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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-24
Debating sec,.ty Organizes.

Tho debating society - the Washington
College Of Law recently elected the follow
ing officers: Mr.. r. {. button. president,
Mrs. J. c. A. Page. vice president; Mrs. NJ.
\. Wood. secretary. Miss Helen NanilI
boswell was appointed chairman OF the
executive committee, and reported back a
constitution. which was accepted unani-
mously. The first debate VIII be held at
the college Friday. December ;.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-12
SUGAR FOR SOLDIERS.
Some Experiments Made in Germany
Prove Its Value as Strength
ImpartinE Ration.

A paper was read recently at Metz,
Germany, by DIR. Leitensdorfer, at a
meeting of the local Army Surgeons
society, on the subject of the use of
sugar as food in the army. The lee
turer based his remarks upon personal
observations. In three companies of
soldiers ten men without means and of
weak constitution were used for the
tests, and ten stronger men to control
the same. Before the experiments be-
gan, the weight, pulse at rest and pulse
at work, and respiration were taken
for each individual. The stronger man
having a pulse at rest of so or less
showed an increase of to Il beats at
work; the weaker ones, when sub
iected to the identical exercise, showed
an increase as high as 80 beats above
80 or over.
The sugar men received seven, and
later on ten to twelve Jumps of sugar
day, each lump being equal TO five
grammes. In some cases the amount
was increased up TO 81 grammes day.
The result of the experiemnt was the
following: In scientific sense favor
able influence upon the capacity of the
individual was shown at so to 60
grammes a day, added to the regular
ration, the pulse and respiration being
lower while at work than with those not
fed on sugar, and then the men fed on
sugar showing an increase of weight
greater than those who did not eat the
sugar. The favorable influence of the
sugar upon the muscles and the heart
exhibited itself in greater endurance.
From a practical point of view it was
determined: /. That men like sugar
and it agrees with them. 2. That sugar
satisfies both hunger and thirst. g..
That sugar gives quick relief in case of
hunger, faintness and exhaustion, ow-
ing to the fact that it is easily alb
sorbed.
The Agricultural Society of France
on March 3, at the instance of its presi-
dent, NJ. S. Tetard, resolved to request
the government to allow more impor-
tant place to sugar in the army rations.
The request has led to an order by the
minister of war to the corps command
ers to make experiments for the pur-
pose of determining if, and to what ex-
tent, the addition of sugar to the ration
would be profitable in the field.-Beet
Sugar Gazette.
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who made bet with the local govern
him with ropes in such a manner that
he would not be able to disengage him
self offhand. The agent, assisted by
Mallory and other white men, tied the
Indian up in the most eli borate fashion
and put him inside of conical wigwam
in the middle of an open space. No
body else was permitted to come near
him. As quickly as they had with
drawn, tremendous humping sounds
We're heard from the hut, which swayed
from side to side as if it would be torn
to pieces. Two or three minutes later
the Indian called out, telling them to
go to a certain house several hundred
yards away where they would find their
ropes. One of the white men was sent
to the house, and he found the ropes,
with all of the complicated knots UNI
tied.
'The tieing committee opened the
wigwam then, but found the wizard
smoking n pipe, with his black magic
stone on his lap. Neither pipe nor stone
had been there previously. The head
priest of the wizards society, having
heard of this exhibition, sent word that
he would be killed if he repeated such a
performance for gain. Evidently i was
deemed improper that religious busi-
ness of that sort should be thus prosti-
tuted.
II was much mystified on one occa-
sion by trick | saw performed in big
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-12
ADOPT A NOVEL DRINK CURE.
Women of a West Virginia Town
Improve Its Moral
Atmosphere.

A few years ago the oil village of
| Waverly, in the interior of Wood coun-
ty, gained considerable notoriety be-
cause, having no lookup, drunkards
were punished by being placed in an
iron gas tank, which was closed up
and rolled over the hills by the resi-
dents.
The owners of the tank took it from
the village recently, and the women
gathered and suggested that the men
arm themselves with half-gallon squirt
guns with which to louise every man
found on the streets intoxicated. The
men objected and scoffed at the plan.
Thereupon the women purchased the
''squirts," filled them with ice water,
and went 20 work. Whenever drunk
en- man is seen on the streets each wom-
ar takes cold-water shot at him. The
moral atmosphere of Waverly has been
greatly purified since the scheme was
started
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-12
A MAN WHO KNOWS A LOT.

He can tell you what the time is at the Sun
day Islands when
The clock is striking nine at Liverpool;
He can give you all the facts concerning
Cortez and his men,
He was always taking medals when at
school.
His clothes are old and torn,
And his manner is forlorn,
He says that life's failure at the best;
Once the brightest boy in town,
He is ragged now and down,
And a hopeless heart is beating in his
breast.
He can quote you scenes from Timon, he is
full of ancient lore;
He can name the consultations in the
sky;
He Ct n tell you just how far it is from here
o Singapore,
How all the wars were waged and when
But
In spite of all he knows
He is full of wants ard woes,
He finds the world a cold and cruel place,
And he drags along the street
AS if weights were on his feet,
And something more than time has marred
his face.
He can talk on any subject with a glibness
that is fine;
Ask for dates and he will tell them right
away:
His memory is marvellous, in fact, it is "a
mine
OF useful information" so they say,
But
His clothes are old and torn.
And his manner is forlorn--
There's a blossom brightly blooming on his
beak!
Once the brightest boy in town,
He is ragged now and down,
With a dirty growth of stubbles on his
cheek.
IS. E. Kiser. in Chicago Times Herald.
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medicine lodge. In the course of long
ceremonial, an Indian took bag about
the size of a large handkerchief, and
manipulated it i'll such manner as to
show that it contained nothing. Then
he danced around the lodge slowly,
holding the bag between his fingers by
the upper corners. Presently the heads
of two snakes appeared from the mouth
of the bag, and about foot of the
length of each snake became visible.
But it CHANGED that the juggler in his
dancing passed by the open door of the
lodge, and then | understood the fake.
The light shining through the bag
showed that it contained no snakes.
What had appeared from the bag was
merely the stuffed heads and bodies for
short length of a couple of rattlers.
They were made to stick out by pulling
taut the pieces of tape to which they
were attached" SMITH d. FRY.
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HOW TO PULL POSTS.
A Difficult Undertaking That Is Made
Easy by the Exercise of
Little Stratagem.

We had lot of old posts to pull and
haul off. The ground was dry and the
posts came up hard. We at first thought
to take long pole and yank them out
by main strength and awkwardness
while the team stood by; but decided
upon a different plan and took with us
merely a good length of chain and a
piece of by S-inch stuff about 80 inches
long. Father drove the team and /
manipulated the chain, etc. We started
down on the right-hand side of and close
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-12
ABUSES IN SURGERY.
DIR. Mcdonald Declares In an Address
That Many Operations Are
Brutal and Criminal.

DIR. James Monroe Mcdonald talked
to a large audience at the Peoples in
stitute at Chicago the other evening
upon the use and abuse of surgical OPP
erations. His subject was Horrors of
Modern Surgery" He said, in brief:
Surgery may be divided into conserv-
alive and destructive surgery. One is
wise and humane, the other is brutal
and criminal. The field of true surgery
is the field of traumatic LESSONS. The
fractured bone, the dislocated joint, the
lacerated tissue, these may be operated
upon because they are in the line of con-
servative surgery. Beyond this surgical
science should not go.
ITO lop off organs which are neces-
sary in a normal organism is nothing
but criminal and murderous empiri-
cism, because such procedures cannot
reestablish normal equilibrium to the
organism. On the incarnadized affairs
of surgical science thousands annually
lay down their lives under the bloody
hands of so-calied 'brilliar operators.
Abdominal surgery is the 4..ost brutal,
cruel, murderous fad that has ever
cursed the world. In the last decade the
surgeons knife has slain more than war
and holocausts. Humane people are
crying out against the vivisection of the
lower animals. 1t is time the people
cried out against the cruel viyisection of
suffering human beings, which are oc-
curing every day in the hospitals and
clinical theaters all over the world. We
charge the abdominal surgeon especial
ly with increasing disease and death.
Many of them are honest but ignorant
criminals, but very large class adopt
surgical procedures in abdominal pa
thologies on account of the large fees and
the great reputation they can acquire
The one class ought to be prevented
from practicing surgery because of ig-
norance, the other class ought to be
hung for murderous cruelty"
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Honest Methods win.

This is a fact that sometimes is over
looked in these days of hurry and scramble
but it is fact none the less. The success Of
the John M. Smyth Co., Chicago, whose
advertisements are appearing in this pa
per, is a marked illustration in point. A
tremendous business has been built up by
this firm strictly on its merits. Good goods
properly described and offered at very low
price, the unlimited capital of the firm en-
aiding it to buy on extremely advantageous
terms. See the striking advertisement else
where in this issue and write the John NJ.
Smyth Co., $50 to l66 West Madison ST.,
Chicago, for its mammoth catalogue. Every
family should have it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-12
THRIFTY FALL CHICKS.
How to Build a Coop That Will Pro-
tect Their Feed from the Greedy
Older FIoclxs.

Last year L raised 300 chicks, blu.
none of them grew and matured so
rapidly as the late Matched September
brood, and / think it partly due to their
generous feeds of cracked corn. Find
ing that these September chicks were
crowded from the feed boards when
ever the older flocks were fed, l placed
in their yard one of the coop runs, a
triangular frame of laths, used earlier
in the season to confine mother hens
near their coop. have dozen of these
runs. They are the length of lath
and allow little chicks free ingress and
egress, while the mother can but put
her head through the Stats. The open
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u,L. The Form Home Happy.

Some farmers have wives whom they
work like slaves, and soon these once
fair specimens of Gods work grow gray
and wrinkled. If the drudgery contin-
ues. death follows and the farmer is left
wifeless. There is something in this
life to work for besides money. Wealth
is a nice thing to have, but health is far
greater and more necessary. man OF
woman in good health is millionaire
though penniless. At the rate some
farm women go about their endless
tasks they are quite likely to lose the
latter and miss the former. Their
should be rest, recuperation and enjoy
ment in the farm home. Itean be made
the happiest place on earth if its owner
so elects.-Farmers Voice.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-12
HOW TO PULL POSTS.

10 the line of posts. In driving past a
post he swung the team a little to the
right, then slightly to the left, and
backed a few feet, bringing left hind
wheel of wagon about in lime with post
and within few feet of it. One end of
chain having been fastened around
the axle near left wheel, / hooked the
other end around post close to ground,
then lifted chain and set the piece of
2 by s under it with top end resting
against post and lower end resting on
the ground some is inches from post.
As the team started slowly the post
started skyward, then fell PROSTATE and
was at once loaded into the wagon.
When the end of the line was reached,
in short time, the job was complete
and we were ready to drive off with our
load of posts.-George L. Petit, in
Ohio Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-12
.,, r,oxer In The F,eIa.

1t is claimed that clover hay may be
baied in the field. but the experiments
made are not sufficient to show the BEN
efts derived compared with storing
clover in the NOW. The clover is cut in
the morning, after il is free from dew or
rain. and when well wilted the hay ted
der is used. so as to give it every chance
TO cure. In the afternoon the hay is
baled and hauled to the barn. If this
method is praeticed care must be exer-
cised in having the hay properly cured
and in just the proper condition for
baling. as baled clover is more liable to
hcst than timothy or other kinds.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-12
Another view CT the Matter

Il firmly believe" she said, that
woman should have the right to pro-
pose"
"Of course, if woman proposes" he
replied, "she would give an engagement
ring and other presents, instead of re-
ceiving them"
"On second thought" she answered,
perhaps it would be better not to
change existing conditions" = Phila-
delphia Call.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-12
NEW TELEGRAPHY TRIUMPHs.
Oklahoma Man Sends n Message sixty
Miles without Wiges-Predicts
Telephone without wires.

Peter Pearson. an Oklahoma man, has
invented a system of wireless telegra-
ply which he claims is perfectly sue
cessful. a few days ago he sent mes
sage to his agent in a little town 60
miles away. He later received a copy
of the message by letter through the
post office, exactly IS he sent it, includ-
ing mistake in the sending. He says
that 1t fully demonstrates the sound
ness of his theories, ah5 he fully be-
lieves that the time will come when
people will converse through the air
as they do now through the medium OF
the telephone. He has already dis
taneed all competitors in his line, 80
miles being the limit reached by them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-12
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS FREE.
one Of the Grandest oner. Ever Mad

One of the Grandest Offers Ever Made.
The first five persons procuring the
Endless Chain Starch Book from their
grocer will each obtain one large 10c
package Of Red Cross" starch, one large
l0c package of "HUBINGER'S BEST
starch, two Shakespeare pictures,
printed in twelve beautiful colors, as
natural as life, or one Twentieth Cen
tury Girl Calendar, the finest of its kind
printed, all absolutely free. All 9TH
ers procuring the Endless Chain Starch
Book win obtain from their grocer two
large 10c packages of starch for sc, and
the beautiful premiums, which are be-
ing given away. This offer is only made
for short time to further introduce
the famous RED CROSS starch, and
the celebrated "HUBINGER'S BEST"
cold-water starch. 'sRED CROSS laun-
dry starch is something entirely new,
andiswithout doubt the greatest inven-
ton of the Twentieth Century. 1t has
no eqv al, and surpasses all others. It
has W IN for itself praise from all parts
of tn United States. IL has super
seeded everything heretofore used, or
known 10 science In the laundry art.
1t is made from wheat, rice and corn,
and is chemically prepared upon scien-
tific principles, by j. c. Hubinger, an
expert in the laundry profession, who
has had 25 years of practical experience
in fancy laundering, and who is the
first successful and original inventor
of all fine grades of starch in the United
49,
for RED CROSS" and "HUBINGER'S
BEST" which are the finest starches
on the market to-day. The iobbing
houses all handle il, the retail grocer
has it on his shelves, you find it in all
the homes, while the careful house
wife has adorned the walls of the home
with the beautiful Shakespeare pic
lures, which are being given away in
Introducing FRED CROSS and ''HU-
BINGER'S BEST starch.
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COOP FOR FEEDING CHICKENS.

end of the rrn | placed against the yard
fence and a dish of cracked corn was
constantly kept inside which the larger
chickens could not reach. The little
fellows quickly learned, when hungry,
to dart between the Stats of this run
and eat their fill, safe from the greed
of the grown flock. After snow came
the run was placed in henhouses, the
space between laths increased to allow
free passage of this half-grown brood
and the dish of cracked corn constantly
kept Observation-Disclosures Potter, in
Farm and Home.
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Motto of the siamese Nation,

ment of Siam? And having heard It, have
you repeated it? And having repeated it,
have you caught its purely personal appli-
cation? And having caught it, have you
tried it on your friends? This is the motto:
"Ah Wa Ia Mas SIAM" 1t sounds unintel-
ligible nonsense, but keep saying it over as
you will discover at last that the eastern
patois has western sense that aptly CLASH
fies many a remorseful subject of Uncle Sam.
For "Ah Wa Ia Mas SIAM is easily evolved
into "Ah, what an ass | am. "-Chicago
Chronicle
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The Phiiinnine War.

This contest is proving much more stub
born than we had anticipated 1t needs a
vigorous contest to straighten matters out.
We should tackle the Philippines and over
come them as Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
does dyspepsia, indigestion, malaria, fever
and ague, and liver and kidney diseases. The
battle is short and decisive, and for fifty years
the Bitters have always won. If you are i'll,
and don't know what's wrong. try it.
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Proof Positive.

Marie-Oh, there was such dreadful
beetle in my room last night! As big
as mouse. A yellowish-brown thing
ugh! / chased him half an hour.
Jack-Um-it was an electric beetle
I guess.
Marie-It must have been, for it ran
like lightning.-Judge.
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chose being a spectator.

Aunt Sophia-And is Tommy good
little boy at school?
Tommy-Yes, auntie.
Aunt Sophia-And why is Tommy a
good little boy?
Tommy Cause it's better fun to see
the other boys get licking than to get
one Yourself Boston Transcript.
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Condemned Man Ito his lawyer =
It's long sentence, sir, to be sent to
prison for life.
Lawyer Gnclined to more hopeful
view it does seem long, but per-
haps you won't live great viii Ie.-Tit-
Bits
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The Dtvoreee.s Marriage.

Mrs. Jones-If the clergyman hest
tated, why didn't you get civil mag
istrate to marry you?
Mrs. Brown-Oh. l couldn't think of
it! Its bad enough for person of a
deeply religious nature to have TO be
divorced by magistrate, to say moth
ing of being married by one.-Detroit
Innrnal
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q would lay the world at your feet, he
exclaimed. But she looked at him Jelly and
returned:
Dolby. UNLESS the law of gravity has been
unexpectedly repealed, the earth is there
already. Nv ashington Star.
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mhv ne Li,ea Sol LONG.

Bing-Yes, that's old Spriggins. Half
a dozen doctors have given him up at
various times during his life.
Wing What was the trouble with
him?
Bing- He wouldn't pay his bills
Tif-BitS.
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ssThe1e is something peculiar about
THAT old darky's family
~What is it?'
.He has seven boys and not ore of
them is ramed George Washington. -
| Ohio State Journal.
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satisfy Cakes

! Boil and mash the satisfy, add we'll
beaten egg, pepper and salt. Pat into
cakes, roll in -four and fry in hot fat.
They may be rolled first in egg and then
I in cracker crumbs.-Housekeep
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German Pig Iron.

German production of pig iron in the
first half of the current year was 4.0o0.-
0oo tons, against 100000 in the same
time in 1895.
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address is Lynn, Mass. Absolutely no
charge is made for advice. - suffered
seven years and would surely have died
but for your help" writes Mrs. Gro.
BAINBRIDGE, Morea. Pa, to Mrs. Pinkham.
" 1t is with pleasure now write to inform
you that am now healthy woman. thanks
to your kind advice and wonderful medi-
cine. can never praise it enough. Twas
a constant sufferer from womb trouble. and
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Tne Mediocre Wan,

NO. said the man who was feeling
blue. 4 have not been a success-not
even as failure Indianapolis Jour
nal
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An affair between prize-fghters is usually
called mill, though it could be more appro-
priately called a mill.-Baltimor Amer
lean,
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In Luck-First Dear Grit have no
friends to speak of. Second Dear Girl
Lucky friends Life.
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To Cure a Cold In One Day

The first umbrella appeared in 1777 The
last one disappeared about 40 minutes after
we bought it.-Elliott's Magazine.
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He latter the fourteenth round -"How I
love to dancei" She-"Then | should think
you'd learn. Town Topics.
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Uneasy lies the head that wears bonnet
in which large-sized political bee is com
tinually buzzing-Chicago Daily News.
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HAIRS Catarrh Cure

Some people are mighty independent" il
their ways who have no reason to be.-Atch
;son Globe
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/ believe Pisos Cure for Consumption
saved my boys life last summer.-Mrs. Allie
Douglass, Leroy, Mich, Oct 20, '94.
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When you hate a man, either fight him or
say nothing Globe.
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\VERY suffering from any female trouble can be
n helped by Mrs Pnkham This statement is based on
sound reasoning and unrvalled record Multitudes
of Americas to-day bless Mrs. Pnkham for competent
and advice. Write to her you ILL., Her
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PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do rot
stain the hands or spot the kettle. Sold by
ali druggists.