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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-04-12
HE MISSED TWO DINNERS.
The Professor Was on In His Dates and
Had 70 Dine at the Club.

The professor was coming down town
in street car Saturday evening just
about dark. lie was well known in
official and social circles in Washing
ton. In fact, he is so generally known
that sometimes he is given the title of
colonel and sometimes professor. His
shining tall hat, the neatly brushed
beard and the white necl1tie which
peeped ont from the folds OF his silk
muller and the time of day all indi-
Gated that the colonel was not dining
at home that evening. So thought a
newspaper man who recognized the
distinguished passenger and greeted
him with CHEEKY Where away, pro-
fesSor?"
Il will stretch my legs beneath the
mahogany this evening. | get off at
the next corner. and then I am at the
Arlington"
But, say" said the N. m, whats on
to-night?'
''Gridiron dinner. my dear sir. l ex-
pect to enjoy myself, too, although
they say that thev ask fellow TO make
a speech and then won't let him say any
thing. But then, / like fun"
The newspaper man happened to be
a member of the Gridiron club, but he
was going to work, not to dinner. He
Elew that gridirOn dinner was not to
take place for week and realized that
the professor was just seven days out
of his reckoning, as he said:
But, professor, this is not the night;
it's next Saturday night"
"My dear sir, you can't play any joke
on me-" replied the professor, until
after You get me into the dining-room.
am a guest tonight of a prominent
correspondent, and I'm in for a good
time"
but know you are off. Here is the
prUcf," and the speaker drew from his
pocket Gridiron invitation and showed
the date of the club dinner was week
distant.
The professor didn't say a word for a
minute-he was dazed. lie was glad,
though, that his blunder was discov-
cred in time. The only damage was
that he had refused his good home dim
ner at six o'clock. It was now too late
to go back, and his only alternative
was to 60 20 his club and get snack
without letting any of the boys know
how he missed two dinners.
The professor receives great many
invitations, and he has resolved here
after to look carefully as to date before
starting. Washington Star.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-04-12
A FRIENDoESS BILL.
General Dissatisfaction with the Wilson
Monatrosity.

General Dissatisfaction with the Wilson
MonstrosIty.
There is much reason to hope that
members of congress are beginning to
see that the people have been trying to
make them understand that they-the
people did not mean the election of
1892 to be construed as condemnation
of the theory Of protection, or, if they
did, they have since seen reason to
change their minds
If the democratic party really in
tended to abahdon protection t was
mistake to d.lay action so long, and
this delay alone is proof that the ma
jority of the party does not wish to
abandon IL. The complete demonstra-
ton of this is the Wilson bill itself,
which, as heretofore insisted, amounts
in spirit to a surrender of the whole
question. 1t is essentially protective,
differing rom the existing system in
degree rather than in kind. Repub-
licans oppose it because it keeps the
promise 70 the ear and breaks il to the
hope. u pretends to protect and falls
short Of its pretension.
On the other hand the man who be-
lItVcS III Tree lTdut CduHOl ldNOE LnlS
bill any more than the Mckinley law.
To him every such law is a shackle on
commerce. and what difference is there
whether the shackle weighs an ounce
mort or less? The theory that trade
sho1ld be unfettered does not admit of
any kind or degree of tariff, and the
Wilson bill is necessarily as subversive
of that theory as the Mckinley law.
Again, to those who favor the imposi-
ton of tariff only for revenue, this
proposed scheme is not acceptable, be-
carse ii fails to attain the only end
which, for them, justifies any tariff.
and confesses itself failure by com
ing to them arm in arm with a direct
tax intended TO attain the end the
tariff misses, and tax of kind very
distasteful to a majority of those who
will have it To pay.
Thus IL is plain that the Wilson bill
doesn't satisfy any body. The one only
real reason that democrats had for vot-
ing for il at all was that republicans
opposed It, and of that reason they are
beginning to feel ashamed. A little
more reflection will enable all to see
that in trying TO compromise among all,
the bill wholly fails to please any. and
when a few more than now can screw
their courage up to admit that unde-
niable fact, its defeat will be assured.
N Y. Advertiser
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DISEASE GERMS.
The Development of Micro Organisms in
the Human Body.

the humdH bouys
Among the well-known diseases
whose bacterial origin is already
placed beyond reasonable doubt are
erysipelas, tuberculosis, diphtheria,
tetanus, typhoid fever, croupous pneu-
monia and influenza. The facts dis
covered regarding some of these dur
ing the past fifteen years are among
the strangest of the true fairy tales"
of modern science. For example, the
microcoeeus of croupous pneumonia, as
discovered by DIR. Sternberg, turks in
the month, ard is harmless there await
ing as it were an opportunity when a
condition of lowered vitality of the
system, as from exposure to cold, shall
enable it to take up its active abode in
the lungs, and begin development
whose results will be manifest in an
inflammation of those organs. Again,
it appears that the bacillus of te-
tanus, or lock jaw, is abundant every
where in the soil, and may rest on the
surface of the human body or be taken
into the stomach wiUhout producing
injury. Even on the surface of an
open wound il can not develop, it being
one of the bacteria that can not grow
in the presence of free oxygen. But if
introduced into a deeper wound away
from the air il may develop rapidly,
and produce the painful and often
ia tai disease tetanus. Thus is ex-
planned the fact, always before mys-
terry. that even slight and seemingly
insignificant puncture wounds are
more likely to produce this disease
than are open LESSONS that otherwise
are far more serious.
1t is an interesting and highly sug-
gestive fact, as showing the power of
resistance of the human body under
normal conditions, that a bacterium
capable of producing such disease as
this may be so abundant all about us.
and yet so infreguently find oppor-
tunity for malignant activity. But
the same thing appears to be true in
greater or less degree of all the other
bacteria that may develop in the
human body. Even when introduced
into the body they are harm
less, unless they find the conditions
there favorable to their development
Thus there are probably very few per-
sons who have not at one time or an
other inhaled the bacillus of tubercu-
losis or its spores, but the lungs of only
the relatively few furnish a favorable
soil for its development. These suscep-
tible persons develop the disease; the
others are said TO be immune as regards
this particular bacillus. But suscepti-
bility and immunity are relative terms,
and person whose tissues at one time
resist the microbe may at another time
succumb to it. The exact nature of
the inherent vitality which we are
accustomed to speak of as giving the
tissues power to resist the micro-organ-
isms we understand as little as our an
cestors understood the real cause of the
contagious diseases. Perhaps the
microscope will help to enlighten us in
this regard in the next half century
Harper's Weekly.
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INTERESTING DECISION.
Law of Trade Mark Established in Favor
of J. X. Watkins

Tie District Court of Blue Earth County,
Mimi, has rendered decision in the suit of
]. X. Watkins. of Winona, MINI, VS.. &. +.
Blake, of Mankato. MINI, to recover s, OO0
for alleged violation of a trade mark.
The Court holds that Mr.. Watkins has
since 1868 had the exclusive right in Mime
sofa and elsewhere TO manufacture and sell
the proprietary medicine known as "Dr.
Wards Vegetable Anodyne Liniment," and
that the words ''Dr. Wards" or Wards 5"
are c trade mark, when used in connection
with the medicine. The Court grants a
perpetual injunction, restraining the de-
PENDANT, mis- agents and servants, from the
use of the words ''Dr. Wards or Wards
Linimentn or ''Dr.uWard's Vegetable Ano-
dyne Eminent" or any imitation of the
name or trademark of the plaintiff.
Mr.. Watkins does not object TO cOmpeti-
ton in his business, as he is willing that his
medicines should stand or fall on their own
merits. He does, however, object TO the
promiscuOus use by others of the name of
''Dr Ward s." which he has made very val
liable by more than twenty-five years of
hard work
In order TO protect his own interests, as
well as those of the patrons of DR. Wards
Remedies, Mr. Watkins has caused to be
registered in the United States Patent office
at Washington, ID. c., the words "Dr
Wari'sn as his trade mark, and has recent
" Incorporated his business under the name
Of The j. r. Watkins Medical Company,
with large capital.
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Insf.

The notices tackled TO fences and tree
trunks in rural neighborhoods are
sometimes amusing specimens of COM
position. The writer saw the follow
ing tackled to tree last summer. II
was written 10 blue ink on a piece of
brown wrapping-paper:
"A stray mare horse, witch went away
from the Premises of the underlined a
week ago come Friday, witch she had
on a roap halter and a letter X on her
hyp. Also she was blind in one aye
with white star on her fore he'd the
rest of her is lite sorel excepting tale
witch is blak. A liberal reward will be
paved for her return to Mr.. a. j. K
ALSO saddell marks on her back. -
Youths Companion.
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SHE WAS SATISFIED.
How Change of States Was Effected
without Moving.

How a Change of States Was Effected
without Moving.
when they resurveyed the line be-
tween North Carolina and Virginia -
says a recently-returned commercial
traveller, 1.-The engineers found an error
in the old standards, and in one place
moved the line a short distance south.
LAWS, massa, chile. what's you
a-doing?' said an old colored woman, as
she observed the men moving one of
the monuments which for years had
stood near her cabin.
Don't you know you mustn't 'sturb
that ere stone that shows as how
lives in Norf Carolinny?'
"'But you don't live in North Caro-
lima any longer, aunty.' replied one of
the men. The new survey shows that
you live in Virginia now
Live in Virginny! | live in Ole
Virginny. Oh, no, honey. You can't
fool me that way. / never amt moved
in my life. So, how could live in
Virginny when Use born in Norf Caro-
linny?'
but you do, Aunty,' replied the
man, smilingly and he briefly explained
the case.
''Then the aged woman shook her
head and repeated again and again, n
Virginny. Ole Virginny! Amt that
wond'ful, an me never changin' a
step?'
Anyhow she remarked at length:
I'm glad Use lives in Virginny. They
always said round here as how Vir-
ginny was more healthy like than Norf
c Irolinny.' N. Y. Herald.
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COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

rF-Prof Wilson should give ear to
the rioters cry from his own state of
West Virginia. Toledo Blade.
cXIf Messrs. Cleveland and Willis
have aught to say before Hawaii pro-
claims itself republic let them say it
now or forever after hold their peace
Chicago Tribune.
CF-"What is the democratic party?"
asks the Chicago Times. "Well, it
used to be an organized appetite. but
Just at present it seems to be disor-
ganized appetite IN. Y. Tribune.
EFSixty democrats in the house
swore by the eternal, being genuine
Jacksonians. that they would never
vote for the Wilson bill But they
did-all but seventeen of them. The
same noisy demonstration is now be-
ing made by democrats in the senate.
The conservatives, we fear, will be
cucloos in the end. Cleveland Leader.
sE-Gov. Mckinley says that this
spring is "a good time for the city OF
Cincinnati to express at the polls what
it thinks of one year of national DEM
ocratic administration" The Buckeye
governors advice to Cincinnati repub-
licans applies to republicans every
where. The verdict has begun rolling
in from Maine and New York, and it
will continue until President Cleveland
cannot mistake the sentiment of the
country toward his administration and
its mistakes.-Chicag Inter Ocean.
eFThe democrats have determined
10 fasten an income tax upon the peo-
- r.f
everybody who is not in effect So
cialist. Democratic crime or folly
could not possibly go further or do
worse than the crime or folly of the
democrats now in power; and the coun-
try. recognizing this as the truth. has
already resolved to turn them out as
soon as opportunity to do so occurs In
Pennsylvania and New York the de-
cision rendered by the people at the
polls is ideutical-it is an end to demo-
cratic rule -Philadelphia Telegraph
EWhat followed under the Cleve-
land administration? The surplus of
s24, o00, 900 above the gold reserve fund
was all spent, and about s35, 100000 of
the gold reserve used to pay the run
ming expenses of the government OBJ
legations were not paid as they became
due. Then, to req lenish the gold re-
serve, it was necessary TO increase our
bonded debt b. tie issue of $4,000, 600
of bonds, with the prospect that before
many months the administrator will
be compelled TO resort TO the same
process To replenish it again. How
does this compare with the record of
republican strations?-Toledo
Blade.
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land was suspiciously alert in con-
demning. And it rebukes in explicit
terms the departure of the present adj
ministration from the settled policy of
the country in the support of republic
an institutions and principles wherever
its influence is felt. when throne"
It says. falls in any kingdom of the
western hemisphere it is pulverized,
and when a scepter departs it departs
forever, and American opinion cannot
sustain any American ruler in the at
tempt to restore them, no matter how
virtuous and sincere the reasons may
be that seem to justify him" In this
statement, the report expresses the un-
doubted conviction of our people, and
that conviction will not be modified or
changed by any special pleading of
cuckoo" statesmen or any appeals to
party prejudice or passion by the or
gans of partisan opinion. Frank Les
lies Weekly
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The subject of the above portrait is a
prominent and much respected citizen, Mr..
Robert Manson, of West Rye, n. II. Where
Mr. Manson is known Ibis word is as good
as his bond" In a recent letter to DIR. r. V.
Pierce, Chief Consulting Physician TO the
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buff
falo, n. Y, Mr.. Manson says:
"Dr. Pierces Pleasant Pellets are the
best pills ever took for the liver. All my
friends say they do them the most good.
This opinion is shared by every one who
once tries these tiny, little, sugar-coated pills,
which are TO be found in all medicine stores.
The U. s. Inspector Of Immigration at Buff
falo, n. Y, writes of them as follows:
From early childhood / have suffered
from a sluggish liver, with all the disorders
accompanying such a condition. Doctors
prescriptions and patent medicines i have
used in abundance ; they only afforded tenn
porary relief. / was recommended to try
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. did so, tax
ing two at night and one after dinner every
day for two weeks. I have reduced the dose
TO one Pellet every day for two months.
i have in six months increased IN solid flesh
t,Centy-tt0o pounds. | am in better health
than have been since childhood. Drowsi-
ness and unpleasant feelings after meals have
completely disappeared
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A SORRY REMNANT.

o. I'm the battered Wilson Bill;
I've been ripped up the back until
I'm scarcely recognizable, I've been so pulled
about
Since all at me have had G fling
feel I'm quite another thing
I'm like the play Of "Hamlet'' is. with Ham
let's part lef. out
They gouged ms here. they gouged me there,
They rudely grabbed me by the hair;
Still Others punched me in the ribs and made
me gasp for breath,
My features all are disarranged,
I'm ripped and burned and sadly changed:
They've hauled and worried me TIL I'm amend
ed most 10 death.
Now when view myself and see
How they've abused and battered me-
Uptil m sick and lame and blind and awfully
forlorn,
] sigh unto myself and say:
II wish my corpse they'd lay away,
1t surely was great mistake that I was ever
born"
Nixon Waterman. IN Chicago Journal.
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PERSONALS OF INTEREST.

QUErS VICToRIA's lamsness end in-
creasing iufirmity have LED her to have
constructed an elevator from Inc
ground floor 10 her private spar tments
at Osborne. She finds i quite lift.
Col. JOHN II. KEATLEY OF Iowa, who
knows whereof he aft ms, fatty de-
MES the truth OF rec emit newspaper
story that Amelia Folsom, the ninth
wife of Brigham You Ig, is a relative
OF Mrs. Cleveland.
PRESIDENT DANIEL SPEAKER, Of the
Mohawk River bank. Fonda, \. Y, is
ninety-five years ol /, and serves appar-
emily almost as Efficiently as he ever
has during the Ghirty-eight years he
has presided over it. he goes to the
bank every day.
Ex-senator EDMoNDs. of Vermont,
Is In better health than when he left
the senate. he is an instance. rare in
deed, of the public man who voluntari-
ly resigned because he had enough of
it. His practice before the supreme
court is worth over fifty thousand dol
lars year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-04-12
PHI AND POM.


A political pointer-the nose of the
candidate News.
"A close friend: The one who never
lends You anything. Philadelphia
Record.
There is no more dangerous disease
than wanting TO get rich in a hurry
RAMS Horn.
-He-''Would You prefer to marry a
widower or bachelor" She-"Oh, yes.
indeed. Truth.
-Waiter-'What kind of fish will
you have. sir. bluefish or whitefish?''
GUEST don't care; I'm color blind. "
Halo.
If it is fact that everything
comes to him who waits" the Philadei-
phian will eventually get everything
Yonkers Statesman.
-Waiter-"De usual steak. sah?'
Regular Customer-''No; | am tired to-
night Bring me a plate of hash"
indianapolis Journal.
-"Jiggs was telling me of the terri
bic things he sees when he drinks.
Jagg-"Poor fellow he must be per-
feet slave to water. "-lnter-0cean.
Perhaps there is something in the
notion under the circumstances par
ticularly bright girl can do without a
light in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Times.
There are several young men in
the car" remarked Mrs Holdstrap with
some feeling, but they can hardly be
classed among the rising generation.
Boston Transcript.
-Actor-''When | am acting | for
get everything about me; l see nothing
but my role; the public disappears en-
tirely." Friend-"I don't wonde at
that. Blaetter.
-Ethel-"I have kept him at a dis
lance, but he still continues his atten-
tions." Clarissa-"You were right 10
keep him at distance. AS long as you
do you may be sure of him.. Y.
Press.
-Dragon-"Are you the party that
represented me with smoke coming out
of my nose?" Artist am" Dragon
The ideal Why, never had a Gig
cite in my mouth in all my life. DE
troit Tribune.
Mrs Portly Pompous-''Itisa little
strange that you are unwilling to show
your references" Servant hesitate
out of consideration for those people
who change their servant every week. y
Texas Siftings.
willie Wabbles is so discouraged
about learning to dance" Madge-
what did he say?" THAT he had
half mind to give up" "Well. that
sounds like an awful exaggeration to
to me. "-Inter-Ocean.
What is verse, as distinguished
from poetry?' asked the inquisitive
man. Verse" replied the magazine
editor, after he had pondered, lis the
term applied by any poet TO the work
of his contemporaries. Washington
Star
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Boarder-Well. young man, so you
have been discharged. You ought to
have obeyed orders.
Bellboy IF hadn't good home TO
go to | would not have been so indie
pendent"
Boarder-You ought TO have kept on
for thirty DAYS longer. BY that time
you would have owned the hotel, and
the proprietors would have been work
ing for you.-Detroit Free Press.
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FAREWELL.

Isay farewell. but with q sense
or something more than confidence
That IL Is not the dismal word,
Which, oveTzrown with gloom. IS heard
Where tears are shed. where people part
The pieces Of broken heart
And things ike tha.-the dreadful kind.
Which shake the soul ami mar the mind
To nc. farewell il touch OF hands.
A parting on the golden sands.
A look 70 eastward where the light
Shall rise 70 drive away the night
OF separation. which must fall
IN chilling shadows on US all
To me IL does not seem the end
OF what has been for friend aud friend
But through its severance I see
Beginning % what Is 20 Dc;
A promise OF the future. when
The hands which parted, clasp again
These are the sunbeams. which dispel
The shadows, when 7 say farewell
w J hampton in Detroit Free Press
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@ZH NNs~x

Assist nature little now and then with a
gentle laxative, OF, if need ne, with more
searching and cleansing cathartic, thereby
removing offending matter from the stom-
ach and bowels, and toning up and invigo-
rating the liver and quickening its tardy
action, and you thereby remove the cause
of a multitude of distressing diseases, such
as headaches, indigestion, biliousness, skin
diseases, boils, carbuncles, piles, fevers and
maladies too numerous to mention.
IL people would pay more attention TO
properly regulating the action of their bow
els, they would have less frequent occasion
TO call for their doctors services TO subdue
attacks of dangerous diseases.
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THE ERMINE.
Few People Know That 1t Has a Sort of
Dual Entity.

The ermine is a queer animal. 1t is
one thing in winter and another thing
in summer That is a strange state
ment, but il is true, for in the winter
the animals fur is as white as snow
and is called the ermine. In summer
its fur turns reddish brown on the up
per part of the body and light yellow
on the lower part; the animal is then
known as the stoat
This change is quite familiar to
naturalists, but not to unscie ntific peo-
pie, and the ermine and the stoat are,
therefore. generally regarded as dis
tinct animals.
The fur of the ermine is much valued
and is in great request. At one time it
was a mark of great royalty, and the
state robes OF judges and magistrates
We're lined with it as an emblem of
purity.
The ermine is so cunning in its ways
that it is almost as difficult to catch as
il is to catch weasel asleep" In
fact, about the only way to capture il
is to mark its course from its home and
then strew mud in its pathway. When
the dainty, fastidious little animal
reaches the point in its path where the
mud is strewn, il will lie down and
subject itself TO capture and death
rather than smirch one of its snow
white hairs.-Ph Philadelphia Times.
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Wilson prices for sugar will be at
least cent pound higher than Nc
Kinley prices The sugar trust is as
influential factor in democratic policy
at Washington in 1894 as it was in 1883
when the attorney of that combination
was the only man permitted TO state
his case before Mr.. Mills committee.
Mr.. Mills is now a member of the sen
ate committee that has reimposed the
tariff on sugar. Journal