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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
A GREAT WOLF DOG.
Some Fine Points Which Developed When
lie Was Put to the Test.

Some Fine Points Which Developed When
lie Was Put to the Test.
A reporter was talking to an old hunt
err who had lived many years in the
west and other regions where hunting
was part of a mans daily living, and
the conversation turned on dogs after
il had run to considerable length in 9TH
er directions.
81 remember, a" said the old man, with
q little, low, soft, reminiscent smoker,
"of wolf dog that my boy Jim got OH
of a Teller that you might call tramp
these times. Jim had an idea he knowed
everything about dogs that was to be
knowed, and when this tramp feller
come along with wiry, mean lookiE
dog and wanted to trade him Ter a pint
of whisky Jim lowed he was a power
full wolf dog, and the tramp Teller sand
thar wasn't better one i'll the country,
fer he was bred fer wolves pertikler, so
Jim ups and swaps pint OF liquor fer
the dog, and the tramp Teller gifts along
his journey, and Jim goes to slickln the
dog and gittin him ready fer wolf that
he knowed was chasin his hogs up Ill
| the mountain.
Zone mornin bright and early Jim set
out with the dog to give the wolf run,
and about two hours afterward, the
dog had the wolf goia lickety split. The
wolf tuck round the pint OF the hill
with the dog after him, and Jim lowed
he could cut across the top and git i'll
ahead of 'em in good time to see the
dog chaw up the wolf, fer he prlded
himself Oh that dog and had been tellin
the whole neighborhood what fine dog
he had picked up.
Course Jim knowed dogs, and he
kuowed that dog of his would chaw
the wolf up in no time, and he went
over the hill chucklin. When he got tc
where he thought the dog and vol
ought to pass, there wasn't sign, anC
Jim sot down to wait. 1t wasn't Ions
till Teller come along, and Jim hailed
him.
"'Say,' says jim, 'jou see anything
of a dog chasin wolf anywheres thu
way you come!
"'Sorter yaller brindle dog?' says tn
Teller.
"'Same, says Jim, nightly tickled
Had he kotch up with him?'
"'Kotch up with him.? says the fel
Ter. well, 1 sh' say he had. He wa
200 yards ahead, and the wolf was run
min the tail often him. Wuz it you
dog?' says the Teller. but Jim's heal
was broke, and none of us didn't car
to say dog to Jim fer better'n 81
months Washington Star.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
A Man of Resource.

A good story is told of the late Coun.
Gleichen when he was an empassauor
in London. At dinner party IL was
his hard luck to have to conduct 10 tapie
a lady of a taciturn and unresponsiVe
nature.
To all his polite nothings she answer
ed never word Nothing daulted' ne
continued to ply her with small ,alh,
till at last she slowly turned her heao
toward him and deliberately yawheo'
The count was equal to the occasion,
"Ah, madam. he said loudly
also have gold in my teeth. Strand
Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
He Also Served Himself.

One winters day tho late lamented
king of tramps, Harry Villier, Let
woman in the streets Of Bangor, loaded
with valise and evidently III very
miserable frame of mind. She looked
so woebegone that he dotted his hat and
accosted her in his usual courtly fash
ion. She told story of hunger, loss OF
position through sickness and OF evlc-
ton from her own poor room because
she could not pay the rent. All that ex-
cited Harry's ready sympathy. III L
were rich, my dear madam, " said he,
81 would assist you in the rich man S
fashion-perhaps give you dollar, per-
haps pass by ON the other side. But 1 M
a tramp, and I'll have to help you III
tramp fashion.
He begged warm corner for her IN
an engine room, hunted up some food
at neighboring back doors, and when the
poor woman was warmed and fed he
shouldered her valise and told her to
follow him. She did so. He marched
straight into the country for half doz'
en- miles, then approached farmhouse
where he was known and solicited en-
ployment for the woman, giving her a
glowing recommendation. She was
hired and for many years was hard
working and trusted member OF the
household "And didn't / get glorious
feeds when I sauntered along that way J.
said Harry. "My friends, the Astors,
used to envy me when told 'em about
il. "-Lewiston Journal.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
The Tree of Blood.

The most wonderful optical expert
ment known to tho eye experts is that
which produces the "blood tree, or
"the arborescent figure Of PurkInJe.
II is a very simple and entertaining ex-
periment and one FROM which 10 posi-
BILE harm to the eye can result. The ex-
periment is an optical delusion III which
the retina of the eye and all the blood
vessels connected herewith appear TO
stand ont in the air III such manner
that the experimenter Las q splendid
view Of them.
Purkinje, the great optician, accl-
dentally made this discovery CT the
"blood tree" or "arborescent inquire
which bears his name several years ago,
and since his time it has been used III
thousands of curious test experiments
The projected image is called the
"arborescent figure" because of It's re-
semblance to a may branched tree and
is produced in the following manner
Shut yourself up in dark room az
NIGHT and move "a candle or lighted
lomp back and forth very rapidly before
the ewes. After few seconds the all
surrounding the candle will assume
deem pink or reddish color, which rap,
idly takes upon itself the appearance OF
a sea of blood. Over this red background
ramifyipc in all directions may be seen
the veins and blood vessels standing on'
in bold relief, while toward the center
of the figure there appears dark trunk
like line which serves as "body fol
your "tree of blood, the trunk ak being l.is
most plainly visible where the optic
nerve enters the eye
This experiment is chiefly interesting
because it proves that the parts OF tn'
retina which actually receive impress
sions and produce sensations must IL
behind the blood vessels, since thes'
cast their shadow upon it and enable
the experimenter to see them as plainly
as he does any other external object
st. Louis Republic.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
Two of Tait's Stories.

The late archbishop of Canterbury
had many good stories to tell. Two are
recalled by his private secretary, Man
deviAe b. Phillips, in some personal
"reminiscences, which he contributes
to the London Sunday Magazine. One
concerned Archbishop Tait's coachman,
who was very original character. One
day clergyman who called at the pal
ace asked him whether he had still as
much to do as ever. The answer was
sublime There's always goodish bit
doing, sir, but it's been trifle easier
since we took young Mr.. Parry into the
business. The Right Rev Edward
Parry had recently been appointed bishop
suffragen of Dover.
Another of the archbishop's stories,
also of a coachman, will be new to
many. A gentleman living in the neigh
borhood of Addington, finding that the
stablemen were not in the habit OF at
tending church, spoke to his coachman
about it, "They ought to go, he said
THAT'S just what l say myself, " was
the rejoinder. II says to them: Look
at me. l go. And what harm does 1T do
p,o2'p
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
Tool, Her Advice.

A. clergyman in southern state was
called to perform marriage ceremony
in a poor white settlement. After the
knot was tied the mother of the BRIDE
placed before the guests refreshments III
the form Of rye whisky. The PASTOR by
virtue of his Office as a Christian MIN
lister. demonstrated with her for thus
starting in life the new couple Inc
mother, a large woman, about loo'
taller than the minister. placing her
arms akimbo and looking him straight
in the eye, said, Look yere' mister
preacher, yer kim we're to marry this
yere couple. Yo've married this yere
connie. Now git. New York Tribune
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
QUEEN OF HEARTS.

From dainty feet 10 parted hair
My lady is sunbeam snare,
And all the flowers look at her
And think she Is fairer flower
Such laughing beauty is her dover,
Such love dreams in her brown eyes stir.
In midnir poised to hear her sing,
The skylark hovers quivering,
And all the leaves that shift and sigh
Seem whispering of her loneliness,
While softest winds her curls caress
And kiss her mouth as oft as j.
All men and women as we meet
Are glad and swift to serve my sweet,
And others crushed in crowded marts,
Sunk low in sin and misery,
Her lily hands lift tenderly-
And those, too, call her "Queen OF
Hearts"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
THE MULLlGAN LETTERS.
Blaine's Dramatic Heading In Congress OF
the Famous Correspondence.


After the morning hour ON Monday,
June 3, Mr.. Blaine rose to question OF
privilege. He began his remarks by OBJ
serving that the investigation, though
authorized in general terms, was aimed
solely and only at himself 1.-The famous
witness, Mulligan, he said, had select
ed out Of years of correspondence letters
which he thought would be peculiarly
damaging to him, Blaine, but they had
nothing to do with that investigation.
He. Blaine, obtained them under cir
cumstances known to everybody, and
defied the house TO compel him to pro
duce them. Had Mr.. Blaine stopped
here his enemies could have made him
bite the dust. Apparently he had allow
ed himself to be driven into fatal Gull
de-sac. Not so.
Having INDICATED his right to the
letters ho proceeded in his most dramat.
ic manner: "Thank God Almighty
am not afraid to show them. There
they are holding up package OF let
torsl. There is the very original pack
age. And with some sense OF humilia'
| ton. with modification that l do not
pretend to conceal, with sense OF out
rage which l think any man in my pc
sition would feel, invite the conf
| denco Of $4,000, 900 of my countrymei
while 1 read those letters FROM this
| desk" For the moment triumph turned
to dismay, dismay to triumph. The au
! dience was electrified. The letters seem
| ed to show Mr.. Blaine, in one case a
least, high minded and generous III as
Stunning the losses of innocent person
who invested OH his request. Iron
"The Plumed Knight and His Joust,
by President +. Benjamin Andrews, Il
| Scrihner's
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
eAlRO'S TAPlR.
Common Enough Animal That Cannot
he Seen In Amy Collection.


Still less known in this cOunhv. and
never seen, either i'll menagerioS or mu-
seums, are the two species Of tapir found
in Central America. Tho sleek, plump
bodied, chocolate brown tapir Of South
America we do SEQ occasionally,
both alive and dead, but Of Baird's
tapir there is not even one adult
stuffed specimen III existence, either
in this country or in Europe. A few
skulls and skeletons and two or three
mutilated and unmOuntable skins are
positively all the world possesses i'll
representation of this species, and, what
is still worse, no naturalist has yet had
an opportunity to even write descrip-
tion Of tie full grown animal! The
young animal is known to be of a red
dish brown color, marked with ireSu-
lar white spots and stripes.
Our universal poverty i'll specimens
of the tapir named in honor of Professor
Baird is not due to the extreme rarity
of the animal, but rather to a lack OF
enterprise on the part of the intelligent
| white men who from time to time have
| had it in their power to procure and to
preserve specimens. The animal is we'll
| known in Panama, Costa RIGA, Mica
ragua, Honduras and southern Mexico.
Although tapirs are usually found
along small and well shaded rivers i'll
the hot lowlands of the tropics, they
are frequently found on forest covered
mountains as we'll. DR.. Frantzius in
forms us that in Costa Rica Baird's
tapir is found both in the lowlands and
on the highest mountain ranges lie
says also that sit is much hunted FOL
its flesh is very delicate. The back
woodsmen salt it, or dry it i'll the air
and thus provide themselves with large
stores. Its thick hide is very useful
Tapirs are very fond OF tin
salt ticks which are formed i'll the neigh
borhood of the numerous mineral spring
by the evaporation of the saline water
Here they are either shot with bullet
on moonlight nights or are hmte'
down with dogs and killed with spears.
w. r. Hornaday i'll st. Nicholas
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
ON ECHOlNG SHORES.

On echoing shores the nice DEGREES
or garb and guise no longer tease;
No etiquette the soul enslaves;
The bore in vain an answer Graves,
And duns may clamor as they please.
Obvious here of those and these,
On windy cliffs we dream at ease
Here, whore the free Atlantic raves
On echoing shores.
Mid purple heather hum the bees,
And sea birds wheel adown the breeze,
And deep below the inrding waves
Boom through the galleries Of their caves
With lap and plash of seething seas
On Cchoing shores.
Cecil Harley in Temple Bar
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
WOMEN'S EXALTED MISSION.
Better to Create a Good Home Than to
Excel In Any Other Endeavor.

Excel In Any Other Endeavor.
Certainly there is wisdom for two
young people who have sworn to love
each other, no matter whether there is
poverty or wealth no matter whether
the days are bright or dark, to have a
home of their own, writes Ruth Ash
more, discussing 1.-THE Mistress of the
Small House." i'll Ladies Home Jour
nal Boarding house life is bad for
women, and do not believe that any
man has ever really enjoyed it. God
created women 10 make homes-to
make homes for the men they love and
for the children whom God will send to
them. And home must be started at
the beginning of this new life. Do not
wait for big house and many servants,
but make happiness exist i'll a little
house with ono maid as a help. 1t can
to done. know it can.
Do not shrug your shoulders and say
| you do not like homework. Work is on
ly disagreeable when it is badly done.
and from washing the silver and glass
to busting the brio "a brac and beating up
a cake everything may be daintily done
and we'll done if you go about it i'll the
right way AID with the right spirit.
You will have to be considerate, and You
Will have 10 be patient. You will GER
tainly make mistakes but each mistake
is one step toward success. Burden your
self with patience, consideration and
tenderness; you will need to make calls
upon them often and often.
Then you will gain so much. You
will be the happy housewife, the lady
of the house who has the right to dis
pense hospitality and good will; the
Mistress not only of the house, but OF
the heart of your husband, because fol-
him You have created home. And
that is womanly work-a better mon
ument to you, my dear, than the paint
ing of wonderful picture, thewritine
of great book, or the composing OF
fine piece of music From out home
all virtues and all great works may
come. No man ever made a home H'
does not know how. The woman's brain
heart and hands are necessary, and ;
home is such a beautiful thing. L
means rest, il means peace, and 1T mean
love. Make one for your husband ant
let him find these three great joys Ill 1t
four walls.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
A Living Record.

A white man sued black man in
Natal the other day, and while the trial
was proceeding the litigants came to an
amicable settlement
The counsel for the plaintiff announc-
ed this circumstance TO the court.
1.-THE agreement must be in writing,
said the judge.
1--WE have it here in black and white,
replied the counsel, pointing to the par
ties. "What more is neces aryT'--Scot-
fish Nights.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
XVbv She Was Offended.

"No, we don't speak now, said the
girl in gray.
"Why not?'' asked the girl in dark
blue.
"She showed me her new boomers
yesterday, and while l admired them
and said they were very pretty bloom.
ers / told her that nothing in the world
could ever induce me to wear such
things"
"And what did she say?'
"She just looked at my feet and SAID
she wouldn't wear them if she were III
nv place. Chicago Post.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
He Didn't Haft.

He was one of those unruly young
sters who make the life OF a public
school teacher hard one. He was III
the primary grade. He came in one
morning with dirty hands and face.
The teacher looked at him severely.
JOHNNY
"Yes'm."
"Have you washed your face and
hands this morning."
Nom"
"Why not?"
"None of the folks is home, an
don't haft to. "-Syracuse Post.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
Versatile Sailor Men.

The versatility of the man VINO mas
been educated on sailing vessel VIII
hear investigation. He has not only 10
be a sailor and a rigger, but Is some
thing of carpenter, sailmaker' a
cook a tailor, barber and a blacksmith
and has a speaking acquaintance with
several other trades. A thorousnpreu
sailor can, in fact, turn his hand TO al.
most anything that comes up ana 90 IL
90 we'll as. if not little better than the
average. and he would find himself IN
a nickle lots of times if it were not ior
that same versatility. New York Trio-
me-
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
Needles.

Needles are all made by machinery.
The piece of mechanism by which the
needle is manufactured takes the rough
steel wire, cuts it into proper lengths,
files the point, fattens the head, pierces
the eye, then sharpens the tiny instru-
ment and gives it that polish familiar
to the purchaser. There is also a ma
chine by which needles are counted and
placed in the papers in which they are
sold, these being afterward folded by
the same continuance.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
An Encomium Chcaply Won.

Boss" said the man, give me
cents
The man addressed reached in his
pocket. and % smile appeared on the
beggar's face.
"Im afraid" said the man, feeling
around among the coins in his pocket,
"that can give you 1.-THE smile on the
beggar's face disappeared and sober
look took its place. 2 cents. think I'll
have TO give you 1.-THE sober look was
now turned into broad smilel D. "
Boss" said the beggar, you re
brick. New York Sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
The Land of Liberty.

Travelled Guest (meaningly)-In Eu-
rope the custom Of tipping has been re-
duced to q system-one-twentieth OF
the bill. Thus 81 check entities the
waiter to cents.
Waiter-Yes, sab, but in this land O.
liberty, sab, every ge'men feels free to
cub quarter, sab. New York Weekly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08

Velvet is manufactured by placing III
the loom rows of very short threads Oh
the material designed to be empioyeu'
whether cotton or silk. These are 'n.n
caught up by the cross threads III the
weaving and fastened in such a way
that the fieecy ends present tneilsoise'
all ON one side of the fabric. Inc malu.
facture of velvet is so slow that lor .
hand weaver a yard is considered a eooa gov,
days work. The machine MADE veise'
is Of course turned out much more rap
idly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
Hopeless.

at have half notion to give up try
;ro IN be man." sighed the new wom-
"Wbatp' shrieked the Others
"There is no use trying. nave mace
tho most strenuous efforts possible 10
feel half scared to death when go INTO
a dry goods store, and / just cant 40
n indianapolis Journal
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
v,o. -, sbr;eked the others.

Every man deems that he has precise.
r. Tho trials and temptations which are
tho hardest of all others for him TO pear'
hnt thew are so simply because they are
Tho very ones he most needs Mrs L.
M Cbilds.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08
Putting 1t Nicely.

Tailor-When you delivered Mr.. Slow
boys suit, did you call his attention to
the fact that it was there when prom
Used?
Boy-Yes. sir.
Tailor-What did he say?
Bowie said he felt he never could
repay you for what you had done for
him. New York Sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08

You have noticed when you have been
in England that all the bank notes are
always clean and fresh or that most OF
them are. Well, the reason is that the
Bank of England burns the ones received
and issues new ones. The average life
Of bank note Is only five or six days.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08

Termagant was formerly quarrel
some person Of either sex, and only the
lack Of galIantry of the men has limit
ed the word to its present significance.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08

Laughter is day, and sobriety is
night; smile is the twilight that how
ers gently between both, more bewitch-
ing than either. W. Beecher.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08

To keep a race horse in even mooel-
..a condition in England, with proper
attendants, costs e325 year
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08

One hectare, or 10. 900 square meters,
Is equal 10 az acres
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-08

\ ~ 40 double business bound,
uss ~nere l shall first be.
s'ec'' -shakespeare.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-08-13
WINDHAM.

A meeting of much interest was
held at West Windham school house
under the auspices of the 7th day Ad.
vent church. Rev. Mr.. Bicknell
president of the conference, preached
an able an efficient discourse from
lisa. 5S-6, on Sunday at II o'clock
continuing the text at 2 p. M, also
at 80 p. m. A Sunday School
and devotional meeting was held Sab
bath afternoon. The meetings were
continued next day with undated in.
terest. One lady, Mrs. VIM. Moul.
trap, received Baptism, with hand of
fellowship as member of church.
Rev. Mr.. Rodger and wife created
a girl baby at the parsonage one
morning last week. Miss Nellie
Rhoades is caring for the family.
Harry Chapman is looking well af-
ter his sojourn in New York. He
returns to his business there in a few
days.
Some of our citizens are in Chester.
Others are expecting to take in the
State muster this week.
Annual camp meeting at Rutland
commences the 10Th of August.
Seventh day people extend cordial
invitation. Half-fare tickets on rail.
road.
We learn from good authority that
Mr.. Z. Jones has disposed of his
house and land to the Stowell family.
We shall be pleased to hail Uncle
Hollis.
The f. Harris store comes under
the new management in a few days.
We wish Harry Wood success.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-08-13
WALLINGFORD.

Farmers are getting their hay in
good shape on the uplands but it is in
bad shape on the creek, ON account Of
the high water. Other crops are look
ing well although some predict light
potato crop.
A young child of Michael Peireny
died last week of dyptheria.
Mrs. Russell G. Sherman is quite
poorly.
Calvin Warner, who has been at the
Soldiers Home, has returned ard had
an operation performed on his foot,
which has been sore for a long time.
A class in physical culture bias been
organized by Miss Merriman of Meri.
den, CT, and will be held for an hour
twice a week.