The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-19
Marriage-Made Men.

Marriage-Made Men.
"1et him marry, then," was the
crusty reply of an old bachelor, on be-
ing told that friend had gone blind,
''let him marry, and if that doesn't open
his eyes, then his case is indeed hope
less" f..... ....'-
The sheer has been confuted by the
experience of scores of blind scholars,
whose wives have been eyes to them.
Huber the great authority on bees,
was blind from his seventeenth year,
and conducted the observations which
gave him the facts for his studies
through the eyes of his wife. He de-
clared that he should be miserable
were he to regain his eyesight, adding,
Il should not know to what extent
person In my situation could be beloved;
besides my wife is always young, fresh
and pretty, which is no light matter"
Blind Henry Fawcett became pro-
lessor of political economy at Cam
bridge, an effective debater in Parlia-
ment, and a most successful Postmas-
ter General, by using the eyes of his
cultured wife.
The crusty old bachelors sheer falls
fiat, when it encounters such wives as
these-and they are but two out of the
many who have made their husbands
men of good repute.
Sir Samuel Romilly, the leading
lawyer and law-reformer of his day,
illustrated the experience of successful
men when he said that nothing had
more protited him in his public life
than the observations and opinions Of
his wife
The biographer of Sir William Ham
ilton, commenting upon the helpfulness
OF Lady Hamilton says: THE number
of pages in her handwriting still pre-
served is perfectly marvellous"
When he was elected professor of
logic and metaphysics in the University
of Edinburgh, he had no lectures in
stock. He began at once to write them,
but though he worked rapidly, and far
into the night, he was often only few
hours in advance of his class.
Lady Hamilton sat up night after
night to write out fair copy of the
lectures from the roughly written pages
he had scrawled in the ad Joining room.
He would take her legible sheets and
read them that morning to the students,
who knew not that their professors
success was due to his being marriage
made man. When paralysis, brought
on by mental overwork, had stricken
him, she became even more helpful,
and by her assistance he was enabled
to perform his professional duties until
death removed him from the chair.
Fa-is' Method OfStreet Transportation.
A system of transfer from one line of
buses to another is q feature of the
Partisan method of street transporta-
tion A person wishing to travel by
bus to any given point may not find q
line of buses going his way. He then
takes a line which crosses some line
which in turn crosses another line
which goes to the neighborhood which
he wishes to reach. For single fare
he can transfer himself from one line
to another until he reaches his destina-
ton. Wherever these lines, which
work together under what the Paris
ians call the correspondence system,
cross each other, there is an omnibus
station.
When a passenger wishes transfer
he goes into the station and receives q
check bearing number. When the
bus which he desires to take comes up,
an official calls out as many numbers as
there are vacant seats in the vehicle.
The numbers which he calls are always
those in the hands of the passengers
who have waited the longest at the sta
ton. New Corners have no chance un-
til those WHO have taken advantage of
the correspondence system are all
served. An American friend of mine
could not for some little time under
stand this system. why said he,
whenever you go to one Of these bus
stations and try to get on, they have a
kind of a lottery, and call off numbers.
III you strike the combination you get a
ride; otherwise you stop on the curb"