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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-04
A Drunkard's Warming.

A young man entered the bar-room of
village tavern, and called for drink.
"No," said the landlord, "you have too
much already. You have had delirium
tremens once, and cannot sell you any
more He stepped aside to make room
for couple of young men who had Just
entered, and the landlord waited upon
them very politely. The other had stood
by silent and sullen, and when they had
finished he walked up to the landlord,
and thus addressed him: "Six years
ago, at their age, stood where those
young men now are, l was a man with
fair prospects. Now, at the age of
twenty-eight, I am wreck, body and
mind. You led me to drink. In this
room / formed the babit that has been
my ruin. Now sell me few glasses
more, and your work will be done
shall soon be out of the way there is no
hope for me. But they can be saved
they may be men again. Do not sell it
to them. Sell it to me, and let me die,
and the world will be rid of me but for
Heavens sake sell no more to- them p
The landlord listened, pale and trem-
bling. Setting down his decanter, he
exclaimed, "God helping me, that is
the last drop will ever sell to any onev'
And he kept his word.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-04
Country Papers.

The New York Times says that You
might nearly as well forget your
churches, your academies, and school,
houses as to forget your local paper. 1t
speaks to ten times the audience that
the local minister does. 1t is read
eagerly each week from beginning to
end. 1t reaches you all, and if it has a
lower spirit and less wisdom than SER
mon, it has thousand better chances
at you. Laying, as it does, on every ia
BILE, in almost every house, you owe it
to yourself to rally literally to its sup
port, and exact from it as able, high
toned a character as you do from any
educator in your midst. 1t is in no
sense beneath notice and care-for it is
your representative. Indeed, in it's
character, it is the consummation of i'm
portance, interest and welfare of You
all. 1t is the aggregate of your own
consequence, and you cannot ignore it
without miserably depreciating your
self,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-04
Diffusion of Scents.

Nothing can give more faithful idea
of the divisibility of matter than the
diffusion of smells. Three-quarters of
a grain of musk placed in a room de-
velops q very strong smell i'll it for
considerable time without the musk per-
ceptibly losing weight, and the box con-
tanning the musk will retain the perfume
almost indefinitely. Halter states that
papers perfumed with a grain of amber
girls were quite odoriferous at the ex-
piration of forty years. l remember
purchasing upon the quay in Paris,
some twelve years ago, a pamphlet
which had pronounced odor of musk
about it. 1t had no doubt been there
many months, exposed to the sun and
wind and rain. Since that time it has
remained upon library shelf, where
the air has full access to it, and, having
just opened its pages, find it as fully
scented as ever. Smells are transport
ed by the air to great distances. A dog
can recognize his masters approach
from a distance and it is asserted that
at twenty-fv miles from the coast Of
Ceylon the delicious perfume of it's
baimy forests is still borne upon the
wind. These sweet perfumes, like the
harmony and the activity of the terres-
trial surface, we owe to the atmos-
phere.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-04
Look Out for HOrse.ThieyeS.

Our rural friends are advised to keep
a sharp watch on all stragglers and
strangers Offering horses for sale. Chi
cago and her suburbs are infested with
these villainous pests, who make nightly
raids on the stables in and around the
city. Many valuable equines have
turned up missing lately. 1t is the prac-
tice of the thieves to run them into the
agricultural districts and dispose of them
to unsuspecting farmers, who are only
too willing to buy because an apparently
cheap bargain is offered, which in too
many instances proves to be no bargain
at all, for very frequently the stolen
animal is traced and recovered, and the
purchaser has to whistle for the money
he has paid to the thief. Farmers in
the country cannot be too careful.
"Forewarned is forearmed."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-04
French Pleasantly.

A story is told of a Partisan butcher
who brought an offender to punishment
IN very humorous manner. Perceiv-
ing that pieces of meat were frequently
stolen from his shop front, of course by
the cat, he bethought himself of the
old expedient suggested, but not carried
out, by the tabled rat, and determined
to bell the robber. He therefore fast
ened a string, some six yards long, with
bell at the end of it, to several nice,
handy pieces displayed on the board.
He had not long to wait piece was
hurriedly snatched up, and off ran the
thief with the string and bell dragging
after her, and pursued by the butcher
boy in commissions of laughter. The
culprit was woman, who, hearing the
bell ringing behind her, and not daring
to turn her head, ran faster and faster,
producing, as she ran, still wilder ing
ling from the bell. Having fully en-
joyed the scene, the boy at last pointed
out the terrified thief to the police, who
thought the whole thing was practical
joke, and was as much amused as the
boy. In short, everybody but the sub
ject of the experiment was delighted
with the sportive method of carrying
out serious public duty.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-04

Heads are of different shapes and
sizes. They are full of notions. Large
heads do not always hold the most.
Some persons can tell just what a man
is by the shape of his head. High heads
are the best kind. Very knowing peo-
pie are called long-headed. A fellow
that won't stop for anything or anybody
is called hot-headed. If he is not
quite so bright they call him soft-head-
ed. If he won't be coaxed nor turned
they call him plg-headed. Animals
have very small heads. The heads of
fools slant back. When your head is
cut off you are beheaded. Our heads
are covered with hair, except bald heads.
There are barrel heads; heads of SER
mons-and some ministers used to have
fifteen heads to one sermon; pin heads;
heads of cattle, as the farmer calls his
cows and oxen; head winds; drum heads
cabbage heads; at loggerheads; come tC
a head; heads of chapters; head him off
head of the family; and go ahead-but
first be sure you are right; but the
worst of all heads are dead-heads, who
hang around for free tickets to shows.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-04
Hats Off.

Dio Lewis accounts for the badness
of men in q very simple way-their
habit of keeping the head constantly
covered. He says you never see man
lose hair below where the hat touches
his skull. 1t will take it off as clean as
you can shave it down to exactly that
line, but never hair below, not if he
has been bald fifty years. The common
black stiff hat, as impervious as sheet
iron, retains the heat and perspiration
The little hair glands, which bear the
same relation to the hair that the seed
wheat does to the plant above ground,
become weak from the presence of the
moisture and heat, and finally become
too weak to sustain the hair. 1t falls
out, and badness exists. A man with a
good head of hair needs very little pro-
lection where the hair grows. And
yet" he says, eve men wear immense
ly thick fur caps, and what amounts to
sheet-iron hats, and do not dare step
ont in a chilly atmosphere a moment
lest we take cold 1t is silly, weak, and
really a serious error. The Creator
knew what he was about when he COW
cred mans skull with hair. 1t has q
very important function in protecting
the brain. Badness is q serious mis-
fortune. 1t will never occur in any man
who will wear such hat as 1 do
common high silk bat with five hundred
holes through the top, so that there will
be more holes than hat. This costs
nothing the halter will do it when YOU
purchase your hat. If the nap be
combed back the wrong way, and If af
ter the holes are made it be combed the
right way, no one will ever observe tn,
popularity. The hat will wear quite a.
long-the hatters say considerabl,
longer-because it is dry instead o
moist in brief, there is not singh,
objection to it, while it will certainl,
prevent badness, keep the top of tn,
head cool, and prevent much head
ache"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-04

who have lived in the country, have seen
little dark-brown insect, in the spring
and summer months, busily flying from
one flower to another. She seems to
have no time to lose. She lights on a
blossom and dips her head into it, or If
it be large she goes into 1T with her
whole body, and having obtained her
object here, she hurries off to another.
Her whole heart is in her work. She
cannot stop a moment, and attends 10
nothing but her business. How unlike
the idle fly which we see in our houses,
and which is so troublesome IN the
summer.
This little insect all young people
know to be the honeybee. She has her
favorite flowers. There are some that
she shuns of others she is fond and
she shows an exquisite taste III her
choice. She is very partial to that sweet
little flower, the white clover. After
passing from flower to flower till she
has loaded herself with honey, she rises
into the air, and hurries off to her home
with light heart, as if conscious that
she had done her duty. She turns
neither to the right hand nor to the left,
but flies straight as an arrow to her hive
and companions. She never loses her
way. She cannot take the wrong road,
whether her path lies over the woods or
the green fields. If she should be car
ried some miles from her home in a
close box, and then permitted to fly,
she would not hesitate as to the way to
her hive.
There have been some men who have
watched bees and other insects very
carefully, and have told us many won
derful things about them. There was q
man whose name was Huber who dis.
covered many things with regard to
bees which had not been known before
his time. Huber was native of Gene.
va, in Switzerland, and was born in the
year 1850. He lost his way in winter
night, and being exposed to the cold
and snow, was deprived of his eyesight
But though he was blind, he had
learned so many things about bees thai
he published book, which contained
much pleasing and wonderful informa
ton concerning them.
Bees are very Industrious in obtaining
honey from the flowers, but are ready tc
take it when they can find it already
made, and they have remarkablep power
of discovering honey or sugar, when II
is so situated that they can get at it
even when concealed from their sight
Huber put some honey behind win
dow-shutter, where it could not be
seen, and in ten minutes four bees
some house flies, and butterfly hao
found it.
Bees, in their natural or wild state
live in hollow trees, in the woods. Anc
in consequence of their always flying to
their home in straight line, men have
often been able to find where that home
was by putting some honey or sugar OF
plate, which, set on the ground, thu
bees soon find. When they are full
the men follow them, and find thei
place of abode.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-04

ready use this recipe we will give it, as
we think it the way to make corn bread.
Take two pints sweet milk, two-thirds
cup of molasses, two cups -four and four
of meal; add nearly teaspoonful of
soda. Bake slowly two hours, so crust
will be tender when taken out.
BATTER PUDDINa.-One pint milk !;
four eggs two even cups flour one
teaspoonful salt pinch of soda. Bake
in buttered dish three-quarters of an
hour. Eat hot with rich sauce. Or,
you may boil in buttered tin or Toured
bag-fouring very thickly. Boil two
hours-taking care the boiling does not
cease for moment until the pudding is
done.
QUAKING PLUM PUDDING.-Take slices
of light bread, spread thin with butter,
and lay in a pudding-dish layers of this
bread and raisins till within an inch of
the top. Add five eggs well beaten and
a quart of milk, and pour over the pud-
ding. Salt and spice to taste. Bake it
twenty or TWENTY-FIVE minutes, and eat
with liquid sauce. Before using the
raisins boil them in little water and
put it all in.
SHAKE YOUR CARPETS. -Wool carpets
should be taken up and shaken once a
year, and if the room is a common one,
twice or more. Whenever a carpet is
taken up it should be carefully examined,
and if any places are burned or worn
they should be carefully darned with the
rawlings to match. A carpet can be
saved very much by guarding the en-
trance doors with mats, etc., especially
the door leading from the kitchen.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-04
A Black and White Boy Combination

A rem irkable bow was to be seen Mt
the Nashville depot yesterday; i'll fact,
one of the greatest curiosities of the
age. He is half white and half black
not in the mulatto and miscegenation
sense, but the lower half of his body is
winter than white folks usually are,
while the upper portion is black as mid
night. His mother, coal black ne
gress, was with him, and they left on
the Nashville train at o'clock last even
ing. He is but three years old, and has
already learned to make money out OF
his peculiarities. He made several
nickles yesterday in very few minutes.
There is round patch, about three
inches in diameter, of perfectly beauti-
full hair on the top of his head, which is
surrounded by little kinky negro wool.
Louisville Ledger.
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How CIRCUS HORSES ARE TAUGHT TO
DANoE.-Is is done (the Prairie Farm
or informs us) by the person before him
hitting him on the shin with long
cane or whip; he lifts up that leg the
other is hit, he lifts up that, then the
first is again struck, and so on. The
horse soon finds out what is wanted,
and like the stupidest of ourselves,
would of course prefer the little trouble
of lifting leg to avoid hit on the
shin. To this he gets so awake that
the mere motion of the stick or whip is
sufficient and as the mans body nat
urally inclines or waves to the right or
left, as he moves the stick or whip to
strike, the horse gets so accustomed to
this that the mere swaying of the ex-
hibitor's body is in the end quite suf-
ficient hint to him (; and some motion
of this sort will be observed in the ex'
hibitor when the horse is performing in
public.
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Domestic Recipes.

SURPRISE CAKE.-One egg, one cup of
sugar, one-half cup shortening, one cup
of sour milk, tespoon of soda. Season
to taste.
WASHING LIQUOR FOR COARSE ARTICLES
ON Floors. lime, half a pound;
soda, one pound water, six quarts.
Boil two hours, let it settle, and strain.
To TELL COOP EGGS. If you wish to
be certain that your eggs are good and
fresh put them in water. If the butts
turn up they are fresh. This is an in
fallible rule to distinguish a good egg
from bad one.
TOMATO SoUP.-Boil one pint canned
tomatoes for twenty minutes in one pint
water; then add one pint milk very
gradually, that it may not curdle season
as for oyster soup, and serve with hot
crackers or squares of toasted bread.
KEEPING HoNEY.-To keep honey all
the year round, let it run through fine
sieve to separate it from particles OF
wax then boil it gently in an earthen
vessel, skim off the foam which gathers
on top, and cool it in jars. After cover
ing these tightly, set them away in
cool cellar.
CLEANING Stoves. Stove luster, wher
mixed with turpentine and applied in
the usual manner, is blacker, more
glossy and more durable than wher
mixed with any other liquid. The tur
pentine prevents rust, and when put Oh
an old rusty stove will make 1t look az
well as new.
Corn BREAD. TO all that do not al
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FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
Little Nellv-


Bright little Nelly sits in the sun,
Counts on her fingers, one by one,
"Twelve o'clock one o'clock, half-past two,
Oh but wish I'd something to do!
Poor little Nelly, sad little girl,
Lazily twisting her haxen curl.
"Oh! where are you going, little breeze?"
"Down in the meadow, under the trees"
"Please, little breeze, won't you stay and play I?
There's u butterfly we can chase away"
ooh, but my poor little crippled Jane
Is waiting for me to come again;
so 1 must hasten, and fly away,
Take her the scent of the new-mown hay"
Bright little Nelly! What sad surprise
Has hidden the laughter in her eyes?
Away to her mother sudden thought
Back to her eyes has the sur shine brought.
al dreamed in the sun, and something said
jamie, the cripple, has no bread
sand, mother dear, I've nothing to do,
May go and see ii this be true?
"May l take my doll and picture-book,
For jamie, you know, will like to look
"At the pretty birds, and flowers, and things
In my biggest book the Christ-child brings"
Bright little Nelly, merry and wild,
Carrying food to the crippled child
Bread for the body, and heart-food, too!
Dear little Nell that's something to do!
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-04
How TO Keep Off Flies.

In one of his lectures the celebrated
J. j. Mech said Where you have
plenty of food, warmth and stock, you
will have abundance of flies. My bull.
locks could never lie down in the day
time, owing to their attacks, and, OF
course, the long-continued lifting OF
their feet prevented fattening. BY
darkening the feeding houses, entirely
removed this nuisance, and had the
qualification of putting my animals in q
most profitable state of response, for, il
you have ten millions of flies, not one
will bite in the dark" Mech is a warm
advocate of providing shelter for stock,
first on the ground of economy and sec.
ond on the score of humanity.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-04
To Ploxy Down Grass.

The Canadian Farmer says: Not
withstanding the utmost pains and care
in blowing, the grass, especially if long,
will bristle up in boards and tufts here,
there, and everywhere, injuring alike
the appearance of the field and its
capacity for growth. Do you wish to
remedy this great difficulty? If SO, use
the chain and ball to your pillow. No
matter what kind of pillow you have, try
them. A piece of ordinary trace chain
will do very well. Fasten one end OF il
to your coulter, and to the other end
attach a round iron ball of from two tC
three pounds weight, leaving the chain
long enough to permit the ball to reach
back to about the middle of the molC
board, and there let it drag along, Oh
the of side, of course.
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LANGUAGE OF ANIMALs.-It has long
been known that animals and insects
have language that is understood by
others of the same group. But M.
Houreau maintains that they can and do
learn to understand the language OF
other groups. His dogs, for instance,
perfectly understand his poultry. Cocks
and hens have one danger-signal for the
approach of bird of prey, another foi
that of terrestrial animal or for n man.
When the latter was sounded the dogs
would rush out and bark, while the
former paid no attention whatever. He
therefore concludes that fowls have the
power of expressing slightly different
but closely allied ideas, and dogs car
learn to understand these differences.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-04

SUPERFINE LAw.-The Chicago Ecen-
ing Journal denounces the common law
of England as being the outgrowth of
monarchical institutions, and not suited
to this free and glorious country. The
Journal, like the Arkansas lawyers,
doesn't want any British common law,
sir we want the homemade article, and
not common law, neither, but the best
that is kept in the shop, sir!"
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
starting BaIky Horses.

A correspondent of the Country Cen
nenaan writes have plan that sell
dom fails to start the unruly animal in
a few minutes, and if persevered in,
generally effects permanent cure, but
It is too difficult of application to be-
come generally useful. Have with you
a small quantity of whole corn, and
when a remedy is needed go gently to
the horses head with a handful, and
coax him with caresses while he eats
from the hand. Attempt to lead him,
holding the corn little way before him,
and when he goes quietly and shows that
his temper has subsidized, leave him with
his mouth full of corn, get in the vehicle
and speak to him to go on, using quiet
manners, just as if nothing was wrong
and if he refuses apply the same treat
ment again, and again if necessary, until
success attends. Perhaps it may not be
clear to the reader what the difficulty is
in applying this remedy. 1t is in the
worse than balky disposition of the
driver, who would rather succeed once
in twenty times by passionately whip
ping, than nineteen times in twenty by
gentleness. Only a gentleman can
manage balky horse, and while there
are plenty of gentlemen in society, there
are not so many gentlemen in the treat
ment of animals.
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Cheap Poultry Yards.

Set posts firmly in the ground, six feet
high, eight feet apart. Take No. wire
and stretch from post to post outside,
fastening with staples made of wire
driven into posts. Place three wires
one inch apart, one foot from the ground;
another three at three feet ten inches
from the ground another three at top
of posts. Take common laths and weave
in, leaving three inches space between
the sides of each. This makes the fence
four feet high. Then take other laths,
picket one end, and chamfer the other
like a chisel blade, and Intervene
among the top wires ; then shove the
chamfered edge down beside the top of
the bottom lath, tapping under wires
two inches. This makes cheap, dura-
BILE, pretty fence, that is seven feet ten
inches high, and fowl-tight. Wires
should be left somewhat slack, as inter
weaving laths will take it up.
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Feed for Animals.

Animals will eat of dry fodder about
three pounds daily for every 100 pounds
of animal, varying with the animal and
the quality of the food, whether good or
bad, rich or poor. Animals differ greatly
in size, and the rule must be applied ac-
cordingly Again, there is a great differ
ence in the quality of the land, some
kinds yielding more than three times as
much as others. Still again, the man.
agement has much to do with the result.
We are within bounds when we say that
some men will obtain as much from one
acre as others will from ten acres. If
cattle are fed by soiling in summer,
twice as much food may be obtained
from lands as when it is daily pastured.
We have known some men, by skillful
management, feed COW the year round
on two acres others would riquire four
or five acres on similar land. Horses
need one-half more than cows as a COM
mon average, although some cows eat
more than some horses. The labor re-
quired depends greatly on the kind OF
management given to the animals, and
the facility for cropping and feeding.
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The Honey-Bee.
Most boys and girls, especially those