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The evening world., 1910-12-24
The II edgeville editor
BY John L. Hobbla

WHY does a woman get mad when yu tell her that she is justn like ali sae
w rest of the women?
D OY HARSH says tina here are lot Of little words nat sound cme utu
~ our wife gets to saying them.
= VERYBODY thought that the new doctor was from New York. mn n. ~.&.~s
L In a street car tn other day and ave hi seat to a lady.
z RANK HANKS has dritcd way from ome influences and is now maxim. !.
! success OF hs.r cad estate buHness
IL. him to stay ~ homo snce he GOT married
The evening world., 1910-12-24

About 24S,OD men and two women
were sitting down and about 3OO.0 900 men
and 100000 women were standing up.
My right foot was stepped on by 4.S7
people and 5.22 stepped or my left and
one of the passengers in the other end
of the car had had garlic for breakfast.
Only carrying 100000 passengers a day?
Plsh! And also Tush. And Pooh Pooh
in addition"
The evening world., 1910-12-24

Mudrldge sends a copy Of Longfellow's
oems-s9 cents. I saw them at the stor
Cora Hickett, an art calendar; and I've
a suspicion that It was a last year pic
ture with fresh ribbon and just q new
set OF those tear-of months.
you can get the months for next
year in a bunch for 10 cents I know j
did and fixed over that art calendar
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n the meantime some bright CLEANS fall on the Christmas pic.

turc in such random news items
as the sale of $4,000 worth of
Red Cross seals in New York City
alone; the 100, 900 drums which
toy dealers say Santa Claus is dis
tributing hereabouts; the Christ
mas dinner for horses which the
Kansas City Humane Society pro-
poses to give; President Taft's
10s fine turkeys to married White
House employees; the $4,000
Legacy left 10 a dishwasher in a
Cleveland restaurant by his late
mother-in-law and the Rev. DR..
Henry Van Dykes outspoken dec
lartion that "Christians who
hope to meet In Heaven must
cease shutting each other out
from their communions and their
The evening world., 1910-12-24

er. oh. I wish nobody had sent me
anything"
why. just the other day I heard you
complain because you hadn't received
any gifts from your friends" remarked
Mr.. Jarr.
WELL. now that I have received the
gifts Ill complain worse than ever!' re-
piled Mrs Jarr. Such glftsl Clara
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back the kale he ac-
cumulated from his
writings and lee
lures telling how he
thought he discov-
cred the N r
Pole?" X the
head polisher.
1T was a foolish
question to ask the
Doc" said the Ii
dryman. Wv h y
didn't they ask him
II he was going TO
give away hia right
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MUST HAVE

"Now." said the architect. who was
putting the finishing touches upon Mr..
Nurich's new residence. what color do
you prefer for the parlor decorations2"
20! they've got 10 be red" replied
Nurich. my wife's got a red plush
photograph album that always sets on
the parior table."-Ths Catholic Stan
dard and Times,
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III Siuu tHTibt-
mas 10 over so far
as I'm concerned
said she. Every
debts paid"
''E very d e b
paid?" asked the
a 3 I o l shed Mr..
Jarr. Come now.
the news IL toe
good to be true!"
II don't think
I've missd one
replied Mrs. Jarr,
~
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Inc HOuTs OF o and o. sun more call her The 'Huny hyer
OF the keys and the other day | heard one man say. "a
stenographer Is the banana peel on the threshold of dlscre-
ton"
Now. when It comes to THAT it is time something
SLAPPED out about the truth.
There are stenographers and stenographers-GOOD. BAD
and INDIFFERENT-just tho same as there are wives and
mothers and sisters good. bad and Indifferent. IA
Be It known that the stenographer mas a WORK to do
besides the popular picture of her as the much becurled,
overdressed. mantcured creature w have had in the past.
There may have been a seed of truth In that, but II has
been planted. borne bitter fruit and Is diving for want Of
The evening world., 1910-12-24
A Wariike Emblem.

e(Y SEE" said the head polLsher,
that the sunragettes and dub
women are putting up a big roar
over tho project to place Brigham
Young's picture on the silver plate Of
the battleship Utah"
with all Tue respect to the ladies'"
The evening world., 1910-12-24

you notice that Doc Cook
sidestepped when the reporters
asked him II he would give
The evening world., 1910-12-24
Copyright, 1910. by The Pre-s Publishing Co,
The New York World.)
BY Roy L. McCardelI.

n n II. AND MRS. JARR were al
mi breakfast the morning before
AVA Christmas.
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DISCRIMINATING THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT.

nee n year is none too often TO
discuss the Christmas spirit, and
to %reiterate, I've to urge, that it
is something which should and
might prevail all the year round.
1t is not a complex sentiment, this
spirit of joy" as Cardinal Glib
bons translates the original
Christmas message of peace on
earth and good will toward men.
But it has become so tangled up
in the crowded affairs of this
our twentieth century life that the
time which ought to be "hallowed
and gracious" is to an increasingly
large number Of people n terror.
When the overworked shop
girls cry out that "Christmas is
The evening world., 1910-12-24
How to Put w ar Back
Am ong the H s. Gems
BY Ebert Hubbard jenkins.

M real sorry you've neve me, my uncle. You'd like him. In the fus
place, he has the big advantage t associate with ME; an I oftei
notice that he'll come out with son hee that's exactly what I've beer
athinkin' of. an put 1t In Jest the words that l would e hadn't beei
too busy to say 1t fust.
The evening world., 1910-12-24
Ten r a DIS for
Happy Business Woman
The Much-Abused Stenographer.
BY Sophie Irene Loeb

- + the 100000 strong OF the highway Of business a LARGE perC
j made up of women stenographers. There have been many def
the wise and the otherwise 8 to what a stenographer is.
The evening world., 1910-12-24

from their communions and their pulpits here on earth"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-07
Much-Read Social Science Bulletins

the use of cheap cuts of meat, that it
was the first government cook book
ever printed.
This was not altogether so. 1t Is
true that it was the nearest approach
to a real cook book, but the depart.
ment has printed all sorts Of receipts.
The social science series has been
running for more than a decade, and
has, incidentally, taken in various do.
nestle problems in the food line un.
der the head of Nutrition Investiga.
tions." The earliest of these was one
on the composition and cooking OF
meats, issued nearly IA years ago. OF
this there has been something over
half million copies distributed.
But the most popular Of all the bull.
letins was the recent one on "The
Economical Use of Meat in the
Home" This has been out only few
months, and there have already been
distributed 100000. Calls are still
coming in rapidly.
The series comprises books on all
sorts of subjects-the preserving of
fruits and vegetables, fish as food, the
care of milk in the home, the value of
peas, beans and legumes in general as
food, the cooking of vegetables, and
more than a dozen other subjects.
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well, and Ross has always spoken
well Of this fellow. And R0ss told
him in short order.
"You always. treated me absolutely
white and 1 appreciated it" Ross is
reported as having said. But there
were others. Some of the fellows L
had to rub against were not to my
liking nor / to theirs. We didn't get
along any better than two cats with
their tails tied together and thrown
across a clothes line. They knocked
me at every corner-spread stories Of
my alleged weak points, and other
wise made life miserable. I could
not work right under the conditions.
and it was better for me and better
for the club for change"
Cantillon made E ten-strike when he
picked up the big fellow, and further
clinched Joe's reputation for being
able to judge ball player, young or
old. Rossman Is playing his game,
and the old hesitancy about throwing
has disappeared. The other day he
tossed out a player at third base
who was attempting to go from first
on long single out to the right field
fence, making perfect peg clear
across the bot. to Ferris.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-07
Drunk on Ether.

Ether is consumed by gallons to
get drunk on in small part of Scot
land. The origin of this peculiar and
limited abuse is strange. In 184S
bad epidemic of cholera broke out in
Glasgow. Among those flying from it
were some who came back to Drap-
erstown, their native place. With
them they brought cholera mix
ture which they found exceeding
comforting" a rascally doctor, know
ing that the comfort proceeded from
ether, laid in whole cask. He made
his fortune, and started the habit
that lasts till yet. Ether is sold over
counters ID Scotland, the penny a
drink. An old ether topper can drink
two or tire ounces day, hut ons-
half ounce is one big dram IN vater.
The drinker gets hilarious ina min.
ute. It Is far wilder and more dan.
gerous than alcohol.
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HOW "GRIFF" COACHES REDS
Get the Other Fellows to Throwing
the Ball and All Kind of Tricks
Can Be Played.

The base running that the Cincin-
natl players have done this year has
pleased Manager Clark Griffith so
much that he intends to keep the men
at it while their legs are good.
Get the other fellows throwing, F"
Griffith says, "and you can do a lot of
tricks with them. Of course, there
are times when discretion must be
exercised. l don't recommend head
long base stealing when King or
Archer is behind the bat; but take
the general run of catchers, and it
pays to keep 'em throwing.
'This is the present status of the
attacking part of baseball. Base run
ming has been so subordinated of re-
cent years that the infielders don't
know how to deal with lot of fast
men plunging them all the time.
"They are actually at loss what to
do when man after man, instead of
waiting to be batted around, comes
charging down the line. Catchers
throw uncertainty, inffelders take the
throws and grope around like catfish.
You can steal almost all the time if
you have little nerve.
"The spiking Of infielders, think,
is largely due to this uncertainty and
clumsiness. In the old days, when
men were stealing all the time, the
basemen were real wonders, both at
touching the runners and lodging
them. Nowadays the infielders don't
know how to handle them. They go
over the base in clumsy fashion and
get spiked by the sliding runners, in
stead of being to one side, collecting
the men as they arrive Look at the
scores and stories of the old game !;
you will see that more base runners
used to get hurt than infielders. If
anyone was hurt it was a reckless
runner getting bumped. Seldom was
q baseman spiked.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-07

VIZ ASHINGTON.-O of. the mighty
w few instances on record of the
United States having been done" in
its cash accounts came to light at
the treasury department the other day
in a decision handed down by the con-
troller of the treasury. In this par
ticular instance the government is
short more than $4,000 and has no
way of helping itself. 1t became a
victim through the carelessness of it's
own officers, and the victimization,
too, was not criminal in its nature.
Prior to 1879 the late Samuel j.
Little of Georgetown owned four GER
tif1cates of 6 per cent stock of the
old corporation Of Georgetown. Upon
his death he left life interest in the
stock to his sister, Mrs. Eliza A.
Ricketts,, and the residue to his minor
children. j. c. Little and Julia A.
Little. In the settlement of the case
before the probate court the actual
possession of the four certificates of
stock was passed to Mrs. Ricketts,, so
that she might collect from the treas
urer, from time to time, the interest
due her.
Shortly after this United States
Treasurer Gilfillan issued a circular
calling upon all holders of George
town corporation stock, which was
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-07
Uncle Sam Is Loser in Cash Account

one of the old forms of obligation by
the District of Columbia, to present
the certificates for redemption. Mr.
Ricketts, took the four certificates to,
the treasurer's office, Endorsed Il here.
by assign the within certificates to
the treasurer of the United States for
redemption. on account of Eliza A.
Ricketts,"
The treasurer refused redemption.
upon this Endorsement. Mrs. Ricketts,
then asked the first auditor of the
treasury, as he was known in those
days, to approve the Endorsement, but
he refused. She appealed to the Of
fee Of the then first controller of the
treasury and obtained the desired ap-
prevail.
Accordingly the treasurer paid Mrs.
Ricketts, $4,012 principal and 1923 in
terest.
In 1894 Julia A. Burnell, formerly
Julia A. Little, the daughter OF Sam
uel ]. Little, made claim for the 81
021.23, alleging that it had been er-
roneously paid to Mrs. Ricketts,, who
had a life interest only. The claim
was disallowed by the treasury. Mrs.
Burnell and her husband then entered
suit for the amount before the court
of claims. A year ago they obtained
Judgment for the amount, and in the
deficiency act of June rs. 1910, ap-
preparation was made to pay this
claim, along with others.
Mrs. Burnell has been fighting for
sixteen years to secure the money
she thought was hers and is just now
coming into her own, while the gov.
eminent is out over $4,000.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-07

r HERE is a determined effort being
i made in Washington to have old
Representative hall in the capitol
cleaned out. This is the room now
known as the Hall of Horrors to those
who have seen the statuary in it, but
which is aristocratically titled the
Hall of Fame.
This hall is almost circular. 1t
has tiled floor, many pillars and
low gallery all across one end. 1t is
also known as the whispering hail."
for the reason that standing on GER
tain blocks of the thing your voice
comes to you from the floor on other
blocks, over your shoulder into your
ear on other blocks, from the winged
victory clock that faces you, and
there are many other blocks which
give forth strange echoes when you
stand upon them. No one has ever
been able to tell why these echoes are
or why other tiles give forth nothing
at all. They just do it; that is all
there is of it.
There are lot of statues that are
freaks from way back. There is only
one piece of really good sculpture in
the whole bunch of some 35 or 40, and
that is Father Marquette. which was
presented by Wisconsin. 1t is an ex-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-07

THE Postofice Department daily re-
i ceives hundreds OF complaints
caused by the losses of packages and
money. Mails are easy to rob, but few
postal thieves ever escape final de-
lection; they are sure to be entrapped
and punished in the end. While speak
ing of these numerous complaints, an
old detective, called inspector, Of the
Postofice Department said: mo
thief is harder to catch than the one
who robs Uncle Sans mail. The
methods of such thieves are ingenious,
the plumber is easily hidden or de-
stroyed, and their rascality is well
masked by the honesty and integrity
of associates.
"Postofice thieves are not arrested
every day, although valuable letters
and other articles are stolen almost
daily and an army of shrewd fnspec-
tors are on the alert. Positive proof
of guilt must be in the possession of
the inspector before an arrest is made.
Circumstantial evidence does not go
at any time with us. 1t Is an estab-
lished rule that the evidence must be
positive and direct. In almost every
case an arrest means conviction.
"a. postofice employee never knows
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-07
An Invitation to Murder.

1t was at ball game between Chi
cago and Pitsburg. The score was
tied, two men were out, runner was
on third and Hans Wagner was at bat.
The crowd was too excited to be noisy.
A sporting editor had taken his
neighbor to the game. The neighbor
was not fan, but he had succumbed
to the delights of travelling on a pass"
and was having real, garrulous good
time.
At the moment when there wasn't
heart beating on the bleachers and
the grand-standers were nauseated
with suspense the sporting editors
neighbor emitted this:
Look, Jake! Look at that coke
train! Did you ever see one engine
pulling so many cars? I'm gonna counf
'emi"-Lippincott's.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-07
Read Somewhat Peculiar.

That there is not much in name
after all was proved amusingly a day
or so ago, says the Philadelphia Times,
N'hen prominent business man re.
cekved postal from his son and
daughter-in-law, saying: 1--WE are on
our way to Hell, but it's not as hot as
you would expect. More than that, IS
continued the postcard. ''it's as easy
to get out Of as to get into" The
news came as quite a surprise to the
man, as, knowing his son and daugh.
ter-in-law, he scarcely pictured them
on their way to the Internal regions.
1t turns out, however, that He'll is a
village in Norway OF 1888 inhabitants
and lis in nowise rival to its name
sake. II wouldn't mind 1t at ALL" de-
clares the recipient of the news, ''if he
only hadn't sent it on a postcard"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-07
Postal Thieves Comparatively Few

when he is being Swallowed. Even
when not under suspicion of theft he
may be watched outside of business
hours to see if he is spending more
money than his salary will permit. 1t
sometimes happens that an inspector
may not be able to prove man a
thief, and the fellow is turned loose
with a verdict of not guilty as his
certificate of honesty, but he Is not
wanted by the department any more
From one point of view it is won
derful that there are so few thieves
among the many thousands of clerks
who handle the mails first and last,
for great temptations surround them.
as they handle millions of valuable
parcels. 1t is known that these clerks
soon learn to tell by the very touch
Of letter whether it contains money.
If so inclined it would be an easy mat
ter for the dishonest clerk to slip
letters into his pocket and open them
in the privacy Of his room. That the
cases of dishonesty are comparative
ly few is a high tribute to the moral
qualities of the postoffice clerks.
There are but two successful ways
to catch a postoffice thief-constant
watch and decoy letters. With these,
and a large supply of patience. the
game will be landed, though it often
requires months, and sometimes years.
1t is one of the most annoying and diff
ficult lines of detective work, and re.
quires the most earnest application
Not a single circumstance or detail
must be overlooked"
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SIHLS0lYC me AERX;

SIEIScY,C /TZ 6HDHj ooe 81
laid bark upwards along the top to
keep out the rain, and the whole thing
looks like long, dark caterpillar
crawling along the ground beside the
stark white tree. This is called
range" and it remains there for a
couple of weeks or month, with the
air freely circulating. until the bark
Is brown all through and quite dry
and brittle. There is now no fear OF
its getting mouldy, so it is piled up
into ricks or taken under cover into a
barn, where it remains until. the au-
tumn, when the 'hatchers" arrive.
With their draw shaves' Ga knife
with two handles) they scrape off all
the rough outer bark and lichen, leav-
ing only the inner bark. The scrapings
used always to be saved for the curing
of bacon, but owing to the introduc-
ton of creosote there is not now much
demand for them. Finally. the inner
bark is cut up into small pieces and
sent In bags to the lanyard.
G. M. WOOD.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-07

WHETHER the high price of food
w is causing the public to take an
uncommonly keen interest in domes-
tic problems now, or whether the
cause is something else, the officials
of the Department of Agriculture do
not undertake to say. The fact re-
mains that there has been greater
run up to date on the so-called social
science" series of bulletins than on
any other pamphlets the department
has ever produced.
Up to the present there has been a
total of 16,672,00O bulletins distribut-
ed. Some now out of print have been
applied for so often that it is prob
able the estimates for next year will
include provision for reprinting.
This government is the only one in
the world that has gone into the bust
ness Of printing cook books. 1t was
stated, when the Department of Agri-
culture recently issued the book on
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-07
ANTIDOTE FOR LOCKJkW
tered This Dreaded Scourge
of Mankind.

The popular belief that a wound
from treading on a rusty nall Is very
likely to cause tetanus is quite correct.
rusty, but because by lying on the
ground it has become infected with
the germs of lockjaw. Moreover as
the punctured wound caused by the
nail bleeds but little and this blood
dries up and excludes the air, the most
favorable conditions for the develop
ment of tetanus exist, for, as Kitasato
the Japanese bacteriologist. proved
the absence of oxygen is most favor
able for the growth of the germ.
The germ itself looks very much
like a tack, according to writer in
Harper's Monthly; it is SO virulent
that its toxin in doses of 1900, 00Oth of
a teaspoonful will kill mouse. 1t has
been found by experiment that the
poison is carried up to the spinal cord
not by tie absorbents nor the blood
vessels, as are other poisons, but
through the motor nerves.
Fortunately an anti-poisen or anti
QOl0 HAS USSu uSNStOpSu, Jul 81
prompt is the action of the poison that
in an animal two minutes after the in
lection of a fatal dose of the poison
twice as much of the remedy Is re-
quired as if it had been administered
with the poison; after eight minutes
ten times the amount and for ninety
minutes forty times the original
amount is necessary. This antitoxtn
is entirely harmless.
AS q result of antiseptic methods
lockjaw is now almost unknown ex-
cept after neglected wounds, instead
of being frequent as it formerly was.
When it is feared the antitoxin Is used
as a preventive and when it has de-
veloped as a cure. In animals, for ma
turally horses suffer enormously more
frequently than man, the same anti.
toxin is used. In 1853 horses that had
operations performed on them, but
were protected by the antitoxin, not
one developed tetanus, whereas OF
eight cases unprotected by the anti
toxin five developed tetanus.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-07
Hall of Fame Statuary Not Artistic

quisite piece of work. The rest of
the statues are practical caricatures.
There is one of Fulton, who is seated
in his hand. He lops all over this
chair, his legs are sprawled in all
sorts Of ways, and it is about as woe
begone a piece of marble as can well
be imagined. There is a marble Of
Webster, whom everybody knows was
not large man, but the statue makes
him regular giant. There Is a
statue of John ]. ingalls,, the only one
as yet sent by Kansas, and excepting
that it is like line, has neither
breadth nor thickness, which was a
good description of ingalls,. 1t Is the
limit for ugliness. There is statue
of Frances Willard in basque and
ill-hanging dress, which bears not the
slightest resemblance to that dainty.
sweet-faced woman. There Is statue
Of Phil Kearny in bronze, which is
very pretty to look at but has very
little artistic merit, and there is one
of Shoup, of Idaho, whivh looks as
though it might have been sandpa-
pered out of piece Of marble. And
then there is Washington, a dapper-
little darling with sloping brew. as
fashioned by Houdon.
The Washington newspapers come
time ago began crusade to have
the law placing statutes in Stafaary
hall by the states repealed. 1t IL to
be repealed on the ground that the
hall is already damned to overflow
ing, and if any more statuary is pre-
scented it will be necessary to make a
second and inner row.