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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27

AmO0km&o the MAN W nom
Europe Feared.
On his death bed Napoleon expressed
his conviction that England would end
like the proud republic of Venice.
With perfect composure, he gave his
last directions II desire that you will
take my heart. put 1t In spirits of wine
and carry II to Parma to my dear Maria
Louise; you will tell her that never
caused to love her, and relate to her
every particular respecting my death
upon this miserable and dreary rock.
You will tell my mother and family
that the great Napoleon expired In the
most deplorable state, deprived of ev-
erything, abandoned to himself and to
his glory, and that he bequeathed with
his dying breath to all the reigning
families of Europe, the horror and op-
probrium of his DEATH"
The second codicil Of his will con-
tanned the direction which was after
ward complied with: 1T is my wish
that my ashes may repose on the banks
of the Seine, In the midst of the French
people whom l love so WELL"
On the 9Th Of May, 1921, he who had
for years kept all Europe in state
of feverish excitement, terminated his
earthly career.
After lying In state two days, the
body was deposited In a coffin CON-
posed first Of tin lined with white satin,
which having been soldered, was In
closed in another of mahogany, third
Of lead, and the whole In a fourth Of
mahogany secured with iron screws.
After the ceremony, an enormous stone
was lowered over the body, resting on
a stone wall so as to escape the coffin.
On the 10Th of May, Louis-Phillippe
commanded that the ashes of Napoleon
be conveyed to France. In his COM
munication he said: ''Henceforth
France, alone, will possess all that re-
mains Of Napoleon; his tomb, like his
fame, will belong to none but his coun-
try"
At IL o'clock Dec. 10 the first can
non was heard announcing that the re-
mains of the Emperor had reached
French ground. Amid the vast assem-
blage the body was borne by twenty
four seamen to it's last resting-place in
the Hotel des Invalides.
So closed the eventful career of the
great Napoleon, whose memory can
only perish with the records Of the
world.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27

they rise, catch the blocks and carry
them up to the levels where they are
wanted.
1t takes a good deal Of judgment to
feed the chain properly. The blocks
must come forward fast enough to keep
the elevator In constant business. And
II must not come SO swiftly as to clog
II. II must be two cakes wide all the
time, and the cakes must be advanced
slngly Mt the last. When the links of
the endless chain catch the cakes OF
Ice and carry them up the incline, 1t
drops them ovcc little ridge and they
at once start down a slower slope to
the doors of the icehouse. This latter
incline. very gentle declivity, Is sup
piled with tracks on which the blocks
can run smoothly. Half way down to
the house there Is divide, and the
two men at the place where the endless
chain delivers the blocks. direct the
course of the ice, as to the right or the
left. Each is armed with pike. with
beard to 1t like the beard Of boat
sock. And when bad piece comes
along-one broken or otherwise unde-
sirable-the men snatch 1t from the
track, IL they have time, and shoot 1t
over the ends of the scaffolding and
down to the ground.
Along the extensive side Of the house
are built platforms at different eleva-
lions, with doors opening upon them
from the houses. The tracks on which
the Ice blocks travel are laid on these
platforms, and at each Of the doors n
man is stationed with a short boat
hook or pike pole. which he uses In
capturing block here and there from
the screaming stream that hurtles past
him and turns in the door, where 1t
shoots down another incline to the
workmen who are placing the ice In po-
sition.
The speed of the ice blocks as they
approach the door Is amazing. The
force of one would be something like
the blow of cable car. The man at
the door does not try to handle the
cakes with anything like an arbitrary
force. He whacks his pike beard into
the block near a corner, and, yielding
slightly, manages to turn 1t till the
force Of its own momentum swings It
around, and 1t leaves the platform
track, plunges through the door and de-
scends like an avalanche to the levels
below
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27
OLDEST RAILWAY MAN.
He IL Character and Possesses q
Wonderful Memory.


Wonderful Memory.
The Oldest railway man In New Eu-
gland IL not In the country Is Water
man Brown, who, though 80 years old,
is still employed at Woburn, Mass, as
gate tender, having been employed by
the Lowell road sixty-six years. lie
lost an arm In an accident while firing
on the road In 1850. He Is eccentric
and is so renowned as a collector of
curiosities that people all over New
England send him presents Of queer
things. Among the curiosities he has
Is bit of the first rail laid on the Low
ell road In 1884. He has model of
the Stephenson, the first locomotive,
and he owns the first engine bell ever
made. He has 400 circus tickets in n
trunk. They were given to him in the
last thirty years and he never used
them.
1t was only a few weeks ago that
Mr.. Brown received a small box con-
tanning a solid silver elephant, ar
ranged with pin to fasten 1t to his
lapel. In the box was a note, unmis-
takably written by woman.
He was told the other day that there
would be an assistant to help him soon
and that then whoever was in charge
must be there every minute right ut
the gate. 'Railroading is getting too
nice for me-" he said. 81 have to be
here from in the morning to IL at
night and SUNDAYS. / can eat my din
ner in just seven minutes. l have my
cap right by the chair where / can get
it and the house Is right over there
side of the track"
His memory, especially concerning
the history Of the road, Is wonderful.
He said:
81 guess people don't know that the
Boston and Lowell railroad was built
more to carry freight than for passen-
gers. You see 1t was this way: In
1884, / guess it was, two men were
driving around in buggy. They were
looking over the ground with an idea
to build n fifty-foot macadam road
from Boston to Lowell, to team cotton
over. The old canal wouldn't accom-
modate all Of it even then. Well, just
about that time they got wind of the
engine Stephenson had made and they
turned to that instead of their mac
adam road But l ran the first gravel
train, yes Qaughing), you can say that
I ran the first gravel train on the road
with xen."-Chicago Chronicle.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27
Raining for Them.

SO long ago as 1926 sporting parson
existed, and one who thought that re-
ligion could be made more popular by
little excitement; to this end he es-
tablished rattle for six Bibles each
year. The clergyman who was so far
eccentric, left in his will a sufficient
sum of money for the yearly purchase
of Testaments to be won by dice. Only
few days ago the ancient ceremony
was carried through, and twelve chill
dren threw dice, six of whom ran tho
chance Of winning Bible. A vicar, a
curate and two church wardens watch
ed over the proceedings.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27
CUTTING AN ICE CROP.
U>urekouses Are Great Barn-Iike
How the Ice Is Cut, Raft
80 frsna the 'sFieids and Hoisted Into
Ifs Cold Quarters
A winter Industry.

Common as ice Is of one kind and
unother, not all the persons who use II
= summer have seen II cut In winter.
N Z cold day the Ice man gets rich, and
nsthing can be more to his liking than
The chilly blasts Of December, the zero
efforts Of January. All about the
great cities and trade distributing CEN
tcrs are located favorable spots for cut
ting Ice. and sight Of great store
gAsuse with capacity OF 10000 tons,
average blocks of go pounds, the ma
eAinery, the large number of men en-
a1syed to cut this immense harvest, in
eesests and startles the person taking
II Tor the first time.
Usually some small lake is selected as
lshe harvesting spot, and here, as soon US
= cold snap gives steely surface to the
IRE, the superintendent of the Ice
houses takes all the men he can find
work for, and apportIons them their
4asks The average with gangs about
tDneh fields as those contiguous to Chi
ssge, Is, say, 100 men, and they cut
about 100000 tons of ice in three weeks.
1St III thC iOtSC diC thC SCidDCtS.
These men have an appliance about the
size Of an ordinary express wagon box.
NJ proceeds sidewisc, and tipped up in
s9rh manner as to carry the snow along
with It. Its neither edge is provided
with steel plate, so that the ice is
ecrnped perfectly clear of snow The
snow is banked up in great ridges, as
nearly out of the way as possible. Then
eome the markers. man with an
eye for line stretches rope from one
10 twofurlongs in length, and pushes 4
hand along beside it, till there
- = distinct line scratched across the
snrfacc of the ice. Then man with a
pEow" comes along, a boy leading his
horse. and he follows the line scratched
IN the ice, sending the steel of his
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27

never moved since fateful night In
the year 1864. t.fA
Miss Colerain was engaged to Reuben
Morehead, n young Kentuckian who in
April. 1864, wore the blue uniform.
Being in the vicinity Of his sweet
hearts house Morehead stole across
the "debatable land" to visit her. 1t
was rainy night and while the lovers
were together a band Of guerillas,
headed by the notorious Munday, came
up and surrounded the house. At the
first alarm Morehead opened the door
Of the clock case and squeezed in. But
he left his hat and gloves in the room
and these telltales were seen. The
guerrillas hunted high and low. Final
ly one of them opened the clock door
and Morehead was discovered. They
shot him to death. Since then the clock
has marked the hour of his murder.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27
Fiction.s Treatment OF the Rich.

A grievance that has been treated
very injVdiciously in many works of
fiction is the relation of the rich to the
poor. Absolutely false ideas as to how
the rich get their wealth, and what
they do with It when they get it, have
been persistently floated by novelists.
for whom (as for the journalist mill
ionaire is always fair game. 1t Is not
worth while to expend any sympathy
upon the millionaires In this matter, as
they can struggle along under a con-
siderable weight Of vituperation; but
tho rest of us cannot afford to be put
continually In false attitude toward
wealth. Hatred or envy OF the rich is
not pleasant companion for our lei
sure hours, and the poorer we are the
less pleasant company 1t is likely to be.
1t interferes with our working to the
best advantage, and cuts us of from
opportunities of accommodating the very
wealth that might ease our palms.
"Droch" In Ladies' Home Journal.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27

and even compassionate, and the mod
ern horse of civilization, one of the best
records is to be found in the collection
of drawings by Frederic Remington.
Away In the wilds of Arizona or Idaho
or Wyoming, Remington carried the
pencil of a magician, and brought back
records of the keenest personal value.
To turn his pages is to live life amid
the immense solitudes of the prairies,
where the horse, In all his sturdiness,
his muscular strength, and his elias
ITCHY of step, seems to be something of
an aboriginal. The picture Of 'squaw
horse" accompanying this article is a
copy of one of the Remington master
pieces, and needs no verbal explana-
ton.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27
daughter of Israel and Elizabeth (Ha-
thorne) Porter. From this marriage
sprang the famous soldier.
STEAMER STRUCK BY A WHALE.
Sea Monster Fr,ghtens the Charmer's
Crew OF Vancouver.

Sea Monster Frightens the Charmer's
Crew OFF Vancouver.
The passengers on the little steamer
Charmer, running between Vancouver
and Victoria, had a fright and novel
experience which they will not soon
forget. +. p. Stinson, a passenger who
was on board, says: I'VE were bowling
merrily along between the Sand heads
and Plumper pass at n good rate, and
every one was on deck enjoying the
weather. Suddenly someone called out,
See the whaler And, sure enough. a
good-sized one was discerned on the
port bow n short distance of. He was
enjoying himself immensely, rolling
sportively in and out, spouting and
diving to his hearts content. Suddenly
he disappeared and was out of sight
so long that we lost interest In him and
gave up looking for him. A few min.
utes later we felt sharp shock which
shook the entire ship and threw sew
eral passengers to the deck. Someone
cried out that we had struck. Others
exclaimed that she had sprung a leak,
and the greatest excitement followed.
Women faintesL and men ran this way
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27

spend little tims running around q
night.
sixteen inches OF nee ~ considered .
little too thick by the Ice men. Twelve
or fourteen Is thick enough for them.
The average buyer considers a cake to
weigh, roughly. 200 pounds. And when
he gets cake he expects 200 pounds.
But he makes no allowance for the ex-
cess where the thickness Is greater than
is required for that weight. Besides
that the larger blocks are much more
difficult to handle.
Ice IA Inches thick will overrun 200
pounds little. And every added inch
Of thickness, when the blocks are %
inches square, means the addition of
is pounds to the cake. Much of the Ice
cut this winter Is 18 Inches thick, That
means, with this size OF cake, go
pounds. Which il more than the Ice
man likes to sell Cor 200
There are some blocks of ice SO clear
that person can '.read through Them"
but Ice six inches thick would offer a
pretty effectual barrier to the cleaner
Of news II he read through from top to
bottoms Average ice is clear enough
to o1er little obstacle II one reads
through from side to side. 1t is %
inches square. And the eye can easily
distinguish fairly fine print through
those twenty-five inches. But, though
1t is only sixteen inches thick no one
would pretend the second time that he
could read through It from the upper
to the neither side.
A little computation shows that ice
sometimes pays better than wheat. A
strip Of ground 10 by 16 rods will en-
brace an acre. on that surface, COW
cred with water, frozen to a depth Of
fourteen or more inches, 1890 cakes
Of ice, each twenty-five inches square,
could be harvested. That means 645
tons. Even at the price received at the
icehouse the selling price Of the ice
would be more than many a mans
whole farm is worth.
Certainly It is more than the aver
age value Of any acre In any farm in
Illinois.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27
as deeply into the ice as he

psowshares as deeply into the Ice as he
can.
Turning about at the farther end. he
comes back cutting deeper, and third
time deeper still, till he has cut per-
Azps half way through the ice. While
he Is deepening his first incision an
ether man follows with marker, set
ting its guide i'm the initial groove, and
marking a second groove twenty-five
irehes from the first
Z The first ice is cut nearest the ice
heuscs. After that the men cut farther
md farther away. But the distance is
nrver so great that one man cannot
drive 200 cakes of ice from the field TO
Ahe houses. He can, with little waste
- time, take the greater raft-20 by GO
cakes, and containing 1000 blocks
down the canal to the houses. If the
Sce plow has been driven too deep the
Enft will break into smaller bodies by
striking on the edges of the channel
nDw and then. That adds to the labor
81 the men slightly. But the saw has
lone very little. Its only use has been
% cut the field up into RATS of the re-
+4ulred size, either 10 by 80 cakes or 20
n GO cakes.
Arrived In the neighborhood of the
houses, the men go aboard the raft
with bars and by striking here and
ishere in the lines cut by the plows sep
,nrnte the raft into smaller sections,
each two blocks wide. These RATS are
peof forward again and as they come to
che foot of the incline up which the
sAaocks must travel to the house another
man goes long and cuts the float into
separate blocks, a slight blow of the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27
Bridges.

A primitive notion existed among the
Romans and other races that bridge
was an offence and Injury to the river
god, as it saved people from being
drowned while fording or swimming
across, and robbed the deity of a GER
tain number Of victims which were his
due. For many centuries in Rome pro-
pitiatory offerings Of human victims
were made every year to the Tiber;
men and women were drowned by be-
ing bound and flung from the wooden
Sublician bridge, which, till nearly the
end of the Republican period, was the
one and only bridge across the Tiber in
Rome.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27

Down In the icehouse there are other
men, sitting Mt the side of the runway
down which the blocks are hurled. They
reach in time and drag them from the
track and shoot them to this side or
that of the great room. There men are
awaiting the Ice with poles and each
block is placed in regular order till the
great floor of the house Is filled. Then
another layer is placed on the first and
third on the second and so on, till the
house Is filed.
There Is no sawdust between the lay
ers, as there used to be, when Ice was
put up in the country. If the men
stopped to make that provision they
wouldn't get the crop In the warehouses
till after the first of May. And every
one knows that is no time to cut Ice.
All the provision made against melting
is the stuffings Of shavings and saw
dust in the double walls Of the building
and the layers of hay that cover the
whole.
The pay is all the way from 81 to
$1.75 n day, depending on the class Of
work done. Most Of the men in the
houses and on the field, laborers, work
for 81 day to $1.25. In former years
the wages were not so much of temp
tation, but this winter there have been
very few other means Of income in the
country, and then there are a good
many men about the towns out Of work
and willing to get bit of spending
money from little odd work. In the
large ice fields the men live in a big
boarding which stands few
hundred feet from the icehouse, a long,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27
STORING THE ICE.

yellow, barnlike structure, maintained
by the company, In which the 300 or 400
employees are housel and fed. For the
long, toilsome hours In which they labor
on the Ice fields or along the chutes the
men get II and 1914 cents an hour, all
except the men working with the tongs
In .ie cars, who get 10 cents an hour.
Out of this money they are obliged to
pay their board in the big roomy struct.
ure. In the evening the day shift lie
about In the smoking-room an hour or
SO before turning In, but as their day
begins again at Z o'clock In the morn
ing and they must be through breakfast
and ready to work by that hou- they
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27

THE OLD CLOCK trusiye and has
not gone beyond the pale Of her own
yard for over thirty years. There IL a
tragic history connected with her es-
arrangement from the world.
In the spacious hall of the Colerain
homestead stands a clock, an old-fash-
Toned affair of the grandfather" spe-
cies. This timepiece Is over century
old and Is a quaint-looking object. The
pendulum has been motionless and the
deliberately carved brass hands have
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27

snow as. the regular wheel does over
the asphalt roads. 1t is designed for
use in Ice Kinks as well as in climates
where a reasonable amount of snow
and Ice may be counted upon the win
ter through. Some adventurous spirits
are going to try 1t in the Klondike.
But for the ordinary damsel it is
enough to know that there is a new
wheel which runs on skates, as 1t were,
and which viii permit her to wear,
with entire appropriateness, costume
combining the dash of skating dress
and the comfort Of bicycle costume.
New York Journal
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27
New Railroad Policy.

There was collision on the Danish
state railroad near Copenhagen some
time ago in which forty persons were
killed and seventy wounded. The rail-
road Mt once admitted that 1t was to
blame, and instead Of fighting claims
for damages, has appointed a commit
tee to settle with the claimants what
will be fair compensation, so as to
avoid having the claims brought into
the courts.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27

The Arabic used In the Koran differs
as much from the Arabic used in ordin-
airy conversation In the east as the
Latin differs from the Italian. The
Koran Arabic Is that Of the literary
classes, the colloquial Arabic that of
the common people.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27

General Putnam was born In Dan
vers, Jan. z, Ills, in the house now
standing. which has been enlarged sew
eral times, and is still in an excellent
state of preservation. The original
structure was erected in 1641, and 1t
was in a chamber Of this section that
Putnam was born.
The first proprietor of the house was
Thomas Putnam, grandfather of Gen.
Israel Putnam. Thomas Putnam's Sec
ond wife was Mary Veren, widow Of
Nathaniel veren, a wealthy merchant
of Salem. Their only child was Joseph,
who inherited the homestead.
Joseph married Elizabeth Porter,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27
WINTER GIRL AWHEEL.

Progressive Toronto Young Women
Use the Bicycle Sleigh.
In Toronto there are several progress
sive young women who use the bicycle
sleigh, as the latest invention in the BIZ
cycling line Is called.
1t glides as smoothly over the ice and
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27

a wid0wer or ad-
.vanced years, and
his maiden sister,
who Is now past
middle life. The
Colerain residence
Is an old-fashion-
ed, unpretentious
farmhouse.
Miss Patsy Col
Grain, or Aunt
Patsy" as she Is
Familiarity known
to her neighbors
and friends, is a
woman Of refine
ment, bearin 6
traces OF youthful
beauty. She Is
quiet and unob-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27

DIR. William Is. FLETCHER mas q grim
souvenir of the work of a famous sur
geon, the Baron Larrey, whom Napo-
leon remembered in his will with a
gift of 100000 francs, and the tribute
Ito Larrey, my surgeon, the most vir-
tuous man l have ever known"
The relic Is the upper part of the
skull, the valvarium, and shows sa-
Der cut extending from the junction OF
the occipital and parietal bones for
ward to the orbital ridge on the right
side.
II well knew the man whose skull
this was" said the doctor, turning the
calvarium in his hand. ''He was a
German-I have forgotten his name
and lived in this city many years, dy-
ing about 1875, at the age Of so years.
He took care of horses for DR.. Parvin
and myself along about 1865, and also
sawed wood to earn his living.
'He was taken care of by the Catho-
lie sisters here in hospital during the
last years Of his life, and as he had
saved his earnings, small though they
were, he left them a small farm In
Kansas at his death.
HE was a German in the French
army, and received this terrible cut
from Russian saber, as he told me.
during the retreat from Moscow In
1912. He told me that Baron Larrey
operated on him. He was about IL
years old at the time, and though his
life was saved, he was partially par
alyzed on one side ever after, and
dragged one foot until the day of his
death.
Here Is where Baron Larrey, So
years ago, trephined the skull aud lift
ed up the depressed bone to relieve the
brain. The orifice and the saber cut
through the skull both closed up, with
a membrane like a drum head."--In-
dianapolis News.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27

Birds with long legs always have
short tails. Writers on the flight Of
birds have shown that the only use of
n birds tail is to serve as n rudder dur
ing the act Of fight. When birds arc
provided with long legs. these arc
directly behind when the bird
is flying and so act as sort of rudder.