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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
coco-PALM RIGHTLY PRICED
Natives of CeyIon Seem to Put 1T to
Every Conceivable Use During
Their Lives.

To the natives of Ceylon the grace
full coco-palms that line the shore
where red fiamingoes fly, are far
more precious than the rare woods
and spices, the fragrant tea or the
bright jewels for which Ceylon is IA
nous, according to Mary Titzel, in
Asia Magazine. Over the bed on
which he is born and over the grave
in which he is buried is hung cluster
of coconut blossoms to charm away
evil spirits. This one tree furnishes
practically all he needs for life. The
fruit provides him with food and oil,
and the sap with '.jaggery," or coco
nut sugar. The milk" of the green
nut is a healthful, refreshing drink.
The juice of the unopened flower he
makes into delightful wine; distilled,
the wine becomes "arrak," a powerful
spirit. From the fiber or "coir," that
cases the shell he makes ropes, fish
nets and mating; his baby sleeps in
a cradle of coir-rope. The shell Of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
What's Uncle Sam Doing About Flying?

for experimental and research work
and not less than $6,000,000 for new
machines and equipment.
The air service last year asked for
$SO,000,000 and will ask this session of
congress for $60,0Oo,O0O. Senators on
the military affairs committee and
members of the house military COM
mittee said that nothing like this much
money could be allowed in view of
the pressing need for cutting govern
mental expenses.
Aviation activities in the navy are
scattered through half a dozen bu-
reaus: and efforts are being made to
obtain legislation establishing a. bu-
reau of naval aeronautics, headedi by
a rear admiral.
In the meantime experts declare
that the nation is tagging farther and
farther behind European countries.
The United States is so I'LL equipped
as to- be virtually defenseless and in
commercial navigation it has scarce
ly begun to start.
The army air force is inadequate
and most of the plants are either OBJ
soIete or obsoleseent. The navy air
force is primitive compared with that
of the British and French naVies.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14

WASHINGTON. - Preservation Of
w our national parks and monu-
ments against the organized assault
OF commercial water power and irri-
cation interests is subject that is
going to attract much attention at
this session Of congress and in the
next congress. So important is the
matter, in the opinion of Secretary
Payne of the Interior department, that
he begins his 1920 annual report with
its discussion. He says, first thing !:
This is vital question. The con-
fiict between the demands of commerce.
and the preservation of these wonder
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
ALLOWED FATHER TO HANG
Sen, Stirred by an Evangelist, Con-
fesses That II Was He Who
Killed Mother.

Ceylon, Can.-Evangelistic sermons
held in his home town so stirred Ar
nell Love, a twenty-two-year-old farm
er of Ceylon, Canada, that he went
forward and declared to the evangel-
list, Rev. G. n. Sharpe, that he had
dubbed his mother to death seven
years ago because she reprimanded
him for keeping bad company"
Loves father, Henry Love, who was
convicted by a jury and hanged at
Owen Sound, Ontario, for the crime
seven years ago, was found guilty
principally through the testimony of
his son, who now says he was the MUIR
derer. While on the scaffold the IA
Their made what was believed to be
a confession of his guilt.
The son grew up into manhood
prosperous farmer, and the tragedy of
his life was apparently buried in the
oblivion of the past until he attended
the evangelistic service. He told the
evangelist that he killed his mother
with a stick of wood and hid the body
in the cellar, where it was found later
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
Bureau of Mines Tries an Innovation

take up with the industries peculiar
to its districts where the stations are
located the most pressing problems
that have baffled them, especially
those involving the treatment Of low
grade ores, many of them heretofore
useless, and turn them into CONNER
cial processes of value to the nation.
So successful have these methods of
solving commercial problems been, ac-
cording to the bureau of mines, that
at present the bureau has agreements
for experimental work with 10 indus
trial concerns, IL different universe
ties and with state agencies in IL
states.
These cooperative agreements with
the bureau embrace many different
activities. For instance, there is an
experiment station at Bartlesville.
Okla, devoted entirely to the work Of
the petroleum industry.
Seeking to find additional sources of
motor fuel for the rapidly increasing
number of automobiles, the bureau has
entered into cooperative agreements
with the states of Utah and Colorado
to develop the Oil shale industry.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
WHY THE CELT WAS PUZZLED
Visitors Inquiry Did Seem Unreason.
able in View of Statement He
Had Previously Made.

A we'll known physician of New
York tells why he does not know
whence his ancestors came.
Now, he had always understood that
hfs ancestors were Scotch-Irish. and
on the strength Of that belief had
prided himself on their royal blood.
Once it occurred to him to go and
have a look at the old place whence
they were supposed to have come.
when he arrived at what he believed
was the right district he appealed to
IN old Irishman to tell him the exact
spot.
The Celt regarded him much as one
does a crazy man, and then said:
'Ye say that your ancestors emf
grated from here 200 years ago? Then
why the deuce. sir, are We lookin' for
them here now?"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
COMES BACK AND
PAYS HIS DEBTS
Former Broker Whose Firm Col
lapsed Springs Surprise in
Old Home Town.
THOUGHT IT A HOAX
But Big Checks Convince Skeptics
That There Still Are Honest Men
Only Regret Is He Can't
Find Them All.

Chester, PA dapper little man
of so, whose hair was tinged with gray
of battles fought and lost, alighted
from train in this city recently for
the purpose of driving away the clouds
and mist that he feared had enveloped
his name. He was L.. u. Layton of the
one time brokerage firm of l.. T. Lay
a more or less pretentious Office at
Third and Market streets and took an
occasional flyer" in the feverish pur-
suit Of gold.
The Old Story.
The firms vicissitudes furnished all
the color for the old story. 1t started
out with a promising future, gathered
about ii a worthwhile and financially
wcll-fixed clientele, and then, just
when skies seemed to be brightest,
broke in the middle. Almost two years
ago L. T. Layton slipped away from
here, dismayed and downcast, after he
had paid to most Of his creditors, in
that last vain effort that falling man
makes, something like 80 cents on the
dollar.
But L.. T.. Layton came back here
from his home in Philadelphia to pay
to those creditors every penny that he
owed them. Prominent business and
professional men who had lost varying
sums of money by the failure Of the
brokerage firm gathered together to
receive payment in full. There were
dozen or more i'm all, six of them
physicians, and the total reimburse
ment was approximately $4,000.
Not Legally Indebted.
One of the creditors who vouchsafed
the information thought it was fairy
story or hoax when he received a
mysterious message that a gentleman
was in town who had a check for $500
or 5000 for him.. Tt came from the
office of a DOCTOR friend, over the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
Commercial Assaults on National Parks

places involves constant vigilance. In
my view, their preservation is of the
first importance. 1t should be the set
tied policy of the country, regardless
Of any question of utility, that when
in the wisdom Of the congress national
parks or monuments are definitely set
apart they must be preserved in their
integrity, forever free from any form
of commercialization. If this princi-
pie is not recognized, and commercial
ization in any form is allowed to creep
in, it will be only question of time
when our wild West will be only a
memory and the big game of our coun-
try will be extinct, and these places
and objects, now so wonderful, viii be
seriously and permanently injured.
Secretary Payne then discusses
siX-foot irrigation dam across the
mouth of Yellowstone lake in Yellow
stone National park, the project of an
association Of Montana people. He
says that any material raising of the
water would destroy timber, hot
springs and scenery, and adds:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
Some Noted Bells.

The Church Bell foundry has turned
out about a dozen peals for America
most of them for New England
churches, including the Church of the
Advent, Boston; Groton school chapel
that Roosevelt attended, and the chap.
ell of Wesleyan university, Middleton
Conn. Canada has only two peals
one in Vancouver east by French
foundry and one in Montreal cast by
the Mott establishment.
Australia and South Africa have sew.
eral peals, and Indian and African
plantations have many far-carrying
bells, for summOning workers. They
were cast by Robert Motifs successors
who also have produced fine-toned
dinner bells for aristocratic homes in
Great Britain. These costly special
bells are silver plated.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
BEASTS MAKE GOOD ON FILMS
parison Between Four-Footed and
Human Actors.

1t was said at recent meeting of
the London Geological society that the
plan of making, and keeping on record,
films of rare animals had been entered
upon with considerable success, the
natural movements of the beasts hav-
ing been reproduced on the screen In
q most interesting and instructive
manner. 1t is indeed reasonable to
suppose that the four-legged film act
Ors may even be more successful, from
an artistic standpoint, than their hui
man colleagues; first, because their
motions are naturally ineligible with
out the accompaniment of spoken lam
guage; and second, because they cam
not be trained, as movie performers
apparently are, to chop up their move
ments into a limited number of stereo-
typed gestures, in more or less regular
sequence, which audiences presumably
know by heart and may anticipate
well in advance.-Christian Science
Monitor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14

WHAT is Uncle Sam going to do
w about keeping up with the air
procession? Your guess is as good as
anybody's guess, these days.
One story is that the War depart
ment is preparing to call for bids. for
800 new airplanes on designs worked
out by the army aviation section,
which include all latest Improvements
demonstrated to be valuable by re-
cent tests. Approximately 100000,
it is estimated, will be spent on the
planes.
The total appropriation for the air
service-exclusive of pay and mainte-
nance of men, which is carried in 9TH
er sections of the army bill-was $685.
100000, of which it was provided that
not less than 5,250,000 should be spent
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14

ceived monthly salaries of $1,000 as
commissioners, while Robert Lansing,
Tasker III. Bliss, other commissioners,
had their actual expenses paid.
The accounts showed refunds by
President Wilson of 914.70 francs for
expenses while at Rome; by e. M.
House of 10,402 francs for official en-
tertainment from December L, 1918,
to June 8, 1919 by Secretary Lansing
of 1859 francs for tips and Of large
amounts for expenses of the wives Of
the commissioners.
Doctor Grayson was credited with
frequent drafts of $1,000 and more
for Confidential expenses of the Pres
ident."
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topers could have one grand jag and
thereby end the trouble and expense
for the government.
Don't you think the cheapest way
out of this problem for the taxpay-
ers," asked Chairman Fordney, would
be for the government to open the
warehouses, let this whisky be sold.
and let the topers have one grand
drunk and get rid of it allp'
"Yes, that has already been sug-
gested to the bureau" replied Mr.. Kra-
mer. Considerable pressure has been
brought to bear in favor of the pro-
posal, but we haven't been ahle to
see our way clear to do it,"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14

4 INNOVATION in federal government
i bureau methods, involving practi-
cal cooperative assistance to the min
ing, metallurgical and certain other
industries of the country in solving
many of the intricate and complex
problems in manufacture, is outlined
in the annual report of DR.. F. G. Cot
treIl, director of the bureau of mines,
For this new work the bureau of
mines has ID well-organized expert
ment stations located in the different
mining and metallurgical fields of the
country, all fitted, Doctor Cottrell says,
with the necessary chemical and lab
,ratory apparatus as to enable it to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14

telephone: As matter of fact, there
vas no legal Indebtedness on the part
of L.. T. Layton, the imam who came
back to pay anybody, for when he
left here he had releases in full from
all his creditors.
1t took about two hours to get
action, and during the course Of the
conversation and settlement Layton
declared that his greatest regret was
that there were some former patrons
of his whom he had not been able to
locate. II was broke and had to get
away he said, ''but I never felt but
that I owed you all every penny I am
paying back today"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
Porcupine No Mean Foe.

Dogs have to be well used to the
work of hunting porcupines or they
have no chance. A porcupine will stop
suddenly in full flight and as it were,
instantaneously reverse engines, and
come charging full backwards. The
best dog ever had, bull terrier, was
killed by this trick. He was absolute
~ without fear and simply threw him
self upon the advancing avalanche OF
spikes, and was in consequence spear.
ed right through the heart. | can as
sure you hunting porcupines is not al
all sport to be despised. Exchange
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14

the nut he fashions into drinking YES
sells and spoons, and the fragments
left over serve as fuel He plaits the
leaves into dishes and into thatch for
his dwelling. The dried leaves serve
as torches; with the stalks he fences
his garden. He hollows out the trunk
Of the tree into canoe that, buoyed
by an ingenious outrigging OF poles,
goes swiftly through the toughest seas.
He builds his house of coconut wood.
and when he dies he is laid away in
coffin followed from the friendly
tree.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14

Those who are In a run down. condi-
uon will notice that Catarrh bothers
them much more than when they are in
good health. This fact proves that while
Catarrh Is local disease. it is greatly
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is a
Tonic and Blood Purifier, and acts through
the blood upon the mucous surfaces of
the body, thus reducing the Inflammation
and restoring normal conditions.
All druggists. Circulars free.
T. ]. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. Ohio.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
Tho Roses.

The tea rose was formerly known
as the tea-scented China rose, be
cause of its peculiar fragrance, said
to resemble that of newly opened
tea chest. 1t originated in China
Sir Abraham Hume receiving from
that country, in 1909, the first of this
variety sent to Europe, a specimen
with double pink flowers. The Latin
name for the tea rose is rosa indics
odorata.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14

Indifference. All of which was not
| good for her disposition.
Lizzie" said her father sharply,
one evening, II don't see what has got
into y lately"
'Pa," said Lizzie, as if making a
desperate resolve, II want a new
dress"
.Well, is that all? Are v sure that's
all? Don't y want a kerridge. Or
an automobile? Now, tell v what.
Yer gettin too high-fangled notions"
Lizzie did not pursue the subject.
| 1t was no use.
But she had decided upon the one
thing that would give her the happi-
ness she needed. The means did not
matter.
Meanwhile, things were not pleas
ing Jack Mann. He wondered duly
how he could have displeased Lizzie.
Her capricious attitude toward him
had been changed into one of actual
dislike. 1t was hard to get to talk to
her. One day, however, he got an OPP
portunity of remonstrance.
What makes y use me so?" was
his plea.
"Use y how?" Lizzie was plainly
| anxious to get rid of him.
She saw Joe Stanley coming up the
road.
Like yer usin' me now. Y act like
y want me t. go. An I'd do anythin'
fer yer. / would, y know it,"
Lizzie saw the approaching figure
turn off from the road across the field,
and her face fell. Then her eyes
frightened again.
"Y' don't mean that, Jack?"
I'll show y. Anythin'. 1t don't
matter what"
"D'ye, really mean it? If 1 thought
v did"
Let me show ""
'Mebbe will, Jack, some day." She
looked at him with the first tender
ness in her eyes that he had ever seen
there
Il b'lieve y would" she went on,
speaking almost to herself. "rve got
t go now, Jack. But I'll see " again."
She pressed his hand. 'Tn see y
again, Jack. Good-by."
She left him trembling, bewildered,
staring foolishly after her.
He talked to her again next day.
He made love to her clumsily, and
she let him. But she would not be-
lieve in his sincerity. Over and over
again he protested it. And at last
she set him his task.
"Oh, | knew y didn't mean it !" she
cried, at the look in his eyes.
"Anythin' else; anythin'."
Il knew it. And I'm sorry" Under
her eyes his young blood mounted fe-
verishly. ooh, all right, then" Her
tone changed suddenly, and she turned
away.
"Wait! Wait a minute! 1 will.
Anythin'. I said I would, an Will"
~.
That was q memorable night in
Ford's Landing. For the first time in
twenty years, something happened i'm
pOrtant enough to warrant the men
tion of the place in metropolitan news
papers.
The window of Joe Bailey's store
wac forced, the store entered, and the
till robbed.
There were several vikings about the
robbery that marked it as a peculiar
one. One was the fact that, although
there were more than twenty-five dol
lars in the till, only five had been TAX
en-. Again, the thief had been at no
pains to conceal his tracks, and had
been easily identified by them. Final
ly. when accused of the crime, he
broke down at once and confessed,
refusing to say, however, what he had
done with the five dollars, or why he
had wanted that particular sum.
Jack Mann went to the penitentiary
for two years.
Lizzie Simpson secured her coveted
fnery.
The day before she put it on, Joe
Stanley, his vacation coming to an
end, went back to his work in Detroit.
oN~a. MN4~L DaIIe
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
cuticura Comforts Baby's Skin

cuticura Comforts Baby's Skin
When red, rough and itching with hot
baths of Cuticura Soap and touches OF
Cuticura Ointment. Also make use
now and then of that exquisitely scent
ed busting powder, Cuticura Talcum,
one of the Indispensable Cuticura
Toilet Trio.-Adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
What. Indeed.

Alabam-They tell me that up
moth the Yankees put signs on their
cemeteries. mo autos allowed"
MissiSsippi-Huh! Then tell me
what they do when their engine dies
on them ?-Exchange.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
Mlnister,s Son Held up Restaurant.

Minister'S Son Held Up Restaurant.
Norfolk, Va. "A ten-year prison
sentence was imposed on William ii.
Tubbs, son of Rev. sCharles Fl. Tubbs
Of Denver, Colo, pastor of the Church
of God, for having been an accomplice
in the holdup of the New China res
taurant, In Norfolk.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
Lamps Shine DownwardIy.

A new form of lamp designed in
England maintains q long, horizontal
arc especially useful for the over
head lighting Of film studios, or for
photo printing.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14

and heals burning, itching and torturipg
skin diseases. 1t instantly stops the pain
of burns. Heals without scars. soc and Coo.
Ask your druggist. or send 3Oc to The j.
w. Cole Co. Rockford. ILL.,, for a pkg.Adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
Strong Resemblance.


COntentment," remarked Shinbone,
"am mighty fine thing; de only
trouble bout it is it's kim o. hahd to
stinguish from jes plain laziness."-
Boston Transcript.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14

Many man would have kept out Of
hot water had he stuck closer to cold
water.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
Arrived There.

81 wrote poem once, an Ode to OBJ.
livion." "What became of it," ut
reached its destination"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
Surely a Star.

Young Author (reading from manu-
script)-He flung her an imploring
glance, fell on his knees, seized heI
hands, threw prejudice to the winds
and, graphing with fate, rushed for.
ward to his destiny, determined to
win or diei
Little Brother (admiringly)-Gee
wouldn't he a-made grand football
player?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14

What a man Is and what he might
be are as different as day and night.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
Bothered by a Famous "Moniker."

Bothered by amous MonIker.
Richmond, Ind.-Because his name
caused him embarrassment, Jesse
James filed petition in court ask
ing that 1t be changed to Robert r.
James.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14

A rolling stone gathers no moss,
neither does it bemoan its loss.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14
arnportant TO N1others

uEnportant 10 WIotnerS
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, that famous old remedy
for infants and children, and see that 1t
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14

Dodging duty never brings success.
America. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1905-current, 1921-06-21
GALA: in
CLEVELAND

BUFFALO, 81 Iunie. = Saliva
tore Cala-care a declarat ca ell
unul dintre asasinii lui Dan Ka-
ber, publicist din Lakewood, care
a fost asasinat inainte Gu dol ami
de asasini platiti de sofia lui care
in temnita dimpreuna Gu fata 81
mama ei 81 alti complici-va sosi
la Cleveland, adus in fere de de-
tectivi la ora 2:2O pm. Ell va Fl in
fatisat imediat Gu dina Kaber, Gu
fata 81 mama. eli precum 81 Gu
moasa Colavito care . dat otrava
pcntru Kaber.
Celalalt asasin, Vittorio Piselli,
va Fl arestat in curand caci detec-
tivii sunt pc urma lui.
America. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1905-current, 1921-06-21
P0tOpd din japonb
Safe intregi sub apa.

TOXIC, II Iunie. - I'm potop
teribil s'a revarsat asupra unul
mare teritor al Japoniei. Numa-
rul mortilor astazi Sc ridica la
cinzeci.
In districtul Hita safe intregi
Sc afla sub Hpa de o inaltime de
Is urine. La Kyushu peste 600 de
case au fost luate de curentul
apei.
Potopul Sc datoreste ploilor to.
rentiale. Districtul Kyushu d
fost inundat asa de repede ca mil
de persoane au fost surprinse in
casele lor.
Curentul luat Gu ell suite dc
case constitute mai usOr ducan.
du-le pana Ia mare, ca pc o masd
de RUNE.
dn dstrictul Hita, Sc site, Cd
|sunt % de safe sub apa.