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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
FARM MITES

Weeds are robbers of both plant
food and moisture
Plant corn every ten days for a
succession of roasting ears.
A homeike home and a homely
home are not the same. Sometimes
little shrubbery makes the second into
the first.
The typewriter is also valuable
farm implement, for 1t gives the farm
er a carbon copy Of each business
communication.
OF 2690 grain marketing associa-
tions reporting to the United States
Department Of Agriculture, 78 per cent
buy feed for members: 70 per cent buy
fuel. and "a per cent buy containers.
Reports from 753 associations ham
ding fruits and vegetables Indicate
that 55 per cent buy containers for
their members; 40 per cent fertilizers.
and 25 per cent buy spraying mate
rails
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13

day, and when night would come l
would be so nervous couldn't stay In
bed. Our druggist recommended the
Vegetable Compound to my husband and
he bought four bottles. / have taken
every one and think have right to
praise your medicine. Mrs. j. b.
HoLLEMAN, 2214 E. Marshal Street,
Greenville, Texas.
For fifty years Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has been used by
women from girlhood through middle
age. ..-
1t is dependable medicine for trou-
bles common to women. Such symp-
toms as Mrs. Holleman had are relieved
by correcting the cause of the trouble.
For sale by druggists everywhere.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
VERION
W Complexion
ApI Soap ;
Df-1oorth more
Nerves Warn Woman
of Earth's Shocks

"An Englishwoman of peculiar sen.
sitiveness has for many years past
been able to report almost every
earthquake in all parts of the world
before any news came in," writes
Prof. H. II. Turner in the Quarterly
Review.
''She suffers from a curious nerv-
GUS tension. as though under the in,
6uence of electricity, which almost
lncapacitates her while it lasts. but
leaves suddenly. She has consulted
several doctors, but none of them has
been able to relieve her."
The woman had bad attack" on
September last year. On September
IL came news of considerable shock
In India two days previously.
''The testimony is unexceptionable
and indicates line of inquiry which
has hitherto not been explored 1t
may supply unsupported information
both to seismology and to physiology"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
Ni;& {IR ~ lQ|I|9

before the sun was up and while the
mountain was yet misty in the early
morning, had gone part way down the
mountain and, stretching out her bony
arms and hands, had caused water to
run over the rocks and form brook.
If he had he would not have guessed
the reason, but his witch mother was
making sure her son could not leave
her. She knew that all charms are
broken when the one upon whom the
spell is cast steps into running water.
waco she had formed from an ugly
black rock that stood by her doorway,
and now she would let him take his
form again.
Slowly down the mountainside Witch
Teg watched her son driving his pigs.
For a minute Yaco stopped when he
saw the water. Then, seeing it was
not deep, he drove the pigs in. Be
fore his astonished eyes they resumed
their former shape-a heap of stones.
Yaco stepped in to touch the stones
and instantly he became one of them,
only big, black and ugly-just the
shape he had been when Witch Teg
changed him into the son of witch.
The village folks at the foot of the
mountain point out the black rock
and call it the Witch's Son because it
is shaped like the head of a man, but
they do not know that once 1t was
Yaco, the son Of Witch Teg, who was
ashamed Of his witch mother.
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13

thing of the physical characteristics of
the girls future husband can be di-
vined by the shape and size of the
cabbage stolen. In no case can she
select the cabbage but must take the
first that comes to handsome say
pull it with her eyes shut.
In Scotland the same superstition
is common Halloween custom, han
ded down from time immemoral, and
was glorlfied in poetry by Robert
Burns. Only in Scotland they do not
put the whole cabbage but only the
stalk over the door and say that the
amount of earth clinging to the cab
bage root indicates the size of the for
tune the girls husband will have. This
superstition Is Inherited from our bar
barous ancestors of northern Europe
to whom cabbage and kale were nearly
what onions and garlic were to the
Egyptians. Egyptians even delfied the
onion and If the Teuton and the Celt
did not exactly defy the cabbage they
held ii in high respect as possessing
many mystic qualities and gave 1t
place only a little lower than the grain
god. Most appropriate vegetable to
divine by.
GO by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
WITCH TEG'S SON

WACO, the son of old Witch Teg,
who lived on the mountain side,
wanted to be rich. He did not want to
live in cave with his Witch Mother,
though she did everything within the
power of her magic arm to make him
happy.
1t was not, however, in the power
of Witch Teg to give gold to her son,
or to any one else.
Stones she could change into ami
mails or mountains into rocks and
trees, and it was whispered she had
changed more than one into the shape
of a wild animal.
So when her son asked for gold that
he might become rich and live in a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
WOMEN NEED SWAMP-ROOT

Thousands of women have kidney and
bladder trouble and never suspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in healthy con-
dition they may cause the other organs
to become diseased.
Pain in the back headache, loss Of
ambition, nervousness are oftentimss
symptoms of kidney trouble.
Don't delay starting treatment. Dr..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, a physicians pre-
scription, obtained at any drug store, may
be just the remedy needed to overcome
such conditions. 49,.
Get medium or large size bottle imme-
diately from any drug store.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation, send ten cents to DIR.
Kilmer & Co., BinChamton. N. Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing, be sure
and mention this paper.-Advertisem
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13

'Soon III be hlCn man, MOtncr,
He Said.
palace Witch Teg knew she could not
grant his wish.
There was one thing she could do,
and that was to help him get money,
and this she did by changing the big
rocks around her mountain cave into
fat pigs which Yaco drove to the mar
ket and sold for gold.
Soon the gold began to pile up in
the corner of the cave, for Yaco's pigs
were the finest in the market and
brought the highest prices.
"Soon I will be rich man, mother"
said Yaco one day, "and shall live in
a palace, and when you see me riding
in my coach with four prancing horses
you will be proud of your son."
Witch Teg listened with downcast
eyes, for she began to understand that
this selfish son had no thought Of her,
but would leave her as soon as he was
rich enough to satisfy his greed.
If Yaco had seen his mothers eyes
his answer to her question would per-
haps have been more guarded, but he
didn't, and so when Witch Teg asked,
"And how shall 1 be able to see so
fine person as you will be when you
drive out in such style? You cannot
drive up the side of the mountain"
"Oh, you can sit at the foot of the
mountain some day and l will drive
past" replied the. ungrateful Yaco.
"You will not expect me to notice you,
of course, for could not have witch
for my mother, you know, and live in
a palace"
mo, no." answered the witch, "that
would never do" But she did not in
tend that her selfish son should leave
her to live in a cave while he rode
about in beautiful coach ashamed to
own her for his mother.
One morning when Yaco started for
market the pigs he drove before him
were the plumpest and finest he had
ever driven down the mountain and
Yaco thought of the gold he would
bring back to add to his store.
Yaco did not know that his mother,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
Chicks Crowd in Brooder

The cause of crowding in brooders is
usually lack of heat. If the chicks be-
come cold they huddle and soon learn
the habit. Frightening by entering the
coop with lantern, or from any other
cause, is also likely to make small
chicks huddle. Keep the brooder house
sufficiently warm and avoid any move
ments that frighten the flock because
of its unfamiliarity with them.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
Carbonic Acid Vapor Is
Verv Poisonous in Silo

Carbonic acid gas is formed through
the fermentation of corn in silo.
This gas is very poisonous. Being
heavier than air, it will settle at the
bottom of the silo and, unless some
provision is made to let this flow out
of the silo, it Is dangerous for persons
to enter. In the case of an above
ground silo, leaving the door open at
the silage level permits this gas to
escape, and there is no danger. With
a pit silo this escape is impossible, and
the proper method to pursue is to start
up the silage cutter and blower so as
to agitate the air and mix good air
with the carbonic acid. Another
method has been to take branch of
tree and stir up this carbonic acid gas
so that it will disappear into the air.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13

THE same woman may be goddess
I to boy, temptation to a mar
ried man and a menace to bachelor.
No man is ripe for matrimony until
his heart has been broken at least
once: and the first girl who threw him
over is an angel in disguise.
Every man believes that woman's
sphere" is marriage; but that a girl
should never, never think about it, ex-
cept in the beautiful abstract, until
some man mentions it to her.
True love says, Love me-or l suf-
fer!" Infatuation says, Love me-or
I'll make YOU suffer-"
Youths idea of success" consists in
covering the course (of life) with the
fewest possible strokes (of effort).
Forty-five is the magic age at which
a man has just begun to LIVE-when
he still retains all his teeth, some of
his hair, the outlines Of his youthful
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
MILDRED
MARSHALL
ELLA

ELLA is an elfin name. Its source
Il lies in Fairyland, where the elves,
or white spirits, were supposed to be
gifted shadowy beings given to infiu-
encing strangely the lives of mortals.
Ella means "elfs friend"
The elf king was called Elberich.
His fairy kindred and their popularity
in England and Ireland, established
the use of elf names early in history.
Everyone remembers Aelfgifu, the I'M
fortunate Elgiva, whose beauty was
like the fairy gift which her name sig
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
Appalling Problem Confronts
Americans, Life Tables Show
Average health span extends only from age Is to
age 31-Earnine power dwindles
rapidly after 40

Health-physical freedom and full
vigor-ends at age 81 for the average
person. Maximum usefulness ends at
40. These facts, shown by the United
States Life Tables, 1920, form the
most appalling problem every human
being has to facet
What are the years after 40 going
to mean to youf Will they be worth
ivingi Can you earn your way during
those yearsf
Not if you arc "the average indi-
vidual-" What sort Of person is "the
average individual in Americaf He
works hard. He eats unwisely. He
loads his body with drug stimulants,
which appear to giUe energy, but ac-
fually borroso this energy from his
own reserve.
Age Bland no begins to slip. The
reserve strength which his body sought
to store up against these later years,
has bit by bit been robbed. Age 40
he suffers loss Of income. Age So
WHAT
Remember the simple laws Of health
which everyone learned in school.
Avoid stimulants. Avoid the sleepless
hours, upset digestion, warning head
aches, taut nerves and muddy COM
plexiens which so often accompany the
use Of the drug caffein-
Caffein is classified as a poison.
Like strychnin, it is sometimes given
by doctors in cases Of heart failure.
The average cup Of coffee contains the
usual dose of caffein administered in
such cases. The alarming foolishness Of
taking this poison regularly into the
system is borne out by the frightful
compared with the length Of life.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
SOFTENING WATERS FOR SPRAY
TO CONTROL SAN JOSE SCALE

spray tank while filling with water,
adding just before the tank is full
six gallons of the stock oil emulsion
required to give the two per cent Of
Oil in 200 gallons Of spray. The spray
should be kept well agitated during
application. The bordeaux mixture
made from one pound of bluestone
and one pound of lime is the proper
amount for 200 gallons of spray. When
less quantities of the spray are re-
CURED, as 90 gallons, Il pound Of
bluestone and Il pound of lime will
make sufficient bordeaux.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
Wood IN Matches

Tons of wood are consumed weekly
in Europe and America in the manu-
facture of matches, which were orig
inate in 1927. One i:m alone uses
625 tons of timber a week in its match
output. The logs used average about
a foot in diameter and ten feet in
length. The match sticks are usually
immersed in solution that will pre-
vent their smouldering. as one of the
safety requirements.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
Che Uhu
Of
Superstitions
By h. lRDlNG KIN 6
CABBAGES AND LOVE

TN MANY parts Of the country girl
4 who Is becoming anxious about her
prospects of matrimony goes out to a
neighbours cabbage patch at night.
steals cabbage and places 1t over the
house door. The man upon whom the
cabbage falls when the door Is opened
is the man she is destined to marry.
1t. is held by most authorities that
success upon Allhallowe'en and that
the girl should go through a graveyard
on her way to steal the cabbage. In
some sections II Is believed that some
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
Bulletin Issued
on Waternelons
the market without unnecessary de-

the market without unnecessary de-
lay.
The profits accruing from watermel-
ons growing are not large; therefore
all items of expense in their produc-
ton should be kept as low as possible
consistent with good cultural and
handling methods. Sudden expansion
of the acreage planted is undesirable.
and usually results in extremely low
prices.
A copy of this bulletin, Farmers
Bulletin No. 1894, Watermelons, may
be secured, as long as the supply lasts,
from the United States Department of
Agriculture, Washington, d. G.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13

You need the digestive aid and COM
fort of hot drink. You can get such
a drink without drugs You can get it
with flavor which millions of people
consider more delicious than any other.
You can get it in form which con-
tributes, rather than robs, reserve
strength.
Change to Postumi Whole wheat
and bran, skillfully roasted, with a
little sweetening. Nothing more. A
wholesome drink-an enjoyable drink.
Try Postum for thirty days-you can't
rid yourself of the effects Of habit Of
years in a. few days.
We win start you on your thirty-day
test, with weeks supply Of Postum
free. Either Postum Cereal (the
kind you boil) or Instant Postum, the
easiest drink in the world to prepare.
Either kind costs less than most other
hot drinks. Just indicate the kind you
want for your weeks free supply
and we will also have Carrie Blanch.
ard, famous for the goodness Of her
Postum, send you her own directions.
Are you interested in the years
after 40f Accept this offer nosol
TEAR THIS OUT-MAIL TT NOW
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Where Liquid Is Too Hard
Oil Will Separate Out.

prepared by the United States Department
of Agricultural
On account of the low cost OF the
per cent lubricating oil emulsion
developed by the United States De
partment of Agriculture for the con-
troll of the San Jose scale, this spray
is coming into extended use by orch
ardists. Inquiries received at the de-
partment indicate that many of the
waters used in preparing the diluted
spray are more or less hard and cause
the oil to separate from the water.
Fruit growers contemplating the
use of the 2 per cent homemade
emulsion or commercial products made
according to the government formula
should ascertain whether the water
to be used for spraying purposes Is
sufficiently hard to cause the separa-
ton of the oil and water when diluted
in the spray tank. This can be read
lily determined by mixing three tea
spoonfuls of the homemade stock
solution, or of the commercial article,
in a pint of the water to be used
in a glass jar and placing it aside
for a few hours. If no oil rises to
the top, the water does not require
softening. If, however, the oil separ-
ates out. the hardness of the water
must be corrected If effective results
are TO be secured in the control of
the scale. The water can be soft
ened in different ways, but a con-
venient and inexpensive method is to
make some weak bordeaux mixture
for use in the spray. The bordeaux
should be made according to the fol-
lowing formula:
Bluestone ................... l pound
Lime
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
Reflections Of a Bachelor Girl
Blu HELEN ROWLAND

figure, and most of his really worth
while illusions, but has shed most of
his egoism, his cynicism, his foolish
dreams, and all his impossible expec-
tations Of life.
In China, wife can be divorced in
half a minute-for talking too much.
oh, Reno, where is thy sting!
Somehow, a girl in breaches only
seems to look more girly!
Copyright by Helen Rowland.)
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
Breeding Pure BREEDS

By breeding pure breds and select
ing from flock for vigor and vitality,
together with breeding from hens
mated with cockerels of exceptional
vigor and vitality, far better results
will be secured. With pure breds the
offspring and products are uniform
and like tends to produce like.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
The cuticura Toilet Trio.

Having cleared your skin keep Il clear
by making Cuticura your everyday
toilet preparations. The Soap to cleanse
and purify, the Ointment to sooth. and
heal, the Talcum to powder and per-
fume. No toilet table is complete
without em.-Advertisement.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13

hams We G e ia bic
Compound has done
for me. Everymonth
/ would have cramps
and headache, and !
felt like / was freez-
ing to death. / suf-
fered in this way
from the time / was
a young girl, and all
the doctors said was
opera tion. For
months / had a tired,
Sleenv feeling all
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
Liar!

Once great patriotic crowd gath
cred at Music hall and, when asked to
sing the national anthem, it was dis
covered everybody present knew all
the verses.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
A Different Girl

81 don't like your heart action"
said the medical examiner. you've
had some trouble with angina pee
toris."
you're partly right, DOCTOR" said
the applicant sheepishly, "Only that
amt her name"-College Humor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
KneU His Limitations

1 profess not to know how wOmen's
hearts are wooed and won. To me
they have always been matters of rid
die and admiration. = Washington
Irving.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13

Eslimos frequently build under
ground houses of stone and use the
jawbones Of whales for roofing ma
terial.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
A Monopolized Motor

Hobbs-How do you like your chauf-
feur?
Dobbs-I don't know anything about
him personally, but my wife and
daughter tell me he drives my car
very well.-Boston Transcript.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13

Seeds of discomfort will take root
In any soil.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13

Singing together Is good way ia
| get folks working together.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13

In matrimony, you both win or both
lose.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
FiUe Dollars, Please

Doctor, what is the best position
In which to sleep?" -
81 usually lie down"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13

toothache cares so little for as SYM
pathy.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13

Your old enemies move away, but,
alas, your old friends do. too.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13

In the Bible there is sure to be
grand verse that just suits your
case. Hunt for it.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13

Work has it's greatest justification
In "might as well do that as any,
thing.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13

lost a good captain to make him an
ill general. '-Montaigne.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13

Seed sown in the ground sometimes
fails, but seed sown in the heart al
ways grows.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13

Failure seldom comes to man
who, from the first. never feels wob-
bly, about his success.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13

'Unimportant details" are always so
interesting
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
Suffered Since.
YOUNG GIRL
Words Failed to Express Benefit
Received from Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Greenville, Texas. =" Words cannot
express how much good Lydia E. Pink
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
Just So

"What is the most important thing
in poker-the ace?"
1.-THE jack"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
"Whats in a Nane?"

FACTS about your name; it's history;
meaning; whence it Was derived; sisnif-
canoe; your lucky day and lucky jewel
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-13
Grief Ahead.

When science has made all the wom-
en- ravishingly beautiful who will darn
a homely mans socks?-Chicago News.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-06-26
Be CAREFUL OF
YOUR fire
Campers Are Asked 10 Look
Out for Blazes

Campers. hcwnre Are you building
camp fires Wiiheu, a psrnltl I,
seems al tho great many people
do not know that TIC law u this
state prohibiting camp fires withnu,
q permit H. active. and has been IN
existence for some three years
Tho u. =. department OF argicui
tufe thru ita forest service IL calling
attention Of The camping public 10
this faci--that they arc subject "a
arrest II reported or caught without
fire permit.
These camp fire permits may b.
obtained from forest rangers in the
locality visited. or from tho dlstrict
manager whose address T. iseS g5.
North Bend, Wash.
In applying for such permit !, II
necessary to state where you intend
10 camp. as there are localities where
fires are not siIowed under any cir.
eums;ances. and II YOU have sriccted
dangerous placo. no permit viii
be Issued,
Permits however. are not nscea.
Esry upon Land designated aa a public
camping ground during tlsc siFe sea
son which extends from May / "a
October 1.
Great caution should he exercised
in putting out camp fires when you
leave. ns even posessiop OF n permit
does not excuse you should tho fire
get away.