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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-06-08

HISTORY OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FOR SALE
AT JOHNSTON PEARsoN's DRUG STOKE
PRICE 81 so.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-06-08

WOOL. WOOL.
Highest cash price paid for wool.
ml3-lm j. II. Rawlings & Son.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-06-08
POLISH MINER
BRUTALITY SLAIN
Body Found on Railroad Tracks
in West Scranton.
MOTIVE Of CRIME UNKNOWN

Victims Skull Was Fractured. Had
Two Knife Wounds on the Face and
Was Shot Through kidneys-sus
penders We're Twisted Around His
Neck and His Breast caVed In by :
Heavy Beam.
Scranton. Pa. June Peter Ro
dobskie. Polish miner. living in a
settlement Of his countrymen IN Weei
Scranton. was found slain upon the
tracks Of the Lackawanna railroad by
a track-walker
Rodobskie left his home on Satur
day evening after drawing his pa,
and was not seen again BY ais wife
and family until his body was Disco
cred.
Rodobskies killing was a most bru
tai crime. His skull was fractured
he had two knife wounds on the RICH
side OF his face, and he was sho
through the kidneys. A part OF one o
his suspenders was found twiste,
around his neck. SO that strangulatioi
would have resulted In a short time
while a beam OF heavy oak was let fal
on him from a height. the mans breas
being literally caved in He had ais
knife wound on the right hand. Tn
county detective 10 OF the opinion tina
the man was running away when tn
shot was fred. and that the other In
juries were inflicted after ne fell iron
the bullet wound.
No motive has been discovered 10
the crime and no clue has been fouD
TO the perpetrators. Rodobskie is SUI
vived by a widow and four small chi
drcn.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-06-08

wife LeSpsd Into the s~irllnG River
and Husband Followed. Caught Her
and Struggled Nearly an Hour TO
save Her.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
Cabinet Vetoes 'More DAYLIGHT" Plan

the president and his advisers that
the welfare of the clerks and the
business interests of the government
could be promoted so far as the vol
ume of work was concerned, by regu-
lating the hours of labor according to
the rising of the sun, it was found
that the plans which have been adj
vanced by organized movements in
Cincinnati and other western cities
and are to receive parliamentary con-
sideration in England are not feasible
short of revolution which would dis
turb banking and commercial condi-
lions generally and be widespread in
its effect upon the railroads.
Advantages to be derived by per.
hitting government clerks all over
the country to commence work In the
cool hours of early morning during
the summer season and discontinue
labors in the early afternoon, with
ample opportunity to enjoy the sum
light in daily afternoon vacations, APP
pealed to the president. However. in
view of the fact that the government
could not compel financial and COM
mercial houses to adjust themselves
to the proposed change, and the
further consideration that tho bust.
ness of the post Office department
would be vitality affected, ensatling q
change of schedules upon all rail.
roads, caused the administration to
decide not to attempt to encroach
upon the prerogatives of Father Time
and for the present at least there will
be no change in the daily routine OF
tho government CLERKS
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
Job for Widow to Atone for Injustice

death he was survived by a widow
and two daughters.
Maj. Darlington came under the
jurisdiction of the insular courts as a
result of his transfer for temporary
duty from the Twenty-first infantry
to the command of battalion Of
Filipino scouts. He commanded this
battalion at the time it was brought
to st. Louis in 1903. to take part in
the exposition.
The charges against him were
based on financial operations which
took place at that time. Many of his
brother officers insisted that the diff
ficulties in which he became involved
were the result of carelessness rather
than criminal intent. The evidence
against him, however, was sufficient
to cause his court-martial and conse-
quent dismissal from the army. His
conviction by the courts of the islands
was followed by Imprisonment in
Bilabid prison.
During his Incarceration, Mrs. Car
rington and her daughters, through
the efforts of influential friends, Sc
cured positions in some of the gov
eminent departments in Washington.
The order issued by the president
places the widow of the convicted Of
ficer in the classified service.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
Like to Get Into Picture

would be true of any sort of picture
in which many persons were taken, as
at banquet or wedding. People
like to get into the picture.
"Just how true this is appears in
many ways in all sorts of pictures; in
pictures in which people are not the
main but only incidental or subordin-
ate features, as of accidents, or ruins,
or scenes of great variety of sorts.
In such pictures where the presence
of the camera was known you will al
ways find some persons facing or turn
ing toward the photographer, with an
evident desire to get into the picture,
and it is easy to imagine that the graf
ification of seeing themselves there
may give them pleasure.
Look at pictures taken of semi
savage or semi-civilized people in re-
hottest countries, where perhaps they
had never seen a mirror or heard of a
camera, but you may be sure that hui
man vanity exists as it does with us,
and you may see somebody trying to
get into the picture or smiling to look
we'll In it.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
Milk and Mjlkino.

Many people believe that milk is
ready-made and stored in the udder of
the cow simply awaiting the mixer.
This impression is corrected by the
statement of the well-known scientist,
John Burroughs, who says: Most
persons think that giving down or
holding up the milk by the cow is a
voluntary act. In fact, they fancy
that the udder is a vessel filled with
milk, and that she releases or with.
holds it just as she chooses. But the
udder is mandatory; it is filed
with blood from which the milk is
manufactured while you milk. This
process is controlled by the cows
nervous system; when she is excited,
or in any way disturbed, as by q
stranger, or by taking away her calf,
or any other cause, the process is ar.
rested and the milk will not flow. Tho
nervous energy goes elsewhere. The
whole process is as involuntary as is
digestion in man and is disturbed or
arrested in about the same way.-In.
diana Farmer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
Gun Play of Legislator Wins a Post

of Monroe and Metcalf He was crit.
ically ill with pneumonia when the
fight came to overthrow Gov. Beck
ham, the Democratic primary nomi-
nee for senator, and elect Mr.. Brad
ley, and every day at noon Mr.. Den.
ham was carried over to the state
house on stretcher and voted for
Mr.. Bradley. The contest was still in
full swing when Mr.. Denham was able
to be out. 1t had become the practice
to arrange pairs, and but few mem.
bers of the legislature attending the
routine proceedings, all waiting for
something definite to develop.
Capt. Longmeyer, sergeant-at-arms
of the house, one day drew gun, and
made some observations regarding the
Ubiquitous practice of pairing. Mr..
Denham quietly but promptly pulled q
weapon from his own pocket, and
said:
capt. Longmeyer, whenever the
firing begins, remember that I am
paired with you"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
Admirers of the Fragrant comestibIe
Wakes Eloquent in His Descrip-
ton Of Il.

Is there any greater art, may be
asked, in converting crude block of
marble into figure so life!ike that 1t
almost walks from its pedestal, than
there is in Transforming cabbage into
a tangled skein of the same golden,
ripping sunshine which warmed the
Seeding in the fertile ground aud
brought it to head? There is not,
say the delicatessen clerks, as they
lift out of the dark depths of the bar
rel dripping mass Of sauerkraut and
gently wave it back AMI forth in the
light, SO that each strand catches and
reflects the light from it's glistening
thread.
See the evenness of the strings"
says the artist. Mote the light gold
en- color. 1t is as beautiful as the
glossy hair of blonde doh. It SHIN
mers like the headpiece of a blue
eyed woman as she comes from the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

AIRS. JONATHAN P. DOLLIVER,
Nl wife of the senior senator from
Iowa, whose recent attacks on the
schedules of the Aldrich tariff bill i'm
the interest of the ultimate ccn-
sumner" have caused more excitement
than has the speech of any other sen
ator, is, like her distinguished hus-
band, well equipped mentally. She is
a graduate of Wellesley college.
Before her marriage Mrs. Dollivsr
was Miss Louise Pearsons, and she
held the chair of mathematics h
Northwestern university at Evanstoi.
She is a brilliant conversationalis,
and the affairs which she gives at her
home on Massachusetts avenue aH
fesaTdeG as treats by those fortunate
enough to CO invited.
Mrs. Dolliver cares little for til.
frivolities, but she entertains with thu
hospitality that is the secret of sue
cessful entertainment. and takes at
active part in the serious affairs d
the capital city. She is prominent
member of the Daughters of thu
American Revolution and has repre-
scented the state of Iowa in the con
tinental congresses at the annual
Washington meeting for years.
Mrs. Dolliver is essentially home
loving woman. She superintends the
education of her children and studies
the public questions of the hour sc
that she can keep in touch with the
interests of her husband, whose
speeches in the senate are always at
tended by overlooking galleries. Not
the least interested spectator at these
times is Mrs. Dolliver, who under
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
THE SYMPATHETIC CUNNING
LETTER.

There are certain classes of custom
ers, such as women, clergymen and
teachers, whose means are very mar
row, and who unavoidably fall behind,
though they are really honest, or think
they are honest. Threatening letters
only anger them. They have certain
small income, and they use 1t to pay
the accounts they feel most like pay
ing.
For such the sympathetic dunning
letter is the one which succeeds best.
1t is rather long letter, usually, is
filled with sympathy and the spirit of
kindness, and asks certain personal IA
vors that can be granted, and will be
granted If the debtor is made to feel
right.
Such letter might run like this:
your obligation of such and such a
date is now considerably overdue. We
feel quite sure, however, that payment
has been delayed because of circum-
stances beyond your control, and we
have no desire to press you in any un-
reasonable way, though we should like
very much TO be paid.
Gas a personal favor, we wish you
would tell us just what resources you
are depending on for the payment of
this account, and as nearly as possible
the time at which we may expect re-
mittance. Will you not kindly be quite
frank with us, so that we know just
what your situation is and what we
may expect. Then we will not annoy
you with useless duns, and our very
pleasant relations will not be dis
turbed by any misunderstanding or
suspicion. We kindly ask the favor of
frank letter from you by return
mail"
A sympathetic dunning letter follow
ing slightly irritating letter has often
brought an immediate remittance, and
this confidential, kindly way of writ
ing, when used as contrast with the
usual methods, very often gets atten-
ton which harsh letter would not
get at all.
At the same time there is class of
people who would be only too ready to
take advantage of an easy creditor.
Some credit men are so surprised at
the results that come from using the
sympathetic letter after the brutal dun
ming letter has wholly failed, that they
adopt the sympathetic letter entirely,
as an important new discovery. But
this is equally mistake. Variety is
what is wanted. One kind of letter
will get some debtors, and another
kind will get different set, but it
takes all kinds of letters to collect
money from all sorts Of people, and,
indeed, some debtors are susceptible
only to a combination or alienation of
several different kinds of letters.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

WASHINGTON Time has
w scored another victory. President
Taft and his cabinet, after mature de-
liberation, have decided not to en-
croach upon his prerogatives or ques-
ton his right to run the clocks of the
government. Whatever distress may
have been caused the old man by the
suggestion that the government could
regulate it's clocks and run them with
out regard to the rising and setting
of the sun was removed the other day
when the cabinet formally decided
that it would not attempt to interfere
with the well established routine of
affairs.
The federal clocks will continue to
tick out standard time and Father
Time, with absolute confidence. can
depend upon their accuracy.
The federal employe will not be re-
Quired to set his alarm clock to COM
mence work with the rising of the
sun, nor will he be free to gambol on
the green during the hours of early
afternoon. His allotted toll will be
performed during Office hours which
have long been established.
While it was generally admitted by
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
The Right Way to Write Letters
Bv SherWin COdv
By SherWin Cody
Author of the Cody System That Pull

everyone who writes letters can and
should learn the points of salesman
ship in letters, so that every letter
written will have some selling quality
in it, little if not much. Here is the
opportunity for the girl stenographer
to get better salary, or the sub-assist-
ant bookkeeper to jump from $40 to
SIS week. One prominent business
man has said, "All my clerks, stenog-
raphers and statesmen would be worth
% per cent. more to me if they would
learn to write a good letter, and
would raise their salaries according
ly." If your employer won't raise your
salary when you learn to write real
selling letters, there are plenty of
others who will.
The logical steps Of creating a sale
through a letter are as follows:
First, fan up the slight or smoldering
natural longing in the customers
mind. Unless there is a want to be
filled, no business can succeed. But in
its natural state the want is too feeble,
too vague. The sales letter must fan
it up and make 1t keen and conscious
desire, void in the mind that has got
to be filled. The place to start is with
the natural want of the customer. Not
with what you have to sell.
Second, show just how the thing you
have fits into the natural vacancy, fills
the spontaneous and universal want.
Third, offer some outside proof that
your claims are justified. You may
think your article good thing, but
you are a prejudiced party. Has this
article actually served anybody else,
any real purchaser, and just what has
it done? Bring out a few facts such
as would make an impression on a
jury in court of law. Don't expect
people to take your mere word. Pro
duce facts, evidence, as trained ad-
vocate would do.
Fourth, indicate with great clearness
and precision just what you want the
prospective customer to do If your let
ter succeeds in interesting him. 1t is
mistake to assume he can guess
what you want. Tell him exactly, pre-
cisely, point for point, and don't expect
him to do very much-perhaps sign an
order blank all ready prepared, or mail
a postal card asking for a catalogue
and so informing you he is really open
for business.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

A rather wizened, very shabby, un-
shaven and grim little man, in shirt
sleeves. but wearing an ancient hat
of the type called "Homburg"-this
was the first charcoal-burner l had
ever met. He was disappointing, as
3 representative of one of the world s
most ancient crafts. Washed. he
hight have been a mere Cockney;
Ills voice rather added to, than de-
tracted from, that impression. Yes,
he was sappointing-until you saw
him at his Job" Then you realized
that you were in the presence of that
now rare creature, an efficient work
man. Efficiency seemed to sparkle
out of him, as 1 saw him, later. leap
ing round his pit" raking the sand
and dirt off the central core of char
coal, flinging on to it bucket after
bucket of water, and, sprite amid
volumes of magnificent steam, shovel
ing on fresh coating of sand, which
would drive the wet vapor inward,
and thus damp out, to it's uttermost
corners, the glowing mass. This task
of quenching the pit" needs a mans
wits; it has to be done exceedingly
quickly, thoroughly and at precisely
the right moment, or the labor of
many preceding hours may be lost.
And seeing my friend the burner per-
forming this swift, picturesque and
skilled operation, my opinion of him
altered, and 1 forgot the unshaven
chin, the generally down-at-heel ap-
pearance and the Homogeneous HON
burg hat.
But, of course, charcoal-burning is
less romantic than one might be lea
to believe from ones perusal of fairy
stories. Charcoal-burning is still car
ried on in forests in England-my
friend had lived In an English for
est without seeing a single human
being, except his mates, for a fort
night-but the burners one is more
apt to meet are those itinerant indi-
viduals, who visit farms. up and down
Kent and the other hop counties, to
make the "coal'' for the drying of the
hops in the kilns, or "oasts," and
these wanderers often labor in sim
gularly unbeautiful and unsylvan set
ting. I found my charcoalburner in
the yard of a hop-farm. under the
shadow of the conical casts. Round
him were pyramids of old and messy
hop-poles, and in the shelter of one
of these pyramids he had erected a
tiny gipsy-tent, wherein he slept,
when sleep was possible. The old
hop-poles were his fuel. Cut into
short lengths and piled, with business
like symmetry, into circular stack,
they formed his pits" Though why
the word "pit" should be used for a
large excrescence, i know not). In
the center of the stack hole was left.
The stack was covered with an outer
most skin of sand and straw; then
burning charcoal was thrown down
into the central hole, the latter in
stantly covered also, and, behold, the
new charcoal was in process of manu-
facture. Minute vents in the outer
skin of sand allowed the smoke to es-
cape; and the burner can Judge by
the color of this smoke how the in
ternal economy of his "pit" is faring.
For the object of charcoal" burning" Is
not really to burn, but to treat the
wood to what is called, I understand,
"smothered combustion" All the sap,
the greenness, the smoke-giving prop
critics of the wood. must be extracted:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
THE BRUTAL DUNNINe LETTER.

Now and then a debtor is found who
is so thick-skinned that nothing
seems to make any impression on him
but club. Unfortunately, most col
lection agencies look on all debtors
turned over to them as being such,
and make their collections by means
of club. The club often gets the
money, but it kills the customer at the
same time. That is why merchants
are so slow about turning their collec-
tions over to agencies; they feel sure
they cannot hope to do any more bust
ness with the customers when the
agency gets done with him.
But now and then we all run across
deadbeats. When We find that out we
do not want to do any more business
with them, and do not care how we
get the money, so that we really col
lect it.
The usual style of brutal dunning
letter consists in threats of lawsuits,
with its piled up costs, and the use
of the words dishonesty" deadbeat,"
rogue" etc.
1t should be borne in mind that 1t Is
not legal to make any disagreeable
threat in regard to a debt in writing
on q postal card. In fact, anything
that might injure the standing of q
person in the community, even in the
slightest degree, cannot be sent openly
on postal card.
Threats of boycotting or blacklisting
are also illegal.
Offensive or abusive letters are not
permitted to go through the mail, even
when sealed.
1t is not permissible to talk freely
about lawyers, agents, and suits at
law, and to picture the heavy expense
OF such proceedings. You can make
man feel the sting of the words
"deadbeat," dishonest" etc., by say
ing you would not think of placing the
person you write to in the list of such
persons, or saying you know he is not
that. The suggestion is enough, and
usually more effective than really call
ing names. Sarcasm usually cuts
deeper than abuse on all occasions.
Obviously the brutal dunning letter
cannot be written in high temper, If
it is to be legal, and it ought not to
be used at all except in collecting
money from a notorious deadbeat
whose trade cannot possibly be worth
anything to you at any time in the fu-
ture. 1t sometimes happens that these
thick-skinned people will pass over Of
fensive words and go on trading with
you, but it seems a lowering of self
respect to indulge in such letters, and
1 have found that the mildly irritating
letters will prove as effective If re-
peated often enough.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11
A GOOD SYSTEM OF COLLECTION
LETTERS.

The salesman is as free in talking
about terms as the policy of the house
will allow, or else he says as little
about payments as he can, in order to
keep attention on the desirability of
what he has to sell.
But as soon as the sale is completed,
the order should be acknowledged
from the Office in polite letter, which
affords an excellent opportunity to
make quite clear how and when pay
ment is expected. If the customer
knows at the start what is expected of
him, it will be far easier to get money
from him later than if any doubt or
confusion exists in his mind.
When payment is due the customer
should be notified promptly. Most peo-
pie do not pay until asked. In some
simple statement. Some firms have
on the statement a form of notifica-
ton that draft will be made If pay
ment is not made on or before set
date. Others send another statement
in slightly different form if check is
not received within few days after
the date that has been fixed. This may
be on the goth of the month, If pay.
ment is expected on the 10th or 18th
The habit Of sending friendly let
tiers, half soliciting and half collection,
is another good method. One of these
three methods should be used to make
sure that the matter is not overlooked
at the time when it should be attended
to. Letting things drift is the vice of
the credit man.
When the proper time for payment
has gone by, brief, polite letter of.
reminder and inquiry should be sent
The ideal letter Is one full of good ma
ture and friendly interest, and there is
often much value in making this letter
also one soliciting sales, telling of
some new goods just received, or new
prices that are made, and the like.
Uniting salesmanship with collection
demands undoubtedly is the right way
to hold customers while getting the
money.
Success in getting money from very
slow payers lies in slight but fire.
quent irritation-short letters refer
ring to courtesy, honor, honesty, good
name, fairness, personal favor. Then,
when money is secured, warm, per-
sonal letter of thanks and appreciation
should be sent to smooth down the ir.
ritated feelings.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-11

r o try to atone for injustice done to
i her husband by the United States,
President Taft has ordered the ap-
pointment of Mrs. Nina L. Darlington
to position in the civil service with
out an examination
Mrs. Darlington is the widow of the
late Maj Frank del Darlington, at one
time an officer in the Twenty-first
United States infantry. Maj. Car
rington was convicted by civil
court in the Philippines on a charge
of misrepresentation Of funds. He was
sentenced under the Spanish code to
penal servitude for a term of 60
years.
This sentence was nullifed by a de-
cision of the United States supreme
court, and Maj. Darlington was re-
leased after he had served several
months. He lived for some time in
Manila after his release. At his