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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-01
Home Language and Others.

Down in a New Jersey household the
mother of the family has way of remain
ing or mscalling almost everything which
is in daily use i'm the household, and she
applies this same practice To the designa-
ton of the various medicines which are
in common use i'm the family. OF course,
Sy dint of constant iteration the new names
are made familiar to every member of the
household, and when she refers TO seidlitz
powders as fizZy powders, to peptonic tab
lets as choesequakes, or to cascara maltine
as sticky, all her children know just what
she mems.
"It's right down wicked, " said one of
her sisters in law one day, land some day
you will find il out. Why, If you keep on
talking like that, your children will not
know what the real names of things are.
1t was about u week ago when the cas-
cara maltine ram out.
"Get Il bottle of sticky when you 60
down town." the Jersey woman said to her
20-ycarold son.
An hour later he came back very angry.
"Wcll." he exclaimed, Il never fell sc
much like u fool in my life, and it's al
your fault. Invent into the drug store, ano
when a clerk came TO wait on me | said
"'Give me bottle of sticky, and ther
no lust stood and stared at me.
"'What was it you wantcd?' he asked
"And then | realized for the first time
shat | didn't know what twas and that Il
had ever heard the name Of the medicine
hadn't the faintcst recollection of it. Il
Won want me to get any of these things
Won viii have to write down the correct
names for me. New York sun
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-01
Victoria and the sentry

The mother Of one Of the sentries at
Windsor castle was seriously ill--indeed ~
a diving condition-yct the son was re
ouircd by his superior officer to be on duty
as usual Her majesty knew of the WON
ans illness as. indeed she knows about
everything relating TO the family life OF
her servants nothing is too trivial for her
notice Assuming that permission would
of course have been given TO the young
sentry TO go to his mothers dying bed, the
queen issued no special order To that effect
herself In the afternoon when returning
from her usual after luncheon drive she
noticed that the sentry was in his place az
the castle entrance.
Instantly her majesty ordered her car
riagc to be stopped, and, leaning out TO
where the young fellow stood, she said
with terrible emphasis What, you hereS'
The sentry, my informant relates, not un T.
Outstanding the drift of the royal inquiry
was ready to drop with fright and possibly
expected TO be sent to the Tower straight
away. Needless to say he was too alarmed
to speak Soon, however, he learned that
the queens Indignation was not against
him. but against those who had kept him
at his post when beloved mother was dy
ing. Her majesty told him to hasten home
without delay and afterward caused special
Inquiries Go be made rs To whether he was
in time to see his mother alive, which hap
pily was the case Woman mt Home.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-01
A NATURAL MISTAKE
RUNNER Mistook the Young Woman For
Commercial Traveller.


NOT long ago New York young won.
an visited several towns in the western
part OF the state, her mission beinp IN or.
ganize branches of an educational worl,
she carried with her dress suit coeo an
which was the gown she wore when clio
appeared before an audience. At one littlo
Dyplace OF town she staid oyprnigbt at
the motel because none of the eycnino
trains stopped at 50 insignificant station.
me next morning she paid her hill.
picked up her dress suit case and climbed
into the rccling omnibus, which tool, her
and an unmiStakablc commercial traveller
to the tialh' The commercial traveller eyed
her with persistent interest which the
young woman inwardly resented, though
she gave mo- outward sign. but when he
took the ,Cat behind her in the car she he.
gan to tea. active attentions. They came
sooner than she had expected. however.
ana ln .."m which quite took away her
breath The commercial traveller leaned
forward touched the drcss suit case and
said len:ls
DO nooe".ec fellow knight Of the
grip The young woman stared The
ray6'i9a man looked biz nonplusCd.
but pursued
May as.. what is your lines
stu the young woman stared az him
more in wonder than IN anger As she did
not find her voice the man made another
attempt
! hope ! do not offend you. he said
courtcou.ly There is certain frcema
sonry between VS. all. and | counted ON
your feeling as othogWumln drummer, do.
! beg your pardon if have
g But am not drummer" interrupt
ed the young woman Indignantly.
Not a drummer" exclaimed the man
AREN'T you travelling with goods?"
"No-I-am--notl with slow empha
sis.
II beg your PARDON" began the man,
| flushing to the roots Of his hair Il
| thought-you see, when saw your case
and then, too, your stopping at the hotel
| in that little town-and-and you seemed
so businesslike and took things so easily
and then the case, tool think il was
| principally the case, but it never occurred
| to me that you were not a commercial
traveller A few years ago they were as
| rare as bluebirds in January, but now we
| meet them at every turn And as | said
there are always the same frankness and
cordially between us, simply as business
| acquaintance, as there are between the
men who travel, hope-you really must
| pardon me. "
| The young woman said twas Of no con
sequence, and so on, and the man sank
| back in his seat and wiped his perspiring
| brow. The affair was interesting as &
proof of the constantly Increasing employ
| ment of women rs "knights Of the grip.
| New York sun
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-01
Ehitnra and Statesmen.

Chauncey NJ. Depew says: Il have al
WAYS wondered why an old editor did not
write his "reminiscences. If he should
truthfully tell the stories of tho men who
i'm his time have filed n large place in the
public eye who have craved his support,
who have sought TO mitigate the punish
mcnt he was inhicting and have tried to
induce him to change the course OF his pa
nor. and il he should reveal also the mum
Der of the wives and sisters and the sweet
hearts who have brought their blandish-
ments to bear upon him, he could present
10 the world picture of the weakness OF
human nature in its best estate which
would justify the doctrines of CALVIN. In
the evolution of our times the great editor
who made popular idol of great politi-
clan no longer exists. There are no more
Thurlow Weeds and William ii. Stewards,
no more Horace Greeleys and Henry Clays.
The most delightful of the recollcctions of
n fighter in politics whose battles antedated
the civil war cover the editorials OF Thur"
low Weed i'm the Albany Evening journal
and of Horace Greeley in the Tribune
when Seward or Clay formed the subject.
And with these original and powerful Writ
ers there was no subject, from panic In
Wall street to the discovery OF comet,
from the burning of city to the booming
of a town, from defeat to victory,
which did not suggest that all which was
good was due to Seward or Clay, and all
which was unfortunate might have been
alleyiated had either of them been consult
81 -
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-01
CHlNA'S REVENUES.
The Crude Manner In Which They Arc
Collected and Apportioned.

The Crude Manner In Which They Are
Collected and Apportioned.
China's revenues arc collected i'm "a way
Enthusiastically absurd, but in ordinary
times an amount sufficiently great to meet
the necessities of the imperial government
Mt Picking always comes in. No one knows,
even approximately, how much is extorted
from the people by the agents of the differ
ent provincial governors, but 1t is an
amount considerably, perhaps enormously,
greater than ever finds its way to the ma
tional treasury. Since the war with Japan,
China has become borrower from foreign
capitalists, and this fact has led to some
what careful investigation of the country S
resources. This has proved to be work
of great difficulty, for accounts are never
audited, and only imperfect reports of the
sums raised annually are printed in the
Picking Gazette. For the purpose OF rev.
| enue as, indeed, for other purposes
| China is an agglomeration of many quasi
independent provincial governments No
! part of the national income is collected Ill
rectly by the imperial government. All
| the collectors of the revenue are the agents
of the provincial governors, and RESPONSE
| BILE to them All the money collected is
! first paid into the provincial treasury, or
one of the provincial treasures, for there
are several of them in every province, and
| thereafter is remittcd according to the ap
| portionment of the year, partly to Picking.
| partly for local government needs and
partly, if there is u surplus, in aids to less
wealthy provinces.
After the demands of Peking are salts
fed all the rest of the taxation would ap-
pear to belong to the provincial authorities
to spend as they may please. There arc
always some extraordinary or contingent
demands left unsatisfied or carried forward
! to the next year-demands for famine re
lief repairs to the Yellow river, rebelllonS
and risings in remote provinces, and lastly
there is the admiralty board, whose wants
are never satisfied Those provinces
which have any surplus respond more o.
less reluctantly to these extraordinary de
mands. The poorer provinces neglect then
altogether. In this way all the revenue
absorbed from year to year. There neVc
is any reduction in taxation. WhatcNc
change is made is always in the opposite
direction The general relations betwcel
the imperial and local authorities as to tn
division of taxation may be summed u
by saying that the Picking authorities ar
continually trying 60 extract as much
possible, while tho local authorities ar
continually trying 10 iart with as little
possible. New York Times
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-01
Human Ignorance.

The conductor Of a train running be-
tween Washington and Philadelphia is
quoted as telling n story which illustrates
the pitiful possibilities of human Ignorance
that still exist, despite the schools that are
scattered so thcl<ly over all parts of the
country, and the migratory habits OF n
majority of its inhabitants. con my last
trip, " says the conductor, 81 found u young
colored girl in the train who, when l ap-
preached, hurricdly united one corner Of
her handkerchief and presented money to
nav her fare to Philadelphia. l counted IT
out. and she had just enough. When L told
her there was no change, she began to cry
and said she had come from Charleston
and wanted to go TO Easton, Pa. She SAID
she knew no one i'm Philadelphia, and she
had no money left.
81 felt sorry for her, and when we ar
rived at Philadelphia took her up to the
ticket receiver to see If he could pass her
ON to Easton. He was a little skeptical
and questioned her closely. She said she
had paid her fare on the train all the time,
and the receiver asked her why she hadn Z
bought ticket Mt Charleston. She said she
had. where is ity' asked the receiver.
Here 1t is. she replied, untying another
corner of her handkerchief. There it was,
SIRE enough, good for all the way from
Charleston to Easton, and hadn't been
punched once. The ticket was redeemed,
and there were quite few dollars left after
the girl bought ticket for Easton. New
York Times
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-01
reat of a Good Clock In Africa.

In talking over the minute factors tha'
have meant profit or loss to manuiactur.
ers some curious details were given me oy
exnerts. For instance, one clock manu-
facturer of Waterbury, Conn found that
n certain rival was doing large trade ID
chean clocks sent out to the wilds OF Airi-
W He got hold of sample CLOCK anu
finding that there was heavy proit IN
Tho enterprise, invested large sum Oh
money in making still better CLOCK
thousands of which were shipped TO the
same market strange to say, sales Were
cory slow. while his rival turning OUT
cheaner and far less accurate timepiece,
Was selling all he could make Finally the
evn,anation came Savages ike noise
The clocks made by the original exporter
had particularly loud and aggresslv. .
tick His imitator made better clock, ou'
e. was almost noiseless, and the savage
would have none OF It. The remedy was
s;mnle. The next shipment oil CLOCKS %
The Guinea coast licked louder than any
III. III previously heard there, and all wen'
weil philip Hubert, ,Jr., in Scrioner 5
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-01
LONGEST RAILROAD BUN.
The Cornwall Express, London To Exeter,
Goes 1914 Miles Without a Stop.

The longest regular daily run made
without u stop 10y any railway train in the
world Is made between PaddingtOn sta
ton, in London, and Exeter, n distance Of
1914 miles, In hours and 36 minutes, by
what is known rs the Cornwall express.
1t is remarkable not so much owing to the
time as for the fact that not n stop is
made from one end of'thc run 20 the other.
There have been longer runs made without
stop, but they have been made by special
and not regular trains The average speed
attained by the Cornwall express when
making this run is %. Smiles IN hour, al
though, owing 10 peculiar construction
OF the road at Bristol, rs miles from Lon
don, the train is obliged TO slow down TO
speed of ten miles an hour.
The express train is composed of six long
coaches, tender and engine. An Ameri-
can would call 10 u vestbule train, but the
English prefer to call the ears "bogie cler-
estoricd corridor coaches " bogie being n
term applied to tho trucks They are fully
as heavy as an ordinary drawing room car,
each one weighing about $4,000 pounds,
while the train without engine and tender
weighs 40 tons. The weight of the en-
CINE and tender is 81 tons, making the to-
tai weight OF the train us it PUSHES along
on it's long run 22l tons.
During the run it is necessary to take
water for the engine twice This, how
ever, does not neccssitate any stop, as it is
taken up from trench beside the track as
the train speeds along at nearly "a mile a
! minute.
The engine which draws this essentially
through train" Is n curious looking, pom
derous affair quite unlike any locomotive
seen on American roads. 1t has on either
side IL single huge driving wheel feet
inches in diameter, while what must by
comparison be termed the small wheels OF
the engine, six in number, known as trail
ers, are feet inches in diameter.
The water tank of the engine holds ID,
0O0 gallons, and when running at full
| speed there is a steam pressure OF l6C
pounds to the square inch, while there is q
heating surface of 1, SCI square feet.
Each day the run is made, the train leav
ing Paddington station at 1925 o'clock In
the morning, and it never fails to roll into
St. David's station, in Exeter, exactly
on time. The time allowed by the schedule
for this run makes no allowance for delays
of any kind Even the time lost in going
over the loop around Bristol and the nee
essary slowing down when going through
Bath is not allowed or.-Philadelphii
| ui,,aS
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Certain American Editions.

The American editions of many Eng
lish authors were of prime importance
i'll the careers of the writers, and to ig-
more them is to ignore most potent rae,
tors in their lives. The publication OF
the "Yellowplush Correspondence III
Philadelphia was followed by the
Comic Tales and Sketches" and the
success of the American book was the
influence that induced the London pub
Usher to assume the risk. In the same
way the miscellanies collected from
original sources and published III IL VOL
umes by the Appletons in New YORK III
1852 and 1853 induced the publication
of the miscellanies in London i'll 1890 10
1857. Thackeray carried home set OF
these Appleton volumes to aid MN IN
selecting the papers for the London Is
sue, and yet, would the bibliograpneI
tell us that the London edition OF 1900
was the first" land that the New forA
edition exists not at all?-Book Buy''
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-01
THE cANoN's TIP.
Is Awful Use Fairly Took the Good Mans
Breath Away.

A high dignitary of the English church
connected with st. Paul's cathedral went
with his family to Egypt for a holiday
journey. He planned boating trip up the
Nile and hired dragoman TO conduct the
party After their return to Cairo he set
tied tae bill of expenses for the outing, and
when everything had been arranged gave
the dTagoman an unusually large present
in money in recognition of his services and
good conduct The Egyptian received the
gift with eastern urbanity and with many
expressions of gratitude
Not many hours afterward the good man
related his experiences in his boating jour
ney 10 an English acquaintance and in re-
Spouse 10 direct questions explained how
much the water trip had cost the tip 10
the dragoman being included IN the esti.
mate The English friend was surprised by
the generosity of the final gift,
1t was small fortune he said, Ito
bestow upon a poor Egyptian You may
depend upon IL that the dragoman had
never received so large a tip before He
must have thought that you were an
American millionaire instead of working
English clergyman.
The canon was somewhat disturbed by
this revelation of his ignorance OF Nile
CUSTOMS anu MS upIjdfcnl ItohlcsnH'oS III
the use of money. Meeting the dragoman
on the following day, he artfully contrived
TO intimate that in settling the account he
had been guilty Of the indiscretion of over
payment for services rendered. The drago-
man was polite in his replies and profuse
in his expressions of gratitude, but gave
no indication that he took the view of the
transaction that was taken by the canon.
Finally, with gracious smile, TIE good
man said: Il overpaid you grossly, but
you gave me faithful service, and do not
regret it. i only hope that you have de
cided to make a good use of the small for
tune which you have received.
"You may be sure that have done so
already" returned the Egyptian. 90 have
bought another slave wife. "
This was said with an air of self salts
fed virtue which fairly took away the good
canon's breath and left him speeches..
! He had been unconsciously encouraging
polygamy-and now does not relish any al
fusion 20 this experience in his holiday
| journey. Youths Companion.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-01
Are We Toadies2

There arc officers of the Legion of Hon.
or. comrades of the Grand Army, Sons OF
the Revolution, Knights OF Pythias,
Daughters Of the Revolution. Colonial
Danes, societies of the Dutch, societies oil
New England, the Southern society aud
how many more I know not. Then each
of these has its ribbon or its button or Its
badge. and In no country in Europe do
You hear so many titles or see so many in
eignia worn This is all very pretty fool
ING and harmless enough were II frank
and outspoken But il is not These
same people toady to foreign noblemen as
do no other people i'm the world. Political.
" they are loud, blatant even, In the reit-
Grafton of their republicanism, but social
" they are tuft hunters -" America and
Americans From French Point OF View y
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-01
A DREAM.
Oh, it was but a dream I had

Oh, 10 was but dream / had
While the musicians played,
And here the sky and here the glad
Old ocean kissed the glade,
And here the laughing ripples ran,
And here the roses grew
That threw IA kiss 10 every man
That voyaged with the crew.
Our silken sails in lazy folds
Dropped in the breathless breeze
As DER field of marigolds
Our eyes swan DER the seas,
While here the eddies lisped and purled
Around the islands rim,
And up from out the underworld
We saw the mermen swim.
And it was dawn and middle day
And midnight. for the moon
On silver rounds across the bay
Had climbed tho skies Of June,
And here the glowing, glorious king
OF day ruled Ger the realm,
With stars Of midnight glittering
About the diadem.
The sea gull reeled on languid wing
In circles round the mast.
We heard the songs the sirens sing
AS we went sailing past,
And up and down the golden sands
a thousand fairy throngs
Flung at us from their flashing hands
The echoes of their songs.
james Whitcomb Riley
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-01
Funny Blunders.

The following Is surely the funniest vote
of thanks uttered for n long time. Inc
speaker, with evidently the best intentions
in the world, nervously fioundered along
through various sentences complimentary
to the lecturer, and finally hickered OUT
feebly thus: "And so l propose vote OF
thanks for the lecture to which we have SO
ably listened The audience was SO
wearied that 1t did not notice the iatu-
Gus remark, and only the lecturer smiled:
1t Is fit to be placed beside another mud
die headed sentence made In conversation
to a north London clergyman A man had
been pressing his views energeticaliy on a
certain question, when suddenly he paused
and looking at the clergyman said briskiy'
"And now, sir, what Is your humble opih-
ionfn--Iondon Tit-Bits.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-01
Two Treatments.

In Denmark when n man is found TOO
drunk to find his own house ne Is placed
i'm cab, taken to the police station, exam.
ined by the doctor, detained till sober ana
then dispatched TO his home In another
cab, and the bill for the doctor, the cap
and the police attendance has to be paid Dy
the publican who served the bibnlous de-
linquent with his last drink. In turkey 1t
is the drunkard who Is punished. Inc
punishment for the first offense is the pas
tinado, the second and third offenses are
also followed by chastisemcnt, but after
the third offcnse the offender becomes
privileged" and is entitled to be carefully
taken home by a policeman.-New YORK
Tribune
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-01
ReSOURCEFUL AT LUNCHES.
The Culinary Triumphs of One New York
Woman.


There is an excellent lady up town in
whose family boards young man of do
mestic tastes and unassailable appetite.
She puts up a lunch for him every day,
and he carries it with him to his business
In so far this story does not differ in any
wise from the experience of thousands OF
other young men who board In excellent
families and carry their lunches But this
young man claims that for an infinite va
riety of luncheons that custom cannot
stale his landlady has the call.
Now, a luncheon, in the parlance of the
life of him who boards, is a sandwich, or
several Of them 1t takes considerable art
10 conceal the fact that he is eating some
thing that he had yesterday and expects 20
get again tomorrow. To vary the ratiop
taxes all the resources of the commissarl
of subsistence, but IL can be done The
young man in question has kept journal
or commonplace book, in which he jots
down. among other things, what he had
10 eat each day From these items he has
made partial list of sandwiches, includ'
ing those which had the following ingrE
dents Fig paste, fried egg, grape butter.
roast goose, honey, Hoboken rabbit, goose
berry, chicken jelly, roast beef lemon
marmalade wienCrwurst, sugar, ham
tongue turkey sausage deviled ham and
caviarc.
Il is always Il moment OF suspense with
him when he sits down before his lunch
for Ee knows not what pleasant surprise II
NAV have i'm store for him Just now he /;
taking a course of preserved ginger sand
witches with the best of results The daily
meal has its entrees of pie. pudding OF
fruit but IL is the cOmuOsitiOn of the ma
torial lying between the two lids OF thS
sandwich that most concerns him who dis
cusses il. New York Mail and Express