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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-06-10

Saws a New York correspondent:
Twelve members of the York Masonic
Lodge of this city organized last year a
society which they styled The Mortal
Twelve of York Its members are:
Frank j. Griffith, Assistant Superintend-
ent of the Delaware Lackawanna and
Western Railroad; William Scott.
Freight Agent of the New York and
New Haven Steamboat Company; Col.
J. b. Montgomery, Thomas Heating,
Harry Gurley, Edward Ganong, Robert
Wharton, Lewis w. Walton, Edwin A.
Quick, j. j. Shay, j. Hunt, and Fred
Kline The initiatory fee is So, and the
annual dues are 81. No other members
can be admitted, and no person not
member can attend any of the meetings.
There is to be a regular meeting OF
the society every year on the evening
of the second Wednesday of October, at
which dinner is to be served. On the
death of any member, according to the
bylaws, special meeting must be
called. and the sole object shall be to
discuss the virtues OF the deceased
member, be they many or. few. Should
they be few, then each virtue ls to DE
discussed so much the more thoroughly,
Sor his shortcomings are not to be men
toned. A rosewood case, divided into
twelve compartments, with cut glass
bottle in each compartment, containing
q quart of sherry, and on the outside the
owners name, has been deposited III the
vault of safe deposit company, to be
taken out only when some member OF
the society dies. On that occasion the
case is to be opened in the meeting, and
the wine in the bottle bearing the name
of the departed member is to be drank
by the others in silence. Then the
bottle is to be returned to the case, to-
gether with the date of the owners
death and other information concerning
him.
"On each succeeding similar occasion
all of the bottles, the full and the empty,
are to be set before the surviving men,
beers, and the contents of the one bear
ing the name of the member hast de-
ceased drunk in silence. 1t Is provided
in the by-laws that She last surviving
member, on the death of his solitary as
sociate, shoald discuss by himself the
virtues of tbs departed man, and drink
of the wine in the bottle bearing his
name, and he shall thereafter each sue
ceeding year, on the date set apart for
the annual meeting, have the box and
contents placed before him, and then
and there shalB partake OF the remaining
bottle or bottles as far as his Judgment
allows, or dictates, until the same shah,
if POSSIBLE, be disposed of.
"The twelfth man is enioined, before
his death, to becueathe the case, its con-
tents, O. copy of the society's bylaws,
and a synopsis of its history, to his heir,
or any other person as he may feel dis
posed, enjoining him to guard and
hand down the same to succeeding gen
erations
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-06-10

nearly double that of the United States.
UPoN an average four gallons of milk
produce sixteen ounces of butter. The
best butter is produced from cows fed in
rich natural meadows.
THE following is the production and
export of wheat for the four decennial
years mentioned:
Production. Export.
1880. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 100, AS, 944 7y2, 76'
is6u. .....................'n s,isa,Wt 4'lso,io 90
ioO... ''..'.'.......-...' GOV, iso,Nw $1,000
AS, $50 153.S 6o, 93i
"AMENDE honorable was punish
ment formerly inflicted in France on
great offenders. The offender was given
over to the common hAngman, his shirt
was torn off, q rope was placed around
his neck and q wax light In the hand.
He was conducted into the court and
compelled to ask pardon for his mis-
deeds.
THE following is list of the Treasur-
ers of the United States, with the dates
of their appointment and their terms OF
service:
Samuel Meredith . 17sslJohn Sloane. -. 1856
Thomas N. Tucker. 1901 Samuel Casey 1865
NJ Nourse lad. init i is ". Q. Price 1856,
John Campbell. ls3OIJoh O. New $50. 1875
VIM. Selden. 1870 James Gililan. 1877
THE phrase "dead as herring" may
be traced to the fact that the herring is
an extremely delicate fish, and whenev-
er it is taken ont of the water, even
though it seems to have no hurt, it gives
squeal and Immediately expires, and
though it be thrown Immediately back
into the water it never RECEIVERS.
HALcYoN days is the name given by
the ancients to the seven days which pre-
cede and the seven days which follow the
shortest days of the year. There is a
fable that, during this time, while the
kingfisha, or halcyon bird, is breeding.
there we're no storms at sea. Hence the
term "halcyon days" means peace,
calmness and tranquility.
THE origin of the slang expression,
"l'n cook your goose for you," is this
King Eric, of Sweden, coming with a
itants, in contemptuous defiance, hung
out goose for him to attack. But Eric
being in earnest, the citizens sent her
aids to ask what he wanted. "To cook
your goose for YOU" was the facetious
reply.
The greatest painters, in order, were
Raphael, Michael Angelo, Corregio,
Leonardo Ola Vinci, Titan, Guido, Ru-
bens, Rembrandt, Vandyke, Tenier, Mu-
rillo, Carracci, Claude, N. Poussin and
Carlo Dolce. The oldest known paint
ing il D Madonna and Child" done in
1856; name of author unknown. The
oldest known in England are portrait
of Chaucey, painted on panel In 1890,
and one of Henry w., in l405.
The leaning tower of Pisa is cylindli-
cal in form, 179 feet in height and so
feet in diameter, and is divided into
eight stories, each having an oHhside
gallery projecting seven feet. It was
begun in ll74 by Bonanus, of Pisa and
William, os Innspruck. The summst is
reached by $50 steps. The tower leans
about thirteen feet from the perpendieu-
lar. This was manifest before the tower
was completed, and was guarded against
by extra braces and an adaptation of the
stone in the highest portion. There are
seven bells ON the top, the largest Oh
whoh weighs 200 pounds, and are SO
placed as to- counteract by gravity the
learning of the tower.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-06-10

slept himself well again. When you
take to your bed get all the sleep you
can ont Of your bedstead, even although,
to quote Dick Swiveller's saying, you
have to pay for double-bedded room,
confessing that you have taken most
unreasonable amount Of sleep out OF
single bed. You will be banking a
whole store of recuperative energy. 1t
is safe to say of any man that If he
sleeps well he will do well.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-06-10
Hon. A. ii. stephens and the Negro.

hon. As H. DecPnoho anu suo NoSiVs
There are people who become honest
only when there is nothing more to
steal. That kind of forced virtue has
too many examples.
Mr.. Stephens has many stories to tell
of negroes, and one is of a famous cotton
and chicken depredator, who since the
war met the ex-Vice President in the
road.
"Well, Thomas" was the kindly salu-
tation, 81 was sorry to hear you had
been in trouble about MIRA Trips
chickens."
eyes, Mars Alec; but 1 done quit ali
dat now" said the negro, very peni-
tently.
How many did you take before you
stoppeda" asked Mr.. Stephens.
II TUX all she had, was tho perfectl.
innocent reply.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-06-10

I had never seen Tom 30 moved by q
book as he appeared to be bya volume he
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-06-10
BITS OF INFORMATION.

The national debt of Great Britain is
nearly double that Of the United States.
UPoN an average four gallons of milk
produce sixteen ounces of butter. The
best butter is produced from cows fed in
rich natural meadows.
THE following is the production and
export of wheat for the four decennial
years mentioned:
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-23
Cotton Seed Again.

Mr. Atkinson, the great American sta
tistician, regards cotton seed as one Of
the most valuable of all Southern pro-
auctions, and says that its treatment and
use constitute very vital department in
agriculture. He speaks of its waste as
having been in the past the waste of the
South. He we'll says that one hundred
and twenty thousand tons of cotton seed
meal and cake, annually shipped to Great
Britain, work a terrible exhaustion of
Southern soil. This meal, which is fed
very largely to English sheep, ought,
every pound of it, to be fed to sheep on
the cotton lands. In this manner the
soil would not only be maintained in its
fertility, but the crop of cotton might
be doubled and wool clip added almost
with cost.
Mr.. Atkinson sees the approach of the
period when planters will not need to
send their seed to the great oil mills. He
says:
"There are also many crude and some
perfected machines for hulling and pre-
pairing the seed, which may be used by
farmers and planters, but the small press,
by which the crude oil may be extracted
by farmers or planters, is still to be in
vented and brought into use. feel very
little doubt that the Cotton Exhibition
at Atlanta will bring into notice great
0f nam ipuonfiopc for tho fraot
ment Of seed, and | have great hopes
that adequate apparatus may be exhib-
tied, at moderate cost, by which men of
small capital can either, each for himself,
or by small combinations, hull the seed,
remove the crude oil and grind the cake,
thereby retaining on their farms all that
is valuable as food and as fertilizer"
Another matter of interest which has
some connection with cotton seed meal,
has engaged Mr.. AtkinsOn's attention,
and through him has already received
prominent place in the great exposition
programme. He says!
Another suggestion made by myself
has also been adopted. Ensilage pits are
to be constructed on the exhibition
grounds, coupled with large shed, un-
der which cattle, sheep, hogs. poultry
and mules may be fed during the term
of the exhibition upon ensilaged corn,
COW peas, and other succulent material,
mixed with cotton seed meal or other
nutritious food, as may be required. Dr.
Bailey has gone to Atlanta to supervise
the construction and filling of the pits.
In view of the fact that it now costs
three times as much to feed mule as it
does a field hand in many parts of the
South, the importance of this undertaking
cannot be moderated. If cattle, mules
and hogs can be carried on succulent
food through the long, hot. and some
what dry season which makes the great
cotton crop, the capacity of the South
to sustain large and prosperous popu-
lation will be vastly increased"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-23

Probably very few persons have for
gotten the bribery Investigation at AL
bany, wherein Assemblyman Bradley
accused State Senator Sessions of en-
deavoring to purchase his (Bradley's)
vote with $4,000. The Syracuse Courier
OemocraD says: "The primaries held
in the Senatorial district of Senator Lo'
Sessions indicate that that representative
and immaculate Republican statesman
has got the bulge on his Republican
constituents, and will be renominated
for the Senate by larger majority than
ever before. The sensitive Senator is
vigorously at work, and it seems sue
cessfully, In persuading his people that
the raid made upon him was a con.
spiracy;' that the charges against him
were manufactured out of whole
cloth, and that, in fine, there
was absolutely nothing in them.
The strangest part of the most
strange condition of affairs in Sessions
territory lies in the fact that Assembly
man Bradley has apparently made up
with Mr.. Sessions, and it is said that the
two Legislators have actually been seen
in friendly conversation, making up
their little disagreement over a couple of
cups of beer. 1t is not unreasonable to
expect, therefore, that Mr.. Bradley will
himself take the stump for Mr.. Sessions
when the latter is renominated, as re-
nominated he will be, and will extol the
virtues of the sanity Senator in the
most extravagsnt fashion. AS yet we
have failed to notice that any of the
highly moral journals which represent
Mr.. Sessions highly moral party have
raised their voices in protest against his
return to the Senate"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-23
The Difference Between Disability
and Inability.

In the current discussions on the topic
of Presidential inability nobody, says
the Philadelphia Record. seems to have
yet called attention to the fact that the
paragraph of the Constitution bearing
upon the subject employs the word "disa-
bility" as well as the word Inability,
the latter being used twice and the
former once They were probably in
tended to mean precisely the same thing,
and the change in the expression used is
due to the circumstance that the last
clause of the paragraph, in which
disability" appears, was substituted as
an amendment to the origi-
nal draft. Worcester makes disa-
bilitY a synonym of inability and
defines it as "want of power or ability,
inability, incompetence. He gives as a
secondary meaning ''incapacitY to do a
legal act" Bowler defines disability
as 'the want of legal capacity" but this
is a technical definition. One of the
photographers draws the line of distinc
ton between the two words thus: Ina
bility is the natural want of ability or
power, and lies in the nature of the
thing, and is irremediable; disability is
the want of qualification, and lies in the
circumstances, and may sometimes be
removed. Inability to purchase an
estate; disability to inherit it or to hold
it. A person who is insane or in his
homage labors under a legal disability to
make contracts"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-23

Our Consul at Lyons, France, recon-
mends that Congress be urged to revise
the present tariff, and to frame a new
system of revenue, by which there shall
be two tariffs concurrently-one applica-
bic to such nations as will execute com
mercial treaties with us, and the other to
those which refuse. In support of his
recommendation he enumerates mum
Der of articles in which a large trade
could be developed between this country
and France. Cotton yarns spun in
America are the best in the world, and
therefore the best adapted to weaving
with silk; once admitted, they would
capture the French market, and would
grow to be worth trade of $25, 600, 900
year. Outside of its great cities and
important towns, France still depends
upon candles for artificial light; with
the barrier of the tariff once re-
moved. petroleum would enter as
large and growing item of trade,
and with it the unequalled American
lamps. French hardware is largely
hand-fOrged, and is still primitive and
clumsy; our axes, hatchets, hammers,
and tools in general, would sweep the
market if once introduced. Except per
hsps Italy, France is the worst provided
of al countries with apparatus for cook
ing and heatingi hence. there is market
for stoves, in which this country leads
the world for variety and excellence.
Spades, plOws, rakes, hoes, and agricul-
tural tools generally, are wretchedly
made in France, and American makes
would be seized with svidity, but manu-
features of wood, iron and steel are pro.
hibited under the present tariff. So with
boots aud shoes, sheet and tube brass and
goods made therefrom, furniture and
household goods. cutlery, nails, paints,
writing paper, carriages, textiles, ma
chlnery, and large variety of miscel-
Ianeous goods. But France will not open
her doors to American manufactures
unless allowed equal privileges with her
products in our markets.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-23
Successful Cotton Culture in Kansas.

OuCOCSoAuA OObJOH OuAbuAO III AuHSda'
In Montgomery county, Kansas, 200
acres of cotton are this year planted.
Last year about 100 acres were planted
it succeeded so well that this year its
acreage is largely increased. Captain
D. McTaggart, an old cotton raiser, and
one who first introduced it into Mont
gomery county, has seventy acres in one
field. He thinks the soil is better for
cotton raising than in Texas. His pres
ent crop is looking finely, and boiling
out beautifully. 1t has every indication
of producing yield of bale to the acre,
which is more profitable crop than corn.
1t ripens in Kansas earlier than in the
South. and in quality closely resembles
sea island Many farmers who are wit
Messing the success of this crop are also
preparing to devote a great portion of
their own lands to cotton culture next
season, and feel assured of making it
profitable. Capt. McTaggart has erected
a substantial gin at Liberty, and there is
another within four miles of it. Several
thousand acres will doubtless be put in
cotton next year. Some of the exodust-
ers (negroes) are working in the cotton
fields. just tie same as in the far off
South.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-23

The scramble Of the anti stalwart or
cans to obtain. the favor of the Vice
President, in view of his possible aces
sion to the Presidency, is already in
progress. The New York Tribune,
which was one of his most bitter asssil-
ants during the Albany fight, and then
spoke Of his course as an ''inexeusable
indiscretion, gross lapse of dignity.
an improperly" an "indecOrOus exhi-
bitiOn," etc, etc, is now able to see
''what palliation for that fault may lie in
the claims of faction and of friendship, u
and assure its readers that there is NO
occasion for despair, or for panic, if in
the providence of God our beloved and
trusted ruler should be taken from US,
and General Arthur should succeed to
his place"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-23
.bout civil service reform.

The Galveston Aeies boasts of Texas
iron and declares that iron viii soon
become one Of the most promising in
dustries Of the ''LOne Star State" Ore
has been found in Cherokee, Marion.
REsk, Smith, Upshur and other cOun
ties and. in fact, is abundant through
out the State. There is as yet only one
furnace in Texas-at Jefferson. Il has
recently been turning out iron for the
Marshall Car and Foundry Company,
which declares it to be equal to the best
on the continent. The Texas Pacific is
now using car wheels made Of this iron,
which the master machinist OF the com
pany declares is splendid. close grained,
smooth, strong, and possessing the finest
chilling qualities. The only drawback
to the development of the iron of Texas
has been the lack of accessible eosl. As
soon as coal can be found-and there is
every reason to believe that it can be
found all over the State-buried perhaps
a little deep-Texas will take high
place in the rank Of iron producing
States.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-23

Marvin. the smOOth-tOngued rascal
who last month deludei a respectable
Young lady of Richmond into marrying
him. and at the same time obtained eight
hundred dollars from the First National
Bank of that city on forged check,
afterwards deserving his victim in New
York, has been arrested at Lynn, Mass.
A rcquisition from the Governor of Vir-
GINA for the scamp was sent 10 Massa-
chusetts, and the indications are that he
VIII soon be arraigned before the Rich
mond courts for trial. The apprehen-
sion Of this man win cause a very gen
eral feeling of qualification, which will
be infinitely increased by news of his
confinement in a penitentiary at hard
labor. He is said to have married ten
women prior to this case. 1t appears
that he has made marriage a means of
aiding him to obtain money upon forged
checks. AS his crimes are not capital
ones in the eye Of the law, he viii not
get his full deserts. Such a reptile
would b. q good subject for Judge
Lyrch.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-23

Alfrel E. Lee, who was Hayes private
secretary during the campaign of 1876,
and Who was, as a reward for acting as
Intermediary between Hayes and the
"Order of the American Union, given
the post of Consul at Frankfort. has been
removed 10 make room for some ''wOrk-
er" in last years campaign. The Cincin-
natl Gazette rep is indignant over the
removal, and says: FRS efficient and
useful officer was superseded without
cause and without notice. merely. as we
are bound to believe, to make room for
another. If the talk about civil service
reform is not all bOsh, such bluDder as
that in the case of Mr.. Lee should not
be repeated. Il is wonderful that a
Republican paper exists which does not
know the hypocrisy Of Republican talk
about civil service reform"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-23
One of the most gigantic schemes Of

One of the most gigantic schemes of
its kind is that which proposes to direct
the current of the St Lawrence river,
opposite Montreal, into the channel be-
tween st. Helen's Island and the south
ern shore-this to be accomplished by
running a dam of large proportions from
Point st. Charles, in the western part of
the city, to St. Helen's Island This dam
would be 1900 feet long and 900 feet
broad, and would give head of twenty
feet for mill elevators and factories. AS
contemplated, this project would cost
some $4,000 and would realize the
following advantages The dam could
be utilized, either as railway or carriage
road, or both, thus obviating the necessi-
ty of a tunnel, and the harbor would be
made a still water one, where vessels
might winter.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-23

The Nicaraguan canal scheme has been
revived at Washington, and an effort
will be made this fall to secure the legis-
latiOn from Congress necessary to start
work on the canal 4 prerequisite TO
this will be the thorough organization OF
the company and a satisfactory financial
showing. The matter is being worked
up now, and in October the scheme Will
be brought to the attention Of the CAPT
talists and investors in New York aud
subscription books opened there. Grant,
it is said, is still heartily in favor Of tie
enterprise, and will do ali in his power
to make it a success.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-23

Senator Harrison rep. Ind.) is very
much alarmed over the possibility that
the Democrats may, at some time in the
near future come to control the Federal
patronage. "'Cause why?" He has a
son. Superintendent of the United States
Mint at Helena, Ark; brother, Special
Agent of the Treasury Department; a
brother-in-law. Registry Clerk in the
Post Office, and a sister-in-law in clerk
ship in the Treasury Department 1t is
wonderful the amount of patriotic hOr-
Tor of Democratic supremacy that is
evolved from such circumstances by such
q person.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-23

The death rate per 1000 in New Or
leans for the i've weeks ending July 2
was. says the Democrat, more favorable
than that of nearly any other American
CITY. being only 1915. The rate in In
dianapOlis was 16, in Louisville 16-l,
Memphis ia. St. Louis III, Atlanta
1877, Mobile 1913, Charleston 81, Calves
ton %. 4. and so on.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-23

The African race is dying out much
more rapidly in the North than in the
South. Here are a few figures from the
last report of the National Board of
Health: Death rate of negroes in Bur
lington, Vt. 449 per 1000; New York,
O.: Chelsea, Mass, 90; Richmond, Ind,
1874 There is no Southern city where
the death rate among the negroes is as
high as this. the average rate being about
40 per ]. 900.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-23
None of the Lafayettes win be pres

None of the Lafayettes will be pres
ent at the Yorktown celebration, al
though the government has gone to con
siderable expense to prepare reception
for them. The only living person bear
ing the great name of Lafayette is M.
Edmond de Lafayette, grandson OF
Washington's favOrite General, who
regrets" his inability to visit this coun-
try because the celebration occurs dur
ing the very heat of the French electoral
canvass, wherein he is candidate for
reelection to the Assembly.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-23

World calls attention to the hith-
erto overlooked fact that ''the members
of the Cabinet cannot. under the tenure
of Office act Of 1867, be removed, either
by President Garfield or by President
Garfield's successor, without the consent
Of the Senate" II is hardly probable,
however, that, in the event of the Presi-
dents death, the Senate would deny his
successor the privilege of organizing his
own administration.