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The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
Unfair to Blame Sun
for Showing Up Dust

Here Is a reader who actually
grumbles at the sun!
'Pve noticed" she says, "that when
ever the sun shines in a room 1t seems
to raise the dust. Now, why is this?
Look into any shaft of sunlight and
you will see what 1 mean"
The sun does not raise dust, though
my correspondent is not the first per-
son who has thought so. 1t merely
illuminates dust particles which, in
lesser light, are not so observable,
says London Answers. The dust is al
ways there, floating about; the sun
must not be blamed for 1t.
Why, to blame the sun for the dust
Is as unreasonable as it would be to
blame a pair of opera glasses for the
bad actor one looked at through them
Would the bad actor have been raised
by the opera glasses?
The sun, of course, is sort of bette
noir to some people, but, all the same,
room flooded with sunlight Is much
more pleasant than one from which
1t Is vigorously excluded.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
Glass FIowers Close
Imitation of Nature

Marvellous artificial blooms that re
semble natures finest specimens in
every respect except scent, are now be-
ing made by expert glassblowers
Every part Of the flower or plant is
faithfully reproduced, from the long,
delicate stems and colored petals to
the almost invisible pollen.
The first thing which the maker of
these wonderful blooms does is to blow
the petals from glass as thin and
fragile as tissue paper. The glass
petals are then shaped and coIored
exactly like the natural ones.
Some of the rarer plants cannot be
easily reproduced, and often several
experiments have to be carried out
with different colors before a really
good imitation is obtained.
These glass flowers are used extern
sively in museums, both to show de-
tails of plant or flower formation and
as backgrounds for displaying speci-
mems of birds and beasts.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
Keneffnn GIcss

Venice has long led the world in the
manufacture of beautiful glassware
Glass works were early established in
that city and the taking of Constant
nople in 1904 gave the YenetianS thar
opportunity of acquiring additional
knowledge of the art. During the
Fourteenth century beads, false
stones, and limitations of jewels, rath-
er than cups and the like, seem to
have been the chief productions of
the Venice workman. Venetian glass
is usually of extreme thinness, being
nearly always blown, and there is an
endless variety to be found in the
shapes and in the application of
color. Glass-blowing, like throwing
clay on the potter's wheel, induces
beautiful curved FORMS and strength
of substance.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
CRANBERRY INDUSTRY
IN EARLY MINNESOTA.

That Minnesota made its contri-
button to the Thanksgiving dinners
of the East and South as early as
1849 is shown in an account of the
cranberry trade of the region in a
letter dated October a, 1849, pub
lished in the Minnesota Pioneer for
December IL of the same year.
The. writer of the letter was on
board the river steamer "Dr. Frank
lin, No. q" about to leave the st.
Paul levee for st. Louis, and as the
boat was being loaded with barrels
of cranberries he decided to tell his
correspondent something about the
local trade. "There have already
been three thousand barrels shipped
from St. Paul and Mendoza this
season." he wrote, "and probably
more than half as many from Still
water" The berries sold in st.
Paul for four dollars a barrel; thus
the trade for the season must have
brought to the pioneer common
wealth something like twenty thou
sand dollars. 1t is interesting to
compare this figure with the value
of a recent Minnesota cranberry
crop, which was worth only about
eight thousand dollars.
The Minnesota cranberry trade
found true booster" in the writ
er of the 1849 letter, for he de-
clared that the local berries were
NEARLY twice as large, and much
more delicious than any cranberries
I ever ate East" Those shipped
from st. Paul were gathered in
marshes twelve and sixteen miles
north and northwest from that place
by the Indians, who brought them
into the frontier town and ex-
changed them for goods.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
SUPT. E. T. DUFFIELD AND
FAMILY LEAVE VIRGINIA

Edward +. Duffield who fo the
past five years has held the superin-
tendency of the Virginia school sys-
tenn, with his family left Saturday
by car for New York where he will
assume the position as manager of
the eastern division of the Albert S
Teachers Agency. The entire trip
to New York will be made by mot
or.
Mr.. .Dufield's resignation was
rendered the board a month ago, to
become effective December 2. AL
though his departure comes before
his resignation takes effect, it is ex-
pected that successor will be
named by the board in the near
future and until a new superintend-
ent arrives the system will be with
out a guiding head with the excep-
tion cf the board members.
Mr.. Duffield at one time was prin-
cipal of the Ely schools. He later
held the superintendency of the
schools of Ironwood, Mich. and from
there went to Virginia where he
has been for the past five years,
completing his fve-year term last
August.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
The Cob Dollar

The "cob dollar was a Spanish dol
lar which at one time had wide circula-
ton in the United States. In 177S
when the articles of confederation
were adopted, the cob or Spanish dol
lar was used in practically all business
transactions throughout the colonies.
Owing to its convenience it was adopt
ed with slight change as our standard
dollar Even the dollar sign originated
on these cob dollars coined in Spain
and her American colonies. The
smaller Spanish coins representing
fractions of the cob dollar were called
"cob money"
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06

fuse to cut down taxes on the rich
and on corp orations. There is much
humbug about this. Extreme taxes
on great private wealth may in
some cases lessen that wealth. but
usually they drive it out of business
and into investments in securities
free from Federal taxation.
AS to taxes on corporations, it is
a joke to say that corporations pay
them. The truth is that corpora
tions only collect them and turn
them over to the treasury. All
corporations simply add the tax to
their overhead and the masses of
the people pay it. When the gov
ernment taxes corporations it is
merely a delegation of the taxing
power.
This means, to be sure, taxes
that business will bear. When any
tax goes beyond that it is not col
lectible and it destroys source of
revenue.
AS there should be a reduction,
let it be reasonable all along the
line. Let provision be made for a
gradual and substantial reduction of
the national debt. That debt will
thus be reduced in part by pay
ments and relatively by reduction
of interest, and by growing national
wealth and population.
"We have no sales tax," they say.
and yet the Federal taxes are wrap
ped up in every item one buys in
store and in every railroad ticket
bought or freight bill paid.
Everybody pays the Federal
taxes and everybody always will
pay The only real escape, even in
part, is in the reduction of the pub
lie debt and the rigorous pruning of
public EXPENSE.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06

. The Poster Contest, sponsored by
the Mothers Club for Ely Girl
Scouts. closed today and will be
judged by Saturday afternoon. The
winning posters with Scouts names
will be on display in Berglund Bros.
window. Mrs. Quigley as president
of the Mothers Club, has appointed
the following members to act as
Judges: Mrs. VIM. Mitchell, Chair
man, Mrs. Jake Skala, Miss Morgan.
A demonstration of the bathing
of a baby will be held at various
times on Saturday by some OF the
members of Mrs. Huffman's Child
Care Glass. This exhibit will take
place in Berglund's window both IN
the afternoon and in the eyerlng.
The Ely Miner is conducting a
letter contest for the Girl Scouts
during National Girl Scout Week.
The subject of the letter is What
Scouting Has Done for Me-. The
judges for this contest are Mayor
Hanson, Superintendent Englund,
Sigurd Olson Boy Scout Master,
Mrs. H. N. Sutherland Commission
er of the Girl Scouts and Miss Gill
fillan Director. The letters will be
read and those meriting recognition
will be chosen on Wednesday of
next week.
Church goers will see Scouts oc-
cupying the front pews in each of
the four churches next Sunday, as it
is Girl Scout Sunday. Scouts will
wear their uniforms and march in
a procession to the front of each
church carrying their American
Flags. In most of the churches
they will sing the Scout Hymn and
Chant and say the Scout Prayer.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
Economic Philosophy

Wherever Dickens is read this ad-
vice by Mr.. Micawber stands out as
the acme of economic common sense:
Annual income twenty pounds, an
nual expenditure nineteen, ninteen,
six; result happiness. Annual income
twenty pounds, annual expenditure
twenty pounds, ought and six; result
misery"
Likewise Josh Billings gives express
sion to not quite so nearly universal
a truth when he tells us:
''Debt is trap, which man sets
and bats himself, and then deliber-
ately gets into-and ketches a kursid
phool."
Artemus Ward made his reputation
as an economist and humorist on his
statement:
"Fm bound to live within my means
If l have to borrow money to do it,
G. w. c., in McNaught's Monthly.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
Greatness Is Not to
Be Gouged by Stature

Lombroso In his Men of Genius"
says that greatness and stature are
rarely found together. In consulting
biographies of a number of great men
in American history, however, it has
been found that this statement does
not always apply. There have been
on the whole more prominent men
above middle height than below, says
the Denver News. Among the short
men may be numbered John Quincy
Adams, Admiral Farragut, Paul Jones,
Gen. Phil Sheridan. Stephen A. Doug
las, William III. Seward and Martin
Van Buren,. On the other hand we
find that Charles Sumner was feet
inches; Thomas Jefferson, 'eet PA
inches: Charley Godfrey Leland, 6
feet 21a inches; Andrew Jackson, 6
feet / inch; Samuel Adams, Salmon
p. Chase and Jonathan Edwards de-
scribed as "over 6 feet; James Mon
roe, 6 feet or more; Bayard Taylor, 6
feet at the age of seventeen; George
Washington, 6 feet. Henry Ward
Beecher, Rufus Choate, Benjamin
Franklin were slightly under 6 feet.
Daniel Webster and Patrick Henry
were about feet 10.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
Do Ducks Suim With Wings?

DO ducks use their wings while
swimming under water? The question
is discussed frequently among sports
men and nature students, and opin-
ions sometimes differ Testimony of
reliable authorities supports the belief
that various species of ducks and
grebes, looms and other diving birds
do not use their wings when swim
ming beneath the surface for food or
in trying to escape capture, says Pop
ular Mechanics Magazine. A ruddy
duck was observed on Lake Michigan
not long ago feeding in Is Or 20 feet
of clear water. AS it got well started
on it's downward plunge, the wings,
about two-thirds extended, were used
In quick, short strokes, at the rate
of about one second, to assist in pro-
pelling it and in rising to the top as
well.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
Catherine Rush

Medical annals have seldom record
ed so rare case of longevity as that
of Catherine Rush, who died in Phila-
delphia on May /, 1917, at the age of
one hundred and eleven years and
eleven months. So far is is known
Catherine Rush had lived on the out
skirts of Philadelphia all her life, and
no one was particularly interested in
her until she reached the age Of one
hundred, having been very frail girl.
When she passed the one-hundred-
year mark physicians began to watch
her. They kept up their watching for
nearly twelve years. 1t was Catherine
Rush's greatest desire, when she felt
the end coming, to round out one hun
dred and twelve years. She failed Of
1t by one month.-Chicago Journal
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
NATION WIDE STUDY OF FOR
FOREST TAXATION BEGUN.

A nationwide study of the forest
taxation problem in relation to re-
forestation of privately-owned lands
is being launched by the Forest Ser
vice, United States Department of
Agriculture, which today announced
the appointment of Prof. Fred R.
Fairchild of Yale University as di-
rector of the investigation.
A detailed study of forest taxa
ton will be made in all principal
forest regions to determine the
effect of present tax laws on refor--
estation and timber holdings, eand
the conditions that must be met in
any effort to readjust present tax
laws to be fair to l:.nd owners and
public treasures.
The study is the outgrowth of a
countrywide investigation of re-
forestation conducted by a special
committee of the United States
Senate in 1923 "a. This committee
reached the conclusion that timber
growing would be greatly stimulat-
ed by giving land owners security
against unjust and burdensome
taxation during the growing period
when young forests produce no, in
come from taxes which can be paid.
Secretary of Agriculture Jardine,
in commenting upon the appoint
ment of Prof. Fairchild, declared
the forest tax study of paramount
Importance to the reforestation OF
the country's 371 million acres of
privately-owned forest land.
"This tax study is enc of the most
important steps of recent years in
forest conservation" said the Sec
retary, "and the Government is for
tunate in securing Prof. Fairchild,
who is one of the country's foremost
authorities on forest taxation to di-
rect the work.
Practical results, instead of
theories, will be accomplished by the
study, say forestry officials, who ex-
plain that in most States reforesta-
tion is discouraged by the danger of
having young timber taxed over and
over again before it reaches mer-
chantable size. AS a result of the
study it is expected that the Fed
eral Government will be able, under
the Clarke-McNary Act, to help the
States in national reform of for
est taxation.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
Seniority of SiOeden

The kingdom of Sweden, which was
founded about the year 700 A. D., Is
the Oldest in Europe. 1t is still a
primitive land-half the country is
forest and the national population Is
less than that of London. The people
are among the greatest sportsmen in
the world, water and ice sports, of
course, predominating. For sailing
and rowing. Sweden is the first coun-
try in Europe, and naturally leads in
Its ice sports. Though large part of
Sweden lies within the Arctic circle,
so clear are the skies that the heart
of Lapland enjoys more hours of sun
shine than Rome or Madrid. Inciden-
tally, Sweden is the oldest part Of Eu-
rope geologically. 1t was dry land
when most of the remainder of the
continent was under water.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
Antiquity and Whiskers

Tradition says that Adam wore
full beard. That is quite natural
supposition since that was before the
time of razor advertisements. Beau
tifully. executed bas reliefs have left
no doubt that the early Persian kings
cultivated whiskers. In fact, for fur,
ther adornment they plated them
with golden thread. The Winged Bulls
of Assyria are but types of those
kings. The Chinese are a shaven
people; the Egyptians were the same.
But the Mohammedans are bearded,
and Saladin's son. Turkish historians
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
His Opinion

II dropped into the Tote Fair store
this morning" related guest, "and
found the proprietor and his clerk
playing checkers"
"Eh-yah" returned the landlord Of
the Petunia tavern Il always did
say that a merchant that will play
checkers before noon amt got much
business nor much sense to attend to
1t If he had it."
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06

tell US, wept for fear when he saw
the shaven ENJOYS of the Crusaders.
The world is, and always has been,
divided into shavers and bearded.
The greatest benefactor of BARRIERS in
the worlds history was Alexander.
He, who shaved himself to preserve
his youth, shaved his army to prevent
the enemy seizing their boards.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
Traced to Archimedes

The word Eureka" is said to have
been uttered by Archimedes (287-212
b. CO., the Greek philosopher, when
the principle of specific gravity first
-dawned upon him. 1t Is said that the
thought first came to him while in
the bath, and that he fled half-clad
through the streets of Syracuse to his
home, shouting, Il have found it! /
have found it," The problem that
had been given him to solve was to
determine whether golden crown
made for Hero, king of Syracuse, had
been alloyed with silver. This the
king had suspected, and the philoso-
pher afterwards proved il to be true
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
Too Much

"How did you like my sermon Sun
day?" asked the modern clergyman.
81 couldn't get you," replied the ra.
dio churchgoer.
"Too much theology?" asked the
minister.
NO" replied the radio lost sheep;
"too much interference
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
WHO PAYS THE TAxEs7
Duluth Evening Herald }

Duluth Evening Herald.)
1t is pleasant to record that the
treasury at Washington is overflow
ing. During the last fiscal year the
surplus was three hundred million
dollars-almost a million dollars
day; and during the current
year the best judgment is that
the excess over expenditures will
be at least four hundred million
dollars.
Statesmen, financiers and politi-
clans agree that tax collections
must be reduced, but there is no
agreement as to where the reduc-
tion shall be made. AS usual self
seeking politics enters.
An active group, in order to cur
ry favor with those who have the
most votes. would enlarge the group
exempt from income taxes and re-
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
WITT -
THE lGzA
FuNNY 80
nEH lzZ
HOW HE KNEW HIS COAT

After dining at fashionable Lon
don restaurant man with a shabby
character went to the cloakroom, and
was astonished to be handed his over
coat before he produced his ticket.
How did you know that was miner
he asked the attendant
81 didn't. sir"
"Then why did you give to me?"
Its the one you gave me when you
came in, sir"
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
His Ambition

First Hobo-Ive decided to become
movin' pitcher actor.
Second Bo-Don't dat take lot Of
pep?
First Bo-Nix. AS l understand 1t,
it's de pitchers does de movin'.-
American Legion Weekly.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
Generous Man!

Chemistry Instructor-If anything
goes wrong with this experiment, we
and the laboratory would be blown sky
high. Come closer, students, so that
YOU may be able to follow mel
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
Significant Words

The heaviest words in our language
are the two briefest ones, yes and
no. One stands for the surrender of
the will, the other for denial one for
qualification, the other for character.
Theodore L. Munger.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
Climbed the Fence

A stock speculator, back from his
vacation, said that while in the coun-
try he narrowly escaped being cor
nered In very lively bull movement.
Boston Transcript.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
Palace Put to Use

ConstantinopIe's old imperial pal
ace, which dates back to the Eighth
century. now is used as museum
and storehouse for national treasures.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
In Praise of Learning

Learning makes young men tenn
perate, is the comfort of old age,
standing for wealth with poverty and
serving as an ornament to riches
Cicero.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
INFANCY LONG PAST

Motorist- Infants outgrow their rat
ales.
His Wife-sMost of them do.
Motorist-Then why shouldn't this
aid car!
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
The UnipersaI Propider

The only man who really needs to
know little about everything is a
buyer for drug store.-Duluth Her
aid
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
NerO Mexico's Timber

Nearly one-third of New Mexico Is
covered with forests. with a gross
stand of 15,OOO,0 100000 board feet
Arizona state miner., 1925-05-02
NOTICE TO ALL CONCERNED

This is to certify that the fencing
around the east end and the north
side of Homestead Entry No. O5O304
for $40 acres, which was patented
by President Coolidge to II. B. Wat
son, is built on and within the
lines of that homestead known and re-
corded as Patent No 945937 and does
not constitute just or legal dividing
line between it and the adjoining
homestead of r. W. Bishopp. Because
of this fence being so placed by said
r. w. Bishopp no adverse possession
must obtain or ensue to said r. w.
Bishopp, his heirs or assigns that
would in any way effect the owner
ship or title to said patented home
stead of the undersigned
III. B. WATSON. Owner.
Phoenix, May 1, 1925.
Arizona state miner., 1925-05-02
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Department Of the interior,
U. S. Land Office at Phoenix, Arizona,
April 27 1925.
Notice is hereby given that Fremont
H. Kast, of Salome, Arizona, who, on
May II, 1922, made enlarged home
stead entry, No 053772, for Lots 8, a.
S1aNWA, SWA, Section 4, Township
IN, Range 9W., G. & S. R. Meridian
has filed notice of intention to make
Three Year Proof, to establish claim
to the land above described, before
the Register and Receiver Of the Il.
S. Land Office, at. Phoenix, Arizona,
or the I'd day Of June, 1925.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Herbert L. Kast, Clinton S. Kast,
August Nord, Peter Smith. all of
Salome, Arizona.
JOHN R. TOWLES, Register
First pub May 2nd--last pub. May 80
Arizona state miner., 1925-05-02
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior,

Departm ment of the Interior,
u. S. Land Office at Phoenix, Arizona,
April "a, 1925.
Notice is hereby given that Clinton
S. Kast, of Salome. Arizona, who, on
April 25, 1922. made enlarged home
stead entry, No. 053679, for Lots, 1, 2,
S12NEA, SEA, Section A. Township
IN, Range 9W., G.. & S. r. Meridian.
has filed notice of intention to make
Three Year Proof, to establish claim
to the land above described, before
the Register and Receiver of the U.
S. Land Office, at Phoenix, Arizona,
OH the I'd day of June, 1925.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Herbert L. Kast, August Nord, Pete
Smith, Fremont H. Kast, all Of Sa-
lone, Arizona.
JOHN r. TOWLES, Register.
First pub. May 2nd-last pub. May 80
Arizona state miner., 1925-05-02
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior,

S~AS AANSCAANAt
u. S. Land Office at Phoenix, Arizona,
April II, 1925.
Notice is hereby given that Ewing
d. Smith, of Nadaburg, Arizona, who,
on October IA, 1920, made original
stock raising homestead entry, No
O48653, for ~N1a, Sec. II, and on No
vember 8, 1920, made additional stock
raising entry, serial O49234, for the
S1a, Sec. Is, all in Township 5N,
Range 3W., G. & S. r. Meridian, has
filed notice of intention to make Three
Year Proof, to establish claim to the
land above described before the Reg
lister and Receiver of the U. S. Land
Office, Phoenix, Arizona, on the 26tb
day Of May, 1925.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Emery G. Berry, Joe Berry, George
Brazle, William r. Crownover, all of
Nadaburg. Arizona.
JOHN r. TOWLES, Register
First pub April 25-last pub May %