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

When they lie in the mud,
No fenrs of d Hood.

A young man with his coat ripped
down the back and his hair dreadfully
mussed up, called to see the captain at
police headquarters and lodge com
plant.
81 was coming in on the Gratiot road
this morning" said he, wearing q
brass eagle on my vest as badge. OF
course You are aware that it was an
American eagle?"
Yes"
"And you fully realize that the
American eagle represents liberty?"
Il do"
when the american eagle is around
all tyrants and oppressors have to take
back seat. AS | was walking along L
met two young men, and one of 'em
steps up and says:
is that ere wild goose or a
menagerie snipe?'
That's the proud bird of liberty,
says I.
Il kin chuck that ere proud bird in
the mud says the other.
mot while / livep says /, and the
fight begun. l was flung down, step
ped upon, rolled over, and the emblem
of liberty was tom off and spit on and
trampled into the mud"
"Well?"
well, something ought to be done.
1 don't care for myself, but when any
body insults our emblem he must be
taught a lesson"
"l'm afraid there is no law to cover
the case"
"No law to protect the American
eagle?"
Never heard of one"
"Humph! Isn't this land of liberty !?
Didn't the blood of our forefathers dye
a hundred battlefields that we might be
free? And now you tell me that it is
all an illusion ?"
"Mostly that way, guess.
every well. Pm done! I'm done
with brass eagles, live eagles, and all
other sorts. I'm done with the life of
Gen. Putnam-the adventures of
Mar on, and the exploits of Washing
ton. American liberty can go to Hail
faxl Good day. "-Detroit Free Press.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03

Man cannot draw water from AN empty well, !
Nor trace the stories that gossips tell,
Nor gather the sounds OF pedling bell.
Man never can stop the pillows roar,
Nor change the winds till they blow no more,
Nor drive true love from maiden's door.
Man cannot o'ertake n feeting lie,
Change his wheat to n field Of rye,
Nor call back years that have long gone by
Man cannot a cruel word recall
Fetter thought, be IL great or small.
Nor honey extract from a drop of gall.
Man never can bride old Father Time,
Gain the peak that he cannot climb,
Nor trust the hand that hath done n crime
Man never can backward turn the tide,
Nor count the stars that are scattered wide,
Nor hpd In fool trusty guide.
Man cannot reap fruit from worthless seed,
Rely for strength ON n broken reed,
Nor gain heart he hath caused to bleed.
Man never can hope true peace Co win,
Pleasure without and JOY within,
Living a thoughtless life OF sin.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03

OF pigs, L have heard 1t said, very
frequently:
When swine carry sticks,
The clouds viii play tricks
but that
When they lie in the mud,
No fears of flood.
The first of these couplets is of two
fold interest. have watched them for
years, to see what purport this carry
ing of sticks and lunches of grass
might have, and have only learned
that it has nothing whatever to do with
the weather, or at least with coming
transforms. The drouth of summer is
so far convenience as to throw light
upon this habit, as it did upon the I'M
easy COWS. Pigs carry sticks as fire.
quently then as during wet weather, or
just preceding a shower. Further
more, these gathered twigs are not
brought together as though to make a
nest, but are scattered about in per-
fectly aimless manner. For some
cause, the animal is uneasy, and takes
this curious method of relieving itself.
The probabilities are that it is sur
vival of some habit common to swine in
their feral condition, just as we see a
dog turn about half dozen times be-
fore lying down.
In an interesting paper on local
weather-lore, read by Mr.. Amos w.
Butler before the American Association
for the Advancement of Science.
during the Philadelphia meeting of
1884, the author has another version Of
this saying: when the hogs gather
up sticks and carry them about, expect
cold weather" This is wholly at
variance with what 1 have observed,
for my memoranda record shows this
habit almost wholly during the hot
weather, and this must necessarily be
the rule with New Jersey swine, or the
local weather prophets would not have
coined the verse as have given it,
AS to the other couplet, it is about
as near meaningless as any saying can
well be. Some rustic rhymer, a
century ago, may have added it as a
piece of fun, but it has stuck most
persistently. AS it stands now, it has
stood for quite 100 years.-Dr. e. {.
AbGott, IN Popular Science Monthly.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03
Senator voorhees, and the Tramp.

"This is Senator Voorhees,, believe? ?"
said Washington tramp to the Tall
Sycamore of the Wabash.
1T is" was the reply.
"And think you are in favor of the
urgent deficiency bill?"
az am"
"Ah Then give me quarter, Sen
ator, for I'm the worst case of urgent
deficiency you ever sawl"
The quarter came. -NeiU York
Tribune
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03

"Go BACK and tell your people to
send an immediate invitation to the
Angel Gabriel" was the reply of a
prominent divine to the committee from
Meriden church, after they had stated
the qualifications which the pastor must
possess TO be eligible to a call from
their fastidious congregation. - NelC
London Telegrdph.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03
ANYBODY.

A fading spinster lone and lorn,
Upon summers night,
Was praying for proposals
With all her maiden might.
Beneath her window posed an owl
In sober dignity,
Inspecting the fair landscape
From perch on apple tree.
A zephyr rust'ed DER that owl,
Who by that window safe,
The maiden hearing "Who! who Who'll
Cried ANY one. o fate!"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03
A Great Find.

The agent of a dime museum, who
had been sent out by the proprietor
with rowing commission to replace
leading attraction who had lately mar
ried another freak, and gone out of the
show business, came upon Long Island
fisherman.
Anything unusual in the fish about
this vicinity?" he inquired.
NAV, nuthin' out o. ordinrey," re-
piled the old man, "'cept that they
bites more one day than they does
t'other."
Didn't you ever hook big fish that
pulled you overheard, and towed you
across to the other side of the lake?"
Nav, never ded."
Didn't you ever see the fish so hun
CRY that they jumped right into your
boat to get at the bait ?"
Nav, can't saay tibet died."
Didn't you ever see the lake so full
of fish that you.had to get out of your
boat and shove it along over their
backs ?"
NAV, don't think 1 ever ded."
Never caught fish that had swal-
lowed precious gem of untold wealth 2"
"Saay, does l look es eff / he'd? %
How long have you been fishing,
anyhow"
Nigh onter sexty year, man and
boy"
"Old man." ioyfully exclaimed the
dime museum agent, as he took him by
the lapel of his coat, come with mel
L have gold for thee. "-E.rchdnge.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03

LIFE is like pack of cards. Child
hoods best cards are hearts; youth is
captured by diamonds; middle age is
conquered with club, while old age
is raked in by the Unsuitable spade.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03

KLEIN's inference from the results of
special trials with manures containing
sulphocyanides is cautionary. Water
containing per litre Il gram ammonium
sulphocyanide proved fatal to we'll
grown plants of barley and oats. Young
plants persisted under the application
of even .01 gram. The introduction of
superphosphates containing sulphocy-
andes should therefore be discounten-
anced, or if used at all should be APP
piled to the land some weeks before
sowing.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03

SIR WATKINS WILLIAM WYNNE talk
ing to friend about the antiquity of
his family, which he carried back to
Noah, was told that he was mere
mushroom of yesterday. slow so,
pray?" asked the baronet. @Why," ex-
claimed the other, "when / was in
Wales, pedigree of particular fam
lily was shown me; it filled five large
skins OF parchment, and near the mid
die of it was a note in the margin !:
About this time the world was ere
ated. '"-St. Louis Magazine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03
He Remembered.

Now, pa, DEAR" said a Hartford girl,
"you will do just one or two little en-
rands for me to-day, won't you?"
"Why, certainly, my dear"
ooh, that's ever so good pa. You
Just match these seven colors in
worsted, buy me three good crochet
needles, you know what kind, and "a
package of caramels."
All right, my dear. I'll remember
the caramels." And that was all he in
tended to remember.-H Hartford Post.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03

THEY beg led him to play little.
He seemed TO feel bashful at first, but
after a while began to play vigorously.
"What power!" said listener to the
owner of the piano. "Yesl" exclaimed
the latter in alarm, "he seems to have
considerable muscle; but he ought TO
know that this isn't gymnasium"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03

In the arctic region there are 7G2
kinds of flowers Fifty of these are
confined to tho arctic region.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03
Novelist Howelis and His Dainty Wife

Howells is dumpy little man, with
a fat nut-brown face, full jaws, hand
some chin, eyes that ooze warm,
bright light from their hanging lids,
and wearing his hair parted in the mid
die and banged squarely and most de-
hghtfully over his brow. That bang
is touch of nature that makes all
women's hearts kind to him. He is un-
dersized, walks with little lumpity-
lump gait most fetching, and has boy
ish manners hard to harmonic with
those stories of his Boston exclusive
ness. Mrs. Howells, his dainty little
wife, looks like precious bit of old
china, like fragile, creamy-tinted cup,
sprigged all over with blue forget. me-
nots, "seen," Charles Lamb would say.
through the lucid atmosphere of far
Cathay. "-Wdshington letter to the
Savannah Mems
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-03
The Pigs and the Weather.

OF pigs, 1 have heard it said, very
frequently:
| When swine carry sticks,
! The clouds will play tricks;
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-03-20
Protection from Frost.

l can hardly hope even to suggest
anything new in regard to preventing
harm or protecting small fruit from
late spring frosts. To prevent, | men
ton: l. Selection Of least frosty
sites, as on uplands, or by ponds or
streams, where fruit bloom is retarded
or protected from sudden sunshine.
2. Choice of varieties most hardy in
bloom and set. 3. Modes of manage
ment most favorable, as covering
Strawberries, grapes and tlackberries,
over winter with earth, manure or
mulch, keeping them covered as late in
spring as proves safe.
To protect fruit bloom and sets
from late spring frosts: /. BY cover
ing low fruit plants with straw spread
over strawberry, currants, gooseberry,
etc. / have several times saved home
gardens in that way with trifing ex-
pense. | believe four or five ordinary
loads OF half refuse straw will cover a
half-acre, and aside from the hauling
can be spread in an hour with the
teamster and two boys. The straw
afterwards for mulch. manure or com.
posting is worth a, large per cent. OF
the whole cost 2. By raising the
surface temperature, and creating cur
rents OF air to prevent frost settling.
This can be done by burning brush,
straw or other cheap fuel, by using
chemical combustibles or explosives,
and by garden engine streams or
sprays, or steam and smoke. arranged
to distribute over given area.-COr-
respondent Michigan HorticuItUrist.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-03-20

lvered all over the country. 1t seems
law OF rallroading that the longer
the distance the lower the rate Of
freight. We can deliver fertilizers as
cheaply In Ohio as We can i'm Spring-
field, Mass, and that is why we can
sell delivered IN various parts OF the
country at about the same prices. If
any one can explain this freight mat
ter, he can explain some ofthe troubles
that are affecting business men OF to-
day.
'"To the quotations OF raw stock
must be added the freight, which aver
ages So to 81 a ton throughout New
England, besides the cost OF manufact-
ure, agents commissions, also at least
twelve months interest, thus affording
some idea of how the selling price OF
fertilizers is reached.
zone word about agents commits
sion. 1t will be asked why manufact-
urers OF fertilizers do not sell their
goods direct. 1t might be desirable to
do so, but unfortunately the farmers
will not order the goods until the day
they want them, and there are about
10000 OF them in Massachusetts,,
not to speak of the thousands in 9th
er states, who use more or less fertile.
ers. TO attempt to supply this great
mass OF consumers in thirty or sixty
days OF thesprlng months, without the
aid OF agents to whom the goods can
be shipped beforehand, would be i'm
possible. Naturally these agents will
not work without some recompense.
The business OF manufacturing fertiliz-
ers Will not average more than 50 TO
So per ton profit, or from five to ten
per cent, which Is a low rate Of profit
for the amount OF capital required in
the business.
cone word about farmers manufact-
uring their fertilizers at home. No sensi-
BILE manufacturer will ever oppose it,
for if the farmer makes his fertilizers
at home he must comeinto the market
to buy the raw stock, and for one, our
concern Is quite as willing to sell the
raw stock as to sell the manufactured
fertilizer. Where wesell fertilizer stock
we have only to guarantee the quality
OF the material and not the results
which it will produce. II man makes
his fertilizer at home, and it is a fail
ure, he never complains, but if he goes
into the market and buys the manu-
featured fertilizer, and also buys his
seed, and his crops are a failure, then
the chances are that both the seeds
man and the fertilizer maker will come
in for a share OF the blame. We are
always glad to sell farmers the raw
stock, for by so doing We are making
converts to the use OF fertilizers and
adding to the rapidly increasing list of
consumers.
"The man who dissolves his fertilizer
at home is obliged to transport sui
phuric acid in glass carboys at his own
risk, and pay double the frst-class
rates OF freight, and after he has done
this two or three years and broken up
number OF carboys, he will come to
the conclusion that the notwithstanding
OF fertilizers would better be lett to
men who have every facility for this
work. After taking into account the
expenses, long credits and shrinkage
which attend the manufacture OF fer
tilizers, reasonable men will come to
the conclusion that no higher prices
are asked than the circumstances war
rant "-American CuItiVatOr
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-03-20
Where Towns Decay.

A Waterbury, Conn, correspondent
writes: Many queer things are now
and then brought TO light in therecords
of the old country towns OF this state,
which sometimes makes the present
generation wonder how the statecame
to win the national reputation as the
Gland of steady habits" Other in
structive lessons are also drawn from
these records. The town of Oxford, in
New Haven County, about twenty
miles distant from theN New York state
line, is an example. The just com
pIeted records for the past year show
a falling off of about 10 per cent. in
the inhabitants and the large amount
for q country town OF 81 900 from the
tax list. Under the heading of Gin
crease" all that appears is zone cow
and Give sheep"
Within the memory OF many people
now living this town was once the
trading center for the state.
Merchants from all of what are now
large towns and cities hereabouts
bought their goods here, and it was 81
regular trading stand for horses, cat
tie, corn and wine. The luxuries of
life were imported from New York,
overland by slow journeys, in exchange
for country produce. And it appears
from the ledgers OF David Tomlinson,
deceased, who did the largest business
ofanyone, that liquors formed no small
part of the imports. aforementioned
by many that at a certain parish
meeting when it was voted to build
Christ Church, the chairman of the
meeting, a good old deacon, offered a
prize Of five gallons OF the best st.
Croix rum to the man who should get
the first timber on theground. Before
the sun set that night there was timber
enough to last the builders many days,
and the villagers in this Gland OF
steady habits made exceedingly mer-
ry over the prize, which the fortunate
man shared with them.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-03-20
The Dentist to be Called In.

From the Oakland (Cal.) Tribune.I
The solving of the st. Louis murder
mystery is about to take place. 1t
has been disputed by the insurance
companies, with whom Prellar, the al
legged victim of the above murder, was
insured that the dead body was that
of Prellar. The claimants of the iu-
surance money to verify their claims,
have had the body disinterred and the
head severed, with a view to prove by
the teeth, which had at some time
been filled, that they possessed Prel-
lars head and that Pretlar was dead.
This method of proof was suggested
by the finding among Prellar's effects
OF a receipted bill bearing date OF March
20, 1878, setting forth that certain
teeth in Prellar's Jaws had been filled
by DR.. E. It. Burnette, OF Oakland, at
that time when Prellar was visiting
this state. A few days ago DR., Burn
cite received a letter from the claim
ants lawyers, asking him whether he
performed certain dental work for
Prellar at the time mentioned and
whether he could identity his work.
DR.. Brunette in referring to his books
OF that date found the entry, also a
description of the work erlormed and
has written a reply TO that effect.
The case will hinge uponDr. Burnette's
testimony and he expects to be sum
moned to st. Louis to testify as an ex.
pert.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-03-20
Feeding Cattle in Sheds.

The Maryland Farmer takes strong
ground in favor of feeding cattle IN
yards and sheds instead OF letting
them roam over large pastures, which
must be fenced at great expense. 1t
is so much cheaper for a farmer to
fence in his own stock than to fence
out all the stock of his neighbors; and
then an acre will yield three or four
times as much cattle food if it is cult
waited and the crops cut instead of be-
ing gnawed off by tramping animals.
The cost OF fences is usually more
than the value of the animals pas
tured, and sometimes more than the
land enclosed. Cattle that are kept
rather close, and are handled often,
are also tanner, and less breachy than
those which run at large, and are often
compelled to shirk for their supply of
food.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-03-20

A Kansas farmer who has had con
siderable experience in raising and feed,
ing sorghum, is quite enthusiastic as
to its merits as fodder crop. He
grows the Early Amber sort, sows
broadcast one and fourth bushels OF
seed, or drills in one bushel. He cuts
when three or four feet high, and be-
ginning to show here and there head,
with Il moving machine; cures thor
oughly. When cut thus early a sec
ond crop nearly or quite as good
as the first can be harvested, or
if preferred, the field affords abundant
pasturage at time when pastures
are generally dried up. The same care
must be exercised in turning cattle in
to a sorghum pasture as into fresh
clover, turning them in for short time
only till they become accustomed to it.
The feed, whether green or cured is ex-
cellent to stimulate milk production.
Ityields from five to six tons per acre.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-03-20
THE RURAL HOME.
The Housemaid's Art.


The fabric soiled by daily wear,
Grows clean within the hoGsemaid's hand;
Each mark of time she takes with care
From seam and gusset, hem and band
But still the stubborn stains appear,
When all her handiwork is done;
But SAYS For this | need not tear,
I've but to place it III the SUM-
With faith she spreads It wide, and loi
The chemistry OF golden beam
Doth white this fabric as the snow.
And make it pure as angels dream,
But" says the hOusemaid in her pride
UNLESS my work had been well done
The uuclean fabric had but dried,
And never whitened in the sun"
So with our lives-'tis ours to keep
Them clean of act and thought impure
With finest brush of art to sweep
The very dust from off the floor.
And 10 the Sun of Righteousness
Into our cleansed soul viii stream
To brighten, beautify and bless,
And whiten to our purest dream.
Mrs. L. j. X. Clifford in Good Housekeeping.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-03-20

81 am your servant Preston, said
|, with a low bow.
'PrestonW exclaimed Miss Marvin.
"Are you Preston ?"
Then, to my great astonishment,
Miss Marvin arose from the bed calm
" walked up to where / stood, took
me by the ear, and led me to the win
dow
"You great, housekeeping BOBBY -
said she. "If I ever catch you inside
this house again I'll scratch your eyes
out. Now crawl through that hole. "
| crawled.
| was impersonating Preston, and |
am sure he would have crawled had he
been there.
told my wife the last half of this
story yesterday-she was already &C.
quainted with the first half-and her
only remark was that if she had sus-
pected the identity OF the pseudo
Preston the night OF the house-break-
ing she would have retained the ear as
a memento of his impudence. The en-
ergy with which she said this caused
me to postpone some rather pointed
remarks about novelties in proposing,
with which / had intended to conclude
my story, and the reader will have to
draw the moral for himself.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-03-20
AN OLD LOCK.

L asst night | found an old forgotten key
Deep in an unused drawer; and quick tears Eel
As in my hand / took IL tenderly-
+ or ali | knew the story it would tell
OF a familiar door, vanished hand,
CHEEKY "click" By eager children heard
Papa is home /" All, little, royal band!
How oft your hearts grew sick with hope de-
ferred
the time after for Papa" went forth
And came not back. Then dawned some dark
some days;
T he cottage home was sold, and We came North
T o gray city street, to fowerless avs.
On the bright steel, great spots OF rust had
grown
1t would not turn so easily as then"
| thought and "Rosebank" is no more my
own
have no claim to enter it again.
Maybe its door has now different lock
And oh, ii even / could venture there,
What should I find my misery TO mock
Ghosts Of the dead-strangers' careless stare
took the key and laid it out OF sight;
'sSince thou canst no more ope the door Tor me
OF that dear home, thou needst not see the
light,
For only doors Of tears are oped by thee"
Chambers Journal
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-03-20
A Boycott for Love.

From the Savannah News.l
In a small town not a hundred miles
from Greensborough there is a certain
cigar dealer who has a beautiful and
winsome daughter. A young man of
the place paid her attentions and won
her affections, but the old man OBJ
iected and forbade the young man his
house. But, nothing dismayed, the
young man organized a club OF sym
pathizers, and they have boycotted
the old mans business refusing to
buy cigars of him unless the barri-
cade be raised. At last accounts the
old man was growing weakened.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-03-20

"BE wise to-day: tits madness to defer"
Don't neglect your cough. If you do your
fate may be that OF the countless thou
sands who have done likewise, and who to-
day fill oonsumptives' graves. Night
sweats, splitting of blood, weak lungs, and
consumption itself if taken in time can be
cured by the use of DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery" This wonderful prep
aration has no equal as remedy for
lung and throat diseases. All druggists.