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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-04
The Oldest.

Chemistry owes its origin to the
Ph9nicans and Egyptians. From them
the Gre, ks obtained some knowledge OF
the art, but the Greek intellect, being
speculative rather than practical, hat
is to say, the Greek being lazy ami
NAL, not fond of exertion, and all chemi
cal discoveries requiring very active,
and oftentimes laborious, experiment.
ing, they found itmuch the easier wayto o
sit still and spin science of chemistry
out of their Imagination. Which they
did, quite to their own satisfaction.
Aristotle looked at fire, air, earth and
water with the air of a learned philoso-
pher, and spun out of his Imagination that
fire, air, earth and water were the four
simple elements out of which everything
else was formed. In point of fact,
Aristotle was as far from being right as
black is from being white. To make an
original remark, which has probably
been made at least thousand times be-
fore, fire is not substance at all, but
only an operation water is not simple
substance, being composed of two gases;
air is also composed of two gases, and
earth is composed of divers and sundry
gases too numerous to mention. But
people believed in Aristotle's classical
ton for centuries, showing the stead
fastness with which the human intellect
sticks to an error just because it is old
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-04
THE BEST EVIDENCE.

The following letter from REV. E. s. BEST, pas
tor M. x. Church, Natick, Mass, will be read with
interest by many physicians. Also those suffering
from he.same disease as afflicted the son Of the
Rev, 4. s. Best. No person can doubt this testi-
mony, and there is no doubt about the curative
powers Of vkGETISE.
NArIcR, Mass Jan. l, 1873.
Dear Strive have good reason for regarding
yOgr VEGETINE a medicine Of the greatest uGl.e.
We feel assured that it has been the m OF saw
ing our sons lie. He is now seventeen years OF
age; for the last two years he has suffered from
necrosis OF his leg caused by scrofulous affsction
and was so far reduced that nearly all who saw
n m thought his recovery impossible. ouncil
OF able physicians c. uld give US but the aintest
nope OF mis- ever raj ying, two OF the numbe de-
clatiny that he was beyond tho reach OF human
remed es, that even amputation could not save
him, as he had not vigor enough to endure the
operation. Just then we commenced giving him
VEGETINE, and from that time TO the present he
has been continuously improving. Hs has lately
resumed his studies, thrown away crutches and
caen, and walks about erful and strong
Though there is still some dischar &c from the
opening where his limO was lanced, we have tho
fullt st confidence that in little time he will be
perfectly cured.
He has taken about three dozen bottles of vEGE-
TINE, but lately uses but little, as he declares
that he is too well to be taking medicine.
Respectfully yours, Il. p. BEST,
MRS. l.. Z. f. BEST.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-04

A TRIUMPHANT Trunk. - Saturday
morning there came over the Great
Western road, on its way West, trunk
which made the hair of the baggage
smashers stand right up. 1t was thirty
four inches long, three feet wide, and
was made of solid boiler iron an eighth
of an inch thick. The handles were of
iron, riveted on with great bolts, and
the lid was fastened down with an i'm
mense paddock. On the end of the
trunk was painted the words: "She can
stand it !" and on the other, More
coming" The railroad men groaned
aloud as they walked around "them
trunk" and viewed it from every angle,
and two omnibus men, who thought the
owner was going to stop over, made
tracks out of the depot.-Detroit Free
Press,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-04

Tho range Of disorders which yield TO the inna-
o ce Of this medicine, and the number of defined
diseases which it never ia Is TO cure are greater
than any other single Medicine has hi here been
even re commended for, by any other than the pro-
priotors Of some quack nostrum. These diseases
are Scrofula and all Eruptive diseases and Tumors,
plants, and all Inhammatory symptoms, Ulcers,
eases Dropsy, the whole tram OF paiHful d sor-
and which carry annually thousands of them to
premature graves; Dyspepsia, that universal
curse OF American manhood; Heartburn, Piles,
Constipat on Nervousness, inability to sleep, and
impure blood.
TINS is formidable list Of human a lments for
any single med cine to successfully attacs and it
is not probable that any one article before the
public has the power to cure the quarter of them
excepting the VEGETINB. 1t lays the AK at the
root OF the tree OF disease by first el mi ating
every impurity. from the blood, promoting the
secrcti disappearing the pores-the great escape
valves of the ating the liver 10 its
full and natural action cleansing the stomach and
strengthening digestion. This much accom-
Pitched, the speedy and the permanent cure OF
not only ihe diseases we have enumerated, but
likewise the whole train of chronic and constitu-
uonal disorders, is certain to follow. This is
precisely What VEoETINE does, and it does IL 8,
quickly and so easily, that it - an accompl shed
fact almost before the patient 10 aware of 1T him.
self
fe al Il 49,, - a.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-04

THE best Observation-Disclosures TIPPED
Shoes Five cents laid out for Silver Tips
adds one dollar to the worth Of pair Of
shoes. Parents. try it..
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-04

Rev. f. H. HOPKINS, of Jackson Cen
ter, Shelby Co., o.. says: Ny wife had the
consumption for ten years, and had been con-
fined to her bed for some time. / heard OF
DR.. L. @. G. Wisharts Pine Tree Tar Cordial.
and after using four bottles. she wac able 10
do the work for her family"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-29
Five Hundred Thousand Years Age

The New York Nation cOndenses from an
English scientific periodical some interesting
specula,ions of DR.. Alfred Russell Wallace of
the probable antiquity Of the human species
They may well startlc, Is says, even those
who have long since come to the conclusion
that 5000 years are but as Il day. He reviews
the various attempts to determines the anti
uuity of human remains or works OF art and
finds the bronze age in Europe to have been
pretty accurately fixed ut 5000 or 1000 years
ago, the stone age of the Swiss lake dwell
ings at 5000 to 1000 years, land an indefinite
anterior period The burnt brick found six
ty feet deep IN the Tile alluvlum, indicates
an antiquity of 10000 years; another irag
ment at sevcnty-two feet gives 10000 years
"a human skeleton found at the depth of
sixteen feet below four hundred buried for
csts superposed upon each other has been
calculated by DR.. DOwle to have an antiquity
of 100000 years. But all these estimates
pale before those which Kents cavern at
Torouay ligitimatcs. Here the drip of the
stalagmitc is the chief factor of our computa-
tons, giving us an upper floor which divides
the relics of the last two or three thousand
years from Il deposte full Of the bones of an
extinct mammalia and gluten, indicating an
arctic climate. Names cut in the stalagmitc
more than 1000 years ago are legible-in 9th
err words, where the stalagmite is twelve
inches thick and the drip still very copiouS,
not more than a hundredth of foot has been
deposited in two centuries-a rate of five feet
in 10000 years. Below this however, We
have a thick, much older and crystalline Il.
e., more slowly tormeD stalagmite, beneath
which again lin a solid breccia, very differ
cnt from the cave-earh, undoubted works of
art have been found" Mr.. Wallace assumes
only 100000 years Tor the upper floor, and
100000 for the lower, and adds 100000 for
the immediate cave-earth, by which he arrives
at the sum of half million years that have
probably elapsed since human workmanshi ps
were buried in the depth of Kent's Cavern"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-29

II think it mus. be Il jolly thing to be
widow" heard this remark the other day
in group Of laughing girls. | think | re-
member of saying such thing myself IN my
pirlish times DO you know, girls, what 1t
is TO be q widow? 1t is to be ten times more
omen TO comment and criticism than any
dcmoiselle possibly could be. 1t is to have
men gaze as you pass, first at your black dresS
and then at your widows cap, until your
shrinking nerves culver under the lniilctlon:
It is to have one ill-natured person say, 81
wonder how long she will wait before she
marries again? ?" and another answer, Until
she gets good chance, | suppose" 1t Is
now and then to meet the glance of real sym
pathv, generally from the poorest ana most
humble woman YOU meet, and feel your eyes
fill at the token, so rare, that II is unlocked
for 1t is to have your dear fashionable
friends console YOU after the following fash
ion: ooh. well! il is n dreadful loss. We
know how you feel it dear AND IN the next
breath, you will be sure to marry again, ana
your widows cap is very becoming 10 you.
But it is more than this to become widow
II is to miss the strong arm you have leaned
upon, the true faith which you knew could
never fail YOU. though all the world torSake
Won. 1t is to miss the dear voice that uttered
your name with tenderness that none other
could rive it. 1t is to hear no more the we'll
known footsteps that you flew gladly once to
meet. To see no more the face that TO your
adering eyes seemed as the face of the angels
of God: to feel no more the twning arms that
folded YOU so lovingly; the dear eyes that,
looking into your own, said plainly, whatev-
er il seemed to other, yours was the talrest
face earth held for him, 1t is TO fight with a
mighty sorrow as a man fights with the waves
that oyerwhelm him, and to hold it at arm
length for awhile, only to have-in the hours
of loneliness and weakneSs-the storm roll
over YOU, whilc-poOr, storm-driven dove
YOU see no haven-RWrdl Nesc lcrAeF.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-29

snatchcd the morscl of scented paper from
her hands and stood confronting her with
flashing eyes.
How dare you steal my verses, and make
fun ofthcm with Mr.. DeLnncey:' she cried
Indignantly "liow dare you?' and she burst
into tears of shame and anger.
An appalled, silence fell glanced at Miss
Iocclyn, saw her grow dcathly pale, and then
the guilty blood sullused her forehead.
Struggling with her tcll.tale emotion, she
said, family:
you stole them from my desk. have
missed others"
She stopped suddenly, seeming to realize
all at once the use to which Miss Jocelyn had
put the poems. A look of perpleXity and dis
trcss oyerspread her face She was pitiiul
enough to regret the unfortunate cOntretemps.
81 am 50 sorry" she began. ~ did not
know"
"Iypocritc!' Kissed Miss Jocclyn, veno-
mously. Il am glad that | need no longer
be suspected Of writing such trash. Let me
pass"
81, swept out Of the room like mimic
hurricane
Miss Verne stood poised on her dainty feet,
as if undecided whether to remain or iiy. Her
mead dropped suddenly, and out Of the bosom
of her gray dress dropped a cross o! lucent
pearls, attached to a slender golden chain.
Before it could be hidden again my hand
graspcd and held it fast
1t was the identical cross, with its tiny VS.
for Ventor, composed OF alternating diamonds
and pearls, OF which | had spoken that day
at the table Allen had described 1t to me.
"Eurckam | shouted; Miss Grace Ncntor
| make my bow to YOU
For an instant she dropped at my feet
white quivering, despainng; then leaned
over her, raised her in my arms, and gather
ed her close ~ my heart.
'Darling," | whispered, cant you see that
| | love you-that your enemies are mine that
| could never, never give you up again to
| aHyjodN be he enemy or friend?'
! For little time she seemed inCredulous
but there is convincing power IN love that
nW make itself felt, and 50 by-and-by she
| told me her little story.
! Her step mother had been determined tc
maray her to q man she detcstcd. She had
resisted until worn out with the persecution
! she had to encounter, and finally had fled
, from her home and sought a situation to earn
her own living. The cross she took with hel
as aisouyenir Of her dead mother,
/ Il am quite surprised at Rose" said Sue
when the real truth came out 1T was very
/ shabby Of her to steal the poems and palm
/ Them of on you as her own. | wouldn't have
believed her capable Of such trick. do
| think it odd she would turn blue-stoCking sc
suddenly. You've made a fortunate escape
Fred"
So had. Sue became perfectly reconciled
| to my choice when she discovered that the
| Ventors were an older family than the JOcC
lyns, and her quondam nursery goyerneSs q
| Weather heircss than Rose.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-29
TURNED DETECTIVE.

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arbn loft hnr homo ia Woolhr,dGe Cnnnncii
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,niddln height nctito brown nvcs and hair.
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station III inc WOODS ltau 'nIs auNeltlsc'
mehl w" OF 'hrcc t'iheS over, 50 as - impress
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was neeu Oh lhe pfechu,i9n, Nhat WIN inc
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ment Va sce'nS Io;,i anu ,1uc, anu M , ouc"'
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ih"t ""ui" H"Nc pceti al uhpaiuonaoIc
SIN on my pal', lol, growing "ccuston,eu W
bearing o'het people Is I'oSscS, l hau eyJn
Drouei,' sNelclon oi 'ie 'cast tiieoc Sela Il
uayS always meant 'or me, III NC shnpe Ul -"
2roniise cA'ol'cu U. my oo9oui 'ilchu' Hs'ei',
me lawyer, /" lIe cnec' INA. / MQu.u hGcl'
my eyes anu ours open ,or niiy illumination
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useuleht nh"''uu pa1Ses NY CoilpIehehoIon
anu why li'a Paitiou''t, 'uI oltilc,"ny c1'hui
u 'he Siooo "ns u w Scalchca ilay lll'e
Oeeu Ciear r"ouSu W nis mutt puV was d
puzzle more perpleX'hg IMAM the sphyhN 10
mime.
AS / walked on, ihipa'ieh'iy Tuihiha'ing
and SWITCHING OH inc heaus OF the "aySide
0utteicups win ms cane as asorto OF saiety,,
valve necessary 10 any uegree OF mental
eqnahiml'y' suppose INC simmer OF gray
dress among me SIFuDpefy pertaining 10
Hnlly He'd" Sfoahos presently caught my
eye;
Now h'fi always heid theory that u
Tohifh 5 sec ri sen Is lc'ea!eu III VIVA. Sn'
w'"ls ana hH' she wears IL, more unmis'aha
oly man IN % 0ther manner floWing RAJ
me-. uei's1. lhe SouI IKE Deautllui llc
W, ~ !. II me an absurd calica.uao
~ uiug "a Utgaee OF n,neSs anu En" Luz
III ~ u,.sn VIZ sIn'roi ,TaA, NJ
IN. l..lu 10 us particular Deliei. Ma9 MatC
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-29
THE BALE OF CLOVER.
BY M'LEoD MOVES.

The morning sun had cantcd
Over the cornices and slantc5,
And men and horses painted
As they slowly plodded by;
And still the day grew hotter,
Till it seemed to reel and tOttcr
And never sign Of water
Was in the smoky sky
And as | wondered whether
Would New York he rolled together
In one final burst OF weather,
Like a scroll, and whirlcd away,
| was very near run over
BY a Jerscyman or drover
On bale of moldy clover
That was perchcd upon Il draE
| had turned to talk it over
With the Jcrscyman or droycr,
When single Whit OF clover
Brought Il transformation bright,
Straight ! heard the cattle lowing
And the meadow brcc2es blowing;
saw the grain-felds turning,
The spotted lilies burning,
The lusty robin Drawing
The cataract and having,
And all the landscape wayin"
In q shifting sea of light.
Low droncd the gardens sunny
With the brown bees stealing honey;
And never a thought of money
Disturbed my vision blest.
But with marigold and tulip
Game, in fancy sweet, the cool lip
OF Il Saratoga julcp,
And envy filled my breast:
For thought with pain and dolor
AS sweltercd in my collar,
Of the limp and ragged dollar
Within my rumpled vest.
And so banned the brcczcs
That were born, like lands and leases,
For Dives sons and CrGsus,
Til the sun was fairly down;
For though his darts he level
Across the cornicc 5cyel,
He loves to stop and rcycl
Above the fainting town.
Where the summer sOlsticc poi.c-,
And The street sends forth its noises
In a hundred grating voices
Like a wall Of agony;
TIL It's oh, to be a-sailing
Like tinny trout or graylin@.
Or lazy cloudlct trailing
It's fleece along the sky.
edrih and Home
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-29

And now comes the distressing news that
the cranberry crop Of the north and west Is
an entire failure. on account OF the raYaEes
of worm that preys on the foliage oil inc
hnshpS.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-29

There are in Indiana 1883 Oranges, WIN
an average membership OF o. aggrega'Ing
about one hundred thousand.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-29

y gDGEs % SNAN a HAPEMANS
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-31

EXERCISES OF THE ST. LOUIS INSTITUTE
The annual commencement exercises Of this
excellent school took place last evening and
was largely attended by the relatives and
friends of the fair students. The programme
was very enjoyable one. all of the young
ladies' acquitting themselves in the most
creditable manner and rejecting great merit
upon their worthy teachers, who have brought
them up to this high standard of excellence.
Below we append list Of the names of the
graduates
Misses Anna Bouligny. L. des Bordes, H.
Bongere, E. Coycault, NJ. Henry.
We commend this school as one of the best
in the South, and would advise our friends
who contemplate giving their children good
education to give the St. Louis Institute the
preference.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-31
A MARCH AROUND.

Lafayette Hook and Ladder Company No. l
took q march around town last night and
celebrated in manner as appropriate as
iovial their annual election of officers, which
took place in the fore part OF the evening.
There is no doubt about the fact that every
body enjoyed the occasion, for when the
BULLETIN office was visited and the usual
courtesies (Which were appreciated) extended,
the boys, all Of them, were in the best possible
humor and satisfied with themselves and all
the world.
The election resulted as follows:
WI Whiteside, President; Alex. F. Assem-
heimer, Secretary; H. Wintz, Treasurer; 0.
NJ Redon, Foreman; John Mcintyre, First
Assistant; Fred. Frethaler, Second Assistant.
Delegates to F. c. 40. NJ. Redon, w. j.
Whiteside, Alex F. Asenheimer
Sub elegates-Jules Grasser, Fred. FIRE.
thaler, W. NJ. Swayn.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-31

Gov Chamberlain, OF South Carolina, was
certainly right when he pointed to the expen-
diture for public printing in that State as q
proper subject for vigorous retrenchment.
The recently published report of the State
Treasurer shows that during the last fiscal
year there was expended for the State print
ing, in actual money, s135,006, and that
sl25, 400 more remains chargeable to that &C.
count. This, with $50, 773 expended for lad
vertising the laws to population the mass
of which cannot read, foots up the pretty sum
of 1921, 179, or almost as much as South Caro-.
lima expended for free schools during the
same year, and over $4,000 more than the
State of New York expended for its public
printing in 1873. The legislative expenses o
the Slate for the past fiscal year were $780,
600; those Of New York were but $3O5, 118
Frouthes figures it is evident that retrench
nen "a reform cannot begin . nomsnt to-
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-31

TWO BROTHERS ENGAGE IN DUEL WITH SHOT
GUNS, IN WHICH BOTH ARE MORTALLY
WOUNDED.

A correspondent of the Baltimore american
gives the following of mysterious affair,
which ended in the violent death of two
brothers "In Fawn township, York county,
lives very respectable colored family, COM
posed of Stephen Young and wife, one daugh-
ter and two sons, the eldest son, Robert, aged
about seventeen years, and his brother Will
liam, aged about fourteen years. On Saturday,
the 10Th instant, the two boys started out in
the morning cunning to shoot a bird or so for
q neighbours sick daughter, and after hunting
until about 3 o'clock they took dinner at an
uncle's and afterward shot at mark, and then
started for home. They were seen by gen.
tleman about shutdown within half mile
of their home, going in that direction.
About 9 o'clock last night gentleman pass
ing along the road heard some groans, and
discovered Robert lying in the fence corner
MORALLY wounded. He started to run to-
ward their home, but found William, the
younger, lying upon his face, about one hun
bred yards from Robert, in dying condi-
ton. A few of the neighbors were gathered,
and the unfortunate lads we're carried to their
home. Two physicians were Immediately
called in, but they could give no relief One
died at 10 o'clock and the other at o'clock
the next day. A jury of inquest was called
together by Samuel Adams, Esq, and, after
examining several witnesses, gave it as theil
opinion that they had shot each other, stand.
ing about q rod apart, both shots having been
fred at the same instant and both being shot
in the head. Neither of them spoke after
ward, although William, the younger, had run
hundred yards after being shot. No cause
can be assigned for the act, Is they wer,
on good terms with each other, were sober
quiet and industrious boys, and well liked BY
all with whom they came in contact"