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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-27
A Dogs Sagacity.

VIM. H. Taylor, of Rockton, N. Y, 10
the owner of n liver-colored bird dog,
and Mrs. Murray, his next door neigh
Dor, owns large Newfoundland dog
The dogs have become so much at
tached to one another that IL either
gets into fight the other joins in the
ARRAY. Mr.. Taylor has four-year-old
boy to whom both dogs are devoted.
One morning recently Mrs. Taylor
thought her dog Frank acted strange
ly. He came to her and gently pulled
at her dress. The dog finding no no.
tice taken of his mute appeal looked
around the rooms apparently in search
Of his boy friend. Not finding him no
ran upstairs to the bedroom occupied
by his young master. "a
Mrs. Taylor followed him and saw
him go to the bed and pull ut the little
boys nightdress, apparently to wake
him. He then went downstairs, fol-
lowed by Mrs. Taylor. ana kept run
ming to the door and barking. Mrs.
Taylor followed him to the front of the
house where she found the Newfound-
land dog with his foot caught fast In
some stonework. from which he could
not extricnte 1t. She loosened the
stones and set the dog free. Both dogs
then followed her into the house and
remained for several hours,apparently
to show their gratitude.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-27
RURAL ELECTRIC ROADS.
Ideal Trans portation for Suburban Com.
modjties.

Electric railways not few are now
in operation which carry freight aswell
as passengers and serve rural COM
munities as well as city and suburban
jewellers. An example Is found in a
line in southwest Missouri between
Carthage and Joplin, a distance OF
about nineteen miles. The car fare Is
times between the two places named,
the total fare is % cents. This,
however, is comparatively cheap, for
each of the two great railways-the
Missouri Pacific and the st. Louis and
San Francisco-which parallel each
Carthage and Joplin, charge fifty-five
cents, or about three cents a mile,
while the trolley rate Is about cent
and quarter mile. A transfer about
midway from one electric car to the
other interferes, however, with the
perfection Of the route as a through
line, and there are those who will pre-
fer the solid comfort Of the steam
trains to the bounding buoyancy of the
trolley car, particularly in cold or
stormy weather. But the farmers
along the line are delighted with the
new road, whose accommodating cars
stop wherever the patrons desire, and
which moreover will take the farmers
vegetables to market for considera-
ton as cheerfully as they take him
and his wife and children into the city
to church, theater or shop. For freight
transportation the car platforms are
made very spacious, and one Of the
loads Is said to have consisted of
piano and ten trunks. Strawberries
are carried from any point on the road
to Carthage for five cents crate.
Travelling men find the line handy for
trips to the villages, carrying their
sample trunks on the car platform;
though the absence Of station houses
must make some Inconvenience in
handling baggage and freight. In a
few weeks this line is to be extended
ten miles farther, to Galepa, Kan,
making the total length-owned by
two companies-about twenty-eight
miles, and with ascheap tariff for farm
products. The farmers along the line
are pleased because now they can go
to town Of an evening just like the
city folks, and don't have to hitch up
the horses to take a picking Of berries
to market-Railway Age.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-27
A Ventilated Shoe.

The ventilated shoe is recently pat
ented invention, according to Chi
cago paper. The shoe does not appear
at all different from ordinary footwear.
1t is only on close examination that a
set of tiny pipes Is discovered inserted
between the inner and outer sole OF
the shoe.
Between the inner and outer sole ID
what might be called false sole. 1t
is a thin piece Of felt, and over it the
inner sole is perforated by a number OF
small holes. Directly under the instep,
where what is known as the shank Of
the shoe begins, are two eny pipes,
which find an outlet Mt the point where
the heel joins the leather. The air,
passing In through the pipes, circulates
through the soft felt between the soles
of the shoe, and through the perfora-
lions In the inner sole. This keeps the
shoe cool and allows the natural heat
Of the foot to escape. 1t Is claimed by
the inventor that these ventilated
shoes are cooler in summer and warm.
err in winter than any ordinary sho
made
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-27
waterspouts Of the Desert.

The staff of each mine In West Aus
tralia usually makes "a camp" on the
mine, which they surround with high
fences Of bOughs to keep out the dust
storms or "willie-willies." These twill
lie-willies" are more or less peculiar to
the goldfields, and are really worth a
few lines. They are waterspOuts in
sand. You may be gazing idly upon
the mountains of dust and sand which
60 to make up goldfields street when
suddenly you observe tremOr in the
dirt, two or three wisps Of straw col
lect, piece of paper wanders up, stays
and watches the proceedings, more
pieces Of paper come along, the dust
becomes quite excited and rises about
foot from the surface and twists
round very rapidly in a spiral. The lit
tie pillar Of dirt then moves slowly
down the street or across the plain; it
goes very slowly, but it attracts all the
scraps in it's way and sucks them up.
Each yard the ''willie-willie" travels
it gains power and Importance. 1t
moves very deliberately, but it misses
nothing in the way Of small rubbish.
After few minutes 1t Is four or five
feet high, solid at the base and spread
ing out into a film of sand at its sum-
nit. The idlers watch it with a grin
as it gathers force. 1t huns like a big
top. BY the time it has meandered a
hundred yards in its zigzag it Is fifty
feet high and soaring merrily, and then
woe betide the unwary. To be caught
by ''willie-willie" means that your
very marrow is saturated with sand
and dirt. You go in clean and whole
some creature; you emerge battered,
begrimed cripple. The ''willie-willie"
doesn't trouble; 1t steadily grovels
about for another victim. When it Is
strong enough it tackles a tent-away
goes the canvas, spinning In the air.
The contents of the tent are covered
with dust inches deep-not nice, clean
dust, but filthy, putrescent dust of a
camp where cleanliness is the last con-
sideration. Then the ''willie-willie'
gets outside and dies away among the
trees. They are sometimes 100 feet
high, and then they do good deal Of
damage.-Birmingham Post.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-27

The uext morntng early ne started
out with the pan again. We boys were
excavatfng the ditch when he came up
i from the hole where he was working
and told us he had found some mineral.
| He had It In his hat-a whole lot Of lit
! tie nake-like scales. They were all
small bits, and all scaly. and he wasn't
sure what they were. He handed the
hat to me, and took one or the fakes
and bit 1t. thought could tell by
biting 1t that 1t was gold, but l wasn't
sure. So took 1t into the cabin where
log fire was burning. and I tested 1t
In the fire to see II 1t would melt. But
It wouldn't melt, and then l knew 1t
was gold sure. Then came out with
1t to where the men were working.
Boys said 1, 1T Is gold!
''rhat was the first announcement
of the discovery of gold In California,
and l was the first man to test the
metal and the first to proclaim It,"
Neither Brown nor Marshall nor any
Of the other mill builders went to Co
Iona to look for gold. They were
working with the vaguest hope Of re-
ceiving pay for their labor. AS the
old pioneer put 1t: "Old Captain SUIT
ter owes me 500 cold cash yet for the
work put In ON the mill race. and
know I'll never get it, seeing as he is
dead"
when the discovery had once been
made we tried for awhile to keep 1t
quiet, and Suffer, who wanted to see
his mill completed, was particularly
anxious to keep the secret close. The
workmen completed both the grlst and
the lumber mill, and did not desert
their posts or the work they had origi-
nally contracted to do to seek the yell
low metal.
Though / tested the first grains of
gold in the fire, and with my teeth,
nevertheless, to be sure about matters,
we went to Sacramento, to make GER
tain. They tested them there, and
finally decided that they really were
gold. Then they sent the news to San
Francisco, where the announcement
was published for the first time by a
man named Sam Brannan, who had
brought a lot of type and a press and
everything around the Horn.
did stay long at COloma after the
completion of the mill, you ask? No,
sir; only a few of us did; myself and
most of our people only remained long
enough to dig up enough gold to equip
ourselves for marching back over the
plains to meet those of our people
who were coming out to join u.s."
"How much did you all make"
"Oh, 1t was all according to luck;
some made $500 or $500; some made
$4,000 or $1,000. guess l had some
thing like $500 in dust. Marshall,
who found it first, had none ut all.
Marshall was not lucky, somehow.
He was one of the original bear flag
men-One of the filibusters who
thought he owned the country. They
had selected the bear flag as their ban
ner because bears were so plentiful
out here in those days. The firsa bear
flag was nothing but an old strip Of
canvas on which the men daubed a
picture of a bear with tar, their paint
brush being their own fingers"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-27
Tires Fifteen Feet High.

There Is now in process Of recon
struction mt Boston a tricycle. which
will weigh when completed $50
pounds. The dimensions Of the big
tires are fifteen feet I'm diameter and
the small tire six feet. The machine
is geared to forty-threc, and is analo-
gous to locomotive. -Four men on
one side are geared to one wheel and
the four on the opposite side to the
other wheel. 1t was built from plans
drawn by John o. de Wolfe. me-
chanical expert, who conceived tho
idea of the big machine. 1t is now be-
ing rebuilt, and the steering apparatus
changed so that the two front men Or
either side will steer the wheel. This
will do away with the ninth man.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-27
A STRANGE PIG.
With the Face of PIeasant.L looking Old
Gentleman.

With the Face OF Pleasant.lookingO Old
Gentleman.
A pig with human face is in the
possession Of ID. A. Sammis, of No. "a
Vanderbilt avenue, Brooklyn. 1t is one
of the most remarkable monsters ever
produced by an abortion of Nature.
The pig is dead and is preserved in a
spirit jar, which enables its strangely
human features to be inspected.
The pigs head differs from human
beings only in having the long, point
ed ears belonging to normal members
of its family. This gives it somewhat
the appearance Of goblin or other
creature of the Imagination, with
partly human shape.
The head, apart from the ears, is
like that of an old man. 1t is free
from all hair except eyebrows. These
are well grown and are a remarkable
abnormity in pig. The forehead is
high and the skull rounded at the top
and of human shape. 1t suggests con-
siderable intelligence and a well bal
anced character.
The whole face Is oval in shape and
is similar to that Of an old man Of
dignified appearance. There is rather
too little nose for very good looking
man; but still, this member Is distinct
ly human in shape. 1t is small and
snub, and is utterly different from the
sharp snout Of the pig.
The chin Is heavy and well rounded.
1t is perhaps the most human Of all the
features. The eyes are much larger
than those of an ordinary pig. The
skin Is as white and smooth as that of
delicate woman. Although it must
be called a monster, on account of its
strange physical abnormality, the lit
tie pig Is not repulsive. On the con-
trary, 1t is quite amusing in appear
ance. II 1t were alive and well it would
be decidedly interesting animal to
have about the house.
How it came to die is curious story.
1t was born on May IL last on a ranch
near ArecibO, on the island of Porto
Rico. The mother produced only this
one animal ut the time, itself very
unusual circumstance.
In spite Of its grOtesque appearance,
the little pig seemed to enjoy good
physical health. But his mother had
no affection for him. She was Disguised
and alarmed ut his unnatural features
She gave him little nourishment, and
in consequence he died on May IS. The
fact that he remained alive for six
days in half starved condition shows
that he must have entered life with
fair health.
The mother is perfectly black SOW,
and perhaps this fact increased her
feeling Of repulsion for young one
with human features and very white
skin.-New York Journal.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-27
FIRST FIND OF AMERICAN GOLD.
John Brown the Only Man Living Who Was
One of the Discovering Party.

One OF tne discovering Fary.
OF the considerable number of men
who worked for Captain Suffer in his
mill at Coloma, CAL, where, on Janu-
airy "a, 1913, James w. Marshall dis
covered gold, only one is living to-day,
and he is James Brown, a hardy pio-
neer, now seventy years of age, who
makes his home with a grandchild in
the Pomona Valley.
He was present when Marshall
washed the yellow grains in the camp
dough pan, and 1t was he who first
tested the fiaky scales with fire. In
conversation with Chicago Record
reporter Mr.. Brown said:
IL am the Oldest miner alive in Cali
fornia to-day. don't mean the oldest
In years, but as the FIRST miner. There
we're about a hundred Of us building
Captain Suffers mill on the American
River. We had come upon the rock
when we were digging the race, and
were afraid that 1t would interfere
with our making an even channel for
the water. Then it was that Marshall
came to me and told me about the
books about gold and mines which he
had been reading. and on the after
noon Of January %, 1S4S, he determ-
ined to do little prospecting. He
asked me to bring him the pan. 1t
was an ordinary pan that we baked
bread In. He spent all the afternoon
with that pan trying to find gold, but
he got nothing.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-27

,ore,on norts Of the world, over 300 IN
number. and asking them for some
tvpIcal toy or doll belonging to that
country. Responses have come "
scores. and the collection OF uons
PROMISES to be most surprising one
and OF great value. Some very val
liable toys have already been received
Discussing the suicide of a young
California millionaire the Salt Lake
Tribune says: 1.-The habits OF the coasH
and the climate of the coast havs
much to DO with bringing young men
70 such a elimination. The old race
there was a generous race. Children
were petted beyond all account. Where
child In the East would have been
glad to have 25-cent doll the child
In California expected $50 piece. 81
they grew up with extravagant IDEAS
In every way, and then the climate
supplemented the weakness or the
carelessness of the parents. 1t gave
them bounding life and imposed no
duties such as are placed upon chill
dren In other countries. The three
year-old colt In California is as large
and strong as the four-year-old IN
Kentucky, but the California colt wins
all its triumphs before 1t is five Year,
Of age, and 1t looks as though the race
of men there is moving under the same
condition"
According to lady who has lived In
Jerusalem for forty years, the Jewish
population Of that city is increasing.
twenty-five years ago." she says,
"there were only between $1,000 and
10000 Jews in Jerusalem. In those
days no houses were to be found out
side the magnificent walls, the gates
Of which were closed at night. Since
then many changes have taken place,
and the Hebrew population-mainly
on account of the increase Of the jew
ish immigration from Russia-now
stands at between 10000 and 10000.
Whole streets of houses have been
built outside the walls, on the site Of
the ancient suburban districts, which
for hundreds Of years have remained
deserted. 1t is not, however, only in
but throughout Palestine they are buy
ing farms and establishing themselves
In surprisingly rapid manner In
Jerusalem they form at present a
larger community than either the
Christian or the Mahometan."
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-27
A Big Private Library.

Prince Roland Bonaparte is n book
lover and in ais superb home on Ave.
nue. d'lena. Paris, are 100000 vol
umes. The library Is clear, light an
day, and is protected by an empty
chamber, with fire extingulshing ap-
Daratus directly underneath.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-27

A 634-karat diamond, the finest ever
found in Africa, was discovered at
.Jagersfontein, In the Transvanl. on
the day after Christmas. When cut u
Is expected 1t will be worth $4,000
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-27

thing Is on the DOOM.
The British Government has recently
prohibited peculiar game called
Barsa IA Salta, which Is popular in
India. 1t consists in making bets on
rainy days on the quantity OF rain
which will fall, and the method OF
playing it is thus described In an Eng
lish Journal. Upon the terraces or
roofs Of many houses in India there
Is q water tank provided with waste
pipe. Through this tube the water
escapes II a certain amount Of rain has
fallen. The point Of the game is to try
and guess when rainstorm Is ap-
preaching, and at what time the rain
water in the tank will be so high that
the waste water will begin to flow out
os the discharge pipe. The natives de-
voted themselves to the game with
such passionate interest that frequent
fights occurred, which I'm some cases
have even taken the shape of actual
riots.
The children OF the State of Ten
nessee are erecting building for the
Centennial Exposition, to take place
next spring at Nashville, and some
very unique ideas are being carried
out. All exhibits will be for children
and by children, showing children's
work. Children's organizations Of the
whole country are invited to contrib
ute their ideas and valuable speci-
mems of any sort. Little Miss Lizzie
Pearcy, thirteen years old, daughter
of the United States consul to Colon,
suggested very unique idea which Is
being carried out. She proposed writ
Ing to every United States consul at
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-27

The grand jury of La Sale county.
Illinois, has returned indictments against
the mayors of two cities and the presi-
dents of the village boards in two towns
of that county for nonfeasance in Office
in failing to enforce the saloon closing
law. The grand jury in it's report says:
There can be no evidence OF persistent vio-
lation OF law against the law-breaking
classes of any community which does not
equally testify to the inefficiency, neglect or
misconduct of local officers. Holding con-
scientiously to these opinions, this grand
jury recommends that hereafter when 1t is
found necessary to punish saloon keepers
for frequent and open violation of law the
officers of such communities wherein these
violations occur be also held to a strict ac-
countability.
If this should be generally recognized
as good law there would be an end of
municipal officers deciding which laws
they would enforce and which they
would not.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-27
A LAWYER ON THE FAILURE OF
JUSTICE.

Judge Rufus b. Smith, of Cincinnati,
known by reputation in legal circles out
side of Ohio. recently delivered an adj
city on 1.-The Failure of the Administra-
ton of the Law in Civil Cases in Ohio"
Perhaps the average layman would hard
ly put the case so strongly as to say that
the administration of law is a failure
but it is certainly far from satisfactory,
and is in great need of reform.
AS the situation in Ohio cannot be
materially different from that in ada
cent States. Judge Smiths views have
more than local interest. To begin with,
he thought the growing disrespect for
courts was largely due to the delays Of
the law caused by appeals and new trials.
In Ohio at this day, he said, no man
could foretell when a lawsuit would end
or whether at the final trial his wit
nesses, his lawyer Dr. himself would be
alive. AS case in point he told of one
tried before him in 1894, growing out of
a dissolution of partnership The suit
had begun in 1878, had gone backward
and forward in the courts, and was now
in the Supreme Court. He thought that
If his judgment was affirmed the case
might be settled in few years less than
twenty live from the time 1t was begun,
but IL reversed ii would run into the
next century, with no end in sight. Such
delays are very discouraging to liti-
CANT who has a righteous cause. and are
calculated to breed contempt for courts
The speaker thought judges and lawyers
themselves measurably To blame fol
many of the delays OF the law. He said
Figuratively speaking. the whole judicial
machinery, which includes the bar, needs
something akin TO modern current Of cleo
tricity sent through il. and the current
kept running With strong and steady
force. The profession OF the law must
come TO regard litigation as a matter OF
| business, and TO treat II as such, meeting
| II promptly at the time appointed for its
disposition. and disposing OF II with thai
| dispatch which characterizes the age in its
| disposition OF business affairs. But no such
| spirit can be infused into the practice of the
| law until the obstacles or delay which oui
| system itself interposes are removed Wher
1 this Is done, and the profession can see tina
/ promptness and dispatch Will lead to ar
| early termination OF the litigation. We may
/ hope for spirit TO settle upon and
| direct the transaction OF business in the
T, courts.
Judge Smith is OF opinion that the de
| fects OF the judiciary are largely due t
the elective system and short terms. III
would have all judges appointed by tn
executive either for life or for long terms
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-27
INDIANA PRESS OPINION.

The thing which needs the most twisting
is that eminent financier in the White
House.-Fowler Leader.
The Senate is paying too much attention
to defining and proclaiming the Monroe doc
trine-Madison Courier.
Congress should look after the coast de-
lenses before ii reaffirms the Monroe doc
trine TOO often.--Greensburg Review.
A large appropriation for coast defense,
IL pasesd by Congress, would mean as much
as the Davis resolutions.-Terre Haute Ex-
press.
The impression is widely abroad that the
bamboozling of voters by a Democratic plat
form will never again be successful 1t has
been done once too often.-Ligonier Leader.
One would suppose that Carlisle had made
a bad enough mess as Secretary Of the
Treasury without trying to pose as a can
didate for the Democratic presidential NOM
inatlon.-(soshen Times.
If the British would load up their Maxim
guns with some of Alfred Austins jagged
verses and go at the Beers again. they
might retrieve their recent losses In the
Transvaal.-Terre Haute Tribune.
pound OF wool that can be exchanged
for seven pounds OF graduated sugar indi-
Gates good times for farmers. This was
possible on Jan. l. 1892. But when a pound
OF wool is worth only three pounds of
sugar, as was the case on the LIST or jan