The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-12-08

sold out and they said he was liar.
The Explorers Union Local No. /
gives dinner to him-nOt the box
Office mar but Mr.. Roosevelt, and he
makes an after dinner speech Copy
right T. Roosevelt, 1916) about 1t and
realizes another $500 or so, and
that's the way it goes. But you take
Max Paikes which in five years trav-
els $4,000 miles to Mr.. ROOsevelt's TO-
| 600, Birsky, and what is 1t? Nobody
asks him to write about it; nobody
| wants him to talk about it, and if
| somebody blows him on account of 1t
to rye bread tongue sandwich and
package Of all-tobaccO cigarettes it
would be big already"
Evidently you seem to think that
it's hardship that Teller should
live in the country" Birsky, said.
did you ever think what it means to
a business man that he should be able
to raise his own vegetables"
"Sure 1 did," Zapp replied. at
means that he is going to eat princi-
pally radishes for the whole summer
because that's the only vegetable
| which business man who raises his
own vegetables could really rely upon.
Furthermore you think l am a green
horn in the country. Birsky, but al
ready done my twenty odd thousand
miles in round trip instruments Of
A miles q day on the Long Island
Railroad, and / know the whole game
of living in the country right the way
through, from getting stuck with the
lots dOwnwardS. / used to own a
house at Brunswick Beach and when
1 let it go to the second mortgage a
year and half after it was built
y'understand, 1t had cracks In the
| walls on the second floor which if
you'd put couple Of windows and a
| door in 'em could of been considered
as extra masters bedrooms"
"Steam heat will do that to new
! house. Zapp," Birsky said. Maybe
you kept the place too warm"
''Too warm!" Zapp exclaimed.
| Listen, Birsky, the heating plant of
that house wasn't designed for moth
ing bigger than five dollar year
safe deposit box. With the furnace
| going full on. BirSky, whenever my
! wife opened the refrigerator door. Bir-
| sky, it raised the temperature of the
kitchen ten degrees. The plumbing
was nothing extra neither. We had
gas heater for the hot water, Biz
sky, which. figuring at the rate of
$3.50 per thousand cubic feet, if you
took six hot baths it was the equiva-
| lent of suit of clothes. For years in
New York l tried to bring myself to
take cold plunge in the morning,
but l couldn't stand the shock till
seen my first months gas bill out In
Brunswick Beach, and after that all
/ had to do when l jumped into cold
bath was to think how many cubic
feet l was saving, and if it was six
below zero even got pleasant glow
all over. Later on 1t got to be such
a habit with me to take cold plungeS,
Birsky, that the second summer we
was there when they had that bad
water famine on Long Island, l used
bottled water as long as could get
the spring water companies to send
me trial samples. For over a month
there we done the weeks washing
with artificial vichy and my wife had
| to get rid of the wash lady because
for every siphon she put in the tubs
| she drank one herself"
"You were lucky it was only vichy,
Zonno RirSlv said ST might have
been ginger ale or root beer, in which
case she would of took it home to the
children"
"Joke if you want to, Birsky," Zapp
retorted. "But what / am telling you
now is facts from living in the coun-
try"
''Rats, Zapp!" Birsky said. "You
could have shortage of water In the
city just so much as in the country.
Just because you didn't like Bruins