Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18

in the machinery trade belongs exclu.
sively to no one class, and is shared
In rich measure by all, but while all
are kept busy. all have not to an equal
degree contracted for their future out
put. Tool builders can make reason
able deliveries on the smaller products
of their factories, but are sold many
months ahead on the larger machines.
Those engine builders are sold farth-
est into the future who make the most
powerful types of power. In all lines
of iron and steel machinery the same
strenuous demand Is noted for the lar
ger products. ri Is observed that de-
mand Is greater for special machinery
than for the standard forms, with de-
liveries correspondingly belated."
The Rochester Democrat aud Chron-
icle Is prompted by the course OF
events In South Africa to ask the ma
tons beyond the seas this interesting
question: If a first-class power like
Great Britain. with a broad foothold
In South Africa, has such poor luck
in invading a weak little distant land
like the Boer Republic, what sort Of
luck would other first-class powers,
without any American foothold at all,
be likely to have i'm invading an enor-
United States? The more the great
foreign powers ponder this query the
stronger must grow their conviction
that Uncle Sam is a mighty eligible.
person not to cultivate unamiable re-
latiOns with.
The Chicago News gives partial ex-
PLANTATION of the poor receipts during
the recent season Of grand opera in
that city by saying that while New
York has paid up subscription of
$4,000, wherewith to cheer Mr.. Grau
and his company, it may be mentioned
that sixty of these subscriptions are
by wealthy Chicagonians, who did not
buy boxes for the Auditorium perform
ances." This excuse may be n salve
to the wounded feelings of The News,
but does it not reflect little on the
boosted public spirit of Chicagoans
and on the social and artistic standing
of their city, when the weathiest
among them use Chicago merely as a
shop to make money In. while they
prefer to spend it in New York?
The prevailing tendency Of late years
is to do away with corporal punish
i. hnl 10 ha al
izing in its effects. and doubtless is so,
both to the infiictor of the punish
ment and his or her unfortunate vic
tim. Especially should blows OH any
part of the skull be avoided, because 1t
is commonly but mistakenly supposed
that the skull prevents any injury be-
ing done to the brain beneath. A blow
on the skull, even If it infiict only
scalp wound, may be and often is fol-
lowed by the most serious conse-
quences. 1t is often the cause of death
especially if the blow has been severe
enough to cause n fracture. Where this
is the case, n drop of blood works it
way through the skull, pressing upon
the delicate brain surfaces beneath.
Now, it is a curious fact that the brain
though itself the seat of all sensations,
is not permeated by nerves, as are
parts of the body that are not so well
protected. But If blood finds ii way
through the skull or through frac-
ture and then presses upon the brain,
il will cause tumor to form that will
after time result in death when it
reaches some vital part of the system.
1t is the belief of some historians
that the name Oregon" is Aragon in
disguise. that it was given TO this coun-
try by the early Spanish voyagers, and
that American explorers so interpreted
the word given them by the Indians.
The theory is at least plausible, and
indicates a strange freak of fate. The
name Spain proudly brought to this
distant coast returned to the West
Indies three hundred years later to
destroy the power of Spain on the
seas. Little thought De Fuca says the
Portland Oregonion when he sighted
this coast in 1892, that some day it
would build a warship which, under
the name of Aragon, or Oregon, would
be foremost in the battle that marked
the end of SPANS dominion in the
New World.
Preparations for emergencies, If
emergencies must come. would best be
made along the path of plodding
everyday experiences. The spirit Of
self-control can be cultivated amid the
petty cares and trifiing risks of ordi-
nary life until it accumulates as it
were, into large reserve fund of cool
calm resource, observes the New York
Observer. The man who learns to
control his wits when a horse SHES
slightly on a road, or the woman who
gets the best of her nerves when cross
ing a street will be apt to give good
account of himself or herself if later
some dire catastrophe occurs. Self
mastery needs to be practiced on a
hundred and one small occasions if it
is to solidify finally into a sturdy hab-
it Of mind and of action which will
fit its possessor successfully to cope