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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-08-18
Capital to Lead in High Prices War

tional capital. The president has in.
Dictated that he is willing to carry
out the suggestion of his secretary OF
agriculture if the people of Washing.
ton would indicate that they really
want such an investigation made.
Zone Of the most pitiful things of
modern times" said Secretary Wilson,
"is the manner in which the poor of
the large cities are beaten down by
the prices which prevail at this time.
The prices are such that no man work
ing for ordinary wages can meet them.
They are beyond the pocketbook of
the poor, and there is nothing that
gives the poor any protection from
them. This condition undoubtedly pre-.
walls in nearly every city.
''Tbe farmer does not get half the
price the consumer pays. Many per-
sons are inclined to place the blame
for high prices on the farmers, but as
a matter of fact the farmers are not
benefited by the high prices. A few
middlemen, selected individuals, who
step in between the farmer and the
consumer, are the persons who reap
the benefit"
Secretary Wilson believes this is a
condition that cities alone can rem
edy He thinks that If it is true, and
he believes it is true, that somewhere
between the farmer and the CONSUMER
in the city are individuals who are
making too large profit on the stuff
the farmers produce, it is the duty of
a municipality to find out who these
persons are and to put stop to the
overcharging.
The commissioners for the District
of Columbia are much interested in
the suggestion of the secretary of ag
riculture that an investigation into
the cost Of living be conducted here.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-08-18
Army Regulations Are Being Modified

would otherwise be inclined to enter
the service.
ON asf the first reforms to be in.
auguratSs was that of the sentences
Administered for slight attractions of
army law. fhe most common of these
offenses now, as it has been for many
generations, is desertion, and most
Of the assertions are unintentional
Upon conviction the culprits are
sentenced to three to six months in
a military prison, not because their
offense merited such punishment, but
because the ancient regulations had 1t
that way.
Some of the best'me we have in
the army have deserted not only once.
but two or three times" said General
Wood in discussing the matter. Very
frequently young recruit gets so
homesick that he just has to go back
and visit the old folks whether he
has leave or not. If he can't get the
leave he takes 1t and then comes back
in little while to take his medicine.
To condemn him to spend term in
jail with murderers and thieves is bar.
barous and inhuman."
Under the new system the punish.
ment for mild cases of desertion is
merely a deprivation Of leave, extra
work or the cutting off of special al
lowances. The guardhouse Is only to
be used for real offenders and the
military prison for hardened Grim.
inals.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-08-18
OF COURSE \
WE ARE III |
| FAVOR OF |
TIE GAME
| LAWS J

survive as long as law is enforced and
forests continue to grow.
The government has control only of
such game animals as are to be found
in the territory directly under federal
rule. Notwithstanding this limited
authority the additional. protection
given the wild life in recent years by
the several states is due largely to
the efforts of the officials of the
United States biological survey, which
is bureau of the department of agri-
culture. For several years each win
ter the governments scientists have
appeared before the different state
legislatures to urge protection for the
birds and mammals, and as a result
of their efforts nearly uniform laws
are In force all over the country.
The concern of the game savers
has not been with law only. They
have conducted a campaign Of educa-
ton and have succeeded in arousing
a preservation sentiment among peo-
pie who never shot q gun
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-08-18
TO KEEP THE SKIN CLEAR

For more than generation, Cuti-
cura Soap and Cuticura Ointment have
done more for pimples, blackheads
and other unsightly conditions of the
complexion, red. rough, chapped
hands, dandrutf, itching, scaly scalps.
and dry, thin and falling hair than any
other method. They do even more for
skin-tortured and disfigured infants
and children. Although Cuticura Soap
and Ointment are sold by druggists
and dealers throughout the world, q
liberal sample Of each, with 32-page
book on the care Of the skin and hair
will be sent post-free, on application
to "Cuticura," Dept. % L, Boston.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-08-18
His Long Apprenticeship.

know anything about, and from that
standpoint, John Fisk has given the
long human infancy its scientific in
depreciation. All that time he is do
ing things, through the things that are
done for him; and what he does, in
that way, is perhaps the very best
thing he ever does. 1t seems that he
is the one for whom things are done.
but he is doing for others work that
will tell. on them and society for all
time to come Perhaps he is achiev.
ing his very greatest task in fulfilling
that long and, often tedious, appren-
ticeship. Interest centers on him as
an individual, but we come to see that
the most striking thing about him II
his social significance.
His most marked contribution Is to
the family sociality, but that does not
limit his influence. He promotes pa
rental unity. The planning and work
ing and loving bestowed on common
object, so fascinating as he is, pro-
duces a unity with an element that
nothing else can supply. And if there
should be in them tendencies toward
divisions, this may divert their minds
and prevent permanent cleavage; and,
by the time they have taken him
through, from infancy to manhood.
caring and planning for him and
giving him an education and a start
in life, the habits Of cooperation will
have become fixed enough to carry
them along without his further aid.
By that time he will have trained
them in self-discipline, for many ia
Their is kept from less worthy life
by the thought of his boy or his little
girl. There is sociality as between
the parents on the one side and the
children on the other; also between
the children themselves, and nature
has given him time to make good in
both tasks. Other children and other
! homes are the beneficiaries of his fine
opportunity for long service, in a
social way.
But his long childhood is just the
thing for his own education, not only
in a general way, but in some Of the
powers, especially needed in the fu-
| ture One is altruism; and long
period of service, for which there is
no scale Of rewards, is the best way
for him to learn it.
| He grows in the power of choice,
as, at the right moment, he takes him
self over, SO that by the time he
passes from under their direction he
has himself in control, with far-reach-
| ing relationships established He has
his moral habits formed and fixed by
the time he must face moral issues
and decide them alone. Let the boy
be happy, rather than grieved, be-
! cause of his long apprenticeship.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-08-18
PHILOSOPHY TO THE RESCUE
Pat Went Without His Steak, but at
That Everything Was Not
Lost

Charles Nagel, secretary Of COM
merce and labor, says the Irish race
has, in addition to its sentiment and
romance, lot of philosophy as one
of its characteristics.
"The best illustration 1 ever heard
Of this" he explained to a dinner
party one evening, was the case Of
a poor Irishman who had been given
a fine, Juicy piece of steak. Being
religious man, he placed the steak in
front of him, and there, in the shade
of the trees surrounding his benefac-
tors house, he folded his hands.
closed his eyes, and gave thanks to
heaven for the meal. When he was
in the attitude of prayer, dog rushed
up and captured the steak. Pat
looked around in time to see the food
disappearing over the hill.
THANK heaven he exclaimed,
again closing his eyes, he left me my
appstite!' The Sunday Magazine
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-08-18
A RMY regulations are being changed

A RMY regulations are being changed
"A for the benefit of the enlisted
man. The old rules which have add
ed to the hardships of the common
soldier are being modified to keep pace
with modern ideas of humanity and
justice, and, In the course of a short
time, it is hoped that conditions will
be so far improved that assertions
will be practically unknown and re-
enlistment will be general. Gen. Leo
nard Wood, chief of staff, is working
out the proposed changes and his eff
forts have the sympathy of President
Taft, who ever since his administra-
ton as secretary of war has been
interested In the enlisted men.
AS long as the ancient regulations
continued in force, both President
Taft and General Wood agreed. little
real amelioration of the soldiers con-
dition could be brought about. AS
long as young soldiers were sent to
Jail and herded with criminals for
trivial offenses, they believe, the army
would continue to be Stunned by
large class Of desirable men who
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-08-18
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BWpu33le
The Boys Punishment
v DIR. kJRTLEy

The boy who slips through life with
out getting some sort OF punishment
there is no such boy. Even If he
should never do anything to require
punishment-butn no; why deal in pure
hypothesis? If he should be able to
escape all the vigilance committees
that are after him, it would be solely
because he is doing the Furnishing and
administering the discipline himself,
and in secret; but We need not tarry
over that rare, il not impossible,
specimen. Some divergence from the
line of rectitude is inevitable, even
when that line is clearly drawn by the
teaching, and attractively illuminated,
by the practise of those who have him
in charge. He cannot escape all his
monitors, including his conscience. So
punishment must come, because, If
there be no results of wrong-doing
there can be no wrong-doing, and we
have fool world to live in.
Those who have him in charge have
been nominated and elected to admin
lister it; but you must first catch the
hare before cooking it, and you must
actually find something to punish be-
fore the punishment is handed out to
him 1t takes some sense to know
with certainty, in every case, whether
there has been wrong-doing, what 1t
deserves, how the punishment should
be administered and what is the pur-
pose of it. So 1t is an intricate and
unusual problem presented when his
daddy starts out to punish him.
Sometimes boy looks impudent,
has an irritating accent and seems to
deserve attention on general princi-
piles. In that case, ctrcumstantial evil
dence becomes conclusive. Sometimes
1T is his awkwardness and not his
meanness that leads to break. All
of us are interested in what Tolstoi
writes, and he says his ungainly, ugly
stupid-looking face and coarse, I'M
shapely hands and feet distressed him
and made him more intractible when a
boy. An irritated parent may lick him
to work off his own anger, and that is
worse than hanging the wrong man
from circumstantial evidence. To mis-
II O Ivy 10 q Vi Ii1lC Gnu ouShS ~ W
treated as such. 1t is not always pos
sible to keep a boy from thinking he
is unjustly treated and, in that case,
all you can do is to do right and let
him get over his milf whenever it
suits his convenience.
Punishment can be reduced to min
imum by careful discipline in the d.
Ii
life is a god deal like directing the
course of a horse. There are two ways
of driving horse, right and a wrong
way. The right way is to hold the
-eins slightly taut, so that the horse
can feel the faintest pressure on either
line, and soon he will enter with you
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-08-18
The Progress of Our Game Protection

THE report of DR.. T. S. Palmer OF
the governments biological survey
on "The Progress of Game Protection
is an exceedingly interesting docu.
ment. 1t bears every evidence of care
full study Of conditions. Nothing is
set down which in any way can be
attributed to guesswork. 1t can be
accepted as accurate and authentic.
Doctor Palmer is known to scientists
as a man of method with an innate
love Of the subject of which he Is
making a life study.
Deer, moose, elk and other big
game of pronounced economic value
are increasing in numbers. With the
awakened interest in their protection
and with the constant Improvement
in laws intended to save useful
species there are sound reasons for
the belief that future generations Of
Americans will know the animals that
man today knows, and that legitimate
sport will be possible in the years
to come. The movement for the con-
servation of the natural resources of
the country takes full heed of the
necessity for the preservation of the
wild birds and mammals.
Some few species of big game per-
haps are bound to disappear, or to
survive only In a semi-domesticated
state. Animals which live In the cover
q part OF whole of the time Will
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-08-18

| into the enjoyment of the drive. Tho
wrong way is to let him have the reino
and do as he will, until he does some.
thing you do not want. and then go al
him and beat him till his skin and his
heart are sore and he grows weary
and profane and would like to do
something desperate. The horses mis-.
takes are wholly due to the way his
driver has treated him and the latter
deserves the beating. Good discipline
will save drubbing.
| 1t is my most solemn conclusion
that, In almost every case, the wrong
doing of boy that requires punish
ment could have been prevented By
the parents, and that they ought tc
take the punishment themselves. They
ought to have honor enough to volun
tarily take it and let him know it, SC
that he may have the moral effect OF
seeing such rare instance of nobil
ity. There is still an altruistic element
| in suffering.
But when punishment is truly de
served, it must be given and the oc'
casion made an epoch in the life OF
the boy. 1t is not to be made an end
in itself, nor matter of retribution,
| nor anyones vindication, but an edu'
| cation to the boy. 1t must, first of all,
bring him back to the line of rectitude
from which he departed. 1t must ava
ken in him, not alone a sense of the
majesty of right and truth, but new
desire to conform his life to it.
Inseparable from the Furnishing must
be the effort to remove the occasion,
and even the cause, of the offense for
which it was inflicted. If they trace
it back to themselves they must pro.
tect him from themselves, their modes
of speech, the atmosphere they create
| by their inner spirits and their failure
to give him the wise discipline and the
steady, authoritative direction his life
needs. If the cause of it is in him
alone, as, in rare instances, it Is, they
can undertake no higher life-task than
protecting him against his own faults.
He will respect authority, but not
those who WELD it like tyrants or out
laws. He may be persuaded to enter
| into any right scheme of discipline, in
yolving punishments and rewards,
which means he will cooperate in his
own development, thing very neces-
sary if there is to be right develop
ment. The sentiment of fear, which
one may appeal to, in right way,
may be harnessed up to active work
and turned into love.
Punishment must be free from
threats and harshness and anger, for
they defeat it's purpose. 1t must not
be occasional and intermittent, but as
each need arises. The quieter and
freer from noise and talk such occa-
sions can be made, the more surely
will they serve their true purpose.
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forms of labor and debased out Of the
likeness of humanity. The turbans
and loin cloths OF the men are differ
emit; the fashion of wearing the hair
is different; they eat different foods,
worship different gods or devils, speak
entirely different languages and will
have no more relations one with an
other than exists between an English
crow and flying fish IN the Red sea.
The sects of Christenlom are as one
loving and united church as compared
with the religions of India. Something
like quarter of the population Of In
dia, let us say 100000 of men and
women, are regarded as outcasts.
helots and abominaton by the other
three-quarters. And these helots have
their separating prdes and customs.
In every little village the outcasts
live in a quarter o, their own, and II
they would worship god, must make
their own temple and employ priest
of their own order-a priest despised
and loathed by the religious leaders.
They are worse treated than the
CALLED bullocks under the yoke of the
transit handy and they i'll treat each
other
MuItItudes Ruled by oespot.
From the ascetic and refined native.
who will not eat animals, down to the
native who eats lizards and mice, and
downward still to the native who lives
upon the human corpses fished from
the Ganges, there is in India every
height and every depth of the human
mind ever comprehended in the soul
of Shakespeare or the heart of Dante.
In England one might classify Eng
lishmen with perhaps 200 tempera-
ments. In India one has to speak to
1000 different species. Reflect upon
this fact until it is realized; reflect
that the dense millions Of India are
races of men as various and disparate
as the leaves of a forest, the birds
of the air and the fishes Of the sea /;
definitely possess the mind Of the
idea that between these groups OF
crowding humanity there are greater
CULTS than anything which separates
an intellectual Englishman from
Scandinavian peasant and you will b.
at the beginning of true conception
of midas mystery and at the DOG
through which a European must firt
pass truly to comprehend and feel hf
infinite charm and the sorcery Of a
her multitudinous glamour.
Caste, you may be told, is breaktg
down in the cities. This is partly the,
but only in a general sense. Andif
caste broke down absolutely in al
the cities it would not altar the firth
of Sir Bamfylde Fuller's statemAt
For the cities are only specks on The
map of India and the people who well
there are but a child's handful out
of the 30O,000,000 inhabitants. Sme-
thing like 80 per cent. Of the ppula-
ton live on the land, and among hese
270,000,000 the system Of caste , not
merely lieutenant governor orvice'
roy, but king of India, the be su-
preme and unquestioning obedhce is
rendered by all the peoples.
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longest range at which actual shoot
ing had ever been done. Eight to ten
miles is about the maximum for these
guns.
The new 14-inch guns weight is 63.6
tons. The diameter at the breech or
butt is AZ inches and at the muzzle "a
inches. The cost of one gun and
breech is STATIC. The carriage upon
which the gun will be mounted in the
turret of the vessel will cost $4,000.
The projectile weighs 1,400 pounds,
is &c inches, or five and one half feet,
in length and costs $3.50. 1t is loaded
with bursting charge of As pounds
of "dunnite." The powder charge
used behind the projectile to give it
velocity consists of four bags Of 90
pounds each of smokeless nitrocellu-
lose, yet even then it would be over
half a minute from the time Of firing
before the projectile would hit the
mark Is miles away.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-08-18

From the cradle to his career Is
good long time, about % years, and
there is seldom found boy who rel
ishes that long wait. 1t is not that he
is jealous of the other animals for
getting through growing and down to
business so much sooner than he does,
when he and they start out together
kids, colts, cats, calves and puppies
and he sees several generations of the
same animal family make their en-
frances and exits, while he is merely
fighting his way to the stage. The
lion and the tiger are mature at six,
the horse earlier, the cow earlier
still, the sheep at from one to two
years; the amoeba and other insects
in few days and some of them are
born, mature, finish their lives and
die, all in one day. This lightning
change in them does not always slim
ulate his patience. He sees the vast
opportunities before him and is sure
they will all be gone by the time
he gets a chance at them, and, any
how, it looks to him just the thing to
be a grown man
But if a boy proceeds more leisurely
than the other animals, it Is not time
wasted, for when they are through he
is starting in on a career that Will
outlast the stars, career of which
the three score years of the life here
are only the overture; and, because
they are only the overture, and there
fore to strike the theme Of the whole
eternal symphony, he has to have
plenty Of time to tune up, get his part
and do some rehearsing. The ele-
plant may outlive him, but he is
closer akin to the angels than to the
elephant; the mud turtle may outlast
him. but he is more like sky lark
to wing his way into the infinite. 1t
takes a long time to get ready for a
long career. The greatest man the
world has even known took 80 years
to prepare for only three years of
work, but all the ages to come were
to be affected by those three years.
The very greatest man in all the CEN
turtles before that mAtchless One did
life work in 40 years, becoming a
nations leader and the worlds law
giver, but he could not have done it
If he had not had 80 years to prepare
for it. Goethe wrote the latter part
of his Faust in old age, but it was the
ripe flower of his many years OF cul-
ture. The longer infancy is the chief
explanation of the longer age of man,
for II secures to him both the bodily
and the psychological requisites of the
longer life, while it is just the chance
he needs to get himself ready to make
1t IN efficient life. 49,
The development of child is one
of the greatest social processes we
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-08-18
All Share in Benefit.

Hardly a day passes tina we do
not note the increase of wags grant
ed by some Industrial enterpse, and
it is estimated that the adance in
wages which will be grated this
year." says Leslie's WeeW, will
equal she stupendous sumlN $780,
100000. While this splendidlesait has
come to the wage earnersand it Is
a fair assumption that it Iust have
come first to the employinglasses, 1t
has also come in equal mealre to our
farmers. One of the reasS for the
decrease in exports Of foodhffs is be-
cause the farmers can malet almost
their entire output at homend at the
highest prices ever receivl.
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Denmark Honors sIgdsson.

A special postage stamp has just
been issued by the DAMS colony Of
Iceland in celebration of t1centenary
of the birth of Jon Sigurdsn, the Ice
landic statesman and auth. 1t bears
an embossed profile of Sfrdsson on
plain blue ground, taxi from the
statue modelled by EinaJonsson, a
native sculptor, which IS unveiled
in the Parliament house the same
date. 1t was Sigurdssonlho secured
for Iceland separate ostitutton.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-08-18

could not wear my shoes. Nothing
helped me until began using Doan's
Kidney Pills. They gave me prompt
relief and in short time was entire
ly cured"
Remember the name-Doan's.
For sale by druggists and general
storekeepers everywhere. Price SOC.
Foster ilburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-08-18
Municipal Houses.

The municipality of Manchester,
England, has taken hold of the hous-
ing problem in an active way by pro
viding houses and furniture for the
poor. At the present time there is
under construction group Of IA one.
room houses, which the corporation is
building. Each home has a separate
entrance, kitchenette, bathroom, wa.
ter supply and gas meter. The fur
niture will include a range, cupboard
coal bunker, window seat, lockers, bed
and bedding, chairs, table mirror and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-08-18

N. Oak, who says:
my back became
terribly sore and
lame. I was tired
and restless and
would arise 80 ex-
hausted I could
scarcely dress. The
X Id n y secretions
were terribly annoy
ing and my feet be-
came so swollen I