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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-03-17
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

-Boneset Tea: Take one table,
spoonful of boneset; put in it pint of
hot water, letting it draw fifteen min.
utes. Sweeten with molasses. When
cold, strain and take two tablespoon
tpls every half hour.-Ladies' Home
Journal
White Rose Cake: Sift together
one pint of -four and two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder. a little over hall a
cup of good butter, one cup of powder
ed sugar, one-half a cup of rose water
and the whites of six eggs.-Detroit
Free Press.
Baked Ham: Soak a ham in cold
water over night. Trim il neatly, and
cover it all over with a thick crust of
flour and water. Bake slowly eight
hours. Remove the crust and skin;
cover the top with fine cracker crumbs
slightly sweetened. Place in the oven
till the crumbs are brown. When cold,
cut in very thin slices.-Boston Bud.
get
Cream Cake: This is very easily
made. and may be baked in a number
of ways. Take one cup of sugar; break
two eggs into a cup and fill it with
sweet cream; add a pinch of salt, two
spoonfuls of baking powder and two
cupfuls of flour sifted together Flavor
with lemon, and bake in small patty
pans. The same recipe may be baked
I'm three deep tins, and put together
with jelly, lemon custard, sliced bana.
mas, icing or fig jam; or it may be baked
in one cake and iced -Woman's Work.
Mock Oyster Soup: Save the glib.
lets of chickens, and turkey gizzards,
livers, hearts, necks and feet Skin the
feet. by dipping in boiling water, when
the outside will slip off readily. Put
the giblets to boil in one quart of cold
water, with one onion, and one carrot
cut small. When very tender, take
from the kettle, cut in pieces the size OF
large oyster, add two tablespoonfuls OF
butter, one cup of sweet cream. salt
and pepper to season. When ready to
serve, add gradually, so that it may not
curdle, one well-beaten egg. Do not let
the soup boil after adding the latter.
Stir well. and serve at once. Water,
from time to time, should be added to
the giblets. so that there will be quart
before adding the cream.-Rural New
Yorker
To Keep Hams in Summer: Make
of stout, thiclS-woven, unbleached cot.
ton oblong bags a finger longer and
wider than the hams to be encased. and
boil them in a very strong solution OF
red peppers, or cayenne pepper if those
from the garden are not at hand. When
dried drop in the hams, stitch across
the mouth of the sack; gather together
in the hand and tie with strong Irvine,
leaving loop for hanging. No insect
can enter the bag, and the pungency OF
the pepper will prevent their lighting
on its exterior. The sacks will do duty
for several years if annually cleansed
and repeppered. Hang the bagged
hams in cool, dry place if a smoke.
house, which is the best for them, is
not conveniently near. This is a long.
tested method. old Homestead.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-03-17
Legal Domestic Relations.

In only five states has a mother any
absolute legal right TO the custody OF
her children. These are Iowa, Ne.
braska, Kansas, Oregon and Washing.
ton. where both parents have equal
rights in the matter. In other states a
mother has no control over her chill
dren, not even if driven from home by
her husbands cruelty, unless she ap.
plies to the court for the custody. 10
other words, the father by right OF
fatherhood, can claim his child, but
motherhood is not enough, the court
must be appealed to before the mother
can have absolute right to her children.
This injustice is so tangled with legal
technicalities that it is hard to unravel
the snarl, but since it has been done IN
five states it can be done in others -
Mary A. Greene, LII. b., in Chautau-
guam.
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ChiIdrep's Table Manners.

One OF the first lessons of child at
the table should lie to take liquids
.oisclessly from the side of the spoon.
This does not seem to be an easy accom-
piishnent, Judging from the small num-
Der of persons who possess il. Another
should be to keep the lips closed when
eating solids, TO avoid the disagreeable
noise that sometimes accompanies the
action. Bread to be eaten with soup or
milk should be laid at the left of the
plate. and broken with one hand only.
Meat rluss be finely cut and eaten
slowly; vegetable food requires even
more mastication than meat, as it must
be thoroughly mixed with the saliva to
insure yroper digestion. II is better to
help children to small quantities and to
replcnish the plate than to give too
large portion at once. When there is
a decided dislike 20 any article of food
only a Inouthful or two should be given
1T Que timetables Home Journal.
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A TRUE CHRISTIAN.
The Good and Jealous bishop of the Isle
of Man.

The Good and Jealous Bishop of the Isle
of Man.
In the seventeenth century Bishop
Wilson was sent to the Isle of Man
then containing a lawleSs and ignorant
COMMUNICATIVE such unlimited power
over clergy and people that it is a
wonder he succeeded in doing good
rather than evil. \ tyrant did he
prove. but a loving one, and all
Manxmen to-day bless the good bish-
ops name. In time of famine he
threw open his own house to the
needy. and gave without stint, asking
no man whether he were saint or sim
ner, but only if he hungered.
When his own means were gone, he
begged from England, though he was,
as one historian declares, - a man who
would not have held out his hat to save
his own life
lie never desired preferment but
chung to his own thorny road with the
zeal of one who has renowned mate.
rial good for the love of the highest.
''See, my lords" said Queen Caroline
one day, as he approached the crowd
of churehmen who surrounded her,
here is bishop who does not come
for translation"
mo. please your majesty" said viii.
son, Il win not leave my wife in her
old age because she is poor"
His island was. indeed, poor spot,
but he had welded ie-for life.
His loving-kindness was of sort
which inevitably begets love in return
One day in the market, place a little
girl of seven years crossed.his path. She
was rosy-cheeked. bright-eyed, bare of
head aud feet, and, with a rush of love,
the gray old bishop patted her head,
saying: ''God bless you, my child"
The little maid courtesied.
God bless you. too, sir, )" said she.
Thank you, child, thank you said
the good old man. Il dare say your
blessing is as good as mine"
1t was customary in those days to
employ journeymen as tailors. One,
Danny by name, was making a long
walking coat for the bishop, and in
trying it on, he made numerous chalk
marks to indicate the place of buttons.
mo. no. Danny" said the bishop
"No more buttons than enough &c
fasten it. One wiz do. 1t would i'll
become poor minister like me to &C
a-glitter with things like these"
Now Danny had already bought the
buttons, and had them at that moment
in his pocket Therefore he was sore
discounted, and said pulling a woeful
face:
Mercy on me. my lord! What would
happen to the poor button-makers if
everybody was of your opinion?"
Button it all over, Dannyr' said the
bishop. Button it all over."-Youth's
Companion.
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fidence, quite as though it were the
most natural thing in the world TO be
planting flowers on a lonely grave by
moonlight and to meet ones lover
there.
81 knew YOU would game, John,
knew that grannv's charm would bring
you," she said, simply, as she pointed to
the old crimson flowers which looked
even ruddier by moonlight than by the
light of day.
John understood it all in moment,
and the girls faithfulness and even
her simple confidence in the old wom-
ans charm touched him strangely, and
as she stood there in the soft, pale
Johns arm stole around her waist and
he whispered: Yes. ClaSn, 1 have
come"
They walked home together under
the trees and when he kissed her at
the gate he asked her to set the day
soon and Clara was happy.
Then John stole back and got his
tools and pick from under the hedge.
II was almost daybreak when he put
them back in their accustomed place in
the barn, but he stopped long enough
to take the planchette from where II
was hidden in the hay, and to break il
to slivers on the spot, and as he stood
over the splintered wood, he thanked
heaven that he had been kept from
committing the crime which he had
planned.
He never scoffed at granny's powers
again. Clara had the utmost faith in
the charm which she had given her
and John did not try to shake her be.
lief For himself he saw through the
charm easily enough. OF course the
old woman had meant to fool Clara
''but." he kept asking himself, IF she
wasn't a witch how the dickens did she
know I'd be there?"
John and Clara were married soon
after this. There were no more secret
meetings and communications from
the other world, for. as said before,
Johns mind had only room for one
subject at a time, and from then on
that one subject was Clara.
MARIE MORE MARSH
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THE GIRL WHO'S CULTIVATED.

Our grandsires tell Us that the girls
OF Eighteen Hundred Twenty
GOT thereauoutsi were very pearls
OF vondrous price and plenty.
They played the harpsich0ri 50 well:
They sang 50 very sweetly.
And-thouEh they couldn't always spell
They nirted 50 discreetlyI
Alas. it's Eighteen Ninety-two.
The good old time Is over
When girls had nothing else 10 do
Than angle for lover.
The artless nfrt OF former days
Her place has abdioated.
And meekly- uow, mankind obeys
The girl who's cultivated
Obeys herr Yes of course IL does
Respects her. too. immensely,
And though it's rather hazardous,
AdMires her intensely
But love her 10 does not-thats fat,
Loves been eliminated.
And she IS responsible for that
The gil who's cultivated
For men prefer a tender lpok
To learned disputatiOn-
A blushiuE cheek 10 any book,
A kiss 10 Information
They'd rather De caressed than told
That they are autiquated-
Shell learn this lesson when she's old,
The girl who's cultivated
Some dag she'll find that in her breast
a woman's heart s beating
Her instinct, then, viii do the rest
While wisdom is retreating.
For loves OunipOtent, although
He's sometimes much belated-
And, soon or late, he'll overthrow
The girl who's cultivated
Barrett Eastman, in Chicago Journal.
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ACCOUNTABLE BORES.
People Who Are Always Making Unpieas-
nj


ant Suggestions.
OF all the people from whom we pray
to be delivered. deliver us from those
who are always seeing resemblancesl
Every body knows them-you all have
one or more of them among your ac-
uuaintances. When they come into
your presence, they put on their glasses
most of them wear glasses-and sub
iect you to as rigid an inspection as
they would subject horse which they
thought of purchasing, and which was
suspect ID of being spawned or found
cred
They will examine the texture Of
your skin, the droop of your eyelids,
the curve of your mouth and the freclS-
les on your nose, and by the time you
are nervous enough TO fly, they will
come out with an opinion.
why, bless me! how much you re-
semble your Uncle Aaronw
Sometimes your grandfather, or
father, or Aunt Polly, or Sally. is the
one to whom you are discovered bear
ing resem blance. and, as a general
thing, all these relatives are very ugly,
and of course you feel intensely fat
tered 1t is the business of these abom-
Unable people TO make you feel that you
are a monstrosity.
They will expiate on your appear
ance, and wonder if you are we'll
Don't you look little yellow around
the eyes? A sure indication that the
grip has entered your system, and has
begun its deadly work. But perhaps
it is only your liver. Are you certain
you are not bilious? You ought to
take some bitters. Then they will
want to know if you are as heshy as
usual, and they will exclaim because
you are fat, or because you are lean, as
the case may be.
If you have a small waist, they will
suggest tight lacing-if a large one,
they will ask if you are not afraid OF
dying of the dropsy. And they will re-
member some remote ancestor of yours
who had it. If you are getting past
thirty, they will ask if you dye your
hair, or suggest that your false tee IN
make you look ten years younger.
Then, they will begin to reckon up your
age by the birth of Mr.. Jones Ned, or
Mr. Robinson's Ellen. or by the cold
Friday, or the hot Monday, or some
other event of equal Importance. and
equally well fixed in the calendar.
You are too pale, or too red; you
should wear green, or pink, or blue; in
short. any color but the one you have
on. That IS dreadfully unbecoming!
When they have done with your per-
sonal appearance, they will turn their
attention to your friends and relatives.
If you have any relatives who are not
quite respectable-and who has not?--
they will be particularly anxious 70
know about these same relatives. Has
your Cousin Dick secured a divorce
from his wife yet? or is it really SO,
that your husbands uncle's cousins
wife is suspected of poisoning her
mother-in-law?
Then they sigh. and roll up their
eyes, and advise you not to feel bad
about it, and inform you that nobody
is responsible for what their relations
do.
And, if you are man, you feel as IL
you would like to kick them soundlyi
and if you are a woman you wish their
grandfather had been hung, so you
could twit them of it. But there is no
redress, and it is one of the evils that
must be borne. Kate Thorn, in n. Y.
Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-03-17
Onnht to be smaller

OlL9ht 10 De Sn0teT
the great, gripping, old-fashioned
pill. There's too much unpleasant
ness for the money. Ought TO be
better, too. They're big enough,
and make trouble enough, to do
more good.
That's just what DIR. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets do, good.
Instead of weakening the system,
they renovate it; instead of up
setting, they cleanse and regulate
mildly, gently, and naturally.
They're the original Little Liver Pills
the smallest but most effective,
purely vegetable, perfectly harmless,
and easiest to take. Only one
little Pellet for a gentle laxative
three for a cathartic. Sick Head
ache, Bilious Headache, Constipa-
ton, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks,
and all arrangements of the Liver,
Stomach and Bowels are promptly
relieved and permanently cured.
They're the cheapest pills you can
buy, for they're guaranteed to give
satisfaction, or your money Is re-
turned. You pay only for the good
you get. It's plan peculiar to Dr.
Pierce's medicines.
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Satin Ruclles

A fresh and dressy appearance can
be impaired to a black net, grenadine
or silk evening dress that has seen serv-
ice by putting two or three satin ruches
near the edge-scarlet, mauve or any
shade preferred. A dress so fashioned
was made of black satin figured with
Marie Antoinette rose clusters. The
ruches added were old rose color, stem
green and black and the bodice was
correspondingly trimmed. Satin ruches
are seen on old cloth gowns, even those
which are tailor-made being so deco
rated This is quite a durable form Of
trimming, and it is effective also, the
sheen of the satin being a relief to the
surface of duller materials.-N. " Post
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CHANGED the snIiect.

He tgentlyl-Are you not afraid some
one ma marry you for your money?
She (sweetis oh. dear. no. Such
an idea news. entered my head.
He t.enderlyl-Ah. in your sweet in
nocence You do not know how coldly,
crully mereenary some men are
She iquietlyl-Perhaps not.
He with suppressed emotion)-I-l
would not for the world have such a
terrible fate happen to you. The man
who wins you should love you for your
self alone.
She-He'll have to. It's my Cousin
Jennie who has money, not !. You've
got us mixed. haven't a cent.
He-Er-very pleasant weather we're
kaying.-N. Y. Weekly.
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An Appreciative Animal

A Chicago man says that he heard the
following remarkable harangue in a
menagerie at Berlin. 1t was the ''lec-
turer" who was speaking; walk up,
ladies and gentlemen, and see the ia
nous lion, Mustapha. He is as sensible
as any human being. A French SER
geant once pulled out of his foot thorn
on which he had stepped. What do you
think the noble creature did? 1t de-
voured one by one. IN order of rank.
all the superior officers of our sergeant,
until the latter found himself promoted
to the high grade of colonel. Walk in,
gentlemen; on penny. Chicago jour
nal
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"A hickory nut caused the death of
Edward Ackt, aged thirteen, of Saddle
River. n. ]. While in a grocery store
he picked up a nut and put it in his
mouth. Just then comrade sand some
thing that made him laugh. The nut
slipped down his throat, and lodged in
the left bronchial tube, causing fatal
result
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FARM AND GARDEN.
PRIZE POULTRY HOUSE.

It Contains Many Good Points and VII
Merit Close Inspection.
This simple yet very complete poul-
try house, described in the Ohio Farm
err, is constructed of frame, and faces
the south. A glance at the general
principle and arrancsment of the diff
ferent parts will convince the fancier
or common poultry-raiser that it con-
tains many superior points and will
merit n close inspection.
Figure l shows perspective view of
the building, the main part being 141Sx
SO feet in the clear, aud is divided into
four apartments, the east one being
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-03-17
A Remarkable Woman.

Mr.. Bronston-Miss Braney, the
American girl who took all the prizes
in the English univerities. has returned
to this country, and saw her in the
streets to-day.
Mrs Bronson with interest)-Did
youP How was she dressed?-Puck.
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FIG. 2. -ARRANGEMENT.

roosts, 81 feet above ground and
foot above platforms TX X, from
which the droppings are removed from
the passage by having a board on
hinges and are impediately placed in
a box under the trap door L), which
is on runners and is removed by way
of small door at rear of annex.
A row of nests | foot from wall and
facing alternately right and left is
placed in the apartment for setting
hens. The yard for the setting hens
being in the rear of the building and
to the right of annex, is reached by
fowls passing under passages through
a hole in wall NJ NJ are yards for
chicks and n n the coops for the
hens. Coops for the yards to right OF
short passage (O) are placed under the
feed and egg chests, p and Q, the
bottoms of which are on the level with
passage floor; the tops. being solid.
can be used for Strengthening or work
bench or storage shelf. The yards (M)
to the right of passage (O) are 2x41z
feet; those to the left, 2x5. n n are
2x2. The large apartments are 1Ox12:
the passage way (W), 6xl2; Y, the
yard for setting hens, is 6x13; busting.
rooms Is 81 are 4x10, except corner
one, 4x6; egg chest 90, 2x2; feed chest
(Pl, 2x4
A chimney is placed at r, a stove to
cook feed and warm house in cold
weather at S, and coal bin at T. U
is a trap door leading to sand bin I'M
der raised floor of annex, where sand
and dirt is stored in early fall, to be
used for busting boxes and covering
floors and platforms. The divisions
between dusting-rooms and main part
are close boards, IS inches high; other
divisions are of wire poultry ne tting
with or 3 feet of boards at the bot
tom, except along passage. Following
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USEFUL BARN PLAN.
Accomm odations for Hay, Grain, CattI
Horses and sheen.

HOrses HUU NHeep.
The Orange Judd Farmer prints the
following plan for stock barn suited
to the wants of farmers and stock
growers of the southwest. The build
ing illustrated may be any size desira-
BILE, the arrangement of stalls, bins,
etc, fitting it for various dimensions
Figure l represents the front of the
structure; 1 is the driveway through
the barn; 2, the central part OF the
barn, containing bins and cribs; 3, the
stalls for stock; 4, driveway over the
entrance to basement; 5, doors into
stalls; g. hangers; Z. mows for hay
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END ELEVATION AND GROUND PLAN OF
STOCK AND GRAIN BARN.

and straw; s, entrance into sheep fold.
The floor of the entire middle part of
the barn TALL of the barn except stalls)
is 5 feet from the ground and under
this floor is the sheep fold. Figure 2
represents the raised floor; is an oat
bin; 2. a wheat bin; 3. corn bins; 4.
driveways through the barn; 5. passage
ways between bins and cribs The
stalls for stock are at the sides, the an
finals facing the driveways
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The Innocent Cop.

She tried to get on street car. but
it was crowded and didn't stop, so she
came back to the curb. where police
man stood.
Didn't you want that car miss?" he
inquired, with a protecting air.
"Yes." she replied, sharply.
"Why didn't you take it?''
"The conductor would't let me-"
why not?"
"Too full"
The care"
The policeman's innocence was too
much for her already-overcharged feel
ings, and she left the place in a dudg-
eon.-Detroit Free Press
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NEATNEss and cleanliness on the
part of the farmer who places them
upon the market always adds to the
value of the products which are of
Tered for sale and are in themselves
positive luxuries, for which the buyer
s willing to pay. and to pay well
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A LOVE CHARM.
The Peculiar circumstances That
United Two Hearts.

MURDER had
b commit
ted. The MUIR
derer had been
tried. gu n d
z uilty sen
[ q n c G d and
II un e. Then
they had sent
his body back
TO his old home
and his cousin
his la st of
k i II Il a q
5 h a mefacedly
buried IL in the
farthest corner
of the lonely
country grave
yard, a par I
from the graves
of others of his
Fanss1- una rnr
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Some Causes Of Gray Hair

Many of the young men become gray
In 'front.' and on the sides of their heads
without knowing exactly what causes
the change. Pulling out the hair makes
it gray. 1t often happens that clerks,
book-keepers and persons of sedentary
occupation pluck at their hair or beard
while at work. They need not be sur
prised if in a few months they find
themselves turning gray, for the
plucked-out hairs are almost certain to
be followed by white ones.-St. Louis
Barber.
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There is ease for those far
gone in consumption-not
recovery-ease.
There is cure for those not
far gone.
There is prevention-bet-
ter than cure-for those who
are threatened.
Let us send you a book on
CAREFUL LIVING and SCOTS
Emulsion of cod-liver oil,
even if you are only a little
thin.
Free.
SCOTT & BOWS, Chemists. I,s South 9Th Avenue.
New York.
Your druggist keeps SCOTS Emulsion Of eod.liysr
od-ail druggists eveTywheTe do. 81.
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The True LaxatIve PrincIple

Of the plants used in manufacturing the
pleasant remedy, Syrup of Figs, has per-
manently beneficial effect on the human
system, while the cheap vegetable extracts
and mineral solutions, usually sold as medl
cines, are permanently injurious. Being
weIl-informed you willuse the true remedy
pnly. Manufactured by the California Fig
SvruD Co
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WHAT is it that can be taken from
land and leave it better? Answer:
Glover. Sow it whenever there is a
chance; sow it literally. 1t is the
only opportunity of making. under all
circumstances. a clear profit-getting a
valuable crop without leaving the land
poorer thereby"