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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-27
An Alleged Count Gets Married.

Count" Julian RADIO, formerly of
Hungary, the other day married Miss
Carrie Ewald, until recently member
OF the Frohman company playing in the
"Masqueraders. -
Miss Ewald is the daughter of q
wealthy Jersey City stationer. She lived
with her parents at 33S York street, in
that city. The engagement was an
nounced in January last, but was
broken of after investigation had been
made into the counts" past history.
He has had previous matrimonial
ventures in this city and while posing
as representative Of the Hungarian
government was arrested on charge Of
swinding, made by the proprietress of
q cigarette factory in Broadway, where
he was employed as salesman. A
young man of his name and description
has bad police record in Budapest,
whence he came.
The marriage was performed by the
well known Pastor Schneider" at his
home, $40 Second avenue, New York
city, at 10 O'Clock at night. The wit
nesses were Henry Weber and Alexander
Szaraz The latter's picture, il is said,
adorns the rogues' gallery in Budapest,
as does that of Julian RADIO. New
York Telegram.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-27
Made a Difference.

81 can't take that half dollar,
madam It's a counterfeit -
why. / got it here yesterday morn
ing"
Are you sure?"
Eyes, sir. l bought pair Of shoes
for So. so. handed you So bill. You
gave me dollar bill and this half dol
lar in change There can't be any mis-.
take about it. haven't had any other
90 cent piece in my possession since. "
Let me look at it again H'm-the
coins all right. 1t looks little suspi-
cious, but on closer examination l find
it's only battered. I'll take it, -
oh, beg your pardon Now that /
think about it didn't get it here at
all A fruit peddler gave it to me in
charge this morning. / had forgotten
it However, if it's all right you'll
take it, so it doesn { make any
III mon looking at it still closer,
ma'am, find my first impression was
correct It's "a counterfeit and bad
one. l shall have to refuse it, ma am .
Chicago Tribune
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-27
WAS "ME TOO" coNkLlNo.
Senator Piatt and Why He Resirned After
the Garfield Controversy.


Senator Piatt and why He Resirned After
the Garfield Controversy.
Mr.. Platt is much more of peace
man than he is generally credited with
being. Chief Justice Goodrich of New
York tells me most interesting and
think hitherto unpublished story of the
Garfield Conkling Platt episode 1t was
on Monday that Garfield sent to the
senate the nomination of Robertson to
be collector. The next day Mr.. Platt
went to New York, and Wednesday
morning told Mr. Goodrich the story
which he now tells me.
When the nomination Of Robertson
reached the senate chamber Conkling
and Platt were talking together. Ar
thur was in the chair, and when the
message was handed him by the veteran
Bassett he opened the envelope in a
nonchalant, matter Of course way, never
dreaming that il contained the bit OF
political dynamite which was to kill
Garfield, ruin the career of Conkling
and shorten his days and make himself
president and lead indirectly to his
early death.
When Arthur opened the envelope
and his eye alighted upon the fatal
words, he turned as pale as a sheet He
clinched the gavel convulsively, as if
he would use it as weapon. Then he
beckoned to Conkling and Platt, and
they both walked up TO the vice presi-
dents desk. Arthur handed them the
sheet of paper bearing Garfisld's sigma
ture. Conkling looked at it, and all in
describably fierce expression came over
his face Arthur was simply speechless
and now livid with rage. Platt alone
met the most unexpected situation with
something like q calm and practical
view.
II shall resign my seat in the SEN
ate," said he.
"Why do you say that?" asked Arthur,
now recovering his speech.
Because this nomination mean9
war;" replied Platt land because
came here for peace and am physically
unable to 60 through such war as this
is going to be. 1t will kill me, and the
only way l can save my life is by re-
signing.
plat" said Conkling, lit will be
fatal to my plans if you resign now.
Promise me you will withhold your
resignation for few weeks, and if you
are then of the same mind / will resign
with you.
Platt agreed to this and the bargain
was made. Some weeks later Platt in
sisted upon resigning, and Conkling's
resignation. he being the senior sena-
tor, was offered first. Plat told his
friend and counsel, Judge Goodrich, of
this agreement made at the vice presi-
dents desk in that dramatic moment
before the nomination was laid before
the senate, within 40 hours. The story
told here is as Plat himself narrated it,
and it effectually disposes of the Me
too sneer under which Platt rested in
silence for many years. Walter Well
man in Chicago Times Herald.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-27
Slum Work In London.

To accomplish any substantial result
in slum work in London, woman must
not only give time and strength but
life itself Miss Meredith Brown, the
English philanthropist, who has been
the champion of the factory girls for
some years, says that women who know
only the slums of New York and Chica-
go have no conception of the horrors and
misery of the slums close to the aristo-
cratic parts of London. The girls which
Miss Browns special mission reaches
are so rough and lawless that the Sal
walton Army would not take them in,
and the directors of mission which
had invited the girls to tea refused to
allow them into the building again.
The girls came TO the feast with pillow
slips under their aprons and snatched
everything TO eat off the table before
their hostesses could stop them.
Finally the courageous women inter-
ested in the welfare of these young
semisavages decided that to reach the
girls they would have TO live among
them. Ten dauntless women took up
their residence in rickety old house in
the very heart of all the misery and
squalor which makes the wild girls
what they are, and their efforts at last
were met with more than an encour-
aging response But it is very hard on
the health, says Miss Brown 1.-Two
years will break down any one, so we
have lost some of our best workers. -
New York Commercial
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-27
KRc NN eY HIS SCARS.
That l. the Way Uncle sam Keeps Track
OF His Enlisted Men.

OF His Enlisted Men.
While good many people know IN
general way OF the Bertillon system
for the Identification of criminals, COM
paratively few know of the simple
method which Uncle Sam has been
using for "a number of years past TO keep
track of the men who eat his rations
and wear his uniform in the regular
army. The system employed by the war
department might be termed the mat
ural method" and is at once simple and
ingenious. lt does away with all APP
paratus except vertical measuring
rod and pair of scales. It is known as
1.-THE scar system" and has been found
wonderfully effective,
There is an unwritten theory in the
army that every man who enlists will
at some time or other desert. This is
not entirely true, but the assertions are
numerous enough to make IL worth
while to keep track of the offenders. In
war the penalty for desertion is death,
but in peace it is long term of impris-
onment, and the subject is liable to pun
ishment no matter how long term has
elapsed since his offense was committed
Strange as it may seem, the men who
desert most readily are the ones who
straightway go back and enlist again,
though usually in some remote section
of the country.
The recruiting card. as il is called,
is big enough TO contain two inch
outlines of a mans form. front and rear
view, with a good sized border for mar
ginal notes. When the recruit is strip
ped for his physical examination, he is
gone over from head to foot, and every
appreciate scar or permanent skin
blemish is recorded. Its location is ac
curately noted by dot on the card, and
its description is written on the mar
gin. The hands and face usually have
the greatest number of scars, but those
on the body are apt TO be the more
pronounced and characteristic, as it is
usually more severe wound that pene
trates the clothing and leaves its record
on the flesh beneath. Moles are also
noted, their color and dimensions, and
other birthmarks or blemishes that
would not ordinarily disappear with
time.
The question may arise as to what if
a man have no scars, moles or birth
marks. That would be enough to identi-
fly him, for in all the thousands of men
who have been catalogued by the de-
partn ent there has never been one who
bore less than three clearly defined
scars, while seven or eight is the more
usual number, and there are some cases
where the number runs up to 80 or 30.
Further, so infinite are the chances of
that there have never been
two individuals whose height, weight
and the number and location of their
scars came anywhere near coinciding. -
Washington Star.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-27
The Bright Side.

The habit of looking ON the bright
side of things is good one and is worth
great deal to each one who cultivates
it. Certainly one should not cultivate
the habit of looking on the dark side,
especially when he must draw on his
forebodings and apprehensions for vi.
sion of that dark side, and thus see not
only what does not exist, but what may
never exist. God promises grace for
each time of need, but not for each time
Of worry and anxiety. He promises to
be with His people when they pass
through the fire, but He does not prom.
Use to extinguish the fire before it has
been lighted. He says that when His
people pass through the waters they
shall not overflow them, and we ought
to be satisfied with that. If we trust in
God, the disasters we dread most will
never come, or, if they do, He will
change the disaster into benediction. =
Churchman.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-27
STANDARD TIME.
The Fou Sections Into Which the Coun-
try L. Divided.

L
try L. Divided.
Primarily, for the convenience of the
railroads, standard of time was estab-
lished by mutual agreement in 1883, by
which trains are run and local time reg
ulated. According TO this system. the
United States, extending from 60 to 40
degrees west longitude, is divided into
four time sections. each of 10 degrees OF
longitude, exactly equivalent to one
hour The first (eastern) section IN
cludes all territory between the Atlantic
coast and an irregular line drawn from
Detroit TO Charleston, tire latter be-
ing its most southern point The Sec
ond (centraD section includes all the
territory between the last named line
and an irregular line from Bismarck TO
the mouth of the Rio Grande,
The third (mountain) section includes
all territory between the last named
line and nearly the western borders of
Idaho, Utah and Arizona. The fourth
(Pacific) section covers the rest of the
country To the Pacific coast. Standard
time is uniform inside each Of these sec
tions, and the time of each section diff
fers from that next to it by exactly one
hour. Thus at l2 noon in New York
city eastern time) the time at Chicago
central time) is l. a. m; at Denver
(mountain time), 10 a. M, and at San
Francisco Pacific time), O'Clock a. IN.
Standard time is l6 minutes slower
at Boston than true local time, min
utes slower at New York, s minutes
faster at Washington, 10 minutes faster
at Charleston, 20 minutes slower at De-
troit, Is minutes faster at Kansas City,
10 minutes slower at Chicago, l minute
faster at ST. Louis, 20 minutes faster at
Salt Lake City and 10 minutes faster at
San Francisco. Atlanta Constitution.
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CHRISTIAN ENDEAvop


Topic For the Week Bepinn,,
comment by Rev. s. ii. DOYLE ~
ToPic.-The idols we are likely 20 -.
Elk. Xxx. 10; Luke xii, 1921. ''"orShip-
ldolatry is the curse of the ros,,
day The civilized world has odraa W.
from that state OF barbarism mtd
makes images out of gold and s;,'
and yet 1t has not by any means roast
ed point where God holds first ,Ie
III the human heart. Our idolotrvr ,a'o
differ in form from that which may nay
In the past and exists in MANY hea.Leu
lands today, but it does not die -
character. 1t is no less idolatry bocan ~
we have ceased to bow down 70 tSs'
which represents the things which Nv
love and worship before God Himset
Idolatry is most heinous sin 7.
placing something else in the nl,oo 70
God. IL is in direct violation NJ a.
command Of God. "Thou shalt bsvo Wv
other gods before Me-" The follv ~
idolatry is supreme. 1t cannot bnt o.
pear SO to any who will give the matt.
a serious thought Why men sb,n,a
have ever made images and have called
them gods is great mystery. We can
not but wonder who made the first idol
1t seems such supreme folly for men 70
have believed that the works of tho;s
own hands could do anything for tbo,n
that 1T would be incredible did we mot
know positively that such has been tbe
case. But the idolatry of the modern
world is none the less stupendously fool.
ish. 1t is only change in form. Tho
thing idolized usurps the place of God
in the heart and life, and the folly Of s.
doing is supreme. The human sopl
needs God. II cannot be satisfied with.
out God
There are many things which we are
likely to worship as idols. The second
topical reference suggests gold. How
many are worshiping the golden calf to.
day as sincerely and devoutly as the Jc.
sus Of old? The greed for gold is and
has been almost Unsuitable. It has
caused men to sacrifice honor, position.
reputation and everything that men
should hold dear in the world. Yet how
transient its blessings are. Today we
have wealth, tomorrow it is gone and
even if it should last until the end Of
life we cannot take it with us at death.
How foolish to let it take Gods place.
Pleasure is an attractive idol in the
eyes of the young. Many young people
live simply for pleasure. They think Of
it, dream of it and live for it regardless
Of God and of eternity. Self is another
popular god. Selfishness is the control.
ling principle of many lives. Before
God, before others, many place self, and
yet the truest life is life for God and
for Others Let us live less for self and
more for others, and we will be less
likely to fall into idolatry.
Bible Readings. -Ex. xxi, 20; Lev.
XVI, 1-8; Deut. iv, 1919; Kings
xviii, 1920; Ps. CIV, is; cxxxv. 1871;
Jer ii, 26-37; Math. vi, 1924; xvi,
24-27; xix, 1926; Acts iv, SIS; xvii,
1891; Cor. K, Ia; John ii, l5.l7
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-27
Yellow Alaska Cedar.

The durability of this timber is forci-
bly, illustrated by fallen trunks that are
perfectly sound after lying in the damp
woods for centuries. Soon after these
trees fall they are overgrown with moss,
in which seeds lodge and terminate and
grow up into vigorous saplings, which
stand in row OH the backs of their
dead ancestors. OF this company of
young trees perhaps three or four will
grow to full stature, sending down
straddling roots on each side and estab-
fishing themselves in the soil, and after
they have reached an age of 200 or 300
years the downtrodden trunk on which
they are standing, when cut into, il
found as fresh in the heart as when il
fell. John Muir in Century.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-27
LITTLE TOY WAGONS.
All Children Play with Them, From tn.
Pole to the Equator.

All Children Play with Them. From the
Pole to the Equator.
1t must be that the toy wagon is the
favorite plaything of children the world
over, for there is no country in which
grown up wagons are used that hns not
toy wagons just like them except In size,
and in those countries where wagons arc
newer used there ore always substitutes.
There are the Eskimo children, for in
stance, who use in their play little sledges
made of bone carefully whitfield out and
pieced NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. runners and all
just as big sledges were I'm the days be.
fore wood and iron could he bought of the
whaling ships. The hest toys are always
rather old fashioned. The six tiny ivory
dogs of an Eskimo toy team Aro attached
to the sledge by strandsof seal gut or other
tough, fine fiber, which isgalways getting
tangled
In the Sakaln island, which Is almost
as arctic as Greenland in spite of its being
generally reckoned Japanese island, the
toy sledees are provided with poles, and
the dogs, whitfield out fat, are attached to
it by pegs driven through their bodies into
the pole. In either case the labor of cary
ing sledge and dogs out of bone and fitting
them together must take many days of
patient work.
Turkish toy wagons in the towns are
Just what they should be in America, but
in the country the horses arc often replaced
by toy buffaloes whose h~ds are weighed
down with big, dropping SIrns. The axles
are set immovably into the solid wheels,
and the axles themselves turn in sockets
under the wagon, which Is just what big
axles do in that region. But better than
a wagon of any kind is whole caravan OF
toy camels, plodding their way across the
desert Of q 10 foot strip of sand with mag
mary freighters on their hump backs,
bound for q make believe Mecca just in
front of the next boys house.
In Marocco, where there are no wagons
ut all, the dolls ride on the backs of doll
donkeys, though in the houses of rich men
there are often ella borately dressed French
dolls just from Paris, with gilded state
coaches drawn by white horses for them
to ride in. Their owners, however, will
probably never in the whole course of their
lives see real wagon.
In Egypt, whose only main road is the
Nile, children play with Mecca trains of
canels as they do in Turkey or quito as
likely sail tiny dahabeahs with hugo sails
on the canals, which cut the whole land
into vast green checkerboard. And
just such boats were built by the children
who lived in Pharaoh time, thousands of
years ago, just as Roman children had
tiny chariots TO play with, whose doll
drivers leaned out over stiff, high dash
boards to lash doll horses of inch stature
in the rush along some sanguine Appian
way.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-27
BABY HAS GONE TO SCHOOL.

The baby has gone TO school. All, mel
What will the mother do,
With never a call to button or pin
Or tie little shoef
How can she keep herself busy all day
With the little hindering thing awayf
Another basket 10 fill with lunch,
Another "Goodbyv' 10 say,
And mother stands at the door TO see
Her baby march away
And turns with sigh that is half relief
And half a something akin to grief.
She thinks of possible future morn
When the children, one by one,
Will go from their home to the distan
world
To battle with life alone
And not even baby be left 10 cheer
The scattered home of that future year.
She picks up the garments here and there
Thrown down in careless haste
And tries TO think how il would seem
II nothing were displaced.
n the house were always rs still as this,
How could she bear the lonelinessy
Exchange.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-27
Welcome the Young Men.

Blessed is that church whose doors
are ever being opened by young men
anxious to find place within her fold
You need never tremble for the church
whose pews you see filled with young
men in love with the gospel message
But you cannot keep them if you allow
them to remain idle. They must be put
to work. They are anxious that then
talents be utilized. They love the
church and long to see her prosper, ana
they crave place that they may aid ID
her advancement. This desire should &c
cultivated and encouraged. Rev. D.
q. Wilson in Philadelphia Methodist
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-27
RICH ESPERANZA NINE.
A Mexican Company Is Now Taking Out
100000 n Month.

&lOO,OOO month.
The Esperanto Mining company, op-
Grating near Tultenango, state of Mex
leo, is on the Bonanza lead. They are
taking out in gold ore $3.50, 600 a month.
After sinking the shaft Manager Salz-
burg drifted out, and the miners are
now 500 feet underground and lifting
ore day and night. A 40 stamp mill, 80
strokes to the minute, and 900 pound
stem, also keeps going the year round,
day and night, increasingly. The COM
pound Corliss engine has AZ inch stroke
and 2S inch low pressure cylinder.
Another shaft is being sunk west of
north of the Salzburg shaft by the Es-
peranza people, and it is down 1870 feet,
with identical ore indications. The
camp at the Salzburg shaft is from
5000 to 10000 feet above sea level. -
Exchange.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-27
She Won Her Bet.

The efficiency of the employees of the
Jacksonville postoffice was put to Sc
we're test recently, when the distribut-
ing clerk came across photograph with
a postage stamp attached and the only
direction on it as follows, says the Flor
ida Times Union:
Deliver to -, Jacksonville,
Fla.
Several Of the employees were shown
the picture, which was taken with a
small camera, and which did not show
the face of the person photographed
very distinctly. One of the carriers
named Walter q. Coleman, the general
travelling agent of the F. 9. and p rail
way, was the person. Several of the
clerks and carriers did not think that it
was intended for Mr.. Coleman, while
others sided with the Bay street carrier.
Finally wager of 81 was made, and
the carrier started out to deliver it.
When he reached Mr. Coleman q
Office, that gentleman at once claimed
the photograph as one of himself A
week ago or more, while walking along
Bay street, he met young lady with q
kodak, who took snap shot at him in
front of the Gardner building. She said
that if the picture was good one she
would send it to him. 1t also appears
that the young lady won wager made
with her father On the delivery of the
photograph to Mr.. Coleman with only
the directions above
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-27
JONES' STRATEGY.
He Got His New Suit at Half Price by n
Great Scheme.

Great Scheme.
Jones' new suit fits beautifully, but
he was $40 shy on the price. He needed
the suit badly, but his tailor was de-
cidedly disinclined to part with it till
it was paid for. After lying awake all
night revolving in his mind various
schemes old and new to get possession
of the coveted attire Jones evolved a
brilliant idea. He put on high collar
two sizes too large for him, went To his
taller and tried on the coat again. OF
course it did not fit around the collar
and would have to be let ont. The next
day he put on collar half size too
small and tried it on again. The collar
of the coat bulged out in the back as if
it had been constructed for the neck of
a pugilist.
81 can't wear that thing" declared
Jones. 1T does not fit at all. -
mo, it does not seem to" admitted
the tailor.
You've tinkered with it now till
you have nearly ruined it. guess
don't want it.
well, I'll tell you what I'll do, "
proposed the tailor, who did not want
misfit left Oh his hands. "I'll knock
off So on the price.
Don't want a suit that don't fit, -
declared Jones.
well, I'll make it So"
MAKE it $l2. so and I'll take it"
"All right, but lose money on it at
that. +"
Jones paid another tailor 81 to have
the collar altered, paid for his suit and
had 81. 90 with which to "wet it. San
Francisco Post.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-27
Wanted to Die with a Clean Shirt

An unknown man at the house of @.
W. DickersoD, Madison avenue, Chica-
go, the other night, begged for clean
shirt in which, he. said, he might die,
being tired of life, but wishing to die
like q gentleman. He got the shirt, but
was thought to be joking. He put it on,
and, going to the Illinois Central
tracks, laid his head on rail before an
approaching train and was killed.