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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06
Power Over Animals.

r. is n curious thing the power wnlch
some human beings have over animals
There is in Lowell boy, differing III no
resnect from his companions, who mas
this power in a marked degree. Every
stray dog or cat in the neighborhood
knows him and loves to be in his com
Many A vicious horse which the stable.
man can with difficulty handle VIII
stand like lamb while he harnesses
and unharnesses him. The doves ny
around him, and in the woods the wilu
birds apparently regard him as friend
and ally. ,....o 20
The most remarkable exhibition OF
his mower. which has long been known
and commented on by his friends was
given the other day. A large ana VI
oious rat was captured in the stable III
one of those traps which permit OF easy
;noress and no egress. The men whc
were looking at the animal were afralo
70 90 near the trap, the animal showed
snch terror, but the boy, when ne De
held the imprisoned creature, fearless,
nut out his finger and stroked It's heau
the rat manifesting as much pleasure u
would a cat or dog.-London STAR
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06
unnnble Pie.
Century.

The term humble pie originally car
ried no opprobrium with it. 1t was
pie made out of the 'humble ,s or
,r.numbles." from the Norman French
"nombrils"-i. e., the entrails OF
deer To this day it is highly esteemed
in Scotland and in northern parts Oh
England. So late as the time OF rep VS.
tumble pie" was served as part OF tne
menu of a gentleman table on an sA'
traordinary occasion. Some wri'els w.
rive the contumelious use Oh inc pa
mto eat humble pie" from an alleged
o,s,on, If serving umble pie below the
saIt or at the second table. But TINS Is
, not supported by authority. 1t more
n nrobabIy came into use simply through
p tbe similarity of sound, there being nc
similarity shu Of meaning whatever be betty ss1
the noun umbles or numples anu an. ,d'
sdiective humble. New York Herald
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06
A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY.
Professor Jordan Says There Is very VT
gent Need of One.

prosessor Jordan Says There Is very Ut
gent Need of One.
II not the needs of the District OF
Columbia which are to be met oy
university of the United States. Inc
local needs are we'll supplied already,
II is the need of the nation. And not OF
the nation alone, but Of the world. A
Great university in America would 90 d
school for the study of civic freedom.
A great university at the capitai OF .he
rennblic would attract the free mindea
of all the earth. 1t would draw men 1 ..
al, lands to the study of democracy. IL
would tend to make the workings OF oe'
mocracy worthy of respectful study. =,
The new world has its lessons as wen
no the old, and its material for teaching
these lessons should be made equali'
o1eouate. Mold and ruin are not neces
sarv to a university, nor are TRADITIONS
and precedents essential to It's enec.,ve
~ass The greatest Of Europe's UNIVERSE
ties ia one of her very youngest. Mucl
Of the greatness of the Universlty -, .
poriin il due to her escape from Tn
dead hands Of the past. It is in TINS re
lease that the great promise OF the amer .
ican university lies. -Presidens LAW
8. Jordan in Forom'
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06
Skinned In His English.


Many funny stories are told about
Tho famous maestro, Signor Ardltti,
and his efforts at expression in the not
Too familiar English tongue. The BEST
perhaps, relates his impromptu speech
some years ago at the promenade con-
cert when. Mile. de Lido had been de-
tanned by railway breakdown. ana'
having no time to put on evening az.
tire sbe sat for the moment in private
hoT while the conductor begged the IN
diligence of the audience, who nj naturally tur MY
would have been astonished to see nei
in travelling costume. signor Arditt,
boldly took the plunge. Ladies' and
gentlemen, he said. "Mlle. de Lido Is !.
nndressed in box. But she will sing II
you weesh." And the wicked prone prone,
naders laughingly shouted an immediate
Affirmative. London Tit-Bits'
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06
Adventure In the Sahara.

Tartarin narrated his latest exploits
T.. .,'o desert: 81 was sinking deeper
a, and Id deeper into the sand, and l owe my my
nreservation solely to the fact OF my DC,
inc nrematurely and completely BALD
"You are jesting. ..;n;r,
"Not at all. The sun was shlnins :
aouoo,v and a strong wind was blowing
~ tho time. The sand drifted about my
feet and rose gradually hlgher un', was ,s
reached my chest-in Short 'n mere w tho
soon nothing to be seen OF me apov dow 'n as
sand but slight elevation as ro ou.r;o h'
an egg. That was my skull. AN 0s,r nur
happening to pass that way CLOSELY snya ts
, sued by the hunters, came and s ~ %atct
on my head. 1t was beginning 70 81 na rss
me when its pursuers came to my res
enc. LA Fanfare.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06

more and more among the poorer GLASSES
of people, who have no other means or
prospects of support; with the universal
aversion of our young men to trades,
and indeed to all kindSpf manual Ia
Dor; with the steady increase OF PROBES
sional men and the equally steady de-
crease of the laboring men proper; win
the preaviling love of finery and ldleness
and luxury and the increasing desire 1or
more play, amusement and even oe-
bauchery and drunkenness, and less de-
sire for piety or labor; with the preva.
lence of infidelity and the rarity OF
Christian faith becoming more manifest
every day; vi tn the disappearance OF
great men and the prominence and pros
perity of mediocre people III their places
| with the general unrest, DISSATISFACTION
and poverty, which are seen on every
hand, and the prospect growing more
gloomy every moments 1T any wonder
that one hears the mingled cries for rev.
olution and war?
The great west was once vent ior
| all the discomfort of the crowded east
and easily drew to its prairles the aspir-
ing and the industrious young men VINO
felt themselves handicapped and cramp-
ed in the dense populations OF the east
But that il all over. The west no lohser
attracts our young men to It's mountains
and nrairies; but, on the contrary, IL Is
sending back its people by thousands TO
tho cast. for economic conditions ana
sociol environments are so undeslrapie
:. - tho west that even those who live
there are trying to get away OF are
sounding the alarm to others, warming
1 them not 10 follow the star OF empire
Z Z west any more to grow up with couh
trv that is gone up and given up.
J And where shall our surplus popuia
;, ton 90? And we are nearly All surpiu'
:, now. They must go somewhere nhe .n
k Wandering jew, but whittier? That
IL tbe hurning question of the hour pelor
which all other social and economl
Questions "pale their Intellectual hres'
And il will not wait long for answer
=. Civilization, as Napoleon sald OF armies
q travels on its stomach, and IL is yer
~, hungry now, for the most part. b'
- where can it be filled? Hence all TN
- unrest all this wild war talk, and on
ID cussions of silver and gold ana tarin
of neople who have neither silver nor go
"a nor anything to pay customs hel,
ha shall not come that way. 1t never q
~ at this stage Of society. 1t will come
10. the old way, in war, and not otnefw.s
200 either insurrectionary. which Goa Io
ed hid. or foreign, which heaven hasten
Ne it shall quiet this people and give the
Is rest, if only the honored rest OF Patrl
,ro grave, fighting for humanity.-FriVa
oh Dalzell in Washington Post.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06
A r.u,t Tn Modern Wood Carving.

The wood carvings and wrought met
al work of the middle ages attract the
lover Of the picturesque by certain II,
Irregularities of line and angularitles Oh
curve and plane, which do no injury 70
the whole, yet give it character not
found in the work Of the rounded, SAND.
napered school of today. The tools Oh
these masters were often crude, ana
many of these accidental accents were
doubtless due to this fact. Yet these
men expressed grand ideals, and their
work ms it stands today has an lndlvldu-
alitv which is largely due to this very
nicturesoueness There are compara-
lively few workers i'll wood today VINO
appreciate this quality, and only recent
" has really artistic wood carving ueen
done by American carvers. one Oh our t
most eminent architects, in speaking o.
the desire of his wood carvers TO destroy
all character by the sandpapering proc,
ess. saws that it is necessary TO stahG
over these men and to take their WORE
from them while they still consider i
unfinished. j. William FosdlcK IL
Century.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06
AN HOURS WALK.
Won would Hardly Think That Iha'
Meant Travelling s5,253 Miles.

Have Won ever thought Of the distance
YOU travel while you are out on an hour
stroll? Possibly you walk three miles
within the hour, but that does not py
anv means represent the distance you
travel. The earth turns on Its axis every
% hours. For the sake OF round hgures
we will call the earth's circumference
"a. 600 miles, and so you must nave
travelled during the hours stroll l,ooo
miles in the axial turn of the earth.
Rut this is not all The earth makes
a tourney around the sun every year.
and long but rapid trip 1T is. Inc as
| lance of our planet from the sun we
will mt at 1000, 900 miles. This IS
the radius of the earth's orbit-half the
diameter of the circle, as we call IT,
The whole diameter is therefore 1884,
600 600 miles, and the circumference
being the diameter multiplied by 3. l4lo'
is about 57S, 900, 600.
This amazing distance the earth traV'
els in its yearly journey, and dlVlalnt
il by 800 we find the daily speed aDou
1.5SG. coo. Then. TO set the distance
vou rode around the sun during you
hours walk, divide again by "a am
the result is about $4,000 miles. bu
! this is not the end Of your hours tllp
The sun, with its entire brood OF plan
{ cts. is moving in space at the rate G
/ 100, 900, 600 miles i'll year. rms is a
S the rate of a little more than 43S'OO
= miles a day, or Is, $50 miles an hour:
n So. adding your three miles OF lie
Y travel to the hours axial movement
o the earth. this to the earth's orbital Joui
d ney, and that again to the earth S eAcu
d sion with the sun, and you fnd yo
p have travelled in the hour 80, 2o3 mile
y Cincinnati Enquirer.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06

GTeonlanQefS nave 40 --s5----.-.-.s---,
times. but eat when they are hungry
They seem able to go without food Tor
a remarkably long period and also 10
eat at sitting the most astonishing
quantity. Among their principal dam
ties is the skin Of different kinds OF
whales. They call it matak, and look
upon il as the acme of deliciousness. III
is taken of with the layer OF blubper
next to il and is eaten raw without cere-
mony. An arctic explorer, in his recent
work. declares that he must offer the
Eskimo his sincerst congratulations on
the invention of the dish.
~ can assure you-the reader-that
now, as / write of it my mouth waters
at the very thought Of matak, with It's
indescribably delicate taste OF nuts ana
oysters mingled. And then IT has thls
advantage over oysters, that the SKIN IS
as tough as india rubber to mastlcate,
SO that the enjoyment can be protracted
to any extent.
"Of vegetable food the primitive
Greenlander used several sorts. may
mention angelica, dandelions, sorrei,
crowberries, bilberries and different
kinds of seaweed.
Zone the greatest delicacies is the
contents of a RENDERS stomach. III
Greenlander kills reindeer and is I'm
able to convey much of it home VIII
him. he will, ! believe, secure the stom
ach first of all, and the last thing al
Eskimo lady enjoins upon her love
, when he sets off reindeer hunting
that he must reserve for her the stomac
of his prey.
cit is no doubt because they stand
! need Of vegetable food that they pri2
0 this so highly and also because 1t Is
: reality a very choice collection OF tn
O finest moss and grasses which that go
. mand. the reindeer, has picked out II
o himself. 1t has undergone a sort
q stewing in the process OF semidlgestlol
n while the gastric juice provides som
,. what sharp and aromatic sauce.
d MANY will no doubt make W
II face at the thought of this dish, b
r. they really need not do so. l have tast
"a il and found it not UNBEATABLE, thoul
IT somewhat sour, like fermented mil
as AS dish for special occasions 1t
o. served up with pieces OF blubber a
Ie crow berries. ="
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06

+. A. Douglass has framed and hung In
his Office several old documents relating
to the personal history OF his ancestors.
One is the commission of his father +. f.
Douglass as captain OF Artillery, in the
9th regiment, Light Infantry, given by
William Ii. Seward in 1912 as governor
Of New York State. Mr.. Douglass has
also his fathers commission, a colonel,
six years later. he having served in the
Mexican war. All OF +. A. and Il. L.
Douglass ancestors were military men
and Major Douglass has record OF one
who was an officer in the King Phillip
war in the 18th century.
Another OF the framed papers Is com
mission OF Edward Fenner as Justice o
the peace OF Johnstown, Rhode Island
and Providence Plantations, given bl
Joseph Wanton in 1869, he being "gov
ernor, captain general and commander
in-chlef OF the English colony OF Rhod
Island and Providence Plantations II
New England in America" This Edwar,
Fennel was great grand father Of F. A
and E. L. Douglass. A letter dated 17s
is from one Thomas Mann, evidently a
employee on some farm belonging to til
Douglass family. In it among other n
quests is that the citizens OF the tow
raise about thirty silver dollars to kee
his wife good natured through-wht
claim Mann had for the request does nj
appear. A reply on the same sheet In
different hand lntimates that the keepir
OF the wife good natured would be
impossibilty.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06

Although Capt. Dunn few days before
he went out OF office took Co the New
berry asylum FIVE patents there are
again 10 the Jail ak uniortunates, one q
woman. Whatever is the cause Hough
ton county seems Co have more than its
proportion of insane. At the same time
il is very rRre that patient from here
has dangerous proclyities, the greater
part showing electromagnetic religious
tendepcies or melanchoiia.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06

The Hancock fire department elected
ofiicers Monday evening as follows;
Chief, Al. Scott; first assistant, John
Mitchell; second assistant, Martin Con-
way; secretary and treasurer, w. A..
washburn. The members Of the hose
team talked over plans for . party and
decided to give one the latter part Of this
month. II win be an invitation affair
ana no canyassing with tickets will be
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06

Rev. II. II. Culver is having good sue
cess in disposing of the hundred dollar
bonds, which he deyieed TO float the in
debtedness of the church, in n busine IA
like manner. There were iorty-fve bonds
of the denomination Of one hundred del
lars each and he has placed twenty-five.
Several gentlemen are yet to be seen
among whom he has good hopes OF plac
ing the remaining twenty.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06
The Financial Affairs
of the Hancock
Hospital
xot Running smoothly.
,,,o Misled when Giving no"
The as,"n.-suppO.sd the ""''''"S
"" wa. Given Free.

o,sar sailing financially at
All Is NJ Hancock hospital as the general
the ,i ss supposes or as those suppose ' ,na,
pubic ,', sOps to help the institution along
are re, u' spuations. otherwise many OF the
with uvn ., this vicinity, that have SUD-
scribed s. or $40 when sa, aea hosnitaI.
s ssa Eaters in charge OF the nosp''a,'
'ne nd have given much larger sums.
They supposed they were e. eV ,n..itution
' nars to the support OF the lnS'l.u',va
me,' .sat temporarily. In some way Tue
anu snI idea has been that the dwelling
ssn' asa,sd into the hospital, was dona'
l lsun ,or the purpose. The NEWS at tne
liOn ~ 80 establishment, noted the iac'
. ., the property was obtained '1ou
I n'so W. vertin by purchase and otner
D''S have at times emphasized theiac''
p p1t from some reason, perhaps because
= vas understood that Joseph "ert,n
n.,ore bis death had intimated tina. nc
would provide Tor the establishment: =,
Nou " apcb institution. the general id' a
S sO bsen that the property was dona-
tiou and that all the Sisters oil o'. ran..'
had TO do was to look out ior inc 'un
nlng expenses. ..,. ,oot
go far from being the case it is a TACT
,hat the property was cold to the sisters
Tor all it was worth, the price beng We
understand, 81 900 and this with the re-
modelling and improvements necessary
nuts a heavy load on the shoulders Oh 'n'
GOOD sisters and one which this commuh
twill be called upon to aid inputting Oh
w;,b tbe facts 80 known it will be seer
that the solicitation for funds assumes
NOT the support, but the entire establish
ment Of the institution and it is far iron
hainc n monument to the memory OF Jof
enb Wertin as is perhaps generaii
thought. .,
However. our people have seen IN tn
mast few months, since the establishment
Of the hospital in their midst, what
benefit il will be and has been to the con
munity. 1t provides place Tor the ga
treatment of many cases, which the mi
ority OF the cases cannot ENJOY at the
own homes. This means success IN
great percentage OF cases when treatmel
at the homes would mean failure.
means a place where the patient ia 81
rounded with all the comforts oil hor
and the addition OF trained nursing AT
much less cost than can be possible IN
dlvidual cases. 1t means a place wht
men, young men, without homes, can
when taken i'll OF when meeting with
accident, and where they feel they
not burden on strangers, upon wh'
they have no claim Of kinship. In ma
WAYS it tends to the well being OF
community.
Such an institution, when once start
nearly always gets along and this
will do so. It's need had been too lC
felt in this community for the people b
to let it go by default, notwithstaDd
the projectors of it, unadvised won
made, perhaps, a bad bargain on
start
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06
nne Retter.

An Englishman was boasting TO an
American that they had in the British
mnseum book which was once owned
by Cicero. .ou.oa tho
"Oh, that amt nothin" retor1ea . .ne
American. Sin the museum III Boston
they've got the lead pencil that Moan ,
used to check off the animals tina, "en'
into the ark. "-Woman's Journai.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06

Dor. " Whatever may nave D'so..
price put upon Chinese labor when the
great railways Of the west were hnllt by
these people, today it is evident TO ali
" ho have studied the question that
there is no such thing as "Chinese
cheap labor. " Chinese laundries charge
higher rates than domestic launaTles.
Chinese iaundrymen command hlSher
prices than laundresses OF other nation
alitjes. A Chinaman earns ordinarily
from IS 70 $40 week and his boaro
and 10 lying The white or colored laun-
dress makes from 81 to SO week
without board or lodging. The China
man works from O'Clock in the morn
ing until / or o'clock at night some
times tie washes, sometimes he starches,
someti mes be irons, but he is always at
il. not tirelcss, but persevering III spite
| of veaIiuess and exhaustion. Other Ia
borers 2lamor for working day OK
| eight hours. The Chinaman patiently
| works II. takes care OF his relatives LII
| China. looks after his own poor ID
| America and pays his bills as he goes
along. :.
In the Chinese store $l0 per week il
the lowest sum paid for man OF al
work. In Chinese restaurant the low
est wage paid to kitchen boy Is S1'
ner month aud board. Chinese COOKE
will not 90 to American families 10
less than $40 per month, and they rare
" ever stay for that sum. This then
is Chinese cheap labor-a cheap lapo
of which ordinary people cannot avai
themselves. --"The Chinese OF NeN
York" by Helen f. Clark, in Century
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06
Rank of England Clerks.

The patronage Of the Bank OF Eng
land belongs entirely to the directors, a
clerk being appointed by each director
in rotation until the vacancies are filled
with the exception Of one clerkship IN
every seven, which is given to a son OF
one of the clerks Of the establishment
who has discharged his duties to the
satisfaction of the directors.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06

The condition OF young Walter Fisher,
who is at the jail with mind deranged,
constantly grows worse. He refuses to
eat. his mania being religious one, and
he being under the impression that he il
undergoing a penance. He has refused
everything for two days.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06
PRIVATE pALzELL'S VIEWS ON THE
PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS.

to His Belief, the Prevailing
Dissatisfaction and Public Unrest Can
Have but One Ending. Either an Insur-
reotion or IA Foreign War.
EDITOR PosT-With 5000, 900 of able
bodied men out Of work and penniless;
with 900, 600 tramps and Migrants ON
the road or in the streets; with all or
our ponitentiaries, jails, almshouses and
all benevolent or eleemosynary lnstitu-
tions full of the wretched or criminal
classes; with taxes higher and values
lower than ever before known; with our
great cities and our smaller towns alb
sorbing the population of the rural dis
tricts and large sections of the farming
section of the country decreasing III
population, and many of them fast retro
grading to deserts and waste places ut
terly uninhabited, as shown by the
| eleventh census, and a recent article III
| The North American; with ten times az
MANY mere tenants and ten times az
| many landlords as in former periods OF
history with debts and mortgages hang
ing over almost every home in the whole
country; with the keen competition
arising from modern improvements ant
from increased population and the end
less division of labor; with the demand
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06

Several specimens of water lilies
have the very curious peculiarly on
hloomin9 all day, and at evening clos
inc their blossoms, and. by retracting
the stem, drawing the flower entirely
under water. There is no more singular
fact in the history OF flowers than TINS
odditv of the water lily.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06

1t is probable that an agency Tor the
Anheuser Busch Brewing Co. oil st.
Louis will be opened in Hancock in the
sprlug. An agent of theconcern has con-
tracted for warehouse facilities in Han.
cock. This concern is the great rival in
point of production oithe Pabst Brewing
Co. OF Milwaukee.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06

The date of the ball to be given by st.
patrick's Benevolent society has been
changed from January % to the list
Weismiller's orchestra has been engaged
tn furnish the music.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06

The 30 called magnetic powder" OF
the middle ages was made from skulls
and other grewsome materials. IL was
never applied TO . wound, but TO 'ne
weapon which had made tho wound.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06
s.,.,,v the Opportunity.

C,ubleieh-I understand you are so
tho 70 marry your typewriter
Brokerly-That's right. en9 couId
only woman I ever found that 4 'o"''
ACETATE to-Town Topics.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-06

Next Saturday evening there will be
wedding at the residence OF Sheriff Lean,
when his daughter, Miss Nina, and Mr.
Stephen A. Bryant, of Calumet, will be
married.