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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1898-03-30
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PAW PAW, MICH, MARCH 80, 1898
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-03-17
Where Water Is Scarce.


A most disastrous drought is devas-
tating South Africa, the worst known
for many generations. Stock is perish
ing in such vast numbers that farmers
are being ruined wholesale. At lit
tie expense the Cape government pro-
vides an apparatus for the use of the
farming community and drilling oper-
ations are in progress in nearly all
parts of the country. tits generally be-
lieved that there is abundance of wa
ter at depth of from so to 100 feet,
but the finds are few and weak. I'm
like Australia there are no subterra-
mean rivers to tap. The hope of the
farmer lies in the conservation of the
rainfall, which, if not stored in dams,
quickly runs off into the ''sluits'' and
"spruits'' and leaves the parched earth
but little refreshed. In many places
the drinking supplies regularly fall
short and the farmers are reduced to
the thick, Opaque contents Of a dam.
In the remoter districts the Beers exE
perience this acutely. A Boer recent
5ly called at an Englishman's house.
while on a journey and asked for a
drink. The Englishman had good
supply and gave him a sparkling
sdraught. The putchman was greatly
surprised and in his kitchen .'taal'''
expressed himself highly delighted
with such Q sweet drink, for, as he OBJ
served, sit had neither taste nor smell.n
Chicago Evening News.
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CONSOLATION.

y I often call to mind one Of my boyhood
x, summer days 53.. G. y @
Z When was loiterin' round. a-follerin' idle
boyish ways.
z come across a curious find some stun
the workmen use; 5a# $50 a.5@
knowed that it exploded. but couldn't
find no fuse. & n
I flung it gin the stone wall. but It didn't
mind the shock: i l# @@ r
Then stood behind tree an tried to hit
1t with rock. ~, .sy 49,
I worried AMI fretted an my temper gun
fE5 to spoil - ~ ... G,-I&
When I found THAT only failure waited on
my patient toll. t"
But later on I seen it used by them as had
the knack.
shivered when 1t took great rocks an tore
'em up the back. w. ~
An when the noise subsidized, says, skyart
as could be-: .."
Ell 1t uses granite that way, what would
1t have done to me?" ~
An every now an then I'd start an wake
mp In the night
TO git away from COLLINS that was THROWN
dynamite. g.
wait for day,
And thank the lucky stars that didn't let
me have my way.
The happenin' brought me comfort when in
later years I'd find
That cherished undertaking. didn't. end jes'
to my mind.
When I see the difficulties pilin' up so
thick an high
An mockin' my endeavors, as some hope
full scheme try,
cheer myself with thinkin' of them efforts
long ago
TO have celebration whose results I
couldn't know.
It amt success that allus makes yer plan
MIN turn out right,
Cause Their amt no way o. KNOWN that It
isn't dynamite.
Washington Star.
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WELL PATCHED.
French Peasants Who Wear Once,
Looking Garments.

French Peasants Who Wear Queer
Looking Garments.
The peasants of Valombre, France.
clothe themselves in an amusing wav,
Avarice is the prevailing vice among
them. They have had such long, hard
time to get money that now that they
have it they keep it. The thing they
work so hard to possess now seems in
clined to possess them, body and soul.
Economy becomes almost fine art in
their hands. '.u.
Many take advantage of neighboring
fairs to replenish: their wardrobe with
secondhand clothing. Their love of
bargaining is strong, and the Jew ped
dler, though he does business, meets his
match. r<.f. .-.,, ss -Ffz...-
The natives of Valombre patch easily
and frequently. Clothes must needs be
in pretty hopeless state when skillful
patching cannot save them. The same
stuff is, in preference, used, though this
is not absolutely necessary. AS con
sequence, the results attained are often
quite wonderful.
Some distance off yon see a man wear
ing white trousers. You are surprised
to notice that half of the left leg is
black, making clearly-cut division
where it joins the rest. On his an
proach you discover that it is simply q
patch of the original goods, but the rest
has had time to change color. These
patches are neat, the peasant never be-
ing ragged, but they are really extraor-
binary, ranging often from head ia
foot. Boyd Smith, Il my Village.
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-
countries to this capital. In all emer-
gencies an ambassado Tor must represent
the head Of his nation. Therefore it is
necessary that each ambassador should
possess intellectual ability and educa-
tional requirements which are prac-
tically equal to those Of the sovereign
or president at the head Of his govern
ment. 55 ssfs} ls@=t ,
a case in point concerning ministers
occurred recently. The Spanish min-
lister to this country, Senior De LONE,
committed q grave breach Of courtesy.
He was invited to the department Of
state to make an explanation or an
apology. He did not respond, but left
this country without delay. He could
not have gone to see our president
about the matter, because only an am
bassador has that privilege, while q
minister has not. Consequently, with
out making any explanation or apology
for his cowardly and treacherous con-
duct, he hastily packed his household
effects and miserably sneaked out Of
our national capital. While here he
had been honored with the respect Of
the administration. With typical Span
iish cunning and cowardice he bowed
low, smiled and demeaned himself as
one who sought the friendship of this
country and who appreciated the le-
niency of our nation. At the same time
he was writing insolent and coarse al
lusions to our president in his official
communications, as well as to his per-
sonal friends in Spain.
But to return to the white house din
ners. They are paid for out of the con.
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TO REAC Fl HE MASSES.
1 e Is the Aim OF 'Po dticians as
Well as Business Men.
Advertising in Its Varied Phase,
Has Become q Sciense-SOme
Of the Methods In Vogue
mt Present.
Especial Chicago letter.

Advertising is no longer an expert
ment. Business men have recognized
its valuel..:for long time, and have
probably spent millions of dollars
to bring their goods to the no
tice of the public. Time was when
circular and poster advertising were
looked upon as good investment
but of late years the great majority of
advertising experts have turned their
attention almost exclusively to news
papers. The handful which, decade
or more ago, was popular in all the
small cities of the country has been
supplanted by, artistic display an
nouncements in local newspapers; and
many general advertisers have discard
ed 7almanacs, calendars and picture
cards in favor of daily and weekly jour
nails of good repute and the great
monthly magazines. us II.
The business man who in these days
of fierce competition fails to keep him
self before the public is destined to end
his commercial career in the bank
ruptcy court. He may manufacture
the best article in the world, but un-
less he let's the world know of it, it will
not buy from him or his agents. The
day when the merit of an article was
advertised by satisfied buyers among
their friends will never return again.
In the first place, business is done on
a larger scale; and, secondly, so many
really valuable things are, every morn
ing and evening. offered to the public
that the personal recommendation of
one or two individuals is ridiculously
insignificant.
But the object of this letter is not to
discuss the value of advertising. It is
intended to show the extent to which
printers ink in the form of newspaper
announcements is utilized by. persons in
every walk Of life.
The plain business display advertise
ment is familiar to every reader. But
comparatively few know that when
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forcibly and frequently. A state
ment unsupported by facts is no longer
accepted. If voter or buyer of mer-
chandise is to be convinced, logical
argument must be submitted to his in
spection. The great men in commerce
and politics have begun to realize this
condition, and are adapting themselves
to it. And that is why advertising has
evolved into veritable science which,
as yet, but few understand.
Five years hence the man who man.
ages the advertising of great business
house or of powerful political party
will be the most important factor of the
firm or campaign committee. because
he will be pitted against men whose
talent of reaching the public purse and
mind has been developed in school of
experience to which their predecessors
nad no access. G. w. WEIPPIERT.
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tingent fund which congress supplies.
When state dinners are given. the presi.
dent and his guests sit at table about
2h hours. They have their trained
walters slowly changing their dishes
and rapidly filling their glasses. There
is waiter for every one present, and
constant attention is paid by these
sable servitors. For 2h hours they eat
drink and talk. There are no toasts
for the state dinners are not banquets
But they talk on all sorts of topics, just
as your neighbors will talk informally
when you have them to dinner in you,
home. When they are finally through
with this long feeding and drinking
they get into cabs and carriages, drive
to their homes, 60 to bed and sleep of
the effects of their gormandizing. Tha,
is the plain and wholesome truth of the
matter.
These state dinners are gorgeous af-
fairs. The table service of the white
house would do credit to any monarch.
Between the president and his wife. in
the cente r. of the table, is a great big
golden vase, filled with the rarest of
flowers. Candelabra of gold and sill
yer make radiant the brilliantly
gilded and decorated room. There are
scores of wax candles, and there are
hundreds of little bits of electric lights,
half hidden with foliage. The forks,
knives and spoons are pure gold and
pure silver. The china ware is of the
most costly character, and all of it is
hand painted. SO you see, when our
president enteretains, these important
personages he does it in royal style.
Now, whether our presidents enjoy
this sort of thing or not, is question
which cannot be determined. If any
president does not enjoy such social
functions, it would be incxceeding bad
taste for him to say so. Afterwards his
guests would feel different, and some
of them might even decline invitations.
Ex-presidents are also retjcent. 1t is
we'll.
Whether this sort of procedure is
right or not, is another question. The
custom of social and costly entertain
ment is very ancient. Away back in
Biblical times, we read of social inter-
changes of costly courtesies. It is re-
corded that the queen of Sheba travelled
many miles. bringing tokens of admira-
ton to the court of King Solomon. The
royal lady was superbly entertained.
In the early days of our republic the
white house entertainments were very
simple, but they have increased in bril-
liancy and costliness, as the nation has
increased in population and in wealth.
Whether these state dinners are right
or wrong, since it seems to be necessary
to keep up the custom, we may at least
take pride in the fact that our presi-
dent does the grand act with as much
magnificence as king or emperor.
SMITH D. FRY.
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with a pen, thus indicating to the gen.
tleman receiving the card where he and
his partner for the evening are to sit at
the table. Thus it is practically impos-
sible for any error to be made in seat
ing the guests at these big banquets.
The last presidents reception was in
definitely postponed because of the
sinking of the battle ship Maine, where
by so many of our sailors lost their lives.
That dreadful catastrophe shocked the
civilized world. and it caused thrills of
horror in this city. There was such a
spontaneous burst of sentiment that
even society quailed before it, and all
social affairs were brought to sudden
termination. Thus it happened that the
social rounds were stopped at the white
house; and, now that Lent is here, they
will not be resumed during the pres
ent season. -..-. III
It is not generally known that it is
the duty of the president to accept an
invitation to dine with an ambassador,
but that it is beneath his dignity to dine
with minister plenipotentiary. Am
bassadors are the incarnation of their
sovereigns.1 The British ambassador
represents Queen Victoria, and for that
reason he may personally call upon the
president on official business at the
white house. But the minister from
Turkey or from China cannot call thus
upon the president. On the contrary,
the ministers must transact all of their
diplomatic business with our depart
ment of state. The ambassadors out
rank all other diplomats. Ell *zz.
In like manner, Ambassador Hay may
have audience with Queen Victoria, in
stead of depending upon the British for
eign Office for consideration. Mr.. Hay,
as our ambassador to Great Britain,
represents the president Of this repub-
lie. When Mr.. Bayard was our min
lister, before the ambassad orship was
created, he could not have audience
with the queen; but as soon as he had
been promoted to be an am assador he
became q greater parsonage.
It may be well to remember that all
Of our ambassad ors to foreign countries
are men OF superior ability and sa-
gacity The same may be said Of the
|8ambassador who are sent BY foreign
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sCLlMATE rs NOT CHANGING.


Why the Oldest Inhabitant,aS tor1ed
Are Not Always Correct.
"a corresponds in Mortified, Mass,
desires our opinion on the questions:
Were the winters Of SO or Is gears ago
much colder or were the snowfalla
deeper than at present ~ The opinion
is widely held that the winters were
colder and the snowfalls deeper, but
can find nothing to warrant the belief
except that in the first part Of the cen-
fury much larger percentage Of the
population lived in the hill towns in the
interior, which are much colder than
the valley or the coast towns
On the general question as to appre-
cable changes in climate the editor's
opinion is that there has been no such
change in any respect whatever so far
as meteorology proper is concerned-
II we divide our records of the weather
recorded in North America since tho
days of Columbus into two periods,
viz, before and after the year 1900, we
shall find that every popularity, such
as remarkable storms, winds. rains,
floods, frosts, etc, recorded in the cur
rent century, can be matched by a cor
responding remarkable event before
the year 1900. The popular Impressions
alluded to by our correspondent result
almost entirely FROM the imperfections
of our records and especially of our
memories. There is a large class of per-
sons whose habits of thought are so
crude that when they experience any,
very remarkable weather they jump to
the conclusion that the climate has
changed, forgetting that they them
selves have had such limited person
al experience that they are not fair
judges of the weather over the whole
country or of the climate of century.
Our correspondent seems to suggest
that certain change in the habits OF
the people, such as the removal from
the interior to the coast, or from forests
to prairies, or from country to city, or
vice. versa, will partly account for wide
spread errors in respect to the climate.
The suggestion is excellent, hut the
editor would be inclined 70 interpret
the phenomenon somewhat differently.
The general movement of the popula-
ton. in the past century has been from
the Atlantic states westward, and from
the country to the city, or quite oppo-
site to the movements suggested by our
correspondent. In fact, we find no real
agreement in the so-called popular ira
d;tions with regard to the weather. We
have met with quite as many persons
who think the winters are more severe
as with those who think the winters ara
less severe than formerly. Every
thing seems to depend upon how and
where the ''oldest inhabitant'' lived
when he was a boy, as compared with
his present condition. The average cli-
mate of New England, so far as the
weather is concerned, has not apprecia-
bly, changed since the days when her
oldest forest trees we're young sap
Gngs.- Weather Review.
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adelphia attempted to launch similar
enterprise which failed, simply beca use
the American public and American
press were .disinclined to .'boon' Span
ish pretensions in Cuba.
This experience suggests that depart.
ments Of publicity have always proved a
failure when their cause was one that
didn't appeal to popula favor. And, by
the way, the same argument applies to
merchandise. No matter how well adj
vertised, unless the advertiser offers
really good article, he is wasting his
money. AS in everything else, honesty
is the best policy IN making public an
nouncements. A good article, well adj
vertised. insures success: a poor article
cannot be sold permanently in any cir
cun,stances. &. + IS,
The Hawaiian anpexationists are
among those who have made many
friends through their press bureau.
They have for months kept their cause
before the American people; without
any great, outlay of cash. American
statesmen who visited the islands were
interviewed upon their return, and their
replies, if favora BILE. went to the news.
papers, together with enticing views Of
Hawaiian scenery. The results Of this
system of gratuitous advertising can
not be estimated. but it is safe to assert
that no cause ever before the American
congress has been as ably handled as
this. Two years ago public sentiment
was positively against annexation,
while to-day it has more friends than
opponents in every part of the union.
The advocates of certain political pol.
icies maintain literary bureaus all the
time. The Protection Tariff league.
for instance, circulates it's own regular
publications and supplies articles to
editors. The free silver people do the
same thing, although not on as extern
sive scale as the Sound Money league.
The aim and object of all is to keep
their ideas before. the people, to con-
vince voters that prosperity will result
from the adoption of their theories and
principles: just as the theatrical press
agent attempts to convince newspaper
readers that the particular star he rep
resents is the greatest actor or actress
in the world.
We are nation of advertisers, be-
cause we are an educated nation. In a
country where everybody can read, the
individual must be reached through the
newspapers. Facts must be presented
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A MOTHER.RlRD'S LOVE,
How a Pigeon Cut Her Way to HI
Imprisoned Young One.

How a Pigeon Cut Her Way to Her
Imprisoned Young One.
In the animal kingdom there are
many strong examples of mother love,
and the birds are particular noted for
displaying it. A remarkable instance
of this maternal instinct was recently
noticed near Elwood, Ind. A mother
pigeon whose young one had mysteri-
ously disappeared searched unceasing-
ly for weeks for the little one, and one
day last December she was seen flying
violently against the side of frame
building in the city.
Each time she came in contact with
the house she Clipped of small bit
of wood with her bill. For nearly two
days the old bird kept this practice
up, often during that time falling ex-
hausted from the repeated shocks and
the fatigue. In the afternoon of the
second day she had pecked hole in the
wall, the wood Of which was old and
soft from the weather. This hole was
large enough to admit a mans head,
and through this the mother bird went
and came.
Every time she entered she carried
grain or seeds or grass. Some curious
people investigated the hole While she
was absent, and there they found the
little lost pigeon, just below the hole,
wedged in between the weather boards.
For two days more the bird continued
to bring the little one food, and would
stay futtering near the hole, chirrup-
ing and trying to cheer the little pris-
oner up. Many times it entered and
seemed to be trying to extricate it's
young one, but it could not succeed in
doing so, try as it would. The prisoner
had flown into the building, which was
empty, and managed to get between
the weather boarding, near the top Of
the inside. Falling considerable dis
lance, it lodged in the narrow space,
which did not permit it to use it's wings
in rising again. Its plants had reached
the mother and she, not being able to
reach it from the inside, had cut
through from without. An admiring
man thrust his hand through the hole
and brought out the futtering young
thing, to the great delight of the anx-
ious mamma bird Chicago Chronicle.