The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-14
TU'O NE W ROCKS.
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many poohS anu P"P0ioj 0h"' WIZ ih"i"i
tude of steam presses are throwing on
to the world, we are both panied ant
pleased-pained that so many thousand
of pages are daily carried to the doors
of the rich and the poor, which are only
an appeal to the weaknesses and passions
of erring humanity, and yet their pat
rons are I" a host that no man can mum
ber.' We do not refer to that class Of
literature which is characterized by wit
and humor, and carries with it the jubi.
lent laugh, that lights up its tens Of
thousands of care.worn faces, that would
otherwise never have the deep burrows
of business thought Strengthened out
These are God-sends to the busy, plod-
ding millions who have no recreation
from the pillow, the shop, and the loom,
but for these little weekly messages of
gaiety and gossip. The Objectionable
literature of the day is of quite another
stamp.
On the other hand we are more than
pleased that so many good and useful
books, laden with the accumulated
thought of centuries, are knocking at
the doors of the reading community for
admittance, and that goodly number
of them arc found on the shelves and in
the hands of the laboring classes.
We have recently come in possession
of two new books of that character, and
we only wish that everybody else could
read them too; we can assure them OF
arising from the perusal of each seper.
ate chapter, wiser and better. The title
of one Of these works is Great For
tunes, and how they were made, or,
The Struggle and Triumphs of our self
made men," by James d. McCabe, Jr.
This book has thirty-two first class illus
IdUlOllSJ anu SlA uuuuICu duu CuiI w
three pages, and each page is more thrill
lingly interesting than the widest ro-
nance that was ever conceived by the
imaginative brain, because living per-
sons sat for portraits therein drawn, and
their works are still living to bless
humanity, though the most of the in.
vcntors have passed to higher life.-
The work itself is the story of the
" Genius of America" which has con-
tributed from year to year to the nation
al wealth, and individual wealth and
character. The affecting story alone of
Charles Goodyear's deprivation, poverty,
Imprisonment, impaired health, and pre-
mature death, caused by his labors and
struggles to perfect his vulcanized india
rubber invention, is worth the price of
the book tenfold. How little do they
realize who are blessed at the present
day, in a multitude of ways by this in
vention, their debt of gratitude to one
who sacrificed long years of comfort,
tens of thousands of dollars, his liberty
and at last his life, to bring before the
world the blessings that they have en-,
joyed through the result of his labor
After ten years experimenting and fail
ures the last part of the time his
family supported almost wholly by
charity, Mr.. Goodyear was able to pro.
duce perfectly vulcanized india rubber
with expedition and economy, and,
above all, with certainty. He had un.
bounded faith in its adaptability, and
believed that there was scarcely an arti.
Gle of general use that could not be {
made of it. Upon one occasion he read
in newspaper that twenty persons {
persisted every hour by drowning. The ,
statement impressed him deeply, and 1
his wife noticed that for several nights {
he scarcely slept at all TRY to CON- I
pose yourself, and Sleep" she said to 1
him. Sleep" he exclaimed, chow {
can sleep, when twenty human beings !
are drowning every hour, and I am the
man that can save them p From this
time he experimental till he perfected
his invention of india rubber life pre-
servers, which could be easily carried by
and which would render it
for them to sink in water.
Reader, if you are too poor or par
to buy this book, borrow it of
your more fortunate neighbor and read
it, for it is about to be distributed in
Van Buren, County, by one of the Pub