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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08
THE GERMAN A HERO.
But the Italians Were Spiritless an,
COwardly wretches.

But the Italians Were Spiritless and
Cowardly Wretches.
The recent experience of the steam
ship Sophie, Captain Won Hugo, shows
of what contemplate stuff most of the
Italians who come to America are
made. The Sophie had just weathered
a heavy gale, and her officers were still
keeping anxious watch, when the
morning light disclosed bark near by
in desperate peril, her masts gone, her
decks awash, and her crew dashed to
the taffrail. Despite the unfavorable
conditions, Captain Hugo determined
to attempt rescue. To the call for
volunteers his four officers responded
with n will; but not single one of his
crew of cowardly Italians could be in
duced to aid in saving the unfortunate
mariners from certain death. Appeals,
expostulations, threats, and promised
rewards were alike futile; the miser-
able whelps would not stir. Not dar-
ing to leave his ship without an officer
in the hands of the Italians, the brave
Captain had determined to stand by
and render such aid as further time
might make possible, when up from the
cooks galley, with his white cap and
apron on and his arms covered
with flour to the elbow, came Henry
Schmit and cody said he was willing
TO try his hand at an oar. The boat
was manned, and in two trips between
the little steamer and the sinking
bark fourteen lives we're saved.
The ancient rhyme has made every
body familiar with the cook:
And "A red cook was he,
Who care more for his kettles and pots
Than he did for the depths OF the sea-
But the cook of song and tradition is
not the hen of this shipwreck on the
edge of the Grand Banks. That brave
fellow may or may not be able to
impart the flavor of Ambrosia to plum
duff and put a soul into lobscouse but
he has shown the whole world that he
has big heart and cool head, and
that both are at the service of his
fellow-men. Hats off to Henry Schmit,
cook of the steamer Sophie in fair
weather, able seaman in an emergency !
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of the most dashing exploits OF the war
of independence. The British had blocked
it up with a floating battery, the Pigot,
armed with twelve s-pounders and ten
swiyels, Captain Silas Talbot under
took the capture of the Pigot. En-
barking sixty men on the Hawk, a coast
Ing schooner, armed, beside small arms,
with only three 3-pounderS, he sailed
down under cover OF darkness, grappled
the enemy, boarded, drove the crew be-
low, coiled the cables over the hatchway
to secure his prisoners, and carried off
his prize TO Stonington.
In Charleston there stood until 1S49 a
beautiful magnolia tree whose branches
spread over more than 20) square feet.
1t was under this tree that Gen. Lincoln
held council in 1880 to determine
whether Charleston, which was then be-
seged by Sir Henry Clinton, should be
evacuated. 1t was resolved TO remain,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08
Why Snow is While.

The pure white luster Of snow is due
to the fact that all the elementary colors
of light are blended together in the radi-
ance that is thrown off from the surface
of the crystals. 1t is quite possible to
examine the individual snow crystals in
such a way as to detect these several
colors before they are mingled together
to constitute the compound impression
of Wilderness upon the eve. The snow
is then clothed with all the varied hues
of the rainbow The soft whiteness of
the snow is also in some degree refer
able to the large quantity of air which
is entangled among the frozen particles.
Snow is composed of a great number
of minute crystals. explains London
lid Bits. More than thousand dis
tinct forms of snow crystals have been
enumerated by various observers. Ono
hundred and tifty-one were noticed dur
ing eight days in February and March
1895, by Mr.. Glashier, which were care
fully drawn, engraved and printed in q
paper attached to the report of the
British Meteorological Society for that
year.
These minute crystals and prisms re-
fleet all the compound rays Of which
white light consists. Sheets of snow
on the ground are known to reflect beau
tiful pink and blue tints under certain
angles of sunshine, and to fling back
so much light as to be painful to the
eyes by day, and to guide the traveller,
in the absence of moonshine, by night.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08

In the Kensington precinct, Phlladel-
phia, there stood until 1910 an old elm,
known as PENIS Treaty Tree, because
under IL the renowned Quaker made his
compact with the Indians 81 will not
call you children" said Penn, addressing
tho Indians, "for parents sometimes
chide their children too severely; nor
brothers only, for brothers differ. The
friendship between You and me / will
not compare TO a chain, for that the
rains might rust or the falling tree
might break. We are the same as IL one
mans body were TO be divided into two
parts: we are all one flesh and blood "
Would that that sentiment had been
preached and practiced elsewhere!
Until 1860 there stood in New York a
venerable willow tree that has an inter
csting history. When the English poet,
Pope, built his villa at Twickcnham, he
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08

but q few weeks later the Americans
surrendered TO the British army, which
had then been REINFORCED by Lord Corn
wallis.
At Drummond's Pond. in Dismal
Swamp, Virginia, is pointed out a tall
tree under which Washington is said to
have passed q night in colonial times.
When Moore, the Irish poet, visited MOI.
folk in 1884, he heard the story OF the
young man who, on the death OF
girl he loved, became insane.
He believed she was not dead, but had
made the swamp her abode. and under
that impression he wandered into its
solitudes and persisted. This was the
origin OF his touching ballad, com
mencing:
"They made her grave too cold and damp
For n soul so warm and true;
And she's gone TO the Lake OF the Dismal
swamp,
Where all night long, by her freely lamp,
She paddles her white canoe.
And her freely lamp i soon shall see,
And her paddle | soon shall hear;
Long and loving our life shall be,
And I'll hide the maid I'm n cypress tree
When the footsteps OF death are near.'
At the junction of the ST. Mary and
st. Joseph Rivers, where they form the
Maumee River, Indiana, is the site Of
the most noted of the Miami (Indian)
villages. There Little Turtle, the IA
nous Miami chief, was born and lived
until late i'm life He and his people
have long since passed away, and only a
single living thing remains with which
they were associated. 1t is a venerable
apple tree, which, if not standing, was
at least bearing fruit few years ago.
1t is opposite the city of Fort Wayne.
The last in our order Of historical trees
stood in the eastern part Of the village
of Flushing, J.. l., few miles from New
York. George Fox, the founder Of the
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08

the bank Of the Genesee River, near the
village of Geneseo n. Y. When the
white man first saw it it was the patri-
arch of the Genesee Valley, and was so
revered by the Senecas that they named
their village "Bg Tree" 1t also gave
name TO an eminent Seneca chief, who
was the friend of Washington and his
cause. During great flood in the Gem
esee valley in 1857 the Big Tree was
swept away and buried in the DO ON of
Lake Ontario. The trunk measured 20
feet inches in circumference
Probably next in age to the Big Tree
was the famous Charter Oak in the City
of Hartford, Conn, which was standing
in the height of its glory and estimated
TO be 900 years old when Hooker and his
followers planted the seeds of COM
smonwealth there. On stormy night in
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08

tween your fingers. Let the tip of
the thumb be thrust through the angle
between the first and second fingers,
which forms the mouth. 1t will APP
pear like tongue.
And there you have the whole face
The first finger forms the chin, the
second the nose, and the third the
forehead. Now fold handkerchief
and draw it over and around the hand,
thus arranged to resemble a cap, and
the transformation is completed.
By moving the first finger and thumb
q very ludicrous expression, like a
mumbling pantomime, is attained.
Try it on the baby, and see if the
little one does not crow with delight
and insist on it's frequent repetition.
NeW York Herald.
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willow to plant in his American grounds.
The twig was presented To Mr., Custis,
Washington's stepson, and was planted,
at Abingdon, Virginia. In 1890 General
Gates planted shoot from it on his farm
on Manhattan Island, and it became in
time beautiful willow, the grandchild
Of Popes willow az Twickenham.
When the battle OF Bunker Hill was
fought the great conflict for American
independence was begun. Washington
was appointed Commander-in-c chief OF
the continental forces, and on July 3,
1775, he took up his headquarters at
Cambridge, Mass. On the following
morning he proceeded to great elm
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08

August, 1854, the old oak was prostrat-
ed. Connected with it is a curious cpl
sode. When James III. assembled the
English throne he took measures to sup
press the growth of free government in
America, and. sent over Edmund Andross
TO take away the charters from the differ
ent Colonies and rule over them as Gov
ernor General. Connecticut refused TO
give up her charter, and when Andross
attempted TO seize it during a night ses-
sion OF the Assembly, Capt. Wadsworth
bore the charter away and secreted IL in
a hollow of the old oak. When James
IL. was deposed and Andross banished
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08

paper, to school for lunch. She sat
close to me, and the sight of it took my
appetite for the contents of my own
dainty basket. do not wonder. not
withstanding hor educational advan-
tages, that she grew up coarse and
unrefined." And, indeed, such indif-
ference on the part of mother to the
preparation of food to be eaten by a
child is we'll calculated to produce such
q result.
Mothers. then, who have the health
and welfare of their children at heart,
should do all that is possible to give
the school luncheon an appetizing and
dainty appearance to the little people
who depend so largely on it for the
brain force and working powers of their
long, tiresome school day.-TaGle
Talk.
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it never fails to amuse. 1 have even
known children of larger growth to
be startled at it when the weazen,
monkey-like looking face is suddenly
shown them.
A handkerchief, two black braided
hat-pins such as ladies use and your
hand are all the materials that are
needed TO juggle with.
Double up one hand, with the middle
joints of the fingers protruding. Be-
tween the second and third fingers on
either side of the joints place hat
pin, with just the black head protrud-
ing. for eyes. Shoe buttons will do
quite as we'll if you can hold them be-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08
Decisive Battles of TN, WORLD.

OF modern battles the following were
very important in their results The
victory of the Americans over Bur
goyne at Saratoga, 1777; the battle of
Valmy, 1892, in which an invading
army of Prussians, Austrians and Hes
slams, under the command of the Duke
of Brunswick, were defeated by the
French under Dumouriez; the battle of
Waterloo, 1915, in which the French,
under Napoleon, were defeated by the
allied armies of Russia, Austria, Prus-
STA and England, under the Duke OF
Wellington; and the great naval battle
of Trafalgar, on October 81, 1905, when
the English under Lord Nelson defeat
ed the French and Spanish. 1t de-
stroyed the hopes of Napoleon as to a
successful invasion of England Lord
Nelson was killed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08
The ID parted.

An uptown clubman who is very
much in trade and keeps an eye ALWAYS
on the main chance came to grief the
other day through inviting to his coun-
try house visitor from the West who
was visiting the city to spend lot of
money in business way. The club
man-merchant wanted the visitors GUS
tom and took this hospitable way to
secure it. The visitor found at his
hosts q company who were laying
plans for horseback rides aud other
bucolic sports. In order to make him
self congenial to such q company he
appeared at dinner wearing spurs.
His hosts friends were unable to re-
press their amusement. This proved
so barrassing to the visitor that
when soup was passed to him he up
set it, spilling the scalding liquid in
his lap. The mishap was too ludicrous
to excite sympathy. It's reception In
spirit of levity decided him leave the
table. Doing so in some haste, one of
his spurs caught in the table-cloth, and
in less time than it takes to tell it he
had hauled the cloth off, dragging with
it to the floor the soup of the guests
and a tumble of cut glass, silverware,
cutlery and other table appointments.
The visitor did not stop to apologize.
His room was handy, and before the
debris could be removed the host and
guests spied their Western friend, lug
gage in hand, hat set back on his ears
and his spurs flashing, bounding down
the road toward the railway station.
That was the last seen of him to date.
.-Ne,U York Times.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08
Schnnl Lunchann.

In filling the lunch basket, aud a
pretty one should be provided for every
child, clean napkin, q small knife,
fork and spoon. with little china or
plated cup. should be placed in the
bottom. The bread should be cut thin,
and buttered neatly, next slice from
the lean part of joint, the fat and
ragged edges trimmed away. Cakes
and pies, folded in clean white paper,
custaris and jellies put in pretty cups.
We we're once much amused by hear
ing n grown woman, the mother Of a
family, whose fastidiousness had sur
vived her childhood, in speaking of a
former schoolmate, "Oh, she was the
girl who always brought horrid chunks
o; bread and meat, wrapped in brown
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08
ExceIIent Cause.

"Why, Johnny, how is this? Willie
is crying very hard. and says you've
been pinching him and pulling him all
around the yard"
well, mamma, 1 should think had
good cause"
"Pray, what was that?"
"Why, he said that he liked You .
great deal better than / did, and i
liked you two years before he was
ever thought of"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08
HISTORICAL TREES.
THEY CONNECT THE PRESENT
WITH THE PAST.

Creatures Around Which Cling Many
Tender Memories Of far-Of Colonial
Times-Perishing or Gone, Their His
tory Is Still Revered.
There have been no Methusalahs since
the flood. Mans maximum OF life is a
century. Only the elephant and the
tortoise feeby initiate the longevity OF
the antediluvians. But there are living
things that outlive them all-things
statelier far than the tallest man or
largest quadruped, living things that
were companions of the gray boards be-
fore the flood and lived TO bless their
hoary- headed grandchildren. Such are
now the only living link between us and
the remote past. They are trecs-grand
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08

SCIENCE HELPLESS. All doctors agree
that to enjoy good health the mind must be-
kept in a cheerful condition, but no doctor
on earth can give a man points that VIII
make Kim joyous when his collar doesn't lit,
and In this connection IL is very fitting TO
remark that DR.. Whites Pulmonaria has
brought Joy and gladness TO thousands or
homes by its wonderful cures of loved ones
who had been given up to die of consump-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08
A Ship Canal Through Scotland.

A new scheme has been brought for
ward for the construction Of ship canal
across Scotland, TO connect the German
and Atlantic Oceans by means of a
waterway navigable by ocean-going
steamers. The total cost of the work
would be about $50, 900, 600.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08

The favorable impression produced on
the first appearance OF the agreeable liquid
fruit remedy. Syrup OF Figs. few years
ago. has been more than confirmed by the
pleasant experience OF all who have used Il,
and the success OF the proprietors and
manufacturers. the California Fig Syrup
Company.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08

TRUE generosity does not consist in
obeying every impulse of humanity, in
following blind passion for our guide,
and impairing our circumstances by
present benefactions so as 10 render us
Incapable of future ones.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08
A FACE OF YOUR FINGERS.
This Is n Simple Device with which tn
Amuse the Children.

One of the most convenient accom-
plishments is to know how TO amuse
children easily. Whether we be bache-
lors or benedicts the occasion always
comes, and sometimes pretty often,
when we are taxed to our wits ends to
keep the little tots good"
Here is simple little device that l
have many times found efficacious. 1t
is to make an old woman's face, and so
grotesquely comical is the likeness that
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08
Very Accommodating.

Mrs. Wedayear with a small attack
Of the grippe, and large attack Of
ues)-And if l should die. Ernest,
would you come and sit by my grave?
Earnest-Oh, gladly! gladly!
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08

"BUT there is so much to learnt" re-
turned Mercy, in a hopeless tone. That
is the JOY of existence, Ian replied "We
are not bound to know: we are bound to
learn. "-GeOrge MdcDOndld.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08

THE good health OF every woman depends
greatly upon herself; delays through false
inodesty are dangerous. Lydia T. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound will cure nine
cases out OF ten.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08

WHAT a man is at home, that he is in
deed, if not TO the world, yet to his own
conscience and to God,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08

SIX. COBURN, Mgr, Clarie Scott writes: Il
find Halls Catarrh Cure u valuable remedy"
Druggists sell it, 75c.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08

A PHYSICIAN recently said: "Probabiy
Lydia 4, Pinkham has done more for wom-
ankino than all the doctors combined. A
woman understands those matters better
than we do.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08

HABITS are to the soul what the veins
and arteries are to the blood-the courses
in which il moves
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mention I'd. Charles III. granted the
charter that was concealed in the old
oak and he himself hid in the hollow Of
an old oak In England after the battle
OF Worcester.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08

HABIT is cable. We weave a thread
each day until it becomes so strong we
cannot break il.
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Nerve Restorer No Fits after first days use. Mar
yelous cures Treatise aud 500 trial bottle free 10
Fit cases. send to Dr. Kline. 8 Arch st. Phlla. Pa.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08

THE best cough medicine IS Piso's Cure
for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08

He-Miss Sharp has q very fine
voice.
She-No wonder. She grinds it SO
much.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-08

HAPPINESS is like the statue of Isis,
whose veil no mortal ever raised.
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planted a small twig that a friend had
sent him from Smyrna, and the little
,twig became the parent of all its kind
the saliX Rabylonica, or Weeping Willow
in England and in the United States.
One OF the British officers who went to
Boston in 1875 to crush the American re-
belion had with him twig from Pope's
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-04-03
C0EHENG!Ne Nj 0lllAY, NIAR: 15TR,

At P. NJ, and continuing each evening,
and Wednesday and Saturday afternoons
from l:3O to 4 P, M until all the goods are
sold out. Everything will be sold without
reserve There is no snide SALE No bid
ding i'm Oh the side
Mte GruWd Makes the PriCes.
Do not miss these sales as you do not
have a chance every day to buy goods at
your own price. Dry Goods,
Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Groceries,
Hats and Caps, Store Fixtures, Everything
goes. All sales for cash, or note with ap-
proved security.
Gg-Seven good Davis Sewing Machines at
a Bargain.
WILLIS Bros, Ag'ts.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-04-03

"Hurrah for Governor Hogg of
Texas" one is inclined to yell up
on learning that he is opposed to
the gerrymandering of the Con-
gressional districts in that state,
believing that Congressional dis
t1ct ought to be a compact, square
thing, but ones ardor is slightly
dampened upon reading the edi-
torial comment upon the COVER
nor's views, in the Baltimore Sun:
"With a democratic majority of
100000 it is probably possible to
heed the governors advice with
out imperifing a solid democratic
delegation" That is always the
policy of the democratic party,
which is only willing to do right
when it can be done without polit-
ical loss.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-04-03

ISN'T it about time for. the dem
ocratic press to stop circulating
Misrepresentation about the re-
ciprocity treaty with Brazil? First
they said there would be no treaty.
Well, the treaty was negotiated.
Then they said the treaty would
not be approved by the Brazilian
government, which has been prov
Ell false by the arrival of the Off
cial proclamation of the President
Of Brazil promulgating the treaty
and explaining its provisions.
Now, because there IS nothing else
to say, they are shouting that the
treaty will be of no benefit to the
United States. Come gentlemen,
this is childish; if you are not will
ing to drop your partisanship long
enough to give the administration
credit for having brought about a
good thing. at least have the de-
cency to keep quiet.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-04-03

No greater diplomatic triumph
has ever been achieved by any
secretary of state than that gained
by Mr.. Blaine in compelling the
British Government to abandon
its position in the Behring Sea dis
pute and agree to submit the mat
ter to arbitration in the manner
proposed by Mr.. Blaine. 1t is a
matter for congratulation that a
satisfactory agreement has been
reached before the opening of.the
sealing season this year, to which
great many people have been
looking forward with apprehen-
sion. The dignity and honor of
the country has been maintained.
as it always has been and always
will be when a republican is at
the helm of the ship of state, and
it has not been necessary to either
buster or fight.