Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-11

Captain John Smith IL the hsad u
the corporation. and consequently
the presiding genius In the town.
The town has no mayor, no council
no police, no courts, and no lawyers.
Captain Smith is all that is necessary.
Liquor may not be sold In the town.
and there is no drunkenness. No
newspaper Is published. No one can
be domiciled in the place until his
record has been proved satisfactory.
Children are employed in the mills,
but at definite periods they are re.
quired to leave their work and attend
school. Pupils that show special
ability are given more extended OPP
portunities for education, but in no
case do they fail to learn their trade.
Dull indeed is that observer Of him.
self or fellows who has not discovered
the mental stimulant that comes from
good, appetizing food well served. II
the idea could once be driven into
the heart of every home-maker among
wage earners, we should make long
strides upward in our civilization.
The dullness, the apathy, the indiffsr-
ence that is the worst enemy to be
fought in poor mans home, will be
routed wherever the meal-time focuses
the attention of the housekeeper, and
how and what is served becomes inn
portant to her. Indifference to food
has a tendency to disintegrate the
social life in the home. Fortunately
it is no longer considered an unusual
thing for woman to express a pref
erence for foods, nor to enjoy good
living, and I've able to discriminate as
to kinds and qualities, nor to be rea-
sonably exacting in its service. -
In modern times it is those races
which give most encouragement to
athletics that are the most aggressive
and progressive in the struggle for
political and commercial supremacy.
The character and disposition of the
whole Teutonic race is influenced by
the turnvereins and the love of gym
nastics which those institutions in
culcate for physical development
The Anglo-Saxon owes as much of his
success to the upbuilding of the body
in the cricket field, on the yachting
courses, on the grouse moors, the
golf links, the football gridiron and
the tennis lawn as he does to any
mental training which the best col
leges of his country have given him.
These outdoor pastimes strengthen
the muscle, expand the lungs, quicken
the sight and develop ones courage.
So satisfactory has been the test
in a portion of Carroll County, Nd,
of the ''post- on wheels" that
the department has decided to ex-
tend the system over the whole of
the county. AS has been told, the
idea is that OF Edwin Shriver of
Westminster, Nd, it being an appli-
cation of the railroad post-otfice sys-
tenn. One wagon has been running
for some months, and three more
are to be added soon. At. certain
points these delivery wagons will be
met by smaller conveyances, which
will cover the country between the
most divergent points of the four
great arteries of the system. Within
the next few weeks sixty three fourth
class post-offices in the county will
be closed, and twenty-five star-route
contracts will be .abrogated. The
compensation of these post-masters
amounts to So, 200 per year, and the
star-route contractors received So, 100.
Against this aggregate of $40, 300
saved, the new system, as now organ
lied, will cost $14, 500, so that until
more post-offices are abolished and
star-routes wiped out, the service will
cost the government "a, 200 more than
it is now paying these postmasters
and star.route contractors. But there
will be more post Offices closed. The
new service will before the end of the
year cost far less than is now paid to
postmasters and contractors.