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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-18
THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
Democratic Opposition to Any Inquiry Re-
garding Its Extent and Influence.
TWashingtOn Special.

washington special
Secretary Mcpherson, of the Congressional
Committee, has prepared the following synopsis
of the history of the two parties on the alco-
holic liquor traffic which may help to correct
many errors of statement in the existing cam
pafgn;
s. U. II. Hayes, Esq, Big Rapids, Mich:
DEAR SIR: have your inquiry of the 30th
inst. The question OF legislation on the alco-
holic liquor traffic mas come up in various forms
in Congress within the last ten years, but IL was
not until the Forty-seventh Congress that the
creation OF Commission to examine into the
subject in all its bearings came to the surface.
In that Congress- in the winter of 1872, il
came TO the front Mr.. Conger offered in the
Senate the 18th OF nuary. 1892 a bill for the
appointment of a commission of seven persons,
tosact not longer than two years. TO investigate
the alcoholic liquor traffic. It's relations to reve
nue. and taxation, its general economic, GRIM
fnsl, moral, and scientific aspects, in connec-
ton with pauperism. crime social vice, public
health, and the general welfare of the people:
and also to inquire and take testimony
az to the practical results Of license and pro-
hibtory legislation for the prevention of intern
perance in the several States of the Union. The
expenses not exceeding $4,000, were TO be paid
out of the Treasury, but the Commissioners
were to serve without salary. The report of
The commission was to be transmitted to Con-
Qress by the President within eighteen months
after the passage of this act. The matter came
up for action the 9Th of March, when Mr. Bay
ard OF Delaware, made an unfriendly motion
TO refer the bill 10 the Committee on Finance
That motion was defeated-yeas, 10: nays, IS
The Affirmative vote was solidly Democratic. ex-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-18
Blaine.


The Republicans of Augusta, Me-, held iubi-
ee on the night OF the State election. Blaine
vas serenaded, and in response spoke as fol-
ows
Fellow-citizens and old friends
The Republicans of Maine may well congrat-
llate themselves on the magnificent victory
which they have won. Four years ago this
evening we were overwhelmed and Inundated
by the loss OF the State. We rejoice now over
he unparalleled triumph which is registered by
he choice OF both branches of the Legislature,
~ the election OF all the Representatives in
,very county in the State except one,
and by popular majority for Gov. Robe OF
perhaps 1900 votes Our canvass has been
conducted on onetgreat issue 1t Is the issue of
protection to American labor. The tariff has
been almost the only question discussed In our
canvass. and the people have responded nobly.
They know the details of the Morrison tariff
bill They know that the Morrison bill, enacted
into law, would seriously cripple, If not utterly
destroy, the leading industrial interests of
Maine; that it would reduce the wages Of every
laboring man, and stop every new manufactur-
ng enterprise in the State. Many Democrats in
Maine who never before wavered in their alle-
glance TO the party have ranged themselves to-
day on the side of protection to American in
dustry by voting the full Republican ticket
Party discipline is powerless against the con-
victions of men. The issue on the temperance
amendment to the Constitution has been
very properly and very rigidly separated
from the political contest OF the State to-day.
Many Democrats voted for IL, and some Repub
licans voted against it. The Republican party,
by desire of the leading temperance men, took
no action as party on the amendment For
myself, decided not to vote at all on the ques-
ton took this position because l am chosen
bv the Republican party as thenrepresentative
Of national issues, and by no act OF mine shall
any question be obtruded into the national
campaign which belongs properly to the do
main OF State politics. Certain advocates OF
prohibition and certain opponents of prohibit
ton are each seeking to drag the issue into the
national canvass. and thus try to.exclude from
popular consideration questions which press for
national decision. IL there be any questions that
belong solely to the police power of the State 1t is
the control of the liquor traffic, and wise men
will not neglect national issues In year OF ma
tonal contest. Judicous friends Of protective
tariff, which is the practical issue of the cam
paign, will not divert their votes to the question
If prohibition, which is not practical issue in
the natl nal campaign. 1 do not disguise from
you that l am profoundly gratified with the re-
suit. DESTROYS OF the good opinion of all men,
am sure esteem beyond all others the good
opinion Of those excellent people among whom
have passed nearly all the years OF my adult
life, who knew me intimately from young man
food as fellow-citizen. neighbor, and friend
return my thanks for your call and still heart
ier thanks for your great work of to-day.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-18

For the week ending Sept. the reports indi-
cate that tonslitis increased, and that rheuma-
tisrn, dysentery, and erysipelas decreased in
area of prevalence.
At the State capital the prevailing winds
during the week ending Sept. were
south, southwest, and west; and, compared
with the preceding week, the temperature
higher, the absolute humidity and the day
ozone more, the relative humidity and the night
ozone less.
Compared with the average for the month Of
August in the six years, 1577-1Ss2, crysipelas,
rheumatism, and bronchitis were more preva-
lent and remittent fever, intermittent fever,
and cholera morbus were less prevalent In
August. 1884.
For the month of August, 1884, compared with
the average OF corresponding months for the
six years 1s79-lss4, the temperature was lower,
the absolute and the relative humidity and tho
day and the night ozone less.
Including reports by regular observers and
others, diphtheria was reported present during
the week ending Sept 9, and since. at IS places.
namely, Armada, Bloomfield, Detroit East
Saginaw, Flint, Fowlervile, Grand Rapids.
Hardy Ishpeming, Kalamazoo, Mendon, Romeo.
vassar; scarlet fever at 10 places-Cadillac, De-
troit Dorr. Dowaeiac. Fairfield, Grand Rapids,
Howard City, Kalamazoo, Swartz Creek. Vicks-
burg; meazles at Detroit and Whitehall.
HENRY Ii. BAKER. Secretary.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-18


Cheboygan County.
The cost Of running Kalamazoo for her
current fiscal year is $92, 000.
Hudson will be fifty years old in Octo-
Der, and proposes to celebrate.
Ann Arbor has ordered six electric
lights put up in prominent places in that
city.
1t takes thirty three professors and
teachers to run the Battle Greek public
schools.
The number Of school children in
Battle Creek is 2,724, being 3s6 more than
last year.
III. G. Stoughton, of Otsego, raised
Yankee corn this year which matured in
eighty days.
Flint can get gas for public purposes
for $3.50 per thousand-a result of the
electric light fight
Albert Horton, aged 80, and Eta Brant,
aged 10, were married at Fountain, Mason
County, few days ago.
st. Louis has newly organized
Knights of Pythias band, with bright new
uniforms, and feels proud of it.
The Frey family held family reunion
last week at Matison Lake. One hundred
and five large and small Freys were present.
"A Kalkaska editor sees good times in
the near future. His income last week rose
to the sum total of 81 in cash and peck
of string beans.
-Saugatuck is shipping about twelve
thousand baskets of peaches daily to
Chicago The fruit is ripening very rapidly
in the burning sun.
Some one left lighted cigar stub in
the sawdust spittoon in the lapidary works
of G.. L. Boss, at Petoskey, and as result
the building took fire and nearly burned to
the ground in the night.
At christening" in Hamtramck, a
girl refused to dance with male guest,
when row occurred, in which Pat Bourke
was stabbed and bled to death, Fritz Krum
was seriously hurt, and others were slightly
injured.
The old Chippewa chief who has for
many years lived on the little island in the
Sault Ste. Marie Rapids, opposite the ship
canal locks, died recently, at the age of 80
years. He was buried at Garden River his
boyhood home.
Samuel Graham, one of the early pio-
neers of Cassopolis, died at his residence
there last week, aged 81. He was the first
hotel-keeper at that place, in 1886 to 1874,
and for years was the proprietor of the old
Eagle Distillery on the banks of Stone
Lake
The Manitou Islands, off Leelanaw
County, in Lake Michigan, contain twen-
ty-five sections of surveyed land, or 1880
acres, nearly all of which is splendid farm
ing land, and have quite large population,
who appear to live happily without sa-
loon, doctor, or lawyer.
There are / ,466 insane persons in the
two State asylums in Michigan, and besides
these there are many hundreds in county
asylums, poor-houses, and private retreats.
There will be no trouble in filling the new
State asylum now being built at Traverse
insane by the State prevails, it will per-
haps be necessary to build a fourth asylum.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-18
Earl Spencer Kissed In Cork.

Says dispatch from Cork: Earl Spen-
,er, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, paid q
yisit to Castle Island, near here. He was
Missed by the people of the place rs he
passed through the streets. A black flag
,n which was printed n description of
Earl Spencer as murderer was displayed,
md was seized by the police.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-18

THE Democratic worlingman, unable to
support Cleveland, should not stop ut the
Butler half way house. Better cast vote
that will count in sinking the friend of New
York City monopolists. Cleveland's veto of
the mechanics lien bill and of sthe bill fix
ing twelve hours as days work ought to
and will soundly defeat him. Let every
friend of labor aid in burying him so deep
that he will never be heard Of again
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-18

The 16-year-old daughter of Mr.. w.
Parker, of Riga, was abducted by two men.
After being carried two miles, she jumped
from the buggy and ran into house, the
men firing four shots at her.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-18

-Forty-fve women voted at the Ypsi-
anti school election. Judge Thomas Ninde,
Treasurer of the School Board, has re-
signed. The election resulted in the reten-
ton of the old members of the board.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-18
Health I'm Michigan.

Reports to the State Board of Health, Lansing.
by observers in different parts of the State show
the diseases which caused most sickness in
Michigan during the week ending Sept. 6, 1884.
as follows. Number of observers heard from, As:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-18

A PUMPKIN-vINE ninety feet long is
growing in garden in Bowling Green. Ky.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-18

BETWEEN 600 and 700 dwellings are
burned every month in this country.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-18

Robert Trimble, of Norwood, milks 8
COWS and sells SO worth Of butter week.
Savannah weekly echo., 1884-02-10

BE DEFEATED.
Ten days before his death Lincoln dreamed
that "the President lay dead in the White
House, killed by the hand Of hn assassin. !"
When his wife heard of the tragedy che ex-
claimed, "His dream was prophetic!" The
ma jority of dreams, however, are never full
dlled-they are too fantastic, or they are
solved by contrary events. People are often
possessed of the idea that they shall
soon die. They find themselves the
mbject of strange feelings. They
know they are not what they once were, and
rs they approach certain ages they are quite
sure they will not 81 be long of earth" These
impressions as rule are the result OF an
Imagination disordered by disease. but they
measures. We are tod that very many dis
eases can be prevented; indeed, half the
deaths are said to be preventable! Hence the
importance of always acting promptly in
every personal emergency.
Justice William Moul, of West Sandlake,
N. Y, very highly esteemed in Troy, was for
years plagued by forebodings that he was
doomed to an early death. He had dull and
flitting pains in various parts Of the body,
his complexion was bad his appetite was
variable, he felt weary without known cause,
was constantly constipated, his tongue W as
heavily coated, and frequent feverish dis
orders appeared. Then followed extreme
tenderness and pain in the back, great las
situde, grayelly deposits in water, which
was dark, frothy and odorous, all indicat
ing liver and kidney disorders. These de-
velopments alarmed him. especially since
physicians did him no good. About giving
up in despair, he followed the counsel Of
one OF the Supreme Court Justices to use
DR.. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy (ot
Rondout, n. Y.,) as an experiment 1t scat
tered his bal feelings. revived his appetite
restored his liver and kidneys, renewed his
blood, increased his weight by twenty pounds
and to it alone he gives the credit of saving
his life.
Dreams and warnings and forebodings OF
early death need not always be fulfilled ii
feat them.-1roy (N. " Times.
Savannah weekly echo., 1884-02-10
Invention OF Glass.

The popular belief credits the inven-
ton of glass to the Phnnicians, and our
readers will recall, no doubt, the story
of its fortuitous discovery by Phenician
merchants who rested their cooking-pots
on blocks of natron Sub b-carbonate of
soda), and found glass produced by the
union of the alkali and the sand of the
sea shore. 1t is unquestionable, however,
that the art of glass making and glass
working has been known from very re-
mote times. The earliest example of
glass of which the date has been pre-
served by an inscription, is of Egyptian
origin. 1t is small lions head of opaque
blue glass. 1t was found at Thebes by
Signor Drovetti, and is now in the Brit
ish museum. The underside of this relic
contains hieroglyphics which bear the
name of an Egyptian monarch who lived
about 2, 400 B. C. Other relics of glass
bearing inscriptions have been found
among the ruins and tombs of that an
cient nation, and in the tombs of Benz
Hasin, which are at least as early as 1900
B: c., the art of glass blowing is repre-
sented in an unmistakable manner.-Bo,o
Bells.
Savannah weekly echo., 1884-02-10
THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES
1854.

THE TIMES will enter upon the new year stronger
and more prosperous than ever before in its history
more widely read and quoted more heartily COM
mended, Al more ferccly criticized. with a more
complete organization. and an sbler staff of con-
tributors-and with the same independence and
fearessness that has made ii successful and powar-
ful in the past.
TIE TIMES has no party to follow, no candidates
To advance, but viii meet every issue as it has ever
done, with consistent devotion 10 the right, to
honest government and the public welfare And,
while maintaining its position the leading journal
OF Philadelphia, il will aim to be continually in
advance in ai tnat can add value to a newspaper
The value OF newspaper il not in its size or dis
play, but In the intel gerce md care, the concise
ness and freshness with which it is edited THE
TINES SPENDS lavshlT for news from all parts OF
the world, but all lis dispatches carefully edited
and condensed in order to give The complete news
OF the day in the most concise and attractive shape
and with it large variety Of entertaining and in
structivc reading. The best writers at home and
abroad are employed 10 enri h lis columns, and to
make Il journal adapted both TO the busy man and
10 the leisure OF the home c,rc'e welcome visitor
TO intelligent and honest ci izens Of every political
religions aud social taste.
THE WEEKLY TIMEs ls altogether different from
the weekly newspapers o: twenty years ago The
day of those papers is gone hy. The telegraph and
betteriocal newspapers everywhere. pecially in
the thriving centers of rural population, have made
the dweekly metropolitan newspaper unsatisfy-
ing.
Those that cling TO their ancient usaces have lost
their hold on our forwar" moving people: they are
put shadows OF TIER former greatness, and they
have but shadow of their former power. Those
papers have had their ueefuness, but it Is gone;
and, with IL, they are ing, too 1t was not the
fault OF the papers itIsas the improvement of the
country that brought abolt the change. Men and
women, wherever they live, now reqnire fresher
news: snd they require more than news
THE WEEKLY TIMES gathers off the types of
csery passing week whatever has lasting interest to
people at arge. and ii before them In such gen.
erosity Of paper and print would have astonished
US all twenty years ago.
DAnY-Twelve cents aweek, fifty cents month,
s6 a year, two cents a copy.
SuSDAF-Four cents copy. 80 a year.
WEEKLr-One copy, 50 a year; Ave copies IS a
year; ten copies $l5 year; twenty copies, $35
year, with one copy free to the getterup Of every
club
THE TINES,
PhilddeFD hin
Savannah weekly echo., 1884-02-10
THE SEA.

1 lay upon the headland height. and listened
To the incessant sobbing Of the sea
In caverns under me,
And watched the waves, that tossed and fed
and glistened,
Until the rolling meadows of amethyst
Melted away in mist.
Then suddenly, as one from sleep, started;
For round about me all the sunny capes
Seemed peopled with the shapes
OF those whom had known in days departed,
Appareled in the lovelines which CLEANS
On faces seen in dreams.
A moment only, and the light and glory
Faded away, and the disconsolate shore
Stood lonely as before;
And the wild roses of the promontory
Around me shuddered in the wind, and shed
Their petals of pale red.
"Oh, give me hackl" cried, "the vanished
splendors,
The breath Of morn and the exultant strife,
When the swift stream of life
Bounds DER its rocky channel, and surren-
The pond. with all its lilies, for the leap
Into the unknown deep"
And the sea answered, with a lamentation,
Like some old prophet wailing, and it said;
''Alas! thy youth is dead!
1t breathes nc more-its heart has no pulsa-
ton;
In the dark places, with the dead Of old,
1t lies forever cold!"
Then said I: "From its consecrated cere-
ments
will not drag this sacred dust again,
Only to give me pain;
But, still remembering all the lost endear-
Go on my way, like one who looks before
And turns to weep no more"
Into what land of harvests, what plantations
Bright with autumn foliage and the glow
OF sunsets burning low;
Beneath what midnight skies, whose constel-
lations
Light up the spacious avenues between
This world and the unseen.
Amid what friendly greetings and caresses-
What households, though not alien, yet not
mine
What bowers of rest divine;
To what temptations in lone wildernesses
What famine Of the heart, W hat pain and
loss
The bearing of what CROSS
do not know, nor will vainly question
Those pages of the mystic book which hold
The story still untold.
But without rash conjecture or suggestion
Turn its last leaves in reverence and good
heed,
Until THE End ! read
Savannah weekly echo., 1884-02-10
SELECT STFTINGS.

The EBAY Psalm Book" published at
Cambridge In 1910, was the second book
printed IN British America. It went
through seventy editions.
In France, until the introduction oi
postage stamps, and the rule of double
postage for unpaid letters, it was consid-
cred ill-bred to prepay letter addressed
to friend.
! - In Paris there are men who make a liv-
ing by collecting linseed plasters from the
hospitals, pressing the oil from the lin
seed and selling the linen to the paper
manufacturers.
The ways in which the memory begins
to fail are often very curious. There is a
case on record of man who could never
remember words beginning with 3D."
and another person attached no idea
whatever to the figure "5."
After the Crystal Palace Uondon) ex-
hibition in 1851, curious fashion came
up of giving Greek names to dress goods
and wearing apparel, and the result was
very funny. Antigropelos shoes and
Eureka shirts were among the queerly-
named articles.
Recent experiments in German schools
have shown that the difficulty in reading
black letters on white ground compared
to that of reading white on black ground
is as 421 to 400, and, therefore, the slate
and the blackboard will probably fall into
disuse in the empire.
According to recent authority jap
anese fish, known as Fuku, is SO poison
GUS that death follows almost instantane-
ously after eating only moderate piece
Of it. It is not unfrequently the cause of
death among the lower classes, who be-
ieve it to be possessed of certain marvel
GUS properties, on account of which they
risk the danger of being poisoned.
On the top of the Washington monu-
ment, at a height of four hundred and ten
feet, great quantities of bees and wasps
have been seen, and, strange to say, rats
even find their way up there after crumbs
from the luncheons of the workmen
Three large rats found there made their
exit by jumping down the interior of the
column, finding sure death at the bottom.
Savannah weekly echo., 1884-02-10
Origin Of Names of the Fabrics.

Everything connected with ones bust
ness is of Importance. Very few dry
goods men know the origin of the names
of many of the goods they handle
They may seem trivial points, but they
are of interest to the man who seeks to
be thoroughly familiar with the merchan-
disc in which he deals. For the infor-
nation of such we give the derivation of
the following goods: Damask is from
the city Of Damascus; satins from Zaytown
in China; calico from Calicut, town in
India, formerly celebrated for its cotton
cloth and where calico was also printed.
Muslin, is named from Mosul in Asia.
Alpaca, from an animal in Peru,
of the llama species, from whose
wool the fabric is woven. Buckram
takes its name from Fos-
tat, a city of the middle ages, from
which the modern Cairo is descended
Taffeta and tabby from a street in Bag
dad Cambria from Cambria. Gauze
has its name from GAIA; baize for Bajac !;
dimity from Damietta, and jeans from
Jean. Drugget is derived from city in
Ireland, Drogheda. Duck comes from
Torque. in Normandy. Blanket is called
after Tomas Blanket, a famous clothier
connected with the introduction of wool
ems into England about 1910. Serge de-
rives its name from Xerga, Spanish
name for peculiar woolen blanket
Diaper is not from D'Ypres, as is some
times stated, but from the Greek dias-
prom, figured. Velvet is from the Italian
vellute, woolly Oatin vellus-a hide or
pelt). Shawl IS the Sanscrit sala, floor,
for shawls were first used as carpets and
tapestry. Bandanna is from an Indian
word, to bind or tie, because they are
tied in knots before dyeing. Chintz
's-<sr-,a- frnro tho T-sriap word chett De-
laine is the French s'of wool "-Irade
Journal.