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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-31
DEER CAPTURED BY TRICKS.


The manner in which the South
American Indians hunt deer In the
Cordilleras is very interesting and
somewhat ingenious. They first as
certain the locality In which the an
finals congregate to Craze, and then
the men, women and children OF the
tribe make extensive preparations to
hem in the herd. In order TO cause
stampede they blow horns, yell and
make other bewilderiDg and outland-
ish noises. Asa natural consequence
the frightened deer quit their grazing
places. They form in line In regular
marching order, the elder males lead
ing the way, followed by the females
ard young, while the rear of the
column is brought up by the young
bucks, who act as protectors to the
centers.
The Indians now close in upon
them, seeing which the animals pre-
pare to do battle for their lives The
hunters then proceed to prepare the
instruments of destruction, consist
ing OF large lances, resinous torches
and nooses fixed to long poles.
The worst enemy Of the deer Is the
jaguar and wildcat, and their AMI
mostly to them is such that they
have been known to leap over hum
ter in order to attack either of these
feline foes. The Indians, knowing
this, employ it to great advantage
during these hunts. The women
stuff number of jaguar and cat
skins, which are placed in prominent
positions on the edges of precipices,
in full view of the deer. Immedi-
ately the bucks make violent effort
to get at them, in order to hurl them
into the abyss beneath, but are thus
treated themselves by the willy hun-i
tiers, who push them over the cliff,
where they are quickly hamstrung or
otherwise disabled by the women,
who are stationed below. After the
first onslaught on the stuffed figures,
the remaining deer seem to recognize
the fact that they have been tricl -
and huddle together, awaiting 40
other attack. 4
Then the Indians throw ligE q
torches among them and panh H.
sues. They make desperate efforts
to escape, but the relentless. hunters
drive them over the crags until they
see that a sufficient number have
been captured-usually four or five
hundred. They do not usually harm
the females and fawns and also allow
few bucks to escape. Very seldom
is doe killed, and If doe fawn is
captured it is Immediately liberated.
The flesh is eaten by the Indians and
also carried to the villages to be sold.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-31
TREATING TYPHus.

How New York Patients Are Cared For
at the North Brother Island Hospital.
When contagious disease is con-
tracted inTNew York City, the patient
is Immediately hustled off to the con-
tagious disease hospital at North
Brother Island.
North Brother Island Is at the ex-
treme north end of the archipelago
in the East River, and is dotted with
institutions for the suffering and the
criminal OF the city. 1t is cut off
from the Fordham shore by only 700
yards of water, too short a distance,
perhaps, for absolute safety to the
inhabitants of the city. Yet the girth
of water which divides 1t from the
shore rs an effective guarantee against
anything but general epidemic.
The Health Department hospital
boat Franklin Edison, which has left
the Reception Hospital, at the foot
Of East Sixteenth street, daily for the
past eight weeks, invariably convey
ing one or two or more afflicted pas
sengers for North Brother Island, has
had on every trip to pass this string
Of refugees.
North Brother Island Is the dump
ing ground for typhus-stricken pa
tients. 1t is scarcely twelve acres in
extent, and with South Brother
Island, little less in size, almost
fills the Sound opposite 13Sth street.
1t is not unlike a reclaimed sand bank.
In combating the typhus epidemic
the Health Department has erected
number of walled tents on North
Brother Island for the treatment
both Of suffering and convalescent
patients. The plan of housing pa
tients in open structures Of this
kind is comparatively modern, and
some eminent authorities claim that
more likely to be cured in structures
of this character than in brick or
stone buildings. In tents, the au-
thorities claim, the ventilation Is
better, as the patients in them en-
10y the advantage of constant cir
culation of pure lair without being
exposed to any draughts Chief
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-31

Clerk Craig explained the course OF
treatment TO which typhus patient
was subjected from the time OF quar-
antining until state OF GONZALES
cence and cure was reached.
Now, let us suppose" said Mr..
Craig, @that DR.. Edison has received
notice by postal card addressed to the
Health Board from a tenement house
in this city that certain person, say
a 7-year-old child, is suffering from
contagious disease OF some kind.
DIR. Edison sends an expert examiner
of the department Immediately to
determine the disease. The disease
Is determined as scarlet fever. The
physician finds that the child is at
tending school. He decides that it
must be removed from home. The
mother protests. He gives her the
option of dressing and coming along
with her child. Maybe she comes,
maybe she doesn't. The child is
taken In an ambulance, the house
dislnfected and all clothes removed
in a wagon. The child Is taken to
the willard Parker Hospital, where
the mother can remain until the pa
tient Is discharged. Just as soon as
DIR. Edison has notice of the case he
sends to the principal OF the school
the child attended notice of the out
break of the disease and instruction
not to allow any members Of the fam
lily to attend.
"If the case was defined as one OF
typhus the patient would be taken
I'm an ambulance to the foot OF East
Sixteenth street TO the Reception
Hospital. Here the. patient would
undergo special system OF dlsinfec-
ton established by the board. The
hospital itself is protected from the
street by high fence. Once within
the building the patient is stripped
of all clothing and put into one sec
ton, where he is kept for transmits
sion to the island. The rooms are
divided by galvanized partition, and
his clothing and effects are left In the
other section for baking or destruc-
ton as the department may see 1T"
Mr.. Craig thus described the proc
esses OF "nak1ng" and destroying.
The former "a q system Of disinfection
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-31

VIM. @. 0ouGy, John T. Stuart. VIM. J.
Allen. John n. Eden, VIM. II. Thornton,
John Dougherty, David Nj. Woodson.
Silas l.. Bryan. Chauncey l.. Higbee.
VIM. r. Morrison, stephen A. Hurlbut,
Don Morrison, James @. ROBIN son, VIM.
b. Anderson, zadoc Casey--alI OF whom
had State reputation. and some OF
whom became known To the country at
large.
Conspicuous among the Republican
speakers were Abraham Lincoln, Lyman
Trumbull. Leonard SWEET, Isaac N.
Arnold. Joseph Gillespie. Richard j.
Oglesby, Norman b. Judd, Shelby M.
Cullom. Gustavas Koerner. T.. M.
Haines, Casper Butz. VIM. b. Plato,
Thos. J. Henderson, Cyrus Epler and
John Woods.
1t is enough to say of tho standing OF
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-31

It the time Of the electfcn O9i. Bisseu
required the attention OF nurse as
much as an infant would. He had be-
come. under his sufferngs, morose and
peevish. Tho removal Of the invalid to
the capital was accomplished laborious-
ly. but quietly, and In a sitting posture
at the mansion. the Governor-elect took
the oath OF office and assumed his du-
ties. During his residence there he was
perhaps as many as half dozen times
outside the Governors house for a ride,
but all knew Bissell was dying man.
He survived till March. 1860, and died
In the mansion. being succeeded for The
remainder OF his term, ten months, by
Lieut.. Gov. John Wood. OF Quincy.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-31

gress and taken his seat the year before,
Notwithstanding by the State Constitu-
ton he was ineligible, on account OF he
term for which he was elected Judge OF
the Circuit Court not having expired.
The Constitution said he was not eligi-
BILE for any Office during his term as
Judge, nor for one year thereafter, and
that any votes cast for him were null
and void. There was the case, too, Of
Gen. Matteson, who had sought to be
elected to the United States Senate I'M
der substantially similar circumstances.
But behind all this were two other inn
portant points; first, that the challenge
and acceptance having been withdrawn,
and the case left as though no belliger-
ent correspondence had taken place, 1T
was purely matter OF conscience with
Col. Bissell whether he could take the
oath or not.
AS the day of election approached the
excitement gained In intensity. In the
previous Presidential contest, 1852, the
vote had stood: Pierce, Democrat, 3d.
597; Scott, Wing, 64,934; Hale, Aboll-
tlon, 1896. 1t was generally assumed
that the Abolition vote would go TO Bis
sell for Governor. But the great num-
Der OF Virginians, Kentuckians and Ten
nesseeans who had been ~old Wings"
and who had now attached themselves
to the fortunes of Douglas, made the
contest exceedingly doubtful from ma
tional point of view. Besides, the growth
of Illinois in population, and the acces-
sions to the polling strength by young
men coming TO their majority, were ex-
pected to make an increase of from So
900 to 100 900 in the vote. One thing
entered into the calculations of both
sides: that every person throughout the
State with the right of suffrage who
could go or be taken to the polls would
surely vote.
In those days communication between
the capital and other parts of the State
was much slower than IL Is now. and It
was several weeks before the result
could be fully known. Eag rless TO
know how the election had gone seems a
faint term as applied to the interest OF
the people, but at length IL was ascer-
tanned that Buchanan had carried the
ELECTORAL vote and Bissell had been
elected Governor. The Presidential
vote stood Buchanan, 1O5,34S; Free
mont, 6,lS9; Fillmore, 37,444. Bueh-
anan's plurality, $3.50. The full vote
for Governor Is not accessible where
this Is written, but Blssell's majority
was 400 or thereabouts. ~
IL has been stated above that Bissell
was almost helpless invalid. He had
come home from the Mexican war with a
chronic disease which carried away or
seriously impaired the health OF the vol
unteers. His condition was much worse
than was generally thought, but this
was carefully concealed from the public.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-31

tingulshed character, he was held in the
highest respect and admiration. At the
time of INSTRUMENTATION, however, and,
indeed, through the remainder OF his
career, heswaS an almost helpless in
valid. But one speech was delivered by
him in the canvass, and that was from
his chair at a meeting in Belleville.
Richardson was a Kentuckian, about
As years of age. He was eight or ten
years member of the Legislature, and
IN 1914. Speaker of the House. When
the Mexican war broke out he raised a
company, served as Captain, and on the
field OF Buona Vista was promoted by
the Unanimous vote Of his regiment.
Returning, he was, in 1S4T, elected TO
Congress, wnere he served until nomin-
ated for Governor, when he resigned.
Col. Bissell was New W rker, born
in 1911, and therefore about the same
age as his competitor. He was educated
for the medical profession, graduating
in Philadelphia in 1894, and practiced in
Illinois till 1910, when he was admitted
to the bar Like Richardson, he went
to the Mexican war as Captain, was
promoted on the field of Buena Vista,
and returning was u member Of Con-
gross from l849 to 1855.
These, then, were the generals For
President and Governor, Fremont and
Bissell on one side and Buchanan and
Richardson on the other. The lines
were closely drawn, and the campaign
opened. From Galena to Cairo, from
the Wabash to the Mississippi, resound-
cd the dreadful note of preparation.
Soon the State was confiagra-
tioa of enthusiasm and excitement.
Dinna ye hear the slogan? IT'S
the Douglas and his men!' was in
scribed on the banners of the Democ-
racy. ~Froe States, free speech, free
doms and Fremont" rang out from
amidst the clangor of the Republican
brass bands Clubs were organized;
public documents were In demand. The
exploits of the "groat Pathfinder,
his hard ships in exploring the
Western country, were printed in
pamphlets and scattered broadcast. The
life and services of James Buchanan, the
old public functionary, found equal cir
culation among the pc pie. State COM
mittee rooms OF both parties exhibited
the greatest activity, and at frequent
sessions the details of the canvass were
gone over with the utmost care, reports
recetsed from the different districts and
counties, and public speakers assigned
to the several localities where 1t was
supposed they would do the most good
Mr.. Douglas placed himself wholly al
the Disposal of the DemoC ratio commit
tee, and no amount of physical tension
was too great for his massive, tireless
constitution. The home talent engaged
on the. Democratic side embraced the
eleven candidates Tor electors, among
whom were A. NJ. Harrington, Charles
H. Constable. Samuel M. Moulton, Or
lando b. Ficklin, VIM. A. J. Sparks, anc
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-31


The year 1856 was a most remarkable
one In Illinois politics. It was In that
year that th3 present Republican party
was organized, with Fremont and Day
ton at the head OF it's electoral tickot.
The Chairman of the Senate Commit
tee on Territories, Judge Douglas, and
the Chairman of the House COMMITTEES,
Col. William A. Richardson, were both
Illinoisans, 10th a long time in Con-
gross, ywheel-horses in all campaigns,
and each with a great and enthusiastic
following ~Fearlessness was trait
common to beth. They determined to
meet the issue squarely and without
flnching. At Cincinnati Col. Richard
son headed tle Democratic delegation,
and with 1t worked earnestly to secure
the Presidential nomination for Douglas.
Though receiving flattering support,
Immediately on Mr.. Buchanan's vote
reaching q majority the Senator tele-
graphed awithdrawal of his name and
Immediately entered the canvass In ad-
vocacy OF the ticket.
By one accord the Democratic nom
ination for Governor fell TO Col. Rich
ardson, and with almost equal unanimity
the Republicans nominated VIM. III. Bis
sell, the former residing In Quincy, the
latter in Belleville. Richardson was q
powerfully built man, raw boned, with
keen gray eyes under shaggy eyebrows,
somewhat careless in dress, a strong
grasp, and a manly mans smile. Bis
sell, in his Congressional days, was as
complete a contrast as one would or
dinarily see. He was of medium size,
clean haven, except tuft of black
beard coming down an inch or so upon
his cheek, natty in his apparel, straight,
active in movement, and OF very pleas
ing address. In speaking he was pre-
else, parrowly escaping affectation, al
ways rhetorical, and sometimes Cratori-
cal. At the Belleville bar. where he
practiced with such legal luminaries as
John Reynolds, Lyman and George
Trumbull, Gustavus Koerner, Jehu
Baker, w. H. Underwood, H. X. s..
O'Melveny, Joseph Gillespie, Murray
Morrison, James shields, w. II. Snyder,
Philip b. Fouke, and others of like dis
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-31


the then rising young orator, John A.
Logan, together with host OF speak
ers, many OF whom have since reached
more or less distinction. The Repub-
lican olectoral ticket was made up of
names IKE John M : Palmer, Leonard
SWEET, William p. Kellogg, Henry p. II.
Bromwell, Ebenezer Peck and Richard
Yates.
In their nominations for county
officers, members of the Legislature,
Circuit Judges and Congress both par
ties put mp the very best material that
could be brought in the field. Many OF
these were pleasing and earnest speak
ers. The members of Congress elected
that year were r. b. Washburne, John
+. Fnrnsworth, Owen Lovejoy, William
p. KELLOGG. ,Repnblicans, and Isaac N.
Morris, Thomas L. Harris, Aaron Shaw,
Robert smith and Samuel s. Marshall,
Dem ocrats.
Among the distinguished Democratic
campaigners were John A. McClernand,
Usher +. Liader. James W. Singleton,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-31
A Helpful Virginia Girl.

In the family Of George Munday,
living between Waterford and Wheat
land, the father, mother, son and
daughter were all down with the grip,
leaving only the youngest daughter,
Florence, about Is years OF age, to
aid the rest. She attended to the
household duties and the sick, and for
two or three days fed and curried six
horses, fed and MIXED six cows, and
also walked through the snow about
a quarter of mile carrying corn, and
when she reached them, feeding it,
with straw and fodder, to thirty head
of cattle. Having to go to a neigh
Dor to send for doctor for one of her
sick, their condition was discovered,
and of course, there was plenty Of
helm afterward. -Richmon Dispatch.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-31
AN ANCIENT FARM HOUSE.


what the French Hostsiriss Were Like
in the Middle Ages.
The houses OF the farmers and the
country people differed then as now,
according to their rank and prosper
ity, and also according to the district
they Inhabited, says the Fortnightly
Review. The yeoman farmer, and
even the well-to-dO husbandman,
dweit in a solid house OF brick or
stone, tiled or slated, with a paved
yard separating it from the barns, the
out-houses, the dairy and cattle pens.
The farm house, which In England
was always constructed with south
ern aspect, as invariably faced the
east in Aquitaine, while to the rear,
well open to the west, was long
tiled veranda, where in winter after
Moons the hemp-picklng, the WOOL
carding, ETC., was done. Within, the
vast kitchen glowed In the light OF
the fire-almost as unextinguishable
as the vestal virgins. Peat, coal and
wood were each abundantly employed,
and for tritling rent, generally paid
in kind, the lord of the manor would
permit the farmers on his land to cut
their turyes from his bog or their
boughs from his forest. Fuel was
not only actually but relatively
cheaper in the middle ages than to-
day, for the boys were not drained in
those days, the forest covered great
expanses, and the cost of carriage
made it almost impossible to trans
port their produce. In almost every
shire of France and England the sup
ply of, fuel was in excess of the de-
mand.
This hospitablc fire flared up a
chimney proportioned to It's size,
lighting the huge brick oven, the
iron fire-dogs, the bellows, shovel,
gridiron, ladies, caldrons, sauce-pans,
mortar, Tin pals and other utensils
that stood on the brackets of the
hearth; and irradiating the brass and
copper pots, the metal candlesticks,
the lamp, the lantern, the not unfre-
quent silver beaker, and the glass
drinking cups that were ranged on
the chests and cupboards round the
walls. Near this fire stood high
brcked settle, the masters ingle
corner, and under the great mantel
of the chimney narrower benches
were set in the brick. Within easy
reach OF the hearth deep oak chest
held the logs for burning. 1t was
generally matched by a handsome
wedding chest with carved or painted
front, long enough to contain grown
person full length Gas the readers of
"Ginerva" will mournfully remember),
but more usually filed, it must be
admitted, with the best clothes, the
trlnkets and the savings of the house
hold. The registers of the Chatelet
rGeora g9 open er% u sS3n W1en aaTg a. s
and it is surprising how many clasps
or jewels, girdles of pearls, golden
headdresses and rings and purses full
OF gold were stolen from quite hum
BILE households. Our forefathers in
vested their capital in cups or trink-
cts of precious metal, pretty to look
at, easy to hide, and readily con-
verted into cash when necessity de-
mandpd n sacrifice
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-31

cret Service, and went through the
lines into Richmond, entered the
rebel army, becoming spy, and got
intelligence that would save the army
OF Pope. AS soon as he obtained the
intelligence, he worked his way
through the rebel lines. swan the
river, got across safely, and informed
General Pope OF the danger which
menaced him. And he has evidence
TO show for 1t, being the signatures
of Generals Pope and Slgel."
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-31
Names OF Plants.

The number of countries which
have contributed their quota to the
nomenclature Of English plants Is
legion. Beginning with France we
have the dent de lion-liOn's tooth
whence we derive our dandelion.
The flowcr-de-luce, again, which Mr..
Dyer thinks was name applied to
the iris, comes to us through the
French fleur de LOuis-tradition as
serting that this plant was worn as a
device by King Louis VII. of France.
Buckwheat is derived from the Dutch
word Rockwell, and adder's tongue
adde stong. In like manner the
name tulip is traceable to the word
thonlyban in the Persian language
signifying turban. So, too, our
English word lilac is nothing more
than an anglicized form of another
word in the Persian tongue, namely,
alag.
A large number of plants owe their
names to those by whom they were
first discovered and introduced into
other chimes. The fuchsia stands in
debted for It's name to Leonard Fuchs,
an eminent German botanist, and the
dahlia was - named in honor of a
Swedish botanist named Dahl. A
long list of plant names might be
formed which bear what might be
termed animal and bird pretlxes-as,
for example, horse beans, horse chest
nuts, dog violets and dog roses; cats
faces, name applied to the plant
known to botanical students as the
viola tricolor; cats eyes, veronica
chamadrys; cats tails and catkins.
The goose grass is known to the
country people in Northamptonshire
as pig tail, and in Yorkshire a name
given to the fruit Of the orat@gus
oxyacantha is bull horns.
Many plant names have been sug-
gested by the feathcred race, particu-
larry goose tongue, cuckoo buds (men-
toned by Shakspeare), cuckoo flow
ers, stork's bill and cranes bill. One
of the popular names OF the arum is
"parson in the pulpit" and Devon
shire term for the sweet scabriosis Is
"mournful widow" The campion is
not infrequently called "plum pud-
ding" and in the nelghborhood of
Torquay 1t is not unusual to hear III
cones spoken of as oysters"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-31
NEBRAsKA's BUILDING.

1t Is of a Unique Romanesque style.
a dr. outrelnasA - aso.aI~.ss,rri-~, -,-isa'~
arrangement combines to a remark,
able degree the qualities Of utility,
beauty, and small cost for construc-
tion. The building will cover 1852
square feet, not including a large We
randa on the side adjoining the little
lake. The agricultural and general
exhibit Is to be arranged in a hall
l0Ox8O feet. Facing the exhibit hall
on the first floor are offices, balconies.
and lobby.
The second story has another large
hall for art and educational exhibits
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-31

cAlSOcu anu obl ID. II. o hHiEM
exists in the North Market and
Franklin street saloons. He got what
education he has received at the old
Kinzie School, and went into politics
at an early age. He was first en-
ployed in the Office of the North Town
Clerk, and afterward became North
Town Clerk himself. He was elected
Alderman six years ago, and has been
twice reelected.
\. M. Gosselin.
Stephen NJ. Gosselin, Alderman Of
the Seventeenth Ward, Ia native Of
Chicago, descended of German par
entage. He is now but little over
80 years old, and is a graduate of the
local public schools and West Side
high schools. He Is lawyer, hav-
ing been admitted to the bar about
five years ago. He is now serving
his first, term In the Council, having
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-31

Senatorial District at Springfield.
He has been a committeeman from
his ward for a number Of years, has
held minor appointive positions in
the City Hall and other public offices,
and has been more or less of local
politician for long time. He was
elected to the Council year ago.
p. j. German.
p. ]. German, Alderman OF the
Thirty-third Ward, was originally an