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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-06-12

POINTS ON
KEEPING WELL
DR.. FREDERICK r. GREEN
Editor Of "HEALTH"
BATHING THE BABY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
20 by Western NeWspaper Unionl
Evening star., 1925-08-02
Begging for dead Letter" Cash.

Recently publicity was given to the
fact that a man out in Wisconsin had
applied to the Post Office Department
for donation from the fund of about
100000 that has accumulated from
moneys found in letters that have
SFifted into the dead letter division
through lack Of legible addresses and
signatures. Immediately other appli-
cants have been filing their petitions
for portions of the fund. Uncle Sam,
in short, has been flooded with beg
ging letters from all parts Of the coun-
try. and from 'all sorts and condi-
Lions Of men," and women, too.
OF course. not a penny of this fund
can be given away. The United States
has no right to dispose of 1t other.
wise than by turning It into the Treas
ury after every effort to deliver it to
the proper persons has failed.
Just why any one should think that
this dead letter" cash is subject to
public requisition passes understand.
ing. The begging letter" habit, how
ever, Is strong. 1t manifests itself fire.
uuently. II person is proclaimed in
the news as the maker of a sudden
fortune he is Immediately besieged by
solicitors. Every person of large
wealth ts constantly asked for aims,
Evening star., 1925-08-02
All Should Observe
The ''Stop" Signals
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
was very interested Friday morn.
ing while driving to " Jrk to see the
utter lack OF cooperation on the part
of motorists and motormen with Mr..
Eldridge in needing the new "stop"
signs before entering a boulevard.
A few motorists stopped, more slow.
ed up, but many more went on re-
gardless. Not single motorman stop.
ped his car before crossing Rhode Is.
land avenue from North Capitol street
to Connecticut avenue. At one corner
l stopped and watched three cars 60
by and not one even hesitated, al.
though the stop" sign was clearly Wis.
ible. Police will not summons a motor.
man, and IL street cars are not subject
to the regulation, why should motor.
lists be7 IL when crossing boulevard
a street car can 60 on while am com.
PEELED to stop, cannot see where any.
thing is gained. On wet morning the
regulation IL doubly valuable and I for
one intend to abide by the spirit of II
and others, but the apparent con.
tempt of well known street railway
president for the is of the Traff1c
Bureau are refiecte +hS attitude of
his employees and b. those of the other
company as we'll. Even If, as Mr.. Ham
contends, the regulation was not pro.
mulgated In accordance with law, why
not accept it ant cooperate fiji the
same spirit by which this and other
traffic rules have heen conceived for
the c0MQ4n kQQ0l hx2s WRQNNa
Evening star., 1925-08-02

show peddlers with a back pack or a
cart. Contumely has been put upon
the peddler. He has been rallied at
by the passer-by and jailed by the
constable. Laws, regulative, repres-
sive and oppressive, have been made
for or against him, but he survives
and Is doing business at the old cart.
People buy his wares and he seems
to thrive.
Once it was thought that the In
terests had all the money and mil
lionaires were believed to be we'll off.
Then rose belief that the plumber
had garnered all the coin in the land,
and If he has not laid by a store Of
shekels, ducats and the like he has
been a speedy spender. As for mil
lionaires, most of them are poor. But
here we have the peddlers at feast,
five bucks per plate, with king and
queen upon a dais and the lady
decked in diamonds and lace. Little
is said about the king. but at least
he wore a full dress suit, with studs
Of pearl. No one will feel envy that
the peddlers had a jolly time.
Evening star., 1925-08-02

for loans. for aid for worthy inven.
tors, for assistance for struggling
widows and orphans. The personal
staff of a multimillionaire is largely
engaged in disposing Of these peti-
tions.
Even more significant. however.
than the receipt Of begging letters Is
the fact that so large an amount of
money is intrusted to the mails with
out any means Of identifying senders
or addresses. People are extraor.
dinarily careless about the use Of the
post for the transport Of valuables.
1t would seem that in case Of the send
ing of money there would be particu-
lar care with the address, or with the
return designation. The post Office
is constantly warning people to be
more particular. Notices are placard-
ed at mailing points reminding the
users of the mails on this subject.
Yet the dead letter Office Is kept
busy deciphering and DECIDING ad-
dresses and signatures in undiminished
volume. Apparently the mail users
have great faith in Uncle Sam as a
messenger. even as some folks are
now showing their faith in him as a
distributor of aims.
Evening star., 1925-08-02
Official Amenities in Gotham.

Relations between the mayor OF
Greater New York and the controller
have long been strained to the break
ing point. Indeed. they have broken
sharply on several occasions. AL
though closely related in the admin
istration Of municipal affairs, these
two officials are literally at swords
points, as the phrase goes. They
never meet except in the formal ses-
sions Of the various bodies of which
they are ex-offlcio members, and they
have long since ceased to be even
specifically polite at such times. The
report of recent meeting of the sink
ing fund commission wildly illustrates
the state Of open warfare between
them. The following is an extract
from it:
THAT man." retorted the mayor, his
face blanched with anger, as he indi-
Gated the controller, lies day in and
day out. deliberately and maliciously." !"
And you, sir" shot back the con-
troller. have been lying so long that
you lie good and deep, and you'll lie
even deeper after next November
Il never saw man deliberately
fabricate more consistently or more
maliciously than the controller" de-
clared Mayor Hylan. Il really think
Mr.. Craig's mental condition should
be looked into. He is absolutely with
out regard for the truth. He will say
one thing today and do something else
tomorrow. Nobody knows when he
will change his mind on report and
deliberately lie about it."
1t is easily to be seen how in this
situation New Workers. are taking a
decided interest in the question of
Mayor Hylan's candidacy for a third
term. The conflict between the mayor
and the controller has seriously Inn
peded the municipal administration.
Projects for the public benefit have
been blocked. Every time the mayor
and controller have one of their ex.
changes of amenities the Tammany
leaders shudder. Certainly the sort
of thing that is reported in the ex-
tract just given Is not calculated to
cause the voters of Greater New York
to be particularly regular" on cleo
ton day.
Evening star., 1925-08-02
THE PEDDLER'S TRIUMPH
BY FREDERIC J. HASkIN

gaining sense with a musical talent.
Also they are described as possessing
divine sense of humor. In "A
winters Tale" Shakespeare has
drawn a charming character and.
stealing a leaf from Ovid and Homer,
mas called him Autolycus. His songs
thrilled the peasant girls of Bohemia.
and he had an irresistible lure that
caused them to desire the wares he
purveyed. A wandering peddler, he
was also clever thief, and was both
hated and admired by the youths of
the countryside.
Bards PeddIed Their Wares.
Men OF letters, as Wallace Irwin
points out in a recent essay in VANITY
Fair, have, until recent times, been
placed in the same category as ped
dlers. Many of them. conspicuously
Homer, were wandering bards who
sang to the vanity Of the privileged
classes. Virgil wrotethe "Aeneid," saws
irwin, to satisfy q Roman patrfcian.
Dante was hated in Florence and
eventually was exiled. He took re-
venge in the Divine Comedy" by
placing many of the Florentine aristo-
Gratis in eternal inferno.
Likewise the troubadors and min
strels of the Middle Ages and ancient
times shared the despised opinion held
OF peddlers. Wandering through the
country singing to the feudal lords,
they gathered what scraps they could
through the favor of those they fat
tered
Men of letters and music have. of
couse. been graduated and now hold
an enviable position in the social
scheme OF things. Not so the ped
dler. He remains as he was, the per-
sonif1cation of the wandering Jew. a
person avoided and often hated. II
ne calls at your door and hazgles
with you there is often @ desire to
commit mayhem or even murder. but
you doubt hat II would do any good.
And II you pause to think you find
that in some cases he occupies an
anectionate spot in your memory.
The Song of the Junk Man,
Who is there who has not heard
the cry of the junk man, the song of
the man with tinware Changing on
his wagon, the chant of the fruit
vender? Who is there who has not
heard the strtdent music of the hand
organ and watched the antics Of the
monkey or listened to the bark of
the side show man? And who is there
who has not smiled and been inter
ested-perhaps mildly, but interested.
nevertheless-in the PROCEEDINGS?
Peddlers, all of them, shrewd and
sagacious, possessing the instincts of
Autolycus. One French composer.
struck with the thematic qualities of
their chants, successfully worked the
songs of peddlers into an operatic opus
which took Paris by storml
They have led charmed lives. They
have been despised and ridiculed, but
at the same time admired for their
ability to succeed under adverstty.
They are a world class. They are the
chimney sweeps of European ro-
nance. the river venders on the
Ganges. the sage street peddlers of
Bagdad and Cairo, the water carriers
of Granada. the street guides of Paris
the venders Of New York's lower East
Side, the house to house salesman of
the many American cities.
Evening star., 1925-08-02
The German-Polish Evictions.

The Grass stupidity of governments
seems to be unending. Twenty thou
sand Germans are being driven out of
districts now belonging to Poland. but
before the World War held by Ger
many, on order Of the Polish govern
ment. They are being driven out be-
cause, forsooth, in the plebiscite held
five years ago to determine whether
these districts should be Polish or Ger
man territory these people voted TO
remain German. Germany, as a meas
ure Of reprisal, is deporting some TO-
900 Poles who lived in territory still
owned by Germany, and who voted
Polish in the plebiscite.
Apart entirely from the tragic
drama and the personal suffering
which such methods impose upon
thousands Of men, women and chill
dren torn from homes which they have
occupied for years and thrust into
strange lands, are the seeds Of hatred
that this action is bound to gerrninate.
II the time ever comes when Germany
again is able to strike, Poland may ex-
pect little mercy. Indeed, the desire
to strike will be enhanced many times
by such actions as the deportation of
thousands of people.
The Western Hemisphere, upon
which Europe not infrequently turns
the glance Of scorn and emits the
word "uncivilized," will look with
astonishment upon the barbarity Of
these wholesale deportations. The
cruelty Of the British, who 200 years
ago drove from their homes the peace
full folk Of Arcade. has been immor-
talized by Longfellow in the poem,
"Evangeline.''
Dispatches giving details of the
eviction call attention to the arbitra-
ton verdict handed down by Pres
ident van Karnebeck of the Interna-
tional Court Of Justice. upholding the
Polish claim to the right to compel
emigration of Germans from this ter
ritory. Poland bases its eviction order
on this decision. But the existence Of
q iiSiib ooCS iicl ui"dyo "di GILL; tHS
exercise OF that right. The action
taken by Poland seems the height of
folly as well as cruel. The decision of
the president OF the Court of Interna-
tional Justice, by the way, will not
likely be of assistance to the pro-
ponents in this country of the ad-
hesion of the United States to the
World Court.
The deported people, it is reported,
are faced with grim want and suffer
ing. They are being herded into con-
centration camps from which 1t is
hoped they will be distributed
throughout Germany and Poland, as
the case may be. But their homes are
gone. The ties which bound them to
those homes have been irrevocably
torn. They are being penalized be-
cause they voted, as any national
would vote. for citizenship in their
own home country. No advance word
was given them that upon their vote
depended the retention of their homes.
The action taken seems to make for
war, rather than peace in Europe.
Evening star., 1925-08-02
PAYS HEAVILY
TO SATISFY NEED FOR ROOM
and Brings About Slaughter of Birds and
Harmless Animals.

sects, saving to the farmer far more
than the cost Of protection. The fruit
grower pays a high price for the
ignorance and carelessness of the "op.
pressed of every nation" "the beaten
men of beaten races" whose very
presence here contributes to our own
oppression.
Weeds Saving Cultivation.
Everywhere in our land Of elbow
room we mark vanishing fauna and
fora. A few plants flourish best under
oppression. These we call weeds, and
we try in vain to exterminate them.
They have learned the way of civiliza.
ton and how to beat 1t. The vermin
which follow man around-rats, mice.
insects and parasitic worms--are sort
Of animal weeds equally hard to
eradicate.
There are some wild animals which
interfere with our business, even
though adding to natures picturesque.
ness. But 1 hate to see these go.
With Thoreau. II am glad there are
owls, to do our demoniac hooting," f"
and their expression of supernal wis.
dom Is not wholly assumed. I miss
the coyote, an untamed, impossible,
detected dog, without trace Of self
consciousness. whose hind legs run
faster than his fore legs. thus turning
the beast around at intervals, when
he sends out an emotional howl which
has the merit of seeming to come
from whole pack.
The Trout Hogs Work.
And how about the trout hog! He
is always with us. We wouldn't
mind the lies he tells of his great
catches; we are all prone to this fault
lovable when not too tedious. What
we object to in his fables Is that
they are often founded on fact, as
heaps Of little withered fishes some
times testify. The angler goes afish.
ing in order to associate with fish
to be out in places where fish live,
and no creature lives in choicer sur.
roundings than trout Big rivers
little rivers, cataracts or pools, the
trout loves clear waters, we'll aerated
and will have nothing else. Green
banks mid shady forests is his home
When these are gone the trout will
still thrive. In artificial pvnds, fed on
chopped liver. to be caught by tourists
at a dollar a pound. And the angler
VIII wander far afeld to search for
the "Nameless River" the haunt OF
the God of Things That Are"
Copyright. 1e25.l
Evening star., 1925-08-02
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.

Finally 1t was decided to take Mr..
Bryan off the steamer down New York
Bay and keep him somewhere in
seclusion for "a hours. The writer
was one of a group of reporters sent
down to cover the story.
Mr.. Bryan was kidnapped off the
liner and placed aboard a houseboat
belonging to Lewis Nixon. Next
morning he was transferred to a small
yacht belonging to Ed Goltra of ST.
Louis, one Of the pallbearers at Fri
days funeral.
The yacht was gayly dressed with
bunting and on the way to the Bat
terry, where the landing was to be
made, she received many salutes. AT
the Battery a great throng had gath
cred, including the reception commit
tee, and cannon to boom a salute-and
everything. The yacht came to anchor
800 yards offshore. The party was TO
proceed to the Battery in a small steam
launch. Then it was discovered the
craft could not hold everybody. The
reporters aboard begged permission
to go ashore first. They said il they
had to walt for a second trip, the land
procession would have started and
they would never catch up. Always
obliging, Mr.. Bryan consented to the
scheme.
Four of US started ashore in the
launch. AS we neared the Battery we
realized a terrible mistake had been
made. Bands began to play, cannon
began TO boom, camera artists began
to snap; military bodies stood at al
tention-and then the launch landed
with four grinning reporters aboard.
No reporters ever received such a
royal reception. There was much cha
grin ashore. but when the Commoner
finally landed, the reception was re
peated with as much gusto as possible.
The first ''pnnch" was lacking, how
ever.
In the end 1t didn't make much diff
ference, however, for that night Mr.
Bryan came out for Government own
ership of railroads and the effect of
his long silence abroad was utterly
| ruined. And that was one great
cause" the Commoner soon gave UP.
X
Mr.. Bryan had an inordinate love
for radishes. He ate them almost by
| the peck. And, Southern like. he al
ways used both salt and butter as
condiments. Callers at the Rogers
home in Dayton. where the Commoner
stopped, nearly always found him
munching on radishes and many were
astonished to see the spread of but
ter before each bite. That is an old
Tennessee custom. however, and Is
| used on Spring onions as well.
copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1925-08-02

Two men were talking in the new
union station at Chicago Thursday
noon.
We'll. Billy Bryan certainly went
suddenly. didn't he?'
1t was enough to make one look
around. It was the first time l had
ever heard the Commoner called
Billy"
yes, he did go suddenly"
You know, l live in Lincoln"
''Yes?"
Yes, I've often waited on Mr..
Bryan in the store.
"Yes?"
ayes. There never was a finer
man."
mo, there never was"
mo man could have a face like his
and not be good"
mo, they couldn't; you're right"
Mr.. Bryan was SO earnest, SO sin
cere."
Yes, he was, he always stood pat "
You mean he always stood by his
guns"
Yes, that's what mean"
He certainly did. The country is
going to miss him."
Yes, it is"
You know I never quite agreed
with Mr.. Bryan politically"
Dldnt your?
mo. But always admired him
and Just loved to hear him speak
He had a great voice"
He did, that"
Il never voted for him."
You didnt?"
No. Did you?'
No. / never voted for him, but I
always regarded him as a grand man"
Everybody did,"
And there was the tragedy, almost
in words of one syllable, of Mr..
Bryan's life. People would travel
miles and miles to hear him speak,
would go away entranced by all that
ne had said, and then travel miles and
miles to vote for the other fellow.
since last Monday morning thousands
OF men have met and thousands of
times the conversation set forth above
has been repeated.
How things were always breaking
badly for the Commoner was illus.
trated by an incident of his triumphal
return from a European trip in 1906
which never got into the newspapers.
Mr. Bryan had been a sphinx abroad
but the stage had been set for a grand
reception in New York. The first
PAD break came when the steamer
suddenly was reported to arrive a day
ahead Of schedule. This would have
thrown everything out of gear.
Evening star., 1925-08-02
BY DAVID STARR JORDAN,


Civilization crowds elbow-room. 1t
destroys forests, dries up springs,
turns brooks into desolating torrents,
replaces the big mammals by rats and
mice and the insect-eating song birds
by English" sparrows. This we
cannot help, but we can mitigate it,
and II we care a hoot for what our
grandchildren think OF us, we shall
leave some part Of nature, unwrecked,
for their contemplation. To do this
we must get busy today and tomor-
row.
When. In 1880, I first came to Cali
fornia l say limitless herds of the
pronghorn antelope scampering over
the hills OF what Is now Wyoming.
In the last 80 years have crossed the
continent some 20 times without ever
seeing one. And the Rocky Mountain
goat. one Of the finest and most unique
of all beasts, has In the meantime al
most utterly vanished. and with It
the bishorn sheep. When I was a
boy in New York every farmer had in
his sleigh at least two buffalo robes.
Yet were it not for a few nature
lovers the American bison would today
have joined the mastodon and the
passenger pigeon in total extinction.
Barely Saved the Seals.
Forty years ago the Pribilof Islands,
Just purchased from Russia, sent forth
million or more of mother seals,
each with a pup of her own Reck-
less slaughter at sea cut the number
down to 100000 in 1897. down in 1910
to $4,000, and the species was saved
only by IA years of hard work, from
1897 to 1911, ending in the protection
treaty of 1911. The herd. thanks to
the wise provision, had again risen
to $4,000 In 1920, and about 100000
in 1922.
In a London journal 1 saw an obftu-
ary OF venerable pot hunter whose
chief pride was that he had caught
100000 sky larks, and sold them for
a penny apiece in the London markets
Along the Mediterranean my heart
has been torn at the sight Of the
song-birds of Europe. in the markets,
killed in their Winter migrations-
each for the thimbleful of flesh it's
little body may yield. Among these
are thrushes, bullfinches, blackbirds,
redbreasts. beechfinches, warblers.
anything bird pirates can shoot or
trap.
A single song bird in its day devours
thousands or millions of noxious in
Evening star., 1925-08-02
Peddlers.

All society is not prominent at
opera and horse show and all kings
and queens are not in Europe and
In carnivals. A message from New
York says: "Peddlers Of the East
Side, who vend from pushcarts every.
thing from pickles to fur coats, evi.
IDENTIFY have their periods Of affiuence,
for 250 Of them attended IS a plate
testimonial dinner last night, at which
the king and queen Of the peddlers
were crowned" Invitations to the
feast were "gold-inscribed" and the
queen wore a diadem Of diamonds and
a gown Of lace. The king and queen
were presented with four.foot-square
gilt-framed testimonials attesting their
aid in promoting the welfare Of the
peddlers." Here are a king and queen
who seem to earn their salt Mayor
Hylan and other city officials sent
letters of congratulation. The ped
dlers vote.
1t seems not often that the peddler
gets into the news other than by way
Of the courts. The copper tells him to
move on, or runs him in for standing
at the curb, and the magistrate says
something about ease dismissed" or
"$5 or 10 days" Yet the peddler is
known to muititudes as q useful man.
His trade is ancient. He thrived in
cities Asian and Afric when the best
people of Europe were wearing furs
gotten without going to a fur shop.
IN Nineveh, Babylon, Bagdad, Thebes,
peddlers were busy folk, and when
new towns in Europe needed peddlers
they were there. Peddlers have been
peddling in Athens, Rome, Paris and
London since those towns were groups
of huts on muddy lanes. Old chroni-
cles and pictures OF American cities