davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-17
pITH AND POINT.

What some public speakers need is
better terminal facilities. Chicago
Daily News.
Friend do you like your new
teacher, Freddy?n Freddy-''I don't
know; haven't misbehayed any yet"
Puck,
A l3ud-talking woman gives folks
the impression that she must be coarse,
whether she is or ot.-Washington
(la.) Democrat.
Every unhappy woman takes pleas
ure in thinking of the time when he
will come back, and it will be Too Late.
-Atchison Globe.
Where Custom Fails.-ln Paraguay
a gentleman is enjoined by the laws of
good society to kiss every lady to whom
he is introduced. This sounds alluring
unless you happen to have met lady
in Paraguay Boston Traveller.
Mismated Ears."I suppose you are
aware persons two ears are not OF
equal strength" "Oh, yes. l know
lots of men who have a deaf ear for
beggars and most acute one for In.
vitations to drink. indianapolis
journal.
Use for Everything Lady Agatha
II know it's a great deal to ask, Mr..
Dauheny, but would you, some day,
give me one of your pictures for an
institution i am so deeply interested
in? 1t is a home of rest for the blindi"
Punch.
A Detectives Hal" ex-
claimed Detective Sleuthpup, as he
spotted Flashly leaving the pawnshop;
something's up" And walking across
the street the great detective confirmed
his suspicious by learning that it was
the young mans overcoat.- Philadel-
phia Record
Conflicting Advice.-She--'It breaks
my heart to see you come out of the
taverni" He-''A man can't tell what
to do any more! This morning the
minister made lot of talk because
he saw me go into the tavern and now
you are scolding because I'm coming
outi"-Fliegende Blaetter.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-17
RESOURCES OF LABRADOR.
There Is an Enormous Wealth of
Timber and Minerals With
In Its Limits.

More is being heard now of Labra-
dor, that land to which legends of gil
ants and curiously dcformed men are
attached. During the last two or
three wears there has been a growing
belief that Labrador, that great and
terrible wilderness" that "Helluland,"
or region of naked rocks, as the old
Norsemen called il, is destined to turn
out rich mining region. As yet there
is no tangible proof of this; but of
late it has been explored in many di-
rections, its rivers have been assembled,
its tableland crossed at several points,
and the result has been that it has at
tracted much more attention than be-
fore, and is no longer regarded as a
desolate heap of rocks, unless for pur-
poses of civilized man. Visitors have
brought back so many specimens of
minerals that Widespread impression
has arisen that it will become great
mining field.
The magic word gold has been whis-
pered in connection with it, and the
possibility of northern Klondike be-
ing discovered here has taken posses
sion of the minds of no small number of
explorers. Its formations are said to
resemble those of the real Klondike,
and gold specimens have been found
which the keen-eyed hunters of that
metal regard as peculiarly promising.
The result is that no fewer than seven
exploring expeditions have made this
year for Labrador. Five of these
were organized in Halifax, one left
from Boston, and the seventh has just
started from st. Johns.
In another respect Labrador is at
tracing attention. Though the coast
is succession of grim rocks-not
without wild, stern beauty of their
own and almost treeless-yet at the
heads of some of the bays and inlets
there are large areas covered with tim
Der of a large size, mainly spruce, well
adapted for numbering purposes. In
the Labrador forests speculation is
rife this year. No fewer than 81 APP
plieations for timber limits, some of
them for 500 square miles, have been
made TO the government, and the same
number of licenses to cut timber have,
we understand, been granted, so that
a considerable amount of capital is
! likely to be invested there, and this will
furnish increased employment to the
people. Labrador hitherto has been
famous only for the fish wealth of it's
seas; now it would seem as if the treas
ures of the land were to be turned to
account. Its dimensions are enormous.
The Atlantic coast line is over 1000
miles in length, and the area of the en-
tire peninsula not less than 100000
square miles.-Vancouver News-Adver-
| tiser.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-17
A FAIR DEMONSTRATION.
They Were Satisfied the Thing Could
BE- Done, But by Some
One Else.

Mark Twain and his friend, Rev. Joseph
II. Twitchell once planned a bicycle ride
from Hartford, Conn. their home), to
Boston, and wrote beforehand to an ae-
quaintance in the latter city, telling him
their line of route and what time he might
expect to see them arrive. The appointed
time was an ideal one for long run, and
the two friends started quite early in the
morning But neither of them was aecus-
toned to long rides, so after II or 10 miles
had been ridden, it became apparent that
each Of the riders was waiting for the 9TH
er TO say something Finally Twain said, as
they came in sight Of the railway station in a
small town they had entered: Lets take
the train the rest of the way"
OF course Mr.. Twitchell agreed, and so
the acquaintance in Boston was surprised
by seeing the two friends walk up TO his
door about one o'clock in the afternoon. He
had not expected them till evening, but he
greeted them warmly, and addressing Mr..
Twitchell, said; well, you made pretty
good time, didn't you2"
"0h, fairly good time for novices," was
the reply.
''NYhat time did you leave Hartford?' he
asked of Mr.. Clemens.
about seven a. m
"What, you don't mean to say that you
have ridden all the way from Hartford to
Boston on your bicycles"
mo" replied Mark Twain, "but we rode
far enough to demonstrate that it could be
done Detroit Free Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-17
A SONG FOR THE NOBLE.

Love for the noble woman
Who strokes the soldiers head,
Who leans as a sweet. white angel
Above the soldiers bed.
Who kneels and who prays beside him.
Who closes the soldiers eyes.
Who spreads the loved flag DER him
When the weary soldier dies
Cheers for the noble woman
Who opens her palace door
To the lame and the sick and the hungry,
Who gives of her worldly store
That others who toll. who suffer
BY flood or by fire may know
That God on His throne still watches
And judges the high and the low.
Praise for the noble woman
Who visits the haunts of sin,
To teach and to win where angels
Alone might hope to win:
Who puts away worldly pleasures.
And labors that others may live
To her all terrestrial glory!
All the honor men have to givei
And cheers for tho noble woman
Who hides no jewels away,
Who complacently pays her taxes
AS the law would compel her TO pay!
She smoothes the rough road of the toiler,
She eases the burdens that bear
On the sick and the lame and the hungry,
And the Lord up above is awarei
The sightIess, the orphaned. the helpless
May cherish her name with the great
Who stand for their homes and country,
Whose duty is first to the stated
He is noble who falls while preserving
The rights that are precious to you
IT'S noble to do just your duty
As an honest citizen, too!
s. e. Kiser, in Chicago Times-Herald.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-17
The Horses Hoof.

The foot of a horse is one of the most
ingenious and unexampled pieces OF
mechanism in animal structure. The
hoof contains a series of vertical and
thin laminae of horn, amounting to
about 500 and forming a complete lin
ing to it. In this are fitted as many
laminae belonging to the coffin bone,
while both sets are elastic and adher.
ent. The edge of quire of paper, in
serted leaf by leaf into another, viii
convey a sufficient idea of the arrange
ment Thus the weight of the animal
is supported by as many elastic springs
as there are laminae in all the feet,
amounting to about 1000, distributed
in the most secure manner, since every
spring is acted on in an oblique direc-
tion.-Boston Budget.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-17
The BottIe FieId Route.

The Veterans of sixty-one and five and
their friends, who are going to attend the
33rd g. A. h. Annual Encampment at Phila-
delphia in September, could not select bet
ter nor more historic route than the Big
-Four, Chesapeake g. Ohio, with splendid
service from Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis
on the Big Four, all connecting at Indian
apolis OF Cincinnati and thence over the
Picturesque Chesapeake & Ohio along the
Ohio river to Huntington, West Va, thence
through the foot hills of the Alleghanies,
over the Mountains, through the famous
Springs Region of Virginia TO Staunton,
Va, between which point and Washington
are many of the most prominent Battle
fields: Waynesboro, Gordonsville Cedar
Mountain, Rappahannock, Kettle Run,
Manassas, Bull Run, Fairfax, and score of
Others nearly as prominent Washington is
next, and thence via the Pennsylvania Line
direct to Philadelphia. There win be three
rates in effect for this business: LIST. Contin-
uous passage, with no stop-oyer privilege;
2nd. Going and coming same route with one
stop-over in each direction; Sd. Cireutous
route, going one way and back another with
one stop-over in each direction. For full
information as TO Routes, Rates, etc, adj
dress j. G. Tucker, G. N. A, 224 Clark St.,
Chicago.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-17
WORKING HIS WAY TO INDEPEND-
ENCE

whenever any Chinaman is derelict, but
that seldom happens. Besides furnish
ing coolie labor by the thousand, and
making plenty of money out of them,
the Six Companies discovered that the
laundry business in this country was
profitable, They conveyed the word to
China, and offered to furnish transpor-
tation to every Chinaman who wanted
to come to this country, also to furnish
the money to set him up in business;
each beneficiary to pay back to the Six
Companies double the amount thus in
vested in monthly installments. Double
payment having been made, the laun-
dry business was to belong to the in
dividual making the payment.
Now you know how it happens that
there are so many Cinnamon here in the
laundry business. Every moon-faced
Monaghan whom you see ironing near
the window of his laundry is pushing
that hot iron along the pathway to in
dependence. He hopes some day to own
his own laundry. After that he may be
mayor, councilman or highlander. He
knows that he can never be president of
the United States or even policeman;
but he wants to be independent, and
he deserves credit for his labor, and his
ambition to rise, even to the dignity OF
being highlander. SMITH d. FRY.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-17
PARSoN UZZELL OF DENVER.
Strange Record of the Man Who Was
the Idol of Leadville's
Mining Camp.

'I see by the papers," said an old
timer, who used to live out west, that
one of the people who accompanied
Gov Roosevelt on his trip into New
Mexico was Rev. Uzzell, of Denver. l
have known 'Parson Uzzell,' as every
body calls him, for many years, and he
is one of the quaintest, meatiest char
acters l ever met in my life. In 70 the
three wickedest places in the world
were said TO beLeadville and Port Said.
Port Said was one and Leadville was the
other two. That was the year the par
son struck camp. In appearance he
was the typical Methodist preacher of
the old school-gaunt, austere, with
long, shaver upper lip and grizzled
gray beard-and the boys chuckled to
think of his horror when he sized up his
surroundings. In those days they were
dealing faro on the sidewalks, six big
variety theaters were in full blast,
dance halls and grog shops were thick
as blackberries in June, and when we
didn't have "a man for breakfast we
thought that there was something
wrong. Strange to say, however,
the parson didn't seem particularly
shocked, and didn't waste breath try
ing to reform tough mining town in
"a hours. He simply took off his coat
and went to work doing good in a style
suited to the environment. One day
there was a shooting scrape in the Tex
as house, and Uzzell rushed right in,
and found man stretched out dying
by one of the gambling tables. Hold
the deal, boys!' said the parson, until
l can put up a prayer 1t was good
prayer, too; one of the sweetest and
tenderest / ever heard. Another time
he nursed a fellow through a case of
smallpox when nobody else would go
within 40 rods of the house. Such
things as that soon made him the idol
of the camp. A man who said a word
against Parson Uzzell in any dive in
town had fight on his hands quicker
than wink. AT first the boys used to
ask the parson to have something by
way of a joke, but he soon made that
unpopular by always accepting and
then ordering box of cigars. To sum
the matter up, he was an out-and-out
good man, an out-and-out good fellow,
and he knew the people he was dealing
with. Before he left Leadville he had
one of the most prosperous churches in
the whole west. OF late years he has
been living in Denver, where he is inn
mensely popular" N. o. Times-Demo-
crat
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-17

elect mayor and common council for
each colony. The mayor presides at
banquets, receives distinguished guests,
reports to the Chinese consul all mat
tiers which may be of interest TO the
Chinese government, furnishes aid to
the distressed, and arbitrates disputes.
The mayor of each community must
have an officer to execute his orders, TO
carry official documents, and name
trustees of property of deceased China
men; also to execute the Chinese laws,
even to the extent of taking life. This
executive officer is the highlander.
Now. you see, the popular impression
that there is secret order of high
binders is erroneous. Zach highlander
is alone in the performance of his du-
ties, and has no official or social re-
lation with any other highlander.
Referring to the secret societies OF
Cinnamon in this country it must be
known that each society maintains
three classes of charitable funds for
the sick or wounded, for the care OF
widows and orphans, and for the burial
of the dead, or their transportation to
China. These charitable funds are held
so inviolable that embezzlement is re-
garded as an objectionable crime. The
embezzler of charitable trust funds is
invariably punished with death. The
highlander performs his sworn duty
when he executes such criminal. And
it is fact that nine out of every ten
Cinnamon executed by highbinders has
been discovered, given fair trial, and
been convicted of stealing charitable
funds.
Now, with this understanding of the
situation, the highlander is not such
bad fellow after ALL
The Six Companies are Obliged to en-
ploy highbinders to enforce contracts,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-17
Pain Conquered; Health Re-
stored by Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound.
[1rr1rR TO MRS. rrsknAm NO. 9a,642l

81 feel it my duty TO write and thank
you for what your Vegetable Com
pound has done for me. 1t is the only
medicine / have found that has done
me any good. Before taking your medi-
cine, ] was all run down, tired all the
time, no appetite, pains in my back and
bearing down pains and great suf-
ferer during menstruation. After TAX
ing two bottles of Lydia i. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound felt like new
woman. lam now on my fourth bottle
and all my pains have left me. | feel
better than / have felt for three years
and would recommend your Compound
to every suffering woman. hope this
letter will help others to find cure
for their troubles. = Mrs. DELLA
REMIcKER, RENSSELAER,, IND.
The serious ills of women develop
from neglect of early symptoms. Every
pain and ache has cause, and the
warning they give should not be disre-
garded.
Mrs. Pinkham understands these
troubles better than any local ply
stefan and viii give every woman free
advice who is puzzled about her
health. Mrs. Pinkham's address is
Lynn, Mass. Don't put off writing until
health is completely broken down.
Write at the first indication Of trouble.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-17
A GREAT ENTERPRISE.
But Great In Contemplation Only, as
1t Never Came to he
Established.

A worthy American citizen, having made
fortune, Jared forth to see the world. Eu-
ropean business ways and habits thoroughly
Ilsgusted this neryously keen expert in
money-making, and he poured forth his
scorn to some friends he met in Paris. One
OF them, knowing the ignorance of the old
gentleman on subjects without the circle in
which he lived, ventured on a Joke
i agree with you, he said; Il agree with
you thoroughly. Why, do you know, sir
! was last week in a city of l25 900 inhab-
itants-and / was overcome, sr-overcome
to find they hadn't livery stable in the
city"
mo you don't tell met" answered the
victim. Gentlemen, see there! just con-
slider, that! Then jumping to his feet as
the thought struck him. why, gentlemen,
a fortunes awaiting someone therei
Where's the place? What's the name of
it?"
Venice" said the joker.
Good I'm tired of this place anyway.
I'll go right down there tomorrow, and put
a little horse-sense into the town. Gentle
men, you're. in this good thing with me, if
you choose"
They were all in it, and they invested their
friend with powers plenipotentisry. The
story has no dramatic point, save that il is a
historic fact that Venice was visited. No
one ever heard an account of that visit, but
for long afterward no participant in the
joke could get within hailing distance of the
self-appointed pioneer of American enter
prise. -Harper's Round Table.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-17

hose IS to 20 feet long for hand use, pro-
vided with rose and stop cock, branches
from the main barrel pipe.
The derrick is built directly On plat
form five by eight feet made of flooring
and SO slanted as to drain TO one side,
so the substance used can be collected
in a trough and poured into lower
barr sunk in the ground. From the
lower barrel there is a pipe running to
the upper one, which is provided with
a pump. There is also narrow chute
leading to the derrick through which
the cattle pass.
The dip is mixed in the lower barrel
and is then pumped into the upper one.
An animal is driven on the platform
and the dip allowed TO play on it for
one minute, while so doing the hand
hose is used between the thighs and
on the brisket and lower parts of the
body. The dip that runs off the animal
is caught in the lower barrel and
pumped up, thus preventing much
waste. Trash must be kept out or it
will clog the nozzle; this can be done
by using a cloth straiuer on the upper
barrel.-Farm and Home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-17
FREED BY A CAMERA.
How an American Was Rescued from
Medieval Peruvian
Dungeon.

A member of the camera club tells
with some pride Of an incident which
happened while he was travelling in
South America and points out the result
81 i as triumph for photography.
II was in one of the cities of Peru, and
an American acquaintance of mine
who was there temporarily on business
was trotting me around among the
sights of the town After we had Wis
tied most of the show places he said
one day:
Now ! want you to see the old dun
geon of prison which they have here.
but it is a place whore you can't take
your camera. The rules are very Sc
we're against that. ! wish you could,
though, for you would get some mighty
interesting pictures. These people are
unrelenting jailors and some of their
treatment of the prisoners is pretty
medieval in its character.
why, they have an American there
now for some alleged insult TO the gov
eminent, and he is kept incommuni-
cado, as they call it--that is, in cell
removed from those of the other pris-
oners and so strictly guarded that he
can communicate with nobody.
'They don't care much about having
visitors see him, but as you pass his
cell, if he happens to be near the front,
you can sometimes catch glimpse of
him through the bars. His friends are
trying to get him out, but none of them
has been able to see him and there is
some difficulty in proving that the pris-
oner is really their man."
See here said /, this is chance
for me. | have a small camera with
me which folds almost fiat-it is de-
vice of my own-and / will guarantee
that | can get il by the guards. When
we are drawing near to the Americans
cell you give me a sign and l viii be
ready. Perhaps luck will favor us"
Well, smuggling the camera in was
easy. Even if those keepers had found
it they wouldn't have recognized it as
one. AS we came near the ''incom-
municado" my friend nudged me and,
without attracting attention from the
accompanying guards, L prepared the
machine for an exposure.
Il
at our good fortune. There little dis
lance in front of me stood my unfortun-
ate countryman, leaning YEARLY
against the bars of his cell and looking
full at us. The guards, seeing him at
the front of his cell, seemed anxious to
hurry us by, but they did not do so
until my quiet and unobserved little
snap shot was made.
And the best part of the whole story
is that the man was actually released
by means of that picture. When de-
veloped and printed it was an excellent
likeness and through it his friends were
able to prove his identity. Within a
short time, the injustice of his arrest
was established, in spite of the author
tiles, and he was set free.-N. Y. Trib-
une.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-17

One of the sections of the great Paris
exhibition of 1900 will be termed
"Cloudland." There the visitors will
be able to move about in atmospheric
conditions which, under ordinary cir
cumstances, can only be reached by a
balloon ascent. The giant apparatus
which will work this seeming miracle
is surely the most marvellous factory
ever constructed, for by its agency the
operations of nature will be initiated so
faithfully and so completely that every
type of cloud will be reproduced at
will in miniature. The principle of
cloud making, it will be remembered, is
that if a mass of air containing water
vapor is cooled below its saturation or
dew point condensation of the vapor
will set in. The cloud is thus manufac-
tured, and being allowed to escape into
the air forms miniature cloud alike in
every respect to the clouds with which
we are familiar.-London Leader.