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hum of sky craft. Through these
ports today pass travellers from the
western world, and professions of con-
suls, agents, buyers, statesmen, ambas-
sailors of commerce Of every kind
hunters all, seeming the romance and
adventure in foreign trade, in anything
from anchovies to antiques.
Dress designers, looking to Paris for
the first and last word on fashions,
send scouts" to the golden beaches
of Deauville and its less aristocratic
vis-a-vis, Trouville. Here, where the
beau monde disports itself In season
beneath gaily striped tents, at the ca
sinos, along the promenades, and at
the races, the gods and goddesses of
style display their latest creations on
beautiful women.
Back from white chalk cliffs and
sandy beaches stretches green and
pleasant land of winding streams, fer
tile grain fields and pastures, hedge
rows, orchards, well-kept farms, and
villages of matched cottages. There
are hills and dales and glens. forests
and waterfalls, and the typically Nor
man long, straight roads.
Famous for Cattle.
| And cows! Innumerable herds spot
the lush meadows everywhere, but es-
pecially in the Contentin, the PENN
sula which points toward England. 1t
has given its name to Norman breed
of cattle famous for beef, but more
so for milk production. Paris drinks
Normandy's milk and cream, and both
London and Paris eat its fresh but
ter and cheese-Camembert, Neuf-
chatel Point L'Eveque-with histories
as distinguished as the duchy's own.
In one field men in blue smocks are
loading hay into carts drawn by pom
derous horses. They're percheronsl !"
exclaims the horse lover from the Mid
die West. "My Indiana neighbor used
to import carloads of them. Don't
they remind you Of Rosa Bonheur's
Horse Fair? AS a matter of fact,
most of her models Cor that picture
were percherons."
Not all percheronS come from Nor
mandy, but breeders flock to the horse
fairs held every year at Caen, Bernay,
and elsewhere; and Normandy sup
plies the French cavalry with many of
its mounts.
Another Normandy product is its
patois; ones school book French will
not serve here. In the daily common
speech one authority has counted some
5000 words which are foreign to
French.
On an early visit to England, the
future Conqueror found Normans ev-
erywhere. There were Norman prel-
ates in the bishoprics, Norman lords
and soldiers in the fortresses, Norman
| captains and sailors In the seaports."
The Conquest itself affected every
/ phase of England's national activities,
especially its political and social In
situations. One writer has called at
te,ition TO the fact that for more than
500 years the British parliament has
used Norman. French wli--n iDrloring
the king to approve or reject its laws.
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from distance l observed you, | sus-
pected your identity, suspected that
for some reason you had arrived day
earlier than that named in your LET
ter. So started across to interview
you-and then | saw Dingle Bell, as
call him, and instantly | was jealous.
So tried to kill Dingle Bell-accord-
ing to you-although what l really
tried to do was to puncture his tire
| thought if l could succeed in fright
ening him away before he had an op-
portunity to tell you too much-the
things l wanted to tell you myself
would be proving myself a very
smart young man. Well, l succeeded
didn't II"
Roberta's face went scarlet. "Pm
so terribly ashamed = so = embar-
rassed''
"Nonsense. It was a grand joke
and l assure you grand jokes are few
and far between in this part of the
world. That rascal Dingle had been
talking to you and telling you things
that weren't so, and saw at once that
you were perfectly willing to believe
the worst of Jim Higgins, while hold
ing Jaime Higuenes in measure of
respect"
I'll can't believe you're a bad
man." Roberta faltered.
"rm not. I'm lovely young Teller,
and your cussed uncle did give me a
fat tire and make south-paw out of
me for while. And | did bust him,
good and plenty, and have no regret
for my action. Pm forgiven, am
not?"
Roberta eyed her host coolly. "Pll
think it over. I'm sorry you deceived
me-even by such innocen. and un-
doubtedly amusing deceit. Your let
tiers were so delightfully."- neighborly if
seemed quite all right to permit my
self to be under obligation to you.
But If | had known that jaime Hig-
uenes and not Jim Higgins had killed
nv uncle | should not now find myself
in the position of scolding my host,
of regretting my acceptance of his
D.
"Say on. Miss Antrim. l would be
the last man on earth to use his hos
pitality as gag to free speech"
'My Uncle Bill will think It very,
very strange of me to accept the hos
pitality of my Uncle Toll's-ah-re-
mover. How shall ! explain it to
him?"
Don't" Don Jaime suggested meek
". TN do 1t. Give me Uncle Bills
address and I'll send him a wire to-
night. That will give him an oppor-
tunity to register his kick tomorrow.
If II seems to you then that you ought
to leave Vale Verde my car will be
at your disposal"
He called Mrs Candy and when she
entered Bobbie was holding to her
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-05-05
Tiger Tortoise, Pet on
Vessels Long Voyages

Perseus is an African tiger tortoise
measuring seven by ten inches on his
under-side.
After voyaging for 10000 miles dur
ing three years as pet on the British
steamer Tongariro he was presented
to the Auckland zoo, New Zealand.
When the ship was at Port Said
the third engineer bought Perseus
from an Arab for rs cents. Perseus
became a favorite on board and was
allowed to roam all over the ship. He
was bought and sold several times
and when the ship reached Auckland
he was owned by the fifth engineer
who decided that tortoise was too
much trouble to look after.
Perseus lived mostly on fruit, and
had special liking for bananas and
tomatoes. Now Perseus. after voyag
Ing three times round the world. has
a permanent home.-Montreal Herald
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ers. Dozens of hay wagons were load
ing and stacking the new-cut alfalfa
hay; perhaps a hundred men were
raking and piling it. The fragrance of
the harvest came pleasantly to the
girls senses and it occurred to her
that this valley had once been dry
and barren until metamOrphosed into
a vast garden by men of vision, cour-
age and faith. To her it seemed
big, worthwhile thing to have done
something Homeric. There was drama
in it-poetry, too. She knew no little
man had done this, and that none but
big man could carry on with it. And
her Impotence to meet Don Jaime
Miguel Higuenes increased.
They swept up through the Indian
pueblo and were barked at and pur-
sued by incalculable numbers of dogs
of assorted breeds. eff Glenn Hackett
were the overload here he would BAN
ish those curs," Roberta thought, land
Justify his act on the ground of eff
cheney and sanitation. But these
peones must have their dogs and
doubtless Don Jaime realizes that. Let
them have dOgs-millions of them.
What affair is 1t of his? l dare say
he has dogs of his own"
Assorted brown children. in varying
degrees of nudity, stared and shouted
at them; fat brown women, seated On
door-steps or hanging over fences in
homely gossip, bowed or curtsied |;
then they were through the pueblo and
! rushing up gentle slope, through an
avenue of oleanders, past great white
barns and on to the ancestral home
of Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes. They
halted under red-tiled porte-cochere.
and Mrs. Candy came out to welcome
| them.
Don Jaime begged me to present his
excuses for his failure to meet you.
Miss Antrim" she explained. "He has
been working cattle with his men the
| past two days-they're shipping from
| Vale Verde station-and Don Jaime
has only just gotten home and is busy
making himself pretty. And this
young lady with you is"
"My maid. Mignon, Mrs. Candy"
| "You are fortunate to have brough:
her with you. Don Jaime has Next
| can or Indian maids don't know
which-to care for the house. but until
came he had nobody to train them
and everything has been at skies and
sevens. I've been here about six
weeks and am gradually getting order
out of chaos. Do you speak Spanish,
Miss Antrim"
unfortunately. no."
| THE servants understand nothing
else. am studying the language and
am beginning To make myself under
stood. You have modern bath with
hot and cold water Dinner Is at six"
Docs Don Jaime dress for dinnerf'
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Dark Lands Still
Wait on Explorer

Exploration is still thought of as a
phase of adventure rather than OF
science. Yet it must rank in impOr-
lance with the work that the phys
icists and chemists are doing in tear
ing bits of matter apart in order to
discover of what the earth and the
stars are made. 1t is science at it's
empirical best. We live on planet,
small as celestial bodies go. but huge
to us-so huge that only few CEN
turtles ago were we sure of it's globu-
lar shape. Like ants we are still
busily crawling over it, pOking into
strange hooks and crannies that turn
out to be fjords, wriggling through
jungles and swamps, skirting deserts
and Businesses that we fear to enter.
The passing of Prince Luigi
Amadeo of Savoy, better known as
the duke of the Abruzzi, reminds US
how much crawling remains still to
be done. In his lifetime he held two
records-one for "farthest North"
that Peary was destined to beat and
the other for having climbed to the
unprecedented height of 22,65O feet
in an unsuccessful attempt to scale
Mount Godwin-Austen or K-2 in the
Kashmir Himalayas. Scientifically
more important was his conquest Of
the Ruwenzori range-Ptolemy's leg
endary Mountains of the Moon,
where the Nile was supposed to have
its source. He must be regarded not
only as the lineal descendant of kings
but as the spiritual descendant of
that long line of bold, curious and
restless men who pushed on into the
unknown and thus stilled some name
less, inner, racial urge to carry on
the antlike exploration of the ter
restial surface.
Was he the last of the great roam
ers, half athlete and half scientist?
a writer in the New York Times
muses.. Although the airplane and
the Zeppelin have added more to our
topographic knowledge in a week
than we could hope to gather in a
century of tedious crawling, we cam
not yet eXpunge the words terra in
cognita from the geographical lexi-
con. Half the Arctic and the Ant
arctic are still unmapped. In Alas
ka are mountain-blocks almost as
mythical as was the Ruwenzori range
until the duke of the Abruzzi climbed
it-a region of incredible tales spun
h., Tn
of the Sahara lures, with its rumored
GASES of antiquity and the mountains
of it's Berber songs. In northern
Arabia thirsty wastes and binding
sandstorms have proved perfect de-
lenses against hardened tribesmen,
who have but skirted them. The
Burmese hill jungles are known only
to the tribes who wander through
them. And what shall be said of the
Amazon valley, still hidden in steam
ing jungles and deadly miasmas?
Central Borneo and New Guinea are
mere names. The Congo is but half
explored. In Australia we have the
anomaly of a continent of which the
interior is as dark mystery as was
the region west of the Appalachians
in Jefferson's time. Northern Bechu-
ana and the lands about Lake Ngani
in Africa await another Abruzzi, for
all the trudging of Doctor Schwarz.
Despite airways and steamship
lines, highroads and railways, we
cannot yet pretend to know our own
earth completely. Green, ochrous and
red blanks on the maps mark dark
lands and Kingdoms of wonder.
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platform or were you expecting some
body to call for you? Is it possible
that in moment of eXuberance !
frightened Dingle Bell away and thus
deprived you of your transportation
mo. I'll excuse you of leaving us
stranded. Mr. Dingle would have de-
parted in little while, but not so
precipitately. do not mind telling
YOU that we are waiting for Don
Jaime Miguel Higuenes to send a car
over for us. Do you know Don
Jaime?"
1--WE known him all my life"
"What sort of man is he?"
"We-ell, average, I'd call him. Just
a fair sample of greaser. Folks in
this country don't seem to mind hav-
ing him around. Are you certain Don
Jaime knew you were due here to-
day."
"Why, l wrote him week ago."
swell, the hair must have slipped
somewhere or he'd have had a car
here to meet you-yes. and light mo-
tor truck for your baggage. One thing
Higuenes prides himself on is his
punctuality and hospitality. I'm very
much afraid, Mees-I mean Nissan
trim, that unless get word to Don
Jaime that you're here, the station
master will have to take you in. And
j know he isn't equipped for COM
pany."
Roberta's troubled gaze met the
young mans with just hint of toler-
ance now. 81 suppose you have your
humane moments, Mr.. Higgins. Re-
member. however, | am certainly go
ing to prosecute you for the attempted
murder of Mr.. Dingle. so don't tangle
yourself up in rash promises to rem
der first aid. You may send word to
Senior Higuenes If you wish. but all II
will avail you is my thanks"
.'You may even omit the thanks" he
replied brightly. Il am delighted to
have an opportunity to withdraw from
your peppery presence, so with your
permission, senorita, | shall ride swift
~ to the humble abode of this fellow
Higuenes and tell him to beat it over
here like the devil with his car"
Again his hat swept the platform
before he climbed down and limped
TO his horse, spoke few words TO the
boy who was waiting there for him
and set off down the road at smart
gallop.
There goes the handsomest, most
cultured, most interesting ruffian any
woman will ever meet" Roberta de
clared. 81 do hope his lameness will
not be permanent"
"Hes marvellous, gorgeous" breathed
MigncS.. 81 wonder why he doesn'i
~ th the movies"
mir. Higgins ought to get along
beautifully in that profession" Ro
berta sighed. He certainly has ad
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CHAPTER VI-Continued

How dare you presume TO address
me?" Roberta cut in Jelly. II am not
aware that ! have the dubious honor
of your acquaintance, sir, although l
believe you are my uncle's slayer, Jim
Higgins
He stared at her without rancor.
nor did the pleasant smile that had
crinkled his undeniably good-looking
cOuntenance fade the slightest. RO-
berta made swift appraisal of him.
He was about six feet tall strongly
built, 1.-the and graceful. His COM
plexiOn was reddish brown, most
agreeable colOr-scheme when taken in
conjunction with crinkly jet-black hair
and large, black, snappy eyes. "Black
lrfsh." Roberta reflected, noting his
thick, almost snubby nose, the broad
upper lip and the square jowls. THE
very worst kind of Irishl"
Yes, | am Jim Higgins" Don Jaime
admitted, Without particle of shame
or embarrassment, and from the in
Fiction of his voice, from a certain
faint clipped manner of slurring his
cOnsOnants, Roberta knew that Span
ish was this mans tongue. ''It was
my misfortune to be the instrument
of an inscrutable fate that waited
your delectable uncle to his mansion
in the SKIES"
Has anybody ever told you what
a cool scoundrel you are, Mr.. Hig-
gins? Do you enjoy killing men?"
'Oh, no! Not even in self-defense.'
Roberta had a feeling that she was
not going to make much progress in
the face of the mans debonair indif-
ference.
What do you mean by trying to
shoot my foreman"
why, it's the open season on sheep
herders. We're allowed one a day,
and old Dingle Bell is the first I've
flushed in week"
He'll be the last you'll flush in
many years if there is such thing
as law and justice in Texas"
''Oh, we're very law-abiding, in
deed! Very few of us on this side
of the Rio Grande kill for pleasure
or profit. You're going to have me ar
rested, | presume"
81 certainly am"
"Well, when the warrant is issued
the sheriff will telephone me about it
and tell me to come in and talk 1t
over. By the way, what are you do
ing around here, anyway? Is it your
intention to camp all night on this
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Scrappy Bees

Handling bees In numbers chiefly
is a matter of nerve, and keeping
them well fed. But they're short-tem-
pered insects. A shower that washes
nectar from the flowers. or a heat
wave that bothers them as much as II
does the keeper. puts them on edge
and they're ready for a scrap.
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BEGINNING THE STORY, FOR NEW READERS


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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-05-05
Old Indictment

We are very apt in blaming the
faults of others, but very slow in
making use of them to correct our
own.-La Rochefoucauld.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-05-05

DR.. Pierce's Pellets are best for liver,
bowels and stomach. One little Pellet for
a laxative three for a cathartic.-Adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-05-05
How to train BABYS
BOW ELS

Babies, bottle-fed or breast fed,
with any tendency to be constipated,
would thrive if they received daily
half a teaspoonful of this old family
doctors prescription for the bowels.
That is one sure way to train tiny
bowels to healthy regularity. To
avoid the fretfulness, vomiting,
crying, failure to gain, and other ills
of constipated babies.
DR.. Caldwelps Syrup Pepsin is
good for any baby. For this, you hare
the pord of a famous doctor. Forty
seven years of practice taught him
just what babies need to keep their
little bowels active, regular; keep
little bodies plump and healthy. For
DR.. Caldwell specialized in the treat
ment of women and little ones. He
attended over $500 births without
loss of one mother or baby.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-05-05
Da. w. B. CALDwELI's
SYRUP PEPSEN
A doctors Family Laxative
Cuficura
Works Wonders in the
Care of Your Hair

Massage the scalp with the
Ointment to remove the dam
druff. Then shampoo with the
Soap to cleanse the hair andr re-
store its natural gloss and vigor.
Soap25c. Ointment Is and SOC. ProprietorH
Potter Drug & Chemical Corp
Maiden, Mass.
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Prepared by National Geographic Society
washington. D. C.-WNU Service.
Evening star., 1933-04-15
Burial Fund for Banquet.

Biessard, France, used a burial fund
to provide banquet recently. Two men
were buried in rock fall in a quarry.
Believing them killed, fellow villagers
collected money for the funeral. Four
days later rescue workers reached the
victims Both were still alive, having
been saved by overhanging ledges Of
rock. The entire village attended the
banquet.
Evening star., 1933-04-15
Princess Has Real Lessons.

Princess Elizabeth is having regular
school lessons now, and spends several
hours every day with her governess in
the nursery school room in the London
home of her parents, the Duke and
Duchess of York Her curriculum in
cludes simple arithmetic, geography
English and French She reads and
writes with ease. Princess Elizabeth
will be Z IN April.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-13
Chicago
Delegates,
Attention.!

ALL DELEGATIONS, especially
a those which will have MEM
bers of the United Farmer League
in them, should be well supplied
with copies of the Producers News
ard literature for the meetings
which will be held on the way to
Chicago. At these meetings the
farmers will want reading matter
left behind after the trucks go on.
Order now a bundle of the Pre-
ducers News. Make sure you or
der enough for all your meetings.
In sending your order, let US
krOw the time you will be leaving.
And as soon as you know the
schedule of meetings, send that
too.
The new, abridged program of
the United Farmers League has
just been printed. 1t contains q
summary of principles, demands,
bylaws, and a section on how to
organize local of the U. F. L.
1t sells for two cents a copy. The
price in quantity orders is 81 q
hundred.
Other pamphlets available are
"Why Joined the United Farmel
League" and Coming to the
Meeting?" Both sell for a penny
each. They may be had for 81
cents hundred.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-13
Canadian Farm Delegation TO
Attend Chicago Conference

WASHINGTON, d. CA dele
cation of Canadian farmers will
attend the Farmers Second Ma
tional Conference to be held at
Chicago, November 1918, reports
the rational secretary of the
Farmers Unity League of Canada,
w. E. Virgins.
with great enthusiasm we have
received your Call to the farmers
of the United States to rally to
national conference in Chicago"
writes Virgins to the Farmers
National Committee for Action
which is in charge of the Confer
ence.
"Your invitation to send fra
ternal delegates from the poverty
stricken farmers of Canada has
also been received" continues Wig
gins, "and we assure you that we
will make all endeavors to send
the largest possible delegation tc
shake hands with our brothers
across the border, exemplifying tn,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-13
GRAVE DANGER OF
ATTACK ON SOVIET
UNION BY JAPAN
Secret Japanese Documents
Reveal Plan for Selling
Chinese Eastern Rlwy.

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 11.-Rela-
tions between the Soviet Union
ard japan are approaching an
open break. The Japnese govern
ment is furious becuse secret Japa-
nese documents have been pub
lished in Moscow, exposing Japan's
plans for Selling the Chirese East
ern Railway.
The Chinese Eastern Railway
runs through MIanchuria and pro-
vides a direct connection with
Vladivostock, Soviet seaport on the
Pacific. 1t is half owned by the
Soviet Union, and half by Man
choukou (Manchurial Japan's pup
pet state.
Scores of Soviet employees OF
the Chinese Eastern Railway hav'
been arrested and imprisoned. Tn,
official Japanese Documents pub
lished in Moscow show that thes
arrests are part of well-laid plal
to seize complete control of tn
nlilroad.
The danger of Japan declaring
war upon the Soviet Union j
again becoming an immediate pos
sibility. The Soviet Union has thi
long kept out of war only by he
consistent policy of striving fo
peace.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-13
500 Held Captive Under
Guns by Vigilantes

LODI, Calf, Oct. AT least
five hundred of 1000 grape pick
ers on strike here were being held
Friday under the guns of vigilan-
teS of the Grape Pickers Associa-
ton, in a city park, after an Asso-
citation thug was shot and killed in
an attack upon pickets.
The vigiIlrtes are expected to
attempt to renew their effort,
fOiled few days ago, of loading
he strikers into freight cars and
depOrting them from the area.
Miit1nt resistance by the strikers
prevented their previous attempt.
Louise Todd, Communist candi-
date for supervisor in San Fran
cisco, was arrested ard charged
with k'ilure to dispense at COM
mand, in Lodi. A worker who at
tempted to protect her from the
police attack was also arrested.
Bal was set 1T $500 and $1,000
respectively for each.
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great unity which should exist be-
tween you and u.s."
The Farmers Unity League
which has been carrying on a mill
tant struggle in the interests of
the ruined Canadian farmers was
successful last year in stopping
several foreclosures and evictions
in the province of Saskatchewan.
The League has many members
cmong the wheat farmers along
the u. S. border whose conditions
are similar to the conditions of the
farmers in the Dakotas and Mime
sofa.
"There is no doubt in our minds
that nanv of the problems of the
formers of Canada are very closely
connected with those of your coun-
trv" writes Virgins, "and there
fore the endeavor to bring the
militant farmers of the United
States and Canada together in the
STRUGGLES is = thing for which we
should strive"