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The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1898-03-06

While the bubonio plague seems to DO
spreading in India and threatens almost
to equal in fatality the epidemic of d
year ago, the Eronch physicians in AL
geria have discovered disease i'll Africa
which, if the meager reports which
have been received prove true, is none
the loss fatal. 1t is mysterious disease,
and no satisfactory diagnosis has yet
been made OF it. it first shows itself by
tho patient having an inordiuate desire
to sleep. Its symptoms resemble those
manifested in laudanun poisoning II
the patient be not at once aroused. he
soon falls into stupor, which Is sao-
ceaded by death. From its symptoms it
has been called by the correspondents Of
French medical journals in Algeria
Ia maladio du sommeil" (the disease
o. Sleep Europeans arc not sR9cq sle
to IL, Arabs ogly slightlEsgssFr Negro
falls a ready victfls.lg6 doctors of The
University Of C6imbe have a theory
that tho disease is microbio. With some
baeilli in serum obtained from the blood
Of a young negro who bad died from The
disease they inoculated half dozen
rabbits The little animals became
drow 81 and soon died, betraying ali the
symptoms Of the disease.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1898-03-06

be reduced by IS per annum for every
So Of private incoiHein excess of $40 per
annum which the pensioner possesses.
In Victoria the law is similar, but the
age limit is placed at CO. In each coll
ony the number OF citizens entitled to
these pensions is about 10000.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1898-03-06
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
Interesting Topics That Engross the At
tention of Europe.

Interesting Topics That Engross the At
tention Of Enrope.
According TO a recent report made by
H. Bleuler, the commissioner of eduea-
tion in Switzerland, there are now GA
young women taking courses in Swiss
universities. Geneva has 33l female
students, Zurich 1865, Lausanne and
Bern each 60, Bale 9, while the uni
versities Of Neufchatel and Freiburg
have mono.
While France is consolidating her
self on the increase OF her population
over her death rate--a condition shown
by the last census that had not been
equaled for many years. Belgium has
come ont with most remarkable figures
concerning her population. The last na-
tional census in Belgium was completed
in May, 1897 and its figures have re.
Gently been made public. Within the
last 30 years the population Of Belgium
has doubled itself. rising from 8, 000, (
GOO to 6, 100000. But the records Of
the larger cities make a still more in
terestng showing. Antwerp in a cen
fury has risen from SO, 900 to 257, 009,
an increase of 3S3 per cont. Liege has
advanced from $4,000 to 100, GOO;
Ghent from IS, 600 to 1856, 600; Brus.
sells, from GO, 600 to $4,000
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-04-21
THANKS FROM THE WIDOW.
Seth BulIOck's Strange Experience
with IL Woman Whose Husband
He Had Hanged.

Ex-Sheriff Seth Bullock, of Lawrence
county, one of the early Indian fighters
of Montana and the Dakotas, was in a
reminiscent mood the other day, and
among other things he told how he was
thanked for hanging man once. A
murder was committed just after he
had been elected sheriff, and as no muir
derer had ever been brought to justice
up tc that time in the territory, Bull
lock became famous for having cap
tured the first two men charged with
such crime. Said Mr.. Bullock:
Il rounded up white man and
negro who had red hair and a bad rep
utation. The negro was barber from
Sioux City, and he came 20 Montana
hunting trouble. / had the county so
well organized at that time that the
courts had a chance to try these men.
They were convicted and sentenced to
be hanged. Taking life by order of the
court was a novelty in Helena, and the
people gathered by thousands to see
the hanging. Shortly before the hour
set for the execution the marshal
brought me an order from the court
granting a stay. of execution for so
days in the case of the negro. l saw
that the crowd would probably be dis
appointed ana might take exceptions
to the order of the court, and | swore
in lot of deputies to stand off the
trouble | expected. One of my depu-
ties on that occasion was Sam Hauser,
VINO was afterward elected governor of
Montana. The white man was duly
hanged, and when the crowd saw that
man hanged on a scatfold was just
as dead as one lynched on a tree they
demanded the negro. [ had erected a
high board fence around the Jail and
placed my deputies on the inside, and
when the crowd began to scale the
fence they were met by the deputies
with clubs. There was a hot time for
several minutes, but when the leaders
had been dubbed into dociIity they con-
cluded to let me hang the negro in my
own way. There was not shot fired,
and 80 days later the negro followed
his white companion on the gallows.
Some time later / had business in
Minneapolis. a good-looking, we'll
dressed colored woman called on me at
the hotel.
BE you Seth BulloclS?' she inquired
l told her was. You hanged my hus-
band last year and want to thank YOU
She had been married to the man in
Sioux City and he had treated her bru-
tally"
The Montana bad men of the carly
days knew something of Seth Bullock.
In 1878 he was made chairman of the
vigilance committee at Helena, This
committees trademark was "3-7-77,"
and when those numbers were chalked
upon fences and sidewalks the mem
bers got together for action, but dur
ing his administration not man was
hanged or llilled-N. Y. Sun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-04-21
FARM AND GARDEN.
GRATING THE GRAPE.
II should He Done just as the buds
Begin to Push In Stock in
the Spring.

Provide sharp hand-saw. pruning
knife, or strong poeketknife, mallet,
two-inch chisel, a half-inch cold
,hisel, or strong, blunt half-ineh
chisel, spade, strong. well-ripened
three or four-eye cuttings of last sea
sons growth of the varieties to be
grated, and fiat basket or berry-pick-
er's carrying case, in which to carry the
small tools and cuttings.
With the spade, clear away the soil
around the collar of the vine, two or
three inches below the surface. Saw
off the vine horizontally about one
inch below the surface. With the knife,
or the board chisel, if sharp, pare away
the rough surface left by the saw; then
with the broad chisel, hit with the mall
let, split the stock in the center. and
where it will split down the straightest,
until the chisel has entered an inch or
thereabouts. With the knife, cut the
lower end of the cutting TO uniform
ly tapering wedge, to match the taper
of the cleft when opened with the
chisel, leaving bud at the base of the
wedge, and that side of the wedge
slightly thicker than the other. Insert
the wedge of the cutting into the cleft
SO that the bud will stand on level
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-04-21
HIS TERRIBLE SUSPICION.
II Spreads "a Thick Smear of Opaque
Gloom Over His Correct
Young Life.

Reginald Ashcroft was the son of rich buS
refined parents, and yet he was not happy
There was a panied expression upon his
handsome countenance, and ever and anon
he walked to the window and looked out
over the beautiful prospect that stretched
away toward Wilton manor.
At last he mounted his favOrlte cob, which
had for two hours been hitched in front of
the stately old mansion, and dashed down
the broad highway.
Upon reaching Wilton manor the young
man dismounted and rushed in.
Geraldine Huddlethwate, who had seen
his coming, met him at the door.
There was a fond claspng of hands, a long,
long look that was more eloquent than
words could have been, and then the hand
some pair entered the drawing
Something troubles you, Reginald, the
beautiful girl said at last, "Ah, do not try
to keep it from me. My love tells me that
you are in trouble Tell me all, sweetheart,
and let me share your burden"
Dearest little one. he answered, as her
fair head was pressed against his breast,
Il suppose | have done wrong TO come here
and cast my gloom over you. But | knew
you would worry if | stayed away. Forget
that | am not myself to-day. am unwilling
that you should suffer simply because |
must"
Reginald" she cried, drawing away, you
do not love me as you should or you would
not have said those words"
"There, there, darling" he replied, draw
ing her to him again, -. win tell you all.
l win be frank with YOU
Then he sighed, and after a brief silence
resumed:
"You know am to take part in the match
game of golf tomorrow"
Yes yes" she answered, and a startled
look came into her eyes.
E'Well," he went on, 81 am almost sure
that | am to be made the victim of con.
spiracy-that somebody has been tampering
with my sticks | examined them this morn
ing, and one of them looked as If it had been
sandpapered ] am almost sure, too, that it
weighs at least half an ounce less than it did
before"
Geraldine Huddlethwaite was so badly
shocked that she could only stare at him,
and they both sat there in dumb silence
Cleveland Leader.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-04-21
A FUGITIVE KINGS FETE.
Joseph Bonnpnrte Entertained His
Philadelphia Friends i'm
PrinceIy style.

About four miles from Philadelphia
there was a magnificent mansion built
after the Italian manner in the pre-
vious century by Gov. John Penn, and
known as Lansdowne house in honor
of the marquis of Lansdowne. Here
Joseph Bonaparte established himself
in rural ease until he had built his
"palace" at Bordentown, j. Toward
the end of the summer of 1917 Joseph
had little dinner party at Lansdowne.
Among the guests was DIR. Benjamin
Rush's daughter Julia. who was pleased
with what she thought his fluent con-
versation, his urbane manner and his
good looks, and who, perhaps, was
somewhat inclined to symputhize with
his complaint that Napoleon had not
been at all disposed to let him have very
much of his own way as either soldier
or king.
On one occasion only he gave a mag
n;ficent fete on the lawn of his prince
ly estate, and all the beaus and bellies
of Philadelphia who had been invited
dressed in their most picturesque sum
mer gowns and made haste to attend.
1t was a brilliant afternoon fete, and
Bonaparte was the center of attraction
as he stood on his lawn and welcomed
his guests. But it is doubtful whether
there were at any time more than half
a dozen persons in Philadelphia or for
that matter in the whole country, to
whom he bore anything like close and
confidential relations. He liked little
children. and they were sometimes in
the habit of speaking of him as the
good Mr.. Bonaparte.' William Per-
rine, in Ladies' Home Journal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-04-21
FROM HER VIEW.
A Lady Passenger Chats Very In.
terestedly About street.
Car Etiquette.

A man standing on the back platform OF
an east-bound Euclid car was much amused
by a conversation he couldn't help over
hearing between two well-dressed women.
1t was six o'clock and, of course, the car was
crowded. There were several ladies on the
platform and the two who talked were close
to the involuntary listener.
Dreadful, isn't it, out here?' said one
lady
Yes" said the other but what can you
do? I'm dreadfully ashamed to GO home at
this time of the afternoon. We have no
business on these cars. | declare i'll too
bad. just see all those men standing up
in the car and all the women sitting down.
They should be ashamed of themselves-the
women, mean. I'm glad that some of the
men don't get up. They serve the women
just right Men are so foolish about such
things-I mean giving up their seats OF
course nine gentlemen out of every ten viii
offer their seats, but | never want to accept
one. We have no right to expect such
fayors. And yet what can YOU doy 1t makes
a woman look SO foolish, hemming and haw-
ing and trying to refuse seat. | tried it
once or twice, and then sat down after all.
The trouble is the men don't believe we are
III earnest when we refuse a seat-and |
guess most of the time they are right There,
look in the car now and see the poor pale
faced man giving the stout woman his seat.
It's too bad That man has been bending
over desk all day, and suppose the woman
has been out to some afternoon euchre party.
These things are unlusty arranged. Per
haps times will even them up. Oh, this is
your street? Good night. Cleveland
Plain Dealer
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-04-21

scolded himself, as he had often
felt obliged to do, since his mother died.
what fool | be-" he muttered, Sc
verely. Il was jest cut out for an old
bach, anybody can see that, an here
I've been all my life tryin' to get mar
ried in spite o fate. An now, when [
find out, for the fourth time, / can't
I'm silly enough to blubber. | better
let the women folks be, now, guess,
an mind my own business"
He went to his bedroom, got his new
clothes and carried them up to the attic,
where he carefully put them away in
a chest. Guess my blue clo'esIl an
swer spell longer. was tryin' to be
too smart" he muttered, with a grim
smile. Then he took his old straw hat
and went to the barn to do the chores.
And yet, before he slept that night,
he wrote little note and tucked it I'M
der the sash of her window, where he
knew she would find and read it before
she went west. She did read it, and its
homely, unselfish tenderness ached in
her heart as long as she lived.
Don't you feel bad about me- You
amt to blame. / was Jest cut out for an
old bach, an I'm goin' to be one. 1 can
| stan 1t now ELIAS"
N. Y. Ledger.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-04-21
NOT A PERFECT FOOD.
Sunf1ower Seed Is Not as Good an ESE
Producer as Some Would Have
Us Believe.

A few, who seem to be interested for
some reason in booming sunflower seed
as poultry feed. are persistently claim
ing everything for it as an egg pro-
Queer. Our own experience with it is
that ii is not good feed for this pur-
pose, and analysis of it shows that it
is essentially fattening food and not
such n one as would promote the pro-
duction Of eggs if fed in large quaint
ties.
That sunfiower seed is excellent in
moderate quantities no one we'll posted
will deny. 1t is one of the best feeds
that can be given poultry of any kind
in the fall when the fowls are moulting,
and as it happens to ripcn about that
time it comes at season when it is
most useful.
At other times in the year an oc-
casional feed of sunflower seed answers
in the place of oil meal and similar
feeds, and makes a variety which lay
ing hens like. These seeds may be pro
duced so cheaply that every poultry
keeper should raise supply for his
own use, as they do we'll in odd cor
ners, and grow under very little encour-
agement.
From a window through which can
look MS | write this, can see acres that
are overgrown every summer with wild
sunlowers, and the seeds from these
are devoured by poultry and pigeons in
large quantities in the fall, These
seeds are much smaller than those of
the cultivated varieties of sunhowers,
and for that reason better feed, but the
larger kinds are better to grow on
cultivated land, as the yield is much
greater.
We believe in the value of sunfiower
seed for poultry, but the man who
makes them a large part of the feed
of his poultry will find that he has made
mistake in trying to stimulate egg
production by that process.-Farmers'
Nnipp
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-04-21

straight Dotted Line Shows Level of Soil,
Curved Dotted Line Damp Soil and Up
per Line Mound of Earth.)
with the top of the stock, and the scion
should lean little outward on the side
of the stock in which it was inserted, 50
the growing layer between the bark and
wood comes opposite TO the growing
layer in stock, and nearly parallel with
it, the slanting outward making it sure
that the two growing layers cross, and
thus certainly secure contact. If the
stock is small, one graft will do, but if
one and one-half inch or more in dame
ter, then two-one on either side
should be inserted. Sometimes three
or four scions are inserted in a very
large stock, by making cross clefts.
The cleft in stock is held open with the
narrow blunt chisel as lever inserted
in the cleft in the center of the stock.
After the scions are accurately and
firmly set, press clean, damp soil care
fully and firmly with the hands, all
around and over the junction of the
scions with the stock, so as to exclude
the air. / never tie or wax my grating
of this kind, and succeed with about 80
per cent. The wax is not nearly so con-
genial to the vine as is the damp soil,
and much less liable to start decay.
Finally heap up the loose soil about the
scions until only the top eye of each is
left at the top of the mound of soil, as
in cut. This grating in place should be
done just as buds begin to push in stock
in spring and when bleeding has about
stopped. The scions should have been
taken earlier, before bleeding began,
and kept dormant in cold soil.-T. v.
Munson, in Rural New Yorker.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-04-21
SaImnn for London.

In the list of big salmon contributed
annually to the Times one sees rec.
ord of numbers of fish running from
40 pounds to over 50 pounds. These big
fish are usually bought by the mos.
fashionable fishmongers, for they are
rather difficult to sell to ordinary Gus
toners. Even at the best shops one
wonders how three magnificent salm
on, weighing from 40 pounds to As
pounds each, will be disposed of in the
course of "a hours. Now that every
course at dinner is served out of sight
of the table, there is no particular
credit in having very magnificent fish
even at city banquet. That, however
is the destination of most of the mon
ster fish.
Some of the best hotels, too, always
have salmon one day in the week at
the table d'hote. and there a 25-pound
fish may often be seen lying ready for
subdivision among the guests. Smoked
salmon, mainly cured in Norway, is al
WAYS ridiculously dear. No reason can
be given for this, for the fish costs
little TO cure, and there is no risk of its
turning bad as in the case of the fresh
fish.-CornhilI Magazine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-04-21
oITH AND POINT.

Difficulties in the Way.-"I believe in
an aristocracy Of intellect" "Ohl I
don't knowi There would be the same
old scrap as to who would belong to it. /"
Puck.
sykes-"If you can't get any of the
American papers TO print your jokes.
why not mail them to England p"
scribbs-"I'd call that carrying a joke
too far Harlem Life.
Gen. Recruit Surveying the ball
room)-'I think your ladies would
make excellent soldiers" Van Teel-
"Why so?" Gen. R.-"They display so
much backbone. Harlem Life.
Consolatory.-Mr Cobwigger-"rm
very sorry to have TO put you to betl
without any dinner. but you were bad
boy" Freddie-''If you're sorry, ma,
have something for dinner don't like y
Truth.
where on earth could she have
picked up so insignificant man for a
husband?" Il haven't any exact infor-
nation, but he looks as if he light have
gone with pound of tea. "-Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Fuddy-''Do you really think that
Baskers cares much for his wife?" Dud-
dy-"Cares for her? He dotes on her.
Scores of times I've known him to make
faces for his wife when she had to take
nasty medicine. "-Bostcn Transcript.
Just His Luck.-"I never saw such a
chronic kicker as jenkins isl whats
his latest grievance" "He found five
dollar bill this morning and is grum-
bling because man to whom he owed
$3.75 saw him pick 1t up."-Chicago
News.
C.-"There is one thing for which
mankind, think, deserves credit. Y
What might that be-" when you
think of all the liars we have, there has
never been one who claimed positively
that he had seen the North pole.''
Yonkers Statesman.
A little girl, whose parents had re-
Gently moved from country to town,
and who is now enjoying her first APP
pearance in living in a street, thus de-
scribed it In a letter to another child:
This is very queer place. Next door
is fastened on our house. Tit Bits.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-04-21
PUT TO ROUT.
How a WeII-KnOwn Maine Man Sue
ceeded In Flooring an English
man with Hard Name.

Probably the most widely known and the
most popular man in Maine is Payson Tuck
err good story told by him is by no means
a rarity but it is not often that he tells one
involving his own personality. The follow
ing is an exception. Il was returning from
Europe few weeks ago, said Mr.. Tucker
land saw more or less of an Engllshman
who was exceedingly loud and coarse in
his denunciations of American institutions
Il stood it as long as | could and then
| decided to politely demonstrate with that
Englishman and show him wherein he erred
in his opinions of Americans.
Have you ever been in the United
States?' / asked him one evening when he
was on one of his strains
Gle looked me over and then said: No.
my good man, have never been in America
THAT angered me- and ! said:
What in sheol do you know about what
you are talking Off
''Said he to me: 'Aw, | see what you are
another of those impudent Americans
al see what you are. too | said to
him. You're a dizzle-dazzle whick-a-whack;
that's what you are.
That foored the son of Albion, and
thereafter he gave Mr.. Tucker wide berth.
N. Y. Herald.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-04-21

During the summer Of 1896 handsome
New England woman paid visit TO one of
the North side society queens of Wichita.
In due time a swell lawn party was
given by the hostess at her home, to
western friends Among those invited
was VIII Beatty. lie was presented to
the eastern lady, and it happened to be his
good fortune little later in the evening to
have her on his arm promenading over the
velvety lawn. In the course Of the con-
business he followed. and he replied: Pm
commercial traveller" The visitor, pos
sibly in a moment of mental alteration,
made this remark: I'm the east commercial
travellers do not go in the best society"
Before the last word had hardly left her
lips Mr.. Beatty replied: They don't here,
either" Conversation was carried on after
that in entirely different channels.-Wiehita
Eagle
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70 reduced railway rates,
to Department Interior.
BEN DAVIES. 15i East
MINI; " RICHIE.
ROGERS. Waterfront.
Stevens Point. Wis
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-04-21
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Some Fish Figures.

The statistics completed by George
NJ, Bowers, of the United States fish
commission, show that more people
earn a livelihood from this industry
along Lake Michigan and Green bay
than on any other of the great lakes,
2,2s9 persons being engaged in the bust
ness. There are rs vessels engaged in
the business on the lake, with a total
valuation of $3.50, 800. The total amount
of money put into the business in Green
bay and Lake Michigan is $915, 3S1.