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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16
"uNCIvIL KINDNESS"
Tenderness of Heart But Partially Con-
ceAled By Roughness of Manner.


ceHled by Roughness of Manner.
Robert Louis Stevenson, in his book
Of essays entitled Across the Plains, +"
''uncivil kindness" of Americans-that
rough friendliness which. in its contra
dictory character, is SO bewildering to
the foreigner newly landed. He says:
1T was Immediately after had left
the emigrant train, and | am told that
looked like man at deaths door, so
much had the long journey shaken me.
! sat at the end of the car, and, the
catch being broken and myself sick and
feverish, | had to hold the door open
with my foot for the sake of air.
I'm this attitude my leg barred the
newsboy from his box of merchandise.
l made haste to let him pass when OBJ
served that he was coming; but ! was
busy with book, and so, once or
twice. he came upon me unawares.
''On these occasions he most rudely
struck my foot aside, and though | my
self spologized. as if to show him the
way, he answered me never a word.
chafed furiously, and / fear the next
time it would have come to words; but
suddenly felt a touch upon my shout
der, and a large, juicy pear was put
into my hand.
'It was the newsboy. who had OBJ
served that / was looking i'll. and so
made me this present out of a tender
heart.
For the rest of the journey was
petted like a sick child; he lent me
newspapers. thus depriving himself of
his legitimate profit on their sale, and
came repeatedly 70 sit by rne and cheer
me up"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16

~ have long desired to meet n really
truly editor" said Miss B,idde, land |
am very glad TO meet you"
80" said the editor, who had found
out his calling late in life, and pur-
chased a newspaper late in life. $50; I
am delighted to be source of gladness
to one so fair" tAll editorsa smooth
men and rarely overlook a chance to
make a hit.)
"Yes," pursued the fresh Miss Budde,
II have so wished to ask if you write
everything in your paper"
well, with some hesitation) you
couldn't exactly say that write every
thing. but (brighteningl inspire every
word, and the impress of my vigorous
personality is on every line. Chicago
Herald.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16
WHY WOMEN ARE NOT BALD.
Natural Selection Protects Them from
the Prevailing Tendency.

Natural selection Protects Them from
the Prevailing Tendency.
If the unsatisfactory statistics that
have been able to collect can be relied
on, the proportion of badness in boys
and girls under twenty is ABOUT eighty
to seven. says Miss L. +. Andrews in
the Popular Science Nor thly. AS the
majority of girls at the age under consid-
Grafton wear their hair loose, or in sim
pie marguerite braids. so that there
is little likelihood of deception, while
unwholesome headgear or other indi-
vidual practices can hardly, as yet, have
had time to produce any material effect
upon either sex, we may regard the diff
ference indicated by the figures as prac-
tically due to the working of heredity
alone.
Now, there is no apparent reason why
girls should not inherit a tendency to
badness as well as boys, unless that
tendency is checked by some other fac
tor. Such factor IS sexual selections;
for presume it is hardly necessary to
argue here that a bald-headed woman
would not stand much chance of sur
vival" in the struggle for matrimonial
honors. As men have always practi-
cally done the selecting" and will
probably continue to do so more and
more as the conditions of modern life
render the competition for husbands
more severe, the woman's voice in the
matter. when she has any, being limit
ed to simple negative, it is not likely
that the state of badness to which the
human race is said to be tending will
ever affect the feminine half of it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16

The story of Fraulein Grain, propri-
etor of girls school in Berlin, is full
of interest and encouragement for
women who have missed opportunities
for study in early life Frsulein was
the daughter of an invalid mother,
TO whom she devoted all the earliei
years of her life as nurse and house
keeper. At thirty-six she found her
self without home. without family,
without means and without sufficient
education to obtain a teachers certifi-
cate. At forty she was able to take
the series of examinations necessary
to secure a certificate: and. with less
than a score Of pupils. she opened the
school which now has three hundred
students. and includes a normal, q kim
dergarten and a separate department
for boys She employs forty teachers
st Louis Republic
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16
VALUE OF TIkLAGE.
Increased Profits Is the Reward of Con-
centrated Farming.

Increased Profits Is the Reward of Con-
centrated Farming.
The almost universal tendency with
western farmers for years has been
'spreading-out" farming. Everywhere
will one see farmers who, out of choice.
had rather run over two acres to raise
thirty bushels of wheat than to have the
headache hard enough to raise that
amount on one acre. There is good
reason for this. To raise thirty bushels
on one acre requires skill, forethougnt,
care, good tillage; in short, that kind
of crop depends on the man as much as
on the land In the other case there
would be but very little investment of
the man, and more of luck and blind
trust in Providence. When a man has
more trust than skill he will of course,
invest that of which he has the most.
Every man farms according to the
measure of the man. He may not al
ways be able to do as well as he knows,
but he will try, and. what is more, he
will try to keep his knowledge ahead
of his hands. Every year adds evidence
that concentrated. not "spread-out"
farming is to be the future order OF
things. Concentration enriches the
soil; ''spread-out" impoverishes it. Con-
centration reduces the primary capital
in land and increases its productiveness,
thus decreasing the cost of production.
The IrishInan was right when, ON hear
ing another speak of certain horse
as being quite speedy, he replied:
''Troth, know of horse that'ull trot
as fast as two NV i'm" That is the
principle to work for. Lay out your
capital in better tillage. not more
acres; in better cows, horses. hogs and
sheep; not more, but better ones. in
acres and animals. Only in this way
can true economy and a conservatism
of the farm forces be brought about
so as to enlarge the margin of profit.
The mischief with all our products is
that they cost too much to raise. This
state of affairs will continue with
every farmer until he sees more clear
ly and applies more theoretically this
principle of less acres and better til
lage; less animals and better ones.
Slowly in every farming community
are few who are beginning to gradu-
ate up and out of the low level of con-
trary ideas, and increased profits come
to them as a reward. -Colman's Rural
World
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16
Box OF A RoApNAKER's WAGON.

are raised and held mp by small chain
attached to each end and to plain,
small iron crank turning in staples on
the sides. The top of the sides must
be bound with strap iron, at least as
far as the chains bear upon it. A hook
riveted to thi, top iron slips into hole
in the shaft of the crank, acting as a
brake in preventing the unwinding of
the chain and spilling of the load in
transit This wagon box can be trans
ferred to set of sled hobs for winter
hauling of gravel, and will work as
well there as on wheels. To keep the
grit out of the wheel thimbles. broad
collar of leather should be attached TO
each axle and reach almost to the
spolxes over the huh. HOLSTER, in
American Agriculturist.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16
ROBBiNG A HAWKS NEST.
An Ornithologist's Adventure with War
like Apaches

like Apaches
A birds-nesting adventure that came
near ending in a tragedy is described
by Capt Bendire in a monogram on
the birds of North America, issued by
the Smithsonian institution and the
National museum jointly.
The captain was riding along the
banks of Rillitto creek, Arizona, one
day in the year 1872. when he saw big
black hawk. He followed the bird, and
at distance of about five miles from
camp he found il perched on a dead
limb of a tall cottonwood tree. On
nearing the tree he discovered bulky
nest placed in fork close to the main
trunk, and about forty feet from the
ground. The mate of the hawk which
he had been following was sitting on
the nest
With the intention of robbery the
captain climbed up to the nest, in
which he found a single pale-blue egg.
the parent birds meanwhile circling
around and manifesting their anger by
shrill screams He put the egg. which
was as big as a hens egg, into his
mouth, and was about to descend,
when he caught sight from his ele-
waited perch of several Apache Indians
crouched down in little canyon about
eighty yards distant. They were evil
IDENTIFY watching him.
1t was a case where the only chance
of safety lay in presence of mind.
without exhibiting any signs of having
made the alarming discovery, the cap
tain proceeded to descend in as leisure
ly manner as possible, still retaining
the egg in his mouth. IL he had mani
Tested any symptoms of being in
hurry, the Indians would have per-
ceived that they were spied and they
would have been waiting for the egg
hunter at the foot of the tree before he
could get down. In that case death by
torture of fiendish ingenuity would
doubtless have been his fate. As it
was, he reached the ground in safety,
mounted his horse, and started for
Imp
ter him, and they chased him nearly
to the camp before abandoning the
pursuit He got there all right. how
ever, with the egg in his mouth. 1t
was unbroken. Owing to its large size
the captain had great difficulty in get
ting 1t out of his mouth without injur-
ing it, but he finally succeeded,
though. as he says, his jaws ached for
some time afterwards. It is now in
cluded in the Smithsonian geological
collection. -Washington Star.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16
A Cargo of Fl~pbants

IAN elephants shoulder is never
STILL" is a Hindoo saying indicative Of
the restlessness of the animal. Mr.. J.
L. Kipling, in his "Man and Beast in
India" tells how the animals passion
for moving about once came near
wrecking a ship: "A batch of elephants
were taken on board at Calcutta, and
the steamer went down the Hooghly,
and at night anchored of Sanger
Point The sea was as still as oil. but
the ship rolled So much that she was in
danger of rolling over. The elephants
had found that by swaying to and fro
all together they could produce a
pleasant rocking motion. As the ship
had no other cargo. and rode light. the
captain was much frightened. The
mahouts were hurried down into the
hold, and each one. seated on his own
beast, made him break step but they
had to stay there for long time
Youths Companion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16
sucKwHsAT FOR BREAKFAST.
EaSy on . winter morning.

Ea1y on . winter morning.
when the frost Is on the rails,
And we eat By light O. candle
TIL the coming daylight palesT
In the SAVIOR OF the kitchen
How the appetite a~skesf
How we gorge the tOothsome uorseIs-
Lisht and wholesome buekwheAt cakes
Coming on the table steamInz.
Stseked 10 high upon the dish.
Sight 10 make . sad heart gladden..
What more could a mortal wishf
Forks attack In goOdiy number,
Everybody likes them not:
Cook has counted well the noses.
Not q single ones forgot
Take . cake upon your platter.
Island make OF IL with cream.
Then = Bit % golden butter
EpicUre IL Is dream.
Put . cake upon the butter.
Let the butter melt between
Triekle DER . little honey
'Twsre . dish for gods. ween
Talk about your land OF Cansani
This Is good enough for ne.
Give me buekEhest cakes for breakfast
And I'll quite coutentsd be-
Here's 4 land OF golden butter
Land Of milk where honey Cows;
Let me live and die in clover.
IN this land where buekShezt grovsi
- c COwdrick. In y. Y. Advertiser
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16
FOR FANCY POULTRY.
A Plan Intended for About Two Huadred
and Fifty Birds.


This building can be made of any di-
mension to suit the number of fowls
kept. This plan is intended for about
$50 birds, 50 fowls to each building.
The buildings are constructed of rough
boards lined with tar felt paper inside
to shut out the cold air and at the same
time to keep out vermin to a large ex
tent. lou can white wash the ertire
inside with strong solution of car
bolic acid added TO the white wash,
thus making it doubly secure against
vermin The buildings are each IL
feet high, 100 feet long b. % feet wide,
giving ample room for the pens on
either side of the passageway, as
shown in the cut The general ar
rangement of this building is excellent,
and you may if you wish extend runs
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16
FARM AND GARDEN.
RoADmAKER'S WAGON.
Box That VIII Discharge Its Load
yyffhouf ehaveIing.

Box That VIII Discharge Its Load
without shoveiing.
Gravel is a very useful material for
-oaG building, but unless a wagon box
for handling it cheaply can be con-
structed, far too little of it will be
used. Carts are better than most
wagons in use because the load can be
dumped, but unfortunately, they are
not so much IN use as before the almost
exclusive adoption of horses for the
farm work. Carts also have the disad-
vantage Of leaving the load in heap
at one point, whence 1t must be spread.
A wagon box that viii discharge its
load without shoveling. and spread it
as far as desired, can be made very
easily and at little expense. Two
planks eight inches wide and as long as
the box desired are placed on edge,
aud end pieces of the same material
fitted to then and held in place by cor
ners of heavy sheet iron drilled and
bolted on. (See illustration.) The
middle cross pieces that suspend the
bottom are mortised up into the lower
edge of the body aud the bottom is put
on below them. If very long body be
wanted, though seldom a necessity with
stone or gravel, the reach must be
heightened. The ends of this box
must not project far beyond the bolster
at either end Between the forward
and rear holsters the bottom consists
of three planlSs. the middle one over
the reach being stationary. The bot
tom pieces on either side of it are sawed
so as to drop. and the middle lengths
are bolted to strong hinges that in turn
are also bolted to this center plank.
They are short enough to drop and
swing between the holsters, and are
free of the reach
After the load is on, one or both of
the hinged bottom planks can be freed
suddenly. or by degrees, spreading the
gravel a long distance in the wheel
ruts. If the gravel is needed in one
ridge upon the center of the road, the
hinges must be bolted to the sides of
the body. The movable bottom planks
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16
Each Spoonful has
Done it's Perfect Work.

Is the verdict of every woman who has used Royal
Baking Powder. Other baking powders soon
deteriorate and lose their strength, owing TO the
use of inferior insI eGients but Royal Baking
Powder is SO carefully and accurately COM
pounded from the purest materials that it retains
its strength for any length of time, and the last
spoonful in the can is as good as the first which
is not true of any other baking powder
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16
sulphur for Fowls.

Do not use sulphur in the food at
this season OF the year, as the weather
is usually too damp. sulphur may be
mer, but only occasionally. We doubt
if there is any advantage to be derived
from its use in the food, but il is con-
sidered by many as an excellent pre-
ventive of lice when it is busted in
the nest-boxes and on the bodies OF the
fowls.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16
A Tender Heart.

Little JOHNNY guess I'll get rid OF
that dog / found. He's too much of q
fighter. He's always hurtin' other
dogs.
Fond Mother-My little cherub does
not like to see the poor dogs hurt,
know.
Little Johnuy-No'm, cause some OF
the other dogs is owned hy bigger boys
than / am.-Good Newa
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16
Ab.ent-Ninded.

John" said Mrs. Norton, as she
seated herself at the hotel breakfast
table, did you call a waiter?"
Yes" said Norton. looking up from
his paper, II called him aud he had
tray tall Lite.
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on all sides, as the flock may rec uire.
The pens are 10xl5 feet and the passage
s feet At each end of the building
are storage rooms for feed and fixtures.
An upper story, If you so arrange it,
can be used as a pigeon loft For this
the building should be 3 feet higher. =
John W. Caughey, in n. f. Homestead.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16
WHY H nd IL.

Cusmo-Johnny, why did you jab
your sister with your fork?
Johnny Cumso-She was putting her
fingers into the sugar-bowl and
wished to give her pointed rebuke.
Truth
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She-You haven't brought me a box
of candy since we were married.
He-Yes. but think of the tons
brought You before we were married.
n, Y, Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16

STUDY and pie for the coming years
work so that wien spring is here you
will be ready to be up and at it, and
know what you want TO do.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16

AN EXTENDED POPULARITY. BROwS's
BRONCHIAL. TRoCHEs have for many years
been the most popular article in use for re-
licving Coughs and Throat troubles.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16
sunday school. at the worlds Fair.

The Sunday-schools of the United
States are to have special building at
Chicago, costing $50. 200. 1t is to be of
brick. and located just outside the ex-
position grounds. 1t will contain a full
and instructive exhibit of the past
history and the best modern methods of
Sunday-school work, in this country
and Canada; with books, maps, lesson
helps, and every appliance that has
been approved by those best acquainted
with the subject. The auditorium will
seat about two thousand persons. Al
together it win be a new and remark
able development of the effort toward
religious education for the young.
THE man who has nothing TO boast Of
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16

WE eat too much and take too little out
door exercise. This is tue fault Of our mod
ern civilization 1t is claimed that Garfield
Tea. simple herb remedy, helps Nature to
overcome these abuses.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16

al CAN heartily say to any young man who
is wanting good employment, work for
Johnson & Co, follow their instructions
and you win succeed So writes an agent
of b. +. johnson & Co, Richmond, Va. and
that's the way all Of their men talk.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16

a CERTAIN city in the west has Chinese
policeman who IS spoken of as the 'Asiatic
CONarern
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16

EVERY unmarried woman says she
wouldn't stand il, and every married wO-
man does stand it.-AtchlsOn Globe.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16

THE man who buckles down to business
runs but little chance Of being strapped
Troy Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16

Il HAVE mistaken nv Calling said
young man who had deliberately provoked
an ntagoEist TO show four aces.-Washing-
ton Star
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16
SHAKESPEARE sY MOONLIGHT.
The Tale OF All Fooled In One Act An,
Two Scenes.

The Tale OF All Fooled In One Act and
Two Scenes.
A merry fellow whissled softly be-
meath the window of her fathers
palace on Woodward avenue aud that
honest gentleman felt in the pocket of
his doublet the while he muttered:
''Beshrew me for knave. but me-
thought had quarter here. Howbeit,
tits but nickel Juliet.'
'Sir. my father"
What man is he who. safe be-
screened from sight, doth whistle
Down went McGinty?'"
"'Tis some merry stranger. father,
but methinxs he doth whistle we'll"
Give HIM the nickel. Bid him avoid
those foreign airs. Yet stay, NAV
haps the fellow has a wife and chill
dren small who do clamor for bread?"
Juliet (sottO vocel--.'Nay. Heaven
fOrefeud. Methinks tbs the gallant
youth / met but yester'night in the
dance at Harmonic hall. know him
by his whistle. "Opens the window. J
Romeo. Romeo, HE thee TO the side
gate. There will l meet thee, love.
My father is thine enemy, fear"
Juliet on one side of the gate, the
stranger on the other.
art thou indeed Romeo?''
"Be it you, Hannah? I've got the
sassage. and the pigs feet for break
fast an a sup of beer for ourselves"
MARRY, who art thou. fellow"
"DOan call me names. miss. I'm the
butcher come to see the cook as is en-
gagged ter me"
Thou art not Romeo? Heavensl
have been fooled"
Me too. miss
Exeunt alL-Detroit Free Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16

So certain to cure euery case of Catarrh is
DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy that its proprie-
tors make you this offer If you can't be
cured, permanently, well pay you $500 cash.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16

BEsCHAM's Pills win cure wind and pain
in the stomach, gddiness, fullness. dizzi-
ness, drOwsiuess, chills and loss Of appetite.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16

THE best answer you can make to self
conceit is TO keep still.-RaE1's horn.
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nation or liberation, bearing down
sensations and kindred ailments, If it
ever fails to benefit or cure, you have
your money back.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-16

LAA6 " - n ~ ~ n
of woman's troubles is
with Doctor Pierce's
Favorite Prescription.
and certainly, ev-
cry delicate weakness,
derangement, and dis
ease peculiar 10 the sex
is permanently cured.
Out of all the medi-
cines for women, the
/" Favorite Prescription :"
Is the only one that's
guaranteed to do what is
claimed for it. In all
E" female complaints I"
and irregularities peri
odical pains, displace-
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THE WAY OUT

THE man who has nothing to boast of
usually makes up for it by boasting Of him
self Galveston News.