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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-16
A Valley of Roses

The maritime value of Santa Bar
bara, for sixty miles facing the Pacific
Ocean, is considered the most attract
tive in California. The soil is extra
deep, dark alluvium. BY the format-
ion of the coast it is sheltered from the
rude trade winds, elsewhere so UNI
pleasant on our shores. San Francis
co being in north latitude 373 degrees,
Santa Barbara is 343 degrees north-3
degrees southwardly. Here flourish in
luxuriance the fig tree and the olive,
the prune and the almond, the orange
and tie lennon, the nectarine and the
pomegranate. Here grows Alfalfa Glow
er, giving three cuttings year and
pasture through the winter. Here
flowers bloom perennial. Here only
is paradise of roses and other fragr-
ant flowers cultivated for commercial
perfumery. Here the bee pastures all
the year, the hivers gather honey every
dav, and abstaining themselves, they
give to man nearly their whole product
ion. Only in stress of stormy weather
they draw upon their boarded
crate from this elysium. Mans dwell
ing is euIivened by the chirp of birds,
and their music gives perpetual cheer,
unchecked by winter frosts. Happy,
thrice blessed, are they whose lot is
cast when happiness is so slightly wooed
and won Here in mid December the
company's rose-gardens are sight to
charm the eye, when, day by day,
children gather ever-blooming flowers
for extraction of perfume for the toilet.
At Kezanlik, in the foothills of the
Balkan range, in Roumelia, South
Turkey, north latitude 42l degrees, is a
valley devoted to rose culture exclu-
sively for like purposes, but there the
sale Of nose-gays to many villages Is
extremely profitable. There, as here
the hair and clothes of all who work
among the roses retain the perfume for
a week of absence from the valley.
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How People Walk.
Boston Transcript.

1t is curious to mark what different
ways OF walking men and women have.
Some lift their feet with a lightness
that is joyous to see; some shuttle
along as if their heels were made Of
lead, and others stride over the ground
like nerveless automata. There is a
decided character in the place as well
as in the face. A good walker is a
pleasant thing to behold; like a good
rider the carrying part and the carried
are at ore with each other, and head,
body, legs and feet are in perfect SYM
pathy. Too little attention is paid to
the requirement of a good gait, and
the young of both sexes are suffered in
this important matter, as in others, to
"gang their ain gait" which too often
brings them to awkwardness and grief.
There comes good walker His
step is light and springy, although ne
may be grandfather, judging from
''crows feet about his eyes. His is
no totering motion, and might serve
as model to that young man who
"laDors" like ship in a heavy sea.
He ought to be better walker than he
is for he has the right build" but he
has acquired the uncouth habit OF max
ing his hips try to do the work of heel
and toe.
See that shuffie In quiet street
or in a hall his feet would make hor-
rible din, as if trying to scour what
they trod upon. He is 'down at the
heel" as nearly all his species are, al
though he is well dressed and evidently
well bred.
The Falstaff figure rolling toward us
cannot help trolling" SO we let him
pass with but pitiful glance. Such
''heavy weights" can never be graceful
in any way.
Pray do not criticise the "gentler
sex"-they ought to be graceful walkers,
but they aViH wear high and tapering
heels 20 their foot gear, thereby ruin
ing both their gait and health, and we
avert our eyes, with sight for their
persistent folly.
Sir John Sucking would never have
written his pretty lines about women's
feet if he had lived nowadays; and the
modern poets wisely eschew the sub
ject. Men do not like to see women on
miniature stiltsl They should walk the
earth as God and nature wisely order
ed, and not in the hammels of a
fashion as ridiculous as it is pernici-
GUS!
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MEN AND DOGS.
How the intelligent COllies 60 in
search of the stray sheep,


Colorado Letter of Dio Lewis.
The best of these sheppard dogs are
worth 5000, or even more. One herder
whom we met at Cold Spring ranch,
showed us very pretty one that he
said he would sell for $500. She had
at that time four young puppies. The
night we arrived We visited his camp
and were greatly Interested in the little
mother and her nursing babies. Amid
those wild, vast mountains this little
nest of motherly devotion and baby
trust was very beautiful. While we
were exclaiming, the assistant herder
came to say that there was more than
twenty sheep missing. Two male dogs,
bo.h larger than the little mothor. were
standing about, with their hands in
their breeches, doing nothing. But the
herder said neither Tom nor Dick would
find them. Flora must go. 1t was
urged by the assistants that her foot
was sore, she had been hard at work
all day, was nearly worn out, and must
suckle her puppies. The boss insisted
that she must go. The sun was setting.
There was no time TO lose. Flora was
called, and told to find the lost sheep,
while her master pointed to a great
forest, through the edge of which they
had passed on their way up. She
raised hel head but seemed very 10th
to leave her babies. The boss called
sharply to her. she rose, looking tired
and low spirited, with head and tail
down, and trotted off toward the forest.
I said:
''That is too bad"
"Oh, she'll be right back. She's light
ming on stray sheep"
The next morning | went over to
learn whether Flora found the strays.
While we were speaking the sheep
were returning, driven by the little
dog who did not raise her head or wag
her tail even when spoken to, but
crawled to her puppies and lay down
by them, offering the little empty
breasts. She had been out all night,
and, while her hungry babies were
Juggling away, fell asleep. have never
seen anything so touching. So far as
l was concerned "there was not dry
eye in the house"
How often that scene comes back to
me-the vast, gloomy forest, and that
little creature, with her sore foot and
her heart crying for her babies, limp
ing and creeping about in the wild
cannons all through the long, dark
hours, finding .and gathering in the
lost sheep.
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Time Testers and Burden Bearers

From time immemorial the horse has been
mans best friend, But a few years back we can
all remember the comparatively little attention
paid to this most Indispensable of animals. We
say comparatively little attention, for the horse
was well groomed, and cerlainlyas wen fed, as
now andat those great gathcrings-agr
snows-you would see the pride of the county
and state stables and farms assembled. But
there was a conspicuous want of noble draught
horses, and as for speeders-wcll, $40 was the
great ultimate limit that owners in those days
desired TO strive for, But now 2sa0 animal Is
quarterof the third minute. There have been linz
mense strides forward in the right development OF
as shown by the time-records of the racers and
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a TOMBOY.


She comes, she comes with song and glee
Shs leads her train Ger lawn and lea
And fair and free her wind-blown tress,
Her fieeey scarf her careless dress,
Her sweet girl voice, that bird-like sings,
Her merry laugh, that tireess rings
High Ger those booming sounds of sport
All hail. wild queen of madcap court
No daisy chain viii this gay girl
Nor weave 10 deck her dancing curl;
Ee' wreath entvine of bud or bell,
Though both, she wots, become her WE'LL
Not her to guess Of joy or grief
But coming of holy leaf
She tents not fortunes smile or frown
BY puffs Of dandelion down;
No necklace frames Of rowan gems,
Nor fragrant flower-wrought diademsi
No poet she to doze and dream
Long, lazy hours by haunted stream.
If small the brook, she'll head her train
And leap it DER and back again;
Or if her boys viii but away
She'll wade it. maybe-I can't say,
Her bOys-all boys-arOCnd her press
For love Of her sweet winsoneness,
And dogs that bark for very glee-
A harum scarum company!
She's O. yshe lea, she's won the wood,
This dainty bud Of wOnanhoodl
Those joyous pealst trOw, bespeak
The gay. glad mrth of hide and seek,
As hazel dell and brackened glade
Her graceless band in turns invade;
Little she reeks OF rents or shreds,
But boldly breasts the bramble beds
IT'S she has bsde them rig the swing,
And wood for fires unhallOwed bring;
IT'S she the torch illicit waves,
And leads her troops through nurky caves
It's she hath crossed the pine trunk thin,
That, rocking, bridges yon dark linn
With Joyous cheer and wild halo
Hounds on her hest to derring do,
IT'S she has taught those nimble feet
To scatter wide the windows sweet;
On fragrant hay ricks led the foe,
And long hours work at once laid low;
Yet Farmer Swan who from the stile
Had watched it all ne'er ceased to smile
- God bless her purity face She be
A regular TOmbOy, sartinlee !"
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passed under my care, yet no servant,
nurse, porter or other person engaged
there has, after re-vaccination, ever
taken it, though exposed daily to infec-
ton in its most concentrated form.
One woman laundress, wno escaped
vaccination, took the disease and died;
one nurse, who some years before had
suffered from smallpox, and was con-
sidered protected, had a very mild at
tack; and this summer workman who
did not live on the premises, but came
In to work as q painter, was not vac
cinated, and had rather severe attack,
and still more recently a servant who,
by an oversight, was allowed to go about
her work three days before being vac
cinated, had, before the latter had run
its course, slight abortive attack.
Again, among all the students who, dur
ing the past two years, have attended
the hospital for clinical instruction, not
one has suffered, all having been re-yac-
cinated before being permitted to enter
the smallpox wards. And in their
case the false arguments which OPP
ponents of vaccination have brought
forward to explain the immunity en-
JOyCu Dy nurses anu OlD6rS III dJJ6nU-
ance on the sick, viz, that constant in
tercourse and exposure to infection
renders them proof against it by the
system becoming Injured to the poison,
cannot be applied, as these gentlemen
attend the hospital only few hours
once week. j defy the most enthusi-
astic or conscientious of anti vaccinat-
ors to produce evidence like this on his
side of the question, or to bring for
ward even half dozen persons, choose
them whence he may, who have not
been protected against smallpox, and
expose them as the students are ex
posed, without more or less of the num-
Der taking the disease. Facts such as
these should convert the most ardent
anti-vaccinator from his folly, and con-
vince him that a weapon of defense so
powerful as vaccination should not be
left to the pleasure of the individual,
but that the State has the right and duty
to look after its most thorough peform-
ance.
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MRS. THUMBS BABY.
Something of the Life and Death of
the Celebrated Child The Generals
Title

Title.
''Mrs. General Tom Thumbs baby
was one of the prettiest little girls |
have ever SEEM" said Mr.. Blocker, the
gentleman who has travelled with Gen
eral Tom Thumb and wife for nearly
twenty years. at was perfect picture
of Minnie Warner, Mrs. Thumbs sister,
and everybody knows how beautiful
she was. Lavinia Warner was mar
ried to Charles S. Stratton General
Tom Thumb), in 1868, the ceremony
being performed in Grace church, New
York, in the presence of 5000 people.
The baby was born a year after, and
the event was heralded all over the
world. The child was like other chill
dren in size, but was prettier than the
average, and was healthy and bright.
Mrs. Thumb idolized her baby, and
when death took it from her the blow
was almost more than she could bear.
The little girl lived to be two years and
eight months old, and died of gastric
fever in Norwich, England She was
made great pet by the English ladies,
who were in the habit of giving her
sweet meats and candies, and think
this was one of the causes that led to
little Minnie's DEATH"
$50 many people accuse the general
of intemperance," said the reporter,
"that a statement from you would be of
interest"
"Well, sir" said Mr.. Blocker, very
earnestly, nothing can be more I'M
true. The general is one of the most
temperate men l know. He seldom
drinks anything at all, and has never
been intoxicated. He has been in the
habit of smoking since he was seven
years old. but within the last five weeks
has even stopped that. BY the advice
of physicians he learned to play bill
lizards for exercise, and has become a
skillful player though he can hardly
see the top of the table"
"His title of general he takes consid-
cradle pride in, does he not?" was ask
ed.
He certainly does, said Mr.. Bleek
er, land he has right to. 1t was con-
ferred on him by Queen Victoria, in
the presence of the duke of Wellington
and other distinguished people, and he
is by legal right entitled to it.
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Vaccination

DIR. Henry Tomkins, Medical Super
intendent of the fever hospital belong
ing to the Manchester Royal Infirmary
at Monsall, Eng, in a paper which he
read recently at Owens College, said:
1.-THE most striking of all evidence is,
perhaps, that derived from the small
pox hospitals themselves. Here the
protective influence of vaccination is
seen and proved in q manner beyond
cavil. At Highgate, during an expert
ence of forty years, no nurse orservant,
having been re-vaccinated, has ever
contracted the disease, and evidence OF
the same character / can myself bring
forward, for during the whole time that
have had charge of the fever hospital
more than ], 900 cases of smallpox have
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-16
A Husbands Love.
From the Boomerang.

It is easy enough to win a husband.
Most any attractive little dumping
with a bright eye and coaxing voice
can gather in noble husband, but 1T is
pretty difficult to retain him. Noble
husbands are thicker than hair on dog
but the grand difficulty is to draw out
their nobility and secure it at home.
IF the wife only understands her
business she can introduce the soothing
racket in her new field of operations
and walk away with the whole business.
Most men liked to be loved and sooth-
ed. There is something in the mans
great, rough, earnest nature that can
be won quicker and easier with gentle
ness and pity than by the logic of the
broom-handle and bilious course OF
reasoning with bread and milk diet.
We have seen girl who understood
her business take reformed road
agent by the nose SO to speak, and lead
him through life in such way that he
wouldn't know but that he was boss OF
the ranch SO perfect was the delusion,
that when she asked him to bring in a
scuttle of coal, or get up in his night
shirt and kill a burglar, that he knew
was nothing but a bob-tailed COW four
blocks away, he always went, and he
felt as though he counted it a mark OF
special favor that poor unworthy
worm of the dust like him should be
sought out and delegated to go and
chase lame COW across nine vacant
lots with an old barrel stave, and cloth
ed in nothing but little brief authority
and night shirt.
We cannot exactly describe this
magic power of devoted wife over hei
husband, and we do not intend to try
it. 1t is an unseen motive, nameless
leverage that makes the husband gel
up in the dead hour of the night anc
set the pancake batter near the parlol
stove.
A man need not think that because
he gets up and looks for burglars in iht
night and is otherwise obedient, that !
is because he has no backbone.
1t is simply because he is the hus
band of woman of whom he ought t
be proud.
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MENsMAS PEPToNIzEp BEEF ToNIc, the only
preparation of beef containing its entire nutritious
properties. 1t is not a mere stimulant like the
extracts of beef but contains blood making force
generating and e-sustaining properties; invalu-
able for INDIe EsTIoN, DYSPEPSIA, nervous pros
traton and all forms of general debility: also, in
all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of ex
haustion, nervous prostra.on, ov.r-work, or acute
disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary
complaints Caswell, Hazard & Co., Propretors,
New York. Sold by druggists.
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zen. Logan

of Illinois, U. S. Senator says Of Durangs Rheu-
ma ic Remedy II am thoroughly satisfied
have been cured by its use and do not hesitate to
recommend it, John Cessna, ex-member of
congress from Pennsylvania, writes: II took
three doses Of Durangs Remedy and my rheuma-
tism was gone" Mrs. Gen. Sherman says: Il
have frequently purchased Durangs Rheumatic
Remedy for friends suffering with rheu matisin
and in every instance it works like magic" Sold
at all drug stores. Send for free pamphlet to X.
K Helpensi inc, Washington, d. G.
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An Enthusiastic Endorsement.
GoRuAM. n. H.. july "A. 1873

GoRHAM, n. H., July IL, 1879.
GENTs-W Whoever you are, d MT know; but
thank the Lord and feel grateful to you to know
that in this world of adulterated medicines there
is one compound that proves and does all it adj
vertises to do, and more. -Four years ago Ishad
slight shock of palsy, which unnerved me to such
an extent that the least excitement would make
me shake like the ague. Last May was induced
TO try Hop Bittcrs. | used one bottle, but did
not see any change; another did so change my
nerves that they are now as steady as they ever
were 1t used to take both hands to write, but
now my good right hand writes this. Now, if
you continue to manufacture as honest and good
an article as you do, you viii accumulate an
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on your fellow men that was ever conferred on
mankind TIM BuRcH.
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TWENTY YEARS A sUFFERER.

r. " PIERCE, NJ. D.. Buffalo, N. Y: Dear
Sii-Twenty years ago l was shipwrecked on me
Atlantic Ocean, and the cold and exposure caused
large abscess to form on each leg. which kept
continually discharging. After spending hun
dreds Of dollars, with no benefit, l .ried your
Golden Medical Discovery" and now, in less
than three months after taking the first bottle, l
am thankful co say am completely cured. and
for the first time in ten years can put my left heel
to the ground. / am yours,
WILLIAM RYDER,
81 Jefferson St.. Buffalo, n. Y.
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Touching timidity: Jones is timid
man. He lives out OF town, and out of
town he has remained for month.
Every morning he starts for the train,
gets nearly as far as the railroad, sees
the red flag at the station and returns
homeward, wondering how much long,
er that case of small pox is to keep
him away from the depot.-Bostoz Tran
script.
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you have it?'' said she, as she advanced
with trembling steps toward him.
Eyes, must" said the robber, extend
ing his hand. "Wen, then, take it,
said she, gently pressing the trigger for
the last time. There was loud re
port, and the robber tumbled over
dead. The community ought to pen
sion that Mnnnan
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F.om the German Lady-"M Marie, GO
and see if the butcher calves feet has.
Marie, back coming Madame, i know
not. | have them not see could.
Lady-"What?" Marie-"If he calves
feet has, he has boots on"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-16

What do you think of my article on
the political situationl" inquired Fen
derson. Everybody ! have heard
speak of it," replied Fogg, "praises it
very highly" @Do they?" said Fender
son. "Whom have you heard speak OF
it?" Nobody but yourself" said Fogg,
carelessly. Henderson gays he has
learned one thing-namely, when be
gets a compliment again he shall be
satisfied to take it as it is given. Here
after he shall not ask for bill Of par
ticulars .-Baston Transcript.
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Thousands of women bless the day on which
DR.. Perce's Fayorite Prescription was made
known to them. In all those arrangements caus-
ing backache, sragging-down sensations, nervous
and general debility, it is sovereign remedy. Its
soothing and healing properties render it of the
utmost value to ladies suffering from " internal
fever" congestion, inflammation, or liberation
By drugr .sts
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For his future, / will provide. The
past is buried-we will not resurrect it.
Oh, my love-my white, unstained love
God has indeed been good, that He
has given YOU back to me-"
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els it true" she writes, "that all the
funny men are sad?" Heaven bless
you, Annie, no; they are not. But the
people who read their funny pieces,
Annie, they are sad. All, yes; theirs is
the sorrow that Knocks at sympathy
BurdeHe
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Strike.

New ORLEANS, Feb. 9.-The cotton
rollers are on strike, demanding the
discharge of all employees not mem
bers OF the ASSOCIATION. Business in
the cotton presses is at a stand-stiIl.
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The original Little Liver Pills are Dir. Pier
ces' Pleasant Purgati,e Pellets" and are extern
sively initiated. They cure sick and bilious head
ache. Private Government stamp with DR.. Pierce s
signature and portrait mark the genuine. By
druggists
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Rescned from Death.

William J. Coughlin of Somervlle, Mass, says:
In the fall of 1875 / was taken with violent
bleeding of the lungs, followed by severe cough.
/ was admitted to the City Hospital The doctors
said / had hole in my left lung. ! gave up
hope bat a friend told me of DIR. VIM. Halls Bal
sam for the Lungs l got a bottle. to my sur
prise commenced to feel better, and to-day |
feel in better spirits than ! have the past three
years l hope tAat every one afflicted with dis
eased lungs viii take DIR. VIM. Hals Balsam. and be
onv inced that Consumption can be cured"
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This wishbone of the turkey is called
the merry thought. The luscious bit
farthest from his beak is probaly an af-
ter-thoupht
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q Mhat do uol1 think al n1v article

R.R. BEARDsLEE, Druggist Of Odessa, Mo-
:: have handled Piso's Cure for years, and am
never afraid 20 recommend it,"
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In selecting bucks endeavor to pro-
cure one from hardy breed rather
than for size. Cost of keep, care and
management are important items.
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A prize of $50 was given to Rhode
Island boy for raising the best crop Of
corn in a competition-1S bushels to
one eighth of an acre.
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A DEED signed by Theodore Tilton end
Elizabeth NJ. Tilton, transferring their
home in Brooklyn to Franklin Woodruff
for Sl5. 800, was fled the other day. The
famous couple did not meet.