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Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-09-29

STRANGE OcCURRENcE.-A western aditor
on entering his office, and seeing his apprer,.
tice boy cutting some queer capers, called out
to him,
Jim, what are you doing on The loorsn
:'Why, SIR, have had shockr'
"A shock?"
"What kind Of shock?n
"Why, sir" said the lad. gasping, "one of
your subscribers came in during your absence
said he owed for two years. subscription~
paid 1t. and also paid another year in ad-
vance"
'ln advanced gasped the editor, nearly AZ
much overcome as his lone apprentice.
yes, sir, and It has produced such n effect
upon me, that have been perfectly helpless
Sand well you may, Jim. But, get up: If
you survive this, you arc safe, as there In lit
.is prospect OF another such catastrophe 10 this
Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-09-29

A telegram to the Richmond Despatch says
mat Y. A. Stanton, claiming ~ be Q corres-
pondent Of New York paper, has swindled
Miller q Franklin, bankers of Lynchburg, va,
OF $l220. by means of a forged draft Stanton
Visited the Virginia Springs under pretence of
being q Herald correspondent, He has escap-
ed arrest.
Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-09-29

QUksrIoSs FOR Law SrUDkNTs.-What IL
the difference between fine and q recovery
ting sober.
When is 1t necessary TO commence frssh suits
When the other has became too ventilstipe on
seedy.
What Is a release? To exchange the socisty
OF your ugly aunt for that Of your beautiful
eous In.
What Is q clerical error? Preaching q three
hours sermon.
What are breaches of trusts Trowsers pro-
cured on tick.
What are membranes? Your poor reIa-
tioss.
What Is q mortgage In possessiens An un-
Mention some Of the principal law books
Wnich you have studieds Hoylas law Of Whit,
Cribbage etc.
What are original writs? Pothooks and han.
gers.
what steps should you take to dissolve an
inJunctionf should put 1t into hot water and
let. it remain there until wanted.
Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-09-29

WORTH OF GOOD NAME.-A man of very
pleasing address, but very dishonest In his prac-
tices, once said to an honorable mere hant, II
would give fifty thousand pounds for your good
name"
"Why so ?" asked the ether, in some sur.
prise.
"Because could make hundred thousa nd
pounds out Of ii.
Ihe honorable character, which was At the
bottom Of the good name, he cared nothing for;
IL was only the reputation which he could turn
10 account In money point Of view, which he
coveted.
but good name cannot be bought with sil-
veri IL, OF al other possessions, must be fairly
earned. When 1t Is possessed, 1t is hetter bus-
ness capital than great sum Of money. IL Is
fortune any boy or girl may secure. Honesty
must oe Its foundation, even in the smallest
particulars. When an employer says, "Thero
Is boy can trust" that youth will always
nhd himself in demand, provided he Joins in
dustry with honor. "The hand Of the dilgent
maketh rich."
IL seems hard at the time, perhaps, to be
pound TO ceaseless round of work, while other
soys are lounging, or playing on the green. Bot
tne reward will come II you are faithful. While
luiers are dragging out miserable life time In
pfiVation and poverty, the haed-working boy
hves at his ease, respected and honored
hsmember that il you desire to make YOUR
way ln the world, there Is nothing that can
serve your purpose like name for honesty and
INDUSTRY; and you will never acquire either II
you are loiterer about the Streets and neglect
iui Oh your Ddsiness. "a good name Is rather
10 We rnosen than great riches, and loving favor
rather than silver and gold"
Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-09-29
MON DAY MORNING., SEPT; MBER 29 1873.
DRYING HOME THE COWS.

I DRIVING HOME THE COWS.
Low in the sky the last sunbeams are shining
Lifting their gold through the apple-tree
boughs;
Tie up your shoes and put on your hat, Willie
And we'll go toge ther and drive home ths
cows.
This is the way, through the lane, by the orch
ard,
Across the stone bridge where the bright wat.
ers flow; ~
Then e'lllet down the bars and leave the road
open,
And over the hill to the pastures below.
Here is the path where they go in the morning
Cropping the clover and fresh dewy grass,
Brushing the sweet fern and bayberry bushes
That shed their fain, perfume on all things
that pass.
Now We can see them at rest In the hollow,
Under lhe walnut trees shady and tall
You call them Willie, while pick the roses
And white meadow rue clustered here by the
wall
Dolly starts quickly. her keen mother instinct
Urging her home her young bossy to meet;
While Brindle and Buttercup, Daisy and Jew
ell, ...-- -
Come after her, pacing with tardier feet.
And thus, by the pathway of morning return
They wind round the hillside. an orderly
band,
Past orchard and brook till they reach their
night haven.
Where Bridget awaits them with milkpail In
hand.
Look here on the fence 10 the nest Of a robin,
And we see where she comes from her forag-
ing flight;
Wen watch while she's feeding her three hum
cry birdlings,
Aud tncking them under her wings for the
night
Now homewarl We'll haste as the twilight
grows deeper,
And evenings fair star glmmers soft in the
west;
Ills time the little boys, like the cows and the
robins,
With work and play ended, should 60 to their
rest.
Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-09-29
.HNM0R0V8
SEEDINESS IN SPRIN0.


Caught In . vernal shower,
i got beneath q tree:
For l am not . flower;
The rain improves not me;
Regilds the dandelion,
Revives the daisy's hues,
But not restores the dye on
My coat, or mends my shoes.
And thou, too fsirest daughter
or not q wealthy sire.
Alas, no good rain-water
VIII do to thine attire,
Nor all the rose and lily
That In thy cheek combine!
And 1 were very silly
To wish that thou vert mine.
Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-09-29
RELIGIOUS.

/ The MOTHERS PRAYER Once there was
a good mother whose chief prayer for her little
boy In his cradle was that he might have a low
Ing heart. She did not pray that be might be
Wise or rich or handsome or happy or learned
or that others might love him, but only that he
might love-
When that little boy, whose name was Ed
ward, grew up, 1t seemed as II his mothers
prayer had been answered, aud that, In making
1t, she had been wiser than she knew or dream.
ed.
She had not prayed that he might be ,oise !;
make him wise, and TO lead him 10 choose
what Is bost, and to remember all the good
things he was taught.
She had not prayed that he might be rich
but It turned out that he was so anxious to help
and serve Others, that he found tine only way to
do that was to get the means of helping and
so ne became diligent, thrifty, and prompt in
sought.
Edwards mother had not prayed that he
might be handsome but there was so much
love and goodwill manifest In his face, that
people loved to look on IL and Its expression
made Il handsome for beauty attends love like
its shadow.
The prayer had not been that he might be
hdppT brt-dear me! how can there be love |
IN the heart without happiness? Edward had no |
TIME ior moplng discomfort, for revenge, or an /
ger; He was too busy thinking what he might |
do lor Others; and in seeking Tor their happi- /
ness, he found his own.
-. Bct was he learneds OF course, when te
io'ind u pleased bis parents to have him attend
70 his studies, he die his best; and though there
were ". many boyA quicker and apter than he, vet /
EDWARD caught up with them at last for love |
made him attentive and earnest.
But last OF all, though Edward loved others,
nid DINERS love him? That Is the simplest |
question Of all. You must first give love Il you
wouiu get 1t. Yes; everybody loved Edward,
simply because he loved everybody. And Az
advise those little boys and girls who think
hey are not loved, to put to themselves the
question, ''But do yeu love?'-Etniiy Garter,
N the Nursery.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14
The First Newspaper.

Authorities have differed widely as to
the nation and city edtitled to the honor
of having started the first printed news
paper. For many years it was supposed
that the credit belonged to England 1t
was claimed that the British Museum
had copy of the earliest paper in it's
collection. 1t was called the English
Wcrcuric, and printed July %, 1853;
but it has been shown that this copy,
like specimens of rare old coins, was
spurious, and gotten up for sale. Watts,
the photographer of the Musuem, who
saw, on examination, that the type and
paper were of modern origin and did not
belong TO the sixteenth century, ex-
posed the forgery. 1t was an ingenious
fabrication, pretending to give the news
of the Spanish Armada, which was de-
stroyed in the English channel by Drake
and Howard day or two previous to
the date of the sheet. There were seven
numbers of this spurious Mercurie pro-
duced-four in manuscript and three i'll
print.
Venice has claimed the honor of lead
ing the way in giving newspapers to the
world. The G0zetta, thus named be-
cause it sold for small piece of money
called gazzetta, it is asserted, was print
ed there i'll 1870, and it is pretended that
copies of this paper of that date are in
one or two collections i'll London. But
late discoveries have, apparently, estab-
lished the claim of the old city of Nu-
remburg to this high honor. A paper
called the gazette, according to trust
worthy authorities, was printed III that
city as early as 1857, five years after Pc
ter Schotfer cast the first metal type in
matrices. Nuremburg, with the first
paper in the fifteenth century, also claims
the honor of the first paper in the six
teenth century. There is an anciently
printed sheet in the Libri collection
which antedates all others except the
sheet of 1857 and the Chronicle of Co
logne. 1t is called the Neue Zeitung
aus Hispanien md Halien, and bears
the date of February, 1884. The Brit
lsh Museum, it is said, has n duplicate
of this sheet
Thus to Germany belongs the honor
not only of the first printers and the
first printing, but also of the first print
ed newspaper 1t has also another dis
tinction. In 1915, Egenolf Eurmel
started Die F'dnkfurter Oberpostdmpts
Zcito,g, the first daily paper in the
world. This paper is still published;
and the city of Frankfort is to erect
monument in houor of its founder and
editor, as the father of newspapers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14
Foreign Items.

THE Turkish Government has sus-
pended "A comic journal
RUE DIX MADAME DE STAEL is the name
of IA new street III Paris.
LORD LYrroS was the most opulent
literary man of modern times.
A GENTLEMAN in Switzerland, who
gave his time 10 it last year, caught
/ ,82l mice.
The Pope plays very good game of
billiards, and smokes cigarettes like
Spanish bull-fghter.
EUGENE sent a rather frigid reply to
the letter of coincidence from Marshal
and Madame Mcmahon.
The Portuguese dictionary, which was
begun nearly one hundred years ago by
the Academy of Sciences, has now
brought down its information to the end
OF the letter G.. Senior Domingos
Nieira is now the editor of the work.
LIVINGSTONE has at last left Unyanyem-
be. He started August Is for the dis
trict of Ironda and Manyema, to visit
people of whom Europeans know moth
ing except through the natives who have
traded with these inhabitants of the in
terror.
MIsFoRTUSEs, they say, never come
singly. The .StoiS8 Times says that re-
Gently, during a performance at the
Scala Theater, Milan, a ballet girl was
nearly burned to death, mOdtstc fell
and broke her leg, a supernumerary fell
dead, and one of the musicians became
raving mad.
They have a baby hippopotamus at
the London geological Gardens. Out
of fifteen of these animals born at the
various geological gardens in Europe,
only one has ever survived to- maturity,
and he was finally burned alive Mr..
Frank Buckland entertains great hopes
that the present infant will live to grow
up.
A MAN lately fell into a canal at Brus-
sells. After being fshed out insensible
ordinary remedies were tried in vain for
three hours, after which DR.. Joux APP
piled iron plates at white heat to the
upper parts of the body near the vital
center, which soon set the drowned man
squirming He has recovered from the
drowning, but complains of the burns.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14

Although not n shorthand writer,
the late Henry j. Raymond was an ac-
complished reporter, and unquestionably
the most rapid writer connected with the
press. He held his own with such
stenographers ms Robert Sutton and
James A. Houston, two of the best
shorthand reporters i'll the country ut
that period. With marvellous rapidity
in writing, Mr.. Raymond displayed
great tact. One one occasion, when
Daniel Webster was to speak III Boston,
several reporters were sent from New
York to report his speech, and Mr.. Ray
mond attended for the Tribune. On his
return, instead OF losing time, he en-
gagged state-room on the Sound steam
boat, where he wrote his long hand
notes. While the reporters were III
Boston, types, cases and printers had
been quietly placed on board the steamer,
and as rapidly as Mr.. Raymond wrote
out the speech the printers /" set it up.
On their arrival at New York the speech
was III type and ready for the press, and
appeared the same morning III late
edition of the Tribune, much to the
modification of the other reporters and
the surprise of other journalists.
One of the most striking instances of
Mr.. Raymond's accuracy and rapidity
rs reporter occurred while he was
representing the courier and Enquirer
at Washington Mr.. Webster was to
make an important speech in the Senate.
Mr.. Raymond was present, and all the
other papers were represented. Looking
at the clock, 1t occurred to him that the
Senator would finish about the hour of
the closing of the mail. He therefore
prepared himself. Webster began his
speech Raymond took every word
down in long hand-the other reporters,
of course, III shorthand. Webster, it
is true, was a slow, deliberate speaker,
but as the average speed of an orator S
tongue is six uttered to one carefully
written word, our readers can imagine
the rapidity of Raymond's writing.
Webster finished. 1t was nearly mail
time. 1t would be utterly inipos-
sible to write out the speech for that
mail, and that was the mail to carry the
speech. Raymond looked at his notes,
and again Mt the clock. Rolling all up
in an envelope, inclosing a private note
10 the foreman of the COtViCr and En-
guircr, he dropped the parcel into the
editors bag. 1t reached the Office III
Wall street, the copy was distributed
among the compositors, and the whole
speech appeared in the next edition OF
the COUrjcr and Enquirer, TO the dis
may of the other papers and the chagrin
of the reporters. Its accuracy received
the fullest Endorsement of Mr.. Webster.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14
What an Old Man Has Noticed.

| have noticed that all men are honest
when well watched.
/ have noticed that purses will hold
pennies as well as pounds.
| have noticed that merit Is always
measured in this world by its success.
| have noticed that iii nearly all
things money is the main object in view.
! have noticed that i'll order to be
reasonable creature it is necessary at
times to be downright mad.
l have noticed that some men are so
honest that necessity compels them to
be dishonest in the end.
have noticed that silks, broadcloths
and Jewels are often bought with other
peoples money.
have noticed that whatever il, Ia
right, with few exceptions-the left
eve, the left leg, and the left side of
plum pudding.
Ihave noticed that the prayer of every
selfish man is, a" Forgive us our debts.
while he makes everybody who owes
him pay to the utmost farthlng.
| have noticed that he who thinks
every man "A rogue is very certain to see
one when he shaves himself, and he
ourht. in mercy TO his neighbor to sur
render the rascal TO justice.
Ihave noticed that money is the FOOLS
wisdom. the knave's reputation, the
Door mans desire, the covetous mans
ambition, and the idol of all.
| have noticed shatall men speak well
Of an mems virtues when they are dead.
and that tombstones are marked
with epitaphs of the good and
virtuous. Is there any particular GENE
terry where the bad mon are buried
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14
Farming "a a Business.

A man who is not smart enough to
run store is not smart enough to run Il
farm. Farmers are not to be ont of
what is left after lawyers, doctors, min
listers, and merchants are sorted and
picked out. And if man fails on IL
farm he is not likely to succeed in a
store, for 1t requires more talent to be "A
thriving farmer than TO be an average
merchant. The one great failure is the
disproportion between mans farm and
his capital. \ farmers capital is his
skill, labor, and his money. If he has
little cash, he must have no more land
than he can manage by his personal
labor. Every acre beyond that is an in
cumbrance. One acre we'll worked is
more profitable than twenty acres skim
med over It is this greed of land by
farmers that have not the capital TO work
it, that keeps so many poor. Small
farms are better than large ones, simply
because they are better suited to the
capital of common farmers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14

London seems once more like itself.
Parliament Is again in session, and Par
lament brings IL vast accession of life
to the West End, not To speak of It's i'll
tiuence on the morning newspapers !:
an influence SO great that merely III
respect 10 space and the distribution of
topics they undergo IA complete trans
formation. Everybody who ever sees
an English journal is familiar with the
portentous aspect of their broad col
umns during the session, crammed, as
they are, with reports, in solid type, of
debates sometimes still more solid.
Perhaps the great provincial papers are
still more striking. The leading organs
of Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham,
Dublin. Glasgow and many another
great towns publish every morning much
fuller reports of Parliamentary doings
than the New York papers publish of
proceedings in Congress. Perhaps the
scotsman, of Edinburgh, outdoes them
all. Like many others, it has long had
an office in London, and a special wire
for its own news from London to Edin-
burg. Ina neutrality-suspicious. announces
that its offices in London and Edln-
burgh have now been connected by n
second special the two wires being used
exclusively for itself. The distance is
some 400 miles. 1t has also telegraph
wire from the houses of Parliament to
its London Office, exclusively for Parlia-
mentary reports. 1t has its own staff
of reporters in Parliament, relying no
longer on news association report sup
piled in common to great number Of
journals. Practically, it can put Par
liamentary reports in type about as rap
idly as if they took place next door All
this, it is true, is done very cheaply,
thanks to the care the press took to
secure It's own telegraphic interests when
the Government monopoly came into
operation. London Letter.
-. ET,,,,1,,, q ,,.1.. a 4ooO oon
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14
FARM AND GARDEN.
Oxen in Harness.

Who has not noticed the painful strug.
giles OF oxer when enganged III hauling
heavy load by the yoke They lean
outward from the tongue, their bodies
are twisted out of the direct line of
draft, and the waste of strength even III
the best broken animals must be very
considerable. In many countries, and
III some parts of our own country, II
harness made with broad leathen band
is used instead of the yoke. 1t would
seem, however, that Yankee ingenuity
should discover some better form of the
yoke. The theory is that the weight
bearing and pushing power of the OK
lies in his fore-shoulders and legs, and
in his neck and forehead. 1t is surely a
mistake to place heavy weight upon
his neck and then require him to use
the place where this weight rests rs Il
point of traction. As We write this
paragraph many picture comes up OF
half-frenzied cattle engaged IN hauling II
load which at once held them back and
pressed them earthward. Now we may
go to nature for instruction in this mat
ter. The OK instinctively pushes with
his forehead when he wants to over
throw an obstacle or an opponent. He
has short and enormously strong neck,
but the space between his horns and his
shoulders il surely not calculated to
sustain a heavy weight, such as is often
placed upon it. The yoke, a. we use it,
does not in its best estate place the strain
farther back than the base of the neck.
Notice where the hair is yoke-wom on
your cattle, and see if You can convince
yourself that the spot is intended by
nature to receive the strain to which it
is subjected. In Africa and elsewhere
the yoke is sometimes bound to the
base of the horns. This plan has its
advantages as well as its disadvantages
The yoke, in the first place, is of simple
form, being straight stick of wood,
and it may be lighter, for it is not awk-
wardly cut IN curves across the grain.
On the other hand, the cattle cannot
move their heads freely, nor can they
use the pushing power of their shout
ders. We may, therefore, dismiss the
African plan as not practicable here. a
simply -contrived harness, combined,
perhaps, for use before a two-wheel cart,
with light yoke, resting, If possible,
upon the shoulders, or upon collar,
would distribute the strain, and make
matters easier for man and beast.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14

Ella broke the engagement. Stephens
went to Pittsburgh, was successful, and
became proprietor of large manufac-
tory. The other day he visited Newark,
and in passing through one of the mills
his eye met that of young lady who
was working ut loom. He pretended
not to recognize her, but when the girls
came from the building when work was
done Stephens was waiting. He adj
dressed the girl as Ella Morrison. Her
father died soon after he went to Pitts
burgh, and she was left penniless
From Orange county she went to New
York. thence to Paterson and Newark,
working her way alone. Mr.. George
Stephens and Miss Ella Morrison were
married the next day, and started for
Pittsburgh Immediately after the cere-
mony. TtUsriUe Hcrald.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-14
Undying Love.

Mr.. George Stephens il the owner of u
pretty extensive manufacturing business
in Pittsburgh. George was not always
a resident of the Birmingham of Amer
lea, nor was he always the owner of an
unexpended balance in one of the
numerous monetary institutions of chat
city. In fact, few years since the now
wealthy Pittsburgh manufacturers was "a
poor clerk in dry goods store in Orange
county, n. Y. There. while selling
colico and ribbons to the country dam
sells, he met, wooed and won farmers
daughter named Ella Morrison. For a
year all went well, but another young
lady received trifing attentions, and