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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13
THE COAL SUPPLY.
There Is Enough OF 1t In Pennsylvania "a
Last GA Years, at the Present Rate oi
COpsumptiOn.

There IL Enough of 1t In Pennsylvania to
Last GA Years, at the Present Rate of
Consumption.
The New York Times has been pub
fishing some interesting figures compiled
by Prof. Sheaffer, relating to the extent
and depth of the great coal deposits of
Pennsylvania. This estimate, says the
Times, gives GA years as the life of the
coal trade at the present rate of produc-
ton. At rate OF $1,000, 900 tons per
annum, the fields would last 1913 years !;
but that production in single year will
not be reached in q hundred years. and
probably never. If the consumption in
creases to even so, 600, 900 per annum at
the end of hundred years, considering
the limited area supplied and the COM
petition with bituminous coal for max
ing steam, it will be marvellous growth.
Besides, Prof. Sheaffer has not taken
into account all the thickness that may
ultimately be worked at profit, and the
allowance for waste is based on passed
experience rather than on the possibili-
ties of more economical and careful
mining. 1t, therefore, seems reasonable
to expect that the demand for anthracite
coal will not exhaust the deposit in the
area, limited as it is, under 400 or 500
years. So far as this generation is con-
cerned, the deposit is as though it were
inexhaustible. The area is, however, SO
small that it can be owned by a few per-
sons, and coal lands can, therefore, east
ly be given speculative value. This
has already been discovered by the spec
ulator to the great injury of the coal
business, as viii be seen hereafter. 1t
may be of interest to note in this con-
nection that the area Of coal lands in
England is stated at II, 900 square miles,
or more than twenty times as much
as the area of Pennsylvania anthracite.
The entire coal area Of the United States
is estimated at 1872, 900 square miles,
which is an underestimate probably,
since vast areas of good coal are newly
discovered west of the Mississippi, in
Guiding, as it is fairly determined, q
large. tract of true anthracite in Colorado.
There is also deposit of anthracite in
Rhode Island and part of Massschu-
sets which has been worked and is now
to some extent. But it is, so far as
known, of inferior quality for most uses.
It is quite clear that the enormous de-
posits of bituminous coal in the United
States must limit and restrict the area
where anthracite can be the principal
fuel used, and must also contine anthra-
cite speedily to use for a few purposes
for which its character and quality make
the use unavoidable and very desirable.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13
American Manufacturing Progress.

The following is from a recent letter
to the London Times:
81 still hold that, although at present
the cost of production in America is
greater than with us, yet this is only a
temporary difficulty. Manufacturers
have proved that they can produce the
article required by the market, and they
are now bending all their efforts to the
reduction of cost. / can specify a class
of English goods which have latterly
been wholly superseded in the United
States market by goods of native, or, rs
they have it, of domestic" manufact-
urc, and to the excellence of which /
have had to bear unwilling testimony.
could mention another class which is
evidently doomed to the same fate, as
they can be produced on the other side
of the water at reduction of 30 per
cent. as compared with twelve months
ago, and are now fractionally shove
English rates. The period of inflated
prices, enormous profits, and, as q con-
sequence Of these, extravagant wages, is
passing away. The last item has hitherto
been the great difficulty with manufact-
urers. Once let wages fall to the Euro
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13
IMMIGRATION STATISTICS.

The Number and Nativity of the Immi-
grants who Arrived During the Year.
The total number of immigrants who
arrived in the United States during the
year ending June 80, 1876, was 169, 1856.
of whom Ill, 1856 were males and so, 200
females. OF this number 27,875 were
under 10 years of age, 12l ,734 were Is
and under 40 years, and 20,377 were 40
years OF age and upward. The arrivals
at the port of New York were 87,623;
Huron, Mich, 81 1884; San Francisco,
"a, $50; Boston, 9,711; Philadelphia,
1872; and Baltimore, 5,093. The princi-
pal countries of the immigrants were as
follows: England, 24,373; Ireland, 49,
575; Scotland, 4,582; Wales, 324; Isle of
Man, etc., II; Germany, 1887; Aus
tria, 5,646; Hungary, $50; Sweden,
5,6O3; Norway, 5,173; Denmark, 1,547;
Netherlands, 855; Belgium, SIS; Swift
erland, 1,549; France, 5000; Italy,
2 $40; Russia, 4, 764; Poland, 925; China,
%, 781 (of whom 260 were females); Que
bee and Ontario, 1874; Nova Scotia,
1852; New Brunswick. 1,421; Prince
Edwards Island, 800; Newfoundland,
90; Vancouver's Island, 1853; Mexico,
631; Cuba, 7O3; Bahamas, s23; Azores,
SOC; Australia, 1905. The immigrants
having professional occupations num-
bered 2, 400; skilled occupations, "a, 200;
miscellaneous occupations, 72,275; not
stated and without occupations (mainly
women and children), Till. The fol
lowing table shows the immigration into
the United States during the last five
EoooI -,aaro
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13

The CHICAGO LEDGER is said to have
spent $50, 900 in advertising the past two
years, and, by the looks of the newspa.
pers throughout the United States, we
should say it would take as much to &c
round this year. And to cap the climax
the proprietors have announced their pa.
per at 81 90 year. How it is done is q
mystery, unless they have more than "a
barrel of money" to give away. We be-
lieve, however, it is the theory of the
publishers that all they ask of the reader
is to pay for the white paper and post
age ; for their labor, when the paper
reaches 100 600 or more circulation, their
advertising will pay the profit. While
they are building up the paper they do
not solicit advertising, and hence the
readers get great paper for s1.0O that
is worth $500. As the publishers have
the money, no doubt the will succeed.
Address The LEDGER, Chicago, Ill, in
closing S1.OO for subscription and 10
cents for postage. Chicago Times.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13
ImpIacable Enemies.

The Mortified bank robbers, who
were captured by the brave farmers of
I Minnesota, are not at heart so penitent
and pious as they outwardly seem. They
talk very sadly and regretfully, says a
contemporary. They are good-looking
and they have receptions and soirees
which women and maidens attend, and
talk and weep with them, when they
"cannot keep back their tears" think
ing of their widowed mother aud their
dead sister" Indeed, there seems some
danger of their escaping through the
connivance of the sentimental women
who are making heroes of them. The
kind of persons they are, and the ten
derness they feel to ward other members
of their race, is il. us trated by the threats
they or their associates are sending to
the people of Northfeld, who frustrated
their assault upon the bank of that place.
The following is specimen sent from
st. Paul
You will have a big fire noon Three men
have got to fall fer every man Of our company
that vss killed at your place We have not
done it'll on yet
Another is a message sent the gentle
man in Nortbfield who shot the first
AODOcI uONn ilNt IcltuScu tllc Dduk duu
the town from the grasp of the ruffians
see by the Pioneer Press that you are the
man who killed our comrade. You are a
doomed man from this hour. dagger or bull
let Will find your heart. We do not care damn
for detectives. 1t is not convenient now, but
you cannot escape. They are hunting us in
the bushes now, but We are taking our meals in
Minneapolis. Cole YOUNGER Il Co.
They are cunning dogs, and their re-
quests for the "prayers" of "good peo-
pie" and their loving fondness for that
"dead sister" and widowed mother"
are the desperate stratagems of rascals
caught at last.
There are two or three classes of
criminals to whom civilized communities
owe nothing, and who can be trusted
scarcely with the enjoyment Of life, to
say nothing of liberty. Professional
burglars or maurauders, bank robbers,
train robbers, to whom a life of adven- i
ture and danger is as fascinating as
gambling, aud railway train wreckers,
have no claims to freedom which their
fellow-citizens are bound to respect.
The indulgence of this form of lawless-
ness and predatory instinct should for
felt at once and completely man 8 right
to live among his fellows. Imprison-
ment for life is the least adequate So
curity which the community can obtain
against such enemies of the human race,
and to this security society is entitled.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13
Legal Chances Of the NOrthfield Rob.
.n. berS.

The general opinion of the lawyers
seems to be that the three Missouri MUIR
derers cannot be hung under the laws of
Minnesota. In the first place, if they
plead guilty, the extent of their punish
ment is merely imprisonment for life,
which means that they will break out OF
the penitentiary as soon rs they feel
like it, and that will be when they get
well enough acquainted with the sur
roundings to accomplish their purpose,
and when vigilance has been for a
moment relaxed. In the second place,
as soon as the excitement dies out, these
sanguinary villains can stand their trial
on a plea of not guilty, and with the
money which their confederates will
place at their disposal they can carry
their case up TO the courts, and perhaps
eventually escape, in spite of verdicts
of juries or sentences of death. The
robbers seem to have us foul in this legal
controversy. So. Paul Minn.) Pioneer
Press
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13
The Minnesota Robbers.

The Mortified bank robbers are now
confined in the Jail at Faribault, Mimi,
and are the object of much curiosity
from people living near the place, nearly
5000 persons visiting the Jail one day
last week. All will recover from their
wounds. They state that they lost nearly
all their money in gambling house at
MINNEAPOLIS, and thereupon determined
to rob the bank they attacked. A COM
pany of rifemen has been formed to
prevent rescue or attempt to escape by
the robbers. Newspapers of the State
are lamenting that its laws permit MUIR
derers to plead guilty and thereby es-
cape the death penalty, although suffer.
ing life imprisonment, and suggest that
the Judge hearing the case should refuse
to accept the plea.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13

The man or woman who has not heard
of Merchants Gargling Oil is poorly
posted indeed. Perhaps no article ever
manufactured for the cure of man and
beast has done mere good, or gained a
wider celebrity than this. 1t is sold
the world over, and wherever it is used
there is but one opinion in regard to it,
and that is the highest man can bestow.
For diseases in cattle and horses it is in
valuable. 1t is liniment that does up
its work speedily and effectually, and
leaves limb and body sound and healthy.
Whole columns might be written in its
praise, without exhausting its merits.
It is manufactured at Lockport, N. Y,
and is sold by all druggists. POUCH
kecpsie an y Sunday Courier. ...
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13
Education in Japan.

The present Mikedo Of Japan seems
to be the right sort of Mikado to
have. Within the last eight years there
have been organized on the educational
system of the United States over 300
schools. He established his sovereign
ty when but II years of age, and is now
about "a, He gives his personal atten.
ton TO agriculture, trade, the social
condition of his subjects, and, above
all, to the Advancement OF education,
wdich is compulsory throughout his
dominion.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13
OCrOIsER.

4 LLAL U0 X III
"a. mellow, tnellOw autumn days,
OF crimson leaves and azure haze
The sluinb'rins lakes and wAndiring rills
Each mirror back the purpiing hills;
The purplipg hills where far and DIM,
Lake golden clouds the forests swim.
Thus lies October in the arms
OF Autumn's fascinating charms,
And gives up all II e'er receives
A golden wreath of fading leaves.
Leaves OF scarlet and golden brown
In mournful eddies hutter down.
We hear throughout each sleepy morn
The rustic Of the ripening corn;
The ripening wealth OF labor's boon
Grows richer meath the harvest moon.
Oh, happy moon thy lonely way
Shines far with starlets' sllv'ry ray.
The last full eheaf ia gathered in;
Sowsounds the hail With merry din;
While hearty laugh ut harvest tale
Keeps chorus with the sounding fail;
Betwixt the sound of laugh aud fail
The plaintive whistle OF the quail.
The resting thresher's ear receives,
FROM Tar among the fallen leaves,
A lonely note-it swells and dies,
AZ sinks the sun in hazy sSies.
Soft azure skies, thy trailing clouds
soon wrap the dying year III shrouds.
VI
oh. golden-brown October days
Ny senses, lullet In dreamy maze,
seem reyeling ON a long-lost shore,
which may be found, aye, never more.
oh, Neyer-more, sad Never-more,
No mottals haunt thy lonely shore.
J.W. c.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13

WE take pleasure in calling the espe-
cial attention OF our readers to the advertise
ment of the Robbins Family Washer in our
issue Of two weeks since.
This machine is gaining in popular estima-
ton every day. being especially adapted to the
wants of families. 1t Is simple. self-operating,
never gets out Of order, and will last lifetime
We advise all our readers who are in want OF
reallu good ,odshing machine, or who wish to
secure a good paying business. to send at once
for sample machine The price for sample il
only 50. For full description, terms to agents,
testimonials. etc., apply to the manufacturers,
the Geo. ID. Bissell Co., Naugatuck Conn.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13
National Life Insurance Co. of u. s. OF a.

National Life Insurance Co. OF u. ). OF A.
This Company is one of the strongest and
most prosperous of our life institutions. IL
has the largest amount OF assets and the largest
amount of insurance of any company OF its age;
was organized in 1868 by practical insurance
men, and it's insurance business is now under
the same management. II has a surplus OF
a. 49, esq., ratio of assets to liabilities are l53
per cent. Ithas the largest capital OF any COM
pany in the country. 1t has paid for Losses,
81, 1914, 1888 20. It's assets sre strongly secured,
largely by approved bonds and mortgages. Its
premiums are remarkably low, and its policy
contracts staple and definite. 1t is strong
stock company, and offers inducements superior
to many companies, and equal to those OF any.
Agents wanted in every town in the Northern
States. For agencies or policies, apply at
Chicago Office 157 LaSalle street.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13

AN interesting item: A parlor set,
seven pieces, veneered frames. only 800. The
best en-wire mattress $3.50 and genuine 40.
pound curled hair mattresses 81, now offered
by Colby & Wirts 217 and 90 State-st., Chicago.
Their stock of furniture excels any establish
ment in the Northwest, and these quotations
indicate the low prices Of all their goods. No
charge for packing. Arrangements are made
for shipping with every railroad ut half rates.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13

pean level, which they are rapidly APP
preaching, and We shall find that the
ample labor saving appliances and the
greater intelligence OF the work people
will bring us face TO face with COM
petition such as we have never yet had
To meet"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13

PnPLEs on the face, rough skin,
cllapped hands saltrheum and all cutaneous
affections cured the skin made soft and
smooth, by the use Of Juniper Tar Soap. That
made by Caswel, Hazard & Co., New York, is
the only kind that can be relied on, as there
are many limitations, made from common tar,
which are worthless.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13

The very highest award that the Gen.
tenpial Commission can confer upon any
exhibitor, Diploma of Honor and
Medal of Merit, has been granted to 1.
L. Cragin g. Co., Philadelphia, for the
celebrated Dobbins' Electric Soap.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13

A BELorT man became acquainted
with young woman on railway train
the other day, and at the end OF their
trip they went to clergyman and were
married.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13

MANY valuable horses die from the
effects OF collie. The best thing to do in case
of this kind is to pour bottle of Johason's
AnOdyne Lininlent into long necked junk bot
tie, add half pint OF plolasses and water, then
pour the whole down the horses throat. In
ten minutes the horse WI begin to eat.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13

THE Ohio State Fair awarded the first
premium for pianos to the Ohio Valley Piano
Company. Of Ripley. They are manufacturers
of the celebrated Valley Gem, the most popu-
lar instrument now sold in the West.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13

BURNETT's FLAvoRING EXTRACTS are
used and Endorsed by the best hotels, confec-
TONERS groce.s, and the first families in the
country.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13

PARSONS Purgative Pills will greatly
relieve, if not entirely cure, dyspepsia when
everything else fails. They have been tried in
some desperate cases, and have given more
relief than any other medicine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-13

EDWARD BURNHAM, soldier of the
WIZ of 1912, residing in Baltimore
county, Nd, has reached his 99tb year.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-09-23
President Grant in History.

And Of that problem, Ulysses S. Grant,
what will history make 1t will have to
notice that his training was for military
rather than civil affairs that his ideas Of
government, by singular anachronisln,
were almost as personal" as those Of
Queen Elizabeth, and that his oponly.ex.
pressed dislike Of "bluc blood led hila to
seek for his associates those whose blood.
whatever lis color, is not good sort.
But when history has disposed Of all these
dctails,it will also have to say that Grant,
with as clear q sight as any man Of his
time, grasped the vital work of his time
Bred democrat, educated soldier, he
seized hold of the meaning of The rcvolu.
tion-equal civil rights for all-and ad.
hercd to it through good and evil report,
slander, betrayal of selected instruments,
and oil discouragcmcnts, with tho same
tenacity that drew Tie lines and held
them at Petersburg. Certainly, with no
prejudice in favor Of the negro, he has
stood by him assiauachly as ever Charles
Sumner did. He has never wavcrcd, not
for moment, in securing him the rights
given by the late amendments. lie has
fought this battle just as faithfully, with
as little sign of surronde or let up as he
fought the rebellion. Not man in the
party has been moro faithful to the idea
that formed the party than Gen. Grant.
Whoever has waycrcd, he has not. The
success OF the great political revolution,
the success of reconstruction. depend
upon the securing of free civil rights in
all the. states. In some of the states
there never was, slice slavery became q
power, any freedom of civil rights, neither
for white mol black. by the omancipa.
ton, the ignorant, defencelc5s freedmen
became the wards of the nation. Grant
has never deserted them. History will
have to say Of him, with all his faults
that he apprchendcd the work of his
epoch and was faithful to it.-Hqf ford
CONrlUf
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-09-23
Take Care of the Children.

A corresr ondont Of the LauS of Life
in referring to an article publ she'd in the
Illustrated Christian Weekly on "Child
rcn's Blues" says that it brought to my
mind the many times dear little brother
u'ed to como to me, with face full O
sobcrnc IS and anxiety, saying "Jennie,
feel os 1t L had done something wrong
but I'm sure cant think what il is.
Most certainly it is ue that children
have their hours of sorrow and trouble
Happy arc thc7c who have careful moth
ers, who look into things and are in earn
est to bring up their children al .,ht
Happy are the children who carly carr
to know the Saviuor who loves them, anu
WHO v Ill as surely answer their prayer.
for help os those of the Oldest disciple
for whilo lie leads His sheep, docs HC
not tenderly carry the lambs in His bo
som?
Children frequently uhert the dispo.
sitlon 10 look on the dark side Of things
and they are frequently nervous, and
am inclined to think that this is very Of.
ten attributable to their food. Ifparonts
would only study the real happiness Of
children more, they would learn that GER.
tain nice bits, which arc given because
they 'Astc sweet, make q child's j'>posi.
ton anything but sweet and happy.
have in my mind n dear little fellow
with happy face, to whom the world
seems always place Of sunshine. lie
has his three meals of bread and baked
apples and milk. lie sleeps swcctly all
the night, and wakes sercnely-a Joy to
oil who know him.
A little neighbor generally has cookies
or candy every hour, be dimes on meat,
g'avies and all the goodies (?). His life
is an April life, sunshine whilo dovouring
the dainties, showers of tears, and, am
afraid, some very ominous looking clouds
at other times. His sleep is disturbed,
and his mother wishes THAT child would
sleep two hours longer"
l know from personal observations and
experience that older peoples dispositions
are affected by their food. How often
nave heard people say, "We had fresh
pork for dinner and | don't feel good for
one thing; my head aches and my iiom.
ach feels dreadfully." Little things that
would not ordinarily movo them, fret
such people, and they have the blues.
Why should not child's delicate stomach
rebel in like manner?
When shall We learn that "all scripi ure
is given by inspiration of God, and is
profitable for instruction in righteousness. "
and that not the least is the command,
whether therefore yo cat or drink, or
whatsoever yo do, do all to the glory of
God"