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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-13

cruited fire. But generally the pioneers
kept the Goals covered on the hearth and
provided against disaster with punk and
finder box Nowadays they buy thou
sand sure matches for "A dime and cook
their dinner on gasoline stoves But that
suggests the old Dutch oven. IL was "a
Handicapped little house OF brick and
stone with d. or In front and solid walls
all around The housewife made up her
bread I'm loaves, and while IL was @raisingn
built fire I'm the oven. which always $ ooc
out OF doors. The thick walls gathered
heat. and when the loaycs we're ready the
fire was Withdrawn, the bread was slid into
the glowing vault and the or was closed
In an hour they came out Drowned as no
modern oven can brown them and baked
through with tho gentle, steady heat One
seldom sees the outdoor oven now and one
never sees better bread than the pioneer
housewives used to make in them.
Fruit Seems tn BE Falling.
The orchards are going these late years.
Before the war northern Indiana was unap-
proachable In the production OF fine fruit.
Apples, in particular. were plentiful and
fine. Peaches was grown readily, while
cherries and pears were equal 60 any thing
In the West. But either the seasons changed
or departing forests carried the spirits OF
fruitage with them for the day of excel
lence departed. Small fruits grow readily.
but the farmer is conservative, and he has
tried year after year TO raj @ an orchard
whore his father raised one before him. He
has lost lots OF time May be the nursery
man has fooled him. May he the winter
has killed his trees. The result is the same.
Orchards will not grow and bear as the y
once did.
The public sale is country institution
that the city man knows nothing about
The good man dies and his widow pres
entity sells off that personal property with
which he battled for IA living. She cannot
drive the pillow or run the thrashing ma
chine and she sells off at auction Il wrack
Of enumerated goods "and other articles
too numerous TO mcation," as the hand
bills announce. All the neighbors come 10
the sale and an auctioneer gets the best
prices he can. 1t is place for the politi
clan, and he always improves his oppor-
tunities For the day the Widows home is
II place of hustle and confusion, and when
night comes she comforts the children
while strange hands lead away the favorite
COW or the yearling colt. or tumble into
wagons the farm tools with which "hisn
life was interviewer. "The day OF the salon
is always remembered by the children.
And the widow remembers il. too. for she
has in hand package OF promssory notes.
some good, some bal. some simply indif-
ferent On hat of them she must enter
suit TO enforce collection, and on half of
the balance she never hopes for penny.
On the remaining quarter she realizes face
value after waiting ten months or year
Courtship In the Country.
When the course of true love does run
smooth in the country IL runs very smooth,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-13
Then and NOW.

Spring In the country is an uncertain
season, and Us a rule the more un ertain IL
Is the more profitable will be the months
that follow IL, writes Plymouth, Ind,
correspondent in the Chicago Herald One
of the best years I'm a farming way here in
Northern Indiana was in 1854, and 10 was n
year which opened full OF persistent dis
couragements. In the first place winter
remained rs long as there was ghost OF a
welcome. filling the trees with sleet as late
as April. and then succ eeding with fire.
quent rains till tho soil seemed like sat
urated sponge, and highways were simply
quagmires, As June wore away and the
time of harvesting drew near farmers be-
gan TO see they never could drive their
heavy reapers into the fields, and they
began that demand tor the old fashioned
cradle which had been abandoned twenty
years before. Factories set their mon at
work on the obsolete instrument once
common in the harvest fed, and imple-
ment dealers everywhere were sup
piled. Farmers bought mighty few
Irvine binders I'm 1854, but they carried
home through the intermitting rains many
cradles. and swung them through the
standing grain as July opened Yet, 1884
was mono than an average cd year. Corn
that was guiltlcss Of pillow but owed its cul
tivation to the primitive hCc was heavier
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-13
WIoop!

Young America does not like to be
beaten. After very patriotic speech
before a youthful debating society, a
small boy of twelve. wound up with
the following peroration: Not only,
fellow citizens, did we beat, rout and
utterly annihilate the British in our
glorious war for independence, but
we, too, have a sun that never sets,
although they think they are the only
fellows which have that proud dis
tinction. For when it is 6 o'clock at
Alto Island, Alaska, it is 8 o'clock
the next day at Portland, Maine.
Hurrah for the red, white and blue. "
New York Tribune.
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desire to see IL safely shocked before the
impending thunder shower. For heavy
rain on standing grain will do IA deal Of
damage I he slender straws drooping
with the weight of filled golden heads, are
easily beaten down and crossed and made
impossible OF cutting
Harvest time in the old days was by the
cradle. The good GRADER was much
more valued man than the able lawyer.
The former was bread maker, "A neces-
sity-sinCe life must be sustaincd the lat
ter would have no occupation If each man
rendered 10 all others their due. There
was rivalry among the Graders Four of
them I'm the field made charming sight.
The rhy thmic swing, the step eight inches
forward as the empty cradle swept back,
the stcop and power Of the rcaplng stroke,
the gentle rise and graceful TIT rs 10000
severed stalks ere laid In perfect order
all this was the poetry of Industry. Usu-
ally two men were required TO stake up'
after GRADER. They worked wi h rake.
rolling the even grain into n bundle and
binding il with belt of twisted straws
Now and then one man could be found active
enough 90 take up alone after even AN
EXPERT GRADER. and he was paid accordingly.
Gathering i'm the sheavcs.
Boys came after the reapers-though
they didn't want to-aud carried the
sheaves into clusters of dozen each. the
butts together, the heads radiating In all
directions At a little before shutdown all
the men fell 90 and "shocked" the wheat
| That Is, they set up each dozen sbeaves in
compact bunch. covering their heads
with thatch OF the same, artistically
| spreaded and broken the better TO turn
untimely rain The harvest field was.
despite the labor one of the pleasantcst
scenes In farm life The ncighbOrhood wit
flourished, tho local athlete was tried In
| the pauoos of tho work or at the noon hour,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-13
as much as on their presence at other
Remem boring Former Gays.

Remem boring Former Lays.
But rains are not the only qualities Of
the country. As one wandcrs about fields
familiar in boyhood, and mingles again in
the scenes so long neglected, so long eX-
changed for alien ways, the past comes
back and all the farm region Is invested
with the habit and the beauty of thirty
years ago. In these Old times the seasons
seem always 90 have been fair. PlON land
was broken for corn as soon as the frost de-
parted and the soil settled. After the pillow
came the harrow, pulverzing the clods and
mellowing The earth for the gracious recep-
ton of seed. Meantime the warmth of
spring was in the tree tops, and tiny leaves
we're slowly opening. Corn must be planted
when oak leaves were the size of squirrcls'
ears hat was usually the middle OF May,
though some farmers discounted the
prophecy "a little and planted earlier while
still others waited-through choice or COM
pulsion-and put in their or. p as late rs
the first of Jure. In either case much de-
ended ON the season, and it was Is liSely
To follow tho average rule In those times,
after the narrowing was done. the hired
man "laid out q 6 lInd.n He had Il timber
twelve feet long supported on three legs at
equal distance apart. In front was pair
Of thills, between which the steadiest horse
on the place was hitched The hired man
drove forward across the mcllCwed field,
his "iharker" scraping three shallow trench
es i'm the earth Coming hack, his right
hand deg" ran A. the outer trench made in
the proceed ng trip, and the two remaining
marking new lines on the face OF the field.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-13

Time was when the pioneer dreaded the
ten mile trip TO the store. and avoided IL
I'm all seasons. lie found little enough
there to buy ut best II is wonderful how
little he had - keep the bond OF civiliza =
ton. Even matches were u rarity. If the
fire went out on the hearthstone he mu Il
walk for miles through the woods TO a
neigbbor's place and borrow "A lighted coal
Mrs. Stevens. straight I'm spite OF her 20
years who lives at the border OF the lake,
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or In the still OF evening. when men loss
rugged would have tumbled breathless to
bed.
Harvest now Is IA different thing. A
farmer drives into The field with his Irvine
binder and guides four horses over moro
ground in "a day than forty men could have
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-13

In a shallow basket and Pumping down
three or four grains as they walked forward
Behind them came the "coverers. ~ men with
hoes who heaped the finest and softest
earth over the bright grains of corn, and
patted the little mound gently with the Hat
OF the hoe las they passed on 10 succeeding
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-13

IT is we'll enough for the politician
TO be an carly bird, but it is a good
thing TO be careful and not come
across the worm at its proverbial
turning iat.--Kate Fields Wash
ington. -.,~
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hills. Droppers were paid % cents day
for their work, whilo coverers received
from IS cents TO ST. -. depending on the
scarcity of adult field hands. There were
always plenty OF children. When the field
was planted-and of tho merry hours that
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-13
OUT In THE COUNTRY.
A STUDY OF RURAL SCENES
AND INCIDENTS.

Methods of Fam Life Con'rasted with
Those In Vogue Whom Pioneers Held
Sway-Seed Time and Harvest, Marriage
Bells and Funeral Marches.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-13

MAUD-What a beautiful new
gown Jane is wearing. Did she bring
it from abroad? Clara-No; it's her
last, seasons dress; the dressmaker
turned it inside out, and now she says
it's from the other side.-Cloak Jour-
nal.
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This back forth process was repeated
till the field was marked with parallel
lines from side TO side. Then the cross
marking began. cutting the surface into
little squares OF four feet and into the in
tersections OF the trenches was dropped the
corn.
Boys and girls worked as troopers. carry
ing half D peck or SO OF selected seed corn
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tells how che "-incaning her husband
went clear to "the forgen one time, dis
lance OF seven miles. that being the near
est ncighbor, and borrowed u bit OF ire. II
came near going out as no walked home
through the woods. and he stopped gathered
some logs together, famed his feeble coal
into flame. built n Gre, and when that
provided Goals. went forward with the re-
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than ever before; and as TO fruit, ii was
plentiful aud OF the finest flavor. To be
sure ince ssant rains are discouraging. If
they trouble you in the city, whose conven-
fence alone is assaulted, how much more an
noying they must be To farmers whose very
living depends upon their absence at times
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-23


Re
a
m. m
Local freight train leaves Weldon MONDAY enesday and Friday
ling leaves kn0n Tuesday Thursday and Saturday
m, NJ Weldon s. , m.
Washington Branch Washington A.
p m
Raleigh R. R, and Scotland Neck Branch
Train leaves Tarboro, Abemarle Raleigh
Iday Sunday Wlamston
Plymouth Returning leaves Plymouth
m. Sunday Williamson
.C,104 m, q.
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m.
Daily
N. m.
$500 a, Godboro, n c. ' ~ ~
Nashville at
m
m Sunday
at $40 and Ill Returnins leaves clinton and 80 y
a Al, ''0 p
Wilson
lis No. 80. Daily Sunday.
South IA North will only Mount yyso,
IGodsboo Magnolia. N' ''''1t
makes closes Weldon North da All
daily
Sunday with Norfolk and Carolina Railroad Norfolk and all @
!. R. KENLY, ~ Gene 1iHE e.
Supt Trans T. NJ EMERSON Genl Agent ~ sup
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8 Dav Clocks SAFE SEEDS.

Risks unfavorabe risks of shipment and Iisk
s-the Market Gardeners
nd against them.
unavoidable risks do think afford to
take any unnecessary ones
Ruyng behind them is taking
The difference the doubtful seeds
generally
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profitable have the right
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Dated Jan. 4. lSS
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-23

No. lO1 makes connection at Rocky
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points South, and No. IS train for all
points North.
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Mount with W. & w. Train No. 27. for
all points South.
Tram No. 1913 connects at Hobgood
with train on Scotland Neck Branch, W
Il W, r. r. or Greenville, Plymouth and
KinStOn.
GIN. SERPELL, j. r. KENLY.
Gen'l Manager. Sup't Trains.
I. NJ. EMERSON,
Genl Passenger Agent.
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n orfolk & Carolina r. r.
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a Happy Orphan.

kEETON Co. KY, Oct. 8 80
IL our orphan asylum here there is q -
2ar-old child that had been suffering for yenrs
:oIn nervousness to such IN extent that shf
,'1lmes in the night got up, and with fear dc
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ht1on, would seek protection among the Older
people from an imaginary pursuer and could
only with great difficulty he again put TO bed
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happened to observe the child and advised III.
use OF Pastor kOenig's Nerve Tonic Al ( LiECl,
furnished US several bottles of it. The first DO,
lie showed d marked improvement, and after
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All those suffering from nervousness SHOULD
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REV, b. HILLkBRAND. St Inhn,s Aarl,,..,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-08-13


About two niilea northwest Of Shltaz,
In a gar iel the namu Of which sigui.
hes "the place Of prayer" lies beneath
thr shadOws OF cypress trees, one "
which he 10 said to have planted with
his own hand, Shcms.El1in Moham-
med, surnamed HAM, or "the stead.
fast In Scripture" Poet. reclusc, aud
myttlc, his s0ugs, now some 510 years
old, have been SUM- from tue bank Of
the Ganaes to the Danube, and from
Cairo TO Samarcand; neither are they
silent yet on the lips Of the camel driv.
er- In the desert or Of pilgrims 10 kuia.
No other Persian has ,quallcJ him in
fame; not Sail, whose monument, now
In ruins, may be visited near bis own;
nor FiIdusi, the author, In $1,000
couplota, Of tho Crook 81 Kiuge," nor
Jami, who has associated himseli for
ever with the Lyric loves Of Yrsiuf aud
Iuluikn.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-08-13

10 keep Nj hands iied 90 the ctaiIe snf hold
thcin y hrn De- wac taken W; guI hId tn lttu
mittens uri on O RI hauts tn irau hIs Uururs
nat out Of the sores BE- be- would scratch II he
could 90 ans way Eni Dis hnnds loose We know
, our GU tprNA 10 niNH cured him. We fHcl
sAit In Geo. mIUnduE nUm Co otter.
Gao. H. aud JANEtrA uAEuts,
Webster Ind
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-08-13
Bid ECZEMA On RlBI.
Head one Solid sore. Itching Awful,
Had to Tie Ills Hands 80 Cradle.
Cured sby Cuticuru

our little boy broke out on his head with
h1f form N eczema, when hc was four months
Oh We W.gd three doctor hut they dii not
LLAnnLL.. and .LL.I ua-u- LLnm nIuA.u MN.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-08-13
DISCOURSE
DAflvsntp m
President GEORGE Q CANNON

4, he Pdrotccn Stake Conference,
gqrowan, Monday, Ji.He 20, 1892.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-02-27
I he
Best
Company.

High mass 1880. Sunday school 3
p. IN. Vespers TOO D. IN. Week
days, low mass, Ia. m. Rev. J. s.
White, pastor.
ST.. PAUL EPIsCoAL CHURCH.
Corner of Church and Chemeketa
streets. services in the morning at
1880 a. m; in the evening at z D.
IN. Sunday school at ll:45 u. M,
Service on Monday morning at 1880
u. m, on Thursday evening at 1880
Up. m, w. Luud, Rector.
UNITARIAN SOCIETY,". N e W
church northwest corner Chemeketa
and Cottage. Services Sunday at
1890 a. m. aud 7:30 .. m. Sunday
school at II M. Ladies' society,
Friday 2 p. m. Social science class
at $3.50 p. IN. II. H. Brown, minister.
PREsBYTERIAN.-Church st. bet.
Chemeketa and Center. Preaching
morning and evening. Sabbath
school at IL. Y. p. S. q. f.. at $50
p. m. Prayer meeting Thursday at
1880 y. m. Rev. f, II, Gwyune, d.
D., pastor.
METHODIST EPIsCoPAG.-Sunday
services at 1890 and p. m. Sab
bath school at H. Epworth League
at 8. Prayer meeting Thursday at
7:3O p. IN. Rev, q. r. Kellerman,
pastor.
Temperance gospel meeting at 4
o'clock, Sunday, at w. G. Il. U. hall.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-02-27
SANDY oLDs FREE.
The Portland Gambler to Be Well
Received on His Arrival
at Home,
HIS APPEARANCE.

This celebrity of Portland was re-
lea @ed this morning early.
His time was out and he
told Prison Superintendent
Downing that he wanted to get
down in town in time to see some oi
his Salem friends. MIR. Olds has
been a model prisoner and appeared
on the street shaved, clipped and
dressed as perfect gentleman.
He is a well preserved, solid look
ing man. After taking a lunch at
The Willamette he ordered a cab to
take the / As train for Portland.
"Never mind the fare, Mr.. Olds," "
said the hacknau. "It's free ride
this iimn."
mo, thank you" said the gam
bier, II had free ride coming up,
ami can afford to pay this time"
He threw the driver a dollar and
seemed happy aud contented. A
letter from his wife informed him
that large delegation of his friends
would be at the train at Portland to
meet him.