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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-08

| ence-his brothers brain and chair?
After all, was he not right? Has his
eternal form become so attenuated as
to be hallucination? Are hallucina-
lions real entities? Why not? There
is food for thought here. Some day I
shall come to conclusion upon it.
He was very much disturbed today.
He could not write, for I had made the
servant carry the pen out of the room
in his pocket. But neither could
| write.
The servant never sees him. This
is strange. Have developed keener
sight for the unseen? Or rather, does
it not prove the phantom to be what
it is-a product of my own morbid con-
sciousness?
He stole my pen again. Hallucina-
tons cannot steal pens. This is un-
answerable. And yet 1 cannot keep
the pen always out of the room.
want to write myself.
I have had three different servants
since my trouble came upon me, and
not one has seen him. Is the verdict
of their senses right? And is that of
mine wrong? Nevertheless, the ink
goes too rapidly. 1 fill my pen more
often than is necessary. And further
more, only today found my pen out
of order. l did not break it.
l have spoken to him many times,
but he never answers. I sat and watch
ed him all morning. Frequently he
looked at me, and it was patent that
he knew me.
By striking the size of my head vio-
lently with the heel of my hand, 1 can
shake the vision of him out of my eyes.
Then can get into the chair; but I
have learned that / must move very
quickly in order to accomplish this. Of
ten he fools me and is back again be-
fore can sit down.
1t is getting unbearable. He is a
jacll-in-the-box, the way he pops into
the chair. He does not assume form
slowly. He pops. That is the only
way to describe it. 1 cannot stand
looking at him much more. That way
Hes madness, for it compels me almost
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TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES

The government of South Africa will
establish a college of agriculture at
Pretoria.
A patent has been granted to a Chi
cago man for a tennis racket press
that also serves as a cover.
Electric bulbs lighted from a dry
battery form animals heads on a re-
Gently patented muff for women.
Spain is believed to have enough
coal in undeveloped mines to supply
The country for two centuries.
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uHpTepdTeu. AT IeaSC IHere are Ger.
tain indications that precautions have
been taken against a surprise visit.
Searchlights capable of penetrating
high into the skies have recently been
installed on tall buildings here and
nightly they sweep the heavens as well
as illuminate at intervals certain
places that might be targets for at
tack. Whether anti-aircraft guns also
have been placed in position to drive
off possible raiders has not been re-
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old, old discussion-the eternity of
forms. How many hours and how
many nights we had consumed over it |!
On this night he had been particu-
larly irritating, and all my nerves were
screaming. He had been maintaining
that the human soul was itself form,
an eternal form, and that the light
within his brain would go on forever
and always. took up the poker.
Suppose" I said, 81 should strike
you dead with this?''
81 would go on" he answered.
GAS a conscious entity?" I demand
ed.
eyes, as conscious entity" was his
reply. 81 should go on, from plane to
plane of higher existence, remembering
my earth life, you, this very argument
-ay, and continuing the argument
with you"
1t was the only argument. (Forci-
BILE! Ha, ha comment of Rudolph
Heckler on margin). I swear it was
only argument. never lifted hand.
How could I? He was my brother, my
elder brother, Jim.
cannot remember I was very ex-
asperated. He had always been so OBJ
stinate in this metaphysical belief of
his. The next I knew he was lying
on the hearth. Blood was running. 1t
was terrible. He did not speak. He
did not move. He must have fallen
in fit and struck his head. I no.
ticed there was blood on the poker.
In falling he must have struck upon it
with his head. And yet fail to see
how this can be, for I held it in my
hand all the time. I was still holding
it in my hand as looked at it.
1t is hallucination. That is a con-
clusion of common sense. I have
watched the growth Of it. At first it
was only in the dimmest light that
could see him sitting in the chair. But
as the time passed and the hallucina-
ton, by repetition, strengthened, he
was able to appear in the chair under
the strongest lights. That is the ex-
PLANTATION. 1t is quite satisfactory.
I shall never forget the first time
saw it. I had dined alone downstairs.
I never drink wine, so that what hap
pened was eminently normal. 1t was
in the summer twilight that I returned
to the study. I glanced at the desk.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-08

Shoulder braces are needed in Aus
tralia.
Brazil has prohibited the use of
preservatives in almost all kinds of
foods and beverages.
A new spirit level for use in dark
places is equipped with a dry battery
incandescent lamp.
Cabinets have been invented in
which all but the heads of living chick
ems can be inclosed for fumigation.
Simple apparatus in which spring
scale figures has been invented for test
ing the strength Of screw drivers.
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employed in London and
efficient British
Balfour authority for the that
capitals
Apparently
WOuldn bel repeated
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-08
Washington Has No Fear of Zeppelin Attacks

THOUGH would be daring aviator
"A Atlantic
Zeppelin commander should attempt the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-08

Tor commercial expansion than ever
before. Despite the preachings Of the
pessimist that the entry Of the United
States into the war would bring ruin
to business in general, and untold
hardships to the individual, all indica-
lions today are that such gloomy out
look is entirely unwarranted.
More money is being spent in
Washington today than ever before in
the history of the country; more
money is being paid out here in sala-
rios than oyar before and fhoro arp
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Just Retribution That Overlook Arrogant Female

LIE
until he overlook
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-08

in word, she shipped out that she
had nothing for him. And that was all
the thanks he got.
The man stood stock still. The
humiliation had stunned him.
No woman on earth-or man
should needlessly hurt another and get
away with it. Retribution, of course,
evens up sooner or later, but she ap-
parently doesn't own an automobile, as
by the time she shows up it is general
ly too late to fit the punishment to
the crime. Which is why plain soul,
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Il NATIONALWW
.ApIIAL. AfTAIpS
All Business Has Boom at National Capital

capital of the nation today facing of
employee
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He grows more importunate. Today.
consulting book on the shelf,
turned and found him again in the
chair. This is the first time he has
dared to do this in my presence. New
ertheless, by looking at him steadily
and sternly for several minutes, COM
PEELED him to vanish. This proves my
contention. He does not exist. If he
were an eternal form could not make
him vanish by a mere effort of my
will.
This is getting damnable. Today
gazed at him for an entire hour before
could make him leave. Yet it is so
simple. What see is memory pic
ture. For twenty years I was accus-
toned to seeing him there at the desk.
The present phenomenon is merely
recrudescence of that memory pic
ture-a picture which was impressed
countless times on my conscience.
I gave up today. He exhausted me,
anu Stiii hC "ouiu hOe 81. ont dAu
watched him hour after hour. He
takes no notice of me, but continually
writes. know he writes, for I read
it over his shoulder. 1t is not true
He is taking an unfair advantage.
Query: He is product of my con-
seriousness; Is it possible, then, that en-
titles may be created by conscious
ness?
We did not quarrel. To this day I
do not know how it happened. Let
me tell you. Then you will see. We
sat up late that acknowledgements
last night Of his existence. 1t was the
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rather IQdn walt anu De UrdICeU. MORE
than score of applicants were accept
ed for the different branches of service
one day recently.
That there will be q material in
crease in interest, officers state, is in
dicated by the fact that great many
civilians are dropping in to talk over
the matter and are incidentally stating
that they much prefer enlisting to be-
ing conscripted into the service.
"Just as well do it now as have
to do it later" was the way one Of the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-08
Youths Of Capital Showing Eagerness to Enlist

RAIY and recruiting officers the stations Wash
rush of recruits by those enlist
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saw him today, seated at the desk,
writing. 1t gave me quite shock, be-
cause had thought he was quite dis
PEELED. Nevertheless, on looking stead
lily, found that he was not there-the
old familiar trick of the brain. 1 have
dwelt too long on what has happened.
1 am becoming morbid, and my old in
digestion is limiting and muttering. 1
shall take exercise. Each day I shall
walk for two hours.
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1t is impossible. I cannot exercise.
Each time return from my walk, he
is sitting in my chair at my desk. 1t
grows more difficult to drive him away.
1t is my chair. Upon this insist. 1t
was his, but he is dead, and it is no
longer his. How can one be fooled by
the phantoms of his own imagining |!
There is nothing real in his apparition.
1 know it. 1 am firmly grounded with
my fifty years of study. The dead are
dead.
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And yet, explain one thing. Today,
before going for my walk, carefully
put the fountain pen in my pocket be-
fore leaving the room. 1 remember it
distinctly. looked at the clock at the
time. 1t was 20. Yet on my return
there was the pen lying on the desk.
Someone had been using it. There
was very little ink left. I wish he
would not write so much. 1t is discon-
certing.
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l know the answer. I am not fool.
And some day, If 1 am plagued too des-
perately, 1 shall give the answer my
self. I shall give the name Of him
who mislays my pen and uses up my
ink. 1t is so silly to think that could
use such a quantity of ink. The serv-
ant lies, know.
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Thank God, he only manifests him
the chair am quit of him.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-08

to believe in the reality of what /
know is not. Besides, Authorizations
do not pop.
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Of so cheap quip in the midst of a
serious discussion, astounded me.

The eternity of forms. 1t was RI
diculous. Yet is there strange magic
in the words. If it be true, then has he
not ceased to exist? Then does he ex-
list? This is impossible.
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1 have ceased exercising. AS long
as 1 remain in the room the hallucina-
ton does not bother me. But when
l return to the room after an absence
he is always there, sitting at the desk,
writing. Yet dare not cOnfide in a
physician. l must fight this out by
myself.
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My device for dislodging him from
the chair by striking my head is fail
ing. have to hit much more vio-
lently, and do not succeed perhaps
more than once in a dozen trials. My
head is quite sore where I have so
repeatedly struck it. I must use the
other hand.
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They say he was murdered. They
also say murder will out. Then say,
why does not his murder come out?
Who did it? Where is he? Where Is
jim? My Jim.
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1 wish he would come back. Why
did he go? Who can ever explain it?
j am lonely now, and depressed with
grave forebedings-frig by ter
rors that are of the mind and that put
at naught all that my mind has ever
conceived. Form is mutable. This is
the last word of positive science. The
dead do not come back. This is incon-
ltrovertible. The dead are dead, and
that is the end of it, and of them.
And yet 1 have had experiences here
here, in this very room, at this very
desk, that-but wait. Let me put it
down in black and white, in words sim
pie and unmistakable. Let me ask
some questions. Who mislays my pen?
That is what desire to know. Who
uses up my ink so rapidly? Not 1.
And yet the ink goes.
The answer to these questions would
settle all the enigmas Of the universe.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-05
PRESIDENT WILSON
OPPOSED TO STRIKES
Suggests Remedial Legislation gainst
Attacks of Organized Labor.

President Woodrow Wilson in his
address before the joint session Of
congress at the December term was
outspoken in his opposition to strikes
and the attacks Of organized labor up
on the country's industrial institu-
tions.
In touching upon the railroad phase
of the question, he says:
THE country cannot, and should not
consent to remain any longer exposed
to profound industrial disturbances
for lack of additional means of arbi
trstion and Cancellation which the con-
gress can easily and promptly supply.
Il would hesitate to recommend, and
| dare say that congress would hes
itate to act upon the suggestion should
| make it, that any men in any occu-
patton should be obliged by law to
continue in an employment which he
desired to leave. To pass a law which
forbade or prevented the individual
workman to leave his work before
receiving the approval Of society in
doing so would be to adopt new prin-
ciple into our Jurisprudence which
take for granted we are not prepared
to introduce. But the proposal that
the operation of the railways of the
country shall not be stopped or in
terrputed by the concerted action of
organized bodies of men until a pub
lie investigation shall have been insti-
tuted which shall make the whole
question at issue plain for the judg-
ment OF the opinion of the nation is
not to propose any such principle. 1t
is based upon the very different prin-
ciple that the concerted action of pow
erful bodies of men shall not be per-
mitted to stop industrial processes of
the nation, at any rate before the ma
ton shall have had an opportunity to
acquaint itself with the merits of the
case as between employee and employ
er, time to form its opinion upon an
impartial statement Of the merits, and
opportunity to consider all practical
means of Cancellation and arbitration.
1t can and should be done with a full
and scrupulus regard for the interests
and liberties of all concerned as well
for the permanent interest Of So
ciety itself"
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-05
A COMPARISON.

The Hinckley Mimi Enterprise in
comparing the price. of subscriptions
today with the high cost of living,
says: an May, 1903, when the Enter
prise came under the present manage
ment it took eight pounds Of butter to
pay for years subscription and it
now takes 1-3 pounds; it then took
ten dozen Of eggs and it now takes
but little more than three dozens, it
then took five bushels of potatoes and
it now takes a little more than one
bushel; it then took little more than
two bushels Of wheat and it now takes
less than one bushel; it then took three
fourths of cord of wood and it now
takes one-third of a cord. The Enter
prise also cost then about twice as
many chickens, twice as much pork.
twice as much beef. As compared with
then, the Enterprise costs the farmer
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-05
THE SIN OF GLUTTUNI.

Dog fanciers have long noted that
when a house dog begins to get fat
and wheezy it is apt to be attacked
by stubborn skin disease. In such
case they cut down the diet and in
crease the open air exercise, thus re-
lieving the over burdened body of the
poisonous substances.
The sin of gluttony is common and
other violations of Natures laws has
penalty Fat ineficiency, sluggish
mentality, the redeemed nose, the PIN
pied face, certain of the chronic skin
eruptions, and much fatigue and nerv-
BUSINESS are due to the abuse of the
digestive organs. Rich, indigetible
foods in large quantities, highly sea-
soned to stimulate the faded palate.
are forced into a body already rebel
ious from repetition. Exercise is large
ly limited to walking to and from the
table and bodily deterioration pro-
eeeds rapidly. Many an overfed dys-
peptic, suddenly dragged by the stern
hand ,F o;,-,.,t,,, - 4 ....-- r. 1.r d,
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-05

is a nonresident of the state of Tea
nessee and a resident of the state Of
Missouri, so that the ordinary process
of law cannot be served upon him. it is
therefore ordered that publication be
made in the tates-Graphic, a weekly
newspaper published in Brownsville,
Tennessee, for four consecutive weeks
commanding said defendant to make
his appearance herein at the court
house in the city of Brownsville, Ten
nessee, before the judge Of said court
on
The Fourth Monday in January, 1917
and plead, answer or otherwise defense
make to the said petition filed herein
or same will be taken for confessed as
to him and set for trial ex parte. Done
at Office in Brownsville, Tennessee, on
this the 18th day of December, 1916.
B. L. CAPELL, Clerk.
Currie Dixon, Atty. for Petr.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-05
WILL MONEY TAKE ROOT,

If you want to see how money will
take root and grow just go to the
First Savings Bank & Trust Co and
plant a dime in the new Christmas
Banking Club they just opened to ac-
commodate the people of the COM
munity who want TO start to save
money.
This dime will grow in fifty weeks
before the Christmas next year when
you will feel the need Of ready money
into Sl27.5O.
You only need to water" the dime
you plant regularly each week for
forty-nine more weeks. The way you
do this is to put in twenty cents the
second week, thirty cents the third
week and so on, increasing your depos-
lit only dime each week.
The. little Christmas Banking Club
Which the First Savings Bank & Trust
Company will give you or any of your
friends free will show you when to
make your weekly deposit and how
much you put in.in order to get, in
fifty weeks, the S127.50
Whole families are joining this
Christmas Banking Club. 1t is the
best thing that ever struck town to
show us all how to save money and
get ahead. 1t gets US into the banking
habit-the best habit anyone can learn
Money planted in the bank will surely
grow if we let stay in the bank what
we put in and keep adding to it. "Ev-
cry little bit added to what you've
got makes little bit more
First thing you will know, if you
only START to banking your money
you will be rich.
You can plant" only nickel in the
Christmas Banking Club and in fifty
weeks have $63.75. You must put in
ten cents the second week, fifteen cents
the third week and so on, increasing
the amount you deposit only nickel
each week. The biggest sum you put
in at any one time is only $3.50. You
will hardly believe this until you look
into the little Christmas Banking Club
book which the First Savings Bank
q Trust Company will furnish you
and every member of your family free.
The "kiddies' can join the one-cent
or the two-cent club and in fifty weeks
have $12.75 or $3.50.
Every boy and girl or man and wo-
man in our community should join the
Christmas Banking Club. It's a good
thing. Thanks to the First Savings
Bank & Trust Co.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-05
DISSOLUTION NOTICE

BY mutual consent the firm of For
rest and Dupree is this day dissolved,
Mr.. N. r. Dupree having purchased
the entire interest of C. w. Forrest.
n. R. Dupree alone is authorized to
collect all accounts, notes, ETC., due
said firm of Forrest & Dupree. The
said N. r. Dupree is obligated to pay
all debts this firm may owe. This De-
eember %, 1916. C. W. FORREST.
N. R. DUPREE.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-05
THE STATES-GRAPHIC
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY


We have become so accustomed to
the cry that the prevailing high prices
of living are the result of our in
creased exports of food stuffs that t
comes as somewhat of a shock to
learn from official figures that during
the past year our food supplies were
in reality something like SlO0,O00,OOO
less than the previous year. And it
is stated on the same authority that
never before has the visible supply
been so low.
The food spectators have been yell
ing that Europe was making such a
tremendous demand for our food sup
plies that the enormous shipments in
themselves were the cause of sky-high
prices. That, too, appears to be mix
ture of financial wind and hot air.
Congress is Investigating" the price
boosting combines. But did you ever
hear of the politicians of either party
doing anything more than to "inves-
tigate?" Did you ever hear of con-
viction? More wind-political Wi ..
There are two distinct causes for
the prevailing high prices. We lack
producers, and we are cursed with
set of food spectators who would
starve a baby to death for a penny
Our production is not keeping pace
with the demand, because our farmers
are leaving their acres and turning
their faces to the allurements of town
and city And there are none to take
their places on the farms. As Mr..
Cleveland so tersely put it, THIS is a
condition and not theory"
Food spectators know this and are
buying and boarding the supply and
doing it out in driblets at tehir own
prices.
When we get rid of fout-iftn5 Of the
middle men, and Jail the Specializing
price boosters, and keep thu men .on
the farms and put more Of them there,
then we will have ample supplies at
reasonable prices, and not until then.
And in the mean time congress will
keep right on periodically GIN, estigat-
Hg' as 4 has always done and will
always DO. irrespective OF parry
aeo8 uore producer ana fewer
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-05

1t is often said that it is useless
to try to disguise a Ford. But this is a
as we can prove by referring
to Shakespeare. In "The Merry Wives
of Windsor" we find the following:
Enter Bardolph, with Ford disguised"
Many people think that the Ford is
modern device, but here again they
are way off, for Falstaff, in one of his
famous speeches, exclaims thus: Il
have had Ford enough; | was thrown
into the Ford; have my belly full of
Ford!" You can see from this that
therX nothing new under the sun,
~ Its all iaSbakesnsare,p as
hds often been said.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-05
Bank Official Recommends Them.

T. J. Noryell, V. P. Bank of Cotton
wood, Tex, writes: Beyond doubt
have received great relief and take
great pleasure in recommending Fo-
ley's Kidney Pills. Kidney troubles
make one worried and hopeless by
aches and pains, soreness, stiffness,
backache, rheumatism. These symp-
toms, as well as sleep-disturbing blad-
der disorders, yield quickly to Foley's
Kidney Pills. They cast out poisons
and purify the blood. J. D. Curtis
Drug Co. Gee
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-05

almost nothing. On the other hand.
the price of the paper the Enterprise
was printed on was S4S per ton. and
it now costs somewhere between 120
and $l40 per ton. Do you wonder the
publisher is getting gray-headed?
And say, Mr.Farmer, how much is ther
left of that old story about you not
being able to take the paper?"