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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-04-23
Revised Glib List
For 1907.

To all advance payiug subscribers
both new and old, we make the follow
ing terms for the coming year:
The SITTER and N. Y. Tribune, $l.25
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-11
The Huns number In their annals
four great kings-Attila, Bleda, Ell
lao and Dengezic.
brow the Limo At Men.


Some women have great ideas Of
the rights of their husbands. And
then, again, some don't. There was
one woman, however, who was on
the Cottage Grove street a line
who is among the first class, and
she thinks her lord and master
should have the best of everything
going. And there is also now a pa
iron of the line who does not agree
with her. rs
A few days ago q pretty young
woman was seated in a we'll filled
car when a man and a woman enter
ed. 1t was apparent at a glance
that they were husband and wife.
Every seat in the car was taken, and
several men we're hanging to the
straps. Tho woman being of middle
age, the young girl glanced up at
her, then quickly arose and said:
Madam, take my seat"
Without a glance toward her or a
look Of gratitude, the woman turned
to her husband, and, pushing him
toward the vacant seat, said:
George, you take it. I will get
one somewhere else."
Quicker than a flash the young
girl slipped into the seat she had SO
courteously vacated, and MS she set
tied herself back comfortably she
looked up at the devoted wife and
said:
mo you don't. I haven't quite
reached tae place yet where I give
mr. meAsrsfsse-
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-11

Frank Watts has ordered new
shot gun, just large enough to carry
on his bicycle. He expects to do his
hunting at the peep O. day.
The Stewart Anderson case, TO dis
cover the real father of two children
born out of wedlock came before the
District court Wednesday. The lady
is quite pretty and of dignitied car
riage. On the commencement of the
case eighteen bald heads were in the
court room.
The Sawyer will case occupied the
attention of the court most of last
and this week and the jury rendered
a verdict setting aside the last will
aud testament, hence the money be-
queathed to the Audubon Methodist
church will go to the wife, daughter
and son of the deceased. The case
was fought inch by inch by the
prosecution and defendant and the
ablest attorneys of Audubon and
Cedar Rapids were employed. AS
yet it is not known if the case will be
appealed to the Supreme Court. The
Sawyer family reside at Wyoming,
Iowa, and Mr.. and Mrs. S. not agree
ing on family affairs agreed to separ-
ate, dividing their worldly posses
sions. Mr. Sawyer left Wyoming
with about S2500 and came to Audu-
bon where he resided about a year
and died. His money he bequeathed
to the Audubon M. E. church, G.. A
"a noot-ond WnS @z-@-
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-11

Dluerent NOW.
The stage manager was thought.
full.
II think we'd better cut out that
line," he said.
What linea" asked the leading
man.
1.-THE one that reads, Apparel oft
proclaims the man."
~ don't see why. 1t has come
down to us without protest from the
day that Shakespeare wrote it un-
TIL
Eyes, yes" interrupted the stage
manager %irritably, "of course it was
all right when it was written. There
were no girls in knickerbockers
then, and very likely there was a
good deal Of truth in il. STRAND
Magazine.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-11
His Strong Point.

"Oh, he makes the best chairman
for a banquet that we can getl"
II didn't know he had any quail
fcations for such a position"
why, he has the best in the
world"
He hasn't any wit"
"No."
And he can't speak we'll enough
to hold attention over 80 seconds"
THAT'S true, too; but, don't you
see, he parts his air in the middle,
and it has a tendency to make the
speakers table look very evenly
balanced. Chicago Post.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-11

We want one good imam (having a
horse), as PERMANENT superintendent
ior Audubon county to attend to u
business ON salary. Must send along
win Application /strong letters of rec
concentration sIto honesty, energy
flfst1slass man only. Sta.e
alton. address P. o. Box 1882,
ade'phiat Pennsylvania.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-11

From my personal knowledge,
gained in observing the effect of your
Shiloh's Cure in Cases Of advanced Concur
ton. lam pre- o ;ySosd to say it is the mos
marUable Rem
to my attention.
from Consumpt
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-11

place, now of Monona county, Iowa.
These two young people have lived
hare nearly all their lives and will
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-11
Different Now.

Z. post and w. K. G.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
New York's Pinnacled skv Linz.

The sky line of New York Is changing so
rapidly that the American traveller who
goes abroad can recognize with more GER
tainty the protiles of the foreign cities no
approaches than that of his own metrop
OILS as he sees it from the deck of the
steamer on his return. 1t may be his first
visit to Europe. He may know London.
Rome and Paris only from views of them
In old prints, but If he has an eve for
such things his first glimpse of St. Paul's,
St. Peters or Notre Dame will tell him to
what place he is coming, for all the world
knows these pinnacles, has known them
for centuries. They are as conspicuous
ana characteristic in the silhouettes of
their cities as they were when they were
built.
One of the Dutch governors of New
Amsterdam, seeking in spirit some fa-
miliar earthly habitation, might find old
Amsterdam, for it cuts the same figure in
the sky today that it did when he left IL.
but the last dead boss of New York. If Inv
any chance he should get away from wbere
he ought to be, would search the horizon
In vain for the face of his city. The fea-
lures his eye would seek are there: old
trinity still stands, its steeple, like the
spires OF the old cathedrals, uplifted high
above the earth, but its solitary promi-
hence is gone. The modern Office building
has risen higher than the head of the cross
and the church has lost its distinction
The enterprise of business has SURPASSED
the aspiration of religion.-.J. Lincoln
Steffens in Scrbner's.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
ElOwers of Verso.

This is the age of anthologies. We have
often wondered why some enterprising wit
has not compiled an anthology of absurd-
ties in serious poetry AT "a recent literary
symposium some amusing instances of
these alterations were given. Ii was uni
versally agreed that Wordsworth's verses
on the doomed chamois hunters fate
verses which he was afterward induced to
unprecedented the list. They RAM
HAPPY his child in fearful doubt may gaze.
Passing his fathers bones in future DAYS
Start at the reliques of that very thigh
On which so oft he prattled when boy.
A not unknown living poet when he COM
peted for the Newdigate prize on the sub
Ject of the siege of Paris came very near
this. Describing Nhe desolation wrought
by war, he arrived ut his pathetic climax
with the couplet:
Stark on its threshold many O corpse was laid
Which yesterday with happy children played.
Yet 1t may be questioned whether any of
these was equal To stanza which not
long ago headed in all seriousness an an
peal for the restoration of the church at
tached to tho rectory where Nelson was
born:
The man who first taught Englishmen their
duty
And fenc'd with wooden walls his native
isle
Now asks one shilling 10 restore to beauty
The church that brooded DER his infant
smilo.
London Saturday Review.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
Too Aspiring.

1t is popular fallacy that the lower
walks of life are open TO any who cannot
succeed in the upper walks A different
view of the subject is suggested by a story
which comes from Birmingham, England.
Even the humblest profession demands
certain qualities if it is to DO prosecuted
with success.
II was one of those drilling, dispiritinr
evenings when a superabundance OF in
ternal comfort is necessary to balance the
outward dreariness. The shops in Corpo-
ration street had just been lighted for tho
evening, and from the doorway of one of
them clean, well dressed little boy looked
with longing eyes at the gutter urchins
with their damp bundles of newspapers
and matches. To that small victim of re-
spectability and refined surroundings tho
free life of these street arabs presented an
Irresistible charm. Presently the boy over
came his diflidence and, leaving the shell
ter of the doorway, sought one of the news
boys.
"Do You think" he humbly asked after
few preliminary words, THAT | should
be able TO earn money as you do if bought
some papers and came to this corner to
sell themg"
The newsboy looked him over critically.
"''' "oOo tho linus VI you WanG SELL
Ing papers," be asked.
I'm tired of being idle at home, " re-
piled the small aspirant
"Well, " said the other, with the serious
air of an authority on the subject in cues
ton, dyer think yer could old bundle
o papers in one and, race like the mis-.
chief, lick three or four boys bigger'n yer
self with the other and, while yer keeps
two more Off with yer feet and takes
toif's ha'penny an yells yer papers all tho |
timey'
No, don t, " replied the well dressed
little boy.
Then ye're no good in the Corporation |
street news agency biz" replied tho rag |
ged authority. You'd better git yer peo-
PIE to prentice yer to the clergy or some
thing light Youths Companion.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
SILK AND TAlLORS.
First Person Who Found the Value OF
the Little Worm.

The first person in all the world who
raised silkworms for the purpose of rob-
bling the cocoon of its soft covering was the
Empress Si-Lung Chez, who reigned i'm
China 27OO Is. &. She is now worshiped
as goddess of the silkworm Once each
year national festival Is held in her hon
or. Inc reigning empress and her maidens
resort TO the temples of Si-Lung- Chez, and
pay her In flowers and spirit money an in
stallment upon the debt which China owes
to her, for did she not make the important
discovery whereby the poor may earn LIES
necessities and the rich may rustic in shin
ing garmentsY
Perhaps more people wear silk in China
than III any other country, for plain, raw
SILK Is almost as inexpensive as cotton.
Even for winter garments the material is
made to serve, with layers of waddine
placed between the outside and the lining.
AS their garments do not 60 out of style,
1t is not necessary to buy now ones until
the old are well worn. This is q great
item of saving for every one but the tai
lors, but If the people followed the example
OF the tailors themselves there would be
still less for that craft to do. Like the feet
OF shoemakers' children, the Chinese tai
Tors, while at their work, are as nearly
bare as possible. When well fattened. their
uncovered bodies suggest the animals
which Americans inclose in sty. The !
more like well fed porker a Chinaman |
becomes the prouder is he of his looks, for
q corpulent man Is regarded by his almond |
eyed brethren as high type of humanity. !
In the tailor's workroom, which Is fire. |
quentiy open on all sides, the passerby I
may see from five TO ten men seated around |
low, mating covered table Each man !
Is in undress uniform, consisting of his
cue, pair of slippers and pantaloons about
o inches in length. They work both for
shops and individuals, receiving about So
month, yet somehow they manage to
keep fat. -Lippincott's Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
A Princess Longed For a playrellow.

There is an article written by james
Cassidy in st. Nicholas on the "Girlhood
Days of England's Queen" Mr.. Cassidy
says:
There were in the life of the princess
days when she longed for companions of
her own age. Her mother, guessing this
longing, was very tender and gentle with
her, and considered often how best to make
up for this lack. Once the duchess, it is
SAID, thinking to please her daughter,
sent for noted child performer of the
day called Lyra that she might amuse
'Drina with some remarkable perform
ances on the harp. On one OCCASION"
writes the biographer, "while the young
musician was playing one of her favorite
airs, the duchess perceiving how deeply
her daughters attention was engrossed
with the music, left the room for few
minutes When she returned, she found
the harp deserted. The heiress of England
had beguilod the juvenile minstrel from
her instrument by the display of some of
her costly toys, and the children were dis
covered, seated side by side on the hearth
rug in state of high enjoyment, sur
rounded by the princess playthings, from
which she was making tho most liberal
selections for the acceptance of poor little
Lyran
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26

What Would Happen IL the Road to Lon
don Were Open.

III the single idea were entertained that
the road TO London was open, the effect of
that idea would be for the hour ruin such
as this world has never witnessed. The
panic might, we believe would, suspend
the whole social organization of the king
dom. All banks would shut their doors
The means of paying wages would be un-
procurable, masses of men threatened
with starvation would be raging in CITY
streets as the Athenian mob ragged, and
unless parliament bad very trusted leaders
Its deliberations might only add to the
general confusion. London knows in
stinctively that If attacked by triumph
ant enemy, IL can neither be defended nor
fed; that, In fact, its only solid protection
would BIO victory in tho field and London.
II it got out of hand, would be pande-
monium such ms only shells could reduce
to order. We English despise foreign ma
tons because their capitals are liable to
"excitoment, panic, aimless insurrection-
airy movements, or revolts like that of the
commune, but we have no experience
which justifles our overweening confidence.
We have no more idea of what London |
would DO under the influence of terror |
than what the solar system would be il |
the law of grayitation were suspended. All |
might be, all would be, put right in time.
Tor the national character is sound. There |
must be 900, 900 men in the island who
have been through the military mill, and
the supply of varied capacity is unlimited,
but the influence of tho dark week would
be felt all throughout our subsequent his
tory. just imagine the effect of the tele.
grams upon India, upon the colonies, upon
the whole of the mercantile plant scat
tered over earth-of which the mercantile
marine is only part-accessible to the
news. The week would cost us a national
iebt In money alone, besides its future eff
.ect In the destruction of the idea that
england is in the world the one inviolable
magazine for the storage of universal
Spectator.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
The Cara Ring.

The car of Russia is said to be very SUI
perstltious and to have great confidence in
relics. He wears ring in which he be-
heyes is embedded piece of the true
cross. 1t was originally one of the treas.
ures OF the Vatican, and was presented to
an ancestor of the car for diplomaticTrea-
sons. The value which the car sets upon
the ring, with its embedded relic, is shown
by the following fact; Some years ago the
car was travelling from ct. Petersburg to
MOSCOW. He suddenly discovered that he
mad forgotten the ring. The train was
stopped immediately and a special messen
ger sent flying back on an express engine
Tor 1t. Nor would the czar allow the train
TO move until several hours afterward, the
messenger returned with the ring.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
FAMOUS OLD PEOPLE.
Some Who Attained Great Age and with.
out Any Diet Rules

Among the examples of moderation in
| diet Miguel Soils of San Salvador is CON
| spicuous. He was $50 years old in 1873
and, If no is still to the fore, is likely to
complete his second century. He believed
that he had lived so long because he had
never eaten more than one meal q dav
Even in that he limited himself to what
he could tuck in during the short space of
half an hour He therefore was a living
argument against those hygiensts who
bid us eat slowly and masticate well. His
diet was chiefly vegetable. meat, which
was always cooked the day before, enter
ing into it only twice week For two
days in every month he tasted, and no
drank large quantities of water. His plan
included several other details, and. on the
whole, we Of the threescore and ten can
without envy wish him JOY.
Macklin the comedian who lived and
died in Coyent Garden, was a wonderful
oddly, in virtue of which, or perhaps in
spite of which, he managed to get through
107 years. He followed the wise and sim
pie rule of eating when hungry, drinking
when thirsty and sleeping when sleepy.
All these he did on liberal scale. He
never took off his clothes except for the
purpose of having his body rubbed all over
with brandy. He always slept in blank
cts, and history does not record single
journey on their part to the laundry, and
his couch, which was hard, was placed in
the middle of the room.
What is most strange about longevity is
that 1t comes, like the dew of heaven, to
every class. Kings, who live in luxury,
beggars, who go through existence in
state of chronic cold and hunger, giants
and cripples, abstainers and drunkards,
large eaters and small eaters, toilers and
sluggards, brain workers and body work
ers, vegetarians and carnivores, smokers
ana nonsmokers, sane and insane-all
have apparently an equal chance of the
prize of long life. An old woman who
died in Ireland at the ago of liz was all
her life beggar and during tho last half
of 1t was never known to eat square
meal from one end of the year to the 9TH
er.-London Lancet.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
FATAL REMARKS.
We BiundeE ssto the Very Things We
Are Trying Not to Say.

"Have you ever noticed how, when you
have once said the wrong thing and begin
TO founder, how hopeless it is--how you
are sure to go on and say worse i'm spite of
Yourself, and the words seem TO slip from
You as If they were possessed by a natural
deprayity quite independent of your Volt
tionY
~ have been Mortified sometimes by my
own speeches, which / seemed quite as
powerless To prevent as If they had ema-
mated from some other person. was talk
ing with Mrs. A. lately, who, they say, is
on the eve of separation from her husband,
and who, am sure. dyes her hair, and
who. have been told, is an unsuccessful
aspirant for literary honors. Mrs. u. came
up, and, with the best intentions In the
world, between us we nearly finished poor
Mrs A. There was no sensitive topic that
we In our embarrassment did not touch
upon and then desire to change the sub
ject.
II am so particularly unfortunate In
this respect that the other day, when I
went to call upon woman wearing wig,
kept saying to myself before she came
down to the drawing room, Susan Chats
my name) you must not mention the word
wig, and the very first thing / blurted
forth when she happened to say that it
was very windy was, Yes, 1t is enough to
blow ones wig off, 4"
The fatal attraction that causes people
to make uncom plimentary remarks about
near relatives is proyerbial, and it be-
hooves stranger TO be careful in his COM
ments in u mixed assemblage.
II say, old fellow" said man TO a
business friend, meeting him at social
reunion, "did you see the woman took |
In to supperg Wasn't she bitter uglyp And |
she was as stupid as she was plain"
u saw you with my sister-in- law" was |
The answer, which might have been ex- |
pected, for, like curses and chickens, such |
seem fated to "come home to
'oost. "-Philadelphi Press.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
WESTERN MINERS.
They Are Not rs Rule Queer In Dialect
or Manners.

To compare Bret Harte and Buffalo Bill
with each other may at first seem entirely
out of order, SO STRONG is the contrast i'm
most particulars, and yet they are alike in
| this, that both without intending to do
so, have injured the far west by greatly
exaggcrating the peculiarities of life in
this part of the union, ii they have not
actually presented that which never did,
in fact, exist.
Buffalo Bill has done it with his wild
west shows, and i'm consequence thousands
of men and women I'm Europe and tho
eastern part of the United States think
that the typical far westerner is "a cowboy
and that travel by stage is fraught with
danger at every step. Bret Harte has done
something of the same sort by represent
ing the principal characters of far western
towns as rough and illiterate, though 1t
may be honest, men who use a form of
speech which one would have to go far TO
hear in any part of the world.
One Is reminded of this by criticism
which recently appeared in the Chicago
Tribune upon Judge Frances little collec-
tion of short stories called "Pine Valley"
The critic accuses the author of misrepre-
senting life in Colorado mining camps by
causing characters to employ what he calls
parlor English The author of that criti-
cism took for granted that the miners are
ignorant of good English, and no probably
also thinks that they use a dialect peculiar
TO mining camps, or it may be far western
towns in general.
While every now and then one encoun- !
tiers prospectors or miners who having |
lived isolated lives for many years. have |
acquired peculiarities of speech, these are, |
N. sfaff L.
miners belong TO the class composed in the |
east of Intelligent mechanics, farmers and |
well to do residents of towns and villages.
They have the command of English which
is possessed by the average person educated
in "a public school, and a great majority of
them were born east of the Missouri river
If not east of the Mississippi.
But in addition there are thousands of
men living in mining camps and wearing
miners clothes who are well
educated and speak rs pure and gram
NAUTICAL English as one can hear In tho
offices of lawyers doctors and civil engi-
neers in any part of the Union. An au-
thor would not be criticised for putting
larlor English in the mouths of men of
his class in the east, and the criticism is
40 less unjust if the scene of the story is
aid in the far west. AS for true dialect,
he far west is not old enough for the de
'elopment of anything Of that kind. One
nay hear it in the mountains of Tennessee
doubtless or in rural communities in tho
asst. But for anything like this the far
vest is as yet too young and it's population
$ mixture of people drawn from TOO
many different parts of not the United
states but the whole English speaking
Republican. l
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
A RcyaI Romn

In st. Nicholas there is an article on
the "Girlhood Days of England's Queen. "
written by James Cassidy. Mr.. Cassidy
says:
On road in Malvern named. ont Of
compliment to her majesty, the Queen $
road, there stood, and maybe now stands
"A large house where tho princess and the
duchess staid for time. The young lady
was great romp and a rattle" we are
assured by those who should know. Nor
did she coninc her exploits to the level
ground. Sho liked % climb walls and
trees. It is told rhat one day while stnv-
ing ut Malvern. she climbed an apple tree.
Ihat was easy enough. but next came the
harder task of descending In vain she
placed one small foot before tho otaor; She
dared not venture th9ugh and again
she tried. sa She d.j what most likely
you would have cone bad goa been i'm her
sorry plight; she ht:au - cry. Her cries
drew to the spot gardener usmcd Davis.
and he, fetching ladder, soon brcr~ht
her safely down f.0m hcr dangerous raj
ton. For bi, trouble reward of q g,.iu,.t
was given him, an thl. c5.a, tAc reward
ior resculng tho princess, Ray still he seen
by The curious, neatly framed.