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Year: 1877

value, and exagerating its purchasing
power, spends it extravagantly.


How often we hear girls censured as
extravagant and reckless in expenditure!
And in many cases, who is really to
blame T? Is it the girls who have never
been taught the value of money and
judicious economy? Rather the parents
who never give them allowances by
which to learn these lessons. The knowl.
edge how to spend money should form
part of girls dowry, and no parent
has right to defraud her Of it, for this
knowledge will be of the greatest ser.
vice to her in her future lite. We all
know the first remark made at the news
of any financial failure: "Poor man,
his wife is SO extravagant w The case
of Mrs. Belknap is not an exception,
but type. We shall not attempt to
decide the truth of such statements, but
grant them all true, and we hold that
the women are not wholly to blame.
Their mistakes, their miscalculations
were due to radical defect in educa.
ton, for which they were not response
ble."


These are certainly words of wisdom
from young girl, to which fathers
should listen, if they wish to do equal
justice to their daug ghters as to their
sons.
Year: 1877




At session OF the Probate Court for said
county, held at the Probate Office, in the village
Of Paw Paw, on Monday, the 2Sth day of May,
ia the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seveDty-seven. Present, Alfred
j. Mills Judge OF Probate. In the matter Of
the estate OF William B. Bishop, deceased
Emily Bishop, executrx of said estate, comes
into Court and represents that she is no pre-
pared to render final account as such execu-
trlx. Thereupon it is ordered. that Tuesday.
the 2Gth day of June next at ten O'Clock in the
forenoon, be assigned for examining aud allow
ing such account and that the heirs at law OF
said deceased, and all other persons interested
in said estate, are required to appear at a
session OF SAID Court, then to be holden at the
Probate Office in the village OF Paw Paw In
SAID county, and show cause If any there be,
why the said account should not be allowed
Aud it is further ordered, that SAID executrix
give notice to the persons interested In said
estate, of the pendency of said account, and
the hearing thereof, by causing copy of this
order to be published in the TRUE NoRTHERNER,
a newspaper printed and circulating in said
county, three successive weeks provious to said
day OF hearing.


ALFRED J. MILLS, Judge OF Probate.
CA true copy,) ll57t4
Year: 1877

Chamberlain would be provided for.
The lands would be constantly in
creasing in value, and according to
Auditor Whitcomb's estimate of their
prospective value, will more than pay
the whole debt. But assuming that
they are not worth over half his esti-
mate, they would cover all but mil
lion of the Indebtedness. Assume
still further, that we received nothing
from the lands, the necessary tax to
paw the interest would be trifling
Probably at the end of two years, or
in 1880, our valuation will be $780,
600, 900 or more about five-eights OF
a mill tax will pay the interest, say
nothing about the lands. But these
lands have a real value, and by the
proposed disposition of them, they
cannot be squandered.- North feld
(Rice County, Journal.
Year: 1877

That we were cheated, or rather
that we cheated ourselves, made a
business venture that it was expected
would work great good to the State
and be of pecuniary benefit to every
business man, and failed in our calcu.
lations, is no reason for refusing to
pay what we justly owe. Such a
course cannot be defended on any
grounds, either in law, justice, busi
ness or good morals. Honest and
upright business men, to whom a
good name is above riches, would re-
pudiate such course, and we should
hate to believe that Minnesota had
not a majority of such men-Red Wing
Argus.
Year: 1877

on principle, of paying the debt. The
purchase of a few more members
would give a majority to carry the
measure through. Now suppose the
present proposition to settle the debt
at half it's face is rejected; and the
bondholders spresent their whole
.olalnay they "a l1ld spend a million OF
two on the H8gislature and still be
|shcad a million or two.-St. Peter


Tribune.
Year: 1877




We shall vote in favor of the settle
ment for the following reasons:


First-We believe it is the best
proposition that the bondhOlders will
ever make.


Second-We believe it to be prop
osition that the State cannot afford to
reject.
In six years more the bonds and
interest, will amount to $4,000 900.
The bondholders now propose to ac-
cept in full payment of the old bonds,
new bonds running thirty years bear.
ing per cent. interest for about fifty
per cent, of the amount now due.


1t does seem to us that it would be
an act of supreme folly for the people
of the State to reject this proposition.
Glencoe Register.
Year: 1877

There is one thing it will be well to
consider in connection with the rail-
road bond question. The Legislature
has the right to authorize the pay
ment of these bonds, dollar for dol
lar, without submitting the question
to the people, and you will find nearly
one-half Of any Legislature in favor,
Year: 1877

A VERY BAD WAY.


There is but one way in which the
State can avoid responsibility, and
that is by reputation, and that can
only be done by the direct violation
of one of the most prominent princi-
pies of law and morals, which pro-
vides that no individual or corporation
shall be allowed to take advantage OF
it's own wrongful acts. When we
consider the fact that the legality Of
the bonds is now fully established.
and that without doubt they must be
paid sometime, and that the bond
holders offer to relinquish their claim
if paid fifty per cent. of their face, we
see no reason why these bonds should
not be paid, and the stigma of thei,
reputation removed from our State
NORTH field (Rice County Mail.
Year: 1877




We draw these conclusions: First,
that the State is holden for them
second, that the delay in the matter
is having all the effect of reputation
and dishOnOr upon the credit Of our
State third, that the present propO-
SitiOn is a compromise arranged last
winter, and that it is regarded by
those who secured it as the most ia
vorable it was possible to secure at
that time, and more favorable than
can be obtained in the future; fourth,
that it is just and equitable PROPOSE
ton. and as favorable to the State as
she ought to ask.


1t is on these grounds that we favor
a settlement on the basis Of the pres
ent proposition. We do not ask, is it
the most favorable that can ever be
had, for if it were possible to play
the bully and brOw-beat the holders
into other terms, it might be to their
injustice, and our dishonor. Is it fair
and equitable! should be the query,
and if answered in the Affirmative, we
should vote and labor for the removal
of this stain from the skirts of our
fair young State. The fact remains
that the proposition now offered is a
compromise, that it is come down
a yielding up of vast sum which the
holders might legally claim, and in
this way is brought to a fair and jus.
tifiable basiS-U,abdshd Herald.


TO GO FARTHER WILL BE TO FARE


WORSE.


l. .scsv@ 70 Il
! this Is the last time the railroad bond
question will ever be submitted to a
J vote. 1t is held by the most eminent


jurists that the Legislature has full
power to provide for the payment OF
the obligations authorized by the con
, stitution. This being the case, the
| Legislature may provide for payment
of the bonds, and the people will have
to stand it. Our public menlare be
coming less and less afraid of this
subject, and each Legislature viii


nearer approach the belief that the
, bonds should be paid in full. aud the
State will find herself taxed for thu
payment of 100000 and upwards
| while by accepting the proposed com
t promise we will save at least one-half
: 1t seems pretty easy way out o
5 an enormous sdebt.-Uindom Reporter
I THE DEBT CAN BE PAID WITHOT'


FEELING THE BURDEN.


BY adopting the proposed amend


ment to the constitution on the 1T


of next month, we place the 5OO.OO


acres of land beyond the reach OF an


future legislative scrambhngs TO
% spOils in that direction, and max
l. them good basis for the settlemen
e of this old bond debt, and in such
y manner that we shall scarcely feel tn
j. burden. By the method propose
N about two years interest on the whol
" debt, assuming that they should ALT
+, settled on the basis proposed by n
Year: 1877

Is published ly the Land Department of the
Kansas Pacific Railway Company, to supply
the large and increasing demand for jnforma
ton respecting Kansas, and especially the mag
aid Of the cons ruction OF its road. This grant
comprises
Year: 1877

A WHOLE LIBRARY.-In present
ing young friend with Webster's
Unabridged Dictionary, we have
given him q achole H6rary-the
most remarkable and complete com
pendium Of human knowledge ever
published in a single volume. A
man may purchase Bible first,
and then hymn book, if be be in
elined to psalm singing, but the
third book should be Webster's
Unabridged, as it will prove a great
fountain of intellectual light, and
will be worth a hundred times its
cost to any family that pretends to
keep up with the civilization of the
age. Industrial 10e.
Year: 1877

THERE are minds so habituated
to intrigue and mystery in them
selves, and so accustomed to decep-
tlon, disingenuousness and cunning
in consequence, that they cannot be
straightforward, and cannot accept
plain fact for plain reason, if it be
possible to devise an answer that is
obscure, illogical, arbitrary, or pug
nacious.
Year: 1877

The Governor received us cord.
tally at his Executive chambers. He
is hale, pleasant gentleman, well
advanced in life, but we'll preserved.
He brings to the executive chair the
experience of over quarter of a
century of an active business career.
To Treasurer Kuehn and Sec
retary Doyle we are under obliga-
tions for courtesies extended in
their different departments. The
State cannot get more efficient off
GERS to fill the positions these able
gentlemen occupy.


GENERAL:


During our sojourn here of sew.
eral days, we have received aid
and attention from members of the
Senate and Assembly which we
duly appreciate. At che Democrat
Office we found the paper fourishine
under the new management,


"SAM."


1t would be hard for me to close
a letter without alluding to Tllden's
namesake. My business did not
Year: 1877

can principle, In contradistinction to that
ofthe next freest Government now known,
where long and faithful service is repaid
with formal titles, tremendously bestowed,
as In recent instance. We submit these
views not only to him to whom alone they
now have practical application, but to the
whole people, as matter of principle, and
ask that they be affirmed.


And now, in common with all others,
coufessing the great debt of the country to
the retiring President, and predicting its
appreciation will never be less, whether he
remains in private or appears in public in
in the future, we take leave of him with
such feelings as his signal deeds inspire.
Year: 1877

There will be no interregnum in the
Presidential office. President elect-Hayes
will be sworn in to-day at noon in the
White House. This course was decided
upon after consultation with number of
prominent Republican leaders. 1t was
concluded that the administration of the
oath on Sunday would not invalidate II,
and that the inaugural ceremonies could
follow the next day. This will then be
the programme, and it is hoped that on
Monday demonstration will take place
BETTING the day and occasion.
Year: 1877

WAY Is 1t that the Pension Office and other
bureaus of the Interior Department are not to
be closed to morrow, as has always been the
custom on Inauguration Day, for the purpose
of allowing the employees to participate In
the celebritionl All the Departments, in
cluding the Government Printing Office,
should be closed TO- morrow so as to give all
this opportunity.
Year: 1877

WHEN the clock at st. Aloysius strikes twelve
to-day, Mr.. Emotional Insanity SPRINGER
will have finished a career of political useless
ness such as will be found in the record of no
other living man.
Year: 1877

The panic of doubt and fear has vanished,
and now that opinion, which is sure of itself
will be the one to which all men will rally.
Great Is belief; 1t leadsc aptive to the doubling
heart
Year: 1877

A good way OF tackling this servant dilll-
Guilty is to commence by looking the facts IN
the face as we find them, and then analyze
them by the rule Of "put yourself In her
place." The very word servant, to commence
with, should be buried along with Its other
dead aud dying relatives, the serf, the vassal,
slave, ,menisl and other titles. The difficulty In
our dropping the obnoxious name partly lies In
the endless variety OF work assigned to, and ox-
pected from those persons. When we hire a
bookkeeper, we do not expect him to drive
our dray, but when we hire cook we expect
her to run laundry, and assist In the educa-
tion of the children. There Is not a man,
in any walk of life, who is expected to be
such jack all-trades as our girl in her
sphere OF maid-of all.work. Our well.estab-
l!shtd family mansion Is combination of
restaurant, sewing. ma chimes, plain and fancy
bakery, Laundry, carpet-sweeping, wood.
splitting, securing, baby-tending, not to
speak Of chickens, pigs and cows, which coun.
try people, in and out OF the city, are addicted
to. To have all this work we'll done by male
labor, |. would, according to the size of the
house aud family, take from three to six or
more men, at salaries varying from forty to a
hubuINu uOIIiI5 per nlOnLn. DuJ In most
cases, in this blessed country of ours, one or
two "hired girls" worth, say three dollars a
week, are supposed to be competent to under
take the job, or else, what is even worse, If
the "man of the house" is too poor or too
stingy to pay these three dollars, the "lady of
the house" falls to herself and Invariably
fails either by running her health through
oyerwork, or by gradually letting things go
and leaving them undone from sheer inability
TO do them.


Hired girls are ignorant, unreliable, and
Objectionable in many ways, for the simple
reason that no inducements are offered to q
better class of women to take their place. II
common labor is at discount on account Of
the bountiful supply Of common laborers, the
wages we pay them should not control the
price OF skilled labor; but since they do and
since we permit it, skilled labor does not even
offer ITSELF not only because the price is low
but also because there is a social stigma at
tached to the labor resulting from the low
price and its consequences.
Year: 1877

The following, from the Washington
Republican, Grants late organ, and the
staunch advocate of the rule dragonnade
Of states, shows what sacrifices of con-
science the paper must have been max
ing, at that time or is making now:


1t is most extraordinary that after one
hundred years of existence, there should
be any well-intormed person in the coun-
try having so littIe acquaintance with the
principles upon which the Union rests as
to suppose that the recognition of tho
federal government, or any of its brau-
ches, is essential to the validity of the
governments of the States, when the
whole history of the relations subsisting
between the two Jurisdictions has been
to establish the reverse rule, leaving the
States as free and independent in respect
OF all matters reserved to them. as if they
had remained sovereign,ies. SO that
they do not attempt to set up other than
republican forms of government, and eff
ciently maintain domestic order, there is
no more authority for the interference
VA NhN S"Siei Po"Cl W uStSIhliuc any
question OF right or title to Office, as be-
tween contesting parties, than there
would be to interpose between the aspi-
rants to the presidency of Mexico, nor as
much, in fact for in that case, if action
were taken, it would be for cause, and in
pursuance of international law, in the
interes, of the peace of the world while
here, as yet, there is neither occasion nor
authority for the act. 1t is not disputed
that In case Of violence beyond the pow
er of the local authorities to quell, and
the Executive of the State did not see
fit to call upon the general government,
the exigency might arise in which it
would be justified in invading its terri
tory, TO evade bloodshed but even in
such case only when it became appar
ent that the militia of the State was in
adequate to the task Of subduing the in.
surrection.
Year: 1877

We have heard nothing for n week or
two of the proposed "Cotton Oil Mill"
in Van Buren,, and should be very sorry
to know that our capitalists, are to let it
"slccp the sleep that knows no waking"
We find concise and well timed article
on the subject setting forth the advan-
tages, as we'll as the practieability, of
mills on a smaller scale than at Little
Rock. This is what the Des Arc Citizen
says:


The machinery complete for two
press mill will cost 5000 delivered rea-
dy for shipment, in Dayton, Ohio. Ev
erything complete for four-press mill,
costs $4,000. A two-press mill will work
up six tons Of seed, por day, and four
press mill will work up eighteen tons
per day. SO it will readily be seen that
it will be more profitable to employ the
machinery of four press mill. We will
make Il calculation Of the profits Of a
two-press mill The two items of oil
and cake from a ton of seed, are worth
on the market, say, S22, exclusive Of the
lint and other refuse. Estimating the
seed to be worth $40 per ton at the mill
the Little Rock Oil Mill is now Offering
s. per tony that would leave sl2 profit
on each ton of seed worked up, less the
running expenses. Six tons day would
amount to s72, The principal expense
would be for labor, which should hardly
exceed $40 per day. That would fur
nsh twenty-iour laborers at ST so per
day, and n superintendent at 81 per day,
Ten dollars more per day will pay for
an engineer and book i-keeper and 81
more daily will for insurance. The
hulls from the seed furnishes all the fuel
needed. That will leave profit of $50
per day, or at least 800 per woo5, on
an Investment Of $4,000. According to
this, a proprietor can realize about fifty
per cent RaF ansam on fS S s Are MS
going up where the raw material can be
| had.


Now there is q way TO have n mill
running in Des Arc by the lst OF next
November. Let our people organize Il
stock company, subscribe as much as
they can spare from their business, and
what they then lack can be obtained
elsewhere from those who have money
to invest. We heard n farmer say, few
days ago that he could subscribe forty
tons OF cotton seed as stock, to be dclv-
cred, next fall, No doubt 400 or 500 ton
Of seed might be subscribed as stock
by farmers living near town.


The demand for the products of the
cotton seed oil mill increases, annually,
although new mills are being erected all
the time to supply this great and grow
ing demand. The goods are becoming
a staple for export, and there is no dan
ger OF putting too much Of them on the
market. They will bring the gold rs
readily as cotton.


There is another advantageous side of
the matter, in local point OF view to be
looked at. Such mill will pay out in
cash, an average of overSl00 per day to
be put in circulation in the community.
The above calculation is for the smallest
sized mill put up. A four-press mill will
yield three times the products, with only
II little more than twice the running ex-
pensc.
Year: 1877

whether man pays one dollar poll-tax,
for school-purposes or hundreds for gen.
cral county revenue, we are vol aware
does not change the value Of his vote If
votes for this purpose are to be purchas-
ed with dollars worth of coffee, as the
Herald man intimates, let them 10y in
the Rio and go to work. We shall sim.
ply ssk our intelligent, thinking, reading
voters to reason from facts, to figure
from the data before them, then to de-
eide as their good common sense shall
dictate, as sensible men always do. We
have better opinion Of our people than
the Herald man and his aids, seem to
give them credit for. There is more
intelligence, good practical hard sense
among the citizens Of Crawford county
than they seem to be willing to admit.
They have mistaken the material of
which our county is made up.


Let the good citizens Of Alma not be-
lieve we hold them responsible for all
the dishes we have been treated to. AS
they have sufficient number now at
work in the +" cess pools" let them now
see to it that they have some advocates
among tho greater number, to-wit, the
intelligent, thinking people of the
county. -. {. u.
Year: 1877

From the Little Rock Star we obtain
the following facts concerning the life Of
the late Joseph Brooks. Mr.. Brooks
was man of much more than ordinary
force OF character, possessing marked
individuality, which, in his eventiul ca
reer, gave him commanding and won
deriul influence among his fellows:


"Mr. Brooks was born in Kentucky,
and in early life emigrated to Ohio. AT
terwards he resided in st. Louis where
he edited religious paper When the
the war broke out he joined the
ranks Of the Union army, and stood by
the flag till the close. He was an ardent
and uncompromising champion Of liber-
ty, its broadest and most humane sense
and by his eloquence, readiness at rep
artee, force OF logic, and extraordinary
power of argument, proved himself an
Incompatible advocate Of the cause in
which he was enlisted. He came to this
State with the army in 1868, and settled
in Phillips County. In 1868 he was elect
ted to the Constitutional Convention,
and from that time resided in this city.
His history, since then, is known in its
main features, to all our readers. At the
time Of his death he was Postmaster OF
this city. His age was tiity-six. Peace
to his ashes, and may the Giver Of all
Peace lift, with Il tender hand, the
weight OF sorrow from the hearts of his
stricken family
Year: 1877

The schooner Baracoa, of Booth Bay,
Me-, discharged cargo at Ponce, Porto
Rico. The customs authorities there de-
clared that there was an informality
about the matter, although no fraud
was charged, and fine of $4,000, gold,
was levied against the vessel. No time
was given the captain to consult with the
owners at home, and the officer was in
trouble. A Spanish gunboat lay along
side the schooner and threatened at any
moment to take possession of her. The
captain of the schooner not approaching
the position in which he was placed,
slipped her chains and at half-past eleven
o'clock A. NJ. went off like bird, and be-
fore the astounded and dumbstruck Off
cials on the gunboat could collect their
senses. She got all sail set, and was
three miles away in the briefest possible
time. AS she went off she sprung her
luff and saluted the port with her colors
three times three. The gunboat was sent
in chase as soon as she could get up
steam. but the schooner was out OF sight
in q very short time.