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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12
Escaped an Awful Risk.

The poker game was at its height. Beas-
on had lost all his money, but he was
burning with the gambling fever, and
would not leave the table. He pledged his
watch, gift of his deceased father, for
chips and quickly lost them all. Then he
laid on the table a ring which had been
given him by loving sister. The chips
he received in exchange lasted just three
minutes. For moment he hesitated, his
face flushed, and he started to leave. But
when he heard a sneering remark about
his poker abilities, he uttered an oath, sat
down again and converted into chips a
diamond pin, which was birthday pres
emit from the girl he loved. In ten minutes
he was broke again.
The fever was now burning fercely In
his veins, and he cried recklessly: "In put
up everything possess-the shirt on my
back, IL 1t comes to that" Wild with
excitement, he sprang to his feet and
shouted: ~ will do you fellows yet. 1
will keep up the game even II have TO
risk
He stopped. His face became livid. He
looked around like a Gagged beast. Then,
making a rush for the door, he moaned
"Not thatl Oh, heavens, l cannot risk
that No, no, nor
AS he disappeared one of the players re-
marked: poor devil guess he was GO
ing to put up some keepsake from bis
mother.
But such was not the case. For one aw-
full moment Beason had been tempted to
risk his bicycle. York Journal.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12
The Death of Pontiac.

In April, 1869, Pontiac went to st.
Louis One day he arrayed himself IN the
uniform of French officer, given to him
Years before by the Marquis Of Montcaim;
After visiting his old friends, he repaired
70 the village of Cahokia, across the MIS-
sissippi. where he joined In feast given
Inv the illinois. In the early morning he
left the town for the forest, singing as ne
went An English trader, Wilkinson by
name. thinking to rid his country OF
dangerous enemy, promised an Illinois In
dian n barrel of rum to murder the famous
chief. This treachery on the part OF one
of their number cost the illinois dear, ior
Pontiac's friends did not cease In their
vengeance until they had practically wiped
ont tbe Illinois nation. The body OF the
chief was buried with military honors
near the fort at st. Louis. "Neither
mound nor tablet" says Parkman,
Unmarked the burial place of Pontiac. FOR
, mnusoloum city has risen above the
Forest hero, and the race whom ne hateo
with such burning rancor trampie WIN
unceasing footsteps over his forgotten
grave. -
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12
LEcTURED BY HIS BRIDE.
The Deacon's Wife Told Him In Emphatic
Terms What TO Expect.


Terms What TO Expect.
Old Deacon Stubs rested his elbows on
the rail fence ana watched the wreaths of
smoke that arose from his corncob pipe.
But he shyly raised his eyes every few mo-
ments and glanced fondly at IA plump lit
tic woman who was busily engaged in
picking potato bugs from the rows Of vines
on the other side of the palings.
He finally removed the pipe from his
mouth and in drawling but earnest
tone Remarked:
90 say, wilder, haint today iist year
sence your old man got the fever an agur
an shook off his mortal GOLF"
Cum to think, deacon" the woman
answered, as she made grab for good
sized bug, sit do DO year to the day.
An dreary year ct hez bin, Deacon"
"Jist so, widder," continued the doa-
con, lowering his voice. "Hev you bin
lonesome like?"
81 hev tibet same, deacon"
"Hev you had a hankering to git spliced
again, widderg'
"They hez bin times, deacon, ez 1 would
like TO hev''-
81 say, widder," interrupted the dea-
con, "hev you set your mind on anybuddy
yits"
"Me9 La, no, deacon, cr-thet isl
hain't lowed anybody wanted Wilder
Simmons.
"Er-I-say, widder, they is ones what
would be willin."
"Who be they, deaconY" the widow
asked with animation.
"Waal thars ole Felix Foster an Farm
er Dudley an thar's-but l say, wilder,
l low l knows of one what 'ud be puffect-
ly willin.
"Who be it, deacon?"
"Waal, L low faint ettiketty fur an
ole widderer like me to be playin at court
in, but | mought be willin to buck ag'in
LIES river with Widder Simmons. -
LA, me, deacon; never 'spected SIGH
Why, course I'm willin, deacon, eff you
air."
"I'm willin, just right now, wilder
| Here comes Parson Galley cross the farm
an you an I'll git spliced in less'n two
| minutes"
Parson Galley, after much surprise
asked the deacon and Widow Simmons t.
| join hands over the fence, and in a shor
| time the ceremony was over.
"Now, widdeT,' said the deacon, afte
the parson had offered them blessing
"clim' right over the fence an grab IN.
arm. want to take you home an intro
| JUICE you to my darter Carryline.
"Im right willin," the widow said, a
she scrambled quickly over the fence
"but 1 low plum now, eff your darte
Carryline is sot again this percedin, IN
an she is goin to fit like two cats, an c
you take her part, deacon, Pm goin T.
raise lump on your head ez big as the
cowhouse yonder. Now, hearken to me
deacon; you wanted Widder Simmons, a
| you've got to stan around an do jist e
Wilder Simmons SEE, an so does you
darter Carryline, eff she hez seed AZ sun
mers an got gray hairs. st. Louis Pos
| DISPATCH
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12
Easy Going Dutch Spelling.

In the good old days when the Dutch
were supreme in the administration of the
affairs of New Amsterdam everybody
knew everybody else, and 1t mattered lit
tie how proper names were spelled. Mod
ern lawyers and civil service reformers
would be shocked at the photographed
freedom of the clerks of the burgomaster
court of those times. Here Is sample
case taken from the old Dutch records now
being translated by Mr.. Fernow, In which
the name of plaintiff Is spelled five diff
ferent ways:
In case before the court in 1855 Jan
"Hackins" Is a complainant against the
inspector of tobacco, who has certified to
Jan "Hockins" that the tobacco was good.
The inspector says In his defense that he
inspected the tobacco at the request OF
Jan "Haeckins' on June e6, and afore-
said "Hagins' kept the barrel of tobacco
until the 3Oth without finding out that 1t
was bad. Then Jan "Hakins" has some
thing else to say in the case.-New York
SIM
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12
cOL.R IN ANIMALS.
How II Is Changed or Affected by Food
and Surroundings.


and Surroundings.
Observation and experiment go to show
how large an influence food has in deter
mining the color of animals Every body
knows how easily the color Of the yellow
canary may be altered TO an orange red
by mixing cayenne pepper with its food,
though it is true that the color change
may be produced only in very young birds
whose feathers are not completely ma
tured 1t is also matter of experiment
that all varieties of canares are not equally
susceptible to the influence of the pepper,
and it is a very curious fact that if the
pigment that causes the red color of the
pepper be mixed with the food of the
birds without the other constituents, vel.
low colored canaries are not in the slight
est degree affected by it, while brown birds
or the brown feathers of yellow birds be-
come distinctly lighter in hue
Here is another interesting experiment.:
The large tortoise shell butterfly normally
feeds upon the leaves of the elm, while the
small tortoise shell is addicted TO nettles,
but when some images of the large tor
tosc shell were bred from caterpillars that
had been found upon nettles they showed
wonderful similarity 10 the smaller spo-
cics, though the color was nearer to that
of the larger. Quite in tho same line is
the observation that the thorn moth cX-
hibits variations in color according as the
larva is fed upon oak, hawthorn, lime or
lilac. Many other experiments have shown
u similar effect of food in modifying or
completely changing the color Of animals.
Among the changes Of color that are
most perplcxing, il one would refer their
cause to utility only, is that of the gull,
which is blue and white, and is therefore
generally allowed TO boCl rotcctiNoNalue.
But for the first three years of their lives
several common species of gull have Il
brownsh spccklcd lumage, which Is to-
tally unlike that of tho older birds on
which fact Mr.. Bcddard remarks, If one
color be advantageous, tho other must DC
| the reverse, ana three wears is either con
siderable period CT IL H. not long enough
Another pcrplcxing part e the subject
| is the color of deep sea animals. 1t is an
| established fact that marine animals can
| and do live mt the enormous depth OF more
| than five miles below the surface of the
| water 1t is also certain that the sunlight
| docs not penetrate to that depth, so that
| the animals that exist there exist in the
! midst of more than midnight darkness
| Yet the fact is that brilliant coloration IL
| generally found in them. OF what use car
| it be? How can natural selection or sex
ual selection have anything to do with it.
| 1t Is true indeed that there may be phos
phorescent light emitted by the animals
! themselves, and of this there are man,
evidences, but though the deep sea fisl
may be guided to its prey by series o
natural "bullseye" lanterns, the color o
it's prey could have I'd protective effect
but exactly the reverse.-Our Anima
| Friends.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12
DIoody's Definitions of Faith.

"Bishop Ryle has very well likened faith
to u root whose flower is assurance,
writes Evangelist Dwight l.. Moody in
The Ladies' Home journal. "To have the
latter" he says, sit is necessary that there
must first be the hidden source of faith.
Faith is the simplest and most universal
experience in the world. Call 1t by what
ever name you may, confidence, trust or
belief, it is inseparable from the human
race. The first sign Of dawning intelli-
cence in the mind Is the exercise OF the
infants faith toward those it knows and
its fear toward those it does not know.
We cannot even remember when we first
began TO have faith.
Gath is the foundation of business.
1t is an essential asset to every bank ana
mercantile house in existence. Many q
thriving business and successful enterprise
has been carried through dark days of re-
verse on no other capital, and without
such capital the markets OF the world
would soon come to a standstill L have
have known men whose ruin has been
brought about by some little insinuation
relative to their credit the business equiv
alent for trustworthiness. The loss of pub
lie faith has brought the darkest reverses
to the richest of corporations, and even ma
lions have felt the ruin which 1t entails.
"Faith is the bond which holds family
with family. If once this bond Is dis
solved, there would exist state OF barba-
rism and anarchy like that which marked
the close of tho eighteenth century In
Paris. With every one distressing his
neighbor and fearing his nearest friends
progress is impossible, civilization incon-
ceivable -
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12
WAR AND COMMERCE.
She ivcntor ns Potent "A Factor In the
one as In the Other.

War Is always "a horrible possibility, but
when Invested of its personal and political
details 1t cannot but possess peculiar
fascination for the engineer, especially
since engineering has so largely entered
into all the methods of modern warfare.
Since the last great war the machinery OF
warfare has been almost entirely recreat-
ed, and indeed many devices have been
invented, constructed and become obso-
lete without ever having had u chance to
show what they were worth in actual COM
bat. Should the great powers become in
VOWED In warfare, however, there Is no
doubt that numerous mechanical devices,
till the present kept secret, will appear in
various lines of fighting machinery, and IL
Is not impossible that, as In the days OF
the monitor, ornaments and equipments
upon which millions have been spent will
find themselves relegated to the curiosity
shop overnight.
The restless ingenuity of the inventor Is
almost rs much of n bane to the leaders OF
commercial warfare as to the war lords OF
militarism. 1t has been said, and doubt
less with truth, that the managers of the
great commercial combinations consider
the possibilities of superseding inventions
as the greatest element of risk in their
calculations. From this point of attack
industrial combinations are almost help
less, for no degree Of business skill can
avail when whole plants are rendered OBJ
solete by the advent of some new device or
process which may supplant the entire
method of manufacture, If not the product
itself. 1t is this equalizing clement which
may in obedience to the law of supply and
demand, check to great extent the
growth of commercial combinations, in
tended to control production, prices and
| business. The very success of business
| combination sets inventors to work de-
yising methods, processes and machines to
accomplish similar results by other means,
and no man knows what IA day may bring
forth when the tide of invention is turned
in any one definite direction. The nat
ural laws of the physical forces must con
troll in the end, and it is TO those laws
that the development of the commercial
side, as well as the technical portion OF
human industry, must look for ultimate
guidance. -Cassier's Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12
Take Notice.

have just received new stock oil
domestic and imported woolens, which
will be made up to order in suits of any
style desired.
One thing sure is: II YOU Urv me once
YOU will patronlze me egain, Work and
fit fully warranted. John b. Rastello,
merchant tailor, PIP Sixth street.
Do not make objection to the street az
it is not the street that makes your
clothes, but a first-class tailor with eigh-
teen years experience.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12
USE THEIR OWN REMEDIES.
Chinese Methods In Cases of Smallpox and
Other Diseases.

"Wth the exception of the narcotics, the
Chinese use none of our medicines as cura-
tives or remedial agents, and yet they are
q longer lived race than we are, said X.
w. Ransom of San Francisco. at Is
serious violation of their rules for any
member of their numerous colony in San
Francisco to call for or accept the services
of an American physician in cases OF sick
ness. They use their own peculiar RENE.
dies even for the cure of so serious disease
as smallpox, though, Of course, If the au-
thorities learn of the existence of this
loathsome malady among the pigtails, they
are yanked off and treated like all the vic
tins of this disease.
at is curious fact, well worthy of In
yestigation, that when they are subjected
to our treatment for smallpox fewer cures
are effected than when they are permitted
to apply their own remedies in their own
way. So patent has this fact become to
the health authorities of San Francisco
that they wink at smallpox In the Chinese
quarter until somebody makes hue and
cry over its existence. The disease is more
common among them than the general
public suspects, and they regard 1t as
visitation of divine wrath for some infrac-
ton of the Confucian religious code. l
have seen Chinese women going around
from house to house In their quarter of the
city with babes in their arms on whom
the dread disease had made dangerous
progress. 1t is Chinese custom to thus
| exhibit the aflliction visited on the house
hold before treatment for it's arrest or cure
! is begun. This is to warn others TO walk
/ in the straight and narrow path lest their
| households, too, be singled out for visi
| tation of Confucian wrath.
"Their first treatment consists in swath
ing the entire body of the victim in band
ages strongly saturated with an opiate prep
aration. Nothing else is applied for q
/ hours. At the expiration of that periot
the patient, whether infant or adult, Il
| dosed with gallons of liquids, and this Il
continued until complete cure is effected
or death ensues. They guard closely thu
secret of this liquid preparation and can
| not be induced even to allow pharmacist
to look at it, ST Louis Republic.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12

Judge Norman W. Hare, OF the 32d
iadicial circuit came over from Ontona-
con- where he had been holding court
the past few days, on the Stewart yes
tp-day and went no Calumet on business.
1udge HARE said his terms in poor old
Outonagon we're very short now adays,
but that some important legislation over
alar,e quantity OF logs in the Ontona-
con river might come off soon. The
parties are not yet quite in the state oil
mind to appeal to the court.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12
i widening Of the
Mineral Range
Railroad.
chat An Official Has to Say
n The proposed Changes
'''' ,udse HARE Holds court al
OntOnagOn.

.or 70 the widening by the d.
Be'''' ;, tha Mineral Range to stan
- 80 an official of the road said
dHiut,s n oThere are a good many
''''.t ~ 10 considered lit meant only
''lDs. ,,oO Of the main line from Hough-
=. '1' 70 Calumet the problem may be
'0p ',mole but the transfer OF Quincy,
..torcbapge between the Mineral
' y -, , and Fl. & c., by which coal is de-
n r1Ts to the Wolverine and kea |,
~ The business by the many miles OF
y. tracks are to be thought OF. The
y. desires to make the change and
''- ~ no made soon, but the things
D,utioued have retarded action"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12

Tho trim Of the Christopher Columbus
n Fort William on June ODD is already
s,.idorably talked about in Portage
I.Le towns and the indications are that
large number will go from here. 1t is
ao.sible that arrangements will be made
:, an excursion to Marquette the Sun
I.v before. June 20. The Houghtons
NAV ball az Marquette and there would
h. a pretty good crowd that
vould 90 on that account alone. The
,,iO If the 22d has the extra advantage
# hOpp in Fort William while that town
1. celebrating the Queens jubilee.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12
Please Take Notice.

We are pleased to tell you that we
make everything pertaining to the shoe.
makers trade as cheap as ever from the
best quality OF leather. Mems boots or
shoes soled for As and so cents. ladies'
shoes soled for 35 and 40 cents. We
have q nice assorted stock OF fall and
winter SHOES, ana our own maze shoe
packs, which we will dispose "a at very
low figures. Good work guaranteed.
OKER & KEMPPAINEN.
Fifth street, Red Jacket, next to Jacob
Gartner's store.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12
The Opera House Orchestra,

This Is strictly first-class, up-to-date
organization and in every way prepared
to furnish the very best OF music for sa-
cred and secular concerts, parties, ETC., in
any part of the Upper Peninsula. No
amateur affair, but professional music by
professional musicians. Charges moder'
ate. For terms and dates apply to the
musical director and manager, Mr.. Max
Won LEM, 205 Eighth street, Red Jacket
Special music arranged or supplied on
short notice without extra charge.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12
TO THE TRUE ROMANCE.

Thy face is far from this our war,
Orr call and couu., "y
! shall not find thee Quick and kind,
Nor know thee iili t.c.
Enough fCr ne az ulc.l.- o see
And .cuch ,hy eaiE.ol = hen
Thy feet have lrod s. near 10 God
may not follow them
As thou didst teach all lovers speech
And life all mystery,
So shalt thou rule by every school
Till love and longing die,
Who was. or yet the lights were set
A whisper in the void,
Who shalt be sung through planets young
When this Is clean destroyed.
-Rudyard Kipling.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12
The rinlanders'

Mutual Fire Insurance company Of
Houghton and Keweenaw counties, or
Ranised In 1890 according to the laws oil
the State Of Michigan, will insure proper
ty OF its members. Have paid fire losses
over %, 900 and dividends nearly $4,000
during the last seyen years to members
of five years standing. On the first day
OF this year the company had 1872 mem
bers, $421. 4s0 worth OF property in
sured and $1O.66S.54 in treasury. For
further par ticulars apply to the under
signed. JOHN BLoMQvIsT, President
ALEX LENoNEN, Secretary.
Once. 448 Pine street. upstairs Ore
Jacket
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12

Argall Brothers. Red jacket Mich, uni
dertakers, paractical embalmer andiuner
al directors. Graduate of Chicago Col
lege OF Embalming) All calls promptly
attended TO and the best OF service ren.
dered. Telephone in connection. Tach'
ellis old stand, corner Scott end Main
streets
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12
summer styles,

Having received a fine stock OF cloths,
suitable for spring and summer suitings,
| invite IAN inspection. Suits made to
order, fit guaranteed and the prices very
low. Give me call. NJ. JOHNSON,
Over SAVERS Sample Room.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12
auekIen,s Arnicn Sa,ye.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter. chapped hands. chiblains,
cor ls, and all skin eruptions, and posi-.
lively cures piles. or no pay required. 1t
ia guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price, 20 cents per
box. For sale bv d. L. Macdonald.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12
Lake Linden stage.

tase leaves Pearce's livery stable
J axe Linden, every day at a. m, 10 a.
m, and 4 p. m. Stageleaves McClure's
livery stable, Red Jacket, at 8 a. m, IL
a. NJ, and and 4. p. IN.
THOMAS PEARCE,
JAMES MCCLURE,
Proprietors.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12
Frieudship.

How were friendship possiblep In mu-
tual deyotedness to the good and true
otherwise impossible; except as armed
neutrality or hollow commercial league.
A man, be the heavens ever praised, Is
sufficient for himself; yet were ten men.
united in love, capable of being and OF
doing what 10000 singly would fail In.
Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
rarlv1a
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12

II looks now as though Hancock
would be backward in coming forward
as far as preparing for celebrating the
Fourth Of July is concerned. There is
now not much more than time to get
those three sheet posters promising
everything in the imagination OF the
writer let alone getting up day worthy
Of the town.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12

The class OF the high school to gradu-
ate this year has the following members:
Robert Hunt, Lizzie Gottstein, Anna
Sockett, Mary Edwards, Anna Hennes
and Mamie Haas. The class that will
graduate in 1898 is OF a much larger
membership.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12

The water service of Hancock will be
extended on several streets of the west
end this summer and will reach many
localities where now it is badly needed.
FIVE or six hundred feet will be laid this
Year and more is planned for the next.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12

We desire to express our heartfelt
thanks to neighbors and friends who so
kindly aided US in our late bereavement;
also to DR.. +, T. Abrams for his unremit-
ting attention.
ALFRED MARLoR AND CHILDREN.
WILLIAM II. ANTHONY.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12

DR.. L. l.. Robertson, OF Lansing, is
stopping at the Taylor House. Thedoc-
tor il noted specialist and is having
great success in curing chronic diseases.
Office hours from to 8 and IL to II
a. IN. and from 1870 to 2 and IRON to
9 ID. m,