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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-02-25
HE uToPIAN FARMER.

Come here, my dear, want ter say word or
two ter goa
Bout what thinks The proper thing for ne n
you ter do.
we've gave me mighty good advice senee VIC was
wed that day
Way back in sfxty-one, r now Ia like 70 have
Fl you don't think I've got a right to do as 9th
ers does
N sen The crops before they grows. Jest like
them fasteners
Why, Meg, a man out in Moo York hez sold a
Lotto corn
That's several thousand bushels more then what
the country borne
N got his money, too, I'm told, n didn't have
apeck
OF grain OF any kind In hand to back his little
spec
He cleared hundred thousand cash, ". Meg.
that's more-n.we
Have cleared a. farmin' al our days, or ever
viii, hy gee,
N Icant say I sees the use o wOrkin' day BY
day
N only se.lin- what we raise FOR mighty little
pay.
When them a. hasn't any grain can sell up
there IL town
a million peeks Of wheat n corn, n git their
money down
The modern plans dandy Meg. n ef We
makes II SO,
IL get you that pianncr, n the trottin' horse
for Joe.
Wen raise the mortgage OF the roof. n paint
the old barn red,
~ send the gals 70 Paris. France, and buy a
rosewood bed
Wen get new carpets for the floors. n keep a
hired man
II only can 60 70 town n learn 10 work the
plan.
N mebbe. Meg. I'd make enough ter run for
governor.
Or get sent down 20 Washington a fuii-hedged
senator.
tell yer. gal this is an age that beats creation.
Say.
What would yer father'ye said dye think, II
he Wuz here to-day,
Ter see folks sellin' wheat AID corn, and huh
ears fun o rye.
" Teveu-tweIfths Of all they sold nov here but
in their eye.
How he would yell ter think o. Us a-makiu' % a
o gold at selIn' fellers things We haven't really
got.
What's that ye say 1t isn't straight 10 sell
what re don't own
y II goes into The spec goes il all aIones
The music on the piannay ye think woulddrive
yer mad,
II it was bought from selIin- things We never
rightly had
Wal. have yer way; III let it go: didn't
mean no harm.
But what Is straight in cities can't be crooked
on 4 farm
John Hendricks Bangs, in Harper's Magazine.
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wHHHg THEY Are AL CONC.

Northwestward hol seems to be the
cry now humming over the country.
The vacant places in Min nesota, or at
least those fit for farming, having been
taken up the stream fir ON the south is
likely to join thai from the east and
pour into Manitoba and the fertile prov
inces adjoining it, particularly it APP
pears, the Saskatchewan. The con-
struction of railways, the free gift of
land to settlers (160 acres to each)
coupled with the recent splendid har-
vest, is drawing all mems attention to
those provinces, so long a mere hunting
ground, with the result that the farm
ing world and his wife are casting long
ing eyes towards Manitoba, and farm
ers crowded or unprosperous where
they now are, are making preparations
to be off in the spring. They can
secure homestead free, and they want
to secure it before the choicest locations
are gone. The hberality of the rail-
ways there, and the care for the immi-
grants displayed by the government is
bearing fruit. Farmers are no longer
content to scrape while they may
gather by the armful. Those solid
fields of wheat in Manitoba and beyond
1t which mean gold, are prizes too valu-
able to be neglected, and they are with
in the reach of all who viii go and pos
sess them. And people are going. 1t
is almost becoming a question of who
will get there first, and in all directions
are preparations being made for start.
The demand in Europe for the fat cattle
of the west, which cost little but the
care of raising them, and for the cheese
and butter of Alberta and Assiniboia,
is becoming a factor in North Amer
lean commerce, and the wise ones are
packing to be amongst the early birds.
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be wasted on any OF the country bump
kins who vegetate among these wilder
nesses. sam. you young villain, are
those boots Of mine BACKED yet?"
Farmer Hendricks hired boy, who
haG Just come n 70 warm his purple
hands at the merry red blaze, looked
glum.
NO. they amt. said sam. GROSSLY.
We'll. what's the reason
Cause I amt 'ad time.
''See you find time, then. and that
quick. too" said the captain. And
Sam glOwered after him as he went
gayly up the stairs.
Just wish had the firin' Of him ont, .
said the boy. glcomily. Its sam do
this and sam do that and sam.
where's the warm water and sam.
what do you mean by lettin' my fire 70
out2' and not red cent has he guv me
yet-no. nor as much as a pleasant
word. I wonder IL he means 10 stay
here always2"
'You and 1 are about equal in our
love OF him, sam. said Fred Jones.
laughing.
i heerd him talkin' with Miss Car
RE about goin' sleigh-ridin' Tomorrow
night. said sam. shrewdly- I'D Jes'
like t. put Kicking Tom in the shafts;
] would il It weren't for Miss Carrie.
He don't know nothin' about horses,
that there militia cap'n don't" And
Sam chuckled
Il say. Mr.. Jones" he resumed.
why don't yo- set beforehand with
him? Miss Carrie don't really care for
him' she's only dazzled like"
Fred Jones frowned slightly; honest
Sam was not exactly the kind OF Gany-
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FARM AND GARDEN.
REGARDING WIRE WORMS.
Various Methods Tried for Destroying
the Greedy Parasites.


the Greedy Parasites.
In many sections wire worms are
very destructive to growing crops, and
it has been exceedingly difficult to gro
tect vegetation from them. At the
Cornell university experiment station
investigation has been in progress for
the past three years TO determine the
utility of various recommended meas
ures and to devise other effective ones
Bulletin SO contains the account of
these experiments and Investigations.
Wire worms are long, slender grubs, of
a yellowish white color, having I'M
usually hard bodies; the hardness and
form of body suggested the name.
They are the young click beetles or
swapping bugs, as they are often called
from their habit of doubling quickly
with swapping noise when put upon
| their backs BY this movement they
throw themselves some distance into
the air and come down upon their feet.
There are several species of these
beetles, the young of many being per-
fectly harmless but others feed upon
seeds and the roots of plants which
they find in the soil. Destructive
species of wire worms were placed in
breeding cages, and the following
remedies were tried:
Protection OF Seed l. BY a coating of paris
green and -four; ?. BY coating of tar: 3 By
soaking in a salt solution; 4. BY soaking in a
copperas solution; 5. BY soaking in a chloride
Of lime and copperas solution; 8. BY soaking in
kerosene oil; :. BY soaking in turpentine; 8. BY
soaking in a stryehnine solution.
Destruction OF Wire-worms: I. BY starva-
tion, with clean fallow, with growth of crops
supposed TO be free from attacks OF wire-worms,
as buekwheat mustard and rape; .. BY the use
OF insecticides as kerosene oil (pure and as an
emulsionl, crude petroleum tpure and as an
emulsion, poisoned dough, bi-sulphide Of car
bon, and by such fertilizers salt l<aint, muri-
ate of potash, lime, chloride of lime and gas
lime.
Destruction OF Pupae and Adults: 1. BY fall
blowing; >. BY trapping.
OF the various methods used to pro-
tect seed all failed entirely, and sever
al retarded termination or entirely de-
stroyed vitality. In the'attempt to de-
stroy the wire-worms by starvation it
was found that these larvae can live
for a year or more in soil upon which
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''Alow me to accompany you. Miss
Brown"
You will let me see you home, Car.
rie?"
Capt. Logan and Fred Jones both
spoke at once, but Carrie shook her
head.
4 prefer to walk alone, " she said,
gayly.
About the sleighing party to-mor-
row night?" said Fred. anxiOusly.
II half promised Capt Logan, "
said the village beauty. a rosy tint suf-
fusing her cheek
But Carrie, thought it was settled
between you aud me two weeks ago.
exclaimed Fred. with a frown.
WAS it? I'm sure / had forgotten
it"
Fred was silent Capt Logan's
smooth. soft-toned voice broke the
silence.
Il exact no PROMISES he said, gal
lantly; but if am not punctual to the
hour and the spot Miss Brown may
draw her own conclusions"
Aud Carrie went home.
She was very pretty. this bright
eyed, New England damSeL Fred
Jones had loved her ever since they
were children together. and Capt. LO-
gan, who had come down to spend the
Christmas holidays with his cousins,
the Hendricks. had become so fond of
those bright. blue eyes and golden hair
that he had prolonged his visit into
january.
Pom my word, she's a regular
beauty. said the captain. staring
through the tiny window panes at the
retrcatiug figure of Miss Brown.
Fred Jones looked quickly mp at him,
as if he would have liked to knock him
over into the fireplace, but he refrained
from any such demonstration.
~ beauty" went on the captain.
''and it's thousand pities she should
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that the dumb members of his family
were all safe and comfortable. 81 do
believe that's old John Kendrick'l
ghost come to life again, poundin' like
all possessed on the barn chamber
fioor!''
Its NEE! It's me-e!'' bawled the
captain. ''Unfasten the trap-door and
let me out"
Slowly the farmer lifted the ladder
TO its place. With rheumatic awk-
wardness he climbed the creaking
rounds and undid the hook from its
hasp.
How in all creation came you
here?" he demanded. "Why, / thought
you was out a-sleighridin' with the
gals"
lit was all the doing of that illain,
Saml" gasped the infuriated captain.
his teeth chattering with mingled rage
and cold. II won't stand this sort of
thing I'll leave the place tomorrow. :"
''As you please" said the farmer, to
whom the prospect of losing his guest
was not unpleasant. I'm dreadful
sorry this should have happened,
though, and I'll talk seriously TO Sam. :"
80 will l." CRASHED the captain.
"I'll break every bone in his body"
But Sam had taken particular care
to go over to his grandmother's, six
miles across the snowy fields, to spend
the night, and the only person the
captain saw was old Mrs. Kendrick
sitting by the kitchen fire.
you've lost your chance, captain, :"
said she, good-humoredly. "Dorcas
Smith has just gone by on her way
home from the sleighing party, and
she says Fred Jones brought Carrie
Brown in his new cutter, and they're
engaged"
The captain left next day. and Mrs
Fred Jones has never seen him since.
And when the affair came off Sam got
piece of wedding cake big enough to
give him the dyspepsia for week.
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WHY THEY ARE CoCKNEYs.
1t IL Term of Der'sion. Signifying an
Illuminate Fellow.

Eneminate Fellow.
That is long story in the new Eng
lish dictionary. Minshen, in mis- Due
tor, published in 1917, retails the men,
orable chestnut" on the subject lie
says the ''tearme came first out of this
tale: That citizens some, riding
with his father into the coun-
try, asked, when he heard a
horse height, what the horse did; his
father answered.: The horse doth
neigh; riding farther, he heard a cooke
growing, and said: Doth the cooke
neigh. too? and therefore Cockney or
Cocknie, by inversion thus: incock q.
incoctus--i. e., raw or unripe in coun-
trymen's affaireS" This does not
satisfy DIR. Murray and his assistants.
A cockney was originally a cockered
child, one sucked too long, a mothers
darling, one tenderly brought up
hence a squeaInish or effeminate
fellow, milksop. The word is often
used in the last sense by Elizabethan
and earlier writers. On childermas
dsy December PSI the students of
Lincoln's inn chose a king of Cock
neys" to be master of the revels The
word come to be applied derisively to
a townsman, as the type of effem-
macy, in contrast to the harder in
habitants of the country. Then it was
localized to mean one born in the city
of London, particularly to connote the
characteristics in which the born Lon
doner is supposed to be inferior to
other Englishmen. The townsman
had his revenge by the use he made of
clown" The original of clown" in
the Teutonic languages mean a clod,
clump, clot-hence clumsy lout a
lumpish fellow. Then it was applied
to countryman as the clown par ex-
cellcnce, the man without refinement
or culture, the ignorant, rude, I'M
couth, i'll bred man. Chicago Mail.
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Most Extensive improvements to BE
Made.

mhuc.
For long time past Chicago shippers
have loudly complained Of the manner in
which they are handicapped in developing
a trade with the South by the gross discrini-
nation in rates that has been maintained
In favor of New York shippers. Now there
is fair promise of relief. Since the
Thomas Brice syndicate got hold of the
Monon Road plans have been in the course
of development for making that line part OF
a great north and south system in connec-
ton with the Richmond Terminal and other
southern systems in which that syndicate
holds the control.
These plans have now been about fully
developed and will very shortly, it is said,
be put into operation. prominent part
of these plans, il is intimated, is the max
ing of such rates from Chicago to all points
that can be reached by the Monon as will
place Chicago shippers on an equal footing
with those of New York and tend to de
velop great and lucrative business be-
tween the two sections of country. At all
events great improvements have been de
cided upon in regard TO the Monon.
Now the syndicate is satisfied and the
contemplated improvements will be pushed
with the utmost possible dispatch. The
capital stock of the road has been increased
and s., 200, 600 of the additional stock has
been sold for cash, and this amount will be
spent in the improvement Of the road. The
terminals at Chicago and Louisville are TO
be doubled in capacity. Somewhere in the
neig hborhood of 81. 000, 900 is to be spent in
preparation for the worlds fair. The
Monon IS now the only road having a din.
ing car service between Chicago and Gin
cinnati and the service is TO be extended TO
the Louisville line. In short, the Monon is
to be made part of one OF the best equipped
and biggest systems that has a terminal in
this city.-Chicago Evening Post
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About Bunions.

The best thing TO do for a bunion i,
to prevent it. Bunions are formed bJ
wearing very loose, very tight or other
wise ill-fitting shoes, and by means o.
the pressure upon the joints, the burss
or lining of the joint becomes infiamed
As TO treatment, remove the shoe anC
apply poultiee for several days; then
pare away all the thicbened skin. In
some instances surgical operation is
necessary. Before the shoes are worn,
take two or three thicknesses of buck
skin or felt and fasten them together.
cutting out hole in the center, and
apply over the bunion so that all the
pressure of the shoe shall come upon
the surrounding tissue and not upon
the bunion.-Dr J. II. Kellogg.
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THere's nothinn "a

There's nothing LEFT
of Catarrh, when you use DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy. With the poison
GUS, irritating snuffs and strong,
caustic solutions, a good deal Is
left. They may, perhaps, stop it
for time, but there's danger of
driving it to the lungs. They work
o. false principles.
But DIR. Sage's Remedy cares it,
no matter how bad the case, or of
how long standing. Not only Ca
tarrh itself, but Catarrhal Headache,
Cold in the Head = every thing
catarrhal in its nature The worst
cases yield to Its mild, soothing,
cleansing and healing properties.
So will yours. You may not be-
lieve it, but the proprietors of DIR.
Sage's Remedy do.
And to prove it they make you
this offer:
If they can't cure you, they'll
pay you $500 in cash. It's a bust
ness proposition from responsible
house.
But do you think they'd make
it if they, and yo,t, couldn't depend
upon their medicine
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meds he cared to have NEEDLE with his
love affairs.
Miss Brown must choose for her
self, Sam" he said, and sam went
back to his work. secretly wondering
how young lady gifted with ordinary
sense could hesitate for a moment be-
tween the captain aud Fred Jones.
The next night came-a perfect night
for sleighing expeditions and rustic
lovemaking. the roads hard and well
packed and a glorious moon shining
down whitley, as if a rain of silver
were deluging the whole world
Couldn't be better weather" said
the captain. sam, where are the
sleigh bells?1
Dunno" said sam There's them
old jinglers in the garnet that used 10
belong to Deacon Joe Kendrick that
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-02-25
LOvE-MAKING TELEGRAPH.
The MomentOus Question That a Message
Answered Not Long Ago.

Answered Not Long Ago.
Said a Western Union telegraph
operator the other day: "You wouldn't
think that spoony lovers would resort
to such public means of correspondence
as the telegraph for transmission of
their sweet little messages of love and
devotion, would you? But they do,
just the same.
''Often certain young man of whom
/ know if he does not regularly receive
letter from the future source of his
JOY and happiness rushes here with a
crestfallen countenance and files mes
sage like this:
MY dear. why did you not answer my last
letter. Yours devotedly, -
Perhaps you don't believe that such
a message as this was ever sent, but
would show some of them to you if it
wasn't against the rules. We fellows
on the wire enjoyed quite an amusing
incident not long ago, in which Sophia
revealed Johns brilliant scheme of
popping the question by wire. We sur
missed that this brace of lovers had
been conducting a correspondence for
some time, which the artful John Gull
minated with the following dispatch
that was evidently intended to draw
forth an answer to an entirely differ
ent question:
sophia: Did you receive my last letter?
John"
sophia. in her ecstatic delight, evil
IDENTIFY understood the query in differ
ent sense from that which the ordinary
reader of the epistle would, and pro-
ceeding to the telegraph Office left the
following:
John: Yes. How about next Christmass
SOPHIA
Chicago Tribune
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nothing is growing, and that they feed
and thrive upon buckwheat, mustard
and rape. Therefore it is not worth
while to lose the use of the land for a
season, or to grow these crops to de-
stroy them.
OF the insecticides tried kerosene
Was effective when used in sufficient
quantities to thoroughly permeate the
soil to the depth of several inches, but
this makes it too expensive for ordi-
nary practice. The same was found
true of bisulphide of carbon, salt,
kainit, muriate of potash, lime and gas
lime. The poisoned dough seemed not
to attract the wireworpls at all. OF
the methods of trapping employed,
lunches of freshly-cut clover dipped in
paris green water and placed about the
field under boards destroyed very
large number of the adult beetles, but
none of the bats attracted the Larvae.
If this method could be carried out
Systematically for a term of years it
would doubtless be effective; but as
the Larvae remain in the larval state
three years or more, as observed at the
station and by European writer's upon
the subject, it would prove very slow.
Fall blowing, which is the only effect
We. practical method of destruction
discovered, also has the same disadvan-
tage, as only the third-year larvae are
destroyed by it. In July of the third
year of their existence the Larvae
changes to soft white pupae resent bling
the adult beetle in form, and in August
the adult state is assumed but, strange
to say, the insect remains until spring
in its cell in the ground. Any disturb
ance during this time proves destructive
to its life. If, therefore, the ground is
plowed and kept thoroughly stirred for
three or four weeks after July 20 all
these adults will perish and autumn
sown crops may be put in. If this
method of procedure is followed for
three or four years the soil will become
nearly free from the wireworms. Short
rotations of crops can be planned to
br-ino this bnpt
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family of new wealth in Washing
ton have Just set up a butler. The
head of the family formerly lived in
Michigan and some friends from this
state have recently been visiting them.
Among them was a lady who had
known them for many years. One day
at dinner she wanted some bread The
bread basket was within easy reach of
the host and the guest asked him to
pass it TO her. but he shook his head.
"Darsn't, he said. grimly; "Maria's
got her eve on ne, and if didn't wait
for the butler she'd give me jessie as
soon as she got me alone. Detroit
Free Press
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A COAL ASHES SITTER.

caused by the first settling on the
clothing or blowing into ones face.
The box is made in sections, which
may be lifted so that it can be taken
apart to facilitate shoveling ovt the
ashes" After you get this SITTER made.
don't conclude that just becarse you
have made the work little easier,
sitting ashes is the wife's job. u isn't.
1t is a mans job as much as il IS his
duty to shovel coal or cut wood. Rural
New Yorker
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SITTER FOR ASHES.
Every Farm House should Have One or
More of Them.

More of Them.
Scattered over the ground around
many farm homes we see coal enough
to run the stoves for month. 1t was
just dumped on the ground because it
was too much trouble to pick it out of
the ashes We shouldn't care to do
such picking with bare fingers, but it
is well enough to let sieve do the
work. The sitter shown is made by a
friend in Wisconsin, who says about
it: ''The apparatus consists of an ordi-
nary coal sieve with a narrow strip
nailed across the center, as shown. and
let into the top of box having a
hinged cover in the manner indicated
in the drawing. The coal ashes may
be poured into the sieve, and then the
cover may be shut down, and the sift-
ing done without the necessity of sup
porting the sieve and the ashes by the
hands, and without the annoyance
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To invigorate is 10 endow with health
This is conferred upon the feeble, the nerv-
Gus and the dyspeptic by Hostetters Stom
act Bitters, the great enabling medicine
IL recreates, as it were, the ability to digest
and 10 sleep. 1t augmenis the appette, anu
70 incorporate food as part of its substance
il tends 10 remedy leanness: Malaria, KID
ney complaint, la grippe and liver complaint
art cnred by the Bitters.
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THE plan pursued 10 kill cut worms
on old sod fields is to pillow at this sea-
SON and leave the land in the rough
condition. which Eurns up some of the
worms and allows the frost to go down
after the others. The land should also
be turned again early in the spring.
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a CORRESPONDENT of the Journal of
Agriculture selected two hogs CT the
same size. weight. age and thrift To
one he gave an ounce of salt dail~. to
the other none. The one sailed hal a
much keener appetite than the other.
and in three months weighed fifty
pounds the most
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-Foreigner-"You have no relics of
the past in this country" Theatrical
Manager-'Pshaw If you could see the
deadhead tickets that / destroy every
night you'd think we had relics Of the
passed. "-Binghamton Leader.