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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-03-08
FARMER BEHIND THE TIMES
His Wife Tells How She Has Lived
for Many Years Without Modern
Conveniences.

In the American Magazine a farm
er's wife tells Of some Of her expert
ences. She says:
my husband does not, or will not.
realize that the world has moved, and
that what were luxuries a generation
ago are necessities now. One Of my
'children died Of typhoid fever, the
germs Of which were, no doubt, brought
by flies from the house down the road
where they had the disease; for we
haven't screen door In the house, and
only few cheap adjustable screens.
"We sleep on feather beds, because
mattresses cost money, and the feather
beds were in the house-a part Of the
furnishings that I married, when ! took
my husband for better or for worse. We
have chairs with rounds missing, worn
carpets, nicked dishes and cooking
utensils that have long since outlived
their usefulness.
''The house is inconvenient, and for
that reason alone housewOrk Is much
harder than it ought to be, and house
work is hard enough in all conscience
on farm. We have no water in the
house. For IS years have fetched
| and carried water. There are two
steps between the kitchen and the din
ing room, which, by the way, was for.
merly bedroom and has no place for
stove. The 'parIor' is acress hall
from the main part Of the house and Is
only opened on special occasions"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-03-08

at Fort Worth, Tex.
Temporary suspension of the meat
les meal and of the special restriction
against the use of pork on Saturday
was announced by the food admins
tration as readjustment of its food
conservation program. Increased meat
production and the necessity for still
greater saving in wheat, it was de-
clared, make the change advisable.
The 1,70O-ton ferry steamer Castle
ton, the coal barge Edith and gov
eminent lightship were destroyed by
fire at Norfolk, Va. Two firemen
aboard the Castleton were burned to
death. The explosion of a lamp
aboard the Castleton caused the fire.
Special and speedy legislation to lay
bare the confidential files of the great
meat packers and disclose what gov
eminent investigators believe will
show plans to take complete control
of the meat industry was asked of
congress by the federal trade commits
sion.
BY act of congress, Porto Rico went
dry Saturday midnight. An election
held early last July, failed to repeal
the act, which prohibits importation
manufacture, sale, or gift Of intoxi
eating liquors or drugs.
Thirty officers and enlisted men OF
| the naval tug Cherokee are believed
| to have been lost when the vessel foun
dered in a fierce gale off Fenwicl
island lightship, % miles from the Del
aware capes. The survivors who go
away on the first life raft were safely
| landed by British steamer.
Lieut.. q. S. Grant ~, grandson O.
the Union general, was married IL
Spartanburg on October 4 to Miss Ma
tilda Bartikofsky of New York city
The news of the wedding was an
nounced on March 2.
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% Man Without.
g A County, q
81 Eduord Everett Hale

was sometimes done that way. we
were in the South Atlantic on that
business. From the time Joined, l
believe thought Nolan was sort OF
lay chaplain-a chaplain with blue
coat. I never asked about him. Ev-
erything in the ship was strange to
me. knew it was green to ask ques-
tons, and I suppose l thought there
was a "Plain-Buttons" on every ship.
| We had him to dine in our mess once
a week, and the caution was given that
on that day nothing was to be said
about home. But if they had told us
not to say anything about the planet
Mars or the book of Deuteronomy, l
should not have asked why; there were
a great many things which seemed to
me to have as little reason. l first
came to understand anything about
'.the man without country" one day
when we overhauled dirty little
| schooner which had slaves on board.
An officer was sent to take charge of
her. and after a few minutes he sent
| back his boat to ask that someone
might be sent him who could speak
Portuguese, We were all looking over
| the rail when the message came, and
we all wished we could interpret, when
| the captain asked who spoke Por-
tuguese. But none of the officers did ;
and just as the captain was sending
forward to ask if any of the people
could, Nolan stepped out and said he
should be glad to interpret, if the cap
tain wished, as he understood the Ian
guage. The captain thanked him, fit
ted out another boat with him, and in
this boat it was my luck to go.
When we got there, it was such a
scene as you seldom see, and never
want to. Nastiness beyond account,
and chaos run loose in the midst of the
nastiness. There were not a great
many Of the negroes; but by way
of making what there were understand
that they were free, Vaughan had had
their handouts and anklecuffs knocked
! off, and, for convenience sake, was
| putting them upon the rascals Of the
schooner's crew. The negroes were,
most Of them, out of the hold, and
| Swarming all round the dirty deck,
with central thrOng surrounding
| Vaughan and addressing him in every
dialect and patois of a dialect, from
the Zulu click up to the Partisan OF
Beledeljereed.
AS we came on deck, Vaughan
looked down from a hOgshead, on
which he had mounted in desperation
and said:
"For Gods love, is there anybody
who can make these wretches under
stand something? The men gave them
rum, and that did not quiet them.
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knocked that big fellow down twice,
and that did not soothe him. And then
I talked Choctaw to all of them to-
gether; and I'll be hanged if they I'M
derstood that as well as they under
stood the English"
Nolan said he could speak Por-
tuguese, and one or two fine-loOking
Kroomen were dragged out, who, as 1t
had been found already, had worked
for the Portuguese on the coast at
Fernando Pc.
"Tell them they are free," said
Vaughan; "and tell them that these
rascals are to be hanged as soon as
we can get rope enough"
Nolan explained it in such Portu.
guese as the KroOmen could under.
stand, and they in turn to such of the
negroes as could understand them
Then there was such a yell of delight
clinching Of fists, leaping and dancing
kissing of NOlan's feet, and general
rush made to the hogshead by way Of
spontaneous worship of Vaughan al
the deus ex machina Of the occasion.
"Tell Them" said Vaughan, vel
pleased, "that 1 will take them all t.
Cape Palmas."
| This did not answer so well. Cape
Palmas was practically as Ear from
the homes of most Of them as New Or
leans or Rio Janeiro was; that is, theJ
would be eternally separated from
home there. And their Interpreters, a.
we could understand, instantly said
"Ah, non Palnas," and began to pro
pose infinite other expedients in mos
voluble language. Vaughan was rath
err disappointed at this result of, hi.
| liberality, and asked Nolan eagerl!
what they said. The drops stood OF
poor Nolan's white forehead as b,
hushed the men down, and said:
HE says, Not Palmas.' He says
Take us home, take us to our coun
| try, take us to our own house. TAX
| us to our own pickaninnies and on
own women He says he has an oil,
father and mother, who will die, i
they do not see him. And this on
says he left his people all sick, an,
padded down to come and help them
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The first tangible evidence of re-
vulsion in feeling toward pro-German
paeifism among radicals in America as
the result of the Prussian invasion of
Russia was manifested in Aeolian hall,
New York, at a great gathering of So
cialists. The audience cheered the
war and Woodrow Wilson and adopted
almost unanimously a demand that all
Socialists unite in support of the war
as The only practicable means of saw
ing ideals of democracy from Teutonic
obliteration.
Samuel Gompers, president Of the
American Federation of Labor, on be-
half of the American Alliance for La
Dor and Democracy, of which Mr.. Com
pers is also president, sent to the Rus
sian people message of cheer and
pledge of high resolve and fixed
purpose" to defeat autocracy.
Earl Dear was found guilty of the
murder of Rudolph Wolfe, chauffeur
Of DIR. Philip Schuyler Doane, by a
jury in Judge Kersten's court at Chi
cago. His penalty was fixed as death.
His accomplice. Eugene Harnett was
also found guilty, with punishment
from fourteen years to life in prison.
Miles OF telephone and telegraph
poles are reported down in southeast
ern Kansas as result of windstOrm,
and railroads are having difficulty in
moving trains.
Count Minotto, son-in-law of Louis
Swift. millionaire meat packer, de-
tanned as an enemy alien, was held by
the department Of labor for action by
the department of justice.
Twelve Mexicans were killed and
several were wounded when a band of
80 Mexicans fired on an American cav
airy detachment in command of Capt
Kramer Thomas near Maria, Tex.
Investigation of the treatment OF
Private Albert Hestwood of Liberal
Kan, who died of spinal meningitis
rat Camp Doniphan, Okla, has resulted
| In Secretary Baker ordering the trial
by cOurt-martial Of Maj. Phillip B. Con
nelly, medical corps, and First Lieut.
| Walter III. Kirkpatrick
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US.-Teut0r1ic War News

American troops repulsed strong
German attack in the salient north Of
Toul. France. There were many Amer
lean casualties, one of the killed being
captain who was graduated from
West Point In 1917. The raid was a
complete failure, three German pris-
oners remaining in American hands.
The ground in front of the American
trenches was strewn with German
dead.
Japan has directed inquiries to the
entente powers and the United States
government to test their feeling to-
ward a proposal to institute joint mill
tary operations in Siberia to save the
war supplies stored at Vladivostok and
| along the Siberian railroad.
*s*
English and Scotch troops carried
| ont successful raids against the enc
my's trenches on Greenland hill, north
of the Scarpe river" said the London
war Office report. ''Twenty-four pris-
oners and machine gun were cap
tured by u.s."
Three American soldiers were killed
and nine badly "gassed" in two formid.
able gas attacks made by the Germans
on the American positions in the Toul
sector with projectors. The enemy
also heavily bombarded the American
batteries with gas shells, but without
result.
| A strong German attack, following 9
heavy barrage fire against the Amer
lean trenches in the Chemin des
Danes sector, was repulsed with losse.
to the attackers. There were M
American casualties.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-03-08
south's Farm Production.

The Manufacturers' Record says
that the total value of the South's az
ricultural products, including animal
products, in 1915 was more than a.
CSC, OOO,O 900, or only 3 per cent less than
the total for the United States In 1900.
The total value Of the South's crops,
emitting live stock, In 1916 was $685..
332, 900, or 1.O72, $4,000 over 1915. To
this cotton contributed $1,079, sos, O00.
grain $1,2S3, $685. 900. and hay, tobacco
and potatoes $40, 494, 900.
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Happenings
Of the World
Tersely Told
European War News

"By reason of the signing of the
peace treaty with Russia" says the
official communication to Berlin from
Headquarters, military movements in
Great Russia have ceased" The Ger
mans in their advance through Russia
have captured. according to the COM
munication, $500 officers and $1,000
men, 2,4OO guns, 5000 machine guns,
thousands of motor vehicles, 60 loco
motives and thousands of railroad
trucks.
Two German submarines attacking
troop ships from Australia conveyed
by Japanese warships in the Mediter-
ranean, are believed to have been
sunk, the Tokyo navy office announces.
One convoy fleet was attacked by a
submarine February u.
The bolsheviki have seized pier
at Vladivostok containing munitions
and other goods valued at 1O0,OOO,OOO
rubles (about $5OO,OOO), according to
advices received at Tokyo. The same
dispatch declared the bOlsheviki
threatened to requiSitiOn foreign
merchant ship for their use and that
allied warships in the harbor were
preparing to land marines.
japan and China are diSpatching
| troops into Asiatic Russia, the former
| into Siberia and the latter into, MAN.
churia, Tien Tsin newspapers an
nounced, according to a dispatch 70
| the London Evening News.
A German airman bombed various
portions of Petrograd. Three persons
were killed and five wounded. The
| material damage was unimpOrtant.
! The Ukrainian army has occupied
Kiev, Gomel and Berdichev.
Strong efforts made by German
troops to debouch from the Neufchatel
salient, northwest of Reims, were
| frustrated, the French war office an
nounced in it's statement. The enemy
likewise failed to reach the Popelle
| fort. southeast of Reims, succeeding
only in gaining fOothold with some
| small detachmentS to the west of 1t.
| Further evidence of the growing
| strain in relations between Germany
and Austria over the refusal of the lat
ter to participate in the renewed at
| tack upon Russia is given in an OIL
cial dispatch received at Washington
from France. 1t quotes the Austrian
premier as formally reiterating on Feb
ruary % that Austria-Hungary will
take no part in military action against
Russia or Roumania and will not senC
her troops into Ukrainia.
Called in by the Ukrainian govern
ment and population to protect then
from bolshevik bands, AustrO-Hungar
ian troops have advanced into Little
Russia, one wide sector north OF TIT
Pruth, the Berlin war Office announces
The British merchant steamship III
IBERIA of 1850 tons gross, owned BY
the Anchor line, was sunk by Ger
man submarine about February =
while bound for the United States
The crew was rescued.
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Washington

Secretary McAdOo named April 3 for
the opening of the third Liberty loan
campaign. 1t is the first anniversary
of our entrance into the war. The
amount terms and conditions are de-
pendent upon legislation.
4 y
Summary action against misman-
aged shipyards was announced blythe
United States shipping board. Twent-
| ty-four steel ship contracts were can
celed Further cancellations are I'M
der advisement. Inspection is being
made Of inefficient yards with view
to communicating them.
The house, by vote of 337 to g,
passed the administration railroad bill
fixing two years as the period after the
war for which the roads may be held
by the government and leaving the su-
preme rate-making power with the
president.
Members of the senate and house
military affairs committees, high army
and navy officers, representatives OF
the allied missions in Washington and
large number of civilians witnessed
the first demonstration of the Brown
ing machine gun. 1t was staged under
the auspices of the ordnance depart
fnent. The new weapon met every
test.
Sensational charges that rules and
orders of the national food admins
tration at Washington have enabled
the big meat packers to gain control
of practically all of the country's out
put of certain food products and re-
| strict the business Of their small COM
petitors were made at the hearing In
Chicago before Basil M. Manly, exam
liner for the federal trade commission
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-03-08

A poet has been known to mako dol
lars out of lines that ordinary MORALS
could not make sense out ok--CinciH,
natl Times-Star.
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Foreign

Authentic information received at
The Hague from Asia Minor direct, Is
that the entire Armenian male popula-
ton of Samsun, thousands of whom
were driven there by the Turks, and
including children, have been mas
sacred.
Count Czernin, Austro-Hungarian
foreign minister, has demanded the
abdication of King Ferdinand of
Roumania in favor of his brother, Will
liam, or a successor picked by the peo-
pie, according to Berlin dispatch
TO Amsterdam. The demand was in
Guided in the peace TERMS submitted
| to Roumania.
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Domestic

Flying an aggregate distance of 3d.
600 miles in ~ hours, aviation cadets
at San Diego, Cal, have broken all rec
ords for American aviation training
mileage, it was announced.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-03-08

Colonel Roosevelt it was announced
at New York, will leave Roosevelt hos
pital Tuesday, but with his hearing
permanently impaired. He is deaf in
the left ear.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-03-08

Gen. C. C. HOare supreme command
err of the British Royal Flying corps
in Canada and the United States, mar
rowly escaped death, but was injured
severely about the face and head, in
forced landing at Hicks aviation field
at Fort Worth, Tex.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-08-16
BOY SCOUT WINS HONOR
Z. D. Wales, IL, Of Memphis, Sold
More Bonds Than Any ether
Scout In Town. :

Boy Scouts did valiant service in
selling Liberty Bonds of the first and
second issues. Plans have been
launched for the Scouts TO sell many
thousands more OF bonds in the third
issue. Out of the army of Scouts I'm
America. c. d. WALES, Jr.. IL years
old, OF Memphis. Tenn. has the dis
inction OF having sold the largest
numbe. OF bonds OF the second issue.
Young WALES has just received q
gold medal given by the president q
the National Boy Scouts Council In
New York to the Scout who sold the
most bonds. The Memphis youth.
who Is employed in a bank. sold 1.sso
bonds. valued at e445.0o -
Troop 22. Boy Scouts. OF which
Wales Is a member, won the state
flag given by President Wilson TOR
selling the largest amount OF bonds.
The troop sold SseS.ooo n bonds.
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reduction. In Europe the present "a
'ion Is already reduced to a minimum
Our Situation.
The situation which the un,t.d
states faces In its efforts to maintair
a 1air distribution Of sugar to the Al.
heo world Is as follows:
sugar supplies throuuhout The c.us
.rT IN homes, stores, factories and
bakeries are at a low. ebb. We mu.t
make increased sugar shipments to the
Production Of American beet and
Louisiana cane crops have be-, d.
pointing. ''~
tailed. e" eur'
immense sugar stocks In Java can.
not be reached on account Of tb. .h,.
ping shortage; ships are needed %,
troop movements and munItIens
Army and Navy sugar Requirements.
nave Increased AZ well as those 1ran,
tho Allies. .'S'"
Most industries using sugar have had
their allotment reduced by one-balf.
some Will receive no sugar.
households should make everv A.
-ort 10 preserve the fruit crop witbont
sugar, or with small amounts ef suoor
-ater' when the sugar supply is larp.
II tne canned fruit may be sweetensl
IS it Is used.
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Must Use No More Than Two Pounds
Fer Person Month if the Present
Meagre Allied Sugar Ration s
Is Maintained. ~
otoci<s VIII Be Short Until BEGINNING of N.v,
1ear-Raton May Be Enlarged Then.

Two pounds Of sugar a month-ha1
q pound a week-that Is the sugar ra
uon the q. S. Food Administrators
mas asked every American to observe
until January l, 1919, in order 70 mako
sure there shall be enough for orr
Army and Navy, for the Allied armies
and for the civilians of those nations
by New Years the world sugar sit
uation will be relieved somewhat bv
the new crop. CHban sugar of this
years crop will be arriving In this
country.
Every available sugar source will be
drawn OF by the Food Administrators
uuring the next winter months to n,oin.
tain sufficient stocks here 10 keen nm
our national sugar supply. During DC.
t0ber the first American beat srcou
VIII arrive in the markets. Bv tho
middle of November some of our To-,
isiana cane crop will be available An
on this sugar and more may be neaded
10 Keep this nation supplied on a re-
'uced ration and to safeguard the AL.
led sugar ration from still f,rtb
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AN INVITATION

with this declaration OF prin-
ciples we invite all the people of
indiana to join us in piedeine :,
need be, every man and every
ooiiar and generous support of
president Wilson in the prosecu.
tlon OF the war until the world
Is ria or the menace of auto
cracy and the liberties of man.
Ainu assured. - Democratic
State Platform, 1918.
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BACK THE PRESIDENT

therefore, we commend to the
serious consideration of the peo-
pie 'he election of Senators and
congressman in complete har-
mony with the President, pri-
marily upon the policies of the
war but equally in accord with
MIN In questions of vital domes.
TIC concern. Upon this ground
we appeal for popular support
Tor our congressional nominees
as men best equipped to serve
the national interests. - Demo-
cratlc State Platform, 1918.
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SHARE OUR SUGAR
WITH The ALLIES
British Get Two Poun',' Month.
French Pound Z aIf,
Italians One P
GERMAN SUPPLY PLENTIFUL.
All Nations Permit Use of Sweetenino
for Home Preserving Purposes.

Americas new sugar ration of tw,
pounds a month per person is euuita
Die when compared with the sugar ra
ton enforced by rigid governmental
order In England. France and Italy. M.
uchs WIN which we are sharing sugar
Each Allied nation-in the matter ot
sugar consumption-is sharing OIL near.
est possible equal terms the harslshi,,s
imposed by greatly altered conditions
In the world sugar situation.
Formerly classed as luxury. sura-
is now war time essential. The fair
ami just division of this essential ia
In the hands Of the various Alliea
food controllers.
The United States Food Administrn.
ton bas asked this nation to observe
voluntary sugar ration of two
pounds per person a month.
In The other countries at war with
Germany sugar is one of the scarce
articles on every menu-whether I'm
The households of beth rich and poor.
or in the hotels.
England today has a sugar ration
or two pounds per month per person
In france the ration Is pound and
half and In Italy 1t Is one pound q
month. And the prices In allied coun-
trles are from two to three times as
high as in America.
III you go to hotel I'm England or
France these days and order tea mr.
coiIee they serve absolutely no sugar
with Ii. If you want sugar YOU must
bring 1t with you.
In England Il Is allowable 70 use
one-seventb OF an ounce of sugar in
the preparation of each luncheon. In
france many persons carry little sac
charine tablets about with them for
use In hotels and In England rich and
poor must take their sugar with them
III they wish 10 have sweetened tea
while visiting friends.
Before the war started France bodl
62o,OOO acres devoted to sugar produc-
fion- BY 1917 the French sugar acre
age had decreased to 10000 acres.
Today the French man or woman with
sugar card he's no assurance whatever
that he or she will be able to actually
buy sugar. To buy 1t, one must first
find Ii.
Italy Has "State Sugar."
Especially drastic regulations govern
the use of sugar In Italy It's manu-
facture, distribution and sale are close
y controlled, and IN part actually
taken over by the state.
Saccharine Is permitted TO be sold
md used as substitute for sugar and
he government manufactures q mix
ure of saccharine and sugar called
State Sugar." which is largely used
German Sugar Ration Adequate.
Germany, before the war. produced
great surplus OF sugar and exported
lrge quantities. Today the Germans
ave virtually gone out of the export
usiness, but have plenty Of cheap
ugar for home use.
Wholesale prices prevalent In the
llied nations, according TO informa.
on received by the United States
God Administration are as follows.
nsland. 10 gents a pound; France.
cents; Italy. 26 cents.
While these high prices are being
nd abroad the American wholesale
ice Is being held at IA cents.