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The Ely miner., 1911-07-14
Doctors Said He Would Die
A Friends Advice Saves Life

I wish to speak of the wonderful cure
that I have received from your noted
Ewamp-Root, the great kidney AMI blad-
der cure. Last summer I was taken with
severe pains in my back and sides. I
could not breathe without difficulty and
was nearly wild with the desire to urinate.
Was compelled to do so every ten min
utes with the passage of pure blood with
the urine. tried all the different doc
tors from far and near, but they said 10
was no use to doctor as would die any
way. I was at the end of my rope and
was so miserable with pain and ths
thought that I must die that words can
not tell how I felt. One day friend told
me Of the wonderful help she had received
from DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root. She gave
me one of your pamphlets which read
and determined to try Swamp-Root After
taking half bottle I felt better. Have
now taken ten bottles and am well as
ever was, thanks to Swamp Root. / wish
to tell all suffering people that have kid
ney, liver or bladder trouble, that DR.. XII
mers Swamp Root is the best medicine on
the market.
All persons doubling this statement can
write to me and I will answer them d.
rectly, Yours very truly,
CLYDE F. CAMERER,
Rosalie, Wash.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
R3rd day of July, 1909.
VERNE TOWNE, Notary Public.
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He and His Habits
9y 9yDRJS.kJRTLEy

A boy needs quite number of hab-
Its, and he must have them, If he
ever expects to be much of boy,
or to become man. His body needs
the habit of turning food into blood
and then blood into boy. His mind
needs the habit of turning sights and
sounds into truth and character His
memory is to be merely the good hab-
1t OF holding on to what he has
learned. His morals, at any time,
are very largely the sum of his hab-
its in learning and practising truth
and right. When nature equipped
him with the power of forming hab-
it's, she did him great kindness. for,
without the reinforcement they bring,
he would be no farther along the day
he dies than he was the day he was
born. 1t is that power which makes
it easier TO do a thing the second
than the first time, still easier each
subsequent time, till, by and by, the
thing almost does itself.
1t really may have a deterrent ef
feet on him to know that he can get
used to lying and stealing and drink
fng and doing every kind OF, badness
and become more and more skillful at
1t and more Injured to 1t, through the
help of habit Then he will keep his
eye on the dangerous thing. And he
can more grow lazy and shiftless and
cruel and selfish, or avaricious, when
he once starts at 1t, till he becomes a
bundle of vicious habits. Let him
know this and also know that he can
start in the right lines and form hab-
its that will be propeller and pro-
lection and form his most valuable
asset. The great DR.. Broadus used to
say to hfs students Practise makes
perfect-bad practise makes perfect
ly bad!"
A boy has to have help, at first, in
initiating his habits, for he is likely
to start some wrong ones. He gets
the muscular habit of walking from
seeing others walk and from the
guidance and support of hands that
, show him how to take the first step.
He will need some habits, after
dWullc, tudI Ao uoSS uOI uOW hAo"
he will need and will not start, un-
less some one gets him at it in di-
rective way. And he will get some
to going that he will find great in
jury to him, but he does not know
1t now; and the most serious thing
about it is that he will find 1t diff
cult to ever get rid of them, at all.
Yet 1t does seem easy sometimes to
/ give up good habits, while the cor
rection of bad ones is one Of the
hardest things ever attempted. It
seems no task to grow crooked teeth,
The Ely miner., 1911-07-14
GRIP LOADED WITH IRON
Unusual Weight of Baggage Causes
BilIingsIey to Ask What the
Receptacle Contained.

The Fillingsleys were starting for a
summer outing in the country, expect
ing to be away from home a week or
tvs. The trunk had been sent to the
railway station, few blocks distant,
and nothing remained but to close the
house and walk thither. Mr.. Billings
ley, the last one to leave, locked the
front door, picked up the hand bag
gage and followed the rest of the
family down the steps.
One of the two valises he was car
rying seemed tremendously heavy, and
before he had walked a block he
stopped, set it down on the sidewalk,
and turned to his wife.
For the lands sake, Ffdelia," he
said, mopping the perspiration from
his brow. what have you got in this
gripsack? The family silver?"
Nothing of the sort, Hiram" she
answered That's hidden where no
body can find IL"
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to folks, you know. Then you haven't
got any peanut-brittle in your grip?"
Sorry to say haven't. / didn't ex-
pect to meet you, you see. I'm won
dering if we haven't met before?"
How could we?"
That's SO, I've been gone a long
tine"
IF we did meet anywhere l was
only baby, and that don't count, does
it? oh, dear, If the newsboy on the
train only had some peanut brittle! All
he's got is cough-drops, and I've no
cough. I'll have to get along some
way. Why are you travelling alone?
Haven't you got any wife or chill
dren?"
when you sat down here" he said,
after moments hesitation, you said
1 looked lonesome? Well, feel lone.
some. I'm all alone in the world"
The child put hand in his and
leaned up against him, and it was a
long five minutes before she said:
$50 is mother. She cries over it
sometimes, but of course you don't l
hONCi o1W q luaA ely. bO IuSy ever. o.
Perhaps, but never saw one do it
either. We have to get along without
tears. l suppose. being young lady,
you have a crying spell now and
then?"
why, have to cry when mamma
does, of course. l ought to, shouldn't
II"
Surely. Going away now?"
"Yes. Mamma may be anxious
Next time you must have scme peanut
brittle with you. You never can tell
when some little girl or boy will ask
for some. Well. good-by. I've had a
real nice time"
The man held her hand for a mo-
ment and looked into her blue eyes,
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but II you undertake to straighten
them, the dentist will have to keep all
kinds of machinery in your aching
mouth, for weary weeks. But the
Strengthening of crooked teeth and
pigeon toes and bent backs and cross
eyes is easy compared with the re-
forming habits, when they have be-
come set
Those who have looked into the
workings of the brain and nerves tell
us that, when we think, certain
amount OF energy is discharged In
the brain, and that energy goes tear
ing through the nerve tissues, making
path as It goes, and the next dis
charge of energy will follow that
same path, till all of it flows that
way, unless we prevent it. Habits
make roads and roads must always
run in the right direction and be
be built Of right material. Even when
good road has been built. some
wrong thought may send discharge
of energy in the wrong direction and
quickly cut out new path for the
feet of habit. So one has to watch
all his life. A habit will live for
ever, unless it is interfered with. AS
most of us get some undesirable hab-
it's started we are apt to have the
perpetual task of forming good ones
and reforming bad ones.
The great habit forming time is
when he is from five to twelve years
old. The golden age of memory is
from ten to fourteen. DR.. Hawies
says that, If one wants to adapt his
muscular and nervous habits to the
playing of the violin, he must begin
before he is ten. l undertook it, aft
er 1 was thirty, and soon quit. At
twelve boy comes more under the
reign of law and of conscience and of
his own intelligent will.
No one knows when some emer-
gency may arise that will require all
the stores of strengtl secured through
the aid of habit. Down in Ludlow,
KY, deaf old man was crossing the
railroad track, when he looked up
and saw an engine coming upon him.
They had given him the signal but he
did not hear and, coming around the
curve, they were not able to stop.
He did not have time to go on and
climb some steps up from the level
Of the tracks, nor to turn around and
go back. He turned a handspring
backward and got out of the way,
with few harmless bruises He did
that because his muscles had formed
the habit of doing such things. years
before. Every good habit the boy
forms will be needed in the ordinary
tasks or In the emergencies.
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Settled Them.


I've sight O. sons-thirteen alto
gether," remarked prosperous old
farmer, "and all of ems done mo
credit save the three eldest, who
sowed wild oats at pretty rapid rate.
and then came home and saddled my
shoulders with the harvest.
"Well. own was glad to see 'em
back, and I feasted 'em, and petted
'em, and set 'em on their legs again.
only to see 'em skedaddle OF afresh
only to see 'em skedaddle OF afresh
when things had slowed down, with
all the cash they could lay hands on.
"That thereabouts sickened me, SO
I called the rest Of 'em together and
"There's ten of you left, and II any
Of you 'ud like to follow t'other three
I won't try to stop you. But, under
stand this, though there may be few
more prodigal sons, there'Il be no
more fatted calves. I've killed the last
of 'em!'
"And," continued the Old man, trs-
umphantly, "I've had trouble wi none
Of EN- since!"
The Ely miner., 1911-07-14
Peanut t-Brittle
BY DONALD ALLEN

The gentleman who had seat
about the middle of the drawing room
car had been reading book for the
last hour, and had become 50 inter-
ested that he was hardly conscious
when some one sat down beside him.
III stranger, it was piece of imper-
Thence; If an acquaintance But he
had just returned from a three years
trip abroad.
years old. She had found her way in
from the car ahead.
"Hello!" saluted the man as he
turned on her.
Il thought you looked lonesome"
she replied, as she smiled at him.
And so you ran away from your
mamma to come and sit with me for a
while. That is good of you. but aren't
you pretty small to be wandering
about on the train by yoursef?"
'Oh, there's no danger. Mamma and
I have travelled good big lot to-
gether. I've been all through the
train. but didn't see any gentleman
liked till l came to you. Then I
Just took a seat"
THAT fiatters me. I'll lay aside my
book and talk with you"
But l want to ask you q question
first" she said, as her face sobered
up. do you-do you like peanut
brittle?"
why, l don't think I really know
what 1t is.'
TITS peanut meats stuck into can
dy, and you can break 1t up"
Its peanut meats stuck into can
dy, and you can break It up the same
as glass. When you get to eating 1t
you want whole pound. Now you
know"
"And I'll surely buy you some the
first chance l get. If you'd give me
your name perhaps might send a
box"
81 haven't a card with me-" she said
soberly, as she drew away little.
'T'm not old enough to be introduced
The Ely miner., 1911-07-14
A Boys Motives

A boy is more apt to have fairly
good motives than false ones. He
starts out in life with something In
him that will grow into sense of
right, and, II he gets tangled, 1t will
be because he is taught it, through the
eye or the ear or in both ways. II
q boys motives are entirely bad, he
is seldom, If ever, entirely to blame
for it. There is reason. 1t may be.
in fact, a case Of atavism, in which
he has gone back and appropriated
the fetid tastes of some vile ancestor
and his parents were not wise enough
to protect him against the ravages of
the atavistic beast.
At the outset, we must concede the
difficulty of knowing exactly what a
boys motives are, for his deepest,
most dominant motive is often tangled
with superficial, secondary and tenn
porary ones; and these may be so
complex and active as to discourage
US. How we can ever detach the real
motive from this tangle of impulses
and make it the dominant thing Is
the problem. If he asks you ques-
ton, you are never sure of his pur-
pose. It may be fun or fancy or an
evasion of duty.
Two things encourage US. One is
that these surface motives are not the
deepest things about him. They are
not the symptoms Of anything bad.
but of a new stage that he has
reached, when new forces Of the body
and faculties Of the mind are being
released. He hardly knows what hurts
him, but something is keeping his eyes
wide open and his nerves all jumping.
The other encouragement is that
these are the curious ways IN which
his very deepest and truest nature is
finding itself. His devotion to the
gang IL the spirit Of loyalty start
ing toward universal brotherhood; his
fondness for contests is the first exhi-
bition Of the warrior instinct getting
ready to fight the good fight Of faith;
his Bohemianism, an incipient cosmo-
politanism; his local attachments, the
prelude to patriotism; his battles for
his partners, the forerunners Of his
battles in the higher interest Of his
fellow men.
His motives will need several things.
First Of all they must be discovered
and recognized by the older people. A
young man who had lost a position.
because Of ineficiency, was employed
by another firm, because they were
compelled 20 have some one and he
was the only one they could get. Soon
they noticed that he had good sug-
gestions to make and he found that
they would listen. He began to climb
and, before long. was in a very respon-
sible position and was indispensable
to the firm. When asked why he
could not keep his first Job, he replied
''they treated me as If was a fool,
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and I acted like one" That discloses
reason why a boys best must be
recognized. To attribute bad motive
for the freakish and prankish ways
Of boy is one way OF making them
bad, while the surest way to make
them good is to consider them so
and let him know that you do.
His motives will also need protec-
ton. Those that are temporary, like
temporary teeth, may be treated In q
way to disfigure him for life; in fact,
the temporary may be made the per
manent by false treatment A brutal
attempt to suppress the outflow of his
tumultuous nature may make 1t in
growing, may bottle it up to be emit
ter, all his life, in inopportune ways.
The war-whoop may become malig-
nant, If it is not allowed to come out
in all its innocence. The genuine good
will must be allowed to effervesce in
its own way, as a protection to his
whole nature.
His motives will also need infection
from without, SO as to correct and
complete them. Our growth is al
ways by expansion from within and
infection from without. II one wants
to get yellow fever, he only needs to
let some ambitious mosquito bore into
his cuticle, with a bill that has been
dipped in a cauldron of germs, and
crawl over him with feet that have q
good assortment Of germs clinging to
them. Then the victim is ready for
the worst. One can also have health
infection, as in antitoxin and in the
infusion Of pure fresh blood from
some one. Judge Baldwin Of Oak
Park gave his invalid daughter some
of his own vigorous blood, not long
ago, by infusion. 1t is of the highest
importance that boys motives be
frequently purified by fresh infusions
of motives Of the highest kind.
When he is thus assisted, direction
win be needed more than correction
Formation Is good substitute for
reformation; If the former Is right,
the latter will not be necessary. To
discover his best motives, to dfscrim-
mate them from the secondary and
temporary, to direct them in righteous
and rational ways-this Is some ones
high and inescapable duty.
One thing more. and 1t cannot be
said too frequently and forcibly. he
must have concrete instance of the
very best motives that can ho proL
duced and must find them In those
people who, because Of their natural
Relationship to him and their personal
attractions for him, are charged with
sacred responsibilities for him-those
who create the atmosphere that en-
ters into his fiber, furnish him a con
science before his own Is In com.
mand and supply him with motives
that reshape and guide his own.
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Then what makes this thing SO
heavy? 1t weighs a ton"
I'm taking along that new set OF
patent flatirons l bought last week."
serenely responded Mrs. Billingsley.
"Therell be some washing TO do, and
expect to do my own ironing. I've
seen the kind of irons they have at
summer resorts. and they don't suit
me at all."-Youths' Companion.
The Ely miner., 1911-07-14
Trying to Be Witty.

They were sitting in the parlor with
the lights turned low. The hour was
pretty late. He and she had talked
about everything, from the weather to
the latest shows. He yawned and she
yawned, but he made no attempt to
yawned, but he made no attempt to
move toward home, and she was be-
coming weary.
At last she said: IT heard q noise
outside Just now. wonder If It could
be burglars?"
OF course he tried to be funny.
Maybe it was the night falling?"
he said.
20, guess not" she exclaimed;
guess 1t was the day breaking"
(Hasty exit Of he.)
The Ely miner., 1911-07-14
A Weighty Topic.

"I presume the sweet girl graduate
will again inform us that beyond the
Alps lies Italy"
Don't fool yourself. She is more
apt to discuss The Campaign for
Woman's Rights Protest Against
Modern Economic Conditions.'"
The Ely miner., 1911-07-14
To Settle Boundary pispute.

The century-old dispute over the
boundary between Persia and Turkey
in Asia from Mt Ararat south to the
Persian gulf seems to be at last in a
fair way to be settled. At confer
ence recently held in Constantinople
both governments agreed to submit the
points in contest to The Hague trib.
unal and to abide by its decision.
The Ely miner., 1911-07-14
Would Try Another.

WOuIu Try NIOSEtCT.
There was going to be a picnic that
morning, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. The little boy prayed before
he retired at night that it might be .
fine day. And when he looked out Of
the window at the peep of dawn. It
was raining.
In the evening, the little boy
wouldn't say his prayers. Mamma"
he asked, as he was going to bed.
where do they sell idols? want to
get one to worship"
The Ely miner., 1911-07-14
Before the Age Of Nerves.

! oeIore IHe Hgo OF NerVes.
! When the late duchess of Bedford
was last at Buxton, and then in her
eighty-f1fth year, it was the medical
farce Of the day for the faculty to re-
solve every complaint or whim and
caprice into Shock Of the nervous
system" Her grace, after inquiring
of many Of her friends in the room
what brought them there, and being
generally answered for a nervous COM
plant, was asked in her turn, what
brought her to Buxton. Il came only
for pleasure" answered the healthy
The Ely miner., 1911-07-14

Choose Ono Side or T'othes.
Sooner or later the man who strad.
dies comes to believe that the fence
builders always put the sharp edged
rails on top.-Bennington Banner.
The Ely miner., 1911-07-14
Letter to
Dr.. KIlner q Co.
Ringhamton, n. Z.
.Root WIN M For Yos

Prove What Swamp-Root WIN Do For Yos
Send to DR.. Kilmer & Co., Bingham
ton, N. Y, for sample bottle. II viii
convince anyone. You will also receive
= booklet of valuable information, telling
al about the kidneys and bladder. When
writing, be sure and mention this paper.
For sale at all drug stores. Price fifty
cents and one-dollar.
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The Humorous Hat.
HAS she any sense Of humor?"
'T don't think SO. She can look at
her hat without laughing. g."-Lippin-
colts.
The Ely miner., 1911-07-14

SASKATOON offers prosperity to far
mers in every branch. Get q farm In
Saskatoon district, and your own and
family's future need worry no more. You
were not intended to live and die striving
merely to make ends meet. Half the work
count. Be fair to yourself. Don't waste
moro time. Write Commissioner, Board OF
Trade, Saskatoon. Saskatchewan, Western
Canada.
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What They All Say.

Employer hope you save some
thing out of your salary, James?
Office Boy-Yes, sir! most all of 1t,
sir.
Employer (eagerly)-Do you want
to buy an automobile cheap?-Puck.
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A great and valuable knowledge II
to know when not to talk. Anyone
with the power of speech can talk. but
It takes q wise head to keep silent
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ASK FOR ALIENS FOOT-EASE
the Anttseptc powder to shake into your Shoes Re-
heves Corns, Bunions, Ingrowing Naila Swollen and
Sweating feet, Blisters and Calloua spots. Sold
everywhere, $50. Don't accept any substttute Sam
ple FREE. Address Allen g. Olmsted, Ls Roy, M.
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duchess; "for, thank God, I was born
before nerves came into fashion. -
From Lemons Jest Book.
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Mrs. Windows Soothing syrup for Childrezs
teething, softens the gums, reduces indamma-
ton, allays pain. cures wind collie, 26c y bottle.
The Ely miner., 1911-07-14

Many girl marries a man simply
to keep some other girl from getting
him.
The Ely miner., 1911-07-14
The Red Moon.

Astronomers say the red moon ID
due to dense atmosphere from watsry
yapor and gases
The Ely miner., 1911-07-14

Romance is not altogether dead.
Even the most hardened old bachelor
has a withered flower somewhere in
his possession.
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Stop the Palm.

Stop tho Palm.
The hurt Of burn or a cut stops when
Coles Carbolisalve is applied. It heals
quickly and prevents scars. 25c ana 800 BY
druggists For free sample write to
]. W. Cole & Co.. Black River Fallss WIS.
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lTOu1 tu0 tlmC lu6y dT6
matched until fully grown.
It has been demonstrated that a
lighA frost does not injure the quality
of the silage, provided the corn goes
into the soil before the leaf and stalk
has lost much of its moisture.
Don't be in too great hurry to as.
sist a eve to deliver her lamb; you
may do more harm than good; be
quite sure that she has absolutely
given up before trying to help her.
As long as horses that have weak or
defective feet are used for breeding
purposes, just so long will there be
horses with predisposition to these
things, and money will accordingly be
lost on them.
There is SO much difference in the
composition of milk from different
cows that many large butter and
cheese factories now test all the milk
they buy. and pay for it according to
its butter fat content.
Alfalfa should be cut when the new
sprouts are starting on the crown.
This is an entirely safe rule to follow.
Usually this will occur when the first
crop is coming into bloom. Alfalfa
sown this season should be clipped
and the clipping left to form a mulch
ing about the young plants. It may be
necessary to clip second time, but
the fall growth should remain to hold
the snow and thus prevent winter
killing
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-11-11
INTRODUCES SMITH.
(Continued from Page -

man-how to become better men and
women-how TO become better Chris
tians-all of which is to a good pur-
pose not only as regards our future
life but our life here on earth. For
whatever makes men good Christians
makes them good citizens. 1t has
been we'll said that the worth of a
civilization is the worth Of the man
at its center. When this man lacks
moral rectitude, progress only makes
bad worse and further embroils So
cial problems.
His visit here will prove great
help and inspiration to you good men
who are preaching the gospel in this
city. He will bring home to you the
words of the author of the Simple
Life, when he said, Labor for men
whom the world forgets, make your
self ineligible to the humble, so
shall you open again the springs
which those masters drew whose
works have defied the ages because
they knew how to clothe genius in
simplicity"
MAY he teach us all to lead lives
which will be a realization of the
higher virtues-truth, justice, love,
liberty and moral power-in our
daily activities, whatever they may
be-"