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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11
Studying Music.

II don't think shall take music les
sons this autumn, said young girl to
the writer not long ago. "You see, l
haven't particle of talent and so,
what is the use?" There is just this use.
Admitting that you can never learn to
play az well as the most unpretending
professional or those who play by ear,
which latter is to be doubted, q musical
education is valuable, inasmuch as it
will teach you what to enjoy and how
to enjoy it whenever you have the op-
portunity to hear good music To those
who think of music as only q succession
OF pleasurable sounds it may not seem
worth while for those having no talent
to study the rules governing compost
ton. But if you once learn that music
is as exact a science as mathematics.
that there is all exquisite beauty in the
development Of an idea, the working
out OF musical problem, apart from
the poetry suggested by the melody or
even the harmony, you have found the
key to fresh world of never failing
delight. Though you may never be able
to play one page satisfactorily to your
friends or to yourself, you will have
learned music in such way that you
Will not regret the time spent in it's ac.
qulsltion.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11
GREAT GRAPE INDUSTRY.
Tho Shores of Lake Chautauqua Supply
Half the Country.

Tho Shores of Lake Chautauqua Supply
Half the Country.
The management Of the vineyard is
an interesting study and one which to
be successful requires technical knowl-
edge. In the large vineyards, as rule,
the owner himself gives personal super
vision to every detail. Sometimes
manager or overseer performs these du-
ties. One OF the largest growers i'm this
section tells me that the most successful
grower is the foreigner, who, with his
family of eight or ten, comes and leases
or buys 25 or 90 Ares Of land, each
member of the family having his or her
part in the work to perform from spring
until picking time, while the winter is
devoted to the making of the baskets.
Thus no outside expenditure is incurred,
and when the grapes are sold the pro-
ceeds return to the family as the profit
on the individual labor of each mem ber
quite in contrast with the large owner,
who is compelled to hire help to do each
little thing in addition to buying his
baskets.
The Concord grape is the only variety
of any consequence raised in this region,
and some idea of the magnitude of the
business carried on may be had when it
is known that the shipments for one
year from Chautauqua county alone
will amount to $500 carloads, 5000
baskets of 10 pounds each in each oar.
These are taken from the grower by
some one Of the numerous growers as
sociations, whose business it is to find
market. Strange as it may seem, it is
nevertheless true that three fourths of
them go to points west of Chicago, while
the other one-fourth travels eastward.
The making of baskets is an impor-
tant item. Many factories are employed.
The price ranges from to . cents per
basket. Thus the grower who would find
his business in any way profitable must,
in addition to the cost of the basket
realize at least cent per pound for his
grapes, while today it is common
thing to find ten pound basket on the
retail market slow sale at 10 cents.
Thus we find that the utmost care must
be taken in the management of vine-
yard to make it profitable. -Chautau-
guam.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11
A STORY OF LONGFEllOW.
MRS. Fields Tells an Interesting Anecdote
of the Author.

Mrs. Fields Tells an Interesting Anecdote
of the Author.
Speaking of Longfellow, in her vol
ume of literary "reminiscences, Mrs.
Jane J. Fields says:
"His kindness and love Of humor car
ried him through many tedious inter-
ruption. He generously overlooked the
fact Of the subterfuges to which men
and women resorted in order to get an
interview, and, to help them out, made
as much Of their excuses as possible.
Speaking one day of the persons who
came to see him at Nahant, he said !:
'One man, perfect stranger, came with
an omnibus full of ladies. He descend
ed, introduced himself; then, returning
to the omnibus, took out all the ladies,
one, two, three, four and five, with a
little girl, and brought them in. I en-
tertained them to the best of my ability,
and they staid an hour. They had scarce
ly gone when forlorn woman in black
came up to me on the piazza and asked
for dipper Of water. Certainly"
replied, and went to fetch her glass.
When 1 brought it, she said "There is
another woman just by the fence who is
tired and thirsty. will carry this to
her. But she struck her head as she
passed through the window and spilled
the water on the piazza "Oh, what
have donel' she said. eff I had a
floor cloth, / would wipe it up" sob,
no matter about the water" / said, eff
you have not hurt yourself. Then
went and brought more water for them
both and sent them on their way re-
freshed and rejoicing.
ut would be both an endless and un-
profitable task to recall more Of the Gu
rious experiences which popularity
brought down upon him. There is
passage among Mr.. Fields notes, how
ever, in which he describes an incident
during Longfellow's last visit to Eng.
land which should not be overlooked
Upon his arrival the queen sent grace.
full message and invited him to Windsor
castle, where she received him with all
the honors, but he told me no foreign
tribute touched him deeper than the
words of an English hod carrier who
came up to the carriage door at Harrow
and asked permission to take the hand
of the man who had written the Voices
Of the Night |"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11
The End OF Books.

What brings about the end Of books?
Is 1t fire, water worms? AS every ship
launched is bound to be wrecked, every
theater to be burned, the fms of the
book is its reduction to ashes What be-.
came of the Alexandrian library? Did
the Saracens burn it in $40? There is
this question asked: Was there any Ii
brary at Alexandria containing 700, 600
books? Gibbon inclines to the opinion
that there was no such library. Canon
Taylor insists that if there had been
library it was burned in the time of Ju-
Illus Cesar. Tradition seems to indicate.
however, that there was a library in
the Serapeum, by no means large col.
lection, but whether destroyed by The.
ophilus or Tbeodosius is not known. Il
looks ~ II the charge brought against
the Arabs rested on no foundation. Re.
cent explorations of Alexandria. 1885,
show no traces Of the Serapeum. The
seaport Of Egypt was built on a damn
foundation, and, granting that there
was . library. IL not destroyed by FIRE.
then the papyri might have suffered
from decay due to water. Books of To.
Gay taken to India, to the southern
states md to the West Indies periab
through nildew.-New York Timea
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11
SHELL AND SHOVEL PILE.
A Short Story OF the Civil War as Told
by an Old Soldier.

A Short Story of the Civil War as Told
by an Old Soldier.
Whenever I see pile of shovels
stacked up on the sidewalk in front Of
hardware store" said an old soldier,
"it makes me think Of pile of shovels
/ saw once stacked up at the end of a
traverse in an earthwork at the time of
the civil war. There were siege guns
and mortars Of one size and another in
batteries scattered along these works
in the particular battery that l speak of
there were two 100 pound rified guns.
There was traverse between the two
guns, and one on the outer side of each,
traverse, you understand, being a
short ridge of earth running back from
the line in front and at right angles
with it, to protect the gun and the gun
ners from a lateral fire. This pile Of
shovels lay at the end of one of the out
er traverses, to the left of the piece that
l worked on. There were six or eight
men on the gun.
"A shell that came over from Con-
federate mortar battery dropped square
oh ehat piic VI suONtls huu tAplOutu lu6
instant it struck. Our own gun bad just
been fired, and the men were all stand
ing scattered around to the rear of the
gun carriage, none of them far away
from the shovel pile, and all of them
right in open range, not protected, as
some OF them anyway would have been
minute earlier, by standing over on
the other side of the gun, with the gun
and the gun carriage between them and
the shovels
1.-The air was filled with smoke, and
fragments and splinters of shell and
shovels were flying in all directions
There wasn't man but expected to
have his head knocked off by piece
OF shell, or to be cut in two by shovel
blade, or at least to have the handle OF
a shovel stuck through him. But the
fragments of shell all flew past, the
shovels all came down, and the smoke
cleared away, and nobody had even a
scratch. Then the men all laughed and
went to loading the 100 FOUNDER again.
New York Sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11
The Swiss Parliament.

A parliament ut which the discus
sions are carried OH in three different
languages is probably unique.
The country where this singular fact
occurs is well known to English tourists
viz, Switzerland. But few, believe,
have ever had an occasion to be present
at the sitting of a Swiss parliament.
The languages spoken by the men,
bers are French, Italian and German.
Italian, true, is not as often employed
as the other two, the members for les
sin, canton in the south, very often
delivering their speeches in French AS
almost every educated Swiss speaks
French and German, members are there
lore able to understand each others
speeches, although spoken in different
language to their own.
1t also often happens that when a
French speaking member wishes TO
make a stronger impression on the Ger
man speaking part Of the house he de-
hvers his speech in German. and also
vice versa. Pearson Weekly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11
TRAPPING CROWS.
IL Il Not an Easy Matter to Net the WHY
Birds.

10 II Not an Easy Matter To Net the WHY
Birds.
Crows are trapped and sold to sports
men for shooting matches. usually bring
ing go per 100, but, like other things,
when scarce they bring more.
1t is no simple matter to trap crows,
for the crow is willy bird. and to catch
him in net set for that purpose re-
quires skill, and patience as we'll, but
the hunger of the crow is always the
trapper's greatest aid. One man alone
would make but little Roadway catching
crows and would probably sit all day in
his little bough house ready to spring
his net, but the crows would give his
bait wide berth because they would
know that he was there.
After placing the carcass of some ami
NAL on a field the net is set close to it
by bending poles of saplings, on which
the net is hung fiat to the ground, where
they are held down by triggerlike pegs,
and line run so yards or more to q
house built of boughs, where the trap.
per is secreted.
hundreds of yards distant on the same
or another field, where there is no net
set. The trappers, usually two in num-
Der, go into the bough house together
before daylight, and when the crows be-
gin to assemble on the fields one of them
goes out and walks away. The crows,
seeing him leave, grow little holder
and approach the bait in ones and twos,
but stop only long enough to get beak-
full of the flesh and fly off again. The
carcass where there is no net set is of
course the best patronized, but the trap
per OH the outside makes it his business
to walk near enough to that to keep the
crows frcm settling on it in numbers
and thus satisfying their hunger with
out going to the one where the net is.
After awhile their hunger gets the bet
ter of their Judgment or their fear, and
they gather on the carcass where the
net is. This is the opportunity Of the
man in the bough house, who, with
vigorous pull on the line, springs the
net over them. Quick work must be
done then by the trappers, who rush up
to the net. to keep the trapped crows
from crawling out at the ends and the
front, where it is not staked fast to the
ground. With their hands covered with
stout buckskin gloves, to keep the crows
from biting and scratching them, the
captured birds are put in bags ready to
be carried off the field. From 40 to so
are frequently caught at one pull, but it
is a rare thing to get more than two
springs Of the net in one day. -Phila-
delphia Record.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11
A PULLING PARIS HOUSE.
IL Has Two spiral stairways Which Look
Like One at Times.

| IL Has Two Spiral stairwsys Which Looh
Like One at Times.
One Of the greatest curiosities Of Paris
is the house with the double staircase.
1t does not figure in the guidebook and
is not among the places Of interest that
are photographed, but, for all that, it
is of greater interest than many of the
things that como within this class.
This house has entrances at 85 Rue
Radzivill and at IS Rue de Valois. 1t is
in the quarter of the Palais Royal-that
palace now given up largely to restau-
rants and cheap jewelry shops, and once
the residence of the most licentious Of
French princes, the regent d'Orleans.
The quarter is one of the most central
in Paris, and all Americans who have
been in Paris know it, but the house,
which is few steps from the Palais
Royal, the Rue de Rivoli and the Louvre,
escapes general attention because it faces
on dark and narrow streets.
Each staircase begins on opposite sides
of the central space of the house and is
continued separate right up to the roof.
They are in graceful spiral form. The
house is nine stories high, very con-
siderable height for one so old. As you
look up the wall you can hardly realize
that there is more than one stairway.
The result of this arrangement is that
one stairway takes you to the first floor
apartment on the right, the second floor
on the left, and so on. The other stair
30, 30, ba A,.ct ha
left, the second floor on the right, and
so on. You must be very careful to
choose the right stairway when you are
going to an apartment, otherwise you
may mount as far as the sixth floor and
find yourself on the wrong side of the
house. 1t is just as well then to go to
the top and come down by the other
stairway.
1t is difficult to describe the puzzling
effect Of this continuance on those who
see it for the first time. No more in
genious contrivance for exciting pro-
family and causing confusion was ever
designed by architect. The beauty lies /
in its simplicity. which gives it an ad-
vantage over secret doors and such la
borious devices.
1t is favorite trick with those who |
know the house to take moderately in
,oxicated friends to sec it, The man
who knows tells his friend to 90 up |
stairs Then he goes up himself by the
opposite stairway. When he has gone
Up about two stories, he leans over the
,slustrade and tells his friend to join
lin. The inebriate endeavors to do so,
unning up and down stairs, but never
Ible to catch the other. New York
Journal.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11
A Little Girls Riddle.

Several children were asking riddles
the other day, and a bright little girl
who listened got the idea of what O
riddle was. The next day she went to
her father and said, "There was blind
and curtains on pole and the pole fell
and two men laughed. +" The father
promptly gave it up when she said,
Don't you see the point?" Upon being
answered in the negative she puzzled
her brains for awhile, and said, "Nei.
Their do l. " She is now practicing on
riddles that have some meaning in
them.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11
city OF THE GOLDEN CAT.
breaks :" the Temperature and Touo..
ply In San Francisco. sn-


ply In San Francisco. sn'
San Francisco sprawls over n Co.,,
peninsula shaped like clincbed su.
with its face to the east and the no Inst
landlocked bay which the navies 90 Soe'
world would not crowd, and will ue
back to the Pacific ocean, which r. as
in without break from China , 'O Oos
miles away. 1t covers an area - tO w
square miles, though much Of th;. ~
built over in struggling fashion. II sa'
thrice as many hills as Rome boas ta'
of, but over the highest of these tha y"
BILE cars climb. Seen from the bar a
night, the spectacle is superb as ,S ~
streets are transformed into nara,a,
lines of twinkling lights that seem ~
ascend. like Jacobs ladder, to the sta,.
Justin Mccarthy in LADY Judith,,
gives the most poetical as well as tho
most faithful picture of this remarkahlo
sight of San Francisco from the har
Had the original builders of the citr
adopted the Italian custom of carrv;n,
streets around hills, with terraced gar
dens, San Francisco would be the NOS.
beautiful city in the world. As il -
many OF the streets are merely great
unsightly bitches that run in ugly nar
allel lines up the steep hills and thronoh
their SUBMITS. From a score of noipt.
of vantage one may get superb views ~
the bay, the harbor with its picturesque
islands, the encircling hills and tho
Golden Gate, the narrow entrance
through which come and go the sims If
the orient.
What impresses the visitor TO San
Francisco most forcibly is the reculiar
fondness for the bay window. But this
taste seems natural and sensible when
he is told that it is due to the necessitv
of getting all the sunshine that can he
secured. Here, as in Italy, between sun.
shine and shade there is the difference
between summer and winter. The San
Francisco climate is the greatest eli.
mate in the world for continuous work
as the mean temperature is SO and there
is no summer heat. But it is a irving
for any one with weak lungs or
tender throat. The summer is harsber
than the winter, AZ cold trade winds
and heavy fogs render the nights chilly
and make CRATE fire comfortable. Sep.
TENDER is the finest month in the wear.
as the trade winds do not blow and the
days are warm and sunshiny.
tauquan.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11
Requests For Enterprising Youth.

Now and then we hear of some rich
person leaving several hundred thou.
sand dollars to colleges and other insti.
tutions. If rich people would desire to
perpetuate their memory, novel and
lasting monument to them would be to
select 100 or 1000 deserving young
men aud bequeath to them 81, 600 each
with which to start in business. The
blessings that would follow such phi.
ianthropy cannot be estimated. Chat.
am (Va. Tribune.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11
A JEwess BROKE THE ICE.
Che First Woman I'm Germany to Ride ON
Top of an Omnibus.

| Che First Woman In Germany to Ride on
Top of an Omnibus.
On my way from the Leipziger strasse
to the exhibition. while sitting on the
top of tram car, young lady OF some
II summers, with fine, intelligent and
Enthusiastically Jewish face, came on and
sat herself beside me. The maiden
blushed as maiden never blushed before,
and my curiosity was aroused to It's
highest point when / noticed every per-
son ON the car stare at her with smile OF
appreciation. Nay, more-on the route
people stopped and looked at her. Men
raised their hats and women waved
their handkerchiefs. Indeed children
looked through the windows and kept
their eyes fixed on the top OF my tram
till they could see it no more. What
could all this mean? That the young
Jewess at my side was "the woman of
the hour" person whom Berlin was
idolizing, some public benefactress to
whom the denizens of the capital were
giving evidence of their thorough appre-
citation and heartfelt gratitude was
patent to all who had eyes to see.
What, then, was her heroic deed?
Why did every person on the car say
most cordially, Itch gratultere linen,
fraulein," when the lady was about to
descend? The solution of the mystery
was as singular as it was amusing. 1t
had by the vigorous laws and customs
of the Teutons been denied until the
morning in question to the fair sex to
ascend the steps of an omnibus or tram
car throughout the length and breadth
of Germany.
Some of the ''manly women" in Ber-
lin, gasping for franchise as well as for
fresh air in the summer months, de-
clared that they had tolerated long
enough the cruelty of being pent up in
q tram car full of their own sex while
the men were above enjoying the de-
lightful summer breeze. They sent dep
utations and petitioned the powers
that be to break once and forever
law unworthy of enlightened Germany
Some of the newspapers volleyed and
"Oh, for the degeneracy of the father
landp' they sighed. But at length the
ladies had their way-as ladies always
willard the great privilege was re-
served for me to sit beside the young
Jewess whose name ought to be handed
down to posterity as probably the first
female in Germany who was bold
enough to ascend the steps Of tram
car.-London Telegraph.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11

Nature, the gentlest mother.
Impatient of no child.
The feeblcst or the waywardesA
Her admonition mild
In forest and the hill
BY traveller Is heard
Restraining rampant squirrel
Or too impetuous bird.
How fair her conversation
A summer afternoon,
Her household, her assembly,
And when the sun goes down
Her voice among the aisles
Incites the timid prayer
or the minutest cricket,
The most unworthy flower.
When all the children sleep,
She turns as long away
As will suffice TO light her lamps,
Then. bending from the sky,
With infinite affection
And infiniter care,
Her golden finger on her lip,
Wills silence everywhere.
Emily Dickinson
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11
A Curious Rose Tree.

One of the most remarkable botanical
curiosities in the world is in the pos.
session OF Mrs. lie Clero Of Quebec. IL
Is potted American Beauty rosebush
whose flowers have perfume only from
midnight until daylight. During the
rest OF the "a hours they are perfectly
odorless. The fragrance begins to exhaie
precisely Oh the stroke of IL.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11
Before the Effects Wore on.

"Say, you're the fourth Teller that
has come here to try to trade bosses to-
day" said Farmer Shortcrop. "Whut,s
got into you all?'
wy" said the visiting farmer
lhsspishly, "ths story got out somewsys
hat you'd got religion AZ the revival
ias' Night "-Cinoinnat Enquirer.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11

In 1879 over $4,000 houses were
burned in Constantinople and 2. 600
lives were lost in the fire. In l745 a fire
again ragged in the Turkish capital dur.
ing nve days, and series Of terrible
CONGREGATIONS also occurred in the year
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11

When drops Of water stand on the
outside OF pitcher. the cir 10 full Of
noAseers and change Of weather for
Ne wsrss 10 impending.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11

"A Berlin physician, Dr.. Aronsonn'
has succeeded in inoculatins with tu-
oerculosis q goat m animal hitherto
regarded a. immune 70 dis diDeaea
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11
Where Pompeii Is Weak.

he-So you visited POmpeii?
She-Oh, yesl
He-How did you like itp
she-Well, must say l was awfullv
disappointed in the place. OF course it
was beautifully located and all that but
1t was dreadfully out Of repair.-Hali.
fax Chronicle.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-11
He Meant Well.

Mr.. Curtis ability as a diplomatist Is
we'll known. This reminds me of another
man, well known congressman who is an
aspirant for appointment as minister to
France under the Mckinley administra-
ton. He imagines himself TO be great
diplomat. but l saw letter Of introduc-
ton which he recently wrote for a newspa.
per friend Of his who wanted to make the
acquaintance of certain public man. IT
do not know whether you will care to talk
to this correspondent or not" wrote the
congressman, "but II you do talk to him I
think you will be perfectly safe" 1t is
scarcely necessary TO add that the letter ot
introduction was never presented. The con.
gresham meant we'll, but he did not know
how. A moro undiplomatic. aspirant for
diplomatic honors never heard or
WALTER WILLIAM.