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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27

in more logical and serviceable man
ner than Dilworth's speller, the work
of an Englishman previously used, and
instead of dry passages from the
Scriptures, he used interesting, if
homely, anecdotes which appealed i'm
mediately to the children who for the
next hundred years were to be i'm
pressed by the moral of these stories.
By 1915 the sales of the speller were
averaging $4,000 copies year. By
1923 they had risen to 100000 copies
annually, and by 1S4S they were up
to 100000 year. As late as 1880
it was still going strong, and it has
been estimated that more than 100,-
100000 copies have been sold since
1888. Webster's fame may rest mainly
upon his dictionary, but in sense
the dictionary owes its existence to
the speller, for during the remainder
of Webster'S life, and especially the
twenty years he spent in compiling
the dictionary, most of the support of
his family came from the profits Of
this little blue-backed 15-penny book.
In 1900 he gave up al his other work
to devote himself to his dictionary.
His original plan was to correct the
errors and supply the omissions in old
er dictionaries, especially Johnson's.
So he spent a number of years col
lecting words. Then realizing his own
lack of knowledge as to the origin of
words he changed his plan. For the
next ten years he devoted himself to a
comparative study of words, and when
he was sixty-six years old, having ex-
hausted all the resources of libraries
in this country, he went to France
and England to complete his work.
Finally his great task was done, and
in the autumn of 1928, it came from
the press. Not content to rest after
quarter-century of incessant labor
on one exacting task the sturdy old
Yankee set about revising some of his
earlier works. In 1910 he published a
revised edition of his dictionary and
he was in the midst of a second re-
vision in 1S43 when death came to
claim him.
So the next time you come across
a word whose meaning you do not I'M
derstand, before you ask somebody
what it means, think of the admoni-
ton of one chronicler of Webster's
career-"H there is one too lazy to
take the half-dozen steps necessary
to reach the dictionary, let him pic
ture the Connecticut scholar spend
ing twenty-five years pacing about be-
fore his huge semicircular table, laden
with dictionaries of all languages from
Arabic to Icelandic, so that he might
give his great work to the world"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27
HOLLAND FAVORS
BASEBALL GAME
Efforts Being Made to Popu-
larize American Sport.

Characterizing honkbal, or baseball,
as "de ideale zomersport'' (the ideal
sport of the summer), the Dutch ath-
letic clubs are making a determined
effort to popularize American baseball
wherever Dutch is spoken. The pitch
er of the Ajax team, which played a
practice game recently against the
American football eleven, is even 60
ing to Batavia, Dutch East India, soon
in the hope of introducing baseball
there.
"Honkbap was brought to Holland
some 10 years ago by an Amsterdam
teacher of sports, G. erase, who had
seen the game played in America, but
who then had not taken the trouble
to familiarize himself with it thor
oughly. Returned to Holland, he sud-
denly realized that Holland had no
summer game comparable to soccer
football for the fall and spring.
SO he and group of Dutch enthu-
siasts sat down to study baseball from
Spalding's rules. They got most of it
EISHL, cACepl THAT the plISuSE LuIS"
the ball underhanded.
One day an American man-of-war
anchored outside Amsterdam. The
Honkball Bond baseball federatiOn)
asked the bluejackets to play them. 1t
was then that they learned how ball
may be pitched. The marines also
willingly taught them other fine points.
After a few years interest Jagged,
and only eight years ago was baseball
taken up again. Two years ago the
United States cruiser Pittsburgh visit
ed Amsterdam, and a series of games
was arranged. That gave new i'm
petus to "hOnkball," so that by today
there are some 10 clubs in Amsterdam
with q mines, one in Harlem and one
in Hilversum playing baseball.
A Dutch audience reacts differently
to baseball from what an American
does. While in the United States the
spectators in the bleachers seem happy
when a ball is hit there, and men vie
with one another TO catch it, every
body in Holland within apparent reach
of the ball ducks as 1t approaches,
and there is great commOtion.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27
Former Champion Jockey
Loses 100 Races in Row

The champion jockey of England for
many years, Steve Donoghue, has
struck a poor track this season On
April 10 at Birmingham he won on
Au Revoir, and when he was beaten
with Tactics at York recently the
world-famous rider chalked up his
one hundredth consecutive loser.
During the years 191423 Donoghue
headed the list of winning jockeys in
England, and the slogan, "Come on,
Steve" was heard on every course.
1t Is no longer heard. The originator
of that catch phrase is said to have
been J. c.. Galstaun, an Indo-Arme-
MAN, who used to visit England each
summer and back, selling platers
heavily.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27
Wisconsin u. to Build
$3.50 600 Field House

Construction of a S650,000 field
house at the University of Wisconsin
has been assured by Governor Zim-
merman's approval of lease for the
site.
The University of Wisconsin Build
ing corporation, private group with
in the university, will borrow $4,000
from the state teachers retirement
fund to pay for building material and
labor.
When the building is completed it
will be leased back to the board of
regents for an approximate rental Of
$4,000, the lease running for fifty
years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27
Bubble in a Sapphire

There is exhibited in the British mu-
scum a sapphire weighing nine carats
and containing bubble that appears
and disappears with changes Of tenn
perature 1t is believed that cavity in
the gum incloses a quantity of car
bonic acid gas under great pressure.
When the temperature is such as to
correspond with the "critical point"
for the gas, under the particular pres
sure to which 1t is subjected In its
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27
lp0r,N0tes'

Harvard was the first American col
lege to introduce modern football.
Bicycle racing and cross-country
runs are still the most popular sports
in Belgium.
Billy Bird, London bus conductor,
has fought It's boxing contests and
lost only %.
Benny Touchstone, heavyweight, has
knocked out eight opponents in the
second round.
The first steel and concrete grand
stand in Japan has been built at Wa
soda university in Tokyo.
Dan Leary, veteran pedestrian, near
ing the ninetieth milestone Of life,
makes it habit to walk at least 10
miles day.
Donald Carrick, golfing champion of
Canada, has dropped golf to train for
the tryouts for the Canadian Olympic
boxing team.
Queens university has advanced a
plan to have all members of the Ca
madam Intercollegiate Athletic union
pool their football receipts.
william L. Little Billy Johnston,
who held the national tennis cham
pionship in 1915 and again in 1919,
has definitely retired from active COM
petition on the courts.
When Bob Fitzsimmons fought Pc
ter Maher about 400 miles from Ell
Paso in 1896, there were exactly 1872
paid admissions at $40 apiece. Forty
nine newspaper reporters were admit
ted free.
MILFORD 81. Ketz, holder Of the West
ern conference record for the hammer
throw, will captain the Michigan track
team next year.
On the famous golf courses Of Scot
land caddies may be seen at the age
of eighty. They appear to know their
courses as a mariner knows his charts.
-
Intelligence tests will be used by
Coach AL Sharpe of Washington uni
versity as an aid in selecting his foot
ball material, especially quarterbacks,
for his team next fall.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27
Valuable NeftIe

Nettles are usually associated with
unpleasant sensations, but a species
of the plant is widely cultivated In
China for the manufacture Of soft
silk-like fabric for textile purposes.
In strength, beauty and texture 1t is
said to compare favorably with the
finest grades of silk and is less cost
~. The grass cloth" of China has
been used for more than 1000 years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27
Louis Meyer Unknown in
His Own Home District

When Louis Meyer of South Gate
a Los Angeles suburb, won the indians
apolis Motor Speedway race, he was
almost totally unknown in his home
district.
Few people in Los Angeles had ever
heard of the youth before newspapers
announced his victory.
So slight had been the expectation
that he would win the classic that
newspapers searched their libraries in
vain for pictures of the winner.
1t was recalled that he had entered
as a driver in one Los Angeles race
and had failed to qualify.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27
Air Sickness Antidote

An apparatus has been installed at
Tempelhof field, near Berlin, Germany,
for passengers suffering from air sick
ness. Any passenger who fears that
he may become airsick may inhale the
antidote, which consists in the main of
oxygen and cinnamon. The mixture
has a quieting effect upon the nerves
Of the diaphragm.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27
Tough Proposition

Joe Dundee, welterweight champion
who ran out Of match with Ace
Hudkins in Los Angeles last year
when Ace was in the ring, is likely
to meet just as tough a proposition
this time in Sammy Baker. Baker is
fierce body puncher The fellows
who stay to decision with Sammy
sometimes drop out of sight after
ward. Dundee wouldn't be missed
much. He was rough fighter before
he became champion, and he's been a
cautious business man ever since.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27
Almost Good as Real BuIl

Youths in Portugal who are normal
and imbued with the spirit of their
ancestors all aspire to become tor
eadors and there it is customary sight
to see them practicing with a mechan-
ical bull that is pushed around by
fiunlsies. says Warren II. Millerjn AL
Around the Mediterranean "As he
is very lively and as the utmost grace
and dexterity are required of the can
didate for picadors. the practice will
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27

Pltcner Harvey Reese mas Deen pur'
chased by Raleigh from Richmond OF
the Virginia league.
Tiger Stone is making the rounds
of the league. Recently he signed
with Columbus as pitcher.
Charles Martz, Cincinnati, will cap
tain the Wooster college baseball team
next season. He is star infelder.
Art jain, Phillies outfielder, got his
start in baseball by answering an &C
for ball players in paper at AIverdo
Iowa.
Billy Mullen, third baseman, has beer
purchased by the Kansas City Ameri
can association club from the ST. Louis
Americans.
Pid Purdy, who is playing a nice
game for the Reds this year, belonged
to the White Sox once, but wasn't
thought much of.
Young Doc Leggett, whom the Cubs
farmed out to Reading, is still burning
up the International league. He's
leading the circuit.
Ty Cobb, member of the Philadel
phia Athletics, is forty-two years old
and has been playing major league
baseball for % years.
Jimmy Welsh, Giants outfelder
still carries with him a card of mem
bership in the st. Louis Knotholers
Gang. 1t is dated 1915.
Del Bissonette, the National leagues
rookie home run sensation, tried and
failed to break in with the big show
with Cleveland as a pitcher.
Outfelder Snead Jolley was the frsi
Pacific Coast league player to reach
the 100-hit mark this season. Major
league scouts are watching him.
Bonnie Oosterbaan, Michigan's ia
nous modern athlete, made "a hits in
40 times at bat for an average of .4Sf
during the last Conference baseball
season.
The new Oxford dictionary hal
414,S25 words. This includes all thu,
known words in the English language
except the ones used by baseball
writer's.
Cy Young, pitching immortal, hurlet
'em over the plate for % years, an6
during that period had three no-hit
no-run games to his credit, and one
perfect game.
Fred Francis, the Giants new an
nouncer at the Polo grounds, devel
oped a strong voice as kid shouting
in Mammoth cave, KY, just for the
fun of hearing the echoes.
Herle casey HAS Decu COHHeCleu Will
the Pacific Coast league since it begar
as a six-club organization in 1903. He
has seen service as player, scout
coach and umpire.
John McGraw has four former base
ball managers on his staff this sea
son-ROger Bresnahan, Bob O'Farreil
Larry Doyle and Bill Terry.
virginia" Reil, right-handed pitchei
with the Wilson club of the Virginis
league last year, has reported fol-
service with the Nashville club.
Del Bissonette, Brooklyn's smuggling
! first baseman. regarded as a possible
| successor to Babe Ruth in home rur
| hitting, is discovery of old LAIR,
| Sutton dean Of ivory hunters.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27
Indians Play Bagpipes

A native bagpipe band was recently
found in India by q travelling Scotch
man. The band played at mess dinner.
and when the visitor rendered "The
Road to the Isles" a Scotch favorite.
one of the natives repeated the tune.
reading it from the music.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27
Hearing in Adult Life

The startling statement has been
made by medical authorities that the
majority Of adults over thirty-five
years of age go through the rest Of
their lives with impaired hearing.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27

Interesting story. And here is the
best part of it. Young Melvin
Otis head is the same size now
that it was when he shuffled BASH
fully up to McGraw with his letter
of introduction from Williams, the
lumber man. He has developed nei-
Their temperament nor temperature.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27

named Robert Williams, dropped into
the Pelicans' park seeking mate
rial for a baseball team be main
tanned at one of his lumber camps.
He saw Melvin OFT working out
and liked his looks. He offered
Melvin place on his lumber-camp
team and Melvin, with nothing bet
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27


"Iook it up in the big book"
- or to Consult Mr.. Webster"
For that is what Americans have been
doing now for exactly hundred years
Hooking it up in the big book" or
consulting Mr.. Webster" For it was
just one hundred years ago this sum-
mer that a scene of unusual activity
was taking place I'm the print shop of
HeZekiah Howe In New Haven, Conn.,,
and Just one hundred years ago this
autumn there came forth the first
edition of Noah Webster'S American
Dictionary of the English Language"
Now, the issuing of dictionary is
not in itself a unique event, but the
issuing of Noah Webster's dictionary
away back there in 1923 was note
worthy event, and in some respects
the book itself was. unique. Hereto
fore the English-speaking world had
depanded upon DR.. Samuel Johnson's
for authoritative spelling and def
milton Of words But when the ed
ition of $500 copies of the new die
CdCH tohsoiotAh5 Va wv DNAhJ
quarto volumes of more than 1000
pages each, appeared, Doctor john
sons work was already obsolete. For
Webster's book listed, defined and IL
Illustrated with appropriate quotations
somewhere between 10000 and $4,000
words and included 1900 words and
nearly 10000 definitions which had
never before appeared in any diction-
airy of the English tongue. Most of
the definitions Webster had coined
anew, doing virtually all of both the
mental and manual labor involved I'M
assisted. He also did some revising
and simplifying, and it is to him that
we owe the fact that we write 1t
''honor" instead of honour" and straw
eler'' instead of traveller" But more
than that, his dictionary was almost
an encyclopedia in which he set a
standard for accuracy and complete
ness of definition which governs the
photographers art of this date. In
fact, nearly all of the later diction-
aries have been based upon Webster's
work and have preserved his identical
words in a large number of their def
nitions.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27
Daddy of All the Trees

The oldest tree in the world is be
lieyed to be In Ceyion; ii is now in
gs weniy-second century.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27

brilliant prison house, it liquefies and
becomes visible as a bubble.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27

Pineapple fiber is also employed in
the manufacture of handkerchiefs
and other articles.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27
Mosquito Bites
HANFoRD'S
Balsan1 Of Myrrh
Money back for first bottle If not suited All deaIars
Poor Party

Dale-l hear Jack had a blowout
at his place Saturday night.
Lois-SOmething like that; there
was a bunch of fiat tires there.-De-
troit News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27
Boy Stars for New York Giants

Mis- backwoods who, the sixteen
with the New York Giants letter of introduction
- the of nineteen standing
world writes W. Forman the Chicago Evening
happened world
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27
A Contribution

"Help the babies, sir?"
with pleasure. was baby my
self once"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27
Motor ProUerb

chicken kept in run doesn't gel
run over.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27

Custom IS the best interpreter of
the lawS-COke.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27

ter in sight, accepted with thanks.
Now the scene shifts to New
York, where the hard-boiled Mr..
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27

not be without interest" says Mr.
Miller.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27

there. Recently
Andy Cohen was
out with the flu, and
OFT was shifted to sec
ond base. He starred
there, too. 1t is an
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

f, WHILE you're reading,
you come across a word, the
meaning of which you do
not know, what do you do?
The chances are that you
ask somebody to tell you
what 1t means, and the
chances are, also, that that
somebody will tell you to
'.look it up in the big book"
or to "cnnSnlt Mr.. WehSter.n
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27

wv Tie SCtuc SIlilLS W VIEW
where the hard-boiled Mr..
McGraw, who happens
10 be a close personal
y. friend of the wealthy
- Mr.. Robert Williams
of the Louisiana lum-
4 Der camps, is greeted one
lay by a bashful boy, who
presents letter of intro
duction to his nibs.
"This is Melvin OFT, who
some day will be as great a
catcher as Roger Bresnahan,
was" read the letter from
Mr.. Williams. "Sign him at
once, and some day you will
thank me over and over
again"
"Well," said McGraw,
Columbus took a chance.
So will l."
He watched the kid at
morning practice for three
days and then said to the
newspaper boys: There's
q coming star. He shows
more promise than any
rookie I've seen in years"
Ask any baseball bug
for the rest of the yarn.
From a catcher McGraw
converted Melvin into an
outfielder, and he made
good. One day Lindstrom
q and Reese were both
out with injuries, and
~ young Oft was sent to
third base. He starred
- there. Recently
Andy Cohen was
out with the flu, and
OFT was shifted to Sec
nn5 hasa No e,ta yrad
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27

ana 1t couldn't happen very ofCen
in big-league baseball, where a
letter of introduction Is about as
useful as wart on a girls nose.
The boys name is Melvin OFT.
He comes from the bayous of
Louisiana. His father is laborer.
Melvin was catcher on a
high-school team at Gretna, La,
wherever that is. After his gradu-
alton he applied to the New Or
leans club of the Southern league
for a tryout. He got it,
but was told by the
manager that, while e
there was some symp- ~ ~
toms of class apparent,
he was too young
for the pro game.
He was advised
to go home
and grow sssss..
awhile. a
was io' ~ %z y
willing ~
to go home. The
boys and girls of Is
the little town had
given him a great ~
sendoff when he ~ Z
left to seek his
fortune in the big
city and he would
not go back and
face them as fiat sw
failure. He hung -.
around New Or
leans for a time -
and asked the man.
ager of the Pelicans
for permission to ~
work out with the
team in the morn s""@aa
lngs. That privilege .sssszzsss1
was granted him.
One day a mil m.,,,;
ilonaire lumberman
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27
VDIAM1NDN
NPIEK-UFSN

Pitcher Harvey Reese has been pur,
chased by Raleigh from Richmond OF
the Virginia league.
Nogales international., 1928-03-23

from Spokane, Washington toi
Tampa. Florida and from Wash
irgton, D. c.. to San Diego. mi
many places I have made stops in
duration of from several days to
several weeks. Having been train
ed to habits of observation by the
nature of my life's work, which
has always been that of news
gathering, I have taken great
pleasure in noting, simply for my
own satisfaction, the many points
of excellence of which the resi-
dents of this city may most justi-
fiably take pride"
"Take, for instance, the matter
of climate" the visitor continued.
"As we all know perfectly well,
that is one theme never exhaust
ed. Nine times out of ten, when
two men meet, one of them will
start conversation with Fine day,
isn't it.. That is. conceding that
the day does happen to be fine.
Now. if you can show me a spot
in the u. S. A. where that OBJ
servation can be truthfully made
as many days in the .365 as it can
| in Nogales, want to point the
| nose Of my Ford in that direction
! without further delay. Personal
! ly, I have not found it. Just to
mention a few points I have visit
| ed within a comparatively short
time. Down on the east coast Of
Florida, at famous Daytona Beach.
when the chill winds came in from
| the Atlantic, with the March
| rains. I shiveringly hunted for a
fire where there was none. In
the beautiful city Of Spokane, ]
sweltered with heat, with tongue
hanging out like a lizard in the
| desert. In Denver, a blizzard
chilled my bones to the narrow,
and in Long Beach | was choked
by fog which would sure have
made one Of those famous LON
don fogs look to its laurels. In
indianapolis it was so cold in
| April that one had to hug radia-
tor and in Hollywood, on last
Christmas day the rain poured in
Nogales international., 1928-03-23

gained during two megtth's So
journ here.
"Actually, Mr.. Editors he said,
'sI doubt very much if one in
dividual in ten living in this little
city, even half way realizes the
advantages possessed by the COM
munity. During the past three
years I have Travelled in more
than thirty states, all the way
Nogales international., 1928-03-23

torrents, it was so dark that lights
had to be turned on at noon and
one took their life in their hands
in venturing out in q car. In
north Idaho | found wonderfully
Nogales international., 1928-03-23

out the chill from the atmosphere"
s'No sir" said the old newspa-
per man emphatically, ~ am free
to acknowledge, that no place l
Continued on page 81
Nogales international., 1928-03-23
IT'S 4 PRIVILEGE

CONTINUED from page II
years experience sat in the office
of the International one day re-
Gently and expressed himself con-
cerning the impressions he had
Nogales international., 1928-03-23

beautiful lakes and inspiring
mountains, but it was battle to
the death with the swarms Of
hungry mosquitoes, and at Fresno,
! California it rained, days and
Nogales international., 1928-03-23
NUgsALEss, AHlz., FHEI9Ay, MAKeH W, 1894

weeks without end, until the walls
of the houses We're saturated,
clothing and bedding was always
damp and clammy and no amount
of heat from a furnace could drive
Nogales international., 1928-03-23

Judge A. M. eSames of the. su.
perior court at Tombstone held
court here Monday. On the same
day Judge W. A. O'Connor of
Nogales held court at Tombstone.