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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22

tIon OF New York life which Be had
not dreamed of before He was
amazed aud horri6ed, and bis horror
and wonder grew on him. One Sun
day he preached sermon such as ho
had never preached before. That
day was the turning point In DIR.
Parkhurst's life and In New York's
moral history. Driven by a sense Of
duty, DR.. Parkhurst now left that
life of pleasant clerical ease and de-
termined to devote himself to purify
Ing New York and taking away the
city's reproach.
Parkhurst's Great Work.
He received the support of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Crime, OF
which he was president and, armed
with this power, he set to work max
ing Investigations He was soonc n
vinced that the whole system of mu-
nicipal government was rotten, and
that therefore vice and lawlessness
were rather encouraged than re.
pressed. In the face of sneers and
opposition, Notwithstanding SANDER
and calumny, the Doctor kept on.
Finally he appeared before the grand
jury and laid before 1t the result of
his Investigations. Indictments were
found by it on the strength OF DR..
Parkhurst's evidence against one
police captain, and testimony was
given duplicating several others. The
tide of public opinion turned now in
DR.. Parkhurst's favor, and instead Of
being termed crank" and sneered at
as a fool he was now hailed as a re-
former and man whose worth had
not been hitherto appreciated. Soon
the Senate appointed committee to
investigate DR.. Parkhurst's charges
against the New York police, and the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22
Record of the Week.

Mrs. A. NJ. Johnson, of Galesburg,
narrowly escaped death through inhaling
the fumes of acid vinegar which she was
scalding for culinary purposes. Several
similar cases are reported.
Fred Schwarbrow, of New Haven, had
six gashes cut in his abdomen, one on his
hand, and two on his face as the result
of pounding dynamite cartridge with a
hammer on a block to investigate its
nature.
Four miles north of Nirvana, Chester
Banty was accidentally shot by his gun
slipping and the hammer striking upon a
log. He was a youth of 10, and lived at
Rodney. His father and brother were
with him.
The Michigan crop report for Novem-
Der gives the area seeded to wheat at SO
per cent of the area seeded one year ago.
In condition the growing wheat is report
ed at 81 per cent. in the southern coun-
ties, 9S in the central, and 100 i'm the
northern, comparison being with average
years. The average for the State is
"a. The average condition is higher in
all sections of the State than one year
ago. Corn is estimated to yield in the
southern counties and the State an av-
erage of forty bushels of ears to the
acre. The area of cloverseed harvested
is about 81 per cent. of the area in av-
erage years. The yield is estimated ut
1.31 bushels to the acre. Compared with
a full average crop. potatoes are estimat
ed i'm the State at 80 per cent. Live stock
is in fairly good condition.
Stllman Stevens. living on his farm
near Jonesville, was found dead in his
woods. DIR. Warren pronounced apo
plexy the cause of his death. He was
about 80 years old and unmarried, and
leaves an aged father and mother and
two maiden sisters.
Two children of Alfred Hindstrom
were burned TO death at Chassell The
mother was milking "A COW, and had left
her little ones in the house. When she
returned the building was in fanies, and
no human aid could save the children.
The frantic mother had TO be forcibly
restrained from rushing to her own
death.
The estate of the late John G. Lewis,
Whitehall, wealthy lumberman, il
$500, 900. Onethird of the property goes
to the wife and the remainder equally
divided to each of his three daughters.
III. l.. Holser, American representative
of the Seventh Day Adventists, writes
his friends in Battle Greek he is undergo
ing Imprisonment in Basel, Switzerland,
for allowing work to be done in the Adj
ventist Publishing House there Sunday.
KaIamazoo's electric lighting bonding
proposition to issue $4,000 bonds TO
build a plant was carried by 500. but
claims of an illegal election are made, and
the Council is likely to be enjoined again
before 1t makes contract. 1t Is proba-
bly, the beginning of n bitter fight.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22

THE president of the Chicago
Board of Education, who is opposed
to what he calls fads in the public
schools, but is DESTROYS OF introducing
new arithmetics prepared or edited
by the able instructors OF the public
school establishment, laughs loudly
at member Of the board Of educa-
ton who, he said, was unable
properly to spell separate. At the
same time, however, the President
Of the Board OF Education admits
that he found himself unable to as.
certain the answer to proposition
in arithmetic, one submitted to his
boy. An able instructor, however,
was quite ready with the process and
the answer, though the president
himself had not only wasted the ibid.
night incandescent, but had seen rosy
fingered morn lifting up his curtain
shades before he gave up the problem
as too difficult for his solution. 1t is
more discreditable to member Of
the Board of Education to be unable
to spell separate than it is to compre-
bend an ordinary proposition in
simple rules Of arithmetic? Much
depends upon earlier education.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22

WE are not quite prepared to agree
with Justice e. Clarence Murphy, of
Brooklyn, in the valuatisn that, by
implication at least, he puts upon
Lottie Collins ankle. Lottie sprained
her ankle not long ago, and employed
physician to put it in "Ta-ra-ra-
boom-deaye" shape again, which, of
course, means to make it as good as
new. The physician, realizing the
Importance of the case-for what
would "Ta-ra-ra" be with a sprained
ankle-made ten professional calls
and then sent In bill for S87. Lottie
thought that was too much, forget
ting, apparently, that the injury was
the most serious she could well sus-
tain. She refused to pay. and in the
suit that followed the Justice scaled
the bill down to $50. In view OF the
circumstances, this seems to be an
differentiation. Had it been her
voice or her wrist or her head that
was injured, So visit might have
been enough TO pay for repairs, but her
ankle is of more professional value
TO her. What would Lottie amount
to without good strong ankle, any
yay?
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22

Plato believed that diamonds were
formed by vitrIfying quality inn
parted to certain portions of pure
water by "star-shine." Pliny says
that the diamond is the hardest as
well as the most valuable of precious
stones, and that 1t can only be soft
ened by immersing it seven days and
seven nights In goat blood! Beo-
tus declares that the @ruby is a
sovereign remedy against the plague
and all poisons; 1t also drives away
evil spirits and bad dreams" Sera-
plus ascribes to the diamond the
power of healing various eruptive
diseases, and also says that 1t insures
the safety Of the wearer In time of
great tempests. Babinet says: For
all maladies of nervous character the
amethyst Is the sure and sovereign
cure"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22

CHINA has books 5000 years old on
the art OF war. The maxims and
rules of warfare as laid down in these
books are something wonderful. One
of the principal maxims that are in
stilled into the life of every Chinese
officer is: Spread in the camp Of
the enemy voluptuous musical airs to
soften their hearts" Any one who
ever heard the voluptuous airs Of a
boiler factory in full operation will
appreciate the softening influence of
Chinese music.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22
THE authorities have decided that

THE authorities have decided that
Herr Most cannot act in Newark, n.
J. Newark has been experiencing
some labor troubles and the police
prohibited the performance. Most
then appealed to the Mayor and he
took the matter under advisement
He read the play with great care and
gave due attention to all other details
OF the proposed reduction. Then he
retired within himself and thought,
after which he announced his de-
cesion. 1t was that Most cannot act
in Newark. Possibly the Mayor is
right. In fact we are inclined to
think he is. But why add ain New.
ark" to his decision? Why not say
merely "Most cannot act" and let it
go at that?
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22
Donovan. of lay.

Bay County furnishes the only repre-
sentative that the Democrats of Michi-
gan will have in the next Legislature.
His name is John Donovan. and he is the
sole survivor of the late disaster. Upon
him falls the enormous duty of protecting
the principles and enforcing the policy of
a great party. He can be relied on TO
stand solidly for any measure that he
may support or against any measure that
he may oppose. He will not be rent by
fractional strife or bitterness Upon him
depends the chances of Democracy for
sending couple of United States Sen
ators to represent Michigan. He is the
whole thing, and the load that Atlas bore
is light compared with his.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22

OF New York City. His name and
his deeds have become familiar in
our mouths as household Words" in
deed, he is at present the conspicuous
man Of the time. And yet, there
are few men less understood and less
appreciated; there are none who have
suffered more from misrepresentation
and slauder. When DR.. Parkhurst
first appeared in the role of reformer,
as the hater Of vice, the newspapers
affected to regard him as a monster
of lust: as one of those whose strange,
morbid impulses to vice are at once
the wonder and pity of their fellows;
he was abused as Satyr cloaked in
the garments Of religion who applied
himself with horrible industry to the
dissemination Of the cult of Priapus.
How different the true man is! and
how different is the worlds opinion
Of him now that it has seen what he
can do! One who knows Dr. Park
hurst well discusses his traits mi
nutely in one of the New York jour-
nails and gives pleasing picture Of
his character
Parishurst's Purity.
In person, he says, DR.. Parkhurst
is rather small, fine-bred, gentle
manly man, eloquent and animated
in every motion and gesture, keen of
intellect and with nervous force
continually displayed by his mobile
features. The good Doctor is unsur-
passed even among his professional
brethren for purity Of life and sim
pie innocence-an innocence often
synonymous and Identical with ignor-
ance. He seems to be almost wholly
without passion, Of an icy crystalline
GOODNESS which has nothing in COM
mon with the general weakness Of
humanity Joined to this DR.. Park
hurst has a burning, overwhelming
horror of what he conceiyes to be
evil. 1t is not the doer of wrong so
much that he detests as the huge,
impersonal mass Of s. n which fills the
earth and shuts out the brightness of
the sky. He regards this evil as a
monstrOus and unnatural growth; it
does not appear to him as interesting
in itself; he has no imagination and
sin is as passiOnless thing to him as
the nudity Of death. This frame of
mind arises from his theologic pre-
possessions, from the fact that DR..
Parkhurst believes absolutely in the
close and vital connection between
things human and divine-between
man and God.
Distinctly Americin.
DR.. Parkhursti is distinctly an Amer
lean. He has the nerve force, the
brightreyed eagerness for knowledge
and the indefatigable enthusiasm
which are all thought to be distin-
nuic inn marl1S Of our count runaan
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22

parts Of boiling water, and the solu-
tion should never be made until it Is
about to be used. This should be in
jected simultaneously with a trophine
all about the wound, and also under
the skin Of the abdomen, that it may
enter the circulation as quickly as
possible. No ligature about the part
bitten is necessary.
Il have not yet determined the
amount necessary to be used upon a
human being, because l have had no
opportunity of making tests. In
operating with rabbits / have found
chloride of lime fully effective up to
fifty minutes with animals that would
nave died in two hours, as shown by
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22
Sues Michigan Central for $4,000.

William Whalen, engineer of the sec
ton of the Michigan Central special
which ran into another train at the Jack
son depot Oct 13, 1893, killing thirteen
people and injuring many others, has in
stituted suit i'm Washtenaw County
against the Michigan Central for $4,000
for personal damages. He sets up negli-
gence on the part of the company in en-
ploying inexperienced men to assist in
running the train, and that the con-
struction of the angle cock was defec-
tive, shutting off the air between train
and engine. The accident was due to the
failure of the air brakes.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22
ROM all parts of the country come

FROM all parts Of the country come
statements showing that the millers
and dealers in breadstuffs are max
ing desperate attempts To organize
and stem the tide that is forcing
-four and bread downward. We do
not know what may be accomplished
by the trust organizers in the way of
keeping prices up. But we do know
that there is not the slightest shadow
of excuse for the maintenance of
high prices SO long as wheat is sell
ing for so cents a bushel. Why
should a loaf of bread made of so
cent wheat sell for as much as one
made of 81 wheat?
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22

the fact that those that were not
treated, all having received the
same amount of venom, did die in
that period. / estimate, from all
the conditions, that from twenty to
thirty centimetres Of the solution
will suffice to save the life Of man
bitten, it being administered in
doses Of five cubic centimetres each.
Mr.. Calmette believes that the
venom Of scorpions, tarantulas and
centipcdes will yield to the same
treatment as that of snakes.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22

THE Notovitch story about an al
legged sojourn Of Christ in India is
pretty effectually exploded by Max
Muller in the October number Of the
Nineteenth Century. He Says that
letters have been received not only
from missionaries, but also from En-
glish officers passing through Leb,
who made careful inquiries on the
spot, declaring that no Russian gen.
tleman Of the name Of Notovitch
ever passed through Leh, and that
no traveller with broken leg ever
was nursed in the monastery at
Himis. One of these letters is given
in full. 1t is from an English lady,
dated Leh, Ladahk, June 20, and
contains the following words: "Yes-
terday we were at the great Himis
Monastery, the largest Buddhist mon.
astery up here-S00 lamas. Did you
hear of Russian who could not gain
admittance to the monastery in any
way, but at last broke his leg outside
and was token in? His object was to
copy Buddhist life of Christ which
is there. He says he got it and has
published it since in French. There
is not single word of truth in the
whole story. There has been no Rus
sian there. No one has been taken
into the seminary for the last fly
years with broken leg. There is no
life of Christ there at all. 1t is
dawning on me that people who in
England profess to have been living
in Buddhist monasteries in Thibet,
and to have learned the mysteries of
esoteric Buddhism, are frauds" Max
Muller discourses at some length on
the improbability of the story, but
this hardly is necessary. The direct
report from Himis may be compared
with the statement by a lawyer that
there were fifty reasons why certain
person was not present at the trial,
the first being that the man was
dead. The court observed that the
other forty-nine reasons for his alb
sence need not be stated.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22

WHAT'S this? Vice President
Wickes, the great Pullman leader,
sued for divorce! There must be
some mistake about this. Mrs.
Wickes asserts that her husband is a
brute and coward, domestic ty-
rant, cruel, vindictive, unmanly.
She says that he habitually kicked
her, beat her. abused her, and made
her life shameful, miserable. and
unbearable. She adds that he has
brutal, disgusting, and beastly per-
sonal habits, and often used abusive
and obscene language toward her.
But perhaps she is mistaken. She
has lived with him only twenty-three
years, and every wife knows that such
period Is not long enough for wife
to learn her husband thoroughly.
Mr.. Wickes during the recent Pull
man strike occupied a moral and
ethical pedestal several feet higher
than any one else in the community.
He was a great and good man and
admitted 1t. He felt so sure of his
position that he @hung out his ban
ner on the outward wall" and In
scribed on II IN flaming letters:
There is nothing to arbitrate." It
looks now as II that legend would
have to be revised
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22

The PoIssn of the Cobra. Asp and Otnes
Reptiles No Longer Deadly.
One of the most notable advances
Ia contemporary scientific research
has just been made by French ply
stefan, DR.. A. Calmette. For year
he has been experimenting upon pol
sonous snakes and through his efforts
the deadliest serpents In the world
have ceased to be deadly. He first
began experimenting with the poison
OF the cobra, one OF the most dam
gerous OF snakes, and devised an an
tidote which renders this serpent's
bite harmless. A rabbit inoculated
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22
NEARLY DROWNED IN MOLASSEs
The Small Boy Jumped Into "a Hogshead
and There He Stuck.

and There He Stuck.
The l3-year-old-sOn Of large
wholesale grocery merchant of Ha-
gerstOwn, Md, met with an accident
recently, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord, that came near egualing that Of
the celebrated Clarence, who is said
to have been put to death by drown
ing in butt of Malmsey wine. The
boy was amusing himself by leaping
from the head OF one hogshead TO an
other of group placed in the rear Of
his fathers store. All at once, as he
leaped upon one, the head gave way
uuder his weight and let him down
into three feet Of mOlasses. Fortu-
nately for the lad he fell on his feet,
sinking slowly into the thick, gluey
mass, which, receiving him, how
ever, was most reluctant to give him
up again. The molasses came up TO
the boys chin and it was only by
holding his head well back that he
kept it from entering his mouth. He
managed with some diriculty to raise
most as unyielding as pitch, and
grasped at the sides of the hogshead,
but 1t was impossi BILE to gain hold
on the curved, concaye walls. The
top was also beyond his reach, clogged
as he was by the molasses, which
rendered leap upward Impractical
BILE. SO the unlucky prisoner was re-
duced to calling for assistance. But
the hour was noon and the town was
dining, and passers-by were not nu-
merous. The adjacent store was
abandoned, save for some laborers
who were loading goods in the front,
and the clerk who was directing
them, SO minutes passed and the
prisoner found his position preca-
riOus one, for fatigue rendered the
task of holding his mouth and nos
trils out of the liquid around him a
most trying one, while, weighted as
he was, his limbs seemed failing him.
At last a negro passing by heard
his cries and proceeded to investigate
the noise. After searching some
time he at last sprang up and looked
over into the hogshead, but the lads
head being dark and all that was
visible of him he did not perceive
him, and dropped back to the ground,
The boy gave another shout, which,
muffled as it was by the close sides of
the great wooden vessel and coming
from what he thought he had just
seen held nothing but black molasses,
aroused the superstition of the negro
He sprang back with yell and wen
tearing into the street yelling that
there was "h'ant" in the rear of the
store. A crowd collecting, he told
what he had heard emanating from
the hogshead. and while some passed
on laughing others remained to ferret
out the mystery.
A man leaped up to the top OF the
nearest hogshead and peered into the
suspected one, but on seeing white
face peering up at him was nearly rs
frightened as the negro had been. A
weak voice pleaded with him for sue
cor, so active measures were at once
taken to get the boy out. A strange
figure he presented when brought to
view, dripping with concealed sweet
ness, his clothes unacceptable as
such. 1t has been necessary to shave
the back OF his head, as the hair was
so caked with molasses as to be Who'll
ly unmanageable.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22
THE GREAT IRISH DEER.
Creature Which FIourishsd In
Prehistoric Times.

Magnificent Creature Which Flourishsd In
Prehistoric Times.
One Of the extinct animals of pre-
historic times is the great Irish elk,
whose remains are found abundantly
in Ireland. One of the skeletons
which has been dug up from the clays
underlying the peat OF that country,
measures ten feet four inches to the
summit of the antlers, and the span
Of the aDtlers from tip to tip is eight
feet The weight of the skull and
antlers is seventy-six pounds. In
some cases the antlers have meas
ured more than eleven feet from tip
to tip. The body of the animal as
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22

IT Is but a little the wIsest OF US
can know or the ablest OF US can do.
Modesty is becoming In all--it is the
handmade OF truth; but neither truth
nor modesty requires US to fear or to
shun any knowledge, however small.
Let us rather welcome 1t gladly, only
endeavorlng to add to 1t with every
opportunity, and to hold it simply at
its real worth.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22

Michael Wilson, farmer, about 90
years old. residing in Franklin, near
Adrian, pleaded guilty to assault and bat
terry, and was gwen ninety days in the
Detroit House Of Correction. His moth
er, aged 90, lives with Wilson and has
been shamefully treated, not been given
sufficient food, and frequently suffering
for want Of fire. She attempted to build
a fire, which angered Wilson's wife, who
flew at the old lady and beat her. The
unnatural son, on coming in, sided with
his wife and used horsewhip, brutally
flashing her, then dragged her upstairs,
where he struck her with the butt end
Of the whipstock. The complaint was
made by Wilson's son. Wilson is a church
member and owns 120 acres of choice
farm land. The aged parent rode ten
miles in the cold TO be a witness.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22

"MoRGANFIELD, the Quantico
train robber, turns out to be Charles
Morgan, OF Missouri, popular young
business man, whose wife knows only
that he Is "away on business trip
down East somewhere. We still
maintain that we never have known
of but one double life that was sue
cess. The Siamese twins were all
RIGHT
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-22
Al German Custnm.

A custom that has existed for sew
eral centuries Is still maintained in
some towns on the lower Rhine. On
Easter Monday--auction day-tho
town crier or clerk calls all the young
people together and to the highest
bidder sells the privilege of dancing
with the chosen girl, and her only,
during the entire year. The fees
flow into the public poor box