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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
VARIATIONS IN IACORNS.
No Two Seeds Nor Even Two Leaves Ex-
actly Alike.

1t is said that in individual trees scarce
ly two leaves can be found exactly alike
What is true of leaves is true of seeds, and,
indeed, of every part of tree. 1t is also
true of the behavior of trees during their
life career. In acorns especially one may
note remarkable difference in their be-
havior Some species of acorn will preserve
their vital power without much difficulty
for couple of years, while others can
rarely be found with life after a few
months. Some when put into the earth
will remain months before sprouting
while others will sprout before they are
fairly out of their cups on the trees
The acorns of the live oak of the south
often sprout before they fall. The process
of terminating is among the most remark
able of all American trees. The root push
es out from the acorn to distance of
many inches before it enters the ground
the root then goes into the earth, while the
bud or plumule ascends to form the incipi-
ent tree trunk The young tree of the live
oak will frequently be distance of six
inches from the acorn. In this respect the
behavior of this species of oak corresponds
nearly with what is almost universal in
monocotyledonous seeds.
Another early sprouter is the common
white oak These have not been known to
sprout on the tree, but they scarcely reach
the ground before the little radicle pre-
pares to enter the earth. 1t does not wait
to get to the surface of the earth before do
ing this On shelves or boxes where there
is some number of them together the whole
will be mass of roots before u few weeks
after gathering. On the other hand, the
nut of the bur oak will remain long
time before showing any disposition to
sprout 1t is these varying characteristics
which make rules for the transportation
of seeds difficult. Each kind has to have n
method of its own. So far as the two oaks
are concerned it has been found better to
send young plants long distances than the
acorns themselves. -Mechan's Monthly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
FACIAL EXPRESSION.
III Is Not Always "a Safe Guide to Mental
Conditions.


The longer one lives the more convinced
one becomes that the expression of the
race Is not, ms general rule a safe guide
TO the thoughts or to the condition of feel
Ing prevailing at the moment. The habit
ual state of the mind does of course. i'm
press itself permanently on the counte-
nance, DO we not all know the gloomy.
downward lines that mark the pessimist
and the peevish woman; the dear little
wrinkles round the VI Of the CHEEKY soul
VINO Is always brei. Slg into smiles: the
thick eyebrows, ruiiiId At their starting
point, that indicate jealousy, and the deep
double line between the brows of the bad
tempered mang Provided we be sufficient
" up In the science of physiognomy to
distinguish, for instance, between the
signs OF temper and fineness of will Qor
indeed many of these facial indications re-
semble each other closely while signifying
totally different attributes), we can form
falr estimate of the disposition of a
friend or acquaintance, but when we come
To the mood of the moment our conclu-
slons, based on evidence which is mislead-
ing, are usually quite erroneous.
Some peOple-pOor things have faces
that are gifted with but little mobility.
They are commonly said to have Every
little expression" and whereas they may
be full of tender sympathy for some ones
sorrow or anxiety they merely succeed
in looking dull, whoreupon the person who
was conilding i'm them goes away with the
impression that they wre bored with her
and her troubles. Others, who are natural
ly vivacious and sensitive, alternate quick
ly between smiles and trOwns, either of
which may be taken TO mean more than it
actually does We ought to judge others
by their deeds principally; by their words
to certain extent; by their looks last of
all. Who among us has not smarted se-
cretly under the accusation of having
Cooked cross" or naughty or elisa
greeable" when she was merely concealing
some sorrow-and flattering herself that
she was doing it very well-swallowing Il
modification or only bearing very bad
headache? Again, many women are cold
in manner because they are shy, or because
they are uncertain how far TO go in the
way of making advances. We do not care
to wear our hearts upon our sleeves unless
we are sure that there are no DAVIS about
to peck at them. Indeed in the case of
many of US ii would be safe TO paraphrase
the dictup of the willy French diplomatist
and say that "Faces were given us in or
der to conceal our thoughts" Therefore
when there is a doubt let us give each
other the benefit of it.-London Lady.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
A GOOD EXAMPLE.
ncss Every Year What Some Men Donr
DO In Lifetime.

SSo IN ~ Lhetihes
81 believe" remarked the hotel clerk to
a group Of listeners In Washington ho-
tel, THAT the most patriotic men we have
In the United States are the travelling
statesmen"
"And why they?" inquired member of
congress.
because they know the country better
than any other class and see it in all its
sections and are among the classes who
maintain 10 and make it possible for the
rest of US to live with IA great deal more
ease than we might otherwise. Now,
there sone who went out of the Office Just
as the gentleman from New York came in.
That man travels for Boston house, and
his territory extends from Maine to south
ern California, and he makes the trip every
year, stopping usually in the big cities,
but taking many of the Others in on his
way.
"He has been doing it for years, until he
knows the people of the country in every
state, and 1 have yet to hear him say
bitter thing or a foolish one about Sec
tional pcculiarities or differences. He is
too broad for that-that is TO say, he is
too patriotic. Then, again, he comes TO
Washington once year simply TO spend
two or three days here, so that he may feel
che sense Of government by contact with
1t, TO walk about the streets Of the capital
Of the nation, TO look at the magnificent
buildings OF government ownership, TO
stand i'm the glorious beauty of the grand
est building on earth, TO sit for a time in
the halls OF legislation and 10 experience
for u brief season some of the material re-
suits of his citizenship OF the proudest re-
public the sun has ever shOnp uDOn -
There was round of applause for the
clerk presentation of the case.
"Dont do it, gentlemen, he said, wav-
ing il Off "IhOse are not my words, but
the words of that travelling man. He is
the broadcast minded citizen, the flrmest
patriot and the squarest man know, and
if it were possible to have nation of his
kind 1t would be possible to make one ma
ton of the whole world. He has been in
Washington for three days, and when he
leaves tomorrow he will take with him
more than a hundred books containing
pictures of the city and its great buildings,
which he will distribute among the chill
dren of the men he meets in business
way and who may never be able to get to
Washington to wander amid its beauties
and learn here among its marble walls and
pillars the all important lessons which
they teach and which every American
should learn. presume he has distrib-
uted thousands of these pictures and has
been wellspring of patriotic sentiment
to hundreds of young men and women in
every state of the Union. Who can say as
much for HIMSELF" And even the con-
gresham could not answer in the affirma-
tive. Washington Star.
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Rich NobOdies.

London is full of rich people who, So
cially speaking, are nonentities; not be-
cause there is anything against them, but
because they belong to another world and
not to this one which we are considering.
Walking one day, early in my London ex-
periences, with Mr.. Kinglake through n
well known quarter of the far west end of
London 1 asked him who lived in a GER
tain house. 81 do not know" he answer
ed, adding, in his reflective way; "Noth-
ing in London is more remarkable than
such district as this. For the last half
hour we have been wandering among
houses the possession of which implies
wealth. You could not live in such house
for less than e5, 900 or 100000 year, Of
ten more. and not a single person you ever
saw or heard of lives in any one of them.
They have a society of their own, but it Is
not society. They are important persons
in the city, or i'm whatever department of
business or industry they belong to. And
the chances are that London sees their
names for tho first time when they die,
and their wills are published in an Illus
trated weekly paper, with the amounts of
their fortunes. -Harper's Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
Free Pills

Send your address to II. E. Rucklen
4 Co., Chicago, and get box of DR..
Kings New Life Pills. A trial will con-
vince you OF their..merits. These pills are
easy in action and are particularly effec-
tive in the cure Of constipation and sick
headache. For'malaria and liver trou-
bles they have been proved invaluable.
They are guaranteed to be perfectly free
from every deleterious substance and to
be purely vegetable. They do not weak
en- by their action, but by giving tone to
stomach and bowels greatly invigorate
the system. Regular size, % cents per
box. Sold bv ID. T. Macdonald, uggist :.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
IL. Plowed to the Mark.

Pat was new at the business, and the
first attempt was anything but successful.
"Look herel" said the farmer "That
kind of thing won't do. The corn will he
dizzy that grows in furrow so crooked
as that Fix your eye ON something across
the field and head straight for It, That
COW there by the gate is right opposite us.
Aim at her, and you'll do pretty well. F"
"All right, sir, said Pat, and just then
the farmer was called away to the barn.
Ten minutes later he returned and was
Mortified to see that the pillow had been
wandering In zigzag course all over the
field.
Hold on thcrel' he shouted. Hold
oni What are you up tor
"And sure, SIR" said Pat, II did what
you tould me- worked straight for the
COW. but the crayture wouldn't kape still. -
Chicago Record
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
The Great BASTARD.

The great bustard (Otis tarda), bird
still found In the southern provinces of
Russia, is tho heaviest European fowl. In
size it exceeds the Norwegian blackjack.
The old mules attain weight of 30 pounds,
and where food is plentiful specimens
weighing 8s pounds, and even 40 pounds,
have been captured. These birds have dis
appeared from western Europe, where once
they were almost as numerous as par
tridges, and arc seen only in small flocks in
the sand hills skirting the lower valley OF
the Dneiper and here and there along the
north coast of the Caspian. The hen lays
eggs as big as ordinary pears. A larger
and heavier bird, the cassowary, is incapa-
BILE of flight, but it can kick with the
strength of mule and uses tho sharp,
bony quilts of its wings as cock uses his
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
The Federal Constitution.

Our constitution has been amply shown
by numerous modern commentators TO be
in its substance as much the embodiment
of actual experience as is the English con-
stitution itself We suffer, indeed, from
an embarrassment of riches in sources of
practice, American, English or Dutch, for
its various formal provisions, and yet,
while the substance and matter of the
federal constitution may be old, there is
enough in it that was new in form at the
time of it's construction to distract atten-
ton from more familiar features. For ex-
ample, popular thought could not take in
without difficulty the idea of n political
society made up of states that were indie
pendent and at tho same time under GEN.
trail control, nor could 1t understand a
central control except under the old form
king and standing army.
Furthermore, the circumstances attend
ing the forming and adoption of the con-
stitution were such as to make 1t appear a
new construction. The meeting of u body
of men representing "A nation, with tho
deliberate intention of framing q funda-
mental law covering the entire field of
government, was new event in political
experience. Although much might be said
In the convention about English practice
and the English constitution, the fact of
choice, of freedom to adopt or reject, made
even the following of custom in some sort
an act of voluntary creation. This aspect
of the conventions work, at any rate, was
the aspect that impressed the imagination
of the time most forcibly and has contin-
ued to impress the Imagination of succeed
ing generations until within very recent
years. Holiday Claghorn in Allan
tic
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
MTHE GREEN HOUR.n
When All Paris Sits Down For It's Sip OF
Absinth.

Absinth.
Your American tourist, fitting through
Paris in his summer jog to the Riviera or
to Rome, with his palate accustomed to
the favorite tipples of New York, finds
food for curious reflection in the Partisan
absinth. The Frenchman's green hour"
is to him an unknown quality. The alb
smith outfit in Paris ia tall carafe of iced
water, a full sized goblet, fiat spoon with
pierced bowl and a cake of beet sugar.
From bottle of thick, oily, green absinth
the garcon pours into the goblet a layer
whose thickness grows slowly until your
uplifted finger warns him you have
enough Two fingers is a good beginning.
After that you are likely TO take more.
When the garcon has departed, you lay the
silver spoon across the top of the goblet,
place the fiat cake of sugar in its bowl,
which is made exactly to hold it, and pour
a tiny stream of iced water from the carafe
slowly upon it. The water trickles down
through the bowl, dissolving the sugar as
it comes, and by the time the goblet is
full the water has turned from the deep
green of the pure absinth to the murk-
ish yellowish green which one forever
afterward associates with the drink.
Now sip it slowly as you would an egg
nog and feel your temperature rise, bring
ing with it a mild thirst and gnawing
appetite. This is the "green hour" from
to in the evening, and you are now
part of it. AS you grow deliciously warmer
and your thoughts come quicker and the
atmosphere grows roster, look at the COB
let and, watching its changing dolphin
colors, think how like this drink is to the
Frenchman himself, who has made it his
own. 1t is soft and milky, like his man
ners, seasoned and sharply spiced like his
taste, perfumcd and fragrant like his fop-
perry, exquisitely sweetened like his polite
ness, bitter like his philosophy, green like
his jealousy, yellow like his morality and
infaming like his passions.-New York
Press
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
The English Merchant Service.

Horatio Nelson was sent on voyage in
a small ship IN the West Indies. She was
probably scow. She was commanded by
Mr. John Rathbone, who had served as
masters mate under Captain Sucking
Nelson was absent on this voyage about n
year. / confess, as one who has served un-
der the red flag, that L love to think and
am honored by thinking of Nelson as n
merchantmen. Indeed some of the finest
seSmcn and greatest heroes of naval story
have come out of our mercantile marine
But it is scarcely necessary to say this,
seeing that the merchant service very
greatly antedatod the establishment of the
royal navy. Even in Elizabeth's time one
cannot think of Hawkins Frobisher, Drake
and the many other stars of that splendid
galaxy of sea chieftains as queens men in
the sense that royal naval officer is now
queens man. They were buccaneers.
The merchants found them ships, and the
cinque ports and the longshore yielded
them crews, who were composed of mer-
chant sailors The navy grew out of the
mercantile marine, and, glorious US is the
white flag, not less honorable is the rcd,
whether for it's memories of heroic combat
or for its faithful discharge of the duties
of that peace whose victories are not less
renowned than war's.-Clark Russell in
English Illustrated Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
Reasons Why ChamberIafn's Collie
Cholera and Dtarrhea Remedy
Is the. Rest

1. Because it affords almost instant
relief in case OF pain in the stomach, collie
and cholera morbus.
2. Because it il the only remedy that
never fails in the most severe cases Of dys-
entery and diarrhea.
3. Because il is the only remedy that
will cure chronic diarrbea.
4. Because it is the only remedy that
will prevent bilious collie.
5. Because it is the only remedy that
will cure epidemical dysentery.
9. Because it is the only remedy that
can always be depended upon in cases OF
cholera infantum.
z. Because il is the most prompt and
most reliable medicine in use for bowel
complaints.
8. Because it produces no bad results.
8. Because it is pleasant and ..saie to
take.
10. Because it has saved the lives Of
more people than any other medicine in
the world.
The % and 80 cent sizes for sale by
Sodergren & Sodergren. druggists.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
The Etnlanders,

Mutual Fire Insurance company OF
Houghton and Keweenaw counties, or
ganized in 1890 according to the laws OF
the State OF Michigan, will insure proper.
tv OF its members. Have paid fire losses
over "a 900 and dividends nearly $4,000
during the last seyen years to members
OF five years standing. On the first day
OF July the company had 541 men,
bers. $466,943 worth OF property in
sured and $11.121.13 in treasury. For
further particulars apply to the under
signed. JOHN BLoMovIsT, President.
ALEX LENoNEN, Secretary.
Office, 448 Pine street, upstairs DIE
Jacket.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
AN ARABIAN NIGHT.

Midnight-the song is done; lay down thy
lutte,
Dark face, yet raptured from the music 3
close
The lamp swings languidly-the soft light
CLOVIS
Around thee, and thy passionate lips are mute,
Too near TO mine. Warm fragrances of fruit,
Odors of musk and jessamine and rose
Float family past us; some late reveler goes
Homeward with farof sound of fife and flute
The curtains drop their deep embroidery
Behind thee, and the ieweled goblets CLEAN
Thy hungry, yearning eyes are fixed on mine
As in the macs of IA wild love dream.
Slowly, by some magnetic law divine,
We tremble toward each other silently.
M. &. ellington.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
Great Money-Saving sale

AT the Laurium Fair, next to the post.
office. Fifteen hundred pairs OF ladies'
and Misses fine shoes, worth from $3.50
to 81 pair, to be sold at 81 a pair for
thirty days only. We also have a lot OF
baby shoes, sizes from 0 to No. 4, at 5
cents pair. Call promptly, as it is to
your interest. |. FENBERG K Co.,
Hecla Street, Laurium.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
Whitewash the Oven.

Good baking requires clean ovens, eau
ton much more necessary than would ap-
pear. There is distinctly different flavor
In bread and meats baked in tiled ovens
from those cooked in the black, sooty
ovens of the average range. A suggestion
Is to whitewash range ovens, after they
have been scrupulously cleaned, to add to
their light and wholesomeness.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.

FoUND-Near the corner OF Elm and
Filth streets, Singer sewing machine, on
easy monthly payments. Old machines
taken III exchange. OIL needles and sup.
plies OF all kinds constantly on hand.
The Singer Manufacturing
$50 Fifth street
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26

Argall Brothers, Red Jacket Mich, un
co1takers, paractical embalmer and tuner
al directors. Graduate OF Chicago Col
lege OF Embalmingl All calls promptly
attended to and the best of service rem
dered. Telephone in connection. Tach-
ellis old stand, corner Scott and Main
streets.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
Some Queer ideas About Finger Nails

The Japanese have some curious ideas
about their finger nails. One of them Is
20 the effect that they must not be cut be-
fore starting on journey, lest disgrace
befall the person before he reaches his de-
tjnation. Neither should they be cut at
night, lest cats claws should grow out
To throw nail parings into the fire is to
invite some great calamity. II while trim
ming the nails a piece should fall In the
fire, the person will soon die.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26

When Philip of Macedon approached by
night with his troops to scale the walls OF
Byzantium, the moon, then new or In
crescent, shone out and discovered bis de-
sign to the besieged, who repulsed him.
The crescent was after that adopted as the
favorite badge of the city. When the
Turks took Byzantlum, they found the
crescent In every public place, and, believ-
Ing IL to possess some magical power,
adopted Il themselves. Nicholas.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26

Last summer one OF our grand-chil-
dren was sick with a severe bowel trou-
BILE" says Mrs. E. G. Gregory, OF Fred
erickstown. Mo. "Our doctors remedy
had failed, then we tried Chamberlain
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy,
which gave very speedy relief" For sale
by SOdergren & Sodergren, druggists.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
summer sstyIes,

Having received tue stock of cloths.
suitable for spring and summer suitings,
inYitean inspection. Suits made TO
order, fit guaranteed and the prices very
low. Give me call NJ. JOHNSON,
Over Sauer's Sample Room.
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Doesn't Trust Man.

A naturalist says that in captivity ele
plants always stand up when they sleep,
but when in the jungle, their own land
and home, they lie down. The reason
given for the difference between the ele.
plant in captivity and freedom is that the
elephant never acquires complete conf.
dence in his keepers and always longs for
liberty
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
Lake Linden stage.

Stage leaves Pearce's livery stable
Lake Linden. every day at 8 a. m, 10 a.
m, 1 and A p. m. Stageleaves McClure's
livery stable, Red Jacket, at 8 a. m, 10
a. m, and 1 and 4. p. m.
THOMAS PEARCE,
JAMES MCCLURE,
Proprietors.
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Big Calf (vainly)-Get out of my way
cor I'll stop on you. You're nobody.
Barnyard Fowl (haughtily)-If you
could hear folks grumble when they find
veal In chicken salad you'd change your
tune. New York Tribune.
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The law Is sort of hocus pocus science
that smiles In yer face while 1t picks yer
pockets, and the glorious uncertainty Of 1t
Is Of mair use to the professors than the
justice Of it.-Nacklin.
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He-Darling, have loved you ever
since first we met.
She-Well, why didn't you say so long
agoS Did you think was mind readerf
Cleveland Leader.
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One Of the small vsrietiesof huckleberfy
10 fertilized by bee, which, coming un-
dsrneath the flower and filing it's probos-
ole mp In order to get the honey, the fow-
Or throws . shower Of pollen In his face,
to be carried to the next host.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26

Oddities and .singularities of behavior
may attend genius. When they do, they
are its misfortunes and its blemishes. The
man Of true genius will be ashamed OF
them-at least he will never affect to dis
tinguish himself by whimsical peculiari-
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