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With the present number the TRUE NORTH
ERNER enters upon its twenty sixth year OF
consecutive publication.
The true northerner., 1880-03-12

The great s.rainers OF the human system, the
Kidneys, are subject to variety OF diseases
that DAYS KIDNEY PAD will certainly cure. For
sale by G. w. Tyler d Co.
The true northerner., 1880-03-12

Your druggist will always keep it on hand, i.
you refuse to take no bitters but Reeds Gilt
Edge Tonic.
The true northerner., 1880-03-12

Born. to Z, Meyer and wife, March 8tb,
daughter mine pounds
The true northerner., 1880-03-12

Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic stands at the head of
preparations for the cure OF dyspepsia. 1t has
won its position.
The true northerner., 1880-03-12

The ague-sricken mortal finds quick relief
In Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic. Never be without
1t
The true northerner., 1880-03-12

Miss Jennie Doyle is home from Pontiac for
visit OF couple of weeks.
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Local Notices.
Organs, repaired and tuned-enquire OF
GRANT w. FUTILE.
PEACH LAND FOR SALE.

Forty acres, about one-fourth mile from the
pier where vessels come, at Paulvlle. on the
eastern shore OF Lake Michigan. Original tim
one-third cash down, balance on time. Also.
eighty acres or we'll timbered land. two and ons
half miles from Lawton, and three and one.
half from Paw Paw. Will sell the whole or in
ten OF twenty acre lots; one-half cash down
balance on time. 1292tS*
Paw Paw, Mich, Dec. 23. 1870;
FREDERICK LORD.
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F.. E. d. DARLING,
Builder and Contractor.

DEALERIN
Cement, Stucco, Plaster, Stone Lime, II air
Plastering Mortar. Brick, Stone, Lath and
Shingles. Bills oftimber and lumberfilled TO
order. Thanking the people for their past
patronage, i would still socit your orders for
Mason work which will be attended 10 with
promptness.
Store opposite ClIftonHo House on Kalamazoo
street 120fly
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The Best Salve in theIworld for Cuts, Bruises,
Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, letter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains, Corns. and all kinds OF Skin
Eruptons. This Snlve Is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction in every case or money re-
funded. Price % cents per box.
For sale by Duncombe. Stearns & Co.
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G.. ": U.ARD,
Dentist. will be found as usual at bis Office,
corner Main d Kalamazoo Sts., Paw Paw
Mich, over Sherman & Avery's.
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Christian Church.-Eld. T. Brooks, Pastor
Sunday Services: 10H A. M. and IA P. M
Sunday School, II NE. A. Crane, Sup't
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BELLEVUE, La, THURSDAY JUNE H. 1880

| one of his horses who lay dead, and one
of the footmen was blown twenty yards
off, with his skull battered in. Mean
while, hundreds of panes of glass in the
street had been smashed. all the gas
lamps were extinguished and in the
darkness there resounded an appalling
tumult of plunging horses and shrieking
women. Lanterns and torches had to
be brought out of the opera, and then
it was seen that the Imperial coach was
a complete wreck. How the Emperor
and Empress managed to escape, with
not so much as singed hair or a cut
finger, is nothing short of marvellous.
Apparently not daunted in the least by
what had happened, the Empress said
to the Emperor, "We must 90 into the
house to show them we are not afraid"
and few minutes later the entry of the
Imperial couple into their box became
the signal for a magnificent ovation, all
the spectators rising en- masse and
cheering to the echo. Neverthe-
less, from this time Napoleon III. was
an altered man. In the following year
he undertook the war against Austria
for the liberation of Italy, and ever
afterward he went in fear of his life.
Not a towards fear, for he was a thor
oughly brave man, but fear which the
French call crainte raisonnee. He ex-
pected to be murdered, and took the
minutest precautions to insure that the
Government should be carried on by a
strong regency in case of his demise.
He never went out without leaving di-
rections as to where the latest copy of
his will was to be found; and at times,
when he was in low spirits, he used to
say that he had dreamed he should be
assassinated within such and such a
time. During the remainder of his
reign all Italians visiting France were
required to exhibit passports. and if not
persons of undoubted responsibility,
were closely watched till an excuse was
found for expelling them from the
country. In despite of these precau-
tions, Napoleon's life was again attempt
ed, by an Italian, in 1868, while in 1866
three other intriguers of Orsinis inter-
esting country-Greco, Trabuco and
mperatore-entered into murderous
plot against his life, which was happily
nipped in the bud by the police There
is said to have been another and more
mysterious attempt against the En-
peror, of which the public heard moth
ing. except by rumor. A gamekeeper,
OF the forest of Comgiegne, shot at His
Majesty while the latter was engaged
i'll a pleasant battue; but one Of the
equerries in attendance on Napoleon
discharged both the barrels of his
breech-loader into the head of the muir
derer and killed him on the spot. So
the story runs; but whether it be a true
one or not will probably never be known
till some of the secret memoirs of the
imperial era come to light. .--CornhiU
Magazine. "a
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Feeding the Dead--.A Chinese Ceremo.
nial.

A Chinaman was buried at Philadel-
phia in 1875, and four times year his
surviving countrymen there visit his
grave to g feed the dead" A recent
visit of this kind is thus described: The
first preliminary was the removal of all
Mclean clothing. As they had come
enwrapped in the flowing blue drilling
gown and trousers and the cloth-soled
shoes worn by all good Cinnamon, the
only article necessary to dispense with
was the hat. They then uncoiled their
long pig-tails and carried their we'll
filled provision hamper to the grave.
Ceremony number one consisted of a
sort OF invocation. : In perfect time and
drill the mourners lifted their arms
from their sides to a horizontal posi-
tion, then above their heads, when
they clapped their hands and uttered
high-keyed grunt. This was done sew
eral times. The chief priest then pro-
duced a package of sheets of tissue pa
per, about three inches square, each of
which bore Inscriptions in Chinese char
acters. These were supposed to repre-
sent each sin committed against one
of the many deities Of the Buddhist
faith. They were burned, one by one,
each of the celebrants taking turn in
lighting them. When the last had been
burned another inroad was made upon
the hamper and a chicken entire, except
as to its feathers, was brought out; also
four cups and saucers and as many
plates, all of which were laid on pa
per tablecloth placed on the grass A
knife similar in shape to those used by
shoemakers speedily dissected the fowl,
and fragment was placed on each
plate. The cups were filled out of
large wicker bottle which contained
something like tea. Oranges were also
produced, and the three living China
men went solemnly through the form
of eating, the ghost presumably keep
ing them company. The living BAN
queters speedily emptied their cups and
disposed of the oranges. Seemingly
awakened to the fact that their invisi-
BILE guest was not getting through with
his share as rapidly, they poured the
tea from his cup and what remained in
the bottle on the foot of the grave. A
bottle of saki, the Chinese whisky, was
also poured out, none of the living feast
ers partaking of the liquor. Half
dozen singular-looking little tapers,
mounted on bamboo sticks, were then
stuck in the swelling turf of the grave
and lighted. These had two proper
ties,' smoke and smell. A west wind
drove both into the faces of the specta-
tors in such volume that they beat a
hastry retreat, and those who witnessed
the last rite were fortunate enough to
have found places outside the line Of the
breeze. In the midst of the smoke and
stencil the faithful Celestials went
through their last posturing, similar to
that of the invocation. This done they
packed up the remains of their banquet
and the dishes, and, leaving the tapers
still burning on the grave, they quilted
the cemetery.
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beSt!''
The students bought the poor fellows s
apples at their own price, and he Of
Tered Giles all he was worth if he would
come and cure him. He drove off in
great alarm, feeling very weak, and
complaining that the pain in his heart
was increasing.
On the road beyond the village he
met some more students, who looked at
him in surprise and alarm, inuuirine
now he felt and assured him he was
very I'LL and threatened with the plague
IL, IN fact, he had not got it already.
lie finally reached home more dead
than alive; informing his parents of
what had occurred, he took to bed, and
gradually grew worse. In spite of his
protestations they sent for doctor:
but it so happened that the latter was
away on consultation in neiohbor-
ing town, and did not return in time to
see him the next day. The day follow
ing young Giles, with several others.
went to visit him and report upon the
case. They found him with a high
fever, covered with quilts, complaining
OF cold and intense anguish about the
heart and verging on delrium.
."'Well, doctor?'' he gasped, looking
wildly at the now alarmed student.
:" You are saved" whispered the
other. "Dr. Copple's remedy has al
ready restored six dying patients.
Here; take these pills-one every fifteen
minutes, and IN an hour your pain will
leave you, and before night you will be
well.'
The man frightened at once and
took four bread pills at intervals of ten
minutes. In an hour, sure enough, he
was better and before night he had left
his bed and was pronounced out of dam
ger. The students returned to town
satisfied with their experiment and the
next week Bassett was again at the hos
pital selling them more apples. Then
they told him the joke, and though in
clineG to be angry at first, he finally
joined them in laugh against himself.
So much for the force Of imagination.
-EIchaage.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Is a clothing store coterie. a pant
ry or a vestry?--DetroH Free Press.
An inveterate topper is now called a
sample case.-NeU York Nescs.
The man who sells sieves is in the
holesale business. -Steubonrille Herald.
The colt and the egg must be bro
ken before they can be of use to man.
boston Transcript.
-Thare amt nothing on arth that
will take the starch so klean out ov us,
az to git kaught bi the phellow we are
trieing to ketch.-Josh Billings.
There is no man SO mean that a doc
will not follow him. 1t has also been
noticed that every politician has some
sort OF support.--N. o. Picayune.
Photographers generally have good
deal OF fun at the expense of the women;
but then they don't have bit more
than the women do at the expense of
the men.-Ky. State Journal.
-" Ice cream and strawberries at the
Episcopal supper tonight" glared out
on a sign in Mansfield, Ohio, last Tues
day, and all that livelong day you
couldn't see a young man on the street.
Harrington Hawk-Eye.
"A New York stone-cutter received
the following epitaph from German,
to be cut upon the tombstone of his
wife: Mine wife Susan is dead, if she
had lived till mex Friday she'd d been dead
shust two weeks. AS a tree falls so must
it STAN
"A Yankee editor, speaking of poul-
try, says: "Much attention has been
paid to the rearing of poultry in the
West, and the method now in use of
Matching chickens, l consider far supe-
rior to the Egyptian one of Matching
them in ovens. 1t is simply to fill a
barrel with eggs, head it up and sit a
hen upon the bung."
The Beers of South Africa have a
very useful social custom. When a
Boer lady has daughter in society
and young man calls to see her, the
careful parent sticks a pin in the candle;
when the candle burns down to the pin
the young man knows his time is out;
he picks himself up and leaves. Bores
of more civilized society might be man.
aged in the same way.
%, skirt, beautiful skirt!
Jerked thro' the dust and dragged thro' the
dirt.
Once thou vert white
AS the mantle of snow;
AS the leaves of the lily
When spring zephyrs blow;
Still to the touch and fair to the eve,
Neat to the gaze of each passer-by;
Now tattered and spattered-
o, piteous wrong!
Beautiful skirt
They made you too long!
-"Here we have the Great Egyptian
Wonder, captured in the wilds of South
America, with a loss of five thousand
men and an expenditure of forty mill
ions of treasurer exclaimed the show
man, shaking his whip in threatening
manner at a stuffed hide in glass cage.
" Don't 60 too close said a mother to
her son, sit might seize YOU" .'Have
no fears, madam, for the safety of your
offspring observed the Snowman, elo-
quently, "for does not the good book
teach us that wonders never seize?
Pass rapidly on to the next cage and
view the Living Skeleton, or the man
who married his mother-in-law."
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NUMBER 14.
Longevity Notes.

Mrs. Gillespie, of Morgan County,
Ky, is 103 years old and walks two
miles to church every Sunday.
Matilda Stevenson lived to be 1O5
years of age before she made a profess
sion of faith, and was baptized at Paris,
KY, on recent Sunday.
Ruthia Shippers died in the Elkton
(Md.) Almshouse aged 10 years. She
was born slave, but had enjoyed fifty
years Of freedom, having been manu-
mitted.
Baltimore loses another centenarian
in Sarah Springer, who died recently,
aged 1O3. She leaves thirty-one grand
children and twenty-eight great grand
children.
Ada Township, Mich. sincerely
mourns the loss of Ebenezer Swami, =
farmer, and most estimable man, who
has just died aged 105. He was ma
tive of Maine, but one of the oldest set
tiers in Michigan.
Jane Douglass died in New York City
on the 18th of April, aged 1O1 years and
two months. At her bedside, when she
died, stood her grandchildren, one of
them over fifty years old, and two of
her daughters, but both were too aged
to do more than comfort the DIVING
woman by their presence. The old
lady's faculties stayed by her 10 the last.
The Madrid Epoch announces the
death at Gijon, in northern Spain, of a
gentleman who was 112 years old. He
successfully withstood the wear and tear
OF five successive marriages during his
long life, and, indeed, welded bliss may
fairly be assumed to have agreed with
him. His last wedding day was also
the eighty-ninth anniversary of his birth,
upon which festive occasion he espoused
a comely maiden of "sweet seventeen"
whose union with him resulted in the
addition of two sturdy boys to his al
ready numerous family of six-and-twen-
ty sons, the fruits of his previous matri-
monial alliances. Once, at the early
age of fifteen, he was ill of fever, since
which he has known no malady or even
lnconsiderable ailment. For many years
past he has eaten but one solid meal, at
midday, in every twenty-four hours, his
breakfast and supper consisting of gill
OF raw spirits swallowed at draught
and taken without food.
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Attempts to Assassinate Louis Napoleon.

1t was in 1852 that this sovereign's
life was tried for the first time, and an
other attempt was made upon it by
Radical shoemaker in 1853. This year
-1S53-was prolific in regicidal out
RACES, for traitor called Libenyi tried
in February to murder the Emperor
Francis Joseph at Vienna, while in
March soldier sought to dispose of
the reigning Duke of Parma, Charles
III. Three years passed now without
any more crimes of this sort; but in
1856 Napoleon Ill. was twice put in
peril of his life, both his aggressors
Pianori and Bellamare) being Italians.
1t is said that after the attempt of Bel
lamare the Emperor took to wearing
skirt of mail under his linen. 1t was
not, however, until after the fearful en-
terprise of Orsini, on January IA, 1858,
that he got to be so seriously unnerved
as to live in constant dread OF assassina-
ton. Count Felice Orsini was not a
mere vul lgar fanatic, but gentleman
by birth, education and fortune. An
ardent patriot, and a partisan of the
unification of Italy, his grudge against
Napoleon LII. was that the latter, when
a political lefugee in Italy, had joined
Free Masonic lodge, and sworn oaths
which, by and by, as Emperor, he had
neglected to fulfill. Principally as re-
CARDS Rome, Orsini was furious at see
ing the temporal power of the Pope
maintained by French garrison of
$4,000 men, and two years before at
tempting Napoleon life he wrote anon
ymnusly to warn him that the Carbona-
ro lodges had decreed his death and
that the sentence would infallibly be
carried out if the imperial policy to-
ward Italy were not altered. Had
Count Orsini's accomplices-Pierri, Ru-
dio, and Gomez-been men of his met
tie and determination, the attempt
against Napoleon on the night of Jan.
IA, 1858, must have been crowned with
success; but they were poor ignorant
cravens, who did their work for pay,
not from conviction, and their hearts
failed them at the critical moment.
Each of them had been provided with
two explosive shells which were to be
thrown under the Emperor's carriage
as it drove up to the opera. Orsini
threw his two shells and Pierri one, but
the other two men ran off in fright
when they heard the first explosion.
The damage done by the shells was
ghastly. Five people were killed out
right and nine wounded; all the soldiers
of the mounted escort were bruised or
scratched; the Emperor's coachman fell
of his box stunned on to the carcass of
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Happy Homes.

Few homes l think are what, under
Gods blessing, they should be- 1t re-
quires but little effort to make home
cheerful and happy. There should be
a deep and abiding love between hus-
band and wife, parents and children,
and tender forbearance toward each
other faults. When these exist they can
not but be Edens of love; but, alas! how
often do we see it otherwise The hus-
band who has taken a solemn VOW to
love and cherish, and the wife to love
and honor, are drifting slowly but sure
ly apart. They do not understand each
other, though in name they have been
one for years. They have different con-
ceptions of each others duties and can
not act in concert. Instead of having a
quiet, loving talk, and trying to draw
near together, there are, perhaps, sharp
or cruel words and the breach widens.
Unhappiness follows and each lays the
burdens of faults on the others shoul-
ders. 0, erring judges! do ye not know
that "He who knoweth the thoughts
and intents of every heart" will not
thus Judge? First cast the beam out
of thine own eye and then shalt thou
see clearly to pull the mote out of thy
brothers eye"
The heart of woman is fragile thing
and few men understand it. 1t lives
and iourishes in the sunlight of love,
but withers like the mimosa at the
touch of an angry frown or a cruel
word. 1t cannot even thrive in the at
mosphere of indifference. How many
hearts are now struggling for existence
in this sitting atmosphere. Only few
kind words would admit the sunshine
An approving look or smile, simple
"Thank you" for any service done
would amply repay the toll.
Husband! be ever courteous and re-
spectful to your wife; grant her little
requests, sometimes though at your own
convenience, and your self-sacrifice will
be rewarded. Remember it is your
prerogative to throw around her the
bulwark of your love. and it should be
so deep and strong that no careless or
cruel missile should ever enter its hal
lowed precincts; but how often do you
trample upon this right, how often a
harsh or impatient word or tone which
is remembered by you no longer than it
takes you to utter it, is a winged shaft
that strikes and quivers in loving
heart. Husbands, whose wives are not
what you think they should be, who APP
pear to be fault finding and capricious,
try different plan from that which you
are now pursuing. Give them deeds of
kindness and words of love, and see il
your " desert will not soon rejoice and
blossom as the rose.'--A Woman, in
Louisville Courier-Journal.
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Moscow is a central point for tb

Moscow is a central point for the
collection of convict prisoners from Diff
ferents parts of the empire on their way
to Siberia, and during the winter great
many are lodged there until the opening
of navigation on the Volga. During the
navigation of last year 11,418 were dis
patched eastward from Moscow through
Mini Novgorod, of whom 10,122 were
from different provinces of European
Russia. AS soon as the navigation Of
the present year opens 2,763 prisoners,
who are at present in the Moscow pris-
ons, will be dispatched to Siberia.
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The four-years-old son of w. T.
McCrea, of Passaic, N. D., while visit
ing relatives in Port Jervis, fell over
twenty feet into well that had six feet
of water in it. He got hold of the pump
tubing and, climbing to the top, cried
for help until rescued.
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nm eRUNBLING OLD WONAN

i .~s Was an old woman, and-what do you
y mink ..,,o b,,+ ,-io,,o,s ,a
q 40 tiFed upon H''e
8 daan.,gb dannb yietuals and drink were the chief
]. q .s ne euIlmbling old woman never was
"A quiet -Kother Goose
y ..aaniee cottage, a hen-house and barn,
sbeep whose fine wool furnished blank
g N and yarn;
~ % %sock of geese, and hive full OF bees
"a .ne 0rumbled and grumbled from morn
81 ~. n " foolish old woman thought nothing
= sent right; -,
& . y sISaTs Sa,s declared that she wished it was
"A Monday.
e s.,,,dless and fair was the long summer day,
q Nd The sun. smiled down on the new-mown
.,ssres as,; drought" she said, as sure ~
d saon't 'su rain soon, it will ruin the cornr
q .,, wben descended the gentle rain,
q H. s1ssnr the bountiful fields of grain,
"a hruging new life to flower and bud,
81 % %ss aid there was coming second flood.
a. neyer gave aught to the needy and poor;
n Teoutcast and hungry she turned fiom her
n door.
y saall | work, she SAID, with Wag OF the
"A head.
q sFsnoyide for the idle and lazy their bread?"
a MT tbe rich she regarded with envy and spite:
81 n aid twas shame-'twasn't decent nor
g right
nat the naughty old Squire, with his bow
M legged son,
saId ride with two horses, while she rode
81 with one.
u athe grabbed old fellow-to spite her, no
Doubt
= nd built new barn, like palace through
81 out
q Nth cupola on it, as grand as you please.
& l1da rooster tnat wnirled mead and tail with
8 the breeze.
. j wish so do" she said, cooking her eve,
sThered come a great whiilwind, and blow II
sky-high"
8 Ind cen as she spoke, loud rushing was
heard,
,hdihe barn to its very foundation was stirred.
= kteed the shock bravely, but-pitiful sight -
. The wind took the Old woman up like a kitei
! Is she sailed up aloft over forest and hill.
HT tongue, SO they say, it kept wagging ON
STILL
! Ind where she alighted, no mortal doth know:
/ On whether she ever alighted below.
MORAL.
w moral my dears, you will find if you try:
And ii you don't find any, neither can l.
-Rak Chesterfield. IN Youths Companion,
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There are five great grazing regions
in the world-the interior of Asia. South
Africa, South America, Australia and
the trans-Missouri and Mississippi coun-
try of North America.
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The Legislature of Massachusetts
has just granted site of land worth
$1,000 for the Boston Public Library