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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-08-24
SHE HAD TIME.
Even Though She said Good-By. She Had
Leisure to SaN More.

Even Though She said Good-By. She Had
Leisure tn Say More.
He was the proud and naughty guard
at the railway gate, and they were two
ladies who disliked to be separated very
much
.'Good-by." said the one with the va
lise and the red pasteboard box tied
up with white string.
.Good-by," replied the one who had
no luggage.
BE sure aud tell mother good-by for
me. won't you?'
YES. and You must be sure 10 give
ny love to all the folks"
4 will They viii be so sorry you
couldn't come with me-"
Il know il; but you will explain just
how it was. certainly wanted &c
come
You won't forget to lock the piano
so that baby won't put buttons and
scraps into the strings"
Yes
And shut the windows when it
rains
''Of course"
"well. must hurry Good-by."
'GOod-hy-
Then they kissed and parted and the
traveller with some difficulty extracteo
her ticket from the valise. just as she
got to the guard she gave a little
scream
OH she said, there is something
want to say TO her. VIII have time?"
How long viii you need?' he asked
as he looked at her ticket
Just half minute"
''Oh, then. you viii have plenty Of
time. tn be ten hours before your
train starts"
But the time table says il goes at
nine o'clock"
-'les'm. And il Is now just one min
ute past nine. ~-N ashingtOn star
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FOR PUBLIC COMFORT.
The beautiful and WeII-Mansged ParIor
at the Terminal station.

The Beautiful and Welf-MansEed BarlOrs
at the Terminal station.
There is one delightful resort at tie
fair that deserves to become better
known, as ii surely will if the present
management continues. This is the
department of public comfort in the
terminal station. There are other
branches of this department, but they
do not approach it IN the perfection OF
its management and the satisfaction tc
the public Decidedly the coolest place
upon the grounds, these great, high,
airy parlo~s, with their inviting easy
chairs and rockers, luxurious carpets
and draperies and general atmosphere
of rest and elegance, invite weary
sightseers to come again." which
they generally do, and bring their
friends Retiring with easy
touches where ladies may rest, with
trained maids in attendance. all as free
as the lake breeze which rustles through
the parlors and plays around the tall
pillars, inspire feeling of gratitude in
every tired visitor that there is one
place upon the ground where quiet re.
tirement, perfect rest and every needed
delicate attention is to be had for the
asking. The prettiest souvenirs of the
fair are for sale here, but the visitor is
never importuned to buy, and the en-
tire conduct of the terminal parlors'
is such as to counterfeit to a large de-
gree the bad impression made by the
eatchpenny devices and exorbitant
money-grabbing schemes to be found
at every turn within the grounds. The
secret of the rapidly-growing populari-
ty of the elegant parlors of public com
fort in the terminal station is found in
the management, which is vested in
two or three ladies who are prominent
ly known in Chicago and who are in
constant attendance
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A POSTMASTER WHO TuMeLEo.


Prohted by the Fate OF Those Who Had
Gone Before.
IL was in far west village of about
500 people, and the postmaster was SO
bland and courteous when the mail
came in that felt it my duty TO give
him few words of praise.
II hev To do it-hev to do it," he
whispered in reply. Come to the door
with me. Dye see them three graves
over thar"
Yes"
''Them's my predecessors in Office
three of EN-
..Postmasters who have died. eh?"
'POstmasters who hev been killed,
sir--wiped out right here because they
didn't tumble to human natur' around
2 post Office
you must have a special brand of
human nature IN this town. quer-
led
Exactly, sir. Mebby you noticed
old Bill Wheeler? He's never got let
ter in his life and probably never will,
but when he asks for mail go over the
whole grist and do it mighty careful.
too If / Jest said: 'Nuthin' for you,
Bill, he'd out with a gun and blaze
away. Did We take notice of that one
eyed TELLER, Jim IIastings2 OF course
know thar amt no letter fur him, but
hev to run 'em over and inquire about
his health and keep him good natured.
He shot the first postmaster here
P'aps YOU observed the little old WON
an with a bundle under her arm-Johr
Dawson's wife? Her husband shot the
second postmaster because he wouldn't
open the office Sunday afternoon.
And what was the third one shot
for?"
Got too heightened. Uncle Tom
Wallace tried TO get him out of bed at
midnight % see il there was a letter for
him. but he bucked. Uncle Tom kinder
hated 10 shoot. but felt that he orter dc
it fur an example"
'.And do you get up nights?"
Il don't hev TO. | leave the mail out
here in basket. keep a light burnin'
and the door open, and If anyone wants
90 paw the grist over he's at liberty to
do it. Its the same on Sundays, and I
guess the folks are purity well satisfied
with the way things is runnin'. Least
wise | hain't bin shot at in the four
months I've had the place. and take
that as a sign. o. Picayune.
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leans will take the lead in number. but
there will be notable exhibits undel
the patronage of the governments OF
Russia and Germany. Sixty horses Sc
lected from various parts of Germany
are now feeding on Iowa grass and
grain, tinder the care of experienced
horsemen. The stud of Grand Duke
Dmitry Constantinowich, of Russia. is
now on the way west from New York,
and will be acclimatized in Indiana
under the care of Russian farmers.
This exhibit is under charge of Guard
Capt of Cavalry +. n. Ismailoff, who
was detailed from the imperial army
for this duty.
In this stable are three mares and
eight stations, representing different
lines of 0rlof trotters from two to
eighteen years old. four stations of
different kinds of Orloff saddle horses
from three to eleven years of age, two
pure Arabian acclima tiled stations
three and four years old, and Russian
light draught stallion five years old
1t is said that this display will attract
many Russians to the fair from all
parts of America
Among the other notable features
will be a stable of French trotters.
These viii be the first horses of their
kind ever exhibited N America, and
the Columbian exposition is the first
fair to recognize them as a class. The
French animals are peculiar in that
they are loug-distance racers, often
trotting two. three and four miles. 1t
is urged that cross breeding with them
will give the American trotter more
bottom.
The magnitude Of these live stock ex-
hibitions may be inferred from the
premiums offered. These will aggre-
gate one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, many times as much as ever of
fered at any fair before This will be
the first fair TO award cash premiums,
and the agricultural department is the
only one in this exposition to offer
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KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products 10
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced In the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
news, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but il is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute Il offered.
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MADE OF RED CEDAR.
And Is the Largest Turned Vase in the
World.


In the Washington state worlds fair
building is what is claimed 10 be the
largest piece of wood turning from a
single block in the world. Mr.. J. l..
Nygren, the maker, spent about three
months of his time making special
lathe and turning from single log of
cedar huge vase six feet high and four
feet across the top. The vase is highly
polished and shows to a splendid adj
vantage the eoloring and granting of
the red cedar. The wonderful dura-
bility of this cedar is shown by another
exhibit in the same building. There IS
seen an old cedar log that had fallen to
the ground, anS on its remains had
grown a spruce tree. BY counting the
angular rings of the spruce it is found
to be over two hundred years old, and
the cedar trunk that lay dead under
this growing tree all these years is still
srm and solid in its texture. Many
such specimens are found in Washing
ton, and there are also shown shakes
and shingles that have done service on
roofs in Washington for over forty
years, and they show no signs of decay.
Many other woods are shown. but none
are more interesting to practical lum-
bermen than the favorite red cedar o.
the west
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THE GREAT CLOCK TOWER.
Wonderful Timepiece with Neither Main
spring Nor Pendulum.

Wonderful Timepiece with Neither Main
spring Nor Pendulum.
The great clock tower in the Manu-
features building commands the won
der and admiration of every visitor. 1t
is one hundred and fifty feet high, has
four seven-foot dials seventy feet above
the main floor of the building and con-
tains complete chime of nine sweet
toned bells, weighing fourteen thou
sand pounds. The mechanism of this
great timepiece is vastly different from
the ordinary town clock which sur
mounts the courthouse, church or pub
lie school at the home of the rural Wis
itor 1t comprises the latest horolog-
zeal inventions and is part of a system
of more than two hundred self-winding
clocks which are all controlled and reg
ulated by the master clock in the pa
vilion.
The great tower clock is part of the
exhibit of a large clock company, of
New York. The self-winding clock in
its simplest form consists of an ordi-
nary train from the center arbor to the
escapement-the other arbors and
wheels and the handspring being omit
mt oiA ANNb AohS ohNA
,0s6 of an inch in thickness, attached
at its inner end to the arbor and at its
outer end to the spring barrel. small
electric motor concealed in the clock
case carries the spring barrel once
around, thereby storing sufficient en-
ergy in the spring to run the clock an
hour As result of the frequent wind
ing and reduction of friction the power
REQ hired to run a self-winding clock IL
only one forty-sixth part of that used
in ordinary clocks. The motor will
run year without attention at cost
of less than twenty-five cents. The
master clock at the pavilion synchro-
nizes all the clocks throughout the ex-
position grounds and buildings by an
hourly electrical impulse which in
stantly corrects every clock to the Sec
ond.
The fact that the company produces
an accurate tower clock which will OPP
crate perfectly without reference to
the steadiness of the tower or the loea-
ton of the controlling clock is leading
to the introduction of the electric tow
err clock in many places where the or
binary weight and pendulum clocb
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HE WANTED The CORRECT TIME.
The Old Man from Willow Patch Had a I
Mission on the Worlds Fair Grounds.

The Old Man from Willow Patch Had a
Mission on the Worlds Fair Grounds.
The Columbian guard thought he
must be crazy and possibly the Column
bian guard was justified in so thinking.
smooth-shaven upper lip. His eyes
were apparently fixed on something
above one of the buildings, and in his
hand he held an enormous silver watch.
what are you trying TO dor asked
the guard.
"You tend to your business an I'll
tend TO mine," was the prompt re-
Spouse.
''Iou'n lose that eight-day clock
suggested the guard. facetiou,ly.
well, that's nothin' to you.' e
torted the old man, finally bringing his
eyes down TO earth and looking at the
guard. Pm more'n twenty-one an |
know what I'm DOM.
you don't act like it," said the
guard. II think I'd better take you in,
anyway, for lunatic.
You amt smart enough. One of
them three-card Monte Carlo men tried
to take me in an got fooled. But see
in as you're so ALFRED smart I'll Jest
tell you what I'm doin', an then you
can mosey along. told the old woman
before left Willow Patch, down near
Kankakee, that I'd bring her home the
correct time. She amt got no conf
dence in the town clock an wanted the
time right from this here time ball on the
worlds fair grounds, an | been sittin'
here nj a onto half an hour SOS not to
miss il when il drops. When it goes
I'll just set the old watch an go home
to-" He looked up again and saw
that the ball had already fallen. He
started for the Columbian guard, but
thought better of it. That's the Sec
ond time some darn fool has come along
an got me talkin' an the balls got
away from me-" he said. Now I've
got to stay over another day, and try it
again. I'll be here tomorrow bout the
same time, lool1in the same way, with
the old silver watch in my hand, an if
you see me you'd better go round the
other side of the building, cause I'm
goin' to get that time tomorrow if /
have TO lick every guard on the
grounds. Chicago Tribune.
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ty-five cents for admission into their
Enclosure deters many from visiting
these queer little people, bu: were
they more advantageously situated
their receipts would undoubtedly be
greatly increased.
Another somewhat isolated exhibit
which is well worth the attention of
every visitor at the fair, is the Indian
colony on the lake shore near the For
estry building, in the southeastern por-
ton of the grounds. Here, dwelling in
a state as nearly copied after the man
ner of their forefathers as circum-
stances and surroundings will permit,
are representatives of the six tribes of
the state of New York. These tribes
once formed that great federation
known as the Six Nations, then great
power, but now mere shadow of their
former greatness.
The names of the tribes are the Onei-
das, Cayugas, Onandagas, Senecas, Tus-
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CHILDREN OF THE LOST TRIBES.
A Curious Little Community In India
Whose Origin No One Knows.

Curious Little Community In India
Whose origin No One Knows.
Scattered over the breezy downs of
the Nilgherries, in little villages of
wicker houses that look at little dis
tance like nothing in the world so
much as a colony of beehivcs, lives a
community of six hundred or seven
hundred people, who are variously be-
lieved to be the descendants of one of
he lost tribes of Israel. the aborigines
of southern India and community of
Manichaens.
They live on milk and the produce of
the buffaloes. and as the unknown is
dreaded here as elsewhere their neigh
bors, much fearing what they do not
understand, pay them fees as wizards
for value received in occult matters,
and as a retaining fee for their
aid in counteracting the spells
of the dread men of the
beasts of prey, track the bison. snare
the leopard--a fearsome people, whose
women leave their children in the
charge of tigers when they go forth to
cultivate the barley and the amaranth
and to gather honey in the woods.
They believe in strange trinity and
hell, dismal stream full of leeches;
and this they must cross by means of a
single thread. The soul, burdened with
sin, is too heavy for this slender sup
port, and the sinner falls into the
stream, but the thread sustains easily
the souls of the good.
The funeral of Toda. for that, the
Bombay Times of India says, is the
name of the singular tribe. is as odd in
its way as its religious belief. His body
is wrapped in a new cloth and his toes
tied together with red thread; grain,
sugar, tobacco and money are wrapped
in his funeral toga to provide him for
his journey across the Styx and the
dark plain beyond.
Two buffaloes are slain beside the
corpse. and the dead mans hands are
placed upon their horns. piece of his
skull, his hair. and his finger nails are
removed, to be used later on at the
great ceremonial of the year-the elab-
crate celebration of the death of all
those who, during the twelve months.
have taken the leap over the great
precipiee into the bottomless abyss"
When these tokens are removed,
butter is smeared on the fragrant
wood of the funeral pyre and the body
is burned to ashes, and the ashes scat
tered TO the four winds.
The annual celebration is like great
fair. Grave looking gray boards are
sitting astride open-mouthed, tongue
hanging wooden horses, burlesque
tigers and long-trunked elephants, and
ample togas fiutter in the breeze as the
merry-go-round whirls round as it does
in an English fair.
''In a long impromptu lane shop
keepers from the neig hboring village
of OOtacamund, eight miles away dis
play their wares: sugar cane for
bright white teeth to munich, rock
cakes burnt with brown sugar, light
fried rice, cigars and cabbage rolled
cigarettes; oranges and ginger beer, of
course, but also cocoanuts, cinnamon,
dates, wheatcakes, tandstickor matches
and sugar candy. boston Globe.
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HARVEST EXCURSIONS

Will be rrn via '.The Northwestern line"
&C., St. p, NJ. q .. R'yl Sept. 18th aud
Oct 10th, 1898, from Minneapolis and ST.
Paul, and stations East and North Of NJ n
neapOlis and st. Paul, TO all points West OF
and including st. James and Sleepy Eye,
MINI, IN Minnesota, South Dakota, North
western Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, and the
Black Hills on the Chicago, 81. Paul, Min
neapolis 4 Omaha; Chicago * Northwest
ern, and Fremont, Elkh0rn q Missouri Val
lev Railways.
Harvest excursion tickets viii be sold 10
Omaha, st Joseph, Atchison, Leavenworth
and Kansas City, and to all points IN Kan
sas. Colorado. Utah, Oklahoma, Arkansas
and T xas and TO certain points In Tennes-
see, Mississippi Alabama and Louisiana
Tickets viii be sold at very low rates and
will be gOoa 10 start or day OF sale and
good to return within twenty days
For rate TO any particular point, through
car ser ice, or any information, call on
agents of ssThe North w estern Line at i5J
East Third street, St. .dul; l3 Nicollet
House Brk, Minneapolis: 405 Mesaba BIZ,
Duluth, or address, 7. w. TEAspALE,
Gen'l Passenger Agent,
st Paul
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sneRd Lot. Of Money.

Visitors at the fair are estimated to
have spent within the ground fifteen
million dollars, which is in addition to
the money paid for admission. OF this
amount three million dollars, accord
ing TO Chief Clerk Blackwell, of the de-
partment of collection. has gone into
the treasury of the exposition. More
over. business with the coneessionaires
is increasing. and it is expected this
source Of income win net ten million
dollars before October so.
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DAYS when the Six Nations were the
warriors of the continent are shown
side by side with beautiful basket and
bead work and fans and trinkets of
scented grasses. The sales are conduct
ed by pleasant-faced young women of
the tribe. some Of them decidedly pref
ty and ali of them with hardly more
than a dusky pallor to distinguish their
divergence from the Anglo-Saxon race.
A visitor referred TO one of them in her
hearing recently as squaw. and six
men felt an impulse TO kick the often
der, which only disappeared when they
discovered that the culprlt was another
woman.
In the afternoons the Indians dress
up in robes. such as their fathers wore
when New York city was a much
smaller village than 1t is now. and hold
a sort of state reception. It's intended
later to reproduce some of the national
customs and dances for the benefit of Wis
itors, but they have not got that far as
yet The men who represent the Six
Nations are almost all of them men OF
distinction in the tribes
There is Chief Jack of the Tus-
caroras, who is the secretary of Iro-
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Renewing silk.

To freshen a lace dress that looks
gray and slimpsy. brush with very
soft brush that viii not fret the lace,
sponge with tepid water containing a
little powdered borax or alcohol, lay
over a folded flannel and press on the
wrong side with modera tely-warm
iron. Sponge with black wooden
cloth. and if you have it at hand lay
over the lace while pressing a piece of
thin black silk. Waists of China and
wash silks may often be freshened by
sponging them with benzine or gaso-
oline. Use flannel cloth and put in
the air until all the odor has disap-
peared. If such waists must be washed,
make a suds of lulxe-warm water and
white soap and wash them quickly,
squeezing through the suds and rub
bing as little as possible. Rinse in a
slightly cooler water. and the second
time in water a few degrees cooler.
Do not use any bluing.-N. Y. Post.
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but IL was purely an animal content
no chord OF mis- higher nature was
touched As far as the eye could see
the hills and the fiOcks on the hills
were his The excellent woman at
tending 70 his corporal comfort within
the dwelling was his. The bright girl
sewing at an upper window and the
handsome boy gallOping along the val
ley on his new pony were his children
The great barn filed with harvested
grain was his. He did not look mp and
claim the SKI. but all else about him
was of value as part of his domain
''Nie and mine was the refrain of his
song.
At that moment something came
around the corner Of the house that did
not belong to him. and IL gave him a
Ehock-a very disagreeable thrill,
that was mostly disgust. and no quail
ity of fear in il. The something was a
tramp. The name is Synonymous with
CblOquy. and this specimen did not be-
liz the name. He shivered in the sun
light as If he had the ague. His rags
stood out like splinters of distress, tell
ing of long friction with time. His
limbs had that fiaccid. relaxed motion
which is typical of the drunken vaga-
bond His eyes were bloodshot The
only redeeming features were his voice,
which was musical and pathetic. and
his manner, which was that of a man
who had not always tramped the thor
oughfares of the world.
sir" he said. touching the rim of
despoiled hat, will you be so kind as
60 give me bite to eat-I am very
hungry"
One would suppose that sitting there
in the sunlight of his own happiness
Farmer Leslie, the prosperous man,
would have given a generous meal TO
this off-scouring of humanity-but he
did nothing of the kind.
BE off, he said, ''Or I'll set the dog
on youl''
Il will work" began the tramp.
ooh. YOU will? / don't need your
not such cattle as you"
An. il cut to the quick. as he intend
ed IL should. The tramp made saw
age spring forward. and a look of vim
dictive rage crossed his features-thcn
he stopped. swung around and walked
away.
''Cattler' He flung the words out
with bitterness. You're right. friend
only-cattle that are made in Gods ina-
age. and human"
so the fellows had a schooling"
was all the comment the farmer made.
He did not see a humanitarian cpl