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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
A Had System.

1t has impressed me as an odd sort OF
spectacle for Grant and Lee, with the
soldiers of the north and south behind
them to be appealing TO Speaker Reed, to
n single man, for permission to bring up
their bill for worthy purpose. No criti-
cism need be passed upon Mr.. Reed rs
speaker or az a man, but the system Is Ger
tainly wrong when single official stands
and blocks the way to action in legisla
tive body. 1t Is contrary to the whole
spirit of our institutions. In the executive
departments the will of the president Is
rightfully supreme. But In the legislative
branch the supposition is that 357 men,
and not one man, form the umpire.
In practice, however, one man does con-
troll the whole thing. The speaker vir-
tually has the power to say which measures
shall come up for consideration and which
shall not. Take the case of this military
park bill as an example. Probably there
is no opposition to it. Members from the
north and from the south, Democrats and
Republicans, would be glad TO vote for It.,
but they cannot get the chance The
speaker does not permit it to come up for
consideration His will is law in such
matters He could not pass "a bill which
the house did not want nor defeat one aft
er It had been taken up, but in the power
to say which measures shall have hear
| ing and which shall not he is almost SOW
ereign.
There will surely be an effort 10 reform
this system at an early day. L hear talk
that as soon as the house is organized next
March for the special session of congress a
scheme will be brought forward TO take
the appointment of committees out of the
| hands of the speaker and place it in the
power of the whole house. There was a
time when the house named its own com
mittees, of rules az well as for every Other
purpose, and until this system is reinstated
the popular branch of our national con
gress cannot be truly said TO be represent
atiye parliamentary body.
WALTER WELLMAN
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
The Poetry of the Waltz.

The waltz was introduced into Eng
land much earlier than 1918. In the
Life of Mary Russell Milford" edited
by the Rev. A. G.. L'Estrange, there is
a letter to Sir William Elford, dated
Dec. 3, 1918, where Miss Milford speaks
Of having learned it from French
dancing master when she was IA years
old. This would be in 1901. From what
she says in the letter gather that the
dance must have become fashionable in
1911, certainly in 1912. In another let
ter, Of date Jan. 2, 1914, to Sir William
Elford, Miss Milford gives the verses on
the waltz attributed to Lord Byron. She
says that they are by Sir Henry En-
glefield:
What, the girl adore by another embracedl
What, the balm of her breath shall another
man tastel
What, pressed in the whirl by another's bold
kneei
What, painting, reclined on another than mel
Sir, she's yours; you have brushed from the
grape its soft blue;
From the rosebud you've shakea ~ tremu'
lous dew
WhsA you have touched you may take. Pretty
waltzer, adieui
This is somewhat different from that
given ON page 37S Of the work. The
last three lines are certainly good. In
the letter of Jan. 2, 1914, Miss Milford
mentions that her correspondent, Sir
William Elford, was engaged on a
"History of the Waltz. Notes and
Queries
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
Petrified Forests.

The regions of the Little Colorado riv-
er in Arizona abound in wonderful veg.
etable petrifications, whole forests being:
found in some places which are hard as
flint, but which look as if but recently
stripped of their foliage. Some of thesc
stone trees are standing just as natursl
as life, while others are piled across.
each other just like the fallen mouarchsS
of real wood forest. Biologists sly
that these stone trees were once covered
to the depth of 1000 feet with mari.
which transformed them from wood tev
solid rock. The mari, after the lapse of
ages, washed out, leaving some OF thxe
trees standing in an upright position
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


The Syracuse gas company has dis
covered natural gas near Syracuse, N.
Y. and is preparing to lay conduits to
bring the flow there.
The Rev. j. II. Harwell. charged with
securing money under false pretenses.
was found TO be insane at Richmond.
Ind. and was released. to be placed in
private sanitarium.
Mrs John Mcdowell OF Martinville.
Ind. vas standing near the stove with
her baby In her arms She fell i'm
mt and the child's neck was broken
The mother was badly burned
II Is said that a great many American
flags are made by sweatshop labor in
New York
Suit for $4,000 damages has been be-
gun by Andrew Osborn against the
Galesburg Gid National bank because
of injuries sustained by fall.
Ephriam Mariner. a millionaire, was
fined $3.50 in the police court at Milwau-
kee and s2050 for costs. He refused TO
obey an order of the health department
In reference 10 repairing.
Rainey h. Carter and S. NJ. Murphy
Of Davenport. la. fought, and Murphy
stabbed Carter three times woundlng
him mortally. Carter fired at Murphy
killing him Instantly
The postofice department has issued
lottery order against the Southern
Mutual Investment company al Gin.
cinnati and Louisville.
John Daniels, convicted OF forging Q
note for 81 on his aunt, Anna Cole
was sentenced at Shclbyv'le Ind, L
states prison for a period Of two years
! He is but 20 years OF age, and Of goo,
family.
In competitive examination at Marsh
field, Wis. FOR West Point cadetship
d. +. Stewart OF Greenwood was sue
| cessful.
Experiments in Florida and southern
| Georgia make il clear that Tobacco
equal to that grown in Cuba can b
| produced on American soil.
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ing in both the Union and rtjG lines.
The carthworks of the contending armies
there were thus close together From ell
Their end of this section of the park two mar
row strips will run TO the river, each strip
taking in a lire of earthworks Thus the
whole of the lines of defense and offense
thrown up during that AZ days siege will
be taken in 10y the proposed park, the mar
row strips being made boulevards from the
park proper to the river.
Most of the carthworks are still in exist
ence. OF course the rains have washed
them down, and underbrush and weeds
have grown over them. But they are for
the most part still distinguishable. IL
will be easy to restore them to their orig
inal condition, just as they were on that
Hateful Fourth of July when both Vicks-
burg and Gettysburg fell. Nearly all OF
the 300 pieces of cannon used by the two
armies in the siege of Vicksburg are still
in existence, lying useless In government
arsenals obsolete, and these can be put In
position just where they were when the
soldiers fought it out third Of century
ago. The sum asked for by the promoters
of the bill Is only e75, 900, and the total
cost of the park will not exceed $3.50, 600.
All the Grand Army and prominent mill
tary organizations In the country has
asked congress to pass this bill. Yet 1t
may never be taken UP for consideration
Two Important Battles.
Vicksburg and Gettysburg, by strange
coincidence, came practically on the same
day. Between them they settled the fate
of the nation. They marked the downfall
of the Confederacy. Vicksburg divided
/ rfo vta fall
made communication from west of the
Mississippi to the east practically impossi.
BILE. General Lee told me he was ordered
90 times to bring troops across from the
west side, and, though he tried in every
way he could think of, he was unable to
do IT, The best he could do was to get n
man or two across in dugout boat. But
ms for getting q troop of soldiers across, II
simply could not be done. Gettysburg has
been made the site of one of the gracdest
military parks i'm the world, and the old
soldiers think Vicksburg should be sim
ilarly treated.
Vicksburg was really the only siege oil
the war-the only investment of a city that
was closed in ON all sides, both by land and
water. with communication through the
lines impossible to the beleaguered troops
For AZ days and nights the siege continued
"For 90 days" General Lee told me, "oul
men subsisted on half rations. The last
ten days we lived on quarter rations. We
were compelled to stand all the time in The
trenches The fire was so sharp and nc
curate that every time man put up hi
cap three or four bullets pierced 1t. There
was not n minute In which ID inch shell
were not bursting in the air over our heads
The nervous strain upon us was something
indescribable. The wonder Is we held on
as long as we did. We Confederates lool
upon Vicksburg rs a spot In which Amer
lean manhood displayed itself at its best
and we think II ought to be commemorat
ed by the erection Of park.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
And All Was Well.

They met by chance on Michigan ave-
nue-a big man and little man-and-
accidentally bumped into each other.
Shaking his fist at the big man, hs'
shouted:
"You did that on purposel'
mo, / didn't"
II say you did, Will you fight mes
right here and now?'
II am no fighter.
s'Of course notl You are afraid ton
tackle me'
"No, I'm not; but I'll bide my time 4
can wait f"
''Going to hit me with a brickbafs
some dark night, are your
''No, sir. l shall take manly re-
venge.''
''Have me arrested, eh?'
"No, sir. / am going TO California
When get there, shall box up stonea
weighing about 20 pounds and send it
TO you by express G. o. ID. 1t will cost
you about $14 to pay the charges.
"But won't receive it. I"
"Oh, yes, you will. Curiosity to know
what is in the box will be too strong for
you. You'll take it quick enough, and
my revenge will be complete. +"
"See here old fellow, remarked the
little man, after a moments thought,
81 was too fast. / have wronged you,
and beg your pardon. Let's shake ana
make up. "
And then they shook, and then ak
was well. Free Press.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
A Coincidence.

The English press deems it an inter
esting coincidence that President Kru-
ger lost thumb by accident, while
Gladstone lost finger. 1t is recalled
that Gladstone, in describing the ampu-
tation of this finger, once said: "The alb
sence of pain sometimes amounts 10
pleasure. 1t was once my fate to have ~
finger cut off. and recollect perfectly
we'll that when the surgeons ceased to
hack me 1 was more delighted than I
can express. thought never experS-
enced so lively pleasure.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
Engraving the Motto.

Very few inscriptions are available
Tor engraving on wedding rings, lockets,.
bracelets, etc, writes Mrs. Garrett Web
ster in The Ladies' Home Journal, as
the space for engraving is so limited
For this reason the Hebrew word 'Mfz-
pah, with its small form and exquisite
sentiment, is, and has always been, q
great favorite between lovers. Love
inspires love, >" "Love today while we
may, ""God saw thee most fit for me,
"Love and trust, mo heart more true
than mine to you, Il am thine, thou
art mine" and it's well known French
German and Latin forms are all great
favorites. A charming fashion is the US
age of two rings, in each one Of which
half the phrase is engraved, the two
when read together giving the complete
quotation. The last quoted sentiment 1s
the favorite for this purpose. Latin and
French phrases are frequently used In
this connection because Of their brevlty-
"Prendre moi tel que je suis, y Take
me Just as l am - "Tuam tuebor, y
will defend thee" "Semper fidelis,
always faithful - ''Une je servirai,
Zone will serve"-are a few OF the
most used phrases, with their transla-
tions.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25

DR.. T. J. Patchen is dead at st. Pc
tersburg, Fla. He was mayor of Fond
du Lac, Wis, in 1870.
1t is announced that the winter crops
in the southern provinces of Russia
have been greatly damaged owing TO
the continued lack of rain.
Cnildren's Parents Are ''Enrageu."
South Bend, Ind, Jan. 25.-Pupiis Oh
the Linden school have enjoyed their
own free will for some time, much 10
the discomfort of their teacher MISS
Ringle and their own intellectual de-
velopment Finally the patient teacher
applied to the principal, Miss Bessie
Ridgley. Not believing in corporal
punishment, the latter planned TO use
novel means to forever quiet the puplis'
she sent for some castor oil, and I'm
ing ND nine recalcitrants administered
a homeopathic dose to each. Guy NaVere-
ceiyed an extra dose, it is said, and was
taken sick The children's parents are
enraged
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
THE MARKETS.
New York Financial.

New YORK, Jan. %.
Monev on cali nominally l1eD2 per cent
prime mercantile paper o1s9., -, Inn al
sterling exchange as weak VIII az Cor do
ness in bankers bills at 4so'4leso. ior wi
mand and 4s4ls04siA for sixty days sS, po''e'
rates 4s5L6a4SSlp; commercial DIS ''
Rar silver 6i5S; Mexican dollars oV4
limited States government bonds irnh
..,,;s,ored IsIss; do coupons, lSSss; D reg
istered. ll:,4; do coupons, lliIe; IS a..
M. 40 coupons, III; rs registereu WA
Chicago Grain and Produce. ~
CHICAGO, Jan. ~
rorow;pg were the quotations on the boar1
., Trada TODAY: wheat-January, oPeneu
rae. closed 7sIsc; May, opened .Ws'' Corn-
aiec; July, opened 75s4c' closed 'o,sc ,,o. Nov
January. opened nominal, closed 80 '. .,.s
,naned s4c. c.osed 2ic; july Opener
closed 25llc. Oats january openeu hoN ,i1',,
cioseI l5ldc; May, opened l'1sc' CLOSE a. ~
pnrt~.January; opened nominal, closed 500
NJ onened s795, closed Ss.W Laru- r,'''
,,arv npened nominal, closed SS.'o'a' may
S4.U7Is. closed SilO. ,o,zo mar
produce: Butter-Extra creamery, DssS , ~
IN {. extra dairy, l7c per ID; fresn p'o" 49,
- ~, No Eggs Fresh stock, Logs pc
,oz. Poultry-Turkeys, s@l<c Pe, lD'' dncrs
ems Chens), 6G7c; ROSTERS 'g ,.,rb.nI"s !
o1i0iSc; geese, 7dsc. Potatoes-n sIa. Do
SS,sc uer bu.: Hebrons, lS0ssc. SWEET ,,,'s,,
s.,e.-iIlinois, 81 mol .i5p per Dbl. honey" Az
81 ,ver. lODlSc per h.; extracted, o%.I' ny
nss-Common to fancy 50Gxi.yo per o9.-
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
Chicago lave stoca.

CHICAGO Jan. "a
Live Stock-Prices AT the Union stock yards
today ranged as follows: Hogs-Estimated re
ceipts for tue uay 1900; sales ra ged at 1915
@3.55 pigs, S5.55lD355 light, Sj.2OGoJ.2J rough
packing, S3.3OO3.D mixed, and $j.3C6l347H
heavy packing aud shipping lots.
Cattle-Estimated Receipts for the day, 30;
quotations ranged at Si90a5.iO choice To ex.
ira shipping steers Si45lDi.N good to choice
DO, Sj.s0D4.4O fair 10 good, S36OG4.0j common
TO medium do, $}.5JlJ3.90 butchers's steers,
S3OO6I3.45 stockers, S3.3ll4.l5 feeders, $l.75lD
$40 cows, $.4Ja4.25 neifers, sl.15G37j bulls,
oxen and stays, S!.8)Di.l0 Texas steers and
S2.1JG6.OO veal calves.
Sheep and Lambs-Estimated receipts for
the day, 300; salt ranged at S2.i0G3.S5 west
ern, 81. 25lD3.4O Texans s2.OOlt3.0J natives aud
$50 GI5.l0 lambs
East Buffalo Live Stock.
EAST BUFFALO, N. Y, Jan. %.
Dunning g. Stevens, Live Stock Commission
MeI chants, EastBuffalo N. Y. quote as follows:
Cattle-Receipts, cars; market steady;
ca yes few ON sale; choice veals, S6.1j6D7OO.
Hogs-Rece pts, B. cars; market steady; York
ers, S3.HGG3;,5; pigs, Sj.75G3.oc; iackers $500;
mediums, $50; heavy, $3.50. Sheep and
lambs-Rece pts, % cars; market op sned
strong at yesterdays openng; choice lambs
sos, closed Sj.lOG5l5; good lambs, $500
BOO; light lambs, Sil0a4.7j; sheep st ady; best
wethers, 81. ONi.21; good to choice mixed
sheep, Sj.5O@3.Sj.
Milwaukee Grain.
MILWAUKEE Jan 20
! VIII at-No. spring, ne; No northern,
| Sl34c; May, SIC. Corn-No. D. 20l2c. Oats-No.
2 white, 1890 &c. Barley-No 2, 330331ac;
SAMPLES @ila Rye-No /, 3S4SSl6c
-. Louis Grain.
81. LOUIS, Jan. %.
Wheat-No.2 red ca J. elevator, SIC bid track,
Soc; May, S5jsc id. G mo. = cash, lg1sc
bid; May, @l9lc Ol,s-No. cash, GlGc nom
inai; May, ls54c. Rye sc track.
Detroit Grain.
DETROIT, Jan. -.
Whcat-Cash white. ole bid; cash red, $40
bid May, SIC asked; July, 1j5s.
Carriage Factory Burneo.
New York. Jan. 25.-Fire has de-
stroyed the carriage factory OF Charles
CRUDE at Railway. n. j. Loss, 100000.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
snow blockade In south Dakota.

wnS g. d., Jan. 25.-Because of the
w w,na which solidly filled railway cuts
sou,h '"pw no trains were sent east or
Nor,hu friday over the Chicago and
bloSses'ern. The Milwaukee line is
b been "" and the Great Northern has
FOR ,n unuer three to ten feet of snow
plow % w, weeks. An engine and snow
Nortbwasee thrown from the Chicago and
civ western N,,n track a mile east of the
Assis,an,a afternoon by broken rail.
born '' ant Division Superintendent SAN
o ~UIh and Fireman Jam,son were ser,-
what ma, ,. ana Engineer Baldwin some
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
JRANTANDLEE APPEAR
They Want a National Military
Park.
TO BE LOCATED AT vICKSBURG
Soldiers of Both the South and North Be
hind the New scheme-One Man Power
In the House-An Effort to Reform the
System.

WASHINGTON, Jan 90 Especial. !
Grant and Lee appeared before Speaker
Reed a few days ago 70 make arguments
In favor of bill 10 create "A national mil
itary park at Vicksburg Miss They were
Colonel Fred Grant of New York city and
General Stephen D Lee of Mississippi.
Colonel Grant was not at Vicksburg 80
years ago last July. but all the world
knows another Grant was there. General
stephen ID Lee was at Vicksburg as u
Confederate brigadier He went through
that long siege and was captured with the
10000 Confederate troops who were found
within the city Ii is not often that a
Grant and Lee appear before the speaker
of the house or before any other tribunal
asking something in the name of the sol
diers of both the north and south.
The Plan Outlined.
II will be almost a Iity If the promoters
Of this military park cannot get their bill
through at this session of congress They
have an attractive Plan They propose 10
buy 2Oo acrce Of GroUnd, embracing all
the old oartaworks, which run from the
river above Niclsburg to the river again
below the city The Federal lines were Is
miles long aud the Confederate lines seven
miles long Immediately back of the city
the proposed park will be about II hall
mile wide ana a mile and a half long, tax
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
Can't Drink Pure Water.

Arabs in the desert have contracted q
strange prejudice against running ws-
ter, and they will only drink what they
find i'm some stagnant pool. SO murkz
has this become matter Of habit with
them that, while the most poisoucuss
looking water agrees with them adrzsr-
rably, pure running water will msa.
them violently sick.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
PROOF positive.
The Only Drawback.

Rergy-Sweet Airline, will you be
mine?
sweet Arlinc-Before 1 answer your
question let me ask you one Do you
swear when you lose your collar ou''on'
Reggy-Never. ,o =
cannot marry man who has no spirit
Town Topics ----..-----.--.-
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
M.ane.t Man in the Country.

Coudertsport Pa. Jan. 25.-John II.
Costello. a millionaire lumberman or
this place, has been indicted by the
grand jury on the charge that ne leo
a conspiracy to ruin the reputation OF
his wife in order to get divorce rom
her. The proceedings are brought by
Mrs Costello.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
The Great Picture Books.

The two "Alices" would not have
caught the public fancy so quickly and
so surely but for Sir John Tenniel's in
imitable designs, from which 1t is al
most impossible mentally to dissociate
the letterpress. Who without his as
sistance could adequately have wis
ualized" the "Mad Halter" or the
white Queen" or "Tweedledum and
Tweedledee. -" or the 'Black Kitten?'
Similarly Mr. Lear's nonsense verses
gain something from his grotesque IL
Illustrations (and what more charming
combination ever rooted itself III the
affections Of the nursery?), while Struw-
welpeter, delightful as the Engllsh
rendering is, would be shorn OF half its
glories were "Shock Headed Peter OF
"Cruel Frederick" or johnny Head In
Air" not presented to the eye III their
charmingly crude reds and green's
Rattlesnake Prices.
Rattlesnakes, live ones, are surprls-
ingly cheap. For "a you can purchase a
fellow that will begin buzzing ike
neanut yender's steam whistle as soon as
he sees you and keep it up as long as
Won remain in sight, while his slender
black tongue darts in and out like a
sewing machine needle. For SIT you
can buy six footer whose bite would
seem a reasonable excuse for drinking a
whole keg of whisky at sitting. Inc
astonishing feature of the rattlesnake
trade. however, is that the snakes are
cheaper dead than alive. A prepared
skin the size of the $l7 live RATHER
may be purchased for SO, although there
is enough of it to make two or three
pocketbooks of the kind that sell for va
npiece. New York Sun.
PROOF positive.
When a man has made his applica-
ton and passed the physical examina'
t;on and the civil service examination,
and has duly seen few people with
mills. and has got his appointment,
and his uniform, and his billy ano
twisters and revolver, and has had 9
beat marked out for him, he feels al
last that he is really policeman, but
when he sees a dirty faced small boy
stick his head around corner at SAFE
distance and shout Jaw, go chase your
selfp' and then run violently away h'
is absolutely sure Of it.-Somerviii'
Journal.
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damage, for Her Husbands Death.

Frankfort, Ky, Jan. Boy a aec,s-
ion Of the court of appeals Mary keily'
wife of James Kelly, an express mes eso
senger killed in 1892, was given Sio'oVV
damages against the LouisViiie anu
Mach willie railway.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
An Odd AntediluyIan.

Teacher-Noah sailed 40 days and 40
nights.
Dick Hicks-And did IL all without a
Yachting cap. Minneapolis Tribune.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
No Tiding. of IN. cr.~

the Amss,'.N' s., Jan. 25.-The stern of
discoyereS IN schooner Laura Mack was
Dor, near on the shore at Little Har-
She had 1. 'neibourne. N. S., Saturday.
things 20 q cargo of frozen herring. No
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accident to Mckinley. s,.,.r

KIplsv "' " Jan. 25.-Mlss Helen Nc
slipnad 'se president-elect's sister.
walk no anu Tell on the ice on the side
Tuscaroa.,he Mckinley home on West
to the WAS IVA. street. She was on her way
bones =, pos.ofiice. In falling one of the
Tbs ,n, IN her right wrist was broken.
ably tata was dressed and will prob
er iniur,e some weeks to heal. No 9TH