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The Ely miner., 1911-09-01

cover our tracks so the devil himself
couldn't follow them. Got water bag
on your saddle.
T reck'n dis am one, sah."
Keith felt of the object Neb held
forth.
"Yes, and big one, too; fill it and
strap it on tight; we've got a long,
dry ride ahead"
''Whar' yo' propose goin. Massa
Jack?"
ITO the Bar x on the Canadian.
I've worked with that outfit They'll
give us whatever we need, and ask
no questions; don't know of anything
in between. It's going to be hard
ride, boy, and mighty little to eat ex-
cept what saved from supper"
How far am it to dis yere Bar X?'"
"a hundred and fifty miles as the
crow flies. and sand all the way. ex-
cept for the valley of Salt Fork. Come
on now, and keep close, for it's easy
to get lost in these sand hills"
Keith had ridden that hundred and
fifty miles of sandy desolation before.
but had never been called upon to
make such a journey as this proved to
be. He knew there was little to fear
from human enemies. for they were
riding far enough east of the Santa Fe
trail to be out of the path of raiding
parties, while this desert country was
Stunned by Indian hunters. 1t con-
sisted of sand hill after sand hill, a
drear waterless waste, where nothing
grew, and mid the dread sameness Of
which traveller could only find pass-
age by the guidance Of stars at night
or the blazing sun by day.
They had covered ten miles of it by
daybreak, their ponies travelling heavi-
ly. fetlock deep, but could advance no
further. With tn, first tint of rose II,
the east the brooding storm burst
upon them In wild desert fury, the
fierce wind buffeting them back, LASH
ing their faces with sharp grit until
they were unable to bear the pain.
The flying sand smote them In clouds,
driven with the sDeed Of bullets. In
The Ely miner., 1911-09-01
SYNOPSIS.

Jack Keith. a Virginian. now a boil
der plainsman, is riding along the Santa
parties of savages. He notices a camp
fire at distance and then sees a team
attached to wagon and at full galiop
pursued by men on ponies. When keith
reaches the wagon the raiders have mass
acred two men and departed. He searches
the victims finding papers and locket
with woman's portrait. He resolves to
hunt down the murderers. Keith is ar
rested at Carson City, charged with the
murder. his accuser being a ruffian named
Black Bart. He goes to Jail fully realiz-
ing the peril Of swift border justicA q
companion in his cell is a negro. wSo
tells him he is Neb and that he knew the
Keith family back in Virginia. Neb says
SibleY, the other Gen. Willis Waite. for
merly an officer in the Confederate army.
The plainsman and Neb escape from the
cell
The Ely miner., 1911-09-01

clings to your body. Dear, you have
never told mamma falsehood- and
it would break her hears If you were
to begin now. ask you again-have
you been swimming?"
No, ma'am!" 4f su
And the little hero always tells the
truth. He may have jumped of the
dock into shallow water few times.
and he may have padded around in
the breakers all the afternoon, but he
hasn't been swimming. For 1t is com
mon knowledge among the fellows
that Waldo can't swim a stroke,-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Ely miner., 1911-09-01

them. 1t was an awful trail, the hoofs
sinking deep in drifting sand, the
struggling ponies becoming SO ex-
hausted that their riders finally dis.
mounted, and staggered forward on
foot, leading them stumbling blindly
after. Once the negro's horse
dropped, and had to be lashed to its
feet again; once Keith's pony STUN
bled and fell on him, hurting him face
down into the sand, and he would
have died there, lacking sufficient
strength to lift the dead weight, but
for Neb's assistance. AS it was he
went staggering blindly forward.
bruised, and faint from hunger and
fatigue.
About them night finally closed in.
The Ely miner., 1911-09-01
HE HADN'T BEEN SWIMMING
Technically, Little Waldo Told His
Mother the Truth, for He
Couldn't Swim.

These lovely days usher in the sea-
son when such conversations as the
following are to be heard in every
other household:
Waldo. have you been in swim
ming
NO ma'am"
"Wald1 told you that the water
wasn't warm enough. and you prom
ised me that you wouldn't go. But
your face is cleaner than / eve- saw
1t. Waldo, even your ears are clean.
Have you been in swimming?"
mo. ma'am."
Waldo, your stockings are on
wrong-side-out and you seem to have
lost your undershirt. Your shirt
The Ely miner., 1911-09-01

THREE good southern farms for sale, 4S6 acres In
East Mississippi. $50 in high state of cultiva-
ton 6O in pasture, balance In good timber; Sdro9T
acres in the best part of Mississippi Delta, very
highly improved nice 8-room new residence, COM
pete system water works, artesian WELL R.R station
on place, express, ticket and p. o. Qfce $50 acrei
at Mckinney Texas, in the heart of the best BLOCK
this tract mile, Mckinney suitable for subdiTi.
70 retire from farmssS- !. O. Allen, Blaine, Miss
The Ely miner., 1911-09-01
CHAPTER VII.
In the Sand Desert.

Suddenly Keith halted, bringing his
pony's head sharply about. so that the
two faced one another. The wind was
rising, hurling clouds of sand into
their eyes, and the plainsman held one
hand before his face.
There's no need of keeping up a
water trail any longer" he said quiet
ly. "By all the signs we're in for a
sand storm by daylight, and that will
The Ely miner., 1911-09-01
Iha Retort Iiterarx.

Manager-Say, you ought to know
your lines in this musical comedy by
this time Why are you continually
referring to the libretto?
Actor-You ought not to criticize
my delivery of my part. am appeal
in- ny the book.
The Ely miner., 1911-09-01

sages Of the kidney
secretions were an
noyingly IRREGULAR
When I started using
Doan's Kidney Pills.
these troubles soop
lessened and the duh
backache vanished.
My kidneys now act
normally and I give
DN--,z DsI-4 Dfl1o
The Ely miner., 1911-09-01
Stop the Pain.

The hurt of burn or a cut stops when
Coles Carbolisalve is applied. 1t heals
quickly and prevents scars. 25c and SOC by
druggists. For free sample write to
J. w. Cole & Co.. Black River Falls, Wis.
The Ely miner., 1911-09-01
A WONDERFUL CHANGE.

Mrs. r. Grouse, Manchester, Iowa,
says: For two years my back was
weak. Rheumatic pains racked my
lower limbs day and night. The pas
The Ely miner., 1911-09-01

1t isn't difficult to induce the other
fellow to compromise when he real
lses that you have the best of it.
The Ely miner., 1911-09-01

Concrete is tn e
hardened rock-like
product made by using
some brand of Portland
cement with sand, gravel
or broken stone and
water. The cement is the ma
terial which binds the sand,
gravel or broken stone to-
gether; this binding action is
produced by water. The terms
"Cement" and Concrete !"
thus have different meanings,
although they are frequently used
INTERCHANGEABLE. While cement is
only one of the materials in concrete,
it is perhaps the most important. To
insure the best results in concrete work,
the highest grade of Portland cement
should be used. The concrete worker
may rest assured that he has the best
cement if he will make certain that the word
UNIVERSAL is printed on each sack of
cement that he buys. Representative deal
ers everywhere handle UNIVERSAL.
UNIVERSAL PORTLAND CEMENT CO.
SECURITY BANK BLDG. MINNEAPOLIS
ANNUAL OUTPUT 100000 BARRELS
The Ely miner., 1911-09-01

Many a man doesn't realize that he
married an angel until she begins to
do the harp act.
The Ely miner., 1911-09-01

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces innammar
tion allays pain. cures wind collie, 25c q bottle.
The Ely miner., 1911-09-01

credit for this wonderful change"
Remember the name-Doan's.
For sale by druggists and general
storekeepers everywhere. Price soc.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y.
Monotonous.
Madge-So the place you spent
your vacation got to be awfully dull?
Marjorie-Just dreadful, dear. To-
ward the end l had to get engaged
again to a young man I was in love
with early in the summer.
New-York tribune., 1911-04-30
Five Days Trial
No Deposit

We will send this machine on days trial
without any deposit. Ii you don't want it, re-
turn il. and we will pay express II YOU accept
it. send us So then 50 monthly until $50 IS paid.
Or deduct ) per cent. for cash.
II YOU want the typewriter sent at once on
approval. check the first square in the coupon
below. Ii YOU are not in business, and rated,
kindly send a couple OF references.
Ii YOU want more information. check the
second square in the coupon. and a machine
vii be set aside.
Cut out the coupon. mark and sign it. and
send it 20 us at once. Until the machine meets
your full approval. you are under no COM
mitment.
New-York tribune., 1911-04-30
Oliver Features

Among these features are:
Visible writing. Lines inches long.
Writing in colors without changing ribbon.
The Universal keyboard.
Choice Of three beautiful types.
The patented U-shaped type bar.
Absolutely perfect alignment.
81 characters written with y keys.
20 carbons AZ one writing If desired.
Utter simplicity. The instruction book en-
ableS one % write Immediately.
Light in acton-light IN weight.
Lifetime durability.
Over $4,000 divers are now in use.
They are used by lS3 railroads. They are
used by the largest mail-ordcr houses, two
o. whom Use over 900 each.
The Oliver is so simple, 50 durable, 50
trouble-proof that men who know best, Sc
lee it. 1t does any practical thing which
any typewriter can do.
New-York tribune., 1911-04-30
CORPOR tTIO\~

INCORPORATE YOUR BUSHES, IN ARlL,NA
east Cost Transact business keep books any "nes ~
ident Stoddard. former secretary oi Arizona lfee =.
l,y-T avs and forms R-t-r-rc- ANY Bank in A1i''i
Stoddard Incorporatins Comuanl. -L So Ihoent Ala
New-York tribune., 1911-04-30
WOMEN AND CHILDREN

WHITE DRESSES Children misses iates !.
Years old 10 20 bust Confrmatio. --allst0n ve.r.ii
party irocks lined. six or cotton. $50 lnh1ec pr
quIset,e Organdy Lawn, Lingerie Nrte and Fna'': n.
Send for style and price book, Se1s.o i3ii >ei'nA'f
son Co, p o. Box 81, New York l.u, \. \.
New-York tribune., 1911-04-30
GAMES AND ENTERT,INMENT>

PLAYS. VAUDEVILLE SKETCHES, MoNoLoGVE
Dialogues Speakers, Ninstre, Mi,-.7. Scs. K,,iiA,'
I ableaux. Drills. Entertainment. MAKE p"ood' ths
Caialog Free. L. ,. DruisOn q Co., D-pt oi, 1he@s'
New-York tribune., 1911-04-30
No. 3 divers
Standard Visible Writers
at $50. On Credit

" e DuN anu ui~lllpuCN iii''N
divers than any other concern III
America. rs result we buy Tar be-
low the lowest agents price.
We send the machines on five days
trial. without any deposit. and let
them sell themselves. We have no
agents, no statesmen. Cur selling
cost is only onc-scvcnth the average
cost of selling through agents.
Thus we sell these standard ma
chincs-listcd at 500 at halt that
price if sold on credit, or Si1 30 cash.
The machines are complete and IN per
fe-t condition. Each is twice inspected
The slightest flaw, or fault, or mark causes
u 10 reject it. Machines sent out to sell
themselves must bcbcyond possible criticism.
Complete equipment goes with each
metal case, Dashboard, brush, ribbon, bot
te If oil. instruction book, etc. Each IS sold
under standard warrant.
You get every device and feature which
has ever been added, at any p1ce, to the
Oliver No. ,.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-03
Brass and Reed Bands

Birmingham music lovers will soon have the opportunity of hearing and comparing two of the greatest brass and reed bands in this country" said Oliver Chalifoux. "Innes who opens a weeks engagement at the State Fair next Friday, is an ex- cellent conductor and his band has long enjoyed a fine reputation. We heard his band in a series of concerts here in Bir- mingham three years ago.
 "On Friday, October 20 the United States Marine band will be heard at the Jefferson theater for the first time. say for the first time because although the Marine band was in Birmingham 15 or @ years ago, at that time it was a very diff ferent organization from the Marine band of today. It had fair reputation at inc time I refer to, but nothing like the repu- tation it has today. Of course, the per sonnel is altogether different. Fifteen years ago the members of the band re- ceived small pay. Now they are well paid, and the selection has been careful I have never seen Lieutenant Santelmaun the conductor, but he ranks high as a band master. The repertoire of the Ma rine band is almost as large as that of any first class symphony orchestra
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-03
Alabama's Great Fair

Day after tomorrow the gates of the Fair will be thrown open at 9 o'clock to all corners, and the finest fair in the history of this state will be inaugurated. It will be great in every respect-in exhibits of home products and home manufactures-in exhibits of natural resources, and in wide range of attractions that will be free to the thousands that attend the Fair.
 The management has worked wisely and increasingly and it will soon have the annual event of the state in per feet order. To lovers of fine music the Fair will be especially attractive. No one outranks Mr. Innes as a band director, and two band concerts will be given daily while the Fair remains open.
 The people should rise to the occa- sion. They should appreciate the Fair fully and enthusiastically. They should rally to it, and in this way it will become an event that will long be remembered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-03

They are opposed to a second term for president, to conscription in the army, to monopolies and the death penalty, and Madero, is individually pledged to do all in his power to combat the evils of intemperance end gambling.
 The voters in every 800 of popula- tion choose an elector and these cleo tors meet two weeks hence to name president and vice president. The electoral college will consist of not less than 10000 electors. Madero and Suarez have these electors, no doubt, well tied to themselves. Madero cer- tainly has, and probably Suarez will go into office on the Madero ground swell.
 It does not appear that Madero will have the warm support of congress at the outset. Congress is filled with men elected during the Diaz admins tration, but the popular verdict may transform them in good part into Ma deroists. If so, the new president may be able to begin the execution of his programme, including the re- lief of the peons and the weak and humble from the exactions of the fee brigade in that country. Mexico needs internal reforms very much, and if Madero can he will do more for Mexico than Diaz did, for he may be able to preserve order while he is carrying out needed reforms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-03
Expenses Within Receipts

The commissioners are diligently striving to bring the city's expenses within it's revenue, and they have started off in the new fiscal year with strenuous monthly appropria- tions that promise to put the city government on it's feet as an opera tive institution.
 Comptroller Abbott estimates the income of the city in the present fiscal year at $1,270,310. He is re- ported as saying in addition: Less 10 per cent that amount would be $1,143,279 to operate upon. Interest charges and bills payable will result in the expenditure of s34,0O0, while appropriations, special, school books, Ensley high school and such up keep amounts to S81 ,000 per year. Reduc- ing the $1,143,2 ,297 by substracting $158, 400 the actual operating possible income will be S984,879."
 This statement is not wholly clear, but the fair presumption is that above interest on the city's bonds there will be this year $984,875 with which to meet operative expenses, or $82,073 month. To the various branches of the citys work the monthly sum of $56,421 is allotted by the commits sioners. In addition to this monthly sum, $23,333 is to be expended chief ly in the public schools. This brings the total monthly expenditure up to $79,754, as against a monthly income of S82,073 The initial budget of the commissioners does bring on pa per expenses within receipts, but it is plain the hand of the commissioners will have to be kept on expenditures in order to render this budget true to the end of the fiscal y.lr
 Comptroller Abbott do es ot fur nish the items of the city's antici- pated revenue. This, however, will not be demanded. The people will take MT. Abbott's word for the sum he names as an available amount ap- plicable to operative expenses.
 Undue criticism is not called for. The commissioners have difficult task before them, and the figures they present hold out at least prom ise that the greater city will be able in the year just begun to pay its own way without mourning dollar of debt. This would, indeed, be a graa accomplishment, one that many nave deemed impossible under the limita- tions of taxation of the state :onsti- tuition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-03
ENGLISH PORTRAIT PAINTER

Gamaliel Bradford, Jr., in the October
 Number of the North American Re-
 view.
 What I miss most in Clarendon, con- sidering the extent of his portrait is any elaborate study of women. Did he respect them too much, or fear them too much, or despise them too much :? Of his own first wife, who died young he says: "He bore her loss with so great passion and confusion of spirit that it shook all the frame of his reso- lution." Doubtless out of compliment
 to her memory, he soon married a sec- ond with whom he lived very com fortably in the most uncomfortable
 times and very joyfully in those times when matter of joy was administered. !"
 Perhaps he thought the privacy of the
 sex should be considered, even in an age when they did not much consider it themselves.
 He certainly did not approve of femi- nine interference in politics. There be- ing at that time," he says of the early, better days, mo ladies who had dis posed themselves to intermeddle Tn business;' and, .s;er, of the difficulty of managing the court at Oxford, the town being full of lords and many per sons Of the best quality, with very many ladies, who were not easily pleased and kept others from being so." His most bitter opponent under 1 his first master was the Queen, and
 under his second the royal mistress Yet
 of neither has he left any such finished picture as of his male friends and ene- mics
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-03
THE AUTUMN GIRL
nc arlington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 Our own airy, fairy Lillian Russell has recently broken into print, and, either through the magic of her own epistolary charms, or the guiding coun- sel of an able press agent, has been making her influence felt in the new field of endeavor. Miss Russell has had much to say on many subjects. but it is when she singles the sage philoso- pjhies of a Hypatia with the simple narrative of her own surpassing achieve ments that she is at her best. Needless to say, this is when she trenches upon the ever timely topic of feminine love- Illness and how to preserve 1t un- dimmed despite the passing years.
 One of the latest of Miss RusselPs s timely hints has to do with autumn winds These, she says, should be antic- ipated. In the preservation of beauty as in the preparations for less dead ly warfare, forewarned is forearmed:
 T never go into the open air without first rubing my face with pure cream or skin food and applying thin coat ing of powder. This will act as pro- lection, but let me give you one word of caution-be stingy of the rouge. Use it if you have no color, as color is be- coming almost to every type; use it so that it will give a natural tint to your complexion instead of applying it as a warrior brave of old before go- ing forth to battle."
 The sterner sex must read these por- tentous words with awe and wonder ment Who can stand before the powress of beauty even when unar- rayed and unadorned? But when thus reinforced with the accouterments of art, what hope remains? And the utter subtelty of the advice that can diff ferentiate between the application that stimulates the natural hue and the bold laying on of colors suitable to the warrior brave of old going forth to battle"
 Doubtless, Miss Russell knows all about it. Nevertheless, we would file mild demurrer in favor of the open-
 air girl who trusts to her physical vigoi and natural beauty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-03
Back From New York

Eugene l.. Brown and Frank 5. Fowlkes returned yesterday from New York where they spent last week.
 "Mr. Brown and were in New York during the heavy slump in the United States Steel stocks and for two or three days there was a general feeling of de- pression, but at the end of the week the situation was greatly improved" said MT. Fowlkes.
 "Such a Wall street slump as that re- ferred to would have made conditions very panicky. if it had not been for the fact that the banks were loaded up with money. The easy condition of the banks being known to the public made panic such as that of 1907 out of the question. The pessimism which prevailed in cer- tain quarters for day or two gave place to a decided optimistic feeling, and when we left New York business seemed to be normal"
 MT. Fowlkes said that while nobody was expecting a boom between now and the presidential election there would be. he thought, reasonable degree of pros perity this fall. "The crops throughout the country will average up quite well and good crops, of course, form the basis of commercial prosperity" he said. '1t Is a noteworthy fact that southern crops are larger this year than usual. It is furth- CT fact that the south is better off from crop point of view than any other part of the country. This section is at tracting more attention now than ever. Eyerybody is talking about the south s fine crops. Alabama is having bumper crop year, and this fact is big adver- tisement for the state. There is no ques- ton but that the south is coming to it's own, and that capital will seek invest ment in this direction in the future as never before.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-03
IN THE HOTEL LOBBIES
The Telephone Question

since the railroad commission or
 Alabama has decided that it had no Jurisdiction in the telephone rate ques-
 tion the matter comes back to the city commission" said a prominent member of the Chamber of Commerce. City Commissioner Lane is quoted as saying: Unless an amicable ar rangement can be reached between the city and the telephone company, quo warranto proceedings will be filed Tn the form of bill in the courts, in all probability Tuesday,
 T hope the question at issue Will be handled amicably outside of court. This is no time, in my opinion, for ln- volving a corporation doing business here in litigation. The Southern Bell Telephone company has, through it's manager MT. Turnbull, shown dispo- sition to proceed in the direction of an amicable adjustment
 T think the citizens generally are in favor of a consolidation of the two telephone companies. MT. Turnbull, Tn recent statement made it clear that his company was prepared to enter into an arrangement looking to a consoiida- ton.
 "In every city as large IS Birming- ham there will always be some people disposed to protest against an advance in rates, but from by reading of the report submitted to the city commits sion the Southern Bell has not been earning a sufficient amount to make its investment here pay. If telephone subscribers in Birmingham were charged higher rate than is paid Tn other cities of this class we would all be apt to kick, but rates heretofore have been lower here than In other large cities. But whatever is done it is sincerely hoped that litigation will be avoided"