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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-05


I Bsst IN pillow of pine. brought home fron
che s,1mmer mountains.
The balm IL it, needles IL soothing. and CRATE
full feel 20 the hands.
The tender and thoughtful hands. of the friends
that gathering renicin oered me.
And yet the aroma IL yicl;,s takes me farther
than summer mountains.
Takes me down to the forests OF pino In vir'
ginia and North Carolina
Again ! ride horse and sleep In the woods
and by roadways.
Again ! am with companions and implements
Of warfare.
hear the drum and the ffe and the bugle's
call TO ction.
The batteries belch their fre, AID the squad
rons charge like demons,
And from rude made breastworks come show
ers OF lead like hailstones,
While the flag goes up or down a. success
crowns our endeavors.
The wounded lie in the forest. but q fire Is
eating its way there;
While helpless they lie till consumed In the
terrible havoc.
And men are dying with thirst in the CRIME Of
the conflict rncndng.
While the night stops only awhile the carnage
and belchinSs Of cannon:
And ! lie on "a pine needle bed. under the
bright stars of heaven.
Edward >. Creamer in New York Sun.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-05

They are made BY securely in
serting piece of especially pre-
pared rubber in. but not through
the outersole by the Mckay
patent process.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-05

A life that is worth writing at all is
worth writing infinitely. -Longfellow.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-05
Ha. a Moon on HI. Neck.

The queerest birthmark which the au-
thorities tell anything about is ON the
back of Joseph Rothernan's neck. Jo-
seph is resident Of Connellsville, Pa,
and his odd mark is moon. When the
moon is new the mark is hardly notice
able, but by the end of the first quarter
it is an angry looking crescent, daily
increasing in size When the moon is at
the full Rotherman's birthmark has also
attained its maximum size. 1t decreases
as the moon wanes and by the time Of
old or new moon is again scarcely no
ticeable. St Louis Republic.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-05
Laugh Culture.

Atchison. Kan, has professor who
teaches folk how to laugh properly. He
charges "a for one lesson and a book.
Then he goes to his home and laughs at
the dupes he finds. There are, however,
outside of Kansas, a number of persons
whose laugh is like the buzz of a cross
cut saw when it strikes hickory knot.
A little laugh culture is good thing. -
Wilmington News.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-05

DR.. Symons could be quick and dexter
Gus when occasion needed. He had adj
ministered serious rebuke TO an under
graduate for irregularity in attendance
at chapel. The victim, who was most
scrupulous chapel goer, summoned by a
mistake due to a confusion Of names,
pleaded that he had not missed chapel
during the term, and that the other
Smith must be the defaulter. The old
man did not apologize. He praised the
youth for his regularity, but babe him
beware lest il should degenerate into
Journalism. "-Blackwood's Magazine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-05

Eagles always drive away their young
as soon as the latter are able to fly we'll
Business is never very good with the
eagle, and he does not enjoy COMPETE
ton.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-05

hate fellow whom pride or COW.
ardice or laziness drives into corner
and who does nothing when he is there
but sit and growl Let him come out
as / do and bark. -Johnson.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-05
William MCKINLEY.

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-16
WIT AND WISDOM.

The heart that once has been bathed
In loves pure fountain retains the pulse
of youth forever.-Landor.
-Goh.-"She excels at golf" 81 am
not surprised. She always had excel
dent taste in matters of dress. detroit
Tribune
-She-"What object to in board.
ing-house is the lack of tone" He
ooh, ha, You haven't heard the girl in
the next room singing: When Summer
Comes Again Judy.
Experience has caused it to be re-
marked that in the country here the
laws are gentle, the minds of the citi-
gems are struck by it as it is elsewhere
by the most severe.-Catharine III.
-Frightens Him Away.-''How do
you manage to get rid of Mr.. Staylate
when he calls of an EVENING"" ''Oh,
tell him all the stories of hold-ups on
our block and emphasize the fact that
they usually occur about II p. m
Detroit Free Press.
-Crimsonbeak-'I see the horse hai
not lost his prestige entirely" Yeast
How 500" Il read in the paper yes.
terday that they hung man down in
Texas for stealing mustang, and only
gave fellow 30 days for 'p;nching'
bicycle. "-Y onkers Statesman.
i'm the Far Beyond.-Lord Saportas
1T is fact, as you say. that we Eng
Gshmen have a habit of standing with
our backs TO the fire. wonder why il
is?" Miss Starzen Strypes-"I suppose
it is because you know you will have
to face IL some day."-Brooklyn Life.
IT'S kind of hard 70 raise a boy just
right" Mr.. Blykins remarked thought
fully. Bring his attention TO the rec
ords Of the country's great men," said
his wife. ''of course; but somehow the
fact that George Washington never told
a lie doesn't seem 70 make as much i'm
preston on his mind as does the dis
covery that his tavorite baseball player
uses tobacco and bad granmar."-Wash
ington Star.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-16
AERIAL PIGEONS.
The Birds Were Used by the Romans -
Mail Carriers.

The Birds Were Used by tho Romans o
Mail Carriers.
Belgium possesses alone as many
pigeons as all the other European ma
lions combined. In maintaining in their
dove cotes the most valued breeds, the
Belgians have in view not only their
national defense, but they seek in thu
practice of their favorite sport ali the
excitement of gambling. The contests
which take place every Sunday in sum-
mer are the occasions of numerous
wagers. The owner of the pigeon that
arrives first, beating hundreds of com,
petitors, certainly feels in an equal de-
gree all the pleasure that may be felt By
the proprietor of racing stable whose
favorite horse has just won the first
prize. This dove breeding, the utility
of which in military campaigns cannot
be gainsaid, is in time of peace nothing
but al agreeable Pastime or form OF
gambling. Few people. in fact, think
of utilizing pigeons for the transactions
of daily life. eve have at our disposal
the telegraph, the telephone and the
post, What is the use of resorting to so
primitive mode of correspondence? 2"
Such is the reason too often given for
RELOCATING the carrier pigeon to the rank
Of luxury. Such is the prejudice which
we wish to try to combat. We believe
that communications of every nature
would gain much In rapidity if the car
rier pigeon were employed along with
ha of
spondence. This useful messenger can
in many cases supplement, or advan,
tageously take the place of, the post and
the telegraph.
The Greeks borrowed from the Ash
atics the taste for dove breeding His
that athlete of the Isle Of Aegina, who,
when a conqueror at the Olympisn
games, announced on the following day
his triumph TO his fellow citizens by
sending them a dispatch borne By
pigeon.
The Romans also employed the aerial
post. Pliny informs us that they paid
very dearly for birds which had stood
the test. There were at Rome and in
most OF the cities of the empire dove
cotes able to hold from 5000 TO 10000
pigeons. They were the chief means of
communication between the govern
ment and its remote provinces. 1t was
in this way that Rome was able TO meet
revolts in the provinces before they
were fairly under way.-G. Reynaud, in
Chautauquan.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-16
THE NEW GEOGRAPHY.
VIII Be Largely Interpreted by the Prin
ciples of Geology.

VIII Be Largely Interpreted by the Pria
: ciples of Geology.
II may as well be frankly admitte<
that geography and geology overlap
All sciences transgress each other
boundaries, and all bounds in nature arr
largely matters of conscience. Geology
never truly interpreted terrestrial his
tory until, with Hutton and Lyell, IL
took to studying geography. Nor viii
the geographer understand the earth
which he sees until be takes account OF
geology. Land forms cannot be truly
seen or faithfully described until seer
and described in the light of their origin,
Such forms will hide themselves from
the student who thinks they are dead
For him they might nearly as well be
buried. The geologist who seeks, fol
example, the causes of volcanism, will
find help in his study of the distribu'
ton and relative action of existing vol
canoes-in other words, he cannot kees
from geography. The geographer, in
his turn, needs the perspective OF an.
Gent volcanic history, if he would ap-
pfeciate his own facts. Because he hal
commonly had no such vista, he has
burdened generations of boys with the
solemn blunder that q volcano is q
burning mountain. Thus we may vim.
dictate for each science its own center
while granting a generous measure OF
common facts. The difference is in the
point of view, the aim, and method OF
treatment; the geologist seeks largely
that which has been, the geographei
that which is, and each must be known
in the light of the other. 1t is precisely
the case with two biologists, one OF
whom studies living, the other fossil
forms. The day is past when they car
work apart; yet none would deny thai
their fields are reasonably different
ated.-Albert P. Brigham. in Apple
tons Popular Science Monthly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-16
cohsTANTIne's NEW ROME.
Is1ilt Theaters. Churches, Baths, Forums
and Palaces st q Stroke.

EliIt Theaters. Churches, Baths, Forums
and Palaces st Stroke.
Constantine created his new Rome in
$50 as never ruler before or since created
city. 1t was made mighty and re-
Eplendant capital within single decade.
Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt.
Mauritania were despoiled of their
treasures to adorn the new metropolis,
Constantine built churches, theaters,
forums. baths, porticos, palaces, u1oHu-
ments and aqueducts. He built, adorned
and peopled a great capital all at a
stroke, and made it, after Rome and
Athens, the most splendid city OF the
ancient world.
Two centuries later Justinian became
the second founder of the city. And
from Constantine down TO the capture
by the crusaders for nearly nine cen
turtles succession of emperors contin-
ued to raise great sacred and lay build
ings. Of the city before Constantine
little remains above the ground except
some sculptures in the museum and
foundations of some walls which DIR.
Paspates believes he can trace. OF Con-
stantine and his immediate successor
there remain parts of the hippodrome,
of walls, aqueducts, cisterns and for
ums, some columns and monuments.
Of the emperors from Theodosius ia
the crusades we still have, little injured,
the grand Church of Sophia, some %
churches much altered and mostly late
In date, the foundations Of palaces and
one still standing in ruins, and lastly
the IL miles of walls with their gates
and towers. The museums contain sar.
cophagi, statutes, inscriptions of the
Roman age. But we can hardly doubt
that an immense body of Byzantine rel
les and buildings still lie buried soma
ten or twenty feet below the ground
whereon stand to-day the seralls, khans,
mosques and houses of STEAMBOAT, a soil
which the Ottoman is 10th to disturb.
When the day comes that such scientific
excavations are possible as have been
made In the Forum and the Palatine at
Rome we may yet look to unveil many
monuments of rare historical interest
and, it might be, few of high ARTISTIC
value. AS yet the cuttings for the
railway have given almost the only OPP
portunity that antiquarians have had
for investigating below the surface of
the actual city, which stands upon
deep stratum Of debris.-Fo rtnightly
Review.
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me Rafuraeld. o. chin

In Chilli, on the battlefield % Tara
psca, the bodies OF the slain lie just as
they fell in the battle between the Pc
ruvians and Chilians, which took place
before the annexation of TaraPacs by
Chilli in 1883. -Four thousand men and
1000 horses were killed on that mem
orable occasion. and the bodies were
left unburied. Il never rains at Tara
Pacz- and the sun has dried the corPses
and the nitrate in the soil has preserved
them Upon the plateau the numni-
fed bodies lie il CHASTITY confusion Just
as they fell, with the broken swords and
bayoTTets as fresh-looking as on the day
Of the memorable fight - Chicago
Chronicle
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-16
HE FORGOT HIS GOLD.
Left . Fortune In San Frsncisco TO Be
come Rich Ia south Africa.

left . Fortune In San Frsncisco TO Be
come Rich Ia South Africa
Another strange discovery has come 70
light in the Hibernia bank deposits that
have been neglected for many years by
their owners. 1t appears that jeremiah
Prendergast, long mourned as dead, is
alive and prosperous in South Africa,
where he has made a fortune. It is
learned that he has apparently forgot
ten that $4,000 await him in the Hi
hernia bank of San Francisco.
The history of Prendergast's deposit
is one of the most interesting of all the
old estates that have laid unclaimed for
years in the vaults of San Francisco
vaults. In the first place IL now
amounts 10 $4,000. being the largest
sum of all the unclaimed deposits, and
N the next place IL has perhaps been
more widely advertised and more gen
orally claimed than any other sum in the
list Strangely. however, nearly al the
Prendergasts. save the real owner. seem
20 have heard OF this money and laid
claim 70 il, while the original depositor
has lived quietly in South Africa al
these years. needless OF the fact that his
gold lies in the bank swaitingitso owners
orders Attorney Oscar T. Shuek has
Just located the original jeremiah
Prendergsst in the Congo Free State
where the old man lives in great lux,
ury, having amassed large fortun.
since he went there as one o; the pic
neers OF nearly 20 years ego.
'Prendergast went 70 South Africa IL
1878" said Attorney Shuck yesterday
being one of the leaders or a Califc-nis
colony. Re left = good sum in the bank
here, since which tine 20 one has evel
heard from him or OF him until got
word that he was well end rich Th'
nearest trsce we ever got OF him her;
was that he was az the old Enpirr hote
an Pacific street SoIne tirs.a hStrAa-
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ru.sian rituIar Honor.

The title of grand duchess is given Il
the daughters, sisters and grsnddaugh
tiers of the Russian car. When bsp
tized they receive iDsignias of the Ordes
of the Great and Holy Martyr Gather
inc. They have separate coats-of-az-m
Before they become OF age they are en-
titled TO 80 900 roubIes, and after tha
to &c, 600 q year. Al grand duchesses re
ceire on their wedding day dot o.
1000, 900 roubles. The danghters-in-la.
OF the car. who arc grand duchesses
receive 10000 roubles year. In cas-
one of them becomes a widow she IA
entitled 70 an extra pension Of 20 900
year Should she leave Russia this ,
reduced 10 Is 900. and IL she marTies be
meath her rank or in foreign lands shs
loses II ChicaRo News
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-16
QUICKER THAN LIGHTNING.
The Action of the OIa-Eashioned Humas
Body Outstrips Everything Else.

Tie Action of the Old-Eashioned Uumas
Body Outstrips Everything Else.
"A quick es lightning" is n phrase col.
loquially used To express the maximuu
of rapidly. But according 70 q we'll
known scientist electricity itself IS out
stripped by that cldfashioned machine,
the human body, by which it appears
powers can, so 10 speak, be generated
in the brain, transmitted through the
nerves snd developed in the muscles IN
an ininitesiInl fraction of second.
1t is stated that pianist. in playing
a presto of Mendelssohn, played 5.59J
notes in four minutes and three seconds
The striking OF each OF these, il has
been estimated, involved two move
ments OF the finger and possibly more.
Again, the movement of the wrist,
elbows ana arms can scarcely be less
than one movement for each note. As
"a notes were played each second, and
each involves three movements, we
would have ~ voluntary movements Per
second.
Again, the place, the force. the tine
and the duration Of each of tbes> move
ments were controlled All these motor
reactions were conditioned upon a
knowledge of the position Of each finger
of each hand before il was moved. while
moving il, as well Is Of the auditory ef-
feet to force the pitch. all Of which in
wolves equally rapid sensory transmits
sio1k-
If we add 70 this the work OF the
memory in placing the notes in their
proper position, as well az the fact that
The performer et the same time partici-
pstes II the emotion the selection de-
scribes and feels the strength and
weakness Of the performance. We arrive
III truly bewildering nst~o1k Of i'm
pulses. eoursing along at iEconeeisebly
rapid rates.
Such estimates show. too. that we are
capable of doing many things at once
The mind is not a unit, but IL composed
OF higher and lower ceIters. the svaiIa-
bic fund of attention being distributed
among tben.-N. 7. Mercury
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-16
FLOWERS SERVED AS FOOD.
Strange Uses TO Which Buds and Blss
SONS Are Put.

Strange Uses TO Which Buds and Blss
SONS Are Put.
y dinner of bunch of rosebuds wouh
hardly be called feast, and we shoulS
most likely be inclined to think our
selves trifed with if we were asked Il
dine upon the great growing blossoms
of pumpkin vine. But in 0lden times
some of the American Indians, notably
the Aztecs, esteemed these flowers
when properly cooked, great dainty.
At the present day the natives of many
parts of India depend for food upon the
blossoms of the bassia tree They de
not even need to cook the flowers, but
make good meal of them raw, just as
they gather them up under the trees
from which they fall in great quantitie,
during the night
The American Druggist describes the
blossoms as sweet and sickly in odoI
and taste. Sometimes they are dried
in the sun and are kept and sold in the
bazars as regular article of diet The
trees are so highly esteemed that the
threat of cutting down their bassis
trees will generally bring an unruly
tribe to terms. This is hardly TO be
wondered at when it is understood that
single tree will yield from 200 to 400
pounds of flowers. The Parsees cook
the flowers, and also make sweet.
meats of them. But, after all, we are
not quite at liberty to smile at the
flower-eating propensities of these
strange peoples.
There is one flower afforded by ouI
own gardens that finds a place freely
upon our tables. We are apt TO lool
upon the delicious cauliflower as a cab
bagc, but it is the flower heads and
flower stalks that we consume in tn,
ceuliflower, and not the leaves, as il
the case of the cabbage. He who eats
caulifower is flower eater as truly
as the Parsec
Nobody would be inclined to DENY
that smoked fish and smoked meat ar,
agreeable varieties in our bill of fare
but few, perhaps, would feel ready to
plead guilty TO a taste for smoked TOW
ers. And yet, when we give TO the Glow,
its well-earned place among our favor
ings, we are making use of smoked
flower bud. The delicate peach-colored
buds grow on u small evergreen and are
ruthlessly Plucked from the ends of tl,s
branches before they have had tim,
to expand. Afterward they are dried
in the sun, and then slightly smoked
over a wood fire, to give them the brown
color we are familiar with.-Youtht
Companion.
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1868 and 1870. Hundreds of alleged heir,
have been after the estate, but it viii
no doubt, soon reach the original de
positor."
A strange fact about the case is that
the public administrator recently Pc,
titioned for letters of administration,
alleging in a general way that Prepder.
CAST died some years ago in Nevada
Judge Slack went SO far as to appoint
Attorney j. j. Dwyer to represent the
absent heirs, but Attorney Shuck sug.
'gested that Prendergast still lived.
whereupon the letters of administration
were withheld.
1t is quite probable that the claimants
were really induced to believe that theil
ancestor died IN Nevada, where an old
miner named Prendergast expired in
fire that destroyed his cabin and him.
self at midnight in a mountain fast
ness. They will soon learn, however,
that the true Jeremiah Prendergast
who left few thousand dollars in the
Hibernia bank in 1868 went to South
Africa with only a little money, and
Is now grizzled with age, but gilded
with gold, also. The real heirs TO THU
strange pioneer live in Massachusetts,.
The bankers and attorneys. as wei
as the public administrator, are won
dering why the pioneer of 40 deserted
his gold here, even TO become pioneer
IN the African gold fields. At any rat,
the money is safe. The distribution OF
living mans funds has been prevented
and $4,000 now await the owners OF
der.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-16
The Diminution OF N.taIit,.

Anthropological societies are nue..
exercised over the fact that in some
countries the death rate exceeds the
birth rate to a degree that seems to
threaten comparatively carly termina.
ton of the life of the nation. For in.
stance, out of the IS departments into
which Francois divided, in 81 the deaths
exceed the births. The annual natality
for the whole county is only 23.7 for
each ] 900 inhabitants. and this number
includes the stillborn. In order To
remedy this progressive depopulstion,
the French Association for the Advance
ment of Science has set itself TO ascer.
tain the causes of IL. DIR. Z. Maurel
pointed out that the birth rate tx lowest
in those departments where food is
most abundant and cheapest The re-
lation between these two facts he held
TO be the prevalence of hereditary
nrthritic diatkesis (uric acid diathe-
sis), leading TO dininuton Of repro
ductive vigor in both sexes. This
.diathesis arises from excessive alimeE
tation- Another speaker. DIR. Pomerol
attributed the dimished natality 70 vol.
untary restriction. while others sug
gested the increase of religious cell
bacy. the laws relating TO the division
OF property, the lateness of marriages
and the decreased reproductiyeRess OF
vomen.-St Louis Republic.
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Do You Know

That the Frisco Line est. Louis and
San Francisco railway is positively
the only line running two daily through
passenger trains from Wichita 70 St.
Louis, without change. leaving Wich-
ha at 1926 p. m, and 1910 2. m, arriv-
ing in st. Louis at $50 p. m. and 7:I5
a. m. The equipment of these trains
is first class in every particular. con-
sisting OF elegant reclining chair cars
(seats free) a2d Pullman Palace Draw
ing Room Sleepers.
If you are going beyond st Louis re-
member that connection with all lines
for the east, northeast and southeast
is made in the magnificent new Grand
Union station, st. Louis, the largest
and handsomest passenger station in
the world.
For sleeping car berths and all irfor-
nation relative to rates, routes, etc.
call on or address
w. TORREY, Agent,
Santa Fe Union Depot.