Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-11-24

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OF a misconception on the part OF the
Arabs. 1t appears that young official
of the Congo Free State visited the viii
lage of Rebi- Rebi and announced that II
was to be taken as trading station.
The Arabs objected and the officer said
that he would return with 2, 900 men and
take the place by force. He returned
with fifteen blacks and was promptly
killed, with his escort, and his body
handed over to the cannibal blacks.
When Major Hodister appeared soon
afterwards with his following, the Arabs,
thinking they were the 2, 900 men spoken
of, fired into them. Major Hodister was
on foot leading his horse, and when the
Arabs fired, his followers were about to
reply, but he placed himself in front OF
them, throwing up his arms and order
ing them not to fire. He then advanced
towards the Arabs on foot, with his
horse. The Major intended to reason
with the Arabs, and thought his presence
would prevent bloodshed. He had not
advanced far, however, when the Arabs
again opened fire. Unfortunately Major
Hodister and several others were shot
down, and those who did not escape
were either shot or otherwise killed, the
Arabs making a terrible onslaught on
the band. of the thirteen whites, seven
were killed. and, as customary, the Arabs
cut off the heads of the slain and gave
them and the bodies to the blacks as
spoils of victory. One of the first be-
headed was Major Hodister. and his
body was given to the cannibals and
eaten up. Those who could made good
their escape. The six whites who re-
manned run to the river and got away in
a canoe. Going down the stream to-
wards Stanley Pool, they had long and
trying journey before them, and during
the trip down the river one of the poor
fellows was attacked with dysentery, to
which lie succumbed. A second became
crazed and jumped overheard. The re-
mainder, after a terrible journey, reached
Matadi.
A GOOD many people are still cudgel-
ling their brains in order to understand
why it is that the discovery of America
was celebrated on October ~ and also
on October 81. They know that Column
bus first landed on the western hemis-
phere on October ~, 1892, and so it is
puzzling to some that good part OF the
celebration, including the dedication OF
the Worlds Fair buildings at Chicago,
should have taken place on the 21st.
The matter is not very difficult to under
stand, however, with little thought.
The trouble grows out of the difference
between the Julian and the Gregorian
modes of reckoning. The latter was cs-
tablished by Pope Gregory XIII in 1882,
when the Julian calendar, which had no
leap years and no means of adjustment,
was ten days out of the way. When
Great Britain accepted the Gregorian
calendar, about the middle of the last
century, there was difference of eleven
days between Old Style and New Style,
as the two modes of reckoning are called,
and the Sd of September was made the
14th. At the end of the fifteenth cen
fury the difference was about nine days,
and we must add that number of days to
the date of the discovery as ordinarily
given in order to reach the true date.
October 21st was the actual anniversary
of the great event in Columbus's life.
IT is not always the easiest thing in
the world to commit suicide. 1t very
often happens that some misguided NOR
tai will attempt to end his life, and at
the critical moment will find his hand
stayed by some IMPLYING fellow being,
or he will be deferred by the fear of
death, which after all proves stronger
than the distaste for life. Records of
suicides by drowning, hanging, poison
and the knife are common enough, but
it remained for one Lawrence Merki, of
Saginaw, Michigan, to introduce to the
world new manner of taking ones life.
This enterprising genius was confined in
Jail for the offence of being intoxicated,
and, as he was presumably stricken by
remorse, he en- led his life by swallowing
his undersnirt
THE condensing of milk is an American
invention, and the method in foreign
countries, as France and Switzerland, as
we'll as in England, where the business
is now carried on, is precisely the same
as the American way. This is to evapo-
rate the water from the milk by steam
heat in vacuum pans, at such low tenn
perature as will entirely avoid danger of
burning it. SO that not only is steam
needed to keep up the vacuum by air
pumps and remove the vapor from the
pans. but to furnish the heat. A ten
horse mower boiler, or one to furnish
steam for ten-horse power engine,
would do all the work for q small fac
tory using 1000 lbs of milk daily. A
two horsepower engine would do the
pumping required to keep the vacuum
perfect. This quantity of milk will
furnish one-fourth as much condensed.
LIEUTENANT PEARY says that he has
never found more wide-awakc, intelli-
gent and capable race of men than the
little community of two hundred and
fifty souls in the north of Greenland,
who have no intercourse with the rest of
the world, and scarcely any traditions of
such world. 1t reminds us of what
Quatrefages, the great French ethnolo-
gist. said, that ''the first fossil man was
every inch a man as much as the latest
product of civilization" Man is found
To be man whether under the equator or
at the poles.
Mr.. GEORGE t. ANGEL, President of
the American Humane Education Society,".
proposes "a humane congress of all ma
tions" to meet at Chicago during the
Worlds Fair, sits object being" he
saws. ''to discuss and ascertain the best
plans of humanely educating all civil
lied nations, not only for the prevention
of national and international wars, and
the conflicts between capital and labor,
but also for the best prevention of every
form of cruelty both to our own and the
lower races that depend upon our care.