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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-01-07
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

For fiavoring soups. bay leaves,
sweet marjoram, thyme, celery tops
and parsley are used. as suits the taste.
Coffee pounded in mortar aud
roasted on an iron plate, sugar burned
on hot Goals, and vinegar boiled with
myrrh and sprinkled on the floor and
furniture of a sick-room are excellent
deodorizers.
The crepe tissue paper which can
be bought in many colors for twenty
cents a yard makes the prettiest candle
shades, and is much used for fruits and
small sachets intended for favors for
germans and dinners.
Onion Sauce: Peel one dozen small
onions, put them in a saucepan, cover
with boiling water; add teaspoonful
Of salt and boil half an hour; drain and
pour through sieve; make white
sauce, add the onions, let boil once and
serve.-Farm and Fireside.
Yorkshire Pudding: Three eggs,
beaten. six tablespoons heaping of flour,
salt, mixed, and stir in milk to make a
thin batter. Have your dripping pa u
ready with plenty of butter and meat
fryings in, and turn in your pudding.
Bake in quick oven. Eat warm with
sweetened cream.-Home.
To Bottle Cranberries: Pick the
cranberries quite clean, and put them
in clean bottles; fill the bottles with
cold water that has previously beer
boiled; cement the corlSs, or cover them
with thin paper rubbed over with
white of egg, and keep them in a cool,
dry place Boston Budget
"A remedy for tender feet is cold
water, about two quarts, two table
spoonfuls of ammonia. one tablespoon.
full of bay rum. Sit with the feet inn
mersed for ten minutes, gently throw
ing the water over the limbs upward ia
the knee. Then rub dry with crash
towel and all the tired feeling is gone.
Ladies' Home Journal.
-IIalf-and-Half Cake: Bake this
cake in two parts. Use two cupfuls OF
sugar, one cupfui each of butter and
milk, four eggs Preserving one white),
four cupfuls of flour, three spoonfuls OF
baking powder. Take one-half this
mixture, add three or four spoonfuls OF
molasses, raisins, currants and spice. a
pinch of soda and little flour. Put
together, after baking, with the reserv.
ed beaten white of egg.-Good House
keeping.
-Tapioca Cream: Soak over night
one cup of tapioca in three cups of cold
water. In the morning drain and put
TO cook in a double boiler, in a quart o.
| rich milk, to which add half teacuI
/ IF graduated sugar and aquarter of g
| .easpoonful of salt. Let the tapioca
cook until tender, then add the yOlSs Of
six eggs thoroughly beaten. As soor
as the eggs thicken remove from the
Gre and pour into bowl. Let stand
ill nearly cold, str in two teaspoonful:
extract of vanilla. pour into the dish il
which it is to be served. Beat the
/ whites of two eggs to a stiff froth, ado
/ four tablespoonfuls granulated sugar
aud pile the mixture on the top of the
/ cream-BOStOn Globe
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-01-07

pale dorsal and subdorsai stripes al
ways showing distinctly on the dark
highly polished neck and tail plates.
The bronzy cutworm is quite subject
to attacks of natural (such as BIRDS
and parasitic enemies. Much more ef-
fective than these, however, Is bac-
terial disease, This is a micrococcus
which Prof Forles has for some time
been studying, hut which is not yet
named. We have been familiar with it
for many years, but we believe that
public attention was first called to it
by Prof. Osborn, in June, 1851. He
then stated that the diseased worms
would be found clinging to the stems
as high up as they could reach, their
bodies swollen TO an unnatural size.
and in the later stages exceedingly soft
and ready to fall to pieces. This dis
ease has been noticed by us almost
every year since, but was particularly
prevalent in the summer of 1857, when,
on a trip through Indiana and Ohio and
to the east, it was every W here noticed.
1t was an extremely di fficult, not I
say impossible thing in fact, to find a
healthy worm. The hiding by-day in
stinct seems entirely abse mt with the
sick worms, which crawl laboriously
up the stalks of grass and there station
themselves, as described by Prof. Os-
born, to die and eventually to shrivel
up into unrecognizable objects. The
bronzy cutworm is also attacked by a
fungus disease which destroys large
NUN bers.-Orange Judd Farmer.
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There is some reason to believe that
tobacco was used in other parts of the
world than America prior to Raleigh's
visit TO this country and discovery of
the habit among the Indians. Through
out inner Africa it is generally used,
and, it is thought, has been from soon
after Raleigh's importation of the weed
into Europe. for it was carried far up
the Nile long before white men went
there. But, while Africa may have got
tobacco from America by way of Eu-
rope, there is reason to think that the
Inhabitants of some of the Pacific
islands had the plant, and used it, per-
haps, earlier than the American Indians,
for they have no tradition of its intro
duction, nor of time when it was not
used by their ancestors. Chicago Trib-
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FOOLISH PREJUDlCES.
Absurd Notions Concerning the DiGereI
Natlonalities.

Natlonalities.
Nothing is more absurd than preju-
lice. We must judge individuals, not
classes. True, the same manner of life,
the same amount of ignorance or ed
ncation, and the influences of climate
and custom will cause men to as
simulate, but not to such a degree as
many appear to suppose. Inwardly,
each man is himself, and not one of any
class, party or country.
How absurd, then, to say: Oh, he
will do this thing, or be this thing, be-
cause he is English. He's Yam
kee, and must make wooden nut
megs and swap pen-knives. He
is Irish, and has kissed the
blarney- stone. lie is Scotch, and would
skin flint to save a farthing. He is
German, and cares for nothing but lager
and pretzels. lie is French, and so, of
course. without morals. He's Spanish,
and must brag. He's an old man, and,
of course, spiteful. He's an old bache
lor, and hates babies Or, as strong
minded women declare man. and so
tyrant; and quoting the thoughts
rather than the words of many men:
"a woman, and so something of an
idiot"
Now we all know Yankees who are
above trickery; we know Irish who
prefer abuse TO fattery, generous
Scotch people. lively Germans, and
strictly proper and pious French
men and women; excessively hum
BILE Spaniards; old maids who are
so angelic that no living man is worthy
of them; bachelors who devote their
spare moments to the nieces and
nephews; men whose yielding tender
ness, where woman is concerned, is al
most fault; and women who have
, solid heads and brilliant minds, and
power to think and act which men
might envy.
| knowing all these exceptions to ac-
cepted rules, it is absurd To give them
credence even in our speech. and so
foster the false feeling engendered by
| them. 1t is absurd to hate a man be-
cause he belongs to any country or any
class, as it would be to detest him be-
cause he had a wart on his CHIN. "
/ Ledger
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no such idea N his head But every
thing happens for the hest. and the old
place is clean run down for want IF a
nice stiTrin housekeeper. Berenice
Stubbs charges dollar aud half a
week and wants the wash.n put out at
that Things didn't 90 on in this ere
way In the lifetime of my second de-
parted no. nor yet while my first
was liviu I'm wiilin' now to
confess that was sort q turnin' over
in my mind the idee OF aslSin Pantheon
Jones wilder il she'd any objections
10 share nv solitary lot; but this mar
riage a. .Iuc's puts things in "a diff
ferent light | wasn't sartin but
what ne was going to be an old bache-
Tor. do hope his new helpmate can
make riz bread and flaming cakes and
soft soap. Berenice Stubbs never
made soft soap. She was fairly running
me with bar soap boughteC at the
store. And there's all NV two de-
ceased PARTNERS gowns upstairs, in the
blue paper trunk. wGitin' 10 be made
patchwork of Of course she'll be
handy with the n, e,ie. o. Joe wouldn't
hev selected her
And Ma Ailesbury chuclSled at the
prospect of the good time coming. II
was Thanksgiving morning when the
young compile arrived.
is this mv new home. Joe2''
The brilc stool in the clean. white
washed Kitchen. looking around in a
bewIldered sort of way. She vas
slight ard small With large blue-gray
eyes. ami a delicate complexion Her
travelling dress was Of the sof:cst pearl
gray. ana she wore dantily fitting
gray kid gloves and boots 50 tiny that
IL almost seemed as If the grass of the
door yard. like the hareballs of Sir
Walter Scott's poem. must have risen
elasl from her tread Her stalwart
husband. standing beside her. looked
down with beaming pride on her min
iatu-r beauty.
.-Ghv. yce. pet" he said Isn't it
like 81 hat you had fanc;cd?'
The hrIde laughed Historically.
''Nat in the least said she Hut
dare say was absurily fanciful."
- guess said old Mr.. AileSbury.
''thsJ Mrs Joe had better change that
fiinc,y dress for something palmer and
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hslv Bereuice Stubbs with the supper
Bercuice Is sort q plagued with neural
~ to-day"
shes too tired to DO much tonight
father. said joe.
Tired. What's she done? I don't
call it hard work TO 20 ridin' in the
railroad cars DO yOu*
Beren.ce Stubs. a har,l-feaiured fe-
male with waist like the tow pump
aud sharp. twinkling eyes matched
with Sp2re white laShe>. regarueu Mrs
Joseph AileSbury with scant favor.
Don't look "A bit a. If She could
worry through DAYS wash, said she
These small folks i viry some
times. said the elder AilesbuTy. My
first dear deceased wasn't NO taller
than Mr>- Joe-but my. what a hand
she was To turn of work.
When Mrs. Joe came in from the
garden after tea with bunch % clover
pinlxs in her hand. her father-in-law
was ready 10 accost her.
Vow you're here. Mrs JOe-' said
he to sort o see to things. I've told
Re.rynice Stubs She can 80 home for
half a week, and I'm curious to find
ont what sort Of n housekeeper you II
make
Mrs. Joe looked helpleSSly al her
husband.
Il dare say she'll turn ont capital
hOu>eEeeper. father" said he But
YOU won't Sud out about it at present
I'm going TO take her to Welland Fal.S
10 see Cousin Simeon Allies bury. Her
mother used TO know Cousin Simeon
years ago"
What. all that way?" croaked the
farmer.
Joe nodded
''Traveling's dreadful expensive"
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osEYED HIS MOTHER.
A LIES History From the Depths OF Pigs
Foot AIley


A Lifs's History From the Depths OF Pigs
Foot Alley.
"Run, Johnny, runI Don't let 'em
Catch ys! Open yer door, Mrs. o'Hara!
Eh-h,'
Chicago The gray of bitter Feb
ruary morning Pig's-Foot alley with
its broken sidewalks and houses that
1ostle each other like drunken drabs, Is
slippery with frozen slush. From every
building, like vermin from nests of rot
tenness. screaming creatures swarm.
Down the street baraheaded, falling,
stumbling up again. madly tears a
boy. lie disappears in a dlapitated
cottage.
Clang- clangl Around the corner
dashes the patrol-wagon. "Y-ahp goes
up jeer of derision. "Y-ahr' Off
GERS surround the house. The door
is barred They endeavor to force it,
Suddenly il opens Bang A Whit
of smoke. A policeman falls back
dead.
The door slams, is again barricaded.
Over all the excitement without shrill
old voice Is audible. Good boy, John
nyl Shoot 'em down. Revolver empty?
Here's shotgun. Good hoy, johnny
The door is forced. The crimson
checked boy ut bay blazes away. Two
other officers fall. one fatally wounded.
Grit Johnny! You've gritm bowls
Pigs Foot Alley in an ecstacy of pride
and admiration
Nomore ammunition: He fights like
wild beast. He is overpowered. He
is dragged away. Frenzied curses yell
after the police.
The verdict? Imprisonment for
lifer'
Eight years pass. telegram comes
to Mrs. O'Hara- 1t is from Joliet.
John o'Hara died to-day"
She has been queer" of late, mutter-
ing and moaning to herself. Now she
springs up with shrek that pierces
the pestilent air OF the alley like a cry
from hell itself II bid him! He done
as / bid him! Dead-in jail He'll
Stole, they said. An killed when bid
him! I'm comm Johnny
She runs up the street The stencil
is sickening. She is ankle deep in filth.
Faces-some stolid, some amused-stare
at her. She totters on. A crowd pur-
sues her. She swings blindly into the
crush and clarnor of Halstead street. A
policeman stops her She shrinks back
in terror Her dress is open, showing
the withered breasts. Her white hair
tangres about her face. Her eyes are
bloodshot She foams at the mouth
Go away" she shrieks hoarsely,
fiinging out her old hands You're
one o. them he killed. them he
killed"
Insane" DEGREES the court "a
pauper acknowledging Tribune.
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A writer has defined dirt as matter
put of place" This applies with double
force TO the grease of the kitchen,
which is too often allowed TO accumu-
late on the sides of the sink and on
dishes. Properly used this grease is in
valuable in making soap. BY cutting
the grease in the sink and on the dishes
by the use of some very powerful alkali
like potash or soda, we make a sub
stance, which if not soap, contains
the component parts OF soap, and at once
assists as a cleansing agent. A keg OF
washing soda should always be on
hand near the sink so that little water
with n lump of soda may be thrown in
greasy spiders or griddles or in any 9th.
err utensil that has become greasy from
cooking. After few moments boiling
all the grease is eaten up by the alleali,
and when the mixture is thrown down
the sink, it actually acts as a means of
cleansing instead of choking up the pipe
with grease. Gridirons should be thor
oughly scrubbed with a brush-a COM
mon whisk does very well-in boiling
hot soda and water. Grease spots on
the stove should be washed off. where
they occur, with stove cloth dipped
in soda and water.-N. Y. Tribune.
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Too smart for Newspaper WORK.


Editor-You want a position as hui
morous writer on this paper for your
SOM
Proud Father That's Just it.
Editor-Is he humorously inclined?
Possessed of keen sense of the ridicu-
ious?
Proud Father-Keen. You'd better
believe it. Why. when he took the
girls out for row last summer he
rocked the boat till they were most
scared to death. You should have
heard them scream. You'd died
laughing-ha, ha. ha. Humorous! He's
Just full of humor.
Editor-A newspaper is too circum-
scribed sphere for the exercise OF
your sons talents. He needs wider
field. Get him a position on a canal
Let him drive a mule. That's what
he's fit for Good morIing.-N. \.
Press
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FARM AND GARDEN.
THE BRONZY CUTWoRM.
A Pest Tnat Is Frequently Mistaken for
tba Army Worm.

Pest That Is Frequently Mistaken for
the Army Worm.
DIR. c. V. Riley. in his last years re-
port of the division of entomology,
u. :. department of agriculture, calls
attention to the bronzy cutworm,
which he says is frequently mistaken
for the army worm. He found it in
April, 1871, feeding in numbers upon
clover in Missouri, and later in the
same season upon bluegrass in other
parts of that state. The same year il
was found at Ithaca, \. Y, and since
that time has been noted in different
places.
The moths make their appearance
during the months of August and Sep
TENDER, the females laying eggs so that
the resultant Larvae will have time to
feed and pass through two or more
molts before winter The eggs have
not yet been specifically observed, and
we know nothing yet of the exact
mode and place of oviposition. The
partly grown worms hibernate under
sticks, stones and other rubbish, and
upon the opening of spring come forth
and feed upon grass and other low
growing plants until they reach full
maturity. The time when they enter the
ground to pupate varies from the first
of June to the end of the same month,
and they remain in the ground some
time before transforming and issue as
moths. as just stated, from the first of
August on. Though they feed in the
hot sun at midday, this is chiefly the
ease with diseased worms, as normally
they are essentially nocturnal In the
more southern states the species may
hibernate as moth, as it is frequent
ly captured in the winter. The very
young larvae are bright green, with
bare indications of the stripes which
characterize the large ones. The full
grown larva is one of the largest of its
family, and is distinguished from all
others by the pale amber-colored head
and the bronzy hue of the body, the
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FIG srcrIoN OF THE BRooDER.

FIG. .. SECTION OF THE BRooDEB.
long for convenience in cleaning out
and looking in. The front portion l..
as shown in Fig. ., consists of three
pieces of glass arranged to slide or to
be taken out at viii. The front box,
Or first run. .. is covered with glass. 1t
contains a pane to lift up for putting in
The feed After the chickens grow big
ger partitions and are removed and
the little ones allowed to run down on
board 8. A fence two feet high of one
inch wire mesh separates each flock.
1t is not advised to put more than thirty
chicks together, else they will crowd
and kill each other American Agri-
culturist
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well, IL does cost something. :" ad-
United Joe.
And yca'm have to stop over night
at some tavern
Yes"
1T seems TO me. growled the old
man. that all this is "A senseless waste
deal better settle down and go To work.
| didn't go incoming round the country
when married my dear deceased first,
nor yet my dear deceased second. Life
is made for work. not play"
Time enough for that. father" sand
the reckless Joe. a man doesn't get
married. ordinarily, oftener than once
in lifetime.
Mrs. Joe drew long breath of relief
when she found herself out from under
the farmhouse roof
Joe" said she. I'm afraid I'm 20
ing to be an awful disappointment to
your father"
AS long as you're not a disappoint-
ment to me-" he retorted. laughing.
1t doesn't so much signify"
There must be a deal of work in
/ that house-fOur cows, a hundred tur-
keys, flock of sheep. a poultry yard
| of Leghorn fowls. butter. eggs, cook
ing. washing, baking. scrubbing"-
How DO YOU know all this?" asked
I he
Miss Stubbs TOLD me. oh, Joe! why
didn't you marry Berenice Stubbs?"
Look in the glass. little girly, if
| you want the question answered
But / am so useless. You should
have seen Miss Stubs look at me
when said didn't know how TO make
bread and that | had never done a
washing in my life"
You'll easily learn, Ellie"
DO YOU think shall. Joe?" a lit
| tie cloud no bigger than a mans hand.
came over the pearly frankness of her
brow. Did your mother wash and
] bake and brew"
presumably she did. But / don't
remember her; she died young"
WAS she your fathers first dear de-
ceased?'
Joe nodded
What was the other one like?"
Tall and pale. with a cough and a
habit of taking wintergreen snuff"
Would you like me to take to win
tergreen snuff" she queried.
/ He laughed
1t hardly seems 10 me, dear, as if
you could belong to the same race as
those two poor, pale, drudging wom-
en-" said he.
"Do all farmers wives die early.
Joea'
Joe did not answer. lie was unfold
] -. ho Has
by telegraph.
Cousin Simeon Ailesbury was the viii
lage doctor. pleasant old man with a
bald head and a genial smile. Ellen
Ailesbury made friends with him at
once.
You are very like your mother.
child" said he. .She always reminded
me of a little mountain daisy"
Ellen's lips quivered.
Il am glad YOU speak so kindly to
me. doctor said she, for somehow
since came to the old farmhouse feel
as if / was fraud"
~ fraud. my dear
The bright tears sparkled now.
Il was brought up to teach" said
She. Il can do nothing about the
house. And Joe's father seems to ex.
pect me to be the maid of all work. OF
course / can learn. Id do anything to
please Joe. But it's hard 10 think one
is such disappointment"
'Humph." said DIR. Ailesbury, III
speak to Joe about that"
And that afternoon. when Ellen and
Mrs. DIR. Ailesbury we're gone to lool
at pretty cascade in the woods, the
old man had a long talk with his
cousins son.
At the end of the week Joe went
back to the Ailesburv farm
We'll. I'm glad we've got through
galivanting." said the old man, with q
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MY DEAREST FOE.


OCTOBER. iSs9
can't say why. except that man.
Since Adam. viii do what he shogl5n't;
While others thought Miss d. so nice.
I couldn't
can't say why or wherefore. each
Must draw his individual moral.
But ere We spoke three words We seemed
To qua-re-
II wasn't that she pinched or dyed;
She didn't. any more than old.
Nor did she smoke, OF favor skirts
Divided
Nor were, 50 FAR as could see,
Her stockings blue. nor red her tresscs.
Nor did she love esthctic fsds
In dresses
Nor was II that ever found
Her fringe in curl the least bit lacking
or CHANGED 20 note her shoes in need
OF backing.
shed none o. these faults; yet dislike
Grew into hate. I couldn't stop IL;
Nor can I tell the reason now,
So drop IT,
That she was handsome. III admit,
And looked al times very goddess.
Nay more VEINS plus q skirt
And bodice.
Her lips we're like Dianas bow.
Her dark eyes would have graced 4 Juno
she walked hke-I forget her name
But you know.
and I must fsin admit although
Ioathed her. nor 10 put il finely.
She was a clever CIR, and sang
Di.lnely-
And I was rubicuhd and plain
As cooks when oat OF situations.
And envfed those who could achieve
Flirtat.ORs
Yet when by some i'll chance we met
My steady pulse declined 70 fiutter.
And I'd no other wi-h except
To cut her.
While she delighted 20 invent
some horrible nickname 20 dub me,
And seized with rapture every chancs
To shub me.
Ihad no reason in the world
To hate this Juno-Venus Naiad
And she had Just about as much
As had.
But this know. though fourscore years
Should Be our lot ere falls the curtain.
Miss d. and viii ne'er be friends,
That's certain.
p s-OCrOBER. o.
Dear reader-tf 50 long you've tarried-
There's on'y one line more 10 add
Were married,
Pail Mall Gazette.