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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-02-28

to this city about 10 a. m. and worked
so rapidly that the raids had been
completed by 1;30. Among the
saloons raided was that Of ThSedore
Loes. former member of the city
council. A pint of liquor was founl
on the bar.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-02-28
KHAN CROSS AT ELK MOUND

Chippewa Inhabitants If
Elk Mound, village Is miles west Of
here, Saturday night reported seeing
blazing cross on Elk mound. high
point on the outskirts of Lae llage.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-02-28

Unity Advancement society. The OBJ
ject of the society will be to promote
community interest and to hold get
together" meetings monthly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-02-28
CAGE 9 OUT OF 10

Kenosha-State prohibition agents,
led by Harry Hewitt, raided IL sa-
looms here Tuesday and found liquor
in nine of them. The dry squad came
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-02-28
AN APPROPRIATE NAME

Unity, Wis.-One hundred farmers
and business men gathered at the
opera house and organized COM
munity club to be known as the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-02-28
MORE BOYS AT CAMP

Observation-Disclosures of more high
school boys of Wisconsin at the citi-
Mes military training camps con-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-07-04
White House, Home of the President

mittee recommended an appropriation
of $39s,410
The largest single item in the bill Is
500, 500, representing the total salaries
of thirty-eight White House employees
rendering personal service in the Office
of the President Included in the list
of employees rendering personal serv-
ice are telephone operators, file clerks,
social correspondents, doorkeepers,
ushers, stenographers, social clerks,
social secretaries, messengers and la
borers, there being in all something
like seventy -five different classes of
employees
Two assistant secretaries to the
President get $4,000 each, and the
chief executive clerk pulls down So
200. while the next highest paid en-
ployee is the chief correspondent, who
gets $1,000.
Congress makes ample provision for
police protection at the executive man.
sion, S55, $40 of the total White House
expenditures going for the employment
of thirty-three policemen and detec-
tives. An additional So, $50 is provided
for their uniforms and equipment.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-07-04
Human Body Dislikes High Temperature

to high temperatures felt no i'll effects,
tending to diSprove the assumption
that such action develops severe
cramps.
1t was found that the exhaustion and
weakness following subsection of hu-
man beings to a very high tempera-
ture and humidity for a short period
Is not so severe as subsection to a
moderately high temperature and hui
Nudity for longer period.
The pulse rate, rather than the rise
in body temperature, apparently de-
termines the extent of the discomfort
experienced by the subject. Subjects
became very uncomfortable after the
pulse rate exceeded 135 pulsations per
minute, and complained of unbearable
and distressing symptoms when the
pulse exceeded 100 per minute.
The health, comfort and efficiency of
men engaged in the mining industry
may be impaired, in some instances
very seriously, by abnormal physical
conditions of mine air or by variations
in its composition This is true in
some of the metal mines Of the West,
where high temperatures with varying
humidities are encountered.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-07-04
Education an Aid to Outdoor Recreation

at either end of our nation have built
up and fostered greater appreciation
of their outdoor facilities through the
introduction of nature study as a part
of their regular school curricula. Thus
they have encouraged and stimulated
an appreciation of nature together
with an independence and originality
of thought which makes for love of the
outdoors and for the foundation of
better citizenship. The educational
committee urges upon the national
conference the passage of definite
resolution endorsing school nature
study and the extension of the nature
study idea for every American school
and every American family.
"This committee equally endorses
the splendid nature study courses Of
fered by many public Libraries, mu-
seums and camps and recommends that
all institutions of this character should
follow the excellent example already
set. 1t is urged that modern and up
to-date books and magazines on nat
ural history subjects be used, as the
advance of science has demonstrated
errors of many so-called authorities"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-07-04
F.A. Vanderlip's Book, big Government"

l don't think l ever spent money more
wisely.
1.-The Federal Research bureau was
organized on basis that would have
required fully 100000 year to finance
it. I had fifteen men in the bureau
and large number of men on the out
side, and my legal fees have been
heavy. / expect to reduce the staff of
men employed by practically one-half
and to change the character of the
work-making a study of the funda-
mental evils In the machinery at
Washington. What is now needed Is
to explain the growth of new func-
lions of government without the cor
responding machinery to handle them.
I believe that much constructive work
is to be done in showing where waste
and corruption have made their way
In and how they may be kept out.
an the book on which am working,
do not intend to concern myself with
the scandals that have been occupy
ing so much attention. What intend
to bring out is the change In the
philosophy of government which lies
behind these evils"
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zREdaaaE%
Washington Sidelights
%nsaRWA1W $aS&zss44R
Congress Gets Bill for Summer Study

which would be placed directly under
the control of the President.
Creation of centralized purchas-
ing agency to be known as the bureau
of purchase and supply.
Establishment in the Interior depart
ment of two subdivisions, one charged
with the administration Of the public
domain and the other with the admin
istration of public engineering works.
Transfer to the Interior department
Of the bureau of public roads, now in
the Department of Agriculture, and the
office of the supervising architect now
under the Treasury department.
Transfer all departmental solicitors
from the Department of Justice to the
departments which they serve.
Creation of an office of public build
ings and parks in the District of Co
lumbia which would assume the func-
tions of the present office of public
buildings and grounds, and the Office
of the superintendent of the State.
War and Navy department buildings.
The report was signed by Senators
Smoot, of Utah, and Wadsworth, of
New York, and Representatives
Mapes, Of Michigan, and Temple, OF
Pennsylvania, all Republicans.
Senator Harrison, of Mississippi,
and Representative Moore, of Virginia,
the Democratic members of the COM
mittee, submitted a minority report.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-07-04

not be committed in a roundabout, in
direct, hit-or-miss manner. A young
man sees a girl whom he thinks he
would like to marry. Does he go to
her house and say, Miss So-and-So, /
think l would like to marry you. Will
you allow me to call on you so that we
may get better acquainted, with that
object in view?' He does not. Such
honesty would be considered almost
brutal He calls on her and pretends
he would like to take her to the thea
ter, If 1t is in town, or for ride, If
it is in the country. She pretends she
would like to go. Both of them know
what the real purpose is, and both of
them pretend they don't. 7 They start
the farce by pretending deceit which
deceives nobody. They walt for ma
ture to set up an attraction which
shall override their Judgment, rather
than act by Judgment first and leave
1t to nature to take care of herself.
How much better 1t would be to be
perfectly frank-to boldly announce
the purpose-to come as 1 now come
to you and say, Zen, want to marry
you. My reason, my judgment, tells
me that you would be an ideal mate.
I shall be proud Of you, and will try
to make you proud Of me. / will
crafty your desires In every way that
my means will permit. / pledge you
my fidelity in return for yours. IL
Zen, viii you say yes? Can you be-
lieve that there is In my simple words
more sincerity than there could be in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-07-04

YEED of rallying the educational
N forces of the country behind
~ any out-of-door program was
clearly shown at the sessions
of the Outdoor Recreation conference
called by President Coolidge. This
was brought out by the resolutions
submitted by the committees appoint
ed by Theodore Roosevelt, assistant
secretary of the navy, who presided at
the sessions. For example, the COM
mittee on formulation of an educa-
tional program for outdoor recreation
pointed out the need of an educa-
tional campaign to make known and
advertise to the American public those
facilities in the nature of parks, for
ests, rivers, lakes, and Fairgrounds
which are available in the future. Go
ing further into the need of marshall
ing the educational forces of the coun-
FRY this committees report says:
"This special educational committee
believes appreciation and love of the
outdoors should begin, with every
other form of education, in the public
and private schools of the land. New
York state and California as examples
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-07-04
CHAPTER VIII

Zen thought over the events of that
evening until they became blur In
her memory. Her principal recollec-
ton was that she had been quite
swept off her feet. Transley had in
terpreted her submission as assent,
and she had not corrected him in the
vital moment when they stood before
her father that night In the deep
shadow of the veranda.
"YD.," Transley had said, "your
consent and your blessing! Zen and
| are to be married as soon as she can
be ready"
That was the moment at which she
should have spoken, but she did not
She, who had prided herself that she
would make a race of it-she, who
had always been able to slip out of
predicament In the nick of time-stood
mutely by and let TraRsley and her
father interpret her silence as con-
sent. She was not sure that she was
sorry; she was not sure but she would
have consented anyway; but Transley
had taken the matter quite out Of her
hands. And yet she could not bring
herself to feel resentment toward
him; that was the strangest part of
It, 1t seemed that she had come I'M
der his domination; that she even
had to think as he would have her
think
In the darkness she could not see
her fathers face, for which she was
sorry; and he could not see hers, for
which she was glad. There was a
long moment of tense silence before
she heard him say:
"Well, well! had bunch 1t
might come to that, but didn't reckon
you youngsters would work so fast"
'This was a stake worth working
fast for" Transley was saying, as he
shook Y.D.'s hand. II wouldn't trade
places with any man alive" And Zen
was sure he meant exactly what he
said.
ashes a good girl, Transley," her
father commented "a good girl, even
If bit obstrep'rous at times. She's
got spirit, Transley, an you'll have to
handle her with sense. She's IA
thoroughbred !"
Y.D. had reached his arms toward
his daughter, and at these words he
closed them about her. Zen had
never known her father to be emo
tional she had known him to face mat
ters of life and death without the
culver of an eyelid, but as he held
her there In his arms that night she
felt his big frame trcmble. Suddenly
she had powerful desire to cry. She
broke from his embrace and ran up
stairs to her room.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-07-04

T-HAT the human body, in state
of rest and in still air, can
not endure indefinitely tenn
perature higher than 80 de
grees Fahrenheit with 100 per cent
relative humidity has been determined
by Department of Interior investiga-
tors at the Pittsburgh experimental
station of the bureau Of mines, coop
Grating with the American Society of
Heating and Ventilating Engineers.
In the course of the tests it was noted
that the heavier and stouter men In
the experiments, when subjected to
uncomfortabiy hot temperatures, lost
more weight than the lighter and thin
ner men, but as rule could endure
such temperatures for longer period
and complained less of the exhaustion
which followed.
Loss of weight in the subjects ex-
perimented with gradually increased
with an increase in atmospheric tenn
perature. Whenever the subject drank
ice water he Immediately gained in
weight and in all cases the subject,
within "a hours, usually regained the
entire weight lost. Subjects who
drank ice water freely after exposure
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-07-04

any mad rawlings about love? You are
young, Zen, younger than l, but you
must have observed some things. One
of them Is that marriage, founded on
mutual respect, which increases with
the years. Is much safer and wiser
passion which quickly burns itself out
and leaves the victims cold, unrespon-
sive, with nothing in common. You
may not feel that you know me well
enough for decision. will give you
every opportunity to know me better
II will do nothing to deceive you'll
will put on no veneer-I will let you
know me as really am. Will you cay
yes?"
He had left his seat and approached
her; he was leaning close over her
chair. While his words had suggested
marriage on purely intellectual ba-
sis he did not hesitate to bring his
physical presence into the scale He
was accustomed to having his way
he had always had it-never did he
vent ~ iAiOiO IMAM hC ulu
And although he had made his plea
from the intellectual angle ne was
sure, he was very, very sure there was
more than that. This girl, whose very
presence delighted him-intoxicated
him-would have made him mad
"Will you say yes?" he repeated,
and his hands found hers and drew
her with his great strength up from
her chair. She did not resist, but
when she was on her feet she avoided
his embrace.
you must not hurry me-" she wlis-
pered. II must have time to think. l
did not realize what you were saying
until"
'Say yes now" he urged. Transley
was a man very hard to resist. She
felt as though she were in the grip
of powerful machine; 1t was as
though she were being swept along by
stream against which her feeble
strength was as nothing. Zen was as
nearly frightened as she ever had
been in her vigorous young life. And
yet there was something delightful.
1t would have been so easy to sur
render-it was so hard to resist.
'Say yes now" he repeated, draw
ing her close at last and breathing the
question into her ear. you shall have
time to think-you shall ask your own
heart, and If 1t does not confirm your
words you will be released from your
promise"
They heard the footsteps of her ia
Their approaching, and Transley wait
ed no longer for an answer. He
turned her face to his; he pressed his
lips against hers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-07-04
Zen, though she has let silence
give consent, is busy thinking of
Grant. VIII she make up her
mind to speak out?
ero BE CONTINUED
Birds Sing Again in
Ancient Ponapeii Garden

In the last days of Pompeii pictur-
esque garden with marble mountains
and frescoed inches was one of the
adornments of the city.
One entered through a carriage pa
vilion, the high entrance surnounted
by bell Across the threshold court
in white and gold between two rows
of pillars led to the spacious, sloping
terraces, watered by drowsy brook
The twitter of thousand birds com
pleted the pastoral landscape.
Excavators have resurrected this
garden. The lawns are green again,
as they were when vesuvius erupted,
A. d. 20. A silyery bell again peals
for visitors: the murmuring brook
wanders in through new conduits, and
songsters. descendants of the birds
who were singing about Pompeii more
than 1900 years ago, carol as their
forbears did In the days made famous
by Bulwer-Lytt0n.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-07-04
A Novel of the Foothills
"sAY YES Nowl"

SYNOPSIS. = Transley's hay
cutting outfit. after stacking
1000 tons. is on It's way to the
big Y.D. ranch headquarters.
Transley is master of men and
circumstances. Linder, foreman,
is substantial. but not self-asser-
tive. George Drazk one OF the
men. is an irresponsible chap who
proposes to every woman ne
meets. Transley and Under dine
with YD. and his wife and
daughter Zen. Transley resolves
to marry Zen. Y.D. instructs
Transley to cut the South Y.D.,
spite o. hi an high water and
a fellow named Landson. Drazk
proposes to Zen and is neatly re-
buffed. Transley pitches camp
on the South Y.D. and finds Land
sons outfit cutting hay. Denni-
son Grant. Landson's manager,
notifies TransIey that he is work.
ing under a lease from the legal
owners and warns Transley on.
All OF which means war. Y.D.
and Zen ride to the South Y.D.
Zen is a natural vamp, not yet
halter-broke and ripe for mating.
Y.D. has taken a liking to Trans
ley. Zen holds Transley on and
encourages Linder. Zen enjoys
the prospect of a race between
Transley and Under for her IA
vor, but secretly laughs at both.
She has another and more serious
encounter with Drazk. Y.D. NOW
ing machines are ruined by iron
stakes set in the grass. Zen pre-
vents open war with Landson.
Transley halfway proposes and
is turned off. Drazk sets a fire
that attacks the Landson stacks.
The Y.D. outfit hastens to aid the
enemy. Zen rides of alone to
help. The wind changes and the
Y.D. people now have to fight
the prairie fire. Zen rides into
the river to escape flames. Drazk
tries to abduct her. She browns
him-or thinks she has. Grant
overtakes her. In trying to ride
through fire Zen is thrown and
knocked senseless. Zen comes to
after several hours of uncon-
sciousness to find herself in the
dark with Grant. She has
sprained ankle and both horses
have run away. So she and Grant
sit on a rock and tell their past
lives. Grant. 1t appears, Is a rich
mans son who scorns wealth In
order to live his own life. Y.D.
and his men arrive after day
light. Naturally. in the circum-
stances, haying is abandoned.
Grant rides off. Transley goes to
the nearest town.
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THAT will be very interesting" she

THAT will be very interesting" she
agreed.
"Will you be interested?"
"Of course am interested in every
thing that Dad undertakes"
"And are you not-will you not be
just little interested In the things
that undertaken"
She paused a moment before reply
ing. The dusk had settled about them,
and he could not see the contour of
her face, but he knew that she had
realized the significance of his ques-
ton.
"Why yes" she said at length, II
will be interested in what you under
take. You will be Dads partner"
Her evasion nettled him.
"Zen," he said. "why shouldn't we
understand each other?''
Don't WEI? She had turned slight
ly toward him, and he could feel the
laughing mockery in her eyes.
II rather think we do" he answered.
"only we-at least, you-won't admit
It,"
"Oh"
Seriously, Zen, do you imagine l
came over here today simply to make
a deal with your fatherY
Wasn't that worth whilef"
"Of course it was But it wasn't the
whole purpose-it wasn't half the pur-
pose / wanted to see Y.D., 1t is true,
but more, very much more, wanted
to see you."
She did not answer, and he could
only guess what was the trend of her
thoughts. After silence he con-
tinued:
you may think am precipitate.
You intimated as much to me once. i
am. / know of no reason why an hon.
est man should go beating about the
bush. When l want somethingT want
1t, and / make a bee-line for 1t. II 1t
Is contract-if 1t is business mat
teri go right after 1t, with all the
energy that's in me. When I'm look
ing for a contract don't start by talk
ing about the weather. Well-this Is
my first experience in love, and per-
haps my methods are all wrong, but 1t
seems to me they should apply. AT
any rate girl of your intelligence
will understand"
Applying your business principles
she interrupted, II suppose If you
wanted a wife and there was none in
sight you would advertise for herT
He defended his position. II don't
see why not" he declared. II can't
understand the general attitude of
levity toward matrimonial advertise
ments. Apparently they are too open
and above-board Matrimony should
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-07-04
ColUs Too Radical
in Changing Diet

Seven cows in Klickitat county, on
the new North Bank highway, sought
to emulate goats and ate quantity of
paper wrappings of dynamite left after
blasting operations, and died
The owner conceived his loss to be
due to carelessness of highway work
men in not cleaning up the remnants
and residue of the explosives rather
than the fault of the cows in making
such radical change in diet, says an
Olympia (Wash.) dispatch to the New
York World.
He billed James Allen, state highway
engineer, for payment for the seven
cows. Allen passed the account to At
torney General Dunbar, who coyly
slipped it into the desk of Governor
Hart The latter hunted through the
statute Looks and failed TO find a
clause creating a liability upon the
state. Governor Hart, being farmer,
is interested mostly in the question.
Why should dynamite wrapping paper
prove appetizing to bovines, as well as
deadly?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-07-04
The Great Qualities

Factories and railways are good ~
to a certain point; but courage and
endurance, love of wife and child,
love of home and country, love OF
lover for sweetheart, love of beauty
in mans work and in nature, love and
emulation of daring and of lofty en-
Geavor, the homely workaday virtues
and the heroic virtues-these are better
still, and IF they are lacking. no
piled-up riches, no roaring, changing
industrialism, no feverish and many
sided activity shall avail either the
individual or the nation. do not I'M
dervalue these things of a nations
body; l only desire that they shall
not make us forget that beside the
nations body there is also the ma
tons soul.-Theodore Roosevelt.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-07-04

~ALVIN COOLIDGE, who was
born in a humble frame farm
~ house in New England, today is
the occupant of home which
costs more than his yearly salary to
maintain. II President Coolidge de-
pended upon his salary to run the
White House he would be faced with
an annual deficit of more than $780,
600.
Congress, however, has made it pos
sible for others than multimillion-
aires to hold the exalted Office of Chief
Executive of the nation. There is an
appropriation of $39S,410 for running
the executive mansion OF this amount
$4,000 is used for travelling and
entertaining expenses of the Pres
ident and Is expended on his
certificate only. This is equiva-
lent to salary of 100000 when added
to the $4,000 President Coolidge re-
ceives. A glance at the following APP
preparations will show that congress
is a real life-saver for the President:
For maintaining the White House es-
tablishment in 1925, including the
Presidents allowance, the house COM
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-07-04

Regard Heads of Foes as Greatest Trophie.

The vast forest regions lying on
either side of the Amazon are proba-
bly, the least known and the most dam
gerous portions of the world All this
Is brought out forcibly In Charles w.
Domville-Fife's book Among Wild
Tribes of the Amazons'
The tribes are full of strange and
barbarous customs Most of them re-
gard the heads of slain enemies as
great trophies. Mr.. Domville-Fife
managed to discover in enc tribe the
place where the heads were prepared.
Here at last was the secret death
house Of the Huambisa. The floor was
hard with CONCEALED blood drained
from human Bodies for unknown years.
AT frequent intervals this fierce tribe
attacks nelghboring villages, captur-
ing the women and girls and killing
the men. The bodies of those slain
are then decapitated and the heads
brought back in triumph.
These CHASTITY trophies are stuck
on lances, and the tribe assemblies
round them for Wild night orgy.