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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-04-03
NATIVES nEruRNINo.

Manila. April ]. $3.50 .. m.-Thc na.
tlycs continue returning TO their homcn.
They arc coming IN all along the Amer
lean lln.A. and many OF them. accins
the promises Of good treatment are
FULFILLED. are Inducing their relatives To
return TO their homes. Major General
Elweli y. Otis. commander OF the
American military forces. has received
the following message.
Hearty congratulations ON the most
magnificent work OF the army:
DEWEY"
The Philippine commission the last
member OF that body, Col. Charles Dom
BY former minister 10 China. havina
arrived here, viii discuss the situation.
The commissioners arc hopeful OF a
rpecdy restoration OF peace. believing
hOutlllllcs will soon be confined To the
habltunl rcvolutiOnlHta.
nrigadlcr General Harrison Gray otis
sails for hons ON board the United
States transport Sherman today. He
says he believes the inrurrcction has
nccelved ita death blow.
The sherman will also have on board
the sons u Secretary John Hay. OF the
state department, and Senator llals
II Maine. who have Witnessed much OF
the lighting with the army and the
bodies Of Col. Harry e. Egbert OF tho
Twcnty-.econd Infantry. killed on
March 20. and other officers who have
recsntiy fallen In battle.
Gen. Wheaton has nnum "a command
~ the brigade lately commanded by
Gen. Otis. The Third and Twenty
second regiments OF den. Whcnton's
command are returning 10 TINS city'
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-19
Automntic salt Works.

About a hundred miles north of Lima,
near the town of Huacho, is one of the
greatest curiosities of nature-a salt
factory on an automatic plan. When
the tide comes in it fills lot of shallow
basins, and the water is prevented from
flowing back into the sea by closing the
gates. The atmosphere is so dry that
the water exaporates rapidly and leaves
a sediment of salt in an almost pure
state, which is scraped up, packed into
sacks and shipped to market. Within
the coast little farther the percola
ton of sea water through the porous
rocks into pits and hollows has caused
immense deposits of salt to accumulate.
The salt is taken out in blocks six or
eight inches square and sold in that
form. As soon as the salt is exeavated
the water comes in again and in year
or two has solicited and is ready for the
market. Wells driven into the sand
disclose strongly impregnated water
al a depth of % feet, which seem to be
a great deal heavier than the sea water,
and is drawn off into watts for evapora-
tion.-Chicago Record.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-19
CARING FOR CALVES.
They Need "a Constant supply of
Clean, Fresh Water More Than
Heating Rations.

Never put corn, Kaffir corn meal or
any other grain in the milk for calves.
The starch of corn has to be changed to
grape sugar before it is digestible.
This change only takes place in the
presence of an alkali and is done chiefly
by the saliva of the mouth. The corn
is gulped down with the milk, the
starch is acted upon by the acids of the
stomach, but remains unchanged until
it comes in contact with the alkaline Sc
cretions of the intestines. With hogs
the stomach is small and the intestines
long. This allows starchy matter to
be digested in the intestines. The OPP
posite is true with the calf, the stom-
ach being large and the intestines
short. Unless the starchy matter is
largely digested by the saliva of the
mouth, complete digestion will not
take place in the intestines, and the calf
scours. Flax seed meal made into a
jelly or Cruel is good to mix with skim
milk to take the place OF butter fat. Oil
meal is frequently used for this purpose
but, like the skim milk, it has large
amount of fat removed and is not as
good as meal with the fat in. Calves
like fresh water. Any arrangement
that will keep clean, fresh water be-
fore them all the time, is the best way
to supply it. Our calves drink from
seven to eight pounds daily per head
ID. III. Otis, in Agricultural Epitomist.
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a REALIZED AMBITION.

Ills name was James O'ConneH Thomas
jefferson O'Roke;
He was the high-schooI orator, and every
time he spoke"
The school was crowded, high and low and
to the doors, with those
Who Ionged to hear the gifted boy and see
him when he rose
To initiate great Spartacus and bid MS
listeners dare
To beard the lazy Roman hosts, the while
he sawed the air.
AS Brutus he was wont to stand in classic
About imperial Caesar and his sad, assist
ed fate.
AS Antony he stopped to dip in Caesars
sacred blood
His homemade cotton handkerchief, ana
thus unchain the food
OF Roman rage then he would smile COM
PLEASANTLY and pause,
And stand unmoved amid the mighty thun-
ders of applause.
Ye gods! He was hero In those old for
ensic days,
And all the town spread his renown and
boasted in his praise.
His neighbors bolstered up his fame, and
each did prophesy
That all the world should crown his name
with honor ere he'd die.
They swore his magic voice should plead
successfully and strong
For justice to the poor and lead in righting
freemen's wrong.
They noted how his youthful brow already
showed the weight
OF heavy thought and trials wrought bS
cares exceeding great
At last he left his native place and to the
city went
The townsfolk wept, but on his face there
shone a sage content.
81 shall be truly great some day." he said
within his heart;
MY voice shall never never play measly
second part"
See how the kindly fates advance man OF
pluck and brains
He has a railway station job as caller of
the trains!
Chicago Daily Record.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-19
SOLDIER KNEW HOW TO WOO.
Having Won the Young woman's
Consent, He Succeeded with
the Veteran Father.

II tell you," shouted the old gentleman
III not give my consent. I'm not the man
to buy pig in poke or decide a case after
hearing but one side of it. ] don't believe
he was ever a soldier or ever saw battle in
his life. / don't care so much for that, but
it's the false pretenses. I'm a veteran and
| know soldier when | see him. I'll give
him marching orders the next time he
calls"
But, papa, see how straight he walks
and what a trim figure he has. And he has
told me about lots of battles"
'Bosh! There haven't been lots of battles
since has was big enough to fight. tell you
that he's a false alarm. I'll trap him yet.
III bet a house and lot that he can't 60
through the manual of arms"
"But he can. He took cane and showed
me the whole thing. 1t was just grand"
What in creation do you know about it ?
You couldn't tell the difference between a
right shoulder, shift and a double quick
Did he enlist from Detroit?"
mo, Chicago"
20, of course, some big city where it
would take time to look him up. He's a
fraud"
do listen, papa. He knows all about
you grand army people, and says that you're
the finest, bravest, most intelligent military
men that ever kept step to fife and drum.
He likes beans and coffee for cold lunch,
and every night he was here he turned the
lights ont at ten just from force of habit. "
'Noi And he said that about us vet
Grams, hey? Well, III have talk with your
mother. Detroit Free Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-19
WAS A BRAVE INDIAN
How i. P, vice Scout Became Known
as "Dog-Rib joe"
lie Lived Through blizzard for
Twelve Days and Ate His Canine
Companion While the Cruel
Storm Ragged.
Especial washington letter.

This is the most interesting Indian
story that has fallen from the lips of
man for many a day; and you will read
lily understand that the writer was
somewhat thrilled with the narration.
Col. A. c. Buell., in charge of the lit
erary work of the great Cramps ship
building concern in Philadelphia. was
for many years newspaper man, an
editor of great yirility and a man of
superior intellectual attachments. In
his early days he was a surveyor and
civil engineer and spent many days
of the years of his life on the great
American frontier among the noble
red men. He was very warm friend
of ''Pawnee joe" and now quotes that
celebrated Indian with his story of the
reason why he was popularity known
as Dog Rib joe"
Sitting in a clubroom this evening,
he said that, on one occasion, he asked
the white mans helpful friend how
he acquired the sobriquet of Dog
Rib and the red-skinned scout re-
piled:
me talk you about dat. Heap long
time go much squaw man (meaning
the Mormons) make big trouble Salt
Lake (meaning the outbreak of 1857.
That time, me runner Old Fort (mean-
ing Fort Laramie). Great Father
(meaning the government send much
sodger man TO fight much squaw man,
an round 'em up.
Gold time come (meaning it was
winter). Me run 'spatch South Fort
(meaning that he was sent to carry
dispatches between two army posts
200 miles apart. Much cold. Heap
snow. Big blow. Take dog. He much
good dog. Me heap like UNI dog. All
same brudder me. Purity quick more
snow, more blow. No can run. Must
cache me in canyon, grood brush
(meaning that blizzard overlook him
and compelled him to take refuge in
deep gully with a growth of alder
bushes and small cotton woods for shell
ter and fueD.
Long time snow. Long time blow.
Grub (food) in pouch all gone. Must
kill poor dog for eat. Bimeby snow
stop. Blow stop. Snow much deep.
Must make snowshoe. Make um willow
limb and poor dog skin cut in long
string. Den can more run. When come
South Fort no more for eat in pouch
'cep' two, tree rib poor dog. Sodger
man he see. Den call me all time
'Dog-Rib.' Now you sabby?"
So it appeared that Joe had earned
the sobriquet of ''DogRib' in the per-
Torrance of duty of Importance to
the public service during the great
blizzard of December, 1857, and jan
uary, 1858, which still holds the rec
ord in the estimation of old plainsmen.
On this trip he was out IL days and
nights, nine of which he spent cover
ing in the alders and willow brush of
that little canyon and eating his poor
dog 1T is a matter of history that
about a dozen runners were out be-
tween the various forts at that time,
and every one persisted but ''Dog-Rib
joe"
During the Sioux outbreak in Mime
sofa in 1862 Joe was employed as run
ner, trailer and scout by Gen. Sully,
commanding the American forces. On
one occasion he shot Sioux brave
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-19
GUNsAULUs' ANCIENT HORSE
IN Equine Purchase of the Chicago
Divine In His Youth which Dis
Rusted His Father.

Once upon a time Rev. Frank Gunsaulus,
the popular preacher, was a poor circuit
rider. He Travelled from town to town, lift
ed over the roads in farm wagons and board
ed round at the houses of the deacons, and
returning occasionally to his fathers old
farm to spend a few days. His father, so
the story goes, was rough old chap of the
uncut diamond sort, with a vocabulary
more expressive than elegant.
Well, at one time young Gunsaulus found
himself in possession Of enough money to
buy horse. He thought it would be better
to ride his own animal around the circuit
than to borrow transportation. 1t was a
sorry-looking steed this, but it answered
the purpose, and, what was more to the
point, it was cheap. So after he had bought
it he rode it home. His father was in the
barnyard when he came in and he looked
critically at the animal
Where did We git that boss, Frank" he
asked.
81 bought him cheap, father" said the
young preacher.
He's a sorry-lookin' critter, must say, .
said the father
well, father" said Frank, you remem-
Der that our Saviour rode into Jerusalem on
worse looking animal than this"
And the old man looked at the hose again
and said:
burned if / don't think it's the same
one. Chicago Chronicle
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-19
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.

If any kind of garden seed is sown
let it be the best.
With care in selecting varieties the
strawberry season may be prolonged.
One advantage with small fruit is that
you plant one year and get fruit the
next.
Now is good time to see that good
surface drainage is provided in the or
chard.
So far as it is possible, large limbs
should never be removed from plum
and cherry trees.
1t is only in exceptionaleases that it
will be advisable to cultivate in the
orchard this late.
All small fruits should be planted far
enough apart to admit of using the
horse cultiyator.
Currants may be pruned by shorten
ing the last seasons growth and trim
ming out the center.
Thrifty, growing trees yield the
finest looking fruit; old and matured
trees the richest fruit.
No variety of pears viii ripen so finely
on the trees as they viii when gathered
and ripened in the house.
While most root crops should be har-
vested now, they should not be stored
away until cooler weather.
In the pruning, encourage the growth
of new wood. Many trees and vines
fail because the new wood is cut off,
leaving the old.-St. Louis Republic.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-19
DoG-RIB JOE. THE PAwNEE SCOUT.

DOG~RIB JOE, The IA w NEE SCOOI.
whom he found on the prairie alone.
The Sioux had murdered white wom-
an the day before and had her scalp
in his possession. But let him tell it
in his own way:
Heap fool Sioux. He heap brag.
Much talk-talk. Big pow-wow. Two,
tree, four big chief make long talk all
bout round up white man. Sioux no
sabby (suspect) me. Me talk Sioux
lingo all same Sioux man. Me got
white scalp. Sioux tink me much
fr'en'-good fr'en' Me talk-talk. Me
talk me. He say where come from?
Me say Rain lake. He say you know
white man road? Me say me know.
He talk me, you go find out sodger
man. Come back, tell quick
Joe then, by signs more than words,
told that he learned from the speeches
in this pow-wow, or council, that the
four bands of Sioux assembling to at
tack the Minnesota settlements could
muster about 5000 braves, and that
they would march against Sully's forces
in about two days. They wanted Joe
to go on a scout to the southwark to
see if there was any American force in
that direction.
Then he continued: ME go south
till dark. Den go east all night. See
Sully camp smoke bout high sun
(noon) mex day. Get in camp purity
quick. Talk Sully heap big pow-wow.
Much big chief Much brave like herd
buf'lo Me talk Sully all bout. He
say: Joe, me talk Great Father bout
you Me like um heap Nudder
long-knife man (meaning officer; de-
scribed in Indian dialects as long
knife man on account of wearing
sword). Nudder long-knife man he
talk me: Joe, You heap good Den
he gimme dis tapping the butt of
very fine revolver he carried) He talk
me ginral send you dis for luck. Make
much good luck you. Me heap like um
wheel-gun Qndian term for revolver).
He much shoot quick; no must all time
load him. When come big fight in tree,
four day, wheel-gun much kill. Two,
tree Sioux brave charge on me. Shoot
um all-one-two-tree-quick, like cloud
fire Oightning). Rife not shoot but
one time; den load. Wheel-gun shoot
all time; no load him so much
Joe was extremely proud of his
"wheel-gun." II and a Sharps rifle,
pattern of 1856, which Col. (afterwards
GEM Il. V. Sumner had given him in
recognition of his scouting services.
and small Mexican saddle that Kit
Carson gave him about the same time
were his priceless treasures. Like all
Indians land good many white mem
Joe was an inveterate gambler. When
ever he got his ray, which for man
of his station was liberal, he would first
paw every debt he might owe and then
steer himself up against the nearest
faro bank or monte game. When his
money was gone he would sell or pawn
everything else he owned to stake him
self again; but he would never, under
any stress, put up his rife, his wheel
gun" or Mexican saddle.
Joe's services were from time to time
officially mentioned, but his sobriquet
of "Dog-Rib'' does not appear in the
records of the war department. Col
Sumner. Gen. Kearney, Gen. Suliy,
Gen Terry and other officers whom he
served always mentioned him as Paw
nee Joe." Col. Buell. continued:
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-19
NEW PARCELS POST.
Express Companies May Make "a Fight
on the International System to
Their Loss.

Indications of fight by the express
parcels post system are apparent, the
inevitable result of which will be the
authorization of domestic parcels
post. There is a law in existence which
limits the weight of a package sent
through the domestic mails to for
pounds, while the parcels post system
permits citizens of foreign nation with
which treaty has been made to mail
a package to this country weighing IL
pounds and American citizens may mail
a parcel of the same weight out of the
country.
The express companies say the post
master general had no authority for
making post parcel treaty with Ger
many which allowed foreigners to send
11-pound parcels through the United
States mails, while citizens of this coun-
try are permitted to mail domestic par
GELS weighing four pounds only.
The postmaster general says he had
authority for making the agreement
to let the heavier packages go through
the mails. This is found in the act
authorizing the international parcels
post.
From the beginning the express COM
panies were unfriendly to the system
and interposed many obstacles which
came near upsetting the agreement.
Now they threaten to carry the mat
ter to congress, and bitter fight is
expected next winter. If these COM
panies carry out their threats congress
will beyond all doubt authorize do
nestle parcels post, instead of legis-
lating the international system out of
business.
The express companies have made
many enemies by their action in COM
polling the public to pay the internal
revenue tax on parcels, which congress
undoubtedly intended the companies
should pay.
If these common carriers attempt to
cripple the international parcels post
congress will, it is believed. respond
with a domestic system which viii cut
thick slice from the dividends of these
companies.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-19
THE MALAGUENA.
A Strange Chanting That Is Frequent
~ Heard In the South
of Spain.

You cannot walk through a little
town in the south of Spain without
hearing a strange sound, between cry
ing and chanting, which wanders out to
you from behind barred windows and
from among the tinkling bells of the
mules. The Malaguena, they call this
kind of singing; but it has no more TO
do with Malaga than the mosque at
Cordova has to do with the soil on which
il stands. 1t is as eastern as the music
of tom-toms and gong, and, like east
ern music, it is music before rhythm,
music which comes down to us un-
touched by the invention of the mod
ern scale, from an antiquity out of
which plain chant is a first step toward
modern harmony. And this Moorish
music is, like Moorish architecture, an
arabesque.
1t avoids definite form, just as the
lines in stone avoid definite form, it
has the same endlessness, motion with
out beginning or end, turning upon it.
self in kind of infinitely varied mo-
notony. The Torture of the voice are
like those coils which often spring
from a central point of ornament, to
twist outward, as in particular piece
of very delicate work in the first
mihrab in the mosque at Cardova. In
both ensemble is everything, and
everything is pattern. There is the same
avoidance of emphasis, the same con-
tinuance on one level; no special part
starts out for separate notice, as in
Gothic architecture or western music.
But the passion of this music is like
no other passion; fierce, immoderate,
sustained, it is like the crying of a
wild beast in suffering, and it thrills
one precisely because it seems to be
so far from humanity, so inexplicabie,
so deeply rooted in the animal of which
we are but one species.-London Sat
urday Review.
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the last thing at night and remove any
droppings that may have fallen upon
the platform. This will insure a dry
bed during the night. The arrange
ment of the chain fastening in the way
suggested is the nearest approach pos
sible to the stiff stanchion in controlling
the movement of the cattle, while doing
away with the most serious faults of
the stanchion, while it is but an in
stant's work to hook it about an ami
mails neck and to unlock it. Another
plan would be to leave a neck chain al
ways about the animals neck, with a
snap at the under part to attach to the
crosswise chain when the animal is
brought into the stall. The neck chain
then serves a good purpose when lead
ing the stock out to water or when NOV
ing the animals about for other pur-
poses.-N. Y. Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-19
"In our outft were four Young eIvII

I'm our outfit were four young civil
engineers who had charge of the com
putations and quantitative reports of the
work. They were Dwight Elmer, Ghaun-
cey Henderson, Edward Bryant and
myself. There four were Joe's particu-
lar frens.' We used to 'grubstake'
him when he was fiat broke
Zone night Chance Henderson had an
alteration in public resort n River
City with one of the numerous despera-
does who formed the principal element
of the population. Nothing came Of it
because. probably, Chance did moi hap
pen TO be armed at the moment. But
Joe had heard il all, and, as bystal der
told me, stood with his right elbow
raised ana his hand in ominon- proN-
unity 10 the butt of his 'wheel-gun,
watching every move of the desperate
with his big, black, wicked eyes. So
his sfren,' Chance Henderson, was prob
ably safer than he would have been If
lie had been armed himself. | have
myself seen Joe drop a sage hen on the
wing with that 'wheel-gun,' when the
bird flushed up in riding thorugh sage
brush, and | heard on good authority
though l did not see it myself-that
he stopped two jack rabbits ON the
run with two shots one day at dis
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-19
HOUSE WITHIN A HOUSE.
A Marvel of Freak Construction
Built for an Eccentric French-
man in New Orleans.

There stands what was formerly
one of the most curious houses in tho
world" said an architect of this city,
pointing to an antique three-story man
sion in the old quarter. about Is
years ago." he continued, sits partition
walls were rearranged and there is
very little at present to distinguish it
from the commonplace, but as it stood
originally it was marvel of freak con-
struction. 1t was really a house within
house. In those days one could enter
its front hall and pass over it from top
to bottom without noticing anything
unusual except that there was very
little room for its apparent size and
that the apartments were badly ar
ranged AS matter of fact, small
door, masked by the holdings in the
front parlor, led to a chain of rooms
entirely separated from the rest of the
house, and so placed that their bare
existence would never be suspected.
They were connected by queer, tor
tuous passages and narrow, winding
stairs, and had a private exit in the
rear. As | understand it, the house
was built in the early part of the GEN.
fury for an eccentric Frenchman, who
would occasionally retire to the secret
apartments and live there for months
at time while his family occupied the
mansion proper. When the place
passed into different hands the arrange
ment was an immense nuisance and
an effort was made to connect the
I. II 4. 81
ent levels the effect was rather odd.
The tinkering went on for years, and
at last the interior walls were torn out
and the whole thing remodeled. L
greatly regret that l have never been
able to secure a plan of the original
arrangement. | am told it was by
Partisan draughtsman, and it was un-
questionably an architectural curios-
ity of the first order."-N. o. Times
Democrat.