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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-05-15

A Book Neither Written Nor Printed.
The Prince de Hgne is the possessor
Of a curiosity Of literature. 1t is a book
that is neither written nor printed.
How can that ber' you ask. Well,
the letters are all cut out Of the finest
veIlum and pasted on blue paper. The
book is as easy TO read as If printed
from the clearest type. The precision
with which these small characters are
u excites infinite admiration for the
patience Of the author. The book. by
the way. bears the title. ''Liber Pas
siOnis Nostri Jesu Christi. cum Charac-
teribus Nulla Matera Composite C'The
Book Of the Passions of Our Jesus
Christ. with Characters Not Composed
Of Any Materially. The German en-
peror Rudolph II is said 10 have offered.
in L64O. the enormous sum Of IL, 900
ducats for this curious work Of art.
Strangely enough, the book bears the
English arms, though il is supposed
never to have been in England. Illus
trated American.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-05-15
SIS

b the best evidence of its excellence
Il is most popular where 1t is best
known Every bottle sold sells ten
Others. Every one that takes It b.
somes its friend, and recommends u
- their acquaintance.
Treatise on Blood ana skin Diseasas
nailed free.
swur SPEcIYIc Co. Atlanta c.
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Authors who Write Too Much.

This idea of keeping before the
public" is good one. in the maius
writes Edward w. Box in the LADIES'
Home Journal, but it must be done
iudiciously and by good work. just
here is where nine authors in every ten
fail They think their quality is good,
but unconsciously it has become guam.
tity instead. Unwittingly, they are
training their public, whose eye they
caught with some early or striking
piece of work, to be perfectly ready to
drop them the moment a new star a.
pears upon the literary horizon. Few
authors of recent date made so pro-
nounced and instantaneous success as
Rudyard Kipling, but the public
hardly had time to catch it's breath
after his first story, than along came n
second story, third, and so it has
gone on until six of his books are now
on the market, and series of injurious
newspaper articles in ADDITIONAL
within one year. The result is that
the best judges agree that Kipling is
OVERRIDING it. "Oh, we are having too
much of Kipling," is the general opin-
ion. In consequence, the sales Of his
books are dropping off, and the name
of Rudyard Kipling is losing its magic.
The simple fact is, that the great Cos
pei of moderation applies to literature
as it does to everything else. And.
looking at it from financial stand
point, this moderation pays. A good
author who writes only one story in a
year, ofttimes receives more for that
single piece of work than does he who
writes five or six novels during the
same period. No matter how clever
an author may be, how well he writes,
he cannot afford TO overfeed his public.
The literary public likes its daintiest
desserts in small doses, and then, as in
everything else, there is created an
appetite for more
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New Method Of Testing Them.

Sure these eggs are fresh ?" inquired
mn with basket on his arm, peer
ing into an oblong box in grocery
store on Chicago avenue yesterday
morning and looking suspiciously at
the proprietor.
Certainly. sir" answered the latter.
"Those eggs are perfectly fresh.
They're from the country"
What are they worth ?"
TWENTY-FIVE cents dozen, and /
don't make cent Oh them at that"
If you had any right fresh city eggs
/ think I'd rather have 'em," observed
the customer, doubtfully. Tell you
what I'll do. If you'll let me test
dozen or so by n way of my own, and
they turn out to be all right, I'll give
YOU 80 cents dozen for them. If any
are little too subsequent, as it were,
you give me the dozen for nothing
How does that strike you?"
Il guess it's go" said the grocer,
after moments reflection.
Il have the privilege of testing the
entire dozen?"
Certainly"
I'm my own way?"
"Yes."
That's all right. Please stand still
moment"
Wink An egg thrown with terrific
force just grazed the grocer's ear and
broke with awful effect on pile of
baking powder cans on the counter
You moved little" said the GUS
toner. considerably vexed, putting his
basket down and picking up another
egg. gill"
Hold onl" shouted the proprietor.
what are you doiDg?"
Testing the eggs. In my own way.
That one was all right, anyhow. I
have my doubts about this one, though"
And he drew back to throw it,
"Stop!" yelled the excited grocer,
lodging behind a potato barrel, cor
I'll call the police"
They won't touch me. Stand out q
little, please"
say" called out the grocer in an
appealing tone. Lets compromise this
thing. Take the eggs for twenty cents"
I'D prefer to pay fifty cents for
them if they are sound"
Take em for fifteen"
that's unreasonable. If this one
I've got hold of now turns out to be
bad get a dozen for nothing. See?
Stand out little. if you please"
look hereP said the grocer, de-
spairingly; you can have 'em for ten
cents-five-two and half. Take a
couple of dozen for nothing and go!"
HIM That seems fair" mused the
customer, putting the egg back in the
oblong box and picking up his basket
again; but, Christopher Columbus !
/ don't want any eggs. / only wanted
to introduce my new way of testing
them. See you again some time. Good
morning y Chicago Tribune.
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parents or rcscuers. There was no
group or boat that did not show scene
OF touching pathos. But not all the
scenes of even that terrible night were
pathetic. There were many incidents
which, at least now, seem wonderfully
ludicrous. Hdrper's Weekly is authority
for the statement that one old darky
woman was found hugging pet rabbit
TO her bosom.
The old saying that at never rains
but it pCurs" was never more Strikingly
and literally verified than when this flood
was followed, year later, by Il still
greater one. PittSburg lost three million
dollars worth of property by this flood,
and Portsmouth Marietta, Gallpolis,
Pomcroy, Hamer, Lawrenceburg. Gin
cinnati, and other towns, suffered in
proportion. At Portsmouth 12.000 pco-
pie were driven from their homes to
camp upon the hills.
A most striking scene at this place
was the burning, to the waters edge, of
six buildings. To record the deeds OF
heroism performed by the men who
risked their lives again and again to
save helpless men women and children.
aud to picture the divine fortitudc and
endurance of mothers i'm caring for their
ClllluTtn anu inspiring INC nedTIS OF OOJn
helpers and helpless with courage and
hope, is beyond the limits of this brief
sketch, but would constitute most
thrilling and patoetc chapter in the his.
tory of our national disasters.
But these floods brought TO light
the despicabe as well as he
heroic elements Of human nature.
The cruel and villainous depredations OF
the "river pirates" proving, like vul-
lures, on the helpless and ruined would
put To shame an ancient buccaneer.
Many of the most exciting scenes I'm the
floods were the chases after these des
perate marauders. When the river po-
4, lice were once sure that they were in the
] wake of river pirates they did hesitate
to fire, with surest aim, the moment they
came within range
One of the most serious losses TO the
country along the line of the Ohio flood:
| is the loss OF the scream" of its rich
! fertile soil which is carried to the MisSis
/ sippi at each overflow.
/ The two great floods Of 1883 and 81
resulted in the practical prostration o.
business throughout tho States touched
by them, as well as In the general de
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them rather than by their force and
height They usually begin early in the
spring and continue until the latter part
of July.
1t is a quite general impression that
the portion of the Mississippi subject to
floods is protected by uniform and
almost impregnabe system of bikes or
levees. That is far from the actual
fact. The system" Of bikes is anything
but Uniform and anything but impreg-
nable. In fact, the various levees do
not constitute a system at ali, but Sc
rics of separate attempts by the National
Government, the several States and pri-
vate individuals to keep back the mighty
waters in times Of ordinary overflow.
Comparatively few Of these bikes, accord
ing to experience and the statements of
the best engineering authorities, are
adequate protection against eXtraordin-
arily high water
During the terrible overflow of 1852
the greatest since the floods of 1864 and
1S74-- the valley, from the mouth OF the
Ohio River to VickSburg, was an i'm
mense inland sea, dotted here and there
by small points of land, the highest, of
course, in the country, on which the
strong cotton "gin" houses were generally
located, with view to serving as places
Of refuge in times Of extreme high
water
Eln these "gin" houses would be hud-
died together the wca thy planters, their
families, their negro servants and the
poor whites of the community, living in
simplicity and fraternity, waiting for
the arrival of the steamer that should
respond to their beacon-iire and come to
relieve their distress. The loss of life and
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13

1000 In Kansas alone destitute and
homeless From the meager statistics
of 1882 L find that the overflow brought
90, 600 people of Arkansas into pitiable
restitution. Whole communities camped
i'm the rudest fashion. The scantiest
shelter was welcome, and the families
fortunate enough TO crowd into idle
freight cars were considered uncom-
monty fortunate The breaking OF the
immense levee at Bolivar, Miss, was,
perhaps, the most striking single cpl
sode in the flood, as the break was the
largest that has ever been made In the
levee The spectacle OF its "gOing ort"
was grand and terrific beyond descrip-
ton
As scarcely year has passed without
one or more disastrous OverilowS OF the
Great Father of Waters, it is obviously
impossible To even II Jude TO them In this
short article.
So far as devisng Il remedy against
these terrible, inevitable and frequent
disasters, the engineering science OF to-
day confesses itself unable TO even sug-
gest anything worthy of confidence with
in the limits of practicable cost.
The best authorities seem to regard
the building of storage reservoirs along
the Upper Ohio, to catch the surplus
waters and hold them in reserve until
the dry season, when needed to swell
the river TO navigable depth, as the on y
practicable thing. y. =. Shaler esti-
mates that Loo reservoirs, covering
surface Of fifty acres, capable of holding
an average depth of ten feet of water,
would cost so, 900, 600. He seems to be
of the opinion that that is the least out
lay that would be of any practicable
service. FORREST CRISsEY.
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at night to point of safety, with load
of from three hundred TO four hundred
negroes or poor whites gathered during
the day. The scenes of JOY which took
p ace at these points OF refuge as some
roor woodchopper's wife found the hus-
band whom she supposed dead, waiting
adequately picture as were the scenes OF
grief and despair when the last hope of
finding wife, husband, parent, or child
was finally swept from one and another
of the destitute and heartbrokcn COM
panies OF the rescued
What must have been tho loss OF life
and property in the awful flood of 1882,
when that Of the preceding year left
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sung to the editors corps as they set
up the loud-sounding circus "ad" and
the list of delinquent taxpayers, while
he dashes off a stirring editorial on
the Farmers Alliance. All day long,
as the devil rests himself about the
office, he can hear the robins calling to
each other, the wild doves plaintive
cooling and the wren's fitful complain
ing At regular intervals come the
Bob White Bob White" of the quail
in the fields afar off, and the lowing of
cows over by the river, where the devil
wishes he were in swimming.
Little children on the way to school
peep in and see the great Washington
hand-press and the Office towel, and
gaze in awe at the editor, whose genial
face is hidden behind one of his ex-
changes. He is business manager,
publisher, editor-in-chief, managing
and news editor, city editor, sporting
and dramatic editor, religious and
financial editor, reporter and collector
rolled into one alert and able body,
and, TO Judge from his photograph, he
is getting fat at it, too.
Out there in the woods, in this little
white house, running paper means
just as much as it does in the metrop
oils. Step indoors and look around.
The managing editors department is
divided off from the business Office by
an imaginary line running due north.
Here Mr.. Deacon meets the advance
agent and the drummer for the
paper and ink house, and then step
ping over to the editorial rooms he
confers with the local candidate and
the Secretary of the State Fair, and
then he retires TO his sanctum, and,
barring his arms to the elbows, molds
public opinion into an aesthetic thing
of beauty and JOY forever. The
woods are convenient, too. Mr.. Dea-
con from the front window of the cash
ier's room can see Fiat Justitia, "Old
Subscriber" "Pro Bono Publico" and
Constant Reader approaching, and
taking his gun he goes out of the rear
door of the mailing department and
has a few hours hunting grounding
and varies the sport by calling uron
some tardy subscribers and touching
them for their last three years sub
scriptions, perhaps gathering some inn
portant news items ut the same time.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13
All He Knew.

Old doctor-Has any one been in?
Student-One gentleman called.
Said he wanted to know what to do for
cold. He hadn't time to wait, so
told him everything l knew.
Old doctor-Humph That couldn't
have been much.
Student-Oh, l know more than YOU
think. told him to battle his feet in
hot water, take a pint of lemonade,
sponge with salt water, remain in q
warm room, battle the face in hot water
every five minutes, snuff up hot salt
water, inhale ammonia or menthol,
take a ten-grain dose of 'quinine and
lots Of outdoor exercise. --New York
JVeekh.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13
SHILOH'S
CONSU NJ PTlON
CURE.

The success of this Great Cough Cure IS
without parallel in the history Of medicine.
All druggists are authorized to sell it on pos
tive guarantee, test that no other cure can sue
cessully stand. That it may become known,
the Proprietors, at an enormous expense, are
placing Sample Bottle Free into every home
in the United States and Canada. If you have
Cough, Sore Throat, or Bronchitis, use it, for
il will cure you. If your child has the Group.
or Whooping Cough, use it promptly, and relief
is sure. II you dread that insidious disease
Consumption, use 1t. Ask your Druggist for
SHILOH'S CURE, Price 10 cts, so cts. and
SI.oo. If your Lungs, are sore or Back lame,
use Shiloh's Porous Plaster, Price IS cts.
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and shoes were distributed. The city
on the Ohio whose loss came next to
Cincinnati is Jeiiersonville, Ind, which
sustained damages amounting to nearly
one million dollars, causing the ruin of
a majority of her business mon, and
placing over five thousand of her people
in want. New Albany's loss is stated at
$3.50, 600; Madison, 5000, 900; Aurora,
$3.50, 600: Lawrencoburg, Si35. 600. The
Intervening hamlets and country lost
$500, 600, making total OF 81, 740, 600 in
the places just named. In this stretch
of river country $4,000 people were rem
dered homeless and dependent upon
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13
Fair Exchange.

"Grindstone, what's the matter?"
Grip, Kiljordan. Just got over it. !"
What did you give up to it for =?
It's all imagination. A fellow with
any strength of mind won't take the
grip, and it's a bad thing to have. 1t
always attacks fellow where he is
weakest.
You haven't had it ?"
mo. Nothing the matter with me
but cold in the head"
"Um. Are you sure the grip always
attacks a man in his weakest part? 2"
That's what the doctors all say"
"Then it isn't n cold in the head
you've got, Kiljordan. It's the grip"
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property occasioned by such a far reach
ing overflow of the Mississippi is almost
beyond computation, because the sufferers
are so isolated from each other, scat
tered through the depths of the great
forests that line the valley, that they
are out of reach of the rescuing parties
and die unknown. 1t is said that the
relief steamers which went up the prin-
cipal tributaries of the Mississippi dur
ing the flood of 1882 would each return
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13
SMALLEST NEWSPAPER OFFICE

Perhaps the smallest newspaper
Office in the world, says writer in the
New York World, is that of the NelU
Era, situated up in Minnesota.
The house is in the midst of woods.
Birds come in springtime and build
nests about it, and their mathis are
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13
Collection buttons.

SO you are collecting buttons, Mil
lie. Why, what a lot you have! You
must have more than any little girl in
the neighborhood."
mo, sir; Diasy Fourthly has ever so
many more"
Indeed How does she get so many
is her papa a dry goods merchant ?"
"No, sir; he's a minister"
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Expla ming Why There Is Less Deafness.

A perceptibe decrease in deafness has
been noticed OF late, which is partly 40
counted for by those In position TO know TO
the more general use of artificial means
now perfected TO a degree hitherto consid-
cred impossible very complete device
OF this kind was invented in Bridgeport,
Conn, few years ago by III. Q. Wales.
which, being placed inside the ear. is worn
with Il secret delight by many whose deaf
ness is thus never suspected.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13

IT STARTS lfM.-If anything in this world
will put wings on the feet Of Incidence, il is
"A woman with a dipper of hot water start
ing for tramp when he is "sassy." TX
there is any other remedy in the universe
that will cure II cold cough as quickly
and effectually as DR.. Whites Pulmonaria
IL has not been made known. For Group in
children II is q safe and certain specific
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13
HUMOR.
In 40 Danger.

hIrs. Chugwater-"Look out. Josiah |
I'm going to throw at those hens"
Mr.. Chugwater alarmed Where
are they?"
Right behind you"
(Relieved)-"Fire away, Samantha.
Fire away"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13

AT the depot restaurant: Traveller
Crushing in)-"Pie." what kind?"
"Watcher got?" "Open-faced, kivered
and cross-bar-all appel" take pump
l,infO
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13

VERY year that
passes, as this year
has SO far done,
without brin q ing
wholesale devasta-
ton along the en-
tire course Of the
Mississippi. fro m
Cairo % New Or
leans, is cause for
universal thanks
giving. This sea-
son the only inn
portant break, some
200 feet in width,
was in the levee OPP
liz, Nnx, N'nonS
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13

HI met your father last night for
the first time. She-How did he strike
you? He-Just like the rest of the boys.
He wanted 81.
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AWFUL OVERFLOWS.
TERRIBLE DEVASTATION BY
RIVER FLOODS.

The Ohio and Mississippi Mighty Monsters
of Observation-Disclosures Overiiows In
eviiabie-E Engineering skill of No Avail
A short History of Past Floods.
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Magical little granules :
those tiny, sugar-coated Pei
lets of DR.. Pierce scarcely
larger than mustard seeds,
yet powerful to cure active
yet mild in operation. The
best Liver Pill ever invented.
Cure sick headache, dizziness,
constipation. One a dose.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13

midnight fugtvcs were swallowed up
by tho fierce flood. Those who were too
late to wade made their escape in boats,
or on RATS, housetops and floating de-
bris of every kind. Little children were
found, in their night Clothes hugging
favorite pets or playthings in their tiny
arms, while clinging in terror to their
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13

Cowboy--What's the matter, John
son?
Chief Kicking Bird (alias Johnson
The next time | catch You flirting with
the bearded woman, off comes the top
of your head. Ugh!-TeraS SiftingS
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13
A Bad Omen.

Paul-Why so down-hearted, Edwin?
Did the eminent specialist, DR.. Noitawl,
give you no hope of recovery?
Edwin-None at all. He assured me
that / was perfectly well
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13

The most tragic scenes of this flood
happened at Louisville, whore the river
embankment broke at midnight and
deluged the sleeping city. Most of the
people aroused in time to flee to high
ground; but about fifty of these 5000
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13

FITS-Ml Fits stopped free by Dr.I<line's Great
Nerve Ees;Orer. No Fits after first days USE Mar
veous Treatise aud $500 trial bottle free to
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13

DoN'T you rant TO saUe money. clothes.
time. labor. iuel. and healthl All these can
be- saved If you will uy Dobbins' Electric
Soap. We say try. knowing ii you Try it
once, you Will always use it.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13
What is lacking Is truth

What is lacking Is truth
and confidence.
If there. were absolute truth
on the one hand and absolute
confidence on the other, it
wouldn't be necessary for the
makers of DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy to back up a plain
statement of fact by a $500
guarantee.
They say" If we can't
cure y0D make it personal,
please,) Of catarrh in the head,
many form or stage, we'll. pay
you $500 for your trouble in
making the trial"
Gan advertising fake" you
say.
Funny, isn't it, how some
people prefer sickness to
health when the remedy is
positive and the guarantee
absolute.
Wise men don't put money
back of fakes"
And 4" taking" doesn't pay.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13

THE best cough medicine is Piso's Cure
for Consumption. Sold everywhere. csc.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13

public charity. The Legislatures of
Ohio and Indiana appropriated 500,
for the relief Of the sufferers, and
steamer was provided To dispense neces-
saries 10 the various towns.
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preston Of manufacture and trade In
such States as supplied that territory
The floods of the Mississippi are char
acterzed by the length of their duration
and the extent of territory covered by
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13

ScYLIA signifies the whirlpool of de-
struction.