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The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-29

Palestine Sarsaparilla is absolutely true and
reliable for the cure of all blood taints such as
Scrofula and syphilis and a specific in cancer
GUS affections Tumors Pimples, Chronic
Catarrh, etc. Price SlO0
For sale at DR.. Johnson's Drug Store.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-29

Misses Florence Steward and Grace
Keteham are visiting Miss Fannis
Merrill.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-29
The weakest

The weakest
place in a house
or fort, or any
place of de-
tense, usually
turns out to be
t h at W hic II
W a S thought
The
weakest place
IL a m a n 8
body Is that
In which he
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The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-29

Hoods Pills and Hoods Sarsaparilla
for sale at JNo. KANE S DRUG STORE.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-29
No GRIPPE

When you take Hoods Pills. The big, old-fash-
toned, sugar-coated pills, which tear you all to
pieces are not In it with Hoods. Easy to take
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-20
Curious Phenomenon.

Messrs. H. w and j NJ Cornelison
report curious phenomenon ON the
farm of L. }. Smith, two miles from
Richmond, KY. On cutting down
largo elm tree they were astonished to
see stream of water gush out of the
stump and fall in sparkling spray like
water from fountain. This was few
weeks ago, and there has been no cessa-
ton in the flow. The superstition is that
there is a spring beneath the tree, to
which tree worms during the drought
made an artificial channel. and when
the tree was cut down the water found
way to escape
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-20
BlCYCllST AFTER GOLD.
BriegeI Started on an Overland Run to
the Klondike.

Briegel Started on an Overland Run to
the Klondike.
j. A. Briegel, Chicago wheelman,
recently departed for the Klondike on
his bicycle He is riding bicycle of
his own make. 1t is furnished with a
telescope yalise, bearing the word
Klondike" III big letters. The valise
is equipped with clothing and cooking
utensils and cyclists tent. Another
satchel on his handle bars is supplied
with repairs for the wheel and an extra
pair Of tires.
Briegel will follow the line of the
Santa Fe railroad to Los Angeles. He
will ride 40 miles each day until he
reaches San Francisco. From that city
he will ride to Seattle, where he will
stay until March. Then he will board
steamer for Dyea. Briegel is married
and leaves wife and two children. He
was formerly soldier in the United
States army, having served three years
as member of Company G., Tenth in
fantry He says he is well posted ON
the route to the Pacific coast by way of
the Indian Territory, Texas and Ari-
iona. He apprehends no difficulty in
gaining the coast and anticipates re-
turning to Chicago inside of two years
with riches. -Chicago Times Herald
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-20
EATTlESHlP CANOPUS.
New Type OF Fighting Machine Among
the Nayies of the World.

The launching of the British battle
ship Campus, recently effected at Ports
mouth, England. is of more than pass
aug interest, for it marks the appear
apce of new type of fighting machine
among the navies of the world. The
Campus is one of six similar vessels
now under construction as experiments.
The new Campus is briefly described
as a modified and improved Majestic,
In length the two are alike, each meas
uring 800 feet, but the Campus dis
places only IL, $50 tons to the Majestic's
IA, 900-a considerable difference. The
Campus is thus naturally narrower and
shallower than the Majestic, being only
"a instead of 20 feet wide and drawing
only 26 instead of 27H feet. While
thus smaller than the Majestic, the
Campus is fitted with more powerful
engines. Her boilers are of the new
Belleville water tube type. Each Of her
two screws will be driven by an indie
pendent set of triple expansion engines,
the whole developing 49, 500 horsepower
against the Majestic's $4,000 and driv-
ing the vessel at the rate of 1879 knots,
or full knot faster than the Majestic.
The coal bunkers will have a capacity
of 300 tons.
The main battery will consist of four
~ inch wire guns, mounted in pairs, In
barbettes. There will also be twelve 6
inch quick firing guns, each in an ar
mored easement, twelve IL Founders,
six Founders and eight maxims- There
will be five torpedo tubes, four of them
being submerged The armor belt of the
Campus is only six inches thick. The
heaviest armor is over the bulkheads
and on the barbettes and coming tower.
its maximum thickness being IL inches.
The protective deck is of nickel steel,
from one and half TO two and a half
inches thick and covered not with wood,
but with linoleum-an Improvement
suggested by experience in the battle OF
the Yalu. New York Tribune.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-20
SLEEPING CAR INVENTOR.
Not to Pullman, but to Theodore T. Wood
ruff, Belongs the Credit.

Not to Pullman, but to Theodore T. Wood
run, Belongs the Credit.
The popular notion that the late
George NJ Pullman invented the sleep
ing car is incorrect The fact is that
Theodore T Woodruff of Watertown,
N. Y, for many years a resident of that
city, invented and patented the first
sleeping car, and George M. Pullman
paid him $lS6. 900 for his right to the
invention.
Woodruff's first patent was granted
early in the fifties, and after consider
able difficulty he got permission from
Erastus Corning, then president of the
New York Central. to place it ON that
road for trial He ran it for six months,
and then took it to the Pennsylvania
road for inspection. Thomas Scott and
James Roberts saw it at Pittsburg and
made bargain with Woodruff for it,
Pullman then began to contest Wood
ruff's patents and was defeated in the
United States courts. He then bought
Woodruff's patents, and the latter re-
tired from the business in 1861.
Pullman made improvements on the
Woodruff Car, but the original plan new
or was changed, and the present Sleep
ing car is on the same principle as the
first one built by Woodruff. st. Louis
ReDublic
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-20
BOTH lEAPEO TO DEATH.
Two Men Jumped From a Bridge as q
Test of Their Bravery.


The most thrilling double tragedy in
the history of Minnesota occurred re-
Gently in st Paul, at the high bridge
over the Mississippi. At that hour the
crowd of people OH the bridge was hor-
rified TO see a mans form shoot down
from the rail on the east side of the
structure Before the rapidly descend
ing figure reached the water over 200
feet away, another man mounted the
rail and swung off feet first. The bodies
struck the water not five feet apart
They came up once each, but sank from
view and were no doubt washed down
the stream by the current. Boats were
procured at once and the river was
dragged for some time, but neither body
was found. 1t was nearly two hours be-
fore any trace of the identity OF the
men could be obtained During the
evening it was discovered that they were
two members of the st. Paul Cigar Max
ers' union, Henry Bergenkreuger and
Jacob Amos.
At O'Clock they sat in Sixth street
restaurant While there they got into
an animated conversation, becoming so
excited that the proprietor stopped to
listen to them. Bergenkreuger insisted
that Amos had no courage, whereupon
the latter said he had quite as much as
the former Each appeared to be willing
to make any sort of a test of his bravery,
and suggestion by Bergenkreuger that
they both jump from the high bridge
was eagerly taken up by his partner.
They left the restaurant talking about
the big plunge, and the next that was
heard of them was that they had actually
made the leap. st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-20
NEW SHINGLES AT LAST.
The Old Ones Were Put on Mrs. SINNERS
House One Hundred Years Ago.

Mrs. Mary Skinner, who lives in
Wayne county, Pa, across the Della
Ware rirer from Cochecton, n. Y, re-
Gently had her house shingled and re-
paired There would be nothing strange
about this but for the fact that this is
the first time the house has been re-
paired or reshingled since 1896, when
the dwelling was built 1t is known in
the Skinner family as the new house,
because it took the place of the old
house which was built in 1865 and
was burned by the Indians in l77Z
The old barn is still standing though.
1t was built III l777 and needs no re-
pairs
The locality where these buildings
stand was one of the first places where
white people settled in the Delaware
valley, the Skinner family having gone
thither in 1854 Daniel Skinner, the
pioneer of the family, was an old sailor.
The hills and valleys hereabout were
covered with dense forests of pine.
Daniel Skinner knew the value of the
timber for ship spars, and he thought
he could find profitable market for 1t
at Philadelphia, but Philadelphia was
$50 miles away, with no means of COM
munication but a river, the character
of whose channel was then unknown to
any living white person. Daniel Skin
ner made raft of pine tree stems and
with hired man started down the river
with it in the spring of 1865. He started
the raft on IA raging flood and landed it
safely at Philadelphia i'll AS hours. He
sold the timber for $50 stick. There
were 20 of them in the raft. Such pine
sticks would be cheap at $3.50 apiece to-
day That was the beginning of rafting
on the Delaware. Skinner and his COM
panion made the journey from Phila-
delphia home on foot, more than 200
miles being through an unbroken will
derness They were two weeks on the
way The Skinner estate has never been
in possession of any one other than a
descendant of the pioneer. York
sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-20
An Enth usiastic Sportsman.

Talking of Africa, there has recently
started for the west coast of the dark
continent the most enthusiastic sports.
man who has ever sailed for its shores
His name is the Marquis dc Quincy,
and he is after big game. He lost his
leg near the hip couple Of years ago
in Marocco. There is too little of the
stump left for him to wear an artificial
limb. and the consequence is that he can
only get about with the assistance of
crutches Yet he has not allowed this
trifiing hindrance to deter him from
undertaking a IL months expedition
after big game in the widest portion of
west Africa. -Marquise De Fontenoy
in Philadelphia Press.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-20
FEAT OF AN ENGRAVER.
The Lords Prayer Engraved on the Head
of AN Ordinary Pin.


Unless person saw with his own
eyes through a powerful magnifying
glass the words OF the Lords Prayer en-
graved on the head of all ordinary pin
he might be inclined to regard with
skeptlclsm any statement that the thing
could be done Yet 1t has been accom-.
plished by Boston engraver Joseph
d. Young
Three years ago Mr. Young amused
himself by engraving the Lord Is Prayer
on plate easily covered by the circum-
ference of lead pencil A few weeks
ago he began TO engrave the words of
the prayer on pin head and found 1T
easy work The lettering starts on the
edge rim of the pInhead and circles
around in a spiral until it finishes in
the center Every word is distinct and
the letters show surprising delicacy Of
touch. With the naked eye the charac-
tiers are merely scratches. New York
sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-20
Airship Rose On. Thousand Feet.

The Schwarz aluminium airship, At
ted with a benzine motor, was tested
recently in Berlin on the Tempelhof
field in the presence Of number of
generals and the chief of the army air
ship department The airship rose 1000
feet, hoated in the air for IL minutes,
and at first obeyed the man steering 1t,
but later a strong wind rendered the
ship manageable The experiment
was considered partly successful
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-20
The Bull Moose.

The other day a Bangor (Me) man
drove out into the country to look for
deer He ism t professional killer, but
he hoped TO find game near home He
tied his horse to a tree in the woods
and. rife in hand, sailed into the for.
est, where he circled about for an hour
Then, after firing at what he thought
was a bull moose, he came up to find
that he had placed as caliber proJec-
tile neatly in the bowels of his horse,
which presently died with its harness
ON. -Kennebec journal.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-20
ANOTHER DAY FIXED.
Seventh Day Adventists Think the APP
pointed Time Is Nigh.

pointed Time Is Nigh.
Seventh Day Adventists of Battle
Greek, Mich, are excited over the
prophesied coming of Christ. They have
received a special communication from
Mrs White, the prophecies, that the
time for the application of the parable
of Luke xiv, 1928, is now due, and they
are commanded to go out into the high
ways and hedges and give the last call
TO supper " Under this impulse the
principal street corners are occupied
and saloons invaded by enthusiastic gos-
peters every night
In the immense tabernacle great
crowds continue to assemble under the
leadership of Rev Jones and Rev. Bal
lenger, expecting the Holy Ghost to
come down with fire from heaven. To
this end all are exhorted to uncondition-
ally accept the visitations of the prophet
ess and TO conform to her precepts,
which command them to pay tithes and
to abstain from all flesh meats, butter,
etc. Some 500 members who are remiss
in the matter of paying tithes have been
repeatedly branded as thieves from the
pulpit, and scores have been whipped
into line under the scathing denuncia-
tions of the prophecies.
Battle Greek is the headquaI tiers of
the Seventh Day Adventists' church in
America. The town of Is, 600 people
has over 6, 900 residents of that faith,
and the great sanitarium, which has
made Battle Greek known all over the
world, is conducted by the church. st
Louis Globe Democrat
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-20
CHURCH OF NO CREED
PASTOR FRANKS RELIGIOUS HOME
=. IN GREATER NEW YORK.

It Teaches No DOgmas-The Unchurched
and Unbigoted May Attend 1t Will
Search Truth In Whatever Philosophy
IL May BE Found.
The Metropolitan Independent Church
In New York is the name of the newest
organization for the teaching of religious
and ethical principles. 1t was founded
by the Rev Henry Frank, former
Congregationalist minister
The object of the new church will be
to furnish a religious home for the I'M
churched and unbigoted. 1t has no creed
and teaches no dogmas. Its platform is
broad enough to take in every phase of
human belief and nationality. Its aim
will be to search for truth, no matter in
what form or philosophy it may be
found.
Its members may be those who were
raised Christians, Jews, freethinkers,
Brahmans or even Confucians The pas.
tor is as likely to talk from text in
the Koran or on sentence of Shakes
peare as from the Bible.
Underlying all the overgrowths of
dogmatism and age incrusted bias there
are universal and eternal principles
whose rediscovery and PRONUNCIATION
will awaken the world Mr. Frank and
his church will revive and study these
principles.
Members do not believe Christ divine
in the accepted ecclesiastical sense. In
that Christ expressed III his life the
noblest character known to human
ideals they regard him as worthy of
worship. In short, they look upon him
as superhuman and not divine
Buddha and Brahma are considered
the same in kind, only lesser in degree
The organization has been formed TO
embrace:
All who, having drifted from the
tradition and superstition Of the past,
now yearn, with Goethe, for "more
light
All who seek a religion for conscience's
sake and who love truth for her own
sake
All who have said farewell to fear
and can trust their future III the minis
trations OF love
All who, having rejected every creed.
will bow only 70 the authority of genu-
Inc science, whether of the mundane or
supermundane sphere
All who are interested in the solution
Of those mysteries involved in the
world religions, which are so replete
with wisdom for the human race, and,
once extracted from their lmpedlments
of error, will again illuminate the path
of progress and individual evolution
All who love their fellow man and
would desire TO cooperate with kindred
spirits In seeking to promulgate such
knowledge as shall tend TO mitigate the
wrongs of earth and alleviate human
suffering
All who would study religion as
wide as the heart of man, composite as
the race and luminous with the inspira-
tion of the world spiritual geniuses
All who would seek a knowledge of
psychic forces, whose discovery shall be
effected alone by the scientific method,
and who would learn of the practical
application of such forces to the func-
lions, relations and duties of life
Mr. Frank has received much encour-
agement In his undertaking, and the
chances are that the Metropolitan indie
pendent church will be permanent in
stitution. New York Journal
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-20
A Worcester Cstechism.

At the meeting of the Worcester An
tiquarian society the other day Senator
Hoar said that when he was a boy in
Worcester, Mass. catechism was in
use of which the following is sample
Where is hell? Under the earth-a
place of darkness.
Who live in hell? The devil, his an.
gels and bad men.
What do they do in hell? They curse
God and sin continually
Do you deserve to go to hell? do
New York Tribune
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-20
Puncheon Greek Colony.

Hiram Walters, living ON Puncheon
creek, in Magoffin county, is 90 years
of age. has reared Ia children, all of
whom are living, and has "a grandchil-
dren and one great-grandchild. ATTAIN
Ia Constitution.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-20
To Winter.

Let not thy sleet begin.
Snow not a little bit.
Until my coal Is In
And have paid for It'll
Let not blizzard note
Sound from the land or sea
Until mine overcoat
Comes home again TO mel
O winter be not ripe
For icy deedsl Alas
Think OF the plumbers bill Tor pipel
Think of the bills for gas
Let not thy sieet begin. -
Let not thy snowhakes fali lSE-
Until the cash II IN
To settle MP for ALI
-. l.. Stanton In Atlants Cohs'''uho"-
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-20

The Georgia female seminary that
teaches its students how to get married
should add q course instructing them
in the art Of selecting husbands New
York Journal.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-20
Striking "A Balance.

The applications for remittances from
the Klondike may presently turn the
tide of wealth the other way.-Wash-
ington Star
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-20
A HowIInx success.

A food expedition in the Klondike
about this time would be bowling sue.
cesa philadelphia Press
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-21
EniOyiug Himself.

w. q. Wa z writes very encouraging
letters 10 friends in this city from Ca
talina Island. He writes IN truly
poetic vein Of delight III baths in the
surf in the morning, a shore dinner at
noon, more delightful experiences in
the afternoon in the shape of boat rides
DER the deep blue sea, fishing by NOON
light hop later on in the hotel TO
strains of delicious music, AID then a
nights sleep in The cool, re!nvigorat-
ing breeze. Mr.. WalZ caught seven
flying fish the other day in seven
minutes, three of them he caught in his
hat, two he knocked over with an car,
and two he caught by swinging baited
hook in the air as the fish flew by b m
He also had hand in harpooning a
man eating shark, and found in it's
stomach the remains of several music
ians who have left Ell Paso within the
last three years. He knew they were
Ell PasOans because they had McGinty
scores in their pockets. Mr. Wall has
also been ind uIcying in clam bakes, and
so enamOred is he of them that he pro-
poses to ship in hoggshead or two of
the bivalves and a car load of sea weed,
and show the benighted people of Ell
Paso how such things are done.
Mr.. Walz has evidently struck an Ell
Dorado. He says he has an appetite
that would make a base ball club lie
right down and quit; and the hotel
keepers are thinking Of raising the
price OF grub on him. The clock of his
life has been set back ten years, and he
feels as though he Were boy again.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-21
The Plaza Concert.

The plaza was filled last night by per-
haps 1000 who enjoyed the entire pro-
gram. The selection were both classic
and light, SO that all classes were
pleased. and the Miserere from II
| TrOvatOre as usual took 90 we'll that it
had to be repeated. The last number,
Arthur PryOr's march, Ye Boston Tea
Party also took so we'll, that had it not
been the last number it would have
| been repeated. This march is
| one of the best written up to date, and
is equal to the Sou-a marches. 1t is
the rage down east, ard will have to
! be produced here once more this sea-
son. The overture to William Tell too
proved prime favorite, and the Re-
collections of Durango, Instrumental
for the band FROM piano score by Sc
nor Trinidad ConchO, was deservedly
well received. Sr. Concho IS a SIX illful
arranger and his last effort is a happy
one.
The band was reseated last night. 1t
proved a marked improvement with
one exception, the clarinet section is
separated where they should all be to-
gether. This bothered the reed play
ers last night especially in the Tell
overture where it was only with much
difficulty that they kept anywhere near
together. The rest of the reseating
scheme will do to stay. The four mel
lOphone (trench horn)playerS are piac.
ed Immediately in front of the conduc-
tor. The basses are behind the horns,
ard the drums to the rear of them. To
the left are the trombones, the bari
tone, the trumpet and comets. To the
right Of the drums are the ssxaphoDes,
clarinets ard other wood winds There
were thirty-seven men on duty last
night. The three additional mello-
phones we're wired for yesterday noon,
so that next Friday night, the horn
quartet will be in their glory.
There are Inquiries and requests
weekly now for the overtures to Rienzi
and Tannhauser, and it is hoped the
band will play them ere the season is
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-21
Absent MindedueSs.

A citizen suddenly discovered he had
lost his wheel yesterday. He knew
for q moral certalnty that he had LEFT
1t in front OF the post Office when he
went inside, and on coming out some
INSCRIPTIONS person had scorched
away with it. So he called up the
chiefs of police OF both this city and
Juarez, and made q great adoo over
the same.
After scratching gravel for coul lie
OF hours in search OF this wheel, the ow-
ner finally discovered he had riden it
from the post office to his place OF
business where a friend put up a job on
him by hiding the bicycle. The police
OF Ell PasO ana Juarez were then noti-
fed that the wheel lost had been found
and all was well.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-21

Francisco Armendaiz, of Monterey,
now in Mexico City, is daily expecting
the arrival of his agent, Rafael Crespo,
who went to Victoria, Tamaulipas on
matters relative to the right of way for
the railroad to be built from Monterey
to Matsmoras. After the completion
of these details immediate construction
is contemplated. The road will be
narrow gauge and 100 leagues in
length. Mr.. Armendaiz is going to
build the road himself with the aid OF
q federal subvention which is said to
be $4,000 per kilometer and q bulk
subvention from the state of Tamauli-
pas amounting to 100000. Free right
of way is also thrown in.