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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-04-04
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the ball had been the most daring the
young woman had yet made. Neither
she nor Dominick had thought it pos
sible that Mrs. Ryan would leave her
out. So confident was she that she
would be affixed that she had ordered
dress for the occasion. But when
Dominick's invitation came without
her name on the envelope. then fear
that she was to be excluded rose
clamorous in her. For days she
talked and complained to her hus-
band as to the injustice of this
course and his power to secure the
invitation for her II he would. By
the evening of the ball she had
brought him to the point where he
had agreed to go forth and demand 1T.
1t was hateful mission. =, He had
never in his life done anything so hui
initiating. In his shame and distress
he had hoped that his mother would
give it to him without urging, and
Bernice, placated, would be restored
to good humor and leave him at
peace. She could not have gained
such power over him, or so bent him
to her bidding, had she not had in
him a fulcrum of guilty obligation to
work on. She continually reminded
him of ''the wrong" he had done her,
and how, through him. she had lost
the respect of her fellows and her
place among them. All these sights,
snubs and insults were his fault, and
hn fa1t haf inhf
he had gone forth in logged despera-
ton. Now in fear, frank fear of her,
he went home, slowly, with reluctant
feet, his heart getting heavier, his
dread colder as he neared the house.
1t was one Of those wooden struc-
lures on Sacramento Street not far
from Van Ness Avenue where the
well-to-do and socially-aspiring crowd
themselves into a floor of seven
rooms, and derive satisfaction from
the proximity of their distinguished
neighbors who refuse to know them.
1t contained four flats, each with
parlor bay-window and a front door,
all four doors in neighborly iuXtaposi
ton at the top of a flight to six
marble steps.
Dominick's was the top fiat; he had
to ascend a long, carpeted stairway
with a turn halfway up TO get to 1t.
Now, looking at the bay-window, he
saw lights cleaning from below the
drawn blinds. Berry was still up. A
lingering hope that she might have
gone to bed died, and his sense of re-
luctance gained in force and made
him feel slightly sick. He was there,
however, and he had to go up. Fit
ting his key into the lock he opened
the hall door,
1t was very quiet as he mounted
the long stairs, but, as he drew near
the top, he became aware of a windy.
whistling noise and looking into the
room near the stair-head saw that all
the gas-jets were lit and turned on
full cock, and that the gas, rushing
out from the burner in ragged ban
ner of flame, made the sound. He
was about to enter and lower it when
he heard his wife's voice coming from
the open door of her room
1T that you, Dominick?" she called
Her voice was steady and high.
Though it was hard, with a sort of
precise clearness of utterance, 1t was
not conSpicuouSly wrathful.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-04-04
Had to Have Pie.

A New York woman, who thinks she
knows the public taste because OF her
experience in the boarding house bust
ness and as the manager of summer
resort hotel, thinks that the statement
made by a Chicago baker that pie
has ceased to be popular with the
masses of this country is "all wrong"
ut may be true for Chicago" she said
but in this part of the world pie is
still popular. Two years ago we had
little strike in the kitchen Of our
seashore place and the pastry end was
the hardest to get right For four
days we had no pie, but furnished in
stead more expensive desserts But
we had a regular pie strike among our
guests, and pie we had to have It
wasn't like any mans mother ever
made. because it was amateur work.
but it was pie, and that's ali they
wanted"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-04-04

81 think I suffered every pain q wo-
man could before I began taking Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and
I think it saved this baby's life, Is I
lost my first one.
"My health has been very good ever
since, and I praise your medicine to all
my friends. Mrs. VERNA WILKES,
r. F. D. No. 1, Plattsburg, Miss.
The darkest days of husband and wife
are when they come to look forward to
. childless and lonely old age.
Many wife has found herself inca
pable Of motherhood owing to some
arrangement of the feminine system,
often durable by the proper remedies.
In many homes once childless there
are now children because Of the fact
that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound makes women normal.
III you want special advice write to
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi.
dentiaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read and answered by 3
woman and held in strict confidence.
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No Little Girl for Him.

The six-year-old son of wellknown
Indianapolis family attends dancing
school. He is a chubby little fellow
who has not begun to stretch out yet.
and he keenly feels his shortage"
He demands that he be recognized as
a little "grownup." Several days ago
the teacher planned to instruct her
pupils IN dancing ''the Butterfly" A
five-year-old girl who is small for her
age, and just trifie stouter than our
hero, but an adept at dancing, was
assigned as his partner. He gazed at
her in silence. Then he took hold
of her hand and, with his mouth set
firmly, walked straight over to the
teacher.
Don't you think you'd better give
me a bigger girl?" he asked.-Indian.
apolis News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-04-04

dusk made by these .mperfectly-
blending Examinations, pink silk
dressing-gown loosely enfolding her,
a lightly brushed-in suggestion Of fair
hair behind her ears and on her
shoulders. Her comb was in her hand
and Cora realized with an uplifting
thrill that she had timed her visit
correctly and was about to learn the
mysteries of Miss Cannon's coiffure.
Il brung you another lamp" she
said affably, setting her Offering down
on the bureau. One amt enough
light to dress decently by. l have
three" and she sank down on the side
of the bed with the air of having
established an intimacy, woman to
woman, by this act of generous con
sideration.
Them gentlemen" she continued,
ARE along on this hall with you and
your pa. The old ones Judge Wash.
burne, of Colusa, a pioneer that used
to know Mr.. Perley's mother way
back in Sacramento in the fifties, and
knew your pa real well when he was
poor. It's sort of encouraging to
think your pa was ever poor"
Rose laughed and turned sidewise,
looking at the speaker under the arch
of her uplifted arm. There were
hairpins in her mouth and an up
whirled end of blond hair protruded
in a cleaning scattering Of yellow
over her forehead She munbled Q
comment on her fathers early power.
ty, her lips showing red against The
hair-pins nipped between her teeth.
CTO BE CONTINUED)
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to the window, wondering at the grow
ing gloom. The wind had risen to .
wild. sweeping speed, that tore the
snow fine as mist. There were no
lazy. woolly flakes now. They had
turned into an Opaque, slanting veil
which here and there curled into
snowy mounds and in other places
left the ground bare.
Rose looked out on it with an In
terest that was a little soberer than
the debonair blitheness Of her morn
ing mood. II 1t kept up they might
be showed in for days, Perley had
said. That being the case, this room,
the hotels one parlor, would be her
retreat. her abiding place-for her
bedroom was as cold as an ice-chest
until they were liberated. With the
light. half-whimsical smile that came
so readily to her lips, she turned from
the window and surveyed it judicially.
She was leaving the window to re-
turn to her seat by the fire when the
complete silence that seemed to hold
the outside world in a spell was brok.
en- by sudden sounds. Voices, the
crack Of whip, then a grinding
thump against the hotel porch. caught
her ear and whirled her back to the
pane. A large covered vehicle. with
the whitened shapes Of smoking
team dropping before it. had just
drawn up at the steps. Two mascu.
line figures, carrying bags, emerged
from the interior, and from the driv-
er's seat a muff1ed shape-a cylinder
of wrappings which appeared to have
lively human core-gave forth much
loud and profane language. The iso.
lation and remoteness of her SUI.
roundings had already begun to af.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-04-04

And. mine host, . stove h my
bedroom, stove in my bedroom o. I
perish"
Cora giggled and threw across the
hall to Miss Cannon delighted MUIR
muir Of:
"Oh. say. amt he just the richest
thing"
You've got US trapped and Gagged
here for a spell, / guess" said the
older man. ANY one else in tho
same box?"
"Oh, you'll not want for company"
said Perley. pride at the importance
of the announcement vibrating in his
tone. We've got Willoughby here
from the Bella X. with his four set
ter dogs, and Bill Cannon and his
daughter up from the coast"
"Bill Cannon!"-the two men stared
and the younger one said:
"Bill Cannon, the Bonanza King
from San Francisco?"
That's him all right" nodded Per
ley. up here to see the diggings at
Greenhide and showed In same as
you"
Here Rose, fearing the converse
ton might turn upon herself. slipped
from the doorway into the passage
and up the stairs to her own room.
An hour later as she stood before
the glass making her toilet for sup.
per, a knock at the door ushered in
Cora, already curled, powdered and
beribboned for that occasion, small
kerosene lamp in her hand. In the
bare room, it's gloom only partly
dispelled by the light from similar
lamp on the bureau and the red
CLEAN from the stove, Miss Cannon
was revealed in the becoming half
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-04-04

"Yes," he answered, "it's l." and
he forgot the gas-jets and walked up
the hall. He did not notice that in
the other rooms he passed the gas
was turned on in the same manner.
The whistling rush Of its escape made
a noise like an excited, unresting
wind in the confined limits Of the
little fat.
The door of Berny's room was open,
and under a blaze Of light from the
chandelier and the side lights of the
bureau she was sitting in rocking
chair facing the foot of the bed. She
held in her hand a walking-stick OF
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-04-04
Doc That Writes and Draw,

A clever dog made his bow at the
Hippodrome. London, England. the
other afternoon. "Dick" can draw d
donkey's heda, make three geometril
cal figures, and write his signature
He can write equally well with both
paws, either separately or in com.
Dination; while as an arithmetician
he INDUCES in simple addition, null
tiplication, division and subtraction
with ready accuracy.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-04-04

and he made an effort to be patient
and just.
Its been a disappointment" he
said, "and I'm sorry about it. But
I've done all 1 could and there's no
use doing any more. You've got to
give it up. There's no use trying to
make my mother give in. She won't"
Wont she?" she cried, her voice
suddenly loud and shaken with rage
We'll see! Well see! Well see If
I've married into the Ryan family for
nothing"
Her wrath at last loosened, her con-
troll was instantly swept away. In q
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-04-04
The DEAREST.
baby
Mrs. Wilkes Fondest Hopes
Realized-Health, Hap
piness and Baby.

Plattsburg, Miss" Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has proved
very beneficial to me, for now am well
and have a sweet, healthy baby, and
our home is happy. {
81 was an invalid from nervous pros
tration, indigestion and female troubles.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-04-04
SYNOPSIS.

b.: Cannon, the bonanza king, and his
laughter. Rose. who had passed up Mrs.
Cornelius Ryan's BALL at San Francisco to
accompany her father. arrive at Antelope.
Dominick Ryan calls on his mother to
beg a ball invitation for his WIFE, and IS
refused. The determined old lady refuses
TO recognize her daughter-in-law. -
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-04-04
The Result.

English Friend-That gown you
have on is ripping!
American Duchess-Then / am I'M
donei
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-04-04

'T'm awfully afraid l shall fall, Mr..
Gull"
You needn't be, Miss Spooner. I'll
support YOU"
ooh! Archibald, this is so sudden"
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Looked UnseeIns Thinking
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-05-29
PAGE FIVE

his own, and looks forward to no old age
of rest, honor and comfort
He has no furlough pay, as the foreign
missionary has.
He does not live and die on the payroll,
as the foreign missionary does.
He has no Boards to borrow money from
the banks and pay his salary right jam up
to date, all the year round, as the foreign
missionary has at has back
His travelling expenses are not charged up
to the Board as those of the foreign mission
airy are charged.
When the missionaries to China come
home, they will have to knuclxle down,
side by side with our home preachers, and
go to digging money out of their cOngrega-
tons, for the support of the luxurious living
OF the missionaries to Japan, to Burma, to
Beloochistan, to Java, to Borneo, to the Phil
lppines, to India, to the Turkeys, to the Fills,
to the Zulus, to the Maoris, to the Malays, to
the Moros, to the Mexicans, the South Ameri-
cans, to the Fuegans, to the French, the
Spanish, the Italians, the Austrians, the
but / don't remember all the others, ust
now.
BY the time the hOme-come missionaries
from China have knucl1led down beside our
beloved pastor, and has helped him dig cash
and due bills out of our congregations for
the education, doctoring, tooth amending,
nursing, dressing and Outstanding of
800,OOOOOO heather, he will begin to real
ize what an awfully soft snap he enjoyed as
a pampered, stall-fed missionary to China.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-05-29
THE JEFFERSONIAN

reserved the power to alter it at any time
Let 1t be altered at once by striking out those
provisions which authorize the banks to issue
notes TO DE used as money Leave them to
legitimate banking, and to that only; let them
receive deposits, make discounts. issue
exchange and make loans
The issuing OF notes to be used as money
is not part of Legitimate banking and never
was so considered until comparatively recent
years when the international Brotherhood of
Bankers set up their fetch and educated the
politician into servile worship Of it,
Let our Government return to the Consti-
tutlonal system of money as construed by the
practice of presidents and the decisions of
the United States Supreme Court.
Our Constitutional system consists of cold
and silver, coined upon equal terms and sup
plemented by Treasury notes whenever Con
gress and the President decide that the coun-
try needs more money.
Treasury notes paid for Louisiana; Treas
urry notes were issued to carry on the war
OF 1912; Treasury notes were issued to carry
on the Civil War; Treasury notes were issued
to stop the panic of 1878; Treasury notes
ought to have been issued to stop the panics
of 1898 and 1907. England has always
checked her panics in just that way-by the
issuance of exchequer bills.
| again recommend that you make care
full study of those mastery State papers
which were prepared for Andrew Jackson by
Edward Livingstone of New York, and by
Roger fancy when the Government was bait
ling with Biddle's National Bank Jackson's
farewell address fits the Morgan money trust
as though it were cut out for it.
Hoping these suggestions may be useful to
you, and assuring you Of my readiness to
give anV further information that T nOespsc
| am,
Very truly yours,
THos. E. WATSON.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-05-29
Ought This Church to Be Taxed?

n the city of New York there is a religious
corporation known as Trinity
Its church stands at the entrance to Wall
Street
For missionary work among the heather,
no church could be better situated.
Nevertheless, the Wall Street robbers do
not mend their ways.
Instead of being converted by the church,
there is reason to fear that the money loving
spirit of these Wall Street heather, has
taken possession of Trinity church.
For example: When the commissioners
desired to open another tunnel for travel, far
beneath the foundations of the church, the
managers Of the church charged the COM
missioners $4,000 for the privilege of Dor
ing this hole In the ground.
The tunnel will not in any way interfere
with the church.
Whatever worship is conducted within it's
chilly precincts, will not be in the least dis
turbed by the trolley cars that will run
hundred feet below.
But the church had the law on their side
their title gives them the right, indefinitely,
upwards, in the air, above the surface and
indefinitely into the bowels of the EARTH
underneath the surface.
Now, the commissioners, wishing to put
another convenience for the people to travel
safely from one part of crowded New York,
to the other, were forced to buy hole in the
ground from the synagogue of our lowly
Savior
The price, $4,000 will have to be taxed
out of the people.
The church pays no tax
It's property is valued at $28OOO,OOO, and
it's taxes should be $5OO,OOO year
What do you think of that, as matter of
justice and genuine Christianity?
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-05-29
CHAMP CLARK.

Bryan and Champ Clark have broken bread
together and clasped hands in token that no teud
exists between them. But let no man believe that
the cordial good feeling of old has been restored.
The MissOurian is a Christian gentleman, but
high-strung, sensitive a woman and OF long
memory. He can forgive, but not forget. The bit
ter recollection of Baltimore and Bryans respOn-
siblity for it will be with him forever-Scott c.
Bone, Editor of The Post-Intelligencer.
Scott G. Bone is man of very extensive
knowledge pertaining to the greatest public
and their personnel. There is remarkable diff
ference in the ''press dispatch from Baltimore on
May 81 shown in the above clipping and the
editorial notice Of Bryan and Champ Clark" in
'The Post-Intelgencer' of May 9th.
Bryan is destitute of both revenge and virtue
Champ Clark is presented by reliable writer, in
a very different light. There is, evidently,
much difference between w j. Bryan and Champ
Clark there is between the American Christian
and the Christian American. w. J. Bryan did
just about the same thing to Champ Clark that
he did to Tom Watson. 1t is malicious ambi-
ton that stimulates w. j. Bryan to play the "cOn-
fdence game" with warm hearted, confding
natures like Tom Watson and Champ Clark who
would scorn to stoop to such ignobility as that
which characteristics him. They trusted. him, he
trusts nobody. 1t is a cold-blooded, wretched,
selfish, unhappy condition that goes through the
world trusting nobody. 1t is good thing for
w. J. Bryan that he touches stimulating bever-
ages for If he did, he, with his active brain, and
his dead heart, would be monster, like his savage
peers, the cunning, blood thirsty Indians
The cleareyed veteran who edits The Pat
riarch is never deceived by the glitter with
which certain public men of the cheaper sort
surround themselves.
Bryan's halo is carefully cultivated his
press agent is always with us, his inexhaust-
ible stream of superficial speech flows like
Tennyson's brook, his abnormal selfshness
cloaks itself with the mechanical smile of
William Howard Taft, his face is constantly
kept in all the newspapers, he works the
religious racket until it fairly creaks, and
his Pecksniffan note of superhuman virtue,
like his grape juice beverage, is enough to
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-05-29
The Conversion OF China !!
Glorious NeWS!! The Mis-
SiOnarieS TO the Chinese
Can Now Come
HOme!!!


Conventions of our Protestant churches, we
have about captured China for Christ.
Thank the Lord
1t required hundred years of hard work,
at the cost of prodigious sum of money;
but the victory is ours. China has officially
asked for our prayers, and we now consider
that what few Confucianists are left in
China can hastily migrate to the tall timber.
of course, it will 90 somewhat hard on
our missionaries to give up the fine houses
and the luxurious living to which they
became accustomed while converting China,
but [ am sure that these devoted brethren
and sisters will sacrifice themselves as readily
to get back home, as they did to get away.
If they were not SO fond of self-sacrifce,
they might complain at giving up the soft
snaps they en- Joy In China-the houseful of
servants, the elegant hoAes, the carriages
and horses, the summer vacation in the noun
tains, the regular salary of 81 500 year, and
the bounty of 800 head for raising little
missionaries.
When they come back home, they will
sadly miss the fine house, the cheap servants,
the cheap living, and the bounty of $500
year on each child which kind Providence
sends to gladden. their homes
But the foreign missionaries will surren-
der all these things without a murmur
They will cheerfully come back home and
take pot-luck with our home preachers. They
will work for the same small salaries our
home preachers get.
They will move about, from place to place,
year in and year out, just as our home
preachers do.
They will at first feel the loss of that
luxurious, permanent home and permanent
job which they so much enjoyed while con-
verting China; but they will get used to the
loss, and will praise the Lord, just the same.
At first, they will miss the 800 year
allowance for little Johnnie, and $500 year
for little Jimmie and 800 year for dear
little Mary, and $500 a year for dear little
Sophronia Jane. Yes, they will miss the
bounty on child getting, for awhile. But
they will reconcile themselves to the loss of
revenue; and when the new baby comes, on
this side of the Big Water, they may posi-.
bly, regret that there is no Board to pay a
bounty for the baby but they bless the Lord
for the baby, just the same.
Then too, it will be right hard at first for
the missionary to see his dear wife and old
est daughter buckle down to the drudgery
of housekeeping: There will be no Board
to allow him a sufficient salary to keep "at
least three household servants" as dear
Doctor t. w. Ayers told us the missionary
must keep in China. No.
The poor little salaries paid to our preach
ers in this country do not warrant sumptu-
Gus homes, fine raiment, fine equipages,
steam launches, house boats, mountain homes,
and servants a plenty, as the missionaries
have in China.
But while at first the home coming mis-
sionary will keenly miss the good old times
he en- Dyed in China, he will soon get down
to brass tacEs, and reconcile himself to live
in this Rome as his brother Romans do.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-05-29
Champ CIark---W. j. Bryan and
One Other.

FROM The Patyiaych, of Seattle, Washing
mgton, the following editorial is taken :
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-03
The Cost Of the Canal

New York Tribune: 1t is announced
De Lesseps reckoned in 1879 that
a tide level canal 28 feet deep would
cost only S114,0OO,OOO and could be
built in seven or eight years, including
a ship tunnel through the mountains
which were supposed to exist; but in
1887 his estimate was 1851 100000
and twenty years for a fifteen-foot
lock canal. BY the end of 1883 the
work was scarcely two-ffths done
and nearly $4,000, 100000 had been
spent, wasted and stolen. The new
technical committee after the debacle
estimated that the canal could be fin
ished in ten years for $10O,000,O00.
American estimates have also
varied. The third canal commission
in 1900 thought that canal could be
built for $142,342, ,579-admirable ex-
actitude!-apart from the cost of Sc
curing the land, which would be so
great as to be prohibitive. The
Spooner bill, under which the canal
is now being constructed, appropriat-