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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-30

from ths Baptist weekly.
this morning I got up as Cross as
bear. T felt as rough and tingy as a
chestnut burr. Twas all out of sorts,
and it seemed to me- it would be pleas
ure to snap up anybody who spoke to
me q short as I could.
Most likely + would have done so and
set the whole household by the ears for
the rest of the day, but that I have had
such moods before and learned bv e1-
perience the best way to manage them.
"Now," thought I, my best plan is not
to influence the whole family, but to
remain neutral and let them influence
NO." Accordingly 1 tried to control
myself little and await events.
"Well, the two elder children got up
merry and as happy as crickets. Papa
was in . pretty humor, and the baby
sat in her high chair and displayed all
her little airs and graces and her new
est funny little capers, and we must all
look and admire, 50 by the time break
fast was over I was laughing and smil-
ing as cheerfully as the rest, and passed
q pretty comfortable day after all.
And as was thinking of this at even
ing thought how easy little fret
ting might have upset the whole fam
lily and spoiled the day.
Now, fretting Is both useless and I'M
necessary; it does no good and great
deal of harm; yet it is almosta univer'
sal sin. More or less we are given to it.
We fret over almost anything. In sum-
mer because it is too hot, and In win
ter because it is too cold; we fret when
it rains because it IS wet. and when it
does not rain because it is dry: when we
are sick or when any body else is sick.
In short if anything or everything does
not go just to suit our particular whims
and fancies, we have just one grand ref
uge-to fret over it.
I am afraid that fretting is much
more common among women than
among men. We may as we'll own the
truth, my fair sisters, it isn't altogether
pleasant. Perhaps it is because the
little worries, cares and vexations of our
daily life harass our sensitive nerves
more than the extended enterprises
which generally take the attention
of men. Great wants develop great
resources, but the little wants and
worries are hardly provided for.
and like the nail which strikes the
saw, they make not much of a mark,
but they turn the edges terribly. [
think if we looked upon all the little
worries of one day as one great united
worry, self-control to meet it would be
developed. But as they generally come
only one or two little things at
time-they seem 50 very little that we
give way, and the breech one made in
the wall, soon grows larger.
I know that many a mother has
turned her son against her own sex,
and made him dread and dislike the So
ciety of women, by her example con-
stantly set before him. I know that
many mother has brought up and de-
veloped daughter just like herself,
who, in her turn, would wreck and ruin
the comfort of another family circle.
And knowing all this, I know We ought
to set our faces against this useless, sim
full, peace-destroying and home-disturb.
ing habit of fretting.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-30
IDou1r'in

u 9DoUoSI1s 80, -. -
When pair Of red lips are ipturhed to your
own; 80
Do you pray for endurance I'd let them alone:
Well, may be you debut I doubt it
When sly little hand you're permitted to seize;
With a velvety softness sbdut it, -
Do you think ydn can drop it with never q
squeeze?
Well, maybe you can-but 1 doubt it.
When tapering waist is in reach Of your arm,
With wonderful plunipness about it,
Do you argue the point 'tw;xt the good and the
harm?
Well, may be yott debut I doubt it
And if by these tricks you should capture a
heart,
With wonianly sweetness about it
Will you guard it, and keep it and act the soou
part,
Well, maybe You wiil-butI doubtit
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-30

The most absurd incident of the pres.
idential campaign is the canvass made
by Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood. Without
presidential electors in single state,
she solicits votes and in all respects acts
as it she felt sure of efecting something
IN the way of gaining popular support
Tor woman suffrage. She will gain
'ome notoriety of cheap kind, as a
presidential candidate, but will not
gain the respect even of those who,
ander other circumstances, would be
glad to sustain the suffrage move.
ment.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-30

The heroic struggles of certain Phil
adelphians to keep the American flag
sfioat upon transatlantic steamers have
At last ended in defeat. The four Amer.
lean steamers of the Philadelphia line
have been sold to a British company
md are henceforth to fly the British
dag, although the purchasers contract
that the steamers shall continue to run
between Philadelphia and Liverpool.
Philadelphia has made great sacrifices
to maintain this line of steamers, and
the failure is subject of universal rs-
srrok
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-30
An American in Holland,

My companion will persist in jabber-
ing the language of the country and is
constantly getting us into trouble. I
have warned him time and again, but to
no effect. He will ask when the train
leaves, and usually translates the an.
swer about three hours after it's depart.
ure, thus necessltating another day in
town. The other day he called for 9
tariff card in a restaurant and got
railroad time table. At breakfast this
morning he asked for some ice water
and obtained ice cream. And so it
goes. am made the victim of for
eigners on the one hand and my lin
guistic friend on the other. If there is
one thing that makes me downright
mad it is to be swindled. It is a re-
Election upon ones business acumen.
We have been constantly subjected
to petty thefts. At first it took
us so long to count the money
that we would seek secluded spot to find
out if the right change had beengiven.
If we then discovered fraud it was too
late to remedy it. The last time Twas
DWIu1cu was hO fAUlSGcIudus l. Ul6u10
income but myself. We were at the rail-
Wy station, and pH triepd priced i
to be two forms and fifty cents. He
bought ticket and went of to count
his change. I then bought my ticket.
Had I looked on the ticket / would
have seen the price marked at two for
ms and fifteen cents. I gave the man
French piece of money worth 81, up
on which he allowed me eighty cents,
and then I emptied my pockets of all
the Holland change I had and borrow
ed ali my friend had to make up what
I supposed to be the price of the ticket.
I came within one cent of it. Iasked
the man if that would do, and he said
it would. When I got on the train and
studied the financial problem I found
that had calmly stood at the ticket
Office and had given the agent fifty cents
more than was necessary Correspon-
dence Brooklyn Eagle. :, r. =.
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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-30
Foreign Flashes.

Sarah Bernhardt has left Paris for the sea-
side. Her physician ordered her ID maintain
absolute rep6se for long time.
The Canadian government will pay the sum
Of $14 COO in estimates of the coming session
to lay cable between Nova Scotia and Sable
Island
The settlements of Pointe A'Fregate and
Petite Anse, Quebec, having been completely
homeless and starving, and help is called for.
The ST. Petersburg police seized secret
printing press. They discovered documents
which showed arrangements were being per.
fected to make an attempt on the cZafs life:
Many arrests have been made.
reporter Of the Toronto Globe rigged Out
like i respectable tramp, was met with scans
courtesy and given very poor seats by the Gle.
CANT hshers of several fashionable churches Of
that city.
Mr. Walter, owner c. the London Times, has
suspended the publication Of his title half
penny daily, the Summary, which was a con-
densatiOn of the news in the times. It has
never been success, for it reproduced the
heaviness Of the parent paper without having
its solidity.
Chinese troops continue to pour into Ton
quin. Great uneasiness is felt in Paris on this
Account: The cabinet is divided as I'd what
measures should be adopted to provide REIN
fofceihents. Gen. Campenon, minister of war,
declines to mobilize corps d'armee without
the authority of the chambers. Chinese adj
vices state that a French corvette has been ex-
changing shots with the Tai Wan forts, on the
west coast of Formosa. The corvette subjects
altspproachine steamers to search.
The Freeman's Journal asserts that Trevel.
yam withdrew from the chief secretaryship Of
Ireland because he was unwilling to continui
as the mouthpieco of Earl Spencer's policy
and was digusted with the castle officials
The same journal describes Campbell Banner
man, the new chief secretary as courteous
nonentity, ignorant of Ireland" The Irish
Times says the changes have been made IA
please the Parnellites, who boast that they
have gained another victory The Express
says Tfevelyan was the victim of Irish resent
ihent
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-30
Although the French reports inform

Although the French reports inform
us of any uninterrupted series of victo-
ries in China, the fact begins to leak
out that it is no easy task to invade q
territory as large as the United States
and with practically unbounded resour-
ces in both men and money. The
French forces may defeat an army Of
10000 Chinese one day; but when
week after, $4,000 take the place of the
defeated force, the invaders begin to
have an idea of the magnitude of the
task they have undertaken. AS was
the case in Mexico, the French will
soon perceive that their Chinese enter
prise is another instance where vault
ing ambition hath o'er-leapt ITSELF"
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-30

$500 / side Mitchell has Deposited $500
McCanrey is to name any responsible man .,
stakeholder.
The Cambria Iron company, Of Johnstown,
Pa, sued out an attachment In the superior
court against the Chicago Galvanized Wire
Fence company, to recover ]1s, rs rs The
execution was duly issaied and the sheriff closed
the several premises Of the latter company and
levied upon stock found
When Thomas Edison, the inventor, was
train dispatcher for the Grand Trunk twenty
Two years ago, his carelessness nearly resulted
in An accident, and he was discharged and the
amount due him, $26 IS, .confscated His
father writes to the company, threatening suit
unless the amount is returned
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-30

The question of establishing stand
ard prime meridian has been settled at
the International Conference in Wash
ington. OF the twenty-four nations
represented twenty-one voted in favor
of the following resolutions: ''The
conference proposes to the Governments
here represented the adoption of the
meridian passing through the center of
the transit instrument at the observa-
tory of Greenwich as the initial merid-
ian for longitude" The delegate from
San Domingo voted in the negative and
the delegates from France and Brazil
abstained from voting. It is probable,
however, that they will, in spite of To-
cal pride, find themselves forced to
reckon from Greenwich C. theestand-
ard, because the rest of boi el
eworld will not pay a & 6 T.
t6Sx sulking. 1t is toasa e. !
the twenty -one Gove9 here 1s sp
~o.on+,a n>Ql 4-,Ae nli 4 8. astsfs
$ :ssS assHf5ihs the "Gtie |1'ssl (.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-30

A singular fatility was the death of
Louis Meyers, Long Island butcher,
who was found few days since locked
up in his ice-box and literally frozen to
death. It is supposed that he entered
his ice-box for the purpose of cooling
Of, and the door closing upon him with
spring lock, his cries for assistance were
sunheard. This is certainly an anomal-
Gus kind Of death to occur in this eli
mate and in the torrd weather we have
.been enduring; butt = not without prec-
edent. A few years since Third avenue
lager beer seller came to. his death in
the same vay.-Nsw York Hour.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-30
General News Items.

AMadison county (Ga negro is reported to be
the sire of fifty-six children.
Mrs. Lockwood's official organ publishes a
list of twenty-fv women who wear trousers
habitually.
Des Moines has an ordinance prohibiting the
sale of meats on Sunday, from Oct. Is to May
Is, Of each year:
Thomas White, late cashier Of the Planters
and Mechanics bank, Petersburg, Va, was in
dicted for fraud. =
1t is thought that 8, 700 car loads OF cattle will
sbe shipped from Montana this fall, making
4hipments for the ~, 600 head
81 E;vo l.---@,.uu nlIners are on strike at What
5Cheer, Iowa. They have been getting Is cents
ton for mining coal, and they want 81 cents
Thomas A. Lewis, of Boomer, Lewis & Co.,
Louisville, filed personal deed of assignment
Liabilities, $55, 00O The firm is not affected.
Weed l. Fay, of Boston. manufacturers of
overalls, etc., have failed Liabilities I'M
known.
The clothing, boot and shoe and notion stock
Of Adolph Kahn, Chicago, was attached for
10000. Liabilities, SIC, GO to 1900; assets,
5000 to $4,000.
Dominick McDafrey declines to accept Mitch
ellis challenge to fight with hard gloves or
knuckles. He processes desire to meet Sulli-
van before making any more matches
Notwithstanding the shutting down of tie
Fall River mills. dealers in print cloths have
LIE, 600 pieces on hand, againtt $4,000 this
time last year. Hence the recent decline of
three cents.
Kansas City Division No. won. the first
prize at the drill Of uniformed Knights +
Pythias at st. Louis recently. The Knights
Templar band of St Louis took the prize in
the band contest. X
AT Omro Wis, James Cartin of Portland, Me-,
the champion checker player of the state, and
Percy Bradt of Omro, the champion of Wiscon-
sin, played fifty games for the championship
of the United States. - rait winning thirty -one
games, Cartin three, drawn sixteen. -,
At the Catholic church in Miles City on Tues
day Misses Bridget Golden and Bridget Geehan,
were consecrated with the white veil by Bishop
Brondel assisted by the Rev. Father Iemmers:
and Lindesmith This was the first ceremony
of the kind occurring in Montana ss5zE ~.
{ Charles Mitchell has issued q challenge to
Dominic NcGahrey TO fight within six weeks,
With hard gloves or bare fists at any city in the
world herring New OrleAps for, from $500 to
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-30

James Sullivan, aged twenty-fou1
years, employed as ewatchmen for the
Dubuque Lumber companys booms,
was accidentally drowned Of Dubuque.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-30
Failure of tho H. D, Cooke & Co.

Washington Dispatch private banking
house of H. D. Cooke & Co. of Washington
displayed the following notice at the usual
hour Thursday morning: Sowing to our in
ability to meet pressing demands, we deem ii
better for the interests of all concerned to sus-
pend temporarily" The firm consists of H.
D. Cooke of Washington and A. G. Campbell
of Kansas and Utah. The later is not in the
city and Mr.. Cooke remained at his residence
to-day. From Maj John w. Corspn, conf
Dental clerk of the house, it is learned that the
indebtedness of the firm is $17O,OO0
of which $4,000 is fully secured
Liabilities are nearly all due Washing
ton creditors, there being only few thou
sand due creditors in Baltimore, New York
and Chicago. Their indebtedness to Washing
ton bankers is abundantly secured. Maj. Cor
son says there is every reason to believe the
firm will he able, with the aid of some indul-
gence in the matter of time to pay the liabili-
tles in full. It is also learned at the bank
a~.Aso asnenaix.s. re.-.i f~eE. H.. .s1 fUI t's-
nate Investments dating back a number of
years. Tn , firms unsecured liabilities amount
ed to about 500, 600 last January, and they
have steadily been paid off since that time un-
til they are now reduced to STAG, 0O0 The firm
have at last reached point, however, where
the remaining assets prove to be unavailable
for immediate use in the market, and can be
realized only by good management and waiting
for suitable opportunities.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-30
Prairie Fires in Polk County.

The prairie in Mound township, P ok county
Mimi, was fired by a locomotive on Sunday
10Th, the flames spreading over considerable
portion of the town and all that portion of Bat
tie Plain township lying west of the river. j.
D. Rolfe, who lives on, section 18in Battle Plain
township lost his stable, granary, wagon, al
his farm machinery, 1856 bushels of oats, 40
bushels o: buckwheat, 50 bushels of; fax, Is
bushels of wheat, all Of his hay, set of har
nesses and in fact, all his personal property
except his stock and household goods Nearly
eighty new grain sacks belonging to Ezra Rice
and some machine belts belonging to w. c.
Broekway were also destroyed Mr.. Rolfe was
fortunate enough to save his house. George
R. Fish, who lives about a mile and half
northeast of Mr. Rolfe's, on section s, lost his
stable, all of his hay and setting of wheat and
and oats Mr.. shimebauma, in the same town
most serious loss befel Mr. John Norton, also
a resident of Battle Plain township. His barn
was burned and two horses persisted in the
flames. In his endeavors to save his property
Mr.. Norton's clothes caught fire and his feet
and legs were so seriously burned that he was
unable to walk. - r.: = t. -. E
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-30
Minnesota School Book Agents.

In response to question of Samuel Whiting,
president of the school board of Clearwater,
Wright county, Attorney General Hahn recent
ly gave an opinion that section 80, general
school laws, prohibits a merchant who has
been appointed agent for the sale of school text
books from acting as member of the school
board at the same time. If he does, he is
liable to the fine imposed by that act The
s rBP to ys
or furniture" The fact that such a person
has acted as member of the board would not
in any way affect the validity of the act of the
board His being interested in the sale of any,
in the baard smny renders
him liable to the punishment imposed by Sec
ton 81.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-30

somehow the general traced suppressed
merriment in her tones.
"She is brunette, then? he asked.
anxiously.
Mrs. Comyns laughed softly. "My
dear Ger. Biddulph," she said, looking
at him for one moment, II see you are
not an courant with the state of things
May ask if you rem ember the late Mrs.
Daly?"
II have no personal recollection, GER
tainly; but know her to have been a
beautiful and amiable woman" he re-
turned promptly.
"That vas the first wife; I mean the
second"
"The sccond!" repeated the general,
blankly.
ut is a most extraordinary story.
Major DAILY, in one of his eccentric
moods, wandered up country, fell, ill,
and was carefully nursed and tended by
a native woman of inferior rank. With
zeal worthy of better cause, Major DAILY
sought her out when he recovered, and
he married her."
Mrs Comyns' soft low voice died
| away. The general stood silent as a
statue. ''Then this GIRL" he said, at
length, "is-is"-.
'sBlack," observed Mrs. Comyns,
"black as your hat on the chimney. A
sound of rapid movement came from
the inner room, the door was burst open,
and before the general had time to re-
cover himself girl stood in the open
ing. "Ah, here is Dessa. Dessa, this
&c Il 1c1, l>a do
with him." '@ IL r.,
Speechless with astonismentrandve x-
alton, the poor man gazed with horror
on the figure before him. Squat, short,
dressed in the most unearthly garb,
with huge gold rings dancing in her
black ears, and innumerable silver ban
giles shining on her dusky arms, stood
the beauty of his dreams, the heiress,
his ward. He advanced feebly, with
outstretched hand. The girls face ex-
banded into broad grin, her white
even teeth cleaning like pearls in their
ebony setting"
"She is shy" said Mrs. Comyns, with
smile still lowering around the cor
ter friends by and BY"
Murmuring some incoherent fare
we'll, the general seized his hat, and
hastily made his escape from the room,
and out of the house. He strobe home
overwhelmed with the horrible discov-
cry. Modification, anger and vexed
pride surged in his heart, and he longel
at that moment for Major Days head,
that he might have relieved his over
charged feelings. He would be laugh
ing stock Of tbs season, After SO muel,
White Oaks golden era. (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 188?-18??, 1884-01-31
WHITE OAKS LINCOLN COUNTY, N NJ JANUARY 81, 1884

The Fletcher mill IN Drv Guich will
probably start up in week This
mill is not very large. but the fact tha'
Col +. superintendent its erection is
sufficient guarantee that it Will go, and
that proper attention has been paid to
details. The lode upon which this
mill is situated has been known to its
owner, Billy Gill, for more than fifteen
years, and was first located hv him, we
believe. in 1871. Then the Mescalero
reservation was extended north until it
took in his claim, and Billy went off
somewhere and sat down until yet
another government survey so far
drrw in the reservation lines as to
leave the claim again out Of doors,
W l,ereupon he cane back and re.as
serted his rights. The lode is an cnor.
nous affair, and if it be as rich
lower down as il il on top, Billy will
have slugs to throw al the birds.