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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-18

Eugene Cross, Swan Street Buffalo, writes !:
have used Spring Blossom for Dyspepsia and
Indigestion, and have found it to act admirably
as gentle Aperient and Blood Purifier. con-
slider it uneaualed, you are at liberty 10 use
nv name as reference
Prices: 80 cents, and trial bottles 10 cents.
Sold by Duncombe, Stearns IL Co.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-18

The Republicans of Porter will hold their
Caucus at Town Hall on Friday, April 1, 1881,
for the purpose Of nominating Township Off
GERS for the ensuing year-2p. m.
BY order OF Township Committee.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-18

Why win men shaks and burn with alternate
chill and fever, when Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic
will cure them. Try il. II
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-18

Is YOUR SENSE OF SMELL DESTROYED {?
II so you have the catarrh and ought to use
Halls Catarrh Cure, All druggists keep it,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-18

Chappell has very nice assortment OF rings,
solid gold and rolled plate, neck and guard
chains, solid pens, bracelets, charms, &c.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-18
TO BACHELORS.

Only Bachelors should belong to clubs. Her
cules gave mp his club, when he married Deja-
mira, but" when married, they should never
fail to lay in supply Of Spring Blossom to
cure Indigestion, sick Headache, Lassitude, etc.
Prices: so cents, and trial bottles 10 cents.
Sold by Duncombe, Stearns 81 Co.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-30

Telegraph Cigar Store. Ormsby BudinG sCsrson stree
CarsDn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-31
A Queer Cave.
From the Chicago Times

FROM the chicago Times.
The sulphur and alum cave in Truckee
valley is wonderful sight, says a cor
respondent. To reach it one must
climb a distance of forty feet up a
steep mountain side, and by the time
he gets there he finds himself well-nigh
blown out. The entrance is about six
by six, and the cave is said to extend
into the mountain some 800 feet. The
air is strongly impregnated with sulphur,
and at first the sensation experienced is
not very agreeable, but soon this wears
off and is not again noticed until the
entrance OF the cave is reached and the
fresh mountain air is snuffed. I follow
ed the cave distance of 400 feet, under
great difficulties, being compelled to
crawl through the smallest apertures,
which held man fast did he attempt to
initiate his lungs. Once OF twice [ felt
that [ would need assistance to pull M
through, but by squeezing and pushing
success finally crowned my efforts. AS
far as [ went the top and sides were en-
tirely composed of sulphur, while the
floor was vein of alum water, and now
and then little sulphur mixed in with
it. In many places a cool breeze was
felt, but where 1t came from was one OF
those things past finding out. The only
LIVING thing we met with was small
animal resembling toad. It did not,
however, hop, but crawled slowly,
turtle-like, and had very smooth and
glossy skin. Whether it was regular
inhabitant of the cave [ was unable to
find out; but, if I was asked to pass my
opinion upon it, I should say no, as it
was the only living animal that was ever
seen in Sulphur and Alum Cave. On
my return [ was greatly exhausted, and
suddenly my nose commenced to bleed
freely and continued to for some ten
minutes. All my efforts to check il
proved fruitless, and so I let it have its
own course. From gentleman who re.
sided near the cave I learned that, owing
to the high altitude, tourists are
generally served in that manner, and
especially so when coming out of the
cave
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-31

very well. He had marked it knotted
among the lace of Virginia's throat, and
at sight of it his heart seemed suddenly
to stop beating in his bosom. Desper-
alton made him quick witted and unspar.
ing of himself.
"You have found a ribbon of Miss
Payne's?" he asserted, with fine care
! lessness.
"No," said Tom, laying it gently be-
tween the leaves of book upon his knee.
"She gave it to me"
Launce recollected again that Virginia
"never fiirted." Hemade no further eff
fort to see her alone, but the next day de-
parted from CRANKY.
Virginia never guessed all this, but be-
fore Launce's very wretched summer had
passed she began to wonder that she did
hear from or see him again. He had
gone back to England, but she knew that
he was to return to America in September
at least. She could not but think it
natural that he should write to her all
this time. But Launce was far from
dreaming of such thing. He was try
ing with all his might to forget her: he
succeeded so i'll, that at last he deter
mined to visit CRANKY once more. and
behold his betrothed, if not married, to
Tom Arlington. He left his horse at the
gate with servant, and came quietly on
foot up the avenue. The red leaves of
the naples covering the ground made
his step soundless. Suddenly, among
the trees, he sawa gray dress and man S
elegant lounging figure. The latter
leaned with downcast and sullen face,
against the trunk of tree, his counten-
ance and attitude in strong contrast to
his costly dress and air of pleasure
seeker. The man was Tom Airing
ton, and the lady Virginia in the
act of turning toward the house.
Ono" she said, clearly, "you cannot
accompany me any further. I have
taken advantage OF this meeting to ask
you to be relieved henceforth of your
company, Mr.. Arlington. In displaying
the ribbon [ simply and unsuspiciously
gave you MISUNDERSTANDING it as
a token from me-you have acted false
hood which will never profit YOU"
He muttered something
Forgive you? No! But [ will
certainly do my best to forget you," she
answered, and hurried away.
There we're tears upon his cheek when
Launce overlook her, but her blush of
delight burned them away, and she gave
him her hand.
Virginia" he said, II am here to re-
peat what 1 told you once. Will you
say perhaps again %
"No," she answered, with a deeper
dimple and a brighter flush; "Now L
will say certain.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-31
A Man Shopping.
from the Boston Post

IRON tne Boston Post.
If you want to torture the average
man, send him shopping. More misery
cannot be heaped upon him, especially
if he has got to go to store where the
the clerks are ladies and he doesn't know
exactly what he wants to buy. A lady
clerk has such way of utterly crushing
man and making him realize his ignor-
ance. We had a little experience the
other day. We wanted enough cotton
to pack set of iewelry in box some
two inches square. The cotton we set
out to purchase. We had an indefinite
idea that we could get it at a big variety
store on fremont street, and we drifted
around that way. But when we got
there and looked in, we didn't have the
nerve to enter. 1t was crowded, and we
didn't know which way to turn after we
got there, and felt that we should get
lost there, and altogether it was no use
We couldn't do it. So we went round to
fremont Row and finally found store
that was comparatively quiet, and there
we entered and explained to the best
natured looking saleswoman that we
wanted some cotton batting. She said
they had it at fifteen, twenty and twenty
five cents. We said we'd take the best,
and away she went. Soon she returned,
followed by boy with roll of cotton
about the size of beer cask. That was
handle to us. We gazed at it, and con-
Guided that it was more than we needed
for that jewelry box. We said to the
lady: MADAME, you are mistaken. We
do not desire to start wholesale cotton
mart, we don't desire to get up corner
in cotton, nor we don't run burlesque
troupe. What we want is about enough
cotton to fill box two inches square. %
Several lady customers looked at us and
the roll of cotton. And then they kind
of snickered, and the clerk looked at us
with glance of contemptuous pity that
was worse than the laughter of the Gus
toners. We finally got the cotton and
fed from the store, but we mad got to
feeling SO annoyed and mortified that we
didn't get over it all day. And we rather
enjoy shopping, for man.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-31
Shakespeare's Tombstone,

Mr.. r. Hendrie writes to the Athe-
n@um:
In your notice of Mr.. Haliimell-P Phil
lips Life of Shakespeare on June 4, you
quote the paragraph on the loss OF the
tombstone bearing the well-known In
scription. Is not the original decayed
stone, still untouched, contained In a
casing now surrounding it ? I have not
visited Stratford for many years, but re-
member, of a visit to the grave of Shake
speare in 1927 or 1923, remarking that
it was little creditable to the authorities
chat the raised covering to the tomb
should have been allowed to fall into
such decay, for [ could see into the
grave through the hole formed by the
sinking of the stones. The reply was
that, son account of the anathema in
scribed upon the tomb, no workmen
could be persuaded to NEEDLE with it. -
The inscription on the front stone of the
tomb was this:
Good Friend for Jesus SAKE forbeare
To diGG TIE Dust Enclosed HERE
Blest be TIE Man VT spares TIES Stones
And curst be He VT moves my Bones.
On subsequent visit, about a year
after, I learned from the same authority
that it was intended to overcome the
difficulty by encasing the tomb with
fresh slabs. This has doubtless been
done, and it would be interesting to
learn if any record exists of such work.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-31

From the Laramie City Boomera.tg.]
William Tell ran a hay-ranch near
Bergelen about $50 years ago. Tell had
lived in the mountains all his life and
shot channels and chipmunks with a
cross-gun till he was bad man to stir up.
At that time Switzerland was run prin-
cipally by a lot of carpet baggers from
Austria, and Tell got down on them
about the year 1907. It seems that Tell
wanted the government contract to fur
nish hay at S45 a ton for the year 1906,
and Gessler, who was controlling the
patronage of Switzerland, let the con-
tract to an Austrian who had big lot of
condemned hay further up the gulch.
One day Gessler put his plug hat up on
telegraph pole, and issued order 236,
regular series, to the effect that every
snoozer who passed down the toll road
should bow to it. Gessler happened to
be in behind the bush when Tell went
by, and he noticed that Bill said "Shoot
the hat /" and didn't salute it, so he told
his men to gather Mr.. Tell in and put
him in the refrigerator. Gessler told
him that if he would shoot crab-apple
from the head of his only son at 200
yards with cross-gun, he would give
him his liberty. Tell consented, ano
knocked the apple higher than Gilroy's
kite. Old Gessler, however, noticed an
other arrow sticking in Williams girdle
and asked what kind of a fowery breal
that was. Tell told him that if he ha6
killed the kid instead of busting the ap
pie, he intended to drill hole through
the stomach of Mr. Gessler. This mad,
Gessler mad again, and he took Tell OF
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-31
Slaves to Business.
lFrom Scribner's Magazine.

ltrOm Scr1Dner'S magazine.
A man crowds his powers through a
series of years of excessive labor, and,
some day, he drops with paralysis, and
from that day forward he becomes a
powerless child, to be led kindly and
carefully to the grave. The increase of
this disease is undoubtedly the result
of the increase of unwisely conducted
labor. Money can do nothing for it
when it befalls man, but it can do
everything to prevent it. "Nervous
prostration has become a too familiar
phrase in these later years. Money can
not restore a shattered nervous system,
but, properly expended at the proper
time, it will prevent it, which is great
deal better.
There is hallucination, cherished by
great multitude, that they must be
constantly in their own business, or it
cannot go on prosperously. Some OF
these men are so unfortunately or
gained that they cannot believe that
anybody living can do their work as
well as they can do it. 1t takes an
enormous self-conceit to come to such
conclusion as this, and there is a
great misfortune in it. Of course, these
men are never able to leave their work
for q moment in other hands, and sc
they become the bond slaves of then
own mistake. Now there is nothing in
which great business man shows his
greatness so signally as in his ability tc
find men to do his work-to find com
petent instruments to execute his pur.
poses. The greatest business man is al.
ways a man of comparative leisure
His own work is always deliberately
done. 1t is, as a rule, the small maj
who never gets moment, and who new
er can find pair of hands as good al
his own. If man cannot leave his bus
mess, or thinks he cannot, he shows tina
he lacks the highest grade of business
capacity.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-31
A StalWart Appetite.

A negro named Rom Lawson, at AL
lensville, N. c., on election day, accord
ing to the Roxboro On. c. Herald, made
meal of Il quarters mutton, Is bis
cults, pound candy, half-grown
chicken, behring's, 1 loaf corn bread
and piece of shoat supposed to weigh
about one pound, drank 4 quarts OF
water, and said he hadn't eat half
enough. He then offered to bet he
could throw any many or lift more with
hand-stick than any man on the ground.
In order to show his strength he took 8
man that weighed about 200 pounds and
carried him about over the ground in
his teeth, He then went up to another
table and called for 25-cent snack.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-31
THE STORY OF A LOCK,
jacob Wiilets Invention to Protect an Apple
eli


Cellar.
The history of locks shows as decided
a record Improvement within recent
years as does the history of any other
mechanical device for the benefit of pro-
tectlng society. Burglary has become
an industry in which great delicacy OF
manipulation is brought into play. Tits
not SO much force as dexterity that the
inventive mind now has to consider when
organizing ways and means for discourage
ing the knight of the jimmy and dark
lantern. The treasury of the United
States is guarded by combination lock,
with clockwork attached, and can be OPP
ened onl y at nine O'Clock each morning
Treasurer Gilfllan is the only man that
understands all the intricacies of the
affair, and it he should die suddenly it
would be hard work to get hold of cash
enough to pay impecunious congress-
men their regular salaries.
But all this refinement of the lock-
smiths craft is comparatively recent, de-
veloped by the necessities of the time in
which we live. Fifty years ago the peo-
pie would have wondered at the sugges-
ton OF such thing. 1t was about that
length OF time ago that Jacob Willetts,
q Quaker, and his wife Deborah kept a
boarding-school in Duchess county,
New York, section noted for blooded
stock. The instruction given was of an
excellent character, and many an old
man of to-day has reason to look back to
it with gratitude. The fable fair was
not so good, and the boys of the school
one winter caused their instructor great
uneasiness by their frequent raids upon
his apple bins. Locks did no good, as
the young marauders were aided and
abetted by the man of all work, who had
either been a locksmith's assistant or a
professional burglar, for he could pick
any lock in the country. Jacob pom
dered long and anxiously upon the stu
alton and finally perfected what he
thought was complete guard to the
citadel.
When he had adjusted his new lock
he said, William, wish thee would go
and get my tools. / have left them in
the cellar" William understood the
nature of the request, and after working
half an hour the portal swung back and
he returned with the tools in triumph.
Nothing was said by the discounted
teacher, but he went to work with fresh
determination, and in few weeks more
he remarked, with quiet CLEAN of con-
fidence in his eye, " William, thee may
go and fetch my tools from the cellar. !"
William tried long and faithfully, but
confessed himself baffied at last, and the
golden fruit was not again molested. A
lock that would keep hungry boys and a
professional accomplish from an apple
cellar was thought to be as strong as it
could well be made, and it was used by
a number of banks in that section until
more modern ideas came in to sup
plant it,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-31
KNOWING.
BY JULIA G. r. DORR

One summer day, to young child L said,
Write to thy mother, boy" With earnest face,
ana labor1ng fingers all amused to trace
Inc mystic characters, he bent his head
(Ihat should have danced amid the flowers Unsteady
Over the blurred page for half-hour's space:
Ihen with sigh that burdened all the place
Cried, Mamma knows !" and out to sunshine sped
y soul of mine when tasks are hard and long,
And life so crowds thee with its stress and strain
mat thou, half fanting art too tired to pray
DRINK thou this wine of blessing and be strong
God knows What though the lips be dumb with
pain,
Or the pen drops? He knows what thou wculdst
say Christian Union,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-31
UNWRiTTEN MUSIC.
BY WILLIAM HUBER, JR.

We hear the low and dreamy tone
Like some sweet angel spell,
Among the wood-haunts wild and lone,
Where the young violets dwell;
Where the deep sunset flush hath thrown
Its glory on the sea,
We linger for its ceaseless moan
That wordless minstrelsy
The primal world its echoes woke
When first the ardent sun,
In all his fresh'ning day-spring, broke,
His regal race to run;
It fioated through those lonely skies.
Each immemor1al hill,
Where now such countless cities rise,
The might of human will
The cavernd depths of The wild sea
That gather in their lair
Such shrieks of mortal agony,
Such pleadings of despair,
Upon their turgid pillows wreathed
Such lulling strains have sped,
AS if their charnal waters breatheG
No requiem for the dead.
Oh earth hath not lonely plain
Unblest by mystic song:
The diapason of the main,
Its anthem to prolong.
The seaman, in his home-fraught dream
Upon the moonlit waves,
Hears, in it's undulating stream,
The chant of wat'ry caves.
Through Hippocrene's violet fount
The haunting spirit rung;
To every old Thessalian mount
Its storied legends chung.
1t filled the wild BRotian hills
With fableo visions blent,
And murmured through the Pythian rills-
melody unspent.
An incense-breath upon the wind,
For mornings glorious dover
fairy spell, the heart to bind
At noontide's languid hour;
voice the forest-child hath sought
By every glade and stream;
But most, at twiight's hour of thought,
Half shadow and half dream.
A song upon the summer prime,
OF gladness and of praise;
A voice that bids the vintage time
Its choral tribute raise;
A tone ubiquitous and free,
A deathless music given;
A strain of immortality,
An attribute of heaven. Boston Folio.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-31

picnic up the river in irons. Tell
jumped off when he got good chance,
and cut across a bend in the river, and
when the picnic party came down he
shot Gessler deader than mackerel.
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-11-06

THAT Mr.. Gladstone should
think Of resignipg the premiership,
In view of his inconsistent attitude
ON the Irish question, is not much
to be wondered at. It is a pitiable
thing to see man com noitted to
the policy of indicting q whole ma.
ton when his own voice has SO
often and eloqusntly been appraised
against just such q procedure. The
result of the recent elections In
England must also weigh him
down. The Irish vote, in the lead
ing English cities, has been found
effectual in replacing so-called
Liberal members of Parliament
by conservatives. Though i'm
prisoned, the leaders Of the Land
League are potent in making their
influence felt both In England and
Ireland. Mr.. Jennings, the Lon
don correspondent of the New
York World, predicts that the re-
suit Of Gladstons's laundering will
be the igpominious retirement OF
his party from power, and it be-
gins to look very much as If that
will be the outcome of a serieo oil
memorable outrsges dignified by
the catchpenny title Of "the re-
sources of civilization"
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-11-06

CERTAINLY President Arthur, in
referring all applicants for Office
to heads Of departments, has
shown great wisdom. To that ex-
tent he has dissipated the murder.
GUS electrical currents which 9TH
erwise might be concentrated on
himself. He is evidently not dis-
posed to posturize in the role Of a
Presidential Ajax, defying the
lightnings. But even with this
precaution, he has not altogether
escaped the attention of the
'crank," one member of the genus
having already presented himself,
armed with formidable revolver,
and commissioned by Almighty
God to take possession Of the
White House. Beginning with
the assassination of the Emperor
Alexander, in the early spring oil
the current year, this is a bad time
for those In any kind of authority,
kingly or Presidential. 1t is true
shat. at the very opening of the
present century, there have been
times when attempts to asssssinats
people in high places have been
more numerous than any that
have been recorded this year. The
First Napoleon had an Internal
machine projected for his especial
benefit very often, as had his puta-
tive nephew. But the assassin
himself is improving in his knack;
and he seems to get bis man very
much more frequently than in the
brave days of old. A Gear of Rus
Gle and . President Of the United
States, both bagged within six
months, is an exhibit that the as
sassin guild have hitherto never
been able to make in such o brief
period. In view Of the morbid de-
sire shown by the "cranks" to do
for the President, quite q number
Of eligible and aspiring citizens of
this country are willing, of late, to
pitch their pretensions in an hum
bier key. Many q man who, q
year ago, bad his eye fixed uncom-
promisipgly on the White House,
would now be willing to step at a
Cabinet position or a seat In the
United States Senate. These minor
honors have at least the advantage
that the "crank" so far has not
given them much attention. That
eccentric individual aims at higher
Rme, and nothing under a crown
cd head or a President seems to
him worthy Of a moments
thought.