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The Winslow mail., 1925-11-20
Best Fur Not Grown
In The Open Seasons

Fur is in prime condition for har-
vesting at one brief season only,
according to the biological survey
of the United States department of
agriculture. Ill-advised open sea-
sons are natural recult of the
lack of sufficient information re-
garding the life habits of fur ami
mails, says the department. A de-
feet frequently noted in present fur
laws is that the open season pro-
vided is so long that it permits
trapping before pelts are prime in
fall and after breeding has begun
in spring. An open season of more
than three months duration, it
would seem, is not justifiable any
where in the United States. Far
too many Improbable pelts are
coming to the raw-fur markets
every year. Pelts of superior quail
ity would reach the markets if these
facts were appreciated and laws
framed accordingly.
The Winslow mail., 1925-11-20
Loue Song of Old Race

The making Of love songs is an
ancient art. Before Pan blew upon
his reedy pipes there were love
songs. They were sung in the Gar
den of Eden before and after the
serpent wiggled his way into that
earthly paradise. Men wove their
magic into the first crude language
of the human race, when caves
were used for dwelling places and
the hunter went forth to the hills
to strangle his prey with bare
hands. Helen heard them sung to
her within the walls of Troy. All
through the countless ages of the
world since time began there have
been love songs.
The Winslow mail., 1925-11-20
Theoretical Line

The one hundred and eightieth
meridian in the Pacific ocean was
selected as the international date
line largely for the purpose Of con-
venlence. 1t is theoretically the
opposite half Of the circle Of the
meridian Of Greenwich, which by
common consent of the navigators
Of the world is the earth's prime
or first meridian and is used as the
common standard for reckoning
time and measuring longitude.
The Winslow mail., 1925-11-20
The Coffee Cure

Coffee was once regarded as a
cureall. The first advertisement Of
the beverage was published in the
Publick Adviser Of May 10, 1857,
and announced that the proprietor
Of a shop in Bartholomew Lane,
London, was stocking "a very
wholesome and physical drink"
called coffee, the virtue of which in
Guided helping the digestion, quick
ening the spirits, tightening the
heart and proving excellent good
against eyesores, coughs, colds,
headaches, gout, dropsy, scurvy,
kings evil" and long string Of
other ailments.
The Winslow mail., 1925-11-20
St. Johns-Springerville
Highway Completed

Ten miles of new highway con-
struction jnst north of Springer
vile, including a bridge over the
little Colorado river has been COM
pleted Work is also rapidly go
ing forward on the new road be-
tween st. Johns and Concho. The
completion of this section of the
National Old Trails highway con-
meets Springerville and Holbrook
with one of. the finest roads to be
found in this part of the state.
The Winslow mail., 1925-11-20
Only One Way

Man glories in his physical
strength, and well he may. But the
greatest strength that man may
possess comes from being clean
and straight, and right. Strong
moral fiber is made by right living.
There Is no other way to gain this.
Grit.
The Winslow mail., 1925-11-20

nstments paid or before the second
January delinquent and thereupon penalty
Of five per cent of the will be added thereto
Arizona this goth day OF Novem-
Der, 1925.
H
Streets
The Winslow mail., 1925-11-20

paid before the second
of January apenaly
of five per cent o will be added thereto
at Arizona this goth day of Nove-
r. LENDECKE
Superintendent Streets.
The Winslow mail., 1925-11-20

mt Description of Property Assessed
The Winslow mail., 1925-11-20

Of the before
delinquent hereupon penalty
O per the will be added thereto
Hail. Wnslow Arizona this goth day of Noven
r. LENDECKE
Superintendent Streets.
The Winslow mail., 1925-11-20
NOTICE

principle for street i'm
No So Paving District No
Council the of Wnslow become due and
January, 1926.
numbers description assessed
follows:
The Winslow mail., 1925-11-20
NOTICE

and principle for street i'm
movements under Intention No 81 of the Common
Council of the District No will become
before the second
day January, 1926
The property assessed
and the follows:
The Winslow mail., 1925-11-20

It is reported that President Coo
lidge belongs to no secret order
save the Phi Gamma Delta, a col
lege fraternity.
The Winslow mail., 1925-11-20
NOTICE

Assessment instalmens interest
Resolution Intention
Of the Winsow, Paving District
January,
parcel property
the follows:
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
FeW Haze, or Acquire,
Good Thinking Habits

The average man works about eight
hours a day, or is supposed to. The
rest of the time is divided about equal
ly, so the theory runs, between recrea-
tion and sleep.
OF the 16 waking hours how many
are devoted to thinking? Psychologists
tell us that a. tenth is liberal allow
ance, and, in actual practice, from that
down. Only little more than an hour
and a half out of the twenty-four oc-
cupied in thinking!
Thinking is one of the most difficult
and trying of occupations, says Col
lier's. Were this not so it is probable
that we might spend more time at it.
To prove this, try to concentrate your
mind on the book you nave just read !;
on the lecture you have recently
listened to; on the important inter-
view you have just had. Try to reunem-
Der and recount to yourself, item by
item, just as much as you can of the
thing you read or listened to. 1t will
tire you out. Unless you have trained
yourself to the task your mind will
wander-you will lose the thread.
Psychologists recommend the culti-
vation of thinking habits; they RECON-
mend less reading and more thinking
about what you have read and heard
and seen.
"As we do this well or ill" says
John Stuart Mill, $50 will we dis
charge well or i'll the duties of our
several callings.,
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
sUPT. E. T. DUFFIELD AND
FAMILY LEAVE VIRGINIA

Edward T. 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.. .Dufieldis 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 a 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-
ton 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
cea ars of Lebanon
of Wonderful Beauty

The famous cedars of Lebanon.
which, are so frequently mentioned in
tile Bible as symbols of power,
longevity and prosperity, and con-
tinuously sung by poets and extolled
by artists because of their stately
beauty and strength, grow to height
of from so to so feet, their branches
and foliage covering compass of
ground the diameter of which equals
the height of the trees.
Although the number of the famous
trees has decreased considerably, of
late years they have been carefully
tended and preserved and goodly
number still exist The best-known
group in the Lebanon range consists
of group of II ancient giants-how
ancient no man can tell--in grove
near the village of Eden, surrounded
by about 400 younger trees, none of
which probably are under hundred
years of age. Two of the "patriarchs"
of the celebrated group measure, re-
spectively, from go to so feet in girth
VI uuHh. OAS VI JHcSe lS mdIAcu
with the name of Lamartine, the
French poet, historian and statesman.
The younger trees in the grove are
stately, compact and gracefully re-
poseful, but the "patriarchs'' are wild
of aspect and frantic In attitude,
fiinging their muscular arms about as
though struggling with some unseen
enemy. In Ezekiel the Assyrian is
likened to the cedar of Lebanon, with
fair branches, and with shadowing
shroud, and Of high stature, and his
top was in among the thick boughs."
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
Yenetinn GInss

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 the,
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
Glass Flowers 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 rs tissue paper. The glass
petals are then shaped and colored
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
Unfair to Blame Sun
for Shouting Up Dust

Here is reader who actually
grumbles at the sun!
''Pve noticed" she says, "that when
ever the sun shines in room 1t seems
to raise the dust. Now, why is this?
Look into any shaft Of sunlight and
you will see what / mean"
The sun does not raise dust, though
my correspondent Is not the first per-
son who has thought so. 1t merely
Eliminates 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 1t would be to
blame 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
it is vigorously excluded.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
The Cob Dollar

The "cob dollar" was a Spanish dol
lar which at one time had wide circula.
tion in the United States. In 1878,
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
Ncob money"
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
truth when he tells us:
'Debt is trap, which man sets
and bats himself, and then deliber-
ately gets into-and ketches kursid
phool."
Artemus Ward made his reputation
as an economist and humorist on his
statement:
'I'm bound to live within my means
If l have to borrow money to do it,
@. w. c., in McNaught's Monthly.
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 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.
1--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
pllhlic expense
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. g." 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 a 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
/ 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
Vacationist Had Real
Problem on His Hands

A revival of this old yarn, once a
fayorite of George Roby's, is not
amiss: 1t was all about a man who
arrived at seaside resort and went
to hotel. Shortly after friend
called and was shown up to his room.
He found him sitting in chair sur
veying with gloomy countenance a
trunk which stood against the wall.
What's the mattery asked the
caller.
II want to get a suit of clothes out
of that trunk" was the answer.
"Well, what's the dlfficulty-lost
the key?"
mo. / have the key all right" he
said, heaving a sigh. 'I'll tell you
how it is. My wife packed that trunk
She expected to come with me, but
was prevented. To my certain knowl-
edge she put in enough to fill three
trunks the way man would pack
them. If / open 1t, the things will
boil up all over the room. l could
never get them back. Now I'm won
dering whether it would be cheaper
to go and buy new suit of clothes
or two more trunks."-San Francisco
Argonaut.
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 number of great men
In American history. however, 1t 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 II. Seward and Martin
Van Buren. On the other hand we
find that Charles Sumner was feet 4
inches; Thomas Jefferson, 'eet 21a
inches; Charley Godfrey Leland, 6
feet PA inches; Andrew Jackson, 6
feet l 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, 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
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 1, 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

The Poster Contest, sponsored by
the Mothers Club for Ely Girl
Scouts, closed today and will be
Judged by Saturday afternoon. Inc
winning posters with Scouts names
will be on display in Berglund Bros.
window. Mrs. Quigley as presidens
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 Class. This exhibit will take
place in Berglund's window both IN
the afternoon and in the eyerng.
The Ely Miner is conducting q
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 Gil
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
Do Ducks Swim 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 15 or 20 feet
Of clear water. AS it got well started
on its 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 1t and in rising to the top as
well.
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
Names of Irish Towns

The following are the names of
some townlands in Castleisland dis
trict, with English meanings: Ahane-
boy, Little Yellow Ford" Anglore,
"Nolsy Ford Ballynaboul. Town of
the Holes" Bawnaskehy, Lea Field
of the White Thorn" Bawnaiuskaha,
'Bawn of the Burning" Beheenagh,
Birch Tree District" Caheragh,
"Chieftaincy" Cahereen, "Little Man
sion.' Canguilla, "Hill of the Gallaun
(Standing Stone)" Coolavanny. The'
Field of the MIX" Coolnageragl,
eThe Field of the sheep" Crag. "The
Rock" Dooneen, Little Fort" Dro-
mutton, "Wethers Ridge" Fahaduff,
'Black Field" Farranabrack, Land
of the Trout Streams"
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, sand
the conditions that must be met IN
any effort to readjust present tax
laws to be fair to lind 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 mo- 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 or
the country's 371 million acres of
privately-owned forest land.
aThis tax study is one 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 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
Antiquity and Whiskers

Tradition says that Adam wore a
full beard. That is quite a 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 Mehammedans are bearded,
aud saladin's son. Turkish historians
The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
Seniority of Sipeden

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.