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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
How the Court Was "Conjured.~

Among the prisoners to be tried one
morning was negro youth who had
been caught in the act of making and
IL come at 8 cents call. His old mother
was in dreadful state of perturbation
at the predicament in which her boy
found himself and dreams of chain
gangs and shackles made her desperate.
She called Oh ''conjure doctor" and
begged for charm that would con-
jure the judge and make him let the
boy go free. She was given bag filed
with fine red powder and told to
sprinkle it where the judge walked
when on his way to the courtroom.
A few minutes before the hour for
the converting of the police court the old
woman sprinkled the powder in the en-
trance to the police station, on the stair
steps leading up stairs and on the floor
of the courtroom. just as the court was
called to order the recorder began to
sneeze, the policemen sneezed, the wit
nesses, the prisoners and the spectators
sneezed. In little while everybody in
the room was in paroxysm of sneez.
ing. Court was hastily adjourned, and
everybody made arush for the open air.
Every one down stairs in the station
house office was sneezing, and even pass
ersby in the street joined in the spas
modic exhalation of conjured atmos-
phere.
1t was not an epidemic of grip, as at
first supposed, but the old woman's con-
juro powder was ground cayenne pep
per 1t only had the effect of saving her
erring son for one day, for the next
morning he got the full limit of the
law Atlanta Constitution.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
CONSUMPTION.
sho Conditions Which Invite Foothold
OF This Dread Disease.

The germs of this disease cannot OBJ
tain foothold until the resistive pow
ers of the tissues have been reduced.
There must be not only the seed, but the
soil This impaired power of resistance
may be the result of heredity, and this
influence in the causation of disease Is
seldom shown To better advantage than
in the history of consumption. There
have been instances in which a single
ancestry has vitiated the stock forever.
How unfortunate that such matters
are SO little considered in marrying and
giving in MARRIAGE! 1t is not that the
disease is inherited, but the vulnerable
tissues, the feeble resistive powers, rem
der the offspring an easy prey to the
ubiquitous bacillus This weakness often
shows itself by tendency to become I'D
from slight causes, sickness not by
any means to be COMPOUNDED with merely
a lack of robustness or strength. One
organ or part of the body, frequently
the mucous membrane, is usually more
prone to become affected, and the begin.
ming of the disease can often be traced
to an attack of some slight ailment.
Not only the children of consumptivs
parents may show these characteristics.
but also thoce of parents generally en-
feebled, or whose ages are widely sepa-
rated, or who are closely related by blood,
or of mother who has previously borne
number in quick succession. Even
when heredity is sound the same condi-
ton is sometimes induced by coddling,
by improper feeding, by attacks of acute
disease or by want and distress In
growing children bad carriage of body
may act injuriously by contracting and
the chest. The stopped posi-
ton which boys sometimes assume III
bicycle riding should be discouraged for
this reason. --William l.. Russell, NJ
D., in Popular Science Monthly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
Sailing Fruits.

1t is the custom in Italy to ship fruits
In large casks filled with salt and brine,
The fruit is sliced or cut in pieces anu
Immediately put into the pickle ms
fashion of shipping has its advantage
over ordinary methods in that the nun
prepared need not be so fresh as tna'
which is shipped whole and wrapped ~
papers or packed in boxes Fruits =,
this sort are subjected to the most rigiu
scrutiny, as one imperfect Specimen
may infect the entire parcel The sai'eu
fruit upon reaching its destination -
soaked in fresh water until all traces u
salt have disappeared. While this me.n ~.
cd may be tolerated in emergencies 'n'
flavor and quality are so much Impair
ed that shippers are looking for Soin'
other way of preserving their proou0'
New York Ledger.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
English Government Waste pape,.

Periodically precise statements of
what is in stock are drawn up and sent
to all known dealers in waste paper.
and those of them who wish to buy any
of the lots offered to them return the
lists with the highest bids they are pre-
pared to make, and the highest bidder
becomes the purchaser and carries il
off. The annual sales bring in some.
thing over 100000 year, which, &C.
cording to arrangements prevailing up
till 1871, would all have gone as "per.
quisites" into official pockets These
were the good old times before the civ.
il service went to the dogs" 1t was
found in very many cases that the Off
cial who pocketed the proceeds Of waste
paper had the original ordering Of the
goods.
The more he ordered the greater
would be the waste and the better for
his pocket, and of course there was
dreadful howl when, in 1871, Mr. Nc
Culloch proposed a reform The reform
was indeed carried-on paper But that,
too, for long time, proved to be little
better than waste paper. The officials
naturally entertained the strongest OBJ
lection to relinquishing their custom
airy perquisites and held on to them I'M
til few of them Were prosecuted for
theft, or, to adopt the more polite
phraseology of treasury minute, 70,
"the systematic misrepresentation os
public property" and then for the first
time Mr.. McCulloch's reform became
real one, and ever since all waste has
been properly collected and systematic
ally dealt with. Journal
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
DENSITY OF POPULATION.
The Most Thickly Peopled Spot In the
World Is In New York City.

The Most ThickIy Peopled Spot In the
World Is In New York City.
In The Century is paper by Mrs.
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, on "Places In
New York" in the course of which the
author says: Cross the Bowery now, and
you will enter the famous Tenth ward,
true tenement house district, forming
part of the most crowded city quarter
in all the world. AS a whole, the city
of New York below the Harlem river
(the Island of Manhattan) is more dense
ly peopled than any other city in the
world, counting 1872 persons to the
acre, while Paris counts 1862. Then
one-sixth of the entire population of all
New York, reckoning now with the
parts above the Harlem, too, is concen-
trated upon III acres of ground. Here,
ON the lower east side of our town, in
the summer of 1894, there dwelt some
324, 600 souls averaging 1865 to the
acre, and a certain section of this great
area, the Tenth ward, showed local
acre average of 626 g. The most thickly
peopled spot in Europe is the Jew quar-
ter in Prague, but it is only one-fifth as
large as our Tenth ward, while it shows
density scarcely greater than that of
the whole of the III acres in which the
Tenth ward is contained-4S5.4 per
acre.
Nor is this the worst that our I'll
acres can reveal. Sanitary district A of
the Eleventh ward, bounded by Avenue
B and Second street, Columbia, Riving-
ton and Clinton streets, contains 80
acres, and in the summer of 1894 each
Of them bore 9S6. human beings. This
is the very thickest, blacklist coagula-
ton of humanity in all the known
world. No European place of anything
like the same size even approaches it,
and its nearest rival is part of Bombay
where the average population over an
area of 46. 06 acres is 759. &C.
Yet it should be remembered that,
while our acres are thus more heavily
burdcned than any others, places can be
found in European as in Asatic towns
where people are more uncomfortably
crowded within doors. There the houses
are low, but New York tenements are
very lofty, and thus our floor space to
the acre is much more extensive More
over, although we are now more crowd
ed than ever before, our sanitary state
steadily improves. During the decade
which closed with 1874 our death rate
was 30.27 per 1000. During the one
which closed with 1894 it was 24.07.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13

Japanese Commercial Morality Said tn ~
Below Par.

| BeiOW far.
II has long been known TO those who
had dealing with the japanese that
commercial morality in Japan stands
, almost on the lowest plane possible to
civilized people. With few exceptions
even those japanese who prove estima-
BILE and high minded in all other matters
are not to be trusted in business transac-
ton In Japan the man who fails TO
take advantage of his neighbor in bar
gain is looked upon as fool. The ex-
PLANTATION of this state Of things given
by Robert Young who edits Kobe pa
per is that merchants in Japan have
hitherto occupied the lowest rung on the
social ladder, being deemed inferior to
the tillers of the soil and but little above
the pariah class. Up to comparatively
recent period trader was but another
name for trickster and the pursuit of
commerce was held to argue lack OF
integrity.
With changed commercial conditions
this low standard seems to have re-
NAMED unaltered, so that the japanese
trader is always thinking how he can
best the foreigner, and he will not
fulfill his engagements if by so doing he
is likely to suffer loss. Mr. Young gives
cogent reasons for believing that the
mikado's subjects soon will lose the for
eign customers they have gained unless
their code of commercial morals is ma
terially and rapidly improved.
Already Japanese consuls have re-
ported that the country's foreign trade
is seriously injured by merchants who
send abroad matches that will not strike,
rice that is not up to sample and stuffs
the only merit of which is cheapness.
Guilds have been formed to introduce
better methods of business, but they
have not wrought much improvement,
and the situation cannot be radically
changed so long as there is no public
opinion to support the application of
morality to business AT present the or
binary Japanese trader has no con-
science, and until he acquires one the
expected competition of Japan in the
markets of the world is not likely to
be worthy of serious consideration.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
Hare Hunting.

This branch of sport has a host Of
earnest supporters throughout the north
ern states and Canada, and many fine
dogs are kept for the sole purpose of
driving the white fellows. Some hunt.
ers use native foxhounds and crossbreds,
such as are used to drive deer. Needless
to say, the man who regularly hunts
deer and hares will keep certain hounds
for each kind of work. Hounds schooled
to drive hares are nuisance ON a deer
hunt, owing to their tendency to follow
the lesser game when the greater is
wanted. Smart barriers are excellent
for hares, but perhaps the best dogs for
the purpose are good sized beagles
These enterprising fellows are unex-
celled as trailers and have fine voices,
while they are just large enough to have
the necessary speed. The very small
beagles will trail enthusiastically and
make fine music, but they are compare
lively slow. Moreover, their short un-
derpinning is not the best pattern for
work in deep snow, in which the cream
of the hunting is usually to be had. The
very small beagle is dear little dog,
true, game and interesting, but he shows
to best advantage ON the trail Of the cot.
tontail.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
A FATHERlY ASSURANCE.
The Old Gentleman Was No Linguist. but
He Knew Life.

The Old gentleman Was No Linguist, but
He Knew Life.
Mr.. Cumrox's son was studying his
Latin lesson. There was the tremolo of
Encouragement in his voice as he re-
marked:
II don't seem to get along with this
lesson very well, father
Cant you say any of it?"
eyes, l can say 'amo, amas, amat,
and then / always forget what comes
next"
"What does those words mean, john
ny?" asked Mr.. Cumrox, who deserves
credit for being always ready to add to
somewhat deficient early education.
'They mean I love, thou lowest, he
loves. >"
''It does seem too bad to see you
startin in so soon," the old gentleman
mused with the difficulties that have
always surrounded that verb. But you
might as well commence young to learn
that them words in one way or another
cause two-thirds of the botheration that
occurs in this life. 4"
Please, can quit school, then?'
"No 1t wouldn't be any use. You
couldn't dodge 'em, and you might as
well go right along and get as familiar
with them as possible. You'll find that
learnin 'em amt half the worry that
handlin 'em is after you know 'em.
Cheer up, Johnny, and remember that
most of your trouble is still ahead Of
you. "-Washington Star.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
General Grants Two Tunes.

A drum corps i'll passing caught sight
OF the general and at once struck up q
then popular negro camp meeting air.
Every one began to laugh, and Rawlins
cried, Good for the drummersl'
What's the fun?" inquired the general
why, was the reply, "they are play
ing Amt glad to get out OBJ de will
dernessr " The general smiled at the
ready wit of the musicians and said:
well, with me a musical joke always
requires explanation. l know only two
tunes--one is Yankee Doodle, and the
other isn't. General Horace Porter in
Century.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
How He Gauged It.

Johnnie" said the farmer, Ego
down in the cellar and draw pitcher
of that sweet cider Take candle with
you"
Don't need no CANDLE" said John
ME.
"Ah, my little man," said the min
lister, who was staying overnight, ''you
must have quite an accurate judgment
to have filled the pitcher in the dark
without running it over"
"Aw," said Johnnie, cit amt nc
trick at all. When it got up to the first
joint of my thumb, stopped. Gin
cinnati Enquirer.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
THE lONGFElLOW STATUE
A Fitting Memorial of the Poet at Port,
land, His Birthplace.

One Of the best instances of what the
any rate, in the respect of its situation,
it's perspective with regard to other me-
MORALS and the local estimation in
which it is held-is the statue of Long
fellow at Portland, by Mr.. Franklin
Simmons. 1t Is a dignified seated figure
of the poet in bronze, occupying a con-
spicuous site in the best part of the
town, in the middle of square which
is now known as Longfellow square.
The statue was raised few years ago
by fund solicited through a wide field,
but chiefly obtained, 1 believe, in Port
land. The sculptor was chosen through
that curious local spirit which has af-
fected unfavorably many of our archi-
tectural and other monuments. He was
avowedly selected because he was a
maine man," though he had never
seen the poet. However, the result in
this case seems to have been happy. The
statue has much beauty, and the like.
ness is said to be excellent.
This statue stands in the poets native
town, as is entirely proper. 1t may APP
peal every day to the eyes of thousands
of young people, born very much as he
was born, who should see in it the sug-
gestion of possibility for them. Poetic
ally it makes the stranger fancy the
genius or spirit of the man still linger-
ing among the scenes of his youth, and
it symboliZes the satisfaction which ev-
cry man feels TO have his name remem-
bercd in his native TOWN.. Il. Cham.
berlin III Atlantic.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
Eleven Times Around the Earth

Just think of it'll eleven times
around this globe of ours" in the space
of 60 seconds! Can you imagine any
thing that moves with such remarkable
speed? Sound travels only IL l-2 miles
per minute, and rife ball (if its speed
were not diminished by resistance)1 Is 1-2
miles. Light passes through distance
equal to 1-2 revolutions of the earth in
one minute, but electricity travels SO
astonishingly fast that it is able to com.
plete the circuit of the earth 1 1 1-2 times
in 60 seconds. st. Louis Republic
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
TIE South Carollnian.

The South Carolinian has always ar.
rogated to himself the name Carolinian,
and he has never been on very familiar
terms with his northern neighbour. His
feeling for his southern neighbor, the
Georgian, is also one of mere tolerance,
for the latter has long been called the
southern Yankee and fairly deserves the
appellation. He has much of the
shrewdness and push that mark the
typical down easter" and he has q
considerable share of that worthy's
moral earnestness. In addition he has a
good deal of the Virginian's geniality
and love of comfort, of the North Caro-
linian's unpretending democracy and of
the South Carolinian's tendency to ex-
hibitions of fiery temper.
But over and above everything else he
has an honest and hearty and not un.
founded pride in Georgia, and sort of
Masonic utilization with every person,
animal, institution, custom-in short,
thing-that can be called Georgian. He
may not always stand for culture, but
he does always stand for patriotism,
state and national. He loves success,
strength, straightforwardness and the
solid virtues generally-neither is he
averse to the snowy ones-but above all
he loves virtue in action. Though pos
sessed of strong, clear intellect, he is
more particularly man of five senses,
of which he makes as good use as he
can. Ho may not always taste the
sweetness or see the light of the highest
civilization, but he has good healthy
appetite for life. w. p. Trent in At
lantic.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
Mixed ss 20 Deanit.ors.

Hungry Higgins-Wotl You dunnV t
wot miser is? A miser is man ' La
denies hisself the necessaries OF iii'
when he has the money to buy EN-.
Weary Watkins-Oh, have met sol,'
Of them fellers. But fought they uan
ed themselves prohibitiopists -inu''A
aIrlis Journal
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
An Improbable Servant.

i have called to apply for the posi-
ton OF bill collector" said the sharp
nosed man who stood in the doorway.
understood you wanted one.'
That is exactly what we want" said
the business man. 1.-THE last man we
mad seemed to be only bill presenter -
indianapolis Journal.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
In "a Hurry.

Doctor-How is your brother, Miss
Cynthia?
Aunt Cynthia-He's worse this morn
ing, doctor-a lot worse.
Doctor-Did you give him that medi-
cine as l directed-a teaspoonful every
hour?
Aunt Cynthia-No, doctor. / jus;
gave him the whole bottle at once. He
wanted to hurry up and get well, so's
to go to the pantomime tonight. Strand
Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
Only n Quarter.

Teacher-You know, Johnny, if you
cut an apple in two each part is called
half.
Johnny-Not if my brother Dick cuts
it. The part / git amt never more'n
about quarter of it, ma am.-Chicago
Tribune.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
The Best Thing.

II suppose there were some bright
things said at Mrs. Lionunter's literary
dinner party last night?''
"A few"
Who got off the most interesting?"
The butler-when he remarked that
dinner was ready "-Illustrated Bits.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13

Galbara, an Arabian giant who was
brought to Rome by the Emperor Clau-
dius to serve in the imperial bodyguard,
was 8 feet 8 inches high. Pliny says
that he was the tallest man ever seen in
Rome
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
Strangers Now.

Don't you think, Mrs. Spitely, that
this hat is a little too gay for matron.
ly woman like me?"
Not at all, my dear. You know that
you're years younger than you look. -
Detroit Free Press.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
A Ouaint Bird Legend,

The Medical Press, in recent refer
ence to work on some old legends in
connection with drugs, said: ut would
be interesting to know if the bird which
the author calls 'aster' is known to
modern ornithologists. Speaking OF it.
he remarks that its scent is said to be
so strong that fishes arc drawn by it as
he is flying over the river, and so taken
up by him, having one leg like hawk,
the other like u duck" 1t is not diff
cult, however, to identify the bird In
question. 1t is the osprey (Pandion ha'
H9tus), which, although not today
classified under the genus astur, is re-
lated to it. In the Rev. G. Swainsoni
Folklore of British Birds" there IS o
reference to it from Shakespeare, cor
iolanus," act a, scene B.:
Autidius, LOO
As is the osprey to the fish
Who takes it
BY sovereignty Of nature
And in Peele's play, called Ins
Battle Of Alcazar" (1594), act 2, scene IL
] will provide thee of princely ospray'
That, as she fieth over fish In pools,
The fish shall turn their clustering bellies up
And thou shalt take thy liberal choice VI ~"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13

The southern entrance of the Red sea
is commanded by the fortress of Alden
and the fort on the little island of
Perrin, in, the strait OF Babel Mandeb,
the guns of the latter completely cover
ing the narrow channel and the fortress
dominating the entrance to the sea.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13

The bluebottle fly is purely a meat
ny, subsisting altogether upon meat and
offai and laying its eggs in decomposed
animal matter.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13

Don't express positive opinion I'M
less you perfectly understand what you
are talking about.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13

An ordinary brick weighs about four
pounds.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-03-27
A Bou. with Max Reerbohm.

A recent interviewer Of Max Beerbohm
quotes that interesting and rather able
person US saying that be talks with press
men" only because it is amusing to him
to read the misrepresentation that appear
in next days paper. This may or may not
throw some light on certain other state
ments which Mr. Beerbohm is said to have
made. Speaking of his life at Oxford, he
called it "a provincial little place, peopled
with schoolnasters, " where the inhabit-
ants care always spending afternoons do
ing things in flannel" 1t seems that Mr..
Beerbohm tried to found there a Johnso-
MAN salon, whose members were to call
each other sir, and in the evening have
a chop at the Miter, but the scheme failed.
OF Davidson's ballads this was said: ~
am very fond of his yerse-its expression
is so perfect I confess, though, 1 can't in
the least understand his philosophy. When
ever any Of his poem people have done any
thing wrong, he canonizes them and makes
them happy. 1t is just as if some little
haberdasher's assistant in the Brompton
road had stolen piece of cloth, and the
omniscient Mr. William Whiteley, getting
to hear of it, had at once made him a fore
man in his shop"
Another interesting revelation is that
"the little controversies which always crop
up when l have given fresh work of art
to London are the only compensation for
the bore Of producing them. hate writing
it is very distasteful TO me indeed" In
conclusion Mr. Beerbohm warned the in
terviewer not to make his article too short.
eI must warn YOU" he said, against
compression in art. Remember that d herd
of oxen on a prairie is more valuable than
tin of -" brand of meat extract
which the English 'pressman" does not
hesitate to specify. 1t is not unfair, per-
haps, to wonder how much he earned by
bringing in The name.--New York Times.