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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11
Benl on Paying HIS Fare.

He sat in a SIKH avenue elevated
railroad car, and twirled a scent
piece expectantly. At length he
turned to New York Tribune re-
porter, who happened to be sitting
near him, and said: Whats the fare
on this road?" "Five cents" "Don't
they collect it?" Certainly not
You buy ticket at the station where
you get on and put it in the box on
the platform" That's strange"
said the man with the unused nickel.
Somehow I've slipped in without
paying. You see." he added conf
dentially, "Tm from California, and
we don't ride around in this sort of
thing out there. Guess / can put in
a ticket when l get off, can't II"
WELL" said the reporter, "the ele-
waited road crowds and hustles US so
that some New-YOrkers wouldn't
hesitate to beat the road If it were
in such an unintentional manner as
you have done it," IL think l had
better pay" said the Californian
decidedly. And at Fouri ecnth
street he left the train and
said to the ticket chopper: "Somc-
how or other l have ridden up here
from Chambers street without
paying anything. Saved mic, e!.
did ycr?" Il want to pay now.
"Hey?" 81 say / want to pay for my
ride" Don't live in New York, dc
you?" "No." Didn't come from
Jersey or Brooklyn, did yer?" No.
"Where did you come from?" Cali
fornia. conventions" "Hes.
"Well, YOU go round to that window,
gasped the chopper, plank down five
cents for a ticket, and come back and
put il In this box. Then let me look
at yer. I've chopped tickets goin on
three years, but / never seed man
like YOU before"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11
ApllOrisns.

The greatest remedy for anger Is de-
lay.-Seneca.
Apologies only account for that
which they do not altcr.-Disraeli.
Blessings may appear under the
shape of pains, losses and dissap-
pointments, but let him have pa
thence and he will see them In their
proper Hgure.--Addison.
Calamitics that seem insupportable
when looked at from distance lose
half their power IL met and resisted
with fortitude. - James Fenimore
Cooper.
Chcerfulness, the character of,com-
mon hope, is, in strong hope, like
gllmpscs OF sunshine on a cloudy day.
Joanna Battle.
Conditions are pli asant or gricvOus
to us according to our sensibiitics.-
Lew Wallace.
Fine sense and exalted sense are
not half so useful as common sense.
Pope.
To hear complaints is wearisomc
alike TO the wretchcd and the happy.
johnson.
Equality is the life OF conversa-
ton, and he is as much out who as
sumes TO himself any part above
another as he who considers himself
below the rest of sOcicty.-Steele.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

The methods of canvassing after the
nominations have been made have, how
ever, undergone little change. The
number OF voters, though largely in
creased during the last fifty years, is
still restricted as compared with the
system of universal suffrage of the
United States, and the efforts to obtain
votes are proportonately more ener-
getic. The hanJ-shaking goes on with
vigor from the nomination Until polling
is ended, and many fin lady, eager
for. the success of her favorite candi-
date, condescends to solicit in person
the favor of men on whom at other
times she would not deign TO bestow a
glance. In close election the can
wasting is carried on with vigor OF
which the people of this country know
nothing, for in district where the an
tecedents OF every man for generations
are perfectly we'll known to all, the only
hope OF success lies in inducing voters
of the opposite political faith To change
their minds; and the difficulty OF doing
this can be imagined only when the
rugged self-reliance, not to say obsti-
macy, OF the British voter Is taken into
consideration. The time was when
votes were sold and bought almost
"
there is bribery now it is so carefully
hidden as 10 be invisible even TO the
shrewd guardians of public order.
But the voters are not the only per-
sons subjected t. moral pressure while
the canvass is in progress. In every
British community, as In every part OF
| the United States, there are men and
! women who imagine that the world is
I "A n..I hot ch ,0tlA
! they remove their support, the moral
universe would tot'er and fall. These
are the men and women who forTu So
cieties for the purpose of bringing about
what the rest OF the world calls. impossi-
bilities. Sometimes they succeed. some
times they fail; in the former case they
are placed on the. pedestal OF fame a.
benefactors, leaders Of the world {
1 thought, and persons TO whom after
ages will pc mt with pride; In the latter
they are denominated cranks, and are
pronounced tit for the lunatic asylum
Whether cranky or philanthropic, how
ever. they are equally troublesome tc
an anxious candidate when they come
10 demand what policy he intends tc
pursue i'm regard 10 the idea they have
made IL their business to foster, and
the unfortunate man Is often put to mo-
n little uneas ness when a woman g.
rights delegation or temperance
committee calls upon him 10 express
himself explicitly In regard to these
Questions. To oppose them Is to los,
the support OF all on their side; 10 favo
them Is to suffer certain loss, probably
much greater, among those who REGARD
their pet theories as folly; to be non
committal IL to run the possibiIit,
OF loss In 10 h directions. To stee
clear Of these difficulties is no easy mat
ter. particularly as the people who con
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

Parliamentary election, who, whenever
informed that delegation was on Its
way to his house, hid in the garrett, leav-
ing word that he gone to London,
would be followed by more than one
unhappy contestant, did he not fear the
consequences Of such evasion even more
than the results OF an interview.
But from one kind of pressure. that
for appointment to office, the candidate
for Parliament is almost entirely free.
There are, to be sure, in Great Britain
as in the United States, numerous pa
triots who are willing TO serve their
country at a fixed and liberal salary.
but the incoming Of new administra-
ton with a new policy does not mean
there, as here, q general exodus OF
Government officials. Civil service has,
in Great Britain, passed beyond the ex-
detrimental stage, and is as firmly
grounded as any other principle OF adj
ministrative government. With the de-
feat Of the administration, the ministry
and few heads of departments go out.
but the great body OF English public
servants. after being appointed, are Sc
cure in their places no matter how great
the political unhC avals that from time
to time take place in the nation. Prime
ministers may come and go, but the
clerk in a government department., the
country postmaster, stays on, unaffected
by the change in domestic or foreign
policy that may be involved in the
election.
Mention has already been made OF
the comparatively restricted number OF
English voters by whom the candidate
for Parliament Is confirmed in his cleo
ton. Small as are these numbers COM
pared with our unlimited suffrage, they
are large when compared with the
classes of voters who exercised the
franchise before the reform bill OF 1868,
which was passed by the Conservative
Government OF Disraeli. Under this
document voters in counties comprised
40 shilling freeholders, or those own
ing property in fee OF that annual value,
those possessing a life estate OF the
annual value Of 40 shillings, which, II
not occupied, must have been possessed
before 1882, those possessing life es-
tate Of the annual value OF 50, lessees
for not less than sixty years of the
annual value OF 60. or for twenty years
of the annual value Of $50, and occu-
piers of lands rated at el2 year. In
boroughs the voters comprise the rated
Ascupiers Of dwellings who have paid
! sheir poor rates, ocoupiers of premises
not dwelling houses, of the annual value
OF go, and dodgers occupying premises
of the annual value of e1O. The bars Of
suffrage were thus let down TO very
low notch, but in spite of this fact greaf
numbers of the Queens subjects are
still DISTINGUISHED, and have neither
part nor lot in the election Of their rep
| resentatiyeS in Parliament.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

ON the day OF the Wyoming mas
sacre Ia 1918, when more than three
hundred persons men, women and
children, were butchercd by the Indi-
ans, Amos Stafford, youth OF nine
teen years, had what might almost be
called miraculous escape.
According to the account given by
Mr.. Stone In his "Reminiscences or
Saratoga" young Stafford was one OF
reserve OF rifemen. Shortly before
the engagement ended the third man
from him In the line fell, then the
second, then the man next to him.
His own turn would come next. BY
this time. however, he had perceived
that these fatal shots were preceded
by a puff OF smoke from behind GER
tain log. a g
Ar Indian: was picking off the. re
serve. Amos kept his eye upon the
spot. Presently a head appeared
above the log. Instantly bullet
sped thither, and danger from that
quarter was at an end.
Soon the order was given to retreat.
Stafford waited to reload, and then
ran to an adjacent wheat field, where
he hoped to lie concealed till dark;
but the Indians stumbled upon him,
and he was forced to jump up and
run. AS he ran he glanced over his
shoulder. An Indian was upon his
heels, with tomahawk lifted.
Amos ran-he could do nothing
else-and pretty soon came to a brush
fence. He cleared it at bound,
faced about, and as his pursuel
mounted IL he shot him dead.
Then he threw his musket into the
rushes and plunged into the river. "A
shower of bullets followed him, but
he dived, and on coming up struck
out for the opposite shore. Thence
he ran behind a ridge and jumped
into a marshy spring. An Indiar
passed near him, but he suspected
nothing.
Young Stafford remained there oyel
night, hearing meanwhile the cries
and shrieks of the garrison OF Forty
Fort, whom the Indians were massa
cring. The next two nights h
passed in hollow tree. The woods
were alive with SavageS- once 1--WE
or three sat upon the log In whici
Amos was lying. He heard the bul
lets rattle in their pouches. The,
even looked into the hollow, but ;
spider-so Stafford says-had spun ;
web over the entrance, and Of cours'
the Indians took that as proof tina
nobody was hidden inside.
4 Three days and nights he lay con
cealed, without food, and worse yet
without clothing-for he had strip
ped while swimming the river-til
nature could stand it no longer. III
crawled out Of his den, and deter
mined to give himself up to the frs
persons he should meet. These hap
pened to be d party of Tories.
Sod bless you, Amos" said one o
them. "How came you here in thi
condition."
1They gave him food and clothing
and on the second night he escaped
The next morning he reached tn
American camp, to which he brough
the first news OF the defeat and mas
sacre at Wyoming.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11
Apparent Failure.

In an office adjoining large can
ming factory may be found every
morning a tall, bright-faced young
woman busy with her pile of mail.
She is interrupted from time to time
by the approach of the overseer, to
whom she gives orders, or Of whom
she asks advice.
"Do you remember" she inquired
of an old school friend who called one
day to congratulate her on her sue
cess in business, show wished to be
a professor of biology, and how l
mourned over the failure of my
plans? / have come to believe in
failure, or rather to think that what
we call failure is often only step to
success"
Her story is an interesting one.
Her father died suddenly, overcome
by financial difficulties, and the girl
of seventeen was compelled TO leave
college, and do something to support
her family. She attempted writing
for the magazines, but her articles
were invariably returned.
The yard behind her mothers
house was filled with fruit-trees bear
ing abundantly. Her last hope seemed
to hang there. She began canning
and preserving, and found ready sale
for her careful work. The next year
she invented and began to manufact-
ure an improved can, and by the time
she was twenty-five years OF age she
competed successfully with the great
canning companies of the country.
At the breaking out OF the war
Louisa Alcott offered her services as
a nurse, and started off for the
Georgetown hospital "as il she were
the son of the family going to war. "
Before two months had passed she
was taken terribly i'll, and for weeks
| lay at the point OF death. She never
fully recovered her former health.
Her brief hospital experience seem
ed one grand mistake. Convalescing,
however, she began TO write her
Hospital Sketches" the result OF
personal feeling and observation,
which to her surprise made great
hit, and showed her the vein in
which she afterward became famous.
The late Professor Freeman. Of En-.
gland, whose work upon the Norman
Conquest is one of the greatest monu'
mcnts of English historical scholar
ship, competed when young man
with his classmates at Oxford for q
prize essay. The subject given out
was the Effect Of the Norman Con-
quest, and il was subject about
which he had been interested ever
since he could think at all.
IL had" he said afterward, "the
good luck not to get the prize. Had
/ received it, might have been
tempted to think / knew all about
the matter. AS it wa., went on and
learned something about it,
Failure does not mean final defeat.
There is something more to be feared
than failure, and that Is the early
success which deludcs the recipient
into trusting in anything but patient,
pcrsevering toil.--YOuth's Compan-
| ion.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

sense of his own Importance and OF the
fact that he is making history, and 80
goes about the job with an earnestness
that does him much credit, but often
fails to impress the bystanders In the
manner intended. From the candidate
himself to the Chairman OF a popular
meeting, and from the latter pompous
functionary to the humble sharer in
political work who walks up and down
the sti eets bearing two boards on which
Is inscribed advice TO voters as to the
proper person to receive their encourage
ment and votes, every one feels, or
seems to feels, that he is part OF one
stupendous whole, and conducts himself
accordingly.
The infrequency Of parliamentary
elections in Great Britain, as compared
with those for Congress In this country,
has a tendency to Increase their impor-
lance in the eyes of the people. and the
local interest is not in the least dimin-
ished by the fact that, as a general
thing, up to short time before the cleo
ton few of the electors In many OF the
boroughs know for whom they will be
called on to cast their votes. for the
leaders OF the two parties choose the
candidates and assign them to districts,
80 that a Scotc Imam may be called on
to contest a borough in the south OF En-
gland, while an Englishman goes TO
Scotland 10 solicit the favor OF the peo-
pie there. The fact that they frequently
have never seen their candidate until
he appears before them on the hustings
does not disturb the determination OF
the men of his party to vote for him,
and when he comes down" from Lon
don-for in England London is up,
and everywhere else is "down"-to adj
dress them. they turn out w.-h an en-
thusiasm corn of zeal for the party
to give him a welcome.
Suppose, then, that the Liberals pro.
pose to contest seat in Kent and the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

The imperviousness Of the average
British skull TO a joke. prevents gen
eral and thorough appreciation Of the
hun:ors of a British election. The Eng
lish have faculty OF taking everything
with the utmost seriousness, and as an
election is, TO them, the most important
affair in which the British can engage,
every step In IT'D progress, from the dis
solution OF the old Parliament to the as
sembiing Of the new, is taken with
ovefpowering solemnity that Is often
very funny. According TO the Globe
Democrat, every one who has anything
to do with the affair, no matter how
small and insignificant his share may
be, is profoundly impressed with a
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11


Kansas Woman Has Isksn CharEe Of
Daily Poiitioai Organ.
But few women have aspired to the
management and editorial control OF
daily political papers, although those
who have assumed such control have
been successful. Last month, Mrs.
Frank II. Lynch placed her name ut
the head OF the Lcavenworth (Kan.)
Standard, and has taken active busi-
ness and editorial management Of
that paper.
Mrs. Sara Blair Lynch, or Mrs.
Frank T.. Lynch, as she will here
after be known, comes from news
paper family. Her grandfather,
Samuel Mcdary, was the editor OF
THO Ohio StatesmaB afterward gthe
Critics published atsCoiumbus, Ohio.
I'm its day it, was the organ of the
Democratic party in the West, aud
Mr.. Medary's name was a talisman
worn In the heart OF every Old-time
Democrat. He was also Territorial
Governor of Minnesota and after
ward OF Kansas. Mrs. Lynch's father
General o. w. Lynch, has also been
In editorial harness, having been
editor and proprietor of the Demo
cratic Standard of Georgetown, Ohio
Thus when the unexpected death
Of Frank y. Lynch, who was the
friend Of every man in Kansas, left
the Leavenworth Standard without
a head. that place was natur'
ally assumed by Mrs. Lynch. Hav
ing been left widow with two
children, and the newspaper prop
crty, what so natural as that her in
herited instincts should lead her t.
follow the path In which had walked
grandfather, father, and husband.
Mrs. Lynch was born in Leaven
worth in October, 1862. = She wa
educated at the Sacred Heart Con
vent in Cincinnati, and completed
her studies at Mrs. Piatt's finishing
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11
The Oldest InnnuaRs.

Probably the oldest known speci-
mems OF recorded language in the
world to-day are the inscriptions on
the door sockets and brick stamps
found at Niffer by the Babylonhn
exploration expedition Of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. which has
recently returned. The brick stamps,
which are of yellow clay, about four
by Ave inches and an inch In thick
ness, bear the name and titles OF King
Sargon and his son Narim-Sin, who
lived about $500 b. c., and they were
taken from the mound which covers
the site of ancient Nippuru, with its
famous temple of Baal. The expedi-
ton also found many other objects OF
interest, such rs clay tablets contain
ing contracts, lists Of goods, tempe
incomes, art fragments, and images
sold by the temple fakirs. These
throw much light on the history OF
the people as opposed to that of the
kings, and the work of the expedition
carries Babylonian records back one
thousand years, 10 time of which
practically Dothing has hitherto been
known. The antiquities found are
now in the university museum.
rr,u., A.-..-sco,, e,co.olNorrfaa rno nj ro
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

For day or two before small boys
have distributed handbiIls through the
town and vicinity inviting the voters TO
turn out In force to the meeting in, for
instance, the vestry hall of Cranbrook.
The hall, which is a place of public as
sembly. will seat 800 or 400 people,. and
on the evening OF the meeting Is packed
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

canvass as familiar to voters In this
country as in England. But John's
canvass is not 10 be completed without
making public appearance OF some
kind, for much az the English people
ridicule the American love OF speech
making. she desire to'address audiences
is ut least as strong in every part OF
England as in any part OF America.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

III is pretty certain that Corot, the
French artist, did not paint moro
than 700 sketches, and yet there have
been ~, 600 examples OF his work
palmed upon, picture-buying public,
which has only just begun To learn
that auction-catalogued pictures are
NOT always what they pretend TO be.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

Liberal management sends down John
Smith to make the canvass. John goes
down. visits Cranbrook, Biddenden, Hars-
mOnden, GOudhurst and other villages
in his district, shakes hands with the
men, asks about the health of their
: -missusess and the children, and goes
through other processes OF an electoral
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11
ELECTIONS IN ENGLAND
mfsERiEs or THE PARLIAMEN-
TARY CANDIDATE.

Humors Of y British Political Meeting
Waiting the Candidate EvAding
Troublss0me Inquiriea--Who May Vote
for ~ Candidate tor the Commons
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

TnE new Kansas State-house, on
which over s2,OO0.000 has been ex-
pended, and which is not yet com.
plcted, Is said TO be In danger Of
falling down, owing TO poor material
used. The large stones at the base
OF the dome are splitting and crum.
bling, and the entire structure IS en-
dangercd. The Legislature, through
State pride, required Kansas stone
TO be used, and the result Is a de-
fective building. State pride should
be tempered with common sense.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

A COMPLETE buggy in sections was
not long ago shipped from this coun-
try to Mexico by the parcel post
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11
nUMoR OF THE WEEK
sroR,Es TOLD ~ FUNNY MEN
oF~,THE PRESS.

Many 0da. Curious. and Lssxhnpas
Phases Of Human Nature oraphicnny
Portrayed BY eminent werd Artists -
Our own Day.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

WHEN Bernhardt reached home she
showed mysterious box to reporter
and remarked; THAT box Is very
dear to me. 1t is filed with Ameri-
can sand" Thus Is the English Ian
guage murdered in its transmission
Dy cable. Every American, however,
will be able to translate that word
sand" into the vernacular dust"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

school at Utica, n. Y. She was
married to Frank Il. Lynch in Leav-
enworth in 1885. Mrs. Lynch is lady
alternate from Kansas to the Worlds
Fair, though not yet called upon to
act
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

JOHN L. SULLIvAN's treasurer has
been arrested, charged with en-
bezzlement. Johns example being
contagious, the treasurer took 10
knocking down the only thing he was
good for-namely, the receipts.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

TO suffocation. with voters anxious to
hear what Mr.. Smith has to say. Lib
erals are there, of course, In greatnum-
bers. but among them Is a liberal sprink-
ling OF Tory adherents. who have come
10 have d little fun and to make. things
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

THE American gcosebcrr.es require
pruning every year.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-08-05
lore ffsAes In Prosp.ca.

TAsoER Aug. 6-Reinforccmepts arc
@stviAg for tho TROOPS OF the sultan to
enAhee theiH 70 renew hostilities with the
febeflious Anaherites. The war has caused
80 much injury 10 business that many
Europeans are leaving TangieB
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-08-05

ST. PETEgsBuRG. Ang 5.-The town
of Rzecze. IN Volhynie, was set on fire
during the night, and destroyed, fourteen
persons being killed. sixteen seriously In
iured, and 20O0 rendered homeless.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-08-05

Cows. Aug S-In the race for the
Cowes' cup over the Queens course.
Emperor Williams yacht Meteor led
throughout, hut the Queen Nab won on
time allowance by 6m. 4Os.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-08-05
8eioeA by the Mohican.

SAs IN AYcIsco. Aug h-The steamer
81. Paul, ,Trom Oupalaska, bringt news Of
Sho seisypo OF the schooner Jane Gray, for
Sbme uo&nown reeson. She was whal-
hS ycssA and bad 20 material ~ outfit
qp boarl tot hunting seals She wes
picked ub near 81 Paul island by the U.
3 g. Muhiceh and towed TO Sitka
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-08-05
The Pope,n Injunction.

LONDON, Aug A Rome dispatch says
that he pope has forbidden the archbishop
Of Genoa % take part in receiving the King
and Queen OF Italy, when they visit that
city 10 meet the naval squadron.