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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-02-13
A Tale of Blood.
From tho San Francisco Chronicle. ]


Yesterday afternoon respectable-ap-
pearing man called at the Drouilhat
hotel, and told waiter in the restaurant
that he wished to see young woman
who he believed lived in the house, and
who was known there as Miss Towers.
The man was quiet in manner respect
ably dressed in dark clothes, and APP
parently about 36 years old. He was a
stranger, and had never been seen in
the house before. The waiter took him
TO a front room on the second floor,
knocked at the door, and in moment
the young woman known as Miss Tow
ers stood before them. The stranger
rushed towards her, the two embraced
each other with kiss, and, closing the
door, they left the waiter in the hall to
find his way down to the restaurant.
Duing the next twenty minutes the
two were frequently heard in CONVERSE
ton, but this was in an ordinary tone,
and with no indication of anger or ex-
element of any kind. Soon after this,
an old man employed in the house had
occasion to pass up stairs. He saw Miss
Towers door open, and she and her Wis
itor standing up, the latter with hat and
umbrella in hand, as if about to leave.
In minute or two only after this, the
men below in the restaurant heard a
noise as if of scuflle, and presently
the noise of some one falling heavily.
The waiter who had shown the stranger
in, rushed up stairs, and was Mortified
at seeing the young woman lying in the
doorway of her room, with the blood
pouring from her neck, and running in
streams and rivulets upon the floor. The
waiter saw no more. but screamed, and
rushed for a policeman. The noise
brought the old man who had last seen
the parties from an adjoining room. AS
his eye fell upon the CHASTITY scene, the
stranger was just crawling on his hands
and knees from the bedroom. His
throat was cut from ear to ear, the blood
was pouring from the wound in torrents,
and leaving red, Shiny trail behind him
as he crawled. He reached the young
woman's side, laid his head upon her
breast, and sinking down in the pool
of blood by her side gasped out his life
in one convulsive struggle.
The two bodies lay side by side, and
the clothing of both, from head to foot,
was actually saturated with blood. The
woman was young-no. over 25-and
had evidently been quite pretty. She
had long, streaming light hair, blue
eyes, open, and horrible in their ghast-
illness, and beautiful white teeth. Her
clothing was neat and fashionably made,
and her whole appearance and that of
her room indicated n person with some
claim to gentility. Both were strangers
in the city, nothing being known con-
corning their identity, whence they
came or the motive for the awful tragedy.
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The Coal MOnOpOlists.

A fact not generally known is tersely
stated in the following paragraph from
the New York Graphic, regarding the
coal-miners and their employers "The
strike of the ceal-miners is at an end,
having lasted just long enough to suit the
purposes of the monopolists. The mild
winter having brought about surplus
of coal, the companies reduced the
wages of their miners so as to lead them
to strike. This strike was allowed to
continue till the surplus coal had been
sold, when the miners were again per-
mitted to resume work at their old rates.
The companies have gained their point,
and have announced that on the 1st OF
March coal will be advanced ten cents
per ton in price, the public being left to
believe that this advance is due to the
grasping spirit of the miners-men who
are paid from Sl2 to ga per week for
spending their lives at hard and danger
GUS work in subterranean darkness.
The railway monopolists-who IN TINS
case are the mine-owners-show singu-
lar ingenuity in exasperating all classes
of people. Are they aware that wnen
they Cypress the miners and fleece the
consumers by. the same @ smart trick
they are stirring up wrath against the
day of wrath p
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Working Men and War.

1t is the working men who constitute
the rank and file of an army. 1t Is their
labor and industry that supply the
sinews of war, the money that is spent
and wasted in carrying it on, and 1T can
not'be impertinent to ask these men
what they get for this expenditure.
Take any of the wars which have been
carried on during our day in Europe,
where such immense armies, under such
renowned Generals, have been engaged
in slaughtering each other, in battering
down cities, and ravaging the country,
and who OF all the Woodworking, in
dustrious classes have been benefited
to the amount of dollar What
Prussian soldier is whit richer or hap
pier for having had Alsace and Lorraine
added to the German empire? Can he
buy land any cheaper? Can he get bet
ter wages for his labor Are his taxes
any lighter? And has there been any
new door of employment opened to him
self or his children ?
Whatever is won in these wars goes to
the King or the Emperor. Whatever is
lost by way of material consumed, rail
roads destroyed, fields wasted, and
towns and villages burnt, are to be
met and restored by new taxes and new
lives, which the industry and bone and
sinews of these working men are to sup
ply. The King goes home in triumph,
and carries with him glory and fame
and accession of territory. The soldier
goes home wounded and broken in
spirit, to live on public charity, or, if
he escapes these, to 60 to work again to
help pay the debt of the war and to feel
a consciousness that, outside of his own
home or village, he is of no more con-
sequence than the horse that dragged
the battlefield.
In the magnificent hospital for in
valid soldiers in Paris, one may see the
legitimate fruits of war. Old and mid
dle.aged men in all stages of dilapida-
ton, clad in the national uniform, and
answering to the roll-call as if they still
owed military service to somebody
men with one leg and crutches, with
neither leg in "A kind of tumbril ; some
with one arm, some with single eye,
some disfgured with CHASTITY saber-cuts,
sitting in the corridors, or hobbling
along the walks of its gardens, and wait
ing to be mustered out of the remnant
of life service which is left them. And
what are the tales they tell of the past :?
They fought in this battle or that, I'M
der this commander or that cut and
gashed or blown to pieces till they had
nothing more of this life to live for, and
are here mendicants upon the bounty of
the Government. 1t is noble charity,
but sad commentary on the misery
and selfishness of war, which takes
the young and vigorous man from the
farm or the workshop, and slows him
away like useless hulk, in these wards
of costly poor-house.
When the industrial classes shall
make up their minds that they will
neither offer themselves as "food for
powder, nor willingly divide their own
limited earnings with their rulers for
what brings them no return, war will be
a thing in which the nations of the
earth will rarely and sparingly indulge.
Hon. Emory Washburn.
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Beecher I'm DreamIand.

"Some people" said Mr.. Beecher in
recent sermon, "if they get out of
bed on the wrong side, or see the new
moon over the wrong shoulder, or put
on stocking wrong side out, interpret
it as sign of something or other.
When L was lad, and went chestnuting,
you couldn't have induced me to crawl
through the bars, because that was a
sign that wouldn't get any chestnuts
Does God sleep on Friday? Why, if /
should call up all these superstitions
that cling to you, it would make you
blush. Now, l don't deny that even
these supersttions are better than cold
skepticism. L had rather rub off the
UNBEATABLE parts of corn with my hands,
as the disciples did, than to have no
corn to rub. But my conception is
that luck means the right ope-
ration of causes to produce good
effects. That little devil called Luck
doesn't go flying about blindly, drop
ping gold on some people and pewter on
Others"
Speaking of dreams and their signifi-
canoe, he said
imagine that many of the dreams
to which men attach the most import
ance come from over eating or over
drinking L do not believe either that
mans dreams are reflection of his
real nature. have broken open more
houses and stolen more money in my
dreams than L ever expect to see awake;
yet L believe L had rather die than steal.
L have been murderer in my dreams,
and started up trembling out of vain
effort to hide the body. My idea is that
when the upper, higher part of your
brain is asleep, the lower, basilar part
is half -unrestrained-and your
dreams are report from your animal
faculties. When the lower part of your
brain is asleep and the upper part
active, you dream such dreams that
when you awake you try to go to sleep
again to finish them. All this stuff
about dreams, luck, signs, and omens,
/ class as outgrowths of conscience not
guided by clear perceptions.
This brought him to discussion of
phases of conscience. 81 know men,
he said, "who wouldn't shave on Sun
day, but would black their boots. Then
l know some who would shave on Sun
day, but wouldn't black their boots.
And l. know others who wouldn't do
either on Sunday, but would shave
their neighbors awfully on Monday.
When l went to school L boarded with
DR.. Langbein, and he was good man,
for an icicle can be good. l could hook
it down his BACK stairs, go off hunting,
return, and recite my lesson from a
slip in my hat. Now, the bread that
WAS left over Mt the communion service
in church was sent over for DIR. Lang
bein's table, and, while could deceive
him as l have told you, couldn't eat a
morsel of that bread because it had been
used as holy symbol" He considered
the precepts of the Bible an exact and
reliable guide for conscience, although,
as he said, "There wasn't one of the
patriarchs who didn't live such life as
in these days would put him in the peni.
tertiary"
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THE LITTLE FOLKS.
Lost! Three Little Robins

q! where is the boy dressed in jacket of gray,
Who climbed up tree in the orchard to-day,
And carried my three little brides away?
They hardly were dressed
When he took from the nest
My three little robins, and left me bereft.
O wrens have you seen, IN your travels to-day,
A very small boy, dressed in jacket of gray,
Who carried my three little robins away
lie had light colored hair,
And his feet were both bare
All, me he was cruel and mean. declare
o butterfly! stop just one moment pray;
Have you seen boy dressed in jacket of gray
Who carried my three little brides away ?
He has pretty blue eyes,
And was small of his size
All he must be wicked, and not very wise
bees with your bags of sweet nectarine, STAY :
Have you seen a boy dressed in jacket of gray
And carrying three little brides away?
Did he go through the town,
Or go sneakng round
Through hedges and by-ways with head hanging
DOWN.
O boy with blue eyes, dressed in jacket of gray.
If you will bring back my three robins to-day
With sweetest OF music the gift I'll reTay
I'll sing all day long
My merriest song.
And | will forgive you this terrible wrong.
Boboinks did you see my birdie and me,
How happy we were on the old apple tree,
Until was robbed of my young as you see?
q how can sing
Unless he Will bring
My three robins back to sleep under my wing?
The NttjSeTU
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Ostrich Feathers.

The ostrich, from which our pretty
ostrich feathers are obtained, inhabits
chiefly the hot sandy deserts of Africa,
yet it is found in fewer numbers in Asia
and in Central and South America. The
natives of Africa shoot the birds with
poisoned arrow, and several methods are
used to get within range of them. The
most amusing and successful is where
the hunter envelopes himself in the skin
of an ostrich, his natural legs doing duty
for those of the bird, and his arms
managing the head and neck in such a
way as to simulate the movements of
the bird while feeding, an imitation so
successfully managed that at short dis
lance it is impossible to tell the sham
bird from the true. Another mode is
for the hunter to scrape a hoie in the
sand near the nests, and lie there con-
cealed until the birds come to their
eggs, when a few rapid discharges will
kill as many birds.
Those fond of hunting have more
sportsman-like though less profitable
way of procuring the bird. Mounted
on fast horses they give chase to the
heet-footed bird, and generally manage
to secure it by sending one of their
number to head it on its course, and
then they shoot it as it dashes by. Most
of the birds are captured in March and
April, as their feathers are in better
condition than at any other time of the
year.
The hunting is done entirely by the
natives, who sell the feathers to dealers
settled principally at the Cape of Good
Hope. These companies have been es-
tablished for years, and the monopoly
of the trade is very great. The men are
reckless and unprincipled, and have
taken the lives of many who have at
tempted to settle there and deal in fea-
theirs.
The feathers are exported to Europe,
where the trade is controlled by a linn
tied number of companies, who sell
them in their natural state to manufac-
turers. They come tied in punches and
packed in large wooden cases like those
used for dry-goods. They are purchased
by the pound, and great deception is
used in the trade. In punching, the
best feathers are placed around the
outside, peb BILE stones are hidden
among the stems to make weight, and
very heavy string is used to tie them,
to increase the weight also. Manufac
turers in buying are not allowed to oper
the punches or examine them in any
way, so their purchase is entirely mat
| ter of luck.
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The Siamese Twins En- Famille.

A writer in the Philadelphia Press,
speaking of the Siamese Twins, says
I" Much speculation has always been
rife as to how the twins courted and
finally became joined in the bonds of
Hymen. 1t happened that they were
travelling through the South, and stop
ped at the town of Traphill, in Wilkes
county, North Carolina. The country
in this locality being very romantic, and
the land good, the twins determined to
settle, and accordingly engaged in bu-
siness in the village, being excellent
traders, and their novel condition soon
attracted many persons to them among
these farmer named Yates, who lived
in the immediate neighborhood, and
who was possessed of two bouncing
daughters. Chang and Eng looked
upon these women tenderly, and evinced
great affection for them, and, like or
binary young folks, made numerous
calls at the residence OF their bewitch-
ers, and there being pair of them all
around, match was soon made, and
the four were two, Cor one). These
wives always displayed great affection
for their liege lords and manifested the
usual jealousies common to the human
family. From this double union there
were some twenty-five children born.
Mrs. Chang presented her husband with
some nine or ten, and of these but two
were boys, while in the Eng family the
daughters were proportionately outnum-
bered, The offspring, contrary to the
general opinion and preceding state
ments, with few exceptions, were healthy,
robust children. Great difficulty arose
when the time for comforting names
upon the young Changs and Engs came.
They could not all take their paternal
and maternal relatives titles, and they
had no Christian names. The difficulty
was surmounted, however, and the APP
pellations of Christopher Columbus,
Patrick Henry, Stephen Decatur, Nancy
Bunker, and names of like sort were
given to the retinue of little ones. The
fathers seemed anxious that all their
immediate descendants should be well
educated, and purchased house in the
town of Mount Airy, shortly after their
removal to that place, where the larger
children lived and attended the school
in the district. They were all apt schol-
airs. and seemed to inherit large
amount of natural acuteness from their
| fathers. F"
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the reason. When she was undressing
him TO go TO bed, he said, Mother,
can God see through the crack in the
closet door?"
Yes" said his mother.
"And can He see when it is all dark
there ?"
Yes" she said, " He can see us at
all times and in all places"
"Then God saw me-" said the little
fellow, land may as well tell you all
about it. When you were gone out, L
got into the closet and ate up the cake I;
l am sorry, very sorry. Please forgive
me ;" and he laid his head on his moth
er's lap and cried bitterly. If this little
fellow had remembered to fear, it would
have saved him from this sin and sorrow
it brought him.
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Chinese Waterproof varRish from
Blood.

DIR. Scherzer, an eminent Austrian
naturalist, during recent visit to
China, learned the mode of preparing a
waterproof varnish very extensively
used in that country for coating boxes
and other packages which it is desired
to protect against moisture. For this
purpose four parts of blood, fresh drawn,
are mixed in four parts of powdered
slaked lime and small quantity of
alum. One, two, or three coats of this
mass, which is slightly viscid, will i'm
part so great degree of impermeability
to wood to which it has been applied
that it is said to be unnecessary to use
the interior tin or lead lining to boxes
for transporting delicate articles through
the tropics. Owing to It's cheapness
it can be used for coating boxes con-
tanning sugar, coffee, tea, and other
substances.
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God Counts.

A little boy and girl, brother and SIS
ter, were playing in the dining-room,
where their mother had set basket of
cakes on the tea-table and then had
gone out.
Glow nice they look" said Charlie,
reaching out his hand to take one of the
cakes.
ooh, don't do that, Charlie, said his
sister Jane, you know mother told us
not to take any of them,
But mother didn't count them, and
she won't know if 1 take just one, " said
Charlie.
"But remember, Charlie, that God
counts, said his sister, {" and he will
know"
Charlie put back the cake, and turned
away from temptation, looking very
serions. Presently he said, "you are
right, dear sister for the Bible says,
He telleth the number of the stars :
and The hairs of your head are all
numbered"
One day lady came home from
shopping. Her little boy didn't seem
to meet her and throw his arms around
her neck, as he was in the habit of doing
to show how glad he was to have her
come home again. Instead of this, he
seemed to be afraid to look his mother
In the face, and kept out of her way as
much as he could all day. His mother
thought 1t very strange, and wondered
what was the matter.
AT the close of the day she found out
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Varieties.

SHP's bread-Rolls and plenty of 'em.
PREFERRED creditors - Those who
don't dun.
THE most thrilling tale known is that
of the rattlesnake.
BREACH of good manners-For ruin
to stare you i'll the face.
The way to make a fire real hot is to
keep thoroughly coaled.
A BoRE-The man who persists in talk
ing about himself when you wish to
talk about yourself.
COOP metal-An iron will, silvery
voice, plenty of brass, and little tin
will win golden opinions.
DOMESTIC young lady (making pie)-
Frank, the kitchens no place for boys.
Has dough such an attraction for you?"
Clever youth" 1t isn't the dough,
cousin it's the dear.
A YOUNG beau, at his sisters evening
party began to sing, "Why am / so
weak and weary ?" when little brother
brought the performance to sudden
close by yelling out, Aunt Mary says
it's cause you come home so late and
drunk most every night y
A Mr.. DAMN runs a stove and hard
ware store at Eagle Harbor, and the
Marquette journal says "He must have
an extensive trade, for we have heard
his name mentioned in connection with
all the stoves and stovepipes we have
ever put together here or elsewhere. "
SAID Lord John Russell to Hume at
social dinner, "What do you consider
the object of legisla ion ?" "The
greatest good to the greatest number. "
"What do you consider the greatest
number ?" continued his lordship.
Number one, my lord" was the COM
moner's prompt reply.
THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SQUIRREL.
The Mountain and the Squirrel
Had quarrel,
And the former called the latter, " Little Prig !:
Bun replied
"You doubtless very big!
But all sorts of things and weather
Must be taken in together
To make mp year,
And sphere;
And think it no disgrace
To occupy my place.
III I'm not so large you,
You not so small as l,
And not half so spry;
Ill not deny you make
very pretty squirrel track.
Talents differ; all Ia we'll and wisely put;
If cannot carry forests on my back,
Neither you crack nut"
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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The Fastest Mile by Horse and Man.

Inc faStest Mile Dy horse ana Man.
/. What is the fastest mile run by q
man?
2. What is the fastest mile run by a
horse?
3. What is the fastest mile walked by
q man ?
4. What is the fastest mile trotted by
a horse
5. What is the fastest mile raced by
a horse
ANSWER. On level ground, W..
Lang and w. Richards, in England, a
dead heat, in 4:17i. Lang ran a mile
down hill at Newmarket in 402. 9.
Alarm, in 1:42i, at Saratoga 3. Joseph
Steckwell, London, England, walked a
mile in 6:25. A. Joe Elliott trotted a
mile at Mystic Park, Boston, in 2:15I.
8. Pocahontas paced mile on Long
Island to n wagon in 2:17b, driven by
James ID. McMann.
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To CORREsPONDENTs.

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faith on the part OF the writer. Write only one
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WHY is doctor better taken care of
than his patients? Because when he
goes to bed somebody is sure to rap
him up.
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EX.sUERIFF BRENNAY's BILLS.

There was another long argument before
Judge Daniels in the Supreme Court Saturday on the
application for "a mandamus to compel County Auditor
Earle 10 audit exSherf Brennans bill for fees during
three Quarters Of 1S72lmOuntinc TO about $4,000 Mr.
Carter. who appeared for the respondent, said the
sheriff reported the period question 10000
TONS ana charges for reporting $4,000 These were
convictions in the Oyer and Tcrmner, General Sessions
aud Special Sessions Again he charges for reporting
W 900 convictions in the police courts aud he has never
reported any convictions in the police courts such,
the fact beng that reported alt such CONVICTIONS as
acquiring an Special Sessions. His bill OF 300 convic
lions reported Darn. that perIOu, 500 III excess
ana MS OF 2G,u0J CONVICTIONS an lohcc courts, re-
uorfed was "A pare iahrica ion. The counsel next went
.OuycyluC convicted prisoners To piisOu Inc SncIH
was required execute the processes 81 the oyer ana
Tcrmlncr, General sessions, anu special Sessions,
averaging 1000 convictions year, Uu nc charges hdt
the supcrVlsurs been In the DaO OF allowing 81 20
head Tor convey prison those convicted at the
Police CouIts, amounting TO nearly 2lOO year,
although neither inc sheriff nor ms Officers ever see
thuse prisoners and thcy are taken Ia PRISON al the tA
pcnsc OF the Department OF CHARITIES ana CoirtNtoh
Ilrouul GITeC fundamentally OI the ponce. These
hills carry fdi,eAoOI atom on tnCIr Taco was
the assertion, and tLLt Dln- the financial Oiltcr
should not ordered 10 AID them forward on the way
a. pay meni. 90,
bv Jaw ON the Auditor 10 certify that iact ana nc
aG no Ilght up the issues raised. Tue rcatOr
would no. follow Mr.. Carter into the irrelevant mat
er introduced but would he ready to JON issue on item
when Incy applying TO the paying oiccI tine Con-
tfoLer, VINO alone rigut 10 raisc the question OF
fraud The COrl there To administer the h'W and
should rcdcmncr that il the iuIndtnus Nc.t refused
the rclator would have no redress DECISION reserved