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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-10
The MAJORS WOUND.
He Thought the Ball Had Gone Ciea
Through His Body.

He Thought the bali Had Gone Clear
Through His Body.
81 was wounded three times during
the war;" said Major L., with merry
twinkle in his fine brown eye-''once
fatally, but you see ] am still an inhab-
liant of this beautiful earth"
Perhaps" suggested one of his list
eners, ''you we're like the man Of whom
the country newspaper man wrote: The
ball entered his left side. inflicting a
mortal wound. With good care he will
be able to pull through all right.
That's just where the ball did enter"
replied the grizzled veteran, cheerfully.
Il was in the Shenandoah Valley with
Sheridan and we were having a lively
little time of it, a regular hare-and-
bounds race all the time, it seemed.
We were chasing Mr.. Johnny Rebel out
of the country and in one of our charges
l suddenly stopped short. feeling as il a
red-hot sword had been thrust through
me. ! was wounded, badly, too. The
ball had entered my left side and had
passed clean through my body, leaving
a fierce burning trail.
"'Well said to myself, ABE L.,
this time you are dead man. No man
can live when bullet has plowed its
way through his vitals.
II staggered out of the line. The
fighting business was so brisk just then
that wounded men were looking out for
themselves. / managed to get to log
and sat down on it to wait until / should
die. The pain was so fearful that
could barely move my limbs. 1t seemed
to paralyze my nervous and muscular
force. AS / sat there watching the
men scampering along, one of my old
comrades passed me.
whats the matter, Abe?' he cried.
sHit?'
They've done me this time / an
swered.
"'Hope not he Tuned to yell back as
he ran. One doesn't expect delicate at
tention at such times.
''Well, / waited to die until finally /
said to myself: If this is dying it isn't
so bad after all
Il unbuckled my belt to ease the pain
and thought / would like TO see what a
deadly wound looked like. l took a
look and there was no wound there.
could not believe my eyes. knew
had been hit, for / could feel where the
ball had come out in my back. | put
my hand around there to touch the
hole and could not find it. There was
not sign of a wound in my side, not a
mark OF the skin. 1t took me not more
than thirty seconds 10 buckle my belt
around me and make a run for my COM
pany. l caught it in twenty minutes.
Flows this?' two or three of the
boys painted. We thought you were
killed
"'Well, you see l am not, said, fall
ing into the ranks.
Il had been hit by spent ball, and
that night when l examined my side
found black and blue spot on it as big
as my cap. l didn't mind it in the
least. A man who suddenly RECEIVERS
from a mortal wound feels pretty cheer
full. IN. Y. Tribune.
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FAITH IN IMMORTALITY.
The Voice of the Whole Human Rae,
Echoes Hopes of "a Future Life.

The Voice of the Whole Human Race
Echoes Hopes of Future Life.
''All the subtleties of metaphysics
said Rousseau, will not make me
doubt the Immortality of the soul for
one single moment feel il. / wish it,
hope for il, I will defend it with my
latest breath At all periods all
nations have agreed about this belief
Abraham, hoping in the Resurrection,
consoles himself for the sacrifice of his
son Isaac; job. abandoned by all, was
comfOrted by the conviction that he
woNld rise again from the grave. u
know that my Redeemer liveth, and
that he shall stand at the latter day
upon the earth: And though after my
skin worms destroy this body. yet in
my flesh shall see God" The Macca-
bees gave their bodies to the execu-
toner. saying; God viii restore them
to US" Greeks. Persians. Egyptians
believe in their Elysian fields, in Tar
tarus. And for the Romans? You
have only to read Virgil's .Eneid to see
what they thought about it, 1t seems
as il God willed to engrave on the soul
the word Immortality, that il might be
a center of light destined to shine in the
midst of the blacklist darkness. in AL
ages. Even on the shores of Africa you
will hear the HottentOt entreat that his
bow and arrows may be buried with
him, so that he may fight in the land
Of spirits When savage tribes think
they hear the souls of their beloved or e
in the murmurs of the breeze. this is 3
mistaken conception Of the idea of i'm.
mortality. but it proves their Lelief in
the existence of the soul after death.
When they place food in the fallen war.
riOr's grave it is because they believe
that the soul has need of nourishment
When the Indian mother pours milk
mingled with her tears upon the grave
which covers her child, does not this er.
rOneous belief testify TO the innate con.
victiOn that the soul survives the bOdyi
SGrel- then. the voice of universal ties
timon, is the voice ot truth. Were IL
only a solitary voice that would be suf
ficient TO arrest our attention and arouse
our fears; but il l. the voice of the whole
human race. Nor is il only the voice o,
the whole human race, il is the voice o.
God Padre ApOstino.
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NEWS FROM MERCURY.
An Astonishing Discovery Made by italy,
Most Famous Astronomer.

An Astonishing Discovery Made by Italy's
Most Famous Astronomers.
The smallest and swiftest of the
planets has become an object of intense
interest. Schiaparelli, the eagle-eyed
astronomer of Milan, the discoverer of
the double canals on Mars, has turned
his eager gaze on Mercury, and made
an astonishing discovery He announces
that the suns nearest neighbor turns
once on his axis while revolving round
the sun. US. rs the moon turns once on
her axis while revolving round the
earth.
As it takes Mercury eig .Cy-eight days
to make his circuit round the sun, il re-
quires the same time for his rotation on
his axis. 1t follows that he turns always
the same face toward the sun, as the
moon turns always the same face TO the
earth, completing her rotation in about
twenty-seven days.
Schiaparelli not only makes this an
nouncement, but confirms it by what to
him seems abundant proof. He has
been observing the planet for seven
years-since fascinating his observa-
tions by daylight and has obtained one
hundred and fifty drawings of the
planet The markings or linear spots
on the planets disc are permanent; they
have not changed during the seven
years.
The markings are 50 faint and delicate
that they are perceptible only to an OBJ
server endowed with exceptional visual
power intensified by long prac tice, and
assisted by fine telescope. These con-
ditions unite in Schiaparelli, and, what
is equally essential, the sky over Milan
is clear, and the atmosphere compare
lively steady and free from vapor, while
the astronomers enthusiasm for his
| fayorite science knows no bounds.
II these observations are correct what
wonderful world Mercury must be,
with one hemisphere basiling in per-
petual sunshine, and the other DOOMED
to perpetual darkness. Mercury is
some lines -four .een million miles nearer
the sun than at other times. This &C.
Ger tricity of his orbit causes a great
| filtration in longitude; the planet os-
cilates or swings % deg. Al min. on tho
east and on the west of les illumined
side. bringing these regions into alter
nate light and darkness.
An enormously high temperature
must reign in the central part of the IL
lumined side, with the sun pouring
down from the zenith from four and a
half to ten and half times the light
and heat received by the earth at the
summer sclstice-a sun, too, that never
sets. Eternal midnight holds sway on
the oppo.ite side, and a cold more in
tense than that of our poles!-Youth'r
/ Com papinn
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Among the nameless heroes, none are
more worthy OF martyrdom than he who
rode down the valley of the Conemaugh,
warning the people ahead of the Johns
town flood. Mounted on a powerful
horse. faster and faster went the rider,
but the flood was swiftly gaining, until
it caught the unlucky h0rseman and
swept on, grinding, crushing, annihila-
ting both weak and strong.
In the same way is disease lurking
near, like INTO the sword of Damocles,
ready to fall, without warning, on its
victim, who allows his system to be-
come clogged up, ana his blood poi
soned, and thereby his health endan-
gered. To eradicate these poisons from
the system, no matter what their name
or nature, and save yourself spell OF
malarial, typhoid or bilious fever, or
eruptiOns. swellings, tumors and kin
bred Disbursements, keep the liver and
kidneys healthy and vigorous, by the
use of DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery. It's the only plOod-purifier sold
on trial Your money is returned II II
doesn't do exactly as recommended: A
concentrated vegetable extract. sou
by druggists, in large bottles, at Sl.oO'
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ing of my man at Quincy. and after
day or two / went on To
Keokuk. 1t was busy times on the
the Jump. I could hear nothing Of
the paymaster, and was about 70
return to Cairo &c take up a new line of
pursuit when stranger approached me
with a proposition. lie vas a farmer.
and perhaps some one had pointed me
out as a capitalist or Spectator. lie
had a lot of black walnut timber which
he wanted TO get TO market, but needed
money as a starter He offered, in case
! would advance $500. to give me a GER
tain share in the venture, and, as /
thought well Of it drove out to his
place. distance OF about twelve miles.
we reached there at night, and next
morning walked through the timber. At
about ten o'clock we cane upon the
farm which backed against his, and as
we were both thirsty we went TO the
well for a drink. While there the
woman. with whom my friend was we'll
acquainted, came out. and we all sat
down on a side porch for chat. After
two or three minutes a man came out
and she introduced him as her nephew
from Ohio. He was roughly dressed,
but any one with half an eye could see
that he was in disguise. He had shaved
clean. the sun had burned his face
and neck. and his hands were not over
clean. and he explained that he had
served a year in the army, been dis
charged for disability, and had come
out West 20 rough it for a few weeks. i
jumped 10 the conclusion that he was a
deserter, but had no idea of troubling
him. IL was the business of the pro-
yOst marshal 10 pick up such fellows.
We somehow got to talking about some
of the battles on the lower Mississippi,
and as my farmer friend and the
stranger did not exactly agree the dis
cussion waxed hot Then, to my great
amazement, the stranger began 20 rub
the back of his left hand with his right
| now compared him with the descrip-
ton. and allowing for the changes he
had made ! saw that he must be my
man. quietly addressed him by name,
told him who ! was and what / had
come for, and what do you suppose he
| did? He just fell right OFF his chair in
/ a regular faint, and We worked over him
7 a quarter of an hour before he opened
/ his eyes. He had been planning his
ENLIGHTENMENT for weeks. He was
really the woman's nephew, but she did
not know that he was paymaster. lie
had the money in satchel in his room
and had used only about $50 of it. His
| plan was TO lie in hiding for several
months and then skip to Europe.-N. Y.
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SHORT FASHION NOTES.
Points Picked Up Here and There by q
New York Correspondent.

Points Picked Up Here and There by a
New York Correspondents.
Tuscan-yellow straw passementerie
bands trim some of the silk and etamine
toilets from Partisan work-rooms.
Gray or all-black silk underwear, with
Ikirts and corsets of the same, are in
great request this season in making up
travelling outfits
A stylish costume of lowered silk
shows the blossoms in a rich damask
color upon a ground of shrimp pink.
Coat of reseda green velvet of Louis
XVI.
New Figaro jackets formed wholly of
rich passementeries in silk and metal
are now exhibited, which have with
them banis of the same garniture for
skirt decoration.
Great art is exercised in the creation
Of some of the summer bonnets. and the
flower bonnets are triumphs of floral
grace and beauty. The newest are of
rose stalks. with brown leaves and
thorns intertwined.
The Directoire parasols are designed
to accompany promenade and rich visit
ing costumes. These have handsome
silver handles, and are made variously
of faille, brocade interviewer with gold
or silver, or of striped or plated silk.
French mohair, plain or figured, white,
black and gray, composes several new
very effective models for demi-dres
uses The plated skirts are still very
fashionable; the folds give with every
movement of the wearer, falling back
into position Immediately after. They
have closely clinging effect cOnse-
quently are in full consonance with the
models of the present hour.
For a special full-dress occasion is
made black and white costume of
rather unique style. The skirt is en-
tirely OF white silk, trimmed with white
silk embroideries. 1t has a last century
coat of black velvet, lined with white
brocade.
A great number of handsome gray
dresses appear upon the promenade.
Some are richly embroidered with steel
and silver, with the trimming repeated
on the bonnet and sun-shade. Others
are relieved with white. Gray looks it's
coolest when combined with white.
Some of the light India cashmere
toilets are combined with striped silks
that are figured with tiny polka-dots in
white or colors. These dresses are mad
with graceful princess backs and jack
et-fronts of the cashmere, with sleeves,
fronts and blouse vests of the striped
silk.
Ecru batiste is very popular mate
rial this year. the fabric being barred,
striped, lowered or bordered. The bod
ices are made in ways both ample and
elaborate, but all the skirts hang full
over silk petticoats of the same shade,
the batiste dresses having no founda-
ton skirts.
A picturesque dress Of gray-blue En-
glish cloth is made in the style of the
riding-habits of the last century, with
flaps and wide pockets and large silver
buttons. The waistcoat and front OF
the dress are made Of palest tan-colored
French camel's hair, with deep en-
broidery of gray-blue silk and silver.
Tan-colored gloves and shoes to match
are en- suite.-St. Louis Republic.
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DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

Strawberry Preserves: To quart OF
lruit allow three-fourths of a quart of
sugar and half pint of water. Boil
the sugar and water TO a strip. put in
the berries, cook twenty minutes, and
seal.
Green Pea Soup: Boil three pints of
green peas in two quarts of water till
lone. Drain them, saving all the
water in which they are cooked, and
press the peas through PURGE sieve.
then moisten them with the water.
Heat the soup till it boils. Serve with
,ippet of fresh bread.
Lamb Outlets: Trim outlets care
fully, lay them in little warm butter
Tor half an hour, turning them several
times; then broil them on gridiron,
using care that they do not drip into
the fire; butter. pepper and salt each
)ne, place on a warm platter, garnish
with parsley and lemon. Her
AID.
Strawberry Acid: Dissolve four
ounces of citric acid in two quarts of
water and pour over two gallons of ripe
strawberries. After standing one day,
Train off the liquid, add one and one
half pounds of sugar TO each pint Of
juice. Boil, let stand three days and
oottle.-The Housekeeper.
Sage Custard: Soak two table
Ipoonfuls of sage in half pint of cold
water for an hour and a half, then boil
i in the same water till il looks clear;
add tumbler of sweet milk and let this
boil for minute or two, and sugar TO
taste; when taken from the fire add one
well-beaten egg and flavor to taste.
Those who are in the habit of in
iulging in raw onions, says a me dical
nan, may be consoled for the social dis
advantages which ensue by the fact
that onions are about the best nervine
known. No medicine is really so effica-
.ious in case of nervous prostration, as
they tone upa WORKOUT system in very
short time.
The housekeeper must be exceed
ingly careful lest she pass the line be-
tween good taste and tawdriness. The
iemarcation is not very exact, and it is
only by careful selection and a close
study of the capabilities of her room
that she can fit in them graceful airy
bits of furniture to keep them looking
graceful and airy.-Christian at Work.
-Hasty Mullins: Two cups flour, two
eggs, one tablespoonful mixed butter
and lard, two teaspoonfuls white sugar,
9ne teaspoonful baking-powder, salt
spoonful salt, one cup milk. Into the
eggs, beaten very light, stir the melted
shortening, the sugar, the milk, and
the flour, we'll mixed with the salt and
baking-powder. Stir well, and bake in
thoroughly creased tins.-Harper's
Bazaar.
If bread becomes too dry and stale,
40 necessity of making puddings or
cast of it all, of which one tires of too
much, but dip slices quickly in cold
water so they will keep their shape and
not get soaked, place in well-greased
lin. ''cob-housen fashion, and set in the
oven until heated through. 1t is an i'm
provement on steamed bread, especially
IN cold weather when steam is an objec-
ion. The Household.
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KOSCIUSzKO'S WILL.
How This Noble Pole Disposed of His
American Estates.

Few are probably aware of the testi.
monial which this Polish noble left be
hind him in America of his fervent love
of liberty. 1t is found in his win which
was filed in the clerks Office of the cir
cult court of Albemarle County, Va.
This interesting document Is as fol-
lows: Il, Thaddeus Kosciuszko. being
Just in my departure from America, dc
hereby declare and direct that, should
make no other testamentary disposition
of my property in the United States.
hereby authorize my friend Thomas
jefferson to employ the whole thereof
in purchasing negroes from among his
own or any others, and giving them lib
erty in my name; in giving them an ed
ucatiOn. in trades or otherwise; and in
having them instructed for their new
condition in the duties of morality
which may make them good neighbors,
good fathers or mothers; and in theiI
duties as citizens, teaching them TO be
defenders Of their liberty and country,
and OF the good order of society. and in
whatsoever may make them happy and
useful And | make the said Thomas
jefferson my executor of this. Il.
KosCIUszRo. 9Th day of May, 1898. =
Christian at Work.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
SHIPPING CRATES.
How to Make Them Strong. Light and
seryiceable at Small Cost.


How to Make Them Strong. Light and
serviceable at Small Cost.
The first thing necessary in shipping
hogs, or pigs, is a good crate, without
which no breeder is certain of his ship
ment arriving at destination in safety,
and in as fine order as when placed on
board of cars. The crate here illus
trated is made out of seasoned Linden
wood, a material at once very tough,
hard to break. and light, a requisite in
shipping animals by express, especial-
ly when rates are inclined to be exhor-
bitant This crate is IS inches wide, "a
inches high and feet long, and can be
made in like proportion to suit the
largest hog. The material used is sawed
expressly for this purpose direct from
the logs. Before working into crates
it is sorted and Kicked up as other lum-
Der, in sheltered place to season; then
when made into crates each one is
treated to coating or two of paint.
The saw fuzz is removed by sharp
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Tbumb N,il Pictures.

In collections centuries old. to be
seen in both China and Japan. are
specimens Of the Most remarkable
drawings in the world-pictures of all
kinds drawn with the thumb-naiL The
nails of the thumb on the left hand OF
these peculiar artists are allowed tc
grow 70 an enormous length, sometimes
TO foot or eighteen inches, and are
then pared down to pen-shaped point
Dipping this Oidly-constructed pen in
bcsutiful vermilliOn or sky-blue ink,
the only kinds of ink used in these
sacred" thumb-nail drawings, the
artist gracefully outlines his work Oc-
casiOnally the bold touches from the
studio OF master in this department
OF might art" are life size. and are
sketched by few sweeps of the artists
arm. Like other pictures and sketches
OF the Orient, these sacred thumb-nail
pictures are mounted and rolled up like
scrulIS-St Louis Republic
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AN OBSTACLE

Twas climbing up a mountain path
With many things % do.
Important business % my own
And ether peoples too.
When ran against Prejudice
That quite cut on my view.
Ny work was such a. could not wait.
My pathway clearly showed
NJ strength aud time were limited.
carried quite a load r.
and there that hulking PreiuGice
sat all across the road.
So I spoke 10 him politely
For he was huge and high,
Suggesting that a. move q bit
Anu let me travel by
He smiled but as for mOvingf
He didn't eveu-try'
Then reasoned very quietly
With that colossal mule.
Noother road-my time was short.
The mountain winds we're cool;
I argued like = Solomon
He sat there like fool
Then few INTO a passion.
danced and h0Wled and swore,
Ipelted and Belabored him
TIL was stif and sore.
He got as lad a. / did.
But he sat there a. before
And then ] begged him on my knees
might 5e kaeeling stiu.
II 50 hoped 20 move that mass
o. obdurdte iIl viii
As well invite the monument
To vacate Bunker Hin.
So sat before him helpless,
In an ecstacv Of woe:
The evening mists were rising fast
The sun was sinking slow,
When a sudden inspiration came,
As sudden winds do blow
Itook my hat. I took my stick,
Ny load I settled fair.
approached that awful incumbus
With an absent minded air
And walked directly through hin,
As IL he wasn't there,
Charlotte Stetson. In Boston Bulge
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Kerosene Emulsion on Greenhouse Plants.

Kerosene Emulsion on Greenhouse Plants.
The aphis can be kept down by
fumigation, or the application VI
sulpho- tobacco soap, and the red spider
can be con trolled or routed, especially
in the greenhouse, where water can be
used in any desired quantity, by the
persistent use of il all over the plants,
and the places where it breeds. But the
mealy-bug and the scale succumb to
neither of these applications / have
used fir-tree oil with good success, says
writer in the American Agriculturist
but it is somewhat expensive, and often
difficult to obtain. Having used kero-
sene emulsion in the garden where it
proved valuable as an insecticide, IL
occurred to me that if it was useful
there it might also be in the green
house. 1t was applied to oleanders, iyies,
lemons, and other plants infested. with
scale, and to hoyas and other plants on
which the mealy-bug had taken up its
habitation, and with most satisfactory
results. Itrid the plants of the insects
fought against and did not injure them
in the least. | have since applied il
to tender plants like the begonia, and,
il care is taken, it never Injuries them,
but, il more kerosene is used, some
damage will result to delicate foliage.
The formula used is: Slightly sour
milk, one-third; kerosene, two-thirds.
Put in pail and agitate rapidly, until
the two liquids unite and form white
butter. If you have a greenhouse
syringe, use it TO churn the liquids, and
the "butter" will come" in a short
time. Use one part of this emulsion &c
fourteen parts water. The water and
emulsion will mix with little stirring,
and can be syringed over the plants.
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Retired Editor Ito applicant)-Tou
say you have an aniable disposition?
Applieant-Yes, sir; here's my refer
ence.
er was in our newspaper Office for three
days. during which time no one had Oc-
casion TO thrash him.-tSigned) The
GUNNER"
Retired Editor-Consider yourself en-
ployed. West Shore.