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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-21
A Royal Martyr to Etiqustss.

In Spain the etiquette to be observed In
the royal palaces was carried to sucn longth
as to make martyrs of their kings. There
10 q historic instance. Philip III was
graveiy seated by the, fire. The flremaker
of the court had kindled so great guam
tity of wood that tho monarch was nearly
suffocated with heat, and his grandeur
would not suffer him to rise from the
chair. The domestics could not. presume
to enter the apartment because 1t was
against the etiquette. At length the. Mar
quis do Totat appeared and the king or
dered him to damp the fires, but he ex-
cused himself, alleging that he was forbid
den by the etiquette to perform such afunc-
ton, for which the Due d'Usseda ought
to be called upon, as 1t was his business.
The duke was gone out The fire burned
flercer and the king endured 1t rather than
derogate from his dignity But his blood
was heated to such a degree that he was
seriously i'll the next day. A violent fever
succeeded which carried him of in the
twenty fourth year Of his age. -London
Star.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-21
WHY OUR GIRLS MARRY ABROAD.
Is 1t to Seek Relief From the Restless A.
pirations of Their Countrymen?

Is 1t To Seek Relief From the Restless As
pirations of Their Countrymen?
Why does the American girl marry the
Briton' Has she any adequate justiflca.
tionf DO you suppose 1t pays her, and can
such choice OH her part DO defended on
large grounds rs promotive of the greatest
good Of the greatest numberf Is il a fact.
as has been flippantly suggested, that she
moves to England to get country life be-
cause we have no good roads here yet, or,
on the contrary, can IL be demonstrated
that one reason our country roads arc SO
bad Is that the American girl cannot abide
the country and promptly carries her man
OIL to town at the earliest moment that
sees his endcavors blessed with the neces-
sary increasep Is 1t her fault that country
interests tend too much to fall to the care
OF residuum that Is too poor to get away,
or has the country life not much to do one
way or the other with her British propen-
sitess
To be honest, there are other conceiva.
bic reasons for marrying an English gen.
tleman besides his country roads. He may
DO charming gentleman-they are said
to be so once in awhile-who can win
wife by plain personal courtship, and
whom any woman would be justified In
marrying on general principles and with
out specific excuses, or he may be good
average" sort of man whose advantage
over his American brother is a matter of
size or complexion or hale appearance. /
have known American women who ven
tured to assert that the feminine eye re-
joiced more in the type of male human
that treads the pavements of Piccadilly
and Pail Mall than in the contemporaneous
pedestrians Of Fifth avenue and Broad
way.
Or maybe IL Is his superior stolidity
that electrifes in the Briton. 1t is to be
feared that there Is truth In that tale Mr..
Kipling or somebody was telling of how
the phlegmatic merchants of the east had
discovered that the way to beat the Amer
lean was simply to put him off and let
hi,:I fret himself reckless. Stolidity is not
quite the same as repose, but to persons
who are suffering from an acute dearth of
repose it may appeal as tolerable substi-
tute so that one can imagine an Amer
lean maid, worn with the restless aspira-
tions of her high pressure countrymen,
turning with sincere relief to pillow her
fair young head upon a bosom behind
which lurked no threat of heart failure. -
North American Review.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-21
Cashmere Goats.

The Cashrnere shawls made of the finest
goats hair are not manufactured from
that Of Cashmere goats pastured, as Is Of
ten believed, near the rose gardens where
the nightingales sing by the calm Bende-
meer." The precious wool Is the under
fur of a breed Kept In Tibet and by the
Khirgiz In central Asia, from the slopes
of the Alatau mountains to the bend OF
the Ural north of the Caspian. Only a
small quantity, averaging three ounces, OF
the precious wool IL produced yearly by
each goat, and the material Is collected by
middlemen, taken to Cashmere and sold
In the bazaars, where 1t Is purchased by the
makers OF the shawls. M. Jaubert In 1919
imported some OF these animals into
France, and after crossing them with the
Angora breed, obtained an average OF ~
ounces instead of three ounces OF equally
fine wool There Is no doubt that the
valuable ''long WOOL goats could be bred
In England as successfully as they are IN
the United States, Cape Colony and Aus
tralia, were the commercial value OF such
an experiment assured Recent expert
ments in acclimatizing tho vicuna, small
alpaca, In France have met with consider
able success, and both tho Cashmere and
Angora goats were found to do well on
the Swiss Alps, though as they gave no
milk they were not popular with the farm-
er.-London Spectator.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-21
u.s and Abuse OF Toothpichs.

Tho toothpick, judiciously used, Is OF
undoubted value. OF the materials used
as tootbpicks tho best is the quill, with
the sharp point removed, but with this, as
with all other forms, care must be OBJ
served. BY indiscriminate application tho
gums may be SO irritated and injured as
to cause recession, and thus increase the
existing trouble, or Inflammation OF tho
tooth membrane may be caused, most
annoying condition, and one in which the
still more vigorous use Of the toothpick
gives temporary relief, only in reality to
add fuel to the fire. Metal toothpicks arc
good because blunt pointed, but are too
thick to pass between teeth at all close TO-
gcther. Wood need only be mentioned to
be condemned, for 1t is n by no means un-
common occurrence for small flbers to be-
come detached and jammed between the
socket and tooth, leading to chronic peri
ostitis and even loss Of the tooth II the
condition Is not recognized. London Lam
not
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-21
The Voice and silence of God.

The voice of God is calling mon al
ways everywhere, and 1 believe with
all my heart that this is the only true
way to interpret that message of the
sea. This is what the psalmist meant
when he said, DAY unto day uttereth
speech, and night unto night showeth
knowledge" In just this way, through
all the ages of human history, has all
knowledge, all revelation, been coming
to men-the artists inspirations, the
poets songs, the prophets visions, the
composers melodies, all that man has
ever learned OF God, all that he can ev-
or hope to know. The silences of God
have been speaking to the silences Of
man, and human knowledge has been
growing from more to more. And so it
must ever be in Gods great school Of
life, and the soul that listens best will
learn the most.-Rev. ]. S. Cutler in
Universalist.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-21
Tho Uses of Hot Water.

The best methods of using hot water are
as follows: For sprains of the ankle and
wrist or any joint the part should be thor
oughly soaked for half an hour at a time,
night and morning, in very hot water,
writes A. Marcy, M. d., in very valua-
BILE list of domestic household remedies"
in The Ladies' Homo j gnal. Those
suffering from a severe sp... Will not re-
quire more than the fi-.i ting to con-
vince them Of the adya 1.c 4 hot over
cold water A flannel L..l., o should be
applied firmly after each T. ment For
bruises very much the same thod should
be followed, although the application need
not be continued for SO long ~ time For
wounds and sores the best method Is to
drip or pour for few minutes. For styes
and inflamed eyelids. and even for sore
eyes, use water as hot rs can be borne by
sopping.
To stop bleeding very hot water applied
to the raw surface will be- found effica-
cious. For many forms Of dyspepsia and
biliouspess, particularly catarrhal con-
dition of stomach, a goblet Of hot water,
drank after the nights fasting will give
relief. For continued application, In the
form of a poultice, as in catarrh OF the
breast, pleurisy, pneumonia, etc., a jacket
of cotton batting, wrung out In very hot
water by means OF q towel and covered
with oiled silk or waxed paper, should be
usad
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-21

One Of the sights Of Great Britain's Pc
nal Settlement.


In the stony fastnesses OF Portland's
rugged isle, or, rather, promontory-in
whose penal settlement the notorious ia
bez Balfour IL at present expiating his
misdeeds-there Is sight which tourists
often overlook.
The beautiful garrison Church of st.
Peters Is convict work throughout, with
he e=ecption only of tho oolored mosaics
In the reredos, which were inserted by an
italian artist. The church Is, of course, of
Portland stone, the same material OF
which St Paul's cathedral, tho law courts,
the monument, Westminster bridge and the
banqueting room at Whitehall have been
built. ST. Peters is situated just outside
the prison domains and Is for the use Of
the line regiment stationed at Verne cita-
dol, the highest point In the island.
The interest attaching to such build
Ing Is heightened by the circumstances
that the yergcr-an ex-warder of Portland
prison-can tell you whose work is repre-
sented in particular parts. The border
round the porch and the mosaic pavement
OF the sanctuary are the delicate hapdi-
work of Constant Kent, the lady OF gentle
birth who murdered her stepmother and
was induced to confess her crime by a
the body of which Is i'm one piece, was
erected by the Irish Fenians. The fount at
the door and the lecturn In tho center
were chiseled by young Whitechapel
thieves, who proved to be such exception
ally skillful artisans that II was a pity
they ever took to thieving. This wild COR
ner of England contains practically In
exhaustible supply of the famous white
sfnna md Of tho ortio
owned by the government the Portland
convicts are employed to work them. They
can be seen at work by the visitor almost
any day. Ten or a dozen of them will DO
tugging rope attached to a trolley, on
which some huge mass of stone Is being
borne along a narrow line of rails, and the
scene forcibly reminds one of famous
picture in which Egyptian slaves are de-
picted quarrying stones for the temples
and palaces of that ancient empire. Lon
don Mail
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-21
CAPTAIN JACKS RIFLE.
The National Museum Has the Weapon
With Which Candy Was Killed.

One of the most interesting relics which
has been presented to the National museum
for long time Is the rifle which Captain
Jack, the notorious Modoo Indian, used
in his fight in the lava beds of southern
California, and 1t is thought to be tho
Identical weapon with which General
Candy was murdered while holding a par
ley with the chief under flag of truce.
The rifle was cached in the lava beds
during the Modoc war, or just before the
capture of Captain Jack. 1t was brought
out by Modoc Joe in the fall of 1896. and
presented to Charles Pitt. the Indian in
terpreter of Warm Springs, Or. BY him
IL was given to M. G.. Davis, special ex
aminer of the pension bureau, and sent by
him here from Warm Springs.
The weapon Is still in fair state of
preservation, and is of rather unusual
form 1t has two barrels so arranged that
they can revolve one being under the 9TH
er when ready to fire, one stock with trig
ger and hammer doing work for the two.
The clamp apparatus has been broken, so
that the barrels revolve now and could not
be fired on this account The ball used
to fit the barrel Is of about half an ounce.
The barrels are heavily rifled, and the
weapon Is evidently capable of doing great
execution. The barrels are unusually long,
and the whole must weigh 10 or Is pounds
In the stock, now minus paint, as II
gripped often by the iron fingers of the
coffee colored desperado, is cavity, over
which is brass lid. In the box thus
formed were kept the patches" and
grease, the former TO make the bullets fit
closely in the barrel and the grease to put
on them, so they could slide easily down
the cavity. The rifle is a little rusty, but
not nearly as much so as might be expect
ed from its long exposure.
Engraved on one side of the barrel is
the name Of the maker, John Shuler Of
Liverpool, Pa. The weapon is regarded
as an object Of great curiosity. 1t has not
yet been placed on exhibition. -washing
ton Star
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-21
A FEW BULLS.
They Are Not Horned Animals, but Queer
Forms Of Speech.

SpeeCns
A "bull" in speech is defined as a gro
tesque blunder-an apparent congruity,
but real incongruity of ideas. The Irish
are credited with peculiar talent for
making bulls" Why they have 1t we do
not know, except that IL Is a species of
wit. Here are some examples:
Patrick, when he first landed in Amer
lea, happened to SEQ locomotive go flash
ing by. He started back and yelled to his
friend: "Will ye look Mt that Ov all the
wonders liver seen 1t bates thin all Sure
it's stameboat searchin fer wather. T"
Another lrishman said: II saw Pat
Ryan the other side of the way / thought
It was Pat, and Pat thought IL was me, an
whin / came up, begorra, it was neither
of us.
Another excused himself from going to
church by saying he had such an excellent
telescope that with it no could bring the
church so near he could hear the organ
playing.
1t was Pat who observed, after watch
ing two men shoot at an eagle and kill it,
that they might have saved the powder
and shot as the fall alone would have
killed the bird.
Another Irishman assigned as reason
for not putting out a fire in his kitchen
with kettle of boiling water that was
near that 1t was hot water, and it was
Pats reply to man who boasted that he
had the smallest horse in the country, by
me faith, have wan as little as two of 1t. "
Another one is told of horse. Pat said
he could leap over ditch at least 80 feet
wide, but as Pat describes it he did 1t in
1.-TWO jumps.
And it was Pat, again, who, telling u
story as original, and being informed by
one of his auditors that he had read it in
the translation of Latin work, cried out:
"Confound those ancients They are al
ways stealing ones good thoughts -
Philadelphia Times
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-21
Up or Down Stream.

Life and character tend either up
ward or downward But single act or
characteristic many not indicate the
tendency of life as a whole. You can
make a saint out of the good qualities
Of bad men; you can make devil out
of the bad qualities Of good men. Esau
eclipsed Jacob at first, but his virtues
were accidents, incidents, without roots,
and they withered before the hot tests
of life. Jacob outshone Esau at last.
Day by day he fought his natural bad
ness and won in thehard struggle with
himself. The mean supplanter Jacob be-
came the hero of Israel, prince with
God. Is it Thy will or my will be done?
Are we living to please Christ or to
please ourselves? Our answer to this
question determines our life current
Sunday School Times
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sea" Persons Initiate Unconsclous,v IN.
Actions OF Others.

Have you ever noticed" asked An oh.
servant physician the other day, show per
sons who have something on their minds
initiate unconsciously the actions of 9th
ersf''
reply In tho negative brought forth n
reiteration of the statement.
"A subintelligence seems TO be MI
work, I" continued the physician, sin all of
ms at all times that controls our actions
and causes US to do great many things
unconsciously. A nervous man or woman
will twist and tear scrap of paper or TOW
with some article for an hour at time
When spoken to, such persons start and
look at the article In their hands as though
wondering where they had obtained IL.
In nine cases out OF ten this person saw
some other person doing the same thing.
and unconsciously his or her hands, under
the direction of subintelligence, sought out
the paper or article To play with"
The conversation took place In the wait
Ing room of ferry house, where score of
business men, all preoccupied mentally
with the coming business of the day and
oil anxious to get TO their Offices were
congrogated, waiting for boat To prove
the truth OF his remarks the physician sug-
gested an experiment. He began a march
up and down tho waiting room. In two
seconds worried looking man who an
peared to be prosperous merchant or bro
ker began to march also. Two clerks and a
stout person followed his example. In five
minutes two men who were reading news
papers were the only persons out of the
twenty odd In the room who were not
walking about. The physician ceased sud
denly. Peculiar as it may seem, his action
appeared to give the whole assemblage a
shock. They woke up, as 1t were, but not
sufficiently to know that they had been
Experimental upon. Before the boat ar
rived they had assumed the positions in
which the physician found them
"Another thing have noticed" added
the physician, lis that the higher the in
telligence of man Is the more liable he
Is to be controlled by subconsciousness.
An unintelligent man seems to have none
of 1t. New York Commercial.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-21
Labor Troubles In n Ch,rch.

Inc Baptist church at Scottdale, Pa.
a aO mad labor troubles which threat
r u;,, i's existence. A few Sundays ago
81. eli working members who are on
, su.Ae rose during the service and OBJ
's;, 70 the reception of nonunion
Oh a worker and his family into the
- I'a All the nonunion men therenp-
~ ielt the church. The ladies' aid So
Se'y Oh the church disbanded in iisor.
u uva. On the following night because the
- .s,uent called . meeting at the homo
So'. woman who took nonunion men a.
'oafders.--New York Sun.
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Topic For the Week Beginning Jan. "a.
Comment by Rev. 8. HI. Doyle.
ToPIc.-Practical applications Of the beati.
tudes.-Math. v, LIP.
The beatitudes are found in the open
ing part of Christ's sermon on the
mount. This was practically His address
at the inauguration Of His kingdom In
the world. In the first part of this adj
dress He describes the characteristics of
the citizens of His kingdom. The Jews
had false idea as TO what was necessary
for admission into His kingdom, and
His first duty was to correct this mis-
take. He did this in the beatitudes
Though the word blessed" is used
nine times, there are only seven general
beatitudes. as verses 10 and Il may be
considered as supplementary. To apply
these sayings Of Christ practically we
must study Sr what they stand.
/. blessed are the poor in spirit, for
theirs is the kingdom Of heaven. This
beatitude stands for humility, the first
characteristic of the citizen of Christ's
kingdom. The humble, the poor in spir.
it. in heart, not in mind or body. are
referred to. The Jews were proud and
naughty and needed to cultivate this
grace. So must all who would enter
Christ's kingdom. Pride will debar us.
We must become as little children to
enter in.
2. blessed are they that mourn, for
they shall be comforted. The mourn
ing ones" here referred to are the spirit
ually sorrowful, those who mourn be-
cause of the presence and power of sin.
Sorrow for sin is meant. The character
istic expressed is contrition. God will
comfort all such by pardoning their sins
and giving them power over sin. No one
will ever enter Christ's kingdom who
has not mourned because Of sin.
B. BLESSED are the meek, for they
shall inherit the earth, or "the land, ;"
referring to Canaan, which stood as a
type of all temporal and spiritual bless
ings Weakness is also a characteristic
of citizen of the kingdom of heaven.
4. BLESSED are they that hunger and
thirst after righteousness, for they shall
be filled" God S righteousness, not per-
sonal righteousness, is referred to. Ad-
mission to Christ's kingdom cannot be
gained by anything we can do. Our
righteousness must be the righteousness
of God, declared to us for Christ's sake,
and His work.
B. BLESSED are the merciful, for
they shall obtain mercy" "Meekness is
passive virtue; mercy, an active one. p"
The meek passively endure the injustice
and wrongs of the world, but the merci-
full address themselves to the wants of
the world. God has been merciful to
them, and they are merciful to others.
6. blessed are the pure in heart, for
they shall see God" Inward purity
gives us even in this life vision of
God, but this shall be perfected when
we shall see Him face to face.
2. blessed are the peacemakers, for
they shall be called the sons of God.
Warriors are usually the great men in
the kingdoms of the world, but in
Christ's kingdom peacemakers shall be
| Gods sons, Gods great ones.
Bible Readings i, 1; xxxvii, IL;
Ii, II; Prov. xvi, Is, 10; lisa. lv, 1-6 lvii,
10; Xxi, 1-3; Math. vi, IA, Is; Mark
xi. 20, 20; Luke vi, 1928; John xvi,
90; III Cor i, II; Ii Tim. ii, IL; Heb.
xii, Id; Rev. xxi, A; xxi, II.
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rne Hlalanasrs'

Mutual Fire insurance company OF
Houghton and KewsenAw eounties, or
ganised In 1890 according to the laws
the State Of Michigan. win insure proper.
ty OF its members. Have paid fire Losses
over "a, 900 and dividends nearly %, 900
during the last seyen years to members
OF Eve years standing. On the first day
OF July the company had 541 mem-
bers, $466.048 worth OF property in
sured and $11.121.13 In treasury. For
further particulars apply to the under.
signed. Jom BLoMovrsr, PRECEDENT.
AIHx LrmoSKy, Secretary.
Once, 44s Pine street, upstairs Gre
jacket
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Magistrate Ito tramp)-You met this
lady on the highway and demanded aims
of her, and she refused you.
ayes, your honor. 7"
"And thcn you threatened her life. .
"Oh, not Ididn't do that"
"You seized your blndgeon with both
hands and said, Madam, you must die.
You did that, didn't your"
"Yes, but l didn't threaten her life.
said that she, must die, and SO she must
some time or other. We oil must die. some
day. didn't say when she must die.
thinks great deal about death and all
that, and
"6ix mouths, hard labor. Nuggets
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-21

Tho Universalist and Unitarian
churches look with more favor ON wo-
men preachers than any other denomi-
nation. In the former church there are
SO women preachers, some of them or
dained, while in the Unitarian church
there are 30 women pastors settled over
church societies.
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One pacing driving mare, two nice
cows. one two-seated carriage, one top
buggy, one cutter, Gree buffalo robes,
three string bells, one set double drying
harness, two single driving harness, one
seeder, one potato plow, one potato dig
ger. one desk, one No, 4 Diebold safe, one
case specimens. one sulky. For partiru-
lars and prices see j, A. Danielson. Calu-
met, Mich.
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scost,s concert Orchestra.

An organization long needed in this
section is now an actuality. and as re-
suit, first class music, rendered by ca
pable performers, can now be obtained
for concerts. church services, masses, ETC.,
as well az for music OF lighter charac
ter and for the ball room will be found
unsurpassed. Mr.. Scott, personally, will
also receive a limited number Of pupils on
reed and brass Instruments, and on that
most delicate OF all instruments, the
human voice. Address
FREDERICK SoorT,
Jewell House, Calumet.