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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-14

A Bryan dag lie now floating at South
Lake Linden and new Mckinley and
Hobart streamer floats in the breezes
over Sutton's store.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-14

Hurrah Tor Fro Patria" shouted an
enthusiastic admirer OF the best five.cent
cigar Tor the money. 1T always wins !"
Made by George Meobs 4 Co., Detroit
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-14

Miss White has just returned from the
east with full line of millinery goods.
Announcement of the opening later.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-14

LosT-Between Eighth street and the
Merchants 4 Miners Bank, black lace
scarf. Finder please return to News
Office and receive reward.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-14
Lowes, price. I'm Toxyn.

The shoemaker at No. 447 Pine street,
will tap or halfsole the ladies' shoes for
30 cents and up, mems shoes for 40 cents
and up.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-14
MASON COUNTY
Pure Rye or Bourbon
absolutely Pure Whey aged In wood and bottled by the
dstIers full ootason bottles. For sale by all
frst-cass dealers. Beware Of limitations. See that
is the cap
WIN. EDWARDS & CO., Sole PrOurietOE

from 20 to 40 cents on the dollar b. buy
ing OF us. No charge for showing goods.
b. NEMARR,
Borgo's block. Red Jacket.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-14

Miss Annie Newton, OF Newtonville, is
visiting friends in the city the guest Of
the Misses Slonaker.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-14
FOR PURCHASE OF


We Will receive proposals In writing for the
purchase OF properties rs described below al
our Office In Joseph Wertin 4 Sons store, Red
Jacket, up to Wednesday, November 81 81,
1895, next: ~
Lot Z, block Is, north end OF Eighth street
Red Jacket, with two houses thereon,
Farm. known as Dolinger's farm at Root
jack, Torch Lake township, viz:
S NE OF sW =, sec. 3D. Twp. So, X 80
SW OF NV A
w X OF SW a
NV u of Sc a
+ 4 OF SEA
Lot 3, house. barn and outbuildings. Sec 20
Township IS. Range g. ~
NJ = 4; q M NV \, Sec: %. Twp. 00, re.
E3 o. III 4, Sec. 80.
Pert OF Lot l, 30 75-1G0 acres, Sec ~, T IS, 81
SHqf NV VIZ Sec 80, Twp. IS. r. a.
Lots 9, Z, s and Q, in block 9, Osceola addition
70 the village OF Hancock.
Part OF Block In Osceoa addition 100 feet
square, with dwelling and barn thereon.
we reserve the right TO reject the highest
Oh any Did. JOHN VERTIN,
J. Il. WERTIN
Executors.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-14
LAKE LINDEN.

Mr.. JabeI Burgan returned last week
from a trip through Illinois and Indiana.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-14

Call on p. Tommei, 851 Fifth street
and learn about Damonis; nothing like
IL in, on or out OF the earth.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-14

Mr.. and Mrs. +. q. Coggin and daugh-
ter, MISS Coggiu. left last week for Chi
cago.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-14
ADDITIONAL CITY NEWS.

WAsTED-An English-speaking girl to
do general homework. Apply to Mrs.
Hall, 1919 Scott street.
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WANT COLUMN.

Advertisements classified tndar ,h,. s..s
inserted 1T the rate Of ONE ORNT word az Oh
,hhso..on. No Advertisement taken tor ICES
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-14

TO to the Citv Bakery ryour lint pas
tries. Angel food. fruit cake always on
hand. Cream pulls Fridays and Satur-
days
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-14

Furnished rooms to rentin the Agniteh
Block. Apply on the premises.
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Huron County

is situated $50 miles from De-
troit, 20 miles from Port Huron,
and 6S miles from Saginaw, on
what is known as the Thumb of
Michigan.
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FOR SALE.

EuLL LOT-In the village OF Ned Jscs.,
Nry .so IN the o. railroad. Apply II the
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-19


aninny Jackson, walking along the
lake shore, saw big stone covered with
green slime protruding from the water
he polzed it. There came forth noise
like all the thunders of Sinai, and the
darby fled, screaming.
Some workmen who were mending a
dam near by asked him what the
trouble was. He gasped and said an
alligator had tried to swallow him.
They coaxed and threatened him, Of
fered him money and drubbing, but
nothing would tempt him back to the
lake.
The workmen finally found the water
monster snoozing in shallow water, IN
derneath some willows. They attacked
him with clubs and stunned him. Then
they dragged him out on shore.
No one in Railway ever told lie. The
giant frog weighed 1917 pounds. His
right leg weighed ga pounds, and his
left leg 2A pounds. He was IS inches
long and IL inches wide. The width of
his mouth was inches, the length of
his leg 1871 inches.
And that wasn't all of it. Jacksch's
father celebrated his silver Wedding a
night or two after, and the five pounds
of frog legs made part end parcel of the
feast.
The biggest ,gs on earth are found
in this counf'y. Nowhere else are frogs
so large feature of swamp and marsh
life. A year ago IL enormous Ameri.
car frogs were sent alive to Europe,
where they excited much wonder, but
none of them was as large as the Rah.
way frog here described.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-19
DOG RINGS FoGBELL.

whistle as a salute. At such times the
dog runs to the bell rope, seizes it in his
mouth and tugs vigorously. The dog
never rings the bell except at the right
time, and never misses ringing it when
1t should be rung.
Capt. Oliver, of the excursion steamer
Forest Queen, was the first seaman to
learn of the four-footed helper that the
keeper of the Wood island lighthouse
had trained to ring the bell. Several
hundred excursionists on the boat saw
the dog Juggling at the bell rope, and
they afterwards made inquiries about
the matter.
They learned that it was an old story
with the dog, and that during fog the
patient animal rings the bell without
complaining for hours at time. He
has never been known to desert his
post, which is more than can be said for
some of the men engaged to ring fog
bells and tend lighthouses.
At nearly every lighthouse that
guards the coast there is one dog, and
sometimes the keepers have several;
some hours, and are almost as good as
human companions. But, so far as is
known, the dog pictured herewith is
the only one that has proven to be Of
any real service to his master.
1t is perhaps needless to say that the
dog is highly valued by his owner, and
money would not buy him. He is mon!
grel dog, being more nearly shepherd
than anything else. No particular eff
fort was made to teach him his duty.
He "picked it up" from observation,
and it took few lessons to make him
perfect.
The animal is perfectly contented
with his lot in life, and, as he is well
fed and well housed, he has no reason
to complain that he has been forced to
leave off the usual habits of doghood
and tug at the end of a rope to ring
bell which will warn mariners who have
lost their way In a fog.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-19

ers are suffering by reason of the re-
duced purchasing power Of their wages.
The working people in Germany under
stand this so well that the Social Demo-
cratic party has protested against any
revival of bimetallism, which is desired
only by the great agricultural land
lords and some of the exporters to Asia.
The substitution of the silver dollar
for the gold dollar here would at once
increase nearly or quite in proportion
to the depreciation of silver the prices
Of wheat, corn, all animal foods, sugar,
tea, coffee, cotton goods, woolens, pc
troleum, coal, iron goods, tobacco, hop
products and spirits, for all Of these ar
ticles are bought and sold International
ly, and no change we make in our cur
rency laws can possibly change the real
prices. The Englishman would pay the
same number of shillings for bushel of
wheat and the same number of pence
for a pound of cotton as now, and those
prices would mean about twice as many
silver dollars as now.
If an Englishman pays shillings
for a bushel of wheat now he would do
so after we had gone down into the sill
yer abyss. But the equivalent Of 8
shillings then would be dollar and a
half, while now it is only three-fourths
of dollar. The wage earners will not
get their wages doubled, and they will
discover that there has suddenly been q
terrible rise of prices. AS the farmer
will also have to pay double prices for
every article he buys at the store he
will get no benefit from the increased
prices except in the discharge of previ-
ously incurred debts. To the agricuitur-
oil class, as whole, this is far smaller
matter than the demagogues say, and as
all farm mortgages were given within
the last few years, while the decline of
silver has covered quarter of a CEN
fury, they have no equitable ground for
relief.
As dollar will buy only half as
much on the silver standard as it does
now all taxation will have to be in
creased in proportion, and this already
falls heavily upon the farmer.
In view of these perfectly familiar
facts ii is impossible to adequately de-
scribe the stupidity of the wage earners
who are giving support to the free sill
yer craze. Of all persons in the COM
munity they are certain to lose the most
in proportion to their means and to lose
it the most rapidly. of Com
merce and Commercial Bulletin, July q,
1896.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-19
NOVEL SAILING VESSEL.
It Has Many Improvements Both Above
and Below the Water Line.

It Has Many Improvements Both Above
and Below the Water Line.
Very few patents are taken out on the
rig of sailing vessels for the reason that
most of the improvements have been
thought out. Sailors are likewise very
conservative and opposed to new-fangled
devices.
Here, however, is ncwly-deyised YES
sci, with radical and novel improve
metlts both above and below the water
line. The various devices have been
patented by Mr.. William King, of New
Orleans. Under his plan the stability
of the vessel is increased by providing
it with telescope centerboard, which
consists of main centerboard within
which is double centerboard, an
amidship centerboard carried by the
double centerboard, and port andstar-
board centerboard respectively carried
on each side of the double centerboard,
and within the main ceHterboard.
The spar plan and sell plan are also
formed so that they may be enlarged
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-19


or decreased at pleasure. This is accom-
plished by providing the spinnaker
booms, and the gaffs of the mainsail
and of the spinnakers with auxiliary
spars, sliding within suitable rings or
sockets which are fixed near the ends
of said gaffs and booms.
These spars are adjusted by means
of halyards and blocks, and can be
reefed home or run out as desired, and
a larger or smaller amount of canvas
carried. Two spinnakers are used, and
the booms are pivotally mounted on
suitable steps which are placed one
on each bow of the vessel.
The spinnakers are not hoisted to the
topmast as is usually done, but are
provided with extensive gaffs, the heels
of the gaffs being piyotally connected
with band,which is clamped upon the
mast. This connection has universal
pivotal movement.
The spinnaker booms are sheeted for
ward to the bowsprit eud and aft to the
outrigger and when they are not in use
they rest in crutches at the end of the
bowsprit.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-19

legislature some of whose members
are gravely suspected of corruption,
and administered by officials many of
whom are far from trustworthy. These
were the motives which prompted the
creation three years ago of an organi-
cation to obtain political reforms, and
which led to the rising of the stranger
population, or rather the bulk of the
English-speaking portion Of it, at Jo-
hannesburg in December last-a rising
the declared aim of which was not the
overthrow of the Transvaal republic,
but to compel the Boer assembly to
extend the suffrage to the newcomers.
The effect of that abortive rising
and of the expedition of the British
South Africa company's men, who came
to help it but were surrounded and
forced to surrender by the Boer forces,
has so far been unfavorable to the de-
mands of the strangers. President Kru-
gers hold on the citizens had been pre-
viously shaken by their dislike to the
officials he had brought from Holland.
The rising, however, evoked all the
president, who successfully withstood
it, more popular than ever. AT the same
time 1t stirred the feelings of the Dutch
in the Orange Free State, and even in
Cape Colony. Seeing their own kinsfolk
threatened by an expedition which had
started from British soil, they forgot
for the moment their own commercial
grievances against the Transvaal gov
ernment (Which had built up wall OF
tariffs against them) and gave all
their sympathy to the threatened re-
public. AS the British home govern
ment had not only disavowed, but had
even tried to stop, the expedition on its
way, no resentment has been felt by
the Dutch against Britain.
But the movement towards political
fusion of Dutch and English in the col
cny has received check, and the tend
ency of the Orange Free State towards
closer union with its sister republic
has been strengthened. Meanwhile the
grievances Of the new population in the
Transvaal have not been removed, and
as the influx of strangers to the Wit
watersrand mines will doubtless con-
tinue it is clear that something must
be done to give more or less complete
satisfaction to their claims and to pre-
vent recurrence of the troubles of
last December and January. 1t is i'm
possible, in our times, for a minority to
continue to rule over a large and in
creasing unenfranchised majority of
Aa11 ND
wealth, however strong the original po-
sition of the minority may have been,
and whatever sympathy their attach
ment to their own simple and primitive
life may evoke.-'Impressions of South
Africa" by James Bryce, NJ. p, in
Century
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-19
BOER AND UITLANDER.
The Cause Of the Recent Trouble
in South Africa
James Bryce, M. p, Writes Instructively
of the Struggle for Suffrage which
Must Come Before Long
The Jameson Raid.

The struggle between the Beers and
the strangers, which has practically be-
come a struggle between the English
and the Dutch elements, now centers
in the demand of the strangers to be
admitted to the electoral franchise.
Formerly electoral rights were readily
acquirable by an immigrant in the
Transvaal, as they are to-day in the
Orange Free State. In 1881 residence
of two years gave the vote. But when
President Kruger perceived that. the
influx of strangers would alter the char
acter of the electorate and ultimately
transfer the balance of power to Eng
disappearing citizens he persuaded the
assembly to extend the period of resi-
dence required for citizenship, first TO
five and then to IS years, and thus prac-
tically to exclude the whole of the
new population which has come in
since 1885. Thus electoral rights are
now confined to less than $4,000 citizens,
while probably double that number of
persons of voting age and sex are living
within the republic, debarred from
those rights.
1t is easy to understand Mr.. Kruger's
position. "These newcomers" he ar
cues, "are in all essentials strangers to
our polity. They do not belong to our
Dutch Reformed churches; they do not
like our customs; they do not speak our
tongue. They would use their votes,
if votes were given them, to turn out
the present officials and legislators, and
would end by making the country Eng
lish, like Cape Colony or Natal. 1t was
not for such fate that we quilted the
homes of our fathers to go out into the
wilderness and overcome the Zulus so
years ago; and against such fate we
will struggle to the end"
On the other hand, the strangers COM
plain that, though they form large
majority of the population, own half
the land in the republic and pay more
than 90 per cent. of the taxes, they are
denied share in the government of the
country and in the application of its
revenues, and are obliged to submit to
excessive and unfair imposts, voted by
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-19
<iLLED BY REMoRsE.

fnds Relief from His suf-
PC An Death.
- Walton, near Koko-
cad of femorse and fear.
been a sad pre-, and death
It welcomed as relief. In
cas-, who was an ardent and
bising unionist, killed two
4 Joys hat were home on fur
i, they being Byron and George
ht, sons. of near neighbor. Some
as joke told Lucas that the Knight
H. had deserted and were plotting
INST the government. Lucas tried
n,lbmpel the Knights to return to the
&c Ace, and in the fight that followed
he shot both of them fatally. When
kmatters were explained Lucas went raw
ing mad, and from that hour he was u
nental wreck, and for 30 years has been
>grkat care to his family. To the hour
OF his death he was tortured by the
fear that the dead mems friends were
seeking his life.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-19

ard in order TO meet the competition Of
China and Japan mean that we must
cut wages down to the rates of Asia.
Official statistics of India show ad-
vances Of wages in selected localities
from the period of 1901 to 1892 OF
about 30 per cent, or little less; dur
ing the same period the average increase
of rice, wheat, barley and four kinds of
grain which are consumed at home and
are not affected directly by international
trade was more than 81 per cent. Mr..
J. A. Anderson, Calcutta merchant,
speaking to the viceroy four years ago
in behalf Of the Indian Currency asso-
citation, made this statement in support
of the demand that India should have
the gold standard, or that some means
of arresting the decline Of the rupee
should be devised: "The largest crop in
india is the Bengal rice crop. y y It
constitutes the chief food of the people
of this province. If, we take as basis
of price the description called ballam
we find that whereas, before the rupee
began to fall, the value ran from /. 1 to
rupees per maund in an ordinary sea-
son, in the past two years, with fairly
good crops, the price has been 3.8 to "A
rupees per maund, while kaserie and
similar cheap grains, used by the very
poorest people, have gone from 8 to ~
annas per maund up to 1.8, and even 2,
rupees per maund. That incredible
hardship is thus caused to the wage
earning classes cannot be doubted.
No one will deny that when our paper
currency during the war deprecated
prices were at once marked up in pro-
portion. In the case of many articles
that advance was greater than the de-
cline Of the dollar. But at the same
time wages rose very slowly, in spite of
the immense demand for labor cause by
the transfer of laborers to the army.
There is absolutely no room to ques-
ton the universal fact that deprecia-
ton of the money unit is at once and
fully reflected in all articles that are
subjects of international trade, that
they are reflected more slowly in articles
of domestic production that do not en-
ter into foreign trade, and that wages
rise more slowly than any prices. In
the meantime, of course, the wage earn
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-19
SILVER AND WAGES.
ACTUAL WAGES ARE LOW AND FALL
ING IN SILVER COUNTRIES.

Testimony From Nicaragua. Japan. Chile.
Mexico and India-High Authorities De-
clare That Silver Benefits Only Employ
ers of Labor-Cheap Silver Dollars Would
Certainly Lower Real Wages In This
Country-smaii Working Farmers Would
Gain Nothing Unless They owe Big Debts.
Taxes Would Have to BE Increased.
A couple of weeks ago Mr.. Isham
Sedgwick of Richmond, Ind, who is
interested In the Indiana Coffee COM
pany, doing business in Nicaragua,
wrote to the Indianapolis Journal that
the company paid common laborers 40
cents day in silver and the men boarded
themselves. Their wages at the time of
writing amounted to 1917 cents day
in gold-the company had just sold in
Nicaragua a draft for $1,000, United
States currency, for 2, 10 silver dollars
but these same workmen had to pay
35 cents yard for ordinary yard wide
muslin. Mr. Sedgwick added, ''As an
employer of labor should certainly be
in favor of free silver, but as an Ameri-
can and lover of my country give me
sound money-a dollar that is worth a
dollar everywhere ON earth. I"
A few days ago Bishop Thoburn ut
tered his protest against the free silver
propaganda on account of what he wit
messed in India of the injury to the
working people done by a deprecated
currency. Mr.. Dun, our minister to
Japan, has spent many years in that
country, where he was in business be-
fore receiving diplomatic appointment.
He is cousin of young Thurman, the
author of the Ohio silver pronuncia-
mento Of 1894, which carried the DEM
ocratic party down to the worst defeat
it ever experienced in that state. He is
in Springfield, O., and on Wednesday
he said that Japan adopted the silver
standard about the time we dropped the
silver dollar. The silver yen is now
worth about 80 cents.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-19

o. T., at about four r. m. on May IA.
The tornado was about six miles dis
tant when the photograph was taken,
and rough computation indicates
probable diameter of the funnel of
about 1000 feet. The negative is, I'M
fortunately, exceedingly faint, and the
print would show the sky much darker
than it does, but tornado is diff
cult subject to photograph at the best;
in fact, most people who have witnessed
one of these twisters have found other
things to occupy their time than taxi
ing pictures of the threatening spiral.
So far as known, this is the first actual
photograph of a tornado ever pub
lished, and it is believed that only one
other has ever been taken. This is re-
ferred to in Russell's "Meteorology" as
having been secured at the Howard
mines, South Dakota, on August %, 1884,
the cloud then being % miles away,
and rather poor pen picture is in
serted in the book, drawn from the
photograph.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-19
DOG RINGS FoeseLL.
Clever Canine Employed at the wo,
Island (Afe.) Lighthouse.

Clever Canine Employed at the Wood
Island (Me.) Lighthouse,
There is dog up on the Maine coast
which is a valuable and valued assistant
al lighthouse. According to the Port
land Daily Argus the animal is the only
dog regularly employed at any light
house in the district, and he performs
his duty in manner that is perfect
ly satisfactory.
He is attached to the lighthouse at
Wood island, off Biddeford Pool, and
has been there for number of years.
He is the constant companion of the
keeper, and has learned much of the
duties of one of Uncle Sans lonely
watchers.
1t is customary for vessels passing
Wood island to give three blasts of the