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'sNonoese is good news,' said the con-
-aenned criminal when he Learned of rhis
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For jackass endowed with the power Of
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The old-time father and mother were
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As aole-stirring Invention the bastinads
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''You seemed to be holding long talk
, with Timmins this afternoon. What was the
burden Of your conversation" 81 don't re-
member nov. l know it was burden,
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When the curtain of a theatre takes droV
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Nothing so forcibly reminds Us of the brew
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Ironically speasine, the reasonable senti
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The boy who begins in early life to stay
out late at might and smoke cigarettes, even
though he does nothing worse, hasn't long
to stay. He soon becomes an angel.
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CONTAIN0s
A Piece Of Music, with words.
Yatman's Help0 and EHimts.
sermon by DR.. Tallmage, ally
illustrated.
Sermon by Rev. G. n. 0purgeOn.
Able Prophetic Article.
RELIGIOUS Anecdotes.
Ed1tOrlal0 by DE-. Talmage.
Sunday school Lesson Coz
lmemts.
Current Events, fully illustrated
Oriental Life and Travels.
Illustrated.
Biographical Article, TIiustraees
bible and NewspapCr.
Aleph the Chaldean.
Brief Notes and News.
King's Daughters ana 1ons
News.
Epw0rth League Notes.
Christian Endeavoe Topics
and News.
Y. N. G. a. and Y. VIC. a. acsar
of interest
Uncle Johns Talks-Fami,r
page.
Questions and Answers.
Gems From New Books.
Choice Poetry, etc.
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CONTAINS
The Holy Scriptures with Ref
erences. And All the Helps.
Summaries of the several
Books.
Fables illustrative of Scripture History.
Concordance, 10000 References.
index to Persons, Subjects and
Places, 5000 References.
EenuaAene9s and Integrity of the
Old and New Testanents.
summary of the Apocryphal Books.
OictaOaary of all Scriptural Proper
Names. their Pronunciation and Meaning.
Words Obsolete or Ambiguous in
the English Bible.
n COLORED SCRIPTURAI.
'DIAP0.
Harmony of the Gospels, Etc.
Parables and Miracles.
Precious Stones Of the Bible.
Paul's Voyage to Rome.
Paul'e Missionary Travels.
Animals Of the Bible.
frees, Plants, and Flowers
Of the Bible.
Miracles Of Christ.
Oi6erentYersi0ns of the Scrip. 4
lures, and hundreds of other
things.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-06
a Bishops Tit-for-Tat.

A capital story is told of one of our
leading bishops, well known for his
good sense and rare wit, says the
London Spectator. He was staying at
the house of a country gentleman who
posed as an ardent total abstainer.
During dinner on the first day of the
bishops visit, there being nothing to
drink on the table besides syrups and
mineral waters, the host, turning
toward his reverend guest, said in an
undertone: "My lord, you will find
some wine in your bedroom" The
bishop. with charact eristic taste, briefly
acknowledged this curious concession,
and partook of the refreshment placed
before him. Some short while after
this the bishop received his teetotaler
friend with becoming hospitality at the
palace on return visit During din
ner his lordship quietly remarked to
his guest: Mr.. So-and-so. you will
find some water in your bedroom"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-06

New York Sun. 1t will be cut severe
ly plain in front, with plenty of full
ness in the back, and will be worn with
little silk or flannel shirt, which belts
down beneath the skirt instead of hang
ing over the belt in blouse or waist
Now, every girl knows how much trouble
it is to keep the skirt band from slipping
down below her belt, so some one,
kindly wise, and we think woman,
has invented girdle belt with lacings
on each side in front to cover the most
unmanageable of the waist bands.
Her sailor hat will be little lower
and considerably broader brimmed
than last year, her waists decidedly
more like shirts, and her brothers sash
arrangement will be generously pa
tronized Her challies and ginghams
and india silks will be SIMPLY frilled
affairs with paniers and bretelles, or
simply fiounces of the material with
bands of velvet. Every girl that has
a pretty neck will be generous of her
charms in modest and maidenly
fashion and most cool gowns will have
turned back frills from the open neck.
Now, the most wonderful thing about
the wonderful summer girl who bowls
and climbs mountains. tiirts and
dances, rows and rides the long sum-
mer days away, looking divine every
blessed minute in these simple gowns
of which we are talking, nine times out
of ten makes the gowns herself. and
that is why the designs are printed
just to give the home seamstress some
practical ideas now when she needs
them.
There's no girl in the universe except
the American girl who can teach or
write or sing for her living all the year
and act like princess royal when she
gets away for her vacation. All the
luxurious, high-bred gentility of the
society queen who doesn't comb her own
hair promptly comes to the summer girl
when she shakes off her shackles, and
though she has made her own dresses
and earned them besides, there's nothing
of the working woman about her when
her work for the year is done.
Now, any clever girl, with mother
or sister to pin up the seams, can make
out of simple cashmere or crepe lisse
the most fetching kind of gown with
oHly simple ShlrI Oh Hlduerlal III GU
rose or stem green with black hounc-
ings, or blue, white or soft gray with
white houncing, and the little coat
waist with full chemisette of null and
wrinkled sash of silk The founce on
the skirt is gathered in clusters with
ribbon knotted and fastened below the
heading. Almost any clever girl may
make the gown, but only the girl with
the plump and dimpled neck can wear
it with grace. 1t seems very hard that
the pretty girls who do not need pretty
gowns to make them charming are the
only ones who can wear them.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-06
How He Moved.

A little lad, whose family have an
ticipated the 1st of May, was seen
yesterday personally conducting the
transference of his own private and
personal belongings. He moved in a
large toy wheelbarrow, which con-
tanned, as he rolled it briskly along the
sidewalk, several sets of blocks, a
wooden COW with broken leg, a model
of the Eiffel tower in silver cardboard.
two dozen or more tattered picture
BOOKS. half a dozen gayly painted
wooden tops, a pigs i'll clover" puz-
zle," red and green japanese but
terfly kite, an elephant with hide of
gray canton flannel, locomotive and
train of tin cars, with joints somewhat
dislocated, a football, some roller
skates and various other treasures,
over which lowered high in the air q
bright canvas-covered sign purloined
from some small dealers booth at a
summer picnic. urging humanity at
large, and all passersby in particular,
to smoke a certain brand of cigarette,
drink certain variety of beer and
shoot the doll baby at so many shots
for nickel. The lad felt himself a
man of many possessions. -Nelc York
Recorder.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-06
REMARKABLE CRONIES.
Six Old Men of Mobile, Ala, and Their
Peculiar Habits.

Six Old Men of Mobile, Ala, and Their
Peculiar Habits.
Very curious people inhabit this cor
ner of the civilized world, and perhaps
among the most curious were the six
peculiar old men of Mobile, says an
Alabama writer. Two of these old men
were great cronies. They loved to be
lii company the one with the other, and
they never failed TO meet once each
day during the later years of their
lives; but their daily meetings were
curious. Uncle John sat each evening
by his fireside reading book or paper,
and about clock Uncle William came
into the room, gave glance at John,
and then, picking up book or paper
from the table, sat gravely down in his
chair opposite John, and began read
ing. No word was said. The two old
men read silently for two or more
hours, sometimes as late as IL o'clock,
when William folded his paper or laid
down his book, and in silence as before,
took his hat and departed. These old
men were never known to exchange a
word during their meetings.
There were two other old cronies In
Mobile These had the habit of walk
ing out together every afternoon at
o'clock. They lived in the same
street. Their promenade took them to
the. river front, the wharves of which
were then, as now, famous place
whereon Mobilians took the air."
Departing they were in the best of
humor, chatting pleasantly of the top
les of the day; but returning they were
invariably in the worst temper imagin
able. abusing each other for every
fault possible, and calling each other
every name short of pickpocket and
horsethief. Stopping at their several
front doors, they would shake their
fists at each other and solemnly de-
clare that never so long as they should
live would they condescend to notice
each other. The anger was genuine,
and the language very warm. BY the
next afternoon, however, the sky had
cleared and the old gentlemen appeared
promptly at the o'clock hour, and,
salutipg, would begin their walk and
their talk, which always ended in the
quarrel above described.
There were yet two other men of
Mobile. They would be old if they
were now alive, but by the time they
came into view they were hardly be-
yond the middle age. As chums they
had early in life taken a room together
down on st. Francis street. but, un-
fortunately, during the first month of
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-06

gressive nation from changing the polit-
zeal geography of the Mediterranean
coast Italy'S navy is essential TO the
reborn nations life, and the nation has
made the most tremendous sacrifices To
maintain it. This navy has been kind
of mystication for Europe, which won
dered how Italy, with only just ordinary
resources, could go on year after year
building huge ironclads like the DuiliO
and the Dandolo, carrying four 100-ton
muzzle-loading Armstrong guns, wear
ing armor nearly two feet thick at
the water-line and eighteen inches
thick on the turrcts. These vast
floating fOrtreSSeS, with their guns
worked by hydraulic mechanism, these
ships which cost more than $1,000, 000
each, are not intended, it is said,
for any extensive cruises; but
the Italians claim that even vessels like
their Italia and Lcpanto, each 400 feet
long, - feet wide, and with an extreme
.draught exceeding 30 feet, with engines
twice as powerful as those Of any other
armOred ship in existence at the time
they were built, could patrol a foreign
coast and remain absolute masters of
the situation, sinking any ordinary
fighting vessels within an hour.
Now let us see how the naval force Of
Italy is at present divided. The king
dom has:
Twelve irst-cass ironclad battleships,
with 1872 guns and 5,65S men.
Three Second-class ironclad battle
ships, with % guns and 727 men.
Ten second-class unarmored battle
ships, with IS guns and ,, 5SS men.
Nineteen third-class battleships, with
SO guns and 1927 men.
Five transports of the first class, with
% guns and l,004 men.
Seven second-class transports, with Is
guns and All men.
Five third-clasS transports, with guns
and POI men.
Six scholarships, with 40 guns and /, 1856
men.
Five ironclads. armorcd and unarm-
ored, for coast defense, with 23 guns and
1,200 men.
Forty-slx ordinary fighting ships, with
81 guns and /, 100 men.
Seven torpedo sloops, with 90 guns.
Fifty seagong torpedo boats, with 100
guns and $50 men.
Thirty-eight coast torpedo-boats with
.3S guns
Twcnty-one second-class torpedo-b boats,
with 81 guns.
This fleet, large enough to grapple
with such great navies "a those OF France
or England, is manned in time Of war
by 1908 officers and 6l,007 men, of
whom 1000 arc gunners
1t must be remembered that Italy has.
On some respects, better navy than
France or England, because she began
building at late date and profited by
the latest discoveries, while England is
still mourning over huge arks which
science has already left behind. Some
OF Italys vessels carry the heaviest guns
ever madc-the Armstrong breech-load-
Ding rifle of 13 to II inches caliber
The Duilio and the Dandolo are for
midable Monsters and could play mis-
chief OH the American coast II assisted
by a little squadron Of torpedo boats
The Dandolo is nearly $50 feet long and
has sixty feet breadth Of beam. She
has displacement of 1i,202 tons, and,
like the Duilo she has four II. 72-inch
1OO-ton muzzlc-loading rifles, three Al
anch brcech-loading lilies, aud fourteen
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-06
No One stopped Him.

Says Judge Richards, of Chicago
II was once a justice in Bosque county,
Texas, when little man was brought
in by a constable and two assistants
for the offense of carrying two revolt
vers. told him he must pay 50 and
lose the weapons. At that the little
fellow broke down and actually cried.
Finally, with the tears streaming down
his cheeks, he said: ooh, Judge, jes'
let me bid 'em goodby. Ma Civ 'em
to me an / can't go without handlin'
them jes' once 1 consented, and the
moment he got the weapons he
Strengthened up and, leveling them
yelled: I'D like tew see the galoot
as can get mas pistols now. Now I'm
agoin' on my journey. Nobody tried
to stop him."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-06

ing guns in position to resist naval at
tack is not, however, quite so simple as
it seems. Although the efficiency of "a
gun on the land may be ten times great
er than that Of one on q mobile base
such as a ship, the United States still
labors under disadvantages. We have
not got the heavy guns. We could not
build them in sufficient number
under twelvemonth, and when
year is stated as the limit
of time necessary for the construction Of
a heavy piece of ordnance, our ingenuity
and mechanical abilities may be vaunt-
ed beyond their capacity of execution.
The fighting power of Il navy constitutes
its strength, and in that we are now and
will be for years to come, under the most
favorable auspices, lamentably deficient
Even in men we have not enough now
authorized by law to man the ships al
ready built. We have tho best guns and
the ability to build the best ships; but, as
a matter Of fact are to-day more poorly
prepared, so far as our naval strength
goes. than we were fifty years ago, when
twelve line of-batte ships could have
been equipped in sixty days. "A navy
cannot be improvised or built at will
against an enemy that has navy a.
ready constructed And modern men
of-war. such as we must have if we have
any, are complicated machines, requiring
years 10 build. We cannot fight against
brass knuckles with kid gloves, and the
ability TO run away is not the best safe
guard for national honor.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-06

their occupancy of their rooms thev
quarreled over some trivial matter and
resolved to cease speaking. Neither
of them would consent to vacate the
premises. They had taken the room
together, and each one thought he had
as good a right to possession as the
other; therefore, out of pure obstinacy.
neither would bulge. So they lived
together, and whenever the one had
any instructions to impart or request
to make of the other, the instruction or
request was reduced to writing and
the written sheet placed on the center
table in the room, where later the per-
son addressed found it and left a
written reply in its place. This pecu-
liar association lasted thirty-four
years, when finally one of the silent
men found partner i'll life and
went to housekeeping. The other
man vacated the room the very next
day.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-06
! four rapid-fire guns. two HotchlSiss re-.

four rapid-fre guns. two Hotchliss re-
volving cannon, and two gatlings.
Five of the eight cruisers, the Balti-
more, Philadelphia, Charleston, San
Francisco and Newark. are excellent
vessels of their class. They have speed,
armament, and protection against the
fire OF secondary batteries equal TO that
of any cruisers, of any nation, of equiya-
lent displacement. They are well armed,
and with guns believed to be equal If
not superior TO those on any similar YES
sci yet launched. They constitute the
true nucleus OF any navy; are the Skin
mishers, the scouts, the cavalry of the
fleet; but their offensive power is only
intended for use as against an cnemy's
commerce or his unarmorcd cruisers
They are built to maneuver quickly and
to run away successfully from armored
iessels and fighting ships. The three
remaining cruisers, the Chicago, Boston
and Atlanta, belong to the same class
and are constructed for the same pur-
pose as those just described. They ara
also effectively armed. The four gun
boats, Yorktown, Concord, Bennington
and Petrol, find their field in war time
in rivers and i'm shallow waters, going
where armorcd vessels cannot venture.
OF vessels authorized and in process
of construction, two are gunboats OF
1850 tons, or 600 tons smaller than the
Yorktown class; seven are unarmored
cruisers, three of 1000 tons, two of B, 1873
tons. one of s, 800 tons, anu one of 7.400
tons; two are armored steel cruisers OF
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-06
UNITED STATES CRUISER "pH1LADELpHrA.p

The American navy to-day is in n state
OF transition. 1t has shaken off the
old" and is only beginning to "put on the
new" Our twelve remaining wooden
ships would be of no benefit in contest
with any naval power. As elements of
a fighting force, either for defense or
offense, they could render no service.
OF the new steel ships, sixteen have
been commissioned. OF these, the Mi
antonomah is an iron double-turreted
monitor, and the only armored ship we
have atioat. F>1r are small gunboats.
Eight are protected cruisers. One is
known as a dynamite cruiser and is still
an experiment One is torpedo-boat
as yet unarmed because the department
has not found n torpedo satisfying all re-
quirements; and the remaining ship Is
dispatch boat, indispensable as an adj
iunct to n fleet, but not a serviceable adj
dition to the actual fighting force
Thus our present naval strength
resolves itself into one armored
monitor for harbor defense, eight
cruisers, and four gunboats. The
Miantonomah is practically the only
fighting ship we have; that is, the only
one that would be able to attack an ar
mored adversary as well as to success
fully defend itself against attick. She is
our only reliance to protect our coasts,
our interests, our rights, and our prop
erty, and is of 4, 900 tons displacement, 260
feet in length, 500 in breadth, and
draws l4.6 feet Of water. She is Of the
monitor typc-low free-board, two tur-
rets with superstructure between for
her secondary battery, an assumed speed
of ten knots; seven inches of compound
armor or her sides, II = on her turrets,
and an armament consisting of four To-
inch 27-ton guns, two In each turrct,
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the cannons arc laundering before the
mass OF the people have found out what
1t is all about.
The stormy temper of the Italian
Government seems to have sOftcned and
an era of concessions has been opened.
1t is well, however, to know with what
the United States would have had to
deal had the ancient and famous king
dom with which we lately became in
volved in II dispute formally declared
war upon us And let us remember that,
where a collision is possible, ii Is not
only dangerous but il is bad form TO
underestimate our antagonist
Italy is maritime country and has
been since the bold NenetianS at time
when other mariners were afraid to ven
ture out of sight of land and tied up
their galleys at night, pushed northward
through the fog as far rs Iceland. 1t
was the daring Of the Italian mariners,
eliminating in the splendid enterprise Of
the Italian Columbus, which pierced the
'Sea of Darkness" and filled the Atlantic
with the argosicS of conquest and COM
merce. The Sicilians and the Neapoli-
tans are veritab @ water dogs
Italy takes pride in everything per-
tanning to the sea. Her great naval es.
Establishments at laramie, at Naples, at
Castelemare, at Venice, at Spezzia, are
always crowded with worllmcn building
new ships for commerce or for the pro-
lection of commerce. The very life and
soul Of the nation since it was unified in
1871 has been put into the upbuiiding Of
this navy.
And WHY Because it's chief work,
when the great European struggle, so
long postponed, but SO certain 20 come,
begins, will be to grapple with the ggan-
tic navy Of France, and TO keep that ag-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-06
Mono ary Item.

A few nights ago policeman halted
a suspicious-looking colored man who
had trunk on his shoulder.
Where are you going with that
trunk ?" asked the minion of the law.
de family l has been boarding wild
has been axing for money. and as dey
was done gone out ter night tuck adj.
vantage of de opportunity ter git inter
some family what has some considera.
ton for de panicky condition oh de
money market" was the reply.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-06

AIRS between nations
often arise from slight
misunder $ I an d in 2 5,
which occur just as the
original quarrel seems
settled, and b. { h
parties are beginning
to congratulate them
Sc yes that peace will
be maintained. Ma
tions are like individu-
ais; il is very hard To
make them understand
each other. Each ma
ton thinks that its un-
derstanding of { h Q
other is perfect; when,
presto. it finds that n
has been mistaken, il
loses its temper, and
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-06

SAYS the Chief of Police OF Cincin-
natl: I'VE have kept pretty good track
of our local crook, and don't remem-
Der case where a man has gone to
prison for crime, and served out his
time, but we had him up again in a
year or two, or he was caught red
handed somewhere else. I'd as soon
think of trying to reform old Satan
himself as a professional crook"