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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
Rainfall Next Summer.

Leavenworth (Kan.) Times. :. - 80. ~
The effect of winter which brings a
heavy snowfall in the Rocky Mountains is
always followed by summer that brings an
of rain TO- the Missouri valley.
This doesn't rest upon guesswork, like the
predictions of almanac makers, nor upon
the supposed influence Of certain planets,
like the forecasts Of Tice and Vennor, but is
based upon the simple scientific proposition,
which the experience Of many years has
proved to be correct, that the melting of
snow in the Rocky Mountains constitutes the
principal source Of the rainfall in all this
portion Of the continent. The snow melt.
ing in the mountains rises in tie form of
>vapor, and in this form is borne eastward
until it comes in contact with a warmer cur
rent, when it is precipitated in the form Of
rain. Dissertations taken at this: point for
twenty consecutive years show that this
rule has failed-a winter of heavy snowfall
IN the mountains if followed by an abund-
ant rainfall in this vicinity the next sum-
mer and when there is but little snow in the
mountains there is but little rain here the
following summer All accounts agree that
the fall Of snow in the mountains this win
ter is heavy and therefore, according to
this rule, we may look for an abundant rain
fall next summer. -
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
A Novel Wedding.
From the Austin (Texas) Statesman,

From the Austin (Texas) Statesman.
A few days ago, upon the Colorado, a
couple bent on marriage procured a license
and set out with one or two friends to look
up a parson. They reached the river, but
alas! the would be bride could not cross.
They were in a pickle The only parson
0n %S 1o %e Of Tas Just psse
doubled arreled shot-guns formed very
long and troublesome procession through
the minds of the two lovers: The weather
was cold, the river was up and what could
they dor One Of the escorts suggested that
he would swim the river and see, if pos
sible, the parson, who undoubtedly would
fix up plan to tie the nuptial knot. He did
SO, Found the preacher and soon had
him down on the river bank. "The
water was cold and deep and he refused
point blank to cross over ito the very great
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
A Wonderful House Sensation.

" AT the United Brethren Church at Bee
Camp, near Madison, Ind, a revival has
been in progress for some time past
Among the converts has been a beautiful
young girl aged fifteen, named Florence
Neal, who is now the wonder and sensation
of the neighborhood. For the past six days
Miss Neal has been in d trance; she mani
tests no desire for food, and has eaten moth
ing during that time except some food that
has been forcibly admin tered to her. She
first became in this condition in the church;
and was carried home, where she has lain
ever since. Ocoas ionally she seems to
come to for moment, and murmurs strange
things Of what she has g zen in heaven, and
then relapses again into death like swoon.
The other day, while her former school
teacher was there, she became for moment
con scious, and said che had seen his mother
in heaven, and she had told her that she
had asked her son. to pray, ar d shs asked
the young lady if he obeyed her wishes.
Miss Neal, at last accounts, was still in q
deathlike trance. and the neighborhood in
a fever heat of excitement. r. =.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
;. Real Estate Worth Having.

NOW 1OCk LeCCer. Tss"t;':
A recent sale Of Fifth avenue property
indicates the immense value it has reached.
The plot corner of twenty sixth street was
purchased by the Astors for $212,O0 Its
size is 80 by 1876 feet, and at this rate, land
in that vicinity is worth a million per acre.
The Astors have large extent of property
in thisayenue, which old John Jacob bought
for $3.50 per acre. They required, however,
the above mentioned plct for special uses,
and hence paid a price which would have
bought an immense uptown farm, and the
fact that Robert Lenox paid only &c. 900
to5 the thirty acre tIaet at Lenox Hin illus;
himself outwitteds in the bargain, but his
son James. lived to see one lot, containing:a
sixteenth part Of an acre, worth more than
the, entire cost of the farm, including both
principal and interest Such are some Of
the real estate changes. @'"'' ''a,'l4'5 -
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
Henry Ward Beecher and His Step.mothe'
From the New York Times

Henry Ward Beecher and His Step.mother
From the New York Times
Last evening several speakers had some
thing to say abe ut their mothers prayers,
and Mr. Beecher gave his opinion. "My
mother died" he said, when was three
years old, and I had to make her in my
imagination MY fathers second wife was
a beautiful and cultivated woman, but she
hadsno demonstrating affection: I do not
remember that fever once ran to her when
L. was in trouble, though ran away from
her a good many times. never buried my
head in her lap, I always expected criticism.
She was the mother Of my clothes and of
my food, but never the mother. of my heart.
I used to- long for a. mother that had a
bosom: built that with my imagination.
Her praying never produced any more effect
upon me than fake of snow upon slate
roof. s It did afterward, when was 9 or 10
years old. j., used. to be afraid of hell and
the devil, for ministers nsed to scare
children: The child that really and deeply
loves its, mother will not getaway from her. ="
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
Endurance Of the Horse.

Some experiments have been made in
Paris with view to determine the capacity
of the horse TO undergo the privations in
cident to d state ofssiega They showed:
a. That a horse may hold out for 25 days
without any solid nourishment, provided
It'll supplied with sufficient good drinking
water. a. That horse can subsist for
barely five days without water. g. fla
horse is well fed for 10 days. t'insuf-
fioaently provided Kiths Eaten Throughout
this period, it viii not o1ltive'the eleventh
day. One horse, from which water had
been entirely withheld for three days, drank
on the fourth day 60 iters Us gallons) with
in three minutes. a. horse which: had re-
ceived no solid nourishment for twelve
isyas 5s ii nlayerthsless in aconditien on the
twelfth day of it's fast to draw load of 625
PounossH IEI1asrs ..zKEsa,a !
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
REGISTERED BOndsnlen.

In the treasury department., writes cor
respondent at Washington, there is an in
teresting set of books printed and bound,
and each one about the size of Websters
Dictionary. But they are not open to pub
lie inspection. These books contain the
name and residence of every holder of reg
istered per cent. bonds in the United
States. The amounts range from $50,
which is the smallest, up to 81, 900 900,
which is the largest sum owned by one per
son. This latter sum is owned by w. II.
in interest every 80 days. A check for that
amount is mailed to him quarterly. At the
same time the owner of $50 bond receives
so cents. These bonds are very popular,
and, although the original holders OF them
paid but par on a little share, since
which time the bonds have advanced
to about thirteen per cent. premium,
yet the books of the company show but
comparatively few transfers. The premi-
UNI is not sufficient temptation to cause the
average holder to part with his securities.
For instance, the bonds owned by Wander
bilt are now worth about $58 600, 900 but he
holds on to them all the same. w. II. Van
derbilt individually owns more registered
United States bonds than are owned in all the
10 western, states and territories. these states
ana C0Tr1COTleS nave pOpulaCAOu VI OSc1
20, OOO, 900, yet there is held among them
but $49, OOO, 900 of registered bonds, or less
than MIR. Vanderbilt owns. In the IA south
ern states ST., ZOO, 600 are owned, or about
one-fourth the amount held by single cit
izen in New York. A prominent treasury
official, in speaking of the inequalities of
fortune as illustrated by these figures, said
that he thought it would eventually cause
discomfort. A man with the enormous
wealth now possessed by Mr.. Vanderbilt
could add to it very rapidly; in fact, it will
double itself in 20 years if put into per
cent bonds and let alone save to add the
annual interest. With the present start"
which MIR. Vanderbilt has in bonds and
dividend paying stocks, it will be an easy
matter for him to be worth at least $780,
OOO, 900 should he live 20 years hence. 1t
is said that he is worth more than half of
this sum now. Outside the Vanderbilt family
there is no, single individual who owns over
SIS 900, 900 of registered bonds. Those who
own 81 100000 are not numerous Quite
a number, several hundred in fact, in diff
ferent portions of the country, have over
800, 200. This is regarded as q nice plum,
and the man who has tugged a long time to
get the round 500, 900 can well afford to
take rest and draw $1,000 in interest every
80 days. He enjoysit almost as much as
the man who, by daily labor and applica-
ton, earns an equal income.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
INEQUALITIES Of Representation.

From the New York T ribune.
1t is now seventeen years since Nevada
was made state, yet the census Of last year
shows that her population is only SO ,265-
&antincrease of less than q, 900 since 1870.
At this rate of growth she will not get the
number of Inhabitants now required in
other states for single representative in
Congress until 1920. Meanwhile she casts
one vote in the house and two in the Sen
ate. New York with 5,O83,173 inhabitants
has thirty five votes in the two houses of
the national legislature. Each vote has
behind it Ids, 1913 people, Each Of Nevada's
three votes has behind it only 20, 755 people.
The inhabitants of Nevada may therefore
be said toEexercises~seven times as much
power in the business Of z'legislating for the
United States as one inhabitant of New
York. r. sfsaF y.irEf GsYn Iso@ a5.,>:i j.,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
The Poet Poe and Horace Greeley,

Utica IN: w Herald. - |.t'-'
They occasionally met, and the latter
often befriended the former, for he saw how
i'll adapted such a man was to contend with
poverty: Greeley was born poor, and could
live on a crust. He was a typesetter by trade,
and if he failed as an editor he could fall
back on labor. Poe, on the other hand,
was bred gentleman, and had the high
toned pride cultivated in the first families
of Virginia. He scorned his Bohemian as
sociates, and only poverty kept him from
hurting reproach on his employers: The
only one on whom he could rely for aid in
anytime of distress was Greeley, who free
ly shared with him his scanty earnings.
After Poe,s death there was demand for
his autographs, and, among others, appli-
cations were made to Greeley. II have a
number" was Greeley's dry reply to an ap-
plicant, (which you can have at first cost.
They were Poe's due bills for loans vary
ing from ten, to twenty-five dollars. Gree
ley afterwards destroyed them, in prefer
ence to exposing the misfertunes of friend.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
mo CHEAP TYPOGRAPHY,

A Veteran Electricians Review of The Selling.
." Out Schemes and His Illustrations, to Prove
!, the Hopelessness Of Meeting the Popular
Demand.
From the Pbiladelphia Tines ''''f'''
Easily duped capitalists and an unob-
servant portion of the public, ? he said, with
q smile, may fondly and eagerly follow so
attractive a will -the-wisp, but just as
sure as night follows day will they; meet
with, disapp continent. - tell, you. there lie
no way to get cheap telegraphy by compe-
tition under the present state of things. I
will give you an illustration of the manner
in which ostensible opposition lines have
been started and how they have been swal-
lowed up by the Western Union: Suppose
undertake to start such q line between
here and New York. Il fix the capital stock
at 5000, 900. OF this amount succeed in get
ting 500, 1000 subscribed. Then build the
whole line at cost not exceeding $780, 900.
That leaves nice little $50, 900 in my pocket.
not to speak of the 800 900 in stock not
subscribed for, but issued to myself for the
purpose Of giving me the controlling in
terest. now make great show of virtuous
respect for the popular demand by running
the line for a time al low rates and perhaps
without any profit. But I am aware that
there's good time coming. It comes
that is, the Western Uuion comes. Find
ing that control the stock it offers to buy
me ont. lam willing to sell a thing that I got
for nothing. agree to take say 1926, 900 for
the 500, DIN stock that was not subscribed
for, but was issued to myself. When get
that I have realized profit of just SIS, 900,
and the easy going gentlemen who furnish
ed the $4,000 to build the line do not get
one cent Of their money back. This occur
red over and over again and suppose it
will never cease. It may seem hard to un-
derstand how capitalists can be SO foolish
as to allow unprincipled schemers to dupe
them in this manner, and yet the history of
the telegraph is full Of just such illustra-
tons as have given. .,. ,,...
''There has been more than $500, 900, 900
subscribed to telegraph stock of which the
subscribers never got back cent. Until
the government interferes there can be no
hope for a better state of things, and cheap
telegraphy will be but temporary delusion.
The so-called opposition companies will be
run ostensibly in accordance with the popu-
lar demand until the organizers can get no
no more subscribers, and then they will sell
out to the monopoly"
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
Singular Cause ola Marriage.

A marriage took place at aGrange last
Wednesday which is discribedas sensation
al, romantic and remarkable. Mr.. P. Proph-
it, who is fifty years of age and has been
SO paralyzed fora + number Of years as to be
perfectly helpless, was united to Miss Annie
B. Swain, young, good looking, intelligent
:andsaccomplished lady,; The cause of this
remarkable marriage is fbeieyed to, be that
both parties are Spiritualists, and had re-
eeived, as they supposed, a; communication
from the spirit world desiring their union.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
How Our Forests are Used Up.

from the hOCQo5C0T O0uOCAa%
Our forests are rapidly going, while no
~a1equate provision is being made to restore
Them The, state Of New York has great
pafk huu OF timber inSf the northern wilder
ness, but annual fires are, making havoc in
that region. The great woods are probably
losing. more than they, gain from annual
,M losWt66 Wood. is. becoming more. scarce
and inaccessible every: year,. In many states
the forests son level ground have mostly
disappeared; p and only remain, upon high
hills OF mountains, which are not easily &C
ceessible.- The Monetary Times tells how
the forests disappear: 80 49,. "a. ~.
f. To make shoe pegs enough for American
usesfconsnmes annually I'm, 900 cords of
timber, and to make ot1r: lucifer matches
800, 900 cubic feet Of the best pine are re-
ai1uiired every Year. Lasts and boot trees
take 500. 900 cords Of birch, beech and ma
pie, and the handlessof tools SOC, 900 more.
+! The baking, of our bricks consumes 2,OOO,-
900 cords Of Wood, Or. what would cove,
with forest about SO, 900 acres of land Tele-
graph poles already up represent 500, 00O
trees, and their. annual repair consumes
about 900; 600 more. The ties of our rail
roads consume ANNUALLY thirty years growth
Of Il, 900 acres, and to. fence all our: rail-
roads would cost $45, 900. 900, with yearly
expenditure of SIS 200, 900 for repairs.
EilisI In the Northwest there has been a. very
rapid destruction of the forests, and much
+ solicitude is felt as to the future source of
the timber supply. Straw lumber has been
manu- factured to some extent in Kansas,
and is said to answer the purpose very we'll.
Straw lumber may be heTlumber of-the fu-
+ ture: d The refuse straw from the great grain
reducing states of the West be utilized.
Instead q raising trees, the land can be de-
straw for lumber. Coal for.fuel and: straw
for inside finishing may relieve the pressure
ION the forests and given them a chance to
grow" - '.':<:'6 Ii" =, - =.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
y Extravaganza in Fuel.

From the Cincinnati Commercial.
But our extravaganza in fuel diminishes
with the years and the increasing cost of
fuel. We will travel good ways, and have
then to seek communities remote: from rail-
roads, to find such wood fires as kept the
log cabins and thin frame houses of the
pioneers warm The great fire places, with
their, wide fronts and immense chimneys,
their great andirons, back-logs, fore-logs,
and sections ofsseasoned split wood four or
ve'feet long, piled high, 5are hardly known
save in remote settlements. But we make
almost an extravagant use Of coal as our
fathers did of wood, and will probably con-
time to $50 till the cost Of it compels a
study Of economy in the methods of heating
houses; and servants are instructed how to
with the least amount Of fuel.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03

distress of the young couple on the other
side. Necessity is not only the mother of
inventions, but is the mother of expedients.
The parson concluded to marry the couple
across the river and they joined hands and
the preacher, on: the opposite bank in stem
atorion VOICE pronounced the marriage see-
vice and declared them man And wife. ~
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
Should A Baby be FL

T TOu Tie CCleQGlNC Amer1Cdu
! While there is measure Of truth in the
assertion that fat babies are not necessarily
healthy, the following much quoted extract
from a physicians letter to:p Bostd1s paper is
likely to do mischief by it's ex,ravsgantscon-
e%eati tss Gt sPsstpg of
':Most infspts s sdo become thus. diseased
before they are three months old: This
stops the growth and leayes thd pQQf de-
eeived parents snothing~lbut increased in
weight to boastof and when the poor little
victim to hisoW greed and his parents;
folly gets to the end of hia tether he melts
away like butter h hot oven, and then it
is see.: how poor ain fesh) he has been all
the time. FsW@ comprehend thees broad
difference between flesh and fat. The first
is lean meat result of growth;
while fat don't care how hard and solid
it may beris the product or. accumulation
ofunexcretal excess This isl Whyno one
bets dollar on fat horse or fat man
they are ssofts and cant stay. It is every
: whit as true ST fat baby. The only Won
der is that any infant lives days from birth.
Fed before birth but three times day, he
is after. birth, subjected TO- 10 or 20 meals in
rate of about 10 pounds per year, after
birth he is permitted to fat at the rate of SO
pounds per year until chronic dyspepsia or
some acute diseass ipterfereg. Feel s0f
kitten, calf, colt, Of young robin&-they are
and remain Willie growing but lfttie more
than skin and bones and fur or feathers, be-
cause, 11nable to get enough to fatten them,
and they never die-rarely have any sort of
disease. Children are never fairly .sout of
the woods until they reach the lean age and
have pipe stem legs and arms, with no rolls
of fatty tissue anywhere about them.
Gould they be kept SO from birth and not
permitted to over indulge, 81 that their ap-
&petites would lalwhyS be reliable for plain
food, they would hake,no iufantile disease
to enrich oar pockets"
Why should the kitten, the colt, orrthe
young robin BE taken as model of infant
lie health rather than the puppy, the bear
cub, the pig, Or the young pigeon? 1t is
the nature of some animals to be lean and
healthy; of others to be fat and healthy and
there is as marked a difference in the nat
ural tendency of young children. Infants
of the same parentage and fed at the same
breast will differ in this respect and both
be healthy. Fat laid on at the rate of $50
pounds a veal" is quite another matter, and
one not reliable, we take it, to be a common
cause of anxiety. Injudicious feeding is
more apt to show itself in lack of fat, and
lack of proper apauseular tissu as we'll.
That sort of leanness. is much too common
in Young humanity. '@sa xs.&rs ss.,.u
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03

. The president Of the Des Moines, Mar
shalltown and Milwaukee railroad has adj
svertised for 1856, 900 railroad ties, which
means work en- the Milwaukee road to Des
Moines. = Ii .@t.s. = '.5,::a cgf<iog t@
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03

The father said: "Not when you lived
among the learned men and doctors at
Tabriz?'
Sand said IF others Saw him
there. not L" - ~ :
s; &1q they Vii $ ts%ptsa hs
IF Tie feart Is t1ae' ydn1 d6ild viii know
IBIS dol. N sen pray for your children;
Ehatthly h8r lot differentiation" .
And he turned his face to the wall and
died. And his five sons are the chiefs known
4s}the sFitn Stars fKoreish-pure, peace;
fur gentle true aniHa Edarard Erereti
Hole u. "Childhooda ,A2oeal."' ~. .,,ss .,.,.,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03

Have they refused to their mother all
that was due herr"
Ana las COD seemed lar away fro d { on
because the sky is higher than the temple
dome?"
Never SO near, my father, as when 3
sleep on the sands beneath the stars" =,
And his father said: ''The temple is
built, lest in cities men forget the God of
love-. II you Worship beneath the stars, it
! is that you may not lie tempted tohornor tie
stones more than Him who made the stones.
p. to4value~ His house more than Him who
dwells everywhere" ,~,~
! AT last the old man was: sick unto death
His four eldest sons had gone with their
households, one north, one south, one east,
one west. He called his youngest son td
close his eyes, and said to him:
my son, hast thou seen Satan?"
And his son said: "Neser!" }ass
-, His father said. "Yet you have been at
s'feasts Of the heads sof tribes, There the
4 revels lasted manysdays" = AZ -,
The son said: %oshe q ~, sew him there. but
His father saids tssYou lived many, many
months among princes of Carlo, where men
seek pleasure, and pay for it with money. -"
The son said: ."Others saw him there, but
not l." ),
2 Thesfatheraseid: Not when sent you to
join the caravans of merchants at Medina?'
The con said:g,, IL Others saw, him there,
not /. n>a!a .sf&rE ,s5s :.ss .dsse 40 s..sl
~ , y iasn. tFti2&a !s3r-s9 q brs sH4i tafr =
49, .-.y -.rif Egy.si !
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1881-10-24
Seras.

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laiien, ebenfalls Die Od0as Opernbaus:
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muble erri6ten, in tpel6er iiber 100
9eute Sei6dftigung finben ioGen. Die
&aufeute bon paleitine baben e5enfaus
Nftien geseiGnet, um bas l1nternebmen
fir Die Stabt gu ii6ern.
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SOr9elaoen mar, gu S. @eloitrafe unb "a
Stunben @efdnsniB perurtbeilt morben,
neil er benz Jpn eraminirenben Nnmalt
bic antmOrten Serweiserte unb Jpn burdz
Supriiseln orchte.
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bic Seerraupe eridtenen unb perni9tet
@raS uno iunses @etreibe.