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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-09-17

son assured him that il was all right,
and then the legal gentleman asked him
to certify that this was so on the back
of the card in the presence of the Man
chester lawyer. who said he had been
acting for the Kildominie family re-
Gently, and he wanted to be perfectly
certain of JObnson's signature. When
johnson had written on the card that
the legal gentleman required and signed
il. the legal gentleman said he would
take the card over to Somerset house
and have il stamped so that there would
be no question TO debate if anything
happened TO Patrick Kildomi6ie. These
extraordinary precautions rather
alarmed johnson, who asked some ques-
tons about the man insured. and was
told that he was In excellent health al
present, because, as Johnson pointed
out 10 the lawyer, if Kidominie proved
TO be a sickly man liable to drop off at
any moment, no money could be collect
ed for a natural death.
"Oh, / quite understand that" said
the lawyer. I'VE are all OF US likely to
drop of, some unexpectedly and some
- - n.y. 1LA WEN Ahoh AAN q
took his leave and went, il is supposed,
to Somerset house to have the card
stamped.
About week later, when johnson was
coming 10 town his eye caught an item
in the paper that for a moment par
alyzed him. 1T was headed Execution
at Manchester" and went On to say that
Patrick Kildominie had been hanged
the morning before in Manchester Jail,
for the murder of a fellow-workman
on the ship canal. Reporters. added
the paper, were not present, but IL was
understood that everything had gone
of without a hitch.
JohnsOn's fears were only too well
founded. The widow from Manchester
and the legal gentleman who had de-
Tended Patrick Kildominie during the
trial came down like wolves on the fold
with legally stamped document, and
collected all that poor johnson owned.
This is why Johnson's Weekly did
not come GU last week. 70 the great
disappointment of its numerous read
ers.-Detroit Free Press
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WOULD HURT INSTEAD OF HELP.
How Free Coinage Would Injure the
Farmers

The chief strength of the sixteen TO
one agitation lies in the belief that it
would benefit the agricultural classes.
This is a serious error. The facts of
all human experience show conclusive
ly that free silver would cause wide
spread and prolonged injury to the
farmers of this country.
The mere threat of free coinage would
greatly injure the farmers by causing
an immediate calling in of all loans
through the natural desire Of lenders 10
get back money worth as much as they
lent. Hundreds of thousands of farmers
would be unable to pay their mort
cages, and their farms would be sold at
a sacrifice. No new loans would be
forthcoming, as the owners of capital
would not invest so long as there was
any danger that by change in the
money standard the value of loans
would be cut in two. As the chief COM
plant of the farmers now is that inter
est is too high and capital too scarce,
the effect of policy which would make
capital scarcer and dearer can be
figured out by each farmer for himself.
A second way in which free coinage
would hurt agriculture would be by the
financial panic which would inevitably
follow the overthrow of our present
sound financial system and the adoption
of the unstable cheap silver standard.
With the millions of bank depositors
demanding their savings, the machinery
of credits, by which so large a part OF
the country's business is done, would be
suddenly stopped. Merchants would be
unable to buy goods for lack of credit;
manufacturing industries would be
closed down, as in 1893, and millions
of workers would be idle. Men out OF
employment do not buy as much farm
products as when they are at work, and
the farmers who now complain of the
lack of markets for their produce would
find themselves with large part of
their crops unsold. Would not this be a
serious injury to agriculture?
Another evil which free coinage would
bring to American farmers would be
the unsettlement of their trade rela-
tons with the great gold standard CON-
mercial nations, which purchase each
year S600,000,000 worth of our surplus
farm products. The adoption of the sill
yer standard, with its constantly fluctu-
ating scale of prices, would prove the
same barrier to commerce between this
and other countries that it has to trade
between gold standard Europe and In
dia, China and Japan. Do the farmers
want to curtail and unsettle our foreign
trade?
These are some of the ways in which
free coinage at sixteen to one would
hurt the farmers. No advocate of So
cent dollars has ever been able TO show
a single way in which it would help
them.
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LONGING.

There's a coy little cottage n the country.
far away
From the city where the waves OF COM
rnerce swell
And the hoIIyhocks ara blooming IN the
garden all the Gay.
While the sIniow'rs stand on guard
around the well
can see within the doorway OF that cc-y
little cot.
A neat figure that the morning-gIorie
frame.
And she shades her eyes and Eazes down
the highway white and hot.
While her lips have shaped themselves 70
breathe my name
All her eyes are dim with weeping and her
cheek are moist with tears,
And he glossy raven locks are fecked
witt snow.
And the lines upon her forehead are the
footprints OF the years
That have vanished since We parted long
ago
And I'm ionging-oht I'm longing-for my
mothers kindly face.
With a homesick feeling tongue can never
tell.
For the sweet oic-fashioned hollyhocks
that bloom about ne place.
And the sunfiow rs standtng guard around
the we'll
s. Q Lapius. in Ohio Farmer
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DAIRY SUGGESTIONS.

Keep no more cows than can be fed
and handled profitably.
Sweet cream poured into that which
is sour does not all churn.
A COW in poor condition is sure to
give poor, thin, inferior milk.
If cows attention is attracted, she
Immediately let's down her milk.
So far as is possible discard all COWS
that develop Objectionable habits natu-
rally.
The real test of COW is her perform
ance after the first three or four
months in milk.
If milk is to be used for butter or
cream, deep setting and speedy sepa-
ration give the best results.
A heifer is valuable in proportion to
the smallness of the feed required by
her to make pound of butter.
There are three general faults in but
ter-making, overripening of cream,
overchurning and overworlxing.
A good quantity of good, rich milk
for ten months in the year is what
every dairyman should have from every
COW in the herd
BY selling giltedged butter dairy
man is not impoverishing his farm.
He is selling his crops to his cows at a
profit, and returning the manurial ele-
ments to the farm, which becomes
more productive every year.-Rural
World.
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ELECTRICITY FROM GOAL.
A Process which May Revoiutisnis
Methods of Generating Power.

Process which May Revolutisniss
Methods of Generating Power.
~when we remember" said q we'll
known citizen to Washington Star re-
porter, shat the finest triple-expansion
only obtains about IL per cent. of theo-
retical efficiency in burning her coal.
and that our ordinary steam engine
does not get over six or seven per cent.
therefrom, we cannot overestimate the
recent discovery of process for gem
Grating the electric current direct from
coal, or coke, and from the process. ID
is claimed by it's inventor. 81 per cent.
of the theoretical efficiency of the coal
used has been obtained. Further, IL is
claimed that the cost will be from one
fifth to one-tenth of the present ex.
pense. The process seems simple
enough, for we take quantity of coke,
reduce IL to powder, and make 1t into
big. round sticks of carbon, that then
look good deal like giant firecrackers.
or the sticks of carbon for an electric
arc light, though very much enlarged.
This stick carbon Is suspended in a CYL
lyte of melted caustic soda. And
when current of air. introduced by a
small tube. is driven through this solu-
ton, electrical action is set up, pro-
ducing O current of extraordinary vol
ume.
To gain the necessary voltage, or
electric pressure, 100 or more of these
iron pots may be put together and their
rims connected by wire. The whole
plant, or, IL may be called battery.
must be inclosed in an oven. TO keep the
solution up to a uniform temperature
of about 400 degrees Centigrade.
"A pump to drive the air through the
solution is all the machinery that is re-
quired. No boilers, no engine, no
dynamo, no ashes, no water. no endless
quantity of supplies are needed.
"The annual expenditure for steam
power in the United States is estimated
at about $3.50, 0oo, o00-an equivalent. IL
Is said. of all the annual cost of our gen.
eral government, including all improve
ments and expenditures on public
works. The new process will reduce
this expenditure for power to less than
s1oo,oo0,ooo. Then. again. there are
over 81, 100, 10000 invested in steam en-
gines alone in the United States: the
first cost of the new process would be
one-fourth of their present value, and
thereafter they can be run for one-ffth
of their present expense. So, IL is
claimed by the inventor. that upward
of three-fourths of billion of dollars
will be saved in the first cost alone
'The expense of maintenance, or,
rather, Of attending the process, it is as
serted, will be very small. The carbon
cylinder will last $50 hours. OF even
more; the inclosing oven has a self
feeding attachment, and the attention
required will be no more than an ordi-
nary small steam-hesting house ar
ran NJ -
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ADVICE FOR HUNTERS.
The Best Way of Training a Dog for
shooting.

smoothing
Never be too familiar with a young
dog. He must have a certain respect,
not necessarily a fear of you; but he
must learn to obev. Any intelligent
puppy will learn his name in few les
sons. Once you have given it to him
never change it. Mind you this-when
he has once recognized you as being his
master, his one idea is TO please you
and to deserve a pat on the head and
word of praise. Never tussel with him
with a stick, and never deceive him un-
der any pretense. More dogs have been
spoiled by their masters not playing
fair with them than one could reckon.
Be honest with your dog, and he will be
honest with you.
IL You possess gun, and your dog is
of that kind which has inherited the
scent for game, the first thing to teach
him is to fetch and carry-thr' Is. to re-
trieve-and mis- without oh. wing or
mutilating the object which he brings.
A way to break dog of this is 10 take
an old glove. put few tacks with the
points extending Inward, and fill II full
of cotton. He will find that by picking
it up gently he can carry il without dis
comfort, while If he attempts to worry
il, the consequences are not agreeable.
This lesson is much better for him than
any amount of whipping, ard he will re-
member it much longer.
IL you wish to shoot over your dog,
the next thing is TO make him find the
bird. To do this. the best way is to
procure live quail. which can easily be
had from any bird-fancier; put IT in
small cage and show IT TO the pup, warn
ing him not to touch Il. Then conceal
the cage in a cOpse of fern or grass.
and bring him carefully in that direc-
ton. Never let him neaI er than within
four or five feet of it; then speak to him
encouragingly. Under the influence of
your words he will become all attention,
and dog thus properly broken will
never flush a covey." unless he runs
into them by accident or when he is
carried away by excitement. under
which circumstances he will show con-
trition.-Harper's Round Table.
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OPEN YOUR EYES.
Go to the City and Get Rid of Conceit
and Preiudfce

Go to the City and Get Rid of Conceit
and Prejudice.
The farmer who never leaves his farm
except when he goes to the cheese fac
tory, creamery, post Office, grocery or
to church, is usually the most con-
ceited and egotistical of all men; knows
the least about his business, makes the
poorest dairy product, and grows the
poorest and lightest crops. If he will
once go to the city and note the arrival
of his butter or fruit, compare it with
other arrivals. and note the comments
thereon, he will go home with better
knowledge OF his needs. The best and
most profitable lesson l ever learned.
says a prominent writer in Farmers
Home journal. was on such trip, and
the conceit and self-esteem / disposed
of on that occasion would have filled a
volume. Go some day and see for your
self You will come home vastly wiser
and with a determination to discard
prejudice and make butter. As much
loss comes from using inferior pack
ages and poor products, ship only the
best goods, and in the most attractive
and neatest packages. You will find
that small packages. if neat and at
tractive sell for the best prices; there
is no room for poor goods of any kind.
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IFrE9n
Money value OF 600 pounds in 1896 at 1901. so
per pound. $780,

Money value OF 600 pounds in 1896 at sO.O7. 50
per pound. sS9.l
value of a bale of cotton shrank from
$4,000 in 1865 to $94, difference OF
S322.oO. while the country had free coin
age of silver at sixteen to one. Since
that time the fall In price has been much
less, having been only from $94 in 1879
to $50 in 1896 at the present quotations
or $50 cents per pound.
The history of cotton prices shows,
therefore, that under free silver the
price of bale of cotton declined 1922 90,
or 64.5S cents per pound, in eight years.
Under our present financial system the
price has only fallen $50 per bale. or IL
cents per pound, in % years. In face of
these official figures how can any intel
ligent man pretend that it was the
change in our currency laws in 1873
which has reduced the money value of
cotton?
The advocates of free silver hay at
tempt TO answer this exposure of their
low price for cotton argument by show
Ing that there was great increase in
the cotton crop between 1865 and 1873
This is true, but there has also been a
far greater quantity of cotton produced
every year since 1873 than ever before,
the crop of 1892 reaching 9.035,379 bales
as compared with 3,93O,5Os bales in
1878, the largest crop during the period
from 1865 to 1873, so that If increased
production caused the great decline in
price in one case il is surely fair to
credit it, and not the stoppage of free
silver coinage, with the lower prices of
the past % years.
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The News Condensed.

lie NllG Vi nOlildS ltOiSidSs VI
waukee, eloped with John Arnett, leav-
ing three small children. The clippers
were caught in Chicago.
Judge George S. Rogers, of Superior,
was found dead in his bathtub in his
home. 1t is believed that he was stricken
with heart disease. He leaves a widow,
three daughters and two sons.
The body of Miss Nellie Sullivan, aged
IS, was brought to Racine from Wausau,
where she had committed suicide by
shooting herself through the head with
a revolver. No cause can be assigned.
John Thoreson died at the hospital in
Eau Claire. His death was the fourth
resulting from the collapse of the music
hall August II. He leaves a family.
The Sunday schools of Juneau county
and the neighboring towns of the adj
joining counties held rally at Elroy to
organize all the Sunday schools of Ju-
neau county into a union.
The acting secretary of the treasury
has accepted the bid of Adam II. Har-
Gus. of Racine, for the erection of the
United States post office and custom
house in that city. The contract price
is S44,447.
Fred w. Burke and A. y. Donaldson,
of Milwaukee, have made novel cleo
ton agreement. In case Bryan IS elect
ed Burke will leave the country forever;
in case Mckinley is chosen Donaldson
will go.
The badly decomposed remains of
a man were found at the Clough Island
summer resort in st. Louis river. 1t
was impossible to secure Identification.
Peter Mccarthy, who recently ce''-
brated his Tooth birthday. died at his
home in Milwaukee.
Fire in Washburn's general store at
Sturgeon Bay caused a loss of $4,000
or $4,000.
All the mills al Msrshfie'iNvere closed
in honor of Labor day. Gov. Upham was
present.
One thousand men were in line at
Kenosha on Labor dag and three pic
mics were held, but no speeches were
made.
The Badger Wheelmen's road race In
Milwaukee was won by w. L. Kassuba.
of that city. in 80: 80 and the time prize
was captured by Herman Lock. OF
Lyons, in 30:07. The course was IL
miles.
The six-year-old son of Lombard En-
gelskircher was drowned in the river at
WATERFOWL.
The funeral OF John C. Leidell. pic
neer resident of Milwaukee, was about
TO take place when his wife. Juliane.
aged II. expired. The funeral was de-
layed, and husband and wife were
buried together.
Labor day was observed for the first
time in the history of Barsboo. There
was a German picnic DEVILS lake.
George ]. Whitaker in a swimming
match at Milwaukee lowered the 100.
yard record of 1:09A, held by Kinney,
10 1909 fiat. He swan In the river.
Delegations from Duluth. Superior.
washburn and Bayfield, joined in the
Labor day celebration at Ashland.
Nearly 10000 acres of potatoes are
growing in Wsushara county this sea-
son.
Joseph P. Schubert, n Milwaukee real !
estate dealer, made Voluntary assign-
mert. Close times aid the inability 10
re.lize on securities is given as the
cause
A Northern Pacific train struck and |
instantly killed s. II. Talbot. of Har- |
ford Mills. " T.. thrse miles below
South Superior.
The town Of Oasis rs decided to vote
aid to the Marshf I'd 4 Southeastern
Railrcsd company and win bond for
ss.5oa.
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ASHAMED OF HIS eLuNDEP.
Zeal of n Hound Led Him Into a Morti-
flying Mistake.


Up among the green hills of Vermont
two country ball mines were contending
for supremacy one hot afternoon in an
old pasture. Among the assembled
spectators was sad-faced, lop-eared
"houn' dog" which had previously
been investigating the contents of a
woodchuck hole. He had worked his
passage in, says Forest and Stream, I'M
til no dog was visible, but a steady
stream of dirt shooting out like the
blast from the blowpipe of a sawmill
proclaimed that the investigation was
still On. Becoming tired of this. the
hound was sitting down watching the
home team getting "dope up" when
suddenly. without warning, he shot
ocross the field with a trajectory as fat
as 32:4o and with nearly the same
velocity. The cause was soon appar-
emit Several little girls were coming
up through a hollow and one was Just
tall enough for her brown hat to show
through the fringe of grass on the ris-
ing ground in front. When the hound
came near enough for the supposed
woodchuck 10 merge into a hat with a
girl under II he stopped an instant with
q look of Mortified surprise. A yell
arose from the assembled farmers who
had seen the incident, and this so NOR
titled the hound that he made straight
for home and was invisible for several
days.
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BACTERIA THAT MAKE GOOD
BUTTER.

use in the artificial flavor of butter.
Added to fresh cream, these microscopic
organisms multiply in incalculable
numbers, and give to the substance the
peculiar taste quality that is desired by
people who eat butter. In Denmark
dairying is conducted on scientific prin-
ciples, and in that country bacterial
cultures have come into general use in
the creameries. Already such cultures
have been placed on the market in the
United States, and small quantities of
them are obtainable by farmers, put up
in bottles and Theoretically sealed.
Among them perhaps the best-known
Is Prof. Conn's culture of Bacillus No.
Al" the original germs for which were
obtained by that scientist from jar
of preserved cream from South Amer
lea, sent to the worlds fair at Chicago.
The notion that Philadelphia butter
may be made to order out of any sort
of cream merely by the addition of a
few microbes of a particular species
seems surprising; yet it is fact. 1t
used to be imagined that the pure aro-
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WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS.
New York Boasts the Site of an Old In
dian Village.

Rev York Boasts the Site of an Old In
dian village.
In a sel6om-frequented and isolated
spot within the limits of New York
city Is the site of what was once an
Indian village of considerable size. Be
tween Spuyten Duyvil creek, about n
quarter of mile south of the northern
end of Manhattan island, and the hills
that mark the bank of the Hudson there
Is a comparatively level semi-circular
space of 20 or 30 acres. Here stood the
Indian village. The hills were pro-
lection from the weather and at times
from enemies, and the strong tide which
runs swiftly In and out of Spuyten
Duyvil creek is treacherous and afford
ed protection against the approaches
of any but those well skilled in hand
ling a boat. A mound was found here
some years ago that extended over
three acres, and 1t consisted largely Of
millions of oyster shells, evidently the
debris of village. Among these shells
have been found bits of rude broken
Indian pottery and arrow heads, and
in the caves of the hills back of It were
found excellent specimens of Indian
pottery. In Bryant's history the story
of Henry Hudson's voyage in the Half
Moon up the Hudson in 1909 is told,
and IL states that. on his return down
the river, Hudson was attacked by
about 100 Indians who came out of
Spuyten Duyvil creek and were finally
beaten back. Presumably they came
from the village whose site is now
marked by the old mound
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


Margaret Heating. the girl who had
been missing a week. and who, letter
tothe police signed ~ HardUp Tramp
said had been murdered and thrown in
the lake near Neenah. was found by her
brother at the Windsor hotel in Fond
takeI. home and since has been in a
hysf srieal condition. unable to give any
account of her whereabouts or dOings
She is known 10 have had $40 with her
when leaving home, but when found
had neither pocl-etbooi nor money. She
has 40 bruises or other evidence of vio-
lence on her person, but she suffers
from nausea and shows other signs of
having been drugged
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A PREHISTORIC HORSE.
Fossil Remains That Are Found In the
Rockies.


Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn. of the
American Museum of Natural History,
in the Century describes the remark
bic fossil remains that are found near
Bridgcr Lake. in the Rockies. He saysI
II we leave the lake shore, and pass
into the drier upland, we discover the
clever little four-toed horse. swift, alert,
intelligent. He is, TO use the modern
measure. only four hands, or 16 inches,
high, so he would not reach the knee of
the Uintathere, and could be deyoured
at one sitting by the Patriofelis. His
limbs are as slender es pencils. His
large eyes are much farther forward
than IN the horse. He could readily
hide among the taller stalks, and IL is
possible that he had the beginning OF
protective stripes initiating reed shad-
ows upon his neck and name. In his
hair aud colorfng, however, we pass into
pure conjecture. His well-worn chisel-
shaped front teeth indicate that he was
already a cropper or browser. and the
evident secret Of his triumphant per
sistence over his ponderous contem-
poraries is that he learned to browse
Just about the time that grasses began
to appear. He was the animal of the
times.