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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-09
Sins of Alexander III.

In his zeal to stamp out disaffection
Alexander III reintroduced the knout,
discontinued in a previous reign, and
practically abolished trial by jury. In
1883 he sanctioned an order, signed by
Gallxin Vrasskoi, head of the central pris-
on department, declaring that henceforth
"no difference shall be admitted in favor
Of political prisoners in respect OF punish
ment," and that "1ogging with the rod
and with the whip shall be admitted. "
This annihilated the distinction up to then
maintained between political offenders and
ordinary criminals, since 1t gave TO the
executive officer of prisons the right to
fog 'politicas" in his charge, and it was
under this order, sanctioned by the car,
that Nine. Sigda received the brutal beat
ing that ended in her death.
Another reactionary feature of prison
administration for which the government
of Alexander III was responsible is the
introduction of Imprisonment by admin
istrative order. Previous to 1886 the adj
ministrative exile of political suspects to
various places of residence in the provinces
and to Siberia was common enough, but
in that year was begun the practice OF
committing these suspects to Jail ana
holding them there without trial as "a
preventive measure" at the will and ca
price of the executive. A new prison in
st. Petersburg known as 1.-The Cross,
has been designated to meet the case OF
this kind of offenders-that is, Of people
who have not committed any crime, but
are simply suspected of being about to be-
come POLITICALLY untrustworthy. Ed
mund Noble in Donahoe's Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-09
THE HISTORY OF oUINlNE.
How the Use of the Drug supplanted the
Practice of Bleeding Patients.

In 1880, when the French were conduct
ing campaign of conquest In Algeria,
the mortality among the troops and colo
nists there was frightful France was being
continually called upon for fresh leyies OF
men and youths to supply this terrible
loss, chiefly through fever incidental to
the climate and the life the French in Al
geria were leading At that time the prac-
tice of bleeding still prevailed. Bleed
them until they are white, was the IN
junction which Broussais, the medical
master of the French, gave to his followers
when the condition of the soldiers was re-
ported to him. At Bona in one year, out
of an effective force uf $500 men, i, 100
died of illness in the hospital
At that time the effects of q sulphate or
quinne were known, but few physicians
ventured to employ 1t. Maillot had inter
ested himself in the new remedy, and 60
ing to Bona in the medical service OF the
government he resolved to see IL 1t would
not reduce the frightful mortality, which
was to every 4 men who entered the
hospital. At first he employed the quinine
merely as an adjunct TO the bleeding. He
soon found that bleeding was killing the
men, and that quinine was saving them.
Little by little he left off bleeding, TO the
great scandal of the medical profession
Exactly i'm proportion as the bleeding
ceased the deaths in the hospital decreased.
In two years the deaths fell off from in q
of all who entered the hospital to in 20
and finally TO in AS
Maillot quite naturally enough grew to
be the opponent of bleeding, but he was SO
ceaselessly vilified by members of the med
ical profession that he became imbittered
toward his colleagues. Nearly ~ years
| passed before Maillot saw the complete
| triumph of his ideas. Doctors continued
| to bleed their patients heartily for all
manner of ills But in 1860 Maillot was
made commander of the Legion of Honor
and chief of the medical staff of the French
army, and his influence with others III
| bringing about virtual revolution In the
practice of medicine was fully recognized
Pearson s Weekly
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-09
The Meek and Mild Chinaman.

The Chinaman, although proverbially
meek and mild, is man OF dauntless
courage and unflinching fortitude. Noy-
ages over vast tracts of stormy seas, ex'
tremes of heat or cold, prolonged separa-
ton from home and all he holds most dear
and sacred, contumely and wrong at the
hands of men among whom he casts his
lot-nothing of all this can turn him
from his own purpose in life-namely, the
accumulation of little store of dollars
which 20 years forward will make him
rich man in the country of his birth, Will
enable him to provide for his parents and
erect monuments to the honor of his an
cestors and will cause him to be looked
up to and envied by his fellow villagers.
To achieve this he goes everywhere-ev-
erywhere, at least, except to lands whose
hostile laws OF recent years block him at
the ports of entry and in countries where
such laws have been passed the very fact
shows that the Mongolian has already Sc
cured foothold. We are told that there
is no place of consequence the wide world
over where Scotchman Is not to the FORE
For myself expect as confidently, wher-
ever l wander, to find my Chinaman -
Nineteenth Century.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-09

The old belief that projectiles sometimes
kill men in battle without hitting them
must be abandoned in view of recent sci
entific experiments 1t was formerly sup
posed that the air compressed and driven
before the projectile and technically called
1.-THE wind of the shot" was capable OF
striking fatal blow, and even army sur
geons have assented to this theory
But experiments have shown that the
air driven by projectile, while capable
of being instantaneously photographed in
the form of wave does not possess suffi-
Gent energy to produce any destructive
effect
Another theory which recent investiga-
tions have overturned Is that the explosive
effect sometimes exhibited by bullets Is
due to compressed air driven into the
wound.
Experiment shows that the appearance
of explosion arises from the nature of the
substance penetrated by the bullet. III this
substance Is plastic or watery, the impulse
of the projectile is distributed laterally in
all directions among its particles, and they
are driven asunder.
Such an effect has been noticed in battle
when bullets have entered the brain, and
accusations of using explosive proJectiles,
contrary to the comfy of nations, have
been based upon them. BY firing bullets
into wet dough every indication of an ex-
plosion has been produced, although the
same bullets, fired with identical velocity,
into solid substances, like bone, made only
round, clean cut holes Youth Compan-
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-09
PATRIOTIC NEW ENGLANDERs.
The First Person Who Fell In the War of
the Revolution.

the Revolution.
Hezekiah Butterworth, in "The Patri-
otto Schoolmaster, says the first person
to fall in the war of the Revolution was
not Crispus Attacks, but boy. If At
tucKs, who fell by an accidental encoun-
ter, merits a monument as the first who
fell for liberty, so does this boy.
There were few merchants In Boston
who continued to sell taxed articles They
came to be despised and hated. The boys,
in their basty patriotism, made on pla-
card a list of the names of those who i'm
ported and sold prescribed articles and
put it on pole that bore wooden head
and hand They set this image up before
an importers door, with the wooden hand
pointing toward it, and this made the i'm
porter angry, and he fired a musket into
the crowd of boys Christopher Gore, aft
erward governor of Massachusetts, was
slightly wounded.
Little Christopher Snyder, boy whose
mother was widow, and who had fol-
lowed the spirit of the times, fell MORALLY
wounded. They took up his form and bore
it away, and the whole city wept. Never
in America was there boys funeral like
his. They made for him patriots coffin
and bore his form to the Liberty Tree,
which stood near the present corner of
Washington and Essex streets. On the
coffin was this motto, Innocence itself is
not SAFE The boys of nearly all the
schools, some 600 in number, gathered
around the body as an escort. The bells
tolled, business was closed, and some /, 500
people followed the first martyr to the
grave.
AS the procession marched not only the
bells of Boston, but those of the neighbor-
ing towns, were heard tolling. 1t was al
most spring, and there was "a mellowness
in the air That procession was prophecy
of events to come, "a protest against the
injustice of the royal power. The sons OF
liberty should remember little Snyder s
Grave
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-09
THE YARD AND POUND.
9so Precious Standards That Are Carefully
Guarded In London.


The originals of our yard measure and
pound weight - otherwise the British
standards of weights and measures-are
sealed or walled up In the sides of the
house of parliament at London. The cav
ity in the wall In which these precious
standards are preserved somewhat resem-
bles a tomb and can be opened only by
tearing away the wall The two articles
which are therein SO safely cased are both
of metal The yard measure is Of bronze
In the shape of bar 3S inches in length
SO sections or one yard. having been
marked off upon It with some finely scaled
instrument The weight standard Is
cube of platinum. weighing exactly 10
ounces We:gEty as IL Is, 10 is scarcely
more than an inch in extent on either side,
and II sold for the metal there Is In IL
would bring nearly 5000.
Once every 90 years the walls inclosing
these standards are torn away for the pur'
pose of removing the two pieces OF metal
and comparing their length and weight
with the official standards N use by the
bureau of weights and measures. These
comparisons are made under the super
vision of the president OF the London
board of trade and several other officials
appointed by the different branches of the
queen government.
Extremely delicate and elaborate appa-
ratus for making these comparisons are
used, and il the units in use by the bureau
referred to have been changed or deviate
In the least from the standards with which
they were compared 20 years before they
are Immediately changed so as TO conform
with the original bronze and platinum
types. The ceremony of comparing the
standards" was last made in April, 1892.
After the comparisons had been made and
no variations detected they were again
walled up, with the understanding that
they would not again be disturbed until
April, 1912.-St. Louis Republic.
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Thirteen Old Newspapers.

According to the census made by the
editor of the Rutland (Vt.) Herald, there
are but l3 American newspapers which
have reached the century mark. The
names of these papers and the dates when
they were founded are as follows:
l756-New Hampshire Gazette Ports
mouth, ~ III.
175S-Newport Mercury. Newport, Il. l.
1764-Connecticut Courant, Hartford.
1711-Massachusetts Spy. Boston and
Worcester, Mass.
1779-New Jersey Journal, Elizabeth,
n. j.
17S5-Augusta Chronicle, Augusta, Ga.
17s6-Hampshire Gazette, Northamp
ton, Mass.
179O-Salem Gazette, Salem, Mass
1792-Greenfield Gazette. Greenfield.
Mass.
1792-New Jersey State Gazette Tren
ton.
1792-The Guardian, New Brunswick,
N. j.
1793-Portsmouth Journal. Ports
mouth, N. II.
1794-Rutland Herald, Rutland. Vt.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-09

l have been afflicted with rheumatism
for fourteen years and nothing seemed to
give any relief. was able to be around
all the time, but constantly suffering. |
had tried every thing could hear OF and
at last was told to try Chamberlain
Pain Balm, which did, and was immed-
lately relieved and in short time cured.
am happy to say that it has not since
returned.-JosH EDaAR, Germantown,
Cal. For sale by Sodergren 4 Sodergren,
Druggists.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-09
A Garden Wall.

do not dislike garden walls. 1t Is some
times a good and consoling thought to re-
feet that one is in well secured inclo-
sure, alone with perfumes, flowers, trees,
the air, the sun, the stars, remembrances
and reveries, and to know that nobody can
come and disturb you. like walls. but
do not like white walls. like nothing
but old walls. I have one here which
pleases me much. 1t Is just as old as 1t
ought to be- II 1t were a little older, 1t
would be given over to the mercy of brick
layers, who would Introduce all sorts OF
new bricks and white Hones. AS IL Is, It
Is gray and slack and V.ersified with the
subdued tints of go species of MOSES and
lichens. 1t is crowned with yellow wall
flowers and ferns, which root In the crew.
ices on its summit, and Its base Is but
tressed by pellitory and nettle In masses
Of richest green.-Alphonse Karr.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-09
A FLORIDA PICTURE.
Pen Sketch OF Southern Scenes and Sur
roundings by Paul Bourget.

town Of quite small houses. with
streets, and all along their wooden side
walks trees OF magic and OVERLOOKING ver-
dure, bursting into leaf which the dust
has been unable TO sully, writes Paul
Bourget from Jacksonville Fla, in the
Boston Herald Persian lilacs, like those
whose perfume ! breathed In the east.
stand in the street itself, gigantic, In full
bloom. and pertaining the already burn
Ing air. There are. moreover overladen
orange trees, Japanese medlars, also vel.
low with fruit. bananas palm trees. all of
which foreshadow still another world than
that OF Georgia A penetrating aroma
seems TO pass through the sun which
shines In the too intense blue like the sky
which overhung the Dead sea last year,
when. on leaving the grim convent of Mar
Saba, perceived that still water and the
soft line of the mountains of Moab But
yonder history and legend were for me
mixed with the sensation of nature Here
IL is nature alone with which come in
contact nature with its murderous fauna
It's violent flora, its atmospheric phenom-
ena, rather its cataclysms charm and dan
ger, at once perceptible in the very air one
breathes, in every small detail which we
meet at the corner of the street, in the
sudden jumps OF temperature-in fact, in
the entire life of this small town, SO peace.
full on this Easter morning.
Negroes and still more negroes. 1t
seems as If the town belongs to them en-
tirely, so densely do they throng on the
sidewalks, the men in Prince Albert coats,
with flowers in their buttonholes, and
wearing trousers Of bright shades, the
women clothed in outrageously light col
ored dresses, among which those of apple
green, poppy red and light pink predomi-
nate Their bodices are cut in figaro fash
ion, their hats are decorated with ribbons
and enormous flowers, and their hair Is
plated in plaits which are very thin and
very tight, the object being to diminish or
destroy the natural crinkling. They smile,
showing their white teeth between their
thick lips. The white teeth of the men are
displayed in similar smile, and they all
salute and approach one another with that
ceremonious familiarity, that species of
natural affectation, which is peculiar to
this strange race.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-09
uavthorpe.s Granddaughter.

,n-- uuas, ride Hawthorne not long
81, tch in maya
:, embles her
q.auu,a..,cr style more ths..1 does tne
work of either OF Nathaniel Hawthorne's
children. Miss Hawthorne Is the eldest
daughter of THAT dear little boy, Julian
of whom Sophia Hawthorne wrote SO iov'
inolv TO her mother. All the seven chill
dren thus ''once removed" from the great
novelist are very comely. Hildegarde Is q
remarkably pretty, fresh faced eIri, ".sn
nothing of the mystic nor even OF the
literary in her appearance, which Is that
of a bright, vivacious, rather athletic
youne woman, whose rosy cheeks are
Drowned by much exposure to the sun,
and who Is an adept with the oar, the san
or the tennis racket She has been SEQ.
ond mother to all those other children OF
whom her father once said that they made
his. when they were little, the House OF
the Seven Cables. "-Phiiadelphia Press
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-09

Rev. E. Edwards. pastor OF the English
Baptist church at Minersville, Pa, when
suffering with rheumatism. was advised
TO try Chamberlain's Pain Balm. He
says: "a few applications Of this lini-
ment proved of great service to me. 1t
subdued the inflammation and relieved
the pain. should any sufferer profit by
giving Pain Balm a trial it will please
me-" For sale by Sodergren & Sober
gren, Drugg lists.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-09
ChanbsrIai.,s cough Remedy.

This remedy IL intended especially for
coughe, colds, Group, whooping cough
and influenza. It has become famous for
it's cures Of these diseases. over a large
part OF the civilized world. The most
flattering testimonials have been re-
ceived, giving accounts Of these good
works; Of the aggravating and persistent
coughs It has cured; Of severe colds that
have yielded promptly to it's soothing e.
iects, and OF the dangerous attacks Of
group II has cured, often saving the life
OF the child. The extensive use Of It Tor
whoopine cough has shown that It robs
that disease OF all dangerous consequen-
ces. II IL liked especially by mothers for
their children. a. It never fails to effect .
speedy cure, and because they haveiound
that there 10 not the least danger Ia Civ
Ing Il, even to babies, a. II contains moth
ing injurious. Sold BY SoderEren q
Sodsrgren. Druggists.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-09
The Accent.

Mr.. Story, the sculptor, who began life
as lawyer, tells good story which Illus
trates the fact that the emphasis which
punctuates has as much to do with deter
mining the sense Of sentence as the
meaning of the words.
Once, when he was called upon to de-
fend a woman accused Of numbering her
husband, ne adduced as one OF the proofs
of her Innocence the fact of her having at
tended him on his deathbed and said to him
when he was dying, Good by, George!
The counsel for the plaintiff declared
that ought rather to be taken as proof OF
her guilt, and that the words she had
used were, GOOD, by GeorgeP'-New
York DISPATCH.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-09
THE GARDEN OF DREAMS.

Who could dispense with that garden fair,
The lotus lowered garden Of dreamsf
Never life is too homely or bare
To cherish fragrant spot somewhere.
Budding To open in promises rare
In the magical gardens of dreams.
How could we live and not yield to despair.
Bercft OF the garden Of dreams?
The fever of living, the pangs of care,
The hopes deferred, all the SORROWS we bear
Forgotten, are charmed Nsleep in the air
OF the magical garden of dreams
The coveted things OF life are there,
In the tranquil garden Of dreams.
Instead OF our one little life of care,
There we live many lives ideal and fair,
Great aims uplift US, all things we dare
In the magical garden OF dreams
Elizabeth Barton in Detroit Free Press.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-09
SHOP WINDOWS ABROAD.
Ingenious scheme OF Merchants to Attract
Attention to Their Wares.


Europeans don't go in for newspaper
advertising 20 anything like the extent
that we do .ere." said an American re-
Gently returned from abroad but they
take the shine right off Americans for orig
inal schemes to attract attention to their
shop windows In London. Paris and the
larger cities In Belgium the shopkeepers
are continually devising catchy advertise
ments Shoe dealers. hatters safemakers
and men In various mercantile lines do
the business up best, but the confection.
ers pastry men and other small merchants
are not long way behind them A shoe
dealer In Brussels, who makes a speciality
OF waterproof shoe. keeps pair of the
shoes standing In pan of water In his
window all day long. The water comes
just up to the top of the soles, and the
public are respectfully invited at all times
to step up and feel the inside of the shoes
and see that they are perfectly dry
Another shoe dealer in London made
speciality of shoes for bus drivers, and his
greatest claim for them was that they
were unusually warm. He kept pair OF
shoes imbedded in cake of ice in his
shop window. and any one could walk in
and feel the inside of them and see that
they were warm. A halter in Antwerp
who manufactures a waterproof silk hat
keeps one of them in his shop window sus-
pended over pan, with stream of water
running over it, / never passed this store
once without seeing crowd of people
standing in front of 1t, and don't doubt
that this scheme brought him many Gus
toner he would not have otherwise had.
I'm Paris firm of safemakers en-
ployed two men to stand in the window OF
their place all day and hammer on the
lock of one of their safes with huge sledge
hammers. The novel designs that confec-
TONERS and pastry cooks get up and put
in their windows attract the attention and
admiration of all foreigners. Every con-
fectioner in Paris who goes in for window
advertising at all has big Eiffel tower OF
candy in his window, but fine as the Pa
risian displays are they are not nearly so
handsome as those in Brussels. The
| amount of cake and candy which is wasted
in window decoration in the big Belgium
cities is amazing. can't see what use the
sweets can be after the things are pulled
apart, and certainly no one can have any
use for a huge castle or figure made out OF
cake and candy unless it is used as Gen.
| terpiece on banquet table.
Il have noticed in New York of late a
| tendency among small retail dealers to
( emulate the foreigners in this matter OF
| window advertising. A Broadway shoe
dealer is advertising his waterproof shoes
| like the Brussels merchant. New York
/ SIM
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-09
Quinine.

People in using quinine should be
careful that they get good grade OF the
article or that they are not being fooled
altogether. In many cases an inferior
product Of the cinohona bark, from which
Quinine Is made, is substituted for the real
article. 1t Is a little better than the Gin.
chona bark and has not nearly third OF
the virtue of quinine.. This Is called Gin
chonidia and can be bought for from to
4 cents an ounce, just little more than
the bark itself. 1t Is SO good an imitation
that the customer Is unable to tell the
difference except that the results will not
be the same People should be careful to
get the pure drug. and the only guarantee
they can have Is the reputation OF the man
who sells IL to them. -Pittsburg Dispatch
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-09
The Laurium Fair.

Our twelfth annual sale will be in great
bargains-455 pieces of mems heeced-
lined underwear worth $1.25 each, at
this sale only 3S cents; $50 pairs of mems
kid gloves worsh $3.50 per pair at this
sale only As cents; 600 par OF children's
rubbers. from No. to II and from II
to No. 2, worth 80 cents per pair, at this
sale 10 cents. Call at once as it is to
your interest. The Laurium Fair, next
to the postoffice, l. Feinberg & Co.. pro-
prietors.
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For curious profession and one which
Is little known commend us to the Pari-
sian vender of paternity. He appears to
20 an individual who takes upon himself
.ne risk OF severe punishment II detected
10 tho carrying out of his business, which
Is 70 stand In place of father to young
men who wish to marry and cannot get
'ne sanction Of their parents. The vender
Oh paternity here steps in and goes through
al S.i the formalities at the mayors office
81 Louis Post Dispatch.