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Skaffaren. (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1885-1895, 1891-11-04

Fsltas LGnabertOas meddelas att det
atg8r annu en- vecka for farmarne der i
trakten att fullborda tr3skningen.
Frdat dustin meddelas att ett passa-
geraretag q Kansas City banan samman-
st6tt med EFT af Milwaukee banans gods
tag vid Taopi, hYarvid ACKNOWLEDGMENT
a godstaget SAINT en- ''tramp" blefvo 5gon-
blickligen d6dade. Bland passagerarne
var statskass1r Bobletter.
Dattsstls- ssylseter: Charles Grossman,
hvilken harom dagen pa anklagelse af
Paul S6renson arresterades for att utan
tillstandsbevis hafva idkat gardfarihan-
del, bar, alldenstund domstolen frikant
honom, anlagt rattegang mot s. for olaga
arrestering. Grossman askar $4,000
skadestand. Pastor ]. S. Ryding har ata-
git sig att tills vidare betjena den sv.luth.
f6rsamlingen West Duluth. h.-Stadsrade
har beslutat att till borgarne hemstalla
huruvida det icke wore klokt att ink8pa
gas och vattenbolagets egendom. Fra
gan skall afg6ras pa allmant val den 10
dennes. Det Dir en- egendomlig f6reteelse
att manga stader lata privata personer
eller bolag anlagga vattenverk och sedan
ga till verket och mot riklig ersattning
6fvertaga dessa anlaggningar. Den poll
tiken har manga irrgangar. ar.-Senator w.
d. Washburn var harom dagen pa bes0k
harstades. w. visade sig ega stort intres-
Sc for Soo-kanalens f5rbattringar.
FTds Litchl5eld mseddelas: Den
sv. ev. lutherska f5rsamlingen gar sta
digit framat. Bade gamla och unga arbe-
ia med f6renade krafter f5r f5rsamlingens
tillvaxt, bade mat och utat. Med glade
mottogs underrattelsen ON att herrskapet
Andrew Nelson lyckligen landstigit pa
Amerikas jord efter att sommar ha GA
stat det gamla fosterlandet. De raknas
bland de aldsta och NEST aktiva medlem-
mar inom f6rsamlingen SAINT hafva med
stort intresse f6ljt f8rsamlingens 8den. -
Pa ttsdagsqvallen den 81 okt. hade for
samlingens organist mr.. A. Palmqvist EFT
ovantadt bes6k af sina vanner inom for
samllagen, hvilka Vile visa honom sin
tacksamhet och tillgifvenhet. Sasom ut
tryck deraf 6fverlemnade de EFT vackert
guldur med inscription 1T mr.. Palmqust
till ett mime af hans 49:de f8delsedag,
hvilken de pa sanma gang Vile fra
Qvallen tillbragtes pa det angenamaste
satt. Icke blot herrskapet Palmqulst
utan ALA de narvarande kande sig lyckli-
ga och glada. Pastor L. p. Bergstr1m
fran Winthrop, hvilken arbetat en- manad
| Litchfeld och Grove City, var narvaran-
de och begagnade tillfallet att saga nagra
afskedsord. Och som f6rsamlingen hade
ihagkommit organisten sd gl6mde hon ei
pastorn. Afven till honom 6fverlemna-
des af fruntlmmersf6rening EFT mime
vld samma tillfalle. Om det hela ma
blot sagas, att det var en- bland de stun
der som sent. ia aldrig, skall gl1mmas.
Skaffaren. (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1885-1895, 1891-11-04

Fntslcn s'sy,st hafva en- langre It'd va
rit omlopp Elk Point, s. Da., och i
traktenA deromkring. F5renta Staternas
inspekt6rer hafva spanat efter falskmyn-
tarne och sparat dem anda till Elk Point,
men sedan f6rlorat sparet.
The alliance 1lil Compaaau ar
namnet pa cit bolag, som organiserats
Minor, Sargent CO., N. d. Grundkapita-
let uppgifves till $4,000. Sheriff sChri-
stenson, Jens Peterson och andra yalkan-
da man sta spetsen for f6retaget.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-19
Value of Our Forest Product.

The total annual product of wood ma
terial of all sorts consumed in the United
States may be valued in round numbers
at 81, 900, 900, 600, representing, rough
ly speaking, $4,000, 900, 900 cubic feet
of wood, or the annual increase of the
wood growth of 500, 900, 000 acres of
forest in fair condition. This value ex-
ceeds ten times the value of our gold and
silver output, and three times the annual
product of all our mineral and coal mines
put together. 1t is three times the value
of our wheat crop; and with all the toll
and risk which our agricultural crops in
volve they can barely quadruple the value
of this product yielded by nature for the
mere harvesting.
If to the value of our total mining
product be added the value of stone
quarries and petroleum, and this sum be
increased by the estimated value of all
the steamboats,, sailing vessels, canal
boats, fiat boats, and barges plying in
American waters, and belonging to citi-
zens of the United States, it will still be
less than the value of the forest product
by sum sufficient to purchase at cost of
construction all the canals, buy up at par
all the stock OF the telegraph companies,
pay their bonded debts, and construct
and equip all the telephone lines. The
value of the annual forest product ex-
ceeds the gross income of all the railroad
and transportation companies. 1t would
suffice to pay the Indebtedness of all the
States, if we leave out New York and
Pennsylvania, including that of counties,
townships, school districts, and cities
within those States lin 1880; and it
would more than wipe out the remaining
public debt of the United States. In
fact, ranking manufacturers of all kinds
and agriculture as respectively first and
second IN importance, as far as produc-
tion of value goes, the forest product oc-
cupies the third place. This was the
case according to the census of 1880. 1t
is claimed that since then the lumber in
dustry has enlarged to such an extent as
to make its product second, if not first in
value.
The capital employed in merely mill
ing this product, aside from that en-
ployed in the harvesting, is roughly es-
timated at $3.50, 600, 900, and there are
more than 100000 people occupied in
the direct manufacture Of forest and
sawmill products alone, not to count the
employment afforded by its transporta-
ton to centres of consumption and its
remanufacture.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-19
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Pride is a deceisful likeness Of great.
ness.
Debt Is an inexhsus.ible fountain Of
dishonesty.
A little thing consoles us because little
things affect us.
Amongst true friends there is no fear
of losing anything.
Example is the school of mankind,
ana they will learn st no other.
To live without working is to check
in ones self the well-spring of life.
To persevere in ones duty and be
silent is the best answer to calumny.
The most certain means not to lose
the good that one does is to forget it.
Little minds are hurt by little things;
great minds see them all, and are not
hurt.
The pain of living without pleasure is
well worth the pleasure of dying with
out pain.
Piety ought to be lovable, because it
ought to be virtue adorned, and there
is nothing so lovely as virtue.
We are exact in counting the tribula-
tions which afilict us; are we equally so
in counting the sins which drew them
upon usa
Talkativeness has smother plague at
tached to it, even curiosity; for praters
wish to hear much that they may have
much to say.
The knowledge of ones defects is all
the more beautiful, inasmuch as it is not
only the most necessary OF all sciences,
but also the most rare.
Ill-humor arises from an inward con-
sciousness of our own want of merit,
from discomfort which ever accompanies
that envy which foolish vanity engenders.
Never to tire, never to grow cold; to
be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look
for the budding flower and the opening
heart; to hope always; to love always
this is duty.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-19
Padding a Kayak.

When Point Barrow Eskimo is simply
travelling along and does not care to
make any great speed, he uses an ordi-
nary paddle with one blade, like those
used in umiak, but somewhat lighter.
As he has to sit in the very middle of
the boat, he cannot use this as an Indian
would, wholly on one side, driving the
boat ahead with straight strokes and
overcoming the tendency of the canoe to
60 off to one side by feathering his pad
die in the water or by an outward sweep
of the blade. First he makes three or
four strokes, say, on the right side, and
then, as the boat begins to sheer off to
the left, he lifts the paddle out of the
water and makes three or four strokes on
the left side till she begins to sheer to
the right, and so on. They do this
pretty sIzillfully, SO that the boat makes
a tolerably straight "wake," and goes
through the water at a pretty fair rate,
but, of course, can make no great speed.
When the time comes for hurry out is
drawn from under the deck the double
bladed paddle, such as we are all famil-
lar with from the writings of Captain
Ross and Captain Parry, DR.. Kane, and
all the explorers who have visited the
Eskimos of the eastern regions. This is
about six feet long and has at each end
broad, oval blade, far more serviceable
than the narrow oar-blades of the east
ern kayak paddles. The man grasps
this by the middle and dips each blade
alternately, regulating the force of his
strokes SO that the canoe goes straight
through the water without veering to the
right or left. With the double paddle
the kayak can be made to fairly fly
through the water.-Pcpular Science
Monthly.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-19
Lic0rice Plants.

The British consul at Bussorah, in an
interesting report on the growth of the
licorice plant on the banks of the Tigris
and Euphrates, says that these great riv-
ers, in the part where the root is found,
flow through fiat, treeless prairies of un-
cultivated and nearly uninhabited land.
For three months of the year hot winds
blow and the temperature reaches 1O4
degrees. For six months the climate is'
moderate and salubrious, and for three
months bleak and wintry, the thermom-
eter going down to thirty degrees at
night.
The licorice plant is a small shrub,
with light foliage, growing to about
three feet high, where its root can reach
the water. 1t grows without any culti-
vation. No lands are leased for the pur-
pose, and no objection is made to its
being cultivated. It is found in abund-
ance from Cteslphon, ten miles from
Bagdad, down to Kut-ul-kuary, half way
between Bussorah and Bagdad. 1t
grows on red earth soil, and also on light,
almost sandy soil, where the wood is
best, provided it has plenty of water, and
the ground is not more than fifty yards
from the actual river or stream.
Only one firm works it in Bagdad, and
it is we'll known that the business is a.
prosperous one. The wood, after be-
ing dug up and cut, grows again better
afterward. The time of collecting is,
generally speaking, during the winter,
but it is possible all the year round. The
root when dug is full of water and must
be allowed to dry, process which takes
the best part of the year, especially in hot
weather. It is then sawed off or cut into
small pieces six inches to a foot long.
The good and sound pieces are kept, and
the rotten ones are used for frewood.
1t is then shipped in native river
boats to Bussorah, whence it is shipped
in pressed balls to London, and again
from there to America, where it is used
largely in the manufacture of tobacco.
The Consul thinks the trade is capable of
expansion. The demand in America is
great, and shipments are easily disposed
Of. After sorting there still remains
some useless wood in the bales, perhaps
seven per cent. From figures supplied
by the Bagdad firm engaged in the busi-
ness it seems that the total net cost of a
ton of Hcorice root laid down in London
is about $20.-London Times.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-19
FOR REMEMBRANCE


It would be sweet to think when we are old
OF all the pleasant days that came to pass;
That here we took the berries from the
grass,
There charmed the bees with pans, and smoke
unrolled,
And spread the melon nets when nights
were cold,
Or dulled the blood-root in the underbrush,
And marked the ringing of the tawny
thrush,
While all the west was broken burning gold.
And so bind with rhymes these memories,
As girls press pansies in the poets leaves
And find them afterward with sweet surprise;
Or treasure petals mingled with perfume,
Loosing them in the days when April
grieses:
A subtle summer in the rainy room.
Duncan Campbell Scott, in Scrib'ler.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-19
DIVINE COMMUNION.

There is no pos ible way of finding COM
fort amid the providences that come to us in
life but in an intimate and habitual COM
munion with God. Much as we may desire
to avoid providences, SO often of an affective
and disciplinary character, our Heavenly
Father sees it wise to administer His gov
ernment over us in manner that often
hides His love to our human thought.
Doubtless in this way He would keep us
from pride and vanity, impress upon us our
absolute dependence upon His guidance,
instil deeper religious conviction in our
minds perfect more fully our ideals of q
true life, and Clarity our vision of spiritual
things. But, theorizing thus, as we often
do, how few accept His way with unruffied
composure, rejoicing that we are in His
hands! Such blessed rest in God comes to
us only through one well-trodden path-the
path of holy prayer. We do not mean an
approach to the mercy-seat merely at stated
times and in formal utterances, but con-
stant drawing near to Him in the silent
depths of devotion, in the souls unuttered
supplicatiOns, in the hourly spiritual contact
of the human with the divine heart.
But this power to pause amid conflicting
uncertainties, and let God give light upon
the path in His own good time. is not the
product of human philosophy. This ability
to wait until He shall solve the problem be-
longs only to souls that are constantly clos
eted in His presence. Helping Him to de-
eide difficult questions is one of His ways of
''rewarding them openly"
And who will say that this is not rich
reward for obeying our Lords command,
"Enter into thy closet'? Can anything sur
pass such comfort as is found here? Toll
ing, weary pilgrims, at the shore of the
sounding sea- amid mountain sleeps, beneath
the broad canopy of the heavens at midnight,
wherever thou art found, enter the enclosure
of prayer and abide very near to Him who
"seeth in secret" Oh, what safety is here
Passaic City record., 1891-09-19
THE CAUSE OF FAILURE.


The father prays in the morning that his
children may grow up in the Lord, and calls
it even the principal good of their life that
they are to be Christians, living for God and
the world to come. Then he goes out into
the field, or the shop, or the house Of trade,
and deving there all day in his gains. keeps
praying from morning to night, without
knowing it, that his family may be rich.
His plans and works. faithfully seconded by
au affectionate wife, pull exactly contrary to
the pull of his prayers, and to all their COM
mon teaching in religion. Their tempers
are worldly, and make worldly atmosphere
in the house. Pride, the ambition of show
and social standing, envy of what is above,
jealousy of what is below, follies of dress
and fashion, and the more foolish elatiOn
felt when son is praised or daughter ad-
mired in the manner OF personal appear
ance, or what is no better. a manifest pre-
pairing and foretasting of this folly when the
son or daughter is so young as to be the
more certainly poisoned by the infection Of
ito these unspoken, damuing prayers
How many are they. and how totally do
they ill up the days The mornings open
with reverent, fervent- sounding prayer Of
words. and then the days come after, piling
up petitions of ends, aims, tempers, pas
sions and works. that ask for ANYTHING and
everything but what accords with the gen.
uine rule of religion. The prayer in the
morning is that the son, the daughter, all
the sons, all the daughters, may be Chris
tians; and then the prayers that follow are
for anything but that, or anything in fact
most contrary to that. Is it any wonder,
when we consider this common agreement
between the prayers, even the fervent
prayers of the family, and all other con-
Germs, enjoyments, and ends of the common
life besides, that SO many fine shows OF
family piety are yet followed by so much of
Goddess and even reprobate character in the
chldren?-[Dr. Horace Bushnell.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-19
Humane Methods Of Killing Men.

There is quite difference of opinion
about the humanity of the new style of
bullets for military purposes, which are
claimed by the German surgeons to be
the most humane missiles yet employed
in war. The new projectile, which is
made to be fired from rife of small
calibre, is long, SO that its sweight of
section," as it is termed by soldiers, is
large, while its actual weight may be
smaller than that of bullets of the old
shape. By combining great weight of
section with small diameter great velocity
is given to the projectile, as well as such
penetrating force that it will easily so
through two or three men at the distance
OF mile. !,
M. Delahaye, who is calling into ques-
ton the mercifulness OF the new bullet.
regards the process of beng drilled
through by bullet shaped like lead
pencil not much more humane than that
Of being shattered by an old-fashioned
ssslug;" but the Germans say that the
new projectile will not remain in the
wound, but will make straight perfora-
tion through the body, greatly simplify
ing the surgical treatment. There is no
doubt that the camp undertaken will in
future have more to do after a battle, and
the surgeon less than under the old
regime, but as soldier breads long suf-
fering from wound as much as death
the balance of Humanity may, after
all, be on the right side. AS lead bullets
of the modern shape would be likely to
bend, they are cased with steel of nickel
tubes, which gives them the property Of
penetrating the hardest bone without de-
Waiting from their course. -Nsw York
Telegram.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-19
RELIGIOUS READING.

SOMETIME.
I am waiting for the shadows round me
lying
To drift away;
l am waiting for the sunlight always dying,
I know there's light beyond the cloudy
curtain,
A light sublime!
That it will shine on me | now am certain,
Sometime! sometime!
I am waiting for the Summers golden
Now far away
When golden fruits around my life shall
cluster
Each sunny dayl
We read of fadeless flowers in tabled story,
In far-off cline,
And shall pluck them in their pristine
glory,
Then shall hear the voice of loved ones
To their dear side;
And shall then. whatever may befall me,
Rest satisfied
For on my ear sweet notes of love shall
tremble
In matchess rhyme,
From heart and lips that never can dis
semble,
Sometime! sometime!
am waiting but at times grow so weary
Far seems the day
When all the pain which makes our life so
drearv
Shall pass away.
I know the heart oft filled with tones of
sadness,
Like funeral chime,
Shall echo loud with songs of love and
gladness,
Sometime! sometime!
Hosea Q. Blaisdell.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-19

him to the head of the stair with broken
utterances of endearment and caution,
George watched the unsteady figure
descend the steps, and listened with
strained ears until he chaugnt the sound
of wheels driving rapidly away.
We waited for what seemed to me
a long time, in a silence which dared
not break. And then we went out into
the wet and deserted street.
We stopped at the corner where the
cab had waited; and | watched my
friend as he stood under the gas-lamp,
looking out into the darkness with
far away look in his eyes, not knowing
or at least not needing that the rain
was beating upon his uncovered head.
There is better smile on his face now,
than the smile he wore early In the
evening at the thought of his coming
success. His reputation would suffer
greatly, beyond doubt, but what is that
to himl
He stands there defeated-and
happy man.
/ always meet Miles when I want to
keep out of his way. SO was not sur
prised to come across him next day, walk
ing by the Horse Guards.
'sHa, hal" he shouted boisterously,
before we had well met. ''Queer go,
wasn't it2 What vast You haven't
heard from Marksonl Oh, of course,
he would be as mute as fish. Hard
lines on him, too. when he had got the
whole thing as neat as could be. Went
to the very house yesterday where
Allan was. The man at the pub. saw
him go into the house. Hal hal what
does my lord Allan do9 Awfully sharp
fellowl lets himself down by rope out
of the back window, and goes off in
Markson's own cab-not bad, hal ha!
Markson rushed after him too late.
Smollett is furious that he was just out
of it. He found out where Allan was
hiding, and came on the scene day be-
hind the fair. Pity he did not get the
chance. He'd have nailed him. Every
one says that Markson has made an
awful null of it, and now the fellow has
got clean away, no one knows where.
Who's the best man now2 You can't
say much for your side, Tom"
As watched him stride away toward
the park, 1 thought. "Yes, but thank
God, Smollett did not get the chance. "
The Strand Magazine.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-19
A Curious Will.

The most peculiar document that has
been filed at the probate Office in many
week came in the will of Lavinia Boyce,
of Westfeld. Lewis F. Boyce, her hl,s-
band, receives the use and income of the
real estate on the south side of Orange
street in that town, but after his death
the property is to be divided into three
parts by imaginary lines drawn from the
front to the back of the lot. Helen E.
Amsden, daughter, is to have the
westerly third of the place, one-third of
the attic and cellar, and three rooms on
that side of the house. Alice r. Hoey,
another daughter, gets the middle third
of the lot, the central third of the cellar
and attic, and the rooms ON the first floor
not already disposed of, while William
L. Boyce, son, is to receive the easterly
third of the land, the remaining frac-
tion OF the cellar and attic, aud the rooms
on the second story. He is granted the
right to build flight of steps on the
outside of the house, if he wishes, to
reach his tenement. The instrument
specifies that all expenses to the house
for outside repair are to be borne pro-
portionately by the three, while each is
to have use of the inside stairs and hall.
ways us may be necessary in reaching the
cellar and garret. In order to secure
this prize they must pay off mortgage
of over $500, in sums unequally divided
among them, and specified to exact
cents. Minute particulars are laid down
for the transmission of the third of the
property first mentioned. ~-Spring17sId
(Asss.) Rspsblieaa. .x......,...,....--.s....s
Passaic City record., 1891-09-19
cHR1sr1AN1rY AND CHRIST.


DR.. John A. Broadus' book just published,
entitled "Jesus of Nazareth closes with
these sentences:
81 can imagine some one saying, it is so
hard to bring that first Christianity near to
ourselves. 1t shines like star, but it seems
SO distant. Christianity has indeed been by
many sadly corrupted, grievously abused.
But consider, every gift of genius is abused
by many, every form of government has
been corrupted every dearest relation of life
that ought to make us blessed may be so
misused as to render us miserable. And
think how much good Christianity has done,
and how much more good it assuredly would
do, if we who all ourselves Christians
would live more faithfully according to its
requirements and in the inspiration OF its
motives and hopes, and would more zeal
ously carry out the departing Saviour's COM
mission and preach repentance and remis-
sion of sins unto all nations.
"Let us remember, too, that believing in
Jesus Christ and His religion is not like be-
lieving in some mathematical formula, or
some metaphysical conclusion, or some as
certainment of general, history. If Christi
TREMENDOUSLY true. Remember, furthermore,
Christianity is not only system OF ethics,
or a system of doctrines; it is embodied in
person. Egotism is often ridiculous but
take one step upward, and behold it is a sub
lime egotism when Jesus Christ says, / am
the way, the truth ana the liie NO man
cometh unto the Father but through Me-
Through Him, then, let us draw near, on
Him let us personally rely. 1t may be that
differences of doctrinal conception are at
present unavoidable, but why shall we not
all trust and lovingly obey the personal
Saviour? Nor must we forget that to hold
aloof from Christianity is not simply reject
Ing some creed or system of opinion it is
rejecting Jesus Christ Himself, the Son of
God. the Saviour of men. Cannot each one
Of US say at least so much as this, Lord, I
believe, help Thou mine unbelief'? Behold,
He who one day said that to Jesus was
heard and blessed"