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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

Formerly Confined to Season, They May
Nov - Sought the Year Round.
The hen commonly stops laying dur
ing at least q part OF the winter, and
begins laying again In January and
continues to lay until early spring,
when, naturally, II she were not dis
turbed, she would begin to sit on her
eggs and hatch out chickens. When
these chickens come to be big enough
to weigh from pound to pound and
a half each, dressed, they are called
broilers, and as such the young. tender
and delicious chickens are sold. The
chicken, OF course, remains at suita-
BILE size for br0iling only compare
lively short time, and when II gets too
big for that 1t become spring chicken.
still young and excellent, but to he
roasted, or cooked In some other man
ner than on the gridiron, being now
too big for broiling.
With chickens Matched out by hens,
and with the great majority OF hens
sitting along at about the same time,
brOilers came into market during GER
tain time Of the year, just as vegeta-
bles formerly did, before we began get
ting them from the South, and from
under glass. There were some broilers
scattered along before or after, but
most of them came into market In the
late spring and early summer. Years
ago, and not so very many, either,
twenty years or so, there was a pretty
a
month or six weeks. Then came cold
storage, and by that means the broiler
season was extended two or three
months or more. Some part at least
of the surplus broilers, that would
otherwise have been permitted to grow
into spring chickens, were killed and
put away In the cold storage houses to
be drawn on as required. and so the
broiler season, or the period In which
broilers could be procured, was mate
rally heightened.
Then came what Is known as the hot
house broiler. an incubator-hatched
chicken, raised I'm brooder. With cold
storage the natural brOiler season had
been prolonged; with incubatOrs IL was
anticipated, and finally 1t was length
ened indefinitely. There are now, scat
tered in various parts of the country,
hundreds of poultry farms. using in
cubators, that are devoted solely to
the production of broiler chickens for
the market. some of them large estab-
lshments, one in western state turn
ing out 100000 broilers In year. The
broiler farms have their seasons OF
greatest production, but there are more
or less dollhouse broilers, raised at all
seasons, so that it Is possible nova
days to buy fresh broilers every day In
the year.-New York Sun.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

A notable change in numbering OPP
erations in Maine is the substitution
OF the saw for the axe in telling trees.
The experiment was first tried in 1898,
and with such success that the more
progressive lumbermen are now plan
ming to use it altogether. Much is
gained in point of time and wages,
the choppers being regarded as expert
employees, and being paid according
ly. Another important gain is the
saving of lumber. Formerly it was a
common thing to see all over lot
stripped of trees stumps from two to
three feet above the ground. This
part of the tree was the very best,
both because it was free from knots
and because it was the largest part of
the tree in girth. By using the saw
the trees may be cut off nearer the
ground and big saving made. Of
course, as in all such labor saving
changes, labor question is involved.
Many of the choppers, upon a report
that saws were to be used the past
year, threatened to rebel, but their
grievances were met for the time be-
ing by an arrangement whereby they
were to use the axe in places where
the saw would be inconvenient, and
in the trimming of logs felled by the
saws.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23
A Japanese ceisha Girl.

A geisha must be highly accomplish
ed, because her chief duty is to amuse.
While not by any means a musician,
she must be able to perform on the
samisen, koto, tzuzumi IA drum and
other musical instruments. She
dances, sings, and talks on the light.
est subjects, and always holds herself
In readiness to entertain her guests
according to their mood. A witty
geisha, one who Is a good talker, pref.
ty and graceful, will not lack for EN-.
ployment at any time, and generally
makes a very good living. While It Is
not at all necessary for her to arouse
mlrth, her object must be to begulle
the time that is irksome to her guests
Thus 1t often happens that one feel
ing depressed will send for a geishs
girl. The geisha Is a natural actress
and her taste In dress exquisite. her
movements Incompatible In grace
Onoto watanna in woman's Home
Companion.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

filled with SCOT aud smoke, and IN
which they could not breathe till they
got to the top, and all in order to gain
but Ave sous. The custom was intro
duced into Great Britain, but put down
by an act of parliament In 1910, In con-
sequence OF the many serious accidents
which attended the climbing of Chin
neys; and, although the use Of ma
chinery was substituted, II does not
perform the operation so effectively az
the old mode. AS long as chimneys
were simply and widely built they
were easily cleaned by servants with
wlsps Of straw or brushwood fastened
to rope; but when, to save room, mar
row fiues were made, the cleaning of
them became so difficult that 1t was
necessary to have small boys for that
employment. The first who thus
swept chimneys We're the people in the
northern part of Italy, more particular
ly the inhabitants Of Piedmont and
Savoy.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

Business has been broadened SO
much within recent years, that to sue
coed in it requires as great if not
greater mental capacities than are
called into requisition in the profess
sions. To manage an establishment
employing thousands of people; to
correctly gauge public wants and sup
ply them at profit; to seek, discover,
and develop new markets-all involve
qualities of foresight and execution
that the commander OF an army or the
executive of nation would find ex-
tremely useful. The recognition of
this fact has done much to lift mer-
camille life to the high estimation
which it at present enjoys.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

Dramatists Of established reputation
write plays only upon order. Their
ordinary prepayments are five hundred
dollars upon the delivery of scenario.
and five hundred dollars more upon
the completion Of a play. III the fin
ished work does not realize expecta-
TONS writes Franklin Fyles I'm the
Ladies' Home Journal. .-or II the man.
ager for any other reason does not de-
sire to put IL on the stage, the money
paid Is forfeited after a certain lapse
OF time, and the ownership reverts to
the author. But IL the manager de-
cides to produce, the piece the author
receives percentage OF the gross re-
ceipts. usually 8 per cent, payable
weekly, after the amount previously
advanced has been deducted. OrdL\
narily IL increases with the amount
money taken In. More than one
tive drama has earned one humid
thousand dollars for its author.
dozen have yielded nifty thousand
iars each; three times as many,
V-nve thousand dollars, and q
number, ten thousand dollars. =
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23
A Weed CarCen.

1t is remarkable how many really
beautiful flowers are discarded be-
cause ordinarily they are classed as
weeds. A woman who had plenty of
land and taste for experimenting
made tweed garden" this year which
is a great success. She doesn't know
the names of all the outcasts she has
gathered in, but she noticed last year
all the wild things that grew and flow
cred neglected by the wayside. and
transplanted those that appealed to
her most strongly.
"The main reason" she urges, that
they attract so little notice when grow
ing wild is that they are not massed
and arranged ms we place cultivated
flowers to get the best effect Now,
that Is what I have done. A wild
flower, or a weed, as 1t is scornfully
termed, that is too fragile to be
thought much Of will make delicate,
feathery mass which will be vastly
admired when planted together by the
score or more"
Even such a despised thing as the
common ragweed is worthy of admira-
ton If you happen to look at it Alright,
and it is finely effective as foliage for
cut flowers.
This weed gardener has provided for
a succession of blossoms from violets
and dandelions to golden rod and late
fall grasses, and nothing has repaid
the gardeners efforts with better re-
suits than these absolutely free flow
ers.-Boston Herald.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23
Fashions In OveraiIs.

"All overalls look alike to chappies
who pay SO pair for their trousers"
said guest in the Grunewald lobby,
''but you're badly mistaken If you
imagine they offer no field for the ex-
ercise of taste. The average working
man is very particular about the cut
finish, trimmings and color Of his over
ais, and there are fashions In them
the same as anything else.
1.-The correct shade in overalls Is
golden hue 1t comes I'm denim goods
and shows n deep blue ground, with
small yellow threads. There Is also
crimson blue and blue white. but
they are not so swell. To be strictly
In style. your overalls should be golden
blue, with double front. brass buttons
and a cavalry seat. The cavalry seat
Is foible that comes. out of the west,
like young Lochinvar, and Is simply n
good sized reinforcement edged
around with double row of nice vel
low thread. 1t is considered very
chic."-New Orleans Times-Democrat
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23
vULGARITY OF THE EXCLUSIVE.
Simplicity and Cordially Are the Trusst
Signs OF Good Breeding.

In very candid and plain-spoken
article on The Graciousness Of High
Breeding" in the Woman's Home Com
panion, Ella Morris Kretschmar makes
these pertinent remarks: Men and wo-
men who by contact or travel know
the worlds best society need not be
told that simplicity and graciOusness
are the invariable characteristics of
the highest breeding. Ii this fact could
only reach the minds of that class Of
people who talk Of 'exclusiveness' of
-four hundreds Of the 'vulgarity Of
trade Of not knowing any one outside
of our set what grateful social
change would be wrought. That cold
stare of the wOuld-be elect is but the
expression of an under-bred, poverty
stricken SOUL What Is 'exclusiveness?
1t is that human policy which shuts
individuals off from the enjoyment of
their kind, by which society gains,
since an inharmonious element Is there
by removed. How pathetic Is the iso-
lation Of the determined aristOcrat, es-
pecially in a small town where, other
ltthihH,
tons mean so much. Could even Di-
vine microscope detect the difference
between the naked souls of IA bankers
and grocers wife? How infinitely
stupid il Is to draw lines in small
places instead of honestly enjoying all
there is to enjoy If one has had SUI
perior advantages, is there no obliga-
ton to give pleasure. 10 make sunshine
i'm others lives because of that good
fortune? The time is at hand when in
telligence will be too widespread, pro-
gress to more vigorous plane of
thinking too real to admit of men and
women looking askance nj one another
to make mental invoice of social, finan-
cial or other probabilities? Will it not
soon penetrate the dullest brain that
wealth, rank or leadership are power
less as shields against unhappiness, or
as props TO mental. moral or physical
deficiencies; that there is positively no
honest or sensible basis for judging
individuals excepting individuality"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

tons ~ that state, ., 1864, 580 tons were
mined BY machinery. This il . gain
over the preceding year Of 1,l47, 474
tons, and.is the greatest amount by
that method In the states history.
The years increase equals the entire
amount OF machine mined coal during
the year 1890, and is nearly $50. 900
tons in excess OF that so produced
during 1889. Other figures in the re-
port are of interest as showing the
benefits of mine supervision in the
lessened roll of injuries and deaths.
There were go. 463 tons of coal pro-
duced to each life that was lost, and
80, 1856 tons mined to each person who
was seriously injured. There was
one fatality for every 563 persons en-
ployed. and one injury to each 102
persons engaged in the industry.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

A test case brought by the City of
Milwaukee, Wis, under an anti
smoke ordinance. has been lost, the
court ruling that the city had failed
to establish the fact that the black
smoke was a nuisance. The evidence
introduced by the City Attorney con-
sisted of photographs showing dense
smoke issuing from brewery's chin
ney, the testimony of persons living
near who had seen the smoke, and
the reports of tests made by the Off
GERS of the Health Department. The
Court did not consider the constitu-
tionality of the law.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23
Original Chimney sweepers.

The first people who employed boys
for the purpose of clambering up chin
neys to clean them were the French;
and the greater part Of chimney sweep
ers In Paris at the commencement of
tho century were Savoyards. One
might see everywhere In the streets
large groups of these boys, many not
above eight years of age, clad In linen
frocks, and who, when called upon.
would scramble up chimneys Mt the
hazard Of their lives, with their brooms
and other instruments, often through
. narrow funnel fifty feet in length,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

The great leisure for research which
is made in Germany universities can
be understood by reading the figures
published in Science. Twenty-Five
per cent of the professors in the Ger
man universities are engaged in
lecturing or in laboratory supervision
from two to six hours week, and
fifty-one per cent from seven to twelve
hours. Of the associate professors
sixty per cent are engaged from two
to six hours per week, and of the
privat-docents eighty-three per cent;
only four per cent of all privat- docents
are engaged in lecture or laboratory
supervision more than twelve hours
a week.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23
Ha Was ri. Own Dentist.

A Foxcraft man who was suffering
from a toothache while ''seven miles
from dentist" attended to the aching
molar himself by tying fish line
around 1t. fastening the other end OF
the line to a hook In the post of the
piazza and sitting down quickly. This
reminds oath man of neighbor
Of his who always extracted his own
teeth. IL an upper one he tied n string
around II, with heavy weight at the
other end of the line, mounted to the
haymow and dropped the stone. II a
lower tooth was the one aching, he
stood on the floor and threw the
weight mp over door. Lewiston (Msl
Journal.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

Modern inventiveness has set artil.
lery, always the chief arm of defense,
in the first rank Of means OF offense
in war. 1t is hardly extravagant to
say that war between any two civ
ilized nations to-day, without gross
inequality in other respects, would
be an easy victory for that which was
distinctly superior in possession and
skilled use of modern artillery. This
has been clearly recognized in Europe
for some years, and the contention
among nations has been for superior
equipment and drill in rapid fire field
guns. The mobile, quick-action field
piece is q natural development of the
principle of the long-range magazine
rife. 1t adds weight and range and
volume to that development of an at
lacking or resisting force with rain
of bullets long before it is near enough
for fighting on the old tactics which
has changed the whole art of war.
Modern artillery and the modern rife
practice out Of which it has grown
have been almost as revolutionary as
gunpowder on its first introduction.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23
italian Babies.

Babies seem to be no trouble In Italy,
and one cannot but be struck by the
number of them. These bamblnos are
often hung upon pegs in the front OF
the house, where they look out of their
little black, beady eyes like pappooses.
I unlocked one of these babies once
and held 1t awhile. Its back ana lit
tie feet were held tightly against a
strip Of board so that It was quite stiff
from its feet to It's shoulders. 1t did
not seem to object or to be at all I'M
comfortable, and as 1t only howled
while I was holding II, have an idea
TINT. except when invaded by foreign
ers. the bambino's existence Is quite
happy.-Lillian Bell in the woman's
Home Companion.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

General Funston is not only hero
but truth teller as we'll. He won't
accept a sword with m inscription on
it, purporting to quote an expression
never used by him. While he did not
say he could hold certain position
until his regiment was mustered out.
no one doubts that he would have
done so had it been necessary. Never
theless, one must admire the spirit of
a man who doesn't want glory that is
not belonging to him. Such men are
not too common.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

Our next census will show a popu-
lation of about seventy-five millions,
says The Ladies' Home Journal. To
complete this count within the re-
quired thirty days about fifty thou
sand census enumerators will be en-
ployed. 1t will be necessary for them
to count at the rate of two and hall
million personsper day, or even faster.
The population of all cities and towns
of over eight thousand must be emu
merated within period of two weeks.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

With refrigerator in every house,
cold storage warehouses in every city,
and refrigerator cars on every rail-
road. it is a little difficult to realize
that the process of freezing articles
OF food to prevent decomposition was
not perfected until little less than
twenty years ago.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

Even Russia is coming to us. After
looking over the field thoroughly that
nation has resolved to use an Ameri-
can railway brake. Inasmuch as
most of her locomotives, together with
a large amount of the steel rails used
upon her roadbeds are of American
manufacture, she can be almost given
the credit of running an American
railway system.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

(By ELLA Wheeler wilcox
Oh, the earth is full OF SHINING
And of trouble and OF woe,
But the devil makes an inning
Every time you say It's so;
And the way to set him scowling,
And to put him back a pace,
IL TO stop this stupid growing,
And to look things In the face.
II you glance at history's pages,
In all lands and eras known,
You will find the vanished ages
Far more wicked than our own.
As you scan each word and letter,
You will realize 1t more,
That the world to-day is better
Than 1t ever was before.
There is much that needs amending
In the present time, no doubt
There Is right that needs defending,
There is wrong needs crushing out;
And we hear the groans and curses
OF the poor who starve and die,
While the men with swollen purses
In the place Of hearts, go by.
But In spite of all the trouble
That obscures the sun to-day,
Just remember it was double
In the ages passed away,
And these wrongs shall all be righted
Good shall dominate the land,
For the darkness now Is lighted
BY the torch in Sciences hand.
Forth from little notes in chaos
We have come to what we are,
And no evil force can stay us,
We shall mount from star to star;
We shall break away each fetter
That has bound us heretofore,
And the world to-day is better
Than Ii ever was before.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

British officers think they must
stand up during battle, even when
their men are lying down. There is
no excuse for such bravado. Officers
are needed to direct their men and
not to become martyrs to a mistaken
idea Of what constitutes courage.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

The mere giving of money seldom
makes a man popular. BY instinct
the public passes judgment upon the
giver and the gift. If the motive was
mean, the return in praise and honor
will be small.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The United States Court Of Appeals
1t st. Louis has decided that the only
case in which suicide invalidates q
life insurance policy Is when the in
dividusl contemplated suicide on TAX
ing ont the policy.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

A curious fact noted in the English
lunacy statistics is that the females
outnumber the males in a very con-
siderable degree, especially in the
London institutions, whereas in this
country, even in the State of Mas
sachusetts, where in the general pop
ulation, fine females far outnumber
the males, an even ratio is maintained
in the insane population.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

A scientific gentleman now insists
that badness in Q man is indicative
of intellectually. This being true
the wife has her opportunity OF hav-
ing an intellectual husband.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

The extent to which machinery is
supplanting hand-labor in the coal
mines appears in recent report of
the Ohio Mine Inspector. OF the
years coal production Of IA 066, 1o5
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-23

Los Angeles, Cal, Is distinguished
for the number Of petroleum wells 1t
possesses. The output for 1893 APP
proximated LOO, 900 barrels.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-08
PRESS OPINIONS.

CJCol. W. ]. Bryan appears to have
succeeded Agoncillo as Aguinaldo's rep
resentative in the United States.--Iowa
State Register.
EyStill the boom in business contin.
ues, in spite of the efforts of the anti
expansionists to belittle their coun'
try.-Cleveland Leader.
UItappears that Mr.. Bryan is willing
to concede tent room TO the imperial
istic sideshow only on conditions that II
won't interfere with the free silver per.
formance in the main tent.-Detroii
Tribune.
EJCol. Bryan continues to shudder
over the horrors of militarism. But
the chill never came on until the colonel
had shed his shoulder straps and taken
to more peaceful walks. : Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
DGen, Alger has never been man
to retire under fire. He will not be
driven from the cabinet by the center
ing of all the abuse meant for the ad
ministratioD upon him. He intends tC
stay where he is and see this fight
through.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
UIn the closing months of Cleve
lands second administration the bal
ance Of trade in favor of the United
States averaged less than 100000 {
mouth. The present average is oyel
| S54, 900, 900 a month. Foreign trade ant
q republican tariff get along handsome
ly.-St. Louis Democrat.
UIf Mr.. Sherman thinks Mckinley
could not carry Ohio at this time hi
political acumen of other days has de
parted. The president would have I
bigger majority just now than he hat
when he broke the record. And, NOR,
than that, any good republican viii
have majority almost phenomena
this coming fall. This state has no
wavered in its devotion TO the presi
dent.--Cincinnat Commercial Tribune
UThe people should understand tina
all the fencing of the democrats in th'
national senate regarding the army bill
and an extra session is in the hope O
making campaign capital. Aprominen
republican senator predicts they will
take the ground that President McKin
ley. whose whole political life has beef
based upon benefiting the workingmel
by a high tariff, now desires larg,
army in order to coerce workingmen
The democratic aptitude for taking alb
surd positions, and inviting popular de
feat, is such that they may be expecte'
to perpetrate any folly. In the party
present strait almost any old thing will
] do for hn issue. indianapolis Journal