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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-03-07
RIVER FALLS WISCONSIN, THTRSDAy MARCH 1879
THE OTHER SIDE.

EDS. JoURNAL.-In your article on
the currency question in the JOURNAL
of Feb. 14th, you ask question IN
closing. and at the same time make an
assertion as though Youknew all about
the matter in dispute. Now, sirs, l
am one of those who believe it wrong
to turn off inquiring children in search
of knowledge, and will try to explain
this to you SO that your infant (polit-
ically) minds can understand it.
In your article you say, ''We will
close by inquiring why the masses OF
the greenback party demand silver
dollar worth less than a gold dollar
when no one would be wronged and
the people benefited by the remone-
tization of silver upon the basis OF a
silver dollar containing sufficient
amount of silver to make it equal in
value to a gold dollar - What APP
pears to trouble you, Messrs. Editors,
is why the Greenbackers want silver
dollar worth less at this time than
gold dollar Are you sure that no one
would be wrongedl Let me state
a case in equity. One of your leading
Republicans, Mr.. Morton, now dead,
said that the average cost of the bonds
to the holders would not be over sixty
cents on dollar. Weknow that some
of them cost only forty cents on dol
lar. We will take a ST., 900 bond that
cost in gold $500 in'62; the holder wish
es it settled ON gold basis. Let the
people settle withshim: his bond has
been on interest sixteen years and we
have already paid him 1860 in gold
for the use of his money, when we. on
the gold basis that you talk about
should have paid him only $3.50. Now
in a court of equity an honest judge
would make this bond holder pay
back $3.50 that he has got in gold with
interest on the same for sixteen years,
instead of saying to the people. you
shall pay this bond in dollar worth
dollar and ten cents made so by the
combined rascallity of the bond holder
and our agent, who in most cases is the
same person. 1t appears to me,
Messrs. Editors, if you had paid little
attention to these matters you would
not have made so many misstatements
in reference to us Nationals, or Green
back men, you certainly would not
have said, mo one would be wronged. .
All through your article [ find mis-
statements in reference to us Green
hackers. You say we are not agreed
on anything. We now refer you to
our national platform. 1t is before
the world. You say the leaders want
the government 10 issue SrocnDaoks to
redeem outstanding bonds; this is
mistake. We want a national money,
instead of this rascally national bank
currency that is being used in connec-
ton with bonds to commit the great
crime against the people. Messrs.
Editors. as you show inquiring minds
after political knowledge, hope you
will keep on, and will be glad to lend
you documents on these subjects. |
think it very bad for a people to have
the editorial chairs that have been
filled by such men as Franklin, JEFF
ferson and Hamilton, filled by lot
of political babies owned by lot of
political bank monopolists.
JOEL FOSTER.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-03-07

It gives us great pleasure to know
that the Judge has started out on a
missionary tour, and that he has Sc
Iected us foE the first object of his Ia
bors. We fear, however, that his Ell
forts will fall short of their mark, for
at least two reasons: First, we are not
sure that the calling of hard names is
very convincing argument; and Sec
ond, the Judges reasoning seems like
a seive with pretty large interstlces
between the wires.
Let us apply little of his reasoning
to himself. About thirty years ago,
he bought lot of land in this place;
he paid, we think, the regular govern
ment price for it; thriving village
has grown around the Judges land !;
he has, during these long years, re-
ceived plentiful interest on his in
vestment in the shape of timber, crops,
grass, etc.; and now, sin equity, the
''honest Judge" ought to be satisfied
to receive $1.25 per acre for his land.
Is he! Oh, no! A hundred dollars
per acre will not buy all of it. We are
not much on mathematics but we al
ways had an idea that if in two prob
lens the conditions are the same, the
results should be the same. We may
.Do1,,l,Ixr hox-a hoor1
And doesn't the Judge rejoice at the
birth of that great National party
| which he helped to usher into exist
| ence Now we have a platform y
Glad to hear it. But one wing of this
new bird has already dropped off, and
it won't be great while before the
other wing and the legs, and the head
and the tail will do likewise, and there
be nothing left but the tracks in the
mud to tell future ages of the exist
enee of highly curious bird, called
| the National Greenback Labor-Reform
Deprecated Money. etc, Party.
The closing sentence annihilates US
we wish we hadn't said anything on
the greenback question and, come to
think, we didn't say anything. But
just think of the Judges mention Of
Franklin and Hamilton in connection
with Jefersonl 1t must be that he
has heard ef these two names only
lately and that he has got them in tbs
| wrong pew. But now that he knows
that such men have lived, we counse
him TO read some of their writings aee
see how much of inspiration and com
fort he can derive from them.
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-03-07
MID WIFE.

MsS. s. Professional Midwife
and Nurse. Residence on Main street, first
door South Of the iron bridge, River Falls,
WIZ 21-35
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-31

RED MOUNTAIN IRON ORE.

A letter from Birmingham Ala, to
the Louisville Courier-Journal says:
The red mountain range is solld
mass of iron ore Of fine quality. AT
one place the bank has been opened.
and thousands of tons were piled up
waiting to be transformed into useful
articles. A company has been formed
in Birmingham, and will shortly erect
furnace and rolling mill and utilize
a portion of this deposit. | say a
portion, for in the country in which
Birmingham is situated | am told that
there are twenty-five miles OF the
Red Mountain range which are nearly
all solid ore. In this section Of the
State the deposits of coal and iron ore
are immense enough to supply the
world for ages. The question was,
could the coal be used to manufacture
the iron! Making iron with charcoal
was to costly a process. The Eureka
Company, composed mainly Of Louis
vile, and Cincinnati capitalists,
undertook to solve the problem, and
established furnace at OXmOor, and
did solve it in most satisfactory
manner. The coal makes the finest
sort OF coke.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-31
the APE THAT MOST RESEMBL ESs
MAN.

PROFESSOR Garrod lately held a re-
ceptlon in the Monkey House at Zoo
logical Gardens, and discoursed to the
people about the anthropOid anes.
The professor made it plain that the
anthropOids are the simial aristocracv
even II we may not more accurately
call them our poor human relations.
AS prosector of the Geological Socie-
ty, the professor stated that he had
dissected seventy apes out of the an
thrOpOidal class, and one of them ex-
hibited the vermiform appendage Of
c9cum, of blind gut, which is charac-
teristic of man. But the anthrOpoids
have it quite humanity developed.
The hand and feet of an orang recent
ly dead were exhibited along with
those of man, and exhibited the same
structure. The manners and customs
of gOrillas were described from au-
thentic observations, and their do
nestle arrangements, their sleeping
hammOcks, and use of stones in crack
ing nuts increased the impression
made that this animal is very human
like, indeed. Professor Garrod show
ed that the structural resemblance
between the anthropoid apes and man
are so close that the reason for the
mental and moral differences remains
still an unsOlved problem. Perhaps
the most striking and important por-
ton OF his discussion was that in
which he proved that the vocal organs
of man are present also in the antho-
poid ape. The ape does not converse,
and yet the difference between his
vocal apparatus and that of man is so
lnfinltesimal as to to defy observa-
ton. 1t is to this point, however,
that physiological investigation must
now be particularly directed.
Professor Huxly declares that, to
his mind, the only thing that promis-
eS to explain the mental difference
between the anthropoid ape and man
is this phenomenon of language.
This he said in a lecture at the Royal
College of sergeons. Language i'm
plies consultation, comparison of ex-
perience-necessarily embOdies itself
in the written form. becomes the
storehOuse of facts. results in infer
ences, and in the wisdom which can
control and modify nature where the
dumb creature is controlled and modi-
fed by nature. BY the power Of
intelligent and purposed selection and
combination so secured by the ability
to talk, the animal so endowed might
gradually build up better brain on
the same structure as that possessed
by an animal that could not talk, and
so could not obtain the complete CO.
operation Of his fellows for the work
OF improvement. If it should be ulti-
mately determined by Psychologists
that there is absolutely no difference
between the vocal organs of the antho-
poid and man. refuge would have to
be taken in the hypothesis that there
is some point in the animal brain cor
responding to the vocal power. which
does not exactly rhyme with the latter
in the anthropoid, but does rhyme
with it in the man.-M. u. C0nway's
London Letter to the Cincinnati Com
mercidi.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-31

NicOlO's Friend.

"Nicolo, Nicolo, where are you' Where
have you hidden YOURSELF Come here; l
want you"
1t was very bright-eyed little girl who
spoke these words under bright sky,
too-thc sunny sky of Italy.
But Nicolo, u boy some years older than
herself looked far from bright or happy
he was lying full length upon the ground
in the sunlight, but his face was overcast
and melancholy.
Lazy fellow!" SAID little Gianetta,
laughinglv, as she came up to him, Il am
out of breath calling to you. Come along
| want YOU. Mother has done with
me, and we can make some music to-
gcther.'
But Nicolo shook his head. though he
smiled at his little friend.
What is itl" asked Gianetta "Why
can't you Gomez Is it your father,
again.
Nicolo sighed He was a cheerful,
happy-tempered boy by nature. And
vet Gianetta often found him looking
very sad.
''Tiresome, bad man. broke forth the
little girl. He has been scoiding you
again; but no. Stop; | will say no wicked
things OF him, for he IS your father; and
we must honor our parents, be they
bad or good, Father Clement SAYS. But
tell me, Nicolo, what has he said or
doneq"
1T is nothing said Nicolo, rushing
himself at length" nothing, my little
Ganetta hut il wearies me. 1t Is the
old tale; he likes not my music-thinkS
it an excuse Tor idieness. Listen. little
one I make my plans now. l cannot
bear this lie. | must do as he wishes
learn trade or somewhat, and give up
my violin
THAT YOU shall never do" said Gia-
Meta, earnestly You think me naughty.
Nicolo; out | am not. | only see ii
palmer than YOU or your father. God has
given yoI this talent.-this great one
and YOU shall not hide it, you shall not
bury it" The little girls face was SO
eager that Oicolo smiled AZ her.
But she went ON, more excitedly:
Get up. this moment Nicolo. and
come in with me. We will play some
what together. Your father never scodls
you when am by. And you shall not
give up your music.
The bov. half in earnest, and hal
amused, let the child drag him into a
little house near. put his violin into his
arms, and then set herself at the piano,
while in the distance SAT- Nicolo's father
gloomily watching the pair.
Begin. said Gianetta. and tell me
when play wrongly
But for such mere child, Gianetta
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-31
Wlr avJ IjA)a.

A handkerchief Irritation is a very
simple thing-it only requires two
fools and two handkerchiefs.
And now Suleiman pasha is claimed
by a citizen Of Cork, Ireland, as a Hi
| bernian. His Celtic name was Sulli-
van Pat.
1t was a darkey who exclaimed, as
he rose from his knees at camp.
meeting. '.Here ! raise my ebon-
knees-sir!'
y man made bet that he could ride
the fly-wheel in a saw-mill. and as his
widow paid the bet she remarked,
civilian was kind husband, but he
did not know much about y-wheels."
A small boy. arrested for throwing
stones at the windows ofIndependence
Hall the other day, got off on the plea
that he was only rocking the era
die Of liberty.
Mamma, where do people go when
they die." my dear, cant tell you
Just where" ..But dom you knowl'
..How can ] know Nellies Mamma
has never died 'Of course not: but
haven't You studied geography"
Mamma. where do the cows get
the milk.' asked Willie. looking up
from the foaming pan Of milk which
he had been intently regarding.
"Where do you get your tearsl" was
the answer. After thoughtful ST.
lence he again broke out: .Mamma.
do the cows have to be spankedl'
'.How do you know the man is era
zy!' asked the superintendent Of the
asylum as the editor was brought in.
because he has been crediting para
graphs to the Globe Democrat, was
the reply.-Puck. But the q. b. will
never be considered crazy for the
same reason.
A postmaster writes: please stop
Mr. Blanks paper he is dead now"
We resent the insinnation that the
Interior killed him. Another p. H..
to whom an inquiry was addressed
in regard to subscriber who went
to heaven leaving his subscription
unpaid. replied. ''IIe is still dead. .
interior.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-31
PHOSPHATE OF POTASH CURE FOR
SCURvY

1t is well known that an exclusive
diet of salt provisions endangers
scuryy. and that at sea or OH expedi-
tions where only such provisions can
be carried over long periods Of time,
their injurious effects are prevented
by drinking lime juice. Professor
Rob Galloway has recently advanced
the suggestion that phosphate Of pot
ash is much better preventative Of
the malad, and at the same time that
salt increases the nutritiveness Of
salted meat. so that he proposes in all
cases where such meat is consumed
that the phosphate be used as con-
diment. the same as chloride Of sodiu
is now employed. Professor Galloway
points out that Of the different sub
stances which enter into the forrna-
ton and constitution of the meat some
are removed hy the immersion Of the
same in brine. and the principal
material thus extracted is phosphate
of potash. 1t is evident. therefore.
that If this salt was indispensable Of
the formation Of fresh meat it's alb
sence in salt meat must be prejudicial
The use Of phosphate Of potash as
table salt ii strictly analogous to the
present employment of chloride of
sodium. the latter being consumed
and the taste requiring its consump-
ton in order that it may be supplied
as needed for the normal formation
of the blood. Now, as salt meat lacks
potash salts. and as the latter are
useful in the formation OF the fluids
in the meat. it is as logical to use this
substance AS it is to use common salt.
Furthermore. NM. Pastenr and Mayer
have demonstrated the importance Of
phosphate Of potash in nutrition. and
have shown it tn be Indispensable to
the development of the beer yeast
cellule. Professor Galloway also con-
siders that the beneficial effect Of
lime juice as a preventative Of scurvy
is due to the presence Of potash and
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-31
NEBRASkA'S VOLCANO.

The last earthquake at the west was
supposed to have radiated from To-
cality in Nebraska that has been
popularity regarded as the site of a
volcano. Professor Sauuel Augboy,
Of the Nebraska state university, has
recently made an examination of the
ground. The seat of the disturbance
is on the banks of the Missouri, in
Dixon county, about thirty-siX miles
from Sioux City, Iowa. A bluff about
LOO feet long and 100 feet high,
sloping at an angle of 50 deg, to 80
deg. toward the river, is at present
the place where the phenomena are
the most exhibited, but other bluffs a
few miles distant have been similarly
affected. Two years ago, a portion
of this bluff, half as large as what is
left, broke away and fell partly into
the river. On the bluff sounds were
heard proceeding from the interior,
especially on placing the ear to the
ground. Flames sometimes broke
forth, occasionally at night. Steam
escaped from crevices. On digging
into the bluff. intense heat stopped
the work after proceeding few feet.
Selunite, alum, and magneSlc Sulphate
in crystals were abundant. Prof.
Aughey regards these features as not
volcanic in the usual sense of the
term, but .simply the result of local
chemical action. The formrtion is
cretaceous. The bluff is capped by
calcic carbanate. Beneath are shales
containing ferric bi-sulphide in crys-
tails of pyrites. Below the shale is a
soft limestone. containing carbonates
of magnesia and alumnia the chemi-
cal reaction consequent upon part of
the soil being soaked with water after
It's fall toward the river. have been
the decomposition of the pyrites, the
production of sulphuric acid, and the
attack of the acid on the alkaline car
Donates. The heat evolved in the
first of these reactions is. of course,
very great in the latter part the
violence Of the performance must be
increased by the liberation of car
bonic anhydride. All the authenti.
Gated disturbances are thus easily
explained. Prof. Aughey does not
connect them with the earthquake.
He thinks the bluff might furnish
alum and other salts in quantities
sufficient for profitable manufacture.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-31
A LIFE FOR A LIFE.

Bertrode Dodge was blue. 1t was
August weather-there was no air stir
ring from one arid noon until the next,
and the insects Kissed maliciouslv all
day long III the parched grasses. Per-
haps that was the reason that Bertrode
was blue.
Perhaps it was that as she walked
Growers Tract, day by day, and saw the
summers limited completion in the red
apples burning among the gray green
boughs, the hay fields at aftermath. the
purple tasselled corn, and yellow wheat,
that she felt her life to be aimless. She
had let the summer come and wane
across her passive existence. The pre-
vious winter she had said: Il feel ice
bound now When summer comes
will shake off this inertia and redeem
to- day"
Yet the summer was rapi liz passing
and she was still in q dream The hour
never seemed TO come which called her
to exertion Well. Loves young
dream" comes but once; Il was ali we'll
perhaps.
Growers Tract and her farmhouse life
was not as dull IS she had expected it
would he when she returned from her
mountain tour year before only at times
the out door sounds and the leisurely
growing works of nature oppressed her.
Z In the winter she had been gay. looking
( at the sunset across the snow.
watching the chick a-d Is, and searching
the woods for purple mererion. In the
spring the long walks TO the post-o.fice
had been full ofjoyful fancies aud golden
realities; she loved the sweet country
sights and scent. more than ever before
( in her life.
But in August something seemed TO
Cypress her. The sky burned too blue,
the woods were too calmly contert in
their greenness, the days closed too beau
tifully in their ripe splendor, as she
walked the Tract at sunset, coming from
the post-office-c coming always empty
handed. Yes, something was wrong.
ana when she realized it fully, she said:
II sm idle-I am stepped in idlenes. l
have been doing nothing for year. Now
will have some work. and Dick may go
to the post-office. | care too much Tor
those letters
Whatever those letters might be, there
came no more Of them. A certain gay
tourist drifting about the world, forgot to
write them 1t last; perhaps Bertrode was
pretty, but one travelling everywhere
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played with marvellous correctness. AS
! fer Nicolo, his countenance cleared with
every sound that he drew from his below
ed violin; he forgot his gloomy father; he
thought no longer of his dull, sad home.
He was wrapped in that wonderful con-
ceit which the possession Of some great
talent gives.
With the last chord the brightness fad
ed, however out Of his face.
"Take me home now" said the little
girl.
Home was only across the street; but
Gianetta wanted another word in private
with her friend.
"Nicolo," she said gravely, ''never speak
more Of giving up the music; it is not to
be. am sorry for you my poor boy;
know it is hard life, but"
"But will make name for myself at
last, said Nicolo, catching her enthusiasm
land then, perhaps, my father will have
faith in me. Till then I will be brave,
little one, so good night
1t was hard life for Nicolo-his moth
er dead, his father with no care for his
sons one great passion music. Many a
time the boys spirit failed, and he even
grew to doubt his own powers under the
cold glance and cruel taunts which daily
met him.
He was sitting one day, feeling even
sadder than al-discontented even
with the sounds he drew from his instru-
ment-when Gianetta's mother stood in
the doorway.
THE child is ill.," she said, hurriedly
livery i'll, and calls ever tor you.
Come"
SO Nicolo went, and, though tossed
with fever, his little friend smiled on him
There was, however, longing look in his
eyes; but her parched lips could not
form word.
cit is the violin?" asked Nicolo
softly.
She smiled again, and Nicolo fetched
his treasure.
"a sleeping song?' he questioned.
The little face grew calm and soft at
his question. Swiftly the music foated
through the room, sitting the sufferer,
and comforting the watchers. When he
had finished, Gianetta stretched out her
arms.
THANK you dear Nicolo,' she said;
4 that was pleasant Now l shall sleep;
but you must never sleep; you have
much else to do; you must 90 out into
the world, and De famous-go away far,
far from here. Do you mind my words.
Will you remember them
And she lay back exhausted on her
pillow, never more to ask for music in
this world. Gianetta was listening even
then to the angels song.
That night N1colo sat beside the dead
body Of his little friend. Lights burned,
flowers were scattered round her. and
prayers were said without ceasing in all
those long hours. 1t was the custom of
the country; it did not disturb the dead,
an d it cOmforted the living.
And when m morning dawned, the friend
less boy went back to his little room
across the road, and there he poured out
his heart in farewell strain to his dear
companion who had thus suddenly been
snatched from him.
There was no more now to he done
but to fulfill her last command, to go out
into the world and to make himself ia
nous.
Did he do so.
Ask those who love music, and hold
dear all great names in its roll of fame; if
they ever heard of Nicolo Paganini; for
it is of his bovhood that write.
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The BuckWheat Cake:

Ny flapjack. tits of the
Thou that agreest with me,
OF thee / sing!
Then that with pork art fried,
Then buttered on one side,
With maple syrup thick applied
Thou luscious thing!
OisavOry morsel mine.
What taste is like to thine,
Well-buttered one?
love to watch the fry,
To see cook toss the high,
And stick thee with fork to try
If thou art done,
Before the break of dawn
The cook, with many yawn,
The batter makes.
Then, at the breakfnst-bell,
Down rush the boys pell- nell,
And all delighted yell,
90! buckwheat cakes"
O, red-faced cook, to thee
Shall loud eucomiumS be
Forever more.
Soon, when our stomachs feel
Oppressed by such ameal,
We promise that we'll
Eat somewhat slower.
And when our spirits rise
To dwell IN Paradise,
Our hope is this;
A gorgeous throne oCr seat,
Fair hour is at our feet.
Hot buckwheat cakes to eat
What greater bliss?