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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31
SENATOR DU PoIs, IDAHO.

n statesman. Senator Pierce had been
governor of Dakot territory, was a
splendid newspapt man, had been
elected to the senate with Legislative
recommendation l4t the long term OF
six years be giveII him, and he was
backed by some powerful corporations
Nevertheless Senator Hansbrough was
elected and has Since forged to the
front until he is nok one of the leaders
of his party on tho floor of the senate.
He made splendidlefforti last winter to
secure an approprii tion of 81 100000 to
eradicate the Russ BIN thistle from our
soil, but the conditon of the national
finances was suchs that the house Of
representatives declined TO allow the
appropriation. Senator Hansbrough
secured the passagf of his bill through
the senate, but th4 house successfully
opposed it. Senator Hansbrough viii
take up that subiekt.and press it again
next winter. l dol not believe that he
can accomplish Subject on account Of
the condition of lie treasury. How
ever, men sometimes work for several
years on importanf measures before the
congress will pern3 proper legislation.
But solid, steadf, persistent worker
like Senator Hans Tough ultimately ac-
complishes his ends. The senator viii
be chairman of III committee on ter
ritories, position Eheld for many years
by Senator Platt, II Connecticut.
Inasmuch as thf congress will con-
vene within fewfweeks, shall try 10
tell you something about some others
of the great senaf TORS and representa-
tives upon whom khe eyes of the coun
try win soon be fl fed as they gather be-
meath the dome o. the capitol and pro
coed to legislate pr the people of this
great American republic.
SMTTH n Fpv
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31
THE HEAVIEST TAX.
Farmers Pay Millions Every Year Which
Could Easily BE Saved.

Farmers Pay Millions Every Year Which
Could Easily BE Saved.
The roads of the country, says Farm
News, are a disgrace besides being the
most costly of all our public works.
If we could have good roads it would
add more to the value of farm property
than all the other public improvements
put together ever have. 1t would re-
duce the cost of getting our crops to
market one half, and, in the saving o.
feed that is now fed TO idle horses, it
would amount TO a sum that staggers
the imagination.
Every day that a team remains idle
it is something for which no return
will ever be received. If we had good
roads the teams could be used on the
farm when the ground was in condition
and the crops could be hauled to mar
ket at such times farm work could not
be prosecuted.
With good roads larger loads could
be hauled and time saved in this way.
1t has been computed that the average
cost of getting crops from the farm to
the railroad station is greater than put
ting it from the railroad station to the
sea-board, and If we count the cost of
ordinary wages we viii see that this is
not far wrong.
The subject of improving the roads
Of the various states is being agitated
now. and the Good Roads league is
scattering information on the subject,
and it is to be hoped that the people OF
the country will awaken to the impor-
lance of the matter before long and at
tend to il promptly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31
The CANNON OF ANpoRRA.

There's a sturdy small republic perched on
Pyreaean heights.
And Tvs citizens stand stoutly on their digni-
ties and rights
The Republic OF Andorra viii not suffer snubs
or sights
It occurred 10 this Republic that some cannon
OF It's own
Would show TO all outsiders - what magni-
t1de had grown
Their Free Estate. which, therefore, we're bet
ter let alone
So they wrote TO Rrupp OF Essen for "descrip-
tive list. with price"
And decided most reluctantly one cannon
would suffice
For the present. then the order was given IN q
trice
and the cannon eame with prOmptness fOh
the glory Of that dayD
By the proud and happy citizens twas trun-
died up straightway
To the highest hilltop. loaded, and-a sage
arose TO say:
MY friends. We must consider that the can
nou-oaIl Will 20
Three lengths OF our Republic. nor viii It's
flight be SLOW:
So before We touch the cannon OF. think you
ought 20 know
That north We would lombard the French and
south tie king Of spain.
And east I'D west us needless any further to
exrIztn
We INST never plunge all Europe into cruei
war again"
Cried citizen: Point upward and fire into
the air
"Ah. but usteni" said another. IN tones OF
mid despair
THE ball must needs come down, and II
might tumble anywhere.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31

Sherman act, in 1893, Sfnator Du Bots
was heard almost daily and his elo-
quent voice and vehemsnt manner at
tracted universal attektion. He was
one of the youngest met ever known to
participate in debate a d occupy such
leadership as was accotded to Senator
Du Bots by all of his colleagues. No
man ever received so hi4h compliment
as was paid TO Senato1 Du Bots, when
the distinguished ex-sSeretary OF the
interior, Senator Tellef, the longtime
recognized leader of the silver sena-
tors, maintained silence himself, and
urged Senator Du Bds to the front.
There was also the eloquent and
aggressive Senator Wplcott, of Colo
RADIO, who urged thd young Idaho
statesman to keep in the van of the
fight. And everybody said that Sem
ator Du Bois demonstrated his ability
10 occupy the position which was
thrust upon Inn. Ilq was dignified.
earnest, and Sometimes bitterly severe
upon those senator's Who favored the
repeal of the silver purchasing clause.
He drew fire from somdof the great men
of the senate, but held his ground in a
creditable manner.
When the reorganization of the SEN
ate takes place Senator Du Bots win be
made chairman of tlF committee on
public lands, position which viii en-
| able him to do much spr his state. He
has been a member al the committee
for two years and had experience in
legislative affairs as q delegate in con-
gress from the territtry of Idaho, and
| as a member Of congress from the new
state of Idaho before his election to
the senate. Prior to Hat he was United
States marshal for she territory of
Idaho. He is competent to fill any po-
sition to which he mty be called. and
some of his many tnds are talking
of booming him for I vice presidency
ON the republican tikket in 1896; but
the senator will prefef TO remain in the
senate, where he CAM best serve the in
terests of his state.
There is another northwestern sem
ator who has wallIedlo out of the "back
row" and stepped OUT into the arena of
debate. During the tsummer of 1890
Congressman Henry q. Hansbrough, of
North Dakota, WALKED into my Office
one evening to bid md good-by, saying:
81 am going back to North Dakota now,
and l am coming back as the next sem
ator. / am going ti succeed Senator
Pierce. 1t is all settled, and l viii be
elected"
Well, / have heard politicians claim
good things so often bnd get left in the
long run that | rath4r demurred TO the
statement and warnsd my friend that
he must not be too cot hdent, lest defeat
should prove dreaifully disappoint-
ing. He laughed, flasped nv hand.
said good-by and fksured me that /
would have to write VI u. S. S." after his
name inside of six fmonths. He was
right, too. just ho&v he managed to
make the combinations which brought
about his election II the senate / have
never known, but the result showed
him to be a good politician as well as
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31

were before in your life if you do run
into me-
81 amt going to be sun priscd by no
trifiing schooner. and you can just bet
on that says Jim. I'm going to back
down for about quarter of a mile. and
when you see me coming you'd better
get off that schooner in double-quick
time. or else you'll find yourself knocked
clean into the next county. and you'll
be the worst-looking lot of remains that
any coroner ever tried to set on
you've quite made up your mind TO
run into me, have your asked the cap
tain.
"'I'm going to give the order to my
engineer this blessed minute saws Jim.
Well says the captain, you can't
say as how | haven't warned you that
you'll be everlastingly surprised, so
don't try to blame me If the thing don't
pan out TO please you. Now, I'll just go
below and get my lcg book and my pa
pers, and then I'll go ashore; and call
YOU 10 witness that I'm the last man TO
leave thishyer craft, having done al
thut a man can do tn see as how his own
ers and the underwriters ain't cheated
out Of none OF their rights
You'd better hurry up. SAYS Jim.
'foI When start for thishyer schooner
there amt no signals as is going to stop
me. I'm going clean through your
schooner; and I'll be . mile down the
road before the chiI will get through
raining
We'll, the captain collects his papers
and climbs down to the ground and
go,.s off into the woods, where he could
have a fair view of the coming catastro-
phe without too much -ish of having
his head stove in. Jim. he interviews
his engineer. who allowed that unless
the schooner was loaded with solid tim
Der or railroad iron he'd undertake 10
run through her without losing any,
thing. except. perhaps, his smokestack,
and that he'd be pleased TO undertake
the Job. ! disremember the engineer rs
name. but he was a careful man, ana ic
knew pretty well that no vessel loaded
either with timber or railros iron had
any call 10 be in that part of the lake at
that season of the year.
well, Jim climbs into his caboose,
which. of course. was at the end of the
train. and he takes his tree brakesmen
with him. so as 10 keep them out of
harms way: and then the train backs
up long distance. and after a big
screech on the whistle. just to let the
schooner's captain know that the cir
Gus was going TO begin, the train starts
for the schooner wi-h the throttle wide
open and full head of steam on. Jim
says when she struck tire schooner the
train was doing a good fifty miles AN
hour. and he expected 20 go through her
without feeling SO much as a shock, ne
being a man that was used TO collisions,
AMI could generally predict, before ne
ran into anything, just exactly what
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31
KNOWLEDGE

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ter than others and enjoy life more, with
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adapting the worlds best products 10
the needs of physical being, will attest
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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
euing 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 it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed or every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you viii not
accept any substitute if offered.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31
A HOPELESS CASE.
Work That Il Worth n Hundred Dollars q
Week.

Work That Is Worth a Hundred Dollars q
Week.
The school-teacher is very poorly
paid for his wearisome work of i'm
parting wisdom to his pupils. II many
of his pupils are like the one described
in the following dialogue. The boy
found il difficult to understand simple
arithmetic.
Teacher-Suppose, Fritz. you have a
stocking on one foot. and you put an
other stocking on the other foot how
many would you have on both feet?
Boy never wear no stockings.
Suppose your father has one pig in
q pen, and he buys another pig and
puts it in the pen, how many pigs will
there be in the penn
Dad don't keep no pigs"
The teacher blew a heavy sign from
his tired .irs. wiped the Precipitation
from his scholastic brow. and went at
it again with renewed courage.
suppose you have one jacket, and
at Christmas your father makes you a
present ot another jacket, how many
jackets will you have them"
He amt that kind OF father. He
never gives nothin' on Christmas"
Suppose your mother gives you one
apple. and you have one already, what
will you have then?"
stomach ache Our apples are
cookin' apples"
The teacher was not the man to be
discouraged by tribes He began to
suspect that the boy was not well up
in arithmetic, but he resolved to make
one more effort, so ne said:
IF poor little beggar boy has G
cake and you give him one more, how
many will he have?"
Il dunno. eat my own cakes"
Then the teacher told the children
10 go out and plav.-Texas Siftings
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31

man on the quarterback a-leaning over
the rail. and says Jim to him:
"'Who are your
I'm the schooner Matilda G.. Smith,
says the man. Who might you be?'
I'm the express freight, replies
Jim. and I'd like to know what you're
adding on my track
Looks as If / was anchored here
cont it?' says the man. The schooner
I dragged her anchor last night, and
came ashore here where there was
about six feet of water at the time. Il
you'll give look around you'll see that
nay anchors down, and that I've got =
riding light in my fOrerigging, all reg
uiar and shipshape. I'm the anchor
watch just at present, my men having
allowed that they'd had enough fun
last night TO last them for some time
/ and having gone on to the next tow
IN hopes of finding something to drink
/ I've got little old Jamaica in my cabin
and II you'll come aboard Wen sampl,
| it,
y don't want none of your Jamaica
nor yet none of your lip,' says Jim, put
ting ON more or less airs, as was his
general style. What want is to know
when you cal'late TO get off my track
and let me take my train up the road
Il did tell one of the men, replied
the captain of the schooner, to tele
graph TO Chicago for a wFecking tug
Ii he didn't forget to do il before he
found any whisky. that there tug will
be along in about two days. and then
we'll see what we can do about getting
the schooner into water again
DO you mean to tell me that I've
/ got to wait here for two DAYS and more 4?
says Jim. III do moth ing of the kind
You get your blasted schooner out o.
tie way, or I'll make kindling wood o.
her.
Considering that I'm at anchor with
proper light Displayed replied the
man, it's your business to keep clear OF
me. and I've no concern about il. That's
the law of the road. and if you don't be
lieye me, come aboard and I'll show il
10 you.'
We'll, the captain stuck to il that in
case of anything running in,O him while
at anchor he'd collect big damages;
and Jim kept on talking sharper and
sharper, and getting madden and mad
der all the time.
IF you want the schooner moved
tonight you'll have to do il yourself,
says the captain. for you can see that
I'm short-handed, even if wanted tC
accommodate you. which I'm free to
say don't
Il can aove you easy enough says
Jim. and that's what I cal'late to do
If l was to run into you at full speed
with my big engine and heavy train
of thirty-nine loaded cars we'd GO
through your dirty little schooner as if
she was made of wrapping paper
Did you ever have a collision with
a schooner asked the car tain.
"'NO. 1 never did, says Jim. But
it's about the only thing haven't run
into in my time. I've run into a brick
house, owing TO getting OFF the track
with that identical engine and smashed
the whole concern into smithereens
without turning hair of the machine
Your schooner wouldn't have no more
chance against my train than yaller
dog would have with Bengal tiger
"'Of course says the captain, If you
see fifteen for to run me down I've moth
ing TO say. Only | can tell you that
you'll be more surprised than you ever
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31

A covered tin pail viii serve a a receptacle
for bottles and water. A shallow bench
on which TO set the bottles to keep them
from dumping" may be made froT tin
plate punched full of holes. An 81 erted
bowl or block will serve TO equalize
level OF milk in different sized bottles
VII ere such are used. Cover is removed
W. temperature OF water is taken.
pints and quart cans are used at tho
same time, an inverted dish or piece of
wood will equalize the level.) Set these
in a fiat bottomed tin pail and fill with
warm water to same level as milk. An
inverted pie tin punched with holes
will serve as a stand on which to place
the bottles during the heating proceso.
3. Heat water in pail until the tenn
perature reaches one hundred an J
sixty degrees Fahrenheit; then remove
from source of direct heat, cover with "a
cloth of tin cover, and allow the whole
to stand for half an hour.
4. Remove bottles of milk and cool
them as rapidly as possible without
danger to bottles, and there in refrig-
orator.
There are several devices that have
been suggested for this purpose, but
this simple method is quite as efficient
as any other. Milk treated in this way
ought to keep perfectly sweet for sew
eral daVs.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31
The "Christian era was SUGGEST,

The Christian era" was suggested
or devised by Dionysius Exiguus, a
Roman monk. who in 527 began its use
and proposed that all public and pri-
ate documents should be dated IN
the year OF our Lord" II did not come
into general use in France until the
eighth century, nor il England until
July. SIG; in Spain il was not adopted
until the eleventh century; in Portu-
gal il was made legal in l415; in the en-
pire of the east il was established by
royal edict in 1883. few weeks before
the fall of Constantinople.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31

No other agricultural line can be
compared 10 dairying. Hog raising
premeditates cold blooded murder.
Bee keeping is systematic robbery.
Beef raising is cold. heartless desertion
of the animals which had fed from the
hand they had learned TO trust, and
horse raising, in speed lines, caters to
the dishonest greed of gain which
hopes to profit by others losses. The
boy who las been reared on the dairy
farm viii not go far wrong.-Farmer' ;
Nofca
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31
A thief 20 latch a Th,cr.

A witty and wild bly, known Canadian
bishop was lately fisiting certain col
lege in which Id took much interest.
Whilst he was inst eeting the electrical
appliances of the 3rientific department,
polite professo{ remarked: Il wish,
my lord. that y could construct g
magnet strong ea ough to keep you al
ways among us"
"Ah!" laughed | his lordship. not Ill
pleased. THAT Vould not be setting a
thief to catch thief, exactly II
would rather be setting a magnet to
catch a magnet. Harper's Bazaar
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31

The Michigan State Dairy association
will hold a series of dairy institutes at
the county fairs of that state this fall.
which will doubtless be of great benefit
to those who attend and attract inter
est to this industry. The idea might be
carried out in other states with profit.
Farm News.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31
TrIns undertnken for nealth.s sake

VIII be rendered more beneficial, and the
fatigues Of travel cOunteracted, if the vOy-
ager will take along with him Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, and use that protective
and enabling tonic, nerve invigorant and
app Jizer regularly. Impurities IN air aIlu
v. ter are ueutralized by it, and il is match
less tranquillizer and regulator of the stom-
ach, liver and bowels. II counteracts mala-
ria, rheumatism, and a tendency to kidney
and bladder ailments.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31
FARM AND GARDEN.
PASTEURIZINo MILK.
Directions for Performing This Important
Operation at Home.

Directions for Performing This Important
Operation at Home.
The following directions for perform
ing this operation at home are issued
os the Wisconsin Experiment station;
1t is possible to carry out the opera
ton with very simple arrangements.
In fact, il can be thoroughly and eff
GENTLY done by the addition of AZ
ordinary thermometer to tie common
utensils found in every kitchen.
For the benefit of thoIe who may de-
sire TO pasteurize milk, either for gen
eral or infant use, the following simple
suggestions are offered:
l. Use only fresh milk mot more
than twelve hours old) for this pur-
pose.
2. Place milk in clean bottles or fruit
cans, filling to a uniform level. Of
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31
ARE PROMINENT NOW.
Western Senators Who Have
Quickly Come to the Front.
A South Dakota Statesman Whose Inde-
penJence Has Become Proverbisi-
Idado's Young Silver Leader
An Editor as I-awmalxer.
Social washlngton Letter

"This back row will be the front row
one of these days." said Senator Petit
grew, of South Dakota, when the adj
mission in four new states in 1889 made
II necessary to add "a row back OF the
seats on the republican side of the SEN
ate, TO accommodate the eight new sem
ators from those states.
I'VE must sit here and listen TO our
betters," said Senator Pettigrew. "Of
course we are all senators here, and of
equal rank before the law, but the older
senators are running affairs and we
new senators must keep silence before
them. But. never MINI, we will sit
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31
CHEAP GREENHOUSE.

ANY Person Handy with Tools Can Put
Up One without Trouble.
There seems to be a great demand
for a cheap greenhouse. Many people
who raise plants for home use, or sale
on a limited scale, would like to have a
plant-house of some kind, but fear the
expense The little greenhouse at
Woodlands gives entire satisfaction,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31

1t may. indeed. be said that SYM
pathy EXISTS in all minds, as Faraday
has discovered that magnetism exists
in all metals; but a certain temperature
is required to develop the hidden prop
erty. whether in the metal or the mind.
-Buiwer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31

Miss Elders ton't see how they do
II. That Widow u item is the most sue
cessful woman th the men | ever
three husbands al now she is to marry
a fourth.
SIS Withers 0Sadlyl-Well, it's the
same old story. m dear: Nothing sue
eeeds like successta-Puck.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31

1t Is important in the dry season
that the cows have a plentiful supply
of fresh pure water. If they have
plenty of this they viii DO much better
on the dry grass then they viii if the
eater furnished them is impure and
stagnant.
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just 9ike a Man.

Mrs. Fozzletorf- George, tomorrow
is mommer's birthday, and i think we
ought to give Ter something. You
must remember khe has been with US
ten weeks now.
Fozzleton-Ye55 let us give her send
of. Brooklyn Eagle
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31

'WHkT Is that place down thereln asked
she Of one of the officers. '4Why, that is
the Storage answered he. And does it
take all those people 10 make the boat &c
straight Fi-Tit-B Bits
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31

''DID you enjoy the concert, Mrs. Barberf,
''They wasn't any. A man came out and
banged pianner, while his wife stood be-
side him shriekin' at him all the time.
Seems TO me they'd ought 10 have arrested
the woman for interferin'" = Harper's
Bazaar.