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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-07
The Sen Of Galileo

Riding by the foot of Hattin, over the
place where, 700 years ago, Saladin an
initiated the Crusaders power in Pales-
tine, we at length reached O ridge where
we looked out on the distant hills OF
Bashan, and far below us on dark blue
pear or harp-shaped sheet of water, ~
ing snugly in deep inclosure of high
brown hills. Though less than thirteen
miles long and seven miles broad, yet,
measured by the events il has witnessed,
it is kind of Pacific ocean. 1t was the
Sea OF Galilee.
As we moved over the long way down.
ward to its level--350 feet below the
Mediterranean sea~-we had time to
fix and grasp it's whole aspect and sur
roundings. II lacks holiness OF outline,
for its hills slope gradually back from
the shore, or leave narrow PLAIN, as Mt
Gennesaret and Buthia. But the lights
and shadows lie sweetly on the hillsides
at night and morning; the northern end
is broken into pleasant little bays, and
Hermon looms grandly up beyond, far
off, yet seemingly near. The whole as
pect of the lake is one that suggests the
thought and the lack of beautiful homes.
1t was still long ride to the lake. The
region we were passing, once brimful OF
life and activity, was utterly forsaken
now. The entire lake lay spread before
us, and nearly the whole of its coast
line, along or near which once lay the
cities of Iarichea, Tiberias, Hippo, Ga
mala, Gergesa, Bethsaida, Chorazin, Ca
pernaum, Magdala and Beth Arbel OF
these cities, Tiberias once had its Senate
of 600 Gamala was able 10 resist and
defeat Vespasian at the head of three
legions, and when captured by Vespa-
sian and Titus it lost 400 in the fight,
and 5000 who hurled themselves, or
were pushed down the precipices while
Tarichea, according to Josephus, was
able to furnish 16, 500 for slaughter in a
sea fight with the Romans, ], 200 slain
in cold blood in the stadium, 5000 cap
tive youth to dig for Nero III the 18TH
mus, and $4,000 to be sold into slavery
The only existing representatives of this
strength and activity were the little clus-
ter of huts called Medjel (Magadala) and
the shrunken Tiberias, with its 2, 900 in
habitants. From our path not yes
tige of the other places could be dis
cerned 1t was near sunset when we en-
tered Tiberias. We followed the road
through the gate, but could easily have
passed through the rents in the walls.
The now squalid city, mentioned but
once in the New Testament, has been
the chief hone of Jewish learning since
the destruction of Jerusalem. Here the
Jerusalem Talmud was completed, and
here is now what may be called the pres
ent theological school Of the Jews
Prof Bartlett
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-07
A Nut for the Sharpwits TO Crack.

Some of your readers may find some
amusement in puzzling out the follow
ing riddle, commonly attributed to Lord
Chesterfield. 1t was published in the
May number Of the Gentlen,ans Ma0a-
zine for 1857, and has, 1 think, never
been answered
1. Tho MODEST object i'm the works Of art:
2. The brightest scenes which nature can lmpart,
-. The weil-known signal In the time Of peace:
Z. The point essential In q tenants lease
D. The farmers comfort ~ he drives the pillow:
0. soldiers duty and loyers vow;
T. A contract made before the nupt al tie
\. blessing riches Lever can supply:
y. spot that adds new charms To pretty facea
10. An engine used IN Fundamental cas- 4:
III. panel seen between the eartu and sun,
IL prize that merit never yet has won
IL. loss which prudence seldom can retrieve,
Ia. The death ~ Judas and tho fall Of Eve;
-. part between the ankle and the knee
l6. Papist coast and physicians fec;
IL. wife's ambition aud psrsOn's dues,
10. mixers idol and the badge OF Jews:
IL now your happy genius divine the correspon-
dents words IN evcvy line,
by tho first letterts) may he found an ancient oty
that g. much renowned
-NesO York World.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-07
Man i'm America.

Prof. Fowler, i'll lecture upon the
anatomy of man, before the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons, London, discussed
the question of his origin on the Ameri-
can continent. He says:
"Till recently, opinions on the early
peopling of America had been divided
between the views that the inhabitants
of this continent were a distinct indigo
nous people, and therefore not related
to those of any other land and tllat
they were descended from an Asiatic
people who, III comparatively recent
times, passed into America by way of
Behring strait, and thence spread grad
ually over the whole continent These
theories have had to undergo considera-
ble notifications in consequence of the
discovery of the great antiquity of the
human race in America as we'll as in the
Old World. The proof of this antiquity
rests upon the high and independent
state of civilization which had been at
tanned by the Mexicans and Peruvians
at the time of the Spanish conquest,
and the evidence that that civilization
had been preceded by several other
stages of culture, following in success
sion through a great stretch of time.
The antiquity Of this qulsi-historical
period In, however, entirely thrown into
the shade by the evidence now accumu-
latlng from various parts of North and
South America, that man existed on the
Western continent, and under much the
same condition of life, using precisely
similar weapons and tools, as in Europe
during the pleistocene or Quarternary
period, and perhaps even farther back
in time. Recent archaeological inves-
LEGATIONS show that an immense number
OF forms of terrestrial animal>, that were
formerly supposed to be peculiar to the
Old World, are abundant in the New.
Taking ali circumstances into considera-
ton, it is quite as likely that Asiatic
man may have been derived from Amer
lea as the reverse, or both have had
their source i'll common center, in
some region Of the earth now covered
with sea"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-07

the decease of the imaginary John
Smith, aged twenty-three, all trace of
the dreadful fraud, Save that which is
printed indelibly in my mind was
gone"
AS my friend reached this part of her
story she was q good deal overcome, and
said she had nothing more to tell; but
after while l learned from her that the
scoundrel had managed the conversion
of the notes exactly as lie had proposed
He slipped away from the house quite
early the morning after the death, and
almost as soon as the Bank of England
was opened changed the notes into gold,
as he could do, by merely writing a
name and ADMINISTRATIONS, of course
on their backs.
He returned from the city with his lit
tie black bag, as he had gone, by cir
cuitous route; so evading all chance OF
being followed, though, of course, there
was really no LIKELIHOOD of any one
being on the alert. He got drunk in the
afternoon and confided these details to
his unhappy wife. The unfortunate
victim of apoplexy had probably not
then even been missed. 1t was cum
ming game truly, and boldly played out;
and this is really about all know of it;
my poor little friend refused to let out
any more very important facts.
Her husband utterly deserted her in
less than elk months afterwards, and she
was left-well, that does not matter. To
this day she knows nothing of who or
what the unlucky young fellow was,
where he came from, or whether he was
ever inquired after; but, though, when
she told me her story seven years had
passed since she let him in at the garden
door, and he fell all but dead mt her feet,
she very naturally feft-and, and, nc
doubt, still does feel-extremely uncom-
Portable when any chance reference is
made to missing man.-AU the Yea,
Da,g.l1
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-07
Opium Drunl,ards.

The public were shocked, not long
since, by the account of the death of a
lady, the daughter of one of the most
eminent professional men in the country,
from an overdose of morphine. The
wretched story was published all over
the country. There is no improperly,
therefore, in our pointing the young
girls who are our readers TO its mt aiming.
The woman was young and beautiful
She had high culture, and was by nature
gentle, and lovable. A few years ago
she began to take opium for some dis
ease, and soon became its victim. All
her struggles against il were III vain. AT
an age when she should have been in
the full vigor of her womanhood, a
happy and retired wife and mother, she
died alone, and her downfall and dis
grace were blazoned i'll every city of the
Union
Opium drunkenness is said TO be on
the increase III this country, and it pre-
walls largely among women. Very few
matrons or young ladies, when suffering
from weakness or nervous disorders,
would resort TO brandy or whisky But
a dose of laudanum, or some other
anodyne, they regard as harmless.
Physicians too, heedlessly prescribe
something which they vaguely call
'drops" TO an overwolked mother, or
young girl exhausted by incessant dane
ing and flirting, when the proper rem
edies would be few weeks rest from
labor and care, and more wholesome,
rational life.
American women are, as rule, en-
ergetic. The busy housekeeper and the
eager belle, find resort to O seemingly
innocent little black bottle, when they
are run down." much easier than the
giving up of work, or the sacrifice of
balls and germans. Before they are con-
scious of their danger, they are victims
to the most hopeless and terrible of APP
petites-they are opium drunkards.
1t Is probable that no one who has
ever become addicted to this habit has
been able to conquer it. De Quincy
wrote a book that for dramatic horror
and pathos, has not its like in literature,
to prove that 1t was possible to rise 'out
OF the Deep" but he sank again, helpless
and hopeless.
The best monograph on the opium
habit written IN America, was the work
of a brilliant man of letters who believed
himself cured, yet died its victim. Most
of our readers can recall mt least one
opium drlnkard whom they have known.
The livid, corpse-like skin, the CLASSY
eye, the vague air of terror are unmis-
taxable. They are signs that the night
mare, life III death, has seized its prey,
and is dragging it surely down to the
grave. - Youths COmDdHi0N
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-07
The Nature OF an Oath.

Early in the rebellion, when the
Federal forces were stationed Mt Beau
fort, S. c., there was az old darkey by
the name OF Lige jackson, who, deserted
by his master, was left to take care of
himself as best he might. Lige was
considered chattel of weak intellect,
and moreover he was exceedingly awk-
ward in his attempts to play the role of a
house servant. smashedand destroyed
pretty nearly everything he laid his
hands upon, and having waited upon
nearly every officer at the post, each in
turn, after giving him the benefit of
good cursing for his stupidity, turned
him adrift
1t happened that Lige WAS witness
in case that came before court martial,
and being called up to give his testimony,
was objected to on the part Of the de-
PENDANT, who stated that he didn't be-
lieve the negro was of sound mind.
''Stand up, Lige," said the court.
"Do you understand the nature of an
oath?"
Lige scratched his wool for n moment,
and then turning mp the whites of his
eyes, replied:
''Look a yeare, marse; dis niger has
waited OH bout hat de ossifers since dey
fus cum TO dis place, and if ne don't
understand de nature of an oaf by dis
time, den dares no wurtue is cussing."
The court considered Lige competent
xy,tnaaa
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-07

The prosecuting witness in case be-
fore the Galveston Recorder had lump
over his eve as big as an egg plant, which
was caused by negro throwing lump
of coal at him without the slightest prov
ocation.
II don't see that there is n single miti-
eating circumstance, said the Recorder
why. jedge, you has Overlooked one
oh the mitigatinest circumstances in Gle
world. 1 only hit him wild limp of
soft coal. Don't yer call that mitigatin'.
when / could hab fetched him Jest M
easy wild a lump Of hard coal?'-Gatrcs-
ton Neios.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-07
WHY He Struck.

"Hir. O'Rlfferty, said the Recorder,
why did on strike Mr.. Murphy ?"
Because Murphy would not give me
civil answer to u "'vil question, yer
Honor"
"What was the OWL question you
asked him ?"
81 ask ed him, as polite as you please,
Murphy, amt your own brother the
biggest thafe on Galveston island, ex-
cepting yourself and your uncle, who
is absent in the penitentiary at Hunts
vile q"
"And what rude answer did he give
to such very civil question p
He said to me Ave course, prisint
company excepted : 40 1 said, Muir
ply, you are another, and struck him
wild me fist. "-GdlvestOn Nescs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-07
A Hint for skaters.

Mr.. Jos. G.. Kitchell, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, sends the following, which may
prove beneficial to those who, for the
sport of skating. often undergo great
personal risk: "Cut, or select from the
carpenters lumber, strip or rod of ash,
walnut, mAple, or any light yet strong
wood; procure round piece three
fourths of an inch in diameter, and about
six and "A half feet long. Take this with
you when going to skate; grasp it near
the center with the right hand, and carry
vertically; il the ice should break, and
you sink, httle presence of mind and
the rod which yop throw horizontally
as the first cracking is heard, will prove
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-07

BY HENRY W. LosoYxLLow.

zee amid the fields Of Ayr
A plcwman, who, in foul OF fair.
Sings at hts task,
SO clear we know not II IL Is
The laverck's song we hear or ms,
Nor care 70 ask.
For him the blowing OF those fields
A more Ell ereal harvest yields
Than sheaves OF grain:
Songs flush with purple bloom the ryoi
The ployer's call, the curlew's cry,
Sing Ia his brain.
Touched by hi. hand, the way-side weed
Becomes a flower; the lowlitst reed
Beside the stream
j. clothed with beauty; ,orse end grass
And heather, where his footsteps pass,
The bTightr seem.
He sings of love. whose fame illumes
The darn ness of lone cottage rooms,
lie feels the force
The treaeherous under-tOw and stress
of hayward PASSIONS, aud no less
The keen reInorse.
At moments, wrestling with his fate.
His voice Is hars.i, hut not with hate;
The brushwood hung
Above the taverudoors leis fall
Its bitter leaf, ills drop OF gall,
Upon his TO. que.
But sti the burden Of his song
Is love OF right, disiain OF wrong;
Its maSter-chords
Are MI hood, Freedom. Brotherhoodi
It's discoi DIS hut an Il terlude
Between the words.
And then TO die so young, and leave
Unfinished what he might achieve!
Yet better sure
Is this than wandering up and down.
An old man In a country town,
lnfirm aud poor.
For now be haunts his native land
AS an immo tai youth; mis- hand
Guides every plow;
He sits besde,e ch ingle-nUQk;
HIS voice is in each rushing brook,
Each rushing bough.
His presence haunts this room tonight
A form Of mingled mist and light,
From that tar coast.
Welcome beneath this ROT OF minel
Welcomed this vacant chair is thine,
Dear guest and ghost!
--Hdrpers Mdgasin>
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-07

very valuable, rs you can keep head and
shoulders above water until help arrives,
o. enable you to emerge entirely, by
shifting the rod, SO that it rests on the
thickest ice around the hoe. You viii
find from II little use that it is not in the
least an incumbrance, but it gives a
graceful appearance to the skater, will
often avoid a fall, and will insure a
greater aid to beginners on skates, /
think, than the helping hand of an in
terested expert = Young Ncientist.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-07

A HOSPITAL clergyman asked the Off
cid how one Of the insane patients
was getting along. 30, he's certainly
getting better" was the reply, " Cor he
told me yesterday that he had entirely
abandoned the idea of becoming minis
ter.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-05-18
"A STYLISH VIEW SPRING noxNEr.,
BY MAUD MILLER.

4 e;rl mag be both young and fair,
A sweet aud winning creature,
She may have hair Of golden hue
and lovcliness OF feature;
She may be dressed IN silk a.tiTe
Ossuch write my sonnet
But to be perfec; she must wear
A stylish new spring bonnet
Satin its strings, modest its plume.
A poke TO broad dimensions.
Thus should the bonnet fairly match
Is wearer's sweet pretensiens;
And when she shines with all her charms
Casting their glow upon Il.
Our hearts and heads are all 5ewitcl4ed
By this new spring boane..
Although a lady may be plain
Yes, ugly as 10 feature
Her hai- bright red, her eyes light green =
in fact, homely creature;
Yet ifhcr bonnet IS IN styles
The ladies, dear, they're human.
VIII all exclaim as with one breath
Oh. what q charming woman.
We see bright bonnets here and there
Peep oUi ike sweet spring flowers
Wen they combine the lace and gold,
These dainty hats OF ours
Aud husbands, would yoa isage on earth
The happicsi women on itf
Take home some pleasant aayfng.iii
4 stvlish new spring bonnet.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-05-18
Celery Plants.

Many gardeners have bad luck in
raising celery plants. The reason
is they DO not understand this semi
aquatic. Itsrequirements arcshade,
moisture, and very little if anv COW
ering for the seeds. For early sets,
prepare hot-bed in the usual way,
and make the soil rich, light, and
very fine. Sow the seeds evenly
and th.nly over the surface, and
press them down with a broad smooth
board, as each seed must come in
contact with the soil. Cover slight
~ with strait straw, and water pro-
fusely. Put on the sash, and be
sure to give air on all mild days.
BY gently lifting the covering occa-
sionally we can ascertain the proper
time to remove it, which is as soon
as the young plants cause the sur
face to look green. Give the glass
a thin coating of whitewash and
admit air freely. AS soon as they
are about two inches in height,
transplant into another frame, a
short distance apart, when they will
become stocky and well rooted in
time for setting out in their final
home. Plants should be raised in
the same manner for the general
crop, only substituting thoroughly
prepared bed in damp, shady
spot for the frame, with bottom
heat. \ good covering fer the trans
planted seedlings may be formed of
common plastering lath nailed on a
frame with narrow interstices be-
tween to admit the light. Never for
an hour allow celery plants to need
moisture. 1t is the best stimulus
to a rapid growth. In handling the
sets, whether from the seedbed or
from the transplanted section, I'll
ways select cloudy, damp time, so
as to guard against tagging, and
invariably pinch off a portion of the
top.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-05-18
san-Ho,es ana vinc.Elcedlng

Mr.. VIII. Philbrick, OF Lsconia.
n. H., differs from Mr.. Timothy
Wheeler, OF Vermont, as to the ex-
pediency of plugging the hole made
IN a SUI r tree after pulling out the
sap-spout. He says:
'Our experience has been that
this is the surest way to cause the
tree to dccny. Our theory is this: ::
If the ho.y is left exposed to the
air, the sap, which has ceased run-
ming in visiJie flow, dries away and
leaves the hole in a condition for
healing around the entrance. On
the contrary plug up the hole and
the sap is kept back. In short
time the plug begins to rot, and The
rot extends to the wood around I;
while, if the tree is thrifty and lett
to natures course, the wound VIII
be healed over in a few year"
This seems very reasonable, and
quite consonant with experience of
tree growers, who find the wood and
bark of tree rot very rapidly when
continually moist from a retention
or flow OF fluid sap, as when prun-
ed when the leaves are just opening.
But as tree suffers from any wound
which gives the external ;iir an OPP
portunity Of drying the wood, and
so obstructing the ascent Of sap, it
Is likely that n plug Of clay would
be quite useful TO protect the inner
parts which can never heal only as
they become sealed up by the ex-
tension Of lips of new growth from
the living cambium Immediately
under the bark. This is the prac-
tice of the Arabs when they collect
the sap OF the date to make palm
wine; and they think it necessary
us a means of saving the trees.-Al-
lied to this subject is that of vine
bleeding. Sometimes great waste
occurs in this way when the grape
is severely pruned late in spring.
The vine has such power Of root ex-
tension and collection, and the soil
is generally SO copiously moist at
that season, that often the loss seems
to be soon made up. Nevertheless
it is loss, and causes Il check which
might as well be avoided. A writer
in the London Journal Of Horticui-
t,re says that if shellac dissolved in
alcohol (coachmakers' varnish) is
applied to all wounds and rubbed
in a little before the flow sets in (or
''out," rather) too strongly, it is an
infallible styptic, as the alcohol soon
evaporates and leaves the sap safely
shut in to exert its pressure in the
normal direction OF the swelling
buds.
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Starved TO Death.

JERSEY CRY, \. j., May 5.-Mrs.
Mary Stokes, seventy years old, was
found dead at her residence, No. "a
Kearney avenue, this morning. An
investigation disclosed that she had
starved herself to death. She was a
widow, owned the house she lived
in and had 81 400 to her credit in a
savings bank. She had no relatives
In this country, consequently the
surrogate viii take charge of the
nrnncrtY.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-05-18

NEW York. May "a Little
Rock, Ark, special says a shocking
murder is just reported from the
Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory.
A man named Arneta and a neigh
Dor killed John Dry, a half breed, to
get possession OF two gallons Of whis-
ky he had.
They shot him three times in the
head, stabbed him ten times and
severed his head from his body.
They then concealed the remains.
Afterwards they got drunk and
dropped hints of their bloody work
and are now in Jail.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-05-18

Type said to date from the fif-
teenth and sixteenth centuries has
just been fished out of the bed of the
Saone, and exhibited in the Cercle
de la Librarie of Paris. This singu-
lar find proves that in the infant
days Of printing the making of type
was quite optional; letters were
cast Of all height and had no
mick" In place of the latter there
was an obiique incigion, which
showed the compositor where was
the top Of the letter. The letters
are moreover, perforated, probably
for the purpose of stringing num-
Der of them together and then tying
them.
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$. Don't Want that stua.~

Is what a lady of Boston said to
her husband when he brought home
some medicine to cure her of sick
headache and neuralgia which had
made her miserable for fourteen
days. At the first attack thereafter
it was administered TO her with such
good results, that she continued its
use until cured, and made her so en-
thusiastic in its praise, that she has
induced twenty-five of the best fam
lilies in her circle to adopt it as their
regular family medicine. That
"stuff" is Hop Bitters.-Stdndard.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-05-18
improvement for Mind and Body.

For genuine merit there is no tom
ic sold that begins to compare with
Parker's Ginger Tonic. One scot
bottle contains more life and rgth
restoring power than a bushel Of
malt or a gallon Of pure milk. As
an appetizer, blood purifier and a
kidney corrector, it meets with as
tonishing success, and invalids find
its use promptly followed by renew
ed energy and vivacity, mental and
physical improvement, and gradual
restoration to perfect health. See
ether columns.-C Commercial
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-05-18
a $4,000 Fermentation to the Aged

PoUaHREEPslE, n. Y, May 3
To-day Matthew Vassar and his
brother Guy Nassar formally pre-
sented a new and handsome build
ing know as the Vassar Home for
Old Men, and other property with
it, all Of the value of $4,000, to the
trustees of the institution, and
added $4,000 as an endowment
fund.