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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02
Shakespeare Held as
Leader of NerD Art

The masterpieces of one art were
produced at its birth. The theater
was new institution in the social life
of Shakespeare's youth, and the first
playhouse built in England was not a
dozen years old when the great poet
arrived in London. The Middle ages
had gratified its love Of mimicry by
miracle plays, which developed into
moralities and interludes. The mid
die of the Sixteenth century Latin and
Greek plays were crudely initiated in
English, but of poetic, literary, ro-
mantle, intellectual drama England
knew practically nothing until Shake
speare was of age:
Here" it seems he must have said.
sis land just discovered-I shall be
the leader of its exploration" A
young man of twenty-five, burdened
with wife and three children, he
had left his home in his native town
about 1856 to seek his fortune in the
great city. He had few friends and
no money. Though his ambition was
to be an actor and to write his own
plays he sought and won job as call
boy at one of the newly founded the
aters and was only after some delay
promoted to humble duties on the
stage itself. He tried his hand at the
revision of an old play, and the man.
ager, recognizing the youths gift,
aided him on his climb. But for sew
security and it was not until his
Romeo and Juliet" was produced
that he was hailed as the prophet Of
a new world Of art.-Kansas City
Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02
Men MQ1'OO11ed
STORY FROM THE START

Garth Guthrie, Canadian war
veteran, having to live in the
open on account of weakened
lungs, Is factor Of a Hudson's
Bay post at Elkwan. He came
back from the conflict with a
permanently SCARED face, which
he realizes cost him the love OF
his fiancee, Edith Falconer. Sir
Charles Guthrie, his brother, is
millionaire war profiteer. With
Etienne Savanna, halfbreed, his
firm friend, Garth meets Doctor
Quarter, geologist, and his sis
ter Joan. Quarter complains he
has been robbed by a man known
as Laughing Mcdonald" At
EIkwan an Indian girl, Ninda,
tuberculosis victim, whom Garth
has befriended, is dying. Joan,
trained war nurse, cares for
Ninda, but the girl dies. Three
of McDonald's party visit Elk
wan seeking to buy gun shells.
From them Garth learns Of evil
talk among the Indians concern
ing him and Ninda. With Etien-
mes help Garth wins the friend
ship of Saul Souci, medicine
man" of the Crees, and gets his
promise to persuade the Crees,
to take their furs to Elkwan in
stead of to Mcdonald. Garth is
ambushed by Joe Mokoman,
MIDAS reputed father. Shot"
Garth's airedale companion, saves
him, and the Indian is taken, a
prisoner, to Elkwan. Garth sends
Mokoman to Mcdonald with a
message Of defiance, and the war
is on. Garth halls with joy the
freezing of the strait, which will
enable Soucrs followers to bring
their furs to Elkwan without
difficulty.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02
What's the
Answer .,,..,.,,..

What is the high standing jump
record?
2-Who invented the sewing ma
chine and when?
8What vice president was later
tried for treason?
4What is geology? ~
with what three remarkable roles
are the name and fame of Mrs. Fiske
principally associated?
(Which is the highest mountain
In Great Britain?
What legends are the subject of
Tennyson's "Idylls of the King?
S9What is the umbrella bird and
what is its most conspicuous orna-
ment? l
9-Is this statement correct: II e1-
pect that you have eyestrain"?
1O-What is the third verse in Chap.
Of the Book of Job?
11-What European sea coast is
known as cote savage?
12-What is the record for the ma
tional collegiate run of 100 yards?
13-When was Labor day made q
legal national holiday?
14-What President later became a
member Of the house of representa-
tives?
15-Where are emeralds found?
16-What English author, essayist
and lecturer was most famous as an
art critic?
17-What are the "Biglow Papers?
1S-What is vanilla, what its uses
and where grown? 80
19-Which is correct, would rather"
or had rather?
20-What is a psalm? .... .....
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02

It is natural for many of us to stand
off and wonder how our neighbor car,
live as he does. Because he has diff.
ferent standards and doesn't enjoJt
our kind of games, we wonder how ha
can possibly have any fun in life.
There is a delightful story which
Jonas Lie, the artist, told. The artist
was at the seashore working at a
sketch, when he noticed an old fisher
man who seemed to have no luck. but
just constantly fished all day long
rebaiting his hook at intervals.
When the day ended, the fisherman
said to the painter: Hi, neighbor.
been watchin' yer! How has yer the
patience to stand and paint all day?"
Exchange.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02
AnsIDers No. 10
MARY Ann Evans.

MARY Ann Evans. -.. ..r.
2-Philadelphia defeated Boston Al
In 24-inning game September 1, 1906.
3-Six; Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
John Quincy Adams, Van Buren,, Bu-
chanan.
fCarolina, for Charles II.
5-That branch of knowledge that
treats on the science of life.
6-Landscape painting. .
1...
Sit is a native of North Amer
lea and there are but two species, the
Yucatan and Central American.
9-Twenty-five.
lO-u Chronicles; Chap. 4, V. 10.
11-"War and Peace"
12-G. h Goulding Of Canada
walked it in 6 min. 25.S sec.
13-Millard Fillmore.
14-Gen. John H. Morgan.
15-That branch of science that
deals with the properties of different
kinds Of matter. rr4E .-a .A
16-Beethoven.
17-Scotland.
1S-It is genus Of early blooming
plants belonging to the lily family and
there are about forty-tive species.
19-By the people inhabiting the
western Pyrenees.
20-In the Bible.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02

and as a result we now nave five diff
ferent kinds of $40 bills. Under the
new plan the national bank notes will
be done away with. Silver certifi-
Gates are to be used for 81 bills only,
and there will be no silver certificates
of any other denomination. The
United States notes, which are the
greenbacks of the Civil war period,
will be merged into So bills of the
new currency and there will be only
one type of So bill. Gold certificates
and federal reserve notes will be used
only for the higher denominations, the
$40 bills, the $5O's, $100's and $1,OOOs.
Still another change will be in the
matter of the pictures used on the
bills. On many of them are portraits
of people unknown to the public.
More than that, the same picture may
be on 81 bill and on $50 bill. This
causes confusion and sometimes leads
to mistakes. Under the new system
the pictures of Presidents only will
be used. For instance, Washington is
to appear on the 81 bills, Lincoln on
the So bills, Jefferson, probably, will
be on the $40 bill, Grant may get the
$40 one, Cleveland the $50 bill, Roose-
welt the 500, and Wilson the $1,000.
That will not take place, however,
until next summer. Government man.
ufacture of money is a complicated
process and the dollar bills make up
more than half of our paper currency.
Some 800 tons of them at present are
distributed each year. The bills of
this denomination will be the first to
appear in the new size. Next will be
produced the $40 bills and thesgovern-
ment will work up and down from
these two, but it will take two or
three years to replace all of the re-
vised denominations in circulation.
Treasury experts state that there are
always about a billion bills in circu-
Iation. On an average these bills last
a year before they wear out and have
to be replaced. OF course, the 81 bills
wear out most quickly, so that by
starting the new system with 81 bills
and sending them out to replace the
WORKOUT 81 bills, the first step in in
PRODUCING the new currency will be
taken. The treasury has warned the
public that advance specimens cannot
be furnished until the new bills are
released simultaneously in all parts of
the country.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02

Domestic breeds of horses exist
ed In Europe from prehistoric times.
The first mention of the British horse
occurs in Caesar" Though used ex-
tensively in warfare and other pur-
suits, agriculture seems to have been
the first use to which horses were
put. The earliest suggestion that
horses were used in agriculture is
derived from a piece Of Bayeux tap
estry where the horse Is represented
as drawing a Observation-Disclosures
Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02
Hearty Meals in Java

When you dine in Java you have
the ''riz-tavel" (rice table,, which
starts with deep dish partly filled
with rice and ends with such sense
Of repletion that one is apt to be unit
for any activity for several hours.
After ones plate has received its
portion of rice, there comes big pa
rade of native servants, each bearing
something in a dish. There are fish
Of various kinds, eggs-fried or In
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02

The chemical analysis of eggs Is
only very slightly affected by the ra-
ton Of the hen. A very deficient ra-
ton will affect the analysis slightly,
but moderate variations do not affect
it. The vitamine content Of eggs is
affected materially by the character of
the ration.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02
CHAPTER VIII

The stars pierced the blue dusk fore
runner of the singing dawn when a
dog-team pulled out Of the black
spruce and dwarf tamarack trimming
the headwater ponds Of the Ptarmi-
gan and followed trap-line trail up
into the tundra which billowed away
to the wind-whipped backbone Of the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02
The Steve in History

Stoves are of great antiquity. They
were used by the Romans, who
warmed their apartments chiefly by
portable stoves without any regular
exit for the smoke and fumes. The
forerunner Of the stove was the bra
zier Of charcoal, which is still used
in some parts of Spain and Italy. In
1744 Benjamin Franklin invented a
cast-iron open heater. The cast-iron
box stove was Invented in 1852. Early
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02
Powerful Orsanixotion

The American Bankers association
has membership of over p 900 banks
out Of reported total of $4,000 banks
Of all kinds In the country. The
banks within the association have es-
timated capital funds of about $1,000
100000 and total resources of s5S,5Oo,-
100000.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02
True Patriotism

Every good citizen makes his coun-
try's honor his own, and cherishes it
not only as precious but as sacred.
He is willing to risk his life in its
defense and is conscious that he gains
protection while he gives it.-Andrew
Jackson.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02
Prolific lnuenfor

The most prolific of negro inventors
was Elijah Mccoy of Detroit, who
from 1872 to 1920 obtained 81 patents.
His inventions cover a wide range of
subjects, but relate particularly to the
lubricating of machinery.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02

omelette form-beef and birds, pep
pers, nutmeg, coconut, chopped nuts,
curry and many other delicacies. The
Hollanders who rule Java eat the .'riz-
taveP' daily and survive
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02
These Labor-Sauing Days

We suppose posterity's way OF COM
plimenting bride on her good old
fashioned domesticity will be to say
cordially: "Why. You open cans just
like your mother."-Ohio State Jour-
nal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02

Our idea of zero in things to worry
about is the danger that this earth
will last only another million years or
so.-Des Moines Register.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02

in the Nineteenth century cylindrical
sheet-iron stoves were made. About
1880 the first base-burner, was put
upon the market in America.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02
First of Many to Fall

The Confederate monument at
Fairfax, Va, records that John o.
Mari, captain of the Warrenton Rifles,
was the first soldier killed In action.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02
Fly in His Ointment

"A Greater" said uncle Eben, may
git money, but he's liable to be too
nervous to enjoy Washingtos
Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02
Sno.D on the Equator.

Snow-capped Mount Kenia, In Brit
ish East Africa, is the only place on
the equator that Il snow-coyered,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02
BY EL.o >zsvrr WATSON

JR IRe second time
since Alexander Ham
ilton, the first secre-
tary of the treasury,
established our cur
rency system, a radical
change is to be made
in the size of our paper
money, according to or
ders that have been is
sued by Andrew w.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-02
Both Wondered

Cro BE CONTINUED
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20
An aEerags increase o. I per cent

An average increase Of Z per cent
in employment is shown in the ell
even industries which directly af-
feet Pleasantville and the Mainland.
A drop OF IA per cent is shown in
average weekly payroll. however.
These industries are: Baking, ice
cream and confectionery, provis-
ions, dyeing textiles, hosiery and
knit goods, machine tools, lumber
and millwork, printing, bricks and
laundries.
Altogether the detailed tables
which show the rise or fall Of en-
ployment and wages in the indus
tries of this state denote a settling
and strengthening Of industrial
conditions in the State. Only g
few Of the industries. and these are
TOR the most part concerned with
The nanufac ture Of such seasons-
BILE articles as clothing and certain
feed products. showed any great
drop in wage earnings, while food
products, textiles, leather, glass
and wire goods showed decided in
creases in this same division.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20

Recently l spoke about how to
keep your shoulder blades in and
your chest up, but it would hardly
be right to leave you with the
upper half of your body right and
the lower all wrong. So today | am
going to talk about waist line and
abdomen--all that section which is
bounded on the north by the bust
and the south by the hipline. |
might tell you that this is the most
important part of your body, but
every time / write about beauty l
am tempted to say the same thing
really, every part is the most i'm
portant because there is no divid-
ing line anywhere.
The section l am discussing to-
day is especially important because
Lit includes the vital organs and
they depend so much upon the
outer structure to hold them in
place that you caunot afford to let
yourself droop for the sake of your
health. AS for the beauty angle, /
need not tell you how much more
beautiful slim waistline and flat
abdomen are than a whole down
ward sag and protruding stomach,
On the whole protruding
stomach bespeaks lazy mind or
indifference to beauty. For the
woman who allows herself to go
that way, or even who depends al
together upon tight corsets to keep
her in, hasn't enough interest in
life to try to be completely beauti-
full. Even mother should have
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20
The Wdy
of the !
World
~ GROVE pATTeRs SON

PALACES
Few of us live in palaces, and if
we do, they do us little good The
only palace worth while is the pal
ace you live in. In that you truly
live. Perhaps within you is only a
bare and miserable shack-and you
must live in that if you have built
nothing else.
.And wher my ili-schooled spirit
is aflame," said Matthew Arnold,
some nobler,. ampler stage of life
to win, I'll stop and say, there were
no succour here, the aids to noble
life are ali within"
Out. of a multitude Of decisions
we build characterize build the
house we are forever to live in.
We do not HAVE to live in pig
pens. Strange that many of us
choose to-.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20

That America has the most pros
porous and contented people III
the world and that every worker,
from the day laborer up, has com
forts and Injuries unheard OF
among European workers, is due
chiefly to the nations widespread
use of electric power, according to
c. III Howell, Vice-President and
General Manager of the Atlantic
City Electric Company.
THE average American workman
today has working for him three
horsepower Of electric energy
which is equivalent to the labor Of
thirty men," says Mr.. Howell
Those thirty slaves are helping
him to produce more with less toll
and at a greater compensation than
it paid workers of any other
country.
1--WE can get a clearer idea of
this tremendous force when we
realize that the 800,000,000 horse
power of electric energy used in
TIE Culteu SldteS dlC SquaFaiCli'
to- the labor of 8,000,000,00O men
which is more than five times the
population of the whole world.
1.-THE farmer has not been
neglected in this distribution of
power and is progressing rapidly,
though still a few steps behind the
city workers. The census of 1920
showed that American farms
possessed machinery valued at
$4,000 100000 Since that time the
farmer has been adding TO his
machinery equipment at the rate
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20
American Prosperity Based
On Electric Power Making
Rapid Strides on u. S. Farms
Tremendous Force That Has Improved Living Conditions in
Cities Has Great Possibilities in Rural Sections, Says
c. H. Howell, Vice President, Atlantic City
Electric Company

of $30o.000,G00 a year. That is one
big reason why the American
farmer produces twelve tons OF
grain per worker as against an
average of one and one-half tons
per worker for the rest of the
world.
Drudgery Past.
"Fhe back-breakfng drudgery
that used to make farm work a
labor for both the
farmer and his wife is rapidly be-
coming thing of the past. The
electric motor grinds feed, saws
wood, cuts fodder, 1niIks COWS,
separates cream and sharpens tools.
1t runs a pump that supplies the
housewife with water, il gives her
electric light, runs the vacuum
cleaner, the toaster, the percolater
and the electric iron. 1t does the
washing and the ehnrning and has
abolished long hours over the
kitchen range on torrid summer
days.
THE gigantic American electric
liRduGIry, Wnlcn mas Already invest
ed eight billion dollars and is in
vesting at the rate of a billion
more every year. has the obligation
to extend the benefits of electric
power swiftly to the farm.
Electric service to the millions
Of farms with no electric service
is rapidly being made available and
there are few city homes that can
not install these labor-saving and
vouth-saving devices to lift the
burden of drudgery off the house
wife ~
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20
sMALL-ToWN STUFF
(From the Minneapolis


The Importance of Installing
in the child's mind a spirit of
loyalty to his own home town,
no matter how small it may be,
4 was stressed By Dr.. Edward A.
Steiner of Grinnell College, when
The spoke recently to the North
west Iowa Teachers Association
at Sioux City.
We are glad to see somebody
swinging a cudgel in defense of
the small town. 1t is high time
The sneers of the vaudevillians.
the jokesmiths and the hulnor-
Gus periodicals, the Menckens
and Nathans and Sinclair
Lewises, the professional smart
alexis and urban wise crackers
generally, have all, of late years,
had tendency to make the
youngster a little ashamed of his
home town.
If he believes all ne hears and
reads. he is likely to reach
maturity with sneaking idea
that there is something shame
full about being born and reared
in community where citizens
go to bed OF nights and to
church on Sunday.
So when he travels from
Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, to
Chicago, he is tempted to regis.
Ter as from Minneapolis, and
when he goes TO New York, he
is tempted to discard Mime
apolis and say he is from
Chicago. WheB and if he reaches
Europe, he is from New York.
But why? Why not from
Gopher Prairie, and proud of it,
wherever he goes What is there
to be ashamed of in small town
stuff"
Small town stuff, The stuff
of nearly all our Presidents,
nearly all our senator's and
Supreme Court justices, nearly
all of our important writer's and
painters and sculptors and
musicians, present or past. The
stuff of nearly every big name
in New York or Chicago today
So why not be proud, rather
than embarrassed by the fact
of small-town birth or rearing?
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20
PAYROLL RISE IS
NOTED IN STATE
Industrial Bulletin Shows
Conditions in New Jersey
To Be Steadying

The weekly payroll in New Jer-
sey during the month Of October
vas $S,602.515, an increase OF 0.3
per cent, according to the monthly
Industrial Bulletin Of the New Jer-
sey Department Of Labor. The fig
ures are based on reports Of 84I
plants.
The statistics given b. the hui
letin show that in these plants
there was a drop OF Of per cent in
employment but that the average
weekly earnings, $27.26i was Oh
per cent more than in September.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20
How 9Achie,y!e|;. !. Beauty
w TO KEEP SLIM WAIST LINE A FLAT ABDOMEN

an flat abdomen if she had had
proper care after her child was
born and did not get up too soon.
That phase should be considered
very carefully during conEalescence.
| told you in my talk recently
that you should lift up from the
hips. Today I am going to complete
the advice by telling you that while
you expand and lift above the hips,
you should contract below. Stand
and walk with your stomach held
in and your "sit-upon" contracted.
Imagine that there is string
around your hipline and think up
above it and "in" below it. This
will aid greatly in the appearance
of slimness.
An excellent exercise for
strengthening your stomach mus
cles is to lie flat on your back on
the floor and sit up without using
your hands. Then bend forward
and touch your toes with the tips
Of your fingers.
To timber up your waist, do the
windmill" exercise, stretching your
arms out to your side with your
feet flat on the floor touching the
toes of the left foot with the
fingers of the right hand and vice
versa Stretch often, whenever you
think of it, measuring up to your
greatest height. l cannot go into
the many exercises in detail, but
before long l am going to devote
whole week to exercises and
hope shat you will watch for those
talks.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20
NEW JERSEY

Nearly $1o0,0oe of work has
already been done on the bridge
that is being built between Beas-
ley's Point and Somers Point The
contractor is now out to the draw
span in the middle of the channel.
100 feet from the Beasley Poins
side Of the bay.
John c. TEXTS. Il wears old.
Woodbury. Heights. driver Of the
automobile which killed z-year-old
George Hughes. at Gloucester on
Monday, was held under $1,000 bail
for the Grand Jury on charge or
manslaughter, by Mayor Anderson
in the Gloucester Police Court.
Bail was furnished by his father
Reeves e. Tevis
Accused Of stealing the car Of
Harry Beebe and offering It for
sale for s5e. Ashby Clark was
awakened from sleep at his hgnae
in Millville and was placed in jail
The missing ear was found parked
in front of his home,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20
SHAME AND REALITIES

People often boast of their skill
in seeing through shams. They
can't be fooled They can detect
insincerity. That may be something
to boast about but it's a gift that
can never make up for the dizziness
and suspicion and obtuseness which
keep us from detecting SINCERITY
Not to be able to identify sincerity
when you see it is to put yourself
without perspicacity, without any
intellectual skill
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20
SUCCESS AND SERENITY

There is no serenity and peace of
n.ind in what the world superficial
II calls success. Results follow
the act or the thought as tue wheel
follows the foot Of laan who drags
the cart. Serenity can only follow
the consciousness of having done
as well as you could.