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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25
The Repeated Sermon:
Christian Advocate.

CQTlSClan AOVOCaGe.
At one time, when the writer was
pastor of the Summerfield church, the
Rev: Herman Bangs was the presiding
elder. His appointment to preach was
for Easter Sunday. He came and
preached an admirable and approprf!
ate discourse on the resurrection Of
Christ. At the close Mrs. Anna Knapp,
widow Of fourscore years and daughter
of the Rev. Smith Arnold, one of the
pioneers, came to the altar, and in the
hearing of the writer thus addressed
"Uncle Herman" as the venerable
preacher was affectionately called by
thase who had known him long: "Bro"
Their Bangs, I enjoyed your sermon very
much. l heard you preach it 40 years
ago. I liked it then. I heard you
preach it again about % years ago, and
was good then, and to-day it was as
good as ever" Uncle Herman, with
chat look which those who saw it will
never forget of mingled good humor
and quizzical spirit replied: "Well,
Sister Knapp, has there been any
change in the facts about She resqrrec-
zion of our Lord in the last 40 years
If ii was good the first time you heard
it, why should it not be just as good
now?" Said the old lady: well,
Brother Bangs, we shall soon be where
you WON'T heye to make an argument to
prove it, as you did to-day:B Neither
their piety nor their intirmity OF old age
had dulled their wits.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25
Educational Hot-Houses.

The New Hampshire Journal thus
describes what it i calls ca the "':neura|eroua
method" of the public schools: "The
vast educational machine grinds on as
remorselessly as ever. Its victims are
found in thousands of households and
many more sleep in the graveyards, and
yet the grim curriculum in the hands
of the school committee is steadily be-
ing strained up to an increased pressure
in the interest of what is called til g
higher eAucation.' What is there in
this school training that should
enable it to hold on it's way with
the undiminished PAGES It is
not because the awful results are not TO-
be clearly seen: Go into any public
school; the bent form, the aqu;nting,
near:sigll.tedl eyes, the excited or worn
out expressions in many faces, the s;grs
of disease and pear death, tell too plainly
what fruits are following these liberal
courses Of study pursued under tie
whip and spur of frequent examinations
and meritorious marks and the prizes
of promotion. Go into the households,
and see how every law of health in eat
ing, rest and sleep is violated for the
sake (of the higher education.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25
Theodore Tilton's FAMILY.

Once in while the question is heard,
"What has become of Mrs. Tilton 2"
The little woman who was few years
ago the most widely known American
woman in the world lives with her aged
mother, Mrs. Morse, on Pacific street,
in Brooklyn, in comfort and quiet.
Ever since the remarkable scandal trial
she has lived in the same way. At no
time has she inhabited garrett, taken
in sewing for living or lived in any of
the ways rumor frequently declared she
did. Mrs. Morse, her mother, is the
wife of the veteran Judge Morse, one
of the first Presidents of the Union
Ferry Company and now retired hon
ored member of the same wealthy cor
poration. The home of Mrs. Tilton
with her mother is one of taste refine
ment and elegance. Many of the pict-
ures that were made famous by the oft
repeated yarns in the court room
of how Theodore in his night-shirt,
used to go around the house rehanging
them at all hours of the night, are to
be seen on the walls of her present
brown stone home. In the boys bed.
room is life-sized photo of their
father, Theodore, taken when very
young man, with his arms folded, his
head dropped upon his breast, his eyes
closed and his poetical locks curling on
his neck The attitude and the facial
expression say, "Look at ne and do
ought but admire me if you can" Rar7
books and various art works embellish
and beautify the home. Mrs. Tilton
is still the same quiet, pious little wo-
man that she always was, only shade
or two sadder and much older. She
has rare faculty of trying to be cheer
full and believes fully IN the efficacy of
prayer and that what ''God wills He
Wills" and his creatures must follow
his law to be saved hereafter. Her
hair is snow white, her figure q little
more robust and rounded. although still
childish in stature and form. Mr..
Tilton has never stepped across that
threshold since the trial. Certainly
not Mr.. Beecher. It would not
be WE'LL for either one to make
the attempt. The two sons, Car
roll and Ralph, are young men now,
both occupying good clerkships, and
live with their mother. Carroll, the
elder, is Tilton in look and nature.
Ralph is mothers boy, fine, prom
Using young character. The two daugh-
tiers are both married and both mothers.
Alice, the younger, lives in Chicago,
and Mrs. Tilton visited her not long
since That Mrs. Tilton was "foisaken
by her friends" as the newspapers
would have it four or five years ago, is
not true either. The fact is, there is
more intellectual company entertained
in Mrs. Tilton's home in the course of q
year than that of dozen families
"best fam1lies"-all told. Nothing
would be pleasanter to Mrs, Tilton than
to know that the outside world had for
gotten her. To certain extent it has,
but still she has large circle of friends.
Bessie Turner is married to Mr..
Schoonmaker, scion Of very old
Knickerbocker family. Since her mar
rage she has lived very quietly, and is
now middle-aged, fairly good looking
woman, passed in the streets without
recognition as a notable. New York
Letter in San Francisco Chronicle.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25
Living in New York.

After all, New York is the place t9
live. If you want to work, to dream,
to study, to mediate, go to Boston, but
if you want to feel the vital throb Of the
worlds life, go to New York. Out
from half ideal life of books and ideas,
and people who live largely for INTEL
lectual and imnaterial results, you may
20 to New York and are suddenly pre-
cipitated into its magnetic life; it's
strong attractions, repulsions; its de-
pressions and It's exaftations, and per:
haps after a few days, if you are sensi.
tive to the presence Of these throbblng
currents of life, you will suddenly leave
it, feeling IS #, in anaather hour, tha
pressure Of this straqgAiE alectrie at:
mospheFe would be more than you
could bear-and 1--we: Would one get
used 70 it in time2 T question, Yet
once away, the spell ef lta fascination is
upon you, and yen long for ali this
wine Of life over again, Roses and
champagne are not good for steady
diet, it may be, but the perfume and ex=
hilaration are about you, and you long
to breathe it NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Boston Traveller. .
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25

The Japanese dentist performs ali
his operati Of tooth-drawing with
the thumb and forefpger Of one hand,
with an array Of steel instruments. The
duired by long practice: But once it is
obtained the operator ia ABLE to EXTRACT
ABOUT half dozen teeth liz thirty Sec
onds without once removing; his fingers
from the patients mouth. The den:
tist's education eommences With the
pulling out Of pegs that have been
pressed into soft wood it ends with the
drawing Of hard pegs which have been
driven into an oak plank with . mallet.
It is said that no human jaw can resist
the delicate but powerful manipulation
of the Japanese dentist. ,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25
Raphael's Dresden Madonna for
Sale.
From the Manchester Guardian.

From the Manchester Guardian.
The statement made not long ago
That the king of Saxony had offered to
the British government the gem Of his
picture gallery at Dresden, the Qelehra:
ted Madonna di San Sisto," appears to
be correct. The sum asked is 9150, 900.
The Madonna is one of the most won
derful creations of Raphael's genius.
According to Vasari it was executed for
the principal altar of St. Sixtus at Pia-
cenza-at least it was there in Vasari's
time, and was only removed to Dresden
in the last century. The Virgin appears
as the Queen of Heaven, in brilliant
company Of cherubin, standing in the
clouds wi tn the infant Son in her arms.
ST. sixtns and another saint kneel at
tile sides. A curtain, drown back, en-.
closes the picture. On each side, un-
derneath is light parapet, on which
lean two beautiful angels. The work
was executed about 1918.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25
Two LOVERS.

Two lovers once maiden wooed,
One was prosaic, one Byronic;
Que in business manner sued,
The others suit was histrionic
Orlando to her sonnets made,
and tore his passion into tatters;
Silas discussed the state of trade,
Consulting her in money matters.
When e'er in maiden won't, she frowned-
Their too great ardor to repress meant,
Orlando wished that he were drowned,
And Sllas named some new investment
o. swore he would pistol take,
And give his seething passion vent-hole
While s. invited her to make
Inspection of his yearly rent-rol
Long time the baluner hung between
One lovers purse, the others passion;
last the poems "kicked the BEAM"
AS Silas coolly poured the cash on.
Ter indecision don't deride,
- Orlando's vein quite fine she thought, or
She really feared his suicide,
And Silas' ready money bought her.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25
The total tensage of the mercantile

The total tensage Of the mercantile
marine of the, Great Britain last year
amounted to Z, 363,707: # we include
the tonnage Of British possessions, the
total is swollen to 1914, 496 TONS an
amount which is far beyond the tonnage
of all the other maritime countries Of
Europe, and which is not much ex-
ceeded even when the tonnage of the
United States-reaching to more than
four millions included. No Won
der England shrinks from q war which
might endanger this maritime supre-
macy.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25
That was queer anti-tobacco law

That was a queer anti-tobacco law
which the General Court of Connecticut
passed in May, 1647. 1t was ordered
that no man under twenty-one and no
man over, who was not accustomed to
the use of tobacco, should take any
until he had a certificate "under the
hand of some who are approved for
knowledge and skill in physic," that it
was useful for him, "and also that he
hath received a license for the same. :"
No man was to take tobacco in the
street, in the fields or woods, except
when on a journey of more than ten
miles, or more than once a day, and
then not in company with any one.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25

carroll u. WrlgnC CnlnkS The pOpu-
lation Of Massachusetts May will provo
to be from 1000, 100 to 2,030,O0O.
The collection of paintings now on
exhibition at the Union League club,
Philadelphia, is valued at $500,O00.
Miss Julia Pease, Vassar College
graduate, is said to cultivate 5000 acres
of land in Texas.
Mammoth, CAL, once fourishing
and populous mining camp, is now
! without soul within it's extensive linn
;ta.
Mrs. Grant says that the happiest
time Of her life was when, quarter Of
a century ago, the General and she
were living in Galena on $40 month.
An association has been formed to
erect a monument to the late Mai. Gen.
G.. K. Warren, at Cold Spring on Hud-
son, bis birthplace:
Not soldier Of the Prussian Army
has died of smallpox since 1875, and the
medical authorities assert that if they
could have vaccination as strictly car
ried out with the other European pop
ulation as IN the Prussian Army,
smallpox itself would disappear in Ave
years,
Woonsocket, r. I. with a population
of 20, 900, claims to be the largest town
in the United States, an application for
a city charter never having been made
The California Legislature passed a
bill appropriating $4,000 to build a
hotel for travellers in the Yosemite val:
Icy:
Fhe annual output Of the mines OF
northern Mexico, fully half Of which
are owned by Americans, is $3, lao, 900.
Germany's hop harvest last year,
amounted to 100000 pounds, Of
which 80, 900, 900 were used in the coun-
try.
European Russia had population Of
6,4S6, 959 in 1882; the Ga ucasus, 6, 49,:
$50; Trans Caspian region, sol, 1000;
Siberia, 4,Q52, $751; Tqrkestan, 3,247,::
584; Central Asia, 5,101, 354; making a
total in Asiatic Russia of Is, 1876, 165,
and a grand total for the Russian EN-.
pire Of l02, 682, 1914.
The American Register is authority
for the following: "The new postofice
at Paris, which has been in course O!
construction during the last Ave years
is now nearly completed, at a cost OF
about 17,00o, 900 francs. At present
there remains only the arrangement Of
the material and the furniture, for Which
q ereAit Of S46, 900 francs has been ask
ed Of the chamber ofideputies."
President Clark, of the Illinois Gen.
trail road, thinks the future of American
railroads ia rosy and bright with
promise.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25

I am using DR.. Graves Heart Regulator
with great results; had Hea1t Disease for
nine years, SO bad could not lie down.
John McGuff, Pike Station, O.. The Heart
Regulator cures all forms Of Heart Disease,
nervousness and sleeplessness. Free pham-
phlet OF +. E. Ingalls,, Cambridge, Mass.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25

Throat Diseases commence with a Cough,
Cold, or Sore Throat. "Brown's Bronchial
Troches" give immediate relief. Sold only
in boxes. Price 25 cts.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25

People who desire to preserve their health
should be careful about their diet at this
season, and at no times should they be with
out supply ofPERRY DAVIS PAIN KILLER,
the safest, surest and speediest remedy for
all troubles OF the stomach or bowels. All
druggists sell it,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25
ULCERS.

For SIX or eight years suffered with ulcers on nv
right leg. was treated vita 1odde of Potassium and
Mercury and became hcll,css. Six bottles of SWits
Specific made permanent cure.
Feb, %, 1885. NJ. D. WILSON, Gainesville, Ga.
Swift's Specific is entirely vegetable. Treatise Oh
Blood and Skin Diseases mailed tree.
TIE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co, Drawer B. Atlanta Ca, or
159 w. 23d St, NY.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25

Grand Union Hotel, opp. Grand Cent. Depot N.
Y city, 600 elegant rooms, 81 a day & upward
Travellers arriving at this depot save So car
riage hire and baggage transfer, European plan
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25

The distinguished o. S. Senator from In
diana, Hon. Daniel w. Voorhees,, certifies
that in case of rheumatism in the back, he
obtained instantaneous relief from St. Ja-
cobs Oil. He says it is a remarkable rem
edy.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25

Aliens Iron Tonic Bitters give tone and
strength to the whole system. All genuine
bear the signature OF J. P. Allen, Druggist,
st. Paul. MINI.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25

For DYSPEPSIA, Indigestion, Depression OF Spir
It's and General Debility in their various forms,
other Intermittent Fevers the "FERRo- PHosPHo
RATED ELIXIR OF CAL1sAYA" made by Caswell
Hazard & Co., New FORK, and sold by all Drug
ing from Fever or other sickness, it has no equal
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25
MA.LARIAL POISON.

We have used Sw:fts Specific in our family rs an an
tldote for ma! rial poison tor thrs years. and
have never known it to fail i'll single Instance
W. FURLow,
Sumter Co., Ca, Sept. II, 1894.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25

TOR DISEASES of horses and cattle, nothing com.
Il pares with Veterinary Carbolsalve 1t is the only
preparation that leaves and invariably grows the
hair in its original ooor Sold by druggists at so cent?
and 81 90.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25
Things Compressed.

Carroll D. Wright thinks the popu-
lation of Massachusetts, May / will provo
to be from 1900, 100 to 100000.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25
CONSTITUTIONAL TONIC
1T HAS NO EQUAL.
$1-OO a BOTTLE,
\. \, WARNER & CO., Rochester. \, Y.

W.K SAGE, of St. Johns, Mich. was completely pros
trated by the hardsps endured during the late
He returned home wreck both in mind and body. For
twenty years he simply existed half the time more dead
T1PPEcANoE. The Best He advises all old vets to try
t. Write to him at st. Johns, Mich.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25

Woonsocket, r. I. with population
of 20, 900, claims to be the largest town
in the United States, an application for
a city charter never having been made.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25
A NATURAL ANXIETY

Prompts many a man Of family
to seek his doctors advice as
to the best means Of preventing
disease and preserving health.
In such cases the judicious
physician will recommend the
use Of
Smyrna times., 1885-12-16
About Funerals.

One of the most reprehensible mani
festations of the extravaganza and fol-
ly now in vogue is the ostentatiOus dis
play of flowers and other paraphernalia
in connection with funerals. While a
proper respect for the dead is not only
natural and commendable, the pomp
and pride which is designed to adver-
tise the wealth that mourners do not
have, is not only despicable but should
be discouraged and frOwned down by
those who by education and position
are constituted the leaders of society.
Owing to the evil in question the men,
bers of many poor families, if not actu-
ally made suffer for want of the neces-
saries of life, are in many cases obliged
to deny themselves of many of its COM
forts, and to 60 hungry and cold, be-
cause they have stripped themselves of
means in order to clothe the corpse of
deceased relative with gaudy dress and
| deck its sepulcher with flowers.
1t is neither wise nor well that re-
/ spect for the dead should be made to
| abridge or circumscribe the comfort of
| the living. In some parts of our coun-
try societies have been organized and
are in operation, the object of which
is to provide for an OstentatiOus funer-
al for the members by the payment of
a small sum weekly; and strange as it
may seem, some of the members obtain
their weekly dues by begging them
from their well-tO-dO or wealthy neigh
bors, and only live in order to secure
as respectable an abode for their decay
ing bodies and as gorgeous pageant
in connection with their funeral rites
as can be purchased with the pittance
they have begged.
In the city of Philadelphia it is esti-
mated that one thousand funerals, cost
ing two hundred dollars each, occur
monthly, which amounts to the sum OF
5000, 900, One-half of which is spent fol-
flowers and finery and show, and one
half or the remainder goes into the
pockets of liverymen and undertakers
who do not hesitate in many cases tC
: take advantage of the grief and pride
of the bereaVed, in order to fill theil
5 pockets with money they do not earn
) So great has this evil become that many
t respectable families in our large cities
C upon funeral occasions, invite only tn,
4 male friends of the deceased, and Civ
D public notice that no flowers are eX
9 pected
The funeral of General Grant wa
very expensive and was a fitting trib
d ute to the greatest soldier of the age
d but it is questionable whether all du
G and proper respect could not hav
v been accorded his memory at much les
{ cost.
Il In view of the premises, is it nc
Is about time to call halt ?-ElktOR Den
if Ocrdt.
Smyrna times., 1885-12-16
Vanderbilt.

There is, perhaps, moral in the life |
and death of William H. Vanderbilt, |
but it is not a very obvious one. As |
the son of a shrewd father who accu-
mulated millions, he succeeded to his |
vast wealth and managed to double it |
in less than ten years. That task was
not a remarkable one in itself, all
things considered. He built a mag
nifcent home and surrounded himself
with every luxury money could buy,
yet that was the most natural thing
in the world to do. He cared for his
own, as it was his duty and to his
credit. He contributed half million
to medical college, thus indirectly
beneftting humanity. He paid for
bringing the Obelisk to this country,
nothing in itself except as showing
what a rich man can do. He gave
yearly one thousand dollars to a hos
pital, but that was merely a drop in
the bucket as compared with what he
might have done. He was not a pro-
miscuOus dispenser of charity, although
such is not the true way of helping the
unfortunate. He was not of natur-
ally generous disposition, yet his
great wealth presented opportunities
for showing liberality that he could
not we'll ignore. His life was correct
as mems lives go, yet there is naught in
| it for young men to emulate. The
poor will not rise up and call him
blessed, and he will only be remem-
bered in the years to come as an eX-
ample of the possibilities in accumula-
ting great wealth solely for its own
sake and not for what it brings with it.
The richest man in world is dead, but
the world does not mourn his depart
ure. Fame in literature or fame in
war is far more lasting than fame made
by the boarding up of millions
Mr.. Vanderbilt had a cold early life.
1t was not until he was forty years old
that his father gave him even a fair
chance for place in life. The cruel
old man dealt almost cruelty with his
children and he practically compelled
servility from them. There is an old
man yet living down on Staten Island
where the Commodore began life anC
the magnate who had Just died was
born, who relates the fact that he has
often seen the Commodore thrash Viii
liam numerically with the harness
line. He often set severe tasks for hi
: children while they were yet youns
and he would trounce them withou
shirt for a failure to perform them
, Mr.. Vanderbilt justified the tardy con
fidence of fathers by doubling the i'm
mense fortune left in his control in les
: than ten years. In this respect he ha:
7 won fame and demanded attention.
2 With an estate so vast as that which
: Mr.. Vanderbilt leaves it is impossibl
/ to say exactly how all the money is in
2 vested. He himself could not tel
: without careful calculation how ric
:, he was. His wealth varied day by da
l with the variation of stocks. On Nor
' day morning, say, he would be a mi
= lion richer than ON Tuesday thrOug
J. the mere oscillation of stock values
7 Even Mr.. Depew, his most intimat
e friend, could not give the exact figure:
f A careful estimate places his wealth a
e $3.50, ,65O,O0O and his income at $40
+, 343, 900 a year. This is at the rate {
: sos, 900 per day, 81, 200 an hour, {
# nearly $50 minute.
Smyrna times., 1885-12-16
ur..a..Rn1Cnrns

W.D. Hoyt & Co, Wholesale and Retail Drug
Rists of Rome, Ga, say: We have been selling
Bueklen's Arnica Salve for two years. Have
never handled remedies that sell as WELL or give
such universal satisfaction. There have been
some wonderful cures effected by these medi.
cines in this city Several cases Of pronounced
CONSUMPTION have been entirely cured by the use
of a few bottles Of DR.. Kings New Discovery
taken in connection with Electric Bitters. We
guarantee them always. Sold by j. p Hoffeeker
Druggist Smyrna, Del.
Smyrna times., 1885-12-16

A call has been issued by several
hundred residents of Kansas and ad-
joining States for a national cOnven-
tion of Anti-saloOn Republicans" to
be held at Toledo, o., May 3, 1886.
1t declares for immediate national pro-
hibition, bnt does not intimate that a
nationol ticket will be nominated ex-
cept in the alternative of the failure OF
the Republican party to nominate Pro
hibition candidates and adopt Prohi-
bition platform in 1888.