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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21
Order Men to Shear Sheep
To Get Wool to Spin Yarn
For Our SammieS' Socks

You don't know where Akra is. May
be you were like us, up to moment
ago when we heard about 1t, imagined
from the sound of the name 1t was In
Africa, or may be in Italy. Well, IL
isn't either on the continent or in the
country surmised, it is in North Da-
kota, and lies right on the Canadian
line in the great sheep herding belt,
saws the Portsmouth Times. In size 1t
isn't much of a place, but for all 1t Is
today luminous as the banner Red
Cross town in the world.
When the war broke out Akra form
ed a Red Cross society and all the
women, married, manageable, old
maids and girls that could ply needle
worked. 1t wasn't long before they
ran out of yarn. Headquarters couldn't
supply them and committees sent to
Fargo and Bismark returned with the
sad word that no yarn was to be had
anywhere. Were the women and girls
let us not forget the girls-dismayed
by this condition, or did they use 1t to
take a "goOd rest2" Not they. Imme-
diately they called council or war 10
circumvent another German machina-
ton. After due elaboration an order
went forth to the husbands and sweet
Nearts that wool must be had or they
would know the reason why. Every
man was ordered to shear sheep or
bring in the clipping of the average
one to the society. There were no
traitors and no slackers. The wool
Just rolled in. The grandmothers got
out their old spinning wheels, spun the
wool and the production of sixty socks
a day from sheep to soldier went
blithely on.
The women, God bless 'em, they have
their way because their will Is the
right one.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21
FOR THE POULTRY
GROWER
) ssssssssssssssssssssss
Real Houses Are Best.

Real houses for poultry are best.
Make-shift affairs for the fowls sell
dom produce results.
Certain requirements are necessary,
even though the poultry house is
made of old boxes.
Raising poultry is only successful
when natural conditions are provided
for as nearly as possible.
Such conditions are readily provid-
ed by the poultryman who desires to
make poultry-keeping pay.
When planning the poultry house it
is advisable to consider the essentials
required for the promotion of the
fowls health under sanitary and COM
Portable conditions.
The poultry house should be sim
pie in construction, and economically
arranged for performing the work
necessary in handling a flock of pOul-
try.
Some of the important essentials
for planning the poultry house is abso-
lutte dryness, ample light, with the nee
essary ventilation.
The comfort of the fowls must al
ways be carefully considered in the
construction of the poultry house.
Without comfort and ease of at
tending the fowls, as regards SANTA
ton and healthfulness, there is little
need of going farther in the bust
ness.
Poultry do not require expensive
equipment or artificial conditions, but
rather to the contrary.
When the poultry house is made
plain, substantial, and equipped with
interior fittings that will afford easy
cleaning for keeping out vermin, the
plan is good one.
The size of a poultry house is a
problem that must be solved by the
builder, according to the space and
the system adopted.
But there are certain rules that
should govern the breeder when PLAN
ming his poultry house that must be
observed.
When fowls are to be confined they
need more floor space than when they
are permitted to range.
Four square feet per fowl is con-
sidered ample space under ordinary
conditions, and less space may be adj
vantageous when fowls are free to
range.
The width of houses should never
be narrow for their length, and II
feet in width is much better and cheap
er than narrow house.
A house 20 by Is feet will accom-
modate 100 fowls nicely, when ample
yard space is allowed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21
Killing Two Birds.

So many accidents had happened
. in the mines that a number of miners
determined to join the local ambulance
class. When one of their mates hap
pened to cut his finger or sprain his
wrist there was a general rush for
the wounded man by the ambulance
corps, and by the time they had fin
ished with him he usually looked like
a cross between an Egyptian mummy
and on outpatient at hospital.
All this, of course, was valuable
practice, and after many months of
hard work in the class an examina-
ton was held.
Suppose one of your mates should
be badly frostbitten, how would you
treat the case?" asked the examiner.
''Why, rub him with man who's
. had a touch of sunstroke. That ID
bring 'em both around"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21

apartments be improved? Will You
abandon me amid such ruins? The
able who ministers in the church yon-
der is my good friend"
'Why, he is also my abbei"
wonderful White lambs and black
are alike his care. am most nm
lucky gamester. !, And you can give me
better luck than ever came of winning.
On my honor, l love you. And the
able will be very glad to see us. Shall
we not make the good old man happyT
IF you will, monsieur."-W. r. Van
Deusen in New York Evening Sun.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21
"A Visit From
St. Nicholas"

"1HAT is the best known poem in
wv the world? Not Gray's 'Ele-
gy," nor 1.-THE Song of the
Shirt" nor '"The Raven" but 1.-THE
Night Before Christmas" The author
is not so well known as his poem.
One recent Christmas the name Of
Clement Clarke Moore was hOnored as
never before. Above his grave in the
chapel of Holy Trinity cemetery, New
York, the choir boys sang carols on the
night before Christmas, and service
of light was held. This beautiful cere-
monial starts with a procession of
tOrchbearers whose torches are kindled
from the leaders flame, and as the line
winds through the graveyard the fire
is passed back from one to another un-
til the lights grow in number and dis
pei the surrounding darkness.
The father of Clement Clarke Moore
was once the bishop Of New York.
'"The Night Before Christmas" was
published originally without the au-
thor's knowledge in the Troy Sentinel
two days before Christmas, 1928.
Moore had written it the preceding
Christmas just for the delight of his
own children, but it's circulation slip
ped beyond the family circle, and an
unknown friend sent it for publication.
The Sentinel readers paid no attention
to It, and it passed without comment
until seven years later, when the same
paper reprinted it. The second recep-
ton was very different from the first.
"a Visit From st. Nicholas" as it was
then entitled, was copied broadcast,
and it's author awOke to find his work,
if not himself, famous.
Although Clement Clarke Moore was
educated for the ministry, he never
took orders. For the greater part Of
his life he was identified with the New
York General Theological seminary,
being professor of Biblical learning
and Greek and later Of oriental lam
guages.
Clement Moore's family life had many
sorrows. His wife died at the early
age of thirty-ive, and the two little
Night Before Christmas" both died in
their childhood. His sou and name
sake lived to the age of sixty-eight and
is buried in the family plot.
When 1.-THE Night Before Christmas"
was first published in the Troy Senti-
mel the editor wrote:
''We do not know to whom we are
indebted for the following description
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21
Derived From Days Of Yore.

tits beautiful arrangement and de-
rived from the days Of yore that this
festival, which commentaries the an
nouncement of the religion Of peace
and love, has been made the season
for gathering together of family con-
nections and drawing closer again
those bands Of kindred hearts which
the cares and pleasures and sorrows Of
the world are continually operating to
cast loose, of calling back the children
Of family who have launched forth
In life and wandered widely asunder,
once more to assemble about the pater-
nal hearth, that rallying place of the
affections, there to grow young and
loving again.-Washington Irving.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21
Christmas Song.

on, Christmas Is q happy time,
When human hearts are light
And human hate haze vanished
And oil the aoorld looks bright!
and Christmas is q solemn time,
For back long, long ago,
Christ aods born to 0ive the 1oorld
The joy that zoe noao kno,o.
But not alone at Christmas time
Is happiness and cheer,
For he 1oho really I0veS the Lord
Hath Christmas all the year.
H. Z. SdddIer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21
SsSsS IS = 6
Christmas Tree
For the Birds


Mr.. and Mrs. Song Sparrow, the
Misses Flicker, Cock Robin, Miss Jen-
pie Wren, Sir Woodpecker and other
members of the feathered Four Hun
dred who were lured by warm days at
beginning of one winter into stopping
with us, only to find themselves sadly
hit later by the high cost of living,
were thrown into a fiutter of excite
ment by cards issued by Miss Louise
Laidlaw of Sands Point, N. Y, to a
birds Christmas tree party.
1t was held in the bird sanctuary on
the Laidlaw place, near the commodi-
Gus home built for bird tenants in
sheltering elm there. The tree was
the finest ever.
For days little Miss Louise was busy
In the pauses of her lessons, stringing
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21
Reversing the Compliment.

A cashier of somewhat portly build
was frowning over statement Of
accounts just placed before him by his
pretty typist. GAS young lady," he
said, II admire your type, but I can't
honestly say admire your typing!"
"How funny" she replied smartly.
1--WE are so different, for though you
are of course splendid at figures,
no one could say you have a splendid
figure 20
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21
Wise and Otherwise.

Many q married man is en-
titled to q hero medal.
Even a woman's club isn't ex-
pected to hit what it aims at.
Some mems charity consists
of a willingness to pass the hat.
The meek will of necessity
have to inherit the earth-if
they ever get it.
If duty were always pleasant
there'd be no particular credit
in doing 1t. e.
The difference between money
and success is that a man can
inherit money. =
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21

ones only rods made Of birch. In 9th.
er localities baskets, dishes and wood
en- ware are made the receptacles. But
the elasticity of the stocking, its
adaptability and the fact that, while
it preserves the individuality Of the
owner like shoe, it may yet be clean
ed and made ready for the reception
of edible presents-these characteris-
tics have caused it to grow into general
favor among the juvenile votaries of
Santa Claus.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21
Quick Exit.

"NOw your work on our magazine
will be to run the cookery depart
ment."
Cali right"
christmas is coming on and we
shall want you to get up some recipes.
Among others wish you to get up a
recipe for poor mans plum pudding"
II resign. I can't think of any In
gradients to At that title."-LOuisville
Courier-Journal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21
A Legal courtship.

81 sue for your
daughters hand"
clare d the
young lawyer.
II rule against
you," responded
the judge.
us there no
court. to which l
can take an ap-
peal?"
"Yes, I must
admit that her
mother reverSes
many of my deci.
sions."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21
Christmas Trimmings.

Effective tree decorations may be
made of small pine cones splashed with
a weak solution Of alum. When dry
it will sparkle like frost. Bore holes
in them and through these run dark
thread by which to hang them to the
tree.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21
The Wherefore.

what doe @
such a little vii
lage want with
such a big hos
pital 2"
Were right on
t h e main line
automobile speed
way, stranger"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21
Naive Inquiry.

"The cook burnt the steak again."
exclaimed the experienced housewife.
Dear mel" exclaimed young Mrs.
Torkins. wouldn't ordinary coal have
been q little cheaper?"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21

Those Who Will Rejoice.
Among those who are glad when II
is over are Santa and the parcel post
man.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21
Easily Answered.

Wife-The doctor says should 20
South for my health. The question
now is where to 60.
Hub-Go to another doctor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21
Practical Patriotism.

Husband (reading telegram)
ensl My rich uncle Ben has fallen
and broke his neck while putting up
an American flag on his porch.
Wife-Three chsers for the red,
white and bluei
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21
ssssssssssssssssesss
SOME SMILES
Encouraging.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Encouraging.
Young Man-What did your daddy
say when he heard had kissed your
sister?
Little Grille said that was encour-
aging.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-01-25
LEGISLATURE MAY VOTE
TO REPEAL. PRIMARY ACT
First Step to Reform Election Laws
Taken-Cpinion Unanimous On
Necessity for Change.

st. Paul, Jan. 19.-As the first step
in reforming Minnesotas election laws
legislators are determined either to
repeal or amend the so-called presiden-
tial preference primary act.
Indications are that a majority of
the lawmakers are willing to wipe the
statute off the books.
The amendments of the primary
election laws providing for return
to a modified convention system and
placing the legislature and county Of
fees back on partisan basis, are the
subjects of many informal confer
ences.
While there is a unanimity of opin-
ion on the necessity for changing the
presidential preference primary, there
is an evident fear on the part of some
senators and representatives to CON-
NIT themselves on the changes In the
regular primary.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-01-25
Sufferers From Kidney Ailments
Should Remember This

am of the opinion that DR.. Kilmer's
swampRoo enjoys the best sspi 1T t%e
treatment of the diseases for which it is
intended, than any other medicine on the
market. swamp-Root sells and pleas nm;
Of the best medicines I am so well
pleased with the demand for swamp-Koof5
that never fail to give it my personal
recommendation, feeling that it Will 90
what it claims.
Very truly yours,
F. VIM. DIEDRICH, Druggist,
2O9 Main Street.
Dec @ 1916. Ripon, Wis.
Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For You
Send ten cents to DR.. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton. N. Y, for sample 81 size bot Dot;
tie. It wiz convince anyone. You Will
also receive g. booklet of valuable infoT'
nation, telling about the kidneys and blad:
De- Whsn Rsanr be aed and n ens
dollar Size bottles for sale at all drug
stores.-Adv.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-01-25
SYRUP Of figs FOR
A CR|LO'S BOWELS
It is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh physic into a
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the dose" mother insisted
on-castor oil, calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form OF
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt is well-found'
ed. Their tender little "insides' are
injured by them.
II your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious california Syrup of Figs" Its
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
Of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative" handy; they know children
love to take it; that 1T never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en- the stomach, and that a teaspoonful
given today saves sick child tomor'
row.
Ask at the store for 50-cent bottle
of "California Syrup of Figs" which
has full directions for babies, children
Of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle. Adv.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-01-25
Dairies' Income $1oo,ooo,ooo.

St. Paul. Minnesota's creamery
and dairy industry now brings an an
nual income of more than $10O,00O,OOO.
Commissioner J. A Farrell of the State
Dairy and Food department asserts in
the introduction to the biennial report
to the state legislature, the first copy
Of which has been presented to Gov
ernor Burnquist.
minnesota now has 855 creameries
which are patronized by $4,000 farm
ers," the report continues. "The in
comes of these patrons vary from a
few dollars to as much as $500 q
month. Creamery success has encour-
aged the farmers to invest in more live
stock, which in turn results in in.
creased soil fertility and better crops.
Land is most valuable in the creamery
sections, and there also are the pros
porous farmers and the community
spirit that has developed the perma-
nent success of creamery organiza-
TONS That the industry is in q healthy
and prosperous condition is indicated
by substantial permanent and sanitary
creamery buildings, costing from
$4,000 to 5000 that have replaced the
old frame structures"
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-01-25
LANDS INDIAN IN BROADWAY
Half Starved Tramp Shod in Mecca
sins Is Elevated to the
"MovIes."

man was strolling, or rather,
Bringing up Broadway the other after
noon, writes a New York correspond
ent Of the Pittsburgh Dispatch. He
had high cheek bones, black hair and
wore moccasins. He had no overcoat
and the collar Of his thin sack coat
was turned up about his neck and held
with hand blue with cold. Three men
standing at the curb saw the man and
noted his moccasined feet. by
George" said one, "there's bit of
luck. Go after him, Tony, and tell
him to come over to the studio. He's
down on his luck and we need an In
dian." Tony pursued the shivering
figure and told him about the chance
at the studio. "Sure, I'll come" said
the alleged redskin. II look like one,
but my name is Schwartz. "A fellow
gave me these moccasins, and I'd be
willing to wear chiefs hat and red
blanket If it would keep me warm"
And so another Indian went straight
to the movies"
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-01-25
STATE DA|RYMEN
MEET IN LAKE CITY
ELABORATE PREPARATIONS ARE
MADE FOR THIRTY-NINTH AN
NUAL CONVENTION.
CATTLE CONTEST is FEATURE
Boys Judge Iivestock-LoringC Cup Is
Offered Boy With Highest Average
-WeIl-known Orators Ad-
dress Delegates.

Lake City, MINI. - Elaborate Prepa-
rations were made for the entertain
ment of the thirty-ninth annual con-
vention Of the Minnesota Dairymen's
association, which was in session here
four days, beginning last Tuesday. A
feature Of the gathering was boys
dairy cattle judging contest, open to
any boy in the state under IS years.
The three classes in which judging
was to be made are Jerseys, Guern-
seys and Holsteins, and the high school
boy who made the highest average in
all classes was to be presented with
loving cup. To the farm boy, not
entered in the high school class, a
registered Jersey bull calf was to be
given for the highest average.
Chief interest in Wednesdays ses-
sion centered in the election of off,
GERS.
Prof w. A. McKerrow of the Uni
versity farm, J. J. Farrell, state dairy
and food commissioner, and A. J. Nc
CURE of St. Paul, addressed the con-
vention.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-01-25
70 Observe 5Oth Anniversary.

TO Observe 50th Anniversary.
St. Paul - The University OF Min
nesota will celebrate the fiftieth ami.
versary of it's founding in 1918
The herald of this celebration will
arrive on the university campus next
April in the person of the Golden Jubi-
lee Gopher the college annual now
being prepared by the class OF 1918.
The present Junior class plans to
spread the gospel of the anniversary
this spring and then lead in the cele-
bration next winter.
Since DR.. William Watts Folwe3 be-
came the first president half century
ago, the university has grown to eleven
colleges, ranking with the great edu-
cational institutions of the nation, and
has conferred 1860 degrees upon
graduates.
Selecting the greatest of these alum
nj will be a task of the Golden Jubilee
Gopher, and one of the anniversary
features. Through the Alumni Week.
ly, the Gopher is asking each of the
living alumni to vote on who they
think are the five greatest graduates
of Minnesota. The greatest in public
life, in science, in business, and the
greatest woman in any field, will be
given distinction in an Alumni Honor
Roll in the big annual.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-01-25
Millions for Control Board.

Millions for Control Board.
st. Paul. - The state Board of Con-
troll has submitted it's budget to the
Governor. The budget calls for total
of $7,758,900. The largest sum asked
is for the school for the feeble-minded,
$1,O58,100. The Fergus Falls insane
hospital calls for $742,6O0, the Roches-
ter hospital for $647,200; and the st.
Peter hospital for 100000. The in
sane and feeble-minded arc the most
expensive of the states wards.
The state reformatory comes next,
with demand for $71S,400. The state
prison asks for $472,OOO. The school
for crippled children in st. Paul asks
for s220,500.
For the state sanatorium for con-
sumptives, $387,S5 is asked. For sup
port of the hospital for inebriates,
$201, 800 is asked, but it is expected
that the Legislature will convert this
institution to some other use.
For it's own expenses, the board
asks $4,000. The sum asked for the
state training school, 100000.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-01-25
Fair Board Reflects.

Minneapolis. - Thomas H. Garfield
Of Lake Park was chosen secretary of
the 1917 Minnesota State Fair to sue
coed himself, at the reorganization
meeting of the state fair board. He
is given the new title of secretary
general manager. Lester T. Banks of
Minneapolis was reelected treasurer
of the board. Practically all the 1916
department heads Of the state fair
were reelected.
Superintendents Of the auto show,
girls camp, ice, poultry and public
safety departments are the only 1917
officials to be chosen.
The dates of the 1917 state fair were
fixed for September to. s.
Two full memberships and two half
memberships to the farm boys camp
were given to the Northwest Mime
sofa Farm Crops show, at Crookston,
to be used as premiums in reWarding
deserving boy exhibitors.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-01-25
Law subcommittee Named.


subcommittee of the house judici-
airy committee have been named by
Chairman Albert F. Pratt and all bills
going to the committee will be con-
sidered first by the proper subcom-
mittee Daily sessions of the full COM
mittee are to take place an hour be-
fore the house meets. The subcom-
mittees are as follows:
Substantive Law-Searls, chairman;
Christianson, Davies, KonZen, Swan
son.
Pleading, Practice and Evidence-A.
M. Peterson, chairman; Levin, Glea-
son. Hammer, PattisOn.
Criminal Law-Mueller, chairman;
Howard, Reed, Pittenger, Nordlin.
Constitutional Law-Marwin, chair
man; Hammer, Child, Levin, A. M. Pc
terson.
Probate Courts and Probate Law
Bjorge, chairman; Madigan, Moen,
Sudheimer, Bjorklund.
Courts and Court Officers-Madigan
chairman; Ryberg, Bjorge, Frye, Ste
vens.
Real Property and Curative Acts
Reed, chairman; Stenvick, Ryberg,
Norton, J. M. Harrison.
Commercial Law and Uniform State
Laws-Child, chairman; Davis, Praxel,
Searls, Erickson.
Municipal OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
chairman; Mueller, McGrath, South
wick, Davis.
CORPORATIONS Other Than Municipal
-Pittenger, chairman; Pattison, Sic
gel, Solem, Sudheimer.