The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-15
ONLY PAPER MACHE.
DUPLICATES or FAMOUS RELICS THAT
FOOL A FELLOW.
There Wov. the Dagger That Killed Caesar
and the Ak That Severed Marys Head.
Grewsome Rarities Which We Don't
Have to Go to Europe To See.


Have to Go to Europe to See.
Those who want to enjoy the sensation
promised by Joe, the fat boy, to poor Mrs
Wardle, when he remarked to her pleas
antly, 81 wants to make your flesh Creep"
will get 1t at "A show window on Fulton
street. The window Is filled with most
remarkable array of instruments sugges-
tive of horrors-wars, beheadings, tor
lures, lifelong imprisonments and slavery
on the galleys. There are suits of armor,
apparently ponderous, old, battered he'll
NETS, rusty knightly swords, which imme-
diately suggest to mind that loves to
dwell on auld lang syne:
Their bones are dust
Their good swords rust;
Their souls are with the saints, we trust
Then there are letters, foot chains, with
the iron cannon balls attached; war hatch
cts, pixies, daggers, heavy keys from terri
BILE, tyranincal prisons poniards, scimiters,
headsmens axes-everything grewsome
that can appeal to the creepy feeling and
bring strange thoughts to the nineteenth
century man as no views the collection.
The attention of the writer was natu-
rally attracted to the show as he passed
down Fulton street one day not long ago.
/ say naturally because it is after ALL hui
man nature to be attracted irresistibly by
something "that will make your flesh
creep" When hangings were public spec
tacles, half the town would shut up shop
to go and look at them. Most of the arti-
Giles exhibited that day were replete with
fascinating historical interest. Their IT,
ties were given in bold writing on card
board tags.
Here was Gallo Roman shield of the
fourth century. In another corner was the
sword of the Due d 'Aquitaine, A. ID. 76o.
Near by lay the poniard OF Ravaillao with
which Henry of Navarro was assassinated
in the streets of Paris in 1910. There was
| an extraordinary Ratchet with six blades,
used at the battle of Pavie, 1926. There
was an interesting ball and chain used on
state prisoners in tho reign of Louis XIV.
| An iron chain and prisoners necklace"
| provoked vivid and shuddersome thoughts.
! Anklet, ball and chain, used in the Bas-
tille-ugh more and more shuddersomel
| A few other weird objects lay around,
such as double neck yoke, used in an
cient galleys and prison fortresses; de-
capitation sword, five feet long; heads
mans AK of the fourteenth century, a
mace or war hammer of the thirteenth CEN
| Jury, All unCltnb DbAOll Hbboict, WIZ 'ipi
met and gauntlet of Henry III of England,
the breastplate of his armor, engraved with
the arms and insignia of the Order of the
Golden Fleece, and-a Grecian war hatcher
used by the Spartans Is. q. 1909.
The awestruck observer thought that
that was pretty big claim for the old
hatohet, "but, after all, argued, "they
are all the time digging away at old ruins
and are finding all sorts of things that lead
back nearly to the flood"
/ looked again, and my eyes bulged as
beheld a weapon tagged "Sword of Joar
of Arc" Well, after all, that might be al
right too, though how the dickens die
this fellow ever manage to make such
wonderful, rare and expensive collection
and exhibit 1t in Fulton street window
| to tempt every cracksman who might pas
by?'
Again, "Roman dagger Of Brutus. will
sheath, with which dagger, not sheath
I julius Caesar was assassinated." Well
we'll, well
"And," thought /, Fam gazing at tn
very dagger that struck down the yer.
man for whom when at school conceive'
a supreme aversion because he wrote
book beginning with the statement tina
all Gaul is divided into three parts? Goo
old daggerP'
But looked with far different emotion
at a big sword labeled "Sword that dc
capitated Mary Stuart"
2 / happened to be Scotsman, and thi
} struck me as not being exactly right.
had my doubts, and plunged into tn
store, trying to think up how many kind
of n cheat | would call the man inside III
trapped him.
l l asked for the proprietor, who cam
forward smiling. "See here" said I'll
writer, IF you can prove to my satisfa'
3 ton that that thing in the window Is tn
: sword used to behead Mary, queen OF Scot
!. the real, bona fide, original article-l'
make arrangements by which you can g
an ad. in The Sunday Press for nothing
!, and if the proprietor won't give 1t to you
why, I'll pay for it myselfP'
The man looked at me for minute an
. then burst out laughing. Its too bad,
n said he, "but I'm afraid that cannot y
{ my free advertisement
}. "Ahal" said fieroely. "Then you a
h knowledge
"Hold on a minute" said the mai
d "That's q mighty good imitation of Il
a original weapon, and that is all 1t Is. N
4 body would be deceived by it II he handle
1t, but it looks splendid In show windo
or on a wall. It's made of papier mache.
g "And all these other things that look
j, solidP'
- "All made of papier mache. Most
them are made in Europe from origina
10 and are shipped over here. Ha, hal You
r not the first man to be fooled. l have
le meet challenges and inquiries like you
Il every day."
~ Great is the ingenuity of modern mai
E. kind. What Is to prevent us all from ri
% oins ND sham baronial halls now, and a
d ranging imposing collections OF antiqu
which will surpass to all appearance eve
' Sir Walter Soott's celebrated one at A
'r bottsfordf Nothing except the want OF q
se money, and not very much OF that Is nee
n ed. for papier mache swords and suits
armor and Bastille relics don't come hig
'e Hurrah, boysl Let Every man own b
es own British museum" be now our mott
Of And who knowsp Perhaps soon well
IN able to buy exact papier mache reprodu
tions-full size---of the castles, cathedral
p ruins. towers and fortresses OF Europ
~ and Of the pyramids and sphinx OF Egg
d. to boot
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