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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-01-02

the sticks of wood fell from his arms
Some strange emotion seized him at the
noise made by the falling wood. He
pulled his hat down over his brows.
gave one glance back over his shoulder.
scaled the fence and He'd wildly down
the slope of the hill under the thick
shadows of the trees.
1t was a long time before he could
convince himself that he was not pur-
sued. The rlIstiing of the leaves behind
him lent wings 10 his feet y dozen
times he felt Minervy's hand ON his
coat collar. and he knew that il IL were
there hc would have no choice but To 20
back. Such time was never made since
the DAYS of Tam 0'Shanter. Over fall
en- tree trunks. around upturned roots.
vaulting over gullies. lodging low-hang-
ing limbs, dragging himself free from
the embrace Of too affectionate briars,
away he went down the Hill. pursued by
the avenging shadow of Minervy.
At the foot of the slope. where the hill
and valley met. he emerged into the
road. IL was quite dark. and the fear
Of pursuit haunted him no longer-that
is. not 10 any great extent He didn't
run now. he only walked rapidly He
carried his hat in his hand, and mopped
his perspiring brow with his handker'
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chief. and remarked in ar amazed un-
6ertone:
BY Ned"

In the little town vacant store room
was throngrd with men. many of whom
had Just enlisted as volunteers. and
many others had come TO hook on. filed
with curiosity. bat not overfiowing with
patriotism. The war was but few
months old. and only vague rumors of il
had penetrated TO these remote districts.
This Was the first company of vOilin-
teers To go from tins section. and il WAS
made up wholly of those more daring
spirits who were willing TO risk any
thing in the mere love of adventure.
\ commotiOn back of the door told Of
a new arrival. and the crowd willingly
made way for him. little man.
rulnpled as to hair and tattered as TO
garments. struggled into the clear
space in front OF the enrolling officer
and said:
"Ef the oomp'ny amt made upyetyou
Kin put me in
Everybody knew him and everybody
laughed. The laugh was a CHEEKY one.
Drumming with amusement. and IL filled
the room and extended out into the
street
How'd you manage 10 git off from
Minervy. Jim?" asko1 a tall fellow
y ho was going TO ay Al home. pre-
suInably because he couldn't git OFF
from" The wife over whom he DOM
ineered.
"Does A'inervy know you're out?"
shouted another. jeeringly.
"Jist think of il. boys" drawled
third. Think o Jim Carroll Tinin'
the Smithyille Tigers! He's a whale
Of Tiger. amt he?"
Newer mind" interrupted the en-
rolling officer, grimly. Hell make
as good food for powder as any If YOU"
With which cheerful suggestion Jim
Carroll was duly enrolled as a priv ate
in the Smithville Tigers. and by dawn
the next morning the company was
on the road. marching gayly off tn the
tune of The Girl Left Behind Me."
About a month later one of the
Tigers. Sile COIburn. remarked in
general way to several of the others:
wall, boys, fur's I'm concerned.
YOU kin leave off Iaughin' at Jim Car
oil an pokin' fun at i'm. Jim, he
never growls at the marchin'. nor the
weather. nor nothin' else, an he does
mOre'n his share q the work. and you
all know that blamed well. An he
slep' ON the groun' without any kiver
SOS to give me his eXtry blankit all
- last week. when | want feelin' so
mighty vigris. I'll bet they wouldn't
none o. the rest o you "a done it"
"Jes' wait till a battle comes up"
said long Ben Finks. scornfully. You
won't never hear of Jim Carroll again
after the first gun fires. He'll pitch
out a-runnin', an he'll he a-runnin'
yit when the trumpit sounds for the
merlenium-"
Within three days there was battle:
battle for which some of the Tigers
had ;onget. and which others hal
awaited with dread. The weak littls
man who had fed from Minervy found
himself. with the other Tigers and dim
"ray-coated ranks beyond. charging up
hill, in the face of a battery that
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-01-02
IN THE PRESS GALLERY.
Come thing About the Bright AIen
Who Occupy II.
TIE Washington Correspondents OF Great
Sewspa pers Must BE Thorough GEN
tlemen They Cannot Hold
Their Positions.
specIal wash,ng,on Letter

Special Washington Letter
The successful newspaper eorre-
spondent at the national capital must
be gentleman. He must mingle with
men who represent tens of thousands
of citizens; and with senators who are
selected by the legislatures of sovereign
states. These men are regarded as
the best men in their several districts
and bates; for the people have elected
them and set upon them the seal OF their
approval. They are gentlemen, Gull
tured, refined, and scholarly. OF course
there are exceptions, but the rule pre-
walls. The newspaper correspondents
who meet with them daily must be gen
tlemen. and they must not be inferior
10 them if they would command success.
There was time when statesmen
could say. and did say, concerning any
publication which did not please them.
that lit is newspaper lie." They were
SO much bigger and greater than the
correspondents that they could assume
lordly airs and with wave of the hand
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The new members of congress usual
~ refer to the correspondents as ere
porters" for the newspapers which
they represent. The average CORES
pendent does not like that designa-
ton. Reporters are usually regarded
as local writer's who work under the
direction of their city editors, while the
correspondents are generally men who
have gone a notch or two higher than
the position of city editor. 1t is a pro-
fessional distinction, of which states
men know nothing. until they COM
mence to learn the ways and whims
of this new class of citizens, composed
as il is of men of distinct class, with
whom the new congressman have never
before mingled. Inasmuch as their
intercourse is usually pleasant and mu-
tually agreeable, they soon learn these
distinctions.
Journalism is to-day profession, as
distinct and as positive as theology,
n,ndicine or law. 1t is one of the
learned professions, and it has grada-
tions from the young man who pol
ishes up the handle of the big front
door, to the editor in chief or pro-
prietor and business manager. 1t may
be truly said that no man who would be
incompetent to fill the position of city
editor or managing editor should be
ad1udged competent TO represent a
prosperous newspaper as its Washing
ton correspondent. SMITH ID. Fry.
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cHIcAoo.s ESCAPE.



snapped for a Pair of Mules.
A story appears revealing the narrow
escape Chicago once had from being es-
timated at the value of pair of long
cared steeds. 4 he story is credited TO
Maj. Abe Austin. of Helena. Mont. re-
Gently visitor in New York. The ma
jor said, during a conversation:
did you ever hear that Chicago at
one period of its existence very narrow
" escaped being snapped for pair of
mules? It's worth telling, think, if
you never heard about il.
THE story sounds like fiction. but
it's fact. | assure you. 1t al came
about in this way: My father pulled
up at Chicago along in the 40's toting
with him everything he possessed on
earth. and it wasn't much of load, L
can assure you-just an old carpet-sack
and a chunk of boy. That boy was
rnyself. Well. as 1 say, he landed there
in Chicago. but at that time a few scat
tered log cabins was all there was to il.
II was only pioneer settlement. and a
shaky one at that. Twas "A small, handy
legged lad, just big enough to stand
guard over our scanty worldly posses
sions when we had pitched our tent,
while my father skirmished around for
an outfit. lie was making grim prep
aIations 10 begin life over again, this
time in the overland freight business.
HE had bought "a wagon from a Con-
necticut Yankee who had barely landed
on the shore of Lake Michigan, a
swampy wilderness, when the tail Yam
kee timber got the ague. and it mighty
soon had the western fever shaken out
OF him. Our outfit was completed when
my father traded a small tract of Ohio
land for a blocky little team of mules.
Well. the preparations were at once
made to leave with the next overland
Wagon train.
II think il was on the very morning
that we were breaking camp prepare
tory to leaving on our first trip over the
long trail TO the continental divide that
tall, bronzed woodsman came into
camp. | well remember that his long.
frowsy hair, grizzly beard and formid-
able display of six-shooters gave me a
decidedly uncomfortable feeling.
fully expected to be perforated or
hayed alive by this rough-looking spe-
eimen of the woods. lie seated himself
on a stump and greeted us with:
Il reckon, stranger, We must be goin'
ter take a trip overland"
yes replied my father, and he
went on Harvesting the mules.
"'Wall, pa'dner. | own this patch of
tiraberland hereabouts. and had Gale
lated ter stay hyar. but now I've got err
notion ter go furder west an try my
luck at minin'. Now, how would yer
like ter swap that pair o. mules fer this
quarter section o timber?'
"My father considered the PROPOSE
ton a few minutes, and then declined
to make the swap TWAS the mistake
of his life, for that quarter section lies
in what is now the hub of the city of
Chicago. The land for which my father
refused to exchange pair of flea bitten
mules is now worth untold millions. -
" Y. Mercury.
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FOWLS IN WINTER.
n Excellent Heater and yentiiator for
Pantry Housea.

An Excellent Heater and yentiiator for
Poultry Houses.
Among the many plans now in use for
warming the poultry house. the heater,
illustrated below, supplies heat and
ventilation, or supply of fresh, warm
air. Any kind of flat top stove, or
even a kerosene stove will give sufficient
heat. The size of the stove should de-
pend on the size of the house, but 40 de-
grees is sufficient heat. The illustration
shows closed box yard square and
an inch deep, made of ordinary sheet
iron. The box or heater is placed on a
small stove, or if legs are attached to
each corner of the heater, a lamp may
be placed under it. The cold air comes
in at a, passes through the box, be-
coming heated, and energies at the pipe
b. The cold air pipe is one-half inch
in diameter, and the warm air pipe one
inch. The pipe A should be long enough
to extend through the walls to the out
side, SO as to bring in the pure air. No
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How Good Cows Are Made.

Some one has said that good COW is
made by the good treatment &c the calf,
and this is more than half true. The
heifer should be kindly treated and well
fed from the day of her birth. Handle
her and bring her up accustomed to be
petted and curried, and she will never
have to be ''broke" to milk, nor be wor-
ried because she is tied up or confined
in any way. If all these things are at
tended to. the heifer that has the pos
sibilities of good cow in her will do
much better than If she is allowed to
grow up half wild until she drops her
FIRST calf.-Farm and Fireside.
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EcIipses Them All-35n Hours Chicago to
jacksonville. FLORIDA.

The Monon Route with its customary en-
terprise has put on a new fast train that
makes the run between Chicago and Jack
sonville in S51S hours.
This train is composed of elegant Pull
man Perfected Safety Nestibuled, Open and
Compartment Sleepers. including Drawing
Room and Buffet Sleepers, as well as com
Portable day coaches, with Monon Celebrated
Highback Seats.
This train leave. Chicago daily at s 80 p
NJ, arriving at Cincinnati next morning
7:30, Chattanooga 5 80 p. NJ, Atlanta 10 40
+. NJ, reaching Jacksonville at 20 the sec
ond morning, in ample time to make con-
nection with all lines for points in Central
and Southern Florida. This is the fastest
time ever made by any line between Chi
cago and Florida
FRANK j REED, Gen'l Pass. Agt., Chicago.
City Ticket Office, 232 Clark ST., Chicago.
For time cards, pamphlets and all other
information, address l.. +. SESSIONS, n. w.
Pass. Agt., Minneapolis, MINI.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-01-02

In the year 1894, the De Kalb Fence Co.,
of De Kalb, ILL.,, doubled the capacity for
producing their lines over 1893 which gave
them an output of 90 miles per day The
demand for their goods has been so great
the past season, that in order TO be able to
supply their trade, they have been COM
PEELED this year to double the capacity of
1894, whiCN now gives them an output of 40
mics per lay.
This il itself speaks wen for their prod
uct and merits the attention and inspection
of readers and all that are in need of smooth
wire fencing of any kind. twill be to your
interest to write for their catalogue, which
describes in detail their goods. comprising
the largest and most complete lines of
smooth wire fencing now produced by any
one plant in the country.
See their ad. elsewhere in this paper.
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Very Rich Indeed

In the elements that supply the human sys-
TEN with bone, muscle and brain substance
is a circulation fortified with the supreme
tonic, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which
begets thorough assimilation and digestion,
and gives healthful impulse to every func-
ton of the body. Dyspeptic and weakly
persons give strong testimony in it's behalf.
So do those troubled with biliousness.
malaria, rheumatism, constipation and in
activity of the kidneys.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-01-02
The King of Freaks.

- thought saw sou coming out OF a
dime museum yesterday"
Perhaps you did. I'm employed in
one now"
What? Why, there's nothing freak
ish about YOU
''Oh, yes. there is. I'm the only man
who's never been run down by a 5icy
clist."-Life.
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ventilators on the top of the building
will be required, and the air will keep
the house dry. Always bring the air
in and discharge it near the roof, as
the birds will not then crowd or be.
come lame as they will when the
Home
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-01-02

BILE labor if the ordinary method is fol-
lowed. A short cut is shown in the ac-
companying illustration. A number
of dry goods or grocery boxes. all of the
same size and shape, are procured and
nailed together side by side, and to the
top of the bin thus made a cover is at
tached-and the thing is done, Each
box must be of a size sufficient for hold
ing all the grain of any one kind that
must be kept on hand, but this will not
be a difficult matter, for boxes of every
size and shape are to be had at grocery
and dry goods stores.-N. y. Tribune.
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AnimcnIt PrnhIem.

Proprietor-Well. what's the matter
now
New Clerk AM puzzled about some
goods | find in my department.
"Nella"
Il wish TO know whether the material
is intended for mosquito netting. bridal
wells or boarding house blankets. y
y. Y. Weekly.
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On the first Tuesday of each month, the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois II. II. will sell
one way tickets To all points in the South al
greatly reduced rates. The last train over
p Nj. and runs through solid to Nashville
making connection there with all trains for
the South and Southeast. City Ticket Office
230 Clark ST., Chicago.
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Homeless.

Cumback II hope something win
happen 10 disillusionize Pemberton be-
fore he throws himself away on that
girl he's crazy over.
Goforth-No chance of it. He's al
ready seen her in bloomers.-Puck.
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Half Fare Excursion to Virginia and the
Carolinas.

January 14th and 2Sth, 1895, round trip
tickets will be sold from the northwest over
the Big Four Route and Chesapeake and
Ohio Ry. to points in Virginia and North
and South Carolina at one fare with two
dollars added. For particulars and free
pamphlet descriptive of Virginia lands adj
dress U. l.. TRUIrT, N. w. p. A, 234 Clark
ST., Chicago.
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No elements at AN

"Jinkins, believe you have some OF
the elements of success about you"
Jinkins (who knows what is coming)
Not a dollar, old man, honor bright
You'd be welcome to it if had.-Peer-
sons Weekly.
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Effectually, yet gently, when oostive or bill
ious or when the blood is impure or slug
gish, TO permanently cure habitual consti-
patton, to awaken the kidneys and liver 10 a
healthy activity without irritating or weak
ening them, to dIspel headaches, colds or
fevers, use Syrup of Figs.
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Do you want to buy lands in the far-famed
grain growing district of the Red River
Valley OF North Dakotas Remember they
are the best wheat lands Oh earth. Write
TO US and get particulars. We can sell you
q farm and take pay from share of the
crop. Address GRANDIN & EDWARDS, May
vile. n. d.
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USEFUL GRAIN BINS.

How to Construct Serviceable Feed Chests
with Compartments.
Feed chests with compartments for
different kinds of grain are necessary
conveniences in the barn or stable, but
the making of such bin with numerous
compartments is a matter of considera-
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Leadyille is 10 have an ice palace next
winter, and in the ice blocks that will
compose the walls Of the structure all
the flowers and products of Colorado
will be frozen
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MEN are won, not so much by being
blamed, as by being eneompassed with
love.-Channing.
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THE John A. Salzer Seed Co. have re-
Gently purchased the catalogue seed
business of the Northrup. Braslan.
Goodwin Co. of Minneapolis and Chi
cago and have added this 10 their al
ready large business. This gives 10
this wide-awake firm the largest cata-
logue trade in America. The firm is
in magnificent shape to take care of
all seed orders as they are large grow
ers of farm and vegetable seeds, own
their own lands and have recently
added large and commodious seed
store TO their already mammoth build
ing at La Crosse, Wis. If you are in
want of choice seeds. this is the firm
to write to. They mail their new cata-
logue upon receipt of but SC postage.
ToURrsr-ssWhatis the mean Temperature
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4 DELAYED ERRAND.

ELL. of all things,
Jim Carroll, hev
YOU got home at
last -
\ rcd-f faced and
a n CRY woman
stood m the kitciI-
eutlOcI her sleeves
rolled up and her
arms akimbO. y
meek little man
iismOunted from
his hGrs- AZ the
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If the conceit was taken out of some peo-
pie there wouldn't be enough of 'em left TO
hang clothes on. Texas Siftings.
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BERcHAM's PILLS for constipation 10c and
25c. Get the book Cfree) at your druggists
and 60 by 1t. Annual sales 5000, 600 boxes.
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"BRowN's BRONCHIAL TROCHEs" are the
simplest, quiz kest and most effectusl remedy
for Bronchitis, Asthma and Throat Diseases.
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JoSEs-'I didn't know Col Blood
smoked" Brown Did you thinkhe drank
all the timef'-Life.
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The gavel given to Mr.. Reed by the Ham
ilton club, of Chicago, Is made of wood
grown on the estate of Henry Clay. The
end OF the handle is a beautifully carved
ivory eagle, brought from Japan by Mrs.
] Frank Aldrich. Ii is fastened with or
nately wrought brackets and hasps of solid
gold. The head of the gavel has gold and
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-01-02
THOSE KINDLY TALKS

"Have you heard the news? May
Faster has become engaged at last"
what kind of man is hep"
"Oh, he impressed me as one of those
men who can put up with anything"
II wonder how much she had to put
up to get himY'-Brooklyn Life.
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To CLEANSE the svs,.D

He who comes up to his own idea of
greatness must always have had a very low
standard of it in his mind.-Ruskin.
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The Public Awards the Palm to Hale's
Honey of Horehound and Tan for coughs.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute
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PIso's CURE cured me of a Throat and
Lung trouble OF three years standing e.
CADY, Huntington, Ind, Nov. II, 1894.
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one can help loving Blanche" Gertrude
1.-THE rival)-"She can't help it herself. "
Life
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DocToR Ito tow-headed urchinl-"How is
your mother, my little MANI" Tow headed
Urchin-"Shes getting romantic in her
right knee, see. Wasp.
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Farms on the Crop Pan.

If praying machine were invented many
would use it ii it did not take too much time
from business to wind 1t up.-Texas Sift-
inUa
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silver mountings in Louis XIV. design, in
closing plate bearing the following in
scription: Presented to Hon. Thomas
Prackett Reed by the Hamilton club OF
Chicago, 1885 AS too much power leads to
gresham Edmund Foss.
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THE despotism of custom Is on the wane
We are not content to know that things are ;
we ask whether they ought to be-. 5.
Min
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MIsERs mistake gold for good, whereas it
is only means of obtaining it Rochefou-
cauld
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Not Loves warm Glance

She smiled coldly upon her lover,
and his words froze upon his lips. This
was in Boston.-Truth
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THE largest part of the confectionery
trade of the Pacific coast is done by ten
different firms in San Francisco, Sacramen-
to and Los Angeles
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STATE OF ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO, .

FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of f. j. CHENEY
a. Co, doing business in the City of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will bay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use OF Halls
CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December, A. ID.
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sDE man dat amt got muffin ter do" said
Uncle Eben, '"cepin' ter kill time, gin'rally
needs mo- help dan de boss OBJ a factiry''-
Washington Star.