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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-04

WANTED-FAITHFUL MEN OR
iii women to travel for responsible
established house in Michigan. Sal
airy $3.50 and expense. Position per-
manent. Reference. Enclose self-ad-
dressed stamped envelope. The Ma
tiosal, Star Insurance Bldg, Chicago.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-04

WANTED-FAITHFUL MEN OR
M women to travel for responsible
established House In Michigan. Sal
airy $3.50 and expenses. Position per-
manent. Reference. Enclose self-ad-
dressed stamped envelope. The Ma
tionsl, Star Insurance Bldg, ChicS o.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-04

The American flag will not be
hauled down anywhere while Nc
Kinley is President and Sherman is
Secretary of State.---GlObe Dem.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-04

The Treasury deficiency to date
for the new fiscal year beginning Ju-
" /, '96, as shown by theofflcial rec
ords, is $44, $40, 45S.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-04

"Wha It's become of Hokus Smith
Georgia's hocus-pocus?
Was he only Hoax myth,
Hunted up to joke us?"
N. Y. Press.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-04

The cream Of the country papers Is found
In Remington's County Seat ListA Shrcwd
advertisers avail themselves of these lists, Q
copy Of which can DO had of Remington
Bros, Of New York b Pittsburv.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-04

Senator before, and the
party is anxious to keep him in the
Senate"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-04

You will find solid COM
fort in the A. G. Staley
brand Of Underwear. e
is warm and Ats correctly.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-04

sDrop postal THE WEEKLY PRESS New York. and mps
will be mailed
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-10

lections in the church exceeded the cur
rem expenditures the surplus seewan
was usually invested in cows. Such
cows were given into the care of re-
sponsible members of the congregation
IN a yearly "butter rent of IL pounds
that is, those persons accepting a
COW from the d~eaconry had to pay an
annual rent of IL pounds of butter or
its value in seewan The price of but
ter amounted in the winter of 1879 TO
22 stivers per pound, SO that the dea-
cons then received Is guilders and 4
stivers for one COW. After IT'S the
deacons quit the "butter-rent" business
and confined themselves wholly to
money-lending as a means of increas-
ing the revenues. Some ranging from
10 guilders to 1000 guilders were put
out at interest at the rate of G per cent
per annum, though in a few cases bor-
rowers were exempt from paying in
terest., 1t cost from 2 to 5 guilders in
to get married in this vicinity
two centuries ago, and a funeral was
accompanied with a pail rem of 6 gull
ders seewan for an adult and 3 guilders
for a child.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-10

often rode with her father on his daily
rounds of visits in town and country,
and thus early acquired an insight into
the lives of the people that has Been in
valuable to her. When in later years
the singular experience Of sanctifca-
ton took complete possession OF a GER
tain little community in which she was
interested, 1t was but natural that she
should put pen to paper and tell about
the ludicrous and the pathetic incl
dents that thrilled the simple hearts
in the sanctiied town. 1t was equally
natural that so young a girl should be
doubtful of her own powers
At the suggestion of a friend, Miss
Furman sent some of her stories to
James Whitcomb Riley, whom she has
never met. Surely no more cheering
and helpful words were ever written in
reply by a famous writer to one just
beginning the hazardous path of au-
thorship; and though Miss Furman
has had many laudatory letters since
her book appeared, there is not one OF
them that she cherishes as she does
the first from Mr.. Riley, bidding her
godspeed.
The first stories she wrote were pub
lished by the Century Magazine. The
Century Company issued her first and
only volume, Stories of a Sanctified
Town"
Miss Furman has been for several
years a resident Of Evansville.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-10
KENTUCKY BEAUTY HoNoREp.
Castleman Paid Proud Tribute by
Swell Society.
(Special Leterl

(cpeCldl AeleF.J
Miss Alice Castleman of Louisville,
KY, is accorded the distinction of be-
ing one of the prettiest society women
in America. At the grand charity ball
in New York city a week or two ago,
John Jacob Aston, to whom fell the
honor of selecting the belle Of the night
placed the crown on Miss Castleman's
head. The beautiful Miss Castleman.
TO whom this honor was entirely unex-
pected and far from welcome, was so
confused by the notoriety into which
the Astor's artistic approval immedi-
ately brought her that she left the city
and returned to her southern home, in
the suburbs of Louisville. Miss Cas-
tleman's mother was a Miss Alice Bar
bee. On her mothers side Mrs. Castle
man was descended from several dis
tinguished Irish and English families.
She was the daughter of the Hon. John
Barbee, who was the mayor of Louis
vile in the palmy days of 1854 and
1855. The Hon. John Barbee was the
grandson of Elias 2arbee. n of the
pioneers Of the young state. He with
his five brothers and his father, enlist
ed in a Virginia regiment of the Reyo-
lutionary army. Upon the close of the
war, father and sons, still united, went
to Kentucky. Tall, straight as an ar
row, General Castleman, the father of
this queen of women, was a famous
figure all through the stormy days OF
the COS, when he rode as a major in
the wake Of Morgan; Alice Castle
man is a girl of nineteen summers,
with oval face, broad brow, violet eyes,
waving chestnut hair, Grecian nose, a
mouth denoting determination. a per-
feet chin, divinely dimpled, standing
five feet eight inches, a creature of
beauty, grace and symmetry. Miss
Castleman is a good dancer. an accom-
plished musician, plays tennis and golf
equally well. and is a fearless rider and
driver. She never appears to better
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-10

practice with %serNpuloua exactnenM a
number OF hideous customs and cere-
monies which have been handed down
from his fathers. and OF the origin or
reason OF whica he knows nothing.
Outlines kind and even a~ifectionate to
those OF his children who have been
permitted 10 live. he still practices,
without any reason except that his
father. did SO before. the most cruel and
revolving mutilations upon the young
men and maidens OF his tribe. A
scientist recently returned from this
desert thus describes the native: In
returning from the Horn expedition my
only companion was a semi-ciyiiized
niclfnamed Slim Jem. He was quite
nude, and rode my second horse. He
was the most t%actiturn native ever
met; and only once. when our food ran
short, and ! suggested to him that he
should tighten his glrdle so as to en-
gender a feeling of repletion. did /
rouse him to a sense OF repartee. and
he exclaimed; Me big one hungry On
our first arrival at Grown point on the
river Finke, ! invited him to the camp
at dinner time to get something to eat.
| didn't tell him not to dress for din
ner. because / knew he wouldn't. He
was a sort of king In his own country.
and had brought his queen with him.
He was dressed In a coat Of black
grease plus a bone through his nose.
She was also dressed In a coat Of black
grease, plus the crown jewels. consist
ing of a dogs tooth necklace. They
were not announced; 1t was quite UNI
necessary; | knew when they were APP
preaching. They came with a fair
wind. l could tell when they were be-
tween me and the camels. We dined
early. and I think they enjoyed their
dinner"
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-10

east coast of Bressay. and is known
for the popularity of the formation,
but also for a strange and dangerous
custom which prevails there. The Moss
is called an island. and 1t answer to
the definition, since it is certainly an
extremely solid body of land" and the
bleak northern sea foams completely
around IT. But it looks more like a
huge black "stand-pipe." for it is a
cylindrical column 100 feet high, its fiat
top having an area not much larger
than an ordinary village d~ooryard. A
child could almost throw a stone across
it. 1t is said that more than 200 years
ago a reckless bird hunter, tempted
by the eggs of the numberless sea gulls
which whitened the top of this giant
column, and further influenced by the
promise of a COW, actually succeeded
in scaling the almost perpendicular wall
of rock and establishing a sort of rope
bridge between the island and the
mainland. When he had driven his
stakes and secured the ropes, his
friends entreated him to be the first to
try the new device. But whether he
had shrewd suspicious as to its safety,
or whether he was prompted by mere
bravado, certain it is that he refused,
and chose rather to return by the same
perilous track by which he had come.
But as he was slowly and painfully
toiling down from the dizzy height,
his foot slipped, he lost his hold, and
then-there was no one TO claim the
promised COW. but the sea claimed one
more victim. Nevertheless, the fruit
of his bold endeavor remained, and it
is still there to substantiate the story,
for the bridge of rope between Bres-
say and the Moss is still maintained.
The thrifty northern farmer, whose
means Of existence in these bleak isles
are not calculated to excite envy, saw
that there was a bit of good pasture on
this summit; so he made a kind of
wooden chair or cradle just large
enough to hold a mar and a sheep; and
in this primitive way he still trans
ports his flock, one at a time, over to
this little browsing place.
HA wa
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-10

Some time ago a description APP
reared in an American journal of a
Japanese clock, standing in a frame
three feet high and five feet broad, rep
resenting a landscape of great beauty.
In the foreground were plum and
cherry trees in full bloom, while. in
the rear was a hill, gradual in ascent
from which flowed a CASCADE OF crys-
tai. From this point a threadlike
stream glided along, encircling rocks
and tiny islands in its wanderings, but
presently losing itself In a far-off
stretch of woodland. In the sky turned
o golden sun, indicating as it passed
the striking hours. which we're all
marked upon the frame below, where a
slowly creeping tortoise served as a
hand. A bird of exquisite plumage.
resting on the branch Of a plum tree,
proclaimed by its singing the expira-
ton Of each hour. while when the song
ceased, a little mouse sprang from a
Srotto close by, and, running over the
hill, hastily disappeared in the dis
tancM
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-10

dead walls. All the buildings, both
public and private, are constructed OF
furnace burnt bricks of a yellowish-red
color. A house is generally laid out in
a range of apartments opening into a
square, and furnished with subterran-
can rooms into which the inhabitants
retreat during the day for shelter from
the intense heat of summer; and with
terraced roofs on which they take their
evening meal, and sleep in the open air.
The interiors of the houses of the rich
are splendidly furnished, and decorated
in a most gorgeous anner
The inhabitants of the city are sup
piled with water from the Tigris, which
of goats; water works, cisterns and
pipes being unheard of in Baghdad.
The population of Baghdad is said to
number about a hundred thousand, and
is a mixture of nations from various
countries of the east. The chief off,
GERS of the government, civil and mill
tary, are of Turkish extraction; the
merchants and traders are almost all
of Persian or Arabian descent, while
the lower orders consist Of Turks,
Arabs, Persians and Indians. There are
some Jews and Christians, who remain
distinct from other classes; while the
strangers in the town are Kurds, Per-
slams and desert Arabs in considerable
numbers. AS every nationality retains
its W peculiar dress, it may be easily
conceived what an extraordinary varie-
ty Of costumes is to be seen daily IA the
streets of Baghdad. The dress CO the
female is mean; women Of all classes
being enveloped in blue checked cloth.
with their faces covered by hideous
wells Of black horse-hair.
Baghdad has much declined from its
ancient Importance, but is still the seat
of considerable commerce. The city
today contains upwards of a hundred
mosques, the domes and minarets of
which are said to be finer than those of
Constantinople.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-10

Don as he sees your camp pitched,
takes possession OF II. He neither re-
spects nor fears man, and is an incor-
rigible thief. He eats anything from
a cartridge TO a member OF his own
f~amily--for he Is a cannibal, Il re-
member n Instance OF this" writes
our author, when our dog unfortu-
nately killed a young bird before we
could prevent II. which was too small
to eat. The parents made a decent
show of grief over their loss, and then,
being quite sure that the little one was
dead, they proceeded to eat its still
warm remains" The weka fights all
corners for undisturbed possession OF.
the camp he has annexed. His histri-
onic talent is great. and he can sham
death to perfection. But for the fact
that he Is a first rate scavanger. he
would, to his human host, be an in
tolerable nuisance. After some weeks
OF tenderness and s~elf-sacrihce. the
weka all at once becomes a brutal hus-
band and father That is when the.
youngsters have grown up, and, as he
thinks, are able to forage for them
selves; still, he is unnecessarily harsh,
not to say shamelessly selfish. II his
place OF sojurn be rich in food. he ban
ishes his wife and children; II II be
not, he tricks elsewhither. The egoistic
ft lasts until mex he becomes a father.
M then altruism is hardly the word
for his determination. Let Mr.. Har-
per describe him and his wife: "The
parent birds while rearing their young
hardly eat anything themselves and
grow as poor as a church mouse, every
thing they find is carried to the young
sters. When a pair has Laly one chick
1t Is very ludicrous to see them rush
ing up to 1t and jostling one another in
their eagerness to give it a piece OF
bacon or bread, and sometimes asking
1t to try a piece of a jam tin, or tempt
ing 1t with a choice copper cartridge
case" The weka would appear to be
"as good a camp companion as one
could wish for, with his tameness, inn
pudence and almost human power OF
expression. He is a bird with small.
uniformed wings. unable to fly, and
varying in size from a partridge to a
pheasant"
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-10
A New Decorative material.

%Bedticking for drapery and uphols-
terry purposes has recently been. LAUGH
ed upon the market. 1t is a decided
success, says the Puritan. No one
would dream OF the lowly origin Of the
fabric thus presented. OF course the
statesmen do not speak Of it as bed
ticking, but describe it as an art dra-
perry" or an art ticking" One shop
man has named a striped pattern the
"bedouin"-not a bad pun on its ORR
gin. The material Is colored and de-
signed very much after the order Of
chintzes and c~retonnes, which it slose-
ly resembles. 1t wears like iron, and as
it retails for about 10 cents a yard it
is n Of the most economical and sat
isfactory fabrics for all sorts of up
holstery purposes. These tickings will
appear in the various college coll
ors, so that a Yale, Harvard or
man may have things adorn-
ed IN the hues dear to his heart.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-10

The Portuguese shoe has a wooden
sole and heel, with a vamp made of pa
tent leather, fanciful, showing the
flesh side of the skin. The Persian
footgoar Is a raised shoe, and is often
a foot high; it is made Of light wood,
richly inlaid, with a strap extending
over the instep. The Muscovj+e shoe is
hand-woven on a wooden frame, and
but little attention is paid to the shape
of the foot; leather is sometimes used,
but the sandal is generally made of
silk cordage and wooden cloth. The
Siamese shoe has the form Of an an
cient canoe. with a gondola bow and
an open toe; the sole is made Of wood,
the upper of inlaid wood ana cloth,
and the exterior is deliberately orna-
mented in colors with gold and silver.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-10
WHEN wAMPuM VAS MONEY.
The Popular roken Of Value "a New
FORK Two Centuries Ago

The Popular Token OF Value "a New
York Two Centuries Ago.
When Stephen Van Cortlandt was In
the money-changing buslness-168O 10
1690--the kind OF money In most COM
mon use In the vicinity of Manhattan
Island was seewan or wampum, says
the New York Times. Almost all the
store trade was done with seewan,
either loose or braided, and all church
collections were taken up In seewan.
Van Cortlandt was frequently called on
to change seewan into silver money,
which was at that time the standard,
Payments OF interest and principal OF
loaned money were made In Dutch
pieces-of-eight, realities and loan dol
lars, the value of all of which was re.
duced to guilders seewan. A ~piece-of'
eight was worth ~ guilders in seewan,
a realtje was worth l guilder and 20
stivers In seewan, a loan dollar was
worth IL guilders In seewan, and an
English pound was worth 40 guilders
in W The American dollar in its
pItScut IcldliOu W Inc Ghbiioh PcuhN
would have been worth s guilders In
seewan. A Dutch guilder has 100 cents.
or 20 stivers, and is equal to 40 cents
in American money. A silver is equal
to 2 cents American money. Contribu-
tions to the poor relief fund were usual
ly made in W and provisions and
clothing for distribution among the
poor we're paid for in seewan. The
early Dutch settlers took generous care
of the needy poor. For instance, In
1858, the deacons of the old Dutch
Church of Bergen paid DR.. Robinson
of New York 240 guilders in seewan
for curing a destitute man of insanity.
At another time the deacons of the
same church paid Surgeon @. Viele OF
New York 1870 guilders seewan for sur
gical attendance on a poor member Of
the congregation. In those days 1t cost
80 guilders in seewan ito send poor Jo-
hannis Kruger back to Amsterdam" In
1878 the price of one schepel of wheat
was 6 guilders seewan; / schepel OF In
dian corn, 4 guilders seewan; l schepel
of rye, 8 guilders seewan; l ell Of cloth,
5 guilders seewan; two blankets, 5S
guilders seewan, and 2 schepels of salt,
6 guilders seewan. Whenever the col
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-10
Watch Testing at Kew.

|4t.HtfIf 'FtW.E 81
There has been Matchmaking at Gov.
| entry as long as there has been a watch
trade in England, which is for the last
200 years or thereabouts. There used
to be three centers OF the English trade.
these being Liverpool, Coventry and
London. Now there are practically but
two, Coventry and Birmingham. The
test of great discoveries in other direc-
tions while they were really seeking to
solve the problem of the Niger. The
only result Of these Investigations was
a fresh crop of theories. One
of them conjectured that the Niger
reached the Atlantic, and each one had
an opinion of his own. All these spec
ulations were duly recorded on the
maps, and the photographic ,d~elineation
of the Niger from 1871 to 1882 is some
thing wonderful to contemplate. 1t
keep to the river, when once 1t was
reached, and follow it to it's destina-
ton; but that was the very thing the
explorers we're unable to do. But it
was the German geographer Reichard,
in his library at home, who solved
the Niger riddle, some fifteen years be-
fore the Lander brothers in 1882 proved
his assertion true. Everybody knew
Of the numerous little rivers emptying
into the Gulf of Benin. and they were
supposed to be independent streams OF
small Importance. But Reichard said
that the long stretch Of coast where
these streams reached the ocean was
the sea front of a great delta, and that
the Oil rivers were nothing but the
subdivisions of the mighty Niger. That
was true, and we know now that the
Niger delta Is the largest in Africa.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-10

Skeleton Dance of New South Wales.
The skeleton dance is a tribal event
of great Importance among the natives
Of New South Wales. A level spot
edged by a forest, somewhere near
their huts is chosen. Then, when night
falls, a huge fire is built by the women
and youngsters, while the young men
who are to dance retire to arrange
their toilets. This is done by chalk
ing their bare, brown bodies with pipe
clay in lines to represent bones; broad
lines for the arms and legs, and nar-
mes for the ribs. The orchestra
consists of a lot of shields vigorously
beaten, and accompanied by voices the
reverse of tuneful. When the fire burns
brightly, throwing the surrounding
landscape into deeper gloom and the
hideous din of the war shields rends the
sky, there suddenly emerges from the
shadows of the wood what appears to
the horror stricken spectator to be a
company of skeletons. They execute a
series of violent and curious contor-
tions of the arms and legs, much re-
sembling the performances of a paste
board jumping-jack, keeping time to
the rhythmic clashing of the shields,
then they suddenly vanish from view
as if by magic. This disappearance,
so surprising to see, is really very sim
pie in execution. Since the bodies Of
the dancers are only chalked in front,
they have only to turn round to cause
their dusky forms to vanish in the
gloom of the background.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-10

public. She was born and brought up
in an old and prominent South Caro-
lima family, and her mother, Jessie Col
Inns Furman, was a Kentucky girl, who
was greatly admired for her beauty OF
person and of character. When Miss
Furman was but seven years old her
mother died. and eight years later her
father was taken. Both parents were
intellectual. and the little girl inherited
an unusually bright mind, which with
her alert way of looking at things,
and her original humor. was a guar
antee that something out Of the com
mon might be expected of her.
Perhaps no one enters so intimately
into the homes and hearts of people as
their family physician, and nearly all
doctors could, II they had the leisure
and the literary inclination. tell true
tales that would hold the mind impera-
lively. AS a little girl. Miss Furman
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-10

permanent habitation and usually
camps where night or fatigue overtakes
him, He can travel from point to point
for hundreds of miles through the path
less bush with unerring precision, and
can track al animal over rocks and
stones, where an Europena eye would
be unable to distinguish a mark. He
Is a keen observer. and knows the hab-
its and changes Of form Of every varie-
ty Of animal or vegetable life in his
country. Religious belief he has none.
but is excessively superstitioua. living
In constant dread OF an evil spirit
which is supposed to Turk round his
camp at night. ae has no gratitude
except that Of the an~ticipatory order,
and Is as treacherous as Judas. He
has no traditions. and yet continues to-