Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-09-12


course, ali the time spent In prepar-
Ing oil the materials Of oil klndsr-aa
In digging the coal to heat the fur
mace to make iron and steel for naili
and armor and guns, Telling the trees
to make lumber, digging the mineral
for the paint, planting and cultivat-
ing the beans for making the oil, and
so on. So that probably the estimate
above Is we'll within the actual cost
of labor time required.
The cooks OF the twentieth cen.
tury will have comparatively easy
times. Everything will be done
from scientific reasons. Meals
simple and most beautifully served,
for the eye as we'll as the palate
should be pleased. Foods eaten for
q special purpose. not simply to
'fill up" Eating, in other words,
will be refining element rather than
q coarse one: and our lady will be
proud to say that she is cook, be-
cause it will require more brains to
be q cook than to be physician.
The cook will have to know all. while
medicine will be divided into speci-
alties, a man finding that the whole
human being is more than he can
comprehend in lifetime.
A BAND of about 1000 horses was
bought on range in Umatilla coun-
ty. WASH, recently by the Portland
Horse Meat Canning Company, at
$3 q head. This was the price on
the range. The horses will be taken
to Portland as required. Three
hundred were sent on as soon as the
sale was concluded The agent OF
the company. who is travelling
through the range country, says that
the hide, name, and tail alone OF
each horse will bring $3.50, leaving
the entire carcass clear profit.
There is singular reticence about
the actual purposes for which the
carcasses are to be used, and various
people claiming to be connected with
the concern talk variously about
fertilizers, grease, canned steaks,
and many other products.
IRRIGATION experiments along q
new line have been making during
the past few months in the arid
region of western Kansas. where
the rainfall is insufficient for crop
raising, and where no river water for
irrigation can be obtained, and so
far they have been great su :cess,
The plan is to sink wells to a water
bearing strata and pump the water
for irrigating the crops. The State
Government is making the expert
ments, and farm has been estab-
lished at Goodland. The engineers
report that there is q water-bearing
sand, fully one.third Of which is
water, underlying the whole of the
arid district at an average depth of
twenty-one feet. This will yield
more than sufficient amount of
water for all purposes of irrigation,
and it can be economically raised.
Ii all this turns out as prophesied
the arid district promises to become
one of the most fertile regions in
Kansas.
FEW Americans are aware OF the
fact that If it were not for the little
island of Sicily. there would be
no lemons, nor are many aware Of
the great Importance of this COM
merce and of it's necessity to the
United States. The production Of
lemons in America is so limited at
the present time, both as regards
quantity and seasons. that all the
California and Florida products do
not supply 10 per cent. of the coun-
try's needs. After the months of
August and September, when our
domestic lemon crops mature, ex-
cept for Sicily we should be without
any lemons whatsoever, except few
that Spain sends us during the rest Of
the year. Accurate figures show that
from September to April 30, during
the past five years, the importations
from Sicily seach year have been
about one million two hundred thou
sand boxes, each containing 300
lemons, or equalto $50, 00C, 600 lem
onS. 49,
|. A RECENT addfess before the San
Francisco Chamber Of Commerce by
an American manufacturer named
Pearce is. rich with facts about the
present relations Of different coun-
tries, and especially OF the Orient.
Mr.. Pearce has just been around the
world taking observations He says
that 60 per cent. OF the jute mills Of
Dundee, Scotland, are idle because
Great Britain cannot compete with
India. At Manchester so, 600 cotton
spinners are protesting against the
duty on English cotton goods inn
ported into India. Children work at
the cotton looms in India for cents
week, and India has increased her
cotton product fourfold in the last
four years. China is also beginning
to spin cotton, and England must
soon lose this market also. Spin
ners get 25 cents week there,
against 81. so day here. Mr.. Pearce
believes that it is not the COMPETE
tion of Europe that this country
need fear, but that OF India, China
and Japan.
In his article on what to avoid in
bicycling, printed in the North
American Review, Sir Benjamin
Ward Richardson, well-known
English medical authority, writes
that excessive cycling is dangerous
because of it's effect on the heart, the
motion Of which he has known to be
raised from so TO 200 beats a minute
by the exercise. He thinks too there
is tendency to develop the lower
limbs at the expense OF the upper.
There Is little doubt OF the correct
ness of these observations, adds the