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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

Feats Performed by stenographcrs I'm Re
ports of Great Meetings.

feats Performed by stenographcrs I'm Re-
ports Of Great Meetings.
Some years ago, when was on one
OF the Cincinnati papers," said Mr..
John Ritchie, the stenographer, Il per-
formed what / still regard as my most
notable stenographic feat"
What was that?"
Il was assigned one night TO make q
verbatim report of lecture by the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. The train
In which the distinguished pulpit orator
was to arrive Glanced to be late that
night. The lecture, which was to have
begun at o'clock, did not start until
about 10:45. i saw at once that 1
would have u move hastily to get the
report ready before the paper went to
press, AS it would be late before the
speaker shad finished. How did 1
manage it? Well, 1 prepared great
number of small, narrow strips of paper
and lot Of larger sheets, about the
size of ordinary copy paper. 1t was
l2:45 when Beecher spoke his last SEN
tence. Then l got six men around me
to transcIibe while dictated from my
shorthand notes. / gave ten or fifteen
words TO each man ut time, which they
wrote out on narrow strips, and another
man with paste-pot and brush
arranged the copy in order on the larger
sheets. At :45 o'clock the lecture was
in the hands of the compositors, and it
appeared complete i'll the paper that
morning. Yes, that was about the big
gest thing / have done.
do You remember the investigation
OF Judge Blodgett by Congressional
committee? One day during the pro-
ceedings my stenographic notes made
256 pages of solid type-writing, or
about nine columns of reading matter
in one OF the blanket sheets. A page
of type-wii ting will average 300 words,
solid, or about $50 words of testimony
where the paragraphs are numerous.
On that day l was through by 9p. IN. L
had one assistant part of the time, and
never more than two. But I.have often
taken notes alone and single-handed
sufficient to make 200 pages of type
writing, and would always be through
early in the evening. Since the type
writer has been introduced we can
make five copies about as easy as one
by using carbon paper. Day after day
/ have produced 400 pages of long-hand
copy, transcribed from my notes. One
page of long-hand will equal about
half-page of type-writing. We have
type-wIiting operators who will turn
out ten pages an hour.
Since 1868 have always managed
corps of reporters in the Presidential
convention. 1 regard one of these
national conventions as the most diff
cult kind of reporting that is done
worse even than Congressional report
ing. 1t is never-ending talk from the
moment the convention opens until it
adjourns, and at times the excitement
and confusion is stupendous. In the
Tilden convention at st. Louis five of
us kept along with the proceedings
each day, and made five copies with the
stylus. We also did the Garfield and
Hancock conventions. We recorded
every word, and they were all written
up and transcribed within five or ten
minutes after the adjournment each
day. The stenographer of great poll
tical convention needs a large and
varied fund of knowledge pertaining to
public aflairs.-ChicGgo NelCs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

The recipe is simple. You have only to take
violent cold and neglect it. Abernethy,
the great English surgeon, asked lady who
told him she only had q cough; what would
you have? The plaguef Beware of "only
coughs" The worst cases can, however, be
cured by DR.. VIM. Halls Balsam for the
Lungs. In whooping cough and Group it inn
mediately allays irritation and is sure to pre-
vent fatal termination Of the disease. Sold
by druggists
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

MENsMAN's PEPTQNIZED BEEF Tonic, the
only preparation OF beef containing its en-
tire nutritious properties. Ii conta ms blood
making, force generating, and DEMONSTRATING
properties; invaluable for indigestion, dys-
pcpsia, nervous prostration, and al forms of
general debility; ALSO in all enfcebled condi-
tons whether the result OF exhaustion, nerv-
GUS prostration, over.work, or acute disease,
particularly If resulting from pulmonary
complaints. Caswell, Hazard Co., proprlc'
tors. New York. Sold by druggists.
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HOAiE ITEMS.
--All your own fault
II You remain sick when You can
Get Hop Bl:tcrs that neyer-Fait.


II You remain sick when You can
Get Hep Bl:ters that never-FaR.
The weakest woman, smallest child,
and sickest invalid can use hop bitters with
safety and great good.
Old men tot.ering around from Rheu-
matism, kidney trouble or any weakness
will be almost new by using hop bitters.
My wife and daughter were made
healthy by the use of hop bitters, and 1
recommend them to my ople.-Ueth0d-
asst CIergymaR.
Ask any good doctor if hop
Bitters are not the best family medicine
On earth.
--NIalarial fever, Ague and Bihousness,
will leave every neighborhood as soon as
hop bitters arrive.
My mother drove the paralysis and
neuralgia all out of her system with hop
bitters. Ed. OsiCe0o Sun.
Keep the kidneys healthy with hop
bitters and You need not fear sickness.
Ice water is rendered harmless and
more refreshing and reviving with hop Bit
tiers in each draught.
The vigor Of youth for the aged and in
firm in hop bitters!
At the change Of life nothing equals
Hop. Bittcrs to allay all troubles incident
Thereto.
The best periodical for ladies To take
monthly and from which they will receive
the greatest benefit is hop bitters."
Mothers with sicllly, fretful, nursing
children, will cure the children and benefit
themselves by taking hop bitters daily
Thousands die annually from some form
Of kidney disease that might have been pre-
vented by q timely use of hop bitters.
Indigestion, weak stomach, Irregular
ties Of the bowels cannot exist when hop
bitters are used.
Atimely use of hop
Bitters will Keep whole family
In robust health year at little cost.
To produce real genuine sleep and
child-like repose all night, take little hop
bitters on retiring
That Indigestion or stomach gas at
night, preventing rest and sleep, will dis
appear by using hop bitters.
-Paralytic, nervous, tremulous old Ia
dies are made perfectly quiet and spi8htly
by using hop bitters.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14
Merited Charity.

"You might give me penny" said
a well-educated mendicant TO a gentle
man on the street.
Il feel very sorry for you, my son,
replied the gentleman.
do your
ooh, yes"
Wont you put your hand in your
pocket and tell me how sorry you
feel" replied the boy.-CdrI PretzePS
Weekly.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

AFTER much cogitation, and desire
to do injustice to none, we have come
at last to- the conclusion that the most
disinterested, self-sacriicing mortal on
the foot-stool is the boy learning to
emoka
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one gave in. The Southerner refused
to accept the challenge and the matter
dropped. Had he accepted it. Gid
dings, who was tall, muscular fellow,
would have cut him TO pieces. Cleve-
land Leader.
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There is but one best color for butter, and
that that is Wells Richardson e. Co.'S i'm
proved Butter Color, no candid investigator
doubts. 1t s the best butter color in the
world; is free from sediment or impurity;
always ready for instant use, and 1t imparts
20 butter that rich dandelion yellow, without
a tinge of red, which is the acme OF deslra-
bility in any butter color.
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.p,,un,, .t tho Caul, uouso.

The business man or tourist will find first
class accommodations at the low price OF SO
and s.. per day at the Gault House, Chica-
go, corner Clinton and Madison streets. This
far-famed hotel is located in the center Of tho
city, only one block from the Union Depot.
Elevator; all appointments first-class.
III. w. HOYT. PrOnrietor.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

A PROMINENT physician asserts that it
is dangerous to loan your lighted cigar
to stranger, contending that disease
can and very often is conveyed from one
TO another by this custom.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

1t will be time enough TO doubt the reliability
of KidneyWort. Doctors all agree that IL is
a most valuable medicine in all disorders Of
the Liver, Kidneys, and Bowels, and frequent
ly prescribe It. DR.. Il. G.. Ballou, Of Monkton,
says: ''rhe past year | have used it more
than ever, and with the best results it is
the most successful remedy / have ever
used" Such recommendation speaks for
tself. Sold by all druggists. See adv't.
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A Ciergyman's Tongue.

Rev. II. Priest says tongues cannot express
the good that Warmers White Wine of Tar
Syrup has done for me and my family.
have labOred in the cause fifteen years, and
have never found anything that will relieve
Hoarseness, aud irritation of the Throat and
Lungs, like White Wine of Tar Syrup.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

Mr.. /. CARPENTER, 463 Fourth avenue,
New York, after running gauntlet of eight
years rheumatism, used sc. jacobs Oil, the
great pain reliever, by which he was entirely
cured and has had no return OF his CON-
plant.
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NV Wife and Children.

Rev. l.. A. Dunlap of Mt. Vernon, says:
NV children were afflicted with a cough re-
sulting from Measles, my wife with cough
that had prevented her from sleeping moro or
less for years, and your White Wine OF Tar
Syrup has cured them all.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

eY-wELLDREssED people don't wear dingy
or faded things when the l0c and guaranteed
Diamond Dye will make good MS new. They
are perfect. Get at druggists-be economical.
Wells, Richardson Co., burlington, VI.
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"A GoD-sEND is Elys Cream Balm" writes
Mrs. NJ. A. Jackson, OF Portsmouth, N. H.,
on May 90, 1882. II had Catarrh for three
years had tr cd nearly all remedies, but to
no purpose. Two or three times a week my
nose would bleed quite freely and thought
the sores i'm il would never heal. Your Balm
has cured me-" This preparation is not a
liquid or snuff, and is easily applied. price
80 cents. See ADVERTISEMENT
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ISAAC JEWEL. Covington, Ky, says: "Sdmdri-
tan NeIrine cured me o. Asthma anG Scrofula."
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woMAN's chief beauty is her skin. Samaritan
NOpinc ensures that charm 10 all its patrons.
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GIVE us this day our daily bread, in this
our time of knead," is the bakers prayer.
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Uo,y tn shorten Life.

THE man who does not swear resembles
certain clothing-he is warranted not TO rip.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

Az eminent physician first prescribed Piso's
Cure for Consumption.
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"MAN wants but little hear below" whom he
y In a boiler shop.
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THE moro you checquc spcndthrift the
faster he goes.
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40! i am with YOU" is the text for q mis-
sionary among the Indians 10 use.
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When Doctors Disagree

TILES with scriptural texts upon them may
be regarded as textile fabrics.
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CarbO-liues.

The clouds may darken DER the sun,
Yet rivers 10 the ocean run.
Tie bald and gray may live serene
BY using the famous Carboline.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

"Rough on Rats" clears out Rats, Mice. $50.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-14

Mother Swans Worm Syrup, tastelcss. $50.
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The Best for Butter.

THE speaker who "took the floor" mad b
return IT.
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"Rougb on Coughs" Troches, loo; Liquid, soc.
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Trough on Toothache,' instant relief. 15c.
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Nor a costly medicine-25 doses Piso's Cure
for Consumption for 20 cents.
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WELLS May. Apple Giver) Pills, lOc.
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"Buchu- paiba," Great Kidney and Urinary Cure. 81
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pjc UAvTo sell our rubber hand stamps. Terms
olu FRttree. Taylor Bros. a Co. Cleveland Ohio
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Tho "Rough on" Tooth Powder, elegant. l
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-08-28

Wives who have drinking hus-
bands should cut this out and paste
it on the looking glass. A western
journal has the following very prac-
tical remarks for those who cannot
get along without frequent whiskies.
Liquor dealers pay on an average
of 50 per gallon for whisky. One
gallon contains on average about
sixty-tive drinks, and, at ten cents
drink, the poor man pays about
$3.50 per gallon for his whisky. In
other words, he pays 50 for the
whisky and $3.50 to the man for
handing it over the bar. Make
your wife your bar-keeper. Lend
her So to buy a gallon of whisky
for beginning, and every time you
want drink go and pay ten cents
for it. By the time you have drank
a gallon she will have $3.50, or
enough to refund the So borrowed
from you to pay for another gallon
of whisky and a balance $3.50.
She is able to conduct future oper-
ations on her own capital, and
when you become an inebriate, un-
able to support yourself, shun-
ned and desplsed by all respectable
persons, your wife will have money
enough to keep you until you get
ready to fill drunkard's grave.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-08-28
A Fatal Mistake

A rigorous divorce law will hin.
per women from the fatal mistake
of marrying men to reform them
If a young man of twenty years OF
age, or thirty years of age, have the
habit of strong drink fixed on him,
he is as certainly bound for a
drunkard' s grave as that the train
started out from Grand Central De
pot at eight o'clock tomorrow
morning is bound for Albany. The
train may not reach Albany, for it
may be thrown from the track. The
young man may not reach the
drunkard's grave, for something
may throw him off the iron track of
evil; but the probability Is that
the train that starts tomorrow
morning at eight o'clock for Alba
ny will get there, and the probabil-
ity is that the young man who has
the habit of strong drink fixed on
him before twenty five or thirty
years of age will arrive at a drunk
ards grave. She knows he drinks,
although he tries to hide it by chew.
ing cloves. Everybody knows he
drinks. Parents warn, neighbors
and friends warn. She will marry
him any way. If she is unsuc-
cessful in the experiment, why,
then, the divorce law will enamel.
pate her, because habitual runken-
ness is a cause for divorce in In
diana, Kentucky, Florida, Connect
cut, and nearly all the states. So
the poor thing goes to the altar of
sacrifice. If you Will show me the
poverty-struck streets in any city
will show you the homes of the wo-
men who married men to reform
them. In one case out of ten thou
sand it may be a successful expert
ment. l never saw the successful
experiment. But have a rigorous
divorce law and that woman will
say: "If am affianced to that
man it is for life, aud if now in the
ardor of his young love, and 1 am
the prize to be won, he will not
give up his cups, when he has won
the prize surely he will not give up
his cups" And so that woman
will say to the man, mo, sir, you
are already married to the club, and
you are married to that evil habit,
and so you are married twice, and
you are q bigamist. Gow-Dr.
Talmage.
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Build Up Your Home Paper.

If you are a farmer, subscribe fol
your home paper. If you are q
merchant, advertise 10 it. The To-
cal paper is the mouth piece OF
your town. II you wish your place
to become populated, and Its fa-
cilities, whate .er they may be, de-
veloped, you own paper must rep
resent you, and to do so properly
it must haue the benefit of your CO.
operation and influence. But mere
ly subscribing for a paper and
reading it is not enough. Infiu-
ence sometimes goes farther than
money. You should see that your
neighbar does his duty in helping
and encouraging those who help
and benefit him.
Some one will stop right here and
say, 81 would be willing to take our
local paper if there was anything
in it, but 1t is poor affair and not
worth the subscription price"
Very well; what makes it so poor?
What makes the cow so lean and
hollow? There is nothing in her
poor, emaciated body, because no
body feeds her, and for the same
reason there is nothing in news
paper when no one takes any pains
to feed it.
Merchants should advertise in
their own local papers, and thev
should do it in lively, spirited
way. The mere announcement
standing from week to week that
Solomon Slowfoot sells calico and
sugar and pays the highest market
price for butter and eggs is not
enough. There is news even in
trade. Make your announcements
look like items of news, fresh, Wig
orous and full of interest. Printers
ink is always a good investment
when jndiciously used. You might
as well put your cream in churn
and set it in corner expecting it
to churn itself, as to expect that a
certain amount of space containing.
from week to week the same old
common place statement will bring
good fruits in the way of business.
No, engage your space and work it.
Your business, like cream, needs
stirring, and You should vie with
the editor in making the paper
sprightly, vigorous and interesting.
When we say, patronize your
home paper, we are merely point
ing out a way by which you can
further your own interests. If your
paper isn't good enough, you are
The one to make it West
ern Plowman.
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What a Bow Wont Do.

A boy won't smoke his fathers ci-
gsrs when the box is kept in bur
glar proof safe and none Of the
stumps are left lying around loose.
He won't pour a nest of red ants
down his little sisters back if the
latter wears high neck dress and
there is snow on the ground.
He won't eat pie, If the pantry
door is locked.
He won't tie tin can to a cats
tail if there is a dog handy.
He won't go in swimming if his
mother tells him not to, if skating
is good.
He won't play marbles for keeps
when be is busted, suck eggs when
the nest is empty, nor play hooky
when school is out. In fact, a boy
that is a boy won't do anything he
ought not to do, unless he gets a
good chance and "nobody's look
IN Gin. Commercial Gazette.
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a heavy northwest gale drove them
! by Cape Sabine, within a mile oi
Brevoort Island, but they could moi
land. September % there arose
the most terrific gale they had YET
seen on the Arctic Ocean. Theii
ice foe was driven hither and thith-
er by the tempest and the waves
washed over them again and again
and again, the spray freezing TO
them and causing intense suffering.
Night came on, one of inky black
ness. The wind threw the heavy
foes together and crash after crash
OF the ice breaking from their own
foe warned the men that death was
near TO them. No man knew. the
minute the foe might break up and
the water engulf them. The first
faint light of the dawn showed them
that little remained of the foe on
which they were. The sea washed
another close to them. Closer il
came, and at last, at the word, the
men succeeded in getting upon it.
THE STORM SLOWLY sUBsIDED
and they gained land on Esquimau
Point, near Baird's inlet, September
30. Here winter quarters were
built aud scouts were sent to Cape
Isabella and Cape Sabine. In few
days they returned. Their report
sent thrill of horror to every heart.
At Cape Iabella and Cape Sabine
were found only 1900 rations, and
from Garlington's records they
learned the fate of the Proteus. Ev-
cry one knew that death must come
to nearly all of the party long before
"a ship OF rescue could force its way
into Melville bay. Efforts were
made to sustain their spirits now
by lectures and light reading. Oc-
tober 10 the party moved to Cape
Sabine. January Is, Cross died of
scurvy. In April the rations issued
daily had dwindled to four ounces
of meat and six ounces of bread.
Man after man died and all hope
had fed, when on that day the blast
of the whistle reused the survivors
from the
LETHARGY oE APPROACHING DEATH.
Lieut.. Greely, when asked as to
his ideas upon the probable results
of Arctic explorations, said:
81 do not think the North Pole
can be reached, unless every cir
camstance hitherto found to be un-
favorable should prove favorable to
the party attempting to reach the
Pole. If it is to be done at all, it
will be done by way of Franz John
Land. 1t could never be reached
by the Jeanette route. That there
is an open polar sea, 1 am well nigh
certain. This is proved by the ice
drifting out of Mussel Bay in mid
winter and the northern drift of the
polar pack experienced by Pavy and
Lockwood in 81 degrees and s3 min
utes. Men can stand two winters
very well at Lady Franklin Bay, but
their physical strength rapidly de-
teriorates. If we had had every
supply and necessary food we could
perhaps have lived eight or ten
years at Lady Franklin Bay
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popping the Question.

Winnipeg Siftings: Popping the
question is strictly masculine in
stitution, though it involves the
presence of a woman. If a man
popped all alone and no woman to
catch on to his pop he'e be blam-
ed fool for his trouble.
Men have been known to pop at
all times and in a variety of places,
but these who have been there say
that a good solid pop over a garden
gate lays over any other sort of a
pop and is the poppiest kind of a
pop.
All women like to hear man pop
his poppiest and have been known
to get mad if the pop was a weak,
sickly kind Of a pop without style,
self-respect or force of character.
Men get off the best kind of q pop
when they have both the girls
hands in their own or have one OF
their arms around her waist. This
action gives tone and force to the
pop-helps to hold the fellow UP
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-08-28

No honest and industrious labor
ing man can fail to be satisfied with
what the democratic nominee has
to say of labor, of the difficulties
which beset it, of the relief to which
it is entitled. Honor lies in honest
toll, = he says, and contented LABOR
is the sign Of national prosperity He
would secure to labor all freedom of
action, and protect it from unfair
and unjust competition. To this
end, while throwing no impediment
in the path of the immigrant who
comes of his own free will, imported
labor, purchased labor, contract
labor, or whatever it may be called,
should, he thinks. be restricted
CD.