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The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16
nood,e Fills cure indigestion, billousnes'
CURES RHEUMATISM. ETC.
a Recent Discovery That Is Working
Wonders.

wonders
The most prevailing Affections thai
for a century have been engaging the
most scientific skill of the medical
world are rheumatism, neuralgia, ca.
tarrh, asthma, la grippe and their kin
dred ailments. The country is full o.
sufferers from these complaints. AL.
though the most learned experts of tbs
medical profession have labored for
century to produce curative, unit
quite recently no positive results were
erected. To the Swanson Rheumatic
Cure Co., 1879 Dearborn street, Chi,
cago belongs the credit for having
produced the new remedy. 1t is being
extensively advertised under the
trade mark of Five Drops" Tho
trade mark is self-explantory. Five
drons make a dose. The effect is mag
ical In days gone by other alleged
cures have been marketed with the
nromise to take effect in thirty days
or more. Five Drops begins to cure
at once. Immediate relief is felt. In
order to more effectively advertise its
merits the company will for the next
thirty days send out 100000 of their
sample bottles of this positive
cure for rs cents a bottle by mail pre-
paid. Large bottle. 300 doses, 81 (for
thirty DAYS 3 bottles $500 Those suf-
fering should take immediate advant
age of this generous offer and write
them to-day.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16
LENGTH OF A THOUGHT.
Surprising Results of Experiments Made
by Noted British Scientist.

How long does it take a man TO
think? Professor Richet, at the recent
meeting of the British association,
gave the results of his Investigations
into this subject. He found that by
mentally running up the notes OF the
musical scale for one or more octaYeS
and then dividing the total time by
the number of notes thought OF, the
time taken for each note was one
eleventh of a second. There are va
rious ways of arriving at conclusions
as to the amount of time necessary TOT
realizing any physical sensation or
mental impression. If the skin be
touched repeatedly with light blows
from a small hammer person may,
according to Professor Richet, distin-
guish the fact that the blows are sep
arate and not continuous pressure
when they follow one another as fire.
quently as 1000 a second. The small
est intervals of sound can be much
better distinguished with one ear than
with BOTH Thus the separateness OF
the clicks of a revolving toothed wheel
did not exceed sixty to the second, but
using both ears he could not distln-
guish them when they occurred often
er than fifteen times a second.
The sharp sound of the electric
spark of an induction coil was distln-
guished with one ear when the rate
was as high as 500 to the second. Sight
Il in =
tinguishing differences. If a disc hair
white and half black be reyolved, 1t
will appear gray when its revolutions
exceed twenty-four per second. 1t mas
been found that we can hear far more
rapidly than we can count, SO that IL
a clock-clicking movement runs raster
than ten to the second we can count
four clicks, while with twenty to the
second we can only count two OF them.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16
Use for Old Gold.

One of the most sensible ''fads"
among the girls just now is to save m
all their old jewelry, old gold thimbles
which have the tops worn off, gold fob
chains, gold bracelets, and pins. and
even necklaces, and take them to some
fellable JeWeler, who will either melt
them down and make what she wants
out OF them, or else will exchange
tnem, allowing her for the weight of
the gold. One girl made a collection
lof several years of boken bits of jew
eiry and, with some Of her grandmotb-
ers added to them, sold them to her
own JeWeler and now is the hannv
possessor OF beautiful pearl necklace
w she got in exchange. -Harper's
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16
Eggs on Fire Engine.

A good story is told concerning the
members of a fire brigade in a certain
town not far from Hastings. On one
occasion it appears a fire broke out in
the town and rush was naturally
made for the fire engine, which was al
ways kept on the premises of one of the
inhabitants. When the mel attempt
ed to take the engine out, however,
they were met with the exclamation
from the custodian:
Hill We can't take that out. I've got
a hen sitting there and you'll break
her eggs"
Tradition AYERS that the men, seeing
the force of this argument, instantly
withdrew and the fire was put out by
means of pals of water drawn from a
neighboring well.-Pearson's Weekly
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16
Her Crumb of Comic

What are you writing, James?' she
asked, as she critically examined her
bicycle tire.
"A novel of home life. dear replied
her husband.
Never mind she said, soothingly
Il know it's novel to you now, but all
that will wear off in time. Atlanta
Constitution.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16
she Recnn Too Soon.

A girl in Oneonta, this state, broke
off her engagement on the eve OF the
ceremony because she found cigar Ill
the pocket of the bridal suit of her
young man, who had promised her to
give up smoking. Most women are
willing to wait until after the wedding
before going through mans pockets.
New York Press.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16
PATENTS.
List of Patents Issued Last Week to
Northwestern Inventors.


William H. White, Harold, S. d.
Fork for holding ears of corn.
Orlando Grattan, Elkton, S. D. Shoe
for grain drills.
Walter MUNICH, ST Paul, Mimi. Glu-
ing Press.
John T. Morrison, Minneapolis, Mimi.
Water closet repair.
August W. Linton, Minneapolis. MINI.
Machine for kneading dough
Fred r. G. Pitzler, Lester Prairie,
Mimi. Washing machine.
Charles w. Pollock and w. Kurth,
Casselton, n. d. Lace holder and un-
Winder
Lars i. Solem, Minneapolis, Mimi
Brush holder.
Waldemar III. Spaniel, Devils Lake, n.
D. Word register for typewriters.
Melvin, Lothrop & johnson, Patent
Attys, 910 p. p. Bldg, st. Paul, MINI.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16

Blessed be the inventor who succeeds
n perfecting device that will compel a
man to shut UP when he has said enough.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16

The small boy who goes in swimming
On Sunday evidently believes that cleanli-
ness is next TO goodness.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16

Everybody loves a lover-with the pos
sibie exception of the old man and the
log.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16

a mans enemies never kick him when
ne is down; they stand aside and let his
friends do that
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16

Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away.
To Qait tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take MOTTO
BAG, the wonder-w worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, SOC or 81. Cure gGaran'
ICED Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New York
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16

Educate Your Bowels With Cascarcts
Candy Cathartic. Cure consultation forever. 10c.
25c. If G. c. G. fail. druggists refund money.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16

1t is the man who has always been ac-
customed to corn bread and bacon at
home who does the most kicking at
Erst-class hotel.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16

If some men were known by the com.
pany they keep they wouldn't be able
to keep it lcEg.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16

Goes Cough 13aIsam
Is the Oldest and best 1t will break cold quicker
han anything else. 1t is always raliable. Try it.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16

instead of answer
ing the boy, Ruth
ven turned to the
girl and asked:
rs this true ?"
yes, Mr.. Ruth
ven" she replied,
with downcast
head.
He did not make
any comment at
~ ;utoI1ionOpp so
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-16

Star Tobacco is the leading brand Of
the world, because it is the best
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-28
A MORAL QUESTION.
Baskerville Citizen.)

at is shown by the annual report Of
one of the largest mining companies in
Colorado, says the Baltimore Sun, that
since the organization of the company,
the average cost of producing 81 in gold
has been 81 cents"
The gold organs, like the Charleston
News and Courier, from which the
foregoing is taken, really should not
allow such facts to become public
knowledge. The profit of this mining
company is 63 cents on every 23.22
grains of it's product-a profit as large
as many silver mine owners would make
if silver were coined into dollars at the
expense of the United States govern
ment. Now one of the things decided by
the last election was that it was wicked
for a silver mine owner to make profit,
the inference being that he could only
save himself from charge of dishones-
ty by mining ore so refractory that 31lH
grains of 1.-THE number in a dollar
would cost just a gold dollar.
But now comes the Baltimore Sun and
betrays the fact that some gold dollars
cost only 81 cents, and hence of the re-
naming GO cents part is fiat, the creation
of law. Why it should be a moral thing
to give an extra value to gold by fixing
the price of 1922 grains by law at dol
lar, while the mere proposition to do the
same by silver is immoral is one of those
problems that no gold man has yet
worked out for us.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-28
Free Cure For Men.
A MICHIGAN MAN OFFERS TO
SEND HIS DISCOVERY FREE.
Claims to be a Benefactor to Weakened
Mankind.

Claims to be Benefactor to Weakened
Mankind.
There Is always more or less suspicion
attached to anything that is offered free
but sometimes man so overfiows with
generosity that he cannot rest until his
discovery is known to the world, in order
that his fellow men may profit by what
he has discovered. 1t is upon this princi-
pie that resident of Kalamazoo, Mich,
desires to send free to mankind pre-
scription which will cure them of any
form of nervous debility; relieves them of
all the doubt and uncertainty which such
men are peculiarly liable to and restores
the organs to natural size and vigor. As
it costs nothing to try the experiment it
would seem that any man, suffering with
the nervous troubles that usually attack
men who never stopped to realize what
might be the final result, ought to be
deeply interested in a remedy which will
restore them to health, strength and
vigor, without which they continue to
live an existence Of untold misery. AS
the remedy in question was the result Of
many years research as to what combi-
nation would be peculiarly effective in
restoring to men the strength they need,
it would seem that all men suffering with
any form of nervous weakness ought to
write for such remedy at once. "A re-
quest to III. G. Olds, Box 1922, Kala-
mazoo, Michigan, stating that yQu are
not sending for the prescription out Of
idle curiosity, but that you wish to make
use Of the medicine by giving it "a trial,
will be answered promptly and without
evidence as to where information came
from.
The prescription is sent free: and al
though some may wonder how Mr. Odds
can afford to give away his discovery,
there is no doubt about the offer being
genuine. Cut this out and send to Mr..
Odds that he may know how you came to
write him.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-28
LIGHT ON THE HILLS.

Dying, they lifted his curly head,
And he looked to the east, and smiling
said:
Its light on the hills.'
And he went away, in the morning
bright,
With that last, sweet, quivering word OF
Light
On the lips Death kissed to silence
long. ..
SO ends the signing, and so ends the
song.
And 1 think that Death, with his icy
breath,
Was kind to him, and I'm friend with
Death
For that light on the hills!
Back of it-back of it glooms the Night,
Dark and lonely; but all was light
When his lips were laid IN the silence
SO ends the signing, and 50 ends the
song.
If remember his brief, bright years
With the pang at the heart-with the
failing of tears,
There is light on the hills!
But he sleeps beneath, and the lights
above,
And something is lost to the world in
love.
And heaven knows this; but it does no
So ends the signing, and so ends the
song.
''There is light on the hills SO we sing,
so we say,
When God sends His angel to kiss it
away
There is light on the hills!
And we kneel in the darkness and say
that we trust,
When heavens not as dear as our love in
the DUST
AS the love that it reaps-that it keeps
from us long.
So ends the signing, and 50 ends the
song.
FRANK L. STANTON.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-28
A SUCCESSFUL CULTIvATOR.

FRANK L. STANTON.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-28
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA sALvE.

The Best SaIve In the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum
Fever Sores, letter. Chapped Hands
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
tons, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded
Price % cents per box. For sale by all
druggists.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-28
song.

do you think that farming can be
made profitable?"
Yes" replied Senator Sorghum; ''if
it's done right. l farmed for six weeks
last year."
Did you make it pay:"
Il should say 1 did. / raised over three
thousand votes by it,"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-28

"They don't make much fuss about
it." We are speaking Of De Wits Lit
tie Early Risers, the famous little pills
for constipation, biliousness, and all
stomach and lived troubles. They never
grippe. Carolina Drug Company.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-28

Editors, as a rule, are kind-hearted
and liberal. An exchange tells of sub
scriber to certain newspaper who died
and left fourteen years subscription I'M
paid. The editor appeared at the grave
as the lid was being screwed down for
the last time, put in a linen buster,
thermometer, palm leaf fan, and a
receipt for making ice.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-28

Don't nauseate your stomach with teas
and bitter herbs, but regulate your liver
and sick headache by using those famous
little pills known as De Wits Little
Early Risers. Carolina Drug Company.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-28

George, / fear you are marrying me
just because my uncle left me for
tune" No, my precious. I'd marry
you just the same if any other person
had left it to you"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-28

Vim, vigor and victory are the
characteristics of De Wits Little Early
Risers, the famous little pills for con-
stipation, biliousness and all stomach
and liver troubles. Carolina Drug Com
pany.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-01-23

To those who have not read Mr..
Frye's poems / have not conveyed the
music OF his phrasing, or the cleverness
and beauty Of the rythm which falters
not nor fails between the two green
covers of the Substance OF his House."
The Thirteenth Annual Con vention and
exhibit OF the Nebraska State Poultry
association was held in Lincoln on the
10Th, Goth, 2lst and odd instants. The
Growing was as piercing, exultant and
defiant as in the days OF plenty. Score
tary Lyman has been lifelong friend
of the gentle hen and the over weenIng
but handsome rooster and his yearly
gatherings OF the flower of the poultry
has done much to keep alive the courage
OF the farmers whose hens and cows
have provided them with clothing and
fuel for several years. Mr.. Lyman's
constancy to the her OF his choice sets
another example which just at this time
the state needs. The poultrymen have
learned that the dry air and the high
altitude OF Nebraska is especially favor
able to the race of chickens and their
cultivation has been repaid with most
satisfactory results.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-01-23

The Model Restaurant is an excellent
place for family board. 1t is also ex-
cellently situated for persons spending a
day in the city. Ladies while shopping
can find no better place for luncheon.
Meals Ii cents, Sunday dinner % cents.
Tickets 50. $40 South Twelfth. Soup
served from 8 to 10 p. m.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-01-23

The second floor OF the Harris block.
ll3i n street, has been fitted Up for a
dancing hall. The floor has received
the attention OF experts. 1t is Of hard
wood, and the boards are laid parallel
with the length OF the hall. Parties
desiring to reat if can do so at the
Courier Office, in the same block.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-01-23

Sutton & Hollowbush have invented
a cough drop. They call it the S. & H.,
Sutton & Holloubush, and il is a good
one. Stop and get one on your way TO
the theatre. 1t will save you a spasm
Of coughing.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-01-23

Etienne-You look respondent,
Peters. You must have got it hot and
heavy from your wife this morning.
Peters-That's just what l did get.
Etienne-What?
Peters OF her amateur cooking
school biscuits. The Brute.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-01-23
The Prophet.

The Prophet.
Not what he would, but what he must
lac speaks.
Through his cold selfhood the God Spirit
breaks.
CONSTANCY.
This day add thou to yesterdays en-
deavor;
Change-that is death, the God Will
changeth never.
FALSE AND TRUE.
False-a fools building blttressed
'gainst decay;
True-Wisdom planted, noted this for
aye.
DISCIPLINE.
The hardened glebe, break through it
with thy pillow;
In flower and fruit rich shall the harvest
grow.
ETERNITY.
Eternity is near thee-wherefore start!
OF the eternity this now is part.
-EDYLA.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-01-23

This years LehighValley and Scranton
hard coal $40 per ton at Charles Greg
o,y's, 18th and o.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-01-23

uni" students say our Three "Beauts"
are elegant. Lincoln Coal Co, 1905 o.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-01-23

Gregory sells the best crushed coke
for $40 per ton. 18th and o. Phone 343
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-01-23

and muddy. The fret poem which gives
tickle lady who changed her mind
after a summers engagement, with
out explaining the reason TO her
young man. Myself, | think he
was too mourntnl and talked TO her
too much about the weather. the
marsh and the fererish damp AMI fog
that always rested upon it. At first
she enjoyed the distinction OF possessing
a lover who conld translate such dismal
places into poetry, hut after while she
found him depressing. She wanted
to talk party. theatre. gossip, and he
says OF the beaux preferred:
Il know, il ever attain my end,
Ii will be better to have striven for it.
Although die with beggars in ditch.
Than live and love, and make myself
as those
Whom You admire-men OF small,
mean minds
And even smaller, meaner souls."
It's the burden OF the discarded
lovers song since girls began to love
bonbons. dancing and Irritation better
than psychology and literature. Per
haps the red checked hunting squire
who married the Locksley Hall lovers
girl was not half bad fellow after all.
These reflections on the lowness and I'M
worthiness OF the other fellow are hap
PLY universal Happily because they
sweeter rejection at the same time
elevating ones self respect.
The title is thus explained
Lo. have given the substance OF my
house
For love. and it is utterly condemned.
There are the broad bare walls, the
clean swept floors,
The room with all its furniture removed
That made tit for you to occupy
1t rests, a widower that never knew
The shy ard sweet confusion of his
bride.
The sounets are in form and melody
exquisite and the packed meaning draws
the newspaper writer back, again and
again with recurrent charm and hope
less envy.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-01-23
XIV.

RESURRECTION.
They have resurrection
they whose eyes
Have been directed
always to the earth,
Whose faces have been
turned in idle mirth
Away from lofty
thoughts and high emprise.-
Whose souls have been forgot?
and il they rise
Fleshless among the
souls OF greater worth,
How shall they live in
such unwonted dearth,
What shall concern them
when the body dies!
For they are like
dweller in a room,
A poor small room, when he
who sits therein
Blockades his window
to the cheerful sun,
Shuts out the city's
active living din
And makes himself
accustomed to the gloom
One day the house falls;
10! he is undone.
feel sure that the author of
hese poems has never turned
ia face to idle mirth away
rom lofty thought and high emprise
or forgot his soul in mere physical en-
oyment. The priggishness and SELF
opscious holiness OF purpose which
ffenis. is a constant element in the
FORK OF the older and more celebrated
oets. Tennyson is the worst case
now OF and Chaucer and kipling are
dorable because they are men like unto
urselves. When they speak. they are
NJ on a dais but look across the few
,ches developed into the faces OF an
people who yet worship their
roT bets.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-01-23

Wehave the hot stuff Lincoln Coal Co.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-01-23
THE LANSING THEATRE
JOHN DOWDEN,
One Night Only,
Fourth Annual Appearance
1AE hykcohN h\eNN INFANTRY
Ia$1xe11'S Bur1e$Que Circus,
Monday Evening, January rs.

All the discarded features and expensive novelties of a
broken down ree-rng circus will be exhibited as the
greatest aggregation of freaks outside clinic.
HIGH MOON AND LITTLE ALBRIGHT in their Great
Japanese Pole Balancing Act.
MILE STOCKHOLDERS on the High Wire assisted by
the Band.)
The silver lance., 1897-10-08
False Teeth Take Root.

A Russian druggist has at length
solved the problem of supplying us
with false teeth which will grow into
the gums as firmly as natural ones.
The teeth are made of gutta percha,
porcelain, or metal, as the case may
be- At the roots of the tooth holes
are made, and also in the jaw. The
tooth is then placed in the cavity, and
in a short time a soft, granulated
growth finds its way from the jaw in
to the holes of the tooth. This growth
gradually hardens and holds the tooth
in position. 1t does not matter in the
least, according to this enterprising
Russian dentist, whether the cavity in
which the tooth is placed is one from
which natural tooth has recently
been drawn, or whether it has been
healed for months or even years.
The silver lance., 1897-10-08
A Single Objection.

The church was crowded with all the fash
Ion and some of the wit of Saharahurst The
enviable couple stood before the multitude,
being made one, and hemmed in by the
bridesmaids and ushers beyond the posi-
bility of escape. The solemn ceremony pro-
ceeded, interrupted only by the suppressed
ter pronounced the usually perfunctory for
mua, ''if any man can show just cause why
they may not lawfully be Joined together,
let him speak now, else hereafter forever
hold his peace" and was sereney proceed
Ing, when
astonished ears. The voice sharp and
shrill and broken by emotion. but the crack
of doom could not more have startled us.
Every eye was directed toward it. and we
beheld small boy in tears. sailor suit,
and struggling in his mothers arms.
.'Y-yes. sir, please" he shrieked s'she-
she p-promsed to wyatt till grew up and
m marry mer'-Harper's Razar.