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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-11-02
HITTING THE OPIUM PIPE.

e1t medicines as the basic condition of
so-called catarrh remedies. Apparent
ly, when thus employed it produced the
most marvellous cures, because the pa
tient, finding the delicate nasal MEM
brane deadened and all discomfort and
annoyance removed, imagined that the
evil had passed away, not knowing that
the relief was only temporary.
Many physicians also, after using this
agent as palliative in treating disturb
ances of the nasal passages, placed it
in the hands of patients to be employed
at pleasure, and these accredited men
of medicine are unquestionably re-
sponsible. TO a very large extent, for
the spread of what has really become
an alarming national evil When CO.
caine had come into general use by ply
sicians and makers of patent medicine,
for &he alienation of all nasal troubles,
including even influenza, and for tooth
aches or the temporary suppression of
any pain or irritation where the deli
cate mucous membrane is affected,
it was found that craze was created
for the continued use of the drug. This,
ii was soon learned, had its origin not
in the mere suppression of the pain or
irritation. but by reason of the fact
that applications of cocaine, either to
the nasal membrane or by hypodermic
injections-the same method by which
morphine is most generally introduced
into the system-produced sense of
extreme exhilaration; in fact, eondi-
ton of most enjoyable intoNication.
Those who had once experienced this
found ii difficult to abstain from a re-
newal of the application, and, in time,
found the use of the drug absolutely
essential TO life.
Thus the blessing of relief from pair
has heen perverted into curse TO hp
manity. A leading druggist here says
"Iittle children come to me suffering
cent. solution of cocaine. | give them
an ounce or a drahm. with instanta-
neous effect. They take it home. and
soon they come again. saying that
mother has a toothache, and | supply
them. Physicians have recently in
formed me that mothers and fathers
send children for the drug, when in
reality they want it to use hypoder-
mically on themselves. There IS no
doubt that the habit is growing. and
that the victims resort to all sorts OF
expedients TO get the drug. without
permitting druggists and physicians
to know that they are making use OF
it for purposes of pleasure and ex-
element"
A learned physician who retained suf-
ficient intelligence to enable him 70
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-11-02
BURNT CHILD BREADS FIRE.
aMhv don't Won buv YOUR vic some

WHY uUH you Uus your Vic sOIHe
article of jewelry?"
20, | did once, but I'll never do it
again"
why. what did you get for her
then?'
IAN engagement ring" -Heitere
Welt.
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SIMPLE CIDER PRESS.

heavy hoop iron. Punch holes about
~ inches apart and fill with slaves
about 2 feet long and IA inches wide
and with small nails or screws fasten
the slaves inside the hoops, leaving
them one-fourth inch apart. There
should be a false bottom to catch and
conduct the cider. For grinder take
clean salt or -four barrel and saw into
it at the bilge. Then take board and
saw out a false head little smaller
than the barrel head, and tack it on the
outside of the tub head. This is TO sup
port the tub bottom. Then take piece
of by inch by 3 foot scantling and
chop off about half the wood from one
end so as to taper, smooth and round off
the end. A block of hard wood with
hole bored one-half inch deep for the
screw to work in must be made to keep
from bending. Such a press can be
made for SO or 81. Bushels of apples go
to waste on many farms which could be
utilized by making into cider or vine
CARA. G. Mcpherson, in Farm and
Home.
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NOVEL CATTLE CRIB.

greatly needed in many cases., while
the partition in, front is hinged at the
bottom and falls out to give space for
hay, ensilage, etc., which is fed to the
stock. If feed boxes are required, they
can be made of shape to set handily
in the space before the cattle. AT night
the partition is shut up, forcing the cat
tie to step back to the rear of their
platform, which insures clean bed for
them for the night. In many old barns
that are crowded for room this device
will be found very advantageous,
narrow 'tie-up" being a source of
great inconvenience in doing the work,
and serious impeachment as well to a
clearly carrying on of dairy operations,
as with the narrow tie-up it is very
difficult to keep the COWS clean.-N. Y.
Nj
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Knowing right from wrong. they care
not for moral obligations. Under the
influence of the drug eminent lawyers
lose all sense of or regard for equity.
They care not for the sanctions of the
law. Surgeons WELD the knife re-
gardless of the fate of those who place
their lives in jeopardy on operating
tables. Physicians neglect trusting pa
tients, or give them drugs merely for
purposes of experiment, without hui
name regard for the effects upon the
lives of those who lie helplessly in bed,
trustingly believing that their medical
attendant and adviser is striving to
prolong their lives. Thus in hospitals
crimes are committed which never see
the light of day; and the criminals
themselves are unsupported, until their
subsection to the drug becomes APP
parent to all around and about them.
Temperance lecturers, ministers,
priests and physicians of high char
acter may well give this subject care
full attentions; for the writer is advised
by eminent scientific men in this ma
tional capital that the cocaine habit is
fast forming in this country, and must
be vigorously combated.
SMITH D. FRY.
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A QUEER COMBINATION.
1t Was Justice of the Peace, a Pick
pocket and Little
Prayer book.

Justice "Bilp' Hall was chuckling the
other day over little adventure that befell
him, and which he related as follows;
1T was during the festival week, he said,
''and you all know how the downtown
streets were crowded. was walking down
State street, and, happening to look in one
of the big store windows saw pile of books,
which reminded me OF commission given
me by my wife that morning. / went in and
bought a book and put the parcel in my
overeoat pocket.
"As / came out into the crowd on the
street again felt hand go into my pocket,
and turned quickly, but not quickly enough
to catch the wouldbe thief, a tough-looking
young man, who skipped off in the crowd
and was Immediately lost to view. i couldn't
help laughing to think how horribly disap-
pointed he would have felt if he had sue
ceeded in his theft, because the parcel in my
pocket contained common little prayer
book
There's what call ludicrous combina-
tion-a thief trying to rob police justice
Of prayer book-a combination that prob
ably has never before and never will again
arise in the history of Chicago. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
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LOCKET TO REPAY HIM.
A Thoughtful Young WOmnn's Odd
Gift to Man Who Once Paid
Her Car Fare.

Eyes, this is rather peculiar locket,
and | got it in rather peculiar man
ner," said cotton buyer of this city
when somebody remarked the quaint
little trinket attached to his watch
chain. The locket was of gold, and
an ordinary fve-cent piece was set in
the lid, surrounded by circle of col
ored stones. The effect was odd and
not inartistic. The story is briefly
this" continued the speaker. "About
three years ago l was on a street car in
Chicago, when one of the passengers,
a young woman, discovered that she
had no money in her purse. The con-
ductor was disposed to be ugly about
it, and, of course, / insisted on paying
the fare, giving the girl one of my
cards at her very urgent request. Over
a year elapsed and the incident had en-
tirely faded from my mind, when one
day / was walking along st. Charles
street and was hailed by lady from
cab. She proved to be the same one
whose car fare 1 had paid in Chicago,
and had recognized me Immediately, al
though / had hard work recalling the
original encounter. She told me excited
ly that she had lost my card on her way
home and had been on the lookout for
me ever since, and also that she was III
the city with some relatives en- route
home after trip to California. While
she was talking she was searching her
purse for nickel, but had no change.
i laughed, told her not to bother about
it, and gave her another card. A few
weeks later / received this locket, with
a very charming letter, which | prize
highly. l have had remarkable good
luck ever since | have worn the little
gift, and l am superstitious enough to
regard it as a sort of mascot. BY a
queer coincidence the coin CHANGED to
bear the date of the year of my birth"
M o. Times-Democrat
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wv TOMEN do sufferi
Wv Even so-called healthy women suffer-
But they are not healthvi

The marks left by pain young many
daughters Pain that leaves
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FIRST WALKING MATCH.
Resolved Itself Into Running
Match, and 1t Was for
Territory.

In l706 William Penn bought from the
Indians tract of land bounded ON the east
by the Delaware, on the west by the Mesh
aminy, and running as far north las a man
can 90" in u days. After his death his son,
Thomas Penn, thought it would be a good
idea to survey the boundary. On August %,
1877, this was done.
Three men lined up for the start, james
Yeates, a lean Yankee; Solomon Jennings
and Edward Marshall, an old hunter The
sheriff, the surveyors and a number of In
dams who wanted to see fair play accom-
panied them on horseback.
The three men ran.
You are not walking, protested the In
dams; you are running"
They are going" replied the sheriff;
"and that's what the treaty says-as far as
a man can go in day and half."
So the Indians went home.
Yeates collapsed on the second days run
and died two DAYS later. Jennings lived in
shattered health but a few years longer
Marshall was tougher-in better training
we would say nowadays. lie kept on,
reached the end of the blazed trail seized
the surveyors compass and still kept going
in the same direction. When Sheriff Smith
at noon said HALT" Marshall had covered
6S miles through rough forest, or twice as
far as the Indians had expected.
The sellers were only Indians" you see.
N. Y. World.
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HORTICULTURAL NOTES.

With nearly all kinds of tree fruits,
the best time to sort is when the fruit
is harvested.
Plums do not thrive well in sod. If
the best results are secured, thorough
cultivation must be given from the
start.
A good dressing of wood ashes can
be applied to Strawberries at this time
with benefit. They may be applied on
the surface.
Lice on trees may be killed by dissoly-
ing pound of potash in gallon of wa
ter and applying on the affected parts
with brush.
One pint of Iinseed oil, four pounds
of rosin and one pound of beeswax,
melted well together, make a good
grating wax.
When weeds or grass are allowed to
grow with the vines they rob them of
the plant food that rightfully belongs
to the plants.
Plant raspberries in rows five feet
apart and three feet apart in the row;
blackberries in ISws eight feet apart
and three feet apart in the row.-St.
Louis Republic.
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Thoroughbred.

A New York society dame, who is an ar.
dent upholder Of the Society for the Pre-
yention Of Cruelty to Animals, owns little
fox terrier Of which she is exceedingly fond.
A man who called on her the other day was
admiring the dog and asked her mistress
how she, with all her humane theories, could
have allowed the cruel dog fancier to cut off
Snaps tail and ears to the fashionable de-
gree Of brevity The dame drew herself up
and replied, with some hauteur:
My dear sir, Snap expected it. Every
thoroughbred fox terrier expects to have
his tail and ears shortened And that
humbled man went away saying to himself
That's the first time | ever thought of
'noblesse oblige,' as applying to fox ter
riers. '-Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
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All Rand md Write

Nashville, H., boasts that every one
of its 5000 citizens, excepting, of
course, the infants, can read and write
the English language. Furthermore,
it claims to ship the most stock and
farm produce of any town of its size
in the state. As an evidence of ITS i'm
portance it is said that a railroad train
has never run through the town with
out stopping. As proof of the enter
prise of its people it points to the fact
that they recently raised 100000 in
cash and offered that sum, together
with $4,000 in property, as a bonus TO
secure the location of the new state
normal school. Rushville has never had
typhoid fever, diphtheria or mosquitoes
and has no rich doctors or undertakes.
Chicago Tribune.
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FROM YESTERDAY.


Hank to the children's merry play
In the old NOW sweet with the new-mowr
hay!
Blithefully blending the laugh and shout,
Cheerily carolling in and out.
o, but the heart beats warmer when
Come those words to my ear again:
"a busheTof wheat and bushel of rye,
All faint ready holler 1.
Seems Il me but breath of time
Since repea ted that childish rhyme,
Where there are others playing now
Hide nd seek in the old barns NOW
NY voice echoes within my ear,
The words are mine that pause to near
"A bushel of wheat and bushel OF rye
All faint ready holler 1.
Life is a game more earnest now
Than when I played in the dear old NOV;
The one who searches me out is rate
Who comes unbidden and viii not wait.
And who in his self-apointed day,
Calls one and all, nor waits to say:
"a bushel of wheat and bushel OF rye,
All faint ready boiler T.
Nixon Waterman. in Elliott's Magazine.
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Jason Crow, oscarviIIe, Ga, says.

'1 feel it my duty to write and let you
know what your medicine, IS Drops, has
done for me- have had rheumatism about
Is years, but was able to be up most Of the
time, until year ago last May, when was
taken down and not able to move about
About six weeks ago l saw your advertise
ment and wrote for sample bottle. After
taking a few doses, it did me so much good
that / ordered some more for myself and
friends and in every case it has done won
ders and given perfect satisfaction. DR.;
Woodliff, my family physician, who has had
rheumatism Is years, is taking $ Drops and
says it is the most efficient rheumatic med
icine he has ever used. May 81, 1899"
The above refers to "5 Drops" perfect
cure for rheumatism, kidney and all kin
dred complaints The proprietors, Swan
offer to send 25c sample bottle for only
Zoe. during the next 80 days. Be sure to read
their advertisement of last week.
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GRADUAL PROGRESS.
The Boy Had Situation and the Fa-
Their Was Going to BE an
AgricuIturist.

Flows your boy doing?" inquired the
man whose business takes him occasionally
to rural community where he knows all
the inhabitants.
Zine"
HAS a good job, has he?"
"He amt got job no more. He's got a
situation He started in with job, where
he didn't get nothin' but wages-four dol
lars week. But he done so good that they
boosted him right along, so that now he's
gettin' ten dollars a week. That there amt
wages. That's salary
How are your own affairs prospering?
First rate"
"Still pursuing your old business
mo. I'm a farmer now"
"Why, isn't that what you always were%
mo, Stree. don't fool myself with no
aatterin' notions. Up to a little while ago,
when the wave of prosperity struck, |
wasn't nothin' but a common cracker. But
I've bought an extra piece of ground an
lifted a couple of mort cages, an now I'm
a farmer. IF the luck holds out I'll have
some money in the bank in a few years.
Then I'm goin' to buy three minute boss
and a blackboard and NOW the grass in front
Of the house and be an agriculturahst." -
Washington Star.
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HANDY CIDER PRESS.
To Make One Requires Neither Much
Money Nor an Abundance
of Ingenuity.

To make a cider press take plank
by - inches by IL feet; soft wood will
do, but hard is better. Saw two pieces
four feet long and two pieces two feet;
cut again in each of the long pieces,
four inches from the end and one-half
inch deep and as wide as the thickness
of the short pieces; Then spike the four
together as illustrated. Get carpen-
ter's iron bench screw at cost of about
a dollar, which does for the screw. For
the cheese crib, get two hoops made of
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-11-02

Every reader of this paper should give
special heed to the offers which are appear
ing from week to week by the John NJ.
Smyth Co., the mammoth mail order house
of Chicago. In this issue will be found their
advertisement of a thoroughly up-to-date,
ingly low price Of $l425. Coming as this Of
fer and other offers do from house with a
commercial rating of over one million dol
lars, and of the highest character, they mark
an opportunity that the shrewd buyer will
not be slow to take advantage Of. The John
M. Smyth Co., $50 to l66 West Madison
street, viii send their mammoth catalogue,
in which is listed at wholesale prices every
thing to eat, wear and use, on receipt of
only 10 cents to partly pay postage or ex-
pressage, and even this 10 cents is allowed on
first purchase amounting TO one dollar.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-11-02
Conventional Confusion.

cit is curious" remarked the Lay Fig.
ure, that people think the dumdum bullet
poisonous"
Not at ALL" rejoined the Unconscious
Imbecile. "You see, Immediately the dunn
DUN bullet enters a body it mushrooms.
Now, most people don't know the differ
ence between mushroom and a toadstool,
and a toadstool is poisonous. Curious?
Why, it's the most natural thing in the
world for people to think that"
OF the others, not one forgot that he was
a northumberland Journal.
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He Expected 1t.

Il see that the price of diamonds is
going up" said the young man who
likes TO give information.
"Of course" answered Mr.. Blykins,
in a tone of mingled grief and defiance.
at was to be expected. It's one COM
bination after another these days. You
didn't suppose those coal barons were
going to leave any carbon around loose
where people might buy il and use itas
a substitute, did you?"-Washington
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NEW CATTLE CRIB.
In Old barns That Are Crowded for
Room This Device VIII BE Found
Very Advantageous.

The cut shows a small device for
economizing room in the cattle crib,
while still giving all the room needed.
The stanchions are brought almost to
the edge of the feeding floor (giving
more width in the tie-up, which is
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-11-02
stnmnch wnrms in sheep.

Stomach worms in sheep have given
unusual trouble among the fiocks OF
Ohio this year, says bulletin of the
Ohio experiment station at Wooster.
The treatment advised is two teaspoon
fuls of common gasoline with four
ounces of sweet milk, well shaken to-
gether to form an emulsion. Mix the
dose for each lamb separately and give
three doses, each "a hours apart, These
worms may be found in the fourth
stomach in writhing mass They are
white. thread like and three-fourths
inches long.-Farm and Home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-11-02

What is it? An amateur concert? 2"
"Yes. but ii is TO be given by the best
talent in the neighborhood and it's for
charity"
How much are the tickets?'
Fifty cents. You ought TO buy a
couple of them and go
Il think I'd rather buy four of them
and not go. Here's your money" -
Chicago Tribune.
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a Sense of Tnsecuritv.

I'm keepin' a sharp lookout fur
work." said Meandering Mike.
Flooding Pete gazed at him in mute
dismay as he added:
Il means it. You've gotter keep a
lookout fur work desc busy days. If
you amt careful a situation'll sneak up
behind yer an grab yer an have yer
under obligations to de pay roll be-
fore yer knows what's happenin'.'
Washington Star.
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the problem of the successful completion of
this great enterprise. If so, it will prove a
great benefit to humanity, no more, truthful
~ speaking, than has Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, the remedy which never fails to cure
Affections of the stomaeh-for Of what use is
prosperity without health? The Bitters inva-
riabIy strengthens weak stomachs and torpid
lvers, and is one of the blessings of the age.
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Bear fighting BY The high aristocracy
is one OF the latest fads reported from
Italy. The prince of Molfetta recently
gave an exhibition in which he himself
fought a young bear which had been
trained not to use its claws for scratch
ing. King Humbert was so pleased at
a similar exhibition given a short time
ago in Rome forcharity that he contrib
uted $4,000 from the royal exchequer
Chicago Chronicle.
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Too Late.

A horseman burst into the prison yard.
"Reprieved!" he shouted, and waved a
paper aloft.
100 late" replied the warden, sadly.
as the man hanged already"
"No; but he has eaten the hearty break
fast Of ham and eggs, coffee and potatoesl'
Executive clemency was all right in its
place, but it could not be suffered to inter
fere with the conventional course of events
Yes, the horseman's steed was undeniably
foaming, but even that availed little or moth
ing under the circumstances.-Detr Jour.
nal
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Feared for His Liberty.

Il believe" he said. thoughtfully.
"that Miss Jenkins intends to marry
me-"
"What makes you think 500"
Il asked her TO go to church with me.
and she wanted to know if we couldn't
just as well go to the minister's house."
Chicago Post.
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Trne nevnfinn.

Miss Cayenne" said Willie Wishing
ton, You are always laughing at me"
That's very true. I'll try to quit, if
il annoys you"
1T doesn't annoy me. / am content
TO sit perfectly silent and let you laugh
al me ever since / heard you say there
was nothing you were fonder of than
something really funny. Washing
ton Star.
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Hoyy,a Tbisf

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure
F. j. Cheney & Co., Props, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known +. J.
Cheney for the last Is years, aid believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transac-
tions and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by their firm
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To-
ledo, o.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, @.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials
free.
Halls Family pile ara Al. bas+