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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-09-14

A cloud, black as the ravens wing, APP
peared in the west. Suddenly it split,
and between the two black trains ex-
banded the most fearful, dismal sky
ever saw. The color was green-gray
yellow, and it darkened the sun so it
became as twilight. The carpenters
had gathered together with us on the
porch. "This must be hail-storm,"
one of them said; snow we will pretty
soon hear of disasters" Suddenly the
cleft widened between the two black
cloud-wings, and the upper one came,
with terrible speed, flurrying back
toward us. "Let us walk in" 1 said.
1T seems as if we, too, shall get taste
of it" We went in, and our parlor
looked quite dark. We had scarcely
locked the door before we heard the
roaring of the storm coming. In mo-
ment we were surrounded by white
cloud and the wind and rain dashed the
house, which groaned and shivered.
1t was not rain; it was furious torrents
of water, mixed with heavy hail, which
poured down from heaven. The storm
tried to burst open the door, but Ave
men pressed against it with all their
might. The wall seemed to give way
and stood m bow; the building shook
as in commissions. felt Tightening of
my heart every time the house seemed
to be lifted from the ground and
dropped down again. Twice We had
these terrible shocks; then in moment
house, men, furniture were hurled
through the air 100 feet away. L do
not remember anything till 1 found
myself on the ground crawling among
the ruins of my home. The first 1 dis
covered was my wife, with child in
each arm, lying at my side. Men and
children were scattered around among
lumber and sidings, whether alive or
dead nobody could tell. A table and a
staircase came flying through the air;
some men met them and pushed them
away, so they did not kill my wife and
children; bits of wall and roof whirled
round us. Here it was impossible to
remain. We crept and crawled and
ran for our lives down to the forest.
AS we found each other there, we were
only six. A friend of ours, farmer,
had one of the small girls in his arms,
my wife another and one Of my sons
chung to me. But where were the rest
of the children? I had myself seen
one of the carpenters run with my
third little girl; but the Oldest and
youngest boy? Killed, perhaps, or
lying mutilated among the ruins, and
it was impossible to look for them.
The hurricane would have swept ua
away as soon as we had moved from
the wood. The only thing to do was
to press the children to us and give
them so much shelter as we could With
our broader backs. The rain and the
hail dashed us, the oak shrubs were
blown fat to the ground, and THEN
limbs struck our heads and shoulders
! like whiDs
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-09-14
Chicago schooi-Boys.


Chicago boys are eminently alive
said a teacher in one of the schools. Il
have seen boys in the New England
States, in Ohio, Kentucky and Kansas,
but for crowd of lively, well-posted,
sharp boys, Chicago takes the lead.
They know something about every
thing, and are totally irrepressible
If they don't know their lessons, they
have way to explain it. If they are
stuck on a question they will invent an
answer that would do credit to lawyer.
They invent questions that would stag
ger philosopher and make arguments
that would cause parson to smile in
the pulpit.
"One day." went on the teacher, Il
had class of small boys in the history
of the United States up reciting, and
George Washington was the topic.
"'When was he born?' 1 asked.
Twenty-second of February and
before another question could be asked
youngster spoke in: Oh, say, that's
my birthday, an George Washington
and L are twinsp
"The same day they wanted to hear
the cherry-tree story, and, after one of
the class had given his version for the
benefit of the rest, one of them, all
carried away, spoke up: 1t was darned
lucky that tree didn't fall on him, or
we wouldn't have any father to our
country l had to make him learn an
extra half-page for his improper Ian
| guage.
"Once 1 asked boy: Where did
the Iroquois Indians .live?' He didn't
know, but he began: 'Why-why-er
erin their tents Yes, but where
were their tents?' ooh, their tents
why, out in the woods yes, but in
what part of the country?' ooh, L
guess L cont like the Iroquois very
much. Won't you tell us about Han
nah Duston?'
"One day asked a boy in geography :
In what part of North America is
Lake Michigan Right out there,
said he, pointing out of the east win
dow toward the crib
"They have read the newspapers and
keep up with the times. They are
proud of the country and very patri-
otto, and take every occasion to say,
There amt any country in the world
can lick out the United States, if we
should have war, is there?' They
are posted on all topics to a greater or
less extent, and their thoughts in cur
rent questions are equal to some older
heads. what are they talking so much
about future probation for. What is ii
for, anyway asked a 10-year-old boy
one day, when L gave a chance for
questions. L was trying to explain
that it related to the condition of a
PERSONS soul after death, when the
same boy spoke up. Il can't see how
there's anything left when man is
dead. Now when man, say, gets run
over by an engine, seems to me his
soul must be gone all to squash too.
They make me laugh sometimes il
spite of myself Once, in ancient his
tory, had Leen trying to get them in
terested by telling them story. l had
told them about Cato, and how he
died. Most of the class were all alb
sorbed, but over in the corner was one
who had been paying little attention
till the last of it, and then he broke
out: why, why; thought they hung
Guiteau.' / closed the recitation. -
Chicago Ne1CS.
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A Good Bit of Reasoning.

Migrating birds, when locked up in
cages at the season of migration, rest.
lessly flap their wings and try to fly
away. The evolutionists say that fact
helps to prove not only that birds
which do so are migratory, but that
migration is a fact. They would deduce
migration from the birds habtual
action, even if they had never seen
birds migrating. Yet, if that instinct is
to be allowed all that weight, why is
the instinct of humanity, which keeps
it perpetually Tapping its mental wings,
| straining, as it were, toward another
life, to be considered illusory? Why
should not the instinct be evidence ir
one animal as well as in another? III
migration never had been and could
not be, would not the evolutionists re.
gard the birds action as strange
break in his system, for which he could
not account? We suppose that an evo.
lutionists would reply that man has
derived his ideas of the supernatural
from his fears, and that he is not
straining toward an object, but intent
on avoiding danger This is an an
swer to many theories of religious
belief, but does not affect the genesis
of the idea of future state. How
came man to fear danger of which he
had no experience and which has no
reality? No other animal does it. A
Himalayan hilltit, which never saw
wasp, when shown one kills it, then
wastes five minutes in digging its sting
out, and then eagerly swallows the
body, making every sign of enjoying a
bonnie bouche. The little creature
avoids danger of which it had no OK
perience, but then the danger is there.
Is there in all nature creature which
spends its life in pursuing an object or
avoiding a danger which is not only
unreal, but never was real and never
could have been? Recollect that, on
the theory that man is an animal, so
highly developed, it is true, as to have
acquired exceptional powers, but stifi
On animal, and bound by laws, which
as regards other animals, are pro-
nounced immutable. Why, then, this
strange exception? Is it not at least
more probable on the evidence that, as
an idea from outside is conceivable,
man, originally developed animal,
received from outside this idea? That
once granted as conceivable, the super
natural. O., the life outside this
world-becomes conceivable, too, and,
if conceivable, can be studied like any
other phenomenon.
When to Get Married.
The best time for marriage will be
toward 30; for, as the younger times
are unfit, either to choose or govern q
wife and family, so, if thou stay long,
thou shall hardly see the education OF
thy children, who, being left to
strangers, are in effect lost; and better
were il to be unborn than ill-bred; for
thereby thy posterity shall either perish
or remain shame to thy name.-Sir
| Walter Raleigh.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-09-14

HENRY WILLARD, with his Northern
Pacific combination, representing $780,
100000 of capital, now holds the key
TO the stock-market situation and
possibly to the financial situation of
this country for the next three years.
Yet five years ago the name of Willard
was comparatively new in this country.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-09-14

EDWARD STEVENS, who committed
suicide at Cincinnati, left a lengthy
written treatise on suicides, in which,
by statistics, he showed that the mania
was rapidly increasing. He also en-
deavored to make plain that it was not
a sinful or ignominious death, and that
it does not indicate insanity. His very
assumption of sanity would condemn
him before some iuries.
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ahs Jrne Aurtheruer.
PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.

A The earthquake that accompanied
$lhe volcanic eruption in Java produced
waves that crossed the Pacific ocean
and beat upon the California coast.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-09-14

The Yale Triennial Catalogue, lately
issued, shows that of seventy-three
members of the class which graduated
in lS32-fifty-one years ago-forty are
now alive. The statistics of longevity
at Harvard are no less remarkable.
The graduates of our greatest colleges
seem to live longer than the average of
man
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-09-14

"HAvE you anything to say against
the testimony of the witness?" asked
a Texas Judge of man accused OF
DEMONSTRATING. Gall I've got to say is
that the witness has got prejudice
against me, and is determined to ruin
me. 1 introduced him to his present
wife, and advised him to marry her, and
now he is playing for even.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-09-14

CAsAMIocIoLA is to be rebuilt of
wood. Most of the casualties during
the recent earthquake were from the
falling stone walls. Wooden houses
are less dangerous.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-09-14

THE annual products of the British
American sea fisheries are set down at
about 100000.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-09-14

A DELAWARE paper Is responsible
for this entertaining fish story: Clark
Gable, of Willowemoc, is hunter and
fisherman. The other day he was
fishing in the Delaware. He hooked a
fine club, but lost it in raising it from
the water. Soon after two-pound eel
took the hook, but that slipped of, too.
Gable quit fishing in disgust. On his
way home he discovered large crane
standing in the river watching for fish
Cable hurried home, got his gun, and
went back to kill the crane He got a
fair sight at it at short range, fred,
but missed it. The crane flew slowly
away Cable said he guessed it wasn't
his day for sport, and went home. The
same night Gable placed set line in
the river. When he went to it next
morning he saw O crane standing in the
water directly over the line. 1t rose to
fly, but something pulled it back.
Cable caught it. 1t had swallowed
one of his hooks. Further investiga-
ton revealed the fact that the reason
the crane had swallowed the hook was
because there was two-pound eel on
IL at the time, and the further fact that
Q one-pound club had taken the
hook before the eel had swal-
lowed it. The club had been
caught on the bait. The eel had come
along and gobbled the club. Then
the Crane took the eel, and Gable took
hem all in. He insists that. the club,
the eel. and the crane are the same
ones that he had lost during the day.
- ID n. "a. Min, \ mar, i ibo.,
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A CORRESPONDENT writes that there
has been no exaggeration of the burst
ing of the Winnipeg bubble" He says
there are half dozen auction sales
nightly, and the flag of distress" flying
everywhere. One of the largest hotels,
the Potter House, went under the ham,
mer the first week in August, and
merchants and dealers OF all kinds are
trying to convert goods into money at
any sacrifice. "Now," he adds, "the
question naturally arises, what is the
cause of the depression which seems to
have seized upon all branches of trade,
and bids fair 20 end in a panic? The
answer lies in q nutshell. The Winni-
peggers got it into their thick cram
iums that big city makes big coun
try, and they have kept pegging away
at that idea until they made even the
cooler heads of Eastern Canada take in
the idea, although they were formerly
of the opinion that big and rich sur
rounding gives birth to big and rich
cities; but the Eastern converts have
mt last recanted with penitence and re-
turned to their former creed"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-09-14

ONE Rochester MINI man describes
bis experience in the recent cyclone:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-09-14

RUSSIANS say that their war on the
Jews is more of an economical than a
religious question. At the same time
they admit that the very class of He
brews which has done most to make
prominent this economical problem is
so skillful in evading persecution as to
defeat the sole object of she Jewbaiters,
while the hardships all fall on body
of people totally without part in the
commercial and industrial contentious
of the time.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-09-14

Mr.. VANDERBILT has had an attack
of genuine charity. While in the
White mountains be learned that thirty
of the walters in the hotel where he
stopped were college students, earning
money during the summer vacation to
further their education. Mr. Wander
bilt left behind him check for 50, 900
to be divided among these students,
giving them 800 each That act Was
probably as noble as anything Wander
bilt ever did.
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Why are the children so eager,
All watching a-down the street,
Jackey astride of the gate-post,
Whistling and swinging his feet
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EFFECT OF BANGS ON GIRLS

b ng> on girl give her an unluly looA
like cow with board over her face.
You take the gentlest COW in the world
aud put :. board over her face, and turn
her out in :. pasture and she gets the
reputation of being unruly. and y"n
would swear she would jump fences and
raise merry lIadrs, and lou wouldn give
so much for her by $40 only for bee q.
1t is So with the girl. 1t she wears hel
hair high Oh her forehead, Or brush, d
back, or even had friZzes. and has good
look. YOU will 60 your bottom dollar on
her, and feel that she is good as gold.
and that when she tells her young man
that she loves him there is no discount
on it. and nc giggling ba, k; but take the
same girl, with her front hair banged,
and when she looks at YOU You feel just
as though she would hook. and you can t
tlust her. She has fence. jumping look
that makes young man feel as though
he wouldn't feel safe unless she was tied
hand and foot so she couldn't get out IF
the pasture. \ girl with bangs may try
to be good and true. but its awful hard
work VIII IL she looks at herself in the
glass and sees the quarter of frehead,
she says to herself: Il am dangerous;
they want To lock out for me- She
thinks Sc is all right, hut she is con-
stantly doing that which girl who
think of doing. The bang girl may be-
long to the church and may try to put on
pious look while the hymn is being
read. But she will look out from behind
those bangs sdewise at some meek and
lowly young Christian who is trying to
get his mind fixed on the hymn and he
will get his mind fixed on her, and it will
break him all up and he won't know
whether he is singing "A charge to keep
| have or = She's a daisy" The bang
girl may place her bangs down on the
back OF the pew ahead of her during the
morning prayer and try to be good. but
her corset will be too tight, and AS she
l.itches around to ease the pain one eye
will ii like the morning sun over the
back of the pew, and that eye will catch
the eye of young ma two seats to the
right, who is trying to cover his face
with one hand while he tries to keep the
flies oil the p>made on his hair with the
o.her and his interest in the prayer is
knocked into cooked hat. The banging
of girls hair changes the whole nature
of the little wratch, and she becomes as
gun that is loaded. You take IA picture
of "Evangeline and bang her hair and
and she would look as though she would
run at people. How would Mrs. Van
Colt, the alleged female preachers. look
With her hair ban yel' 1t is just the same
with boys. You take nice, pious Sun
day school boy who can repeat 300
verses of the New Testament and cut his
hair with IA clipper and he looks like Tag
Wilson.
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BUILDING LINE.

DY the Bushel A lot of New York
- State EARLY ROSE POTATOES.
McCRACKEN & BRO.
Marl5-ti North East Md.
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owned it all and was rich. Three Yeas
ago he decided it was his duty to provide
for his old virginia wife, so he sent for
her and she, with her children, came to
him. She was given house on the plan
tation, and is well provided for. Jack
owns now the magnificent place of about
1900 acres, within three miles of White
Sulphur Springs, in Meriwether county.
He is 60 years old, and his children are
settled around him, and all are contented
happy and Industrious. He owns fifteen
or sixteen mules, and is motel for keep
ing the best stock III the county. His
credit at La GRANGE Bank is good, and he
can borrow all the money he wants on
his simple note of hand
How much is he worth? -
- shoald say about $50, 600, and every
cent of it has been m ,de since the war.
1t is remarkable story of how slave
succeeds his master in the ownership of
a vast landed estate. passed the place
few months ago, and the Georgia wife
came t. the dor to give me drink of
water. Every thing was neat and clean
about the place, the yard was newly
swept, the barns appeared filled, and in
the lots | saw piles upon piles of manure
carefully sheltered. Why, have seen
on Jacks place $50 acres of corn under
one fence
Is he educating his children -
"Yes, although he cannot read and
write he sees the advantage of an educa-
ton, and is giving his children the bene-
fit of schooling. The story is trne one,
and shows what can be done right here
i'll Georgia, by pluck aud industry. The
old adage is true: There is more in the
man than there is in the lard "--4tlanta
(Gd) Constitution.
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MEN WHO IIi THEIR GRAVES
WITH THEIR TEETH.

y glutton is in many regards a mon
ster, and, if possible, more repul>ive than
drunkard. The glutton develops in his
| htbitS more of the animal than the man
who drinks excessively, and may be said
| to dig his grave with lis teeth A glut-
ton is as devoid of reason as animals of
the lower order. In sight of food he
disregards all Laws relating to health; his
voracity ob>cures his Judgment, and he
| falls a victim to his inordinate and un.
restrained appetite.
1t is said that a horse finding himself
loose in his stable at uight will seek out
the meal barrel or bin-provided he be-
longs to an owner Of the shiftless order,
who leaves such things accessible--and
gorge himself to death. and this will oc-
cur without reference to the quality of
the animal whe her he be aristocratic
blood or the meancSt scrub. 4 herd of
fine stock, being driven t. pasture WHEN
the surfaces ale cover d with the earliest
grass in its season, must be cared for by
the watchful herdsman aud driven from
their banquet long bef,le it is finished to
satisfaction, or Il few hours of time will
witness the death agonies of the flower
OF the family, resulting from nothing but
Sluttony pure and simple.
Intelligent physicians say. and have
always said. that the greater number of
cases of midni9 Int attacks of sickness. as
well as the sudden deaths occurring be-
tween sun aud sun, and which seem SO
mysterious, are the result solely of i'm
prudence and folly in eating and drink
ing during the hours of the day. Dl'
Tanner fast has shown men that by the
exercise of the will total abstinence from
food is possible for many days, and 1t
teaches all that it is well for men not to
live by bread alone In discussing
abstemiouSness as IA cure all, DR.. Perry,
of Boston, is Of the opinion that if a per-
son would find out just what his system
Graves. and what his di seStve organs can
deal with proitably and successful y, and
take that food never in exc g. of these
conditions the medical fraternity Won d
find great part of their occupation gone
and declares that nine-tenthS of all the
pains and aches. the disorders, uneasi
ness, cardiac affections, melancholleS,
irregular ities-call them or classify them
as one may-result from overloaded,
overtaxed digestive organs.
4 200 pound man, doing hard days |
work. mental and ply sic,l, every day
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