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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-06-18
THE GRowL OF A pEssIMIsT.


AN ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure" said Prof Cook, the
State Geologist of New Jersey. "Peo-
pie want water that is perfectly pure
for drinking purposes during the sum-
mer. From experiments recently made
/ find the best filter that can be made
is the bottle filter. 1t is made 10y tying
a string wet in turpentine around the
bottom of q quart bottle and breaking
out the bottom. This is done by light
ing the string, and when the flame has
encircled the bottle, dipping it in cold
water. Layers of fine cotton batting
must then be placed in the bottle, until
a wad is collected that rests on the
shoulders of the bottle and over its
neck. Now dissolve a cup of alum in
hot water, and pour the solution into
q cup of cold water This makes a
filtering substance. / use alum be-
cause it is the only thing which will
precipitate all the impurities of the
water TO the bottom. For every gallon
of water that it is DIES red to purify add
a teaspoonful of the filtering fluid, and
stir it until every particle of the ami
maloul@ is precipitated. This usually
takes about five minutes. Then run
your gallon of water thus treated
through the filter, and you will have
your water free from oil Impurities. -
NelU York Mail and Express.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-06-18
A Man Of Sense. but Dead.

The postmaster at Licksl1illet, Ark.
writes as follow: Don't send your pa
per any more to Oscar Hallum, for he's
dead. He wuz mighty good reader,
he wuZ, and would sometimes read one
CT your jokes in such funny way that
folks would laugh. 'Twan't what wuz
in the artikle, but it wuz the way he
read 1T.
"Hc oughter been the editor of pa
per like your'n. That Teller could screw
up his mouth an make dog laugh.
He could boiler jest like a panther, an
many a man has took TO his heels when
he heard Oscar er yellin' in the woods.
His daddy allus wanted him to learn the
shoemakin' trade, but he had too much
ability for any such foolishness as that.
IF had Ell had his knack i woulder
lined q show. He couldn't write like
country clerk, but what he wrote was
thar. He want hemmed III by Web
ster, nor none of your spellin-book
makers. When an idee popped into his
a-poppin', he les slammed her down an
let old Webster jog along the best way
he could.
81 wish he had er lived, fur it grieved
the old man powerful when he died.
'Jist to think, said he to me luther
day ut the briryin', that Oscar should er
destroyed so much viddults an then
died It's mighty nigh more than
could bar. i heered a Teller say some
time ago that you was on the lookout
for man o. sense, so thought I'd tell
you about him, but he's dead. ar
kansas TrdUeler.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-06-18

by A. MATuEsoN.

I dreamed such horrible dream last night,
IL smote me through with cold alright.
And would not 40 with the dawning light
Like other lies:
For in dreams men often meet guess,
Or wandering thought I'm bodily dress.
A visible No" or q tangible Yes
To some dim surmise.
What was that horrible thing dreamed?
met manor man he seemed
AS the MONDAY sunlight over him streamed,
Till, thrilled with dread,
1 saw when my soul looked his soul through,
AS only in dreams "a soul can do
That, though brain and body lived ana crew.
His soul vas dead.
Yes, there he stood. a creature. indeed.
Z hat ould walk and talk and drink and feed,
And add I'D figures and write and read.
And work ana we'd
And all with automatic neatness.
Smiling even with studied ,weetness,
And quite enjoying LIES completeness,
The lite he led.
Til at last as ! saw him standing there.
WiSh never a hope and never a care,
His dead soul set in stony stare,
Poor soul, said.
And wilt thou never feel again
Divinest Joy, most godlike pain,
Love in which self Is lost and slain
Art thou quite deadl"
And then in my pity cried aloud.
~Oh, give to this poor dead soul shroud,
And hide MIN away from the living crowd
In some narrow bed.
Oh mcrcifu heaven, give him grave
or send some fire that will cleanse and save
And quicken again the soul God gave,
The soul that's dead!"
Good Words
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-06-18
1t Would BE Annoying.

At social gathering in Austin, they
were talking about moDstrosities of one
kind and another, about two-peaded
calves, five-footed horses, bearded
women, ETC., and finally about the
Siamese twins.
"How dreadful il must be to be fast
ened in that way to another person,
and be dependent upon such person in
waking or sleeping, in life and death, "
said Mrs. Yerger.
at is a fortunate thing" remarked
Gilhooly, shat the Siamese twins were
relatives. Just think how unpleasant
IL would be to como into the world
grown fast to perfect strangerl"--
Teras SUtings.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-06-18

Husband eat the dinner table)-It
strikes me. my dear, that the new cook
is not as good as the old one.
Fashionable Wife-No, her cooking
is very bad. For the last day or two
poor little Fido has displayed signs of
distress, and / attribute it ali to her
having eaten improperly cooked food.
Unless the dear little thing improves
very much within short time, shall
certainly make q change. -Neic York
Mail and Express.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-06-18

At the opera. "What makes that
man in the orchestra point so threat
eningly at the people on the stage'"
"He doesn't. He's the conductor"
"Ob, see. He is deaf; and they are
yelling to him something about the
fare. Boston Times.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-06-18

You've men, learn to wait; if you I'M
dertake to set a hen before she is ready,
you will lose your time and confuse the ,
hen besides.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-06-18

A sEA-GuLL measuring four feet six
six inches from tip to tip of wings was
caught IN trap OIL Wolfe Island,
Ouabec.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-06-18

THE rays of happiness, like these OF
light, are colorless when unbroken. =
LongJeilo,C.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-06-18

He whom reason rules may with
safety rule others.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-06-18
HUMOR.

SOME of the married members of
Parliament pooh-pooh the dynamiters'
attempts to blow them up. 1T is really
nothing to wat We get at 'home," say
these gentlcmen.-Er.
BEFORE Offering TO ring the street.
car bell for lady to get off look close
" at her right hand. If she wears a
diamond ring and you pull the strap
she will be your enemy for life.-Er.
"THAT's bad news about Smith"
"What is it?" HE has had relapse"
Goodness Is he sick?' mo, but
his mother-in-law has been, and she is
now convalescing. "-Neaoman hide
pendent
BARKEEpERs should bear in mind,
says some one, that when man is
loaded he should be fired. That is
possibly true, but if the popular bar
keeper" charges him 100 heavily the
chances are that he will "kick. Chi
cago SIN.
81 UNDERSTAND you want coachman,"
said young man, applying at the door
of gentleman's residence on Michigan
avenue. "How much experience have
you had?" asked the gentleman.
"Three. "Three what?" "Three elope-
ments. Cart PreizeIs Weekly.
"WHY do Texas lawyers and legs
tors always sign petitions to have con-
victs pardoned out of the penitentiary
"They do it in obedience to the Scrip
ture." what Scripture? DO unto
others as We would that they should do
unto you."-Teras SUtings.
NOT IN VAIN.
All, pretty, pretty maiden,
II on me you deign
To look with friendly Kindness
You're not maiden vain.
And, pretty. pretty maiden,
III mig hit obtain
little mole than friendship.
I'm not made in vain.
Current.
Two ARKANsAw acquaintance Gap
tain, what was the matter with your son
when he died?" Nothing the matter
with him when he died except that he
was dead" Pretty sick though before
he died, wasn't heY" "Well, he wasn't
as peart as he had been" Died
natural death, l suppose" YES
Whisky" whisky" = Arkansa,o
TraUeler.
81 AM going to keep diary won't
you kindly tell me how to bigin it ?"-
Lily. Well, to tell you the honest
nude truth, Lii, we don't know much
about this matter, but we have seen
several young ladies' diaries. and they
all begin: SCOT up at eight o'clock;
played the piano one hour; went into
the kitchen and watched mother clean
ing the stove; went down to Mabel's;
Mabel is horrid; took a nap after din
ner; am tired out; Claude called in the
evening; l am so happy, o dear p
Boston Post.
MY CIGAPETTF
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-06-18
MY CIGARETTE.
a. t~,..~.nt ,f.row.


All my fra ant cigarette,
Zine YOU are. ald swee YOU bet:
spite o. all your foes NAV say,
You are still my darling gay;
tPuffl My tender cigarette,
My fragrant. paper clad rolette.
Pu1u UufD
Cranks may fume and critics fret.
You VIII see them buried vet
Into smoke Ike YOU they'll turn.
And, y reliance, they, too, may burn.
Pun!l NV tiny cigarette,
My slender, paper clad rolctte.
Judge
"WBAT a incomprehensible Mirandy's
got TO be sence she went to thur cad
emy," remarked Mrs. Homespun to her
husband. "W'y, wot's the gal been
dom now?" asked Daniel. "Doin'!'
exclaimed Mrs. Homespun, "w'y, she
said she must go to her room to disrobe,
as she wished to retire early" "Disrobe
and retire." murmured Daniel, "wot's
them, MAJ" Il dunno" replied ma;
"but she didn't do nothin' o. the sort.
Sine only addressed and went to bed.
Did We ever hear o. SIGH pevarication ?"
Judging from the groan that came from
Daniel it is safe to presume that he
never did.-Erchange.
THE GRowL OF PEssIMIsT.
The world is growing better every day:
This fact Is plain, 80 hopeful people say.
It may he, but the keen observer sees
That pepI er still is largely made of peas
The pump still aids to swell the milk supply.
And prime old port" we get from logwc cd dye
The bottom of the strawberry box draws near
And nearer TO the top each passing year.
The finest apples, cherry checked and round
Still at the top OF apple barfs are found.
tAh, who would dream hehoding such a show
SO many rotten ones were hid belowl
pure dairy BUTTER" much of this l ween,
Is still composed of oleomargarine.
The world is growing better, people say
New rogueries are developed every day.
The world Is as Z has been since IL began:
Man studies still to cheat his fellow man.
-IiOstOH Courier.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-09-29
notice to the Public.

i IL
Persons dealing with one Jos Jackson,
near Centcrville. are hereby notified that
he is not in my nlploy, nor is he In any
manner interested with me in mining or
any other kind OF business. / am the sole
owner IF the Golden Fleece and Golden
Star mines, near the quartz mill, about
one mile east of Centcrvillc, and the said
Jos. phi jackson, md all persons, are here
by notified not IL trespass ON either ut said
mines. as any one vIo shall do so will be
dealt with according TO law.
MARION +. WALDRON.
CLNTERvILLE. July l, 1SS4-6m.
Title Abstract OF Deed
From Dryden McClintock, Sheriff, to
NJ. f. Walllron, deciding all those certain
quartz lodcs known rs the Golden Fleece
aud Golden Star mines, situated in Cen
terville mining distlici, Boise county, l.
7.
ate of deed. March %, 1883. and recor-
led March ~, 1853 at o'ciuck, A. NJ, in
book Is, On pages 800, 400, 401 and 400
ecd records o Boise county, LII.
Territory of Idaho,
Ctnn'ynf Boise
/ do hereby certify that the foregoing is
II true and correct abstract, AS appears Of
record. s9 sd TIE t
{ Witness my hand and seal Of
! Seal. office, this 9th day of July, A
(--) d. 1884.
I'm CARROLL,
Auditor Boise Co. l.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-09-29

"A special to the World from Bata-
via, n. T., has the following: Bar
ross, cashier of local bank while
sweeping out Thursday morning, was
approached by thief, who dealt him
stunning blow over the head, knock
iiE. him down, and then drew a re-
volver and fred two shots at the pros
trate man, both OF which missed. Tho
robber then rushed to the cashier
desk, seized the contents of the draw
er and was about to leave the bank
by the front door when he ran into
the, arms of Postmaster Lorish, who
had heard the shots in his office next
door and was hurrying to ascertain
tile cause. The robber drew his re-
voayer on Lorish, but the Postmaster
grappled with the man, disarmcd him,
and by the time assistance arrived,
had him pinioned to the floor. The
fellow was then securely bound and
his clothing searched, $500, which he
haa distracted from the cash drawer,
being found on his person, and besides
the revolver in hand another revolver
July loaded, bottle of chloroform, a
largo knife and two handkerchiefs,
ono saturated with chloroform.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-09-29
: The New York Sun Saws: .,su.

r. Buck a ladylike, middle-aget
geverness Of many aliases, who rob
bed many families in and near this
city and in Europe, while in their EN-
ployment, was arraigned Tuesday a
Che bar OF General Sessions, under ar
indictment charging her with stealing
various articles Of apparel from Mrs
Jeanette Vanderslair, OF San Fran
cisco, but temporarily in this city
Mrs. Buck is said to be sister of ex-
Lord Mayor Shaw, Of London, and
aunt of Sir William Shaw, baronet.
Last spring she took Storage pass
age for England, and during the voy-
age contrived to form the acquain .
lance Of Mrs. Vanderslair. At Liv-
crpool it was in the confusion Of land
Ing that she stole Mrs. Vanderslair' s
funk. It's contents enabled her to
mike tour OF the continent. The
prisoner was arrested here recently
end is confirmed kleptomaniac, she
having been sent to an asylum by a
Court of law, and only recently re-
leased"
Kleptomaniac. Yes, that's the cor
rect word in this instance. We were
about to use a very inappropriate
word, and that word is thief; but Of
course neither the wives, sisters,
brothers, cousins and aunts or uncles,
ETC., of Lord Mayors and baronets
steal. They just merely pick up
things while in a kleptomaniacal mood
land while in this mood of course
they are not responsible, and the act
Of appropriatng to their own use
that which belongs to others is not a
Criminal act, for they are only help
less instruments in the tignrative
hands Of old clingipg Kleptomania
whom they couldn't shake of il they
wished to. kleptomaniacs are new
err sjail BIRDS" They are sent to asy-
iums. Baronets, Lord Mayors and
such are never, or hardly ever, even
called kleptomaniacs. If they zap
propriate" to their own use what is
not theirs, it's all right. ''lt's just
their way, that's all" a taking pecul-
iarity. The real thief, and the worst
thief OF all, is the poor, ragged, half
starved laborer, out of employment
without friend or IL penny. Hel
goes, sneaks, clothed in rags and vii
ainy, and steals morsel from a rich
man. He is thief, TOUCHDOWN, PET
'rN LARCENY TnlEF, and us forthwith
jagged. The rich man he steals
from is ga polished gentleman" al
though he may have kleptomaniacal
peculiarities. The greater the need
of the thief, the greater the tempta-
'tion and the smaller the value of that
?. Il. !,
which is stolen, the greater is the
crime. Such is the verdict of great
majority of humanity. Haven't you
always observed that kleptomanics
always belong to shighly, respectable
families" shat is, wealthy families?
Those "highly connected" are never
thieves. They are ''kleptoes."
Morris tribune., 1885-08-05
THOSE REAL ESTATE TITLES.

1t may be of interest to the Real
Estate owners of Stevens County, to
know that the records of the county
are not perfect as is supposed. There
are from five to fifteen transfers UNI
recorded in the county on nearly one
half of the lands of the county. TO
remedy all these defects and to make
the records perfect. "Ihe Stevens
Couutv Abstract & Real Estate
Agency" At an expense Ito them
selves onIy-Not to the tax payers)
of nearly $4,000 90. they have pro-
cured all those missing records, and
they now have the only perfect Relia-
bic and Complete set of Abstracts to
all the real estate in the county,
showing a complete chance from the
government down. They guarantee
each and every abstract they make e:
Their abstractor is under $4,000 90
bonds, with good and reliable Free
holders as surcties, hes besides 6h having wing
a paid up capital of$25.Oooo 90 82ti
Morris tribune., 1885-08-05
Great britain i'll Africa.

At the present moment the amount
of territory actually held by England in
Africa (cxclusive of Pondoland, over
which a protcctorate has just been de.
c]ared) is 90, 900 square miles, with a
population of about 5000 OO. Ihls In
cludes the Cape of Good Hope, taken
from the Dutch in 1793, given back to
them at the peace of Amicns IN 1872,
and retaken in 1906, to which was add
ed at a later and convenient opportun-
ity the Orange river territory. This Is,
of course, the biggest British possession
in Africa; but other little bits, here and
there. are under the British flag, in
GLIDING territory on the Gold Coast, be-
tween Ashantce and the sea, and some
at Sierra Leone, adjoining the Native
Christian State of Liberia. Quite re-
Gently the English, too, have annexed
what is known as the Delta of the Niger,
a river somewhat oyer two thousand
miles long. This annexation makes the
Niger British river; but upon either
side of the newly acquired strip OF
coast the German eagle has been plant
ed-one side of the famous CAMERON
Mountain being in German and the
other in British hands. The planting
of the German flag in Africa-quite a
new departure for the Man OF Blood
and Irons bound to have most i'm
portant effect upon the future of the
ozark Continent. Bismarck has at
present only about 10000 square miles,
with population of about 10000. in
Africa; but there is no question that
ever since DR.. Nachtigal hoisted the
German standard on the west coast,
there has been new power with which
other land-grabbing nations will have
to reckon. One of the German strips
| adioins the Cape Colony and was a few
years ago upon the point of being. an
nexed by the English colonial authorl-
ties. It includes Mamayum and Da-
mara, and will no doubt prove very
important center for German colonial
ton. The Niger is navigable for nearly
its whole length and leads to the lam.
Gus town of Timbuctu-Timbuctoo OF
the noted rhyme. 1t leads onward also
to the farthest point which the French
have reached from st. Louis-Bamako,
some 700 miles inland, and the site OF a
French fort English, French and Ger
mans are on the way, too, at least as
far as the central districts which Mr..
Stanley regards as teeming with posi-
bilitieS for commerce.--LO Letter
to Philadelphia Telegraph.
Morris tribune., 1885-08-05
A Bluebird Tragedy.

Three golden-winged woodpeckers,
popularity known as .:wake-us," have
taken up winter quarters in the tool
house at Fairview reservoir. In order
to enter the place they drilled hole
through solid board large enough for
one to pass in at time, and, as the
house is not often visited, find it COM
Portable and quiet retreat. This is not
the first time winter birds have found
shelter there. In the winter of 1S80-S1,
Fairview reservoir was being made, a
stove was placed in the building, the
pipe of which served for chimney on
the outside, and the laborers built a fire
and warmed the house daily, that they
might dine comfortably. The work
was stopped for several weeks and re-
sumed again on one of the coolest days
in midwinter. The workmen went to
the building at noon and built fire.
They had no sooner lighted the kind
ling than they heard great fluttering
in the pipe, which finally reached the
stove. Taking off the cover and look
ing in, a workman espied a mass of
birds suffocating in the smoke. He let
down the CRATE and put out the flames,
but the birds were all dead. When the
stove was cleared forty-seven bluebirds
were removed from it. They had flown
into the pipe and huddled together like
bats to keep warm, and were thus sud-
denly overwhelmed and smothered by
smoke.-NorWich Bulletin.
Morris tribune., 1885-08-05
What You Call Nerve.

II saw an exhibition of what you
might call nerve, the other day, up in
Delaware county," said Deacon Charles
N. Beau, of the public stores. 81 was
up there on business last week, near
Harpersfeld, and an acquaintance took
me out to fish for pickerel through the
ice. On our way to the pond we came
to a couple of men chopping in the
woods. My friend knew one of the
men, and stopped to talk with him.
The other man kept on chopping. He
had made but two or three strokes with
his ak when it flew off the handle. The
sharp blade whizzed through the air,
passed close to my friends head, and,
striking the other chopper, whose name
was Hagar, cut his nose off close to his
face as clean as if it had been done with
razor. The man who had lost it put
his hand up to his face in startled sort
of way, and looked down at the severed
nose as if he could hardly believe his
eyes. When the full force of the stu
alton struck him he looked at his fellow
chopper with an expression of surprise
and deep injury on his face, and said:
''Well Jack, you're d-n nice fell
low, amt yep
"Hagar then stopped and picked up
his nose, and, pressing his handkerchief
to his bleeding face, astounded both my
friend and myself by resuming the SUBJ
ject upon which they had been talking
which was the making of a contract
for some chopping-as if nothing of
consequence had occurred to interrupt
M fr;n or
other chap to the village after doctor,
and wanted to take Hagar home at once
on his blackboard. Hagar wouldn't
hear of this, and said he would cut
across to his cabin through the woods
and wait for the doctor, and he started
off without any apparent hurry, carry
ing his nose in his hand.
''When we returned at night we went
out of our way two miles to inquire aft
er Hagar. We found him chopping up
fire-wood in front of the cabin. There
was bandage around his face. When
we asked him if the doctor had seen
him he said:
"'Yes, he's been here. He stuck the
nose on in its old place and bound it
there, and said he believed it would
grow fast again, as he had known of
such things happening. Say, I came
blame near getting mad at Jack when
that ak flew off to-day. He's always
cutting up some dido or other.
''Then we drove back to Harpersfield.
/ had a letter to-day from my friend.
He had just come from a visit to Hagar.
He says the man is getting along, and
that the nose will grow fast again sure.
Now, these are facts, and tell you that
Hagar struck me as giving an exhibit
ton of what you might call nerve. y
NeU York Sun.