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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18
The Butchers apprentie.

A butcher in German town bad an
apprentice living with him, to whom
ne gave one day thousand guldens to
pay to man living in another town
for some cattle that he had bought the
month before. On the afternoon when
the young man started off to pay the
money, he took with him big and
trusty dog, and III his hand he had a
stick, with heavy brass knob on the
end of it for handle. As he left town,
he felt IN his pocket for his purse. and
taking it out, counted it over again to
see that it was all right Then he said
TO his dog:
"Now, Ca@sr, if any persons try TO
rob us on the way, you must take care
OF three of them, and i, with my
big stick, will be able to take care Of
three more"
Caesar, of course, did not say any
thing, but wagged his tail and trotted
along.
Jock-for that was the young mans
name-put his money back into his
pocket, and whistling tune, went off
gayly, too. After going several miles.
they reached beershop, on the edge
OF dark, thick forest, which they had
10 go through before reaching the
place where the money was TO be paid
for the cattle. Jock thought it best to
spend the night there, and take an
early start in the morning through the
forest, for people had been known to
be robbed in passing through il. Dur
ing the evening, Jock drank a good
deal of beer, and the more beer he
drank tie more freely did he begin to
talk. As the evening grew late, he
said to the beer-drpkers around him
"Gentlemen, have got in my pos
session thousand guldens, to be paid
IN the town of L., which lies
through the forest; and though it has
been said that robbers are in the forest,
/ would like some of them TO try their
hand at getting my money from me.
My big dog, Caesar, can take care of az
least three men, and | am sure. with
this brass-headed stick, l myself can
take care of three more
All the beer drinkers around him
were struck with Jocks telling his
business so freely; but there was one
man on In the corner who was more at
tentive than anybody else, though he
did not say word.
The next morning Jock started off
early with Cesar, though he had n
headache, from the beer which he had
drank the night before.
When he reached the middle of tha
forest he saw a person sitting by the
roadside, who seemed TO be becOar
and who asked Jock for some MONEY
Jock pulled out a few kreutzers. mt
them into his hand and marched on as
gayly as ever. After going few hmm.
dred yards, he saw another person bv
the roadside, who also asked him for
money and so on till he had given 10
five or six men, who, to all appearances.
we're beggars. He at last met a man
who was well dressed, who approached
in pleasant manner
"Shall We cit down on that bank aud
rest, and have little talk together /"
said the strangea 10 Jock
''Oh, no J" replied Jock, Il have
no time for that / have a thousand
gulGens in my pocket, and must hurry
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18
How 10 Keep Your Winter APPLES.


The following excellent suggestions
are offered by the Vermont Farmer
The way that most farmers save their
winter apples is to hole them up, like 20.
batoes orpile them up in cave orcellar.
by this method You lose much valua.
bic time, and lose very many apples /;
and what you keep over winter are i'm
bad condition. Apples may be kept in
parrels that are quite open, but the
pest and cheapest way is to keep them
In crates or boxes made in the follow.
ing manner The ends or head pieces
should be ten or twelve inches wide by
fifteen or eighteen long. They can be
sawed or split. Nail your boards on
the bottom and sides, leaving places
tor ventilation, Have your boards all
the same length--about three feet.
When you gather your apples from
the trees, put them in these boxes lido
not brulse them and lay the boxes ON
each other in your apple houses. Two
men will handle these boxes with ease.
You can look your apples over in these
boxes at any time with but little labor.
When you are ready TO ship, nail a
board over the top and you are ready.
In tins way you get your apples to
market in good condition and handle
them but once. Keep your house as
cold as possible at all times, without
freezing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
The Ouip Method OF Curing Tobacco.

The Cuip Method OF Curing Tobacco.
The Culp method OF curing tobacco,
says an exchange, as distinguished from
the old method, is described as follows !:
1t has been customary to hang the cut
plant up by the butt under shed with
the leaves pressed against the stalk.
Mr.. Culp hangs up the plant horizon
tally, so that each leaf is separated, in a
tight house so arranged that it can be
ventilated and heated Instead of al
lowing the plant to hang up until dry
enough to use, he takes them down
several times and let's them ferment in
piles, his process being based on actual
chemical analysis of the elements need
ed to obtain the highest developments
of the good qualities, and the throwing
off the bad qualities found in the plant
when green, or formed during the pro-
cess when curing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18
Literal AnsMers.

Boy, may / inquire We're Robin
sons drug store is 7"
Certainly, sir" replied the boy,
very respectfully.
"Well, SIR" said the gentleman,
after waiting awhile, where is it2"
:" have not the least idea, yer hon
or, said the urcbin,
There was another boy who was ac-
costed 10y an ascetic middle-aged lady
with.
Boy, want to go TO Dover street"
Well, ma'am, said the boy, "why
don't you so, them"
One day at Lake George, party of
gentlemen strolllng among the beauti-
full islands ON the lake, with bad luck,
espied little fellow with red shirt and
straw hat, dangling a line over the side
of boat.
Halloo, boy said one of them,
what are you doing
% Fishing, came the answer.
4" Well. of course. said the gentle
man, 4" but what do You catch
q Fish what do YOU s'posel"
/" Did any of you ever see an cle-
plants skin inquired n teacher OF
an lHIdllt ClhhSs
al have, exclaimed one.
Where asked the teacher.
On the elephant" said the boy,
laughing.
Sometimes this kind of wit degener
ates or rises, as the case may be, into
punning, as when Flora pointed pens
slvely TO the heavy masses of clouds in
the sky, saying
" / wonder where those clouds are
goinggn and her brother replied
81 think they are going TO thunder. "
Also the following dialogue;
"Halloo, there how do you sell
your wood 2"
"By the cord. "
"How long has it been cut 2"
Four feet.
ct mean how long has il been since
you cut it9' fa
'No longer than il is now.
And also when Patrick O'Flynn was
seen with his collar and mis- bosom sad
ly begrimed, and was Indignantly
asked by his officer
Patrick O'Flynn how long doyou
wear a shirt 2"
&" Twenty eight inches, sir. " rf
This reminds one OF an instance
which is said TO have occurred recently
in Chatham street, New York, when a
countryman was DANGEROUSLY besieged
by shopkeeper
=" Have you any fine shirts ?" said the
countryman.
"A splendid assortment. Step IN,
sir. Every price and every style. The
cheapest in the market, sir. ="
4" Are they clean /"
To be sure, sir.
"Then, said the countryman, with
great gravity, 'you had better put one
on, for you need IT. =
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18
Roots a. Manure.

1t has been found that the roots cf a
good crop of red clover left in an acre
OF land after the removal of the crop.
weigh six thousand five hundred and
eighty pounds, or from three to three
and a half tons. The same examina-
ton gave an acre OF rye roots at thirty
five hundred pounds, and of wheat
roots at thirty-four hundred pounds.
All OF this matter is of course valua-
BILE for the use of such crops as may
be grown during or after its decompo.
sition. The well-known superiority of
clover as manuring crop, however, is
not due alone to the greater amount
OF organic matter, taken mainly
from the atmosphere, which its
roots supply, but also to the position
IN which this matter is deposited. The
roots reach deeply into the soil, and
on their decomposition they serve TO
draw moisture from the lower soil, and
by the decomposition of fertilizing
matter to considerable depth they in
duce the descent of the roots of other
crops to point where they are much
more sure of supply of moisture dur
ing dry seasons than they could be if
nearer the surface. Then again, these
deeply penetrating roots traverse parts
OF the subsoil not heretofore open to
vegetation, aud i'll their decomposition
they produce chemical effect ON the
inorganic substances that lie along
their courses, and help to render them,
too, serviceable for future crops. -
American AgricuIturiSt
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18
Raising Poultry.

Mr.. Mechi, in an article on the cost
and trouble of keeping poultry, in the
Gardeners Monthly, SAYS
Poultry is evidently dear food to the
consumer; but does it cost moro food
TO procure pound Of poultry than a
pound of meat, live weight | answer,
decidedly not, but the reverse, for my
cattle and sheep don't eat worms and
insects, whereas fowls consume them
abundantly, and economic and apply
every scattered seed or kernel that
would otherwise be wasted. In an
other point of view, is the cost of at.
tendance and shelter greater with
poultry than cattlel | reply not. As
to the production of eggs, that depends
upon the quality and quantity of food
administered, and the accompaniments
of proper warmth and shelter. There
rs no fear of overstockiDg the mar
ket with either eggs or poultry. |
generally keep from 800 to 400 fowls.
They have free access to every field
during the whole year, and although
they help themselves at harvest time,
when the corn is in sheaf, always get
my best crops Of corn ON fields adloin-
ing the hen house. have this year
two fields of wheat drilled, and only
one bushel of seed per acre. They
come within twenty yards of the fowl
house, and are perfect plant, al
though the poultry have been scratch
ing the fields ever since they were
drilled.
We are apt to forget that fowls like
sheep manure where they go. l must
say used at one time to feel nervous
and angry when / saw them hard at
work ON the newly-sown corn, but !
soon learned TO feel confident that in
secis we're their principal gain, and
that my well and deeply deposited corn
escaped.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18
CHILDREN'S CORNER.
From 81. Nicholas for November
Under the Ltght-HOuse.
BY ctLIA THAxrER.

Beneath the tall white lighthouse strayed the
children,
In the May morning sweet;
About the steep and rough gray rocks thoy
wandered
With hesita lng feet:
For, scattered far aud wld tn. b irds We're ~
ing,
Quiet and cold and dead.
That met, while they were swiftly wingipg
northward,
The fierce light overhead,
And, as the frail moths in the summer tvon-
inge
Fly to the candles blaze,
Rushed wildly at the splendor, finding only
Death in those binding rays.
And here were bobolnk, and wren, and spar
Veery, and orole,
And purple finch, and rosy grosbeak, swallows,
And king-birds quaint and droll
Gay soldier blackblrds, wearing on their
shoulders
Red, gold-edged epaulets,
And many homey, brown, red-breasted
robin,
Whose voice no child forgets.
And yellow birls--what shapes OF perfect
beauty
What silence after song
And mingled with them, unfamiliar warblers
That 70 tar woods belong.
beauty
BY scores the dead forms lay
That, dashed against the tall towers cruel
windows,
Dropped like the spent aea-sprav.
How many an old and sun-steoped barn, far
inland,
Should mics about its caves
The twitter and the CLEAN OF these swift swal.
iowsi
And swinging mid the leaves,
lhe orioles nest, now empty in the elm tree,
Would cold and silent be,
And never more these robins make the mead
ows
Ring with THEN ecstacy
Would not the gay swamp-border miss the
blackbirds,
Whistng SO loud and clear?
Would not the bobollnks' delicious music
Lose something OF its cheer?
Yet, thought the wistful children, gazing
landward,
The birds will not be missed
Others will take their place in field and forest,
Others will keep their tryst;
Aud we, we only, know how death has met
them
We wonder and we mourn
That from their innocent and bright existence
Thus roughly they are torn.
And SO they laid the sweet, dead shapes to-
gether
Smoothing each ruf1ed wing,
Perplexed and sorrowiuI, and bordering
deeply
The meaning of this thing.
Too hard to fathom for the wisest nature
Crowned with the SHOWS OF age!)
And ali the beauty of the fair May morning
Seemed like blotted page.
They bore them down from the rough cliffs OF
granite
To where the grass grew green,
And laid them meath the soft turf, all to-
gether,
With many flower between;
And, looking up with wet eyes, saw how
brightly
Upon the summed sea
Lay the clear sunlight. how white sails were
shining,
And small waves laughed in glee
And somehow, comfort grew to check their
grieving
A sense OF brooding care,
AS II, IN spite OF death, loving presence
Filled all the viewless arr.
" What should we fear 2" whispered the little
children,
There is no thing so small
But God will care for it in earth or heaven -
He sees the sparrows fall"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18
Eall pIomgIlinp.

II is, we think, generally admitted
that all level lands, except high loans
and sandy soils, are benefited rather
than injured by fall ploughing. Lands
plOughed in the fall are prepared to
receive all the benefits which frost,
rain and snow can give them, both in
the way of fertilization and the rem
dering the hard clayey soils loose and
friable. They are also put in the best
possible position TO be susceptible TO
atmospheric influences, which have
more to do with the fertility of the soil
than most people imagine. The fall is
the most convenient time for the far
mer TO plough. His team is in good
condition and he is not driven by work
that must be done. Many soils which
are 30 wet and heavy in the spring that
they cannot be ploughed without seri.
Gus damage, are in good condition in
the fall, and il the ploughing be then
done, il is so much done on the next
springs work, which always drives.
OF course, steep hillsides, which are
liable TO wash badly should not be
ploughed in the fall, but with thus ex-
ception, il seems safe TO advise the
farmer 70 "put his baud 70 the
plough aud not look back until he
has turned bottom up all the soil he
expects to cultivate next year. --EJ.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18
Is eeping Cabbages Through the VIA.
ter.

"W. r. r., OF Michigan writes :
You speak of raising cabbages for
stock. How do you keep them through
the winters We have no difficulty in
growing large crops here, but as yet we
have found no good way to keep them. !"
We make deep and wide "dead fur
row with pillow, in dry, sandy soil /,
and then lay the cabbages in it, packed
close together, with the stalks up.
Then throw the earth back on to the
cabbages. The ca bbages should be
dry and the weather cold, and care
should be taken that the furrow left on
the side of the row of cabbages should
be cleaned out, so as to carry off the
water. If no water gets to the cab
bages, and the heads are sound, large
and hard when put it, we have never
experienced any difficulty in keeping
them perfectly until spring, And there
is nothing that our sheep relish so
much. The only trouble about raising
cabbages for stock is that they usually
command SO much more in market than
they are worth TO feed OFT, that it is
difficult to resist the temptation to sell
them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18
dentistry in Lnnan.

The japanese are very ignorant of
medicine and surgery. Like other
people, they have many aches and
bad pains; and as everybody knows,
one of the most torturing pains is an
aching tooth In japan, like all the
rest OF the world, there are persons who
now and then want tooth pulled out (;
and the only Japanese contrivances for
this are a wooden mallet and n stick
The professor of dentistry, instead OF
sitting in his Office with a stock of
mysterious and frightful instruments,
goes travelling over the country, carry
ing box covered with brass ornaments,
and containing some little mallets and
wedges. When he meets with per-
son who wishes to part company with
an aching tooth the wedges are pressed
in between the tooth and the gum, and
then forced down with the mallet, until,
by hammering and prying, the tooth is
made so loose that it can be pulled on.
with the fingers The poor patien'
suffers very much. Sometimes piece
of the jaw are broken away with the
teeth, and it is said the patient die
from the wound.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18

SOME of the Paris journals state that
Queen Isabella, at Trouville, on Satur-
day, in attempting to afford help 10
her son, Prince Alphonso, when in some
danger of drowning, was herself carried
away, and would have been lost if one
of the bathing men had not saved her.
But the whole story was fabrication.
The ex-Queen was not at Trouyille at
the time alleged.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18

A NEW project for a tunnel, through
Mt. st. Bernard has been presented to
the President of the Swiss Confedera-
ton by NJ. Lefevre. II is TO be much
shorter than those Of the Mont Gems
and Gothard, the estimated length be-
ing only six kilometres, put it is pro.
posed 10 make il about 1000 metres
above the level of the sea.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18

ssKEPTIcIsM has never founded en-
9ires, established principalities or
changed the worlds heart. The great
doors in history have always been men
Of faith. Chaplin.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18

In Paris, thousands OF quarts of
mushrooms are consumed each day,
and large quantities are preserved and
shipped to many parts OF the world. -
Pen and Pt0tO.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18
Death Of a Pioneer Mother.
BH W. z. c. HosMEs.

One Of the stately matrons that gave TO home
delight,
And with her genial company the darkest day
made bright,
Has vanished from the scenes she cheered, the
friends she loved so we'll,
Aud never for kinder heart was knolled sad.
der knell.
The Church viii miss her where in prayer she
had so often knelt
The poor that she relieved whose souls the
keenest sorrow felt,
When tearlully, from door to door, were borne
tue udlngs dread,
The STAFF on which We leaned is gone, our
friend IN need is dead T.
Endowed with rarest mental gifts, her counsel
OH was sought,
And lessons She impaired well by years OF
trial taught
Pride, envy, hate no dwelling place found in
her noble breast,
And children that she gently reared rise up
and cal her - blestp
strength, virtue, iortitude, she hoired from
honest, sturdy sires,
And tor the stranger, on her hearth burned
hospltable fires
With a dear husband, gone before. the forests
gloom she dared,
And, while the country round was new, his
dark privations 81 AIRED.
Why should we weep1 Our fearful loss Ii her
eternal gain,
And footprints lett behind give proof chat she
lived not in vain
The wintTy mould is heaped above her COLI.
lasensate clay
But quaffs her spirit at the fount Of eyerlast-
ing day.
Community has lost friend the Church its
choicest gem,
But mortals should not Gods decree, in their
blind grief condemn;
Her mission 20 this "shoal OF time is over
and her deeds
Have npened into precious grain, unchoked
by weeds.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18

IN Golden, Col, an editor wrote
some advice TO a newly-married friend,
and was foolish enough TO print it.
After his wife had looked over a proof
OF the "advice," the editor felt com
PEELED to add tins postscript. "Have
your hair cut close 10 the skin.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18

A MATCH at chess for $4,000 side
a side has been made between Dick
Pearce and Mr.. Gallagher, Of Austif,
New. Five thousand dollars a side
forfeit has been put up, and the match
will come off six weeks from next
Chrislmas.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18

PIUs TX. dresses in white and scarlet
cloth. His Holiness requires each
year four or five new upper garments.
These cost $500 each. His stockings
cost $3.50 per pair. Each red cloak
costs $3.50. and pair of slippers made
OF red cloth with gold border, and
embroidered with gold cross, costs
$24 the Pope requiring six pairs
year. In round numbers the Pope .
necessary outfit does not cost INN
much ever $4,000 per annum, modef'
ate sum for one in his position.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18

DO | understand the counsel for
defendant" asked very fat Western
Judge, "to say that he is about to read
his authorities as against the decision
lust pronounce from the bench z" 'By
no means" responded the counsel
aforesaid 81 was merely going 10
show To your Honor, by brief pas
sage was about 10 read from the book,
what an intolerable old fool Blackstone
must have been" "Ay, ny (" said the
Judge, not little elated and there
the matter ended.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18

"Now, young people" says Pro-
fessor OF Natural History. to his class,
" now, then, as 10 hens A hen has the
capacity Of laying just six hundred
eggs, and no more, and she finishes the
job in just five years. Now, what is TO
be done with her after that " Cut
her head off and sell her for Spring
chicken exclaimed an urchin whose
father deals in poultry.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18
SOME slight originality has found it's
way into the obituary columns of the
Philadelphia Leeger

Lay aside his little lrowsers
That our darling used 20 wear,
He will never on earth want them,
He haH climbed the golden stair.
II anybody can read that verse with
out shielding tears, he may safely be
called a iiend in human shape.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18

A GOOD man is kinder TO his enemy
than bad men are to their friends
Bishop Hal.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-08-29
From the Halifax (Nova Se6tia} Morning
Chronicle, October IA.
Robert f.. Lee.

"Ah, Sir Lacelot," he said; "Thou
vert head of all Christian knights; and
now, 7 dare say said Sir Ector,
''thou. sig f,ancelot, there thou hest,
that thou vert Easa.lEr matched of
earthly knights hand; and tiaoss vert
the courtliest knight that ever bore
shield: i i and thou vert the
kipdest man that ever strake with
sword; and thou vert the goodliest
person that ever came among press of
knights; and thou vert the meekest
man and the gentlest that ever ate in
hall amiong ladies'; and thou vert the
sternest Knight y t. mortal foe that
ever pnt spear in rest. .--IKe Mort
D'Arfhsu OF Sir Thomas Aa2dyy. !
With reverence and regret We repeat
to-day Sir Ector's words of sorrow for
the great Sir Lancelot, and apply them
to the man who died yesterday-the
noblest knight of our generation. The
hero of the Acknowledgements as he
lay dead in Joyous-Gard, with the rec
ord of a life made:.splendid by great
deeds, might have revived other than
kindly or enobling reconections in the