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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25

WASHINGTON is likely to become
the banner hop State Of the country.
In single county the hop crop for
this year will be upward Of 20,
bales. This (Yakima) county last
year had half as large crop. Two
thousand six hundred acres are de-
voted to old plants, and 1900 acres
have been newly planted this year.
Picking affords employment, to 10, 600
workers. There is something in the
climate and soil Of Washington which
makes the hops grow better than in
the East. The vines are pretty
enough to be grown merely for orna-
ment, were they without the merit
of usefulness. Our grandmothers
used to plant the vines to grow over
the porch, and the hops furnished
material for hop bags or for yeast,
but few of the farm houses of to-day
show this old-fashioned and homelike
ornament. They have gone from the
common garden, with the hollyhocks,
larkspur, marigold aud four-O'- clocks
that the children used to love in
"grandmas garden"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25

TaERE are free homes for old
soldiers there is one for old printers,
there is one for old shipbuilders, not
to speak of the institutions for the
care of those suffering from particular
disabilities; but thus far no one
seems to have felt that that jovial
and interchangeable parsonage, the
commercial traveller, would ever
know enough Of age and inflrmity to
need comfortable retreat for him.
self exclusively. But, somehow, it
has been discovered that the travel
ing man does grow old, and perhaps
hard up, and so some kind-hearted
and provident folk have worked to
get him an asylum when his pushing
days are done. To accomplish this
end there was organized the Com
mercial Travellers Home Association
Of America, and in Binghamton, N.
Y, this association has Just laid the
corner stone Of beautiful and COM
Portable home. May all good attend
the fortunes Of this institution and
Of the guild whose gumption and
energy are main springs of American
trade.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25
Press Censorship in Turkey.

The excessive censorship of the
press exercised In Turkey Is very we'll
illustrated by the recent earthquake
in Constantinople. The news was
suppressed In every possible way and
private kilograms were subjected to
even more than the usual rigid scru-
tiny. A letter received in New York
from Syria under date Of July Is
says:
Il wish we knew one-half as much
as you do about the state Of Constan-
tinople. We heard on the 18th that
there had been an earthquake there,
and up to this time we have had no
definite, reliable news. All sorts of
rumors are afloat. Reported loss of
life is from fifty souls up to Is, 900.
The fact Is that no kilograms are al.
lowed. The wall (governor), IL Is
said, has sent twenty or more tele-
grams asking for news, but has not,
received single reply. Something
has happened and that is about all
we know"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25

THEY say that pleasures treadmill
Is a bicycle; that whistling for half
an hour after meals is the best aid to
digestion; that man is very stlngy
when he will not enjoy Joke at his
own expense; that If tact could be
sold, only such as are already pos
sessed of it would buy it; that man
always wants somebody to answer his
questions, but nobody to question
his answers; that the number Of
languages and dialects spoken in the
world is 1904, exclusive of baby talk
and the language of our railway
porters; that people think it is tough
when they have to pay thirty-flve or
forty cents pound for steak, but it
is tougher when they pay only if
teen.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25

A CANADIAN bullock, which is
considered to be the largest ever
landed in Great Britain, was sold at
Glasgow, Scotland, In July, for the
handsome price of $142. The animal
was a cross-bred short-horn, and came
from the province OF Ontario. 1t
stood seventeen hands high and
measured eight feet from the crown
OF the head to the tail, while its
gross weight was slightly over ton.
The price is considered to be the
highest ever realized in that country
for Canadian bullock. Last year
the highest prices realized at Glas-
gov were $40 for bullock and $3.50
for bull.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25

Incidents That Happily Iilustrate the Vail
ne Of Drawing.
Prof. Mahan, under whom Grant
and most of the other generals Of the
late war studied engineering at West
Point, said: @There Is no person,
whatever his profession, but at times
has need OF drawing as an auxiliary
to render his ideas ineligible TO
others. Stories which illustrate this
saying are told by Alexandra Dumas
and by Nasmyth, the hammer man.
IL these men were not SO eminent we
might suspect that one tale suggest
ed the other. They show that what
might be competent expression to
Norwegian would not do for Ger
man.
Mr.. Nasmyth said he was travelling
In Norway, and one day, in wild,
outof-the-wa place, reached an inn.
very hungry, but unable to make the
hostess understand his wants by any
thing he could say. He was conf
siderably perplexed till he happily
thought Of his pencil. He drew
dish, steaming, a plate beside 1t,
with knife and fork, q bottle and a
wine glass. His hostess looked at 1t
and intimated that she knew what 1t
meant. He went out for stroll andf
on his return, found the picture re-
allied. The bottle, the wine glass,
the plate, the knife and fork and
covered dish. When he sat down
his hostess lifted the cover, display
ing a fine, hot fowl that sent forth a
cloud of steam. Lucky Nasmyth!
Not SO lucky was Dumas, and yet
as expressers of ideas, where Is the
comparison? The circumstances are
similar, only Dumas was on the b)r-
Der land Of Switzerland, stopped by
the rain; horse sinking In mud up to
Dumas would not have entered the
little German inn, so wretched, except
for his great philanthropy. II he
hated anything it was sauerkraut,
and when they imposed this "infam-
Gus pleasantly" upon him repeatedly,
he gave it to the dog. The astonish-
ment Of his hostess was mountainous
IF you don't like sauerkraut, what
do you like?" Anything but that"
1t was all she had. A luminous idea
lights his soul. Mushrooms! The
country was famous for them. but he
could not remember the German
name. "Some-some-How do you
call it In German" "Some? Some?-"
repeated the hostess, mechanically.
"Eh? Yes; some" Sat this mo-
ment my eyes fell on my album.
wait, said /, wait ! then took
my pencil and on beautiful white
leaf drew, as carefully as could, the
precious vegetable which formed for
the moment the object of my desires.
l hattered myself that 1t approached
as near to resemblance as it is per-
mitted for the work of man to re-
produce the work of nature. All
this while the hostess followed me
with her eyes, displaying an intelli-
gent curiosity that seemed to augur
most favorably to my prospects. 'Ah!
ia, ia, ia Eyes, yes, yes), said she, as
l gave the finishing touch to the
drawing. She had comprehendedz
the clever woman-so well compfe-
hended that five minutes after she
entered the room with an umbrella
all open. 'There!' said she. / threw
a glance upon my unfortunate draw
ing-the resemblance was perfect"
American Machinist s,sisr,-,.-.'
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25

A MILLER of Parkers Prairie,
Mimi, who started his new mill re-
Gently, placed a splendid advertise
ment of his -four In the hands of the
ladies Of the town. He gave each a
sample of the -four to see who could
make the best bread. The fact that
he was ready to supply them with
-four and of good quality could have
been impressed more strongly upon
them in no other way. They will not
forget him. A miller of a city Of
25, 900 inhabitants adopted a similar
method of introducing his -four. He
advertised for the names and adj
dresses of ladies who would make five
pounds of his flour into bread for dis
tribution among the poor upon a GER
tain day, the maker of the best bread
to be given barrel of -four for her
trouble. Nearly I, 900 responded,
and the prize winner also gave the
barrel she won to the poor.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25
THE German servant girl in Chi.

THE German servant girl in Chi
cago who has married an American
lied Chinese may not regret her act,
as the Celestial is usually said to
make kind husband. Girls of her
class usually make marriages of this
sort to secure an easy life, and as
they are not sensitive, they manage
to escape the moral suffering that
falls to the lot Of better bred women
who make a misalliance. Probably the
worst victims of ill-assorted mar
riages in the United States are the
girls of good family who have mar
ried Indians. In nearly every case
such girls have endured misery and
shame, and have finally appealed to
the divorce courts for feedom.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25

good luck, so that no one would think
Of even so much as throwing a stone
at one Of the big birds, much less
shoot at one. .l..
There is no sign of spring so salts
factory to farmers along the coast as
the coming of the flsh.hawks. The
coming and going Of these birds is
peculiar, You get up some morning
In April. and they are here. After
their young are Matched and grown
up 1t Is October, and you get up some
morning and find them gone. The
same birds come back year after year,
and they occupy the same nest,
which always needs bit ofsrebuild-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25
DOESN'T BELIEVE IN MICROBES
An O'd Yankee Who sticks to Sulphur,
Molasses and Cider.

An Cd Yankee Who Sticks to Sulphur,
Molasses and Cider.
The New York Mail and Express
Rambler has an old friend in Boston
of the name of jeremiah Mason, who
has fund of quaint philosophy con-
corning the habits Of sheep and men.
He lived for many years near Ded-
ham, and is an authority on wool
growing and on the weather signs
indicating when it is proper to make
changes in clothing and to "physic
the system.
Il am seventy-two years of age, I"
he used to say, @hale and hearty, and
could drive stage coach to-day as
we'll as ! did fifty years ago, if there
was only one Of 'em to drive. Why
am healthy? Sho. Every spring
take sulphur and molasses for three
days lay most of my health to
that. Never drank any kind Of
liquor, except now and again little
hard cider, and cider, let me tell you,
is a great thing for the stomach. Be-
sides, l never took of my winter
clothes until after the sheep storm, )
duu Uicu l. nCNCI WdS luuCu vi Il Out
to worry. That's what eats a man
up-worry. Ii he wants lot and
can't get it and he goes out into the
cold with his pores all open he's just
likely to catch cold and die. but IL
he will just trust to the good Lord,
eat breakfast at daylight, put In a
good, honest days work and 60 to
bed at 10 o'clock with an easy con-
science he'll live out the full span.
"I'm no believer in these new-fan-
gled ideas about microbes and the
like. I've never seen any of 'em.
Why, the way doctors talk you d
think we couldn't eat anything that's
safe. Microbes in milk to give you
consumption; microbes In water to
give you fever; microbes in pork to
give you a disease called trickey
something or other; microbes In the
air to give you smallpox Well, 1
want to know What In the name
of common sense and General Jack
son are we to eat anyway? reckon
my plan is the best My children
and grandchildren are brought up
that way. The only bad habit /
have" and the old gentleman care
fully pulled silver snuff box from
his pocket, "is taking a pinch of this
half dozen times day. It's mighty
comfOrtin'."
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25
THE latest figures relating to the

THE latest figures relating to the
census of 1891, published by the La
Dor Bureau of the French Govern
ment, sustain the assertion so often
made that the population Of France
is slowly decreasing. In 1881 the
population was 37,672,04S, and the
gain from 1881 to 1885 was SAG, 1855,
but from 1875 to 1881 the gain was
766, 26O. The gain from 1886 to 1891
was only 124, $50. At this rate Of
decrease the report for the five years
ending in 1896 will show stationary
and perhaps a decreasing population.
The most of the increase has been in
Paris and Marseilles, thus showing a
drift from the rural districts to those
cities where the death rate is the
highest
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25
Food for the Horse.

The horses natural food is grass
There Is nothing else upon which he
will do so we'll or live So long. His
internal &c nomy can accommodate
itself to the dried, seedless stalks of
winter, the luxuriant foliage of spring
or the highly nutritious seed pods OF
summer. The stalks preserve his
health. the green foliage fatteDs him
and the seed pods invigorate and
strengthen him. No horse, however
lightly worked, should be fed on hay
alone. The ration should include grass
or roots, and when the work is hard
enough suitable quantity Of grain.
No horse that is lightly worked
should be highly fed on grain. 1t is
common and costly practice which
causes many horse to be discarded
long before his time.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25
Country Roads.

Roads should be surfaced every
time they become rutty and uneven.
BY cutting out and opening the
waterways on the sides OF the road
the first great thing in building or re-
building road is accomplished. Az
ter roadway is put in proper shape,
il it can be rolled over four or five
times with heavy roller OF five or
seven tons in weight it will form a
crust from four to six inches thick
that is so hard tina the prints of a
horses foot or the wheels OF hea y
loaded wagon will hardly make an
impression and will prevent rutting
for long time to any great extent.
Country roads should be gone over
with these machines as early as pos
sible in the spring after the frost is
OUT to prevent deep ruts from form
ing. -
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25
FRloHTFUL CORRUPTION.

New York's Police Have Levied Nearly
800 100000 In Thirty YearA
An insight has been gained through
the Lexow Investigating Committee
into the rottenness OF the New York
police department., but very few have
an adequate idea of the immense
amount of blood money that has been
levied during the thirty years that
this systematic, thieving has been
going on. Conservatively computed
the total Is stupendous and far ex-
ceeds any other Official steal In the
history of America. 1t is not far
out Of the way to place this gigantic
steal at 500, eOJ, 900.
The 'initiation fee" of disorderly
houses was $500 and the monthly
contribution $50. The present num-
Der of such places In New York Is
4,500 and the average life of a
house of this class under one propri-
etor is three years. Thus we have
the limitation fee" for 1900 houses
falling due each year and yielding a
corruption fund of $750,000. The
regular monthly payments on the A.
500 houses reach 5000 year for each
or 81, 1000 for all, giving a total
of SO, 450, 900 year for disorderly
houses.
Theamount Of money paid by green
goods swindlers for police protection
was about $3.50 year, and gam
blers paid yearly tax Of S72, 900 for
the privilege of plying their unholy
calling. The price paid by merchants
for blocking the sidewalks with their
wares was S25 year, and as there
were 1000 merchants who paid for
the privilege the amount turned over
to the police annually reached $780,
600. The 500 peddlers Of the city
paid SO a week or $78, 900 a year, and
from the 1000 saloOnkeepers 81, $780,
coo was taken for the privilege ex-
tended Of violating the excise laws
with impunity. At least 1000 own
ers of stands, fruitstand-keepers and
bootblacks encroached upon the pub.
lie domain to an extent which the
police thought justified an assess
ment Of $25 each, making S25, 900
a year.
We have thus reached the enor-
nous sum of $4,000, 600 a year,
scooped in by the police to fatten the
higher criminals who managed the
city's affairs.
But this system Of corruption has
been going on for thirty years. As.
Stunning that thirty years ago the
blackmail amounted to only 10 per
cent. of what 1t did last year and
that its growth since then has been
uniform we would have the amazing
total during the period of nearly
500, 900, 900, or to be exact S97,-.
$50, 000
This sum is larger than the bonded
debt of all the Western States: the
bonded debt of New York alone
equals this great figure. And this
sum represents what the police Of
New York have demanded and re-
ceived as brides to induce them to
break their paths Of office and prey
Upon Instead Of protect the city: -.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25

The Nevada station has issued
bulletin containing its final report on
the suitability of the soil 6f that
State for the growing OF sugar beets.
This industry is exciting great atten-
tion all over the world. The Eng
lish farmers were the last in Europe
TO interest themselves In the subject
But they are now aroused, and say
that with proper government encour-
agement they could cultivate enough
beets to supply the country with
sugar This would enable them to
give up raising grain to considera.
BILE extent and would furnish work
TO the large number of laborers now
out Of employment 1t would also
enable them to retain the so, 600,
600 now sent out of the country for
the purchase of sugar, mostly in
France and Germany.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25

THE ability to grow pork properly
does not by any means depend en-
tirely upon the ability to grow corn.
Corn is certainly the leading food
factor in successful growing, but
no kind of meat requires more va
ried diet to grow it in fine form and
to grow it in continuity without en-
dangering the stamia Of the pigs.
The section, therefore, which! is best
adapted to the growing Of pork, other
things equal, Is that section which
car grow corn readily and also other
food products in conjunction with it.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25
MANY MOURNERS.
Description of a Funeral In Distant
Egypt.

Description of Funeral In Distant
Egypt.
From along the banks of the Nah
moudiyeh canal one day / saw sad
but interesting sight, says a foreign
traveller. Away in the distance. ON
the opposite side, large number Of
people were coming along, and upon
their nearer approach saw that they
formed funeral procession. Two
sheikhs, with long blue tunics and
white turbans, led the way; and i'm
mediately behind them were the men,
to the number of twenty-six, chant
ing In a dismal way: LA Allah lila
Allah, wa Mohammed ruscol Allah"
CThere is no God but God, and
Mohammed is the apostle Of God.)
The funeral costumes were their
everyday dresses, showing wide con-
trasts of color, some being blue.
Others black, yellow, white, and
brown. Then followed tho bier,
young Moslem lad being carried to
his long home. 1t was covered with
large native rugs and was supported
by four men, relieved in turn by
Others. The women and children
came next, about sixty in all, the
women weeping and wailing and
waving handkerchiefs in front of
them, now and again filling the still
air with fearful shrieks. The women
were dressed in the usual somber blue
covers and their faces were closely
yelled. They halted opposite to the
spot where stood, and the men got
on board Of one Of the tiny ferries
that ply backward and forward over
the canal, taking the bier with them,
and were rowed safely to the other
side, the women meanwhile waiting
and wailing for the dead youth.
The boat, which was about twenty
feet long and eight feet in beam, hav-
ing returned the women and children
then got on board, most of them sit
ting, and they were pushed across
and landed. The procession then re-
formed and the wailing continued.
The procession wended its way for a
considerable distance along the banks
CT the canal under grove Of syca-
more trees. The sight left painful
impression upon my mind. The day
was beautiful, the birds Piping out
their Joys overhead. Everything
seemed happy except these poor
Arabs, without hope to cheer the
dark tomb.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25

rally timid birds have no fear of man
kind. The flsh-hawk is found along
many of the inland waters of the
State, but it is impossible to get near
them, and it is a rare thing to find
a nest. They are the shyest Of birds
in these places.
Years ago the fisher folk along the
coast used to think that il fish
hawk built its nest on ones land it
was an omen Of good luck, and that
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25
Milk Typhoid.

The recent enormous extension of
the creamery business, involving, as
it does, the mixture of the milk from
whole districts, evidently brings
with it many dangers. Formerly
milk typhoid was characterized by
sudden outbreaks, widely spread
among the consumers of infected
farms, but under the creamery sys-
tenn. by which each farmer receives
back his proper proportion of skim
milk from the general stock, cnteric
fever on any one farm tends To be
rapidly distributed throughout the
diaries served by the creamery. and
1t becomes quite obvious that il the
creamery system is to be safely
worked, a very careful and thorough
system Of inspection of the farms
must 20 along with II.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25

According to the Agricultural De-
partment at Washington the worlds
wheat crop of 1893 was 1000, 600
bushels less than In 1892 and more
than II, 00e, 900 bushels greater than
the worlds crop OF 1891. But the
crop of North America was. last year
only 447, 600, 900 bushels as against
574, 1874, 900 bushels in 1892 and 6S4, :
500, 900 bushels In 1891. The great
est increase was In Europe from H.
20s, $50. 900 bushels in 1891 to !, 433,-
$780, bushels last year, and In
South America which increased from
so, $50, 700 bushels 10 1891 to 81, 640,.
600 bushels In 1893.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25
Better for the Business of Farmers.

Farmers boys have, as rule, sue
ceeded in all occupations, but how
much more able, influential and re-
spected would the farming commu-
nifty be to.dayif it were made up of
those same talented and educated
sons, asks the Farmers Review. II
my education will aid me In other vo-
cations, while will it not serve me as
we'll as a farmer? That Is a falla-
cious doctrine which teaches other
wise. Is not the knowledge of agri-
cultural chemistry, methods Of plant
growth, and the nutrition Of 70 DIS
OF practical use? An educated MIND
that Is an athletic minds
trained to think. Does 1t not pay
the farmer TO think?
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25
Don't Laugh.

The young electrical wizard, Tesla,
says that he can supply the world
with artificial sunshine as soon as ne
can safely care for the 5000, 600 volts
necessary for that purpose. Do not
laugh at him, nor compare him to
the ancient philosopher who said
that he could move the world IL he
could secure fulcrum for his leverb
Nothing seems impossible to cleo
tricity, and some day even grim Chi
cago and dull London may be pro-
vided with best three-ply, yard wide
Italian sunshine, guaranteed to mel
low the temper and consolidate the
health, by electrical contractors who
have found out the secret of imitat-
Ing the sun. New York Journal.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-25
ENGLISH shoe workers are complain

ENGLISH shoe workers are complain
ing bitterly of the influx of Russian
Jews. 1t is claimed that there are
twenty thousand In the shoe trade in
London alone. They fill the sweat
shops of Whitechapel and other
choice neighborhoods, and their COM
petition is SO severely felt that the
British factory operative is deprived
OF work. 1t was hoped that the
sweat shop was almost thing of the
past, but the pauper immigration
has restored it in worse shape than
ever Sal