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been relieved, and the British, under Sir Hope Grant. were advancing on Jellala- bad. There n body of the enemy, about 2OOo strong, had taken up position with two guns, and. as these were giving trou- ble, the commander-in-chief ordered Sir Hugh to take the squadron under hts command and see If he could capture them. Here Is his description of how he did so:
 With my small body of men he writes, my only chance of success was by making flank attack, and, if possl- hle surprise, With this object I made considerable detour and managed. under cover of some fields of growing corn or sugarcane to arrive on the left flank of the enemy perfectly unseen. The guns were posted on a small mound, and q considerable body of the enemy had an admirable position in rear of this mound, in front of and amidst some trees and scrub Between us and them lay a marshy jheel. with long ready grass-an unpleasant obstacle, but which served admirably to cover our movements. I then advanced my men through this Jheei and long grass at a trot, and so concealed our movements till we got clear, when 1 gave the word, Form line and 'Charge' My men gave ringing cheer and we were into masses. The surprise was complete, and, owing to It's suddenness, they had no conception of our numbers, and so the shock to them and victory to us was as if it had been a whole brigade. My charger, rearaway the horse left me in poor Phillips will, carried me like bird and l found myself well ahead. It seemed like cutting ones way through field of corn. and I had to make a lane for myself as I rode along. The men followed me splendidly, and in a very short time the affaih was over the guns were captured, the enemy seat tered, and the fight became a pursuit. Our. loss was very trifling, as is often the ase in a sudden surprise, but we cut up umhers of the enemy, and should | have accounted for more but for the na- | ture of the ground. I came out of the | fight untouched, and this I attribute to the pace I went; but my good horse, "Tearaway,' suffered, having sabre flash over lhis quarter and another sabre wound on his foreleg, while my coat skirt was c> clean through and the pug geree. which, wound round a forage-cap had been nay sole head-dress during the past months was cut almost to the last fold, but by its thickness undoubtedly save my head. Two or three staff of ficers had ridden round, seeing what was going on and shared in the fight, among them ,berts and Augustus Anson, and ! belit ye, Captain Mayne (subsequentls
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ing joint read that "Signor Maehiavelli
 clairvoyant, would read the stars, and unravel the future at 90 cents each per son." "Signor Macelbely was blaze faced dago. whose nose had intruded among the planets, and wrested secrets from them that were hidden from our state examiner of public accounts. If any of them planets got a whiff of his breath l don't wonder at 'ern for giving up every thing inside of em, The signor rang my coin on the table and then bit 1t to show his confidence in my honest, open countenaace, and then he asked me what wanted to know. told him that I was wanting to know something in addi- ton to what had on hand. I wanted to accumulate 8 stock of information 10 sorter pile up on top of the wisdom 1 was already toting around-matter, In fact,
 which had not already appeared in the Sylacauga Advance. or any other great
 metropolitan sheet. What l do not know.
 now, is what l yearn to accumulate. He handed the money back with the disgust ingy familiar remark that the informa- ton bureau for idiots and lost children
 was further down the street. But the Sig relented sufficiently to notify me
 that If would tell him what month and year I was born in he would outline my life for me. After consulting a tax
 assessment list I gave him the desired n- formation. You were born in a state
 where they use much politics. said the
 Sig I plead guilty to this charge. but
 suggested to him that we used more guano and corn whisky than primaries which levity was frowned upon by the star-monlSeyer. You were born under Jupiter Saturn and Oklahoma said h-
 and on the day of your birth the sign was wrong, and something has been
 wrong with you ever since. One of your ears Is larger than the other. and that is sure indication that you have not an- nounced as candidate for governor of Alabama. You were born when the sign was in the feet-and that Is the reason why your shoemaker has to use u surveyors chain when he makes your shoes. From the fact that you spread Over so much ground assume that you are from Birmingham. Ala, but whether from Corey or South Highlands the stars do not disclose. You have a wife and eight children. Your wife will be much happier during her second marriage. The governor of the state knows you-the
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Gov. will deliver an address in your town if you will ask him Tuesdays and Fridays will be the most favorable days for you to borrow money from governors-any other old day will do to pull the legs Of men who ain't governors. Beware of light haired. spindle shanked men engaged Tn the newspaper business. Should one oe this class hit you for a small loan take mortgage, sis-rsd by his wife, on the COW and plano. Do not drink with a. newspaper man--unless the barkeep will charge it to the house. In the dim horo- scope I see an eloquent orator hitting the grit, closely pursued by three buli- dogs, and a bowling German mob If t.le mob overtakes the great speaker they will churn him until there will be nothing left but a suspc1der button and wart. The stars tell me that the silver voiced ora- tor. whose legs aye working like patent churn, getting away from that speedy mob is Gen. Bill Brandon escaping from the results of a prohibition speech sx Cullman. Fret not. child of destiny. no will escape.
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his periodical trunks, but this fact was unknown to our party. While our oari- tone singer, with bulfrog voice. was ren- dering Rocked ins the Cradle of the Deep" Colonel Higgnbottom protruded his head out of an upper window, and tearfully soliloquized in voice thick enough to be carved. but audible all over the place: Sheems to me that
 everything goes wrong bout this place when I get (hic) drunk. Now that fool nigger Bill has gone and left the gate open, and that darned old jackass of
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UNFORTUNATE BRITONS WHOM
 JUST ANYBODY MAY ROB

ton being to watch the flies on the paint as the phrase went. He had to eat all his meals alone on the upper deck. Instead of resting between watches, he had to polish brass work, and besides this his grog was stopped and he was prohibited from smoking,
 Winston Churchill never did a more popular thing than when he abolished '10-A" but the British tars hope he will go farther and wipe out a lot of other ridiculous penalties that still are in- ficted in the navy. If, for example, a man is' detected In the horrible offense of washing clothes on any night but the ones specially set apart for this pur- pose, the punishment Is an extraordinary one. He has to put the wet garment on a boat-hook and carry 1t around the up- per deck until II is dry. Another queer punishment Is inflicted for carelessness
 in leaving any part of sailors per- sonal belongings out of his bag. If he does so, the article is confiscated by the man in charge of the deck and put in what Is called the "scran bag" At the end of the week this Is opened. and the guilty man must buy back the article at the price of q piece of soapl
 Here Is another queer punishment which never has been removed from tho statute book. If you are motoring or driving in England, beware lest you run over anybody, for If you do so and cause their death, your motor car or carriage can be confiscated by the crown. Even a falling tree that catNed she death of a human being in this country can be taken from Its owner. This law Is known AS deodand.
 The strangest punishment which still survives under modern law in England
 Is that of 'outlawry" Only a few years ago in 1906 to be exact-a lawyer charged with forging a check was out lawed' fin the Glasgow high court TV this sentence the person of the accuGed Is declared forfeit. He cannot bear testi- mony In court nor sue, nor defend an action. He cannot act on a jury nor vote at an election, nor act as tutor or guardian to another person. If any ons robs him he has no redress. If any ono killed him, lt seems rather doubtful if that person could he hanged.
 Besides all this, if the outlaw" fails to surrender himself to the authorities at stated times. and remains for year and a day in the condition of a rebel, his whole estate and its profits are for felt to the crown.
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time I warbled tuneful lay. and then swore off. was on a Juno night when a party of us assembled at the vine covered porch of Cofcnel John c. Hig- ginbottom. and proceeded to massacre Stars of the Summer Night" Sleep my Lady, Sleep" 'Juanita," and other sentimental ditties, for the benefit of Miss Eveline Higginbott6m, with whom about four of us was desperately in love.
 ''On that particular evening Col. John C. Higginbottom was induieing in one oe
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! From a Stan Correspondent.
 | London, October 19.--At the Shakes peare's Engand' exhibition. which Mrs George Cornwalls West-formerly Jenny Jerome of |. S. A.-got up in London recently. one of the sights that interested visitors most was that of man in the lstocks--the queer old wooden frame work
 with holes for the legs in which folk who
 had committed small offenses used to be locked in this country.
 l This was regarded as a curious relic of the barbarlc past, but the Britons who smiled at 1t might have been reminded that although the stocks, like the pillory and the ducking stool. long have been done away with lot of punishments survive in England and are meted out right along which are very bit as medieval.
 The most ludcrous of these exist in the two services-the army and navy, which were renowned in the past for the cruel ties practiced in them in the name of justice sKeel-hauling, as carried out in his majesty's navy used, of course, to amount to execution by drowning, while in the army running the gauntlet" was a popular way of punishng troublesome soldiers. Perhaps the British borrowed it from our American Indians, anyhow 1t was done in the army exactly as the Redskins used to do it-a regiment being divided into two lines and the offender being marched between, getting one cut with a switch from each man as he passed.
 The public today has almost forgotten that such punlshments existed yet 1t is only about fortnight since Wins ton Churchill. who as first lord of the admiralty is ruler of the Kings havee and who. of course, Is the son of Mrs. cornwalls West, finally abolished the childsh, yet maddentng punishment which had been known and loathed for generations In the fleet as ] "10-A." It was called this on account of | it's number in the regulations. and gen orally was inflicted for insubordination the man punished being treated like d ! naughty boy who is stood in the corner He had, in fact. to stand at attention
 from to 10 o'clock each evening, fac-
 ing the ships side aft, his only distrac-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-20

Ledbetter's has got in front yard an hell eat up all the dowz and I'm too dam drunk 10 turn him out This here in- cident kinder discouraged me from sere- hating any more, because l was the fel- low that was q bptchering the baritone solo when the colonel made the mis- take.
 'I had a bully time at the Birmlng- ham fair" chirrupped the circuit clerk. and while was in that town I em- braced the opportunity to have my fo tune told. The sign of the fortune tell
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speeches. some day. We need them in that love is that she may be unjust to her charge; not through any desire to Ural weaknesses that flesh is heir to. These little unnoticed traits are symp- toms of wrong like the coated tongue. fheyy indicate a treatment is needed Thus d comparison of baby habits and traits with others, with a liberal survey of conditions by each mother Is often the best tonic to be applied. We carry them to the baby show because they are beautiful and we are proud We pin the blue ribbon on them because of the exte- rior how about the heart? The judge peeps into their nature through their eyes, their good hunor. The power of expression is given through these mediums and the study Of nature is a gift. The old say ing, Beauty Is but skin deep but good ness to. the bone" is well to remember. In baby boufiet' goodness prevails. for in goodness there is greatness, and the 5G babies entered in the flair baby show of 1912 have all the expression of greatness. for they speak of health and rareful attention. We have the baby vel Hare at heart, but must appeal, God spare the judge,
 Beauty thou pretty plaything. dear de-
 ceiti
 That steals so softly OCT the stripling' s
 heart
 And gives it a new pulse unknown be-
 fore"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-31

Observation-Disclosures states
w are represented in a crusade
whish the lawmakers and school au-
taofities of the country are waging
against the high school fraternities,
according to the United States bureau
o. education. OF these, Is states have
passed legislative enactments hostile
to the secret orders, while the school
boards of important cities in the other
IL states have adopted like measures
within their own Jurisdiction.
All states having laws on the sub
ject provide a penalty of suspension
or expulsion from school for all those
who join these orders The most
drastic laws were passed by Iowa,
Minnesota and Nebraska, whose legis-
latures made st a misdemeanor for
any one even to solicit members to
these organizations. Michigan and
Ohio made it a misdemeanor for a
school officer to fail or refuse to carry
out the anti-high school fraternity law.
Other states which prohibit these or
ders are California, Indiana, Kansas,
Mississippi, Oregon and Vermont.
Massachusetts empowers the Boston
school committee to deal with the Sc
cret society problem in its own way,
while Washington gives the same lat
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-31
Chinese Sending Many Fake Antiques

pewter; the silk is filled with pow.
dered clay.
Silk goods, according to Consul An.
derson at Hongkong, are being aduL
terated to an extent and in a way
never allowed before, and Japanese
and Chinese goods supposed to be
made from natfve-worked Japanese OF
Chinese silks are partly of American
cotton. Silk hosiery is sold which 10
not only not all silk, but q understood
and otherwise unwearabfss fvories are
of bone or other imitation. Embroid.
cred screens are made o: me flimsiest
materials glued to last sNf day.
There is now recSsnized real
grade and an export" grade of por.
celains like the beautiful Satsuma
ware of Japan. 1mitastcn cloisonne
ware is on the market II great quaint.
ties, Japanese carved "eherry-wood"
furniture is made of soH wood stained
and vanished. Chinese blackwood
furniture in some cases Is white wood
stained, but the Chinese Guild Is try
ing to stop the practise of initiating
the heavy expensive Elack wood.
Recently large o:ser was placed
in Hongkong for "SianysAe" brass. and
most Of the brass workers at Hong
kong at present are engaged in beat
ing out brass trays with the usual
Siamese engraved decoration and
characteristics-to be sold as real
SiameSe
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-31
ECHO OF TITANIC TRAGEDY
Mrs. Buckneil Had Premonition That
Something Dreadful Would
Happen.

One Of the echoes of the Titanic
tragedy concerns Mrs. Bucknell, wife
of the founder of Bucknell University
in Pennsylvania Mrs. Bucknell was
in a most unhappy frame Of mind
when she reached the long pier al
Cherbourg.
81 feel so strange about sailing,
she told a friend. 81 know / ought not
to go on this boat have a Fremont
ton that something dreadful will hap
pen"
"Nonsensel" laughed the friend
why, how can anything happen In
these days of splendid boats and wire
less communication? feel as safe
crossing the ocean as / do the street
yes. safer, for there are no motor
cars"
81 wish I did," sighed Mrs. Buck
nell. but / feel very nervous. ! am
half tempted not to 60"
However, she did. and as the friend
to whom she had voiced her fears was
embarking in a lifeboat, after the
crash. she saw the white face Of Mrs.
Bucknell.
what did l tell you at Cherbourg!"
said the latter. eff ever l have another
premonition shall heed it."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-31

his rim-fire revolvers, and no explo-
sion followed the swapping OF the
hammers. The negro opened the front
door, ran down fight of iron steps
and started across the lawn. Again
Bromwell pulled the trigger and this
time there was an explosion.
When the report rang out the fu-
gitive jumped high in the air as
though he had been struck and de-
veloped remarkable speed. The
neighborhood was aroused, windows
few open, and shouts filled the air.
The intruder fed around a corner into
Corcoran street, and after running
half block, with Bromwell, barefoot,
in hot pursuit, the negro disappeared
in an alley.
Bromwell gave up the chase and re-
turned to his hysterical family. A
dozen calls for the police were flashed
over the telephone into headquarters
by the neighbors who had heard the
shot and seen part of the futile
chase. The residents were already in
state of nervous excitement by the
discovery Of a negro in the bedroom
of Mrs. Joseph K Maxwell just three
hours before the man was found In
the Bromwell home
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-31
Spain Establishes

TT is announced by tho United States
i bureau OF education that to &C
quaint the hurried traveller with the
glories, culture and progress of Spain,
the Spanish government has establish
ed a holiday lecture and travel course
for the especial benefit of foreigners.
The course is separated into two d.
visions. The first part. which is under
the management of Prof. Ramon Me-
nepde. Ffdal, will afford the foreigner
an opportunity to acquaint himself
with the fundamental ideas of the
Spanish culture. The second part OF
the course consists of excursions to
public. historical. architectural and art
monuments, under the conduct OF
scholars whose demonstrations. &C
cording to Senior Don Juan Riano y
Gayangos, the Spanish minister. can
not but be incomparably superior to
those offered by professional guides"
The course will be held in Madrid as
a headquarters from June Is to July
"a. Those who enroll are expected to
have some knowledge of Spanish.
The lectures will give especial at
tsntion to the Spanish epic, to the
lyric as developed in various prov
inces, 70 the picturesque and regional
novel and to Cervantes. Other lee
tures will deal with the relations OF
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-31
CLING TO THEIR PRIVILEGES
Enjoy Many Rights
That Have Been Accorded Them
for Centuries.

Ambassador" and minister" mean
pretty must the same to the average
man, but there is a very great diner
ence between the two, inasmuch as an
ambassador possesses many privileges
abroad that do not pertain to a mere
minister.
Perhaps the most curious privilege OF
an ambassador, who is accredited to
the ruler of country and not merely
to the government thereof. as Is min
lister, is that the ambassador may when
dismissed turn his back to the soy.
ereign to whose court he has been
assigned. Briefly described the mode
of procedure is as follows:
When the audience is at an end the
ambassador waits to be dismissed by
the sovereign. When dismissed the am.
| bassador bows, retires three PAGES.
bows again, turns on his heels and
walks to the folding doors. But when
the reigning sovereign is woman
more polite method Is employed. To
turn his back would be to resign
privilege; therefore the ambassador re-
tires sideways. He keeps one eye on
the sovereign and with the other he
endeavors to find the door. By this
unique means he contrives to show all
politeness to the sovereign and at the
| same time retain his ambassadorial
privilege in retiring. Another privilege
| of an ambassador is that OF being ush-
cred into the royal presence through
| folding doors. both of which must be
flung wide for him. None save an am
bassador can claim this privilege, the
creates. favor in this respect that can
be shown any non-ambassadorial rep
resentative consisting in the opening
to him Of one door only.
There is one privilege of the ambas-
sador, a privilege that sometimes oc-
casions great Inconvenience to the
ruler, which consists OF his right to
demand admission to the sovereign by
day or by night
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-31
Opposition to Frats in High Schools

itude to the school boards of its larger
cities.
The more important cities whose
school boards have passed regula-
tions restricting or forbidding high
school fraternities, are Denver, Meri-
den. Shicago, Covington, Ne Or
leans, Lowell, Waltham, Worcester,
Kansas City, Mo-; st. Joseph. Butte,
OKLAHOMA City, Reading, Salt Lake
City, Madison, Milwaukee, Racine and
Superior. The commonest penalties
are suspension, expulsion, or debar-
ment from school athletic or other
teams.
The United States bureau of educa-
tons report also cites some Of the
more important court decisions, every
one of which upholds the school au-
thorities in dealing vigorously with
the high school fraternity, on the
ground that the measures SO taken
are authorized as part of the school
boards discretionary powers. Most
courts cited, however, will not allow
the offending pupils to be barred from
classroom exercises, although they can
be barred from participating in all
athletic or other contests.
"The high school society will very
likely never win such a place in the
American educational system as that
now occupied by the college fraterni-
ty," said William R. Hood of the edu-
cation bureaus division of school ad-
ministration There is no such need
for a high school fraternity; indeed,
among its most insistent opponents
are many college fraternity men,"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-31

The Vesuvius was dynamite cruz
ser. Its weapons we're three bronze
tubes projecting amidships and for
ward. From these tubes dynamite
shells containing $50 pounds of gun
cotton were hurled by compressed air.
1t was expected that few Of these
monster charges would destroy a
whole continent.
And they might have had the Vesu-
vius been able to fire accurately. The
tubes were immovable and the only
way to aim was to point the ship at
the target and then regulate the air
pressure. In the language of one ma
val expert, Sometimes we hit the isl
and of Cuba"
The Vesuvius saw real war service
in 1898. 1t has the Katahdin's record
beaten. The Vesuvius would sneak
close in to shore at night near Santi-
ago and fire a few dynamite shells
They made a frightful noise when
they exploded and won the sobriquet
of "the earthquake maker" for the
ship, but nothing more.
To quote a naval officer: 'The Vesu'
vius was turned out to be the terror OF
the seas and became the terror OF the
American navy"
Officers were afraid the dynamite
magazines would explode in a heavy
sea.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-31
Simplest Way of All.

The following story the Saturday
Evening Post says is told of Col.
George w. Goethals, who at the time
it took place was an instructor in en-
cheering at West Point.
One day, in recitation, he gave out
this question to a class of cadets:
''The post flagpole, sixty feet high,
has fallen down. You are ordered by
your commanding officer to put it up
again. You have under your command
sergeant and ten privates of the en-
gineer corps. How would you get the
pole back into placer"
Each cadet, after long consideration
and much figuring over the derricks
blocks, tackle and so on, evolved a
different method.
mo-" said Goethals, you are all
wrong. You would simply say: Ser.
geant, put up that fiagpole!'"