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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11

rstsd IN the competition OF large city
as compared with that OF n small one.
Competition can no more be done away
with than gravitation. Its incidence
can be changed. We can adopt as u
social policy. WOE to the successfully
We can take the prizes away from the
successful aud give them to the unsuc-
cessful. 1t seems clear that there would
soon be no prizes at all, but that infer
ence is not universally accepted. In
any event, 1t is plain that we have not
got rid of competition G., OF the
struggle for existence ana the COMPETE
ton of life. We have only decided
that, If We can not all have equally. we
will all have nothing
Competition does not guarantee re-
suits corresponding with merit, because
hereditary conditions and good and
bad fortune are always intermingled
with merit, but competition secures to
merit all the chances it can enjoy un-
der circumstances for which none of
ones ielow-mcn arc to blame. - rot.
". q. summer, H Popular Sc.ence
h0Hthtu.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11
The Man Who Saved the Queens
Life.

The London correspondent OF the Bel
fast Morning NeUS gives some curious
particulars about the man who saved
the queens life near Kensington palace
in 1921, when her majesty was only 2
years old. The man was an Irish sol
der named Moloney. He was walking
near the carriage in which the infant
princess was driving, and when the car
raige was upset he rushed to the child's
rescue and brought her safely out of the
broken vehicle. He broke his LEG, how
ever, in the attempt. and sustained
other injuries from which he suffered
for some time afterward. The duchess
of Kent, the queens mother, gave him
the muniiicent reward of 81 for his
heroic act. In few years he was sent
out TO India with his regiment, and
there he spent upward of twenty years,
returning TO England pensioner on 6
pence day. Being in great distress
8 pence day being unable to maintain
the poor fellow-he wrote to her males
" reminding her of the important SER
vice he had rendered TO her in early
life. No notice whatever was taken of
the application. Nothing daunted, how
ever, he wrote again and again, but
still no response came from Windsor.
To shorten the story, he kept reminding
her majesty for nearly twenty years
that he had saved her life. and rs he
was beginning to think at last that he
could never succeed in exciting the
royal gratitude to do anything for him,
he received through the post small
donation anonymously. The following
week it was repeated. Upon the intro
duction of postal orders he got one for
II almost every week, the donor being
still nameless. AS the orders, however,
bore the Windsor postmark, he suspect
cd the source whence they came. AT
last one day u slip of paper. which ap-
peared to have been put into the letter
accidentally revealed the name of the
sender - Sir Henry Ponsonby, the
queens private secretary. Since that
time Moloney has got the postal orders
without any disguise whatever from Sir
Henry. Moloney was originally in
tended for the church, but being a wild
young fellow he left home during his
student days, taking with him large
sum of money which belonged to his
father. This he soon spent. and then
he enlisted. He knew classics fairly
well, and while soldier used to amuse
his companions by quoting verses from
the Latin and Greek poets. He is now
over 80 years o. age, and lives at Houn-
slow, near London.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11
MISSING LINKS.

Seventy-iive wild cats have been kill
fornia.
The Independent SAYS there is need of
4 spitting-car for those who chew tobac-
co or have consumption.
The siverInlls of Montana represent
an investment OF $4,000, 600, and min
ing machinery It's much more.
The new courthouse which is 10 cost
the city of Los Angeles. Cal. $4,000
will be finished by June /, 1887.
George Augustus Sala writes so small
hand that, it is said, not single COM
positors name appears on his list OF
friends
In London the price OF gas to private
consumers is IS per 1000 feet on the
north side of the Thames, and % Cd on
the south side.
Miss Jessie Buckner, daughter OF
General Buckner, of Confederate fame,
has made her debut rs a concert singer
in New Orleans.
A custom with j. L. Barnum is TO
advise every man who has wife to
give her signed temperance pledge as
a New Years gift.
Angels recently finished full-length
portrait of Queen Victoria has been
placed in one of the drawing-rooms OF
Buckingham Palace.
George w. Childs of the Philadelphia
Ledger has an income of 100000 a
year, and no man in the country makes
better use of his money.
Probably the largest flock Of sheep in
York state is that owned by n citizen OF
Columbia. He has under cover and in
good keeping $3.50 sheep.
Mrs. George b. Mcclellan is suggest
ed by the Detroit Free Press as de-
serving subject of the Nations bounty
in the shape of pension.
Congressman Ira Davenport and his
brother have just presented to their ma
tive town of Bath, n. Y, an imposing
structure for library purposes.
OF the next Connecticut senate the
Oldest senator will be +. II. Hyde ct
Staford-74-and the youngest. Senator
Thomas ii. Allen of Spraguc-24.
\ sack of gold dust, valued at SILL
600, was taken out of the placer mines
in Blackfoot District. Montana. by Two
brothers during the past season.
An artesian we'll Mt Portland. Oregon,
is down eighteen hundred feet and has
cost so far SlS,000 with no prospects
yet of securing good flow of water.
AT Newport two years ago they had
The ''Rhode Island whirl," last year
'the Newport wink" but white Sui
phur smile" still holds its own in the
south.
Charlee L. Pilgrim. the new boy
preacher, is said to be just 16. He has
the advantage of Mr.. Harrison, the pio-
neer hoy preacher" by about forty
years.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11

The characteristics of New York
rich men are illustrated by two Incl
dents told by the New York Times: II
have put your name in my will, and
you will get $4,000 when | die" This
was the Christmas surprise that Wall
street man gave his confidential clerk.
And he added this: Now, Pm in pref
ty good health and don't intend to die
very soon, so | will help you out in the
meantime by paying you per cent in
terest on the amount. Here's check
for 5000 topay the first years interest. !"
Another: n millionaire of family in
vested just 81 in Christmas presents.
and the ST. included the cost of So
hat that he gave himself
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11
Reported Cure Tor LeprOsy.

The Catholic Missions. u German
monthly publication. publishes letter
from Father Damian. the missionary
priest in the leper settlement at Molo-
kai, which contains the following pas
sage:
For about twenty years our most dis
tinguished physicians tried every pos
sible means TO master this dreadful
disease; but all their efforts failed to
check the spread of the distemper.
About three years ago white man was
seized with ieprosy. Being very
wealthy, he preferred to 90 to Japan
rather than submit to a lifelong exile
in Molokai. In Japan he continued for
two years course of treatment under
DR.. Goto. He returned .hither. accom-
panied by son of DIR. Goto, with every
appearance of perfect cure. About
the end of last year the health commit
tee resolved TO introduce under the super
vision OF DIR. Goto. the japanese treat
mcnt into the leper hospital, which Is in
charge of Franciscan Sisters ut Kakaako,
near Honolulu Already then felt in
clined to 60 TO Honolulu to consult DIR.
Goto about the disease, which had al
ready made sad havoc with one Of my
ears. At this time. however, my superiors
did not consider the step advisable. Last
July. however, had occasion to per-
sonally satisfy myself of the success
which had attended the treatment in
question in the hospital of the Sisters at
Kakaako, and to carefully observe its
method, which consists in this: Every
day the leper has to take two baths in
hot water in which n certain quantity
of Japanese medicine has been dissol-
we'd. After every meal he has to take a
small pill, and an hour later an ounce
of tea prepared from the bark of a
japanese tree. This is the whole treat
ment. Both young Dr. Goto and the
white patient, of whom made mention
above, have assured me that in Japan
many q leper has been completely cured
by this treatment. Whatever truth
there be in this statement, | must own
that the Improvement during these six
months in the condition of many lepers,
whose illness was already in very
developed state, has been simply mar
velous. think myself, therefore. justi-
tied in seeing IN this treatment q glim-
mer of hope for our poor outcast lepers
Oh NOlOhdl hlu0 huiNhuuN .iuNi Ills
prime minister honored me with Il visit
during my short stay at kakaako, near
Honolulu. They told me it was their
intention to introduce the same system
of treatment in our great leper settle
ment / look forward with satisfaction
to the day on which we shall receive a
steam boiler which may heat about
fifteen bath-tubs at the same time. For
few weeks have undergone the treat
mcnt in question. At the same time |
commenced the treatment with about
forty to fifty of NV orphan children.
We have already derived some benefit
from it. My work seems lighter. and
my strength is returning. One Sunday
recently, for instance, said two masses
and preached during each without be-
ing obliged to sit down and without
feeling particularly weared.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11

The vastness OF the British Indian
Empire is curiously illustrated by the
enormous records of mortality, which
are taken quite rs Il matter OF course by
the Sanitary Commissioners reports.
Thus, rs the Times Of Iadia points out,
in the report for Bengal during the
last year. it is incidentally stated rs q
matter of no particular moment that in
Orissa alone no fewer than fifteen thou
sand persons must have persisted
through the effects of Il cyclone and
storm wave without any record of their
death being kept. The chowkidars who
should have reported the event to the
government were swept away with the
villages; no one was left TO tell the tale.
Again cholera ragged in 10000 villages,
causing 1876 deaths, while 1,042,-
042 persons died from fever. Altogether,
10000 of deaths were registered in
Bengal, exclusive of the $4,000 caused
by the cyclone. On the other hand,
there were 100000 births TO counter
balance the lops of population.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11

A Georgia newspaper illustrates the
average Southern negro's poor business
ability by telling of one who asked the
price of coats in n store. The store
keeper offered him various garments
cheap for cash. but the darkey would not
buy, and finally the merchant picked out
q coat that cost him $l.65 and offered it
to the negro for 80. agreeing to take 80
in cash and trust him for the balance.
The customer jumped at the Offer and,
without even trying on the coat, paid
The ~ and went away happy in his
ability TO owe IS. The storekeeper will
not worry if he does not get the money.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11

Ii is often affirmed, and it is true,
that competition tends TO dispense So
ciety over wide range of unequal con-
ditions. Competition develops all powers
that exist according to their measure
and degree. The more intense compe-
tition is, the more thoroughly are all the
forces developed. Ii, then, there is lib
erty, the results can not be equal; they
must correspond to the forces. Liberty
of development and equality of result
are therefore Numerically opposed TO
each other. If a group of men start on
equal conditions, and compete in CON-
mon enterprise, the results which they
attain must differ according to inheri-
ted powers, early advantages of train
ing, personal courage, energy. enter
prise, perseverance. good sense. etc,
etc. Since these things differ through
n wide range, and since their combina-
tions may vary through n wide range,
it is possible that the results may
vary through wide scale of degrees.
Moreover, the moro intense the COM
petition, the greater are the prizes
of success and the heavier are the
penalties of failure. This is illus
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11

4 County OF Van Buren,-ss.
Al session o the Probate Court for the County
OF Van Buren,, holden at the Probate ONCE, in the
village of Paw Paw, Saturday, the 3lst day of
December IN the year one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-seyen: Present, Hon. Orrin \. Hilton,
Judge of Probate.
In The matter OF the estate OF Elizabeth Wierton
deceased.
On reading and Cling the petition, duly verified,
OF 9hoCas Willertor. praying Tor reasons therein
stated that administration OF said estate may be
grauted 10 the petitioner.
Thereupon il is ordered that Monday, the 3Oth
day ofJanuary, 1884, at ten o clock in the forenoon
DE assigned for the hearing OF said petition, and that
all persons interested III said estate required
10 appear st session Of said court, then to be hold
NJ the Probate Oficc, III the village OF Paw Paw
and show cause, IL any there be, why the prayer of
tbe petitioner should not be granted.
And IL is further ordered, that said petitioner give
notce 10 the persons interested in said estate, of the
pendency of sale petition, and the hearing thereof
hy causing n copy OF this order 20 be published IN
tho TRUE NOTTHERSEE, a newspaper, printed and
circulating in said county OF Van Buren, for three
successive weeks at least previous 10 said day of
hearing.
llzol4 OREIN y. HILTON. Judge of Probate.
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ORDER FOnr HEARING CLAIMS

~ State OF Michigan, County OF Van Bdren-ss.
office Is hereby given, that by an order of the
probate court for the County Of Van Buren,, made
on the eth day of December, A. u. 1885, elk months
from that date allowed for creditors to present
their claims against the estate Of Thomas Galligan,
late OF said county deceased and that all creditors
Of ead deceased required TO present their claims
10 said probate court at the probate Office in tho
Village of Paw Paw, Cor examination aud allowance,
on or before u 18th day OF june, 1888, and that
such claims will be heard before said court, on Mon
dan the 18th day of March, 1881 and on Monday, the
1lth day OF june 1885, at ten oclockin the forenoon
81 each OF those days.
Dated, Paw Paw, December eth, A. ID. 1887.
8Sr5ol2 ORRIN \. HILTON, Judge Of Probate.
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, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. sAAE.-1n II

Z n = n
"a matter OF the estate of John Hendricks deceased.
Notice Is hereby given, that by virtue OF license
grauted TO me by the Probate Court for the county
al Van Buren,, state of Michigan, Will sell at pub
Bic vendue to the highest bidder, at the front door
81 the Court House, in the village IF Paw Paw, in
said county. on the ION day of February eighteen
huHdred aud eighty-eight, at one O'Clock in the
afternoons all the right title and Interest OF the said
Jcnu Hendricks, deceased in and TO the following de-
srbed real estate, toit: The south half of the east
haf CT the northeast fractional quarter OF section
number three, I'm township number four south, of
range number thirteen west, continuing forty-three
acres be the more less, in the township OF
Porter, county of Van Buren,, state Of Michigan.
lOt7clGf HARLAN Z. WATERS,
Administrator Of said deceased.
Dated. Paw Paw, December 9th. 1881.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11

After the winter Is past and over
And summer Is seeking the swift-nown
spring,
After the blossoms arc blown on the clover
And famed ali day by the bees light wing.
What shall wo do with tho love that we played
at
Under tho tremor of ballroom light
When you in your satin and pearls arrayed, at
VIII reigned supreme, the queen OF the
nighty
Whore shall we bury il. now that it's ended?
A seasons too long for love play TO live
A love that know well you never Intended
single Wild throb OF perfection to give.
Oh, you and may but triile with passion,
And sip not taste of its keen, strong vino;
i nay bat dream that mold and fashion
Your heart TO beat with love like mine.
Love that Is more than sweet hours dream
ing
Owneth no place in world like ours,
Where there is only wan, cold seeming,
Shamed by the warm, true blush or the
flowers.
And yeti love thee, as well thou knowest,
Although thy love was n winters play;
Aud my heart is with thee, wherever thou
goest,
Zen 10 the far dusk ends OF the day.
w. j. Henderson.
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Henry w. Grady. of the Atlanta Con-
Stttutton, who has SO suddenly leaped
into fame by his speech at the New
England dinner. was asked day or
two before the dinner what no intended
to say in his speech. The Lord only
knows" he replied. II have thought of q
thousand things to say, five hundred
of which if / say they will murder be
when get back home, and if l say the
other five hundred they will murder me
ut the banquet"
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Csarke,s Fink SaYve.

Cures Piles, Salt Rheum, letter, Burns,
Scalds, Sores, Wounds, Infants Sores and
Chatting Sore Nipples and Eruptions Of the
Skin. Sufferers with Catarrh will find this
an invaluable remedy and certain cHTn|
Pleasant to use and perfect satisfaction gu
anteed. Price, 20 cents per box. For sale
by @. r. Young, Paw Paw.
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I,tsANCEEgY &QLE.-In pu

l'taA%GEteE %ALE.-ln pursuance and
y by virtue of decree OF the circuit court for the
county OF Van Buren,. in chancery, in the state OF
Michigan, made and dated the 18th day OF No
Nenhcr 4. ID. 1887, in certain cause therein pend
ing. wherein Alfred VI. Turner IS complainant and
jennie p. steele aud solomon w. Steele are defend
Snt-:
Notice is hereby given that shall sell at public
auction, 10 the highest bidder, at the front door OF
the court house in the village OF Paw Paw, county
of Van Buren, and state OF Michigan (said court
mouse being the place Tor holding the circuit court
court for said county, Tuesday, the Ith day OF
February, A. D. 1885, at ten % lock in the forenoon,
all much thereof shall be necessary to salts
~ the amount due TO che complainant Tor prncipai
interest aud costs in this cause, of the following de-
scribed parcel Of land, to-Wit: The north half oil
the northeast quarter Of section three 3 town -FOUR
IA south of range fifteen l5) west, county OF Nan
Buren, aud state of Michigan and containing in all
eighty (sO) of land, be the same more or less
Dated. Paw Paw, December 6th A. d. 1887.
JOHN l. BRICK, Circuit Court commissioner
i'm and for Van Buren, County, Michigan.
ANNABLE * FITCH, Complairant's Solicitors. 9tol5
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A cousin of Charles Dickens. who Is
SAID TO be living in New York under
very straitened circumstances, abso-
lutely refuses 10 sell valuable auto
graph letters Of the great novelist,
though handsome prices have been
offered by collectors.
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Zacn L. Best. OF Alden, Ark, rugged
up cistern for his wife to fall into
and drown. and the next day he fell
in himself Neighbors pulled him out.
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SOLDIERS, ATTENTION F!

2c~>>.C the Children. They are es.
sO~OO pecially liable to sudden
Colds, Coughs, Group, Whooping Cough.
etc. We guarantee Acker's English
Remedy positive cure. II saves
hours of anxious watching. Sold by
Bartram d Millington, Druggists.
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There is newspaper in Dakota for
every 1920 population.
Wichita eagle., 1888-04-28
Blood Letting in Persia.

In Persia blood letting is the same pam
acea for well nigh all ieshly ills to-day
that it was with our ancestors in the days
of bluff King Hal. In the spring every
Persian HES him to the barber surgeon to
have that professional phlebotomist re-
lieve him of, say, half pint of blood.
One sunny March morning sat up On the
bala Khana of village chapa house and
watched the barber bleed a goodly share
of the whole male population. With his
arms barred to the elbows, bunch of raw
cotton in lieu OF lint beneath his arm, and
his keen edged razor inserted beneath his
cap, the travelling tonsorial artist took up
his position on the bank of the irrigating
ditch that ran through the village Of Las
grid. Candidates for his services soon
began crowding about him. Each sturdy
ryot barred his right arm to the shoulder,
and got one of his neighbors TO bind a
handkerchief tightly just above the elbow.
He then presented himself TO the barber.
The tonsorial artist pressed out with his
thumb and foretinger the small vein he
wished TO slit, and, with the air of man
who knows his profession and its import
ance, deity inserted the point of his razor.
The blood spurted out in a tiny stream;
the villagers squatted down on their
launches and watched it bleed, occasion
ally working the elbow joint TO stimulate
the flow. Half pint is considered about
the correct quantity for aa adult to lose
at one bleeding; the barber then COM
pletes his services by binding on small
wad Of cotton.
Many prefer being bled in the roof of
the mouth, instead of in the arm. | OBJ
served that these were old men mostly,
and judged them TO be knowing custom
ers, who had wise theories of their own as
to why the mouth bleeding was prefer
able to the others. l have seen as many
as thirty or forty of the Persian BARRIERS
patients sQuatting in a low row on the
bank Of a stream or ditch, each one let
ting the little stream of blood from arm
or mouth squirt into the water.-Thomas
Stevens in Inter Ocean.
Wichita eagle., 1888-04-28

Talking of politeness, the japanese have
that article in their composition to a very
extraordinary extent. Men are always
excessively polite to one another. They
bend their backs and bow their heads and
put their two hands back to back between
their knees and have a great time. But
the most amusing thing is to see two old
ladies in Japan meeting one another on
the street. The street is empty, We'll say,
and they catch sight of one another three
or four blocks apart. They Immediately
begin to make obeisance at one another,
and they keep bending and bowling at
short intervals until they come together,
when they make that peculiar hiss by
drawing in the breath and keep on saying
"Ohayo'' for about two minutes, The
young things, the "Moosmais," are very
charming and graceful in their greeting of
one another, but the old ladies are ornate
and elaborate in their address.
And the language has been framed with
a view to the necessities Of politeness and
of difference in rank. care" with the
accent on the e, is the verb to be- If you
are talking to a coolie, somebody very
much below you, "are'' is good enough
for lis" If you are talking to one a
little below you, or you wish to be polite
to an underling, you use ''arimas." If
you are on formal terms with an equal,
you say ''gozarimas," and when you ad-
dress man high above you in rank you
make it "gozarimasuru." It's an elastic
language, and pulls out to almost any
length.-San Francisco Chronicle I'm
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