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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09
A Dogs Patience.

In The Ladies' Kennel Journal there
is printed story Of George Eliot's ia
vorite spaniel, which Mr.. Robert Buch-
anan tells One day when the novel
list, George Lewes, and Mr.. Buchanan
were engaged in earnest conversation
they were disturbed by sudden yelp Of
pain from beneath the table. Examina-
tion revealed the fact that a child of 3
years of age or so had been amusing
himself by shipping at the animals ears
with pair of scissors, and the mangled
condition of the dog showed how much
torture he had borne before giving way
or uttering sound of protest. George
Eliot was. naturally. violently angry,
and was about to punish the child, but
the dog, divining her intention. licked
his little prosecutors face and mutely
begged him off the whipping he had
richly deserved
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09
A NOBLE SURGEON.
He Saved q Patients Life at the Peril OF
His Own.

He Saved q Patients Life at the Peril or
A certain London hospital has on its
staff Of physicians one man at least
whose heroism has been demonstrated,
and his corpselike pallor and faltering
gait, although he is in his prime, bear
daily witness to this fact.
1T happened ten years age" said
one of the hospital clerks in telling the
story, lust after the doctor became a
visiting surgeon here. A woman was
brought in suffering from cancerous
growth that must in the end prove ia
tai. The house surgeon in charge, a
young man, advised an immediate oper-
the midst of it when the visiting sur
geon arrived.
"A student was handling the knife
and had laid bare the life destroying
cause.
"'Careful, careful exclaimed the
visiting surgeon as the student dexter
ously cut the flesh. If you sever that
artery, she may die under the knife.
"The warning came late, the knife
had slit the artery, and the blood leap
ed into the wound.
"The visiting surgeon had small
cut on his forefnger To seize the ar
terry so as to stop the flow Of blood
would necessarily bring the cut in con-
tact with the bacilli of cancer. A mo-
ments delay, on the other hand, meant,
perhaps, the woman's death.
"Without an instant's hesitation the
surgeons trained fingers had gripped
the artery, which he held firmly until
it could be ligatured. 1t prolonged the
woman's life a few months, continued
the narrator, "but the poison got into
the doctors system, and he lay at the
point of death for weeks "-Pittsburg
Dispatch
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09
A ROYAL CORNER.
How the Sacred. AZ Lonely. Precinct wss
Invaded by an American.

How the Sacred. n Lonely. Precinct wss
Invaded by an American.
An American attending a wedding re-
ception in great house in London con-
graduated bride and bridegroom and
passed the usual compliments with the
host and hostess
There was great throng Of guests,
and he could not linger at the entrance
Of the drawing room when there were
many behind him anxious to offer their
greetings.
Perceiving a.quiet corner to the right
Of the bride where gentleman and
lady were standing apart from the other
guests he went directly to it, unwit-
tingly coming to a stop between two
royal personages
The American was not aware of the
fact that he was face TO face with one of
the queens daughters and had turned
his back upon another member of the
royal family. He stood quietly looking
about, hoping to see some acquaintance
in the company with whom he might
have chat, and soon became uncom-
fortably conscious that he was attracting
attention and that the hostess and bride
were casting uneasy chances in the di-
rection of the corner where he had taken
shelter. While the drawing room was
crowded, the company OF guests with
one consent avoided the secluded corner
where he and his two royal companions
were stationed.
An acquaintance in the background
perceived his mistake, and coming with
in hailing distance motioned to him.
He left his two companions in exclusive
occupation Of the corner, turning his
back upon both as he edged his way
through the throng, while everybody
stared at him. When he reached the
spot where his acquaintance was wait
ing for him, the stage whisper was
breathed into his ear:
"You have been poaching on royal
preserves. You are privileged charac-
ter because you are an American, but
no Englishman ventures to turn his back
upon prince or a princess. People were
staring you out Of countenance because
they took it for granted that you must
Do royai personASe, yos snoy Wero un'
able to identify you.
The answer might have been made
that every American is a sovereign by
the divine right OF equality Of free cit
izenship, but this would have been q
meaningless pleasantly in an English
drawing room, where social etiquette
has sanctity superior to loyalty to
democratic principle.
The American thanked his friend for
resouing him from An embarrassing po-
sitiou, and then stood by and watched
the corner where royalty was isolated
from 700 close contact with the world
Of wealth and fashion.
No guest approached the royal pair.
Their presence was an act Of condescen-
sion to the host and hostess, and they
remained ON exhibition as the patrons
of this social function without having
their corner invaded. Everybody was
careful not to approach them too close
~, and there was a general sense Of re-
lief when they departed and the neces
sity for backing away from them on side
tracks was removed. Youths Compan
\ ion
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09
IT Was True.

Late in the evening report spread
through the train that we had fellow
passenger, man worth $50, 600, 600,
who had gotten Oh at Buffalo. l made
inquiry of the porter of my car, and he
replied:
"Dat's what dey say, sab, but yo'
can't allus tell. He's in do next car,
but l can't dun say if he's rich till
mawnin."
Next morning the porter beckoned
me into the smoking compartment and
said:
"Dat story was all true, sab"
'Then he's worth $50, 600, 900, eh!"
"All of dat, sab, an mebbe mo"
''How did you find out?"
"From de odder po'tah, sab. Degem-
an has jest gin him 10 cents, while
everybody else has cum down wild a
quarter. st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09
When Cod Become Blind.

Several large cod are kept in one Of
the tanks of the Amsterdam aquarium,
necessarily near to the surface, and
therefore exposed to strong light from
above. Now, the cod. though not a
"deep sea" fish, is not a surface swim
mer and lives at depths where the sun
light must be very much modified by
passage through the water. 1t lives i'll
what to us would be semidarkness. Ev-
cry one of these cod exposed to the
strong light is suffering from an extraor-
binary hypertrophy of the eye. The
whole organ has become overgrown, as
if in the effort to adjust itself to the use
Of more light rays it had become over
equipped and then useless. The cod, in
fact, are blind.
The most interesting feature in this
change is the extraordinary rapidity
with which increased supply of light
rays has overdeveloped the organ for its
use. 1t has taken place. not by slow de-
grees from individual to individual, but
in q course of time to be measured by
months and in every individual in the
tank. If this example is a measure of
the rapidity with which such changes
take place among fish, the adaptation
of those creatures which have migrated
from the shallow waters to the deep
seas, shown by the total loss of enor-
nous development of their eyes and the
growth of illuminating organs to light
the abyss, may have been as rapid as it
is marvellous London Spectator.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09
A GREAT HISTORIC TABLET.
Professor Petrie Fiwds . Record Of the
Crushing Of Israel by Egypt.


Professor Petris Fi~is Record Of the
Crushing Of Israel by Egypt.
Twas permitted to excavate along q
part OF the ruin strewn desert ut Thebes
and to examine the sites of temples
which stand there. On these few fur
longs found that there had been seven
temples of the kings Of the eighteenth
and nineteenth dynasties, about 1850
1850 b. @. Most of these / entirely
cleared out, the largest piece of all
the great buildings around the Ramese-
um-being the clearance of the Egyp-
tian research account worked by Mr..
Quibell. Each site gave US some return
In information or objects, but the most
valuable Of the sites. as it proved, was
one of the least inviting A field Of
stone chips showed where the funeral
temple Of Merenptah had stood, and.
left in the ruins, / found the great
granite tablet bearing the long inscrip-
tion of Merenptah about his Libyan war
and his Syrian war and naming Israel.
This tablet is over 10 feet high. over
b feet wide and over a foot thick, of one
flawless block of very fine grained gran
lite, or rather syenite. 1t was first cut
by one of the most sumptuous kings of
Egypt, Amenhotep III, brilliantly pol
ished as fiat and CLASSY as mirror and
engraved with scene of the king offer
ing to Amen, the god of Thebes. and an
inscription Of about 5000 hieroglyphs
recording his offerings and clarifying
the god. His son Akhenaten, who
strove after higher faith, erased all
figures and inscriptions of Amen, and
so effaced most of his fathers fine
carving on this great tablet. This, how
ever was all re-engraved by Seti l,
about 90 years later, as a restoration.
Then, some two centuries after it had
been erected in the temple of Amenho-
tep iii, Merenptah cast an envious gaze
on the splendid stone and stole it for
his own purpose.
Not taking the trouble to rework it,
he simply built the face of it into his
own wall and engraved on the compar-
atively rough back Of the block. At the
top he figured scene Of the king offer.
ing to Amen, and below an inscription
very nearly as large as that OF Amenho-
tep III ON the other side. The painting
Of the sculptored figures still remains al
fresh as on the day it was done, for. as
tho tablet fell face forward when the
temple was destroyed. the side belong
ing 70 Merenptah lay downward, while
that Of Amenhotep III was uppermost
In the runis, then. amid the frag-
ments Of columns and foundations,
heaped over with foot or two Of stone
chips, this grand block had lain since
about the time Of the Trojan war. AL
Greek history, Roman and medieval
the prophets. Christianity and Islam
have swept along while this was wait
ing unsupported, with its story Of the
wars of Pharaoh Of the Hard Heart and
his crushing of Israel Professor Film
ders Petrie in Century.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09
They Fear Nothing.

The followers of Menelek, king Of
Shoa, while not so large as the fierce
Zulus of the south, are about the tough
est warriors in the world: They do not
know physical fear. have seen man
lab burnt stick several inches in his
flesh without wincing, declares writer
in the New York Press This apparent
insensibility to pain is accompanied
with religious frenzy in battle that
renders the soldiers unconscious Of bod
lily harm. They have no fear Of death.
and their happiness is to kill.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09
Omcinl. without an once.

The queens watermen are officials
without an Office. A waterman without
a barge must be something like an editor
without paper. But we must not for
get this difference, that while one fat
tens OH the indulgence of the nation
the other would starve. There are alto
gether SO of this admirable body of do
nothings. For performing their task adj
mirably they receive solatium of about
G5 a year. --Exchange.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09
.,otber Payment to
Pc Met on the Hos
pital.
:. Will BE Due Next Month
..nerior Hopes 10 Mako 'he
institution a seif-s"ppor""&
One-Other News

..or0 in charge OF the Hancock
..oI will have a second payment to
D' "ho 70 Bishop Vertin on the purchase
D. .i.s Of the dwelling now the hospital
rnildiug. The payment is 5000. Inc
Uu "shase prlce was $4,000, OF which
:, sOO was paid down and the balance
s ras TO be paid $500 in February 1897
Va tbebalfremainiDg in two years. This
: -" NOT really all the building stands the
' !, in, for some $1,70O has been spent
IL uniting in steam heat, electric lights
,u,Diture, equping the operating room
"0a remodeling the third storyinto quar-
..,. for the sisters. Theruuning expenses
n the institution, without patient to
go for would be about n hundred dol
Iors a month and each patient increases
cha q little. All this shows what bur-
den the good women took upon them
selves and the urgent need they have OF
funds at once. i.
Seventeen patients have been treated
At the hospital since it's opening ten
weeks ago, Several Of the cases have
been difficult ones, but all have recovered
or improved.
The Mother Superior has great hopes
ior the future and the ultimate placing
Of the institution on a seli-supporting
basis. It is possible that she regrets.
however, that when she came to ask per-
mission Of Bishop vertin to start tho
work here that the residence now occu-
Died was "proyidentially" unoccupied
and for sale.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09
THE BATTLE OF THE NILE.
Nelson Said IL Was n Conquest. Not .
Mere Victory

were victory.
Eleven out of ID French ships Of the
line had been taken or DESTROYED and
two OF the four frigates. II was not a
victory; 1t was conquest. So wrote
Nelson regarding it. 1t is unnecessary
here TO speak of the titles and rewards
which were showered OH the victor. II
Is OF more real interest to consider the
true significance of the victory. the
sense in which it could be said To he a
conquest. In England we have too
much accustomed ourselves TO look ON
1t merely as the most brilliant of sea
fights, and in France it has been spoken
Of as a reverse indeed, but one which
cannot cloud the splendor of the battle
OF the Pyramids. None the less, il was
the conquest of Egypt; it was the isola.
ton and virtual Imprisonment of the
French army.
Bonaparte understood this from the
first, and after avain and hopeless cam
paign III Syria-hopeless against the
power which commanded the communi-
cations by sea-he made an ignominious
flight, leaving Kleber to get the army
out OF the mess in which he had put it.
Nelson, too, understood it and wrote on
Aug. IL: "The French army is in
scrape. They are up the Nile without
supplies. The inhabitants will allow
nothing to pass by land, nor II. N. by
water. Their army is wasting with the
fiux, and not 1000 men will ever re-
turn to Europe" And some months
later, March %, 1899, he wrote: "The
ambassador of Bonaparte has been in
tercepted by Troubridge on his way to
Constantinople, and among other arti-
cles of his instructions is an offer to ell
ter on terms for his quitting Egypt with
his army. This offer is what have long
expected the glorious battle of the Nile
would produce, but it was my deter
mination from that moment never, il
could help it, to permit single French
man to quit Egypt. To Egypt they went
with their own consent, and there they
shall remain while Nelson commands
the detached squadron.
A letter from Kleber to the directory,
written only month after Bonaparte
had deserted his post, reveals the hope
lessness which was felt. 81 know" he
wrote, "all the Importance Of the pos
session Of Egypt. used to say in Eu-
rope that this country was for France
the fulcrum by means of which she
might move at will the commercial sys-
tenn Of every quarter Of the globe. But
to do this effectually powerful lever
is required. and that lever is navy.
Ours has ceased to exist Since that Pc
Rod everything has changed, and peace
with the porte is, in my opinion, the
only expedient. '-Cornhill Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09
Pepper berries.

When the berries ON spike OF the
pepper plant begin to turn red, the
spike is cut off and the berries gathered.
II left too long, until perfect ripeness is
attained, there is great loss occasioned
by the berries falling off. and the quail
ity of the product Is by no means so
mod
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

The mems meeting tomorrow at the
YIN. c. A. will be quite different from the
ordinary. Prof. Wills will be present with
hisstereopticon and present the gospel in
picture; he will also tell you all about
them. The scenes will be different from
the ones shown at the meeting conduct
ed by Mr.. Wills about year ago in the
auditorium. No admission, but collec-
ton will be taken for the expense OF gas,
etc. A very cordial invitation is extend
ed to all men and boys to be present.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

The monthly meeting OF the Pewabic
Epworth League will be held Monday
evening and splendid program OF music
and literary features has been prepared.
There will be solos by Misses Bertha
Nichols and Bessie Vivian and Mr..
John H. Dunstan; quartette by Messrs.
J. LAtcher and the Dunstan brothers; an
organ solo by MIR. F. Dunstan and a
mandolin solo by Mr.. Thomas Kilt.
Readings and recitatlons will be con-
tributed by Mrs. A. Benefits, Mrs. Ada
Chequin, Misses Bertha Nichols and
Emma Mitchell and Mr.. Fred Rumble.
Everyone is cordially INVITED to attend.
The program will be commenced at 7:30.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

"Ice is an awfully ruinous thing"
sighed Cholly. SIN winter whole towns
are bankrupted by ice gorges, and in
the summer the young men are bank
rupted by ice cream gorges. Chicago
Tribune.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

The Hancock hose team, at a meeting
Thursday evening, appointed the follow
Ing committee to make arrangements for
the social party to be given on January
10; D.. n. Mitchell. Frank James. Frank
Stappart, W. Ii. Roberts and Nj. III. Har-
kins
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

Egg oysters are very good If swallowed
like q native" and form an excellent
way Of taking raw egga Arrange them
thus: Break q new laid egg into glass
containing half . teaspoonful Of vinegar
aAA ssassn with pepper and salt h
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

Inc subscribers to the Y. NJ. C. A. course
''ckets are looking forward with pleasure
70 double entertainment by Prof.
byron W. King, reading, on January
~ and lecture on the 25th.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

Mr.. ). Ii. Wilbur and Miss Loirnia
Dolan will be married on Monday next at
the home OF the brides uncle, Mr.. Thomas
Ooughlln. Mr.. Wilbur is one of the pub
l'sners oil the Houghton County Progress.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

Inc Jolly Old Chums" company, date d
AZ houghton for January 13, has been
OOlged to cancel its Upper Peninsula
ud'es on account OF illness Of two lead.
iug members OF the company.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

De Candolles made very careful ex-
animation, historically and botanicaily.
of tho origin of wheat. and claims thas
its native home was In the plateau OF
Armenia, where it is still found to be
growing wild.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

Not moro than one criminal In .
thousand sentsuosd for life, or % years,
By the courts Of Vie United States serves
more than 30 ysayk
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

mr. and Mrs. F. A. Douglass and
younger son have gone to California,
,seAlng a warmer climate, on account of
Mr. Douglass health
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

Every man will find his own private
affairs more difficult to manage and
control than any public affairs in which
he may be engaged. Lord Melbourne
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

~. o"eu't court conyenes January Is, and
In the present outlook the list OF cases
VIII be light one.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

AirS' Mclean, OF Hancock. entertained
NUMBER oil lady friends at luncheon yes.
'uay afternoon and at cards after
ward.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

,,s,. ~, Wis., OF Red Jacket, will give a
''ereopticon at the Atlantic this evening
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

"plng, to unwater the Centennial
Al" '', VIII be commenced about the mid
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

Hoa ,e Will be a special meeting OF
svou' sn'on Lodge, F. Il A. M, Monday
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

ma, on'saming snow shoe club " Il
r a tramp on Tuesday evening.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

VII, :. state convention Of the Y. NC A.
70 "e'd at Owosso February 25-2s.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

,,. mise Grace Cayan, Of the Atlantic. Il
visiting friends at Detroit.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

be hs,s ,upervlsors' monthly meeting will
''u next Tuesday morning.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

Paris aud London Letter Boxes.
The apertures in the Partisan letter
boxes Arc horizontal. in the London let
ter boxes vertical F
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

Rico was frst grown in 1925 from
sssd brought from the East IndisA
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09
PASSENGER Trains on 4. & c. R. R.

.Dailv. Daily except Sunday.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09

PASSENGER Trains on NJ. R. R. R.
In effect December %. 1895.

DAILY. tDaily except Sunday.
The Forrest City times., 1897-05-21
Just in Time.

Preparations were being made to
carry out the sentence of the court on
Charles Baskins, colored, sentenced to
be hanged to-day. but the following
telegram dated May 18th, 3:l5 p. m. :.
put stop to the building Of the gal.
lows. and relieved the public mind:
To w. L. Williams. Sheriff, etc:
Charley Baskins' death sentence is this
day COMMITTED to life Improvement.
DAM. W. JONES.
The crime for which Baskins was
convicted was OF n most henious char
aster On the night of February 81,
1897, he visited the house of Laura AL
len, colored. near Beck's switch, aud
calling her To the door shot her down
with shot gun. There seemed to be
no extenuating circumstances. and it
took but little time for the jury TO
bring in verdict of guilty. ~
BaskiDs is a mulatto, about 80 years
OF age, of a rather pleasant cast of fea-
lures, but void OF intellect. Tie is not
capable of appreciating his situation.
In an interview with a TINES re-.
porter, in answer to an Interrogation
AS to why he killed the woman, he
laughingly said: I'm tell you. She
came to my house day or so before
ahd called me oJt and said something
and dared me to shoot. INVENT 'Bff for
a day and when came back met her
brother in town that day. / had been
drinking. We went to her House.
then went home and came back again
and asked her What did she come to
my house and call me but for. She
said nothing but go home,' and went
home and got my gun and came back
aud called her to the back door and
shot her. That's ALL"
Baskins said he was ready, and
would walk to the gallows-''they
won't have to carry me-
On breaking the news to him of his
communication. he manifested MS much
JOY AS he was capable of-that of an
idiotic grin.