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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-11-06

of war, but afterward prisoner to man
whose viii was iron. 1t could hardly
be explained. This man had not only
saved his life, but he had also rescued
him from the horrors of southern pris-
on-would God he had let him diei--
and they had been living together in 6
ranch in far-off Mexican valley.
Then the letter read on:
~In my heart / am unchanged: my
love for You is ever the same; yet / am
no longer the Robert Shirley whom you
knew. That has come upon me which
will separate me from You for ever; ]
can not ask you now to be my wife.
You are free. Tt is through no fault OF
mine 1t is my burden, the price Of
life, and Unjust bear it. God bless yor
and give you all happinessi
ROBERT SHIRLEY"
When she had read it all she bowed
her head and wept again, and the face
that had grown more and more beauti
full with the years of waiting was radi
ant. Who can fathom the depth of q
woman's love? Who can follow the
subtle workings of a woman's thoughts /
Who can comprehend woman's bound
less faith? Her course was clear. Il
misfortune had befallen him, if he
were MANNED, disfigured, crazed, even
if be were loathsome to her eyes, she
loved him, and she must see him; she
would see him and speak to him, and
love him still. even if she could not be
his wife. What would she have done
if she could have guessed the truth !
As it was, she wrote upon her card, I'll
you love me come to me, and sent it te
him. And in answer to the summons
he stood before her-not disfigured, not
manned, not crazed, not lothsome in
any way, yet irrevocably separated
from her, for DR.. Fournier's expert
ment had succeeded, and Robert Shir.
ley was mulattoi
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-11-06
Gorgeous wedding Dress.

The wedding dress of Miss Carrie AS
tor, the New York heiress who will be
married in November, is now being
made in PARIS, and will be sent over the
first of November 1t is described as
follows:
1t is to be of very heavy pearl white
satin, made with full princesse train,
which will be bordered by plisse of
The satin and on the edge ruching of
fine point lace in a wild-rose design.
The front is to be covered with ruffies
Of rare point lace that belonged to Miss
Astor's grandmother The lace will
not be cut, but will cross over in
dounces, and at the sides will be caught
down in twist and held by cluster
Of orange blossoms and pearls. The
corsage will be cut square and bordered
with the lace, while the sleeves, slight
" pulled on the shoulders and reach
ing to the elbow, will be met by long
white kid gloves. which are being made
to order to fit the slender little hands
of the bride The slippers are to be
made of the dress materials. and en-
broiderea in white pearls, while the
stockings will be of the finest white
SILK. The veil will probably be of il
fusion. There is a rare old-point lace
veil in the family and this may be worn,
although tulle is more becoming and
preferred by the bride. It will be fas-
tened by half wreath of apple bios
SONS and caught by diamond pins.
She will wear other diamond Jewels and
carry large bouquet ofroses and lilies
of-the vally, surrounded by maiden
hair ferns.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-11-06
FARM, FIELD AND PRESIDE.
Farming Paragraphs.

A British sportsman repels flies from
horses by lightly sponging the neck
and launches with kerosene. During
the first three miles Of a recent journey
he pests distressed and leased his thin
skinned, spirited steed almost beyond
endurance. but after the application OF
oil. and during the remaining eleven
miles of the trip, though still pursued
by thousands of the winged bores, not
one yentured to alight and present his
BILL
The Kansas Cowboy says that gem
tleman remarked to the editor that the
recent rains would be the ruin of many
a granger. Why? Because, said he,
4this is not country for the pillow, but
for stock; and this is an exceptional
year, Such as has not been known since
the settlement by the most adventurous
sranchmen and the grangers will regard
it as conclusive evidence that every
year will produce crops, and will ex-
pend their last dollar trying, only to
bring ruin upon them and their fami-
lies
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-11-06
Planting Tree Seed. etc.


Rural New Yorker The proper time
to gather any seeds for planting is when
fully ripe; watch and wait until there
is evidence that they are in this condi-
ton; and then gather them. 2. The
best of all times to plant all these seeds
is in the Fall. The only objection is
the danger of their being eaten by
gophers, mice, rats, squirrels, etc. The
ground should be prepared the same as
for corn; in fact, it can be used the
first two or three years for corn, letting
the trees take the place of every third
row. 3. To keep the seeds till Spring.
where yermin are so bad that fall plant
ing is not practicable, they should
be placed in sand or loan
in box, which should have
some holes bored in the top and bottom,
and these holes should be projected
with pieces of perforated tin or iron, so
that vermin can not enter. The boxes
should be buried in the ground, in some
place where their contents will keep
damp, but not become watersoaked. and
it will be all the better if in some place
where they will freeze SOLID. In spring,
plant as above directed. The ash, Box
elder and beech seed should not be
planted more than half-inch deep; the
larger nuts may be planted an inch, and
all should have thorough and clean Gull
ture. A. The kinds of trees that may
be regarded as timber trees" within
the meaning of the law, are specified as
follows: "Ash, alder. beech, birch,
black walnut, Eastwood, black-locust,
cedar, chestnut, cottonwood, elm, fir,
including spruce, hickory, honey-lo-
Gust, larch, maple, including box elder,
oak, pine, plane-tree, otherwise called
cotton-tree, button-wood, or sycamore,
ash, white-walnut, otherwise called
butter nut, white willow and white
wood, otherwise called tulp-tree.
The above list was intended only as
general guide, and will not be construed
so as to exclude any trees falling with
in the description of trees recognized in
the neighborhood as of value for timber,
Dr. for commercial purposes, or for fire.
wood or domestic use. Either of the
following might, in some localities, be
Eorty of cultivation as timber trees,
nd several of them may De classed
mong the We luable kinds :-Ailanthus,
olue- beech. cherry, especially the black
,herry, gum-trees, blackberry, ironwood,
Usage orange, peach, pear, apple, plum,
etc. The general permission to plant
such trees as are of general use in any
section, was granted by decision Of
February 10, 1882, as the omissions in
the list previously enumerated, had
given rise to severe criticism.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-11-06
Latent Power of Manure.

Sir J. b. Lawes says, in the North
British Agriculturist, that it does not
follow. as a matter of course, that al
though the application of manure has
produced no effect upon the growing
crop, it may not prove effective at some
future time. Years afterwards, when
perhaps all recollection of the applica-
ton has passed away, or possibly
when some unaccountable luxuriance
on certain portions of a field may
indicate the burial ground of ma
nure which was supposed to have
failed. In one of his experiments at
Rothamsted, in the year 1914, about
two-thirds of an acre of land was ma
nured with considerable amount of
potash and phosphate of lime. The
crop was wheat, and the produce was
l54 bushels per acre. AS the land
which received no manure whatever
yielded crop of Is bushels per acre,
it was evident that the manure had
practically failed. In the following
year salts of ammonia were applied, and
the produce was BIS bushels per
acre.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-11-06
Where a Mother Found Her Child
From the San Jose Herald.

From the San Jose Herald
Mrs. William Kennedy. who lives on
Fourth-st., missed her four year-old son
Carl, and in a state of great anxiety
made search for him up and down the
various streets in that vicinity, when
she was attracted by seeing some people
running wildly about on the corner of
Fourth and st. James SITS, and upon
approaching the dwelling house of Dave
Williams, nearly tainted with terror
when she saw the frightened people
pointing with their fingers to her little
son, who was hanging to a ladder on
the windmill tank seventy or eighty
feet from the ground. One little hand
grasped the ladder and with the other
one he was reaching out for some pig
cons that were sitting almost within
reach. The mother realized the awful
peril of her little son, but with hero
ism seldom seen she called to the child
in firm voice, saying: Come down,
Carl, and mamma viii give you q
peach" The little fellow looked eau
tiousIy around over his shoulder, and
seeing his mother, started to descend
while the group stood with faces up
turned, blanched with terror for fear
he should lose his hold and be dashed
to pieces; but he came safely down, and
as he approached the last rounds of
the ladder he said az am coming
mamma" and the oyerjoyed mother
caught her child IN her arms.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-11-06
The Fighting Parson of Texas.

From the Galveston Texas) News.
Texas still has some pioneer preach
ers. The San Angela Standard reports
briefly sermon delivered in that place
bv Andrew jackson Potter, the fighting
parsou. Among other things, he said:
II have preached out here on the from
tier for the past Is years, and | lived
and supported large family. | must
say, though, got most of my support
from the cowboys. Years ago, where
the town of Uvalde now stands / have
skipped from thicket to thicket in my
endeavors to escape from the leaden
bullets that were flying around in order
to reach little old log house where
could preach to few women and chill
dren. Now, look at the Uvalde to-day
with its five fine churches, whose spires
point heayenward went to Fort Clark
to preach several years ago, and started
in without a church member and at the
end of II months l quit without mem
Der. Thought that was the hardest place
I had struck. One day, just after the
boys had been paid off, was walking
up the street and noticed lot of sol
diers and gamblers in front of saloon.
As was passing, one of them hollered:
'Hullo Parsonr I went across, and
they asked me to preach, saying this
was the biggest crowd I'd ever have an
opportunity to talk to in Bracket. I
said Gentlemen, preaching is my busi-
ness, but I always make 1T rule be-
fore beginning to take up a collection.
Fifty cents is the regular donation.
Taking off my hat / started around.
All that I presented the hat to threw in
| 30 cents until came to a young gam
bier. He looked at the hat, shook his
head, saying, 'Parson. I'd like to chip
in. but I'm busted / got more money
in that place than any I have been IN.
Holding services at a place one time j
took up a collection for the support of
missions There was poor old lady
present who / noticed dropped five
dollar gold piece in the hat | knew
she was very poor and not able to afford
| so much, and thought she had intended
to throw in quarter, but made a mis-
take. So next dav / met her husband
and said to him: Look here, your wife
put a five-dollar gold piece in the hat
Yesterday / think she must have
made mistake No, no. he replied,
my wife didn't make no mistake. She
] don't fling often. but let me tell You
when she filings she aings
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-11-06
Prohibition in Prince Edwards
Island.

Toronto Mail: Whisky becomes a
very popular medicinein counties where
the Scott act has been carried. In
Prince County, P. E. l., for instance.
ten gallons of whisky are prescribed to
every gallon of port wine. One drug
gist has filed daily from three to if
teen prescriptions calling for whisky.
and on the day before Christmas no less
than thirty-one prescriptions were filled
by the same vendor. 1t seems that In
Prince Edward Island the people take
their physic before the Christmas feast
instead Of aEter it, as here. Nor does
homeopathy appear to have made its
principles felt on the island. One sick
man had four pints of brandy in one
day, another three pints, and three 9th
ers two pints each. Spirits are being
used in great quantities on the tight lit
tie island for medicinal purposes, and
it would be well if the Medical Associa-
ton would enquire how it happens that
so many cases require treatment with
alcohol. Perhaps it is 8 popularity OF
OF the climate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-11-06
A Good Word for Homely Girls.

Pittsburg Dispatch.
''Why are homely girls always the
best scholars, the best workers and
make the best of wives? ?" This ques-
ton was propounded by an observant
and intelligent gentlem an who has been
twice led to the hymeneal alter, and is
ready to be sacrificed again.
rs such really the case? 2"
II have reason to know that it is. 1t
is natural enough, isn't it? The girl
who is handsome in feature and form
concludes very early in life that these
are her stock in trade, and with them
she enters the matrimonial market.
Nine times out of ten she is soon off the
books and at the head of house. Her
homely sister has hardly entered her
teens until she discovers she is made to
stand aside for the pretty faced girls.
All the neatness of dress, elegance of
manners and proficiency in the arts of
making ones self attractive she does,
deliberately and for purpose, perhaps,
or possibly for no other reason than,
Topsy like she grew that way"
"The chances are she does it solely
for the purpose of compromising for her
lack of physical beauty"
my observations lead directly to the
opposite conclusions. replied the in
telligent observer. "There is among the
great laws of nature one known as the
law of compensation, and l am thor
oughly convinced that to it the homely
girl is indebted for the tastes and dis
position that prompt her to make her.
self useful when she can not be orna-
mental.
"Then, il you had the choice Of two
ladies, one beautiful and the other
homely, you would take the homely
one?"
Experience and observation both
teach me that would be the wise thing
to do. The first impulse would natur-
ally be to take the prettier of the two,
but / would give the first impulse time
to pass off, and act upon sober, second
thought.
The old gentleman may be entirely
right in this matter.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-11-06
Farmers Errors.

Formerly a barn needed a roomy
threshing floor, wherein to swing the
fails. No such thing is needed now.
Two rows of posts, some beams, girts
and braces, and tight roof.and walls
are sufficient. An excellent constable,
with all the modern improvements, can
be built for So per COW, and how much
better to have 100 cows in s. stalls,
than 5 cows in 800 stalls Another
lis to keep poor horses and cows. A
$50 horse is not worth one-fourth as
much as one that is worth 800. 1t
will eat as much and cost as much for
harness, and will neither do as much
work nor live SO long. A $40 COW, that
makes three pounds of butter in o week,
costs as much for everything, labor
and utensils included, as one worth
800 and makes ten pounds a week.
Another error is to work poor land.
Many man has broken his back and
lost his heart on poor farm which he
has suffered to run down by bad man
agement. He has spread his labor and
capital ever 100 acres, when by confin-
ing himself to twenty-five or thirty, he
might have become happy and rich.
The way to repair such capital error
is to begin with Que field and get that
into good condition, and let the rest lie,
and so go through the farm. One rich
field viii then make 1t easy to enrich
another or two; and while the begin
ming is slow, it is downhill work, and
as the end is nearly reached progress is
fast and easy The worst of all capt.
tai errors is for the farmer to neglect his
own improvement and cultivation. A
man who has $4,000 in farm and
stock, may easily have twice as much IN
himself and make his work pay 10 per
cent. on his value. He is the greatest
part of his capital and it is the greatest
of all errors to misuse himself.-N.J j. H..
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rather than to those Of the country.
Surely, the average rural burying
ground does not merit such an enconi-
UNI. 1t is too often as desolate in APP
pearance as it is solemn in its associa-
lions. 1t is frequently living example
of the adage that "what is
everybody's business is nobody's
business, The fence enclosing it is
often dilapidated and sometimes pros
trate. or wanting; the thorns and
thistles grow unmolested, while the
weather. beaten stalks of last years
weeds are monuments, not to the mem
ory of the dead, but to the shiftlessness
of the living.
All will agree that it would be count
ed disgrace for city to permit its
cemetery to become jungle. Why is
the same thing less disgracefnl in
the country? Are the expenses of
living, or are taxes less burdensome in
the city than IN the country? Are we
willing to admit that people living in
the city are less worldly-minded If
it is true that farmers take too little
pride in the appearance of their
premises; it is not less true that they
show too little respect both for the
dead and the living, in their burying
grounds. Rural New Yorker.
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Hayaaers stuas in 5aunsy Costumes

oaJ1ASIS 1belS IL o00hbJ COSsu@AuSt
New York Letter in Cincinnati Enquirer
Many women are issuing the bayadere
striped stufs which are brought out
among fall novelty fabrics for skirts of
their travelling dresses and utility cos.
tunes. With the simplest materials
they contrive to produce pretty suits, of
which the following may be taken as a
sample: The skirt is composed of
wide blue and red bayadere stripes THAT
means horizontal bands not vertical
lines, the blue stripes being wider than
the red ones, thus making blue the pre-
dominant color. The tunic is of fine
blue serge, turned no at the edge with
striped revers. The plated corsage of
the same serge is open at the neck over
plastron of the striped material, the
stripes running across the chest, as IN
waistcoats worn under sailor blouses.
The moderately tight sleeves have cuffs
of the striped stuff Now, is not that
pretty model, containing a great deal
of suggestion for other suits in other
colors.
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''What furniture can give such finish to q
room, as tender woman's face" asks George
vided the glow Of health tempers the tender ex-
preston The pale, anxious bloodless face Of
the comsumptive, or the evident sufferlngs Of
the dyspeptic, induce feelings of sorrow ant
grief on our part and compel us to tell them Of
DR. Pierce's s'Golden Medical Discovery" the
sovereign remedy for consumption and Other
diseases of the respiratory system as well az
dyspepsia and other digestive troubles Sold
everywhere
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The dramatist IL Sardou, has interviewed
snd describes Madame Bernhard as really i'll,
and her nerves unstrung aud FRUSTRATED Be-
side her artistic cares. she is subject to money
anxiefies, arising from the frightfui negligence
of her pecuniary affairs. She exaggerates
everything III life, from grief TO joy. She deals
in money matters in break-neck fashion,
making her money fly right and left She has
exhausting Anglers and furious heats Sardou
visited her recently, when he found her prey
to most violent excitement, twisting her body,
rolling about on the carpet, biting rug, sob
bing, and in high state OF evaporation
domestic drama had evidently just been fin
ished There were blows in the air.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-11-06
aDo Won know why That lady is so en-.

"Do you know why that lady is so en-
thusiastic in her expressions of admira-
ton for the music of the future of the
great German master and prophet,
etc, and why she is SO earnest in de-
claring that his language speaks to her
soul as no other could, and SO on, and
on, and on ?" ~ don't know, unless it
is because she is fond of Wagner music.
Not at all; it is simply because she is
fond of Wagner tongue"
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A Plea for the country Cemetery.

Mr.. Vim. Robson, well-known En-
glish author, in an admirable work en-
titled The Parks and Gardens Of Paris, I"
makes the highly fattering statement
that the Americans are the only peo-
pie who bury THAR dead deeently and
beautifully. Mr. Robinson evidently
refers to our city and town cemeteries,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-11-06
Best Goods are Put in Smallest Parcels.

The old proverb is certainly true in the case
of DR. Pierce's pleasant Purgative Pellets,
which are little sugar wrapped parcels, scarce
" larger than mustard seeds, containing as
biggest, most repulsive- looking pill Unlike
the big pills, however, they are mild and pleas
ant, in their operation-do not produce gripping
pains, nor render the bowels costiye after using.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-11-06

Time and money Will be saved by keeping Kid
nev-Wort in the house 1t is an invaluable
remedy for all disorders OF the Kidney, Liver and
Bowels and for all diseares arisingfrom obstruc-
tions Of these organs 1t has cured many OBJ
situate cases after hundreds of dollars paid TO
physicians without obtaining relief 1t cures
Consumption, Piles, Biliousness and all kindred
disorders Keep it by you
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white Beavers Cough Cream.

FoR DYSPEPSIA Indigestion, Depression Of Spir-
its and General Debility, III their various forms,
also as a preventive against Fever and Ague, and
other Intermittent EeveTs, the FERRo PHosPBo-
Rated ELIXIR or CALIsAYA" made by Casweil,
Hazard 4 Co., New York, and sold by all Drug
gsts is the best tonic, and for patients recover
ing from Fever or other sickness, it has noequai.
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'sMy wife for years has been troubled with
nounced it diabetes, but she received no bene-
fit from their treatment HUNTS kidney and
Liver] Remedy has made wonderful change
in her condition. Her health is good 10. NJ
Hubbell, 344 Prospect Avenue, Buffalo, n. T.
June 49, 'S3
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Cathn1in Cnl1ara.

Mr. r. d. Kingsley. sec'y, Holy Cross College
Gymnasium, Worcester, Mass, writes: Every
member of our club frankly admits that St
Jacobs Oil, the conqueror Of pain, IS the best
cure that they have ever used, and all speak OF
it in terms of the highest appreciation 50
cents A hottie
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Florence Marryat, who has just reached New
York from England, is well known to thousands
of Americans by her books, one of the most
popular OF which, ssHer Lord and Master, ,
formed the basis of the successful play of
ssPiuue" She will lecture.
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