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Is Cultnrn Her.dit.r,.e

The whole point at issue is whether
there Is a casual relation between the
cultivation OF the mental faculties and
their Developments; in other words,
whether the increment gained by their
exercise Is transmitted to posterity.
Professor Weismann and most of his
followers, constituting what is gener-
ally known as the school of Neo- Oar
winians, deny such transmission. II
they are right, education has no value
for the future Of mankind, and its ben.
eits are confined exclusively to the
generation receiving it. So far as the
medication of the knowledge is con-
cerned, this has always been admitted
TO be the case, and the fact that each
new individual must begin at the be-
ginning and acquire all knowledge over
again for himself is sufficiently dis
couraging and has often
But the belief, though vague. has been
somewhat general that a part at least
of what is gained in the direction of
developing and strengthening the facul-
ties OF the mind, through their life long
exercise in special fields, is permanent
ly preserved to the race by hereditary
transmission to posterity of the &C.
quired increment. We have seen that
all the facts Of history and of personal
observation sustain this comforting pop
ular belief, and until the doctors of
science shall cease to differ on this
point and shall reduce the laws OF he
redity to degree of exactness which
shall amount to something more like a
demonstration than the current specu-
lations, it may perhaps be as we'll to
continue for time to hug the delusion.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-09
Why Snow is While.

The pure white luster of snow is due
to the fact that all the elementary oolors
of light are blended together in the radi-
ance that is thrown off from the surface
of the crystals. 1t is quite possible to
examine the individual snow crystals in
such way as to detect these several
colors before they are mingled together
to constitute the compound impression
of Wilderness upon the eve. The snow
is then clothed with all the varied hues
Of ha rainbow. The soft Wilderness of
able to the large quantity of air which
is entangled among the frozen particles.
Snow is composed of a great number
of minute crystals, explains London
It'd Bits. More than thousand dis
tinct forms of snow crystals have been
enumerated by various observers. One
hundred and tifty-one were noticed dur
ing eight days in February and March,
1895, by Mr.. Glashier, which were care
fully drawn, engraved and printed in q.
paper attached to, the report of the
British Meteorological Society for that
year.
These minute crystals and prisms re-
feet all the compound rays of which
white light consists. Sheets of snow
on the ground are known to.refect beau
tiful pink and blue tints under certain
angles of sunshine, and to- fling back
so much light as to- be painful to the
eyes by day, and to guide the traveller,
in the absence of moonshine, by night.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-09
Thirteen a LucIkv Number

The old superstition that the numbel
ID is unlucky rs supposed to have it.
origin as far back as the last supper
when Judas betrayed his Lord and af
terward hung himself There are
however, instances where Is has beer
a lucky number, as in bakers dozen,
where one loaf is added to the dozen
for luck.
There is also an account Of British
soldier in the reign of William and
Mary who was court-martialed fol-
having fallen asleep at midnight when
on sentry guard upon the terrace at
Windsor. He most solemnly declared
that he was innocent of the offense,
and to prove it swore that he heard the
clock Tom of Westminster strike Ii
when il should have struck ~.
The court refused to believe that he
could hear the clock at that great dis
lance, and sentenced him to death, but
when q number of people came forward
and made affidavit that the clock did
actually strike 13 on the same night he
was pardoned. Detroit Free Press.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-09
sonool Luncheon.

In filing the lunch basket. and .
pretty one should be provided for every
child, clean napkin, small knife,
fork and spoon. with little china or
plated cup, should be placed in the
-t-0s.ss. Si-o,<sI ~ tfIfu,
and buttered neatly, next slice from
the lean part of o joint, the fat and
ragged edges trimmed away. Cakes
and pies, folded in clean wh5te paper,
custards and jellies put In pretty cups.
We were once much amused by hear
ing a grown woman, the mother of q
family, whose fastidiousness had sur
vived her childhood, in speaking of a.
former schoolmate, "Oh, she. was the
girl who always brought horrid chunks
of bread and meat, wrapped in brown
paper, to SCHOOL, for lunch. She sat
close to me, and the sight of it took my
appetite for the contents of my own
dainty basket. II do not wonder. not
withstanding her educational advan-
tages, that she grew up coarse and
unrefined." AndI indeed, SUCH indif-
ference on the part of a mother to the
preparation Of food to be- eaten BY a
child is well calculated to produce such
q result.
Mothers, then, who have tho. health
and welfare of their children at heart
should do all that is possible to give
the school luncheon an appetizing and
dainty appearance to the little people
who depend so largely on it for the
brain force and working powers of their
long, tiresome' school day.-TabLe
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-09

Driven rom spain, ne Discovers tho Pa
ellie and Wins imperishabie Fame.

Driven nom spain, ne Discovers the Pa
cIfio and Wins iinperishable Fame.
The career of Vasco Nunez de Bal
boa, the intrepid Spanish explorer,
whose discovery OF tho Pacific Ocean
gave to his name fame that is imper-
ishable, has few parallels in history.
Balboa was the son OF noble, though
poor family. He grew up reckless
spendthrift, and early in life was
obliged to fee from Spain to avoid inn
prisonment With an expedition that
had been fitted ont TO explore the then
recently discovered new world he
came to America and located on the
Isthmus of Darien, where colony was
established, II did not take him long
TO find an excuse for creating trouble
and melting the colonists TO rebellion,
He overthrow the leader, imprisoned
and later executed him, and then as
sumed authority himself
For time the little colony pros
pered. but Balboa's restless spirit
would not permit him to thus quietly
pursue life. He longed for adventure,
for riches and for fame and at the head
of q band of explorers set out in search
of it. For days they wandered about
in the interminable forests and finally
came upon an Indian settlement.
Here they were received with kind
ness and laden with presents, and as a
proof of their friendship for the whites,
the old chief gave his youngest and
fairest daughter in marriage to Bal
boa. The riches of the land were re-
vealed to the Spaniards aud they were
told of vast ocean and streams flow
ing into it that were lined with gold.
Determined to go in search of the
great ocean, Balboa returned to Darien
and began preparations for the journey.
Weeks were consumed, In trying to
enlist men in the enterprise, but all
but few were afraid to undertake
it. At last on the LIST of September,
1913, at the head Of 100 men Balboa
left Darien in search Of the strange
waters. Five days later he arrived at
the province OF his father-in-law, where
he left half of his men, and imploring
the aid of God, again started on the
toilsome march. Through the woods
matted with interlacing vines, mp rocky
ravines and across rapid streams,
though weighed down with their heavy
srmor and oppressed by tropical sun,
the adventurous toiled patiently on.
Past Indian villages whose inha bitants
they slaughtered and robbed. they
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-09

| able sycamore tree, the only one left In
that section of the State by the British
when they evacuated IL in October, 1870.
Seaconnet Channel was the scene OF one
of the most dashing exploits OF the war
of Independence. The British had blocked
1t up with floating battery, the Pigot,
armed with twelve S-pounders and ten
swlyels. Captain Silas Talbot under.
took the capture of the Pigot. En-
barking sixty men on the Hawk. a coast
ing schooner, armed, beside small arms,
with only three 3-pounders, he sailed
down under cover OF darkness, grappled
the enemy, boarded, drove the crew be-
low, coiled the cables over the hatchway
to secure his prisoners, and carried off
his prize TO Stonington.
In Charleston there stood until 1S40 y
beautiful magnolia tree whose branches
spread over more than zoo square feet
1t was under this tree that Gen. Lincoln
held council In 1850 TO determine
whether Charleston, which was then be-
sieged by Sir Henry Clinton, should be
nvaouatal IA ..... ------I----A.-- vurufu,
SHt few weeks later the Americans
surrendered to the British army, which
had then been REINFORCED by Lord Corn
wallis.
At Drummond's Pond. in Dismal
Swamp, Virginia, is pointed out tall
tree under which Washington is said to
have passed a night in colonial times.
When Moore, the Irish poet, visited Nor
folk in 1884, he heard the story Of the
young man who, on the death Of
girl ne loved, became insane.
He believed she was not dead but had
made the swamp her abode. and under
that impression he wandered into its
solitudes and persisted. This was the
origin of his touching ballad, COM
mencing:
"Tbey made her grave too cold and damp
Fer a soul so warm and true;
And she's gone 10 the Lake of the Dismal
swamp,
Where all night long. by her freely lamp,
She paddles her white canoe.
And her fre-3y lamp soon shall see
And her paddle / soon shall hear:
Long and loving our life ohall be,
And I'll hide the maid In IA cypress tree
When the footsteps of death are near"
At the junction of the ST. Mary and
st. Joseph Rivers, where they form the
Maumee River, Indiana, is the site of
the most noSed of the Miami undian)
villages There Little Turtle, the fa-
nous Miami chief, was born and lived
until late In life. He and his people
have long since passed away, and only
single living thing remains with which
they were associated. 1t Is a venerable
apple tree, which, If not standing, was
at least bearing fruit a few years ago.
1t is opposite the city of Fort Wayne.
The last in our order of historical trees
stood in the eastern part of the village
of Flushing, L. l., a few miles from New
York. George Fox, the founder OF the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-09

Jerusalem7 In our own country and
our own time there have been and still
are ancient trees intimately connected
with our history as colonists and as a
nation, and which command the rever-
lence of every American heart.
Probably the most ancient OF these
living links, connecting the present and
the past, was the Big Tree that stood on
the bank OF the Genesee River, near the
village of Geneseo, n. Y. When the
white man first saw IL IL was the patri-
arch Of the Genesee Valley, and was so
Irevered by the Senecas that they named
their village @Big Tree" 1t also gave
name to an eminent Seneca chief, who
was the friend of Washington and his
cause. During a great flood in the GEN
tesee valley in 1857 the Big Tree was
swept away and buried In the DO ON Of
Lake Ontario. The trunk measured 20
feet 8 inches in circumference
Probably next in age TO the Big Tree
was the famous Charter Oak in the City
Of Hartford, Conn.,, which was standing
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-09

brothers only, for brothers differ. The
friendship, between you and me will
not compare to chain, for that the
rains might rust or the falling tree
might break. We are the same as II one
mans body were to be divided into two
parts: we are all one flesh and blood. {"
Would that that sentiment had been
preached and practiced elsewherel
Until 1860 there stood in New York q
venerable willow tree that has an inter-
esting history. When the English poet.
Pope, built his villa at Twickenham, he
planted small twig that a friend had
sent him from Smyrna, and the little
twig became the parent of all its kind
the salix Babylonica, or Weeping Willow
lin England and in the United States.
One OF the British officers who went to
Boston in 1775 to crush the American re-
bellion had with him tYig from Pope's
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-09

willow to plant in his American grounds.
The twig was presented TO Mr.. Custis,
Washington's stepson, and was planted,
at Abingdon, Virginia In 1890 General
Gates planted a shoot from it on his farm
on Manhattan Island, and it became in
time beautiful willow, the grandchild
of Pope's willow az Twickenham.
When the battle of Bunker Hill was
fought the great conflict for American
independence was begun. Washington
was appointed Commander-in- chief OF
the continental forces, and on July 3,
1875, he took up his headquarters at
Cambridge, Mass. On the following
morning he proceeded to a great elm
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-09
Tho ID parted.


An uptown clubman who is very
much in trade and keeps an eye always
on the main chance came to grief the
other day through inviting to his coun-
try house visitor from the West who
was visiting the city to spend lot of
money in a business way. The club
man-merchant wanted the visitors GUS
tom and took this hospitsble way to
secure it. The visitor found at his
hosts a company who were laying
plans for horseback rides aud other
bucolic sports. In order to make him
self congenial to such a company he
appeared at dinner wearing spurs.
His hosts friends were unable to re-
press their amusement. This proved
so embarrassing to the visitor that
when soup was passed to him he up
set it, sIilling the scaldiDg liquid In
his lap. The mishap was too ludicrous
to excite sympathy. It's reception in
a spirit of levity decided him leave the
table. Doing SO in some haste, one of
his spurs caught in the table-cloth, and
in less time than IL takes to tell IL he
had hauled the cloth off, dragging with
it to the floor the soup of the guests
and tumble Of cut glass, silverware.
cutlery and other table appointments.
The visitor did not stop to apologize.
His room was handy, and before the
debris could be removed the host and
guests spied their Western friend, lug
gage in hand, hat set back on his ears
and his spurs flashing, bounding down
the road toward the railway station.
That was the last seen Of him to date.
---Neto York Times.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-09
THE GERMAN A HERO.
hut the Italians Were spiritiess and
Cowardiy wretchss.

hut the Italians Were spiritiess and
Cowardiy wretchs@ 4
The recent experience of the steam
ship Sophie. Captain Won Hugo, shows
of what contemplate stuff most of the
Italians who come to America are
made. The Sophie had just weathered
heavy gale, and her officers were still
keeping anxious watch, when the
morning light disclosed bark near by
in desperate peril, her masts gone, her
decks awaeh, and her crew dashed TO
the taffIail. Despite the unfavorable
conditions, Captain Hugo determined
to attempt rescue. To the call for
volunteers his four officers resi- onded
with will; but not single one Of his
crew of cowardly Italians could be in
duced to aid in saving the unfortunate
mariners from certain death. Appeals,
expostulations, threats, and promised
rewards were alike futile; the miser-
able whelps would not stir. Not dar-
ing to leave his ship without an officer
in the hands of the Italians, the brave
Captain had determined 10 stand by
and render such aid as further time
might make possible, when up from the
cooks galley. with his white cap and
apron on and his arms covered
with -four to the elbow, came Henry
Schmit and cody said he was willing
to try his hand at an oar. The boat
was manned and in two trips between
the little steamer and the sinking
bark fourteen lives were saved.
The ancient rhyme has made every
body familiar with the cook:
And IA red cook was he,
Who care more for his kettles and pots
Than he did for the depths Of the sea.
But the cook of song and tradition is
not the hen of this shipwreck on the
edge of the Grand Banks. That brave
fellow may or may not be able to
impart the flavor of Ambrosia TO plum
duff and put soul into lobscorse; but
he has shown the whole world that he
has big heart and cool head, and
that both are at the service OF his
iellow-meh. Hats off to Henry Schmit,
cook of the steamer Sophie in fair
weather, able seaman in an emergency
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-09

made by competent surgeons to dis
lodge the cork, and special corkscrew
instrument was devised for she pur-
pose, but the cork was too firmly i'm
bedded in the bronchial mucous mem
brane, and post-mortem showed that
this membrane had become swollen
all about the cork, so that its removal
would have been impossible except
very soon after its entrance. It posi-
ton had been accurately located. Not
being removed, the cork caused local
inflammation, formation of pus, blood
poisoning, heart failure and death.
after about fifteen days of patient and
courageous suffering.
Foreign bodies, such as false teeth.
bones, and coins, have in some cases
remained hidden and quiet in the lungs
and Unexpectedly coughed up again.
So it is often a serious question what
to dO,-tO operate or let alone. A study
of G36 cases shows death in Al per
eent-wben no operation was performed,
ard in % per cent. after opel alton. In
this late case the result Of non inter
ference might have been better, but
probably would not have been because
the cork SO perfectly plugged tube,
and thus became very offensive for
eign body
A bullet shot into the soft lung
tissue would be less aggrayating than
a soft cork thus situated. The loca-
tion OF the cork as found at the post
norton examination is clearly shown
in the accompanying illustration, which
ho"ys the larynX, or voice box, the
straight bronchial tube, and its bifur-
cations and larger branches. The
amount of breathing surface cut off by
this plug could have been spared, but
the danger of doing nothing to remove
it lay i'm the inAammstoEy action il
could excite. 1t was case in which
the. choice of either policy would be
likely to make the surgeon wish he
had done the other thing instead.
The victim of this unfortunate acct
dent seems TO- have been needlessly
killed in the midst of life of health
add activity. His experience affords
but one lesson-that is. the wisdom of
not making the. mouth the handy re-
oeptacle for articles which, if inhaled,
may as surely kill as q bullet shot into
the lungs; but such fatal accidents are
SO, uncommon and the mouth is so gen
orally made useful in this way that it
is doubtful if the sad fate Of Mr.. b.
will be of any use as q Warrington
more than a. week and a day, at all
events. When articles are inhaled
which do not fit the lung tubes so well
as. a cork, as collar buttons or tacks
tions' to. get fhsm 6s H. AfsAsRe6t eBefa.
tons are painful and tedious to both
patient and surgeon, and one of the
best things you can do with a button,
a pin or cork, is not to put it in your
mouthl-HeGlM MonthlY.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-09
pecl.l,,e na,tle. Of ,hs worla.

Of mode battles the following were
very impor tant in their results: The
victory of the Americans over Bur-
goyne at Saratoga, 1777; the battle of
Valmy, 1892, in which an invading
army of Prussians, Austrians and Hes
SLAMS, under the command of the Duke
of Brunswick, were defeated by the
French under Dumouriez; the battle of
Waterloo, 1916, in which the French.
under Napoleon, were defeated by the
allied armies of Russia, Austria, Prus-
STA and England, under the Duke of
Wellington; and the great naval battle
OF Trafalgar, on October 81, 1906. when
the English under Lord Nelson defeat
ed the French and Spanish. It de-
stroyed the hopes of Napoleon as TO a
successful invasion of England. Lord
Nelson was killed.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-09
HuMoR.



He-Are you fond of tennis, EelIief
She (brightening up)-Oh, yes
Il "a long silence) are you fond Of
rowing, Jack?
He-Ohl yes. think rowing aw-
fully jollyl Don't your
She--I can't say. l don't know how
to row.
He-ohl don't your (Another pain
full silence.)
She-I think the woods and the lake
just lovely, Jack. It reminds me Of
Wordsworth's poetry. Doesn't it make
you think Of it?
Hell never read Wordsworth,
Nellie. Have you? Recite me some.
She-Oh, Jack, / Couldn't But
don't you like poetry?
Hell dun know.
(Another silence that renders them
both nervous.)
Both together-Don't you
He-I beg pardon.
Shell beg pardon; what were you
going to say?
He--Nothing. What were you 60
ing to say?
She-Nothing.
IN b1cHCt budb ChH 10 IclO.)
She-Oh, Jack, if it wasn't for papa,
we could be so happy
He-Well, what does he say?
She-Oh, Jack, he says-that is
he says you're q blockhead
He-Oh! He does, does newell,
my mother says you are an imperti-
nent little mink.
She-Oh, Jack!
He-Oh, Nellie
(Both on the verge of tears).
He-But, Nellie, you know 1 love
you all the same.
She-And Jack, you know loye you
with all my heart.
He-Then let rs marry, and it will
be to late for them to interfere.
She (of the frugal mind)-But on
what, Jack? You are in college yet
and have nothing.
He (bravely)-I have stout heart
and a strong right arm.
She (sotto voice)-Oh, beautiful
(Aloud) But that won't support us.
He-If nay arm can't do it then, it
may now. Slips it around her waist.
She-Oh, Jack, don't please, dont.
He-No, won't stop; as yonr afi-
anced husband am now going to take
the first of many
She-What do you mean?
He kissing her)-Of these, dear
est.
(And they were engaged.
"a year of two afterward she mar
ried bogus Italian count, and he wed
q idow.-NelU York IylIth.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-09

the antediluvians. But there are living
things that outlive them all-things
statelier far than the tallest man or
largest quadruped, living things that
were companions OF the gray boards be-
fore the food and lived to bless their
hoary-headed grandchildren. Such are
now the only living link between MS and
the remote past. They are trees-grand
old trees, about which memories cluster
like the trailing vines In the shadows
of the dark forest, in the light Of the
lofty hills in the warmth and beauty of
the broad plains Of the great globe, they
stand in matchless dignity. But they
are few. They are patriarchs in the So
ciety of the vegetable kingdom, receiv-
ing the homage OF myriads Of children.
With what mute eloquence do they ad-
dress us? With what moving pathos do
the trees or O1fvet SufScourso of Joeus,
his beautiful life and sublime death?
How the cedars OF Lebanon talk of Solo
-uuss ftsEurzs us1sa Rla of
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bewaIled his betrothcd's fate until the
end OF his life,
In l77g Washington sent Gen. Wayne
Mad Anthony-to storm the fort on
Stony Point. In the Hudson Highlands.
Under black walnut tree. In tho still
ness of night. Wayne gave his orders TO
his little band, and stealthily as tigers
they approached the fort and surprised
said 10 washington when asked II he
could carry the fort, @I'll storm hell II
you will only plan IL, wrote to the chief,
sThe fort and garrison and Col. John
ston are ours. The walnut tree has
persisted
Near Seaconnet r L, stood vener-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-09

in the height of its glory and estimated
20 be 600 years old when Hooker and his
followers planted the seeds of COM
monwealth there. On stormy night in
August, 1854, the old oak was prostrat-
ed. Connected with 1t is a curious cpl
sode. When James H. assembled the
English throne he took measures to sup
press the growth of free government in
America, and sent over Edmund Andross
to take away the charters from the differ
ent Colonies and rule over them as Gov
ernor General. Connecticut refused TO
gi-a-nn- har- chartar and when Andross
attempted TO seize ii during a night ses-
sion OF the Assembly, Capt. Wadsworth