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RoG Butter.

Mr.. David Boyle, the curator of the
Ontario Archaeological museum, is in
receipt Of an exceedingly curious sur
vival from prehistoric times in the
shape of good sized lump Of "bog but
ter" In Ireland in the very old times
the art of making butter was known,
but the preservative effects of salt were
as yet undiscovered. Nevertheless the
people of that age possessed some means
Of preserving it, burial in bog being
part of the process. Firkins Of it were
frequently left there for safekeeping,
and from time to time these relics of
prehistoric housekeeping are unearthed.
Mr.. B. st. George LEROY of Toronto,
who is now in Ireland, is the donor Of
good sized piece of cheesy looking
stuff to the museum. Mr.. Lefroy's let
ter to Mr.. Boyle is in part as follows:
II have just sent off per parcels post
a piece of bog butter to you. 1 don't
know whether it is thing Of sufficient
antiquity and rarity to be of any value
or interest to you, but as the Dublin
museum has keg in prominent posi-
ton perhaps you may consider it worthy
of admission to place in the museum.
notice the Canadian customs forbid
Substitutes or limitations of butter.
hope red tape won't signalize itself over
this.
"The key Of which this is portion
was dug up recently this year in bog
near Dunlavin, County Kildare. The
slaves are said to have been round it,
but to have fallen off on removal. 1t
lay in a peasants garden, and the dogs
fed Oh it for a time Mrs. Hopkins Of
Blackhall castle, Kilcullen, County
Kildare, got it then, and got this
fragment from her. I melted a piece,
and it seems decidedly butterish. -
Toronto Globe.
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Russia's Millions.

The census of 1924 gave the number
Of Russians as 1e, 900, 600. In 1863
there were 20, 600, 900. In 1895, chiefly
owing to the Polish conquests of Gather
inc II, the population jumped to 3D.
600, 600. Conquests In Finland and Po-
land account for the gain Of 5000, 900
indicated by the census of 1909. The
prodigious increase in the Russian popu-
lation, due simply to the excess of births
over deaths, commenced after this date.
Without any important change in the
forntiers the inhabitants in 1867 num-
bered 81, 900, 600; in 1858, IA, 600, 900;
in 1885, 108, 900, 900. The census Of
Jan. 18, 1897, counted 1879, 200, 600
Russians, and at present there are fully
40 600 600
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NUMBER 9
A CURIOUS CURE.
Tho Reslins Power OF Light. Sun md Ai1
Applied.

Applied.
We had come to Veldes, IN the Julian
Alps, for month SIS the paying guests
among hundred others Of man who
for 80 years past has been preaching
not altogether in the wilderness-the
healing power Of light, sun and air APP
piled to the body of man as God made
it. The tailor's art, he insists, is anti
hygienio, source of moral and physical
degradation. There may be occasions
for simple covering, but there are equal
", in the interests Of wholesomeness
and vitality, occasions for absence Of
clothing.
In accordance with the rules Of the
game therefore we rose every morning
soon after 8 and, having walked, my
friend and I to the Hill Of Men, our
wives to the Hill of Women, in the
scantiest clothing consistent with what
is called deoency, we forthwith spent
the early hours wandering or reclining
in sun or shadow, jumping, digging or
reading, according to temperament, and
breakfasting on the milk, bread and
honey we had brought with US from the
hut.
After our strange air bath on the top
Of the hill we used to walk back, cloth
ed, to another strange bath at the bot
tom, where for the best part of an hour
we lay out on slanting roof bare, save
for our heads, to the full blaze Of the
sun. Then for 20 minutes by the clock
we were swathed tight in our blankets
and then taken indoors, plunged into
tub Of tepid water and massaged by ex-
pert attendants. By the time we got
back on our bare-and not infrequently
tender-feet to the huts we were quite
ready for the simple vegetarian midday
meal that awaited US under the huge
common dining room.
The virtue of strenuous laziness dur
ing the healing time being also sternly
inculcated by the healer, the afternoon
generally opened with delicious sleep.
followed at the option of the individual
by either modified repetition Of the
mornings airing and summing or by
lazy stroll with camera or book. Soon
after the evening meal Of soup, vege-
tables and sweets was over, and by g.
coffee, tobacco and chatter having
achieved their purpose we were gen.
orally sleeping our Adamio sleep. On
the nights when. for the purposes Of
the cure, the body or some part Of it
was packed" in cold water bandage
dreaming was sometimes delayed, but
if that particular part of the treatment
was distasteful you were free man as
soon as the attendants back was turned.
The first and every subsequent night OF
our stay we spent upon the edge of the
lake within few feet Of the water in
couple of rough wooden huts without
fronts-with some forebodinga, it must
be confessed, although it was in Au-
gust, but as we afterward found with
only good effects. Magazine.
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That Monster Globe.

A French geographer Is trying to in
duce the Royal Geographical society to
construct revolving globe on the scale
of eight miles to the inch, which would
make it possible to represent every
marked elevation or depression on the
earth's surface The diameter Of such 8
globe would be "a feet. This project is
modification Of the plan proposed for
the Paris exhibition in 1900, for the
execution of which sufficient money
could not be raised in France Elk
change
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Want, to Do Some Christening.

Mrs. Louise H. Pratt Of Sherwood,
Wis, thinks that sweet young things
with golden hair should not monopolize
the privilege of naming warships; SO
she wants to be allowed to name the
battleship Wisconsin. Among her quail
ification she mentions the following;
She is 81 years old, got her education
in little log schoolhouse i'll Wisconsin,
knows how to cook, knit, spin and
make soft soap, wears her hair short
and has christened and reared two boys
and two girls of her own.
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ii9 South Street.
Baltimore, Md.

On and after July 1st daily
trips will he made to Chinco-
league from Bloomtown Station.
Hacks will leave station about
l p. m. daily, connecting with
Steamer Winnie at Wisharts
Point, arriving at Chincoteague
about 81 p. M, returning to
Wisharts Point about o'clock.
Steamer Winnie will also leave
Wisharts Point for Chinco-
league daily at 7 q. m, leaving
Chincoteague at % ain.
Fare each way IS cents. Extra
charge for baggage.
S. w. MATTHEW'S,
President.
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Wheeler and Shafter.

"Things have changed, )" says the
Boston Herald, "since Major Shafter,
now General Shafter, was captured by
General Joe Wheeler's cavalry and sent
to Libby prison. The man who would
have prophesied that Wheeler would
be serving under shafter SO years later
would have been considered daft"
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-09-03
Anstralian Opals.

The opal production of Queensland,
Australia, is becoming very important.
More than 800, 600 worth of rough
stones were exported last year. In the
western districts Of the colony the opal
deposits are very considerable. The
Queensland opal is of brilliant quaIity'
and experts pronounce 1t to be equal 10
the best Hungarian varieties.
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What She Would Do.

She-Do you know what l would do
if I were man?
He-Oh, suppose you'd hurry right
down to where they are fighting and
knock out the Spaniards.
She-No, I'd pat my feet up on the
porch railing and take little comfort
in Cleveland Leader.
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Brooms, Brushes, Cordage, Match

Brooms, Brushes, Cordage, Match
es, Axe Handles, Axle Grease, Bar
rel Covers, Baskets, Backing, Blank
Books, Blueing, Bowls, Churns,
CompasseS, Broom Racks, Corn
Peppers, Butter Dishes, Sc, Candle
Wicks, Cheese Safes. Clothes Ham
per, &c. Cocoa Clippers, Coffee Mills,
Curry Combs, Corks, Busters, Fau-
Gets, Fish Hooks and Lines, Flour
Sacks, Halters, Flasks, Gun Caps,
Ice Cream Freezcrs, Horse Cards,
Neelers, Ink, Kegs, Lamp Burners,
Pulleys, Lanterns, Lap Boards,
&c, Lemon SQueezers, Mats, Meas
ures, Marine Glasses, Mucilage,
Oakum, Oil Cans. Well Buckets,
Tubs, sc.
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valuable
Real Estate
FOR SALE
AT Private Contract

I offer for sale by private con-
tract, that valuable tract of
land, situated near Belle Haven,
Accomack County, and very
near Exmore Station, known as
"Mooreland.'' containing $50
acres, more Of less, and bounded
as follows: on the south west,
by the lands of +. E. Kellam
and the heirs of GUSTS NJ. Will
lis, deceased; on the south east,
by branch of Machapungo
Greek; on the north west, by the
lands of Asa Sample; and on the
north east, by the lands of John
Pitts heirs and the road leading
to Bells Neck.
The above tract of land will
be sold as a whole or in parcels
of not less than one third each,
to suit the purchaser. The said
tract is well timbered with both
oak and pine, of great value, and
with resources for manuring
purposes almost unlimited.
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Talk WITH
KELLY \ NO 7 I lNGHAM,
O@ a@eee5sp Va.
We represent Fire Insurance
Companies that pay losses in
the event of fire.

No reliable Insurance Agency
can write your insurance at Il
lower rate than we can make
you.
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49,
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-04-05

because there was no warning, the flood
sweeping ever the town like water
through a millrace.
Mr. G.. l.. Storrs, who had charge or
the provision boat from Evansville tele-
phones from Mount Vernon, Ind, that
he had Just returned from Shawnee
town. Mayor Carney now estimates the
loss of life at 100 people. There is no
list of names prepared as yet. He con-
firms the report that Sheriff Galloway's
family Is drowned. The bodies were re-
covered at o'clock in the morning, all
clasped in each others embrace.
The levee broke on the north side and
without warning. catching the people
like rats in a trap. The entire own Is
submerged from ten to twenty feet.
The people are huddled in the Riverside
hotel, co1rt house and school house, all
of which are two-story buildings. Ev-
ansville's provision boats arrived early
in the morning Mayor Atkins dis
patch was read to those assembled In
the Riverside hotel amid GREATNESS ST.
lence When 1t was completed the peo-
pie shouted God bless Evansville
and her mayor" The ladies wept aloud
and tears streamed down the faces oi
the men. Only two negroes are report
ed drowned, and they were very oio
people.
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TANNER ASKED FOR AID.
Mayor OF Shawneetown Notifies the Gov
ernor of the Calamity.

Mayor OF Shawneetown Notifies the Cow
ernor of the Calamity.
Springfield, Ills, April 5.-Early In
the morning Governor Tanner received
the following message relative to the
Shawneetown disaster from Ridgway,
Ills:
"The ground gave away under the
levee at 4:45 p m. and the loss to life
Is nearly ne-fourth of our population.
We have no provisions to feed our peo-
pie for one meal. We need the tents
and clothing for the living and burial
caskets to bury the dead. Help us at
once d. M. CARNEY, Mayor"
Another dispatch from John M. Crebs,
president of the White County Tele-
phone company, says:
"Mr. George Goetzman, reliable
merchant of Shawneetown, just now
confirms report of levee break last
night. Says the mayor sent MIN 10
Ridgway to nearest point OF commune
cation to get a message in his name 10
you to send tents, provisions and purial
caskets Immediately via of East 81
Louis and Enfield, where train from
Ridgway will be waiting. Goetzmar
SAYS the scene is worse than JOINS
4
| town Four hundred estimated drowned
| and all property lost and remainder OF
| people on levee and house tops ano
| rain adds to distress. Answer me mere
| and I will communicate by telephone
Governor Tanner, after consultation
| with DR.. F. w. Wines, secretary of tn
! state board of charities, sent the fol
| lowing message to w. S. Phillips, presi
dent of the Ridgway bank at Ridgway
| Hon. Fred Wines, secretary or TN
| state board of charities, and Miss Juli
| Lathrop will leave on first train 10
Shawneetown. The doctor represent
me in caring for the sufferers. 20
operate with him in forming relief com
I mittee. I authorize you to draw upo
me for $4,000 Have issued proclama
tion appealing to the public for relic
of the flood sufferers. Am preparing
send train with tents to shelter an
accommodate 1000 people. 300 blanket
and 1,200 emergency rations.
JOHN X. TANNER, Governor
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Consulate Will He Turned Over to the
British Oficials.

New York, April 5.-A special TO The
Herald from Washington says: Consul
General Lee has been instructed to turn
the American consulate over to British
Consul Collin and has already made
the necessary arrangements with Col
lin TO do so. This is a mere precau-
ton in case General Lee has to leave
suddenly. He is simply setting his
house in order.
General Lee had a long conference
with Consul Collin, who courteous
ly agreed to do everything In his power
in case General Lee receives orders
10 leave or Is forced to seek refuge on
the Fern with the other Americans by
a sudden uprising OF the Havana pop
ulace. Consul Collin will probably
have his hands full IL Havana grows
violent. as English residents will be
regarded as Americans IL the excite
ment is great Consul Collin. however,
believes actual hostilities between
Spain and the United States will be
averted.
General Lee has apparently not aban-
doned all hope of postponement or i'm
medite hostilities, and his conference
with Consul Collin, 1t Is understood
here. was due, not to his intention of
leaving, but merely to insure the full
est protection of the consulate and
American residents should he be sud
| denly forced to abdicate. General Lee
IL is known on all hands. will stick to
| his post until II is folly to remain
| longer
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A 5000, 900 CONTRACT.
Largest Deal in Pulp Wood Ever Made IA
the Northwest.

Marinette, Wis, April 5.-One or the
largest pulp wood deals ever made has
lust been closed. The Kirby Dennis
company contracted to deliver to the
Kimberley Clark company of Appleton
and Neenah 10000 carloads of spruce.
This deal will include total OF l6o,ooo
cords and is to be delivered in annual
installments of 1000 carloads.
Reduced to superficial feet this mon
ster negotiation means the cutting and
delivery of about 245,76o,0o0 feet in
decade. The first shipment, consisting
of several carloads, was made last week.
The wood will be used In the Fox river
mills of the Kimberley Clark company
and It will be cut from lands In the
vicinity of Sidnaw, Mich. This deal
means the delivery Of over 100000
worth of pulp wood at the present mar
ket rate,
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MAYOR APPEALS TO CONGRESS.
A.ks Aid for the Destitute People OF the
Stricken City.

ALI. Aid for the Destitute People OF the
stricken City.
Evansville, Ind, April 5.-Mayor car
new of shawneetown has appealed to
congress for aid for destitute people OF
HIS stricken city. He says the town is
absolutely destroyed and that there Is
not enough food in town for one meal.
He saws that 800 people are drowned.
All goods In the city are lost and the
situation is distressing in the extreme.
This city sent two steamboat loads OF
provisions.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad
accommodation train from southern IL
l,nois arrived here at 10:S0 o'clock. IL
was expected many people from Shaw
neetown would be aboard, but 1t is
learned that trains on this branch have
for a week proceeded no further than
Eldorado, fifteen miles away. The
trainmen bring the report that the fam
,lv OF Sheriff Galloway was completely
wiped out by the flood. 1t is reported
that the levee broke while people were
Mt church, and that many were drowned
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WILL HOLD THE FLEET.
spain's Torpedo Fiotilla Will Stay at Cape
de Verde Islands.

Spain's Torpedo FlOtiiia VIII stay NJ S"pe
de Verde Islands.
Madrid. April 5.-The Spanish cabinet
has decided that the torpedo fiotilla is
to remain at the Cape de Verde islands
until further orders. The fleet will be
ioined later by a squadron composed of
the armored cruiser Emperor Charles
" of 9,235 tons, the cruiser Alfonso XIII
of 5000 tons. the armored cruiser Girls
tobal Colon of 6,S40 tons, which will ac-
company the torpedo fiotilla to Cuba.
II has also been decided by the govern
ment to send the armored cruisers VIZ
caya and Almirante Oquendo. both OF
1000 tons, back to Havana. They VIII
receive orders to this effect as soon az
they sight Porto Rico. national SUP
scription to strengthen the Spanish neel
will be organized by royal decree, pu'
the decree will not be published petore
the declaration of war.
The cabinet which met at O'CLOCK a.
night. discussed the situation until mio
night. At the close of the conference i
| was declared that no official news ha'
| been received at that time from WASH
ington. But 1t was admitted that TN
| ministers were filled with gloomy I'm
pressions. The minister of war, Lieu
tenant General Correo, submitted 10
the approval Of the cabinet eiaoora,
plans for the organization OF the mill
tary force of the kingdom.
Minister for the home department
Don Ruiz y Capdepon, In an interview
declared that everything pointed
war. The cabinet has examined proI
ositions for the arming OF merchar
vessels as privateers. but 1t has Dee
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Mines In Havana Harbor.

Havana. April 5.-The Spanish gov
ernment secretly placed some torty SUD
marine mines in this harbor one night
last week. They were planted IN the
narrowest part of the channel between
MORO and Punta. They are sphericai
and float about twenty-four feet unoer
the surface of the water Each Is at
tached to heavy cable anchored on the
bottom of the harbor. The mines, for-
mdable as they are, could be destroyed
by any fleet using counter mines or tor
pedoeS
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Do Not Want To BE Targets.

Brunswick, Ca, April 5-The war
scare has had the effect or almost ue-
populating Jekyle island. The rlch
members of the club have unanimously
concluded that the island offers TOO
good target for Spanish shot and smell
to be entirely comfortable. They nave
therefore hastily packed up and ieft
for safer quarters
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N.va, Militia Under Orders.

Chicago, April 5.-The naval militia
of Illinois is under orders. and likely TO
move to the coast at any moment. Gov
ernor Tanner received telegraphic or
der from the navy department to place
the naval reserves of the state on war
footing. and to hold them ready to move
al a moments notice.
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ANOTHER DESPERATE DUEL.
Dr. w. Scott and j. j. Hughes of Haynes,
Ark, Seriously Wounded.

Ark, Seriously Wounded.
Little Rock, Ark, April 5.-A desper-
ate revolver duel occurred at Haynes,
Ark. between DIR. w. w. Scott, prom
ineut physician of that town. and John
]. Hughes, a leading merchant Scott
entered Hughes store and opened fre
upon him. The latter drew his weapon
and both combatants emptied their re-
volvers at each other at close range.
When the shooting ceased both men
were lying on the floor, Scott bleeding
from four wounds and Hughes from
Ave. Both men are still alive, but their
recovery is doubtful. The cause OF the
trouble is not definitely known. but IL
is said to have grown out of family at
fairs.
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Pope Is Opposed to War.

Rome, April Sit is stated In Vati-
can circles that the pope has not FORM
ally offered to mediate between Spain
and United States because he has not
been requested to do so by that gov
ernment 1t Is true, however, that the
pontiff has conveyed to Madrid his ar
dent wish for the avoidance of con-
flict and has asked Spain to arrange 1or
a suspension of warlike measures or de-
ofc fcin
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-04-05
SOME OF THE DEAD.
List of Those Who Are Known to Have
Perished.

Flora. Ills, April 5.-Reports received
at this city, seventy miles distant from
Shawneetown, bear out the first i'm
pressions of the inundation of that
town by the breaking of the levee. The
railroads have stopped traffic twenty
miles south of here, as the ROAD 10
Shawneetown Is deep under water.
Telegraphc communication Is cut OH
and the reports received are very mea-
ger. At Mills Station the river Is eight
miles wide and the track is covered
for six miles. The following telegram
was received here by superintendent
Mills of the Baltimore and Ohio South
western railway, from Conductor
Charles Ireland:
Half of Shawneetown totally de-
stroyed. All stores wrecked with con-
tents. Town contains fifteen to twenty
| feet of water. South levee covered
with dead stock and houses and all
| kinds of debris.
Partial list of the dead follows:
| Colonel Collicott, w. c. Collicott and
wife, Edward Flake, three children OF
paul Phalens. Mrs. Galloway and two
children, c. Rhynehart, Mary McAHis-
ter Ellen McAllister, Annie Rhynehart'
Grandmother Holly. Mrs. McLahe'
| Mrs. Matilda Grier.
mo bodies recovered. The mayor of
shawneetown appeals for tents and
provisions. Help must come quick.
There is great suffering among the un-
fortunates. / notified Shawneetown
committee that would bring all sup
plies offered, and If any carload lots
came by Infield or Norris City, l would
make one extra trip to the waters edge
where same could be transferred. We
have picked up lot Of boats to trans
fer provisions"
Ireland further states that only small
skiffs can be used to ferry the provis
ions across the river and that every
thing possible is being done by people
in the adjacent towns to hurry forward
| assistance.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-04-05

decided to await events before coming
to any decision on this subject. Final
ly. a telegram from the Spanish min
lister in Washington, Senor Polo, was
read at the cabinet meeting, In which
Senior Barnabe said President Mckinney
will be overruled by congress.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-04-05
un,on Carpenter at Chicago Go Out OF
strike.

Chicago, April 5.-The greatest strike
NJ workmen in one trade in Chicago
since the famous strike of 1890 began
by 5000 union carpenters refusing to
90 TO work until their employers signed
the agreement adopted last week. The
strike of the carpenters had the ef-
feet Of forcing many workmen in other
trades TO Quit, as nothing could be
done bv them on some buildings as
long as the carpenters were not at
work.
From reports received at headquar-
for the tie-up Is practically complete
hut MANY contractors have declared
the,r Willingness to sign the scale
sdonted in order to have their employees
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-04-05
cotton Mill Hands strike.

Norwich, Conn.,, April 5.-The en-
Moves of the Bonomah cotton mills
have gone on strike. Two thousand
han --'ovsd. and the workmen