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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02
A .psopls with a Country.

Something that strikes the attention
of the observant stranger visiting Can
ada for the first time is the fact that
there is people belonging to America
who are not only content to live under
the protection of a foreign power, but
virtually without flag, and even with
out the sentiment of patriotism. lt is
not new people seeking to establish
themselves in the free sun of America,
but transplanted branch of the English
nation, sort of bastard graft, growing
with difficulty and in conflict with all
the ordinary notions of common sense
A Frenchman seeking TO understand
what has become of the descendants of
France will be doubly astonished, for 1t
is precisely among the Canadians OF the
province of Quebec that one observes
under the euphemism Of the word 10y
atty" the most pronounced and gloomy
resignation, which looks for nothing be-
yond its daily pittance. -L'Opinion
Publique
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02
John l.. Wei Again.

John l.. Sullivan, the former chams
pion of the world, has fully recovered
from his attack of tonsilitis and is now
busily engaged with Frank Dunn Of the
Palace theater, Boston, making prepa-
rations for starting on the road with a
vaudeville and minstrel show, in which
the former champion will be star. 1t is
the int sntion Of Mr.. Dunn to take John
L. over to England during the heated
term and tour the British isles in a
melodrama which is being specially pre-
pared for him.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02

thing to make people laugh and then
think. 1t was then that he began to
handle actively his large means. The
prospects of tive publishing firm of Web
ster 81 Co. seemed glittering, and he
put his capital into it. He was then 90
years old and was preparing to settle III
London and take life as his hard work
deserved he should. 1t was at the begin
ming of this plan that he was forced to
the realization of absolute bankruptcy.
Mark Twain had pulled himself up
by his own boot straps, and he started
out to rebuilt his fortune. His name as
a literary man-not as a business man
was all he had left. He found it was
worth money, and he signed contract
for series of European letters for an
American magazine at the unprecedent-
ed rate Of 81, 600 per letter. He secured
other contracts, and, had he been the
same as he was 30 years ago, there was
enough in sight to wipe out his obliga-
tons made by the publishing house and
put him on his feet. He was not equal
to the opportunities.
A few months ago he came back from
a trip to Africa. He is putting the ex-
periences he had into his book, and
should he live long enough to complete
the story he hopes to pay the last cent
of his indebtedness and leave something
for his family. The struggle is really
one of most fearful contemplation, with
every indication that the poor man will
not be able to realize his last faint
hope
1t is possible at this time to see prophe-
cies in some of the assertions he has
made in other years. He wrote in the
midst of his prosperity that 1.-The law
recognizes no mortgage on man
brains Honor is harder master than
law. It cannot compromise for less than
100 cents on dollar, and its debts
never outlaw" He once said that he
learned this philosophy when he was
living out in Florida, little town III
Missouri The home in which he was
born was a two room log cabin-"alto-
gether too mean house for so great q
man TO be born in, as his mother re-
marked during her last illness. His ia.
Their stuck hard fast to honor. he PAID
his debts at their face value.
Cor. Chicago Times-Herald.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02

"Mr. Platt was nominated and elect
ed. The disagreement between the adj
ministration and Senator Conkllng
which had been anticipated came about,
and Mr.. Plat had to face the difficult
question of going with his organization,
under the commands of its autocratlc
and imperious leader, or of keeping his
pledge. The pledge was not bond nor
letter. but the word of man who, L
believe, never broke his promise, and
rather than break that promise he re-
signed from the senate and surrendered
his commission. This little incident
reveals the secret of his success i'll poll
tics. In the general break up which fol-
lowed the senatorial canvass every rep
resentative in the state had the same
opportunities, the same constituency,
the same future for effort and work as
the guest of the evening, and the result
demonstrates that he has made his own
career. The best school OF politics IN
the United States is the assembly OF
the state of New York. y
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02
A Result OF Fortune Telling.

The girls employed in one of the big
department stores of New York amuse
themselves during lunch hour by telling
each others fortunes in teacups. Yet
tie," said one of them the other day.
peering intently into teacup, lis 60
ing TO die an old maid. She will be
taken away from home over the water
somewhere. She will go out Of her mind.
she--I can't read any more" Then the
gong sounded and the ohattering work
ers scattered Today Yettie is at home
a raving maniac She cries out that she
don't want to be sent over the water
No one can quiet her fears nor exercise
the evil spirit born Of the folly of for
tune telling. But new rule has been
posted in the lunch room OF the big
store.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02
CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.
Work In Cleveland's Tunnel Said 10 be
Positive Remedy.

Work In Cleveland's Tunnel Said TO BE
Positive Remedy.
Superintendent Kingsley Of the Cleve-
land water works department has DIS
closed a strange state OF affairs at the
new water works tunnel. He is authori-
tv for the statement that the air pres
snre in the new tunnel is sure cure 1or
consumption and calls attention to sew
eral people who have been cured OF the
disease by digging in the tunnel, whe ae
the air pressure was from ~ 10 oo
pounds square inch. ~
The belief that there is benefit to be
had from working in the tunnel mas
spread rapidly, and applications ior
work from persons who are almost too
weak to work are received at the water
works department.
Contractor Gawne, however, is averse
10 employing men afflicted with tuber-
cnlosis. He says he will have to DC
thoroughly convinced that employment
in the tunnel is the only way TO save
life before he will turn the tunnei INT,
hospital and has asked the OPINION %
the health department ON the subject
Chicago Times Herald.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02

beginning TO attract attention. lie re-
turned TO America from the continent,
and 'Innocents Abroad" in 1869,
rather placed him in the public eye as a
professional humorist. 1t gave him the
reputation for broad and healthy humor.
The first impression was that he would
not succeed in any other field.
1t was about this time that Professor
Charles +. Richardson, in his book on
the literature Of the country, advised
Mark Twain to make hay while the sun
shone-'since 90 years hence, unless
the school enshrines its wits in some
higher literary achievement, its un-
known Successors will be the privileged
comedians of the republic.
There have been no successors, un-
known or otherwise, and more than 20
years have passed
He has proved the proverb of Com
modore Vanderbilt that it is easier TO
earn fortune than TO keep it. His
earnings were immense from the begin
ming and have exceeded twice over that
Of any other American writer. Bronson
I1OWdru nduc ONSI 9SVo,VVV AZ 'iiN
royalties ON his plays, but Twain re-
ceived more than that for "Innocents
Abroad" His income from this source
was 500, 1000 during the first three
years. Miss Alcott made 500, 900 out
of Little Men" and Little Women, ,
but Twain's "Gilded Age" was worth
$50, 900 to his rapidly growing fortune
tom Sawyer" was "A gold mine
"Roughing It. was as good. Lift
Upon the Mississippi" and "A Traml
Abroad" had sales that were marvellous
The hay he made while the sui
shone amounted TO $500, 600, and goo'
investments made him as much more.
The financial sun began to set il
1884, although "Pudd 'nhead Wilson
and other short sketches went to prov
that he Lad Il vein other than the ON
he had vCrkOd so SuCpCrcf- $50 ne
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02
WEST POINT A GRAVEYARD
Buried skeletons Unearthed, supposed 10
BE Those of Spies.

Be oI SpicSs
Several days ago gang of men was
set to work digging out cellar under
the officers clubrCCms at West Point.
The excavation extended under Schoiicld
hall. While at work after dinner one Of
the men startled his comrades by an OK
clamation of horror and promptly tum-
bled over in faint.
His companions soon revived him,
and when he told that he had dug into
q skeleton there was rush TO the spot.
A spadeful of bones lay ON the surface.
The men carefully picked them up
and placed them in a box. Then they
began to dig in earnest The place prov
ed to be veritable graveyard. AT A
O'Clock they had unearthed wagon load
of bones and skulls which must have
belonged only to men of giant stature.
There was great excitement until one
of the old retired soldiers, who was born
on the post, told story handed down
by his grandfather that all the English
spies hanged in Gallows hollow We're
buried where Schoield hall now stands.
The authorities will probably investi
gate the matter -Philadelphia Press.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02
Couldn't Stand It.

A southern Manitoba man who moved
to Montana few years ago started back
a short time since and left the follow
ing farewell on the wall Of his shack:
-Four miles from neighbor, 16 miles
from postoffice, % miles from a rail
road, ID miles from schoolhouse, Al
miles from church, $50 miles from
timber, 200 miles from Canadian, half
a mile from water, a quarter of a mile
from hades, the same distance from
bloodthirsty half breed. God bless our
home! Gone back to Manitoba, which
is Gods country, to get fresh start. y
-Kincardine mon. Review.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02
The Bradley Martin Ball.

Stitch. stitch, stitch,
On doublet and hose and shoon,
From the rise of the rosy sun
To the rise. of the silver moon.
Work, work, work,
In the workshop dusty and tall,
For the scads that will come cavorting mr.
From the Bradley Martin BALI
Work. work, work,
For the shelels Of silver and gold
From the gown of russell and button an@
gusset
The cash to their hives is rolled.
Sew, sew, sew
For the big financial haul
That will come in floods for making this
For the Bradley Martin ball.
Cook, cook, cook,
Till the day gives up the ghost
On truflies and quail and terrapin
And nightingales' tongues on toast,
And the cash comes rolling in
To the stocking upon the wall
For preparing the dainties ahead of time
For the Bradley Martin ball.
Snap, snap, snap,
Will re-echo the cabby's whip
As he fetches the equine on
The suriculsr n clip,
And the horses will prance and fly,
Though they stumble and slip and fall,
And the stableman's nags will recoup hks
bags
At the Bradley Martin ball.
Stableman, tailor, cook,
Look forward serenely now,
Like the dance musician and waiter 81
The Chesterfedian bow,
For the night Of the festive tenth
or February to fall,
While they work wide awake for the ens&
they'll make
From the Bradley Martin ball.
r. X. Munfistrick In New York journal
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02
DEPEW TELLS 1T.
The Unwritten History of the Famow
Platt. Garfield Controversy Told Al Last.

The Unwrltten History of the Famou
Piatt Garfield Controversy Told at Last.
At the recent banquet to Senator
Elect Plat of New York at ALBANY.
Chauncey M. Depew told for the first
time the real story of Platt's reason 70,
his resignation from the United States
senate in 1881. He said:
Il have been in political accord OF
discord, more accord than discord, with
Mr.. Platt for u quarter of century.
but during the whole of that period
there has never been any break or dis
turbance of our personal friendship.
The scene tonight recalls a memorable
day 10 years ago. Garfield's admins
tration had come into power, and Sena-
tor Conkling, the leader of the organi
cation IN our state, was on unfriendly
terms with the president, and had not
spoken for years to his secretary of state,
James G.. Blaine. 1t was in the air that
the administration was to be antago-
nized by New York. Vice President Ar
thur came to Albany with candidate
for United States senator, claiming also
that he represented the leader, and Mr.
Platt appeared on his own behalf and
equally divided the organization S force.
did not want to be United States SEN
ator. 1t meant ruin TO a professional
and business career which 1 meant to
make success, and the selection would
have been personal calamity. But Mr..
Blaine came to New York with mes
sage from the president insisting that ]
should take the field. Ny friends held
the balance of power. was candidate
only to represent the Garfield admins
tration. L said to Mr.. Plat, You eau
have my strength if, as senator, you
will support the president His answer
was, Il have done my best to elect {
Republican president, and as senator
will support him.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02
RIDING TO THE POLLS
wyoming Women Oppose Free Carriages
For Voters.

Wyoming women are holding public
meetings all over the state TO secure
women signers TO petitions to the legis--
lature, asking that it shall be declared
unlawful for any persons or politicat
parties to hire carriages TO haul voters
TO the polls.
The women assert that many GOOD
men are unable to run for office III Wy
oming on account of the great expense .
that such expense is principally for hire
of carriages to take electors TO register
and vote; that il is charged this was
not the case before women voted, and
that women are held responsible for
this condition of affairs; that they be-
lieve the practice is the source of cor
ruption and fraud, and as the majority
of women in Wyoming prefer to walk
to the polls they should not be held ac-
countable
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02
A n,screet Georgia Parson.

Tn one of the rural DISTRICTS Georgia
minister was invited to dine with a p, CIT II,
izen who, though wealthy, furnished
his table poorly. When they were seated
tbe host said: "Times are mighty tign,,
narson an we amt got nothin muc =.
ter set before you, but to sicn as II -
YOU air welcome. Will you ask u p ,lcS,,'
on what you seer Inc parso" H.; oD vo;co
ing the scant repast' ilited up mls Fer fer
and said: Lord, make us thankful ior
what we see, and may we be able 20
S MIDI il when we reach for it. Let it not
o nna us and prove snare and dolT !,
SION Amonl Thank you for the green's
Atlanta Constitution.
Hob poems Great Discovery
Rob Doom has process OF making
S INIT and a pint of milk.--"ahoo
Wasp.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02
A STRANGE STORY.
Hadley Johnson's Trip East Recalls Tale,
of the Past.

HadIey Johnson's Trip East Recalls a Taio
of the Past.
Hadley M. Johnson of Salt Lake City
stopped in Brookville, Ind, his birth
place, while en- route to WashingtoIE
with the electoral vote of Utah.
Over half century ago remarkable
occurrence came into the life of this
man.
He was engaged to marry Phoebe
Meeks and the ceremony was TO Dc Eer-,
formed the next day. The young logersf
Joined party who were watching sfsSf
high waters of a freshet Suddenly Alnx
Meeks left the company and returned 70
her home, and she has never since lcft
the house. She has never since seen her
affianced, aud vouchsafes no reason for
| her actions.
She has been an omniverous reader
| is well up ON all the advancement, his
| torical and geographical, yet she has
| never seen train, albeit the railroaH
track is only square distant from hex
| dwelling For many years she, With
| her two maiden sisters, conducted n
prosperous millinery business, but the
| death of the one and the infirmltles On
are have caused them to close up their
business.
In all respects Miss Meeks has ap-
peared fully sane save IN her unex-
planned, half century's isolation. FROM
the world after her abrupt failure to-
complete her nuptials. Cincinnati En-
quirer
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02

honesty. Sacrliiclng his last dollar, ne
is toiling night and day to meet the
debts yet unpaid to pay for the lodgings
which are more meager and less COM
Portable than the home he had when
he was writing odes to the editor OF
weekly paper in Missouri.
Mark Twain is go years old and
handicapped by the fact that his best
efforts have not been his latest. There
has been a steady decline in his humor
since it became a treadmill grind. The
sooner the end comes the fewer will be
the excuses when the record of his repu-
tation shall be written as a matter OF
literary history He seems to realize
this. He has refused to see the few who
have hunted him up, and it is one OF
the pathetic incidents in this city full
of pathos that the great circle OF lntl-
mates which went to the very edge OF
the throne has dwindled to two or three
faithful souls.
There is no question as to the posi-
tion he used to hold in the English and
continental estimate. No one has ever
divided his standing as the American
humorist "The Innocents Abroad
was translated into the tongues OF the
leading nations, and since 1869 all the
facts concerning his life have been
eagerly read. 1t was in looking for
these facts and searching for the early
incidents in the life of the man that all
Germany has come to know the story
of Samuel L. Clemens. The Importance
that those facts attached to Missouri
led many to imagine in the usually in
telligent grasp of American affairs by
Europeans that Missouri is the capital
of the United States.
His enthusiasm and ability to succeed
have gone. If he had the vigor and con
fidence he had 80 years ago, the rally
might be easy There was nothing I'm
possible, in his estimation, when h'
was apprenticed as a printer In the
Office of the Hannibal Weekly Journa
at the age of IS. He was then full O.
the spirit of push and self reliance
which is forced by life in one story
house. He romped about Hannibal
There was no one in town who eve
| drcameQ t0c siidSSy h'"u' W
covered the brains which should late
make him q welcome guest at the palace
of the German emperor
There are many stories over her'
about his early adventures. The Lon
douers know that he was once Pho
ON the Mississippi, but they have but III
tie notion of where the Mississippi Is
He is known as journalist, but th
most active journalism he ever tax
about is his term as city editor OF In
Enterprise, published in Virginia CITY
New, or as a joint reporter and deput'
sheriff at Dutch Flats, in the Slerr
Neyadas. This was in 1862 and 1893
while he was searching fame and wealth
in the west and before he had pushe'
himself into the attention OF the east o
the admiration Of the critics ana peopi
over here A.. :,
He came over the Atlantic first Il
1867. He had previously rambled owe
the islands of the Pacific and had pegul
the publication of articles which wer
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02
THIS is NOT HUMOR.
MLRk TWAIN IN GREAT POVERTY IN
LONDON.
Bowed With disappointment, He Is strug-
Cling, Possibly In Vain, to Pay Debts.
His Trip Around the World y Failure.
Pitiful Story Of LIES Labor Lost.


Mark Twain, the prince and diner Mt
the tables of kings, is now impoverish-
ed and slave to a debt. He is in poor
health, confined to modest lodging and
burdened with age and the woes Of a
broken heart. His determination is he
roic; but, in accordance with that fine
irony Of the human race, the men and
women who were anxious to boost him
when he was at the top and he did not
need them are missing, now that he
has lost and is at the bottom.
1t is probable that the end has come.
There is but a single hope for this
man, who for 20 years has shared the
field of American letters-as the Eu-
ropeans estimate American letters
with Bret Harte He is home from a
trip around the world. 1t began in Van
couver and ended in London-a failure
from the start. He has been working
for weeks en- the manuscript of the
story, but The few who have hunted
him in the modest room fear that the
inspiration has gone. He is working
under forced conditions, and the prodic-
ton is that the tale of the tour will lie
like plant forced to blossom i'll unnat-
ural conditions.
1t is very evident that the man is
worse than penniless All his fortune
went down with the publishing house
which used his name and spent his mon
ey and prospects i'll air castles and folly.
J He would not etand tho charge Of die
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02
Hotel Boom In Paris.

It has been decided to convert the
Palais Royal into vast hotel during
the exposition. For 1, 600, 900 francs the
government has consented to let the
Galerie d'Orleans, which forms an an
mex of the Palais Royal. Thus one OF
the most ancient and picturesque land
marks of Paris will practically disap.
pear. Hotels on vast scale are being
projected in various parts of Paris just
now, and doubtless the exhibition has q
great deal to do with the sudden boom
in this particular sort of speculation. =
New York Tribune.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02
An Archaeological Find In Mexico.

l.. +. tanner and party of five ar
chaologists from Philadelphia and New
York have arrived at Oaxaca, Mexico,
on their way to explore deserted an.
cient city in the wilds of the state of
Chiapas The ruins were discovered sew
eral months ago by Mr.. tanner while
exploring that remote section, and the
research will be continued in the hope
of making valuable archaeological dis
coveries.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02
LIKE A TABLED PALACE.
New Congressional Library IifumLnAxs0
For the First Time.

New Congressional Library
For the First Time.
A few invited senators and others
witnessed a brilliant and beautiful sight
the other night at the new Congressional
library in Washington. twas arranged.
to test the electric lighting plant ard IL
Illuminate the vast building for this first
time. Senator and Mrs. Morrill,, Senator
and Mrs. Cullom, Senator and Mrs-
Sherman, Secretary and Mrs. Lamont
Congressman Cannon, Grosvenor, Cooke.
Van Voorhis and few others were ask
ed to witness the illumination.
The lights were first turned ON in one
after another of the beautiful rooms
and finally, when the whole magnificenf
interior was ablaze, the effect was said
TO be beyond description. The fact that
all the vast rooms were empty and I'M
INSTRUCTED by any books or furniture'
made their illumination doubly effect
i've. The frescoes and paintings, the art
glass ceilings, the beautiful marble cary
ings and the gliding which everywhere
predominated made the interior like a
tabled palace.
Congressman Cooke, who saw the
illumination, said afterward: Il wit
messed tonight one of the grandest sights
of my life. All the architectural fables
were instantly realized when the library
was fully lighted. 1t is impossible to
imagine anything more beautiful, and
it is equally impossible to describe the
effect produced by the appearance OF one
room after another in blaze of SPLEEN
dor. The tabled palaces described III
the Arabian Nights are all realized
in this noble building, whose Interior
even in daylight, seems beyond the in
penuity of Pie human mind"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-02
India,s Appeal to Humanity.

The existence of such acalamity any
where in the world appeals to the sym
pathy of all civilized nations and pre-
sents an opportunity of charity that
should not be disregarded. In such a:
case the people of the United States CAM
surely be relied upon to live up to their
splendid reputation for benefcence. So
Louis Globe Democrat.