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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
Walters In Cheap Restaurants.

A New Yorker who in the course of q
long and varied career has patronized all
sorts and conditions of RESTAURANTS has
discovered that the cheaperAand poorer the
restaurant the more likely are the walters
TO DE born Americans At the more exnen-
slve restaurants the walters are, as a rule
rrench, and always foreign. English
irish and German walters are USUALLY
round In less expensive places, and one is
not sure to find an American until he
reaches restaurants of the cheapest sort.
Inc New Yorker who has made this dis
covery accounts for it on the ground that
iess servillty is expected at the Cheap places
Inan at the more expensive RESTAURANTS
Inc same feeling of independence which
keeps American men and women fhom be.
coming household servants prevents the
hrso from becoming walters at restaurants
where Too much Difference to the chsronn-
ers is required. Unfortunately for His the
Dry, ne has also discovered that feess which
truly independent man would spukn, ary
as much appreciated at a cheap restaS, ranr
as they are unexpected. They procurS a
-'eierence too, which would not he ont ~
olace In restaurants Americans are nral
'uineo ny him to be too independents IN
work In. The theorist is not so much On.
noyed at his theory being in part contra.
'ucted by his experience as at the nroct;ca,
,nconvenience Of finding the prnctica 90
ieeing extending to the cheap restaurant.
New York Sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
Four Lerred Traders

There is a mouse in Florida locally
known as the trading mouse. 1t is com.
monty woods mouse, but it quickly
adapts itself to human habitation. A col
ony OF such mice carried two bushels of
shelled beans 30 feet during six nights re.
Gently and replaced the leans with seed
pods of weed. Jewelry, too, has been
taken by these little traders One woman
on the east coast of Florida at an Indian
river winter resort found a number of
seeds instead of pair of earrings that she
had LETT on the bureau. A search i'm tho
place where the seeds had been kent dis.
closed the earrings.
"A man who had IA box of poker chips in
MS room in an open top box was surprised
10 ind in their stead string of PRAYER
beads, small crucilix and a number of
shells He started an investigation imme.
ulately a priest who had roomed near bv
was equally puzzled by finding the colorcd
poker chips i'm his room.
1t is generally believed that the TRADING
mouse learns its curious ways by robbinS
squirrels or blue jays of nuts laid by for
future use.-New York sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
rheumatism Proxy.

well" exclaimed Mr. Queercase, "you
can talk as you like about physical afilic.
ton, but the largest measurement that
ever struck me was when l had the rheu
matism in my brother.
rheumatism in your brotherY" sbout.
ed his auditors in concert. "wbat are Won
giving us?'
IN just giving you case of a stall.
wart atiliction that ought to bring your
sympathy out by the roots, was the reply.
The kind of rheumatism he had was the
KIND that hangs over the edges and treads
on the adjacent martyrs. Why, the way
he'd yell and keep me awake at nights.
ana have me tying on bandages, and rub.
plng joints, and smelling all sorts of loatb.
some lotions, and the way he would kick
me out OF bed when his other leg hurt too
much, was just energizing. Primary
rheumatism is bad enough, but to have Ia
hang about and take it in secondary
form Is awful. Pearson Weekly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
A Letter of Nansen's.

Here is letter of DIR. Nansen to Captain
Brown of the steam yacht Windward, who
brought him home from Franz-J Josef Land
after his perilous journey of over 300 days
on the ice, in the course of which he made
his 'fartbest north"
MY DEAR CAPTAIN BRowN-I hope you do
not think me quite brute filled with nothing
but ingratitude, since have not yet written
to YOU Certainly need not tell you / can
hardly get time to eat at present for all have
had and have to do. However, now must
write few lines to thank you heartily for
your very kind letter and the article YOU sent
me, which interested me very much to see.
but above all l must thank you for all your
kindness, your hospitality and your friend
snip. need hardly tell you how highly an
preciate that, and how the memory of those
days we spent together on board the Windward
Will last forever To give you "A small sign of
my gratitude / send you AN old Norwegian
drinking horn, which might perhaps find some
corner In your house and will keep you from
quite forgetting poor, wandering Norseman
Who longing for home and wife, found shelter
and friendship on board your shin. IL is n
drinking cup OF the same kind as was used by
the old Morse Vikings, of which you always
reminded me. Certainly you must be a true
descendant from some one of them who settled
down in your country. And now farewell.
look forward TO meet you again. Ever yours
sincerely, FRIDTJoF NANsrN
The meeting between Nansen and
brown, described in Nansens book, has
hardly been matched for dramatic interest
since Stanley met DIR. Livingstone i'm mid
Africa.-Harper Weekly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
HER ee'efs WE'RE GREAT.
Mrs. Alexander Hamiiton's Trials beyond
the Usual Lot of Woman.

A writer In The Atlantic Monthly says
that when she was child of l2 she knew
Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, then charms
ing old lady of 90, overlooking with rem
iniscences One was of great gathering
of the Indians of eastern New York al
Saratoga, which was then only log fort.
The chiefs and greatest warriors OF the Six
Nations, dressed in barbaric pomp, but
with peace on their faces, stood waiting
the approach of a small group Of whites
one or two officers in full uniform and n
tall, commanding man, in the prime OF
life, leading by the hand slim girl of ID.
The tall man was General Philip Schuy-
Ter, whom the Indians honored as they did
no other white man, and they had men TO
offer him tribute of devotion. AT sign
from the great chief their ranks parted to
admit General Schuyler, who advanced
into the open space still leading his little
daughter There with many ceremonies,
the child was formally adopted by the Six
Nations, the chiefs ending the sacred rite
by laying their hands upon her head and
giving her an Indian name meaning " One
of Us. " And Mrs. Hamilton was the little
maid
One day the old lady was talking about
men of bodily strength, and she told an
incident which must have happened soon
after her marriage, for she was az the time
i'm headquarters with her husband Gener.
al Washington was writing in his office,
room on the second floor of farmhouse
The farmers wife, who was washing
clothes, suddenly discovered that the shed
roof was on fire. She rushed screaming in
to the house. and Washington came bound
ing down the stairs, picked up one of the
with it, got out on the roof and emptied il
on the blaze. Then he ran for another tub
and still another before he succeeded in
putting out the fire.
One night Mrs. Hamilton seemed sad
and absentminded and would not go into
the parlor, where there were visitors, but
sat near the fire and played backgammon
for awhile. When the game was done, she
leaned back in her chair dong time with |
closed eyes as If lost TO all around her |
Presently the silence was broken by the |
murmured words
II am so tired 1t is so long. want to |
see Hamilton.
What thoughts must have come TO her |
from the past She had griefs beyond the
usual lot of women. Her eldest son, Phil.
Up, fell in IA duel before his father met a
similar fate, and the Oldest daughter,
lovely young creature, was so shocked by |
her brothers cruel death that she became
insane. Though she lived to be an old |
woman it was as an inmate of a private
asylum.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
TOOK A HOT STOVE.
The Taker Was Told to Return 1t, Hot
or Cold.

The Taker Was Told to Return 1t, Hot
Andrew jackson Letferts, an old gray
haired negro, was arraigned in a New
York police court one morning recently
for stealing IA hot stove. The complain
ant was Amanda Sanders, living in the
same house. Amanda did most of the
talking.
''You see, Judge" she said, "Mr
Lefferts borrowed 10 cents from me a
few days ago. He had an old stove and
some old rusty cooking utensils, which
he offered to sell for ST., and I bought
them, giving him 80 cents more
well, he wanted the stove back on
Sunday, and said he couldn't have it.
He went away, and yesterday he came
back, threw 81 bill ON the table and
took away the stove. -
'Was there fire in the stove?" asked
the judge.
II should say so. was cooking at
the time -
Letferts started his testimony by say
ing that the foregoing was a tissue of
lies and then acknowledged it all as
true. He was told to take the stove
back, and the woman said she would
return the dollar. New York Herald.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
MR.. WILSON'S KINDNESS.
The Secretary of Agriculture Does a
Graceful Act of sympathy.

The Secretary of Agriculture Does a
Graceful Act of sympathy.
The new secretary of agriculture is
making record right straight along for
being one of the kindest of men.
Miss Morton, sister of ex-Secretarv
Morton, has been at deaths door with
pneumonia and is only now GONZALES.
cent. Before leaving Washington for
Arbor Lodge it was the habit of ex-Sec-
rotary Morton to send his sister flowers
from the Conservatives Of the depart.
ment fresh every day.
Secretary Wilson noticed this, and
every day since her brothers. absence
has sent her the very choicest blossoms
that were there. They are getting
scarcer and scarcer every day, and one
OF the employees called Secretary Will
sons attention to the fact and said if
flowers were sent to Miss Morton there
would be none left TO ornament the
room in which he transacts business al
the department.
Never mind" said Secretary vii.
son, whether there are any flowers in
my room or not. Always see that the
choicest are sent to Miss Morton every
day until they are all gone. "-Chicago
Tribune.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
THE eusHMEN.
An Interesting Race of south Africa
Which Is Now Almost Extinct.

One of the most interesting races in the
world, from an ethnologist's point OF
view, Is on the point of extinction. For
many years past the bushmen of South
Africa have been dwindling in numbers
till the survivors may almost be counted
ON ones fingers. The bushman is first
cousin to the diminutive race of pygmies
| found by the great explorer Du Chaillu in
| the coast lands of western Africa, near the
equator, and closely resembles the dwarfs
found by Stanley in the great Aruwhimi
forest. In all probability they are the rem
nants of the aboriginal race of Africa
which has been driven into the corners of
the African earth by successive inVasions
of Hottentot, Bantu and negro tribes.
Their existence in Africa is mentioned rs
far back as 1850 by Andrew Battell, one of
Che earliest of Africa's English explorers
He describes them as mo bigger than
boys ~ years old, but very thick, and they
live only upon flesh, which they kill in the
woods with their bows and their darts. ~
The bushman is one of the lowest types
of humanity, not many degrees removed
from the animal. He is of small stature,
but not dwarfed, and with high cheek
bones, his deep set eyes have an exceedingly
cunning look. Bushmen are troglodytes,
and remaining in their caves by day, sally
forth at night from their mountain fast
nesses and harass the nearest farmers by
Staying their stock with arrows composed
of reeds, tipped with bone or iron, saturat-
ed In the fatal juice of the euphorba tree,
mixed with the poison of snakes and spid-
ers. So troublesom- did they become in
Natal during the early history of the col
ony that a special fort was built-now
known as Fort OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ex-
petitions were organized against these
diminutive marauders. Still later a war
of determination was waged against them
by band of farmers, under the Drakens-
berg, who raided their haunts in the wild
mountains and succeeded in freeing them
selves from this troublesome pest Every
bushman fought for himself, and they rec
ognized no chief, much less any primitive
system of government, such as prevails
among the Bantu race.
1t is a singular thing that, though so |
low in the social scale, the bushman pos |
sesses the power of illustration totally I'M |
known to his more civilized successors |
and very creditable representations of |
Glands, dingoes, snakes and even scenes of |
hunting and battle are TO be found in the
caves of Drakensberg, above the sources of
the Bushman river. Several of the draw
ings have been removed to the library at
Pietermaritzburg, where they form valu-
able collection for the colonial antiquary.
The bushman's language Is mainly COM
posed of clicks, of which there are six dis
tinct kinds. But it is impossible on hear
ing one OF this pygmy race talk to do 9TH
erwise than set him down as an animal.
Chicago Chronicle.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
Drummer Was His Own Messengers.

A drummer who travels in Maine il
not greatly impressed with the rapidity
OF the telegraph service in that state.
Recently he was in the upper part of a
county and wanted to reach another
town that night. He telegraphed the
hotel keeper in the latter place early in
the day to send team to the station
Tor him. When he reached the station
at night, no team was there, SO he
started to walk to the village, which
was quite little distance off. No sooner
mad ne started than the station agent
said to him, care you going to the
villageT "Yes. - "Then wish Won
would take dispatch up to the hotel. {"
1t was the dispatch ordering the team.
Boston Evening Record.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
Not to he Scared.

In an old fashioned churchyard in Scot.
land pile of skulls and bones had bcen
'ur rr up In the process OF gravedigging.
Inc plowmen in bothy near by offered
1ne loon shillings to go at night and
the dark. - -
AN ambush had been laid to brighten
called: 'oi0e
That's miner'
a RIGHT, said the lad, laying the
snas'iy thing down TO lift another. Again
game from the darkness voice:
That's mincp'
uae ava ye haverin idiot We Gamma
nae iva skulls. '-Pcarson' Weekly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
IA rEMffi8Ii FthNs f4RAu fAaae ksVF - T7T-
.Hissst of all in Leavenis P0vsrRsest u Govt Report
re-! k skassE
ABSOLUTELY PURE
THE OLDEST ENGLISH PAPER.
IL Is the London Gazette and Was Pub
lished First In 1868.


| lished First In 1868.
The oldrEl English newspaper is, though
| few people know It, the London Gazette,
| which was, ON its first publication on Nov.
| Ia, 1868, known as the Oxford Gazette
| from the fact of the parliament sitting at
| Oxford This namc was changed on Feb.
| 5, 1866, to the present one But though
| the London Gazette contains some items
| of much interest to certain people, such
as those who have received "honors" at
the hands Of royalty or those whose bank
ruptcies are announced, it is not n news
paper i'm tho usual sense of the term-that
is as being road generally by the public.
The honor Of being the Oldest newspaper
of this class in the British Isles, and hence
probably in the world, may be unhesita-
tingly awarded 10 Berrow's Worcester
Journal which made it's appearance in
1890, ten years before the beginning of the
eighteenth century. 1t has always had n
wide circulation among the higher classes
of its district and is today as vigorous as
ever But when it first camo ont it was
not under its present name, and this fact
or is Of importance in considering its
claim to the premier honors of the journal
istic world.
Perhaps we ought TO award the palm of
being the doyen f English journals to the
Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury.
still published weekly ut Stamford. This
paper has now, as ever, truly great cir
culation and an enormous influence in the
eastern midland district. It's title is exact
ly the samo today as it was on the day it
was first published, ia years ago. Hence
this important factor should almost assign
to it the first place among extant news
papers
There is i'm the Leicester museum n copy
of the 17l9 issue, consisting of four pages
denny quarto, its style that of the old news
letter. In July, 1866 its circulation had |
become $4,000 IA week, the highest outside
of London. Its price was then twopence, but |
is now penny, with the circulation of
$4,000 weekly. Thomas Cooper, the ia
nous Chartist poet, was on the staff in his !
younger days. The political complexion of |
this celebrated paper is Liberal. London |
Answers
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
TAe Grand est Remedy

Mr.. Il B. Greeve, merchant, Of Chill
howis, Va, certifies that he had con-
SUMPTION, was given up to die, sought
all medical treatment that money could
procure tried all cough remedies he could
hear OF, but got no relief; spent many
nights sitting up in chair; was induced
to try DIR. Kings New Discovery and was
cured oy use OF two bottles. For past
three years has been attending to bust
ness' and says, DR.. Kings New Discoy-
cry is the grandest remedy ever made, as
IL mas done so much for him and also for
Others in bis community. DR.. Kings
New Discovery is guaranteed for coughs,
colds and consumption. It don't fail.
Ir'ai bottles free at d. T. Macdonald's
drug store.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
Smart BOY.

AT Luton school the other day teach.
or, having asked most of his nnn,Is ~
oInerence between an island and n nen;n'
suia without receiving a satisfactorv an - F.
swer, came to the last boy. gu"
can explain 1t, sir" said tho br,,...
youth. First, get two glasses E, ui'e guy
with water and the other with n,,,t sr p+ns
ter 0" M q ny ana place In in the glass ( wa.
Ill, nae ny Is an island, because y is en- :
,Iaa y surrounded by water. Pit now
, p,uIe IN, sne ny IN the glass of mi k, and Il
surrounded by water" n'"''y
Inc ooy went to the top Of he class :
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
Pullmans Must Paw.

Ephraim @. Force of New York. On
an assigned claim of Mrs. Olive A.
Goodwin, obtained verdict of $500
against Pullman's Palace Car COMPANY
ior the loss of sealskin sack and a
boys oyercoat from the sleeper Don
COLA. The company contended il was
not responsible for baggage or wearing
apparel unless it was checked. The
company also relied on a proviso printed
Oh the ticket that it would not be re.
sponsible for articles left unchecked IN
the cars. Al
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
A SAD CONFERENCE.
ghr.s Senators whose Terms OF Once
Melted Them Nothing.

ghr.e Senators Whose Terms OF Once
Melted Them Nothing.
During the closing hours of the Fiji
iy-fourth congress three members of the
senate were sitting in committee
room condoling with each other over
the expiration of their public life. Said
one of them: II have an offer from a
business concern 10 look after its bust
ness interests in Washington which will
pay me about as much as my senatorial,
salary, and l think will accept il. II
l do, however, | shall have to give mp
all hope of reelection and consider my
political career ended. F"
Il would be nightly glad to give up
my political prospects, said No. 2,
who had been in public life for mere
than third of "A century, "for such a
job or anything else, for that matter,
that will bring me bread and butter.
The only thing l can do is to go back
home, work in my garden and raise
enough vegetables to feed my family. l
have decided to try it and wait for
something to turn up"
II have no home to go TO, have no
garden to work in, and haven { enough
money to pay my expenses there if |
had one, " said Senator Voorhees,, who
was the third member of the group. 81
have been in public life since 1861" he
1876 years, and all the mon
ey have is i'll my pocket this morning.
l don't know what l am going to do. f"
And in melancholy tones, often with
sob in his voice, the venerable senator
described the hopelessness of his future
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
Hurrah! For Lsurium Fair,

The business OF the Fair increased so
much since its opening year ago that
we had to enlarge the store and double
the stock OF goods in order to accommo-
date our many patrons. We have lust
received a new stock Of clothing, gents
furnishing goods, dry goods, boots and
shoes, etc., which will be sold at low
prices. I. FENprpa prom
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
American Clothing For Inauguration.

Washington set the example, which has
been followed at frequent intervals by new
presidents even TO our day, of wearing mt
the first inauguration ceremonies clothing
OF American manufacture. He was dressed
In n suit OF dark cloth made at Hartford
have been able To find no mention of the
nationality of the light drab suit which
John Adams wore. jefferson was inau-
gurated in his everyday clothes, " which
may or may not have been exclusively
American. But before the end of his serv.
ice as president he appeared at his New
Year reception dressed in an entire suit of
homespun. Madison carried the matter a
step farther for as he passed down the
aisle OF the house of representatives to be
lnaugurated he was spoken of as a walk
ing argument in favor of the encourage
ment of native wool His coat had been
made on the farm of Colonel Humphreys.
and his waistcoat and small clothes on
that of Chancellor Livingston, all from the
wool of merino sheep raised in the country.
John Quincy Adams says in his diary
that the house was very much crowded
ana that its appearance was magnificent
but that MIR. Madison read his address in
tone so low that il could not be heard.
Contemporary descriptions of Madison ric-
lure nm as small, modest and ioviai
man. Washington Irving spoke of him in
1872, at the time of his second election Ia
the presidency, as "a withcred little apple
John, and AN English observer as "a lit
Tie man with small features. rather wiz
ened, but occasionally lit up with good
natured smile. " He was habitually neat
ana genteel in his appearance, says another
writer, dressed like Il well bred and tasty
old school gentleman. American wool
seems, therefore, TO have made its first an
Pearnce as a walking argument" under
favorable conditions. Joseph b. Bishop
in Century.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
Tempered Joys.

dearly love the gentle spring:
love its frequent showers:
love to hear the robin sing:
love the coming flowers.
love the fresh and verdant grass.
i love the budding trees;
love the pungent sassafras.
And love the southern breeze.
love my darling's dreamy eyes;
love her peachy cheeks:
love to hear her gentle signs
Ard every word she speaks.
ioTe all nature, yet I'm not
Qrite filled with love and blisS
FOR, oh, but II does make me hot
10 work at such q time as thisl
Cleveland Leader
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
Quick Wit.

There is no more effective weapon to de.
lend us from impertinence or rudeness
than quick, sharp wit. But few men have
IL, ana 1t Is born with them. If we try 10
initiate 1t, we end in i'll nature and scur-
nifty. Wit cannot be forced into growth
but courtesy and good temper can
these weapons are sure and grow brighter
and stronger with age.--Youtb's Com.
panion Soih
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-03
THE BLOSSOM OF THE SOUL.

Thou half unfolded flower.
With fragrance laden heart.
What is the secret power
That doth thy petals partY
What gave thee most thy hue
The sunshine or the dewf
Thou wonder Weakened soul,
As dawn doth steal on night
On thee soft love hath stole.
Thine eye that blooms with light,
What makes its charm So new
Its sunshine or its dewf
Underwood johnson in Century.