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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1912-05-24
Bangor.

Mrs. A. ]. Clark of Hartford spent
last Tuesday with home friends.
Hiram Randall is moving from
South Haven to Bangor and occupies
the Mead house.
Mrs. Mary Knapp and sons, who
have spent several months in the
West, are home for the summer.
Epworth League installation service
was appropriately carried out at the
Sunday evening service at the NJ. E.
church.
The w c. T. u. officers for the en-
suing year are: Pres, Mary E. Hauke;
1st vice, Helen Sheldon; End vice,
Mrs. p. A. Call; Sd vice, Mrs. Fred
Seymour; rec. sec, Ellen Spriggs;
asst sec, Alice Kline; cor. sec Ona
Reese; treas, Janette Harvey; flower
supt., Mrs. ]. Stewart; program COM,
Bertha Overton.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1912-05-24

visit from her daughter Anna of
Grand Rapids.
Several pupils from this place took
the 8th grade examination at Paw
Paw last week
Mrs. H. w Fisk of Kalamazoo Wis
tied her parents, Mr. and Mrs. o..
Eager, this week.
Preparations are being made for
/ Children's day exercises. The date
will be announced later.
Miss Lille Root closed her school
Tuesday with a holiday for the pu-
pills on the school grounds,
Pretty chilly for ice cream, but a
pleasant evening was enjoyed at the
/ Cleaner social last Saturday evening.
Mrs. E. II. Miner is planning to give
musicale at her home Friday even
ing, May 81, for the benefit of the
church.
Mrs. Roy Barringer of Grand Rap
ids is visiting her mother, Mrs. Geo.
Bockus, before going to Des Moines,
Iowa, to live.
Mrs. Carl Baker and children of
Battle Creek, who have been visiting
her mother, Mrs. Sophia Willard, re-
turned home the first of the week.
Her sister, Miss Inez Willard, accom-
panied her home
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1912-05-24
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE

/ Several from this valley attended
the funeral of Mrs. Russell Mentor IN
Paw Paw, Sunday.
Henry Frohmader, who has been
visiting his sister in Wisconsin, is ex.
pee ted home, Wednesday.
Mirna and Maynard Campbell OF
Iowa will be the guest of their
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Campbell for the summer.
Mrs. Will Frohmader and daughter
Ruth attended the commencement
exercises at Berrien Springs last week
Mr.. Eek, who has been on the police
force in Chicago for the past ~ years,
has been retired on pension. He will
now turn his attention TO running
i'm the cows and chickens on his
farm.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1912-05-24

team is going to beat Lawrence and
Bloomiugdale. Watervliet hasn't any
thing TO say.
One of the incest little parks outside
of the ones we have seen journeying
around the coast of Michigan, is seen
as you come up from the depot in
Hartford. The new grandstand adds
materially 10 the artistic scenery.
Hartford is playing some ball, but
if the coach had been in Lawrence,
not Monday and noticed the work OF
Martin, Luce and others in a practice
game they would be little afraid of
the outcome of the Field day doings.
The balance Of the Lawrence boys
played pretty good bali, making few
errors. The umpire's decisions were
rotten, S they usually are.
A technical error of the hand write
of the correspondent or one of the
type stickers in the last issues of The
True Northerner made Hartford fair
look like hundred dollars. 1t should
have been $4,000 Whose ever fault
it was, every body accepted the apollo
gy and everybody will visit a fair
most anytime, and Hartford is only
six miles more or less from a county
line
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1912-05-24
Malta war.
Dent Perrine is expected.

Dent Perrine is expected
Miss Helf of Tonawanda is visiting
Mrs. Eva Murch.
Howard Whimple is visiting his
sister Miss Almira.
Hal Burdick made friends here a
short call last Saturday.
Remember the Maccabee entertain
ment Saturday evening, at the NJ.
hall. Admission loo to all
Chas. Burdick visited his brother
Will in Lapeer last week.
Mrs. beats has returned from two
weeks visit in Grand Rapids.
Hubert Rix is home for a visit.
Hubert thinks the farm looks pretty
good these days.
Mrs. Moreland and little daughter
of Marcellus spent Sunday with Mr.
Moreland of this place.
Miss Fanny Bockius and her cousin
Miss Hamilton, of Grand Haven, who
has been visiting here the past few
weeks, spent last Wednesday in
1JON d. ldC.
The ladies of the Missionary society
were very pleasantly entertained last
Thursday at Mrs. Jno. Hunts
These meetings are both profita BILE
and pleasant, netting as much money
for the society with less outlay of time
and strength on the part of the ladies'
The Sunshine Club was represented
at the County Federation at Decatur
last Wednesday, by the following
ladies from here: Mesdames Bon Foey
Ide, Hiestand, Goodrich, Salisbury,
Rix, Remington and Miss Amsterburg
and Margaret Goodrich. All report a
delightful day.
Last Tuesday evening the Sunday
school club instead of meeting with
Mrs. Goodrich as planned, found that
it was the birthday of Miss Bockius,
so they all gathered at her home and
when she came from the office in the
evening she was greeted with a hearty
welcome. After listening to the
Federate report, the evening was
spent in social manner. Ice cream
and cake were served and the club left
souvenir as reminder of the pleas
ant evening. Mrs. Xix will entertain
the club June LIST, in the p. IN. for
Miss Kingston.
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dwrence.

Soda, iced, McCons.
Mother year, mother dollar. tel 100
Ed Heath has early peas IL feet
high.
H. l.. Cornwell will remodel his din
ing room.
+. f. Phelps has field corn out of
the ground
O. D. Weaver and wife were recent
Kalamazoo visitors.
Quarterly meetings at the Free
Methodist church last week.
Carney Bros are making extensive
improvements at the market.
The Speed Well" auto at ~homp-
sons was sold. That's no joke.
Mrs. T. H. Truscott will soon meet
her friends at her own home in Law
hrence.
DIR. Crowell, wife and babe are
taking great pleasure in the new
Mitchell.
c. ]. Rowlee doesn't know that Clay
the painter, and Uncle Ed stole his
horse. Catch % blue gills." Ed and
Clay ate them.
A remark made at Hartford-to-wit
Lawrence livery has good looking
rigs and drivers No wonder,
Sebring tells us that the value of
his weekly shipments in the creamery
business amounts to $500 Too low
isn't it Ed2
In speaking with Elder Hart the
other day, he thanked The North
erner for past courtesies extended.
This week Walter Roberts lays the
stone work on the new building. The
pressed brick work will follow under
the care of competent workmen. The
board composed of DR. Crowell, Jay
Lane, Geo. Northup and two more
are devoting a great deal of time 70
this work. When completed it will be
a modern edifce that all can point to
with pride.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1912-05-24
Hartford.
Hartford will have a fair.

Hartford will have a fair.
Nat Wood hangs paper in our town
a larger engine is being installed
in the stave factory.
Mr.. Hyer was a week end visitor in
our city looking after personal bust
ness.
Mr.. and Mrs Yore are the parents
of boy, weight II pounds. They live
near Keller
The school picnic at Palisade Park
was enjoyed by several loads of our
younger prospective citizens.
II. II. Hillard has accepted a lu-
crative position in Benton Harbor.
where he is moving his household
goods.
Chas. Robinson was a Benton Har-
Dor visitor recently, bringing back a
load of goods for Mr.. Hicks southeas st
of town.
J. Parker is very busy now days
oaching aud thinking how our local
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1912-05-24
FIaseed Train with Shirt.

Tearing his shirt from his back an
Ohio man tagged a train and saved it
from wreck, but II. T. Aston, Raj
eigh, n. c once prevented a wreck
with Electric Bitters. II was in a
terrible plight when ! began to use
them" he writes, 'my stomach,
head, back and kidneys were all badly
affected and my liver was in bad con-
dition, but four bottles of Electric Bit
tiers made me feel like a new man. "
A trial bottle will convince you of
their matchless merit for any stomach,
liver or kidney trouble Price SOC at
all druggists, III
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1912-05-24
4Imenu.

II. Arcane is building a new barn.
c. II. Smith was in Chicago, Sun
day.
Mrs O. Russell, who has been quite
i'll, is improving.
Miss Della Tracy visited friends
in Kalamazoo part of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. VIM Dyer visited
friends near Lawton last Sunday.
Jesse Stafford and family of Pine
Grove spent Sunday with relatives
here.
Mrs. Stafford has been enjoying a
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1912-05-24
Geneva.

h. S. Chapple has returned from
Ann Arbor
Reese Combs attended the democrat
convention last week in Bay City.
Arthur Welcheck has returned "a
Grand Rapids, where he will take
treatment again.
George Elite and his mother have
been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. r. Combs
in Lacota for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs Virgil Maddox of Col
orado are the happy parents of a ba by
boy, born May Il Mrs. Maddox was
formerly Miss Gladys Wood of &c.
neva.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1912-05-24

Copyright, 1911. by Joseph B. Bowles.l
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1912-05-24

There never was a time when peo-
pie appreciated the real merits of
Cham berlain's Cough Remedy more
than now. This is shown by the in
crease in sales and voluntary testimo-
malls from persons who have been
cured by it. If you or your children
are troubled with a cough or cold give
it trial and become acquainted with
its good qualities. For sale by Long
well Bros. III
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1912-05-24
A Great Building Falls

when its foundation is undermined,
and if the foundation of health--good
digestion-is attacked, quick collapse
follows. On the first signs of indiges-
ton, DR.. Kings New Life Pills should
be taken to tone the stomach and reg
late liver, kidneys and bowels. Pleas
ant, easy, safe and only 25c at all
drug g1sts. III
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1912-05-24
Only a Fire Hero,

but the crowd cheered, as with burned
hands, he held up a small ronnd box.
Fellows he shouted, "this Buck
lens Arnica Salve hold, has every
thing beat for burns" Right! also
for boils, ulcers, sores, pimples, ecze-
ma, cuts, sprains, bruises. Surest pile
cure. 1t subdues Inflammation, kills
pain. Only 25c at all druggists. m
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1912-05-24
Prospect Valley

Helene Mari was a Valley caller,
Sunday.
Miss Irene Campbell is in Berrien
Springs this week.
Miss Vivian McCabe was a visitor
at the Barr home, Sunday.
Miss Mildred Yowler of Paw Paw
was the guest of Nina Smith last
Wednesday
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1912-05-24
CURIOUS BITS
OF HISTORY
WHERE THE SPANISH KINGS
ARE BURIED.
BY A. w. MACY.


Twenty-seven miles from Mad
rid, on bleak height surround
ed by sterile and gloomy wild.
erness, stands the EscoriaI, one
Of the most remarkable build
ings In Europe. II is 796 feet
long and 623 feet wide, with tall
towers at the angles. II COM
prises at once a convent,
church, palace and a mausc-
leum. On August 10, 1857, the
Spaniards gained great victory
over the French at st. Quentin,
and the Spanish king, Philip
H., had the building erected In
commentator of the event. AS
the battle occurred on st. lau-
rence's day, he had the building
designed to resemble the famous
erldiron on which st. Laurence
suffered martyrdom by being
roasted to death. The work was
begun in 1868, and continued for
more than twenty years. Tho
building contains a vast number
of treasures-palntlngs, sculp-
lures, manuscripts, etc. Among
them is life-size figure Of
Christ on the Cross, done In
ivory by 6enVenuto celIini. As
II stands today, the Escorial and
Its contents represent an outlay
Of more than 100000. Here
lie the bodies Of all the Spanish
kings since the Emperor Charles
", except Philip v. and Ferd-
Inand VI.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-29
GHOSTS OF THE LIVING
From Science and the Haunted House
 in the August Metropolitan.

From Science and the Haunted House.
 in the August Metropolitan.
 It is not at all necessary to resort to the supernatural as the only suffi- cient explanation of apparitions. In truth, there is one insurmountable ob- stacle to regarding them as super natural manifestations, and that is the simple circumstance that the ghosts wear clothes. It is quise conceivable that there really may be ghosts of clothes. Nevertheless, separations are always clothed, and sometimes in gar ments of such modern cut that they were unknown at the time the person seen as a phantom lived on earth
 |. Aside from this, there is the inter esting and by no means unimportant circumstance that houses are sometimes haunted by apparitions not of the dead but of the living. I know of one case in which a gentleman, entering draw seated on the sofa. young lady with "reddish gold" hair, who appeared to be reading a book. There were two other persons in the room, one seated beside her on the sofa, and the visitor was surprised to find that they did not offer to introduce him to the young lady-did not, in fact, seem to see her. Later guest at a week end party saw the same apparition in the same house and it was seen a third time by one of the servants.
 No light was thrown on the strange affair until, a year afterward. the wife of the son of the family arrived from Aus tralia to pay a first visit to her husbands relatives and was immedi- ately identified by the servant as the figure she had seen. The two visitors who also had seen the apparition sub sequently made the same Identification
 Since it is incredible to suppose that a person can be in two places at the same time--so that lady can be both in Australia and In a house thousands of miles from Australia-it is a legit- innate inference that phantasms wheth- CT of the living or of the dead are de- void of objective reality; are, that is to say, always and only hallucinations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-29
The Stock Market

7 Henry Clews in his Saturday review says in part:
 Immediate conditions are favorable to the stock market. The crops con- tinue to make satisfactory progress. The activity in iron is still exceptional, and the general prospects for fall and winter trade are highly encouraging. In spite of these stimulating facts the stock market has been inert partly be- cause we are in the height of the vaca- tion season, partly because of an en- tire lack of leadership and partly be- cause there still remains a series of uncertainties which may interfere with a complete restoration of confidence Chief of 4hese is the political outlook Rightly or wrongly, there Is continued hesitation pending the results of the present campaign, which cannot be def initely foreseen at the present time. It hostility to capital has disappeared. Though less acute than formerly, it still remains active and continually shows itself in attempted legislative attacks. There is no certainty that these at tacks will not be renewed in the next Congress. Capital continues on the de- fensive against the demands for higher wages by labor on the one hand, and against the demands for restrictive leg islation on the other by the people at large.
 "It is quite possible that the stock market will rise to a higher level. es- pecially as some of the big operators are largely interested on that side Good crops, better trade prospects and the early adjournment of Congress art all favorable to an upward movement provided aggressive leadership is forth. coming. The report of the Stanley committee need cause no uneasiness, fol there is not the remotest chance of any of it's provisions being adopted either by the House or the Senate in this ses. sion of Congress, and the chances arc very slim for the next session. There .s also little or no chance of any early legislation arising from the money trust investigations, which for some months past has been an element of ir- ritation. Congress will probably short lv adjourn, because its members are weary and have little desire to takf positive action upon any question ol importance until after the elections All things considered the impeachment: to Increased activity are gradually dis appearing."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-29
Southern Corn Production

Perhaps few people in the large cities appreciate the general effect of the souths increasing corn produc- tion on farm land values," said w $. Henley of Philadelphia
 Tn the 10 years that I have been an occasional visitor to the south I have noticed wonderfuH development In the rural sections. Every southern state so far as I know has made great ma terial progress. But it is in the cotton section, I beliece, that the greatest progress is noticed. Ten years ago the cotton farmers bought most of their corn from the north. If the south's s food crops were not ample last year to meet its demands the supply was not far short
 This year more corn will be pro- duced in the cotton belt than In any previous year, I am told. When the south gets to be a seller of corn in- stead of a buyer every acre of farm land in a cotton state will reach a much higher price level.
 "The south is enormously rich in nat ural resources. I never appreciated un- til recently how varied the resources were. Home seekers from the north will be very much in evidence south of the Mason and Dixon's line from now on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-29
Gorgeous sunnowers

When I was youth the sunhower was not esteemed in the south as 1t Is today" said man who was reared in the country~It was considered a ple- beian flower. It was seldom seen ex- |cept around the cabins In negro guar ters. But now 1t Is prized for it's beauty and is greatly in vogue. It is also cultivated extensively for com mercial purposes, It's seed being in great demand for. poultry and some of the larger birds, especially the parrot. have heard that this seed had a marked effect on the parrots speech.
 "A parrot fed on sunflower seed is said to have greater facility of speech than those takers of the feathered tribe which have to go without this food This may not be so but coming back to esthetics. the sunfiowers here abouts are especially gorgeous this year. A few days ago I stopped and admired large group of sunflowers on a vacant lot on Third avenue near Fra ternal hall. Many of Birmingham S attractive ome-p1aces are adorned this time of the year with these golden beauties"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Wilson As An Ornfor

woodrow Wilson has the reputation of being an uncommonly fine speaker . said man who appreciates solid ora tory, and I am glad that he will be heard in Birmingham between now ana November. I have read Woodrow Wilson's books-all of them-and if the democratic standard bearer speaks as well as he writes he will hold his au- dience spellbound
 It Is sometimes said that the quality of modern oratory is not up to that of generation ago. It may be that the silver tongued orator is seldom heard Ill this practical twentieth century, but the style of public speaking is more at tractive to thoughtful persons than the old fashion ornate style.
 "Elihu Root is a good example of the nigh class modern orator Every sen- tence he utters is clean cut but MT. Wilson's power of expression is even greater than that which characterizes MT Roots addresses.
 "of those who have filled the presi- dential office the late Benjamin Harri- son was probably the model orator Of the modern school sHe was versatile and felicitious. He had the reputation or being personally cold man but he could make more forceful speeches in a day than any man of his time, and his speeches would be fresh; no two of them the same"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-29
DASHES IN PUNCTUATION

might mean so much in the right place tumoling over the larger clause and so being lost to sight and sense
 or what use is our alleged modern de- Velopment in complex, many sided thought, if subtelty of cunning sentence structure, whereby this may be wrought out, is beyond us2 Often in coming upon one of these long, meaningless 'dashes one feels as if in some delicate triumph of architecture one had discovered a sudden gap in arch or pillar. It achieves the impossible, substituting a hole where nothing but firmest substance would sui. fee
 My wrath is greatest when I find these marks thrust into my own writing. by dashing editor or proofreader, anxious to keep up With the times for have resist ed temptation, have struggled to manip- ulate my adjectives. my participles my conjunctions so that definite design may be visible in my sentences. To have my careful dove taling torn asunder and wida spaces thrust between maddens me. Great also Is my wrath when I find the ten dency working unconsciously within me. with the subtle temptation to escape trouble. sYou would be distressed to know now many times, in writing down the foregoing brief remarks, ] have fo,ind myself using 1t, and have removed it with maledctions.
 Dash take the dash!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-29

i From the New York Herald.
 Word has been received from London
 that Mir. J. Pierpont Morgan has pur-
 chased from. Messrs. Seligman & Co.,. art dealers, of New York and Paris, the jas per drageoir by Benvenuto Cellini 050O- l 1572) bought by that firm at the Baron de Rothschild sale for s2OO,0O0 There is much
 speculation by connoisseurs in London and New York as to whether MT. Morgan will | bring this precious vase to this country
 and permit it to be exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art or whether,
 for the present. it will remain in one of
 his private collections.
 The vase, which is regarded as one of the most beautiful specimens of the work of the famous Florentine artisan, who
 was both goldsmith and sculptor, is cut from a single block of light red veined jasper, with a separate stem and foot of the same material. It was obtained in Italy 40 years ago by the late Baron
 Adolphe de Rothschld, who believed it to have come originally from the treasure of the kings of Naples.
 The drageoir, including the mount and
 stem, measures 101a inches in height, 924
 inches in length and IA inches in
 breadth. The vase has been cut into the shape of an elongated scalloped shell, the
 stem forming a circular pillar decorated
 with owes and resting on hemispherieal
 foot, incised with wavX lines. This foot
 is set in a circular gold border, deco
 rated with inlaid scrolls in red, white. green and blue enamel and studded al- ternatey with pearls and emeralds. At the top of the stem four openwork gold
 scrolls, set with four rubies and decorated
 with red, green and blue enamel, support
 the upper portion of the vase.
 From these scrolls start, right and left, two large ornamental gold figures, beauti- fully enameled and studded with precious stones. At the head of the vase a dragon, at the foot a female torso, a siren, are placed as caryatides.
 The dragon has a long, curved tail, which reaches down as far as the stem. The head is blue, the body gray and the tail white, the whole dotted all over with
 small gold spots. The outspread wings are covered with black, white, red and green enamel The body is studded with 12 table diamonds, and the back with Il
 rubies From the monster neck hangs a pendant pearl.
 At the opposite end of the drageoir Is
 the beautifully modelled figure of the siren.
 Her tail, which is set with IS emeralds,
 emerges from the jaws of a dolphin. Her torso is enameled white, and her hair. studded with two rIbies, retains the me- tallic color of gold. With uplifted arm
 she supports a highly ornamental blue and
 green openwork scroll projecting at the end of the drageolr and set in the center with a-large diamond. Right and left gold
 garlands. beautifully chased and enam-
 eled. continue the mount, clinging to the border of the shell and forming a vivid
 contrast with the dull yelowish red color of the precious vase.