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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-14
UNCLE TOM is COMING.
stetson's Big Company Will Be Seen
Here Next Saturday.

Stetson "Uncle Toms Cabin" COM
pany will appear at the Calumet
theater next Saturday, matinee and
night. The company is making a
grand spectacular scenic production
of this grand play this season. The
scenery has been painted especially
for this revival. and some of the most
notable scenes are the "Suwanee Riv-
err" by moonlight, the cotton fields in
full bloom. the Ohio River in winter
and the escape, of Eliza carrying her
child across the floating ice, the rocky
pass in which George Harris made his
stand against the men persuing him
the St Clair plantation, and the levee
at New Orleans, showing a slave auc-
the beautiful transformation scene
showing Eva's ascension.
The survival of Uncle Toms Cabin
is something to marvel over, but in al
assured fact. The elaborate renovation
of the old play by the Stetson com
up to- date methods plentifully dis
played throughout IL half dozen acts
furnishes ample proof that "Uncl
Toms Cabin" Is still potent. Enlarge
choruses of genuine negroes from tn
cotton belt, modern up-to-date spec
ialtes. two male and female quar-
tettes. band Of Alabama picaninnie
improved light effects and mechanic;
illusions will be seen in the Seteso
production,
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-14
TEXT BOOK LAW
Is LIVE ISSUE
LEGISLATURE is EXPECTED TO
GIVE ATTENTION TO SCHOOL
BOOK LEGISLATION IN
JAN. SESSION.

School book legislation is a subject
that is likely to receive considerable
attention at the session of the state
LEGISLATURE which convenes next jan
nary. Two years ago bills were In
troduced providing among other things
for free school text books and uniform
priced books for the entire state put
none of them received sufficient sup
mort to bring about their passage.
Next year this subject will probably
be thoroughly gone over again, and To-
cal school men are of the opinion that
some kind of school book bin will be
passed.
Such being the prospect any thing
bearing on this subject should be Oh
interest to all who have the welfare
OF the public schools at heart. One who
has given this subject a great deal oil
study is S. Y. Gillian, of Milwaukee
publisher of the American Journal oil
Education. who has recently issued
book i'm which he expresses views on
this subject which are at least worthy
of careful and thoughtful considera-
ton Mr. 'Giilan's conclusions are
largely drawn from the experiences OF
the various states, among which al
most every imaginable kind of a schoo
book law may be found in actual oper-
alton,
At the outset, Mr.. Gillian declares
that a glance at any of the old text
books will convince anyone that won
derfu improvements have beer
brought about in the field of educa
tional service. In no field of human
achievement is. greater improvement
shown than in the textbooks of TO
day as compared with those of 100 o
even fifty years ago. At the same time
school books are cheaper today thai
they ever were before. The Unite
States i'm 1900 spent $12,000,000 70
school books. as compared with nearl
twice that sum for mineral and sod
water and nearly twenty-four time
that sum for tobacco.
Publishers Not Robbers.
Mr.. Gillian holds that the general be
lief that school book publishers al
extortioners is not supported by tn
facts. He denies that there is any sue
thing as a monopolistic school boo
trust, which is sometimes used as
campaign issue by crafty politician
He declares that there are 179 separa
and independent school book publish
ers and that the field is wide open
competition.
Most of the misleading informatio
ne says, arises in the comparison
net prices in one locality with the r.
tail prices i'm some far removed Il
cality Cost OF transportation and di
tribution are frequently lost sight
In estimating prices. Where the boo
are sold through the retailer the pri
must necessarily be higher than whe
the district buys the books and flu
hishes them to the pupils. II Is h
claim that much of the difference
price OF the same book in different
calities is due to the difference in pc
eentage of profit added by the reta
er' for which the publisher should Il
De held to blame
One best text book law, in his OPT
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-14
LAURIUM
CLEVER WRESTLING MATCH
HELD SATURDAY EVENING
IN FINE EXHIBITION, SAILOR
JACK WINS FROM
WlRTANEN.

Sailor Jack, of Duluth, was award
ed the wrestling match Saturday night
in the I.aurium town hall. after strug-
gling with X. j. Wirtanen of this city,
for one and one-half hodrs, without
a fall. Wirtanen injured his knee at
that time. and was forced to quit,
thereby losing the match according to
the terms.
Sailor Jack was generally conceded
TO he the cleverer Of the two men, al
though several pounds lighter in
weight. After the first thirty minutes,
in which Wirtanen proved himself the
aggressor. Sailor Jack went after his
man In earnest and several times
got him i'm tight places.
The contest was one of the cleanest
and most interesting bouts ever pulled
off in the copper country, and If more
like it is arranged. there is no danger
of the sport dying out i'm this section.
according to followers of the game.
1t must not de inferred that Sailor
Jack had things all his own way. Far
from it. Wirtanen showed that he
knows the game in all its phases. Dur
ing the first thirty minutes he got Tire
Sailor in tight holes with nelson's,
half nelson's and scissors, rbut the alert
Zenith city product proved equal to
every emergency and wriggled out of
them.
Saturday nights contest was for the
weltenwelght championship of the
| northwest.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-14
s,c CELEBRATION PROPOSED.

New York. Nov. 1.-THE movement
to celebrate the one hundredth ami
versary of the signing of the peace
treaty at Client, Dec. "a, 1914. between
the United States and Great Britain
VII be formerly launched tomorrow
night at the annual banquet of tho
Canadian Club of New York. A nation.
nj committee. Of which Andrew Car.
negie is president. will cooperate
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-14
NEW YEoMAN's LODGE.
Mrs. Carrie Reeves TO Organize Branch
at Baraqa.

Mrs. Carrie Reeves arrived in Bara-
ga Monday and contemplates the or
ganization of a lodge of the Brother
hood of the American Yeoman, she
having secured ten applications. says
the L'Anse sentinel Mrs. Reeves will
also do missionary work i'm PequaminG
and L'Anse and will try to secure
enough members In the three towns
10 make strong lodge at LAnse.
The Yeomen is a beneficial organiza
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-14
REMOVAL NOTICE.

q. Rohrer. Jeweler. will move next
door to Superior Pharmacy. Laurium.
Nov. 2Srd where we will show a large
and complete stock OF jewelry, watch
es. diamonds, cut glass. hand painted
china. and copper novelties OF all de-
scritions. In our new quarters we
will be prepared to show our extensive
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-14

through the retailers. the per cent, of
profit which the retailer may add TO
the published net price should he
specified by law.
4. The nearer, the adopting board is
to the people. the better. District,
township or county uniformly is better
that state uniformity.
5. School boards should be required
to take up at fair price the books of
any patron moving from one lcality to
another where different books are
used.
6. Contracts for any line of books
adopted should be made for not less
than five years. thus insuring protec-
ton to both the publisher and the pur.
chaser. School book legislation should
be aimed to secure the best possible
books at reasonable prices through thu
freest competition.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-14
BROTHERS LIVE HERE.
Take Charge Of Remains Of Man Kill
ed at Shnqleton.

The man killed at Shngleton by n
South Shore train last week, who
could not be identified at the time,
was Martin Lesser. says the LAnse
Sentinel. His age was forty-nine years
and as far as has been ascertained
here he was unmarried.
The man. for some time previous to
his death. had been working at Cook
sons camp, between Singleton and
Manistique
There has been some talk to the eff
feet that Lessers death was not ac-
cidental. as has been supposed, but
nothing definite seems to have devel-
oped so far which seems to warrant
that belief.
The supposition is that in dodginf
one train the poor fellow was strucl
down by the second train which almos
Immediately followed the first
| The deceased was n member of TN
Sons of Herman and is said to hav
been Mt least fairly wellto-do. TIL
remains were claimed by two brother
Of the dead man, who came here fror
Calumet, and shipped to Manistique.
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$50. and a reserve fund of $1,176276.
as. being a strong order financially.
Mrs. Reeves will no doubt secure
enough members to get fine lodge or
ganized.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-14
New picture Of king of Siam in
royal dress.

London, Nov. 1.-THE new king
of Siam was educated at oxford and
is a good linguist. well read in English,
French and German, as well as SIAM
csc literature. He has written vol
ume in French on Siamese FOLKLORE
and has also won distinction as play
right and actor. His military train
ing was received as cadet at Postam
and he was at one time attached to the
Durham Light infantry at Aldershot.
He is 20 years old, eastern in senti-
ment but western in civilization, and
capable of leading his race to a sta
ton hitherto unattained by them. II
is thought he will introduce many re-
forms which will modernize Siam.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-14
on should embody the following prin
VIVA. Ideal Law Should embody.

1. 1t Is always bad to prescribe a
definite, fixed maximum price. This
Invariably results in lowering the
standard and in preventing competi-
ton among the best. When the price
Is fixed materially, below that which
will give a reasonable profit, 1t either
results i'm publishers making books 10
fit the reduced price, or in their pre-
senting obsolete and inferior books.
2. Publishers should be required 70
list their books with the state superin-
tendent, stating contract and net pric-
es. and to give bond to furnish such
books at the published net price and
that such net price is not higher thar
that at which the same book is fur
nished elsewhere under like methods
of distribution.
3. where the books are solo
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
kongo rattooing.

In the Kongo colonies of Belgium
both men and women are tattooed ac-
cording to their status in society. A
woman of high caste will have a de.
sign not unlike zouave jacket work
ed upon her back, and it would seem
that the native is as content with this
mode of covering as if it We're a SUBJ
stitute for clothing. BY injecting the
juice of certain herbs the scars left by
the tattooing process retain a swollen
appearance, giving the effect of bas-
relief work. The thorns of the acacia
are generally used as a needle. while
a certain black clay is used as a color
ing medium.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
a Venetian Fashion,

Fashions were no less eccentric four
centuries ago than they are today.
Before the streets of Venice were
paved lin the thirteenth century,"
says Mr.. William Boulting in Woman
In Italy," ladies went though the
mud and filth on pattens, The Gus
tom was retained, and in spite of
sumptuary laws the patten became
heightened until women of rank stood
on false feet half yard high in the
sixteenth century. They were unable
to walk without the support of one or
two gentlemen or servants"
A curiosity in banquets is mentioned
by the same writer. 1t was we'd
ding feast at Milan and consisted of
fifteen courses, leach being introduc-
ed by living specimens of the animals
that composed it."
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
The Majors Tip.

When Major Banks was the best
known figure around the race tracks
of Cincinnati and the middle west he
was extremely generous in tipping off
his friends to "sure winners" One
man who enjoyed his confidence and
played the horses according to the ma
jor's advice lost all his ready money
and finally succeeded in reducing him
self to the point where he had to sell
out his grocery business.
One afternoon following the placing
of his last ten dollar note as the major
advised, he caught Banks by the arm
and said tragically:
"Major, you've made me lose my last
cent. I'm pauper, and my wife and
family are practically starving. | am
now about to go down TO the river and
drown myself. It's all over for me-"
"All right" answered Banks, but in
the event you change your MUD meet
me here at 3 O'Clock tomorrow after
noon. 1 think I'll have something good
for you."-EXchange.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
WAS OUT OF WORK
PLANNED HIS FUNERAL

Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. 15.-"Go to
the frankfort Hospital and get my
body; it will he there III a few min
utes."
This message was telephoncd by
James Finley, 81 years old, OF 1918
Tyson street, to a Frankfort Under
takar yesterday afternoon. Finley
then swallowod laudanum and sat on
a sep to die. He was found rncon-
scious by a policeman, who sent him
to the hospital
The undertaken who received the
message rear led the hospital ahead
Of Finley and was about to leave when
tn man arrived. The physicians re-
v'ved Finley after several hours
WORK. He WIS respondent, it is said,
Oh account Of domestic troubles
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
STANDARD OIL
TAKES CASE lip

jackson, Miss, Dec, Estate Rev.
ehae Agent Adams is one Of III. han.
pest men in Mississippi since the On.
preme Court handed down a decision
Ia MS favor in his suit against the
staAdard Oil Company for back tax.s
Oh peddlers wagons. 1t means a Ycoa
many dollars credit on his banh 90
count in the event the Supreme Cour,
OF the United States backs up the su.
preme Court Of Mississippi
The Standard Oil Company. and
oener oil companies, has a depot" at
jackson from which it supplies dealer,
In oil. The Standard runs a number
OF wagons-big tank affairs-vhich
are driven around over the territory
ana rural grocerymen and others are
supplied from this wagon The rev.
enue agent claimed that this wagon
should pay a peddlers license.
The question was first put nv w
Lyon, delinquent tax collector for tbe
city OF Jackson. When the case came
on for hearing before a special iudge
in this city last summer. Maves g.
Longstreet, attorneys for the Stand
ard attacked the State privilege tax
law on the ground that it was uncon-
stitutional; that it was class legisla.
ton, in that it exempted Confederate
veterans from its operations. Confed-
crate veterans, under the Mississjnni
law, may peddle without a license.
The lower court decided that the
law was unconstitutional, and it was
supposed the case was los, but the
Supreme Court now holds that, while
that exemption of Confederate vet
Grams is unconstitutional, the privilege
tax laws are good and hold the Stand
ard Oil Company, as well as the Con-
federate veterans, liable for the privi-
lege tax.
The understanding is that the case
will be appealed to the United States
Supreme Court.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
DROWNED THE MUSIC.
The Audience Was Angry, and Theo-
dore Thomas Was Obstinate.

inc Auoieuce was angry, ana neo-
dore Thomas Was Obstinate.
Theodore Thomas once undertook to
raise a subscription fund for a series
Of concerts In San Francisco, but only
$4,000 had been raised, and the en-
terprise hung fire. Then he announced
that Emma Thursby would sing at
each concert, and the guarantee fund
promptly went up to $4,000.
Thomas had a rule against encores
for soloists. They were allowed to ap-
pear and bow in recognition of ap-
plause, but that was all. The San
Franciscans held that as it was Miss
Thursby's engagement which was re-
spOnsible for the raising of the fund
they were entitled to encore her if they
chose. Thomas. however, insisted
stubbornly on his rule.
On the last night determined effort
was made to encore her. She appeared
again and again, bowling her thanks,
and each time the applause increased
| instead of diminishing. At last the
audience began TO shout its demands
instead Of merely applauding, and Miss
Thursby turned to Thomas and said,
"What shall do?''
keep on bowling if you have to bow
all night" snapped Thomas grimly,
And she went out and bowed again.
This time Thomas directed the orches-
ira to go ahead with the final number.
The audience, thoroughly indignant,
shouted down the music, but Thomas
was infexible. The orchestra went on
playing, utterly unheard, in a pande-
monium of shouted protests. And it
was probably the only time that a
Thomas number fell on deaf cars
Ladies' Home Journal.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
This Ghost of Ciopton.

A grewsome story Of Clopton House,
Stratford-on-Avon (Which Mrs. Gas
kell visited as girl is told in Mrs
Chadwick's book on the novelist
Charlotte Clopton. who was supposed
to have died of the plague, was buried
with fearful haste" She was discov
ered-when the ancestral vault was
opened to receive another victim of
the plague leaning against the wall
in her grave clothes: she was. indeed,
dead. hui IN hrr ngonies of despair
and hunger she had bitten piece
from her shoulder. "Of course she
has walked ever since" as Mrs. Gas
kell says.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
ODD VOLUMES.
They Are Members of Unique DINING
Club In London

They Are Members of Unique Dining
Club In London.
One Of the most unique dining clubs
In London is that known as the Settle
Of Odd Volumes, which was founded
in 1878 and meets once a month from
October to June. 1t consists of TWEEN
ty-one volumes, or members, that be-
ing the number of the volumes of the
Variorium Shakespeare published in
1871. There are also twenty-one sup
Elementary members, who succeed to
full membership as vacancies occur.
The twenty-one rules Of the club in
clude the following:
Any Odd Volume losing his temper
and failing to recover it shall be fined
by the president the sum of shillings.
Discussions about anthropology, re-
ligion and politics shall be put down
by the president.
Any Odd Volume giving to another
Odd Volume unasked advice shall be
fined by the president.
No Odd Volume shall talk unasked
on any subject he understands.
No Odd Volumes speech shall last
longer than three minutes. IT, howev-
er, the inspired Odd Volume has any
more to say he may proceed until his
voice is drowned in the general APP
plause.
Volumes have to address each other
as "Your Oddship. "-Argonaut.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
THROWN INTO TREES
AFTER THRILLING RUNAWAY.

Greensburg, Pa, Dec. 15.-Dr. Geo.
Boehm and Mrs. Boehm were found
hanging on trees along q steep MILL
side, after their team Of horses had
been killed on the Pennsylvania rail-
road tracks a few hundred feet be-
low. The physician and his wife
were driving about 200 feet above the
track. when the horses became fright
ened and plunged over the steep hiIr
side.
Mrs. Boehm was thrown into the
branches Of a tree. while her husband
continued with the running horses un-
TIL he lost his hold, and wac also
pitched into a tree. The team al,ght-
ed on the railroad and was ground to
pieces by a freight train.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
REPUBLICS IN GERMANY.
Three City States Whose Constitutions
the Empire Respects.

Thres City States Whose Constitutions
the Empire Respects.
Hamburg. Bremen and Lubbock are
theoretically three republics which
have for the mutual convenience Of
themselves and the empire come under
the rule Of the kaiser In all but purely
local affairs. AS they had Joined the
north German confederation, which
vas formed after Prussia's victory in
loo. there was nothing left for them
- DO but to give their allegiance to its
successor, the empire.
Each fs represented in the bundesrath,
q federal council. as wen as in the
rsicbstag. and each retains the repuS-
Nan principle in it's local legislation.
The Hamburg senate may have fallen
from its highest estate, but 1t still lives
and legislates concurrently with the
house OF burgessee. The burgomaster
Of Hamburg remains the great man IN
the estimate of the Hamburg people,
the inheritor Of the great traditions Of
the Hansa. Bremen and Lubbock have
constitutions in cousinship with Ham
burg.
A wise empire respects the constitu-
tons of these city states and refrains
from any action limiting Of the applica-
ton of the steam roller in pursuit Of
harmony. The survivors of the Hansa
have been more fortunate than some
other republics of continental Europe.
They have outlived several that had
hopes of being left ignored in their
republicanism.
Cracow was once republic. but, be-
ing surrounded by Austrian posses
sions. was finally swallowed up in 1916,
Since that time it has been city of
Austrian Poland.-Boston Transcript.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
BRONCHITIS
To Whom it Inlay Concern

Bluevale, Ont, May 4, 1910. 81
was sick for two years with chronic
bronchitis and consequent rundown
condition. | received no benefit
from doctors or from a trip which |
took for my health and | had to give
up work. Vinol was recommended
and from the second bottle com
menced to improve-I gained in
weight and strength, my bronchial
trouble disappeared, and | am at work
again. | want to recommend Vinol
to anyone who is in need of such a
medicine" Thomas Higgins. { We
guarantee this testimonial to be gem
uine.)
1t is the combined action of the
curative elements of the Gods liver
aided by the blood making and
strength creating properties of tonic
iron contained in Vinol which makes
it so successful in curing bronchitis.
Vinol is a constitutional. remedy for
chronic coughs, colds, bronchitis and
pulmonary troubles, not palliative
like cough syrups
Vinol contains no oil or drugs and
is far more efficacious than cough
mixtures, because it cures the cause.
Try it. If you don't think it helps
you, we will return your money. Hays
e Field, Druggists, Hattiesburg, Miss.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
Tale of a Snake,

Before he went fishln'," said the
town story teller, "he swallowed bout
a pint an half of snake bite remedy, an
of course you know what that is.
Well. after the snake bit him the rep
tile cut all sorts of capers. kaze the
remedy went straight to its head. Last
thing it tried to do wuz to swaller its
tail, an 1t got itself in the form of a
hoop. an I'm a liar eff the children
didn't roll 1t around all dayw-Atlanta
Constitution.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
REFRIGERATOR CARS.
Evolution Of the Idea of ian Iosbox on
Wheele.1

IS000X
Wheels"
The refrigerator car was never In
vented. but just liked up" 1t was
the idea Of a New England railway
man who needed some such thing as
Tar back a. 1851.
In June Of that year tie Arst rserfgl
crater ear h said to have made tn
trip froa osiensburg, n. T., 10 B~s-
ten. The car owed fts sRiS1h ps4HssA
paAy 10 the fact that tn farmen usar
osdenr0usG. whs mads q srsst Assa
Of oubtr. wsUs unable ~ chip 4 sr-
oept In cola WEATHER.
A rakfroad man NAMED Vffaw. n
that tine In charge Of - thpsueh
frefEht thought IT wcaiA b. a rood
idea to rig up an icebox % whssAA"
and he tod this 10 the president of the
read. who snve orders that the mas
ter mechanic should plan several of
thsm.
At this time farmers were receiving
only IL cents a pound for their butter.
The iced car was loaded with eight
tons of it, sent through and allowed
to stand in Boston till the product was
sold. 1t brought II cents a pound
after paying all expenses and com
missions, and the plan was voted a
success. In short time the road had
regular service on, using a number
of cars, and the idea spread rapidly.
Wilder did not patent his idea, but
allowed it to be used by whoever so
desired.-St. Louis Republic.