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Omaha daily bee., 1896-05-23
JAPANESE COOLIES UP IN REVOLT.
Plantation LnbOrcrs I'm GundaIoup,
RiHe Agninst the Ereurh

Copyright. 1896, by Press Publishing company
BASSE TERRE, Island Of Guadaloupe,
West Indies Via Kingston, Jamaicl), May
22.-(New York World Cablegram-Special
Telegram.)-The Japanese immigrants are
again in rebellion. The uprising has become
so formidable as to cause the planters grave
anxiety The colonial government is adopt
Ing drastic measures to suppress the insur-
rection, Notwithstanding the stipulation2 Of
the treaty.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-05-23
FISHERMEN WATCH HER SINK
Vessel Thought to Be a Filibuster Goes
Down Of ManSanillo.
INSURGENTS MOVING WESTWARD AGAIN
Advance Guard of the Column En-
gagged Near the Line between
santa Clara and Mntansns
Provinces.

Copyright, 1896 by Press Publishing Company
HAVANA, May 22.-(New York Gable
gram-Spec al Telegram)-A report comes
from Manzanillo that some fishermen had
seen vessel sunk off the coast at that
place. The filibuster steamer Laurada was
reported to be in that vicinity. There are
no details.
The military news today, like that OF yes
teTday, tends to confirm the report that :Ao
insurgents have crossed the Kanabana river.
Their advance guard was engaged by Cen
eral Molina near the line between Santa
Clara and Matanzas and suffered a loss c.:
sixty men.
Haa hundred insurgents are encamped ct
Hoyo Colorado. on the road from Havana to
Guanajay, and the Spanish troops are pre-
pairing to attack them. A battle is hourly
expected. -Four ira MS of fourteen cars each
were dispatched last night to Guanaiay and
Artemisa to transport troops from those
points eastward to Union de Reyes. 1t wac
tOnud thar the insurgents had destroyed a
mile and a half of the track. 1t is supposed
that they were led by Alberto RODRIGUEZ.
Royalsts report the destruction of an in
surgent armory and the capture of large
amount Of munitions or war and dynamite
at place called L1guna Coba.
NEW YORK, May 22.-(Speclal TelegramD
The Laurada has arrived at Jacksonville
after having landed her Cuban expedition;
therefore, it was not she that sank off Man
Omaha daily bee., 1896-05-23
MillndO Projects a Tour.

LONDON. May 22.-The Chronicle this
morning states that II learns on excellent
authority that the mikado contemplates a
tour OF America and Europe.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-05-23
Grave News from Crete.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, May 22,-The news
from Crete is OF the grayest character. The
Turkish troops in the district OF Sphakia
are surrounded by insurgents, who are being
aided by the Inhabitants.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-05-23

LONDON, May ga Melbourne dispatch
to the Times says: Warlike rumors are prov
alent in Samoa, where the rebel chiefs have
cordially received German war ship, caus-
ing uneaSness
Omaha daily bee., 1896-05-23
Pythians VIII Not Go 10 Columbus

grand chancellor Of the Knights of Pyhias
Of Ohio, being shown the message from
Milwaukee, says the supreme lodge vii,
at the same time and place the national en-
campment Of the Uniform rank will occur.
There VIII not be any encampment at
Columbus.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-05-23

BUENoS AYRES, May 22.-The senate has
approved a sugar bounty bill.
BERLIN, May 22.TThe Bundesrath today
adopted the sugar bill as amended by the
Re.chstag.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-25
Ao.c,,,,oas Followed by Painters.

great deal of modern painting quotea
nature at second hand, and, what Is worse,
A. ouotes much that is false to nature just
as. nlibly as though IL were true. This 10
noticeable at the present time In the use or
tho oolored shadow. Shadows cast upon
snow under certain conditions are blue
and shadows cast upon tho ground are.
upder other conditions, lilac. From this
the hasty conclusion has been reached that
snow shadows are always blue and earth
shadows always lilac. Tho conclusion Is
erroneous. The disposition of colorcd light
is to cast its Complementary color In
shadow.
A yellow sunset will throw blue shadows
unon snow, but n red sunset Will throw
green shadows and greenlsh yellow sun
set violet shadows. The white ground OF
snow makes these colored shadows appar-
emf. Remove the snow and substitute
preen grass, and none of the sunsets Will
throw a colored shadow that Is not lost III
the green ground or, at best, changed into
bIuish green. A yellow sun at MONDAY
viii give tho shadow Of tree falling.
There is no general way OF doing The
shadow that Is not often misleading. The
truo way Is for the painter to paint 1t rs
no secs &C. and not as Monet or some one
else has seen it--Scribner :.
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found. :.
1.-The superintendent knew well
enough that all the valuables we had
belonged Of right TO the company, but
he couldn't prove it, at least he couldn
TO the satisfaction Of the Venezuelan
authorities, so after long hard fight IN
the courts we were let go, but not until
we had been, upon one OF another pre-
text. stripped of everything Ill sight. be
recovered nothing except his longboat,
but the sailors, lawyers, courts and ev-
erybody else pretty much took a hack
at us until nothing was left. Then we
were literally kicked out.
II got TO Porto Rico on goleta; then
to Trinidad before the mast; to Liver
pool in the same way, and finally back
to New York, firing on steamer. LORD!
What tough time / had But through
everything managed to retain my plg
opal. Invent to see Jenny Paterson, and
she would have nothing to do with me.
Alec had got home some time before 1
did and poisoned her mind against me
with stories of l don't know what. l
had hoped he had forgotten the opal and
our fight, but he had not and had done
II @ the worst hurt he could.
"m few days after my return was
arrested again, at the company's IN
stance. ON the old charge Of stealing re-
covered jewels, and q little gold pm
with three or four cheap small stones In
il that was found in my possession when
was taken up was held to be an IN
eliminating proof Of my guilt. 1t was
| not. for / had won it fairly at CARDS
| from another fireman coming over from
| Liverpool, and, so far as know, 1t had
never been within thousand miles Of
| the wreck of the San Pedro Alcantara'
The company did no better prosecutins
me at home than they had done abroad
| for proof was lacking, and l was dis
charged. But the effect Of the affair wal
damning, so far as work in my profes
sion was concerned. No wrecking com
I many would hire a diver supposed to b'
dishonest. | tried for work IN othel
WAYS. got several successive situations
and was driven from each in turn D,
some unknown person-Alec, I've ID
understanding to my employer news
paper account of my trial.
81 lost heart and hope, took to drink
ing hard, had only rags to wear an'
many a day was miserably hungry, ye
through all that bitter time, with
strange unreasoniug infatuation for tn
fascinating and accursed thing. l man
aged to keep my opal, and when
deemed myself secure from observation
would take il from its hiding plac
among my tatters and gloat over it, ant
wonder how much il was worth, and de
bate with myself whether l could max
I'D my mind TO sell it. and, II so. how
could. in my condition, dispose OF sue
a gem without being deemed a thief an
having il seized from mo without an
compensation. All such questions wer
suddenly settled for me.
Zone night had become so utterl
wretched that deliberately resolved
Jump of tho pier and end it all / ha
been looking at my opal until the con
trast between its glory and INV debas'
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ment seemed TO madden me. Within
block Of the river, as i passed dark
alley, a house seemed to fall suddenly
on me. and i knew nothing more. When
recovered my senses, l don't know
how long after, my hair and beard were
matted with blood from cut ON my
head, my face was caked with mud
from the street where i had fallen, and
my opal was gone. No doubt some
robber had seen me handling it, follow
ed, and after knocking me senseless rob-
bed me.
1.-THE blow left me still dazed after 1
had got ON my feet, and l staggered
along aimlessly, in the direction my
nose happened to be pointed, until got
to Broadway. And there ] encountered
Jenny, with her mother, returning home
from visit. The agony in my heart at
sight Of her, so beautiful and far above
the thing / had become, leaped to my
Inns. and without knowing what 1 dld
I cried ont her name as a lost soul
might shrek TO an angel. By sight the
dear girl could not have known me, as
she has told me since, SO much had mis-
ery changed me, but my voice went
straight to her heart, and with an an
swering cry of "Oh, You poor Benl
she sprang to me and held me mp, or
should have fallen. And her mother, a
noble. good woman, who always liked
me, che, too, knew at once whose voice
had called her daughters name and
Aol,~ad spsfaip mn
"They took me home and fixed me
M. Twas i'll for few days. and they
, tended me as kindly as if l had deserv-
ed it, Alec was away, gone to South
| Africa. As soon as got out / found
work in my old profession, at good
wages, with kind, true man who was
willing to give me a chance again. And
| have done we'll ever since, earned gooc
money, saved it, kept sober, and. bes'
of all, married my dear Jenny.
From the hour the opal left me my
luck changed. But week or so after II
passed TO other hands I read in the pa
pers about burly corpse, with its skull
caved in, being found in the East river
and in one Of the pockets of the vest Oh
it was a splendid opal, mine. ] have NJ
doubt, from the description. but neve
went to see or claim II.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-25
A MOUNTAIN VIEW.

The oxen climb the steep road patiently.
And make pause at the summit, painting
slow,
Their dull eyes dropped. The teamsier.
whistling low,
Feels the cool breeze that sings In minor key,
And stirs the pines that darkly. gravely rise.
And moss fieckcd siivern birchss-bares his
head.
And In his brief rest turns his searching eyes
Whore, far below, the grassy pastures spread
And wheathelds-lttle distant checks OF green
And yellow, whore creek CLEANS here aid
there,
Aud homestoads dot the valley everywhere,
With dusty roads wound crookedly between,
And circling peaks stand high and hazy blue,
As though the throbbing life Of man were
not.
The hrawny teainster scans the boundless
Wow
And smiles and ,sts his eyes on one meek
spot.
A far. faint glimpse, but his warm love makes
plain
The little weather beaten house, the shed,
The row of beehivcs, faded blue and red.
The garden. thriving from the morning y rain
The pinlxs that edge the tanbark walk, and
pour
Their sweetness out; the white phlox freshly
blown;
The little child that toddles round the door
This do his fond eyes see, and this alone.
Emma A. Opper in Youths Companion.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-25

The democratic county convention TO
select thirteen delegates TO the State
convention, called to elect four delegates
at large to the national convention was
held Yesterday afternoon at the Fire En-
cine House. Hancock. Michael Finn was
chairman and John d. Cuddihy secretary
The following delegates were chosen
lanes r. Cooper, Thomas Dooling' Dr.
7 r scalIon. NJ. j. Dillon. John ID. Cud-
Sibv A. J. Scott, !. Fl. Wilson, NJ van
nrden DIR. G. W. Orr, l.. Carrigan' Dr.
T. Bobb. A. d. Edwards and Philip }.
dorrie. The convention expressed itseil
os unalterabIy opposed to the Tree and
unlimited coinage Of silver, and instruct
ID the delegates to vote against any mo-
t;on at the state convention tending to
;nrorporate reesilver plankin the state
platform.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-25
From the Evening Times, B9oalo, ". y.

From the Evening Times, Bu0aio, ~. Y.
Charles Roderick, of No. 1877 East Genesee
ST., Buffalo. N. Y, hale, hearty lad, $1,000
leaning carelessly against the banister at the
head of the stair.
He was dressed in his working clothes.
His trousers, shirt and hands were covered
with paste, for they were paperlng at his
home. He looked the perfect picture OF ro-
bust, manly health.
Yes" he said to the Times reporter,
stretching his arms and expanding his chest,
Pm as strong as an OK now, but you ought
10 have seen me year ago. Why you
really wouldn't have known nae.
II am almost ashamed TO say II; but was
addicted 10 the cigarette habit. The smok-
ing of these little things and tobacco chew
ing bore me right down.
al grew worse and worse. Each day, each
week saw my step more feeble, my form
more emaciated, until friends predicted an
II was unable to continue my work as
steam filter.
al tried everything. No man ever had
better medical treatment than / did, but
twas no use.
Just imagine young boy like me (he
Il ebout twenty years OF age) afflicted with
almost all the illness known. My heart was
bad very weak and given TO palpitating. L
was always costive and, oh, MY, 50 weak.
/ was continually Splttlng DloOu anu SasPihg
for breath. So bad did this become that |
was afraid to go to sleep for fear ] would
choke TO death.
al believe / told you had the best of
medical treatment. Six doctors-l don Z
care to put their names in print-all treated
me without success, and l became about
discouraged"
Mr.. Roderick mentioned the doctors by
name 10 the reporter and all were among the
most prominent in the city, living on Main,
Delaware, Franklin, Genesee and other fash
ionable thoroughfares-
About year ago took my first box Of
the medicine that has saved my life.
81 tell you frankly that DIR. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People are the best nedi
cine have ever taken.
~ took five boxes of Pink Pills, just one
less box than had had doctors, and was .
well man. And the pills only cost me d
cents box at that.
II don't like newspaper notoriety," sait
Mr. Roderick. as the reporter turned to go
"and wouldn't let you use my name If !
wasn't because want others to be benefited
by my discovery"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-25
npeRsoNAL SIDE OF WASHINGTON"
Largely Influenced by His Environments
His Tendencies Toward Higher Ideals

Largely Influenced by His Euvironrne"'~
His Tendencies Toward Higher Ideals.
In tho eighteenth century games oil
chance and betting were universal inac'
tices in Virginia, and from Washington
earliest accounts 1t is known that from
the ago of 1G he INDUCED plodernteiy
therein, writes General A. W Grcely III
The Ladies' Home journal. That maH
insidous form Of gambling, the lottery,
was an especial favOrite being rcsortcd &c
for the purpose of raising funds for chari
ty, church use or public improvements
Active and jealous as Washington was ~
promoting plants for the public benefit oi
in extending helping hand to others II
Is not surprising TO find that the tickets o.
tho Msrntain road lottery in 1863 wer.
signed ny him, and that he spent 10
therein. He evidently did nC1 asiuclHS
lottery tickets with gambling any more
than the modern stock broker ssso7iato'
his puts" and calls of today WITH th'
same vice. To his nephew liushroa w
nnd him writing, Avoid ganlbling'
vice productive Of every possible Ill.
II would be extraordinary II II man 81
Washineton's passionate character had ~
Trained entirely from the use of fo'ce ca
and emphatic language. As has lr'n oiSc
where said. his language was alv .. clfan
and. it may bu added, novor wa III ~.
way vulgar beyond an occasional exld
tive.
These phases OF Washington life he'-r
ing on tho problems of drink gaming
etc, emphasize most strongly tlic IL o. iiii
BILE trond that local customs and opinions
give to tho thoughts and habits C Il rtsiIii
generation. Accepting unhosi,aihgly Tn
amuselnents, habits and views OF thos
whom he loved best as child. he dis
closes the innate strength of his ineivid
uality in that no fell into no sloughs
desmond, but that in years of discretion
all his tendencies were away from his ag
and toward higher ideals of thought an
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-25

understanding with the men who are out
or employ Others TO take their place. The
men have distributed bandbills about the
mine location, complaining that they are
made to work for starvation wages and
that the mine officials would not listen to
theircomplaints, and asking for the SYM
PATTY OF the public.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-25

The Scheuermann brewing company's
team attached to the delivery wagon ran
away Thursday afternoon on Sheldon
street, Houghton. The street was crowd
ed by persons returning from the Ware
ham funeral and il was marvellous that
no one was hurt, for the team dashed
across the street several times. The
driver had narrow escape from serious
injury, for the wagon overturned and he
was dragged under 1t some distance be-
fore the team broke away from the vchi-
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-25
COVERED WITH STRANGE SPOTS.
From the Times, O,reoo, ". Y.


Having been informed that Mr.. Harlin
Scott. ofthe town of Candor, Tioga, Co., MY,
had received great benefit from the use Of
Pink Pills, a reporter of the O,rego Times
drove out to Mr.. Scott's farm and found that
gentleman hard at work and apparently in
the best Of health. On making inquiry as
20 the truth Of report, Mr.. Scott was very en-
thusiastic and cheerfully furnished the fol-
lowing affidavit:
Harlin j. Scott, being duly sworn, says
that he is farmer living in the town OF Can
dor, Tioga Co.. State of New York. Had for
merly lived in Caroline, Tompkins County,
n. Y. For several years was afflicted with
a disease Of the skin, in which brown spot.
and sores appeared upon his face, neck anc
body. At times suffered burning, prick
ling or itching sensation that was terribl,
annoying and disagrecable. especially 50
when perspiring, and was unable to work
Consulted the local physician, who said my
liver and blood were diseased. His prescrip.
lions did not benefit me. took blood RENE
dies recommended by druggists, with no
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-25

The TRAINERS ut the Quincy are sun
out Last evening about eighty OF them
norsbea down the hill, paraded the
streets of Hancock and then, Ike the
E;no.of France. marched back again.
so Ior the miners and others have done
the tramming since the strike com
,nenced but they are now complaining
.ha, oot being accustomed to the work.
which is no child's play, IL ia becoming
hard on them and say that the manage
mss,t viii either have to come to some
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-25
A trusting Nature Shocked.

81 am sorry to have to tell You, young
man," said the aged clergyman, that
the sermon You delivered this morning
was preached by John Wesley more than
a hundred years ago. +"
"Is it possible! exclaimed the young
divinity studert. both shocked and
grieved. IL found ii in volume OF
sermons published by the Rev. Philetus
Muggins in 1925 and long since out OF
print Whom can one trusti"-Chicago
Trihuno
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-25
MIR. CoULTER's COURAGE.


DOVER, CLARE Co., MICH, june z, 1896.
To the DR.. WILLIAMS MEDICINE Col
This is to certify that ! have been . great
tism for many years. In the fall of '6S, on
the 9TH day Of November, was taken down
bed-fast with the rheumatism and was NOT
out of the house again until the 18th OF
March, '69, and from that time on i have
suffered beyond description with that dreaded
disease. Every winter / could look for
from three to six weeks that could not get
since was FIRST taken with 1t have been
perfectly helpless for weeks at . time, 20 l
had TO be handled in q blanket tried
almost everything that could hear Of but
they did me no good, and the doctors could
not reach my case. But after / saw what
wonderful things DR.. Williams' Pink Pills
did for my wife in case Of paralysis,
nlatism; and must say to the honor OF Dr.
Williams Pink Pills that they have done
for me what the doctors and all other medi-
cines have failed to do. In the spring Of "a
/ took three boxes Of these pills and put
In the best summer that have for many
years. But during the winter caught cold
and my rheumatism returned, and this spring
commenced ON . half dozen boxes and have
taken them, and must say that have had
less rheumatic pain this spring than have
had before since ] was first taken down IN
the fall of '6S.
do not claim that I am entirely cured
yet, but do believe that they viii drive It
entirely out of the system, and l hope that
DIR. Williams Pills will find their way into
many homes and do for others what they
have done for N.
Respectfully yours,
JAS. w. COULTER
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
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!. DIR. Williams Pink Pills are sold By 81
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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-25

The case OF Grace f. Andrews again't
the Tamarack was on all day yesterday.
The case is attracting considerable atten-
ton and is being tried with all vigor by
NJ. NJ. Riley, OF Milwaukee, for the plain
tiff and A. r. Gray for defendant.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-25

FoRSALE-A Rambler bicycle; diamond
frame; Pneumatic tires; used very lightly
two seasons; in perfect repair; an excel
lent wheel, but heavy; will be sold cheap
for cash Apply to, or address, Horace
J. Stevens, Houghton, Mich.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-25

+. W. Arbury, formerly superintendent
OF the Houghton schools, is in the copper
country in the interest OF Silver, Bur-
dette & Co., school book publishers. Mr..
Arbury was, since leaving here, superin-
tendent OF the Battle Creek schools until
about year ago.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-25

Ruhl x Taylor have their samples for
1896, Cleyeland, Winton, Car and Erie.
These wheels are among the best known
and have many friends in old riders
about the county. Before buying your
mount call on Rubl 4 Taylor and you
will be satisfied with their terms and
t,r;oao
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-25

The City of Duluth, of the l.. M. 4 L. >,
T. Co., arrived in Portage Lake about 4
o'clock yesterday on her way down from
Duluth, and at about the same time the
Alaska, OF the Western Transit Co, en-
tered the Entry bound up from Buffalo.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-25

We are proud Of the good sense OF Bap
lists which leads them TO name their
churches and their associations SO general
ly by local names as theapostoiic s a"rchcr
are named Still Dry Fork seems . iittie
Inappropriate 10 Bnptists' though we ar
glad tho association IN Missouri called 10
self Inv that name. Louisville Western
Recorder N -