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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-19
A Winter Indian Campaign.

Gen. Crook, Commander of the De
partment OF the Platte, with headquar-
ters at Omaha, says the Chicago Times,
has for several months past foreshadowed
an Indian war by the Sioux and other
tribes the coming winter. In order to
be properly prepared for the occasion,
he has, during the past three months,
collected upward of three hundred pack
jacks, with Mexican drivers. This new
army of transportation has been in daily
drill at Fort Russell, in Wyoming Terri
tory, and has been a subject of much
speculation, not only among citizens,
but in military circles, as to the peculiar
service in which they were to be en-
ployed, but the reticence, If not abso-
lutte refusal, of Gen. Crook to give any
information OH the subject, has caused
many conjectures, chief among which
was that the animals and their drivers
were to be employed during the winter
months transporting subsistence to the
military camp at present in the Black
Hills, in command Of Capt. Pollock. A
correspondent has unearthed the secret
mission that this new transportation
army is to be engaged in. As soon as
the looked-for Indian outbreak or war
commences, these pack-animals, being
swift of foot, and less cumbersome than
army-wagon transportation, are to be
packed with supplies for large body of
cavalry that will be sent to chastlse the
Indians; each pack animal, as soon as
the pack-load has been used, is to be
killed, the object of killing them being
to prevent them falling into possession
of the Indians. The cavalry are then to
keep up a rapid pursuit of the Indians,
and, when they can no longer obtain
food, they are to kill sufficient number
of cavalry horses to furnish them with
sustenance, the pursuit to be kept up
until the warlike Indians are overtaken
and thoroughly whipped. Gen. Crook
made brilliant record in Arizona as aD
Indian-fghter. Possessing thorough
knowledge of Indian character, he pre-
fers to conduct campaign against the
redskins in the winter months,
when their facilities for sub
sisting off the game of the noun
tains and prairies is very limited, and
when grass for their ponies cannot be
had in sufficient quantities to make
successful or rapid retreat from the cav
airy. The three companies of cavalry at
present III the Black Hills are to be
taken from there, and will form part OF
the army that is TO take the war-path
against the Indians
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-19

stimulant, but it often excites without
invigorating. Coffee seems, while
wakening up the brain, to make one, for
the time at least, independent of food.
1t is, indeed, most enjoyed on short ra-
tons and taken on full stomach, as
was pointed out, it neither pleases the
palate, nor refreshes the system. Nor
is it always quite harmless. Brillat
Savarin gave up coffee because he found
that it turned his head into mill whirl
ing round without ideas of grind. To
some people it gives shaking of the
hands and trembling of the knees.
Stories are told of the people who have
become cripples through excessive love
of il other stories of people who have
become imbecile.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-19
The Hog Cholera.

The reports of the hog cholera, which
is taking off thousands of swine in In
diana, Missouri, Illinois and other West
ern States, are n serious matter. Our
Western farmers, most of whom have a
large surplus of corn, were expecting to
put much OF tinto pork this fall. Should
this fatal hog disease extend and continue
it's ravages, their expectations in this re-
spect would he sadly disappointed, and
they would be obliged To sell their corn
at the prevailing low prices. We trust,
however, that the fatal disease will not
become either as general or as fatal as is
apprehended. .-ChicaQO Journal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-19
An Unpleasant Predicament.

James Hewson and Raymond Hunter,
of Watervliet Centre, N. Y, were dig
ging q well recently. They drilled a
hole through the rock II inches in depth,
crammed the powder in, applied the
torch to the fuse, and shouted to the boy
above at the windlass to haul them up.
But that youth was not at bis post they
cried louder, but there was no response
They became desperate, and one of them
thought to draw the fuse out of the hole,
but it was too late. They now saw that
their only hope of escape was to get out
of the hole, and they must do it in less
than q minute, as the fuse would be
nearly burned up by that time. They
once again shouted at the top of their
voices, and were rewarded by seeing the
boy at the windlass, and he began to haul
them up as fast as he could. Before
they were half way up the blast went off,
knocking them ont of the bucket, and
they fell insensible. The windass was
also knocked off by rock, and fell,
striking the insensible body of Hewson.
A man was lowered and found the two
men at the bottom of the well, with
nearly 18 inches of water over them.
Hunters skull was fractured. Hewsen
was not much hurt.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-19
AWAKE!


Wake, my beloved, the young day is treading
Blushing and fair, over forest and lake,
flowering life in its footsteps outspreading
Wake, my beloved, awake
Break the dull sleep; while loves sprlng-time il
Let us drink deep of its neetng delight!
Under our feet at this moment is yawning
Dark, he compassionless night.
Love, with its turbulent, mighty pulsaton,
Thrills through my veins like a quickening heat
All my young life with its strong aspiration,
All have thrown at thy feet.
II the wild vision of glory should blind me-,
Reach me thy hand lest stumble and fall;
Darkness before me and darkness behind me,
Thou art my life and my all.
Sweet tits TO breathe in the balm of thy presence,
Sweeter to feel the warm gaze Of thine eye,
While the feet moments with bright effervescence
Whisper their gladness aud die.
Then in the depths of my soul as in slumber,
Hear great voices OF world-shakng deeds,
And the pale day, with its cares without number,
Far from my vision recedes.
Ere had seen thee, how tardily flowing
Stole from my breast the faint notes of my song
Now like spring freshets their gates overthrowing,
Roll the strong torrt nts along.
Pale was my life, and the white msts above me
Dimmed TO my sight the soft splendor of May;
Now, but glimpse of the hope that you love me
Lights and illumines my way.
Darkling stood and tumultuous fancies
Surged through my soul like black bllows of
night;
Now the wide future, in sun-lit expanses,
Radiant bursts on my sight.
Dost thou not see the dawn's beckoning finger
How the young light, like full-swelling tide,
Breaks through its hood-gates? Oh, why dost thou
lnger?
Wake my beloved my bride!
-.Scribner for November.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-19

The oldest mention of coffee that can
anywhere be found does not go further
back than 800 years. Nobody knows
when it was first used in the East.
There is nothing to go upon, except a
tradition that the angel Gabriel invented
coffee for the especial behoof of Ma
homet in his old age, to enable him to
renew his youth, and be happy in his
loves. Whether it had this effect we
are not told, but it is to be supposed
that Gabriel did his best for the prophet.
In any case, it is certain that coffee is in
comparable as a stimulant, and will even
make UP for the want of food. Rossini
used to say that it could keep him up
for fortnight, the time he required for
the composition of an opera. There is
no other stimulant that can sustain such
pitch. Opium is wonderfully sustain
ing, but it has bad effects, and it tends
too much to dreaminess, with lack of
concentration. Alcohol has force of its
own, as we all know but it requires
frequent renewal, and is too speedily
followed 10y reaction and collapse. Tea
comes nearest to the Arabian berry as q
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-19
Comparative Value OF Foods.

Taking timothy hay as the standard of
comparison, it requires 100 pounds of it
to supply certain amount of nourish-
ment. 1t is estimated by careful expert
ment that the same amount of nourish-
ment can be obtained 10y using the fol-
lowing quantities of other food Clover
hay, % lbs (; rye straw. 355 lbs oat straw.
220 lbs; potatoes, 1876 los carrots. $50
lbs beets, 3 10 lbs ; ruta bagas, 262 lbs |;
wheat, 43 lbs peas, 4i lbs bs.ils, Al
lbs rye, 40 lbs barley, 81 lbs +; c,rn, Sc
lbs oats, 80 lbs buckwheat, 81 lb, !:
and oil cake, "a lbs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-19
Fever Infection.

Men of science speak of epidemic
waves, and of scarlet fever being COM
municated by the few drops of milk
which you pour into your tea, or the
cream difiused in dish of strawberries.
On late occasion, at a fashionable din
ner party in London, as many as eight or
ten guests, and seven members of the
household, took scarletfever. Obviously,
the infection must have been caught at
the dinner party but how was the puz
zling matter of inquiry, for no one in
the family of the host was known to have
been affected with the disorder. Was
the disease brought to the house by a
waiter2 Was it conveyed in the table
linen from the washerwoman Was it
somehow, Incorporated in the cream that
had been used in the dessert An investi-
cation on these and other points, as we
understand, was made, but not with any
satisfactory result. The cream was
thought to be the most likely vehicle of
infection but how could any one be GER
tain on the point The cream employed
in fashionable dessert in London is pos
siblv made up of half a dozen creams
from ~ many dairies, and inquiry ends
only in vague conjecture. Rather haz-
ardous thing, one would say, going out
to dinner where you may run the chance
of being killed in a manner so very mys-
terious. People, in their innocence, are
not aware of the manner in which con
tagious diseases may be communicated by
public cOnveyances, by articles of dress,
by dwellings,, by the very atmosphere.
We have just heard an instance of the
communication of scarlet fever by means
of exist, the name usually given in
Scotland to a servants trunk. A servant
girl in Morayshire fell i'll with scarlet
fever and died. Her kist, a painted
wooden box, containing all her worldly
goods, her later clothing included, was
sent home to her relations, and lay for
some weeks at station on the Speyside
railway before an opportunity occurred
for removing it by cart TO her mothers
cottage among the hills. During this in
terval the station-master's children, in
romping about, conducted their gambols
ON the kist, which was a repository of
contagion, and in due course were struck
down with scarlet fever. AT length the
fatal kist was conveyed to its destination,
and the contents were dispersed among
friends and neighbors. The donations
were kindly meant, but they proved
fatal. No precautions had been taken to
disinfect the articles, the result being
that wherever the clothes of the deceased
girl were taken in, scarlet fever found its
victims. For several months the fever
ragged, until tine wave of its infection was
expended. Now ensued n remarkable
event. The outbreak proved to be an
opposing barrier to the spread of more
virulent type of scarlatina advancing
from another quarter at later period of
the year. On reaching the former scene
of the disease, it was arrested for want
of material to feed upon, second at
tack being very unusual. Chambers
journal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-19
Kentuckians Getting Married in Indiana.

"Stop that boat" was the cry on the
Louisville wharf at 10 o'clock Thursday
night, but the cry came too late, for the
ferry-boat had cut loose from her fast IN
Jugs, and was steaming proudly up the
river, fully hundred feet from the Ken
lucky shore. The cry came from two
men who had hotly chased young man
and his sweetheart from a back county
in the State to the river and there lost
them by being about two minutes too
late, for they were safe in the boat, sit
ting side by side each other in carriage
The horses painted, and the lovers sighed
and congratulated themselves on their
escape from the dark and bloody ground
and their cruel parents. When the boat
landed at our wharf the horses were given
the reins, the whip applied, and off
dashed the bridal party for Charlestown,
the county seat. The pusuers were too
close to tariy at Jacksonville. A i,risk,
rapid drive of an hour and fifteen min
utes brought them to Charlestown.
County Clerk Ingram was aroused from
pleasant dreams, and the marriage Ii
conse obtained. Next, Elder Howe was
awakened from his slumbers, and in less
time than it takes to tell it Mr.. Okana
Owens was the true and lawful husband
of Miss l.. Jessie Parent. After spend
ing n pleasant hour the newly married
PAIR left Charlestown. returned through
Jeffersonville slower than they went up,
much less disturbed in mind, and as
happy as a newly-elected country Squire.
How those Kentucky lovers do laugh at
locksmiths. s.--JefersonUiLte Ledger.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-19

WILLIAM AND HATTIE. William l..
Terry, of Wayne county, Iowa, adver-
tised that his wife, Hattie L., had left
his bed and board. She retorted with
an advertisement to the effect that she
did not want any of his bed or board, or
to be trusted on HE account, or to bear
his name n moment longer than might
be necessary, or to ask anything from
him except that he mind his own bust
ness. She does not consider herself the
wife of "any such pouting, scolding,
deceitful woman-killer. IL is easy to
see why she left William.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-19

CONTRARY to expectation, the percent
age of increase in the receipts of the
Postoffice Department for the last fiscal
year was only about one and n half per
cent.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-19
Coffee.

and j will fight my way clear of all o
you -
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-26
The Old Garret.

It is q realm of darkness and thick
dust, and shroud-like cobwebs and dead
things they wrap in their gray folds.
For a garnet is like a sea-shore, where
wrecks are thrown up and slowly go to
pieces. There is the cradle which the
old man you just remember was rocked
in; that ugly slauting continuance used
to be put under his pillow in the days
when his breath came hard there is
his old chair, both arms gone, symbol
of the desolate time when he had moth
ing earthly left to lean on; there ia the
large wooden reel, which the blear- eyed
old deacon sent the minister's lady.
who thanked him ~graciously, and twirled
it smilingly, and in fitting season bowed
it out decently to the limbo of trouble
some conveniences. And there are old
leather portmanteaus, like stranded por-
poises, their mouths gaping ia gauut
hunger for food with which they used
to be gorged into bungling repletion !;
and old brass andirons, waiting until
time shall revenge them on their paltry
substitutes, and they shall have their
own again, and bring with them the
and backlog of ancient days,
and the empty churn, with its idle
dasher, which the Nancys and Phmbes,
who have left their comfortable places
the Budgets and Norahs, used to
handle to good purpose ; and the brown,
shaky old spinning-wheel, which was
running, it may be, in the days when
we're hanging the Salem Witches
u. FL. Holmes.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-26
finger Nails.

Ii finger-tips have o language OF
their own, so have the nails and the
n OF keeping is as eloquent O, all
the rest. Some keep them long and
pointed, like "reminiscences of claws
others bite theirs close to the quick
some pare and trim and scrape and
polish up to the highest point of arti-
fetal beauty and others, carrying the
doctrine of nature to the outside limit.
let them grow wild, with Jagged edges,
broken tracts, and agnails or black
friends as the agonizing consequences.
Sometimes you e the most beautiful
nails, pink, transparent, flbert-sbaped,
with the delicate flmy little "half,
moon" indicated at the base-all the
conditions of beauty carried to perfec-
ton, but all rendered of no avail by
dirt and slovenliness; while others,
thick, white, ribbed, square, With no
ballroom, spotted like so many circus
horses with "'gifts" and ''friends," and
the like-that is, without beauties and
with positive blemishes-are yet pleas
ant to look at for the care bestowed on
them, their dainty perfection of clean
liness being a charm in itself. Moth
ing indeed is more disgusting than dirty
hands and neglected nails, and nothing
gives n such a sense Of freshness and
as the same members well kept.
But one of the ugliest things in nails
is when they r bitten ; which, to
Judge by what one sees, is q habit hav-
-ng irresistible destinations for those
given over to it. It is an action, by she
way, that has more than n sisnif
,ance. 1t may mean consideration,
hesitancy " it may mean anger
md annoyance; or, as a habit, it may
point to the not remote possibility Of
madness. In any way it is ugly to look |
It, and worse than ugly in it's resuls Is ;
pare feger-tips, with the protecting
over gnawed 10 the bleeding flesh, be-
onging to the list of things mutilafed
md willfully spoiled-therefore taken
'ut OF the category of things ugly by
hence misfortunes for which
he sufferer is in no wise accountable.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-26
Don't DO It.

Don't firt with a fool. It's bad
enough to fool with a firt.
Don't underbill your age. Your do,
lection is only a question of sine. q.
Don't rush. At the end of the race
you will suffice to convince the world of
your folly. 5asa "E
Don't magnify your neigobor's vices.
It's worse than extolling your own
virtues.
Don't boast of your brain work.
Some inquisitive person might ask for a
specimen brick.
Don't advocate the doctrine of uni.
versal salvation. "Hell on the Wabash"
is a matter of history.
Don't turn up your nose at barren
land. A farmer without " rocks never
makes q stir in the world.
Don't dream that the world can't wag
along without Jon. A grain of sand is
not missed from the desert.
Dont attempt to do too much. At
twenty-five men imagine they will re-
form the world, At forty they are con.
tent to reform themselves.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-26
Anew Shell.

The English Army and Navy Gazette
has enumerated on several occasions
tue various results of experiments un-
dertaken by the committee on .explo-
siYes, with a view of ascertaining the
practical effect of Prof. Abel's proposed
plan for the bursting of the common
she'll filed with water, by means of a
decorator, consisting of dry, compressed
gun cotton, enYeloping a small cap of
illuminate of mercury. Some months
ago the ~practicability of exploding six
teen-pourder common shells in this
manner was satisfactorily established,
and the result of such an arrangement
was the bursting of a shell into three
hundred fragments, whereas only about
thirty pieces were produced by the ex-
ploaion of an. ordinary bursting charge
of gunpowder. The effect of such am
explosion among troops in the field
could not be otherwise than disastrous
in the extreme. Lately, however, says
the Gazette, experiments have been
made with nine-ineh common shells,
which far exceed in effect that of any
conducted with the filed service com
mon shell. On this occasion the burst
ing element, employed was vet gun
cotton in lien of water. It will be re-
membered that the danger hitherto
experienced in the employment of this
explosive has been obviaEed by WetSiug
1T, q discovery having been made to the
effect that it detonated equally we'll wet
or dry. Nine-inch shells. we're. placed
upright upon the sands at Shoebury-
ness, a boarding being erected around
them atTa convenient distance, TO con.
fine the fragments. The ~proiectiles
being then filled with some eight or
nine pounds of wet compressed gun
and a "detonator, " as described
having been fitted into the fuse
hole socket, they were fred by an ordi-
nary electric fuse. The, result was ex-
;raordinary, the shells bursting literally
INTO thousands of pieces.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-26
How is Your Pronunciation !

The following extract is suggested
for use by teachers and pupils in
schools as al exercise test of pronuncia.
ton. It must be read off Immediately
without pause to consider which is the
proper way to pronounce the words
l. A courier from st. Louis, an Itai
ian with italics, began an address or
recitative as to the mischievous ma
Jional finances.
q. His dolorous progress was demon
strated by a demonstration, aud the
preface to his sacerdotal profile gave
his opponents an irrepsrable and Ia
mentable wound.
3. He was deaf and isolated, and the
envelope on the furniture at the depot
was a covert for leisure and the reti-
cence from the first grasp of the dane
ing legislature of France.
4. The diIation of the chasm, or
trough, made the servile satyr and vir-
lie optimist vehemently panegyrise the
lenient God. ..5
5. He was an aspirant after the vaga-
ries of the exorcists and an ~inexorable
coadjutor Of the irrefragib]e, yet ex-
q~uisate, Farrago, on the subsistence OF
the despicable finale and the recogni-
ton of the recognizance.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-26
Minks-HOW They May Be DOmesti-
Gated.

Mr.. Resseque, who has @ minkery al
Verona, n. Y, states that minks may
be tanned without difficulty, if taken il
hand when their eyes are beginning tc
open. They should then not be allowed
the society of their mother or the rest
of the litter. By constant petting and
handling they become like domes-
| tic kittens and exhibit all the playful
antics of the feline tribe. They can
then be handled without fear of being
bitten by them, but they are repre-
sented as being very mischievous; their
exceeding sharp scent will enable them
to find food which was not intended for
them to eat. Their fondness for water
and bathing will prompt them to go
into an open tea-kettle OF any open YES
sci filed with water, and while wet they
will roll and dry themselves in a
clothes-basket of freshly-ironed clothes
or on a lady's dress. In this way they
are troublesome pests. '@
He states also that tame minks make
excellent ratters and hunt with vigor
and speedily exterminate these trouble
some pests. The rats will Immediately
fee from them when first they scent
them, and they are 80 bewildered in
flight that they give battle, but
yield at once, and SO swiftadoes the
mink cut the main arteries OF the rats
neck an observer would scarcely think
the deed was. done. When tame and
wild minks are confined together the
tame ones always. prove victorious, be-
ing much stronger than the wild ones.
Too much confinement will make their
fur look dead and rusty. They require
a dark place to roam and exercise. II
fish is given them during September
and October their fur is much i'm
proved; soft water for bathing purposes
also improves ii much. Mr.. Resseque
tells an amusing story of a stray cat
invaded his minkery, no doubt in
quest of game, but the minks proved
100 much. At last the a gained the
of the ~inclosure, the yard was
'trewn with locks of cat-hair, and for a
hundred feet Or more in the track of
Ter exit were found tufts of cat hair /:
put Notwithstanding this a strange per-
ION can 60 in the minkery with impunity
md observe these shy creatures play
ng like kittens around HMM. Y.
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