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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02
a STEERS STRANGE DEATH.
M Horns Grow Through His Eyes a.d
Killed Him.


M Horns Grew Through His Eyes s.d
Killed Him.
A squatter In the back blocks of New
South Wales had young steer with horns
90 perfectly turned that they formed two
artistic loops at the sides OF bis head. One
day Boss strayed with a mob of store
cattle into piece of wild country infested
only by kangaroos and the out station
boundary riders families.
These cattle are rounded up and other
wise handled but once year. Before this
annual yarding took place Boss had be-
come fractions terror to every animal
and man In that range. He had terrified
and scattered the herd that was once his
mates He had charged madly every kind
person who was won't to pat him. Because
bis horns ourled like those of a sheep
he was called Sheep Head. His mild,
tractable nature added to this delusion of
likening him to lamb. SIX months after
his entrance upon the range he began to
act strangely. A wild look shot out of his
eye under the points of the ingrowing
horns, whose shadow fell heavier and
heavier upon the retina. He constantly
shook his head, as II trying to rid himself
of some annoyance. Then Boss would
stand and stare at the points which were
pressing the pupils nearly up against the
sockets. He became more irritable and
unfriendly. He roared, stamped, shook
his crazed head and stared at the creeping
things before his vision.
At last Boss went mad and beloved
through the night like an enraged demon.
He chased everything In sight and vicious
ly dashed himself against the forest trees.
The mere tramp Of foot angered him.
The points of the horns were cruelty press
ing his helpless eyes back In their sockets,
and every jar upon the ground tortured
his brain and enraged him. Boss had scat
tered the mob Of his Illuminating mates
and had so terrorized the few people about
that fences did not give sense of security.
Women and children lived in mortal dread
of the unfortunate beast.
At length his maddened roar was heard
no more. About a month after that the
out boundary rider went out with dogs
and winchester rifle to end the suffer-
Ing of Sheep Head Boss. After searching
for two days the bullock was found.
Boss was dead. He was lying under a
clump of acacia less sweet than their bios
SONS. He had evidently been dead for
week or more and had been blind for
months. The horns had grown into the
eyes and almost touched the bone of the
skull behind. The head Of the poor beast
was as strange an object as ever was seen.
The horns of Boss were never curved
by any art. They grew as nature directed
their fatal tips, and, unless sent to the
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons,
England, the preserved head still hangs
upon the door of the Darling out station
where Boss lived and died. Washington
Star
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02

~ Ansssement Which Nearly DevslopsA
Into . Real B.sHls

~ hso1A l5otelos
. rhe colonel Of the Seventy first pot,ooa
S snss 'ne colonel of the Twelfth was with
nuNhng MS tire In their running fisht
ao& one eastern edge of the lake. Sus-
poo'ing trap OF some kind, the colonel Of
INC oeventy-frst threw out a lankinv
soroe OF TWO companies ON bis riaht. This
,oros had gone only short dista nee in thu
woous before 1t met similar force tbrown
out rom the left flank of thu Twelfth
Inc TWO thanking parties had brush ana
enen each retreated to It's regiment. Di-
rectiy after their return the two regiments
resumed their contest up and down the
o,uo Oh the lake. Finally 1t came the
.weith burn to retreat. It's colonel had
aepioyed his men behind stone wall and.
peing practically secure In that position. he
saw no reason why his men, who were
niied with the spirit Of fight and whose
eagerness could scarcely be restrained.
snouid be ordered back. This resulted In
the stone wall fight, the most exciting epi.
sode OF the day to those who partioinated
In the battle. The Twelfth would not or
could not be made to yield. They had re-
served their ammunition, and they poured
volley after volley into the Seventy. first In
~"S ''so iioo roO uOWn III Jle Dlal9
and that quite upset the expectations of
the general management The fight was
Kept up long after hostilities had ceased
elsewhere, and the colonel of the Twelfth
had the satisfaction of firing at the Sew
enty'first until 1t disappeared on its way
10 the parade ground for rendezvous for
the brigade review.
30 thoroughly in earnest were the men
OF the Twelfth that at one time a score or
more OF them leaped to the top of one of
the stone walls that sheltered them and
began to shoot into the regiment that was
attacking. The colonel of the Twelfth
saw this exposed position, and, 1t is said,
ne rushed toward them and shouted with
an emphasis peculiar to an army officer:
Get down out of that. Don't you know
enough to stay behind stone wall to hold
itY In real battle you'd all be dead men,"
The men showed that they were very
much alive by obeying orders quickly
IAN American Army Maneuver," BY
Franklin Matthews, in Harpcrs Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02
She Believed In Presents.

An old woman In Orkney was noted for
selling whisky on the sly. Her house was
a few miles from the town, and the excise
officers had often tried, but in vain, to get
her convicted. A young officer was APP
pointed to the place, who said, on being
told about her, that he would soon secure
her conviction. Early one morning he
left home and arrived at the old woman's
house at seven o'clock. Walking In, no
saw no one. Noticing bell on the table,
he rang 1t. The old woman appeared, and
he asked for a glass Of milk. After little
he rang again, and the old woman APP
peared. He asked II she had any whisky
faye, SIR" she said, "we aye have some
in the bottle, setting it down before him.
Then, thanking her, he laid down SOW
ereiQn, which she took and walked OUT
After helping himself he rang and asked
for the change. "Change, SIR" said the
old woman; "there's nae change. We haze
nae license Fat we gle we gle In presents;
fat we tax we tax in presents So good
day, SIR" The excise man left the house
a sadder but wiser parsonage. Strand
Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02
THE NEW ENGLAND MAID WITH NO
APPETITE.

Rebeccs Dainty was maid whose summers no
one knew,
Though she for fifteen years had said that she
was thirty-two. tt
And, though she never felt real smart, FOLKS
called her rather bright,
And while she had a good. kind heart. she had
no appetite.
6he always came to breakfast late and ne'er
forgot her sigh.
First abe would pass her little plate and try .
piece Of pie,
Next she would cast her eyes around the table
left and right.
To see II something could DO found TO tempt
her appetite.
II on the table beans were found, to eat some
she would try.
And then Of lamb chops spoil a pound. nor
pass the Goldfish by.
A piece or two Of hot corn bread was always
her delight,
Although, poor thing. she always said she had
no appetitei
She next would try a chickens leg and then q
piece of wing.
Next she would eat soft boiled egg and then
most anything.
She always wanted something light when first
che started in,
But how she coaxed her appetite would make
an ostrich grin.
Thomas b. Porter in New York Sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02
Old Glory.

Among the gallant defenders of Old
Glory at the battle of New Orleans none
served more faithfully than Captain Sam
uel Chester Reid. This same Captain Reid
was the man who suggested the present
form of the flag.
After tho flag had by the admission of
two states come to be one Of 10 stars and
10 stripes the admission of Tennessee,
Ohio, Indiana and Louisiana rendered a
change desirable, and In 1916 committee
was appointed to inquire into the expedi-
ency Of altering the flag.
Captain Reid was consulted. He at once
suggested that the stripes be reduced to III
and that the union have a star for every
state. new stars to be added to the flag on
the Fourth of July following the admis-
sion of the states.
The first flag made under that law was
the handiwork of Mrs. Reid and floated
over the house of representatives April IA,
lS1S.--Manchester Union.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02
Salty.

Grant Hamilton, associate editor on
Judge was In the days Of his youth an
Ohio boy. 1t was then that be worked In
a grocery store, measured beans and corn
and potatoes and such things as those.
One day Grabbed old fellow with whom
Hamilton was acquainted entered the
store and inquired for some mackerel. In
obedience to the request young Hamilton
ran his arm deep down In the barrel and,
holding up q fish to the gaze Of the pro-
spective purchaser, said:
"How will this one suit you, sirp"
swell, my boy" iterated the gentleman
IA he touched the tip of his finger to the
fish, "this tastes awfully salty"
"My dear SIR" said Hamilton, "if you
had been In that brine as long as that fish
you'd be salty too" And when the old
fellow told the proprietor of the store OF
Hamilton's remark the prospective success
sor Of the lamented Bernhard Gillian was
told to seek another job.-New Orleans
Times Democrat.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02
A Sure Cure.

"Yes, Stubs was goin into decline,
an the doctor said the best thing Tor niin
was to get an easy government joo anu i''
around doin nothin."
"A sinecure, eha"
at don't pretend to know what KIND O. ,,
cure You call IL, but anyway he's cured
cleveland Plain Dealer.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02
An Easy One.

Another problem has been handed IN for
ratbematicians to struggle with. No
answers are wanted In this office. We
have nroblems of our own. Tell the an
ever 70 the policeman. IA man owed 81
and had but rs cents. He went to the
pawnshop and pawned the 20 cents ior oo
cents. He met friend and SOLD MN inc
pawn ticket calling for 40 cents Tor oo
cents. He thus had two % cent pieces
81, In fact-with which ne paid MS aep''
Was anybody out and how muohr'-
Minneapolis Journal.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02

SHOW well the baby talksl' remarked
the visitor.
"Doesn't her" returned the proud ia
Their.
"what is he sayingY" asked the visitor
"Um-well," replied the proud father
hesitatingly, "I guess you'd better ask his
mother about that "-Chioago Post.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02
L,ncoln,s Kindness to Birds.

The following incident Is related by one
who knew Lincoln and who at the time OF
the incident was his fellow traveller:
"we passed through thicket OF wild
plum and orabapple trees and stopped 10
water our horses. One OF the party came
up alone and we inquired, Where Is LIN
colnY'
"Oh, he replied, when lsaw him last
he had caught two young birds which the
wind had blown out Of their nest, and he
was hunting for the nest, that he might
mt them back In 1t. '"-Woman' 8 journal
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02
A Reflection.

"why don't you read to me instead Of
keeping the papers all to yourself In gloomy
silencep" said Mrs. Snaggs to her husband.
every we'll, my DEAR" replied Mr..
Snaggs, who always strove to please, "In
read you this article on Manners In Con-
gress.
"Thank you, but do not care for pure
ly speculative disquisitlons. "-Pittsburg
Chronicle Telegraph.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02

From records extending back to 1880 M.
Camille Flammarion finds that the rain
fall of Paris has gradually increased about
thrce inches, being now little more than
% inches year. The amount of differ
ence seems to indicate that the increase IL
real and not due to greater accuracy Of OBJ
sorvation.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02

Children like it, it saves their lives. We
mean One Minute Cough Cure, the infalli-
bleremedy for coughs. colds, Group, bron-
chitis. grippe. and all throat and lung
troubles. SoDERGREN & SoDsRGREN.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02

Thu smallest horse in the world is Q
shetland pony owned by the Marchese
Carcano, In Milan. IL Is W incnes nien,
and when standing beside It's owner tne
pony's back y only an inch above bic knee'
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02
Lake Linden stage.

Lako Lfnden stage.
Stage leaves Pearce's livery stabl,
Lake Linden, every day at 8 a. m, 10 a.
m, 1 and A p. m. Stageleayes Mcclure .
livery stable, Red Jacket, at 8 a. m, 10
q. m. and / and A. p. m.
THOMAS PEARCE,
JAMES MCCLURE,
Proprietors.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02

The Chinese government levies regu-
lar tax ON beggars and gives them IN re-
turn the privilege Of begging In certain
districts.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02

A new consignment OF baby carriages
from 20 up. JOHN SALMoNsoN,
City Hardware Store.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02
Dillman 4 Duerre, Dentists, Fiftl
street. above Eagle Drug store.

Rubber stamps. inks, pads. ETC.. for
sale at The When. Kinsman Building,
Scott street.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02

WASrED-A good cook for hotel. Good
wages will be paid. Apply at 40 Sixth
street, opposite Winners hall
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02

Powdered rice is said to be OF great en-,
eacy in checking bleeding from 0u's anu
bruises
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-02
Notice 20 Clean Up.

Notice 60 Clean Up.
Now that the frost is lea wing the
ground persons are requested to at once
remove the manure, etc., from their back
yards and to have the whole OF the rub
bish removed and their yards cleaned up
before the Let OF May, 1898, or proceed
ings will be commenced against them.
BY order of
TIE STREET COMMITTEE.
Red Jacket Village, April Is, 1898.
The Advocate and news., 1898-03-09
The Yankee in the Lead.

Our first artisans and skilled workmen
had to steal their way from England.
AS late as 1871 some articles Of weav-
er's outfit were confscated and their
owner carried from a ship about to sail
from London to New York. The early
development Of the iron industry In the
neighborhood Of Plttsburg, Pa, had its
projectors in the persons Of two Welch-
men, who came in violation Of their
Countrys laws. Our first cotton and
wool manufacturing machines were the
property Of foreigners who came to this
country in opposition to laws that had
been enacted many years before in order
to prevent the development OF manu-
featuring interests in the American col
Onies.
We are only in the beginning Of our
second century and we are now sending
abroad manufactured articles by the
hundred million dollars worth every
year, and our mechanics have invaded
the cutlery districts, the cotton and wool
weaving districts, the machine shops
and even the ship yards OF our Querulous
old mother of the last century.
What started these thoughts to bub-
bling was the re-reading of a Philadel-
phia dispatch, twenty days old, reciting
the fact that the inability Of English
firms to turn out an order for four loco
motives for the British government
within an earlier period than four and
a half months resulted in the contract
being placed with the Baldwin locOmo-
tive works, Of that city, and that COM
pany has astonished our English cous-
ins by completing the engines in thirty
one days.
The Advocate and news., 1898-03-09
A Dual Power in Government,

A correspondent of the Globe-DemO-
crat, writing from Rome, Italy, calls
attention to the fact that the Pope now
in power has control Of 60 per cent. of
the voters Of Italy to the extent that
they will vote as he wishes them to do.
He says 'the Italian government is crav-
ing the support of the Vatican against
the forces of the revolution which threat
en- to engulf the monarchy, the Pope
holding in his hand the key to the sit
uation, through his power, to send to the
polls at least so per cent. of the entire
electorate, who have hitherto been kept
from taking any part in the Parliamen-
tary elections by his order. Leo Kill
can send these so per cent. of the elec-
tOrate to the polls either for the mon
archy or in support Of republic, and
thus has the whip hand over the Italian
government"
A house divided against itself cannot
stand. With two powers in any state,
each claiming supreme authority in any
direction, the state itself will actually
so down.
There does not appear any present
conflict Of authority between the King
and the Pope. One is looking after the
temporal affairs Of the kingdom, while
the other is interested In the spiritual
affairs Of the church, but there was at
one time vast amount of property be-
longing to the church in Italy which
was in effect cOnfiscated by the King,
and the title to the property has never
been relinquished by the papal author
tiles. Naturally some irritation will
grow out Of this old claim, and hence,
as the correspondent points out, the
King Is anxious, while the Pope Is pow
erful.
The Advocate and news., 1898-03-09
The Worlds Banking Power.

That money controls the affairs OF
the world" there is no room for doubt.
History tells the story. Mr. Brook Ad-
ans, in his Law Of Civilization and
Decay" treats the subject philosophi-
cally. But the modern view is plain
without the aid of hlstory's lenses. Not
one of the nations is without debt, and
all alike must pay in a single article
and practically at single place.
The financial operations OF the world
arc great beyond comprehension, and
all the great transactions are done
through banks, whose investments In
the business are not equal to 20 per cent.
of the deposits entrusted to their care,
and this gives them added power
In his last annual report the Comp
trOller of the Currency cites some i'm
portant statements OF Mr.. M. g. Mulhall,
the great English statistician, as they
appear in his History Of Prices" For
the year 1895 he gives $40, ,215, 900, 900 as
representing the banking power, that Is,
the capital, circulation and deposits for
Europe, Australia and Canada.
The Comptroller undertook an lnvesti-
cation of the subject on his own account,
operating, Of course, through such avail
able agencies as his official position
could command; and while the work Is
not complete, yet he has gathered much
information of real value. He says:
"The number of banks and branches
(1,76O and 6,142 respectively relative
to which information has been received
appears comparatively small, but 1t is
to be remembered that, especially in
Europe, there is a great concentration
Of banking capital, the six hundred
banks In that division having resources
aggregating over ten and a quarter bill
lion dollars, nearly SO per cent. Of the
total resources Of foreign banks. The
capital, including surplus and undivided
profits, circulation and deposits, and
non-classifed liabilities, aggregate $12,-
1853, All, ,246, or about 1928, 900 in ex-
cess of the estimate of Mr.. Mulhall in
1884,"
The banking power OF the United
States in 1894, according to Mulhall, was
nearly 40 per cent. OF that of the world.
The combined banking power Of for
eign banks In 1896 Is shown to have
been $1O,757,771 ,32O, and Of the United
The Advocate and news., 1898-03-09
OompstitiOn Of Asiatic Oheap Labor,


An intelligent correspondent of the
New York Sun recently discussed the
effect Of the competition Of the cheap
labor of China and Japan on the In
dustrles Of this country. He referred to
petitions that had been presented to the
Chamber OF Commerce OF New York,
asking aid in some practical way to
avoid or neutraliEe 1t. After looking al
what he thinks are both sides Of the
subject, he concludes that Americans
arc able to take care Of themselves"
That is true, and yet we find some
thousands Of factory people out OF en-
ployment in New England on account
of competition that is not Aslatic. 1t
is here, right in our midst, and comes
from perfectly natural causes. The cot
ton which goes to New England mills
is grown on Southern farms and it's
transportation to the Northern factories
amounts to a good deal Of money. The
Southern factory is built In the cotton
region, virtually in the field where the
fiber is raised. These facts constitute
the competition that reduces the wages
Of the New England factory hands.
With such lesson here at home, how
are we to solve the problem Of Asiatic
competition in any way better and more
nationally than these New England mill
owners propose to meet the Southern
competition--by moving the mills 20 the
place that grows the raw material?
China and Japan both produce cotton
and silk. Ramie and jute and other
fibrous plants grow we'll there. The
ports of Japan have been open to the
worlds commerce some years and the
people are fast learning the ways OF
modern commerce and manufacture.
With their cheap labor and their silver
and copper money still largely In use,
their competition will grow more serious
as their advancement in the arts con-
tinues.
Americans will have to meet this Ash
attic competition on Asiatic ground. We
are growing people and we shall need
more and more Of the productions of
labor for our comfort and convenience
as the years come and go, and at the
same time our trans-oceanic cousins will
multiply, and like the poor, they will al
ways be with US, to keep us company in
the long march Of commercial progress
We will grow and multiply together
and some day the regulator Of the wage
schedule will be the carrier who brings
the producer and consumer into the
same market.
The Advocate and news., 1898-03-09

States Excluding savings instltuti0ns)
$5,293, 1861 ,O2S, a total Of $16,051, ,l37 ,SA9,
the proportion Of the United States be-
ing 1928 per cent.
Inquiry as to the minimum and max
imum rates of interest charged on loans
and discounts shows the following: In
Europe to per cent; Asia, 3.5 to l24l;
Australasia, as to z; Mexico, to rs:
Central America, 12 to 1S; South Amer
lea. 6 to II; Pacific and West India
islands, 3.5 to 49,"
The Advocate and news., 1898-03-09
CURRENT DISCUSSION.
By EX-SENATOR PEFFER.

been divided into four or six parts the
burden would, at least in most cases,
have been much lighter and the pressure
greatly lessened. This is the theory of
the installment plan of trading which
has become common-a very dangerous
and troublesome plan, oftentimes, to both
parties.
But the plan would work no hardship
on either party in the matter of tax
paying unless it would be on the taxing
party. The subject is being agitated
in Massachusetts, and the Boston Trans
cript asks: why not pay taxes that
way?" 1t is easier, that journal thinks,
to pay $4S year in monthly Install
ments of 81 each, than to pay all in
lump and the Transcript is right
In Kansas we may divide by paying
personal tax at one time and real estate
tax at another time, but there is neither
law nor practice authorizing division
of either class into equal parts payable
at stated times with equal intervals.
OF course, there are two sides to the
question, and a Legislature usually looks
only to the States side.
The Advocate and news., 1898-03-09
Paying Taxes by Tnstallments,

To a great many persons, perhaps to
majority, the payment of yearly taxes
is a great burden because it all comes at
one time. Many who read this will in
stantly call to mind occasions when the
payment Of taxes made necessary the
sale OF a cow, an OK, two or three hogs,
or horse. If the amount to be paid had