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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16

An Industry Expected to Pay BETTER
than Sheep Raising.

An Industry Expected to Pay Better
than Sheep Raising.
The Compromised experiment OF rails
ing goats upon the newly-cut but un-
cleared lands Of Northern Maine Is
about to be made and Maj. Charles ].
House Of Augusta, the president of the
goat company, and promoter Of the en-
terprise, Is here securing leases OF wild
land and hiring goat herders.
According to Maj. Houses theory,
there Is more money In goats than In
sheep. A sheep Is doing we'll IL she
raises one lamb in year and brings
1t up to a salable age. A goat brings
forth young twice year, producing
two or three at birth, and can be re-
lied upon to rear three young ones
every season. Since the price OF wool
went down the pelt of IA fat kid Is worth
as much as a lambs skin with the wool
In 1t, while the meat Of young goat Is
fully as good to eat as that Of lamb.
Sheep are subject to many diseases, the
fiocks are constantly raided by dogs
and wild animals, and the farmer who
would grow sheep for profit must build
barns, buy provender, and make a
great outlay for hay. Goats are hardy.
cropping the sprouts from stumps In
the dearing, eating coarse hay, and
enduring all kinds of weather without
harm. The billy goats in flock are
able to keep the dogs and bobcats
away.
For these reasons Maj. House pro-
poses to turn the great raspberry and
blackberry wilderness of Maine into
goat pasture, stocking half million
acres of land with approved breeds of
goats and putting them in charge OF
goatherds, who must attend the fiocks,
cnt meadow hay to carry them through
the winter, and Gull out the young
males for the market as fast as they
grow. The females will be kept for
breeding purposes for few years until
the waste territory is occupied. The
company will start out with about 500
goats and two herders. If the expert
ments succeed Maj House hopes to
have 100000 goats ut the end Of this
century, and thinks the company will
get a net profit of 81 head for every
goat.-New York Sun.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16

inent dog fancier declared him TO be
the largest dog in the world. Repeated
ly Mr.. Bailey has been urged to put
Nero on exhibition ut the big dog shows,
but he has never thought it advisable.
Nero Is handsome half German and
half English mastiff, fawn brindle in
color, his head being of trifle darker
shade. He sets up firmly on his legs
and is remarkably well proportional.
He is as agile and lively on his feet as
Il cat and the other day caught n big
rat in his masters barn. He makes n
splendid watchdog, but is withal kind
and affectionate animal. Mr.. Bailey
bought Nm at West l'utland when lie
was six months old; he is now four
years old. At the time Of purchase Nero
weighed 162 pounds. The animal is n
product of Mr.. Winchel's kennels at
Fair Haven. Nero is provided with n
strong leather harness. rs he cannot
wear collar. The animal stands up
from the ground thirty-five inches and
girds fifty inches. The dogs neck is
unusually large, measuring thirty inch
es, and from tip to tip he measures six
feet five and one-half inches.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16

Special attention is being given by
the French military authorities to the
questions of succoring the wounded
ON battlefields when night comes on af-
ter great battle. Experiments have
been made with powerful electric arc
lights, but the apparatus has condi-
tons. At length 1t has been practical
ly determined that the ambulance
corps men shall wear little incandes.
cent glow-lamps in their hats, just like
ladies of the ballet In spectacular ex-
travaganza. Each man is to carry n
little primary battery in his pocket for
the production of the current. The
wounded in need Of succor will look
out for the little moving lights, and IL
possible drag themselves toward them.
Paris letter.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16

their age increases; while in people
from hot countries. and in great smok-
ers, it is n dirty yellow. The four prin-
cipal colors in eyes are blue, gray,
brown and hazel; but there are hum
dreus Of varieties in these four classes.
Violet or black eyes are entirely un-
known.
An eye will only last n year, as the
action of the tear, which is acid, at
fects the enamel, which is metallic, 10y
roughening its surface. This in turn
causes an irritation Of the eyelids. In
all ordinary cases the artificial organ
cannot be detected from the natural
organ; even when the globe has been
entirely removed, the muscles, by their
attachment to the tissues remaining in
their orbits, usually impart movements
to the artificial organ in the same direc-
ton, though perhaps not quite to the
same extent as the real eye.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16

black oriental eyes, very fair complex
ion, and weigh just forty-three pounds
each. They are fat and as good ma
tured as they are beautiful. Louis aal
Samuel were made orphans by tlelr
mothers death when they were only q
hours old. They have lived in the asy-
lum since the spring of 1895, and many
applications have been filed by visitors
with the superintendent for permission
to carry Off tile beauties. But the sill
perintendent loves beauty and refuses
to let her darlings go until they get a
little older and fatter.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16

al years. Although only % years old
1t is said that he has accomplished
something that Tesla and Edison exper
imented for without any great success
Marconi claims to be the inventor OF
the wireless telegraph.
While the idea of wireless telegra-
ply" Is not new, it was deemed by
many to be almost impossible to bring
it to such perfection that it might be
made of practical utility. The Italian
says that the distance to which he has
transmitted messages. twelve miles, is
only limited by the imperfection of his
present appliances.
Nicola Tesla declines to comment at
length of Marconrs inventions, on the
ground that he himself has devoted n
number of years to the study of the
great problem of transmitting dispatch
es without wires.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16

room. The eyes in their first stage
looked like gigantic oblong beads and
the blowpipe over which they are
manipulated is supplied with wind
pumped by engine-power into a large
cylinder and stored under water-pres-
sure, in place of the old-fashioned bel
lows worked by the feet. A single ope-
rator is able to turn them out at the
rate Of fifty globes day.
The next workroom is occupied by
girls engaged in coloring eyes, all of
whom work in little partitions and
spaces boarded off, in order TO exclude
all light except that Of their blow-plpes.
They place stick of colored enamel on
the summit Of the globe, which. being
gently heated in the flame and contin-
uously rotated, forms spot of what
ever color the eye is intended to be,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16
Scented Shop Windows.

In Paris novel apparatus has been
fixed in front of the windows of few
shops, pioneering the way for an intro
duction of the invention.
1t consists Of small pipe laid along
from this through numerous holes is
the exterior of the shop window. and
emitted gentle current of warm air
slightly scented, which Is very agree
able to the shop-window gazers, whila
It keeps the windows clear and bright,
thus more effectively displaying the
contents.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16

1000 books, chiefly or socialism and
economics. The whole place radiates
cheerfulness and energy. 1t would be
hard to find in the working classes OF
any country sixty other families who
are as well off as these, who fare so
well, have as many comforts and can
give as much time to reading and mu-
sic. There Is n newspaper, whose week
ly circulation comes to more than 3d.
600, and SO brings up the salary of the
Ruskin Postmaster to figure unusual
In so small n town. There is n mort
gage of $1,000 on the farm, but sos
acres of fertile land can easily take
care of that The actual worth of the
land improvements OF Ruskin is esti-
mated at 100000.
If there were any doubt as to the So
cialistic sincerity OF the Rnskinites, one
remarkable fact in their history would
remove 1t forever. The seventy-eight
stockholders paid $500 apiece for their
shares. which have now risen to a value
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16
STAGES OF MANuFACTuI

and this, gradually spreading out, fiat
tens and forms the iris, spot Of darker
enamel being dropped into the center
to represent the pupil. This is after
wards covered with thick layer of
crystal to form the corner.
To the onlooker the principal difficult
ty appears to be that of distinguishing
the shades Of color when they are red
hot, but when the eye cools every color
and mark is as accurate as If made
with brush or pencil. The eye Is now
detached from the blow-pipe, cooled,
and then sent into the cutting-room,
from which it energies shaped in lit
tie hollow oval with irregular edges,
liAe broken birds egg.
The cutting is a very delicate and
difficult operation, as n hairs breadth
deviation in size VIII make n material
difference in the fitting. The edges are
next fired, and the eye is allowed to
cool very gradually, this being the an
healing, or tempering, process, which
renders the enamel less liable to break,
though at this stage it often flies TO
pieces, and a new eye has to be made.
The final process Is the polishing,
after which the eye is dispatched to its
owner, or, if not made to order, is
placed in stock.
For matching and fixing artificial
eyes, considerable skill and experienced
judgment are necessary, for the eye
in order to defy detection. must not
only resemble the original in color and
size, but also in every little popularity
and expression.
The sclerotic, or white. is never the
same shade in the eyes of two indi-
viduals. In childrens eyes it is pale
blue; in old people gray, darkening as
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16
c2WSE}0.|1E',:..s,
The COLONY WHERE LABOR IS KING.

ated questions with mild suggestion
that the best thing to do was to put up
manufactures and make themselves
into big city as quickly as possible.
The community. left to itself, declj-
ed that its one chance Of future lay
in the erecting OF printing establish
ment, so baker, barber, wire nail oper-
ator and all joined the one carpenter
and put up the building. That. little
clearing and few cottages, was all
that was accomplished that summer,
and the winter brought hunger and
cold and utter desolation.
Lonsbury and eighteen others incor'
porated the colony under the law gov
erning the formation Of mining and
manufacturing companies, laid out ave-
nues. cut down trees and were very
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16

IN community property and the equal
Hy Of labor, he called for volunteers
who should build their own city and
control their own farms and factories.
ne looked at various tracts of land,
and finally sent an agent to inspect an
unbroken wilderness in Tennessee.
,Phe advertised farming land" was
covered with huge trees and impenc-
trable underbrush. The town" was
q dark, sunless ravine, without food or
water. The "populous neighborhood"
was peopled by n few forlorn, indolent
natives and u number Of fierce razor
backs. In spite of this report, how
ever, Wayland purchased the property
and doomed 1t magnificently in his pa
per. Soon the pioneers in the cause Of
socialism began to set out for this new
Eden, which they knew vaguely as
~Ruskin, fifty miles west Of Nash
Vile"
The first to arrive was Il. Il. Ions
bury, whose ardent socialism was con-
siderably dampened when he found
himself In a mud cabin on a gloomy
xidehill, with dense jungle on all
sides and no water within half n mile.
Tie might have gone back forever to
capital and inequality, but his wife
followed the next day, and few days
later sociallstic shoemaker dawned
on the horizon and helped dig well.
A month later that dismal valley con-
tanned carpenter, machinist, bar
Der, n shoemaker, a butcher. n cooper,
n farmer, n wire nail operative, far
Saer, a blacksmith and n man In gen.
e<ni, who was put down as laborcr.
Not long after the founder Of the com
munity dropped inland was wise
enough to leave without ostcntation or
arewells. afte- meeting their exaspcr-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16


are trying to prove that universal JUS
tice may be business success. They
started in on the text that "All labor
n equal In value" and for three years
have faithfully lived up to 1t. BY that
standard dlligent president should
be paid no more than diligent hod-
carrier, and the sculptor's chisel earns
neither more nor less than the BARRIERS
razor. An, hour OF good, hard work,
whether of brain or muscle. is the unit
of value by which all achievement Is
measured.
The practical object of the COM
munity is to see IL the world cannot do
without the system of hire. by which
men are worked with no direct inter
est In the result. In Ruskin every
thing belongs to everybody; the profit
Of the community is the profit of each
man in 1t, and the honest endeavor OF
every member helps the other two hun
dred and thirty just as much as 1t does
himself. Each man owns the wealth
ne helps to make, and gets the profit
Of his toll. The plan has been tested
by three hard, struggling years, and
fts founders no longer regard it rs an
experiment. They have built city
without avarice, and in its future lies
the solution of the bitter difficulties
that split the world into two angry
factions, known as labor and capital
In Ruskin the government is liter
ally by the people and for the people
II educates the children, pensions the
aged, provides for the sick and gives
home and good living to all. men and
women alike, who are willing to work
for the common good. The president
gets the same recompense as the butch
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16
DANCING HAS DEGENERATED.
This Declaration IL Made by the
Countess of Ancaster.

This Declaration Is Made by the
Countess of Ancaster.
The Countess of Ancaster, who has
created a great stir in the fashionable
world of London by her declaration
that dancing has degenerated into a
graceless romp, is the wife of Lord Will
loughby d. Eresby, the baron of Avs
land. The countess daughter, Evelyn
Clementina, is married to Maj Gen. Sir
Henry Ewart, the queens equerry. This
fact and the very high social position
Of the countess herself give more than
ordinary Importance to her opinions up
on matters concerning society, and
dancing is certainly one of these.
Countess Ancestors husbands family
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16
MAklNosARTlrlcAL Eyes.
Enamel Now the Base OF All tn
Good Oncs.

Enamel Now the Bose OF All the
Good Ones.
1t seems incredible that the demand
for artificial eyes should be as great as
1t Is, and that large firms IN America,
Germany, France and England find 1t
difficult to execute the orders received
from all parts of the globe.
There are eight distinct processes in
the making OF artificial eyes: Making
the enamel, forming the globe, burning
in the eye-coloring, cutting the globe,
shaping to pattern, firing edges, anncal-
ing, polishing.
The basis of all kinds of enamel Is a
perfectly transparent and feasible
glass. The enamel Is melted in cru
chile, and colored. Then the globes"
are made by men in an intensely hot
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16

The children get their living in return
for going to school and are allowed to
earn twenty hours worth of labor
checks week out of school hours.
The coin of the realm is In the form
Of paper checks, which represent so
many hours Of labor. The schoolmas-
ter. after teaching all the morning. re-
ceives n paper check which certifies
that he has done three hours labor for
the community and Is entitled to an ex-
act equivalent. When outsiders come
to the store. as many Of the neighbors
do, they pay for their purchases In
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16
why Not Grow Beets?

Germany has 100000 acres of land
in sugar bects, and France has LOO
600. Ten or twelve tons of beets can
he grown to the acre and will yield
ton Of sugar. One million acres OF
sugar beets give crop worth $5O,OOO,-
600. One million acres In corn at pres
ent prices give crop worth S6,250 900.
Why not grow sugar beets?-Leaven-
worth Times.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16

cold, hungry and uncomfortable. After
a year of struggle they decided 10 move
to more passable location.
After some exploring beautiful. fer
tile valley was found. FIVE hundred
acres of magnificent soil are now de-
voted to orchard. ana vineyard, corn,
wheat and oats and to the homes of the
colonists. '5 ~
One thousand acres Of ibeautiful for
est land represents the stock farm. A
three-story building contains the CO.
operative dining-room and the theater,
and In the library there are more than
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16
Everlasting Fence Posts.

Fence posts treated under the follow
ing manner will last n lifetime or
more. Posts that have been in the
ground seven years, when taken out,
were as good as when they were first
put in the ground. This Is the recipe.
Take boiled linsced oil and stir 1t in
pulverized charcoal to the consistency
of paint. Put n coat of this over the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16
BAlLEY'S BIG DOG.

A 267 Pound Canine Said to Be the
Largest In the Country.
The largest dog in this country is the
property Of Wayne Bailey, Of Rutland.
VT. When weighed the other day he
tipped the scales at 267 pounds. When
the animal weighed 244 pounds prom
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16

er, and neither talent nor training can
alter the value of an hours labor.
A journalist by the name of Way
hnd, who ran labor paper in Green's
burg, Ind, was the first starter of this
new Utopia. After firing all the So
cialists i'm the country with his articles
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16

is one of the most ancient in the Nor
man nobility of England. He is the
twenty-second Lord Willcughby. The
first was Walter dc Bee, upon whom
William the Conqueror settled the bnr
ony. Lady Willoughby herself is the
second daughter of the late MARQUIS of
Huntly, the tenth of that title.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16
A Maunetio a,;l.

On the island of Gamma SITUATED
northwest of the Island of RUM there
is kul so magnetic rs to affect the
compassss of vessels passing near.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16
N THE heart of

N THE heart of
a Tennessee
valley, at the
town Of Ruskln,
the Almighty
Dollar has been
pulled d o w n
from its high
plane and an al
tar has been set
up to work by
a community Of
socialists, who
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16
Romc.s Cemcterv

The most extensive cemetery In the
world Is that at Rome, In which over
100000 human beings have been In
TERED.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16

They Reside at the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum in New York.
Louis and Samuel Bergofsky are the
prettiest 2-year-old twins in America.
At least such is the opinion of all the
visitors to the Hebrew orphan asylum
in New York City, in which the Bergof-
sky boys are spending their childhood.
These cherubs have light curling hair,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16

cash, as they would anywhere, but
there is separate price list for the
Ruskinite, reading somewhat as fol-
lows:
One pound of tea. .............11 hours
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16
The New Wizard.

ian electrician, has been attracting at
tention in the scientific world for sever.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16
Not Very CIeauiv.

The natives of Alaska never change
their clothes, unless they are worn out.
They are considered tho filthiest race
of beings on the earth.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16
Nceda Off a Elowerine PLANT.

A Towering plant Is said to abstract
from the soil 200 times It's own weight
of water.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16

Every woman In telling of her sick
ness says she suffered everything"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16

Some people save money by not pay
Ing their bills.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-10-22
Nothing Small About This.

The Big Bend Empire, at Waterville
publishes the following item of news,
which refers to some wheat which har-
vested over 81 bushels to the acre, not
an uncommon crop in Washing ton,
by the way:
"The Sawyer threshing machine re-
Gently made one days run of 2549
bushels of wheat, which is said to be
the bestrecord ever made by machine
in Douglas county. This was in red
chaff at Russell Painters, whose crop
made 501S bushels off of 135 acres
The Sawyer machine is now running
day and night with two crews, so great
is the need for threshing."
At the prevailing price of 80 cents
bushel this fall, the product of this
farmers 135 acres is worth $,4I14.7e
in cold cash. Pretty good thing fol
the poor farmer.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-10-22
Eoodsc D:1tC cure nausea, indigestion
AOOA - I EAEC biliOuSneSS. % cents.
Postal Banks in Australia.

Ia several of the Australian colonies
both general savings banks and postal
savings banks exist, both being under
control of the government, says the
Chicago Record. This is true of Vic
toria, New South Wales and Tasmania
Postohice banks alone exist in Queens
land and Western Australia, and gen
eral savings banks alone in Sou tn Aus
tralia. In Canada government saw,
ings banks antedate the postal savings
bank, but are giving way to the latter
as the more convenient and suitable
institution. In some countries hay
ing the general savings bank as dis
tinguished from the postal savings
bank use is made Of tie postOffices as
places of deposit for transmission tC
the general bank.
AS between the general savings bank
under government control and the
postal savings bank there is no ques-
ton that the latter is the one for ad-
option in the United States. The
postofice has in operation machinery
that could be utilized for the protec-
ton Of small savings deposits with
comparatively little additional trouble
and expense. !
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-10-22

An opinion of the state attorney
general has recently been given that
county school uperintendents are en-
titled to mileage at the rate of five
cents mile, for visiting schools. In
many of the counties the superintend-
ents have drawn their mileage regular
~, but as there seemed to be some
question about the matter, Supt. Gun
derson has not done so for the past
year.
DIR. KENNICoTT, DENTIST, is per-
manent1y located at Shelton, and pre-
pared to do all dental work up to date;
Sets of Teeth on Gold plate, Platinum
or Continuous Gum. Porcelain, Rub
Der; Gold and Porcelain Crowns and
Facings, Bridge work, Teeth without
plates, Fine Gold filings. Call and
get prices, one third less than city, for
first class work. Painless extractions
made, Teeth regulated made straight.
Try Schilling's Best tea and baking powder.
The JOURNAL can supply scholar
ship in either the Acme or Wilson S
Business College, at Seattle, at reason
able terms, to some one DESTROYS of
| adding some substantial touches to
their education.