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A RunaIer.

Miss Jaggers Dangling for COM
pliment)-They say plain girls are al
ways religious. Now, I'm not at all
religious.
Mr.. Fortnit (gallantly)-Yes, but
there are exceptions to all rules, you
know.-Puck.
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to quit work, ana
doctors failed to do
me any good. / kept
getting worse all the
time, and it at last
turned to infiamma-
ton OF the Bladder,
and I had given up
all hope, when one
day I received your
little booklet adver-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-05
This Will Interest Mothers.

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children
relieve Feverishness, Headache, Bad Stomach,
Teething Disorders, move and regulate the
Bowels and destroy worms. They break up
Colds In "a hours. They SO pleasant to take
children like them. Used by mothers for ~
years. All Druggists, 25c. Sample FREE. Ao-
iress, A. S. Olmsted, lie Roy, N. Y. Adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-05
Lioht Talker.

What sort of conversationalist is
Whipple?"
"He ought to preface every one of
his remarks with, 'Apropos of nothing
In particular
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-05
Daily Thoucht.

Never bear more than one kind of
trouble at time. Some people bear
three-all they have now. all they
ever had. and all they ever expect to
have.
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SUFFERED FOR IS YEARS.

Mr.. r. nj. Fleenor, r. F. D. 80, Otter.
bein, Ind, writes: 81 had been suffer
er from kidney Trouble for about 20
years. I finally got so bad that l had
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-05
Cruel.

"You needn't speak to me for
MONTH" she said Jelly.
"Then you expect to be through
talking by that timer" he asked.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-05
Followed the CoIors.

And suppose, like brave soldier,
you followed your colors." YES;
whenever there was a battle, noticed
that the colors were flying, so l fed,
too"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-05

1.-THE only way to elevate the stage
were to raise the price of admission,
we should despair of the drama.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-05

A girl can't throw a stone, but that
ts no reason why she shouldn't have
an aim in life.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-05

Deans Mentholated Cough Drops work
wonders in overcoming serious coughs
and throat irritations-5c at Druggists.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-05

milk even if they don't like milk IN
any form.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-05

Putnam Fadeless Dyes color more
goods than others. Adv.
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Colorado has eight women city
treasurers.
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23

| last week i set down and had good
long dispute with myself. You can't
go back to the business says l. Rosa
lie LIE Grange, you've got jest what
you've always wanted, an yet you
amt happy. What you need is a COM
PROMISE said i. An next morning it
come to me. Maybe the spirits sent
it. You can laugh, Inspector MCGEE,
but there's something in this spirit
thing. / used to think there was, an
then again I'd think there wasn't
even in my own clairvoyance.
well, anyhow. 1t came to me like a
fiash--boarders! / could run my
house just the way I wanted, because
l needn't look out for profits. An
could take jest who ! wanted and shut
out whoever l didn't want. The
thought chirked me lot. So I fixed
all the bedrooms up sensible with good
white and gold beds and adult size
towels an gave them all little fixy
touches that made them homelike.
"An' / was jest ready to begin TO
look around an advertise when--this
happened. The idea struck me as
soon as l saw the state of the people
in that house. The police would put
1t under guard, an the boarders would
be out of a home. So / moved 'em
over bodily, all but the one you
pinched-the sick little dago woman
from upstairs. an the two girls, and
that funny old Professor Noll. An I'm
even putting up with the landlady-if
it was other peoples troubles I was
lookin' for. got 'em all right"
"Gee!" calculated Martin McGee. 81
can use you"
Eyes, you can," interrupted Rosalie.
'but you won't / know what you
want You want me to go to work an
help cinch this case. Well, won't.
I'm here for, Martin McGee-beyond
the pleasure I always took in your
society"-here Rosalie let her dimples
play and fiash-'is to tell all I know
or saw, SOS you won't be calm me
at the inquest an gettin' me fea-
ture in the papers"
How about this man North?" asked
the Inspector.
well, in the first place, like him."
said Rosalie; II like that boy. Looks
like an alibi for him when the land
lady says he come up the stairs only
a minute before he hollered, an the
doctor says that this Hanska had been
dead two or three hours. Appeared to
me like he was jest Jared out of a
drunk, too. How about this Lawrence
Wade or whatever his name was-the
man who called with the bag? Got
him?"
"He was arrested this morning in
Boston,
"Skippin'? Looks bad. But now,
Inspector, just to close things up, I'm
out of this case. I've given you all l
know. Your police will be botherin'
my boarders lot with questions: an
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23
BACKACHE- RHEUMATISM
QUICKLY VANlSHES
Even Most Chronic Sufferers Find
Relief From Few Doses
of CrCXOne.

Croxone soon relieves such condt-
tions because it reaches the very
roots of the disease. 1t soaks right
into the stopped-up, inactive kidneys,
through the walls and Innings: cleans
out the little filtering cells and glands:
neutralizes and dissolves the poison
GUS uric acid substances that lodge In
the joints and muscles to scratch and
irritate and cause rheumatism: heals
the inflamed membranes of the blad-
der, and cleans out and strengthens
the stopped-up, lifeless kidneys SO
they can filter and sift all the poisons
from the blood, and drive it out of
the system.
So sure, so positive, so quick and
lasting, are the results obtained from
the use of CroXone, that three doses a
day for few days are often all that
is required to end the worst backache.
regulate the most annoying bladder
disorders, and overcome the numerous
other similar conditions.
Croxone is so prepared that it is
practically impossible to take it with
out results.
An original package costs but tr1-
fle, and all druggists are authorized to
return the purchase price if Croxone
fails to give desired results, regard
less of how old you are, how long
you have suffered, or what else has
failed.-Adv.
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23
Safest Place for Jewels.

A few years ago one often heard
that women who possessed jewels Of
value were becoming afraid" to wear
them owing to the risks which ac-
companied displaying their property
in public 1t became the custom to
seek some place of security where the
more precious possessions could be
deposited. Jewels were banked" or
committed to the protection of safes
and strong rooms. But gradually the
sense of security has in some degree
departed. The modern woman has no
capacity for matching the resourceful
ingenuity Of the modern thief. The
most astounding cases Of jewel rob-
berry show that no precaution is be-
yond being intelligently anticipated.
After all, it is not surprising that those
who possess jewels of value are begin
ming to realize again that their safest
place is that for which they were in
tended and are wearing them more
than ever
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23
GRAFT WORKED BY CASHIERS
New Workers Said to Be victimized
Out Of Large Sums Annually
in That Way.

"One form Nf honest graft a hotel
keeper has to fight the hardest in the
town Is accidental short changing,
says the manager of very popular
hotel In New York city, famous for Its
oyster bar. "The same sort OF honest
graft obtains at almost every cash
changing place in the city where there
Is netting on the cashiers desk to
protect the cash, and lower bar Of
wood to hold up the netting or glass
screen. This bar of wood or metal runs
across the hand-hole for change. The
cashiers have figured out the angle OF
vision Of all men. short and tall, and
the distance they stand from the desk
to seceive their change. Say q dollar
is changed to take out 80 cents: the 'ac-
c'dental short-change artist will push
forward the 70 cents In coin. but his
hand will hold one dime that Is hidden
from the angle of vision Of the man
getting change by the line Of the bar
over the cash hand hole@ II the man
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23
STEAL HOUSE; LEAVE LOT
Thieves Move Building While Owner
Is Away and Detectives Find
1t After Search.

San Francisco.-Mrs. A. M. Gal
lagher purchased house and lot in
Fifth avenue, Elmhurst, across the
bay, three years ago. paid taxes on 1t
and rented the place some time later.
She left the city, and upon her return
boarded trolley car to inspect her
property. She found the lot intact, but
the house was gone. After searching
in the vicinity short time the excited
woman visited the police and detect
ives were assigned to the case.
Several houses narrowly escaped al
rest, but the owners were able to
prove property in each case. Finally
Mrs. Gallagher was able t. identify
her house, which was located upon a
piece of property several blocks away
from its original location. The family
living in it told the police they had
purchased the house and lot.
Pending a settlement of the muddle
the police do not know whether to
charge the guilty persons If caught
with grand larceny or file complaint
for violation of an ordinance which
forbids house-moving without Dermis-
sion of the city council
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23
CHAPTER Il.
The Chief.

Inspector Martin McGee. the middle
aged solid executive of the New York
detectives, sat in his businessiike Of
fee running over the reports on the
Hanska murder. now less than a cal
endar day old but already the subject
of those innumerable extras which the
Eewsboys were shouting under his
windows. Nothing in the formal doc
uments before him served to give him
any new light. Lawrence Wade-that
looked like the man. Wade was miss
ing from the Curfew Club when the
police arrived; however. through the
good memories of a taxicab driver and
a ticket seller, he had been traced to
Boston and there arrested in the very
act Of engaging European passage.
The formal documents In the Han
ska case interested Inspector McGee
less. a great deal less, than an infor-
By the sergeant in command of the
reserves.
1--WE didn't know nothing about her.
Chief" he said, except that she had
an order from you telling us to keep
our hooks off her. Forgot the name
something French with q LIE behind
It, 1t was all right, wasn't it?"
Inspector McGee understood at
once; and the information brought a
little thrill. He had given only two
such papers in his career; and the
other was held by a man. So Rosalie
lie Grange had bobbed up again-Rosa-
lie lie Grange. trance. test and clair
voyant medium. follower of a small
half-criminal trade but friend of So
ciety against larger criminals. How
curiously that woman had glanced In
aud out of his life. and what luck she
had brought!
AS he bent over his desk in unac-
customed meditation. the doorman
brought a card-"Mme. Rosalie LIE
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23

She was talking "fine," Inspector
McGee reflected. Having got her
started, his best course was to mollify
her until she began to run down.
That's always best" he said.
Quite simply Mrs Hanska began
her talk
Il married Captain Hanska ten
years ago-when l was nineteen. He
was nearly thirty-five then, although
he said that he was younger; and he
! had just come back from Alaska He
said that he got his title In the Bo-
livian army. have since had reason
to doubt that. He was an engineer
by profession. l realize now how little
mother and I knew about him. But
he was the kind of person who carried
everything before him-you deferred
to him in those days in spite of your
better judgment. And my mother was
very trusting. Then. too, Captain
Hanska was a very charming man.
Afterward l found out how he lived
That, for me, was the beginning Of
the end. He was a brilliant man. He
might have made good living in any
| one Of a variety of ways. But he
simply would not work. He preferred
to live by his wits. Cards mainly. 1t
was long before l realized that. He
| was very clever at concealment, and it
never occurred to me to doubt his
word. In fact, l did not realize it all
until after our marriage. We were in
New York" she hesitated again.
Shall tell you the details?'
And now Rosalie Le Grange, who
had been sitting in unaccustomed ST.
lence, spoke for the first time.
You'll excuse me, Inspector" she
said with an asperity so well assumed
that Martin McGee wondered for a
moment whether she was really offend
ed, "but Mrs. Hanska don't seem to
know her rights. She hasn't seen any
lawyer. A person don't knock around
this world for forty years without
gettin' a line on what her rights are.
I've learned. An I'm goin' to be your
lawyer here, Mrs Hanska. Now as
long as you tell the truth, which of
course you will, 1t don't matter about
details. What the Inspector is after
is who done this murder, an anythin'
touchin' on the facts. 1t don't matter
how you learned it, but you did learn
that Captain Hanska was a crook"
Mrs. Hanska WINGED visibly at the
ugly word which finished Rosalie's
charge. But she managed nod of as
sent.
Thank you, Mrs. LIE Grange. Yes.
I learned that he was a-not entirely
honorable In time l realized that he
was using me as a lure for his opera
tions in cards-and other things. We
were on our way around the world.
Wherever we went, he made me en-
tertain men that they might play cards
afterward-and be swindled. The end
came at Shanghai stopped here
and made little effort before she
went Ont was a young Australian
foolish. and with a great deal of
money Shall I go into that?" she
paused here, and her gaze Travelled
with another appeal to the face OF
Rosalie LIE Grange.
"Now, Inspector" said Rosalie. Il
don't see why this lady has to tell all
that. It's enough that the game was
crooked. You left him, of course"
TO BE CONTINUED)
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HAD ADVERTISED THEIR DADS
Strange to Say, Fathers Were by No
Means Pleased With the Young
sters' Work.

Two youthful suburban aspirants
who belonged to families where little
brothers and sisters had been donated
by the family physician. decided to en-
ter little side line Of business one
afternoon.
One Of the youths was the son of q
wellknown doctor while the other was
the son of prominent tailor.
The two lads were very chummy,
and this afternoon they decided to
launch upon little advertising expe-
dition. A paint brush was the means
devised to accomplish the advertising
and the lettering was quickly but
plainly traced over any smooth sur
face of wood or stone encountered on
the way.
After Office hours In the evening the
doctor was having his customary chat
with his son and during the time he
asked: "And what have you been do
ing today, William?"
Advertising" he announced
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23
Ewes Costume for Women.

The Sandwich Island costume for
street wear for women in Chicago is
advocated by Alexander A. McCor-
mick, president Of the county board,
who believes that the entire aboli-
ton of clothes would greatly better
the morals of the community. "Imag.
ination and curiosity" he says, "ac-
count for much vicious thought.
Clothes are designed to excite the
imagination, rather than to subdue It.
If clothes were abolished there would
be no such stimulus to the imagina-
ton. Morals could not be much
worse, SO almost anything In the way
of dress changes would have to work
an improvement Muddy street cross
ings and bathing beaches are exciters
of the Imagination. Much better than
the gaping crowds would be absolute
nudity everywhere"
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23
Fair Alqeriennes.

In Algiers, and indeed in all Mo
hammedan cities. says the National
Magazine, the High Society" ladies Of
the harem never go outside the harem
walls, save veiled in closed carriages.
and attended by trusty servants. 1t Is
the middle class and the serving peo-
pie one meets on the streets, and In
the shops and cemeteries.
The Mohammedan men are intense
ly jealous and suspicious of women.
Keeping them in utter ignorance. as
they do, they know that the women
have no guiding principles to save
them from being foolish and indis-
Greet; and the men know. too, that
their women are governed by their ap-
petites. vanities and passions. and so
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23
REAL GRIZZLY BEAR DANCE
Zoo Animal Keeper Objected to "Liz.
zie's" Embrace and Gets StrangIe
Hold From "Tom."

New York.-Lizzie wanted 10 do the
grizzly bear dance with Joe Cunning
ham. The latter is respectable man
who enjoys only square dances. So
when Joe gave Lizzie jolt under the
chin and told her to keep still, Lizzie
came back at him. Tom, her mate, a
heavyweight, got a strangle hold on
Cunningham and before friends res
cued him he was badly shaken up.
All this happened in the bear cage
at Central park, where Tom and Liz
zie have been living for eight years.
Bill Snyder, head keeper of the Cen
trail park menagerie, was out. Joe
Cunningham, who had never been for
mally introduced to Lizzie and Tom.
went in to straighten up their cage.
He was no sooner inside the cage
than Lizzie tried to embrace him. Cum
ningham is married and he objected.
But Lizzie was obdurate.
"She wants to do the grizzly bear
with you," said visitor, who was on
the outside looking in.
"I'm not working in cabaret show"
said Cunningham. Hardly had he
spoken when Lizzie, with twinkle in
her eye, folded him in a vigorous en-
brace. --'hen the fun began.
Cunningham succeeded In shaking
Lizzie off, when Tom interfered. Both
the bears attacked him furiously, and
Joe had to climb up the side Of the
cage for protection. Lizzie was on her
way up after him when Robert Hurton
and other keepers came to his aid with
the proper mode of punishment for un-
ruly bears, and Cunningham was res
cued
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23
CHAPTER I-ContInued.

While Rosalie LIE Grange was pre-
pairing to move the invalid on the top
door. the police and the Coroner
Strengthened out affairs little. There
vas much man In Tommy North. II
be had played the craven in the first
rush of his gruesome discovery. 1t was
because he had wakened to that state
of tense depression which comes with
the sudden departure OF drunkenness.
He became defiant now: whereupon
the police began to bully. While they
were trying to make Mrs. Moore ad-
nit that she had not seen Tommy
North come up the stairs. a detective
sergeant put a sneering question to
her
Well. who else could have done it?
VINO else has been here?"
And the thrush Of memory brought
, little shrek from Mrs. Moore.
Mr.. Wade-the gentleman who
called tonight" she cried. All at
once her suspicious left the branded
Dir. North. Mr.. Wade had come late
Ia the eyening-and that. In the doc
tors opinion. was just about the time
when Captain Hanska must have died.
Mr.. Wade had called two or three
times before, always at night. Trem-
bling, she found his card. Lawrence
Wade. Curfew Club" In the plated
tray at the hall door. Suddenly Miss
Harding. who had been refusing all
light On the events of the evening,
gave a little shrek.
Why. they were quarreling when /
went" she cried. Then she stopped,
as though fearful Of her own words.
The police turned on her. In a tumble
OF words and emotions. she told what
She knew. Mr.. Wade's late call, the
high words, the fact that none had
heard a sound from Captain Hanska's
room after Wade left the house-that
was enough for the Coroner and the
detectives. They packed Tommy
North-sober, pale, but now thorough
ty collected-into the patrol wagon,
sent the hue and cry to the Curfew
Club after Mr.. Wade. put the house
under guard, and called their days
work done.
And the rest of the Moore establish
ment. having first recei yed dreadful
warning concerning the fate of alb
sconding witnesses, finished that un-
easy night under the ministrations of
ROsalie LIE Grange at 442.
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23
KEPT HIS HAT ON
while IN CHURCH
Everybody in the Congregation
Became Nervous When They
Observed the Wearer.

Put-In-Bay, O.-Members of one Of
the churches on South Bass island
did not say why they failed to speak
more emphatically to John Doe Smith,
sixty-five, when he, wore his hat dur
ing divine service the other Sunday
evening Perhaps it was because, a
week before, he rowed over to Middle
Bass in the teeth of a gale and threw
couple of trespassers off his land
They gave no reason. And his name
really isn't John Doe Smith.
But everybody in the congregation
became nervous upon entering the
church to observe Mr. Smith, his
derby hat on his head, sitting on
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23
Rather Unique. at Least.

Among seven noted men who were
to speak at the opening exercises of
a new school was q professor well
known for his lapses Of memory. But
his speech was clear that night snd
as he seated himself his loving wife
felt that he had fully earned the burst
of applause that followed. and she
clapped her little hands enthusiastical.
ly. Then her cheeks crimsoned. did
you see anything amusing about the
close Of my address, my dear?" asked
the professor az they started for home
'It seemed as II / heard sounds sug
gestive Of merriment about me"
We'll, DEAR" said she, "of all the peo
pie who applauded your address. you
ciapped the loudest and longest
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23

splint-bottom chair, tilted back against
the wall near the last row of pews on
the left of the entrance
1t is no more customary on South
Bass Island than anywhere else for
gentlemen to wear their hats in
church.
Pious members of the congregation
breathed sigh of relief when, at the
start of prayer. Mr.. Smith reached up
for his hat But after scratching his
partially bald pate he replaced it.
He was seen to take something out
of his pocket. pull the cork and take
a swig at it.
That swig was too much. One of
the deacons went to Mr.. Smith and
asked him why he kept his hat on in
church.
Its nobodys business" answered
Mr.. Smith. IF l want to wear hat
in church, it's nobody's business but
mine"
Then he went out. Since then he
has been busy trying to convince the
sisters and the brethren that he has
not committed the objectionable in
discretion of sampling the chief prod
uct manufactured on the Bass islands.