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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
-Four Men Who Were Punished for
Helping Mankind

A factory was on fire. The anger
-craZed mob who had set it ablaze
danced about the flames and clam
ored for the factory-owner's life. Not
content with impoverishing him and
burning his life-work, they now
searched for him far and near in or
der to complete their atrocities by
tearing him to pieces or throwing him
into the fire. The man they sought
was James Hargreaves. The only
crime he had committed was to revo-
lutionize the cotton industry by in
venting a machine which should some
day make cotton many times cheaper
and give employment to countless
thousands of poor people.
Cotton is a commonplace sort of
fabric
Cotton had been introduced into Eng
land before the seventeenth century,
but the labor and slowness of weav-
ing had made it's manufacture ex-
pensive and of doubtful general use.
Each thread was spun separately by
wheel. The looms were also awkward
affairs worked by hand; each cottage
in many districts contained both
loom and wheel. Hundreds of peo-
pie picked up scanty living by spin
ming and weaving.
Hargreaves, an ignorant, illiterate
fellow, who nevertheless had latent
inventive genius, one day in 1857 saw
a spinning wheel accidentally knocked
u. ..;s.,. over. He noticed
Gave hargreaves -.
HIS Idea. :. t. &c ..e
overturned condition This gave him
an idea. Using the new position of
the wheel as a Lasis, he set to work
on what he called a spinning engine, -
and what the dialect of his country
later changed in name to spinning
jenny c'jenny" and "gin" are both
corruptions of the word "engine'')
This machine contained at first eight
and later so spindles, turned by a
common wheel or cylinder, which was
worked by hand. 1t was capable of
spinning from 20 to 80 threads at a
time, instead of one, as formerly.
The natural result of course would be
to lower the price of spun cotton,
Dopularize it's use and thus in time
not only cut down the expenses of the
poor, but give employment to thou
sands where only hundreds had before
found work But the weavers and
spinners were too short-sighted to ap-
preciate this. All they could see was
that their old-fashioned hand work
was no longer in demand So they
burned Hargreaves' mill and wrecked
all his property they could lay hands
on. Other and luckier men took up
Hargreaves' idea of the spinning jen-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
Spiked Ball Nets Four Bases.

A riot was precipitated in Phila
delphia championship ball game this
other day when ball stuck on the
spike of the fence and the umpire
called it home run. The rules pro.
vided that a ball over the fence was
a two-bagger. The police were called
to suppress the fans, while three field
ers made frantic efforts to Chamber up
and release the tempting ball. Blu!
there it stuck, just beyond their reach
and they had to wait until it could be
knocked OF with a club. 1t was the
only ball in the grounds.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
And All with Company There.

Nov, children" said the mother,
as whole roomful of company had
come in, suppose you run off and play
by yourselves"
"All right, mother" replied Edith.
Can we go up and play Hamlet and
Ophelia?"
Certainly" smiled the mother,
while her guests looked on at the
tableau.
'Goody!" replied Edith; then, turn
ing to her sister, she said: Now,
Maude, you run up to mammals room
and get all her false hair that you can
find."-Judge.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
Ebbets After Willie Keller.

President Ebbets of the Brooklyn
club said the other day that if he
could induce the New York Americans
to part with Willie Keller he would
make the little right fielder manager
of the Brooklyn team. 81 am afraid
President Farrell will be opposed to
such a DEAL" said Ebbets, "but if he
is thinking of replacing Keller next
season know Willie would jump at a
chance to manage Brooklyn. Keller
is a Brooklyn boy and always has
been popular with the fans of Wash
ington park. He knows baseball from
every angle and is well fitted to ham
die a team of players who need an ex-
nerienced leader"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
pirates Finally Get Byrne.

After negotiating for eight months,
Manager Fred Clarke succeeded in
getting Bobby Byrne from the St.
Louis club, but he had to give up Bar
beau and Alan Storke in exchange.
Storke and Barbeau have reported to
Manager Bresnahan of the Cardinals
and Byrne has Joined the Pirates.
Roth Clarke and Bresnahan are salts
fed and each believes the exchange
viii proye beneficial to his team
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
New Inventions.

A novel potato digger invented by
an Indiana man loads the tubers by
an endless chain into the wagon to
which the machine is attached.
Prizes will be offered at the coming
German aeronautical exposition for
metal lighter than aluminium but re-
tanning it's solidity, and for balloon
halls of various types.
To measure the amount of air adj
mitted through cracks in buildings a
novel instrument has been devised
shaped like funne! and carrying a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

small thermometer in it's nozzle.
By the addition of Venetian soap
and gum lac alcohol has been made
into briquettes, which are inclosed in
alright metal boxes so formed that
they may be used as spirit lamps.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

Larry Mclean. catcher for the Gin
cinnati baseball club, whose knee car
was broken several days ago, sub
mitted to an operation in a hospital
the other day. The physicians say the
operation was successful, but tina,
Mclean will not be able to play agaiE
this season.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

Many horses in New York are said
to have died recently of adulterated
oats. Human beings have been
trained to eat almost anything dis.
guised as food, but the horse is less
hardened The case calls for intax
vention.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
Too Conscientious to Rest.

"And where do you go for your
summer vacation?"
ITO the assembly grounds"
What a delightful period of rest
and relaxation you must anticipate"
"Oh, not at all. We always make
1t a point to attend every lecture. -
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

Dr.. Pierce's Pellets small, sugar-coated, easy tc
take Sd candy, regulate and invigorate stomach
liver and bowels. Do not grippe.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

It's too much to expect cross-bred
dogs to be aniable.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30
NOT FOND OF PIGEONS
Mayor Of Philadelphia Resents Inter
ference in His Efforts to Get
Rid of Them.

Mayor Reyburn, who considers the
city hall pigeons a nuisance, and
would rid the building of them II he
could, considers the efforts OF the anti
cruelty TO animals societies to prevent
the pigeons being driven out as med
dlesome, and sometimes wakes sarcas-
tic in referring to the societies.
Recently, while the mayor was hold
ing bis daily chat with the newspaper
men, several fire engines with clang-
ing gongs, came laundering down
Broad street and around the city hall.
The pigeons, evidently frightened by
the gongs, flew excitedly around and
around outside Of the mayors office
on the north side of the building.
AS the whir of wings swept through
the room, the mayor exclaimed, half
smiling. but with an attempt at seri-
BUSINESS:
my! The fire engines are disturb
ing the pigeons. Where is the Soci-
ETY. for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals? Such trifi9 as saving cit
liens property from burning should
not be allowed to interfere with the
peace of the pigeons. "-Philadelphia
Times.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30
Mustn't Work Like Roebottom.

F. w. Aver, the advertising agent, at
the dinner in Philadelphia in honor of
the firms fortieth anniversary, said
that to succeed in advertising re-
CURED hard work.
"The successes in this business are
stupendous," he said, but some folks
think that working as Roebottom of
Camden worked, man can build up a
great advertising fortune.
Rebellion was roofer. He was en-
gagged on Mickle street house. One
day, as he was lunching, he was heard
to give yell of pain.
What's the matter, Roebottom?
carpenter asked.
"I got nail in my foot the roofer
answered.
"'Well, why don't you pull it outy
said the carpenter.
"'What! In my dinner hour?' yelled
Rebellion, reproachfully. "-Philadel
Dhia Record.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30
Rino of Chinese "erafters.v

Prince Ching, head of the foreign
department of the Chinese govern
ment, is pictured as an eminent orr
ertal CRATER by the Picking CORE
sIondent of the London Times, who
writes: "Since the downfall of Yuan
Shih-kai the Wai-wu-pu (foreign Of
fice) has relapsed into its former state
of incapacity, and for this Prince
Ching is to blame. Amiable but cor
rupt, he has stood for generation for
all that is worst in Chinese official
dom. All stories of his rapacity, his
greed, his INSCRIPTIONS sales of office,
his indifference to the affairs of state.
His wealth is enormous, yet no gen
erous or charitable action has ever
been recorded in his favor. Every new
minister in every office of emolument
has to pay him toll"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30

story is attached to this mascot. 1t
was sent to the jockey by an old lady
who, requiring a certain sum of money
to aid her daughter and not knowing
where to get it, had the idea of back
Ing the horse ridden by this jockey.
She got friend to make the bet,
and, the horse winning, she obtained
all the money she required. Two or
three days later the jockey received
the little prayer book, with note ex-
planning the circumstances and saying
IL was the old lady's first and last bet
She would never forget the jockey,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30

An analysis of this trade in cotton goods reveals that
of exports than $6,O00000 worth consists Of
unbeached cloths. while of imports than
$22 100000 worth consists of finer fabrics including
broideries, aces and curtains Altogether the figures
show that while exported in the 10 months ending
cotton mills the nations sold to almost 100
cent than sold to them.
1t is grotesque and almost unbelievable item in
the of this age that resourceful nation like
America the producer of the worlds cotton, should buy
back dollars worth of cotton goods for every dol
lars worth it ships abroad.
When competitors buy from eight nine mil
lion bales manufactured cotton it is a mark of
their enterprise, not of The greater part of
foreign trade is the result of suction from abroad not
propulsion from America. The need Of the nations
cotton and they send their ships to get it,
were aborigines and raised cotton could sell it,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30
CAMEL CARAVAN .LOADED WITH
COTTON GOODS ENROOTE EOR XB5

requires no salesman advertising to make cot
popular in all industrial centers from Manchester
O Milan and eastward to Japan If we did not have
a plank afoat could sell raw cotton to the world
America is serious competitor for trade oVersea4
In all the annals of national pride and delusion there
has been greater folly than the present popular be-
lief in the United States that we have engineered
commercial invasion abroad The trading nations must
cotton and while upward of 100 tar1n walls
fence them off their rivalry they all fear America
and carefully put cotton on the free list
There has been notable increase in the bulk of
our foreign commerce. but we have merely kept pace
with the whole worlds advance. In fact it is the prog
in purchasing of foreign nations that has
made possible heavy exports of raw materials. We
boastng of outborne cargoes that enriched
our rivals far more than they did America When
totals of foreign trade without
lining the nature of that traffic blind ourselves to
the magnificent field awaiting American enterprise
abroad
The rivalry for foreign markets, the improvements
in the facilities for reaching them and cotons marvel
contribution to merchandise have so reVoutonlZed
the worlds trade that the commerce of former
turtles insignificant in comparison The foreign tra
fc of any of the leading industrial nations to-day ex
in volume and value the total foreign trade of all
countries combined hundred years ago! The annual
external trade of dimnutive country as the
Netherlands exceeds the blliondolar mark And this
astounding increase in the trade of nations creating v
tually EARTH is due in large measure to the vol
ume of cotton manufacture and the worldwide sale of
cotton goods We fail to keep in mind that in that
world traffic America does not share. We have been
Boosting of mere bulk-boasting while have been
sending to industrial Europe the raw supply without
which it could not compete with America for year.
Gladstone estimated that the wealth accumulated by
the nations during years of the nineteenth
century equaed all that had been stored by mankind
preceding 1900 years, and that their multiplying
1850 and 1870 duplicated the record
the foregoing fifty that in those 20 years the in
of worlds wealth exceeded by 100 cent
the piledup of all lands in all the preceding
centuries since the birth of Christ And the accumua
tons since 1870 literally beyond compute.
Such a world with its consuming power is the market
that America the country that alone
the commodity indispensable to the nations Thus far
have neglected our stewardship During the last
fiscal year sold to the old world only little over
81 finished cotton goods. Our best
toner in that part of the world the United King
DOM which bought from us 81 1853 1884 worth. But while
growing foolishly proud that England was
selling $23 1872 worth of cotton goods of our
material The emized columns placed side by side are
reproach resourcefu America. Here is the record,
preserved by bureau of statistics:
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30

manner to jeweled whips and dia-
mond pins presented by owners.
A certain Newmarket stable appren-
tice who has ridden several winners
this year never rides without holding
in his mouth a piece of straw, about
three inches long, which he found
while in the stable one day on the
back of the first horse he was asked
to ride in a race. For some unac-
countable reason he regarded the
piece of straw as an omen or good
luck, more particularly after he won
that first race.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30

Bits of skin of famous racehorses
of the past are very much priced by
superstitious jockeys, who would as
soon think of riding without saddle
as without this peculiar talisman. If
bit Of skin cannot be obtained the
jockey contents himself with few
of the hairs out of famous race
horses tail
One well-known jockey was in the
maitland so far as the writer Is
aware he continues the habit to-day
of carrying small prayer book In
his riding jacket. Quite romantic
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30
LYDIA COTTON MERCHANTS


5000 900 900 yards valued at than $500 900!
you confront the ordinary iubilant stastcian with
cold analysis of abroad the rejonder
is apt be that after ALL America for years has
had favorable balance of trade" In recent optt
mistic review of Americas foreign commerce it is set
forth with much citation that the of exports over
imports in the past fiscal year amounted in value to
$446 900 000 But to get those figures had to count
1882 900 worth of cotton shipped abroad; and
if out cotton from the record our foreign
reveals export trade considerably less than
import and manufactured cotton is sold abroad
through enterprise on the part of America, but Is
rather traffic resulting from neglect of oppor
unity is nothing in the totals of foreign
traffic warrant the complacency of statesmen.
There a time when Yankee packets carried
American around the world, but we have aban-
ships and they have all but vanished from the
The federal hand has been busy building break
waters scooping harbors and deepening waterways
Now we cutting channel through the hemisphere.
Conscious strength and in the of bewi
dering achievements at home, find it difficult to
realize that dominion at the shores OF our
The decline of merchant marine from the days
great achievements is not the result of any de-
crease national vigor The energy and genius OF
American people have simply been withdrawn from
the sea- We have expended ingenuity and strength
riches in exploiting the continent, or at least the
part of it, with the result that we
have developed between the two great oceans the most
successful industrial nation the world has known.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30
JOCKEYS AND ODD MAsCOTS

for sixpence and regard the animal
as an emblem of good luck. l have
christened 1t Arranmore, and it will
accompany me wherever / may be
riding"
Plant is by no means the only
jockey who is superstitious. AS
matter of fact, most jockeys carry
talismans in one form or another.
These range from bits of straw and
horseskin, acquired In some curious
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30
One Boy Carries Piebald Rat and An
other Prayer Book in Riding
Jacket.

Il knew | should ride winner this
afternoon" said j. Plant, the we'll
known jockey. after he had steered
Arranmore, an outsider, first past the
winning post in the race for the Great
Tom Plate at Lincoln few days ago.
Il bought a piebald rat this morning
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30

and asked him to accept the prayer
book as an emblem of good luck.
"And," said the jockey some ltime ago,
II firmly believe it has been my good
talisman, for | have been wonderfully
successful since received it."-Tit-
RitS
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30
Ace of Trees.

The pine reaches maximum age
of TOO years; the silver fir, AIS; the
larch, 275; the red beech, 245; the as
pen, 210; the birch. 200; the ash. ITO;
the elder, las, and the elm. 1870.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30

Aliens Foot-Ease, the antiseptic powder.
1t makes tight or new shoes feel easy. 1t
is a certain cure for sweating, callous and
hot, tired, aching feet. Always use it to
Break in new shoes. Sold by all Druggists.
Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy, New York.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30
A Scarcity, indeed!

Whats an anomaly"
"a man who wears long hair and
velvet coat and hates notoriety. -
Cleveland Leader.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30
Old Poets Knew of Automobile.

"The old poets knew about the auto
mobile"
How, now?"
"Macaulay speaks of Lars Porsena
and his ivory car"
"Well?' !.
"And Poe cites an instance of the
air growing denser. Evidently an
auto had just passed"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30

An observing spinster says 1t would
keep half a dozen harvesting ma
chimes busy gathering in the crop Of
wild oats sown by some young men.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30

The devilish thing about worry IL
that it never counts on Gods help.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30

Nothing so good as the new RUSS
BLUE. Delights the laundress. Refuse
limitations.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30

Finest indoor sport!
Chewing Wrigley's Spearmint.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30

The shadow of trouble is often
blacker than the trouble itself.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30

Guess why the little boy doesn't
chew Wrigley's Spearmint. He hasn't
any-that's whyi
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30

WE SELL GUNS AND TRAPS CHEAP
N. w. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis, MIN.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30

The true Christian does a great
many things he does not have to do.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30

significance in the fact that alien
nations that never saw cotton plant
have long since entered the Kingdom
of Cotton and now divide dominion
among themselves, excluding the
United States-the country in which
the cotton is grown.
The reign of cotton is forever AS
long as the race survives cotton
goods will be worn in multiplying
forms, but the countries that now sell
the finished products of cotton to the
world have no assurance of perma
hence in that trade. Americas ulti-
mate control in the cotton world is
inevitable. Our manifest destiny as
world trader in cotton goods looms
as menace across the horizon of
European states. Americas future
in this fabric has awakened the
statesmen of all countries save our
own. The wealth and progress of
the United States are enduringly in
terwoven with the coming civilization
of all cotton-consuming continents.
The home for the dynasty of cotton
is in the land of Dixie, not in London
and Liverpool.
Knowing our latent power, we can
afford to look candidly at some con-
temporary facts. They are not fat
tering to our national pride. They
reveal world of opportunity passed
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30
| )AV.

n ALL discussions regard.
ing cotton two facts are
paramount; first, that cot
ton controls the world;
and second that the ma
tons that reap a prodigal
harvest from the sale of
cotton goods depend upon
America for the raw sup
ply.
The American people
have begun to realize the
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30
,tal ..s2S.1s5.as

Such is the inglorious story of our trahit
with our greatest European customer. AND
England is adding to it's cotton spindeS at
the rate of more than 100000 every 80 days!
In the last IL months this increase in the
United Kingdom was 2,765,00O. And every
new mill and every new spindle in England
is erected with the confidence that the raw
cotton can be obtained from the American
planter at prices which beggar him.
King Cotton on a British Throne.
Cotton is the worlds king but it sits on
a British throne!
Last year we exported little over 20O.-
100000 yards of piece goods valued at $751;
100000, but at the same time the United
Kingdom was selling abroad more than
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-05-29
Elena FOns

En- cl vapor corrco cspanoI
"Buenos Aires,' va para M6ji-
60 la clnlnente soprano cspanoIa
Elena Fons, con una compania
complctisima dc opera italiana.
de la que cS rcprescntantc cl Sc
nor Menacho.
Elena Fons, como sab"n nucs-
tros lectorcs, cs la riva' = la Cal
yc cn la opera "Carmen
La compania va contratada pa
IA estrcnar cI "Teatro Colon
en- la capital de Mejico.
Despues ira 4 la Habana Y e
caSl scguro que vcndra 4 San
Juan. cIIando terminc Ia tempo
rada de Cuba.
FL senior Enrique Menacho.
que es I'm repreScntantc activisi-
mo. en- el brevc tempo que paSo
on San Juan cI "BucnoS Aires,
Sc puSo en- relaci0n con todas las
personals que pucdcn cooperar i
cue rcsultc aqui animada Y bri-
ilantc la temporada de opera.
La compania llcva vcinticinco
obras de repertoire y tres Guar
tctoS.
Prcscntados por el scnor Me
nacho conocifnOS anochc yari0S
artistas. entire cllos, cl soprano Ii
gcro, su cSpoSa, una artlsta dc
gran reputation que ha hecho va
rias tcmporadas en el Liceo de
Barcelona.