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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30

rugged pine alike. While Russia expends $50,
900. 90 annually on war and l0,O0J,O)O on edu-
cation, America, with nearly an equal popula-
tiOn, devotes SI5,0OOC COZ to the support OF the
military and $91,O00yO to instruct the ignorant.
It's 81 90 antew churches have grown To ~ 900,
its So O10 90 OO0 war debt shrunk TO nearly half
and the mighty pathway of steel that scales the
Rockies and intersects South, North and East,
tells of the progress that has replaced the bullet
with the ballot and mnde OF friend and foe n
vast army OF peace, with hatred and bloodshed
unknown-merged under the lilies, the roses,
the magnolias, the tears, the hopes, the tender
holiness OF Il great national Decoration Day.
WELDON j COBB.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30

bravs without caring for the color Of his jacket.
because he was somebody's son" are to-day
teaching lessons Of beauty and love that ennobls
the rising generation, who peIpetuate the yalor
of their predecessors as sons OF veterans.
The nineteen century, so nearly at its end,
will 90 into history memorable for great deeds
OF war and peace alike-with the battle OF
Waterloo and That OF Gettysburg chronicled in
the same volume with the development OF cleo
tricity and steam for these are the military and
civil revolutions which have changed the
world And yet, amid all this century
OF mighty deeds, the American conflict stanas
pre-eminent for its influence on mankind. IL
was not war for boundary or power TO es-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30

feeling in the yearly pilgrimage of the blue aud
gray to the shrine OF those who were once
deadly enemies.
Peace hath its victories no less renowned
than war" and the three million colonists OF
the Revoluton merged into the sixty millions
of to-day, now s.nrs added to the glorious
banner that waves under the magnolia and the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30

In photographing clouds great diff
Guilty is experienced in obtaining pho
tographs of cirrous clouds, the reason
being that the blue light of the sky acts
with nearly the same active energy as
the white light of the clouds on the
sensitive silver salts of the plate.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30

government IL was to establish principle, TO
fix doctrine of the people, To strengthen the
old regime, ana the strife that ragged from Sum
ter TO Appomattox wRs u holy cause, sacred to
monies OF Decoration Day. The plowshare now
fills the ruts OF cannon wheels, and fields OF
carnage have become fields OF harvest. The
tendency OF the custom OF Decoration Day is
wholly in the line OF peace and ma ational brother
hood. The people of tho country are frater-
niZed. The originator OF the ceremony OF Dec
Grafton Day was Confederate, it is said and this
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30
DIR. CRONIN MURDERED.
HIS MUTILATED- BODY FOUND IN
CHICAGO.

His Head Horribly Gashed with Hatchet
and His Naked Corpse Thrown Into a
Sewer Catch -Basin-The Swollen Body
Fully Identified by His Friends.
tChicago telegram
DIR. T. II. Cronin was indeed muir
dered. His body, doubled up in a catch
basin at Evanston avenve Lni North
Fifty-ninth street, Lake View, was found
by gang of ditch cleaners Wednesday
afternoon. Twenty-Five of Cronin's friends
identified the corpse. The finding of the
body intensifes ths mystery. The WI lest
speculations are indulged
Henry Rosch, John Feningar, and Will
lam Nichols, employees of the Lake View
department of Public Works, were en-
gagged in cleaning the bitches and examin-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30

HIS verse. from y Con =
federa'e officers poem,
is cast In bronze and set
up with other lines Of
similar sentiment In
eighty-one natiOna "A ]
cemeteries. where sleep
those who died that -un-
der God. government of
the people, by the peo
pie, and for the people
might not perish from
the earth" The largest
cemetery maintained by
the Government is hero,
at the chief city of the
Bayou State. There are
1866 hcadstones I'm this
great assembly of the
dea soldiers that have
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30

WHEN Detroit newspaper man an
nounces his intention to shoot at a
clay pigeon life insurance agents fall
over each other in the effort to write q
policy on the pigeons life.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30
A National Yearly Pilgrimage.

DECORATION Day The inspiration
||' !. |.
=lkM 4 the occasion is the inspiration OF
SN lovers and peace and beauty.
CNNNEHkxs At timo when the
IHl ANVV&&4A. glory Of the land is
HM9UE%TXHA most dominant, clad
BAESXWUk, ~ IN verdure, and deco
M~NSRJAN ated with blooming
49, ,Oses, every fiag that
hutters above hal
lowed grave mingles
its colors with those of buds and blossoms, aud
is q monument OF Gods past goodness and IL
prophecy Of His continued mercy.
On the twenty first Decoration Day Of history
the roll Of the famous dead includes Thomas,
Garfield, Hancock, Grant Logan, and Sheridan.
But one of the great l. aders, Sherman survives.
and, however sadly his thoughts may 90 back
over the fields that trelnDled with the tread OF
marching millions. the glory aud pride of peace
accomplished must thrill his heart, coming
from every hamlet and city, North or South,
East or West, where blue and gray cross hands
over the last battle feld-the grave
The occasion of u grCas ma ionnl centennial
has prepared the public TO commemorate this
years Decoration bay in n more marked aud in
telligent manner than ever before. The two c.
casions are rife with historic ard pathetic
reminiscence, aud the 3O'h Of April and the 30th
OF May, 1889, will be long-reinemberCd days in
the memory OF those who may live to see the
last of the veterans OF the great war follow
their leaders to the silent camping ground.
The spirit and genius OF the commemoration
that Logan set apart as n national annual event
become more vivid and sentient 10 arouse and
thrill, as the slower step, the winter head. the
rarer presence OF JlOhe VINO lollOWed Lne nag 10
victory tell that soon they, too, will slumber
under garlands OF tear-ieweled flowers.
Decoration Day has become national yearly
pilgrimage, but, unlike that OF the devotee OF
Mahomet or the knight OF the cross the Jour
ney is n peaceful one, aud lies through beauti-
full land. No blood stained ruins border it--no
weapons and armor bedeck the traveller, and
there are no footsore peIIitents or iaded knights
at arms among the throng. This pilgrimage is
not one Of strife OF fanaticsn, but OF love and
peace while at its end stands the immortal
shrine OF liberty.
Every succeeding Decoration Day has evil
denced the fact that the survivors OF the waT
have not considered their work ~ an end, viii
the termination Of hostilities. They were on
listed for life, and action and progress have
marked their purposes, whenever n worthy com
panion ia arms was I'm sickness or distress, aud
sweet charity haS shone forth rs "A lustiOus
beacon-light OF benefilence Those angels Ol
tspderis bound up the wounds Of bleeding
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30

The Oklahoma boomers carry their
planting tools with them-the rife, the
bowie, and the revolver.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30
with the number OF interments may be OF in
lnrrst IL is nlnhn heticnllY rs fnllnws.

terest. 1t is alphabetically follows
Alexandria La. ... 0lFredricksburg,V Va GG03
Alexandria. Va. 3444 Gettysburg, Pa. 1915
Andersonville. Ga. IL, 7l7lGlendale, VA, 63d
Annapolis, Nd. E. 3,i74lGra:ton, w. Na.... 1,e2j
Antietam. Md. -. ago Hampton. Nn.... 4, lSi
Arlington Va. .l6 26Ol I.sS kult Ia. ....... 5JO
Balls Bluff, Va. $50 <hGxNille, Tenn. 3O6l
Bauancas Fla. 9Jj Laurel, Md. ...... 2}S
Baton Rouge, La. ,922 Lebanon, KY. SAT
Beaufort, 5. G. S,2l9 Logan's ds,ky G94
Beverly, n. j.. llj London Pack Nd. 1886
Brownsville. Tex. 29G Marietta, Ga. ..... 100j3
Springfield. Ill... Gs7 Memphis. Tenn. 49, S3S
Nicholasville, Ky. 1926 Mobile, Ala........ $40
Louisville, Ky. 3774 Mound City, Ill. e.. 5000
Chalmetts La. II. .52l Nashville Tenn II, ,535
Chattanooga. l2 9iS Na.chez, Miss..... 30G2
City Point, Va. 3,82S New Albany, Ind 27s8
Cold Harbor Va. 1871 Newbein, n. c.. 23l9
Corinth, Miss. &C.. 500 Philadelphia, Pa. 1,Sl9
Indianapolis, Ind. 70S Poplar Grove, Va. 552j
Culpeper, W.. l,3Is Port Hudson, Miss 1884
Clusters battle Raleigh, N. c.. ], ,lJ9
field NJ. IT,. $50 Richmond, Va 4,S35
Cypress Hill. NY. 3.ll5 Rock Island, ILL.,. 2sJ
City Of Mexico m l.OO4 Salisbury, n. c.. 70 10
Danville Va. L. 2l3 Shiloh, TENN. 3,59J
Danville, KY. Sj9 San Antonio, Tex. 463
Elnra, n. ". 1896 Seven Pines, Va. 7S9
Firms Point, N. ]. 2779 Soldiers Home, o. 523s
Florence S. c.. 29js Springfield Mo-. 1873
Fort Donelson... 639 Staunton, Va. G3I
Fort Gibson, 1. Il. 2l52 Stone River, Tenn. 6O63
Fort Harrison Va. $50 ST. Louis, Mo-. 6l0
Fort Leaveuworth l0s Wick sburg Miss. .16, ,GcG
Fort Mcpherson. 443 Whitehall, Pa. GO
Fayetteville, Ark. 1910 Wilmington, N. Cl06O5
Foit Scott Kan. 400 Winchester Va. 4,03J
Fort smith, Ark. 1904 Yorktown, Va.... 1866
Virginia has the largest number OF cemeteries
fourteen. Virginia, Tennessee and Missis-
sippi in their order, were the battle States OF
the late great struggle The dead OF the civil
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30

TALK about wanting the earth some
men wouldn't be satisfied with an up
holstered comet.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30

SHUN idleness; it is the rust that at
taches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30

NOAH would have failed as a railroad
man. He even built an ark to keep
stock from being watered.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30
Memorial Day.

ME- dStlH AilN Nii'Alb
ing seasons bring the
nations 5 sacred day,
When our gifts OF tears
and Iarlands on our
heroes graves We lay
Field and garden yield
their treasure, masses
fair of beauteous
bloom,
Each n message OF re-
membrance bearing
TO the lowly tomb.
Enblems are they OF
the fallen, whom the
springing gras S g 3
hide.
OF their hopes, so fair
and glowing stricken
in their noon-day
pride;
Long their sleep and
deep their slunlber
through the years OF
manhOod's 4 prime
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30

Cor the stuff in 1.-THE ballot box,
sometimes.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30
GATHER TIE FLOWERS.
SCATTER THEM UPON THE GRAVES
OF OUR DEAD HEROES.

Memorial Day and It's Signihcance-An
Annual Event HallOwed by Sacred Mem
ories-The Tendency OF the Custom Is
I'm the Line of Peace and National Broth
orhoOd.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30
Vicksburg. Misc.

"On Fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
Aud glory guards with jealous round
The bi iVounc of the dCal
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30

war are not all gathered in national cemeteries
none but those OF the victors. There are many
other graves I'm the South which enfold soldiers
as valorous those from the North
@Sad chance OF war Now, destitute Of aid,
Falls undistinguished by the victors spade
Nature decorates the graves of the undscov-
ereI dead, scattering Wild flowers with gentle
hand alike upon the resting places of both the
vlctors and the vaDquished.
MOSES FoLsoM.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30

THERE is society. of lady artists in
London.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30

At II timo when the
glory of the land is
most dominant, clai
in verdure, and deco
, nted with blooming
J Loses, every flag that
flutters above IL hal
lowed pInye mingles g
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30

6sAYLING LODGE, No. $50, F. & A. NJ.
meets in regular communication on Thursday
evening on CT before the. full OF the moon
Transient members are rat.rnaly invited to
attend. j. +. HUM, w. NJ.
A. TAYLOR, Secretary.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30

SOCIETY MEETINGS.

NJ. T.. CHURCH-Rey. j. w Tay'o, Pastor.
Services at 10 80 o'clock "A. m. and 7'a pm. Sun
day school at IL IN. Prayer meeting every
Thursday evening ut 7's O'Clock. All are cor
daily invited to attend.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30

.EECORATION Day The inspiration
4 the occasion is the inspiration OF
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-10-16
Ills Smoke Was Immense.

He had built street railway from
the town depot to the town Court
House, n distance of half mile, and
had put on a couple of bobtailed cars,
each propelled by seal-brown mule.
He had, further, opened a headquar-
ters Office and secured a clerk, and as
the hobs" made their first successful
trips his bosom swelled with pride, and
he turned to his young man with the
observation
The road has a name-'The Rush
vile Street Railway and Transit Com
pany'-but it seems proper that 1
should have a title. Have you thought
of the NATTER"
Il have, SIR" was the prompt reply,
"and beg TO submit the title Presi-
dent, Secretary, and Treasurer of the
Rushville Street Railway and Transit
Company and General Manager of the
Western Hemisphere. >"
splendid idea!" exclaimed the Pres
ident, and the printing was at once
ordered
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-10-16
Recruiting i'm Africa.

The author Of "The Far Interior"
had occasion TO enlist number of
men as carriers when about to make an
expedition into the heart of Africa,
and his account of the business will
help the reader to understand some
thing of the native character.
Taking ont sample cotton blanket
and two varieties of beads-small red
beads with white eyes seemed to be
the favorites-I tried to come TO terms
with each individual; and, in an effort
to instill some degree of method and
discipline into the wild and bah
bling crowd, 1 wrote each mans name
In my notebook.
All this time however, / was pes
tered by annoying Interruptions of a
most extraordinary character. The
man who had just been at my shout
der, anxious to know what he was to
receive, after giving me his name, and
seeing it written down-an operation
which afforded him pantomimic de-
light-would wander away as though
nothing had taken place, in all likeli-
hood thinking that when / was writing
his name l was merely consulting my
spirit as to the advisability of my ac-
cepting his services.
Before he had gone fifty yards the
whole transaction was obliterated from
his erratic mind.
He would wander off and meet a
friend who, after snuff, would in
quire if he had seen the white man.
On receiving an emphatic reply in the
negative, they would return to me in
company, the man had just arranged
with coming up unabashed as a dis
tinctly new man. Looking as though
he had never seen me before In his life
time, he would ask for quite different
and fresh lot of things, thus upset
ting all the former agreement which /
had written against his name, for L was
especially careful not to give anything
away until all was in readiness for an
immediate start.
1t seems TO be indispensable that the
natives should get presents. In fact
they must get them or they will do
nothing, and even afterward they must
have promises of other donations to
follow
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-10-16
Serious Defect in Our Educational Sys.
fptn

But one thing more of this same gen.
eral kind is sadly needed. Perhaps
the most serious defect of the system
of liberal education now prevalent in
this country is its lack of truly pro-
gressive character. 1t is full of fits
and starts. 1t is too disjointed and
fragmentary. This IS partly because
there are no settled principles of pro-
cedure, fixing the order and amounts
of the studies; and partly because
there is no power which can secure
teachers that know precisely what they
are expected, fitted and permitted to
teach. The consequence is that the
different years of school life too much
resemble the different successive ses-
sions of our Legislatures. Milton
somewhere describes the process of
legislation as matching a lie with the
heat of jurisdiction. Fortunately, the
process also consists in killing the
brood of lies already Matched by previ-
Gus legislation Now the process of
education in this country is by no
means so bad in this regard as the pro-
cess of legislation; but in certain re-
spects the former too much resembles
the latter. -Scrtbner.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-10-16
The Meaning OF the Word s'Chicago. "

Chicago, however spelled, is an In
dian name borrowed from amiable pre-
decessors-t aboriginal Miamis. The
first mention of the word Che-cau-gou,
the modern Chicago, is in Hennepin's
account of La Sales expedition from
the lake to the Illinois River. One of
the Indian meanings of the word Chi
cago is said to be great and strong,
from "ka-go,' something, and Chi"
from getchi, great. Dr. William Barry,
first Secretary of the Chicago Histori-
cal Society, said of the word: What
ever may have been the genealogical
meaning of the word Chicago, in its
practical use it probably means strong
or great. The Indians applied this
term to the Mississippi River, to thun-
der, or TO the voice of the great Mani
tou." Edwin Hubbard, the genealo-
gist, adopts similar view, and says
the word Chicago in its applications
signifies strong, mighty, and powerful.
Chicago Times.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-10-16
Very Inhecnminr.

Lovely tints in the wrong place are reft Of
their charm. A lemon-colored countenance
the peculiar endowment Of our ig-tailed
brethren who "hit the pipe'-is unbecoming.
1t suggest bile going astray md the inference
Is correct. Pain beneath the ribs and shoulder
blades, constipation, dyspepsia, furred tongue,
and sick headaches supplement this indication
Of the bilious. For liver complaint and it's
multiiarious symptoms, Hostetter's stomach
Bitters is an infallible specific. II relaxes the
bowels sufficiently, but without gripping or vio-
lence. To the secretion OF bile it gives due
impulse, but banishes an excess OF that saffron
colored principle from the blood. Sick head
aches, sourness OF the breath, and fur upon the
tongue disappear when IL is used. 1t renew
digestion, fortifes the system against malaria,
counteracts a rheumatic tendency, and remedies
inaction OF the kidneys.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-10-16
TraYeI hy Air Shin.

Assuming that the difficulties of
construction have been overcome, and
that safety, speed, and comfort equal
in amount to that enjoyed on an ocean
steamship can be guaranteed To the
passenger who desires to make an
aerial voyage of several thousand
miles--what amount of freight or what
number of passengers can be carried
by an air ship? And what will it cost
Let us make some calculation as to
size, buoyancy, etc.
Assuming that the gas envelope were
made of aluminium, the lightest strong
metal, cylinder 500 feet long and 100
feet In diameter mot unlike transat-
lantic steamship in dimensions would
contain about 1000, 600 cubic feet of
hydrogen gas, with buoyancy of 120
tons. The envelope, if made one-tenth
of an inch thick, would weigh about
100 tons. Allowing about two tons for
bracing and strengthening envelope
and eight tons for car, sails, engines,
and machinery, there would remain
10 tons (the capacity of one ordinary
freight carr for crew, cargo, and pas
sengers. A crew of 20 men, 10 to a
watch, would weigh IL TONS 90 pas
sengers (the capacity of one railway
passenger carr 3 tons more; 30 pounds
baggage to each passenger, say l ! tons
additional, there would still remain
four tons for fuel and stores-for a
transatlantic voyage of 80 hours, at a
speed of 40 miles an hour, or for an
overland journey of 1920 miles across
the continent.
BY processes lately introduced, it is
hoped that aluminium will soon be
manufactured for 81, 200 n ton. At
that price an air ship might be built
for $780, goo to 5000, 600. Allowing
500 day for oil fuel, 500 for crew,
$50 for food, and 500 n day interest
on cost of the ship % per cent. per
annum), including repairs, and $50 a
day incidental charges, the expenses
would be $3.50 per diem-about 81 600
for voyage of 1900 miles Allowing
$500 for three or four days "in port, /"
the cost of carrying each passenger
5000 miles at a speed of 20 miles an
hour, including food, would be about
$50. So that if the average passenger
list should be but one-quarter of the
full capacity of our air ship, the cost
of the voyage, Sl20, would be about
the same as a frst-class transatlantic
passage. -Epoch.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-10-16
FOrtitude Born or Love.

It was in the year 1880, in a third
rate city called Neufchateau, III the
Department DIES Nosges, France, about
noon, that we were passing, my father
and myself, in front of store where
in addition to hardware a supply of
ammunition was kept for the use of the
regiment there. Suddenly we heard a
terrible explosion, and being either
thrown or having unconsciously run,
| know not. we at any rate found our
selves about twenty yards from where
the explosion occurred, and could see
part of the roof in the street.
We had hardly reached the building
when a man came out of it covered with
powder, his hair and beard burning.
and large pieces of flesh hanging from
his bare arms. Never will l forget the
horror of the sight; his flesh was
charred and his clothes partly burned
As he reached the sidewalk he looked
around him and called name / did
not catch. Receiving no answer he
went right back into that burning fur
mace. and in few seconds came ont
bearing in his arms his child. girl of
or Z. Those nearer 10 him heard him
say;
MY darling, are You hurt? oh. YOU
are hurt !" While the poor little thing
kept saying: NO, papa, l am not
hurt, not at all you are burning, think
of yourself" and yet the blood was
trickling from her forehead where the
flying debris made deep cash. Both
recovered, though disfgured for life.
At the time 1 thought there was not
only one hero, but two.-Philddelphid
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-10-16
Dream Memory.

An excellent musician and composer
once omitted TO note down q melody
which occurred 10 him. Afterward he
could not recall it, but later he recol-
lected il in dream, with full harmony
and accompaniment, and on waking
was able to retain il until he wrote it
down. There are endless stories of the
hiding-places of missing deeds, and so
forth, being revealed in dreams. Let
us take one as typical. A landed pro-
prietor in England was involved in
lawsuit In consequence of claim upon
his fathers estate, which he was firm
~ convinced had been discharged.
Judgment, however, was about TO go
against him, as no voucher could be
found. But one night, in dream, his
father appeared to him, and said that
the papers relating to this affair had
been placed in the hands of solicitor
he had not generally employed, but
who happened to be engaged for this
particular business. In the dream the
father said that if this person had for
gotten matter which was already old,
he would be reminded of it by the men
ton of Portuguese gold coin, con-
corning the value of which there was
a dispute at the time. The dream was
curiously verified, as the solicitor only
did recollect the circumstance on men
ton of the gold coin. He was then
able to produce the missing papers,
and the son gained the suit after all.
Now, dream of this kind is only ex-
planned in one way. The son had
either been present at the interview,
or had been made acquainted with the
circumstance by his father in the life
time of the latter. Then he had for
gotten all about it, until latent mem
Dry" was awakened in this happy man.
ner in sleep.