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The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30
Patents Issued.

List of Patents Issued Last Week to
Northwestern Inventors.
charles H BiseloW, Litchfeld, MINI.
Adding registe IT. Eyalyn Caldwell, st.
,,.uch. st. Paul, Mimi; Automatic
smoke preventer. Jeremiah g. Hoffken,
Green Isle, Mimi; Mower. David III.
Houston, Hunter, N. D. Extension
stock for firearms. Byron B. Inman,
Duluth, MINI. Ice breaking boat.
William NIanteuffal, ST. Paul, Mimi;
washing machine. William Ill. Meyer,
Alton. Mil H.; Washing machine Fred
arick A. Tourtillotte, Mortified, Mimi. ;;
shaft bearing. Edwin G. Washburn.
Minneapolis, Mimi; Car coupling. Ear
well. Ozmun, Kirk eco. st. Paul, Mimi
Trade-Marl) Cutlery and other cut
ting edge tools Gilt Edge"
Merwin, Lothrop & Johnson, Patent
Attorneys, go, Pioneer Press Building.
st. Paul MINI.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

Potash.-Sandy soils are always de-
ficient in potash. Even if they had this
mineral they have usually so little
vegetable matter that the potash forms
an insoluble compound, by uniting
with the sand. The potash in caustic
ashes dissolve the silicate OF potash,
and also helps itself until it's caustic
properties are lost. But old leached
ashes are often quite as beneficial to
sandy soils as are unleached. They al
ways contain some potash and some
phosphate, which the water used for
teaching would not dissolve But they
also usually contain some ammonia,
taken from the air, and which makes
its potash a nitrate of potash and a
very powerful fertilizer.-Ex.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30
These Queer Americans.

"My deah young lady, l find that l
must weally bwake off our engage
ment. don't you know
whats the trouble now, MarkeyY'
Il was told by a bweastly person
that your father once wan wheel
barrow, don't you know
''Oh, that's all right, Marley. He
only ran it for an election bet."-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30
SIOO To Any Man.
WILL PAY 500 FOR ANY CASE
OF Weakness in Men They Treat and
Fail to Cure,


An Omaha Company places for the first
time before the public q MAGICAL TREAT
MENT for the cure of Lost Vitality, Nervous
and Sexual Weakness, and Restoration of
Life Force in old and young men. No
worn-out French remedy; contains no
Phosphorus or other harmful drugs. It is
a WONDERFUL TREATMENT-magicaI in it's
effects-positive in its cure. All readers,
who are suffering from weakness that
blights their life, causing that mental and
physical suffering peculiar to Lost Man
hood, should write to the STATE MEDICAL
COMPANY, Omaha, Neb., and they will
send you absolutely FREE, valuable
paper on these diseases, and positive proofs
of their truly MAGICAL TREATMENT. Thous-
ands of men, who have lost all hope of a.
cure, are being restored by them to per-
feet condition.
This MAGICAL TREATMENT may be taken
at home under their directions, or they will
pay railroad fare and hotel bills to all who
prefer to go there for treatment, if they
fail to cure. They are perfectly reliable;
have no Free Prescriptions, Free Cure,
Free Sample, or C. O. d. fake. They have
$780, capital, and guarantee to cure
every case they treat orrefund every dollar;
or their charges may be deposited in q
bank to be paid to them when cure Is
effected. Write them today.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30
There Are worse Ones.

81 never saw anything write so badly
as this fountain pen of yours" ex-
claimed Mrs. Dukane. who was trying
to write a letter.
MOP" replied the patient man.
s'Then you ought to try one of the pens
at the public desks at the postoffice."
-Pittsburg Chronicle.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

You will enjoy this publication much
better if you will get into the habit of
reading the advertisements; they will
afford most interesting study and
will put you in the way of getting
some excellent bargains. Our adver-
Users are reliable; they send what they
advertise.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

Descriptive folder containing five maps
of Alaska and routes to the gold fields,
in print. Send four cents in stamps to
Il. I. Whitney, G. p. & I. A. Great North
ern Railway, st. Paul, Mimi. Alaska,
fully illustrated booklet sent for fifteen
cents in stamps. The Great Northern is
over 100 miles the shortest line from
st. Paul and Minneapolis IT. Seattle and
Portland, the Quitting points whence
steamers sail for Alaska.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST To
AGRICULTURIsTs.
Some Up-to-Date Hints About Cultiva-
ton of the Soil and Yields Thereof
horticulture. Viticulture and Flori-
culture.
Grain Moth and It's Destruction.

0 other insect in
Maryland and the
South has done SO
much damage to
stored wheat and
corn as has the lit
tie insect known as
the grain moth. 1t
is also known as
the white fly"
"weevil," IS t a c k
fiv" etc Tn Marv-
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30
They Dome Count.

"How many children have you?"
asked constituent of his congress
man.
"One."
My wife told me that you had
three"
ooh, yes, there's the twins; but they
are paired, you know"
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

The German government, it is under
stood, has decided to rearm the entire
infantry with the new six-millitmeter
rife. said to surpass the weapons OF all
other states.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away.

To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take MOTTO
Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists soc. or 81. Cure guaran-
teed Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or New York.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

Hell have had but one idea since
we met, a few short weeks ago.
She--I must give you credit for great
Ell mentality than | had suspected.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30
Evidently Not wealthy.

80 old Brown is dead, is heW
Eyes; died nearly year ago"
LEFT a lot of money, / supposeY'
ooh. I guess not. No one has tried
TO break his will Chicago Post.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

Where there's a will there's usually a con-
testant.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

The Champlain Cutlery. of Burlington,
Vt, makers of the True Vermonter"
Razors and Knives whose advertisement
appears in this paper are reliable con-
Germ and will gladly send their catalogue
free ON application.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

1t is hard for man to climb up in this
world, but it hurts him much worse to climb
lown again
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

When a woman weeps scalding tears she is
boiling with rage.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

Many a man never gets on the popular sid
until he joins the silent majority.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

The wind has great deal to do with maxim
the weather-yane.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

1t is hard for a man to support a sealskir
wife on muskrat salary.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
If c. c. c. fail to cure, druggists refund money.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AL
Druggists refund the money if fails cure. 25C
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

A divorce court decree is always partin'
injunction.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

Educate Your BoweeJ With Cascarets
Candy Cathartic, cures constipation forever.
Zoe. If G. c. c. fail druggists refund money.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

Goes Coug n 13a1sam
Is the Oldest and best 1t will break cold quicker
than anything else. 1t is always reiiahle. Try it.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

Some. girls get married just to let others
know that they can.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

A man seldom meets another man that
is smarter than himself.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30
All About Alaska.

Honesty may be stamped a mans face
and yet leave q very wide margin.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

Smoke sledge Cigarettes, 20 for cts.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

Time flies. That's one advantage it has over
flying machines.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30

When some men feel blue they get drunk and
paint things red.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-30
Read the Advertisements.

A king in the hand is worth three in tn
pack.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-15
A New Reservoir.

In Pawtucket, r. l., reservoir has
just been constructed, which, accord
cording to casual observation, has been
made to stay. It has depth OF
twelve feet, top diameter OF ninety.
seven feet and bottom diameter OF
ninety-fve feet. The concrete walls
are four feet thick at the bottom and
two feet thick at the top, with an out
side batter of an inch to the foot. Ex-
tending all around the outside of the
walls and imbedded in the concrete
are wrought iron rings. There are
four of these rings, about seven
eighths of an inch in diameter. The
upper one is one foot from the top of
the wall; the others are each one foot
lower than the last. The entire sides
and bottom are of one continuous mass
of concrete, the whole being laid cut
without Joint or seam and of the most
approved material. The concrete is
made of one part Portland cement,
three parts sand and six parts gravel.
Any person at all familiar with the use
of such material need scarcely be told
that this is an exceptionally strong
construction, and one that, barring ac-
cident, will make the reservoir practi'
cally safe for many years to come.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-15

Alaska wonderful stories OF rewards
for men brave enough to run fierce
ride with death from starvation and
cold. He had nothing to lose and oil
to gain. He concluded to face the
dangers. His capital was $40. lie
proposed to risk it all--not very much
to him now, but mighty sight three
years ago. 1t took all but So to get
him to Juneau. He hadtwo big arms,
the physique of giant and the courage
of an explorer. Presenting all these
as his only collaterals, he managed to
squeeze loan of $50 from man who
was afraid to 60 with him, but was
willing to risk little in return for q
promise to pay back the advance at q
fabulous rate OF interest.
Juneau was alive with men three
wears ago who had heard from the In
dians the yarns of gold without limit.
The Indians brought samples of the
rock and sand aud did we'll in trading
them. A party of forty men banded
to 60 back with the Indians. Berry
was one of the forty. Each had an
outft-a years mess of frozen meat
and furs. It was early spring when
this first batch of prospectors started
out over the mountains and the snow
was as deep as the cuts in the sides OF
the hills. The natives packed the
stuff to the top OF the Chilcoot Pass
1t was life and death every day. The
men were left one by one along the
cliffs.
The timid turned back. The whole
outfit of supplies went down in Lake
Bennett. The forty men had dwin-
died to three-Berry and two others.
The others chose to make the return
trip for more food. Berry wanted
gold. He borrowed a chunk of bacon
and pushed on. He reached Forty
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-15
GOLD DUST WITH LOVE.
NUGGETS AND ROMANCE IN THE
PLAcERS OF THE KLoNDlKE.

Clarence j. Berry, Only Recently Poor
Farmer, Now the Barney Barnato Of
the Fields-weLding Trip of Fifteen
Months Was Worth a Million Month.
Clarence J. Berry is the Barney Bar
nato of the Klondike. He took $780,
OoO from the top dirt of one of his
claims IN five months. He kept it all
but S22, 900, which he paid to his min
ers. He did not have to give his
wife even so much as pin money. She
had pan of her own. She would oc-
casionally get time from her sewing
and mending to drop around to the
dump. She sifted out $4,000 or SO
in her spare moments. This was her
amusement in the strangest years
honeymoon that is recorded. The two
started fifteen months ago as bride and
groom. She was the devoted sweet
heart of q poor Fresno farmer. They
have returned to San Francisco with
all kinds of gold dust, nuggets and
coin. They have millions in sight, and
behind the millions is pretty romance.
Berry was fruit raiser in the south
ern part of California. He did not
have any money. There was no par
ticular prospect that he would ever
have any. He saw life of hard plod-
ding for a bare living. There was no
opportunity at home for getting ahead,
and, like other men of the Far West, he
only dreamed of the day when he would
make strike and get his million. This
was three years ago. Therehad then
come down from the frozen lands Of
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-15
A Boys Curiosity.

James Mosher,, aged fourteen, en-
ployed by Tailor Sullivan, ofMeriden,
Conn, walked out on roof. Seeing
"a box on an electric wire pole, he pro-
cured ladder and went up to exam
inc the contrivance. He took hold OF
a wire loaded with 1000 volts and was
about to grasp it with his left hand,
when he felt a burn on the wrist of
that hand and found that he could not
release his hold, with his right.
He. was drawn upward: so that ne
lost his footing, and his weight broke
his hold, He fell ten feet. Mr.. Sui
livan hearing his full hurried to him.
The right hand was burned to the bone
and the left wrist badly scorched.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-15

skirts were very short. Her feet were
in moccasins, aud over her shoulders
was fur robe. The hood was of
bearskin. This all made most heavy
garment, but she hsroically trudged
along with her husband, averaging
about fifteen miles each day. They
reached Forty Mile Creek year ago
in June, three months after they were
married. They called it their we'd
ding trip.
Klondike was still a good way of,
and it was thought at first that the
claims closer at hand would pay. One
day miner came tearing into the set
tlement with most wonderful tales of
the region further on. His descrip-
tions were like fairy tales from "Arab-
ian Nights accounts fitting actually
the scenes in spectacular plays, where
the nymph or queen of fairy land bids
her slaves to pick up chunks of gold
as big as the crown OF q hat. Berry
told the tale to his wife. She said she
would stay at the post while he went
to the front. There was no rest in
the camp that night Men were rush
ing pell mell, bent on nothing but get
ting first into the valley of the Klon-
dixie and establishing claims. Mrs.
Berry worked with her husband with
might and main, anil before daylight
he was on the road over the pass.
There were fifty long miles between
him and fortune, snd he worked with
out sleep OF rest to beat the great
field which started with him. He
made the track in two days. He was
among the first in. He staked claim
forty, above the Discovery, which
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-15

U -tlS S1Ge ssslIt.-2
at the best hotel on the coast. They
have leaped from poverty to wealth In
a single twelve months.
Mr.. Berry is going to leave in few
days with his wife to see the farm
where he used to raise plums and
peaches. He is going to buy the place,
Just for memory's sake. Mrs. Berry
wants it. She will live there the rest
of her life. The pin money she panned
out-s1O, OOO-is to go for a new house.
She has had enough Of the Klonkike.
Her new king and the new gold king
of the coast will go back in the spring.
There is no chance that his property
will be jumped or robbed. He has
left it in trusted hands. Berry talks
in immense figures. 1t is possible to
deduct half as tribute to blinded en-
thusiasm, and he will then have enough
to rate him among the very richest
men of the world.
Berry gives all the credit of his for
tune to his young wife. It was posi-
BILE for her to have kept him at home
after the first trip. She told him to
return-and she returned with him.
Il was an exhibition of rare courage,
but rare courage rarely fails. The
wedding trip lasted fifteen months
Berry says it was worth 81, 1000, 600 q
month. This estimate is one meas
ured in cold cash--not Sentiment.-
Chicago Times-Herald.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-15
Incident of Travel Abroad.

Chauncey M. Depew tells this char.
acteristic incident of the difference OF
travel on railroads in Europe and
America: SIT was st the station OF
Bingen on the Rhine. / said to the
station master, why is your. train a
half hour late?' The station master
said, Il don't know We'll, said
to him, Il am the President OF the
New York Central Railroad, and If
you were station master at Peeksklil,
on our line, would discharge you i'll
twenty minutes if you did not know
why the train was half hour late;
'vell,' said the station master, i dell
you vat is de matter NIT your railroad
men over dere; you are always going
chook, chook, chook; over, here We let
dings take care of demselves and We
live forever. >"
But Mr.. Depew adds that, so far as
the handling of trains, safety and
speed are concerned, the American
railways are far superior to those OF
Europe.-New York Herald.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-15
Johnson's Chill and Fe.
yer Tonic is a 0NE-DAY
Cure. ii cures the most
stubborn case of Fever ia
"a Hours.

ireland of prehistoric times was the
gold country of Europe. In no other
country, at any rate, has so much
manufactured gold of early ages been
found. not less than four hundred
specimens of Irish gold antiques be-
ing contained in the museum OF the
Royal Irish Academy alone, while the
British Museum gold antiques. Illus;
trative of British history, are entirely
Irish. Trinity College, Dublin, has
many fine examples, and there are.
large private collections. Native gold
occurs in seven localities in Ireland,
and the ancient miners may nave hao
sources of supply that are now worked
out or lost.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-15
Ionr.plstance Electricity.

1t is proposed to deliver electr'-. al
energy equivalent to 40O0-horse power
in the car house at Los Angeles, CAL,
from Santa Ana, O distance Of eighty
miles, under pressure Of 80, 900 volts.
The power station is in Santa Ana
CANYON, twelve miles from Redlands.
The current will be generated at 1000
volts and transformed up to 80, 600.
The Santa Ana River furnishes the
power. The water is to be directed
from the stream by a canal fume and
tunnel work along the side of the can
yon to r point where suddenly it falls
through 22O0 feet of pipe distance OF
75O feet to the water wheels.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-15
SfIbbOT1i caSe Of Fever IA
SkuOOO IN ~
n Hours.
Mining With Frost in Siberia.

In mining for gold in Siberia the
ground is kept clee- OF snow, 30 as to s
permit the cold to penetrate as deeply
as possible, after which the surface Is
thawed by fires until q shallow layer
of earth can be removed. The freez-.
ing is then allowed to proceed and the
thawing operations repeated, and this
is continued as long as the cold wealth
er lasts. In this way through the
long Siberian winters open e1caya-
tions are made to the gold-bearing
rocks, the depths obtained being from
twenty-five to seventy-fve feet, ac-
cording to the duration of the cold
season.
Artificial cold for the purposes Of
excavation was first used by Poetsch
in 1883. By his well-known process
of cold brine through series Of buried
pipes the most difficult quicksand may
be made hard enough to be excavated
like rock. In the article under con-
sideration are given general illustra-
tions and details of the apparatus used
III S1uhluR buc ouo1eo 6p oAaO So'eA-s
rieres mines, together with formulas
enabling the safe thickness OF the
frozen wall to be computed for round
or square shafts of any given d'men-s
sions.
Among the important applications
of the freezing process are noted the
sinking of the shafts for the cylinders
of the hydraulic elevator for the canal
lift at Les. Fontinettes, and the con-
struction of the tunnel at Stockholm.
The latter work was executed entirely
by the introduction Of cold air into
the working chamber at the hesd OF
the tunnel, the cold preventing mil
tration of water until the beton lining
was built and the work Of excavating
and mining being carried on at tenn
peratures ranging between zero and
25 degrees Fahrenheit. Engineering
Magazine,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-15
IF THEY BUT COULD.

How often we hear discontented ones talk
OF grand opportunities lost,
And how by the waves of condemnable
luck
They've over been ruthlessly tossed.
THEY'LL tell in sort Of disconsolate way
Oflaboring always IN vain,
And how they would handle the contract if
they
Could live their lives over again.
The man who has failed in his business af-
fairs,
The prisoner locked in his cell,
The welded ones battling with family
cares.
All have the same story to tell.
Wherever we 90 that disconsolate cry
Wehear In ritiful strain:
ssYou'd see matters different with me if
Could live my life over again."
We should never weep over milk that is
spilled,
But hustle around forsome more.
We cannot recall opportunities killed,
Nor chances blown off from our shore.
This word of advice is tho best we can
give:
Don't over the past sit and brood,
But tackle the future determined to live
The balance Of life as you should.
Denver Post.