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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
JOCKEYS SELDOM COME BACK
Unlike Ball Player or Fighter Rider
Rarely Returns to SaddIe-tiis
Cunning Gone.

A ball player who has been a hitter
Will retain his hitting eye until the
very last, and fighter who was clever
will keep his knowledge of how to
fight when everything else is gone, but
when jocky goes, he goes, every
which way, seems like.
He loses his judgment of pace, and
his hands, along with his seat on the
horse, and everything else. Then, like
the ball player. returns to the sticks,
the jock drifts to the bush tracks, or,
like the fighter, quits altogether.
Some become trainers, like Odom
and Willie Midgeley, and Maxey
Hirsch and Snapper" Garrison, and
Mickey Miles, and "Puddin'" McDan-
lei, and frankie O'Neil, who trained in
France, and some who are not smart
enough or ambitious enough to handle
horses and who did not save their
dough when they were getting it as
riders, turn tout.
Willie Knapp, real oldtimer, who
was down on the ground for several
years and who was reinstated this
spring, is about the only genuine jock
comeback. Willie has put up some great
rides and few bad ones, but he Is Q
real comeback.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11

wants Of his family do not require.
with the power to reclaim all, or part
OF it, at pleasure. 1t would be most
desirable thing, even If no interest
should be received"
OF course there were pessimists and
suspicion and prejudice to overcome,
but at last in 1910 the bank was opened
in little shingled cottage. There
were no vaults, but large iron strong
box. too heavy to move by hand, an
swered the purpose. In view of the
suspicion which he says was enter
tanned by many, Doctor Duncan pro-
vided three locks for the strong box.
He held one key and two elders Of
his church each held the others. OF
course the box could not be opened
without all three keys, in the presence
Of all three trustees.
In the first year the deposits
amounted to f151. In the second year
f176 was deposited. This grew to
f241 in the third, and 1922, or more
than $4,000, in the fourth. For a
poverty-stricken village these deposits,
aggregating more than $1,000, were re-
garded as remarkable, since it must
be remembered that all deposits were
in small sums.
The effect of the opening Of the
savings bank on the village was all
that Doctor Duncan hoped for. With
in a year there was remarkable de-
crease in the number Of those who
sought charity. Thrift and happiness
replaced poverty and discomfort. With
in few years there was scarcely
pauper in the village, as Doctor Dun
can records.
In the meanwhile the fame Of this
remarkable little institution began to
spread and Doctor Duncan soon found
that his labors as minister were
swallowed up by those of a banker.
His correspondence increased day by
day; letters poured in from all over
England and the continent of Europe
and from America asking for informa-
ton.
In 1914 he published book on saw
ings banks, which was widely circu-
lated, and savings banks began to
spread throughout the British Isles. 1t
seems strange at this time to read that
savings banks could have aroused op-
position. This, however, was a fact.
There was a bitter fight in parliament
before the first savings bank act was
passed in 1917. Cobbett, the best
known editor Of his dav uSod hiu
powerful influence against the plan,
but Doctor Duncan was fighter as
we'll as philanthropist. He went
before the committee Of parliament
himself and so impressed both lords
and commons with his sincerity, the
force Of his personality and the JUS
tice Of his cause that the bill was
passed. This was in 1917. Savings
banks spread rapidly over Great Brit
ain and then over all the rest Of the
world.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
CHECKERING GUN ART
Pleasant Pastime to Improve Ap-
pearance of Firearm.
Amateur Will Derive Much Satisfac-
ton From Experience and Will
Be Surprised at Result of
His Handiwork.

Many sportsmen find 1t an interest
ing pleasant experience to take ia
vorite rifle or shotgun and improve its
appearance by checkering the stock
or forearm.
This is an art in itself and the anna
teur will find experience the best teach
er. good plan to follow in making
the first experiment is to take block
OF walnut with a polished or smooth
surface and draw two lines diagonal
to each other. The shape of the dia-
mond produced by the checkering is
dependent upon the angle formed by
these first two lines.
A handwriting tool with three
parallel scraping surfaces is then used,
starting on the diagonal lines. This
tracing tool simply marks the lines for
filing, after the surface of the stock
Is still flat but marked with the
parallel lines, crossing each other dag
onally.
These lines serve as guides and the
stock is then filed up with a small
band triangular file cutting into the
wood to shape up the small diamonds,
and the stock is afterward gone over
finally with file to perfect the shape
of the diamonds and raise the small
points at the top Of each diamond.
After this is done border may be
put on with a small hand tool with
two parallel cutters. These serve to
give finished appearance to the
checkering.
Ordinarily the process of checker
ing the stocks and forearms of fac
tory produced guns Is all hand work
and done by skilled help. Although
of course not an unusual operation, it
requires ordinarily six or eight months
time to learn. Some operatives are
never successful in mastering the
trick.
The amateur will derive much sat-
isfaction from the experience of check
ering his own guns, and by exercising
q little care and patience will be
agreeably surprised with the results
of his handiwOrk.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11

did was wrong. He had been assigned
to row No. in the boat, and all he
heard from the coach during the after
noon was:
"Hey! No. 5, you bonehead-Don't
hold your oar like thatw or mo. 81!
How many times do have to tell you
not to place your feet like that?"
The following day he was moved
down one position in the boat, but
didn't do any better, and the coach
nagged at him continually. That night
a friend asked him how he was get
ting along with his rowing.
"Wen," he replied, 81 had tough
time the first day and got bawled out
lot, but I did fine today. feel
sorry for No. 4, whoever he is, be-
cause the coach rode him to beat the
band today"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11


OF the worlds people, Even New Yors rncy dmmed
by
bancy
and here there allied soldier
that is the center of America and had
midst entirely curiosity
WHY look
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11

declaring unstrung wampum no longer
to be legal tender. This was going to
the opposite extreme, and the little
Dutch colony came near a financial
panic. Six months later loose and i'm
perfect wampum had to be declared le-
gal tender.
In Massachusetts, wampum became
legal tender in 1910, but twenty-one
years later the coming of silver was
authorized, and this more stable me-
dunn soon drove wampum beads out
of circulation.
After the Revolutionary war money
was so scarce that wampum came
into use again. 1t persisted here and
there as money until the nineteenth
century, and indeed, wampum in va
rious forms, including pipes and
moons, were considerably used in the
United States until as late as 1880.
The financial requirements of the
Revolutionary war resulted in the es-
tablishing of Americas first banks.
The initial undertaking was the Bank
Of Pennsylvania, which was started in
July, 1850. 1t was described by the
well-knOwn financier Norris as "noth-
ing more than patriotic subscription
of continental money for the purpose
Of purchasing provisions for a starv-
ing army" In the decade 17S0-179O,
three other financial institutions were
launched; the Bank of New York,
Massachusetts Bank and the Bank of
North America. This latter is general
ly considered to be the first bank in the
United States and was capitalized at
$10,OOO,0O0. Actual subscriptions, how
ever, were very hard to secure and
only $4,000 was obtained. The gov
eminent contributed 100000 In specie.
The New York Stock Exchange has
been traced back to meeting of twen-
ty-fOur brokers under a tree opposite
60 Wall street, May II, 1892. The
purpose of the meeting was to agree
on uniform commissions. Thereafter
the brokers met at "Tontine Coffee
House." Wall and Water streets. The
final organization of the Stock Ex-
change was completed in 1917. The
Philadelphia Stock Exchange also
started in a coffee house.
The malodOrous "bucketshop" re-
ceived its name from England. On
the east side Of London loafers had
custom of going from street to street
and draining every keg of beer they
could find. The liquor was placed in
bucket. After it was filled these hard
characters retired to some out Of the
way corner and caroused, passing the
bucket from one to another. The term
'bucketshop," at first meaning assem-
blages of this kind, came to be applied
to any establishment Of doubtful repu-
tation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
HARVARD TO RETAIN DUFFY
Baseball Coach Will Be Kept Although
Crimson Will Have Only lnfor-
NAL College Nine.

The Harvard Athletic association
has decided to retain Hugh Duffy as
baseball coach, although the Crimson
will have only an informal college nine
next year.
Duffy, however, will coach the fresh
men, with whom he worked all fall
The batteries will begin work on Feb
ruary IL in the cage. There are no old
varsity players In college.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11

One hundred and ten years ago there
were no savings banks. The savings
bank is an institution which was
founded In the year 1910 by Rev.
Henry Duncan In the little Scottish
village of Ruthwell. Before that time,
poverty seemed to be the normal con-
ditiOn of half the population of the
British Isles. Pauperism was so COM
mon as to cause no comment. Hun
dreds of thousands in Scotland alone
lived on charity and it was generally
accepted as a hopeless fact that "the
poor We have always with u.s."
Doctor Duncan was of sturdy Scotch
cOvenantOr blood. He was man of
unusual strength of character origin
talent for making friends. The dis
tress of his parishioners preyed heav-
lily on Doctor Duncan's mind and he
felt If there was some way Of teach
ing them to be thrifty he would have
an effective remedy for the poverty he
saw all around him.
The chief trouble was that the small
est sum the public banks would ac-
cept was f10 and comparatively few Of
the Scottish villagers had so large
sum, about $4S.75 in American coin.
SO. Doctor Duncan conceived the idea
OF a poor mans bank, as he called it,
which would receive deposits Of any
amount, however small. After study
Ing the subject long and carefully, he
published pamphlet to call attention
to his project, so, as he said, as to
render this measure suitable not for
one locality only but 'for Scotland and
the world"
I The only banks the poor had in
those days were stocking, chink in
the wall, or loose board In the floor.
They were often robbed and the temp
tation to use portion of this precious
nest egg was often too strong. Doc
tor Duncan argued shrewdly that if
their funds were transferred to bank,
they not only would be safe from theft
but the owners would hesitate to break
into them except in cases of urgent
need. In his pamphlet he says:
eff any method then could be de-
Tised for giving to the artisan place
of security, free of expense, for that
part of his gains which the immediate
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11

Here is the story of "wampum," the
first money to be used in the United
States.
1t consisted of clam shells, little
tubes made out Of clay, beads and the
like. All these the Indians called by
the general name of wampum, and
when the white man set foot upon
these shores he found the wampum
convenient for his use, not only in
trading with the Indians but with
other whites. The Indian name was
sewan, but the European immigrants
gave this legal tender the name of
Wampum, by which it has been known
ever since.
Wampum was not entirely devoid Of
intrinsic value. Most of the shells
from which it was made were rare.
These were made largely into beads,
highly polished and strung on strings.
Chiefs, sachems, and medicine men
wore great strings of these beads on
ceremoniOus occasiOns.s Every treaty
was corrobOrated by laying down belts
of beads. Friendships were cemented
and alliances and marriages were al
ways solemnized with an exchange of
wampum.
Wampum was chiefly of two kinds,
white and dark purple. The white
was made from the edge of the clam
shells and the purple made from the
shells heart, and was worth double
the white. Considerable labor cost
went into the manufacture of wam-
pun, for writer in the year 1714 tells
US: "All wampum is made of shells
which are found on the coast of Caro-
lima, which are very large and hard,
30 they are very difficult to cut" He
adds that "some English smiths have
tried to drill this sort of shell money
and thereby thought to get advantage,
but it proved so hard that nothing
could be gained"
When an Indian was buried, strings
Of wampum were always placed in the
grave with him for convenience in
purchasing the necessary supplies in
the next world, and for use as tips
to various minor Indian dieties, who
the Indians believed were as greedy
as modern head walters.
In 1641 the use of wampum was le-
galized by the common council of New
Amsterdam. now New York. This was
next followed by an epidemic of coun-
terfeiting, which caused great deal
of difficulty and led to the rapid de-
probation of wampum as medium
Of exchange. Old Peter Stuyvesant
pegged around on his wooden leg and
did his best to solve the problem by
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
How to Apply Gum.

BY means of a printed notice attached
to each bottle of gum, FL. M. stationery
Office thus instructs the government
officials in the use of that substance:
'Tn ordinary use, the best and most
nearly immediate result is obtained
By using only snch an amount of gum
rs will just uniformly moisten the sur
face without leaving any obvious ex-
cess to delay drying, the condition to
be aimed at being that of gummed
postage stamp just moistened as ordi-
narily applied to a letter." Which Is
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
LIEUT.. JOE HIGGINS AVIATOR
One ofeHoIy Cross College Star Atl,,
Ietes Receives Commission at
Plattsburg Camp.

Lieut.. Joseph T. Higgins, one of the
greatest Of Holy Cross College ath-
letes, who received his commission
from the second Plattsburg training
camp, is to become an aviator. The
national 8SO-yard indoor champion has
been ordered to report in Washington,
when he will be designated to branch
Of the aviation service
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
REGARD GAY CRUSADER
AS A MARVELLOUS HORSE

English turfmen refer to Mr..
Fairies three-year-old bay colt,
Gay Crusader, by Bayardo, out
of Gay Laura, by Beppo, a son
of Marco, sire of Omar Khay-
yam, as marvellous. In success
sion he has won six races, in
Guiding the Two Thousand
Guineas, Saint Leger, Derby and
Gold Cup. Although he is only
a three-year-old, racing experts
assert that if he were in the
Cambridgeshire, for which Pha-
laris, the acknowledged cham
pion of British four-year-olds, is
top weight, his impost would be
1877 or 1873 pounds. He has been
racing since the first meeting in
England this year and is de-
scribed as a marvel of constitu-
ton and quality.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
BOB PECK JOINS ARTILLERY
Star Center Of Pittsburgh University
Has Enlisted In Indiana Com
pany at laporte.

Bob Peck, the University Of Pitts.
burgh star center, and Walter Camps
All-American center for two years, who
has been coaching the Culver Military
academy team this fall, has enlisted
In the Second Indiana Field artillery.
This regiment was recently organized
and is being enlisted throughout the
state. Peck is member Of the head
quarters company at Laporte.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11

he very essence of society and bril-
lance. But Washington's concert au-
licences have the Diamond Horseshoe"
IF New York's opera far outclassed
for real brilliant people-the sort Of
people that you gaze at in the Sunday
supplements.
These concerts come just at "tea
tfme," twice week. Soon after four
o'clock the stream Of carriages-yes
equipages are still considered quite
proper in Washington-and limousines
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11


Wasngtons
make the life
last time before they
of mobizng
battle Washington But
and
up
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11


who habiualy n ache
druggists will the
Jamaica
He tells of stomach ache cOcky baby Woman "dope
something nerve
courag or arer efus ITO SELL.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
FELT SORRY FOR NO. a OAR
Coach Rice Of Columbia Tells Story Of
Football Player Pressed Into
Service as Oarsman.

Jim Rice, coach Of Columbia's crews,
tells a story of a football player in
an eastern college who was pressed
into service as an oarsman. The first
day the embryo oarsman reported for
practice it seemed that everything he
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
Purdue Captain EnIists.

William Jennings Burns, captain OF
the Purdue football team, has enlisted
in the aviation department of the Unit
ed States army. He has been tackle
on the Purdue team for the last three
years. He was to have been graduated
next June
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
Buffalo Won't Quit Baseball.

Although its franchise has been de-
clared forfeited for nonpayment of sal
aries. nonpayment of league dues al j
for other reasons, Buffalo is expected
to have an International club next
year. If the league decides to operate.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
PRAISE FOR NEHF AND TYLER
Big Ed Walsh Says He's Never Seen
TWO Left-Handers on Any Team
With So Much Stuff.

Big Ed Walsh says that in all his
experience he has never seen two left
handlers on any club with so much STUFF
as Nehf and Tyler of the Braves, with
whom Ed is now connected. He ranks
them higher than Schupp, Benton and
SaIlce.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11

royalty, however, Is not the royalty
of autocracy. 1t is the royalty of de-
mocracy.
Since America entered the war
England, France and Italy have sent
some of their brightest men to WASH
ington to aid America in her prepara-
tons for war. Many of these men
are of the nobility, but they have for
gotten their noble birth and are Civ
ing their lives to the cause of de-
mOcracy.
Witness q few. First of all there
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
FUTURE OF LAWN TENNIS
PAINTED IN ROSY HUES

The future of lawn tennis in
America was painted in rosy
hues at the annual meeting of
the United States Lawn Tennis
association in New York city.
There were many predictions
that the coming season would be
the greatest in the history Of
American lawn tennis, partly
because of the steadily increas-
ing popularity in the game and
partly because the war depart
ment has approved tennis as an
ideal game for training purposes,
and has created 100 courts at
army training camps. The an
nual meeting, held Friday, was
unusual in that no ranking of
players for 1917 was announced,
a result of the war. Exhibition
games during 1918 for war funds
were discussed and approved at
the annual meeting.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
DuIv Exclaimed.

"What are pauses?" the teache.
asked the first class In grammar.
Things that grow on cats anG
dogs" answered the smallest GIRL
Parsons Weekly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
Famous Football Names.

Famous football names are found
IN the Yale freshmen team, including
hose of Dimes, Shevlin, Heffelfnger.
Scully and Neville.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
Pump With No Valves.

For pumping heavy liquids Welsh
inventor has designed a combined pis-
ton and rotary pump with no valves
that can be easily clOgged.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11

One of our lovely movie queens ha,
done her bit by investing in Libert,
bonds. She has just paid out abou.
n thousand dollars to get a divorce de-
cree.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11


while he talked with of
nothi more
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11

OI IHUTt SUIUIer DUyS anu IIIcIi S"SNe
hearts In Washington over every week.
end
From four of the nearby military
establishments the soldiers flock TO
Washington, and from all over Amer
lea their sweethearts come. Up and
down Pennsylvania avenue they stroll.
arm in arm. In the restaurants and
theaters these war lovers are every
where. For two days they forget the
war and what the future may hold in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
He'll Have to Speed Up Now.

Byron Houck, former Mackman and
federal Lacquer, who was drafted from
he Pacific Coast circuit by the
Browns, is one of the slowest pitchers
N the business.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
BILL JOHNSON ENTERS NAVY
Athletic outfieIder, Together With
Andy Slight, Big League
Catcher, Joins colors.

Bill Johnson of the Philadelphia Ath-
letics, who played brilliant ball
for Chattanooga in the Southern
league last season, has entered the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11


fighting the world Carpenter Wells
who added the history
CALAMITY serving
No boxer
his apne buetrdded the Carpenter
continued the German lines his
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
College Captains Elected.

Nebraska and Iowa university foot
ball teams elected their 1918 captains
recently. Reed won out at Iowa and
iihOdes got the honor at Nebraska.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11

De needed no longer. A few peddlers
who carried a small stock Of reptiles
have gone to other parts in preference
10 going into bankruptcy. Nobody will
ouy snake.
But in place of the snake bite has
come the old-fashioned "tummy ache"
Every little while sufferer makes his
way to a drug store and almost begs
:or dose of Jamaica ginger to cure
/ pain"
This does not mean that Washing
ION really has an epidemic of stomach
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
Record Squad of Candidates.

RECORD squad OF CandIdates.
&Yale has more than 1000 candidates
for it's various natatOrial combinations
Of which Ogden M. Reid, captain of
the 1906 water polo team, is head
coach.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
Robb to Lead Penn State.

Harry Robb has been unanimously
elected captain of the 1918 Penn State
'ootball team. He plays right halfback
Ind is sensational broken field rum
uer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
Flock to See Prominent Men and Their Wives

the Diamond psed the bancy
ordinary mention of the Diamond Horseshoe meant
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
Two Months Dry, and Not Case Of Snake Bite

physician druggist Washington
placed
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
Where Royalty Rubs Shoulders With Democracy

OYALTY and democracy mix Washington today though
N world
lords bans and walk side by side with civilians
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11

just another way of saying, "Appiy
lightly."-LOndOn Tit-Bits.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
|E(ldrl0xllIL Cnlg6{fldgS =
"a lE[EAllQS - s:M6 : 80
Cupid Kept Busy During Week.-Mrs. at the Capital

WAsHlNGToNoh Mister Dan Cupid Washington
your
one great big Lovers Lane thousand
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
"a dog is mans hest friend

"A UVo 10 ffItlfI . UCSt 1fICfIus
81 think lot of dog" commented
the worried-looking man; "but the way
things are going now. gimme cow or
q hen!"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11
"SIicker" Not Popular Just Now in Washington

ickers
work Washington side Atlantic