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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25
PAM Forgets Himself.

You have probably heard-most OF
you, at least-of the wealthy old mer-
chant who was waited upon by COM
mittee soliciting subscriptions of money
for certain benevolent object. He con-
sidered the matter, and deeming the OBJ
iect to be worthy, he subscribed fifty
dollars. The solicitor was disappointed.
He had expected more, and plainly said
as much, adding:
"Why, sir, your son gave us one hun
bred, dollars, as you can see.
"Ah," replied the old gentleman, with
a shrug of the shoulders, "the rascal
can afford it. He's got rich father"
Well-it is of this same father and son
that we have an another story to tell-a
circumstance of an earlier time:
The boy had joined club, and had
also taken membership in one or two so
cial organizations, that met for mutual
benefit. One evening, as the youth was
preparing to go out, his father asked him
where he was going.
This evening, to the lodge" he re-
piled. 81 hold an important office.
"Look you, my boy-I don't know
about this. L don't half like it.
The boy looked up in surprise.
Father, have you yetknown me tocome
home from one of my meetings made
worse by the association? When you
see that, let me know"
"Aye-but I'm abed when you get
home-how do / know?"
This implied distrust, though not
meant, nettled the son. and he quickly
returned:
"You go to bed early. If you wish
ocular demonstration, sit up for me. LII
try to meet you half way"
"Meet me half way, you rascal!
Mercy! What wouldmy father have done
if 1 had dared to suggest such thing
to him? Let me tell you, he never al
lowed me to be out after dark, unless he
knew where 1 was going and with
whom"
"What-never?"
"No-never!
Q "Well-you must have had q queer
case for father"
"A-what?-Pd have you to know,
You young dog that had a Better father
than you ever had-and-a-"
He caught the twinkle in his sons eye,
saw the lurking smile, and the echo OF
the words still lingering in the air
''Get out of this! believe I'm losing
myself Are you going?"
The boy turned and left the room; but
he fingered outside the half open door
long enough to hear his father ferveHtly
murmur:
''God bless the boy He is my stay
and my support o. / fear not for him.
L think he is true and loyal! viii trust
him"
And the boy went away, murmuring to
himself:
"Aye, my father, when 1 forget my
duty to thee, in honor, in soberness,
and in truth, may my right hand wither,
and my tongue cleave to the roof of my
MOUTH
And he went his way safe and sure
his feet upon a rock.-NeW Yor1
Lcdger.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

ed by q vote OF yeas, "a nays, IL A commit
tee OF investigation was ordered In regard to
the prices and quality Of goods furnished the
state under tho stationery contract.
FRIDAY March 18.-SESATE.-The following
Senate bills were passed To amend the laws
relative to the supervision of charitable, penal,
pauper, and reformatory institutions ; for the
uniform regulation OF certain State institu-
tons ; appropri ting lands to aid In construct
lngPresque Isle harbor. The following House
bills passed: Amending the compiled laws,
chapter H. relative TO the division OF town
ships; amending the grain elevator and ware
house law by permitting an investment
OF *2,000,0C0 for elevators by companies.
The Committee on Apportionment reported
favorably upon the Senate bill for rcapportion-
ing Senatorial and Representative districts.
HoUsE.-The Committee on Lumber and Salt
were authorized to employ clerk with u view
to the completion Of statistics upon the saline
resources and products Of the State, The fol-
lowing bills were passed: House bills
amending section 1856 relative. to Of
lenses against property; amending the
act OF 1870 relative to the summoning Of
jurors; to index the names OF soldiers from
Michigan in the last war to recompense Adjt.
Gen. Robertson for preparing the history Of
+" Michigan In the War !" asking Congress- for
aiu III DuhuinB teioSrhpn SERVICE DotWoeu Mali
itou islands and the mainland amending act
l42 OF 1877 relative TO insurance. The Speaker
appointed Messrs. Prindle, Wyckon and Hack
EFT as the special committee to investigate the
manner in which Richmond, Backus x Co. are
carrying out their stationery contract with the
State.
SATURDAY, March 19.-SENATE.-A commu-
nication was received by the Senate from the
Governor, setting forth that life-size portrait
OF the late Gen. ID wight May had been presented
to the State by his widow and daughter re-
counting the services Of the deceased, and re-
commencing that the painting be accepted on
the part OF the State and hung in the Attorney
Generals room. Referred to the Committee on
State Affairs. In the presence OF the Repre-
sentatives, who had informally gath
thered in the Senate chamber, an ele-
giant gold watch was presented Ly his Legisla-
tive colleagues to John T. Rob, who resigned
his seat in the Senate. The presentation ad-
dress was made by Senator Epson, and Senator
Rich, who was called to the chair, responded in
fitting terms.
HoUsE.-A small amount Of routine business
was gone through in the House, and both
houses adjourned at noon until Monday morn
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25
USEFUL HINTS.

To KEEP seeds from the depredations
OF mice. mix some pieces of camphor
with them. Camphor placed in trunks
or drawers will prevent mice from doing
them injury.
To KEEP your knives and forks from
rusting, make flannel bag, and stitch
from top to bottom, an inch and half
apart, dozen times, making recepta-
Gle for each. Boil and keep in q dry
place.
A TEAsPooNFUL Of black pepper will
prevent gray or buff linen from spotting,
If stirred into the water in which they
are washed. 1t will also prevent the
colors running, when washing black or
colored cambrics, or muslins, and the
water is not injured by it, but just as
soft as before the pepper was put in.
IT is always best to wash fannels,
calico dresses and aprons before the
white clothes are wet, especially if the
day is cloudy and threatening. Then if
it rains the white clothes can be rubbed,
scalded and left in the rinsing water,
and it is small matter next day to wiring
them out, blue them, and hang them
out to dry.
To Make the hair stay in crimp, take
2 cents worth of gum arabic, and add
to it just enough boiling water to dis
solve it. When dissolved, add enough
alcohol to make rather thin. Let this
stand all night, and then bottle it to
prevent the alcohol from evaporating.
This put ON the hair ut night alter it Is
done up in paper or pins will make it
stay in crimp the hottest day, and is
perfectly harmless.
ONE can have the hands in soap suds
with soft soap without injury to the
skin, if the hands are dipped in vinegar
or lemon juice Immediately alter. The
acids destroy the corrosive effects of the
alkali, and make the hands soft and
white. Indian meal and vinegar or lem
on juice used on hands when roughened
by cold or labor will heal and soften
them. Rub the hands in this then
wash off thoroughly and rub in glycer-
inc. Those who suffer from chapped
hands in the winter will find this COM
forhng
MosT persons, when they come in from
the rain, put their umbrellas in the rack
with the handle upward. They should
put it downward, because when the ham
die is upward the water runs down in
side to the place where the ribs are
joined to the handle, and cannot get out,
but stays rotting the cloth ard rusting
the metal until slowly dried away. The
wire securing the ribs soon rusts and
breaks. If placed the other end up the
water readily runs OF.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

PRESIDENT GARFIELD has cousin in
very humble circumstances in North
Carolina. His name liz William j.
Wiley, and his mother and Gen. Gar
fields mother were sisters but he was
only 6 or yelrs old when he last saw
Gen. Garfield. He is Simon-pure
Democrat, and voted for Hancock in the
last Presidential election. He is very
quiet, respectable, unobtrusive and in
dustrious citizen. He served through
the war on the Confederate side as First
Lieutenant of Company F, Fifth North
Carolina cavalry. and was wounded in
the face in the Valley of Virginia. The
fact that be received card of invitation
to the Inauguration ball from his cousin,
the President, seems to indicate that
there is no desire on the part of tte
latter to ignore the relationship.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

ANimmense emigration from Germany
is in prospect this season. America, with
her favored institutions, is Just now more
than at any former period attracting the
attention of the world. Those familiar
with facilities of travel say that the ves-
sells to German ports will be unable to
carry the cmigrants to our shores this
season. Even now every vessel comes
loaded. The emigrants come with minds
made up where they will go, and what
they will do, and the fertile prairies of
the great West will welcome the largest
portion.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

A JEwELEB in Pittsburgh, Pa, who
received an order from a neighboring
town for 81, 800 worth of diamonds, ac-
companied with references to several
prominent citizens of Pittsburgh,
shipped the goods without taking the
trouble to see any of the references.
Next day he carried the letter to the
President of bank who was named in it.
and to his amazement learned that he
had never heard of the man. The let
ter was then speedily exhibited to the
other merchants and bankers, and each
In turn gave the same answer.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

OVER fifty years ago James l.. Gillis,
now Judge Gillis, of Iowa, was one of
the men tried for the abduction of
William Morgan, the betrayer of the
secrets OF Masonry. Nearly all arraigned
in the trial of his alleged abduc6ors came
to some sudden end, and Judge Gillis
long since survived all those who were
associated with him. A few years ago
one of his sons was called to the door of
his Iowa residence and shot down.
Week before last another son was shot
in the same way, and the Judge and his
friends firmly believe the tragedies trace
back to the Morgan affair.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

A NEW light-giving substance is re-
ported to have been invented by Hun
.garian, with which he has been making
some surprising experiments in Paris.
The material is said to burn with 80 lit
tie heat that its flame will not set fire to
n handkerchief or other fabric with
which it may come in contact. A per-
son, if he desires, may hold the burning
liquid in his hand without injury. 1t is
produced from petroleum.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

RECOGNIZING rs fact that life prison
.ers are VIGOROUSLY the hardest to man.
age, for the reason that, however well
conducted and industrious they may be,
they have no clemency to expect, an at
tempt is being made to amend the penal
code of California by having life senten-
-ces computed upon the life insurance
tables, and permitting the discharge of a
prisoner after the term he was likely to
i've, when sentenced, has expired.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

Most peopleehave always regarded tho
Germans as the champion beer drinkers,
but now comes the Journal Of applied
Science to prove that this supposition
is false. While the annual consump-
ton of beer in Germany is twenty-five
gallons for every person, it is thirty
three gallons in Belgium and thirty-four
in Great Britain. One by one our fond
delusions fade away.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

PROBABLY the final solution of the
South African troubles will, sooner OF
later, says an exchange, be found in the
formation of a confederacy embracing
all the civilized states in that region.
| This proposition was made In England
before the outbreak of the Transvaal
war, but met with little encouragement,
owing, perhaps, to the prevalent English
opinion that all people enjoying the
blessings of British colonial rule ought
to be content with it till the end of time.
There are civilized inhabitants enough
in South Africa to form strong, self
governing republic. According to the
latest statistics, the population of Cape
Colony is 6S2, 000 of Natal, 279, 900; of
the Orange Free State, $4,000; and of
the Transvaal 10000, taking no ac-
count of the savage tribes. Here, then,
are /, ZOOS, 900 people of European ances-
try, about half of them English-speak-
ing, who could soon be welded together
into homogeneous nationality if they
had the tie of common political interests.
There would be at first some jealousy
between the Dutch and English ele-
ments, but it would not be as serious a
matter us it is now if the Dutch did not
feel that they were under foreign rule.
The early English ana German settlers
of Pennsylvania managed to get along
amicably together, and the Dutch and
English are less diverse in language and
customs. There is room enough in South
Africa for prosperous agricultural pop
ulation of 4, ZOO, 900 or 100000. Land
is ridiculously cheap. An English trav-
eler who has just published book about
the Transvaal says he was offered 1900
acres of fine grazing land in exchange
for wagon.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25
A SYNDICATE of New York real-estate

A SYNDICATE of New York real-estate
spectators offers to pay SIS, 900, 900 for
Trinity graveyard, which stands at the
head of Wall street, on Broadway. 1t is
the most valuable property in New York.
and covers nearly two acres, in which
several thousand bodies lie. No one has
been buried there for many years, and
the proposition is to remove the venera-
BILE bones to a less valuable locality.
Among the graves is that of Alexander
Hamilton. A similar proposal was made
several years ago, when the Rev. DR..
Rigbee, the rector of Trinity, denounced
it in sermon upon "the mercenary
spirit of the age, which thus tempted
men to disturb the ashes of their fathers
and mothers for the sake of gain, and to
change the worship of God, as it were,
for the worship of mammon.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

much difficulty managed to keep their
troops in order. The weather, with its
rainfalls and snow-storms, was so very
inclement that great many of the
Persian troops succumbed. In the old
regiments 400 men died in one week"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

AN Austrian officer in the service of
Persia writes respecting the conflict be-
tween the Persians and the Kurds:
Every kind OF cruelty was resorted to.
Villages were burned; women, old peo-
pie and children were killed promiscu-
ously. The writer of this letter passed
through sixteen burning villages in a
single day. Herds % 1000 sheep and
500 COWS or buffaloes were taken and
driven away and the shepherds either
murdered or sent into slavery. The
soldiers, being badly clothed and badly
paid, felt justified in plundering where
they could The Austrian officers with
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

THE New York men have raised $20,-
900 to place statue Of Washington on
Wall street, where he was first inaugu-
rated. The sculptor is an Ohio man.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

A COUPLE of threadbare loafers were
sitting in front Of saloon stove, one of
them reading the Legislative proceedings.
"Hellol" exclaimed the man with the
newspaper, edo you remember Charley
Wilson,"
Certainly do"
"Well, he has come to grief at last.
He is member of the Legislature.
"He is? Well, I've got no sympathy
for him. He was always trying to make
out he was rs good as either of us. He
deserves just what he has got-Gaivcs-
ton NcsDs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25
IL Was Bitten OF.

The andcdote of the inquisitive man,
who asked another how he lost his leg,
and, after having promised to ask no
further questions, was told that it was
"bit off, has been variously told, and
often wrongly attributed. The incident
is properly told in Scribner, in paper
on Copley, the American artist of the
last century. The incident occurred be-
tween Brook Watson, afterward Lord
Mayor of London and his servant, who,
in pulling off his boot, was warned in
vain that if he was not careful he would
bring the leg off too which, much to
his establishment he did. AS matter of
fact, Watsons leg had been bitten off by
q shark in the harbor of Havana; an
event commemorated in famous picture
by Copley, which is engraved with the
above mentioned paper.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

THE Washington Star relates this
story of how man was ruined by q
claim Many years ago the late Thorn
rs H. Benton introduced in Congress a
bill to pay claim of Joseph Clymer, a
resident of Western State, and then in
the pride and strength of early manhood.
Mr.. Clymer had transported army sup
plies for the Government across the
country to Ell Paso, then way out upon
the frontier, and he claimed that bal
ance of SIS, 1876 was due him from the
Government. Clymer was worth at that
time the snug fortune of about $40, 900
or $4,000. Mr.. Benton said in sub
stance to him: "Clymer, certainly 1
will introduce this claim for you, and do
all in my power 70 pass it. But let me
tell you one thing. 1t will make you
poor man and will destroy your peace of
mind before you get the money, if you
ever do. But I'll fight it for you, if you
say So" OF course, Mr.. Clymer did not
believe anything of the kind, and there
fore he insisted upon urging his claim.
At the last session of Congress the
claim was passed and signed by the Pres
ident for the original sum. 1t had gone
through one house or the other of Con-
gress repeatedly, but could never be got
through both in the same Congress.
Mr.. Clymer, when he finally got his
money, was an old man, and, as Benton
had predicted, he had spent all of his
fortune in pressing bis claim.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

DURING Hayes administration the
public debt decreased something over
$500, 600, 900.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

The contested case OF Kirby W.. Lowell. for
the seat from the Eleventh Senatorial district
was, latter many days" settled on the 10th. by
vote OF 10 to in favor Of allowing Mr. Lowell 10
retain his seat, Notwithstanding he was Treas
urer of Kalamazoo at the time of the election
and up to the day before he took his seat i'm the
Senate. The vote in detail may be interesting,
and is:
Yeas -Messrs. Billings Brown, Dickinson.
Farr, Ford, Goodwin, Greuse fitzpatrick. Nc
Gurk, Mars, Morrison, Patterson, Rich, Shaw,
Slant II. Swift, Tooker, Epson and Wei .h-19
all Republicans.
Ndys-Messrs. Dow, Edsel Rose and
St. ong-4-the fir I two Republicans and the
last two Democrats.
SWAMP LAND
is the theme OF about one-fourth of all bills
passed, and, at the rate the State has voted it
away for the last few years, il will soon be able
TO go out of the business and put up sign on
some road. crossing, "No more State Swamp
Land on Hand"
RECOMMENDED FOR OFFICE.
The Senate, Oh the 18th. adopted the follow
ing preamsle and resolution in regard TO u man
VINO has been six times in the Legislature and
twice Speaker
"WHEREAs II would seem TO be eniinently
proper that the head of tho Agricultural Bu-
reau at Washington should be practical agri-
culurst therefore,
"Resolued Cthe House concurrine) That. rec
ognizing in the Hon. Jonathan J. Woodmap, OF
Mi 'higan, gentleman eminently qualified by
long experience in public life, by his lifelong
identification with the progressive agriculture
of the country, and by his business ability and
unimpeachable integrity, we do hereby cordially
and earnestly present his name to the President
of the United States, and recommend his APP
pointmcnt az Commissioner of Agriculture.
" Resolved, That the Governor be and he Is
hereby 7, quested TO forward a certified copy of
the foregoing preamble and resolution to his
Excellency the President. at Washington"
Ex-sENATon RICH.
When Senator Rich, who has just been NOM
mated for Congress, az Mr.. Conger's successor
The daily gazette., 1881-10-10

An immense bloodhound, suffering
either from deadly sickness or q dose
OF poison, laid down beside the fence Of
kenl's lumber yard, on Fourth street
between Washington and Jefferson, Sat.
urday night, aud died. About II
O'Clock request tor the removal of the
body was sent 10 Chief OF Police Max.
we'll, who ordered Dog Catcher Hunt to
attend to II at once, but Hunt allowed
the matter TO go over until morning,
aud there the body laid all night. A
number OF persons who passed by on
their way home were badly scared by
the huge animal, which they supposed
70 be only asleep, and expected every
Instant would spring up and tear them
to pieces. IL would have proved a
blessed relief TO at least a dozen peo-
Pile to have known at the time They
passed by that the dog was dead. Sun
day morning the huge carcass was in
tered at the dog pound by Hunt.
The daily gazette., 1881-10-10
The Nuicide,s Radx

About IL o'clock last night, a
gentleman called at the undertaking
establishment of John B. Martin and
inquired as to whether the BODY of
Francis E. Anderson, who commit.
ed suicide on Saturday morning, was
there or not. Upon being informed
that 1t was, he gave orders to
have the body prepared for burial,
ard placed in cloth covered silver
mounted burial casket.
The order was complied with and
this morning the gentleman called,
and paid all expenses, and had the
casket taken to the depot and placed
on the o.55 train and consigned to
Springfield, Mass. The gentleman
did not give his name, but 1t is sup4
posed that he was son Of the de-
ceased. He did not loucLsafe any
Information In regard to the suicide.
The affair is being kept as quiet as
possible. 1t it reported however that
the strangers family are IN good
circumstances, and that the man left
home for some fancied Injury that
he thought had been done him.
The daily gazette., 1881-10-10


The President has appointed q. p.
Clarke to be first deputy Commissioners
ofpensions and q. b. Walker to be de-
putty commissioner ot.pensions. These
appointments were made 10 carry out
the intentions of President Garfield.
The marine, hospital received infor.
nation OF the reappe arance of small pex
At several points on the Ohio river.
The superintendent of the Naval Aca.
deny at Annapolis has made an onlcial
report to the Secretary OF the Navy on
ths recent hszing, but as yet no action
has been taken upon 1t. An Impression
prevails that mono of the third class cs.
dets will be dismissed from the Acade-
my.
Concerning the reports that there Il
clique of dishonest clerks In the pension
Office through whom fraudulent claims
are prosecuted, Commissioner Dudley
says that no officer was ever served by 4
more faithful corps of clerks, and he has
entire confidence In their honesty.
Mr.. Scoville, Guiteau's brothern in
law, did not secure any lawyer while In
New York to assist him in the defense.
he says that he intends to ask Richard
L. Merrick, Esq, of W asbington, to act
with him. He thinks Guitsau will be
arraigned on Tuesday.
Mr. Boutwell, has been spoken Of as q
possible Secretary OF the Treasury. His
friends says that he would not decline
the position If offered.