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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-07-10
BY TEALY.

.ight, but which lacks that subtle es-
sence so readily felt, yet so hard to
describe.
The true fisherman is whole
souled fellow. When his favorite pur
suit is under discussion light springs
to his eyes and a ring comes to his
voice, which proclaims to the listener
that here is natures handiwork.
1t is not necessary that a man shall
catch fish to be fisherman. Many
hard days tramp has been taken and
streams whipped without the slightest
success, yet he has watched the shad
ows chase each other across the meadow
and listened to the signing breeze
among the pines and the hemlocks;
the birds song has been his. from the
dark-gr of the cedars TO the gentle
lap-lap of the wind-kissed waves that
beat against the pebbly shore; all has
told him In natures harmony that this
worlds greatest success does not al
ways consist in being successful.
When the angler has been rewarded
for his trouble and skill. with what Joy
he exhibits the spoil of his rod Let
lis take day when the sun is overcast.
slight breeze starts from the head of
the lake, just sufficient to ripple the
water. Take your seat in the stern of
the boat. The eight-ounce bass rod
lightly lies across your knees. One
hundred feet of line is on the reel. We
will bate with live minnow to-day.
There, cast over the side; now we will
slowly drift to the foot of the lake. AS
we watch the receding willows on the
shore memory flows back to other days
like this: the faces of old friends come
before us across gulf of years that we
hardly care 10 look upon. The mirror
of retrospection holds up many views
for our reminiscent thoughts. All the
line goes out with a whirr from the
reel as the tautened silk swishes
through the water, which at once
brings us from the past to the eager
present. How the toughened lance
wood tip springs under the dash of the
fish. See what graceful arc it de-
scribes as we put on the drag. Care
fnl. now. he heads toward rs don't let
him saw off the leader against the keel.
Snub him Snub him That's right
turn him-run. Now he turns across
the lake, and for the first time, as with
a mighty rush he springs clear of the
water, we see our prize. Heated imagi-
nation pictures him as weighing some
thing near ton; later we shall know
ii we have luck, how much he viii pull
down. Keep him taut; take up the
slack, quick; steady, nowhere he
comes, get the landing-net ready; now
bring him alongside. That's it-hardly
yet-he is not quite exhausted, but
this dash for liberty is the last he will
make" Now he comes slowly toward
the quivering tip, and as we get the net
under and lift him into the boat. ner-
cifully striking the back of his head
against the reel-plate to put him out
of pain, we realize that we have I'M
dergone considerable tension of the
nerves, but his two ponds of flesh
fully repays us for all the mental
strain. and as we gloat over the victim
of our cunning we can fully under
stand that Man was given dominion
over the beasts of the field, the fowls
of the air, and the fish that inhabit
the waters of the earth.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-07-10
Cookey's Awful Vengeance.

An original method OF wreaking ven
geance on an unfai,hful lover has been
adopted by a deceived dam3el. The
man was tailor and the woman a
cook, who, when she heard that the gay
deceiver had given her up for a spruce
dressmaker, armed herself with a pair
of big scissors and bottle of yitriol
and proceeded to the lodging OF the
false-hearted swain. What she would
have done had she met the tailor in the
flesh can only be conjectured in vague
and speculative manner, but it hap
pened that he was out, 30 she set to
work on his Sunday clothes. These
she pulled ont of the wardrobe wherein
they lay, strewed them on n table and
cut them into ribbons with her scissors.
She next sprinkled vitriol over the lot
and treated the tailor's socks, shirts,
and pocket handkerchiefs to vicious
touches of the same corrosive sub
stance. Then she went away satisfied,
but was arrested the next morning ac-
cording to legal phrase rather appro-
pirate TO the circumstances, "at the
suit" ot the tailor London Teie-
graph
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-07-10

Petra is another of these wonders of ex-
cavation. 1t 10 approached through an
awful chasm cut by the Wady Mousa,
just wide enough for the passage of two
horsemen abreast with perpendicular
sides rising from 400 to 100 feet on each
side. This chasm opens to an amphithe-
alter of rock cut in colonnades, pediments,
and ranges of corridors. The amphithe-
alter is between two and three miles in
circumference, encompassed on all sides
by III ged mountains 800 or 900 feet high.
The sides OF the mountains are cut
smooth in a perpendicular direction, and
are filled with long and continued ranges
of dwelling houses, temples and tombs
excavated with vast labor out of the solid
rock, and while their summils present
nature in her widest and most savage
forms, their bases are adorned with all
the beauty of architecture and art
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the top, which is $50 feet in height, it
falls sixteen feet from the base. The
thickness of the wall is 10 feet and its
diameter so feet at the base, gradually
diminishing in size toward the summit.
1t is assembled by $50 very easy steps,
very we'll lighted, and with q landing Mt
each round. There are seven bells in this
grand belfry the sound being very soft
and musical. especially that OF the great
bell which weighs II 900 pounds, and
which is placed upon the side OF the
tower opposite to that which overhangs.
1t was this bell which was formerly used
20 give notice of public executions.
Whether the inclination of the tower was
accidental or intentional it is evident that
the architect endeavored to counteract il
by balancing his materials. After par
ticular height the columns are higher on
the leaning side, and, of course. shorter
on the other. Notwithstanding its de-
parture from the vertical. the center Of
gravity still falls within the base, and
the blocks OF stone, now being firmly
united by cement, can not slide upon
each other; they, in fact, form one mass.
The walls are, moreover, fortified by iron
bars, and it is not now probable, seven
centuries after the erection, that anything
short of an earthquake can produce its
downfall.
The view from the summit OF the tower
is most splendid. The beautiful city OF
Pisa is at its feet, and the spectator seems
IN the very midst Of IT. The Mediterran-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-07-10

By ANNA CERES FRITscH.

SHE.
~Rouse thee, love Aurora's fingers
Paint in roseate hues he sky;
Luna's disk rflucsant, fingers,
Hear the robin morning layl"
HE.
-Can't We let i'm yawp, | wonderg
Yesterday washed them sheep;
I'm dog tired Why In thunder
Can't ye let Teller Sleep
SHE.
sCome, my precious, let as wander
Where upon he lakelet breast
Silvery stars their sweet light squander,
Now the day kings gone To rest.
Through the hushed air hear that moaning,
Weird, uncanny melodyl
Is IL lovesick Ondines grooming,
Or the banshee's waiting cryY
.Soons the light O day Is dawnin',
1 must ship n load o hogs.
What's the use ter stand here yawnin,
Listenin To owls an frogs?"
On her checks the bright tears glitter,
Kissed away before they fall
-Why, you silly little critter
i declar, she's going 10 squelll
Sally, don't ye pout nor sputter,
FL our notions don't Jest meet;
must airn.the bread an butter
You an them six young ones eat
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-07-10

WOULD be i'm
possible TO write
anything upon ar
'chitectural curl
osi les without re-
|ferrlng 10 the lean
ing or hanging
tower of Pisa. ! he
question whether
its detection from
the perpendicular
IL the result of ac-
Icilent or design
has been fully
discussed, quite as
many authorities
argu ng one way
ms the other. IL
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ries since, settled in this vicinity, and that
yearly he, with eight of his cousins, cele-
brated the memory of some ancestor, and
that on each occasion quarrels arose as T.
who should take precedence, until finally
John invented method of settling the
difficulty. He constructed n house with
nine sides, with door in each side.
These doors, in turn, led TO nine sided
room, in which was sci a nonagonal table,
SO that all the nine Ainsmen presided in
common.
Natural obstacles are sometimes the
cause of what looks like an architectural
freak This is, for instance, the little
church of Gunwalloe, away off in the
west of Cornwall. IL was built by pIous
Spaniard who was there saved from be-
ing drown ed. He insisted on building a
votive church on the exact spot where the
waves cast him up, and SO it was done,
but when the church was completed it
filed the little angle in the rocks and
there was no place left for the tower. So
they built the tower on the other side of
the rocks, where there was another little
sandy angle.
In the quaint old town of RNnes,
once the capital of Brittany, there is to
be seen the still more curious sight of n
church tower with no church at all be-
longing TO it, There was a church, but it
was burned down in the great fire of 1920,
which lasted seven days. and which con-
sumed nearly every building in the town.
The tower, a piece of massive masonry,
was preserved, and it stands to-day as a
monument of the conhagration.
Coming across the British channel and
steaming up the lovely Avon toward Bris-
tol the traveller will have the opportunity
of seeing a house known as Cook Folly.
1t is a solitary tower set up on an almost
inaccessible hill and is remarkable for
having but one opening, serving as door
and window combined, and that set fully
sixty feet from the ground. The story of
its construction is as follows: 4 wealthy
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-07-10

stands in square, close to the csthedIai
of Pisa. is built entirely of white marble,
and is a beautiful cylinder of eight sto-
ries. each adorned with a round of col
umns rising one above another 1t in
clines on one side SO far from the perpen-
dicular that dropping plummet from
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-07-10
A FISHING IDYL.
uUI $ HERAIEN.

like poets, are
b o + N , II o {
made. 1t is
true that we
occasi on ally
g II on inter- a
IN ade fisher
man, but we
n l $ o fl IL d
oceans of ma
chine-mad de
poetry, which
may sound all
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-07-10

FENDERsoN--I don't like your friend
Brown He is positively rude. He
went SO far last evening as TO tell me
/ was a iackass 1t was entirely un-
called for. Fogg I agree with you, my
boy. 1t was entirely superAuous.-
Boston Traveller.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-07-10
AMONG THE JOKERS.

BuLLrT-pRooF-T hole il made.
A GRAND trunk line-A herd of ele.
plants.
THE belle should wear her hair in
ringlets.
The weeping willow should be plant.
ed in tiers.
WHEN winters reign is over we have
the spring rain.
CHILDREN ia arms should not be
taken to sailing regatta. Yachtsmen
dread squalls.
A SPIRIT MEDIUMS business is Datu-
rally dull in summer, there is SO little
demand for wraps.
Sick DuDE-Oh, Doctor, what ails
me? Doctor am surprised TO find
that YOU have brain fever.
A THIEF who stole mirror was i'm
prisoned for theft and fined for drunk
enness. He had taken glass too
much.
If it be true that the farmers are
not in cord with the Irvine trust. it Is
not likely thas any of them Will be
roped into it.
ETHEL Why do you despise Mr.. Far
west? Laura-Why, his clothes fit so
well YOU can tell he is an American as
far as You can see him.
BURGLARS entered Detroit mansion
the other night and took, along with
other things, bath This is one of the
oldest thefts on record.
HOW HE wooED HER.
Wood you?' said the coal dealer cutely,
Il wouldn't" she AM wefed quite GRIM
And then a he fred up slightly.
She gave the cold shoulder 10 him
MISS CHARITY is your husband
addicted to the use of alcoholic stimu-
lants? Recipient of aims No indade,
mum, not he; his only failin' is drink
in
How DO Won do, little boy?" Got
a cold in my head" 90, L guess not
What makes YOU think so, little boy?"
Cause my eyes leak and my nose don't
go"
FhEELEIGH-Why don't you get your
wife to learn the violin? Henpect-
She wouldn't do it. While she was
playing, you know, she would have TO
rest her chin.
~ i-OS+piA ththttiS YOU iiitd III VIC
front rows the Young men with the in
cipient mustaches And we suppose
that is where the expression Down In
front comes from.
"HE went right by without noticing
us. l thought YOU knew him. Haven't
you ever metz" "Oh, yes; the last
time he borrowed $40 of me, and we
haven't really met since"
Mn. BRoaDway-You say Chicago is
summer resort? Mr.. Boulevard
Yes Mr. Broadway-But You have no
surf or beach for bathing? Mr.. Boule
vard-True, but it rains all the time.
HE-Oh 1t seems so delightful to
be engaged doesn't it? She-I am
quite used TO it. ! manage il so that |
can be engaged. all the time. / saves
confectioners' bills and theater money,
you know.
A LAWYER of Temple Court was
looking over some papers his German
client had brought, and every signature
had a menace in it as it stood: "A
Schwindler Mr. Schwindler, why
don't you write your name some other
way; write ont your first name or
something? l don't want people to
think YOU are a swindler." "Vell, sir,
Nv much better do YOU dink dat
IDoks ?" And, he wrote: Adam
Schwindler
HE KISSED Her.
In the hammock, slowly swinging
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-07-10
SINGULAR BUILDINGS.
SOME VERY QUEER ARCHITECTURAL
ODDITIES.

Freaks Throughout the
World-Pecuiiarities In Houses and He
markabIe Habitations Constructed by
Man for Various Reasons.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-07-10

In Persia when railroad kills a
man the natives pull up the track for
miles and boycott the trains. As a
practical prevention of railroad acct
dents this plan must be nlu'ost rs eff
fective as that of tying director on
the cowcatcher
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-07-10

DOMESTIC economy consists in do
ing without things" It wa first
practiced by Adam and Eve
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In the hammock, slowly swinging
Where the butterflies are winging
Idly through the summer air
Lies maiden sweetly dreaming;
Through the boughs the sulightstr aaminl
GliHts upon her golden hair.
Coming close TO her. wonder
At her beauty, and ponder
Whether it, would he a sin
just To Kiss her. or would npke her
Angry. ii the Kiss should wnhe her,
Pressed above her dimpled chin.
Meath her In 5hes bright ewes twinkling
All at once gave me an inkling
That her slumbcr is n sham
Ana my faint resolve grows frmer
When her Iipo lips softly Inumur
Goodness, Jack, Don TO a clam I"
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was maintained he could not discover,
neither could he find any one who was
able TO explain the puzzle.
The houses of the lecustrines, or lake
dwellers, may certainly be regarded as
curiosties of construction. Those am
phibious folk disdaIned to live on the
solid shores of the lakes, or else thought
il unsafe to do SO, and built their towns
on piles. so that they could take bath
by simply walking out of the front door
The coast Dyaks of Borneo do the same
thing to-day. OF entirely different tastes
are tho tree-dwellers of Cafiraria The
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groat. or great, because previous to that
time the English had no larger silver coin
than one penny. Other historians say
that John was descendant of a celebrated
Hollander, De Groat. who. several centu-
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-27
ENORMOUS FORTUNES.

Notwithstanding the enormous for
tunes accumulated through the use OF
printers ink, large sums OF money are
annually wasted In Intellectual and unre-
muneratiye advertising.
The merits Of really valuable COM
modify properly portrayed in the col
umns OF IN influential and widely read
newspaper, like the IETELLIGENCER, will
speedily become generally known and
appreciated, while the returns reaped
by the advertiser will be like those Of
the wise husbandman who "planted his
seed in good ground, wherein it bore
fruit and brought forth, some an hun
bred fold, some sixty, some thirty"
The wording OF an advertisement lisa
all.impOrtant matter,
Clearness, attractiYeness, brevity and
sincerity must characterize any an
nouncement intended to catch the public
eye and appeal to public confidence.
An advertisement inserted in a London
journal a few days ago brought instant
and multitudlnous replies accompanied
byRn almost unlimited supply OF bank
notes, simply because 1t touched the
chord OF nature which makes all man
kind akin. Its simple pathos and self,
evident tIuthfulness appealed to every
heart.
The advertiser sought for a lost rcla-
tive, and, giving his lame, said: ~ am
i'll and friendless, My last half crown is
expended in paying for this advertise
ment. Write me Rt"-(giving his adj
dress). AS already stated, nearly every
one who read the announcement hasten
ed to relieve the necessities Of the suf-
ierer--a real sufferer in this case, though
many swindles are perpetrated in the
divine name OF charity,
Thus 1t is with really meritorious
commodity or preparation; il its virtues
be properly and truthiully set forth IN
the public press, itssuccess ispromptand
certain.
On the other hand, the public is quick
and unerring to detect deception anG
charlatanry iRnd, accordingly, no amount
of "pufIery" will force vile nostruu
into public esteem and patronage. I'm
told sums have been sunk in vain efforts
to advertise into popularity so-CalleC
medical preparations which did not pos
sess the virtues or properties claimed
for them.
Valuable medicines, however, like
Warmers Safe Cure and Warmers Los
Cabin Sarsaparilla, carry their own best
commentator in their power to cur
tho particular diseases for which the!
are a specific.
They require no labored panegyric t.
convince the people OF their power ant
efficacy, for they have been tried anC
found perfect.
Natures remedies, by their own in
trinsic merits have conferred lastinj
boon upon mankind, and they have Sc
cured IN envlable reputation and un
limited sale throughout the civilized
world.
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The Government is not responsible
for the Oklahoma disappointment. II
ia not responsible for men leaving thcii
homes to try their luck in new coun'
try. Hence the Government is not I'M
der any obligation to find land in the
Cherokee Strip or elsewhere for the
Oklahoma overflow.
On the contrary, the Government IL
under tho obligation Of good faith to the
indians, and this obligation must DO re'
apected. The adventures may think II
n hard lot to DO forbidden to despoil the
indians, but tho country Is now great
enough to continue in ito lately adopted
policy ottrCating the Indians with com
,,,or hnnoRty,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-27

Mercury Is frequently inIudiclously used by
Quack doctors In Cases Of malaria and blood
poison. Its after effect sworSo than the original
disease. y. d. d. botanic Blood BSlm) contains
no mercury, but viii eliminate mCrcurlal poison
from the system. Write TO Rload balm Co..
Atlanta, Ga, for book OF convincing proof Of III
curative virtue.
A. +. BrItten, Jackson, Tenn, writes ~
caught malaria In Louisiana, and when the fever
ii last broke, my system was saturated with
poison, sud had sores In my mouth and knots
on my tongue. rot two bottles y, II. b., which
healed. my tongue aud mouth Rnd made new
Vim. richmond, Atlanta, Ga, writes. NY
wife could hardly sec. Doctors called II syphlli.
Ia irltia. Her eyes were IN dreadful COndl,
tlOn. Her appetite failed. She had pain In hCf
Joints and bones ll0r Kidneys were denngCd
Gi1O, aud no one thought she could be cured.
Dr. Gillian recommended d. II. b., which she
used until hpT health was entirely restored
X. 7. H. JOuOs, Atlanta, Ga, writes. ~ was
troubled With copper CQllrDl gtlptOns, loss oil
appetite, pain IN back, AGhing jOlnta, debility,
CiIiRGlatiOn, loss OF hair, sore tSrOHt, and great
nervousness. u. u. u. put my system In llne
condition"
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ASI.GU0lTER OF SEALS.
Thousands Killed at the Mouth of the St,
Lawrence.

Lawrence.
Montreal DJpGieh 10 ne Globe Democrat,
Dispatches from the Lower st Law.
renee and the gulf tell OF the most re-
markable event that has ever occurred
in these localities. From the upper end
OF AntiCosti Island to the Magdalen
Island driving, binding snow-storm
began on Tuesday, and on the night OF
the same day great foes Of ice began to
come down from the st. Lawrence and
the Saguenay. The few people along
the north and south shores and ON Anti
cost who We're Rstir on Wednesday
morning witnessed sight that startled
them, As fur as the eye could see up,
down and across the gulf the foes still
moving were packed with harp
or Greenland seals. The ice was fairly
black with them, II was impossible
to hunt them in moving ice, but during
the afternoon the snowstorm ceased and
the ice packed, Then everybody, old
women, boys, girls, old men, priests and
farmers from miles around armed them
selves with clubs, hatChets or any other
weapon they could get hold OF, and went
on to the leo after the seals. 1t was q
fearful slaughter, and the poor animals
seemed 30 daZed by the sudden attack
that they were absolutely incapable OF
making any escape, A knock in the
head was sufficient to settle them, and
before night every person that could
walk had his or her pile OF dead seals
awaiting transfer to the shore from Cape
Derosiers and Lanse au Griffin to Four
illon, In Gaspe there were over 4,00C
killed, and one priest had 800 to his
credit. Along the north shore frou
Cape TiennOt to the Mingan isles
there were, 5000 taken, and in thu
Esquimaux isles tho slaughter wa
fearful. On AntiCosti the greatest mum
Der were taken at Point au Lepinette
where tho shores arc still heaped Will
the Carcasses awaiting skiHning anC
boiling down. The son OF the light
house keeper ut Point Cormorant killet
$50 seals, and lost 100 OF them because
he could not get them ashore beiOrl
night set in, when it became dangerOui
to 60 on tho ice. In the MagdaIen Is
lands and on the Bird Rocks the killinJ
amounted to 1000 up to Friday morn
ing, and it was still going on. At Hayrl
au Basque the inhabitants continued
their work at night, the foes covered
with seals drifting into tho horseshoe
like harbor and remaining there. A
Grinshue, the wonderful inCuraion o
seals was q Godsend to tue people, whC
have earned enough within u few day
to keep them year. In the Bird rock
the carCasses are piled up like so many
bags OF potatoes, and the people are op
ulent in their richness, There mus
have been at least 100000 seen alto
gether, and the total number killed dur
Ing three days will reach over 100, 600
They are not the fur seal Of Alaska, bu
arc valuable for their oil, and their hide
are used for boots, trunk covers, etc
They are worth here So each, and thu
fat Is worth s. per 100 weight. Fisher
men have been sent from Quebec to thu
gulf and an enormous number OF seal
are expected to be killed. Never in the
history OF the gulf have SO many beef
seen al one time, and the more Ignorant
are offering up masses as thanks for the
GodSend.