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Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-17
CHIGAN CROP REPORT
Given Out by the Secretary
State for the Month of June.

up correspondents throughout the
2, with few exceptions, report
10 at In good condition, with prospects
iSetter than an average yield and an
rala quality.
1ehe average estimated yield in the
lehern counties Is IT. In the central
w, northern counties l5 and in the
re l6 bushels per acre. The total
aiber of bushels of wheat marketed
o armers In June at 100 mills Is g., 900
kor at So elevators and 10 grain deal
bar21 1903, or a total Of S3.993. OF this
tpDunt 53,44S bushels were marketed
pr the southern four tiers Of counties,
fst76 Ia the central counties and 3,773
5he northern counties. The esti-
ted total number or bushels OF wheat
arketed In eleven months, August
40, Is 100000 The amount Of
eat yet remaining in the possession
lie growers is estimated at 10000 BUSH
One hundred aud ten mills.
|,c'vators and grain dealers report no
d !" leat marketed ia June.
I The average estimated yield Of rye
ce the state and the different sections
he bushels per acre.
stiThe condition of corn In the state is
nm and In the northern counties So.
loThs acreage Of huckwheat sown,
nempared with an average for the past
re years in the state, southern and
oJrthern counties is 81 and in the
lentPal counties IS.
i. The acreage Of beans planted, as
1e,mpared with an average for the past
I. We years in the southern counties is
I {, in the central counties lob, in the
idorthern counties SO and in the state
NJ. The condition Of beans, compar-
"a with an average in the state and
che different sections is 81.
The condition OF potatoes in the
2outhern counties is 93, in the central
ounties 80, in the northern counties
/ and In the state 90.
= The condition of sugar beets In the
tate and southern counties Is SO, In
a,he central counties 81 and in the
lorthern counties 81.
v The condition Of clover sown this
wear, as compared with an average In
The state and central counties Is 06,
In the southern counties 81 and ia the
northern counties 90.
The acreage Of clover that will be
harvested, compared with an average
for the past five years in the sou hern
Counties is 81, in the central and
northern counties "a and In the stat ;
IBl.
The acreage Of timothy that will be
harvested, compared with ali average
for the past five years in the southern
counties is 10. in the central counties
90. in the northern counties So and In
the state 80.
The acreage of peas sown, compared
with an average for the past five years
i'm the southern counties is 81, in the
central counties IS, in the northern
counties 90 and in the state SO.
Apples-PrOspects for an average
crop, per cent state 66, northern
counties SS; peaches-prospect for an
average crop, per cent 81, 81; pears
prospect for an average crop, per cent
03, 81; plums-prospect for an average
crop. per cent 81, 50; orchards-per
cent that are cultivated, 81, 81; trees
condition of last springs setting, per
cent, So, IS; grapes-prospect for an
average crop per cent 81, 81; black
acknowledgements for an average
crop, per cent SO, 95.
FREDERIC G. MARTINDALE.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-13
CLASSIFIED ADS
Miscellaneous.

ANYONE WHO CAN BE A WIT
ness in the case of Mr.. Cranes
arrest November 5 will kindly call
at his office, 40 Columbia bldg,
before the end of this week. The
case comes up in superior court on
the 18th of December.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. after school.
Apply ia Wall street.
Wanted-Second-hand bicycles. G.
P. Burch, 222 Sprague. Phone
Main 80.
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EASTERN MARKETS

FURNISHED by Walter J. Nichols
81 Sci & Col
Chicago Grain and Provisions.
CHICAGO, Dec. 13.-Wheat--
Close: December, SLIP IL; May
Sill Is; July, $1.00 IL.
Corn-Close: December, GA 1-Sc;
May, &c; July, sc 5-Sc.
Oats-Close: December, "A 3-8c;
May, As 3-Sc; July, 43c.
Pork-Close: January, $22.32;
May. $21.97.
Lard-Close: January, $1,000;
May, $12.05.
Ribs-Close: January, $11.97;'
May, $11.52.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-13
G O N tt N u f D
r o NJ -
P A @ F. O n E
THE GREATEST
CHRISTMAS STORY

beating their hands upon their
breasts and stamping their feet
upon the pavement stones to warm
them. The city clocks had only
just gone three, but it was quite
dark already-it had not been light
all day-and candles were flaring
in the windows of the neighboring
offices, like rudy smears upon the
palpable brown air. The fog came
pouring in at every chink and key
hole, and was so dense without,
that although the court was of the
narrowest, the houses opposite
were mere phantoms. To see the
dingy cloud come dropping down.
obscuring everything, one might
have thought that nature lived hard
by. and was brewing on a large
scale.
The door of Scrooge's counting.
house was open. that he might keep
his eye upon his clerk, who in
dismal little cell beyond, a sort of
tank. was copying letters. Scrooge
had a very small fire, but the
clerks fire was so very much
smaller that it looked like one coal
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But he couldn't replenish it, for
Scrooge kept the coal box III ms
own room; and so surely as the
clerk came in with the shovel the
master predicted that it would be
necessary for them to part. Where
fore the clerk put on his white
comforter. and tired to warm him
self at the candle: in which effort,
not being a man OF strong magma
ton, he failed.
"A merry Christmas, uncle. God
save YOU cried cheerful voice.
II was the voice of Scrooge's
nephew, who came upon him so
quickly that this was the first in
tmation he had of his approach.
Bah" said ScroOge. "Humbug.'
He had so heated himself with
rapid walking in the fog and frost,
this nephew of Scrooge's, that he
was all in a glow; his face was
rudy and handsome; his eyes
sparkled, and his breath smoked
again.
christmas a humbug, uncle!'
said Scrooge's nephew. You don't
mean that. am sure?'
Il do" said Scrooge. Merry
Christmas. What right have you
to be merry? What reason have
you to be merry? You're poor
enough
Come, then" returned the
nephew, gaily. What right have
YOU to be dismal? What reason
have you to be morose? You're
rich enough
ScrOoge, having no better answer
on the spur of the moment, said.
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BAH" again; and followed it up
with 'Humbug."
Don't be cross, uncle." said the
nephew.
What else can / do" returned
the uncle, when | live in such a
world of fools as this? Merry
Christmas, Out upon merry Christ
mas! What's Christmas time to
you but time for paying bills
without money; a time for finding
yourself a year older and not an
hour richer; a time for balancing
your books and having every item
in EN- through round doben of
months presented dead against
you? If | could work my will" said
Scrooge Indignantly, every idiot
who goes about with Merry Christ
mas on his lips should be boiled
with his own pudding, and buried
with a stake of holly through his
heart. He should"
"Uncle!" pleaded the nephew.
Nephew" returned the uncle,
sternly, keep Christmas in your
own way, and let me keep it in
mine
Keep it," repeated Scrooge's
nephew. But you don't keep it."
Let me leave it alone, then"
said Scrooge. Much good may it
do you! Much good it has ever
done YOU"
There are many things from
which | might have derived good,
by which | have not profited, | dare
say" returned the nephew. Christ
mas among the rest But | am sure
| have always thought of Christmas
time, when it has come around
apart from the generation due to
its sacred name and origin. if any,
thing belonging to it can be apart
from that-as good time; kind
forgiving, charitable, pleasant time;
the only time | know of the long
calendar of the year, when men
and women seem by one consent to
open their shut up hearts freely.
and to think of people below them
as II they really were fellow pas
sen9ers to the grave, and not an
other race Of creatures bound on
other journeys. And, therefore, /
uncle, though it has never put
scrap of gold or silver in my
pocket, | believe that ii has done
me good, and will do me good; and
| say, God bless it,"
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Patents.
Removal.
Attorneys.
HOrseshOeing.

Samuel T. Crane. Lawyer. 410 Co.
lumbia Bldg. Phone, Main $500.
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NO CORSETS NOR
SKIRTS FOR ME,


CLEVELAND, o., Dec. 13.-"Fd
rather be in Jail all my life than in
these corsets and skirts any
longer" declared pretty rs year old
Lillian Mier, just before disappear
ing for a second time from the
home of Gottlieb Mier, her STEP
father.
She had been arrested a month
ago, whise posing as Harry Rob-
erts," ice wagon driver and livery
stable hostler.
She had lived in the west side for
two years as a man.
shes queer. We cannot under
stand her." said Mier today. But
she loves horses and mans work
and can't stand womans clothes.
We've given her mems clothes,
even suspenders, and she's back
driving a grocery wagon. It's not
fair to arrest her If she Graves that
kind of work"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-13
THE DAY IN THE MARKETS

tSo years has novereu afounu q
cents per pound it was considered
advisable to not make any ship
n,ents until the price of this mate
rial recovered at least in part to its
old price of &c cents per pound.
The board directors at this meet
ing after carefully considering the
conditions of both its property and
the existing conditions generally,
have decided TO levy an assessment
of / cent per share for the purpose
of paying pressing obligations and
continuing development work,
which will go ahead at once.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-Mrs. John
William jenkins of Chicago has lost
gems valued at 100000, from her
apartments in the Hotel Lorraine.
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Tho coppers again took the lead
and trading was active in Snow
storm aud Lucky Calumet.
Idaho S, & r. remained about
the same.
At meeting OF the directors of
tho Stanley Consolidated Mining &
Milling Co.. held at the company's
office, December 3, 1909, the ques-
ton of taking care of the indebted
ness and the future working and
developing of the company's prop
erty WINS discussed. Owing to the
continued depression of the anti
mony market, which for the past
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-13
Miscellaneous
e Real Estate
Opportunities
For Sale.

Johnston Wood Yard for pine or
Tamarack wood. 1015 Cora.
Phone, Maxwell Ala.
Six-room modern house; $2250;
will sell for $500 cash, balance
easy terms. Address Al, Press.
THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY
One, two and a half, five and
ten acre tracts in the Washtucna
valley are all money makers,
Plenty of work to help man get
started and keep him going. Prices
and terms easy now, but are ad.
vancing rapidly. Call or write for
booklet at once.
THE PAEOUSE IRRIGATION &
POWER CO.
412 FIRST AVENUE
Buy lot in our new addition IN
the manufacturing district,
prices ranging from 500 to $685.
81 per week; no interest, no taxes.
Lots in Mantle park, just east of
Grand street, on Twenty-fourth
avenue, $500; terms, $50 cash, bal
ance $40 per month.
Sparks Bros, IA Bernard street.
Phone Main 1947.
Elegant new stock Of fine pianos,
Wilton rugs, brass beds, dining
and library tables, chairs, china
closets, buffets. dressers, chiffon.
iers, rockers, Bissels carpet sweep.
ers, cut glass and fancy china. We
handle no secondhand goods,'
hence no disease germs; employ
none of the special sales" or other
fake methods" but give you the
lowest prices in Spokane for
choice, clean, new goods, when you
are ready to buy. We sell for cash
only, with little expense and long
experience, we are in position tn
save you big money. Charles II.
Johnson, 112-114 S. Lincoln street,
HERE ARE A FEW OF THOSH
GOOD ONES
Two-room furnished; one block
to car and school; $3.50; trade fon
acreage.
Three-room house; $3.50; $50
cash and $40 per month.
Four-room modern; new; 2Ks
mile circle; $3.50, 500 cash
Four-room; city water; new
house; neat place; cheap at $780,;
500 cash.
Five-room modern on Effie; q
snap at $2l00; few dollars foE
first payment.
HYE. McCUE, XIX & co.
1-2-3 Exchange Bank Building
Phone, Main .S3
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LODGING HOUSE SNAPS.

LODGING HOUSE SNAPS.
$450-Nine rooms. close in
$550-15 rooms, light housokeep-
ing.
$1,000 rooms, downtown;
terms.
$1S00-11 housekeeping suites;
terms.
$2000-16 rooms, Riverside;
terms.
$2400-25 rooms, furnace heat;
terms.
$2700--30 rooms, close in; terms.
$3000--52 rooms. steam heat;
terms.
$4,000 rooms, strictly mod
ern; terms.
$4500-34 rooms, modern, River
side; terms.
FORD, THE REAL ESTATE MAN,
331 Peyton Bldg. Phone M. 1888.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-13

Free information regarding fur
nished rooms in any part Of the
city. List your vacant rooms with
us.
FREE INFORMATION BUREAU,
s. Washington st.
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Johnston Wood Yard for pine or
Tamarack wood. 1915 Cora.
Phone, Maxwell Ala.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-05-01
THE PROBLEM OF SUMMER COOK
ING.

The weather man says it's going to
be a hot summer. This is setting good
work-wondering If last summers toll
and worry over a hot stove in a hot
kitchen must be all gone through again
wondering if there isn't some way OF
roasting, toasting, broiling, frying, iron
ing and washing without having the
kitchen like a boiler room.
There is. No longer need the APP
proach of summer be viewed with dread
by the woman who keeps house, provid-
ed she uses a New Perfection Wick
Blue Flame Oil Cook-Stove.
The why" of it is to be found in the
wonderful burners of the New Per-
blue flames, and yet so concentrate the
heat that it is not thrown off into the
room to cause discomfort. In this way
the housewife is enabled to do her kitch-
en- work in comfort-to say nothing of
the time saved in lighting-of having
no hot fire when the stove is not needed
of being able to get a flame of any re-
quired size at will, from one for sim
mering to one for quick boiling or any
other purpose.
Then there is the cabinet top, which
gives the New Perfection" the appear
ance of a modern steel range. It's COM
modious top shelf is extremely useful
for warming plates and keeping cooked
food hot. Also has two drop shelves
on which to stand the teapot and coffee
pot-every convenience-eVen to bars
for towels.
The New Perfection burns ordinary
kerosene and effects no small saving in
fuel expense
Another member of the New Perfec-
ion" family is the Rayo Lamp-an all
round house lamp in which iIlumina-
ton by means of kerosene approaches
more nearly perfection than in many ex-
pensive and complicated systems of
lighting. It's latest style of central
draft burner and it's beautiful porce-
lain shade unite in producing a light
of great brilliancy-yet so mellow as
not to tire the eyes.
The New Perfection Wick Blue Flame
Oil Cook-Stove and the Rayo Lamp. COM
bining as they do beauty, convenience
and low price, should be in every home
where real comfort is a consideration.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-05-01

Autoist (who has paid boy to bring
assistance)-Did you give the farmer
my message, boy?
Boy-Yep; l told him Their was four
automobeelers stuck in a drift an cud-
dent git out.
What did he say?"
HE said 'Hooray,' an gimme an
other quarter."-Life
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-05-01

| am proposing to give $4,000 as a
bonus, 81, 900 a year, as follows:
$500 as the first premium for the
best mile of constructed road tribu-
tary to the Spokane & Inland division.
$3.50 as a second prize.
$3.50 as expenses by the committee
in giving directions and awarding pre-
miums to the builders.
This to continue for three years;
the construction of the road to be I'M
der the direction of this committee,
who will either issue by circular or
such other directions as they might
see fit, and will award all prizes ac-
cordingly.
MODEL ROAD PROPOSED.
A model road, designed to stimu-
late travel between Vancouver and
New Westminster is favored by Mayor
Keary of the latter city. The
scheme of the mayor contem-
plates a roadway 100 feet in width,
to be built at first of crushed rock,
later to be replaced with paving.
Sidewalks of cement ten feet in width
on either side would provide the best
walking, and down the center would
run beds of shrubs and flowers,
around the ends of these vehicles
could turn and the division of the
road along it's center would prevent
a confusion of traffic, vehicles never
passing each other on the same side
of the boulevard. The road would
have an easy grade, passing through
the beauty spots of Burnaby and
along the shores of Burnaby lake,
making an ideal driveway for car
riages and automobiles. The mayor
estimates the cost of the projected
boulevard at about 100000 a mile, or
roughly $250,O00, and it would prob
ably take two years to construct.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-05-01

The o. R. & N. R. R. Co. has granted
the request of the Farmers Education
al and Cooperative Union for a re-
duction in rates on jute grain bags
and has fixed the rate at So cents
instead of 65 to 70 cents in less than
carload lots, and 40 cents instead of
So cents on carlots. The State Board
of Control has also granted a reduc-
ton in the price of sacks to Sc per
100 to meet the rate made by the
Grain Bag Co.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-09
A Burdened Man.

A certain small boy in grade number
six was rapidly assuming manly ways.
Not long ago, says a writer In the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, there was to
be an entertainment at his school.
Songs, recitations and grab-bag were
the principal features. The small boy
waxed eloquent Of the coming glories
of this show, and more especially of
the part he was to take.
On the morning Of the entertainment
his mother suggested that he should
take his little sister, about four years
old, with him. He hung his head.
Don't you want to take herr" bis
mother asked.
"No, | don't" he answered.
"Why notT
"Cause there amt none Of the other
fellers has to bring their children,
was the reply.
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father was Thomas Crawford, the
noted sculptor whose Liberty" is on
top of the Capitol at Washington. His
mother was a sister Of Julia Ward
Howe and of Sam Ward, the author.
Young Crawford spent much Of his
life in Italy, where he was born, re-;
turning time and again after his wan
derings over the earth, and there he
finally married and made his home
He attended st. Paul's at Concord, N.
H., and later entered Trinity College,
Cambridge, still later going to Heidel-
berg. He made deep study of many
languages through his travels
Though he spent most Of his years
after marriage in Italy, he made sew
eral visits to this country. His chief
recreation was yachting and he held a
professional masters certificate from
the Association of American Ship Mas
ters and from the United States Marine
Board. He wrote an astounding num-
Der of novels, having produced one
every year from the time he wrote
the first in 1881, and sometimes
three In twelve months. He wrote only
one play, which was produced by
Sarah Bernhardt in Paris.
English Man of Letters.
Englands great poet and essayist,
Algernon Charles Swinburne, died at
the age of 72, at his home In Putney.
One of the greatest poets Of the viz
torian period, all England expected
Tennysons mantle Of poet laureate to
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-09

fall upon his shoulders. But Swinburne
was strong in his likes and disllkes and
some of his works were tinged with his
animosity against kings and priests.
He created a style of his own and
cared little for criticism. He was early
inspired by Shakespeare and later be-
came devout worshiper of Browning.
Upon leaving Oxford he spent some
time in travel. He contributed a wealth
of impassioned poetry to the English
language and in addition was a keen
critic. His strong personality has left
an indelible mark upon literature.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-09

There were some deficiencies In the
early education Of Mrs Donahue, but
she never mentioned them or admitted
their existence. "Will you sign your
name herep said the young lawyer
whom Mrs. Donahue had asked to
draw up deed transferring a parcel
Of land to her daughter.
"You sign it yourself an III make
me mark" said the old woman, quick
ly. "Since me eyes gave out, I'm not
able to write wurrd, young man.
"How do you spell it?' he asked, pen
poised above the proper space.
"Spell it whatever way you place,
said Mrs. Donahue, recklessly. "Since
l lost me teeth, there's not a wurrd In
the wurrld can spell"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-09

Ethan Allen Of the Revolution. His
death came April 9 at the age Of IA.
In 1897 he was appointed by President
Mckinley as envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to Russia
and the following year the post was
raised to an embassy. In 1898 he was
called home to become Secretary Of the
Interior, place which he kept under
President Roosevelt. He served until
March 4, 1907, when he resigned to
return to private life.
Secretary Hitchcock was foe to
land frauds and the most prominent Of
his reforms was the determined effort
to put an end to such frauds on the
Federal domain. He prosecuted many
wealthy land grabbers among whom
were men well known In public life and
private business.
A Famous Novelist.
The great American novelist b.
Marion Crawford, one Of the most pro-
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-09
Death Has a Recent Harvest OF
Four People of international
Prominence.
EACH WAS GREAT IN HIS LINE
Modjeska, Crawford, Hitchcock and
Swinburne Had Carved Their
Names in Halls of Fame.

An actress, statesman, novelist
and a poet, each standing in the fore
most ranks Of those in his particular
line, have been called from the vari-
GUS scenes Of their brilliant earthly
careers within a short period recently.
Each was known and admired interna-
tionally and their deaths, all within
three days, deprive the world Of fur
ther great works which it had every
right to expect from such fruitful lives.
A Great Tragedfenne.
The death Of Helena Modjeska closes
the career Of one of the most remark
able women ever seen on an American
stage. AS tragedienne none Of her
contemporaries was her superior, and
but few If any her equal. Her life
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-09
| !. .

81 have suffered with piles for thirty
six years. One year ago last April | be-
gan taking Cascarets for constipation. In
the course of week noticed the piles
began to disappear and at the end of six
weeks they did not trouble me at all.
Cascarets have done wonders for me.
am entirely cured and feel like new
man" George Kryder, Napoleon, o.
Pleasant, Palatable, Potent, Taste Good.
Do Good Never Scken. Weaken or Gripe.
lOc, 25c, Soc. Never sold In bulk. The gen.
uine tablet stamped &C. Guaranteed to
cure or your money back. soS
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life our country has produced, breatNed
his last at his home at Sorrento, on
the Bay of Naples, the evening Of the
same day as Mr.. Hitchcock. Mr.. Craw-
ford had training that gave him not
only the secrets of language and liter
ature, but an intimate knowledge of
many peoples and of many lands. His
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-09
Am oninion ventured.

"Do you believe that ignorance is
ever blissT" said the erudite girl.
IL never studied the question" an
swered Miss Cayenne. "But should
say that a young person who doesn't
know the difference between holly and
mistletoe would have decided ad.
vantage at Christmas party
Washington Star.