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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22

Ii HUNG CHANGES VISIT POSITION
ED.-Li Hung Chang has postponed
his visit to this country until Septem
Der next, when he will be received in
Washington with all the honors that a
Democratic government can extend.
Ii had proposed coming to Washing
ton this mouth and an extended cor
respondence had been entered upon
between the State<Department and
the Chinese embassy in regard to his
visit. The absence of the President at
Gray Gables. however, has necessitat-
ed a change of arrangements, mas
much as Lii did not wish to visit this
country unless he could be specially
received by Mr.. Cleveland. Neither
Lii nor the Chinese legation believed it
incumbent upon the President to
break up his holiday and return to
Washington in order to extend the
hospitalities Of the nation. SO that
after an exchange of notes it has been
officially decided that the distinguish
ed Chinese statesman shall not cross
the ocean until the middle of Septem-
Der, when the President will be on
hand to welcome him to the United
States Washington Correspondent Of
BGltinOa e Sun, 18th.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22

FOUND WITH THE ROENTGEN RAYS
"A successful test of the Roentgen
rays was made this morning at the
Army Medical Museum, when Dr.
Adams located silver quarter in the
a.ophagus of the ten-year-old child OF
F. A. Stephenson. The boy swallow
ed the coin about eight months ago.
Dr.. Adams made Roentgen photo :
graph of the boys body this morning
and, after an exposure OF thirteen
minutes. the plate showed the skele-
ton with dark spot near the fourth
rib. Another exposure of thirty min
utes showed the coin plainly. Drs.
Adams and Graham will remove it,
| Baltimore Sun, 18th.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22

PAUSE AND THINK.-'A govern
ment of the people. by the people, AND
for the people shall not perish from
the earth" said Mr.. Lincoln in his ad.
dress at Gettysburg. Has the Repub
lican party whose illustrious founder
gave expression to such noble senti-
ment lived up to the prediction made
for it by that profound Statesman? 10
ask this question is but to answer it.
Can we expect "a government of che
people, should the Republican party,
standing as it does for class legisla-
ton, and a continuance of sectional
luminosity, come into power? Will it
be administered "by the people" so
long as such bitter partizans as '.Fire
Alarm" Foraker, BOSS" Platt, John
Sherman, and others of the same
stripe continue to guide its dest;niesi
What assurance have we that the Re-
publican party, 8 party of combines
trusts, and monopolies will run this
government flor the people" in TIE
event of McKinley's elevation to the
Presidency? Our boiling sound money
friends, especially in the South, had
better give these questions their care
| full and earnest consideration before
they decide to permanently withdraw
from the Democratic party.-Appo
| nldttOE Times
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22

Poor NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. scarce
say word
Which surely seems strange, in
Aunt Hanna's new bird,
For it talked at one time in won
derful way
Before it was owned, by Aunt
Hanna, they say.
Though some of it's notes, we're not
very good,
Yet "Polly wants silver" we al
understood.
Now never at all, since the Parrot
was sold,
Will it ever say ''silver" or be
made to say gold"
At a negro meeting in Washington
last Thursday night J. M. Langstor
made a speech, in which he said thai
if Mckinley shall be elected there will
be negro judge in that city. Is such
the end for which the Southern boilers
are striving? Would silver dollars OF
a force bill and negro judges do the
South more harm ?-AleG. Gazette.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22

Carlisle, Pa, July 10.
Mr.. Bryan is an educated man, an
able lawyer, brilliant debater and
practical journalist, and qualified to I'LL
any public trust.
He WIS born and reared out on the
boundless prairie, close to the heart OF
the toiling people. and is acquainted
with their condition and wants, theil
hopes and aspirations. He was nomi
mated by these people and will be. the
peoples President. He is utterly fear
less, matchlessly eloquent and supreme
ly honest.
z E. REILZHOOYER (Dem.l
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22
IsHER G.. CARUTH (Dem.)
Newport, KY. July 1

NoWPOIt. N.Y. OufJ 1o'
served with Mr.. Bryan in the Fifty,
third Congress. He is man OF marked
ability and will be conscientious in the
discharge of his duties of chosen to the
President.
A. S. BERRY Dem
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22
~. v+b,no he more un-Democrat-

Can anything be more un-Democra'-
IL than the Force Bill? Can anything
be more nm democratic than the NC
Kinley Bill? Can anything be more
nm. Democratic than the fostering OF
trusts and combinations Can any
thing be more un-Democratic than the
paving of bounties upon any slneie
article of agriculture such as suga.
Can any thing be more n.Democratic
than the stea! proposed in the Nlcar-
aqua canal? Can anything be more
un-Democratic than the pension steais
Can any thing be more un-Democratic
than the advocacy of "women's rlghts!'
Can any thing be more un- Democra'lc
than the enslaving single gold stand
/ ard under which the country now
languishes, but which the gold people
are determined shall be more adapted
to the taste of the money power! All
are yocied by the republican platform
and its exponent William Mckinley.
Yet we hear democrats, and demo
, cratic organs, asserting that they VII
support Mckinley and swallow al
these. before they will support th'
Chicago platform on account OF VIVA
: thew term, its free silver and Populif
tic. Anarchistic, un-Democratlc, ant
Democratic utterahces. These ar
easily frightened. and anxious fe
9 excuses.
If these fault finders are looking IL
= something that is really un Democra
ic they will find it in their own actlon
: What can be more un Democratic tina
to turn on Democracy itself?
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22
WIN. ]. BRYAN.
wHAT MANNER OF MAN HE is

opinion of Congressman VINO seisea :"
Congress with Him. Able, Patriotic
and Conscientious.
That our readers may know the estl-
mate of Vim. J. Bryan, the Democrat
ic candidate for President. by men VINO
served in Congress with him, we quote
some of their expressions as given in
ranlv to the following request OF the
N. Y. World
s.As a recent associate of VIM. ).
Bryan in Congress, please telegraph
the World your opinion what KIM Vi
a president he would make
Richmond, Va, 10.
A good one. Bryan is able. earnest
| aad conscientious.
| Staunton, July 13.
| served two terms in Congress with
M Rrvan We were deskmates for
two Years. and know him intimately.
| 7 believe him to be man OF highest
natriotism and the highest ideals. l
know him to be a man of superb intel
llect and of a personal character as pure
as a woman. l doubt not that ne Will
make great President.
q. ST. GEORGE TUCKER, (Dem.)
i Franklin, Pa, July 10.
i NV Judgment is that if elected Mr.
BRYAN will attempt the duties alone
: imposed by the Constitution. and will
not seek to arrogate to himself the
powers of the legislature and judiciary
ii He is better than the platform. He
] possesses the ability, the courage anC
: the high moral character that. guided
by wise counsels, will direct the ship o.
t state in safe channels to prosperou'
o harbor.
VI fear no man as chief magist: ate wit
i at the close of each days labor on hi
!. Bonded knees invokes the guidance
Almighty Sod and seeks in public an.
private action to conform to His reveal
ed will.
JOSEPH G. SHELLEY (Dem.)
Ut (Mr. Sibley was an unsuccessful car
didate for President at Chicago an
l. narrowly escaped being nominated fo
e Vice Presidency
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-05
Her Present to Dickens.

Charles Dickens love Of children is well
illustrated in the following story: He was
walking in the neighbOrhood of Gads Hill
one day, not long after he hid acquired
his property there when he suddenly ran
into little girl wheeling a dolls peram.
bulator. In an instant the tiny vehicle
upset, the dolls being thrown out.
It was n bad accident as far as they were
concerned, for wax heads and limbs are
not calculated 10 stand much hard usage
The little maid burst into tears. and much
10 the novelists sorrow refused to be com.
forted
Then come home with mo-" Dickens
whispered soothingly, land we'll see II
we can't find some grand waxen lady In
silks and satins for you.
So back 10 the big house the two went
and, sure enough, up in his children's
nursery he managed 20 discover few
prettily dressed dolls. With these safely
tucked in her perambulator the little girl
trotted off.
But 1t Is in the sequel that the best part
Of the story lies. The child's heart was
set on making some return for this kind
ness. SO her parents, who had not the
faintest suspicion Of her friends PERSONAL
ity, took her TO town to choose something
Her choice fell eventually upon a gor.
geously bound book
When Dickens the next day undid the
parcel his small visitor brought him, he
WAS surprised and delighted to see a copy
of David Copperfleld -
Not until many years later, when they
met again in society, did the little girl
learn who the kind gentleman" was. -
Pearson's Weekly
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-05
How a Doctor Cures uioaupb..

DIR. j. Frank Lydston is inclined TO
make joke of the story that man was
cured OF hiccough by lemonade 1t seems
u certain Judge j. ID Rose of Curryvile,
Mo, was dying Of hicoough. W II Sis
trunk, grocer Of Louisville photographed
the judge to sip lemonade at regular in.
tervals, with the result that he soon re-
covered, although he had been given up
by three doctors
"The only plausible explanation, +" said
DR. Lydston, lis the shock the man got
on receiving such message from the state
of Kentucky. He perhaps got well to get
rid of taking lemonade.
There is no scientific explanation OF
the cause or cure for hiccough," went on
the doctor. We say IL is a violent and
irregular contraction of the diaphragm.
But 1t often comes on without apparent
cause and goes as mysteriously.
II always cure myself Of hiccough by
holding the ends of my two index fingers
as close as can without allowing them to
touch In that way / concentrate my
mind SO closely on the fingers forget the
hiccough IL may be the surprise at re-
ceiving q telegram on such subject from
one unknown helped to dispel the muscu :.
lar paroxysm, or 1t might be mere coin :.
cidence that the hiccough stopped when
the man began drinking the lemonade.
or he may have got IL along the line of
mental suggestion. Chicago Tribune.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-05
Large Enough.

A foot traveller through one of the hiily
regions Of Ireland came one day upon q
curious little cabin, so small as to seem
hardly large enough for n human habita.
ton. While she was whimsically consider.
ing as TO whether it might not BIO the
abode Of the famous good people, about
whom so many loving superstitions cling,
the figure of short, stout old man
emerged from the cabin and stood con-
fronting her In smiling silence
After salutations had been exchanged
the traveller laughingly told the old man
that she had half fancied his dwelling the
homo Of fairies.
'No, indsde, ma am, but it's good
warm place. God bless 10, " replied the old
man.
But surely you cannot stand up In itf"
said the traveller curiously
An fwhat made TO stband, ma'amf'
returned the owner of the tiny house.
"Shure, an OF can come outside 20 do that
same an wbin Dim insoide it's mesilf
that can either go To bod OF sit down,
ma ami
There was such warmth in the smile
with which this cheerful philosophy was
proponnded that the traveller was not dis
posed 10 pick flaws In It anil smiled &C
ceDtance Of Its truth
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-05
AMERICAN ENGLISH.
Its variations Noted In the Different States
Of tho Union.

A boarding school or a college. drawing
students from various parts of the ooun-
try, Is an excellent place TO gather dialect
material and TO have ones own dialect
pointed out t. him Sometimes whole
series of variant forms will DO brought out
by the mention OF one. "A girl from Ohio
Is surprised 10 hear one from southern
Michigan say hurry up She says hurry
on, as does also a young woman from
Marquette, Mich, while Others from Man
istee and Champion, Mich, say hurry
hack, for the same thing Skoot or skoot
out means get OF in "a hurry, and sug-
gests various dialectic and slang express
sions for the same idea hit the grit North
Carolina); hit the road (Iexas. Colorado.
California) hike delaware, Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio). also used as call TO horses
(southern and western Pennsylvania) and
TO oxen (Texas); hike out Colorado, Tex.
as), also call TO horses (southern and
western Pennsylvania); pike out (western
Pennsylvania, northern Michigan, Mime
sota); hyper (New Hampshire, Vermont)
Similarly, different feeling for word may
be brought out; quit, meaning stop, Is
said To be in good use In west central I'LL
nois; to me- brought up in Michigan. IL Is
q child's word OF used in certain restricted
senses, for example, Ito quit work
whereas friends in Massachusetts are not
familiar with IL at all
Teachers. ministers and physicians GO
ing 10 other parts of the country are in q
position to notice unfamiliar forms OF
Speech and they will do well not 10 con.
tent themselves with oondemning them;
they should rather take pains To note them
down before their ears get so much acous.
toned to them that they no longer seem
strange However comical 1t may sound
to you az first to hear any one say he had
ranked the wood (Pennsylvania), that
the head of "lifer" Convict condemned
for life, jackson. Mich.) was "bealed"
(swollen or sore, Iron Gate, Va.), or that
candidate will Twin out" (Chicago),
"again" various places in the midland) If
he gets the Irish vote, all these will be
natural enough and possibly you will DO
using them yourself before you pack your
turkey" Qumborman's bundle, or travel
ing bag in goneraD and fit (move
away, Pennsylvania; also used by Fields
to his life OF Hawthorne. )-Chautauquan.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-05
INVENTOR OF THE AIReRAkE.
The Thing That Started Westinghouse on
the Road To Fortune.

The Thing That Started Westinghouse on
the Road to Fortune.
A number of years ago a Pennsylvania
inventor wanted to sell Mckee Rankin,
the actor, IA large interest in "a patent air
brake for railways for a small sum. The
actor did not feel like investing, even on
the solemn assurance of the confident in
ventor that the apparatus WAS greatly
needed, but he has always wished he had
advanced the sum offered, for the young
inventor was George Westinghouse and
the airbrake has proved one of the most
important and valuable inventions of the
century Westinghouse is like Edison in
his capacity for hard work. After "a day
spent in directing the great commercial
organizations OF which he is the head he
goes TO his laboratory and private shop To
conduct the experiments which it is his
delight to carry on To such q man the
invention of the airbrako was merely
step in the career of fertile planning and
investigation. When his brake n Sell
started on the high rop" % success, no
turned TO the steam -hgine and brought
out practically new type in that field
by the tlpie this engine was placed on
the MARKET electricity was attracting the
al Uention OF Inventive minds throughout
the country Westinghouse viewed the
situation and decided that the then com.
mon use of low tension, continuous cur
rents, while good for incandescent light
ing and power purposes on circuits of lin
tied extent, was unsatisfactory for longer
circuits. He looked forward into the flu
ture of electrical distribution Of power and
saw that high tension alternating cur.
rents would prove the most important in
a few years. SO he bought up the leading
foreign and domestic patent in this branch
of electrical development, then neglected,
and went to work improving and perfect.
ing his apparatus -Boston Transcript
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-05
A Difference.

A man who does noG grow ole as fast as
some of his friends is at certain disad.
vantage in their presence 1t Is related Of
Emile Angler, a French author, that on u
public occasion an old, bent, broken man
seized his hand and exclaimed:
why, how are you, old fellow"
Angler, who showed very little OF the
effects of advancing years, seemed some.
what taken aback.
Why. don't you know me- old boyH We
were classmates
Angler greeted him affectionately and
then went on, remarking TO other friends
who were present.
We'll, ! knew that man was Just my
age. but l didn't dream l was his"-
Youths Companion
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-05
stocks.
RosrON. February !, 1855
EVERY MAN HIS OWN BAIT.
How Leeches Are Caught with Much Loss
of Blood to the Fisherman.

The leoch Is a strange, unlovely creature
Fortunately IL has gone out of fashion, but
80 or 40 years ago, when medical men had
pleasant habit OF bleeding every patient
who fell into their hands, the little blood
suckers used TO be in great demand. Even
now the trade in leeches Is considerable.
Leech fishing Is not pleasant occupa-
ton. 1t condemns the fishers to foggy
mists, foul, muddy waters and fetid odors,
and, worse than this, the fisher has him
self TO be the bait. Blood for blood is the
motto OF these sanguinary beasts, and
nothing but pair of plump and naked
legs will tempt them from their stagnant
pools.
The leech lives somiaquatic existence
It must have plenty of air and plenty Of
water, and it likes them foul They are
caught in the spring and early summer
The men turn up their trousers and wade
knee deep, into the water The sight OF
the legs acts like a magnet on the leeches
They make rush for them cling on and
begin TO suck. The men pick them off as
fast as they can and put them into bags.
which they carry fastened around their
waists. They do not lose any time, for
the little black creatures will swallow five
times their own weight in the blood Of q
victim in no time and cause as much to
flow away. Toward the end of the season
the leeches retire into deep water, and
then their pursuers are compelled 10 w.d.,; -
up to their chins. Az Az ..ss,rrrnatiye to this
pai = ~ ssAs raft out and dangle their
-sess rn'the water.
An expert catches many just as they are
fastening on, and so saves "A certain amount
of blood. This is an important item. A
good fisher can, If he Is careful, go on for
four or five hours before he gets exhausted
from loss of blood. In that case he will
have caught nearly 200 leeches.
1t is funny, almost uncanny sight to
see the unhealthy looking men wading
through marshes and swamps and dirty
streams, their arms and legs bare, poking
about among the rushes and turning the
messy pebbles over with their toes in the
hopes of stirring up some colony of leeches
Every now and then they stop, and you
see them raise one black bespecked leg
and pick away until the furious sucking
on the other causes them to bring that up
hastily for inspection, while the former
takes Its place as bait Kansas City
Times.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-05
The Product.

The following is the product of the re-
porting mines for the month of January,
1SQc.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-05
Electric Ritters.

Electric Bitters is medicine suited TOR
ally season, but perhaps more generally
needed, when the languid, exhausted feel
ing prevails, when the liver is torpid and
sluggish and the need Of tonic and al
terative IL felt. A prompt use OF this
medicine has often ayerted long and per-
haps fatal bilious levers. No medicine
will act more surely in counteractinR and
freeing the system from the maIarial
poison. Headache. Indigestion, consti-
patton, and dizziness yield to Electric
Bitterr. so cents and 81 per bottle at
ID. T. Macdonald's drug store.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-05
Here IA a diamond here n niece ofc

Here Is diamond, here piece OF char
coal. Both carbon; yet between them
stands the mightiest OF magicians-Na-
ture. The food on your table, and your
own body; elementally the same; yet be-
between the two standsthe digestion, the
arbiter of growth or decline, life or death.
We cannot make diamond; we cannot
make flesh, blood and bone. No. But
by means OF the Shaker Digestive Cor.
dial we can enable the stomach to digest
food which would otherwise ferment and
poison the system. Ia all forms OF dys-
pepsia and incipient consumption, with
weakness, loss Of fiesh, thin blood, ner-
yous prostration the Cordial il the sue
cessful remedy. Taken with food it re-
lieves at once. II nourisbes, and assists
nature to nourish. trial bottle -
enough to show its merit-1O cents.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-05
Leather Covered Piapos.

A decided novelty in the way of piano
casing-the invention of a Milwaukee
music dealer-is on exhibition in the
University building, Broadway. After
several years of study and experiment
the inventor hit upon leather as the most
attractive as we'll as the most durable
article for incasing pianos The instru-
ment was built in Buffalo. The color of
the leather selected for the first speci-
men instrument was rich black, hand
somely embossed, giving the impression
OF exquisite carving. Not only does the
instrument thus incased present most
attractive and dignified appearance, but
1t has the advantage Of being something
in finish that cannot be marred ar
spotted. milwaukee Wisconsin.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-05

The mother of Nero the Infamous
Agrippina, was one of the most vicious
women Of any age or country. The char.
acter OF her son was the product of her
early, careful and systematic trainine
IN All kinds OF vice. He was inst as
much an example of the power Of edn.
ca'ion as the most noted Of reformers.
the education. u
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-05

Laxol is the best medicine for children.
Doctors recommend it in place Of Castor
oil
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-05
Carpet and Rug Sale.

lhe remainder oil carpet stock is marked very low
as we wish to sell it out at any price to make room or
new designs
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-05
FOR SALE.

HULL LOT-In the village of Red JACKET
f.cinE the h. 4 O. railroad. Apply ct tho
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-05
WANT COLUMN.

inserted 1t the rate OF ONE ORNT word each
than % oents.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-05
Furniture.

You may remember the low prices we quoted in Our
last circular on furniture. Prices now are st ,ower
'nese goods must be sold to make room for new nat