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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12

bowl; to him was apportioned sep
! arate teapot and handleless cup
both of palegreen seki-ware.
Art in Woodmen's Camp.
The artist ate and conversed. Such
of these woodcutters as spoke English
(and they nearly all did,, spoke in
measured carefulness, out of which at
intervals cropped Chinook" word or
a phrase of this coast as bold amid
the careful English as a single dark
cedar in a green meadow. Looking
about, the guest noted print on the
bunk house wall. He got up and
walked across to get better view.
He knew little and cared less of names
and dates Familiarity spoken by parlor
takers on Japanese art, but he did feel
decorative values, color and drawing,
and all the rest of it-whatever it is,
in short, that makes the Japanese
print so interesting. This had they all,
he said, as he returned to his seat.
His auditors were visibly pleased,
though with the reserve characteristic
of their kind; the artists neighbor
pointed at his portfolio, and interro-
gated: "You make picture too, may
be-" and evoked admission. "You
show u.s."
Sundry sketches Of things and places
near brought smiling sidewise COM
ments of recognition, but most of all
single sketch of fir tops, dark above
morning mist, with the misty prov
of boat and the oncoming ripple of
an easy tide, attracted attention. This
was approximately passed from hand
to hand, and one said: "Now we show
you, maybe you like?"
kinship of the Pastel.
From one bunk and another came
curious wraps of mats and cloths, out
of which again came finely made box
or roll, exposing in turn silken bag
/ holding carven, founded, or wrought
treasures, kakemono wrapped in a
fragment Of temple silk, or couple
of shingles keeping fiat between them
prints of modern photographs of
Japan.
/ Presently the table, cleared of dishes
and food with approving consideration
! was an exhibition field on which one
and another, singly, and seriously
smiling, displayed his treasure for the
guests delight. Half dozen prints
of samurai, famous actor, geisha,
landscape, and couple of utter dec
orative distractions, each slowly pro-
duced and fingered over, were inter
spersed with bits of cast and carved
bronze, iron, carved ivory, kakemonos
of two or three types, and even a bit
or two of pottery and cloisonne.
The noon period went swiftly, pro-
tracted though it was far beyond its
regular length, and ended with slow
] reluctance and smiling invitation to
the departing guest to "come-see again
soon." Through the length Of the
afternoon and the years since there
has fingered with the artist satisfy.
ing sense of having met in the wilder
ness the fellowship Of the seeing eye.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
Ancient Enaineerina Feat.

The Chengtu irrigation system is one
of the most noteworthy examples Of
an early engineering feat and deserves
to rank with the Pyramids. The head
waters of the system are in the foot
hills of the Thibetan mountains at the
city of Kwan Hsien, where the Eu
Kiang breaks through the northern
part of the plain and makes its mad
rush toward the sea. The river bed
falls in level 1000 feet during its TO
mile trip along the edge of the plain.
Some idea of the magnitude of the
engineering task may be realized from
the fact that the flow during a freshet
is not far from 100000 cubic feet
of water minute, approximately the
flow of the Niagara river.-Asia Maya
zine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
POCKETS BARRED BY !,
CHRIS Won DER Abe
Cincinnati Won From st. Louis
Through Odd Accident.
Sail Hit by Visiting Player Got Stuck
In Pocket Of Carroll and Batter
Scored Before Sphere Could
Be Extracted.

Way back in 80 Cincinnati was play
Ing one afternoon with Chris Won Der
Ahe's st. Louis aggregation on the st.
Louis grounds.
Cincinnati had man on first base
and two out, and needed two runs to
win.
Cliff Carroll was playing center field
for the st. Louis nine. The Cincin-
natl batter hit a slow grounder to CEN
ter, and Carroll ran up to gather 1t in.
The situation was ticklish, and Car.
roll prepared to field the ball carefully.
He squatted down to meet it, and got
his hands in position. Just before it
reached him the ball hit clump of
dirt and bounded high. Carroll grabbed
for it with both hands, just as it. hit
him in the chest.
Somehow in the struggle the ball
was wedged into the pocket of Car
rolls uniform shirt. 1t got In there,
and Cliff had terrible time trying to
get 1t out
The runner stopped at second long
enough to see that something was the
matter. Then he started for home,
with Carroll still digging away at his
shirt pocket.
The result was that the runner got
home safely and Cincinnati won the
game.
Won Der Abe almost had fit He
fined Carroll fifty for putting the ball
in his pocket and made rule that
thereafter no pockets of any kind
should be allowed IL the uniforms of
his team.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
SMALL CHANCE TO GET AWAY
As II Happened, the Old Gentleman
Was Placing the Blame Where
1t Didn't Belong.

IT don't know what the young men
Of today are coming to-" said Mr..
Smith. 'In my young days there wasn't
any need for all this counting. The
girls then"
But he was cut short by the coal
scuttle which Mrs. Smith accidentally
dropped on his toes.
II was only going to say, my DEAR"
he remarked, when he had recovered
his composure, "that I wish the young
fellow who is calling on Christabel
would go away and let us get the
house shut up. It's past midnight"
At that moment there entered the
small boy of the household. He had
been, for the last hour or so, behind
the draught-screen in the drawing
room, and vowed that he had enjoyed
himself better than If he had been
at a movie show.
"It isn't his fault, pa" said the heir
of the Smiths. 4He can't go; Christa-
bells sitting on him"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
DIAMOND
NOTES

The Red Sox are going better now.
Lee Meadows continues to hurl gilt
edged ball for the Phillies.
The Giants surely are getting their
moneys worth out of Phil Douglas.
Cincinnati is making money these
days. Pat Moran is responsible for it.
They made mistake with reference
to Mr.. Ragan. He should be named
Finnegan.
The Des Moines club has purchased
Emilio Palmero, the Cuban pitcher,
from Minneapolis.
Harry Hellmann seems not only to
be quite a clubber, but a fairly foxy
young gent with 1t.
Bigbee of Pittsburgh, just fair out
fielder, is the leading base stealer in
the National league.
..
There are many fans pulling for the
Cincinnati Reds to win the pennant
in the National league.
There is a scramble among mana
gers of the leading ball teams in both
leagues to get star pitchers.
every little magnate has a squab-
BILE of his own" seems to be the pop
ular tune in the American league now.
Ray Roberts recent no-hit game for
Atlanta against Nashville was the Sec
ond of the season in the Southern
league.
Talk about your Schalks and Ruels,
but no club has shown a better young
catcher than have the Mackmen in
Perkins.
The retirement fever, a bee always
in the bonnets Of Frank Baker and
Duffy Lewis, has struck these two
Yankees early.
Gus Bono's no-hit game for Shreve-
port was the first Of the season in the
Texas league. The San Antonio Aces
were his victims.
Mario De vitalis of Brown univer-
sity fame, has become Yankee. He
has returned from overseas. He is
right-handed pitcher.
If there is a slower pair of pitchers
in the American league than George
Erickson and Elmer Myers their
names cannot be recalled.
Cub fans have become exceptionally
rough lately. Umpires cannot make
close decision without being greeted
with a shower of pop bottles.
. 4
Some of the Brooklyn players be-
lieve that the success of the Phillies
since Cravath relieved Jack Coombs
of the managership is due to their
pitchers using illegal methods, such
as the emery and paraf1in balls.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
BITRO-PHOSPHATE
IS GOOD FOR Thin
NERVOUS PEOPLE
A PHYSICIANS ADVICE.

Frederick S. Kolle, M. D., Editor Of
New York Physicians who's Who"
says that weak, nervous people who want
force, should take a 5-grain tablet Of
Bitro-Phosphate Just before or during
each meal.
This particular phosphate is the dis
covery Of famous French scientist, and
reports of remarkable results from it's
use, have recently appeared in many
medical journals.
If you do not feel we'll; If you tire
easily; do not sleep we'll, or are too thin;
go to any good druggist and get enough
Phosphate for two weeks sup
Eat less; chew your food thoroughly,
and If at the end of q few weeks you
do not feel stronger and better than you
have for months; If your nerves are not
have more vim, endurance and vitality,
your money will be returned, and the
Bitro-P phosphate will cost you nothing.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12

umpire can rub his hand over it and
not detect the dust. Yet there is
enough there to roughen the ball and
let the twirler get grip on it..
Zone twirler on a winning club has
so much paraffin scattered about his
person that he smells like the Stand
ard Oil. He makes no bones Of it.
The catcher gets new ball and
bounces it to the pitcher on the
ground. That makes rough spot and
the pitcher smooths the side opposite
and you have a curve that will out.
break splitter"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
SCOUT FOR BOSTON RED sox
Hugh Duffy Going to Pacific Coast to
Look Over Players in Pacific
Coast League.

Hugh Duffy, baseball coach at Har-
ward, has. been obtained to act as a
scout for the, Boston Red Sox. Duffy
will go to California to look over the
material In the Pacific coast league
and will then take trip through the
Southwest and South, and, in fact,
cover most of the minor leagues In
search Of players.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
MUST ABOLISH FREAK BALLS
Manager StaIIings Of Boston Braves
Opposed to Use of Paraffin,
Emery, Etc.

Manager Stallings Of Boston be-
lieves firmly that baseball authorities
will have, sooner or later, to Danish
all parafin, emery and other Access
series that make startling curves in
baseball. The spitball is not used by
the young fellows coming in. 1t is
the old boy who feels himself slipping
who takes to it and keeps himself in
baseball several years longer than one
who does not use it.
flake emery" says Stallings. "a
man can put it on his glove and an
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
Taking II for Granted.

"What are you reading these daysY'
asked the laxative man.
Gibbons Decline and Fall of Ro-
man Empire answered the studious
person. Ever dip into that work n
mo. I'm satisfied with just know
ing the Roman empire declined and
fell, without going into all the details.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
NEALE TO IMPROVE BATTING
Cincinnati outfielder Thinking Serb
ously of Changing His Position
While at Plate.

Earle Neale Of the Reds thinks Sc
riously Of changing his batting posi-
ton. The pitchers have been keeping
the ball inside on him with the result
that he is popping up steadily. he
does not know whether to move closer
or to step back. but is going to do one
or the other to improve his hitting.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
PRAISE FOR FRED HOFFMAN
Yankees New Backstop, Secured from
st. Paul, Expected to Star
With Higgins.

Although he hasn't yet had an op-
portunity to unveil his wares, Fred
Hoffman, the Yank's new colt catcher
from the st. Paul club, is said TO be
one of the most promising backstops
dug up in the minors in many a day.
Hoffman Joined the Yanks recently and
has only done light work, such as
warming up pitchers. Hoffman made
a big hit with st. Paul, where Mike
Kelley, the manager, saw in him po-
tential star and shipped him forward
to his friend. Miller Higgins.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12

Miller Higgins
the
pitchers infd
Not Popular With Fans
ability
did
particularly Clark Griffith Bill Donovan
for the that
He discounts both popularity publicity Despite
realize
publ be to a
Mixing
ongenial Cap Huston do oil the mixing
baseball writer's there
few exploits
team o.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
Art of Chinese Gardeners.

Chinese gardeners sometimes plan,
statuettes of tiny men firmly in posts,
just like real plants, and then train
live evergreens to grow up over these
statuettes.l The vines thus form
kind of robe for the statuette men.
their whita faces and hands protrud.
ing from the green leaves.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
RiII Fischer TO Stick.

Bill Fischer, who quit baseball to
sell shoes, but has been helping out
the Binghamton club, has pleased the
fans by making it known that he will
stick with the team for the rest CT the
season, now that Chick Hartman has
succeeded Frank Schultz as manager.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12

he covered that old bag. He looked
at him in silence for perhaps five min
utes and then, walking to the dugout,
he threw down his first baseman's
mitt.
Il thought I was first baseman,' he
said, with a shake of his head, but Pm
not. That bird out there is, though.
From now on I'm going to devote my
time to the outfield.'
And" supplements Heine, she did"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
Utilization.

sour friend Dustin Stax seems en-
barrassed sometimes, in spite of his
fortune"
"Yes," observed Miss Cayenne; "he
Is like a friend Of mine who thinks
that because she inherited fine grand
piano she is under obligations to try
to play on it."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
coIoneIs Release Corey.

Edward Corey, right-handed pitch
er, has been released by the Louisville
American association baseball club in
New Orleans of the Southern associa-
ton. Corey came to Louisville from
the Chicago Americans.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
Rule for Shoe Salesman.

"Never ask a woman what size she
wears" said the proprietor of the
shoe emporium to the new assistant.
"Why?" asked the new employee.
Because it is easier to measure
her than it is to argue with her." re-
piled the successful merchant.-Lon-
don Answers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
TENNEY OPENED EVANS EYES
Steve Was Amazed at Way Former
Giant Played First Base and
Threw Down His Mitt.

"When Steve Evans came up to the
major leagues with the Cardinals some
years ago." says Heine Zimmerman,
she was first baseman. Like most
young ball players, Steve thought pref
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
Two Promising YOUNGSTERS,

AL Baird, who is Larry Doyle's un-
derstudy, has great baseball future
in the opinion of New York critics So
has young Fewster of the Yankees.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
Portland Signs Pitcher.

Portland announces the signing of
young right-hander named Ernest
Frye, who halls from southern Oregon.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
mt, physically he is not a back mum

ment, physically he is not a back num-
Der.
And what of Browning's old age? Is
the best yet to be? Perhaps. The man
who has been failure is near the end
of his earthly troubles, and the man
who has succeeded awaits with sense
of fulfillment, the next great adven.
ture
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12

LAZY creek, almost current
less through salt marshes, at
low tide quite deep in its
muddy bed: a SALTY. Weedy.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12

Some of the Brooklyn players be-
lieve that the success of the Phillies
since Cravath relieved Jack Coombs
of the managership is due to their
pitchers using illegal methods, such
as the emery and paraffin balls.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12

Cub fans have become exceptionally
rough lately. Umpires cannot make
close decision without being greeted
with a shower of pop bottles.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12

bowl; to him was apportioned a sep
arate teapot and a handleless cup,
both of palegreen seki-ware.
Ar in, waadr,aoye
The Washington herald., 1919-09-28

ing on the psychology Of the relation
ship between animal and man that
characterizes the literary work Of Cur
wood. And In his picture. which was
supervised by, himself In the Arctic
regions In temperature Of 50 degrees
below zero. a faithful attention to de-
tail has made this photoplay far more
vivid than any of his stories.
Back to Gods Country Is based
essentially upon the theme that kind
ness to ANNALS results in rejecting
and generating that kindness to the
giver. Mr.. Curwood writes his story
aboAt Wapi. the killer a great Dane
upon whom no man or beast has ever
lavished kind word or act. Another
thread OF the story leads to Nell Ship
man. expert swimmer and screen star.
as Dolores LeBeau. girl living with
her father in the wilds of Canada. and
whom all the animals near her home
have learned to love.
When fate takes Dolores and her
helpless husband into the Arctic re-
gions. she Is brought into touch with
the dog. who has received the name
Of ''the killer" from the Eskimos and
traders whom he has frightened
through his fierceness. Dolores wins
his friendship through kindness.
Moore's Strnnd-''The Miracle Man.
Although announced in the press
that last week would mark the final
presentation OF George Loane fuckers
Paramount-Artcraft superproduction,
THE Miracle Man." public demand
for seats during the past week evil
denced the fact that though this won
derful picture had played to capacity
audiences for four solid weeks. there
were vet thousands OF Washington's 8
molten picture patrons who have not
The Washington herald., 1919-09-28

as yet had the opportunity Of viewing
this marvel Of the photodramatic art
and therefore after due elaboration
and in the face of adverse advertising.
1t was decided to move the production
from Moore's Garden. where II has
been playing. to the Strand Theater.
where the picture opens today for an
other weeks engagement at regular
Strand prices.
The beautiful musical score which
has been rendered with the picture 10
date will be continued by the Strands s
augmented orchestra. under the direc-
ton Of Mr.. Arthur J. Maxwell.
CrnndalPs-sPaId In Advance"
Dorothy Phillips and Priscilla
Dean. two of the most brilliant
young actresses in shadow drama.
will be the pictured stars of the bill
at Crandalfs Theater the first three
days this week. beginning today. in
paid in Advance" an epic OF the
snow county. Embodied in this re-
maj kably picturesque study OF the
rugged life OF the far North are all
OF the gripping elements OF ro-
nance, colorful drama and amazing
natural beauty. The photography Is
superb and the characterizations Of
fered by those cast in the principal
roles stamps this picture as one OF
the few which accurately reproduce
life in a land that is little known
this side of the Arctic.
On Wednesday and Thursday,
Crandall's will present one OF the
most sensational romances ever
registered in celluloid when the fea-
ture OF the bill will be Eugene
O'Brien's first individual starring
vehicle, The Perfect Lover"
For the last two days Of the week
The Washington herald., 1919-09-28
AT the Theaters This Week

tional quality and the skill with which
the great crowds Of participants in the
climacteric scenes have hon directed
equals in effectiveness the contrasting
characterizations and expertly welded
lights and shades conceived by
Thompson Buchanan, the noted play
wright. author Of the story.
The bill for the week at the Metro
politan will be completed by the Gus
tomary shorter film features and spe-
cial symphonic prologue, rendered BY
the Metropolitan's orchestra Of solo
lists.
Loew's ColumbIa-sessue Haya-
kawa In 'Srhe Dragon Painter"
The Dragon Painter" tie dainty
yet powerful cinema production which
brings Sessue Hayakawa. sthe noted
japanese actor. to the screen Of
Loew's Columbia Theater for the first
four days of this week. beginning this
afternoon, Is a story of a type that
Hayakawa rarely gives the screen.
As brilliant as this player Is, .lis
stories are usually marked by q tragic
note that casts a spell of somber
sadness over his audiences, and
IT is this very sadness that Hayakawa
has forsaken in his greatest picture
to date, The Dragon Painter"
1t Is a Japanese love story Of the
most delicate fabric. a legend Of the
Flowery Kingdom brought out of the
mists of antiquity and unrolled be-
fore the twentieth century in Gin
ena form. 1t Is a story Of sun
shine. Of sweetness. OF the pictur-
esque charm of the Orient, and It
tells a happy love tale withaut a
heartache. The star. incidentally. rs
supported in brilliant fashion by a
cast that includes Tsuru Aoki, his
dainty little Japanese wife. and in
o way it Is Hayakawa's own love
story tlat is pictured here on the
silver sheet.
This is only the feature of the Co
lumbia program There are four
added hits that will send you home
with a smile. June Caprice and
The Washington herald., 1919-09-28
CONTINUED FROM PAGE TWO.


theme Of ehs picture Is the willing
ness Of a girl to sacrifice wealth.
comfort and luxury in order to live
with her father in tenement house.
but this heme served mainly to
carry one Of the richest comedy y-ro-
mknces that the screen has seen this
year. Parts of the picture are an
absolute scream, yet with tNaIl one
never allowed to lose sight of
the winsome. pathetic, lovable, ire
sistioie Mary Pickford in a character
that fits her Ike a glove.
Director Breeskin of the Rialto
SyNohony Orchestra, has extended
himself In the musical setting pre-
pared.
CrandaIrs Metropolitan-sSThe World
and Its Woman,
The World and Its Woman" a
mammoth photodrania. will be shown
throughout the current week at Gran
dalrs Metropolitan Theater with Ger
aldine Farrar pictured in the stellar
Fole. Associated with the star in this
subject Is her husband. Lou TelIegen
The story revealed is as tremendous
- - SA-C~ASAaA oPPCoA as IL AS OOAOSodA
in execution and spectacular effect
The principal narrative concerns the
struggle of an American girl against
the political and moral debauchery of
a nation and the final triumph OF
American resourcefulness as opposed
to blind brute strength. Farrar, in
the stellar role does by far the most
impressive work of her career in
silent drama, and the same is true of
Lou Tellegen. In the supporting
roles are cast a host of screen celeb
rites and the total ensemble in many
of the pictured episodes is numbered
in thousands.
In The World and Its Woman"
there is no weak spot. The narrative
surges forward with mighty sweep
of epochal world history and is visual
lied upon a scale that has never been
surpassed either in magnitude or opul-
ence- The photography Is of excep-
The Washington herald., 1919-09-28

Creighton Hale win be seen In ~rhe
Love Cheat" at the Columbia, be-
ginning Thursday.
CrandalI,s Knlckerboeker-ssT
World and Its weman.s
Geraldine F.rrar win be pictured
for the first time in Washington in
her latest and most magnificent
photoplay vehicle. at Crandall's
Knickerbocker Theater today and
tomorrow, when the chief feature
of the exceptional bill will ibe
Thompson Buchanan's epochal CAM
era drama, The World and Its wo-
man." The MAGNITUDE of this sub
ject, both in the tremendous scope
of its story and the impressiyeness
of its execution. cannot be overesti-
mated.
On Tuesday and Wednesday at the
Knickerbocker, George Walsh will
be the pictured star in a new re-
nance Of college life, "The Winning
Stroke" In this subject the athlete
actor has one of the most congenial
roles silent drama has afforded him.
For the ensuing two days Peggy
Hyland will hold the screen in a
carefree perturbation of Gypsy life
with a small circus. THE Merry
Go-Round," Mr.. and Mrs. Carter de
Haven furnishing the subsidiary
feature in "Honeymooning." On
Saturday only Bryant washburn
will be pictured in the stellar role
of a delightful comedy, Love In
surance."