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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-16

those who haven't visited jackson Park
since the winter OF 81 the present scene
of hustle and activity will be found 10
differ strangely from the pahorama to be
witnessed at that time.
The Fair was younger then. There
were then $4,000, 900 still to be ex-
pended. Contractors smiled and work
men saw before them a long season OF
rewarded labor. Then the great floors
were laid or laying, with here and there
a joist standing in the wind. To-day
the snowclad domes sit as silent about
the island as sat the Indians at council
on these prairies century ago.
For six months the contours OF the
thirteen large houses have been visible.
But only lately has the hamlet of villas
for the States come upon the scene.
How do they look? Like any residence
part OF a smart town, saving the awe
you may feel in hearing that New York
is to live here instead of John Doe. II
We were to enter this village in the
north end of Jackson Park not knowing
IL to be the United States, we would
say the art palace In the center must be
the Court House, and we would say
New York must be the banker OF the
town. Massachusetts, the leading mer-
chant and California the Chairman oil
the Board OF Trustees.
1t is very pleasant and proper to stop
at every doorstep and ask who lives
there-Wisconsin or Indiana? And the
workmen seem as glad TO tell US. Now,
in what other town would 1t be dignified
TO do thing like that? The houses OF
the States are OF all forms and colors,
but none are more than stopping places
meeting places for friends. Califor-
mia, New York and Massachusetts,, as
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-16

1t has three parallel rows of steel
arches, and this, with its towers and
portals, presents perhaps more COM
plex interior than any other of the
great halls, for they usually have but
one Toom-there Is but one room in the
Mines, the Transportation, the Elec-
tricity, the Manufactures and the Gov
ernment.
The Agricultural has a most agree
able interior, broken with a cross-llke
upper hall of skylights. We may fancy
the Joy with which our farmers, shut
ting away the sights OF the north-the
music, soda water, swans, gondolas
and jinT.kshas of city life-will plunge
into the Joys of fat vegetables, heroic
grains and sleek beasts that will await
all corners south of the Agricultural.
Spread over this floor, nearly 500 feet
wealth. The stock pavilions are pret-
ty and far away. The city will praise
them vociferously-at a distance. The
farmer will praise the art gallery at the
same range.
farmer visited Chicago last week.
He was taken past ali OF the 12S struct-
ures that go to make the Exposition.
He was led TO the Masonic Temple and
told that ~, 900 persons rode in the ele-
square, or $4,000 square feet, and
southwark outside for half a mile will
be such an agricultural fair as the world
has never before seen, for the world has
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-16

buildings of the great. Fair, and
not the leaet commanding. Six Of
the halls have domes-the Admin
istration, the Agricultural, the Horti-
cultural, the Government, the Art and
the Illinois. The Art Palace Is praised
highly, because it is an Ionic temple,
with a dome on 1t, and 1t looks uncom-
monty well from the south; but the
Fisheries, into whose tanks the water
was recently let, has won everybody's
praise for its originality and fitness.
Whether we should liken 1t to three
Chinese pagodas, with the central one
twice as large as the lateral ones, and
the three fixed in a curving line of
beauty-whether or not that gives to
the reader any near idea of the compos-
ite structure of the Fisheries-he must
decide when he comes; but certainly a
pagoda is not so graceful in It's lines
and ornaments as is each of the Fishery
pavilions.
Midway Plaisance is a very wide lane,
now stockaded, which leads from WASH
ington Park to the Fair grounds. This
Midway plaisance is TO be filled with all
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-16
FoRrY-THREE DEAD.
! inmates Of n New Hampshire Insane Asy-
lum Roasted Alive In Their Cells.

inmates OF New Hampshire Insane Asy-
lum Roasted Alive In Their Cells.
News has been received OF the burn
Ing OF the insane ward connected with
the Stafford County Poorlarm, four
miles from Dover, N. H., and the loss
of forty-four lives. The building was
a two-story wooden structure, 1870 by
l30 feet, and burned like tin1er. Only
four of the inmates were rescued from
the blazing building.
In making his rounds shortly after
10 O'clock Night Wa Gilman Wilbur
Chesley discovered the fire. He at
once gave an alarm and William p.
Dr.scoll, the keeper, and his as
sistants rushed through the in
mate quarters, which were mainly on
the second floor, and burst the locks to
the cells, trying to apprise the inmates
OF their serious danger. The fire had
gained great headway and the majority
OF the inmates were so bewlldefed and
confused that they retarded the escape
of each other. The scene was one OF
appalling horror Keeper Driscoll used
every possible effort to liberate the in
mates and remained in the building
until he was obliged TO jump from a
second story window In order to save
himself. messenger was at once dis
patched to Dover for assistance, and a
steamer and q force OF the fire depart
ment were sent TO the scene, but before
they arrived the building was a smold-
ering mass of ruins.
Those who arrived on the scene early
will never forget the horrible scenes
witnessed The fire brightly illumin-
ated the country for miles, and the poor
unfortunates could be plainly seen as
they writhed and tossed in the blazing
furnace. The fire was discovered in a
cell occupied by woman named La
Fomlan, and was a very small affair al
first, but Wat hman Chesley states that
it spread with a Iapidity that was as
tonishing, and before he had given the
alarm to Keeper Driscoll 1t had gained
such headway that the only thing left
to be done was 10 attempt to rescue
the inmates. The watchman and
flfty cells as soon as possible,
and then the keeper got out his wife
and two children, who lived in the build
ing. They were obliged to leave the
building In their night clothes. The
building was erected twenty years ago,
and cost $1,000. How the fire caught
is a mystery tn e no one seems able to
explain. The burning of the keepers G
BOOKS caused some difficulty In ascer-
tanning the names of the lost. Several
inmates got out through small base
ment exit only to be penned in by the
high board fence that surrounded the
building, where they were literally
roasted alive. The four that escaped
were assisted in climbing the fence and
were the first to rush from the burning
building on the alarm being given
Twenty years ago, by the destruction
of the former asylum, eight lives were
lost
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-16
CHIGAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY is, 1893.
ovER THIRTY INJURED.
Passenger rraln ] iDIiiisLsd " a broken =


Passenger Train pitched by Broken Rail
The Wreck Burns Up.
The Big Four passenger train which
left st. Louis at 755 Tuesday night was
wrecked by a broken rail one mile east
of Pana, Ill.,. at 11:10 the same night.
Baggageman Charles Ressler, of In
dianapolls, was killed and thirty-one
passengers were injured. The train
consisted OF eight coaches, including
baggage and mail car. The accident
occurred on a small trestle which spans
a creek. The engine passed over in
safety, but all the rest OF the train left
the rails and Immediately caught fire.
The mail car, which was next to the
engine, was the first 10 ignite, and split
completely in two. The express car
and the two following day coaches
were thrown from the trestle at least
thirty feet. The remainder Of the
cars were saved by an embank-
ment on the opposite side of the
ditch, otherwise the delth roll would
have been horrible. The passengers in
the day coaches were rescued with great
difficulty by the trainmen and uninjured
passengers. All the bed clothingi IN the
sleeper was utilized for the comfort and
warmth OF the wounded women and
children. Baggageman Ressler was
pinioned between the mass OF trunks
and burned TO death in sight of the
trainmen and passengers, who were un-
able to rescue him. A Mrs. Laughlin
was travelling with the corpse of her
husband, which was in the baggage car.
The corpse was cremated. Mr.. Laugh
Inns four children were slightly injured.
The weather was bitterly cold, and the
wounded suffered greatly from exposure
in addition to their injuries. The Ohio
and Mississippi Railroad sent a special
train of two cars TO the eek and
brought the injured passengers to Pana.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-16

vators October 20, 1892. He was shown
where, fifteen stories up the botanist
fell out OF the elevator. The farmer
was lifted the full twenty-one stories,
until Ossa became like a wart. He
then viewed the glory of Chicago-but
he said never word. AS he mounted
the train to return home he was asked,
did you see anything wonderful In
Chicago?" and then he admitted that
one thing had startled him, and what,
readers, was it? The size OF pumpkin
he had passed in front OF a restaurant
on Madison street, Certainly we may
believe it was Masonic temple among
pumpkinsl
peopls of the West, will all hurry to
see Chief Buchanan and Chief Cottrell,
Of the Live Stock. The space allotted
them Is ample, and hundreds of thou
sands OF spectators can there pass the
day without being even seen north of
the great screen which runs from Ma
chinery Hall east to the Agricultural,
screening Venice from the mud lagoons.
1t will be the largest fair OF history.
Compared with it the Paris Exposition
Of 1889 could not be put in midway
plaisance. The large building at Phila-
-delphia was as long as our big one, but
only half as wide, and out of our 1928
structures two others are to be meas
ured only by the acre, machinery hall
alone having 100000 square feet Of
lower floor.
From the forestry to the Eskimos is
one mile and three-fifths; from the for
estry to the Dahomey village is two
miles and a fifth-these figures by the
map. The island itself is two-fifths of
a mile long. Suppose you have only o
day and tarry ten minutes to see this
phonograph or this jacquard loom, you
will see comparatively nothing.
But the fair is more than multifari-
Gus. 1t is beautiful. 1t speaks in one
tone. Rare and rarely sad must be the
soul that will not be elated on behoiding
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-16

the allurements of this wicked world.
Woe to the spiritual young man who
shall take his sweetheart on his arm
and, starting at Washington Park for
the fair, shall attempt to go on past the
Dahomey, the Indian, Chinese, Moor
lsh, Turkish villages, the great street
in Cairo, the captive balloon, the cyclo-
rama OF the Alps and the volcano of
Hawaii, the Roman house, the Dutch
settlement, the Japanese bazaar, the
menaGerie, all the glass blowers, and
the dome of st. Peters Cathedral In
deed, had he not better mount the slid
ing railway and shoot past this whole
mile OF costly, Incompatible tempta-
ton!
source of great wonderment to per-
sons visiting the Worlds Fair grounds
during this cold weather is the elaborate
heating apparatus employed to maintain
n uniform temperature of go degrees
in the mammoth Horticultural Building
The transition from cold and snow and
icicles TO genial warmth and tropical
plants and eXotics never fails to give
rise to a novel sensation on the part of
the visitor. The steam for preserving
the lives of the valuable plants in the
Horticultural Building is furnished by
three boilers of $50 horsepower each,
which consume twenty tons of coal per
day, and are in charge OF six firemen
and three engineers, divided into three
shifts Of eight hours each. The pres
sure maintained is uniformly fifty
pounds to the square inch. There is an
elaborate arrangement Of engines and
fans, by means of which the heat Is dis
tributed throughout every portion of the
building night and day.
Mnn IIaI Ak. alA x.N l..
main structures, has lately donned its
exterior finish and becomes a vast and
striking spectacle. But for the near
ness OF the colossal Manufactures
Building, Machinery Hall would pass
for a marvel among capacious buildings.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-16
Peasant Life IN Galway

One OF the first things that impreeses
the tourist is the universal leanness of
the natives, biped and quadruped. 1t
is not superabundance OF activity that
causes this, for both man and beast
take life very leisurely, although capa-
BILE OF great exertion when occasion
calls for it, as, for instance, on fair
days, when the men and women, driv-
ing tiocks of sheep, pigs or cattle to
sell, will walk miles to get to the market,
and not seem a bit the worse. The
peasants cottage. or cabin, built by
himself, contains from one to two rooms.
The average size OF the cabins is about
thirty feet long and fifteen or twenty
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-16

The Harvard man was visiting the
Yale man, and the Yale man was rather
exacting and insisted upon correcting
his friend on various points. At last the
Yale man turned
MY dear fellow" he said, with some
asperity, allow me TO know Just lit
tie, please. You seem TO forget I'm not
n Yale graduate.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-16
Wouldn't Promise.

A man went to hire horse of liv-
ery-stable proprietor, who was very
particular about his stock, and always
extorted promise from his customers
not to drive fast as a condition of let
ting. You can have the HORSE" he
said, IF you agree not TO drive him
fast" well, said the man, Il want
to go to a funeral, and am bound to
keep up with the procession if it kills
the horse"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-16

feet broad. The thick walls are built
OF large stones piled one on the top of
another and cemented on the inside
only. The roofs are thatched, and Sc
cured with ropes of Indian weed. The
the inhabitants depending upon the
open door for light and air. The floors
are OF mud or uneven stone.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-16
The "white city"

Chicago correspondence:
"All Roads Lead to the Worlds Fair"
is the striking headline in a Chicago
newspaper, and while the statement
may appear rather sweeping at first, the
careful observer will admit, upon refiec-
tion. that 1t is not such an exaggeration
as it may seem, for 1t is certain that
there never was an international expo
sition in which such widespread interest
was manifested.
This winter has been a severe one at
the grounds OF the Worlds Columbian
Exposition, and the intense cold has at
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-16

The Vice Presidential candidates received
the same number of votes, the totals being
Stevenson, 2T7; Reid, Il5; Field, %.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-16
HOW THE FAIR GROWS.
EVERY DAY ADDS TO ITS
SCOPE AND INTEREST.

Compared with This, All Previous Inter
national Exhibitions VIII Seem but Puny,
Including the Recent One In Paris
Scenes I'm jackson Park.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-16

has been intimated, have the best sites
and make a good appearance.
We have not included Illinois in these
remarks because the Illinois building
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-16

CRAWLING ENCAMPMENT, l. o. o. F., No.
il6.-Meets alternate Friday evenings
CHARLES NJ. JACKSON, c. p.
G. HANSON, Secretary.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-08
FARM. GARDEN and
HOUSEHOLD.
Cheap Brcadstutl>

Probably flour VAS never 50 cheap in
the markets OF this country Is i IS now
Prices have been receding Tor several
Years past. is the acreage OF crops have
steadily increased from yeaf to wear.
Then we have generally lost sight OF the
fact that the consumption OF flour per
capita has been gradually diminishing, as
other cereal food and fruits ano various
fancy dishes have been introduced TO the
breakfast table, till there is now scarcely a
family that uses As much "bread and but
ter" At any meal. Is formerly when the
consumption was calculated al one barrel
of flour for each person per annum.
Corn is more extensively used now in
this country than ever before, statstically
showing that the United States produce
about eighty per cent OF the whole crop
of corn OF the world in average years.
and in years OF plenty our crop is rs
large as the whole average OF the world.
In this country corn is more commonly
used for human food than anywhere else,
chiefly because our people have learned
how to cook it in appetillng forms. In
other countries it is mostly used for cattle
feeding. We expect on the average about
1900. 900 bushels, which is about one
bushel in thirty of our average crop. The
bulk of the crop is used near where it is
produced as food for men and domestic
animals,
The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-08
Fruit Notes.

The exhaustion of fruit trees comes
from maturing the seed, hence to remove
the poor specimens is great relief to the
trees. If fruit growers would all remem-
Der this they would be less anxious to
ripen the whole crop, poor specimens and
all.
One Of the crazy methods of the igr o.
rant grape grower is to cut away the foil
age so that the sun can shine on the clus-
ter, supposing that the fruit will then ripen
the better. This stupidity sometimes kills
the vines outright and always harms them,
1t is these growers who need no instruction
from books or newspapers
Blackberries do not receive the atten-
ton they deserve in the states north of
New Jersey. The markets Of those states
are poorly supplied with this popular and
most excellent fruit. Some sorts winter
kill, but an occasional thinning out by a
hard winter should not discourage.
OF all small fruits the strawberry takes
the lead in popularity and profit. The
possible yield from an acre is still unde-
termined, and about as uncertain as the
speed of the record-breaking horse
Something like four hundred bushels per
acre have been grown, and now and then
some one beats the last record. And one
fact is well established, viz, that frst-class
berries when put in market in good con-
diton will always sell well.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-08
USE DANA'S SARSAPARILLA,I IT'S
THE KIND THAT CURES"
June Flowing.

Those who have not already plowed
more land than they can properly care for
may well remember that land plowed this
month will be in much better condition
for sewing turnips, millet and Hungarian
grass next month, or for laying down TO
grass seed later in the season, than if
plowed month later 1t may be protita-
bic to delay till the crop Of grass now on
it is cut, but if that is not enough to pay
the harvesting, pillow it under and then
keep the weeds down by the use of the
cultivator or harrow until ready to SOW it,
Even the wheat land to be sown in Sep
TENDER, or the land to be sown with grass
seed without grain in August, will be the
better for blowing the sward under early,
and then working the surface few times
to destroy weeds before the seed is sown.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-08

The celebrated test of dairy cows at the
Columbian Fair was begun May 10. The
test is to be very elaborate one, with the
purpose of finding out which breed will
produce milk, butter and cheese at least
cost.
The cheese test will occupy fifteen days,
and is now in progress. Butter and milk
production will follow, and the milk is
constantly subjected to scientific tests.
The breeds competing in this trial are the
Jerseys, Guernseys and Shorthorns. 1t
is pity that the Holstein-Friesian breed
is not among the list.
The Jersey Cattle Club have contributed
Se5, 900 to the expense of conducting this
trial, and every effort will be made to
have it done thoroughly and fairly. The
result will be awaited with interest
The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-08
USE DANA'S SARSAPARILLA, IT'S
THE KIND THAT CURES"

a writer for Farm, Stock and Home
killed thstles, burdocks, milkweeds and
similar perennials of rank growth by SIM
ply cutting them off near the soil with a
sharp hoe, and pouring on each stump
half a teaspoontul Of cheap kerosene. A
single treatment suficed in all cases, and
the application can be made any time
when the ground is not frozen
The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-08
Saved by Sunlight.

think the superb health of my family
to a great extent due 10 the habit we have
Of almost living in sunshine. Every bright
day all of the shutters are open, and the
entire house gets the benefit of sun
light. 1t drives away dampness, mould,
microbes and blue devils, and puts us all
II good humor and health. cannot i'm
asne good sanitary conditions and dark
ness. Even my cellar is as light as can
possible make it, and whatever fruit and
deicacics need to be shut away from light
put in close cupboards or covered boxes
have sheets of canvas that can be thrown
over them before they are put away, and
always take pains so to arrange my stores
that nothing will be injured by an abund-
ance of light. People who live in badly
lighted apartments have little color and
less health for one do not intend to
spend my days in an atmosphere OF gloom.
Use nAEA'g GARSApARITI.A IT'S
The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-08

For the production of eggs mixture of
food is required. Fresh curd of milk is
excellent, and will be eaten without coax
ing alone or mixed with corn meal,
Chopped cabbage, finely cut, sweet young
clover hay or lawn clippings, made moist
with warm water, are useful little
wheat bran is also necessary. Fresh
bones, broken small, are indispensable
where the hens cannot get worms and in
seCts.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-08

KILLING CoUCH GRASS. a writer in
the Farmers Review describes his mode
for killing couch grass. As soon as the
ground is plowed in spring put it in good
order for sowing Canada peas Seed
them thick, as thick as a mat when grown
In one experiment they were sowed two
years in succession. yielding a good crop
each year. The couch entirely disappear
ed, being thoroughly smothered.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-08

Place milk in a flask, insert in the neck
a wad of cotton about an inch long, close
" packed Dip the flask in water in
saucepan, with the neck leaning against
the side, above the water, and boil twenty
minutes. If. on the following day, the
milk is similarly heated twenty minutes, it
will be sterilized, and can be kept in the
flask lust as it is for weeks.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-08
USE pANA'S SARSAPAR1LLA IT'S
THE KIND THAT CURES
Fodder Corn.

Fodder sorn, corn in drills three feet
apart, or planted in hills, three feet apart
one way and two feet the other way, should
be a regular crop with every dairyman.
If a dry season comes when the pastures
do not furnish feed enough, it can be cut
and fed green, though right here we say
that it is much better to allow day or a
day and night Of willing before it is given
to the COWS, particularly if not quite grown
when fed out In clowdy or RAINY wealth
er it is better even when cut longer than
that. The willing not only takes out
some of the water, and renders it less
liable to cause indigestion, but it brings
about chemical change in it that makes
it more valuable for milk production and
for butter production. Probably the
same increase in the solid matter of milk
would make it worth more for cheese
making
The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-08
S25, 900 in Premiums.

Offered by Liggett and Meyers Tobac-
co Co. of st. Louis, Mo. The one guess
ing nearest the number of people who
will attend the Worlds Fair gets $1,000,
the second Sl.000.0o, etc. Ten Star To-
bacco tags entitle you to Il guess. Ask
your dealer for particulars or send for
circular. 3mol6