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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15
WEAR sIDE-LACED CATERS.
Or Be Content to BE Out OF the FemInin
Swim.

Or Be Content to Be Out OF the Feminine
Swim.
Although everybody wore side
laced shoes twenty years ago, the
style was generally regarded as q
nuisance because of the tedious
process of lacing. The shoes were
at-fItting, and always looked well
on the feet, but because Of the objec-
ton named the button gaiter leaped
into favor the moment it appeared,
on account Of its easy adjustment.
According to high authority on
footwear, an improved side-lace shoe
is likely soon to be introduced, some
of the more fashionable makers al
ready showing samples. One lace is
used, the lower part being carried
over and over, as in mems shoes, the
upper zigzagging over small studs
and being caught at the top by a
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

A STAMP collector is in trouble in
Washington. He collected so. 600 2
cent stamps in the Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing, and then the gov
eminent collected him.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

THE cable announces that tbs Mar
quis de Villobal Is coming to the
United States to raise money for his
brother, the Duke of Veragua. II
the Duke really needs money and will
come to this country we will guaran-
tee him a job at 81. so a day for eight
hours work IL he is sober and reli-
able
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

TAKING the country as . whole, 1t
il claimed that there are only ninety
i've women to every one hundred
men; but it must be remembered that
In this computation dudes are classi.
fed as males. Ma
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

MRS. JULIA KORN of New York
has secured a divorce on the ground
of extreme cruelty Mr.. Korn, per-
haps, was easily shocked.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

@THE better the day the better the
deed" is bad law, If it be good NOR
ais. A deed executed on Sunday is
as empty conveyance as hearse
coming home from funeral.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

WE believe Breckinridge's chance
OF getting United States Senator
ship is about on par with Miss Pol
lard's chances of cashing her SIS, 900
Judgment.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

AN American syndicate is negoti-
ating for. the purchase of a volcano
In Mexico. Bets of two to one are
offered that some enterprising Amer
lean will gobble up the privileges Of
navigating the canals OF Mars.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

THE more we think of the marriage
of Alix of Hesse and the Czarowitz
the more we are convinced that the
expression wedding obsequies" is cor
root
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

NEW YORK bicycle girls are discuss
ing the best course to pursue when
a rude man makes sport of their
boomers Chicago girls under such
circumstances generally pursue the
man
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

clasp. In this way the wearer can
fasten her shoe as easily as she can
her gloves. An imitation button lap
Is one OF the favorite features OF this
new shoe. tf
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15
A GREAT BABY.

Nine-months-otd Brooklyn Baby Weighs
Fifty Pounds.
William Dorr, Brooklyn laborer,
and wife are the parents of the larg-
est infant Of its age In the world.
Its girl baby, nine months old, and
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

very question he was going to ask
me, but my anticipating it seemed to
him so uncanny that he got out at
the next station"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

UNFORTUNATELY our statutes. do
not say anything about boiling oil
and its application to train wreckers.
o, for mikado!
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

Monthly, and they met with won
defful popularity. In them he dis
cussed, with genial wit and sound
philosophy, the social. moral, and in
tellectual topics of the day. They
were followed by @The Professor at
the Breakfast Table" and @The Poet
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15
AlECk, THE NEGRO.

He Is Probably ths Oldest Resident of New
York City.
A character who was born and has
spent nearly the whole of his 107
years in the same place Is of more
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

PERHAPs the story about the de-
struction OF Harvard's observatory In
Peru is too highly magni6ed, but
recent dispatch lens color to it.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

IT appears 10y the report of the
Commissioner OF Indian Affairs that
live Indians have been good Indians
this year.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

weighs just fifty pounds. When It
was born 1t weighed twenty pounds,
aud a few days later gained four
pounds more. 1t has gained flesh
ever since. The father OF the Child
weighs lao pounds and the mother
ITO pounds. Being entirely desti-
tute, the parents are arranging to ex- :
hibit the babe In 2 Z museum.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

A CHEERFUL spirit makes labor
light and sleep sweet and all around
happy, which is much better than be-
ing only rich.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

THE frog was the original croaker.
Though well able to keep his head
above water, he croaked away
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

Venemous serpents played an i'm
portant part In the medicines OF
other days.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

THE Amer of Afghanistan isn't
dead, after all, the whole trouble be-
Ing ameer attack of the CONT.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

Last e ~ Iatssary Llghts Of New Eng
land and One Of the Nest Remarkable
Men Of the Century HIS Sweet and Well
Ordered LAfo
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15
The man that lives to make the
world happy is the happy man.

THE wagon-wheel trust is the
latest. This thing Is getting tire
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

THE man that lifts himself has q
good deal of dead weight to raise.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15

To SOME men prosperity is. great
er misfortune than adversely.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-15
LATE hours bring early age.

THINK Of It! A trolley car runs
through the streets Of Jerusalem.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-31

American brothers MAsU TATENO.
and sisters She is now quite at home
at the capital and jumps the rope,
plays "'hide-and-seell," and enters into
the other pastimes of the juvenile por-
ton of our population with as much
enthusiasm and enjoyment as she
would If she were in her native cline
and surrounded by the boys and girls
of her own race.
In the short space of three years
which she has been in this country,
says a writer in the Washington Post,
Masu has gained control over the En-
glish tongue with all its everyday
phrases to a remarkable degree. She
is so far advanced in this respect that
she sometimes objects to the language
used by the secretary of the legation
and other members of the household
because, she says, they get their words
out of books and DO not talk like other
people. Those who know Masu and
appreciate her good points predict
that she will make one of the cleverest,
best and most pleasing women of her
race. She win remain in this country
with her father until his return, year
from now. TO Toyo-ashi-wara-n
alSi-no-nago-i- ho-alSi- no-nuzo- no. lSuni,
which means The Luxuriant Reed
Palms; the Land of Fresh Rice Ears;
of a Thousand Streams; of Song; of
Five Hundred Autumns;" that is to
say, Japan.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-31

submission from those who have any
dealings with him, or do business on
his territory, mere submission alone
will not buy him or procure his sane
ton to anything he thinks unfair or
mean.
There was barkeeper at Bauer's
hotel and pavilion two years ago who
presumed upon his pull with Nc
Kane, and not only got drunk but in
suited women, Boosting of his inhu-
ence with the boss This conduct and
this boast did the barkeeper's business
for him-McKane kicked him out Of
Coney island.
On a summer Sunday no part Of
Paris or Continental Europe cares as
little for the fourth commandment as
West Brighton, not even Chicago. A
Methodist minister, Rev. Mr.. Buckley,
once visited the Bowery on a Sunday
in August and was terribly shocked at
what he saw, as well he might be. He
promptly and pointedly reproved Bro.
McKane, but the latter absolutely de-
Tended ''the Bowery."
Not only defended it but claimed,
from Christ's own words, a sanction.
"How in the name of heaven can you
claim that, Bro. McKane?" asked the
dominic. ''The Sabbath was made
for man, promptly replied McKane.
mot man for the Sabbath
1t is really held by McKane's init
mate friends that he does not see any
inconsistency in Sunday school super
intendent running the Coney Island
Bowery on Sunday. Altogether, the
personality of John Y. McKane is Of
more than ordinary interest
The story of his crime against the
purity of the ballot box in last years
election and more recently his trial
and conviction therefor furnishes,
probably, thes closing chapter of his
rule as boss.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-31

atty of the man, and for this reason
there are few politicians to-day living
in whom the general public take a
liyelier interest than the ex-boss of
Coney island. For years MeKane has
been known by the knowing ones as
one of the four rulers of the Brooklyn
end of the great metropolis, and he
has generally been regarded as, con-
sidering the extent and the resources
Of his bailiwicR, the most influential,
not to say despotic, of the four, and
the most successful.
The four Macs is the name now gem
orally applied to the four men who
rule on the Brooklyn side Of the East
river This name was once given
them at dinner by McKane himself
Somebody alluded at the dinner to Nc
Kane's position as a boss. ''Oh, for
the matter Of that" said McKane, Il
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-31

his articles were so favorgbly received
that he became n journalist. In the
meantime the greenbacls movement
was started. and Sovereign, who was
born politician, went heart and soul
into IL. About this time he made the
acquaintance OF Robert and George
Schclling, Joseph K. buchanan and
other prominent knights of Labor.
By their advice lie joined the order
and busted himself making suggestions
about plans for spreading its power
In 1852 he accepted the nomination for
congress for the Ninth district of Iowa
on the greenbacls ticket and was de-
feated. A year later he went 20 Chero.
lsec, Iowa, where he started the Free
Press. a weekly organ of the green
baclScrs, which hourished while the
party was alive, but is now defunct.
Then he went to jefferson, Iowa,
where he started the Argus, and shortly
after he established the Industrial in
Dubuque, Iowa.
All this did not seem TO afford vent
enough for Mr., Sovercign's superb.
bundant energy, so he became active
as labor agitator and lecturer, and IN
1887 the greenbaclxers took hold of him
again and nominated him for lieuten-
ant governor of Iowa, The next year
he ran unsuccessfullv again for con.
rrcss on the same ticket, and in 1889
took tho stump in favor of the candi-
dacy of Gov. Boies.
GOV. Boies, as a reward for Sover-
eipn's efforts, made him labor statis-
tician for the state of Iowa in 1891. His
reports while he held the office were
looked upon as models of conciseness,
and, OF course, were all favorable to
labor.
The local assembly of the knights
which Sovereign first joined was in
storm Lake, Iowa, and is still in exist
cncc. He was elected as It's delegate
TO the general assembly of the knights
for nine successive years and before
his election as general master work.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-31

against terrific enemy has not been
tested yet. First, because it is scarce
a month since the brain of the inventor
designed it, and, second, because there
have been no tornadoes available here
about to destroy.
Eugene Turpin has quite recovered
from the effects of the long imprison-
ment from which he was released
few months ago-an imprison ment, by
the way, which is a most serious blot
upon the records of French justice.
Turpin was finally released on the
ground that he was innocent of the
treason of which he had been con-
demned. Even his liberty was grudg
ingly given him. There has been no
apology and not even any recompense
for his important invention which the
French government is using. Turpin
himself is confident, however, that
there is retribution in store for some
of his enemies
1t is not generally known outside of
France that the inventor of mellinite
is as great student of meteorology as
of chemistry. He has book upon the
SUBJECT now IN press, ana IN tnat
volume he win explain his plan for
robbing the tornado of its terrors. The
unusual number and great destruc-
tiveness of these phenomena in Ameri-
ca the past season, he told me, had
suggested to him the pressing import
ance of coping with the evil.
The oldest theory of the tornado,
you know, he said, sis that the fun
nel-shaped cone is formed by the suck
ing up of current of air. Faye, who
is one Of our best European authori-
ties, holds just the opposite theory.
Your Lieut.. Findlay of the United
States weather bureau confirms Faye,
or at least he declares that nearly all
tornadoes are formed in the upper lay
ers of the atmosphere. / have been
studying the subject closely since 1854.
except when compelled to abandon my
investigations owing to my financial
troubles. / shall discuss all current
theories regarding these terrific phe-
nomena in my forthcoming book, re-
view as carefully as possible the record
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-31

MRS. CHARLES II. ouV'ol-Norh' anu IL
PARKHuRsT is all being done un-
der the supervision of Mrs. Parkhurst,
But it is found to be so awfully difficult
to find anything the women can do.
Those who were aided have lived idle
lives and are trained to do nothing in
the world except make up" and dress
well, aud look as pretty as possible.
Houseworll is the thing proposed for
them. But how is woman who has
never busted her room going to rise at
daylight, sweep the halls, build fires
and prepare the table for morning
meals? Or how can she do dressmal1-
ing? Or what help would she be in
the kitchen? AS nursery maid she
might be success. But who wants to
try her in such q capasitys
Atpresent the ladies' who are help
ing Mrs. ParlShurst are sending things
to the mission of the doctors church
and are giving out sewing to those who
apply. They are also conducting an
employment agency of their own and
are taking the personal interest in
each case which insures its success,
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-31

man of the order had been master
workman of the Iowa state assembly
for six years. Mr.. Sovereign has D1ct
the fate Of many hard worker and is
still poor man.
Mr.. Sovereign viii probably foTn
some plan TO widen the scope of the
Knights Of Labor. Mr. Powderley,
generous, romantic, whole-souled, was
picturesque figure in the palmy days
of the order. Ills theories were eS-
cellent and his personal magnetism
something wonderful but now is the
time, il is believed, for hard headed,
practical man of the world TO take the
reins, and many who know Sovereign
believe that he is the man TO save il
from absolute shipwreck.
Some time ago Mr.. Powdcrley put
himself on record as in favor of "a gem
eral harmony among all labor organi-
zations and the merging Of the Knights
and open unions into one great central
body. Some of Mr.. powderley's time
was taken up studying this problem,
and those who know him well say that
he builded better than he knew, and
that his dream of one great central
body will yet come true.
On the other hand, Mr., Sovereign,
while believing in working harmoni-
ously with the open unions, believes
that the order will still exist and pre-
serve its autonomy and become, as an
order, greater than ever
The organization was at its strong
est in 1876, when over 1000 delegates
were present at the convention of the
general assembly in Richmond, Va,
representing about 100000 members
in good standing. Besides this there
were between 100000 and 500, 600 mem
beers who were not in good standing,
making an aggregate membership Of
over million.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-31

of destruction of life and property by
tornadoes, and shall try to offer some
thing practical in the way of safe
guard against the evil.
lit is no small thing, of course, to
struggle with the atmosphere. Except
the earthquake, the tornado is the
most formidable phenomenon OF ma
ture. Nevertheless have an idea
which l believe will, if put in prac-
tice on a large scale in the United
States, yield almost complete protec-
ton against its dangers 1t would be
folly, of course, to attempt to attack
the tornado itself. but it is not impos-
sible to attack it If you only wish to
interrupt it in case it should attempt
to follow a certain path. For a long
time the general habits or laws
of tornadoes We're unknown.
The records of the United States
weather bureau show us that lorna
does in America always travel from
the southwest to the northeast. This
being established, it is comparatively
easy to face the enemy, because you
know from Just what direction he will
come. The dangerous extent is only
an eighth of the points of the compass;
that is, If you protect a town on its
southwest boundary for one-eighth OF
it's circumference it will be tornado
proof.
at is a well-known fact that wa
terspout at sea collapses instantlyi If a
heavy gun is fired. This is so well I'M
derstood that nearly all ships in tropi-
cal ATTITUDES carry cannon for this
purpose. A tornado on land which is
a phenomenon of the same nature, can
be dissipated in the same way. My
plan in a nutshell, then, is to establish
aerial torpedoes, fixed on high light
towers, like the electric light towers
used in some American cities, and so
placed that the explosion can only
take place by the automatic action of
the tornado itself. The apparatus
which I have designed, and patented a
few DAYS ago. is SO constructed that q
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-31

the board entirely changed was TIE
sensation ~ the day in labor circles.
Will the order under its new leader
rally from the terrible knoclt-down
blows II iias received during the last
ten years is the new leader destined
70 be the man who viii revive its
former power?
WHO'S James r. Sovereign und when
did he become PROMINENT
The fact Is that James r. Sovereign.
though little known in New York ex-
cepi Oy well-posted labor men, is we'll
known b the west His life has been
"a busy one, though he is not yet 40
years % age, and people in the state
% Iowa Ere prepared TO swear by him.
He has teen cattle boy. farm hand,
marble worker, journalist and politi-
clan alternately.
james H. Sovereign was born
IN Cassvil,e, Wis, on May 30, 1854. His
father and mother died when he was
little more than an infant. and he was
brought ap by his grandfather and
received 3 very rudimentary education
~ one Of the local schools
His grandfather died when Sovereign
vas i5 years Of age, and before he had
decided On any trade A number Of
cattlcmcp and cowboys were going at
that time 90 the ranches at Gonzales.
Texas. and Abilene, Kan. and Soyer-
cign Tor want of anything better to
do. went wlth them.
firing Of cowboy life. hc went to
Crc,co Howard county. Iowa, in 1872,
where he worked on farm and went
20 school for two winters lie learned
the trade 81 marble cutter.
lie began 10 write for the local pa
pcrs while he worked AT the trade, and
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-31

than the cost of lightning rods for the
same town. The principal portion OF
the expenses would be in the erection
of the towers. which might be of either
wood or iron. Five hundred dollars
for each para-tornado would surely
cover all expense. There would, of
course. be no expense of maintenance
except for an occasional coat of paint.
A tornado once dissipated by explosion
or otherwise will not reform within
several miles, so that there is no me-
cessity for the erection of safeguards
actually within city.
such is my system. When we con-
slider that hundreds of lives and mill
ions of property are swept away yearly
in America, it really seems worth
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-31

SPECIMEN or WILLIE RILEY's WRITING.
of the brain being effaced through
disease. the inverse image would re.
main in the right hemisphere. which
would render the patient apt to trace
letters from right to left, the execu-
ton Of which would be rendered all
the more natural from the greater
facility of the left hand to work in a
centrifugal direction. Moreover, when
one used the left hand there would
probably be a tendency to copy the
inverse impression or image on the
right side of the brain,
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-31

anese people, she
has to remarka BILE
extent.
Each day when
the weather per-
mits this little maid
plays in front of
the japanese lega-
tion at 1910 y
street, northwest,
in Was h in gton,
with her little
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-31
ELLEN FoorE.

ployer and employed for the past ten
years. 1t was her firmness that forced
the factory owners to sign the articles
of agreement between the Trimmers'
union and Manufacturers association
in 1857. and is now sustaining the Dam
bury hat-makers in their resistance of
the factory owners who would cut
wages.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-31
SEES THINGS REVERSED
Strange Case OF BOY which Is Puz-
cling Learned Philadelphia Doctors.

William Riley, aged 10. IS undergo
ing medical treatment at vineland, Pa.
for an aiiiiction which greatly puzzles
the most distinguished physicians Of
Philadelphia who have seen him. He
was recently shown at clinic at the
University of Pennsylvania
The world OF laymen would see in
the boy only poor cmaciated Great
urc, with right side all paralyzed but
the big doctors beheld in him the in
carnation OF strange scientific prin'
ciples and an object worthy Of their
closest study. They applied to his case
all sorts OF long and learned terms,
but 10 the lay mind the terms meant
that the boys faculties had been SO
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-31
FROM FAR MIKADoLAND.
Charming Little masu Tateno, of IL

Charming Little Masu Tateno, of the
Japanese Legation at Washington.
Masu Tateno, the little daughter of
his imperial Japanese majesty's minis
ter to the United States, is very pretty,
possessing the highest type of Japan
csc beauty. with a straight, well-de-
Yeloped little figure, and black hair
and eyes. Then she is quicz-witted,
loving and polite. This last character
'istic which is so apparent in the jap
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-31

and lives among
the women who
devote their lives
to the hat factories.
Queen Ellen, as She
is called, motherly
and tenderhearted
little woman that
she is, has full.
sway over 900.
minds. She has
been the prime
mover in negotia-
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-31
Calculating Time.

In calculating ''exact time at the
national observatory Mt Washington
the astronomers donot, as is generally
supposed, use the sun as a basis of
their calculations such deductions
are made only from the relative posi-
ton of the s'fixed stars"
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-31

bursts church, and
these are not much
removed in name
from the celebrated
-four hundred" of
society, are revolv-
ing schemes to give
employment to all
the women w h o
apply for work.
This m cans the
fallen as well as the