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The Ely miner., 1927-06-17
TWENTY YEARS AGO !
Taken from the Ely Miner of
the same date in 1907.
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TIE congestion at the hotels the
past week has again demonstrated
most to-uibly the necessity of more
hotel facilities for Ely. All the
hotels have been filled to the top
since Saturday and the proprietors
have been kept on the jump secur-
ing rooms in private places in which
to house their guests. Landlord
GIode of the Exchange has been par
ticularly crowded this spring.
Amilius Stenlund and Selma Dist
were married Sunday by Rev. A.
Sandstrom. Inc young people are
we'll known here and many friends
wish them much happiness. They
left Tuesday morning for a brief
wedding trip.
Charles Sippola and Mary Sofia
HegfOrS were united in marriage
Monday by Rev. Sandstrom. A we'd
ding repast was served at the home
of the brides mother on Fourth
Avenue.
Aati Wiinikainen and Arma Alma
Lartinen of Winton secured a mar
riage license today. The marriage
will be solemnized by Rev. Sand
strOm this afternoon.
The reports from Tower are to
the effect that Ed Murphy and By.
Culbertson, two knights of the grip,
well known in Ely, took an involun-
tary bath in Lake Vermilion last
week. AS neither of the gentlemen
could swim, the affair might have
The Ely miner., 1927-06-17
FARMERS PLEASE
NOTICE THIS
THE BOARDER cow is A
MENACE IN VIEW OF THE
FACT THAT ELY FARMERS
ARE CULLING THEIR HERDS
STOCK.

War is being declared on the
boarder cow. 1t is estimated by
agricultural authorities that approx
mately one-third of the cows in the
northwest are improbable either be-
cause they were born that way or
because they were not sufficiently
The Ely miner., 1927-06-17
Statue of Liberty

The dimensions of the head Of the
Statue of Liberty from chin to crani-
um are II feet inches and the
length Of the nose Is feet 6 inches.
II Is said that 40 persons can stand
In the head of this statue.
The Ely miner., 1927-06-17
Americas Oldest Street

Acoma, N. NJ. the sky city Of the
Pueblos. boasts of the oldest street ir
America Hundreds of years before
the white man SET foot In the Wester1
hemisphere this street In Acoma va,
the scene of commercial activities.
The Ely miner., 1927-06-17
Uncle Eben

You can't believe all you hear"
said Uncle Eben. And you's liable to
get fooled even if you is deaf an
dEmb. ."-Washington Star.
The Ely miner., 1927-06-17

DR.. C. C. Carpenter. physician
and surgeon from Minneapolis. has
opened in the Tanner hospital build
ing and is pepared to take patients
either at the hospital or without.
DIR. Carpenter comes highly recon-
mended and says he proposes to Sc
cure a share of the business if strict
attention to his patients will do it.
His family will arrive shortly.
The cage at the Zenith mine with
thirty men aboard, while going down
yesterday at noon, escaped from the
brakeman and dropped about 100
feet. Several men were seriously
injured, two having their legs broken
and being otherwise badly shook up
while the others were all more or
less shaken and sprained. The ac-
cident was one of those unfortunate
affairs that occasionally happen
about a mine.
James Nettel, who has held a very
responsible position with the Min
nesota mine at Tower for, several
years, left the first of the month for
Aurora where he has accepted a
position with the Corrigan, McKin-
new company at the St. James mine.
Jos. Teeporten of Superior ar
rived Tuesday and has been assist
ing in the moving of the new boiler
to the White Iron Lake Iron COM
pany property. Mr.. Teeporten is one
of the officers Of the company.
A moving picture theatre is be-
ing put into the old Turf hall by
The Ely miner., 1927-06-17

turned out disastrously had they
not been rescued from the icy waters
by some parties boating near the
scene. The cause of the tip-over
was an attempt on the part of the
two men to cnange places in row
boat.
The Ely miner., 1927-06-17
Emma Baribeau

local people who expect to open IN
the near future. The program is
to be changed twice a week. No
doubt the gentlemen will do well
with the enterprise. &.
G. E. Tener and VIM. White, Jr..
of Pittsburg, left Monday under the
guidance of James O'Ne:l for the
Snowbank lake country where the
gentlemen are interastci in mineral
bearing lands. We understand some
exploratory work will be done on
their property.
Florence Rye died early this
morning at the age Of years, OF
appendicitis after an illness dating
from Sunday. The death was
shock to the many friends of Flor
ence. The funeral will be held Sun
day.
Mrs. Meyne and children will
leave next week for their future
home at Watertown, Wisconsin,
where Mr.. Meyne is in the drug busi-
ness.
Dell Burgess and Miss Mabel
Bisiar were married at Bemidji on
Monday. The groom was formerly
in the cigar manufacturing business
here.
Mrs. Sam Rapson who has been
at the Shipman Hospital for some
time as the result of an operation,
is so far recovered as to be able to
go to her home.
Congressman J. Adam Bede was
a noted visitor in Ely Wednesday.
having come to deliver an address
at the Commencement exercises at
the High School. In company with
the editor, Henry Chinn and c. l..
Newberry, Mr.. Bede visited the
Shagawa mine on section 30 and
The Ely miner., 1927-06-17

also Winton in the afternoon. The
party was rendered a launch ride
to Kawishawi falls by M. Torinus of
the st. Croix Lumber company. Mr..
Bede said he thoroughly enjoyed
the trip. While passing through a
magnificent growth of Norway pine
at 80, j. Adam jokingly remarked
as to the beautiful Scandinavian
pine" which he said was used to
make political platforms of in order
to catch the Norwegian vote" Mr..
Bede was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Eisenach at dinner that even
ing.
A. j. Wright came up from Cole
raine Wednesday evening and to-
gether with Mrs. Wright and the
children left today for Cne "Model
City," Mr.. Wright IS interested in
a dry goods store at that place. The
family made many friends during
their residence here and the best
wishes of all go with them to their
new home.
The marriage of Miss Camille l..
Henton to Mr.. Elbridge G. Deane,
of Ely, Nevada, was quietly
solemnized at the home of the brides
parents, Maple Grange, Elk River,
Minn., on Tuesday, June II, Rev.
r. A. SandersOn, formerly of this
city, officiating.
Both the bride and groom are well
and favorably known in this city
where the latter at one time held
a responsible position with the
Chandler Iron Co., and the bride
was an instructor in our schools.
Mr.. Deane is at present associated
with the Nevada Consolidated COM
pany with headquarters at Ely,
Nevada, at which place the young
couple will be at home after July 1.
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A moving picture theatre is be-
ing put into the old Turf hall by
Evening star., 1927-11-20
She said: you're still a hero there.

She said: you're still hero there.
But-in Cannes?"
He said: This is different. You
can't imag gine how different It Is"
'Oh, yes, / can. Or | can guess.
Are you coming back"
well, do YOU want me to?"
Presently she said. How can l an
swer that?"
He held her closer. She was very
young and desperately lovely. But
he was thinking principally OF the
prospect of the safe, tranquil life at
Cowan, where on $50 a week men
were married and saved money. And
il they married the daughter Of the
boss-that is, when the boss owned a
coal company paying per cent-why,
this was comparative luxury.
He said: my dear, can't you?"
She relaxed in his arms. mo. not
possibly. Let's go in the gambling
rooms. I want TO see what they're
like"
He said: "Wait a moment. Don't
misunderstood me. 1 don't ask you
to say too much. / just ask If it
would please you to have me there.
Even II it were just to dance with
you. Just to know that / could see
you and that we could be friends.
You can't answer me?"
She shook her head. How can I?
Let's get daddy and go in the gam.
bling rooms"
LIE piloted the Moultons toward the
= = Sale de Baccarat
They're playing chemin.de-fer," he
said. Shall 1 explain it to you?
Well. the court cards and tens count
nothing and all the other cards count
face value. The object is to get two
or three cards that come nearest to
a total of eight or nine. An eight
with two cards is better than a nine
with three. Well, the dealer puts up
whatever stake he likes and the first
player on his right can say 'banco.'
which means that he shoots the works.
If he doesn't care to do it, then the
other players, in order. have the right
to go banco. II nobody does it. then,
beginning with the right. they put up
whatever proportion of the stake they
choose. The dealer deals two cards,
face down, to the player on the right
and to. himself. The player on the
right is playing for the entire table
as against the dealer. If either of
them has eight or nine he has to
show it at once. If not. either of them
can have third card if they want it
that Is, if they think they can get
nearer to eight or nine total. Then
they show down. and that's all there
is to it. As soon as the dealer loses,
the deal passes. or he can pass it vol.
unfairly if he thinks his luck is run.
ming. That's ALL"
MY soul" said Mr.. Moulton. "And
I'd always thought this was a he.
mans game" He approached the
nearest table. studied the play for a
moment and abruptly remarked,
"Banco!"
Evening star., 1927-11-20

dollars and preserve his social status?
Well. when you reckon the exchange,
he could do it in France. Six months
in Cannes, two in Paris, two in Biar.
ritz and two on the Normandie coast;
what could be more chic? One might
be eXpatriated, but one would still be
fashionable. Better be fashionable in
France than attempt to live on five
thousand year in New York. And
in France there would also be the con-
stant possibility of a killing at
baccarat
This last idea had completed his un.
doing. He had begun by playing very
cautiously; nevertheless, he had stead.
, cautiously, and to lose, until he per.
ceived that his only chance of re.
establishing his fortune was to plunge.
| Then he had plunged. And that was
how he found himself at Cannes to.
| night, with eight hundred francs be.
tween himself and zero.
! He had sold his car q month ago
| The rent of his apartment was paid
| for the season. But it was common
| gossip that he was broke, and there
were many people who had begun to
! treat him accordingly. For. on the
( Riviera, the first duty of an Anglo
Saxon is to have plenty of money.
| In fact, there was only one person
who hadn't changed in the slightest
her attitude toward him, and that was
| his hostess tonight. She was an Amer
| lean, but she also was a Lady, with
capital L, because her late husband
had been a British baronet. She had
never really been in love with hel
husband, but she was blindly in love
| with TrOWbridge He knew this as
| well as though she had told him sc
in plain English. She adored him, She
was radiantly beautiful, she was only
80. and she was rich. Trowbridge
had 500 francs and he didn't know
whether he cared for her. And pres
emily he would dance with her, anC
Claire-Lady McDonald-would look
up at him and say: "Jimmy-don't
you like me just little, please?"
Then what would Trowbridge say
She was stunning, but he didn't know
Evening star., 1927-11-20

Trowbridge should have been a Gin
derella man and lived happily ever
after. But the actor had ruined the
part.
1t had all begun in a small town in
America. There Trowbridge had early
acquired--heaven knows hcNv or
whence-an extraordinary knowledge
of worldly form and fashion, a per-
eistent itch for rarer atmosphereS and
steady superciliousness for his
ncighbors. His father was upset
about him.
Now, listen to me. Jimmy" his
father had said, II know you want to
be a regular feller, but you got the
wrong angle on things. All you talk
about is money and the toney folks
YOU meet. Well. that don't amount to
Hannah Cook. And now you're teasin'
me TO go to Yale. Why. Jimmy,
that'd just egg you on. No, sir; you II
go to Cowan College, and then you u
come back home. and it'll be l.. T.
Trowbridse 4 Son. Because, don
YOU ever lose track OF this thing,
Jimmy-our business is coal. and you
can't sell coal in a dress suit
He had fought valiantly for Yale
but his father was ineXorable, so that
the boy had fretted through four
years at a small college. where he was
named "Beau' Trowbridge, and was
the ultimate ideal Of n large number
of girls whom he scorned. During
his vacations, however, he was hidden
to Wild Rapids and Junction City. and
by the time he took his degree he had
even cut something of a dash in
Capitol City.
Naturally, his successes increased
his appetite. For consider how easily
he had won them, without a single
asset beyond his personality. He has
no car, but he knew how TO buy his
clothes and how TO wear them. He
,Naa only a meagcr allowance, but his
msnn<r was patrician. With his smilf
and his swagger he could get away
with murder. And If he could do il
a. home, why not in New York?
An o matter of fact, there were Ger
Gain Yale and Harvard and Princeton
sAndrak kraduates, home for the holi
Evening star., 1927-11-20
MEAN YOU GET PAID BY THE
MANAGEMENT? ALL RIGHT.
COME ALONG OVER HERE"

Lady McDonald's voice. Hello.
Is that you. jimmy"
why, hello, Clarie"'
The voice was tinged with laughter.
"Oh, you miserable traitor, You
didn't see me. but j saw you."'
"You saw me-where?'
"Going into the baccarat room.
Who was she. Jimmy? It's all over
Cannes"
How so? What about?"
"How they mistook you for prc.
The Cliftons were right behind YOU
and they heard the whole thing She
, was sweet. though. l don't blanc
you. Jimmy. 1t was just like you"
WHAT"
The voice had grown tender. "Of
course. Nobody else would do beau,i.
full, wild things like that. 1t must
have given her the thrill Of lifetime
Did you think I'd be peevish? I was
hoping you'd bring them back. so
could be in it, too. I'd have loved 1t.
| Why didn't you bring them back.
Jimmy? Afraid I'd hish.hat them
Why, don't you know vet what sort
Of person I am? I'm the same sort
| of person inside that she was outside.
| Id have adored doing a party for
them"
"Well-there's more to it than that.
| I'll explain, when l see YOU
"oh.-you didn't gamble, did you.
jimmy"
mot SOU"
"You know that's the one thing I
hate?"
"Yes, ma'am."
A pause. The voice was suhdued.
II did miss you. though. Lots"
"I-Im just beginning to miss you"
"Well-just what does that mean,
jimmy"
"well, how soon do you want to
know"
well, it's only just past 1 o'clock.
| Jimmy-and some of us are having
nibble here-we're in my house-and
I've got a garden and hear tell
there's a moon"
"Well. it'll take 20 minutes to get
taxi. dear
mo. Jimmy! I'll send the motor
for YOU"
Not prayer, old lady. I'll get
taxi"
Really? Would you rather"
| "Yes, dear. Much rather" For he
still had 500 francs in his pocket.
"Right-o. About 20 minutes?"
"Yes, darling"
But. Jimmy. Can't you tell me
| can't you give me a tiny hint-of
what you'll say when you get here?"
Trowbridge gulped. What I'll say,
dear. is-banco."
What was that, jimmy"
"Banco"'
"Oh"' she said. and the line buzzed
and sputtered. What do you mean,
jimmy"
III tell you-in 20 minutes" said
Trowbridge.
| He hung I'm the instrument. while
Raoul gnawed diligently at his sleeve
| buttons.
Yes, cat" said Trowbridge, "banco!
| Banco, banco, banco"'
| And gently tossed the kitten to the
| floor and went out again into the
fCooyright 1877 '"-S
Evening star., 1927-11-20

Mean you get paid by the manage.
ment? All right. Come along over
here" Then. with the air Of one who
fulfills an intricate social rite, he
said to his daughter: "Well, Posy,
here he is. Go on and dance" He
resumed his seat and set his lips in
straight line. And I'll stay here and
watch you"
The implication was so pointed that
Trowbridge almost laughed outright.
Controlling himself, he said to her:
Would you care to finish this waltz?"
She made no answer, but she rose
instantly. He put his arm around her,
and they drifted out on the floor.
And that was precisely what it was
drifting. Drifting to music.
When the orchestra rested, he looked
down at her and said sincerely: II
don't know what your official name
is, but I know what your nickname
ought to be. 1t ought to be Feather"
She blushed family. You see,"
she said, II never danced with a
professional before, so I'm a little
nervous"
But that's nonsense. You dance
beautifully All, we get an en-
core"
Presently she said: Maybe it was
4 pdItly OIi dICouHL VI lily ldIHCIs IOu
see, he couldn't understand why 1t
wasn't enough for me just to look on.
! And, when I told him there are always
professionals in these places. he
wouldn't scarcely believe 1t. He didn't
| think it was proper, anyway. Why,
I almost had to cry before he'd go
over and speak to you"
| I'm glad he came," said Trow.
| bridge, and meant it.
| He took her to her father. who got
awkwardly to his feet. We'll" he
said, that looked all right, mister" )"
He glanced at Trowbridge's table.
Take a snifter with me. or some.
thing, before we start homer"
| Homer" repeated his daughter,
with some animation. "Why, I'm not
going home for ages, Daddy. That is
- and she turned to Trowbridge
-"unless you're booked up"
"Posy." said her father. "you told
ME" "
"oh, of course, did. But I've
changed my mind. I want to stay"
oh" groaned the man, resignedly.
"Well. We'll have a snifter, anyhow.
and null it over. Posy, you can have
an orangeade."
Trowbridge wavered. He realized
that, If they intended to stay another
hour, he might have put himself into
a rather equivocal situation. For, as
soon as his hostess appeared. he would
. be obliged to join her party. and his
reception would betray the fact-even
to Posy's father-that he was no pro-
Evening star., 1927-11-20

| 60 hungry. he would refuse. For, in
two more minutes, he might have told
osy-Dorothy--that he loved her,
| and i'm two more minutes 1t might
| have been true He had been within
two minutes OF loving her-for herselt .
/ for $50 week and for the salvation or
his soul. But could she ever have
saved his soul-she who was deaf TO
| the cry of his heart and cried only
"Banco" to the hearing of the crou-
! piers? He himself knew all about that
, emotion. 1t was bad enough in a man,
| but in woman it was terrible. And
she had seemed so innocent, so inef-
fably dear. But the voice of the crou-
pier had drowned his own.
| And her father, who had been so
sentimentally kind until he, too, was
admitted to the Sale de Baccarat,
whereupon he had promptly lost all
remembrance of Lew Trowbridge and
Lew Trowbridge's son and thought
only of the psychological moment to
say "Banco." And with his pockets
filled with thousand-franc notes he
had told Trowbridge to write him, care
of Cooks, Rome.
Finally, Lady Mcdonald. Trow-
bridge awoke to a devastating reality.
The quality that he loved in Lady Nc
|
tried to love in Posy Moulton. 1t
wasn't money he would swear that it
wasn't money: it was an elusive some
thing that had drawn him to Posy, be-
cause, since she was Posy, he couldn
imagine her as rich. But because Lady
Mcdonald was rich ne had discounted
his own sentiments, since he hlmself
was poor. He knew now that he
loved Claire Mcdonald and that he had
loved her for months. 1t wasn't her
money. 1t was not her money! Ii
was that elusive somethinS-he
couldn't express it, but that was why
he loved her. Himself, he was a bank
rupt, except for what he could of1er IN
affection. What he loved in Claire was
exactly the quality of little-sirlness ne
had found in Posy. That Is, until they
had begun gambling.
Claire was q little girl. too. She was
spiritually Is. And she was beautiful
and she loved him. And tonight he
had affronted her. He hadn't even put
in an appearance at her party. Well,
! that was that.
TROWBRIDGE stumbled up the
l. stairs of his apartment house.
He opened the door and Raoul de Ron.
rome tinkled briskly to meet him.
Trowbridge gathered up the morsel of
gray fur.
"Raoul," he said. I'VE are certainly
on the rocks. old boy. We are
! absolutely on the rocks"
"Pr-r-ow?" inquired Raoul. and
chewed his masters collar.
Cat" said Trowbridge, you're a
lucky little beast. No dreams. no
illusions. no sorrows. 1 envy YOU,
| The telephone rang. With Raoul
on his shoulder. he answered it.
"Oui, Jecoute."
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ito-for the pleasure of being up here
in the wilderness, so far away from
everything and everybody. 1 some
times feel up here as If one were cut
off from the whole World-Wllllam.
will you turn on the radio!
"Yes, ma am" said the footman.
"I think it's the municipal elections
and, of course, my husband IS ire
mendously interested. His company
has been trying to get better city
government for so long; they need
pure government because OF their
franchises, and it has been costing
them a tremendous lot of money TO
get it, What do you say, Wllllam,
not working? Then will you please
ask Jones to tell the electrician TO
look at it?"
NV hostess smoked her cigarette
in silence for minute or two. while
her attentive eye followed the maids
as they moved about the room, pick.
ing up coffee cups and ash-trays ana
bringing cigarettes. GWendoiine,
she said. "I think you had better tell
James to give us more furnace neat
and see that there are fires In the
upper bedrooms tonight. It's turn
ing a little chilly"
"I always like" she continued,
turning to me again, ito see to
everything myself. 1t takes trouble.
but it's the only way. But, beg
your pardon. you were asking me
Something. Fishing? Oh. yes. there
is the most glorious fishing up here.
I must tell Gwendoline to tell Mrs.
Edwards to see that they give you
fish at breakfast. It's just an ideal
fishing country, my husband says.
We send William out every morning.
and sometimes William and Ransome
both. often, so my husband tells
me, when the weather is really clear
he has William up and out by four
Evening star., 1927-11-20
Strangest of Pets.

IN Rockport. Mass. dwells a man
named Hale who has made pets
of eels for more than a quarter of a
century. In little stream that flows
behind his vegetable garden live half
a dozen eels, his very particular pets.
He knows them by name and can
tell you the age, size, sex and tenn
perament of each. "Blackpool," who
is 81 inches in length, is the veteran
of them all. Mr.. Hale made her ac-
quaintance many years ago. Through
his long experience with the eels, Mr..
Hale has become familiar with the
relation of size to age. and is prob
ably not far wrong when he esti-
mates that Blackpool was Is years
old when he first saw her.
In the brook. beneath a clump Of
bushes. Mr.. Hale has dug a small
pool as playground for his pets.
There he feeds them regularly.
STOPPING over the pool. he places his
hand i'm the water and makes
clucking noise with his fingers. On
hearing this sound the eels come
swimming up, often from more than
two hundred yards distance. You
hear a splash as an eel founders
over the little rapids just above the
pool. and then i'm a moment it is
wrigg'ing round in Mr.. Hale's hand
and eating bit of fish from his fin
gers. One by oIs tie others appear.
Mr.. Hale greets each by name the
minute he sees it. The eels seem
to have absolutely no fear and per-
NIT their master to pick thsm up and
handle them freely.
This gentleman began training eels
in 1885, when he first began befriend-
ing Blackpool. The process of train
ing them was a very slow one. At
first he attached a long string to 9
board over the pool. On the end OF
the string he fixed piece of fish.
The food floated downstream as far
as the string permitted, to a place
where Rlackpoo1 could take it with
out having to venture too near. BY
shortening the string from day to
day, Mr.. Hale finally succeeded i'm
inveigling the creature into coming
up into the pool for its food. From
that point 1t was merely matter
Of time before Blackpool succumbed
to the temptation of eating out OF
Mr.. Hale's hand.