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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-05-21

The extraordinary courage of the AL
bantam women has been displayed over
and over again in the history of the
country but one of the most celebrated
Instances was that recorded of the branch
of the Albanian people represented by
the Suliotes, when they were besieged
by Ali Pasha in 1892. The Suliotes
formed IA semi-independent confederacy,
comprising sixty-six villages, in the
districts of Margariti, Paramythia and
Janina. Up to the time of Ali Pa
sha they prided themselves on the
regularity of the payments of their
dues to the Porte. But the in
trigues of the cunning old Yell, who
wanted to get the whole of the Spahiiik
OF Sub into his greedy hands, soon
reused the people into rebellion, and
they commenced their glorious and
heightened war against the far-greater
resources of the renowned Pasha. The
latter, by means of the duplicity of
which he was such a consummate mas
ter, had intrapped Tzavella, one of the
Suliote heads of houses, into his power,
and then laid siege to the town of Sui.
He endeavored by brides to induce
Tzavella to turn traitor. Cunning here
met his match the crafty Suliote pre-
tended compliance, and even left his
own son, Foto, in Ali Pasha's hands MS
hostage. He returned to sub under
pretense of betraying the town, but no
sooner had he arrived than he sent IL
letter of defiance to the Pasha. Ali
then assailed the town, and it was here
that the heroism of the Albanian women
became so conspicuous. Mosko, the
wife of Tzavella, and mother of Foto,
showed prodigies of valor during the
siege. She broke open some cartridge
boxes with Ratchet, and then loaded
them on the other women, and, rushing
into the trenches, distributed them
among the Suliotes. Ali threatened to
roast alive her son Foto but she replied
she was young, and could have other
children, and that she would eat bit of
the roasted flesh of her son rather than
betray her country.-BiackmoOd's Mug
HZI/lg-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-05-21
An Afghan Woman,s shoes.

The slippers and shoes are of CabuleSe
make, and are very pretty. On pale
green background beautiful patterns are
worked with gold and silver thread and
parti- colored silk, until the effect is more
like that of fairy slipper than one for
daily use. But stout leather sole is
put on, with high heels rudely bound
with iron, and then the work of art is
complete. The stalls III which their
slippers and shoes are made are the gay
est in the whole bazaar. A Cabulese
lady's foot is small, almost to deformity,
and the baggy trousers by contrast make
them appear exceedingly petite. From
the few faces seen, and those chiefly of
old OF passe women, 1t is difficult to
Judge of the famed beauty Cabulese are
said to boast of. The children are GER
tainly, as whole, the prettiest l have
ever seen. Their compilations are red
and white, with tinge of olive pervad-
ing the skin, eyes black and lustrous,
well-shaped features, teeth to make a
Western beauty envious, and bright, i'll
telligent looks that sadly belle the race
to which they belong. Their mothers
must be beautiful, for their fathers are
generally villainous looking the men
losing all the pleasant traits which as
boys they possessed. The lady L have
described, as seen in the zenana for a
moment, was certainly handsome, and
was far lighter in complexion than n
Spaniard her eyes were really worthy
of the praises sung by HATH, but the
sensuous lips were a little too full and
poutiOD II was inst Such n face ~ ono
imagines i'll a harem, and would be in
keeping with the languorous life of n
voluptuary TO whom sensuality is guild
ing star. Such faces always lack char
acter, and would soon prove insipid III
the eyes of the West. The Cabulese
lady, when journeying, is either carried
III an elaborate wicker-work cage COW
cred with the inevitable flowing linen,
or rides, Amazon fashion, on pony be-
hiud her lord.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-05-21
HOME INTERESTS.
Ne,Iie,s Diamond Ring.

Oh! breathe not her nane she hath gone far away,
Far away to that world where the beautiful stay;
We mourn her long absence; Why does she not come
Once more To caress and srni.e in our home?
All! her li'y-wllte hands of natures pure mold
Are folded and lovely, though icy and cod
The soft, genie touch of her finger 30 light.
Thereon cleaned diamond, flashing and bright.
Oh! bring il not forth: the fash of the gem
viii deepen our sorrow and dizzy our brain:
No, no il may lie In it, satin-lined case,
Where her beautiful fingers has made II place.
Am / dreaming? VIII Nellie nc'er come home To
sing?
Or on her finger her new diamond ring?
Whenever we behold it, the tear-drops will bring
TO our heavy, lone hearts that gift-Nellies ring.
Fond memory c!ings to the boon overwhelmed
IL the fond, dotng father mother, and friend;
Ills for Nellie we mourn, not the new diamond ring
For she sings with the angels angels do sing.
She wears on her forehead diadem crown,
And, for aught we may know ring in her home;
She il more than an angel, adorned like a bride,
Her glorited spirit, untrammeed, untried.
She il waving the banner salvation doth bring,
to her Savior, she is wearing His ring
Uncase the sad relic, for the tears we have shed
Are diamond-ke droppings on the grave of our dead
CHICAGO, ILL., NErTIEs MOTHER.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-05-21
Admiration.

Every man of sense and refinement
admires woman MS woman; but when
she steps out of this character, thou
sand things that in their appropriate
sphere would be admired become dis
gushing and offensive. The appropriate
character of woman demands the deli
cacy of appearance and manners, refine.
ment of sentiment, gentleness of speech,
modesty in feeling and action, a shrink
ing from notoriety and public gaze,
aversion to all that is coarse and rude,
and an instructive adherence of all that
tends to indelicacy and impurity, eth, T
in principle or action. These are the
traits which are admired and sought for
in II woman.
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tenths of the grown-up women do nova
days.
The old-fashioned little girl did not
grow INTO young lady and talk about
1 peauA before she was IN her teens, ana
sie qua not read dime novels, and was
not iancying hero in every plow-boy
/ she met
She learned the solidaccomplishmonts
as she grew mp. She was taught the
art OF cooking and housekeeping. When
she got husband, she knew how TO
cook him dinner.
She was not learned in French verbs
or Latin declensions, and her near neigh
bors were spared the agony of hearing
her pound ont "The Maiden's PRAYER"
and Silver Threads Among the Gold"
twenty times day on the piano.
But we have no doubt she made her
family quite ms comfortable as the mod
ern young lady does hers.
1t may he vulgar assertion, but we
honestly believe that, when it comes to
keeping family happy, good cook
and housekeeper is to he greatly pre-
ferred above IN accomplished scholar.
When both sets of qualities are found
together, as they sometimes are. then is
the household over which such a woman
has control blessed.
The old-fashioned little girl was
modest III her demeanor, and she never
talked slang on used by-words
She did not laugh at old people or
make fun of cripples, as we saw some
modern little girls doing the other day.
She had respect for elders, and was
not above listening to words of counsel
from those older than herself.
She did not think she knew as much
as her mother, and that her judgment
was as good as her grandmother's.
She did not go to parties by the time
she was 10, and stay till after midnight
playing euchre and dancing with any
chance young man who happened to be
present.
She went to bed i'll season, and, doubt
less, said her prayers before she went,
and slept the sleep of innocence, and
rose up III the morning happy and capa-
bic of giving happiness.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-05-21
ENGLAND'S SUNDAY.
How the Day IN Observed Over the
Ocean.

L am deeply sensible of the many ma
tional sins of my own country. We
have abundant cause for humiliation.
The strifes and divisions of Christians
the quantity of semi Romanism and
skepticism tolerated in our own ranks
the bitterness and unscrupulousness
OF political factions-the commercial
frauds among the middle classes-the
gambling and the luxury of the upper ten
thousand-the drunkenness of the lower
half million-all these sins, / am well
aware, cry against us TO heaven. But
this, things must be measured by COM
parison. 1t would be ungrateful if we
did not thank God for what we have.
Where i'll the world will you find SO
much preaching of real gospel-so
much circulation of the Bible and sound
religious literature-so much money
and labor bestowed on efforts to do good
so much care for life and property
SO much thought for the sick and the
poor and the affiicted-so much liberty,
and yet SO much obedience to law
SO much outward morality-so much
family purity-where, / ask any one
looking at the map of the globe, where
will you find so much as in our own
country? No doubt there are plenty
of abuses and defects among us. L
neither deny, eXtenuate nor palliate
them. But mt any rate we have moth
ing to compare with the Nihilism of
Russia, the Socialism of Germany, the
restless, revolutionary spirit and Com
munism of France, the brigandage and
assassination of Italy, or the lazy, ig-
norant superstition and Sunday bull
fights of Spain.
And why is it How is it that hui
man nature in our little island is under
SO much restraint, and develops less
amount of corruption than human ma
tire in other lands ? l answer boldly
that one great cause of the difference
is our English Sunday. Look mt Sun
day i'll London, with its 1000, 900 of in
habitants. See how the immense ma
jority of shops through miles and miles
and miles of streets are shut up and
business suspended. See how postoffice,
and banks, and exchanges, and law
courts, and theaters, and museums, and
picture galleries are all closed. See
what hundreds of churches and chapels
and Sunday-schools are opened, and
what myriads of people attend them in
spite of the attractions of river and rail,
and then turn to any great continental
metropolis-to Paris, Madrid, Naples,
Vienna, Berlin--and mark how Sunday
is observed in them. Mark the extent
to which Gods holy day is given up to
military reviews, to races, to bull-fghts,
to theater-going, to dancing, to con-
certs, to pleasure-seeking of every sort.
to everything, in short, excepting God,
Mark all these things, and learn one
grand reason why the standard OF re-
ligion is so much higher in our own
country, with all its sins, than it is else
where There is an inseparable con-
nection between the observance of the
Lords day and the prosperity of true
religion Voltaire was quite right when
he said that he could never succeed in
destroying Christianity unless he de-
stroyed Sunday. 1t is the English Sun
day which makes England what it is
London letter.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-05-21
Strawberry Culture.

A neighbor of mine last summer had
an abundance of garden ground, and
was very successful at raising potatoes
and vegetables in general these he
would sell and purchase Strawberries and
other fruits. One day said to him. "Why
don't YOU grow your own berriesY' 'Oh,
he, 1T costs more to grow them than they are
worth Now differ with him there. If he on
any one else would purchase IA hundred straw
berry plants this spring and set them ont ON
good land well enriched with hen manure and
wood ashes, mt a distance of two feet apart each
way. then for the labor you will get partial
crop this season and full one next year sutfi-
cient to supply good-sized family from an III
vcstment of not more than dollar. l need
scarcely ask how far dollar would go if You
go to nursery to get your Strawberries, but at
a shilling n quart would make only eight of
them, so | think my neghbor was very far III
error. Now suppose you make up your mind
You are going to put III some strawberry plants,
the next thing is the selection OF varieties.
There are some kinds called the pistilate, which
produce no fruit unless hermaphrodites or per-
feet boomers are planted with them. How
ever. Won can always count sure on crop from
either Wilson's Albany or Green Prolific These
two are old wel-known sorts, such as have
been thoroughly tried, and will stand the test.
Enough plants to set twenty-four feet, single
lON, VIII bt BOS'i'uiu ioi ~ N'ii'n' JuHt
to let You try raising them in your own garden.
When your plants reach You, before You go TO
set them out, put the roots i'll puddle of dirt
and water stirred together to the consistency of
cream. Then set each plant the full length of
the roots, leaving the crown of the plant even
with the surface of the soil. Never set plants
on ridges rather little higher than lower than
the level. About two weeks after setting, SOW
common salt over the bed at the rate of ten
bushels 10 the acre, and each year following,
Just before they bloom. The salt tends to pro-
duce MOISTURE very important item III grow
ing Strawberries it Is sure death to
grlbs, which do great damage by eating off the
roots Just beneath the surface The soil should
be kept well loosened up between the rows and
around the plants, and all the runners cut off
until September, then allow them to form some
new plants, training them with the aim of max
ing compact row about eighteen inches wide.
Cover the strawberry bed with clean straw or
prairie-hay rs soon as the ground freezes. Only
barely cover the bed, for if you put on too
much, You will smother the plants. In the
spring remove the covering to each side of the
plants. leaving it between the rows for n mulch.
to be removed entirely when fruitin9 is over.
Spade or pillow between each row, tearing out
most of the plants, leaving only enough to grow
for another year. Mr. RENNIE.
AINSwORTII. Iowa.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-05-21

the long, white. soft wool rolls, as she
would draw them out and transform
them into fine threads and reels
or wind them on the spindle. With her white
cap and broad, wide, full frill. close to her
face, and her large handkerchief brought
around her neck and crossed in front SO nicely,
l thought she was the best grandma that ever
was. l can distinctly remember of hearing my
grandfather say that he guessed people would
ride in carriages that would 60 without horses
some day. So now the means of transporta-
ton from place To place is carried on with al
most lightning rapidity.
The telephone is one of the very great inn
proyements of the present age. The audiphone
IL considered to be another / converse in nv
room with people in any part of Chicago,
through the telephone. and have found il many
times To be a very great convenience. And
what will the next fifty years bring forth? l
shall not be here to know, but as long AZ this
world continues to exist il will continue to move
on i'll the same ratio of progression. NETTIE.
CHICAGO, ILL.,
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her population, from 1000 to $1,000,
and has since yearly grown in prosper
ity 1t derives it's name from bird,
named liver, the only one OF his spe-
cies which dwelt in pool on the banks
of the Mersey, and is represented on the
corporate seal after portrait taken 600
years ago, as having two legs and only
one wing. whether he took flight over
the ancient city, said to have stood III
the days of the Ptolemies, where Liver
pool now stands. is not certain, but he
must have existed mt very remote date,
or he could not have found his way into
the arms of the oldest families of Lanca-
shire. Naturalists say that the liver is
the blue duck, which is also found IN
the Ribble.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-05-21
MICHIGAN NEWS.

The d., l.. & n. extension is completed
to Big Rapids.
JESSE b. WALDORF and wife, two
miles south of Leoni, celebrated their
golden wedding few days ago.
The advocates of woman's suffrage
have decided to hold convention ut
Grand Rapids June II and ID.
CHARLES BUTLER, of Grand Blanc, who
died mt that place recently, was vet
eran of the war of 1912, and was Captain
of the first canal boat that ran on the
Erie canal.
Mrs. VAN SICKLIN, of Marshall, who
broke some of her bones rs she was
alighting from Michigan Central rail
road train ut Marshall, last winter, pro-
poses to she the railroad company for
$685.
The Edmore Gazettc SAYS that mus
kallonge four feet four inches long,
weighing thirty-three and one-fourth
pounds, was speared ut Six Lakes, on
May 6, and that it was served for dinner
mt an Edmore hotel the same day.
SOME very handsome improvements
are inaugurated for the grounds and APP
proaches of the Asylum for the Insane,
mt Kalamazoo. The Trustees of the in
stitution have just purchased two more
acres of ground III connection with the
project.
A MAN named Smith and woman
named Shay We're married Mt Bay City,
n few days ago, and minute later an
officer tore the happy Bridegroom from
the side of his blushing bride and locked
him up to await trial on charge of tim
Der stealing.
The County Superintendent of Poor
have received IL circular from officers of
the insane asylums, stating that those
institutions are overcrowded with pa
tients, and recommending that hereafter
new cases be given preference over old
cases of insanity.
TIE contract for grading and prepar-
ing the road-bed and furnishing ties for
an additional sixty miles of the Detroit,
Macllinac and Marquette railroad was let
to j. ID. Mcdonald. The entire road is
now under contract, and the work is to
be pushed with all possible speed.
The Flint JOV1pm says that Oscar
Raisin, of Otisville, although totally
blind, travels all over Genesee county
on horse back, trusting to his own acute
instincts and the sagacity of his horse,
who seems to understand that his eyes
must serve both himself and MASTER
and whenever they visit Flint the horse
goes directly to one certain livery stall.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-05-21

A NEW kind of puzzle has been invent
ed in Boston. 1t is sort of literary
game of "15." Given two words of an
equal number of letters, the problem Is
to change one to the other by altering
one letter at time of the first SO rs to
make Legitimate English word, con-
tinuing the alterations until the desired
result is attained. The conditions are
that only one letter shall be altered to
form each new word, and that none but
words which can be found i'll English
dictionaries shall be used. Here are
some examples of the changes: East to
west-east, vast, vest, west. Boot to
shoe-Boot, SCOT, shot, shoe. Dog to
cat-dog, dig, fig, fit, fat, cat. Milk to
hash-milk, mile, male, mate, hate,
hath, hash. Soup to fish-soup, sole,
soil, foil, fowl, fool, foot, coot, cost, cast,
fast, fist, fish.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-05-21
Prinpary.SclOOl Fund.

The following table shows the appor-
tionment of the income from the pri-
mary-school fund by the Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction mt AZ cents per
child. The figures i'll the first column
are revised and reports added up to May
6. A seeming discrepancy occurs be-
tween the figures i'll the first and second
columns. This is due to non-compli-
ance with the law on the part of some
districts, which debars them from the
full benefit of the fund, and will also
affect the 1-mill tax, since it is upon
this basis that the tax will be appor-
toned
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-05-21
NsrSsUrSsss.

We cannot remain in dormant state while we
are in possession of our natural faculties.
Our minds are ever eagerly and constantly
grasping after knowledge and future develop
ments Science and literature are continually
ON the wing. pressing upward and onward,
and with this mighty tide we are also being
waited ON, and the results of time and expe-
rience are indeed wonderful.
What would our dear old grandfathers and
grandmothers, who have been silently sleeping
in the tomb for the past thirty years. say were
they to behold us now, and see how we live. and
the improvements of the last fifty years? Prob
ably they would think we were living like Kings
ana Queens III comparison with the way that
they used To- live. Sewing-machincs have taken
the place of the old-time-used spnning-wheels.
both large and small. can remember how
used to enjoy the buzz-buzz of my grand
mothers big spiuning-wheel, aud watch
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-05-21

The Irish are generally thought to be
a ight-hearted, laughing race, ready to
joke, dance or fight, but Mr.. Redpath,
the New York Tribunc's correspondent,
thinks this is not true, mt least in famine
years. They are sad, respondent, care
worn, eart-broken. In the hundreds of
cabins he entered he did not see a merry
eye or hear the sound of merry voice.
This was as true of the children as Of
the old people. The little ones do not
need to be told to keep quiet. They
crouch around the peat fire, scarcely
looking up when II stranger enters. He
did, however, see few happy children.
Where, let the reader guess! In Il
charitable institution. There they were
fed and clothed, and there they laughed
and chartered. What land must this
be, where only the orphans and the out
casts are happy! Is it any wonder, when
one landlord borrowed the Government
money for the relief of his tenants, paid
them twenty-five cents "A day, and kept
the remainder for the back rent due
him; when only one of twenty landlords
in County Mayo has contributed to the
relief fund; and, while his income from
his rents brings $50, ZOO, he gave 800 to
feed the poor?
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An Irish Romance.

In these days, when everything is
driven by steam and stopped by air.
brakes, and even the ticking of our
hearts is regulated by golden key, like
most excellent clockwork, there is
very little room for ga romance
in real life. " In certain
county i'll Ireland, however, not quite n
hundred miles from Meath, there dwells
family of nine beautiful maidens, who
are wont to amrse themselves by assum-
ing the apron and mob-cap of "neat-
handed Phillis," and make themselves
all sorts of pastry in the garden. Not
very long ago the cry and 'orn of the
'untsman was heard without, and one of
the aforesaid nine, with her sleeves
tucked up and her bare arms befoured.
rushed to the garden gate, which, open
ing on n lane, shut behind her just as n
smart young Prince, attached to an inn
perial suite, attired in buckskin and
pink, came trotting up.
(Which way has the fox gone / did
not know such pretty wild flowers grew
in the hedges about here before" said
young NARROW. "And what may your
name he ?" She bit her lip, blushed.
and fairly bolted, but when the others
came up he was little surprised and
abashed on learning that the heroine
was no other than granddaughter to
the most noble Marquis who first in
formed our most gracious Maiestyof hen
uncle's death. -LOndOn World.