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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-08-24
A NOVELETTE, IN LETTERS
"A Short but Pointed Correspondence,
With a Moral to it.

"A Short but Pointed Correspondence,
With a Moral to it.
From Mrs. Mortimer to Algernon T,
Esq, Whites Club.
MY DEAR ALGY: I write to you in the
greatest distress A short time ago, in
weak moment, raised little money on
some of my husbands family plate and
the vulgar person who advanced the cash
has justinformed me that unless I pay
him before the end of the week he will
put in what he calls an Execution" or
something dreadful of that sort. To add
to my troubl IS, John may be#back any
day from Carlsbad. l dont know what
to do. Perhaps you undeist$nd these
matters. WIN esQq look insto,morrow
after sixsend sive see be benefit of's'o ~
advice?SI am all alone and doso want
little sympathy. Tout toi,
NELLIE MORTIMER.
b P:s.-His only matter of a wretched,
s''00' ..-.
From Algernoilz5 Ma. llovsIndS 81:
Chester Square
Ny q EAn Mrs. MoAr1MER: cannot
tell you how much l sympathize with
you. To my endless regret am obliged
10 60 north tonight, otherwise nothing
would have kept me from Chester Square
tomorrow. Couldn't II lawyer fellow
manage this business for you? His advice
would probably be better worth follow
ing than that of yours always,
A1GERxoS T.
From Mrs. Mortimer to the Hon Edward
49,: c., Hounslow.
DEAR DOLLY: I know that you are aw-
fully geod-natured, and would do any
thing to help Beauty in distress. I have
a debt of e30O which I must pay before
Saturday, and [ dare not apply to John.
l have serious thoughts of either choral
or the River Thames. Your unfortu-
nate cousin. NELLIE MORTIMER.
From the Hon. Edward c., Homslow
Barracks, to Mrs. Mortimer
DEAR NELLIE: Don't do anything rash.
I would take the liberty of asking you to
make use ofmy check-book; but, unfor-
tunately, I am afraid that any Of the con
tents thereof which you might use would
be returned with an ominous IN. S."
You know that their is nothing wouldn't
do for you, even to selling Ranger and
the Colonel; but Pm afraid that at the
present time of year: they would not
fetch more than ESQ at the outside at
Tattersalps. Yours very regretfully,
EDWARD c..
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-08-24

Philadelphia druggists are charged
with substituting cheaper medicines for
the ones called for in prescriptions.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-08-24

PERSONAL anil 11,eDe1sO,stsL:; =
Col. Ludington, quartermaster, depart
ment Of. the Platte, has been transferred to
Fort Leavenworth, department of the Mis-
souri, to take effect. Oct. |; and Maj. J. V.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-08-24
From the Hon. Edward c., Homslow
Barracks, to Mrs Mortimer
From Mrs. Mortimer to John Mortimer,
ESQ Carlsbad

My DEAR JOHN: I am almost too
frightened to write to you For the last
two months have had debt (Which,
for our limited income, is, I fear, very
large one) hanging ov>~ me. Unless
drea dful will happen. Can you ever
NELLIE MORTIMER
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-08-24

we stuck out boldly towards fame and
insolvency.
You can encourage a child with. a
press-board sometimes and TINS give
him an impetus that will aid him all
through his life. III :.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-08-24

The st. Louis Republican advises the
farmers of Missouri, particularly those
who make cattle breeding a business, to
hold back portion of this years corn
crop to await the uncertainties of the
following season. After Missouri farm
ers had sold Oft their corn crop of 1880 at
- cents bushel, many of them in those
districts where the drought of 1881 was
most severe were under the necessity of
buying corn last winter at 50 and even
- cents bushel to feed to their cattle.
This was costly business. 1t might have
been avoided by laying aside a part of
the good crop of 1850 for the emergency
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-08-24

The most righteous labor strike of the
year-that Of the New York freight
handlers-has gone to grief, and they are
returning to work at their old wages.
There was much sympathy for the strik-
ers, and liberal contributions from bus
mess men, but the combined corpor-
atoms, with Europe emptying laborers
at Castle Garden wanting money and
work, was too much for the workmen
The corporations seem to be the only
successful strikers, for they carried their
strike easy against freight shippers for
big advance IN rates, and nobody dreamed
OF dcnounclng such an act asa wicked
combination and conspiracy.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-08-24

From John Mortimer to Mrs. Mortimer
DEAR NELL: Check for $500 enclosed.
Why didn't you let me know before?
Be Il good little woman, and don't get
into debt again. Your affectionate hus
band. JOHN MORTIMER.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-08-24
An Army Veterans Birthday,

Reduction from $4,000 to sOO-Mordec
Mobley, Iowa.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-08-24

There are still aboNt 30 ~app ll q
this character to be ,nade.s SefT
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-03-16
Browns Mistake.

Dwight Brown, living near Erie, Pa,
is q poor but very devout man. MI.
Brown, being in destitute circumstances,
knelt down with his wife, and the two
prayed for help from on high. On the
following day, as Mr.. Brown was walk
ing along the highway, he found a
"wallet" containing 5000 in greenbacks.
just ahead Of him was John Crowell,
whom the prisoner must have known
had dropped it, but Brown, believing
this to be an answer to the earnest sup
plications of himself and wife. took the
money home, and there was great re-
joicing in the family, followed by full
meals for his wife and children. The
next day clothing for the half-naked
family vas purchased, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Brown earnestly believed they had found
the royal road to wealth. But q little
later an officer came with q warrant and
arrested the head of the household on q
charge of larceny. At the trial a frank
statement of the whole case was made
by the lawyer who kindly offered to de-
fend Brown. He recited the ignorance
of the prisoner, which was accompanied
with devout belief that God had an
swered his prayers in the manner de-
scribed. Some of the money had been
spent as described, but the rest had been
turned over to Crowell, and besides this,
all the household effects Of the poor
man had been put into the hands of the
officers to be sold to make up the def
cheney. The Judge, in passing sentence,
said he understood the prisoner to be q
Woodworking man, and that the tempta-
ton had come to him in q peculiar man
ner. He would err, if at all, on the side
of justice, and 80 he sentenced Brown
to pay a fine of one dollar and to be con-
fined in Jail one day. The case is a
peculiar one, and excited a good deal of
interest.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-03-16

and the syrup at sixty cents per gallon
Of syrup at twenty cents per gallon will
cover possible contingencies, the extreme
cost is $50. Deducting this from the
value of the sugar and syrup, Sis. 20,
and we have left S67. 80 for Transports
ton to refinery, refinery expenses and
profits.
A KENTUCKY farmer gives the follow
advice about sheep i: The common
sheep of the country pay only q very
small profit, while good Cotswolds yield
q good revenues large interest on the
investment. Let me illustrate the diff
ference, so that it will impress itself on
the minds of those who are not using
high grade or thoroughbred stock. An
average farm in this section should keep
100 sheep yearly, for our average farmer
slow. He buys the common stock Of
the country-1O0 head at So each, and
o grade ram for Sc. With ordinary
good luck he clips 400 pounds of wool
and sells the 400 pounds at 25 cents,
amounting to 800, raises rs lambs,
worth So each, making 1925, to which
add the value of old yews, $275, and we
have a total of 5000. Deduct the cost
Of keeping the sheep one year, $3.50, to
which add the cost of ewes, $500, and
deduct five per cent. for loss. $15. max
ing a total of 1855, which leaves a profit
of $35, not estimating the value of the
manure. If the same farmer buys 100
high grade ewes at $3.50, estimating the
keep Of the same for one year at $3.50,
allowing five per cent. loss, $50, total,
$3.50. Per contra the ews are worth
$500, wool ten pounds average, or LOCO
pounds, at $3.50; seventy-fve lambs at
Is each, 1915, or o total of s., 225, show
ing a net profit Of 1855 and the manure
heaides.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-03-16
A1one in the Dark.

Reginald DeMugg stood alone on the
steps of the handsome mansion, the
door of which had Just slammed in his
face, and in his ears still rang the last
words of the fair being whom he madly
loved. They were $50, and never let
me see your face again. You have no
style about yourself" And as Reginald
stood there under the silent stars, he Bit
terly repented the act that had left him
out in the cold in both senses of the
phrase. Through the long summer,
through the fall, as the winds waiting
with them the first breath of winter,
had kissed the leaves and left them nod
ding with o thousand golden hues,
through the winter thus far, he had been
as a willing slave of the proud beauty,
Madeline Sunny, proud in her own
womanly beauty, and proud of the posi-
ton her fathers wealth gave to her.
And had she not looked coldly on Regi.
maid, and already had their friends
coupled their names. and the preachers
who saw them meandering together
thought of probable fat marriage fees:
And now all was lost, and Reginald
might never hope to see that fair face
again, never hope to feel the soft, re.
sponsive presence of those fairy fingers,
and as we said, bitterly did he repent,
and what had Reginald done?
He had called to take Madeline to 9
party in the next block and had moi
brought q hack?
And Madeline was not hat kind of
hairpin, but had to have a hack if 8
party was only in the next block. And
Reginald did not know this. Hence the
slamming Of the door, and the speech
and the standing alone under the silent
stars.-Evansville Argus.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-03-16
An Awful Omen I'm Rome.

Tacitus records that just prior TO the
breaking out of the instruction Of the
Iceni, headed by their heroic Queen
Boadicea, the Roman subjugators OF
Britain were alarmed by u~nequivocai
indications of In approaching storm.
cat Camalodunum the statue OF Nero
fell to the ground and turned its back
where the face had been, as if it fed be-
fore the enemy. Women were seen q
If mad, singing wild songs, In which
they foretold the destruction Of the
colony. Strange noises were heard IN
the House of Assembly, and loud howl
ings in the Theater. In the estuary OF
the Thames there was an appearance
like that of a sunken town. The sea
assumed the color of blood, and human
forms appeared to be left on b shore
by the ebbing tide" These terrible por-
tents were remembered by the Romans
long after the rout of the Iceni and
the death of their warrior Queen some
where between the sites of Ooldbath-
fields Prison and the terminus OF the
Great Northern Railway. That the ex-
isting age, however, ob~stinately refuses,
as q rule, to attach any belief to portents,
and wholly disregards the croakings OF
ravens, be they never 30 hoarse, from
battlements, the hooting OF owls, and
other premonition from the brute crea-
ton, Italian patriotism might be slightly
alarmed by an Occurrences which has
taken place at Rome. On the occasion
when the anniversary of King Victor
Emmanuels death was commemorated,
and as the lengthy procession was
streaming down the Capitoline BILL on
its way to the Pantheon, there was heard,
high above the clangor of the brass
bands, a strange and dismal bowling.
Whence came this lugubrioAs ululations
Was it the voice of the Cam@an Sibyl,
lowering in mid air, invisible to tht
multitude, but making audible her nevel
ending moan over the conf1agration d
the Capitol in which the books that sht
sold to Tarquin were destroyed? After
i while the source of the bowling wa
traced. For a very long time a ferct
controversy has ragged among antiquar
les as to whether the celebrated bronzl
figure of a wolf, called by Byron "sths
thunderstricken nurse Of Rome" In tn,
Museum of the Capitol, is the wolf men
toned by Dionysius and Livy, o r TIL
animal whose efigy is cited by Cicero
Apparently with a view to bringing thes
polemics to a close, the Municipality o
Rome have in recent years caused to b,
excavated, In the rocky side of tn
Capitoline, a den in which accommoda
ton has beenproyided for twolive wolves
They are obviously, could they becom'
~articulate, entitled to dub themselvel
respectively the Ciceronian and tn
Dionysian wolves; but, as q matter o
fact, the unfortunate beasts, pent up i
eheeriessc aptlvlty, are not lnaecpstoms
shrieks and yells, which probably GU
minated in ear-splitting howls under th
intolerable provocation of patriot
hymns from an indenfite number of bras
bands, playing, as Italian brass band
usually do, viliainously out OF tuns
London Telegraph.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-03-16
Tattooing Confined Criminals.

A correspondent of the Chicago Iri-
bune proposes that confined burglars,
highwaymen, thieves and rogues for a
first offense should be imprisoned for a
short time and tatooed, say, on the fore
arm. For the second offense of the
same kind let him undergo longer i'm
prisonment and be tattooed on the hand.
For the third offense longer or life i'm
~prisonment and be tattooed on the cheek
or the exposed part of the neck. This
would be the brand of Gain. Recording
these tattoo-marks would facilitate the
Identification of criminals, as the body
marks cannot be erased except by surgi-
cal operation at the expense of q perma-
nent scar. The fear of tattoo1ng would
act as a powerful deterrent to those
about to commit crimes, and also take
away the motive to escape from those
who had merited and received the third
penalty or open tattoo and were GEN.
fenced to long periods Of imprisonment
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-03-16
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

CHARAcTER is higher than intellect.
ILL deeds are doubled with IN evil
word.
MEN mark the hits, but not the
misses.
HUMAN improvements is from within
outwards.
GREAT thoughts, like great deeds, need
no trumpet.
WE DO not know what is absolutely
good or bad fortune.
A FIG for Time. Use him we'll and
he's a hearty fellow.-Dtckens.
RESOLVE to be thysef; and know that
he who finds himself, loses his misery.
NATURE never hurries; atom by atom,
little by little, she achieves her work.
WHEN sorrows come, they come not single spies
But in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
He WHO seeks to please the gods must
labor, as far as in him lies, to resemble
them.
TIE Office of O good newspaper is to
represent we'll the interest Of its time
BoUee.
If WE had no faults, we should not
take so much pleasure in noticing them
in others.
You should never pull down an opin-
ion until you have something to put up
in its place.
JUSTICE is, in the mind, . condition
analogous to good health and strength
in the body.
THE man that hath NO music in himself,
And is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
IA -, and nil
-Shakespedre.
IT Is sufficient to believe in the genius
who is within us, and to honor him by
q pure Worship.
IT Is only by persistent effort that we
make headway and advancement in civ
ilization.-Gdrfeld.
We ALL change, but that's with time.
Time does his work honestly, and l don't
mind him.-Dickens. ~.
MILLIONS of billions have died and gone.
Gone; yes gone, but where?
Not one has ever coma back to tell
What the life Is IKE over there"
-Lampton.
ANIMALS are such agreeable friends
they ask no questions, they pass nc
criticisms.-George Eliot.
TRUTH is so related and correlated
that no department. of her realm il
wholly archaeological.
To WISH is of little account; to sue
coed you must earnestly desire; and thu
desire must shorten thy sleep.
TRUST men, and they will be true e
YOU; trust them greatly, and they vii
show themselves great.-Enerson,
MANS sorrow, like = mighty storm,
Sweeps over his devoted form
And leaves him rs before.
A woman's SORROW is as winter rain,
Freezing the heart with bitter pain,
And leaves her-neyer more.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-03-16
A New Church Beneficiary.

A new scheme has broken out among
the Eastern churches to provide for
Goods poor" Each church is buying
a farm, to which poor people are sent to
work out their salvation in fear and tur-
nip patches. This combination of re-
Ggion and ruta bagas is certainlya happy
one, and ought to come into general
practice. Steady work on a farm cannot
but be far more preferable to the poor
of a church than good advice and fine
conversation, that is now lavished upon
them regardless of cost. There is
always something on q farm that any
body can do, and do well, and that viii
be worth good wages, if the laborer is
fairly remunerated, and a church society
would be sure to do this. Then, in the
fall, when the golden harvest was gath
cred, the church members would of
course give their patronage to their own
farm aad lay in their winter supply of
potatoes, carrots, beets, onions, ETC.,
from their own vines and fgtrees, 80 to
speak. The report of the Superintend-
emit would show whittier the farm was
drifting financially, and if it needed any
fertilizing top-dressing in the way of a
mortgage. Ministers whose health is
poor, from hard study and overwork,
instead of being sent on an expensive
tour to the Holy Land, could be trans
planted from the sitting atmosphere Of
the study to the beautiful air of the
balmy, breezy country, and set to rails
ing cucumbers on the farm. The exer
else would do them good, ever if they
did not raise enough cucumbers for a
mess, and what the church lost on Gu
cumbers it would more than save on
travelling expenses. It seems to us as
though the true plan of salvation has
been struck at last. It is not through
any of the five hundred different plans
advocated by the five hundred different
churches, but through the modest cauli-
flower, the lowly onion and the golden
crookneek summer squash Peok's
Sun.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-03-16
An Angel Fish Caught.

An angel fish, said to be the first sven
brought to this city, was caught with q
hook and line by some italian fishermen
twenty miles outside Of Farallon Islands
in very deep water, brought into the
city and sold to an enterprising tobacco
dealer on Montgomery street, where it
was hung up in the window to excite the
wonderment of passers-by. The speci-
men is about three and o half feet long,
has a head as large IS a mans, beneath
which are o pair of wing-like fins,
spreading out over two feet from tip to
tip, from the lower extremity of the
wings-they are much more like wings
than fns-and the body tapers off to o
small tail. The back of the fish is a
dark gray and brownish color, slightly
notified and studded with sharp, thorn
like protuberances. The under side of
the fish presents a most curious appear
ance, being colored and shaped from the
neck down the entire body Like a human
body. The thorax is rib-marked and
the abdomen is sipgularly man-like, and
the resemblance to the human organiza-
ton is very remarkable. The novelty
and rarity of the specimen drew to the
store where it il exhibited q number of
scientists.
Charles Wolcott Brooks informed the
Call reporter sent to make the fsh's ac-
quaintance that the one brought in by,
the Italians is a very rare specimen. It
has heretofore been scientifically classed,
but not generally known al q personal
acquaintance, SO to say, by ven the
most favored few. Mr.. Brooks stated
that the squatina, speaking of it in a
r. IL lsk-- -
deep water, where it pursues the very
pleasant pastime Of feeding on founders
and soles. Unlike San Francisco bon
viUantes the squatina is never forced to
accept a slice Of sturgeon for a sole and
pay two bits for it. Yet the sqantina APP
pears capable of mastering yer a whole
sturgeon, having q true assure mouth
fracturing its enormous head from the
two joints where its ears should have
been set.-San Francisco Cali
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-03-16
fine Gulf Stream and Europe.

There was a time within the human
epoch, says James Geikie, in an article
on "The Gulf Stream and the. Panama
Canal" when the European climate was
SO genial that many delicate southern
species of plants Aourished luxuriantly
in regions where they cannot now exist.
Thus in the neighborhood of Paris, the
fig tree, the laurel of the Canary Islands,
and other Southern species, found q con-
genial habitat. The Canary Island
laurel does not grow further north now
than near Toulon, or the borders of the
Mediterranean. It flowers in winter,
and repeated frosts would therefore pre-
vent its reproducing its kind. That this
plant formerly hourished near Paris Is
thus a striking proof of changed climatic
conditions, for the winters in Northern
France must then have been extremely
genial. The land and fresh-water shells
which were contemporaneous with that
remarkable fora in Northwestern Europe
tell precisely the same tale. and this is
still further illustrated and confirmed by
the character of the mammalian fauna.
Among the commoner animals at that
time occupants of England, France, ETC.,
were hippopotami, elephants, rhinocer-
oses, lions, tigers, hyenas, ETC., and vast
numbers of cervine and bovine animals
which still occupythe temperate attitudes
of Europe.
That such genial climatic conditions
were due in large measure to a great In
crease in the volume of warm water
flowing into the North Atlantic seems
just as certain as that the Arctic climate
Of the glacial period was largely induced
by a very considerable decrease or even
an entire stoppage of that heat-bearing
current. The presence of many Mediter-
ranean shells In the ancient raised
| beaches of Scandinavia, the occurrence
Of mussel banks in the coast-lands of
Spitzbergen, the appearance here and
there off the coasts of Scotland, the
Faroes and Iceland, of Southern species
of shell-fsh, and the presence of isolated
colonies of Southern mollusks in the
Gulf of st. Lawrence, are all indicative
of q former much greater influx of warm
water into Northern regions than is now
the case. Those remarkable colonies Of
Southern species are living evidence Of
the last epoch of extremely genial con
ditions experienced in Northwestern
European epoch during which great
forest growths overspread wide regions
in the North-coyering the British Is
lands, the inner and outer Hebrides, the
Orkneys and the Shetland Islands, all
Norway up to the extreme north, and
most extensive areas which to-day lie
submerged in the SET.