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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-11

and. buried III sands or cast away or
desert banks, no human eye has ever
seen them again.
"The great river has its pleasing and
romantic aspect, 80 fascinating that 1t is
a saying among people who live in its
valley that whatsoever drinks OF its wa
tiers and departs will come again to seek
them Like the Nile, the Rio Grande
enriches the soil of its valley to tho
point Of inexhaustible fertility. Along
its banks in New Mexico are fields that
for two centuries have been cultivated
yearly, yielding great crops, and they
are as productive today as when they
first were titled. Irrigating canals, call
ed acequias madras (mother dltches),
convey water from the river to be dis
tributed through little gates to the fields
of the valley, which it both waters and
enriches. A trip along the river reveals
a succession of pictures OF primitive
civilization of the old Spanish American
type. Adobe villages, with small, tat
rooted houses built about antique
churches, and the spacious houses OF the
vicos, or great men; orchards, vineyards,
| wheatfields and grazing cattle are all
features of the scenery OF the Rlo
| Grande, tie American Nile. New
| York Sun.
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One OF the Rarest Books.

Among the books of a comparatively
recent date, if the seventeenth century
can be described as such, is, as the Ef-
zevir collector well knows, the famous
"Patissier Francois, s" a small duodecimo
printed by Louys and Daniel Elzevir at
Amsterdam in 1855. A faulty and poor
reimpression OF work of little value
issued in Paris two years previously,
this book has become the most soughs
after of all he Elzevir works, just De-
cause it is wrongly thought to be the
scarcest. It has fetched prices reaching
in France as high as 1900 francs. The
reason for the supposed rarity is OF
course that, instead of being placed ON
its first appearance on the shelves OF the
curious or the studious, the little VOL
ume was thumbed to pieces by the
greasy hands of cooks and kitchen maids.
Genuine enthusiasts in the printer 8 art
have hoped to see the price diminished
in presence of the revelations lately
| furnished concerning it. Its markes
value, however, shows no signs OF DIM
| mutton, and that one copy, sold IN
England during the last seven or eight
years, fetched at Sotheby's on june ~,
| 1895, the sale being that OF the Earl OF
Oxford, the preposterous price OF Eloo-
| Gentleman Magazine.
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An Old Sam Book.

| found in the Harvard Divinity school,
among the men that subsequently reached
distinction, Samuel Longfellow and Sam
uel johnson, who compiled their collection
of hymns, IA volume called modestly "A
Book of Hymns and more profanely
named from its editors familiar names
''The Sam Book" Longfellow was one of
the born saints, but with breadth and
manlincss not always to be found in that
class. He was also genuine poet, like his
elder brother, whose biographer he after
ward became. johnson, n man OF brilliant
gifts and much personal charm, Is now
best known by his later work on oriental
religions. 1t is a curious fact that many
of their youthful hymns as well as some
of my own, appearing originally in this
hetcrodox work, have long since found
their way into the most orthodox and re-
! Specialize collections. Colonel L. W Hig'
! gnson in February Atlantic.
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u,,,or In Police Courts.

A majority Of the cases when we u'ai
with daily are pathetic or dramatic, put
there is a humorous side to the work as
,vell and some of the most ludicrous IN
cidents conceivable come up In our courts
The most common cause OF complaint Wy
one woman against another In tenement
bousc ouarrels is that "She called me OUT
of me name" A woman told me that she
wanted a warrant against female ac-
ouaintance because, us she said, Judge,
,,our honor. she called me name out Oh
me Mace. and want her to prove It,
These petty brols must be given near
ing and settled by such good advice as the
complaint suggests. ,,
"He treats me something rldlculous'
,yos the complaint of one much abused
wife against her husband. The man, Deihs
hrougbt nm TO answer the charge ana per
hans exnlain IL. answered: This Is deao
niece of jealousy, your honor. Don't miho
her. ,,... o n,
tho Harlem court and wanted her boy
arrested for misbehaving hiinseii III me-
horse IL came out that her boy was 81
,-oors old and when i said to her that III
was n prctty old boy she remarked, oui'
ha,s not n curl. and / count boy MAJ
only when he's married. "A German VIII
n very much battered head complained ina J.
tbe defendant had made "dlnge IN IL
and described the assault about as follows
"He do me crack on de kopf, like dis
and do holdings by him.
MANY of these people seem TO feei Una
when thew make complaint In court the
must usc all the high sounding words t I,,
know regardless of their meaning !.
result is sometimes amusing enouen J
upset the dignity Of the Dcnon. on 100, wU.a
an who displayed bruised ana batter.
a o. finished her complaint by say
;ng "He left marks of violations upon III
arm n, as your honor can see for yerseli,
',an whose truthfulness was questione
said, Does your honor doubt me yoracity /,
"@Tbe CITY Magistrates Courts,
Judge Robert c. Cornell IN feprua'
Scribner's.
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THE AMERICAN NILE.
SUCH is THE GREAT RIO eRAhoE,
WITH ITS VAGARiGS.

II Is n River OF Frenkish Habits and
Must BE Seen More Than Once to be I'm
derstood-Flows Mainly Underground,
but at Times There Is a Torrent on Top.
"It's river /, 500 miles long, meas
ured in its windings," said the man
from New Mexico, speaking OF the Rio
Grande. "For few miles, at its mouth,
light draft steamers run up from the
gulf of Mexico. Above that it doesn't
float a craft except at ferries. In the old
days, when New Mexico was a'proyince
of Spain, the people along the river
didn't even have ferryboats, and the
only way they had of getting across was
by fording. For this purpose a special
breed Of large horses was reared to be
kept ut the fords. When the river was
too high for these horses to wade across,
travellers camped ON the bank and wait
ed for the waters to subside Now there
are bridges over the river at the larger
Rio Grande towns, and in other places
rope ferries and rowboats are the means
of crossing.
"In times Of low water stranger
seeing its current for the first time
would be apt to think slightingly of the
Rio Bravo del Norte, as the New Mexi
cans love to call the great river Mean
dering in small part of a very wide
channel he would see only little muddy
stream, for ordinarily nine-tenths OF th'
Rio Grande is underground, the waite
soaking along toward the gulf through
the sands beneath its channel The val
ley, bounded everywhere to left ant
right by mountains or foothills, is sandy
ana tie water, percolatlng the sand
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KILLINGS BY WHOLESALE.
Four Thousand Murders Year In i'"is'
Most violent of Civilized Countries.

rour Tbousand Murders n Year In ita'y'
Most violent of Civilized Countries.
homicide occurs every two hours III
ITALY. This was one of the many STAR
FLING statements made by Baron caro-
folo. distinguished Italian crlminoi-
o,;st in n lecture delivered ON Crlnn.
;nalitv in Relation to the Education OF
,be People" in the Roman college. Ills
audience included Queen Margherlta.
Tn Italy the annual loss OF lie py
homicide usually by lethai weapons
numbers about 1000 souls. Compareo
With France. for instance, she mas ~
homicides a year for Frances l. anu
OK for Denmarks 1. The Latin popu-
Lotions indeed, in both hemlspneres
have a had pre-eminence over the Leu,
.oric in crime generally, and OF these
Latin populations the Italian " '"'
Roron Garofalo proceeded to give .no
roosons WHY. In the first place, venue''a'
.uh;ob in Greece was heroism ana III
,nod;mval Europe laudable CUSTOM
haS fingered longer in Italy than I'D any
| other country uuOtihb'
freouent in Italy than elsewhere. ~ 80 Wy
religious instruction given III 80
pr;to;n and the United States OF Annei'
so ha attributed the fact that .uess
aorrtr;es have in 40 years diminished
~. half the annual proportion "
their delinquents and mendicants, w VI in'
in Italy the want OF similar similar ms: ;m"roasa q
hos resulted in the positive increase ,ee o
delinouency and mendicancy SINCE i0v .,,,
G Than 70 these considerations we add TN
;ucreased hardness Of living in the youn'
h;nodom. the strain put upon the mora mora
res;sting power by crushing powers !;
the squalid dwellings, the aeit e starved
mentation, by which the brain AIMS, Is s'h NV tn
when il is not actually poisoned py ~
stimulants in which relief from m ,iss :
, 10 sought, and the depreciation Oh illo &C
20 ey;sts under such conditions, we J"
,, yo at an ensemble of causes WIN
, ouite accounts for these sad STATISTICS
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Sir Joseph Barnby.

"Although Sir Joseph Barnby Dc
lopped to the pedantic school, says
The Saturday Review, "the iron OF Its
chains never entered into his SOUL ana
at heart he seems to have been some
thing of Bohemian, fonder OF the en-
ioyable rather than the merely correct
both in life and in art. He did not com.
pose much, but he was the writer OF
some songs which had vogue, OF the
most popular part song ever written
and of some church music which touches
the high water mark of its kind IL Is
hard to see who will take his place.
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PRAYERS BEFORE BATTLE.
Curious Invocations by Famous Historical
Personages.

Curious invocations by Famous Historical
Personages.
One OF the earliest records i'm history
OF prayer before battle is that of Chill
deric. king of Gaul, pagan, who before
going into battle at Zuelpich, some 400
years after Christ, prayed to the God Of
the Christians to help him to victory.
His foe was Attila, king of the Huns,
and Childeric vowed if God would give
him the victory he would embrace the
Christian faith.
The prayer of Hungarian officer be.
fore one Of the battles fought for the in.
dependence of Hungary in 1849 was as
follows: 81 will not ask thee, Lord, to
help us, and l know thou wilt not help
the Austrians, but if thou wilt sit on
yonder hill thou shalt not be ashamed
of thy children. This was the prayer
OF the Fighting Bishop" Leslie before
one of the battles fought in Ireland: 80
God, for our unworthiness we are not fit
to claim thy help, but if we are bad
our enemies are worse, and if thou seest
not meet to help us we pray thee help
them not, but stand thou neuter on this
day and leave it to the arm of the flesh. -
The one offered before the battle OF
Edgehill by Sir Jacob Ashley was
"Thou knowest, o Lord, that l shall be
very busy this day, and if l forget thee
forget thou not me-" and then the com
mand followed, "March on, boysW As
King Edward advanced with his col
umns to Bannockburn he remarked t.
his aids, seeing the Scotch on theiI
knees: "See, they kneel. The rebels ar
asking pardon" D'Umphraville wa
heard to remark: eyes, but it is to tn
King of kings. These men conquer O
die on this field 4"
Oliver Cromwell had public prayer
before going to battle on several coca
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Must Conquer II They Want Shelter.

The German soldier, says the London
News. carries his own house on his back
that is to say, his share OF a shelter
tent. The stout pieces of waterproof
sheeting are joined together 80 as to
form three sides Of square, and the
men are saved from the worst in wind
and rain. The idea of the shelter tent
in sections is no new enc. The French
had it many years ago in their tente
d'abri. 1t has many advantages. 1t re-
duces the baggage of the army, and 1t
enables the soldier to go into lodgings as
once ON reaching the scene OF the
bivouac.
Troops often suffer miserable discom-
fort in waiting for hours for their heavy
tents The Germans have no faith In
these cumbrous contrivances. They have
often sent whole armies into the field
without any sort of shelter. Their the
ory is that if the men win battle they
will find all they want in the towns and
villages, and that if they lose it they
will have no time to pitch tents. The
shelter tent seems compromise be-
tween these views.
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down to hard pan, spreads out on each
side SO that it may always be found
anywhere in the valley by digging down
IN the level OF the rivers surface. For
the greater part of the year the river
above ground flows swift and muddy,
narrowing as it swirls round u SAND par
and widening over shadows. But the
thing that strikes the stranger most
queerly is its disappearance altogether
for reaches, many miles i'll length, OF
its channel, which, except, 1t may De-
for a water hole here and there, is as
dry as Sahara The river is keeping
right along about its business, however,
and where rock reef or clay bed blocks
its subterranean current 1T energies 10
the surface and takes fresh start above
ground. running as big stream which,
farther down, may lose itself In the
sands again.
cit is when the floods come down
that the Rio Grande shows why 1t re-
ouires SO big q channel for its all the
wear round use and demonstrates that
! If the waterway were even wider IL
would be an advantage to residents
along its banks. 1t is fed by watershed
of vast area and steep descent, when
i'm times of rain and melting SHOWS pre-
cipitates the waters rapidly into the
channel. In June, when the snow melts
ON the peaks about its headwaters III
Colorado and northern New Mexico, ano
later in the summer, when heavy show
ers and cloudbursts are the order OF the
day, the Rio Grande overfows It's BANKS
deiuging wide tracts of valley and some
times carving a new channel for ITSELF
changing its course for miles. Where
the valley is unusually wide and sandy
as below Isleta and in the Merilla val
lev. the old channels in which the rive
used to flow are plainly indicated In TIT
landscape.
"No one who has seen the great rive
in flood is likely to forget the positiv
J ferocity it seems to display as Its water
sweep all before them, and woe TO tn
man or beast who is overtaken by them
The flood arrives without warning. In
, slv NAV be clear above when the travel
: er, leisurely jogging across the wa
, channel, hears his wagon wheels graz
} upon the sand with peculiar sound.
? means that the waters are stirring th
sands beneath him, and then, II b
knows the river, he lashes his horse
making at all speed for the neare'
4 bank. and lucky he is if he reaches
: safe. The chancns are that before he get
there he hears the roaring OF waters
s the channel and secs them coming dow
toward him with front like wal
l. rolling forward and downward as
d over a fall, with rising flood behin'
|. Many a man and whole wagon trail
have been overwhelmed in this wa
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his drumsticks, and Ella, laying down his
violin, went TO the drums and took his
place, receiving the thanks of Paganini,
who was fast losing his temper with the
nervous drummer Still, drummers who
have been abused are not always to blame.
We have all heard of the ignorant manager
proprietor who, being present mt an orches-
trail rehearsal, observed that the drummer
did next TO nothing and went up to him
angrily to expostulate.
"But, SIR" says the drummer, "Pm
resting, don't you seer" and he pointed to
his part.
"Damme, sir" says the manager, Il dc
not pay you To rest. l pay you to playV
From Composers and 'Artistes, by
Rev II. r. Haweis, Nj. A., in Harper'i
Magazine For February.
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Two Friends.

The late Mr.. II. G. Bunner, the edieccs
of Puck, and Lawrence Hutton were
the closest of friends. They began, says
Mr.. Hutton, in his sad reminiscence OK
his dead friend, published in The Book
man, in that often desirable fashion,
with little aversion. Each avoided
even an introduction TO the other untlL
fate actually threw them together, non
to be parted more. Their mutual 'Sood
times" were dear at the moment and
"pleasant. too, TO think on. There
was much excellent foolin2" there,
| and when Hutton was married 1t bue
added third desirable member to the
company. The marriage itself shows ON
what terms of happy nonsense they
| lived Mr.. Hutton says:
| He and Mr.. Telford and | spent to-
xether at the Westmoreland and I'D
| Burners rooms the last evening OF my
| single life. He had heard that lucn
would be insured if the groom, on the
occasion Of his marriage, would wear
"something old, something new, somee
thing borrowed and something blue "
He urged, therefore, my appearances
next day in pair of socks procured es
pecially by him for me. One was abso
lutely unworn, the other had seen serv
ice and was darned. but they were poth
blue. And | must borrow them.
Mr.. Telford, remember, lent me a
necktie for the same purpose, and DOTH
of those dear boys were married, when
their time came, in something blue thar
was borrowed from me.
When Bunner was married, we SENT
his wife travelling clock as "a wedding
gift to which attached card bearing
these lines:
For old times sake
Will you and II. q. D.
At this time take
The time from mino and meS
Time is, time was.
Let time be old or new,
The times for US
Are high old times with YOU
To this the lady responded:
Hack the time, in spite Of time from you,
To write the heartfelt thanks feel are due
But every passing hour while time ondEfes
Shall speak to me and mine of you and yours
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FROM THE MAGAZINES
MEXICAN lOVEMAkiNG.
Custom Raises Obstinate Barriers Between
the Wooers.

the Wooers.
AS n rule no one is received in an exclu.
siye Mexican home unless his social caste
Is equal 10 that of the family he desires tc
visit, and then he must needs be present.
ed and vouched for by n friend in whom
the household has implicit confidence. 4
sutton therefore Is not admitted to the
residence of his inamorata on her invita-
ton alone, for the portero, in charge day
and night Of the great doubly bolted "a
huan giving entrance from the street TO the
inner courts of the house, is under instruc.
tions to admit no one except by order OF
the parents of the scnorita whose audience
Is being SO eagerly sought. The young
gentleman may earnestly pound upon the
massive brass knocker for hours, seeking
admittance, but his knocking will not
avail. So he and the lady of his choice
must do their distant lovemaking in the
public view and hearing until such time
as the stony parental heart shall have
melted sufficiently To grant him admission
to the family circle. Inside of the domestic
citadel the lady meantime warmly pleads
the cause of the unhappy one without ex-
tolling his constancy and the many other
good qualities which she has proved heI
faithful admircr to possess. The day IS M
last VIGOROUSLY carried by one means OF
another, and the lovers are allowed tbs
privilege Of the parlor, but they are ncvel
left alone, for the old system of chapcron
age is sill rigidly in vogue.
If the attentive lover desires the coMIG
ny Of his chosen ono 70 the opera or uro.
Il coach drive, he must include an invita-
ton begging the presence of the father %
mother or. more properly, of the who'll
family. Ncsicau fauilics arc unfortunate
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Scvastapol.

The Notifications of Sevastapol, which
caused the allies so much trouble during
the six months defense OF the fortress
bv the Russians, were at first very
weak. and military experts say the town
might have been taken by vigorous
bombardment and assault during the
first few days of the siege. The igno-
rance of the allied generals in regard &c
the strength of the works caused delay
which the Russians improvod ny nss'k'nS
the descns,.s airnost hapr,graoie
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xyCvrER,s EXIT FROM A "PACIFIED" PROVINCE.

" given to the prompt acceptance of such
Invitations i'm Il cheerful body, and the re
suIt is that the son-in-law to DC and the
destined bride, when they appear i'll pub
lie. find themselves mere members oil q
LARGE box party at the play or a full coach
load of company, for all of which gayety
the young matrimonial nspirant pays the
hills The sanctioning presence of the iam-
ily gives formal announcement that there
is a wedding on the tapis.-Edward Page
CASTOR in February Ladies Home journal
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,uh.. He Asked For.

A tramp tumbled out of store, stood
-, his car a moment and then COL
lapsed in n heap. u,.
"Hollop' cried a bystander. WHATS
the matterP" :,
Excuse me, pard," said the va,
grant 81 just went in there and asked
that Teller to help me out. "-Phiiadei'
phia Record.
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IN Timed Drum Taps.

Professor Ella, that Nestor OF cri.ics, ~
whom England and all virtuosos o"1 ~
much as the father OF champer ni"'.o 49,. So
certs and founder OF the Music"' unun,
once told me that when nc was p.,y ,ms
among the violins at one OF fagan,n. ; ~ a.
bcarsals the drummer got SO a'ar .,n.''a 80
the presence of the prodlgious v ~ h,,J
that ne trcmblcd almost too much W "9"'
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New York, Feb. 1i.-BourN New York
sailed ~, He said he was GONE *
Wso aad one business and would return ina,Iv
abroad abr aSse Sn Il wish most emphaiiGHl.y
iive wee"' he said, "the rumor prl ',,o,,
to deny va long and secret interview ..o,
tina. ! M nav Hanna relative to the sus''
trust
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sions-as, for instance, previous to me
hattie of Dunbar. 1t is curious tact
that the English prayer book contains
prayers, or at least one prayer, to be salu
before going into action at sea, whlie
nothing is provided for use before en-
gaoements on land. New York Herald
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TIC True An,.nue Spirit.

What was the antique spirit, and where
shcll we look for It's trucst cxProssiobf
The ansvsr comes unacsit,tinSly, IN an"
tlquc poctry. Professor b. L. Cildcrslocyr
In February Atlantic
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The synapta, water insect, is pro-
vided with an anchor, the exact shape OF
the anchor used by ships. By means or
this peculiar device the insect holds it
self firmly in any desired spot.
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The hops used in the manufacture az
malt liquors are the flowers of the plans
hotanically designated as Hnmul-S hu-
pulus.