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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
THE IMPORTANCE OF ENERGY IN
LETTER WRITING.

To the cool, unprecedented onlooker
all advertising that is really good may
seem horribly exaggerated. You ask
what is the use in getting so excited
about the matter?
There is a great deal of use. The
ordinary man is too busy, too tired
or too Indifferent to pay much atten
ton to what you have to offer. 1t may
interest him, but he can't get up
enough interest to buy it. He doesn't
feel quite like it. The good adver
Using writer must work up his en-
thusiasm and excitement so that HE
WILL FEEL LIKE GIVING HIS OR
DER. The inertia must be overcome
the natural inclination to be lazy and
let good thing slip must be counter
acted, and the reader must be excited
to the pitch where he will not only as
sent to your arguments with his rea
son, but actually do what you want
done.
The one way of making a man feel
like ordering is to throw contagious en-
ergy into your style.
For example, suppose you are trying
to sell a fire extinguisher for home
use-a tube of dry powder to hang on
the wall at various convenient places
You feel the energetic movement OF
words in the following:
Answer this question: In case of
fire, would your Insurance really make
good your loss?
"You are always the loser by fire,
however well you are insured, for in
surance does not cover injury to your
business, nor all the discomfort and
inconvenience that go even with the
smallest fire.
"And then think of the horror of
having your wife or daughter or
child, or even your servant, burnt to
death by reason of dresses catching
fire!
You can prevent these little acct
dents VERY EASILY, and at small
cost.
Blanks fire tube contains perfect
ly harmless powder. 1t is just large
enough to fill the hand, and hangs on
the wall in kitchen, store, or factory.
The ring by which it hangs is at
tached to friction cap. All you have
to do is to catch hold of the fire tube
| and give it jerk from the hook.
THAT this device is really practi-
cal you may judge from the fact that
tubes of this kind are required in
every theater, in every factory, in
every crowded department store.
That Is the law. Read just a few of
the stories of how these fire tubes
have saved thousands of dollars worth
| of property and scores of lives.'
! Copyright, 1909, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
Almost a Tragedy.

On the crowded corner of Main and
Third streets, Los Angeles, the other
afternoon, a cigarette on the sidewalk
set fire to handsome young woman's
dress. Unconscious of the fire, she
continued walking, and did not dis
cover her danger until a dignified
man, who saw the flames creeping up.
began tugging at her skirts. Then
scores of persons rushed to the res
cue, a fire alarms was sent in, and the
police called. Now almost hysterical,
the woman struggled with those who
sought to save her from terrible in
jury, and before the blaze was ex.
inguished nearly all her clothes were
torn off. The excitement was SO tense
that the officers could not get the
woman's name. Friends took he,
homo in closed carriage.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
Similarity In Human Nature Noted by
Observant and Interested
Photoqrapher.

"You note," said the photographer,
"that in pictures taken anywhere in
any part of the globe, the humans
face the camera as if they wanted to
be taken. It may be vanity, but they
all seem to like to get into the pic
ture.
"Take a group picture made any
where, say among your own tribe.
Note the people in the rear with necks
craned to get out from behind blank
citing people in front, SO that their
faces will show. Shyness or modesty
may keep some who are in the back
ground from doing this but unless the
photographer has personally posed
every member of the group so that he
will show, you will always find in such
pictures some figures Of persons who
would otherwise have been more or
less obscured, but who have so disposed
themselves as to make sure that their
faces show.
$50 of any set group. and the same
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
Kite.FIvino Time in Korea.

On the first of December all Ko-
rean boys begin to fly their kites.
These kites are made Of different coll
ored papers, over framework Of
bamboo sticks. They differ very much
from American kites because they
have no tail, and the shape is almost
square. A few days before the fiji.
teenth of February, which is the last
day of the kite season, the Korean
boys write on their kites wish for a
blessing throughout the coming year,
and for the kite to carry away all
sickness and bad luck from them
Wide World.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

HENRY H. DENHAM, the man who
III knows the difference between a
pocket gun and shoe-buttoner, has
become an elevator conductor in the
He is a product of Kentucky, and one
of Senator Bradley's most valued con-
stituents. This is the first persinimon
the senator has been able to postle
from the tree, even with the longest
kind of a pole, and it was ha1ded
right over to Mr.. Denham. 1t is worth
only $1,000 a year, but that beats
nothing all hollow.
Mr.. Denham was a member of the
Kentucky assembly from the counties
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
THE BEAUTY OF SAUERKRAUT

waves at the seashore. 1t is the only
true food for midnight, when men eat,
not to sustain life, but for friendships
sake. Irvine these festoons of SUM-
shine about the deep, rich-red COL
umns of the frankfurters, and there is
something more than food. There is
art and atmosphere which the Welsh
rarebit does not even suggest.
Does anybody think that mere
grocery clerk could make that? If
we strike, the public indignation of
less than a week of midnights will
force the proprietors to comply with
our demands for a 24-hour day.
York Evening Post.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
SALESMANSHIP AND COLLEC-
TONS.

Usually the man who looks after
collections thinks he has nothing to
do with craftsmanship; he doesn't try
to know anything about it, and merely
sets his heart on low record of loss
of accounts placed in his hands.
In the first place, if the margin Of
profit is large, very free credit can be
given. 1t is better to lose a few &C.
counts Of those who fail to pay, if
the amounts are small, rather than
lose much larger volume of business
through applying strict credit rule.
A few years ago when the bicycle
craze was at its height, the largest b.
cycle tire concern in New York had a
credit man who would not give any
dealer credit unless he was rated by
the mercantile agencies, or could offer
unqualified references. A change was
made and the new credit man gave
very free credit to all the small re-
pair shops over the country, which
had sprung up In night, and ap-
peared honest in intent, but had no
rating, and though the percentage of
lost credits rose considerably the net
profits are said to have increased
from 100000 to 100000 a year. A
liberal credit man had more than
doubled the profits.
If accounts are large and the mar
gin of profit small. one or two losses
will eat up the profits on many sales,
and more care must be exercised on
the credit and collection end of the
business.
We will suppose, however, that q
small storekeeper is slow pay, but
never has large account, and buys
steadily. If he can be kept in good
humor so that his Indebtedness makes
him feel he must buy everything from
you, it is far better to take the risk of
losing small amount when at last he
goes under, than to press him so hard
that he begins to place his cash bust
ness elsewhere in which case you
lose the small sum he owes you, and
his business for year or so as well.
Clever craftsmanship would turn the in
debtedness into a means Of clinching
q really large total volume of business.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

nothing is left but a dry. light, splin-
terry substance, which will burn with
flame like primrose" as my friend
vividly put it. yet give off no smoke.
This quality of smokelessness is what
the hop-farmer wants. Charcoal and
Welsh steam co&l-these, one or
other, he must use in the casts as
built at present, or his hops will be
defiled by smoke.
My friend the burner was willing
to talk, as are most workmen old-fash-
toned enough to take pride in them
selves and their technique. His ia.
Their and grandfather had been char
coal-burners; he himself had been
born in a burners hut and brought
up to the trade from earliest boyhood.
My friend told many grisly tales of
persons and animals trapped by put
ting limb through into lighted pit,
Pigs, sheep and such-like live stock
not infrequently stray on to a pit.
are caught and cannot escape, and die
a horrible death by roasting. Worse
still, in my friends eyes at any rate.
is the fact that the complete pit may
be spoilt should an untimely hole be
made in its coverture and the air al
lowed to enter. In few minutes the
wood in the inside bursts into flame
and is consumed, like a bonfire. The
whole secret of the creation of char
coal is the lack of air and the conse-
quent non-faming combustion.
Charcoal, said my friend, is bought,
not less than it used to be but more.
All sorts of chemical industries re-
quire it now, and require the best, too.
We have charcoal biscuits, charcoal
tooth-powders, charcoal in electrical
apparatus, in filters and thousand
other new-fangled things. The burn
ers are often busy-too busy; though.
strangely enough, pay does not APP
pear to be quite what it once was.
There still exists a sort of clan of
hereditary burners-my friend be-
longs to this clan-whose headquar-
tiers are in the Ashdown Forest dis
trict; and, seemingly, unless you have
been brought up to charcoal-burning
from tender age, you make hideous
mistakes. ruin valuable pits, misjudge
the obscure behavior of various tim
bers, give way to slumber when you
should be wakeful for 40 hours on
end-and in multitudes of other ways
betray yourself as "bungler," and
not the real, initiated craftsman, all
of which 1 felt to be cheering talk in
such days as these, when laboring
England seems given over to the in
competent and uninterested.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

Seriously, this pleases me as no
other one minor thing that 1 know of
does. 1t brings the whole world closer
together, for it shows that however far
apart in land and tongue and customs
the races of the world may be, yet in
some at least of mans underlying hui
man traits we are all New York
Sun
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
The Reason.

The Reason.
The prisoner was in woefully de-
jected mood when he appeared in
court the morning after.
"You are charged with being drunk
and disorderly," Numbered the judge.
your honor" he explained, my
only excuse is that my wife is in one
of her annual throes of house-clean.
ing at home. Can't you send me up
for about ten days?"
Being kindly man in spite of his
veneer of sternness the judges heart
was touched with pity, and there were
tears of sympathy in his eyes as he
pronounced the sentence.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
A Difference.

Marriage makes big difference
with a woman. Before marriage,
when she gets angry she swears that
she'll never speak to him again."
After marriage. when she loses her
temper she never gives him any peace.
Exchange.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
Americans in Mexico.

Mexico has an American population
of 10000, constantly increasing. Their
wants alone constitute good-sized
trade.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

Strong Demand for Telephones.
During the last year, when most in.
dustries were at standstill or on the
decline, the telephone industry made
great advance.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
Takes Active p art in Capital Affairs

stands as much Of the present SEIZED.
ules and of "maximums and mini.
NUNS" as does any woman in Wash
ington.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
THE LOGICAL CONSTRUCTION OF
A>SALES LETTER.

Salesmanship in letters is not mat
ter of heaven-born genius. Some will
be more successful than others, but
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
The Indefinite Third.

'How many children have you?"
asked the stranger who had stopped
at the farmhouse for cup of water.
"Three." answered the old farmer.
zone living and one dead"
"But that's only two" said the 9th.
er.
"The other one" answered the o. T..
sadly, els lightnin' rod peddlsr."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
The Only Question.

Critic (sourly) jokes are an
stolen.
Humorist (eagerly)-Then you &C.
knowledge they are good?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-01-15
STIMSON IS MUM
ON LIBEL REPORT
Possible Prosecutor of PreSi-
dents Trouble in the
Spotlight.

NEW YORK. Jan. 15.-United states
District Attorney Henry Lewis StHmson,
of the Southern district Ct New York,
IS maintaining a discreet silence as to
the report that he is to prosecute the
libel suits against New York publishers
who limited at graft in the Panama Ca
nal purchase.
The report has unexpectedly conferred
the spotlight on Mr.. Stnson, and
brought before the public a man of
great viEor and nervous energy who
stands in the front rank in the legal
profession,
Mr.. Stimsun is forty-one years old,
and a native of New York His early
education was obtained in the public
schools. He was graduated from Phil
lips-Audover Academy. from Iale. and
toow the twO-year-law course e Har-
ward. being graduated with the degree
of NJ. A. He was admitted TO the
New York bar in 1894, and in November
OF the same year entered the office Of
the firm Of which Elihu Root was q
member.
Mr.. StimsOu's ability as a lawyer was
shown in such a marked degree that I'm
1923 hewas made a member Of the firm. 1t
was by reason of his ability and clean
cut character that the President C-Ose
him for his present office. in January,
1905.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-01-15
BIG MASS MEETING
BY EPISCOPA LIANS
Plans Arranged for Impress
i've Function January "A
in Convention Hall.

one Of the most impressive mass
meetings ever held I'm Washington was
arranged today to take place Sunday
evening. January "A. Tt Will be held i'm
Convention Hall under the auspices of
the Episcopal churches of the diocese
a bishop VIII preside and addresse s.
VIII be made by three other bishops Of
the Episcopal church The Keynote of
the meeting viii be -'The city, the VA
tiou and the World for Christ The
ceremonies VIII form preliminary SER
vice TO the conservation OF the Rev.
Alfred Harding as bishop OF the do
Cgse-
The meeting has been designated THE
Christian Workers Meeting" and in
vltation is extended to the general uub-
bic. irrespective Of denomination. to at
tend. No tickets VII be required
The Right Rev. Daniel S. futile,
bishop OF Miss url. presiding bishop Of
the house of lIshOps of the Episcopal
church In the United States will IRE
side at the mas meeting.
The fun MariIe Band win participate
I'm the services, as viii also the J'6rs-
tan workers chorus of 5000 voices led
by Edgar Priest.
The Right Rev. James II. Darlington
bishop Of harrisburg Pa will speak on
the CITY of Christ the Right Rev.
Ethelbert Talbot bishop OF central
Pennsylvania. ON THE Nation of
Christ and the Right Rev. Charles
WOOdcock bishop of Kentucky. ON "Tue
World for Christ They are among
the most fOrceful speakers i'm the EpIs-
cODal Church
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-01-15
MISS MARY FOSTER
IN AN AUTO WRECK
Doctors Today Unable TO De-
termine Extent of Her
Injuries.

Suffering from probable coucussion OF
the brain. Miss Mary c. Foster, daugh-
ter Of Mrs Charles o. Foster. who was
in an automobile wreck I'm front of the
Farragut apartment house, Seven
tocnth and / streets northwest, Is I'm
a serious condition today in her apart
ments iu Stoneleigh Court Dr. NJ.
Griffith and DIR. H. e.. YaITow. who are
attending Miss Foster, said this morn
sag that it would be impossible to de-
termine the extent or her injuries for
q day or two
Dr. Griffith had just left the automO-
bile i'm front OF the Farragut. and Miss
Foster was alone in the machine when
the chauffeur started up Seventeenth
street to take Miss Foster to stone
leigh Court. Failing to see an APP
preaching Connecticut avenue ear, he
attempted to cross the tracks. The
'front.' on the car rammed the middle Of
the automobile, the motOrman being I'M
able TO stop until his car had showed
the machine thirty feet.
Miss Foster was hurled to the floor
with sufficient force to render her nm
conscious. Dr, Griffith, who had not
entered the apartment house, witnessed
the accident and rushed 10 Miss Eos
Uer's assistance. Miss Foster regained
consciousness in about half an hour and
was taken TO StOneIeigh Court.
Miss Foster had been attending a
meeting of the board of governors Of
the Episcopal Eye. Ear and Throat
Hospital In St Johns parish house
last night The meeting was concluded
about $3.50 clock. when she offered TO
take DR. Griffith and DIT. and Mrs.
William Fox, of 1926 Jefferson place, TO
their homes in her automobile.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-01-15
GLASS
MAKERS COMBINE
1850 Out of 1000 PreSi-
dents Sign Agreement to
Consolidate.

COLUMBUS. Ohio. Jan ia comb
nation, including practically every max
CT of the hand-bIown window glass I'm
the country win be launched within a
few days under the name Imperial Win
dow Glass Company"
Its formation has been the work Of
representatives Of number Of firms IN
different parts of the country. who have
been meeting here since Wednesday.
Representative of 1850 presidents of
the independent factories out OF 200
have signed the agreement
The plants it viii control are located
in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio
Indiana. New York, Kansas, and Cali
fOruia.
Pending completion Of the consolida-
tion. the wage question has been al
lowed 10 rest Nearly all the factories
concerned are now closed by a strike.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-01-15
rom World. June p Js)
some BIG CROWDS ARE CON-
SULTING STOMACH ORACLE
Cooper Says General Sale Has Made No
Difference In Number OF Callers.

Although Ills much discussed medicine
is nov ON sale ut an druggists in New
York there has apparently been no lei
up i'm the crowds that are calling at the
store where Cooper is meeting the pub
lic
In speaking Monday Of lis extraordi-
nary success in New York. Cooper said.
Tine majority Of the people who are
now calling to get my medicine have
been sent here by friends There is
nothing tie matter with nine out of ten
people who are in poor health but ston-
ach trouble, brought about by over
feeding and little outdoor exercise
can prove this in few weeks 10 any
one who tries Coopers New Discovery.
As soon as / have proved it and they no
longer feel sired and dull and nervous.
they tell their friends about 1t, and
that beats anything I could say GA the
subject
II thought when I put my medicine
Oh sale generally Do New York there
would be let-up at this sore, bu. APP
parentiy there are just as II any calling
TO talk with me as ever. People nave
not yet realized they can got the medi-
cine wherever they choose. Y shah con
tlnus to meet the public at this store
during the rest of my stay in New
York %
Among statements made for publica-
ton on Monday by New Workers who
are strongly in favor OF CoOper's the
CRY and medicine was the following by
Mrs. Charles Trensch, of 81 Desbrosses
street who said: No one who has had
such an experience as my husband srd
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-01-15

myself wIth this New Discovery medl-
cine could help talking about it. am
well again after dIteen years constant
sickness, and MS husband is also in
perfect health after being treated by six
different physicians this winter.
My trouble has been indigestion and
rheumatism. was also generally run
down and suffered greatly from norv-
BUSINESS. j also had palpitati0a OF the
nedrJ caused by gas that would form
fn my stomach as soon IS j ate any
thing. e is impossible 90 describe now
miserable ] have been ali these wears,
on now hard i have tried TO get well.
When i got his medicine my health
was completely shattered Ms husband
nds had violent STOMACH trouble for e
year. 1t got so bad this past Wl1ter
that ne had swelling of the joints and
limbs When I first brought the medf-
cine home he said that ! was foolish,
as DR. would do me no good After / had
taken lt for two weeks ] was SO muCU
better -Iat inc got s0He AID started
taking IT, He got better faster than l.
la Two weeks he was eating big meals
end the swelling had all gone away. II
tJI k four weeks before the rheumatism
and nervousness left me. although 7 ate
and felt better at the end Of the first
week. / am now perfectly wells / eat
heartily and nave no gas in my SOM
acI. have gained great deal o.
ucsn and feel strong and euergelll. My
D.@baud- is ike another man. lie Is no
longer troubled with indigo stfon and
sleeps as he has not been able To for
Irlg time He says he feels ten years
ruuger. We think this medicine IS
marvellous
Cooper's New Discovery is now 0iI sale
al leading druggists everywhere. We
viii send free. upon request, a lreatlso
by SIR. Cooper. describing the true cause
of most I'D health. The Cooper MsulClhs
Co. Dayton. Ohio
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-01-15
BRAINSTORM STARTS
EARTHQUAKE TERROR
Seeing Cracks in Walls Of New York Tenement Building
Man Sets Up Alarm, and Tenants Fling Goods to
Street-All An Old Story.

NEW YORK, Jan. 15-Jacob Snyder,
who lives ar % Suholk street. and reads
all sensational news was nearly a hero
when he decided the earthquake, which
has demolished a part OF Italy had
struck New York this morning. and the
hve-story tenement in which he makes
his home was tumbling.
Jake returned home about 100 o'clock.
When he passed into the hallway, ne
observed there was crack in the plas-
tering, further observation showed him
a second crack, and still further there
was q third
The house is falling" shrieked
Jacob. '"The earthquake has come"
Then Jacob made for the Madison
street station, and as he reeled to ;he
street a trunk fell by him. Soon tine
street was Uttered with household ar
ticles OF every kind and description, and
the dre-escape was gOrged with scream
ing men and women.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-01-15

Into the station house ran Jake. Tie
was bTeathloss.
Earth Earthquake"
A policeman ran all the way 20 the
house
cts am earthquake or worse" mutt
tered the policeman, as Ee saw the half
dressed men and women CIIUEing 90 the
hTe-eseape and heard their screams.
Then me saw the goods and chatteis
piled high iU the street.
Help was called The tenants were
brought down from the Grc-ezcaDes and
roof
Sure enough. there were the cracks
ia the wall Joseph Tracey came from.
the office of the superintendent ~
building, and the policemen kept order
as best they could while he made an ex.
animation
These cracks been iu the uIastering
for years said the agent of the buIId-
ing. "IheTe amt any earthquake vet.
but there ls likely to be one. and when
It comes I'll you alut going 10 be q
hero either il VIII be- the hospital for
yours"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-01-15
ARE TOLD
PLANS FOR DINNER

Arrangements for the annual banquet
Of The Washington Institute of Bank
ers. which VIII be held at the Raleigh
in February are being rapidly compiet-
ed Chairman stoweu, of the banquet
committee reported progress last night
at the meeting of the institute at head
quarters. 1914 II street north west
Assistant District Attorney Frank Civ
en- addressed the meeting on flow the
Banks Can Assist in Preventing Crime -
During the ger. raj discussion which
followed, many interesting cases of az
tempted bank frauds We're described