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6. THE COFFER COUNTRY EVE.'IN3 NEWS. CALUMET, SATURDAY, JULY 2. 1803. CYCLING IX ENGLAND. HOW FOUR SCHOOLMARMS RODE FROM LIVERPOOL TO LONDON. The Joy cf Whirling- Orer Old World Iloada on New World Wheel An Un chaperoned, DasBCl. bat Mutt En joyable Trip. Copyright. 1STS. by American Press Asso ciation.) Starting from Liverpool's famous art gallery one bripht Juno afternoon four American vbcclwonien, bidding defi ance to poor Mrs. Grundy's exclama tions of horror at srch a daring depar ture without masculine escort, turned their faces and wheels toward Loudon. Notwithstanding the shock our deter mination to ride to Loudon had occa sioned a good English lady, who mar veled at "four tits of girls without even a lad for escort" daring to think of any thing 6o radical, wo set out fearlessly, with a laughing denial of possessing anything more than the usual Ameri can independence and pluck. Having been over tho road before by wheel I was constituted chapercn and guide cf tho party, and my three companions, all r- '1p Y "ri::r SEXTUT AT TIIE GOVERNOR'S IlOrSE. American schoolmarms when at home, forgetting all discipline and decorum, were as eagerly expectant and as care lessly happy as was little Dick Whit tington himself when he tramped over the fame old road to London town with his precious cat. What a joy is just the memory of that first afternoon's spin! Liverpool. with her busy docks and tall spires, lay forgotten behind us, us with hearts free from caro and lungs filled with the fresh keen air, as cool and invigorating as early spring, wo flow lightly along on our good steed cf metal, charmed with tho ever changing beauty of as iTiY-tt a road ns ever delighted tho cyo ixud heart cf a cyclist. Through Lreaks in the blossoming hawthorn Lr.dgo wo caught alluring fleams cf tb Mersey, Wyoud the fre-h green mead- ws and v 11 tilled fadd.-, cr dire nr red an ivy covired chapel end its quaint eld bury in ground at some unexpected tum cf tU- road, whoso pic t urv '.:( I.i.. and s.;! d cay but n"ccn tuated the glowing btuuty cf the sunny hills cf Wal.s, faraway on thehcrizcu. or the bustle uA lift- t f one cf the tiny hamk-t bs'cing in the sunshine. It see:a(d like a pave cf romance to sr-e me little huhbern maiden cmno riding cut en h-.r mow white pony through tho great rates of one of tho cldmanorhous.es held open ty a gor geous lackey for tho Lady Maud to pass, whilo another servant, a groom on a prancing black charger, deferen tially saluted her small ladyship and waited until tho little pony had taken tho lead, that he might follow at a re spectful distance. Past centuries were written on everything before our de lighted eyes; from the grand old trees to the English wild flowers growing in nooks and crannies of the moldering wall of tho ruined cattle; from the queer littlo cottages with their thatched roofs of straw to tho sights and sounds of the famous cathedral towns, and the song of tho happy young milkmaid driving homo the cows all spoke of the oiti ,nguna cf poem and story, the tamo "xncn-io England" as iu the days i gooa mucin LSess. 1IL. nac a unique pleasure it was to wander through the old town of Iiugby uuu fcpea ci iom urown, while almost expecting to rccoKnisw him in one of tne many little urchins, who no doubt have made him their hero, as he once was ours I hat a joy to poke our curi ous noses into Anne Ilatbaway's most secret cupboard and to drink at the very little brook where Shakespeare's own hand had often filial tho cup, to wander through tho church at Stratford and to look upon tho famous bed cf the immortal bard, and then U) sit for hours upon the low wall cf tho churchyard, under tho shade of the old elms, talking of him and cf home with the waters of the Avon singing softly at our feet! Who blames us for preferring the charm of a little wayside hostelry to the grandest accommodations to he found at tho most famous hotels of Loudon? "What woman will wonder that wo girls found joy in the low ceilings and un even slono paved floors of tho dilapidat ed oH coaching inns? What a delight it was to insp-ct thorn old rooms, with their little chintz curtained canement windows and to sleep in century old four posters that recalled grim tales of haunted chambers with their musty hangings! We gavo littlo caro to the timo worn tighta, which every traveler nu from a sense of duty, but took delight in ev try turn of tho old hoary highways over which our gcxil wheels carries ns and felt as if Quoen Elizabeth and all her train might ad any moment appear be fore our eye on the old rood to Coven try over which tJbe had bo often passed, as we Kd in tho gloaming under the arching houghs of the hoary monarch who still guard the way. Who can hope to describe all the trance sights and Bounds of thorn mem orable day on English highway or the blissful dreams and heavenly rest which visited as each cighl when snug ly tucked in tbe lavender fragrant sheets of the White Hart inn? Any tourist can relato the sights cf London cr tell of the beauty and age of the great cathedrals, but we love best to recall the old fashioned littlo gardens, with their rows of gillyflowers and beds of marjoram or to laugh over the fright cf two strong minded cyclists who suf fered an agony of fear one midnight, unduly alarmed by the weird activity of an antiquated cuckoo clock or to go over again the attempts to discover the fastening on a completely lockless and bolt less chamber door by,the uncertain light of a flickering dip. What a rurrv time we all had in Manchester, miugliug with a Sunday school crowd and studying the dress and coiffures of our English cousins! Even the sentry pacing up and down in front of the governor' house had an in terest for us, and no matter where our wheels carried us, down shady lanes or through noisy manufacturing towns, we wero everywhere treated as kindly and shown as much courtesy and def erence as if our metal steeds had been veritable steeds of mettle, aud we grand dames riding in our coach instead of mounted on a bicycle saddle. With the inborn American pride of all good citizens and with the preju dice against other lands the ignorant always feel we had determined "not to go into ecstasies over anything," but without a regret at our inconsistency we forgot all about the chips we had contemplated carrying on our shoulders, and all coldness and want of enthusiasm were conquered by just the smiling welcome of the rosy cheeked English matron, with her young brood hanging to her skirts and by the homelike shouts of the little street gamins who stopped their play to rush after us with cries of "Let mo h'up be'ind!" or to wake the echoes in the village street by exclaim ing at the top of their lungs, "Ere'g er lot of Hamerican bi-sicklcs!" to somo one within the house. That we wore tiny flags upon our coats is true, but it was entirely unnecessary, so far as we were able to judge, for wherever wo went that we four lone wheel were daughters of Uncle Sam seemed to be known intuitively at the first glance by even the most dull witted of the queen's subjects. What it was that so clearly gave away our nationality I know not, but possibly one of the little schoolmarms guessed it when she declared the secret lay in our "Hamerican wooden rims," to which another sacrelv added, "nnrl our "Hamerican independence and clatter." Not a single incident occurred to mar the pleasure of our trip. English skies were clear, and with the exception of a couplo of windy days while cycling among the Cheshire hills the pedaling was of the easiest, and from first to last, although "without even a lad for es cort" the wheel women wero as safe from any attempts at rudeness as if rid ing protected by the queen's nrmy. ' Nothing in racier than rotako the trip we did and fee dear eld England in her mnjt charming mood. As a matter of i.u.t. twjo h aiw)iutrly no more do Jightir.l or more intxpeusive way to s me weu'i.-rs cf the old country. that .i i:; ( e-ary i.s to have warm cloth ii.g, a J-.-U....I wheel v.nd i little Englis! g.-ld to pay for meals and lodginr.'. sum vrhu-h will be but a fraction of tho expense incurred for what is often in l trier aeconimodations in tho cities. JNo one can hope to realize the real joy ci cycling abroad until sho has personally experienced tho nnione chnrm cf old English highroads and tho never erinim pleasure of speeding on new world wheels over old world roads. Alice Lee Moque. A TBICOIORED CITY. NO HUES BUT RED, WHITE AND BLUE SEEN IN GOTHAM. Flag Waving Everywhere, Flags In Dress GooJa, Flag Wall Paper, Flic Napkin", Flag Curtain aud Rampant TatrlotUtu All About the ItJf Town. Copyright. 1SSS. by American Tresi Ast-o elation.) One hears considerable talk these days about teaching children patriot ism; also about object lessons. Any one in search ci an object lesson warranted to make any particular set cf young ideas shoot in the desired direo tion patriotism could not possibly do better than dump their possessor down in the behagged city of New York. If he doesn't take in patriotism by absorp tion, it will le because ho is mentally ana morally an nrmorclad of such im penetrable ponderosity that the whole Spanish fleet couldn't make an impres sion on him, even if it borrowed Ameri can marksmen. I had set out to make a day of it down town among the New York shops. Having promised tho girl I left behind me to bring her back two spring lawns, I stood in my usual condition of shoo- pcr's paralysis before a mountain of spring lawns that had grown up be tween me and the smiling clerk until nothing was visiblo of him below tho littlo Old Glory pinned to the lapel of his coat. "I want to make sure of fast colors, " I said, lazily handling tho nricmiHf pilo between us. Whereupon he smote his patient bosom tragically just where tho littlo flag reposed. "Here, madam, are colors that will never run," which of course resulted in my buying three lawns instead of two. It was inevitable. A white, red and line. This bit of patriotic trafficking com plete, I found my way into a publisher's office, where I had always felt welcome. He gave me one friendly but none too ,11 HOME RENOVATION. now to Make a Perfatued Flower Lamp Mi a dr. It is a great convenience to tho hnnv keeper to have a number of pretty things reauy to nana alter the spring or sum mcr Drignterung of the home. One of these is the perfumed flower lampshade meu ueea not do expensive and is very easily made. The foundation is a wire shape of the size required, covered by coarse fish net I If PEHFCMED FLOWER LA MP SIIADE. stretched over aud sewed to the shape round tho upper and lower edges ; also at intervals to the side wires. This net ting may be gilded with gold paint or left the natural color The shade is formed by twininar loavra and flowers in and out cf the coarse meshes, and the secret of sncee i en to arrange the flowers as to cive a deli cate screen without being too heavy. Any flowers to harmouizo or contrast with the color scheme of tho room In which the lamp is to be used can Lo se lected They can lj changed from time to time, may be all of one kind or varied in character, can bo purchased at sales or otherwise, or they may be the paper flowers which many ladies mako so ex pertly at home. The perfume should Lo prinkled or applied in the evenina insl before lighting the lamp, not afterward, as if a drop of the cold liquid touches the hot chimney it is ant to crack the gtotiv If wished, a mica collar can bo added. io a chiffon, laoe or ribbon niching round Um upper edge, on which the flowers can rest, hut all such variations can be according to the materials at command. Rosikab II. Toxaa. , Cr 4SfM Mr WMmf to THE IlEFLAGGED CITr OF NEW VOKK. welcoming glanco beforo eagerly grasp ing a package that had entered just behind me in tho arms of freckled boys. It was a big lithograph of Dewey. I was swept asido with a hurried "One moment, please, this must get in at once." then with an annihilating scowl at Freckles? v nere s the original, sir? Go back ana tell them to send the original j. nere s something wrong about this nose. Dewey's got to go in shipshape ".mv no mjr jjujitr or iuaniia har bor. " And with a grin of appreciation Freckles sped back for the original with me aiert energy of a (signboard) mes sengcr noy. Iyavailed myself of tho interim oner my little sketch and got snubbed because I hadn't laid my 6tory in the i nnippines or Uuba and my lovers did not belong to any regiment nor to the navy. I carried my rejected offerincr fo t h At .. " . -- O mrone 01 anotner autocrat of the author' fate. Ho sat with a rule in his hnnrt in ... - 1 uuiug illustrations of warshins. rerri mental colonels, camp scenes and wnr maps into so much reading matter. He gave me a vague, unseeing glanco, and 6truck the cartoons in his hand a sham !. ,. . . -f enime wim ma scepter a rule. Th cartoonist standing behind his chair jumped. -Do you call that a Spanish "ar i looirsmore liKe aSnanish mark. erel. sir. Aud if you can't find out any difference between a man-of-war and k washtub you will have to give place to some one wno can. ine cartoonist slunk out Sn AA i icw minutes later plus the information rnat with things iu tho present condi- tion there was no demand for anything .a -ti j. . . " " hot uearing very immediately ujwu luo reu, wiiito and blue." An organ in the street below piped in, fin ishing the sentence for mv war rirlri eaiwr. 10 the rhythm of it I mnmhAri down stairs and out into the dazzling euusuiuo, nag stricKcn skies overhead, flag darkened doorways, flag incumber ed sidewalks. A beflagged baby pcrarn bulator ran into me. iostlinir me nn against a very fat woman leadins a vrr fat pug, with d big bow of red, white and blue ribbon choking its ridiculona- eyes out of its absurd head. ine rat woman caromed with red, white and blue bands etuck in the middle and crossed cannons all mixed up with anchors that showed they belonged to the uavy. ' The; ero eating ico cream and talk ing war, of course. "Papa says if they had been Cubans they would have been shot" Hobson inferred "but, oh, my dear, to think of Harry eating crackers thee times a day with 'Remember the Maine!' stamped on them, with me sitting here eating ice cream In the most heartless fashion." From the way her saucer was beinff emptied I should have called it the most "hearty fashion." Then my own ice cream was brought. 6triid red, white and blue, and the napkin I tock out of my tumbler was a paper affair bordered with red. white and blue and a flag in the middle. Some where among the palms and mirrors in the rear of the parlors a baud discours ed tho "Star Scantrled Bnnnor ' Dixie" and the "Red. White and Elue" while I gulped down my dose of patriotism with a growing scuso of the lnexorableness of destiny. I had the purchasing of somo wall pa per for an aunt in Arkansas still on my conscience ana irom the ice cream Dar- lor hastened to a big dealer's in that line. New designs? Indeed ho had. The very newest. All the rage, and with a proud air cf invincibility he unrolled scroll after scroll for my inspection flags crossed, flags solitaire, cuns. can nons, little fleets of ships chasing them selves over paper oceans and everywhere patriotic designs, nowhere the dear old fashioned posies I knew my aunt doted on. Might I write to my friend about the new styles? Certainly. He seated me at a desk with stationery all capped with flags or Maines or Indianas, gave me a pen lashicned like a cannon aud a blotter with crossed flags all over it. Sighing over the futility cf hoping to get away from Old Glory, I used his pa triotic stationery and wroto my letter whilo he softly thrummed on the win dow and whistled the "Red, White and Blue." After having bought a box of candv put up in a flag box and a few other mementos of the stars and stripes I really felt as if I had done my duty by Old Glory for one day not even forget ting to pay tribute to tho fleet of war ships tossing on a green calico sea under a glass casefcr the financial betterment of an old man on Fourteenth street and I went home. When I got there. I found mv pirl had taken down the white lace curtains irom tho parlor windows and hung Old Glories in their places. It made the room frightfully dark, but I was too far spent to protest. I flung myself on n lounge to rest bo fore dinner, only to find that my favor ite sofa cushion had a new cover of harsh denims on it, bound about with a cord of red, white and blue and all knobby in tho middle with a big em broidered flag and eagle. I closed my eyes with a sense cf sur feit and exhaustion and fell asleep to tho tune cf "Yankee Doodle Dewey, V sung by a nasal voice in the fiat above, to dream that I had died, but was re fused entranca by St. Peter because I didn't have an American flag pinned on me somewhere or a "Remember tho Maine!" medal visible, so f turned mournfully away from tho gates of para- dise, beyond which I could hear tho in visible choir singing tho "Red, White and Bluo!" JEAXXETTE II. WaLWOHTII. ..SUBSCRIBE FORI T IK B- Copper Country evening m ews And Keeo Posted On The War Events As Thiy Happen. m TER IsL S : 50 Cents Per Month or $5.00 Per Year. sii SIS Over 2,000.000 Gallons Used. A Six-Year Old Child Can Dolt WITH EARTHQUAKE. asrainst a man with a tray full of metal flags, pa triotic buttons, ' Remember the Maine I ' medals and other toilet the day. Tho man became auerv lvinjA Borne of his patriotism was spilled and uwiarea venomeutly he , would mako both of us "see stars," as if I had seen anything but stars and stripes since opening my eyes, i was bo heated bv this ode that I turned into tho first ice cream parlor I came to to refresh myself before Attending to other bnnlneaa Twn SirUsat atthe table next to the one I tose. Their sailor hut , - 11 iUJLUCU THE SOLDIER'S LOCKET. in it lie Carrlei Her ricture When Ue Gom to War. A popular photographer recently said that nearly every man who had posed in his studio for some time past wore a uniform. Csually they order two sizes of prints, one giving the full figure on a boudoir or cabinet card, the other snowing only the head aud bust, for Why have a dirty faded-out Carpet, when a iew cents will make them look like new! No Cost No Labor. No Time. REMOVES iak spots, grease upots and all Ktalns that may fade out tha rnlnr DIIECTIOISrS. Miohigan Self Renovating Co., ... I-. CiHlr.T.-.. 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Men s pictures are now lm variably framed in lockets, which are often in the form of merged double uwu "ue oi Bun metal, f not intended to be worn exteriorly The sentiment of the thing demands that it be hung about the iifirV ii chain. Some of them ar and costly. One nation I 'C"":,' lore belnxr , mnstPTPH n M a.j ., .nwuuuani wun a tmn miii i REDUCED RATES TO EASTERN POINTS. Mott's Nerverine Pills The great remedy for nervous pros tr&tion and all nervoui o diseases of the t . Vu kt J; u ans of either VichP Nervous Prostration, Failing or lost Manhood. Imnotfnrv M:Ilt vft:. i tr. r'. " rZf ijeiiuy x-iiua- -wm, i outniui Jurors, Mental Worry, 3 frr f T?o or Opium, which If 1 Consumption and Insanity. $1.00 MOHS CHEMICAL CO., Prop't, Cleveland. Ohio. or sale bv D. T. MacDonald. draj?Kist. FUNKISAL DIIIBCTUKM. HIVE11T OLNAV.rn....i a nrnfht?., cket NiKht Calls bytelephoD orotherwlsaDromctlr attended to. v W ILMAM m u-u ...... . . fnn...T j JmDaimer ana ADirty-Blx years exoeriencn. . J. A. IHOXtlEATrJ. SKWMKia n 1 j ... . marble monii.n;: .r"m:i" eK ?.Q. Calumet KelP urn- Office at the Si' 8A? A' B""aj ha. now In 85 to, nndermsntloned. Eastern Points via Sau t Rt& kT.rrf very low far-. v kUO "owiug TO 1st Clans 2nd Claee Toronto. Ont g 14 0o Buffalo, N. Y ;fu o6 Syracuse, N. Y 14 00 Ottawa, Ont.... Z ilgo Montreal, Qe 1! on A tmn rvni1 1 . I UHfiMr. (Ina -a thaped locket, inclosing hU TrnTnire WCZ: 14 00 and with a Cunid in hTiL?-1??9 New York Qtr. " ??XX uuuMue. ine majority nsnftlWn. I KW",B graved or outlined in Jewels on iStinr' orFronch; Latin or German tnntta ia nch sentiment "Pf '7n" Tide etAmore,-etc. JESSfE WlLLUKS BeDLOB. boston, Mass 1(1 00 Portland. AI s'JX-XX Halifax. N. 8 Z'. MM 113.00 13.00 13.00 18.00 13.00 16.00 13.00 13.00 14.00 ' 15.00 22.50 The aboveratMm .rvJ.i.A. ... . . '" pianon a trip to the east now ie thetlnwi tpplj to station and ticket iSt.. HERMAN'S STUDIO. Ko 20 Fifth mreet. Tie Best Ejnippei Pioloirajli Gallery In the;Upper Peninsula. All work flnlhi firt.i... not to fd. V1" " guaranweu Anderson & MoLean, PnOPRIBTORH OP UVEBT FEED AND SA1E STABLE. PIWB HTIIEET. UBD JACUET. nfi&HtffX ?o ! 'of ail oocMlona. Fin- JOBHrPH: OHABOT Hm Opened a PLTJUBIN0 And 8TEAU IlTOTO SHOP onOakitreetin the Wall bttlldlnt Bnm, Piamblnr, tin work and the like. Batlafaotlon tTiaranUKid- AEhirelcfta PuUigPitrc i ZzMtti