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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-23
The Old.FashiOned Girl.
New York Examiner.

She fiourished thirty or forty years
ago. She was little girl until she was
Is. She used to help her mother wash
the dishes and keep the kitchen tidy,
and she had an ambition to make pies
SO nicely that papa could not tell the diff
ference between them and mamma's;
and yet she could fry griddle-cakes at
10 years OF age, and darn her own stock
ings before she was II, to say nothing OF
knitting them herself.
She had her hours of play, and enjoy
ed herself to the fullest extent. She had
no very costly toys, to be sure, but her
rag doll and bureau and chair that I'm
Gle Tom made were just as valuable to
her as the 20 wax dolls and the elegant
doll furniture the children have nova
days.
She never said 81 can't and 81 don't
want to-" to her mother, when asked to
leave her play, and run up stairs or
down on an errand, because she had not
been brought up in that way. Obedi.
ence was cardinal virtue in the old
fashioned little girl.
She rose in the morning when she was
called, and went out in the garden and
saw the dew on the grass, and If she
lived in the country she fed the chick
ems and hunted up the eggs for break
fast.
We do not suppose she had her hair
in curl.papers or crimpiDg-pins, or had
it banged" over her forehead, and her
hounces were no trouble to her.
She learned how to sew by making
patchwork, and we dare say she could
do an "over-and over" seam as well as
nine-tenths of the grown-up women
nowadays.
The old-fashioned girl did not grow
into a young lady and talk about beaux
before she was in her teens, and she did
not read dime novels, and was not
fancying a hero in every plow-boy she
met.
She learned the solid accomplishments
as she grew up. She was taught the arts
OF cooking and housekeeping. When
she got husband she knew how to cook
him dinner.
She was not learned in French verbs,
or Latin declensions, and her near
neighbors were sparei the agony OF
hearing her pound out 1.-THE Maiden's
Prayer" and "Silver Threads among the
Cola" twenty times day on the piano,
but we have no doubt she made her fam
lily as comfortable as the modern young
lady does hers.
1t may be vulgar assertion, and we
suppose that we are not exactly Up With
the times. but We honestly believe, and
our opinion is based on considerable ex-
perience, and no small observation, that
when it comes to keeping family hap
10y, good cook and house-keeper is to
be greatly preferred above an accom-
plished scholar. When both sets of
qualities are found together, as they
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-23
A Wonderful Affection of a Dog

An Evansville lind. man tells good
story of dogs's affection. He found the
animal on the streets in starving con-
dition and took him home. A little
boy named Johnny was kind to him, and
won in return, the warmest affection
from his four-footed friend. Little
Johnny six months after was taken sick,
and the dog was at his bedside every
moment until the little fellow died. He
would go and put his forepaws on the
cover of the bed and look at little John
ny as much as to say. Is there any
thing / can do for your After John
ny died, and while they were dressing
him for burial, the dog would not leave
the room; though driven out at one
door, he would come in the other.
After they moved the body from the
bed on which it last laid, and had put
il in the coffin. the dog took hold ofthe
sheet and drew it across the floor and
coiled himself up in it between the cof-
fin rests under the bier. When the
hour came for the coffin to be carried
and put in the hearse the dog followed
under it, and after it was put in the
hearse he tried to jump inside. The
funeral started, and all thought the dog
would follow the carriages, but he was
seen jumping up behind the hearse
trying still to get in with the coffin. A
halt was made, and the dog was put On
ibe footboard with the driver of the
hearse. AS soon as the cemetery was
reached the faithful beast jumped down,
and came to the back ofthe hearse and
f.Ii,wad under thu coffin To the snot
where the grave was dug the last rest
ing place Of Lis little friend. As the
coffin was lowered into the grave, the
dog would look at the by-standers, and
when the loose earth was shoveled on
the coffin, howled and noaned as if he
knew that was the last of his dear
friend. When he reached home he
seemed to be anxious to be in the front
room-the place where Johnny died
and since then he has always staid at
home, faithful to the spot where he last
saw his friend.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-23
King Theebau's Family.

Some interesting information about
the late king of Burmah's family affairs
are published by an Indian paper. The
gay old monarch had, during his life
time, fifty-three recognized wives, by
whom he had forty-eight sons and sixty
two daughters, or nee little family of
one hundred and ten children, of whom
fifty-nine survived him. Of the fifty
three wives, twelve died before the king,
and of the remainder, two were impris-
oned by him on account OF their sup
posed completely in plots by their chill
dren, the Meng-Gwan and Kartha prin-
ces; and two were expelled for adultery.
Deducting those who died and these
four, the king had, at the time of his
death, thirty-seven recognized wives.
Of these thirty-sev ladies only one
was massacred by King Theebau. She
appears to have been particularly OBJ
noxious to him on account of her being
the mother of the Mekhara Prince, q
powerful rival of Theebau's. No fewer
than fourteen of this lady's children
and grandchildren we're mastered with
her. One of her grandsons had fled to
Bangoon. Thirteen of the late kings
wives quilted the palace either during
his illness or just after his death. The
remaining twenty-three wives are still
in the palace, and of that number seven
only are free, or believed to be so. The
ether sixteen are in confinement more
or less strict. Seven are known to be
in what may be called rigorous impris-
onment. Some of them are in double
irons, half starved and not permitted to
have any attendants. Out of the forty
eight sons born to the king, twenty-four
died before him, leaving twenty-four
alive at the time of his death. OF these
twenty-four fourteen are known to have
been massacred by Theebau. Four are
now alive in India, leaving only six, in
Guiding the present king, alive in Man
dalay. OF these six only one besides
the king is grown up. This one is Kya-
beng prince, who is a lunatic; and 1t is
not certain that even he has been lett
alive. The other four are boys from
ten to two years Of age. Out OF the
sixty-two daughters of the late king,
thirty-five survived him. Four of these,
all married to princes, were with their
families killed by Theebau in February
and March last; of the remainder TWEEN
ty-one are now in confinement in the
palace. nine of them being in close inn
DrisOnment
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German Women as Laborers.
German Letter in Philadolphi Time.

0tIGIdu LetttI III A-Ai~1
In Germany and Austria women Sc EN-
to do most of the farm work, and often
the heaviest part of it. They pitch the
hay upon the wagon, while the man--if
there be one of the party-receives and
stores it. / have seen many OF them plow-
g,and others with scythe or sickle, hold
ing their line with men. To sweep the
streets of great cities, to trundle over
burdened wheel-barrows or handcarts
through streets crowded with swiftgoing
droschkies, to split, savior pile fire-wood,
to serve as unskilled laborers in glass
and iron works, foundries, and machine
shops, TO carry stone, bricks, sand, and
mortar 10 masons and bricklayers working
on the upper stories of the highest bajld.
ings, will not seem to the average Ameri.
can women strictly feminine occupations.
Yet, so long as the flower of masculine
youth and the vigor Of European man.
hood are to be dedicated, as they now are,
to barracks and camps, such must con-
tinue to be the occupations of the mothers
of many future American citizens. In
Germany the plow has generally supple
mented the spade and the scythe, the sick
lie, but not until I reached Central Aus
tria did I see a cradle, and even there It's
use appeared exceptional.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-23
PUGET SOUNDS WILD BEAUTY.
Countless Islands, and the Colossal Cone
Of Tacoma.
John Muir in San Fransisco Bulletlr

John Muir in San Francisco Bulletin
Puget Sound, so Justly famous the
word over for its excellent timber, is an
arm and many fingered hand of the sea,
reaching straight down southwark from
little above the head of the Straits of
Fuca about hundred miles into the
heart of one of the finest forest regions
on the face of the globe. The scenery
is perfectly enchanting, smooth blue
lake-like water reaches, wooded shores
sweeping onward in beautiful curves
around bays and capes. and jutting
promontories innumerable. Islands,
too, with soft, waving outlines, passing
and overlapping one another, all richly
feathered with tall spiry evergreens, and
doubling their beauty in reflections on
the bright mirror waters. A more
charming composition of sky, land and
water / have never yet beheld. Sailing
from Victoria, we had the Olympian
range before us to our right, rising in
bold relief against dark blue sky, q
jagged zigzag of black crests and black
peaks along the top, from 5000 to 5000
feet high, glaciers and ragged-edged
fields of snow beneath them, the former
inclosed in wide ampitheaters at the
head which opens down through deep,
spacious, forest-filled valleys to the
Straits of Fuca.
Those valleys mark the courses of the
Olympian glaciers at the period of their
greatest extension, when they poured
their tribute into that portion of the
great Northern ice. sheet that overswept
the south end of Vancouver's Island and
filled the strait between it and the main
land. All the way up to Olympia, a
hopeful title town situated on the end
of one of the longest waters of the sound,
the scenery is so perfectly life-like in
the clearness and stiffness of the water
and the leafy, howery luxuriance of the
sheltered shores, that it is very hard in
deed to realize that we are on arm of
the salt sea. One is constantly remind
ed Of Lake Tahoe-the same bright wa
ter, the same picturesque winding of
the shore lines with their dark green
confines; only here the trees stand clos
er together, and the backgrounds are
lower and far more extensive, while on
doubling cape after cape and rounding
the uncounted islands that stud the
shores, new combinations break on the
view in endless variety, sufficient to fill
and satisfy the lover of wild beauty
through whole life. Sometimes the
clouds come down, shutting out all the
land, and leaving us with only level
water view, as if at sea; then, lifting q
| little way, some islet would be given US
standing alone. with the tops of its trees
dipping out OF sight in gray trailing mist
fringes. Then the long ranks OF spruce
and cedar bounding the waters edge
would appear, and when at length the
breaking cloud-mantle cleared away al
together, the colossal cone of Tacoma
would be seen in spotless white looking
down over the dark wood from DIS
lance of fifty or sixty miles. but SO lof-
ty and SO massive and so clearly out
lined as to impress itself upon us as be-
ing just back of strip of woods only
mile or two in breadth.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-23
UNA AND THE LION.

No matter when it may have been,
or wears ago. or but yestre'n,
Vines life was IN its golden spring
or when Its leaves were whitening.
There lived man Il knew him then
No matter where, no matter when.
He was as fair and frank and free
any human soul could be.
For every wrong he made amends;
forgave all foes, improved all friends:
ana loved all women meath the sun.
Yet never gave his heart 10 one.
THUS had he grown to manhood's prime;
and then he met. one fair Sprins-time,
When snOwdiOps grew a hundred deep,
And viOlets just began 10 peep.
AS sweet a little maid as you
Or /, or anyone, e'eF knew.
(0h. If 1 could but paint Unsteady
Her lips were roses cherry red.
Her peerless brow was lily white;
Her eyellds were the edge OF night:
Her eyes were moonlight and their beam
Filled you with loves enchanted dream.
He did not fall in love like men,
" DO first tall in. then out again;
He grew TO love her day by day
Daily she stole some heart away,
And when he'd lost quite half his heart
He offered her the other part.
He said, &" thought. some time ago,
VI strength could match with any foe,
But thou hast caught me in a net
From which cannot free me yet"
(indced, II seemed he did prefer
Being caught, for he went nearer herr
Nay, hear me, ere thou Speak again,
A siiken cord shall join Us twain;
AFOUnd my life one end shall be,
The other shall be held BY thee,
Here, at thy feet, yanquished lie,
Fair ina thou, though Lion l..
And somehow, how, they never knew
-Four lips were In the place of two.
And loving arms tthe silken cords)
We're far more eloquent than words.
There let US lesve tnem-hOppy then,
10 mater where, no matter when.
The ATgoSy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-23
THE RAVEN0US EAGLE.
An Enormous Eagle at Beaver Bay
Lake County, Mimi, Attempts to Car
ry off Child 1.2 Years of Age, but
after Terrible Battle is Captured
and Killed.
Duluth Tribune.

after Terrible Battle Is captured
and Killed.
Duluth Tribune.
We are in receipt of letter from G
Wieland, Esq, auditor of Lake county,
dated the Sd inst, of which the fol-
lowing is the substance:
Yesterday afternoon, while little Au-
gust Burr, aged years, was playing
with his sisters-one five years old and
the other three and half-near by his
fathers house, an enormous eagle
bounced down upon them, throwing
the two girls to the ground. 1t imme-
diately attacked the younger one, grasn-
ing one of the chitd's arms with the
claws of one foot, while the claws of the
other foot were deeply buried in the
child's face; and it attempted to carry
the child off, but was prevented by its
struggles. Little August, seeing that he
could do nothing with his own hands to
help his sister, ran quickly into the
house, got the butcher-knife and came
OUT and whacked away at the eagles
legs, cutting one of them severely near
the foot, whereapon the savage bird let
go of the little girl and attacked the
boy, knocking him over, tearing his
pants and giving him some severe
scratches. In the meantime, the
screams of the children brought out
their mother, whereupon the eagle flew
off to the barn, on which he sat and
looked as though he would like to re-
new the contest should a favorable OPP
portunity offer itself; but he stayed
there little too long for his own good,
as Joe Betzler, a neighbor, was called,
who took down his gun and shot this
great emblem of American freedom, =
and his eagleship, when killed, was
found to measure seven feet from wing
tip 10 wing-tipl
The little girl who had this remarka-
bic encounter is very badly scratched,
but not seriously hurt
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-23

A lawyer and doctor were discuss
ing the antiquity of their respective pro-
fessions. and each cited authority to
prove his the most ancient. mime,
said the disciple of Lycurgus, com
nenced almost with the worlds era.
Cain slew his brother Abel, and that was
a criminal case in law" True re-
Joined Esculapius. ''but my profession is
ccsval with the creation itself. Old
mother Eve vas made out of q rib tax
en- from Adams body. and that was a
surgical operation The lawyer
dropped lis green bag.
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CONSUMPTION Cured.

An old physician, retired from practice, having
nad placed Ia his hands by an East India mss
sionary the formula of simple vegetable
remedy, for the speedy and permanent cure FOR
consumption. bronchitis eatarTah, asthma, SAD
all throat and lung affections, also a positive
and radical cure for nervous debility and SUI
nervous complaints, after having tested its won
derful curative powers In thousands of cases.
has felt his duty to make it knswn to his suf-
feFing fellows. Actuated by this motive an6 q
desire to relieve human suffering, will sead.
fec Of charge, TO all who desire 1t, this recipe.
with fail directions for preparing and using, ia
Germsc, French, or English. Send by mail by
addressing with stamp, naming this paper, ".
w. Sherar, l4s Powers Block, Rochester, N. Y
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Winter Butter.

Let farmer divide his white winter butter into
two lots, while yet IN the form OF cream and for
one make use Of Perfected Butter Color, made w
Wells Richardson g. Co., Burlington, VT, Whit
the other goes to arket without color and he WI n
discover on what course his interest depends Tb 5
Tor gives the fine. rich, golden yellow OF flfs
quality June butter, and is not tnged with tee
dull red tint. objected TO in most butter colors.
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Rose TERRY Cooke says -" 1t is NOT
the poetry, the splendid images, the
lofty moral tone of the Scriptures that
make it two-edged sword, but its ltg.
ing truth, and it's practical application.
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Resnlate the Seeretions.

In our eudeavors TO preserve health IL Is OF TIE
utmost importance that we keep the secTetory 81 y
TEN in perfect condition. The well known remedy
Kidney Wort has specific action pom the kidney $,
liver and bowels Use II instead OF dosing w th
vile bitters drastic pills II is purely vegetable
and is prompt but mild in action.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-23

SAID disconsolate widower, in the
first flower, of his grief, while speaking
of his departed spouse, They can't say
but what KEEP her well; she was as Eat
as a hog when she died ''
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Piles! Piles! Piles 7

Do you know what 10 is to suffer with Piles9 II
you do, you know what Is one OF the worst tog-
ments OF the human frame, The most perfect cur Q
ever knownis Kidney Wort. IL cures cOnstipA
tior, and then its tonic action restores health 10
the diseased bowels. and prevents recurrence OF
the disease. Try 1t without delay.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-23

Poetry teaches the enormous force ol
a few words, and in proportion to the
inspiration, checks loquacity. Great
thoughts ensure musical expressions.
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. 1t is not the magnitude Of the sphere
in which we live, but the patience and
fidelity with which We work in It, that
orr reason will honor.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-23

Piso's Cure for Consumption is war
ranted. 1t fails to suit about one in
ten thousand.
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A person that feels that he has no
character to lose, is very free with his
tongue. A wise man thinks before he
speaks, for we'll be knows his words
have weight.
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The facts of hard listed men cannot
be overcome by maxine IN attack on
his grammar, says the New Orleans
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In science to believe in liberty is TO
believe in the human reason; in politics
TO believe in liberty is to believe in an
ethical order of the world; in religion
to believe in liberty is to believe in Geo.
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/ think the frss virtue is to restrain
tho tongue, lie approaches nearest to
Tho gods who knows how to be silent,
sven though ne il in the right Cuto.
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JAMES
WIN
OF
HOPS
Only $500 per at. Bottle, or six for S..
JAMES MEDICAL INSTITUTE,
2Oi Washington ST.. CHICAGO, I'LL.

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DIR JAMES viii give his opinion Ia all critical
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NEVER defer until tomorrow whist
should be attended to to-day. A slight
cough ought never to be neglected
when 25 cent bottle of DIR. Bull'a
Cough Syrup will prevent it from be-
coming chronic.
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To enumerate the miraculous cures
wrought by "Dr. Sellers Cough Syrup"
would I'll a volame. Its cures are
marvellous. Price 25 cents.
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The Recent

for Gilt Edge Butter-Maker was obtained from
one of the most extensive dairy farmers of Ire
land, noted for the excellent and superior keep.
ing qualities Of his butter. which was eagerly
purchased by London dealers for export to India,
where the warm climate puts butter to q very
severe test II has been thoroughly tried by 4
large number OF the very best butter makers tn
this countiy, and theyhave given It their emphst-
ic approval Price 25 cents per package. sod
by all store-keepers.
COLLINS, ". =, Feb 1911, 1879.
Gentlemen We churhed one gallon of cream
to-day at atcmperature of Sc deg, using your
Gilt Edge Butter Maker. Time Of churning, Is
minutes result, Il pounds of butter. Color.
good. AS we have not previously weighed our
butter. Of course we cannot tell whether there ls
a better per cent. or not, but appearances indi-
cats it, and the qnality is at least two cents per
pound better Yours, &C..
III. E. WILBUR, Prop'r OF Collins Creamery,
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PENSIONS II; I; !; ;:: 49,: 4: 1:
Of Janusy 1879, begin back a date Of discharge death
he soldier Al entitled should apply 81 Thousands
who drawing pensions entitled 70 Increase. Sol
a. u he Of 1872 ard Mexican entitled
50 pensiou Fees Ia al Gully t0. Bounty yst dus 70
Sample copy CuzKs soLDEa free, send iyo stamps
hrurg lssf naHkl, aud inslfactohst 70
Col. n. ~. FuzerRALD, U. S. Claim Atty
Box ss8, Washington, ID. c.
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of the scattered fire, when suddenly
stopping his swift and silent advance,
Marston caught my arm and hurriedly
told me to reload MY rifle, at the same
time testing the captured weapons,
which he found already charged | was
eager to get as great distance from our
enemies as possible, and so told Marston;
but he soon convinced me that that
would only bring on the destruction /
would escape. "Fol said he eff them
ar redskins diskiver that they arn't
chased, they won't run fur; an the
chances ar they'd raise our har afore
we'd been asleep an hour of our first
biyouac."
In ordar to ascertain il the Indians
had really left us, and. if not, to wipe
shem out as soon As possible, it was fin
ally determined that should return to
the ambush whence I had fred on them,
and watch the opposite side of the val
ley for their return, whilst my compan-
ion would silently creep around to the
rear of the thicketoppo whereln the
sasages had disappeared. At sCnrise
We were To meet IS the old bluff and
compare notes. As soon IS this arrange
mint had been agreed upon, Mafston
disappeared noiselessly into the dark
ness. and falling on NY hands and knees,
cautiously relraeed my steps 10 the
old camp, and having securely hidden
n1vself from any outside observation Ia
the thick cedarss paered through i
tangled bush III ny front for signs Of
lIFe on the opposite bank.