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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30
Easter millinery at Miss Mapes'
bed Hot. From The Gun

Was the ball that hit G.. B. Stead
man Of Newark, Mich, in the Civil
War. 1t caused horrible Ulcers THAT
no treatment helped for 20 years.
Then Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured
him. Cures Cuts, Bruises, Burns
Boils, Felons, Corns. Skin Eruptions.
Best Pile cure on earth. 25 elsa box
Cure guaranteed. Sold by Taggart
& Co., Druggists.
l am ready TO do that painting,
granting or papering for you at any
time. Call and see Albert Peats
samples of wall paper at from cents
per roll up to so cents.
NJ, G, HELT.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

The American Steel and Wire
Company abruptly order their 5000
employees to accept an advance in
their wages. The men concluded to
accept it and not go on a strike for
the old schedule.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

Mrs. j. W. Wadsworth gives pro-
gressive luncheon party this afternoon.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

Winter clings TO US with persistent
attachment. There has been enough
Of cold comfort. Snow fe,l in sutfi-
Gent quantity for slei, hing on the
DIST of November and there has been
sleighing continuously TO this date
100 daVs.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

A sleighing party of twelve went to
Hudson last evening and took supper,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

Fatalities on the street railways of
Chicago have decreased IS per cent
since the introduction of tenders on
the cars.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30
GIVE you
NE " ES

GIVE you
NEW EYES
Is something we can't do, but we can make
your old ones as geod as new with pair OF
alton with opthalmoscopel no charge for same.
II your eyes are bothering you IN any way,
come and see us. All work guaranteed.
SHOOTING
P1INS
In the teuples-dulI aches across the fore
head-blurred visiOn-letters or lines running
into one another-skipping of words or letters
I'M reading-seeing objects double-foating
specks thar come and go-aversion TO bright
light--a confusion of objects which can be re
lieved by closing the eyes momentarily.that
tired feeling in and back Of the eyes-infam-
nation in the minute veins covering the
"whites of the eyes, are all symptoms OF optic :
al defects that can remedy with a properly
adjusted glass. A $40 examination free.
W " Tsopsrt. Optician, Ofice next door TO
Bank Of River Fails, River Falls, Wis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

The Hon. James Johnson of New
Richmond was in the city the first of
the week the guest of Rev Snodgrass,
Prof. Ames and other friends. He
delivered a lecture to crowded house
at the NJ. E, church SUNDAY night.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

Harry Hurlburt and Ever Smith
have bought the job printing office of
w Z. Tubbs and entered upon the
active duties Of the partnership bust
ness.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

Charlie Lunger suffered a fracture
Of the collar bone Tuesday by being
thrown from a load of hay.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30
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so66n a.

Orders cancelled March 81, 1899 =. S96i5. II
Orders outstanding ................ 44.62
$780, SO
Cash balance on hand of Treas. S327s 81
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

Before the discovery of One Minute
Cough Cure, ministers were greatly
disturbed by coughing congregations.
No excuse for it now. r. S. Freeman
s. Son.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

Ernest Whitehead will move to
Baldwin and engage in the bakery
and restaurant business.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

John Eaton writes from Washing
ton they are having warm, spring
weather out there.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

Nobody thought of accusing Teddy
Roosevelt of prevarication in his tes'
timOny on canned beef.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

Two degrees below zero this morn
ipO
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

Whole wheat flour for sale at Geo.
Fortune & Co. feed store. This is
one of the most wholesome Of cereal
foods, at very moderate price.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

New stock of Carpets at Rasmus
sens.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

The law of the infinite never fails,
and by compliance with its provisions
we enlist its unlimited might in our
behalf"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

A DR.. Wood, now of the University
of Wisconsin, a graduate of Harvard,
has process by which he takes color
photographs. He also photographs
SOund
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.

The public school has a vacation
next week.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

Miss Ida Johnson is now back from
St. Paul, and will be taking in or 60
ing out sewing. She stays at A. p.
E0rsVth'S
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30
Worklnu Niuht and Day

EsCULAPIUs positively cures head
ache. % cents at the drug stores.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30
America.

There will also be a few brief re.
marks by some Of our leading speak.
ers. The concert will begin promptly
at $50 o'clock. Don't miss the open
ing number.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30
STREET DEPARTMENT.
WATER WORKS DEPARTMENT

3 1922. 81
Total expenditures .......S 9442. 80
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

Otis has made good Investment for
the navy, in purchasing 10 small gun
boats the remainder of SPANS naval
outfit in the Philippines.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-30

Freeman's Diarrh9a Mixture is
sold under guarantee to cure
Diarrh9a, Dysentery and all Summer
COmDlaints
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
HAD SOME PRIDE HIMSELF.
Which Explains a LauElsubIc Occur
renee on a Chicago Street
Car.

A few evenings ago pretty girl got
on an Indiana avenue car at Twenty
fourth street. In one corner of the car
sat bibulous Irishman, in the senti-
mental stage of intoxication. He was
singing softly to himself There's Only
One Girl in the World for Me-" and
lurching back and forth without regard
TO the comfort of the passengers near
him. The man who sat next to the
sentimental Irishman got up and Of
fered his seat to the pretty girl. She
hesitated and then said: mo, thank
you; I'm only going a few blocks"
The intoxicated individual stopped
as short in his song as if he had run
against a rope. He braced up stiff1y
and his face took on look of disap-
pointment and injured innocence as
he broke out with:
"She won't-hic-she won't set down
to tn side O. me. She-hiv-she won't
set down to tn side O me cause I'm an
lrishman. Thash it; sure of it. Irish
men amt got no rights. Proud lady
r'fuse to set down to tn side of EN-,
an ever blamed idiot in the car got T.
giggle bout it. Sthop thish car, en-
ductor; got some pride lef', + aint
nothin' but Irishman."
And then, says the Inter Ocean, he ac-
cepted the help of the conductor in
striking a balance and was set off the
car gently at the next corner.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
GRIP CAR FENDER.
The New Device Picks Up Hams ana
other Things Which Fall
from Wagons.

The untold and hitherto unsuspected
possibilities of the street car fender as
a collector Of things various was hinted
al by an occurrence Oh Washington
street the other day, whereby the gem
tie gripman came out considerably
ahead of the game, reports Chicago
paper A market wagon laden to the
guards with sides of beef and hams and
barrels of tenderloip and other things
edible and every way pleasant to lock
upon even in their raw and unwashed
condition was occupying the track in
front Of Madison street cable train.
The gripman sounded the gong Justify
and the driver of the meat wagon at
tempted to pull out of the track to
make way. But the grip was too close
for comfort and it grazed the wagon,
jarring the load and spilling half q
dozen hams on the ground.
The driver pulled up his horse hastily
when he had cleared the track and
jumped off to gather the precious prod
uce from the street. but two of the
hams fell within the tracks and were
promptly scOOped up by the fender.
The gripman threw his weight on the
lever and the train shot along toward
the west with the hams reposing safely
on the steel carrier. probably to enrich
the larder of the gripman. Now, if
some one would drop an occasional
overcoat or barrel of -four now and
then in front of a cable car the life of
the gripman would be one long. purple
holiday. ..-.----
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
WITCHCRAFT IN ALASKA.
The Government Trying to Stamp Gu +
the Troublesome Practice of
the Medicine Men.

The United States court of Alaska,
acting under instructions from Wash
inyton. is endeavoring to stamp out
witchcraft, as practiced by the Indian
tribes on the southeastern coast of the
territory. A number of Indians arc at
juneau under arrest, and their cases
are being considered by the grand jury
that is now in session. These Indians
are very superstitious, even more so
than those of the interior. If the med
icine man is unable to effect a cure in
any case he pronounces the patient pe-
witched. The relatives of the sick In
Gian will accuse some of the tribe of be-
ing the witch devil" The accused is
confined until the fate of the patient is
decided. In every case he is put to
death if the sick man dies. The num-.
increased during the past year, and
Gov. Brady gave it prominence in his
report.
Judge Johnson, in charging the
grand jury, said: "You will be cal-td
upon to investigate a number of Of
fenses peculiar to this territory grow
irg ont of the belief in witchcraft prev
alent among the native people. Many
OF the cruel murders among them may
be traced to this belief, and it is your
duty not to ignore, but to make patient
inquiry and return true bills where
the evidence so warrants, for the pro-
lection of these people. The stamp OF
the laws disapproval of all such prac
tices must be emphatic"
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
TERRIBLE JUDICIAL ERROR.
How Lying Servants Caused the Ex-
ecutiOn OF an Innocent Man
I'm Russia.

A terrible judicial error is reported
from Bychawa, in Russian Poland. In
February, 1892, merchant arrived at
an inn there and took a room for the
night. In the morning he was found
dead in bed and had every appearance
of having died natural death. The
"boots," Ivan Pschatka, and servant,
however, both swore that they had
seen the innkeeper, Cazek, strangle
the merchant, take money from his
pockets and bury it near certain tree
in the garden. Their evidence was con-
firmed by the discovery of so rubles
buried at the spot mentioned by them.
The Judge held that Cazek's guilt was
now conclusively proved and sentenced
him to death. Cazek was shortly after
ward hanged in spite of his protesta-
tions of innocence.
Ivan Pschatka married the servant
and Cazek was almost forgotten, when
Pscha tka and his wife recently quar-
relied and made accusations against
each other, which led to Investigations
being made. 1t has now transpired that
Cazek was in the habit of hiding his
own savings near the tree in the gar
den. Pschatka and the servant dis
covered the hiding place and stole all
the money except 80 rubles.
They were, however, terribly afraid
of being detected, and when the mer-
chant happened to die in the inn just
at the opportune moment fer them
they concocted the story of murder and
caused the innocent Cazek to be found
guilty of murder and hanged. The two
unscrupulous perjurers are now await
ing trial for their awful crime.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
EXPENSIVE SPARKS.
Fireworks That Cost Over a Million
Dollars Sometimes Burned In
European PaGeants.

Our own fireworks manufacturers
are, of course, prepared to produce as
brilliant displays as any in the world,
but unfortunately they do not have the
opportunities afforded by royal pa
geants in monarchical countries.
According TO one British firm, who
are famed all over the world for their
manufacture of fireworks, the amount
spent on the display of fireworks in
connection with her majesty's jubilee
was $1,250, 600. The display at the close
of the Crimean war cost $50O,OOO. Ihe
largest individual exhibitions by the
firm were given on the Tagus for the
Portuguese government; the second in
1888 costing $4,000, while the first,
which was made on the occasion of the
marriage in 1886 of the king (then
crown prince) of Portugal, cost half
that amount. The display at Delhi
when the queen was proclaimed en-
press of India cost S17,500. Some Oh
the most costly fireworks are those
produced at the Crystal palace. Ihus.
at a benefit recently, the exhibition
lasted from so to IS minutes, but 1t cast
s., 500, or abut $3.50 per minute.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
JUMPED OVER A TOWN.
That Is what a Certain Ship Did an Il
1t Was Afterwards Car
ried Dnck.

a most extraordinary incident hap
pened to the corvette Monongahela at
Santa Cruz in 1857. While al anchor in
the harbor tremendous tidal wave
lifted her upon its crest and carried her
clean over the town of FrederichstaGt
and back again without injuring the
town or the boat to any great extent.
The receding wave landed her on the
beach instead of in the waters of the
harbor, and it cost the United States
government S100, 900 to float her again.
Fully as strange was the fate of the
sloop-of-war Wateree. She was an
chored in the harbor of africa, Peru, in
1868, when a huge tidal wave swept ir-
land and flooded the whole city. The
wave carried the sloop several miles in
land and finally landed her in the
midst of tropical forest. 1t was i'm
possible to release her from such Pc
culiar position, and she was sold fer a
nominal sum. The purchasers turned
the vessel into hotel, and the remains
of the once formidable war vessel loom
up in the tropical forest to-day as
monument to the power Of tidal waves.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
WRECKING A COWBOY.
How a TenderfOOt with SILK Hat
Did Him Up in a Little
Gun Play,

There is at least one cowboy in Ar;-
zona whose head is three sizes smaller
than il was month ago." said the Chi
cego drummer, as he brushed the alllai
dust off his coat collar. "A; Tombstone
! fell in with young man from New
Haven who was prowling over the
0dntry in search of good thing, but
not caring much whether he found it or
net. One afternoon be stood with his
jack to the street, reading the posters
on il billboard. He had on a silk hat.
and presently cowboy emerged from a
store on the opposite side of the square.
One glance at that hat brought out
gun, and there was pop! pop! pop! till
six bullets had been fired. The tender
foot never turned, nor let on that he
deard the shooting. In ten seconds the
gun was reloaded, and there was an
q her fusillade. There were a hundred
eople looking on and shouting and
aughing, but the tenderfoot kept his
Jack to the street until the twelfth shot
had been fired. Then he calmly turned
ABOUT, removed his hat and placed it on
the ground, and stepping back a pace
or two, he drew his gun and shot it to
pieces. The remains were yet smoking
when he picked them up, crossed the
square, and holding the handful of old
hat out to the cowboy, he humbly said:
IF you have a couple of month hs to
spare | might be willing to teach you
how to handle a gun!'
But hadn't the cowboys bullets hit
the hat?" was asked.
Every blessed one of them," replied
the drummer, "but no one knew it ex-
cept the tenderfoot, and he destroyed
all evidence By bis own shooting. The
crowd took it that the cowboy had
missed and raised laugh on him, and
when he straddled his cayuse and loped
down the street, be looked as homesick
as a dog thousand miles from home "
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
PROFITABLE ENTERPRISE.
Flat Failure of Pessfmistic Predic-
tiOns Regarding the Sues
Canal.

1t was shown that from an engineer
ing point Of view the Suez canal was
impossible, while from commercial
point of view it was proved up to the
hilt that, even if the canal could be
made it would, so far as traffic went.
be failure as melancholy to the phi
lanthropist as it would be disastrous
to the investor, says the Engineering
Magazine.
The great authorities who spoke with
80 much assurance are all dead, and it
is we'll for their comfort that they
are.
In 1869 traffic between the west and
the east via the Cape of Good Hope was
about 3.5000C0 tons. In 1897 the traf-
fc through the Suez canal was $685.
9S1 tons, while that round the Cape
of Good tope was at least 3,750,C00 tons.
In other words, one direct result of
the construction of the Suez canal has
been that in % years the commerce Of
the world has been increased 100000
tons annually.
1t is hardly necessary to add that the
return to the investor who risked his
money in what seemed to SO many to
be a hare-brained project has been, to
say the least of it, of fairly satisfac-
tory character.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
GOES WITH THE HOUSE,
At Least One Doorplate Is Kept In It's
Place by the VIII of Its
Dead Owner.

In the cross streets in the old village
of Greenwich one will still find houses
with green painted doors and brass
knobs and doorplates, The brass is
generally bright, as it was always kept
in the old times when sand was used as
Il burnisher. The names on the door
plates are not always the names of the
occupants of the house. A New York
Sun reporter In his strolls in Vandam
street noticed more than the usual
number of Goorplates, and asked po-
liceman a question, which elected the
following:
Take the name on that doorplate,'
pointing to door close by; "the mar
whose name is there has been dead
nearly 40 years. And after him his
family lived there for o long time, anc
the daughter married and she lived ir
the same house for long time, and the
name was never changed on the plate
Then she moved away. | don't know
what became cf her. The house was
vacant awhile, and the doorplate re.
mained all the time Then the house
was rented, and one day for curiosity
] asked why the doorplate was npt re.
moved, and / was told that the origina.
owner had it put in his will that as
long as the house stood the doorplate
was TO stay on the door. And s'pose
it's the same way with all the ole
houses that have dccrplates."
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
LONGEVITY.
Why Men I'm Professional Pursuits
Live Longer Than Those In
business,

In the majority of cases among city
dwellers those who reach advanced
ages are found to have been profes-
sional men. There are good many
reasons for this,
In the first place, the struggle for ex-
istence begins later in professional life
than in other centers. The profession
al man seldom begins his work much
before 25, while the business man CT
laborer soes 40 work. at the age of IL.
Thus the professional man has seven
clear years of freedom from RESPONSE
bility, moderate work and healthy eX-
istence. Secondly, the occupation OF
the professional man generally takes
him to a considerable extent into the
open air, and is very seldom entirely
sedentary. Thirdly, the professional
man generally enjoys that modest com
petence which saves him at once on
the one hand from starvation or penury
and on the other hand from idleness
and excess. Fourthly, his holidays are
generally ample. Filthy, to certain
extent his livelihood generally depends
On his leading at least !, cor paratively
sober and moral life, violent excesses
running both his standing and his bust
ness capacity. Sixthly, professional
callings are exposed to very few special
dangers. Lastly, since even q minor
ailment often units man entirely
for professional works, he has special
motive in taking particular care of his
health
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
GAVE BABY WRONG NAME.
mothers Mistake at the
Baptismal Font.

A young girl lad an amusing expert
ence at baptism the other afternoon.
She was occupying the exalted position
of sponsor for a little girl baby and.
never having served in such proud
capacity before, she was slightly nerv-
Gus and perplexed, reports the Chicago
Chronicle.
What is your name?" demanded
the clergyman performing the cere-
mony.
"Mary, sir" she replied at once, and
Mary was accordingly written in a
tiny book and he minister passed on
to the next applicant for baptism.
The worried sponsor listened eagerly
to what was demanded of her next
neighbour and to her horror she found
that the question was not at all in
tended to learn the name of the sponsor,
but was solely concerned with the
name to be bestowed upon the infant.
The agitated godmother hurriedly ap-
preached the clergyman, interrupting
the ceremony to exclaim:
20, sir, Mary isn't the baby's name
at all. It's mine. thought you want
ed mine. The baby's name is Rebecca
Elizabeth"
And amid the irreprcssible laughter
Ct all assembled the baby was rechris-
tened Rebecca Elizabeth.
II should never have dared to face
its mother" the sponsor said later,
"but | think the baby would have for
given the mistake and blessed me for
IT."
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
Exhibition OF Falconry,

Al the Paris exposition in 1900 novel
exhibit will be made of faIconry. in
stalled in the historical department Of
The section devoted to hunting. There
will be shown all the implements used
in the ancient sport, such as gloves,
hoods, bags, uniforms, etc. There will
also be noted pictures of hunting with
falcons. such as Darnet's, in the Orleans
museum, representing Anne of Austria
surrounded by her court women, all
will be portraits Of noted falconers,
preserved in the collections Of prom
inent families, and tapestries on hunt
ing subjects.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
BEAUTIFUL EYES.
An Oculist Authority Says Those With
Large Pupils Are Apt to
BE Defective,

A large pupil is one of the chief beau
ties of the eye, and so well is this rec
ognized that the atropia, which dilates
the pupil, has been named belladonna.
Yet diiated pupil is very common
symptom Of defective vision. The iris
is a shutter to regulate the amount OF
Light falling on the retina, and if the
latter be dull or defective it requires
larger supply Hence dilated pupil is
often associated with a feeble retina,
which, of course, means feeble vision.
Short-sighted people have often a
greater conyexity of the front of the
cornea, and this lends a certain bright
ness to the eye. Apart from these me-
chanical causes, there is a very com
mon, but unexplained, association of
defective sight, and an irritable and
easily infamed eye, with some of the
rarer and more beautiful colored irises.
The much-admired violet eye, and GER
tain shades of gray and blue, often suf
fer from such associated defects.
Those with long eyelashes are said to
be more subject to "stye" and other in
Examinations.