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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23
Record of the Week.

REVIVAL meetings at Flint resulted
in the conversion of eighty persons.
BURLINGTON is a very small town,
but her horsemen are wide-awake, and
have decided TO build fine half-mile
race track.
TWELVE prisoners in Caro- Jail pried
up the iron floor and were all ready to
tunnel ont when the turkey spoiled
tn in little game.
AN English syndicate talks of estab-
fishing an optical goods factory at
Grand Rapids. Two thousand men
may be employed.
BURGLARS entered the grocery store
OF George Lamb, at Battle Creek, and,
with the aid of wagon which they
brought with them, nearly cleaned out
tho store.
A PINE tree sixty-five inches in di-
ameter and sixteen feet around has
been felled near Chassell. 1t is said
to lie the largest tree ever cut in the
upper peninsula.
CLAYTON A. SEELY, of Kalamazoo,
was covered from head TO foot by fire.
A gasoline tank had exploded. He
lust jumped into one of the Zig snow
banks ard saved his life.
THE Postoffice at Charleston, Sanilac
County, was robbed and $50 in money
and 80 in stamps taken. The Post
master. who lives near the Office, was
aroused bv the burglars and gave
chase. but they opened fire on him, and
n abandoned pursuit.
IT has been fu ly decided TO put in
eli ctricity en- the Ann Arbcr-Y psilanti
m )tor line. The power house will be
located half way between the cities, at
the Lake Shore crossing. Cars will
run every hour from each town. For
three years smoking steam motor has
been u ed.
THE other night middle aged wom-
en- came TO Flint and asked the police
fer lodging. Her home was in Bay
City and she was on her way home from
New York TO attend her daughter s
funeral. She said her money had given
cut and she had been obliged TO walk
several hundred mics.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23
Not Yet a Law.

The Wilson tariff bill has now been
sent to the Senate, where, like the
slothful man, it will 'take little moro
sleep, little more slumher. 1t is
likely to be months before any action
at all is taken on the measure. Forty
Thousand inquiries have been sent out
to manufacturers asking for informa-
tion as to how their business would be
affected by the changes proposed in
the Wilson bill, and they are going to
considerable expense TO collect anthem
cic AMI full information on all the
points. After these circulars have
reen answered it will take long time
to tabulate them and prepare the in
telligence for the use of Senators.
Then will follow a protracted debate
to which there can lie no limit. The
Republics Ans are determined TO take all
the time necessary to expose the in
EQUITIES of the Wilson bill and secure
many radical changes in the measure
if possible. That it viii be greatly
changed is beyond question, as the
large free list now provided for will
never get through the Senate, where
the Democratic majority Is small and
the song of the cuckoo is not heard so
often.
LII Inrcc uOu1uo perhaps IL Will gov
through the Senate in some shape.
Then will follow a conference commit
tee representing the Senate and House,
who will get together and make a new
bill, which must run the gauntlet of
both branches of Congress.
1t is more than probable that If any
tariff bill at all gets to the desk of the
President for his signature it will not
reach that point before late in the
coming summer or perhaps right on
the heels of the next Congressional
election. And that is just what the
Democratic party does not want. They
desire to push the measure through
and give the people chance to forget
about the outrage before electi n day
rolls around. Thanks 10 the rules OF
the Senate, that wish will not be graf
ified.-Ohio State Journal
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23
Peanut Politics.

Information from Wa ,hington is to
the effect that Mr.. Cleveland has
given the New York Senators to UNI
derstand that in case the nomination of
Mr.. Peckham should be rejected he
would send in the name of another
New Yorker equally OBJ. ectionable to
them and hold them responsible for
the prolonged vacancy on the Supreme
bench. Mr.. Cleveland is a self-willed,
arbitrary and stubborn gentleman, but
it is almost incompreAensible that he
should take such -urse. He may
yet, and before he is much older, dis
cover that the American public will
not tolerate the subversion of the
highest judicial lace in the land to
the personal ma ice engendered by
purely political reasons burlington
Hawkeye.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23
Grow IN 81 Central Lake.

When, IN IL @ afternool of June %,
1892, the ii 8. passenger train o the
Chicago and West Michigan Railroad
reached Central Lake, the village had
four or five tumble-down stores, a few
old houses and about seventy-five reo-
PIE. Central ] axe is now a town OF
300 or 20 people, and is 20 proud she
thinks she is going t. become the
county scat. She has two physician !,
one lawyer and a good newspaper, the
Central Lake Torch. There are two
la &c hardwood saw mills in Central
Lake, "a well as a large grist mill. In
summer the village is charming sum-
mer resort for people who like to fish
ard rest and wander through beautiful
woods
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23
Sample Democratic Indep .ndsnce.

1t is ten years now since the Mug
wumps began their chatter about the
growth of independence in politics. At
the end OF this time the country is en-
abled to see the Democrats in the
House of Representatives. by their
votes on the Wilson bill and on the Nc
Creary resolution, exhibit their utter
submission to Mr.. Cleveland. When
were votes more servile, cringing and
conviction breaking ever taken in
Legislative body?
The passage of the Wilson bill had
its Importance, for its passage was
the sign that many Democratic repre-
sentatives were willing to cramp and
harass the country with measure they
did not approve. An insincere vote to
enact measure Is as effective
toward making that measure into
law as if every voters heart
spoke out of his mouth. But res
olutions like Mr.. McCreary's mean
nothing unless they are sincerely
adopted, and there is probably no one,
not Mr. GOdkin him. elf, who will pre-
tend that among those who voted for
these resolutions there were not many
who think Mr.. Cleveland's Hawaiian
policy has been an impudently absurd
iasco.
If the vote had lot been 80 nearly
unanimous it would have hal more
effect outside of Congress, for Mr..
Cleveland's friends might then have
maintained, with some show of reason,
that the vote represented the convic-
tions of the voters. Only two Congress
men, Messrs. Cummings and Sickles.
dared to give anti-cuckoo votes. Had
the resolutions been passed unanimous
ly they could not have been more
meaningless. .-Milwauke, Sentinel.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23

East Jordan is being raked fore and
aft by broadside Of religious revivals.
Besides the Methcdists and Bartists,
who come out boldly on the highways
to preach salvation, are the Latter Day
Saints. One of the saints, who is not
afraid to spoil good business man to
make a preacher, has closed out good
stock, quit paying business and con-
verted his store into meeting house.
Yet, with bible and prayer book I'M
der the arm of cry third man you
ness in town Of 20, and present a
solid front TO the sensitive refOrmers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23
Olen In HITTER Crooks

A. II. Mckenzie, an Alpena grocer,
was before United States Commissioners
McMath, charged with selling OLE
margarine as butte. Two OF his clerks
testified that when they sold the "oleo"
as butter the got 80 cents a found;
when as eomargarine. only Is cents.
1t was also asserted that Mckenzie
placed rolls of oleomargarine in butter
crooks for purposes of deception. Me-
Ken .ie denies all this, saying ho never
told his clerks to deceive customers.
He always had 1leomare arine stamped
as such acc riding to law
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23
wbitewasbed the Scandal.

Some a istocrats of Grand Rapids,
who were by bold, bad policemen
roughly jostle1 into the police court
en- charge of gambling, have been
acquitted. They showed a justice jury
conclusive that the roulette table
and the chips and the glittering )in
aud the hour of half-past two in the
morning had no significance whatever.
They were playing pedro, seven-up,
cribbage. ETC., and used the chips sim
ply for counters. Sometimes they used
the chips TO paw baseball.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23
Afraid of Discussion.

A good cause does not fear discus
sion. The decision of the Senate
Finance Committee not to grant hear
ings in which the people can express
themselves in regard to the Wilson
bill is practical confession that the
Democratic majority Is afraid to give
the workingmen chance to express
their views about the measu o.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23
Old Hotel Gone.

The old Bailey House at Stanton,
which for twenty-eight years has been
the center of all the historical and
epoch-making events in Montcalm
County, was destroyed by fire. Harry
Tisdal, a fireman, was caught on the
third flo +, and obliged to jump for his
life. He sufe ed but slight injuries.
Loss, $4,000: insurance, 1000.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23

ceilings are frescoed. They sit around
the finest of dsmask cloths on chairs of
oak, cushioned with green leather.
Their dishes are china and their forks
are of silver. The most OF them pre-
fer steel knives, and silver is only used
for the cutting OF fruit. The common
dining room is apart from that used by
the Senators, and there Is pie and
oyster counter pre- ided over by wait
srs. At these the statesmen now and
then take q snack. but the most Of
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23
Honest Muskegon Supervisors.

Muskegon su~ ervisors have exoner-
ated all the member of the Commit
tee on Roads and Bridges except one,
who lost a book OF vouchers for some
500 and raised the remaining vouch-
ers to correspond with the actual
amount paid by him. The missing
vouchers have since been found, 50 all
is lovely. and there isn't so much dis
hor esty at Muskegon As some people
thought there was.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23
Call for the Proof

A Grand Army post at Baltimore
has offered reward of $25 for the
first case of arrest and conviction of a
resident ex-Union soldier upon e. o
charge of obtaining or attempting to
obtain pension by fraudulent means.
There has been great deal of talk
about fraudulent pensions. Is it not
about time for the old soldiers to call
for the proof2
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23

Turpie, of Indiana, lunches on oysters
and wants fruit every day. Vance, OF
North Carolina, is satisfied with
sandwich, and Dan Voorhees, eats
enough country sausage and cakes to
give any other statesman the govt.
Wilson, of Iowa, usually dimes off
glass of milk and a piece of apple pie,
and Roger .. Mills can fill up his bread
basket with chicken salad and feel like
a king.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23
DiscouragIng First Day.

Little Freddie Brownawell Of Con-
stantine, who is only years old, had
a rough experience the first day he
went to chool. Three windows fell
kerplunk upon his head. The kids
face was badly cut and he has no am
bition to cont nue. the pursuit of knowl-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23
Big Laingsburgh Turkey.

A aingsburgh farmer has just sold
New York parties a turkey which he
b lieves is u largest eyec owned in
Michigan. The length of the bird from
bill TO foot was feet 81 inches: around
the breast y feet; around the tn gh
l2l inches. with weight of II pounds.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23

Ex-Seoretary Whitney, according to
the New York Press, refers to the men
out of employment as belonging to "the
lower classoA' Great is modern De-
mocracy.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23

The Congressional "cuckoos" are do
ing their best to earn the crumbs of
patronage that drop from their mas
ter's table.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23
MIRROR OF MICHIGAN
FAITHFUL RECOGNIZING OF HER
LATEST NEWS.

Alleged Deception Practiced by an Alpena
Grocer - stanton Loses "a Landmark
Boom OF Central Lake-East Jordan
Having "A Lively Time.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23

Though the Senate Finance Commit
tee may arbitrarily refuse to give pub
lie hearings on the Wilson bill, the
right OF the people to petition the
Government for a redress of grievances
Is secured by the Constitution of the
United States. II ever there was
time when that right might justly be
.ns n5 s are SePrvsd. Of Of s@pS
The evening world., 1894-06-21
C~ATARACTs OF THE EYE.

The fact that the retirement from ac-
tive service OF William f. Gladstone. the
Prime Minister OF England, was due in
Part to a cataract in one OF his eyes has
created interest In the peculiar disease,
as the public interest is excited in any
thing affecting a great a Just now
the people want to know a cataract
Is.
A cataract Is the clouding of the crys-
talline lens Of the eye, often the result OF
senile changes which age induces. The
crystalline lens. which Is placed behind
the pupil. is as clear as crystal and col
mission Of light through the pupil. When
this clear lens becomes milky or waxy II
loses ITS transparency. and finally. with
thick as not to admit suficient light into
the e1e to excite the retina, and hence
the loss Of all useful vision. In cataract
the patient never becomes stone blind
:an be d.ne by good eyes when the lids
are closed. 1t Is by no means an uncom-
mon disease. Operations for relief are
very common in Baltimore. and In the
fected. A; one Of the Baltimore hospi-
tails in the rast sixteen years 5,165 cata-
racts have received treatment.
The cure is In the surgeons knife. The
by i'.clsion around the clear part of the
eye to the extent OF nearly one-half OF
the periphery. The bag which holds the
cataract is tAen punctured through the
made to glide smoothly through the e
opening made in the eyeball. The cata.
ract is necessarily behind the colored
part OF the eye. 1t is very much like
splitting the kin Of a cherry to get out
tn. seed which lies In the centre, for the
cataract Is in the centre Of the eyeball
When the cataract escapes the pupil re-
sumes its black color. light enters the
eyeball as he obstruction is taken away,
and good sight comes back as soon as
the Wound made in the eye heal. The
results are often so perfect that no visi-
BILE trace Is left of what has been lone
to restore SIGHT, as the wounds leave lit
lie or no scar. Some very-curious cases OF
restored sight by unusual means are on
| record, such as the accidental result of q
severe blow IN the head replacing the
lens and restoring the sight without ar
operation. A blind man feeling about ir
the dark falls down a flight of steps, and
gets up seeing with a clear vision.
The operation Itself Is very old, as w
are told that Cyrus. King OF Persia, was
operated upon with restored sight by ar
eye surgeon from Thebes $500 years ago
This Is told by Prof. Ebers, the re,
nowned Psychologist, in his charming
story. "a Princess of Egypt."-Ex.
chang
The evening world., 1894-06-21
sNAKE-KILLING RAZoR-BACKs.
The Hogs May lie Utilized to n Yer,
Good Purpose.

Talk about snakes" said Edward T.
Atherton, of Boston, to the Washington
Post, there are more of them to the
square ecre in Florida than in any
other part OF this glorious country.
But, as numerous as they are now, they
are not half as abundant as they We're
a few years ago, before an organized
effort was made to annihilate the whole
Serpentin1 breed.
at seems that a bright idea, involving
the wholesale extinction of snakes. en-
tered the mind of one William Jones,
who, up to that time, had been a poor
lhilncr strupGllng 10 support a big
family. Now lie is one of the solid men
of the county, and he made all his
money by the successful execution Of
that idea. He knew that the ordinary
razor-back hog of Florida was a great
natural enemy of snakes, and he set to
work to Systematically train "A whole
drove of hogs to hunt down and destroy
the reptiles In IA little while he n
his swine is thoroughly ain in their
part as setter dogs are drilled to point
quail. He first cleared his own farm of
a vast quantity of big ones. and Their he
began to hire out his hogs To his neigh
hors who We're snakc-aMicted. The
fame of those razor-baCks spread all
over the land. and people whose places
were infested with rattlcSnakes and
men who We're clearing up new land
sent for Jones's hogs.
This Is no romance. for ! talked with
Jones himself. and he told me all about
II and exhibited his hook of engage
ments, which also contained Il record of
all the snakes slain for the past twelve
months, l have every reason to believe
he was stating the facts, for he gave
me a warm invitation to visit his place,
would demonstrate the skill of his
snake-killers."
The evening world., 1894-06-21
'AlEMMDER's WIFE CALLED.
Testifes in Behalf of the Accused
Collector.
Prosecutions Evidence In and Its
Case Rested.

The first witness when the trial OF
John ". Alexander was resumed to-day
before Judge MARITIME in Part l., Cen
eral Sessions. was Lawyer Eugene
Prayer, of 81 william street, who lives
ut S3 West one Hundred and Fourth
street, ana Ian. II last went with Or.
Grimshaw to BoutrIchct's house in West
one Hundred and Fifteenth street. 1t
was about 1915 +. NJ, and he saw George
Hope and a mar who answered to the
name Of Vincent there.
Prosecutor Mcintyre endeavored to
get the witness to identify the man Vim
cent as the defendant at the bar, but
Lawyer Prayer was in doubt.
Constantine Roswald, "A broker, of 2G5
broadway, was next called. His daugh-
ter. Julia, loaned money to the Bou-
trichets. and secured IT by taking n mort
gage on the furniture. The witness tes-
titled that he sold the mortgage to a
man named Armstrong.
The latter was not present when the
assignment was made. William Bell
was present. the witness said. and paid
him, $3.50 as a consideration for the sale
of the mortgage.
The prosecution then rested.
. ~ ~ ltlltS loI lHt ltltlSe WIS
Mrs. Jennie Alexander. wife of the de-
PENDANT. She is n dark eyed, petite,
young woman, and testified with evident
reluctance.
Mrs. Alexander told the jury that she
now lived at Cruger's, a small place on
the Hudson River, about nine miles
from here. She had lived there for
about "A month.
She said that she II her husband
occupied three floors In the house where
they lived when the goods were seized
from the West one Hundred and Fiji
teonth street house. The two upper
floors she said. were used as a store
room. Her husband used these floors
for storing property obtained on fore
closures.
Judge MARITIME took the witness in
hand. and she admitted that no furni-
turc but thatof the Cuinplainants had been
stored in the house. Mrs. Alexander
said that a sale had been held at Alex
ander's house, and that 1t had been
properly advertised. She could not re-
member the day. but said that the
a~lctioncer was a man named Wendell.
BottriChet was recalled in rebuttaI.
He testified that he had never been no
titled of the assignment of the mort
gage, nor was he informed tina his
goods were to be sold on foreclosure.
He also swore that he had received
no money, representing n surplus over
the amount of tle mortgaged goods, as
the result of the sale.
The evening world., 1894-06-21
GIRLS At COMMENCEMENT.
Fair Students at the Normal Col
lege Awarded Prizes.
Miss Martha Bachman Carried on
the Most Honors.


The spacious building of the Normal
''"eSe' "N's e'sh'h street anu farh
avenue, was crowded TO It's FULLEST Capnc-
ity this morning by the relatives and
,.Ia,a, a,,ha n.a. ...a haI -
ll'eliuS VI 'he graduates WHO hau assem-
bled to participate in the commencement
ox.rcIaos
".
Dr' ihohias fiuhter' fresiueht OF 'he
college, presided, and many members
~ Tho Rnard NJ Educntio, u,ra nm III.
PLATFORM
The exercises were begun by the read
inp os scrin,ura losaons no tho nov nan.
"s ~ i
lei van ielt. MISS FRANCES Elizabeth
MONTGOMERY delivered the salutatory,
o,t.r which oh, r,o, ~ krox pro.tdant
~. ~ ~ -. h"oH'
or the Board or Education, delivered an
address, in the course OF which he spoke
Of the several educational INSTITUTIONS
In the city. and said the difiiculties OF
teachers are greatly enhanced by the
| foreign element they had to deal with.
There were. he said. over 23s. 900 German
children and altogether 63g.pu foreign
born children landed here.
This being the twenty-nfth annual
commencement day of The college he
conRratulated pr Hunter On The attain
ment of the silver iIhiiee az bis ronnec-
tion with the institution President
Knox said that new srhooibouses we're
rising IN ali over The civ and there
had been more uonev snent on schonls
The evening world., 1894-06-21
THE FIRST OF MAY.
How the Glad Time Wns CcIe-
brntcd in Old England.

wonder If "our boys and girls fully
realize what a grown-up festival the
FIRST of May used to be in Old Eng
land? a contributor asks in the Philadei-
phia Times. 1t was not the children
so much as the men of London-many
or them among the most venerable citi-
zens OF the town-that took Il prominent
part in the beautiful n kindly old
custom of fetching in the May as
they called it then. 1t was also made n
more serious occasion by the remem-
brance of the poor, for tables of food
were set out before the doors of the
weather. houses that those who were
needy might eat that day without cost.
IL seems strange TO read of these ta-
bles being set in the streets, but the
fact Is that when England was termed
Merry England" the merriment was
In great part out of doors n on the
public, streets. Even the palaces were
draughty, dark and dirty. compared
with our modern homes. and the hand
somely carved furniture of these old
days was too hard, stiff and knobby to
be altogether comfortable.
gay, indeed. The fronts of the houses
were decorated with boughs of green
and st. Johns, wort. The rejoicing be-
gan on, May-night, and then the roofs
OF the houses were lighted up with the
Pitchy ilames OF as many as seven
hundred burning creSSetS, small iron
CRATES, in which Combustibles might
burn safely on "A high place.
me marching watch of the town,
armed with the bow, pike n har-
quebus, went about the streets PLAYING
merry tunes for the Morrice dancers
The word Morricc, or Morris, meant
Moorish, because of the Eastern cos
TUNES and instruments often used by
these dancers and maskers.
For the May rovels they were dressed
Enthusiastically, II Is true, but they rem
resented genuine English characters.
SuCh, as Robin Hood, Little John and
Maid Marian, though sometimes char
acters like the Ilohby-H Horse or the
Dragon were curiously mixed up with
other amuSements were plays acted
by the parish c~lerks -shOrt PLAYS. which
dispensed with scenery and spectacular
effects. being performed in the open
air and wrestling before the Lord
Mayor and, the city Aldermen as spec
tators, and archery, which was then
held in great esteem in England. the
English %archers,, with their bows Of
tough yew-wood, having won more
than one battle for English kings. The
archers, according to a very old cus-
tom, went to Finsbury Fields to shoot.
ana IA prize was given to the most
successful.
| think the home-life of to-day. with
It's wider me higher range of pleasures,
Is better than the street.-the of the past
centuries. but for all that. the First OF
Ma must have been a merry day then.