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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-01
CORN AS FUEL.
exclusions Drawn by Professor Richards
From Careful Tests Made.


II is difficult TO say at what time corn
was first burned, but il has probably been
used 70 a greater or less extent for good
many years Dire necessity drove the early
settlers OF the western portion OF the Unit
ed States TO this practice, and the results
were sufficiently good to warrant it's con
tinuancc.
In general way il has been recognized
that when corn is abundant and cheap
and coal is expensive the former makes
cheaper fuel than the latter, although no
scientific determination of their relative
efficiency has ever been made, So far rs the
author is aware. During last winter
however, number Of inquiries were re-
ceiyCl by the department of agriculture of
The University of Nebraska, asking for in
formation about the efficiency of corn as
fuel, and the author undertook the inyes-
tigation of this subject.
From the experience of the author i'm
conducting boiler tests of corn il is doubt
full whether it would be practicable fuel
for the generation of power unless il were
burned in some special furnace that would
insure the perfect combustion of the VIOLA
tile matter which forms so large percent
age of the whole corn and which is driven
of at a comparatively low heat Some
form of automatic stoker would also be
desirable, since the corn burns rapidly and
must bc frequently fired, making the work
of the aremen very arduous and at the
same time tending TO cause Incomplete
combustion by the excess of cold air enter
ing through the fire door
Undoubtedly corn may at times be
cheap and economical fuel for domestic
use. 1t is cleaner and more easily handled
than coal and contains but very small
amount of ash. 1t burns rapidly with an
intense heat, which is apt to be destructive
10 the cast iron Innings Of the stove Here
again, some special form of flrebox that
will not be injured by the heat and that
will utilize as much of the heat as pos
sible should be used Ii the rate of com
bustion be too great, much of the heat
will pass up the chimney
lt Is interesting 10 note that an acre of
land will produce from 40 TO so bushels of
corn, which, if burned, will yield from
90, 5l2,0 900 B. T.. U. TO 10, O2i 900 b. II.
Y, pot counting the heat that could be
from the stalk Since n ton of
good coal will give up from about 90, O00,-
900 10 $4,000, 900 b. T. u, an acre of
ground is each year capable of producing
fuel which is equal to from 0.S7 or / 20 TO
l. "a or , SO tons of coal. The stalk will
probably increase this amount by one
fourth or one-third. Professor G. r.
Richards in Casters Magazine For Octo-
Der.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-01
A KIondilSe Winter.

Even the earlier or more fortunate bird
VINO get to the. klondike this fan viii,
have to be well equipped to stand the nrc
TIC winter, and they can do no mining nm.
til next summer The summer SIM in.
deed, melts only few inches OF the ,otl
and great bonflres must be built 10 rbav,
out the ground in the middle OF .Iuly IN.
lore the paying gravel can be dug un ior
the pan All the mining of this rppion i.
OF the placer variety, in which the gravel
Is mixed with water and whirled i'm n MN
until the few grains of gold settle ON Tho
bottom No huge nuggets are found to be
compared with the bonanza strikes of tho
Californian and Australian goldflelds. bnt
a remarkably large percentage of tho
claims show paying results - October
Scribner's Noopcr
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-01

So here / am, my friends, and, oh.
Ii is pretty place!
But what an ugly brute l see,
With such a frowning face,
A lion, ia he? Welladay!
I'd fight him with good will,
For though he may be brave enough,
Yet Pompey's Drawer still.
This other chap-my, how he grins
And leers at little me!
expect he is n cunning one.
Well, wen, I'll let him he.
Oh my, 1 SEQ keeper there
Close by tho open wicket
He's sure TO catch a hold of me
And call out, "Where's your ticket?"
And so think I'd best be off
The very way l came.
know whatever comes to pass
Tllat HI not get the blame,
For mistress ncvcr thinks that
Can do an evil thing.
No, no. She'll lay the blame on Jane
And make her ears 10 ring.
Well, WELL poor James the greatest goose
That lives beneath the sun.
But, then, we cannot all DO dogs.
I'm glad that am one. L. S.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-01
MIRACLES AT GHEEL.
Merciful Ways of Treating the Insane
Practiced In Belgium.


I'racticed In Belgium.
Ghccl, a town of Belgium, is one of the
ancient miracle places of the Catholic
church in Europe. IL has shrine at
which for centuries insane people have
been repUted 20 have been cured. What
ever may be the facts or the superstitions
in such cases, modern science has wrought
what one might claim to be miracles there
in the treatment of nervous diseases, for
when Belgium, always alert in social re-
forms, wished to make an experiment of
caring fer her insane poor by giving them
the freedom OF the open air and the fields
she chose. Gheel as the place where the
TRIAL OF the new method should be made
Here her department of charitable institu-
tions has reversed most OF the methods OF
the past in the care OF nervous patients by
placing such inyalids in small boarding
houses in the wide, open, sea cooled coun-
try and giving them their freedom under
sympathetic supervision.
The experiment Of the Belgian govern
mcut, at first held to be pcrilous, has
proved as successful as its purpose was
benoficcut it is one OF the merciful mir
aclcs Of modern science, whose influence
seems destined TO fiji the world The
streets Of Ghecl, worn for 600 years by
the footsteps OF unhappy pilgrims, are now
visited by the philanthropic Investigators
Of all lands, who study the most morciful
ways OF treating the most itiable of hui
man Affections. The town now is a state
hospital. come 80 miles i'm circumference,
where the patients are treated in cottage
boarding houses and where wonderful
cures are reported 10 have been wrought -
Hezckiah Buttceworth In Harper's Maya
zine For October
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-01
POMPEY AT THE zoo.

Said Pompey 10 himself one day;
My friends go to the zoo,
But still they never seem TO think
OF taking Pompey too.
It's strange, because can't be called
A cur of low degree;
Few dogs are washed and brushed ant
combed
And furnished mp like me.
So, Just this morning when | woke
And heard my mistress say
"Now, Jane, I'm going to the park,
And Pompey, too, today,
$50 comb and curl him up with care;
A silkcn ribbon tie
About his pretty neck, SO he
With other dogs may vie, y
Thought L. "No, no, my lady fair.
That plan may suit for you,
But not for this here dog, who means
To run off 10 the zool'
Well, when we reached the park tore
Myself adrift ut once
And 10 the ZOO ! ran with speed
tFor Pompeys not dunce)
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-01
10 Remove Tan and FreclIes.

Soap will not remove tan or freckles
Bathc the face In warm water and dry
very carefully with soft towel DO NOT
use soap on the face unless absolutely
necessary. Never use fece powder of any
sort. 1t spoils the skin by closing the pores
If your child suffers from sunburn, mois-
ten the face at night with cucumber juice
Cut n cucumber lengthwise and rub IL on
the face, allowing the juice to remain un-
Oil IL dries off, or use a mild solution of
baking soda. Mrs. S. II. Rorer In October
Ladies' Home Journal.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-01
"THRlFT, THRIFT, HORATIO,"
The Things the Patriot Who Visits Bunker
Hill Sees and the Thoughts He Thinks.


A patriot in exile went on Bunker Hill
day to see the Coils Sacer He went
alone, for solitude, even in the cityful,
fits the mind for communion with the
great.
The great were not wanting on that
sloping hill, in the June meadow, 1872
years ago. There were men in Breed s
pasture on that day who wore hunting
shirts and belts with powder horns and
leather bags filled with chawed bullets,
who, on another planet, would have been
gods, not by courtesy, but by right. Be
ing on EARTH they were shot and killed in
freedom S cause, and for a century at least
it seemed that their fame was immortal
Old Boston was proud of her heroes.
She reared an obelisk of granite not I'M
worthy of her patriot dead. The man of
Marshfield, when the writer of this note
was still a blinking baby, said some inn
mortal things at the foot of that everlast-
ing shaft. Now the exile went TO Bunker
Hill to muse on these things and to drop
a possible tear of affection and veneration
on the spot where Joe Warren and old Is
rael Putnam and Prescott and Gridley
and the other heroes fought in the trenches
and fell back into Immortality.
The exile tried to revoke the greatness
and the glory of the event and the actors.
He paid his tribute at the foot of the
statues of Prescott and Warren, and was
permitted by an official TO ascend TO the
top of the monument where the old bat
tered guns are kept. For this privilege he
was charged 20 cents From the top of the
obelisk he looked down and saw six fakirs
gesticulating in quack carts just outside
of the Enclosure. They shouted and vocif-
Grated about their fraudulent wares and
accused tricks TO a lot of ignoramuses, TO
whom Bunker Hill signihed as much as
the Parthenon would signify to as many
bushmen!
Twenty cents for admission "A fakir
crying his wares at the base of Bunker
Hill! Business is business. -Arena For
October
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-01
Loves Beggar.

Who il not loved lives not at all
And knows not either JOY or woe.
And lost such fate should him befall
He came beggar, louting low.
II bend, said he, "that may live
bow before the one prize.
That she the aims crave may give,
Drawn from the treasury of her eyes"
Who bcgs for love but wastes his speech
When far too humbly he implores.
He sets too high above his reach
The being whom he thus adores.
And so, though courtly were her ways,
A veil of scorn her visage bore.
Indifferent to his prayers and praise,
She turned the beggar from the door.
The beggar was not overshrewd
And perfect love had made him blind.
Not his TO see a changing mood,
Not his to fathom woman's mind,
For she. in musing on his fate,
Felt pity for the sutton spurned,
And pity turned to love--too late
The beggar nevermore returned.
Thomas Dunn English in Harper's Magazin,
For October.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-01
Chances of Life.

The following table is one that is
used by the London assurance companies,
showing the prospect of life at various
ages 1t is the result of years of careful
calculation, and is said to seldom prove
misleading or incorrect. OF course sud
den and premature deaths, as well as
lives unusually extended, occasionally
occur, but this is table of average ex.
pectancy of life of the ordinary man or
woman: A person year old may ex-
pect to live 80 years longer; of 10 years
oil; OF 20 years, al; of 30 years. "a
longer; OF 40 years, 2S; of so years
81; OF 60 years, IA more; Of 20 years
g.; Of so years. 4
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-01
Molasses as a Fuel

The lower grades of molassos horo
p,oseu unsuitable at any paying price.
many Louisiana planters dumped moiasses
,nto tne oayous until the authorities for.
paue IL, III Is now used as fuel, being
sprihklcd by machine over the bagasse'
or the sugar cane from which the Juice has
oeen extracted. This, when put into the
IRE, purns with strong heat. It's coal
value Is greater than it's value for anv
other use, and over 100, 900 tons vera ~,
USED last year.-William George Jordan In
october Ladies' Home Journal
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-01
An Anfropted Dog.

"A pet dog who had grown old and
gray in one family and had been always
used to much kindness and petting be-
came at last SO fat that when the din
ner bell rang--a sound which used to
bring him rushing down stairs-he
would sit on the top step of the stair
case and whine piteously till some
member of the family went up to him
and carried him down.
just at this time puppy Newfound-
land was introduced to the family.
greatly to the chagrin Of the old terrier.
who would not make friends with the
newcomer. On one occasion when the
dinner bell rang the puppy, seeing the
ola dog sitting on the top step as usual,
ran up to him and in clumsy play upset
INN so completely that the fat fellow
rolled to the foot of the stairs, growing
all the way.
The sight was very ludicrous, and
several members of the family who had
seen 1t could not refrain from laughter
But the pampcred dogs behavior was
curious Gathering himself together, he
refused to enScr the dining room as
usual but slowly toiled up stairs again
and retired 10 tie wicker basket where
he usually rassed the night Humble
apologies were made to him, more than
one child friend offered him dainty
iood' but though he must have been
hungry, everything was refused and he
passed the evening fasting His pride
mad been too deeply wounded by the un-
feeling laughter of his friends, and it
was not until another day had dawned
that he seemed to forgive the slight
which he had received.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-01
Worth Remembering.

Be slow to make promises, but when
once made always keep them.
Have few intimate friends.
When you speak to a person. look
him in the face.
II you are careful of your company,
you will be careful of your converse.
ton.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-07-10
concerninr "Purfessors.w

The misuse of the title professor" as
often vulgarly applied to musicians in
general finds a laughable- example in
the following story credited to Band
master Sousa. 1t seems that some years
ago, before the existence of the organ
ization which bears his name, and be-
fore "The Washington Post" Liberty
Bell" "Cotton King" and "El Captain
had made the American march king IA
nous, he was leading band in the gov.
ernment service, at some small country
festival. The advent of the band had
been awaited with intense interest by
the local population, and, as a conse-
quence, the bandsmen were soon sur
rounded by a surging crowd which
hemmed them in SO that it became well.
nigh an impossibility for them to keep
on playing. Sousa pointed out the fact
to local official, adding that unless the
crowd fell back his band would have tc
stop. That parsonage shook his head
warmly, and turning to the assembled
multitude, bawled out: Gentlemen,
step back and give the purfessors pur-
fessors g chance to play!"
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-07-10
Before Vaccination,

Before the introduction of vaccina-
ton, now admirably supplemented by
isolation, smallpox was never localized,
and it was always with us. No one was
safe from it, and there was German
proverb to the effect that love and small
pox were the two things from which no
one could hope to escape. Trust
worthy estimates fix the annual death
rate from smallpox in England during
the latter part of the eigh-
teenth century at the propor-
ton of 5000 to every 100000 persons
living, which would mean, with our
present population, death rate from
this cause alone approaching 100000 a
year. Even if this estimate is much
too large, there can be no question as to
the enormous difference between then
and now. 1t is going too far to say
with Mr.. Hutton that smallpox, in
spite of all the fuss made, about it. is
pretty nearly as extinct as the plague"
for though preventive measures keep it
within AN extremely narrow compass,
we have seen how readily it may revive.
In the year 1890 there were only 16
deaths from this disease registered in
the whole of England. = Westminster
Review.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-07-10
NEW WESTERN IDEA.
a4Rls Who Give Gold Models of Their
Little Fingers.

a4Rls Who Give Gold Models of Their
Little Fingers.
"Do little girls here give gold models
Of their little fingers to their fiances?''
asked the western girl of the Gothamite,
reports the New York Sun.
Heaven, mol" answered the Gotham
ite. at seems to me that that is rather
grewsome souvenir"
"Not at ALL" answered the western
girl. sit is decidedly dainty, and I'm
a little surprised that New York is so
far behind the times. The fad started
in this way: When the daughter of one
of our big western politicians was six
months old he had model of her little
finger cast in gold. Around the little
dimpled digit is a ring of turquoise.
which is her birthstone, and it makes
lovely charm for her betrothed's watch.
chain. He valued it so much that it set
other men to thinking, and the result
is that as soon as girl wraps one OF
these chaps around her little finger suf.
ficiently for proposal to follow, he i'm
mediately insists upon gold fac-simile
of the flesh and blood original. 1t is a
pretty conceit, and is being followed
by every westerner who is in subsection
to somebody's little finger"
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-07-10
COMFORT FOR MAN AND BEAST.
The Picture Presented on a Big Canal
Boat Tied Up Over Sunday.

The Picture Presented on a Big Canal
Boat Tied Up Over Sunday.
Tied alongside bulkhead in the Har-
lem river was big canal boat In the
stable at one end stood three horses
munching hay out of their manger, says
the New York Sun. The deck over the
horses, forming the roof of their stable,
was foot or two, or maybe more than
that, higher than the surrounding deck,
and it was open all around, so that the
breeze blew through freely. 1t was a
hot day, but the horses were in the
shade, in place where they could get
the air if they could get it anywhere;
then they had plenty to eat, and they
were apparently as comfortable as
horses could be.
Down at the other end of the boat an
other scene presented itself. There an
awning had been stretched over the
deck from side to side, aft of the cabin.
1t was Sunday. Under this awning,
in comfortable rocking-chair, sat the
canal boats captain, reading news
paper. Here, too, sat the captains
wife, reading book. Under the avn
ing, stretching from the cabin door,
they sat as on veranda in front of
house on shore, and quite as much at
home. It would have been difficult to
find more comfortable spot, and, in
deed, the boat was picture of comfort
for man and beast.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-07-10
A Lap1ander,s Dress.

~. re The operation of dressing in cold
weather in the far north is so elabor-
ate that it is difficult to understand how
a deliberate boy or girl in Lapland can
be ready for breakfast before dinner
time. First, two suits of thick wooden
underclothing are put on, and over
these goes shirt of reindeer skin, with
cloth bands to fasten at the wrists;
sometimes two of these shirts, or kap-
tas, are worn, and reindeer vest be-
meath them. The trousers are of rein
deer skin also. Two pairs of heavy
woolen stockings are worn, and
the child who puts these on when they
are damp is sure to have trouble with
his feet. Around the feet a peculiar
grass, well dried, is carefully bound,
and over all this goes the shoe. Buttons
and hooks and eyes are scarce in Lap
land; all clothing is fastened by strings,
and it is dreadful to think of all the
"hard knots" that Lap children have
fumbled over while too sleepy to be
amiable.-Moderator.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-07-10
LINcoLN'S MOTHERS GRAVE.
A Lonely Tomb ON q Wooded Hill in
Indiana.

n Lonely Tomb on q wooded Hil1 In
Indiana.
The recent communication between
President Mckinley and Gov. Mount
in which the former called the attention
of the latter to the neglected grave of
Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lin
coin, has attracted attention from all
over the country to the grave. 1t is
located on hill of gradual ascent and
is right in the middle of the woods,
about mile from Lincoln City, little
station on the Air Line road in Spencer
county, Ind. It is inclosed by an iron
fence, which separates it from num-
Der of other graves around it, and has
a neat headstone which gives the name,
age, etc., of the occupant. An inscrip-
ton also says: Erected by Friend
of Her Martyred Son, 1879" 1t is COM
paratively isolated, and any improve
ment made in its surroundings would
not prove of any great value.
In order to fttingly honor the dead
the people of that vicinity suggest that
the remains be taken up by the state
and reinterred at indianapolis, or that
the United States renter them in some
national cemetery. A $1,000 shaft could
be placed over it where it now stands
and ten persons in year would not see
it unless they made special trip there.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-07-10
SNAKES PLAN A ROBBERY. {
An Ingenious Arrangement by Which
Bank Swallows Were to Be Caught.

An Ingenious Arrangement by Which
Bank Swallows Were to Be Caught.
A number of Baltimore naturalists
had an unique experience the other day
while on an ornithological excursion.
They were searching for bank swal-
lows in the neighborhood of Tolches-
ter beach, about mile from the pier
where the excursion boats land.
The nests of bank swallows are built
in holes in perpendicular banks, gen.
orally in colonies, dozens of holes be-
ing only few inches apart. The bank
the young men were exploring was
about 80 feet in height, with the nests
averaging seven feet from the top. The
bank was almost perpendicular and
the nests were reached by means of
ladders constructed of trees.
One of the naturalists, after work.
ing for some time at one of the nests,
felt his hand come in contact with
some thing unusual. Drawing out his
hand and looking into the hole he was
surprised to find, coiled down at the
bottom huge blacksnake, which, after
being gotten out and killed; proved to
NC hCdi1J oCfCh 1CCV LII iCilS5 oA'
Afterward two other snakes, equally
as long, were found in different holes.
The surface of the bank was perfectly
smooth, SO the only possible way for
the snakes to have reached the nests
was to have let themselves down from
some short overhanging roots at the top
of the bank.
The snakes seemed to have worked
along the bank from nest to nest, as
several nests were found in which were
eggs that had been emptied of their
contents. In nest with one of the
snakes was bird which had been late
ly killed, and which the snake evident
ly was about to devour when its own
end came.
The naturalists said they had been
collecting eggs for many years, but
had never before seen anything so like
; well-planned attack of snakes upon
birds eggs.-Baltimore Sun.