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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29

w ASHINGTON had a safe and
w sane" celebration of the national
birthday. In years gone by the ma
tional capital has been noted for the
noisiest Fourth OF July celebration Of
any city in the union. Last year they
adopted the safe and sane" idea.
Day fireworks and a parade in the
morning with speechmaking on the
plaza fronting the city buildings. In
the afternoon motor parade and, at
night, an illumination of the Mont
ment grounds and more fireworks.
The safe and sane" idea took well
at first and Washington determined to
stick by the modern form of celebra-
ton this year. Therefore the celebra-
ton last Monday began with the read
ing of the Declaration of Independence
in front of the city buildings. Ten
o'clock was the hour set, but, as luck
would have it, the same hour the Bos-
ton Red Sox and the Nationals
crossed bate. The Washington Post
and the Washington Times have Of
fees opposite the city building. A
crowd of about 1000 people lad gath
cred for the ceremonies. At the news
paper offices the megaphone men had
been connected by wire with the base
ball park.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29

WASHINGTON- of the princi-
w pals in the Washington public
schools has been telling her friends of
some amusing incidents of the final
examinations before the close of the
schools for the summer.
Among the questions she gave to
the children in the third grade was:
Name the five races of man." Imag-
ine her surprise when one tot an
swered: Automobile races, horse
races, airship races. foot races and
bicycle races"
Another question was: Name some
Of the organs of men," To this one
child replied: Mouth organ. hand
organ, pipe organ"
The spinal cord was defined as
string running from the back of the
head to the bottom of the heels.
Ears" said one, ARE just as impor-
tant as good clothes and should be
taken care of just as well. DoHt let
bugs crawl into your ears, but if one
should get in there syringe your ear
with soap suds and afterwards drop
some molasses into it."
Poison" wrote another, should be
doctored at once and not allowed to
run on as it is dangerous. Don't treat
poison rough-it is liable to run into
blood poison. If anyone should take
poison it is a good idea to keep it as
high up out of reach as possible"
You ought to keep poison in little
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29
|ACorner in Ancestors
EUanS Family
Copyright by Mcclure Syndicate,
By ELEANOR LEXINGTON

into the "Mayflower society,"" without
so much as 'by your leave"
Another New England forebear was
Sherebiah Evans of Milton, Mass, a
Revolutionary soldier. He was born
il Maryland, and married Elizabeth
Dudley. Their son, Sherebiah, was
born at Boston, 1896 The marriage
connections of this line include the
Hirrisons, Clarks, Cooks and Warmers.
Sherebiah may have been the son
or grandson of James, who came from
England in IT'S, with wife and four
children. to Cecil county, Maryland.
One son, John, who was in the French
and Indian war, removed to Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania. His wife was
Sarah Denny
In Maine one of the prominent mem
bers of the family was George Evans,
born 1897. He was attorney general
of the state, and candidate for nom
ination as vice-president when Tay-
lor was nominated
The family has always been prom
inent in Pennsylvania.
. Lott Evans, born in Wales, a friend
of Penn, set out on the same ship in
1851, but died at sea. He had three
sons, Thomas, Charles and Lott, or
John. While Penn was in England
in 1904, Thomas (some records says
John) was provisional or deputy gov
ernor of the colony.
| Thomas married Sarah Roberts and
they raised large family. One son,
Jonathan, had foundry, and the tree
under which the treaty was made by
Penn with the Indian chiefs, was On
| the foundry grounds.
The family has its poets, authors,
statesmen, scientists and inventors
The first steam engine constructed on
the high pressure principle was made
and designed by Oliver Evans of Del
aware, born 1855, and who died 1919.
The blaZon of the coat-of-arms
shown is: Quarterly, first and fourth,
argent, three boars heads, couped.
sable; second and third, gules. lion
rampant reguardant, argent.
Crest: A demi-lion reguardant, ar:
gent holding between his paws, q
| UOdI > uSdu, COuPSu, SdUlS.
Motto: LibertaS.
This is the coat-of-arms used by the
Evans of Pennsylvania, who trace
back to Lott and Lofts line included,
not all the royal families of Great
Britain, but the Tudor line and the
founder Of one OF the royal lines Of
Wales-as above stated
| Dot IoJr
window to the memory of Joseph
r. Evans, represents the lion of the
arms, with boars head issuing from
a coronet, and the motto: Aut vincere,
aut mort.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29

THE rural free delivery service of
/ the United States means the dis
tribution of nearly 100000 letters and
parcels annually along the highways
and byways of every state and terri
tory from Maine to Alaska. A force
of 41,00O carriers daily go over the
routes assigned to them, says writer
in the Bookkeeper.
Bringing the mail to the farmer now
costs the nation $36,00O,00O year in
salaries for the carriers, expense of
examining new routes, maintaining
postoffices, payments of inspectors,
special agents, clerks and chiefs of
bureaus.
To secure information to make
changes in routes and carriers, where
deemed necessary, to establish new
routes and to record and tabulate
statistics and data for the postmaster
general as well as for the public, a
force of only ITO persons is required
in Washington, in spite of the great
amount of office work and correspond
ence that must be finished daily.
More than million letters are re-
ceived and answered by the depart
ment of rural free delivery in a year.
Many of those received are merely ad-
dressed to the department To save
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29
BYRNE SAYS BASEBALL
Is A POOR PROFESSION
FOR YOUTH TO CHOOSE
BY BOBBY BYRNE.

Copyright. 1910. by Joseph B. Bowles)
You ask me to tell how l happened
to get into baseball as a profession in
order to help young and aspiring play
ers. If they asked me l would tell
them everything could to keep them
from starting. Not that l knock the
profession, but l think it is poor one
to choose, not because Of the life it.
self, but because of its temptations
and hardships, and, worse than that,
the small chances of being really sue
cessful.
If l had it to do over aagin l do not
think l ever would become profess
sional ball player, in spite of the fact
that l love the game and love to play
1t. l think young fellow would do
better to devote himself to some other
line than to take the chances Of sue
cess in the national game. for even
when he wins he loses.
wanted to be ball player and was
educated at the game In a good school.
on the lots around st. Louis. l think
that ball players develop faster when
IhOJ Oh III LAC AC16hUOAA OOu VI ooAh0
major league team. One or two OF the
players on a prairie" team are at
every game the big leagues play. They
see how the game is played, and being
at that age as initiative as monkeys.
they work the same things on their
own teams and teach all the other
boys. / have noticed that when any
city has a pennant winning club the
quality of baseball played by the boys
and the amateurs in that vicinity Is
much improved.
The first regular team I made was
the Arcades at Springfield, Mo-, which
was quite a team, merely because we
well and could teach us. 1t is easier
to teach boys than to teach men, as
they will obey without a question if
they think the leader knows what he
Is doing l picked up the game rapid
ly The hardest thing l had to learn
was when to throw. I think
must have thrown away half the games
we played before l learned not to
throw when there was no chance to
get the runner. / think that Is one
of the iirst things young player
should learn; to look before he throws
and only throw when he has chance
to make a play. The next thing, ii
seems to me, is to learn to handle
ones feet and to keep in the game all
the time, and be in position to move
when the bali is hit or before.
played around in the Trolley league
at st. Louis, and then took chance
and went to Shreveport, La, where
made good right off the reel. start
ed well, but got to thinking that the
old heads down there were not as good
as the kids" in the Trolley league
until they began to show me things
never had heard about Luckily had
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29
UMPIRE SHERIDAN QUIT
BECAUSE EYES ARE BAD

John F. Sheridan, the American
league umpire, who suddenly an
nounced his intention of quitting the
game just before the contest between
Washington and New York recently.
told President Johnson at Chicago
that his eyes are going back OH him
and that as he would have to wear
glasses, he had decided to quit the
game for good. Mr. johnson sent the
umpire to an eye specialist and hopes
that Jack can be Influenced to don
umpire toys again.
can accident common to ball play.
ers started me on the downward path
path of umpiring," says Sheridan. I'm
youth / aspired to be bold athlete
and got along very well until I went
to Chattanooga, Tenn, to play second
base with a pig iron arm. That was
In the spring of 1885, Early in the
season they used the acid test on the
arm and it was case of tin can for
me. They had passed the iron age
In Dixie. Henry Grady, the silver
tongued statesman, was president of
the Southern league at that time. He
must have thought my voice sounded
ripe for the business, so he offered me
soft snap umpiring at $75 per month.
needed the money, but had I known
then what l know now l would not
have needed the money. Sometimes
fellow can get along without it.
However, was youngster far from
my sunny California home. and the
SIS per looked good before got busy.
was assigned to Macon, Ca, as the
society papers say. and umpired
since them
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Baseball and the Declaration Mixed

Promptly at ten o'clock a baldhead-
ed man in a frock coat arose on the
flag draped stand in front of the city
building cleared his throat and be-
gan:
when the course of human ev-"
Across the way the megaphone man
interrupted with:
milan is at the bat-Ball one!"
vents it becomes necessary" con-
tinued the baldheaded reader
"Foul--Strike one," roared the
megaphone.
The masculine portion of the listen
ers became FESTIVE. Their attention
turned in the direction of the mega
phone man and their backs toward
the baldheaded patriot
''for one people to dissolve the
polit-"
He hits to left-For two bases
Lelivelt at the bat
BY this time 1914 male members Of
the Independence day audience had
dashed madly across to Newspaper
Row. Of the original audience of the
'safe and sane" celebration, 1874 wom-
en- % children, salubriously intoxi-
Gated cab driver and the police guard
remained.
"Lelivelt sacrifices--Elberfeld
scores"
"Hurrah!--Wow! Wow!" bel
lowed the crowd and the remainder
of the reading of the glorious docu-
ment was interspersed with Good
boy, Doc!" ooh, you Gabby Street,"
for IA hot innings.
But Boston won.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29

q INCE Senator Burton took his con-
- gressional investigators of Euro
pean waterways abroad he has been
relating this one. The senator was in
Switzerland. In front of the hotel at
which he was stopping mountain
climbing party was arranging for a
start to the top of one of the lesser
Alpine peaks. The guide was as busy
as bird dog nosing around, and
giving lim,tless advice and instruction
in what to do and how to do 1t.
rs he a thoroughly skilled climb
err" asked the Ohioan of the hotel
proprietor.
"Ah, Eat he eez," exclaimed the boni-
face HE have lost two partez of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29
Mitchell Family

Two theories regarding the deriva-
ton of the name Mitchell have their
advocates. 1t is from the Anglo-Sax-
on word mycel or mickle, meaning
great, or from Michael, meaning
Goods power" Michael has always
been a popular name, particularly in
it's French form Michel. Mytchell is
an ancient photography, this with
Mitchell, is perhaps the only varia-
ton.
Searching family records, some CEN
turtles ago, we find the curious name
Elected Mitchell of Heathfield,"
name in the same class as Faint
Not" Fight-the-Good-Figh
and "Search-the-Scriptures," all these
being Christian names bestowed upon
children by parents of a peculiar bias
of mind. Elected by comparison, IL
fairly attractive.
The family is rich in authors and
men of science; it also has it's states
men, it's solemn representatives Of the
law, it's dignitaries of the church, and
its gallant soldiers.
The Pennsylvania family Of Mitch
ellis trace back to Yorkshire. Eng
land, and to the Mitchells who first
made a home in Bermuda, notably
William and wife Elizabeth, whose
descendants settled in Philadelphia,
and also in Baltimore. George Mitch
ell of York county, Pa. was born in
Scotland, 1874.
We find the Mitchells in Roanoke
county, Va, and related by marriage
to the family of Col Zachary Lewis.
whose father was a messmate of
Washington's in the war with the
French. This branch of the Mitchells
has descendants in many southern
states. The Thomas and Graham
| families are also allied by marriage.
The last named family is that Of gov
ernor of North Carolina, William Ora
ham,
While discussing relationship, 1t
may be mentioned that the Mitchells
Of Connecticut, claim kin with Rebec-
ca Motto of revolutionary fame, with
Gov. Saltonstall, and Gov. Dudley of
Massachusetts,; also with the Gardin-
ers, of Gardeners island.
Matthew Mitchell, with wife and
children, was passenger on the
James," 1886. Four years later, he
was town clerk of Wethersf1eld. This
was the year that the men Of Hart
ford, Wethersfield and Windsor, met
at Hartford, and drew up. the first
written American constitution, or
form of government made, "by the
people for the people" Matthew was
a representative at court from Say
brook; he took part in the Pequot
war. and in 1643, removed to Hemp
stead, l.. l.
Edward Mitchell passenger, 1888,
on the "Diligent," made a home at
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Rural Free Delivery Is Growing Fas

time of opening and reading missives
not properly directed is a part of the
work of the mailing section. 1t in
cludes private postoffice through
which every letter received or sent
relative to rural delivery must pass.
Every one of the half-million and
more letters sent from this depart.
ment is copied for record by a me-
chanical system which saves the labor
of a hundred copying clerks even
where the hand copying press or the
carbon method has been employed. A
force of only seventeen clerks is need
ed in this section, yet in addition to
handling and copying mail they keep
daily record of all the outlay for
postage expenses of the department
and sort and examine the hundreds of
letters daily received which must be
returned to the postoffice where they
should have been directed.
What the service does in receiving
applications for new routes, petitions
for carriers, decisions of the depart,
ment, the payments and receipts, is
told by the postoffice newspaper.
The esprit de corps of the rural free
delivery is best shown by the last an
nual report. During the year it states
that out of the 41,000 in the service
the total dismissals for cause were
only 165, less than the total number
of deaths.
The reasons for the dismissals we're
principally incompetence and failure
to obey instructions. No dismissals
whatever for stealing from the mails
OrdS
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29
Jennings After Star TwIrIers.

Rughie Jennings, manager of the
Detroit Tigers, needs good pitchers
badly. He is said to have made Of
fers for Walter Johnson of the Ma
tionals and Frank Smith of the Chi
cago White Sox. If these reports are
true Hughie certainly isn't modest in
his wishes. Comiskey might trade
Smith for Ty Cobb and Tom Noyes
might let Johnson go for a barrel or
two of coin. IT'S said Detroit of.
fered Washington $4,000 for the bat
terry, Johnson and Street. President
Navin says it isn't true. Maybe that
settles it and maybe 1t doesn't. Catch
er Beckendorf Of Detroit has been
sold to Washington.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29
Whv Burton Didn't Climb Mountain

toureests down zee mountaine eide,
and boze times he have come off
wizout so mooch as zee one leetle
zcratch."
Burton did not climb any mountains
during his sojourn.
Representative j. Harry Covington
of Maryland represents that section of
the Terrapin state known as the
Eastern Shore. The Eastern Shore
is famed for producing not only the
highest living in all America, but Il
numbers among its population many
of the highest livers.
"The most notable instance of gour-
mandizing which our section has pro-
duced," said Mr.. Covington to a group
of newspaper friends, ''is old Joe
Nicholson of Talbot county. One Of
Joe's friends asked him If he liked
turkey.
"'Sure / like turkey responded Old
Joe But turkey is an fnconvenient
sort of bird. It's leetle too much
fer one and not enough fer two"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29

The grandfather of Henry VII. of
England, Sir Owen Tudor, had the
honor of a place upon the Evans fam
lily chart. Or to go farther back, we
can claim knight Of King Arthur's
Round Table, Just which one history
does not state, but travelling down the
ages from the knight we come to
Ethelystan Glndrydd, founder of the
fourth royal tribe of Wales, and Mer-
vyn Vrych, king of the Isle Of Man,
the ninth century. These names do
not convey much meaning to any OF
us, certainly the present writer is not
versed in their history, but the names
look well, and let US hope adorn the
story.
Evans In itself makes no preten-
sions as to it's derivation. 1t is John
plain John, that is all. Evanson is
"the son of John" Evens Is on way
the name appears In old records.
Among New England forefathers
were David and Henry Evans of Bos.
ton. 1913; Thomas, of Plymouth, 1885
and John, of Roxbury and Hatfield
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29
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Odd Answers to Teachers Questions

room under lock and key in a little
bottle and the cork in so it can't be
got out and hide the key and have
skeleton on the bottle and not let no
body go in there"
"a good anty dote for poison" sale
one, lis to take teacupful of soap
suds every ten minutes to make you
vomit till the doctor comes" cit is
awful to think of the doctors being
delayed several hours.)
A class of six-grade pupils were
asked to write short biographical
sketch of Longfellow. One member
of the class proudly submitted the
following:
III. w. Longfellow was grand
man. He wrote both poems and poetry.
He graduated at Bowdoin and after
wards taught the same school where
he graduated. He didn't like teaching
and decided to learn some other trade,
so his school furnished him money to
go to Europe and learn to be q poet.
He wrote many beautiful poems for
children. He wrote BILLY, the Black
smith"
The following brief but pithy COM
position was handed in by a young
ster who had been asked to write on
his favorite holiday:
Il like the Fourth of July best cause
it's the day America was discov-
ered.'
A hasty look into a dictionary is
presumed to have conveyed to the
mind of one embryo cynic that "chari-
ty' means "alum" instead of "alms."
Ambush" was defined as a kind of
bush and "habitation" was judged to
refer to ones habits. 1t was also de-
cided that patriarch" wears feath-
ers same as any other bird"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29

bingham, to which, perhaps, he gave
its name, as he was from bingham.
Eng. David of Stratford, Conn.,, 1865,
was entrusted by the council of war
with important affairs" Before NOV
ing to Stratford, he had lived at Bris-
toll and Wethersfield.
Mayflower ancestry may be claimed
by descendants of Experience Mitchell,
through his wife, Jane, or Mary" as
some authorities say, daughter of
Francis Cook, pilgrim of 1920 Ex-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29
An East Indian Verdict.

In case in one of our Indian courts
a jury had before 1t evidence that
could not be in any way shaken.
When the concluding stage had been
reached the following interchange of
conversation took place between the
Judge and his colleagues in the adj
saintstration of justice:
gentlemen, arc yon ready to give
Topr verdict?"
Yes"
what Is your verdict?"
"-luy answer Is. sir. that you can do
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29
Naps Get New COLLEGE PIaver

The Maps recently landed a new out.
fielder, college player named James
H. Rutherford. Rutherford starred
with the Cornell varsity team last
year and again this season. Scout
Sam Kennedy put his stamp of ap.
prevail on the youngster after seems
him under fire in a couple of big COZ
lege games.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29

who Is thought to have been soldier
In Philips war.
Henry Evans, born in Boston, re-
moved to Tennessee. He was the son
of Joseph, born in Ireland, and a
physician, who died in Ohio. Joseph
Henry son of Henry, born in Boston,
married Cora Taylor, descendant of
Gov. William Bradford, and descend
ants of this line, Of course. step right
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mitchell

perience came over on the "Ann,"
1923. His name is found in Plymouth,
Duxbury and Bridgewater records.
One branch of the Mitchells, of which
representatives are now living in the
far west, claim Honest John Hart"
of New Jersey, signer of the De-
claration of independence, and father
of a large family.
If the Mitchells are famed for one
thing more than another, it Is schol-
arship.
The Mitchells were valiant soldiers
and always to the fore, when war
was abroad In the land. Among off,
GERS of the revolution from Massa-
chusetts, were Maj. Abiel and Col.
Thomas. From New Jersey. Capt. Al
exander; from Delaware. Nathaniel,
captain Of battalion Of the Flying
Camp; Capt Joseph was Virginia
representative; Capt. James and Maj.
Ephriam were Of South Carolina, and
Lieut.. John of Georgia.
The coat-of-arms illustrated is sa-
BILE, Jesse wavy, between three mas
cles, or.
Crest, phoenix rising out of the
| flames, proper.
Motto, Spernit Humum, He desprses
| the earth.
>~~~-~.~S~~~~~-~~~~-
as you like with the men that have
| confessed, but we acquit all the rest"
"But is it possible that you have
weighed the evidence?"
evidence like this can always be
fabricated"
| "Do you find that as REGARDS these
| prisoners It has been fabrieated?"
Evidence can be fabricated"
| $50 the evidence is untrustworthy 2"
| unless a man corfesses, wins can
tell he is guilty ?"-Pomba Gazette.
Remember. girls. the fairest Cover
| n often the first tn fade.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29
win Jones Ever Come BACK ?

Fielder Jones, manager of the White
Sox team in 1906, has severed his con
nection with the Chehalis, Wash.
team and may not be able to resist
the yearning to join the Chicago tsam
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29

sense enough to see they were right
and I followed them. The first thing
knew 1 was back in the big league
at st. Louis. The biggest thing l had
learned was that, no matter how far
fellow gets up in the business, there
still is lot he does not know, and by
dint of watching and learning l held
on, and still am learning and willing
to learn. When know it all I'll quit,
or be released.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29

About the time the baseball season
closes you'll hear more talk about
troubles in the National league. From
all accounts the official life of Thomas
]. Lynch, the president of the organ
ization, is by no means bed of roses.
There's dissatisfaction among the
magnates and it is probable that Mr..
Lynch will not be reelected without
fight. The faction that wanted to
make John M. Ward president last
winter is said to be still in favor Of
putting him at the head Of the league.
Mr.. Lynch didn't add to his popular
ity when he stopped the newspaper
photographers taking pictures of the
players while the game is going on.