davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively
cures Piles or no pay required. 1t is guaran-
teed to give perfect satisfaction, or money
refunded. Price % cents per box.
For sale by c. l.. Eaton.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03

very nice presents, among them being q
tea set and silver knives and forks.
Decoration at Lawrence last Saturday
prevented the grange from meeting but they
made arrangements for childrens' day, the
10th OF June being the time fixed upon.
At the last meeting of the Farmers Club
the bean question was discussed, and at their
next dune llth) the question for discussion
will be whether farmers shall support the
creameries
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03
BARNES DISTRICT.

Some of our people are having their ORCH
ards trimmed.
Viola Conklin and Emma Robinson were
home from their schools last Saturday.
V. Talbot lost a valuable horse few days
since by feeding him too much green clover.
Geo. Van Ness has moved his family to
Hartford. We regretted to have them
leave.
On account of low prices, less than one
half the usual number of acres of beans will
be planted here this year.
M. Rowe celebrated his wedding ami
yersary on Saturday last, and received some
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03
THIS IS NOT A PUZZLE!

Some OF readers will wonder how those great big boys girls
District No. into little school That
secret known only TO the artist who made the picture.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-06
Canine Intelligence.

Sir John Lubbock's dog that is learn
ing to read must look to his %laurals; for a
dangerous rival has been discovered by
Monsieur Victor Mcunier, who is writing
a book on the subject of the
capacity of animals for education.
Porthos, the rival in question, is a black
poodle, age 6 years, a Belgian by birth,
but an inhabitant of Paris, in which city
along with his wife md NJ. Porthos ieune,
age 6 weeks, he honors with his company
a worthy wine merchant. Like many
wise dogs, Porthos understands that
when a sou is given him he can exchange
it for a cake at the bakers. Having got
his cake, however, he does not eat it like
other dogs, but brings it home to his master
to divide it into three pieces for the ben
eft of himself and family. In fact, he
seems to do the whole of their catering;
for, if Master Porthos wants milk, the
father takes both the money and the
milk can and sets off to fetch it. He is,
for all this no teetotaller, but is ready to
deliver a bottle of winc-holding the
neck in his mouth and his head high in
the air to a constant customer, and duly
to bring back its price. His most extra
ordinary accomplishment, however, is
that he can go down to the celler and
fetch a bottle of any kind of wine re-
quired. He distinguishes between white
wine, red wine with green seal, red wine
yellow seal, red wine in half bottles, and
several other kinds. Porthos, though
conscious of his talents, is said to be by
no means conceited or overbearing in his
demeanor in the presence of interiors;
81. ,T1naes'S G1zette
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-06
Frogs Skin rs Crafts.

Sometimes slowly healing wounds with
feeble granulations are made to increase
their activity in the direction of cicatri-
cation by tr~ansplanting minute fragments
of epidermal tissue containing som of
the cells of the rete Malpighii on the
healing surface. o. Petersen has sue
cessfully used the skin from the back of
a frog. The slowly cicatrizing wound
was situate on the back of the neck of a
man and had resulted from excision of a
malignant pustule. A piece of frogs
skin the size of the thumb nail was wash
ed in a Q per ccn solution and placed
upon blotting-papcr, when it was divided
into two. The gratis we're applied to
the wound so that the blotting-paper was
interposed between them and the fixing
plaster. Two days after tho transplant
tation both fragments of cpidcrmis were
found to be adherent. Two days later a
fresh grating was made; the former
CRAFTS had become roseate. In a further
period of forty-eight hours the pigmen-
tation of the gratis had almost disap.
pcared. The %cicatrix resulting after this
treatment was found to be of great soft
moss and elasticity. Frogs skin as gratis
has been recently employed at some of
the London hospitals. London Loaees
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-06
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

TO have what we van is riches, but
to be able to do without is power.
Curses arc like professions; they re-
turn to place from which they came.
A face that cannot smile is like a bud
that blossoms and dies upon the stalk.
Good manners is the art of making
those people easy with whom VIC con-
verse.
Life is n quarry, out of which we arc
to mould and chiscl and complete a
character.
Whether happiness may come or not,
one should try and prepare ones self to
do without it.
Laughter is day, and sobricty is night;
and a smile is the twilight that hovcrs
gently between both and is more bewitcb-
than either.
Nearly everybody has it in him to be
better than he is. Improvement is
chiefly the regulation of the propensities
and passions.
Every man who en- joys a blessing
should be prompted to think of those
who arc without it, and try tc help them.
Each benefit is q responsibility.
The warm sunshine and the gentle
zephyr may melt the glacier which has
bid defiance to the bowling tempest; so
the voice of kindness will touch the
heart which no severity could subduc.
The memory is perpctually looking
back when we have nothing present to
entertain us; it is like those repositories
in animals that are filled with stores of
food, on which they may ruminate when
their present pasture fails.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-06

a long, light staff he ave it in graceful,
curves and evolutions in the air as he
runs in advance of the horses, clearing
the way. Then come in great state the
eunuchs-two, four or six, according te
the rank of the ''pasha" to whom be.
longs the cortcge, and then, lying back
as only an Oriental woman can, is a soft,
lovely, fat creature, with great, languish.
ing black eyes, whose softness and bright.
ness are enhanced by the 'tkohl" with
which brows and lashcs are colored.
They shine like great stars above the
white 'syashmak'' which covers the lower
portion of the face. Sometimes may be
seen a little, soft dimpled hand, with
palm and fnger-tips rosy with ''hcnna."
The whole woman is e%nvelopcd in clouds
of soft, white drapery, with here and
there a great jewel cleaning. The
'~'saicc" flies OF with his light, swinging
pace and musical cry. The eunuchs ride
rapidly and well, but with great estate
and ancientry." Then the carriage
bearing Fatima Appears mass of white
drapcry, a CLEAN of jewels, u flash Of
dark eyes, a vision of beauty and then
"a cloud of dust.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-06
Story OF a Queer Shaped Country.

"Herc is the qucerest shaped county l
ever saw" said a passenger in the smok-
ing car, holding up a red and blue rail
way map; 'it's Warren County, Tennes-
see, and as round as a dollar. I wonder
how in thunder it got to be that shape2"
"Warren County, TENNESSEE" inquired
n passenger with a white SLOUGH hat;
''did you say Warren County, TENNESSEE
l know all about that county. Years
ago there want no Warren County.
There was a little town called McMinn-
vile. In this town three or four men
from Ohio settled, bought land, started
stores, and became prominent citizens.
But McMinnvillc wasn't n county seat.
1t lay in one corner of a county, and the
country around it was the corners and
ends of other counties. Under these cir
cumstanccs McMinnville didn't grow
very fast, and there was no politics there,
and men living in McMinnville stood no
show in county politics, anyway. These
Ohio men tried to rise in the political
"oARAJ DoS ! y was Slo" "Olh. u lllullS
they got mad and went to schcming.
Before anybody knew what they were
up to they had lobbied a bill through the
Legislature creating n new county, War
rcn by name, with McMlinnville as the
county scat. When the surveyors come
to run the new county lines they found
that the law directed them to 60 west
twelve miles from McSIlnnvillc, drive q
stake; 60 east twelve miles from McNIinn-
vile and drive another stake; and north
twelve and south twelve two more stakes,
and then run n circular line connecting
those stakes. The result of course, was
a circle, and so Warren County appeared
on the map as round as a dollar, and
with McMinnville right in the center.
Then the Ohio men were happy. They
started right in, run the politics of the
new county, filled most of the Offices,
and got rich on the rise in the value of
their real estate. Chicago Herald.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-06
A Fine Grapevine.

A California paper gives the following
account of n fine specimen of the grape
vine growing in the open air at Monti-
cello, near Santa Barbara, and which is
known as ''Dona Marcelina's grapevine"
''This grapevine, which is the pride and
marvel of the neighborhood, traces its
origin to a slip brought by Dona Marco
lima from a young vineyard at San Anto-
MO mission for a horsewhip, and, though
It was nearly withered from tho effect of
the long journey, she determined to make
tho trial to plant it. Notwithstanding
further delay, the slip took root, budded,
and ever since prospered, proving itself
the main support for the large Dominguez
family there being seven sons and as
many daughters, and through them up.
ward of a hundred descendants surviving
the old lady at her death; she left a son
Jose, SO years old, who has grandchildren.
Between 1850 and 1850, tho vine had
been trained over an area of eighty feet
in circumference, the stem measuring then
twelve inches in diameter, and attaining
a height of fifteen faet from the ground.
Some years it has borne over six thou
sand bunches-upward Of eight thousand
pounds OF ripe grapes"
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-06

brought his bride to Washington, and
his parents, President and Mrs. Grant,
gave a very elegant evening reception in
their honor.
All those who have lately been writing
about White House weddings have men
toned that of President Grants daughter
as the last to occur there, but, on the
contrary, there was one there four years
later-that Of Miss Emily Plat, the niece
of President Hayes, who, on the evening
of June 10, 1878, was married in the
Blue Parlor to General Russell Hastings,
formerly lieutenant colonel of the TWEEN
ty-third regiment of Ohio volunteers, of
which Mr.. Hayes was coloncl.-New YorI
Her1M-
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-06
An Incident OF Antietnm.

The most savagely contested part of
the struggle at Antictam was in and
around the sunkcn lane of Roulct's farm,
where Jackson's Corps for hours held the
ground, from which Hooker and Mans
field had been successfully rcpulscd early
in the morning. In their ycllowish, but
tcrnut suits the Confcdcratcs were scarce
ly distinguishablc from the road. bed on
the ditch where they lay, or from the
ripe stalks of the cornticld behind,
through which their reinforcing bri-
gades were constantly descending. Not
moro than fifty yards off, lying or knecl-
ing in the green pasture field, without
any shelter, the Union mcn-Kimbalps,
Caldwell's and the Irish brigadcs-poured
so deadly a fire into that lane that after
the battle six hundred Confederate dead
were found there. Repeated efforts were
made by the Union troops to charge.
Perhaps the first was in conformity to a
Generals orders; the others certainly
were not. The Confederate fire was so
terrible that everyone, however, realized
the need either of driving the Confeder-
ates from the lane and the rising ground
behind, or else of retiring, to avoid ami
hilation. Such expressions as, "We
must CHARGE" ''Let's try the bayopet,
boys" were constantly repeated along
the line, and bayonets would be fixed
without any order whatever, so far as
known, from General or field officers.
But, on making the effort to charge, and
finding the enemy's fire irresistible, the
Union line, with heads bent, as if against
a rain-storm, would back up to its for
mer position, and, knceling or lying
down again, resume its fire. Finally a
clamor of desperation broke out. There
were no troops in sight behind, no prom
Use of reserve or support, and the situa-
ton was calling. The whole heavens
was splitting with the ~dstonations of
battle, and the rest of the army was
probably fighting for its own life. The
men on their knees fixed bayonets again
for the tenth time, perhaps, and, with a
murderous howl of rage, the three bri-
gades rushed forward and in a minute
were in the lane and their banners were
ascending through the cornfeld toward
the peach orchard where jackson him
self is said to have been during all these
hours. This charge, which broke Jack
sons right for q time, and required all
his genius to prevent proving a supreme
disaster to his army, would not have been
made when it was made if the initiative
had depended on a commanders Or
ders.-m Chicago Ledger.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-06
HUMOROUS,

The eight day clock is continually on
strike.
A spirit wrapper is usually made about
a medium size.
"What is the ~latcst?" was asked of a
wit. "Twelvc p. m.," was the curt re-
ply.
Tho queen of Scrvia understands how
to sew on buttons, and she isn't a bache-
lor, either.
AS a general thing, when schoolboys
60 on strike the urbanc professor comes
in with the last lick.
1t costs $2s a week to feed q circus
tiger. At that rate what would the
monthly board of a cata-mount to?
A collector of curiositics wants
to get the original brush with
which the signs Of the times were paint
cd.
An exchange says: "Nonopolies are
reaching out further with alarming ra-
pidity." The same may Re said OF
bustlcs.
A gushing correspondent says of a lit.
crary celebrity that 'his conversation is
full of light" Poor fellow! he must Ie
lantern-jawcd.
According to an ear witness, the Bos.
ton girl doesn't say, "Let's skip the
gutter" She remarks, Let us sud-
denly ovcrleap the marginal depression
of the public thorouy flare"
"Who," said q member of the Cana
dian House of Commons to the
members who were trying to
choke him off, "who brayea
there7" tIt was an ccho," retorted a
member, amid a yell of delight.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-06
To Make the Beds.

"Lavina-'If I am going to have a
flower garden this season you must get
somebody to make the beds"
Phas@ius-"All right, my deaH I'll
drop into an employment Office inftown,
this very morning, and tell them to send
out a chambermaid."
And lodging the coffee cup>which she
hurled at his head, he Fashioned around
the corner, there is awsit an inward
car.-Detroh FLa6R Press. s.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-06
Life In Persia.

Though Persia moves a little, it is o-c
of the most unprogressive empires. /;
had no postal system until 1876. It has
but one wagon road of any considerable
length. No railroads ave been Quilt,
as the Shah will not incur the financial
risk, nor make an investment of foreign
capital secure. The telegraph now con-
meets the capital with provincial capitals.
The cost of living has greatly increased
in the last few years. Most of the Per-
slams are very poor, the tenants or agri-
culturists forming the poorest class. A
merchant with $50, 900 is considered very
rich.
The social life of Persia has not
changed perceptibly. "The Persian of
the genuine type and ole school hardly
thinks himself in q condition to be seer
until his hair and beard have been dyed
and his finger nails stained, if not his fin
gers also. He rises at the early dawn,
and repeats the usual player; and having
drunk a cup of tea, if he be rich enough
to afford it, goes to the field or to his
shop. AT 10 o'clock he sits down in his
place Of business to eat a breakfast of
bread and sour milk which has been
brought upon a tray and set before him.
The hours of midday, in summer, arc
passed in sleep. Labor, when resumed,
is continued until sunset. The principal
meal of the day-and the best he can
afford-of meat, rice and savory dishes,
is partaken of in company with the mem
bers of his family, and after nightfall,
and in the open court of the house, or
upon the roof. If inclined to drink wine
and arak, tbs most approved custom is
to indulge at this hour. He s~atiates his
thirst, if that be possible, by drunkenness,
having first taken the %prccaution of lock-
ing the doors and going to bed."-Cyn-
einnati Commercial.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-06
A Promising Man.

Jones-Have you heard from Smith
ately2
Brown-No; I think he is out West
somewhere practicing law.
Jones-He was a promising young fell
ow.
Brown with fervor)-Promising7 I
should say he was. He borrowed $40
from me five years ago and kept promis-
ing me he would pay it back up to tho
lay he went away.-Graphic.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-06
The Right Side of the 8

SAN VI VIZ W.
I've lived sixty years in this frisky old
world,
An seen lots Of changin' and %turnin',
An fifty Of them, by the sweat of my brow:
My bread an my butter been earnin',
An I've learned many things in the way of
hard facts,
never was any great scholar,
An here's one for you. Whatever you do
Young man-an' young woman, I'm warmth
you, too
Keep on the right side of the dollar.
No matter how much you may want this or
that,
II you can't spare the money to buy it,
Don't run into debt, or you'll quickly regret
That you ever were tempted to try it.
Though your clothes may he white at the
seams, and you find
Rough edges OH cuffs an on collar,
jest wait to get new till the same you can
do,
Young man-an' young woman, I'm warnln'
you too
An keep on the right side of the dollar.
Oh, the strifes an the troubles that would be,
like weeds,
Cut down in their pestilent CROWN,
An the blessings, like the beautiful flow'rs,
that folks
In their stead would be constantly sowin'!
Oh, the homes I'M the lives that wouldn't be
lost,
II all this plain precept would foller
mat lay down to you! Whatever you do,
Young man--an' young woman, I'm warn:n'
you, too
Keep on the right Size of the dollar.
-IIdrper's Bdzar.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-06
ALAdy's Equipago.

Rose Eytinge writes in the New York
Hail and Express that it is a very pretty
sight TO see a Turkish lady of rank taking
her afternoon drive. This is always in q
coupe or clarence; never in an open car
riage. First comes the ~''saice" or run
ming footman, always q tall, 1.-THE, hand
some young Arab, with bare legs anij
feet, clothed as to body in q thin white
shift, with wide, open flowing sleeves; !.
sash of gay colors around his waist, hi
Head covered with the inevitable sttar.
Roosh," around which is rolled a great
turban Of soft white muslin. Armed witt
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-06
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.

Opposed to Curtain Lectures.
Speaking of wedlock, a poet says:
Marriage when rightly understood,
Gives to the ~virtuous and the good
A Paradise below"
These are beautiful lines; but they do
not exactly fit the case when u man re-
*urns home in the evening, and is met
with the salutation, els this the time Of
night you come home, you good-for-
nothing thing2 You arc a nice man!
Why didn't you tell me you were going
to act in this way before I married you2
Why don't you come into the house, Do
you want to stand there all night, blink
ing at me like an owl2 Why don't you
tab Q off your clothes and sleep on the
doorstep2 You don't care whether I
catch sold or not, standing here with
nothing on. No you don't care whether
/ do or not, you are'-But why con-
tinue.-Boston Courier.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-06
Tight Laoing Again.

'Is it true" asked q Baltimore Sun re-
porter of one of Baltimore's best known
modistes, "that tight lacing is coming
into fashion againW
Yes, it is true. You see it is fashion
able for ladies to. be broad shouldered
and small wasted, and customers of
mine whose clothes I used to make from
twenty three to twenty-seven inches,
waist measure, now have them fully five
inches smaller. Only a year ago a natur-
n waist, measuring say from twenty-five
TO twenty-seveu inches, was considered
graceful and pretty, which it really is,
but o it is not fashionable to measure
more than from eighteen to twenty
three. Of course, the lacing is done by
means of the corset, and sometimes I
nearly break my fingers trying to fit and
close basqucs that are so tight they will
not meet without an effort. While
everything else must be very tight in the
waist, breadth and fullncss. about the
shoulders are striven after, as they servo
by contrast to intensity the seeming
smailness of the waist. Do I use pad
ding9 Oh, yes; lots of it. The hollows
between tho shoulders and under the
arms arc filed out with it, and in some
cases one whole shoulder is made of it.
notably where one shoulder is higher
than the other. Everything must be
skin tight these days, and if one has not
agood figure it must be made good. A
favorite method of procedure is to ft frs,
on the figure a lining, on which the
figure is built out with cotton wherever
needed. Over this is fitted a second Ii.
ming and then comes the dress mater.
ial.n