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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-10

tbs subject Of the above portrait is the
Rev Chas. Prosser, a much beloved and most
devout minister of the gospel at Mount Car
mel, Northumberland Co, Pa Mr.. Prosser's
usefulness, was, for a long time, greatly i'm
paired by a distressing, obstinate disease
How his malady was finally conquered we
will let him tell in his own language He
says az was a great sufferer from dyspep-
STA, and had suffered so long that | was
a wreck life was rendered undesirable and
it seemed death was near but l came in
contact with DIR. Pierces Golden Medical
Discovery and his Pleasant Pellets took
twelve bottles of Discovery and several
bottles of the Pellets and followed the
hygenic advice of DIR. Pierce, and | am
happy to say it was indeed a cure, for life is
worth living now"
For dyspepsia, or indigestion, silver COM
plant, !" or torpid liver, biliousness, constipa-
ton, chronic diarrhea and all arrangements
of the liver, stomach and bowels, Doctor
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery effects
perfect cures when all other medicines fail
1t has specific tonic effect upon the lining
membranes of the stomach and bowels. As
an invigorating, restorative tonic it gives
strength TO the whole system and builds up
solid flesh to the healthy standard, when re-
duced by =" wasting diseases"
Mr.. J. +. Hudson, prominent lawyer of
Whitcherville, Sebastian Co, Ark, writes !:
Having suffered severely, for a long time,
from a torpid liver, indigestion, constipa-
ton, nervousness and general debility, and
finding no relief in my efforts to regain my
health, / was induced 10 try DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant
Pellets Under this treatment, improved
very much and in a few months was able TO
attend to my professional duties"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-10

up both solid flesh and strength after grip
pneumonia, feverS and other prostrating
diseases, Golden Medical Discovery has
no equal. 1t does not make fat people more
corpulent, but builds up solid, wholesome
flesh.
Do you feel dull, languid, low spirited
have fullnesS or bloating after eating, tongue
coated, bitter or bad taste in mouth, irregu
lar appetite. frequent headaches, 81 floating
specksn before eyes, nervous proStration and
drowsineSs after meals
If you have any considerable number OF
these symptoms, you are suffering from
torpid liver, associated with dyspepsia, or
indigestion. The more complicated your
disease the greater the number of symptoms.
No matter what stage IL has reached, DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery viii sub
due it.
Nervousness, sleeplessEesS, nervous pros
tration, nervous debility, and kindred dis
turbances are generally due to impoverished
blood. The nervous system suffers for y-ent
If pure rich blood to nourish and sustain
il. Purify, enrich and vitalize the blood by
tlking Golden Medical Discovery" and all
ii ese nervous troubles vanish.
The Golden Medical Discovery is far
better for this purpose than the much adj
ve-tised nervines and other compounds, so
loudly recommended for nervous prostration
as they put the nerves to Sleep" but do
not invigorate, brace up and so strengthen
the nervous system as does the "a Discovery
thus giving permanent benefit and radical
cure.
Buy of reliable dealers. With any Others,
something else that pays them better will
probably be urged as {" just as good" Per-
haps il is, for them: but it can't be, for gots.
A Book Q36 pages treating of the fore
going diseases and pointing out successful
means of home cure, also containing vast
numbers of testimonials, with prototype
portraits of writer's, references and other
of six cents, 10 pay postage. Address,
Worries Dispensary Medical Association,
Invalids Hotel and Surgical Institute, 663
Main Street, Buffalo, N Y.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-10
"Did you kctch a Whit,

You burned OIL stiff,
O. the good things a-cookin' back in thar
Wen that Teller swung the door ajar;
Did you smell the cabbage an luscious beef
That couldedurn sool make you let out the
reef
You TUX in your brceches EN- you found
Yourself so thin they'd go twiee around:
Did you smell II, / say,
You free trade jayS
Well smell IL ag'in. wish TO the Lord
You was chained right here to an iron rod
With your nose so clus TO the door you'd git
A sniff every time they opened IL;
Stay here till your stomach was shrunk until
IT d strain IL 10 chamber a liver pill,
Jest smellin' an yearnin by day an night
An never gittin a cussed bite.
II d sarve you right
"a Every paper you pick up tells
o Cleveland headin' gang o swells
An goin' a-fishin, but you kin bet
II he hobs till doomsday he'll never get
AS hefty ketch as that he took
Wen the bug o reform was on his hook.
Nary game fish could he show,
Jest cranky suckers at dida't know
Enough 10 stay in Projections pool,
Whar' the water was allus clear an cool,
An you was ono of EN- too, you chump,
One o. the suckers at had 10 jump
AT the pizen bug at you thought was good
Enough for sorehead republican food.
You swallered IL. too,
An the next thing you
Was a-foppln' round on the sandy bank,
With the hook in your gills, you measly crank
- wat are you gittin fur all you doneS
WAITS the result O. the fight yea won?
Mills all IDLE an mines shet down,
Grass agroNin In every town,
Men a-loafin' on every hand
Hard times stranglin the hull wide land,
Banks a-bustin' an trade hes up
Labor cramped like pzened pup
Homes but prisons o. woe an want,
Whar wan-faced pris ners weak an gaunt
SILVER an hunser from morn till night
Eyes all lusterless once so bright,
That's what you got
Fur the change you sought
/. Well. you de arve it, you blinded fool.
You Topped, an you're gettin your reward
It'll teach you q lesson, this bitter school,
Fur swingin' the dimycratic sword,
This the result Of the fight you fought
You got 1t. you chump as slick as wax,
Right whar the chicken got the AK"
Capt Jack Crawford. in Chicago Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-10
FOR THE TOOTHACHE.
Read and Remember This When You
Gums Are Rscixed with Pain.

Read and Remember This When Your
Gums Are RscIxed with Pain.
Toothache is a little thing in the
books, but many physicians would
rather meet a burglar at the door on a
dark night than a call to cure a bad
toothache of several days continuance.
A hypodermic of morphine only post
pones the evil day, and usually the
patient is respectfully referred to the
dentist. The tooth should not be cx-
tracted while the jaw and gums are
inflamed and the latter swollen, and it
is the physicians duty to treat tho
case until the above conditions are re-
moved. Always keep small vial con-
tanning the following mixture: Chic
reform, git. X; glycerine, git. X; sat.
sol. &C. carbol, git. X. morphine, gr. J.,
with a small wad of absorbent cot
ton. If the offending tooth has cav
ity or decayed surface saturate small
pellet of cotton with the above mix
ture and put into the cavity or against
the dccayed surface, as the case may
be-never pack the cotton in, or the
more is the trouble, but have the pei
let small enough to enter without
crowding. In most cases this will end
the trouble.
When the gums are swollen and ten
der paint two or three times, two min
utes apart, with -four per cent. solu-
tion of cocaine. This time of year your
patient may have been eating good
deal of fruit. The tongue and mucous
membrane of the mouth are pale, he
has sour stomach, and next day the
toothache will return. Give ten grains
of sub-carbonate of bismuth and ten
grains of phenacetin at once and a
smaller dose before each of the three
following meals, with a laxative If
needed, and to stop all fruit for few
days, and it will not return. The Same
powder every two hours with cessation
of fruit-eating will stop the persistent,
tormenting neuralgias so prevalent at
this season.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-10
BUILDING AND SCIENCE
THE BEST OF MIMICS.


An Insect Which Looks Exactly Like .
Leaf-wby the PhyIlium scythe Is Ex-
ceedingly Dihicult TO Detect In Its
Baunts-It Initiates Twigsas Well as
Leaves
There is, perhaps, no other group of
insects which in form and color are so
generally initiative, and which
naruralists have found more difficult
10 detect in their haunts. Their
bodies often resemble the roughened
bark of the trees among which they
live; or they seem to have growing to
them little flecks of lichen or moss,
which add 10 the deception. The dis
guise of the walking leaf Phyllium is
the moro striking TO naturalist be-
cause he will notice that whereas
among all other members of the tribe
the wing-cover when they exist are
greatly abbreviated, the very opposite
is true in Phyllium, the wing-covers,
the only members which could be
made to resemble leaf to perfection,
being greatly developed. while the
wings are aborted, as if the wing COW
ers were here. developed for the ex-
press purpose of this mimicry.
Twenty-Five years ago, at the Jardin
d'Acelimation at Paris. some of these
walking leaves were exhibited alive
They were placed on growing plants,
from which the larger part of the
leaves were stripped, that the insects
might not too easily conceal them
selves. If large placard announcing
the presence of these creatures had
not drawn attention &c them, certainly
no one would have recognized any
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-10

heard an amusing story the other
day. II was told me by one of our
best-known writers. He said that lit
tie niece OF his had been a very naughty
little girl and her aunt had had to pun
ism her very severely. When she cane
to say her prayers at night her little
mind was still full of wrath against
her aunt. but vet the child did not quite
like TO leave her name out of her even
ing devotions, so she compromised mat
tiers by saying: Pray God bless father
and mother" etc, then after long
pause. she added. ''snd bless Aunt
Julia. toO-but not much" do think
it Is so natural that little children
should expect their small supple atoms
TO be answered literally. ! can so sym
pathize with the little boy over his
sums, who said 20 his governess in a
puzzled, half-indignant voice: Il can't
do nv sum can't: and did ask God
10 help me; aud He's ma lie three mis-
takes already Pictorial
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-10
BUSINESS PARALYZED.

How Trade and Industry Are Affected by
Democrat tic Rule.
With persistence worthy of bet
ter cause, the free trade organs are en-
deavoring to persuade the people that
the times are not really SO very hard.
Whenever a mill or a mine or factory,
which has been idle for months, again
resumes work, the fact is bruited
abroad as proof that business is re-
viving," but they fail to tell at the same
time of the establishments which close
down. The assumptions are, we are
glad to say, usually more in number
each week than the suspensions; but
this does not show a general revival of
business and industry.
Dun & Co.'S mercantile report of
recent date clearly stated what the ac-
tual situation is. Production, what
there is OF it, goes on at the cheapest
prices ever known. 'As old stocks
give out, orders for replenishment are
first for cheaper goods than have be-
fore been chosen; traders therein rep
resenting consumers, who are COM
PEELED or desire to live more cheaply.
Then the quantities ordered are so
much smaller than the industries are
accustomed 10 supply, and so far below
the capacity of the works, that the
competition drives prices in each grade
down to or below actual cost, squeezing
out profits or forcing down wages Yet
the profit and the wages are the fund
from which future purchases for con-
sumption must be made
ut is under such conditions more
works are going into operation, many
with doubt how long they will be
made to operate. Thus the measure of
resumption by works or hands or hours
of labor is not a measure of the revival
of business, either as TO quantity or
value of goods distributed. Prices of
commodities are, on the whole, the
lowest of which there is any record,
having declined 1.2 per cent. in March,
and averaging lib per cent lower than
a year ago, SO more than third in the
decrease in volume of all payments IS
due to decline in the prices of things
consumed Toledo Blade.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-10
DlzZleO BY SUCCESS.
Ludicrous Antics of a Great Man Upon
London Street.

Ludicrous Antics of a Great Man Upon a
London Street
James Hinton. the celebrated aurist
and essayist. was one of those men who
are absolutely oblivious to the impress
sion made upon the world by their own
eccentricities of demeanor. lie was an
odd little man. As some one once said
of him: There never lived a man
with a whittier soul, a warmer heart or
shriller voice" lie wrote book that
set the world talking, and also leaped
at once into a fine medical practice.
One day J. c. Jcaffreson was walking
along a London street, when he heard
his own name uttered in a high treble.
lie says:
Turning quickly round, / saw u
little, fragile man dancing about the
pavement in high excitement, to the
considerable inconvenience of way
farers. 1t was James Hinton. Jump
ing up to me- he shook my hand, with
convulsive tugs, as he calculated:
I am so very glad. so inexpressibly
glad to see you! l have so often wished
20 see you end tell you all that has hap
pened"
Having, by this time. shaken my
hand with more than sufficient cor
duality, he stepped back a few PAGES
and, in doing So, Numbered against a
stout lady, and knocked a small boy
down into the gutter. After viewing
me in the right perspective, he danced
up to me again. and then danced before
me. calculating in the highest notes of
his shrill voice:
~ am so delighted to see you. There
is SO much for us to talk about! So
many things have happened that !
want to tell you about. DO you know,
/ am a successful man, very success
full man? l beca ne a success all in a
minute. Isn't il ludicrous? You never
expected me to be a successful man.
No one thought il in the least degree
possible that should be success. No
one, no one. no one. See. that's my
carriage, Those are my horses! Is it
not absurd? Do. my dear fellow, say
il is a bsuro that ] should drive about
London in my own carriager
Having thus, in complete innocence,
entertained London crowd h. his an
tics. he stepped into the wonderful car
riage and drov' away, beaning."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-10
INVESTMENT POINTERS.


CAPITAL never hides in the toe of an
old stocking.
SOME men get rich by saving and
some by shaving.
A YOUNG man in vest he hasn't paid
for is a mighty poor investment.
A MAN with a dollar is a laborer.
With dollar and six cents he is a cap
italist.
INVEST In tickling your gastric
nerve, and get your reward in gout
and biliousness.
ONE of the best things to invest,
young man, is surplus. Without one
investing is uphill work.
INVESTMENTS in moderation and self
denial consolidated issues bear inter
est in Gladstonian old manhood.
INVEST heavily in the semi-diurnal
gold interest bearing bonds of peace
and brotherhood, and go to sleep every
night on the coupons.
WHILE you are scrambling 10 get
rich faster than your father did make
sure that others don't grow poor in the
same ratio. The vestibule limited
train to wealth dazzles and discour-
ages the fellows afoot. as it whizzes
bv-YounU Mems Fra
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-10
COMMENT AND OPINION.

cHThe democrats are unable to
keep a quorum in the house of repre-
sentatives or at the polish. Y. Re-
corder.
gB-When democrats refer to ex-
Speaker Reed as an ex-czar Speaker
Crisp bushes. N. y. Tribune.
rE~The republicans have no trouble
about getting quorum whenever an
election is held this year st. Louis
Globe Democrat.
sE-There are likely to be many pc
litical changes this year, but there will
be no tracks leading out of the repub-
lican party. indianapolis Journal.
gE-The only "army" the democratic
congress need fear is the army of voters
that will march to thepolls next fall 10
elect a republican congress. Chicago
Tribune.
sE-The democratic majority in con-
gress has again acknowledged ex-
Speaker Reeds supremacy. They have
adopted a rule to count a quorum. Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
eERepublican tidal waves come sell
dom. None at all have come since 1872,
for although the republicans won the
presidency in 1876, 1850 and 1sss, and
gained the house of representatives in
the two last named years, the margin
was small in each case. In 1894, how
ever, there is likely TO be ar old-fash-
toned republican majority rolled up for
congress, and 1896, for president and
congress. stands chance of being a
repetition Of 1872 st. Louis Globe
Democrat
lE-It is useless TO deny or belittle
the fact that there is widespread re-
action among the voters of the country
against the democratic party. The
town elections in Ohio, Illinois and
Michigan tell the same story as those
of New York, New Jersey and Penn
sylvania. and the state election in
Rhode Island shows the same causes at
work in a more important field And
the reaction is Tot only sharp. but it is
persistent 1t even more manifest
IN the spring elections than it was in
those of last fall.-N. \. World Dem
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-10
A CASE OF DEEP ReMoRsE.


hardy miner with careworn face.
And pants all shattered about the base,
And coat so dreadfully rent and torn
'Twould brighten crows from field Of corn,
Stood gazing with eager, hungry stare
Through restaurants big show window,
where
The richest of vlands were placed in sight
as bait for the wandering appetite
As stood he gazing at good things there
His thin lips moved--alas not In prayer,
But IA muttered curses upon the fate
Which had kicked him downward 10 such a
state.
Noting his attitude drew near,
BY curiosity led. to hear
What topic his soul so deeply stirred,
And this the reproachful speech heard:
Look at EN-. darn yor. look at 'em straight,
An hunger fur EN-, you reprobate
II sarves you right
To be in this plight
Starvin', an can't git a cussed bite,
An thar IL is, Jest stacks Of IL, too,
The best the market affords, an you
Afamishin', darn you
Well, it'll Farm you
To let well enough alone, you duner
oh, darn you suffer.
I" Look at that turkey, roasted brown
Don't you wish you could swaler down
About the half of III See them pies
Food fur angel from Paradise,
An you a-starvin', you chump.
Look at that roast at d tempt king,
Look at the steaks, look at everything
An then, you sucker. may inquire
II from the fryin' pan into she fire
You'll make another jump?
want satisfied, you misable cub,
Plenty o. work an plenty o grub,
Mines a-runnin' by night an day,
Everything comm right your way.
Best o. clothes on your cussed back,
An had TO fly the republican track.
Stumped the hull range,
Squealed fur a change.
Made your speeches in every camp,
DiInycrat O. the meanest stamp
Travelled all over In sun an storm,
Howlin fur Cleveland an reform.
I. That's wat you did,
You overgrown kid,
Howled like q wolf fur change, dod ROT Ia
An, cuss you. you got IT,
KEEP the air unusually warm,
Yellin Reform! Reform Reform
aid republicans all was thieves,
Fatnin' on spells like Stalled ieeyes.
Crowdin' the land TO the tarnal dogs,
Swampin' her down in ruins boys,
Wreckin' the good oil ship o state,
Raisin' OIL Nick at a lightnin' rate.
YOU Sam Gossage,
You skin OF a sausage,
You talked that way, you cussed fool,
Tried TO teach dtmycrat school,
Dished up lies at ID stop clock
Blinded the miners with free trade talk,
Told EN- silver "a bulge ahead,
Gold be wuthless as so much lead,
Pay d be doubled IN every ihine-
Holy Gosh, but you spun II fine!
Started the boys on a wild stampede
You. you oil buck, takin' the lead
Over the fence got the gang to jump;
Look at you now, you chumpl
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-10
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

DIsINTEeRATIoN of rocks Is caused
partly by minute animal organisms.
THE average speed of the transmits
sion of earthquake shocks is nearly 49,
600 feet per second.
THREE hundred and sixty mountains
in the United States are over 10000
feet high.
THERE viii be two eclipses OF the sun
during the year, but both will be in
visibl IN the United States.
-, inch of rain" means gallon of
water spread over surface of nearly
two square feet, or fall of about 100
tons upon an acre.
THE largest trees are not the sequoia
gigantes of California, but certain spe-
cies of eucalyptus in Australasia. One
specimen in Victoria is SAID to be All
feet high.
A CUBIC foot of fresh water weighs
62JS pounds. a cubic foot of salt water
weighs 64.3 pounds, cubic foot of Zee
at 81 degrees weighs BIS pounds. This
is ascertained by weighing the differ
ent materials.
IN calculating ''exact time" at the
national observatory at Washington
the astronomers do not, as is general
ly supposed, use the sun as a basis
of their calculations. Such deductions
are made only from the relative posi-
tion of the fixed stars"
OFFICIAL tests of different qualities
of steel at the Massachusetts Arsenal
show, contrary to the popular opinion,
that steel is stronger at zero Fahren-
heit than at ordinary temperatures.
The minimum of strength is at about
210 degrees, but above that il rises
again till it reaches it's maximum at
$50 degrees.
PROF. ELIHU THOMPSON, in lecture
on ''Cosmical Electricity" suggests tho
idea that temporary or shooting stars,
becoming visible and then fading
away, may be merely the exchange
of electric energy between highly
charged planets possessing a different
polarity, and not stars at all.
A POUND of rice is shown by chemical
analysis to contain 5000 per cent. of
nutritive matter. The same quantity
Of wheat contains s2.54 per cent; rye.
S2.79 per cent; oats, 74.2 per cent;
corn, s2.97 per cent; potatoes, 1924
per cent; fat beef, 46.03 per cent; lean
beef, 26.s3 per cent.
An electric motor attachment has
been applied to the Calling gun, which
promises not only to more than double
the destructive capabilities of that
particular machine, but to effect
great advance in the efficiency of all
machine guns. The motor is detach-
able, is of one horsepower, is very
small, weighing but a trifie over fifty
pounds, and is placed in the breech of
the gun, amply protected. The motor
increases the present rate of firing
1000 shots a minute, TO more than 5000
shots minute