The true northerner., 1890-09-24
FIGS AND THISTLEo.
rrrom the Rams Horn.l

Lions are never so Dig as we tillhA
they are from their roaring.
You can't make guilty man happy.
He must first lose his guilt.
God doesn't want His children to fret
about things they can't help.
The devils work il 10 make wrong
people think they are tight.
Every time Christ Is rejected dam
nation becomes more probable.
Some people are afraid to do right
for fear they will lose money by it.
Ii some OF us had more religion we
could get along with less money.
If there wasn't any gold in the world
there wouldn't be so much brass.
The time will come whea every SIN
ner will be glad to have chance tie
rerent.
The easiest thing in all creation to
elieve is a pleasing lie about our
elves.
A Christian is one who knows the
truth, loves the truth, aud lives the
truth.
1t is a grand thing 20 believe in God.
but grander one 10 have God believe
in YOU.
The world is full of people who are
light in their hearts and wrong III their
heads.
The man who takes everything for
granted will fall through a good many
bridges.
If some preachers wouldn't try u do
so much themselves, God could do mo. c
for their congregations.
If YOU want to find out how much
meanness there is in man, go at him
with IA collection basket.
The most dangerous saloon-keeper is
the one who most successfully conceals
the fact that the devil is his partner.
Men can kill just as positively by
keeping money in their pockets as they
can by taking revolvers out of them.
If there were no devil God could not
reveal to us that He is God. Without
darkness the sun would not be visible.
Wherever in the Bible We find the
name of God and man coupled together
we find God trying to tell man that He
loves him.
The world reeds ministerial back
bone a good deal more than IL ne eds
CHER steeples Oh the churches or big
ger organs behind the pulpits.
When Jesus said, Come unto me all
We that labor and are heavy laden and
1 will give YOU rest, there weIe two
conditions complied with it, viz: To
leave the old labor that caused the
weaIiness, and enter upon a pew,
where He was to be the hel per and the
teacher. No one can receive help from
Christ who is no. willing to help Christ.
Wooden Logged Animals.
About thirty years ago humane
Nermonter, by the name OF Tewksbury
took pity on a small dog of uncertain
breed, one of whose fore-legS had been
crushed by the wheel OF wagon
Being something of surgeon. Mr.
Tewksbury carefI lly amputated the
crushed leg, and, when the wound was
healed, provided the dog with a ligh'
wooden leg.
la the course of time the dog. which
was n very intelliget animal. becam,
aware that he could rest his weigh
upon his wooden leg, and use il for al
ordinary purposes, and that, while i
was not as good as either of the Other
three, it wa better than 10 leg.
In walking or tIotting, Mr.. Tewks
bury's dog always used his wooden leg
! If. however, he had occasion to Go an,
! leapiog or fast running or TO show il
any way especial nimbleness, will
which the stiffness of his artificial liml
would have interfered, he held mp tn,
wooden leg gracefully, and, leaped o
/ ran on the other three.
The dog lived to a good old age, re
spected and admired by all who knew
him. His grateful affection for man
kind in general, and for Mr. Tewsbur,
| in particular, was the most marked
feature of his character.
A ) his fame never spread abroad, i
is quite certain that his case did no
suggest the similar kindness toward
eat on the part of gentleman named
McGiath, of Woodford, kentucky, al
account of which Is given in Louis
vile paper,
In the case of Mr.. McGrath's cat
however. the providing OF a wooden lie,
was not TO repair an accident, but Il
supply natural deficiency. The cat
! it is said, was born with only three legs
Instead of drowning it forthwith, a
some men would have done, Mr.. Nc
Grath carefully nourished the three
legged kitten, and when it was weaned
he made and skilfully applied ligh
but durable wooden leg whore tn
fourth leg was missing.
Little by little the wooden limb ad
iusted itself to the cats parts, and tn
cat in its turn became accustomed {
the leg. The Kentucky newspape
which acquaints the world with thi
curious feat of surgery asserts tha
the animal uses its artificial leg wit
the same ease and dexterity with whic
it uses the other three. Ii is also as
serted-and this is the most remark
able part of the story, almost too re
markable TO be believed that whe
this cat catches q mouse, it does no
tear it with its claws and teeth, a
other cats do, but strikes it shar
blow with its wooden leg killing it
prey on the spot.
Morganatic Marriages.
The term "morganatic," applied {
marriages, had its origin in an ancien
custom by which the bridegroom, o
the day after the wedding, gave hi
bride a morning gift-morganabe. /
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