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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-03
Shoes In japan.

One of the most striking sights that
take the attention of the traveller i'll
Japan is that of the wooden sandal
worn by the 100000 of people.
These sandals have separate compart-
ment for the great toe and make clank-
ing noise on the streets. Straw slippers
are also worn, and traveller starting
out OH a journey will strap supply or
them on his back, that he may put on
new pair when the old is worn out. Ihey
cost but cent and half pair. They
are rights and lefts and leave the foot
free TO the air We never see those de-
formitics of the foot in Japan which
are so frequent in this country. They
are never MoIn in the house, but left
outside the deer. Passing down street.
you may see long rows of them at the
doors. old ard new. large and SMALL
Eoston Journal
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-03

front. Our skirts are always within
few inches of the ground, and as for
pinching the waist, heaven-that we
never dol We like freedom too we'll
"There seems TO be so little known
about the life Of the gitane here. Peo-
pie seem TO think we are vagabonds.
But we are not. We are "a musical peo-
pie and play much for concerts and en-
tertainments. The Spanish gypsics live
mostly in caves, and they adorn their
dwelling places with pretty drapcries,
skins Of animals and pictures.
'They are quite fond of having their
photographs taken, and the pretty gyp-
sy girl IS veTy apt to aave a large col
lection Of the young mems pictures, just
as your American belle has.
George Eliot in The Spanish Gyp.
sy' has given the tTuest account of the
gitane of any one who has ever written
about them. ALICE Il. IVES.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-03
A Confusion of Names.

Although Scotia is now known to
mean Scotland, it once was the name OF
Ireland. Two centuries before the birth
of Christ Ireland was known to the
Greeks as Juvenca. Caesar called 1T Hi
hernia, as did also Ptolemy in his map
of that island. 1t is said the Phpni-
clans first gave Ireland the name of Hi.
hernia, meaning thereby utmost or
last habitation," for beyond that land
westward the PhGnicians never extend
ed their voyages. Toward the decline OF
the Roman empire the country began to
be called Scotia, name retained by
the monastic writers until the eleventh
century, when the name Scotia, having
passed to modern Scotland, the ancient
name of Hibernia began to be again
used. San Francisco Chronicle.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-03
MISS MARGARET ROGERS.

managers of grain ranches III California
are New England women. In the Po-
mona valley two women are successful
" running stock farms. In Riverside
there are seven women orange growers,
and the most successful manager of the
fishing boats in one of the coast towns
is handsome young brunette. But
Monterey county has young woman %
years old who has made fortune III
the cattle and horse business. Her name
is Margaret Rogers, and she is as arts
tic and talented as she is businessllke
and enterprising. She rounds up the
cattle OH her fathers ranch and her
own, sees to their branding, corrals the
colts and sheep, plows, sows and runs
harvesting machine, and plays the piano
and makes fancy work during her spare
moments. Upon her library wall hangs
a medal which she won in ladies'
seminary in Oakland for proficiency in
Latin and English literature.
Miss Rogers came to Monterey coun-
ty with her father in 1876. The latter
was then nearly dead with consump-
ton, but he now enjoys fairly good
health. NJ. PcGers embarked i'll stock
raising, and his daughter and her sister
proved useful at the outset. They pro-
tested against sidesaddles, and for the
past ~ years have rarely used one.
Miss Margaret devised divided skirt,
which she finds admirable for the pur-
pose of riding. Mounted astride Oh a
heavy vaquero's saddle, her invention
Grapes itself as smoothly as pair OF
riding trousers and falls even lower
than when she is on her feet She Is
proud of the fact that she successfully
rode a neighbours horse that had nearly
killed half dozen men, that she saved
the lives of lot of lambs by swim
ming her horse across swift stream,
and that she rode down chalk bluff &c
feet high at an angle of 40 degrees III
pursuit Of runaway steer. She has
had several stirring adventures that
would have caused fright OH the part OF
even an old rancher, and she says II
few stout hearted American girls woulo
| face little ridicule the sex would soor
be freed from many silly customs.
| +. A. w.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-03
Ho For a warmer Cline.

Persons DESTROYS OF settling in warm
er cline can, at very small cost, have
some homestead lands in Wing county,
Louisiana. pointed out to them provided
a party of ten or more can be got to-
getner to go and inspect them; the home
steads will average a million feet Cf Vel
low pine and are within logging dis
lance of saw mills. For further partic-
uIars apply by letter to Mr.. j. A. Cam
eron, HOughton.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-03
NIunchausen.

Many a reader of the Fictitious adj
ventures of the famous hero of the
"Munchausenaid" (Which was first
published in English at Oxford during
the lifetime of this prince of all liars)
has no conception that the hero was a
real person. Baron Hieronymus Karl
Friedrich Won Munchausen was Han
overian nobleman, a subject of our first
three Georges. He was born in 1920 and
died in 1897. He took service in a Rus
sian cavalry regiment, but retired in old
age to his ancestral estate at Boden-
werder, in Hanover, where he became
notorious for the magnificent lies about
his military adventures with which he
used to entertain his neighbors at his
hospitable board. A collection Of these
stories, entitled Vademecum fur lustige
Leute, was published at Berlin in 1881,
without the Baron's permission. The
English work, Baron Munchausen' s
Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and
Campaigns In Russia, was an expan
sion and improvement Of the Berlin col
lection. English Exchange.
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have just received new stock OF
domestic and imported woolens, which
will be made up to order in suits OF any
stvle desired.
One thing sure lie: If YOU Jrv me once
YOU Will patronize me again. Work and
fit fully warranted. John b. Rastello,
merchant tailor, 212 Sixth street.
Do not make objection to the street as
it is not the street that makes your
clothes, but first-class tailor with eigh-
teen wears experience.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-03

QUEEN STELLA OF THE GYPsIEs.
y with jewels. For less ceremonious
pccaslons it may be trimmed with gold
praid, jet or pearls. 1t is always of silk,
ATTN or oriental goods, as Queen Stella
pas not much liking for velvet.
The soft, full front leaves the neck
opposed in front. but is always high
nough to be strictly modest and proper.
Light blue, red or black is generally
ne color of the skirts. When the ma
'trlal Is OF an oriental pattern, it is left
un'rmmed, but if it is of plain silk or
WOOL 1t is ornamented with rows Of rib
pom, bold braid or galoon.
BEADS are always about the neck and
Oi'eh wound around the wrists. 1t is
:. %us' interesting to get peep at the lit
NC queens collection of odd, antique
necklaces, amulets and jewels, some of
,ueln having been in her tribe for hun
dreds of years.
one wonders where Queen Stella finds
He 'lme Tor these feats of needlework,
81, she Is very busy woman in many
Aeius She writes articles for the press,
ass.s@ at charitable entertainments with
,.v,'a'ions and exhibitions of palmistry
puu Is besides, a great social favorite.
very Gay is filled with engagements
wi iuncheons, dinners and receptions,
~ 'nls talented woman has been taken
a ap'y lhe cream CT society and received
'1N ie'ed to the top of its bent.
New York Is always looking out for
N Oe'ning unique, and it has found it
lanS queen Stella. She speaks four or five
. .ansuages fluently and has the tact of q
- and the naturalness and charm
child of the forest.
vt 81 snort time ago some one asked her
Aa A.. sue did not adopt the dress of the
10 .iican woman, since she was here
"stay for time at least
why should | wear your dress?" she
IVA Sialmed in her quick, impulsive way.
%ny would look like fool. A gyp-
boa - ught waists and corsetsl Who ever
heard a., of such a thing?
vh nad to laugh so much one night
A went TO see woman who gave
rvnsv ps .; uance and took the part of a
opsy In a recitation.
nov. WA" INA, 90 you think? She had slip
Of . WIN high French heels. a little bit
and ~ waist her skirt up to her knees,
'u az, on her head hat.
&c, oehF Struggling her shoulders.
opers ,ooKed SO absurd. 1t was comic
neysr nothing real. The gitana would
,tout s uress like that. We wear good
'noea generally laced nm the
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-03
zinc L.tile nox and the Stars.

One day he said TO his mother.
Mamma, what are the stars?'
"They are a flock Of golden sheep
that God drives forth at night TO feed in
mis- pasture i'll the sky"
"H'mp said the little boy, turning
to his father Papa, what are the
stars?''
"They are redhot nails that hold the
sky fast 20 the bottom Of Gods throne
and keep it from crashing down upon
nur heads.
"Hml" said the little boy, turning
TO bis mothers sister. "Auntie, what
are the stars?"
"The sky is the Virgins pincushion,
and the stars are the heads Of the pins
which she'-
"H'ml" said the little boy, turning
TO his fathers brother. Uncle, what
are the stars?"
"They are the eyes of truant boy an
gels, peeping through holes in the big
blue tent that incloses what they call a
circus and we call the planetary sys-
tenn"
"H'mi' said the little boy, turning
TO the old woman who told him so many
wonderful stories of wonderful things
during the blue midsummer nights
Nurse, what are the stars?"
"Well," answered the old woman,
some say that the stars are the tears OF
the dead, which turn into gold and
glow. But / say
"Yes?" said the little boy eagerly.
81 say that only God knows. p"
The little boy looked disappointed.
Then he raised his head and gazed
steadily upward.
Il suppose, he said, after silence,
THAT / shall never know what the stars
really are. F"
"Not until you go among them. And
may the hour of your going be late, my
darling" said the old woman. -ChaI
Book
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-03
The Opera House Orchestra,

This Is strictly first-class, up-to-date
organization and in every way prepared
to furnish the very best OF music for sa-
cred and secular concerts, parties, ETC., in
any part of the Upper Peninsula. No
amateur affair, but professional music by
professional musicians. Charges moder-
ate. For terms and dates apply to the
musical director and manager, Mr.. Max
Won LEM, 2O5 Eighth street, Red Jacket.
Special music arranged or supplied ONT
short notice without extra charge.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-03
. Joke ON the Jokers.

81 nave a friend over nc my home
town in Wisconsin, told drummer
who regularly comes to Detroit, "that
was elected to congress before he ever
know he was "A candidate.
"You know what a complete political
whirl things took in 1890. In our dis
trict the fellows of my faith had just
been going through the form Of nom
mating and voting for years. Not one
of our candidates ever got turn at the
public crib. 1t was a standing joke, but
we were too proud to abandon our or
ganization. I'll not give his real name,
but call him jim Huff. He was as big
hearted fellow as ever lived, CHEEKY
as a May morning and born joker.
That summer he had gone to South
America TO do some prospecting, and
we heard from him only about once in
two months.
"When we held our convention. some
of us thought it would be a good one
on jim TO name him for congress while
he was not there to protect himself We
did so, and just to keep the sport going
we got out posters and filed the papers
with opinions of jim that Landed him
to the skies. We committed him to all
kinds of reforms, attributed to him all
the qualities desirable i'll statesman,
boosted of his irresistible eloquence and
lamented the fact that temporary i'll
ness kept him away from home. The
fact was that he was as hearty as a To-
connective.
"When the returns came in and show
ed that Jim was elected, we were the
worst fooled lot of fellows you ever saw
and were as ratified as brood OF chick
ems with hawk fiuttering over it. W.
organized an exploring committee O
three to find Jim and notify him. Whel
we did find him, way down in Peru, h
| just gave us the laugh, and the distric
had to hold a special election. DE
| troit Free Press.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-03
The FinIanders'

Mutual Fire Insurance company oil
Houghton and Keweenaw counties, or
ganized in 1890 according to the laws OF
the State of Michigan, will insure proper
ty OF ite members. Have paid fire lossee
over 81, 1000 and dividends nearly $4,000
during the last seven years TO members
of FIVE years standing. On the first day
of this year the company had 4S2 men,
bsrs, $421. 4SO worth OF property in
surad and s1O.66S.54 in treasury. For
further particulars apply to the under
signed. JOHN BLoMQvIsr, President
ALEX LENoNEN, Secretary.
Once 44S Pine street. upstairs Dire
| Iarket
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-03
Free pills.

Send your address to II. +. Rucklen
& Co, Chicago, and get box OF DR..
Kings New Life PILE. A trial will con-
vince you OF their merits. These pills are
easy in action and are particularly effec-
tive in the cure OF constipation and sick
headache. For malaria and liver trou-
bles they have been proved invaluable.
They are guaranteed to be perfectly free
from every deleterious substance and to
be purely vegetable. They do not weak
en- by their action, but by giving tone to
stomach and bowels greatly invigorate
the system. Regular size, 20 cents per
box. Sold bv ID. T. Macdonald, druggist.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-03
Progressive Young Women.

Miss Grace Emile Briggs, daughter
of that gifted and eloquent minister
DIR. Charles A. Briggs, has graduated
at the Union Theological seminary or
New York (Presbyterian) with the high
est honors of any in the class. she
was the only woman among a large
class of men, and she passed far the best
examination of any. Yet the Prespyte-
rian church would see Grace Emile
Briggs in purgatory before 1T would or
dain her to preach single sermon from
a Presbyterian pulpit. Is this Christian
consistency?
Miss Elizabeth Marbury has found
her place in the business world, and IL
is n unique one. Some years ago 1t &C.
Cured to her that if the right person
should open an agency for reading, crit
ioising and placing the plays OF dramat'
ic authors there would be mutual pene-
fit in il. Accordingly, she began WORK
along this line. She was successful from
the first. She now has large and con-
stantly growing business. She places
the plays of foreign as well as nome
writers, and il is only through negotla-
ton with her that the plays OF Sardou
and other French dramatists can DO
performed in this country. In France
She is as we'll known as in America
and there she is considered eminently
lust and fair, fully mindful OF the
rights of French playwrights. IL was
owing to this perhaps that little time
ago the French government bestow.u
on her the decoration of the purple RIB
bon. given to those who have distin-
guished themselves usefuily In ar'is'lo
work Of various kinds. Our own gov
eminent ought to have some OF these
medals and decorations to bestow on its
worthy citizens. ~ a. "
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-03
THE NEW WOMAN.
She stops Street Fight and Likewise
Speaks Her Mind.

She might not like TO have her name
mentioned, but as | shall not ask her
permission in the case you will be in
terested to know that it was one you
have heard, Miss Theresa Barcalow.
She is faithful worker in the woman
suffrage cause, a member of Sorosis and
OF Che ladies Health Protective asso-
citation Of New York. AS n member of
the last organization of course she has
the right to protect anybody's health
who stands in need of it. One fine aft
ernoon she was going to the meeting of
the Health Protective society. AS she
came TO "a street corner on Broadway
she saw a crowd gathered. Ii was NUT
tering and growing and occasionally
bowling. There was no policeman in
sight. Miss Barcalow drew near to see
what was the matter. In the center Of
the crowd she saw two young fellows
fighting like wild beasts. They clawed
and banged each other murderously,
and III all the throng of men who stood
by there was none TO stop them. In
fact, so far from stopping them several
i'll that crowd Of barbarians cheered the
two infatuated beasts on. This new
woman needed not a second glance. Did
she faint? No. Did she scream? No.
Without moments hesitation she part
ed the crowd and ran to the young fell
lows who were fighting. She seized each
one by the back of the neck and slung
them apart as she would have done two
cats. They skunk away, more ashamed
than they had ever been in their lives.
Two bold young prizefghters to be inter-
fered with and cowed by woman! 1t
was too much. Then, having stopped
the brutal performance, Miss Barcalow
turned upon the crowd of witnesses. In
few choice words of fine new woman
ly scorn she gave them her opinion OF
men who would permit a bloody and
degrading exhibition like that in the
one of the busiest streets of New York.
This crowd, too, SUNK away and dis
solved itself before the fire in her eye,
the lash in her voice. After that Miss
Barcalow turned and went her way tC
the meeting of the Ladies' Health Pro
tective association.
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Some Ex-Senators.

There was remarkable array of ex-
senators on the floor of the senate. Here
is the list: Ex-senator Paddock of Ne
braska, ex-senator Bruce of Mississippi,
ex-senator Hunton of Virginia, ex-Sen-
ator Clayton of Arkansas, ex-senator
Corbett of Oregon, ex-senator Sanders
of Montana, ex-senator Kellogg of Lou
isiana, ex-senator Pugh Of Alabama,
ex-senator Mitchell of Oregon, ex-Sen-
ator Hiscock of New York, ex-senator
Fowler of Tennessee and ex-senator Ed
munds of Vermont. An extensive page
in history is covered by these names,
reaching away back over quarter OF a
century to the stirring days when Pres
ident Johnson was impeached. Senator
Fowler voted against conviction. Sen
ator Corbett, now in his seventy first
year, is another old timer. Kellogg ano
Clayton are reminders of the reconstruc-
ton days, and it was rather interesting
to note how the friction of that period
has disappeared, for Clayton, the one
armed Arkansas Republican, and Sen
ator Berry, the one legged Arkansas
Democrat, hobnobbed socially and II
deep conference together on sofa.-
Washington Post.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-03
American Life Insurance.

In no country is the business of life
insurance ON q sounder or more conser-
vative basis than in the United States.
There were some attempts made i'll the
early years of the century to start life
insurance companies, but life insurance
was not popular i'll those days, it being
regarded by many, as the quaint remark
of a writer of the period puts 1t, as
wicked to insure their lives, or to trav-
ell in steamboats, against wind and tide. J"
The three largest companies at present
doing business began i'll lS41, lS43 and
1859.
The remarkable development in the
business began after the civil war, and
it has grown with an unexampled prog
ress. The great conservative life insur-
ance companies stood the shock OF the
financial commissions of 1878 and 1898
better than other financial institutions,
and the words of the famous mathema-
tician, De Morgan, still remain true,
"There is nothing III the commercial
world which approaches, even remote
ly, the security of well established
life Office The three large companies
receive annually in premiums and other
income about 500, 900, 600, their assets
aggregate about 5000, 900, 900, and they
have outstanding insurance to the
amount of about SO, 400, 000,OO The
natural presumption arising from
study of the development of such an en-
terprise is that to have maintained III
place in the great field of competition il
must have subserved purpose OF great
benefit to society Catholic World
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-03
Mineral Range Railroad.

Will run additional Sunday trains dur
ing the summer months, commencing
Sunday, June 6, and continuing until
Sunday, September 26, the trains leay-
ing Red Jacket at 1915 p. m. for
Houghton, and leaving Houghton at
1:40 p. IN. for Red Jacket will run daily.
These will be in addition to the trains
scheduled on the public time bills as run
ming on Sundays.
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1 SHE IS A QUEEN.
.,s WEARS NO BONNET
psH s"s FER OWN CLOTHES.

Rothers over fash-
stella rr, she Is Always At'ired
rl'i'' :. n Great Favorite In
80, 1897. by the Authorl
ropy's.lt'o never wears q bonIot
C1''D s Wv own clothes is indeed a
p.''' En- Bat jacrc is such a wo@ nan,
''A !. nj present living IN New
.irot the peace Of mind which
' l in,ns entire oblivion Of the Eas-
~. .lo reception toque. Just pic
y ,..tful state Of the woman VINO
DE- BE-. I'' PUZZLED out a fashion plate
rnu wa wrath against a dressmaker'
". heavenly calm is the unyary,
l'' ~ condition Of Queen Stella OF
D nna.len tribe Of gitane, or Span
o'l- IN the coolest day OF win
,Se hottest Of summer her head
'" never other than a red
ip' :, silk or fine wool. This is ar
'roll hack ON the top of the head
sw. IN graceful folds over the
, i about half way to the waist.
',ms drapery is always worn IN the
''l !" that the queens preparations
=. drive or the promenade are ex-
l, Gs simple. In winter she puts
ma 1sir of gloves and throws about
large circular. In summer she
[. rgbt cape. The heavy wrap may
/, HACK or a rich Persian goods OF
u !. leaf design, with a little upper
Ed silk velours in dull red.
E,Ssp Stella prefers to make her own
T.. bocause she can never get a dress
T., "a. do Just as she wishes. The
|ssss are, besides, invariably of one
and very simple of construction.
rbe skirt is guiltless of cores, hair
h fiber chamois or crinoline and IS
u 10 If some soft material, unlined,
n, ,ssred TO a band and falling within
MT two inches of the ground. With
I i worn a low cut, sleeveless under
IA over which comes "a bolero jacket
a front of loosely gathered silk.
netmes the sleeves Of the jacket are
sft silk or Grape, but often they are
black lace, which shows the bare,
pded arm beneath. They reach to
elbow, are made full and gathered
band.
{ the costumes are simple Of cut, they
often of the richest materials and
St elaborate and sumptuous i'll garni-
E. On the dainty little bolero is Law
ID the greatest part of the time and
ense. This is often most beautifully
prOidered in gold and studded thick
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-03
Suspected a Hint.

Harold-What's up, old chap? They
say you've quit going to the Huntleys'
Clarence-Yes. decided that I'd bet
ter stop. Miss Clara's father came III
the other night and asked me if |
thought could strike fire i'll case any
one were to give me match. 1t seemed
to me that his words contained some
hidden meaning. Cleveland Leader.
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To secret Societies and Others WISH
Ing TO Rent a Lodge Room.

The Temple of Honor lodge room is
vacant on Wednesday evenings OF
each week. Parties desiring to rent the
same may apply by letter to the
Union Temple of Honor and Temperance,
No. 48, Calumet. Mich.
j. r. JAMES, Secretary.
Box 81, Opechee.