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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-20
Smile or two.

oIIIIIt OF TWO.
An old couple came i'm from the
country with big basket of lunch to
see the circus. The lunch was heavy.
The old wife was carrying it. As
they crossed a crowded street the hus-
Dand held out his hand and said.
Gimme that basket. Hannah" The
poor old woman surrendered the has
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-20

W gAAAfAl n " il=
man can freely talk
OF her private ill
ness TO q woman;
thus has been es-
tablished this con-
hdeuce between
Mrs Pinkham and
The en- of
America which has
never been broken.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-20
MOTHER DIES IN ENGLAND.

Word has been rec lived. from
stephen A. Bryant who is now ion
England, Of the death Of his mother.
which occurred on March ., from old
age the decedent being about So
years of age. Mr. BRYANT is SOM
in-law of Mr.. and Mrs. c. r.. Lean of
Houghton, and left for England last
December ON receipt OF news or the
serious illness of his mother
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-20
FREE
ADVICE
TO WOMEN

-, Women suffering from any form Of
Illness are invited 20 promptly com.
ntiilililcate with Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn,
MISS. All letters are received, opened.
Itdu and Answered by woman A ~
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-20

John p. Irish, the San Francisco ora
tor and office-holder. was entertaining
Joaquin Miller the poet. one night
Upon hearing a particularly funny
story by the host the poet fell off his
chair In a paroxysm of mirth
Irish thought the poet had a seizure
of some kind and he rushed to the side
board, took a bottle of brandy and
stuck the top of it into Miller's mouth.
hoping to revive him.
Presently Miller waved his hands
Freely and Irish removed the bottle.
What is it?" asked the Irish solicit
itously.
femove the cork" whispered the
poet hoarsely. Remove the cork"
Saturday Evening Post.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-20
A SMILE OR TWO
PERHAPS A LAUGH.

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an old Yankee farmer lay on his
deathbed He was so far gone that
the doctor told his daughter that she
could indulge him i'm anything ne might
crave in the matter of food. 10 the end
of making him happy. if possible. an
nothing could delay the end or really
hasten it, The daughter asked her
father If there was any particular
thing his appetite fancied.
Yes, +" whispered the old man. "a bit
of fine cake with lots of nuts and cur
rants in IT,"
A woman neighbor, who heard the
old fellow express his desire, had a fine
fruit cake made rich enough to pro-
duce an attack of acute Indigestion I'm
a wooden Indian. The doctor heard of
II and was not pleased with the old
mans choice, but having given his
permission, he inquired the next day
when he called how it suited the pa
uent and how he had enjoyed IL.
We'll, sir" the daughter replied. "to
tell you the honest truth, father hasn't
had taste of the cake"
"And why not?" the doctor wanted
10 know.
We'll, sir" said she, "it was such a !
perfectly beautiful cake that we hadn't
he heart to cut into it: and so we are
lust keeping it for the funeral."-Met-
'opolitan.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-20
Violin Instructions

GEO. D. BARNARD, Conductor and
Manager of the Calumet & Hecla Band
and Orchestra, will take a limited
number OF pupils OF the Violin. Tel.
Res. 5s-R, or c. 6 H. Exchange s5.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-20
OpTOMETRIST HERE

w. THuRTELL,
The optometrist has returned Ia
CaiumeI and has his office in the Lisa
Block, 9Th street. near postonice.
Eyes taerouahIy tested and glasses
fitted. Npih
satisfaction guaranteed.
Hours 10 8 and &C. p. m. Tel. IS.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-20

Pilgrim lodge T. o. O. f.. win 60 To-
Lake Linden tomorrow night To in
vite the Lake Linden LODGE 10 attend
the reunion and temple dedication in
Houghton April 20.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-20


kind o. ye, Joshua" she quavered
Il was afcared ye'd sit lost,"-Argo-
naut.
Edith saw a dog at the show that
played on an organ.
Ethel-oh, that's nothing Why,
we've sot a kitten that plays with her
tail on the piano.-Yonkers states
man.
old Scottish pronunciation was use
ful at times FOR facilitating cunning.
Dean Ramsay tells of an advocate who
was complaining bitterly that he had
been passed over in the selection of a
new Judge. And I can tell YOU" he
said they might have got "a waur."
"Whaur?" maliciously echoed ono of
the COMPANY You could not pun upon
worse and where in English.-
London Chronicle
MY chiefs esteem towards me seems
to dwindle strangely. Last year he
gave me goose, this year canary"
-flesende Blaetter
Witness-She called me a brute. Il
Slapped her face and called her a liar
then she kicked me and called me
Judge-Well, go on.
We'll. then'we started to quarrel
Life.
Look pleasant" said the photo
grapher.
The sitter raised his eyes and gave
a sickly smirk.
Your head just a little bit more to |
the left, please" suggested the voice
from the black shroud mo. don't
move the eyes"
Like man suffering from a stiff
neck, or an Eiffel tower collar the sit
ter titled his head gingerly till IT
reached the desired angle, and he re-
sembled dying fish trying not to
mind.
That's very nice-very nice indeed"
said the photographers. stay just there
While | make the exposure" He re-
moved the cap as he spoke. and
counted out a minute and three-ouar-
ers. Thank you. sir" he then OBJ
erved. You can get up. I'm, afraid.
'ouVe been sitting on your hat"
My hat!" roared the sitter angrilv.
egarding the nattened felt. why the
Iiekens didn't you tell me l was sit
ing on ito"
My dear sir" protested the photog-
apher blandly. "that would have
poiled your pression!"-Answers.
rs going to wake 'em up when I get
nto office" said the enthusiastic
Dung politician.
We'll, en-" replied Senator Sorghum,
an alarm clock may be useful. but it
mt very popular" Washington Star
The duke of Connaught is due to
ave for Canada in September. but
lere is an idea that he VIII return
England in November in order to
It as regent during the absence of
Ie king and queen in India. Under
lie regency act tine -ny person capa-
e OF acting as regent is the queen.
she is going with the king on his
SIT to India another regent must be
osen. The most natural and fitting
'rson is the duke of Connaucht, but
act of parliament will have to be
ssed appointing him to the office
ring the kings absence. If this is
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-20

The constitutional amendment for a
Greater San Francisco" was defeated
In the California senate. failing TO re-
ceive the necessary two-thirds vote.
The vote was 10 to 81. The purpose
was the annexation of the suburban
towns In Alameda county across san
Francisco Bay. giving the greater ci-
ty'' population OF 100000.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-20

barcelona, SPAIN is to pay $11,476.-
900 for its new water supply.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-20

Edith saw a dog at the show that
played on an organ.
Ethel-oh, that's nothing. Why,
We've sot a kitten that plays with her
tail on the piano.-Yonkers states
man.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-20

done it will involve the absence of the
duke of connaught from the Canadian
vice royalty for about three months
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-20


a. clergyman had been displeased
with the quality of milk served him
At length he determined to remon-
strate with his milkman for supplv-
ing such unworthy stuff. He began
mildly, i've been wanting to see YOU
with regard to the quality of the milk
with which you are serving me-"
Yes, sir" uneasily answered the
tradesman.
Il only wanted to say" continued
the minister that / use the milk for
drinking purposes exclusively, and not /
for christening. Dundee Advertiser.
one can't do anything out of the |
in a city street without hav-
ing some passing youngster pine him
On Recently the boss of a moving
van was experimenting the transfer
IF a load of household goods from one
part of Springfield to another. Among
-hese goods was very valuable mir
'or' which the boss, rather than tr1y,
o one OF his less responsible assist
'nts, decided to carry personally on
he front seat.
AS the heavy vehicle rumbled along
Nth the boss holding his valuable re- 4
Iector' glass toward him. on his knees !
urchin ran up alongside the van and
elled:
Say, you'se must be stuck on y'r-
elf amt yer|'-Woman's Home Com
anton.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-20

ket withta grateful iooS That's real
kind o. ye, Joshua" she quavered.
Il was afcared ye'd sit lost."-Argo-
naut
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-20
HcUGHTON RREvlTIEs.

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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-20

rs going TO wake 'em up when | get
into office" said the enthusiastic
young politician.
Well On" replied Senator Sorghum,
an alarm clock may be useful. but it
isn't very Washington star
The oasis., 1911-01-28

five years. The average of the ore shipped is about six per cent he stated. The Centurion is surround ed triangularly by the Red Noun tain, Arizona Cleveland and Texas Arizona properties, all of which MT. Richardson considers very promising.
 Arizona Republican: Having performed the annual assessment work on his claims, situated on Buckhorn creek, fourteen miles east of Wickenburg, George w. Mardis returned to Phoenix yester- day. He reports a great deal of activity in that section. Mir. Mar dis mine is gold and copper pro- position. On the dump are 5000 tons of free milling ore, running from $9.50 to $27 a ton in those two metals. Adjoining the Mardis claims on the sides is the Tom Boy group. Work is going forward rapidly and a 200-foot shaft has already been sunk on a vein forty feet wide. The Tom Boy is owned by the Arizona Mines company of Boston. Mir. B. Hobbs, a member of the company, is on the ground this week with camera in one hand and a chunk of rich ore in the other. He says it all looks good to him and he is enjoy ing himself tremendously, running around in his shirt sleeves in the January sunsine.
 Wickenberg Miner: Satis t e d with the splendid showing in their company's mines in the Bradshaws, after a year of practical explora- tion, John Boden, Martin Erickson, Leander Johnson, P. J. Brogstrom, stockholders in the Lake Superior and Nevada Development com pany, passed through the city yes terday, from Duluth, Minn., to inaugurate extensive development. Locally, the interests of the com pany are known as the Mascot mines, situated about half mile north of Harrington, the seven locations covering several of the strong and distinct Assures of the Bradshaw region. Two tunnels were run, one reaching a distance of 800 and the lower one 300 feet in length. The lower tunnel cuts into the ore bodies at a perpendicular depth of 250 feet, and exposes vein of ore over three feet thick, while the naturalization shows over fifteen feet. The ore is an iron and copper sulphide, carrying gold values. Several tons have been milled by the Tiger Gold company, the re. turns being satisfactory.
The oasis., 1911-01-28
Homestead Rights.

Under a new ruling by the h. terior Department in the case of Sherman Shouse, an Imperial Valley homesteader, a homestead entryman may obtain from local land offices leave of absence on account of sickness or failure of crops and not lose credit already gained be residence on his claim. The secretary says:
 "The period of absence during the time authorized should simply be eliminated from calculation when considering the period of residence to which an entryman is entitled to credit. Thus, two periods of bonafde residence, separated by a leave of absence regularly procured, may be added together and made the basis for communication proof"
The oasis., 1911-01-28
MINING N EWS.
q Collection of Short Newsy Items From Among the Mines of Arizona.

Copper Basin district, shipped 130 sacks of high grade gold ore from Parker Tuesday to the Humboldt shelter. The ore averages about $100 per ton. Other shipments will follow.
 Globe Silver Belt: It is expected that churn drilling will be started in the very near future on the property of the Arizona. Cananea company. The churn drills having been moved to the eastern end of the Montezuma group adjoining the Live Oak company. This prop erty was formerly owned by the Boston-Miam company, and is located a short distance west ofthe Miami townsite While under the former owners considerable churn drilling was done in the southwest ern part of the property. No ex- ploration work has been attempted in the north or eastern part.
 Wickenburg Miner: The future prospects of the United Gold Mines company, with properties close by the Congress mine have never looked better in any time during its history than it does at present. The mill is running steadily and the output is exceeding the ex- pectations of General Manager D. J. Sullivan, who has conducted the affairs of the proposition since its inception. The concentrates are heavy and of high grade. The mine conditions are very gratify- ing, the development showing bet ter than at any time in the past with all indications of a continu- ance of the present pleasing condi- tions.
 Globe Silver Belt: The station on the two hundred foot level in the vertical shaft on the prop. erty of the Summit Copper com pany was completed on the 18th, of this month. These drifts will be along the Pasquale vein that was cut through a short time ago on the three hundred foot level, the vein is about four or five feet wide at the station and it is expected that a considerable body of low grade ore will be opened up in the driving of these drifts, assays taken from this vein show about four per cent copper. After drifting south on this new level two hundred feet a raise will be cut to connect with the old workings for ventilation purposes. In the old workings on the summit vein repairs are being made in the drifts and everything put in readiness for the time when the company will begin the ex- traction of the low grade ore from that part of the mine.
 Bisbee Miner: J. P. Richardson, president and general manager of the Centurion property in the Dra- goon mountains, left this morning following a brief stay in Bisbee. He stated that the property is now shipping an average of carload per day to the Copper Queen smell ter at Douglas. This shipment is expected to be increased until an average of two or three cars each day has been reached. The main shaft of the Centurion is now down about 200 feet, and according to MT. Richardson more than 100000
The Alaska sourdough., 1911-09-08
Medicinal Springs Withdrawn.

President Taft has withdrawn from entry 16O acres surrounding every medicinal spring in Alaska, has taken the control from the forestry service, and ordered the claims of the occupants to be investigated
 Affected by the order are Tenakee, the Sitka Hot Springs, Baranoff Hot Springs, Zarembo Hot Springs, "A miles north of Wrangell, Soda Bay springs, on Prince of Wales Island, Bailey Bay springs, at the head of Beam Canal, Belle Isle Hot Springs, near Ketchikan, the Stickeen River springs, and the hot springs on the Sew ard river. These are enumerated in the executive roder, but the order is made to cover every hot spring in All aska. whether enumerated or not.
 Within the 16O acres around the springs at all the places mentioned, there are squatters, some of them with more or less pretentious claims. George Roe, for instance, has filed on the Belle Isle property tract as homestead, and Doctor Goddard claims the land around the Sitka Hot Springs, under title acquired by Russian from the St. Petersburg government before Alaska became part of the damain of the Un tied States.
 Special Agent Lewis, of the depart ment fthe interior, has made some ex- animation of George Roe's Belle Isle claim He regards it as "doubtful. ' It is probable that Doctor Goddard s claim to the Sitka hot springs will be protected by the treaty.
 The action was taken on the recon mendation of the bureau of forestry, and means that the government will make some special study of the condi- / tions at these springs, and will deter mine the best way of giving the pub lie the benefit.
The Alaska sourdough., 1911-09-08
TREATING CASE APPEALED

Is the right to "set lem up' natur- al, or constitutional, or inalienable, or merely incidentalg
 Christian Webber, a Petersburg sa- loon keeper, was behind the bar in his place at Petersburg, when man walk ed in, ordered drinks for the crowd, laid down a dollar, received twenty cents in change and if the man was a stranger in the place, he probably thought the incident was closed after the crowd drank the beer. But it wasn't.
 In Petersburg, a man is not expect ed to buy-more than that the town council has passed an ordinance against it. It put the penalty on the saloon-keeper, and Christian Webber was arrested and taken before the po- lice judge.
 All the witnesses were willing wit nesses, and there was no failure of proof, and no question of guilt. That the police judge himself is believer in the ordinance is shown by the fact that he placed the fine at $75.
 Christian Webber believes that the city council has no right to pass an or- dinance to break up a custom which has existed ever since Julius Ceasar came home from the Gallic wars and bought the drinks in every grog shop in the imperial city of Rome. So he appealed the case, and Judge Lyons will have to determine whether treat ing exists where it does exist, on the sufferance of the city councils, or whether it is part of the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi- ness, guaranteed by the federal con stitution.
The Alaska sourdough., 1911-09-08
THE BONE OF CONTENTION

Unfortunate Alaska is still the play thing of eastern politicians who wish to make personal careers out of the craze for conservation, according to an interview which Congressman Hum phrey gave to the Post Intelligencer. Nor did the Democratic majority in the house do anything to justify the hope some Alaskans have that in that party are to be found the political "Moseses' who are to lead the North land out of the wilderness.
 Congressman Humphrey said:
 s'The session has closed without one single thing being done to help Alas ka The Democratic majority could not be persuaded that conditions in the north were of sufficient importance and urgency to call for legislation. The ultra -conservationists do not want All aska opened because they want some thing to talk about. With Alaska we'll on the way to development there would Do uOGuluS 1tIb LOT tLtuI GO COuSOA ". Like Othello, their occupation would be gone.
 "Every seeker of the imelight, ev- cry freak in congress, and they are by no means scarce in that body at present, had some crazy, half baked legislative idea for Alaska. The fact that the authors of these bills know nothing about the Alaska situation does not in the least deter them from proposing laws. In fact the less they know the more certain they are that they have solved the problem.
 'sThe Alaska situation is not an easy one, between the two extremes who want the government to do every thing and those who want the govern ment to do nothing. All legislation has so far failed. I know that the president is extremely anxious to help Alaska and 1 am certain that at the next session he will use all his great influence to give the district immed- fate relief.''
The Alaska sourdough., 1911-09-08
HOUSE FLIES RESPONSIBLE
 FOR EPIDEMIC

During the last few weeks an cpl demic of colitus, or dysentery, has pre- vailed in Douglas Very few have es- capped the disease, at least ln its mild CT form. One child died with it and a number of others went down very close to the door of death.
 Common report has assigned several causes for the malady, but the phys icians lay the responsibility for the plague upon the shoulders of the house fly. This little poisoner has carried the seeds of death from one house to an other, and from the sick child to the we'll one.
 It is now an acknowledged fact that the common housefy kills, annually, far greater number of human beings than all of the dreaded beasts of prey, poisonous serpents and insects of ev- cry description altogether.
 Many diseases, especially those of the intestines, attack us only when they are brought Tn direct contact With us. For instance, one cannot contract ty phoid fever unless the specific germ that causes the disease is swallowed, and these germs are not swallowed un- less they get on our food or in the Ii quids we drink, or on the vessels from which we eat or drink.
 It has been positively demonstrated by the aid of the microscope that one foot and leg of a common housefy can, and often does, comfortably carry something over 800 germs of typhoid. How any rational human being can calmly tolerate this most dangerous and destructive pest, knowing the om- inous portent of his presence, is beyond
The Alaska sourdough., 1911-09-08

lurid letter, with his mind $ eye upon the Mountville Banner. A barber shop is a good place for gossip. Clarence heard all the good old stock myths of the North with winch the old-timer de- lights to initiate the chechaco, and with these he made himself the hero of a thrilling, if garbled, romance of mix ed water and summer experiences that the Banner played up under its black est type. It was worth tiff true.
 Fl couldn' t bear to disappoint the boys,' said Clarence, as he slipped in the stock property of romancing new comer, picture postcard of "his cabin ''-the entrance to tunnel in the snow-Everybody's Magazine.
The Alaska sourdough., 1911-09-08
understanding.


 He is capable of bringing, and does bring, the most virulent germs into our homes and wipes them off his feet on our food, on the unprotected lips of our sleeping children. The Charm less f$ that we often see greedily pick ing the particles of nutriment from the nipple of the baby's nursing bottle, may, but moment before, have been wading in the most dangerous and ob- iectionable filth in our neighbor $ yard.
 Manure, empty cans, refuse food and garbage of all kinds afford them an ideal breeding place. Born in pol lution, nurtured in offal, they cannot but defile all with which they come in contact, and their presence is direct evidence of careless housekeeping and of the existence of filth somewhere about tn premises.
Holbrook argus., 1911-06-20
Dropping Coaches on the Run.

The ingenious means by which one of the great railroad systems of Eng land drops passenger coaches off at intermediate stations without slowing up the locomotive, even for fraction of second, in its speed of 60 or more miles an hour is called the Slip coach" system, and is described in Popular Mechanics.
 It is system never tried in Amer ica, and consists in dropping, or slip ping one or more of the rear coaches just before the station is reached. Un- doubtedly many American tourists travelling in England, after alighting at their destination, have been amazed to discover that the coach which they occupied was still beside them, while the locomotive and the remainder of the train were nowhere to be seen.
Holbrook argus., 1911-06-20

View of the Car From Underneath. that freight might be unloaded, yet 1t remains on its rail as if securely propped on the leaning position. The other illustration shows the under side of the car.-Popular Mechanics.