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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-09-24

of State Lansing from lew York
letter protesting the request for his
recall as unjust. The letter is de-
voted mainly to defense of the am
bassador's plan to find other work for
the nationals of his government en-
ployed in American munition plants.
Announcement was made in govern
ment quarters at Ottawa that Vilhjal
mar Stefansson, the arctic explorer.
had been heard from and was safe.
Stefansson had not previously been
heard from since April, 1914. Stefans-
son discovered new land southwest of
ST. Patricks Land. He is now on
Banks Land Quitting for continuance
certain the full extent of the new land.
Evidence that the fire aboard the
Fabre line steamship SAINT Anna. which
caused great alarm for the safety of
her 1.764 passengers when reported by
wireless, was the result of war plot
aimed at the LOO Italian reservists
aboard, was contained in a dispatch to
the state department at Washington.
In compliance with the last wish OF
Sir William c. Van Horne, the Cana
dian Pacific railroad builder. who died
at Montreal. his body was buried in
Oakwoods cemetery at Joliet, Ill.
The proposed mammoth credit loan
to Great Britain and France, ii was
reported in New York. is to be I'M
derwritten by large syndicate Of
American financiers and bankers who
services.
Mrs. Aldena Martin, thirty. and Har-
~ Miller, twenty-five. were fatally
hurt, Gus Freeman. forty. and Frank
Gottschall. twenty. were seriously in
jured when two automobiles crashed
together at Bunker Hill. Ind
Newman Erb, multimillionaire rail-
road magnate. is critically i'll at mis-
summer home at Deal. N. j.. as the re-
suit of a poison tablet which he swal.
low ed by mistake COR headache medi.
cine.
Oakland county. Michigan, must re
main dry for another two years The
state supreme court denied a petition
of Oakland county saloon interest;
to overrule the decision of the Oak
land supervisors in declaring the coun
ty dry.
The HALEY block. stores and offices
at Beaver Dam. Wis.,, was totally de
stroyed by fire and Samuel Eser
clothing merchant, perhaps fatally
burned. Firemen saved the rest o.
the business district by using dyna
mite. Fire started by gas explosion
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-09-24
Foreign

According to Stockholm dispatches
received in Berlin the Socialist dep
uty, Tcheidse, and II other members
OF the Russian duma have been ar.
rested. This action was taken. as a
result of the outbreak against the gov
eminent following the proroguing of
the duma.
Several Americans were wounded
and a number of natives killed in a
skirmish at Gonaives, Haiti, between
American marines and Cacos, mem
bers of a Haitian faction which has
been prominently identified with the
revolutionary movement.
The car has prorogued the duma at
Petrograd. A program of important
reforms put forward by the new ma
jority of liberal and progressive ele-
ments threatened to cause the resig-
nation of the cabinet.
Chicago packers were defeated in
the British prize court at London
when that tribunal handed down a
decision contiscating to the crown
large American cargoes taken from
merchantmen. The meat cargoes
were valued at s15,QO0,0O0.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-09-24

Newman Erb multimillionaire rail-
road magnate. is critically i'll at mis-
summer home at Deal. N. j.. as the re-
suit of poison tablet which he swai-
low ed by mistake Cor headache medi-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-09-24

Oakland county. Michigan, must re-
main dry for another two years The
state. supreme court denied petition
of Oakland county saloon interests
to overrule the decision of the Oak
land supervisors in declaring the coun-
ty dry.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-09-24

Mrs. Aldena Martin, thirty. and Har-
~ Miller. twenty-five. were fatally
hurt, Gus Freeman. forty. and Frank
Gottschall. twenty. were seriously in
jured when two automobiles crashed
together at Bunker Hill. Ind
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-09-24

The HALEY block. stores and offices,
at Beaver Dam. Wis.,, was totally de-
stroyed by fire and Samuel Elser.
clothing merchant. perhaps fatally
burned. Firemen saved the rest Of
the business district by using dyna-
mite. Fire started by gas explosion
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-09-24
Domestic

Doctor Dumba, Austro-Hungarian
ambassador, addressed to Secretary
of State Lansing from lew York
letter protesting the request for his
recall as unjust The letter is de-
voted mainly to a defense of the am
bassador's plan to find other work for
the nationals of his government en-
ployed in American munition plants.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-12

while fragments of a Victor Herbert
medley nestled coyly in her hair.
Mrs. Gadfrey dropped in next day
about lunch time and told Peaches
that the only real way to reduce the
flesh is to take a long walk; SO Peaches
picked out a long walk and took 1t.
After she was gone about six hours,
and 1t was getting dark she called me
up on the long distance and broke the
news to me that she had walked some
fifteen miles, and that she had been
terribly extravagant and had used up
all the walk that was in her, and would
/ please be so kind as to send a taxi
and not leave her to perish in a
strange land among the savage tribes
in the Bronx.
When Peaches reached home that
night she found that all the flesh she
had lost was her pocketbook contain
ing ten dollars, and l was set back ten
dollars for cab hire, making a total re-
duction of four pounds-English
money.
A few days later while l was down
town Mrs. Carruthers dropped in, also
at lunch time, and carefully explained
to friend wife that the only way to
beat back al attack of a~voirdupois is
to take electric baths.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-12

lies in the trimming. Two peoples.
made of the embroidery with millinery
stamens at the center, are posed ex-
actly on top. This is an audacious po-
sition, but warranted because of the
excellence and beauty of the flowers.
One cannot get in the picture the
sheerness of the embroidery which
makes the blossoms look like delicate
ghosts of the flaming flower they copy.
The second hat, of the small poke
bonnet type. is made of allover en-
broidery and narrow val lace. The
frame is covered with blue crepe, and
this forms a facing. The upper brim
and crown are Of the embroidery in an
open pattern. A fril Of narrow val
lace finishes the edge, and there is a
collar and hanging ends OF black vel
vet ribbon. Little clusters of pink
June roses and blue forget-me-nots are
set about the base Of the crown. Moth
ing could be prettier, worn with the
midsummer frocks made Of sheer
white cottons. or those that are gayly
figured.
JULIA BoTToMLEV.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-12

The lingerie hat is made of fine,
sheer, cotton embroidery, lace or net,
and forms a special kind of midsummer
millinery which reappears each year,
The same kinds of embroideries and
laces that are used for making lingerie
gowns or fine underwear are used in
the construction of this very elegant
millinery; hence the name by which
1t is designated.
The lingerie hat has been in greatest
demand among those who require sew
eral hats for each season. and is n
Of those types made for the 'exclus-
i've ~trade"-that is. for those who can
afford to indulge a taste for special
millinery to suit special seasons. They
are by no means inexpensive; but 1t
is the work required to make them,
rather than the materials used, that
makes them bring very good prices.
Two lingerie hats shown In the pic
ture given here are Of the picturesque
type. At the left q wide embroidery
Of sheer batiste Is shirred over a frame
smoothly covered with chiffon. The
row Of shirring lover q small cord) at
the base OF the crown forms a frilI
wider than the brim OF the frame.
which falls prettily beyond the brim
edge and drops more at the back than
elsewhere. Here, from under the
brim, loops and long ends Of narrow
ribbon. In a light color. hang nearly to
the waist line.
But the striking feature in this hat
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-12
HOW ONE MAN GOT HIS START
Couldn't Go In for a Literary Career,
So Went Into Hardware
Business.

IT got m start in life" said a
wealthy retired hardware dealer, Sin
a singular manner
you might not think 1t, I having
passed the major portion of my life in
selling nails, padlocks, stoves and
shovels, but in my early youth my
great ambition was to be a writer, an
author. l had no doubt whatever
that that was what l was cut out
for, and certainly l worked at it good
and hard; but none of the publishers
to whom l sent my things seemed to
agree with me. AS fast as / sent
the things in to them they would send
them back.
But that didn't worry me. I knew
that sooner or later they would come
to like what l wrote and buy 1t. What
got my goat was the expense. / was a
very ready writer and / wrote long
pieces. The stamps l had to use to
send these pieces out and get them
back cost me a lot of money.
When l realized how much l was
paying out for stamps l said to my
self: 'Humpf! I'll say up that money
for five years and then I'll go to writ
ing again And for the next five years
/ did put aside regularly the amount
that 1 would otherwise have spent for
stamps and you would be surprised
if 1 should tell you how much It
amounted to. But at the end of that
time / did not again take up writing.
Just at that time the senior part
ner of the hardware store in our town
died and his heirs drew out all his
interest in the firm. There was a
chance for a man With a little cap
ital to get into a good business. had
the capital, by accumulated stamp
money, and l bought that interest in
the hardware store.
From that time on / was always
too busy to write; but my great sue
cess in the hardware business you
can clearly trace to my original ambi-
bition for authorship"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-12
@what's the ldea9" easped.

fendale. who weighs 27S in her war
paint, fioated in and told Peaches that
she had picked out the wrong kind OF
exercise, and presently l was chased
off downtown for a rowing machine. a
set OF Indian clubs and sixty cents
worth of dumbbells.
That evening Peaches jumped mer-
rily aboard the rowing machine and
bore away to the northeast, with a
strong ebb tide on the port bow.
She was about four miles up the
river and going hard when a strap
broke, whereupon Peaches went over
board with a splash that upset most
OF the furniture in the room and
knocked her manicure set down be-
hind the bureau.
One OF the oars went up in the air
and landed on the bridge OF my nose,
because my face happened to be in
the way when the oar came down.
When loving hands finally u~ntangled
Peaches from the chain drive OF a
rocking chair. she,found that. with the
help Of the rowing machine. she had
lost nearly two pcunds-mostly on the
emo of her elbow.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-12
SEEING LIFE W1h
rNN1JOHN HENRY
HSh,WG eo1geX E1obart
HN\xE1V John Henry On Vanity
John Henry On Vanity

A day or two later Mrs. Fitzenstaatz,
who tips the beam at 243, Topped in like
an amiable seal and told Peaches that
her system Of physical torture was all
wrong. Once more l hotfooted 1t for
the shopping district and returned
with one of those rubber contrivances
which you carefully fasten to the wall,
and then take hold of the handles and
try to pull 1t off again.
Bright and early the next glad morn
ing Peaches grabbed the handles and
vas getting away from her fat little
self at the rate of an ounce an hour
when n Of the rubber strings sud-
denly quit the job and then something
kicked Peaches Just where a good
singer gets her coloratura.
When Peaches fell wounded on the
field of battle she decided hurriedly
that something must fall with her so
she selected our new talking machine,
and there was such a crash that our
new cook thought the end Of the world
had arrived and she ran screaming in
the direction of Paterson, N. ].
l had to pour a pitcher of ice water
over Peaches facial expression before
she came to, and then she found that
all she had lost by the new process
was her breath and $24 worth of rec.
ords.
She was sitting on a Caruso, with
her left foot embedded in a Tetrazzini
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-12

room. ! felt something sharp and pc
culiar on my back. 1t was one of my
shoulder blades peeping out to see
what the matter was. The tempera-
ture had started to display itself in
four figures when l gasped, What is
this thing that's over us-a plumbers
blow-pipe2"
an electric blanket-we're reducingl"
Shrieking the battlecry of Freedom
l pushed the volcano of the bed and
jumped to my feet.
Peaches also jumped to her feet and
with one of them stepped on an ohm
or something, whereupon she let a
bl%ood-curdling yell out of her that
could be heard In Winnipeg.
Then she put her other foot down
and landed on a volt or an ampere or
something equally exciting and be-
came short-circuited.
She was the best little s~hort-circuit
that ever fused a fuse.
For two minutes that room looked
like a thunderstorm with Peaches
playing all the elements.
When I finally got the current
turned of and all the live wires out Of
her hair Peaches collapsed on the sofa,
screamingl Take 1t awayl Take II
away! Now l know what a hard life
the third rail must lead!"
l think the electric blanket has
cured friend wife.
At any rate all the exercising do
funnys have been presented to the jan
itor's children, and Peaches has prom
ised to be kind to a double chin IL Ma
ture slips her one.
Old King Solomon had the right idea
when he said to his typewriter, Van
ity, vanity, all Is vanity!"
If a surgeon could remove u Van
ity as easily as he remove an appen
dix there'd be a lot more money in the
savings bank.
What do you think?
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-12

The day Of the high class and bril-
liant sweater and the snappy sport
coat is with US. Racing meets and
other assemblages of people who are
in a position to make the styles into
fashions reveal the bright-hued sweat
er and sport coat, worn with more
than c~omplacency, especially by the
younger people. Over thin white
dressed and with white sport hats and
white footwear there is a crispness
and fitness to the occasion in such ap-
parel that makes an instant appeal to
the younger set.
New conditions bring about new cos
tuning for occasions where formerly
only strictly dressy toilettes were in
vogue. The sweater and the sport coat
are at home in the automobile, and the
only kind Of millinery that will with
stand the speed of the open car is that
designed for it, hence the sport hat
and the auto bonnet.
But the brilliance of color in these
comfortable outer garments makes as
gay an ~assemblage as ever gathered in
glad raiment in days gone by. Cerise
and gold, lacquer red and royal blue,
mustard and amethyst, and most vivid
and CLASSY" of green's, and the sparkle
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-12

An hour later Peaches gathered up
the family plate and exchanged 1t for
an electric blanket. which she had sent
home Immediately.
1t was cold that night so / wasn't
at all surprised to see what | supposed
was a Mackdnaw coat spread oyer the
bed.
! figured on reaching Dreamland by
the fast express but, heavensl how
warm 1t began to get.
1.-THE %janitor is sure annoying the
radiators with a lot of steam tonight"
l said. feverishly, but all l got was a
sharp "Shush!" from the other half of
the sketch.
A half hour passed and one by one
my features trickled away from my
face. The temperature jumped up to
211 in the dark.
For the friendship Of Mike" I plead.
ed. cant we throw this asbestos quilt
on the floor and come out of the fiery
furnace?"
Don't novel" snapped Peaches;
don't novel"
For another half hour l strolled with
Dante through bis favorits boiler
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-12

having been mainly rebuilt during the
though some fifteenth century parts
are preserved within 1t. With Mos
COW it Is otherwise. The Kremlin be-
yond question imposes itself upon a
spectator as a great expression of
Russia's past. Its a~ssemblage of pal
aces, churches and national monu-
ments corresponds to the close union
still existing between the government
and the religion of the people.
Moscow itself, however, is not the
Russia of today; it is the Russia that
has gone by. The CA may visit Mos
COW; he does not live there. In and
about Petrograd he has several pal
aces: the Winter palace in the city,
CATCHING, Tsarskoie-Selo, and others,
but Peterhof is the favorite, and Peter
hof was built in 1920 by Peter the
great and afterwards enlarged by
Catherine II. Here the influence of
Versailles is obvious and confessed.
The profusion of fountains, and espe-
cially the long canal leading straight
away through the park from opposite
the middle of the palace facade, are
evident Versailles features, and plenty
more might be cited.
No less French in style are some of
the Prussian palaces. The old Berlin
Schloss, indeed, has a continuous his
tory of building and rebuilding from
the days of Elector Frederick II in the
fifteenth century. and though Freder-
lex. the first Prussian king of that
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-12

Ponderous decoration characterized
some parts of it; others we're barrack-
like in their plainness. 1t consisted
then of a number of more or less sep
arate residences for royalties and Of
ficials and of various offices and rooms
devoted to the storage of state
archives and the great library, while
the Augustiner church, in which all
the Hapsburgs are buried, is attached
to it.
Since the time of Sultan Mahmud
the Turkish palace that followed has
itself been abandoned as a residence,
and is only resorted to for certain state
ceremonials; much of 1t in turn vas
burned down in 1853. 1t was built by
Mohammed II, and often added to in
the most capricious fashion. The prin-
cipal entrance is the Sublime Porte.
Within is nothing noteworthy except
the Church OF Saint Irene, which has
been used as an armory. Here also are
the mint, the treasury and other of
fees, as well as the halls of state, etc,
diff cult for a traveller to see, when l
was there, and not Il am told worth
seeing. 1t is in the Dolmabaghcheh
that the sultan actually lives, a long
range Of buildings, rather like the sea
front of a row of houses, built of stone
in a bastard Corinthian style, on the
river-like shore of the Bosporus. In
ternally it is a gaudy place, with much
bright paint and gliding, plentiful stuo-
co ornament and cupolas of brightly
stained glass.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-12
so.calIed humane Bullets.

We are told in the current news
papers that Alexander Foster Hum"
phrey of Pittsburgh has invented a
bullet supplied with narcotics and an
tiseptics, the. former to relieve the
pain of a wound and the latter to aid
the healing operations. At least two
patents have issued for narcotizing
bullets, both especially designed for
use in capturing the lower animals.
One patent issued in 1910 to James
Francis O'Byrne and Thomas A. Flood
of Salt Lake City. for a bullet carry.
ing a narcotic whose anaesthetic effect
when shot into a fieshy portion Of an
animal would SO affect 1t as to render
its capture and control comparatively
easy. The other patent was issued In
1911 to X. Burgsmuller Of Kreiensen,
Germany, for a cartridge filed with
a mixture of capsicine in an imme
diately gasifable form for narcotizine
animals.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-12
Tall Hats Of the Pa.t.

In spite of statements made lately to
the contrary, tall hats were invented
long before 1913. A Mr.. loft of Tot
tenham, who died in 1867, left ESQ
to the governors of the Tottenham
free grammar school. the interest OF
which was to be devoted to the pur-
chase of three tall hats as prizes for
the three best boys.
The hats used to be purchased from
a halter in Bishopsgate street, named
Greenway. for 24s, but in 1911 he In
formed the governor that a duty Of Is
each had been imposed. and the cost
raised to 27s. The duty was again
raised to 2s each, and in 1918 to 2s Cd.
The duty was afterwards repealed, but
by that time the governors were pur-
chasing Bibles instead of hats for the
boys.-Pall Mall Gazette.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-12

of black and white combinations give
one a wide choice whether the taste
is quiet or gay.
The Worumbo sport coal shown
here is in black and white, cut on easy
and rather vague lines. 1t is drawn in
a little by a wide belt of the fabric at
the normal waist line. White silk
braid Is used for binding the collar and
cuffs. Two large and very practical
pockets add definitely to the charae-
ter Of the coat. The convertible collar
may be turned up about the throat and
buttoned to place.
The hat, of white corduroy velvet, Is
| trimmed with a band and cockade Of
| white ribbon. White gloves and
shoes, either of kid or canvas, are In
keeping with the rest of the toilette
and complete a midsummer garb that
is q thing of beauty and a Joy for all
outings.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-12
no Keen MIX Prom curdllna

Az important particular in which
cows milk differs from mothers milk
for feeding infants is that the former
is likely to curdle. Some children FED
on cows milk are apt to suffer from
the formation OF large. tough curds. IL
citrate of soda Is added to milk in the
proportion OF half a dram OF soda 20
a pint of milk no curds will be formed.
Given in this proportion, citrate Of
soda 10 said to be entirely harmless
and is often found very useful In feed.
ing infants. The addition OF barley
water or any other thin cereal Rrne1
has much the same effect
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-12

The Inns of Court Officers Training
corps is proud of its traditional name.
the DEVILS Own, a title which links
it with the patriots Of the four inns,
who formed a volunteer corps in the
time of the Napoleonic wars. 1t was
George III who bestowed the title on
the corps. He was reviewing bands of
volunteers and. as n particularly
smart body Of men passed before
him, asked who they were. Law
yers," was the reply. THE DEVILS
Own. the DEVILS own" said the old
king, who had a habit of repeating his
phrases. And the lawyers. who had q
sense OF humor. adopted the title with
elee.-London Chronicle