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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-15
FASHIONS IN PATENT MEDICINE
A Druggist Tells of some of the Tricks
of the Trade.

"a new patent medicine" said
druggist to a New York World reporter.
like a new paper is hard TO get on the
market, and the tricks resorted TO by
the promoters would Ill volume. AS
o general thing IL does not pay us 10
handle a new article. no matter how IA
vorable the inducements offered, ior
there are already enough in the market
with a certain sale to stock the average
drug store.
There is a druggist In Newark VINO
makes a speciality of patent medicines
He claims to keep in stock everything
that is put up, and his cellar contains
So 900 worth of stuff, much of which
will never be called for by his CUSTOM
ers. Still, on account of the immense
profits he finds it pays. and many other
druggists would follow him If they had
the capital and room to spare.
cat present the craze runs to pro-
prietary medicines. These differ from
patent medicines, as they profess to be
a specific for one certain disease ana
have the formula plainly printed on the
wrapper.
"The owners OF these proprietary
medicines look to tie medical profess
sion for customers. AS soon as new
one is brought out sample bottles are
sent to even the most obscure Doctors
and a glib talker goes around to expa-
tiate upon it's virtues. l fancy money
often talks in this business quite as ell
fectively as the agent, and many pa
tients have stuff recommended by their
physAians which never has been put 10
the test. BY this method of introdue-
ton many medicines get to have prof.
liable sale that are little known ana
the names of which are never seen upon
! the rooftops or along the highways
LAS for the tricks resorted to TO IN
duce a druggist to lay in stock OF
a new preparation. the one most gene
rally employed is to have agents in the
guise of customers visit the drug stores
These agents, who are of both sexes
pretend to be surprised when you nave
MT what they ask for in stock. Some
times a dozen of them will visit you
in the course of single day, and the
unsuspecting druggist is apt to thinN
that he is not up to date. and Will lay
in a stock of unstable stuff. / have
been caught that way myself, and nov
I never fill an order for new prepare
ton unless am sure it is for legiti
mate customer"
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OF Her Own Invention.

1t is not generally known that The
polka was invented by Bohemian girl
named Haniczka Selezka. She was
blooming young peasant maiden and
the best dancer in the village Of Coste-
lee. on the river Elbe, and used to per-
form solo dances of her own invention
at the various village festivities. II was
in the year 1880 at farmhouse. that
the assembled guests asked her TO dance
a solo and she said; Il will show you
something quite new and to the music
of her own singing she danced the polka
step, though with more elaboration
than it is now performed. The dance
found favor at once and became so
popular that II later became q national
dance. Haniczka named 1t pull1u, as
she said it was danced in short steps;
from pulku came polku and finally
polka. the dance three years later be-
coming popular in Prague and in 1889
IL was already danced at the Vienna
balls and one year later became the
most popular dance in Paris.
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MORE OR LESS HUMOROUS.

st. Peter-Who are you? Applicant
Felix Dugan: and you? st. Peter
II am St. Peter. Applicant-Shake.
| used to be a janitor myself.--Puck.
Uncle George-Got trusted for t.?
Very badl When l was young man
I always paid cash for everything
bought. Frivolous nephew-You don't
mean to say that your credit was as
bad as thatl--Boston Transcript
Mrs. Bingo--I wish you would tell
that servant girl that we don't require
her any more. Bingo-Certainly. my
dear. Q.ater. to Bridget Bridget.
Mrs. Bingo wants to see you.-Life.
Ethel (aged 6)-I don't love you any
more. grandpa. Grandpa-Why not.
Ethel? Ethel-'Cause love you so
much already that l couldn't love you
any more il | tried. Please give me 5
cents.-Judge.
Brown-This hypnotism Is con-
founded humbug. I've looked into il
thoroughly and there's nothing in It,
Mrs. Brown-IIow did you get inter
ested in Il? Brown-l thought II
might como In handy to put baby tc
sleep. Truth.
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"rhe british Rarharinns."

A hilltop novel BY Grant Allen.
This book will doubtless create some
thing like the stir of the same authors
woman Who Did" To foreigner it
is primarily refreshing TO see an Eng
lishman admit the boorish flaws in
British character that have always been
such an annoyance to other nations.
The work is, in general, however, a
very keen attack upon modern social
customs by a mysterious alien, who
likens them ALL with delightful adorit-
ness, to the "taboos" of savage races.
The destructive criticism OF modern
life is supplemented by a rather vague
constructive philosophy, based beauti-
fully on altruism. The aim of the work
is high, and il deserves respect for its
fearlessness and evident sincerity. The
climax. disclosing the origin of the AL
trurian, reaches at the sublime. but
comes dangerously near the ludicrous.
AS bit of literary style the work lacks
finish. Its heaping up of neurological
information, however. is delightful.
Cloth. 81. &c. p. Putnam's Sons, New
York;
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means OF enjoying herself, has a much
better time than could possibly have
been enjoyed by her grandmother.
lAere must have been just as many
bright spirited girls and active, ener-
setic women fifty years ago as there
are now, but their high spirits, or exub-
Grant vitality did not take the form of
healthy out Of door life. They did not
walk much. How could they walk
along country roads and muddy lanes
IL sandaled shoes and thin stockings?
anu TIE dress depicted in the fashion
pa'es published half a century ago
uOes not seem to our eyes to be very
well adapted for athletic sports. In
iIse towns 1t was thought very incor-
,ec' ior girls to walk in the streets even
u pairs and utterly impossible alone.
a Uaid or footman must be in attend
0Hce' II father or brother was not
available. and even in their company
y guarded by depressing attendant,
II was Just as well in some of the more
uOwded streets that a girl should not
walk at all.
VI course, girls were allowed to ride
VI horseback, but those who did so were
u the minority, and there was a sort OF
uuwritten law that matrimony put an
,uu 10 II entirely. 1t could not have
Oesu 50 heartbreaking to have given it
W as II would be now. Riding for a
"Ounah only meant tittuping in the
pa,A When in town on two-pommeled
.auu'e and wearing full, bunchy habit
-a' IN some instances swept the
s.Ounu' and that fluttered in the breeze
. ra% also blew about the long gauze
WI mat adorned beaver hat and
az. SOunry riding was equally tame
S",y 'he emancipated woman OF those
~ s!o hunted, and she did so in defiance
VI public opinion.
at .ue uiIilculty was to find any exhilar.
|s sport or game. or any health-giv.
s pursuit In which women were al.
s,L. 70 take part, and exercise for the
nv my Vi exercise, always distateful tC
el,h, u'u not commend itself to womer
So If' There was nothing for them t
M, - o. Tue open air. No tennis, no golf
s,n cav wen eroquet! A woman who coult
sw.na Uoat was unheard of; she never
lpSa~ shooting and fishing were in tn,
ana among other equally deadly sins
0'cyeling-as we know-was not
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scholars of worldwide fame, ana the
results up to date have more than justi-
fed his action and raised the highest
hopes as to the outcome OF the enter
prise.
The shin is known to contain price
less historical treasures. Those al
ready brought to the surface are worth
their weight in gold. 1t was not until
several DAYS work that the divers after
nenetrating the garment of almost I'M
palpable mud that has settled WITHIN
two thousand placid years on the wreck
of Tiberiuss pleasure craft, succeeded
in loosening an immense object, whlch'
after being hauled with difficulty to
tho surface. assumed the shape oil
lion.
II was life size. Its crust or I'M
memorial mud gave 1t a dark ana I'M
cannv aspect. The little band Oh ar
Oh ogists who were watching the
work-bespectacled gray-beards VINO
know more about the reign of Tiberius
than most people know about the Mon
roe doctrine-took it in hand and en-
Draceu III lONlHSlys duiNS iSseAN' -
the ruin that accrued to their clothes
from its garment of filth. They scraped
n they RUBBED it, they sprayed 1t,
they cleaned it, they polished 1t. and
nj length. when they were all on the
verge of exhaustion. and quite unfit to
be seen. they fell back to rest in ecstat-
ic contemplation of Numean lion in
unrest bronze, evidently the work of
eonsummate artificer of Rome's golden
era.
A priceless work OF genius. The
savants rubbed their eyes and smiled
ecstatlcally. For moment or two they
we'll nigh fell on each others necks
then. professional emulation reassert
ing itself. they produced their micro
scopes and lowered round the bronz'
lion, scrutinizing the minutest crevice'
in the metal taking notes. mutterinl
learned conjectures and constructing
involved hypothesis in the endeavor Z
discover who might have been tn
sculptor of Tiberius's lion. They wer
nightly solemn over 1t. and they end
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The DEVILS Dozen.

In all the civilized countries of the
world thirteen is referred TO as being
somebody's dozen" In America. Aus
tralia, Great Britain (present day. and
several other lands that number is said
10 be bakers Dozen" In Italy it is
referred to as the "cobbler's dozen"
there being a tradition that there was
formerly a law which compelled cob
blers to put twelve tacks or nails
around the edge of boot heel. Finally,
when nails became cheap, a center nail
was driven for luck" That nail was,
of course. the thirteenth, and in order
to break the spell of that unlucky num-
Der, the number in the heel was never
spoken of as being more than an even
dozen. In old England thirteen was
called 1.-The DEVILS Dozen" but exactly
why is not known.
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PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Arthur Orion, the once famous Itch
Borne claimant, now keeps a little to-
bacco shop in London.
Victor Emmanuels monument in tho
Pantheon. at Rome, has already COST
s2 900 900. and will need S3,0O0,O00 more
before IL is completed.
Robinson Crusoes musket is offered
for gale in a collection of curiosities in
Edinburgh that includes 10 instru-
neats of torture, chiefly Spanish, and
relics of Gustavus Adolphus OF Sweden.
Thurman was an incessant reader OF
French novels while he was In con-
gress. and he used ordinarily TO keep
one of the paper-bound volumes IN
his desk to while away the time when
things were dull. The justices OF the
Sunreme court have been noted for
their fondness for this kind of litera-
tnre. As n matter of fact, the French
novel is read more out OF France thah
In it.-Philadelphia Press.
w. s. Gilbert has just been through
n rather amusing experience. The
Countess dc Fremont, who Is lady
noet" as we'll as lady journalist,
wrote to the famous librettist, askine
him to give her an interview about the
approaching performance of His Ex.
cellency." He replied that he would
gladly do so-for 20 guineas. There
upon the countess retorted with note
in which she said she would take great
Measure. some day. in writing his
obituary from data that would cost he'
nothing. Mr.. Gilbert sent the corrc-
snondence to the papers, with satirica
comments of his own, and was there
upon sued for lihel The jary iouhu l.
hts favor without leaving the box-
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Heavy Material Neces.arr.

Miss Debonair attracts no end of adj
miration in her smart, coatless costume;
in fact, gowned in "her figure" as the
saying goes now. This casting aside
the heavy outer wrap to appear on even
bitterly cold days in the street gown,
is a strictly Partisan fad, and an ex-
tremely chic one, as well. Furs in
abundance are worn, but not in such
a manner as to hide the contour of the
form. OF course, the heaviest, warmest
of materials are chosen for this style
of gowning. not to speak of the large
majority of velvet frocks. Soft boucles,
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-15
Eugene Fields New Book.

1.-The Love Affairs of Bibliomaniac"
with an Introduction by Roswell Martin
Field. limo, $1.25, is now on sale.
The intimate personal tone, as
well as the charming literary quail
ty of this book, will endear it to all Of
Mr.. Fields many admirers. 1t is de-
lightfully original in conception, treat
ing in photographic form such invit-
ing topics as The Luxury of Reading
in Bed" THE Mania of Collecting"
Ballads and Their Makers" Book
sellers and Printers, Old and New"
Pleasures of Extra Illustration"
"Odors Which Books Exhale," "Elze-
virs," etc. Charles Scribner's Sons.
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the philosophy of American literature,
has given us in this volum a very
creditable piece of work, one which
shows wide reading, a keen historical
sense, and good judgment. The book
would be much more disable if accom-
panied by a table of contents and an in
dex, but probably the author wished
his readers to plunge directly into the
book and see at first hand what it had
to say. Having at any rate made the
plunge we are able 10 affirm that the
old subject is here presented in fresh
and telling manner. What Mr.. White
has to say about the Anglo-Saxon per-
riod is unimportant but his handling Of
the complex and critical transitional
period" Q100-1400) is clear, sympathet-
ic and helpful. Some of the hetero-
geneous matter, concerning contempt
rary European history and literature,
seems to us to be too slightly correlat-
ed with the main line of study. II the
author had devoted a little more atten-
tion to this matter he would have given
his work more of the unity of a portray
al. Students Of literature will find much
valuable and interesting matter in this
book, lucidly and thoughtfully pre-
/ sented
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with their furry coat OF black, silky
hairs. are much in favor.
The color is deliciously deep,
rich prune color, made dark and rich
as velvet in certain lights by the thick
coating of black down" 1t is en- prin-
cesse, nipped in small and round at the
waist and curving beautifully over the
full hips. The foot of the skirt meas
ures not less than eight yards around,
and has a rustling lining of heavy,
crisp pgune silk. 1t is double-breasted'
and fastened with odd ornaments In sa-
BILE fur from throat to foot. The sleeves
are oddly cut to cling to the shoulders
and upper arms and to flare out IN rlcn
masses at the elbow, while hitting the
lower arm like a snug glove. There is
plain high band collar, faced with
velvet at the throat. A great thick boa
muff of the same, worth a kings ran
som. gives the necessary warmth 10 the
costume. There is a tip-tilted hat OF
shining black beaver, with a long, fuii
black plume set under the brim to rest
against the bronze-tinted hair, and an
other long plume on the outside with
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Literary Note from the Century Co.

Henry NJ. Stanley, in an article on
the Development of Africa" which APP
pears in the February Century. recalls
the fact that troubles with the Beers
In Southern Africa first induced David
Livingstone to travel to the North, and
so led the way to the opening of Equa-
torial Africa. Livingstone, who was
missionary at Kolobeng, accused his
Boer neighbors of cruelty to the natives.
They resented his interference, and
threatened to drive him from the coun-
try. He published their misdeeds in
the Cape newspapers, and his house
was burned in revenge. This led to his
leaving Southern Africa and going to a
region where he could follow in peace
his vocation as a missionary, unmolest-
ed by the Boer farmers.
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ed by each formulating a theory OF his
leagues of its accuracy, with much
flashing of spectacles and wagging OF
grizzled heads.
The dispute was interrupted by
shout from the contadine who were
working on the float, signifying that
the divers down beneath had signalled
another find. The grave professors
gathered round with the eagerness of
children as the creaking of the winch
told them that the object, whatever its
nature, was heavy. AS it emerged from
the water and was hoisted to the stag
ing and thence TO the bank it was seen
TO be the efiigy OF a wolf-eyidently a
companion piece to the lion. Ii under
went the same process as had its pre-
decessor and was made the subject Of
an even closer scrutiny and more ex-
cited controversy.
Two things were agreed upon-first,
that the lion and the wolf were superb
examples of antique art; second, that
Apollodox, the renowned architect OF
Damascus, was the genius who de-
signed and executed the floating palace
for his imperial patron.
Among the most interested specta-
tors of the strange scene was Prince
| Orsini, who numbers the lake and the
surrounding groves among the feudal
possessions of his family. There is
much of the old Roman patrician about
Prince Orsini Clothe him in a toga
against the background of sylvan
beauty and he might stand for cour'
tier of the savage Tiberius himself
come to participate in his eXtravagan
pleasures. He was impressive enough
in his shooting suit of Scotch tweed
directing the workmen. He had spent
part of his own fortune in trying tC
recover the leviathan that lies beneath
the CLASSY surface of Lake Nemi. anC
the government recognizes him as one
who has every title to supervise the
work, as far as lies in his inclination
The Prince has astonished the as
sembled savants by his profount
knowledge of antiquities, and they al
ready evince a tendency to defer to hi
Judgment. BY his orders the bronx
lion and wolf have both been removed
to the Orsini museum, which contain
a priceless collection of art objects an
antiquities.
One can form an estimate of the stu
pendous character of the task under
taken by the Minister of Public Instruc
ton only by considering that the shi
Tiberius built is nearly as large as tn
Campania, and is lying in over hun
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ne.erre. Wei Of the Public.

"A New Aristocracy," by Birch Ar
mold" is a brilliantly written novel
with a mighty lesson beneath its sur
face. The story begins at the bottom Of
things, and through the dignity OF
honest labor, honestly performed.
places the practical solution of the la
Dor problem within the power OF each
man and woman. The author has evil
IDENTIFY won a firm claim to power as a
writer of dramatic fiction. Detroit.
Bartlett Publishing Co
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vouen.. Reform work In Prison.

Philadelphia women are just now in
terested in working among the prison
inmates, and there are various guilds
and societies devoted exclusively to
that purpose. Once a week the heavy
prison doors are thrown open and the
"prison angels" go in to teach needle
work, give kindly advice, or read from
good books. The "twenty-four-hour
cases" or women who are simply
locked Up over night TO answer some
minor charge. are mide a special OBJ
iect OF effort. The women engaged in
the work are unanimous in the opinion
that 1T pays
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MADE A GREAT SUCCESS.
An Editor Who Knew Nothing About
the business, but Made Money.


From the Grafton Record: was
talking with printer the other day
who worked for a number of years at
Pennington, Mimi, for a man by the
name OF Squires. At one time he had
a partner by the name of Farmer, the
firm name being Farmer & Squires.
One day when the press was being
loaded the "&" dropped out, leaving
plain Farmer Squires, and the edition
las run off before it was noticed; Farm
er sold out the next day, but it was
Farmer Squires paper from that on.
He made a big success out of the pa
per, although he didn't know a four
plea lead from a two-revolution Hoe,
and he did not do thing toward run
ming the paper except make contracts
for advertising-that was his strong
point; he got hay knives, tanning mills,
sewing machines, pile drivers, washing
machines for advertising; he accepted
all propositions, including patent med
icine and scholarships. The printer
had to do the rest; he built the fires, set
the type, got the news, attended to the
political and moral end Of the paper;
smoked the wedding cigars; chased
over the country on a bay horse after
! subscribers. took the blame and looked
happy-and the proprietor edited the
trading end. He traded farm machin,
cry for cows, hogs, hens, grain, wood,
| anything to sell, eat or burn. Once he
had an angry COW tied to the front door
of the printing Office that he had traded
a hay rake for. The COW tore the
clothes almost OFF the mayor of the
town, who rushed into the Office so mad
that he forgot to stop the paper, but he
scared the devil so bad that he stopped
his growth: Sometimes there would be
an auction in the office, and Squires
would stand on the bed of the Fairhaven
press and sell lot of truck so there
would be room in the office to get out
the paper. but he never got stuck on
anything and finally sold out for big
figure on the strength of his profits,
which quit with him.
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A stnrr Worth Reading.

"The Years That the Locust Hath
Eaten" is fancifully-named story
from the pen of Annie f. Holdsworth.
with poverty. selfishness, vanity and
death always in sight-even the love
and charity are sorrowful. The tone.
is over-tense and the reading leaves
only a sensation of pain. While the
slow elimination is artistically devel-
oped. and from literary standpoint
the work is well done, the author
would have done better had she been
in less morbid state OF mind. Cloth.
SO7 pges. s1.25. New York: Macmillan
a Col
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.rD into a mass of broad pleats at
F'su W. ~, The little waist is made with
, oS'" ,ollness. brought into the belt
'llSl inv cord There is a round yoke
MI heated vest, with epaulettes OF
|l,.. . haunting over the sleeves. An
MAIN" s' Of ermine brightens the whole
.,"me and makes the little lady look
h. small kitten. A soft sash OF
y, elk encircles the waist, and is
i. u Al n fnll loops at the back. Black
|'s.s.Iined Isle thread stockings, with
|,,let shoes Of kid, are worn.