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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-23
AFTER THIRTY YEARS.
The Buckeye State Contributes
the Story of a We teran's Sc arch.
How Fred Taylor, a Member OF the Gal
liant Is9th N. v, v. l., Finally Found
What He Has Sought Since
the War Closed.

(From the Ashta5uEd. Ohio Bedcon.)
Mr.. Fred Taylor was born and brought up
near Elmira, ". Y, and from there en-
listed in the lS9th regiment, n. Y, V. l.,
with which he went through the war and
saw much hard service. Owing to exposure
and hardships during the service, Mr.. Tay
lor contracted chronic diarrhoea from which
he has suffered now over 30 years, with alb
solutely no help from physicians. BY
nature he was a wonderfully vigorous man
Had he not been, his disease and the exper-
iments of the doctors had killed him long
ago. Laudanum was the only thing which
afforded him relief. He had terrible head
aches, his nerves were shattered, he could
not sleep an hour day on an average, and
he was reduced to a skeleton. A year ago he
and his wife sought relief in change of
climate and removed to Geneva, o., but the
change in health came not. Finally on the
Recommendation of f. j. Hoffner, the
leading druggist of Geneva, who was cog
infant of similar cases which Pink Pills had
cured, Mr.. Taylor was persuaded to try a
box. "As a drowning man grasps at a
straw so l took the pills." says Mr.. Taylor,
''but with no morehope of rescue. But after
thirty years of suffering and fruitless search
for relief at last found it in DIR. Williams
Pink Pills. The day after / took the first
pills commenced to feel better and when
had taken the first box Twas in fact new
man." That was two months ago. MIR.
Taylor has since taken more of the pills and
his progress is steady and he has the utmost
confidence in them. He has regained full
control of his nerves and sleeps as well as
in his youth. Color is coming back to his
parched veins and he Is gaining flesh and
strength rapidly. He IS now able 10 do con-
sidorahIa outdoor yvortr
As he concluded narrating his sufferings,
experience and cure to Beacon reporter,
Mrs. Taylor, who has been his faithful help
meet these many years, said she wished to
add her testimony in favor of Pink Pills.
ITO the pills alone is due the credit of rails
ing MIR. Taylor from ahelpless invalid to the
man he is to-day said Mrs. Taylor. Both
Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor cannot find words to
express the gratitude they feel or recon-
mend too highly Pink Pills to suffering hui
manity. Any inquiries addressed TO them at
Geneva, o., regarding Mr.. Taylor's case
they will cheerfully answer, as they are
anxious that the whole world shall know
what Pink Pills have done for them and that
suffering humanity may be benefited thereby.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills contain all the ell
ements necessary TO give new life and rich
ness to the blood and restore shattered
nerves. They are for sale by all druggists,
or may be had by mail from DIR. Williams
Medicine Company, Schenectady, n. Y, for
30 cents per box, or six boxes for $3.50.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-23
sELF-FEEDEB FOR BRAN.

ture. Yet, II they are to eat grass dur
ing the summer and be fattened next
winter, as by far the greater part
must be, | would not give the corn
meal, as they would do better during
the summer without having had it.
Lambs will do exceedingly well on
good clover hay and unlimited wheat
bran. That Is the way l am feeding
ours at present.
II the lambs are to be used for breed
ing stock, would avoid giving corn
meal as heating or fattening food.
Give oats, bran and linseed meal. If
the eve lambs when grass is green in
the spring. she ought not to need any
other food; yet the lambs pay well for
the grain that you give them. 1t may
pay you to continue the wheat bran all
summer. i show a diagram of good
self-feeder for bran, which can be
eaten from by both ewes and lambs.
The cut shows a cross-section. 1t may
hold twenty bushels or more.-J. f.
Wing, in Country Gentleman.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-23

wood that will not split when the hoop
is nailed to the tops The tops of the
legs are beveled from the side next the
hoop in order to give spread at the bot
tom. The legs may be of any length
that will suit the fancy, but should be
little shorter than the sacks. 1t is
not necessary that the hoop be so small
as the diameter of the smallest sack,
because if the sack is small it need not
be hooked onto all the small nails that
are driven from the inside of the hoop.
The materials cost almost nothing and
the holder can be made in half an hour.
Bag-holders can he bought on the mar
ket, but | have failed to see any that
were more convenient or that would do
any better work than this one.
When huslsing corn in the field last
fall we had two or three dozen
cleansed phosphate sacks and by using
the holder threw the corn right into
the sacks so that when we wanted to
haul. our corn was all picked up, and
when we wanted to unload, the corn
was all ready to carry into the gran
airy. For this purpose one leg was left
longer than the others SO as to facili-
tate throwing into the sack. In trans
ferring grain from one sack to another,
shoulder the sack to be emptied and
with the other sack on the holder the
rest is as simple as pouring water out
of jug-E. +. Bogue, in Ohio Farmer.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
GAZING FOB LAMBS.
Row to Start the Young Creatures In the
WAY of Qufck Growth.

Bow to start the Young Creatures In the
Way of Quick Growth
While the lamb is young is the time
to start it in the way of quick growth.
Its future usefulness as a manufacturer
of mutton from hay and corn depends
very largely on the start ii gets during
Its first few weeks OF existence. II it
once gets stunted no amount of sub
sequent coaxing can make it do its
best. At first you must feed the lamb
through its mother. To make her give
plenty of milk, she needs, in the win
ter time. all the clover hay she will eat.
1t should be good clover hay--early cut
and well cured. She needs plenty OF
wheat bran. If you do not wish 10
fatten her for market, would give her
no corn, or very little. II ! wanted to
fatten her with the lamb, should give
her ration of this mixture by weight.
l0oparts of corn meal, 100 parts of wheat
bran, % parts of linseed meal. would
gradually accustom her to this food. and
as she became used To it. would give
her all she would eat, feeding 1t by
preference in self-feeder.
Now, il the lambs are to go to mar
ket as fat lambs, l can suggest no
better food for them than that mix
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-23
I. excep, his brief soiourn in L'bt,v

but, except his brief sojourn IN Libby,
pleasant, and when peace was declared
he went home with enough money in
his pocket to pay off the mortgage on
the little house that had sheltered him
from infancy. He afterwards worked
his way through college, studied law,
and in process of time took high sta
ton in mis- chosen profession.
Several times in after years, during
flying trips to Richmond. Ben made in
quiries concerning Maj. Warner, his
prison friend. but no one seemed to
know what had become of him; so he
finally gave up III, search, though he
never forgot the kindness he had re-
eeived at an enemy's hapd-
In the year 1850. Ben, Hon. Ben
iamin Redmond. went by invitation to
Covington, Ky. 10 deliver the memo
rial grafton on Decoration day. In his
address he repeated the touching incl
dent that had occurred at Libby prison,
and afterwards, while the old veterans
were strewing the graves of the dead
heroes with flowers. an old man came
T. the other side of the cemetery to
look at the grave in which his twin
boys were buried. When they reached
the rose-covered grave he said: You
see the old soldiers have not forgotten
my dead. although they wore the gray.
They fell together at Lookout Noun
tain. and when came here at the close
of the war, had their bodies brought
here for burial" Then drawing back
the wreath that covered their names
Mr.. Redmond read: sacred to the
memory of Arthur and Arnold Warner
this stone has been erected" Wiping
the tears from his eyes the father said:
The story of little scene in a south
ern prison, which you related this
morning. took me back TO those sad
DAYS. and the times when my brave
boys were with me. / am the man to
whom YOU referred in that incident,
and have brought you here to let you
see what your people have done for me
by remembering my dead"
Grasping the old mans bony hand,
Mr.. Redmond told him of the vain
search he had been making for him in
the Years INdt Ddu ihlcFNcucN SAnCc nc
had proven such a friend in a strange
land, and asked if he could be of any
service to him then.
The old man was too modest to tell
of the poverty that had Overtaken him
in his decliBing days, but a visit to his
humble home, where an invalid wife
and two young daughters were de-
pending on his daily toll for the neces-
saries of life, convinced the great law
yer that his chance of returning the
cup of cold water given him SO long
before, had indeed come.
Before leaving he arranged for the
removal of the family to his own town,
where a lucrative situation in his of
fee enabled the old father to provide a
comfortable home for his family and
furnish him with the means of edu-
eating his daughters SO as to prepare
them for taking care of themselves.
God never forgetsi He never for
gets," exclaimed the grateful old man,
when repeating the story. ''He has said
that even a cup of cold water given in
His name shall be rewarded, and now
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-23
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


As the result of careful investiga-
ton IL is now announced that, by rea-
son of the failure of the last legisla-
ture 10 pass law providing for the
commitment of insane persons. there
is now no legal way in which 10 care
for these unfortunates All the court
commissioners of Milwaukee have de-
cided that they will not issue any com
mitments and this has been the rule of
Court Commissioner Ryan ever since
Judge johnson declared the old law un-
constitutional. There is danger that a
great many inmates of insane asylums
viii secure their liberty under habeas
corpus proceedings
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-23
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Presbyterians Vote for Seminary CONTROL
They Want a United Church.


PITTSBURGH. Pa, May 22.-Seminary
control carried the day Monday in the
Presbyterian general assembly. The
report of the visiting committee, which
has been charged with negoeia-
tions with the score or less
of Presbyterian divinity schools
of the United States looking to
changes in their fundamental laws
such as would bring their endowments
and their faculties under direct super
vision of the Presby terrain church, was
adopted without modification after a
prolonged and spirited debate that
equaled in power and burning interest
any ever held in a general assembly.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, May %. = BY a
rising vote the assembly ordered the
committee of correspondence to send a
letter of greeting to the Southern
Presbyterian church. The letter in
forms the Southern church that it
continues in its attitude in which it
has stood for some years of readiness
to reciprocate whenever the Southern
church is ready to take up the aues-
ton of a reunion of the Presbyterian
churches north and south
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-23
SUN BITTERN AND THE KkoU.
An Interesting Little Chat on Weird Bird


Very little has been recorded of the
habits of the sun bittern, 1t merely
having been stated that IL resorts to
the underground found along the mud
dy banks of sluggish streams, where il
feeds upon insects and small fishes.
Newton, who has observed it in cap
tivity at the gardens of the geological
society of London, says: ut soon be-
comes tame, and has several times
made it's nest and reared its young"
1t has a plaintive, piping note, and it
Ordinarily walks with slow and pre-
else steps. keeping its body in hori-
zontal position, but at times, when ex-
cited, it will go through a series of fam
tastic performances, spreading its
broad wings and tail so as to display
their beautiful markings." These
sun bitterns were known full
ly three quarters OF century
or more to science before anything al
all akin to them was found; but when
the island of New Caledonia became
colonized, bird there discovered, and
nowhere else, at last furnished an ally.
This was the kagu, mentioned above,
now described by ornithologists as
Rhinochetus jubstus. Externally the
kagu bears but little resemblance to
the sun bittern, though its internal
structure, which has been carefully
examined, proves the relationship.
Considerably larger than Eurypyga, il
has its head ornamented by a hanging
crest of long and soft feathers. Both
its legs, which are rather long, and its
beak, are of livid red color. Its
ample wings are marked something
after the pattern seen in the sun
bittern, while its chief body color
is a pole slate, shading lighter
below. Numerous transverse bars
embelish the tail, aud these markings,
though far less distinct, are seen
on the wing coverts also. Ordinarily
it is very passive bird, standing mo-
tionless for several minutes at time,
when IL will step off briskly for a short
distance, only to again assume its atti-
tude of rest. This Is by no means, how
ever, the invariable behavior of this
extraordinary bird, for when aroused
by excitement IL will even quite Guido
a sun bittern in its extravagant and
fantastic "show-oh." Holding one of
its wings or the extremity of its tail in
the most remarkable manner, Il will
violently spin about in giddy dance.
the like OF which is never performed
by any other known member of the
class AYES Unfortunately, this ex-
tremely interesting type, it is now
said, is becoming rapidly exterminated.
Popular Science Monthly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-23
The Proper Quantity to Feed.

The practice of examining hens with
wheat at every ration Is the very way
not to get eggs. Too much wheat,
buclxwheat or barley will go into fat
rather than eggs and fat is disease in
poultry. The morning mash should be
fed in long narrow trough about ia
inches wide, nailed to the side of the
house So that the hens cannot jump
into and soil the food. Feed only
enough soft food to satisfy, never so
much as george. When a hen has had
so much food that she will go into a
corner and NOPE, she has had too
much. and if the overlooking is con-
tinued she will become too fat to lay.
If cut green bones are fed 1t should be
in the proportion of l pound to every 10
hens. ted morning and night, a small
feed of oats at noon and night IS all
that will be neces sary. Experience
will teach the happy medium" in
feeding.-A. q. Gilbert, In Farm and
Home
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-23
RETIRED WITH A REPRIMAND
Admiral Meade Receives a Severe Rebuke
from President Cleveland.

WASHINGTON, May 22.-The president
has signed an order directing that Ad-
miral Meade he retired. In issuing
the order the president administered
a severe rebuke to the ADMIRAL. whose
application was made to the secretary
OF the navy May 0 and by him for
warded to the president, who Monday
returned it to the navy department
with this Endorsement:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 20-The within
recommendation is approved, and Rear Admit
raj Richard W. Meade is hereby retired
from active service In the navy pur-
suant TO section !, iS5 of the revised statutes.
The president regrets exceedingly that the
long. active services OF this offcer, SO
brilliant In its early stages and so
often marked by honorable incidents,
should. at its close, be furnished by con-
duct at variance with a commendable career,
and inconsistent with the example which an
offlcer OF his high rank should furnish of sub
mission to the restraints of wholesome disci-
pline and manifest propriety.
GROVER CLEVELAND"
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WIT AND WISDOM.


We step not over the threshold of
childhood till we are led by love.-L.
4. Landon.
The inconvenience or the beauty
of the blush, which is the greater?-
Mime. Neckar.
--Sightseer lat telescope)-I don't see
anything. Professor-An hoptical de-
fusion, my dear sir. merely an hoptical
delusion. -Pick-Me-Up.
How is it that you are still bach
elor?" inquired Gags. II don't know9'
said Taggs. unless it's because never
married. philadelphia Inquirer.
-Whizzer-Women never do things
twice the same way. Sizzer-Yes. they
do. My wife has broken two of my
pipes trying 10 drive tacks with them.
Philadelphia Inquirer
--''0h. my dear Mrs. =, how glad
am to see you. 1t is four years stree
we met. and you recognized me imne-
diately." 'oh, yes, l recognized the
hat. "-Fliegende Blaetter.
-Friend-Do you know that am at
last beginning to understand your poe
try?' Great Magazine Poet-Heav-
ems! Is il then true that ! an losing
my neutrality-suspicious. Post
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-23

The most profitable way to grow
Strawberries is to make a new planta-
ton every gear, keeping the first one
two years, then having two beds, one
coming on and one in full bearing. In
this way the crops are the largest. Ex-
perience has shown that most success
is gained by procuring fresh plants
lrom nursery and not replanting the
runners from an old oed. New plants
may De bought so cheap that it is not
worth white taking the runners from
old beds anless they are some new
kind Of which only few have been
procured Rural World.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-23
,;nId Reserxe Increase..

WASHINGTON, May 1s.-The gold re-
serve Thursday amounted to S97, O45, ia,
an increase since Wednesday OF
s9i4, 293. OF the increase $780,
900 was deposited by the bond
syndicate, $4,000 was exchanged al
Boston for small United States notes,
and $4,000 was exchanged at Phila-
delphia for silver certificates. During
the last few days there has been a
heavy demand for small bills-sl, 81
and s5-which the officials are unable
20 aooonut for
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Both Discharged.

The examination of Alvah Andrus
and son Edward, the latter as access
sorry, who had been In Jail at White
hall for two weeks charged with muir
dering the iilegitimate child of the
formers daughter. Mrs. Mabel Andrus
Clark, on April %, was held before
Judge 0den, the court discharging
both. 1t appeared that one Fox, who
had been sued by Alvah Andrus for
the accusation.
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Meiford Wrecked.

A tornado damaged property at Med
ford to the amount of $4,000. The
East Side Lutheran church steeple was
blown down and a large bell was
broken. Maurer's bakery building
was damaged 81 800; Dunke Bros.
cigar factory, $500; Shapira's dry goods
store. $500. The new Hotel Winches-
ter was wrecked and the fair ground
buildings were demolished. Nearly
every place in the city was damaged &c
a small extent.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-23

Girls to whom flowers are luxury,
and not a daily surfeit, have dozen
ingenious ways of keeping them fresh.
There is none better than plunging the
stumps, up to the blossom, in a basin
of cold water aAd leaving them over
night. Another almost as good is to
leave the flowers and the containing
dish in the opeS air over night. A
carnation with its stem thrust into a
potato keeps frayh for several days,
while the feetins charm of the morn
ing glory may be, preserved for late
breakfast if the blossom be plucked
over night and permitted to open in
the shade.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-23
To Induce Immigration.

The new state board of immigration,
created by an act of the last legisla-
ture, met In Madison and organized by
slecting II. l.. Besse, of Ashland, pres
dent, and George w Bishop, of Rhine.
lander, secretary. Prof. w. A. henry,
Of the state university, addressed the
board in relation TO the handbook set
ting forth the agricultural resources
and possibilities of northern Wiscon
SIN. which will be published in the
near future. with a view to encourag-
ing immigration to that part of the
state.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-23

Now that many of the telephone
patents have expired and the instru-
ments In use are free to all, farmers
who have barbed wire fences may con-
vert them into telephone lines. IL does
not seem 90 be necessary TO insulate
the wires. those fastened u posts by
ordinary staples working perfectly.
When gates or bars intervene. pole Is
erected ~ each side, and the wire run
mp TO the top Of one and then across
and down the other 10 make the con-
nection. Roads may be crossed In the
same way.-Americap Agriculturist-
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Nicaragua Paws the Blu.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, May 2o.-A
check for R15.O00 was drawn Wednes-
day, payable to the order of the Mic
araguan minister in London, Senior
Cresanto Medina, to settle the British
claim of S75, 200 for the expulsion of
Consular Agent Hatch. The money
has been raised by private subscription
from Nicaraguans and foreign resi-
dents, and no necessity arose for ac-
cepting the help offered by other Cen
trail American republics.
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STATE OF ONO. CITY OF TOLEDO, Il.

FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he IS
the senior partner OF the firm of F. J. CHENEY
& Co., doing business in the City of Toledo
County and State aforesaid and that said
firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by theuse of HALL 5 CATARRH
CURE FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this6th day of December, A ID. 1856.
So A. w. GLEASON,
ii Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Send fortestimonials.
free. F. j. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, o.
tS Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills, 25c-
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The nomad of the Afghan steppes
gazed earnestly. across the grassy
waste.
.Ah!"
He marked the flying Kurds pursued
by the irregular Russian horse.
Those CossaclSs are filled with in
temperate zealF'.
always
He had his eye sunshaded by his
hand
Chasing the Kahn"
So saying, he turned with sigh to
his meager goatskin of koumiss- N.
u. World.
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HOLDER FOR BAGS.

with Its Aid the Filling OF Grain Sacks Is
a Pleasure.
The accompanying illustration shows
a cheap and efficient continuance TO
take the place of man or boy in the
work of putting grain into sacks 1t
Is made by taking a good sound wood
en- barrel hoop and closing 1t to the de
sired diameter. To the hoop attach
three legs which should be of light
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REAR ADMIRAL JOHN J. Amy

question of only a short time. Mrs.
Almy, Miss Almy and the eldest son,
Charles G.. Almy, were at his bedside
when the end came. Surviving AID.
miral Almy are two other sons, Lieut..
William Almy, of the Fifth cavalry,
Lieut.. Augustus C. Almy, of the navy,
and another daughter, the wife OF
Lieut.. John C. Haines, now stationed
at Springfie Id, Mass.