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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01
EFFECTS OF POTASH.
A Very Satisfactory Fertilizer When APP
piled to Light Soils.

Very Satisfactory Fertilizer When APP
piled to Light Soils.
Seventeen farmers, representing
nine counties, reported the profitable
and continued use of either muriate Of
potash, kainit or unleached wood
ashes as fertilizer for potatoes, corn.
grass and fruit. Twelve farmers,
representing eight counties, favored
the use of muriate of potash. while
five, having used both muriate and
kainit, were satisfied that kainit gave
the larger returns for the money in
vested. The weight used per acre
pounds of muriate and from 300 to 500
pounds of kainit. The crops reported
as being especially benefited were
corn, potatoes, fruit, clover and oats.
Without exception the use of potash,
either alone or as an adjunct to ma
nures, was regarded as highly salts
factory and economical.
These results, gained from expert
ment, and confirmed by practice. while
only positive for the farms and crops
represented, should have significance
for those farmers who have not tested
their soils. because they not only dem
onstrate that soils differing widely
both in formation and previous treat
ment, respond proftably to applica-
tions of potash alone, but also indicate
general lack OF potash in the soils of
the State. consequently point out the
importance of soil tests by the farmers
themselves; for when maximum crops
can be secured by the application of
potash alone, it is poor economy to
apply complete fertilizers, costing $40
per ton. in which s. represents the
value of the potash.--Prof. G. H.
EonLy
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01
TOO MANY UNIFORM.
And to the Great Disgust of the Stranger
They All Were blue.


They All Were blue.
'ln the language OF the prophet"
remarked an urbane stranger yester-
day, as he heaved sigh and a rock
at a wandering cur simultaneously,
"blue uniforms with brass buttons are
altogether too promiscuous. l arrived
in Lincoln this morning. and started
out to find long-lost parent. For
time the search was fruitless. but final
ly | encountered a man in one of those
emblazoned blue suits. / had been
taught at my mothers knee that a
man so attired might be sized up as a
policeman, so ! approached him with
due humility and propOunded a simple
conundrum treating Of the location of
the man whom / hunted. He re-
garded me with unspeakable hau-
teur, and said: Il am no police
man; l am railway conductor.
Awe-struek and Inundated. l apollo
gized to him, and went my way. deter
mined to be more circumspect there
after Pretty soon | beheld a man
dressed in a raiment similar to that
worn by the conductor. and | thought
it might be a good scheme to question
him as to the time when my train left
town. l questioned him. He listened
to me with ill-concealed Indignation,
and when had spoken he sternly an
swered: You evidently take me for a
conductor or a time table; | am POI
liceman.' Thoroughly disheartened, 1
walked a block, and encountered an
other gentleman in a blue livery with
brass buttons. Surely said /, there
can be no mistake this time. | have
at last recognized policeman
Being thoroughly satisfied that my
judgment was correct, accost-
ed him, asking in low, we'll
modulated voice where | could find the
man sought. The officer viewed me
superciliously and said: Young man,
you have made mistake; | am the
Meat Inspector In my search | ran
across baggagemen, porters, district
messenger boys and elevator super
visors, all wearing blue clothes with
brass buttons, and you can't imagine
how relieved | felt when l finally col
lided with constable in gray clothes
who gave me the information | de-
sired. am convinced that an ordi-
nance should be passed making it a fell
ony for any body not a policeman to
wear policeman's garb." Then the
stranger heaved another sigh and
another rock and disappeared in the
blue distance. Nebraska State Jour
nal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01
Electric Road Carriages.

Descriptions of the new electric car
riage tor common roads. as given in
the English journals, show an ordinary
wagon or carriage body on springs. the
general appearance not differing much
from the ordinary four-wheeled vehicle
with the shafts removed. The motor
is placed in the center of the body of
the vehicle. Motion is communicated
10 one Of the rear wheels by means of
a small pinion on the main shaft of
the motor working into pitch chain,
which passes over a series of T-shaped
plates attached at intervals to the inner
face of the wheel, so as to constitute in
effect driving pulley for the pitched
chain to act upon. The motor can be
reversed so as to back the vehicle.
The power is stored in twenty-four
small accumulators of a special type,
occupying the space -adcr the seats,
and intended to be sufficient to propel
the vehicle at speed OF aucut ten
miles an hour for five hours. The
operation OF steering is effected by a
shaft which projects through the foot
board. and IS moved at will By hand
wheel A brake is also attached
worked with a lever ~. \. SIN
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01
Time. TIRELEss TRAMP.

. Time, thou running tramp so feet,
II thou would'st only lag awhiIel
lpause to ease my weary feet
And thou hast sped q mile
How long 4 journey may take
With thee Is life but Just one stages
Our next inn deaths New Hfe the break
OF daWnias age on ases
This globe thou sawcst IN the prime,
When molten. canient from the hand
OF Jah: and when hoar cOsmic rIme
Englassed the glacial land.
MnlsniaI cons round. like flowers.
Thou must have known in bud and bloom;
And secular days from crescent powers
Waning 70 sunless gloom
Didst chat VITA LIMA ere she grew
So chasteiy sad and ghostly cold
About her fairness ere she knew
The wrinkle Of growing olds
Art come 10 ages memory yet:
Wit gossip Of thine earliest dayst
The middle countless years forget
And sing Us primal laysi
A hundred thousand springs eclipse
In blank forgetfulness- Betrace
Some million stades, and on thy lips
and round thy youthful face
Let speak the word, let shine the light
That sang and shoue when stars we're bornl
Vert thou Beginnings eremite
Uuwed, alone, torlOrn.
How old vert thou when Adam played
With Flora ard the Fauus and Pan.
What time throued Jah from lustrOus shade,
Spake music unto mann
Beyond do vaster oceans ROLF
How long caust thou expect % hes
Time Tor body, Eternity FOR soul.
Hast reached maturity
Thou seems a Jacs<-0'- lantern thought,
Fer dancing over seas OF fern.
FItful, afearcd of getting cgUght
and DARK when thOI should 81 burn.
Did God eNAale thee while He slept,
The very vapur 81 IIi- breath.
THAT, breath % Life thou get hast Kept
The EIfn-uess Of DeathF
clifford Lanier, ia y =. Independent.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

walked in. sir. "a cool as could be.
Here he isr' for the clubhouse door had
burst open. and out dashed the true
Donal, not cool now. but leaping,
barking. wagging his tail till you won
dered it did not drop off, in his frantic
delight at finding again his beloved
master.
1t was very gratifying, but very en-
barrassing. Mr.. Dornley felt as if the
ponderous policeman had been in the
right to ask for his card.
However. the extraordinary resem-
blance between the two dogs would
have deceived any one. In this all
agreed. And if Mr.. Dornley had stolen
Donal No. .. at least he hGd stolen him
from a thief. which suraIy altered the
aspect of things!
Where had Donal, tn c We Donal.
been? That we have never known.
lie looked well and plump; but it was
hardly credible that he had strayed
away of his own free will, for his
rapture at being restored to his town
| family" was unmistakable.
Money was not spared in advertising
his double. But he was never claimed
by any one in the slightest degree able
to prove a right to him, and in the end
my friend and neighbor handed him
over to me. 1t took the dear fell
low some time to make himself at
home, for which l liked him the bet
ter. Many a day / saw in his deep,
gentle eyes the shadow of home-sick-
ness for the unknown master he had
been parted from, but by degrees he
acclimatized him self, and we are now
the best of friends; and il there can be
a dog so delightful as the Dornley's
ID onal, / will take it upon myself to say
that that dog is my Jock. Moles-
worth, in Time.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01
Value of Summer Mulching.

4 great deal of labor in hoeing and
cultivating may be saved by it. The
great objects of cultivation are to keep
down the weeds, and by breaking up
the surface of the earth make a natu-
raj mulch. II these two objects can be
accomplished in an easier way. the
extra labor can be profitably used in
other ways. Try some new methods
this summer and see if much labor can
not be saved. Where lumber is cheap
lay some boards down betw. ven some
large plants. tomato plants, for in
stance. Use some straw in the straw
berry beds, among the potatoes or be-
tween the rows of raspberries or cur
rants, always putting something on the
straw to hold it down so the wind will
not take it away. You will find that
the ground under the mulch will al
ways be moist, that the vegetation thus
treated will be thrifty, and that with
straw berries you will not have the I'M
pleasant sensation when eating them
that comes from getting sand instead
Of sugar between your teeth. Try it
on a small scale, at least, and see if
you do not like the method. Western
PlowmaD
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Two Hundred and Eighty Years of I'M



In 1909, after traversing the Hudson
River from its mouth to Albany, and care
fully noting the grandeur and beauty on
either side of this magnificent highway of
nature, Hendrick Hudson wrote these
words:
ut is as beautiful land rs one can tread upon ;"
Two hundred and eighty years have mar
velously increased the beauty of the great
river called by his name, aud could he re
turn to the scenes of his manhood, he
would ina many more lovely sights
than those upon which his eyes rested
in the early part of the seventeenth
century. The natural beauties OF the
Hudson are much the same, and no
description can exaggerate them; but the
magnificent steamers that ply between New
York and Albany, the innumerable sailing
craft that dot the surface of the mighty
river, the never-endlng clus tiers of canal
boats that are being lowed up and down,
the beautiful villas that one encounters at
every turn, the magnificent monuments,
perpetuatirg heroic deeds, that we find here
and there along the banks Of this nOblest
| river of the continent, add an endless va
riety to the scenery, and resistlesS charm
to the eve of the traveller.
The New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad runs along the bank Of the Hudson
river the entire distance between New Y Ork
and Albany, and is the great Trunk Line
that connects the metropolis OF the western
world with the famous health and pleasure
resorts of Central, Northern and Western
New York, including in It's list the Catskill
Mountains, Saratoga, Lake George, Sharon
and Richfield Springs, Lake Ontario, the
Berkshire Hills, Niagara Falls, the Thou
sand Islands, Lake Champlain, the River st.
Lawrence, and hundreds of others.
The New York Central is a part OF the
great national highway across the cOnti-
nent, and for the beauty of its scenery, the
| number and Importance of the cities through
which 1t passes, its almost total lack OF
grades and curves, this great fOur-track
railway is unsurpassed in Europe or Amer
1 ica
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01
WIT AND WISDOM.

Not by years but by disposition is
wisdom acquired
Learning is living a thing is not
learned until it becomes a part of our
selves.
Where there is room in the heart
there is always room in the house. -
Bucher.
People who are disposed to COM
plain never find a lack of subjects
Merchant Traveller.
We can not control the evil tongues
of others but a good life enables US to
despise them Cato.
The praises of others may tso of use
In teaching Us not what we are. but
what we ought to be.
/ The Office should seek the man. but
1t should inspect him thoroughly before
taking him. Century.
There are more promises made ev-
cry day than could be fulfilled in ecu.
fury. Rochester Post Express.
They that can give up essential lib
erty to obtain a little temporary safety,
deserves neither liberty nor safety
Franklin.
When We desire any thing. ON
minds run wholly on the sood circurl
stances OF it; when It's obtained. olI
minds run wholly on tho bad ones. =
Swift.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01
HOME AND FARM.


Make your hallway part OF !, or
house, and have it bright and inviting
20 a visitor.
"A diversity of crops distributes
work, receipts and expenses more even
ly through the year and through the
years.
Insecticides should be used before
the damage to fruit is done. 1t is too
late after the insect has found a retreat
in the fruit.
Making work a drudgery causes
more trouble in country homes than is
at first thought realized. Every one
should endeavor to do what she is best
fitted for.
If you wish to knit wooden yarn
that has been travelled, you can straight
en- it in this way: Wind it tightly
around clean board. wet it thorough
ly, and let it dry before taking it off
the board.
TO stop the bleeding of horse or
other stock from snag or wound. says
correspondent of the National Stock
man. make an application of dry horse
manure and it viii stop the bleeding
every time.
1t is cheaper and more economical
to hoe the corn than to allow grass
around the stalks. Even when corn is
cultivated in check rows it is some
times impossible to get all the grass
out except by the use of the hoe, es-
pecially if the corn is planted on old
sod land.
If the season is very rainy and the
grass watery, calves should not be all
lowed to eat unlimited quantities of it;
let them rather be restrained little
and receive some fine, sweet hay and
| dry bran. Neither should they be al
lowed to lie outdoors in long cold
rains, either day or night
Pie plant: Wash well. and cut in
half-inch pieces Sprinkle over it a
small spoonful of saleratus. and pour
on sufficient boiling water to cover it.
Let stand one minute, stir we'll, and
drain in colander. Have ready a
thick strip, made of graduated sugar,
pour in the well-drained pie plant, and
boil slowly till it is tender, but not
broken.
Whenever ground that is heavily
covered with green growth is plowed
under it will pay to broadcast at least
ten bushels of lime per acre over the
ground. Lime assists in decomposing
the plants that are turned under. and
acts on the soil in manner to induce
it to yield up a greater proportion of
nutrition for the support of the next
crop.
-Strawberr Dumplings: Put one
pint of sifted -four into bowl, rub in
to it two ounces OF butter add a tea
| spoonful of salt, heaping teaspoonful
of baking powder and sufficient milk
to mOisten, about one gill, mix quick
| ly, take out on a board and roll out in
/ to a sheet n quarter of an inch in
thickness, cut into cakes with round
biscuit cutter, put about three straw
| berries in each cake, fold them over
neatly and steam about twenty min
| utes.
TO have pasture we'll stocked with
| grass the pasture should be divided in
to two sections, which allows the grass
to grow in one while the cattle are
grazing on the other. When grass is
kept too close, and constantly tram
pied by the animals. it is liable to be
killed should a drought come. BY al
ternating stock on pastures the grass
will grow better and the animc's Sc
/ cure more food with less labor
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01
NS
BEAUTY OF LIlAC.BLIGHT
An Excellent Illustration of Mycelial Webs
and Threads.

and Threads
To begin, let us revert to the lilac
bush, whose whitened leaves NAV
readily afford illustration of mycelial
webs and threads. BY September, II
not sooner, the entire foliage will have
taken on its peculiar whiteness as il
thiclSly busted with chalk or flour.
On certain leaves, however, appear
suspicious-looking dark-brown specks
or grains, very small, but plainly WISH
Bile to the naked eye. Removing some
of these granules to the microscope,
we find the field filled with tiny sculpt-
ured spheres ornamented 9th a pro-
fusion of long, interlocking filaments.
starting out like so many extended
radii of each sphere. A gentle pressure
on the cover-glass breaks the sphere and
forthwith a dozen tiny sacs appear,
each packed with transparent oval
indicated spores, just such spores and
quite such sacs as appeared in the
fruiting surface of the morel, and we
are ready with the botanist to call the
granules fruit. Who could have
guessed the contents of that sphere?
But look again at those radiating or
namental filaments. Trace TO its distal
end single ray. and see the grapnels
by which the fertile globule we have
studied holds fast to the surface of its
host through storm and food. Notice
the elegant curves, the symmetrical
branching. fit model for the artist in
arabesque or filigree. What more
beautiful or more efficiently suggest
ivel-Prof T. III. Mcbride, in Popular
Science Monthly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

The Star of Fort Gaines. Ga. has
a new editor, and a passage from his
salutatory is as follows: I'VE feel
like we have claims upon the people
Of Georgia. having been a preacher
and pastor for forty-four years; and
having in that time baptised over 1000
people. we feel, as Paul said. If any
others have claims we have more, hav-
ing labored more sbundantly. But
now being too old and ugly longer TO
be pastor. we turn in this new
direction hoping still to be able to do
some good in the world, and to make
an honest living for ourselves and
family. There will be, so soon as we
can get under way. religious corner
In the paper for Sabbath reading
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Ease. says the 5 5. Times, signi.
fes waste power. or, at least. strength
unused. Generally he who does any
thing easily is doing less than his best
Not until we feel the burden of over
coming a difficulty can we know thai
we are doing as well as we might do.
1t were better to have it said that you
write well than that you write easily
for though you may write compare,
lively well with comparative ease. j.
would be a greater achievement Il
write better. with comparative diff
Guilty,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

To be earnest yet kind, enthusiastic
yet patient, bold yet moderate. to have
strong desires yet strength also to con-
troll them, to be courageous in word
and deed yet able at proper times to be
silent and stilI-this is moral heroism
of which few are possessors. Once a
Week
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

Be gentle in stimulating the Xxi sys, 9th
erwise you will excite and weaken them
The happiest results follow the use OF Hos
letters Stomach Bitters to overcome rena
inactivity Avoid the unmedicated, fiery
stlmulants of commerce. The kidneys have
a delicate membrane easily irritated, ano
upon this the action of such eXcitants Is per
nicious. Malarial complaints, indigestion
rheumatism, neuralgia and bllIousness sue
cumb to the corrective influence of the Bit
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

1t will be sign of progressive
farming when the owner of swine
saves clover for his hogs IN winter, or
goes further and preserves in silo
sweet corn with which to winter and
help his hogs. The possibilities of
hog rearing with the right kind OF
eusrsge are beyond reckoning.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

droop into invaHdism or sink into an early
grave for want of timely care at the mosi
critical stage of her life DIR. Pierce's Fd
vorite Prescription will aid III regulating hel
health and establishing it ON firm basis
and may save her years OF chronic suffer
ing and consequent unhappiness.
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Heirs Wanted,

information is wanted of the whereabouts
of Johanna Wilson. daughter of Mark
Sweeney, wife of Thomas Wilson, born in
Limerick Co, Ireland She is, if living
heir to an estate. If dead, her children or
next of kin are wanted. Address, w. J.
CovIL, Webster City, Iowa.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

-Irresolution on the schemes OF life
which offer themselves to our choice.
and Inconsistency in pursuing them,
are the greatest cause of all our I'm
happiness. addison.
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hard TO understan.i

"Qu'ah thing bout dissher law bust
ness" said Uncle Jonas.
Whats the matter. Uncle? Have
they been mixing you up?"
Oats jess what l doan un'stan'
it,
What don't you understand"
"Why pays de lawyer ten dollars
ter git me out er trubbIe. and de Judge
goes ahead anyhow an does les ez he
pleases erbout Merchant Tray
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

sPExxY wise and pound foolish are
those who think 1t economy TO use cheap SODA
and rosin soaps. instead of the good old Doo.
bins' Electric Soap: for sale since 1864. Try
it once Be sure. Buy genuine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

"A CASTLE (N. " chap wrote a
proposal of marriage and then put the
letter in his pocket where it remained
for eight months. 1t was then sent by
mail. reaching the girl several months
after her marriage TO another man.
The young woman packed up and
eloped with the delinquent proposer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

THE codling moth does not lay its eggs
till the blossoms fall, and the spraying
should not be done till the fruit is the size
Of small peas.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

A LATE New Hampshire paper advises
young men not to 90 West to make their
fortunes, but to stay at hone and earn
money TO loan the people out West on their
mOrtgaOes
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

YOU hardly realize that it IS medicine,
when taking Carriers Little Liver Pills they
are very small; no bad effects; all troubles
from torpid liver are relieved BY their use.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

THERE are five girls in one of the Humph-
ries families, of Fleming County, Ky, and
their names are Arkansas, Louisiana,
Tennessee, Florida and Virginia
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

PAIN in the Side nearly always comes from
adisordered liver and IS promptly renewed by
Garter Little Liver Pills. Don't forget tins
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

CHEss-so named from its principal piece
nring)-was one Of the earliest inventions
of the Hindoos, being devised by a Brahmin.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

WE only know ourselves and what we
really are when the force of circumstances
brings US out.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

TIE Russian Government proposes to
take steps for rendering the rivers Of
sNoeria navigable and connecting them by
canals
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

Mrs. MARSHALL. O. RoBEKTs, who is often
pointed out as tie most desirable part
among fashionable widows, has Il life in
terest in 81 100000
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

THE two elderly Misses Rhiuelander have
G.. 900, 600 between them, and bid fair to leave
& to collateral heirs with wonderfully fat
accumulations.