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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19
A Resulting Condition.

At sale last week in Chicago Of
Aberdeen-Angus breeding cattle the
prices broke all previous records.
Seventy-two head brought general
average of $579 each. This is big
price to pay for cattle whose only value
to the purchaser is found in the i'm
provement of common low-grade stock
The farmers who bought these aristo-
cratic animals will get their money
back many times over In the added
weight and quality of the beef they
will market two or three years from
now. Their animals will not only
weigh more, but they will fetch high
er price per pound. This improved
grade of beef is certain to find ready
market. Americans are the best eaters
in the world. because they are the best
paid people in the world. They are the
best paid people in the world because
OF the workings of an economic policy
which insures high wages by protect
ing American labor and industry from
the unfair competition of lower paid
foreign labor. And the resulting condi-
ton affects, among other people, the
American farmer, and enables him to
buy breeding cattle at $579 per head
Exchange.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19
CA6LE TO HAWAI-
San Francisco and Honolulu to Be Con
uected by Wire.

San Francisco and Honolulu to Be Con-
nected by Wire.
The Pacific cable bill which passed the
Senate on Wednesday contemplates the
laying of a submarine cable from San
Francisco to Honolulu. The question OF
the construction of a cable line from
Honolulu to the Philippines is left open.
The bill as passed provides for cable
line to be constructed and controlled by
by the Government. AS Hawaii is the
strategic point in the Pacific ocean OF
most Importance to the United States,
an exclusively American cable seems q
necessity of the situation.
Great Britain had planned a cable line
from Australia and New Zealand to Hon
olulu and from there to Vancouver.
This scheme was abandoned when Ha-
waii was annexed to the United States.
Surveys have been made for the laying OF
a cable from Seattle by way Of the Aleu-
tian islands to japan, and from there to
the Philippines. Without concessions
from the japanese Government this line
could not be controlled by the United
States Government. BY the northern
route Seattle is 1850 miles from Yoko-
hama and 6,37S miles from Manila.
from Honolulu by way of Midway island
to Hong Kong or a point in Northern
Luzon. Midway island is about LOO
miles north of west of Honolulu and was
annexed to the United States in 1857 In
the belief that it could be made strong
naval station. 1t was found that the ISL
and was not suitable for naval station,
and it has been made simply a coaling Sta
ton on the direct route from Honolulu to
Yokohama Another proposition that finds
favor is to lay a cable from Honolulu to
Wake Island 1000 miles almost due west
from there southwest n distance of LOO
miles to Guam, and from there 2,OOO
miles to Luzon. This would be a cable
line with all stations on American terri
tory and could be put under government
control. The first step in the laying of a
Pacific cable from San Francisco, 2,OS9
miles to Honolulu is the important one.
We have already telegraphic communi-,
cation with the Philippine Islands, but
we have no telegraphic communication
with our most important strategic point
in the Pacific ocean-Hawaii. The Sen
ate bill will provide such communication,
and in due time cables will be laid to
the Philippines to Australia, to Hong
Kong and to Port Arthur.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19
Eggs for HatchiuU.

Eggs for Matching should be gathered
almost every hour during the day, says
a poultry writer in the Homestead.
When the egg is laid 1t is in its high
est state of freshness. If left in the
nest and one hen after another permit
ted to sit upon it the heat will start in
cubation, and if it is exposed to lower
temperature afterward, the germ is
killed and the egg decays. This is one
cause of so many spoiled eggs that Is
not generally known or needed by poul-
tryinen. If the weather is cold they
should be gathered often to prevent
them chilling. The cold may not be so
much as to actually freeze an egg but
it may be cold enough TO chill it so it
will not hatch. An egg is not frozen
so as to crack the shell until the Their
mometer reaches 10 to 10 degrees,
which is point lower than should be
reached in any poultry house. After the
eggs have been gathered they should
be kept at about temperature of 60
degrees and never be subjected to any
lower temperature than about 40 for
safety.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19
FACTS ABOUT
THE CENSUS.

''How old are you? Are you married,
single, widowed, or divorced? Is the
house you live in your own; and, IL so,
is it mortgaged or free? What is your
occupation, and how many months out
of the year are you employedY"
These are some of the pointed personal
questions which will be asked Of people
during the taking of the twelfth census
OF the United States, which will begin
June / and end June 10, 1900.
The years 1900 and 1901 will constitute
the greatest demonstrating era in the his
tory Of the world. Besides this country,
fourteen Of the principal European coun-
tries are to count noses" but the census
of the United States is to be more ex-
tensive than that OF any other nation.
The last census cost $11,211 800, and
more than 10000 men were employed in
making 1t. This census will be even a
greater effort.
The law requires that the census shall
be taken between June l and June 10.
As two of these days fall on Sunday.
but thirteen working days are left.
The director of the twelfth census Is
William p. Merriam, former Governor
of Minnesota.
Several Objectionable questions which
were asked of citizens by census enumer-
ators ten years ago will be omitted this
time. For example, persons suffering
from any chronic disease will not be re-
quested to disclose that fact.
The answers given heretofore have
proved utterly valueless from statistical
standpoint.
These are the questions which you will
be called upon to answer this year:
1. Surname, Christian name, initial.
=. Residence, street, number of house.
3. Relationship Of each member to the
head of the family.
4. Color or race.
8. Sex.
Q. Age at last birthday.
7. Day, month and year when born.
8. Are you single, married, widow, Wild
over, or divorced?
8. Number OF years married.
10. How many children?
IL. Number of children living.
IL. Sex of these children.
13. Where were you born? II In the Uni-
ted States, give State or Territory; IL OF
IA. Where was your father born? Your
mother? (Same conditions as the foregoing.)
10. II Of foreign birth, when did you come
to the United States?
III. How many years have you resided In
the United States?
IL. Have you been naturalized? How
many years since you became a citizen!
IS. What Is your occupation, trade, or pro-
fession? This question applies to persons
10 years Of age or overD
10. How many months during the year
are you employed?
20. How many months have you attended
school?
81. Can you read?
22. Can you write?
%. Give the main facts concerning your
education.
"a. DO you own the house In which you
live?
%. Do you rent the house In which you
live?
20. If you own the house, is 1t free or
mortgaged?
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19

There are several kinds OK ducks
reared for market, but II Is the most
profitable one which should be chosen.
Fancy often stands In the way Of this
matter Of profit The poultry keeper
is too apt to look at his fowls through
the spectacles Of fancy, and IL his
birds please his fancy, he has plenty
OF excuses to make for defects. But
this Is not business, and when it Is the
money coming In which is left to tel
the story, the tale is quite different. AS
regards ducks, especially, there is q
great difference in the kind and breed.
Kind is distinguished from breed here
Tor the reason that there are many
kinds, good, bad, and Indifferent and
shades between, Of every breed; and
sometimes 1t Is true that breed gains
or suffers through the management.
But figures won't lie, unless they are
forced to by too much pressure. And
honest figures prove distinctly that
there are ducks which surpass others
In relation to breed. Fancy goes long
way, and so each country seems to
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19
PRIZE PEKIN DRAKE.

have it's best variety. The English
choose the Aylesbury, the French the
ROuen, but on this continent, having
no special national bird, we choose
that which makes the most money.
And by the general verdict of those
who keep ducks for profit in large
quantities, the Pekin is the best Of all
breeds for money-making. Experience
has shown that this duck makes ten to
twelve pounds the pair at the same
age at which the Rouen duck weighs
eight pounds to the pair, which under
the best management is when ten to
twelve weeks old, and with precisely
the same consumption Of food. This
duck is sufficiently strong skinned to
dress without tearing, and has no dark
pinfeathers to blemish its appearance
at the market age as the Rouen has.
On every large duck farm where thou
sands are reared every year for mar
ket, the Pekin is universally the kind
kent
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19
WISHES OF SCHOOL CHILDREN
The Curious Answers Elected by Two
Ordinary Questions.

The Curious Answers Elected by Two
Ordinary Questions.
Last year two questions were pro-
pounded to, some 500 or 600 English
school children for answers, which
were productive Of odd results, says
the National Review. These were the
questions: (which would you rather be
when you grow up, man or woman,
and why| what man or woman Of
whom you have heard or read would
you most wish TO be, and whyT"
Six hundred papers were received
and looked over by the questioner. The
answers of the children, who were IL
to Is years old, showed that the boys
exhibited touches of humor, while the
the girls exhibited more unselfishness
than the boys.
81 wish TO be woman because they
have much more sense than men,"
writes one. "A woman, because they
are drawer than men; they can do
things quickly. Men are clumsy; be-
sides, men drink" writes another "a
woman. because women just do things
while men are talking" writes third.
These strong minded damsels form
only about 31a per cent of the whole.
II would rather be a man." writes
an ardent maiden of II, because l
could be soldier and help my country.
A man has many chances of being
great and women haven't. A man can
work and keep his wife, but woman
cannot work for a man. Her wages
would not be enough" This writer
wants to be Shakespeare. "a man."
writes another, because he Is brave
and can fight and explore and gain
land for his country" This small
maiden wants to be Nelson. II would
rather be a man, because a man Is
more useful and respectable than q
woman, especially when woman
takes to drink; then she makes home
miserable"
Many urge that a mans lot Is easier.
One says: II would be man because
he has no worry preying on his mind,
such as women have. The only woman
l would care to be is the Queen, be-
cause she Is waited on, everything Is
brought to her; she never has dishes to
wash, and she ought to be happy"
Another says: "A man, of course. He
just has to get up and he finds the fire
lighted and breakfast ready; he goes
to work and when he comes home tea
Is ready; then he does nothing but
smoke his pipe and go out and do what
he likes"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19
Cost of Fatteniup Cattle.

A fat steer of 1000 pounds weight is
said to have in it 500 pounds of water,
about twenty-five pounds Of nitrogen,
eighteen pounds of Rhosphoric acid and
two pounds Of potash. To buy this
nitrogen to return to the soil 1t would
cost about $3.50, and the phosphoric
acid would cost about 81. In selling
such an animal raised on the farm and
farm products about $3.50 worth of fer
tilizing material is taken. If bran, lin
seed meal or other grain is bought to
feed it, more than this would probably
be added to the farm, and it would be
growing richer. while if the hay and
grain it consumed had been sold off the
farm, it would have been robbed of
much more.-American Cultivator.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19

keep the real issue in sight. and let
the President and the party be judged
by that" Is the wise conclusion of
very able article In the Seattle Post
Intelligencer on the Porto Rican ques-
ton. Obviously this excellent editorial
treatment of much-discussed subject
is the produce of some knowledge and
some thinking. Unfortunately the
same cannot be said of vast volume
Of matter that has found it's way into
print relative to the Porto Rican topic.
No writer has stated the issue more
clearly or more intelligently than it is
stated by the Post-Intelligencer, thus:
1T is not a question whether we
ought to TO impose duty of % per
cent. or one Of 10 per cent. or none at
all upon commerce between that island
and the United States 1t Is whether
this Government has constitutional
power to levy such tax under any cir
cumstances; whether Porto Rico is ter
ritory to be governed as all other terri
tory added has beep, by the disposition
of Congress, or whether it's people ac-
quired, by the treaty of Paris, consti-
tutional rights within the United
States that compel recognition by us
and leave us no chance but to acknowl-
edge the new possessions as an integral
part of the nation under the Constitu-
ton, and finally to admit them as
States"
Rightly the Post-Intelligencer insists
that the contest is not waged on the
question whether Porto Rican trade
should be free or untaxed. The oppo-
sition to the pending bill is based upon
no such consideration. 1t cares moth
ing about the question either of tariff
or of revenue. Engineered by clever
free trade and anti-imperialist strate-
gists, the movement, intended solely to
put the administration in hole" has
secured the adhesion Of a considerable
number of Republicans who seem to be
unable to discover the use that is being
made Of them. They are apparently
blind to the fact, so clearly pointed out
by the Post-Intelligencer, that
1.-THE constitutional question Is the
real bone Of contention. The Republi-
can party cannot abandon its position
upon that without reversing all our
precedents and destroying the practi-
cal possibility Of building up a mighty
commerce in the far East by exchang-
ing for the open door in the Philippines
the open door in the vast portion of
Asia under European control.
1--WE believe that those who have diff
fered honestly from the party's policy
in this particular will agree with it
when they come to see what is in
volved; and how cunningly the advo-
Gates of retirement from the Philip
pines have sought to make that neces-
sary by a pretended fight over the
Porto Rican tariff"
If only the army Of dissenters from
the policy of the Republican admins
tration and the Republican party could
once grasp the idea that a much bigger
and more portentous question than
that of % per cent, - per cent, or no
tariff at all is involved in the Porto
Rican proposition, it would nightly
help to clear up the situation.-Ameri-
can Economist,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19
The independent Farmer.

Some of the Western farmers who
make a speciality Of one crop, whether
it is grain, beef, cattle or hogs, or ex-
tensive orchards, are inclined to sheer
at the small farms and garden patches
Of the Eastern States, and often the
Eastern farmer envies the man who
can sell thousands of dollars worth at
one time, but it is the small farmer
with a few acres and diversified farm
ing who is really the independent
farmer He grows vegetables and
fruits for his own use, has milk and
butter in plenty. fattens his beef and
pork, and perhaps mutton, and album
dance of poultry and eggs, and il every
railroad in the country is blockaded he
is in no danger Of starvation.-Amerl-
can Cultivator.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19
Trouble for Tommy Atkins.

A Liverpool firm. delighted that one
of its employees was going to fight the
Beers. volunteered to pay to the mans
wife half the usual wages during her
husbands absence. At the end of the
month the woman appeared and the
moiety was at once given to her.
'What?' she said, gar YES" re-
piled the senior partner, that is ex-
actly half; sorry you are not satisfied"
TT isn't that I'm not satisfied; why,
for years he has told me he only got f6
a month altogether, and-and-if the
Beers don't kill him 1 will"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19
Drained Soil.

Even as spring water seems warm
in the winter and delightfully."- cool in
summer, although it NJ at practically
the same temperature the season
through, so, also, land that is we'll
drained will be warm enough for the
termination of the seed earlier in the
spring than undrained soil, and in the
hot days Of summer 1t will not get as
undrained land would, so hot as to
parch and dry up the roots of tender
plants. The spring water is hot or
cold by comparison with the atmos-
phere, but the ground is made warm
and dry in the spring by its porous con-
dition, which allows cold water to
drain away and the warmer air to pen
citrate into it, and that same porous
ness in summer enables cool water to
be drawn up from below when hot
winds blow overit These are among
the advantages Of a well-drained soil.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19
Watering Stock.

If one figured up the time spent ev-
cry year or every winter in driving
cattle a quarter Of mile to the brook
and back again, twice or even once a
day, and computed 1t fair price for
labor, and then added to 1t the value Of
the milk lost and the extra food con-
sumed to keep up the system to its
normal temperature, he would find
that from even a few cows it would
not take long to reach the cost Of a
good clstern., or some other method Of
having the water right in the yard, or
even in the stalls so that the cattle
could drink without man or beast go
ing out Of doors.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19
Automobile ON the Towpatb.

The haulage of boats by automobile
along the canal between Brussels and
Charleroi has demonstrated, after a
long trial, that the new method of tow
ing is three times quicker than horse
traction. The automobile derives its
energy from a railway composed of six
lines, three of high tension (G.O0O volts)
and three Of low tension, on which the
tyolleys run. The electricity Is fur
nisbed by three dynamos. each of 100
horse power
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19

wn, with theirADJusTABLE cALKs
ends bent up into hooks so as to engage
with the shoe. As both bars are Of
shorter length than the largest diam
eter Of the shoe, it is evident that they
can readily be held in place with a
bolt and nut in the manner shown.
Wedge-shaped calks are fastened in
tapering holes formed in the bars, the
location of the holes being directly
over the iron snoe, so that they cannot
accidentally be driven through into the
hOof.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19
wby the Heather RACES.

During the first three years of Nc
Kinley's administration our exports
over imports were nearly one billion
and half. Moreover, the natural re-
suit is that our markets are not glutted
and everybody can get work. This
state of things is owing to protection.
Therefore do the heather rage and
mere theoriZers imagine vain things.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19

Bryan says he cannot explain the fact
that in cities where he addressed the
largest audiences in 1896 he received
the smallest vote in proportion to the
number voting. Wherever Bryan
spoke he virtually proposed to pay off
wage earners In 50-cent silver dollars.
Wherever Mckinley spoke he never
failed to tell the people Of the vast i'm
portance of work and wages for every
American who needs job. And II
wouldn't surprise some people to be
told that these little statements might
account for quite large proportion Of
the result at the polls.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19
Dewey,s Democracy.

When asked II he were a Democrat
Admiral Dewey replied: Yes; think
1 can answer that. Yes, l am Demo-
GRAFT" There is an intimation Of doubt
in the Admiral's response that makes
one wonder whether Dewey is a little
dubious in interpreting his own senti-
ments, or whether he Is not quite sure
as to the definition of the word Dem
ocrat. Sioux City Journal.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19
BRITISH OFFICERS MARK TIME.
Several Transferred for Letting Beers
Get Away from Them.

Get Away from Them.
Judging from the number Of prominent
officers marking time along the British
lines of communication, many Of them,
writes Bennett Burleigh TO the London
Daily Telegraph, have been found out"
II am satisfied" he says, that in at
least one instance a certain leader by
the statistics allowed 1000 Beers to slip
free when they should have been caught
to a man. For that he and others have
been transferred into forwarding agents,
directors general of bully beef and bis
cults, instead Of, as they aspired to be,
leaders Of men in the field"
Mr.. Burleigh's allusion to the escape
of 1000 Beers refers seemingly to the
1000 men with the best horses who left
Gen. Cronje or the night of Feb. %, five
days after it was thought he was com
pletely surrounded.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19
Brief state Happenings.

\ Miss Maude III. Whitney a popular
young lady of Homer, and Frank Harris
of Tecumseh were married at Jackson.
The executive committee of the Cal
houn County Christian Endeavor Union
have decided to hold the next convention,
May "a and %, at the Presbyterian
Church ut Homer.
Charles G.. Shoyer of Leavenworth,
Kan. and one of the brightest students
in the junior literary class, was struck
by mail train on the Michigan Central
Mt Ann Arbor and almost Instantly killed.
Doonwell Brothers large paper mills
at Forster's Station burned. and twenty
five families which depended upon the
mills for living are thrown out IL en-
ployment The loss will reach y4O,WW,
with but $4,000 insurance.
Many Lake County farmers, dissatis-
fed with the prospects, have gone to the
Canadian Northwest to try their fortunes.
A party of seventy-seven farmers, TWEEN
ty-one OF them from the vicinity of Chase.
started for Canada the other day.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19
One of the EssentiaIs.

The manufacturing jewelers. of the
United States are strongly for protec-
ton. This is amply proved by their
protests against any lowering of pro-
tective rates on their goods. In fact,
among nine-tenths of all practical
Americans protection is considered one
of the essentials of business prosperity.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19

dam is by President. Her list Of hon
ors won in the showing is long one
and includes first prize and gold medal
at the Royal Show held at Birming-
ham. She was brought out In great
bloom the day she was sold and elected
the keenest competition.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19
Theater Etiouette in Mexico.

In Mexican theater women always
go bareheaded and the men wear their
hats all the time the curtain is down.
During the performance they remove
them. Frequently men rise in their
seats and sweep the tiers Of boxes with
large glasses. 1t is considered some
thing Of an honor to have the glasses
of a swell below leveIed at your box.
Smoking IL permitted in al theaters.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19
Raising MeIons.

Last April 1 selected one-fourth Of an
acre OF sandy slope that would make
about eight bushels of wheat to the
acre, broke well and narrowed twice
before planting the melon seed. Plant
ed In hills twelve feet apart each way,
with four heaping shovelfuls of we'll
rotted manure under each hill. Plowed
four times with a one-horse cultivator
and went over twice with garden
rake. Sold S24.50 worth of melons,
besides having plenty to eat Many of
them weighed over forty pounds each.
w. G. Crook.