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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-03

brethren, keeping their distance, main
tanned such an incessant volley of stones
that, cut and bleeding, i was forced to
take refuge in flight.
AS / staggered into the high road, /
fell nearly directly under the hoofs of a
magnificent black horse, bestridden by
a European.
The gentleman reined in his fiery
steed when he saw me. What on
earth is the matter" he cried in as
constituent
Then, as my three pursuers bounded
out of the thicket after me, he appre-
hended the state of affairs Mt once, and,
without pausing to ask questions,
stretched two of them senseless with
the heavy butt of his riding-whip.
Dismounting, he drew his steed's bride
over projecting branch and came tow
ard me.
My poor boy, you seem badly hurt.
How do You come to be here ?" he said,
in kindly voice, as he assisted me to
rise.
My pluck gave way with the knowl-
edge of safety. l burst into tears, and
told all that had happened.
The Thunder arrived, ell ? That's
grand. L am Mr.. G. of the firm to
which she is consigned. But, gracious
me the rascals haveg got the dispatches,
and we shall be half ruined before L can
get back to town |" he cried, when L
had sobbed forth ny story.
"They are safe, sir hid them in
there, L said, pointing in the thicket.
We pushed our way through the
branches, and found the cases under
the stone where L had placed them.
The man | had struck down was lying
near, perfectly motionless.
You've given that fellow his soup
hot, and L think his companions will
suffer headache for a week or so" said
Mr.. g., as he examined the mans
wound. Let them stay where they
are will send the police to them as
we ride in" he added Then he lifted
me into the saddle, and led his horse
until we overlook sedan-chair, to which
he transferred me, after which he gal
loped on to his office with the rescued
papers.
When l reached his house l found q
doctor waiting to dress my wounds,
which did not prove to be very serious
after all, and every attention that L
could desire w shown me.
Much credit was accorded me for
having so well defended my trust, and
| always attribute my subsequent rapid
promotion on board the Thunder to the
prestige | gained by my conduct on
that, to me, memorable morning of my
introduction to China WalterA. Rose.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-03
A 7OO-POund Bear Killed by a Boy.

The Tulare Call Times, of a recent
date, says: GA few days ago boy of
fourteen years, son of A. Specs, who
has sheep in the southern portion of
this county, was out hunting in the
mountains between Deer creek and
White river, with an old United States
wager gun. He came upon bear
with two cubs, all not more than twenty
five PAGES distant. The old bear ran up
a tree, when the brave little fellow fired
and shot her through the heart. The
name of this little fellow is John A.
Specs. The bear weighed about 700
pounds. The cubs escaped. But the
queerest part of the story is to tell.
Mr.. Specs was in his camp at the time,
about one mile distant from where the
bear was killed. He had lain down to
take q nap, and was asleep. In his nap
he dreamed that his boy had shot some
thing, and was in trouble. He imme-
diately awoke and started to find him,
but met him returning for assistance to
bring in his game.
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r evening. Whether plain or embroid-

for evening. Whether plain or embroid-
cred gloves are worn is matter of fam
cy; both are equally fashionable.
Those with the welt or embroidery at
the wrist take the look of length from a
slim hand, while long, plain wrists are
more elegantfor full one.
The pique or back-stitched glove of
dogskin is very durable for service and
as well finished as kid. The Sandring-
ham gauntlet is handsome glove of
English calfskin, with the Prince Of
Wales feather embroidered in seed-stitch
on the back of the close cuff, which fast
ems with three buttons at the wrist or is
worn flowing, at pleasure. The price is
1926 pair. Calfskin gloves with short
embroidered cuff are So %. The prices
vary in kid gloves from 81. IS for single
buttons, 50 for double buttons, 81 80 for
treble buttons, 81. 70 for four, and So. %
for six buttons.
Driving gloves are shown in soft
leather, yellow, buff, or dead white,
with haring gauntlets. The military
gauntlet is preferred, square-cut, and
top-gored. Lined kid gloves for winter,
and fieeced inside with lambswool, or
silk plush for those who find lambskin
too thick. Black kid gloves lined with
lavender plush will be very acceptable
to those who before found but limited
choice in mourning fashions, and so will
be the heavy black glove of double silk
stocking wove, at 81 pair.
SHIRLEY DARE.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-03
Pith and Point.

COFFEE GRoUNDs-Brazil plantations
IT is said that the Digger Indians are
never known to smile. They are grave
Diggers.
A GooD-NATURED spinster used to
boast that she always had two beaux
they were elbows.
LAWYERS have necessarily q brief
career. That may be the reason why
their fees are SO high.
The latest and most fearful form of
observation-disclosures. They are worse
than Demonstrators.
PUNCTUATION was first used in literature
in 1920. Observation-Disclosures
Observation-Disclosures.
WHY is julius Caesar supposed to be
the strongest military man that ever
lived? Because he threw his entire
army across the Rubicon.
A JURYMAN remarked, "May it please
yer honor, am deaf in one ear. "Then
leave the box" the Judge replied; "a
Juror must hear both Sides"
"DoCToR," said man to Abernetly,
"my daughter had fit, and continued
half an hour without sense or kLowl-
edge" "Oh," replied the doctor,
"never mind that many people con-
tinue so all their lives"
sHELvED.
Ben Butler is bottled at last;
For his sins Massachusetts, went back on him
Back pay and Mobilier outcast
His claims, and came down with whack on him.
Now up on the shelf he is placed,
A bottle of gas with stick in it,
Or, if this tag is more to your taste,
candle without any wick in it.
"WHAT made you all run away from
that crazy fellow who pointed his cigar
case at you ?" asked man of a crowd
of fugitives. "We ran because we
thought we heard an alarm of fire.
"That's too thin. There was no alarm
of fire." Yes, there was. The fellow
himself threatened to fire ON us"
ONCE on q time Dutchman AMI
Frenchman were travelling together in
Pennsylvania, when their horse lost
shoe. They drove up to blacksmihs
shop, and no one being in, they pro-
ceeded to the house to inquire. The
Frenchman raped and called ont
els de smitty within p "Stand bak,"
says Hans "let me shpeak. Ish der
blacksmith en- de house ?"
PIocHE, CAL, jury-room scene First
iuor-You say you are satisfied that
this man committed murder, and yet
you object to finding him guilty. Give
us your reason. Second juror-Well,
see here, old teller, we've all killed our
man, and spose we kill another one how
would we feel if set of id mean
cusses should convict us? Jury in
chorus-That's so we never thought
of that. None of us will be safe ii we
establish such precedent. The rris-
oner was honorably acquitted.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-03
A yERsIFIED LEGEND.
by EBES r. RExFonD.

Somewhere there lived, but where cannot tell,
A man who loved his ease aud quiet well,
And cared but little for the better things
An earnest love OF God and Heaven brings.
Each Sabbath morning, when the church-bells
chime,
Tolled far and near the peaceful worship-time,
He sought some quiet spot, TO pass away
In and idleness the holy day.
His wife was not he for clear and strong
Were her perceptions of all right and wrong
And love OF God through all her nature grew,
And made her thoughts and actions good and true.
Her heart yearned strongly for her husbands good
As every loving Christian womans should;
And she besought him oft to change his ways,
And seek with her Gods holy house OF praise.
And always when she asked him, he would say,
{" Go thou to church this pleasant sabbath day;
And when, with others there you bend the knee,
Why, then, dear woman, pray for thee ana me.
Now, it so happened that one night he slept,
And dreamed dream whose record nave kept.
Though fast asleep upon his easy bed,
He thought that he and his good wife were dead.
Their early life concluded, hand and hand,
They started of toward the better land,
And reached at last, faint, tired, and worn ana
weak,
The gates of Heaven, which all good Christians seek.
He knocked, not doubling that beyond the gate
Was rest awaiting. Faith was strong ana great.
st. Peter came, and swung the door agar,
And, questioned by the legend, who was there
"why, l." was the quick answer, and my wife.
We've Just departed our old earthly life
And now good old st. Peter, let as by,
For we're most wretched tired, my wife ana l.
"Please wait moment" good st. Peter said,
"You staid at home while your good woman prayed.
You babe her go to church, and bend the knee
And pray, while she was there, for her ana thee'
$50 AS she prayed to Heaven for her ana thee,
For thee and her her rest in Heaven snail be
For if she did the praying while You stald Ut nome,
Then you've no right TO Heaven. Woman come !!
So through the gate his wife passed out of view,
And left him longing for an entrance through
Left him TO realize, when 1t was too late,
The rest worth striving for beyond Heaven ! gate.
Amazed he questioned, Have l then no lot
In rest and Heaven, because l sought them not?
The rest is for my wife, and not for me-
Because she did the praying. That plainly seee.'
The sense of his great loss struck home so strong
and deep
That it awoke him from his troubled sleep;
And he was very much rejoiced to find
That he was stll alive among mankind.
II Heaven" he reasoned " is not worth the pains
OF praying for who expect the gains?
II | can't pray for my own soul at all,
But leave il TO Others / deserve to fall
Next morning. when the church-bells rang at ten,
And called to worship all the sons of men,
His wife much astonished at the gate
TO see her husband at the roadside wait.
"You've prayed" he said "for yourself and me
So long that am ashamed to ask of thee.
Hereafter in our worship Wen combine;
You do your praying, and will do mine"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-03
The Fair Sex.

-Eighty-six women have entered the
Michigan University this term.
An Eastern lady is Disguised with
postal cards, because there is no room
for postscript on them.
An Omaha girl introduced a roman
tic mode of suicide. She stuffed her
lovers letters down her throat until she
suffocated.
"A Cincinnati girl was married three
times in one day to the same man, hav-
ing Methodist, Baptist, and Universal
list clergyman.
An Akron woman ran three miles
after moving passenger train, and then
became obstinate and sat down on the
track and made all trains stop.
"A Missouri woman turned her hus-
band upside down in the churn the other
day, because he swore at her mother.
He respects his mother-in-law now.
"A Detroit woman sues for divorce
because her husband insists upon sleep
ing with his feet upon the pillow so that
he can tickle her feet when she shores.
Two young ladies at La Crosse were
standing by the side of ditch ~ feet
wide which they didn't know how to
cross, when their escort said "snakes,"
and they cleared it at bound.
Mrs. Grundy says that if you wish
to see a fine display of diamonds upon
the human form you must secure an
introduction to the ugliest woman to
be found at fashionable watering
place.
Martha Jones, of Edinburgh, Scot
land, so dearly loved her young man
that she bit off the end of his nose,
and her father was obliged to pay 81, 500
damages.
Of the 80 persons who met at the
New Hampshire satisfactory, the other
day, to contribute of their flesh to patch
out the head of the scalped woman, only
one was a woman.
An Ohio woman lately travelled with
one ticket, four trunks, two d-boxes,
fowerpot, poodle-dog, umbrella, jug
of milk, lunch basket, paper sack full
of peaches, and boy of Is, whose age
she gave at 8.
Ten young women made the Harlem
River at New York lively on Saturday
week, by a swimming match. The
prize was silk dress, valued ut $175,
and the distance mile. Miss Delilah
Goboess, of Philadelphia, proved the
winner, swimming the mile in forty min
utes, and Miss Maggie Coulton, of Bos-
ton, came in second.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-03
The Ex-Empress Eugene.

A correspondent writes: "The other
day at Baden l saw walking in the little
park near the baths party towards
whose motions every eye was turned.
With no more than reasonable Yankee
curiosity approached the party, and
saw that the central figure was woman,
to whom the greatest Difference was
paid by the half-dozen ladies and gen.
themen that walked in her train. She
had commanding face and figure, and
altogether the appearance of one accus-
toned to exercise authority. Her fea-
lures showed traces-yes, more than
traces-of great beauty, and her hair,
which was brushed back in simple fash
ion, was of that peculiar tender brown
which one sees on half-ripe chestnut
Just turned out of its shell. She was
dressed in the deepest mourning-an
Imperial serge heavily trimmed with
Grape, and the only ornament she wore
wa, heavy necklace of Jet and Jew
eled onyx cross. And this was the wo-
man who for many years reigned SUI
preme in her simple dover of beauty
and goodness beside the Emperor Ma
poleon I'LL, the radiant Eugene de
Montijo. There are traces of care and
of grief now i'll her face, but there are
lines of hope also. She believes in the
French people and in the magic name of
Bonaparte. She believes in her son-to
whose education she has given her best
thought, her tenderest solicitude. She
is now an invalid, broken down by too
active life and by her recent great trou-
bles. She walks painfully, and is oblig-
ed to support herself with can. But
with her infrmities she is still graceful,
still vivacious, still the charming woman
that captivated the millions of gallant
Frenchmen."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-03
The Curse of the FlOwery Empire.

Opium seems to be the continuing
and increasing scurse of China. DR..
Legge, who has been travelling from
Pekin to Shanghai, with view of as
certaining the condition of the people
of Northern China, makes the melan-
choly report that the growth of opium
in that country is increasing at pro-
digious rate, to the exclusion of the cul-
tivation of food. In one district, large
tracts of land were entirely covered with
poppies, and the doctor was informed
that the cultivation only began Iast
year. Some land will yield profit by
opium greater than that of wheat by
two, three, four, and even six times.
The Chinese peasants love of the de-
basing drugs is attributed to his being
+" tied down to the soil of his own dis
trict and shut out from intercourse with
his fellows by unjust regulations of
every sort.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-03
The Uprising Against Early Rinng.

Early rising has been very rudely and
successfully shaken. Charles Lamb has
shown that there is as much excess in
rising with the lark and lying down with
the lamb as in the practice referred to
in Moor's song, which recommends a
frightening of our days by taking "a
few hours from night, my dear !" That
philosophy was shaken in the early days
of the world by two sleepy children who
came under the rebuke of vigilant faith
ers. "My son p remarked one sire, 81
once found piece of gold by rising
early" "Aye p rejoined young hope
full, "but the man who lostit was up be-
fore you" "My son." said the other
worthy parent, "observe that it's the
early bird that catches the wormr 81
do, observe my father" replied the ex-
cellent boy "also, that the worm was
caught by getting up earlier than the
bird"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-03
EARTH's ANGELS.
1 never saw an angel.

/ never saw an angel,
Except the ones IN books
/ don't believe a mortal
Knows how an angel looks.
We guess at something misty,
With trailing wings OF white,
With amber tresses floating,
And garments strangely bright.
But believe earth's angels
Walk here in mortal guise,
Though we discern but family
Through heavy-lidded eyes,
Or see them az they leave US,
Who walked before US here,
Their angelhood quite hidden,
Because II lived 80 near.
/ can remember angels
Who seemed like common folks,
Who wore old-fashioned bonnets,
Aud faded winter cloaks
Who came when dire disaster
Crowned lesser home mishar,
Or younger claimants crowned
The dear maternal lap.
With curving arms wide open
To take the weary in,
With patient love to listen
To childish want or sin.
What better thing could angels
For childish sinners do,
Then listen TO their story
And bid them promise new?
/ think of fireside angels,
Upon whose faded hair
There shone no crown of glory,
And yet the crown was there;
When tender love, true-hearted,
Forgave the wrongs it knew,
And patient voice gave answer
The days of trial through.
All, me the childish angel
Who beckons as / write!
Perchance should not know him
In mystic robe of white.
He wears schoolboy's jacket,
And cap, and boots, to me,
And when we walked at twilight,
His head against my knee.
There are dear mother angels
We each perchance know one
Whose robes of better glory
Are daily being spun.
With loving hands to guide US,
With loving speech 10 cheer,
Said not well, earth angels
Walk daily with us here?
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-03
American Postage Stamps.

There are now in use 103 different
classes of postage stamps, and $4,000
sheets of 100 stamps each are printed
each working day. The number of
stamps used annually is about $50, O0O,-
600, and their average value is $1S,OOO,-
O0O To prevent error and fraud, the
sheets of stamps are counted and re-
counted ten or twelve times, registered,
receipted for, and counted again, until,
what with handling and cumming, they
lose their original freshness, and have
to be polished up in hydraulic press.
They are distributed by mail to about
30, 900 postoffices in the United States,
and orders are received daily for about
80, 900, 600 stamps. A Government agent
gives his receipt for the stamps, and
obtains corresponding receipts from
those to whom they are distributed.
They are manufactured by the Cont
mental Bank Note Company, and during
the month of July the company had a
stock on hand of 100000 stamps,
valued at so, 203, 900. OF these, "a, TO,
800 were three cent stamps, 11,167, 500
one-cent, and 1861, 700 two-cent stamps.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-03

RECENT geological surveys of the new
Territories of the Far West have re-
vealed the very important fact that the
known coal deposits of the Rocky
Mountain region extend over an area
of upward of two hundred and fifty
thousand square miles, in strata vary
ing from five to thirty-fve feet in thick
ness.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-03

Somewhere there lived, but where l cannot tell,
A man who loved his ease and quiet well,
And cared but little for the better things
An earnest love OF God and Heaven brings.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-08-22

\ MrcH MARRIEr, MINIsTER.-Rev. Reu-
ben Alexander Be.son. who calls himself
a graduate in ho'lors, and is certainly a man
Of attainments, was recently sentenced in
London to five years penal servitude for
bigamy. II e seemed to have passed his life
IN marryiD and seducing women. He was
twice MAJ ried legally, and once by quasi
legal Ger smony; was once convicted under
the has ard act, and was found, when arrest
ed, - be engaged, or on the point of enga-
gem cit, TO 30 women. The most extraor-
dlna,y fact about his career * that be taught
one Of his victims, an Irish servant girl nam
ed Morgan, whom he cheated by a Knocked
me rriage. Arabic. and during his detention
tx fore trial, wrote to her in that tongue,
asking her to perjure herself to save him,
and to bring him some tobacco. The poor
slrl, IN simple perplexity. consulted her en-
ploycr a. to what should be done, and he
forwarded the whole matter to the treasury.
Ihis is not the case merely of an educated
criminal, but of a criminal who must have
taken enormous pains to educate one Of the
humbleSt of his victims for no apparent pur-
pose, IN les he intended ultimately to fl to
Syria.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-08-22

TINE DEVOTED TO MEAIs.-Dr. Derby
states that the average time occupied in the
process Of taking food by the people Of Mas
sachu~ett- does not exceed from twelve TO
fifteen minutes for each meal Such haste
i il furious to health for many reasons. The
process Of digestion begins in the mouth
with the action Of the teeth, and through
excitement of the saliyary glands by the
presence Of food. Unless saliva is abUnd-
antly mingled with the latter. the first act
Of digestion l. DISTRACTED and Nature plan
l. changed. This tiuid not only 'lubricates
but acts chemically in the mouth. fla reason
able time be given il, upon all the starchy
elements which make up the great bulk OF
what We eat. Eating in haste, great deal
Of air j. swallowed Air Is TO certain ex-
tent always entangled in the saliva and a.
siSt~ digestion. but when "'wads'- Of food
succeed each other very rapidly, they seem
10 act like pistons in the tube leading from
the back Of the throat, and drive before and
between them into the stomach such amounts
of air a. TO distend that organ and impede
It's functions Another effect Of eating in
this way is that the masses Of food, imper-
fectly mixed with the saliva. become i'm
pacted in the Wsophagus, checking It's mus
cular action, which i obviously intended 20
propel only one piece at a time. This en-
barras>ment i overcome by Ia king at one
gulp aS much fluid a. the mouth viii hold,
thus di-tending the electric tube and wash
ING the INSTRUCTED food into the stomach. All
this Is unnatural and can hardly fail to work
mischief.-Rlral Nor Yorker.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-08-22

the edge of small lake, engaged in CONVEX,
sation' He at once put spurs to his steed
a 80 tromnled the woman under the horses
feet She. flving, fell into the lake. The son
srranc upcn the father, and during the strug-
Gle which ensued after Sehweinhof had been
1ulled from his horse, he stabbed him four
Teen times in the face and breast with q
noinard which his father carried in his own
belt. Then he ran to the rescue of his ms
tress, and leaped into the water. but his
strength failed him before he reached her.
The liieless remains Of the guilty pair were
recovered an hour later. Leipsic was IN a
state Of CONSERVATION.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-08-22

Too Poor TO TAKE a PAPER.-We re-
gret to speak of the misfortunes that have
occurred to men in this country too poor to
take paper.
Some time back an agent wrote OF the
man who says he Is too poor to take paper
His chickens never crow and die with the
cholera; his dog jumped into well sixty
feet deep and drowned himself because he
hadn't sense enough to keep from jumping ;
his hogs die standing up and have never
been known to grunt; his horse died last
week from eating gourd and two bushels
of saw dust, which he mistook for pump
kin and bran his eldest daughter lost her
life while gathering dewberries, frightened
to death by a railway train; he had his real
estate sold out because he never knew he
had any taxes to pay; he lost his wife with
the chills. as he had never heard of physl-
clan: he lost so heavily on his cotton crop
one wear. that he was forced to lien, be
cause he waited to sell until it was so low
that tie selling would not pay expenses he
has missed the train twenty times because
be did not know of its arrival; he had TO
nav twenty dollars last year from not at
tending a jury; he lost bargain in piece
OF land. which has injured him 10 the amount
of 5000 This is an example Of what the
world Is and would be without the press
Exchange.