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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-09-03
THE HAPPY LAND OF SLEEP.

on, sweet and wondrous mystery--the mystery
OF sleep.
The gentle fail o. tired eyelids on tlro1 cheek.
The safJ-draWn breath that comes and gees as
light As thIstle-iown.
The blessed relaxation that smOothes away the
fsowu.
That wipes The troubled creases from f0reheads
white and fair.
That almost turns TO gold again the SILVER in
the hair
So sweet + sleep so wOndrous sweet f. this
strange mystery.
This beautiful and precious gift God gives 10
y0u and me-
We drift along in silence that Is sweet as
musics sound,
We dream, and dream. and dream again-we
tread enchanted ground;
The poorest or Us al may know the Injuries OF
life.
The tofIing ones among Us may rest from care
and strife.
The saddest Of Us may delight in laughter and
IN song.
The sinfulest among Us may forget his sense OF
wrong
For oh. a land more bright and fair than Ecen's
Paradise
Is spread inriehest beauty before the dre amer's
eyes,
How tender in its mystery is that swift moment
when
We lose our hold upon the world and drift and
aoat again
In foxery skirs Of silver upon rose lit sea.
Pas soft -receding summer shores and under
bending tree.
And up clear shining rivers where wateriilies
lie
Like tiny cream-white cloutIets upon I4uid
say.
Where but 70 stretch an eager hand 2 all we
have to 40
And what Ne long for Is our own-ah, II We only
knew
The reason Why. when We awake and see our
empty hands.
And know that we've been wandering IN Stun
ber's happy lands.
And know that sweetest. rarest things were
surely In our grasp;
on, IL We knew the reason they could not always
last.
On, happy. happy dreamer. it's thine
the bliss
OF wanderIngs in Eden and loves ecstatic kiss!
'Tis thine 10 feel the soft reposs u perfect per
feet pe4ce
lis thine to know that for time there is a
sweet surcease
or pain and bitter SORROW and striyings and des-
pair.
OF longjnEs and discouragements and oft-un-
answered PRAYER:
It's thine, oh. happy dreamer. to drift and drift
along
Upon sunny ocean where every winds song;
Where tender. soothing shadows up the hill
sides softly creep
Ana hover Ger the blessed land that mortal
men call sleep,
Harriet Francene Croker. in LesIie's Weekly
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-09-03
In the September Wide Awake

There is good history, biography and
travel tsee 1.-THE Prince Imperial and
.Stanley's Bananas"), outdoor sport
and indoor ethics fsee 1.-TWO Fisher
men," 1.-The Margaret Patty Letters"
and ''Al1 Because a BllIebird Sang''),
curious natural history (see How /
tended Silk-tvorms,' "A . Odd Set,' and
'sTwo Acquaintance of Mine'), fanci-
full tale and the higher sort of fairy
story (see ''Peterkin and Pollikin go to
the Fair" and "A Tale of the Black
Forest''), practical art-lessons (see
drawing the Child F'igure"l, master
ly serial (see Margaret Sidney's II he
Peppers Grown Up'), fine array OF
short stories (see Mrs. Bates's "Red
Lilies" Mrs. Sherwood's Sovereign
of AS" Clarissa Porter's ''Aunt Betsey's
Cap Box" etc }, pages of original anec-
dotes, and pictures and poems galore;
among them Hassam's drawings of
"Gossamer Girls" and Mrs. Mary E.
Blake's Masquerade" are especially
delighting.
. 81. 40 a year; 90 cents number A
sample (back number) for cents. ID.
Lothrop Company, Publishers. Boston,
Mass
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-09-03
Exercise Neces.arr

Man and woman need exercise, an
Il a proper amount of exercise is not
taken not only do the muscles become
weak and fiabby, but the functions of
every organ and the soundness of every
tissue must suffer. There is imperfect
elimination of waste matters, the mus
cles and internal organs become in
numbered with superfuous fat, the
heart becomes weak, the lungs are
never thoroughly emptied, and gradu-
ally lose their elasticity, appetite dwin-
dies to vanishing point, digestion be-
comes imperfect, often causing dyspep-
STA. and the JOY and brightness of
health give place to incapacity for
either work or pleasure. irritability.
and ''leaden-eyed despair" In the
young particularly exercise is neces-
sary for moral as well as for physical
health. In violent movement in the
open air their superabundant energy
finds free vent; i pent up it is too like
ly to force way out in wrong direc-
tions-N. Y. Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-09-03
WOOD PULP.
The Process by which Trees Are Turned
Into Paper.

Wood fiber has come into general use
as a substitute for the cotton rags and
other materials formerly employed in
the making of paper. This fiber is
called pulp, having taken the name
which used to be given to the cotton
and linen fiber when 1t had been pre-
pared by maeeration for spreading into
sheets of paper. The wood fiber used
to be prepared, only few years ago. by
wholly mechanical process. The
blocks of wood were ground, or rasped
off by action applied obliquely to the
grain. The length of fiber depended
partly upon the angle at which the
block was held during this process.
In place of the old mode of obtaining
wood pulp, chemical treatment of the
wood is now in vogue. As formerly,
the bark is stripped from the wood to
secure fiber of uniform quality. All
discolored or decayed parts are removed
for the same reason. Then the wood is
cut across the grain into thin chips,
which are carried to the top of the mill
and dropped into large drums about
fourteen feet in diameter, and twenty
four feet long.
The drums are made strong enough
to bear pressure of from seventy-five
to 200 pounds to the square inch. When
a drum is packed full of chips ii is filed
with sulphuric acid and other chemic-
ais The wood is converted into cot
ton-like product, which is then pressed
dry and mashed. 1t is next mixed with
water, rolled fiat, and cut into shape for
bundling. In this condition it is said to
be made up of sixty per cent. moisture
and forty per cent. fiber. In this shape
it goes 30 the paper mill. 1t is found
to be better to pay the freight on the
contained water than to cheaper the
cost of transportation by pressing out
the water, for the pulp packs hard when
it is dry.
One cord of spruce wood is estimated
to make twelve hundred pounds of dry
fiber. worth from one dollar to one dol
lar and half hundred pounds. A
sulphite plant that will use up from
eight to fifteen cords of wood every
twenty-four hours costs about ten thou
sand dollars. Youths Companion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-09-03
THE TWO MiSERS.
Lesson Learned by a student in the Art
of Avarice.

Lesson Learned by a student i'm the Art
of Avarice.
A miser living in Kufa had heard that
n Bassora also there dwelt miser
more miserly than himself, to whom he
night go to school, and from whom he
night learn much. lie forthwith
rourneyed thither; and presented him
elf to the great master as a humble
beginner in the art of avarice, anxious
20 learn, and under him to become
tudent.
"Welcomer' said the miser of Bas-
ora; 1--WE will straight go into the mar
set to make some purchases"
They went to the baker.
'.Hast thou good bread?"
''Good, indeed, my masters; and fresh
,d soft as butter"
MARK this, friend" said the man of
assora to the one of Kufa; "butter is
ompared with bread as being the bet
or of the two: as we can only consume
small dantity of that, 1t will also be
he CT eaper: and we shall therefore act
Iore wisely, and more savingly, too, in
.ing satisfied with butter"
They then went to the butter mer-
lant and asked if he had good butter.
Good, indeed; and flavory and
'esh as the finest olive OIL" was the
nswer
MARK this also" said the host to
is g4est; ''oil is compared with the
cry best butter, and, therefore, by
huch ought to be preferred to the lat
err"
They next went to the oil vender:
''ilave you good oil ?"
The very best quality; white and
transparent as water was the reply.
mark that, too" said the miser of
sassora to the one of Kufa; by this
ule water is the very best. Now. at
Iome have a pailful, and most hos
itably Herewith viii entertain you.
And, indeed, on their return. nothing
,ut water did he place before his guest:
because they bad learned that water
vas better than oil, oil better than but
,er, butter better than bread.
God be praised!'' said the miser of
Kufa, II have not journeyed this long
distance in vainr--N V Ledger.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-09-03
RURAL LIFE IN ARKANSAS.
Something About the Lives of the Poor
Women.


The women have a hard life, work.
Ing in the fields and in the house; they
age early, and die when, under happier
chances, they would be in their prime.
Thus Ii happens that so many men
have three, or four, or five wives
without" ms one honest fellow said,
'snever fighting with none of 'em.n ii
KEEP 'em all decent, an ] buried EN- all
In a store coffin" said he. An old
planter, alluding to an unhealthy re-
gion, said why, right down there l
buried two or three wives, and four
children, and a heap of niggers!''
They are very fond of their children
and kind to them; unwisely kind, per-
haps, as we Americans are inclined TO
be. TO all the other hardships of a
woman's life here is added her MOURN
ing for her little children; for the care.
less life bears hard on them, especially
In overflow seasons. Sometimes we are
reminded of this in homely yet af-
fecting way. as yesterday, when in buy
ing some chickens and asking for more.
the little merchant said: They amt
no more, only but one old rooster; and
we don't aim to sell him, cause my lit
tie brother that died, he Away claimed
him, and nav sayed she never would
sell him.
A queer expression (which is never
theless common one here) used by
poor mother whose little girl was
burned to death, sticks in my memory:
at ben ten years, now, but | amt got
satisfied with it yit.
And a poor man, who chung desper-
ntely to wretched mortgaged little
farm in the swamp, excused himself
for unwisdom that even he could see by
the plea that his two dead children
were buried there, and MY woman,
she hated terribly to have them die,
and she cayn't git satisfied to leave
EN-, nohowr'
What a life!" our northern friends
say. Yet it is a life with huge anne
liorations. In this country, everyone
has the climate. to begin with. There
are only two months in the year when
we can he said to have cold weather;
and even through these months are
scattered lovely days of truce, filed
with sunshine. Neither need we pay
for our mild winters with hot summers
There are but two months that are
really uncomfortably warm for more
than a few days at time. These are
August and September. They tell us
that the nights are cool then; but re-
,eive this statement with degree of
apathy, because | never was in any eli
mate so torrid that | did not hear it,
Or that two blankets did not make
handsome figure in the story. We
sleep under two blankets, like the
JEWELLERS in St Augustine, Nice, AL
giers, and / dare say all the citizens of
;he equator that respect themselves. =
Octave Thanet. in A Liantic
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-09-03
spiders Good Authority.

A good story is told on one of the
W FEATHER observers, gentleman who
understands his business thoroughly
and uses great deal OF practical sense
in making his calculations He was
making up a forecast one evening
when all the reports indicated rain the
following day. He was dubious him
self about the correctness of his fore
east owing to an incident he had OBJ
served the same evening at his resi-.
dence. In his yard there was a grape
arbor. and as he was leaving home be
observed a spider energetically at work
spinning its web The observer knew
that the spider would never spin in the
face of approaching foul weather, and
whether to follow his reports or the
spider was the question that puzzled
him. The report. however, indicated
that the spider did not know his BUSH
ness. and the forecast was made out as
the reports suggested, modifying and
saving clause thrown in. The next day
showed clearly that the spider was
right and the guessing apparatus of the
forecaster wrong. Washington Post.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-09-03

body vas pleased. for both Wrinkle
and Della Deplaine We're quite popular;
therefore there was no demurring, I'M
less il was among the young men, who
felt il a little because they would be
unable to waylay Wrinkle between the
church and the depot and make him
properly celebrate.
The brides toilet is generally con-
sidered far more important item at
fashionable wedding than the bride
groom's, but in this case il was diff
ferent
Not that Wrinkle indulred in any
thing especially fancy upon this occa-
sion His suit was the conventional
black. but. like Samson. the point
where he came out strong was his hair.
When at length he was srrayed he
looked himself over in his dressing
glass and voted the reflection perfect.
AL but the hair; that was too long.
1T Will have 20 be cut, !" he decided
The barber IS only across the street
Ill RIM over this minute"
You'll have 10 hurry. then. put in
his sister Belle. who was trOtting in
and out of his room IN her stylish
bridesmaids costume. The carriages
are coming. and il lacks but half an
hour Of the appointed time"
I'm get there, never fear. cried
Wrinkle, slipping on an old coat and hat
and making a rush for the BARRIERS.
where. fortunately. he found the art
ist unengaged-
Cut my haIr quick ne cried,
breathlessly-
4
his machine 81 that the stubble on all
p;frts Of Wrinkles head was less than
the thousandth part Of an inch in
length when he spraug before the glass
To admire himself
Worse than all. the pure white cuti-
Gle which covered Wrinkles skull was
several shades whittier than that which
was spread over his features
You son Of Africa shouted Win
kie. in rage. what did You cut my
hair like that for2'
''Yos ordahed me To cut it to the
quick, sab" replied Clippers, show
ing his ivory. 4 couldn't cut it any
closer widout Id skinned your skull,
sab
Wrinkle couldn't wait to kill him Just
then, byE with an III see you later
feeling in his breast he made for the
street, where he encountered one OF
his friends on the way 70 the wedding
Got your hair cut?" he asked. with
a grin.
Its none of your business il have,
retorted Winkie
Belle had just entered one Of the ear
riages to be driven 70 the brides resi-
dence. a. he reached the door
well. now. | rather think you've
got your hair cut" she said, and
laughed outright
I've got a right 20 get my hair cut
for all Of YOU I guess. he returned.
savagely.
WinklereiG's pet bantam was stand
ing upon the walk a he fastened upt to
the steps.
He kicked at her angriIv-
She sprang agilely aside
Got your hair cut, Got your hair
cut sine cackled. shrilly.
Wrinkle made dive at his pet pullet.
intending To devote enough time to her
to divest her Of her plumage at the very
least. but his foot slipped upon bit of
ice and he fell and struck his face upon
the corner Of step and almost drove
his nasal organ mp into his brain
lie audibly groaned as he picked him
self up, and the driver Of the waiting
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-09-03
THE COLD SHOULDER.


HOW II may DC weapon OF De-
Tense.
Samson made an effective weapon of
the jaw-bone of an ass. But although
in this our day many a bipedal donkey
does dismal work with his own Jaw
bone, his disagreeable weapon can not
be compared with the cold shoulder for
elegance. especially in the polite circles
of society.
The art of giving the cold shoulder
politely to those we can not esteem
and with whom we do not wish to asso-
ciate on terms of intimacy is worth
learning.
Social courtesy does not require us to
treat with seeming cordiality persons
whom we actually dislike. To do so is to
play the hypocrite. and hypocrisy is
vice which no high-minded Christian
gentleman will permit himself to prac-
tice.
1t is quite possible To observe the
conventional forms of politeness to-
ward individuals who are disagreeable
to us, in such a way as to show them.
without making the fact patent to the
world at large, that we do not desire to
cultivate their acquaintance. 1t is "a
rare thing to meet a man too obtuse or
too impertinent to take a hint of this
kind; but when that is the case the only
resource is to give him the cut direct as
quickly as possible. If he has any man.
illness in him he will prefer the tacit in
dication of an honest Indifference or
repugnance to a hollow show of friend
ship.
Even the tone of voice in which you
salute a man or bid him good-by may
convey to him the estimation in which
you hold him. The commonest rou-
tine phrases may be made to as
sumo very different meanings By
varying the tone and manner in
which they are uttered. There is much
in accent. If you remark of a coat that
is something like coat" you saw in
effect that the tailor has made a fail
ure. If, on the other hand. You exclaim
enthusiastically that it is something
like coat" you signify warm APP
proval of its cut and finish. In the same
way the ordinary parlanee of society
may mean everything or nothing-may
indicate the deepest interest. the most
sovereign Indifference. or positive dis
like-according to the intonation and
manner of the speaker.
1T is a good rule to avoid people you
don't like; but. if that is impossible, the
next best course is to give them to I'M
derstand in a delicate way, and with
due consideration for their self-esteem,
that you can not fraternize with them.
N. Y. Ledger.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-09-03

One of the most simple devices that
has been applied to the ordinary door
lock to prevent the turning of the key
by anyone outside is constructed of a
single piece of bent wire. 1t is applied
through the eye formed in the short end
of the fastener. A pivoted connection
allows it to be turned aside when the
device is not in use. The long arm of
the device is bent substantially at a
right angle. forming a finger, which
projects into the key hole alongside the
ward of the key, effectually preventing
its being turned or removed. The re
lease of the key is effected by the pull
ing out of the finger, which immediate
~ flies out of the way automatically
Chicago Tribune
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-09-03
LEARNED HAcKMEN.
Some of the Arts Practiced by sCabby" to
Catch Fares


The race of drivers of public car
riages has always been famous for its
sharpness of wit. '.Hackmen'' are em-
phatieally men of the world: they come
in contact with all sorts of people. and
become wonderfully acute in guessing
the occupations and estimating the
weaknesses of possible passengers.
They are sober and dignifed with
clergymen. and lively and slangy with
gay men of the world They make a
complete and very worldly application
to their business of the saying of Paul
about being ''made all things to all
men,"
Two young men who had somewhat
the appearance of college professors ar
rived in Boston, one night, on late
train, and were asked to ride by sever
al hackmen standing in a row. They
were in doubt which one to choose,
when one of the drivers called ont:
Learned men, it is proper that you
should ride with of erudition. / am he
This way, please.
The two passengers. who were really
instructors in a college, were so much
astonished at this salutation that they
gave themselves into the mans charge.
Have you the mental disks which
represent your impedimenta?" asked
the driver.
They gave him their baggage-checks.
He loaded the trunks upon the carriage,
and they drove to a hotel Before
leaving him they engaged the man in
conversation.
"Yes," said he, 81 have driven many
learned men. | have often had Edward
Everett and Horace Mann in my car
rage together. Alas! they are both
gone now; pulvis ct umbra sumus.'
"You were acquainted with Horace,
too, l see" said one of the passengers.
Very we'll" said the man, with a
said smile; II have frequently had him
in my carriage, too, but not in perisha-
ole flesh. | am familiar with him in
the immortal guise of ink and paper.
This learned hackman sustained his
character much better than did driver
at Newport on the occasion of one of
the great meetings of Friends which
take place regularly in that city.
In order to attract the patronage of
the visiting Friends, this man dressed
himself in broad-brimmed hat and an
old drab coat. and waited for passen-
gers at the station or the steamboat
wharf. Whenever delegation of
Friends arrived he called out:
"Will thee have carriage? Will
thee have a carriage?"
He had beguiled one Quaker into his
conveyance, but presently, having gone
away for a moment with the passen-
gers check, he returned with a stormy
look on his face and called out to the
quaker inside the carriages:
Where in all git-out is thee's lug
gage?"
This unquakerly expression betrayed
him as an impostor to the entire COM
munity of Friends, and he was favored
with no more of their custom.-Youth's
Companion.
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Chicago Tribune.
THE SPIRIT OF WORK.
1t Must Partake of Truth In Order to
Bring success.

IL Must Partake of Truth In Order to
Bring success.
On the part of faithful workers the
spirit of work must ever consist of a
constantly careful adherence to the
truth. This is not the lghtest way to
work. 1t is always easier to copy the
work of others than to work from ma
ture, whether the creation belong 70 the
highest art or the lowest kind of man
ual labor.
The usual aim of a worker is to fol
low the best accepted models, and to
secure perfect imitation is his highest
ambition. He has no belief in his own
thought simply expressed. He takes
his idea from this authority, and his
method of transferring it to the minds
of others from that. He tries to please
the eye, and creates forms striking,
snowy, even beautiful-with the beauty
of slillful imitation. He tries to
charm the ear, and utters fine fan
ciful phrases, sonorous sentences,
words which appeal to the magma
ton and show wide knowledge of the
productions of other people. But this
is never the way to reach the heart. For
the heart is satisfied only with truth,
and if the expression is not true to the
thought, then it is falsehood, and the
nobler the thought the worse the guilt
of the caricature.
Such work answers for passing human
needs. 1t has often fair body. But
if it has no soul of its own it can not
live, and though used in lieu of that
which is better, when the need that
used it dies, it dies too.
The other sort of work is slow and
painful. Once begun, there is no more
rest for the worker. Though he labor
with unceasing effort, he sees more and
more clearly how feeble is his express
sion of the truth he would have it de-
clare He works with heart that
falters, and with hands which tremble
as they move. All very weak and poor
must be our best attempts, yet to work
nearer to the truth in each moment of
our working lives is the divinest bless
ing we can ask. To reach it is of the
things hoped for-not seen. But it is
the things not seen which arc eternal.
The work is slow. 1t is life work.
What better life work can there be?
The work is painful. 1t is through
much tribulation we enter the king
dom. For a moment, is the struggle to
be compared to the victory? The work
is difficult Again are we thrown back,
bruised and faint, to cry: "Who can en-
dure to the end?"
But hard, and toilsome, and slow
though it be, we must labor Steep and
stony though the path, we must climb
it. BY and by, when no longer through
glass darkly, but face to face, we read
the meaning of all the hardship, the
slow growth and the bitter suffering
then out of the temple our human hands
have built shall shine out the spirit of
truth, which we waited for with an in
expressible longing. For we must sow
with painstaking zeal and patient abid-
ing. We must water often with tears.
1t is only God who giveth the increase.
--Harper's Bazaar.