The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-06-08
KICKING TREES.
I.umbermen Muat Know Them and Know
How to Keep From Being Kicked.

How to Keep from Being Kicked.
Very few who have ever witnessed the
method OF numbering in our forests realize
the danger, with its accompanying fascina-
tion; the hard, rugged work, with Its health
giving results, or the enjoyment To be
found In camp life in the solitary woods
miles from civilization.
The danger from flying limbs or
"kicking' tree as it falls, lodges or strikes
upon n stump or across log and swings
around or flies back with terrible forcc Is
not noticed by tho lumbermen II they are
lucky enough To dodge successfully. An
other danger that people little realize Is
that of the transfers who haul tho logs
from the stump 20 the main road. Much
of the timber is cut up on tho mountain
sides, which are so steep that IA horse team
can scarcely climb up. At tho top, logs
measuring from 80 to 80 feet i'm length are
loaded upon one sled and arc dragged
down the mountain. In places the road
goes down so steep that the ends OF Tho
logs arc above the horses hips. The logs
with tie sled, tip down, and away thoy &
down the mountain as fast as the horses
can 90, with the tcamster hanging TO TN
reins and keeping his balance upon TIN
logs as they thrash and roll around beneath
his feet Occasionally "a tcamster emits
terrific yell that would put Comanch
Indian To shame to warn his brother team
| sters that lie Is coming, so hey can get on
| of the way They drive into turnout
| and tho loaded team spins past thom. !
| ia seldom that "a horse loses his footing l
| he does, the team Is sluiced down TN
| mountain Occasionally they go agalns
tree. and sometimes both Of tho horse
are killed, but they generally come out al
right, with few scratches
I With the advent of tho railroad and III
yention of wood pulp tho uses OF the spruc
tree have been changed or enlarged, an
SO far as Byron Me, is concerned tn
manner of getting it from The forest To tn
market has changed The logs are MOI
| loaded on to cars in the forests and haule
To tho very mill doors, whore they arc col
verted into pulp ana paper. -Rumfor
Falls (Mo) Times
Changes IN the Human Brain.
The wonderful changes which the hl
man brain undcrgoos from the momei
when it FIRST appears in the embryo un'
IL becomes the perfected laboratory
thouhht characteristic to the matured hi
man being has been commented upon
several of the leading writer's on bioloe
physiology, etc. During these successl
changes, or, rather, transformations fro
the lower to the higher sphere, the humi
brain not only takes upon itself the &c
ernl shane and form of the brains OF VA
ous representatives of the lower classes
animals, but appears to have the sal
| structural constituents, Mt least 10 CO
tain degree. Thus it has been found III
the original germ of the brain rs II hppei
i'm the human embryo has tho exact OF
lines of u serpcnt's Thought factory. All
' that the changes which take place VIII
, tho brain is assuming tho various shaI
which IL must undergo before It. beeon
Il perfect give it IL decided resemblance
the brains Of fishes birds and Dainmii
. Gus animals.
v Helms "rhoughts On the structure
n the Human Brain" and Wilson's " An
|. omy of the Human Body botn mentl
these qucer transformations, rs does
Hugh Miler in his famous work, les
n mony of the Rocks. Miller puts 1t in t
way: at has long been known that
a human brain is built up by wonder
process, during which il assumes In :
= cession the form of the brain Of II scrpe
IL a fish, bird and lastly, before III assui
4 the characteristic human form, IL Ia
upon itself tho outline of malnmiicr
~ ouadrupcd's brain" Hence the rem
!. make by scientific writer's that IMAM IL
q. sum total of all animals st. Louis
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