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FireProOf Rolling Stock for Rail.

FireprOOf Rolling Stock for Rail-
ways.
It seems strange that we should
hear the strongest advocacy of build
ing railway cars of iron and steel from
way out in Colorado, where. it is
urged, the natural resources in coal
and iron would enable such an indus
try to be prosecuted, even in compe.
titioD with the work of Eastern roll
ing mills and machine shops. 1t is
however, only one of the many re-
minders constantly forcing them
selves upon the attention, of how
great our country is and how wonder
fNl are it's resources. It is predicted
that it will not he many years before
Colorado will be sable to produce
steel cheaper than any other State on
the continent.'' But as yet, their soft
Goals are got out and marketed at d
price which is some thirty-three pei
cent above that ruling at Pittsburg.
Their ores may be of the most excel.
lent description, and easily obtain
able. but the coal also will have tc
come down, before onr Western
friends can. look forward to doing a
manufacturing business in the way OF
making iron and steel railway cars,
although it is intimated, in this con-
nection, that the. Denver and Rio
Grande Company intend ordering an
experimental sleeper. made entirely
of steel plates and bars.-Scientifc
american. ~
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WRIGHTsTOWN

"nA014Ao4OWN
Delightful winter weather, with a
poor prospect of much sleighing, but
grand time for ':lncog' to hunt up
long'headed oats.
Dull times here this winter. a.
there is no tic hauling to be done, and
not much numbering at the mills, al
though I hear that Wright's mill Co.
intends to do considerable in that
line. = 4s-'T - "'-r'~= -.' ~-.".'7
Wrightstown has departed from it's
usual sameness by having two we'd
dlngs in one day, to wit: Walter
Hatch to Miss frankie Wright: and
Bert Aldrich to Miss Jennie Cameron
Mr.. Burn has gone to work in the
plnery for Mr.. Valentine.
MI. Yarnell intends to spend the
winter fishing in Otter Tail Lake.
Hope he will have good luck.
+ W. E. Barber has sided his house.
and otherwise improved it's appear
ance.
q. "A. Perkins has his house remod.
eled an enlarged. and has now CON-
modious residence.
Rev. Mr.. Nash, of Stowe Prairie.
preached here, Sunday, to large and
attentive audience.
Rev. D. G.. Thomas, of Parkers
Prairie, will preach at the house of
w. E. Barber, Sunday, Dee. l6, at 10
O'Clock; also in the evening of the
same day.
Rev. Thomas Page breaches out on
Woodslde Prairie: hope he will con-
vert some of those wheat thieves out
there. 1t would he a good thing for
Dockstader.
What will Mr.. Halliday think now1,
for it was decided last Saturday, at
the Ward schoolhouse I.yceum, that
cattle were more profitable for man
taan horses. Won't it hurt horse.
trading business?
Our German neighbors across the
river talk of having Il Christmas tree
at the schoolhouse. They know how
to get up good time for the Child
rem.
l hear that Mr.. Bottermiller has re-
turned from Texas, we'll satisfied with
his present home.
Solon Stinson has taken the job of
driving stage from Wadena to Park
ers Prairie.
Bert Aldrich is spending his honey
moon driving a four horse logging
team in the pinery at Dewer Lake,
and Walt Hatch is hard at work in
Wright's sawmill, in which I learn
that he has an interest.
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Give the Boys a Trade.

Go where you will, and you will
find youths entering manhood without
any equipment for the struggle before
them. Tens of Thousand of them
hope to become merchants, when
they have no aptitude whatever for
commercial affairs, and are doomed
to live of bitter toll and grinding
poverty. This ought not to be-.
Every boy in America is justly enti-
tied to q trade. and he ought to have
the chanc to master, one. Many
sons Of poor parents, and many
orphan boys are compelled to forego
the ineotimable beDefits of appren-
ticeship, and these ought to be assis-
ted by wise philanthropy; but very
many mora fail to improve the great
opportunity of becoming skilled work
ers, and 80 drift into the laboring
army, to become helpless victims of
poverty all their lives .-An1erica:a
Teacher.
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A Took a Walk.


H1LLsDoRE, O., Dec. l0.--Minnea-
polls Journal telegram: NJ. F. Wal
lace and Mary Barrett were about to
be married last Tuesday evening, and
minister and guests were waiting,
when Wallace expressed his fear that
his fortune would not support them
in the style they had been used to.
Miss Barrett replied: ':Sir, If you
have any doubts on that score, we
shall stop right here. AS for me I
can take care of myself, and / will do
it. do not want to trust myself in
the hands of a coward. You had bet
ter go sir.'' He did go. and the young
lady told the story to the guests and
received congratulations and was
made a heroine of the evening.
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PARKERs PRAIRIE.


John Rider, with his family has re.
turned from Spring Valley and pur-
chased 4 lot and is putting building
thereon with the intention of opening
meat market.
The old ex-sol1iers have had one
or two meetings for the purpose OF
organizing a post, at this place. 25
Of the old veterans met last Satur-
day and enjoyed good social time.
Long may the standard of social re-
union wave.
We have no regular preaching now:
Elder Reeves and Thomas OCCASION
ally preach to the people.
Mrs. Hattie Donaldson OF Spring
Valley. daughter of Elder Reeves: is
visiting her parents at this place and
will remain till spring.
There has been several social hops
of late, and more on the programme
Mr.. Cutler, teacher OF our district
school is giving good satisfaction.
A full attendance; 55 enrolled.
A large quantity Of lumber is
being hauled frem Woodsiae, to this
place.
A large amount of our wheat has
been hauled to Alexandria, owing tc
the poor grades given at Henning
Wheat that graded No. l straight a,
Henning. graded No. hard at Alex
aadria. and the shrinkage was not sc
large 1T Alexandria as at Henning
difference of to4 bushels on the
load. ~~.- - r
Dec. 10th 1883.
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BLUFFToN.

The roads are icy. =. u 4. -<~E
There is not enough snow for good
sleighing. ..., e.. -. -. =.
The blacksmith, T. Boss, is kept
busy shoeing horses. =
The Literary Society was well at
tended last Tuesday evening ard the
entertainment WAS good. i
A. w. Crozier spent several days
out west last week. 5.5. s1.
Deacon Bolles, with the assistance
of his cane, is on cur streets again. .
E.. S. Norton and xifesare here
visiting with friends. Ed is becom-
ing accustomed to his Artificial legs
so that he walks quite lively owe. the
frozen ground.
Tie dance at Dan 4Arbuck les resi-
|dence Friday mig DC was very enjjsy-
|able
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ENGLAND PRAIRIE

To the Editor of the Northern Pacific Farmer.
My report Of Elder Greenup's re-
vival has been so severely criticized
here that / have not dared to attend
these meetings since it's publication.
I wrote as I felt at the time, but con-
fess If were writing it now the strict
ness it contains would be somewhat
modified. However, it can not be re-
called, and I console myself with the
hope that the criticisms on the con-
duct of these meetings may (like the
criticisms on my reyiew) cause the
chief actors 'sto see themselves as
others see them,' and pay more at.
tention to the matter and manner of
their efforts. We reed an occasional
jog from friend or foe to keep us with
in our sphere. Lawyers get 50 much
Of this from opposing council that
their reputation for truth is constant
ly in jeopardy. To the preacher this
jeopardy comes from the opposite ex'
treme. Preachers may draw ideas
from imagination, or any other source
and custom sn!l courtesy accepts
them as facts. When one has repeated
or listened to these novel ideas sew
eral times, without questioning, h e
believes them to be true, and intro
duces them into his budget of facts.
I f :, man can find novelties sufficient
ly original and extravagant he can
found a new and successful sect and
creed. and go down to future ages as
a demigot. Wm. Miller, Joe Smith
John Wesley are modern, and Mo-
hamed, Confucius and Brahma are
ancient samples OF this fact. A de-
votee of any of these sects believes
that his own prophet had divine au-
thority, but all the others were i'm
posters. Careful observers believe
that each was equally sincere, each
having imposed upon his own creau-
lity, and become fanatical. My
friend, DR.. Willscam, was good ex-
ample of the process by which certain
types of humanity manufacture their
Inecdful facts. He had = large
practice in q large city, and had. q
faculty fortraining and trading horses
by which he earned enough to pay
all the expenses ofhis horses and
carriages. He told me that to sue
ceed as a horse jockey, he had to
tell many lies, and that hurt his con.
science at first, but he soon found that
after he had told the same lies about
a horse five or six times, he got to
believe it himself, and it was no sin
/ to tell what he believed to be true,
Now by this method Elder GrcenuE
has repeated his stock phrases till be
verify believes that .'the Devil has
been robbed OF bis latch.key, and
cannot open his own door. and in
stead Of fighting King Edward, Rob
Eert Bruce actually prayed till Qnecl
Elizabeth, centuries afterward
ssshook ii her shoes 3 This is enough
perhaps too much, about these meet
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Flank Northup started Monday
morning for Iowa. ~:.-
Almost every man carries a gun of
some kind nowadays for this is hunt
ing season. !.
Nobody sick, except with bad
colds.
A. w. Crozier has received his
commission rs post master here, and
moved the Office to-day.
We understand there is to be a ball
in the hall Christmas night.
If you want to buy goods below
cost, come to Bluffton. Three stores
and all doing big business. 10.
Dec. llth, 1883.
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Miscellaneous.
Welded at Eighty five.

DEDHAM, MASS, Mr.. Patrick
Keegan. adashing youth of seventy
five, has been for some weeks past a
sorrowing widower. He is now a
proud and happy bridegroom. Han
nah Cushing, maiden of eighty.fve,
is the coy, but blissful bride. Last
night the happy pair was serenaded
by the East Dedham Calathumpian
band. Mr.. Keegan offered them SIS
if they would go away.-Minnsapolis
Journal.
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ings, which s!ill continue. and will
certainly do some good.

J. q, =
certainly do some good.
Miss C:.lkin is sick, and unable to
teach school since Wednesday last.
She WAS first threatened with lung
fever, now, with diphtheria.
Alfred Wl.ipp!e and his family
will leave bysexening train for LisA
bon, D. r. He inspected Lisbon
and its golden prospects two weeks
ago, and concluded to locate there in
his business as e carpenter. Alfred
brought specimen OF the gold bear
ing rock from the Griswold mine;
his brother, w &, pulverized part
Oft, but found no signs of gold in it..
although he is an.old California Mi
ncr. s.. .*> @= D.
Dec. 10th, 1883. s...
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SOUTHERN WADENA.

SOUTHERN WADENA.
A light rain to-day, after our pleas
ant weather.
Items are scarce.
Miss Ella Manlove has commenced
q four months term of school in this
district, with twenty scholars en-
rolled.
Elder Mason, the Sabbath School
Missionary, organized Sabbath
School in this district which is
hourishing nicely.
Mr.. John Cokley had the misfor-
tune to lose nearly all Of his hay by
prairie fire.
Mr.. A. J. Howard is doing q
thriving business in resureeting the
dead.
Frank AIcNamar has treated his
house to a new coat Of paint.
The whooping cough has made it's
appearance in this neighborhood.
OBSERVER.
Dec. 9Th 1888.
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Neighborhood News.
WOODsIDE PRAIRIE.

Still we have beautiful weather.
Mr.. Hosmer tells me his bees are
doing finely and furnish all the honey
he uses in his family, and some to
sell to his neighbors. Four years ago
next spring he commenced with one
swarm, now he has twenty-five, and
has sold eight. Mr.. II. says bees
must be cared for in winter, but with
proper care bee keeping is a lucrative
business even here in,this n. p. coun.
try.
Mr.. Ball has built a blacksmith
shop at Geolales corners, and is doing
a nice business. Mr.. B. is an expert.
enced smith and all say welcome to
enterprise.
Bert Aldrich and Jenny Cameron
were married last Sunday.
General good health and quiet pre-
walls on cur prairie. INCoG.
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Northern Pacific. .'
NO. E;qual-
This is the Shortest line to ="
Helena, Butte, & PORTLAND
Oregon, and the popular route to
-= SAN FRANCISCO.

:
Ill SAN FRANCISCO.
SAVE MONEY
by purchasing Tickets Through, and
buying them before getting on trains
Round trip Tickets are sold at al /
Ticket Offices to all Stations at Re-
duced Rates, . s.::.:.. ~ 81:
Pullman Sleeping Cars are run
without change on daily express trains
from st. Paul, Minneapolis, Nadena.
Farg 0, Helena. and Portland Oregon.
For beauty and comfort these cars
are unsurpassed
Elegant Horton Chair Cars on day.
trains. between Fargo. Wadena and
st. Paul. II hese cars are fitted with
new reclining chairs, and off special
attractions to the traveller.
Superb Dining Cars without excep-
tion the finest un the continent are
run Quail tfsll,s, First class meals,
7'ss'cts. ssss.
IS sss,a ST Pspk
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LEAF AlVER-
Bright moon, light nights, splendid
weather for this time of the year.
Warren Peck returned from Dsko-
t. last week; he says there is good
-s'eighing out west: don't see why we
cannot have just q little snow down
our way.
Now that the long winter evenings
are here, subscribe for the FARMER,
you have plenty of time to read, and
a home is not what it should be
without entertaining and instructive
literature.
Some people growl around like a
dog with sore head, about the
mar agement of their school, and such
people are rever seen inside of a
school room; so stop your growing
until you visit the school, and then
if you have any fault to find make
your complaint to the teacher, like a
man. JUMBO.
Dec. 18th 1883.
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Vol. ''] VI. No. 80.
Business Cards..
TADENA POST OFFICE.
1,ooAI, TINE CARD OF N. P. R. R.

TKAINS 0OINu "hoS'
No. l, Pacific Express. Dai5s ns;;; c;cent "'
10. =, Mail and Express Da''S e@''pt4 4.2s n. m,
a,s soSa"E 20 Freight Daily except Sunday l:lop m
"Ao' 80 TRAINS GOING EAST.
Atlantic Express, Daily. ......il:4' p. M
80 Nail and Express. Daily except, ~
NJ sa FREIGHT. Daily except Sunday l2:o' Pm
rra;,hts Nos. q, 30, 81, and % carry PASSENGERS
s+age. leave every Friday morning at 9,c1ocs os;
Tor Tong Prairie connecting Win 'ne o~uA 0''''
tre Northern Railroad.
Stages leave Wadena every m'nuSy ss psa; "n'
rhursday for Wrightstown ana farkels 10.
rie, connecting at Parkers fFa'f'e " IL" '''S9'
tor Alexandria.
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DKClsTON.


The Supreme Court Of the United States
10 expected soon TO give is opinion on one
Of the most important questions Of consti-
tutional Law raised in recent years. The
question is whether the power Of . State to
tax corporations within its limits 10 con-
trolled by the fourteenth amendment TO
the federal constitution.
California made . distinction in it's tax
laws between railroad property and the
property Of individuals. The companies
claimed that the discrimination against
them was prohibited by that clause Of the
fourteenth amendment which declares that
'no State shall deny to any person within
its jurisdiction the equal protection OF the
laws" The issue raised two important
questions-6rst. whether . corporation ID
50 person" within the meaning Of the
amendment; second, whether the amend
ment was aimed against unjust discrimiDa-
tion in taxation. The United States Circuit
Court in California. in elaborate opinions
written by Justice Field and Judge Saw
yer, decided both Of these points in favor
Of the companies.
The case was argued before the Supreme
Court last December. The difficulty of the
problem may be inferred from the fact
that the Court, after holding the matter
under consideration for six months, adj
journed without giving q opinion. The
far reaching effect of the expected decision
is shown by the fact that the principle
affirmed will apply to all corporations
except municipal in every State Of the
Union.
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"a.

There is . little book put forth seeming.
ly without any particular object in view.
entitled "a. II discusses both political
parties in their origin and history. and
speculstes upon their future. 1t is reada-
BILE, ~ can be judged by this extract:
The Republican party had evidently
finished It's work. It had fought the war
and saved the Union; it had freed the
negro and clothed him with the mantle Of
citizenship; it had largely reduced the ma
tional debt and refunded it at . minimum
interest; it had made . ~greenback dollar
the equivalents Of its face value in gold; 1t
had restored the States lately in rebellion
to their places in the liepublic; it had
cared for the soldier and aided the widow
and educated the orphan Of the heroes who
gave their lives for their country. Such
was its record. And it had Eothing Of its
mighty mission left unfulflled; the pur-
pose for which it was called into being was
accomplished; its life-work was ended.
Its Lincolns and it's Gsrfields and its Sum-
ners and its Stantons and its Sewards-all
had passed away. A race OF political
tricksters and p~lace-hunters had succeeded
to the heritage Of the patriot and the
statesman. The Chambers, and the Robe
Sons. and the Dorseys. and the Bradys. and
the Kelloggs. and others Of their calibre,
sat in the high councils OF the party and
Of the nation. Their ambition was place
and their aim pelf. They were bound to-
gether for the accomplishment Of no great
purpose. Confessed thieves, shallow trick
sters, and clever charlatans had risen to
command, and honest worth, sincere
patriotism and political purity were nc
longer requirements for party honors.
And so as the year 1883 passed sway, the
once grand Republican party was seen to
exist only for the benefit OF banded ring
sters and place hunters, who used its his.
toric name to further their own selfish
purposes, and who we're held together by
the cohesive power Of public plumber.
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THAT OLE DEVICE.


The Marysville Appeal urges the Repub-
lican party to drop every other weapon and
seize the bloody shirt a. the symbol Of
everything great and good in our political
history. The Stockton Herald says that
device is old and familiar, and cannot be
relied upon to fire the Northern heart
% it used to do. Moreover, the great
body Of the Southern negroes have grown
disguised with their Republican bosses
and have become regular old Democratic
Bourbons. Therefore there ia nc blood to
spare down there for the coloring Of the
shirt in the Republican interest. And
above all, the Republican politicians have
''gone back on the imam and brother
politically, officially, socially and judi
cially, by annulling the Civil Rights Act
and kicking him out Of the official kitchen
and slamming the door in his face. This
will interfere materially with the supply
Of bloody shirts and neutralize their in
spring power when supplied. Still, the
Republican leaders must fling that bloody
banner to the breeze and defy fate or else
surrender ct discretion. The Appeal il
right. 1t is the red shirt or nothing in
the coming contest.
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PACIFIC COAST A0WCES
ESPECIAL TO THE sfNxINKL.l
Yellow Fever Sill Prevalent ~
6uaymas.


Guaymas.
SAN Francisco, Oct. 22.-Albert 7
Andrade, > Mexican gentleman who has
arrived here by rail from Guaymas. says
the yellow fever is still prevalent in that
city, notwithstanding ell the reports to the
contrary, and that it continues to be OF q
most virulent type. Mr.. Andrade left
Guaymas six days ago. Col. Correa, OF
the Mexican army, was among the latest
victims. The fever is said to have been
brought to Guaymas from Panama by Z
family named Fonzerdero, one OF the
members Of it having died q few days after
landing at Hermosillo. Over 700 deaths
have been reported, aud the fever is still
raging with the most fatal results.
The Canvass Red Hot.
San FRANc1sco. Oct. pa Chicago
Tribune's Boston special says: The politi-
cal canvas is getting very warm. Robin
son and Butler are each making two or
three speeches q day. Special trains are
being engaged to allow them to cover the
the various town and cities. Both indulge
in personalities, and both claim that q VIC
tory is assured. Butler still clings to his
story that the tanning Of human skins is
an industry in Massachusetts,, and on FRI
day sent a man before the United States
Senate Committee to testify to that effect.
KittIeman Wins she FOOtrace.
PORTLAND. Oct. 22.-The footrace be-
tween Kittleman, claiming to be the cham
pion runner Of the United States, and
Martin, . celebrated local runner for
50, 900 . side, distance 100 yards. took
place yesterday afternoon. and resulted in
victory for Kittleman. Time. 9A seconds.
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i. CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-Reports Of An sp-
preaching war with foreigners is circulat-
ing in the interior Of China. The people
in Yum Nan believe the Chinese army is
preparing for . war Of determination
against foreigners.
A Heavy Squall.
PROVIDENCE, Mass, Oct. ga heavy
northeast squall struck the fishing feet OF
the port last night. A number Of vessels
we're damaged. The schooner Helen Nc
Crosby, off Gloucester, lost eight men.
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A DEVIL OF A m

That was dne recreation that the Syms
and Rogerses had yesterday at Augusta.
The telegram does not say whether An.
gusts. Me-, OF Augusta. Ga. OF course.
we presume the row occurred among the
fre-eaters Of the latter State. Six men
killed, two MORALLY and another severely
wounded. and al because Of . hand hurt
At baseball. And then the shooting fol-
lowed the parsons benediction. How
fortunate Otherwise those who fell
might all have been damned.
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In . vein Of humor, the Lord Chief
Justice suggested that We ought to have .
sort Of national pleading park. like the
Yellowstone, where all the absque hoes.
snrrebutters and other weird matters Of
that kind might be preserved to crafty
future curiosity" II il to be hoped this
gentle bit Of sarcasm will not be lost upon
the American bench and bar.
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TICKETS (not transferable ........s 90
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CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-The wife Of Gen
Arson Stager died here this afternoon.
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The Best Of Music will be Furnished
By Band Mater Prof. WIN. HENDY.
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Dion Boucicault says that Mrs. Langtry
asked him: "Am I q beautiful - Mary
Anderson p ''No." he replied; "you have
Q beautiful bust and waist, and that q ALL"