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More Valuable Than Ever.
CHEAP HOMES
Arkansas and Texas

Arkansas and Texas
Along the line of the st Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern railway, Texas g.
Pacific Railway and international &
Great Northern Railroad, are thous-
ands of acres of the choicest farming
and grazing lands in The world, rang
ing in price from 200 to 800 and 400
per acre. in a healthy country, with
climate unsurpassed tor salubrIty and
comfort. Send your address to the I'M
dersigned for a copy of statistics Of
crops raised in Arkansas and Texas, in
1882, and make up your mind to go and
see FOR yourself when you learn that
the crop for 1883, is so Ter cent larger
than that of 1882. Those purchasing
land owned by the Company, and pay
ing one fourth, one half, or all cash a
portionate rebate is allowed for money
paid Cor tickets or freight over the
companies lines.
H. G. TOWNSEND.
Genl. Pass. Ag't.
nS9-tf ST. LOUIS. MO
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-03-07

New Life
is given by using Browns
IRON BITTERs. In the
Winter it strengthens and
warns the system; in the
Spring it enriches the blood
and conquers disease; in the
Summer it gives tone to the
nerves and digestive organs;
in the Fall it enables the
system to stand the shock
Of sudden changes.
In no way can disease be
SO surely prevented as by
keeping the system in per-
feet condition. BRowN's
Iron BITTERs ensures per-
feet health through the
changing seasons, it disarms
the danger from impure
water and miasmatic air,
and it prevents Consump-
ton, Kidney and Liver Dis
ease, &c.
Il. S. Berlin, Esq, OF the
well-known firm Of H. s.
Berlin & Co., Attorneys, lie
Droit Building, Washing
ION. d. C., writes, Dec. 9Th.
1881:
Gentlemen. I AXE pleas
ure in stating that have used
BroWnS iron BitterS Tor ma
LARA and nervous troubles,
caused by overwork, with
excellent results.
teware of limitations
Ask,for Browns IRON BIT-
TIERS, and insist on having
it. Don't be imposed on
with something recon-
mended as "JfAst as .goOd."
The genuine is made only
by the 3rown Chemical Co
Baltimore, Nd,
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-03-07
THE CITY OF MEXICO.

"Did you like Mexico City,"
81 did. very much as place to lin.
ger, to lorer, to admire. The air is SO
pure and linpid that all distances
seem obliterated. You go upon the
mountain OF Chepultepec, and the city,
three or four miles away, seems so close
that you can touch it. l loved to sit
up there and just look down at the city,
the lakes. and al the distant mountains.
There are four active volcanoes in
Mexico and some of the high peaks
you can see from Chepultepec-one of
them, forty miles away, looks as if you
can walk to it in an hour"
Is Mexico City busy placer"
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-03-07

tFrcm Mis-. pod's recent work on nyslenlc
Cookery
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-03-07
FINE CAVALRY

mid you see any OF their troops Z"
Yes; l saw some splendid troops.
There are 1000 soldiers kept in Mexi-
CO City. They are as good troops as
| ever saw, clothed in blue very much
like our regular army soldiers. l saw
the finest regiment of cavalry there
ever saw, Every horse ridden IN it
was black except one ridden by Colo
mel, and that was pure white"
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
Blarneyed an Old Lawyer.

By ssblarney" is usually understood fluent
power of persuasion-the faculty to 'stalk
over" q person to ones own way of thinking
by good words, often containing more flattery
lated by an old Western lawyer, as joke on
himself, in some "reminiscences Of his early
practice The incident would make a curiou
appendix to "Betsey and are Out" bringing
laughter in the place place Of tears. The MARIA
was sitting in my Office one day, when in
stepped an Irishman whom will call John
Wood, of Union County, and told me he
had been recommended to me for sound coun-
sci in an important case. He had arrived di-
rectly from Cork, 4reland, only few years be-
children as far as Hamilton County, Ohio,
where by pure accident he and his Gould
woman" had somehow got separated, and had
not lived together since, and his business with
me was to employ me to file bill for divorce
in the Union Circuit Court. The fee was
twenty dollars, which he agreed to pay, and
left
Immediately filed the bill, and had the notice
published in the paper for the next term The
old woman accidentally saw the advertisement,
and thereby found out for the first time where
the man had stepped after he had left her, and
came directly over to the old mans residence.
them.
Soon after this settlement, the old man called
at my Office in fine humor.
"Misther Smith, the ould woman an meself
'av made up!"
Indeed Well, I am very glad Of it. You
are both too old to separate
."I know you're glad; you're good man; I
jist came over to see what yell charge poor
man like meself that's jist made up with me
tOuld woman"
II charge you twenty dollars, Mr.. Wood"
''Ah, sure, Mr.. Smith, yell not charge poor
body twenty dollars The minute landed at
New York, heard of you Misther Smith, that
ye was kind-hearted man, and distinguished
sergeant in the law, as ye ore, Misther
Smith"
Il charge you only ten dollars, Mr.. Wood"
''sqrely, Misther Smith, yen not charge a
poor body tin dollars for little matther like
this Misther Smith I've been acquainted with
all the great barristers Of Irela1d,Lwith the II
Currans, an, the Burkes-but there's not one
of thin that's yer aqual Misther SmithCyou
are so approabhable In coort, and can take
such grand distinctions in the law, Aisther
IT charge you nothing Mr.: Wood"
"Ah, you are . gintlemanly man, Misther
Smith Sure, an you will pay the printer"
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
One Effect of Crazy Quilts.

ssWhat! has Miss B. sent for another lot
of samples?" asked a prominent Lexington
street merchant with surprise few days ago
of one of his salesladies who had asked if the
handful of vari-colored silks and other suit
ings she held would please the lady in ques-
ton. ''Why," he continued, with q greater
display of surprise, 'sthis is the third time in
the last week or two that she has sent for
samples, and has not made single purchase
Ican't understand it 1t seems to me, anyhow,
that we are sending out an enormous number
of samples of late, and with but poor returns.
It is positive waste, and shall have to 81,
down on it. Oh! yes, send them to her this
time, " he continued as q friend appeared and
called him away.
While the merchant was thus venting his
wrath broad and knowing smile Illuminated
the face of his book-keeper, who was bending
over an open ledger in another part of the
office. $50 the old man has not caught on ia
the scheme yet," he chuckled, as the ''old
man" disappeared through the Office door.
'sNo, nor have l." remarked Baltimore
Herald reporter who had heard the converse
ton.
"Well, guess you have not got any sisters
or lady acguaintances, then, or they would
have been after you long ago for your old era
watts to cut up and turn into crazy quilts"
$50 that is what they want the samples for is
it," surmised the reporter.
EXACTLY" answered the man of figures;
'sand the cheek some of them employ to get
them would draw tears of envy from the eyes
of some Of you reporters. They have got the
craze bad, and the lady the odd man spoke OF
while ago has got it as bad as any of them"
care the quilts they make Of any value?" was
the next question asked
'tNone whatever, except for ornamental pur-
poses and to adorn the crib of some petted
baby Some of them are really beautiful !
saw one the other day which sold at a church
fair for 800, and the lady who made it said
that this did not pay her for the time and wor-
ry she had spent over it."
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02


Frisbie, the defaulting bank teller of Port
land pleaded guilty and begged for quick
sentence.
Burglars visited five saloons in Henderson,
Mimi, a few nights ago, securing small sums
in each, the largest being 81.
Warner Marshall is in jail at Fergus Falls,
Mimi, for the attempted rape of W. D. Wood
worth's little daughter, aged nine years. He
made three attempts
Charles R. Rice, travelling agent for Chase
Bros nurserymen of Rochester, N. Y, killed
himself, when about to be taken to jail on q
charge of swindling his employers.
rabee pleaded guilty to burglary in the third
degree and was sentenced to the penitentiary
for three years and six months. She is twenty
years old, handsome and refined looking, but
known to the police as professional burglar
At Ottowa, Kansas, Carrie and Bessie Water
man, aged twelve and fourteen years, daugh-
ters of James Waterman, a farmer, tied a rope
around the neck of half brother, six years
sticks till he died. The head of the child was
nearly severed by the rope. The girls stated
at the coroners inquest that they hated the
child and wanted him dead They were held
Tor murder.
Norman J. Sneider, man we'll known in the
commercial circles of St. Paul, was found in q
bedroom at Winnipeg, Manitoba, recently, ly-
ing on the floor with bullet hole through his
head and revolver at his feet He had been
missed for week. Search resulted in finding
the body, which had been dead five or six days
A pool of dried blood surrounded his head
The body was beginning to decompose. No
81 GOO some time ago, but it is understood
still had plenty of property.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
The Chicago Markets.

h Whsa sn Ghieags s E .ed % & No. 1eS
Corn, cash, 7ek@7sc
Oats, cash, 25c.
Rye, 55Ac
Barley, tic.
iard d cash, $zsc@*z5.
Milwaukee MARKETS.
G %hsat M No. =. 3 s.; T4N'
Oats, No. 2 white, 2S11c.
Rye, No. /, SIC; No. 2, SIC.
Barley, No. 2, 6o&c;; extra No. 8, 46c
Mess Pork, SIC cash.
= Lard-Prime steam, $7.N!
Butter, choice creamery, M@26c; fair to good,
2O@23c; best dairy, 17@l9c.
Minneapolis Markets.
WHEAT. No. 1 hard, 797sc; No. hard, 74c;
Corn, Ne 2 SIC; rejected, 4a@5oo; con:
Oats, No. 5 old, white, 25@aec; No. 2, new,
2518c; rejected, 2@24c; condemned, 22@Sc.
Mixed Feed, No. /, s175o@s18; No. q 1850
Go Corn Meal, unbolted, s17@.1S; bolted,, 81
Hay Hay, timothy, sa@9.5o; wild, choice, $50
$50; No. 2 Wild, $5. a@6 rs
-, 1t. Paul MARKETS.
sWHrAr-No.I1 hard, new, s79c; No. hard,
75c; No. 2, CSC.
Corn, No. 2, SOC; No. 8, 49,
Oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c; No. white, ESQ; No
3 extra. Mc
Rye, No. q 45c. !z.E sss.f% isx>..
Barley, No. 2, SOC; No. 8, 40c :
5 Ground Feed, 41& So @ss s.sS4
Baled Hay, IS; timothy hay, 4100o@%10 So
Flax Seed, Ills .s. .& E ~
Timothy seed, 41.2Q #.t. -. -. ) q, Is !.
Potatoes, 25c i@% s:. s.
Eggs, 141ff lss.ssss "a
Butter, dairy fair, 1239 g; choice, $50; cream
cry, Isl. =, ca 81
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
Pul1man's Wrecked and PRED.

Toronto, Can, Special: Three Pullmans
and the private car Of Chief Engineer Hanna.
ford of the Grand Trunk express, for Montreal
and Boston, left the track near Pickering sta
ton, owing to o broken frog, and went over an
embankment Is feet high. At the time of the
accident it was very dark and the rain was
pouring in torrents. The crash of the falling
cars, shrieks of the women and groans of tho
wounded, combined with the darkness, made
the scene horrible. The horrors were multi
piled when Engineer Hannaford's coach
took fire. The flames burned fercely despite
the pouring rain, and quickly communicated
to the Pullman coach that came next, though,
the flames here stayed. A large number OF
townspeople quickly gathered, and assisted in
rescuing the passengers from the burning
Pullman as quickly as possible. The passen-
gers collected together and q roll was called,
when it was found about dozen were injured,
but none seriously. How all escaped is
mystery One of the coaches was smashed
into kindling wood All were whirled over
and over several times, yet many escaped alb.
solutely unhurt, while most of the wounds
were Of slight character.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02

A legal Chicago journal says that
Westerners think that most of the energy
is west of the Aleghenies, an Eastern
folks feel that really true enterprise is
only to be found in their cities, but all
of us must learn to appreciate the
strides of progress now making in Eu-
rope. The growth of Glasgow and Ber-
lin has been as rapid.as that of Chicago,
while the advance in London has been
commensurate with the overwhelming
greatness of the worlds metropolis.
Last week The Chicago Current quoted
the testimony of a traveller, published
in the Boston Commercial Bulletin,
showing that England was by no means
stagnant and rusty. The Baltimore
Sun, in the same line of observation, re-,
cites the experience of Mr.. D. L. Bart
lett, of that city, who saw in Berlin and
Vienna evidences of enterprise and
hard work which set him a-thinking
that the New World must mend its pace
Of progress. Even the Italians are
learning to labor. In London Mr.. Bart
lett saw miles Of splendid honses in the
West End as new as the great resi-
5dences 10 Chicago and ten times rs nu-
Merous. .5S
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
Public Land Sales for q Year.

From statement prepared in the land Office
showing the disposal of public lands for the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1884, it appears that
cash sales amounted to 6,317, 847 acres; value,
$40. 302, 5S2 The original homestead entries
included 1881 500 acres; final homestead en-
tries, 2, 99445 274 acres, and timber culture en-
tries a. OS4, 463 acres, including S,A3, 154 acres
of railroad lands for which 81 $50, 40 was re-
ceived The aggregate number of acres of
land disposed Of under all heads, excluding
final homestead entries, was 6,84, eAlj
and the aggregate receipts $1l, 838, $685.
This is an increase over the disposal
of last year of101, 1877 acres and 81, 02,521. In
dian lands to the amount Of 697, 128 acres
which sold for $955, 1877, are not included in
the foregoing totals. In the amount Of land
disposed of during the fiscal year Dakota is
far in the lead of all states and territories.
with II, OS2, 218 acres, Nebraska second with
3,105, 815 acres, Minnesota third with 1,646, 1853
acres, Louisiana fourth with 1851, SIG acres
lover 1,O0O, 600 being for railway Kansas
fifth with 1874 4O4 acres, California sixth with
1,112, $50 acres, and Washington Territory sew
enth with Loss, 953 acres. The remaining
states and territories disposed of less than q
million acres each Of II 100000 acres dis
posed of in Dakota, nearly 5000, 900 were Ia
en- under railroad grants
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02

Gen. Francis A. Walker, of the Mas.
sachusetts Institute of Technology, pro.
nounces development, not examining.
the central idea of education, and he
recommends industrial education for its
mental, moral and physical benefits.
He distinguishes the industrial schools
designed for ordinary pupils from those
designed for the training of mechanics
and members of the scientific profess
sions, and lays down the doctrine that
"just as much of the elements Of physics
and mechanics should be given to a
child as he will take" Indeed, he says
ut is always safe to offer him little
more than he will take" The problem
of Industrial education in the public
schools of cities and the larger towns is
attracting the earnest attention of many
of our leading educators and deserves
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02

According to deductions from the lat.
est statistics the length of generation
is now thirty-four years. All who ad.
vance beyond that period get beyond
this average, and getting beyond these
fatal numbers, the probabilities are that
they will live another thirty-four years
or more. just where the dead line is
in life has always been q mooted ques-
ton. It varies with different constitu-
lions and the habits of persons. But
generally in long life there are two or
three dates, pretty wide apart, when the
keel of the bark begins to CRATE on the
bottom. If these rough and hard places
can be tided over successfully, the years
ore pretty we'll rounded out, on condi-
ton that temperate living has been OBJ
served.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
The farmers are everywhere reminded

The farmers are everywhere reminded
that all other things are as low in COM
parison as wheat md corn-sugar g
cents lower than usual, coffee 5 cents
lower, and cotton and woollen goods,
clothing, shoes, blankets, hardware,
tools, harness and farm implements Is
to 25 per cent. lower-so that the low
priced crop this year will go almost as
far in purchasing the low priced neces-
saries that he requires as the high
priced crop of 1880 did. This is some
what of an exaggeration, but not alto.
gether. There are things, however,
that are not affected, and they are debts
and mortgages. There is no reduction
in these things, which abound in newly
settled communities, and the moral is:
to dispense with them in the future, as
far as possible.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02

Every now and them" says the Lon
don Graphic, "the question is raised
by well-meaning persons whether our
method of carrying out the death pen
atty is the most humane which could be
adopted. A similar discussion lately
arose concerning the guillotine in
France. Some persons propose that
both systems could be advantageously
replaced by poison, others are in favor
of an electric shock as being the most
painless death which could be admins
tered. So long as capital punishment
is considered necessary, by all means
let it be carried out in a humane man
ner, but would it not be robbed of half
it's horrors if it were understood to be
painless? The lash would lose its ter
rors if criminals were cloroformed be-
fore being fogged."
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
A PLAN Mr.. for Grant.

uIduU Army OCOuU duu Hdn.
The following is copy of a letter IL
Gently sent to friend in this country
by Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley of her
majesty's service. The letter appears in
the May number of the Southern His
torical Society Papers"
WAR OFFICE, LONDON,
Sth December, 1883.
MY DEAR Miss S.. I am very CRATE
full for yor kind letter and for the valu-
able autographs it contains. [ have long
been collecting the letters Of eminent
people, but have had much difficulty in
obtaining those of the great men on your
side of the Atlantic. I have only known
two heroes in my life and General r.
E. Lee is one of them; so you can we'll
understand that I value one of his let
ters. I believe that when time has
Gained the angry passions Of the north
General Lee will he accepted in the
United States as the greatest general
you have ever had and second as pa
triot only to Washington himself. Stone
wall Jackson I only knew slightly. His
name will live forever also in American
history when that of Mr.. U. S. Grant
has been long forgotten. Such, at least,
is my humble opinion of these men
when viewed by an outside student of
military history who has no local pre-
JUDGES.
Again thanking you most sincerely for
YOUR kindness to me in this matter be-
ieveme to remain very faithfully yours,
WoLsELEY.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02

Our federal constitution in three
years will have been in operation one
hundred years, it having been adopted
September II, 1887. The constitution n
Of the United States has been pronounc-
ed by Gladstone to be ''the most won
derful work ever struck off at given
time by the brain and purpose of man. I"
'Its wheels move as smoothly to-day
as at any time since the Inauguration of
The first President" Amendments have
been made from time to time without i'm
pairing its original symmetry and force,
but there is q tendency towards tinker
ing the immortal instrument to sub
serve temporary purposes which should
be checked. It is fair to assume that
General Washington, Benjamin Frank
lin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Ham
ilton, James Madison and other patri-
otto men who framed the original consti-
tuition, were quite as wise and far
seeing as the politicians of the present
1uv
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
Record OF Casu4ltdea,

AtNeponset, Mass. the A. T. Stearns Lumber
company suffered $240, 900 fire.
Funda & Sons planning mill, at Syracuse, N.
Y, was burned. Loss, $4,000; insured for
$6,OO0
The barn, stacks and machinery Of William
Pool Of Lebanon, Mimi, were destroyed by fire
recently.
Albert Inglebrat dropped dead on his faith
er's door step at Taylors Falls, Mimi, recently
of heart disease
Kellogg, johnson h Co. g Boot and Shoe Fac
tory at St Paul was burned on the 9th inst
Loss $74, 600, insurance $4,000.
Suthorlands saw mill at St. Boniface, one
Of the largest in Manitoba, was totally de-
stroyed by fire. The mill was valued at $780,
600; half insured. Forty thousand dollars
worth of lumber was consumed.
Investigation shows that Mrs. Pollok, found
dead on the floor IF her residence in the town
of Montgomery, Mimi, had probably been taken
with bleeding of the nose, and getting up to
stop it had fallen to the floor and died from
natural causes. A verdict was rendered &C
cordingly.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02

The agricultural department has been
investigating the rels tive positions Of
the United States and India as Compel
itors in supplying the grain markets Of
the world, and finds that we have such
advantages over the British dependen-
cy in point of proximity to the European
markets and superiority Of facilities
for transportation and cheapness OF
freights, that India will not be able for
a long time to come, if ever, to compete
successfully with us. The average cost
of transporting grain by rail in India is
fifty per cent higher than in the Unit
ed States, while the Indian railroad
system is yet in it's infancy, reaching but
small part of the grain producing ter
ritorv
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
MINNESOTA STATE BANKS.

A fragment From the Forthcoming BIen-
NAL Report of Examiner Knox-Thirty-
Two State Banks Now In Operation.
A fragment of the biennial report Of Bank Ex-
amtner H. NJ. Knox, has gained publicity; the
section relating to new banking capital, ETC., in
Minnesota within the last two years. As yet
but thirds of the whole report Is In the
hands Of the printers. During the two years
charters were granted by the state to the fol-
lowing new banks:
The Bank of Benson: the Wright County bank,
Delano; the Bank of Glencoe; the Grant County
BANK, Herman; the Morrison County bank, Lit:
North Minneapolis; the Scandal bank Mime
spolis; the Bank Of Ortonville; the Pipe Stone
the Germania bank, St. Paul: the Peoples bank,
St. Paul; and the Nicollet County bank. St.
Peter; in all fourteen. The following have been
changed to the national system: Tho State
bank Anoka; the Bank Of St. Cloud the Bank Of
Shakopee and tho Bank Of Wabasha. Changed
to private bank with same name, tine Morrison
County bank; and failed, the Bank Of Farming
ton. There are now in operation thtrtytwo
state banks, whose resources and liabilities are
thus