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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-05-14

EFom TIC fFtsss Rttf fpfH tUU
Worn with the exposure of army life on
the frontier, and poisoned by tie continual
drinking of alkali water, Joseph Flegauf
returned to Philadelphia eight years ago,
broken down in health and unable to do
any work.
He had served five years with the Ninth
United States Infantry in many a desperate
fight with the Indians in Arizona and other
frontier States and had won an enviabe
record. In the fierce conflict when Geron-
limo, the famous chief of the Apaches. was
captured, Mr.. Flegauf was among the brave
soldiers who, forgetful of every thing but
duty, charged upon the hostile Indians.
Life on the plains sent TO an untimely
death many soldiers who were never touched
by a redskins bullet or arrow, and Mr. File
gauf came near such a fate as that A long
time before his time was out he was taken
seriously i'll, but he stuck to his post until
an honorable discharge was finally given 70
him.
When he reached Philadelphia, the Indian
fighter was scarcely more than skin and
bones, and for three weeks he lay desperate
ly i'll in hospital. He felt dizzy, and his
stomach felt as IL it had dried up. These
symptoms were accompanied by bloody
d sentery, which no medicine seemed to re-
lieve.
After two years of suffering Mr.. Flegauf
came TO New York and was treated by sew
eral physicians. These did not agree, some
calling his disease catarrh OF the stomach,
and others chronic diarrhma-
In speaking TO a reporter about his illness
Mr.. Flegauf said the doctors helped him,
but, with all the money he spent for advice
and medicine, he was able TO work only
small part of the time Since moving TO
his present home, No. 5l1 West Forty-sec-
ond Street, in New York, about a year ago.
Mr.. Flegauf has been so ill that his voice
and hearing almost left him.
Then all medicines failed, and the sick
man had little hope of recovery. AT this
critical time Dr. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People were recommended to Mr. File
gauf, and, almost as a last hope, he began
taking them.
sThe beneficial effect of the medicine was
felt at once" Mr.. Flegauf told the reporter,
sand before | had taken a box 1 began 10
eat with relish. Three boxes made me so
much better that | began work and have
been able to keep ut it since, for five months
DIR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
are not patent medicine in the sense that
name implies. They were first compounded
as a prescription and used as such in gen.
eral practice by an eminent physician So
great was Their efficacy that IL was deemed
wise TO place them within the reach of all.
They are now manufactured by the DIR.
Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady,
N ", and are sold in boxes (never in loose
form by the dozen or hundred, and the pub
| lie are cautioned against numerous imta-
| tions sold in this shape) at 10 cents box, or
| six boxes for $50 and may be had of all
| druggists or direct by mail from DIR. VIII
| liams' Medicine Company.
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BOOK LOVER.
witty Retort of q Priest TO q Vulgar and
Determinations Parishioncr.

witty Retort of q Priest to q Vulgar and
Determinations Parishioncr.
Concerning the celebrated Father
Darcy, probably the greatest wit of
that witty nation, Ireland, ii is re-
lated, says the Milwaukee Journal, that
he once visited the palatial mansion
of a perfect specimen of the nouveauy
riches who lived in the neighborhood eli
Dublin at the invitation of its pompous
owner. He was shown all over the
house, his host taking great pains. as
is habitual in such cases. to keep the
witty and observant priest well in
formed as to the cost of all the beauti
full things he was shown. Finally. after
making the complete tour Of the
chateau, the library was reached, its
tremendous shelves grooming under the
weight of thousands upon thousands
of volumes, respondent in the most
magnificent bindings. Here they seat
ed themselves, and the host said, with
q sigh of snobbish exultation:
swell, father, / have brought you
here last because this is my favorit,
room. The other rooms maybe give
pleasure to my wife and my daughters,
but this is my place-right here among
these books, who are my friends. And
these here on the desk tpointing to n
score of ultra-looking volumes). are
what 1 may call my intimate friends"
Father Darcy got up and examined
one of them, when a broad grin spread
over his good-natured face, as he said:
"Well, it's glad l am to see that you
never cut your intimate friends"
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ably the original colonial danes, who
suffered during the revolution while
their husbands and sons were with
Washington, MIXED the COWS and
churned butter ar1 spun max and wove
cloth. But these gentle ladies' would
be shocked if such facts were now pre-
scented to them.
We have society of Daughters OF the
Revolution, and they are forming an
exclusive aristocratic set in this capital
city of the republic; right here at the
seat of the government of the people,
for the people and by the people. Are
they better, more refined, more virtu-
GUS, more commendablc than the wom-
Ell of the farm and fireside who darn
stockings, Sc, on Buttons and patch
the boys trousers7 At any rate they
think so, and their assumptions are be-
coming fiagr,ntiv annoying to plain
work-a-day Iien and women who pay
their debts and say their prayers at
home and in church.
A society is being formed in New Eng
land composed exclusively of descend
ants of the Mayfower. These gentle
ladies' are tracing their lineage TO the
foundation of the new world, and are
proud of being descended from the peo-
pie who burned witches. The society
of the sturdy yeomanry of modern
New England consists of better men
and women than those who came over
in the Mayfower. This is not said in
disparagement OF the Mayfower peo-
pie. They were good in their day and
generation. But the world is growing
more intelligent, and better every way.
OF the Mayfiower people = may be said
as il is said of Samson. hat terrible
fellow was butcher of thousands, and
fell because Of his association with an
evil woman. But he was the best man
of his age, and was trying to serve God
according to his limited light. Nobody
wants to trace ancestry TO Samson.
Why should anyone want to trace an
cestry to the witch burners?
1t seems that when men and women
accumulate wealth and do not have to
earn their daily bread. they assume vir-
tues which they do not possess, Then
they fall victims to the delusions which
bring in their train desire to demon.
strate superior ancestry. Jay Gould
was never such fool. He was too
busy. Cornelius Vanderbilt never had
time to make family tree. Abraham
Lincoln never sought 10 establish line
age of lordlings. He was too big q
man to look for bigger in the former
Lincolns. The search of ancestry IL
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The Viennese take their pleasure as
regularly as they do their meals; but
they do not neglect their business. nor
keep very late hours. A correspondent
explains why they come home early:
One thing. perhaps, which helps tokeep
the young Vienrese of moderate means
ind economical mind regular in his
eevning hours is the fact that he must
pay TO get into his own rooms after
ten o'clock. Vienna is one vast system
of apartment houses, and house-mas-
ter is in charge of each one.
At ten o'clock be locks the
front door. and anyone desiring
10 get in after that hour must
pay him. and the old resident has no
more right to a key than the bird of
passage. The house-master is no re-
specter of persons. Several times we
have raced home to outwit him, and
once so narrow was our escape that we
met him in the hall. key in hand. Thu
chagrined expression on his face made
us happy all the way upstairs.-N. \.
Tribune.
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DANIELS EXPERIENCE.
Sat Down So Much That Ills Hind Legs
Became Useless

Sat Down So Much That Ills Hind Legs
Became Useless
A large camel which was landed at
Hoboken O few days ago from the
Bremen line steamer Dresden had an
experience which probably never be-
fore fell to the lot of "a ship of the des-
ert."
He made the voyage in large box.
and as there wasn't room enough in
It for any self-respecting animal the
camel sat down in sheer disgust. He
sat that way for days and days while
the ship rolled and made all sorts of
heavy weather.
When the delected animal was finally
landed and tried to stand up, he couldn't
use his rear props at all. They had be-
come paralyzed from their long stay in
a cramped position. The camel wasn't
any good, IL seemed, and as big price
had been paid for him there was gen
eral lamentation. The camel was ''in'
on the Iamentation. Such a picture Of
woe was never seen in Hoooken.
At last a genius suggested a radi-
cal cure. The camel. by his advice.
was placed in sling and hoisted NJ
until only his toes touched the ground.
He padded the air for spell with his
forelegs, and finally the rear props
came TO life and joined in the exercise.
They Lowered him to the floor, and
after he had tested his rear legs some
what cling srly. he was as good as new,
But he doesn't sit down any more. Once
was enough for him.
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usually carried on by small people, who
thereby acknowledge their own insig
nificance 10y seeking a superior an.
cestry.
Confucius, Buddha, Zoroaster, Alex
ander, Caesar, Napoleon, Wolsey, Crom-
well, Neutrality-suspicious. men sought nc
ancestral strength to bolster them up
and add to their laurels. Luther, Cal.
win, Knox, Wesley, Campbell did not
point with pride" to ancestors who had
done something. They were too busy
doing and achieving things 10 engage In
such nonsense. Insteado of being proud
of their families they were making their
families proud of them.
The best family tree that / ever saw
was printed many years ago by Josh
Billings. He said that inasmuch az
other people were having family trees
he had looked up his own, and found
il to consist of pair of upright wooden
pillars with cross-tree over them, and
a rope dangling down. He said that
out of respect to the lamented deceased
he would not give particulars of their
achievements. He added: This Is sar-
kasm."
In comic opera, which was popular
a few years ago, there was n major gen.
eral who purchased an ancient castle,
and said that he had bought his an
cestors with the property. That also
was sarcasm, and the people who heard
the opera enjoyed it. The fact of the
matter is, that these descendants of the
Mayfiower, Colonial Danes, and other
ancestral societies do not need ancestry
so much as they need good hard work.
If the millionaires and money kings
in other cities have time and inclination
for nothing better, for themselves and
the ladies of their families, let them
spend their exertions In proving SUI
perior ancestry. But here in the ma
tional capital. such proceedings are
out of place. The society leaders of
to-day will soon pass away. Their hus-
bands will not remain in congress, nor
in the executive departments. They
will go out of Office, and become claim
agents or lobbyists, just as their pre-
decessors have done. We can endure
an occasional epidemic of American
aristocracy better anywhere else than
in this city.
Unless this folly is checked by plain
and vigorous public opinion, we shall
have another race before our grand
children are grown; race of chumpo
who will form societies of the Daugh-
ters of the Civil War. And many of
them will be descendants of desertcrs
and bounty Jumpers, suffers or camp
followers. The men who fought be-
tween 1861 and 1865 were not fighting to
establish an ancestry of idiots. They
were fighting to preserve the union.
The men of the south we're notfighting
to set up an ancestry of lazzaroni. They
believed that they were establishing a
new republic Their descendants must
not establish an Order of Jefferson
Davis; or Society of Robert +. Lee.
Such things look all the more ridicu-
lous when we put them in the future.
They are bad enough in the present.
Let us be done with them.
SMITH ID. FRY
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my newspaper writing valuable. The
old man was good soldier. He fought
for his country. He served the repub-
lie. He drew up his feet and was gath
cred unto his fathers. He did his duty
while on earth, and that is all there is
of it. l do not see why l should join
an aristocratic society of Sons of the
American Revolution on account of
what that good man did. There is no
bread and butter in it for me; and the
ancestry business will not pass current
at the butchers, the bakers or any
other business place where supplies are
TO be had for the table.
While Alfred Fennyson was in the
vigor If manhood, he wrote manly
things, but when he approached his
dotage he became effeminate and lapsrd
into lordship. II was he who wrote:
From yon blue heavens above us bent
The gardener. Adam. and his wife,
Smile ct the claims of long descent"
Adam and I've were not sent forth
from the womb of the universe TO found
race of aristocrats. They who look
back 10 an ancestry of 100, 200 or 300
years. might as well trace their lineage
back TO the families Of the old world.
and then keep on tracing ii back to the
gardener, Adam, whence all of us came
When these proud Sons of the American
Revolution get back 10 Adam, they will
find that they are descended from .
coward, who tried to hide his faults rs
laying them upon a woman. No wonder
Adam should be pictured as smiling al
the claims of long descent. He must
see from his present abode that better
men than he have come upon the scene,
of action and passed away. for the
world is growing better all the time.
We have in Washington a society of
Colonial Danes. These ladies know
nothing of the kitchen piano. common
ly called a washboard. They never
churned butter or MIXED cows. Prob
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and he remained standing while we sat.
lie gossiped about the latest news from
san Francisco. and asked a Mexican
gentleman in cur party for further bits
Of political inf ormation from the City
of Mexico. He told a neat little story
about a funny experience among the
servants in his fathers home in Cbihau-
hua when he was boy. and when the
Story drew forth humorous tale from
one of our party. he laughed as merriiy
ard genuinely as you can imagine. All.
YOU Americans. said he, in his smooth
musical Spanish accent, you Ames-
leans have such a way of seeing funny
things. / guess have missed good
deal of il by not being Yankee, too
Turning to me. vasqiIez asked If
was not the Fillmore who once had
herd of cattle and a ranch down the
ella river country in Arizona. Upon
my answering yes. he said: oh, now
know all about you. Mr.. Fillmore. Your
cattle outfit and my gang had some
little disputes about property several
wears ago. l believe we had to shoot
one or two of your men. Wei. l am
sincerely sorry, Mr.. Fillmore. that !
ever did you any harm, but it seems to
me at this recollection we were in des-
uerate straits when we were over your
way. and we had TO do something out of
the ordinary in our line of business
Now please don't harbor any i'll will for
me after / am gone tomorrow for those
old bygones.'
n \. r~ols H.
hold somewhere in Arizona of blooded
horse having my brand upon il, and
that il was the best animal he ever had
TO realize when il must do its utmost at
speed TO deliver its rider out of danger.
I'm sorry. Mr. Fillmore, you were so
much victim of my way of doing bust
ness said the young man, with the
only tinge of sorrow that escaped him
that day. He told of the pleasure he
had had in reading Bret Harte's stories
in the last two weeks, and regretted
that he had not known the fun and wit
there were in Don Quixote in his early
days.
AS he stood there, one hand on the
arm of his chair, a newspaper in the
other, and showing courteous interest
in the efforts of the bustling deputy
to find seats for his guests he was far
from formidable in appearance. How
ever terrible he may have looked when.
shotgun in hand, he rode up TO the stage
coach or the wayside store, the lonely
traveller or the isolated ranch house,
with his Gathering. criminal cavalry
behind him, IS ready TO blow out brains
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"'Devil take me. Nasquez. IL yog
haven't nervei' exclaimed a reporter.
admiringly.
What would be the use of being the
other way?' he said, calmly enough.
but there was a sharp thrill in his tone
that limited at the agony in the Gagged
mans heart.
''On the next morning vasquez
walked out into the small Jail yard.
climbed the steps of the scafrcld, gazed
indifferentIy at the gaping mob ~ mer
below. threw wistful glance beyond
the walls at the blue hills, on which he
had ridden on many fray with his cut
Threats, and then gave all his a ter ion
to the CHASTITY business of the inomeat
''They sought to unbutton his coat
He waved them aside politely and did u
himself. He assisted the hangman in
adjusting the straps and ropes. glanc-
ing down to see that his feet were pre-
cisely on the crack, kissed the crucifix
held out to him by the priest. and bore
himself with patience and dignity while
they drew over him a white shroud and
placed on his head and shoulders great
black hood. L am ready he said,
serenely. closing his eyes.
"And that was the last of vasquez."-
Ontario (Cal.) Telegram to the Phila-
delphia Times.
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More Good Nex.

General Manager p. s. Mcgowan, of the
Walter A. Wood Harvester Co, ST. Paul.
Mimi. informs us thas business is excellent
and that his company will be able this fall
to liQuidate its entire Indebtedness, and
pass out of the receivers hands in most
prosperous condition. He is our authority,
also, Tor announcing the good news that
some Of the most influential stockholders OF
the st. Paul and Hoosick Falls companies
are now at work trying to effect a reorgani
cation, to the end of placing both companies
in position to go along with the Immense
business in su h manner as 10 maintain past
reputation for sofdity and progressiveness.
If tine reorganization is effected, which,
from present progress would seem assured,
he business will again be on solid founda-
ton and under a management that VIII push
its well known machines in every market
on the flobe.-FdTm Machinery. Apra 2f,
1896.
SHE-"I sec Jack Parsons is defaulter-
He-"Yes; how he has changed. Why,
when he used 10 play baseball he wouldn
even steal base. IN. Y. Evening Tele-
gram.
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HOW PERuvIANs CELEBRATE.
Christ mas Eve n Season of JolIihcation-
Bull Fights After Church.

Christ mas Eve a Season of JoIIidcation--
Bull Fights After Church.
A Christmas celebration in Peru has
peculiar features. In the cities, and
more especially in Lima, there are be.
wildering scenes of activity on Christ
mas eve. The streets and squares are
crowded with gayly-dressed people.
Droves of asses are to be seen in every
direction laden with fruit, boughs from
the mountains, liquors and other mer-
chandise. Ice stalls, provided with
chairs and benches, are crowded by
the perspiring pleasure seekers, who
End ice necessary on sultry Christmas.
As night approaches the streets arc
pach I'd with noisy people. and joke
and Jest and merry pranks become
the rule. These are participated in
riostly by strangely attired persons in
masks. Music of guitars, gathering
oastanets and pebbles rafting in
gourds fill the air with mingled discord.
ant sound. No door is closed. There
are music and dancing and the distribu.
ton of gifts in every house. All are
welcome to enter. Strangers are sure
OF hearty welcome, and to be a for
eigner is to have double claim on hos.
p.tality and to receive a double wei.
come. All ceremony and restraint are
absent.
Suddenly the scene changes. The
midnight bell at the cathedral has
summoned all 10 mass. The houses
and streets are nearly deserted, while
the churches, with their decorations
and blazing tapers, are thronged.
Again on Christmas morning the
streets are crowded and the markets
are thronged, but at nine o'clock the
churches are again filled. After the
services come the feast and the games
I'D the sports. OF all the sports, bull
lighting is the favorite, and the Christ
mas fight is generally the best of the
season, as eight or ten bulls are fire.
1uently killed on that day, besides sew
eral horses, and not infrequently one
or two of the fighting men. In this
sport women appear to take more en-
thusiastic pleasure than the men.
When night comes there is grand
procession, headed by the priests and
monks, who are followed by the SOL
JIers and people. All are gayly dressed
and many in fantastic costumes and
masks. Banners, flags, streaming rib
hons and green boughs are carried, and
music fills the air. In the midst of
the procession there is held aloft tho
figure of the Madonna bearing in her
arms the Holy Child. After long
march the procession returns to the
cathedral. there disbands. and the
Christmas celebration is at an end.-N.
Y Herald.
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BITS OF DAIRY WISDOM.


Never allow a heifer calf from rich
butter cow to be killed as veal. If
you do not want her to supply your
own dairy-there are plenty who do.
Calves that are losing the hair about
the eyes may be subject TO mild form
of mango. Sulphur and lard rubbed on
the spots occasionally will effect cure.
If you are a dairylnan or dairy
woman put your brains, your energy
in it. Be an enthusiast. If you can
not, then it is not the business for you,
and you will not succeed.
Be sure that all the fences are up and
strong before stock is turned out. 1t
will prevent the cattle from getting bad
habits impossible to cure and per-
haps an expensive lawsuit.
Few remedies Tor caked udder are
better than soft soap. Cover the bag.
If the punches and soreness have not
disappeared in a few days repeat.
Frequent bathing with hot water and
hard rubbing will aIlay the fever and
reduce the swellings.-Farm Journal.
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PARTITION IN ROUND sILo.

boards with paper between may be
used. These should be nailed to stud
ding made out of 6x6's sawed in two
diagonally. using two pieces at each
end of the partition, placed so that the
sawed face fills the corner formed by
the partition.
With the intermediate studs the
boards should be nailed to the sawed
or wide side, so as to avoid forming
square corners.
If a rectangular silo is built, then
two layers of matched fencing with Ia
paper between should be used for the
lining, To lessen the spelling OF silage
at the corners, these should be cut off
with one layer of inch boards about Is
inches long. This should then be lined
with roofing tin soldered together into
q strip long enough to nail TO the lin
ing and to completely cover the two
ends of the short boards by as much as
two inches on each side. The tin should
be kept painted with coal tar to prevent
rrsting.-F. III. King, in Orange Judd
Farmer
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Wanted to Collabornte.

Good day." said the man whose man.
ners are infinitely better than his
clothes. as he stepped INFO the merchant
tailor's place of business. Have you ?
doctor connected with this establish
ment?"
NO, sir; certainly not" replied the
amazed business man.
"Ah, that's good. I'm doctor and
hope we shall get along very nicely to-
gether."
Get along together! What do you
mean?''
-You advertised "a fit guaranteed
don't your"
"Yes."
well. l cure fits" - Detroit Free
Press.