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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-23
A Dressing Table Skirt With Corded shirrings

THIS dressing table has a
L curved front and hinged arms
on which to mount the skirt so
that it can be opened to permit
access to the drawer. To mount
the skirt it must first be sewed to
a band of covered buckram. Cut
the buckram in a strip 21a inches
wide. Cover it with straight
piece of material as shown here
at B.
Make the heading at the top of
the skirt just the depth of the
thickness of the table edge so that
it will cover the edge of the table
when the arms are closed. Use "a
inch cable cord for the shirring.
This is sewed to a safety pin and
run through tucks stitched in the
material as shown here at G.
The top of the ruff1e is also
shirred with cords. When the shir-
rings are all finished, sew the top
of the skirt to the covered buck
ram strip as shown at D and then
thumb tack it in place as at A.
Every Homemaker should have
a copy of Mrs. Spears new book,
SEWING. Forty-eight pages OF
step-by-step directions for making
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-23
HOUSEHOLD
QUESTIONS

Salt and Pepper Shaker.-A
large shaker containing six parts
salt to one part pepper and kept
on the stove will save steps when
seasoning cooking foods.
Drying Silk HoSe.-NeVer hang
silk hose over the radiator or next
to any hot surface.
Split Pea Soup.-Six quarts wa
ter, one and one-half pounds beef
shank, one pound pig knuckle, one
pound split peas, two onions,
sliced. Crack the bones and cover
with cold water. Add the peas and
bring slowly to a boil. Boil stead
lily for about four hours, removing
the scum as it rises. AS the soup
begins to thicken, cook slowly in
order not to scorch. Add the
onions about one hour before the
soup is done.
Sliding Dresser Drawers.-Rub-
bing a candle stub or wax along
the sliding edges of dresser
drawers will make them move in
and out much more easily, ever
when heavily loaded.
Watch Your Step.-Painting the
bottom step of the cellar stairs
white makes it more conspicuous
and often helps to prevent acci.
dents.
Baking Escalloped Mixtures
Time and fuel will be saved if
escalloped mixtures are baked in
shallow, wide dishes or pans.
Lining a Coat.-When lining
coat, put the coat on inside out.
Have the lining all ready stitched
up, and slip it over the coat. II
will fall into position naturally.
Pin it in place, and finish in the
usual way.
Homemade Flower Holder.-It
you cannot buy a fower-holding
frog (the stand with holes pierced
in it to steady flowers in a vase)
to fit an oblong vase, block OF
paraffin will serve the purpose
very well. Holes may be made
with a heated ice pick or some
other round instrument.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-23

The craft of the silversmith did
not flourish in Vermont until well
into the Nineteenth century. The rea-
son is not far to seek, writes Rich
mond Huntley in American Collec-
tor. Although Samuel Champlain,
in his voyage up the lake that bears
his name, explored part of its west
ern boundary as early as 1909, few
settlers had the temerity to locate
there until century and a half
later. First, it was an Indian battle.
ground. Then, raiding parties found
it convenient thoroughfare be-
tween Canada and southern New
England.
Nevertheless, attempts at settle
ment were made as early as 1852
and with the English conquest of
Canada the number of Adventures
attracted by the fertile soil of the
valleys lying between Lake Cham
plain and the Connecticut river
steadily increased. Conditions were
to remain more or less in a pioneer
state for another half century.
No sooner had the settlers bought
their lands than this region on either
side of the Green mountains, popu-
larly known as the New Hampshire
Grants became bone of contention,
first between the governments of
New Hampshire and New York and
then between the latter and the set
tiers themselves. The controversy,
though partly obscured by the Rev
dictionary war and the unsettled
conditions thereafter, continued for
more than twenty-six years and was
settled only when Vermont, a sep
arate entity, was admitted, in 1871,
Is state to the Union.
Consequently, the Eighteenth Cen
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-23
Vermont Was Haunt of Silversmiths iii
Bleak Days of the Nineteenth Century

fury Vermonter had little time and
less money for luxuries. His house
was either of logs or squared tim
bers His furnishings were of the
plainest.
To the indispensable trade of
blacksmith and shoemaker were
added others common to the time.
BY the turn of the century, or short
ly afterward, there were blast fur
naces, nail factories, paper mills,
glass houses, distilleries, tanneries,
fulling mills and the like
There were cabinetmakers and a
few struggling silversmiths. Of the
latter one is known to have been
working in Rutland about 1875.
There is record of another in Ben
nington even earlier.
Twenty years after Vermont be-
came state the population had in
creased from 10000 to nearly l60,-
600 and by 1910 had doubled. Mean
while silversmiths came and went.
Some stayed short time in town
and then moved on; others re-
manned and either combined their
trade with clockmaking or some
other calling. It was left
for two men, working in the latter
years of American silversmithing to
become the outstanding silver
craftsmen of Vermont both as re.
CARDS quantity and standard of work.
manship. These two men, Roswell
H. and Bradbury M. Bailey, one
working on ''the east side" of the
state at Woodstock and the other
in the Otter Creek valley at Rut-
land, dominated silversmithing in
their state and successfully resisted
factory competition until the third
quarter Of the Nineteenth century.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-23

slipcovers and dressing tables;
restoring and upholstering chairs,
couches; making curtains for ev-
cry type of room and purpose.
Making lampshades, rugs, otto
mans and other useful articles for
the home. Readers wishing a copy
should send name and address,
enclosing Is cents, to Mrs. Spears,
210 South Desplaines St., Chicago,
Illinois.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-23
Soviet Cyclotron

New York.-Following the lead of
American scientists now smashing
atoms with cyclotrons in transmu-
tation experiments, Soviet scientists
at the State Radium institute in Len
ingrad have completed the construc-
ton of a similar device.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-23
Keeping Up
WNj96Seienfe
&segnSNaSe ,nHe
Magyar Empire May
Have Been Wrecked
by Social Upheaval
9 Science Service.-wNU Service.

Philadelphla.-A violent So
cial upheaval, with thrones lit
orally shattered, may have
wrecked Americas mysterious
old empire of the Mayas, which
lowered so magnificently in the
tropics long before Columbus.
This new scientific theory,
brought back from Guatemala by
an expedition of the University of
Pennsylvania museum and partly
financed by the American Philo-
sophical society, shows the peace
full and highly civilized Magyar
Indians in warlike phase. Archeol-
ogists have long been mystified by
the curious break in their civiliza-
ton, when many stone cities in Cen
trail America were abandoned.
Their center of civilization shifted
northward TO Yucatan.
MANY scientists long have felt
that it was inability of the Magyar
Indians to cope with the envelop-
ing jungle, or some ,eher nat
ural force, that led them to aban-
don elaborate temples and palaces"
said Linton Satterthwaite, Jr., field
director of the expedition.
The expedition, which returned to
Piedras Negras, deserted city that
previous university museum expe-
ditions found well worth exploring,
has unearthed new evidence to con-
firm a suspicion that damage to
thrones in sacred palaces was done
by human vengeance, not merely by
time and weather. Parts of thrones
were even found buried in the jun
giles, away from the palaces, show
ing that human hands had moved
them.
Basis of the New Theory.
Explaining the scientific reason
ing which leads the expedition to de-
duce social upheaval in Magyar
days, Mr.. Satterthwaite said:
'The ancient Maya communities
were not cities in the strict sense
of the word, but rather, religious
centers, and the absence of kitchens
and sleeping quarters in the pal
aces indicates that those structures
were used primarily for religious or
civil ceremonies, and were not
priestly residences as has been sup
posed.
Nevertheless, they doubtless were
erected at the instance of the
priests who constituted the ruling
class, and it is logical to assume
that, therefore, such sacred build
ings would not have lost their appeal
to the Mayas, and their construc-
ton have been discontinued with
out some change in the relation
ship between priests and laymen.
Possibly the change took the
form of a violent social upheaval in
which the priests themselves, and
all that they stood for, were over
thrown. That we do not know, of
course. But the discovery of evil
dence that human agencies played
some part in the destruction and
removal of sacred objects is signif-
icant.
For while that discovery does
not solve by any means the mystery
surrounding the fundamental causes
of the decline of Maya culture it
suggests that violence resulted from
those causes. If so, the abandon
ment of the religious centers does
not imply that the people left their
country Immediately.
''Thus the opinion of many schol-
ars that the whole population left
the southern old Empire country
under the leadership of their priests
may be more justifiably questioned"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-23
WhaIebone Insulation

According to Psychologists prob
ing around in northern Canada, Es-
kimos were insulating the walls of
their mud huts with whalebone be-
fore the Christian era.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-23
Grabs. shrimps Match weeds

Curious small crabs and shrimps
inhabit the vast fields of sargassum
weeds in the North Atlantic, in which
they find protection as they match
it in color even to the white mark
ings of the weed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-23
Men, Women in Separate Cemeteries

On Inishmurray island in Donegal
bay, Ireland, is the only Christian
community in the world, so far as il
known, which buries its men and
women in separate cemeteries
Golfers Weekly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-23
Backward

Backward
A high school girl, seated next
to a famous astronomer at a din
ner party, struck up a converse
ton with him by asking, what do
you do in life."
He replied, 81 study astron-
omy."
Dear me-" said the girl, 81 fin
ished astronomy last year."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-23
No Bearing

Magistrate Ca non-motorist)-
The officer has stated that you
used bad language when you were
stopped.
Motorist-Well, you see, I was
in a tantrum at the time.
Magistrate-The make of your
car doesn't interest me in the
least.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-23
On the Block

On the Block
Boss (storming)-You're fired.
Stenog-Fired. How you talk. l
supposed they sold slaves.
Man, to chemist-Could you
make this hair blonde and put it
on my shoulder? I'm trying to
make my girl jealous!
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-23
Not One of EN-

MOI Une OF En-
Mrs. Duff-Some things 60 with
out saying.
Duff-Yes, my dear, but not
your tongue.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-02
WOnlen9S
and Misses
NEW FALL
DRESSES
, for s.
2.99 & 1888 values:

Crepes D.. sheer prints
with new metallic trims
that add so much to the
natural SmartneSs of the
garment zipperS =.
sashes and tie-backs do
their part, too, to make
them look like you paid
twice the price. Styles
for misses and women in
the newest Fall colors.
Sizes II to 20, SO to A
and 46 to 81.
+ LanSburgh'S - Basement
StOre-DreSs Department
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-04
ST. PAUL'S

ST. PAUL's, Feb. 4-The mem.
bers of the Woman's Auxiliary OF
St Pauls church hel dtheir
monthly meeting Friday after
noon at the home of Mrs. W. f.
Hammet. Special guests were
Mrs. Blair, district president, and
Mrs. H. Cary Elves.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. l.. Duncan and
SON called on the latter's parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Millard LYDIA Sun
day afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Brown an,
nounce the birth of son, Mack
Stewart. -.
Mrs. F. NJ. Maxwell visited Mrs
Cay LYDIA Friday afternoon.
Jack Freeman spent Sunday
night wit hhis sister, Mrs. John
Moore.
CLYDE Ballard, J. B. Lamb and
w. f. Clark were through this
community on business Saturday.
Ohio LYDIA was dinner guest
Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. Gay
LYDIA.
A number from this community
attended the Gold Medal basket
ball tournament at Canton Satur'
day night.
A pruning demonstration was
held at the Corak orchard in this
community Wednesday. The dem
onstration was in charge of II. K,
Niswonger, horticulture specialist
from State college, Raleigh. Miss
Grace Owensby is spending this
week with her cousin, Miss Beulah
Brown. g..
John LYDIA who holds a position
in the White Oak mountain sec.
ton of Polk county recently spent
the weekend with his family.
Edward Rhodes is spending q
few weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
Rhodes.
Misses Mabel and Myrtle Lyda
spent Tuesday night with the lat,
ter's sister, Mrs. Paul Duncan OF
Tracey Grove. -,
DR.. and Mrs. C. W.: Freeman
spent Sunday evening with Mrs
Mary LYDIA.
Miss Vivian Davis Of Dana, was
a recent caller at Mr.. and Mrs. X
n. 'Freeman's. , o.
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Letters To The
Editor

CONTINUED from page .wo)
killing all the dogs that were at
tracted as we'll as the tied-up dog.
/ don't know what the law here
is on that matter but there should
be a law against it. Suppose they
were worthless, how is he to know
that some kid or person maybe
didn't think so. The dogs could
not help themselves and while
they should not have been loose,
such things may be accidental.
Just yesterday / heard some
one complimenting said policeman
ON the street and telling him
about another dog in the same
condition as the first. The officer
strobe away swearing to fix that
dog too in his own peculiar way
Something ought to be dore to
curb that officers activities and
but them to a better purpose.
often wonder about man like
that rs TO just how brave ne
would be if ne didn't have the law
behind him and tried to maltreat
man his own size. | was in
France a year during the war. /
wonder If he was. ,
Suppose a man in this town had
a dog ne really valued and was
really. worth money. What pro-
lection would he get? None, it
looks like. Where ] come from a
nominal tax is put on dogs which
gives them a legal status as far
as anybody needlessly killing
them. A man doesn't even have
the right to kill a dog on posted
land "a dog can't ready unless it
can be established beyond a doubt
that the dog was destroying live
stock or poultry and was vicious.
Dogs running loose in the country
do not destroy a fraction of the
game that fires, farming imple-
ments, cows, hawks, etc, do. /
know as I have lived on a farm
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I such excellent company upon his
very beautiful yacht.
X: Now, that won't do, and the
sooner you come clean with me
the better, This pleasure trip was
IL bind to eoyee a. big business
deal between Rocksayage and
Blanc. You're going 10 tell me
just what part you were going to
play ia that. b
H: ! tell you anything you like.
When | say that it is pleasure
trip speak truthfully, but have
already said that was a business
friend of Mr.. Rocksavage, too.
When business men are together,
even for pleasure. their CONVERSE
ton is Of their business also, most
of the time, rs have frequently
observed.
X: You knew, then, that bust
ness would come under discus
sion?
H.: Certainly | knew that.
X: Well, let's hear the part
you were going TO play in it.
H.: | have the honor TO act for
the Shikoku Products Company,
which is associated with my gov
eminent. Shikoku handles various
commercial concessions for the
ministry Of the interior and one
of these has to do with the supply
of soap to the armed forces and
also civil services of Japan. Ihis
monopoly is of considerable value
and Shikoku hoped to raise loan
of 10 TO ~ million dollars on 1t.
Also. this monopoly would have
considerable value for whatever
company acquired it since, If they
wished. they could float subsi-
diary company upon the prospec-
tive profits which the monopoly
will bring and thus attract con-
siderable new public money 10
their business. 49,. ;,
X: And you were about to sell
this monopoly to either RockSaV-
age or Blame?
H.: That is so. have bee" ne
gotiating by correspondence with
both for some time. A fortnight
ago, however, Mr.. Rocksavage ca,
bled me that negotiations could
90 no further until after a con-
ference he proposed to hold on
this date. He suggested that
should join the party and said that
if did so, he had every reason
to believe that the affair might be
concluded to the satisfaction OF
all concerned. I sailed from San
Francisco to Panama and from
there ! came overland to join his
yacht at Miami.
X: / see. That will do.
DETECTIVE OFFICER NEA-
MES SHORTHAND NOTES
OF DETECTIVE OFFICER
KETTERING'S E X A M n A
TION OF COUNT POSODlNl.
p: Hello! Hello! Has this writ
ing room been converted into a
Photographic studio overnight!
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LIQUOR EVILS NEVER WORSE
DRYS MAINTAIN AS THEY l00p
TO ANNUAL MEET THIS MONTH
ports to the delegates.
STATE HEADS TO REpos,

ports 10 INC dclegatcS.
STATE HEADS TO Rrpo,.
Superintendent of the S ~
ciated state leagues will :. w.
conditions in their areas and I've "
recommendations to the n,. sr'
body. a
Among other speakers ~,
DR.. John Harvey, kellogg W. J
Fla. and DR.. p. NJ. GIaS,,,'A as
Olaf college, NorthfielS \
who will discuss the scis,,;sa,s
poets of the anti-liquor S,; ak .
The league said the CONT NM.
would consider means Of r,s,'iis
the number Of girls and WITTY Wy
employed to sell beer, win, we
whisky to men and the npms Y
automobile fatalities caussS
intoxicated drivers. b
1t was contendcd tina, ~,
100000 girls and woms. u
employed in liquor sales ,s,ls
and that the automobile ave sa
toll mounted to n record I
37,708 during 1886 despise
merous safety campaign, u
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,,d hunted all nv life.

and hunted all my life.
Another episode l witnessed was
a kitten stuck under the floor OF
prominent drug store here un'
til maybe it died, for all know
I asked them what they were 60
ing to do about it and the answer
was that it got there so let it get
out. /,
So you see, there seems to DC
a hig field here to educate people
against such callousness and cru
eity to animals. People cruel to
animals MAY be cruel in other
WAYS. Witness atrocities in Spain,
the land of bull.fghting, today.
F. j. CHAPLIN.
Ashton, Md.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-04
BY ALLEN DIBBLE
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press starr correspondent
WASHINGTON, Feb. a. (UP)
The Knti-Saloon League of Amer
lea believes the problem facing
it's 29th annual convention at St.
Petersburg, Fla, February S8 to
March 3 is mobilization Of the
dry forces against "the evils OF
the modern liquor traffic"
Liquor conditions are worse
now than ever before" the league
advised delegates to the conven-
ton. "The 107,851 old saloons
have been replaced by 4l9,5S7
new. modern, efficient sales agen-
cies for intoxicating beverages.
"There is enough anti-liquor
sentiment in this country to
change the present situation" the
league said. ut must be modified
through information and organ
ization into aggressive action
against the alcohol evil"
HEADED BY GEORGIA BISHOP
Bishop William N. Ainsworth,
Macon, Ga, national president OF
the league, will strike the keynote
of the convention in his address,
"The Liquor Challenge to Christ
ians and Patriots Of Today.
DR.. Edward B. Dunford, Wash
ington, attorney for the league
will report on present dry laws
and will recommend state and ma
tional anti-liquor legislation.
Bishop II. H. Fout, lndianapo'
lis, chairman Of the national exc
cutive committee, and Bishop
James Cannon, Los Angeles
chairman of the national legisla'
tive committee, also will make re-
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Jocelyn who asked me if I'd like
to come along for a few days sun
shine and big-game fishing. .''
X: How long have you known
Jocelyn?
P: I met him coming over on
the Normandie, and later devel-
oped the acquaintance in New
York. His wife is Lady Welter's
daughter and gather that Lady
Weiter is a very old friend of
Mr.. Rocksavage. In fact, although
Miss Rocksavage is nominally
hostess here, Lady Welter gave
me the impression that she was
running the party and. as the IN
vitation came from her son-in-
law, / didn't hesitate to accept It.
H: frank you. Count. Thatll
do for the present. rs -.
DEFECTIVE OFFICER NEA-
MES SHORTHAND NOTES
OF DETECTIVE OFFICER
KETTERING'S EX A NJ IN A.
TION OF THE LOUNGE
STEWARD, JACK CANE.
X: Come in. Cane. I just want
to ask you a few questions about
what occurred last night. , %.
c.: Yes, sir. -.
X: How long have you been
in the employ Of Mr.. Rocksarage!
c.: A year and three months
sir.
X: What were you doing be-
fore that! -, ~
CT was third barman at the
Biltmore in New York. / did eight
cen months there and before that
| was at the Sporting Club in Ha-
vana, doing lounge waiter. :,
X: That's all right: now, l
want you to tell me all that you
can remember about which guests
came and went from the lounge
from the time of the ships sail
ing until they went in to dinner
''' CANES STATEMENT CON.
FIRMS THE TIMES OF ARR.
VAL AND DEPARTURE OF
THE GUESTS FROM H E
LOUNGE. AS GIVEN BY THEN.
SELVES BETWEEN THE TIME
OF SAILING AT 7:05 AND
THEIR GOING IN TO. DINNER
AT 8:40.) 49,,
X: Were you in the lounge the
whole of that time?
c.: Yes, | was there the whole
time, sir, as they kept me pretty
busy mixing drinks. except, OF
course. for two brief absences be-
tween 7:4O and 7.45. Mr.. Stodart
took down some figures from the
notice board in his pocket book,
tore out the leaf and asked me TO
take it. down to Mr.. Blane,s cab
in. | knocked and there was no
reply, so | took it up again, anu
then Mr.. Stodart remarked that
Mr.. Blame was probably IN MS
bath, so he sent me down with IT
again and told me to slip it under
Mr., Blane's door which l did.
X: That'll do. You can 20
now.
DETECTIVE OFFICER NEA.
MES SHORTHAND NOTES
OF DETECTIVE OFFICER
| KETTERING'S, SECOND Elk
| ANIMATION OF THE HON
ORABEE REGINALD JOCE'
LYN. %, e.. 80 =; =.
X: Sorry to bother you again
Mr.. Jocelyn. but; understand
that Count Posodini Joined this
party at your invitation. " "
j.: Yes. that's right. :,
X: Now, what. part does ne
play in this business deal which
Rocksavage, Blame and the jar
contemplated putting through?
j.: None at all. He doesn't
know anything about it.
X: Why did you ask him then
j.: Because he's nice fellow
and ] thought it would give tho
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BY Dennis Wheatley :
q 1891 NEA Service. Ina.
William Morrow h Co.

gathering more the appearance OF
a pleasure trip to have someone
there who didn't know anything
about the business which was con-
templated. q >6iT e
X: / see. How long have you
known hima Il sIVt al ,t.l
j.: About five weeks. l'met MN
coming over, in the ,Normanndle:
X: Thanks, Mr.. Jocelyn. That's
all for the moment. ~.
ITO be continued
Save this installment as ev''
d.nee 10 help you solve the crime