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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-03

Mrs Warren Finch, IS years old,
wife of the keeper of a gate near Bloom.
ingburg, n Y, committed suicide re-
Gently hy drowning herself IL . :. Z
barrel Of rainwater
Mrs. Finch, at an early hour in the
morning of che same day, was disturbed
by her husbands loud snoring. She
aroused him and said: Warren, you
snore so cannot sleep. Pm going down
stairs to get little rest if possible. -
Mrs. Finch then went to a room be-
low, where she was discovered shortly
afterward by her husband, bleeding
from wounds in her arms. A penknife
and scissors lay on chair near by.
"Oh, Abbie, what have you done?"
exclaimed the frightened husband.
I've done nothing. These are only
strawberry stains" said Mrs. Finch,
pointing to the blood spots.
Mrs. Finch remained in bed part of
the morning; but, finally Guiding her
watchers, she escaped from the house to
the rear yard, where she stepped into a
barrel half filed with rainwater and,
crouching down, allowed the water to
enter her mouth until life was extinct.
-Excbange,
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-03
A POET READING HIS POEMS.
Tennyson Inspired His Hearers With Deep
Emotion.

II was usually in the afternoon that
| Tennyson would delight u.s. and any of
the other guests who thronged his house,
| by reading 10 us some of his poems.
have heard him read "GuineveIe" and
many other of his poems. He read in q
sort OF recitatiVc, somewhat monotonously
at times and always rhythmically, but
with such deep emotion that the effect
was indesoribable. l once asked him to
read " Boadicea, because of its singularly
sonorous Tilt, and he did SO, though he did
not regard it as much more than an ex-
pertinent in language and meter
Two of his readings are impressed on
my memory with special vividness One
was 1.-The Revenge" which he read to
distinguished company whom he met at
dinner at my house at Westminster
Among them was my parishioner the late
lord chancellor, Lord Hatherley-one of
the best and truest men whom / ever
knew-toward whom MIR. Tennyson SEEM
cd to be Immediately drawn. The effect
of his reading of that noble piece was like
that of vivid picture, as his rich, sono-
rous voice rose and fell with the changes
of the impassioned story.
The Others were much longer readings
He read us the whole of "Queen Mary"
before 1t was published. 1t has never been
among the more popular of his works, and
l believe that on the STAGE even with Sir
Henry Irving TO help, it was not dramat-
10 success, but as the poet interpreted it
by his sympathetic reading l had never
before so deeply felt the tragedy of the life
of that miserable queen, with her diseased
body, her disappointed love, her blighted
hopes and the sour, gloomy, cruel, impoi-
soned fanaticism which she took for reli-
gion and the service of her God. AS he
read, breadth on breadth of gloom seemed
to be falling, fold after fold, upon the life
of the unhappy woman, and his own voice
was often broken by emotion. l specially,
however, remember the ring Of triumph
with which, after the successful repression
of Wyatt's rebellion, the queen is first
made to say, "My foes are at my feet, and
am queen" and with still more raptur-
GUS passion, my foes are at my feet, and
Philip king"
also specially remember his reading Of
the poem of "Akhbar's Dream" He told
me much about Akhbar which was entire
ly new TO me. For breadth and wisdom
of thought this poem must always take
very high place. Rev. L. W. Farrar in
New York Independent.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-03
Pleasant "Reminiscences.

kin see the shimmerin sunlight still a-6ancin
fore my eyes,
An the shaddcrs in the water whur the res'less
willers rise.
kin see the dragon flies astealin sweetness
ez they could,
An a-laughin at the bees that worked so hard
fur Others good
An the river, as it hurried, KEEP a-singin songs
20 me
Bout the streamlet in the mountain the
breakers in the sea.
I'm dreamin, like hungry man DER some re.
membered dish,
Bout the day | went afshin an didn't ketch
no FISH,
Nothin fer ter interrupt yer dozin OF ye lie,
Weth yer idle thoughts a-driftin like the clouds
tibet cross the sky
An the big tree hides the sun tibet goes -smilin
on his way
Like it feared tibet ye might worry Of ye
knowed the time o. day.
An the line hangs slack an useless in q way
thet goes ter prove
Thet they're dozin under water, same ye
are up above.
My ambitions for the future can't find any
better wish
Than the day went a-fshin an didn't ketcb
Washington Evening Star.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-03
when the London Season Bep,n,.

The 'season" begins about the time
parliament opens, and parliament's open.
ing and closing depend more or less on fox
hunting and grouse shooting. AS the
season" approaches, town houses are
opened and green" servants are broken
in; secretaries busy themselves with lists
and stationery, and the winter campaign
begins Immediately upon the family's re-
turn to town. AS London house Is sci.
dom needed for more than the formal en-.
tertainments of a season, it is in most cases
hired; consequently, it is seldom attract
i've.
Acquaintance are entertained In the
city, and friends are taken into the coun.
try to spend the weeks end on the family
estate, surrounded by the household gods
and the most attractive side of all Eng
land. There the future members of the
house of lords and the bellies of some fu-
ture drawing room ride donkeys, and the
older people ride wheels and sit under Eng
lish oaks and make little water color
sketches, and it is easily seen why only
social duties take them to London.
ID. Gibson in Scribner's.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-03
THAT ENDLESS PIN QUESTION.
No solution of lt Expected, but N Few
Facts are Known.

Who has not heard the question, "What
becomes of pinss" Millions of them are
made i'm "A year, millions are sold, and yet
the supply no more than keeps pace with
the demand, which scoms growing enor-
mously all the time. by computation
made i'm London ten years ago it was
shown that at that time the weekly pro-
duction of pins i'm Great Britain was ESQ.,
600, 600, of which $50, COO 600, or consider
ably more than half, were made in Bir-
mingham. Then 100, coo, 900 were made
in France and l20, 100000 in Germany,
Holland and Belgium. Since that time
the production of pins has increased large
ly. The biggest pin manufacturing city
in the world is Birmingham, where 81
600, 600 pins on the average are manufao-
tured every working day. The other pin
factories in England together turn out
about 100000 Geo pins daily. The daily
output of pins in France exceeds 10000
600, and Germany and other countries in
Europe manufacture about 10000, 600
more daily, the total production of pins
being $4,000, 900 every day, or COZ, 900, 600
a week in Europe This is, of course. ex-
elusive of the pin factories in the United
States, which number 40, having n capt.
tai of $4,000, 600, giving employment to
1900 persons and turning out in year
pins 70 the value of about 100000 1t
is calculated that only ! per cent of the
pins manufactured are worn out or bro
ken. The other 90 per cent are lost, but
what becomes of them, who're they go and
who gets them, or why some of thom are
not aftorward discovered and again put to
use, are mysteries. At tho rate at which
pins are manufactured and tho rate at
d ffh L..
Europe and North America must lose
pin day, and it is TO ho inferred. though
tho stotieticians take no account of this,
that there Is some pin losing going on, too,
in South America, Asia and Africa, though
tourists IN the dark continent aver that
the garniture there is such that pins are
not necessary.
Pins are made of copper ard zinc wire
The metal is cast into iugots, which arc
rolled into sheets after having been an
nealod several times. Afterward the
sheets arc cut into strips so fine as to re-
semble wire, and then by machinery the
wires are cut and aitorWurd the pins are
pointed and headed After the completion
of this process the Inequalities are worn oil
in revolving iron barrel filled with saw
dust, and then the pins are put in prep
aration OF tin and are polished by the fric-
ton Of sawdust 10 the point Of resemblance
TO the pins of commerce. The process is
by no means complicated, but much in
genuity is required for the competition in
pin making is considerable, and the mar
gin of profit from pin manufacture is
therefore not so large as 10 permit the sue /
cessful operation of any factory not util-
izing the most recent Improvements
New York Sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-03
A Geographical Misfit.

AS a state Turkey is heterogeneous
assemblage of peoples under the absolute
sway of the sultan. 1t is government
lacking altogether a sense for the right of
a community to choose concerning its own
government 1t thoroughly represents the
oriental idea whereby government is trans
cendent, power above and outside the
people, and not !mmanent, a power with
in the people. And herein lies the appli-
cation of the occidental oriental antithesis
to political institutions. The occidental
conception of life as active and creative,
inhering in active and self moving, arton-
omous personalities, begets the political
idea of what we call self government. The
idea which represents personality as self
directed in tho fuldllment of its own pur-
poses becomes when applied to politics the
idea that communities shall DO self gov
erned in things belonging to themselves.
This is the political upshot of occidental
ism. The opposite thereto is the upshot
of oricntalisIn. A potentate seated on a
very high throne under u very broad can
opy and loaded with very costly Jewels,
with PROSTATE subjects bowling in obei-
sance before him-that is the tableau of
oriental government.
Tureky is thoroughly oriental, repre-
sentatively oriental in its political spirit
Its location upon occidental soil is geo.
graphical misfit, a historical anachro-
nism. 1t is stranded wreck, left high and
dry beyond the sea walls by a receding
tidal wave, but no one undertakes to clear
Ii away because the land on which it rests
is in litigation. -Benjamin j. Wheeler in
Atlantic,
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-03
THE PERSIAN JEWELS.
Nowhere Else In the World Are Such
Wonderful Treasures.

Who has not heard of the Persian Jewel.
their glory, their number, their price
less worth! When the doors were unlocked
and l was taken into the peacock throne
room, l found myself surrounded by d
mass of wealth unequaled in the world.
Nowhere are such treasures, but nowhere
also is there such an accumulation of rub.
Dish. will, however, dismiss the rubbish
and refer only To the treasures. Down
each side of the room were chairs entirely
covered with sheeted gold, and at intervals
were tables of gold, nailed, 1 shuddered
to note, with the commonest of cheap
black headed tacksl
AT the far end of the room was the won
der of the world-the peacock throne.
Whether ii is one of the seven thrones of
the great mogul, and was brought from
Delhi, l don't know, but IL is certainly
the most costly ornament that the eye of
man can look upon. l inspected it most
carefully. 1t is entirely of silver, n great
camp bed structure, but modelled in lovely
designs. 1t is incrusted from end to end
and from top to bottom with diamonds
AT the back Is a star of brilliants that
make you blink. The rug on which the
shah sits is edged with precious stones, and
the pillow on which he reclines is covered
with pearls. l could keep on writing
about the dazzling beauties of the throne
of the king of kings, but l could never
get beyond declaring it to be superb
jewel. Some people have valued it at Co.
600, 600. Its real value is between 92, 600,
600 and e3, 100000.
But though the peacock throne is the
magnum opus of the Persian crown Jew
els, 1t by no means extinguishes the mag
nificence of the other treasures. Who can
attempt, however, to recount the number
of bejeweled arms, the royal crowns, the
fishing aigrets, the trays piled up with
cut and uncut stones and the bowls filled
with pearls that you run through your
fingers like handful of rich? Every one
has heard of che Daria-i-Nur, or Sea of
Light, sister diamond to the Kohinoor.
or Mountain of Light. Every one has also
heard of the Globe CT the World, made by
the late shah, of rs pounds of pure gold
and 1866 gems-the sea of emeralds,
Persia of turquoises, India of amethysts,
Africa of rubies England and France of
diamonds--and valued at e947 OOO.-New
Illustrated Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-03

meanwhile co-operates in settlement
Of the problem. He will be able to
show them that this is country in
which public opinion rules and that
in this Cuban matter the president could
not continually restrain congress if he
would and would not if he could.
Under the circumstances il would be
easy for Spanish statesmen to realize
that any aggressive policy formed by
the president viii have the enthusiastic
support of congress and the country
Walter Wellman's Washington Letter in
Chicago Times. Herald.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-03
EXPLORERS SAFE RETURN.
DIR. Sven Hedin Solved the Mystery OF
Lake Lab-Nor.

Lake Lab-Nor.
DR.. Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer
who recently returned to Stockholm aft
er exploring the mysterious land of
Tibet, has been received with much
expression of approval by King Oscar
The king had a surprise in store for the
guests at the banquet inaugurating the
Swedish exhibition. Hedin had been
thought dead for a year, and the sur
prise Of the banqueters may be imag
ined when they saw the king leading
the doctor by the hand into the room.
The plucky explorer had not only sue
ceeded in penetrating the marvellous
country of the Pamirs, bat had managed
TO escape with whole skin. Hedin's
explorations, while more dramatic in
every way than NaDsen's trip to the
north pole did not attract much atten.
tion for the reason of popular ignorance
respecting that part Of the world which
he had visited.
Tibet is the highest tableland on
earth-fully 20, 200 feet above the level
Of the sea, or nearly five miles. Few
travellers have managed TO penetrate it's
businesses. The famous Marco Polo,
Able Hue and other travellers have
crossed the Kuen Luen mountains, but
the story of their adventures has been
generally disbeieyed For Or. Hedin
was reserved the privilege Of exploring
Tibet in its entirety, and Of even con.
structiug reliable map Of its noun
taius, lakes, rivers ana cities. Re was
the first European traveller TO explore
the terrible descry Of Takia Makhun
His most important work was the solu-
tion Of the mystery of Lake Lab Nor
whose existence has been asserted and
denied 10y many authorities Hedin
found that this body Of water disap-
pears and reappears through the action
of natural exigeucies and has forever
set at rest a great geographical contro-
versy. Exchange.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-03
Where Princeton Got Her slyroclset Cheer.


On ell public occasions student enthu-
siasm finds expression in the well known
Princeton cheer the "skyrocket, as it
has been called Undergraduates of today
may think it has come down from time
whereof the memory of man runneth not
to the contrary" But this would be an
error. All college cheers are of modern
date Princeton's is among the oldest.
Nevertheless, 36 years ago it was unknown.
Where did it come from? Who invented
it? These are momentous questions and
are answered differently by different men.
A member of the class of go declares
that the late DIR. Woolsey johnson of New
York of that class first sounded the
"hooray, hooray, hooray, tiger, siss- boom
ali Princeton" in one of Professor
Schenck's Rotations. But Chancellor
Alexander Il. McGill of the class of 81
says he remembers quite distinctly when
the Seventh regiment of New York went
to the war and how nearly the whole col.
lege went down through the Potter woods
to the old depot by the canal at midnight
to greet it as it passed through. The
cheers of the boys were responded to by
the Seventh with the "skyrockets, which
so impressed the youthful mind that il
was INDUCED in at first as borrowed prop
erty, and later, as time advanced, was
adopted as the college cheer.-James w.
Alexander in Scribner's
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-03
Suspicious.

Gentleman lin railway train)-How did
this accident happen?
Guard-Some one pulled the bell and
stopped the train, and the boat express
ian into us. 1t will take five hours to
clear the line for us to go ahead.
Gentleman-Five hoursl / was to be
married today.
Guard Ga married MANI sternly-Look
here Are you the chap who stopped the
trainl--London Tit Bits
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-03
Her Birthplace.

"Strange story that of the Georgia girl
who carried n splinter in her foot Al years,
and then had it work out in a petrified
state"
"Petrified, did you says"
YES"
IN bet anything the girl was origi-
nally from Boston. "-Cleyeland Plain
Dealer.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-03
BIest BE the "Ties."

A railway contractor recently advertised
for 300 wooden sleepers. by return of post
no received letter from neighboring
clergyman Offering him the whole of his
congregation on reasonable terms.-Lon-
don Saturday Review.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-03

The feeling Of friendliness between the
British private and the Sudanese blacks is
curiously warm. In fact, so attached are
the Seventy ninth highlanders and the
Ninth Sudanese that the latter are known
among the troops as the Second Battalion
OF the Cameron Highlanders.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-03
He Could Not Spit In a Car.

Joseph Robertson, a laborer, was ar
rested in Washington recently for spit
ting in car. AS the policeman who
had charge of Robertson did not witness
the offense the prisoner was set free.
This was the first case under the new
MISREPRESENTATION ordinance.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-03
WOman's Part.

What part of speech Is woman pap
Woman isn't part Of speech, my son.
She's the whole speech. New Orleans
Times Democrat.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-03

Billy-What's de matter, Jimmie:
Amt de cigar good enough fen you?
Jimmie-Yes, I guess it was, but I
didn know enough 20 let good enough
alone. up to Date.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-03

The only way to have friend is to DO
one.-Emerson.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-12-02
MILFORD.

Dec. 1.-Volunteer council, Royal Ar
canum, will hold it's regular meeting
Thursday evening. The election of Of
ficers for the coming year will be held,
and an important event will take place
that will greatly interest and please all
who attend this meeting.
Contractor Elbert N. Clark is laying
concrete walk on Lafayette avenue,
Read street and across the Green in
front of the shoe factory.
Mr.. Harvey Merwin has returned to
the Wayside Inn at New Milford after
spending the Thanksgiving vacation
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Des-
mond P. Merwin.
The entertainment given by the Y.
P. S. c. e. of the First church last
evening was well attended. Vocal and
instrumental music, and also recita-
lions were given, after which light re-
freshments were served
Following is the programme which is
to be used by the delegation of the
State Y. M. c. A. in Milford the COM
ing Saturday and Sunday. Saturday,
December 4, Plymouth church, $3.50 p.
M, devotional, by N. J. Bailey of Der
by, Conn.
3:45 p. m.-Association Work Among
College Men, by E. F. Bill, Yale uni
versity.
Ais p. inflow Can We Help the
Boys, by F. G. Downes, New Haven.
4:45 p. m.-What Woman Can Do in
Christian Work, by f. S. Smith,
nd TO nf ha
Middletown.
Evening session at town hall.
1880 p. m.-Praise service.
7:45 p. m.-Association Work.
a-Spiritual, by W. r. Goddard, gen.
eral secretary, Derby, Conn.
Extraordinarily c. D. Evans, An
sonia.
c-Social, by w. e. Fenno, secretary
r. r. Y. M. G. A., New Haven.
d-Physical, by W. G. Morgan, New
Haven.
All sessions open to the public.
Sunday.
$3.50 a, m,-Preparation service, Metho-
dist church.
1920 a. m.-Address in First Congrega-
tional, Plymouth and Methodist
churches.
p. m.,-Mass meeting, town hall.
4 p. m.-Boys' meeting, First Congrega-
tional
p. m.-Women's meeting, Plymouth.
1880 p. m-Union services, First Con-
gregational.
Several delegates will assist in each
of the various Christian Endeavor and
Epworth league meetings at $50 p. m.
A regular meeting Of the incorpora-
tors Of the Taylor library will be held at
the library building Monday evening,
| December g. at 7:30 p. m.
Mrs. Mary A. Smith is spending a
few days in New York city.
Mrs. Andrew Royden, who has been
at the New Haven hospital for week
had an operation performed on Sunday
for tumor. She is reported to be do.
| ing nicely.
There will be food sale at the store
| of F. & e. L. Cornwall on Saturday af-
ternoon and evening by the ladies
| guild of st. Peters church.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-12-02
MISS COLTS DEBUT.
At Warner Hall Last Night-An Inter-
astipp Occasion

esting Occasion.
Miss May Colt made her debut as
recftationist at delightful concert at
Warner hall last evening. Miss Colt
had the assistance of Miss Elizabeth
Gaffney, Miss Cummings, Mr.. George
Chadwick Stock, Mr.. Riley Phillips, jr,
and Mr. Walter V. Holt. The pro-
gramme was one of unusual merit and
interest
1t opened with the familiar trio from
Verdi's "Attilla,' which was sung by
Miss Gaffney, Mr.. Stock and Mr.. Phil
lips. Miss Colt appeared next and re-
cited with excellent effect pretty little
categorical poem by Robert E. Hatch,
entitled 1.-THE Sculptor's Vision Miss
Colt was suffering from a severe cold
and had to be excused from one of her
numbers. Her indisposition was not
evident in her voice, which is clear and
of pleasing quality Her manner is
reposeful and she is possessed of con-
siderable magnetism. This showed to
better advantage in the second number,
1.-THE Wild Zuegarella," which was re-
cited in costume. In this Miss Colt eX-
hibited an unusul degree of fire and
temperament. She was enthusiastically
received and recalled.
Miss Colts instructor, Mr.. Holt of
New York, read Mathew Arnold's "Sor-
hab and Rustrum." 1t is a long and
trying selection and Mr.. Holt proved
his powers by holding the audiences
most careful attention. 1t was an ex-
tremely meritorious performance.
Miss Gaffney was warmly and en-
Enthusiastically received and she sang
with her customary charm of manner
and vocal skill Miss Gaffneys voice
seems to gain in fullness and power
with each year and the quality is as
rich and vibrant as ever. In its de-
votion to Miss Gaffney the public of
this city has never shown any signs
of fickleness and her continued popular
ity is thoroughly well deserved. She
sang last night the Ave Maria" ar
ranged from the "Intermezzo" from the
"Cavalleria Rusticana," with a violin
obligato by Miss Florence Cummings
who is talented pupil of Mr. Troost-
wyk. As an encore she sang the IA
miliar old Irish folk-tune, believe Me
of All Thy Endearing Young Charms, u
which she always sings with infinite
tenderness and sympathy. Later she
sang Hawley's "Sweet Heart" and
again being recalled, 1.-THE Four-Lea1
| Glover" Mr.. Phillips sang "The Two
| Grenadiers'' and Tostis "Beauty's
Eyes" and as an encore, "The jolly
Friar" Mr.. Phillips is steadily grow
ing both as an artist and a singer. Mr.
| Stock sang in a very artistic manner
| Cantor's 80 Fair, o Sweet and Holy
and "The Yeoman's Wedding Song
The audience was large and the entire
affair was most successful and enjoy.
| able