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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-25
The sanitary condition of the school

The sanitary condition of the school
house is a matter which deeply con-
Germs all those who have children.
All parents who have children at
school should satisfy themselves that
the schoolroom is properly lighted,
warmed and ventilated; that the build
ing is dry and is kept clean; that the
water supply is pure, and that the
schoolyard is in proper condition for
a playground thinks writer, in the
Ladies' Home Journal. Neglect of
these matters means more or less Sc
rious injury to the child. The parents
who are the natural guardians, have
no right to allow their child to be
sacrificed to their negligence because
they will not take the trouble to see
that the place where a considerable
portion of his or her time is spent is
in q sanitary condition.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-25

Thousands of persons in every large
city are walked up every morning by
the milkwagons. The automobile
will remedy that evil as soon as milk
men can be made to realize it's adj
vantages. The city of Eccles in Eng
land boasts the first motor milkwagon.
1t covers eighty miles every morning
in seven hours, saving three horses
and as many wagons.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-25

It is estimated that $50, 900 pies
are furnished the people of Boston
and immediate vicinity every week
by the wholesale bakers, one concern
clone turning out no less than so. 600
weekly, in addition to bread, cake,
doughnuts and other bakery products.
The size of these figures and the
change of system that has come over
the land in this sweeping way is, in
deed, enough to make one dream of
his great grandmother.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-25
II Is true many men and women ar

1t is true many men and women are
extravagant, and extravaganza is a
vice which brings it's own swift punish
ment, but we do not think the coun-
try is in danger says the New York
Telegram. Most women are better
financiers than men, and that man
is usually best off who makes his wifi
the secretary of the treasury and chair
man of the committee on appropria-
tions. The man has usually enough
to do as chairman of the committee
on ways and means.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-25

II understand you are an athlete"
remarked the landlady to the new
boarder.
"Yes. ma am" proudly answered the
n. b.; Il am the champion high-jumper
from Jumpersville."
"That being the case" said the land
lady, II will have to ask you to pay
your board in advance. I've had all
the experience with the jumpers care
for"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-25

As sensible men and women give
more and more time and thought to
the care of their health, walking
steadily grows in favor. There is
only one way to keep well and that is
to exercise nationally. And of all the
forms of exercise walking gives the
best results with the least interference
with those mental activities which are
or ought to be the chief occupation of
every civilized being.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-25
Horses Wear Straw Shoes.

In Japan most of the horses are shod
with straw. Even the clumsiest of
carthouses wear straw shoes. which.
In their cases, are tied around the an
kle with stvaw rope, and are made of
the ordinary rice straw, braided so as
to form . sole for the foot half an inch
thick,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-25

There are large furniture stores in
johannesburg and Pretoria. and the
better class of Beers have their houses
furnished in the most modern styles.
In 1898 the imports of wooden furni-
ture alone were valued at 81, IL, 000
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-25

The fiend who slaps You on the
back and thinks he is showing good
fellowship should paste in his hat the
story of Edward Watson, whose neck
was broken by the greeting Of q too
enthusiastic friend.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-25

Magersfontein and Colenso have
demonstrated that successful bayonet
charges against entrenched positions
manned by cool.headed and deter
mined troops are no longer part Of
modern warfare.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-25

Illinois ranks second to Pennsyl-
vania in the production of coal. 1t is
mined in fifty-two countries OF the
state. and the output for last year
was 20, 434, 445 tons.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-25

A new departure in farmers insti-
tute work has been inaugursted in
Illinois. The state association furn-
ishes afree library through the secret
airy of the local institute, the only ex-
pense being the freight to and from
the state secretary's Office. Each
library consista Of forty 70 atty &C.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-25
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Speaking Of timber, European
Russia plays a pretty fair hand in the
industry. During 1898 on the various
streams of that country, there were
RATED 25. 900, 900 logs.
The age-herald., 1900-09-01

of 40 per cent. The towns that harbor fac tories have gained from 10 to 20 per cent more than those that do not.
 These facts are not full of promise to agricultural districts. Some of them may not have held their own. They are not en- couraging to towns that have neither wa ter power nor cheap fuel for such towns lack the essential advantages of manu- featuring, even if they have good railroad facilities The story of the census will be that towns that possess facilities for manufacturing will outgrow those that do not, and that the agricultural districts will be drained to some extent by inducements offered in such towns. As immigration is an almost unknown quantity in the cot ton states, 1t follows that the returns from the sections that have neglected manufac- turing will be disappointing
The age-herald., 1900-09-01
Russia and the United States.

The administration is chumming with the chief instigator of the present trouble in China-the one that by aggressions in North China did more to arouse the pa- triotism of the Chinese than any other cause that led up to the Boxer uprising against foreigners. It is chumming, too, with the nation whose barbarities and atrocities in wal. exceed those of the Chl- nese. If one-half of the stories that have been cabed concerning the action of Cos sacks towards defeated Chinese be true, the administration should be ashamed of its partner.
 This country is deeply concerned in se- curing "the open door, in all China-in Mongolia and Mauchuria as well as in South or Central China. The Russian gov ernment Is building a railway line through Manchuria to Port Arthur, with the avowed intention of extending it to Pekin. Russia never opened any territory to the trade of the world. She knows that her mer- chants cannot compete with merchants of other countries; and her officials have not hesltated to say that Russian goods will have preference and advantages over other goods on Russian railroad lines. And yet the administration, ostensibly favoring the open door," is consorting with Russia. a country that refuses equel privileges alike in trade and In religion. Her doors are ab- solutely closed against all churches but her own, and no foreign merchant can do business In Russia on even terms.
 The truth is, Russia has under a treaty forced upon China all she at present wants in North China, and because her Siberian railroad is incomplete. Besides, she is try ing to borrow money from the large in- surance companies of this country. In no way can she assist consistently this country in securing an open China. She will not open the territory she has forced from Chi- na to equal trade, and there Is nothing in her entire system that should commend her to the administration unless it be her extreme imperialism and absolutism.
The age-herald., 1900-09-01
1Rr oslY DAny NEWSPAPER IN AlAsAmA
Export Iron Rates in Pittsburg.

Pittsburg has rate of $2 25 on export iron to the seaboard, the distance to New York being about $50 miles; to Philadelphia, about 100 miles less. This is low rate, but the Pittsburg producers and papers are demanding a still lower one. The Pitts burg Dispatch urges the building of new line to the seaboard. It says
 The capitalization of the leading com panies Of the Pittsburg district foots up over s60O, ,000, ,00O and their profits range from $500 900 in one case to s40,000,0 GOO in another We have no apprehension that such inter ests can be subjected to railway charges that will confine their growth or limit their markets for lack of the $S.0o0,000 To $10,000.- 000 necessary to build and equip a freight railroad to the seaboard. This is especially apparent when we reflect that such road could be built from the products of the mills themselves, and furnished by the mills and mines with export freights sufficient to guarantee interest on the cost of con struction, and to make it a most danger ous competitor for the general traffic of the trunk lines.
 While awaiting the building of new line these producers propose to send their prod ucts to Lake Erie and thence by water in lake and canal to New York. It is stated that this can be done at the rate of four cents per 100 pounds, or about 90 cents a long ton.
 The rate from Pittsburg to the seaboard on export iron and steel is interesting, be- cause southern railroads will not permit northern railways to rob them of due share of export business. Thus far the railroads entering the Pittsburg region have refused to reduce rates on export iron and steel, and the agitation in Pitts burg is due to this refusal.
The age-herald., 1900-09-01
TAXATION FOR SCHOOLS

From the Montgomery Journal.
 Some alarm is beginning to be felt among the friends of the common schools at the absence of education from among those subjects requiring a constitutional conven- tion. The point in which it was earliest sought to change the present fundamental law was the limitation on municipal taxa tion. The next point was its limitation upon the right of the people to educate their children. Both efforts to amend have been directed against the clause limiting the taxing power.
 Every state in the American union pro- vides some system of local taxation for schools except Alabama. Our people are fearfully handicapped in this matter. How ever anxious a community may be to tax itself to better its own schools, it cannot do so. It is bound down to its proportion of such taxes as the whole people may be willing to pay for education
 Jefferson County, for instance, is anxious to levy a special tax for schools The oth- CT counties are not, and because they are willing to remain lame, Jefferson must con- tinue limp.
 The Pine Level township in Montgomery County may desire to pay small local tax for its academy, and ought to have the right to do it, but the constitution for bids.
 Local taxation for schools is the great and pressing educational need of Alabama today, and yet we have not the slightest indication from any section of public opin- ion now pressing for constitutional con- vention that this reform is on the pro- gramme. We think we speak for the com mon school people when we say that a convention before we are ready for this reform would be an educational calamity.
The age-herald., 1900-09-01
CONFESSION TO THE SOUTH

From the Chicago Times-Herald. 4
 This is a time of humiliation in the North-one that calls for d confession to our Southern brethren and much self-con- demnation. All the moralizing that has been applied to the cases of negro lynch ings beyond the Ohio river applies with equal force to the case at Akron. The man Peck was not killed only because the po- lice had managed to get him out of the town secretly There is no doubt that f his escape had not been thus secured he would have been brutally murdered. Con sidering the fury of the mob, it is not i'm probable that it might have gone so far as to burn him to death. The torch that was set to the city hall might have lighted the funeral pyre of a living sacrifice to the mad passions of the people.
 This supposition is highly credible be- cause the lawlessness of the moment seems to have had no sort of restraint among the rioters themselves. They stormed public buildings, wrecked private property, and finally discharged guns and revolvers upon city officials, thus becom- ing responsible for the killing of two chil- dren and the sever wounding of several persons No Southern mob was ever more 
 indisuptably guilty of the law-breaking which encourages a contempt for all law.
 And this frightful record was made in the Western Reserve of Ohio, a hotbed of abolition, a center of sympathy for the negro and much self-righteous denuncia- ton of the Southern trace wars" It is place where these words of the patriarch concerning Simeon and Levi would have been adapted with infiite relish to the Southern whites:
 Weapons of violence are their swords. o my soul, come not into their council; Unto their assembly, my glory, be not thou
 united;
 For in their anger they slew men.
 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; And their wrath, for it was cruel.
 But the glory has vanished with the trial. The same cause has produced the same ef- feet in Ohio that it does in Mississippi, and New York and Illinois have their race wars, gently in tine streets of New York City, Be- cause one of their number stabbed po- liceman they were all held responsible and so terrified that they did not dare to ven- ture from their houses when they had reached them in safety. But this State is perhaps the worst offender, since Governor Tanner, while playing the demagogue, act ually denied negroes the protection of the laws at Pana and warned them to keep out of Illinois.
 Until the north can prove that its virtue is of finer stuff 1t had better be silent on the race question or treat 1t from a general rather than from sectional standpoint.
The age-herald., 1900-09-01
THE ALABAMA

From the New York World.
 The Alabama is evidently one of the most efficient battleships in the world. Her great speed, her marvellous power of turning on short curves and her ability to stop and to back quickly are among her strongest points.
 In these respects she is another monu- ment to the skill and ingenuity of the American shipbuilder. Speed and quick re- sponse to the helm are of enormous impor- tance in sea fight The readiness of the ship to respond to her navigator makes sea- manship still valuable, notwithstanding the fact that the shifting wind no longer fur nishes the motive power. No battleshlp will ever be quick enough to escape a torpedo boat, but her rapid-fire guns can. be de- pended on to take care of these small prob- lems of modern navies.
 But a swift ship like the Alabama, which turns on short radius and stops and backs quickly, will avoid rams and ram her enemy with comparatively slight dan- ger of damage. She will also be the first in fight to get in her broadside or to find position for a rakng fire. In a word, other things being equal she will almost inevitably come out first in a fight with a ship that is slower or not so obedent to the helm or responsive to the screw.
The age-herald., 1900-09-01
FROM BAYAKD TO ADDICKS

From the Boston Herald.
 Delaware has two Republican State tick cts in the field, the Addicks ticket and the regular" ticket. There are only one or two nominations in common, and the probability Of their coming nearer together is not strong Addicks held his convention first. He considers himself to be the regular Re publican party of Delaware now since his faction was admitted by Hanna to the Ma tional Convention, and Addicks himself was made Delaware member of the Ma tional Cimmittee. Perhaps he is the "regu- lar' party, but his claim is not admitted by those who have so long bravely and honorably opposed the carpet-bagger and his aspiration to go to the Senate. When Addcks gets there it will be necessary for Senator Hoar to write another magazine article to make people believe that the Senate is respectable and honorable body as it ever was. From Bayard to Ad- dicks is a great descent and the people of the country will pity Delaware and pity the Senate when this magnate of monopoly gas gets his ambition gratifed.
The age-herald., 1900-09-01
PECULIARITIES OF ACTORS

New York Correspondence Chicago Inter-
 Ocean.
 The peculiarities of actors are usually excused, as are the peculiarities of all geniuses, and however marked they may be most persons are likely to be indulgent to them. Actors show their eccentricities of temperament in various fashions.
 "One of the best known actors, and one at the same time most prosperous, for he rarely makes less than s50,00O a season." said a manager who was discussing. this question, shows his peculiarity of tenn perament in a most singular way At the same time this method is very profitable to him. He will never pay more than s4,OOO for the use of any play, no matter how successful it may be. Sometimes he pays considerably less, of course, but his limit is always $4,000. I don't know how he came to settle on this purely arbitrary limit, but he has. Persons might suggest that lawyers and contracts could bring him to terms, but so far he has always come triumphantly out of any attempts to make him disgorge. In one case he was acting a play made from novel. He paid the author S4,000 in royalties, and then wrote to his home in London, saying that he had decided, on consideration, to pay no more to him, as the play had been so much all tered and improved as to be practically his own. The astonished dramatist, who had never before heard of this actors pecu- liarity, brought a suit against him. which is still pending. In another case he paid foreign author, whose play was not pro- tected here, s4,000 in royalties after having made public his great generosity under the circumstances. He stopped short, how ever, when the S4O0O limit was reached, although the play made a fortune for him."
The age-herald., 1900-09-01
KATHLEEN MAyOUKNEEN

Louisa Mccartney Crawford. Kathleen Mavourneen! the gray dawn In
 breaking, The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill; The lark from her light wing the bright dew is shaking Kathleen Mavourneen! what, slumbering still? Oh, hast thou forgotten how soon we must
 sever? Oh hast thou forgotten this day we must part? It may be for years, and it may be forever! Oh, why art thou silent, thou voice of
 my heart? Oh why art thou silent, Kathleen Mavour- neen? Kathleen Mavourneen. awake from thy slumbers! The blue mountains glow in the suns golden light; An, where is the spell that once hung on my numbers? Arise in thy beauty, thou star of my night! Mavourneen, Mavourneen, my sad tears are failing. To think that from Erin and thee l must part! It may be for years and 1t may be for ever. Then why art thou silent, thou voice or my heart? Then why art thou silent, Kathleen Ma vourneen?
The age-herald., 1900-09-01
His Opinion oi an Author

Your remarks on Hall Gaines recent issue" writes bank manager in the Isle of Man to London periodical recall a conversation I once had with two old friends of mine, farmer and his buxom wife, who live within a few yards of Greeba Castle, our great Manx authors residence. Hall Caine had just taken up his residence in his new house, and I started the conversation by saying to the worthy farmer and wife:
 So you have the great Hall Caine near you now?'
 Farmer and Wife-Aye, man.
 Farmers Wife-And what tremenjus style they are keeping. It's amazing
 "Farmer-'And what's he doing for liv- ing, Mr-?
 Bank Manager (greatly astonished)- What! don't you know he is a popular au- thor?'
 "Farmer-'And what's that?'
 Bank Manager-'Why he writes suc- cessful books
 Farmer (with fine show of contempt)- The lazy beggar!'
 'I need hardly say, concluded my cor respondent, that I collapsed"
The age-herald., 1900-09-01
Factories and Population.

The Census Bureau will be occupied during the next two months in compiling and publishing the populations of every city that has 25,OOo or more people; and when that job is accomplished, it will be- gin to tabulate the populations of states. It is fair to say that state figures will be more interesting than city figures.
 The figures of a state will bring out of course the population of each of its coun- ty units, and in this way every reader in the state will become interested. We will then know, for example, what counties have prospered in Alabama, and what ones have not, and the why and the wherefore will then be in order, even if no two per- sons agree as to such causes They will have to agree as to effects, because census figures do not lie, at least so far as the popular mind is concerned. Right or wrong, census figures are accepted The grumblers gain no hearing, no recount.
 It is very plain from the figures already printed that some rural sections will be grievously disappointed The cities in which commerce and manufacturing go hand in hand show the largest gains, as in Chicago, where the percentage of increase was 5444, or in Cleveland where 1t was 4sO7 or in Toledo where it was 61.SS. Two interior towns. full of factories, show handsome gains namely. Columbus. Ohio. ae.4o per cent, and Indianapolis, 6oH per cent. No other large city shows a gain
The age-herald., 1900-09-01
SUCCESSOR OF PERRY HEATH
Washington Correspondent Philadelphia
 Iedper

Washington Correspondent Philadelphia
 Ledger.
 William M Johnson of Hackensack, N J., who has been appointed first assistant postmaster general, to succeed Perry s. Heath, who resigned on August 1 to take the secretaryship of the Republican Ma tional Committee, was suggested to Presi- dent Mckinley by Attorney General Griggs, and personally is thoroughly acceptable to the postmaster general. MT. Johnson is 53 years old, a graduate of Princeton, and has achieved notable success in New Jersey politics. He is now the president of the State Senate. He Is regarded as a man of Independent wealth. is a lawyer and the president of a national bank, and has desire to get taste of life in Washington. MT. Johnson during the absence of Gov ernor Voorhees, in Europe this summer has been acting Governor of New Jersey. He has never held federal office before. Fri day MT. Johnson was in Washington, and called on the President in company with Postmaster General Smith. The latter speaks of MT. Johnson in the highest terms as a man of fine address and strong char acter, and likely to make an excellent of ficial.
The age-herald., 1900-09-01

nection with this city. He is young law yer of ability, and of noteworthy courtesy, civility and manly bearing, the qualities of gentlemen which great numbers of young men nowadays neglect and ignore.
 Captain J. S. Callahan, known to~and esteemed by all the public men of Alabama E watchman of the State Capitol at Mont gomery, is in Birmingham. Captain Cal lahan justly enjoys wide popularity in this State.
 Sig Steiner wins his poker bet, said a Birmingham lawyer who knows something of the game yesterday. "The rules of the game provide that if the dealer turns up a card in helping a player who calls for cards, he must bury that card and help all the other players, after which he re- turns to the player whose card was turned up and deals him another. The reason for this rule is simple. Suppose the dealer had a confederate. Suppose the confeder- ate was drawing to a heart flush and wanted one card. In the event of the dealer knowing the run of the cards and knowing that the card going to his friend Smith was a spade and the next one a deal him a heart With the rules as they are he cannot accomplish this. His con- federate must await till all other players have drawn and take his regular chances on the next remaining card Steiner was correct in his construction of the rules of the great American game"