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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-05
TIPPING In SPAIN.

The System There Has Developed Into
Positive Curse.
Extortion is rife and the tipping sys-
tenn has developed into positive curse,
although for this we who tip
must be held primarily re-
sponsible, says Chambers Jour-
nal. my poor carabineers must
live somehow, their pay is next to MOTH
ing" replied CadiZ custom-house OF
fetal of position to visitor who had
complained that after his luggage had
actually passed examination a caraoi-
neer had bounced on it, insisting upon
1t being re-examined. BY which he
clearly meant that all inconvenience
and unpleasantness might have been
avoided by the judicious outlay or
peseta. The one consoling feature OF
the tipping plague in Spain is that
the Spaniard is satisfied with a very
little. The uniformed official, whose
counterpart at home would not conde-
scend to accept a tip, gives a hearty
muches gracias for couple OF reals
fiye-pence. The extortion to which
the visitor is exposed is principally
practiced by the hotel-keepers Some
sort of excuse, perhaps, may be made
for the custom among Seville landlords
of doubling their rates during holy
week and the annual four days fair,
but why Granada, long days jour
ney off. should follow suit, is difficult
to comprehend. Hotels have much i'm
proved in Spain outside OF Madrid ana
Seville during the last few years, al
though very much remains to be done
before strangers car be induced to re-
main in such towns as Burgos, Segovla,
Salamanca and Valladolid for an hour
longer than 1t is absolutely necessary
for the seeing OF the sights there. But
first-class rates are charged Tor what
is nothing more than third-class ac-
commodation and often for what is
very much worse. In very few cities
except the great centers OF business
and pleasure, is there more than one
hotel at which a civilized traveller can
put up. and the owners OF these hotels,
knowing the fact, gather in their mar
vest. Trains in Spain usually start
at unholy hours in the morning and the
hotel landlords take advantage OF this
fact to carry out the national "to-mor-
row" creed with adroitness. Guests
who intend to leave by the or Q a.
m. train usually demand their DIS
overnight, but some excuse is invaria-
bly, forthcoming which enables the
landlord to present his bill the next
morning when it is half dark and the
departing guest is but half awake and
the railway omnibus is at the door
and every minute is precious, the re-
suit being that the victim pays just
what is put down, unless he chooses
to argue the case and lose his train,
as often as not the only one of the
day. A rule which should never be
neglected is to have your agreement
for prices to be paid thoroughly under
stood beforehand. Generally 1t is ad-
visable to write for rooms ahead, so
that an answer in black and white is
received, which effectually checks the
extortion which will assuredly be at
tempted.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-05
Foes Grave.

Literary strangers who come to the
city very often inquire for Poe's grave
and are surprised to find it In the heart
of the town instead Of in some pretty
suburban cemetery. An English &C.
clesiastic who was here recently said
that Westminster reminded him OF
some of those London churchyards,
with low walls and ratings round
them-in most instances very old-"in
which celebrities are buried. The COM
plete history of these London burial
places has been recently told in book
written by a lady who has devoted
about twenty years to finding out their
history. There was, OF course, great
deal of curious lore unearthed, as there
Is a story attached to every foot OF
ground in London. Some Of those VINO
made the pilgrimage to Poes grave
think the walls and ratings shouia
come down. and this was Joaquin MIL
ler's opin.on. He thought the erect Oh
the monument, placed in the corner
and partly cut Oft from view was u'-
minished. 1t had, to his mind, con-
tracted and sQuatty look. The trees
and grass of the graveyard wear dull,
deep green at present, and almost ev-
ery morning the custodian of the place
and a ferocious mastiff stand at the
gate and look about as if they had been
vigilantly on duty all night The scnool
children 60 shyly by. afraid Of the Dig
dog. and the sparrows hop among INV
slabs. Baltimore News.
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A sum In Permutationa.

The Yale lock manufacturers have
proved that in patent lock having
six steps" each capable Of being re-
duced in height twenty times. the num-
Der of changes or combinations will be
81, 400. Further, that as the drill pin
and the pipes of the keys may be made
of three different sizes. the total num-
Der of changes will be 2,592.00O In keys
OF the smallest size the total number
of changes through which they can be
run is 4S,600, while in those of large
the number can be increased to not
less than 7,776.0OO different changes,
This is not so surprising when We find
on turning up an arithmetic book that
the number of changes that can be
rung on twenty-four bells Is 62O,44S,-
4Ol. 7s3, 239 ass. 800, 900.
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WHITE CANNIBALS.
Records show That Love of Hum.
Flesh La Not Confined a. o.

hecorus snow That Love of Human
Flesh is Not Confined to savages.
The question has recently been asked
by a French scientist whether white
people were evercannibals. An English
Journal says that 50 far as the records
OF primitive man are Trustworthy they
show that whether white. brown or
Diack, he was cannibal. Within his
toric times the evidence of Homer and
Herodotus shows that the inhabitants
OF northeastern Europe and of the
caspian region were strongly suspected
CT cannibalism. Again, there is the
authority of st. Jerome in support of
the statement that the British contin-
gent enlisted by Theodosius were can
nibals and that cannibalism was the
rule rather than the exception among
the ancient Scots. There is a white
bearded race of savages among the for
ests OF Maranon, in South America,
supposed TO be descended from de-
serters and stragglers from the Span
Ism conquerors, who are believed to be
cannibals. After the English conquest
In the fourteenth century, parts Of
Scotland were reduced to such fearful
desolation that in places the unfortun-
ate inhabitants were driven to canni-
balism through sheer lack OF food.
During the first half of the seventeenth
century the cannibal family of Alexan-
der Balm or Sawney Beane, fourished
on the coast of Galloway. Before it's
determination the family consisted Of
eight sons and eighteen grandsons, six
daughters and fourteen granddaugh-
tiers. One of the girls, a mere infant,
was spared the fate which overlook the
rest but she had hardly completed her
twelfth year before the Unborn craving
for human flesh broke out and she was
burned to death for the crime of cannl-
balism.
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''E uP-TO-DATE BURGLAR.
means OF Machinery, Saves
iIme and Gets Moncu

-, means or Machinery, Saves
n, Tine and Gets Money.
.rn He modern burglar is adopting mod
~ appliances. The jimmy bids fair
lOnn se0ohe a relic of the past before
lnss s. recent burglary In France il
ers", a'es this fact. A gang of ingenious
'Asmen entered a bankers office
cons.u win steel saw of the newest
pro ur.ion, and a handy little gas en-
sra,- mere was no need for the ex-
nooa Se Oh muscle, nor was there any
saw '''y tor good strong wrist at the
ann.,a 20 .nere was at one time in the
eDv,ns VI famous robberies. The little
nroaa e was started. the saw put in the
sas sn' place, and the connections made
conr,. themselves serenely upon a
,~noSo. u chairs near at hand. these
xs Tdsrn burglars watched the true and
dbie %, ork OF their appliances. The
Ia se might have resisted for hours
In.,' rec of human hands. but the saw
elied by the engine. it could not
hnu against. 1t promptly Yielded I'M
= contents OF over $4,000 of gold and
'onus' and In quarter of the time 1t
,o"iu nave taken to have committed
h he ropoery under the old conditions.
ne burglars were well out of the build
ng with their booty.
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one mining community and another
and a couple of years ago gravitated
back 10 Birkner. Ever since that her
health has been growing worse and
now, after heroic struggle to continue
her musical studies, she is forced to
give them up. Prof Tufts has repeat
eddy urged her parents TO move her TO
a more healthy location and has tried
to make her father realize the i'm
portance of saving his daughters voice
but Jesse Randall is not an ambitious
man. His first duty as he sees IT is to
feed and clothe his family, and he is
able to do that where he is. He will
let well enough alone. Nearly four
years ago Prof. Tufts gave concert at
Freeburg. In the audience was Sarah
Randall. then slip of a girl she lis
tened raptly TO the music. 1t stirred
her deeply. She went home and TO bed,
but she could not sleep. She knew she
could sing and the concert had awak,
ened in her a wish that she might cul-
tivate her voice. Visions OF herself
holding great audiences spell-bound
by the magic of her voice filed her
mind. Before she slept she had made
up her mind to try. The next morning
she arose early and slipped out Of the
house, ran to the depot. She knew Prof.
Tufts would take the early train to
Belleville When ne reached the depot
a moment before train time she ap-
preached him timidly and asked him If
he would give her singing lessons.
He was in a hurry and told her that IL
she wanted TO take lessons she would
have to come to Belleville. She did so
and he began to teach her As soon as
he heard her sing he discovered that
she had a remarkably beautiful voice.
but ii was not until two years later,
when he began giving her Instructions
in voice culture that he had an oppor-
tunity to know how great was her
range. She has been studying ever
since. but for one reason or another
she was forced 10 miss many lessons,
and many others were taken at tines
when she was in no condition 70 re-
ceive instruction. being wearied and
dispirited by the heavy tasTyS6SrSsg
obliged to perform. But she was
swayed by n consuming ambition TO
succeed and no obstacle was too great
for her to overcome. She did washing
and other heavy work in order 10 get
money to pay for her lessons. and many
times has walked six miles from her
home in Birkner to Belleville for her
weekly lesson. Prof. Tufts cannot aAak
too highly of the possibilities of siss
Randall's voice under favorable al Ii
lions. To the writer be said:
Her tones are peculiarly rich. sweet,
and have great carrying
power. IN addition to her wonderful
range her high notes are uncommonly
strong. AT present she sings from r.
the third space In the bass stafr. to the
second A fiat above the treble staff II
she gets no farther than stat
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Waters of the Sound,
One of the chief dishes in the cock
ney bill of fare in England is the peri
Wrinkle, shellfish resembling in shape
the common snail, says the New York
Journal. 1t has hitherto been practi-
cally unknown to American epicures
and is said to be greatly inferior to the
species of shellfish eaten in this coun-
try.
OF late periwinkles have been offered
for sale in a number of stores patron
lied by the New York colony of cock
neys. 1t is said that all of the peri
wrinkles sold in New York come from
New Rochelle. An Englishman living
there was in the habit of importing
them for his own use. One consign-
ment was much larger than he ex-
pected or wanted, and he concluded
to try an experiment and see II they
could be grown in this country.
He dumped about bushel in the
sound, and, to his surprise and pleas
ure, they seemed to thrive as well there
as in their native English waters. They
multiplied rapidly and he not only
found it unnecessary to import any
more but had more than he could pos
sibly use. So he has placed them on
sale and Is deriving a considerable
revenue from them.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-05
A Wax Spring.

81 believe that Utah will one day
produce more mineral wealth than any
state in the entire country" remarked
a gentleman who had at one time made
a tour of the country. When / was
in the then territory, l made pros
pecting trip into the Uintah reserva-
ton, located in the northeastern cor
ner of the state. During the trip my
self and partner came upon one of the
most remarkable curiosities In the west,
n spring OF mineral wax. Enough had
dubbed out upon the surface OF the
ground to have satisfied the demand
for ten years. II was then worth 81
a pound. and was used for the insuia'.
ton of electric wires, yet there was
enough in sight at half the price to
have made us two rich for life, II we
could have carried 1t to market. Two
things stood in the way-the mandate
of the government and the difficulty OF
transporting the stun overland some
several hundred miles into Provo. One
OF these days tho reservation will be
turned into the public domain and the
wealth IL contains will flow into some
body's pockets. AS Il is now, not a
soul is permitted to trouble a single
one of its resources. Well. we passed
on and left the spring With sigh that
might have been heard at Frisco. -
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
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A GTeQl- Grandmother 0I 46.

In the San Gabriel Valley, in South
err California, lives the youngest
great-grandmother in the United
States. She is a handsome, vivacious
woman just entering middle life. She
was a mother at Is, grandmother at
30 and great-grandmother at 46. That
Is the record that has made Mrs. Jen-
ME Nelson the youngest great grand
mother in the country.
Mrs. Nelson was born in San Ber-
nardino, Cal, in May, 1850. Her mother
was Spanish woman and her father
an Englishman. Mrs. Nelson's maiden
name was Jennie Fawcett. There were
less than fifty white people in the old
Mexican and Indian town of San Ber-
nardino when she was little girl, and
there was no settlement of whites near
er than Los Angeles-ninety miles to
the west. 1t was natural that these
few white families there should be very
intimate with one another. So. when
Miss Jennie was II years old, she was
married by a Methodist missionary to
the son of the Fawcett family's best
friends, the Nelson's. The husband,
George Nelson, was then 10, but he had
seen so much of hardships on the bor-
derland of civilization in the south
west that he seemed like a sedate, hard
headed pioneer of 80.
March 9, 1865, when the bride lacked
two months of completing her fifteen
years, her first child was born 1t was a
girl. The youthful family moved to
San Diego a year later, and there, in
the course of eleven years, six more
children were born. The eldest was
named Isabelle. She was famous in
the little pueblo of San Diego in those
days as the prettiest girl in town. A
dashing young Yankee, Earl E. Phelps,
Francisco to San Diego in 1879. He
had recently been graduated from Cor
nell University. He fell in love with
Miss Isabelle, who was then a girl in
short dresses. One day young Phelps
and the school girl came home from the
drive married. Jure II, 1880, their
first child, girl, was born in the
Phelps ranch home. The mother was
Is years and months old, and the
grandmother, Mrs. Nelson, was 80.
The grandchild, Amelia, has grown
to girlhood Last year she became en-
gagged to young Orange county ranch
man, Henry w. Walker, and few
weeks thereafter she was married. A
month ago, at the age of 10 years and 3
months, Mrs. Amelia Walker became
the mother of a little boy.
There are several uncommon facts in
connection with these generations of
youthful mothers. One is that the
great grandchild recently born is a
week older than an aunt, who was
born to his grandmother on Sept. 20,
and is but two years younger than a
grand uncle, born to his great-grand-
mother in 1894. Baby Walkers father
Is 20 years old, his grandfather has just
passed his 35th birthday, and his great
grandfather Nelson is barely 40. The
great grandparents have nine children,
aged from to 80 years; eighteen grand
children, aged from l month to 10
years, and one great-grandchild. None
of their descendants has ever died.
The little Walker baby has also four
great eat-grandparents, who are
more than 20 years Of age.
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reader in Chicago the other evening.
Miss Field is a tall, handsome girl, 20
years of age, and has inherited much
of the talent and genius of her brilliant
father. She was her fathers favorite
child and is regarded as his natural
successor. She was educated partly in
Germany and partly in the United
States. She is brunette, with large.
expressive eyes, clear complexion
and an excellent figure. She is known
among her intimates as "Trotty,"
name of affection bestowed upon her
by her father while she was a baby.
Mr.. Fields book. "A Little Book Of
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sical town to have voice of phenom-
email range and sweetness. She is
Sarah Randall. She lives at the mouth
OF Dutch Hollow, just opposite where
the Louisville and Nashville tracks
curve sharply into the devastated val
ley where stood the village of Birkner
before the May tornado swept it out OF
existence. Her father is a Welsh coal
miner and digs a scant living for his
family out of the mines at the Hollow
Sarah was born in Birkner nearly 20
years ago and is the eldest of seven
children, but she is slight and fragile
and seems but a child. During these
twenty years the family has lived in
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-05
Now Method. Of Extracting Gold.


The real cause of the recent notapie
increase in the production OF gold mas
been almost entirely the marked I'M
provements made in the processes Vi
mining. To the engineers rather than
to the gold hunters and the explorers
credit should be given for the immense
production of the precious metal IN
new fields
It is this very fact that makes the
promise Of a great gold yield for many
decades to come most solid and trlsy;
Isa; science win render D Of sss
n lrS% worthy oS q attention s. o1s the %a ,' Be
t or ,ai 10 weld another harvest to MIN
ora
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she has what manv Co.,.
would give all they naas
and much more to scon,. p''s s
reaches high F above the trebls ., .as
very easily now, and with good bss,, s
and favorable surroundings fael e aa'
hdent she could in time reach ,Sa Oon-
ond high c above the STAFF '''-
The professor also speaks ~ -.
OF the greatest praise OF ME- ' n
dalrs amiability and winning trai TAU !,
character and Of her devotion - VI "
parents and other relatives A''
But in addition to her fail,rn -,
her spirits have been recently affsa,e a
by the deaths of her grandmotbsr ~
whom she was greatly attached .ns
George Mozart Tufts. the gifted gos aIu
violinist, in whose success sbs NO
greatly interested. She has hsco,as
discouraged and lost ambition ana :,
though no such announcement Wa.
made at the time Of Prof. Tufts last
concert, it is more than probable .s
stated that she will not be heard again
and her brilliant voice will he los, 80
the public unless she finds friends who
will assist her.
TO the writer Miss Randall talked
modestly about herself, her voice and
her lost ambition.
/ had hoped she said, Ito complete
my studies and maybe make myself
place and possibly be able to do some
thing for my parents in their old age
but | have given up all thought of that
now. If | never recover, a musical
education will do me no good. II I
should get well, perhaps | can study
again, but We are very poor'-this last
In a trembling voice-"and il NAV
never be"
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,os ,ed through devious ways, and over
many thcrns and through many Dram-
hles Years ago. when England was
.glow with religious controversy, when
ns,pernatural religion" was stirring
tbs established church from It's center
n It's circumference. Temple threw
himself into the battle with much
ylgor and his momentum carried him
farther than he had foreseen. HIS
opinions as then expressed returned
from the dead past to stand in his way
when he was named for a bishopric.
liberal in religion, he won the broad
friendship of Gladstone, and the pre-
mier stood by him and saw to 1t that he
was made a bishop. Canterbury was
awaiting for him, and he knew 1t. His
mast omissions and commissions were
forgotten. and at the ripe age OF three
score and fifteen he stepped into the
loftiest ecclesiastical position In the
state. The old archbishop's father
was a Major Octavius Temple, one of
the good old stock that was royal when
Ireland had its own kings. The major
was a governor of Sierra Leone in
Africa. His son was graduated from
Baliol oxford, and when the primate
was a young man he was a genius OF
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Lord uosebery,s Young Daughters.


Though they have lived 90 quietly the
two young daughters of Lord Rosebery
have come in contact with any number
OF distinguished folk, one of their most
recent acquaintance being Ii Hung
Chang, who was delighted with Lord
Rosebery's young sons and daughters.
Young as they are, the Ladies' Sybil
and Peggy have sat for their portraits
to those whom we, alas! now numbeS
among dead masters In an acad-
envy exhibition some ten years ago the
portrait of Lady Peggy-a pretty mite
of some FIVE summers. In quaint Green
away dress was voted one of Sir John
Millais' best portraits Of childhood. and
not far of hung a portrait OF Lady
sybil. by Sir Frederick Leighton.
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InsnltinS a Police Omcial.

A queer case OF insult OF
officials came up recently in q
Berlin police court. A stone
mason was ordered by police lieuten-
ant to remove some stones from the
highway. He answered in loud voice
that he would do so. The lieuten-
ant objected to the tone Of the answer,
and arrested him. At the trial the man
pleaded that he had used his natural
voice, and the court refused to fine him,
but reprimanded him for behaving in.
sultingly.
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Repnlscd.

you are asking for aims, are your"
asked benevolent individual of Grip
pied beggar.
mo, sir" replied the unfortunate
man. IL have my arms all right, but
IL you could get me a good cork les
I'd be forever in debt to you. sir. -
Pittsburg cle-Telegraph.
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nusoy at time when Rugby was the
sea. public school. In 1860 he was
.V'di chaplain, sided with Gladstone in
1e establishment of the Irish
. .,as was fellow of Ballot, was Gre
, t'su oiShop of Exeter. hampton lee
~" Nv, ior oxford, and, in 1885, bishop of
hs ouuon, The highest step has just
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Rapid Steamships O, IN. ru,.r..

Mr. m :, "' INC Future.
,,aa wi. .. II. Byles. the designer OF
d, d. Paris and New York. pre-
- tnat steamships with n capacitv
a. 'nlr'y knots an hour will be realIz-
ha ar ere long. The gain in speed will
usa ~ 70 70 improved machinery and the
Goa, " concentrated and easily stowable
couia WIN such ships the Atlantic
four ~ ss oe crossed in between three and
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Attorney-It is stated, sir. that you
berated this plaintiff, and then assailed
him with a dangerous missile. De-
fendant-Oi didn't do notin' av tn
koind OF called i'm lynn pup an hit
i'm wild a brick. Dhat was all.-Cleve.
land Leader.
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IupudeDge.

Mr.. Clubman-My private secretary,
young Nicefellow. says he is an ac-
quaintance OF yours. Miss Citybelle--
What impudence! never met him ex-
cept at the seaside. and last summer
even refused to become engaged to
him again.-New York Weekly.