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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-04-28
AN EASY ONE.
Not the Way Husbands Laugh When
with Their wives.

A woman of fashion in checked dress
and a great dahia-colored velvet hat, ac.
companied by a man in modish garments,
was tripping along Fifth avenue She was
chatting with marked animation, and he
was laughing hatteringly The attention of
the passers by was attracted by the happy
couple.
Behind the pair CHANGED to walk lassie-
the one vet living at home with mamma
and an older woman, a friend of mamma.
The lasSic spied the mondaine in checks and
dahlia velvet on ahead and puckered her
brow, saying: "Oh, ! know that woman
have seen her often at Newport-she is
dreadfulIy rich-now | remember, she is
Mrs. Morris BIankly."
The friend of mamma was interested. She
asked
Aud is the attentive man with Mrs.
Bankly her busband2"
The Iassie shrugged her shoulders and
scorned the very idea
Ridiculous" she replied ''You dear, old
fashioned thing, don't yoa know that
women's husbands never laugh in that
good-natured way when they are with their
wives. N. Y Press.
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when Or. aver announced his Sarsapa-
rilla to the world, he at once found the
physicians his friends. Such a remedy
was what they had looked for, and they
were prompt 10 appreciate its merits and
prescribe IT. Perhaps no medicine-k nowu
as patent mediciue-is so generally ad.
ministered and prescribed by physicians as
DIR. Ayers Sarsaparilla for blood diseases
and diseases of the skin that indicate a
tainted condition of the blood. Experience
has proved it to be a specific III such
diseases, aud sores of long standing, old
ulcers. chronic rheumatism, and many
other like forms of disease have yielded to
the perseveriug use of DR., Ayers SaTsapar-
lila after other medicines had utterly failed.
The testimonials received from physicians
to the value Of this remedy would fill
volume. Here is one leaf signed by Rich'd
II. Lawrence, NJ. D., Baltimore, Md.
at affords me pleasure to bear testimony
to the success which your preparation of
Sarsaparilla has had in the treatment of
cutaneous and other diseases arising from
a vitiated condition of the blood Were it
necessary. might give you the names of
at least fifty individuals who have been
cured of long standing complaints simply
by the administration OF DR.. Ayers Sarsa-
pa-rilla, One very remarkable instance
was that ola quite old woman who had lived
at Gainesville, near this city. She had been
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STANDARD OF SPAIN.
At Last 1t Must Leave the Western
Hemisphere Forever.
After Centuries of Savagery and Bar
barity the Cruel spaniars:s Are
About to Receive Their
just Deserts.
Especial washington letter.

From the day of the declaration of
States had a right to interfere with
the brutal conduct of the war in Cuba
it was inevitable that the crisis between
Spain and the United States should
some day eliminate.
The report of the senate committee
on foreign relations on the resolution
recognizing the independence of the
Cuban republic gave to the American
people and to the world statements of
facts which had not been developed by
investigation or by the public press.
That report showed to the world that
the warfare of the Spaniards was re-
duced to the savagery 81 numbering lit
tie children and torturing innocent
women in a manner too horrible to be
described in polite language.
The tiendishness of the Spanish race
has no parallel in the history of the
civilized world. Those people have had
their churches, their priests, bishops,
their cathedrals and all of the devel-
oped paraphernalia for the dissemina-
ton of the Christian religion-a re
lgion of love. And yet, as the centuries
passed and intelligence of right was
disseminated, the Spaniards became
worse and apparently less capable of
refinement of feeling.
The crusaders bucl<led sword in a
cause no more holy than the cause of
humanity which has led the United
States into armed conflict with the as
sassins of our sailors, the torturers of
the, Cubans and the murderers of the
Aztecs and Peruvians.
The people of this country have been
impatient and their representatives
have received scores and hundreds of
kilograms and letters manifesting the
Impotence of the people; and for a
time the president himself was assailed
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-04-28
A FEW REQUISITES.
What Was Wanted of "a Girl in One
HOuaehoId.

The hired girl out Of job cast her eagle
eye over the want notices Of the newspaper.
Wanted, Wanted, Wanted" she read in
one or two-line ads straight down the col
umn, shaking her head at intervals as if
disappointed in her search. Finally her
face lightened as she saw a loaded notice
in another column Of more pretensons than
its fellows
She turned to it and read eagerly. Then
she threw the paper from her.
whats the matter!' asked the girl with
her.
"Read that" and she gathered up the
sheet and handed it over to the other one,
who read this notice:
"Wauted-A young and strong woman of
good disposition and habits, ohed .cnt and
knowing her place, willing and ready, act
i've and efficient, to cook. wash and iron, do
general homework and take care of chill
dren. Evenings and afternoons off when
possible. Apply, with references, etc, etc"
Well? said the reader.
Its not we'll at all, responded the one
looking for work "That man, whoever he
is, is advertising for a wife, | should say
from the advertisement, and I'm not look
ing for that kind of a job Just plain
hired girls place is good enough for me. =
Washington Star
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Mr.. Pettigrew Up a Tree.
A Hunter From Philadelphia Meets or
Twister.


MI ILFORD, Pa, Feb. 26-"Ol' Twis-
INI ter was missn'," said the man
from the Knob country, and a nice
loollin' young man in bran ne " hunt
in suit had come in from Pocono. Long
afore this. though, l had said to JADE:
What. / says. Butcher that bear?
What be you thinkin' on, Jabe?' | says,
cause Jabe had made up his mind to
butcher the bear. lie was rantank-
erous chap. don't want you to I'M
derstand that mean the bear. / mean
Jabe. lie was a rantankerous chap, and
he says to me:
What be l thinkin' on?' he says
On butcherin' the bear. That's what
I'm thnkin on says he.
'Mebbe you'd sell him." says, sort
O. hintin' like
Did ! say I'd sell him?' he says.
4 said | was goin' TO butcher him, didn't
il? he says.
Well 1 says, gittin' a little huffy,
you kin butcher him, or you kin ham,
string him, or you kin draw and quar-
ter him for all | care!' says. And you
kin go to thunder yourself, and I'd care
durn sight less.' | says. And there's
where you ought to go and stay thereH
] says. for any man that owns bear
like or Twister is, that could turn in
and run his churn riggin', and his fan
MIN mill, and his thrashin' machine, if
he should ever have one, which you
won't | says, not if you live to be
older'n them rocks on your clearin',
and then can't sec no good in such
bear more'n to be butchered like a
swill-eatin' sow and hung up by the
heels l says, "hain't got no right to be
around where civilized folks that pre-
ciates bears lives and has their bein'!'
l says, cause l was edgin' on to bein'
mad
What do you mean?' he says, and l
thought I'd rahtankerate a little my
self, and says
~ mean just what l meant l says.
And that's jest what or Twister would
do if he was only give the chance |
says.
DO you want that bear, Danl"
mo | says, 4 don't, cause | hain't
got no churn riggin', nor no fannin'
null nor no mol nun for - bear llL a hin
10 turn in and run | says. IF he could
only chop logs and railroad ties says.
or even cut hoop poles, I'd snap him up
only too suddent,' | says. But them's
things that even or Twister amt edu-
Gated up to yit,' | says, and he'd only
be wasted if | had him. | says. But
you've got churn riggin' and fannin'
mill | saws, and YOU only want to give
the bear a chance, and he'd be worth as
much as a team o mules says.
Il seen yit that Jabe's head was too
thick to git that idea into it unless
took and hammered it in, and so | jest
begun at the beginnin' to show Jabe
what | was drivin' at.
"'Jabe' | says, You riz that bear by
hand, didn't you" JADE he said he did.
When that bear got big enough you
put him in big open pen and stuck
up a 200-foot chestnut pole in the mid
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all the while the financially and morally
rotten government at Madrid was grow
ing weaker. The president sought to
quiet our people by automatically over
looking the Milne disaster. But he and
all of us realized that the starvation of
the Cubans was set aside in the public
mind, and the Maine disaster was fore
most Over all, sternly searching for
the truth, was the piercing eye of the
American eagle.
Finally the senate committee on for
eign relations held an investigation
which demonstrated and fixed the re-
sponsibility for that awful crime. From
the moment of the publication of that
report there was but one sentiment
among our people, and that was for
revenge. They called not for repa-
ration. The Spaniards might have
given US back our battleship, in effect,
by paying indemnity; but the crimi-
nails could not give us back our sailors.
Poor fellows! They died in the service
of their country, without having an
opportunity to fire a shot in defense of
themselves, in defense OF the flag, or
in defense of the national honor.
One of the most effective utterances
in congress concerning the Maine dis
aster was delivered by young con-
gresham from the Mississippi valley,
who dramatically quoted these lines of
Kipling:
Lord. God OF Hosts, be with us yet;
Lest we forge; lest we forget"
That sentiment peryaded the land.
1t permeated the atmosphere of the
capital city. 1t was on the lips and in
the hearts of all as we calmly awaited
the long delayed report of the naval
court of inquiry. 1t was repeated to the
president and to the members of the
cabinet 1t was recited in our public
schools; and all public men prayed for
patience on the part of the people and
for patriotic determination to remem-
Der the crime, and punish it.
After many centuries of misrule, saw
agery, barbarity, there came n time
when vengeance is Mine, l will re-
pay, saith the Lord" was quoted; and
the human instrumentality for the di-
vine vengeance upon a people that
thriyed upon crime was the republic
which grew upon the soil of the hemis-
phere which had been discovered by
Columbus. This vengeance is for the
brutal ingratitude of Spain to the dis
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THE STORY !! ,TklrS
y 'tU,&2a S:SssR
THE CITY OF REST.

In love was it founded and pity.
That home at the heart of the era sses,
Where sleep never wearies nor passes,
But lies with Gods peace in his breast
In love for the spent and the dying.
In pity for sorrow and signing,
A home for the homeless, a city,
welcoming city, of rest.
There never trouble shall find them;
There, under Gods dew and mans weep
ing,
The sick and the weary are sleeping,
Nor burdened, nor worn. nor distressed.
The earth folds them close, like mother
And none Is more dear than another
For God in His love has assigned them
One home in the city of rest.
They sleep, but their eyes are not holden.
They JOY in the daisies aud clover.
Yea, when the loved faces bend over,
They smile, knowing silence is best.
They see natures beauty and splendor,
They hear all the bird-muStc tender
All, rose-lit the windows and golden
That look from the city of rest.
IT'S sweet at the last, when God calls US,
To go to the city of slumber.
OH think of the infinite number
To whom that long surcease is blest!
Release from the ache and the sorrow,
No shaving to-day or tomorrow
All, call it not death that befalls us,
But peace. in the city of rest!
James Buckham, in Youths Companion
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CURRENT TOPICS.

THERE are 40 varieties of the tobacco
plant.
NEARLY 5000 persons were injured
by accident in coal mines last year
THE soil of Cuba is so fertile that in
some districts four crops a year are
raised.
OF all the novels of Zola La De-
bacle" has had the largest sale-19O, 900
copies
FIVE hundred and twenty-six men
and 40 officers are required to man the
cruiser New York.
In the private schools of China n
teacher is paid about one half penny a
day for each pupil
MEXICAN tailors bring the new
clothes of their patrons to their offices
or homes to be fitted
ACCoRDIoNs were invented in 1929,
and single German firm now manu-
features over 1900 year.
MEERscHAUM is silicate of mag
nesia and is to be found chiefly in Asia
Minor, Greece and Madrid.
IT rains on an average of 2Os days in
the year in Ireland, about $50 in Eng
land, at Kezan about 90 days and in
Siberia only 60 days.
THE battle ship Alabama will be
launched May IS. Miss Morgan, daugh
ter of Senator Morgan, of Alabama,
will christen the ship.
THE largest hog ever raised in Ohio
has been shipped to Buffalo The ami
NAL weighed 1,010 pounds and it re-
quired six men to get it in the car.
JOHN BABCoCK, an old resident of
Galien, Mich, is dead. after a fast
which probably breaks all records. He
had not tasted food since October last.
IN the stone quarries of st. Triphon,
in the Rhome valley, the stone is sawed
by means of continuously running
steel cables KEEP moist with wet sand.
A SERVANT girl on farm near Cam
brai, in northern France, has lived ~
years with the same family. She is
now 81 years of age and still does her
work.
A GLOVE has lately been patented
with elastic webbing in the sides of the
fingers and thumb, to stretch as the
glove is pulled on, thus making it fit
any sized hand.
BIcYCLIsTs in India are becoming
profane. Their chief enemies are the
mosquitoes, which not only bite their
limbs and bodies, but actually bite
through the tires.
A HoTELKEEPER in a Brussels hotel
was obliged the other day to buy so
pairs of shoes for his guests. The por-
ter had -deeamned with that. nnmhsr
You can save quite a respectable
sum in the course of the year in dus-
tiers and chamois feathers by using in
stead newspapers for polishing silver,
metal and window glass.
GRAY horses live longest; roam
horses nearly as long. Cream-colored
horses are deficient in staying power,
especially in summer weather. Bays,
on an average, are the best
TIE richest town in the United States
is Brookline, near Boston. Its popula-
ton is II, O00 and valuation $50, 600, 600,
yet it is governed through the typical
New England town meeting.
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die Of il, thinkin' the bear would be
lest more than tickled to climb it and
have fun. Kin you remember dom
that?' / says. JADE said he remembered
it; o course, he remembered it, he said.
WELL l says. did the bear take to
climbin' the pole?' | says.
"'Not a durn wunst, says JADE.
That's what he didn't l says.
'Stid o takin' 20 climbin' the pole like
a common ordinary bear | says, he
Jest settled down to the idea that he
could git more fun by walkin' round
and round that pole in a big circle.
shown folks that if they wanted bears
that didn't see nothin' else in life but
climbiu' poles and doiu' monkey shines,
| SAYS. they could turn 'em in there
and let EN- caper, but as for him he
wasn't that kind of bear says. Hes
been dom O that goin' on three year
now, hain't he, Jabe? | says. Jabe
said he had. Solemn and willin'?' /
saws. Jabe said he never see nothin'
solemner nor WILMER than the circlin'
O. that bear round that pole. And
what's he been dom it on?' ! says
- Dom II on say = fdbC- Dbln II
on ground, o. COURSE. he says.
We'll. now, Jabe,' l says, 's'posin'
YOU should Jest slide a cire'ler boss
power under thai bear, ! says, and give
him that 10 walk on Std o bare
ground l says. Then s'pose you
should hitch your horsepower to your
fanniu' mill and 20 your churnin' fix
ms. don't you s'pose it'd run en- l
saws. with or Twister n circlin on il,
solemn and willin'?' | says.
'Jabe he sat for minute and gawked
ut me as if he was scared. Then he
slammed his fist down and says:
III that AMT so I'll be everlastingly
switched he says.
"'So?' ] says. No two ways ahoutit.
All you got to do | says, is to put a
circ'lar horsepower under or Twister.
and things'u go as if they was greased!'
I says.
They will, sure as sapi' says Jabe,
and I'll do it -morrowi' says he.
so Jabe didn't butcher the besr, but
he sot him 10 work runnin things on
the farm, and he done it 50 amazin' that
II want long fore he got TO be worth
more'n any critter Jabe Ind. Sam
Belcher offered Jabe $50 cash for him,
and JADE wouldn't look at It.
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why Moses Took on His shoes.

Rev. Benjamin Baxter, colored min
lister in Virginia, while conducting a
Sunday-school recently, was fred at by
one of his pupils with this question:
"Why was it, Brudder Baxter, dat
Mozus TUX off his shoes when he wuz
talkin' wild de Lord on Clinch noun
tain?' (Clinch mountain is a local en-
inence.)
Brudder Baxter scratched his head
for a reason.
"Don' yo' know dat, Eph?" the min
lister presently asked in a tone of APP
parent surprise.
NO. doesn't" replied Eph.
Don't de Bibul say it wuz holy
ground?" asked the preacher.
'Yeh!" assented Eph.
"weH, den, Eph, Mozus TUX off his
shoes to keep frum slippin' into de
holes."-Judge.
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The irate father had overtaken the elop-
ing couple, but he was little too late. A
compIacent clergyman had tied the knot.
Sri" said the irate father, this is simply
outrageous! Can you forget that she is
my only daughter" I'll tell you what
I'll do" returned the groom, who always
wanted to do the right thing. II confess
| didn't think of it at the time, but | will
agree never to forget it if you always will
kindly remember that she is my only wife.
Everyone agreed that it was a fair PROPOSE
ton, but somehow it didn't seem to soothe
the old mans temper TO any appreciable
nNfnnf Troy Timns
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500 Reward 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased
20 learn that there is at lea st one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure in
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires
constitutional treatment Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
Of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its cura-
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials
Address +. j. Cheney & Co, Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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Grocer- Elect omcer-.

The Wisconsin Wholesale Grocers' as
sociation held its annual meeting in
Milwaukee and elected officers as fol-
lows:
President. Ira p. Smith. Milwaukee; first
vice president. John j. Hogan, La Crosse;
second vice president, Edward Dewey. MIL
waukee; secretary. f. j. RickeFt. Milwau-
kee; treasurer. August F. Inbusch. Mil
waukee; directors. Mitchell Jenness.
Green Bay; William Rowe, Eau Claire;
William Hoffman,, Milwaukee; j. Il. Host
and Edward Dewey. Milwaukee.
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D. P. Niehart, NJ D.. Nebraska City, Neb.
l am so well pleased with the works of
Pe-ru-na in the numerous cases | have been
using it during the past two years that can
not refrain from informing you of the good
results obtained. | deem it useless to detail
every case flor they are many in which
have used and prescribed this remedy but
viii say that | have never been disappointed
in results. | have used, not dozens, but hun
dreds Of bottles. | am physician of So
years constant practice and always willing
- recommend anything OF service to sui
ferlng humanity. Pe-ru-na stands first and
foremost in my estimation of all proprie-
tary medicines.
d. p Niehart, NJ. d.
J. w. Sanders, NJ d., OF Bogne, n. c.,
writes: Many proprietary medicines have
found their way into public favor but in
my opinion De-runa is unequaled by any OF
them. Composed Of the best drugs, that act
specifically upon the mucous membranes OF
the body, its range of usefulness is as wide
as its benefits are wonderful In valvular
diseases of the heart, especially mitral in.
sufficency weakened valvesl, it is really
the only remedy that to me has given sat
isfaction A good thing should be praised,
and valuable remedy like Peru-na is boon
to humanity"
Send for a book on chronic catarrh, writ.
ten by DIR. Hartman, entitled Health and
Beauty" 1t will be sent free by addressing
the Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing Company
Columbus O
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HnIf a block burned.

Fire at Oconomowoc destroyed all
buildings on the south half of the block
next north of the freight depot and be-
tween Walnut and Silver Lake streets.
The principal structures were the Ocon-
omowoc hotel of NJ. II. Nathusius, the
saloon and boarding house of John
Walers and the stables of both. Very
little was saved of the contents of the
hotel
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Mrs. Cora Schulz has been granted a
divorce from ii. c. Schulz, hardware
merchant in Kenosha, and has been
given $4,000 as alimony. The case has
attracted attention from the fact that
this is the third time that Mr.. Schulz
has been divorced. From his first wife
he was twice divorced. The second
Mrs. Schulz also had been divorced
when she married Mr.. Schulz.
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Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste. and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn ctfectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects. prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup OF Figs is for sale in so
cent bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try It. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG syrup co.
SAN FRANCISCO CAL
LOUISVILLE, kR. NEW F0RK, M
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VIII Rinse More wheat.

The grain men in La Crosse report an
unusual demand for seed wheat coming
from farmers. As all have what they
would ordinarily need, this is taken to
Indicate that the acreages will be inn
mensely increased, partly on account of
the war outlook and also because of the
high price which prevails.
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The American Navy, Cuba and Hawaii

A portfolio, in ten parts, sixteen views in
each part of the finest half tone pictures
of the American Navy, Cuba and Hawaii
has just been published, and the Chicago,
Milwaukee & ST. Paul Railway has made
arrangements for a special edition for the
benefit of its patrons and will furnish the
full set, one hundred and sixty pictures, for
one dollar. In view of the present excite
ment regarding Cuba these pictures are
very timely. Send amount with full adj
dress to Geo. H Heafford, General Passen-