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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
RUssIA's RULERS RICHES.
A Rothschild Among European sovereigns
Is the Gar.


The Emperor Paul, whose reign was
certainly not ana of the most brilliant,
was nevertheless one of the greatest bene-
factors of the dynasty. He not only set
tied the order of succession on perma-
nent basis, but also endowed his posterity
with the material means of maintaining
their position. 1t is claimed that no other
reigning family in Europe is so well pro-
vided for Paul l set aside "A vast amount
of landed property. under the name of the
imperial appanagcs for the sole benefit of
all grand duke and grand duchesses not
in the direct line OF succession, while the
sovereign and the heir apparent together
with their respective families, were to be
supported out of the funds of the state
These appanages of the Russian impe-
rial family now cover the enormous total
area in different sections of Russia of 81
900, 900 acres, an extent of land larger by
2, 900, 900 acres than the whole of Scot
land. This total includes 10, 900, 900 acres
of wood and forest, producing yearly more
than 5, 900, 900 rubles. The total annual
revenue of the imperial appanages now
reaches 90, 900, 900 rubles, or more than
42, 900, 900, and, with no fewer than 46
members of the imperial family to sup
port, the expenditure at present amounts
to yearly average of over 5000, 900 ru-
bles In 1891 it was over 6, 900, 900 rubles.
The appanages are quite separate and
distinct from extensive private property,
and from the crown or state domains adj
ministercd by the minister Of agriculture
and they do not contribute toward the an
| nual expenditure of the imperial court
amounting, as far as can be ascertained
to about FL, 600, 900, nor toward providing
dowries for imperial grand duchesses. Be
fore the emancipation of the serfs the APP
panages possessed over 800 900 peasants,
who paid annually in land and poll taxes
| for the benefit of the imperial family near
| ly 3, 900, 900 rubles and during 90 years,
| up to their liberation, altogether 40, 000
| 900 rubles, or 912, 500, 900. The depart
ment of imperial appanages has since be-
come the largest landed proprietor, the
| largest agriculturist and the largest wine
| producer in the empire. Its industrial en-
| terprises in timber, sugar, cotton and
other products are rapidly developing on a
proportionately large scale. During Il
century of existence it has furnished the
collateral branches of the imperial house
with altogether 236, 600, 900 rubles, and
as the imperial progeny continues to in
| crease large reserve fund is employed in
preparing to meet their ever growing de-
| mands. Times
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
CHICAGO TO BE A VENICE.
Five Hundred Years Hence the Windy City
VIII Stand In Great Lake.

Chicago has troubles ahead of her-none
or your ordinary, everyday troubles, but
the real thing in mental disquieters.
True, ii is 500 years Off but posterity
must be considered.
Professor q. X. Gilbert of the United
States geological survey is responsible for
this prediction For n number of years
the professor has been making notes of the
rise and fall of the great lakes from his
own observations and from the records of
the government surveys. From these he
declares the waters at the lower end of
Lake Michigan rise six inches in each
century and that the lake is preparing to
overflow its southern edge to the infinite
discomfort of the Chicagoan of the future.
If his figures speak truly, the whole dis
trict covered by the great lakes is under
going change of level, and he believes ii
will only be matter of time before their
outlet into the Atlantic is closed and a
new one through the basin of the Missis-
sippi is opened. AS the land in the neigh
borhood of Chicago is the lowest along
the lake shore, it is there Professor Gil
bert has located the outlet of the future.
But rs the waters only rise at the rate OF
one inch in ten years, it is plainly to be
seen there is no immediate danger to the
Windy City's real estate valuation.
In fact, 500 years will have elapsed be-
fore the cry of the gondoler will begin to
be heard in the waterways of the western
Venice and the clang of the cable car is
hushed forever Then the real trouble will
begin And in another such triiling period
for years are as but seconds in the pre-
dictions of the profcssor-thc formation
of the new outlet from the lakes to the
Mississippi will have taken place. and over
the site of the Chicago of today mighty
river will be flowing.
After Chicago has been disposed of the
professor predicts trouble for the Niagara
Falls hack drivers and newly welded cou
pies The latter will have to seek new
fields to exhibit themselves in, and this
will take away the sole support of the for
mer. In $500 years from now niagara
will be merely an intermittent stream ant
after another 500 years there will not bC
even n rivulct there.
The only consolation remaining for Chi
cago in all this is that, even If New Yorl
does exist, she won't have Niagara at hcl
doors any longer.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
Sorry He Spoke.

On one occasion when well known
wit was listening to the band on the
pier at Brighton some medical students
who happened to be there thought they
would have "a joke with him, and ac-
cordingly one of their number went up
with outstretched hand and said:
"Ah, good morning, Mr.. -. How
do you do?'
II am quite well, thank you, re-
piled he, "but l really have not the
honor of your acquaintance.
WHAT said the student. "4ou
don t know me? Why, met you at the
ZOO.
"Young man. accept my apologies,
but really saw so many monkeys there
that it is impossible for me to recognize
them all again. Pearson Weekly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
Niuskets.

While the introduction of portable fire.
arms into Europe is of comparatively re-
cent date, their use was frequent among
the Mohammedans of eastern Asia at a
very early period. La Brocquiere, who
made Journey to Jerusalem in the mid
die of the fifteenth century, and who trav-
eled extensively in the east, mentions the
firing of small arquebuses at tho great fes
rivals in Damascus.
The first use of muskets in Europe was
at the siege of Rhege in 1901 by the Span
ish soldiers. These arms were so extreme
ly heavy that they could not be used with
out rest They were provided with
matchlocks, and were effective at consid
cradle distance. While on the march the
soldiers themselves carried only the am
munition and the rests, and boys, bearing
the muskets, followed after, like caddies
on golf course
Loading these cumbersome arms was u
slow operation. They were clumsy and
awkward to handle, the ball and powder
! were carried separately, and the prepare
ton and adjustment of the match took a
| long time.
Before long, however, improvements be-
gan to be made. The guns became lighter
| in construction, and the soldiers carried
! their ammunition in broad shoulder belts
| called bandeliers, to which were suspended
| number of little leather covered wooden
cases. each of which held a charge of
| powder. A pouch, in which the bullets
were carried loose, and printing horn
| hung at the side of the soldier,
| AS late as the time of Charles 1 muskets
with rests were still in use, and it was not
until the beginning of the eighteenth CEN
tury that frelocks were successfully en-
| ployed. Harper Round Table.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
"A Study of berlin.

bc-fin is almost as discouraging i'm
Its other landmarks Of its notable Ger.
mans as In its public statues. 1t is al.
most as bad as New York, where few
houses now stand that were in existence
when Franklin and Washington were
alive. London is rich in buildings as
sociated with great men, and an Ameri-
can can hardly walk from Westminster
TO 81 Paul without recalling a dozen
names OF men whose lives are dear 10
him. Berlin has, however, been almost
built anew since 1870. | can remember
whole streets that were different when
L was boy. There are, to be sure. a
Few instances Of memorial plates being
affixed TO houses where notable Ger.
mans have lived, but even in these cases
the houses themselves are an uninterest-
ing portion of an embarrassing street.
The Prussian kings adored uniformity
III street architecture, as well as in the
dressing of soldiers, and that may be
the reason why today the most beautiful
streets of Berlin furnish less interest TO
a stranger than the grimiest alleys Of
London, with their charming diversity
Of dirty fronts.
The houses here are all equally high,
equally broad equally gaudy on the
outside and equally devoid of individu-
ality within The Anglo-Saxon owns
his house and makes it comfortable for
himself and his family The Prussian
lives i'll an apartment house, along with
perhaps dozen more families, all of
them subject to the petty tyranny of a
porter whose duties are dangerously
near to those of u police agent. Thus
the individual taste of Berlin artist.
writer, actor or other notable resident
finds no expression through his architec-
tural surroundings. A Helmholtz, a
Mommsen, Mcneil or q Virchow is
in Berlin as little identified with his
house as a soldier with his barracks.
This form of living has its conveniences,
particularly to Il bachelor, but is not
conducive to interest in those who seek
the literary landmarks of great capitals.
-Poultney Bigelow in Harper's
Weekly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
HamiIton's Dueling Pistol.

In the parlor of the Roy homestead, in
Superior, Wis, is the pistol with which
Alexander Hamilton fought Aaron Burr
on the banks of the Hudson in the year
1906, and the mate of the weapon with
which Aaron Burr took Hamilton's life
on that occasion. The owner of the relic
Is Margaret A. Roy, widow of Vincent
Roy. Mr.. Roy was one of Superior's pio-
nees, and over 90 years ago, upon the oc-
oasion of visit to the town of party OF
southern and eastern spectators, the pis-
tol was presented to him by ex-senator j.
b. Beck of Kentucky in return for favor
conferred by Mr.. Roy. Mr.. Beck received
the weapon from relative OF Colonel
James Boyle, and subsequently, loaned 1t
to a friend who used it during the civil
war. Colonel Boyle received the pistol
together with it's mate, from Judge Van
Ness. who was Burrs second during the
duel with Hamilton.
The Burr pistol, which is an exact dupli-
cate of the other, Is now owned by Louis
Marshall, son of Colonel Thomas Marshall
of Vermont. 1t has changed hands many
times, and finally got into the hands of
Colonel Marshall after passing through
the Mexican and civil wars. Both weapons
were marked by Colonel Van Ness to in
sure identification, the Burr pistol with an
tx" to signify that it had killed one
man, and the Hamilton pistol with the
character "O' above the initials "A. II. "
The pistol owned by Mrs. Roy is of the old
flintlock, horse pistol pattern. Although
made of good material and we'll finished,
it is clumsy looking affair compared
with the pistol of today. The barrel Is IL
inches long and carries two ounce ball,
while the handle is heavy and extremely
difficult to grip.-Chicago Times Herald.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
Domestic Service on the Kongo.

Cruelty In the Kongo Free State" is
the title of a paper made up from the
journals of the late L. j. Glave i'll The
Century. Mr.. Glave says: Toyo the
boy l engaged of Sims, is more differ
ent kinds of an ass than any one L have
met for several moons The other day,
after cooking something in the frying
pan he placed the sooty side on the
drum of my banjo. | do not understand
his language very well, but from ges-
ture and disguised look it ought to have
been clear to him that | objected to that
sort of untidiness. When | threw off
the frying pan, he took it up carefully,
wiped the sooty part with cloth l had
given him to clean plates with, and
then put it back on the banjo. He has
made tea in my coffeepot without re-
moving the coffee grounds. He walks
into my room without taking off his
hat or removing his pipe. He is ugly,
slow and has no more intelligence than a
rock. found him wearing hat which
L had given him to carry, and wiping
his sweaty face on my towel What
service he could have rendered Sims
mission do not know
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
They Are Sensitive.

The sensitiveness Of the families OF
distinguished men as TO the early &C.
equations of their ancestors is some-
what remarkable Recently an author
was asked to write a brief history OF
the life of q man who had done service
to his state. Like Lincoln, this man had
been a woodchopper, fact to which
his historian gave prominence
Don't say he was a woodchopper, .
said the spokesman of the family
"That will never do.
"What shall l say then?" asked the
author.
"Say-let me see now. just say that
he was connected with the lumber bust
ness. ATLANTA Constitution.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
What Is a Gentleman?

The old story about the French marquis
who opined that the Almighty would
think twice before damning n gentleman
of quality, doubtless finds an echo in all
genuinely "armigerous" bosoms, but
there is another tale in Evelyn's diary
which puts what believe to be the Eng
lish position as pointedly as the other
does that of the ancient regime: "March
10, 1888. ". told friend of mine who
accompanied him to the gallows and gave
him some advice that he did not value dy-
ing of rush and hoped and believed God
would deal with him like gentleman"-
1. e., with courtesy and consideration.
Everybody would admit that breeding has
not little to do with gentle instincts,
but three generations may be trusted to
do as much as 3O.-Cornhill Magazine
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
The Grand est Rem dy

Mr.. r. 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 a chair; was induced
to try DR.. Kings New Discovery and was
cured by use OF two bottles. For past
three years has been attending to bust.
mess, and says, DR.. Kings New Discoy.
cry is the grandest remedy ever made, az
IL has done 40 much for him and also for
others in bis community. DR.. king's
New Discovery is guaranteed for coughs
colds and consumption. It don't fail
Trial bottles free at d. T. Macdonald's
drug store
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
Ipfantile Way.

Mr.. Newpop-Say, doctor. wish you
would fix up something to make my
wife sleep nights. The baby has just
begun cutting its teeth, and
Doctor-Oh, it's the baby you want
the opiate for, is 1t?
Mr.. Newpop-No; for my wife. You
see, every time the baby sprouts another
tooth she is so tickled that she keeps
me awake half the night talking about
it. -Brooklyn Life
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
"THERE Is A PEACE THAT COMETH
AFTER SORROW"

There Is peace that cometh after SORROW"
or hope surrendered, not of hope fulfilled;
"A peace that looketh not upon tomorrow,
But calmly on a tempest that is stilled;
A peace which lives not now in Joys excesses
Nor in the happy life of love secure,
But IN the unerring strength the heart pos
sesses
or conflicts won while learning to endure.
A peace there is in sacrifice secluded,
A life subdued, from will and passion free.
lis not the peace which over Eden brooded,
But that which triuinphed in Gethsemane.
Jessie Rose Gates in Century.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
Misnaned.

"Mamma, didn't the conductor say
Blue island?"
eyes, dear.
"Why, it amt blue at ALL F"
"No, dear.
Mammal
"Well, dear?"
"It amt an island either +"
mo, dear "
"Mamma, what made the conductor
say Blue island, when
FLUSH, dear.
Mamma, if was the railroad Ia
have conductors that knowed"-
Whack Chicago Tribune
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
Laurium Bus Line.

The public are respectfully informed
that we have started bus line to run
from Laurlum to Osceola and Red Jacket
Stages will leave our barn in time for
each outgoing train and will meet each
incoming one. This stage line will carry
the Laurium mail to and from Red acket,
FARES.
Between Red Jacket and Osceola...... 15c
To or from Laurium and Osceola...... 1Oc
To or from Laurium and Red Jacket 10c
MANNER & HUNT,
Laurium Livery Stable.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08

rbe stockholders in the Superior Saw
cs hank voted Tuesday on the propo'
Zion Of opening branch at Laurium.
Oshares we're voted. The plan is to
|sDsIer $50 900 OF the capital stock OF
\ Superior TO the Laurium branch.
bus each holder would retain hall the
Rmber Of shar of his holdings in the
resent institution end half in the new
suture, The proposition voted upon
| as whether to take half the number oil
bares in the branch or take cash in
cad Out OF the total voted, but
|gbty6ve wanted to cash IN. The direc-
brs state that the people OF Laurium
land ready to take more than enough
J make the capital good again. The
ranch will be under the direction OF the
bperior's board aud is evidently looked
bon by the great majority Of the stock
|uIders as a good thing.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
No NOnOtOnY.

According to the statement OF the 10
year-old daughter of a Massachusetts cler-
gyman there are ways of making an old
sermon seem almost new.
molly" said one of the friends OF this
young critic, "does your father ever preach
the same sermon twiceY'
Il think perhaps he does, returned
Molly cautiously, but ! think he talks
loud and soft i'm different places the second
time, SO it doesn't sound the same at all. ="
Youths Companion.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
~ For The Novem-
~. Term of Cir
cult Court.
WAS Drawn Yesterday.
summoned 10 Re ON Hand
second Day of Court
IT, O,her News.

law for the November term OF the
.ourt was drawn yesterday.
' !. .oOveues Monday. November L,
:, ne iurymeu are summoned to be on
\ Tuesday morning
=. Hst il as follows;
" township-Jabez Burgan' Jr.'
s. Gn,bord. Nelson, Audi n.
emls township-Charles Beauchaine'
OIr wdraucblin, Benjamin G. Davey.
~" township William Taylor, James
- Frank scheuermau' ~
,na, tovnship--Jonn Geuke, James W.
D John Prisk po,.,ou rhomas
Sdden, f. L. Powers ,,., . o.,
S.allin township Samuel j. Congdon, Ar
.r LEAGUES, Thomas J Dennis.
t.aoook tovnship William j. James, Tony
I0deIl, Thomas D. Ryan.
f.S.ols township--Absolom Davey, Frank
ba.,ce township--Thomas h. Rayten,
Iorge Carah' H.,
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08

The D., s. s 4 A railway will cell ex-
lrsiOn tickets, at the favorable rates
ireu below, to Port Huron, at the time
the next State Sunday School conyen-
ol November 1918, with an unusual
ne limit, to be good going November
and valid to return until the 9th.
hereby allowing those making the trip
be privilege OF spending Thanksgiving
bib friends 10 the lower part OF the
tate without forfeiture of return priv
ege,
The rates will be, from Calumet $1S.02,
AXE Linden $lS.02 and Houghton
blL52.
Further Information may be obtained
ron E, L. Wright, Hancock, vice-presi-
cot Of the Michigan State Sunday school
(sociation.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08

Inc Ladies Aid society of the Congre-
atlonal church will give a seasons
parry this evening. Tables will be deco
"ed appropriately. Oyster supper
\ Yed at and after 6 o'clock. Also oys-
observed in various styles, and other
Fsi'acies to order.
supper including oysters, 4Oc; supper
0'co'ldren under II, 25c; oysters, zoe;
@c'eam aud cake, 15.; coffee, &c.
Proceeds are to pay off the ladies'
PFuge TO the church debt. Admission
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08

Charles Oiala, at 447 Pine street. Red
Jacket, having large stock OF footwear
on hand has determined to offer the same
Mt half price. Mems hip rubber boots.
Woonsocket, up to 1915. He has also
a large quantity of ladies', hoys' and
,hildren's shoes which he will ofier at
greatly reduced prices. Remember the
place, AT Pine street.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08

SITUATION WANTED-By a young lady
having had experience in clerking or Of
fl work. Can speak the Scandinavian
language and English. Apply at the
News office.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
A Man at the bottom Of It.

II there were no men in the world,
secrets would be better kept More than
half the time when woman betrays
secret some man is to blame for it
Somerville Journal.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08

All. '' MOOR oil the Portage Lake bridge
,,aa ~, very rain remains in very bad
sN''on The water stands until it
,,a .po'a'eS' This is bad both for those
M. s' and Tor the life OF the floor OF
d,.' D', !, Holes should be bored to
''an the roadway.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08

'ue attention OF parties who have re-
''eu invitations to the complimentary
A'uraon to Duluth which leaves Hough-
W. on sunday morning at 900. is par
quarry called to the item headed "The
documentary Excursion to Duluth"
lCn appears on the local page OF this
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08

A regular meeting OF Jocelyn Council
will be held on Friday. October 8, at
7:30 p. IN. Work in the second and
third degrees. All members are requested
to attend. THOMAS MATTHEW'S,
Recorder OF Council
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
Trophies Of victory.

"what are all those ribbons hanging on
the chandeliers"
s'Those arc not ribbons. They are neck
ties I've pulled off different men when
was learning to ride n wheel. Chicago
Record
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08

William Scott. of Hancock. will furnish
Portage Entry sandstone for cemetery
lots and do all work in setting them at
reasonable prices. Apply at the Han
cock stone sawmill.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
Gold Watch Lost.

A ladies' double case gold watch with
part OF chain attached lost on Saturday
at the south end of Front street. The
finder will please return to Hosklns bar.
Der shop and receive reward.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08

Snodgrass-The world has a place for
everybody.
Micawber-Yes; the only trouble Is
there's generally somebody else In it,
London Answers.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08

=" adjourned term of the circuit court
'''enes next Monday. The case of Al
N, ArApatrick vs. William Mehalitch
=, M Oe Tried second time at this session.
49,. n.y. u''' decision was in favor OF the de-
WV but the Superior court reversed
-" aad new trial was ordered.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08

have an S-room house and lot in the
Florida addition for sale cheap; also a
10-room house in Red Jacket.
w. III. FAUcETT. Borgo Block.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
Cows For sale.

| have just received carloads OF fresh
mich cows, some Jerseys, which will be
sold at moderate prices. Milk and cream
for sale. GEORGE DEMARoIs,
Portland street, Red Jacket.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08

one =, ~ rerreault building, the biggest
On .ss Ouassell, was this week removed
lo,h up Portage Lake, through the
borrower. ' "c'osS rorch Lake