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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-06-07
Funny FanCfes.

A Washington paper says Dorsey is a
kind man. If so, some other kind of a
man is preferable.
SAYS Kansas editor: "The value OF
the attack upon us by the Dead Horse
Clarion may be'gauged by the fact that the
editor printed it in consideration OF re-
ceiving fifty cents"
We learn from the Lowell Citizen that
"a New Brunswick temperance man
has discovered the cause of Lucifer's
fall frem heaven. Rum did it" This
discovery that they have rum in heaven
is likely to increase the efforts of good
many people to get there.-Boston Post.
A Wilmington Del) man went home
the other night and found his house
locked up. After infinite trouble. he
managed to gain entrance through q
back window, and then disco vered on
the larlor table note from his wife,
reading: Il have gone out; you VIII
find the key on the side of the STEP"
Johnny, want you to run over to
the grocery on the corner and get me
can of condensed milk" "r don't want
to 90 now, mamma" "Why don't you
want to 20 now, Johnny" Because
want to wait until the grocery man g
wife goes to church. Then her husband
will be in charge Of the store, and he
will give me stick Of candy and she
never does."-Texa5 Siftjngs.
Another very funny story has just
been told me- A well-known artist who
has been cultivating long hair in these
short-hair DAYS, went to his barber the
locks trimmed little. The barber went
into a long-winded Butler harangue
over his work. The artist getting tired
at last cried out: "Oh. cut it short; cut
il short" The barber implied this inn
perative ejaculation to his work III hand,
and not to his word of mouth, and the
artist rose from that chair shorn of his
treasured locks, sadder and wiser
man.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-06-07
SunShiny Husbands.

We read so much about the obligation
laid upon the wife to be perpetual
sunbeam in the house that word to
husbands on the same topic may not be
amiss.
A cheerful atmosphere is important TO
happy home life. 1t is very hard for
children to be good, when they are ex-
posed to an incessant hail storm of fault
finding from their parents. 1t is very
difficult for wife to maintain calm
and charming sweet demeanor when
her husband is critical, cynical, or sui
len, and takes all her tender efforts with
indifferent appreciation.
| know full well the air of polite
amazelnent or amiable incredulity, with
which men receive the statement of a
woman's opinion that, in the home part
nershIp, wife and not husband pulls the
laboring oar. Still it is true that, let a
mans business be ever 80 engrossing,
ever so weqrlsome, ever so laborious,
the mere fact that he goes to it in the
morning, and returns from it at night,
sets him above his wife in ease and COM
fort. From him the slavery of routine
has its intervals and its breaks. He gets
a breath of the world outside; he has
change of scene daily; ne sees people
and hears them tall, and his home is
distinctly his refuge and shelter.
Let wife and mother love her home
and her children with the most abso-
lutte, answering devotion, and serve
them with the most unselfish fidelity,
there are, nevertheless, times when she
is very weary.
She knows, better than any one else,
the steps and the stitches, the same
things done over and over and the pet
tiness of the trials that come to the nur-
sery and kitchen. They are so insight
ficant that she is ashamed to talk about
them, and | fear she sometimes forgets
to tell her Savior how hard they press
her, and so, bearing her cross all alone,
lis weight becomes crushing.
A sunshiny husband makes a merry,
beautiful home, worth having, worth
working in and for. If the man is bree-
zy, CHEEKY considerate, and sympa-
thetic, his wife sings in her heart over her
buildings and her mending- basket
counts the hours till he returns at night,
and renews her youth in the security
she feels of his appreciation and admir-
alton
You may think 1t weak or childish if
you please, but it is the admired wife.
the wife who hears words of praise and
receives SUlIIeS Vi COIumSuutIIOIi WHO
is capable, discreet, and executive. /
have seen a tiniid, meek, elf-dist rust
ing little body fairly bloom into strong,
selfre liant womanhood, under the tom
&c and the cordial companionship with
a husband who really went out of his
way to find occasions for showing her
how fully he trusted her judgment, and
how tenderly hsdeferred to her opinion.
In home life there should be no Jar.
no striving for place, no insisting on pre-
negatives, or division of interests. The
husband and wife are each the compile
ment of the other. And it is just as
much his duty to be cheerful, as il is
hers to be patient; his right to bring joy
garnish the pleasant interior. A family
where the daily walk ofthe father makes
life a festival is filled with something
like q heavenly henedictioH.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-06-07
Boiling Ham.

1t is considered by some excellent
authorities in cooking to be a great i'm
provement on the ordinary manner of
boiling ham if it is soaked in cold water
over night. In the morning wipe it off
If there are any rusty or dicolored spots
scrape them off. The ham should be
boiled very slowly. On this depends
the sweetness and flakiness of the lean
ham. Some whole cloves and bou-
quet of herbs may be added to the boil
ing water with good effect. When the
ham is done, set the kettle off the fire,
and let the ham remain in the water UNI
til it is cold. 1t will absorb great deal
of the juices that have boiled ont. Then
lay it in large dripping pan. and spread
a mixture, made after the following di-
rections. over the ham: Take half a
cupful of brown sugar, teaspoonful of
Drowned flour; moislen it with little
sweet cream, or if your conscience will
allow it. with port wine. Then set the
pan in the oven, and let the ham brown.
When cold, cut it in very thin slices.
and the flavor will be delicious.
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The Root of the Matter.

The root of the wild excuses of FASH
onable folly, deepening into actual
crime, is the view of women which men
generally adopt and which women gen.
orally accept. 1t lies in the refusa 10
recognize in women the same liberty of
choice in the conduct of life which men
demand and maintain for themselves. 1t
lies in the distrust of those laws OF ma
ture in regard to women which are i'm
plicitly trusted in regard to men to de-
eide for women what is becoming in
women. Men perpetually talk of the
sphere of women, as if women did not
know their own sphere quite as well as
men know theirs, and men argue about
the occupations and education of wom-
en-, as if women were not as competent
10 choose for themselves as men for
themselves. But if men are to decide
what is truly womanly, and direct the
actions and studies of women, practical
ly denying them the freedom of choice
which men will fight to the death to Sc
cure for themselves, the consequences
are inevitable. Not more surely will he
that sows the wind reap the whirlwind
than he who imposes upon society to-
day the medieval estimate of woman re-
prJduce medieval morals and manners
-Harper's Magazine.
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FIELD AND FARM.
Agricultural Items.

To raise good cabbage requires good
seed. good soil. plenty of manure, and
as most important, hoed every Monday
morning just before sunrise.
If your wife or daughter wants flower
garden, aid and encourage them. Give
them good place and prepare the soil,
rich and mellow, for them. There is
purity and refinement IN nowers.
1t is wonderful what one can do with
an acre of well-drained land if one sets
| about it in earnest.
Cows are exceedingly fond of millet
and it is an excellent milk producing
fodder. 1t should be grown in light,
sandy soil, at least it is more thrifty on
such soil. BY manuring it will produce
| five tons to the acre after being cured.
The hay should be slightly moistened
and sprinkled with little corn before
| being fed.-Dem.
Professor Henry says: 81 would urge
that our farmers feed more oats to
Young stock, colts as well as calves.
| There is no fool easily attainable that
will so well correct aeidity of the stom-
ach and keep the system in good order.
| To those who wish to raise calves on
very little milk, ! would say, use oats
and oil meal freely, and by studying the
| wants of the calves you will be able to
raise fine animals on small allowance
of milk.
Careful experiments recently madein
Germany, show that cows MIXED three
times day, yield milk richt in fat than
| if MIXED but twice each dat. 1t is also
reported that cows MIXED three times q
day, gave five pounds of milk over cows
MIXED but twice.
A correspondent of the Rural New
Yorker says of the Jersey "boom:" ga
Spectator who has large importation
on hand waiting to be sold in May next,
gives $4,000 fora bull to brother specu-
ator, and the latter then gives Sl2, 800 for
bull calf seven weeks old. This is the
way the stock spectators of another
kind "bull" prices. and the methods of
| both classes are so much alike that one
can scarcely tell t'other from which"
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The Advantages of Educating Wo-
mon

Had women not been been shut out
in ages past from her rightful share of
educational advantages, and of oppor-
tunities for culture, she would have
made far greater progress toward that
millennium of which prophets dream
and poets sing. The great mistake of
the past has been to leave women be-
hind, to assume that somehow or other
she could catch on to the car of progress
and be in at the finish of the race. If
any allowances in the matter of educa-
ton are to be made they are in favor
or women. In youth it is the highest
ambition of every man to make himself
agreeable to the other sex. In age this
ambition does not entirely disappear. 1t
follows, therefore, that upon however
high plane a woman may place her.
self, she will not long remain in solitude.
She will have hardly reached it before
she will find n multitude of heads peer
in over the edge, and by the time she
is seated throng of men 8ill be at her
feet. Thus the improvement of both
sexes is secured by the advancement OF
one; and by the laws OF hereditary de-
scent, the advancement of future gener-
atoms prOportionally higher and of
easier attainment-Our Homes.
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Consider Your WIRES Feel,ngs.

Ifyour wife is sensitive. do not ignore
the fact. Refrain from testing with her
on a subject in which there is danger OF
wounding her feelings Remember that
she treasures every word you utter Do
not speak of some virtues in another
mans wife to reminl your own Of a
fault ID not reproach your wife with
personal defects, for, if she has sensbil-
ity you aiiict wound difficult to heal.
Do not treat your wife with inattentiOn
in company; it touches her pride, and
she will not respect you more or love
You better for it. DO not upbraid your
wife in the presence-of third person
the sense Of your disregard for her feel
iugs will prevent her acknowledging her
fault Do not entertain your wife by
prising the beauty and accomplish
ments of other women. If you would
have a pleasant home and cheerful wife
pass your evenings under your own
roof Do not he stern and silent in your
own house and remarkable for sociabili-
ty everywhere else. Take your sunshine
home with you.--Rural New Yorker.
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was useless. Our men were percned
above them, and for four hours every
Apache head that showed itself below
was target for dozen rifles. To US it
was day of reckoning for years of vio-
lence, and each mars aim became stead
Ter as he thought of some murdered
brother or friend Gradually the fire
from the bed of the canon ceased, ex-
cept from one spot. There, sheltered
and intrenched behind powders and
safe from our rifles, lay seven of the
Apache chiefs. The bayonet was our
only recourse for dislodging them. Four
times the bugle sounded the charge;
three times were our men driven back,
and every time the unerring Indians
claimed one dead soldier each. On the
fourth charge our men swarmed over
the rocks from all sides, and their bay
onets tossed the bodies Of the hated en-
emies in the air. From that fight but
twelve of the Indians were supposed TO
have made their escape. We killed in
all perhaps 40 men and women; but no
loss inflicted on them repaid us for the
killing Of our thlrty-tWo men. Both the
fate of those victims and the fate of
our cOuntrrmen who went before them
shall be remembered in the Mexican
army until not one living Apache pol
lulCb llit 4tAsI lttJG vi OtI Country 1S
the officer stopped he rose and left the
fire. For a moment silence hung over
the party, until Colonel Garcia, tur sing
to US with a smile. said "Our young
friend does not look like person who
could be very bloodthirsty or savage"
"No," We answered. I'VE would, on
the contrary, say ne had nature that
was particularly gentle and sympathet-
ic." yet" continued the colonel, I'm
that same slaughter that boy threw aside
his repeating rife, came out from be-
hind his ambush, and climbing to the
edge of the precipice, lifted large rocks
and dashed out the brains of the squaws
and papooses crouched in the canon
below. He received two hutlet-wounds
and | was compelled to send three of
the men to compel him to retire to
shelter. His two brothers were killed
year since by the Apaches, and he has
sworn revenge" Who OF rs can say
that his provocation was rot great, and
his claim Of justification wrong2-San
Francisco Examiner.
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MINISTER'S ANDMERCHANTs
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Re
Spouse to Toast at the New York
Chamber Of Com marco Dinner

Spouse to Toast at the New York
Chamber of Commerce Dinner.
SO then gentlemen, this toast, Min
listers and Merchants" is not SO strange
acombination after all. You are the
merchants and am the minister, and
have preached to You and you have sat
still and heard the whole of it. A lie is
bad from top t. bottom and beginning to
end, and so is cheating, except an UNI
brellas and slate-penciis. Laughter ]
There is a little line drawn before you
come quite up to the dead line of actual
transgression. Laughter. When Q
young man swears he will teach a whole
system Of doctrines faithfully. nobody
believes him, bat he is excused because
every body knows that he does not know
what he is saying. and don't understand.
When a LAWYER says in bad case, ION
my soul l believe my client to be an in
jured man, we know he is lying; he
knows it; the jury knows it, and soit is no
lie at all. Laughter.j Why, even when
engineers make one estimate, We pay up
another Great laughter.l There are
lies Of cour: esy, lies of ignorance and
professional lies, LAWYERS lies, and theo-
Iogians' hes-and they are good men
laughter and the common vulgar lies,
calico lies 'aughterI, DroadciOtn les
cotton lies, silk lies, and those most YER
minous and multitudinOus of all lies, the
lies of grocers [Roars oflaughter.j Gem
tlemen, | have been expected to say .
word or two on the subject of monopo
lies wish there were few men who
had a monopoly of lying, and that they
had it al to themselves. No, go back
TO my first statement. The church and
the store have common. BUSINESS before
them to lay the foundation of sound
morality. The minister and the mer-
chant have like interest-the minister
for the community, and the merchant
for his own sake. Gentleshen, lying
ought to be put in the same category OF
vermin-use fine Doth comb, use il
every day Iaughter.l And so, with
my benediction, gentlemen, I will leave
you to mediate on these important top
les. [Applause.l
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led YESTERDAY" The sergeant with IN
creased solemnity, said: ~ only want
ed to let you know that | have opened
that grave and taken out the corpse"
There was loud expostulation then, for
this corpse, so-called, was the plantation
supply OF ham.
1t is the Trotter estate this time. Part
Of it is in the Bank of England, and part
of it is in Scotland, longing to be ow3ed
by somebody. The individual who is
engaged in securing the property esti-
mates its value at $50, 000,0 900 or y, 50O,-
O0O,000.
The number ofsavings banks in France
is 54l, which have besides 794 branches.
They comprise about 3,500,0d0 deposit
ors, of whom SOC, 900 possess sums be-
low 50Of., from $50, 900 from 500f, to S0Of,
250, 900 from 60Of. TO I000i., and 200, 600
above 1003f The share of Paris in these
depositors Is 500, 40, of whom 40, l6l are
workmen, 50, 693 domestic servants, 81 :
Ut trade assistants, 1871 soldiers and
sailors. 133, S37 professionals. 1885, 1924 NIL
nors, and 507 benefit societies.
parliamentary return shows that the
number of evictions throughout Ireland
during the first quarter of the present
year affected 1913 families, composed Of
1859 persons; Isl families Gil persons)
were evicted in Ulster; 2l0 families (S72
persons) in Leinster; 1872 families 95l
personsl in Connaught; and 30 families
(l325 persons) in Munster. OF the total
number twenty-niuc families 133 per-
sons) were readmltted as tenants, and
32i families (1555 persons as care-takers.
The white Baptists of South Carolina
haveB40 churches, and 5S,7S2 commuri-
cants, and the colored Baptists number
10000.
Three billion cigars, not including sto-
gies, cheroots and cigarettes, arc manu-
iactured annually in the United States.
1t is said of Bright's disease.that when
the patient dies it is Bright's disease;
when the patient RECEIVERS it is not
Bright's disease.
The Egyptian police are partly nativ Q
partly European, about 1900 Arabs and
Turks ard 800 Europeans.
The Alamo has been purchased by the
state of Texas, for 81, 900. The city of
San Antonio will be kept in good condi-
ton, and use it as a museum.
The number of persons killed by tor
nadoes IN this county in 1881 was 1877; in
1882, $3.50, and up to date this year the
number is estimated at250.
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New Silver Bonanza.

Carbonate, Garfield county, Col,
promises to develop into second Lead
vile. 1t is in the midst of the Ute
reservation which was lately opened up
for settlement. The new Ell Dorado is
said to contain pure lead of carbonates,
without walls on either side, and run
ming from 80 to $50 ounces of silver
with SO TO AZ per cent. of lead to the ton.
Access to the region isdifficult, the snow
being now from four to ten feet deep for
is miles in all directions. Since the
mine 1000 people have been waiting to
90 there and 347 lots have already been
sold at prices varying from $50 to $3.50
apiece, cash. 1t is estimated that 20 1000
people will visit Carbonate this summer.
The place is situated 81 miles due west
of Leadville, on the Eagle river % miles
from It's mouth, and is 10, 500 feet above
the sea. In addition to the silver
deposits there are rich mines of coal.
In one place the latter crops out of the
face of cliff for 81 miles, lying IN thick
layers, from which large blocks have
tlmbIed TO the ground.
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Stable Manure.

Professor Penhollow gives int resting
data showing that stable manure max es
warmer soil. In the course of series
Of observations at Houghton Farm of
the hourly and daily variations in the
temperature of the earth at different
points down to the depth Of seven feet,
and extending through May, tie sum
mer months and September, the import
ant practial conclusion was established
that ordinary cultivation sends to make
soil temperature more uniform, while it
does not lessen the liability to chill dur
ing the night: but the stable manure,
doubtless through the heat furnished by
its decay. does diminish this danger,
keeping the soil warmer by from one
half to one degree than soil treated
With commercial fertilizers. This diff
erence, though apparently small, is
Justly regarded as sufficient to be some
times the saving of crop,
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From f;eruanv
FROM Ucrhuduy.
KATZENBACHHoF. Germany, Aug. %, ]

KATzENBACHHoF, Germany, Aug. %. 1881.
Hop Bitters Co.
Dear sirs:-I have taken your most precious es'
sence. Hop Btters- and can already, after shor
a time, assure you that feel much better than
have felt for months.
have had, during the course Of four years, three
times an Inflammation OF the kidneys. The lasr. in
January, 1880, was the worst; and | took a lot o
medicine to the same, in consequence of which
my stomach got terribly weakened. l suffered from
enormous pains. had to bear great torments wbel
taking nourishment, had sleep!ess nights, but none
of the medicine was of the least use TO me. Now
in consequence of taking Hop Bitters, these pain'
and Inconvenience have entirely left me, have
good nights rest, and am sufficiently strengthened
for work, while always had to lay down during tn,
day, and this almost every hour shall think it nj
duty TO recommend the biters to all who suffer TO
am sure l cannot thank the Lord enough that
came across your preparation, aud l hope He will
maintain you long time to come for the welfare oil
suffering mankind. Yours very truly,
PAULINE HAUSSLER, Gebr. Roster
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THE CHICAGO MAIL.
An Original Postmaster Tells About
the Original PostOffioe


From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
'Yes," said old Uncle John Bates
yesterday, 'the Chicago Postoffiee is a
big institution, but remember when
one man could manage the whole bus
mess and not be overworked either. In
1882 the postoflice was situated in an up
per room OF log building which stood
on Lake street. The building was part
ly occupied by an Indian trader, and in
the other part, the smallest corner, was
the postofiice. Jonathan V. Bailey was
the postmaster and | was his de putty.
There was not much for either of us to
do, but while we kept the Office bought
hides and traded with the Indians.
When the Black Hawk war broke out jn
1885 Bailey's wife, who was delicate, be-
came so frightened tsat he mad TO take
her away and ] was left in charge of the
office. Bailey never returned, and rs
deputy postmaster | ke9t the
office for three wears. At first there was
not more than a pound and a half in
the whole collection of letters and
papers that came to the place, but be-
fore the end of my term it increased UNI
til it weighed 100 pounds, A good part
of the time | kept the office in candle
box. When any one called for a letter
took down the box and looked over
the whole collection. | knew very well
whether there was any letters or not,
but liked to be accommodating TO the
people and would let them see for them
selves that none of the letters in the box
belonged to them. A Frenchman came
once a week from Niles, Mich, and in
pair of saddle bags thrown over his horse
carried all the mail that came to Chicago.
This was the office for all the northern
counties in this state and about half of
Wisconsin, The people of Cook, Du-
Page, VIII, McHenry aud La Sale coun-
ties and all the Territory between here
and the Mississippi river came into Chi
cago for their mail, They did not come
very often-once in two or three weeks,
and then one man would come IN from
a country and inquire for all his neigh
bors. There were little settlements
scattered about, a few families in place.
Up v here Milwaukee now is there was
one man living, but at Green Bay there
was a settlement and an Indian came
down for the msil. | was paid off for
my services in having the honor of serv-
ing the government. Gen. jackson was
president and w. r. Barry was post
master general. ! remember both of
theuI-that is. in INV official relations"
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