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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22

At the next meeting OF the State Board
Of Agriculture an inspector will be ap-
pointed under the authority of bill pass
ed by the last Legislature, to prevent the
spread Of disease known as San Jose
scale, which affiicts fruit trees. The dis
ease proves fatal to trees il the greatest
care is rot taken. 1t first appeared in
California, fromswhence it found its way
to New Jersey and recently to Michigan,
through the nurseries which ship young
trees into the State. 1t is now known to
exist in twenty counties in this State. To
the naked eye the twigs are incrusted in
a fine white scale impervious to water,
which may be removed only in the winter
time by strong solution of I've. The
scale Is the product Of n minute insect
which fastens itself upon the tree and
penetrates the wood with it's long feelers
or borers. The inspector to be appointed
will have authority to prosecute persons
who neglect to destroy the pests, to in
spect nurseries and to destroy trees which
are afflicted with the borers.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22
History OF Our Flag.

One of the most interesting pieces of
history connected with the American
flag remains to be told. For eighty
nine years after the Stars and Stripes
were adopted, they were made of for
eign goods. All through the war Of
1912 and the civil war, no American
soldier or sailor ever fought under n
yard Of American bunting. No bunt-
ing was made in this country, for two
reasons, first, because nobody knew
how to make it, and, second, because
nobody could make 1t and compete with
England General Butler induced Con-
gress in 1866 to put tariff of 80 per
cent. on bunting, and man was sent
to England to learn how to make it..
and when he returned twelve looms
were put in operation. and then. on
February "a, 1866, n notable event oc-
Cured in Washington. The first Amer
lean flag, made of American bunting,
was hoisted over the National Capitol.
The flag was 81 feet by II feet, and
was the gift Of General Ben Butler.
We said there were twelve looms en-
gagged in making bunting In 1865; well,
that was a good many then, but in
twelve years afterward there were 49,
600 looms making the same article.
Under free trade in bunting we paid
from $50 to $50 bale for the goods,
and under a protective tariff the price
fell to SIS for first-class article
Fond du Lac CWis.) Commonwealth.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22
The Crop Outlook.

The Michigan crop report for July says
that the average yield of wheat per acre
in the State, as estimated July 1, is 1876
bushels, in the southern counties 1887
bushels, in the central 1870 bushels, and
in the northern 1910 bushels. The esti-
mate for the State is 500 of n bushel
less. The Hessian fly is reported from
various points, but it does not seem prob
able that material damage will be done
the crop. The Supervisors returns of
farm statistics, so far as footed, indicate
practically the same acreage as harvested
in 1896. The area planted in corn is es-
timated at per cent less in the State
and per cent less in the southern coun-
ties than in average years. In condition
the crop averages in the State, southern
and northern counties 10, and in the CEN
trail 40. The average condition Of oats Is
80. The estimated area planted to beans
is az per cent of area in average years.
The estimate one year ago was, for the
State, "a. The acreage planted to pota-
toes is. estimated at 1S per cent less than
in average years in the southern counties
and the State. 10 less in the central and
1G less in the northern counties. The
average condition of the crop is now 80.
The average condition of meadows and
pastures and Of clover sowed this year is
90. The hay crop is one of the best in
average per acre ever harvested in the
State. Apples are estimated to yield less
than one-balf and peaches less than one
fourth Of an average crop.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22
Minor State Matters.


The large barn of Simon Langley, near
Caseville, was burned. Loss, $500; par
TALLY insured.
Joseph Koeff, German hostler, COM
mitted suiside by jumping into the st. Jo-
seph river at Benton Harbor.
Mrs. Sarah Kerr, an old and highly re-
spected resident Of jackson County, is
dead at Blackman. She was 50 years
old.
The arch under the boilers of the West
Michigan furniture factory at Holland
fell in, fatally injuring the 19-year-old son
Of ID. Strovyans.
J. Wilson and Sam Adams of Oxford
have been fined So each for spearing fish
in their own waters on Stony Lake. The
fishermen claim that they have n right
appealed the case.
At Holland, Kanter Bros hardware
store was burglarized, being entered
through the back door. The lock had
been forced out by boring a circle of holes
around it. Revolvers, cutlery, ETC., 10 the
amount of $3.50 were taken. No clew.
tsThirty-nine families are utterly desti-
tute at Lake Inn, the village which burn
ed Saturday. Traverse City and Manis-
tee is furnishing them the necessities of
life. The actual loss Of property Is $751;
UT5, with little insurance.
Miss Orpha Ingolsby, well-known
young lady of Pontiac, was found hang
ing by ID rope tied to her bed. Miss In
golsby was 80 years old and lived with
her brother, who found her body. A few
weeks ago the father died. A note was
found which stated that she was satisfied
that she was mentally deranged and that
she desired to give her brother no trouble.
A Detroit banker, who owned block
Of stock of the defunct Peoples Savings
Bank mt Lansing, has paid an assessment
OF $3.50. Other stockholders are fight
ing the assessment on the ground that
the stock was sold to them by means Of
false representations.
Clayton Wheeler, old and In poor health,
entered complaint at Grand Rapids
against his wife and Rev. A. III. Kauff-
mar. The latter is Mennonite mission
arr, and has been conducted protracted
meetings in tent. The wife leaves home
early in the morning and stays until late
nj night, neglecting her husband. He
wants her to do a little homs missionary
work.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22
Unnecessary Generosity.

Jose Maria, Spanish brigand who
had received pardon of the government
on condition that he renounced his ex-
citing and unlawful profession, used to
tell most entertaining stories Of his
past. On one occasion he said he had
robbed an English gentleman and his
servant of their horses and everything
they possessed, save their clothes.
The Englishman was pleasant, at
tractive youth, and submitted to the
robbery with great good humor. This
appealed to Jose Maria, and as they
were forty miles from Seville, whittier
the traveller was going, he determined
that he should not walk that distance,
and gave him back his servants horse
and doubloon-sixteen dollars-out OF
the two hundred he had taken
The youth thanked the robber warm
", and added that he had still a great
favor to ask.
"will you not return me my watchr"
he said. 'It was the parting gift OF
my dear father"
us your father alive" asked Jose
Maria, land does he love you very
muchr
'oh yes said the youth, che lives
and loves me-"
'sThen," said Jose Maria, 81 shall
keep the watch, for II your father
loves you so dearly. he Is sure TO give
you smother"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22
Seven Are Poisoned.

Joseph Bowser, who operates a camp
at Rondo, with four lumbermen and Mrs.
Franklin and her daughter, were poison
ed by eating biscuits containing arsenic.
The regular cook at the camp had left and
Mrs. Franklin took his place. She picked
up can labeled baking powder and used
three teaspoonfuls of its contents in the
biscuit she was making. Shortly after
dinner all seven occupants OF the camp
were taken violently i'll. A physician
found them suffering from arsenical poi
soning. He administered antidotes, and
believes that all will recover. An inves-
tigation showed that the powder in the
baking powder can was pure arsenic, but
how it sot there no one knows. There is
no suspicion that it was put in the can
with criminal intent.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22
Struck N Gas Vein.

While boring a well for water an oil
and gas vein was struck on the property
of Il. X. Narcotic at Port Huron, and ii
caught fire from lighted lantern. The
flames shot up several hundred feet into
the air, and efforts to extinguish the blaze
have been unavailing. There is an i'm
mense sheet of fire over the opening, and
the well icing close to Mr.. Narcotics
residence the latter is in imminent dan
ger. The fire department has over 1900
feet of hose in use, but necessarily conine
their efforts to keeping the flames from
spreading, no appliances being at hand
to extinguish the burning well. Mr. Mar
cote, in fighting the fire with garden
hose before the arrival of the fire depart
ment was severely burned about the
hands and face, but his condition is not
dangerous. The well was down about
100 feet when the gas was struck.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22
CARRYING GEESE TO MARKET
Method that Allows Them to Enjoy
the Scenery While En- Route.

Method that Allows Them to Enjoy
the Scenery While En- Route.
There are several ways Of carrying
geese to market. The most popular way
OF course is in coops, or under the arm
depending on how many geese you
have to market. But when a large num-
Der Of geese arc to be carried, and one
has no coops, ingenuity is taxed.
One morning last week, says WILL
'amsport, Pa, paper, a farm wagon
towled merrily along South Troost av-
enue marketward to the cackling Of a
number Of geese. As the wagon drew
up alongside a crowded car the passen-
gers looked out with interest. Arising
from the wagon were two dozen long,
white necks that wove and twisted, and
two dozen red bills opened to cackle,
but not the body OF goose was to be
seen.
Stretched across the wagon and tack
cd to each side were a number Of bur-
lap bags. Holes had been cut in the
bags, and through each a neck Of a
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22

con was the world conqueror, and OF
that fateful day when the guns Of
Waterloo silenced his cry of victory
forever.
She Is 101 years old now, and spend
ing peaceful days in the sunset coun-
try; but she was born In the Land Of
kosciusko, and when still child re-
moved with her parents to Prussia on
the Rhine. She comes Of a patriotic
stock, for her father was a refugee
from the country ON account Of his
part In the Polish uprising, and clouds
black with war seemed to be her LIES
natural background.
She was II years old when she heard
the lannon's opening roar at Waterloo,
and from a tree top, where she had
climbed to get out of the way Of the
soldiers riding so furiously by, wit
messed the last charge Of the old
guard in one of the most thrilling
dramas ever enacted by nations.
Wellington and his staff stopped at
her fathers house after the victory;
and soon after that one of the young
troopers became her husband. She
came after some troubled years In
Northern France to this country with
her husband and family, crossing In n
clipper ship and weathering a terrific
storm of many days, and then follow
Ing the path Of the sun westward.
For many years the little group kept
together, then death claimed one and
marriage others, until the old woman
was left alone. Now the things most
recent are of little interest to her, but
with mind clear and undiminished
enthusiasm she recalls the events of
the years long past.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22
ENCOURAGING PROSPECTS.

Improvement In the business Out
look a Matter of Congratuiation.
From all sections of the country
come reports of increased activity In
all lines Of business. Factories and
foundries that have lain idle for many
months will again be started up and
additional labor will be employed in
those that have been running on re-
duced time, with smaller force. The
change has come almost within few
weeks. Hope was revived by the cleo
ton Of Major Mckinley as President,
but the well-known difficulty of hasten
ing through Congress a tariff bill has
delayed realization. AS 1t becomes
more plain that home industries are
really to be protected from the competi-
ton OF the foreigner new life is being
infused into American enterprises. I'm
certainty chills trade. The conviction
that four years of protection are to be
ours has made business men once
more willing to enter into engagements
for the future. The depression follow
ing the recent free trade experiment
has taught us costly lesson. In the
railway service alone over a quarter Of
a million of men were thrown out of
employment because the mills, fac
tories and all Industrial enterprises no
longer furnish tonnage. If country
Is prosperous It's railroads prosper.
They are the great distributors. The
money they receive is, all but very
small portion, spent in the public SER
vice. Interest on bonds and dividends
on stocks are but the commission
charged by the dlsbursing agent. In
most cases this commission is far be-
low the ruling rate. Protection will
put money in circulation that is held
now by capitalists too prudent to I'M
dertake to compete with the products
of foreign pauper labor. Men now idle
will once more find employment in the
shops and factories and on the rail-
roads. The employment of these will
bring business as well to the store
keeper, and the farmer will again find
a more profitable demand for his
products.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22
publicanism-protechon-before they
can be accorded hearing in Republi-
can Observation-Disclosures (Mo) Rec
ord
southera protection Sentiment.

Southera Protection Sentiment.
The voting on the Dingley tariff bill
In both House and Senate has brought
out some interesting and significant
facts, some Democrats and even a few
P6pulists having joined with the Re-
publfcans In support of a protective
measure. This evidences that the prin-
ciple Of protection has grown broader
than party lines. But the most signifi-
cant fact is that nearly all of these non
Republican votes for protection came
from the South. The day was when,
in making forecast of election re-
turns, the votes Of the ''solid South"
We're assigned without discussion to
the party of free trade. But that day
has gone, never to return. The ''solid
South Is broken, and the break Is
greater than that which is measured
by party lines. Not only has the party
whose watchword is protection more
Southern members in Congress than
ever before, except at the time imme-
diately following the civil war, but the
number of their votes does not meas
ure even the whole strength of protec-
ton sentiment in the South. The
growth of manufactures in the South
and the opening up of Southern re-
sources is swinging the South surely
and not slowly into the protection col
umn. 1t is quite conceivable that in
the not far distant future we will have
again "sOlid South'-a South solid
for the American system of protection.
American Economist.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22
We Guess Not

Is there any honest American toiler
who rejoices in slightly cheaper cloth
ing with the knowledge that 1t came at
the cost Of loss of employment and
wages to many thousands who, like
themselves. must depend upon the pros
perity Of an industry for what they
eat and Mountaineering CIV. Va.) In
tellipencer
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22
Slain by the Elements.

Excessive heat and resultant electric
storms killed John Monson of Muskegon,
Fred and Henry Schnierle of Ann Arbor,
Il. G. Van Valkenburg of Traverse City,
Jesse Stockford and Conrad Baltimore of
Saginaw and Chas. Aldrich of Armada.
Many horses and cattle persisted.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22

Woman who Witnesses the Lsst
Charge Of the Ola Guard.

Charge Of the Ola Guard.
One day the sister ON duty at the
barred door OF the Convent of St.
Joseph at Tacoma heard timid knock
on the heavy oaken panel. She let
down the chain and turned the great
key, and as the door swung open saw
ON the porch the bent figure and win
terry hair Of an old woman.
Il am tired" she said, land want to
rest" and the sister led her In.
That was a number of years ago,
and now, though started well upon her
second century Of life, Grandmother
zaszinski Is rested and able to tell
thrilling tales Of the days when Napol-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22
How a Nation Grows,

a nation grows in prosperity and
power according as it trades, and it
trades only as 1t produces, and it pro-
duces only as it is able to satisfy its
wants thereby minneapolis Times.
And it cannot produce If free trade
tariff permits other countries, with
cheaper labor, to do its production.
We have experienced this condition I'M
der the Gorman-Wilson bill Of the
Democratic party, which checked this
nations growth in prosperity and pow
err But we will grow again under the
Dingley protective tariff,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22
The Only Difference.

There is not so much difference be-
tween the parties on the tariff" says
the Louisville Courier-Journal. OF
course not. The Democrats favor a
tariff for deficit only, while the Repub-
Leans believe in tariff which gives
surplus and protection to American
labor. That's the only difference be-
tween them.--Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22
Their Numbers Decrease.

The country has been pleasantly dis
appointed by the large number Of
Democrats in the Senate who have
cast the heresy of tariff for revenue
only" to the winds and who have voted
as Jackson and Jefferson would have
voted in n crisis like to the present.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
And there will be still greater pleas
ure. during future tariff discussions,
when 1t is seen that the supporters Of
the old heresy number less and less.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22
He Ougbt to Know.

Sugar can be refined in this country
as cheaply as anywhere in the world
Lafayette Qnd) Journal.
More cheaply, Mr.. Havemeyer has
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22

The more some mon fail the mors
they think they've succeeasl
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22
Crawford Elected Precedent.

Yot can gauge a mans character
pretty throughly by what he considers
.aughable.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22

NEWS or THE. WEEK coNclsELY
CONDENSED.

Energetic Measures to Kxtsrpate q
Horticultural Best-sad Mistake Of
s-Lumbsr' Camp cook-Late Report
About Michigan's Standard Crops.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22
what Farmer. Depend upou.

Farmers depend upon a protective
tariff just as surely as does the pros
perity of every other American pro-
Queer. The remedy for agricultural
depression is an enlargement of the
market for agricultural products. In
order to secure larger market for ag-
ricultural products we must make the
home market larger and increase the
home demand. The only way to do
that is by building up our manufac-
lures, by increasing the number of our
industrial plants, by giving employ
ment to all idle workingmen, by Great
ing such demand for labor through the
opening up Of new industries, that the
increased number Of consumers will
afford market for all the farmers
products. This Is the best way to Sc
cure prosperity to the farmers, and the
enactment of a protective tariff law
Will benefit no class of workers more
than 1t will benefit the farmers.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-22

Republican Fundamental Principle.
The fundamental principle Of Repub-
licanism Is neutrality-suspicious. to
American labor, protection to Ameri-
can capital, protection to American far
mers, protection to American finances,
protection to American interests and
the American citizen no matter where
he may be found. Therefore, the men
who voted for Mckinley on account of
his standing on the financial question.
must show that they are In accord
with the foundation principle of Re-
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-05-13
Question Of Sugar Market.

Mr.. Henry Wallace of Des Moines,
Iowa, delivered an able and instruc-
tive address before q beet sugar con-
~vention at New Ulm last week. He
puts the question to the farmers in this
way: why grow so bushels Of corn
to the acre and sell it at 20 cents per
bushel, when you can grow from 10 to
20 tons of sugar beets to the acre and
sell it at from 81 TO S. per TONI
Fifty bushels of corn at 20 cents
aggregates $40; ten tons of beets at 81
aggregates S40-and twenty ons OF
beets at S. would bring 500 per acre
gross. If the possibilities Of profit from
beet culture are even as good as the
lowest aggregate named, il would not
take much to induce our northwestern
farmers to urn from corr and wheat
growing to sugar beet culture. All
the inducement they would need would
be the guarantee of a steady market
for the beets.
Could a steady market be insured II
a large percentage of our farmers were
to engage in beet culture? On this
head Mr.. Wallace presents some facts
and figures that are very striking. lie
says there is practically unlimited mar
ket in this country for sugar. Accord
ing to official statistics our people have
consumed during the past three years
an average of nearly 90 pounds of sugar
per head. To supply this demand we
have imported during the last four
| years an average of 1924 l3 tons OF
sugar, and to pay for this sugar re-
quires about our total export of wheat
and flour combined. I'VE pay" says
Mr.. Wallace, from $3.50 0 u 900 to $l26,-
900, 900 a year for our imported sugar
while our exports Of wheat and flour
combined have been but about $95 ,000,-
OOO.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-05-13

when you take these facts into oor.t5
~ela'ioh' any OF us can with a moments
'housht' mat the manufacturers can
not make contracts to go on with their
manufacturing enterprises until tbey
kho" what the new law is to be and
tnat even when they do know this tbev
VIII DE liampered for many months nv
the enormous quantities Of foreign
goods which the importers of this conn
try and the manufacturers and dealers
abroad have forced into the United
States, filling the bonded warehouses
n causing the opening of new ones
In every direction. The result is that
t will be months before manufacture
ars can resame,the activity which ex-
tsted under the Mckinley law. Not
only must they be able TO fix definite
rates after they know what the new
law is to be, but they must wait for
some proportion OF the enormous food
Of foreign made goods now coming in
TO disappear. While 1t was expected
that the retrospective clause of the bill
would In time check these importa-
tons, it has not yet done so, because
importers order their goods months
ahead, and the act Is only to apply {
goods ordered after April /.
These are things continued Sena-
tor Cullom, as he resumed his paper,
which the intelligent people of the
country ought to Understandable they
are intelligent; and if they will stop
to think a moment of these facts, | am
Sure they will understand it,"
G.. III. WILLIAMS.