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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11

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The Mans and Woman's Way Of
Saying Things.

Look at the ridiculous way in
which a man takes for granted that
a woman will be interested in his
sayings and doing. If his wife has
long story to tell him she is filled
with misgivings lest it may tire
HIM. She leaves out many little
picturesque touches that she may
not take up his time, and even on
the hand-gallop, she has not ar
rived within call of her conclusion
when he asks with confusing direct
ness, swell how did it turn out?"
But the man has never a misgiving
that he will be hurried, or that life
has anything better to offer than
listening to him. He begins his
story at its earliest morning stages,
and lopes leisurely to its close, or
lift is rapid he gives it rapid transit,
but he never omits anything on his
wife's account. He tells what he
said, and what the other man said,
and what the other man might have
said, and what he would have said
had the other man said what have
said. And the worst of it is-the
fatal point is-that his confidence
is Justified. The woman is inter.
ested. The mans talk takes her
out of her own into a larger life,
and she not only tolerates, but en-
Joys it; and what are you going to
DO about it?-GaI Hamilton.
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Chronic Growers.

Knoxville Chronicle: We do not
propose to enter into a controversy
with Providence, but His ways are,
in many instances, inscrutable. For
instance, who can tell the purposes
for which the chronic grumbler and
growler was created? He makes it
a point to complain at everything
and everybody. He is ready, at all
times, with willing hands, to tear
down what others have built up.
He appears to think the chief end
of man is to find fault. If the
chronic grumbler can not find some
thing that bears the semblance of
truth upon which to base his growl-
ing, he will manufacture or invent
pretext. He is always in a misera-
BILE frame of mind, and wants to
make every one else as miserable.
We repeat, we have no conception
of the reasons that led to his crea-
ton. He is certainly worth nothing
to himself or anybody else.
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Die For You.

At the time of the gold fever in
California, a man went from Eng
land to the diggings. BY and by
ne sent money for his wife and
child to follow him They arrived
safely in New York, and there took
passage in one of the beautiful
Pacific steamers. A few days after
sailing, the terrible cry of Sire
fire. rang through the ship. Ev-
erything that the captain and the
sailors could do was done, but it
was no use, the fire rapidly gained
ground. As there was a powder
magazine on board, the captain
knew that the moment the flames
reached it the vessel would be blown
up; so he gave word to lower life
boats. They were got out, but
there was not room for all, so the
strong pushed in and left the weak
to their fate. As the last boat push
ed Off a mother and her boy were
on the deck, and she pleaded
to be taken on board. The
sailors agreed to take one but not
both. What did the mother do?
did she jump in herself No; she
kissed her boy, and handing him
over the side of the ship said, "If
you live to see your father, tell him
/ die to save you." That was a
great love, yet it is but a faint type
of what Christ has done for us.
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One Hundred and Five Bushels Of
Corn to the Acre.

They make good corn crops in
Cumberland county, Pennsylvania.
Among the most worthy examples
of large yields, during the past year
is that of Joseph Bosler, who OBJ
tanned from twenty-six acres, TWEEN
ty-seven hundred and thirty bush
els of shelled corn, or an average of
one hundred and five bushels TO the
acre. The field was allowed to lie
in clover for one year without pas
turing. The large growth was then
turned under, and $50 bushels of
lime to the acre was applied. The
ground was then cultivated and har-
rowed TWICE, and the corn put in
on the I'd and Sd of May. After
the corn was up, the cultlvator was
again called into use, and after
wards, at proper intervals, during
the season, the plows were run
through it three times, and the corn
harvested measured 2,f3a bushels
of shelled corn, So much for green
manuring.
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Printers Ink.

Under the above head the South
orn Industries says that ga judi
cious use of printers ink, in the
way of advertising, is the best in
vestment business man can make !;
and the harder the times are the
better it pays" In demonstration
of this fact it states that:
"T. HI. Jones & Co., within few
weeks past, have occupied, in two
issues of our paper, from four to
five pages of the same, in advertis-
ing their agricultural implements,
taking 10000 extra copies of the
paper each week, which they sent
to 10000 oranges and farmers,
whose addresses they had secured.
1t has cost this firm over 5000 an
issue; still the early fruits are so
abundant they have ordered an edi-
ton of 10000 of next weeks edI-
ton, to send to 10000 additional
names they have gathered from diff
ferent sources.
"There is not meritorious en-
terprise in the South, that depends
upon a wide and general patronage,
but would be thus benefited by
such a course"
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Wanted to Share the Blessing.

A little bright eyed three year old
was seated in his high chair at the
dinner table. Mamma had arranged
the little uneasy, while for q mo-
ment his sprightliness and fun had
made him the observed of the whole
family. She had placed him snug
ly at the table, pinned on his bib,
and succeeded in getting the little
hands quiet and max
ing him hush, when his father pro-
ceeded to ask the blessing. While
this was in progress our little club
by made discovery. 1t was that
all the plates were in one pile at
"papa's place." and, as it seemed
to him were put there to get the
benefit of the solemn ceremony.
So scarcely waiting for the"Amen,"
be held out his own plate in both
hands, saying, "Please, papa, pray
on my plate, too.-Christian at
Work.
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New Varieties of Wheat.

We received yesterday by express
seven distinct varieties of wheat
grown by an intelligent and sue
cessful farmer of Bradley county.
One bunch was cut down close to
the roots and measures, by actual
measurement, five feet two inches.
There are one hundred and fifteen
stalks in the bunch, ard they came
from tUo grains. The stalks are
large and strong, and heads heavy
and well filed. 1t was sowed Sep
TENDER Is, 1876, and was harvested
June 4th. Very early. 1t is called
the"Golden Straw-White Smooth"
No prettier wheat can be raised.
We are also in receipt of the fol-
lowing varieties: Hybrid made by
crossing the Walker upon the Fultz;
another hybrid, by crossing a large
California white upon the Golden
Straw" the "Fultz-Red Smooth :"
the ''Clawson-White Smooth" by
brid, by crossing upon the "Golden
Straw" All these seem to be fine
varieties, and all obtained by the
enterprise and intelligence of the
producer. He informs us that the
''Golden Straw" is ten days ahead
of any other variety.
The astonishing feature of his
operations is hy6ridizing, crossing
one variety upon another, and with |
perfect success. Who will say that |
such a farmtr is not a benefactor
to his country We published an
article from his pen yesterday that
should be voraciously devoureG by I
every lover of agriculture-Knoz-
vile Tribune and Age.
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A Woman One Hundred and Forty
Years Old.

The oldest person ia the world is
Sonora Peras Glen, a Mexican wo-
man, who lives in San Gabrial Mis-
sion, California. She is one hun
dred and forty years old. Her age
is declared to be matter of undis-
puted record. She was born in
Lower California, and removed to
San Diego in 1857, and her name
was then registered on the books of
the old Mission. In ITO, she re
moved to San Grbrial Mission,
where she has lived ever since in an
abode house, with only a ground
floor. She eats daily the plainest
food, and has been a tobacco smo
ker all her life until fifteen years
ago, when she turned over new
leaf, joined the anti-tobacco pledge,
and quit drinking wine at the same
time. She was married at thirteen
and has had eleven children. She
is now living with her youngest
baby of eighty three. A photogra-
pher in Rochester N. Y, has paid
a visit to the ancient dame, and
taken a series of Photographic and
stereoscopic views of her. 1t is
fact that her hair, once as
white as snow, is now turning black
and silky. If she lives another half
century or so she will at this rate be
restored to blooming girlhood
again.
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The Death of a Hermit.

On Friday last Austin Sheldon,
the Pike county (Pa.) hermit, was
found dead on top of one of the
mountains, in a ten feet snow drift.
He had lived over forty years in
cave in the rocks, near the entrance
of which his body was found. Shell
don was nearly seventy-two years
old. He was discovered in his cave
thirty years ago by hunters. He
said he had been living there ten
years, and had not seen any human
being in that time. About year
ago a brother and sister of the her
nit, from Connecticut,bo both wealthy,
went to his abode and eDdeavored
in every way to get him to return to
his friends. 1t was of no avail
Sheldon had lost his wife after
brief married life, and disappeared
on the day of the burial. He was
not heard of until last year. Shell
don lived on game, fish, roots and
berries. At the time of his death
his form was much bent. The cloth
ing that hung i'll rags and tatters
from his person had been donned
twenty two years ago and never ia
ken off. 1t was held together by
hickory withes. He never washed.
A thick gray beard that hung al
most to his waist, and hair of the
same color, hanging over his shout
ders, was matted with burrs and
twigs, and had not been touched
with a comb or brush for forty five
years. Sheldon was an educated
man. His family is among the
leading ones of Connecticut.
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How Evarts, Beecher and Cough
Lose Money as Farmers.
ester Democrat and Chronicle. ]

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.l
New YORK, May 3I.-It has been
of late proposed to raise by public
subscription enough to enable Mr..
Evarts to hold the Office of Secre-
tary of State without damage to his
private interests.
One of the best features in any
such measure would be to abolish
the Vermont farm, which is said to
exhaust the best part of his income.
He has 70 head of cattle, 200 sheep,
16 horses and % swine. The ex-
tent of land is 800 acres. Last year
200 tons of hay were cut, costing
the proprietor not much more than
double the market price. More
than 1000 bushels of corn were
raised, at an estimated loss of 80
cents a bushel, and therefore ought
to be of good quality. His pork is
estimated at 20 cents pound, and
chickens at SO pair.
Beecher last year raised about
$4,000 bushels of onions on his
Peeksill farm. They cost him $1.5O
a bLshel, according to estimate, and
as the market price in this city was
81, any one can see how much he
made. Beecher can send beef to
the New York market, at 80 cents
pound, and can raise oats at
as low a mark as 50 bushel.
His butter is reckoned at $1.25 a
pound, and his eggs at rs cents a
dozen. He cleared $4,000 by lect-
uring last winter, and if he main
tains such an income he will be able
to continue farming.
Cough lectures five times a week,
his fee being 5000. He has a farm
in Worcester, which at one time
contained 475 acres. He has no
but his expenses are very
heavy, and, to bring matters to
snug shape, he sold a part of his
land, and reduced the farm to 125
acres, which is as extensive as his
income will admit. A few years
ago his wife, who was a Yankee
girl, undertook to raise fancy fowls,
which some say are very profitable.
She got up very nice variety, and
at rather reasonable expense, for
the Shanghais did not cost more
than $75 pair. The Cochin Chi
mas were little cheaper, and ban
tams could be rated at from $25 to
$40. After stocking the place with
these rare birds, Cough, it is said,
found that if they were to be kept
up he would be obliged to Lecture
on Sundays as well as on week days
to make a living. When it costs
S15 to winter a chicken man
needs a good income. The system
was, therefore. changed; the fowls
we're abolished, and regular crops
we're tried with decided success. AS
Long as Coughs rye does not cost
more than So per bushel, and the
other crops are kept at an equally
reduced rate, his present income
will enable him to live in very de- |
cent manner. There is nothing
ike a farming life for men who have
plenty of money.
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GO West. Young Woman.

Numbers of strong, healthy and
ablebodied women are earning 8
good livelihood and laying by q
competency for the future, by farm
life out upon the plains of Nebraska.
Many of these female farmers have
taken up their farms under the
Gland laws" which are applicable to
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standing the grasshopper scourge,
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Little Words.

What little thing a word is! II
drops from the lips at the impulse
of the will without an effort. Yet
what is of such mighty importf
what else may do so much harm,
or so much good?
With a word you may win heart
or lose it; break a friendship or
form a new one. That little word
Eyes" has altered the course of a
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Volumes have been written al
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it should be. And, on the whole,
most people would be better of if
they were more sparing of their
words. We tell things we should
not, and repent it afterwards.
Words come so easily that we waste
them, misuse them, and take no
care of them.
Words, words, words! oh! what
trouble they plunge us into; and
the hardest thing in the world to
do, is to make sure of always using
just the words we ought to use, and
of being certain not to use too
many.
Let us then guard our words, be
careful of them, weigh them, and
measure them, and escape as much
as possible all the miseries which
words may entail upon US.
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The Triumph Of the Mirror.

Mirrors have been in use since
the days when Eve made her
toilet by the stream of Paradise;
and all her daughters-ay, and her
sons, too, if the truth must be told
have resorted to them, whether
in the form of the clear fountain,
or the polished steel, or the modern
looking glass. What house does
not possess a mirror? from the
large cheval mirror, with its gorge
Gus gliding, in which the high born
beauty arrays herself for the ball,
rejecting the floating lace, the
wreath bound tresses, and even the
satin shod feet, down to the little
cracked dish bound with red painted
wood, hanging on the wall of the
garrett where the poor seamstress
plies her task, in which she smooths
her hair and sees it growing gray so
soon, and in which she looks upon
the face of her only friend,
1t is not with the outward form,
but with the morale of the mirror
we have to do, and we presume that
the morality of mirror consists in
its truth, a virtue, we believe, capa-
bic of producing every other. Many
are the accusations brought against
the mirror on the score of fiattery;
but we set them down as ground
less.
"You are very beautiful" says
the mirror, as one looks into it
with glancing eye, cheek of da
mask, and a brow of snow; and she
who looks therein, twines the sun
ny curl round her finger, and with
a smile that shows the pearly teeth,
acknowledges the truth, and that
consciousness makes her lovelier
still. 1t is an eXalting thought, that
she is the fairest thing in nature,
and she can no more help rejoicing
in it than the flower can help ex-
panding in the sunshine or waving
in the breeze.
you are very plain, Miss" pro
nounces the mirror; and the quiet
smile that answers says:
81 know am; but L want to look
as well as l can for all that"
"And you will be an old maid,"
resumes the mirror, though with a
little shade of hesitation.
"Even so,'' is the return; 81 think
it possible for an old maid to be
happy. Affections which have no
near objects in which TO expend
their wealth need not therefore lack,
in a world like this, their legitimate
exercise"
"But if, after all, your affection |
and your sympathy should meet
with no return? if these should be
as unsought as your loveY' The
lip quivered a little and the eyes
we're suffused, but the mirror an
5wered itself: "They will serve to
Deautify your own soul"
"You are growing DID," the mir
ror whispers daily to the man and
woman of the world. All, would
they but listen to the solemn truths
It breaches from the text of their
gray hairs. But he does not stop
20 notice the hard lines of eager
that have gathered
'ound his lips and on his brow; and
she whose glass sees her only as
she is, as she arrays herself in her
'alse graces, forgets that her life is
more false still.
Be consoled, good mirror, thou
lrt not the only neglected truth
eller in the world.
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