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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12
vAsrNEss OF ST. PETER.
The Picture Is Too BiG for Convenient
sight.


sight.
The building is so far beyond any Ia
miliar proportions that at first sight
all details are lost upon its broad 'front.'
says the century. The mind and Judg-
ment are dazed and staggered. me
earth should not b. able to bear such
weight upon its crush without cracking
and bending like an overloaded table.
On each side the colonnades run curv-
ing out like giant arms, always open TO
receive the nations that go up there
to worship. The dome broods over all,
like giants head motionless in medi-
tation. The vastness OF the structure
takes hold of a man as he issues from
the street by which he has come from
Saint Angelo. In the open space IN
the square and in the ellipse between
the colonnades and on the steps 2O0,OOo
men could be drawn up in rank ana
file, horse and foot and guns. Except
ing il be on some special occasion there
are rarely more than 200 or 800 persons
in sight. The paved emptiness makes
one draw breath of surprise, and hui
man eyes seem too small TO take in all
the fatness below. all the breadth be-
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12
Interesting Suit

A damage suit will soon ba MN,
menced at Cincinnati that will n,
watched with interest by the cvc,,no
world. June Z A. Kaplun. a merchon,
tailor, fell from his bicycle while ridIn.
on Coleraln avenue, which bad i,.,
been Hooded by the WATERING cart -
sustained injuries which laid him on
the shelf Tor several weeks. The raII
was due directly to the slipperv ora
dangerous condition of the s,roo.
caused by excessive sprinkline IL,
the suit, which will shortly be 6led al.
city OF Cincinnati and the sprinklinp
contractor Will be made Joint defend.
ants. Persons who witnessed the oc.
cidcnt and the doctor who atton5os
Mr.. kaplun will be called upon ,o co..
tliy. The expenses of the Ont, IN,
not he borne by the J.. A. w no NJ.
hapiun was not a league member a,
the time. though he has since fllod III,
application for membership. II g.
thought, however, that all the bio,o,s
clubs OF Cincinnati will cor,r;s,..
financial aid toward the prosecution =,
the suit. II will be in the nature ~
a TEST case, being. it is believed. the
hrst damage suit ever instituted on oa
count OF excessive street snri,L,,,,.
and 1t will. in all probability 90 -
the supreme court for O final decis;.,,'
This proceeding is an outcome Of ' ,hs
stree'-sprinkling reform agitation and
Is expected to greatly assist thar NOV
ment. NJ @. Heintz. rising young AZ.
torney and chairman OF the rights ana
privileges OF the Ohio division, will
have charge OF the case. va"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12
Notes from the Dlamnnd.

Lange has recovered from his lame
ness.
Teddy O'Connell. the Chicago boy
who went to Columbus, Ca, to play
second base, is back and Is playing
with a local club. Teddy says that
most of the Columbus players are now
walking home.
Will George Rocks never quit the
game? He is now on Louis Stern
helms North Chicago team and still
has that habit of killing the leather
Chicago News.
Smith, the Colonels' new catcher. Ia
a graduate of the Alabama university.
1t is said that the New Yorks may
play Sunday ball next year.
McGann, who was with Louisville
last season, has been engaged to pIav
second for Boston.
Dan Brouthers says the Eastorn
leagues plays faster ball than the Ma
tional league.
Roger Common again announces that
the present is his farewell season in
baseball.
The Chicago players have boyco.ted
swell tailors and now are wearing SIS
"duds."
Third-baseman Greminger ia IN
trouble at Buffalo over an assault upon
a policeman.
Tebeau may bring Smead, the sue
cessfui Fort Wayne pitcher, on the last
eastern trip
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12
Good One on kostaL

see the latest victim OF THE sort OF
hazing was Kostal, the Chicago boy
who got job with Louisville. On the
train to Louisville he was approached
by Fraser and Miller, who told him
that the way big league pitchers kept
their arms in order was TO suspend
them at night in strap. which hung
from the roofs of their berths. OF
course, they had previously fixed up
a strap, like a street-car holder, in
Kostal's berth, and he took it for Cos
pei truth. When he retired he stuck
his arm through that strap and hung
that way all night. He couldn't bend
the arm the next day. The boys used
to get young pitchers out on the
grounds, drive a nail in the fence, make
them stand off the regular distance
and practice on that nail. That wasn't
so bad. though, for it tended to give
better control of the ball. The best
and easiest way to have fun with a
young player, however is in the line of
diet-what he must and must not eat.
/ remember once that some young re-
cruits got thoroughly drilled on the
diet question. They ate nothing for
breakfast but oatmeal mush, which
they knew would not make the stomach
too heavy, with red-pepper sauce
poured on it to brighten the batting
eye, while they drank coffee with salt
In 1t, guaranteed to harden the muscles
and add to the endurance. Pete Brown
ing used to order the most absurd and
hideous compounds and would tell the
youngsters that 1t was to help on his
batting. The Juveniles would accept
whatever Pete said and would order the
same stuff until old Petes ingenuity
was exhausted devising new cruelties
for them. He would order pancakes
with onion dressing and sugar on top.
and tripe with maple syrup and all
such things, and the poor lads who
hoped some day to bat as Pete did
would never tumble.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12

Mrs. Curtis went home. She and her
hired girl searched the house from
attic to cellar, while the children crawl
ed about the yard playing they were
snakes and incidentally catching heavy
colds, but not finding the thimble for
which they were looking.
She had quite given up and believed
Nam Haney to be an old fraud. when
Uncle Silas, digging a flower bed.
brought up the thimble impaled on his
fork. When the judge came home for
dinner she told him for the first time
OF her visit to the fortune teller and the
advice she had given her.
The judge laughed incredulously. "Of
course Nam knew that the probabilities
were that the thimble was somewhere
about the place" he said. THE old
witch mixes more sense with her magic
than had supposed. Are you going TO
pay her the s2?"
Il did intend to, but IL you think Il
was just chance guess won't. don't
want TO encourage impostors and sup
pose she would spend il for whisky
anyway"
The judge smiled at his wifes rea-
soning, but he made no reply. for lie
was a man who loved peace rather than
strife.
In some devious way Nam Haney
heard OF the finding of the thimble
One morning she went to collect her
debt. Mrs. Curtis told her that the
thimble had been found by chance, that
her magic had nothing to do with its
recovery.
But / told you it was in the gard
ing" Nam answered. IAN you said
you'd pay me 81 II you found it. I'll
get even with you yit."
Leave the place at once" Mrs. Cur
tbs said with dignity.
'I'll get even yit," Nam repeated
AS 1t was a warm spring day she went
outside the fence and sat down on the
horse block. Whenever one of the Cur
tbs family came out OF doors she
screamed:
Gimme that ere money. Mis- Curtis
amt no lady. She's cheatin' a poor
woman most eighty" To every passer-
by she told her story, and between
times shouted maledictions on the house
OF Curtis.
Mrs. Curtis listened from behind her
curtains in an agony of shame, bc'
she was an obstinate woman and wai
bound not to pay that money, let the
old reprobate say what she would.
After the IL o'clock whistle blew
Nam left the horse block. yelling thai
she would be back after dinner.
When the judge came home his wife
told him 10 send the marshal to arrest
her
II guess You had better pay her that
81, Fanny he suggested.
Never" returned Mrs. Curtis, moi
~ she sits there and screeches all sum.
mer."
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12

and manager of the local team in 1883.
The following year he went with the
team that represented Aspen, Colo.
in minor league in that state and led
his team as well as the league in bat
ting and fielding. In 1890 he was con-
nected with the Dubuques and was sew
enth in the batting list at the end of
the season. That was in the Illinois
and Iowa league and he was third
among the fielders. He began the sea-
son of 1892 with the Joliets and fin
ished with them, being then trans
ferred TO the Chicago team of the ma
jor organization. He was tried at both
second base and in the outtield and An
son soon realized he had jewel If n
utility man. He has been with the Chi
Cages ever since. In 1893 he took part
in eighty-one championship games,
fifty-four of them being at first base,
which is really the position he can play
better than all others. In 1894 he
played in eighty-four regular games.
the greatest number in which he took
part since he joined the club. He will
have played in more games than that.
however, before the present season is
over He is batting hard this season
and is really one of the most valuable
club mates, Decker is married.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12
MAY co TWO MILES A MINUTE

kind OF running. The track wheels are
held in position by side bars, which
hinge around the center middle wheel.
The Ringing renders the trucks fleX-
ible and provides for the engine sort
of endless track of moving wheels,
which are always smooth. 1t is said
that the vibrating motion commonly
impaired to the locomotive in high
running is done away with by this de-
vice. Each truck wheel has a large
and small diameter and works on the
cog principle. but friction takes the
place of cogs. The larger rim rests up
on the rail and the small rim extends
outwardly over the tires. At its trial
this engine made a speed of 100 miles
in one hour
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12

The speeding trucks invented by
William j. Holman of Minneapolis, a
cousin of Judge William S. Holman of
Indiana, were tried with remarkable
success the other day on the South Jor-
sey railroad.
These trucks are interchangeable and
made up of five smooth or friction
geared wheels placed under each driver.
Three of them rest on the track. while
the other two bear upon the former
and each driver in turn rests upon the
two.
The arrangement the inventor
thinks, affords natural pockets for all
wheels above those on the track and
makes it an impossibility for any of
them to become displaced during any
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12
DENVER WOMAN CYCLIST.
She Has scorched Over Lose Miles In
Ten Dsys-Has Made so Centuries

She Has Scorched Over LOSE Miles In
Ten Dsys-Has Made 80 Centuries.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat Mrs. A.
+. Rinehart of Denver has just COM
pleted the feat of riding ,052 miles in
ten days upon a bicycle, an average
of over 100 miles a day. She set out
TO ride seven centuries in seven con-
secutive days, and when she had fin
ished that task she concluded to go on
riding, as she said, for the fun of the
thing" Mrs. Rinehart has ridden
thirty centuries now, and she has done
them so rapidly that she has been able
to secure all the gold bars TO which she
is entitled. When she ends the sum-
mer season she expects to have the
worlds record for century runs. She
did not begin riding until last Sep
TENDER, but she is now a veteran wheel
woman. Her wheel is a diamond
frame of az gear. When she rides
alone she wears a short divided skirt
of blue wooden goods, sweater of
cap. When she has an escort on the
road she discards the skirt and rides
in knickerbockers. During her ten
days of hard riding she lost ten pounds
in weight. One days she arose at q.
m, rode to Colorado Springs and re,
turn, climbing an altitude of oven
1000 feet in crossing the divide and
arrived home by 10 p. m. having COW
cred a distance of 80 miles. Her fast
est century was made in ten hours and
ten minutes, though in former trials
she has made century in eight hours
and five minutes. Her last Of the series
of ten-century rides was done in ten
hours and fifteen minutes.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12
Another Case of PETER.

James II. McDougall, who was a few
weeks ago released by the st. Louis
club, of the national league and Amer
ican association, gave promise of be-
coming quite a clever pitcher when his
release was obtained from the Quincy
club, Of the western association, during
the latter part of 1894. He was born
September 10, 1871, at Aledo. ILL.,, and
began his baseball career as a first
NaSeman with local team at his ma
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12

after and the most welcome of women
in the United Kingdom Painters have
delighted TO trace her features upon
canvas and sculptors to immortaiixe
her form in stone. One OF these days.
maybe. this remarkable woman VIII
come on a lecturing tour to this coun-
try-perhaps soon. She did plan one
three years ago. but il was postponed.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12
Wasting Good Material.

From the Chicago POST
II don't think very much of him, y
said the girl in blue.
why. l thought saw him throwing
kisses to you on the beach," expostu-
lated the girl in white.
You did," answered the girl In
blue. THAT is why say don't think
very much of him. He isn't as strong
mentally as 1 should like man to
be-"
II don't believe I quite follow YOU
why, think Of the absurdity and the
waste OF throwing from a distance
what ought to have been delivered ID
person."
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12

cles and bring back your wandering
true love. She lives in small house
on a back street. Next door are her
daughter and large family, but Nam
prefers an Independent establishment
where she can live in the privacy beht-
ting a seeress She is dirty old woman
whose deep-set eyes are permanently
screwed up from much peering into the
darkness of the future.
One day Mrs. Curtis lost the gold
thimble that had been her mothers $.
She searched her house thoroughly but
1t could not be found. She valued II far
beyond it's intrinsic worth. and in her
anxiety to recover IL she resolved TO
consult Nam Haney. She had always
looked on Nam as a disreputable old
impostor, but she had heard wonderful
tales OF her skill, and In time OF trou-
BILE We seek aid at strange doors.
I'm give you so cents now" Mrs.
Curtis said when she had explained
her errand, land If we find the thimble
where you say I'll give you 81 more. !"
She thought thus to bride unseen pow
srs.
All right, lady; | kin find it sure. >"
Nam answered with the confidence to
which she owes half her success. She
has way of locating lost articles which
is entirely her own.
She went to her cook stove, raised a
lid, poked the fire until it was glowing
red, then spat thrice into the bed of
Goals, meanwhile murmuring a charm.
Il hope the judge will never hear of
this, Mrs. Curtis thought as she sat
with her skirts tucked up to avoid The
greasy floor.
Mans yellow face turned red i'm the
heat before she lifted her head and
spoke. II see a garding," she began.
AN a light-colored house and a lovely
lady in the door" Two dollars would
have made Medusa beautiful in MANS
eyes. Il see the garding and the light
colored house with green blinds. Be
gin in the garnet an look to the cellar
Ell faint there go in the garding an
door yard and search frum the north
TO the south an frum the east 10 the
west. Somewhere or luther you'll find
that ere thimble."
"Our house is light-colored and has
green blinds" said Mrs. Curtis musing-
ly.
Now, that's GURUS Nam interrupt
ed. Il aforementioned how your house
looked, Mis- Curtis" which was very
curious indeed, as she passed it every
time she went downtown. Now you
jest look around your house and gard
ing Don't YOU never rest till Won find
that ere thimble," she counseled.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12

tice place, afterward playing in the out
Held, before he mastered the art of
curving the ball He played with a
number Of semi-professional teams be-
fore accepting regular professional
engagement with the Galesburg club
In 1893. In 1894 he was engaged by
the Quincy club, of the western asso-
citation. and participated in forty-fiye
championship contests, making such a
me showing in the pitchers position
That his release was obtained by the
81. Louis club. OF the major league.
turing the season of 1895 he was
'farmed' TO the Wheeling club. OF the
interstate league, and afterward 10 the
quincy club, OF the western associa-
ion, finishing the season with the St
Louis team. He took part with the lat
Ter In fifteen championship games. He
ola some remarkably clever pitching
during the season Of 1895, the most
noteworthy being in his first game
aiter Joining the Wheeling club. On
NAY 8, 1895. at Wheeling w. Va. he
prevented the Canton team from max
ing more than two scattering singles
ana struck out sixteen of them. nine
IN succession, the Wheelings winning
by to o. On May ~ came year M
flndlay, o., he held the Findlays down
'o Iour safe hits, the Wheelings win
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12

ming by 10 l.. Later In that season ne
took part In a fifteen inning game be-
tween the Quincy and Peoria teams, In
which the former won by z to 4. he al
lowing the losers nine safe hits and
striking out nine of them. He Is nye
feet ten inches in height. and weighs
about 100 pounds.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12
DelIcateiy Expressed.

They were anxious to break u 10 u''
gently, for she was very fond OF INC
homely dog with the pink rlo'0A
around his neck.
Where is Hector" she asked
"Oh, he's out"
'Playing?" -,
"Um-yes-I s'pose you might GO"
IL frolic."
Where is he?"
We'll, the last I saw OF Hec'o,
was on his way to a pound party
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12

Some farmers in New South Wales
are taking up the cultivation OF to-
bacco, and the government of the
colony is considering the advisability
of engaging an expert from the United
States 10 give them instruction.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12

She thought he had a title and
loved him so for that. 'u'
He knew she had the plunkets-rm =.
cynical, you know NV
But fancy that's the reason ,ho,
loved the maiden so. ' 10
A week of welded bliss was thai.
when the parental gent '
Assigned and shufIled off this col, ~,
left her not a cent a'O
And incompatibility of temper was -.
plea NV
That caused the learned Judge 10 gr,,,
the usual decree.
So then she went upon the stage ~,
made a great success. w
And he is doing every one that he "a,
dol guess.
r n
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12
Not Permitted.

"That was tough on Davis
"What?" ali
He stepped on a banana ps'', , .s
and was arrested for giving sus
performance without license
Truth.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12
A Was Natural.

He had dared to make gold spee..
in a Colorado town around which "e.'
many silver mines and when the az
dience finished with him the corone'
jury brought in verict Of suicide
Judge.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12
BASE BALL GOSSIP.
SAYINGS AND DOiNOS ON AND
OFF THE DIAMOND.
Hsw Young Players Are Initiated into
the Professional Clubs-This Beats
College Haxing -Chicsros Great Uthi-
~ Plavsr-Sotes of the Diamond.

JUVENILE ball
tosser is pre- y
for all the other
members Of I h e
team and they have
unlimited fun with
him.
A great number
of the young play
ers who break into
the league come
with the idea that
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12
MANS STRATAGEM.

n HER later years
Nam Haney has
given up family
washing for the
mo re profitable
trade of fortune
telling. She can
reveal the past. ex-
plain the present
and foresee the flu
ture; she can locate
lost or stolen arti-
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12

land there is none who stands closer TO
the Irish heart. And this in spite OF
the fact that Maud Come is not an
Irishwoman in the true sense OF the
word. Her father. an Irish colonel,
was, strictly speaking. an Orangeman,
and the young lady herself was brought
up in the atmosphere of the Castle"
She was, indeed, the reigning beauty of
the viceregal court, and it would have
been the easiest thing in the world for
her to have adopted the narrowness
and bitterness of the anti-Irish coterie
of Dublin. But the effect of this latter
spirit upon this thoughtful and genor-
Gus girl was TO drive her headlong into
the opposite camp.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12
MISSION OF MERCY.
MAUD CONNIE is A GENUINE
IRISH HEROINE.
what She Is Doing for the Green isi-
and She Loves-Cause OF Her Conver-
sion to the Cause of the Unfortun-
steA

HE campaign now
being waged in
England for a gem
eral amnesty of the
men convicted i'm
the dynamite con-
spiracy of ten years
ago h as again
brought to the fore
that paragon of pol
iticians, Miss Maud
Come. In all Ire
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12
THE JoKER'S CORNER
w.t. HumoR AND SATIRE oe,o
iNAL AND sELEcrFn
A Matrimonial Comedy I'm III,
Affection peiicatsIy Expr..
coei spot-Mentair Strength
Museum-He Liked .ya hs

E SAID 5 he wa,
a noblemap..ss
rich man, :
r,.e child was She,
They loved sa. an
other madly 4,
madly as coulS
be.
TWO souls WITH
but a sinrl.
thought er.
pressed the matter
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-16
ANNIVERSARY TONIGHT.
Y. VI c. \. Closes Its goth Year.
New Officers.

The twenty-ninth anniversary
OF the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION Will be celebrated this
evening in the Y. NJ. {. y. Hall al
1:3O O'Clock. The friends of the
institution are cordially invited to
be present. The following attract
i've program will be presented:
Music by the Y. NJ. c. A. Orchestra
"TriumphaIe Polonaise."
Singing of hymn by the audience,
Rock of Ages"
Reading of Scripture and invocation
by the Rev. D. P. Brine.
Report of the Board Of Directors.
Vocal solo by Mrs. Jarrett T. Lewis,
with violin obligato accompaniment by
]. Rosen.
Report of the Treasurer.
Scotch recitations by Mrs. Thomas
Black.
Report of the Devotional Committee.
Music by the Y. NJ. c. a. Orchestra,
Bell Gavotte.
Introduction of new officers by the re-
firing President.
Vocal solo by Mr.. Henry F. Wichman.
Music by the Y. NJ. G. A. Orchestra
Egyptian Parade March.
Refreshments