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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-31
Artificial Eve Makers,

Tucked away in quaint Old World
corners we find some of the most odd
personages. Such is the great arti-
fetal eye maker and painter, A. Muller
Hipper In quaint Lauscha, in the
very heart of old Thuringens dense
forests and high mountains, he sits and
works away day i'm and day out, sur
rounded by his family, the male MEM
bers Of which are all experts In this
delicate work, and have been such
since the days of his great-grandfath-
err, who first started the work ut
Paris, but who, owing to the strong
anti-German feeling, was forced to
return to his native mountain land.
They have grown rich, but lead sim
pie, quiet lives. While the writer sat
in front of Mr.. Hyper he deftly
mixed different colored glasses over
his gas lamp, and within half an
hour brought forth perfect repro
duction, in everything but real sight,
of the writer's eye.
Every year thousands Of eyes made
by this Old World family find their
way to America.-Leslie's Weekly.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-31
A Fisherman's Yarn.

Have good time camping out?
shouted n Second avenue man to his
neighbor on the next veranda.
20, so So" and then he entered Pap
idly upon the narration Of some tall
fishing yarns which were continued
until the man next door minated that
lie was listening to 'cock-and-bulr'
story.
$50 you've heard about the bull
story. That Sims never could keep
anything. But I'll tell you just how it
was. The bull was mad, sure's you're
alive. Belonged to farmer on whose
land we camped. Sims was down to
the waters edge batting his hooks
when the bull came ripping and snort
ing through the grove. Sims had
dropped everything and Skinned up a
tree when came along. There was no
time for me to get UP tree, so l rush
ed into the lake till l was up to my
neck. The bull patrolled the shore,
believing, paving the sand and lash
ing his tail. Sims and just held our
bases and shivered until the other boys
came around point in the boat They
tried to shoe the enraged brute away,
but he got all the madden.
'There happened to be big piece of
red flannel in the boat that Joe keeps
for cleaning his gun, and he had sense
enough to hoist it. That bull snorted
and tore around like he had fit. They
decoyed him about half a mile down
the lake. Then Sims slid out of his
tree, waded out of the water, and in
about five minutes we had all our traps
luggage and the tent pitched over
barbed wire fence into a wheat field.
Then the boys rowed back and we sat
in safety tantalizing the bull and
laughing at his antics till he got tired
of the game and quit. But I'll get
even with Sims for blabbing," and the
truth Is that Sims had never said
word.-Detroit Free Press.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-31

Men and women of moderate means
and average station and of the most
commonplace education and breeding
now require little elegancies for the
toilet, a nicely and variety of dress,
comforts and conveniences in their
home belongings, which kings and
queens have been content to do with
out. Hence we have an enormously
extended field for applied art. wonder
full new possibilities for those who
would design beautiful forms and at
the same time put them into execu-
ton, observes the San Francisco
Chronicle in an article dwelling upon
the remarkable progress of the in
dustrial arts during the present CEN
fury.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-31

A defense of the view that the new
century begins with 1900 seems to
have simmered down to the state
ment that our present system of de-
signaling the years is not like another
system used by certain persons for
certain other purposes; and that If
that other system had been extended,
as it should have been, to the naming
of years, the new century would begin
twelve months before it really will.
All this is undoubtedly true, but, what
pray, has it to do with the case as it
is ? Facts are one thing; might
have-been's and should-be's are an
other, and failure to distinguish be-
tween the two leads to much waste of
time and temper. Beyond question,
1899" means the one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-ninth year of the
Christian era, and the next to the last
year of the nineteenth century. Be-
yond question, too, 1900 will close
that century and 1901 will start the
next one. We are not denying that
to have had year 0 would have been
a good idea, but we do assert that no
such year was ever recognized, and
that none ever can be without chang
ing every date in all our modern
literature, historical and other. And
that would be terrible bother, not
to be seriously contemplated by any
sane man.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-31
Times seem to be very hard in Aus

Times seem to be very hard in Aus
tralia, and the army of unemployed
in that colony is so large that many
hard things are being said of the
Queensland government for sending
man to England to instruct the
people of the mother country about
the resources of the colony and the
many advantages it offers to emigrants.
A correspondent of the London Chron-
icle says that men are dumping the
bluey," whatever that may mean,
from one end of Australia to the
other, vainly seeking to earn living,
and the workers in the cities besiege
the various state labor bureaus by the
thousand. In Victoria it is estimated
that 10, 900 men are out of employ
ment. In Sidney the unemployed
number between 5000 and 5000.
In Adelaide nearly 3, 600 persons have
registered at the local labor bureau.
This state of affairs is set down prin-
cipally to the prolonged drought
through which Australia has Just
passed. Victoria and South Australia
have both been unable to retain their
natural increase of population. The
former has lost about 40, 900 persons
in seven years by excess of emigra-
tion over immigration.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-31
The Town WAS overlooked.

LIQUIDS Island, on the coast Of
Maine, near historic Pemaquid, in the
Lincoln county town of Bristol, is
one of the very few places on earth
where there are no taxes. This island,
otherwise known as Muscongus, was
overlooked when Maine became a
state, and was put into no town or
county. 1t is said that during the
war the people cast their votes for n
time in the town of Bristol, until some
election officer discovered the illegal
ity of the vote.
The island was first settled by John
Loud, deserter from n British man
of-war, and his great grandchildren
are now prominent inhabitants. BY
voluntary contributions school is
maintained, the parents paying 81
for each child. The school term aver
ages eight months in each year, and
there Is an average attendance of
eighteen scholars. Catching bait for
the fishermen Of Boston, Gloucester
and Portland Is the most profitable
business of the people, but when bait
is slack I'm running they turn their at
tention to clustering, mackerel fishing
and catching porgies for the big oil
and fertilizing factory opposite the ISL
and In bristol.-Portland Press.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-31
BriGhnm,s Queer VIII

Peter Brigham, a dealer in oysters,
whose restaurant used to be one Of
the landmarks of Boston, after max
ing his fortune in the business. died
the other week. He provided in his
will that when his wealth had increas-
ed by investment to S3,000,000 the sum
should be expended in the erection Of
n home for his descendants. The for
tune has already reached the sum
named in the will, and Peter has
plenty of descendants, for they are
scattered all over Eastern Massa-
chusetts. The question now is, what
to do with the S3,000,000.
The Brigham heirs have homes of
their own and do not care to be bunch
ed together under one roof, even if it
be n S3,0O0.000 one. BE it ever SO
lowly, there's no place like home" for
them. so they are clamoring for d.
vision of Peters wealth. But how to
divide it is the question. Brighams in
Massachusetts are thick as leaves in
Vallombrosa, and when the division
comes they will appear in droves.-
Kansas City Journal
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-31
MANNERS IN THE SICK ROOM.
A successful Physicians Advice to
Beginners In Medical Practice.

successful Physicians Advice ia
beginners In Medical Practice.
A physician who has reached profess
sional renown In New York and earned
a fortune which enables him to under
take only the kind of cases that in
terest him, attributes much Of his sue
cess as a practitioner to one rule he i'm
presses on all the young men in his own
profession In whose welfare he is con-
cerned, Physicians are likely to think
that their colleagues who earn large
incomes from their practice owe much
Of 1t to their manners, whether they
are assumed or natural with them.
II tell every young doctor in whom
l feel any interest,"" he said. "that
cheering conversation. a heary man.
ner, awakening patients thoughts to
other things than his malady, and
other qualities supposed to make him
popular are all very well in their way,
but useless unless one thing more is
added to them. No doctor should ever
fail to return to the subject of his pa
tents illness before he leaves him.
That should be the last subject he
talks about. Without that addition to
the other Establishments of a sick-room
manner he will never get the full bene-
fit Of them. The sick man, or more
likely the sick woman, likes to believe
that his or her illness is the most alb
sorbing thing and to realize that the
doctor is thinking more of that than
Of anything else. If this is neglected
the patients thoughts are very much
inclined to dwell on what seems a
slight neglect or indifference, and to a
sick man that may assume Importance.
Cheerful talking about other matters
and any other agreeable tricks may be
all very well in their way. but it Is
necessary always to get back to the
source of the patients chief interest in
the end
One other successful physician has
always held that the most important
phase Of his conduct in a sick room
was never to appear in hurry, what
ever the provocation might be. This
was difficult enough at times, but he
managed to stick to the rule as
much as he could when there was
necessity for it, which was most fire.
quent in the case of those persons not
so sick as they thought they were.
with them" he said, "a doctor has
always to be most careful about the
niceties Of sick-room behavior for the
really Ill are rarely able to interest
themselves in these details. But it is
the patients who think themselves sick
err than they are that are doctors
most profitable clients. and he has to
be more careful of his conduct with
them than in case of life and death.
AS doctor makes more money always
out of persons only half sick than from
those who are dangerous i'll. he cannot
afford to neglect the little things that
make him popular with them. New
York Sun.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-31
An Old Rifle.

Old rifles, like old houses, may have
histories that hold vital meaning. A
writer in the Humane Alliance de.
scribes one that is greatly valued by
the descendants of its original owners.
The following bit If its history Is OF
general interest.
One night, when the ''men-folk"
were away. panther leaped up on q
log at tie edge of the clearing, and
standing in the moonlight just outside
the shadows of the forest, uttered
that marvellous cry which sounds sc
much like the wall of lost child.
But grandmother's ears were not
deceived. She was a young woman
then; ne; eyes were bright, and she
saw the panther plainly. The rife
thrust its mLazle through hole in the
shed WINDOW, and grandmother and
the rife together drove the messenger
of death straight into the braiu of
tie great cot and rolled him over
dead. She just felt that she could do
II. and so did the rife; and so the
deed was done.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-31


Cart. DoneeIo Learns the American
Fashion Of Loading Grain.
\ "About four years ago" said the
superintendent Of one Of Buffnlo's
grain elevators, "while was In charge
Of an elevator In Baltimore, q small
brig ran up to the elevator to take on
a load Of wheat. The Captains name
was Doncelo. He was Spaniard and
for ten or twelve years had traded
around In Eastern ports. He had new
err seen grain elevator and his idea
Of loading grain into a vessel was that
1t was shovelled in by hand, as 1t was
years ago. He found me and In his
gruff way said
az want to put In 1900 bushels Of
wheat, and don't want to lay around
here week or two. See II you can't
get me out Of here In two days any
how
'T.smiled, said that would try, and
gave orders minute later to get the
brig up in position, where we could
assail her in good shape. The Captain
went to his berth to Sleep for 1t was
nearly midnight then. We snugged the
little craft up against the wharf,
opened her matches, and inserted three
full-sized spouts leading from we'll
filed bins in the top Of the elevator.
All the employees understood what the
joke was to be and they decided to
break record. Everything was ready
for the loading half hour after Capt.
Doncelo went to his berth, but we had
concluded to let him get fast asleep be-
fore going on with the joke.
1T was an hour and half after
the Captain had disappeared that the
power was turned on and a second
later thousands of bushels Of grain
went rushing from the bins into the
hold Of the little craft. The boat listed
heavily for moment and threatened
to overturn, but the grain slid over to
the centre and righted the ship. Down
rushed the grain through the three
spouts. You could hear the roar for a
thousand feet. Seven minutes after
the power was turned on the power
was turned off. The $4,000 bushels
had been paid out and Capt. Doncelo's
boat was setting pretty low in the
water. About this time the Captain
appeared on deck in his night shirt.
TO the pumps! he shouted in Span
ish in his loudest tones.
The crew was on deck in minute
and Capt. Doncelo fitted about like a
paper man in windstorm. Spying me
on the wharf laughing he accosted me.
what is the matter that my boat
sinks at her dock?' he asked.
"'She's not sinking, l guess. You
said you wanted to get out of here in
less than week and we loaded your
boat for you in a hurry
THE Captain looked Mt me queerly.
stepped over to the hatchway and
looked at the heap of golden grain in
the hold. He was amazed, to say the
least. He remained in port long
enough to have the mystery explained,
and good wind prevailing, he set out.
He had lain just two hours at the
Incly
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-31
A phiIo.opber.. rimidity.

The daughter of the famous SCENT
list, Sir David Brewster, speaks with
tender frankness Of certain character
istics of her father. Among these she
includes curious timidity and a
great dread of pain which he used to
express with much freedom. In this
connection she quotes from the letter
of a family friend:
I'm illustration of the great philos-
opher's singular timidity my father
used to tell the following story: At
the time Lord Rosses telescope was
drawing so many scientific men across
the channel, Sir David was asked IL
he were going, too.
"'Oh, nor he said. 4 am too much
afraid of the sea-
my father tried to represent to him
what a simple matter it was; he
thought nothing of it himself; he just
went straight to bed on going on
board, and awoke on arriving at his
destination.
''Sir David exclaimed, in unaffected
horror:
what! Go to your naked bed in
the middle of the ocean,"
This is a Scotch expression for GO
ing really into bed, and was indicative
of Sir David's opinion of the enormity
of suchsan ideh.
Another favorite story somewhat
betrayed the philosophers lack of self
control. He was talking of severe
fit of toothache he had had, and my
father asked him, What did you dor
(meaning what remedy was applied.
Dor said Sir David. Il just sal
and roared""
He always declined to have recourse
to n dentist, never having had tooth
drawn, and his answer to any such
proposal always was:
what! Would you have me part
with one of the bones Of my body?"
Whatever may have been his phys.
ical timidity in some directions, it was
truly said of him that he never fear
ed the face of man." and his great
moral courage more than compensated
for such weaknesses as he possessed.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-31
DANGER Of cherry and MIX.

A newspaper correspondent asked
West End doctor of considerable re-
pute IL it was fact that cherries and
milk taken together were poisonous.
He admitted 1t was dangerous. The
cherry tree is akin to the laurel, from
the leaves of which prussic acid is
made, and if the cherries had ten
dency to be overripe, as was very like
ly to be the case so late In the season,
they would cause such fermentation
among the milk as would surely cause
trouble and no doubt deal Of pain.
but he considered that very large
quantity of cherries would require to
be taken to bring about fatal results
London Correspondence of New York
Herald
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-31


TO homes OF poverty she went.
Just as friend,
Upon Loves errand humbly bent
That she might lend
Some Of the faith, the hope. and cheer
Which blest her life,
To those who need to come more near
The peace through strife.
She took no purse, no worldly goods:
She was friend.
She gave but words. from loving
moods
Which heartward tend.
She spoke of simple things, and real,
Those which change not
II plenty crowns or great needs seal
Our human lot.
Great need Of trust, and lasting zeal
For what Is good,
She took the poor, and gave rich meal
or strengthening food.
She clasped hand, to fill heart a
With precious store;
She gave but hunger for that part,
Not less, but more -
Than all the things for which men long
Or toll to get
The love of being, pure and strong.
And though she met
With scorn from those who listened
not,
Wishing but bread,
Her simple word frightened their lot.
Whom thus she fed.
Leslie w. Sprague in Christian Regis
ter.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-31

bishnsss. bad manners OF bal taste
that made Americans wish foreigners
could not refer to him ~ your fellow
countryman." Also II was extremely
distasteful to him to think Of himself
a. an American. 1t reminded him Of
the ancestral butchers and peddlers
states the New York World. And
when he talked to Americans of his
pet delusion-his unfounded and now
publicly exploded notion that he was
descended not from German peasants
but from naughty French and Spanish
nobles-he knew that they were laugh
ing In their sleeves at him. America
retains all of him that was of any
value-his property. That remains
here to enrich this country. Only it's
income goes abroad, and it has been
going abroad for years anyhow.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-31
The Most Uninteresting Country.

" hat Is the most uninteresting
country in the world? The writer of
a Foreign Office report puts in bad
word in this connection for Korea.
The scenery is, indeed, he admits
strikiugly beautiful, but aside from
this there is an absence Of almost ev-
erything when makes country In.
teresting to the traveller. There is
?otliI whatever which he cares to
take with him as memento Of his
visit. There can be few countries
anywhere which do not offer more at
fractions in this respect than Korea.
1t Is the habit to attribute his uniform
dreariness and desolation to the Jap
anese invasion of three centuries ago;
but there must be something lacking
in the character of people who have
failed during such long interval to
achieve any advancement in arts or
manufactures" London Daily News.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-31

The principal source of revenue in
the field of college athletics is foot
ball, and after that baseball. The
former sport has long been the most
popular sport, and long the most pro-
ductive of revenue. When one con-
siders the enormous crowds that flock
to see the games of Harvard, Prince
ton, University of Pennsylvania and
Yale, ready to pay theatre prices for
seats. it becomes apparent that foot
ball turns in vast amount OF money
to the common athletic fund. While
the returns are large, the expenses are
very heavy, because of the cost of
building immense stands for the spec
tators and the cost of feeding and
training the young men of the grid
iron. Baseball has likewise been
generally profitable, and at Princeton
alone the profit for this season is 49,
800. Fortunately, college baseball
has been absolutely free from the
faint that has almost spoiled pro-
fessional baseball, and many persons
who used to follow the professional
players with enthusiastic interest
have transferred their affections to
the college games, which, however
much they may lack in skill compared
with the professional contests, are
sure to be clean, manly and exciting.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-31
How frequently employees

How frequently employees sue
cumb to temptation none can say.
AS rule, such cases are not brought
into the police court. 1t is cheaper,
saves time and obviates the creation
of bad impression to merely dis
charge the culprit. What concern is
it of the house whether he fails to
secure another position, or whether,
having got off fairly lightly in this
case, he is rendered permanently dis
honest +? Gam Imy brothers keeper ?"
is asked to-day as it has been from
the beginning. Competition has
many sins to answer for and among
them this one is by no means the
least. Would it not be well, from a
financial as we'll as from q moral point
of view, for merchants generally to so
arrange their business and their salary
list that their employees are exposed
as little as possible to such perils of
life-shipwreck asks the Dry Goods
Economist.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-31

Santa Fe n. NJ, has q woman s
Board of Trade, now seven years old.
The members keep the ancient palace
of the Spanish Government in good
order, look after the trees and shrubs
in the public square, run q public
library, reading room, lecture course
and several charities, and strive in all
ways "to advance the welfare and
prosperity of the oldest city in the
United States"