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The herald., 1897-12-26

vasiOn of England, it's name being de-
rived from the Anglo Saxon "waeS-
hazel" or BE in health" Among the
| early Anglo SaXons the phrases" Waes-
hael' and "drinc-h -hael" were the custom
airy ones between friends when about to
pledge one another, being equivalent to
the Here's luck" the ungrammatical
Drink hearty" and the absurd How"
Of the western bar-room. Thus the
phrase "waes- -hael''-soon corrupted to
was halle" and finally to 'wassail''--
came to be applied to the drink described
which was made only between Christ
mas and New Years day, the season Of
all others when men overfiowed with
kindly feelings toward their fellows and
wished them "waes- hae," or good health
and all the material blessings which the
various ingredients in the liquid conf
pound symbolized.
1t became customary to have a huge
| bowl of wassal at every New Years
| feast. Decorated with holly, it was
! borne into the hall with ceremonial hon
ors The master of the house would take
a draught and then pass it to the guest
I sitting at his right, who also drank from
the steaming bowl and passed it to his
! next neighbor, this being continued un-
| til the wassail bowl had gone around the
! table and everyone present had quaffed
of it's contents. The custom continued in
! England all through the middle ages
and even centuries afterward, and it is
| yet maintained by certain Of the wealthy
landowners in England with their ten
antry. The kindred custom OF young
women going about the streets with
wassail bowls and offering them to pas
sers- by, who were expected to reward
the fair Hebes for their hospitality with
donation of money, has fallen altogeth-
The herald., 1897-12-26

Wore cloth hose any more" The queen s
wardrobe is said to have been almost
wholly supplied by these New Years
gifts, in return for which she made
presents of gold and silver plate.
The custom of giving New Years pres
ents to English sovereigns ceased with
the establishment of the commonwealth
in the days of Oliver Cromwell and has
never been revived. At the time of the
Protectorate there was Il reaction
against the keeping up Christmas and
New Years festivals with songs and
revelry, according to ancient custom
This was satirzed in the following lines:
The high shoe lords of Cromwens making
Were not for dainties-wastng baking;
The chiefcst food they found most good in
Was rusty bacon ana bag puddng
Plum broth was popish and mince pie
Oh, that was flat idolatry.
These prejudices passed away in time
and the descendants Of the Puritans are
among the most renowned for the COM
posing of substantial dainties-and
mince pies among the number.
THE LADY'S PIN MONEY
All ladies know what pin money is,
but it is not generally known how the
expression came to be used or that it is
directly connected with New Years
day. Until the beginning of the six
teenth century the only pins used by
the poorer classes We're made of wood ::
in fact, they We're not pins at all, but
skeWers, which, for the use of the
wealthy, We're made Of lockwood. bone
and silver. At the period named the
metal pins in use were invented and
the ladies of fashion were eager to
possess them. They at once became the
most popular and acceptable New
Years gift for ladies. but it soon be-
The herald., 1897-12-26

Philadelphia, reinstituted an old Gus
tom within the last few years, which.
tradition says, began when Christ was
horn, and was kept up for many years
by the Ara bians who became Chris
TINS. On the eve of Christmas, New
Vars and Easter an orchestra ap-
pears on the balcony of the temple at
midnight, and for an hour the music of
sa-red hymns fills the air and penetrates
fan into the night. The music seems
especially sweet and weird at that hour
of he morning, but no complaint has
eve' been received from people whose
sunbers have been disturbed.
ALMANAC MAKERS, OLD AND NEW
With the New Year we all betake our
selve, to- new almanacs. And these
almalacs of ours are very different from
those of the fifteenth and sixteenth CEN
turies Here is the title page of one of
them:
Progiossicacion and an Almanack fas-
tened bgether. declaring the Dispocission
of the leople and also of the Wether, with
certain Electyons and Tymes chosen both
for Phidke and Surgerye, and for the hus-
bandmei And also for Hawkeyng, Hunt
yng, Fi.hyng and Foulynge, according to
the Science of astronomy, made for the
year of our Lord God M, ID. L., Calculed
for the Merydyan of Yorke, and practiced
by Anthmy AslSham.
imprinted at London, in Flete street, at
Signe of he George, next to Saint Duns-
tans Church, by William Powell, cum pri-
viiegio ad imprimendum solum.
Then fdlows the Representation, the
title pageto which is as follows:
Progmsslcacion for the Yere of our
| Lord MCCCCCL, Calculed upon the Me-
rydyan. of he Town of Anwarpe and the
| Country tlereabout, by Master Peter OF
Moorbeeke, Doctor in Physicke of the same
Towne, whc'eunto is added the Judgement
The herald., 1897-12-26
ESCAPE THROUGH A TRAP DOOR
Chief Kipley's Secret Passage to and
From His Private Office

The small boy who reads yellow back
novels would have his heart made glad
were he permitted the privilege of visit
ing the office of Chief of Police Ripley,
in the city hail. Almost every appur-
tenance known to the detective stories
of ones youth may be seen there, II one
is fortunate enough TO gain admittance
when the ever-vigilant big Steve" Row.
an is rot watching to prevent it.
The most startling contrivance in the
chiefs private chamber however, is
trap door. 1t is one of the old-fashioned
dungeon-deep, or stage door. kind, and
it is used many times daily by the sleuth
at the mead of Chicago's police depart
ment. 1t is not utilized, however, for
the purpose of putting out of the way
Objectionable callers or villains who seek
to disturb the peace and tranquility Of
the chief of police. Its purpose is to af-
ford the chief an easy and always ac-
cessible avenue of escape from persist
ent job hunters, annoying politicians or
too nquisitive newspaper reporters.
The door is in the middle of the floor
of Chief Kipley's private office. 1t is
about four feet long by three feet wide,
and is covered by pretty Persian rug.
when the door is is covered by the rug the
floor has the appearance of an ordinary
office floor; but when the chief calls his
attendant and orders him to remove the
rug, the real thing in melodrama Is wit
messed. Before doing this, however, the
chief or one of his subordinates politely
requests all callers to "step outside a
minute please" or sends out word to
callers that he twill be out in minute
or two" When the trap-door is raised,
the burly form of the chief descends to
the subterranean depths that appear to
be opened to the view. But the trap
door let's the chief onto a small winding
iron stairway, which leads into the de-
tective room at central station, and af-
fords rapid and safe egress to the out
side world without the danger of en-
counter with undesirable persons.
There are also two or three secret pas
sages leading into the chiefs office from
the main floor Of the city hall, and he has
now every possible means at his disposal
! to be mysterious and at the same time
avoid those whom he does not care to
see. The trap-door is an idea of Robert
E. Burke, and was built and first used
by him when he was city sealer and dis
penser of patronage under the first May
or Carter II. Harrison. When the recent
changes were made in the location of Of
fees in the city hall Chief Ripley select
ed the room with the trap-doOr as his prl-
vate office, and says 1t affords him the
only possible means of securing rest from
the annoyances of job-hunting poll
ticians and their proteges.
The herald., 1897-12-26

came customary to give, instead of the
pins themselves, the money with which
to purchase them, and this was called
pin money" a term which gradually
came to be applied to all money given
to ladies for the general purposes of
dress and personal adornment.
"WAES-HAEL" TO ALL
In many countries a superstition has
prevailed regarding the complexion OF
the first caller on New Years day,
inasmuch as it indicated the good or
i'll fortune that would attend the house
during the following year. In Scotland
when the chimes begin to play out the
old and ring in the new year, the young
and, indeed, very many old men start
out first footing" that being the term
/ applied to New Years calling. Each
one burdens himself with some short
cake or bannocks, made of oatmeal, and
bottle of whisky. At every visit a lit
tie bit of bread is broken and a sip of
wine taken and assurance thus given
of the prosperity that the caller has
| brought TO the house. But the first
caller must be fair-h haired, for that is
an indication of good luck, while if il
should be a brunette the opposite would
be the effect of his visit. Many families
indeed, have been known to have ar
ranged with some blonde friend to he
the first foot" and bring the New YeaI
! in.
Among the Oldest and most interestin,
of New Years customs, although never
practiced in this country, have beer
those pertaining to the wassail bowl
Wassai is an insinuating and seductive
compound of hot ale spices, sugar. toaa
and apples. and is believed to have orig
mated about the time Of the Saxon in
The herald., 1897-12-26
NO FORGIVENESS

They loved each other well, they swore,
And so to wed they wildly hoped;
Wherefore it wasn't long before
They laughed at locksmiths and eloped.
Her pa forgave as papas do;
Her mamma, too, forgave and blessed;
His ma and pa forgave them, too.
And brothers, sisters-all the rest.
And only two could not forgive;
They've not forgiven to this day.
And won't as long as e'er they live
They can't forgive themselves, they say.
-London Figaro.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-20
How Peers Are summoned.

Englishmen returning home after long
residence in the colonies are often anus
ed and puzzled by some of our anti
uuated forms and ceremonies. The other
day came across "A returned Canadian,
who had been much impressed by the
terms Of Lord Salisbury circular to his
followers in the house of lords, where
the premier ventures to express the
hope that it may be consistent with
your lordship's convenience to be present
in your place upon that day"-the open
ing of parliament. Ny Canadian friend
suggests that if member of parliament
requires to be reminded of his duty to
be present when parliament meets, the
intimation, instead of taking the form
of "venturing to express hope that 1t
may be consistent with his lordship's
conveniences, would be more effectu-
ally expressed as hint that If the mem
Der is not present he will incur painful
consequences. London Truth.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-20
A Migratory Journal.

The new journalism is not confined
to America. Two young Frenchmen,
members of the fourth estate, arrived
in this city early last week on tour OF
the world, which is a rather unusual ex-
ample of journalistic enterprise. They
are NM. ]. Leroy and II. Papillaud,
who left Paris two years ago without a
cent in their pockets and have supported
themselves throughout the tour by pro
fessional work. In each considerable
city where they stop they issue an edi-
ton of paper called En- Route, the
business and editorial offices of which
are located Gin the world" 1t is a ten
page paper, copiously illustrated from
photographs which they take by the
way. and it contains articles describing
their tour printed in French, in the
yernacular of the country in which the
issue is published and, in the case OF
East Indian, japanese and Chinese cit
les, in English also. The paper is quite
a journalistic curio. The publishers
have received generous support from adj
vertisers in all countries. and they state
that their circulation ranges from 5000
70 n. 600 copies. San Francisco Argo
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-20
The Trials Of the Car.

It is certain that the czar cannot pos
sess his fathers iron constitution, and
certain, too, that he is and if the pres
ent system endures he must remain
terribly overworked. 1t Is not only that
he must do work, sedentary work with
papers, for eight or ten hours a day,
like an English barrister or physician
in great practice, but that the kind OF
work is so exhausting to the nerves. 1t
is bad enough to be viceroy of India,
with 200 or 800 executive orders to sign
in week, 10 per cent of which may
make" or nearly ruin individuals, but
a viceroy is protected from doing too
much harm by immutable laws, customs
and responsibilities to the ultimate
home authority. The supreme order"
of the car, as it is called, has the force
of law, cannot in numerous cases be
dispensed with, and in others almost as
numerous affects great interests, great
political movements or the fate OF per-
sons to whom enormous powers are nec-
essarily intrusted.
Every such order requires an effort OF
the mind. People talk of autocrats as II
they were necessarily demons, but IN
reality they are men'of business, harsh
or gentle as temperament may incline,
but still most anxious that their policy
or administration or special fad should
succeed and increase either the dignity
or the happiness of the empire they are
set to rule. 1t is almost impossible FOL
a man in weak health to fill such posi-
without occasionally breaking down.
and as every breakdown is for many
purposes an interregnum reports as t'
the czar's health are studied and IN
vented as in England are reports tina
the majority is revolving. Some o
them may be true or all of them may b.
false, but none of them can be trustee
unless confirmed by official or profes
sional admissions. London Spectator.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-20
WHITE HOUSE MlNSTRElS.
4 Performance That Was Given by Willie
and Tad Lincoln.

4 Performance. hat Was Given by Willie
and Tad Lincoln.
In ST. Nicholas is paper by Julia
Taft Bayne on willie and Tad Lin
coln," who were playmates of Mrs.
Bayne's brother. Mrs. Bayne gives the
following picture Of one of their pranks:
/ went to the White House. AS l ap-
preached [ saw that it was standing in
deed, but / noticed strange grin ON
the face of an orderly holding some
horses. Some soldiers lounging near al
SO wore the same grin, which was in
tensified on the countenance OF q negro
coming down the walk, and this wild
grin rippled and spread like awave as
went on-orderlies, soldiers, doorkeep-
ers, all wore that peculiar smile. i ask
ed where the boys were. up stars
miss" the man said, and heard him
chuckle us he turned away. AS l came
along the upper corridor Tad appeared.
"Oh, Julia, come and see our circus!
he cried when he saw me. We've got
a circus in the attic. We're Ministries
I've got to be blacked up, and Wine
can't get his dress On; it's too big. I'm
it up, will you? Hurry J"
I took Mortified survey and SAID: "A
circus! Does the president know ltr
ooh, yes, he knows it," said Tad
"He doesn't care. He's got some gener-
al or other in there. Come on, hurry
Willie was struggling with the full,
long skirt and flounces OF lilac SILK
had seen Mrs. Lincoln wear at an after
noon reception, while Budd wore rui-
fed morning wrapper which ne Was
pinning up in billowy festoons.
When the boys were nearly ready &c
Oh before their audience, Tad began
singing at the top of his voice, Olo
Abe Lincoln came out OF the Wllder'
ness. ,,, Ito,
"Hushr' said Budd. "The president
will hear you. D." ah,
~ don't care if pa does hear, ana hC
don't care either" said Tad. We've
got TO sing that i'll the show ana =
think he did. But some time AFTER ~
Tad was singing a campaign song al
| Our house ABOUT Olu ~ -
rails" Willie asked my mother: Mrs
Taft ought Tad to sing that songE lsii
II disrespectful to pa?" Tad kicked th'
chair as he always did when displeasca
and said, Everybody i'll TINS "orl'
knows pa used to split rails.
Mamma explained why she though tl !,
Il in bad taste, aud Tad said, wen
I'll sing about John Brown 5 bouJ,
then" He always obeyed my mother
though generally so headstrong'
Twas at their circus only as sn1 or
time A curtain of sheets pinned 10
oetber was stretched across one sac .
fbe attic. Their extensive "repertorYy;
was somewhat mixed, and they ui'
NOT keep very closely to the programme
Tad as the "Black Statue" was a grei
success. Every one who paid cen 81
went in. / think, though 1t sald
cents, on the bill. Servants, orderi'eS e,
soldiers, strangers, came ana wen' al
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-20
NANNY AND The CUB.
Likes and Dislikes Of q Hear That Was
Sucked by . Goat.

The bear that figures in the story is
known as Jack, and he belongs to
Lewis Ford. who formerly owned = goat
ranch high up on the Cerro Colorado
mountain, overlooking the lovely valley
of the San joaquin.
Ford found the bear when il was
cub, soft, round, shining and black.
Being wifeless, childless and alone, he
adopted the tiny cub and carried it
home. Once there, Ford soon found
that foster mother must be provided
for the infant, and so frightened,
trembling, bleating she goat was
brought to the house to take the place
of the parent he so missed 1t was only
after much combined force and persua-
sion the goat could be induced to adopt
as her own the unkidlike orphan placed
in her care. But the time came when
foster mother and foster child were as
happy and content in their relations to
each other as if the sight of a nimble
footed, blue haired nanny" sucking n
clumsy black bear cub was of the most
ordinary condition Of affairs The bear
waxed fat on goats milk and moro
docile lractable beast never grew up
under the guardianship of ahumane and
loving master In the earlier days of his
adoption the baby was "a baby in truth.
He would not be left alone, and 1t
would have been a harder heart than
Ford's that could have resisted the pitt
full whimper Of the little fellow when
I. a. no 10 no 1nf =
alone in the house. Had there been any
to see it in those days they would have
witnessed strange sight. The great,
broad shouldered man, following his
flock as they grazed on the bunch grass
| sometimes five or six miles from home
and as he walked the steep mountain
side, where it was so nearly perpendicu.
lar that it seemed that only the goats
themselves could gain foothold on the
| rocks, carried the cub in his arms.
When Jack grew older, he was trained
to herd goats. Previously number OF
dogs had helped Ford, but the bear and
the dogs could not agree, and so the
dogs had to CO. Jack took their place
we'll, and they were never missed. Fol
several years the bear continued to hell
Ford until the latter sold his ranch ant
prepared to go to his old home in Eu
rope. Then number of his neighbour
tried to buy the bear. Ford refused Il
sell him and said that if he could no
take Jack with him he would not 60
The difficulty about shipping the bea
was overcome, and now he and his mas
ter are living contentedly in the oil
country, enjoying the fruits of thei
long, lonesome stay in the Californi
mountains. San Francisco Call
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-20
Wagner on Young Won Bulow.

"I have followed the youthful devel-
oping period of your sons life with cog
nizance and sympathy, without exercis-
ing any other influence upon him than
that of my example as an artist and OF
my most cautious advice. l have OBJ
served that his love Of art, and especial
ly of music, is based upon no mere
transient excitement, but upon great
indeed, uncommon powers. 1t was
with my special concurrence, and indeed
at my suggestion, that he went on with
his law studies with undiminished zeal,
as there is nothing so repugnant to me
as q musician who is that alone with
out any higher general culture. At the
wish of his family he applied himself
also to the study CT jurisprudence. Full
of devotion to his mother, he tried hard
to take an interest in this study, which,
in reality, went dreadfully against his
grain. And now what is the perfectly
clear and evident result of all his pains
and experience? Simply the outspoken,
absolute conviction that the more he
sets the one thing against the other the
more he feels that it is art alOne-ln
other words, music-that he can love
increasingly. This one thing, my dear
lady, stands first and foremost as an un'
deniable fact, and cannot doubt that,
when once you yourself are convinced OF
this wish of your son to devote himself
entirely to music, you will make it your
own wish also. 1.-THE Early Core
spondence of Hans Won Bulow.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-20
Mawrence's store will be sold IL

Mawrence's store will be sold in
size OF thirty days, stock OF $4,000,
when he must get off the building, so call
at once and get your bargains at your
own price. 1t will be sold by auction
aud private sales every night and day.
This stock includes ladies' goods, men,
and boys clothing and furnishing goods,
hats, caps, etc. Don't miss this chance
of pt tting goods 40 cents on the dollar
on the prices which you must pay else
where
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-20
REVEALED IN A DREAM.
a Vision OF Gold Mine That In Reality
Came to Pass.


To dream Of gold mine in distant
part OF the country and from such data
10 locate the claim among hundreds of
Others Is piece of luck that the oldest
prospector would hardly dare to hope
for
Yet woman living 200 miles from
that Ell Dorado known to the outer world
as Cripple Creek, following the dictates
OF seven times repeated vision. has
succeeded in doing this very thing, and
Is today operating one of the most sue
cessful mines in the whole district.
Seven consecutive times did Mrs.
Law dream of the same place. In each
vision appeared a tall pine, towering
above the surrounding forest, and deep
ravlne with stream of silvery water
winding through it, deep sunk between
two mountains These mountains seem.
ed characteristic of the country. They
were abrupt peaks rising high above the
surrounding foothills, outlined gray and
cold against bright blue sky. But
what mountains they were, or what di-
rection to take to find them, Mrs Law
had no idea.
A pleasure journey took her through
Colorado. The way was long, and the
trip across the seemingly eternal fat
lands had become almost intolerable,
when suddenly, as the train was entering
the foothills, as the glanced through
the Car window, there arose before her
astonished gaze, clear and distinct
against the blue Colorado sky, the ia
miliar twin mountains of her vision. AS
the train pursued its sinuous way there
appeared before her waking eyes the
valley which she had seen so often in
sleep, and through the center flowed the
silvery belt of water which had become
so familiar.
otis the land of my dreams, my Ell
Dorado!" exclaimed Mrs. Law. "Gold
is there, and l know it," Her exclama-
tions excited some comment among the
passengers, but no one thought seriously
about it. But some weeks later Mrs.
Law, accompanied by two friends and
her husband-who had ceased to be
keptical-appeared ON blackboard IL
the vicinity Of what is now the outskirts
&C Cripple Greek, and with determine.
ton lot to be daunted by difficulties
staked out claim in the valley.
Mrs. Law was now able to organize 6
company, incorporated under the name
Of the Dream Lode Mining company. II
was formed entirely of women, and
woman lawyer was employed to SCI
that it was duly credited in Kansas City
with 200, 900 shares at 81 each.-Phila
delphia Press.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-20
A Novel OCCUPATION.

An occupation which does not figure
in labor statistics. nor in the social econ
omy at least of America, is discovered
in the following advertisement. which
appeared in the Blackpool Times. an
English newspaper. in the last days OF
1896. Young man, of dark complexion,
is prepared to let in the New Year at
any house in Blackpool between IL and
9 q. m, at Q shillings each without re-
freshments. 1" The explanation of this
cryptic notice lies, it seems. in local
superstition that the first visitor to a
house in the new year, if he happens to
be of dark complexion. brings 1t good
luck