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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18
BAD INVENTION FOR rRAMPs.
Why Riding on the blind Baggage" Is
Thing OF the Past.


Wallace Cook, of Pittsburg, VINO
used to be locomotive engineer, III
speaking Of some experiences or his
said: Modern railroading is most SCI
entific and the efforts of inventors the
country over are being brought TO pear
on the problems of time saving devices
for use on the limited expresses. Take.
for instance, the picking up OF the wa
ter supply for the tender when running
at full speed. How ingenious it Is, and
yet how simple! A scoop lets down
into the long, narrow tank from the
bottom of the tender, the water is
scooped up by the speed of the train,
rises above the top of the tender ana
falls in great stream into the trap.
This invention was n disastrous one 10
the tramps, though, and cost several or
them their lives and made many more
sadly uncomfortable before they got
'on to- It, After the tank becomes full
the water will then go over the back
of the tender and dash against the Tor
ward end of the leading car OF the
train with great force. Usually this is
the mail car, into the forward end or
which there is no door, the entrance
being from the sides and the other end.
To the tramps, could they eyade the
watchful eye of engineer or fireman,
this used to be favorite place to steal
ride. There being no door to the
car. they were free from fear Of sur
hn v-hilp tho trQin
once under way, those OH the engine
were kept too busy by their duties
there to come back to look for them
But with the picking up of the water
the forward end of the mail car ceased
to be a place of comfort, and no tramp
to-day ever dreams of trying to steal a
ride there, unless under stress of dire
emergency. Several, at first, were
washed off and either killed or badly
injured while those who managed to
cling on had such woful and democrat
iZing experiences that nothing short
of n question of life or death itself
would tempt them to try it again.
This &as particularly true in cold
weather, for the cold, rushing air soon
froze them to the marrow, and disease
of some kind was sure to attend the
experience. To-day the engineer or
fireman hardly ever even looks for
tramps at this place, for so well has
the danger become known among the
fraternity that they shun the forward
end of the leading car of a train rs
they would the plague"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18
A JACKASS WHO PROSPEcTED,
pensioned Off for Discovering the Worlds
Richest Lead Mines,

mining is the most fascinating bus
mess under the SUM-" said Joseph II.
Keep, of Spokane, Wash. "Once the
fever of it gets into a mans bones,
he never lets go until advancing years,
death, or, in some few cases, the ac-
tual making Of a strike, puts an end
to his labors as a prospector. The
stories of some of the finds and the
fortunes made thereby are really won
derful For instance take that of
Harry Blaire and Dutch Jake, who
are running variety house in Spo-
kane to-day. Together they grub
staked n. S. Kellogg and Phil
O'Rourke to miners outfit, and n
man named Peck staked them to a
jackass. The tales differ as to how
the discovery was actually made. The
jackass, in any event, got lost, and one
story is to the effect that when found
he was paving the earth and had un-
covered the mines. The other and
more probable story is that in hunt
ing for the jackass they came across
the outcrop of these mines that are
to-day the greatest lead mines in the
world; or, rather, lead mine, since they
have been consolidated. kellogg, how
ever, allowed tibet ime for the filing
of the record of the location to elapse
and then he and O'Rourke located
anew, calling one the Bunker Hill and
the other the O'Sullivan mine. They
tried to freeze out Peck, who had grub
staked them to the jackass, and Peck
brought suit, claiming that he was Ell
titled to an interest in the mines. Peck
won his st1it, and the decision handed
down by the Court in his favor is IA
nous throughout the West. 1t reads
something as follows: Inasmuch as
the jackass, "Phil" ORourke and n.
s. Kellogg discovered the Bunker Hill
and O'Sullivan mines, we find that the
plaintiff is entitled to the proportion
belonging to the jackass.' The de-
PENDANTS compromised with Peck FOR
$4,000, and later sold the mines for
100000, and to-day they are worth
millions.
ITO his honor it is held In memory
in the West that Kellogg Immediately
retired the jackass from further work.
and he lived to good and fat old age.
grazing on the finest meadow lands Of
Oregon, at n monthly expense of $50
to Kellogg"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18
Voice Pictures.

To take picture of your voice ii
is only necessary to tie sheet of thin
strong paper over the wide end Of n
tin trumpet. Hold it with the sheet of
paper upward, take a thin pinch of
fine sand and place it I'm the center
of the paper, hold the trumpet vertic-
ally above your face and sing a note
into the lower end. Do not blow. but
sing the note. Lower the trumpet
carefully and look at the sand.
You will find that the vibrations of
your voice have scattered the pinch of
sand into a beautiful sound picture.
Every note i'm the musical scale will
produce n different picture; so you
may produce great variety of them
Some of these pictures look like pan.
sizes. roses and other flowers: some
look like snakes, and others like fly.
ing birds-in fact, there is no limit to
the variation.
If you wish to see the pictures while
they are being made, you may employ
an old bell shaped ear trumpet, or yor
may use your trumpet with short
piece of rubber tubing on the mouth
piece.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18
The Prints 10 Eat.

Prunes afford the highest nerve Or
brain food, supply heat and waste, bue
are not muscle feeding. They should
be avoided by those who suffer from
the liver.
The great majority Of small fresh
seed fruits are laxative.
All stone fruits are considered to be
injurious for those who suffer from the
liver, and should be used cautiously.
Apples supply the higher nerve and
muscle food, but do not give stay.
Oranges are refreshing and feeling.
but are not good IL the liver is out of
order.
Lemons and tomatoes should not be
used daily in cold weather; they have
a thinning and cooling effect.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18

What shall we do with our dead?
The dead who have not died
Who meet us still In the very paths
Where they once walked by our side.
Not those that we love and mourn,
At rest on a distant shore,
But the lost yet living women and
men
Whom we loved-and love no more.
There are shroud and flower and stone
To hide the dead from our sight,
But these are ghosts that will not be
laid
They come 'twixt us and the light;
And the heaven loses its blue,
And the rose has worms at the core,
Because of the living women and men
Whom we loved and love no more.
Edith Bigelow, In the Critic.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18

Now Vines Il ID Large Affair ~ Agent
Attends Ia the Details.


'srhe oldest child is Q years." said the
lady.
Hmm purred the agent, "and
you are sure you don't want magic
lantern exhibition"
I'VE had one last year and want
something new.'
The agent stroked his beard thought
fully. "They are too young for ven
triloquist or magician. Let me see
i have 1t! Well give them Punch
and Judy show with the shadowgraphs
and theatrical exhibition with ma
rionettes. The whole show will last
an hour. How will that do?"
"Capitally. What will it cost?"
"Seventy-five dollars. Are your par
lors large enough for the marionette
theatre? It's complete theatre with
stage like Broadway house."
There will be no trouble on that
score" replied the lady, and the pair
were soon deep In "A discussion involv-
ing locality, dates and other details.
That is the way one children's birth
day party was planned last week. This
agent arranges for entertainments for
all occasions-in churches, drawing
rooms, clubs, lodges, or public halls,
for receptions, weddings, parties, balls
and concerts.
Within the last twenty years the art
of providing entertainments has be
come recognized branch of the
amusement business. Before that time
there were no agents employed espe-
cially to promote it, The grand opera
companies occasionally lent their stars
to persons giving a party and some
times a famous lecturer, pianist OIL
! violinist, appeared at a private enter
tainment by special request. But of
late years the demand Tor amusement
at dinners and receptions has been sc
great that n score of agents have es-
tablished themselves to supply it. The
various musical and vaudeville per
formers register with these agents and
hold themselves in readiness to appear
whenever and wherever they are call.
ed upon, provided it does not interfere
with their public engagements. These
entertainers are classified as follows
Headliners, meaning persons of great
reputation, such as Calve, Games and
the like; vaudevillers, and lyceum PEG
pie. The last are recitationists, ma
gicians, shadowgraphists and givers OF
monologues.
II am almost sorry" said the agent
after the woman had gone, that | did
not suggest circus of performing
dogs and monkeys. / can lay my
hands on one next week. But never
mind; she is satisfied, and i ought tc
be-
us much money expended in mat
| tiers of this sort?"
| "A great deal, the amount depending
upon the class to which the performers
belong. The prices paid to great mu
steal stars is very large. This is main
ly the result of European customs
Celebrated singers are invited to per
form bef,I'e the crowned heads of Flu
rope ana receive either a check for 9
big amount CT money, or else some
superb piece of jewelry. l am TOLD
that the Gar has never given per
former n gem or jewel worth less thar
500. In this country the practice II
to give check. New York Sun.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18

Admiral Dewey's command In the
Philippines can be divided into four
important periods. First, from the day
of the battle, May 1, 1898 to June 30,
when the first army transports ar
rived; second, from June 30 to Aug.
-, when Manila surrendered: third,
from August 10 to Feb. A, 1899, the
day of the Filipino outbreak; and
fourth, from Feb. to May 20, the
day of the departure for America.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18
And Still He Lives

"The heels on these shoes wore away
before the SOLE" remarked the practi-
cal man.
THAT reminds me of shipwreck,"
said the funny man.
"A shipwre:k? In what way?"
''why, the sole survivor part Of IT.
Chicago News.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18
A Misnomer.

"Who is that man who spends all his
days digging away In the library and
all his nights writing for dear lifeT'
"He? He's one of the busiest peo-
pie alive. He writes those long chat
ty chapters signed The Lounger.' ~
Washington Star.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18
Cases which DRAGGED for Years.

1t is said that the longest litigation
on record was the celebrated case
known as the Bishop Demestra will
case which was carried on from
17GS to 1890. At the beginning of the
trial the estate amounted to 81 1000, 900,
but at the conclusion there was only
s. apiece for every successful claimant.
The case "a Parker VS.. Dawkins."
which began in 1923 and ran on until
1859, claims tie second place in length
of time. The ,eAson why this case did
not last longer var because all the
money involved w@ nsed up In ex-
penses and lawyers fees.
Ammonia and water cleans mud or
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18

The Beers have shown not only
splendid fighting capacity but more
strategy than they were supposed to
possess and artillery resources that
were not dreamed Of.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18

After eating onions MUNICH sprig Of
parsley dipped in vinegar.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18

The women OF Paris have decided
that rational dress" SO called, IL i'm
possible, so long as it is the duty OF
the sex to lApk as pretty as possible
Now that Hawaii Is to have trolley
the Hawaiians will have to give uI
their lazy, Indifference sort of life and
learn how to dodge.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18

Psychologists, after scientific tests,
declare that single quart Of Boston
atmosphere contains 100000 microbes.
This cerainly looks like overcrowding.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18

The Secretary of the Maine Board OF
Agriculture says that large cattle
ranches in Maine will never be prom
able. To manage large herds profit
ably there must be cheap shelter and
cheap food in winter The freezing to
death of few hundreds of half
starved cattle is unnoticed on the
plains of the West; but in Maine it
would quickly bring prosecution under
laws for the protection of animals.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18

New York has 400 pubic school
buildings, S,S44 teachers and daily
average attendance Of 347,670 school
children. 1t issued bonds last spring
amounting to $7,637, $40 for buildings.
additions, sites and equipment, and
the total expenditures of the depart
ment during the year amounted to
$15,316,S65.4S
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18

The government of Sweden has
abolished variety theatre and variety
music halls In the kingdom, on the
ground that such resorts were morally
injurious, especially to the young.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18

Ammonia and water cleans mud OF
an umbrella.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18

Georgia is waking up to the modern
way of doing things. She is about to
institute some means for utilizing her
cornstalks. An agricultural expert
says the farmers ought to realize full
100000 each year oat of this product,
Yg,'"i: has heretofore been wasted.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18

Figures gathered by the Jewish I'm
migration Society of Philadelphia show
that the Jewish immigration to this
country during the past year was 3D.
600, which was 5000 more than the
year before.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18

San Juan hill was a naturally strong
position, heavily fortified and defend
ed by regular troops who were armed
with the latest and most destructive
weapons of modern war. Yet our I'M
seasoned American soldiers carried it
by direct assault.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18

BY recent ruling of the Yale Uni
versity authorities, professional color
ed walters are to be substituted in the
college commons in place of the am
ateur undergraduates who have for
years filed the positions. Nm defense
of the change it is urged that poor
men can nowadays earn their way
through college without performing
mental service.
The exports from Spain to Cuba have
averaged about $26,000,0OO year and
consist of -four, vegetables, preserved
fruits and foods. boots and shoes and
other leather goods. paper and sta
tionery, firearms and ammunition and
all sorts of miscellaneous merchandise
which could be furnished by our mer-
chants and manufacturers. The ex-
ports from Spain to Puerto Rico are
Of similar sorts and have averaged
about $S,000,000 n year. The exports
to the Philippines have been about the
same in value and character. and this
indicates what may be expected by
our merchants from the new colonies.
Those manufacturers who construct
heavy machinery are buried the deep
est beneath the avalanche of orders
which have made memorable the past
year." says Iron and Steel. Activity
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18

The winter orders disseminating Post
Offices are sometimes suggestive.
Hardly had the weather begun to get
cool when the service from Hotwater
to Lightfoot was discontinued Three
days later the department discontinued
an Issue, in Maryland, . Piano in
Oregon, and a Chestnut in Virginia
and this suggestive order was promul.
gataed concerning a Post Office with
the enticing name of Kissemee: "Sup-
ply Kissemee ut site authorized" A
few days afterward it was ordered
that mail should no longer go from
Earnest to Lax.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-18

| not suffer severely. Their taking IT.
however, would render them unserv.
| iceable for the present campaign.
Mr.. Robert Wallace, professor of ag
riculture at the University of Edin
burgh, and the author of Farming
Industries of Cape Colony" writes tC
The Times the following particulars OF
| the disease:
Horse sickness (Edema mycosis) Is q
| maIarial fever which is produced by O
micro-organism-one of the filamentos.
es fungi-which under suitable condi
tons of heat and moisture grows
in the weld, but whether In
| water. on the soil or as par
| asite It Is not yet known. Under
the microscope the vegetative spores
| of the fungus in the blood from horse
well advanced in the disease can bs
easily seen like so many minute beer
barrels, and the mycelium on which
they have grown can also be found OF
closer examination.
The disease Is not contagious, but II
contracted i'm summer by animals
which are exposed to night air, espe
c,aIly while mist rises from the grounC
or which are permitted to consum,
food wet with dew or the exhalation.
of the night. The summer sun rem
ders 1t harmless by day and the ad
vent of frost banishes II during the
winter months.
At least two varieties Of the disease
IRE known-the common form, tho
30 ,r '.paardziekte," in which the lungs
are most seriously affected, owing
no doubt, to the disease having bear
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-08-29

The cruelty Of the Spaniard, or, rath-
err, his callousness, his recklessness of
the lives of others, and even Of his
own, is another medieval and Oriental
survival, says Irving Rabbit in the
Atlantic; and then, too, there underlies
the Spanish temperament know what
vein of primitive Iberian savagery.
Nine. dAulnoy relates that on GER
tain day of the year 1t was customary
for court gallants to run along one OF
the main streets Of Madrid, flashing
their bare shoulders; and when one Of
these penitents passed the lady Of his
choice among the spectators he be-
spattered her with his blood as spe-
clal mark Of his favor. Insensibillty
to the suffering of animals, though gen.
eral in Spain, is not any greater, SO far
as my own observation goes, than in
the other Latin countries. Possibly.
medieval religion, in SO exalting man
above other creatures, in refusing to
recognize his relation to the rest Of ma
ture, tended to increase this lack Of
sympathy with brute creation. The
Spanish peasant belabors his ass for
the same reasons that Malebranchs
kicked his dog-because he has not
learned to see In 1t being organized
to feel pain in the same way as him
self.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-08-29

% feet, and there we dug tunnels or
drifts into the richest gold-bearing
gravel. Lots of that gravel ran $3.50 a
pan, and some went even to 81 pan.
Every day went down into the hole
in the gravel and saw for myself what
the hired men were doing. was cheat
ed at first, but soon came to know
whether the miners were loating in my
time or were carrying off nuggets from
my property. When the annual sum-
mer sluicing took place in June, 1897,
and we ran all the accumulated gravel
heap through the sluices, we got out
some siXty-tive more pounds of gold in
about six weeks. sent it all down to
the San Francisco mint and had the
money deposited in bank for me.
"The second years work in the mines
was prosperous. We had taken out
about $500 in gold when was offer
ed 100000 cash for my claim. l felt
that l would be better off with cash
than mining among men and SO sold.
From that time until the summer of
1898 l bought and sold real estate, built
two houses at Dawson and added to my
fortune every month. Oh, ought to
add that had over twenty proposals to
marry there in one year. One week l
had offers of marriage from three men,"
Mrs. Wixon now has $150,O00 well in
vested, and her income is about $4,000
year. She has left the Klondike coun-
try for good and intends to spend the
rest of her life in Boston. She is help
ing her sisters and brothers and is sup
porting Il deaf mute nephew at a school
in Washington. She is not ashamed
of the fact that she once washed dishes
and scrubbed floors and does not in.
tend cutting a wide swath in Boston
soniatv
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-08-29
31 ------------------------
A kLONDlKE QUEEN.
Plucky Widow Who Won Fortune in
Alaska.

Alaska.
Mrs. Mary WiXon is one of the few
women who have wrung, all unaided
by men, n fortune from the frozen
north. She is one of the queens OF the
Klondike. She began to earn her own
living at the age of IA as n kitchen maid
in Portsmouth, N. H., where she was
born. She drifted from city to city,
working as a household servant. AT
one time she was Il scrub-woman for
the Pullman Car Company in Sacra-
mento.
AT % she married William Wixon, n
ship carpenter. In search for work
and health they went to Idaho, where
WiXon worked MS Il miner. There he
caught the Klondike fever, and together
they saved enough money to take them
to Alaska. During the first winter in
Circle City Wixon died, leaving his
widow almost penniless in the frozen
wilderness. She Joined the rush to
Dawson City, however, and opened a
boarding house in log cabin.
The first year she made $4,000. Then
miner whom she had nursed during n
fatal illness left ner claim on bunker
Creek. She started to develop it. In
speaking of her struggles she says:
II had to hire all the work done, and
my men We're wasteful, but the claim
pad net profit of over $4,000 in one
year. We struck bedrock at a depth of
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-08-29
Ono Way to Collect n -Debt.

BE-
1 would like to have that $50 you Dor
rowed from me about six months ago."
said one politician to another several
days ago.
Indeed, have not got that much
with me; can't you wait a few days
longer?"
NO; l need the money badly, and 1
must have it. l have been fair with
YOU, and have not bothered you much,
but l must have it now or will have
to take some action to recover it,
II will fix him. said the debtor quiet
II to friend who had heard the con-
yersation. 81 have only $4O.5O in the
bank, and will give him n check for
the $50. OF course. he cannot get it, for
they will not let me overdraw my &c.
count"
Turning. to the man he had borrowed
from, the politician said: 81 will give
you check for the money, and you can
get 1t cashed tomorrow"
very well, will take it."
The check was handed over. At the
bank it was handed back, there not be-
ing sufficient money to meet it.
How much is there in the bank y
was inquired.
Forty dollars and fifty cents was
the reply.
"All right. will deposit $3.50 in his
name, and then you can cash the
check"
Then he handed over the amount, and
a moment later was given the $50.
That is why two politicians do not
speak now as they pass.-Pittsburg
Chronicle Telegraph.