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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11
Phxsioal Peouliariiies.

The right arm is always a little
larger than the left, but the left foot
is almost always larger than the
right, presumably because, while
nearly every man uses his right arm
to lift a weight or strike blow, he
invariably kicks with his left foot,
while the lounger stands on his left
leg and lets his right fall easily, be-
cause he has learned by experience
that this is the best attitude he can
assume to prevent lassitude and ia
tigue. This constant bearing of the
weight on the left foot makes it wild.
er than the right, and it often hap
pens that a man who tries on a shoe
on the right foot and gets close At
has to discard the shoes altogether
because he cannot endure the pain
caused by the tightness OF the left.
IL, when riding on street car, you
will take the trouble to notice, you
will see that in laced shoes the gap
is smaller on the right foot than on
the left, while on button shoes the
buttons have to be set back ten times
on the left shoe to once on the right.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

NEW JERSEY has a million and a
half jewellers, and is one of the
wealthiest Of American States. 1t is
all the more surprising then that the
cause of popular education languishes
in this part Of the Republic. Ac-
cording to the census given out the
other day there are 400, 279 children
OF school age, Of whom 1877, 814, or
more than third of the total, are
not enrolled in any educational insti-
tuition. In comparing the illiteracy
of the country, the South is singled
out as derelict in educating its young,
but here is proud Northern State
with more wealth than any composing
the Southern group OF common
wealths, that is allowing a vast num-
Der of its children to grow up without
schooling of any kind. In this age
of enlightment it is nothing less than
crime for any State to allow consid-
cradle part of her population to grow
up in ignorance when education can
be so easily obtained. Inc injury
inflicted through the ignoramus policy
falls hardest upon the most deserving
the honest wage-earners. Their
children of all others should not be
deprived of the benefits Of an educa-
tion. To deny that handicaps them
in the race for preferment in all the
avenues open to the industrious and
ambitious, and detracts materially
from the happiness of life in num-
Der of ways. New Jersey owes it to
herself, those who people her areas
and to the nation that she pass such
laws as will prevent every third per-
son within her borders from becoming
a Ounce as well as reproach to Amer
lean civilization.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

THE breakup of an English club,
which has been spreading abroad
pamphlets teaching the manufacture
Of explosives for "persuading" bombs,
is fresh illustration OF the need OF
sterner legislation in all countries
against bomb-makers and artificers OF
internal machines of every kind. The
club taught the noble science in the
coolest manner. Perhaps the society
issued secret circulars Of "Instruc-
tions how TO blow up Car at sixty
paces;" or Manual for the annihila-
tion OF King by dynamite, model
number six" The law must prescribe
al such manufacture and instruction.
or the wild-eyed crank with the black
bag will continue to haunt the timid
millionaire.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

THERE is one thing which the East
should learn from the West, and that
is the habit of giving short sentences.
In this part of the world whatever eff
fectiveness there might be in the in
Fiction of the death penalty is lost in
the delays, the elaboration, and the
postponement which seem to be the
inevitable consequence Of the long
time which is allowed to elapse be-
tween conviction and execution.
There should be on the statute books
a law making it obligatory to the
judge who pronounces death sem
tence to limit the time of probation
TO couple of months at least. The
sentencing of DR.. Graves to be hanged
in a month is an excellent precedent,
If there is to be any hanging done
at all.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

A NEW cure for .inebriety is an
nonuced, although its nature is not
made known. Its owner has conf
'dence enough in it to undertake the
founding of great institution at
Washington, evidently believing that
he will find more patients there than
anywhere else. The remedy is liq-
uid, like the Kelley cure, but is said
to resemble the latter in no other par
ticular. If institutions for destroy
ing the uproarious taste which leads
to painting towns red are to spring
up like this at every center of popu-
lation. determined topers will have
to migrate to some kindlier scene
where one may drink until he sees
snakes in his boots without having
any other remedy offered him than "a
hair of the dog which bit him."
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11
An Old Veteran.

Frederick Baily entered the British
Royal Artillery in 1909. He was
wounded at New Orleans lighting
against General Jackson a few years
later, and then entered the Prussian
arm, lighting in all the great battles.
of 1915, and making himself more or
less conspicuous liz minor way. Then
he retired, lieutenant, and his name
was never heard again beyond his own
village for seventy-six years, until be-
is reported as centenarian.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

~
Could Easily Catch Moths-
A lady used to sit after tea, almost
every evening, on a stone step at the
head OF fight OF terraces which led
from bay window down into the
garden. AS this window was not
overlooked by any neighbours windows
IL was the family custom to leave the
curtains up In the evening and let the
CHEEKY light OF the student-lamp,
which stood on the large reading
table, shine out.
One evening, as the lady sat on the
step, she saw large toad hopping
across the grass toward her. When
he had come within eight inches OF
the window he suddenly settled him
self into the long grass, having select
ed as his resting-place little hollow,
so that only the very top of his head
and his cleaning eyes showed above
the grass.
There he sat without moving until
the dampness sent his observer into
the house. The next evening she
found that the toad had already taken
his place when she seated herself on
the step, and on several successive
evenings he was sitting In exactly the
same spot by the time the sun had
fairly set.
The lady,s curiosity was by this
time aroused to such a degree that
she determined to defy the dampness
and stay in her position on the step
until she saw what the toad accom-
plished in his hiding-place. The next
evening, therefore, she provided her
self with thick shawl and took her
accustomed seat a little later thai,
usual.
AS the light faded the toad rosa
from his position and hoped toward
her little way; then, after solemnly
and anxiously regarding her for some
moments, he returned to his hollow,
evidently deciding that she was a
harmless person, not bent on making
trouble for him, as he at first had
feared.
When the lamp in the window was
lighted it seemed to her that the toad
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

IN the trying climate OF Manhattan
Island Cleopatra's Needle continues
10 disintegrate. Experts estimate
that it has lost 700 pounds in weight
since 1t was brought over, and 1t will
be necessary TO spend at once $4,000
in giving it coat of paraffine In order
TO save the hieroglyphics from peeling
of completely. There is no money
on hand for the purpose, and no feas-
ible plan for raising it has been sug-
gested. Why not put high fence
around it and as the fragments drop
of sell them to relic hunters?
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

starved on tasteless diet of straight
lines and curves. How little neces-
sity there would be for abstruse lee
lures and rigid measurements If the
roor pupils had only been left free to
follow where their imaginations led!
Parents, you all know just what
kind Of pictures your children make.
Why does it not strike you all that
states and paper and pencil ought to
be provided just as freely as sugar?
Yes, sugar! Scientists have discov-
cred that this childish craving for
sugar is not an evidence of infantile
depravity, but cry Of the developing
human system for additional warmth.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

dear personality Of the saint OF child.
hood, ~Oid Rriss, or Santa Claus?
Give every child a pencil just as
often as you do stick OF candy.
Yes, and add colored crayons and
paints, II you do not want the chill.
dren TO daub mud and cranberry
juice on your wallpaper quite as
often as they scrIbble. DO you know
what would be the result In the
course OF generation? The question
Is easily answered. Regenerated arJ,
and the blessed influence of uniyer
sal art atmosphere.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11
'CHlLDREN's DRAWING,
STORYTELLING A UNIVERSAL I'M
RTiNcT.
An Instinct Too often Repressed by Par
ents- Encourage tho Children and We
May Have y Unisersi Art Atmosphere.


q tctt@a~@ ~ @<@~~*~ - "s-~"-
All children draw. The instinct
is just as universal as the deep-seated
desire for cancg. Give a child PEN
Gil and he shows his hereditary pro-
pensity to scribble just as certainly
as, under certain conditions, he shows
his hereditary propensity to kick and
scream. II you do not give the child
pencil, you have only to notice
what he will do without one. He
will take a stick and mark in the
sand just as surely as young duck
will strike straight line for water.
Right here 1t might be interesting
to ask, how much the elegant arts OF
sculpture and pottery owe to the pre-
historic mans childish desire to make
mud pies, precisely as his little de-
scendants do to-day? The present
writer has never outgrown the love
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

raised his head little and took on an
attitude of great vigilance. This
cause was soon apparent.
After few moments large moth,
attracted by the light, dashed against
the window in a vain endeavor to
gain entrance. After fluttering
wildly against the glass it suddenly
dropped, blinded, to the ground and
the toad sprang forward and Sc
cured it.
This was only his first victim. and
at the end of half an hour the watcher
went into the house with her Curl
osity fully satisfied. Some one To
whom she told the story suggested
that the toad might have happened
on the favorable position the first
night, but his friend persisted that he
had discovered it by his own unaided
intelligence.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

Yes, steals her mammals cards and
her papa's envelopes to scribble on!
1t must be stopped right away!
The sequel is easily told. That
child's scribbling is stopped, OF course.
1t never seems to occur to the mother
that the child's originality is also re-
pressed, its individuality warped, its
immortal soul wounded. Is it any
wonder that we have so few artists
left?
Some years later, when the same
long-suffering child takes drawing
lessons" at school, what little true
art instinct he has left is well-nigh
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

Warm, so to speak, the art instinct,
even II your 'fastidious eyes have to
tolerate such dreadful caricatures as
your own portraits in the style Of
spiders" and "chicken-scratches.
With what sublime fearlessness a
child invents "new-fashiOned horse T"
On the principle that distance lends
enchantment to the view, the ami
mails in your neighbours barnyard are
very much nicer than your own!
Never such marvellous flowers grew
as were evolved by your little girl
from her inner consciousness. But
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

DIR. KELLEY says asaf9tida in
doses of sixteen grains, administered
four times day, is specific for grip.
A disease that would not get up and
get away from a man with sixty-four
grains of asafetida exuding from the
pores of his skin could easily be
marked tough. AS punishment
to family the treatment would be a
bowling success.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

UNNECESSARY ado is made over the
discovery that Harvard students are
branded on the arms as a part of the
initiatory ceremonies of secret So
ciety. In later years it gives much
satisfaction to the alumni to point to
these honorable scars, thus demon
strating that they have something
else to show for their college course
than merely taste for liquor.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

MORE than 300 Baltimore girls
have abandoned corsets as Injurious
to both health and beauty. The Bal
more girls may yet convince their
sisters everywhere that what is beau
tiful in art is beautiful in life. The
Venus de Medici statue has not a
taper waist and it is the highest and
best type of female beauty that art
has given the world.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

MEXICO will present her interests
in the Worlds Fair with $750,000
and Japan with $500, 900. New York
statesmen propose that the great
Empire State, to which has been ac-
corded the largest space and the most
conspicuous position on the ground,
shall have the enormous fund of $780,
600 to make an exhibit. The chances
are that New York will be ashamed
of it after it is done.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11
for what was once the chief delight

for what was once the chief delight
in life-"paddling mushmolly."
A baby of 2 begins its exercise long
before it has seen or heard Of any
thing of the kind. Happy baby! Its
mamma says its performances are "too
cute for anything" But alas! by
the time the same poor baby has ar
rived at the age of the same mamma
declares that such doings are "too
naughty for anything!" The bad
child will persist in scribbling all over
the sitting-room wall and spelling the
paper; worse yet, she actually steals!
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

for, anyway. A man moving along
into that period where @the grass
hopper Is bortnen," without wife
or child present or In memory, calls
for sympathy. There is no period In
life when the good wife is more
necessity for a mans happiness than
during the last quarter of the race.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

TWENTY-FIVE years ago young
man named Tom Lowry walked home
from st. Paul to Minneapolis because
he had no money with which to pay
his fare. Now he controls all the
street-cars in bothAtowns, and when
his cables get tired CHER people walk,
whether they pay their fares or not.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

HowELLs thinks all letters of the
future will be typewriter. There
will be something painfully realistic
in a typewriter love letter, and its
only redeeming feature will be that
it will look as If it meant business.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

PHYSICIANS must excuse plain,
everyday people for their lack of en-
thusiasm over the discovery Of the
grip microbe. 1t will be time enough
to throw hats in the air when a rem
edy is discovered which-unlike anti
pyrine-wlll not kill more people than
the disease.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

MISS FRANCES f. WILLARD is en-
gagged in praiseworthy attempt to
attach the signatures Of 1000, 600
women to petition for peace with
Chill. Bets are freely offered that
she cannot get Colonel Phoebe Couzins
10 sign.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

With the aid OF compressed air a
German military engineer drives
cement to the bottom of a stream,
the water at once hardens It, and
the bed OF the stream becomes stable
enough for foundation purposes
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

PHILADELPHIA women have met
and resolved that the nude shall be
rigidly excluded from the approach
ing exhibitio: at the Academy Of
Fine Arts unless it be in the form of
portraits of ladies Of the highest
fashion attired for the opera.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

THE English miners probably feel
as much sympathy for Queen Victoria
in the loss of her grandson as she
feels for the loss of any of their grand
sons, but they do not know how to
manifest it automatically.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

Previous 20 July, 1871, when the
system was abolished, commission
in the British army could be pur-
chased at the following prices: Cor
net or ensign, f470; lieutenant, f700;
captain, cisco; major, CO, 200;
lieutenant colonel, f4.50O.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

THERE are two remarkable things
about the death Of the late Khedive
of Egypt. One is that he died in his
bed and is not suspected of having
been murdered or committed suicide.
The other is that his death is deeply
mourned by the poor peasantry of
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

WHAT'S in a name, anyway? The
Burial Expense Association" char
tered at Springfield, ILL.,, recently, is
declared by its incorporators to be for
amusement and social improve
ment."
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

"SIR, "sald the great Senator sternly,
understand that my acts are gov
erned by fixed principles. Then the
lobbyist fixed 'om and went away
smiling.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

THE statistics show that married
men live much longer than bachelors.
They are supposed to keep better
hours and are better fed. Besides,
an old bachelor has not much to live
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

Mr.. HowELLs can afford to laugh
at his critics. In fact, man with
salary OF s17, 1000 year can afford
great many things that critics can't.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

john L. SULLIVAN has signed the
pledge again. His autographs at the
foot of temperance pledges are only
exceeded in number by his sprees.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

The highest altitude in New York
Is only IT'S feet above tide water in
East River. The highest point ON
Long Island is Harbor Hill, where an
altitude OF 384 feet Is reached.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

she knows what she sees, too, and has
q name for it, even IL she has never
heard one. Ask her what the big
engine is running past your farm, and
like as not she will say, THE stew
fellow" What child has not seen
glowing visions In which figured the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

DIR. KELLEY thinks that asafetida
win drive away la grippe. II asafe-
tida is not handy Limburger cheese
might serve.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

A Chinese newspaper published In
San Francisco has been sued by a
negro aud an Indian.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

SOME man is said to have discovered
a method of deodorizing whisky. If
this genius who has struck such a
body blow at the Glove industry can
now devise a method of eliminating
the drunk" from the juice of the
corn apd the fermentation of the rye
he can make bi-chloride of gold a
drug in the market.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

The population Of the earth dou-
bles itself in 2sO years.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

NEW JERSEY complains that II has
q surplus OF dogs. Has Kew Jersey
no consumptiye patients'
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

A gold coin loses per cent. OF it's
value In sixteen years Of constant use.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11

THE death of the late Mahdi left
upward OF forty widows. There is
the chance for Senator Hill.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-04-11

next visited Here was the birth
place of Chambers, who has done
much to cheaper literature, and to
whom the town is indebted for a
handsome free library and museum.
Melrose Abbey, the most beautiful
in workmanship and design of all
the abbeys in the south of Scot
land, was shown from two different
points. Sir Walter Scott, who
wrote these lines " If thou wouldst
visit fair Melrose Alright, go visit
it by the pale moonlight is said,
in that locality, never to have seen
it by the pale moonlight. We were
favored with view of Abbotsford
House, also one Of the interior,
showing Sir Water SCOTS study
Dryburgh Abbey, where Sir Walter
Scott is buried Kelso Abbey,
Jedburg Abbey, the famous Cup
pom Tree over 1000 years old, were
each thrown on the canvas in turn.
Branxholm Tower, few miles
above Hawick, and owned by the
Duke of Buccleuch, was also shown.
1t is famous in Border story as the
scene of many a midnight raid, and
the feud between the contending
factions was at last settled when
VIII O. Harden married Mickle-
mouthed Meg" the price of his
ransom.
During a short intermission sew
eral selections of Scotch airs were
played on the either by Professor
Schmidt. He very kindly re-
sponded to a recall by the audi
ence. The second part of the ex-
hibition consisted of miscellaneous
views, beautiful cloud effects,
storms at sea, the lonely light
house, the herring fisheries, (the
value of the herring fisheries being
equivalent to the sugar interests
here were passed quickly before
US. Last of all came Mr.. Gladstone's
beautiful mansion at Hawarden.
Much credit is due the Scottish
Thistle Club for their instructive
and enjoyable entertainment.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-04-11
THISTLE CLUB.
Another Successful Exhibition on
Saturday Evening.

The exhibition of the Scottish
Thistle Club was very interest
ing one. The views and deserip-
tions of the abbeys and towers
famous in song and story were very
realistic, sufficiently realistic to
enable us almost to forget
the old stone church
and imagine ourselves once
more under the gray skies of
our own native heath" The ex-
hibit commenced with Edinburgh,
showing views of the old and new
town, the castle which overlooks
Princes street, with its beautifully
terraced gardens, and the familiar
monuments of Sir w. Scott, Nelson
and the Duke of Wellington. Next
came Hollywood Palace with it's
memories and relics of departed
glory, and in the vicinity of Edin-
burgh, CraigmiIlar Castle and Ros-
lin Castle, the latter beautiful in its
architecture and surroundings. We
next had a view of the Forth
Bridge, a great feat of engineering
skill, illustrating the truism that
mind triumphs over matter. In
turn we visited the counties and
towns of Lanark, Ayr, PEBBLES,
Galashiels, Melrose, Kelso, Hawick,
Moffat, Jedhurgh, etc. We were
shown the beautiful, placid waters
of the Clyde, with It's well-appoint-
ed pleasure boats the Falls of the
Clyde, magnificent in their proper
tions, overlapping the rocks dis
lance of many feet. Going on tc
Ayr, we are favored with a view o.
Burns the Poets birth place, of the
different scenes which his pen has
made immortal, one Of which, the
Doune, with its bend and beauti
fully wooded banks, might wei
inspire song like eye Banks ant
Braes o Bonny Doune.o Hi
monument was also shown. In con
nection with it there is a Burn
Museum. PEBBLES, in whose vi
cinity is Neidpath Castle, wa