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Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

Chicago in 1860. He has never been a
member Of any religious denomination.
but all his gifts have been to those in
stitutions having religious affiliations.
From 1890 to 1900 the doctor has given
away $2,5OO,OOO OF his fortune and has
perhaps 81 100000 left.
Four years ago DR.. Pearsons had his
tombstone erected in Hinsdale Gene
terry, rs he desired to have all his af-
fairs arranged before he died. The
granite for this monument was brought
from Barre, VT, where the doctor
taught school in 1896. The remaining
81, 100000 will be disposed Of in dona-
tions which have not as yet been an
nounced. On this account 1t Is his in
tention to require an annuity OF per
cent, or $4,000 n year. payable up to
the time of the death of himself and
wife. This will allow them to live as
they please and watch the good results
from their munificent gifts. 1t has
never cost them more than $1,000 a
year to live, so on the income they have
provided for themselves they will no
doubt continue their giving, which has
really now become habit. The doctor
says, however, that he considers he is
entitled to an amount that will allow
him and his wife to live as they please,
even at the waldorf-Astoria IL they
wish. They never had any children,
and when their earthly lives are closed
their entire fortune will be in use for
the benefit of humanity.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05
The Ancients and Gems.

Ancient writer's seem TO have dwclt
more especially on the occult qualities
or gems rather than on their value.
and quaint ideas are current in regard
TO them. Onomacritus, a priest and
founder Of Hellenic mysteries, II. c.
800, In speaking of the crystal, once
said that whose goes into the temple
with this i'm his hand may be quite
sure of having his prayer granted, aA
the gods cannot withstand its power"
The Romans were mt one period very
cxtravagant i'm their use of gems, for,
according to Pliny, they drqnk out OF
mass of gems and their drinking YES
sells were formed Of cmeralds. Con-
stantine was the first sovereign who
Iuxuriated in gemmed crown. The
diamond to-day ranks third in value,
precedence being taken by the pearl
and the Burmah ruby. This is due to
the great abundance OF the diamond
since the opening of the South African
mines. Hardness Is the test Of the
diamond--if mineral cannot he cut by
ruby or sapphire 1t must be a dit
mond.-CbIcag News.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

Rural free delivery for postal matter
Is slowly winning its way, bringing the
daily newspaper to many farmhouse
"A stimulus of fresher interest in the
life of the world. The village and trav-
elling libraries, rapidly increasing in
number and size, extend, in turn,
broader outlook. The discussions Of
local clubs-often farmers oranges
and of the many women's clubs (as rep
resentative of the "new woman" at
her best as the most prctcntious Of city
clubs, give the most beneficent of So
cial contacts, those where thought
sharpens thought, observes the New
York Post.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05
The JOKER'S BUDGET.


IT Is not always safe to Judge q man
According to the company he keeps
And place him underneath the social
ban,
Classcd with the hoi polloi or com.
mon sweeps.
He may not have chance to pick his
crowd,
That happens very frequently. as
when
As warden he consorts with the low
browcd
And many-strlpcd inmates OF the
pen.
Chicago Record.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

Perhaps no figures in the forthcom-
ing census will prove fuller Of interest
or significance than those which will
give the statistics of trolley extension.
The census Of 1890 showed that the
gain i'm miles Of street lines was 453 per
cent. for cities and towns of a pOpula-
ton over 10000. This was due, Of
course, to the seizure of the new mo-
tive power as fast as its feasibility was
understood by the smaller cities and
towns. because of 1t perfect adaptation
to their needs. But since 1890 the ex
tension of trolley roads, from centre TO
suburbs and from town to town, has
continued at an astonishing rate, one
quite beyond popular comprehension or
estimate. In short, we have seen,
probably with but casual recognition
Of 1t, the passing Of the distinguishing
marks OF the time In which we live. A
formula of description long familiar
is the age of 1.-The railroad, the steam
shin, and the telegraph" Bnt that
formula "smacks of antiquity" when
the present is more accurately the age
of the trolley, the telephone, and the
bicycle.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

The truly ambitious workman will
work with good materials when he can,
but with poor materials rather than
with none. 1t has been said of n IA
nous painter that he made fine pic
ture with burnt stick on a barn door,
and Of another that lie could produce
noble artistic effects with brush
made of hair from his cats tail. We
read Of mathematicians too who have
worked out intricate problems on a
piece Of leather Genius Is always su-
perior to circumstances, philosophers
the New York Observer. The ten tai
ent man in mental or moral endow-
ment can do wonders simply with a
single talent of wealth, physical
strength. or other sort of capital.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

The common idea of an automobile
as four-wheeled vehicle on heavy
rubber tires will nave to be modified.
An inventor, doubtless n Yankee, has
perfected new automobile in the
form Of sled for hauling logs, and it
is being successfully used in the Min
ncsota pine forests. The motive power
operates on two cylinders, whose sur
face is studded with pins similar TO
those in the cylinder of Il music box.
These take hold OH the ice and packed
snow of the roads. and loads OF logs
varying from twenty to thirty tons are
hauled with ease. That is one of the
new applications of the automobile
idea for heavy winter work in the ru-
raj districts, and suggests an indefinite
extension of it i'm other directions. 1t
will not be long before autotrucks for
heavy haulage in cities are widely
used, and then will come some applica-
ton OF the same ide: to the country.
The British automobile wagon has al
ready made good beginning, being
now used in rivalry to freight trains
over short distances. Signs point to
this as the next phase of development
i'm this line.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

An indication of some of the impor-
tant industrial effects which may be
expected to follow the opening up of
China, is given in recent reports con-
cerning the Chinese tree called the "tu
chung" Both French and English
botanists assert that this tree contains
O. valuable substance resembling rub
Der, or gutta-percha. Mr.. Weiss. of
Owens College, believes that the sub
stance is a true caoutchouc, and that
the tree will become Of great economic
Importance.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

New Hampshire is often referred to
as the Granite State, but the strike Of
granite cutters has brought out the
fact that the stone is quarried for com
mercial purposes in every State east
Of the Hudson. One of the most inn
portant centres of the industry is
Barre, VT, a town that has grown re-
markably in recent years because Of it's
quarries. In this State the village of
Mantle is becoming n granite centre.
1t has been small manufacturing
place for many years, but bids fair to
develop rapidly in the next decade,
thanks to the stone business.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

The New York Sun has been counting
up the totals of European migration
during the century. and finds that the
movement is the greatest of the kind
recorded in history. In the first twen-
~ years of he century only 100000 Eu-
ropeans came TO this country, but be-
tween 1920 and 1882 more than 17,0O0,-
900 came. In the last named year
alone the United States received S00,-
600 immigrants. Since 1889 the Euro
pean outpouring to various parts of
the world has been over 12,00O.000
souls. Trustworthy data Indicate that
during the century Europe has been
drained of 30,000,000 persons seeking
TO better their fortunes in other lands.
This number Is equal to three-fifths of
the total population of Europe ut the
time of Augustus Caesar. II is greater
than the total number of inhabitants
of the United Kingdom in 1860, and
only little less than the total popula-
ton of the United States in the same
year. Probably this remarkable phase
of history will never be repeated, for
there remain no more such vast and
fertile wildcrnesses in the temperate
zone as the United States was ut the
beginning Of the century.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

If any one thinks that the world
doesn't grow. let him look ut the price
paid for Flying Fox, the animal sold
n few days ago at auction by the Duke
of Westminster. One hundred and
ninety thousand dollars for horse
shows an advance in the price of horse
flesh that should make the heads of
conservative investors in such hum
drum property as Government bonds
and real estate swim. Flying FoX's
Srandsire, Ormonde, is said TO have
brought about S150,000. Ormondc's s
grandsirc, Doncaster, was sold for
something like $S5,000 A dozen horses
have been sold for sums between SJ0,-
600 and 100000; but Flying Fox
makes them all look like hacks for
hire.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

A REMARKABLE MAN.
DIR. Pcarsons, of Chicago, Who is Gi,
ing Away the Fortune He Made.

DIR. Pcarsons, of Chicago, Who Is Civ
ing Away the Fortune He Made.
ID. Il. Pearsons, of Chicago, seems
determined to follow the Carnegie idea
and not die rich. He has already given
away two or three millions to educa,
tional institutions, and still has n mil
lion or two more, which he purposes to
send in the way Of the others gone be-
fore. DIR. Pearsons went to Chicago
to reside in April, 1860. In his satchel
DR.. Pearsons carried $1,000, which he
had saved up in ten years medical
practice in Chicopee, Mass. He and
his wife had some distant relatives in
Chicago, but they had made up their
minds not to go 10 them, although they
knew, practically, no one else there.
Their relatives had discouraged the
doctor from going West. They did not
think he was fitted 10 get along in the
hustle and scramble Of growing city,
and advised him to stick to his country
practice. But the doctor succeeded,
and made money rapidly in many ways,
and did good with every dollar of 1t.
I'm 1890 the doctor came to the con-
clusion that the time had arrived for
him to begin giving away his fortune.
lie followed the plan that he and his
wife had formed after they had reached
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05
Accommodated Then and There.

lie was newspaper man. Late
war news kept me down town. ht
stammcred. as he entered the house
at $50 4. NJ.
"Humphv' replied his wife. well
well make a little more war news
right here for n late edition." And
the battle was on. Philadelphia Nortt
American.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

What a lesson Of contentment for
men of moderate means is taught by
the story of George Smith, who, with
a fortune of $1O000O,0OO behind him,
supplied all the want OF life on So
day! The late Cornelius Vanderbilt
hardly spent more for his personal
needs. Russell Sage probably spends
less. Jay Gould lived chiefly on tea
and toast. The Duke of Westminster
was a man of frugal habits. No ordi-
nary business man lives more simply
than Rockefeller or Carnegie. This
is an important lesson. 1t should be
preached and explained and insisted
on for the benefit of the scheming
strugglers after wealth-the lesson
that wealth has its limits, that it does
not bring happiness, and that all the
truest and highest pleasures of life are
within the reach of men Of moderate
means, and that they are denied to the
lords of millions.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

"Step lively.' the cry of the street
car conductor, has been judicially ap-
proved, at least to certain extent, by
the Common Pleas Court, No. ], in
Philadelphia, in decision that a pas
senger on trolley car Is not neccssar-
lily negligent in standing on the lower
step as it Is coming to a standstill. The
plaintiff, man, while standing on the
lower step of a car thar was slowing
down ut Chestnut street, was thrown
by sudden jerk. In upholding yer.
diet for the plaintiff the court ruled
that although trolley-cars are more
dangerous than former means Of
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

In the matter Of telephone develop
ment Japan compares favorably with
other countries. Several of its large
cities have Il number of subscribers.
application at the last report, and n
new exchange is being built with n
capacity of G,000. The subscribers last
year in other cities arc returned as fol-
lows: Osaka, 1,600; Yokohama. LOOP;
Kobe, S43, and Kyoto, go. The sub
scription rate in Toxic is S33 n year,
and 100000 messages were sent
over 900 miles of wire in 1899. The
government is spending S1,0O0,000 this
year on new telephone work.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05
ADamper on His Ardor.

"What, singing so early in the morn
ing.' exclaimed tho clearinghouse
landlady as she encountered Mr.
Marbles I'm the hall. Don't You know
it's unlucky to sing before breakfasts"
Perhaps it is" replied Mr.. W., "bu'
somehow never feel like singing M
ter breakfast. Chicago News.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05
A Proof Of His Sincerely.

"now shall l prove the sincerity OF
my devoton:" asked the young man
who had been so long coming to the
point that doubt had begun TO accu.
mulatc against him.
Call the parson in as a witness.
suggested the young lady who meant
business. Detroit Free Press.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05
a Cruel Blow.

..You will notice that all the other
houses in this row are occupied" said
the real estate agent. This Is the
last one left
Yes" retorted the cranky house
hunter. '.and it's likely TO be last bu'
not leased. Philadelphia Press.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

Corporal Ito class of rccrults)--Or
the field of battle good soldier will
always bc found where the bullets are
thickest: do You understand that
Magec?
Private Magcc--Yis, corporal.
Corporals-WclI. where would you b<
found on the battlefield?
Private NIagec- Well corporal.
should say in the ammunition wagon
Answers.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05
A Critical Situation.

First Whipped again, say
est thou? This is our tenth successive
defcat"'
Second Warrior-''It is, indeed! And
the worst of it is that we have USED
up all our excuses in explaining the
other ninc"'-Life.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05
An InexcusabIe Omission.

Five-year-old Barbara went tc
church one day with her two sisters
Martha and Mary. She came home
crying, and being asked why, she said
sobbing:
"The man spoke all the time about
Martha and Mary, and he never said o
word about me-
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05
Getting Ready.

.My beau" said ten-ycar-old Lucy
sis going TO be an Admiral
.Is he in the Naval Academy ask
ed her sympathetic aunt.
"Oh! no. replied the little womai'
hes too young for that yet, but he's
having an anchor tatooed on his arm.
philadelphia Press.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

The annual receipts of the New
York Post Office hundred and ten
years ago were little over $500, or
about half those Of the Philadelphia
Office, where Postmaster General Ben
Franklin had his headquarters. The
revenue last year was over $4,000. .000
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05
That Hateful Girl.

Ella-When / refused Fred he saio
| had sent him TO his death.
Stella-But he has since proposed &c
me. and have accepted him.
Ella-Then he meant a living death.
San Francisco Examiner.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

transportation, the rapidlty OF trans
portation demands that passengers b
more alert and prompt In entering and
alighting, and for that reason 1t Is not
negligence for a passenger to 80 upon
the platform Of the car or even upon
the step before 1t comes to a full stop.
Two of the judges dissented from this
ruling.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05


Good folks, the days O. miracles amt
past an gone away;
Tho weather man predicted snow, an
here's the snow to-day!
They know the path the sun an moon
air travelin-so they do
They've tracked the stars OF heaven an
4, caught the comets. too!
They know jest how the oil world rolls
A.. they've got it down by heart;
They know the cyclones comm fore 1t
ever makes n start!
They know the awful distance from here
up TO the sun;
They've counted all the worlds above, an
+ named 'em-every one!
Amt nuthin' hidden from 'em-they
know the all-in-all!
When obstacles air risin' they batter
down the wall
Am stand in all the glory an beauty O.
the light,
A-givin' out this verdct-that there shall
be no night!
An I.r'a'ly wouldn't wonder at the pace
we're bein' led,
Ef they shook the world like thunder by
the raisin' o. the dead!
Fer, step by step they're goin' upon the
upward way,
Till a feller's glad he's livin' in a world
like this to-day!
Atlanta Constitution.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05
History Didn't Mention II.

Teacher (animatedly) = Now, chill
dren, who can tell me what the long
reign Of Elizabeth brought aboutf
Johlfny Slowboy (who thinks on
simple lines and never reficcts)-Um-
brcllas.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

Eight millions year isn't enough for
Emperor William. He wants ten mil
lions. In his twenty-four palaces he
keeps 1900 lackeys and more than p
600 maid servants, and there are his
royal stables and kennels and covers
and cotes and playhouses, etc, not to
mention his family. HIS expenses
would pay for three or four new bat
tleships per annum. lie comes high,
does this swelling King Of Prussia,
but he feels that Germany must have
him.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05
A Eriand in Nead.

Jones-"A friend in need is great
thing"
BOnes-'Indeed ic is"
Jones-"Yes indeed; / met one this
morning and lie cost me So
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05
Her Impression.

"Did you hear me sing Because
Love YouT' asked the young mar
with Il voice like n lathe.
II must have misunderstood, mur-
INJURED Miss Cayenne. Il thought you
were singing because you hated us,
Washington Star.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05
SIX YEARS LOST.
T1OS1 HAT would we live on, Max
w laughed Sydney Vernon, glanc

w laughed Sydney Vernon, glanc-
ing down at her elegant morn
ing dress, with the pretty slipper just
peeping from beneath its hem. Its
all very well to eschew the practicali-
ties OF life, but they are somewhat
necessary for all that, and have never
seen any great evidences of economy
on your part; and am quite sure you
have not on mine"
Max Bayard tugged impatiently at
his mustache as the girl, whom mo-
ment before he had asked to be his
wife, thus answered him.
II have never had an incentive to
economy" Max said in answer. 81
have enough TO live on and feed my
horses, though my tailor's@ bin does
trouble me now and then, l confess;
put Sydney, / will change all that,
dear. 1 can't, perhaps, give you all
the lpxuries to which you are accus-
fomed, but you shan't lack for COM
forts, that promise ySu."
I'VE should be miserable Max-mis-
cradle, both you and II the girl an
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

The neutrality of the great Powers OF
Europe can hardly be looked on as vir-
tuous. They are holding their hands
off In the South African business be-
cause they are afraid of each other.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

"Dick Dabbs is going to teach por-
trait painting by mail"
That's all right; you've seen his
portraits, haven't you?-Indianapolis
Journal.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05
Her Feryent Hope.

She ION their wedding tour What
is the whistle blowing for; dearest!
He--I don't know. darling; but II
must be for either II station or 'un'
mel.
She-Oh. ] TO hope it's tunnel,
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05
He Didn't Appreciate II.

Brother" said the cannibal chief,
facetiously. lin about fifteen minutes
you will De In the SOUP"
''Oh, dear.' grOaned the missionary.
II suppose that must be what people
call native humor."
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

Professor Atwater has demonstrated
to his own satisfaction that alcohol Is
food. But what's the good of such a
discovery as long as there is other
stuff to eat
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05
Periodical Enterprise.

"What makes that new magazine
cost so much?"
II don't know. Maybe they have
to pay people not TO write war arti
cles for t.'--Indianapolis Journal.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

Greater New York can now claim to
be the "city of parks" The area GOV.
cred by them includes 1864 acres. The
two largest parks, situated in Bronx
borough, are Pelham Bay Park of L..
15G acres, and Van Cortlandt Park of
1,132la acres. Central Park, Manhat-
tan, has nearly $40 acres; Bronx Park,
Bronx Borough, 661 3-5 acres; Brook.
lyn Forest Park. town of Jamaica,
within the city limits, 535 acres. and
Prospect Park in Brooklyn SIG 1-G
acres. The rest of n total of sixty
nine parks are considerably smaller,
and $50 acres of Bronx Park are to be
devoted TO botanical garden.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

Cecil Rhodes says the British flag Is
the richest asset in the world. Cecil
can't get over the habit OF reducing
his patriotism to a commercial basis.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

Owing to the old system of digging
out diamonds Kimberley proper Is built
around hole big enough to contain
the entire white population of South
Africa
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05
Advantage OF Provcrb.

Father-Ifs never too late to mend.
my boyI
Son-But Is that really so, dad?
Father-It is. indeed, my boy.
Son--Oh, well then, needn't begin
just yet.
Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-05

A comparatively trifling incident In
Paris Is significant OF the bitter feel
ing with which the French masses
seem to regard everything British. Two
or three weeks ago an American lady
and her two daughters hailed cab. 1t
was raining, and the driver. with the
customary arbitrariness OF Paris coach-
men, refused TO he hired by the hour.
The lady then, speaking I'm English.
told her daughter to report the man to
the authorities. Meanwhile. woman
belonging to the lower orders interven.
ed and caused crowd to assemble
She declared that an English woman
wished to denounce French cabdrjv.
er, and the crowd rapidly became me-
nacing and vituperative. Fortunately
police assistance came before mischief
was done, and the cabman was arrest
ed. The magistrate, who of course
knew the nationality of the complain
ant, promptly sentenced the offender to
eight days Imprisonment. This inabil-
ity of the Paris populace to discrimi-
nate between Americans and English
Is worth remembering in this exposi
ton year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-05-17
A WHITE PATH.


cz-7z=lFIERE is only one kind Of Cleanliness, bot
there are many kinds Of soap There IS
49, only one destination, bot there are many
ez-J paths that lead TO it. you want the short
est and safest road to Cleanliness, It is paved with
Ivory Soap. Neither man nor clothes ever get
beyond the cleansing power Of Ivory Soap, It's rich,
creamy ather extracts every particle Of dirt; bit
It stops at the dirt! Ivory Soap it floats.
ooysa-r 1ae fs5oTzes osee.an
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-05-17

TRY LathIop' strawberry ice
cream made from nice ripe berries.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-05-17

ICE CREAM SODA and fountain
drinks At Latheop