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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-05-16

X Office OF ATTACHMENT State Of
- Michigau-The Circuit Court for the county
OF Van Buren,
klInsr T.. Downing plaintiff. vs.. Louisa shafer,
defendant.
To whom IT may concern: Noticcis hereby given,
that the ODD day of March. A. ID. 1900 a writ of
attachment was issued ont of the circuit court for
the county OF Van Buren,, az the suit of Elmer T..
Downing, the above named plaintiff against tbe
lands and tenemtuts goods and chattels, money
and effects o. Louisa Shafcr, the defendant above
named, for the sum OF one thousand dollars, which
said writ was returnable on the 26th day Of April
A. ID. 1890.
Dated this LIST day OF May, A. D. 1900.
LINCOLN IL. TITUS,
BAit7o6O Attorney for Plaintiff.
Business address, Paw Paw Michigan.
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way Pine Syrup cures coughs, colds,
bronchitis, asthma. Never fails.
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after suffering from piles for ID years
/ was cured by using two boxes of De
Wits Witch Hazel Salve,"' writes w. j.
Baxter, North Brook, n. G. 1t heals
everything. Beware of counterfeits. Il.
ID. Longwell. IF
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Mothers. Mothers! Mothers.

How many children are at this season feverish
and constipated, with bad stomach and headache.
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tanly remove them. At all druggists 25c. Sample
mailed FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, lie
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AT all druggists and shoe stores, age. Sample
mailed FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, lie
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She Set. n Good Example.

If a woman can refrain from spit
ting on the sidewalks and in the street
cars, n man can.-Memphis Appeal.
Evening star., 1900-07-14

spcct to the middle classes and the poor?'
And, he was military man well as
emperor. he decided: The army is the
proper body to be charged with this as
with most reSPOus.b .bilities'' The regiment
o. sapeuTS-pompierS. established on this
reasoning. mas served Paris since with
OUT change, except that since 1880 the men
have been taken from the infantry instead
OF from the artillery and engineers, among
whom Napoleon originally recruited them.
The force as at present COnStituted-a
regiment commanded b. a coiUnel-5s COM
posed of fifty officers. 10; nOn-comm.ssioned
officers, 2D cOrpOrals and ,2.I sapeurs, or,
as We say. sappers, from the middle-age
Latin - -" thOeb. or. the man with the
hoe Indeed, they are farmers in compari
son with the hUstlng experts OF our own
great cities. Many Americans have lived
able To good. satisfactory fire When
such one occurs there is no doubt that
the whole strength OF sapeurs-pompiers
seems capable OF making only a slight
expect Of country boys, unacquainted even
with the ways OF Paris houses. simply do
Ing a compulsory three-year service IN the
army Admitting that the 156 non-com-
miSsioned officers and the majority of the
80 cOrpordls, even are re-enl.sted men. In
a way. experts. it is known that the rank
ger pay-less than the poorly paid police
men get-tO keep in a dangerous service
after their time has expired.
Do Ali-Around Service.
When an American is privileged TO watch
the combating of serious Paris fire, after
his tirst admiration of the Paris house con-
struc;ion he is struck chiefly by the great
made of ladders and lite-saving tackle
In comparison with ineffective pumping and
consequent fire extinguishing. Here is
where the sapeurs. "sappers." as dis
tnguished from their other quality of POM
piers, or bumpers" show their training
Evening star., 1900-07-14

were binding him up as comfortably as pos
sibie when the doctor arrived. The point is,
however, that the Paris population will do
nothing of Its own initiative and in the
case of accident waits upon the govern
ment.
Fighting Flood.
In one Of last springs floods an extra
ordinary accident occurred al the Belt
Lines station Of La Chapelle. About p m,
in the midst of Storm a great flood OF
water issuing suddenly from the collect ting
sewer of the Boulevard Ney overtowed the
track. station platform ard station itself for
30 feet reaching a height of almost FIVE
feet In certain parts. The cause of the ac-
cident was the breaking of a transverse
sewer WALL the overcharging OF the Boule-
ward Ney sewer and the bursting of its
bounds. The track was flooded with such
rapidity that a train of the North Belt en-
tering the station al that moment was up
TO Its waist, so to speak, before II had stop
ped. The water rose continually; and the
passengers, some standing on the seats
some trying to wade or swim to a place of
safety. and some climbing to the tops of the
cars. were crying in vain for rescue. The
first instinct of the station maseter was to
ring up and telephone the sapeurs-pompiers
who arrived in force before a railroad sery-
ice even could be organized. 1 happened to
be on train that came up only to be
blocked there shortly after the arrival of
these water-fght,ng firemen; and their
hustling good will and military discipline
cdustu me 10 many pFejudfceS had
held against them.
More and Less.
Indeed. the sapeurs-pomplers Of Paris are,
in the American sense, at the same time
more and less than fremefe The popula-
and the government expect them to give
hand at many Jobs our firemen would
disdain. 1t is SO through the whole French
military service. Close to May I1 when the
exposition. promised to be opened on that
Evening star., 1900-07-14

amt. sasi a, a. o.-.,,,,,, ,,.ox,. I'm. .-..
at the risk of crowd,ng To have a ohiIdren's
corner ~ aanora.a raor, oannot ~ ,ro
ytded
A unioue exhibition u.. Give, a .ho-,
time ago at Rloomfnpton nj They had a
dog show In tho city n y,hich ,ba .hnsro,,
were of course much Interested DesirInu
similar attraction al the iihrary tbcy So
cured from the manager ~ the shn,y son,a
Of his coIored posters and with a Isl Of
books attached they made a sensation
among the boys
jamestown V. Everett Mass and
Dayton. Ohio each have children's librar-
les and Circleyille Ohio nroyides the ohio
pupils reading course which was intro
duced into their scbools as we'll as fha
best books in the Juvenile line
Cambridge Mass. has a room with an
outside entrance SO that the children do
not disturb peop e in the other parts of the
library
I'M,
e NOME L"rars system.
An interesting method OF librarians work
among children originated with Mr. Chas
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Evening star., 1900-07-14

pompiers seems to compare unfavorably
with that of their American and English
ccnfreTes, 1t must be put down only to the
French unwilingness to profit by the prog
French and nothing but French things
for France are the two notices of this
people
Queer Insurance.
In an ordinary Paris apartment house one
has no fear-indeed, one never thinks of
fire. True, one is forced to take out three
fire insurance policies-nsure your own fur
niture and fixtures, your neighbor's on the
floor above you and your neighbor's on the
floor below you. This, however, Is only
French bookkeeping; for the price of the
three comes to no more than one insurance
would at home, because each of your neigh
bors, above and be.Ow, has insured you in
the same way. 1t is simply for convenience
in apportioning the loss and blame in case
of fire originating here there. AS fact,
last summer l was awakened from a nap
one su,try afternoon by my concierge bang
ing on my door, to demand the loan of
every bucket l possessed to aid in the ex-
tingushing of a fire in the apartment just
below me. l lent them to him and went
back to rest, convinced by old experience
that the fire would never reach my floor
Each floor has Its stone and brick or cement
flooring. The fire burns up what 1t can
where it is, and then 1t goes out for lack of
connecting fuel.
On the other hand l never sit inside a
Paris theater without wondering what
would be my fate should even the alarm
of a fire break out. l think there is no
single Paris theater that this night is not
packing its as!es full of temporary seats,
called 'stra apontins." All these theaters are
furnished with fine array of emergency
exits"-blocked up, in every case by seats
tFat the good public buys remorselessly
and stup.dty, regardless of its safety. The
Theater Francais had iron curtain. Had
1t been lowered, the fire would never have
spread from the stage. where 1t started. BY
law the iron curtain should have been down
when the fire broke out-for there was no
performance going on. 1t was not down.
Why was it not lowered by the sapcurs-
pompiers? The man who had the key was
at his lunch. Therefore military discipline
would have caused these soldier-firemen to
shrink from intruding on anothers duty,
had one of them thought of letting down
that curtain. and no one thought of letting
1t down, because there was no explicit order
given to that effect by a corporal, nom
commissioned officer or officer
STERLING HELLO.
Evening star., 1900-07-14

date, was 20 behindhand that the date and
promise appeared q deriston. the central
government. by the stroke OF pen. threw
into the breach I forget how many thou
sand soldiers Of the garrison OF Paris who
cleaned up those exposition grounds and the
remaining work as by magic. When the
Paris letter carriers went on strike few
months ago the government supplied their
places for two days with the same number
of soldiers; and those were two great days
for the improvised military postmen. who
received more cash in patriotic tips than
their years pay would amount to. In the
same way, 1t is said, openly, that the gov
ernment relies more on the sapeurs-pom-
piers of Paris as a unique and special arm
for the suppression of Paris riots than
technically perfected fire department. Cast
mir-Periers grandfather came to be called
'Cassim.r-Pomp.er" because it was he who
first had the inspiration to turn the hose on
the mobs of his day.
Do the Best They Can.
1t would be doing this brave regiment
and its officers an injustice if anything here
said should lead to the belief that there is
willful backwardness in this fire service
Essentially and peculiarly French, and
therefore unwilling to adopt any but French
inventions and improvements, 1t has adopt
ed such French improvements and inven-
lions promptly they came along. Their
high scaling ladders, carried and operated
on four-wheel trucks, are well up to dat e..
The tapping of the high-pressure mains for
lHe service OF small nreS Is conceived ana
executed admirably. The electric alarm
box system originated, l am told. in Paris.
All the station houses of the twelve fire
zones are connected by telegraph and tele-
phone. The horses are harnessed almost
automatically. the harness remaining al
ways in position, in front of the engines and
hose carriages, ready to drop on the intel
ligent animals. The men continually are
kept exercising, effecting imaginary rescues.
eNtnguishing real fires in special cellars
dug for the purpose, operating the COM
pressed air apparatus. the oxygen reser-
vo RS and the Trouve electric lamps in their
smoky obscurity, if they were combating
a sure enough fire For that matter, it is
complained that the men have too much
eXerc. Sc daily, which, added to the fatigues
of the actual service, is lowering the gem
eral physical condition of the regiment. in
particular by inducing tuberculosis, whose
ravages have been unusually great in the
last five years.
If. therefore, in it's ensemble, the work
and the material of the Paris sareGrs-
Evening star., 1900-07-14
MILITARY FIREMEN
Sapeurs-Pompiers of Paris and Their
Manifold Duties.
Is A REGIMENT OF IHFANfRY
They Also Serve in Time of Acct
dent or Riot.
HOW THEY FIGHT FLAMES

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
PARIS. July >, 1900.
Paris, a city without a professional fire
department Of its own, is inviting the fire
departments of the cities of the world to
meet Jhis summer at the Vincennes annex
of the exposition in a great international
series of professional contests. English,
Belgian and German organizations promise
to be well represented; America is yet to be
heard from. The program is realistic, so
much so that several large tribunes, with
seating capacity of 10000 paying places,
in course of erection. Fires will be ex-
tinguiShed. victims rescued. ladders mount
ed and the full maneuvering gone through
as company competes with company While
the foreigners are more likely to learn from
each other than from the red-tape-bound
military organizations of France, they will
have cause tp admire at least the admirably
solid buildings of Paris houses, which
duce fire dangers to a minimum; and to
wonder at the sapeurs-pompiers of the
French capital. who form the most curious
substitute Tor city fire department that
could be imagined Also the visitors cannot
help being struck with the beauty, luxury
and convenience of at Least five brand-new
Paris engine houses, here called barracks.
They we'll called barracks, for the
sapeuTs- -pumpiers of Paris in reality n
regime ut of infantry, put at the disposition
and pay of the city by the minister of war
AS to Their military service, they are at the
orders of the military governor of Paris
AS to their technical service. they are un-
der the direction of the prefect of police
In either case, however, they are aliens TO
the capital outsiders. not PariSians with
none of the Paris synpathies or prejudices
they are not professionals, nor are they
politicians. They are young men doing
three years military service, sometimes re-
enlisted. il is true. but in the rank and file
more than young men doing military
service. except for the heroic spirit that
breathes through this regiment put to such
curious uses. 1t is a regiment d'elite, the
most admired of the whole army; but from
the point OF view of the professional fire
fighters of England and the United States
1t makes a fire department of peculiar IN
experience.
To the Great Napoleon.
Paris owes this peculiar fire department
to the prompt decision of Napoleon 1 in his
second year emperor. The Prince
Schwarzenberg. one of the swells of the
day. had given AT his palace a ball that
ended in one of the greatest fires the capital
had seen for a generation IF the palaces
Of the rich ard influential are unprotected"
asked Napoleon, what must be the In
efficiency of the fire department with re-
Evening star., 1900-07-14
IN THE CHI URIC ES

Leading members of the Baptist Church
in the United States are interested In a
movement which has been started by Rev.
Kerr Boyce Tupper of Philadelphia. which
has for its object the participation of the
male members of the several churches of
the denomination in the various enterprises
which the Baptist Church generally has so
much at heart
In letter received here DR.. Upper says:
ut will richly repay any pastor to organize
in his church mems league, Its object be-
ing to unite the men of the church in more
intimate and helpful Christian fellowship
and in personal Christian work Let it
have president. treasurer and a board
of directors consisting of these officers and
the chairmen of its various working COM
mittees Announce that any man connected
with the church congregatio may be-
come a member by entering into an obliga-
ton for special Christian service through
one or more of it's committees. Have at
least the following committees with their
respective obligations:
Il. Church prayer NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
the necessity of prayer in order to spiritual
life, We will in the church give our special
aid to the church prayer meeting by regular
attendance and support.
'.2. Bible study commttee.-Believingt that
men grow in grace through a knowledge of
the truth, we will in the church put forth
special effort in behalf of the Bible school
by regular attendance and systematic en-
deavor to bring other men into it.
'3 Sunday evening service committee
Honoring the public worship of God in the
sanctuary, we will put forth special effort
in behalf Of the Sunday evening service by
attendance, invitation and welcome.
Il. Fellowship and personal work COM
mittee.-Appreciating the brotherhood of
the church and seeking to strengthen and
enlarge it, We will make special use Of this
mems union to develop an intimate and
helpful Christian fellowship among our
selves, and we will strive by personal ef-
fort to bring men to Christ.
70 Strangers welcome committee.-Feel-
ing that persons who remove to this city
should receive a Christian welcome we will
on behalf of the church make systematic
endeavor to reach especially the men with
an invitation to our various church SER
vices and seek to make them acquainted
with our pastor and the members of this
mems union.
'6. Sick, visiting and relief committee
Desiring to express our Christian sympathy
and church fellowship in the most practical
and helpful ways. we will stand ready to
visit the sick. watch with them and show
them sympathy by word and deed. and will
Evening star., 1900-07-14

There are 10000 miles Of overhead tele-
graph wires in London.
Evening star., 1900-07-14

Written for The Evening star by Lillian Pike Roo
Have we no heart to heed the groans
OF strong men butchered at rekin,
OF women tortured, children slain
ULder our flag with those our kin
OF England nghting side 10y side?
With Germans, French and Russians too.
Italians, Belgians, all our race
OF white men, bound for life anew
Against the hordes of yellow fiends
Who saturate cur flag with blood
OF women, children, LIMB from limb
Torn, mangled, disemboweled food
For dogs cast out upon the street
Unbrried, mid the refuse there
Defled, devoured by unclean beasts.
Oh! frigh.ful fate Of grim de>pairl
Pent up for weeks within a space
OF narrow walls with lessening hope
OF rescue. as the dresry days
And woeful nights pass down the slope
OF Time. with fearful struggles laden.
To fight from early morn till late
AT night, with ever dwind.ing force,
Against endless chain Of hate;
To see their women starve. each day
Grown weaker, 50 their young survive.
II haply rescue come; IL not.
Into the infamous Boxer hands;
Their ammunition almost gune;
Their numbers dead or dying. lost
All hope of rescue, fore the dawn
To choose the lesser evil, death.
Inflicted by themselves those
Fair women and their little ones,
Then die mid heaps Of fallen foes
When dying to their native land
Their thoughts reverted, with just pride
That each would he avenged full well.
What German, English. French, who died
Beneath their flag, felt any doubt
OF this; and shall Americans
Reck naught Of flag defiied and stamped
With shameful nouting by the clans
OF harharous heathens who invest
Our people, who with faith await
Our help if living, or If dead,
Revenge for their appalling fate?
Why, then. do We delay TO send
The largest force at our command
To China's shores, with stern behest
That every rebel in that land
Shall be exterminated? Then
Twill be a r.ghtful time to say
What plans will serve TO bind The powerS
Or whether they shall have full sway.
But let not care for China's good,
Or Jealous fears Of Russian greed.
OF bold Japan German land.
Hold back the aid they sorely need.
For II We fail our fellow men.
Who hold at bay those murderuus hordes.
And they are slaughtered ours the sin,
And ours the shame of sheathed swords,
Which should have sooner hewsd way
To Pekins walls, its mobs have slain,
And saved from death those prisoned ones;
Or If too late, wiped out the stain
Upon our name. and raised our flag
Above unnumbered hosts of base,
Foul flends who dared a byword make
OF our proud emblem and our race.
Evening star., 1900-07-14
Negroes and Forefgucrs.

One of the most interesting children's
rooms is in the Wylie avenue branch of the
Carnegie Library of Pittsburg. 1t has a
constituency which consists for the most
part of colored children and children of
foreign parentage. The chances for work
with these children are almost unlimited
The children are of all ages. from babies
who look at picture books to boys and girls
of fourteen to fifteen years of age. In the
Carnegie Library they have introduced
kindergarten principles into the home
library work by appointing a supervising
visitor, a Kindergarten who has had years
of experience in the free kindergarten and
summer Fairgrounds of Pittsburg.
Nor is this laudabe work for the little
ones entirely confined to the large libraries.
All over the country work in this direction
recently an Indian day at the public library.
A screen in the hidren's room was COW
cred with Indian pictures in black and
white. On the blackboard was written in
bright chalk a list of new Indian books
and in a case and on tables were placed
the Indian books in the library for the in
spection of the children.
At Champaign, ILL.,, the library is so for
tunate as to have a series of story hours
member of the library school of that
place.
1t is the opinion of the people of Evan
ston, ILL.,, that much has been done by the
establishment of childrens corner. Find
ing they could not devote room. they set
aside a corner of the general reading room
for the children. and the good results out
weigh any matter of Inconvenience. So
successful have they been that the attend
Evening star., 1900-07-14
Preparing Her.

From the Philadelphia Press.
VERY Well" concluded the lady Of the
house Il will engage you
Yes, ma am" said the pretty chamber
maid, land / think I'd better tell you,
ma am, that I've got a steady beau that
I'm very fond Of
oh that's all right
Yes ma am. So if you catch your hus-
band tryin' to kiss me youll know it amt
my doin's.'
The Lamar register., 1900-07-25

The most important change made
at the reeant provincial chapter OF the
Congregation OF the Holy Cross ut the
University OF Notre Dame. Indiana,
was the transfer OF Rev. James A.
Burns from the head of the commun-
ity .Iouse TO the presidency OF Holy
Cross college. which Is situated in
Washington In afIlIation with the
Catholic University of America
Father Burns, who has been professor
OF chemistry at Notre Dame after bril-
liant work at Harvard and Johns Hop
kins. is one of the ablest as well as
one OF the youngest of the Catholic
educators Of America. and as head of
the post graduate institution In Wash
ington he has great field for further
progress.