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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-08-27
President McKinley's Postman
so Years of cures.

From the Indianapolis sentinel.l
The man who for seven years
has delivered the mail to Presi.
dent McKinley's resldence' in
Canton, Ohio, was in the city
yesterday afternoon and receiv-
ed Instructions from Postoffi:e
Inspector Fletcher which will
enable him to assume the role of
district Inspector. He received
his appointment to this position
as gift from the President on
July i. To-day he and Mr..
Fletcher will make tour en-
bracina several postofices ID the
district.
Mr.. Owens is a flrm-looking,
solidly built man. of perhaps
thirty.fve years of age. In q
conversation he related some in,
teresting facts about the prodi-.
gious amount of campaign mail
which the President got last
summer.
His mail" said the ex.carrier
was larger before his nomina-
lion than after. but it held up
marvellously all the way along.
His letters would number three
thousand a day, although the
average was somewhat below
that. AS for papers-well.. you
never saw the like. They seem
ed to come from every newspaper
publisher in the country. and
the amount of letters and papers
together was sometimes so prodi-
giously large that it seemed that
all the mail dropped off at Can.
ton was for Mr.McKinley. These
letters often contained the most
laughable super.scriptions. The
effort of a great many of the
writer's was to getthe candidates
signature. All at once / noticed
that the number of registered
letters was increasing largely.
This kept up for several days,
until the Presidential candidate
quit signing the receipts and
turned them over to the secreta-
ry to sign. Unattended the flood
Of registered letters. You see q
receipt accompanies every regis
tered letter, to be sent back to
the sender, and these letters were
merely a dodge to get Mr.. Nc
Kinley's signature. I carried
every piece of mail that the
President got during the cam
paign and did it without assist
ance and on foot, and carried my
regular route besides. In order
to do this I had to make extra
trips to the Mckinley home every
day, but 1 lived only a block
away and twas notmuch trouble
to do it. 1t required FIVE and six !:
trips day to deliver the mail.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-08-27
confined inthe jail OF Harrison coun-
", West Virginia; for the further per
iod Of three days from this date.

~
"But let 1t not be supposed here
after, now that attention has been
called to the matter and the law, that
other and further infractions Of the
DEGREES and orders Of this Court will
be so lightly punished. In this case,
for the reason mentioned, justice has
been tempered with mercy, but II,
with the light of this investigation In
their pathway, these defendants shall
persist in disregarding the decrecs Of
this Court, duly entered in causes.
properly before 1t, then let itlbe re-
membered that mercy shown to con-
tempt under such circumstances
would be not only a crime, but the
death Of justice.n
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-08-27

R. I. Lowndes 4 Co. have
moved into their new banking
room, corner Main and Third
streets, and invite all their
friends and patrons to call and
see them. Now is the time 70
open your account at the Savings
Bank. S9.tf.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-08-27

The TELEGRAM mas the larg-
est circulation of any paper in
Harrison county. and is filed
with the latest up-to. date general
local news of the day. Try it.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-08-27
judge GOFF5 OPINION
In The Proceedings Against the Montana Strikers
ANY seni-
ments h ave
.koan av~.aes

ANY senti-
ments h ave
been express
eddy the peo-
pl e recently
concer nj n 6
the inj u nc
ton awarded
by j u Dig 9
John ]. Jack
son, in which
t h e striking
miners W e re
prohi bi t g d
from d oil n g
certain things
This injun c.
ton j s la W.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-08-27
Fifty Years Ago.

Fifty fS Tive
hi. is the stamp that the letter bore
which carried the story far and wide.
a, certain cure for the loathsome sore
that dubbed up from the tainted tide
oi,he blood below. And twas Ayers name
And his sarsaparilla, that all now, know,
TIA, was Just beginning its fight Of fame
with its cures Of so years ago.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-08-27

Per order committee. 41.ld.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-08-27
Ayers sarsaparilIa

is the original sarsaparilla. It
has behind it a record for cures
uneoualled by any blood puri-
tying compound. It is the only
sarsaparilla honored by a
medal at the Worlds Fair Of
1893. Others initiate the
remedy; they can't initiate the
record:
80 Years Of Cures.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
A Wedding Feast at serdasht.

l was fortunate enough while in Per-
sian Kurdistan. to be at Serdasht while
the wedding feast of one of the governor s
lieutenants was taking place, and all the
shops were closed and the people a-merry-
making, music and dancing being the or
der of the day. The festivities took place
upon green glade only a minute or two
walk from the entrance to the little town,
and q gorgeous throng of people 1t was
that found collected there In the after
noon, for men and women were in holiday
attire, rich in silks and brocades.
The girls, in their long gowns OF gold
threaded silk, with bright handkerchiefs
on their heads, the long plaits of black
hair falling over their shoulders and down
their backs, their necks and foreheads
hung with coins and ornaments, were
scarcely more brilliant than the mon, who
with loose, baggy white trousers and coats
of brilliantly striped silks, with their
Jackets of white felt and gorgeous silk
turbans and peaked caps, their skillfully
wound sashes of many colOrs ana thor
embroidered shoes, were pictures of ori-
entail dandyism. How they all laughed
and shouted us they danced to the music
of the pipes and drums in tho bright after
noon sunlight - lackwood's Magazine
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
The Private Mark.

A well known young railroad man of
this city says the railroad officials have a
peculiar way of conveying information t.
each other, the secret of which he discov-
cred accidentally.
"A year or SO ago in the north l had the
misfortune to be fired l lost my temper
one day, and that's what did it.
Later on l asked my old chief if he
would mind giving me u letter OF recon-
mendation, as l intended to come south.
why, certainly, said he, and he die
tated II letter that was eloquent in praise
of my industry, intelligence, etc.
Il appeared for job in Jacksonville
one day and handed the official the letter
from my old chief. He read it, held it up
to the light and said:
why were you fired from your late
placer
Il wondered how in thunder he know,
for his question surprised me beyond meas
ure. / told him IA straight story and later
on got job.
LAS soon rs left his office held that
eloquent letter of recommendation up to
the light, and what do you think saw in
the watermarks? a crano with his head
off 1t meant that the bearer of the letter
had also had his head chopped off. Flor
ida Times Union.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
Mountain Mahogany.

One of the most remarkable products OF
Nevada is species of wood known as
mountain mahogany, which, when dry, Is
as hard as lockwood, very fine grained, of
a rich red color and in weight very heavy.
1t has been used for boxes for shaftlng,
and i'm some instances for slides and dies
In quartz batteries. 1t burns with blaze
as long lasting Us ordinary wood, ana IL Is
then found almost unchanged In form,
converted to u charcoal that lasts about
twice as long as ordinary wood, giving
also an intense heat, greater than coal
gives. Another notable species of wood
having extraordinary durability Is said TO
be the quebarcho wood of Argentina.
Posts that have been in the ground loo
years, In soil alternately sodden by trop-
ical rains or parched by intense heat, are
found to be In sound condition. The wood
Is also described as free from attacks OF
insects, does not decay and Is not COM
pressible, and weighs nearly 30 pounds
per cubic foot.-New York Sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
THE HISTORY OF KISSING.
A Form of Salutation That Is Limited to
"a Few Races.

otis certain said Dick Steele Of
kissing, mature was its author, and that
it began with the first courtship." But
this is incorrect. IT'S certain that to many
human tribes kissing is unknown. In
stead of saying kiss me, they say smell
me" and this doubtless represents an
earlier form of salutation. The kiss is
much later than tho dance. 1t is still I'M
known among many races, and may be
called conventional Some nations smell
and rub noses, like horses, in salutation,
and where two Frenchmen will run and
kiss each other, two central Africans will
deliberately spit, by way of friendly greet
ing.
DR.. Tylor says "The idea of the kiss
being an instructive gesture Is negatived
by its being unknown over half the world,
where the prevailing salute is that by
smelling or shifting, which belongs to
Polynesians, Malays, Burmese and other
Indo- Chinese Mongols, etc., extending
thence TO the Eskimo, and westward to
Lapland, where Linn@us saw relatives
saluting by putting their noses together. I"
The kiss is the salute by tasting, and 1t
has to be taught to children. Preyer In
his excellent book, 1.-The Mind of the
Child" states that at first they are averse
to and even fearful of the performance.
However this may be, it is certain that
Europeans speedily take to it rs though to
the manner born. Oscillations were far
more common in the good old times than
at present. The custom which most de-
lighted Erasmus, when in England, was
that the girls all kissed him.
When ceasing to be performed, some of
these ceremonies leave their trace in Ian
guage. Thus both Australians and Span
iards say, Il kiss your hands,, as polite
term for returning thanks. John Bunyan
was very different man from Erasmus,
and in his "Grace Astounding" he says:
1.-THE common salutation of women l alb
hor. 1t is odious to me in whatsoever see
it," And to those who defended it as the
holy kiss no pertinently asked, why
did they salute the most handsome and lot
| the iii favored go?n-London Standard.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
THEY WERE SUSPICIOUS.
How Indians From the West Were Mysti-
fed by the Telephone.

Major Pollock, wsp was once suporin-
tendent of free delivery i'm the postoffice
department, was for some time stationed
on the frontier as an Indian agent and
was well and favorably known TO many of
the principal chiefs among the red men.
Whenever they sent delegates 20 Washing
ton TO have "A powwow with the great
father, the majors Office was sure To DO
visited by them, and they came sometimes
in crowds
On one occasion, while the Indians were
making IA call on the major, he went To
the telephone, in another room, and called
up the Indian office. When his call was
answered, he said
Tell Frank TO come to the phone"
Frank was a half breed employed in the
Indian office.
"Hello, Frankr' said the major. "Hold
the phone n minute. Your uncle is here
and wants to talk with you"
Then no went into his office and led one
of the chiefs To the telephone.
"Want to talk to Frank" said tho
major, placing the transmitter in the
chief's hand
After many grunts and suspicious
glances at the mysterious contrivanoe the
little car trumpet was finally held to the
chiefs ear, and the major said:
"Now, go ahead, Frank.
A grin spread over the Indians face,
and no dropped the transmitter. After
trying in vain TO look behind the instru-
ment he stuck his head out of the window
and looked around. Then, with u bewil-
dored look he ran 10 tho door and gaZed
up and down the corridor
The major explained to him that Frank
was up town in another building, but the
! chief wasn't convinced ana called another
Indian. While the second Indian was
listening the first chief watched the
majors lips closely, evidently suspecting
some trick of ventrilOquism.
"Ughl" grunted the second chief rs he
dropped the transmitter and looked under
desk and out of window.
The major couldn't satisfactorily explain
| the matter to the chiefs, and finally was
| forced to put on his hat and take them
over TO the Indian Office, where they found
| Frank at the phone, waiting for more
talk. "-Washington Star.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
There L. Nothing 40 Good.

There is nothing just as good as DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds. so demand il and do
not permit the dealer TO sell YOU some
substitute. He will not claim there IL
anything better. but in order to make
more profit he may claim something else
to be just as good. You want DR.. Kings
New Discovery because you know it to be
safe and reliable. and guaranteed to do
good or money refunded. For Coughs,
Colds, Consumption and for all affections
Of Throat Chest and Lungs, there
IL nothing &C good a. IL DR.. Kings New
Discovery. Trial bottle free. Regular
size 80 cents and 81. For sale BY D. T.
Macdonald.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
OADO OF PHOTOGRAPHS.
Ways to Make the Most of Your Collection
of Small Prints.


Picture framing is always expensive.
One frame is not such an item. but when
it comes to dozen photographs, water
colors or engravings one stands aghast at
the total cost. In many new houses frames
go in with the rent, SO to speak.
In rooms which are wainscoted lengths
of glass are placed so that the upper mold
ing forms the base of the frame and anoth-
or molding is placed at the top to hold
the glass. How dear to tho heart are tho
hundred photographs collected abroad !!
What more calculated to give IA constant
joy than these "all in "a row. around the
library or over the bookshelf in ones own
den? These may be slipped behind tho
glass, as the molding is easily removed,
and thus "a dado is made for all to admire.
If separation is desired, n narrow mold
ing to match is easily obtainable. "A firm
hand with penknfe and few tacks only
are needed, and u room is transformed.
Another way is u molding placed half
way between floor and ceiling, with the
photographs set upon it, and long ribbon
in the tone of the room is stretched above
and holds them in place.
A charming effect is obtained In FORM
ing background of velvet, its own width,
and fastening pictures, simply framed in
passepartout, upon it, with large headed
brass tracks.
In young girls room, recently ''done"
by we'll known decorator, the only color
was yellow A few fine engravings were
framed in white and gold, but the wires
by which they were suspended were cover
ed with yellow ribbons and the hooks were
hidden by u huge rosette.-Philadelp
Times.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23

"My boy came home from school one
day with his hand badly lacerated and
bleeding, and suffering great pam" says
Mrs. + J. Scball, with Meyer Bros Drug
Co, st. Louis, Mo. ~ dressed the
wound, and applied Chamberlain's Pain
Balm freely All pain ceased. and il re-
markably short time it healed without
leaving a scar. For wounds, sprains,
swellings and rheumatism know of nc
medicine or prescription equal to it.
consider il a household necessity" The
% and so cent sizes Tor sale by Solder
gren 4 Sodergren.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
a Public Building for
Hancock Is Being
Talked Of.
want Oae 40 Accommodate
Ian. Of,icI.I IL with Offices and
Also the Fire Department
other News.

Tho question OF "a public building for
uoocock for the housing OF the fire de-
..naot the accommodation OF Office
rom far the village Office, a council
I'm ere. a new building modern in
.,.bitecture and worthy OF this hustling
town is being agitated with great show
o,;ts object being realized by next sum
mar. The present fire house is not such
a building as meets the wants OF the
community enlarged as it has been by
tho wonderful growth Of the west end in
the past six years. The building is old
and the location bad and the interests OF
the many property owners oil West Han
cock demand that the fire protection be
more central. rne present site was even
ont of the village when built upon and
nm act OF the legislature was necessary to
make il part of corporation and even
now it is not in the same township, and
40 il not available for a polling place at
township elections. The idea that the
village should own fire department
team has also become almost settled and
aceomodate the team with the appara-
rms would necessitate an addition to the
building and the limits OF the village
propsrty there do not allow OF this,
The site which seems most available
il the space on Montezuma street be-
tween the Emery and Roberts corners.
The street here il about one hundred ieet
wide and would admit of the erection OF
building thirty by as many feet deep as
would be- convenient. The space ould
be available with the consent OF the
adjacent property owners without fur
Their red tape and the location OF such a
building would enhance the value OF
neighborlng property so the above con-
tiugeDcy may be considered as settled.
A building OF red sandstone two storit
in height is talked OF. 1t would be
planned to accommodate the fire appa-
ratus with stables in the rear. The sec
oud story would consist OF large room
Tor public meeting such as eau uses, etc.,
Offices for the village clerk and per-
haps sleeping quarters for four firemen.
The latter would be good move as that
number would be sufficient to get the
apparatus to the scene of a fire and pro-
baby get on steam to work by the time
the other members of the department
would arrive.
Hancock, IN the opinion Of President
Scott and the others who will agitate
this improvement, has attained a growth
and Importance warranting the invest
ment in building that would besides be-
ing so much more convenient and service.
able also be an ornament she deserves.
Other towns, with not half the business
| enterprise and push, possess public build
ings such as the one advocated for Han
cock and the fact adds to her importance
In the eyes Of all strangers within their
gates The new building is necessit y
and Is bound to come.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
A child OF August Mettes is seriously i'll
LIFE IN JAPAN.
Advantages of the Common Workers In
the Land of the Milxado.


With US the common worker is incom-
larably less free than the common worker
III Japan. The Japanese man of the pao-
ple-the skilled laborcr, able to underbid
without effort any western artisan in tho
same line OF industry-remains happily
independent of both shoemaker and tai
Tors. His feet are good to look at, his body
Is healthy ana his heart is free. If he de-
sireS to tray . 900 miles, he can get ready
for his journey IN Eve minutes. His whole
outfit need not cost - cents, and all his
baggage can be put into u handkerchief.
On 80 he can vraycl simply on his ability
90 work. or he can travel as a pilgrim.
You may reply that any savage can do the
same thing. Yes, but any civilized man
'annot, and the Japanese has been u highly
civilized man ior a5 least 900 years; hence
his present capacity To threaten weston
manL inet,!ra.s. We have been too much
Gcoua,U..ict. ID associate this kiNd OF inde-
pendent mobility Wi,h ihu llfo Of our own
beggars and trnnrs 60 have any just cox
,eptiOn OF its intrinsic meaning Nuar
Japanese tramp takes his bet hatA o. y
II he Eas a traction Cf cent II lny for d.,
or his cold bath IL lio has not. IN his LII
tie bunCic tnore U.o combs, tuuthllta5,
razors tu1,aofuslo-.
Ability to live Without furniture viii
cut impeaiinoutu, with the leasU possible
amount Of neat clothing, shows more t;..a
the advantage held by this Japanese raco
in the struggle OF life. 1t shows also the
real character Of some weaknesses in our
own civilization. IT, forces reflection upon
the useless multiplicity OF our daily wants.
We must have meat and bread and butter;
ind rf,s
and wooden underwear; boots and shoes;
trunks, bags and boxes; bedsteads, mat
. tresses, sheets and blankets, all of which
Japanese can do without and is really
better off without Think for moment
how important an article of occidental at
tire is the single costly item of white
shirts! Yet even the linen shirt, the SO
called badge of gentleman, is in itself
IA useless garment. 1t gives neither
warmth nor comfort. -Lafcadio Hearn in
Atlantic Monthly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
Martha Lodge.

Martha Lodge, Sisters of the Sons Of
Hermann desire to announce that they
will give grand ball at the Armory on
the evening OF Friday, the Oath of Sep
TENDER, upon which occasion the cele
brated Opera House orchestra will sup
ply the music. The Sons daughters viii
provide the supper and consequently j,
goes without saying it will be all that
can be desired. The public are respect
fully invited. Tickets including supper
$l00.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
Notice to Collectors.

Tho champion scheme to bluff collectors
has been discovered in one of Cleveland 5
big Office buildings Ii was invented by
its owner, who is engaged in professional
pursuits, and consists of u neatly framed
sign, bearing these words;
"No Bills Paid Until After the 10th of
Each Month. "
1t is reversible affair, and the collectors
who call OH the 10th of the month or later
are confronted with this announcement:
mo Bills Paid After the 10th of Each
Month. "-Clevcland Plain Dealer.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
A Good Old Joke.

While Mr.. Burnard was at n theological
seminary, to which he had been sent To be
prepared for the priesthood by the late
Cardinal Manning, the worthy occlesiastic
suggested that he appeared 10 have no vo-
cation for the church. Mr.. Burnard mod
ostly acquiesced, adding that he Thought
he had "a vocation for the stage. "A
vocation concerns the spiritual welfare,
solemnly remarked tho cleric. "You can
not speak of going on the stage Us u 'vo-
cation You might as well call being u
cobbler' vocation. well, yes, DIR.
Manning" Mr.. Burnard answered, but
II / were Il oobbler, l should still have the
cure of soles ~
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23

Robert Goodell, eldest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. K. r. Goodell, of Houghton, died
this morning at about Z o'clock. For
the past five years he has been battling
with consumption and only the best oil
care and the seeking ofclimates favorable
10 one so affl cted kept him alive 80 long
FOR the past two days the death has
oeen hourly expected and it will cast
gloom over the many friends the young
man possessed, friends won not only by
nls former congenial spirit in their midst
out also by his patience under the awful
disease.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23

Charles Oiala, at Az Pine street. Red
Jacket, having large stock OF footwear
on hand has determined TO offer the same
at half price. Mems hip rubber boots.
WoonsOcket, up to 1915. He has also
large quantity OF ladies', hoys' and
,hildren's shoes which he will otier at
greatly reduced prices. Remember the
place, 447 Pine street.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
Battles In the Sea.

Fights between sharks and porpoises are
said to be common In tho waters around
the Florida keys, and the fishermen there
about declare that the porpoise always
wins and sends the shark, which usually
begins the fight, scurrying away. The
shark has to turn on its side to bite, and
the nimble porpoise easily keeps out OF
reach Of It's swapping jaws and then
Jumps In an, deals the shark tremendous
slaps with Its tall.