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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
A Plea For the Army.

There are some potent evils TO be cor
rected. During our great struggle in the
civil war the soldiers uniform was IN
honor, and reward was given for gallant
conduct but, the danger being passed, our
people little by little have fallen back into
the old ways of doing and thinking. Citi-
zens in common life encourage assertions
from the army. They deory the regular
service itself as If it were an 'enslavcment,
forgetting that with us all enlisted men
are bona ilde volunteers. In peace IL is not
always the most patriotic and faithful OIL
cer--one who clings to his regiment or
corps-that obtains most recognition and
honor. The habit OF seeking preferment
through outside influences is indeed quite
general and is too often successful. If
those who most frequently shirk duty OBJ
tain the rewards. the effect Is doubly IN
furious to the military arm. 1t demoral-
ICES and weakens the force and adds To its
appropriately among the people. 1t is this
evil and the false notion that tho army on
II peace footing is idle which give rise TO
the constant opposition TO its increase and
in some quarters to its existence.
Without the slightest disposition 10 raise
the military above the civil functonary,
it does appear to mo that an average of
about 200 trained men for each state and
territory would not he too many for the
purposes | have indicated, and this num-
Der would scarcely suffice unless we should
continue To develop and cherish more and
more tho state national guard, as well as
To encourage military education in our
larger institutions of learning.
In my humble Judgment we cannot do
better for the country than to honor and
improve our regular army and to make it
what it ought to be-in form "A model
and in size not too large, but large enough
to meet the requirements Major General
o. .. Howard in Forum.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
AcouTreo sY THE CROWD.
Leadville Judge, Candidate For Re-elec-
tion. Dodged To Make Votes.

Leadville Judge, Candidate For Re-elec-
tiOn. Dodged To Make Votes.
Twenty years ago Powers was an on
g.ne wiper ia the shops at Burnhain; bnt,
losing an arm In a railroad wreck be was
obliged 10 use his head more ana his limos
less In the business of making a LIVING Tor
himself and littio family Drifting IHto
Leadvlle with the first tide of fortune
hunters Powers remained there as lnng as
he could consistently ana until the she.ii
cook him down to Canyon City TO l:Ne
permanently, that being considered "a
healthier climate for u man of ms temper
aDent the had shot and killed his sOn-in-
law, Pat Kennedy, in a friendly go hs goa
please with Colt revolvors) But Powers
was not nearly so vicious as he looked. ana
during all OK the years that | knew him
he had never once killed n mana pretty
good record for that vicinity ilo was al
ways potent political facGor, and filled
various positions of honor and RESPONSE
bility, from justice of the peace up To po-
liceman and janitor of the courthouse and
superintendent of the chain gang. While
dealing out justice in the old city Jail
Missourian was brought before him for II
preliminary hearing upon the charge of
horse stealing That was ranked as
an offense in Leadville in those days
punishable with death, but the culp'it
was from Joplin and had many friends in
the camp, albeit the courtroom was crowd
ed with them, all determined, as every true
Missourian is, to see justice done In the
MIDST of the proceedings a stentorlan
voice was heard in the rear of the room
shouting:
II move, your honor that the prisoner
be discharged. -
That was all Powers wanted 70 con-
vict the Miss0urian would have been fatal
to has hopes of reelection, and without
waiting fora soconder TO the proposition he
put the motion to the house and declared
it carried unanimously, which it was
The court then adjourned 10 Johnny
Shea's, where the friends of the vindicated
man did the handsome thing by the Judge
the clerk and all OF the bystanders Don
yer Times.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
Placing an Order For Snakes.

"Do you keep snakes?" she asked as she
peered through her glasses at the parrots
and guinea pigs in the bird store.
Il have "a ella monster and some chame-
Icons, - said the bird man.
II don't think they would answer. You
see, what l want is a regular snake, one of
the long field kind that are not poisonous
l may as well tell you that my husband
has taken to drinking, and l want the
snake TO put in his boots. "
IF l were you," said the man, I'D
wait, and If he keeps on drinking he'll see
snakes anyhow"
mo, he won't, and he wouldn't care If
he did if they weren't real, but if he sees n
live snake he'll quit, and I'm going to
try it on. Couldn't you get me someY"
"Yes'm, i can I'll an order. If you call
around tomorrow, you can get the snakes. :"
and the man took down the address of his
customer.
It's test case," he said as the woman
went out, land feel sort of curious to
know how IL will turn out My idea is
that the husband will be so mad when he
finds the snakes in his boots that he'll go
out and get drunk as a billed owl, but
maybe it will work the other way We
hope it will. "
Then he sent his boy out 10 hunt for
snakes in the hedges and bitches of the
prairie. Chicago Times Herald.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
The Erande,t Remedy

Mr.. II. B. Greeve, merchant, of Chill
howis, Va, certifies that be bad con-
sumption, was given up TO die. sought
all medical treatment that money could
procure, tried all cough remedies he could
hear OF, but got no relief; spent many
nights sitting up in a chair; was induced
to try DR.. Kings New Discovery and was
cured by use of two bottles. For past
three years has been attending to bust
mess, and says, DR.. Kings New Discoy-
cry is the grandest remedy ever made, as
it has done so much for him and also for
Others in his community. DR.. Kings
New Discovery is guaranteed for coughs,
colds and consumption. 1t don't fail.
Trial bottles free at ID. T. MacdonaIds
drug store
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
TIE GLuTToN OSTRICH.
Hoo the Greed of one OF the An,mals
Was Punished.

for ODD appetites tho goat and tho os-
'rioh stand supreme, with the ostrich lust
stop ahead, and yet an ostrich finds trou-
pie IN swallowing hot potato. A South
african writer tells an amusing story of
greed ana how 10 was punished He saws:
inese ostrlches Were source of endless
trorble to us. They grew rapidly and de-
Veioped great kicking powers until they
peoame sometimes positively dangerous
the dogs and the Kaflirs coming in for
most OF their attentions Their anpetite
was Unsuitable. We used To make largo
quantities of biltong, or sun dried meat
ana there were usually dozens of strips of
u hanging on reims slung from wagon
TO wagon, and these were always objects
or attention on the part of the ostriohes
III was most amusing to see one trying to
swallow strip yard long and two inches
thick, just as n chicken struggles with
worm that Is little too big for it. Once
we had to drag huge strip out of one of
the hlrds Threats To save 10 from choking.
HUt II was the culinary department that
Interested them most. They would always
attack the Kaflirs bringing the yiands
from the kitchen to the tent and some
times were so portinacious that the boy
would get frightened and throw the dish
away and bolt, and we would lose the best
part OF our dinner. They would even
come into the tent and snatch things off
the table, and we would take it out of
them by smothering dainty morsel with
salt anu cayenne pepper, but after awhile
they seemed to flourish on it,
One day, however, we got the laugh on
our side. Dinner was preparing, and one
OF the birds was investigating the pots
around the fire. A great pot of huge DO
tatoes took his fancy. and he incontinently
seized and swallowed redhot tuber as
big as large pomegranate. He danced,
no jumped, he kicked, he twisted his neck
about almost into knots, be tapped his
wings and waggled his tail, he ran amuck,
knocking things down and banging him
self up against the wagons and stone
walls, and at last tore away into the weld
at 20 miles an hour until he was out of
sight and did not appear again for cou-
pie of hours.
Every morning soon after sunrise these
birds would indulge in "a dance. They
would rush away into the weld for about
mile and then suddenly stop and COM
mence waltzing round and round in the
most ridiculous fashion, often till they
dropped. l never could understand the
meaning of this performance. 1t might be
mere gamboling, but If so it must be near
iy the only case of young birds playing, as
so many young animals do.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
Wire Wound Cannon.

The wire wound cannon endures n great.
err explosive pressure to the square inch of
powder chamber than any other form of
gun and consequently assures greater ve-
locity of projectile and greater power of
penetration. An experimental shot from
such IA gun recently tried in England
went through Is inches of steel faced COM
pound armor backed by "A wrought iron
plate half n foot thick, eight feet of oak
timber and three inches of ordinary iron
and still had energy enough to bury itself
in bank of clay beyond. General Grant,
in his autobiography, describes some
wooden mortars, hoped with iron, which
were used under his supervision in tho
west, but hundreds of years earlier the
cannon of European armies were made
from logs, a knotty portion forming the
breech, while around the barrel were
wound strips of fresh rawhide which con-
tracted as It dried. San Francisco Argo-
nnnt
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
Religious Tolerance.

The tendency has been toward sectarian
organization in Christian work. But
with this tendency has been another, to
make the work itself more Christian and
less sectarian. Alethodists, Baptsts, Con-
gregationalists, Presbyterians, do their
work by denominatonal agencies, but the
work Is undenominational. No longer do
Arminians and Calvinists lombard each
other from their respective pulpits. A Sec
tartan sermon is rare, even in Roman
Catholic or "a high church Episcopal pull
pit, and u sermon leveled against another
sect is still more rare. The churches are
separated, but the doctrine is one. The
reader can easily satisfy himself of the
truth of this observation. Let him take
up n Monday mornings paper and read
the reports of the previous Sundays SER
mons and then endeavor, without any az
quaintance with the preachers, to deter
mine TO what denominations they respec-
lively belong or, If he have acquaintance
with the preachers, let him analyze the
sermons and endeavor to designate to
himself the features in any sermon which
are enthusiastically Presbyterian or Con-
gregational or Baptist or Unitarian. Ex-
cept in the utterances of few polemioal
divines, relics of a past age, he will find
IL difficult so to do. Ministers preach in
UNCONVENTIONAL pulpits, but they proclaim
one and the same Christian message
Rev. DIR. Lyman Abbott in Forum.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
The Most Learned Man.

Joseph Scaliger, the famous critic, was
pronounced by Sir William Hamilton to
have been the most learned man that ever
lived. He possessed prodigious store of
learning, yet he used to say of himself
that he had a bad memory, but good
eminiscence-that is, he could not learn
by heart so quickly as he could wish, but
once he knew thing he could always re-
call 1t. He complained, indeed, that it
took him as much as 81 days to learn the
whole of Homer by heart, while he took
three months to learn the rest of the Greek
poets, and In two years he got by heart
the whole range of classical authors. Yet
he called his memory bad one.-House-
hold Words
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
he Got the Turnlp Back.

An absentninded gentleman, who was
n landlord, went one day To call on ten.
ant who CHANGED TO he in great distress
over the death of valuable COW. The
man garrulously detailed the circum-
stances of the death.
Nothing allied her. she just choked
like"
"Ha, NUM- responded the absent
minded man, thinking all the while of
something else.
"She had been eating turnips, went
on the tenant, land when 1t was all over
and we looked I'm her mouth there was a
turnip sticking In her throat, whole.
"Oh, them" said the absentminded
man, rousing with great show of lively
interest, "you got your turnip, after ALL"
-Pearson's Weekly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
"Number Six" In the Labor World.

A businesslike young fellow with the
air of clerk now began to move among
the men, and they showed the keenest in
terest in his approach. | heard them speak
of him rs the timekeeper, but l had no
knowledge of such functionary, and |
wondered whether he had any business
with me. He hailed me with brisk
"What is your NUMBER" | looked ut him
in surprise. Hes new hand, F" shouttd
the boss from his elevation. whats your
namef" asked the timekeeper us he turned
a page in his book. told him, and when
he had written it he drew from his pocket
"a brass disk upon which was stamped the
number six, and this he told me to wear
suspended by its string and to show 1t TO
him as often as he made his rounds. -
1.-The Workers, by Walter A. Wyckof. In
ScribncT's
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
STORY FROM a MUSEUM.
Punching Bags Were Made and Used Many
Centuries Ago.

Centuries Ago.
In n Roman museum is toilet case in
which some fair lady kept her combs.
brushes and paint pots about 2,200 years
ago, as near as the savants can guess This
cista. as it is called, was dug up in Palos-
trina, the ancient Pr4neste, and is beau
tifully engraved with pictures representing
the adventures of the argonauts
These argonauts sailed to the land of
the Bebrykes and arrived very thirsty, but
were prevented from drinking at the
spring until one of them, Polux, had
Knocked out King Amycus in a boxing
match without gloves. so are argonauts
resolved to keep i'm practice This Pales-
trina cista represents one of them bang
ing away at u punching bag hung from
tree limb while fat old Silcnus mimics
him.
This bag, by its shape and appearance,
was presumably filed with grain, and was
not so well adapted for developing quick
ness as the modern wind bag but il was
pretty good for 2,200 years ago, after all
Perhaps some scientist will yet dig up
pneumatic tired bicycle or u repeating rifle
George Washingtons false teeth wero
among the first ever used in America af.cr
the rediscovery of the art of making them
by some Frenchman, but they were not
exactly novelty in one sense. At any
rate there has been dug up in Cornet,
Italy, a set Of very commodous false teeth
which must have been built before the be-
ginning of the Christian era.
AS for safety pins, needles and suchlike
small Yankee notions, the troglodytes
had them long before there was any such
thing as history invented It's hard TO
prove with certainty that any novelty is
really new. Exchange
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
Mr.. MANDRAKE'S SETTLEMENT.
He fastened to Make 1t After Hearing
the Judges Revelation.

He fastened to Make 1t After Hearing
the Judges Revelation.
Judge" said Mr. Mandrake, II don't
see how it is possible for a man in your
position to always avoid bias. Now, that
case which was just tried before you, for
instance, struck me as being a very much
mixed up affair, yet your charge to the
jury sounded just as if you hadn't heard
word of the evidence on either side"
Ibid itY' replied Judge Scroggins
"Im glad to hear that"
Eyes, Mr.. Mandrake went on, land
that's what makes me wonder, for the at
torneys for the defense were so far superior
to those for the prosecution that l don't
see how it was possible for you to hear
them and yet be unswerved. 4"
81 didn't hear them, said the judge
Didn't hear theml"
"No That's the secret of success on
the bench. A judges first duty to the
public, after he assumes Office, is TO learn
the art of pretending TO listen while not
doing so. Let the lawyers fool the juries,
If they can, but Their arguments must
never penetrate to the minds of the Judges
If it were otherwise, we might as well shut
up our courts at once D."
But, that being the case" said Mr.
Mandrake, why have juries at alp"
"To satisfy the people, " Judge Scrog-
gins explained, land to give the lawyers
chance. Without iuries the folks who
go 70 law would not believe that they were
getting their moneys worth and the law
yers would soon be driven out of business. "
Mr.. Mandrake then hurried away 10 the
man whom Inc had threatened TO sue for
$4,000 and offered to settle for 80 cents on
the dollar without bringing the case to
trial
But, in spite of the fact that he came out
of it with 81, 500 in cash. his lawyer told
him that he was "a blamed fool. -Cleye-
land Leader
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
A Tree That Grows Flutes.

This is the asofar, which grows In the
southern districts of Nubia. 1t yields a
gum known to dealers as gedaref, or sem
naar gum.
DIR. Schweinfurt tells us that when the
wind blows among its branches 1t produces
sound very much like that of flute.
These musical properties are due to the
fact that the base of the thorns, with which
Its branches are plentifully provided, Is per-
forated by an insect in search of the sticky
sap. The wind blowing In these little
holes transforms the thorns into miniature
1utas
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
inc Ffnlandere,

Mutual Fire insurance company OF
Houghton and Keweensw counties, or
ganized in 1890 according to the laws OF
the State OF Michigan, will insure proper.
ty OF lite members. Have paid fire losses
over "a, 900 and dividends nearly sc, 900
during the last seyen years to members
OF five years standing. On the first day
of July the company had SAL men,
bers, $466,943 worth OF property in
sured and $11,121.15 in treasury. For
further particulars apply to the under.
signed. JOHN BLoMovrsT, President.
ALEX LENoNEN, Secretary.
Office. 448 Pine street, upstairs DIE
Jacket
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
How Wings Work.

Professor Pettigrew's Investigations
proved what more recent observers have
enthusiastically, that all natural WINGS
whether of insect bat or bird, act on the
same principle--that OF screw. When
the bodies of flying creatures are fixed,
the wings, striking downward and for
ward and upward and forward In alter
nate down and up strokes, describe what
are called figure eight tracks In space.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
BROKEN DOLLS.

My baby's dolls are broken; there's missing
leg or arm,
And one, indeed, has lost her head but none
has lost its charm,
For be they old or be they new or be they
large or small,
Within her heart so warm and true she keeps
and loves Thorn all.
How like a mothers perfect love. For though
her chil.l Ga mar
And bruise tEeir rrCclous hands and hearts
with many s,lIl and ,c,ir,
In hopes desenca playhouse, hilod with sla6-
tered lives OK moa.
She gathers all nor broken dolls and lSissc,
thCm again.
Nixon WatCrnan in l. A. " Bulletin
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
Great Money-Saving ssIe

At the Laurium Fair, next TO the post
Office. Fifteen hundred pairs OF ladies'
and Misses fine shoes, worth from 81. so
70 81 pair, TO be sold at 81 a pair for
thirty days only. We also have lot OF
baby shoes, sizes from to No. 4, at 5
cents pair. Call promptly, as it is to
your interest. |. FEINBERG K Co.,
Hecla Street. Laurium.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
Improyed Asphalt.

An improved asphalt for paving roads,
roofing, etc., Is prepared by adding almei-
dina, or potato gam, with a small guam
tity of grease, oil or fat, to hot pitch, and
then incorporating with 1t broken lime
stone, river sand, spar, shale, gravel, gran
ito, or the like The asphalt may be cast
In blocks for transport and remeited with
bItumen Of fat, oil, etc., as flux. A mix.
ture of rubber, gutta percha, rosin and oil
may take the place of the almeidina.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
A FAST LOCOMOTIVE.
The Flight of the Purple Emperor De-
scribed by kipling.


scribed by Kipling.
Boom I" went the clock in the big yard
tower and far away .O07 heard full, vi
brating Yah, yah, yah!' A headlight
twinkled on the horizon like a star, grew
an overpowering blaze and whooped up the
humming track to the roaring music of u
happy giants song:
With Observation-Disclosures Yahl
Yahl
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Yahl Yahl Yahi
She climb upon der shteeple,
Und she brighten all der people,
Singin -ghignai-shtingall Yahl Yah
Nahl
The last defiant "Yah, yahl" was deliv-
cred "a mile and half beyond the passen-
ger depot, but .007 had caught one glimpse
of the superb six wheel coupled racing To-
connective who hauled the pride and glory
of the road, the gilt edged purple emperor,
the millionaires' south bound express, lay
ing the miles over his shoulder as man
peels shaving from a soft board. The
rest was a blur of maroon enamel a bar
of white light from the electrics in the
cars and flicker of nickel plated hand rail
on the rear platform.
"Ooh" said .007
"Seycnty.flve an hour these five miles.
Baths, I've heard; barber's shop, know,
because I've seen the coons, and library
and the rest to match Yes sir, 75 an
hourl But he'll talk to you i'm the round
house just the same as / would. And L
cuss my wheel base I'D kick clean off
the track at half bis gait. He's the master
of our lodge; cleans up in our house. I'll
Introduce you some day. He's worth
Knowing There amt many can sing that
song either. "-Rudyard kipling in Scrib-
ner's.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20

Johnson's hot bath in Laurium will Re
open to the public Tuesday, August Il,
and every day except Sunday from 1
to ii O'Clock p. N. Cold shower baths
in the morning from 8 to IL O'Clock.
A. Johnson. 10 Osceola street, north
east end OF L7urirm.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-20
A Remarkable Cure OF Chronic ID.
0rrh9A.

A Remarkable Cure Of chronic ID.
arrh9a.
Ini1S62. when seryad my country a
private in Company A, 167th Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers. l contracted chronic
diarrhea. IL has given me great deal
OF TROUBLE ever since. have tried
dozen different medicines and prominent
doctors without any permanent relief.
Not long ago a friend sent me bottle of
Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and Di
arrhea Remedy, and after that bought
and took 50-cent bottle; and now can
say that am entirely cured. cannot
be thankful enough to you for this great
remedy, and recommend it to all suffer-
ing veterads. Yours gratefully.
HENRY STEINBERGER,
Allentown, Pa.
Sold by Sodergren & Sodergren.