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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
He Got Even.

An Episcopal clergyman of Grand
Rapids who belongs to the order OF
the Elks. - says member of that order,
attended meeting the other evening.
The chairman, noticing his presence,
said: L see our Rev. Brother -
among US this evening. AS this is such
an unusual occurrence, think he will
have to be assessed So. The rector put
his hand into his waistcoat pocket, and
marching up to the desk, put down his
little ' and made a nice little speech in
which he told how glad he was to be
with his brother Elks and ended by in
wiling them TO come and hear him
preach the next Sunday evening. Some
one moved that the Elks accept the in
vitation and go in body to their broth
er's church, which was unanimously
carried The next Sunday evening the
front pews of the church were filled
with Elks and when the Rev. Mr.. -
assembled his pulpit he said, Il am de-
lighted to see so many Of my brother
EIks here this evening, but as it is such
an unusual occurrence with the most
Of them ! think they should each be as
sessed 81. Let your light so shine, etc.
The way the silver dollars ratified on
that plate was a caution The contri-
button was much heavier than usual, and
the Elks voted their reverend brother
all right. New York Tribune.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
A SOAP BUBBLE.
The Relation of Its Varying Thinness to
the Colors IL shows.

The extreme thinness of the bubble il
indeed wonderful 1t is estimated thai
the film IN some places is only one
three-millionths of an inch in thickness.
Probably few of us can conceive of such
thinness. Let me express il in another
way. The Old and the New Testament
contain some 3, 0O0 600 of letters Now
one three-millionth is such part of an
inch as the first letter of the Bible is a
part of the sum of all of its letters.
The bubble, however is not of equal
thickness at all points, and il is for this
reason that ii has the various colors.
For instance, wherever the film is
orange red ii measures about three-mil-
lionths of an inch; where it is blue,
eighty one-millionths of an inch, and
at point where lemon yellow is prom.
inent about twenty one -millionths of an
inch. Perhaps you wonder why the col.
ors change from one part of the soap
bubble 10 another This is because the
film of the soap bubble evaporates and
grows thinner, but unequally so at diff
ferent portions. A greenish blue with a
pale rose red spot near it indicates an
extreme thinness, and at such point
the film is ready TO give way at the
least jar.
You will be glad TO know the source
of the beautiful colors Every one is de-
lighted with them, even if not interest
ed by the explanation of their origin.
We may say that they come from the
light Light gives color to all objects,
but not exactly as it does to the soap
bubble. White light from the sun can
be broken into the seven colors which
we have seen in the rainbow. In that
instance the raindrops separate it into
its parts. a glass prism will do the
same, as you may prove by looking
through a glass pendant from a hanging
lamp. When the light reaches the sur
face of the soap bubble, part is reflect
ed from 1t, and we see images on its
surface as if it were curved mirror.
Another portion of the light, however,
enters the film and is separated so that
parts of the seven colors are thrown
into the bubble, and we can see them at
various portions of the opposite surface.
Another part of the light, after being
broken by the film, is reflected by its
inner surface back TO our eyes, so that
we see colors at the point where the
light enters. Jacob r. Butcher in ST.
Nicholas
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
m.a. and Drink In Old England.

According 10 Chaucer the more well
| to do of the working classes evidently
spent vast deal of time at the public
house, eating and drinking, telling idle
tales, playing at skittles when the
weather was fine, singing rhymes of
"Robin Hood" or listening 10 fiddlers
and pipers or TO gleemen and janglers
of jests-that is 10 say ballad singers
and professional story tellers. At high
prime-the hour in the middle of the
forenoon when agricultural work broke
off, as it still does, for brief rest and
slight meal-Langland speaks of the
plows standing idle in the field while
the plowmen sit at the ale and sing
Chow trolly Jolly" The cook comes
ont 10 the tavern door and cries, "Hot
pies. hotl' and the alewife fills pots of
half and half by pouring penny ale and
pudding ale together Indoors there is
plenty Of food in great variety for such
as can afford thread and broth, pot
fuls of boiled peas and beans, pieces of
salt bacon, stewed fowls, fried fish,
baked meat, green cheese, curds and |
cream and baked apples.
Poorer people had to be content with
half penny ale and bread not made of |
clean wheat, but of oatmeal or beans
and bran. Idlers are threatened that |
they "shall eat of barley bread and of |
the brook drink, 4" but it would seem
that water drinking, except under some
religious rule, was not common even
among the poor, who drank milk and
mean ale-I suppose the same as what
Langland elsewhere calls farthing ale,
and not much more than water with
taste in it. In the profuse use of vege.
-ables the English of the fourteenth
century were like the modern French
All through summer, till
4ammas tide brought harvest to the
'roft and new corn came to cheaping,
occasional fowls and bacon were the
mere embroidery upon the peas, leeks,
abbages, onions, parsley and beans
which, together with the coarse bread
nd the abundant milk and cheese, were
he staple of poor peoples diet Corn
ill Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12

Wanted to Rent-Bv a compaf
ployee, a house I'm Yellow, Blue or Rea
OF five rooms or more. Apply TO fl'
street or at News office.
For Sale-Ten-room house, No. lO'
ium st. Apply 5l2 Fourth street, Blue
For Sale-House No. As, Laurinmn
ten rooms. Apply to John Prisk' OH
street.
For Sale-House No. 1911, Heels,
six-room house. Apply to Joseph
on premises.
For sale-House No. 5s7 Cedar
Blue Jacket. Apply on the premises
Gasperich.
To Rent, soon - Three small y
room In 42lS northwest corner Tehti
Streets. Enquire OF Henry Krigshoinnss
northeast corner of Tenth and OAK su'
For saIe = Eleven-room house. y y,
Calumet avenue. Apply on the prom
For Sale-A six-roomed house.
on the premises No. ia east Pine stre'
Wanted To Rent-Four or hve
Apply at the NEWS office.
To Rent-wanted to ent by %
employee. a house of four or i've ~
yellow or Blue jacket. Leave psrI'|
the News office
For Sale-An eight-room house on|
town road, No. 3O46, Swedetown;.
John b. Wertin or at the companvbo1
For Nale-House of seven rooms
on the west side of Hecla street. q,
Joe Sotlich's store. Sixth street.
For 9alo-House No. 81l1, six TO-
situated In Swedetown. Apply 70
and Hecla mining company.
For 0ale-House No. 2<16 B streel|
Daultown. Apply on the premises"
pany.
For sals-House No. $50 Tunnel
swedetown. Apply on the premises
For Dale-seven-room house,
Tunnel street. Swedetown. QsAppS
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
The True re I'm edy

W. M. Repine, editor Tiskilwa. Ill.,
"Chief," says: "We won't keep house
without DR.. Kings New Discovery for
consumption, coughs and colds. Exper.
imented with many others, but never got
the true remedy until we used DR.. Kings
New Discovery. No other remedy can
take it's place in our home, as in il We
have certain and sure cure for coughs,
colds, whooping cough. ETC." 1t is idle
to experiment with other remedies, even
IL they are urged on you as Just as good
as DIR. Kings New Discovery. They are
not as gooo, because this remedy has q
record OF cures and besides isguaranteed
1t never fails to satisfy. Trial bottles
free at Macdonald's drug store.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
Grants Name.

Would it have made any difference in
history if Grants initials had not been
emblematic of his country-"U. S., "
United States? They also stand for Un-
Gle Sam and unconditional surrender.
Suppose he had gone to West Point as
Hiram and the boys had called him Hi
for short. Suppose he had gone there as
Hiram Ulysses instead of Ulysses Hiram
and the cadets had called him "H. u.
Co." Hug, Would not that have made
a change in his career? We never had a
public man to make so many changes
in his name as did Grant. Hiram
Ulysses, Ulysses Hiram, Ulysses Sidney
and Ulysses Simpson were the varia-
tions. New York Press.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
A New Firm

Messrs. Scott & Co., civil engineers. ar
chitects, surveyors, ETC., (of Chicago), bes
to inform the public they have opened ar
Office in Calumet.
Every description of civil engineering
architectural work and surveying under
taken. Rough drawings finished, detail,
prepared, or tracings made If required
Landscape work speciality.
Satisfaction guaranteed, prices reason
able; trial solicited.
Calumet representative:
DONALD M. SCoTT, c. E., F.R.P.S.
$40 Sixth Street, Red Jacket.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
Stoke.
a Correct view Of the Railroad oues.
IiOu

q these times when the relations be
tween the people and railroads are 40
often discussed and 80 much is said and
printed that is Unfair TO both, clear
aud sensible statement of the position OF
the railroads with reference TO the com.
munity at large cannot fail to be inter.
sting, Such statement was recently
made by General Counsel Cunning OF the
Georgia railroad in an argument before
the railroad commission sof that State.
HE definition being in Substance as fol-
lows: The theory on which railroads
we're originally operated was that of
private property, the stockholders man
aging their railroad az they would any
other property which they owned. That
theory OF railroad management has
parsed away and the most ex treme cham
piou OF railroad rights recognizes the
TACT that the railroads have, in their rela-
ton TO the public, taken the place OF the
high ways of the country. They can no
more be permitted to prescribe the terms
on which the citizen shall use these new
nigh ways than private citizens could fix
charges TO be paid by travellers and car
riers on the old highways.
The recognition OF this truth led to the
establishment Of railroad commissions.
these have very naturally been regarded
10y railroad patrons as the means where.
by freight and passenger rates could be
cut down. People regarded this as the
main object OF railroad commissions, and
n large number Of unthinking people con-
sidered them az primarily weapon OF
attack and defense against the railroads.
But different view was Obliged to be
evolved from the facts az they developed.
&c was obliged TO follow that il the rail.
roads were deprived OF the power to care
tor them selves it became the duty OF the
power which stripped them OF the right
ot seli-preservation itself to take care of
them. The first thing therefore to be
secured Co the people OF any state il an
adequate supply OF railroads "a an in
dustrial civilization cannot exist without
them They must be supported, what
ever their support may cost, not for the
benefit of the stockholders, but because
they are necessary TO the entire public.
II they can be supported by low rates,
then low rates should prevail. aud when
high rates are necessary to the existence
Of tie roads, then high rates must be
paid.
This argument seems TO have been &C.
cepted by the Georgia railroad commits
sion, as it declined to order a reduction
OF % per cent for rates on cotton on the
ground that the revenues received by the
various railroads OF the State do not at
present authorize any reduction in the
rates. Many people, although fair on
other questions, are disposed to regard
railroad company as a public enemy,
that even were all stockhold-
ecs and management thrust aside, the
railroads would have to continue
american Manufacturers and Iron World
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
Oyer 312 Fifth Street.
&-~-
N office,

The American stove repair works has
removed to their new Headquarters. No
10Y Kearsarge street, Laurium, where
they are now able to do all kinds ofstoyt
repairing on short notice. Mail orders
promptly attended to.
SILVER K RUBIN, Prop'rs.
p. o. Box $50, Calumet.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
InstrucfiOn Nnr.inr

Ladies desiring to avail themselves oil
course OF lectures and instruction to
be given in nursing at the Lake Superior
Hospital at Lake Linden during the CON-
ing fall and winter should, without de.
lay, call or write to DR.. George w. Orr,
Lake Linden. The lectures and instruc-
ton will commence on the I'd of Septem-
Der next at 10 q. IN,
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12

Spain has 90, 966 elementary schools,
but only al per cent of the children re.
ceive even the rudiments Of an educa.
ton. The teachers receive only $50 to
$400 per year, and most of them are I'M
able to collect that.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
Not From Ambush.

The judge said to the colored witness:
Twill you swear the man was shot
from ambush?''
"No, sub, / won't, kase he wuz shot
fun benin pine tree. ATLANTA Con-
stitution
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
MotherIy Solicitude.

Miss Ante-Its funny about our old
cat. We can't keep her away from the
poker table.
Mr.. Age-Nothing strange about
that. Naturally she's looking after the
"kitty. New York Tribune.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
Horse For sale

To be sold my grey horse which has
been used in the the pop team. Apply to
Joseph James. Pine street.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12

Grease spots, pitch, tar, paint, etc,
can positively be removed without the
slightest injury by our new French pro-
cess OF clothes cleaning.
MICHIGAN DYE WoRKs.
Oyer 312 Fifth Street,
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12

It is said that it costs $23. SO an acre
TO raise wheat in Massachusetts.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-30
An Ingenious Defense.

An old darby was brought before
southern magistrate not long ago accused
of stealing neighbours chickens when the
nights were dark and no one stirred
abroad. The old man put up long pu'
weak argument, seizing upon every posi- :
HE straw to support his defense. The evil
Jence was too strong, however, and mat
ters were rapidly approaching climax
that meant a month of idleness In the
town Jail. The thought of this and the
attendant ignominy stirred the old dnrky
20 a noint where he did nothing but splut-
ter out r., IT,,
",Pon my honor, jedge, Tzc--er-l ~
didn't done take EN-"
AT last the Judge grew tired ana was
abont TO sentence him when broad smile
illumincd the darky's face as nc cried OUT
"Tze got it, jcdge l'ze can prove an
alibi bout dem chickens.
"well, what is its" exclaimed the Juoge.
"You see, jedge, no poor coiored man
could take dem chickens at nighttime
"How's thatS What do you meanr
",Cause, jedge, dey's nothin put roos,
ers at night, an de charge am dat tooS
chickens" A.,
The ingenuity of the defense won 'h'
day.-Harpers Round Table.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-30
THE LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER.
lie Tells Story OF Love and Adventure
Which Sounds Like a Book.

lie Tells a Story of Love and Adventure
Which sounds Like Book.
A locomotive engineer should be one Of
the most truthful OF men. That's why this !
little story of a southern engineer should /
be believed implicitly.
" You may talk as you please about red
headed women, be was saying to group
of listeners among whom was a Star re-
porter, but % rcdhcaded woman saved my
life and established a home for herself all
at once. l was % then and was running
a freight ON The c.. and O. in the West Nir-
giuia mouut0ins, where it took talent 10
run am cnirnc. My division ended at Him
ton, and there was n rgdhCadCd Girl living
six miles 10 the east, where there was
siding near big cut and iii, and il was "a
bad place, as the road was now.
"IhC girls name was Maggie Cnnroy,
and she had the reddest head l ever saw
ON q human beings shoulders outside Of a
torchlight procession But ! didn care
for that and ] did care for Maggie. Ono
sushiny day / was coming down track
with q stool. train loaded with extra fine
cattle and sheep, and ] he'd in the caboose
three Of the owners. Ii had been raining
and washouts were looked for, but | hadn't
seen any, and was bowling along at q good
speed when all OF a sudden, at the curve,
thought | saw a red light rising just over
the track 1t seemed 10 shine Like blaze
in the track, and before | took time for
thought had shut off the steam, whistled
down the brakes and was doing my best TO
stop.
"Right then my fireman gave me the
l.. L. s,, Oh i,n n
veins of a man who can't stand teasing,
and took look forward and found that
the rcd light | thought saw was only
Maggie's head of red hair sticking up IN
advance as she pulled herself up the steep
embankment to get on to the track.
"With an oath Iopencd everything wide,
but as / did so Maggie threw up her hands
and dropped in dead faint by the track,
and / stopped off everything again, for L
felt sure that something was wrong l
had half an hour or so loeway bet
trains and | shook Maggie up as quickly
as 1 could TO find out what was the matter
She came around mighty soon, because she
had only tainted from oycreXertion, ana
che told me how u big bowldcr had fallen
ON the track in a curve near her house that
! wouldn't have seen till it was too late to
/ stop for, and she had run across the spur
of the mountain to stop me in time if she
could.
! CHATS what she was trying to do when
her red head shone like a danger signal
and stopped me- Later the owuers of the
steel, cave her money enough to buy q nice
little house at Hinton and six months later
/ moved i'm. We've got the house yet, but
We don't live in il, concluded the engi
nccr ''for il wasn't big enough for a fam
iIv of six children, and not redhoadc
one i'm the lot. Washington star.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-30

There does seem possible pretty goou
nrotcction however. The sugg'''loL ''1'
IN n recently published invention Tor coz
etrnctino prison doors ard window gray
,rgs The idea was 20 make theiH OF Ut
a,Torv stecl pipes all filed with 4 AGu'a
-. rressure and connected ~ a man
nine with an alarm when Wouiu oP0'".e
Inv reduction OF pressure Att'hHP'GU 9 HaI,
;ng LET'S the liquid escape ana rings 'hc oT.i
If such a scheme were applied 20 d SUE ~
,rovarsipr 1t on all sides either 'h7luc w,
outer MATES or outside ana were 'oiiileVV0N
.,.,tL an alarm set on !amppost prom
80. ~, the sidewalk it ought TO come nea'
80 49,, GOOD protection The door 2oulu Ve
orranged with piston and cylinder ihslus
,ha safe 60 that opening the door Wo"'"
set off the alarm ,.,.,, IN the
Then drilling at the lock, driving 10 vi.
-" - otbsr successful, attack Oh th1
III, wound still leave the burglar al Wv
80. . NJ the alarm when he opens t"S
aoor Nitrog,vcerin dynamite or pow
49, ',,d ,Iso effect the ringing OF the alarm,
and the plan would also protect asas" >,
The electric arc itself since tHe INV" %,
s,nai, pipes would be in the way VI 81
large arc and become melted Anu ISL . y.
ave for mere drilling at the ioch Mo W.. 81
90 he,ter than drill since the openihe y
,no door would eventually ring .he a. S. =,
''H Th re- connecting pipes could De lei. ga
rosed because tampering with 'hein "0"'>
ring the alarm Aha nina system t.
~ sofe construct 1t as cage 10 con,', :,
the safe the cage being large en n.nss y y
ID. ms ss the safe inaccessible 10 the hano' 0
the burglar II, hs nrotectiye a
SUI mi, ibe burglar, already an exper
le ss.r uh had time to become a mas a',
elecsr,c.a1 and pipe filter and could inyen
p,Samvs, for beating the alarm -Elec'r'o'
Rovipw
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-30

"Lct the children ask all the questions
they want to is the domestic motto OF a
gentleman connected with the Smithsonian
institution In his case the rule Is SAFER
than il would be in most homes, Tor he l.
regarded 10y his acquaintance as com
pendium of almost any branch OF learning
that happens 70 come under discussion
His bows. having his reputation as an III
dorscment of their natural confidence III
his wisdom regard him as infallible BE
inc youths Of active intellect. they never
allow him to run any risk OF ennui ne
had lust put on his overcoat and had his
hand On the doorknob when one OF them
hailed him
Father will, you please tell me some
thing
Il haven't time now
Il only want to ask one question
Cant YOU wait until tonight2'
Il might forget It, j"
"Trv to remember 1t. 1t will be good
mental discipline Goodby
Il wanted ever so much to know righ'
away" he persisted
But
1T won't take you minute
"Are you sure"
yes
His father looked at his watch and said
"WeI 20 ahead What Is your lues
tionY"
"Why. all wanted to know Is how the!
work miracles and make condensed milk
Washington star
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-30
profes.or Briggs on Jonah.

Ancient pharisaiCal Jews thought that
the predictions against the nations must
be fulfilled or God could not be God OF
veracitv and Justice SO think some dog
maticans now. But God is God OF grace
God changes his decree of destruction even
though men cannot reconcile such change
with divine justice and veracity. God Is
sovereign in his justice as well as In MS
mercy. The doctrine that God must be
lust. but may or may not be mercllui, Is
an error that has 30 basis in Holy Scrip
ture or i'm a sound ethical philosophy. God
is as truly. by necessity Of divine being
merciful as he is just. He Is as Tree III
his exercise Of the one attribute as the
other He reserves the right TO recall his
messengers of wrath by the sWiitcr angels
of love
Jonah represents only too well the jew
Of Nehcmiah's time. tho jew Of the New
Testament times, and also the Christian
church in its prevailing attitude to the
heather world If the Roman Cathollc
church had learned the lesson OF Jonah It's
thcolopians would not so generally have
consigned the unbaptiZed heathcn Woi1u
to he'll fire if the roformors had uhuef'
stood Jonah. there would have been more
of them than Zwingh ana Cmius Secuh
dus Curio, who thought that there were
some redeemed heather. If the west
minister dWincs had understood Jonah,
they never would have coined those re-
marl<able statements OF the tenth chapter
! of their Confession, in which the entire
, heather world ana it's babes are LETT out
| of the election of grace The present cen
tury. brought face to face with the heathen
world is beginning to learn the lesson oil
Jonah Jonah is the book for our times
Though written many centuries ago as a
beautiful ideal of the imagination to teach
the wonderful grace of God in the saliva
ton of repenting heather and their babes
it has been reserved for the present age &c
apprehend and apply its wonderful lessons
The repentance of Nineych is II prophetic
ideal Professor C. Briggs d. u IL
North American Review.