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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-05-12
Ny Friend
Joseph

HOUGH a strong wind was
1 blowing, driving sheets OF rain
across my front yard, wasn't sur
prised to see Joseph, my little
seven-year-old neighbor, making
his way up the front walk. Yes
terday was my birthday and he
was here when the postman
brought me a five-pound box OF
candy, and Joseph has a weak
ness for good chocolates.
He comes putting in and while he
sheds his waterproof coat he looks
around for the candy. But all the
candy spots are vacant. My bon
bon resistance Is below normal on
bad days and / have put all the
sweets away and resolved not to
bring them out for a week. But
now from past experience know
that without once asking me for
any candy Joseph will soon have
me bringing out my five-pound
box and urging him to take all
he wants. He has an indirect
method all his own that never con-
flicts with any of the rules of ETH
quette and always gets him what
he wants.
He pulls a low stool in front Of
the fire and while he warns his
hands he looks over his shoulder
at me and says,
"Guess who I'd be If I could be
anybody wanted to be?"
This is easy for he always
wants to be Tarzan or Dizzy Dean.
But I'm all wrong.
'Not today" he says with en-
phasis, to-day I'd be 'Laddin An
His Lamp.
"And guess what's the first
thing I'd tell that old genie to do
after I rubbed my lamp?"
This isn't really meant to be a
question so l simply sit still and
look interested.
"I'd tell him to build my moth
er the finest house in town an fur
nish it full of the finest furniture
in town an have hot supper on
the table ready for her when she
got home from work. And I'd
make him give me some money
an I'd go down town an pay
all of her bills an put 'em on the
table by her plate" He finishes
exultantly.
Joseph has no father and the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-05-12
What Knows He Of England
Who Only England Knows?"

"Even after months in England
my wife sometimes had to call
upon the housemaid to translate
some item in the laundry list, or to
interpret between her and the
grocery boy" declares Mr.. Harry
A. Franck, the irrepressible
globe-trotter, in "Footloose in the
British Isles" elm England a
vest is an undershirt. not a
waistcoat. 'Suspenders' are gar
tiers, and braces are suspenders.
A child's underwaist is bod
ice,' while rubber boots are Well
ingtons.' The word sweater still
strikes many of the English as a
trifie low-class and odoriferous;
they call it a Jersey Jumper
'pullover,' or cardigan
"In the Diapers shop (Which
means drygoods store) un-
bleached muslin is calico and
calico is 'cottonprint.' Cheese
cloth Is butter muslin and in
stead of using cutting flannel for a
child's pajamas one buys vince
yette' and asks for a sleeping
suit A spool of thread is a reel
of cotton An American who asks
for crackers will get firecrackers
or a package of those Christmas
paper bonbons that explode when
pulled. In England a cracker is
biscuit and biscuit is a roll.
A muffin is something else again,
and cookies are as unknown as if
the word were Persian.
sour kind Of bacon is 'streaky
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-05-12
BY Virginia
Stivers Bartlett
@ Virginia Stivers Bartlett
wNU Service

Barbara, came letters from Fray
Fermin Lasuen, bubbling with a
youthful enthusiasm, that rose per-
ennially in his old heart.
It was summer in the south OF
California, he wrote. The sun shone
all day, and the stars at night.
There had been some showers, and
the brown hills had turned green
quickly. The streams were full, and
it was already like spring.
And on the feast day of Santa
Barbara, December fourth, the Mis-
sion Santa Barbara was to be found
ed. All was ready. The people at
the presidio, as well as the priests
who were to found the mission, were
waiting impatiently that day, and
the arrival of his Excellency with
La Sonora la Gobernadora.
The feast day arrived. Santa Bar
bara, the Patroness, sent fair wealth
er. The waters in the channel
danced in a fresh breeze, and the
blue hills and mountains, family
tinged with green, rose behind the
mission site like beautiful curtain.
Frey Fermin Lasuen and Sergeant
Ortega from the presidio had been
anxiously awaiting the Governor.
Ortega had sent messengers and an
escort far north to meet him, but
they had returned without the Gov
ernor, and without news of him.
Fray Fermin was worried. A great
responsibility was in his hands. This
was the first mission of his own
founding, carried out through the
wishes of his beloved brother, Juni-
pero Sierra. For over two years the
Governor had been planning this
day, looking forward to it with great
anticipation and anxiety, and now,
with everything in readiness, the
day already at its zenith, there was
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-05-12
Mistress Of Monterey
CHAPTER XxIH-Continued


He took his seat beside La Cob
ernadora, ate, drank and replied
absent-mindedly to all who spoke.
It was only when he felt a light
touch on his shoulder, and looking
UP saw Indizuela offering him cup
of wine, that he reused for a mo-
ment from his reveries. She smiled
at him. reproachfully and moved
away, the wine jug poised on her
shoulder.
After the feast, one of the Cover
nor's old Catalan soldiers clapped
his hands for attention.
''Senores y Senoras! Senoritos y
Senoritas! Cabelleros y amigos!
Padres! Peones y Indiosl will
singl I will sing song OF our IL
lustrious Gobernador, el Senior Don
Pedro Fagesl"
'Viva! Vival" shouted the crowd.
Someone placed a vine wreath on
his head as the old soldier expert
mented with his guitar.
''I will sing song of Ell Goberna-
dor concerning his proves as a
mighty hunter, and how he saved
the Indians of San Luis Obispo from
being eaten alive by bears! How he
saved his people from starving by
giving them the bears to eat, and
how a mission was founded because
of all these doughty deeds!"
Then he began to sing long Sc
ries of coplas.
Dozens of verses sang the old sol
der, and at the end of each the
audience howled, "Ay-ee, Don Pc
dro!" The Governor sat with bowed
head, covered with confusion, and
listened.
The singer went on, telling of the
frightened Indians, rushing from
their village, afraid of the giant
bears that were killing them one
by one. And of how Don Pedro
faced the savage grizzly bear, and
killed him in a fight most fair; and
how the Indians Toasted him day
and night, praising him for his great
might.
"Ay-ee, Don Pedro!"
"Hola!"
''Viva ell Gobernador!"
"Vival" The party gathered in a
circle around him, singing and
shouting, toasting him in fitting
wine-cups, creating more verses for
the endless song.
The Governor stood by quietly un-
til the song was finished, but when
the circle broke, he slipped away
alone to the tree on the hill, and
threw himself down on the ground.
It was sunset, and color rioted ev-
erywhere on land and sea. The
voices of the singers seemed to
come from a great distance. He
closed his eyes.
"Ay-ee, Don Pedrol" someone
said softly.
Indizuela dropped on the ground
beside him.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-05-12

placed America on a competitive
basis with England. The game was
given another push forward in 1913
when young Francis Ouimet beat
the famous Britisher, Harry VardOn
at Br0Okline, Mass. After time-out
in the World war the game came
back with bang in the 1905. Bob
by Jones, still STRIPPING, was the
high priest of that fabulous era, win
ming the National Amateur cham
-pionship five times, the National
Open four times, the British Open,
three times and the British Amateur
once before retiring in 1880.
From the little cow pasture back
in Yonkers, New York, SO years
ago, the game of golf has continued
to grow, until today there are more
than 5000 links throughout the Unit
ed States, representing an invest
ment of more than billion dollars
and giving employment to at least
half million people.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-05-12
By
Lillian Oakley
Q Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
WNU Service.

bills that have to be paid at the
end of every month hang heavy
over his head.
''Then." he says with enthusi-
asrn. "Pd rub my lamp an when
that old genie came I'd tell him
to bring me a motorcycle just
like the road cops ride only hitler,
an a police uniform an a ma
chine gun that could shoot for
ever an a five-pound box of candy
just like the one you got for your
birthday yesterday. And" he
adds with smile that shows all
Of his dinples. "I'd bring you
down about half of the candy"
The object of his visit has been
attained. And he leaves with his
pockets full of my birthday choco-
lates, the rain having let up some
what.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-05-12

no Governor. And the mission could
not be officially founded without his
presence.
Fray Fermin scanned the distance
as far north as his gaze could reach,
then, with patient sigh, sat down
on the ground where he could see
the little ramada beneath which the
altar was erected, and where two
bells hung, in readiness to ring out
to all the world, the good news of
the founding of the Mission Santa
Barbara. A recumbent cross was
on the ground near by, waiting to
be erected on the spot where some
day the mission church should arise.
The missionary looked lovingly at
the scene. And as he looked, a VII
sion came before his eyes. Instead
of the humble ramada and rough
cross, lovely temple rose to COM
fort him. Glowing pinkly, its square
towers and red tiled roofs rose ma
jestically against the mountains. A
great establishment stretched itself
across the landscape: dormitories,
gardens, workshops and wineries.
The little group of dirty Canalenan
Indians who stood about with dumb
curiosity became miraculously thou
sands of clean happy neophytes, who
worked, and sang as they worked.
The handful of soldiers, who lolled
on their horses and eyed the Indian
women, became a dashing compa-
ny of devout worshipers, pressing
into the church, filling it full of rev.
erence and alteration.
Fray Fermin gazed at his dream,
and spoke.
"Ah, Padre Junipero!" he ex-
claimed gladly, sit has all been
worth it, has it notl Sing, o heav-
ems; and be joyful, o earth; and
break forth into singing, o noun
tains; for the Lord hath comforted
his people, ,"
Padre milo :"
So stepped was Lasuen in his
dream; so real was the vision, that
at the sound of the voice he started,
really expecting to see the brown
figure of his brother Junipero beside
him. But it was Sergeant Ortega,
who stood, a worried frown on his
brow, his hat in his hand.
Padre milo, it grows late. There
is absolutely no sign of his Excel
lency. Soon the day of Our Holy
Patroness will be past. What shall
we better do?"
Painfully Lasuen made his deci-
sion. "We must go ahead with our
ceremony" he said sadly. "And
when his Excellency comes, we will
have rededication. There must be
some good reason that he is not
here" He rose painfully from the
ground, signing, "It is a disappoint-
ment, but it is in Gods hands,"
And so, on December 4, 1885, was
founded the Mission Santa Barbara.
The standard of Spain waved above
the humble altar, and the sacred
flags of the Church, Mary's blue
banner, and the bloody banner of
Christ. The bells rang, prayers were
said, incense rose in pale blue
clouds. Then it was over. The Indi-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-05-12
Wise and Otherwise

Some people look on the
bright side of things so per-
sistently that they wind up the
proud possessors of a gold
brick.
Some men make money hand
over fist. And then their wives
make fist hand over money.
Big men get the best jobs,
I'm told. Because the small
men are so often overlooked?
Then there was the man who
was so lazy he bought a Great
Dane so he wouldn't have to
stoop over to pet it.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
Just the same, it's the smart
birds that get it.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-05-12
Once Upon a Time
There Was "a

Baseball announcer who an
nounced an entire game without
utilizing the adjective beautiful"
in describing the weather. the
crowd. or the plays.
Book reviewer who never wrote
that it was ga book you simply
can't put down."
Neighbor. who, when scooping
snow or moving the yard. went
several feet past his boundary line
into his neighbors' territory.
Person who retrieved a tennis
ball outside the court and threw
it over the backstop on the first
throw.
Man who said. 'Now for a good
nights Sleep" and was not dis
turbed by someone hunting book
in his room or the telephone JAM
Cling.
Group of relatives who didn't
heckle the young male member
of the household by inquiring as to
his status with girls, and add,
whether it was true or not, Look
at him ushl"-Kansas City Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-05-12
Speaking Of Sports
Colts Golden
Jubilee Being
Marked in II. S.
By GEORGE A. BARCLAY

The next time you dub drive or
slice one into the rough, blame 1t on
two fellows In Yonkers, N. Y.
They're responsible, In a way, for
II they hadn't started playing golf
back In 1888 and organized the first
club in the United States, you prob
ably wouldn't be worrying about par
today.
All of which means that golf in
America is celebrating its fiftieth
anniversary this year.
It started in John Reds cow pas
ture. Reds friend, Robert Lock-
hart, a Scot who had learned the
game in his home land had brought
some clubs and balls with him to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-05-12
Form First Club

Reid's neighbors grew curious,
then interested. His pasture proved
too small, SO they moved to a 30
acre field owned by the local butch
er. They played there all summer.
When the season closed, Reid and
five of his new golfing cronies met
and organized club.
Reid was elected president and
John B. Upham, secretary-treas-
urer. The others-Harry o. Tai
madge, Kingman M. Putnam and
Harry Holbrook-made up the board
Of governors. They called the club
st. Andrews in honor of the ancient
Scottish links and made Bob Lock-
hart the first active member.
New members Joined the club.
Then the city of Yonkers decided to
extend its street system into their
course and they found refuge in an
old apple orchard. Soon they were
called the "Old Apple Tree Gang"
Two more moves marked the clubs
progress, but by 1894 1t was estab-
lished and golf had found definite
place for itself in American life.
Steady advances have marked
the games history ever since. It's
growth has been synonymous with
Americas emergence into the out
doors, the emancipation of women
in sports and the growing tendency
Of Americans to play some game.
Today-50 years after its intro
duction-goH has become part of
our language and golf balls and
clubs are sold in the corner drug
store, the hardware establishment
or the general store.
By 1900 there were 1000 golf clubs
in America and the game was
changing. The rubber-cored ball
succeeded the gutta-percha ball and
gave the average man an opportu-
nifty he had been praying for-the
chance to drive with the best of
them,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-05-12
CHAPTER XIV

After the vendimia and the har-
vest the winter season settled down
upon the Royal Preside of Monte
rey and the Mission San Carlos at
Carmelo. Winter meant rain, days
and weeks and months of rain. The
Rio Carmelo flooded its banks as it
filed, and a hundred rills and
streams sprang into being. The
trees sighed and dripped dismally,
and there was little life astir ex-
cept the screaming seagulls that,
driven from the ocean by storms,
came inland to seek food, shrieking
and wheeling in the gray skies.
In the Palacio of the Governor all
was gloom. Angustias grieved for
Chichi, and moved about like a
gloomy wrath.
Since the departure of the French
explorers La Gobernadora seemed
frozen, all except her somber eyes
that burned resentfully from her
white face. Little lines appeared
about her mouth, and drew the cor
ners of her lips down in perpetual
expression of unhappiness that
wrl1ng Don Pedro's heart. She spent
hours, days, lying upon her bed,
staring at nothing, doing nothing;
or huddled before the suffering fire,
looking at the flames with a blank
far-away expression that frightened
the Governor with its hopelessness,
its despair.
She no longer spent hours over
her hair, or the little cares of her
toilet, but wore the same gown, day
in and day out, and even adopted the
habit of wrapping her head in a
scarf. She shivered constantly in
the damp adobe house. Sometimes
she would look out on the parade
grounds, churned to muddy lake
by the feet of horses and men, and
catch sight of the wife of soldier,
a baby Rugged close to her in a
shawl, running from one house to
another.
She almost envied these little SOL
diers' women, with their endless
chatter about nothing, their content
ment with empty lives. Sometimes
she thought wildly of running out
into the rain herself. But if she did,
where would she go? So she only
shivered and drew her manton clos
er about her.
Pedro FACES was profoundly dis
tressed. Living in the small pala-
clio with the unhappy woman Eula-
liza, loving her, sorrowing over her
and unable to express one word OF
what he felt, for he had never re-
ferred to the dreadful night when
he had struck her and dragged her
back from running away, depressed
his days and saddened his nights.
His only comfort was in reading
over and over again the few books
he possessed: 'Las Sergas de Es-
plandian," "Sancho Panza" and the
plays of Shakespeare. Long hours
he would read, then impatiently or
der his horse and ride for hours
through mud and rain, nowhere.
There was only one light, one spot
of warmth in his darkness, and that
was not the clear warmth of the sun,
or the pure cold ray of star,
a light like a little fire shows from
the depths of some murky cave.
And that was Indizuela. Time and
again he put the thought Of the
girl out of his mind, only to have
her walk into his brain and heart,
and through some witchcraft, take
possession of him.
And so the winter pressed down
On Monterey.
But from the south, from Santa
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-05-12
Growing Virtue

Bees will not work except in
darkness; thought will not work
virtue work except in secrecy. Let
not thy left hand know what thy
right hand doethl Like other
plants. virtue will not grow unless
its roots be hidden, buried from
the eye of the sun. Let the sun
shine on it, nay, do but look at
il privily myself, the root withers,
and no flower will glad thee
Thomas Carlyle.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-05-12

rashers'; a slice Of ham Is a
CANNON rasher,' and the best cut
of beef is a piece of topside.'
Gasoline is petrol kerosene is
'paraffin,' and paraffin is 'paraf-
fin wax An English cook does not
rinse the dishes, she 'swills'
them. When my wife told the
nursemaid to battle the children,
or to give them a bath. the maid
proceeded to bath them or give
them a 'bathe.'
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-05-12
Take Britishers

National pride in the feats of our
golfers was natural development.
Walter ]. Travis made the head
lines in 1904 when he won the Brit
ish amateur championship and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-05-12

America in 1887. When Christmas
came, he gave them to Reid. He
outlined the rules and Reid grew
enthusiastic. On the first fine day
of 1888, they took the clubs and
balls to Reid's cow pasture, laid
out three holes, swung the new clubs
and dug the first divots in American
history
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-21
DAVIS, JOHNSON
 BOUT PROMISING

There are two state amateur cham pions on the Waterbury A. c. boxing card this week, one of them sched- uled for miniature Louis-Schme!- ing go the night after the big fight in New York. Henry Davis, a young colored boy from New Britain has been in the class of the bantam weight division for two years, and is paired with Sonny Johnson of Holyoke, young Irishman who IS reputed to be some shakes" in Bay State bantam circles. The bout fig ures one of the best on the card.
 Frankie Buff of this city and Ed die Germonte of New Britain also should provide slugfest from early in the first round, while the heavy weight number featuring Dula Ko- vach and Vic Galotti is the piece de resistance of the ten bout setup and will probably rival the main go for action and public favor.
 Eddie Morgan, the Bristol boy, who got 8 tough break on the second last show when he was cut on the forehead, takes on Bobby Thomas of Shelton in 150 pound match, while Ken Reinhardt and Babe Bergeron are in for another promising battle. Last but not least the local bout, with Joe Stire and Frankie Mars, should be an inter esting lightweight duel all the way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-21

Max Baer, 1934-35, New York "I'm stringing along with Louis. Two years ago I bet on Schmeling, but Louis is a much improved fight CT now and Schmeling is two years old. I've fought both men and Schmeling is the hardest hit ter. He could put the fight away with one of his best punches. It will take Louis eight or ten good ones to do the same damage. But Louis is still sucker for a good right and if he gets careless he's sunk. Joe can't make any mistakes or he'll get tagged
 All for Joe
 James J. Braddock, 1935-37, New York: T pick Louis to win by a kayo before the eighth round. Louis will fight a different kind of fight this time. His methods in training have convinced me that he will be more aggressive, spearing Max with lefts and smashing him with hard rights and never giving the chal- lenger chance to play his usual waiting game. I think Louis during the past two years has improved considerably in his boxing and in his ability to evade right hand"
 There still is one former cham pion to be heard from-a man named Schmeling who held the title from 1880 through 1882, when he lost 1t to Sharkey.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-21
C=C JUNIORS TO
 ENTERTAIN PLAYERS

The 0 & c Juniors are enter taining the baseball players of their club at the club rooms June q. The club requests that all players including Manager and coach to be on hand for a very important ses- sion at this meeting. Sandwiches and refreshments will be served following the entertainment. The c & c Jrs. quartet consisting of Cormine Rosato, Joseph Della Camera, Camille Del Principe and Charles Drage will harmonize the more popular tunes of the day. Earl Rossi will render a solo of that popular song hit "The Butcher Boy". Simon Magnerella will sing selec- tion of Italian songs. Nicholas To- pazio the o & c Jrs. chairman, will accompany the entertainers with his especially built and tuned accordion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-21
HeatOn "HOt" But Merriman Cops Grown

Despite one of the greatest indi- vidual efforts by Stan Heaton, Chase school pitcher, who gave but five hits, struck out nine, and hit a triple, double and single himself, poor playing cost Chase it's first chance at the Grammar school baseball championship, when Mer- riman won a to c>cision and the title yesterday afternoon at Hamil- ton park.
 As a result Merriman and the Parochial school champs, Sts. Peter and Paul Friday at p. m. Hamil- ton Park will bat it out for the schoolboys championship of the city. Rube Ruffino, no-hit pitcher, earlier in the season and Concalves combined for Merriman to give up six hits, three of them to Heaton, but the losers could not score until the sixth inning when they got two runs. Droznick also hit well for Mer- riman, while Goncalves struck out nine Chase batters. Score: