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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-28
Noisy Music.

Shakespeare asserted that no man
should be trusted who lis not mov'd
with concord of sweet sounds" His
dictum would make Turks and Chinese
objects of suspicion, for they delight in
the clashing rather than in the har-
mony of sounds. A Turkish ambas-
sador Mt the Court of st. James once
attended q concert. On being asked
which piece he preferred, he answered,
"The first one" He meant the tuning
of the instruments. According to an
anecdote told by Mr.. s. G.. Hall, Scotch
Highlanders share in the musical tastes
of the Turk.
II once heard said Mr.. Hall, "a
Scotch Highlandman declare that the
greatest enjoyment he ever had in his
life was one night when sheltered from
a storm in no THE twenty feet square.
There were eight pipers shut up with
him, and, as each insisted On playing
his own pibroch, oil of them played to-
gether.
"Oighl' calculated the Highlander,
tat was musicl
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-28
Cards-An Analysis of Whist.

George w. Pettes gave an interest
ing lecture at Boston on The History
of Cards and Oh Analysis of Whist. "
The lecturer said that the first known
of cards was in Hindoostan, some
twelve centuries ago, when they were
made of a sortof canvas, bearing figures
and emblems Of various significance,
and that some of these are yet to be
seen in ;he Pun aub, although very
rare. In the reign of Charles VII.
cards similar to those of the present
day were used in France, although the
court cards were known by different
names; and in the reign of Edward L.
of England charges for cards are found
in the royal accounts, while in 1702, in
the reign of Queen Anne, 40, 900 reams
of paper were used for making playing
cards. The use OF cards was made to
afford information and pleasure to the
heather, and it was Christian Europe
that debased their use by the intro
duction of gambling and sharping.
Whist probably took it's name from a
game called whisk or swabbers, al
though the two were very dissimilar,
the one being noisy and the other
quiet and n thinking game In En-
gland, Lord Folkestoue and friends re-
vised the ancient game of whist, and
made the present game of ten points,
and this was published in Edmund
Hoyle's treatise in l742, but he was not
the father of the game, being only the
patron saint of gamesters. The game
Of short whist was conceived by John
Lorraine Baldwin, of England, IN 1854,
and rules were then made for its play,
but the lecturer condemned it AS being
far inferior to the full, long game, as
also game of five points, excluding
honors, which is sometimes played, and
which he called q mongrel game Mr..
Pettes claimed that whist, properly
played, was one, of the most scientific
of games, which, while it required close
attention, was a rest from active bust
ness for the player, and was peculiarly
game which showed the disposition
of every man who played it.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-28
day Beatrice bids her hostess farewell.

day Beatrice bids her hostess farewell,
and returns to the city.
One year later. Elmer Richards goes
to second charity fair. He has been
persuaded, much against his will, how
ever, to attend, and now he saunters
arm in arm with friend, paying little
attention to the gay scenes around him T;
they fail to interest and amuse him as
they once did.
Only one year has passed since that
night in the moonlit garden, yet there
are deep lines on his handsome face,
and his dark brown hair is streaked
with gray. He has not outlived his
sorrow; it has followed him and crushed
him down, making him an old man long
before his time.
Before stand of flowers he pauses,
and memory carries him back TO the
time when two white hands fashioned
for him q fragrant bouquet, and two
bright eyes fSashed up into his. He
hears the rustling of garments, and
looking mp, sees Beatrice Irving stand
ing before him. She is attired in her
favorite color, amber, and wears the
old cleaning Jewels.
Their eyes meet, and the yellow light
in hers burns brighter. She leans over
the counter, and her Jewels fash in the
gaslight
"A bouquet, sir?" she asks. with a
hooking smile.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-28
SchoOlboys' Code.

That little world in which school
boys live has its own code of honor 1t
is not heightened code, and it often
ignores the distinction between right
and wrong Yet it is despotic code,
and few schoolboys dare violate it, be-
cause its penalty is Punishment from
the social life of the school.
Yet boy in an Indiana school did
have the moral courage to break one of
its chief laws, being impelled to the
violation by his regard for the purity of
the school. The teacher of the school,
who tells the story, says:
AS L was going into my school-house
one morning, l noticed two of my boys
engaged in loud dispute over some
thing. One of them held book in his
hand, and the other was trying to get
it away from him.
Just as they reached the door, the
one who was struggling for the book
succeeded in getting it. and to my sur
prise, he rushed into the school-room,
opened the stove door, and threw the
book into the fire.
was more surprised at what seemed
like an act of wanton destruction, be-
cause the boy was one of my most trust
ed and honored pupils. Such thing
could not pass unnoticed. So as soon
as the school had been called to order,
L called him to my desk and asked:
WAS that your book, John?"
mo, sir"
Whose was it?"
"Handy's.
"Why did you take it away from
him 2"
Because he had no business to have
it ?"
"How's that? You said it was his. {"
"Yes, sir. But"-here he hesitated
q little, "but it was an indecent book,
sir, and felt as if L had q right to de-
stroy such book wherever / found
it."
"You did rightp 1 exclaimed, as /
shook hands with him, heartily, and
dismissed him to his seat.
A false idea of what is commonly
called "schoolboy honor" would have
prevented most boys from giving evil
dence against a schoolmate- in q case
like this. But l am thankful to say
that this one brave example has already
done world of good in my own school,
and cleared the ideas of some of my
pupils on the vexed question of how
far one boy may go in telling ON
another"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-28

than the other. The first twelve miles
will bc of surprising beauty. Camp
ing grounds will be located at various
points, where people can live in tents,
enjoying the pure air and weird grand
eur of the Rocky Mountains, while in
constant receipt by railway Of all the
necessities and some of the Injuries
obtained in large cities. Another
mountain railway will be up the Cats
kills. which will carry travellers to some
of the grandest and most picturesque
scenery in the world. An ingenious
dreamer predicts the construction of o
railway extending from Alaska to Pat
agonia and running on the top of the
mountain ranges of North and South
America. Who dare say that even this
wild scheme may not some day be real
lied ?-Demoresf Monthly.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-28

Signor Salvini gives to the Century
his Impress Of Shakspeare's
Lear" which are weighty and valua-
BILE. OF Lear's infrmities, he says
But let us now regard him from an
artistic point of view, considered mere
ly as parsonage of the stage. If he is
to be discovered to the audience as a
puny little dotard, p,ralytic, asthmatic,
and infirm, senile and feeble at his first
entrance, what room is left for contrast
He has far more clam to sympathy as
q man who, happy 1T the outset, feels
keenly the bitterness of misfortune,
than as one who, Injured to suffering,
only undergoes it il new forms. .Hhe
first commands respect because he bat
ties courageously With the unforeseen
calamities of life; the second, power
less to resist them, i, a pitiable object,
and can but arou,e n wish for quick
coming death to put him out Of pain.
Finally, the first is interesting and pa
thetic; the second tedious and painful
and this latter effectm inevitably be
produced upon the SPECTATOR Gas numer-
Gus examples provo by those repre-
sensations of the part that follow the
beaten track, and ire based upon the
pernicious system If imitation; imita-
ton all too recent, since what we are
told of the great American artist, Edwin
Forrest, proves tina; this invention of a
weak and doting Lear was assuredly not
his-not his, whose ringing tones and
thrilling gestures, whose majectic pres
ence and heroic conceptions won for
him name that is deservedly remem-
bered and honored.
Some actors chose to make Lear an
imbecile; this is mistake; others
would have him sdemoniac but tins
is also misconcepton. To me it seems
that his mind is warped by sense of
ingratitude in nature; and that this
feeling grows upon him with the per-
secution of the warning elements, till at
the degradation of nan revealed In Ed
gar's counterfeiting it becomes all-ab-
sorbing. And, INDEED, all those scenes
of malediction, of metaphor, and of self
dissection, with thar profound conclu-
sions, their SCRAPS of wisdom and
philosophy, do butturn upon this very
concentration of thought, that has for
its root ingratitude. Were it not so,
the mere sight of Cordelia would not so
speedily bring bck his reason. An
irnbecile is far more difficult TO cure
than mailman; and a mailman cannot
be restored by SIMPLE remedy. His
unsoundness is bui that of a monoma-
MAC, who recoveD his normal health
when Cordelia's tenderness soothes the
troubled spirit andsuppies the healing
balm of reverent, flial love-"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-28
CuriOus Case.

A class of medical students in But
falo, N. Y, has had the good fortune to
see very rare case in which the action
of the vocal cords in the interior of the
larynx could be studied IN the living
subject. Bhe subject himself may be
considered fortunate in that he lives
even with cut throat. The story IA,
that in crossing mountains IN Roumania
he, with others, was attacked by rob
bers. His throat was cut but they
only severed the windpipe without cut
ting the important blood vessels, and,
as he showed signs of life, he was
hanged. Inasmuch, however, as the
windpipe had already been cut across,
he was able to breathe in spite of hang
ing, and thus he was saved from death
by hanging by the fact that his throat
had already been cut. This case re-
minds us of the laws of grammatical
construction of O sentence 10y which two
negatives make an affirmative-tht
double attempt to kill saving ife.-Dr
Foote's Health Monthly.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-28
High Art.

Obscurity, which is merely an affec-
tation of art, is often regarded as a
quality of high art in painting and
poetry. A paragraphist thus ridieules
the false conception:
What do yGu call your last picture ~
Sunset"
"But where, Is the sun o.
"Set, of comrse."
Certainly, but therS Is no warm
light in the sky!"
mo, it is, dull, cloudy evening"
"But thers is absolutely nothing to
show that it is evening any more than
morning."
"How stupid of you'll DOM you see
those chickens near shat troep Well,
the rooster is not growing, is he? That
shows it s not morning."-Philadel-
phia Elrsni,lq Call.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-28
Cable ciphers.

The immense buines and high rates
of the ocean telegraph have led to O
new feature in busness-the manufact-
ure of "codes," bywhich messages can
be packed in simple and economical
manner. This speciality has been pur-
sued by a number Of packers. Great
skill is necessary, ince all words are to
be avoided which ave q similar sound.
The packers objet Is to make word
stand for an entis sentence. For in
stance, banker may receive cable
gram from Londol containing the word
"chowder" BY urning to his code"
or book of wors he finds that this
means "the Bankof England has raised
its rate OF interes to 3 per cent" BY
the same rule a grain dealer may re-
ceive cablegran containing the word
lowered" which, 10y reference to his
code, will be Interpreted thus: Buy
and ship by seamer 1000 bushels
corn" The Importance IN economizing
is found In the tct that it costs s. to
send one. word tc India. while China is
nearly one-third more. One word to
the east coast OF South America costs
So. so, and to tie west coast the rate
is So.
The best instace Of packing in an
cient times was (asar's dispatch to the
Senate-"Veni, idi, viri." This is q
neat fiction, pptty play of fancy, but
it suggs-ts the wonderful skill which
might be ATTAINED in the art of breyity.
A firm, in India, which formerly sent its
monthly report IN sixty words, now
convnys the sane information III six
teen, thus making a. saving of $SS.--
Mem, York letter
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-28
Bombay More )rowsed than London.

Ono of the 'esults OF the London
census is to slow that Bombay, the.
second city in the British Empire, is
moro crowded tam London itself. The
density of the population In Londoc
in the most dnsely peoplod parts is
less than the Ieasity of twelve most
crowded sections of Bombay, with a
population of norly four hundred and
thirty thousandseople. These sections
have an averass population of 45S.57
persons per acr, In Bombay tho aver
age population is about ffty-tw0 per
acre; in Lonaa, forty-nine. The ex-
treme in Lon5sn rises to 222 per acre,
whereas in BOBbay it rises to 759. The
population Of the sections, in which the
crowding is d,uble that of the most
crowded divisions of London is equal
to more that 81 per cent. of the total
populatioo. bu the area OF these sec
tons ia only By per cent. of the
island. In otter woods, 81 per cent. of
the population are crowded on 3 IL per
cent. Of the surfaco of the land Man
chester Examiner.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-28
New Weather PredictiOns-Ye I'm.
proved.

An intensely blue sky indicates q
temporary absence of clouds. Under
other circumstances, again, an intensely
blew sky indicates tornado.
When woman leaves piece of soap
upon the stairs where her husband will
tread upon it, IT is dead sure sign of a
storm.
When the sun rises behind bank of
clouds, and the clouds hang low all
around the horizon, and all over the
sky, and the air feels damp, and there
is q fine drilling mist blowing, the in
dications are there will be rain some
where in the United States or Canada.
When it begins to thunder, look out
for lightning.
When man gets up In the night,
and feel along the top pantry shelf In
the dark, and knocks the big square
bottle without any label down to the
floor and breaks it, it is sign there Is
going to be dry spell until or s
o'clock In the morning
When the cradle begins to vibrate
with irregular, spasmodic motions
about l o'clock in the morning, look
out for signals, and try to remember
where you put the paregoric the last.
time you used it.
When the youngest boy In the family
comes home three hours after closing
of school, with his hair wet and his
shirt wrong side out, look out for a
spanking breeze.
To see the head of the family feeling
in his right-hand pocket, then in his
left-hand pocket, then in all his vest
pockets, then in his hip pockets, then
in his coat pockets, and then at the
ceiling, indicates "no change"
If he suddenly stops whistling at the
ceiling and expands his face into a
broad grimace of delight, it means, @un-
expe oted change"
The weather during the whole Of
Thanksgiving week - cD?
If the corn husks are very thick, the
winter will be colder than the summer.
If the corn husks are very thin, the
summer will be- warmer than the
winter.
If the corn hnsks ore neither too
thin nor too thick, the summer will be
warm and the winter will be cold
HaaCkeye
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-28
HUMOR.

TAFFY is one of the sweetest things
of love.
DISTRESSING accident-losing your
scalp.
Could conjugal affection be more
strictly displayed than it is in the sub
joined? "And so, doctor, you think my
wife will get well?" Il am sure OF 1t,
if you can persuade her to take TINS
dose" Doctor, take it she shall, II l
have to break every bone IN her body:
The "wishbone" wedding has become
the correct thing. The couple stand
beneath floral wishbone. After the
ceremony the bride and groom are given
the wishbone to pull. The tug results
in break somewhere. and whoever
holds the long piece is absolved from
getting up to build fires in the morning.
A HoosIER at dinner on Mississippi
palatial steamer was, about to reach out
for something before him, but the
waiter, checking him, exclaimed: "That,
sir, is dessert" co." said the Hoosier,
II don't care if il is q wilderness. I'm
going to eat it all the same. '-PhiiGdet-
phia Call.
EpITAPH copied in @ French ceme-
terry:
''I AWAIT MY HUSBAND,
"10th October, 1890"
.'HBRE I ANIL
"7th February, $780,"
"How ARE you and your wife cummin'
on?" asked O West Point man of q
colored man. "She has run me of,
boss. / is to blame, boss. gave her
a splendid white silk dress, and den she
got so proud she had no use for me.
She lowed was too dark to match de
dress"
The story is told in Paris OF an
American lady, who at an inn in Nor
mandy was deputed as being the best
French scholar in her party, to make
the arrangements for their accommoda-
ton. She did her best-which was a
long way short of perfection-but the
clerk did not catch her meaning, and
his remarks were iargon to her. Final
ly, in desperation, she said, slowly and
with awful distinctness: ~Do-you-
speak-English ?" "Wa'al, meow you're
jest talkin'," shouted the clerk. Guess
I'd orter speak English. 1 was raised
ten miles from Bangor"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-28
ruE STATUE OF CLAY.

sMcke me a statue" said the king.
"Of marble white as snow:
il must be pure enoagh 10 stand
Before my throne at my right hand:
The niche is waitingl Go"
The sculptor heard the kings command
And went upon his way;
lie had no marble; but he went,
With willing mini an high intent,
To mold his thoughts In clay.
Day after day he wrought the clay,
But knew not what he wrought:
He sought the help OF heartand brain,
But could not make the riddle plain
IL lay beyond his thought
To-day the statue seemed to grow;
Tomorrow IL stood still;
The third day IL went well again;
Thus, year by year. in JOY and pain,
He served his masters will.
At hast his lifelong task was done;
IL was a fateful day;
lie took his statue TO the king,
And trembled like guilty thing
because 1t was but clay.
Where is my statue?" asked the king,
Here, Lord" the sculptor said.
But i commanded marble. True;
had not that-what could do
But mold In clay instead?"
Thou shalt not unrewarded 60,
Since thou hast done thy best:
Thy statue shall acceptance win;
lt shall be as 1t should have been,
For l will do the rest"
He touched the statue, and it changed;
The clay falls'of. and 10!
A marble shape before him stands,
The perfect work of heavenly hands.
An angel, pure as snow.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-28
rs Detect Oleomargarine.

A waater employed in New York
restaurant says: ANY housekeeper
can rrOve the honesty of her grocer or
his hutter by melting is. Pure butter
melted produces pure, limpid, golden
oil. and it retains the butter flavor.
Melt oleomargarine and the oil smells
like tallow and looks like tallow, and q
scam rises to the surface. Butterine is
a mixture of dairy butter and fats.
Melt that and the butter oil will rise to
the top. Pour this off and You viii
find the fats at the bottom, whitish In
color, and giving off disagreeable
ameIl
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-28
Wor,h ss5, 900, 900.

Speaking 4 The telephone patent,
tho Electricass says: "The value OF
this patent ) enormous, and we very
much doubt Il it could be purchased
for $25, O00pD. 1t is probably by far
the most valrable single patent which
has ever beer issued"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-28

DIFFERENCES in faith are inevitable.
Men cannot believe alike more than
they can look alike or act alike. Their
fai h will vary with their temperament,
with their education, with their habits
of thought, with the Influences around
them. Some will be able to believe
what others cannot possibly believe.
Some will accept readily what others
cannot be persuaded TO accept.-C. III.
Brigham.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-28

In the pressure of the times could be
properly applied and used as propel-
ling power 10 could move all the ma
chinery in fifty-three States.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-28

ALL other knowledge is hurtful to
one who has not the science of honesty
and good-nature. -Montdigne.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-28

EVERY oNE-can master grief but he
that has h.-Shdkspedre
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-03
Peter Cooper's Sympathy with Women.

Mrs Susan n. Carter, the head of the
Woman's Art School of the Cooper In
stitute, contributes an anecdotal paper
TO the Century, in which she says OF Mr..
Cooper's aim: IAN | want he said,
is, that these poor women shall earn de-
cent and respectable liyings, and that
they shall be kept from marrying bad
husbands.
This subject of unhappy marriages
seemed to be very prominent one in
Mr.. Cooper's mind. That women were
often imposed upon, were ill-used and
broken down, he had lively conviction;
and his chivalry and sense of fatherly
protection were enlisted to save them,
SO far as he could, from these ordinary
misfortunes While the world is now
occupied with the question of what wom-
en- can be taught, their higher educa-
tion,' and many kindred subjects, Mr..
Cooper's acute genius discovered, as by
intuition, many years ago, the relation
of women of the middle class to society.
to industries and the family He saw
that many of them could not marry, and
he realized what must be the forlorn
position of number of elderly daugh-
ters of poor man. He had noted the
dangerous likelihood of giddy, ignorant
young girls marrying anybody for a
home, even if the men were dissipated
or inefficient; and he had the tenderest
pity for poor widows or deserted wives
He talked many times, and at great
length, on these subjects, and all cir
cumstances and any sort of incident
brought up this desire of his heart, to
help woman to be happy, Independent
and virtuous.
'One of the last times he was at
the school, and while celebrated New
Yo"k clergyman was giving course of
Lenten lectures to women, Mr.. Cooper,
with his face all animated with his feel
ing about it, said: DR.. - is of the
wealthy class, and he has been used to
deal with wealthy women. The world
does not look like the same place to him
that it does to me. If he could be in my
place for month, and read the letters |
get from poor and suffering women, he
would think thatit would be best TO
] have them taught anything which they
could learn to enable them to lessen all
this trouble ;"