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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-08-23
sc44, ,6O3 80 s547, ,48O %

Now it may be said by some that part
Of this increase is due to the increase OF
prisoners in the State Prison, and OF pa
tients in the Insane Asylum and Deaf,
Dumb and Blind Asylum. But If we de-
duct these items of increase, viz: State
Prison $l5,39i lS ;lnsane Asylum, $40
e92 so, and Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asy-
lum, Sl1 900, making q total OF 1856;
we shall still have a sum total of appro-
priations in 1874 of s5O0,793 60, as
against s244,6o3 80 for the year 1901!
In other words, coniining ourselves to
the appropriations Tor the support OF the
several departments of the government,
for the State institutions and for miscel-
laneous expenses, WE FIND THAT
THE COST OF THE GOVERNMENT
HAS BEEN MORE THAN DOUBLED
IN FOUR YEARS. Look at the con-
trast:
1870 so4l, ,6O3 SO
1874 x547 ,4SO 2S
increase In IUUI years SoV~,''o ~
Now let u5 see what Mr.. Pillsbury's
record has been on the question OF re-
trenchment. We showed few days
ago that he had voted every time on the
side Of the railroad companies and
against the people. Let us see how he
stands as an economist.
And first, it must be remembered that
he has been for years chairman OF the
committee of Finance in the State Sen
ate. He was therefore the official leader
OF his party in tha, body upon all ques-
tions Of appropriations. His influence,
~ such can hardly DO overstated. 1t is
not too much to say that no extrava-
xant bill could pass the Senate without
his support. If his influence had been
strenuously thrown in favor Of retrench'
ment, the startling exhibit which we give
above could not have been made; and
the people OF Minnesota would be to-
day hundreds Of thousands Of dollar:
better off than they are. But we are sor
~ to say, and we say it in the kindes
spirit to Mr.. .Pillsbury personally, he rep
resented the cause Of extravagance in
stead of economy.
Let the facts show whether we AR
right or not in this judgment. We quote
from the journals OF the Senate.
January l2. 1874 in the State Senate
we offered the following preamble ant
resolutions:
wHsRkAs, Nappears from the valedictor
message of Hon Horace Austin, late Governo
Of the state, that the cost of public printing dur
ing the fiscal year was $s9, $50 80. and u IL un
derstood that deficiency exists, (about $40,
600 more,) which viii largely increase tha
amount
AND WHEREAS, The Executive Document
and reports Of the public institutions are nov
in the hands of the public printer and bein
printed; and great expense to the State will en-
sue unless immediate action is taken, there
foie,
Resolred. That the commissioners Of publ
printinc are hereby requested to recall at ono
nom the hands Of the printer all such report
and documents, ~ are rot ALREADY printed
and strike out from the same all voluminou
ESSAYS on collateral matters, all geological, DO
tanical aud educational disquisitions, and re
turn to the contractors to be printed only sue
matter As really concerns the business Of til
State, or is necessary for the information OF tn
people as to its financial condition.
These resolutions were adopted BY
oAo cf rc ~ ~. snrh Rnnuhlicans a
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
Onions for Sleeplessness.

now venture to suggest a new but
simple remedy for want of sleep, says
Frank auckland, the naturalist. Opt
ates i'll any form, even the liquor Opii
sedat and chlorodyne, will leave traces
of their influence the next morning. 1
therefore prescribe for myself, and have
frequently done so for Others-onions,
simply common onions raw, but Spanish
onions stewed will do. Everybody knows
the taste of onions; this is due to pc
culiar essential oil contained in this most
valuable and healthy root. This oil has,
am sure, soporific powers. In my own
case they never fail. If / am pressed
with work, and feel / shall not sleep, /
eat two or three small onions, and the
effect is magical. Onions are also ex-
cellent things to eat when exposed to
intense cold. Mr.. Parnaby, Troutdale
Fishery, Keswick, informs me that when
collecting salmon and trout eggs in the
winter, he finds that common raw onions
enable him and his men to bear the ice
and cold of the semi-frozen water much
better than beer, etc. The Arctic expe-
dition, just now about to start, should
terefore take good stock of onions.
Finally, If person cannot sleep, it is
because the blood is in the brain, not in
his stomach. This is to be done by eat
ing biscuit, hard boiled egg, bit
of bread and cheese or something. Fol
low this up with glass of wine or milk,
or even water, and you will fall asleep,
and will, we trust, bless the name of
Frank auckland.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Some noteworthy cases were reported
at a recent meeting in New York of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children. One of the worst was that of
young orphan girl, IA years old, who
was badly choked and beaten by her
uncle, and locked up in room. She
made her escape, and was being per-
suaded to enter disorderly house in
Wooster street, when the matter was
brought to the notice of the society
Steps were at once taken by which she
secured home in a respectable family
as servant. Seven cases were found
where the circumstances would have
warranted prosecution, but, after Civ
ing the accused persons q severe warn
ing it was thought better not to use ex-
treme measures unless the cruelty was
again perpetrated. The cases are yet in
allegiance, two of the offenders being
under bail to stand trial. The Secretary
further represented that, during the past
month, he had visited the neighborhood
of the different theaters and other places
of amusement at night, and found many
young children begging. Upon being
questioned, invariably the same answer
was given: "Sent out by MOTHER" or
"sy father" to beg. Since then some
of them have disappeared, while others
have changed their begging grounds
and again others have become peddlers
of flowers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
The Hon.

The hop liz vine and IL NJ lawless az
a two-year-old colt in hundred aker
lot. They are born on the hop and go
thru life on the hop, skip and Jump.
The fruit ov the hop resembles the cones
on pine tree, and are az thick az the
flowers on a rosebush.
The hop, like most other things in this
world, duz better not to hav its own way
entirely, but hav a pole set up for it to
klimb. If the hop vine don't hav emmy
stick to mount it gifts krazy, and runs az
hayward as school boy playing truant.
hav seen them cum out ov the ground
on the 10Th of May, run up onto the pig
pen, skare the pigs half out of their wits,
then branch off onto a stun wall, leave
that and tri to climb an apple tree, then
fall to the ground, and fuss around for a
month i'll the grass bewildered, then git
back onto the pig pen and begin agin,
and at last tie themselfs up into dozen
untieable tangles, and at last git ketched
bi Jack Frost, and die, with good deal
ov vine to them, but mighty few hops.
Hops are rightly named, for they are
not only CRATE hoppers themselfs, but
they make all things hop they get into.
If it wasn't for hops bread would be az
heavy az putty, and all kinds ov beer
would be az irrational NJ lukewarm mo-
lassis and water.-JOsh Billings.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
FASHIONS Master.

This is the way, according to writer,
the women of Paris bow down before a
man-modiste: This little dry, dark,
nervous creature, who looks like a dwarf
burned in the fire, receives them in his
loose velvet coat, proudly stretched out
on his divan, cigar in his mouth. He
says to them: Walk, turn round;
well; come back in week. 1 will COM
pose you a suitable toilet" 1t is not
they who choose it; it is he; they are only
too happy-and to be served by himself
personal introduction is necessary.
Nine. Francisque B, a lady of the
best society, an elegant woman, went to
him last month to order dress.
" Madame, by whom are you presented
to me 2" "What do you mean9" "I
mean that 1 dress no one who is not pre-
sented to me-" She left, sitting with
Indignation. Others remain, saying :
!" Let him be rude as he likes, provided
he dress me-"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
Hliterate Jurors.

1t is said that on the panel of Jurors IN
the Superior Court, at Boston, this week,
there were four men who could neither
read nor write. If this is so, there must
be great laxness in the Board which
places the names i'll the box from which
the names of the jurors are drawn, or
there must be mandatory laws, which
should be amended. Such persons are
wholly incompetent to deal with the
questions which are often, if not always,
presented to them. When the Judge
takes the ground, rs some of our ablest
and best Judges do, that it is no part Of
the duty of q presiding Judgeto intimate
to the jury his view of the force of testi-
mony, leaving all questions of fact for
their exclusive and undivided considera-
ton, it becomes of the utmost importance
that jurors should be so intelligent as to
discriminate between the swift and the
impartial witness between the probable
and the improbable, as determined by
all the circumstances. OF course, there
may be men unlettered even to the ex-
tent of being unable to read who can in
a measure do this, but they are not many
nor likely to be found at hap-hazard. 1t
is also more likely that such illiterate
men may be open to exterior and i'm
proper influences. At any rate, it may
be said that this is not the ideal of the
judicial strength in Superior Court in
New England. 1t is only one step re-
moved from the professional juror, who
is generally loafer "and not always
honest. "-ProUidence Journal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
The Next Lost Art.

am sorry to report, as result of in
vestigations that large proportion of
the girls of the country, and even of
those brought up on farms, are growing
to womanhood without learning to milk;
indeed, with these it is becoming lost
art. Even young men who have no
prospect of success, except such as shall
come by their own labor, cannot milk.
To milk cow seems to be dreadful
thing, for she has horns and can hook,
and certainly she can kick, and kicking
hurts, so the work is performed by the
old folks, who learned thousands of
years ago when the world was barbaric,
and they, the young folks, sit in the house,
possibly at work, but more likely read
ing novels, or playing on the piano. The
question arises, what is going to be done
when the old folks die9 l know that
this cannot last long. Twenty years ago
a pound of butter barely bought yard
of calico now it will buy three or four
yards, and it will buy three pounds of
sugar, half gallon of molasses, and
cloth enough for a shirt. Formerly a
laborer could earn pound of butter by
working a single hour; now he must
work good three hours. 1t seems to me
clear enough that if things go on in this
way ten or fifteen years, butter Will
bring Is cents or 81 a pound, unless it
goes out of use entirely, except on few
farms where the young folks shall be so
abused as to be made to milk and cream
to put on strawberries will be out of the
question. That new-fashioned butter
made of beef suet, buttermilk, and eggs
comes in at the right time as a judgment
on the young folks who are afraid COWS
will hook and kick.-Dr. Cross.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
Let the Babies Dig In the Dirt.

We once asked an old Winnebago
squaw, how it vas that she cured her
sick family by simply covering them ev-
cry day with fresh earth, leaving only a
breathing spot for their noses, and she
said: "Earth our mother. Earth make
she, and Earth take good care to make
she papooses strong; squaw-mother
make she papooses sick. Earth-mother
make she papooses well again. She
can't tell white squaw any more" Now
this poor Indian woman was wise sac
cording to her lights" Without know
ing why, she saw that the earth was
friend to her children, and therefore
gave them to its healing embrace. If
the mother be fortunate enough to live
in the country, she has the cure for many
of her children's ills quite at hand. En-
courage baby to play in the fresh earth,
preparing it properly for its enjoyment
and cure, with as careful an eye to the
comfort of the little thing as you would
if it were to take any other sort of a
bath. If it has no old dresses, make it
suit of cheap print, tie upon its head
light hat that will protect its eyes from
discomfort, and give it freedom to delve
in the warm, soft earth, where the sun
shine can comfort and invigorate it. If
it is city child, and circumstances for
bid trip to the country for the sake Of
the weak convalescent, have sand heap
made on the warm side of your yard.
Instinct will teach it to dig, and digging
hardens the muscles and brings strength
to the bones, while from the heart of the
erth rises a subtle and strong power of
healing that we can neither explain nor
understand for ourselves, though we
have both seen and felt it's potency
The Metropolitan.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
WOman'S Energy.

Says the Pail Mall Gazette Woman
often complains that hers is comparative
ly fixed, secluded, and meditative
life. Yet it is not always so she occa-
sionally energies from life of seclusion
and meditation and displays an energy
and a versatility of talent which throw
man completely into the shade, and
would, but for his moral blindness.
awaken him to more vivid sense of
his own inferiority. Such career, for
instance, as that of lady, by name
Elizabeth Taylor, who was charged on
Friday last before the magistrates at
Warrington with being drunk and disor-
derby, and fined five shillings and costs,
is one that may be studied with advan-
tage by many frivolous man whose life
is spent in Incidence and ease. Mrs.
Taylor, who appeared in the dock in
male attire, was stated by the chief
constable to be the daughter of a gen
tleman who formerly lived at Penketh.
near Warrington. She had been mar
ried, but her husband was killed twenty
one years ago, and for the last thirteen
years she had adopted the garments of
man. She was employed as a sailor
during the American war. and made
several voyages from South Wales to the
American coast in vessels sent out to
supply the Alabama and blockade run
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
Wit and HumOr.
; of color-Dyers.

MEN OF cOlOr-DySfS.
A WEEK Saturday night.
A PAIR of drawers-A span OF team
horses.
CLERICAL errors-Departing from the
paths of rector-tude.
SpEcKLED Appendix says these grass
hoppers are eminently meat.
81 MUST marry that girl" said a dis
consulate young man; she whistles,
and it'll never do to trife with the affec-
tons of a girl that whistles"
"SoME sermonizers," said Sydney
Smith, "preach AZ if sin were to be
taken from men as Eve was from Adam,
by casting them into deep sleep.
A NORTHERN Californian discourages
immigration to the Pacific Slope with
the announcement that all the gals are
from Boston, and drinks are all twenty
five cents.
EVEN the grave and classical New
York World is making puns. In
Thursday s issue of that paper there was
an article headed, 1How spitters should
expect to rate.
81 HAVE" says A. Il. Stewart, " made
it the rule of my life to give man the
value of his money. / know no man
who has succeeded for thirty years on
any other principle"
Is IT any wonder that our clothing
merchants can sell pants Mt two, three,
and four dollars pair, when the women
who make them are paid only one dollar
and twenty-five cents n dozen pairs =
Springfield Republican.
A MAN shot by robbers in Nevada
recovered consciousness in time to hear
one of the rascals say: Had we bet
ter shoot him again 2" to which the other
replied: "No, l guess the cuss is
dead" Though naturally disputa-
tious man the victim didn't rise to argue
the pint.
YES, you may come again next Sun
day evening, Horace, dear, but and
she hesitated. "What is it, darling
Have 1 given You pain 2" he asked, as
she still remained silent. "You didn't
mean to, I'm sure" she responded,
"but next time please don't wear one
of those collars with the points turning
outward, they scratch so. = Utica Her
aid.
UPON witnessing, recently, stalwart
Indian carrying drunken squaw up
hill to the campoodle, near Austin, the
ReUeiiJe observes
The snow was deep,
The hill steep,
The squaw asleep,
But still that Indian toiled on, and if he
didn't cry I" Excelsior !" he said cheap
damn !"
ONE of our young men when he was
married didn't want to patronize the
baker. He said bread tasted ever so
much better made by her dear hands.
This delighted her. But when she
wanted scuttle of coal and he suggest
ed that she get it, as the fire would feel
so much better if the coal was brought
by her dear hands, she was disguised.
Women are 50 changeable.
NeDs.
OLD Zachariah jackson, of Rocky
Gulch, New, is /" forty.niner " who has
been through the mill. The other day
he hobbled up to a party of newcomers
and observed. "'Tend to yer bizness,
boys, and yen be all right. I've bin
here nigh thirty years, and have been
lynched, shot at, stabbed, knocked
down, thrown off mountain, and mop
ped around generally, but I'm here to-
day, bigger'n box car.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18

"There is one point" said the mau,
that whenever any person comes into
my saloon and looks stranger-like, and
particularly II they give any evidence of
being unused to city life, they invariably
ask for vanilla cream. / don't know
why it is, other than the fact that vanilla
was about the first flavor used in ice
cream. In olden times it was supposed
that ice cream might produce hysteria,
and as vanilla was administered medi-
cinally for that, they used it as a suitable
flavor to counteract any evil effects that
cream might have. Those were the days
when doctors were just beginning to al
low their fever patients to have ice and
drink cold water. The consequence was
that vanilla ice cream thus became wide
known, and it is one of the best. BY
some it is called 'vanil,' by others
Miller and there are those also who
ask for 'banilla. OF course these mis-
takes are laughable, but then we never
treat unknowing people in any ungen-
tlemanly or unladylike way. 1t is not
our business to make fun of others,
who, in all probability, know infinitely
more than we do in their business at
home"
&c What sort of ice cream do ladies ask
for p continued the reporter.
Elderly ladies take lemon, middle
aged like chocolate, young ladies take
strawberry, and the quite pert misses
ask for orange, peach, and mixed flavor.
1t has become quite fashionable to call
for mixed creams. During the straw
berry season we sell berries and ice
cream, or berries and ordinary cream
with sugar. Ice cream and berries
form the principal demand nowadays.
There is great deal in appearance, and
plate heaped high with berries and
cream looks aristocratic and still
doesn't cost much. Then again, it is
very palatable, and is much more cred
liable than spending that money for
something that does not do any person
any good, but rather harm. Ice cream
is refreshing and nourishing, and can
be eaton in perfect safety by every
BODY"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
A Last Favor.

At late assize in Ireland two men
were condemned to be hanged. On re-
ceiving sentence one of them addressed
the Judge, aid said he had two favors to
ask of him. "What are they r. in
quired his Lordship. "Plase your hon
or" said Pat, evil you let me hang
this man before L am hanged myself r
What is the other request Z" said the
Judge. "Why, phase your honor, will
you let my wife hang me for she will
do it more tenderly than the hangman,
and then what she will receive for the
job will help the poor crater to pay her
rent"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
A LOVE STORY.

o, lay that dreary book away,
And list 10 me-O, list to mel
While wanes the purple OF the Gay,
A story will tell to thee.
Lay not the book away in ruth,
With longing look or feigned signs;
You know you'd rather read the truth
Within the iris of my eyes.
The swift air murmured silver clear,
moment since, "She comes TO thee :"
Your pulses told you was near,
So don't pretend you do not see.
My brief, brief story never rare,
Ia only sweet as il Is true;
o, don't pretend you do not care,
When all the while you know you do.
For from the why warmth Of spring
fancy flashed in ruby gleams-
You'd teach my heart deeper thing
Than il had ever dreamed in dreams"
Well, have learned your lesson now,
Have learned it all-O, look and see =
The brief sweet lesson in your VOW
You said your heart would teach TO me.
Man, eager in his quest for power,
For fame, to live for evermore,
VIII always use a yagranthour
To teach a woman loves dear lore;
For, after all, the praise afar,
Acclaim that pierces aisle or dome,
Is never dear as voices arc
That tell him he is loved at home.
'Tis hardly worth your while to-day
To look so very, very wise;
You'll lay that duh old book away
To read the story in my eyes,
To list the story on my tongue,
The one YOU wish to hear from me,
The story sweet il said or sung
~ love but thee, love but thee"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
White Rose on an Apple Tree.

On the premises of Mr.. n. +. Beech
tel, Perkiomen avenue and Franklin
street, is to be seen one of the most re-
markable curiosities ever heard of, OF
the kind. A large crab-apple tree is
growing in the yard, and on the top of
the tree is blooming pure white rose.
The rose stem, which is growing from
the apple branch, is over two years old,
as it has already bloomed two years.
The flower can be best seen from the
second story of the house.-Reading
pa. Eq1Le.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18

ners with coal. She was known by the
name of "Happy Ned" and Navy
Ned" For some time past she has
worked as laborer on several farms In
the neighborhood of Warrington, and
so late as the 18th instant helped to kill
thirteen pigs for farmer at Croft. Al
together Mrs. Taylor seems to he singu-
larly industrious and persevering person,
and we'll fitted, with any extraneous aid,
to fight the battle of life.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18

In apt adulteration
Our tradesmen now exult;
They'd kill the English nation,
Both infant and adult.
In trade what lots OF trickery!
In ala how little malt!
The coffee's full Of chicory,
The beer Ia full OF salt.
Nutrition for the nursery,
For babies plump and arch,
Turns out ulOn cursory
Inspection 10 be-starch.
Maizena, and Oswego
Are starch without the blue;
But where the deuce will he go
Who dares such things TO de?
What though a man has leda
OF traders of renown?
Even "a Moscow medalist
The analyst runs down.
And how sad 10 utter
The statement Punch has seen
That even best fresh butter
Ii made from butterine!
The truthful grocer non est-
Alas his frauds are gross
Neither is winner honest
Nor brewer, inter nos.
II You would wear gray locks on
Brains that with age won't fail,
Grow your own sheep and oxen,
And brew your own good ale.
Punch.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18

GA YOUNG man named Huxley, of
bardiner, Me-, who was accidently shot
jy companion, about a year ago, has
ust died of his injuries, and his mother
and sister have previously died from
over-work in taking care of him.