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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-10-31

A German has just discovered pro-
cess, which he has patented, and by
which he claims to be able to preserve
coffee in all its perfection, and at the
same time TO render it more portable and
unalterable for length of time. To eff
feet his object he subjects the freshly
roasted and ground coffee to pressure
of from forty to seventy atmospheres
Thirty three pounds to the square inch
each) in suitable cast-iron molds. The
coffee is thus made into cakes, and comes
into the market in form resembling
chocolate, divided Ike the latter by lines,
to facilitate breaking into pieces of suit
able size for use. The interior surface of
the mould is highly polished, by which
means the outer crust of the compressed
coffee is made sufficiently smooth and
lard to prevent the tendency of the ether.
cal oil OF the berry to escape from the in
terror of the cakes. The volume of the
coffee thus prepared is reduced to less
than one-third of that of the original.
The inventor claims that the operation
does not in the least effect the good quail
tiles Of the article, and that 1t can be
packed and transported in tin-foiI or 9th
erwise, preserving Its aroma indef-
nately
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-10-31
A Noble Dane.


1t was during the wars that ragged from
1862 TO 1860, between Frederick III. OF
Denmark and Charles Gustavus Of
Sweden, that after battle, in which the
victory had remained with the Danes, a
stout burgher of Flensborg was about to
refresh himself, before retiring to have
his wounds dressed, with dIaught from
wooden bottle, when an imploring cry
from a wounded Swede, lying on the field,
made him turn round, and saying, "Thy
need is greater than NINE" he kneeled
down by the fallen enemy TO pour the
water into his mouth. His requital was
a pistol-shot in the shoulder from the
treacherous Swede. Rascal he cried,
~ would have befriended you, and you
would murder me in return. Now will ]
punish you. l meant to have given you
the whole bottle, but now you shall only
have half" And drinking off half him
self, he gave the rest TO the Swede.
The king, hearing the story, sent Tor
the burgher, and asked him how he came
to spare the life of such rascal.
Sire" said the honest burgher, 81
never kill wounded enemy"
Thou deservest to be a NOBLE" the
king said, and created him one imme-
diately, giving him for amorial bearings
wooden bottle pierced with an arrow.
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How We Hate to Rest.

(Our seasons of rest are so few and 50
short that many hard workers have for
gotten how to enjoy them. Some men,
long worked hard must go on working.
There is no other chance for them. To
sit down is to break down; to rest is to
die. Indulgence is in one respect like
indulgence in strong drink. Having got
into 1t you must go on: otherwise there
come manifold morbid and painful ex-
periences. There are those who tell you
that once they could be moderately hap
ply when resting, now they dare rest no
more. They may try to make work less
urgent, less feverish; but it will not do to
stand still. They are kept sane and SER
viceable only by giving the mind per-
petual occupation. Every one remem-
bers how Luther said, II rush out among
my pigs rather than sit still and do moth
ing" 1t Is sad, but it Is true, that hui
man beings, not much like Luther in any
other character istic, are like him in this;
that they dare not have quiet think.
Hence, the sorrowful resort to achohol,
opium, choral; hence the craving for I'M
consciousness, which is temporary ami
hilation.
If pigs can help you, as they helped
Luther, be thankful. Some folks. b~-l
clever and good, need more than any Pc
can do-even such an animal as poetic
breeder, proud of its age and dimensions,
called his Aud Lang Swine. In any
case, few minds are self sufficing. All
human beings who have attained middle
age must be buttressed from without. 1t
may be sacred Nature, green grass, green
trees, gardening, pigs, horses, human
companions, worry or quiet occupation;
bat the longer live the more assured
am that most men live in mortal terror
of themselves. Years ago, short years
but good many, when this hand was
young, it wrote discourse of "Michael
Scott's Familiar Spirit" which Gas the
legend goes demanded that its master
should provide it with constan work or
it would tear him to pieces. Thus In the
parable, is set forth the educated mans
relation to his own mind. You must find
it ceasless occupation, or it will make
you miserable. The little girl Of seven
years has found this out, who cries: 90
read me story to make the time pass
quick People find it out waiting three
quarters of an hour at country railway
stations. They will diligently read all
the advertisements stuck about the squal-
id shed rather than sit idle. They will
read right through the leading article of
the Little Peddlington Courier. One saw
all this early. One sees it yet more
plainly now.--Frdser's Ma1Gzine.
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DIR. Guthrie's PathOs.

The late DIR. Guthrie was very diligent
in visiting, and quite equal to any emer-
gency. One day he came 10 the door OF
an Irishman, who was determined that
the doctor should never enter his house.
"You cannot come in here" said he,
"you're not needed or wanted" "My
friend said the doctor, I'm only visit
ing round my parish to become acquaint-
ed with my people, and have called on
you only as q parishioner." sit don't
matter" says Paddy, "you shan't come in
here" and with that, lifting the poker,
he said, '.if you come in here, I'll knock
YOU down" Most men would have re-
tired or tried to reason; the doctor did
neither, but drawing himself up TO his
full height, and looking the Irishman
fair in the face, he said, &C me now, that's
too bad; would You strike man unarm-
eda Hand me the tongs, then we shall
be.on equal terms The man looked up
on him for little in great amazement,
and then said, "0ch shure, yer quare man
for a minister, come inside and, feeling
rather ashamed of his conduct, he laid
down the poker. The doctor entered, and
talked, as he could so well do, III a way
both so entertaining aud so instructive as
| 10 win the admiration of the man, so thf.i
when he arose TO go, Paddy shook ais
hand warmly, and said, "Be sure, sir,
pon't pass my door without giving me
CALI
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Female Beauty in Uganda.

If beautiful women of the sable com
plexion are to be found In Africa, it must,
| thought, be in the household of such a
powerful despot as Mesa, who has the
pick of the flowers of so many lands.
Accordingly, looked sharply amongst
the concubines that might become ac-
4uainted with the style of pure African
beauty Nor was quite disappointed,
though | had imagined that his wives
would haYe all been of superior personal
charms. But Mtesa apparently differs
widely fIom Europeans in his tastes.
There were not more than twenty out of
all the five hundred that were worthy of
q glance of admiration from white man
with any eye for style and beauty, and
certainly not more than three deserving
of many chances. These three, the most
comedy among the twenty beauties of
Mtesa's court, were of the Wahuma race,
20 doubt from AnkOri. They had the
complexion of quadroons, were straight
nosed and thin-lipped, with large, lust
rOus eyes. In all the other graces of a
beautiful form they excelled, Haiz might
have said with poetic rapture that they
were straight as palm trees and beauti-
full as moons" The only drawback was
their hair-the short crisp hair of the
negro race-but In all other points they
might be exhibited as the perfection of
beauty which Central Africa can produce,
Ntesa, however, does not believe them
to e superior or even equal to his we'll
Gushed, unctuous- bodied, fiat-nosed
wives; indeed, when l pointed them
Dut t. him one day at private audience,
be even regarded them with a sheer
Spoke. if | remember rightly, de-
clares that fairness IN womankind is
synonymous with beauty in Uganda.
This may once have been the case, but
It is certainly not so now, for in few
women regarded with favor by Mtesa or
his chiefs haYe l seen any gross corpu-
ence of body. Naturally, where there
is an abundance of good, digestible food,
lnd the climate is agreeable, humanity of
-he respectable class viii! generally be
'ound well clothed in flesh, be it in
[ ganda or in England, but it is some
What unreasonable to state that the re-
;pectable class therefore consider super
luous rotundity to be an element of beau
Book.
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The Home and True Society.

True society begins III the home.
When two young people love each other,
and marry, they restore the picture OF the
Apostolic Church. They are of one heart
and one soul; neither do they say that
ANYTHING they possess is their own. but
they have all things in common. Their
mutual trust in each other, their entire
confidence in each ether, draws out all
that is best in both. Love is the angel
who rolls away the stone from the grave
in which we bury our better nature, and
il comes forth. Love makes all things
new; makes a new heaven and new
earth; makes all cares light, all pains ca
sv. 1t is the one enchantment OF human
life which realizes FoTtunio's purse and
Aladdin's palace, and turns the "Arabian
Nights" into mere prose, in comparison.
Think how this old story of love is re-
peated forever in all the novels and ro-
mances and poems, and how we never
tire of reading about it; and how, If there
is to be a wedding in the church, all man
kind 90, lust TO have one look at two
persons who are supposed, at least, to be
ia love and so supremacy happy. But
this. also, is not perfect society. Ii is too
narrow, too exclusive. 1t shows the pow
er of devotion, trust, seli-surrender, that
there is in the human heart; and it is al
so a prophecy of something larger that Il
TO come. But il is at least home. ano
before real society can come, true homes
must come. AS in the sheltered nook IN
the midst of the great sea of ice which
rolls down from the summit of Mt. Blanc
is found little green spot, full Of tender
flowers, SO, in the shelter of home, IN the
warm atmosphere of household love,
spring up the pure affections of parent
and child; father, mother, son, daughter;
of brothers and sisters. Whatever makes
this insecure and divorce frequent, makes
of marriages not union for life, but an
experiment which may be tried as often
az we choose, AMI abandoned when we
| like. And this cuts up by the roots all
the dear affections of home; leaves CHI
fren orphaned. destroys fatherly and
motherly love and is a virtual dissolution
of society. / know the great difficulties
of this question, and how much wisdom
IS REQUIRED to solve them. But whatever
/ weakens the permancnce of marriage
tends to dissolve society: for permanent
homes are to the social state what the
little cells are to the body. They are the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-10-31

"a writer in Nature discusses the COM
paratiye nutritive qualities Of white bread,
brown bread. and whole-meal al. He
SAYS: We shall find itimpossiLje o. ke,
Of Ieaven or yeast, a light 81 ongy loaf
from whole wheat finely ground, the So
called cereaIin Of the bran inducing
chemical changes which result in moist,
clammy, dense product. Even whole
wheat cruahed into meal, and not ground,
partakes of the same defect. Fine flour,
on the other hand, yielus bread which
is light enough before mastication, but
which when masticated possesses a
marked tendancy to become compacted
into dense Jumps which may never be
penetrated by the gastric and intestinal
Juices, and which are frequent cause OF
constipation. Whole-meal bread cannot
be charged with this defect; indeed il
acts incidentally as laxitive, and by
reason of its mechanical texture is hur-
RED rather too quickly along the diges.
tive track, so that the full virtue of such
Of its nutrients as are really soluble be.
comes in part lost
Yet there is no floubt that for many
persons. especially those who have passed
middle age and are engaged in sedentarl
OCCUPATIONS, whole wheaton meal in th'
form of bread, biscuits, scenes, etc, formi
an Invaluable diet. If we could reckon
| all the heterogeneous matter IN whole mea
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"GiYe Me Back My Youth :"

When the WORKOUT slanderer and vol
uptuary DR. Woolcott, lay on his death
bed, one of his friends asked if he could
do anything to crafty him.
Eyes" said the dying man, eagerly,
'give me back my youth"
A lost youth Who can estimate the
value of youths freshness, its strength,
its opportunities for laying up treasures
that shall be a resource of pleasure and
satisfaction when the winter days of life
coms2
remember seeing written on the fly
leaf of a copy of Village Hymns, many
years ago, these words: "Lost-between
the hours OF sunrise and sunset golden
hour, set with sixty diamondminutes. No
reward is offered, as it is gone forever"
Ii the writer of that sentence put such
value upon this loss of one hour, what
would be his thoughts OF the loss of days,
weeks, months and years that make up
the youth of ones life.
Many a man and woman sit to-day
looking out of the western windows of
life, watching the setting sun and long
ing for the return of the morning of their
days, that they may live them over again
and better improve them. Live as long
as you may said Southey, "the first
twenty years are the longest half of your
lie, and the most pregnant in conse-
quencen 1t is the seed-time of life, and
what is sown then will be reaped when
the harvest time comes.
We hear young men talking about "sow-
ing their wild oats" as if that were sort
of necessity to be got through with.
There never was a more mistaken idea.
These same "wild oats" yield plentiful
harvest, that, in after life, the sower
gathers to his sorrow. "There is no fault
or folly of my life" says Mr.. Ruskin,
"that does not rise up against me and
take away my joy" What begins in cob
webs ends IN chains, as regards what some
people mildly term youthful indlscre-
tons" Many young man who begins
with the lesser designations, and thinks
he can stop at any time, finds himself in
a few years galley-slave, clanking his
chains about him, manacled to such a
degree that he has no power or control
over himself
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sunfioyyers For Fuel.

I find it has been said BY Minnesota
farmers that 1.-TWO acres Of sunflowers
will supply family with fuel through a
long winter" Is this hoax or practi-
cal truth2 Does it burn in an open fire
or is it necessary to use stove or CRATE?
How do they cultivate 1t for fuel, and in
what manner is it stored away for use?
I am o subscriber and reader of your pa
per. | live on a large and fertile black
waxy prairie, and am hauling my wood
for winter use seven miles-tourteen
miles going and coming; and cutting
load of wood during the heat of the day
is hard on man and beast. Besides, if
we do not clay in" an ample supply of
wood during the dry months, we have to
''grin and bear it, without during the
wet ones, as you can hardly pull an
empty wagon over our roads when they
are muddy. Wild sun-fowers grow on
our prairies here, and if the cultivated
sun flower will furnish fuel sufficient to
mitigate the horrors of Minnesota win
ter, it would be ample for all purposes
in our delightful climate, as our principal
use for fuel is for COOKING purposes and
only during "Nt rther" do we find it
necessary to "house up and fire up" in
our section. l hope you will answer me
fully either in your paper or privately
and tell me all you know on this sub
ject.
TAYLoRsvILLE, TEXAS. j. A. G., JR.
Ansuer. In some regions of the far
West timber is so scarce that the inhabi-
tants are obliged to use extraordinary
means sometimes for fuel. We suppose
an acre of sunfowers would furnish fuel
equal to about two cords of wood. The
seeds is sometimes used for expressing its
oil, and in this case, it might pay for its
cultivation. We should prefer to burn
sunfower stalks as fuel rather than hay,
straw, etc, and yet this latter has been
DONE We should much prefer to haul
wood seven miles Ito trusting to either
We do not think two acres of sunfowers
would go far towards keeping a family
warm through Minnesota winter.
When sunfowers are cultivated they
are planted and cultivated precisely like
corn. When ripe the seed heads are cut,
hauled, and the seed threshed out. The
stalks are cut, bundled and prepared in
to suitable lengths for burning. 1t burns
freely both as to its stalks, seed heads or
seeds, but will not be found satisfactory
when other fuel may be obtained. 1t
will burn freely either on an open fire
CRATE or in stove, but If used, would be
better burned in furnace, such as is
used by the Mennonites for straw. We
think you would have to travel far in
Minnesota to find farmer who depend
ed upon sunfowers for fuel.--Ch5cago
Prairie Farmer.
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Our Own.

II had known in the morning
How YEARLY all the day
The words unkind
Would trouble my mind.
I said when went away,
had been more careful, darling,
Nor given you needless pain:
But we vex "our own"
With tooS and tone
We may never take back again.;
For though in the quiet evening
| may give you the kiss of peace,
Yet il might be
That never for me
The pain al the heart should cease.
How many go forth in the morning
That never come at night!
And hearts have been broken,
By harsh words spoken,
That sorrow ne'er can set right.
We have careful thought for the stranger
And smile for the sometime guest,
But oft for 'our own"
The bitter tone,
Though we love our own the best.
Ali lips with curse impatient!
Ali brow with that look of seornl
'Twere a cruel fate,
Were the night to late
To undo the work of the morn.
Illustration Star.
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are rat People rleaI,hyr

Why are fat people always complaining
asks some one who entertains the popular
though erroneous notion that health is syn
onymous with fat. Fat people complain be
cause they are diseased. Obesity is an abner-
nal condition of the system, in which the sac
charine and oleaginous elements of the food
are assimilated to the partial exclusion of the
muscle-forming and brain-producing ele-
ments. In proof of this, it is only necessary
to assert the well-known facts that excessive
ly fat people are never strong, and seldom
distinguished for mental powers or activity.
Besides, they are the easy prey of acute and
epidemic diseases, and they are the frequent
victims of govt, heart disease and apoplexy.
Allan's Anti Fat is the only known remedy for
this disease. 1t contains no acid, is absoutel
harmless, and is warranted to remedy the
most confirmed case of obesity, OF corpulency
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Guide Me in the Path of Right.

Father, all Iny soul goes out
In prayer OF trust to theel
Still the longing and the doubt
Which do now abide in me.
Weak my strongest efforts are,
Vainly seek / for the light
That for me doth shine afar:
Guide me in the path of right.
Guide me, Father, lest I stray
Far from thoughts of heaven and thee
Keep me in the narrow way,
Iowe'er rough that way may be.
What care though feet may bleed,
II at last ! gain the light
Unto which the path doth lead?
Guide me in the path of right.
Father, ever be my guide!
Then, whate'er my trouble be,
Peace will still with me abide,
Clearly ! my way will see.
Be thou as q cloud by day,
As the flaming fire by night,
Ever pointing out the way
OF the Christians path Of right.
Father, how my spirit thrills
AS l speak thy hallowed namel
] can bear the myriad ills
That beset my earthly frame;
l can put the tempter's wiies
And his every snare to flight,
If the Father on me smiles,
Guiding me in paths Of right.
Eliot Hyder.
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bread, we should possess in the former a
far more perfectly adjusted food for the
ratio of fiesh-formers to heat givers is
about one to seven and half in white
bread, while it approaches one to four in
some samples, at least, of whole-meal
bread. Add to this the higher proper
ton of phosphates in the latter, and its
chemical superiority over white bread be-
comes still more marked; it flavor, too,
is far richer. Ordinarily brown bread is
a Door preparation at the best. By add
ing dish OF rather rough bran to flour
We do not obtain a satisfactory or rich
product; analysis demonstrates this fact
clearly
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Though Shaking Like an Aspen lea

Though Shaking Like an Aspen Leaf
With the chills and fever, the victim of mala
ria may still recover by using the celebrated
speeifc, Hostetter's stomach Bitteis, which
not only breaks up the most aggravated at
tacks, but prevents their recurrence. II is
infinitely preferable to quinine, not only be
cause it Goes the business far more thorough.
ly, but also on account Of its perfect whole
someness and inyigoratDg action upon the
entire system. Testimony is concurrent, DOS
tive and ample showing the decisive nature
Physicians concede S excellence, and there
is a constant influx of communications from
persons in every class of society avouching
its merits, and bearing witness to its superb
ority over other remedies for malarIal disease
1t is especially popular throughout the West
wherever fever and ague prevails, rs it does
in many of the fairest and most fertile por-
tons Of that vast region.
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A Late Garden.

In my autumn garden was fain
To mourn among my scattered roses;
Alas for that last rosebud which uncloses 9.
To autumn's languid sun and rain,
When all the world is on the wanei
Which has not felt the sweet constraint oil
June,
Nor heard the nightingale in tune.
Broad-faccd asters by my garden-walk,
Your but coarse compared with roses;
More choice, more dear than rosebud which
uncloses
Faint-scented, pinched, upon its stalk,
That least and last which cold winds balk;
A rose it is, though least and last of all,
A rose to me, though at the fall.
Christina q. RoSsetti.
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We still assert DR.. Graves HEART REGT

We still assert DR.. Graves HEART REGU
LAT0R is a great remedy for Heart Disease
and give the following proof:
My wife was troubled with water about the heart
and could get relief from airy physician She waf
also troubled with gre at certain inter
walls arising from Heat Di ease. l purchased some
of the HEART REGULATOR, aud she obtained
great relief. The the HEART REGULATION
gave her irmed relief from all sin ing OF the
spirits and she would not be without 1t at time
She would gratefully Recommend the HEART
REGULATAR 10 any one CUB Ell with the Hear
Disease and advise them try 1t safe and certain
remedy
Send your name to F. INGALLS,, Concord
n. H., for a pamphlet containing a list OF
testimonials of cures, &c.
For sale by druggists at so cents and 81 per
bottle