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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14
Character Determined by DoOr.Shut.
ting-CuriOus Test.

A correspondent of the Scientific
american gives the following novel
manner for measuring mems characters
During the last ten years in the winter
season, according to our daily record,
we have noticed the manner in which
200 persons who called for work have
opened, shut, or not shut our store
doors. This, you may say, is n futile
and useless undertaking; but we enter
tain very different opinion. What are
the facts and the deductions? /. Out
of 1000 persons recorded, $50 opened
the door and shut it carefully when they
came in and when they went out, with
out much noise. 2. Two hundred and
twenty-six opened it III hurry, and
made an attempt to shut it, but did not,
and merely pulled it to when they went
out. 3. Three hundred and two did not
attempt to shut it at all, either on coming
in or going out 4. Ninety-six left it
open when they came in, but, when re-
minded of the fact, made an ample
apology, and shut it when they went
out. D. One hundred and two opened
it in a great hurry and slammed it vio-
lently, but left it open when they went
out 6. Twenty-six came in with " How
do you do, sir ?'' or Good morning !"
or @ Good evening, sir !" and all of these
went through the operation of wiping
their feet ON the mat, but did not shut
the door when they went in or when
they came out.
Remarks-We have employed men
out of all these classes, and during that
time have had an opportunity of judging
of their merits, etc. The first class-of
335-were those who knew their trade
and commenced and finished their work
in methodical manner; were quiet and
had little to say in their working hours,
and were well approved by those for
whom they did their work. They were
punctual to time, and left nothing nm
done which they were ordered to do.
They did not complain about trifes, and
in all respects they were reliable men,
and were kind and obliging in their
general conduct.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14
The End Of the Jumel Case.

The victory of Charles O'Conor in the
United States Court, yesterday, marks
the close of one of the most remarkable
litigation in the annals of American
courts. Law suits, rs n rule, are only
interesting when summed upby novelist
in happiest mood. but in the Jumel
estate case were combined elements of
romance, mystery, and revolutionary
"Reminiscences which took it outside of
the back offices of lawyers apprentices,
and rendered it theme of general dis
cussion as the proceedings were developed
from day to day. At this time, too,
when the defects of the present jury sys-
tenn are so glaring, and when the jury
box has become q synonym for unin-
quisitive ignorance, the constitution of
the struck" jury in this case has in
vited public scrutiny, for the twelve
men to whom have been rehearsed the
extraordinary history of Aaron Burr's
wife, and the problematic circumstances
under which George Washington Bowen
was born, have been respectable mer-
chants and men of wealth and intelli-
gence and their attention has been
given to these proceedings at a great
sacrifice of time andmeans. The amount
involved, too, has been very large, for
the homestead and unimproved real
estate with which Stephen Jumel en-
dowed his wife fifty years ago are now
worth So, 600, 600. This was the prize for
which the gray-haired Bowen eagerly
stretched out his hand, and to which
Mr.. Chase and his children have tena-
ciously chung.
The principles of law involved have
been as intricate as the questions of
fact have been complicated and they
have been debated by such eminent
counsel as Charles O'COnor and Judge
Hoar. Although the courtroom has
resounded with the ordinations and re-
ordinations of counsel, and although
the evidence has been so homogeneous as
to lead to the conviction that memory
had either been lost, or that human
tongues had grown white with perjury
the dramatic nature of the incidents of
the controversy has sustained public in
terest from first to last Garrulous old
men have rehearsed scenes of their youth
and dispensed the gossip of the Revolu-
tionary epoch the strange record in
the King Henry Book" has been
scrutinized Mr.. Hull's account of his
first interview with the infant Bowen at
Maj. Ballou's has been analysed re-
semblances have been traced and speci-
mems of penmanship compared and
the interest has not been lost even when
the most complicated questions of land
title and probate law have been the sub
ject of argument.
At last the case was submittsd to the
jury, who required little more than an
hour to determine that Nine. Jumel was
not the mother of George Washington
Bowen, and that even if she were, she
had at the time of her death no estate or
interest which an heir would be entitled
to inherit, Us the conveyances made by
her in 1923 could only have been revoked
by IA will. York Tribune.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14

tear himself away from the ceremonies
and pomp of the Tuileries; retire to his
favorite Saint Cloud and give himself
up to domestic quiet and family
pleasures. His chivalrous courtesy to
Eugene and his respect for her advice
were not observed more by the multi
tudes who thronged his ieVees than by
the intimates of his private life, the wit
nesses of his domestic seclusion.
Eugene may have been, and with rea-
son, jealous at times; but there is no
reason to doubt that she came to have n
real affection for her spouse, to whom,
in the short period of his exiled life at
Chiselhurst, she was surely most con-
stantF and faithfully devoted. Her
whole conduct after his fall, from the
day ON which she tainted when she
heard of his capture at Sedan, to that
on which she was too i'll of grief to fol-
low his remains to their English tomb,
betrays the loving and sympathetic
wife.-APplotOlls Journal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14
Too Thin.

A great many years ago, before ice in
the summer season had come to be ne
cessity, but was just beginning to be
housed mp and used in the large cities us
a luxury, a good deacon from rural
Connecticut town came to New York TO
celebrate the Fouth of July. 1t was his
misfortune TO celebrate little two much
he got intoxicated. News thereof fol-
lowed him home, and he was called up
before the church for discipline. The
deacon confessed his fault. He said the
day was hot, and he went into hotel bar
room where there was n bowl of punch,
and the lemons and the ice looked so cool
and inviting he drank some. 1t tasted
so good and the ice refreshed him so
much that he took some more, and finally
he took so much that, he was ashamed
TO say, he became intoxicated. He sat
down. There was n moments hush, and
then an angular brother Mt the rear of
the meeting rose and said, Il am salts
fed about the Deacon explanation about
his getting drunk. He confesses it and
says he's sorry. That's all right. Any
body's liable to that. But when the Dea-
con comes into this ere meetin' and
talks about seeing ice in July, | go for
having him jerked up for living"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14
{" FOnetiks.o

The proposition of Mr.. Arinori Mort,
the Japanese Minister Mt Washington,
to prepare system of American phonet-
les for Japan, arouses general discussion.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
thinks we must eventually simplify the
language for our use. He says:
The arguments in favor of the change
are without end and unanswerable. As
words in our language that, Theoretically,
would be spelled the same because of II
similarity in Sounds rein, rain; thee,
the; great, CRATE; read, reed, etc.--but
il must be remembered that under our
present system we have words spelled
precisely the same and pronounced en-
tirely different-such, for example, as
minute (mi-nute), minute (min-it) pre-
sent (pre-sent), present (pres- and
numerous other illustrations that might
be given were it necessary. Now, take
either of the above words, and isolate
them from all connection, and who could
tell by the way in which they are spelled
as TO which was the proper pronuncia-
ton. Either will answer for both, or
both for either. Phonetics would make
each word definite at sight, and their
meaning obvious. But the great advan-
tages to be derived from the phonetic
system are these: A child when he has
learned the phonetic characters thor
oughly, can with little practice read
almost anything, and pronounce the
words correctly. Instead of being re-
quired TO study five years in order to be
able to read in the Fourth Reader under
the present system, he can accomplish
the task in less than one-third of the
time by phonetics, and much more thor
oughly. Secondly, person who can
read English correctly by the phonetic
system will be able to read and pro-
nounce correctly any foreign language
printed or written in the same charac-
ters. Thus student in French, Latin,
German, or any other language, living or
dead, will experience no difficulty in
learning without n master, nor will he
incur the risk of being laughed at for
ridiculous mispronunciations. Thirdly,
the various dialects of different localities
would eventually fade out, and words
would haze a uniformity of sound, wher-
ever the same language is spoken.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14
HIS wIFE's MOTHER.
lie stood on his head on the wild sea-shore,
Aud danced on his hands u jig;
In all his emo lions, a. never before,
a madly hilarious grig.

lie stood on his head on the wild sea-shore,
And danced on his hands n jig;
In ell his notions, a. never before,
A madly hilarious grig.
Aud why? In that vessel which left the bay
His mother-in-law had sailed
To tropical country some distance away,
Where tigers and serpents prevailed.
lie knew she had gone TO recruit her health
Aud doctor her rasping cough,
hut wAgered himself profusion of wealth
That something would carry her of.
On, now he might look for quiet life,
And even be happy yet,
Though owning no end of neurological wife,
And up To his collar IN debt;
For she of the specs and curled false front,
And the black alpaca robe,
Must pick out sailor To suffer the brunt,
OF her next daily trial of Job.
lie watched while the vessel cut the sea,
And bumpishly upped and downed,
And thought If already she qualmish could be
He'd consider the edihce crowned!
He'd borne the old lady through thick and thin,
Till she'd lectured him out Of breath;
And now as he gazed at the ship she was in,
He hOwled for her violent death
Till over the azure horizons edge
The bark had retired from view,
When he leaped TO the crest of a chalky ledge,
And pranced like kangaroo.
And many jubilant peal he sent
DER the waves which had made him free,
Then cut a last caper, ecstatic, and went
Turning somersaults, homeward to tea.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14
4" Chalking the Hat"

The origin of chalking the hat" was
due to Admiral Reside, in the days
when Congressman went numbering over
the distant States in stage coaches. At
the annual adjournment of Congress
Admiral Reeside would pass his friends
of the two houses over his stage lines
after the following fashion Mr. c.,
suppose you are going back to Licking
ton L will pass you through on my
coaches. - =" All right ; but how will
your agents along the road know this
fact p "Just give me your hat" Upon
the tile being passed over, this Napoleon
of the stage, taking piece of chalk
from his pocket, would dash of in bril-
liant white upon the black ground a
peculiar hieroglyphic, impossible to
counterfeit, and hand it back to the
owner with the remark Just show
that 10 my agents along the route.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14
And Gill came tmmbnng after.
Hen.Herling.

When woman has hen to drive into
the coop, she takes hold of her hoops
with both hands, and shakes them
quietly toward the delinquent, and says ::
"Shew ! there" The hen takes one
look Mt the object to convince herself
TINT it's woman, and then stalks ma
jestically into the coop i'll perfect disgust
of the sex. A man don't do that way.
He goes out of doors and says " It's
singular nobody in this house can drive
IA hen but myself" and, picking up a
stick of wood, hurls it mt the offending
biped, and observes, "Get in there, you
thief" The hen Immediately loses her
reason and dashes to the opposite end of
the yard. The man straightway dashes
after her. She comes back again with
her head down, her wings out, and fol-
lowed by an assortment of stove-wood,
fruit-cans, and coal-clinkers, with n
much putting and very mad man in the
rear. Then she skins up on the stoop,
and under the barn, and over fence or
two, and around the house, and back
again TO the coop, all the while talking
as only an excited hen can talk, and all
the while followed by things convenient
for handling, and by man whose coat
is on the sawbuck, and whose hat is on
the ground, and whose perspiration and
profanity appear to have no limit. By
this time the other hens have come out
TO take hand in the debate, and help
dodge the missiles-and then the man
says every hen on the place shall be sold
in the morning, and puts on his things
and goes down street, and the woman
dons her hoops, and has every one of
these hens housed and contented in two
minutes, and the only sound heard on
the premises is the hammering by the
oldest boy, as he mends the broken
pickets. -Dan6UrV NcUs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14
A Criticism.
Jack and Gill went up the hill,
To get pail Of water;
Jack fell down and broke his crown,

To get pail Of water;
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Gill came tumbling after.
In conductinga criticism of this beau
tiful poem, we shall first attend To what
may be called the rythmical and dynam-
ical qualities of the verse. Observe the
perfect measure
lakeland Gill-went mp the hill.
The first part of the first foot is lack
ing, but that is fully compensated in the
next verse, which is hypercatalectic:
To get-a pail-of water.
The or in this instance would exactly
fill the incomplete foot of the first verse,
thus producing "A grand iambic dimeter,
and leaving the second verse delight
full tripody.
The next two verses display the same
wonderful poetic structure
Jack--fen down-and broke--his crown,
And Gill--came tumb-ling aft-er.
Observe the pleasing and highly mu-
steal effect produced by the addition of
the fractional foot er.:
And Gn-came tumb-ling aft-er.
Let us now turn our attention to what
are really the essential elements of
poetry-the nature of the thought and
quality of the sentiment First, the
thought All true poetry is highly i'm
aginative. This is highly imaginative.
Jack and Gill never went up the hill to
get II pail of water. The poet imagined
that they did, and in this consists, very
largely, its poetry. Again, Jack didn't
fall down and break his crown, and Gill
come tumbling after. The poet simply
imagined all this, and hence it is all the
more poetic. Again, this is an upward
flight of imagination Jack and Gill
went up the hill. They also went up to
get water, which makes the conception
still more striking. 1t would have been
commonplace and matter-of-fact to go
down the hill for water.
Notice that in the next line it is not
the imagination that falls, but Jack
Jack fell down. Notice, too, the result.
He did not break the connection of the
story; he did not even break the flight
of the poets fancy he simply broke his
crown. We may suppose it was after
ward. We have as good right to suppose
this az the poet had to imagine it
broken at ALL And now the final catas-
trophe
And Gill came tumbuug after.
This is perfectly harmonious. We
should naturally have expected 1t. We
may suppose that Gill was leaning on
Jack, and that, therefore, when Jack
fell, Gill, by necessity, went tumbling
after; or we may suppose that Gill
loved Jack more than we can tell, and
that when she saw him fall and break
his crown, in fit OF sheer desperation
she threw herself after him. Either
hypothesis would fully account for the
facts, but l am inclined to accent the
latter, it being the more poetic and
consonant with the pathetic nature of
the scene. Toledo Bl0de.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14

ny JOHN L. rHomPsoS

Two armies covered hill aud plain
where Rappahannock's waters
Ran deeply crimsoued with the stain
OF battles recent slaughters.
The summer clouds lay pitched like tents
In meads Of heavenly azure;
And each dread gun of the elements
Slept IA its HE enibrasure.
The breeze go softly blew II made
No forest leaf 20 culver,
And the smoke Of the random cannonads
Rolled slowly from the river.
And now where circling hills looked down
With cannon grinly planted,
Der hstiess camp and silent town
The golden sunset Hlanted
When on the feryid air there came
A strain, now rich, now tender,
The music seemed itself afame
With days departing splendor.
A Federal band, which eve and morn
Played measures brave and nimhle,
Had just struck mp with flute and horn
And lively clash OF cylnbal.
Down focked the soldiers TO the bank
Till margined by its pebbles,
One wooded shore was blue with "Yanks,
And one was gray with Rebels.
With movements light and tricksy,
Made stream and forest, hill and strand,
Reyerberate with "Dixie."
The conscious stream, with FURNISHED glow,
Went proudly DER its pebbles,
But thrilled throughout its deepest How
With yelling OF the Rebels.
Again pause and then again
Thetrumpet pealed sonoroua,
And Yankee Doodle WAS the STRAIN
To which the shore gave chorus.
The laug Ching ripple shoreward flew
To kiss the shining pebbles
Loud shrieked the crowding Boys in Blne
Defiance to the Rebels.
And yet once more the bugle sang
Above the stormy riot;
No shout upon the evening rang
There reigneda holy quiet.
The sad. lone stream its noiseless tread
Spread DER the gliAtening pebbles;
And silent now the Yankees stood,
All silent stood the Rebels
For each responsive soul had heard
That plantive notes appealing,
So deeply Home, Sweet Home had stirred
The hidden founts Of feeling.
OF blue or gray, the soldier sees,
A by the wand of fairy,
The cottage meath the live oak trees,
The cottage by the prairie.
or cold or warm his native skies
Bend in beauty DER him;
Sending the tear-mist in his eyes
The dear ones stand before him.
A. fades the iris after rain
Ia April's fearful weather,
The vision vanished a. the strain
And daylight died together.
But memory, walked by music's art
Expressed in simplest numbers,
Subdued the sternest Yankees heart,
Made light the Rebels slumbers.
And fair the form of Music shines,
That bright, celestial creature,
Who still mid wars embattled lines
Gave this one touch Of nature.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14

IL recent Investigations made in En-
gland to discover the cause of tainted
milk in dairy, it was found that it could
be nothing more nor less than the eflluvia
from dead animal in the neighborhood
of the stable, by which the air the cows
breathed was tainted; the faint, Of
course, communicated to the blood, and
thence TO the milk. On its removal, the
milk at once assumed its normal condi-
ton.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14
How n Dog was Sold"

Here is true dog story: A family down
town having false CRATE in one of the
rooms of the house, placed some red pa
per behind it to give the effect of fire.
One of the coolest days this winter the
dog belonging to the household came in
from out of doors, and, seeing the paper
in the CRATE, deliberately walked up to
it and laid down before it, curled up in
the best way to receive the glowing heat
as it came from the fire. He remained
motionless for n few minutes feeling no
warmth, he raised his head and looked
over his shoulder at the CRATE; still feel
ing no heat, he arose and carefully APP
piled his nose to the CRATE and smelt OF
it. 1t was rs cold as ice. With look
of the most supreme disgust, his tail
curled down between his legs, every hair
on his body saying I'm sold, > the dog
trotted out of the room, not even deign-
ing to east look at the party in the
room who had watched his actions and
laughed so heartily at his misfortunes.
That dog had reason as well as instinct.
Troy Times.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14

a LADY had to be conveyed out OF the
room at n recent bal masqie in Paris In
n complete state of prostration, which
turned out TO have been caused 10y the
poisonous particles emamating from n
green robe she woro.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14

THE coming man-The man who owes
us.
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1873-10-14
@eifeant1 efner @euae 9einen.

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fereS ben burf uneeiuube gns6Infun9en eraeu9ten
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StrOn,e i'm Siiben unS Meiten, iomte aud in neuen Irtz
iieSelunsen, no bic gtniomseit Der gdtur gum eriten
Mote pom 9fuse unb bet Grt seit0rt piro, afs nnerldss
Tide onsboItsD1ebtc erodtet. Setn &ubnt lit iebo9
nift auf iot6e G~esenOen bei8rdntt @o thinner BITE
&roi1f9sitsetement porfoun1en, ba lit es SaS ii8erite
S3nenrittel fir be Geiunbbett; no 9rantbeit berridt.
ba lit es oS etu 6eilmittel ~ptrflout. Inter ben ernitlts
den Sranfbeiten, mel6e es it9erli@ c%ontroGirt, limb nnz
perooult9eeit, @oni9feit unb oue nit Geransirun9en
bes Oeaseus, BET leber unb be- Giusepeibe per6nnoenen
fLeireren 2eiDer. 4. .. Sobbrernen , &opfi1wer5, BID
bunsen, Seritopftbeit, uebe[feit, l1naei6mad. S6loffbett
nnb S6pd6e, Ser3tlofsn, 3tttern Der 6dnbe, Sbreniaus
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rube. Ga bteie pbpiii4en irb seifttsen St0run9en ETH
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mad ii9 sieben, 10 ioute tbnen iofort obsebolien werOen,
mas i~ebersett bur6 cine Sur nit 9~Ofetters Weasenbittes
rem sei8ebet fanu. 81
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1873-10-14

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borbe an nno 8egen Die 8rau, tDel9e Die
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