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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-12-26
A MOTHERS HERolsM.
How Good Woman Sacrificed Her Life
to Assist Her son.

to Assist Her SON.
A friend relates to me case of female
eroism, of quite recent date, which
somewhat reminds me of a much older
case, in which Mrs. Disraeli was the
heroine. In the Quarter Latin of
Vienna, the quarter around the Wiener
Allgemeines Krankenhaus, there lived
an aged widow and her only son, a
medical student. They were so poor
that the mother was obliged to sew
almost day and night, and the son gave
lessons, which occupied the time nee
essary for his studies in order to enter
university life.
On the Continent poor students are as
frequent to be found as in Scotland, and
in Vienna they form the majority. A
good number of mere boys may be seen
running about from one end of the city
to the other, giving lessons whilst they
are themselves still pupils at the gym
nasium (the continental grammar
SCHOOL,, and of the university students
at least two-thirds are defraying the eX-
penses of their studies out of their own
earnings, This works satisfactorily
SO long as the minor examinations have
TO be passed, but when the students
have the Doktor-Examen or the Stats
Examen before them, assistance be-
comes necessary, as studying hard and
examining others have proved to be in
compatible. In such cases, the poor
mother or the sister, perhaps a seam
stress or dressmaker, or may be the
bride-elect, who is also dependent on
needle-work, will for months strain her
eyes and work her fingers to the bone
to allow the candidate, who is the pride
of the family, and may in days to Come
be its support, to devote himself entirely
to his books TO prepare for his examina
ton.
The son of this poor widow was such
candidate, and whilst he was diligently
applying himself to his studies, the final
examination being very near, the mother
deprived herself of the pleasure of
even seeing him. One evening
the poor old woman pricked
her finger with her needle. Soon her
hand became swollen and the woman
sought medical advice at a hospital.
There she was told the finger
must be amputated and she
insisted upon the operation be-
ing performed at once, SO that the ac-
cident might be concealed from her son.
Twenty-four hours later the whole hand
was gangrenous and had to be taken off.
Not a whisper of this misfortune was
allowed TO reach her sons ears.
At last the examination day for the
doctors degree arrived. The young
man left for the university after taking
a hasty farewell Of his mother, and he
had hardly quilted the house before the
doctors arrived to amputate the arm OF
the silent old sufferer 1t was an ad-
vanced hour of the day when the son
came home radiant with Joy to tell his
mother that their days of anxiety and
want were at an end; that he had passed
with honOrs, and that it would now be
his turn 10 provide for his parent But
the one to whom he intended TO COM
municate his JOY was no more. Even the
last operation was made too late. and
blood poisoning was the consequence of
her endeavors to hide her pains from
her studious son.-Vienna Cor. London
Standard.
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branches, and covered with smooth,
lark brown bark, that of the square or
angied shoots being red and marked
during the second year by numerous
white dots. The leaves are confined to
The ends of the branches. They are
round-ovate, abruptly acuminate, sharp
ly and doubly serrate, pinnately straight
veined, the prominent veins connected
by conspicuous transverse veinlets; six
inches long when fully grown by
nearly as much broad. They are densely
scurfy-pubescent when they first appear,
as are the broad, stout petioles, the in
horescence, buds and shoots of the year.
The flowers are produced in radial
,ymes, the marginal being neutral, with
enlarged, fiat hydrangea-like corollas,
an inch or more across. The infores-
,ence begins TO unfold late in April or
Early in May, the neutral flowers OPEN
ing first. The leaves are then an inch
Or an inch and a half long, and con-
spicuous from the broad, prominent
veins covered with dense brown to-
nentum. The flowers are fully open
month later, and the fruit ripens in
September. 1t is coral red as 1t reaches
maturity, turning dark crimson or
purple when fully ripe, ovOid, rather
1attened and half an inch long. The
stone is fattened, three-grooved on one
face, deeply and broadly grooved on the
other.
Ti5urnum ldRtdn0ides is found in the
forests of New Brunswick and Canada,
extending southwark through the APP
palachian Mountains as far as the high
peaks of North Carolina and Tennessee,
where it attains on the high Western
.lopes of the Big Smoky Mountains its
greatest development, and where
specimens fully fifteen feet high of al
most arborescent habit are not uncom-
non.
1t approaches the coast at a few points
in Eastern Massachusetts. but its true
home IS far north, or on the high mount
aims. The hobblebush delights in
"a cher moist soil and in the deep shade
# deciduOUs trees, where it often quite
sovers the ground, and enlivens in early
spring the forests of sugar maple, beech
and birch of Northern New England,
New York and of the shores of the great
lakes, with its snowy white flowers,
and again with the deep, rich claret
.oloring of its unsurpassed autumn foil
age.
Mr. Dawson has tried various exper-
iments in his attempts to cultivate this
plant. He finds that when it is grated
upon ITJUrRUm deRtatHm it grows much
more vigorously than it does upon its
own roots, but that it will not unite
with " Ldntaad. Grated plants two
years old are already larger than wild
plants taken from the woods five or six
years ago.
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A WESTERN TRAGEDY.
The Skeletons of Three Pioneer Miner
Found in the Wilderness.

The Skeletons of Three Pioneer Miners
Found in the Wilderness.
Some news and sad leaf of history in
the Ives of three pioneer miners was
relat i in the rotunda of the Palmer
Hous" by William Hammond, Chey-
emo (Wyo.) cattle-owner.
Mr. Hammond said that the day he
left Cheyenne for Chicago, the skeletons
of Charles Burns, Nathan Fubbard and
George Cantline we're found in a dense
wilderness $50 miles from Fort Kla-
math. 'These are the men, said the mar
rator. ''who left Linkville. Ore. in the
spring of 1856 to search for the tradition
al Lost Cabin" gold mines in the Wolf
mountains of Wyoming. In Burns
valise was a diary posted to August,
1856, giving a chronicle Of the search for
the fabulous treasure. The death
mystery is unfa thomable. Half a
century ago the Lost Cabin" mines
were opened by the Hudson Bay Com
pany's trappers. They were driven out
by the aborigines. Upon returning they
could not find their homes or claims.
None but Indians knew the secret now.
Chief COloron. when living, annually
visited the Lost Cabin" making his
marches at night Time and time again
the crafty old Ute chief eluded the
whites who were following him. Moth
ing would induce him to reveal the To-
cation of the mines. Wealthy miners
have QUILTED parties TO search for the
treasure, and some prospectOrs have
spent the major part of their life in
searching the Wolf mountains for the
hidden treasure. The remains of these
men were wrapped in blankets and were
found by pIospectOrs who are on SINH
lar mission..-Chicago Times
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packages returned 20 the Office A boy
swung the solitary mailbag on his
shoulder and sauntered of Casting
half-curioUS. half-stClid glances at the
newcomer the usual crowd of depot
Ioungers wilted away. Only the dray-
man loading ''Store-.ruck'' remained.
And old Rafferty,. with Hanna perched
up beside him. headed the horses for
home.
AN how did We lave AL the irinds in
Coolathogle. Hanna? Is Father O'Flynn
still parish prieste Dead, An Tom
Grady? a noice little bye Tom was
must be most a man now. What mar
ried-an' ten childther! Bless me. Han
ma. An the Murphys-hOw's the MUIR
phys. Hanna
They were beyond the crush OF coun-
try vehicles. The horses were slowly
pounding their way up the hill, which
might be the boundary line Of the
world the iumping-of place into in
finite space for all save sky she could
see over its sweeping curve. A rabbit
scudded across the road and away
through The short dun grass From the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-12-26
FARM AND GARDEN.
uBuRNuM LANTANo,DEs.


History and Description of One of
Shrubs.
1t is singular fact, says Garden
and Forest, that with the exception of
the poor figure in Audubon's Birds"
no portrait has been published before of
this shrub, which is by tar the
handsomest of the North American
viburnums, and one of the most beautiful
plants of our flora. The fact that it is
impatient of cultivation the hob
blebush, or moose-wood, as this vibur-
mum is often called at the North, is the
most difficult of all our native shrubs to
probably accounts for this
lack of figures, as American plants have
been figured generally in European pub
locations from specimens obtained in
European gardens. ViJurnum IaatG-
nodes was not included in either edition
of the ''Hortus Kewensis," and it is
doubtful if it has lowered in a garden
very often Ia small plant lowered IN
the Arnold Arboretum this year,, or
that many persons who are not familiar
with our woods in early spring have
ever seen it in all its beauty.
1t is tall, stout shrub, with naked
winter buds, reaching occasionally to
a height of twelve to fifteen feet, with
short, tortuous stems, rather bare of
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-12-26

creek below came the cheerful chirp of
q quail. ''All well. sor-the Murphys,
the Morans, the Sheehys-"
Hanna
Something of shrinking came into
Hanna's fresh young face. but she turned
to him eyes wholly questioning and in
nOcent.
'Sor?''
Hanna" and his voice was appalling
ly stern, almost threatening. ''niver let
me hear We mention them individuals
again-niver! The Sheehys air the
natheral-bOrn enemies of our family
Ne grandmother told me the GOODNESS
began at the battle of ClOntarf Our an
cesthors were rival Kings, / bleeve.
However, the feud grew downwards.
Tim Sheehy's fathers bull thrampled
down my fathers wheat. an my father
had the trespasser fined at the assizes.
Then there was Tim an me. / beat Tim
at hurlin', an WHATEVER does he do but
go an marry Sarah Connolly. foiner
girrul We couldn't fOind in the three par
ishes-gOod enough fur his betthers.
Don't you talk of the Sheehys to me,
Hanna-don't!"
Hanna didn't. Her full red lips were
set in a stubborn line, but her eyes,
genuine blue-gray Irish eyes they were,
blazed with mutinOus Indignation.
WESTWARD, past the bare new Methodist
church, thu square solemn school-house,
a couple of little bOx-like houses, then
they were out of the town proper and
driving directly northward. When they
crossed a small bridge, and turning to
the right passed between w /, looming
haystacks into great shadowy farm
yard. it was already evening. A wind,
PIE sudden chill, sharp wind which fol-
lows sunset in Nebraska, had sprung
up. Fading into fathomless gray was
the one bar Of duh rose which streaIed
the Western sky. And overhead a
silver moon
" Lay out there like a sickle for His hand
Who cOmeth down at last to reap the world'
In the comfortable fire-Iit, lamp-lit
kitchen Mrs. Rafferty, awaited them.
She was an American, a little, thin,
white-faced old woman clad in the in
evitable print wrapper of the Western
hOusekeeper. A brisk, quick. weary,
good little soul, worn out as are
most American women by overwork,
burned out by Overanxiety to do more
and do il better. And now here was aid
here relief, here younger, stouter arms.
$50 this is Hanna She went up to
her and kissed her '.How do you do,
my dear? I'm tickled TO see you. You're
tired out, | expect Is she like your
cousin, Pat?1
..Loike" echoed old Rafferty,. ''She's
his dead Twin image. She's as loike
my cousin Moike as young cottonwood
is loike an old cottonwood
You remember William, don't you,
Hanna?' Mrs. Rafferty, said. as from an
adjoining room came a spruce. trim,
dandiied young man. lie was dressed
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-12-26
How Turkish Harems Are FILLED.

The polygamous Turkish Beys and
Agas, whose hitherto regular supply of
Circassian girls from the Caucasus has
been cut off from them since the annex
alton of the province by Russia, nave re-
course now to a bold system of capture.
They swoop down on an Armenian viii
lage, with their armed acoytes. and carry
off to their harems, by main force,
as many good looking girls and women as
they can lay hands on. This is per-
mitted to them; and the modus operandi
by which the abduction of Armenian
girls is rendered legal by the Moslem
judges may be summed up as follows:
When the relatives present themselves
in court to claim the abducted victim.
the captors are ready with brace OF
Moslem witnesses lone hundred could
be produced if wantedl, who declare on
oath that the kidnapped woman pro-
nounced in their presence the regular
formula of the Moslem faith: There is
no God but God, and Mohammed Is his
prophet" The judge thereupOn dis
misses the case on the ground that the
stolen and captured girl has by that pro
fession abiured her former faith and
embraced Mohammedanism. Ard the
verdict of these upright judges is not to
be set aside.-New Review.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-12-26
a GOOD FEED DISH.
An important Aid in the Rearing q
Poultry.

An important Aid in the Rearing of
Poultry,
Every thing which aids in the devel-
opment of the poultry business and in
,reases its profits is hailed with interest.
The accompanying design shows an east
iy-made arrangement for holding grain,
which is of much value as a saver Of
time and economy, because it keeps the
food before the fowls clean. The trough
labeled A is two inches deep and the
front of the supply box reaches the top
of this trough. This leaves a free pass
age for grain from the chest into the
trough. The dotted line, b, shows
where the board is placed which carries
the grain into the trough as fast as it is
eaten out by the fowls.
The platform, C., is where the hens
stand while eating. 1t must not be
wide, or they will form the habit of sit
ting upon it. The board marked ID is a
shelf extending over the trough and
must be wide enough to prevent all
filth from reaching the food.
The cover of the box may extend a
little over the front TO facilitate its
opening. 1t should always be inclined
at steep pitch to prevent the fowls
from roosting upon it. The back of the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-12-26

When the New Year arrives in Japan
the people adorn their houses with
branches Of orange, plum, bamboo and
pine, each of which, being placed oven
the entrance, has a symbolic meaning.
The orange, called dGi-daf, represents
the idea Of perpetuity, or the wish that
there may be neutrality-suspicious. OF
generation to keep up the family name.
The bamboo signifies constancy. as il is
a wood that never changes its color
the pine tree symbolizes perpetual JOY
while the plum tree, blossoming in cold
weather, encourages man 10 rejoice II
time of trouble, and hope for better
days.
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The Closing Of the Year.


To the young the years speed not fast
enough; to the old they are all too short.
The young employ the closing of one
year in ambitious planning for the next,
the aged muse over the events of the
past and contemplate the mysteries OF
the future. In the lives OF some the
year has proved a memorable one, while
in those of others il is suggestive of no
special events. The hopes of one have
reached fruitiOn, the aspirations of
another have fallen short of success,
and thus the last day of December
brings alike pleasant and sad memories.
Whatever the year of 1889 has brought
to us, there is a valuable lesson to be
learned. If any undertaking upon
which we entered has proved unsuc-
cessful, we can now, on looking back
over the ground, see more clearly the
cause of our failure. No lesson is so
forcibly learned as that born of expert,
enc A past failure Ofttimes points to
a future success, if we but profit by the
lesson. No year is wasted which brings
to US clear realization of our indi vidual
worth and it's best employment. The
experiences of the old year will make
our successes during the new more as
sured, for we will have learned W hat
shoals to avoid in the sea of life. If our
bark has just ground over the rocky
reefs with but slight injury, let us feel
thankful that we were not entirely
wrecked. To be successful, the truth has
been taught that the best success is that
which is born with modesty and hum.
BILE exterior. 1t is a poor success that
brings with it an outward self-conscious-
ness of our talents or gifts. The most
admired and beloved men and women
are those who combine prosperity with
mOdesty. And thus to all the year can
be fruitful Of good results, if we but ex-
tract from our individual experiences
only that which will be best and most
profitable for US to remember. Then we
shall be the better prepared to enter
upon the New Year with wisdom. zeal
and energy.-Ladies' Home journal.
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Tho portug,l,

The Portuguese give all their SOW
ereigns special tiles, supposed to be in
dicative of Z cir dominant character
istics. Thu here have been Dom John
the Restore. fof the Braganza line), Al
fonso the vict, ~ious, Pedro the Reform
er, Mary the T. Gus, John the Clement
and Pedro the Unfortunate. The es-
Unable king who has just died will be
known as Luis the Good.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-12-26

A new book of attractive reading, brim-
full Of good things worth knowing and illus
trated, is just issued 1t contains large
collection Of valuable autographs, excellent
receipts for plain dishes, humOr in ryhme
and prose. month"; calendars, and can be
had of all druggists and dealers, or, by
sending twO-cent stamp 70 the publishers.
An important feature of the work is its
offer of Free Music, which offer is set forth
therein, and by procuring the book, at once,
any one can BE- supplied with a choice selec-
ton. The little volume is the st Jacobs
Oil Calendar for lSS9-90, published by The
Charles A. Vogeler Company, Baltimore
Nd. It is fully the equal Of any Of its
predecessors in the interest of the Great
Remedy for Pain, St Jacobs Oil, whose
virtues never abate, and whose popularity
never wanes. The demand for both book
and medicine is very great
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-12-26
A GOOD FEED DISH.

box, as is shown, should be a few inches
higher than the rest of it, with one or
two auger holes so It can be hung up on
heavy spikes or wooden pins. 1t should
be hung no less than two feet from the
floor and can be made of any length. A
square box for the top of post out OF
doors can be made on the same princi-
ple.-Farm and Home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-12-26
A NEW YEARS WEDDING.
Old Rafferty, Plays an Important
Role in a Conspiracy.

L Il L l. f was
booming, and il
was Christmas
Eve in Bubble.
The certainty of
the former ac-
centuated the
pleasure Of the
latter fact Crops
had been good.
and the fcsti-
val meantcheer.
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Consumption surelv cured.

To THE EDITOR Please inform your
readers that have a positive remedy for
the above named disease. BY its timely
use thousands of hopeless cases have been
permanently cured. / shall be glad to send
two bottles Of my remedy PREF to any OF
your readers who have consumption if they
will send me their express and post-office
address. Respectfully, T. A. SLoCUM. NJ. c,
Isl Pearl street New York.
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HY need II be7'' we say. and sigh
When loving mothers fade and die,

They hoped 70 guide in pathways sweet
US women are dying daily whose lives
might have been saved. 1t seems To he a
widespread opinion that when a woman is
slowly fading away with the diseases which
grow out OF female weaknesses and irregu-
larlties that there is no help for her. She
is doomed to death. But this is not true.
DIR. Pierce's FavOrite Prescription is con
stantly restoring women afflicted with dis
eases of this class 10 health and happiness
1t is the only medicine for their ailments,
sold by druggists, under positive GUARANTEES
from the manufacturers of its giving salts
faction in every case, or money paid for it
will be refunded.
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A Subsequent Discovery.

Archie de Veu (jealously)-Who was
that scare-crow you just met on the
stairs?
Mabel Blossom - That was an old
friend of mine.
Archie de Veu-Ah' indeed (sarcas-
tically), was he the ugliesr man you
could find?
Mabel Blossom (sweetly)-Yes; but
that was before l met you, Archie
Time.
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straw for stock.

Being short of hay one season, says
contributor to the Rural New Yorker,
wintered all my stock, horses, cows and
eight steers, almost entirely on cut
straw and meal. The steers were fatted,
and never had any cattle gain faster
The COWS gave a good yield of milk and
did Just as well as if they had been sup
piled with all the hay they could eat. }
am firmly convinced that most farmers
who do not use silage could feed grea
deal of cut straw and meal with more
profit than hay. Mr.. Waldo (. Brown
tells of farmer in Ohio who, after hi
wheat ground is prepared, and before
drilling in the seed, buIns thin coat
ing of straw all over the field, anc
thinks it uays we'll for the straw and thu
labor OF putting it on by the Increased
yield Of grain and the destruction of in.
sect nets
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Is it economy to save a few cents buying a
cheap soap or strong washing powder aud
lose dollars in ruined rOtted clOthesi If not
use DObbins' Electric Soap, white as snow,
and as pure. Ask your grocer for it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-12-26

DoN'T swear you know a thing is true
because you believe il. You wouldn't know
you were living If your wife didn't pull
your hair sometimes.-Texas Siftings.
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To Dispel Colds,

Headaches and Fevers, to cleanse the sys-
TEN effectually, yet gently, when costive or
bilious, or when the blood is impure or
sluggish, to permanently cure habitual
constipation, 70 awaken the kidneys and
liver TO healthy activity without irritating
or weakening them, use Syrup of Figs.
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THROAT DISEASES commence with a Cough
Cold or Sore Throat. "BroWn's Bronchial
Troches" give immediate relief. Sold only
in bOTes. Price % cts.
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THE man who claims the right to think
for himself should be tolerant towards
those who disagree with him.-BostonT rav
eller
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THE preen cabbage worm Is discouraget

THE green cabbage worm is discouraged
BY the following treatment: Tw'
quarts Of coal-tar are put into an opel
vessel, which is set in the bottom of ;
barrel, and the barrel is filed with
water. In forty-eight hours the water
is impregnated with the odor Of th'
tar. although the tar is not dissolved IL
it. The water is then sprinkled abun
dainty on the cabbages, and the odo,
penetrates every portion of the head
killing or driving away the worms A
the water evaporates no stain or odo
remains on the cabbages- The sam'
quantity Of coal-tar can be made 70 i'm
pregnate several successive barrels o
water.