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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18

Millionaire Lick, of San Francisco,
has had great deal of trouble out of his
philanthropy. AS soon as his first and
munifcent trust deed was executed, he
was beset by crowd of poor and hungry
relatives, who clamored for share of
the millionaire's treasures. His nephew
brought suit against him for o large
amount of money for services alleged TO
have been performed. Suits, injunctions,
and complaints poured in upon him from
every direction, and the unlucky Lick
was given no rest until he had revoked
his gift and dismissed his trustees. But
the severest affliction was reserved for
the last, for now San Francisco doctor,
Geile by name, has brought little bill
of S53, 900 for medical services rendered
Lick during the last twenty-five years !
This is believed to be the heaviest doc
tors bill on record. The philanthropist
might stand the reproaches of his rela-
tives and the contumely of the public,
which branded him as an 'Indian giver, u
but doctors bill of $4,000 is enough
to make even millionaire's blood run
cold.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
Cheap Railroad Rates.

The Baltimore and Ohio railroad has
demonstrated that the public has been
paying too high rates for the services of
railroads The large reductions made
by that company since the completion of
its line 10 Chicago will be permanent,
the management having announced that
the road can do the work at these figures
and make money. The address of the
President at the late annual meeting of
stockholders was a strong and heaIthful
document, and in tone and sentiment
carries a lesson to every railroad manager
in the country. 1t ought to bring about
a revolution in the policy of railroads
generally by showing that the interests
OF the roads are best conserved when it
is assumed that they are in harmony
with the interests of the public, and the
policy regulated accordingly.
The managers Of the New York Cen
tral also announce that they will main
the trouble of saying that this is done,
not for the purpose of competing with
the canal, but because they cannot COM
mand any higher rates. They give the
public the assurance that if they could
command higher rates, they would be
asked It is said that the railway
charges now are less than those of the
canal last year. The business of the
road has increased so largely that it has
become necessary to construct two extra
tracks from Rochester to Albany to ac-
commodate it, and these tracks will soon
be extended to Niagara Falls. The
gross receipts of this road for 1874 were
more than $1,000 900 in excess of 1873.
The experience of these two great
roads with cheap tariffs is not singular.
II is common to all roads that have ex-
perimented in that line. During the
past two years the policy of reduced
tariffs has been tried on different roads
and at different times, and it has always
proved profitable. There is some pros
pect now that the low rates will become
permanent and general. The fact that
the roads have been able to sustain the
Wall street stock jobbing operations of
their officials, as well as n mighty burden
of dishonest and incapable management,
and still make money, shows that under
average good management and with
drawal from Wall street, the public could
have their services at a greatly reduced
rate, while the increased business would
more than protect the road from loss.-
ChicdOo Times.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
The Deluge---The Chaldean Account
of IL.

The interest excited n couple of years
ago by George Smiths translation of q
fragmentary Chaldean account of the
Deluge, from the Assyrian tablets dis
covered by Layard, is renewed by the
same gentleman's recovery from the
ruins of Kouyunjik of missing parts OF
that record, nearly restoring the whole
inscription, which is supposed to date
from at least two thousand years before
the Christian era. This Chaldean version,
however, differs in many respects from
the Biblical legend, of which it is mani
festly the prototype, not only in its de-
tails. but chiefly in the olytheism of its
myth. Hasisadra, the Chaldean Noah,
is transformed into demigoa, who, in
his immoral abode, tells an earthly
visitor the story OF his escape
from the food wherein the gods
punished the wickedness of the children
of men. His fioatings on the face of the
waters were of much briefer duration
than those rehearsed in Genesis, the
deluge described by him having lasted
but six days, and his vessel having been
stranded upon the Mountains of Mir
on the seventh day, whilst the Noachian
ark found no resting place until the
seventeenth day of the seventh month
from its launching, and nearly year
elapsed before the earth was restored to
habitable condition. The graceful
scriptural legend of the winged messen-
ger of peace. from which the olive branch
derives its emblematical significance, is
less poetically given i'll the old version,
though the correspondence of the two is
close enough to show their relat onship.
The raven first sent out by Noah plays
no important part III the drama, the sue
cessive journeys of the dove, his later
emissary, leading to his ultimate release.
In the Assyrian story these episodes are
reversed in order of time and impor
tance. Hasisadra is made to say:
On the seventh day in the course of it
/ sent forth a dove and il left. The dove went and
turned, and
4 resting place it did not find, and it returned.
i sent Forth swallow and il left. The swallow
went and turned, and
A resting place It did not find, and it returned.
The raven went, and the corpses on the water it
It did eat. It swan, and wandered away. and did
not return.
sent the animals forth to the four winds. poured
out lhation,
built an altar on the peak of the mounta N.
BY seven herbs cut.
At the bottom Of them placed reeds pixies and
siIngar.
The gods collected at It's burning the gods collected
at its good burning:
The gods like flies the sacrifice gathered.
In addition to this most interesting
discovery, Mr.. Smith found in the
course OF his Assyrian explorations more
than three thousand fragments of an
cient inscriptions relating, among other
things, the legends of the Creation, of
the Tower of Babel, etc, which may
prove of great importance, not only in
their neurological but in their eth
biological bearings.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
The Dinner Parties of a Merchant
Prince.

A. t. Stewart is famous for his dinner
parties, which are usually given on Sun
day. He has one of the finest wine
vaults in New York, and brands of
brandy, port and sherry that no one
else in the country can boast of. His
table service is magnificent. One silver
dinner set lined with gold was made in
London two years ago at cost of S47,-
500. 1t consists of over two hundred
pieces. Then he has famous Dresden
china set of two or three hundred pieces,
in which no less than seventy different
colors are introduced. The china is trans
parent, and on holding it to the light,
the monogram "a. T. S" can be seen
like water mark in note paper. Mr..
Stewart is very entertaining host, and
he likes the character amazingly. He has
the best trained servants in the city, and
his dinners pass off in the methodical
and systematic manner of clock-work.
His wife and niece (Mrs. Rutler) usually
assisted him in dispensing the hospitah-
ties of the "white marble palace"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
Cruelty to Horses.

At one of the meetings of the Society
| for the Protection of Animals the opin-
ion was expressed that the use of very
tight check-reins on draft horses, design
ed to make them look spruce and to hold
their heads up like carriage horses, was
gradually going out of fashion with us.
The practice is certainly, to some extent,
going out of fashion in Europe, and the
same should be true of America, since it
is very hard that horse who has heavy
loads to pull all day long should not be
allowed to do his work in the way most
easy to him. The English authorities,
which Mr.. Angel once cited in his little
pamphlet on the subject, seems to be
conclusive.
For example: Mr.. Fleming, Veteri-
nary Surgeon of the Royal Engineers,
says that nothing can be more absurd
than check-r.ins. They are against rea-
son altogether and place the animal in a
false position. The horse stands with a
check-rein exactly as a man would stand
with stick under his arms behind his
back when told to write. He says he has
no doubt, if the public could only real
ize the fact that it throws away large
portion of the horses power altogether,
and is very cruel besides, this rein would
be discontinued. 1t is not only the head
that suffers, but from his head TO his
tail, from his shoulders to his hoof, and
over his whole body, the animal suffers
more or less.
With equal positiveness, DIR. Kitching,
of York, another expert, declares that if
a horse pulling load finds a check-rein
I,I 10 H., In,1 lo @hro,,,
his weight into his collar, and is him
dered from giving his body that position
which is the most natural and effective.
He has to pull by the strength of his
muscles only; the weight of his body is
lost, and so much pulling strength
thrown away, while what remains is ex-
erted at a great expenditure of the
horses powers and health, to say moth
ing of his comfort. The consequence is
that his limbs and muscles became
strained and distorted, his knees are
bowed forward and his hooks backward.
If a man pulls load by strap across
his shoulders, he bends his head fnd
chest forward, and relieves his legs a
horse does the same when he can, and
ought always to be allowed to do so. In
addition, DIR. Kitching insists that tying
up horse in this way interferes with
his breathing and with the circulation of
the blood in the head, while the heart
and lungs are excited by work. This
makes the horse uncomfortable, restless
and irritable, and, in fact, says Dr.
Kitching, "his head aches and pains
him, and he gets many violent jag and
blow just because his driver cannot un-
derstand the cause of his restlessness. l
have seen many horses standing at pub
lie house doors, and other places, in
this uneasy state, and by-and-by set off
in their desire to get home and be rn-
harnessed, when the driver has rushed
out and punished the horses for his own
error. '-Philadelphia Public Record.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
WHOLE NO. 1865.
Plain John

The first prisoner out had a face that
would give an 1mdertaker's fifty rods the
start and then beat it in race of half a
mile. A broken heart could be read i'm
every line, and crushed hopes stuck right
out of his solemn eyes. He had long,
respondent locks, a sorrowful suit of
black, and he sighed drearily.
"Your name is John-JOhn what2"
asked the court.
"It's John, sighed the prisoner.
"John what2"
"Let it go as John," drawled the
solemn man.
"You seem solemn" continued the
court; care you illg'
"Not that | know of.
care you in trouble!"
"Kinder, and kinder not"
"Well, how under the sun q solemn
old fowl like you got on drunk is more
than can imagine. Do you have sprees
very often z"
"Sometimes often-sometimes not.
"Have you any money!"
Not any, except jack-knife.
"Have you any work z"
"Not any that know of,
81 think / know what ails you. L
think you ought to be blown up with
nitro-glycerine about fifteen times to
wake you up, and then you ought to be
tied behind a locomotive and given
race to Chicago. 1t looks to me like q
case of constitutional laziness. You are
like an old paint keg tossed into an alley,
or an old hat on the telegraph wire"
"Ho-hum," yawned the prisoner,
elevating his arms far above his head.
"Tll ho-hum you for three months,
and if they don't make you step high
and get around lively I'll miss my
guess. s.-Detroi Press Police Court Re
mart
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
Frightening Children.

Nothing can be worse for child than
to be frightened The effect of the scare
it is slow to recover from it remains
sometimes until maturity, as is shown by
many instances of morbid sensitiveness
and excessive nervousness. Not unfre-
quently, fear is employed as means of
discipline. Children are controlled by
being made to believe that something
terrible will happen to them and punished
by being shut up in dark rooms, or by
being put in places they stand in dread
of. No one, without vivid memory of
his own childhood, can comprehend how
entirely cruel such things are. We have
often heard grown persons tell of the
suffering they have endured, as children,
under like circumstances, and recount the
irreparable injury which they are sure
they then received. No parent, no
nurse, capable of alarming the young, is
fitted for her position. Children, as
near as possible, should be trained not
to know the sense of fear, which, above
everything else, is to be feared i'll their
education, early and late.-Ne,o York
Freenldf's journal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
Some High ROOStS.

In the South Seas there is little spot
of land called Ysable Isle, divided among
several savage tribes that are continually
at war with each other. A terrible mas
sacre occurring in portion of the island
named Malaga, the sufferers adopted as
means of defense against future sur
prises, the custom of sleeping i'll houses
built in high trees, though living 10y day
in the ordinary bamboo huts. When
the Rev. Coleridge Patterson, Bishop
of the Melanesian Islands, visited Ma
haga, he was very curious to inspect
these human nests in the SUBMITS of the
loftiest palms. They were situated in a
swamp, that for greater security was
surrounded 10y high wall. The lower
boughs of the trees selected for habita-
ton had been Topped off, leaving only
the highest as platform for the houses.
A plumb line let down from the veran-
da of one of these houses showed the
distance TO be ninety-four feet.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
Salt Mines of Louisiana.

One of the most wonderful salt mines
in the world is located on the Island
Petit Anse, st. Mary's Parish, Louisi-
ana. 1t was discovered in 1862 by the
Confederates, while attempting to deepen
a salt spring. The workmen struck what
they supposed to be rock, but which
on examination proved to be bed of
solid and almost pure rock salt. IT has
since been ascertained that the bed is sixty
feet or more in thickness, and covers an
area of 144 acres. The salt of commerce
is derived chiefly from saline wells, or
sea water, crystal rock salt being COM
paratively rare. Mines exist in Austria,
Spain and some other countries; but
none of them yield as pure product
and with so little expenditure of labor as
the the Petit Anse Mine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
An Editors Appeal.

As the report that we are very wealthy
has gone abroad among our subscribers,
and has made them awful slow about
paying up, thinking doubtless we don't
want the money, we hasten to say that
the report of our wealth is false in every
particular. If ocean steamers were sell.
ing at q cent dozen, we couldn't make
the first payment on canoe. The light
ming of poverty has struck us square.
and had it not been for an armful OF had
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
IN AIEMORIAM.

There have been few more beautiful poems thar
lis written. II was on reading II that George ID
rentice said: "One might almost wish TO die i
g knew that so beautiful tribute as this would b
ritten 10 his memory."l
On the bosom of a river
Where the sun unloosed his quiver
And the starlight cleaned forever,
Sailed vessel light and free.
Morning dew-drops hung like mamma
On the bright folds of her banner,
And the Zephyrs rose TO fan her,
Softly 10 the radiant sea.
At her prov pilot beaming
In the flush of youth stood dreaming,
And he was in glorious seeming
Like an angel from above.
Through his hair the breezes sported,
And az on the wave he hoatCd,
Oft that pilot, angel-throated,
Warbled lays of hope and love.
Through those locks so blithely aowing,
Buds Of laurel bloom were blowing,
And his hands anon were throwing,
Music from a Tyre Of gold.
Swiftly down the stream he glided,
Soft the purple wave divided,
And a rainbow arch abided
On his canvass snowy fold.
Anxious hearts with fond devotion
Watched him sailing TO the ocean,
Prayed that never wild commotion
Mid the elements might rise.
And he seemed like some Apollo
Charming summer winds 10 follow,
While the water flags carolla
Trembled 10 his music sighs.
But those purple waves enchanted,
Rolled beside city haunted
BY an awful spell that daunted
Every conner 10 the shore.
Night shades rank the air encumbered,
And the pale marble statue numbered
Where the lotus eaters slumbered,
And awoke 70 life no more.
Then there rushed with lightning quickness
Ger his face a mortal sickness
And the dew in fearful thickness
Gathered DER his temples fair.
And there swept dying murmur
Through the lovely Southern summer,
As the beauteous pilot conner
Perished 10y that city there.
Still rolls on that radiant rlver
And the sun unbinds his Quiyor,
And the sunlight streams forever
On its bosom as before.
But the vessels rainbow banner
Greets no more the gay savanna,
And that pilots hte drops mama
On the purple waves no more.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18

our devil managed to steal from bliny
mule, our large and interesting family
would be without a mouthful to eat at
this moment. Is not this sad picture,
and can you delinquent subscribers look
upon it without feeling the greenbacks
rustic with Indignation in your pocket
books We do not like to dun you, but
we must if you fail to take the hint
Shenandoah Va. } Democrat.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18

A WEALTHY BoRRowER.-Pre
Lincoln used to tell this little story /:
After the Wednesday night services at
a country Westinghouse the minister
urged the members present to subscribe
literally toward erecting new lightning
rod on their new church building, saying:
Surely you are willing to lend to the
Lord. Is He not the owner of the cattle
on thousand hillsl Will he not repay r
etc. When rich old farmer got up,
and, speaking slowly through his nose,
said You say the Lord is the owner of
the cattle on a thousand hills, do We Z
Well, then, why can't He sell His cattle
and by lightning-rod, ell 2'"-Harper's g
Magazine for June.
Ex-Gov. VANCE, of North Carolina,
was few days ago presented, by the
young Jewish people of Wilmington,
with gold-headed cane, as token OF
their appreciation Of his recent lecture
on "The Scattered Nation"
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-23
The United States and Spain.

WASHINGTON, Dee IA.
THE present distinctive point at issue
between the United States and Spain is
stated in non-otiicial, unusually wcll-in.
formed, circles to be as follows:
The United States ask: /. That in fu.
ture all American citizens in Cuba ac-
cused of violation of law shall be tried by
civil courts, and not by military tribunals,
with all the rights in such cases as are
secured by the seventh article Of the
treaty of 1895; and 2. That all sentences,
where American citizens have heretofore
been tried by military tribunals, shall be
annulled. Spain in some degree comedies
the claim of the United States to the first
proposition, agreeing that in future AmeTl-
can citizens accused Of violation of law
shall be tried by the ordinary tribunals,
with the right to be heard by counsel, to
summon witnesses, and employ all other
necessary safeguards to the accused, hut
with the reservation that all such trials shall
be according to the law of 1921, which
provides for more expeditions proceed
lngS 1Adn lnOSe ol civil courts loI COll-
mon crimes in time Of peace. She also
offers to revise all sentences passed by
court martial on American citizens, where
it shall be satisfactorily shown that such
sentences were in violation Of established
law This reply is unsatisfactory to the
United States, which takes the ground
that American citizens accused of crime
cannot be tried by courtmartial, but are
entitled to trial before the civil tribunals
only, as secured by treaty stipulation, with
out such reservation as is proposed by
Spain
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-23

into the manner of his election to the Senate as
to whether corrupt means had been used to secure
MS election, as had been alleged. Mr.. horton's
resolution providing for special committee OF
h'e TO inquire into the circumstances attending
the recent election in Mississippi was debated al
considerable length. House not in session.
On the 18th resolution was offered in the Sen.
ate, by MIR. Edmunds, for the election on the 7th
OF January of President pro tenn. referred 10
the Committee on Privileges and Elections The
resolution for special committee to inquire into
the recent election in Mississippi came up as un.
hnlshed business and was laid over until the Goth
10 which date the Senate adjourned In the
mouse the Senate amendment postponing the
day OF meeting after the holidays from the 4th to
DIS introduced were-to repeal the duties or
teas and tobacco: providing that all pensions
on account of death from wounds or disease re-
celVed or contracted in the service shall COM
mehce from the date of death or discharge. Mr.
rage, of California, offered a preamble and reso-
lutlon to the effect that the Constitution imposes
no limits on the eligibility of any citizen to the
Office of President further than that he must be
native born, and of certain age and time of
residence, and that any attempt by the House to
limit or 1orestall the public will on question of
such Importance is an evasion of the powers re-
served by the people at large to be freely exer-
clsed by them without any interference from
any legislative body whatever; the previous qucs
ton was voted down. 100 to SO. Adjourned to
the Goth.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-23
THE MARKETS..
NEW YORK

NEW 1ohh.
LIVE STocK.-Beef Cattle-S10 0)6i3 co. Hog
Live, S7.25@7.50. Sheep-s50097 co.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to choice, S. 545G
500; white wheat extra, $6C59Y.75 Wheat-No
: Chicago, Sl.22@1.23; No. . Northwestern
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PRov1sIoNs.-P Pork-Mess, S2l .40Q22 so. LarG
Prime Steam, 130131sc. Cheese-6112Ic
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CHICAGO.
LIVE STocK.-Beeves-Choi s5.25G26. 90;
good. S4.500500; medium, S4O0G4 %; butch
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PRoyIsIoNs.-Buttcr-C Choice, 25032c Eggs
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