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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-12-07
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
Taken from The Ely Miner of
the same date in 1908.

Witnessed by church filled with
friends of the contracting parties,
Rev. Father Buh at st. Anthony's
Catholic church on Wednesday even
ing performed the ceremony which
made Henry o. Spooner and Miss
Amelia May Aubin, man and wife.
John Grant, one of the oldest
residents Of this city, died this
morning at o'clock of acute my
elitis, aged AZ years and eight
months, after an illness of seven
weeks, during which time he had
been confined to his bed. Eight
years ago Mr.. Grant suffered an ac-
cident at the Pioneer mine, at which
he sustained a broken back. The
Shipman Hospital physicians operat-
ed on him and he recovered suffi-
GENTLY to move about in a propel-
ling chair but the use of his lower
limbs was never regained. He al
ways was considered a healthy man
up to the time he was taken i'll and
his death comes as surprise to
many.
Some of the papers to the south
of us have been persistent in cir
culating the news item that all the
mines about Ely have discontinued
| the night shift This is not correct.
The Pioneer and Chandler both are
working night shift crews and all
the mines about Ely are working a
fair sized day crew All the men
who have been laid off have secured
work elsewhere and several have
gone to the old country. Others
have enough laid by 20 tide them
through winter and enjoy the vaca-
ton.
MARY is "a years old. Mary is
twice as old as Ann was when Mary
was as old as Ann is now. How
old is Ann?
| John Seliskar and Mary Potokar
secured license to wed Tuesday.
Grant McMahan, left Saturday
afternoon for Pennsylvania where
he was called by wire announcing
the serious illness of his mother.
Prof. L. w. Wilson formerly of
the Ely schools, is now located at
Bloomington, Iowa, where he is en-
ployed as teacher of mathematics in
the high school.
David Childers returned Saturday
from Orient, Colo, where he had
spent two years, employed in pro-
specting for the Colorado Fuel and
tIron Co.
! Sunday, snow storm dropped
about six inches of the beautiful and
sleighing is now in good condition.
In all the snow fall this year has
been about nine inches.
What has become of the oil well
which the city water works tapped
two weeks ago? Eveleth citizens do
not really care for kerosene in their
drinking water, yet oil is more valu-
able than water and if there is any
coming they want it. Now that
Rockefeller has bought the steel
trust perhaps what we were getting
was some of the water squeezed out
of the stock market with some aroma
of oil clinging to it.-Eveleth News.
| X
One hundred hunting licenses
were issued by Deputy County
Auditor Schaefer up to Wednesday
of last week and although there have
been calls for more the deputy has
had none to issue up to last night
when supply arrived. Owing to a
large number of the men being laid
off and the extra fine weather for
hunting the demand for licenses in
Ely has been much larger than on
previous years. Nearly everyone
who has gone to the woods has re-
turned with game.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-12-07

Howdy folks, another good endur-
ance test is to suffer mosquito bite
under circumstances that do not
leave you free to scratch.
o.
No Joke.
This problem makes my worries pile,
Explain it, / entreat:
Why, when runner runs mile,
He only moves two feet.
Cabbage and Cauliflower.
Training is everything" The
peach was once a bitter almond
cauIifiower is nothing but cabbage
with a college education.
The only three things entirely
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-12-07
start. With One Talent.

Starts With One Talent.
Caller-"And Is this the new babyf
Fond Mother-"Isn't he spiendidYs
Galleries, indeed. Mother-AAnd
so bright! See how intel1gently he
breathes."--Pearson's Weekly non-
DOM,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-12-07

Under the present law list price
of $500 is the highest that will per-
nit a minimum tax of $12. Under
the new law $435 is the highest list
price that will allow a minimum Of
$12. This will result in change
of classification for 1924 SO that
many cars that have carried the "a"
number plates this year will next
year carry "B" plates.
Under the new law, the 1924 tax
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-12-07

The proposed 2-cent gasoline tax
in Minnesota, the bulletin continues,
while little felt by the average car
owners painless tax"-wouid
yield probably $s,5oo.ooo a year OF
extra road betterments to increase
the gains from present good roads.
The Washington times., 1923-08-15
"Brevity Is the Soul of Wit"
1t Also Shows Condensed Thinking-and Mr. COOLIDGE
Has

What kind of is Coodge?"
That question ten million and have asked ten
million others in the last few days.
Soon you will know what KIND of man he H. for imnor
tant questions pending here and in Europe in the coal
mines and railroads. on the farms
Even in the short time remains before March 1901
Mr. Coolidge will have answered in dozen ways cues
ton, What kind of man is Coolidge?''
The answer that question important every Amer
can For among all rulers of the world the Russian
Gar and the Turkish Sultan have abolished most
powerful individual is THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES he has more personal power than any king.
One little shows that President Coolidge
at least important quality thought speech BREW
4TY-aso that he doesn't take himself too seriously
Once when the President Governor of
bis friend Mr. Tugeon wrote long letter asking him to
speak at the Fourth Annual Dinner Vermont President
Cooldges home State Governor Coolidge replied as follows
De" Newt: Won't 60 Don't care to make
sPeechea Nobody cares to hear them. Yours, Cal"
That is brief and pleasing, and enlightening
The Washington times., 1923-08-15
WORDS FROM
THE LIPS OF
WISE MEN

" HE floating Of other mems
opinions in our brains makes
- us not one jot the more
knowing though they happen to
be true-we must have our own.
Wear your learning like your
watch, in a private pocket, and do
not pull it out and strike it mere
ly to show that you have it.
II you have done an honorable
action accompanied by hard labor,
the labor is over, the honor re-
mains. II you have done any
thing disgraceful with pleasure,
the pleasure is over. the disgrace
remains.
A loving heart Is the beginning
of all knowledge.
It is not a lucky word-impos-
sible-and no good comes OF those
that have 1t often in their mouths.
Honor should be concerned in
honor's cause.
Only when genius Is married
to science can the highest results
be produced.
The clothing of our minds GER
tainly ought to be regarded be-
fore that Of our bodies.
No man ever made an Ill figure
who understood his own talents,
nor a good one who mistook them.
There appears to exist q greater
desire to live long than to live
well.
Novelty has charms that our
minds can hardly Withstand.
He who fees from Judgment
confesses his crime.
No one finds fault with defects
which are. the result of nature.
When firmness is sufficient.
rashness is unnecessary.
It requires a long time to know
any one.
Public instruction should be
the first object of government.
Copyright 1923. by Newspaper
Feature Service. Incl
The Washington times., 1923-08-15
HEROINES OF HISTORY
Significant Incidents in the Lives Of Famous Women
-By MARK STUYVESANT-

N 1863, on the island Of Marti-
nique, the first child Of Lieu
IL tenant of Artillery Joseph de
la Pageuil and Nine. de Ia Pa
geuil was born. The child was
a little girl, and they named her
Josephine.
When Josephine grew UP, her
aunt. who was the godmother OF
the second son Of the Marquise
de Beauharnais, conceived the
idea of arranging a marriage be.
tween her niece and her godson.
After much elaboration be.
tween the two families. Josephine
set sail for Havre and was soon
married to the Vicomte de Beau.
harnais.
Their marriage was not happy.
Beauharnais disloyalty to his wife
was more than she could stand,
and after being miserable for
eight years, during which her
two children, Eugene and Hor.
tense, were born, Josephine was
legally separated from her hus-
band. And she returned to Mar
Unique to her parents.
At the outbreak OF the French
Revolution, Beauharnais sent for
his wife and begged her to re.
turn to him. which she did. They
were reconciled and seem to have
been devoted to each other.
Beauharnais was a leading fig
ure in the party of the Giror1::
dists and opposed the Terror and
After valiantly commanding his
regiment in the army of the
Rhine, he was seized and exc
cuted by the Terrorists.
His death left Nine. Beauhar.
nais in sore straits. Her son sup
ported the family for a while, but
the woman who had been a So
cial leader in Paris was now re-
duced almost to poverty.
1t was at this time, in 1895
that Josephine went to call on
Napoleon to thank him for the
return Of her husbands sword.
Napoleon was Immediately at
tracted to this distinguished lady,
who at the time was not inn
pressed with him. Some his
torians agree that she even ridi.
culed him. But whether or not
Josephine loved Napoleon, she
married him and was sincere In
her devotion to him until her
death.
Napoleon was younger than
Josephine and adored her. Twelve
days after her marriage Napoleon
was placed in command of the
army in Italy.
He could not stand the Separa~
ton and sent for her to join him.
Josephine FASTENED to Milan and
The Washington times., 1923-08-15

; there was feted like q queen.
Then followed the election OF
Napoleon to the office Of first
consul, and soon the crowning
OF himself by himself rs en-.
peror.
More honors followed the
couple, for at Milan. In the sor.
geous cathedral, they each in turn
were crowned with the iron
crown Of ancient Lombardy."
But the crowns did not in.
crease Josephine's happiness. It
was then that It started to wane.
For Napoleon gave less and less
of his time to his wife and de-
voted more Of It to court func.
tons and display.
Drunk with ambition and with
no reason for divorcing Josephine
save that she had not borne him
an heir, Napoleon divorced her.
He claimed that he would be
assuring peace to his country by
leaving an heir to take his place.
Some Of his contemporaries in.
sisted that his sole reason was to
establish a relation with royalty.
This he certainly did by marry.
ing Maria Louisa, the Austrian
princess.
Josephine was a broken. hearted
woman, but she maintained her
dignity with such determination
that she won the admiration Of
the nation. She retired to Nal.
maison, her private estate, and
was given the title Of queSn>em-
press dowager and an income
amounting to over q half.nnilIion
dollars a year.
1t is true that Napoleon showed
the greatest consideration and re-
spect for the wife whom he had
set aside, and spoke always Of her
in the most flattering terms, even
writing Of her:
Josephine was truly q most
lovely woman-refined, Affable,
and charming"
Until her death, Napoleon and
Josephine wrote the most affec-
tionate letters to each other.
-Four weeks after Napcleon's
exile to Elba, Josephine died, at
the age OF fifty.
Just before her death, her two
children. who were at her side,
understood that she wished for
something. They had OWNED
rightly when they placed near her
the portrait Of Napoleon.
Peacefully gazing at the face Of
the man who had so Inundated
her and yet whom she 80 deeply
loved, she murmured before her
eyes closed for the last time:
Island OF Elba-Napoleon."
(CopyriRht. 1929, by Newspaper
Feature Service. Incl
The Washington times., 1923-08-15
VACCINATION
SCORED BY
READER
To The Editor Washington Times:

To The Editor Washington Times:
wv ILL you please extend to
" me the courtesy Of reply
ing to the article in The
Times OF Saturday. entitled: "You
May Not Like Vaccination" Yes,
and when the truth 10 told about
vaccination, no person outside Of
an insane asylum would like 1t!
have recently returned from
q town in West Virginia where
the first to contract smallpox in
q house where I stayed were the
successfully vaccinated, in an out.
break Of it there during 1919.
The Gloucester smallpox report
shows 100 revaccinated cases OF
smallpox, some from three weeks
to three months after revaccina-
ton.
From July Is to December 6.
1922, there were seventy cases OF
smallpox in London Of 100000
people, and only eighteen OF these
cases were unvaccinAted. One OF
the first to get smallpox was u
public vaccinator!
Unvaccinated men who drove
Ambulances Or took food to in.
fected houses have not developed
smallpox, although they absolute
~ refused to be vaccinated. The
more enlightened people Of Eng.
land are done with this filthy
medical humbug.
The most colossal failure Of vac
cination is to be found in the
health reports from the Philip
pines for 191S-1919, where about
$4,000 cases and about $1,000
deaths from smallpox occurred
among a thoroughly vaccinated
people, where the Government has
been enforcing it for over twenty
five years! The reports state that
tuberculosis and diphtheria are in
creasing, ana the death rate from
diphtheria with curative doses OF
Diphtheria, tuberculosis and can
Ger are a few of the fruits of vac.
cination!
Modern scientific" medicine ad.
vertised itself most brilliantly in
INC LTS0LI1ICnt IL 6dNc Jul ACCCII
President. Think OF feeding u
man regularly" whose intestines
contained poisoned crab meat!
They evidently had forgotten that
MacSwiney tasted seventy-three
days before he died Of starvation,
and he was not a stout man.
II our Chief Executive fares In
such a manner at the hands Of
the leading scientific medical men
OF our country, what hope is there
for others who employ such help?
When one gets some really seri-
Gus illness. they have an elegant
opportunity to find what value
there is in most medical methods.
No one has more respect for
really able medical men than I,
but that kind do not poison
healthy people with pus to save
them from disease, and they do
not put food into stornachs OF sick
people and pour gasoline on the
fire.
Yours for studying Natures
ways. II. BONNELL.
The Washington times., 1923-08-15
Another Botany Bay.

CECRETARY DAVIS isn't satisfied that we re suft
GENTLY protected against undesirable aliens His inves
LEGATIONS abroad convince him that much stringent
regulation is advisable.
If Congress follows his recommendation future citizens
will be put probation for five years.
Consular examination at ports of departure persistent
recommended in this column, will be urged and eligible
families admitted in body.
Austrian authorities. bandly notify him that passports
aren't being issued to artisans farmers Vses not
refused however, to superanuated nationals social
sweepings.
Two hundred criminals in country granted the
choice of jas at home tickets-ofleave We got EN-.
The Cabo Of Boston, object to the of their exalted
by the Kabotschnicks, Of Philadelphia Something TO
be said for both sides. =.
One hardly blamo anybody for wanting to simplify
such handicappng monnker Nor are the descendants
pilgrims and founders splitting hairs when they wish to
restrict proud heritage exclusively to themselves
Why not Kabot Schnick2
and Herbert kA.AnAAs
The Washington times., 1923-08-15
Hot, He Freezes

w Almond, Ind.-While the
rest of Indiana perspires in
IA semitropical heat. G.. J.
Johnston plugs along In arctic
boots, sheepskin coat, and a heavy
cap, stopping occasionally to
thrash his mittened hands against
his sides to stimulate circulation.
He works in the hardening room
Of a local ice cream company,
where a temperature Of from i6
to % degrees below zero is main
tanned. Ice cream Is shipped to
the plant from Chicago and re.
hardened before 1t Is sent out to
the Calumet region.
The Washington times., 1923-08-15

AYINE TENTHS of all accidents
III to pedestrians on the streets
4 Y would be avoided II every.
one followed this one simple rule:
When you start across the
street, look to the left-when you
reach the middle of the street,
look to the right.
The reason is simple.
When you start, all traffic 10
coming from your left AftaS
The Washington times., 1923-08-15
TODAY'S SAFETY TALK
Prepared By the National Safety Council.

you pass the center 1t is coming
from your right.
Why do people continue to take
chances?
Because their minds are on
something else.
Some are young and thoughtless
and others have never grown UP
in this respect.
Some don't know; others don't
The Washington times., 1923-08-15
The NeD Broom Sueeps Well.

president COOLIDGE has aged ten yea2s in a week.
There's man with job on his hands His first
active day in office is mainly devoted to budget re-
vision. Director Lord must pinch $126000000' out Of
former estimates
The new Administration adopts the following po'%
Reasonable help for Europes distress, but p -cps-
ton in its political wrangles.
Reimbursement Of seective immigration
No stop in output Of anthracite
No farm relief legislation until Congress regularly
convenes.
Recognition of Mexico.
And last but significant foreign debtors will be
called upon to meet their obligations rapidly possible
The expectant franc will take another tumble
The Washington times., 1923-08-15
Still Trying to Pass the Buck.

TEMPS asserts that Baldwin has put America
to cancel all entente indebtedness abandon every
thing to chaos.
LEcho de Paris upholds the justice Of making intered
payments entirely contingent Preparations collections and
protests that he great must not result in the Latin
races being forced render immense ndemnies to the
Anglo-Saxons.'
Poncare wants Washington and London to know that his
country intends conques but is simply insurng itself
against future military and economic offensives from
nveterate foe and the problem Of restoring tranquility
upon British and American purses.
He contemplate deviation from present procedures
until the United States Government announces what it
means to do about the loans which, according foreign
office official made to victory and
British and American lives.
We are informed by the dgnary that France and
Belgium will refuse consider any proposing to
haul before tribunal for their efforts to
enforce treaty obligations.
fine chance Of our seeing those four bilions
Mr. Bok's 100000 SAFE
The Washington times., 1923-08-15
THEY'RE on the Run.

x YOU'LL learn in short time whether there will be
adequate supplies of coal next winter, strike,
temporary Federal operation of the anthracite fields
One thing at least positive Mr.. Myer, of the Inter
state Commerce Commission won't be able to persuade
certain ex-governor of Massachusetts that household fur
imagining shortage.
Standard Oil cuts the price of gasoline to 1874 cents in
Illinois and to 1875 in other parts Of the Middle and South
west. The South draws a penny reduction.
Headquarters explain that automobiles buying fuel
supplies below cost of production.
That may be But recent dividends and stock bonuses
indicate that 26 cents is unconscionable.
Governor Bryan of Nebraska notifies the industry to treat
his folks right the Commonwealth will establish
petitive filling stations.
Independents squeang against oppressive competition,
knock nickel off retail charges and swear that they're
headed for ruin.
Turn abouts fair play The public well entitled to an
inning.
The Washington times., 1923-08-15
COMING CALAMITY
CASTS PROPHECY
BEFORE
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

1.-TWO HUNDRED men are entombed in the Pioneer
coal mine at Kemmerer, Wyo. few years ago news
papers would have published daily bulletins from the
scene of the disaster.
Now they hardly spare space detail properly the
series Of catasrophies starting in August 1914 and from
Indications about involve millions Of beings
heaven many hateblinded powers in further
slaughter and ruin.
Senator Smoot back from several months look around
fears German revolution and another continental war
Willis Booth head Of the United States Chamber Of Com
merce also just returned doesn't think that the Ruhr will
yield that will retire before her
are secured.
Irving Bush finds the Old World mad broth Of vim
dctveness and suspicion confident that Poncare
win out than Ssyphus could roll his tabled
up hill
Representative Answe OF Louisiana believing that
do nothing beyond what moral force may accomplish
warns us look for rebellion in the Rhnelands followed
by French invasion and the subsequent ENHANCEMENT Of
England and Italy.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-11

Mont. promoters for Dempsey-Gib-
bons bout on July 4.
O'Rourke said he would like 70
stage the bout some time In July ~
the Polo Grounds.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-11
AFTER MEN HIGHER UP
Chicago Federal Judge Orders Prose-
cution to Ferret Out Those Backing
Rum Running Deals.

Chicago, April 11.--A spring drive
against liquor law violators got under
way today when the federal grand
jury met under instructions from
Judge James II. Wilkerson 10 ferret
out and bring to court the higher
ups" who finance the huge deals
which have become public recently"
Although Judge Wilkerson did not
refer directly to the recent distribu-
ton of the stock of Grommes and
Ulrich liquor dealers, who disbanded
and divided two thousand cases OF
fine liquors among gold coast stock
holders. he gave the jury carte
blanche to delve to the bottom of all
liquor deals in Chicago.
II have been amazed" the court
told the federal grand jurors. by the
array Of petty offenders of the prohi-
bition law who are brought into the
federal courts. ] want to know why
the prohibition law is stined. want
to know why the real offenders are
not brought into court. want to
know what are the powers that Ne
nance the huge deals which have be-
come public recently and why only
drivers and petty peddlers are cited
for prosecution"
New Britain herald., 1923-04-11

ing expenses, and most of them have
relatives who will help them out when
they arrive.
Sweden's quota under the United
States immigration law is about TO-
900 per year.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-11
CO-ED0 ARE ARRAIGNED.

Oxford, April 11.-Speaking on the
question of sex equality and equal
educational opportunities for women,
Dean Inge OF st. Paul's Cathedral,
London, declared that out of $500
women students at Oxford university
only 657 had married. The rest---77
per cent-had taken vows of perpetual
maidenhood. II hope" said the dis
tinguished London ecclesiastic, that
this deplorably low percentage is not
final When / walk through the
streets of Oxford and observe the
very Overlooking young students
In their very fetching caps and gowns,
I cannot believe that such large
proportion of them can be so hard
hearted as to ignore the other SEX"
New Britain herald., 1923-04-11
iris SPEAKER MAY END
CAREER ON FIRST BASE
Connie Mack Sort OF Feels That CALI
fornian May BE Brought
Into Inaeld.

Philadelphia. April 11.-Connie
Mack has feeling that iris Speaker
VIII end up his baseball career as q
first sacker,
When he read that Guisto would
start the season and Brewer would
succeed him In case the Californian
failed to come up to expectations.
Mack Remarked:
Even II Guisto and Brewer fail
to deliver. Speaker wouldn't have TO
worry. Have you ever watched Speak
or playing the inhed? Well, he puts
In lot OF time around first base and
plays 1t very capably.
playing center field calls for
much leg work. II Speaker finds his
lower limbs are bothering him, ] can
see no reason why he couldn't shift
to first base. He is wonder on
ground balls. Is a left-hander. has
a fine arm and is sure catch.
Speaker has every asset of a star
first sacker and it wouldn't surprise
me II he rounded out his career at
that position
There Is much logic to Mack's OBJ
servations about Speaker. For years
the Cleveland manager has practiced
a great deal at first base. He is
right now capable of playing the
bag. With a Bit of experience he
would more than hold his own.
1t is possible that Speaker may
be the ace in the hole for that job
in case his two prospects slip up on
him.
However Speaker feels that Guisto
will deliver and that in Brewer he
has an equally capable substitute.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-11
Dempsey-Gibbons Battle
Is Wanted in New York

New York, April 11,-Tom O'Rourke,
Polo Grounds matchmaker, entered a
bid for a heavyweight boxing cham
pionship match between Jack Demp-
sey. the titleholder, and Tom Gibbons
of st. Paul,
Details were not revealed, but ac-
cording to Dan Mcketrick, partner of
Jack Kearns, the champions mana
ger. the offer was in excess of the
$1,000 proposition made by Shelby,