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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-11-20
COMPTON,.
COMPTON,.
From our own correspondent.
MIR. ManlOye is about again.


From our own correspondent.
MIR. Manlove is about again.
Bulcht ring is the order OF tie day
Rufus Darling, OF Alexandria, is up on a
short visit.
Another new conner from Clear Lake, Iowa,
George McNamer. W. should be glad to-
have him settle here.
Mr.. Israel West had Il bone in his foot
broken by a hog tralnping upon it. Queer,
but true.
Mr.. Nelson, the 1lusionist gave IN enter
tainlnent at the school house Saturday evcn-
ing. The audience WAS rather small owing
to the short notice given, but were well
pleased with the performances. Mr. Nelson
is al Italian and Az exceptionally fne violin
ist. He gives all entertainment ut tie Oak
Valley school house Sec. on Tuesday even
ing. There seems to he great scarcity OF
Thanksgi>in turkey, but rabbits are plenty
let lis be thankful for rabbits MUGGlSs.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-11-20
Proposal for Wood

Sealed proposals will be received for
schoo! District No. !, until l2 o'clock ~
Nov. 20, 1879, ct the Office fJohn N. Her.
ron, District Clerk, for wood in the follow
ing proportions;
. cords halt Of green and half Of dry Tama
araclk feet long.
3 3cords half of green and half of dry talna-
rack feet long.
5 cords of green oak feet long.
: co'ds OF green oak feet long.
To lie delivered at the school house in Wa
dena on or before December 25, 1879.
26tf 4: c.. PEAK. Director.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-11-20
Is 1t M2>2der?

Mr.. Jones, living in Deer Creek, Otter
Tail county, about five miles from Wadena,
is pension soldier, and as such is exempt
under the law from paying poll tax. Not
withstandirg this Tact, he was sued some
time ago for poll tax to the amount Of So 90
and judgment rendered against him 10y a
justice Of the peace named w. S. Heathcote
for that amount, together with costs, making
total of 5000, and an execution was issued
against the goods and chattles of Mr.. Jones
to satisfy the Judgment. The papers were
taken to the sheriff Of the county to be serv-
I'd but, being aware OF the circumstances, he
refused to do SO, as did also his deputy, M.
Knudson. Their next alternative was en-
braced and a man named Wilson sworn in
as deputy constable and in company with
two men named Sanford and Hoyt last Mon
day repaired to Mr.. jones' house during his
absence (he being employed in the Wadena
miil) and proceeded to carry of large
breaking plow to satisfy the judgment. Mrs,
Jones objected to this plan and tried to pre-
vent the men from carrying off the plow,
which they had partially raised to the wagon
box, and in doing SO placed herself between
the plow and the wagon. The men con-
tinued their operations regardless and in
some unaccountable manner gave the woman
terrible jam by forcing the plow upon her.
She managed to get to the house and Mr.
Jones WAS sent for. Early Tuesday morning
a neighbor was dispatched for DR.. Cromett,
but being out OF town he did not get the
word until nearly noon, He reports that
her injuries are internal and very serious
but hopes they will not prove fatal. These
are the facts in brief as near as can now be
obtained. Who the faulty parties are re-
mains to be sesn. One thing is very evident
and that is that Justices of the Peace in this
frontier country should either be restricted
in power or their qualification to fill the Office
more strictly fixed by law with view to
securing men of more lega; understanding to
dispense jnsticc. :
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-11-20
.TNeGiSt.

Thanksgiving one week from day, and
we have 10 Turkey The FARMER is one
year old to-day. Correspondents will
please refrain from advertising themselves
in communications. We have advertising
columns for that purpose. The wind
whisfled wildly Wednesday,. Presson &
Ostrander have nearly completed their ad-
dition Fritz thinks he will have to
change his location. Mr. Strasburg is erect
ing good stable. There was show in
town Tuesday night Tor children. . Some
men supposed to have an interest in the vii
lage made themselves conspicuously absent
at the citizens meeting. :. Where the ulti-
mate end justifes all ho b means, spare
not the means .....A direct road from Wa
dena to Shell River is to he surveyed and
cut Immediately. 81 say we all. Colds
are somewhat prevalent. MIR. Darling is
to survey the new road to Shell River {. . ::
Mr. Williams, Of Wrighstown, was in town
Monday and paid us for two years of the
FARMER. .. Peter Brate thinks it would be
good scheme to have a shooting match on
Thanksgiving day Mr.. Skinner is expect
ed in few days.. Waden. had dis
tinguished visitor Tuesday >. Many farm
ers would make more at hauling in wood
than they do at hunting deer. :. .Pcrham has
go ID sidewalks on her front street BETTER
pull up the town we'll and spread it over, the
park for a skating rink. The average
youth OF Wadena looketh ,nournully around
for a frozen puddle to skate upon.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-11-20
The Farmer as O. Hunter.

Hunting is al healtlful. and exciting re-
creation, and in some c:,. e proves remuner-
ative as we'll as enjoyable; but should not
be INDUCED in to such an extent that yonr
business suffers in consequence. The sue
cesstul farmer is just as much business
man as the merchant, and farming NAV he
made just as much science as the study Of
geology. Therefore to make farming sue
cessful in the hi CHEST de gree it mast neces-
:ariIy receive the careiul thought and atten-
ton of the manager. There is no season o.
the year when farmer can turn his atten-
ton to something else: other than his bnsi-
ness with ultimate profit to himself. A
merchant would not think Of closing his
store 20 60 hunting for days at time, and
il he did you would call him foolish. Is
not your business as important to you as the
merchants is to him! If the merchant can
afford to hire somebody to conduct his busi-
ness during his absence for a short period, ,
we'll and good. The same with the farmer.
If his business is such that he can afford to
hire his work done and his business does not
suffer by his absence that is well enough.
There are many things which farmers in this
country may do through the winter months
to enhance the value oftheir property. The
thrifty farmer does not wander through the
wood; day in and day out with a gun on his
shoulder, but is all the while deyising means
to add to the attractiveness Of his home and
the profit Of his business This is not to say
that hunting is objectionable in the farmer
any more than in amy other business man,
and onl :, becomes SO when he allows any,
thing which should be done about his prop
erty to remain undone while he indulges in
the chase "All work and no play makes
Jack dull boy" but reverse the words
"work'' and t'ploy'' AMI you will have an
infinitely worse boy than you would under
the original adage.
,'Nothing succeeds like success but sue
cess seldom crowns the efforts Of any person
in more than one direction, j, e. A man
seldom realizes the full measure of SUCCESS
in more than one particular. The lawyer
cannot combine mercantile business with
his law practice and he individually success
til at either. The doctor could not he an
editor and doctor at the same time and
achieve any eninence III one or the other.
So it is with the farmer. His farm is his
business and profession, and he becomes
professor who masters the art of farming just
rs much as the man who goes through COL
lcge and masters the knowledge OF. mcdi.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-11-20
{ TERMS $3.50 PER YEAR
! IN ADVANCE.

manage to get the peace; as we would like
little Of it among us: bu: for the happy, i
will come in its place, all right, if we can
only get little of the other.
Still they come and plenty room for more,;
Mr.. Welsh from Iowa settled on n. L. II
of Sec. % and has put him up house and
intends stopping with us.
Any enc having a fair yoke of oxen or
steers to trade for horses or sell for part casl,
will fud good chance if he will Just step
down this way TRAMP
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-11-20
LOCAL..

Charlie Stuart is expected home the latter
part Of this week.
Remember the oyster supper at the school
house Thanksgiving.
Fresh oysters at Burch & Co.'S.
We see by some Of our exchanges that the
weather is growing cooler.
Gen. Thomas statue was unveiled in
Washington yesterday with imposing csre-
monies.
Anton Gates has moved to Wadena with
his family and started blacksmith shop op-
posite Mr.. Luce's residence.
m. Bement, new conner from Iowa. il
building small house Oh Third street torl Il.
residence. He will team during the winter.
E. E. Luce, Esq, is over to .rgus Falls
courtng, His wife remains at home and
does not seem to make mach ado about it.
The wives OF Messrs. Meyer & Coon came
upon them suddenly last night by the train.
The boys were good deal surprised, as they
were not looking for them.
Mr.. Canterbury has first class lorse-collar
makerin the person of Mr. Burton. They
are now making ho:s= collars speciality, and
the collars are better than can be found in
common market.
We understand that Mr.. Fred Lowe, who
was run over by the cars at this place some
time ago, is not dong as well as at first ex-
pected he would, and it is said he will have
to lose both legs just above the ankle.
Mr.. +. Berry. who has been one of the
head workmen on the Wadena mill since its
commencement last June, has gone to his
home in Pine City. He will return to Wa
dena next spring if lie succeeds in selling
his farm at Pine City.
The farmers of the State shou1d fight sbv
OF pair of sharpers who represent them
selves as Blanchard & Bcstwick of Mi n ,po-
lis and who are ostensibly selling agrlcultu-
raj implements or establishing agencies for
their sale in the rural districts but who are
fleeing and swindling the farmers instead.
There is no such firm in Minneapolis nor has
there ever been, so far as is known. and tho
pair are doubtless frauds.
Theodore Manner, u practical machinest,
who has been looking for location. has
purchased the house and lot of James Lamb
and has returned to Hastings where he has
a brass and iron foundry He proposes to
dispose OF his business there as soon as 70 Isl
bic and move to Wadcna and establish q
foundry and machine shop here THUS they
come.
The family of Mr.. Burton were II ling
through the timber day Or two since, and
suddenly came upon two monstrous u;ks
engaged in angry combat One OF them was
thrown just as the team came in sight of them
and the boys set their small bulldog upon
him. The dog leaped upon the monster and
grabbed him by the throat, hanging on with
true bulldog grit until the boys had knocked
him on the head with an ak. The ether
buck stood a short distance OF paving the
earth and trying his horns on the adiuin:ng
trees, but as luck would have it the bows
had 40 gun and consequently conld not bag
him so handi!y. 1t is very seldom tia. deer
are killed with an Ak.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-11-20
WING kIVE2.

From our Special Correspondent.
Every t!si,ig seem tv have assumed quie
attitude. Farmers have all their tall work
done and some appear te he burrowed for the
winter others making rieparations for spend
ing their winter i'll the lnlnbe: woods.
Our county commissioners have not as yet
arrived from the Shell River country OH the
survey Qfa county road to Vernla!e.
II ana glad TO bear Of their beirg one
peaceable and happy settlement in Wadena
Co. and If Mr.. t'OEce in while" will please
torn us out here in Wirg Rive: how tl:cy
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-11-20
PARKERS PRAia.F,

From our own correspondent.
This warm weather is just the thing for
the farmers to finish up their fall plowing,
and other fall work.
John G. Nelson is still threshing, and will
finish the last setting this week.
Our church is to be furnished with two
new stoves.
Mr.. La Rue, our school teacher, is giving
writing lessons at the school room on
Wednesday and Friday evenings.
DR.. Toward has become member of the
Parker's Prairie Cemetery \ socation Lots
ready for sale,
Alexandria still gets the most Of our wheat.
FARMER SHARK.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-11-20
LEAF RIVER MILLS

From our own correspondent.
Leaf River Mill is situated five one-half
miles from Wadena and is now rnnniny A.
full blast, Wright & Adams proprietors.
The bridge is ready to Ike put in and in
few days the crossing will be all right.
You may just say to Wonzer that we will!
be easy on him this time but if he attempts
to feed US on kerosene and lucifer matches
ag ain we shall have all investigation.
PROGRESS.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-11-20
T%%%} WADENA MINI. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1879!

There is a time and place for everything,
but the proverbially "funny" man is no re-
spector of persons or occasion when he wish
es to relieve himself Of some meant-to. he
witty idea, <a
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-11-20

cine. In whatever vocation a man may
choose to earn his livelihood that becomes
his business, and the more time he dcvotes
to labor and thought in that direction the
greater will be the measure of his success
But let him divide his time, this day to one
thing and the next to something entirely in
another direction and the chances are that
he succeeds at nothing. o; course there are
times when the farmer can hunt with profit,
not pocuniarily but as a pan;cca to bring rest
to his tired brain and prepare him for the
40 k to come. There is no objection to
hunting in the farmer at all except to him.
self, and it. is he who is to decide for himself f
whether he can afford to hunt or do any
thing else outside of his farm.
If his stock is all we'll provided for against
the cold blasts of winter; if he has no fenc-
ing, no cordwood, ties or logs that he could
get olt if he chose; no Improvements to lie
made to his house; nothing to read which
would give him valuable hints about his
farm work; his machenery all we'll protect
ed and so taken care Of that everything will
60 to work like clock work next season, in
fact if there is nothing for him to DO about
the farm, then hunting becomes good
amusement Every day shortens mall s
life, and sweetest is the sleep of him who
utilizes every God-g:ven moment to the
best ADVANTAGE
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-11-20
Notice..

| have seasoned tioerin! and siding for
sale 1T Hutton. Car load JUS: received
Also span Of horses and yoke of oxen fer
sal "r trade, =,
2Gtf c. NJ MALrBY
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-11-20

Grant and the much mooted third term
business is still l'eing discussed by the
y national papers: That That Mr.. Grant does. moi
desire a third term is u fact from his o1,,,
hp. That lie is a magnificent American NJ,
one can deny trnthFull> that ther. are other
men equally as good statesmen forthe next
president no one has attempted to question.
Then let the great hero rest at least a short
four years, and honor some -four time tried
Statesmen with the Office of Chief executive
MAARlED-ln Wadena on the 10th inst
ny R"v. William Den!ev, Robert Neil, OF
Ottor Tai! county, to Mary Hacker of Wade
ia county.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-11-20
Cl;lj with t,le Earaner

The FARMER will be sent to any address
together with the following named journals
at the prices set opposite their IL .mcs, for
cash in advance:
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-10-09
j." THE PENNY YE MEANT TO GTE."

There's funny tale of a stingy man,
Who was none too good, but mlSht nave
been worse,
Who went to his church on Sunday night,
And carried along his well filled purse.
When the sexton came with his begging plate,
The church was but dim with the candies
The stiney man fumbled all through his purse,
And chose a coin by touch and not sight.
It's an odd thing now that guineas should be
So like unto pennies in shape and size,
"I'I give a penny" the stingy man SAID,
"The poor must not gifts OF pennies
despise."
The penny fell down with clatter ana ring!
And back in his seat leaned the stingy man.
1.-THE world is so full of the poor" he thought,
81 can't help them ALL give what can.
Ha, ha, how the sexton smiled. to be sure;
To see the gold guinea fall into his plate!
Ha! Ha! how the stingy mans heart was
wrung,
Perceiving his blunder, but just too late!
No matter" he said sin the Lords account
That guinea of gold Is set down to me.
They lend to Him who give to the poor;
1t will not so bad an investment be-.
"Na, ma mOn," the chuckling sexton cried
out; -
He knew it was only by accident
That out o. thy fingers the guinea fell!
'He keeps an account, no doubt, for the puir;
But in that account He'll set down to thee
Ma mair o. that golden guinea, my mon,
Than the one bare penny We meant TO gre"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-10-09

EDUCATING HoRsEs.-Ia-Door and
Ont says: We once saw an aged lady
drive a high spirited horse attached to q
carriage down a steep hill, with no hold
back straps upon the harness, and she
assured us that there was no danger, for
her son accustomed his horses to all
kinds of usage and sights that common
ly drive the animal into a frenzy OF fear
and excitement. If a colt is never al
lowed to get an advantage, it will never
know that it possesses a power that man
can not controls; and if made familiar
with strange objects, it will not be skit-
fish and nervous. If horse is made ac-
customed from his early days to have OBJ
Jects hit him on the heels, back and hips,
he will pay no attention to the giving
out Of harness or of a wagon running
against him at an unexpected. moment.
A gun can be fired from the back Of a
horse, an umbrella held over his head,
a buffalo robe thrown over his neck, a
railroad engine pass close by, his heels
bumped with sticks, and the animal take
1t all as a natural condition of things, if
only taught by careful management that
he will not be injured thereby.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-10-09

and The dove-like Innocence, IS human
qualities and belongings Brilliant and
overdressed women suggest cockatoos,
and swan-like snecks,'' and ducks,
"dear little ducks" are common enough
phrases. Why ducks, the most phleg-
matte and unromantic of birds, should
have been chosen for term of endear-
ment is past finding out. We are not
like them, let us hope, when we become
affectionate. Mr.. Spoonful, on the con-
trary (still derived from duck is always
represented in the comedy as, a yo-
racious villain, much more typical, one
would think. s a &sAuga7f7 sU
ssTo be GOOSE is always used in
modern parlance in an uncompliment-
airy sense. Yet geese are redeeming
their reputation. They We're worshiped
in Rome, because one gave an uncon-
scious and opportune cackle; they are
now discovered by the modern artists to
be very picturesque, pretty and amiable
birds. Not so much sillier than their
neighbours, either. However, they have
given the world Il prOverb, and to abe
a goosen is to be condemned to the
lowest estate. 1t was perhaps a wild
goose to which Malcolio referred when
he talked so learnedly in prison with the
false Sir Topaz: a5i ~ Al
.Cloaon-What is the opinion Of Pythagoras
concerning wild fowls
.MalrOtiO-That the soul OF our grandam
might happily inhabit bird.
/. Gloom What thinkest though of his
opinion!
Maluolio-I think nobly of the soul, and no
way approve his opinion. -
This idea Of the transmigration Of the
soul is one which repays "a little study;
it was the beginning Of Spiritualis,m,
materialism," all the forms of that
vague effort which man has made
through all ages to penetrate the dense
curtain which we call death, which God
has let down between us and the knowl-
edge we SO ardently crave. 1t was not
an unbeautiful belief, that the souls Of
the dead came back to as, sometimes in
the form of bird, singing beneath our
windows, feeding from our hands.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-10-09
Late Views Of the Age 81 IL NsI

Biologists, astronomers, and ply
cists alike have hitherto been bsfAdf|
their attempts to set up any satidacH
kind of chronometer which will apPrsi
imately measure geological time e
thus give us some Chew TO the dntf
of our globe. 1t is therefor val
noting that Mr.. Mellard Reade, Z
Liverpool, has lately contributed q =
Royal Society a very suggestive pe
in which he endeavors to graph y
the question by employing the limeaes
rocks of the earth's crust As ai index !
geological time. Limestones hAse g
in course of formation from TIE eall ;.
known geological periods, bit 7 ~
appear that the later found stsss
more calcareous than the eariicr, ana'
there has been a gradually pr0Ge
increase of calcareous matter, lne
extensive deposition Of carbonaEs
lime over wide areas Of the ocean ~
tom at the present day is sutic'ent} 3
tested by the recent soundings = Y
Challenger. According to the sa'sa &
estimate, the sedimentary crust g Y
earth is at least one mile inaveraee 49,
thickness, of which probably one.
consists of calcareous matter. u IS
ing the origin of this calcareous n n.
it is assumed that the primitive foen
the original crust were Of the Nv, 4, Il
granite or basaltic rocks. p
disintegration of such rcczs
careous and other seali Il,
deposits have been formed
amount of lime salts in wala
drain districts made up OF granlsss
basalts is found, by q comp IL 1
analyses, to be on an average a s /
parts in 100000 parts Of water
further assumed that the exeessea
Of igneous rocks, taking - ~
throughout all geological tame, Il. |
to the exposures of sedimentaIy - ~
ratio Of about one to nine. fien
and other data, Mr.. Reada egn 49,
that the elimination OF the 49, 49,
matter now found in all the seolla a.
strata must have occupied ~ ~. Z,
600, 900 of years. This, there.uss -
resents the minimum age o. sne ..;es I
The author infers that the lorna cs's
the Laurentian, Cambrian. ana go IS
strata must have occupied soo y IA
OOO.O 600 of wears; the Old re- vsi
s.ono ~ IL, ;forous. and the ~.
lite systems, another 200 e, ~ ~ ~
all the other strata, the remaln,ns
600, 600. Mr., Reade is, there Is b |
to believe that geological tll ,:,,' NJ ~
enormously in excess OF tne !. Ia ~ 81
by certain physicists; thar y - M
ample to allow for all the cnsn ~ II
on the hypothesis of evolunoan' faIt
Cured in the organic WORM
Eng. J academy.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-10-09
THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS
DAUGHTER.

The light house keepers daughter;
Her hair is golden as the sand;
Her eyes as blue as summer seas
That melt into the land.
Her brow and neck are whittier
Than sea foam flying on the wind;
Her mouth is rosy as the shells
That strew the coast of Ind.
The winds caress her ringlets,
That down her neck in clusters stray,
And frothy waves flow tenderly
About her feet, in play.
] love this simple maiden;
She grows upon me more and more,
And-ask the moon who twas that kissed,
Last night, upon the shore.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-10-09

AT Rhode, in Germany, dni'niR r.,
cent storm, Herr Cordes, Il besri4
Catholic priest, had just f,als = Gebt15l
a confession when a fash o. - + eoujlt
struck the church, enterea - ries.
sional and instantly killed p0