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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-12-15

In Paris at meeting ofinfuential Americans
to take measures to raise subscriptions in aid of
the construction of the monument and hospital
in America to the memory of President Gar
field, a committee under the direction Of Min
lister Morton was appointed to receive sub
scriptions.
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
has become so thoroughly established in
public favor that were II not for the forget
fulness Of people 1t would not be necessary
to call attention to it's power to cure con-
sumption, which is scrofula of the lungs,
and other blood diseases, as eruptions,
blotches, pimples, ulcers, and liver COM
plaint
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Hostetter's Stomach Bittrs is as much regarded
% household necessity as sugar or coffee.
The reason Of this is that years Of experience
have proved it to be perfectly reliable in those
cases Of emergency where prompt and con-
venient remedy is demanded. Constipation,
liver complaint, dyspepsia, Indigestion and
other troubles are overcome by it
For sale by Druggists and Dealers, to whom
apply for Rostetter's Almanac for 1882
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@ Washington.

ALL the citizens of Eureka, N. NJ, about
| seventy in number, have been massacred by
Indians. The soldiers pursuing Nana's band
of Apachoa had fifteen fights with the Indians
since the campaign opened.
AT Cleveland, Ohio, thirty cars partly loaded
with merchandise, n large planning mill and O
lumber yard containing 500, 600 feet of Lumber
were destroyed by fire.
Four deaths and damage amounting tC
nearly $50, coo resulted from a heavy hurri-
cane at Charleston, S. G.
IT is STAGED that the corn crop in the West
will nearly equal the average yield.
F1rry-oSE buildings, comprising the entire
business part of Plano, Texas, have been de-
stroyed by the flames, entailing an aggregate
| loss of about $780, 900.
THE payments from the treasury by warrant
hiring August were as tollows On account o
.ivil and miscellaneous, $l,023, 053.02 war
s. 9i, G73.s2 navy, l,43S, 1878: interior
Indians, STA, $50. 80 neutrality-suspicious., Sc,
$50, 1O2. Total, SIS, 10j, 4lI.G0.
The receipts from customs for August wer
81, 800, $50, against Sl7,54l, 1888 for August
1880. From internal revenue the receipts dur
ing August were s12, 163, 431, against s12, 800,
G33 for the corresponding month of last year
, The total receipts from all sources for tn
! month ending August were :5S,727,375, aGains
:34, G22, l0U Tor August, 1SSo-an incrcas" il
favor of last month OF ovc" $4,000, 600. I'll
total expenditures !or August, including: in
tcrest on the public debt, exceeded go, oOD,p Ou
During August the public debt was rcdlcc'
s14, ISL, 221. 80 cash i'll tic treasury, S2lO,4 400,
1855 G debt less cash in the treasury, S1,SlG,
339. sci. SO,
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DO It We'll.

It is not after all so much what q
man does SIS how he does it. He may
be o good mechanic at saving woot
and as such deserve cledit. There is q
scientific way to shovel gravel that
brings about tic beHt results with the
least expenditure Of energy. What
ever honest occupation q man may
from choice or necessity engage in,
he deserves credit in proportion as lie
does his work we'll. 1t doubtless calls
for different talent to do some things
than it does to do others; but any NAL
who succeeds in getting to the head in
one vocation, has demonstrated 6
probability that no raay succeed in an
other. He has at least earned the right
to try. He has shown that he has one
Of the qualities necessary to C II
any direction, viz, the quality of doing
we'll what he is able to do.
One OF the gravest and commences
mistakes of the young mai is the ldea
that what he is engaged in is not worth
doing well. That idea we'll stuck II
will beat any man young or old. Nc
one gains a right for higher work ex'
cept by the way of present duty vel
done. We lave known boys every way
qualified to become good mechanics
60 through an apprenticeship arc
scarcely know more at the end than a'
the beginning, simply because they
were always going to do some other jot
we'll. The present is the one ever!
time. Demonstrate your ability to dt
something we'll and the opportunity t.
advance will not be wanting. No mai
ever rose to respect able distinction l
any other way.-Americam Machinia.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
East and Middle.

TIE National Prohibition Alliance, through
its president, tho Row. d. A. Thompson, D. D.,
late candidate for Vice-President on the Pro-
hibition ticket, and secretary, Mrs. N. McClel-
land Brown, Of Pittsburg, Pa, has issued a call
for a national conference Of Prohibitionists in
New York, October 10 and 10.
ONE of the buildings Of the powder manufac-
tory of Watson, BurreI & Co., at Warren, Me-,
containing nearly q ton of fine sporting powder,
exploded tho other day, demolishins tho build
ing and blowing in tho ends Of tho packing
house and of two other buildings filled with
powder. Samuel Mank, of Warren, who was at
work in the building, was blown nearly 400 feet
and instantly killed.
FIVE thousand barrels of beer and other prop
er,y worth $50, 900 were destroyed by fire in a.
Philadelphia brewery.
INVESTIGATION of the Musgrave Alpaca COM
pany's affairs at Chicopee, Mass, shows that
Musgrave, who disappeared, swindled his
partners, Anderson and Dunn, out of moro
than 500, 900, cNd that the total loss to the
firm, through T. transactions, will amount to
1925, 600.
WHILE making an experimental test with
new electric lights at Union square, New York,
tho lifting tackle broke and the lamps placed
on a high pole fell on five men below, inficting
fatal injuries on two men and seriously injur-
ing three others.
The steamboat State of New York, Of the
New York and Hartford line, while or her way
to New York, struck on q shoal of rocks in the
Connecticut river, and sank shortly aiterward,
but not until all her passengersh had been safely
landed.
LIEUTENANT B. l.. EDEs, of Washington, and
Lieutenant Lyman G. S~palding, Of Portsmouth,
n. H., we're out in q boat in Newport (R. ~
harbor, planting torpcdoes to illustrate the
means Of harbor defense, when a sudden ex-
plosion took place and tho two officers were
blown to fragments.
An explosion of illuminate in the Winchester
Arms company's works at New Haven injured
ten persons and blew out one side Of the
building,
THE steamer City of Richmond, of the Port
land and Mt. Desert line, ran ashore in Pcnob-
scot Bay, Me. The sixty passengers on board
were all saved.
GENERAL BUFFERS son, aged twenty-seven
years, died the other day in Boston.
SECRETARY ROBERT Howard, of the Mule
5~pinners' association, has called q trades con-
gress, to meet in Pittsburg in November.
An explosion at the powder mill of Miller
Brothers, at Summaytown, Pa, completely
wrecked the mill and fatally injured Henry
S~wartley, the foreman.
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A Rig Mcipor.

The fall of q meteor in the bay near
Goat Island, from the description given
to q Call reporter by various persons on
the water front, must have been a sight
seldom witnessed by man. Hearing
that an old fisherman had been on the
bay heal where the aerolite fell, the re-
porter looked him up and got the foley.
ing story: EYES," said he, "I was near
the place when that meteor fell, and
let me say right here, I don't want to
be there when the next one comes down.
I tell you what, young mali, I've been
in a good many close places in Cali
fornia, fighting grizzlies and standing
off Mexicans in '49, but I never said nv
prayers as many times in a second as I
did when hat meteor lit for the
bay this morning. I was going
across the bay to the Oakland flats to
set my nets, as I do most every morn
ing. Well, when I got almost opposite
the island, all of a sudden it got so
light that I thought the whole electric
light business had exploded right over
my head. I pulled for the island, as
hard asI could, for I always had q holy
horror of making fsh-bai of myself.
Ihad not made two strokes when it got
ALFRED hot, and I looked around and
was just in time to see the grandest and
terriblest sight these old eyes ever
looked upon. Not ten feet from
me the meteor struck the water. It
looked as large as O horse. When it
struck you could have heard the kissing
almost a mile. l never heard anything
like it before. Almost as soon as il
went under my boat was over the spot,
and the water was bubbling and
steaming as though q young volcano
had broken out" EDO you think
you could find the exact place
where the meteor struck ?" asked the re-
porter. ct don't know. As soon as
daylight came I went back to see how
things looked, and found a number of
dead fish floating around. I think it
wa about two hundred yards from the
island, a little east OF south. I was so
badly scared that T. can't say exactly"
GLOW old are you, and what is your
name?" I was born in Maine in 1923,
and my name is John Small" answered
the lone fisherman. The reporter called
upon Professor Kinks at the State
mining bureau. The professor was out
of town, but it has been reported by
several parties that the aerolite had been
seen by quite q number of persons.
Professor Davidson was also called
upon, but was out. This is, without
doubt, one of the largest aerolites that
has visited the earth for some time past.
San Francisco Call.
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Tn resurrection OF She Arabs m Tunis con-
tinues. a body Of $4,000 mounted Arabs
attacked the French troops near Hammamet
but we're repulsed with a loss Of fifteen killed
and a number Of wounded.
CONCERNING the harvest in England q Lon
don dispatch says chat it is almost ruined.
Even if the most favorable weather set in not
more than half a crop could be saved. The
farmers and landlords are in despair, and
hundreds Of farmers will emigrate and more
suffer ruin. The price of land, already seri-
ously deprecated, has gone down during the
past fortnight. Prayers have been offered fol
the harvest in all the churches in England.
TEE English parliament has been prorogued,
TEE village of st. Jean Baptiste, Canada, hes
been partly destroyed by fire.
The city Of Tchesme and the island O
Chic have been visited by another earthquake
said 10 be more severe than that Of last April
and the inhabitants are in despair.
CONTINUED rains in England have been
most disastrous to the crops.
GREAT stir has been caused in Paris fnan,
cial circles by the disappearance Of NJ. Felix
president of a leading bank, the Union Finan
ciere. I, is stated that he took the contents o.
the strong Dcx, valued at $500, 900.
Mr.. B%RADLAUGH, lately ousted from the
British house of commons, announces that he
will attempt to take his seat next session, and
calls upon the people of England to protect
him against "unlawfnl violence"
A FRENCH count, descendant OF ono of the
oldest houses Of the French nobility, has beer
arrested f.: hose stealing.
TWENTY persons were injured more or lesl
severely by a gravel trains running into
passenger car near North Hattey, Quebec.
Or ZIG persons imprisoned for causing incen
diary fires in various parts Of Spain forty-fv
have confessed their guilt.
LONDON has had a fire which damaged bust
ness property to the extent of about 81, 900, DOC
FEVER is fast carrying off the Panama cana
workmcn. The hospitals are o~vercrowded, tn
canal physicians are incompetent and th
patients get very little attention.
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How Easy II d to DID.

GIf I had strength to hold q pen, l
would write how easy and delightful 1t
is to die" were the last words OF the
celebrated surgeon, William Hunter;
and Louis XIV. is recorded as saying,
with his last breath, II thought dying
had been more difficult"
That the pain1essness OF death is
owing to some benumbing influence
acting on the sensory nerves may be In
ferred from the fact that untoward ex-
ternal surroundings rarely trouble the
dying. ,
On the day that Lord Collinewood
breathed his last the Mediterranean
was tumultuous; those elements which
had been the scene of his past glories
rose and fell in swelling %undulationa
and seemed as if rocking him to sleep.
Captain Thomas ventured to ask If he
was disturbed by the tossing of the
ship. "No, Thomas" he answered, 81
am now in 4 state that nothing a dis
turb be more-I am dying, and I am
sure it must be consolatory to you and
all that love me to see how comfortably
I am coming to my end"
In the Quarterly Reoieu there is re-
lated an instance Of a criminal who es
capped death from hanging by the break
ing of the rope. Henry w., of France
sent his physician to examine him, VIII:
reported that after a moments suffer
ing the man saw an appearance like fire
across which appeared a most beautiful
avenue of trees. When a pardon was
mentioned the prisoner coolly replied
that it was not worth asking for. Those
who have been neal death from drown
ing, and afterward restored to conscious
ness, assert that the dying suffer but
little pain.
Captain Marryatt states that his sen
Stations at one time when nearly drowned
were rather pleasant than otherwise
"The first strugglefor life onceover, thu
water closing around me assumed thu
appearance of waving green fields. 1
is not a feeling of pain, but seems lik'
sinking down overpowered by sleep, il
the long. soft grass of the cool meadow
Now, this is precisely the conditio,
presented in death from disease. In
sensibility comes on, the mind lose
consciousness of external objects, ant
death rapidly and placidly ensues from
asphyxia.
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The Doctors Story.

Mrs. Rogers lay in her bed,
Bandaged and blistered from foot to head,
Bandaged and b~li-tcred from head to toe,
Mrs. Rogers WAS very low;
Bottle and saucer, spoon and cup,
On the table stood 5ravely up,
Physic Of high and low degree;
Caiomcl, catnip, boneset tea
Everything a body could bear,
Excepting light and water and air.
I opened the blinds; the day was bright,
And God gave Mrs. Rogers some light,
I opened the window; the day was fair,
And God gave Mrs. Rogers some air,
Bottles and h,istcrs, powders and pills,
Catnip, boncset, srrp and squills,
Drugs and medicines. high and low,
I threw them az far as l corld throw.
"What are you doing my patient cried;
Frightening Death" l coolly replied.
"You are crazy" a visitor said;
flung a bottle at her head.
Deacon Rogers he came to me;
"Wife is a comiil' ~roun1," said he,
81 really think she'll worry through;
She scolds nc jus. as she used to do.
All the people have poohed and slurred-
And the neishbors all have had their word,
Twas better to perish, some of'em say,
Than be cured in such an irregular way"
"Your wife," said I, chad Gods good care,
And his remedies-light and water and air.
All the doctors, beyond Z doubt,
Couldn't have cured Mrs. Rogers without"
The deacon smiled and bowed his head;
"Then your bill is noihing," he said;
Goods be the glory, as YOU say;
God bless you, doctor, good-day! good-day ?
If ever I doctor that woman again,
I'll give her medicine made BY men.
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are put on,e a week into water tanks
mosquitoes will be. prevented from

are put on,e q week into water tanks
mosquitoes will be prevented from
breeding in them.
If you have no cellar, but have a well,
suspend the butter in a tin pail tied to
a rope, nearly to the bottom of the we'll,
and you will have cool, hard butter for
dinner.
A paste made of whiting and benzine
will clean marble, and one made OF
whiting and chloride of soda spread and
left to dry lin the sun if possible) on
the marble will remove spots.
A water key or Jug for supplying the
harvest men will keep the water much
cooler if it is wrapped all over in sew
eral folds OF flannel or carpet. Water
for the house and ice will keep much
longer in the same way.
If tablecloths, napkins and handker-
chiefs are folded m inch or two beyond
the middle they will last much longer;
it is on the edges of folds where they
first wear, and folding them not on a
middle line, each. ironing, they get a
new crease.
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Grating tho Grape.

The past twenty years 1 have grated
and propagated many thousands OF
grapevines in my greenhouse and in
the field; have tried almost every month
in the year, and I find April or May the
best time, or when the buds are just
bursting or pushing; then no sap will
trouble or drown out the graft, as is the
case when the grating is done in the
fall or early spring, as heretofore recon-
mended. Such grating will most sure
" prove a failure. ! use no wax; clay
is much better; but the scions must be
kept back. Graft below ground on
young, thrifty plants. No good CRATER
would ever think of grating old snags
or old trees that ought to be cut down;
and SO with old vines that have been
neglected and not renewed, they are no
better than old snags, and it is time
lost to try to improve such self-exhaust-
ed and worn-out plants. Nor can graft
ing be done by every one without
experience. No CRATER is always sue
cessful in grating the apple or pear,
much less in grating the grape, as it is
quite a different process, although quite
simple to n who knows how.-Cdnada
Farmer.
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True Wealth.

Ine demand 10 De ITCH ~ leSltIulauo'
Men are urged by their very natures to
acquire command over the forces about
them. Every man is born for improve
ment; no individual can stand still,
either physically, morally, or in the
matters of daily life and business. The
true man Graves advancement, not nee
essarily in the mere possession CT dol
lars, but in enlarged knowledge, in
creased capacity to grapple with the
forces of nature, broadened views of
life and its purpose, greater control over
his own mind and faculties. The man
of resources is the man of strength.
The successful farmer is one who is rich
in experience, in hope, in energy, and
in that Quiet assurance which enables
him to deal on even terms with men Of
every condition.
The world is O tool chest, and that
man is richest who can draw the great
est assistance, comfort or happiness
from his surroundings. The manly
part is for each to do with might and
main what he is best adapted to accom-
plish. Nature requires each man to
feed himself. Each man is a consumer;
hence he should feel it his bounden
duty, either to become a producer, or
assist some one else in the legitimate
work Of production. No person can
feel rich or strong or self. satisfied who
has nothing to do. A pocketful OF dol
lars would be no compensation for a
man to lose his leg or his mind. Money,
without the skill or training to use
properly, is the merest bauble. A con-
tented mind is o continual feast.
Povery demoralizes, yet a man in
debt is so far a slave. More distress
arises from inordinate ambition to
reach too far, to accomplish too much,
to bear burdens beyond the strength
OF the individual than from other
causes. An absolute success in some
humble undertaking is far more salts
fying to the average nan than a per.
ilous chase after castles in the air.
True wealth consists in pleasant sur
roundings, and in that state of mind
which seeks enjoyment and improve
mant in every legitimate channel
Grand opportunities, brilliant openings
are not absolutely necessary to the man
who would seek true wealth. Specula-
tive eras ruin and dcmoralize athousand
men to one enriched.
Many u man has money who is not
rich, He who boards and hides is not
possessed of true wealth. They should
have wealth who have the faculty of
administration, who can benefit whole
neighborhoods by a little timely aid,
who have the power to lead others to
success. The truest charity consists in
helping our fellows to sustain them
selves, not in making idle paupers of
them. True content consists in COM
pairing our situations with those who
are worse off than ourselves, rather
than iustituting comparisons with those
few who have superior advantages and
possessions. After ell, true wealth is
commonly an requirement possessed
only by those whose s%elf-control and
self-poise are in harmony vita nature
about them.
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After the Girls.

A Colorado editor makes this earnest
appeal. Go West, girls, and comfort
the poor fellows out there: We want
fat and funny girls to make us smile all
over, and lean and fragile ones to hang
upon u arms, and petite blondes who
like to show themselves on sunny days,
and stately b%runettes, so beautiful in
the twilight. W. have mineral enough
and plenty of coal and oxide of iron.
The only lack of resources is the potent
civilizers of their pioneer brothers-the
oiric
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Tho Growth Of Disease

Diseases multiply-beget one another. For
instance, in companionship with dyspepsia are
trivial (s social indispos Ii Il disrsgarded J.
grows apace, and growing gives rise to others.
Thus the whole body gets out Of order, the
nervous system Is shattered, and strength
and flesh rapidly wane. Prompt medication,
therefore, is of the utmost importance. Among
medicinal means Of arresting disease, Hostel.
tcr's Stomach Bitters stands pre-eminent. It
tho stomach, liver and bowels, revives the vital
stamina, prevents aud remedies ehills and fever,
increases the activity of the kidneys, counter.
acts a tendency to rheumatism, and is a gen.
uine stay and solace to aged, infrm and nerv.
ous persons. The article is moreover derived
from the purest and most reliable sources.
Canal locks were known in Uppe,
Egypt from the most ancient times
known to history. They were intro.
duced into England from Flanders in
1870.
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Chloride of Lime.

LIE Cuhivatea', a French journal, says
that if chloride of lime be spread on
the soil or neal plants, insects and YER
min will not be found near them, and
adds: By its means plants will easily
be protected from insect plaques by
simply brushing over their stems with
a solution of it. It has often been no.
ticed that a patch of land which ha:
been treated in this way remains relig.
iously respected by grubs, while the
unprotected beds around are literally
devastated. Fruit trees may be guarded
from the attacks of grubs by attaching
to their trunks pieces of tow smeared
with a mixture of hogs lard, and ants
and grubs already in possession will
rapidly vacate their position. Butter
flies. again, will avid all plants whose
leaves have been sprinkled over will
lime water.
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before FOUR" I answer, in the
same tone.
"He will be too late, I fear" she says,

"she is getting rapidly weaker"
But love is stronger than death, and
she will not 60 until her son comes. All
through the winters day she lies dying,
obediently taking what nourishment is
given her, but never speaking except tc
say, "My lad, my lad! God is good; HI
Will not let me die till he comes"
And at last I hear the dog-cart.
lay my finger on my lip and tell Mary tc
go and bring John Salter up very
quietly. But my caution is needless:
the mother has heard the sound, and
with the last effort of her remaining
strength she raises herself and stretches
out her arms. "My lad! my lad !" she
gasps, as with q great sob he springs
forward, and mother and son are clasped
in each others arms once more.
For q moment they remain so. Then
the little woman sinks back on my
wife's shoulder, and her spirit is look
ing down from heaven on the lad she
loved so dearly On earth.
She lies in our little churchyard un'
der a spreading yew tree, and on the
stone which marks her resting place are
inscribed the words: Faithful unto
death" Our Laddie has gained far.
spread renown for his good works, and
as I sit finishing this short record OF 9
tale of which he is the hero he lies al
nv feet, our ever watchful, faithful
companion and friend. Chambers Jour-