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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-07-14
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bed
Harvest now is different thing.
farmer drives into the fieli with his Irvine
binder and guides four horses over more
ground in a day than forty men could have
covered in the ancient way. The machine
attacks the standing grain, cut 1t, binds IL
I'm sheaves, and losses them aside with
finished, impatient motion. a still later
DEVELOPMENT has come with improved
machinery. Wheat. which used to require
cutting before it was fairly ripe In order
that the last of the field might be finished
before IL became too ripe may no" be per-
mitted to grow yellow and rich with the
filed grain before a sound OF the sickle is
heard Thus matured 1t may be thrashed
at once.
From Sickle to Thrashing Floor.
The thrashing machine Is set In readl-
ness at the barn and the harvester Is
driven into the field while the
fire is building under the boiler in
the engine which is to drive the sep
arator. II the field be large the reaper
is adjusted with an elevator or endless
belt that carries the fallen grain up over
! a roller and drops IL into the broad bed of
| n wagon uriven alongside When the wagon
| Is full 1t goes TO the thrashing machine
| and another wagon takes its place under
the elevator The grain In the straw Is
pitched TO the table OF the separator and
fed into the cylinder by careful man.
| Wheat that was standing and waving In
the morning sunshine is heaped In bint at
| EVENING" visible, golden answer to the
| prayer; "Givc us THIS day our daily bread. v
| Harvest time used to be a season of terror
! for the women who must cook for "A crowd
of hungry men none too tender OF speech.
none to slow TO complain. What ravenous
eaters they we're! And what wreck they
made OF loaded table!
Courtesy Among Housewives.
Women in the country borrow u good
deal one from the other. They are long
way from market, and II need be they can
school themselves to get along with very
little. But when social skies are clear each
housewife can find plenty of excuse fol
drumming over to the neighbCr's house,
IL haven't any right To come without
bring home something OF yours know
that pro ests the visitor; "but wanted
to use a colander. and wondered IL yoi
was using yours
or course the woman visited has M
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-07-14

BARRIERS, who have TO be silent so
much OF the time, have taken to
writing their jokes, like other witty
people.
"Do you think I-aw-shall have a
good beard?" asked an unpromising
candidate for such honors-
"rm afraid not, SIR answered the
barber, after close Inspection.
saw, weally. My fawther has aw
VERY fine beard. you know"
sMaybe YOU take after your mann
ma. siri"-Natlonal Barber.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-07-14

ears. That was usually the middle o; May,
though some farmers discounted the
prophecy little and planted carrier while
still others waited-through choice or COM
pulsion-and put in their crops as late as
the first OF Jure. In either case much de-
I ended on the season. and 1t was rs likely
to prove the early or the late man wise as
10 follow the average rule. In those times,
after the narrowing was done, the hired
man "laid out the land" He bad timber
twelve feet long supported on three legs at
equal distance apart. In front was PAIR
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-07-14
Co.,.,c,t scr.,ch.

x Colorado paper tells or "a pfctur-
esoue yarn about = chicken fancier
who was very much troubled by the
propensity Of hens to scratch. After
many experiments he at last sue
ceeded in crossing a breed or long
legged Dramas with short-legged
bantams in such way that chick
ems had one long leg and one short
one. When they attempted to
scratch they lost their balance and
fell over, which, after few trials,
was sufficient to show that scratch-
ing was impossible, and they gave
1t up.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-07-14

leges. but IL is doubtful II they win more
patrons or heal the sick more readily than
do the old men who jog along behind In
tiently treading muddy roads 10 the gloom
of a starless night
Had to Borrow Fire.
But the muddy road Is becoming thing
of the past Tile draining Is reclaiming
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-07-14

king hills when II Is driven from tho neld-
Harvest OF wheat comes about the Fourth
OF July. Our patriotic fathers. sitting mp
there IN the hall at Philndclphia. never
knew how wido land their law would
cover. or they would have hurried the ses-
slons somewhat and set the nations holiday
Ia June or made heavy their wheels so that
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-07-14

sip tho while. and trading recipes for
graham bread and sweet pickloA IL the
doctor be called upoh I'm case OF sickness,
and he needs tumbler or a spoon. or Bit
OF sugar. no goes 20 the cupboard and
finds IL sHelps himself" say the neigh
bors, and they like him for IL OF course.
the younger doctors take no such privi-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-07-14
Natural Result.

One OF the participants in a sleep
fasting contest held recently in san
Francisco remained awake Tor 100
hours. He is now an inmate OF a
lunatic asylum.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-07-14

thought OF ever needing the colaDder, and
In the granting of requests the time Of
visit Is extended till approaching dinner
honr compels return. IL isn't much, but IL
Is social lie for the country woman.
There is less formality In the domestic
life OF the countrymen. Brown takes his
family to spend Sunday With Jones and
uhis folks Mrs. Brown assists In wash
ing up the dinner dishes, exchanging gos-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-07-14

bills announce All the nelghbors come 10
the sale and AN auctioneer gets the best
prices he can. 1t Is place for the politi-
clan. aud he always improves his oppor-
tunities For the day the widows home Is
"A place of hustle and confusion. and when
night comes she comforts the children
while strange hands lead away the favorite
COW or the yearling colt. OF tumble Into
wagons the farm tools with which shjs"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-07-14
OUT In THE COUNTRY.
\ STUDY OF RURAL SCENES
AND INCIDENTS.

Methods of Farm Life Con rasted with
Those in Vogue when Pioneers Held
sway-Seed Time and Harvest. Marriage
Bells and Funeral Marches.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-07-14

of thills between which the steadiest horse
on the place was hitched The hired man
drove forward across the mellowed held'
his @iharkern scraping three shallow trench-
es I'm the earth. Coming cack, MS right
hand glegn ran in the outer trench made IN
the proceed .ng trip, and the two remaining
marking new lines on ths face OF the neld'
This back -nnd-forth process was repeated
Till the field was marked with parallel
lines from side to side. Then the cross
marking began. cutting the surface into
little squares OF four feet, and into the In
tersections of the trenches was dropped the
corn.
BOYS and girls worked as choppers carry
fnp half q peck or so OF ssleciei seed corn
fn a shallow basket and pumping down
three or four grains as they walked forward
Behind them came the "coverers." men with
hoes WHO heaped the finest and softest
earth over tho bright grains OF corn ana
patted the little mount gently with the llat
of the hoe as they passed on TO succeeding
hills, troopers were paid 70 cents Day
for their work, while coverers received
from as cents to SL25, depending on the
scarcity OF adult field hands. There were
always plenty OF children. When the held
was planted and OF tho merry hours that
passod Nhi.e that Was doing no tatmer boy
needs 70 be remind sd-the formal quitting
~ the field was celebrated by the skiing
hill y This was the last remnant OF fetish
worship I'm the country. hill was pre-
pared. perhaps yard in diameter, and
upon its surface was thickly scattered the
remnant of seed In the baskets. MELON
earth was piled on top. aud the king hill
was done. II was IN essence an attempt e
propitinte the season. and win TOR the Held
fair days and warm nights. or course tho
corn IN the king hill never matHred. II
stood too thick for that But no enc asked
IL 20 mature. IL IL only grew rank and Sc
happy pace for the earnest stalks In th'
Geld. that was all that was required OF It.
The Machine Is Quicker.
Corn planting nowadays Is done with
machine, on which sit two men. One drive
the horses In right ne across the heldth
other sitting sldewise. pulls ever at eacl
fonr feet OF pro1ress and drops four grain
OF corn into two hills at a time. coverin
them nd disfnisslng them with metallic
mechanical comfpnnd 10 multiply and re
plenish the earth. But there IS no senti
ment Ia sheck rover. aud there are n
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-07-14
HUMoR OF TIE WEEK.
STORIES TOLD BY FUNNY MEN
OF THE PRESS.

Many Odd, Curious. and Laughabis
Phases of Human Nature Graphically
Portrayed by Eminent Word Artists Of
Our own Day.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-08-19
New Southern Enterprises.

A glance at the list of new enterprises
organized or established in the South
during the past week, shows continued
activity. Among those mentioned by
the Manufacturers Record in it's issue of
August 10, the following are the more
important: A $500, 900 sugar planting
and manufacturing company at Plaque.
mine, La. q $40, 900 lumber company at
Arkansas City, Ark; $50, 900 spok e
manufacturing company at Union City,
Tenn. q 800, 900 bushel grain elevator at
Southport, La; $1,000 canning COM
pany at Memphis, Tenn. (; $40, 900 can
merry company at Sharon, Tenn. /; a $1O,-
600 manufacturing company at Hender-
son, KY; a $4,000 water works com
paDy at Newnan, Ga. a s., 900 canning
company at Cards, Miss. n $3h0, 900
barb wire and nail works company Mt
Kanawha City, w. Va; two 81, ,O00, 900
coal companies at Beattsville, Ky ;a $50.
600 refining company at Louisville, KY.
Q 800, 600 distilling company at Balti.
more, Md. a $40, 900 cottonsecd oil com
pany at Rockwell. Tex $50, 900 can.
ming company at Barstow, Texas; a $50,
600 steam laundry company at New Or
leans, La. a $3.50, 900 paper mill com.
pany at Louisville, KY. and $500, 900
publishing company at Baltimore, Md.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-08-19
Jud &c Joseph J. Davis Dead.

RALEIaH, N. C.--Associate Justice
Joseph j. Davis, of the Supreme Court,
died Monday night at bis home at Louis
burg. The flags on the capitol were
half masted. The entrance to the su-
preme Court building, the door TO the
court room and the chair in which Judge
Davis sat were drsped in mourning. His
death was not unexpected. For two or
three years, since his first attack Of pa
ralysis, he had been very feeble and had
been able to do very little work. During
the two last terms he. was not on the
bench. Six weeks ago he was taken to
Morehead City in the hope that the air
would benefit him, but retu' ned unim
proved. He was greatly esteemed, as a
gallant captain in Gen. Scales brigade,
as the representative Eve years Of this
congressional district and as a justice OF
the court since 1886 His funeral was
held Tuesday morning at Louisl,nrg, and
will be attended by the membe and
officers of the court aud several State
officers.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-08-19
Clay King's Sentence COMMITTED.

MEMPHIs, TKNN.-Governor Buchanan
in Nashville commuted to imprisonment
for life the sentence of Colonel III. Clay
King, who was TO have been hanged
Friday for. the murder of David ii
Poston on March 18th last on q public
street in this city.
Unusual pressure was brought to bear
upon the Governor during the past few
days. Petitions signed by thousands
from Tennessee and Kentucky reached
the Chief Executive. Delegations from
military and civic societies besieged him,
aud the wife and daughter of the con
demned man, and the wives and daugh
ters of other prominent citizens made
personal appeals. Senator Harris and
other leading politicians made several
calls upon him, and finally succeeded 10
securing the desired Communication.
The prisoner heard the news with but
little interest. He had been indulging in
stimulsnts of late and seemed indiffer-
ent to what was transpiring. The people
of Memphis are very indignant over the
action of the Governor. A plan was
formed to lynch Col. King, but he was
spirited away to Nashville by the Sheriff
Gov. Buchanan was burned 10 cffigy.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-08-19
The Cotton Crop.

Those Of the Southern cotton planters
who, half year ago, were anxious to
bring about general reduction of the
cotton product, in order to raise the price
of the staple in the market. have seen
their object gsined in an unpleasant way
through the destructive forces of nature.
The extent of the reduction is shown i'm
the reports Of the Department of Agri-
culture containing the facts gathered in
all the cotton.growing States. -Fhe pro-
duct has been reduced by heavy floods in
some parts Of the South, by an excessive
rainfall or weather otherwise unfavorable
in many parts, and by other causes not
under the control of the planters There
were fears last spring that cotton would
be an Improbable crop this year, but
those fears have been dispelled by agen.
cies that have brought grief to many
planters.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-08-19

John Burns, the eminent English labor
authority, says that no mans services are
worth more than $4,000 year. The st.
James Gazette notes that an exception
will have to be made in the case of opera
tenors, as Jean de Reszke earns that
much IN week. Recently he contribu-
ted one nights salary to the Erving
Thomas memorial fund in the shape of a
check tor $500. At three performances
q week that amounts to the neat sum of
$125, 900 year, more than the most
fashionable physician or the most success
ful lawyer can hope to clear. For the
last two generations, says the Gazette,
famous singers have been paid the most
enormous rates, yet none of them have
transmitted any amount of money to the
next generation. 1t is easy come, easy
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-08-19

4 Some ambitious Euglishmau has been
thguring in the Toronto (Cauada) Empire
the additions that have been made to
Ibritish territory since 1885. They loot
up as follows. In Asia, 27S, 700 square
miles and b,5oO,OOO people (estimated)
m South Africa, 1888, ,2O5 square miles
and 14.s29,ooo people; in Australasia,
fS7, 800 square miles and 1853, 900 people
"a total in the seven years of 2, OS9, ,2Os
square miles and 10, 9s7, 900 people.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-08-19


Reporter (Kansas) sizes conditions up
carefully in this way. Puck once had a
picture Of king, bishop, a sold er and
a laborer. The king with outstretched
sceptre, said. .I rule all :" the priest with
his prayer book said: IL pray for a,l;n
the soldier with his rifle said: III fight for
all, and the laborer, in the midst of all
the different kinds of tools and machn
cry. said; II pay for ALL"
Goodland Republic (Kansas) lets on
the light; Manager Frick. of the Cr
negie iron mills, has an income derived
from that institution of $4,000, 900 an
nually. The entiro pay roll Of $500
workman only amounts to 81, ,4OO, 900 an.
nually. 1t would seem that this condi.
tion of affairs would Justify cut of
wages. The average wages of The work.
men are $50 month, while the manager
makes $166, 1855, 68a in the same period.
Fxr
Knights of Labor Journal (Pennsyl-
vania) says: The IL, 894 business failures
in the United States last year--an increase
of 700 over 1691--are not so much an
INDICATION OF -exccPrruuut strIugvuUy Iu
the money market as Of the tendency to-
ward conce ntration in commercial matters.
The big capitalists are eating up the
smaller ones, and, whether the times are
good or bad, it is becoming increasingly
difficult for the small trader or manu-.
facturer TO exist. Production and distri.
button ars getting into fewer hands, and
it is for those who suffer by the process
to say whether they wish their lot and
that of their children to be the condition
of wage slaves to handful of plutocrats
or partners in national system of in
dustrial organization. There is no alter
native.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-08-19
Centennial Of Buncombs.

AsHEvMLE, ". c. Buncombc is a
hundred years old and people have been
celebrating the centennial 10 great shape.
The Legislature iB 1902 established the
county by cattingoff from Burke and
Rutherford the whole western section of
the State, comprising what is now Macon
Yancey, Henderson, Madison, Jackson
Clay, Transy lyania, Swain and Graham
The celebration was addressed bv
Attorney General Davidson, native OF
Buncomoe, Hon. Kemp ?, Battle, Col.
ID. Cameron and Col. A. r. Dayidson
There was trades display In the after
noon, showing the resources OF the
county.
In the tournameut >. 4. Sewer who
rode at Charlotte, won irst prize saversI
hundred Confederate veterans went int
camp for thres days. y- NV
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-08-19
The Democracy Of Georgia.

ATLANTA, GA The State Democratic
convention was called to order at noon by
w. Y. Atkinson. chairman of the State
committee. Pleasant A. StOvall was un
a imously elected temporary chairman
a After completion of the temporary organ.
izat'on, w. Y. Atkinson was elected
perm 'nent chairman by virtue of whicl,
he continues tx-ofiicio chairman of the
state committee for the next two years
The following State ticket was nomi
mated: For Governor, w j. Nor hen
for Sec ctary of State, Gen. Phil COOK
for Comptroller, Gen. w. A Wright; for
Treasurer, r. M IIurdman; for Commits
siOner Of Agriculture Il. T Nesbitt. aud
for Attorney General, II. NJ Terrell. An
electoral ticket pledged to Cleveland a. d
Stevenson was also placed Ia the field.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-08-19
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Pure butter may contain ten per cent.
of water.
A lead mine which yields almost pure
lead has been discovered at Turner, Me.
Morgan County, Missouri, it is said,
furnishes the best friedrich clay in the
world.
Professor Calvin, Of the State Uni
versity has been chosen as Iowa's State
Geologist to conduct new survey.
Tests recently made at Cornell Uni
versity, Ithaca, N. Y, show that alumi.
MUM has no very marked influence upon
the magnetic conductivity of cast iron,
but slightly decreases ITS pe-mesbility.
The strawberry plant seems to possess
an amount of intelligence. 1t will iu-
variably run its shoots in the direction
Of ground which contains maximum
Amount Of nutriment, aud will never
grow It's: runners suovv-.-i--->--la-ro,,.-o o,.
sandy spot.
There are in southwestern Missouri
many openings in the earth, which are
called "blow holes" and "cold caves"
from which issues cold blast Of air. A
local theory is that the temperature OF
these places is reduced by the enormous
deposit of ammonia, caused by the pres
ence Of bats.
Pieces Of iron which can be set up in
the form Of rudimentary steam engine
were recently found, together with a
Latin treatise on steam as a force, in an
iron chest, dug up near Helsingfors.
This extraordinary archaeological find is
supposed to date from the first half of
the twelfth century.
Shooting stars arc small bodies weigh
ing at most few pounds aud consisting
mainly of iron aud carbon. They trav-
erse space in swarms and also revolve
around the sun in long elliptical courses
like comets. Their brightness is duo to
heat engendered by the energy of their
motion. Their speed is enormous, be-
ing nearly twice as great as the speed Of
the earth on Its orbit.
The installation CT 4000-ton hy-
draulic press in the st. Jacques iron
works at Montlucon, France, serves to
mark the progress of an innovation in
forging works. The substitution of by
draulic presses for powerful steam ham
mers for the forging of large masses of
steel has for some time been steadily on
the increase. 1t is found that the work
Of the press is more regular, homogene
Gus and rapid, and that the press cost
much less to install than the steam ham.
mer.
1t is said that ravens often reach the
age of hundred years. Ducks aut
cuckoos are likewise very long lived
Megpiea, which live to a very advanced
ago at liberty. do not exceed twenty
five years in the confinement of a cage.
1t Is not rare to see domestic cocks of fif
tecn years; and with care they reach
twenty. The limit of the existence of
pigeons Is ton years; the smallest species
live from eight to eighteen years. Night.
ingales will not endure more than ten
years of captivity. Canaries reared in a
cage live twelve or fifteen years, but in
their native islands they reach an aye Of
several dozen years.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-08-19

1t has not been many years, muses. the
New Orleans Picayune, since the export
grain trade was done chiefly. if not ex.
clusively, through the port Of New
York. The Erie Canal created water.
way from Lake Erie to New York, aud
SO grain shipped in vessels from Western
lake ports was transferred at Buffalo to
canal boats, aud so brought to market to
the advantage of New York. But the
day came when Canada built ship
canal around Niagara Falls, and SO yes
sells were able to carry cargoes OF grain
direct from the lakes through the ct.
Lawrence River to Europe without touch
lug at New York at all. Then there
came another day when grain was doated
in great barses down the Mississippi
River for shipment to Europe, aud this
was done so much more cheaply than can
be done by any New York route as that
the American metropolis is becoming
sensible of the disadvantages its trade is
suffering and is casting about for a rem.
edy that will restore it, ancient prestige.
But the remedy bids fair to be q most
costly one. 1t is nothing less than the
proposed construction of locks around
Niagara Falls on the American side, aud
ship canal from Lake Ontario to the
Hudson River. The matter has been
Brought before Congress, and engineers
have made surveys and estimates Of the
work required, and they place the cost
at $lOo, 600, ,000, which Congress will be
asked to appropriate. The estimate,
call for a aterway for ships, OF depth
OF not less than twenty feet. That such
a waterway will be constructed some
day cannot be doubted, because 1t will
become necessary. In case OF war
with Canada all the through water
routes would be ia the hands of the
enemy and out of our reach either for
the purposes Of defense or Of commerce.
But It's contamination 10 n 49,
daka aalaee seoa,
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-08-19

! There is no equal area on the face of
fhe globe so we'll adapted to sherp hus-
bandry in all its branches, maintains tho
Farm, Field and Stockman, as the south
ern half of the United States, aud n,
equal area where it is less appreciate /
and improved. The climate is perfect,
being free from the extreme heat aud
drought Of Australia, which often rots
the wool and kills their sheep by the
millions.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-08-19
Ohio Extension of Norfolk CIV Western

HUNTINGDON, w. VA.-It is announc.
ed that the great Norfolk g. Western
Ohio river extension will be completed
October 1st, when through trains will be
run from Norfolk Va, to Columbus o.,
aud Chicago. The extension runs through
the widest part of the State for over zoo
miles, and strikes the Ohio river at Ka
nawha, w. Va.
This country is richer in natura
wealth than any other part of West Vir
ginia, coal, iron aud timber being found
in abundance. There are 90 tunnels il
this extension. This road passes through
the homes of the Hatfelds, the notoriou.
outlaWs