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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-29
FIRM IN THEIR FAITH.

The Presbyterian General Assembly De-
cides to Revise the Confession of Faith.
but on Lines In which the Integrity of
the CaIvanistic Doctrine shall Not BE
Impaired.
SARATOGA, N. Y, May 26.-Every
Presby terian in the land will breathe
more freely after reading the proceed
ings of the general assembly of Satur-
day. The great question of the rows
ion of the confession of faith, which
seemed much more formidable
than the wedge which split this
powerful ourch into old school
and new school half a century
ago, has not only been happily dis
posed of for the moment, but appears to
have been placed in the way of per-
manent adjustment that will be salts
factory to the conservative and radical
elements alike. When the assembly
met Saturday the report of the commit
tee to which the several resolutions
relative to the appointment of
referred was received. The report
provided for the appointment of a COM
mission to formulate amendments to
the Confession of Faith" the commits
sion to report to the general assembly
of 1891. The instructions TO the com
mittee are that it shall not propose any
alterations or amendments that will in
any way impair the integrity of
the reformed or Calvinistic system
of doctrine taught in the Confession of
Faith.p The committee is to consist of
fifteen ministers and ten elders, to be
chosen by nominating commission
designated by the moderator. The
committee on revision is to meet not
later than October 81, 1890.
Great applause followed the reading
of the report. DIR. McCracken heartily
seconded the paper and DIR. Erskine
proceeded to address the assembly
in its support He was interrupted
by cries of Question, and soon yielded
to the assembly's impotence to get to
vote The report was unanimously
adopted and the assembly sang praise
God from whom all blessings flow"
The committee on bills and overtures
reported in favor of a consensus creed
The question was put and the report
adopted by an almost unanimous vote.
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THE EAST.

FLAMES destroyed the large freight
house of the New York Central rail-
road at Albany, \. V, with it's con-
tents on the 23d. Loss, s175,0J0.
Robbins circus train was wrecked
near Epping, n. H., on the 22d, causing
heavy loss to the owner.
MRs. CHARLOTTE SMITH celebrated
her Tooth birthday on the 22d in New
York City. There were present the
cen tenarian's son, thirty-four grand
children, thirty-One great-grandchil-
dren. sixteen great-great-grandchildren
and thirty nephews and nieces-
The death of Mrs. Anne Marie
Tucker, the last of the famous tribe OF
Indians that once owned and inhabited
Staten Island. occurred on the Esd al
South Beach, n. Y, aged 1O2 years.
A BOAT upset on the esd at Provi-
dence, r. L., and Mrs Della Manuel and
Miss Mamie Huling were drowned. Mrs.
Huling who was also in the boat, es-
capped by clinging to her dog, which
swan with her to shore.
On the 2Sd the strike of the 5000 en-
plOyes of the National tube works at
McKeesport Pa. ended, the men re-
suming work at the Old rates.
Ox the 2Sd the heaviest rain and cleo
trical storm known in years passed over
a large section of Western Pennsyl-
vania, doing great damage to property
and resulting in the loss of several
lives.
FoR the week ended on the oath the
percentages of the base ball clubs in the
Players League were: Boston. .6i5;
Brooklyn, .592; New York, sos; Chi
cago, .52l; Philadelphia, $50; Cleve-
land. .42s: Pittsburgh, S63; Buffalo,
$50. The clubs in the National League
stood: Philadelphia, 500; Brooklyn,
.5G5: New York. $50; Chicago. .545; Gin.
cinnati. .54i; Boston, .423; Cleveland,
400: Pittsburgh. .347.
Ar Saratoga on the cath the Presby-
terrain General Assembly agreed to APP
point a commission to formulate amend
ments to the Confession of Faith" the
commission to report to the general as
sembiy of 1891.
THnTY-sEvEN buildings at Port Ley
den. y. Y. were burned on the 25th.
Is Pittsburgh, Pa, over 800 illegal
liquor sellers were arrested during the
week ended on the cath.
EARLY on the morning of the 25th
GlOversville, y. Y, was visited by a
severe shock of earthquake. Large
buildings were shaken. people were
thrown out. of chairs and out of bed
and glass was shattered.
AT Johnstown. Pa, rain-storm on
, the 25th flooded streets, filed cellars
and did much damage, the water being
up To the first floor in fifty houses.
I On the cath Ellis Island, in New
I York harbOr. was turned over to th1
/ United States Government as a landing
place for immigrants.
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Going upstairs l met a servant com.
ing down with terror-stricken face.
''Mr. Brown is deadl' she screamed,
as she rushed by me.
1t was day of confusion at the Bur-
ney boarding house. There was an in
quest, and to our unutterable horror the
fact came out that Brown had died OF
starvation
The poor, proud thing had pawnsd
his overcoat and sold his books, and hid
cult boarding at the house to conce al
his poverty. How he had managed 20
live during these weeks we could not
tell
But the letter-that was the saddest
thing of all 1t was from big lawyer
| in Washington, and il told Brown that
his patent after long contest had been
granted, and an immense sum of money
had been offered for the invention
some electrical appliance. In conclu-
sion, the lawyer offered TO honor q
draft for as high sum as ten thousand
dollars.
One day too latel After his brave and
silent fight, Brown had died in all the
bitter sorrow of defeat. One good din
ner would have saved him-saved him
to enjoy his triumph and roll in wealth.
.'How could we know-how could we
understand it?"
These questions were on our lips all
that day.
Brown died like pauper, but he was
buried like gentleman. We all went
to the funeral-all the boarders, and
even the creditors, and many of the good
people of the town.
1t is comfort to me now to think
that at the last we did our duty to
Brown. He turned out surprisingly, but
how were we to know any thing about
it? The fact is, nobody knows any
thing about anybody until it is too late.
Wallace z. Reed, in Atlanta Constitu-
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

IN England the list anniversary OF
the birth of Queen Victoria was cele-
brated on the 2lst.
BUESos AYREs advices of the 21st say
that twenty-six people were killed and
forty-one wounded in the recent upris-
ing at Puerto Allegro.
AT the inquest on the 22d it was
shown that fifty-six persons lost their
lives in the recent Montreal insane asy.
lum fire.
The 6Ooth anniversary Of the found
ing OF the University of the Montpelier,
in France, was celebrated on the 22d.
IN Nova Scotia the party which favors
closer commercial relations with the
United States elected thirty out of thir-
ty-eight members of the Provincial Par.
lament on the 22d.
DURING services in a church at st.
Mahlen, Germany, on the 22d thunder.
storm came up and the building was
struck by lightning. Six persons were
killed and twenty injured.
SMITH, WADE & Co., of Quebec, Can,
lumber dealers, failed on the ed for
So 0OO. OOn
FIRE destroyed the Bianchi Company's
sugar store houses at Car enaS, Cuba,
on the cath. Lo 100000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-29
HOW TO USE GLUE.
Valuable Hints for Mechanics and Anna
tour Cabinet Makers.


All the glue as received from the fac
tory requires tho addition of water be-
fore it will ElclS properly, and every
addition OF water (while the glue is
fresh madel will, mp to certain point,
increase tho adhesiveness and elias
ITCHY; and it is the duty of every man
who uses glue to find out just where the
point lies, as it is possible to melt glue
and have it so thick that after it is dry
or set it will be so brittle as not to adj
here to the wood. Some CLUES will bear
more water than others, but all will
bear more than usually falls to their
share, and that, too, with greater in
crease in the quality of the work For
glue to be properly effective it requires
to penetrate the pores of the wood, and
the more body of glue penetrates the
wood the more substantial the joint will
remain. Glue that takes the longest to
dry is to be preferred to CLUES that dry
quickly, the slow-drying CLUES being al
ways the strongest, other things being
equal. For general use TO method
gives such good results as the follow
ing: Break the glue up small, put into
an iron kettle, cover the glue with
water and allow it TO soak twelve hours;
after soaking boil until done. Then
pour into an air-tight box, leave the
cover off until cold; then cover up tight
As gls is required cut a portion and
melt in tne usual way. Expose no mo
of the made glue to the atmosphere
any length of time than is necessary,
the atmosphere is very destructive to
made glue. Never heat made glue in a
pot that is subjected TO the direct heat
of fire or lamp. All such methods of
heating glue can not be condemned in
terms too severe. Do not use thick glue
for joints or veneering. in all cases
work it well into the wood in sim
liar manner to what painters do with
paint. Glue both surfaces of your work,
excepting in the case OF veneeriDg.
Never glue upon hot wood. or use hot
cauls to veneer with, as the hot wood
will absorb all the water in the glue too
suddenly and leave only very small
residue, with no adhesive power in it,
Manufacturer and Builder.
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FROM WASHINGTON

IN the United States there were 222
business failures during the seven days
ended on the Esd, against 2l2 the pre-
yiOus seven DAYS
INTERNAL. revenue collections for the
first ten months of the fiscal year end
ing June 80. 1890. were STA, 545. 276, or
81, 724, S54 more than the collections for
the corresponding period last year.
TIE United States Supreme Court
decided on the 23d against Kemmler,
the Buffalo IN. " murderer, under
sentence of death by electricity. The
court maintained that there was no
evidence to show that death by cleo
tricity was cruel.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
lighthouses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the gath aggre-
gated 81, 500. $50. 235, against 81, 437, 625,-
$40, the previous week AS compared
with the corresponding week of 1889
the increase amounted to Ill.
The President on the Gath directed
that the United States flag shall here
after fly daily over the Executive man
sion from sunrise to sunset. instead of.
as heretofore, being hoisted on special
occasions.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

On the 2lst the American Baptist
Publication Society held its sixty-sixth
anniversary meeting at the Emmanuel
Baptist Church in Chicago. The report
of the board of managers showed re-
eeipts during the past year of S665, 239. =
10 being SIS, SIS 81 more than the re-
ceipts of the previous year.
AT Cleveland, the casket containing
the remains of ex-President Garfield
was opened on the 21st in order to quiet
forever the rumors about the body not
being in the casket and the body was
found to be in good state of preservs-
ton.
AT Lima. O.. a new competitor for the
Standard Oil Company in the "Manhst-
tan Oil Company" was formed on the
21st. The company owns several thou
sand acres OF territory and has con-
tracted for 500 tank-cars-
The sudden death of DIR. W. H. By
ford, one OF the sblest and most popular
of Chicago's physicians, occurred on the
2ISL AIRED 7S years
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-29

a GOOD FORAGE CROP.
Testimony to the Value of the SOLO Bes
as Forage Crop.

Testimony to the Value of the SOLO Bean
Forage Crop.
AS forage crop for poor, thin, worn
out land in South Missouri, where dry
weather, bugs and pests interfere with
corn raising, nothing can beat SOLO
beans for certainty of a crop, excellence
of forage and quality of feed, or guam
tity either. They are not vine, but
grow as upright as the cotton plant.
The pods are short and hairy, resem-
bling peas, but stuck on like bananas
on the stalk in most beautiful
manner. Dry weather seems to de-
light the plants, as they never
show the least effects of any hot
weather. The cause of this is in the
fact that the roots run straight
down deep into the ground. The har-
vesting and sowing is the great trouble
in this crop. They are very difficult to
cure. AS with the COW peas we pulled
them up by hand. l will swear to this
and not hesitate TO say it was a killing
job never to be repeated again. If they
had been cultivated level so the now
ing machine could have been used, it
would have been better. They need to
be stacked under roof and on scaffolds,
so the ventilation is good. | should
think there would have been fifty
bushels of these beans on an acre of
the poorest land and the season was
one of the driest l ever knew in that
country. " | ever get to be a man
again | will bank big on these SOLO
beans as a regular forage crop for all
kinds of stock, not excepting hogs in
South Missouri on ridge thin land.
They were planted in drills about
three feet apart and one bean in a
place, say one foot apart so they will
spread their branches and set the seed
properly. The leaves are large and
afford an abundant amount of food.
They, like COW peas and clover, feed
largely upon the atmosphere, an essen
tial characteristic for every thing that
has to live in Southern Missouri. Plant
ed, as have stated, the ground will be
perfectly shaded. Such - deep-rooted
plant, feeding on the atmosphere and
shading the ground SO perfectly, can
not fail to increase the fertility of the
soil.
1t gives me pleasure to speak a good
word for these beans now that my back
is nearly done aching from pulling
them up at harvest time. 1t was six
years ago. On good land with fair Gull
tivation, believe one hundred bushels
of beans can be grown to the acre, with
greater certainty on half the work than
would grow twenty-five bushels of corn
per acre.-John Smith, in Rural World.
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A VICTORY FOR HenNEPIN.

The House Decides That the Clause APP
|. propriating 100000 for Work on the
Great waterway Shall he Retained In
tho River aad H@rb,r BIZ.
WASHINGTON. May ga half million
dollars for the Illinois and Mississippi
canal is now safely lodged in the river
and harbor bill. The chairman of the
committee of the whole decided, after
thinking over the question for night,
that the appropriation for the canal was
properly in the bill. and a motion to
strike it out was defeated Saturday
by large majority after two
hours' debate. This settles the
matter so far as the House is concerned
The opposition claimed that Congress
has no constitutional authority to ap.
propriate money for digging canals
even though tne canal be designed to
improve the commercial facilities of the
whole country by opening water COM
munication between two great natural
waterways Mr.. Turner (Ga.) led
the opposition, and was supported
by Messrs. Hatch (Mo.), Holman
Qnd. }, Buckalew pa and Oates (Ala. }.
General Henderson's (Ill.) efforts were
seconded by Henderson, Gear, Sweeney
and Hayes, of Iowa, Anderson kan
and blanchard (La1; and while the
argument was going on Messrs. Gest,
Hopkins and other Illinois Representa-
tives were at work on the floor. The
bulk of the votes striking out the Sec
ton were given by Democrats, but por-
tions of the Democratic delegations
from Texas, South Carolina and Illinois
- IL 80
Hennepin.
The bill provides that the canal and
feeder shall be eighty feet wide and
seven feet deep, the locks 40 feet long
and thirty feet wide and have capacity
for vessels of $50 tons burden. The Sec
rotary of War is required to secure the
right of way for the canal and feeder
| and such land as may be neces-
sary by agreement, purchase or
voluntary conveyance, or by con-
demnation through the United
States Court, the proceedings to be
governed by the laws of the State of IL
linois. And the work is to commence
as soon as practicable by the construc-
tion of one of the locks and dams on
Rock river at such point as may be
uttuitu duNiodOlts ht w QUINN
out the canal provision was lost by a
vote of l22 TO 50.
The advocates of the Iennepin
canal have for years been work.
ing to secure its recognition as public
work, but until now have not been able
to DO so. And whether this bill becomes
IA law or not it will always hereafter
| have a status, and the improvement
will be regularly appropriated for in the
river and harbor bill. The credit
for this result is due to General
Thomas J. Henderson, of Illinois, but
it was reached at the sacrifice of the
Illinois river improvement and the
deep waterway. 1t is unfortunate that
both of these enterprises could not have
received equal recog milton, but General
Henderson feared that he would lose
both if he tried to get the other in the
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THE LAND OF DRowslAEAD.

I've Wandered East, I've wandered West;
To many spot my feet have sped,
But there is one love the best,
OF all wherein I've made by bed:
Whate'er's been writ, whate'er been said,
BY men, o there's no place for rest
Like the dear Land of Drowsiheadl
But Just this side the gates OF sleep,
A perfume rare. meseems. is shed
From poppy blooms whose breath / reap.
And poppy leaves, meseems, are spread
Ger all the path that / must tread
AS on my way 10 dreams i keep
Thro' that sweet Land of Drowsihead
have no hopes, have no fears,
take no thou ght tor daily bread:
Earth's hum my soul but vaguely hears,
I'm not alive, nor am dead,
And yet Of Time lose the thread.
Myself as some gray ghost appears
In that dim Land Of Drowsihead.
A halfway house betwixt the strife
or day and night Who does not dread
To find the world of dreams as rife
With foes as that from which he's fiedi
AS on his way to sleep he's led,
Who'd not Law down the load OF life
Il this fair Land Of Drowsihead?
IT'S not Nirvana. Yet, for grace,
IT'S next TO that The heart that bled
But now finds here in this still place
The peace for which il long has plead.
My weary spirit, o tits fed
From Lethel For a little space
rest in this dear Drowsihe3d
Boston Globe
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"Girls between the ages of sixteen
and eighteen" said a fashionable shoe
maker, ''have often enormous feet and
the flesh is fat and infissned, but at
twenty-five years these enlargements
entirely subside, the muscles and ten
dons and all the flesh parts of the foot
become firmer, the shape Of the foot has
decreased, and in every way difference
is seen. Shoe-makers have much diff
Guilty with young ladies ct this age, as
they take as large shoe as an adult
woman. When they get older and their
feet settle, and new shoes are made on
the old last, they complain of their
being too large. Explanations have to
be made when shoes for the girl of fif-
teen are charged for at the same price
as her mothers. II has - be demon
strated that as M sch material and work
manship is put into ons as the other.
Among men from thirty TO thirty-two
years of age the feet leng then in very
perceptible manner. At this age three
fourths of the customers complain that
the recently-made pair of shoes were
shorter than the last Feet sometimes
lengthen nearly half an inch. y Chicago
IauruaI
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PlTH AND POINT.

Even when man weighs his words
he often finds they have no weight
Yonkers Statesman.
Regret for the good thing unsaid
never equals Observation-Disclosures for the
supposed good thing that falls flat
Puck.
The world doesn't care how you got
beat; any body can do that. 1t wants
to know how you got there.-Ashland
Press.
There are four varieties in society
the lovers, the ambitious. observers and
fools. The fools are happiest.-Taine.
1t makes no difference how plucky a
man may be, his friends always drop the
p in telling of it--A tchison Globe.
When a girl elopes with her coach
man some other man is saved from get
ting a mighty poor Exchange.
Strange as it may appear, man is
not in calm condition when lit is inn
possible for him to raise the wind. -Bos-
ton Courier.
The dude is not of much practical
use, but he makes an excellent back
ground when you stand him up beside
real man. Washington Post.
The only thing that really inter-
ests the average hired man is something
that he is not paid for attending to-
Milwaukee Journal
However well proved friendship
may appear, there are condolences which
it should not hear, and sacrifices which
should not be required of il.
The people who always practice
what they preach seem somehow not to
preach such disagreeable things as
other people do.-Somerville Journal.
Sincerity is to speak as we think;
believe as we pretend; act as we
profess; perform as we promise, and
really be what we would seem and APP
pear to be.-Rule of Life.
There are men who feel themselves
ready for any thing at the outstart, and
who have no care, therefore, for the
processes of growth that are necessary
for true development. But both in
work and character there is a gradual
unfolding. -United Presbyterian.
Mans highest merit always is as
much as possible to rule existing
circumstances, and as little as possible
to let himself be ruled by them. Life
lies before us as huge quarry lies be-
fore the architect; he deserves not the
name of an architect except when out
of this fortuitous mass he can combine,
with the greatest economy and fitness
and durability, some form, the pattern
of which originated in his spirit. All
things without us are mere elements,
but deep within as lies the creative
force which out of these can produce
what they were meant to be, and which
leaves us neither sleep nor rest till one
or another it has been produced. Once
Wnclr
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MEN OF MANY YEARS.
The Frequency of Old People in All Parts
of the World


of the World
Michael Soils, who lives in San Sal
vador in the republic of Bogota, is said
to be 1856 years of age, and is apparently
in the full vigor of all his powers. He has
never taken any unusual precaution
with his health, is not a vegetarian or
teetotaler, and has always been a
hard worker. Peter Barlow died in
Damariscotta, three years ago at the
age of 1856. He served under George
Washington in the revolutionary war.
There is negro living in Lynn, Mass,
who has recently been on public exhi-
bition, who claims to be over $50 years
of age.
People over 100 years of age, in the
very general diffusion of news which is
now possible, are frequently heard of in
various portions of the world. Centena-
rians are by no means the curiOsities
they were a few generations ago Seth
Perkins, who recently died in Norwich,
Conn, was president of a railroad at 100.
Chevreul, the French scholar, recently
died over 100 years of age.
Probably every State in the Union
contains it's centenarian, and some oil
them perhaps several. People over
ninety years of age are by no means a
curiosity. The late Emperor William
of Germany was nearly ninety-two al
the time of his death. Simon Cameron
was over ninety. and so was the late DIR.
Dollinger, the theologian. Our histo-
rian Bancroft is over ninety, and so is
Cardinal Newman and Marshal Won
Moltke.
If so many eminent men can be found
who have lived to an advanced age, 1t Is
reasonable to infer that there are q
large number among the more obscure
classes An English writer on longevity
maintains that genius is inimical to old
age; but this hardly seems borne out by
the facts Carlyle died at s4; Bryant al
SO; Prof. Sir Richard Owen is still alive
at Sc; John G. Whittier at 81; Robert
C. Winthrop at 81; William L. Glad
stone, Oliver Wendell Holmes and
Alfred Tennyson at so. The throes and
frenzy OF genius do not it seems, always
prove destructive to longevity.
All classes and conditions of men are
liable to attain old age, though there
can be no doubt that some occupations
are more destructive of health and
hence of long life, than Others. -Yankes
Blade