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The Ely miner., 1915-11-12

1--WE lay there for five months,
and new set of sails was sent
down to us from the states.
Dodging a Waterspout.
Our course was then made to st.
Lucia, on the sailing route to Bar
bados. AS we were sailing in the
outside harbor a waterspout suddenly
appeared off our bow, and we sported
for several minutes trying to dodge
1t. A schooner of twice our tonnage,
which we had passed during the
night, lost all her headsails in blow
which followed, but we managed to
hold.
1--WE docked at Barbados, and got
in some Christmas nuts and raisins,
then cleared for Tobago, from which
the name tobacco comes. We spent
Christmas in Scarborough We had
a bamboo tree for Christmas tree.
From Dominica we continued to
Guadalupe, and anchored one moon.
light night off the shore, about two
miles from Point Pitre. The next
morning we sailed into the harbor,
and as we were entering we noticed a
signal at the customs Office. 1t con-
sisted of black ball over an Ameri-
can flag upside down, and, though we
couldn't find any meaning in inter
national code, we knew it was a
warning to keep away. We kept on
ashore, however, and the harbor mas
ter Immediately came out, with a
number of army officers, to make
things look powerful. They demand
ed our passports. But we had left
the United States before the war,
and had thought nothing of getting
passports. l had a letter to the Brit
ish consul, which they took. They
sailed without it for Antigua.
Thence to Barbuda we went, an
island recently taken over by the
British government. 1t was stocked
by the Coddington family of Eng
land about two centuries ago with
wild deer, and the deer abound there
now. Four hundred natives still live
in walled town under a sort of feud-
al system, and the island is governed
by two white men, an overseer and
his assistant. About $50 wrecks are
scattered along it's shores"
From Barbuda the Diablesse sailed
to ST. Kits and Nevis, then to st.
Eustatius again, and from there home,
without further remarkable incident.
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
KEEP GLASS OFF ROADWAYS
German School Children Aid Govern
ment in Prevention of Mishaps
to Automobiles.

fhe acknowledged scarcity of rub
ber products in Germany at the pres
ent time has resulted in new order
of the German government, issued
through the medium of it's school
teachers. Every teacher has been in
s,iucted to tell his pupils to look care
fully over the roadways which they
have to pass. and to pick up every bit
of broken glass, or sharp pieces of
metal, which might be injurious to
automobiles. The Importance of the
automobile in the war operations has
been put before the school children
in 50 graphic manner that they are
enthusiastic over the prospect of be-
ing able to help its efficiency. Gre n
ups who are seen to drop glass or bot
ties upon the highways are subjected
to severe reprimand on the first &C.
casion and to a fine on the second.
Motorists who in former years have
been suffering from the broken glass
and sharp tacks on roads and streets
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12

the hull upon the bottom face of the
block, as indicated by dotted lines in
Fig. 3; also draw line around the
sides and bow and stern, one inch be-
low the top (see dotted Hne); and
pare down the sides from the dotted
line to the line of the hull bottom, to
make them Of the form shown in Fig.
I. Be careful in marking out the
hull, to get the sides exactly the
same; and use an equal amount of
care in cutting. With the outside cut
ting, scoop out one-half the length
Of the hull, for cockpit Gig. 81.
The gunwale strips A and B Gigs.
) and g. are Tapped over and tackled
70 the upper edges of the hull. Cut
hem out of thin wood Curve the top
edge of strips A, as shown in Fig. 6.
Cross strips c and D, and the corner
blocks E and F Gig. 81, are provided
to brace the gUnwales.
Finish the Dow of the hull with
strip G Gig. y, and the stern with
strip H. The double-pointed tack in
is provided for the attachment of
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12

enough to run up to peak at the cen
ter. By screwing screw eye into. the
tops of uprights B, and one into the
under side of poles c Gigs. and g.,
the poles can be joined by tying to.
gether the screw eyes with cord
Screw a screw eye into the upper end
of poles c to tie the cord to for sus.
pending the poles from the ceiling.
Crepe tissue paper in different col
ors is the best covering material for
the booth framework. Figure l sug
gests how strips of the paper may be
wound around the corner uprights and
canopy poles, how latticework
frieze of twisted ropes of crepe pa.
per may be extended around the sides
at the top, and how ribbons of crepe
paper may be used to inclose the
canopy framework. Pretty home
made cardboard lanterns hung from
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
The Picnic Pie.

A reader wrote to the Arkensas
City Traveller. asking what a young
man should do when he sat on a GUS
tard pie at picnic. The editor ad-
vised him to remain there until the
others went home. However, there
are those who disagree with the Trav-
eler editors advice. There are those
even who advise throwing the remains
of the pie into tie lap of the woman
who brought it along. Anyone who
takes custard pie on a picnic de.
serves whatever may happen to her.
Custard pie IS, or should be. strictly
ali indoor enterprise. No pie without
substantial top crust should be a.
lowed on a picnic.
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
DIDN'T IMPRESS HIM MUCH
But Listener Was Ready to Admit
That He Heard the Sermon
Under Difficulties.

A new minister in rural district
who wished to make the acquaintance
of the members of his congregation,
and also to discover whether they
were pleased with his discourses, met
an old farmer whose face he recog-
nized as one who had attended the
church the previous Sunday, and, stop
ping him, said:
"Mr. Brown, how did you like my
sermon last Sunday"
We'll, parson," replied the old man,
you see, / didn't have fair chance
to Judge. Right in front of me was
old Miss Smith and the rest of that
gang with their mouths wide open just
a swallerin' down all the best of your
sermon; n what reached me, parson,
was purity poor stuff, purity poor stuff" +"
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
Gave the Child to Mother.

The supreme court of New Mexico
in Focks VS.. Munger heard habeas cor,
pus proceedings instituted by mother
to recover her child from the foster
motrer. 1t appeared that the child
was stolen from the mother when two
or three years old and placed in Gus
tody of the foster mother, who, how.
ever, was without knowledge of the
theft of the child or the whereabouts
of the mother and that the foster
mother had given the child tender
care. The court held that on the evi.
dence that the mother was worthy
person who was able to care for the
child she was entitled to the custody
since she had spent all the money she
could spare in ceaseless search. The
court held:
I'm this case the burden was upon
the appellee to show that the natural
mother, because of some vice or some
other lawful reason, was not the
proper person to have the care and
custody of her child. This she failed
to do
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12

canopy are nailed to these boxes (B,
Fig. 81.
The distance apart to place the box
supports will be determined, of course.
by the size that you want to make the
booth. Seven feet square, outside
measurement, is a good size. The coun.
ter boards should be twelve inches
wide, and long enough to make a
continuous counter extending from
corner to corner. This is not shown
in Fig. 2, but it is indicated in the
plan diagram of Fig. 8.
The canopy framework is made OF
four poles &C, Fig. p. The lower
ends of these are secured to the tops
of uprights ;, and the upper ends
are suspended from a screw eye
screwed into the ceiling directly over
the tops of the booth. These poles
must project six inches or so over
the tops of uprights B, and be long
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12

he foresail Make the rudder as shown
st l Gig 81. with tiller stick g.,
Fig 81 tackled to it's top. Drive a
couple of brads into the long edge of
the rudder, and bend them over for
hooks to fit in a pair of small screw
eyes driven into stern strip H Gig. D.
Figs. 9 to IL show the mast, gaff,
boom and bowsprit. Bind loop Of
wire to one end of both the boom and
the gaff, to slip loosely over the mast,
as shown. Drive a double-pointed
tack into the bowsprit near one end,
and slip the other end through a hole
in one of the Gunwales. Set the mast
In a hole bored in the hull, and brace
1t on each side with stays tied to it
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
First Seal of the United States.

The first great seal of the United
States was cut for Uncle Sam in 1882
and the first document to bear it's i'm
print is dated September, 1882. 1t is
a parchment commission granting
General Washington full power to ar
range with the British for an exchange
of prisoners of war. The document is
signed by John Hancock, president of
congress, and countersigned by
Charles Thomas, secretary. The seal
was impressed upon the parchment
over a white wafer festooned with red
in the upper left hand corner.-From
the Magazine Of American History.
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
A GIRLS HANDIcRAFT BOOTH
FOR A FAIR.

Here is a plan for handicraft booth
which class of girls can make one
of the most attractive and best-patron.
lied features of the church fair. Your
own handicraft can be placed on sale,
and you can build the booth itself, by
following the plan / have worked out
in Fig. l.
Fig. shows how the booth is con.
structed. You will need a grocery
box about thirty inches long, fourteen
inches wide and ten inches deep for
the corner supports. These boxes
must be mounted on legs CA, Figs. 4
and 81, made of pieces two inches
thick, four inches wide and twenty-six
inches long. The supports for the
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12

HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
A. NEELY HALL and DOROTHY PERKINS
Observation-Disclosures
A TOY SAILBOAT.
Copyright. by A. Nicely Hall)

In Fig. I have shown sailboat
with broad hull of satisfactory de-
sign that is easy to prepare. A solid
block of wood of the dimensions shown
in Fig. is required for the hull. First
mark out the curve of the deck, as
indicated by dotted lines Gig. p,
upon both top and bottom faces, then
cut to these lines Gig. 81. Next,
mark off the shape of the bottom Of
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
Underwear for Father.

"No, that amt loud enough. want
the loudest underwear ever made"
What for, no one ever sees it."
Il want it so loud that I'll be able
to find it mornings when it's got my
wife's and all the children's clothes
piled on top of it."
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
Suspicious,

1.-THE cook is leaving tomorrow,
john"
What's the matter? Don't we pay
her enough?"
"She says it's very strange that
every time she has an afternoon off
our automobile is in the repair shop.
She thinks we do it on purpose"
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
Prophetic,

It's good play, Bill" said the man
ager, who had just finished reading
Shakespeares new play of Hamlet"
but it's too gloomy. Can't you put d
little more comedy in it?'
That" replied the author, will
be furnished by the actors who at.
tempt to interpret the stellar role"
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
and to double-pointed tacks driven in
to the gunwale edges.


Have mother make you a mainsail,
foresail, and jibsail, of the pro-
portions shown in Fig. 1, with each
edge hemmed Four fancy-work rings
should be sewed to the mainsail for
mast hoops. and the top and bottom
should be lashed to the boom and gaff
with thread
Figs. 9 and 10 show the halyards
for raising and lowering the sails. Use
beads for blocks Gig. 13). There
should be six of these blocks (see K,
Figs. and 10). The wire bars L,
NJ and N Gig. 81 are provided for
tying the halyard ends to.
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
Scares EN-.

How did you get rid of that life
insurance agent so quickly?"
"Oh, I'm always prepared for those
fellows. l keep large bottle of cod
liver oil in plain sight on my desk,
and when an agent calls / greet him
with hollow cough"
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
One General Mistake.

We try too much to surpass others.
r We seek ever to surpass ourselves
we are moving on a uniform line OF
progress, that gives harmonious Uni.
flying to our growth in all its parts.
The true competition is the competi
tion of the individual with himself -
Jordan.
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
Why Harsh Words Hurt.

Most people seem to feel hard words
more than hard deeds. and are more
upset by insults than by actual in
juries. What we do to an enemy in
war is done from necessity, but the
evil we say of him seems to arise
from an excess of spite.-Plutarch.
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
A 1iuht Squeeze,

New shoes, eh? Pretty nifty.
They must have cost you at least
ten dollars. Do they pinch your
feet?"
mo, but they pinched my weeks
salary"
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
Correct.

What is one of the characteristics
of the Indian race" asked an instruc-
tor in the city college.
"They play football to beat the
band" replied former De Witt Clin-
ton boy.
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
Under the 0iInInth

Oilcloth when use1 to cover tables
will last much longer if the tables
first be covered with paper. well
rubbed with machine oil to keep the
under side of the oilcloth moist.
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
At the Reception,

'Who is that attractive LADY,"
MY late WIFE"
Il didn't know you were divorced"
I'm not; but Just look at the
clock!"-Judge.
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
Their Only Chance.

1.-The Browns are going to celebrate
their silver wedding next week."
why, they've only been married
five years."
"Yes, but they want to have 1t over
with before they get their divorce"
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12

declare that the order has cleaned
the roads as if by magic, and THAT
punctures or blowouts are q rare oc
casion at present.-Scientific Ameri
can.
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
Looked on Him as "Piker. /"

mo, don't speak to him." seid the
convicted banknote counterfeiter.
He's hardly in our set He's in here
for making bogus nickels."
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12

Many good man who condemns a
sinner secretly envies him
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
Enormous EIephant rusks

The tusks of the African elephan
sometimes weigh as much as 1a9
pounds each. and reach a length of
eight or nine feet.
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
No Choice.

Jim-John, why is it that all you fat
fellows are so good natured?
John-We have to be good natured
You see, we can't either fight or run.
Type Tattle.
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
Not Grav Hairs but Tired Eyes

make US look oldel than We are. Keep your
Eyes young and you will look young After
the Movies always Murine Your Eyes
Don't tell your age.
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12

the ends of the canopy poles wiz sdu
a finishing touch to the roof
Tack heavy wrapping paper to the
counter boards. and then cover this
with cheesecloth of color to har.
monize with the tissue-paper trim
mings. A pretty effect will be OBJ
tanned by plating this as indicated in
Fig. 1. One side of the valance mus
be made to part, to provide an en-.
trance into the booth.
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
What Did She Mean?

He-I am going to kiss you when
go.
She-LeaYe this house at once sir,
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Mot Co Easv

Not So Easy.
"My doctor tells me ! ought to Cd
South for the winter"
"Well, why don't you go?"
"He doesn't tell me how to raise the
money"
The Ely miner., 1915-11-12

A BOUT ten years ago James
n Gordon Bennett made trip
in his steam yacht through
~ the West Indies, and when he
raanhad q Guavra he nahlpn
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-10
MACS" AND "JAsAcKs"

Washington, Nov. 10.-During the
month of September horses were ex-
ported from the United States to the
value of $8,032, 467 and mules to the
value of $1,996,195. A new export
was added - seeds = the value of
$148,414. Usually the United States
is a buyer of seeds from foreign
markets.
The total exports for September
were $3O0,OOO,OOO, as compared with
$156, 100000 for September, 1914.
The total exports for the nine months
ending in September were $685.
485,167, as compared with $1,467,-
401, 1889 for the nine months period
of 1914.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-10
PLEA FOR cLEMENcY FOR RYAN
AND OTHERS

Washington, Nov. 10. - Personal
plea was made to Pres. Wilson today
for clemency in cases of Frank Ryan,
former president of structural iron
workers, now in Leavenworth prison
serving time as one dynamite con-
spirators," and Is of his fellow pris-
oners by Arthur Holder of American
Federation of Labor; George Fitz-
gerald of Structural Iron Workers
union and M. P. Alias of Machinists'
union.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-10

that's knocking the well-meant
views of better men; think it's sim
ply shocking. For if your views don't
harmonic, just try and this remem-
Der, a man can never do his best
when once he's lost his temper. So
give us your opinion in the good, old
fashioned way, and we will reason
out the facts that fit the present day.
Hans Anderson.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-10
LIKED "MARRIED" LIFE so WELL
THEY GOT MARRIED

'Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Paige" got
married yesterday and now their
names are Mr.. and Mrs. Angus F.
Allen. Thus ended the escapade Of
Angus Allen and Mrs. Virginia Mer-
Ger at the Bradley hotel.
They lived there under name of Mr..
and Mrs. Emerson Paige a month.
Aliens stepfather, John Roberts,
head of the packing firm of Roberts
& Oaks, objected to his marriage be-
cause he was only % and Mrs. Mer-
Ger, who is the daughter of a former
official of the Rock Island road, is but
81. So they went away and pretend
ed they were married. Yesterday
they had the knot really tied.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-10


TELL HOW THEY PICKED MATES
BY DRAWING SCHEME
Benton Harbor, Mich, Nov. TO-
An echo of the revelations made last
spring of the high jinks" carried on
in the House of David colony here
was heard in the courtroom yester-
day when Mrs. Augusta. Holiday,
who is suing FRINGE Coy Parnen, son
of King Benjamin, for alleged GRIM
inal SANDER, made sensational seri-
GUS charges regarding rites of the
king and his followers.
Mrs. Holiday told of her relations
with King Benjamin, which began,
she claimed, only after she became
convinced she had no alternative, in
1910. Shortly after that she de-
clared Benjamin became frightened
lest his relations with unmarried
women would be discovered and, &C
cording to her testimony, he advised
the plan of marrying off a number of
the young women to men members
of the flock"
Mrs. Holiday was married in De-
cember, 1910. She said the selection
of husbands and wives was done by
each girl and man writing his or her
name on slip of paper and then
there was drawing. Mrs. Holiday
protested against the first drawing
and wa8 given second chance, when
witness declared she drew Allen Hol-
iday.
Those who join the colony throw
their property into common pool"
according to Chas. Schulz, former
fruit Spectator of Benton Harbor,
who, with his family, joined the col
ony. All property, he said, is placed
in common fund and used for. the
common good.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-01-21

The Belgian War pictures as
shown at the Palm yesterday
afternoon and evening, received
splendid support by the Mo.
Valley people and gave a very
vivid idea of the horrors and
suffering caused by the war in
Belgium. These pictures were
the same films that were shown
in the Boyd Theatre in Omaha,
and the Palm is surely to be
commented that it can show
such q feature, that has before
been only exhibited in the large
cities. The matinee for the
school children was very large
" attended.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-01-21

$4,000 head of cattle being fed,
and from the looks of the pens,
we had no doubt but that the
report was correct. These are
the things we saw indicating
prosperity. The things we did
not see were lusty corn stalks,
and other evidences of success
full farming, and t same lack
of rain, as we have been MOTTO
ing all the way down. AS all
know it is impossible to have
successful farming without the
proper supply of rain.
As to Cotton, all they talk
about is cotton. In converse
ton not only with business men
but farmers who come on the
train, | note they are dating ell
their calamitjes and all their
disasters to the time of the be-
ginning Of the War, which put
the cotton out of the market.
When | talked with some of the
farmers in confidential way,
and assured them / had no in.
ten.ion of buying any land, they
told me some of the inside facts
as to cotton raising. One very
intelligent man, who had been
in the business for several years
told me that on an average 1t
took four acres Of land to make
a bale of cotton, and that when
it was sold, and the expense of
preparing it for the market
was DEDUCTED, it would not
leave the farmer over $500 per
acre for his products. He said
that he had changed from cot
ton farming TO truck farming
and he is making a little profit
out Of it; that he could get
more out of one acre of pota-
toes than he could out of forty
acres of cotton at present pric-
es, and with much less work.
But, of course, there are limita-
lions to potato business, for if
they all went to raising pota-
toes they would not be worth
anything and so it will be for
years to come that men will
struggle to raise cotton with
the hope that they may at some
time get q bumper crop with a
boom price. And thus it is we
all live in hopes of something
better sometime in the future,
and I must say the Oklahoma
people have an abundance of
optimism when they are talking
to "suckers from the North, /"
but when they come right down
to facts they are genuine pessi-
mists, and really discouraged.
LII COIlCIuSiUus OoH VAIN
my friends who own Oklahoma
lands and stocks in various
Companies to feel that / am
knocking on their prospects,
but in justice to my own con-
science, which is very tender,
and to nv friends who may at
some time be suckers, ! am try
| ing to tell the facts as they APP
pear to me In my next letter
l shall tell something about
Texas. / am chuck full of i'm
pressions right now.
c. "A. Lisle.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-01-21
KEEP THE DOOR
DAMPER Gil SEDi
That isAdvice Of Experts Who
Have Studied Resi-.
dence Heating

keep the little damper IL
the fire. door Of the furnaco
closed" Is the advice 81 IT,
state engineering expsrine I
station at Iowa State college.
which has conducted tests %
determine the best way to ham
die the hampers on the average
hot air or hot water furnace.
Most OF the waste Of heat II
due to leaving this dampeer open
when tits not used especially
to check q low fire, or to admif
air to q hotbed Of Goals When
the CRATES are clogged. Tbs
effect Of opening this damper
is to chill the burning gases,
which then pass out the chin.
+ney without giving up . n,ueh
heat as they should. Under u.
binary conditions tho dalnpef
is best kept closed.
The station men also advise
against filling up the furnis
at night with fresh coal, 4
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-01-21

Eighty Years Old.
II had great deal Of trouble with
my bowels and bladder, and pain I'M
Eay right hip which felt like rheuma-
tism. Weak back. Constipated. Urine
highly colored. Many doctors failed.
I have taken Peruna and think am
cured. I have gained twenty pounds
In weight since began Peruna." MT.
w. G. Hemphill. Louisville, Miss.
Eighty.four Years Old.
about fifteen or twenty years ago
I was suffering with pains In my
back. could scarcely get about.
got some Peruna and was relieved of
the pains ever since.
II have used Peruna occasionally
since and recommended It to others.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-01-21
Cough Medicine For Children

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Ne,ersgive a child a cough
medicine that contains opium
in any form. When opium is
given other and more serious
diseases may follow. Long ex-
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there is no better or safer me.
dicine for coughs, colds and
Group in children than Cham.
berlain's Cough Remedy. It is
equally valuable for adults.
Try it. 1t contains no opium
or other harmful drug. For Sale
by All Dealers. J28.