The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-31
.Jack-in-the-PuIpit.

Jack-in- the Pulpit.
My name is Jack l am n green thing
coming up as flower, yet l know
great deal. For why? The birds come
and tell me.
1t is quite common for me to talk of
what hear and see, but very few Great
ures can understand-only the owls,
for they are wise and keep silence, the
fairies, who, alas are rather Eighty,
and one or two clear-hearted children
who sometimes run up to me laughing,
and say, "Goodmorning, Mr.. Jack-in-
the-Pulpit -
But here, at last, is chance. A little
bird tells me that through..St Nicholas
the girls and boys all over the country
may hear what | say. This is as it should
be. Why, often l stand and talk whole
days without ever human being COM
ing near me. How would you like
that q?
But those times are over now, and I'm
as happy Jack-in-the-P Pulpit as ever
waved. Hereafter, my dears, you'll get
my messages by paragraph. The editors
of 81. Nicholas have laid the para
graphic wires, whatever those are, and
they say the sooner | begin the better.
Good I've sent the birds off in every
direction to collect information. Not
but that | know good deal already,
understand, but city sparrow tells me
that nowadays young folks want every
thing done up inst so. what in the
world just so" means L can't under
stand, but probably the birds will bring
some word about it,
Meantime I'll tell you few things
that will astonish you if you are dear,
sweet, stupid little folks, and not Para
gons. l don't like little Paragons. They
know botany and pull flowers to pieces
Halo Mr.. Roundeyes, an owl friend
of mine, says | must take that back.
He insists that, of all things, Jack-in-
the-Pulpit shouldn't object to botany
1t helps human beings to understand us,
he says sort of lifts them up to our
level. All right. 1 apologize.
A bird that spends much of his time
on factory roofs tells me that folks are
beginning to make buttons, combs, door
knobs, cups, canes and all sorts of things
out of leather. They chemicalize it, he
says, chip it up and dissolve it in certain
fluids till it is pulp. Then they make
it into useful articles by pressing it into
molds of the required shape. When
they take it out of the molds it is hard
and tough. Then they polish its surface
in some way and the articles are ready
for sale.
So, my dears, you may yet comb your
hair with your skate-straps, button your
clothes with your boots, drink out of
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harness for your walking stick.
WHAT would you say if l told you what
coal comes from 1t is made of trees,
and ferns, and twigs, and Jack-in-the-
Pulpits-fact. Lazy work, though. 1t
takes thousands of years to do it. In
quire into this business.
HERE'S conundrum. A bird heard a
man give it out in Canada
| went into the woods and got it,
After | got it l searched for it. But /
had it in my hand all the time, and at
last went home sbecause | couldn't find
it. Answer-A splinter.
JACK knows where there is tallow
tree. cit is make-believe tree, made
out of tallow, like candles ?" you ask
Oh, no the tallcw tree is a real tree
that grows from twenty to forty feet
high. It's native place is China, but it
has been transplanted into some of our
lighthouses. The tallow comes from the
seeds. They are pounded and boiled in
water, when something tike fat rises on
the top. This fat is skinned off and
when cold it is as white as snow aud al
most as soft. The Chinese mix this
vegetable tallow with wax to harden it,
and out of the mixture make candles,
which give clear bright light. Now,
then, if you want candle, and you
know any one who has dollhouse with
tallow tree in it, it would be better for
you to buy n candle in a grocery store
for do not believe you could make one
without wasting great many tallow-
plant seeds.
In parts of Switzerland, when two mer
have quarreled with each other, and
their friends are anxious to see them rec.
onciled, they endeavor to bring them
unawares under the same roof. If the
two enemies sit down at the same table
they are pledged to peace. They breal
once more. 1t would be good idea i
every boy or girl who quarrels with an
other boy or girl, should makeup,
and become reconciled the moment they
happened to eat bread together in tn,
same county at least, that is what Jacl
thinks about it-H. Nicholas.
which IL Caughty
Which is caught? Mousie or Pussie
Ha ha Not Mousie for Puss cannot
move without setting him free. 1t il