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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-02-25

Toivo Martilla gave a book re.
port last week on the Vicar of
Wakefield" and it was given to his
credit.
Mr.. Newman has been reading
A Tribute to Lincoln" to the
High School during the penman-
ship and spelling period, for the
last three mornings.
Mr.. Barnes left Thursday morn
ing to attend school conventions.
He will be gone eight or ten DAYS.
The Jolly Four" received a
letter from Miss Sanborn, who
taught science in the High School
last year. She is teaching in a
district school some eight miles
from her own claim, near Date.
South Dakota.
Miss Edith Knowlton was called
home Monday morning by the sud-
den illness of her mother. News
has been received that it is doubt
full whether she will come back to
resume her work. She has the
sympathy of all the High School
pupils and we all hope she will be
bic to coine back.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-02-25
SCHOOL N OTES

Edited BY the students OF the
Fly High School.
Editors for this Week:
EDITH E. ELLEFSEN
ROSE BLUMENSON
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-02-25

Mr.. Barnes left Thursday morn
ing to attend school conventions.
He will be gone eight or ten DAYS.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-30

Property on Terra Gotta
Avenue East End, six
rooms, frame, slate roof,
finished part in oak and
part in pine, cabinet man
tells, porches, back and
front, on lot 25x90 feet,
price
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-30
LOST GREEK
Items of Interest Including
Report of Marriage of
Young Couple.

LCaF cRDEK, Nov. 3O.-Lost
Creek can boast OF being the most
enterprisinE town in Harrison coun-
~. 1t has everything to be proud of
good citizens, plenty OF coal, oil and
hotA properly conducted by NJ. G.
Smith.
AS your correspondent sat In his
office yesterday he saw CooSman
smith driving out of town in the COM
pany OF his father and mother and it
was'said that the son and Miss Hattie
Arnold, the only daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. jackson Arnold. were to be mar
rled. Miss Hattie is one OF our finest
young ladies, possessing all the quail
hcations that go to make her perfect
lady. Mr.. smith is splendid young
man.
R. Ransel Romine is at home for
Few days on a vacation.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-30
AM AMEIllMENI
To the State Automobile Law
is to Be Asked for
This Winter.

MORO ANTowSI. Nov. Steps
have been taken toward an amend
4uent to the state automobile law
at the next sesstomtof the legisla-
ture. At a meeting of the legisla-
tive committee Of the State Automo-
bile Association just held here a
new law was drafted and it Will be
to the Legislature by the
committee Its purpose is to change
the present law so that Licenses
granted in adjoining states will be
recognized in West. Virginia. This
WIN mean that West Virginia IL
censes will then be valid in the
states recognized by this state SO
that it Will not be necessary for a
West virginian who holds a state IL
cense at home to procure new IL
censes from adjoining states into.
which he may wish to drive his car.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-30

Isl .fl
a. 8eall % 81 e m the A. ssltys
DR.: llIilitt, Of Salem g
IN the city.
DR. Rayue IN fillmore @
Il business
c. H Ctilbert son, OF Fiuntfngto
Is a city visitor.
r. L. Burton or heeling siaE e
visitor in. the city.
NJ b. sprlggs of Weston, Is here
on business visit.
Charles sandy. OF Marshvfl1e, was
In the city wednesday,.
E. II. w Hail. OF Freeman s3llrg.
is visitor In the
John NIannix. OF Eun1berport, was
a city visitor vVedneaday.
D. j. o'Neil, OF Warrington, is
transacting business here.
U. s. Wyso1g. Of webster Springs,
Is a business visitor here.
Attorney Kemble White, Of Fair
mont. was a city visitor Wednesday,
Charles Post. a member OF the
county court, was here today from
Lost Creek.
Mrs. Hattie A. Martin, who visited
, CEAuEIIEeEa..
.Keehan.returned "Wednesday morn
Ling to her home. at Cairo.
Robert B. Wilson will leave the
city Thursday night for st. Lucie'
Fla, on a business trip for the VIII
Ilison & Demise. Company.
William y. S. Harmer, Of Shinn-
ston, is city business visitor
r. NJ. Dayisson Of Salem, was in
the city today.
Miss Jessie odell, OF New Rich
mond, O., arrived IN the city Tues
iday evening to visit her grand
mother. Mrs. Susan j. odell, who is
i'll.
Robert Hood, Claud Bush and Lee
Hornor returned "Wednesday morn
ing from Lexington; Wa, Where they
attended Washingt on and Lee Uni
versIty. which has been closed for
the holidays.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-30
WATSON
Or Chiffon is the Choice of
Ex-Governor MacCor-
kle for Senator.

NEW YORK, Nov. 3O.-ExsGovern-
or Ma9Corkle is at the Waldorf.
Speaking OF the senatorial contest in
his state. the ex-governor says:
"Or course. there is a great deal Of
talk ABOUT the seuatorshlp, w. L.
Chiffon is a candidate. and think the
contest will he between him and Clar-
ence watson. The latter is strong
man and a great state developer, and
Mr.. Chiffon has long been one of the
wheel horses of Democracy in the
state
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-30
NAMES WILCOX.

PARKERsBURG, Nov 3O-Roy
Waugh, United States district at
torney. has announced the appoint
mept of Henry j. Wilcox, OF Philip
Di, as his clerk. succeeding John
Marshall. Mr.. Wilcox Is lawyer
and graduate Of the West vir-
ginia University.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-30
TOOK INsEcr FLUID.

NRANNLNGTCcI. Nov. 3O.-George
Little, an cmployc OF the Eureka
Pipe Line Company, took insect fluid
in mistake for "a bottle of medicine,
and may die. Doctors were SUM
moned to his bedside from Fairmont.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-30
NEW SIGN.

Justice S. w. Gordon has nice new
sign painted by tte% Empire Sign
Company.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-18
A Bit Of Correspondence.

The following correspondence. end
ing in true Irish fashion. actually
passed between two men in England
some years ago:
mfr. Thompson presents his compli-
ments to Mr.. Simpson and begs to re-
quest that he will keep his Dogs from
trespassing on his grounds"
"Mr. Simpson presents his compli.
ments to Mr.. Thompson and begs to
suggest that in future he should not
spell dogs with two gees"
"Nr. Thompson's respects to Mr.
Simpson and will feel obliged IL be
will add the letter e. to the last word
In the note just received. SO as to rep
resent Mr.. Simpson and lady,
mir. Simpson returns Mr.. Thomp.
sons note unopened, the impertinence
1t contains being only equaled by its
vulgarity."
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-18
Outwitted His Critics.

A minister living in an Aberdeen
shire coast town had preached SER
mon which d skipper. one of his parish
toner's who traded to London. thought
very like one which he had read to his
family the Sunday before from a vol
ume of sermons which he had purchas-
ed in London.
On the Sunday following he. with
two brother shippers. took the book to
church to ascertain the correctness Of
the suspicion. The minister in due
time gave out text which. true
enough. the skipper found in the index
Of his book and pointed out to his
friends.
The minister then proceeded with the
sermon. going on word for word with
the sermon book for Il sentence or tive
which greatly excited the skipper. wba
with crony on each side. kept tracing
the words in his hook after the I-ia
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-18
DAM SITE SURVEYS
Final Steps in the Elephant
Butte Survey Project
Being Taken.
IS A, LARGE UNDERTAKING

San Antonio. Tex, July 1s.-Govern-
ment engineers are now completing
the fnal surveys of the Elephant Butte
irrigation project and work on the
main reservoir will commence as soon
"a q fifteen mile railroad can be built
from the dam site to the Atchison
Topeka and Santa Fe railroad near
Engle. N. NJ.
The Elephant Butte irrigation pro-
ject will be the biggest artificial water
storage system in existence when
completed. The main reservoir at
Engle will be over forty miles In
length and will reach an average
width Of nearly four miles. varying
from three to six miles. In It will be
stored approximately 100000. 900. 900
gallons or 2.OOO.O0O acre feet Of water
ana II would take the entire flow of
the Rio Grande for three years to fill
this reservoir. In order not to inter-
fere with irrigation further down the
river the water will be impounded
gradually and an increasing reserve
will be accumulated during the flood
seasons of the river. 1t Is expected
that from four to ten years must
elapse before the reservoir OF the pro-
ject shall have been filled to capacity.
The Engle reservoir will wipe out
fve settlements besides inundating
about $50 square miles of territory in
New Mexico. The Leasburg and Ell
Paso projects will also food consider.
able territory though they are merely
diversion dams. A number of small.
or dams will have to be built at points
along the Engle reservoir. one OF
them to be located at Las Cruces. N
NJ. None OF these. however. will have
reservoirs Of their own and all OF
them will depend upon their water
supply from the Engle lake.
The main dam Of the Engle reserv.
DIR will be 100 feet in length at its
crest and will be about 20 feet in
thickness. Its greatest height will be
27J feet above the bed Of the river
Reinforced concrete will be employed
throughout.
Until the railroad IL built very little
work can Be done on the dam for the
reason that most Of the machinery
b - used u too heavy to Be moved
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-18
BUS'
Are Conducting a Quiet But 81
fective Campaign in New
York City.
MUSIC WITH ARGUMENTS
CAmerican News Servicel

tAmerican News Ssrvicel
New York. July 1s.-Under the shell
tering wings of DR. Parkhurst's church
on thu east side of Madison Square
Park, the suffragettes have been in
dustriously proselytizing voters every
day for the last month. Taking ad-
vantage of the presence in the park
during the noon recess of the genus
homo. the advocates of women's
rights have been preaching their doc
trine of equality to large audiences
and seem to have made many con-
verts
Each days meeting is preceded by a
short musical program which is fol
lowed by a number of stirring speech
les by representative suffragettes. As
rule the speakers are well dressed
dignified matrons many of them being
the wives of prominent business men
who have been won over to the cause
and are wonderfully earnest in their
work. In the beginning their propa
ganda excited ridicule but the insist
ence with which they have been EN-
phasizing. the most salient of their ar
guments has changed sentiment ir
their favor
| The meetings have come to be re
garded as a feature of surprising in
terest to the four or five Thousand
employees in the surrounding office
buildings who assemble in the parl
at lunch time. The industry. and per
!, sistence of the New York suffragetts
compares favorably with that of he
erstwhile and noisy English proto.
type, though perhaps trifle less hys
terical or melodramatic.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-18
The Way They Read 1t.

The handwriting of Horace Greeley
was something to inspire awe in the
beholder. Mr. Greeley undoubtedly
was the great master of ELIGIBILITY. 1t
was to him the compositor averred
that II BelshaIzar had seen his hand
writing on the wall he would have had
cause to be terrified.
In response to an invitation to attend
a gathering of newspaper men on one
occasion Mr.. Greeley wrote: with a
weight Of years. | feel obliged to de-
cline any invitation that takes me q
days journey from home" and this
is all they could make of it: III cells
are blighted. dig them early. Any
insinuation that brick ovens are dan
gerous to hams gives me horrors"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-18
IN A CHINESE BANK.
The Way the Clerks Use the Abaeus
and Counting Boards.

The Way the Clerks Use the Abaeus
and Counting Boards.
The Chinese have way of getting
hold of the first principles of things.
even though they may not have devel-
oped them into elaborate and scientific
systems. =
A foreigner. especially II he be Of
prepossessing appearance, is received
with great civility at a Chinese bank.
''SchroffY' shouts the head clerk. This
word is not, as it sounds, German, but
a corruption of Hindoo ''sarraf," or
bankers assistant. In response to this
call a native cashier appears, noiseless
and deferential. with a smooth shaver
skull. four foot pigtail and a spot
less. flowing garment.
With great rapidity he will make an
exchange of notes. doing his calculat-
ing on an abacus. frame of wire and
schools everywhere years ago. His
long. 1.-the fingers move over the beads
more quickly than the eye can follow.
but there's no mistake in the total.
Perhaps the visitor will want large
piece of money changed into small
coin. Instead Of going through the
wearisome operation Of counting out
the 800 pieces included in this trans
action a simple, ingenious device is
employed. A fat wooden tray is pro-
duced containing a hundred recesses,
each just big enough to lodge one coin
and Just shallow enough to prevent the
possibility of two lurking together.
The pile Of small coins is poured out
on this tray. and with one jerk of the
clerks wrist the hundred recesses are
filled and the surplus swept off.-Har.
per's Weekly.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-18

But leeky Knew How to Choke CT
His Opponent.

But leeky Knew How to Choke CT
His Opponent.
very brilliant Irish lady some
years ago arranged that MIR. Lecky
should meet an able and famous Irish
man of very advanced opinions in pol
ftics. 1t was intended that they should
exchange views. and the Irishman had
q coed deal 10 say about Mr. Lecky's
later work ard was well able to put
what be had 10 say in the most effec-
tive language The door opened. and
Mr.. Lecky was announced. He was
introduced to the lrishman. aud be-
fore the latter had time to say any
thing the historian began a political
harangue which he kept going with
out cessation the whole time he was
there. The Irishman At first tried to
break in with a word. but he was
swept away. as II were. in the unceas-
ing flow OF Mr.. Lecky's language, SO
after time he sat i'll amused bewil-
derment. waiting until nature gave
out But when Mr.. Lecky felt he was
getting exhausted he rose from his
chair and shook hands with the hostess
and her guest. keeping on talking all
the time They came out with him to
the top OF the staircase. but could not
get a word In edgewise even then. as he
talked all the way down to the door
and was even in an unfinished sentence
when the door was shut behind him.
They looked AT each other and roared.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-18
Rurne Jones' Joke,

OF Burne-Jones and William Morris
Mr.. ]. Comyns Carr relates an anus
ing story. Morris had at one time a
horror of growing stout. The poet
went to bed at Thames side inn one
night. and Burne-Jones played trick
on him. taking section out Of his
waistcoat and sewing the remnants
together. The next morning he watch
ed the terror and CONSERVATION with
which Morris tried to make the gar
ment meet around his waist. 1t was
not until the smothered laughter of
the painter reached Morris ears that
the poet was relieved from his anxiety.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-18

It SCI srous.
Thomas t;atfues. Democrat. and Viii
liam Muliigan. Republican. were dis,
putting In New York barroom before
the municipal election ever the merits
Of Judge Gaynor. GatIney had made
an oratorical de,our for the purpose Of
paying tribute TO the memory OF Pat
rick Fl. McCarren and had just come
back to the main issue. Anyway"
he declared and thumped the bar.
f'Gaynor will be elected the next may
or Of New York"
HE won't" replied Mulligan. Hes
as good as out Of the race now
There's too much ego 10 his cosmos"
Ganney solelnnly set down his glass
HAS he been told?" be asked.
Sure" said Muiligan.
I'm sorry to hear that" replied CAT
ney. but If he'll take my advice he'll
not so ON the operating table. Hell
stay away from the doctors and take
his chances Of living to fill out his
term
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-18
Their Bill Of Fare,

Two well known New Workers. after
a lively winter Of it. went together to
a mineral spring establishment to re-
vive They called on the doctor. ex-
planning that they wanted to cut every
thing out and get back on earth again
The doctor told them how to take their
baths. what exercise to take and gave
them a diet list with various items Of
food on it checked in lead pencil. They
took the baths. but had a hard time of
it when it came to the diet. because
they liked none of the things marked,
Still. they stuck it out for three days.
did the best they could with the food.
exercised. bathed. then went TO the
doctor
Say. doc" said one of them. cant
you loosen up little on this diet: We
are doing exactly what you told us to,
but neither of us likes any of those
things you checked on that bill. Can't
you let us have a little something
morc%'
whats that?" asked the doctor.
81 say we don't like II darned one OF
those things you checked of for Us
to eat"
"For you to eatw. roared the doctor
'Why. you idiots. the things checked
of were the things you were not tc
atv-Philadelphia Saturday Evening
Post.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-18
He Got the Book.

Bishop Doane used to tell the follow
ing story on himself:
"Dr. Doaue." said a parishioner at
the end Of a service. 81 enjoyed your
sermon this morning. l welcomed il
like an old friend. I have. you know.
a book at home containing every word
Of it."
''You have not" said DR.. Doane.
IL have So" said the parishioner.
well. send that book to me. I'd
like to see it, .r
I'm send it." was the reply.
The next morning an unabridged
dictionary was sent to the rector
Judge.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-18
BANDS TO COMPETE

Dayton. O.. July lS.-One OF tho
leasing features of the coming Fail
Festival TO be held in Dayton from
September IL to ~ will be the big.
musical tournament or contest be-
sween the brass bands from Ohio, In
llama and Kentucky. Any band with
radius OF 200 miles will be eligible
FOR entry and the prizes of cash and
gold medals will carry with them the
title Of the champioshnp Of the three
states. These prizes will be at great
salae and beauty. Any band may eIl-
ter without entrance fee by address
ing f. NJ. Barnes. director general.
ton, Ohio.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-18
Found Him.

MARK TWAIN" says New York
magazine editor. liked to tell as an
illustration Of persistence and push a
story about Sheepshead Bay race. He
said that at the end Of an important
race a young man shouted so savagely
Hats off-hats of there. that every
one in bearing distance obeyed him
and stood bareheaded. A moment late,
the young man FASTENED toward al
elderly gentleman. shouting as he ran.
You can put on your hats again
now! It's all right!
Some one asked him later on why
he had made all the people take theft
hats of.
why he replied. I'D bet fifty with
a baldheaded man. and l had to find
him, hadn't ! p"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-18

by any other method than on rails.
Moreover small army Of men will
have to be supplied with all the necs-
stiles of life for two and possibly three
years and this alone would be a great
undertaking would it have to be done
over the ordinary road. At present
about $50 men are employed at Engle
but this force will be augmented to
about 1900 as soon as work on the
dam commences in real earnest. The
appropriation now available for the
work Is $S.OOO.OOO and unless some
thing unforeseen happens will be suf-
f1cient to carry out the undertaking.
1t will be possible to irrigate from
the Engle reservoir several million
acres OF very fine valley lands suited
to the cultivation OF every crop. The
dam will also prevent the heavy spring
floods which In the past have caused
a great deal of anxiety and damage
along the river each year. Before the
project could be carried out an agree
ment had to be reached between this
country and Mexico. BY it's terms the
United States gives to farmers along
the Mexican bank of the river as
much water as they used prior to the
construction of the irrigation work
affecting the Rio Grande in its course
through Colorado.
The Elephant Butte project is of far
greater magnitude than the Assuan
dam on the Nile river and will hold at
least twice as much water. The clim-
ate OF the country to be benefited by
the enterprise is very salubrious and
there is very fine soil of silt char
acter. The Elephant Butte project will
have regulating influence on the Rio
Grande along its entire course.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-18

James R. Garfield, secretary of the
interior under Roosevelt, who recent
ly opened his campaign for governor
of Ohio by championing the recall
and announcing that he was an "in-
surgent." He also declared the insur-
gents the only true republicans. He
surprised his audience by advocating
the recall Of faithless public officials,
a doctrine too advanced even for
most democratic politicians.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-18
English Humor.

At a recent dinner of the Authors
club in London Walter Emanuel. men,
Der Of the stan OF Punch. referred to
the fact that the man with the largest
sense of humor be had ever struck was
an Englishnan.' a dentist. He went
to him after suffering long with a
tootha che fIa rpf--s-p. Ia Eave gss.