the human race; through
all the centuries that are yet TO come they
VIII remain embalmed in the grateful hearts
and affections OF all the generations that
are yet 10 be, and their memory Will be
revered when the last man standing on the
distant shore of time shall sing the re-
QUEEN Of earth.
They spent all their days and sacrificed
their lives lghting the gods and ghosts
and devils of superstition, whose crimes
against humanity would fill book thou
sand times larger than the Holy Bible OF
filth and fables, from which the devotees
Of superstition derive their authority TO
rule and enslave mankind.
With fendish atrocity and malignity,
as fast as they appeared in the world, have
been cruelty put to death, and every book
containing any useful information has been
consumed in relentless flames, kindled by
the bloody hands of the heartless devotees
Of superstition.
Every nation of the earth has been cursed
by this frghtfu monster, and its whole his
tory down to this moment is Tiled with I'M
speakable sorrow and agony for the whole
human family; this hydra-headed devil of
superstition killed five million men, women
and children in the wars of the Crusades
to secure an empty hole in the ground,
where the God of the universe is supposed
to have been buried at the close of his life
On earth as a carpenter in Palestine
This Gorgon-headed monster killed one
million Arians because they refused to
abandon their belief in one God, and accept
the doctrine of the Trinity, or three gods
in one god it slaughtered with fiendsh
atrocity one million Wadenses, Albigenses,
Hugenots and Netherland insurgents; this
terrible monster, superstition, killed nine
million innocent men and women for the
imaginary crime of wtch-craft and with
unutterable savagery and barbarous cruel
ty. put twelve million of the innocent ma
tives of the New World to death long after
Columbus discovered America.
If this bloody beast of superstition had
the power today, every philosopher and
scientist in the whole world would now
be swinging at the end of a rope, fastened
to a gibbet or they would be slowly put
to death in the foul air of filthy dungeons;
our homes would be filled with ghosts, imps
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-08-13
THE DRINKING CUP.

The school board of this city, as
well as of other cities of Kansas,
is up against the drinking cup
proposition.
We believe this health fad bust
ness is being carried little bit too
far. WHAT the dickens are these
Two thousand young ones going to
do without drinking cups? They
can't all drink out of the bucket. 1t
would take too long to get around.
We admit we see no way out of
the dilemma without considerable
expense and trouble.
Whata figure two or three thousand
children would cur, each with tin
cup or gourd strapped to him, slid
ing around among the desks. We
would suggest that good sized
pond be constructed in each school
yard and the children be required to
lie down and drink from the water
without the use of cups.
What a pleasing sight It would be
to see 40 or so boys aRd girls lying
ON the bank with their heads in the
water and their heels in the air
shaking their thirst as our grand
parents used to do at the spring.
1t might seem little awkward to
the young ladies of the high school
at first but they would soon become
accustomed to the new way. Then,
you know, it is all for the health.
We favor the ponds as the simplest
and cheapest plan.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-08-13

BILE between the mine operators ant
employees. Both sides have cons
TO realize that force no longer may
settle controversies, but they are
to be settled through intelligent
arbitration.
This lesson which has been SC
happily learned by the mine workers
can be learned as we'll by all other
classes of working men. 1t need
not be compulsory arbitration. Il
the federal government will provide
the means for intelligent and i'm
partial arbitration as 1t did In the
Pennsylvania coal miners strike
during the Roosevelt administration.
However, New Zealand has compul-
sorry arbitration and no country en-
Joys greater immunity from strikes.
City Journal.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-08-13
Got The RaSCaIS.

Two sharpies undertook to do the
country people east Of this city last
week. They palmed themselves fl
as rural route road inspectors but
4eemed to have a side lire or two
They made themselves quite agreeable
and social and sold rural route
directories and such. o, course they
had to have o little money down.
They rsked 10 several dollars and
came back TO Chanuts to take the
Aight train out Of town.
Rural telephones had been busy aud
their game was discovered. They
we're arrested aud finally plead guilty
before Justice GrUom Of obtaining
money under false pretense. Each
get one year 10 the county jail.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-08-13
McCune Drug Store Wall Paper House, Barn and Carria
ROAD IMPROVEMENT.

In an interview with C. B. Amy x
on the road proposition we find him
to be a great enthusiast on the good
roads proposition. He drives in
the country a great deal and says
In talking with the farmers they very
generally favor sensible and
systematic effort at road improve
ment. Mr.. Amyx says complete
system of rock roads reaching from
Chanute out into the territory where
trade is divided between us and
other towns would be of surprising
benefit to this city. Being the
largest town for considerable dis
tance in any direction and furnish =
ing employment to large number
of men, farm products of all kinds
naturally commands a higher price
here than in the smaller towns
around.
This Mr.. Amyx argues would in
duce farmers to drive many miles
farther to get the best market if we
only had the roads. He thinks the
farmers, as a rule, will be willing to
take hold Of the matter and con-
tribute literally and that the city
should raise a goodly sum- of money
TO help out. This money would be
more than paid back to the city in
increased trade and that every farm
along these improved roads would
be Increased in value from to 10
dollars per acre, to say nothing OF
the convenience and satisfaction of
having nice country roads in all
kinds of weather. Mr.. Amyx thinks
that the improvements of the public
highways into the city would benefit
US more than all the inter urban
lines we will ever get.
We believe that Mr.. Amyx has
sized the proposition up about
right and that we cannot afford to
neglect this very important improve
ment much longer.
Under the new road law any
community can petition to the
county commissioners and have such
road laid out and the bridges built
at county expense.
If the city cared to take an
interest in the matter and raise a
generous fund for good roads pro-
motion great results could be
reached. What better could this
town do for itself than to raise
$40, 600 to be spilled in conjunc-
tion with the farmers and the county
in building a good modern road off
towards the Savonburg country.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-08-13
Carriage Paints Phone $685. Street NO Ill W. Main
PROHIBITION GUS THE
REVENUES.

For the fiscal year 1909, whlcn
ended FIVE weeks ago, the internal
revenue was about $780, less
than it was for the preceding twelve
months. all of which shrinkage
comes from the falling off in the
receipts In ntoxicants. Both from
spirits and fermented liquors there
was heavy decline. On all the
other items. on the internal tax roll
tobacco, cleomargarine, filled
cheese and other things-there was
slight increase.
Possibly the hard times had some
thing to do with the decline in the
iaternal revenue. 1t is evident,
however, that the prohibition laws
were a much larger factor in the
shrinkage. The fact that the re-
ceipts from tobacco increased ST.
900, 900 in the year seems to show
that the industrial stagnation will
not account for the falling Oft in
revenue from beer, wine and
whisky. The increase in the area
of the "dry" territory must have
done this. Every year In recent
times state or two joined the
exclusionist roll. County prohibi-
tion is making bigger gains than the
state wide exclusion. While nine
states shut cut intoxicauts, il
heory at least, from their entire
dominion, most of the other states
have county or town exclusions.
Thus tbs prohibition wave is
beginning to register itself in the
governments balance sheet. This
does not mean that the drinking OF
intox'canls has diminished in the
degree shown by the falling OF III
receipts from licenses and taxes.
Persons on the ground say that the
prohibition law is evaded in the
larger towns of Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee
and the other states which have sci
up barriers against the manufacture
and sale of alcoholic drinks. But
the sellers pay no taxes to the city
or state, and most of them pay none
to the government. II the prohibi
ton wave keeps on travelling over
the country some new sources OF
taxation may have to be adopted.
Mr.. Payne's tariff law, with its
corporation tax feature, is expected
to GO long way toward abolishing
the treasury deficit. But the shrink
age in the receipts from spirits and
fermented liquors was. something
which the trainers of(Ge bill prob
ably did not take into account. The
falling off in the income from this
item may, in the near future, raise
up a new issue for Congress.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-08-13

The bank of Erie is in the list Of
Guaranteed banks. II was the nrst
bank 10 the county to get in under
tne new guarantee law. What is the
matter with our Chanute banksE
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-08-13

Mr.. aud Mrs. Mark Roe who haYe
heen visiting Ia this locality, have
gous over lnte Missouri to visit Mrs.
Roe's sister. The Roe'G are prepar-
log to locate somewhere In the west.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-08-13
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.


adjourned.
There is great deal of criticism
being INDUCED in on the bill. One
class of political economists con-
tending that the principle OF pro-
lection to American industries as
advocated by the Republican party
has been violated and that American
labor must suffer therefor, while the
other wing claims that the Republ'-
can party has violated its pledge to
revise the tariff down, and has given
us tariff higher than the Dingley
law. Time alone can demonstrate
which of these claims is nearest
right.
Some schedules were lowered and
some were raised. The best in
formed on this matter seem to accept
as fact that the revision was down
ward. The Republican party has
made good its pledges at any rate.
We are inclined to the thought that
our congressman did MT work sll
summer for nothing and that they
have evolved very good tariff law Z.
We fear 1t has been made little
low on some schedules, but possibly
not. We have no fears of it being
too high.
A high protective tariff always
has been the salvation of this
country in times of stress and we
think it will still work In the same
way.
1t was not expected that a Re
publican congress would pass a law
that would be satisfactory to the
Democratic free traders of congress.
The bill was Republican measure
and was expected to be framed
along the lines of the best RePubll-
can thought.
There was little too much COM
promise between conflicting ele-
ments to get perfect bill IN all
respects but we will wager our last
years straw hat, that, taken as a
whole, it is a good bill, and with a
little needed dressing up, that shoald
be attended to at the neyy' ~5sion,
it will be better tariff bill for
present day needs than the Diagley
bill.
Uncle Joe Cannon is reported to
have said that the new bill wild not
start single new American indus
try. The probabilities are that
Uncle Joe never said it. But if he
did say 1t and it proves true that it
does not start any new industries,
it will put life and snap into thou
sands of old ooes and set the wheels
Of commerce to humming in way
that will make many an old fossil
sit up and take notice and wonder
why we have been sleeping SO long.
Following the panic of last year
that knocked out so many enter
prlses and curtailed many more,
came the talk of tariff revision aad
capital that was out of employment
was simply held up Till this thing
was settled,
There was more in getting this
tariff tinkering talk settled finally
than in getting absolutely correct
schedules in every particular.
Capital wants no uncertainty. The
men who control money will invest
quicker under unfavorable cir
eumstances that are well known and
absolutely certain than under more
favorable circumstances that are
not stable hut may be changed for
the worse.
Now that the thing Is Oft and
finally settled capitalists will accept
the situation, even though not as
favorable as they had hoped, and
put their money into use.
With great big crops all over this
country, now almost matured, and
commercial enterprises of all kinds
..;,, huev we may expect this
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-30
MARRIAGE FOLLOWS
CLOSE after DEATH,
SUICIDE AND ARREST
Rapid Changes Take Place in
the Lives Of Two Sioux
Falls People.

Sioux Falls. S. D., Dec. 25.-william
Youker and Mrs. Robert Riley have
left the city after rapid succession
of experiences which have been
crowded into their lives.
About two weeks ago Youker's wife
committed suicide in one Of the busi-
ness blocks where she had rooms. A
very short time before this tragedy the
husband OF Mrs. Robert Riley died.
Youker and Mrs. Riley were arrested
In one Of the blocks Sunday morning
for indiscretions committed at about
that time and forfeited an appearance
bond in court Monday. 1t transpires
that they secured marriage license
Saturday, but failed to have the cere-
mony performed. The announcement Of
the marriage. coming so closely after
the two deaths. created sensation on
the streets. Both parties have been
long time residents and have large
circle OF acquaintances.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-30
LAMRO CHECKMATES
THE MOVEMENT FOR
A RIVAL TOWNSHIP
Incorporates Strip Four Miles
Long and Establishes a New
County Seat Town.

Dallas. s. D.. Dec. 30.-Thc business
men of Lamro, the county seat OF Tripp
county, think that they have check
mated the townsite boomers who have
plated the new townsite of Winner.
three miles northwest OF LamrO. on
the line of the survey of the North
western road.
When the Jackson interests in charge
of the new townsite reported that they
had an agreement with the railroad
company for IL station, the business
men of Lamro began an investigation
ana claim to have satisfied themselves
that the agreement is only tentative.
Now, in turn. Lamro business interests
nave signed an agreement that they
will not in any case be absorbed by the
Winner boomers but have bought land
a mile west of Winner and four miles
from Lamro, will plat u town and name
1t Lamro. and then they propose to in
corporate strip of land 100 feet wide
all the distance from the old town qf
Lamro to the new and move the town
bodily to the new site. taking the copn-
ty seat with them. They will claim
that 1t is permissible to locate the court
house anywhere inside the corporate
limits of the town where the voters de-
cided to place it, and that will mean
that they can take it to the new site
OF Lamro. On the road survey. This
latter phase of the case is likely to be
threshed out in the courts. A similar
plan was attempted several years ago
in the attempt to remove the county
seat Of Walworth county from Bangor
to Selby, but 1t was not successful un-
der the action taken at the time.