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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-12-23
ISB6M'S WAY OF WINNING
Challenge Every One Who Opposes
You and Keep Fighting and
HustIing All the Time.
BY FRANK ISBELL.


Keep your dobber up and challenge
every one who opposes you. Keep
lighting and hustling all the time.
That's the way to win.
l have worked on baseball clubs
that have beaten much stronger clubs.
and the secret of our success has been
that we always have kept in better
condition than our opponents and
fought harder. I think I see things
clearer now that I am a club owner
than ! did when was player, being
able to get both views of the game,
and the first thing that strikes me is
the necessity of having leader to
keep the entire team moving at top
speed, and one who can get the best
work out of each man. The game is
a peculiar one, because the work OF
each man depends so much upon the
work of those around him.
My idea as club owner of how to
win often conflicts with the ideas !
had when a player. have theory
now that picking the men more be-
cause of their nerve, their courage
and their dispositions than for their
playing ability is the winning system.
On the field 1 think I have helped
win more because of "jollying" other
players, watching them, stopping them
when they are going too fast, than 1
ever did by individual hitting or field
ing. 1t was the devotion to Jones and
to Comiskey, and the confidence We
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-12-23
Bankers and Bank Notes,

Four men, three of whom were con-
nected with brokerage concerns in the
Wall street district, were discussing
United States paper currency and the
disappearance Of counterfeits. 1--WE
are SO sure nowadays" said one of
the party, "as to the genuineness of
bills that little attention is paid to
them in handling, except as to de-
nomination" To prove his assertion
he took a $40 yellowback from his
pocket, and, holding it up, asked who
could tell whose portrait it bore. No
one knew, and by way of coaching
the broker said it was the first treas
urer Of the United States. Again no
one knew the name. "Why, It's
Michael Hillegas," said the man
proudly. But in confidence, I'll tell
you, I didn't know it five minutes
ago."-New York Tribune.
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Too Ardent a Lover.

Georgotto Fontano, an embrofderer
who lives In the Rue Sevres in Paris,
has found herself condemned to a
months Imprisonment for what seems
to her a harmless act.
She was going home from concert
few evenings ago when she decided
she would like to see her fiance. AS
he happens to be a fireman whose
station is in her own neighborhood it
occurred to her it would be very easy
to summon him to her side by break
ing the glass of the fire alarm and
sounding call.
She did so anr in a few moments
IRE engines came from several direc-
tons, all laden with firemen, of course,
but alas! her fiance was not among
them, and more than that all the fire.
men were angry, and before she knew
what had happened abe was taken to
a magistrate, who proceeded to make
the course of true love run unsmoothly
by sending her to prison for month
in spite Of her tears and protests that
she thought it would be simple way
of bringing her fiance to her side.
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Vivid at Least.

DR.. Hiram G. Cortlandt, the well
known theologian of Des Moines, said
in recent address:
Thomas A. Edison tells us that he
thinks the soul is not immortal; but,
after all, what does this great wizard
know about souls? His forte is cleo.
tricity and machinery, and when he
talks of souls he reminds me irresist-
IDLY of the young lady who visited the
Baldwin locomotive works and then
told how locomotive is made.
"'You pour she said, a lot of sand
into lot of boxes, and you throw old
stove lids and things into furnace,
and they you empty the molten stream
into hole in the sand, and everybody
yells and swears. Then you pour II
out and let it cool and pound 1t, and
then you put 1t In thing that bores
holes in it. Then you screw it to-
gether, and paint it. and put steam in
it, and it goes splendidly; and they
take 1t to drafting room and make
a bluep rint of 1t. But one thing for
got-they have to make a boiler. One
man gets inside and one gets outside,
and they pound frightfully; and then
they tie it to the other thing, and you
ought to see It goi'"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-12-23
An Alaskan Luncheon,

Runners of woven Indian basketry,
with white drawnwork doilies at each
of the IL covers, were used on an oval
made at Sitka. In the middle Of the
table mirror held a tall central vase
of frosted glass, surrounded by four
smaller vases, all filled with white
spring blossoms. The edge of the
mirror was banked with the same
flowers. Four totem poles were placed
on doilies in the angles made by the
runners.
Place cards were water colors Of
Alaskan scenery. Abalone shells held
sailed nuts, and tiny Indian baskets
held bonbons. The soup spoons were
Of horn, several Of the dishes used
were made by Alaskan Indians, and
the cakes were served on baskets.
The menu was as follows: Poisson
la Bering Sea (halibut chowder),
Yukon climbers (broiled salmon, po-
tatoes Julienne), snowbirds avec
auroraborealis (roast duck with jelly,
Shungnak. river turnips, Tanana
beets, Skagway hash (salad), Fair
banks nuggets (ripe strawberries ar
ranged on individual dishes around a
central mound Of powdered sugar.,
arctic slices (brick ice creamy, Circle
City delights (small cakes), Klondike
nuggets yellow cheese in round balls
on crackers), Nome firewater (coffee).
-Womsn's Home Companion.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-12-23

GOSSIP.

Barney O1dfeld declined an offer
Of $4,000 to race in ten meets in Aus
tralia.
Bat Nelson says he will begin all
over again by meeting the second.
raters.
Will any ambitious pug have the
audacity to knock Abe Attell down
again?
The Cub players have an idea that
Carl Lundgren would make a corkine
umpire
Frank Navin, president of the De
troit Tigers, at last has acknowledged
he needs some new pitchers.
Packey Mcfarland easily sees the
Justice in the change of the light.
weight limit from 1873 to 1876 pounds.
Wolgast says he is glad Moran de.
feated Nelson. Probably he did not
relish the idea of another As gruellins
combat with the Battler.
The pope, when introduced to Com
ME Mack. said he was pleased to meet
the leader of the American champions
of 1910. This is the way the worlds
champions" are considered across the
big pond.
"Rube' Waddell has been sold
again-this time to Minneapolis. the
Mecca of major league has-beena OF
course, RUDE may not know he has
been sold, but at any rate it is thougbt
he viii not object.
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French Official Etiquet.

The wives of the new French minis
tiers share in the honors conferred on
their husbands, the degree of defer
ence due to them being infinitely es-
tablished by the "protocole." When
the wife of a minister enters a room,
If any deputies or senator's wives are
present, they are supposed to rise
and remain standing until she is seat
ed. Other ministers wives may rest
in their chairs, but should the prime
minister's wife arise they also must
stand to attention. And even Nine.
BRAND (if there were such a PERSON.,
would have to show similar Difference
to the wife of the president of the
chamber. With her, according to the
protocole, "e'est la representation ma
tionale qui entire, lie suffrage univer
sci la France. London Chronisie.
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o. the county, and member of the yes.
try of the church at Lynhaven. He
had four sons, Henry, Horatio, John
and William, and several daughters;
one, Elizabeth, married Giles Collins:
Sarah, Cason More; Mary became the
wife of Edward Atwood, and Rachel,
of John Totne. One daughter married
Hercules Low. What little plate
have, I leave to my wife Mary" reads
Henry's will, proved 1866. To each
child he left silver spoon To Henry
was left plantation of 500 acres.
Grants of land to Thomas and Ham.
mond or Hamon Woodhouse are re-
corded in James City county" and
Charles City county,
One of the New England pilgrims
was also named Henry, and he, too
leaves valuable record. He was an
officer in the Indian war (Philips0,
and an officer later of Henchman's
regiment. He was one of Concord's
settlers.
The coat-of-arms illustrated is quar-.
terly, ermine and azure. In the sec.
ond and third quarters, a leopard's
head, or.
Crest, a griffin, sergeant, or.
One motto of the Woodhouse fam
lily is Frappez Fort-Strike hard.
This coat-armor belongs to the Vir.
GINA branch of the family.
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Before DAYS of Free Press.

Many of the restrictions that hamp.
cred the influence of the press re-
manned in force until the close of the
eighteenth century in England. 1t was
not till that period that newspapers
obtained the right to criticise the pol
icy of ministers and of the king. Mr..
Walter, the first editor of the London
Times, was prosecuted for censuring
the duke of York. He was sentenced
to pay a fine Of $3.50, stand in the
pillory for an hour, be imprisoned for
year and give security for his good
behavior for seven years. The order
with regard to the pillory was can
celed, but he had to serve his term in,
Jail.
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martial services, received grants of
land. This would give France, prob
ably Normandy, as the cradle of the
family.
The patriarchal heads of the family
In this country, came from Bristol,
England, and settled in the Massachu-
sets colony. There were three broth
ers, Roger, William and Mark, and the
date of their arrival was 1887.
1t is the simplest thing in the world
to establish your eligibility to mem
bership in most every patriotic So
ciety, if-these offs" are tiresome-
you can trace back to William the
First. You may stop, however, before
you reach him, If your line is that of
Benjamin, son of the pilgrim William.
He was also of Gloucester, and a Sc
lectman, and representative to court,
1705. His marriage with Mary, daugh<
ter of Thomas Riggs, was November
Fl, 1877, and they had nine children.
One daughter was Elinor, another Pa
thence, who married John Roberts.
For membership with the Society Of
Colonial Wars, trace back to John, son
of William the pilgrim. John, like the
brave boy he was, shouldered his
musket in 1875, and four years later
he had a large grant of land for serv.
ices in the war. He was deputy to
the court, and what is of prime Inn
portance, he reared seven children.
One characteristic of the Heiskells
may be named-they lived to a good
old age The feminine members are
noted for amiable tempers-this upon
the voluntary testimony of their hus.
bands. The men have their share Of
good Iooks-the lions share in fact,
and they are courteous, magnanimous,
generous, possessing nobleness Of
soul, according to one who knows
whereof he speaks, and elevated sem
timents
The family has it's statesmen, au-
thors, journalists-one of the early ed
itors of the Boston Transcript was
Noyes Haskell. A president of the
University of Vermont was Daniel
Haskell, born 1884, at Preston, Conn.
One of the Gloucester family, Level
Ign Haskell, laid out that handsome
suburb of New York city, Llewellyn
Park, Orange, N. j.
The coat of arms illustrated is vair,
argent and sable, bend of the first;
over all fess, in chief, or
Crest; on mount sable, an apple
tree fructed proper.
Supporters; two leopards proper.
Motto-"Craignez Homie, Aymez,
Loyaute- Dread shame, love loyalty
Although the date of the grant Of
this coat-armor is not given, it's char.
acter points to an early date.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-12-23
Two Very Old ladias.

We have heard great deal lately
about long-lived people, but it Is prob
able that the Oldest two people in the
world today are Frau Dutkievitz and
another old lady named Babavaslika.
The former lives at Posem, In Prus.
sian Poland, and was born on Febru-
airy 21, 1855. She Is therefore one
hundred and twenty-five years old.
The latter. however, is nine months
her senior, having been born in May,
1854.
She is still fairly hale old woman,
and for nearly one hundred years
worked in the fields. Her descendants
number close on 100, and these now
make her joint allowance. She lives
at the village of Bavelsko, whose
neighborhood she has never quilted
during the whole Of her long life. She
remembers events which happened at
the beginning Of last century much
more clearly than those of the last
40 years.-Dundee Advertiser.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-12-23
HOLIDAYS La the States.

Washington's birthday Is holiday
In all states. Decoration day in all
states but Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. Labor
day is observed everywhere. Virtu-
ally every state has legal holidays
having to do with its own special af-
fairs-battle of New Orleans in Louis
lana, Texan independence and battle
of San Jacinto in Texas, Admission
day in California, and SO on. Missis-
sippi is like the federal government
in lack of statutory holidays, but by
common consent Independence day,
Thanksgiving and Christmas are OBJ
served. A new one is Columbus day
in few of the states.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-12-23
WOOdhOuSe Family

Wodehouse is one variation of this
name, and there are other forms:
Wodehous, Wooddus, Woodies, Wood
is, Woodice, Woodowes. In colonial
records, the name frequently appears
as Woody.
Wodehouse is town in Shropshire,
and the family is supposed to take it's
name from the place. In another part
of England there is town Wodehous.
From the thirteenth century, the
family was one of Importance in
Shropshire, and also Yorkshire. Lon
don records of the seventeenth GEN.
fury refer to the Woodhouses as mer-
chants of standing. About 1870, we
find mention of Henry de Wood
house or Wodehouse. One of the fam
lily had the honor of martyrdom-
Thomas Woodhouse suffered death by
execution in 1873, druing the religious
prosecutions.
"Of an ancient and honorable FAM
ily," one of the name is spoken of,
with the addendum, "a respectable
gentleman who had a number of chill
dren"
Capt. Henry Woodhouse was in
the expedition to Rochelle; he was
recommended to be captain of the Til
bury fort, and he was master of the
muster, Suffolk county. From 1923 to
1926, he was governor of the Bermu-
das, and there he was present Eat
COUNSEL table, Mch. 1, 1926" A few
years later, he petitioned King Charles
to give him the governorship of Vir-
ginia, position which the king had
promised him.
1t was Capt. Henry Woodhouse's
son, Henry, born in Bermuda, 1907,
who became Virginia settler, when
about thirty years OF age. This line is
easily traced back few generations.
Captain Woodhouse was the son of Sir
Thomas Wodhouse, who was the son
of Sir Thomas Woodhouse of Waxham,
who was the son of John Woodhouse,
whose wife was Alice Croft. OF this
branch of the family, was Sir Henry
Woodhouse, who married Anne Bacon,
daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon, keep
er of the great seal in the reign of
Elizabeth, and father of the illustrious
Lord Bacon. One of the family con-
nections of the Woodhouses about this
period, was Sir julius Caesar.
When Captain Woodhouse was gov
ernor of Bermuda, he, with his council,
was called upon to settle dispute of
the ladies regarding precedence in
seating aft church "E0r tha neaca
among the women, who weare discon-
tented for their precedence, it was de-
cree that the upper seat at church
be free and reserved for marriages
and christenings, and that the first
seat be for the use of six ladies, of
whom Mrs. Woodhouse was one.
Henry Woodhouse of Virginia has a
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felt in them and in each other that
If that spirit does not exist in a team
the team is beaten. no matter how
great it's individual strength may be-.
AS for playing the game, l believe in
doing the unexpected and pulling of
plays just when the other team is
looking for something else. l always
have been a believer in the hit and
run game, rather thar sacrificing, and
also of hitting the ball at unexpected
times. For instance, if runners are
on bases and all the rules of play
seem to point to sacrifice bunt, and
If the other team palpably is expecting
a sacrifice, l believe it is good policy
to play hit and run as soon as the in
field is pulled out of position. l be.
lieve also, and l think l may claim
that l have won many games by it,
that running wild on the bases is one
of the best systems Of winning base
ball games. / know that while / was
in the major leagues l was severely
criticized many times for going from
first to third, or from second home,
on short hits. Every time l was
caught I was criticized for taking too
reckless chances, and many defeats
were blamed to me, and many times
was called bone head or worse.
During my major league career.
however, think l won two games by
wild running where I lost one. The
first theory 1 ever had in regard to
baseball was that the team that makes
the other team throw the ball will
win. Nothing in the game causes as
many wild throws as wild base run
ming
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-12-23
Planting Wedding Oaks,

Princess August Wilhelm, wife of
the kaiser's fourth son, has set herself
the task Of reviving one Of Germany's
oldest customs, that according to which
newly welded couples Immediately af-
ter the marriage ceremony plant cou-
pie Of oak saplings side by side in a
park or by the roadside of their ma
tive town.
The town of Mulchausen, in Thurin-
gia, is the first to respond to the prin-
cess appeal. A municipal official ap-
pears at the church door after every
wedding and invites the bride and
bridegroom to drive with him in a car
riage to new road near the town and
there plant oak saplings.
The tree planting idea was started
by former elector of Brandenburg
with the object of repairing the raw
ages caused by the 80 years war. The
elector forbade young persons to mar
ry until they had planted number OF
fruit trees.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-12-23
NEW SAWS BADLY NEEDED
The OId-Fashioned Ones Somehow
Don't Seem to Fit into Mod
ern Situations.

"You know all the copybook, Nc
Guffey's reader line Of talk about ia
king the advice of ones elders?" be-
gan the sad-eyed, understood little
man on the car. "Sure you do. Now
let me tell you something. See that
big apartment house over there on
the right? And that little business
block right next to it?
"Well, there weren't any apartment
houses or business blocks on it when
I first clapped eyes on it. 1t was a
bowling wilderness, in fact, and you
could almost chase rabbits up here.
That was about eighteen years ago.
eighteen years old at that time-that
this land would some day jump in
value by leaps and bounds. When I
was twenty years old I came into a
bunch of $4,000. I went to my guar
dian, an old man, pretty prominent
in estate management and wisdom at
that time, and told him I wanted to
soak the whole $4,000 in this block
of ground I pointed out to you. The
block was then on the market for
exactly $4,000. The old gentleman
pooh-poohed me.
eco away, boy he said to me, with
a patronizing smile. You don't know
what you want. It's my duty to save
you from such wild notions as this
one you've got into your head. They'll
be shooting rabbits and squirrels out
there on that plot so years from now.
G'way.'
81 argued it with him, and he sat
down on me. Then he went and in
vested my $4,000 at three per cent.
Three years ago the man who
bought that same block Of ground for
$4,000 sold it for about 100000 cash,
and he's now cruising over in the
Mediterranean or some place or
other, while I'm taking my wife out
for nickel car rides and wondering
where my $4,000 went.
There's got to be new set Of
wise saws invented for twentieth CEN
fury consumption. The McGuffey's
reader kind are moth eaten"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-12-23
Pretty Good Definition.

We hear some funny things in Fleet
street sometimes, and the following
definition of the height of aggravation,
by gentleman in rather shaky boots,
whom we encountered in well-known
hostelry the other day, struck us as
being particularly choice.
''The eight of haggravation, gentle
men," said this pothouse humorist, set
ting his pewter on the counter and
looking round proudly, with the air of
one about to let off a good thing, "the
eight of haggravation-why, trying
to ketch flea out O yer ear with a
pair of boxin' gloves. London Tit.
Bits.
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Rat Bounty Excites Merriment.

Seattle, fearing the Introduction Of
bubonic plague by rats, has offered q
bounty of ten cents rat. This moves
Tacoma, safe from infection from the
sea, to raucous laughter, and the Led
ger says that the bounty, though not
intended for rodents of Tacoma,
Everett, Bellingham and other popu-
lous and busy centers, has been find
ing its way into the pockets of nom
residents of Seattle for nonresident
rats. But the joke would be on us If
it were found that our rat popula-
ton had found it's way into the Seat
tie census"
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Difference IN THE RACES
Mexicans In the Main Unjust In
Blaming Americans for Lack
of Politeness.

All the Mexican correspondents
who have written on the subject Of
why Americans are not better liked
by Mexicans agree that 1t Is largely
question of lack of politeness on
the part of the foreigner here, and in
some cases an ill-concealed contempt.
The latter is inexcusable, and certain
ly must emanate only from inconsid-
crate or poorly educated persons, from
which no nation is free. Politeness,
however, Is largely matter of form
and training. 1t is undeniable that
the Anglo-Saxon salutations, methods
of expressing thanks and apprecia-
ton, etc., are simpler and shorter
than the Latin forms. To many who
have all their lives been accustomed
to the briefer Saxon ways, an attempt
of the more elaborate Latin poiiteness
seems, for them, nothing short Of af-
fectation, and they simply cannot do
1t. There are exceptions among Amer
leans and Englishmen who readily
adopt the courteous phrases of the
Mexicans and use them naturally, but
they are the exceptions. And 1t is
difficult to see how this can readily
be changed. Our Mexican friends
should understand, on the other hand,
that IL Anglo-Saxons do not, as a rule,
go through as many social formalities
as the usages of the land prescribe,
they mean no offense thereby. They
are accustomed to taking good
many things for granted that their
Latin cousins give verbal assurance
Of Naturally, 1t is the duty Of the
outlander to conform as nearly as he
can to the ways Of his adopted coun-
try, but human nature and settled
habits are pretty hard to make over,
particularly unless you catch them
while they're young.-Mexican Her
aid.
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Largest of Whales.

The largest whale of its type Of
which there Is scientific record was
captured recently Off Port Arthur,
Tex. He measured sixty-three feet
In length, and was estimated to be
about three hundred years old. Cap
tain Cob Plummer, mate of a United
States pilot boat, sighted the monster
In the shoals off the jetties, and the
crew of his vessel captured the man.
NAL. The huge body was towed ashore,
exhibited and much photographed be-
fore being cut up.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-12-23
Cripple Rides Bicycle.

George Anstey, aged IL, a cripple,
q Leicester, England, is one of the
most remarkable cyclists in the coun-
try. Both his legs are withered and
useless, but the Leicester Cripples'
Guild has provided him with a two
wheeled pedalless machine, with a
padded tube covering the axle bar.
Across this he lies face foremost, and
with wooden clogs strapped to his
hands he propels himself along the
streets and roads in marvelously
rapid manner. He has complete con-
troll of the machine, his hands acting
as pedals, steering gear, and brake
combined,