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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-14
Something that will Keep.

Waiting in a grocery store one morn
ing, | stepped back with fastidious
shrinking from contact with rough
looking man, who was completing his
purchases. He paid for his articles and
was opening the door, when he turned
suddenly back, saying, ooh, l must get
something for my little girl ! declare,
| almost forgot her." His eye glanced
over the shelves, up and down the coun-
ter, in search of something that would
please his little daughter The clerk
pushed forward the jar of candies.
"No," said he she likes candies pretty
well, but guess | had better get some
thing that wiH keep" His momentary
survey did not find anything that suited
him, and | watched him as he crossed
the street to the bookstore. In a few
minutes he came out, slowing away in
his capacious pocket small, fiat pack
age in white paper, tied with pink
cord, evidently child's book.
Something that will keep" said |
to myself. | had just left my milliner,
who had conscientiously made my bills
half a dollar less than the amount agreed
upon, because of some lack in the guam
tity of trimming. With that extra half
dollar, | was going to give myself an
indulgence, and stopped here to buy
oranges. Extra half dollars are not
common with me. Indulgences are not
frequent, Something that will keep
In moment | remembered brother
and sister who were living in two
rooms-he still an apprentice at his
trade, she a sewing-girl Only yester
day | heard her wish that her brother
James could hear the Scientific Lee
lures to Mechanics :" he was ingenious
and always thinking out something
but the winter was so hard for them
they could not save a cent for such
things. Half dollar would buy tickets
for two of these lectures. / could give
myself a pleasure that "would keep"
This evening James is listening to
lecture on "Steam in its Application to
Machinery"
Sabbath school teacher, as you stand
before your class, are you giving them
truth that "will keep" or only pleasant
talk and entertaining stories?
Mothers, are you planting seeds that
have vitality in them and germs of per-
enial growth, or lifeless husks, or prom
Use OF summer blossoms?
Fathers, are you accommodating treas
ures that twill keep or only the riches
that have wings?
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-14
A Now English Gun.

Nature for May Is describes in gen.
eral terms and INDUCES in some Eng
lish self-gratulation over the successful
casting and performances of great 35-
ton Fraser gun. 1t says:
OF extraordinary strength and pro-
portions, and withal so carefully, and
one might almost say elegantly finished,
this magnificent gun is indeed master
piece we'll worthy of the greatest fac
tory in England, from which it eman-
ates. Cannon of larger dimensions
have, it is true, been produced, capable
actually of delivering a heavier pro-
jectile than that employed with the
Woolwich weapon, but none of them
are to be in any way compared with
this, either in respect to battering
power or length Of range. The gun is,
moreover, not merely a show produc-
ton, as was the case with the monster
Krupp cannon, but really serviceable
and efficient fire-arm, is shown by its
endurance of the severe test to which it
was subjected at proof. On this occa-
sion the 700 pound proJectile was thrown
from the gun by the enormous charge
of $50 pounds of gunpowder-the larg-
est, in fact, that has ever been safely
consumed in any fre-arm-the explo-
sion being without the slightest injurious
effect upon the steel bore or surround
ing wroughtiron castings. The solid
cylinder of iron which constituted the
shot issued forth at the terrible velocity
of 1870 feet per second, and, after
travelling some fifty yards, buried itself
in the butt of loose earth to depth of
thirty-three feet. So satisfactory, in
deed, has this experimental structure
turned out, that further batch OF SIS
ter guns have forthwith been COM
menced, and will serve to arm some of
our heavy iron-clads which are now
building. Only small number ct such
weapons will be carried by these vessels
two, or at the most four apiece-and
thus our modern men-of-war will pre-
sent perfect contrast to those Of a
dozen years ago, when a ship, being re-
garded merely as a box of guns, some
times received on board as many as
hundred and thirty cannon. Never
theless, brodaside delivered from four
guns of these giant dimensions for the
whole armament being carried in tur-
rets may be brought to bear at one
time) representing almost ton and
half of metal, very far exceeds that
which an old frst-class three-decker
could throw into her antagonist, and
would indeed be sufficient to sink most
vessels at the first discharge.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-14
Young American Rudeness.

Pertinent to a recent suggestion In
these columns that instruction in man
ners should form part of the curricu-
lum of our public schools, comes an an
ecdote from che who witnessed the
occurrence, showing forcibly enough the
need of little discipline in behavior
among our public-school children. A
few mornings since a car on the Fourth
Avenue Railroad was, at a little before
nine o'clock, crowded with pupils.
to the Normal College, IA it is called, in
Fourth street, and others were lads pro-
ceeding to the college of the City OF
New York." under which title the Free
Academy now rejoices. We have called
these pupils boys and girls, but at the
so-called colleges the nomenclature in
vogue is that of ladies and gentlemen.
The car stopping to admit passenger,
there entered very aged and feeble
lady, who looked in vain along the rows
of young students for seat. Not one
of the young gentlemen or the young
ladies evinced either respect for age or
concern for feebleness. and the lady was
obliged to stand. A gentleman in the
car, who was also standing turned to
youth of about fifteen and polite y
asked him if he would not surrender
his seat to the old lady. This young
gentleman, who was under training for
culture and responsibility at the public
expense, was swift and incorporating
in reply. "You go to h was his
prompt rejoinder. After this instance
of good manners and good taste in our
public pupils, it cannot be doubted that
our schools might advantageously in
clude the art and the morals of polite
ness in their curriculum. Doubtless
this is an extreme case. But one never
enters car without having conspic-
uous evidence of the rude manners of
Young America. If an elderly or
feeble person enters car, some lady or
gentleman will promptly offer seat,
but very rarely does boy do more than
stare with insolent self-satisfaction at
the conner. Boys, of course, have legal
right to their seats, but the amenities
and courtesies of life often cost a sur
render of mere right, and he must be
selfish, indeed, who cannot compliment
age and respect infrmity without stop
ping to make a calculation as TO his
lawful immunity from such virtues
AppletonS Journal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-14
A Novel Life Preseryer.

Those who, in the interests of COM
merce, science, or gain. are accustomed
to the dangers of the ocean, will be glad
to know that something in the shape of
a life preserver, more deserving Of that
name than the almost useless devices
hitherto in vogue for that purpose, has
lately been contrived, and its adapta-
bility tested by satisfactory trials. The
invention is very simple. The casing
for the body, which is made of India
rubber, is shaped from the arms down
to the feet, inclusive, to correspond with
the form of man, but made large to
permit its being easily put on. The
bolts of the casing have weights firmly
attached thereto and two glasses are
provided for the purpose of vision. The
apparatus has a cylindrical air recep-
tacle with a bell-valve. having a pipe
leading therefrom into the interior Of
the casing. There is complete protec-
ton for the mouth and nose, making it
impossible for water to enter. Another
apparatus for this purpose. extremely
simple, is due to French ingenuity. The
plan is to cut hole in one side of
barrel or cask large enough to admit a
man. Underneath this cask are sus-
pended some bars of iron as ballast.
Around the occupants neck may be
drawn a piece of canvas to exclude the
dashing waves. This affair, with man
in it, dropped from stranded ship,
will, it is asserted, invariably be washed
ashore, and can tow rope. thus giving
a chance for others TO escape. 1t can
be prepared in a few minutes by any
ship carpenter.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-14
Ghe Cruz Northrrnrr.
PAW PAW. MICHIGAN.
Under the Maple.
By KATE p. osDooD.

BY KATE p. OSDoOD.
The start it gave me just now to see.
As / stood in the doorway looking out,
Rob Greene AT play by. the maple tree,
Throwing the scarlet leaves about!
1t carries me back long, long way;
Ten years agO-how the time runs by
There was nobody left at home that day
But little Jimmy and father and
My husbands father, an old. old man.
Close on To eighty, but still so smart
II was only of late that he began
To stay in the house and doze apart.
But the fancy took him that afternoon
To go To the meadow TO watch the men;
And as fast as argued, just so soon
lie went right over it all again;
Till, seeing how he seemed to be,
thought, with the air so warm and still.
1t could not hurt him to go with me,
And sit for little under the hill.
So, lending my arm to his feeble tread.
Togeth or slowlywe crossed the road,
While Jim and his cart ran ahead,
With heap ofpilows for wagon load.
We made him soft seat, cushioned about,
OF an old chair out of the barn close by;
Then i'm went off with caper and shout,
While we sat silent, father and |.
For me- was watching the men at work,
And looking at Jack my oldest SON
So like his father, he never would shirk,
But kept straight on till the stint was done.
Seventeen was Jack that last July
A great, stout fellow, so tall and strong!
And | spoke TO the old man, by and-by,
To see how fast he was getting along.
But father had turned away his head,
A following Jimmy's busy game
With the maple leaves, whose blood red
Flared up in the sun, like so much flame.
His lips as he looked, began to move.
And | heard him mutter q word or two;
- Yes Joe fire in the Weston grove
Just wait-one minute-I'll go with you ?"
"Why. father" I cried. what do you mean?"
For knew he talked of his brother Joe,
The twin that was drowned at scarce fifteen,
Sixty summers and more ago.
Tho sun has dazzled you don't you see
That isn't a fire blazing therel
It's only Jim, by the maple tree,
Tossing the red leaves into the air..
But still he nodded and looked and smiled,
Whispering something | could not hear;
Till, fairly frightened, | called the child
Who left his play and came frolicking near.
The old man started out of his seat:
Yes, Joe, yes IN coming" said he.
A moment he kept his lettering feet,
And then his weight grew heavy on me.
"Fatherl" l screamed but he did not mind,
Though they all came running about Us then
The poor old body was left behind
And the twins were young together again.
And wonder sometimes when | wake at nigh
Was il his eyes or my own were dim?
Did something stand beyond my sight
Among the leaves, and beckon to him?
Well! there comes i'm up the interval road
Ten summers ago? yes, all of ten
That's Baby Jack on the pumpkin load.
And Jim is as old as Jack was then.
Harper for June.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-14
A Brief History of Long Branch.

Long Branch takes its name from n
brook, a branch Of the Shrewsbury river.
In the year 1874 the place was inhabi-
ted by Indians, and was styled Lands
End. About that time four men, named
respectively Slocum, Parker, Wardell,
and Hewlett, came from Rhode Island
and established settlement there. A
considerable portion Of the land which
they obtained continued IN possession of
the Slocums until thirty years ago, and
some of the original land warrants are
still in existance. A few years later
9th er hardy settlers from the neighbor.
ing provinces bought land in Long
Branch at twenty shillings an acre,
built dwellings, and occupied themselves
with farming and fishing. 1t now EN-.
braces a population of $500. The
Liberty Pole is the name given to the
village, from a flagstaff erected during
the war OF 1872, while the coast portion,
upon which the cottages and hotels are
situated, is known as the Shore, fronting
the ocean. Land purchased at the edge
OF the village by Mr.. Samuel Laird, in
1868, for $3.50 an acre, was sold for
"a 900 in 1870, soon after the Burlington
Pathway was opened. The first hotel
erected at Long Branch was the Ocean
House. There are now accommodations
for 10000 people. Three years ago,
Blythe Beach, south of the present
West End Hotel, comprised only farm
ing lands. To day it is laid out as park,
with new roads from seventy to one
hundred feet wide, and beautiful sites
for cottages. Of these there are now
two hundred.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-14
Extraordinary Vitality of Organic
Germs.

One OF the most curious facts in con.
nection with chemical research is the
remarkable vitality of the lower organ
isms in nature. In vegetable subjects,
for instance, vitality may lie dormant
for period which is almost inconceiv-
able. Stramonium seeds, according to
Duhamel, can develop after remaining
twenty-five years under ground. Erie.
valid observed the generation of melon
seed after they had been kept more
than forty years. Pliny goes so far as
to say that corn grew after it had been
kept a hundred years. And there
seems no reason to doubt the fact. for
Desmouiins obtained plants from seeds
found in a Roman tomb of the third or
fourth century. Moreover, it is well
known that corn found in some of the
tombs of ancient Egypt has terminated
and grown to perfection and the result
OF the experiment of sowing some OF
this mummied corn in this country has
been the production of new ears larger
and more prolific than those of our
modern wheat. A squill.bulb, too,
found in the hands of mummy, has,
when planted at the present day and in
this country, grown and blossomed as
readily as the last ears hyacinth-bulb
from Holland, which flowers in our win
dows every spring. nee Week.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-14
Flowers, and Flowers.
Beautiful flowers,

Beautiful flowers,
In feathery bowers,
Filling their with a silent perfume
Sweet garden of roses,
Your beauty discoses,
A charm TO subdue the souls sadness and gleem.
From rich parterre
Or where city air.
Though dank and noisome, hath left you living,
le come together
In the summer weather,
To praise His name who is ever giving.
o the JOY and grace
That enrich the place. ,
Where your manifold tints and odors are spread!
Bewitching the rare,
Ye make the land fair,
As the Garden of Eden long mourned as dead.
Beautiful girls
England's fair pearls.
Whose hands are lilies. whose cheeks are roses
These upturned faces
Of hower-graces
Are uttering sounds as their life disposes.
They lead you through
Ion sunny blue
A link 'twixt earth and the angel-powers
And seem TO say,
Singing day by day,
God make you blossom and bloom like the MOWERS
-Cdsselps Mogdzine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-14
MisapplicatiOn of Shakespeare.

Hon. Benjamin F. Wade and the late
Hon. Joshua Giddings used to be con-
slant competitors at the bar in "old.
benighted Ashtabula, their place Of
residence. In the early part of his
practice, Wade was defending q man
against an action Of SANDER. and. after
having concluded very effective
speech to the jury, sat awkwardly lean.
ing backward, his feet on the counsel
table, and facing Giddings. who was at
tempting to be eloquent in behalf Of his
slandered client. Old Gid" as he
was Familiarity called, knew a little
smattering Of" Shakespeare" and now
determined to bring that great author
to his aid
Gentlemen of the jury" said he,
with much ardor,
" lie that steals my purse, steals trash
But he that robs me OF my good name-!'
(Ahem y
AT this point, to his great discom-
future, Shakespeare deserted him. He
repeated:
But he that robs me of my good name"
Another pause.
"Takes that | never had," whis-
pered Wade, as if prompting him, and
so distinctly as to be heard by all in the
room.
Amid the laughter and his own con-
fusion, Giddings brought his speech to
such "lame and impotent conclu-
sion," that his client recovered but six
and quarter cents for his lost charac-
ter.-Bnch and Bar, 6y h. j. Bigeloc.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-14

THE latest style of German earrings
are in the form Of miniature Prussian
helmets.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-14

A FACT FOR TRAvELERs.-G. l.. c., the
New York correspondent of the Toledo
Commercial, writes of the Erie Railway
in recent letter, thus
Trains run regularly on time, full of
passengers. and the new coaches recent
ly put upon the road are marvels of
elegance and comfort. The Erie was
never in such splendid working order
as it is to-day-and people are begin.
ming to appreciate its comforts, notwith-
standing the efforts of its rivals to min
gle the litigation in which its managers
are engaged with the actual business
and operation of the road itself.
.''CoMMoN SENSE in the Household" a
well-prepared manual of domestic
economy, prepared by Marion Harland,
the well-known novelist, who, in its
preparation, has used not her magma
ton, but her practical experience as a
housekeeper for many years, has just
been issued by Scribner a. Co., Of New
York. The work is very thorough, and
comprises not only all kinds of recipes,
but useful and agreeable chapters upon
Company" Servants" "The MUIR
sery," and similar topics.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-09-01
How Crude Rubber Is Collected.

GREYTowN, Nicaragua, is the principal
port for the export of india rubber on the
coast. II is collected by parties of Indians,
Caribs, or half cast Creoles, seldom by
Europeans, to whom the dealers, who are
also storekeepers, advance the nece ssary
outfit of food, clothing and apparatus for
collecting rubber, on condition of receiv-
ing the whole Of the rubber collected at a
certain rate. The rubber hunters are
termed UlsrOs Ule being the Creole term
for rubber), A party of Uleros, after a
final debauch at Greytown, having eX-
pended all their remaining cash, generally
make start in q canoe for one OF the
rivers or streams which abound on the
coast, and having fixed on a convenient
spot for camp, commence operations.
The experienced rubber hunter marks out
all the trees in the neighborhood. The
rubber tree is the CdStillod tLGsticG, which
grows TO great size, being on an average
about four feet in diameter, and from
twenty to thirty feet to the first spring Of
the branches. From all the trees in the
almost impenetrable Jungle hang numerous
trailing parasites, lanes, etc, fIom these,
and especially the tough vines, are made
rude ladders, which are suspended close to
the trunks of the trees selected, which
are now slashed by machetes in diagonal
cuts from right to left, so as to meet In the
middle and central channels, which lead
into iron cutters driven in below, and these
again into the wooden pals. The pals
are soon full of the white milk, and are
emptied into larger tin pans The milk is
next pressed through sieve, aud subse-
quently coagulated by a judicious applica'
ton of the juice of Bejuca ian ApOcyRG p
49, I.kx. L.
ed by hand, and finally rolled out on q
board with wooden roller. The rubber
has now assumed the form Of large pan
cake, nearly two feet in diameter and
about quater of an inch thick, on account
of which they are termed t0rtiIlas by the
Uleros these cakes are hung over the
side poles and framework which supports
the rGnch0, which is erected in the woods
and allowed TO dry for about fortnight
when they are ready to be packed for de
livery TO the dealer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-09-01
Why Circles Please the Eye.

PRoFEssoR Muller, in course Of lect-
ures in Berlin, offered simple and me-
chanical explanation Of the universal sd'
miration bestowed ON these curves. The
eye is moved in its socket by six muscles,
of which four are respectively employed
to raise, depress, turn to the right, and to
the left. The other two have an action
contrary to one another, and roll the eye
on its axis, or from the outside downward,
and inside upward. When an object is
presented for inspection, the first act is
that of circumcision, or going round the
boundary lines, so as 10 bring consecutive
ly every individual portion Of the circum'
ference upon the most delicate and sensi-
tive portion OF the retina. Now, iftigures
bounded by straight lines be presented
for inspection, it is obvious that but two
or three muscles can be called into actions
and it Is equally evident that in curves OF
circle or ellipse all must alternately be
brought into action. The effect then is
that II two only be employed, as IN
rectilinear figures, those two have an un'
due share of labor and by repeating the
experiment frequently, as we do in child
hood, the notion Of tedium is instiiled
and we form gradually q distaste fol
straight lines, aud are led to prefer those
curves which supply more general anc
! e0Ilable Share u woak
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-09-01
The Altar and the Urn.

SOMETIMES In this checkered existence
Of ours, light and darkness, sunshine and
storm cloud, follow one another with
startling rapidity, but rare is it to see an
absolute comminRling of these seemingly
incongruous elements. "Truth is strang-
er than fiction" and we are called on to
chronicle an event of the above character,
wherein the joyous nuptial bells and the
solemn death knell were strangely inter
mingled.
A young lady for quite time has been
living with relatives in Ludlow, engaged
in ministering 10 the last earthly wants of
her beloved mother, upon whom the fell
destroyer, consumption, had too surely set
his seal.
Anticipating her fate, aud anxious that
her darling should not be left alone in the
world, she was solicitous that her daughter 8
marriage to worthy and estimsble young
man, to whom she had long been engaged,
should take place before Death should
claim his own. Accordingly, Tuesday,
August Is, was fixed upon for the cere-
mony to be performed Animated by the
expectation of seeing her dearest earthly
hope fulfilled, the sufferer rallied so much
that strong hopes were entertained that
she would yet enjoy many months, if not
ySdIS, VI ltlr. DAJ buis
was illusory, and as the day approached it
was evident to all that the Pickering life
light was almost expiring, and on the
morning of the eventful day the spirit
winged its flight-the weary brain and
the tired feet Nere forever at rest.
Just before her death, as she lay clasping
closely the hand of her weeping daughter
she whispered, Darling, don't postpone
| ion hat will
not, and shall die happy" Amid chok
ing sobs promise was given, and in a few
moments but cold lnanimate from re
mained to remind the sorrowing ones Of
the loving heart whose unseltish thoughts
had, even in the throes of departing life
been centered in others.
With breaking hearts the final prepara
| tioDs were made, and at 8 o clock p. m
the ceremony was performed in ST. Paul'l
| (P. E church.
The gathering gloom of the evening, the
pale, stony, tear -forsaken face of the bride
whose beauty not even the keenest o.
earthly sorrows could entirely dim; the
sorrow stricken and sympathetic faces o
the few intimate friends who alone wer(
present; all these contrasted strangely
with the orange wreath and bridal veil
and gave a strange, weird look Of mockeTy
to the whole ceremony.
Let us hope that this union, so strangely
begun, may, by contrast to. its sorrowfu
commencement, be followed by long year
Of unclouded happiness, and may the
memory of the dying one, whose las
earthly act was to urge forward the mar
riage, ever be green and fresh in the heart
of those whose happiness she so sedulous
ly sought Cincinnati Gazette.