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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31
Death to Prairie Dogs.

Some three years ago, while making
q trip across the continental divide, l
stopped for dinner at n roadside tavern,
situated in creek valley; close at hand
was n prairie dog town, numbering
over 500 inhabitants. Not long since,
1 had occasion to stop at the same
house, and saw that the small level
prairie. once occupied by prairie dogs,
had been inclosed, plowed. and was
then covered with a luxuriant crop of
grass. Seeing no signs of the little
beasts, upon asking what had become
of them, l was told they had been ex-
terminated in the following way:
Balls of cotton or rags were saturated
with bi-sulphide of carbon-an impure
preparation will do and is cheap
pushed far down into the holes, and
the holes firmly packed with earth.
Bi-sulphide of carbon being an ex-
tremely volatile fluid. quickly evapor-
ates and forms heavy gas, which
occupies every chamber and gallery of
the animals dwelling This gas is as
promptly fatal to animal life AZ the
fumes of burning sulphur or carbonic
acid gas
My informant also destroyed in q
similar way several colonies of large
ants, of the same species as those found
in Texas. He built fire close to the
nnt-bed, shoveled the earth forming
the ant-hill into the fire, so as to burn
up the ants contained in it with their
young, then scraped the surface of the
ground clean, and waited while to
give the ants CHARGE to clear the
tunnels from any earth that may have
dropped into them. A ball OF cotton
saturated with bi-sulphide of carbon
was placed in the center of the bed,
covered over with tin vessel large
enough to embrace the greater number,
if not all the outlets, and earth was
packed about the tin, 80 as to exclude
air. Next day the tin was removed.
He showed me the sites OF several beds
in this yard where the ants had been
killed in this manner. Since then,
while in Colorado Springs, was told
this plan had been successfully used in
California for a number of years; it
was used for the determination of
gophers, yellow-jackets, and all other
burrowing animals and insects. Lead
willie letter.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31

When Mamie had gone for the host
ess, Gusta, with % terribly grew
some feeling, glanced around her,
and there, in the large mirror
opposite, plainly Depicted. was the face
and form of her Grandmother De Var
ney, gazing with an evil smile at her
perplexed granddaughter.
In an instant the last words her
grandmother had ever said to her came
into her mind, and with the cry. my
God, she is haunting mel" the unhappy
girl fell in dead faint upon the floor.
and there Ms. Chase and Mamie
Graves found her few minutes later.
Restoratives were applied, and when
Miss De Varney came to her senses,
Capt Wilyoung was summoned, and
the frightened girl returned to her
home.
Her parting with her escort was as
cool as politeness would allow, upon his
part.
When Marcia removed the jewels
from about her sisters neck and arms,
no trace of the horrible deaths head
was to be seen; but Gusta was sufli-
GENTLY frightened, the jewels were sent
to the rightful owner early the next
morning; the heartless girl never wished
TO see them again.
Capt. Wilyoung's attentions ceased
from that evening. Whether he was
Disguised with the heartless girls be-
havior, or had at first admired Marcia
most, certain it was that, six months
| later, Marcia became Mrs. Capt Will
Young. and her sister. angry though
she was, felt that she was amply re-
warded for her cruelty to Grandma De
Varney.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31

by LUCY LARcoM.


ftili must I climb. il would rest:
The bird sQais upward TO his nest;
The Young leaf ON the tree-t0p high,
CIa'iles itself within the sky.
The streams, that seem TO hasten down.
Return in clouds. the hills 20 crown;
The plant arises from her root,
To rock sloft her flower and fruit
cannot In the valley say;
The great horizons stretcn away
The very cliffs that wall me round
Are ladders unto higher ground.
To work--to rcst--for each timer
i toll, but must also climb.
What soul was ever quite at ease
Shut IN by earthly boundariesr
1 am not glad till have known
Life That can lit me from my own:
A loftier level must be won,
A mtghtier strength To lean upon.
And heaven draws near "a ascend;
The b eeze invites, the stars befriend,
All things are beckcning TO the Best;
1 climb To thee, my God, for rest'
'0ttd0e Hearth.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31
A Practical Application.

A prominent clergyman who, hap
pening one day to pass the open door of
a room where his daughter and some
young friends were assembled, thought
from what he heard, that thev we're
making too free with the character of
their neighbors. When the visitors
left he gave the children o lecture on
the sinfulness of scandal. They an
swerel, But, father, what shall we
talk about?" "If YOU can't do anything
else, said he, get barrel and roll it
about; that will at least be Innocent di-
version" A short time after this an as
ISOLATION of ministers met at his house.
some doctrinal questions we set up
for discussion, and it was plain enough
that Christian temper was about to be
lost in zeal for Christian doctrine. The
eldest daughter pro cured an empty fir
kin, and, entering the room, gave it to
her father and said. There, father,
roll il about. "-BoW Bel 3.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31
How TO Keen Tires Tight.

Here is something every farmer
should remember and put in practice.
1t is the experience of man who knows
what he is talking aboat. Il have a
wagon of which, six years ago, the fell
Ices shrank so that the tires became
loose. 1 gave it good coat of hotoll, and
every year since it has had coat of oil
or paint, sometimes both. The tires
are tight yet, and they have not been
set for eight or ten years. Many far
mers think that as soon as wagon fellocs
begin to shrink they must go at once
to blacksmith shop and get the tire
set. Instead of doing that, which is
often damage to the wheels, casuing
them to dish, il they will get some lin
seed oil and heat it boiling hot and give
the felloes all the oil they can take, it
will fill them up to their usual size and
tighten TO keep them from shrinking,
and also TO keep out the water. II you do
not wish to go to th9 trouble of mixing
paint. you can heat the oil and tie q
rag to stick and swab them over ms
long as they will take oil. A brush is
more convenient 10 use, but swab will
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31

answer il you do not wish to buy brush.
1t is quite saving of tune and money
TO look after the woodwork of farm ma
chinery. Alternate wetting aud drying
Injuries and causes the b st wood soon
to decay and lose it's strength unless
kept well painted. 1t pays to keep a
little oil on hand to oil fork-handles,
rakes, neck Jokes. whiilletrees, and any
of the small tools on the farm that are
more or less exposed"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31

WIcKEDNEss may well he compared
TO bottomless pit. into which it is
easier TO keen ones self fro n falling.
than, being fallen, to give ones self any
stay from falling intinitoly.-Sr p.
SiineJ. =.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31

The heart beats seventy-fve times a
minute; sends nearly ten pounds of
blood through the veins and arteries
each beat; making four beats while we
breathe once.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31

THE convict at present carries an in
delible brand. The law limits his pun
ishment, but society makes it life long.
II he seeks work he must practice de-
ception to secure it. If he tells the
truth about himself he is ordered away.
There is ample room here for the exer-
else of Christian precepts aud prin-
ciples. -Hdr ford Post.
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PREJUDICE is the yellow iaundioe Of
Judgment.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1884-11-09

hope Tie tore open his vest and drew some
papers therefrom that he rapidly destroyed.
Reservin1 one he held 1t to her aud said In the
snd,lest tones she had ever beard:
Tomorrow will you rcnd this ~
ShUNould Mother take II nor speak. but tho
pnperwns taken from his hand by little Ruth.
who had come there unobscrved.
will. Mr.. Picture Man" 1890
Thank you. aud God bless YOU. my child I!
You Keep II. and give Il to your sister b. noon
of to- morrow"
The cavalry had now spod him. mud were
putting their horses to their best. iIc held hts
hand out to Martha. In It WAS the bcochnut.
Without taking her eyes from his, ans thrust
her hand into her bosom. nndsN hen SHE with
drow 1t there was within II tho other bncchnui.
When the soldiers n mnmcnt later seized him
hc badc Martha farewell and kissed little Ruth.
Then he's took narthu,s limp hand aud placed
therein tho bucShnut, Then thcy led him away.
n crayon likeness of herself that they said their
commander had Instructed them TO bring.
They said II had boon taken from tho man who
was captured there that morning. II had been
drawn from memory, according TO the note at
the bottom.
Where is he now ~ she asked.
The soldiers seemed confused. At last ono
pointed 70 tho ground. and thon they both
Doad, She said II did not think 1t meant
that | let them Kill him" and an hour latcr
they found her there under the lilac trees.
When Il ynnr later Just RItnr they returned
from tho old burying ground, whore thoy b ID
laid Marthn's body they found among her other
treasures the two beechnuts wrapped together.
They put them away in tho Old chest.
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turned out an dug Mae's 'tatcrs fur her. an

turned out an, dug Maq,s 'tatcrs fur her an
pulled her bpckwhit On, iiSed things up N the
They gut ~ big stun frolic. an on tho satui;
day nrior Mag was 2 wilder all the teams an
clearin' tho stun oirn lot TINT job hed hon
tryin to got clear over scnco he'd settled on
dollar dol cnsn fur Sis arm II that lot were oaar
Wall nobody didn't stumble long by jobs
tran, m 80 job were gradually bid1in' g1od-by
up all tho honey tn was in tho pom tho fua' two
days he were in. nm long t'nrds the middle o
Saturday AFTERNOON no wore ni;h on MS a.,
mSle M his nj Ind to ia lay down an do wpnst
tie Sqiside o o" the ron. is iookcd through
chlnk nn' 500 whoppin' big bar The bar
nut tree that stood At one side o the pom. Job
could see II through the cracks In tho roof cut
o on Sra inc 'ti that Hn %SSy
tho cabin an, tried to Git at horn:ts nest ~
"' Tint Vars dod: durn fooll snid job Tho
fust thing itknows that iimh'll brcak. an, like
'iarnal innnrds out'n MOI
hc didn't want to b., killed. lie hodn't much
moran got tho words out'n his mouth wen.
the bar did como plumb through the roof
b'gosh. 1t didn't squash Job, though. but It
h 2s H o ni
am tn" neg minute he were nwgfin tords ., his
crnrin ch last % no could. which want no
240 gait lis then. nuther
BY 3 O'Clock Saturday artornoon tho froic
he'd cv'ry stun cleared Off the Wdder Street
tho township. Fv'rybody tot tho widder her
place were with three hundord dollars more'n
twcre In tho mornin. an, bgosh. 1t wore
W lie everybody wcrc talk in bout II who should
come n draggin' hissclf into tho crowd but
job Mug come durn nigh ngoin' inter connip-
tons wen she fust clapt her eyes on job. cause
she thawt 'twrre his ghost but then she 500
'twere his own llosh an! blood. wat tn was left
on I, m : h. hooked onter him quicker.
wy jimmny crncky. JobV sho says.
Didn't 70 git chawed BY bars nrter ali?'
No bar hain't chawed me ez | knows on
snys job hut kin list set down an chaw q
bar II we got ono handy
An 80 wen they all sec II wore Job. sartin.
an no ghost thcy turned to an dishcd up u
lay out FUR him. an ty bedtime he were hisself
ag'in, an he give EN- tho hun story. The town
shin had bully laugh an In leash two weeks
oil Simon DIETRICH bought Jobs clearn' an
give him more'n four HUNDRED dollars fur it.
That give job his start in the lumber an bark
business an he were a rich man In ten year.
Wen Job counted over the four hundred dol
lars he got iOr the clearin' he says to MAJ:
Wall. Mag says he. I'm gummcd IL 1t
don't pay to sit chawed up by bars wunst in
aw'ile.'
II docs if yc leave goodlookin' wiiier.'
says Mag.
AN if that haint how Uncle lob strrcter
come to be rich man" concluded he Old Set
tier. yc needn't ask me wat I'm gOin' ter
hey an II ! ever hankered nrter snmptn' hot.
with sugar in it. an no monkoyin' bout max
IN it strong, it's this very passln minute.
Shurf. II Is. bgoshW Ed. MORT
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oil as at u fow other points:

." The first million would tnke thirty years TO
die in. the second million fifteen years. and the
docrense IS very slow in tho first faw years. or
up to this time not over five per cent. each 1.-Two
years Of thosc;i wing in tho previpus somiirc-
ale. From 1855 to 1890 the death rate be-
comes per cent, 1890 10 1893 ten yer cent;
1895 to 1900. fourteen per cent: 1900 to 1905.
nineteen per cent 1908 to 1910, thirty five per
cent: 1910 to lolj. thirty mine per can't: 1915
10 1920, ilty-thrcr per cent, 1920 t. 1929. sixty
seven per cent 1925 To 1870. oighty-iivc per
cent. and 1880 e. 1880. nineiy-nine per cent.
will occur between 1910 and 1915 whom
more than two hundred veterans will bc buried
each day, or $50 934 in all. Those figures arc
assumption that those, who survived tho war
were each ~ years old but this Is not true.
This Is the average and Will stating II In this
way will make no material difference In the
first nifty years. there will be u decided increase
in life expectation in the later yours. The
youngest ~ those who served ON either side
-. There nro many who have not yet ntiniined
lar beyond what have given. tho average now
being ~. believe that enough Of the younger
up into the thiriics and forius. 70 give tine
numbers M pro closely would require u raIeula-
non oi hi' me ;"S Ia we army Tor "HIh OF the
four years. which would be u long and tedious
task.
The pension list. however, vii, not he
iutionnry VIC closed lnl years ago yet many
pensions on that account Hr" -liIl drawn IRON
Inc Trausufy BY soldiers widows, Last ycnr
thry humh-tel about tyrlS AMI may be expect
rd 10 "Nplr" in three wears from now, | pre-.
sumo Ia" irviyor- oG tn" yi,il war and their
widows will hr p"n-i ned on the noNt century
Hui II tho same rulc T. followed we shall hIvN
raia nut oar at money dire 'ily on account Of
services in tha year 1893. No have q n immense
nnmber Of widow pensioners OF tho war II 1912
frequently being difference o! forty years OF
aso between ,hem.'
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The Climate Fetchss The N.

1t Is said that when q Californian first en-.
counters thr climate Of Hrnoluu he scots ~ the TN
pe'atutr And sayei "Nhv We can dlsGuuut u IA SIC.
rtneUIl On AuguFt laN." Therefore he rltus, ~
hw muck ciGthug wax, al he u'ua gatt ,"nrus tnc
pTts-'S the little ru"kawHSs win winch III" 'ttVt'
- 'tnnrd are called sud though II" may sacrifice tw
az irr, collar. nayt stlu IhsiH Inst TIE weather
tra iuS unuth goes hs And he has comp oWis"i ~
shedding ne 'pr llGru ous. Vie j. Mt 50 brisk
is frri docs he tax about nNC-m- stroll wr
IA" sane amount ~ -"frnn;i"nre winch marked N.
carly day II his So urn. Two months 20 by AAd We
rnd INN ait ~ WHIT, cHIns m express 10 ride TIVE
tlucNE ~. and quite An limp, moist G, indoloht III,
Others The staying powers of the climate have con
Iuer"d II sticks TO between 80 aGd eJe IN the shade
and never .eis 20 II H.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-26
EASTERN s SPECIALS.
Pitt
fBy Associated Labor Press.l


PIrTsBURe, July 2l.-The refusal OF the
president to issue to John Jarrett his
commission as labor commissioner has
caused sensation here. Opinion is
divided on the matter. The daily
press generally, excepting the Chronicle
Telegraph, support Jarrett and say the
president should not allow Jarretts
utterances in political meeting to pre-
vent his receiving his com mission. The
hronicle-Telegraph maintains that ut
terauces like those Jarrett made were an
insult to the country and the president
only upholds his digni ty by refusing the
commission. Jarrett was Blaine man
prior to the nomination and in a injecting
said President Arthur was more fit to be
sscullion in Delmonieo's than occupy
the White house. His language was
greeted with Kisses and applause. The
speech was not reported in the news
Papers as it was spoken, and the presi-
dent was not aware of his remarks until
alter he had nominated Mr.. Jarrett for
aoor commissioner. There are strong
aHuences at work both in favor of and
sopposition to Jarrett, and his chances
9feeeiying his commission areFone in
'u'ss' Itispossible that If the president
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-26
Amply This.

Principles are paramount to party. No
honest man, no intelligent man will sac
rifce his principles for the temporary
success Of his party. Let us say here,
andsay it fearlessly, that the failure Of
too many labor Organizations is due to
the lack of fealty to that truth. 1t is
not that the principles are wrong. 1t is
that men are wrong. There are too
many that are jealous. There are too
many that are enyious. There are too
many that are nobhonest and faithful.
There are too many that, like wolves,
jump on the men who have fought the
most faithfully, and tear them to pieces.
Labor cannot win in that kind of q fight.
There can be no victory without absolute
unity Rochester Truth.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-26

Let us suppose that you, my reader,
have been giving little attention to the
sayings and doings Of the labor men,
that you have read and thought suffi-
ciently on the subject to have q pretty
good general idea of their principles and
aims, and that you find yourself more or
less in accord with them; that still you
entertain some objections and difficulties
and your mind is in a condition of doubt
and uncertainty. Now, let us suppose
you have among your acquaintance two
or three persons similarly disposed, and
that you invite them to meet you ex-
pressly to talk over the subject. Suppose
that, as result of your first meeting,
you are all sufficiently interested to wish
to meet for the-same purpose again and
again, sometimes In the apartments OF
one and sometimes in those Of the others.
Finally you meet regularly-say once 4
week and from two or three your num-
bers have increased to half a dozen OF
more. In the meantime YOU have OBJ
tanned for yourselves and have read and
discussed together, or passed from one to
another. some labor literature. Perhaps,
also, you have thrown yourselves into
intercourse with some well-informed
labor advocate.
Now, my reader, / will venture to say
that the desire which you first had to
study the subject for your own sake, will
have expanded by this time into desire
to spread your views everywhere within
tho circle of your influence, and the same
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-26
Going for Goods.

Either to-day or tomorrow Mr.. Will
Trounstlne, of the firm of A. Jacobs &
Co., will start for the markets of the
east, for the purpose of selecting a large
stock of fall clothing for their extensive
establishment in this city. He goes thus
early, SO as to have the pick and the
cream of the manufacturers stocks, and
he will occupy several weeks in selecting
his numerous purchases.
1t is safe to say that Will will have a
good time tout of business hours while
he is gone, for he has many friends in
the east, who make it a point to enter
tain him royalty on his semi-annual
trips.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-26
Cincinnati.
TBy Associated Labor Press.1

zs.H.i. Dy AssoCldtcQ bdD iooS.I
CINCINNATI, July 2l.-There is very
little change in labor matters since last
report. The words labor and working,
men take up considerable space in the
columns of the capitalistic press of the
city at present, the democratic press
seemingly being on the defensive on &C.
count of Cleyeland's veto of the labor
bills passed by the New York legisla.
ture. and the republican press making
all sorts of claims of friendship to the
working classes for their standard bearer,
but the impression prevails among the
more thoughtful workingmen that the
success of neither party will better
the condition of the producing classes,
as they both have been tried and found
wanting in that particular.
A change for the better has been an
nounced in the moldIng trade, which was
received by trades unionists in general
with pleasure. On last Saturday the firm
of Chamberlain & Co., foundry proprie-
tors, sent, for a committee of Iron
Molders' union, No. 8, and on the ap-
pearanee of the committee, they an
nounced their immediate readiness to
resume operations at the old scale Of
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-26
me Kind-He.rt.d Fi.hsrm.n.

Ben Butler dropped out Of the Palmer
house vest tsrday. He returned in about
an hour and his normal optic was sur
prisingly bright. He avoided the crowd
and explained to no one where he had
been. The fact was, Ben had slipped
over to the government pier and tried
his luck with the fnny tribe He sat on
the end of the pier under the lighthouse
and had phenomenal success. The noble
toilers who sat near by were thoroughly
disguised at their ill-luck. Fish became
fastenened to Ben's hook as often as he
threw into the water. Some one whis-
pered that "the old cove looked like
Butler, snd in minute he was the CEN
ter of attraction. The old watchman
was compelled to use force to keep them
from crowding the ex-governor into the
water. When the excitement had sub
sided somewh hat the watchman sat down
beside Ben, and his hearty, jolly, happy
laugh could be heard far across the
waters as the two exchanged fish stories.
ALI the time Ben kept pulling in the
perch and herring until he counted
eighteen shining beauties. He enjoyed
the sport hugely, and whispered to the
government officer that he took it as an
omen of good. Then he gathered up his
pole and fish and started for the boat.
Dye want to sell 'em ~ timidly asked
man as he pointed to the fish, and who
wanted them simply because Butler had
caught them.
"For a dollar, yes,7 answered Ben in a
business-like way.
The money was paid. The man took
the, fish eagerly. A ragged urchin was
passing. Ben slipped the dollar into the
boys hand and walked hurriedly to the
little steamer, and was soon back at the
Palmer again. Chicago Ex.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-26
Go-As-You-P'Iease,.

When you want TO buy hardware you
have the great American prerogatiye of
going as or where you please, but if you
will inform yourself and consult your
best interests, it will please you to 60 to
Jensen, Bliss & Co., on the corner OF
Eighteenth and Holiday. This house
keeps the largest and pest stock of hard
ware and house furnishing goods to be
found in any store west of the Missouri
river. The prices asked are bound to
meet YOUR approval, as the firm has
extra advantages in that particular. Call
and see Jensen, Bliss & Co., corner Of
Eighteenth and Holiday, if you are
needing anything in their line.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-26
or Interesr to AdvertI.ers.

The following resolu tion, which needs
no explanation, is RESP ectfully submitted
for the perusal of the merchants of this
city.
Similar resolutions have been adopted
by the Trades Assembly and nearly
every other labor organization In the
city, and certified copies are in possession
of this Office. This one is printed by
special instructions; the others being
omitted for lack of room:
Editor Labor Enquirer.
SANCTUARY MONTGOMERY ASSEMBLY
KNIGHTS OF LABOR 1924.
DENVER, Colo, May l6, 1884.
At q regular meeting of the Mont
gomery Assembly Knights of Labor l424,
held on the above date, the following
resolution was unanimously adopted.
Resolved, That all members of Local
Assembly 1924 Knights of Labor, patron
ize any and all business firms who ad-
vertize in the LABOR ENQUIRER in prefer
enee toall others.
,~ P. n. BALFE, M. W..
Seal LOOMS W. SMITH, R. 5.