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Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-12-15
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BOOKS,
A Partial List of Books Suitable for
Holiday Gifts for Sale by

A Partial List OF Books Suitable for
Holiday Gifts for Sale by
w. E. r @ S S.
Picturesque American Scenery.
Mountain, Lake and River.
Will Cartoons Poems.
Irish Melodies and Sacred Songs. Ill.
Catholic Heroes and HerOines of
America. Ill.
Pleasures of Hope.
Lalla Rookie. al.
Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight.
Hannah Jane.-PetrOleum V. Nasty.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen,
illustrated by Gustave DOre.
A Library of Poetry aud Song.
Fireside Encyclopedia of poetry
Alice and Phoebe Cary's Poems. New
Edition.
LongfellOw's Poems. Ill. New Edition.
The Prince and the Pauper.-Mark
Twain.
A Thousand and One Gems of Poetry.
Comic POets.-W. ID. Adams.
Shakespeare's Complete Works. Ill.
ByrOn's Poems. Fine Edition.
Chambers Encyclopedia, 10 Vols.
Dickens Works, large type.
The SOmbre Rivals. R0e's new blk.
Our P0etical FavOrites. vols.
Augusta Evans Wilson's Works.
Mrs. Mary j. Holmes WOrkS.
Schonberg-Cotta Family, completed.
Widow BedOtt Papers.
Uncle Toms Cabin. Ill.
Ten Nights in Bar Room.
Room at the Ton or How tn Ranch
Success, Etc.
Paul and Virginia. iii.
The Stolen White Elephant-Mark
Twain,
Weighed and Wanting Georg Q
Mcdonald.
DR. LivingstOne's Life in Africa,
A Fall line of the Standard Poets,
also:
Familiar Quotations.
Gems from the Poets.
Lucille, Ect.
In plain. Red Line and Morocco
3iRding.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-02-03

BED-TLNE.


Indeed and indeed. am not sleepy;
wnut a story, ono story, oh pleasel
My eyelide just feel little creepy,
And my head woulda ike 70 he. on your
It's the sandman making your eyelds
say, as stroke the curly-head;
Ny darling Is very, very sleepy.
And here comes nuree to take her 10 bed
Just a minute, mamma, a little minutel
! haven't finished my dolly hood;
left the needle all sticking in it,
And she has TO have it'll said she should
al will finish the hood for dolly. sweetheart
She shall have it tonight, as her mother
But the dark has come, and the stars are
And nurse is waiting; so go to bed
"But left my dolly under the viii W.
Without her hat or her little shawl
With only an apple for her pillow,
And nothing over her nothing at air
" 1 will bring her in. and tomorrow morning
You shall find her under her patchwork
All safe and sound, with her hood beside her;
So kiss me, baby, aud 60 20 bed.
"Iwas cross this morning, and whipped my
Because they wouldn't play horses right;
And rubbed coal on my little new nit
tens:
Forgive me. mamma; I'm sorry tonight
A chnging hug. and a dozen kisses
From lips that are soft, and warm, and red.
" forgive you, darling; / know you re sorry;
Love mamma always - and 20 to bed
" All, mamma darling, it's very lonely,
/ think | would like 70 wait for you;
Tho bed is so big with just me only.
Why are yJu waiting? You might come,
too"
You will be asleep in minute, precious,
After you lay down your little heal;
And when you awake, you will find me by
you.
One kiss and then you must go to bedl"
-WUgGrCt FWdegr0t, IN VIDE AlCdke.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-02-03
How the Oil Market is Influenced.

In many of the towns in the oil region
arc exchanges. The majority of MEM
bers do not coniine themselves to q
brokerage business. Many OF the pro-
ducers hold seats in the exchanges, and
Ghe operations OF the largest and shrewd-
est producers are not conducted so much
with the view of producing oil to be
sold for profit at the ruling price, as
with the object of influencing the mar
ket in a way to make their speculation
an oil and oil-producing territory
profitable. The market is influenced in
many ways-by the opening of wells in
new territory. by the condition of the
money market, by the weather, by other
causes of more or less importance. and
now and then by the irresistible stroke
of a corporation.
With one or two exceptions all the
known oil-producing tracts of Pennsyl-
wanna and New York are bound by belts
of unproductive wells which, in the ex-
pressve language of the region, are
called dry holes or busters. The oil
bearing rock, lying sometimes nearly
1900 feet below the surface of the
ground, has been laboriously tapped at
Intervals SO frequent that its outlines are
marked on maps of the region with
almost absolute accuracy. The area
and capacity OF these tracts being
known. nothing is expected of them
beyond a dim shing yield until the rock
refuses to give up oil in paying quanti-
ties. But producers are constantly
studying the region with the object OF
finding localities in which to drill new
wells st a distance from all others in
The hope of striking rock that will yield
largely. These isolated wells are called
wildcats. If such we'll proves TO be
a valuable one, it is considered that 9
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-02-03
Eye-Seryice.

Upon going into a downtown Office
last week, / saw two boys at work ad-
dressing envelopes-or rather one was
at work, while the other, with his pen in
his hand, was ooking out of the window.
Their employer was seated near by.
and wien he caught my eye he smiled.
Which of those TWO boys is the bet
ter workman, and the most valued, dc
you thinkP' he asked me, in low
voice
1.-The one at work. should suppose, "
rejoined.
mo, sir; that lad who is Stocking from
the window now, does so because he
thinks there is no harm in it-does it,
YOU see, under my eyes. On the other
hand, while my eyeis on them, the other
boyi the most industrious, but | find in
my absencehe does nothing. So you sec
he adds deceit to his fault Iwould no
trust him out OF my sight"
at seems to me that neither of then
is worth very much."
ITO be sure" came The immediate
answer, "a boy who attended to hi
duties at all times would be best; but ;
boy who renders eye-seryice merely
who can not be trusted 10 work withou
wat hing, is not to be tolerated"
The man who had seen this had seer
much of the world; he knew whereo
he spoke, and perhaps some of on
young readers will profit by his words
Gracious Words.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-02-03

now area Of oil-bsaTing rock has been
found. and the opening of the well will
will have depressing effect on the oil
market in proportion to the strength OF
the flow. II the well has shown any
indicat on of. favorable character, but
proves to be buster, the promise Of
Increased production in that quarter is
destroyed, and the market is strength
ened.
II is thus for the interest Of The owner
of the well to keep secret the result Of
the drilling until he has made his trans
actions in the market in anticipation of
the eject likely to be produced when
the facts about it are made public. If
the well is gusher. it is for his interest
TO keep it mystery till he has secured
leases of the lands lying around it, for
these suddenly rise to enormous prices
on the opening of the well, in view of
the promise of new tract awaiting de-
velopment All the prominent opera.
tors have men in their employ whose
business is to find out the truth about
these mysteries. The field men so en-
ployed are called scouts or og-huggers,
and between them and the owner OF
wildcat wells the shrewdest strife of
the oil regions is carried on.
The state of the money marketallects
the price of oil in the same way that it
influences prices in the New Y ork Stock
Exchange. The interest charged for
carrying oil bought on margin is called
the carrying rate. The weather affects
the market, because in times OF drought
water cannot be obtained for feeding the
boilers used in drilling and pumping,
and the production of oil falls of. A
powerful corporation can influence the
market by its own Unerring methods
and when such body deems it worth
while to let its heavy hand fall on the
specializing community. those who
wholly escape harm are fortunate. -
Bradford (Pa.) Cor NJ Y. San.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-02-03

opposite pavement, and she went on her
way with a 4haakful heart, aud visions
If Sir Walter Ra.eigh fitting through
her brain.
Nv paper has been occupied s far
with suggestions as 10 how you sh ud
behaveto other boys sisters, but now,
how shall YOU behave When OF meet
their maiden eunts. Sheir mothers and
their grandTnothers? j asked my par
ticu'ar Sir Phi ip Sidney question
once, which | think throws me light
on this point. | will explain that Sir
Philip is a clerk in awholesale hardware
st re where they have very long hours
and very hard Dirk Said /: ''Phil. do
you Arrays give up your seat to lady
if she is standingp'
"Well, - he answered. "some nights
when l am fearfully tired I don't give
UP my seat to young lady, but / cant
bear to see an old woman, no matter
whether she is a lady or not, stand
while l sit"
Those whose behavior is regulated by
such a spirit will always be truly
courteous TO their elders. lt is a shame
to see half-a-dozen young fellows spring
eagerly up TO give a seat to a beautiful
l GIRL Wutu lut1 viii uOL SUI LOT Il WOIn,
faded woman, with perhaps a bundle of
cheap sewing in her arms, and who is
not in any case one-tenth part as able to
stand as the bright, healthy young lady.
They agitated the question a while ago
! in dear Old Boston, whether, if every
seat in the street-car was taken, and q
young man should see his mother S
coos enier he was in ourtesy bound
remembering that she was woman as
/ wei as a cookie rise and give her his
seat for one do not see WHY he
should not
After all, the truest guide to court
eous behavior is the promptings of a
kindly and thoughtful spirit, and the
best rule for the government of man
ners is the Golden one. And if ouI
boys will cultivate the one, and be
guided by the other, they cannot go fal
astray. Eleanor 4. Hunter, IN Chris.
tiaR al Work.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-02-03
Electrical Transmit sion Of Power.

A novel application of the electrical
transmission of power has lately been
made at the Trafalgar colleries, Forest
of Dean. The electrical arrangements
were carried out by the Pyramid Flee
trio company. under the supervision of
their managing director. Mr.. A. lie
Neye Foster. In this case an electric
motor is used to drive pump in the
underground workings. The pump is
empl yed for pumping the drainage wa
ter from some of the deep workings to
the bottom OF the shaft whence the
ordinary steam pumps raise it to the
surface. The total vertical lift of the
electric pump is one hundred and fif-
teen feet, while the length of pipes
through which the water is forced is
some five hundred yards. A dynamo
machine is placed on the surface for
generating the current for working the
motor, and is connected to it by wires
led down the shaft and along the work
ings, a distance of some five hundred
yards. Messrs. Brain, the proprietors
of the colleries, express themselves per-
fectly satisfied with the result of the UNI
dertaking, and propose still further to
extend the utili alton of electricity as q
motive power. Journal Of The Society q
ArtS. London.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-02-03
The Wear and Tear Of American Life.

Among those who, in older commune
ties, have by laborious lives gained dis
notion, some may be heard privately
to confess that 1.-THE game is not worth
the candle" and, when they hear Of
others who wish to tread i'm their steps,
shake their heads and say: "If they
only knewn' Without accepting in full
so pessimistic an estimate of success, we
must still say that very generally the
cost of the candle deducts largely from
the gain o the game That which in
these exceptional cases holds among
ourselves holds more generally in Amer
lea. An intensified life, which may be
summed up as a great labor, great
profit, great expenditure, has for its
concomitapt wear and tear which con-
siderably diminshes in one direction the
good gained in another. Added to-
gethe~, the daily strain through
many hours and the anXieties occupy
ing many other hours-the occupation
of consciousness by feelings that are
either Indifferent or painful, leaving
relatively little time for occupation OF
it by pleasurable feelings-tends to
lower its level more than its level is
raised by the qualifications of achieve
ment and the accompanying dement's.
So that it may, and in many cases does,
result that diminished happiness goes
along with increased prosperity. I'm
questionably, as long as order is fairly
maintained, that absence of political
and social restraints which gives free
scope to the struggles Tor profit and
honor conduces greatly to material add
vance of the society-develops the in
dustlial arts, extends and improves the
business organizations, augments the
wealth; but that it raises the value Of
! individual life, as measured by the
average state of its feeling, by no
means follows. That it will do SO
eventually is certain; but, that it does
so now seems, to say the least, very
doubtful. Herbert Spencer. IN Popular
Science Monthly.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-02-03
Starting Plants in the House.

In the absence of a propagating house
much may be done in the way of start
ing early plants in ones dwelling. The
principal impeachment experienced is the
difficulty of obtaining in the spring the
proper kind of soil or compost to put in
the boxes. Professional gardeners pre-
pare the soil with great care the pre-
vious year. But, when there is nothing
ready, excellent results may be obtained
by placing at the beginning of winter
in the cellar q load or two of any good
light sandy loan. In the spring, before
using this, run it through a sieve. 1t is
good plan to mix a tablespoonful of
superphosphate to each half-bushel of
soil; then get some peet, moss or sphag-
mum, such as nurserymen use for pack
ing, dry it thoroughly and sift it fine,
and to each peck OF soil add two or
three quarts of this dry sifted moss, mix
carefully, and there viii be as good
material for starting fine seeds as may
be desired.
Leaf mold may be substituted for
moss The best is obtained from beach,
maple and oak woods and ought to be
gathered the previous summer and kept
until wanted. Before using it should
be mixed with equal parts OF sand and
sifted. For merely starting plants rich
soil is not essential. Seed will germi-
nate in moss and sand as we'll as in the
richest mold. After the plants are
started and begin to grow, little plant
food is necessary. Equal parts of sods,
sand and well-rotted manure made into
compost and worked over and sifted
until it is fine, is a favorite material for
| potted plants. Dried muck from the
swamps is useful material for the gar
dener. 1t will make heavy earth light
and dry so moist. 1t will make cold
! soil warm. 1t is an absorbent of water
and grasses, and is in itself a manure.
Muck should be exposed in heap dur
| ing summer, later turned to facilitate
drying, and when dry stored where il
will keep dry until required for use.
Boxes two and half feet long, twelve
inches wide and three inches deep, made
of half-inch stuff will be found con
venienr size for starting plants, though
these may be varied in size to suit the
windows in which they are to be placed
They may be held in place by a screw
at each end about an inch from
the top Of the outmost corners, wounC
roun1 by piece of wire OF right length
the other end OF which is twisted rount
screw fastened to the casemen
of the window. In boxes such as hay,
been described there is no reason VIII
plants should not be successfully start
ed. 30
Whether plants are or are not starte'
in the house, hot-bed will be fOun
useful. Cold frames are also grea
convenience for hardening off plants
A well-sheltered spot in the gardeI
with a sunny exposure is not, however
bad substitute for cold frame. IN
Y World Lh
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-02-03

The crop of canary-bird seed was a
failure last season in the. portions of the
old world where it was formerly grown.
Canary grass win grow in many parts
of the United States, and there is doubt
lessly profit in raising it for seed-Chi-
caqO Times.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-02-03

There is an enrolment of 1876, 574
in the Minnesota schools, the State hav-
ing a school population OF Sl5, 948.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-05-18
STRAW LUMBER,

An exchange says: There can be-
no question that stra@ lumber is ad-
m'rahIy adapted to many kinds ol
finishing work, barrels, table and
counter tops, fine doors and orna-
mental work; and we are assured
that 1t can be produced and sold in
competitor with wide walnut at
about onehalf the price of the latter.
The standard manufacture is IN
widths of thirty-two inches, length
of twelve feet and a thickness cor :
responding to that of surfaced boards.
These dimensions may be varied to
suit such orders as may be given,
and embrace any width, length or
thickness. Unlike lumber, however,
narrower widths are the most costly.
The straw lumber may be ripped
with the hand saw or the buzz saw
may be run through the sticker for
the manufacture of holdings, and
takes nail or screw about as well
as oak. 1t may be finished with
varnish or with paint, ard is suscep-
tible of high polish. 1t is prac-
tically water and fire proof, being
manufactured under 500 degrees OF
heat, and we are assured has been
boiled for some hours without any
apparent change of structure. Its
tensile strength is greater than that
of walnut or oak; ard its weight
about. one-ffth greater than the for
mer when dry. 1t is made from any
kind of straw, Including hemp and
flax fibre-in fact, from any material
that will make pulp-and a ton Of
straw will produce 1000 feet OF
boards. The pulp is rolled into thin
sheets, number of which, CORES
ponding with the thickness of the
lumber desired, are placed together
with a peculiar cement which is
claimed to be waterproof, and are
then rolled under pressure suficien,
to amalgamate them into solid
mass, which may be worked with
plane If desired.
When it is remembered that it
takes 100 years to grow tree to
maturity, suitins it to commercial
purposes-and tree producing 81
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-05-18

APPLES WITH CREAM.-Pare and core ap-
pies of medium size, make n syrup of sugar,
using enough water to dissolve it, add a
wineglass of brandy aud the pearing Of q
lemon. Boil the apples in this syrup until
soft, take them out. boil the syrup ten or
fifteen minutes, removing all the scum,
streip, then pour it over the apples: To
be eaten cold with cream.
FRENCH TOAST. the toast of slices
of stale bread. Bakers bread is best for
this purpose. Brown carefully without
burning; beat two eggs very light; add to
one pint Of sweet milk, blend tablespoon
full of milk and desertspoonful of -four
together; add to the milk and eggs; have a
sauce pan ready with SONS well-heated but
ter; dip the bread in the egg and milk and
fry light brown on both sides. Send to
table hot; sift powdered sugar over each
slice, or cream sauce favored with wine
may be used.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-05-18

inch lumber will require fully twice
that time-to grow while 10000 fee;
per acre is a large yield under the
most favorable circumstances, it will
at once be realized that where 5000
feet can be taken from an acre of
ground for an indefinite number of
years, the process which enables
such result to be accomplished, and
which will yield a really valuable
lumber, is one of vast Importance
We look for valuable results in the
future IN the manufacture Of lumber
from what is practically waste ma
terial, bat which will be produced in
endless Quantities so long as the
United States maintains it's char.
acter as grain producing country.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-05-18
SIMPLE CURE FOR DYSPEPSIA

A gentleman who is in business
in this city, has cured himself of a
chronic and ugly form of dyspepsia
in very simple way. He was given
up to die, but he finally abandoned
alike the doctors and the drugs, and
resorted TO method of treatmen,
which most doctors and most persons
would laugh at as an cold woman's
remedy" 1twas simply the swal.
lowing OF a teacupful of hot water
before breakfast every morning. He
took the water from the cooks tea
kettle, and so hot that he could only
take it by the spoonful. For about
three weeks this morning dose was
repeated the dyspepsia all the while
decreasing. At the end of that time
he could eat, he says, any breakfast
or dinner that any well person could
eat-had gained in weight, and has
ever since been hearty and well. His
weight now is thirty or forty pounds
greater than during the dyspepsia
suffering, and for several years he has
had no trouble with his stomach
unless it was some temporary incon-
venience due to a late supper or din
ing out, and in such case a single
trial of his anti-breakfast remedy
was sure TO set things all right. He
obtained this idea from a German
doctor, and in turn recommended il,
to others, and in every case, accord
ing TO this gentleman's account. a
cure was efected.-Hartford Cour-
ant.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-05-18
ByRANGO's CdIEF NEED.

Durango (Coz) Record: we wan,
girls! Girls who can get themselves
mp in good shape to 60 to a dance.
The boys are getting tired Of .receiv-
ing invitations with a request that
they "bring ladies'" They are like
oranges and apples-very scarce.
We want girls who will go TO
chhich and Bible class on Sundays,
and that kind who can draw con
gregation Of the other sex, and will
take a buggy-ride after the lesson is
over. This will help the livery busi-
ness, and will also hasten the sale of
residence lots, for buggies are the
vehicles in which homes are first
thought Of by many people. We
want girls who can wait on the table.
and who can smi e us into an anne
tite when stomach bi,tefs are i'm po-
tent, aud who will make the boarders
ItSu'di " sucu UlediS. we want
girls for sweelhearts, so that when
we get an arm shot off, or are kicked
by mule, or are thrown BY a buck
ing horse, and are laid away for re-
pairs, we may hear a gentle voice
aud See the glitter of a crystal tear,
spoken and dropped in unconscious
sympathy for our pain.
We want fat and funny girls to
make us smile all over, and lean and
fragile ones TO hang upon arms, ard
petite blondes to show themselves
on sunny days, and stately brunettes,
so beautiful in the twilight. We
have mineral enough, and oxide OF
iron. The only lack of our resources
is those patent ciyil:zers of their
pioneer brothers.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-05-18
PLANTING BY SIGNS.

Cabbage seed should be sowr
when the 81 gn is in the head. Plant
potatoes in a down sign towari the
feet. Plant beet and radish seed
when the sign is in the leg, and
onions when the sign is in the heart.
Plant beans in the light of the moon,
and peas when the moon ia full
Plant melon and cucumber seed when
the sign is in the arms, but not iii the
blossom.
| Plant corn and SOW wheat in the
light of the moon. Sow clover seed
in down sign.
Make soap in the light of the
March moon. Kill hogs on the in
crease OF the moon; if on the decrease
the meat cooks away. Many say
that light feed before butchering
will prevent this. There is always
frost when the moon changes with
the sign in the head.
This is called superstition, but
that charge will not refute the ar
guments of astrologers. They ask
if the moon has an influence on inor-
garlic bodies, why not on organic :?
If on tie tides. Why not on vege-
table growth =?
The fact that most vegetables that
grow down should be planted in a
down sign, and those that grow up
in an up sign, looks IA if the time
for planting were made to cores
pond with the signs. IF your cor
respondent will carefully experiment
he will better reach a satisfactory
conclusion.
A good rule is, if ready and sea
son favorable, plaut and not wal,
for the proper sign. Some of OUR
very best farmers are strict obser-
vels of signs, and some are not. If
you cannot plant them in the moon
plant them in good rich ground and
they will do well any way.