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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
Sir Walter SCOTS First Brief.

Sir Walter Scott had his share Of Gu
rious experiences shortly after being
called to the bar. His first appearance
as counsel in criminal court was at
Jedburg assizes in 1898, when he snc-
cessfully defended veteran poacher.
you're lucky scoundrel, Scott
whispered to his client when the verdict
was given. =,
"I'm just of your mind, returned
the latter, land I'll send you maukin"
namely, hare-"the morn, man. .
Lockhart, who narrates the incident,
omits to add whether the "maukln
duly reached Scott, but no doubt 1t did.
On another occasion Scott was less
successful in his defense OF house
breaker, but the culprit, grateful for
his counsel's exertions, gave him, In
lieu of the orthodox fee, which he was
unable to pay, this piece Of advice, to
the value of which he (the housebreak-
err could professionally attest: First.
never to have large watchdog out OF
doors, but to keep little yelping ter
rier within, and, secondly. to put nc
trust in nice, clever, gimcrack locks,
but to pin his faith to huge old heavy
one with rusty key. Scott long re-
membered this incident, and 30 years
later, at a judges dinner at Jedburg'
he recalled it in this impromptu rhyme
Yelping terrier, rusty key,
Was Walter Scott 3 best Jeddart fee
Westminster Gazette.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25

:, Il do not see," said clever woman,
why the newspapers should feel called
upon to poke fun at the new law in Col
orado which permits women to serve in
'ne state militia. In time Of battle
woman is just as necessary as man.
just wearing uniform and shooting a
gun gu. are not all that constitute soldier.
what about woman's place in the hos
pi'ais during time of war? Does it not
require brave heart and strong nerve
70 wait ON the wounded or dying? Is
no' woman soldier who can assist
sne surgeon as he amputates limb or
C,nos fractured bone? Are not the Red
. o'oss nurses soldiers? It seems to me
s Una. woman will make just as good a
sviuier as man and always find her
place in time Of war;"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
EDMUND KEAN.
To See Him Act Was Like Reading Shakes
peare by Lightning.

Before tho third century after the
birth of Shakespeare had reached its
first quarter there was born in England
TO a stage carpenter and strolling
actress child destined to grapple with
the poets highest thought and interpret
it with vividness that to. this day
stands unrivaled. Coleridge's terse com
ment, that to see him act was reading
Shakespeare by lightning, reveals him
with the fullness of volume. Edmund
Kean, along with most people early
trained TO an art, had little, if any, ed
ucation of the schools. He was when
boy provided with instruction by some
benevolent people whom his smartness
and beauty attracted, but he rebelled
against the tasks Of study and went TO
sea. But life there was too rough for his
fine nature. He returned to England,
and at the age of began the study Of
Shakespeare characters with his UNI
Gle Moses. This he continued with an
actress named Tidswell, who taught
him besides, as well as she knew, the
principles Of her art.
At that early age he had the credit OF
originality so surprising as even then
to challenge the supremacy of Philip
Kemble. At IA he played Hamlet.
King George had him recite at Windsor
castle, and it is said this incident LED
some gentlemen to send him to Elton,
| but there is no record of it. At 20 he
was in provincial troop, member
| of which he married, and for six years
thereafter, until his glorious night a
Drury Lane, his life was one of hard
ship, struggle, obscurity, but, thanks t.
the faith in himself, not hopeless. Hi
London debut was made at 2S. He hat
fought for it hard and long and woulC
then have missed it but for the falling
reputation Of the theater. London de
butts in first roles are not easy for pro
vincial actors, and none knows bette
how hard they are to get than Henr
Irving. Kean seems to have been at hi
full splendor, and made hit. After tina
his habits were altogether prejudicia
to the refinement of taste or the acqui
sition of knowledge. st. Louis Globe
| Democrat
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
ORIENTAL EYES.
Their Much Lauded Beauty Due to False
Modes of Living.

An esteemed correspondent Of The
Woman's Arena writes, May not the
much Landed largeness and luster of the
oriental eye be due to false modes of
living and to a low grade of civiliza-
tion?'
In the first place these charms are
never found among the working classes
or among the tillers of the soil. They
belong to the harem and to the harem
civilization.
l have examined the women's quar-
tiers in Constantinople and Cairo, in
Alden and Bombay i'll Calcutta and ia
hore, and even in Hongkong and Can
ton. and in nearly every instance the
women's rooms were small and dark.
Where there were windows these were
mere Sits in the wall, which did not
allow any direct light to enter.
The doorway was small and the door
was solid and nearly always closed. The
lamp was usually taper and sometimes
a candle. The room or rooms looked out
upon a long hall or corridor, which was
also dark and gloomy, and this In turn
upon an arched and rooted veranda.
In nearly all of these places wom-
ans daily life was conducted in shadow
and shade, and after shutdown she had
less light than fell to the lot OF the pill
grim fathers $50 years ago.
Under these conditions the human
eve develops like that of the cat and
dog. 1t becomes larger and seemingly
more lustrous in order to allow the
owner to move about in safety and com
fort. Transfer this unfortunate woman
to the open street, the field or the deck
Of q steamer, and her eyes are in tor
ture from the sunlight. Her forehead II
contracted by terrible frown, her eye
lids are screwed together and her eyes
seem to be just the opposite OF what
they are described in poetry and 70
| nance. =,
1t may be am all wrong, but OF al
poetic humbugs, I think that the ga
zellelike orb of the orient is the biggest
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
CROSSING THE ATLANTIC.
Some Hints on Manners 1t Were Well to
Observe at Sea.

Some Hints on Manners 1t Were Well to
Observe at Sea.
The shortness of the voyage has largely
killed off the cordially which is apt TO
break out among fellow passengers long
at sea together, despite themselves. This
short period of good fellowship is not so
repugnant to an experienced traveller as to
some others if there happen to be agree
able people on board. He does not misun-
derstand civility as an effort on the part OF
the people to make his acquaintance He
knows enough to mind his own business
on sea or land. But the man who relaxes
conyentionalities not at all on shipboard Is
apt to have a pretty dull time, which,
however, is just what dull man likes.
A civil word, a passing remark, or even
two remarks, can do person OF tact
no harm nor lead to social complications
later. A friendly attitude is more SEN
sble than standing conspicuously aloof
from everything or than REFRESHING
all signs of interest in existence or than
rigidly disregarding the fact that any one
is on the ship besides oneself, and de-
fensive airs are generally ofensive-at
least they are airs.
Some Americans seem to think that n
naughty demeanor will have the effect OF
"a title upon their fellow passengers. But
1t generally does not. Sir Walter Scott is
credited with repeating Montaignes re-
mark that every man knew some one
thing better than he did, and when he met
a stranger, therefore, he engaged him III
conversation TO find that one thing out.
In Scott's day to be courteous gentleman
or IA gracious lady under all circumstances
was not considered bad form. One OF the
most popular men ever saw on shipboard
was New Yorker whose family, whose
social position and whose public station
and influence are most enviable. Wherever
he is is the best society. On the trip
have in mind he seemed to have said OF
done or looked something amiable toward
everybody. Yet l don't believe anybody
tried to presume upon his civility then OF
afterward Lewis Morris Iddingsin Scrib-
Der's
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
PRIMITIVE MAN.
He May Have Been Evolved Upon the
American Continent.


In the Connecticut river valley reptiles
left their tracks on tho mud fiats-since
turned to sandstoDe-and few skeletons
also have been found. The bodies OF a race
of great reptiles that were the lords OF
creation of their day have been dissipated
to their elements, while the chance linden
tations of their feet as they raced along the
shores mere footprints on the sands, have
been preserved among the most imperish-
able of the memory tablets of the world.
OF the other vertebrate fossils that have
been found in the eastern portions OF
America, among the most abundant and
interesting are the skeletons of mastodons.
Of these one of the largest and most COM
plete is that which was unearthed in the
bed Of drained lake near Newburg, n.
Y, in 1915. This specimen was larger
than the existing elephants, and had tusks
/ feet in length. 1t was mounted and de-
scribed by DR. John G. Warren of Boston,
and has been famous for half century
as the Warren mastodon."
But to the student of racial development
as recorded by the fossils all these sporad-
ic finds have but incidental interest as
compared with the rich western fossil beGs
TO which we have already referred. From
records here unearthed the racial evolution
Of many mammals has in the past few
years been made out in greater or less de-
tail. Professor Cope has traced the an
cestry of the camels (Which, like the rhi-
noceroses, appropriateness and sundry
other forms now spoken of as ''old world,
seem TO have had their origin here) with
much completeness.
| A lemuroid form Of mammal, believed
to be of the type from which man has de-
scended, has also been found in these beds.
1t is thought that the descendants of this
creature and of the other "Old world
forms above referred to found their way
to Asia probably, as suggested by Profess
or Marsh, across bridge at Boring strait,
TO continue their evolution on the other
hemisphere, becoming extinct in the land
of their nativity. The ape man found fossil
in the tertiary strata of the island of Java
two years ago by the Dutch surgeon, DIR.
Eugene Dubois, and named Pithecanthro
pus erectus, may have been direct dc
scendant of the American tribe of print
tive lemurs, though this is only conjec
ture.-Henry Smith Williams, NJ. d., IL
Harper's Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
The opera House Orchestra,

This is strictly first-class, up-to-date
organization and in every way prepared
to furnish the very best OF music for sa-
cred and secular concerts, parties, etc., in
any part of the Upper Peninsula. No
amateur affair, but professional music by
professional musicians. Charges moder-
ate. For terms and dates apply to the
musical director and manager, Mr.. Max
Won LEM, 205 Eighth street, Red Jacket.
Special music arranged or supplied on
short notice without extra charge.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
is 1T A MATTER OF TIME?
What Was Considered Modest and Proper
Hundred Years Ago.

ASos
Modesty, as has often been said, may
almost be considered matter of time
and place. In the time of George Ill OF
England, though the drapery was OF the
scantiest, it was not considered delicate
or refined to uncover the forehead Some
young ladies who had been abroad were
considered bold looking because they
wore their hair Madonna fashion. La
dies not in la premiere jeunesse very
generally wore wigs. The princesses
had their heads shaved and wore wigs
ready dressed and decorated for the
evening to save time for the toilet.
Widows almost always shaved their
heads. Lady Murray says her mothers
beautiful hair was cut off for her deep
mourning, and she never wore anything
but wig in after years.
At Windsor castle in those days
luncheon was not, as 1t is now, a gen.
eral meal. Each lady had chicken, a
plate of fruit and q bottle of kings cup
(the peel of lemon put to soak fol-
some hours in cold water and then
sweetened with sugar. brought to hei
room every day. Those were the days
for servants perquisites. On all the
highest saints days tinsel cross OF
divers colors was placed Oh the table:
of the ladies or sent to their residences,
and guinea was understood to be due
in return. A bottle of wine every two
days and unnecessary wax candles were
the peruuisites of the ladies maids.
Candles were extinguished as soon az
lit, to be carried off by servants. Pages
were seen marching out before the roya
family with bottle of wine sticking
out of each pocket, and the state page
called regularly upon each person wh'
attended the drawing rooms, with hi
| book, to receive the accustomed gra
tuity. The ladies in waiting then wore
the Windsor uniform, which is at pres
ent confined to the gentlemen attend
| ants. 1t was blue cloth habit, no
long, as worn for riding, but the length
| of gown, with buttons having sta
surrounded with the motto, "Honi sol
| qui NAL pense" and scarlet collar. :
| New York Herald.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
Please Take Notice.

We are pleased to tell you that we
make everything pertaining to the shoe
makers trade as cheap as ever from the
best quality of leather. Mems boots or
shoes soled for As and so cents, ladies'
shoes soled for 80 and 40 cents. We
have a nice assorted stock OF fall and
winter SHOES, ana our own MAKE shoe
packs, which we will dispose "a at very
low figures. Good work guaranteed.
OKER 4 KEMPPAEEN.
Fifth street, Red Jacket, next to Jacob
Gartner's store.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
LAFlTTE THE PIRATE.
New Version OF the story Told by Gal
weston Oystermen.


Galveston island, Texas, is very
proud Of La6tte, the pirate. Indeed,
his fame, like that of Captain Kidd,
grows greater with every year. Out on
the island, Il few miles from the city,
is grove known as Latitte's grove. A
number of wind bent trees encircle a
dancing pavilion and are surrounded
with choice collection of oyster shells
and tin cans. The elderly woman of
the party, her old fashioned curls bob
bling Historically, hurried TO native
who was placidly wrestling with half
dozen bushels of oysters.
''Say, mister, who was this Lafitte
that they talk about?" she began, note
book in hand.
"Well, lady, he was powerful big
man. don't know all the rights of the
matter, but somehow he had the habit
of jerkin folks money away from 'em,
and once in while he brought a lot of
it here to the island and buried it. -
els there any buried here in the
grover
"No, lady. This grove was just
gathering place for 'em-Lafitte and
his crew They used to come here o
nights an bring their booty which they
had gathered from ships pirated an rob-
bed. They divided it up, an each man
got his share, an then they had kind
o. war dance around any victims they
had brought i'll before KILN 'em. "
"How horriblep'
Eyes, it was terrible, lady, but that
was not circumstance to the things
| tn chief pirate used to do. One time
when there was a big party i'll one Of
| the rich houses on the island he an his
crew suddenly appeared in the ball
| ROOM They drove everybody outdoors
except the women an made them dance
with 'em. Then they went to the din
in room an had a big feast, endin
with carrying off all the silver i'll the
house.
"That is very interesting" making
more notes.
"Yes, IN, ;" with placid face. "But
there's worse yet to come. Once man
refused to give up his pocketbook to
Lafitte, an tn pirate took him an tied
| him by the waist to the stern of the pi-
rate boat an dragged him for mile
through the sea. By that time he was
ready to give up"
"Did the pirate get the pocketbookY
eyes, IN, the man was dead. But
the end come at last, ma'am. One day
the other pirates did not like the way
Lafitte did things, an they rebelled Oh
him. They murdered him in his bunk
one night when he was asleep"
"What terrible fateP' making more
notes.
"Yesm, an they stuck his head OF
a pole, where they kept it for ten day.
an nights. Then they brought it here al
buried it in this grove, an he haunts Thu
part of the island every dark night
yelling an screeching awful.
} The listener shuddered and made
some more notes, but the oystermai
, went placidly on with his work, uncon
scious apparently of the effect hi
marvellous Interpretation of history hat
+ caused. If Lafitte had not alread!
0 haunted the grove, he surely ought t.
$ have done so after SO strange perver
t sion of his biography. New York Post
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
"A LITTLE GRAVE

Dark are the mounds where the snow blast Ii
sweeping,
Wild Is the cry of the wind ON its fight,
Cold is the drift that the north wind IL heaping
Over the nursing alone in the night
Alone in the night and the dark that went
creeping
Out of her arms but daybreak agol
Anguished with sorrow, her watch she is keep
ing
Far would she follow through storm and
through snow.
Nay, tender mother, have done with your
weeping,
Not in the night and the dark has he part
His all of bright heaven save when he Is sleeping
And dreaming OF heaven, warm, warm in
your heart.
-Harper's Bazar.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
Take Notice.

have just received a new stock OF
domestic and imported woolens, which
will be made up to order in suits OF any
stvle desired.
One thing sure is: II YOU Jrv me once
YOU will patronlze me again, Work and
fit fully warranted. John b. Rastello,
merchant tailor, 212 Sixth street.
Do not make objection to the street as
il is not the street that makes your
clothes, but a first-class tailor with eigh-
teen years experience.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
something 10 know.

It may be worth something to know
that the very best medicine for restoring
the tired-out. nervous system to a heal
thy vigor is Electric Bitters. This medl-
cine is purely vegetable, acts by giving
tone to the nerve centres in the stomach,
gently stimulates the liver and kidneys,
and aids these organs in throwing off i'm
purities in the blood. Electric Bitters i'm
proves the appetite, aids digestion and is
pronounced by those who have tried it
az the very best blood purifier and nerve
tonic. Try 1t. Sold for SO cents or u
per bottle at d. T. Macdonald's drug
store
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
A Serious Outlook.

"What l want" said the manager.
"is joyous burlesque." ,,
"Well," replied the scribe, III DO
what I can. But / give you fair warn
ing you're killing the goose that lays
the golden egg. II everybody keeps ON
writing burlesques, in a short time
there won't be anything serious for peo-
nla IN make fun of. "--Washington Star.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
The Finlanders'

Mutual Fire Insurance company OF
Houghton and Keweenaw counties, or
eanised in 1890 according to the laws OF
the State Of Michigan, will insure proper
Nv O, its members. Have paid fire losses
over %, 900 and dividends nearly $4,000
during the last seven years to members
Of five years standing. On the first day
of this year the company had 4S2 men,
bsrs. $421, 4sO worth OF property in
sured and $1O.66s.54 in treasury. For
further par ticulars apply to the under
signed. JOHN BLoMovIsT, President.
ALEX LEMoNEN, Secretary.
Office, 448 Pine street, upstairs die
Jacket
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
= GeoI.e /. Hail 20 aenr.

Oh st. Georges Hall is to rent on very
moderate terms on the following even
ings. Every Wednesday. every alternate
Thursday and three FRIDAYS in each
month. For further particulars apply to
John Jenkin, William Maynard. Frank
Ward. trustees
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
AIT Looked to Him.

People who have seen cottonwood
lumber warp when it came from the
saw can appreciate story Gene Ware
tells about the first sawmill erected at
Fort Scott. After the first days saving
the owner of the mill came down from
town. where he had been celebrating
the opening with the boys. He looked
over the crooked boards scattered about
the ward for moment and then IN
ouired with drunken gravity:
"Boysh (hic), has that lumber been
measured yet?'
"It has not. replied the foreman OF
the mill ~,
"Well, when it gets still, take (hio)
corkscrew and measure 1t. "-hansas
CITY Journal
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
More Liberal.

In a farmhouse not far from Fcstiniog
farmers wife used to cook the dinner for
the laborers. Before the meat every man
used to be given a basin of soup.
One day the farmers wife went away
and left her little daughter to get the men
their dinner.
After they had had the soup the little
girl said to them;
"There, now, wasn't that soup better
than mothers, for I've put two candles in
it and mother only puts oneY"-London
Answers.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
nushIen,s Arn,cn saiy..

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises. sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores. letter. chapped hands. chilblains,
corns. and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price. 25 cents per
box. For eale by ID. T. Macdonald.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
Footed the Hills.

Francis w. Bird, the Sage of Wal
pole, once went to see DR.. S. q. Howe
and found him with his feet swathed in
fiannels and extended ON chair.
"Howe, what is the natter" he asked.
81 have got the govt" said Howe.
"You have got the gout-such a tenn
perance NAN as you" eyes, Bird, my
ancestors drank wine, and have to
foot the bills. "'-Boston Transcript.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
To secret Societies and Others WISH
Ing TO Rent a Lodge Room.

The Temple of Honor lodge room is
vacant on Wednesday evenings OF
each week. Parties desiring to rent the
same may apply by letter to the
Union Temple of Honor and Temperance,
No. AZ, Calumet. Mich.
j. r. JAMES, Secretary.
Box 81, Opechee.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25

In former times chapels were COM
monty built ON bridges at the entrance
of towns and villages, but the custom
has long since fallen into disuse, and
very few of these structures remain to-
day. One of the best existing specimens
NAV be seen at Rotterdam. it stands
ON the bridge crossing the Don and was
built in 1883. Leland mentions it in
1860.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
..It 10 the Rest on Ear,h. ;,

That is what Edwards & Parker, mer-
chants OF Plains, Ga, say OF Chamber
lain's Pain Balm. for rheumatism. Ian
bach, deep seated and muscular pains.
Sold by SodergreD & Sodergren, drug
giats
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25
Lake Linden stage.

Stage leaves Pearce's livery stable
Lake Linden, every day at 8 a. m, 10 a.
M, and p. m. Stageleayes McClure's
livery stable, Red Jacket, at 8 a. M, 10
a. M, and l and 4. p. m.
THOMAS PEARCE,
JAMES MCCLURE,
Proprietors.
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ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.


The undersigned will receive car load
OF nsw mich cows, some Jerseys. which
can be seen at Nappa's warehouse, Fifth
street. Oh and after Monday afternoon.
Come and examine them before purchas-
ing else W here. DEMARoIs 4 THOMPSON.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-25

Salt is good to check bleeding of the
lungs and as a nervine and tonic for
weak, thin blooded invalids Combined
with hot water, It is useful for certain
forms of dyspepsia, liver complaint, etc.