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urderer-died while evading trial. "
Usefulness Of Coffee.

Since coffee possesses the quality of
stimulating the nervous system it is a
matter of course that in many cases its
effect is rather injurious. Phlegmatic
people, especially need coffee, and they
are fond of drinking it; for a similar
reason it is n favorite beverage in the
Orient, where its consumption is i'm
mense. But to persons of excitable
temperament the enjoyment of coffee is
hurtful; they ought only TO take it very
weak. With lively children it does not
agree ut all, and it is very wrong to
force them to drink it, as is often done:
while elderly people, who are in need
of stimulant for the decreasing activ-
ity of their nerves, are right in taking
as much of it rs they choose.
In households of limited means it is
often necessary to use chicory with the
coffee. We do not pretend to pro-
nounce this, if taken in moderate guam
tity, hurtful but we do say that it is a
poor substitute for coffee, and that there
is nothing in it to recommend its use.
A far better mixture is milk and sugar !;
and there is good reason for it; both
milk and sugar are articles of food.
Milk contains the same Ingredients as
blood; and sugar is changed in the
body into fat, which is indispensable to
us. especially in the process of breath
ing. Having taken no food through
the night, the loss our blood has suf-
fered during sleep by perspiration must
be compensated for in the morning.
For this, milk and sugar in coffee are
excellent.
1t is good for children to have taste
for sweetened milk or milk-coffee in the
morning. We must not find fault with
them if they like it. Nature very WISE
ly gave them liking for sugar; they
need it, because their pulse must
be quicker, their respiration stronger,
to facilitate the assimilation of food in
their bodies, and also to promote
growth. Not that adults need no SUI
gar, but the sugar necessary for them
is formed from the starch contained in
their food. For this purpose the digest
i've apparatus must be strongly devel-
oped. With children this is not the
case; therefore they are given sugar,
instead of the starch to make it from
Many diseases, particularly ricketts,,
prevailing mostly among the children
of the poor, are the consequence of feed
ing the child with bread and potatoes !;
these contain starch. it is true, but the
digestive apparatus of children being
yet too weak to change them into fat,
the result is that the flesh falls away,
and the bones grow soft and crooked
But he who, to promote digestion,
takes coffee Immediately after dinner,
does best not to use sugar or milk-for
both, so far from helping digestion, are
an additional burden to the full stom-
ach, and disturb its labor more than
] coffee can facilitate it.-Erchdnge.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-02-23
The Big Diamonds.

One of the strangest passions OF
which man can be possessed is passion
for precious stones. In all ages many
superstitions have clustered about them
and learned men have expressed the be-
lief that diamonds, sapphires, and ru-
bies were tailsmans of mysterious vir-
tues, possessing healing powers and pro.
tecting their possessors from dangers
Bloody wars have been waged in India
for the possession of great gems, and
fortunes have been expended to obtain
them. The most celebrated diamonds
of history are the following, with their
estimota1 va1ues.
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MINDLESS RAIN.
BY PAUL III. HAYNk

The rain, the dcsolate rainl
Ceaseless and solemn and chilli
How is drips ON the misty pane,
How il drenches the darkened sill
q scene OF sorrow and dearthl
Iwould that the wind awaking
To fierce and gusty birth
Might vary this dull refrain
OF the rain, the desolate rain;
For the heart of the heavens seems breaking
In tears DER the fallen earth,
And again, agaiu, again,
We list to the somber strain
The faint, cold monotone
Whose soul is mystic moan
or tho rain, the mournful rain,
The soft, despairing rain.
The rain, the mournful rain!
Weary, passionless, slow;
~ris the rhythm OF settled sorrow,
The sobbing Of oureless woe!
And all the tragic OF life,
Tho pashos OF long ago.
Comes back on the sad refrain
OF the rain, the dreary rain;
Till the graves in my heart unclosc,
And the dead who are buried there,
From solemn and weird repose
Awake. and with eyes that glare
And voices that melt in pain
On the tide of the plaintive rain,
The yearning, hopeless, rain,
The long. low, whispering rain!
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How Irving Came 10 BE Minister Il
Spain.

Soon after Mr.. Webster had removed
into his new house Messrs. Moses H.
Grinnell, Richard M. Blatchford and
Simeon Draper, of New York, were one
day his guests at dinner. While lin
gering ut table over raisins and Madeira,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-02-23

Rev. ROBERT CoLLYER says that
nothing but love of reading saved him
from following in his employers foot
steps and dying of drink.
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estimated values:

The first of these stones has been lost,
destroyed, or cut into several smaller
stones. 1t was the property of one of
the great pinces of the Mogul dynasty
in Hindoostan, and was stolen at the
sack of Delhi before the middle of the
present century. 1t was of very pure
water, though of soft rose-tint. No. 2
is owned by the Rajah of Matan, in Bor-
neo; No. by the Nizam of Hyderabad !;
the Koh-i-Noor is preserved in Windsor
Castle, the property of Queen Victoria !;
No. 5 belongs to the French Govern
ment No. 6 to the Russian Government,
and forms the chief ornament of the
imperial scepter; No. 7 belongs to
Sweden, and is of peculiar green tint
No. was a wedding present from Ma
poleon III. to his wife, the Empress
Eugene, who wore it as center stone
of diamond necklace. After the
Franco-Prussian war he sold it to the
notorious Glakwar, of Baroda, in Hin
dostan, for $4,000. All these gems
were found in India. Considered gen.
orally, the diamond is the hardest known
substance. In an artificial scale of hard
ness it ranks as TO- corundum as 8,
quartz as T. Diamond is pure, crystal
lized carbon, and numerous scientists
have spent years in trying to produce
diamonds by artificial means.
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Landlord Tim.

have spent years in trying to produce
diamonds by artificial means.
Landlord Tim.
We possessed landlord once in our
pleasant little Canadian village, and the
said landlord was witty and harmless,
but was an inveterate "exaggerator. !"
Stranger or friend were pleasantly en-
tertained of an evening by listening to
his impossible, though truthfully told,
yarns, aud many guest felt he received
his moneys worth of combustible chin,
besides his board thrown in. He would
tell about feeding bushels of corn TO a
wild goose that daily visited his fathers
clover farm" and ut last, shooting it
with q rifle, found half of the bullet on
either side, split 10y the breast-bone
Beautifully would he relate his favorite,
pigeon yarn. Noticing hundreds of
this game in tree one day, and having
only rife he was sorely perplexed as
to the best means of making fruitful
discharge. Brains brought into requi-
sition so plentifully his head ached
quickly set him clear. Choosing the
fullest limb, he fired, splitting it and
the bullet passed through the limb,
their toes dropped in and held them
fast. While saving off the limb it sud
denly broke and let pigeons and all into
a stream below. When he reached the
shore again ho had ninety-seven pigeons
in his hand o ii a peck of small fish in
his boots.
"Tim," said Henderson, new conner,
one night after Tim had finished his
imaginative triumph, "Iim, L shot at
some pigeons years ago; l had as good
double-barreled gun as was ever made,
and j saw clouds of pigeons on the
ground not more than twenty-five yards
away. l let go both barrels at the same
time, and how many do you suppose I
killed?"
'Did you say you had shot-gun?"
inquired Tim.
"Yes, sir, double-barreled and good
ONE
ooh, don't know" said Tim, thought
fully; "say 200"
"No, SIR" said Henderson, with an
air of satisfied expectancy, "no, sir, not
single one !"-DetrOit Free Press.
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The Bad and Worthless

are never initiated or cOunterJtited. This 10
especially true Of family medicine. ard it Is
post i've proof that the remedy isnitafed is Of
the highest value. AS soon as 10 had been
tested and proved by the whole world that
Hop Bitters was the purest, hest and most val
nable family medicine On earth, many imita-
tions sprung NJ and began to steal the notices
(which the press anil people of the country
had expressed tse nlerits Of II. b., and in eve
ryway trying 20 induce suffering invalids to
use their stuff instead. expecting to make
money on the credit and good name Of II. B.
Many others started nostrums put up in SINH.
lar style to II. b., with variously devised
namps. p WHICH the word Hop" or allows
were used in way to iiduce people to believe
they were the same as Hop Bittcrs. MI such
pr tended remedies or cures, no mattey what
their style or name is, and especially those
with the word "Pop" or Hops" in their avn.
or in any way connected with them or their
name, are imitation or counterfei.s Beware
II them. Touch none of them. Use othinp
but genuine Hop Bitters, with q bunch or
cinsterAof green Hops on the white label
Trust nothing else. Druggists ar.d dealers
are warned against dealing In limitations or
counterieiters. j23,
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Frank Lsslie'a Sunday Magazine.

For delightful, edifying and in.
structive reading this magazine Is not
excelled by any ofits contemporaries,
and the June number, in these res
poets, we think, could scarcely be
surpassed. The following a lmirable
articles are profqsoly illustrated /:
What is the Baptist church," by
Rev. Dr.. Chambliss, being a contin-
uation of "Religious Denominations
in the United States;' "Among the
Natives of the North" (No. LID by
Lieutenant Schwatka; "The Other
Side of Greek History, Ancient and
MODERN" by Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts
Sacred Musicians of the Nineteenth
Century," by Alfr'ton Hervey; "The
American Pilgrim in Palestine" by
L. De Leon, etc. There are articles
by the editor, DR.. Talmage, on the
late Alexander H. Stephens and Peter
Cooper, and a sermon in the Home
Pulpit "The Cloudlcss Morning."
There are also articles, essays, stories
and poems by Adelaide Stout, Ida
Hervey, Olive NJ. Birrell, Rev. W.
W. DeHart, S. I. B., Mrs. W. Faw-
cett, Rev. E.Payson Hammond, etc.,
ETC., and a most interesting miscel-
lany. Price 25 cents, or SO year,
postpaid. Address, Mrs. FRANK
LESLIE, Publisher, SO, IS and 81 Park
Place, New York.
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MaHenzie as a Thos. A. Kempis

. The Louisville Commercial brings
out the following relative to our late
brilliant Congressman, from the Sec
ond- District.
There are few people even among
the intimate friends of Congressman
james. A. Mckenzie who know that
accomplished and reformed gentle
man was at one time mild Thomas
A. Kempis, and wrote for the good
OF the soul and the perpetuity of sal
walton. The American Tract Society
once offered prize of 500 for the
best tract written for circulation
Mckenzie, who had plenty of leisure
at home, saw the offar in q newspa-
per, sat down and wrote beautiful
tract ON one of the cardinal virtues
and sent it on. He did it for fun,
but 1t won the 500. During the last
Congressional session the fact leaked
out, and there was herculean effort
made to get hold of copy of the
tract and circulate it in Congress.
Proctor Knott was at the bottom of
the conspiracy, and made bitter
and strong effort to hunt down the
proof of his colleagues early indis-
creticn. But he never succeeded.
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The Louisville Post publishes the
following alleged special dispatch
from Cincinnati:
Cincinnati's new paper, the News,
after floundering about in vague
and disastrous manner, has amalga-
mated with the Journal, which was
almost as pitiable a failure rs the
News. The impression among
newspaper men here is that those
who furnished the money for the
purchase of the Journal are either
lunatics, so far as newspaper man
agement is concerned, or the price,
$ll5, 900, is grossly exaggerated.
The Journal was steadily losing
money, and the office was not worth
$4,000. The boosted Associated
Press franchise, though of some val
he beyond the weekly cost OF the
dispatches that come through it, is
not worth tenth of the amount
the News paid for it. 1t is pretty
conclusive that paper that fails
without the dispatches will fail with
them. Only experienced newspaper
men know what folly it is for ambi-
tious sap-heads to undertake the es-
tablishment ola successful newspa-
per in the teeth of the competition
which is to be found everywhere /;
and It is no secret among those here
who. have paid any attention to the
News, that what it lacked was not
dispatches but brains.
The epithets in the above sound
very much like they originated in
the editorial room of the Post. How
ever that may be, the Post shows
very poor taste in publishing the
above about Governor Underwood.
who was formerly part owner of the
Post, whether the criticisms be mer-
tied or not, and as for a lack of brains
on the staff of the Cincinnati paper,
all who know Col. III. NJ. Doak, the
editor in chief, who was for years
the leading editor of Tennessee and
the South. and Emmett Logan man.
aging editor, one of the brightest
newspaper men who ever left Ken
lucky, will appreciate the spleen, in
the paragraph quoted, We are, not
the champion Of the Cincinnati
News, but we hail with pleasure its
success, which it certainly has had
the Posts dispatch to the contrary
Notwithstanding. Every true Demo-
crat is interested in the establish.
ment off good Democratic paper in
Cincinnati, the treacherous Enquirer
having proved, time and again, that
it cannot be relied upon in a presi.
dental campaign.-Owensboro Mes.
senger.
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EXCHANGE sc1NTILIAT1oNs.

Many man who has married for
good looks alone has discovered,
when too late, that thing of beauty
is jaw Notwithstanding
News.
There came very near being a cy-
clone at our house the other evening
when our wife ordered us to set a
hen, and we asked her if we must set
it loaded or solid.-Breckenridge
News.
A new firm will find silver better
than paper. The noise of five silver
dollars, counted thoroughly for half
an hour, will have more effect on a
few customers dropping in than a
hundred thousand dollars of paper
This and That.
And now they say Tom Benton
cursed like trooper, Daniel Webster
got drunk and Henry Clay snapped a
$4,000 lot for jack-ass. A stanza
of spring poetry from the pen of G.
Washington, Esq, may yet be I'M
earthed.-Glasgow Times.
A Lady in Louisville sued repor-
ter for publishing that she hailed him
and asked after the welfare of his
soul. And the Cincinnati Journal
asks: Does it injure a lady's charac-
ter to be supposed to take an interest
in a newspaper mans soul ?-Evans-
vile Courier.
The Greensboro Messenger clamors
for uniform for the policemen of
its city. We respectfully suggest the
uniform of the Cloverpert police force
as model-plug hats, spike-tail coats
kid gloves, gold-headed canes and
buttonhOle bouquets.-Breckenrid
News.
The Louisville Commercial of re-
cent date contained lengthy editorial
entitled, Educate Women to be Self
supporting" Judging from actual
facts, a large number of women have
not only been educated to be self
supporting but also to support their
husband and their young ones.-
State journal.
Nav came in as gentle and tiptoey
as new pa going into the room
when the baby is asleep, May is a
little lady anyway, and has all the
sweetness of the girl you love and the
fragrance of the summer mornings
wild grape bloom. This is the month
the boys will sidle up and choke
down, and the girls will bite their
finger nails and think the angels left
the cellar door open and paradise has
fallen through into their laps. BY
and by they will find out that they
didn't know paradise from the other
place-Bowling Green Gazette.
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"You will please excuse me for not
answering your letter. writes the
queen Of England to the editor of this
paper, shut the fact is / have been so
busy with my skinned knee that
haven't had time for any other duty.
! suppose you have heard of our dyna-
mite troubles. 1t is simply awful.
The other day, while we were sitting
in the dining-room, dog, with some
thing tied to his tail, came in. al
bert said l, will you please exam
Inc the stray pup, and see what's the
matter with him. Mar he replied,
while deathly pallor settled upon
his face, its can ofdynamite.' Just
then there came an awful explosion
The windows shook, and the dog
went over and over. 1t was can of
dynamited tomatoes, and I wish you
could see my clothes! Why, 1 have
been picking tomato seeds out of
my hair ever since. 1 am having a
great deal of trouble with my Irish
servant-girls, Every one of them
wants to blow me up. have been in
danger every since the death of my
prQteGtoE John Brown, All, but he
was noble fellow,with warm hand
and always bespoke the native onion |!
John was a. man, was John, By the
way, you had John Brown in your
country, once, and my little grand
children sing about his body moul-
dering in the tomb. must close now.
see dog, with another can Of to-
matoes, coming up the steps. Good
bye, and perhaps forever" -Arkan-
sas Traveller.
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Some time ago, very innocent
ysnng lady paid visit to a lady
friend, who few days before, had
presented her good man with son
She had, of course, to see baby. After
looking hard at the little stranger
some time, she remarked: "Dear me
Maggie, how sunhurnt it is.
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Don't be Alarmed

at Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Or any
disease of the kidneys, liver or urina
ny organs, as Hop Bitters will GER
tainly and lastingly cure You, and it
is the only thing that will.
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When the peeler fished him out of
the gutter the soaked gentleman OBJ
served: Don't know wezzer twas 20
good dinner or re bad sidewalk.
Bofc on 'em s'lushes, you see.
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A woman's tongue is her sword,
and she does not let it rust says the
proverb. a woman's tongue is her
sword, and she does not let it rest,
set it up the type-setter.
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Work Given Out.On receipt of your
address we will make an offer by
which you can earn $3 to 81 evenings
at your home. Men, Women, Boys
or Girls can do it. II. G. w ILKIN-
SON y CO., 1876 and 1877 FultonStreet
New York.
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A Girl Who Deserved a Medal.


Wednesday forenoon Louis Waters.
ayoung lad, eleven years of age, re-
siding with his parents on Sawdust
road, was rowing in the river in a
small canoe, and in some unaccount-
able manner the boat capsized.
Young Waters struggled manfully
for fully five minutes, but could not
reach the shore, and was oil the point
Of drowning, when Lille Pomeroy, a
young miss of fourteen years, took a
leaky boat, rowed out and rescued
the boy as he was going down for the
third time. Fully fifty men were
present at the time ard witnessed the
scene, but none of them had the
sand 10 do the deed that fourteen
year old girl performed. Miss Lille
should be presented with a medal.
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500 Reward.

Is offered for any cSas, Of catarrh
that can't beeured with, Halls Ca
arrh Cure. Take internally. Price
75cents.
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Rough on Rats.

Clears out rails, mice, reaches, Ties,
ants bcd-bugs, skunks, chipmunks
0pghers, lhr, druggist.
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TO CONSERVATIVES.

rhe advertiser having beet permanently
urr'lof that Urea i,llSeasr, Contamination. ~
simli'e rebe ". IL anxious IL make known TO
w Fellow Sufferers thu means " cure 10 all
who 'irsirc IL. he viii send copy Of the pre-
-eription nsdl, tfrc " uhargc.j with the Ill
which they viii hn,l a sure cure far CotroIIs'
,nLDs. CONSUMPTION, ,srnM,, BRoycHITIs.
NC. Parties Wishing the Prescription, will
! please address, Rev. V. N.wlLSON, l9i Penn
-. Williansburgh, MY.
feb.2S'S2-ly.
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~Dresses, cloaks, coats, stock
ings and all garments can be colored
successfully with the Diamond Dyes.
Fashionable colors. Only l0c.
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INVENTORS address EDISON BROS.
lN LN IL inN Attorneysat Law and
fercncrs AMI advice, sent rec. W q attend ex.
clusively to Patent business. Reasonable
Terms. Reissues. interfcrences. ard casearo
iecte,i In otherhandsa specially Caveats So
iviteu. send model orsketch and description
Wereictto ihc Commissioner Of Patents niiu
Dee hath 1871.
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wife viii weep, yonrmsucss lament,
and your lady wear mourning
Which will you Decentralization
Observer. .--
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"Buchupaiba. ;

Quick complete cure, all annoying
Kidney, Bladder and Urinary Dis
ease. 81. Druggists, d.
r home. Men, Women, Boys they !"
Is can do 1t. H. G. w ILKIN- age.
: CO., 1876 and l97 FultouStreet
FORK. 1ssi. a
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CLUB LIST.

We vii! furnish the following papers AMI
periodicals with the SOUTH kESruCKIAS at
thu auhininal ahsa RATA.
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