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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-12-04

The cotton and cotton manufactures included
in this statement valued at sos, 300 AIS, the
breadstuffs at sl62,544, 715, the provisions at
STA, 416547, and the mineral oils at SAL 1O3,243.
During the same period the imports were
as follows: Merchandise, 1861, 697 1893; gold,
and silver, $J7,426,262; total, sos, 123,9 $50.
More than 63 per cent. Of the entire value OF
imported merchandise consisted OF the follow
ing articles: Sugar and molasses, SlO3, S4, 24;
wool and wooden manufactures, 53,5i2,292; silks
and Its manufactures S49,949 1884, coffee, s49,6 S6-
7O5: iron and steel and manufactures thereof,
S4l, ga, 500; chemicals, S3S,464965: tax, hemp,
jute and Ike substances and manufactures
thereof, S33, 463 39s cotton and manufactures $50
454, 476: hides and skins other than fur skins,
$22, 3J0,9O6.
THE SILVER COINAGE.
/ concur with the Secretary OF the Treasury in
recommending the immediate suspension of the
coinage of silver dollars and the issue of silver
certificates. This Is a matter to which in former
communications have more than once invoked
the attention of the national Legislature. IL APP
pears that annually for the past six years there
have been coined, in compliance with the re-
quirements of the act of February IL,
1873, more than twenty-seven million silver
dollars. The number now outstanding
is reported by the Secretary TO be nearly one
hundred and eighty-hve millions, whereof but
little more than forty millions. or less than AZ
per cent, are inactual circulation. The mere ex-
istence OF this fact seems TO me to furnish OF
itself a cOgent argument for the repeal OF the
statute which has made such fact possible. but
there are other and graver considerations that
tend i'm the same direction The Secretary
avows his conviction that unless this coinage
suspended, silver IL likely at no distant
day 20 become our sole metallic
standard. The commercial distui bance
and the impairment OF national credit that
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-17
A Timbuctoo Slave on Sale.

This girl was brought in by the Mo-
rocco gate, on the road from the City Of
Morocco. She was comely of face and
figure, with large, dreamy, lovely eyes,
and streaming, long, black hair. Her
color was Of the olivian type, which
showed the red blood coursing in the
veins. She was Of medium hight, and
aged about l6 years. -Four old Arab
dealers" garbed in all the glitter and
sinsel of the Orient, guarded this girl
as if she were an Amazon of strength
and prowess. One old Arab in a loud
voice cried out her merits and nation
allty as the group passed on to the cen
ter of the town. Hating, the whole
party were suddenly surrounded by in
tending buyers, both Christian and Pa
gan. They came up to the crouching
girl, pulled her arms to and fro, OPEN
ed her mouth and looked at her teeth,
made her stand erect and then haggled
over the price. "She worth $780," say
the Arab dealers in one simultaneous
cry. "but will let her go for 800 if you
take her now" Our dragoman trans
lates and tells how she will go to Egypt
and fetch 5000 at o first bid From a
Morocco letter.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-17
A California View of Alaska.

Alaska is an anomaloust erritory. 1t has a
fnn set of United States officers, including the
governor, a district Judge, a district attorney,
a marshal, y clerk of the court, and four COM
missioners stationed at different points. They
have not mach to do, bnt to give some of them
a little additional employment, the clerk
of the court is e~x-oficlo territorial secretary
and treasurer, and the marshal OK -ofticie sur
veyor-genernl There is no danger 81 their
exerting themselves in the discharge of their
multifarious duties to the injury Of their
health. Alaska produces a bracing atmosphere
that is conducive to longevity. The white
population does not exceed two thousand in
number, ard the annual increase to it ID mere
" nominal. Visiting adventurers from San
Francisco are of course, netincluded. Bust
ness is dull; the officials smoke their pipes in
undisturbedt tranquility; and the c~onrts-thatis
the commissioners, otherwise the j Justices Of the
Peace-langtnsh in ennui ~foriaell of occasional
excitement in the shape of some petty cause of
litigation. A Legislature is Of no earthly re-
quirement in Alaska, as avetred by the half
dozen or 80 ,of the Government officials, the
Alaska Fur Company being fully competent to
transact its business without the importinent
Interference of such. The postmaster ut Sitka
appears to 10 the most important parsonage in
that pleasant region. He doea not receive much
pay for his labors, such as they are; bat he
manages tcsliye rs well assthe best, of them
with commissions Of a higher grade. ior. Kim
kead was postmaster himself at Sitka in 1867 at
u saiaIy vi Si@a year. Nhetherf OH not he
saved the whole, or even 50 per cent, of II, is q
matter which concerns only himself. Rnt he
is now the governor of the Territory. He has
jumped with a single leap from the postmaster
ship to the governorship Can he or amy other
OF Alaska's national officials higher ascend?
They have the audacious examples and the de-
cisive success of Oregon and Nevada before
them, and two United Stains Senatnrships are
worth struggling for. Still a white population
of only s2,uOO is too slim abasis upon which to
found so great a structure.-San. Francisco
Bulletin.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-17
The Oldest Church in America.

At the little village of Todousac, in the pro.
vince OF Quebec, where the Saguenay empties
into the ST. Lawrence, there is to-day the DID
est church on this continent, older even than
the old Spanish church at st, Augustine, Fla.
This church was built by the French iscoverel
Jacques Cartier for tho French colony hs had
founded 1t is only q small building, being
only about 20 feet square,, with q very low cell
irg, and was erected in 1917, twenty-five years
after the discovery of the continent. It con-
tains q very remarkable picture of the Virgin
Mary, painted more than 800 years ago by one
of the Jesuit fathers at the mission, to which
certain miraculous properties are ascribed by
pious danes of the province mako
pilgrlmages there. Tadousac is also .
great summer resort for the rank and
fashion of Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa md To-
ronto. The objects of interest in the church
for, besides the picture, there are some an.
Gent y%estinents and q very curiously embrold.
cred altar-cloth-are freely exhibited TO stran-
jesuit priest, Father Pecon, who has them in
charge. A couple of weeks ago . party OF
Americana and Canadians were visiting the
church. Among the latter were Lieut. Gov.
Robataille, with his family, and Sir Hector
Longevin, the Canadian minister Of public
works, with his lovely daughter, Miss Alice.
In passing through the altar rails, the young
lady made . misstep and would have fallen to
the floor u the priest had not caught her in
his arms. "0h, thank you SO much . said the
young lady as soon as she had recovered from
her agitation. ttYou have saved me from
what might might have been a very bad fall. n
aDo not thank me" = said the priest, drawing
aside the curtain that covered the picture Of
the virgin, your preserver is there
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-17
The Preacher and the Buttons.

An evangelist from the far East made a tour
of Texas recently for the purpose of saving
some Of the desperate denizens Of the Lone
Star State. He opened his first meeting in
what is known in the State as a slough town"
About thirty hard-looking male citizens CON-
lprised the audience. After the good man had
discoursed . little and sung several revival
hymns, he requested that u collection be taken
up to carry him further into the State. A tall
and fferce-looking Texan, armed to the nape of
his neck, passed his sombrero around, with tho
significant remark:
sGive literally, boys; you've seen the show,
and we amt the men to beat any bowman. +"
The result was that every man contributed
something, and when the hat was passed to tho
evangelist he examined the contents and then
remarked:
u find in this hat s4.15 and two o-rercoat
buttons"
THAT amt a sauar' deal, I" yelled the fierce.
looking man who had taken up the collection,
az he mounted the chair. seThe man who put
them buttons in the hat will redsem them at
fifty cents q piece, or there'u be the duce here
in the toss of . cent
t..Make no disturbance, my friend" pleaded
the evangelist, holding the supposed buttons
in full view: 81 will"
"Mister preacher man, you're clean of on
overcoat buttona. Them Amt no buttons;
than are chips, good for fifty cents worth OF
licxar in any gin mill this side of the Rio
Grande. They'll, also gt you cooked grub,
stranger, OF yer appetite needs it,
The explanation WAS satisfactory and the
meeting elnssd-Washington Ratchet.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-17
The Decline of Saratoga.

saratoga Is no longer the center OF headlong
i nasa1u ana frivolity of gambling in stocks and
carols, and the direction of national political
Sate.s Inc two most colossal and gorgeous
no. holeis OF the eontinent-the Grand Union. and
s sng oni ae states-aro yet great hives Of
,ast st;ii aha % ouslnfas, aad the seekers OF
porches and fairy Ike grounds, but even in the
nlBht OF me summer season none OF the hotels
IRE cloWded, and the old time .thu,n't Of Sara
soga mas persisted There are many of both
s senans VINO come to exhibit their manifold and
ma pytn evon costumes, but the predominant ole-
more quiet and unos.cntaiion. and fashion.
ssaTLavaganoe politics, gmmhling and all that,
n rIaiow m we train Of social and financial dis
Pf1dy,aa = peleepably on the decline ut Sarat0gA
correspondence Philadelphia Timea,
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-17
zaglish and French Girls.

EAAouAOA AottoH A1hu0ApulA oN08Tepu.
Al : rule. the young English girls that one
meets in society have q little to say ~ have
the French society damsels, though they an
by no means kept under such severe restraint
II has been suggested that the French girls So,
nothing because they are not permitted t
speak, willie the English girls say nothing be.
cause they havo nothing to say. They are very
sweet, and simple, and modest, but they lacl
sparkle and entrain most woefully. English
girls, too, are in general far less brilliantly ed.
ucated than are their American contemporaries
There is very little serious devotion to literature
or accomplishments, such as one sees in the
more literary circles of America, among the
younger members Of society. The amateur
singers, for instance, are too dire and dreadful
to be even named in the same breath with thu
usual run OF our girl musicians. In many in
stsnssA, voice, time, and tune are altogether
lacking, and yet the vocalist will piacidly
MARBLE straight through the innumerable
verses of . ballad or attack . difficult
italian aria with the serene conviction
that the whole affair is passing off admirably.
How is she to know that it is ~not?-there ia
nobody among her hearers to enlighten her.
On the other hand, they have much taste in
fancy work, and English homes are prettily
decorated with satin cushions, mantlepiece
draperles, etc. painted by hnnd in water col
ors or with fine and delicate embroideries, the
hnndiwork of tho ladies of the family. But as
to either intellectual or artistic employments,
they are far less addicted to them than our own
young girls. They ride well and are devoted
to iawn-tsnnis and other outdoor games, anG
in the main are a healthy, happy race, physi.
cally supurb, but lacking mental bri1ianc,
and charm. 1t is perhaps for this reason tina
the married state in England differs SO widely
from the same institution in America. Her,
it IL q monarchy, while with us it is a republic
b English husband is an antocrat, and ad,
mits of no discussion respecting his DEGREES
The household and its movement are regulat
ed to suit his whims and convictions, and his
wife and daughters must shape their action
accordingly. But there il plenty of warn
mutual love manifested between husbands ana
wives in England, and 80 matrimony here far
more resembles the same institution with "
than does the welded state in France.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-17
AFunny story By A sen.tor.

Bill Arp in the Atlantfc Constitution.
I heard Zeb Vance telling how he
captured the vote Of q backwoods set.
Element in North Carolina when he
first ran for Congress. He said he had
never been in that settlement and didn't
know the boys. He rode over the
mountains and found about sixty sover-
eigns ut q crossroads grocery and he
got down and hitched his horse and be-
gan to make their acquaintance and
crack his jokes around, and thought he
was getting along pretty well with them,
but he noticed an old man with shaggy
eyebrows and big brass spectacIes
sitting on a chunk and marking in
the sand with q stick. The old man
didn't 9 to pay and attention to
Vance, and after q while Vance con-
cluded that the old man was bellwether
of the flock and that it was necessary
to capture him, so he sided up close to
him and the old man got up and shook
himself and leaned forward on his
stick and said solemnly: "This is Mr..
Vance, / believer Eyes, SIR" said
Vance. "And you have come over
here to see my boys about their votes,
! believer" Eyes, sir" said Vance,
''that is my business"
well, sir" said the old man, "afore
you proceed with that business 1 would
like to ak you q few questions"
"Certainly, sir, certainly" said
Vance.
"What church mout you belong to?"
said the old man.
That was a neutrality-suspicious.
didn't belong to any church. He knew
that religion and meeting was a big
thing in the backwoods and controlled
their politics, but he didn't know what
their religion was, for North Carolina
was powerfully spotted. But he squared
himself for the responsibility and says
he! We'll now, my friend, 1 will tell
you about that, for it lisa fair question.
Of course it is. Well, you see my
grandfather came from Scotland, and
you know that over in Scotland every
body is Presbyterian" Here he paused
to note the effect, but saw no sign of
sympathy with his grandpa.
But nay grandmother came from
England and over there everybody be-
longs to the Episcopal church" He
paused again AID the old man marked
another mark in the sand and spit his
tobacco away off.
But my father was born in this coun
try in q Methodist settlement. azal so he
grew up q Methodist" Still no sign of
approval from the old man, and so
Vance took his last shot and said :: "But
my good old mother was o Baptist, and
it's my opinion that a man has got to
go under water to go to heaven"
The old man walked up and taking
him by the hand said "Well, you are
all right, MI. Vance" and then turning
to the crowd said: Boys, he'll do and
you may vote for him, I thought he
looked like a Baptist" And the old
man slowly drew a flask from his cont
tail and handed it to Vance to seal his
faith.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-17
An .Imbecile Chained. fen. Thirty
Years. "-

ArnaSa heartless case Of cruel.ranh inhum-
an treatment has just been brought to light in
Crawford county, Pa, by the Committee on
Lunacy of the State Board of Pebble Charities.
The Hictim, who is All imbecile. has been kept
chained in a little hut by his brother Tor over
thlrtytyears. The man who imprisoned his
brother FOR three decsdes 10 a farmer. Thirty
years ago his younger brotl,ey. became an i'm
becile, through disease. Though perfectly
harmless he disliked u, have. him about the
mouse, and so he built a little shanty about a
hundred feet away from the ~tarnnhouse. and
there' he kept his brother chained like a wild
BEAST When the csmmittec's- agent appeared
upon the farm he fsnnd the insane man lying
ON the floor of his Int naked and in desperate
STREETS. He was reclining on.a bale of straw,
which had done service AZ, a he'd for many
months: Within reach lay a big black pan.
f1li9d with bones and the refuse of the family,
table, on which tho prisoner WAS expected to,
make his MONDAY meal 1t is expected that
other revelations of the samek ind will be made,
aiter a vigorous examination of tho commits.
goners.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-17
English Manners at the, Table.

Cincinnati Commercial.
No guest ever passes a platoon serves
anything; the servant does all that.
Soup is taken from the side ofthe spoon,
noiselessly. Soup and fish are. not par
taken of the second time; if there is a
Joint, and the host carves, III Is proper
to ask for q second cut. Breadispassed
by the servant, and must lie broken,
never cut. It is considered gnuche to
be undecided whether one will take
clear soup OF thick soup; decide quick
". In refusing. wine simply say,
Thanks" or better, "Thank you"
The servants retire after handing the
desert, when the party at once,launches
into politics and go sip, with, now and
then (not often, alas a bit of gay badi-
mage, or '.chaf,,. until the lady of the
house gives he signal, and the
ladies retire TO the drawing room.
Toasts aud taking winer with people
have gone ous Of fashion, and the
charms Of the drawing room. have SO far
increased in The last decade. that it is
only the morn confirmed two-bottle
men who "liager long aeross the wal
nuts and the wine" the, jeunesse do
rec usually Preferring the cup Of tea
poured by seine white hand and sweet
ened with q look from dropping eyes,
which is to lie obtained from the draw
ing-room. The English woman APP
pears in semi-grand toilette, with open
pompadour eorsage and elbow sleeves,
if not In low-necked full dress attire,
while her daughters are universally
sleeveless and usually white, with low
neck corsaBe, even IN. the depths OF
winter. A. man is invariably in full
dress for dinner, even.if there Is no one
else present but his majesty himself.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-17
Tacubsya, Near the City ofnrexice

kA1b.r VOL uluHeT, III VIC mhEnattaIL
The attractions of Tacubaya and San
Angel are their pure andtlovely gardens
filed with magnificent trees. With d
little care, the trees and plants Of all
climes grow here side by side. The
houses have windows, With iron bars
and sashes with glass Opening in French
fashion, on the street, but the large
gardens are in the rear or on one side
of them. Afew gardens have large iron
gates. Those of the Mier, Barron and
Escandon families aue handsome, and
that of Mier, at the entrance to the
aCalle Real" is really monumental.
Pines, elms, poplar and willow. pear,
apple and peach trees grow in frsSernal
neighborhood with the palm, the banana
and the cactus. Fuchias, lilies, ~violets,
heliotropes, pansies, honeysuckles and
geraniums flower all the year round.
The geraniums grow to an immense
height Ct have walls covered with them
to the height of twelve and sixteen feet),
on espallers, like apricots and grapes.
A1Sh AOWC1o dGo VI LuduJ SdAIS1lSS duO
shades, from pure. white and light pink
to the richest crimson, purplea and lilac,
and some r varigated with these tints;
their shapes vary from the, 1rose" to
the cling feuilles." The. calla-lily
flowers ~exhuberantly in the shade of
the trees, above which the aromatic
eucalyptus rears its head far beyond
the pines, and then throws out i'm
mense branches. Roses, Of this kind
are now towering March 18), and the
apple, pear and peach trees are in
bloom. Fig trees grow beside them,
and yield delicious fruit in the autumn.
One can sit out of doors all the year
round with comfort. In winter, a hat
and wrap are needed, and the SUMS di-
rect rays are often pleasant. In other
seasons, light wooden o. cotton clothing
is comfortable, and n seeks or shuns
the sun according to the weather and
honr Of the day. Afternoon showers
arc very frequent in summer, but the
soil in Tacubayai i, so sandy and high
that one can go out soon afterward
without rubbers, and not wet the feet.
In winter the wind has o drying effect
on delicate skins commonly called
chapping), bnt it is o trifie when com
pared to the moist and weakening heat
Of the tropical coast and lowlands.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-17
Why the Play Was interrupted

from the Cambrldge'(M d) Chronicle.
Some Of the nice children in the avs
nue. recently proposed to surprise their
parents with a, dramatic performance,
with the distinct understanding that no
adult was to witness y rehearsal or to
ask about the nature of the play, writ
ten by young miss of ten years, who
was to assume the rolh of heroine, as
sisted by a lad of the same age On the.
night of the performance the parents of
the children assembled in the front
drawing room of one of the large resi-
dences and waited for the drawing aside
of the portieres with c~ommendable pa
thence. The first act represented the
wedding of the hero and heroine and
the departure of the former to the wilds
of the west, where he was to reap his
fortune in raising cattle and mining.
This went off finely, and the portieres
were closed with q loud burst of ap-
plause. A lapsesof ten years was sup
posed to have passed between the first
anu SecOuu AClS, huu when ne laGG6r
commenced the young husband had re-
turned. and his wife, noslooking q day
older, greeted her spouse in a formal
manner, and even asked him to remain
and dine with her, which he consented
to do. While seated at the table eating
ice cream the husband told how he had
ioiled for her wealth and acquired mill
ons, all for the sake ofthe dear wife he
left behind. This had such an effect
on the matron that she finished the leo
cream. sighed to think there were no
more on the table, and then addressed.
her husband speaking earnestly and.
firmly. "You have done WE'LL" she
said, "but while you have been at work
I have not been idle. You shall see
what I have accomplished" She
touched q bell, and q uninterrupted.
bonnie entered the room leading o tod
ding infant q year old, and followed
by nine others of various ages, one for
ench year of q married life. The actors
to this day do not understand why the
play was interrupted by shouts Of
laughter and applause from the fathers
and mothers who were present. At
any rate, they say the play was a sue
cess, but the parents think it q little
Frenchy in construction and plot.