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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-18
The Mill Horse and the Racer.

"What a dull life yours is p said
racer to a mill horse.
dull enough, said the mill horse.
" You must feel uncommonly stupid"
Stupid enough" said the mill horse.
" Round and ropnd, round and round,
and that day after day No wonder
your head hangs down. Why, you're
Just piece of machinery, and no
better"
The mill horse didn't answer, but con-
tinued going his round but the racer,
who tethered near, repeated his remarks
every time he came within hearing.
I'm afraid I've offended YOU" said
the racer.
ooh no" answered the mill horse
=" but my quiet life has this advantage
i'll tit gives me time to think before 1
speak.
And have you been thinking while I
have been talking?"
Yes" answered the mill horse,
and I'll tell you what I've been think
ing you're very fine fellow, and I'm
contemplate in your sight, but know
which of us would be the most missed.
Depend on this if L and my breed were
to take our departure, and no other sub
stitutes could be found, folks would do
without racing, and take you and your
breed into our places"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-18
Make-Up OF the Body.

Surprising your age to be fifteen or
thereabouts, l can figure you to a dot.
You have 100 bones and 500 muscles;
your blood weighs 25 pounds your
heart is five inches in length, and three
inches in diameter; it beats 20 times
minute, 1920 times per hour, 100, 800
per day, and SO, 1872, 900 per year. At
each beat little over two ounces of
blood is thrown out of it, and each day
it receives and discharges about seven
tons of that wonderful fluid. Your
lungs will contain gallon of air, and
you iuhale "a, 900 gallons per day. The
aggregate surface of the air cells of your
lungs, supposing them to be spread out,
exceeds 10000 square inches. The
weight OF your brain is three pounds
when you are man it will weigh eight
ounces more. Your nerves exceed TO-
600, 900 in number. Your skin is COM
posed of three layers, and varies in
thickness. The area of your skin is
about l, 700 square inches, and you are
subject to an atmospheric pressure of
fifteen pounds to the square inch. Each
square inch of your skin contains $500
sweating tubes or respiratory pores,
each of which may be hkened to little
drain tile, one-fourth of an inch long,
making an aggregate length of the en-
tire surface of your body of POI, 166 feet,
tile ditch for draining the body, almost
forty miles long.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-18
winnie.s First Picture.

When Winnie Johnson was very
little girl, she was quite fond of pic
lures. Nothing would please her bet
ter than nice picture-book.
When she was eight years old, her
father got her slate and she began to
draw on it.
She thought it would be so nice to
have a picture of her little dog Fido,
40 she tried to make one the first thing.
Fido was a nice dog. He had long
curly hair, and busy tail that curled
over his back.
The New York herald., 1873-12-08

dered by inches in the horrors of Cuban
prisons. We know the character of the in
human wretches who hold our countrymen
in duress, and yet we have already permitted
more than a month to go by in diplomacy that
is, up to this moment, fruitless of practical
results. Every days delay costs sailors
life, and the remedy, to be efficient, must be
swift. Perhaps the Secretary of State, taking
his ease at Washington, sleeping comfortably
and dining well and talking diplomatic moon
shine with Admiral Polo, forgets the poor
wretches that are now bounded and tortured
as felons; but the country does not, we are
sure, and it will hold to their responsibility all
who permit the Spaniards to waste, by further
delay, the lives of those poor fellows at Santi-
ago de Cuba.
The New York herald., 1873-12-08
Quaker Innovations.

Innovations are stealing in even among
so conservative portion of the community as
that of the Friends. Year after year we have
been accustomed to see the Quakers in their
drab bonnets and sad-coored suits, not so
numerously, indeed, as in Philadelphia, but
numerously enough to lend, now and then, a
quiet and mellow trait to our vivid and pic
turesque thoroughfares. If any association
could stand perfectly still, it would be thought
that that of the Friends could do So But in
one of their congregations-that of the Scher-
merhorn street Friends Society of Brook
lyn-a change has at last crept in which
admits of whole families sitting together in
meeting irrespective of sex. OF course the
thing will not stop here. In few months we
shall have young Quakers and young Quaker
esses sitting together in meeting, whether in
the family or out of it; and, this grand change
being adopted, there is no telling where the
matter will end. On the whole we cannot
but congratulate the Schcrmerhorn street con-
gregation upon the new step taken. We have
q great respect for the Society of Friends as o
Sect but we have a reverence also for any
spirit of progress which shall tend to draw
the sexes together into nearer relation, at
the same time retaining pure and natural
conditions. We think this Quaker step is in
the right direction
The New York herald., 1873-12-08
The Vile du Havrc Calamity.

The crew Of the ship Loeb Earn, which ran
into and sunk the steamship Vile du Havre
have arrived at Plymouth. They were landed
ct the English port by the commander of the
British Queen, which vessel rescued them
when the Loch Earn was in sinking condi-
ton on the 29th ult. The captain and men
of the Loch Earn make statements which
reflect deeply against the management of
the French steamship, the discipline which
was maintained on board of her. and even
against the courage and moral qualities of the
people who served in her. They allege that
the majority of the French crew exhibited
'1amentable cowardice," and that many of
the French officers reached the Loeb Earn
with their clothing in a perfectly dry state,
showing no signs of having been in the water
and that they positively refused to return in
the boats to endeavor to save persons who
were struggling in the water, leaving the per-
formance Of that gallant and eminently Chris
tian duty to Englishmen. This terrible indict-
ment serves to darken the gloom which sur
rounds the previously known facts of the sad
calamity
The New York herald., 1873-12-08
TRIPLE S HE E T.
New York, Monday, Dec. 8, 1873.
THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY.
To-Day's Contents OF the
Herald.

sTHE NOMINATION FOR CHIEF JUSTICE AN
ABUSE OF POWERn-LEADING ARTICLE
SIXTH PAGE.
yAINGLORIOUS HIDALGODOM PREPARING TO
SURRENDER THE vIRGINIUS IN WAY
TO AVOID INJURY TO THEIR FEELINGS!
THE VESSEL TO BE SENT TO SPAIN TO
"FlRE THE SPANISH HEARTl" BURRlEL
RETURNS TO THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE
SEVENTH PAGE.
a MULTITUDE OF REASONS WHY CUBA SHOULD
BE ACCORDED BELLIGERENT RIGHTSl
APPEAL OF THE CUBAN REPUBLIC TO
PRESIDENT GRANT THE SANGUINARf
WAR WAGED AGAINST THE PATRIOTS
AND THE AMERICAN PoLICY-FouRrH
PAGE.
PEREMPTORY ORDERS FOR COMBINED LAND
AND NAVAL ATTACK UPON CARTAGENA
SAID To HAVE BEEN ISSUED BY THE
SPANISH GOVERNMENT SMALLPOX AND
CHOLERA RAyAGES IN ESTELLAi CAS-
TELAR AND SALMERON RECONCILED-
SEVENTH PAGE.
THE MlD-ATLANTIC HORROR! ARRIVAL OF
THE CREW OF THE LOCH EARN IN ENG
'LANDi SHE ALSO GOES TO THE BOTTOM
lNHUMAN AND DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT
OF THE OFFICERS AND CREW OF THE
WILLIE DU HAvRE-SEvESTH PAGE.
THE SINKING OF THE VILE DU HAvRE, THE
RIGHTEOUS PUNISHMENT OF THE "RINGn
ROBBERS, BISHOP CUMMINS' NEW DE-
PARTURE AND FREE DIVORCE, AS RE-
VIEWED BY THE DIvINES YESTERDAY
EIGHTH PAGE
ELEVEN CARDINALS AND FOUR NUNCIOS TO
BE CREATED IN PAPAL CONSiSTORY ON
The 22D lNST.-BAZAINE'S DEFENCE
SEVENTH PAGE.
GRAND CATHOLIC CONSIDERATION TO THE
SACRED HEART OF JESUS, lo-DAY-FAIR
POR THE FRIENDLESS-FIFTH PAGE.
RULING FRANCE THE PLOTS AND HOPES OF
THE LEADING FACTIONS STRUGGLING FOR
THE MASTERY WHAT Is ANTICIPATED
FROM PLEBISCITE-SEvESTH PAGE
AFTER THE EXPOSITION THE AMERICAN CON-
MISsIONERS AT VIENNA SECURING Ex-
HIBITS FOR THE PHILADELPHIA INTER
NATIONAL FAIRi EUROPEAN RULERS IN
VITED-TwELFTH PAGE.
THE IRISH NATIONAL MOVEMENT OUTLINED
BY ITS LEADERS! THE AIM OF THE
HOME RULE AGITATloNi MR.. BUTTS
OPINIONSl THE CONFERENCE IN DUB.
LlN-THIRD PAGE.
VALUE AND PLAN OF LIEUTENANT MAURY's
PROPOSED OCEAN STEAM LANES-THE
REFORM CHURCH OF THE LATER LU.
THER-ELEyENTH PAGE
CORAL FISHING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
IMPORTANT STATISTICS FROM THE ITAL-
IAN MINISTRY OF COMMERCEi THE Ma
TURE, QUALITIES AND COST OF OBTAIN.
ING CORAL-THIRD PAGE.
LITERATURE IN THE ENGLISH CAPITAL NEW
BOOKS AND THEIR AUTHORS-AID ASKED
FOR THE ARCTIC HEROES-DEFENCE OF
THE CAPTAIN OF THE SUNRISE-FIFTH
PAGE
FINANCIAL SCHEMES AND LESSONS THE
PERIL IN CURRENCY EXPANSION THE
EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK In WALL
STREET-NISTH PAGE.
The New York herald., 1873-12-08
The Gay Season I'm Washington and
the Prospect for tho National



While 'hard times is the general COM
plant of the country while in all our large
cities, seaboard and inland, thousands of in
dustrious men and women are vainly wander
ing about the streets in search of employ
ment; while the general prospect for the
winter, East and West, is very gloomy and
discouraging to these multitudes of unem-
ployed and destitute people while from Bos-
ton to st. Louis and from Buffalo to New
Orleans benevolent institutions, associations
and individuals are devising ways and means
for the relief of their helpless and suffering
neighbors through the desolate winter which
is before them, everything in Washington
promises not only gay, but an unusually
gay season.
The winter festivities of the national cap
ital indeed, are but little affected by the de-
pressing influences of panics or pestilence or
famine elsewhere, or by any Of the misfortunes
of the outside world. During our late terrible
civil war; when Washington was q city Of mill
tary camps, of military hospitals and prisons,
and city under siege, with the enemy's flag
in view from the Capitol, the usual recreations
there of the gay season were neither forgotten
nor suspended. "Honest old Ben Wade did,
We believe, object on one occasion to joining
in the lanciers while there was danger of in
terruption by sudden descent Of the enemy
upon Pennsylvania avenue; but he was only
laughed at as o Grabbed old Puritan, who
would have his joke. So now, peace or war
with Spain, the fashionable circles of Wash
ington, including the Cabinet, the Diplomatic
Corps, the two houses of Congress, the city
authorities and all the elements of the lobby,
having resolved for this winter upon an unu-
sually brilliant season, they will have it, good
or bad times, peace or war. Mr.. Secretary
Richardson may, accordingly, prepare to foot
the bills.
The weekly round at the "West End of
receptions, dinners, balls, parties and gay re-
unions of all descriptions has already COM
menced, and the expenditures involved in all
these entertainments, in the interval to the
closing fashionable reception at the White
House next spring, will be heavy. The par
ties concerned who are not prepared to meet
these costs undoubtedly, directly or indirectly,
expect by some lucky bill or other to be in
demnifed from the national Treasury, and
the name Of these parties is legion. The
moral, then, of gay winter in Washington
applies to the national Treasury. With a
moderately gay season the appropriations Of
the session, regular and incidental, will be
comparatively light; with very brilliant
fashionable season the footing up of the
appropriations for current and contingent ex-
penses will be correspondingly large. The
season for this session has opened with the
promise of being remarkable for its gayety,
brilliancy and disregard of expense in re-
ceptions, dinners and balls to the end of the
winter. Ergo, the programme will call for
heavy drafts upon the Treasury, and SO there
is little to hope for, peace or war, from this
session Of Congress in the way of retrench-
ment and reform.
The New York herald., 1873-12-08

| mucn rs no conceivable iniquity could de-
prive the Executive of that Not TO expect
too much virtue in the Senate. however, it
must be admitted that its confirmation Of Mr.
Williams nomination will stand on very diff
ferent ground morally from the Presidents
act in presenting his name. Confirmation by
the Senate does not discharge the Presidents s
responsibility, because the Senate may as
sumo that responsibility as in great
degree q guarantee for the man. 1t is
not an act of public virtue to refrain
from making q mischievously bad appoint
ment; but it would be an act of high moral
courage that no sane creature anticipates at
the hands of the present Senate, to put itself
in conflict with the Executive over an appoint
ment in which the main thing at stake is the
respect, the reverence, which the people have
for the Office Of Chief Justice-a reverence that
may be easily crushed, but that generations
will not restore. Our last provision against
such wholesale abuse of the appointing power
as has now eliminated in the appointment Of
Mr.. Williams is impeachment and of course
it would be ludicrous to consider the possi-
bility of that remedy at present; for blind,
immoral power of party, right or wrong, in
both houses will support whatever is done,
with self-satisfed conviction that if the
deluge does come after, there will be little left
for it to ruin. SO all our contrivances, all
our guarantees, all our constitutional restraints
are vain and worthless; and we must simply
accept the fact as we find it, that as the SOL
diers Uttered their horses in the temple, so
badly advised Executive has put Mr.. Williams
OF Oregon, in the place once occupied by John
Marshall of Virginia.
The New York herald., 1873-12-08
General Qucsada's Appeal to the .Prcsi
dent of the United states.

dent OF the United states.
We publish to-day in another part of the
paper an address from General Quesada, the
agent of the patriot government of Cuba in
this country, to the President of the United
States, in which the Cuban question is treated
at great length and with ability and an ap-
peal is made for the recognition of the Cubans
as beligerents 1t represents, no doubt the
sentiments of his government and compatriots,
and is well worthy of consideration for tha
facts presented, calmly and without exaggera-
tone. General Quesada writes like q
man who feels the weight and inn
portance of his subject, and he handles it
with solemn and heartfelt earnestness. Should
the present difficulty between the United
States and Spain lead to war the freedom of
Cuba must be the result but if war be avoided
the question of recognizing the Cubans as bel
ligerents will remain an open one, and it
would be well for the government at Washing,
ton to consider the arguments adduced in
favor of recognition. The fact that state
of war has existed for five years. war,
that has cost Spain over sixty thousand men
and enormous treasure-cannot be doubted.
Indeed we know that, so far from the
war having any prospect of being ended,
the struggle has assumed larger pro-.
portions. The Cubans have stronger
force and are better prepared for war
than heretofore They have both an
organized government and military system.
They have even reasonable prospect of sue
cess in the end, though the struggle might
last long, while there is little chance Of Spain
suppressing the insurrection. Holding the
balance of justice fairly between the COM
batants, if even our government and country
had no interest in the freedom of Cuba, il
could not be impoltic or wrong to acknowl-
edge the Cubans as belliaerents If the culs
The New York herald., 1873-12-08

HE KANSAS, we learn from o special
HERALD despatch, is reported to be ashore on
the Bahamas. While our correspondent gives
this intelligence as rumor at Key West it
should be said that it corresponds with the
prevailing opinion in naval circles.
The New York herald., 1873-12-08

HE BUTCHER BuRRIEL RETURNS TO THE
SLAUGHTER HoUsE.-Burriel, having been feted
and applauded by the Havana rabble, and
probably made knight of some of the numer-
Gus orders of Spanish chivalry, is now ON his
way to the scene Of his cold-blooded butch
cries. 1t is o pity that too tender regard for
international law may prevent Commander
Gushing running tie little savage up to the
yardarm. He likes to have his swing, and we
should like hugely to accommodate him in
this particular.
The New York herald., 1873-12-08

VERY IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES will he held
in all the Catholic churches Of New York to-
day on the occasion Of the dedication of the
archdiocese to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The
services at the Cathedral will be of an un-
usually solemn character, and high mass will
DO celebrated with all the grandeur and So
lemnity Characteristic of the Church of Rome.
The New York herald., 1873-12-08
York, and the truth OF the proverb that the
way of transgressors is hard

York, and the truth OF the proverb that the
way of transgressors is hard.
While Mr.. Beecher made no reference
direct or indirect, to the recent convictions
here, there were words of comfort to such
criminals in his sermon. If man were
degraded and overcome OF evil, such man.
he said should feel that in Christ was his
security and his remedy for that ruin. The
Identification of the Lord with the human
race is that which is to win men back to God
Mr.. Beecher has little faith in the terrors OF
he'll driving men to love God.
An innovation in Friends meetings waA
made yesterday in Brooklyn, where, for tho
first time, the sexes sat together, and David
H. Barnes and Ed. Brown addressed the meet
ing on inspiration.
The New York herald., 1873-12-08

WoOD,s MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.
EyrRypopY's FRIEND, &c. Afternoon and evening.
The New York herald., 1873-12-08

NrBLO,s GARDEN Broadway, between Prince and
Houston sts-THK CHILDREN IN THE WooD.
The New York herald., 1873-12-08

wALLAcK's THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth
street-HoME.
The New York herald., 1873-12-08
ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston
a Bleecker sts-THE MARBLE HEART.
The New York herald., 1873-12-08

UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near
Broadw ay.-LKp AsTRAf
The New York herald., 1873-12-08

GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth av. and Twenty -thir
st.-HuaPTY DUMPrY ABROAD.
The New York herald., 1873-12-08

BROADWAY THEATRE, rs and 7so Broadway
DIANE
The New York herald., 1873-12-08

PARK THEATRE. Brooklyn, opposite City Hail.
6iCHRLEU
The New York herald., 1873-12-08

FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 2sth ST. and Broadway.
Dup HEADS AND Young HEARTS.
The New York herald., 1873-12-08

BROADWAY THEATRE, rs and $50 Broadway.-A
DIASk.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth av. and Twenty y-third
st.-HuaPTY DUMPrY ABROAD.
PARK THEATRE. Brooklyn, opposite City Hail.
8lCHRLIEU.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 18th St and Broadway
Dup HKADs Young HEARTS
LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth st-SrILL WATERS
A BULL IN CHINA SHoF.
BOOTHS THEATRE, sixth ay. and Twenty-third st
EILEEN oGE.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC, l4h street and Irving place.
EAIRA.
METROPOLITAN THEATRE 5s5 Broadway.-yARrxrY
ENTERTAINMENT.
MRS r B. CoNwAY's BROOKLYN THEATRE
GENEVA CRosS
THEATRE coMIQUE, No. 5li Broadway.-yARRrr
ENTERTAInMKHx
TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE, No. 2Ol Bowery.-
VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT
BRYANTs OPERA HOUSE, Twenty.third St, corner
Sixth av.-NLGRo MISsrREIsY, DC
BAIN HALL. Great Jones street. between Broadway
and Bowery-THE PILGRIx
THE RINK. Sd avenue and 9th street-MESAcERE AND
MUSEUM Afternoon and evening,
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1873-06-04
POSTAL LAW SUMMARY.

The Richmond Dispatch has pro,
cured from the Post Office Department
ali the postal laws now in force, AS
we'll as those which 90 into effect on
the first OF June, from which we COM
pile the following:
FOR ALL EDITORS AND ALL sUBsCRI-
BERS.
The new law allows no matter to be
sent free through the mails. So week
ly papers will hereafter be subject to
a postage of 20 cents per annum even
i'll the counties wherein published
(and only 20 cents wherever deliver
cd.) Newspaper editors will have to
pay 2O cents per annum on their
weekly, 40 on their scmi-wcekly, 60
on their tri-weckly, s1.20 on their
daily exchanges. Nobody can frank
letters hereafter. But Congress ap-
Propriated money to pay postage upon
dead letters to be sent to Washington,
and upon letters and other mailable
matter to be sent by the President of
United States, and perhaps some of the
heads of bureaus and the clerks of the
two houses of Congress. No such ap-
preparation was made for Congress-
men themselves.
PREPAYMENT ON NEWSPAPERS.
The postage on rcgularly-scnt news
papers and other periodicals is not re-
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1873-06-04
A CHAPTER ON WOMEN.

a woman, notwithstanding sho
is the best Of listeners, knows her
business, and it is Il woman's bust.
ness to please. ! don't say that
it is her business to votc, but L do
say that tho woman who does not
please is n fllso note in the har-
monies of nature. She may not
have youth or beauty, or even
manner, but she must have some
thing in her voice or expression,
or both, which makes you feel
bcttor disposed towards your race
to look ut or listen 20. She knows
that rs we'll rs We do, and her
first question after you have been
talking your soul into her con.
sclousncss il, did I please? a
woman never forgcts her sex. She
would rather talk with Il man than
an angel any day. Womanly wo-
men arc very kindly critics, OK
ccpt to themselves, and now and
then to thoir own scx. Tho less
there is ofscX about woman, tho
moro she is dreaded. But take n
real one ut her bcst--wcll dressed
enough TO be pleased With herself,
not 30 resplcndcnt as TO be Il show
and sensation, with the varied
outside influences that set vibrat-
ing the harmonic notes Of her ma
turo stirring in tho air about hor--
and what has social life to com
paro with ono Of those vital inter-
changes Of thought and fcoling
with her that makes an hour
memorable? What can equal her
tact, hor delicacy, her subtlety Of
apprehension, her quickncss to
fool tho changes Of temperature
as tho warm and cool currents Of
thought blow by turns? At one
momont she is microscopicalIy in
tcllcctual, critical, scrupulous in
Judgment rs an analysts balance,
and noxt as sympathotic rs tho
opon roso that swoctcns tho winds
from whatever quarter it finds it's
way to her bosom. 1t is tho hos.
pitablo soul ola woman that makes
II man forgot he is q stranger, and
so becomes natural and truthful, at
tho samo time that ho is mesmo-
rlzed by all those divine differences
which make her mystery and
bowildcrmcnt.-O. W. H1!snes.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1873-06-04
819tsteII''''eo"s. g
THE BURNING OF COLUM-
BEA---AN UN1NTENTIONAL
CONFESSION by ONE OF
"SIHERNGAN'S BUNINIEHsS.,

The Columbus (Ga.) Sun and
Times publishes tho following lot
tor, which was found in tho streets
of Columbia Immediately after tho
army of General Sherman had left
and tho original Of which has been
preserved and can be shown and
substantiated
CAMP NEAR CAMDEN, S. c.,
February &c, 1865.
My Dear Wife: [ have no timo
for particulars. Wo havo had a
glorious timo IN this State. Un-
restricted liconso to burn and plum
der was tho ordor Of tho day. Tho
chivalry have boon stripped of
thcir ,valuablos. Gold Watches,
silyor pitchers, cups, and spoons,
forks, &c., arc ns common in camp
as blackborrios. Tho valuables
arc estimated by companies. Each
company is required to exhibit tho
results of it's operations at any Civ
on place---ono.fifth and tho first
choice falls to tho share of tho
commander in chief and staff, one.
fifth to tho corps commanders and
staff, one-fifth to fold officers of
regiments, and two-fifths to the
company. Officers arc not allow
cd to join these expeditions with.
out Disgusting themselves rs pri.
vates. Ono Of corps commanders
borrowed suit Of rourh clothcs
from one Of my mon, and was sue.
cessful in this placo. Ho got q
largo quantity Of silver (among
othor things on old d.timo milk
pitcher,) and q very fno gold
watch, from Mr.. DeSaussuro at