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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

VIM. Pickavance has this week
removed to Section 80. His resid-
ence here will be occupied by City
Clerk Visited and family.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

LOST-Left ON this end of
Burnside Portage Luger auto
matte pistol in holster. Finder
please return to this Office and
receive reward.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

Mrs. Chas. Peterson and chill
dren left Saturday for Chisholm
where they join Mr.. Peterson who
is employed there.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

Mrs. R. ]. Williams and family
left yesterday morning for Virginia
where they will make their home
in the future.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Eisehach
left Sunday for Appleton, Wis,
having been called by the serious
illness of relative.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

Joseph Palcher and Agnes Mehle
secured a license to wed yesterday
and the marriage will occur tomor-
row,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

$4,000 per month straight salary
and expenses, to men with rig, to
introduce our Poultry Remedies.
Don't answer unless you mean
business. Eureka Poultry Food
Mfg. Co. incorporated East St.
Louis, Ill.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Nels Hillman were
up from Two Harbors over Sunday
and visited with friends in Winton.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

Mrs. Frank Kent and daughter
Bessie returned Monday from
Rochester where Miss Bessie had
been receiving treatment.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

The North American Brick, Tile
and Pottery company have
arranged to build a plant at Walsh
near Tower Junction. The blue
clay in that place which measures
48 feet in depth is said to be par
ticularly adapted for the manufac-
ture of this class of goods.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

Landlord Cox of the Exchange
returned Yesterday from a weeks
visit with his father at Cobalt Out.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

Misses Elizabeth and Kate Sex
ton were in the city Friday evening
to attend the Ely Club party. Miss
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28
Where Not e Ftaht,

Where Not 70 Fight
The man who fights In the last ditch
may be brave. but the world keeps
most of its admiration for the men
who show their fighting qualities be-
fore the last ditch is reached.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

For SALE-Hard, Soft, Green
Dry, Good body wood.
A. KOTCHEvAR.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

The name of Thcs. Jury of this
city appeared on the grand jury
list as drawn for the present term
of the range court at Virginia.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

Victor Wironen manager for the
Ely Mercantile Co., was on the
Mesaba range Monday.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

Ben Horovitz returned Friday
from Houston, where he had been
on business for several weeks.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

Supt. F. c. Plat of the White
Iron mine was a Duluth visitor
several days this week.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

Imperfect information.
A poet says, "Oh! she was fair, but
sorrow came and left his traces
there" He doesn't state what became
of the rest of the harness.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

Misses Jennie and Sigma Skog-
land went to Duluth this morning
for few days visit.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28
Proper Adornment.

Proper kdornment.
The Robin-"There's some talk late
ly of the 8. P. C. A. putting bells on
cats" The Sparrow (iercely)-
"Bells are too good for the assassins-
they should be canned"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

Richard Pagan and Bert Merritt,
representing the fee owners in the
Section 80 mine, were in the city
Wednesday and visited the pro-
perty.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

Mrs. H. J. Lockhart left Sunday
for Aitkin, where she visits friends
for the week.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

M. J. Murphy left Sunday for
business trip to Duluth aud the
Mesaba range.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

Bert Nettel of Tower was in the
city Saturday.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

The mother of Mrs. McClana-
han, who has been visiting her
daughter i'll this city for several
weeks left Tuesday for her home
in Chicago.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

w. A. Curdy and J. w. Thomp-
son attended the Club dance here
Friday.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

Mrs. E. J. Morcom of Soudan is
in the city on visit with relatives.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

Mrs. Chas. Montroy spent few
DAYS in Duluth this week.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-28

Attorney A. ]. Thomas went tc
Duluth Sunday for a few days.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18
The Next Senate.

A gain of eight seats in the SEN
ate by the democrats is assured, and
one or two more are not wholly out
of the question. There are 30 demo-
cratic senators now, and an addition
of eight will bring the number up TO 40.
The regular republicans will have
Al, and there will be IL Insurgents,
counting not only the out-and-out in
surgents like Bristow, Clapp, Cum
minis and LaFollette, but such men
as Borah, Brown and Dixon. Knute
Nelson revoIted against his party on
the tariff, and so did Crawford of
South Dakota. This will give the in
surgents the balance of power.
There are contingencies that may
possibly increase the strength of the
democrats a little, and on most pub
lie policies the insurgents are much
nearer the democrats than to the
regulars. Cummins will have to stop
talking about the tariff and do
Among republicans he talks like
an advocate of revenue tariff. To
democrats he says he prefers the
Payne-Aldrich law to such bill as
they would pass. Men of that sort
will soon have to find out where they
really stand.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18

Of the labor organization in asserting
his citizenship of the polls.
The cementing of labor into a
great cohesive force is the natural
consequence of the perfected and
powerful organization of capital.
1t was as natural that the hosts of
labor should organize to defend their
interests as it was for capital to or
ganize to promote special interests
and privilege. Capital understands
the warning it has received from
labor. Capital is coming to an IN
derstanding of the fact that the best
interests of capital and the best in
terests of labor are identical, and
that when one opposes the other both
suffer
The development of the union
labor movement has been marvellous.
1t is a great potential force for good
By conservation the movement has
won public approval.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18
STAR GEM OF CEYLON.
The Astoria Brought Health and For
tune to Its Wearer.

The Astoria Brought Health and For
tune to Its Wearer.
Familiar to some Of the ancient writ.
ers and credited with supernatural
powers, the astoria, or star gem, was
highly valued for the benefits sup
posed to be conferred on the wearer.
Its bright six rayed star. ever chang
ing and shifting with every play of
light and especially shooting out its
flames in the direct sunlight, would
seem to be something more than an
ordinary crystal, and to the supersti-
dous mind it could readily be believed
to embody some tutelar spirit.
The particular virtue attributed to
this gem was the comforting upon the
wearer Of health and good fortune"
when worn as an amulet, and to those
fortunate to be born in the month of
April. with which the stone was asso-
ciated or represented, the wearer was
insured from all evil.
The star stone is found principally
in Ceylon, invariably in soil peculiar
to rubies and sapphires. Indeed, it is
composed Of the same constituent SEQ
rundum," its chatoyant, or star rays,
being caused by the pressure of what
the natives call silk. u" It is found in
many different colors, from pale blue,
pink and white to deep dark blue, ruby
and purple. The blue are termed sap
phire stars, the red ruby stars. It Is
always cut en- cabochon, the star divid-
ing into six rays at the apex 1t is
next in hardness to the diamond.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18
The Argus Daily Short Story
A Message-By F. A. Mitchell
Copyrighted. 1910. by Associated Literary Press.

On the South Carolina coast stands
one OF those imposing colonial ediflces
for which that state is famous. II
was built during the times when the
southern settlers, requiring laborers to
work on their tobacco plantations. were
importing large cargoes of African ne
groes, who were held as slaves. 1t Is
and, considering its age, is in a re.
markable state of preservation. This
is because a recent owner has put it
in repair.
Like other houses of fits kind dating
back to the seventeenth century, it
was built out of the proceeds Of ne
groes captured in Africa and sold as
slaves in America. But the slave trade
and its twin brother, piracy, were
not In that day deprecated as they
are, or rather would be, today. He
who built the house referred to be-
came one OF the most prominent men
of his time. Richard Granville was
not his name, but in bringing out the
antecedentS of his descendants it is q
far safer name to use than his own.
He began life as a sailor, visiting ev-
cry country where there was trading
to be DONE and few of his older
slaves, who were house servants and
thus enabled the more readily to be-
come conyersant with his secrets,
handed down a tradition that their
master started his fortune in piracy.
Be this as it may. up to the middle
Of the last century his descendants
did not deny that much of his money
had been made in the slave trade. In
his old age his conscience troubled
him. and those who were nearest him
said that he desired to make some
reparation for his misdeeds. He had
a statue of himself made of bronze
and set 1t up on pedestal in a bay
window of his library. The left hand
rests on an anchor, and the right holds
a sextant-not a mock sextant; a real
one, though not of brass. but of the
same material as the statue. He left
orders that no headstone should mark
his grave. and it was supposed that
he intended the statue as a substitute
for one. at any rate. no one now
knows where he is buried
Different generations of his descend
ants discussed the statue and won
dered at the within which led their
progenitor to erect it. One thing
about it excited special attention.
Every morning the sun. shining in
upon it. strikes the eyepiece of the
sextant and, passing through the tube,
casts a solar image on the opposite 1
wall. The track Of this round spot of
light changes with the season, travers-
ing a slightly different path each day
There is another thing that puzzled
the owners of the Granville estate
The only inscription on the statue. or,
rather. its pedestal, is the date of !
Richard Granville's birth And not
only is the date given, but the hour
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18
Labor.

The report of Secretary Frank
of Labor showing the total number
of labor unionists affiliated with the
federation to be 1, SCI, Isl, is sub
ject for serious consideration. The
dream of the early labor leaders of
a great army of toilers representing
all the various kinds and classes of
honorable labor cemented into one
have been realized in the American
Federation of labor, meeting at st.
Louis. Already this growing organ
cation has achieved much for the
toiler That it will accomplish much
in the future is certain, because of
the intelligence of the leaders and
labor's obvious knowledge of eco
nomic and political issues of the day.
Labor's organization politically
has been much slower than its organ
ization along other lines, but the ten
dency is toward a closer cementing
of the labor forces politically. At
present labor is united upon most
issues concerning working condi-
tions. but labor's forces are divided
in political opinion. While some are
supporting advocates of high tariffs,
others are voting for advocates of
low tariffs. While some are support
ing the party of Cannon, Aldrich,
Payne and Roosevelt, others are sup
porting the party of Bryan, Harmon,
Wilson, ct al.
Labor's activity in politics up to
this time has been only preliminary.
- oh irf
While it may be comparatively easy
to swing the united vote where well
defined labor issues are involved, it
is unlikely that the labor vote can be
swung absolutely along partisan
lines as the laboring man has his
own ideas, makes his own study OF
political and economic problems and
will reserve his independence even
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18

and minute
OF all topics connected with the
statue probably the giving of this
minute information was most discuss
ed. No one who saw it could remem-
Der having seen any memorial giving
either the hour and minute OF a birth
or the hour and minute of a death.
But one generation after another pass
ed away, and no plausible reason for
either the statue or its singular IN
scription was suggested.
During the civil war Elwood Gran
vile, the owner of the estate at that
time, fought for the maintenance OF
the system in the introduction of
which his progenitor took so impor-
tant a part Colonel Granville was a
religious man and one of those who
traced authority for slavery from the
Bible. After the war he returned to
his plantation and began to run it
anew under the system that had been
born during the struggle.
A few papers that had belonged to
the original Granville were handed
down through his descendants. They
had been preserved time and again by
ulnerent PERSONS, Out appeared 10 COLI
tain nothing to throw any light on the
puzzles connected with the writer or
receiver. One day Colonel Granville.
while amusing himself with these
documents, read a letter from the
founder Of his house to a clergyman in
which the former said that he would
like to leave at his death a fund for the
benefit of the negro race in America,
but the time would not come for per-
haps one or two centuries when such
a bequest could be utilized.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18
HumOr and
Philosophy
PERT PARAGRAPHS.


REMEMBERING how his wife beat
him. out in the high school, man
may fear to trust her with the ballot
lest he should have to take the conse-
quences.
Some men seem really TO like work.
but they can't give a reason for 1T.
If the man who thinks there Is no
place like home will visit the neigh
bors he may find there conditions quite
as Earring.
come in her imagination it doesn't
seem to pay any more D. lis.
AS hell is a place OF negations the
people who have learned to say no
ought to be happy there.
Those people are esteemed the best
takers who listen attent1vely and say
nothing.
The trouble Is that people who have
a past seem never able to train It 90
that it will be docile and keep out OF
sight
If the shoe ITS it is so apt to pinch.
It is said that poverty rs no crime,
and we have yet to be shown pracn-
cally that riches are either.
Death is sure there are people who
can dodge taxes ,.,flx2, \
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18
As They Look Upon the Commits
sion Form in Springfield.

sion FORM IN springfield.
Down in Springfield too they have
agitated the adoption of the commits
sion form of municipal government,
and as is the case in Rock Island
have adopted the preliminaries look
ing to a vote on the proposition of
adoption Of the new system. The
Record has this to say on the sub
ject:
| THE county court has issued
call for a special election by the
| voters of this city, to be held Mon
| day, January 2, 1911, to pass on the
decidedly important question Shall
the City of Springfield Adopt the
| Commission Form of Municipal Gov
ernment?'
IF the proposition carries, and
there is ample reason to believe that
it will, the entire government of the
city will be vested in a mayor and
four commissioners, to be elected
for a period of four years, and the
city council and all the other city
officials will pass out of existence.
More than this ward lines will
be practically obliberated and the
mayor and the commissioners elect
ed by the city at large.
while a large majority of the
people of Sprinfield appear to favor
change to the commission plan,
many serious and valid objections
could be urged against the change.
The chief of these, undoubtedly,
is that there is excellent reason to
hn1 czs,o or
is unconstitutional If our city
adopts the act and elects officers I'M
der it and the supreme court declares
it invalid it will bring about decid-
eddy dangerous and chaotic condi-
tions, with the strong probability
that our city would be temporarily
without municipal government of
any sort.
Another, but somewhat minor
objection, is that on account of the
peculiar. provisions of the statute
there is certain to be an interregnum
of at least forty-eight hours between
the termination of the terms of Office
of the present city officials and those
elected under the commission plan.
If the commission form is adopted on
January next, the terms of Mayor
Schnepp and all the other city Off
Gals will end on April 2, yet their |
successors cannot be seated until two |
days later.
Again. the commission form |
makes no provision for the recall or
removal of dishonest or inefficient |
commissioners. the rs per cent |
clause rendering the recall provision |
imperative.
And. still again, the commission |
form is opposed to all the good |
teachings of true democracy in that |
it destroys home rule and the right |
of the individual wards to say whom |
their representatives shall be.
But, against all these objections, |
is the fact that it is reasonable to |
expect that under the commission |
form very high standard of officials !
would be elected and that our city |
affairs would be ably administered. |
1T is because of this last fact |
that there is little. if any, organized |
opposition to the adoption of the |
commission form of government and, |
in all likelihood, the proposition will
carry by a decisive majority" |
In other words with all the faults, !
real or imaginary that could pos
sibly be found with the new form, its
acknowledged merits far outweigh |
all possible objections.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18

school visitor, presided at night at
a round table discussion of general
matters. Today was devoted to sec
ton meetings with a general confer
ence at night. A discussion of all
subjects now included in the high
school program is being held with "a
view to formulating courses as a ba-
sis for standardizing the high school
work of the state.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18

! The Standard Oil company has won
another $30,O0O,000 case in a federal
court. There was not particle Of evil
dence to indicate that the Rockefeller
corporation wherever found is any
thing but God-fearing, charity-loying,
benevolent Institution devoted solely
and absolutely to the moral and reli-
gious betterment of mankind. So that
morally as well as technically speaking
John D. mas once more been vindi-
Gated
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18
The Jov of Boyhood.

Beside the name that hicksrS vfs>
And lights the inglenook
A little urchin smokers
And reads a story DO &
The sage II would not tickle,
But 70 the hungry boy
The ancient Jokes IN Pickle
Give only honest Joy.
The creatures that inhabit
His pages are alive
The chipmunk and the rabbit
Who for the honors strive.
The wise and wary beaver,
The slow and droning snail.
In him have found beIievor
As each unfolds q tall
The gallant on charger
Who bravely rides away 5{ec.
Unto h eyes looks larger ~
Than mount OF modern day. ~
The case OF maid romantic
Who wanders through the talA4
In pity drives him frantic
Until her lover calls.
Who would not trade his acres.
His treasures and his lore -
II he could but find takers IL.
To be a boy once more. -
To have a faith Astounding ~
In what the books proclaim, "t..
The wise Of earth confoundinG
And putting them 10 shame?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18
Nov. Is in American
History

1777-Passage Of the American forts
on Delaware river by the British.
Fort Lee, n. J., opposite New York
city. captured by the British.
1S24-Franz Sigel, noted German-Amer-
lean soldier in the civil war. born
in Baden; died 1906.
1886 - Chester Alan Arthur, twenty
first president of the United States,
died; born 1880.
1909-Richard Watson Glider, author
and editor OF the Century Maya
zine, died in New York city; born
1S43
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18


at
Her husband died suddenly
Of the grandfather few months before the
maintenance of the lad application
s u
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18

Representative George W. English
of Vienna, way down in Egypt, who is
slated by the democrats for speaker of
the next Illinois house, is spoken OF
both by democrats and republicans as
one of the ablest and best qualified
members of the lower house for the
craftsmanship of that body
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18
DISCUSS HIGH SCHOOLS

500 Teachers Attend Conference
for Standardizing Course.
Champaign, ILL.,, Nov. 18-The OBJ
ject being the standardizfng of high
school work in the state. the seventh
annual high school conference open
ed here last night and will continue
two days. Five hundred superin-
tendents, principals and teachers are
in attendance. Professor H. A. Hol-
lister, University of Illinois high
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18
DE LESSEPS is TO WED
Engagement to Miss Grace Mckenzie
of Toronto Announced.

New York, Nov. 1S.-The engage
ment of Comte Jacques de Lesseps,
the French aviator, to Miss Grace
Mckenzie, youngest daughter of Will
liam Mckenzie, a millionaire rail-
road man of Toronto, was announced
here yesterday by Comte Bertrand
de Lesseps. brother of the aviator.
Comte Jacques de Lesseps met Miss
Mckenzie at the Toronto aviation
meet. He Is a son of Ferdinand de
Lesseps. the famous. French engin-
eer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18

Group is most prevalent during the
dry cold weather OF the early winter
months. Parents OF young children
should be prepared for It. All that IN
needed is a bottle of Chamberlain
Cough Remedy. Many mothers are
never without it I'm their homes and
1t has never disappointed them. Sold
by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18

Another aerial hero has gone to his
death for science and achievement.
Ralph tombstone, the aviator, dashed
800 feet from midair to the ground at
Denver yesterday when his machine
refused to work He was the holder
of the worlds altitude record of 9,714
feet
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18

The champion fish story. not only
Of this but also of many previous
seasons, was told lately at a meet
ing of the American Fisheries So
cieties. 1t was to the effect that
fishes grow on trees in Alaska. This
record triumphantly challenges all
rOmers
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18

The output Of the farms this year.
according to the figures of the ag-
ricultural department is 9 per cent
above the average of the past pros
porous years. This is a showing
that should make the whole country
cheerful and make everybody to cele-
brate Thanksgiving day with CRATE
full hearts
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-18

When a cold becomes settled in the
system, it will take several days
treatment to cure it, and the best rem
edy to use is Chamberlain Cough
Remedy. It will cure quicker than
any other, and also leaves the system
In a natural and healthy condition.
Sold by all druggists.