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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11
Predictions About Business.
New York Letter.

New York Letter
Who.is Benner, the Indiana farm
err? Why don't you Western newspa-
pers that haven't anything else to do,
find out and let us know? "Benner's
Predictions" queer little book with a
fantastic cover is making a sensation in
New York. The book-stand at the
Windsor hotel has sold 200 copies of it
in two months. Some of our most sue
cessful spectators are said to be gov
erned bv it. OF all the bears who
made their pile year ago IN the fall of
stocks, Cammack is about the only one
Of them all who had sense enough TO
GO out at the right time, and so held
his own. Woerischoffer, Clews and
others kept In the current and let their
pile on rise in July and Au-
gust and lost it-lost all they had
taken out of Jay Gould, Wander
bilt and the Northern Pacific, and
more, too. Cammack says he went
out last spring because Benner told him
to. He claims that Benner actually did
predict correctly the financial variations
of the last eight years in his book
printed in 1876, and he pins his faith
on Benner's new predictions, as fol-
lows:
1854 presidential year, dull trade
iron droopmg; lower prices. 1SS5-a
little improvement; railroad stocks
higher. 1886 renewed depression /;
stocks lower. 1887 the same. 1888
presidential, hard times: business pros
trated; banks failing; stocks at lowest
point; upward turn of affairs this year.
1SS9-now for boom! 1S90-great ac-
tivity and prosperity. 1891 -specula-
ton and panic 1892, 1898, 1894, 1895,
1896, IS97-dull years and poor trade.
1898 and 1899, good trade. active bus
mess; century winds upin height ofspec
ulative era
Benner claims that trade moves in
cycles, and that hard times have struck
us about once in ten years on an av-
erage.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11
sweet Corn as a Forage Plant.

Col. T. d. Curtis writes to the Rural
New Yorker: One of the lessons OF
the year, which has been most forcibly
taught, has been the value of sweet corn
as a forage plant. / do not mean the
spindling, washy, fodder corn most
farmers are foolish-lazy-enough to
grow; but fodder corn Which has an
ear in it. There cannot be too much
of this kind of food on any farm. Next
year the area here will be four times
as great--all sweet corn. The seed is
now ready to pluck both early and
late varieties. There is more food to be
obtained in an acre of sweet fodder corn
than of any crop: the work is less, and
it pays several hundred per cent. pro-
fit. Mine was grown as follows: the
groundwas covered with manure mind,
/ say covered" not sprinRed. This
was plowed under; the ground harrow
de and burrows made three feet apart
the seed was then scattered in the fur
rows by hand, and harrow was run
lengthwise over the burrows to cover IT..
The same work may be done with drill.
As soon as the corn was well up, q cul-
tivator was run through once In row,
and twice afterwards it was cultivated,
working close up to the corn. Once 1t
was gone over, and the weeds in the
rows pulled out. There wasno hoeing,
as it was not necessary. 1t was kept
mellow and clean. Next year, as early
as possible, the early sweet corn will be
planted on warm ground, and the larger
kinds afterwards. There should be
three kinds, with the Stowell's Ever
green, to cover the season. The early
kinds will be ready for use the middle
of July, and the Stowell's Evergreen
can be used till October or later. Here
is food for hogs, cows, or anything.
There are pork, milk, butter, and beef
in it. Pigs may be shut up in pens as
soon as the sweet corn is ready to cut,
and if fed all they will eat, they will
fatten on it alone-that is, on my kind
of stalks.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11
MARY.

Can I forget the happy night,
In that December weather.
When she and I, with footsteps light
Walked home from church togetherS
Ny heart was rent 'twixt joy and fear,
And she was coy and ehary,
For that which maidens love TO hear
I'd whispered in her tiny ear,
While walking home with Mary.
All that Was in the long ago,
But somehow it seems nearer,
And those dear days we used to know,
Seems always, somehow, dearer
When Mary fingers by my side
As coy and sweetly chary
As when, IN that December tide,
wooed and won my little bride,
While walking home with Mary.
God bless the, Mary, for the peace
That cometh with this seeming,
And grant ne'er shall know surcease
From this delightful dreaming,
For In mine age you are to me-
Though all the world may vary
The same sweet girl you used TO be
And to a land my faith can see,
I'm walking home with Mary.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11

| ing himself very freely to the brandy
bottle and was manifestly under its po-
tent influence.
about half-past eight o'clock he
grunted out a good night and went to
| his own room. Belle also retired, but
not to sleep. Tonight she was to meet
| her lover to arrange for her flight and
| marriage. After waiting half an hour,
until all about the house seemed wrap
ped in slumber, she stole quietly out
and hurried lovingly over the path she
knew so we'll.
"But another one had been there be-
fore her. Her father after b. ding her
good night, had gone to his room. taken
down his heavily loaded gun and left
the house. BY a roundabout way he
had reached the pool Carefully and
| softly creeping near and peering through
the bushes he saw young fisherman
standing gazing thoughtfully into the
peaceful depths where the moon had
left path of silver.
Raising his gun to his shoulder, he
took careful aim and fired. The young
lover gave quick, convulsive start and,
without a groan, fell heavily into the
water Belle, half way to the place of
meeting, heard the shot and saw grim
form creeping out of the sha lows. She
stopped moment and pressed her hand
to her heart in mute and trembling
terror.
Another moment and her father
gripped her arm and whispered hoarse-
| " in her ear: Wretched girl, go look for
your lover in yonder pool"
with gasping cry she hurried by
him and soon gained the spot. AS she
gazed into the waters her lovers face,
all torn and mangIed, came to the sur
face. With terrible shrek that woke
the birds IN their leafy coverts she
leaped into the pool and, grasping the
form of her murdered lover, both went
down together. The waters rippled and
swelled a moment and then all was peace
and calm again.
1.-THE next day the old father. recovered
from his drunken madness, went to look
for his daughter.
"In the afternoon some negroes found
him lying flat upon the ground, stone
dead, his eyes wide open, gazing dread
fully into the pool.
"The bodies of the lovers were never
/ found. 1t WAS supposed that some I'M
known undercurrent carried them far
away
/ In one week marvellous change took
place in this pool and its surroundings.
1 The flowers all died, the waters took
an inky blackness, the trees interlaced
their branches so that no light of sun
or moon could enter and all life fled,
whether of insect, beast, bird or fish.
"The place became most desolate and
| forlorn, and the negroes avoided it as
they would graveyard"
He paused and relighted his pipe.
"That is a very nice yarn" | said;
"but you don't expect me to believe it,
do your"
ooh, no." he replied. II didn't my
self when it was told to me, but as you
wanted to hear it 1 thought would spin
it out for you Going, Ell? Try lit
tie of that rye before you saddle up. A
friend sent it to me from New York
city and I think it's pretty good arti-
Gle. You'll find the sugar in than can
on the mantel."
Stranger, tried it. and it was good.
HAMILTON JAY.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11
Lifting Gerantums.

When lifting geraniums, if wan ted to
flower in the house, select such as have
made very rampant growth; take care
of all the roots possible. pick off some of
the larger leaves around the bottom of
the plant to check evaporation, but re-
tain the tops of the shoots, as by so doing
all the buds formed upon the plant when
lifted will open and bloom, if kept in a
shady place for few days after being
lifted and then placed in the full sun.
If the plants are to be kept in the cellart
lift them with all the roots possible, chi
the shoots we'll back and pick of most Q
the leaves, place them in a sandy soil in
box. and they will keep in FROST
proof cellar without much trouble.
farther than supplying just sufficient
water to keep them from shrivelling
too much. Carnations can be lifted
with good roots, ported, we'll watered
and kept shaded for few days, then
placed in a window where there is plenty
of light, and al the sun available, and
they will bloom most all the winter
months. 1t is wonderful how much en-
jovment can be obtained from a few
window plants during winter. Ohio
| Farmer
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11
THE HOME CIRCLE AND FARM.
Farming Paragraphs.

A few years ago what is now the
great onion tract of Chester, in Orange
County, N. Y, was worthless peice of
land. To-day it would bring readily
81 900 an acre. Last season on these
meadows 100, 600 bushels of onions were
grown. which were sold for more than
S125, 900. This seasons crop viii be
even larger. There are no equally large
onion tracts In the country.
Farmers who have kept strict ac-
count with their stock say that a pound
of poultry can be made for less than a
pound Of pork, yet the laboring man
who has to buy both feels that he can
not afford to buy poultry very often, as
it costs more than other meats. This
leads the Concord Mon tor to remark
that the poultry grown g business may
be much extended before the market
will be oyerstocked so as to bring the
price down to where it will not pay to
raise.
Wheat is lower and beef higher than
it has been before in hundred years.
Let us therefore turn the cheap wheat
INTO dear beef and make the profit
This most nutritious of all grains is food
for animals as well as for man. All
that is required is that it be properly
prepared. 1t is so full of gluten and
starch that, fed whole, it forms IN the
stomach solid mass not easily digested.
Ground and mixed with chaff it may be
fed to any animal with advantage in ey-
cry way 1t should be coarsely ground
-"choppen" is tue term-and then a
bushel of it is equal in nutriment to
four bushels of oats.
Selecting seed corn is job it will
pay the farmer to do himself, and not
trust to the boys or help. BY rigid
course of selection, with certain points
in view, it is easy to make perceptible
gains on the quality and yield of ones
crop with passing years. The best time
70 make this selection of seed ears is
while the corn is standing, but if it was
hen neglected, it may still be we'll done
1t husking time. Most men would
agree that the main points to be obsery-
ed are earliness of maturity, number
and size of the ears, the filling out Of
tho grain on the cob, the size of the
stalk and the amount of leaf. Leave
the husks on the selected ears, to serve
for braiding them together and hang
ing them up to dry. They should be
hung in dry loft, or the peak of a
corn crib out of the way of rats and
mice to dry. BY suspending the braid
ed ears from stretched wires these pests,
where present, will be prevented from
reaching them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11
GAINESVILLE, Mo. Pastor NJ. ]

Senator McPherson's bill for the suspension
of silver dollar coinage provides that on and
after the passage of the act the coinage of sill
yer dollars shall be suspended and that the
secretary of the treasury shall be directed not
to reissue any United States notes of de-
nomination less than IS, and to destroy all
United States notes Of less denomination than
So, and cease engraving or printing all such
notes. 1t authorizes the secretary of the treas
ury, upon the deposit of silver bullion in such
sub treasury as he shall designate, 70 issue to
the depositor thereof silver certificates having
upon their face the weight and market value of
metal SO deposited, calculated in United States
gold dollars at the rate of 425. standard grains
to the dollar. The secretary also to be author
lied and required, on presentation ofany silver
certificates issued under the provisions of the
act by the legal holders thereof, to redeem the
same by delivering to the depsoitoTs silver
bullion of the weight and fineness certified up
on the certificate, and Immediately cancel and
destroy such certificate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11
What the Baby was Thinking.

Mrs. Fogg: As Ieame by the station,
Just now, l saw baby in its carriage.
1t was amusing to see the little thing
watch the locomotive as it rushed past,
and until it was out of sight. ! wonder
what the little darling was thinking
of?
Fogg: That depends. If it was a
girl, She was thinking, splendid,
aiust too lovely for anything or some
thing Of that sort. If it was boy. be
might have been mentally construct
ing a smoke-consunler or patent coup
Ter, but probably was considering
whether it was best to invest IN the
roads common or preferred stock, it,
first, second or third mortgage bonds,
its equipment sevsns, land grant Fights,
or car trust thirteens. Boston Tran
script.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11
arain Feed in the ra11.

1t is the experience of all stock raisers
that grain fed in the fall bring a larger
return than if fed at any other time. Il
fed during the summer, when sufficient
grass is abundant, the cattle eat it with
out relish; but in the autumn, when
the grass has become scant and dry, and
when eating 1t continuously and exclu-
sively for months has made the cattle
tire Of it. they will eat grain with q de-
cided relish. This may seem a small
vet it is hardy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11

DR. G. d. WARNER: -Dear Sir-I received the
complimentary bottle of White Wine of Tar Syr-
up you so kindly sent me. Our little six year
old daughter had a very sore throat, badly Ill
cerated. and coughed almost necessarily We
gave the medicine according to directions, an6
She began to improve Immediately and soon go
well. Please accept thanks. Mrs. Groves and
/ have recommended it TO others. shall wan
/ consider il very superior medicine.
Yours very respectfully,
Rev. H. d. Groves
GAINESVILLE, Mo. Pastor NJ. J.. Church.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11

II seems that the Frencn press has at last
amed the right man in announcing the en-
gagement of Miss Eva MacKay to Prince Ferdi-
nand de CoIonna. Friends of the Mackays in
New York are now discussing the engagement as
asettled fact, confirmed by cablegram from
Mrs. Mackay to personal friend at the Hoff-
man house The dispatch read. Eva is en-
gagged to Ferdinand Colonna
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11

In the reichstag Prince Bismarck declared
the reintroduction of DR.. Wnthorsts motion
to repeal the law empowering the government
to expel or intern priests for illegally exercis-
ing their functions after its recent rejection by
the bundesrath was disrespectful of the bundles
patb
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11

PURE Con LIVER on made from selected liversi
on the sea-shore, by CAswELL HAZARD d Co,
New York. 1t is absolutely pure and sweet
Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all
others Physicians have decided 1t superior 10
any of the other oils in market.
CHAPPED HANDS, FACE PDfPLEs, and rough
Skin cured by using JUMPER TAR SOAP, made by
CAsWELL, HAZARD g. CO., New York.
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AT Bellaire, Ohio, recently, Bub Boram
stabbed Sam Day three times in the left breast
with large dirk knife. Day will die. Boram
was jailed The assault was premeditated
Boram is a notorious character and Day a
quiet Young man.
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$4,000 Lost.

"A tom to Europe tilat cost RE $4,000, done
''ne less good than one bottle OF Hop Bitters;
"they also cured my wife Of fifteen years ner-
vous weakness, sleeplessness and dyspepsia"
H. III, Auburn, n Y.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11

The adoption by the most prominent dairy
men and farmers of the United States, of the
Improved Butter Color made by Wells Richard
son & Co. Burlington, Vt, is proof of their
winter butter is colored III order to make it
marketable and this color is the best, in regard
to purity, strength, permanenee and perfection
! of tint.
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and raised a considerable amount of blood and
matter; besides, ] was very thin, and so weak
could scarcely go about the house. This was
the case of q man with consumption arising from
liver complaint. He recovered his health com
pletely by the use Of DR. Pierces "Cfolder
Medical Discovery Thousands Of others beal
similar testimony.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11

Laughter is the poor mans plaster,
Making every burden light:
Turning sadness INTO gladness,
Darkest hour to May dawn bright
IT'S the deepest and The cheapest
Cure for ills Of this description,
But for those that wonan's heir TO-
Use DIR Pieree's "Favonte Prescription. .
Cures all weaknesses and irregularities, "bear-
ng down. sensations, ''internal fever bloat-
ing, dsplacements, Inflammation, morning sick
aess and tendency to cancerous diseases. Price
reduced to one dollar By druggists
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11

Cheap Comfort What comfort it is to
know that. in case any of your children are at
tackled at night with Group, You have the rem
edy at hand in Aliens Lung Balsam. Depend
upon it, mothers, 1t cures Group perfectly pure
and harmless. Keep it on hand
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11
nabv saved.

We are so thankful to say that our nursing
baby was permanently cured Of a dangerous
and protracted constipation and irregularity OF
the bowels by the use Of Hop Bitters by its
mother, which at the same time restored herto
perfect health and strength
The Parents, Rochester, n. y.
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If success be the true test of merit, Its set
tied fact that "BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRocHEs''
have no equal for the prompt relief of Coughs,
Colds, and Throat troubles. Sold only III boxes.
Price 25 cts
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11

1t has cured me of several diseases, such as
nervousness, sickness at the stomach, monthly
troubles, etc have not seen sick day in
year, since / took Hop Bitters. All my neigh
bors use them. MRS, FANNIE GREEN.
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Delicate diseases, Affecting male
or female, however induced, speedily aud per-
manently cured. Illustrated book three letter
stamps Consultation free. Worlds Dispen-
sary Medical Association Buffalo, n Y
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Rs-None genuine without a bunch Of green
Hops on white label. Shun all the VILE poison
GUS stun with "AopsN in their name
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The mandarins of Peking have subscribed
81 ,000,O 600 to sustain the war against France
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Fruit and Garden Lands in Colorado.

The former residents of Maine had grand
banquet at Minneapolis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11
plain as the Nose on Your Face.

For Dizziness take Aliens Iron Tonic Bitters.
All genuine bear the signature of J. p Allen,
Druggist, St Paul, Mimi.
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- prnn,,rNl.rrr1r n N

So. BroosuNGyILLR, O., May /, -
SIRs-I have been suffering ten years, and l
tried your Hop Iiittors, and it done me more
good than all the doctors.
Miss S. S. Boone
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11

A Wisconsin dairyman uttered a
great and pregnant truth W zen he re-
marked at a meeting of IL irymen, that
st was not by special dispensation of
Providence that a certain farmer re-
ceived sos per head for the yearly prod
net of his cows while his next door
neighbor received only $50 per head"
So It is not special act of Providence,
remarks Mr.. Henry Stewart, that on
one side of a fence the corn yields so
bushels per acre and the hay three tons
while on the other side the products
are 30 bushels Of corn, and barely a
single ton of hay. An enterprising
farmer writes that he is cutting a sec
ond crop of clover, which yields a full
ton per acre, and his neighbors Won
der how it is. The secret is that this
farmer used plaster on his clover,which
made all the difference; and his other
crops are equally conspicuous and re-
markable because he uses fertilizers
literally as well as manure. The rain
falls and the sun shines ON all alike; but
the better farmer gets the most good
from the rain and the sun, because he
prepares and enriches the ground better
and so gives the natural elements better
chances to exert their benign influences.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11

In and 10 acre tracts. Low Price. Long
Terms to settlers or non-residents Address
for particulars, w E. PABOR, Fruita, Colo.
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I Had a Drea iful Cough,

The A. NJ Sullivan fund has reached s25, 600
The sum of SO, 600 i asked
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, TNFANTILE and Birth Humors Min Crust.
1 Scaled Head, Eezemas, and every form q
Itching, ScalT, Pinlpiy, ScFofulcus and inherited
Diseases Of the Blood skin, and scalp, with Loss Of
Hair. cured by the GuEtCuRA RRafEpEEs Absolutely
cure dad ssfe. Cutlcura the great skin Cure, 30
cts; Cgtiellra soap, On exquisite Skin Beautiher
and only Medicinal Baby Soap p cts aAd Cutieura
Resolyent. the new Hood Purifier, 81. are sold by
druggists. Potter Drug and Chemical Co.. Boston.
SsrSend Tor How 70 Cure Skin Diseases"
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0artoIisaIyts cures Itchines and IrritatIons OF
0the Skin Scalp. Poisons Bites of Insects, Piles,
Ulcers. &C. Cures Burns and Sealds without scar.
Small boxes Csc; large 75c Get the genuine Sold by
Druggists j. w. COLE CO. Black River Falls, Wis.
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The House of Hope of St Paul regretfully
accepts DR.. Breeds resignation.
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What is the difference between 3 persons nose
and Carboline the Great Petroleum Hair Re
newer Ans:-one is the center OF the head
and the other is a head-scenter.
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Mrs. stoWe. the wonderons storv.teI-

Mrs. Stowe, the wonderous story-tel-
Ter, who has given greater usefulness
TO fiction than all its people except Bur-
ran, is again in health and honlefulness
at Hartford. She is now u years old I;
her husband is 81. At fifteen she was q
school teacher like Mrs Blaine in es-
seutials she was Of the west, where she
lfved seventeen years aud where she be-
gan TO write. Therefore her leading
characters start in Kentucky and es-
cape to Ohio
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LasalIe has signed for a six months engage
ment for America in 1856, for 100000.