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The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10
False Reports.

From time to time our attention is
called to some publication or some ar
.4ic1e in some paper recounting the i'm
roense profits to be made in the poul-
~ business by amateurs. One would
,,,rroea that the only thing necessary
- Great wealth would be to buy few
bvndred eggs and get them Matched
:, come way. The rest would be easy.
~ 1ono ago we saw book on how
n make $500 in a single year from an
il.oveetment of $12. The absurdity will
- - annarent to every poultry raiser.
NC wo. there are people that are gulled
- such publications. 1t is easy enough
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10
Large Flocks.

There are but few, if any, very
large flocks where 500 or 1000 hens
are kept, says Philadelphia Record.
Farmers are disposed to give the COW
the preference, leaving poultry to the
female members of the family, yet
keeping COWS involves more labor than
is required for poultry, and fowls can
be made more profitable in proper
ton to capital invested or required
than larger stock if farmers will give
poultry special attention as business,
but all large stocks must be started
on the farm with healthy and vigorous
pure breeds, four or five years being
necessary to have the flock to the full
limit in number, for the reason that
if they are purchased in large num-
bers the fowls must be procured from
many different places and the result
will be disease and lice. 1t is this
starting with large numbers of pur-
chased birds that has caused so much
disaster to enterprises of that char
acter. The farmer who will gradual
ly increase his flock until he has sew
eral hundred, and who raises his
young stock from selected parents,
will have an opportunity for observa-
ton and deriving experience as his
flocks grow In the winter season,
when so many farmers are anxious to
utilize their labor, the management of
a large flock should be very remuner-
alive, and as the returns for egg and
poultry are cash, and frequent, less
capital will be required than some
other enterprises. The fowls con-
tribute daily.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10
Dirt In the Dairy.

When is a dairy clean? The safest
answer to this question lies in describ-
ing when dairy is dirty, and danger
ously dirty, too, says New York Farm
err When woodwork in the dairy
gives off a smutty, musty, fusty acid,
rank, and spoiled buttery smell, it is
dirty. When tin vessels, such as pals,
cans, dippers, cups and skimmers, aft
er being thoroughly washed" give
off a sourish SMELL or show dark lines
of matter in the folds and seams of the
tin, they are dirty, and the dirt of just
such a sort, and in just such places,
as to encourage the bacteria in the air
to drop down upon it, to crawl into 1t,
to feed upon it, and to multiply in it
until they swarm in it and are ready
TO launch themselves into the milk put
into those vessels. When the windows,
walls. floors and fixtures in the dairy
are unpleasant to the smell when the
room is warmed up, there is dirt pres
emf. enough dirt to have an effect upon
the flavor and other qualities of the
milk and of the butter made from it.
When a vessel, from which milk is re-
moved. shows layer OF black sedl-
ment in the bottom, smelling with I'M
nleasant suggestiveness of the barn
ward. there is dirt, plain, straight, I'M
mistakable dirt there, dirt that is I'M
n1aasant to think of as component
mart of milk that is to be used by hu-
mans as food. No dairy showing these
things. in any degree, can really be
called "clean" or decently clean, or
boaltbfully clean. Hardly any other
occupation on earth makes such de-
mands for cleanliness, and offers such
dificnlties in the work of securing
o1aonIiness. as the milk and butter and
cheese industry.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOB
OUR RURAL READERS.
NO" successful Farmers Operate This
department. of the Farm Few
nts as to the Care of Live stock
and Poultry.
Guard the MIX Snnn,r

AT En1s time it is particularly neces-
ooly 1or all to guard the purity of the
Ink supply. Especially is this advice
applicable to all that are producing
hnllk 1or use in the great cities. Re-
Gently a representative of the Farm
ers review called on an army surgeon
located at Fort Sheridan. The surgeon
called special attention to the fact that
many OF the returned soldiers had
oeen' or were, now sick with typhoid
ever at their homes in the country
Inc well water in such cases is almost
sure 10 become contaminated, and if
not the well water, then the germs are
more than likely to get into utensils
useo IN the handling of milk. These
serIns i've In the ground for years, and
turing all of that time are constantly
moved from their first positions by
rains and drouths, being driven
through the soil by the lateral move
ment OF capillary water and otherwise.
IN THIS way it may take years for them
TO progress from a sewer or vault to
the drinking water, but sooner or later
they find their way into the liquid that
is used for all purposes and then null
ttply for work.
All drinking water should be under
suspicion, and should be boiled All
milk used in the households should be
pasteurized The cans in which milk
is to be sent to the cities and cream
cries should be purified at least by
polling and by steam if possible. If we
are to make war on disease germs we
must begin with dairy products and
dairy surroundings. Very often a we'll
has been the means of spreading ty-
phold fever through a whole commun-
1ty, sometimes taking off several mem
bers from single household. This
occurs often with wells that are be-
leVed to be pure. When such well
becomes contaminated it not only
threatens it's immediate neighbOrhOOd,
but many other communities. We will
suppose that such we'll is used for
the washing of cans and other utensils
employed in the dairy. The milk is
sent in the cans to the creamery and
the milk is there mixed with milk
from a hundred other farms The
SKINNED milk is returned to the farm
ers, and the cream is made up into
butter to be sent into a thousand
homes. In this way the disease germs
are carried into the homes Of the
many. Disease breaks out and the
physicians are utterly unable to trace
it. It is called mysterious.
The dairy is especially to be looked
after for the reason that dairy prod
ucts are consumed largely in an I'm
cooked state. Dirt and carelessness in
the dairy are responsible for many Of
the ills endured both by the dairyman
and the general public.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10

"Run back to the hotel and see if
left my watch in my room Here's
half a dollar if you're back with it be-
fore the train starts
The intelligent messenger was off
like a shot.
He was back just as the train was
pulling out.
Yes, sir!'' he cried; you left it
there; saw it myself. Gimme my half
dollarr'-Boston Citizen.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10
Read the ADVERTISEMENTS.

You will enjoy this publication much
better if you will get into the habit of
reading the advertisements; they will
afford a most amusing study, and
will put you i'll the way of getting some
excellent bargains. Our advertisers are
reliable; they send what they adver-
tiSe.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10
d. & O. improvements.

In accordance with the plans formu-
lated two years ago by the receivers to
place the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in
frSt-cass physical condition, consider
able work is being done on the Trans
Ohio divisions. The Improvements are
being made with a view to- using sew
enty-tOn locomotives ON all portions Of
the line, and since July $3.50 tons of To-
pound and u, 943 tons of 65-pound steel
rails have been laid on the Central
Ohio Lake Erie and Chicago divisions.
About II miles of new side tracks have
been constructed, five telegraph towers
erected, a new freight depot built at
Mansfield, Ohio, an interlocking plant
Installed at Plymouth, Ohio, and five
water stations, to expedite freight traf-
fc,, constructed. Further improve
mentS of more extensive character
are being planned, in order to- materi-
ally increase the ton-mile haul.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10
A Double Crop of Apples.

On Long Island farm is an apple
tree which bore two crops of fruit the
past year, and the farmers are taking
unusual interest in this popularity of
nature. Just as much interest is being
taken in HoStetter's Stomach Bitters,
which cures dyspepsia, indigestion, con-
stipation and blood disorders when 9th
Ell remedies fail to benefit.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10
SuSniciOuS.

''All is lost" said the Spanish official,
in discussing the results of the war.
well" observed the taxpayer, II
can't help having my suspicious that
some of it strayed or was stolen be-
fore the fight started. Washington
Star.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10
Selection.

What selection can do for a flock
is shown by the experience of Wyck-
off. of New York state, who by select
ing the best layers among his flock
of Leghorns for several years, got his
whole flock of six hundred up to an
average of one hundred and ninety-six
eggs per hen year, says Massachu-
sets Ploughman. This is an extreme
w high average for so many hens on
one farm. 1t means better than an
egg every other day for every hen the
wear round. Not only in spring and
summer, but through the moulting
season, through the dead of winter,
and through the times when hens
naturally take for sitting or for rails
ing their brood, even for small flock,
the record would be unusually good
No amount of care with ordinary
fowls would make them do as we'll
on large scale. Here is an object
lesson which tends to show that breed
ing and selection will yet do for hens
what the same agencies have done for
other kinds of live stock.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10
A PuzzIer.

"Are you superstitiousY'
"Well, yes, a little. What about it?'
81 only want to ask what kind of
luck it is for a left-handed man to see
the moon over his right shoulder" -
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10
Enigma.

"Where are you going, my pretty
maidY'
81 cannot tell yea, kind sir" she
cried,
For you must know that this pretty
maid
Was just beginning to learr to ride.
Town Topics.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10

Base ball players, as a rule, are not
superstitious, but most of them be-
lieve that a home run in time saves the
nine.-Chicago News.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10

'Don't nebber complain dat some
body hab made fool o. you," said I'm
Gle Eben. ''Mebbe all he done was to
expose yoh true character. washing
ton Star.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10
Led ASfray.

"Herer' shouted the bailiff, "you
can't gun here. These are private
grounds"
'But I thought this was the open
season for game" protested the sports
man.--Philadelphi North American.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10

Mrs. WinslOw's Soothing Syrup.
For children teethng, softens the gums, reduces IN.
ammation allays pain, cures wind collie. 25c bottle
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10

Big Apple Crop.-The American
Fruit Growers Journal says that John
Miller of Guardstown, W. Va, has sold
6 900 barrels of apples for 1880. They
were raised upon thirty-four acres of
land bought twenty years ago for So an
acre.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10

I'm delighted with DIR. SETH ARNOLD'S COUGH
KILLER; it cures every time Rev. j. S. Cornish,
Waynesville, Ill. Csc. bottle.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10
sibIe.

Wayworn Watson-Tell you what III
do, then. I'll take a cold biscuit and
call it square.
Mrs. Ferry-All the biscuits we have
are Cincinnati Enquirer.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10
Not an Execution,

Softleigh-So you-aw, don't think
the clothes make the man, Miss Cut
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10

shall recommend Piso's Cure for Con-
sumption far and wide.-Mrs. Mulligan,
Plumstead, Kent, England, Nov. s, 1895
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10

Miss Cutting-Well, they didn't in
your case, at least.-Chicago News.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10

few men think" others ''guess, -
some fancy" while still others 'reck-
on.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10

RATTMT secured ormeney all returned. Search free.
TAIEN ! Collamer & Co. 234 ST., Wash. D. G.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-01-10

WANTED-Case OF pad health that R-I-P-A-N-S
will not benefit. Send 5 cents to Ripans Chemical
Co. New York. for 10 samples and 900 testimonials.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-21

have been egged and locked up in Jail
In the last five years. The last time
was egged was one year ago day after
tomorrow, the 5th day of July, at Aber-
alta, Ga. (the home of Gen. Philips, orr
ganizer for the southeastern states(. and
came near precipitating general row.
Have been little careful since. Now
what the man needs is to have horse
and wagon, and assurance of living ex.
penses behind him, for If he has to de-,
pend on making his living as he goes, he
Will not accomplish much What l want
to suggest is that the Populists as a
whole back men of that kind, for if they
have to go on their own hook they will
soon find themselves tramps, having to
sleep in box cars, wagon sheds and hay
stacks, or where not; his power is soon
gone. No matter how much he may be
able to tell the people, nor how forceful
he may tell it. The reason | suggest the
raising OF fund in preference to try.
Ing to travel on the charity of the peo,
pie, have great deal OF respect for
the Saviour and love, but mighty little
for their fellow men.
The plan to raise funds at the present
time is to start contribution box where
men who want to can drop what they
can afford. Lots of times man might
give nickel but could not give a dime,
but the trouble is he is ashamed to do4
nate so small an amount. He does not
stop to think that there may be 20 with
nickel apiece, but not with a dolla,
that he could spare.
In regards to organizing, some times
1t is hard to get the people out. We
have got debating society started for
education, and the young men handle
all of our subjects.
If we had called it Populist club OF
Peoples anything, we could not have
got enough members to have made
but under some other name il
is getting to be one Of the most popular
places in town. My advice is for others
10 90 likewise. L. r. TYLER,
Known as the Tramp Orator.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-21
Ruskin Colony's New Location.

-
The famous Ruskins colony, now re-
organized as the Ruskin Common
wealth, has moved from it's old site at
Ruskin, Tenn, to new location at
Duke, Ware county, Ga. The colony
now numbers 268 tried and true CO.
operators. They have paid for their
new site in full, and also own the Com
ing Nation and the machinery for car
rying on the various industries hereto
fore conducted by them. Their new site
consists of 800 acres of fertile, level
land, and IS new houses, besides depot,
store and other buildings. Duke is six
miles southwest of Way Cross, on the
Plant system railway. The Coming
Nation is 28-columf weekly, having
an immense circulation throughout the
civilized world. 1t is only so cents per
year, and the Colony Notes" alone are
worth more than the price of the paper
to those who are interested in co-opera-
ton.
Address all communications to the
colony or the Coming Nation to Duke.
Ware Co, Ga
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-21
because the North American says that
the purchase power of gold is on the
decline.-The Nonconformist.


Axel Oxenstierna, Swede, was the
greatest of all diplomats. John Lind, a
Swede, is also diplomat, but his par
tiality for Republican barnacles has so
disguised the Democrats on the various
state boards that they vote against the
governors wishes whenever they have
chance to do so.
Lind forgot that the Democrats in
Minnesota elected him, and that 40
years fasting in the political desert had
made legion of them hungry. Rosing,
Lind's chief cook and bottle-washer,
seemed to think that SO long as he was
being fed there were no need of filling
the troughs for the others. Hence a
general disgust with the kitchen ar
rangements.
Lind may be able to extricate him
self and to feed the hungry; but If he
fails, he will be real political orphan
at the next election.-Fergus Globe.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-21

ing out of 1896, that they could never
be sold to the enemy, and they reiter
ated that statement day by day. Tht
Bryan fusionists of the Northwest ma,
continue to trade with the rotten ole
Democracy, but they can do no more
than break down the Peoples party as 8
national organization, for there is nc
power under the sun that can force tho
genuine Southern reformer back into
the ranks of Democracy. Well main
tain our organization in opposition to
intolerance, hypocrisy, deceit and fraud
so long as we may, and when forced to
choose between Bryanism and Mckinley
or Roosevelt, we'll vote with the latter
not that we agree with them in party
policy, but that we may rebuke the
treachery of the Democratic leaders and
their senseless or corrupt allies.
Mr.. Bryan and his admirers are inst
now shaping the issues Of the coming
campaign in such a way that if the De-
mocracy succeeds, the prosperity OF the
South will receive setback for another
half century. and honest Southern
Populists are not willing their votes and
influence shall be used in such a man.
ner, only that Weaver, Allen, Holcomb
and Butler may secure Office.
The South needs the Nicaragua canal
which will put the cotton grower in di-
rect communication with the 600 900 900
people Of China and Japan, who wear
cotton goods. The construction of this
great waterway will force the removal
of the cotton factories from the East to
the South, and lines of steamers viii,
transport our great staple in the form
OF manufactured goods through the ca
nal directly across the Pacific to the
consumers. Bryan's policy would pre-
vent this wonderful progress in the
South, and keep us tributary to the
commercial interest of the East. Sure
ly 35 years of the basest servitude to
the money barons, railroad masnates
and manufacturing lords of New Eng
land ought to satiate the prejudice
which has governed our Southern poll
tics for that length of time, and with the
dawning of the new century we should
turn new leaf in politics, and begin
the upbuilding of our own section.
which, when properly developed, will
make our beloved Switzerland the most
part of the Union, and the
WealthfeSt cOmmunifv IN Tho o,r+h
Peoples Messenger, Okalona, Miss.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-21

thinkers claim that the advance in
prices is caused by the trusts, while
another class claims that it is caused
| by the immense consumptive demand,
and would be just as great if there was
| not trust in the country. Then that
paper advances another theory, in the
following plain words:
Doubtless there is some truth in each
of these theories. Times are brisk, a
| strong demand tends to force up prices,
and the trusts sends them up even fur
ther.
But may we not be feeling the effect
of another influence more general still?
Is not the enormous increase in the
worlds production of gold within the
last few years bringing us into such an
other period of rising prices as followed
the discovery of America, and later the
development Of the mines of California
and Australia?
To say that prices have gone up is
simply another way of saying that the
value of money has gone down. And
how could it be expected that the value
of money would fail to go down when
the volume of gold added annually to
the worlds stock has doubled in six
years?"
Isn't that candid admission for one
of the great gold bug papers to make?
Could any wild-eyed Pop from the sand
hills of Nebraska make a more radical
claim in defense Of the Quantitive the
ory of money? Three years ago the
gold bugs told us the amount of money
did not affect prices, that the value of
gold was intrinsic and permanent, and
never fiuctuated; that the increased
money obtained by the coinage of silver
would not help the farmer by raising the
price of wheat he had to sell. Now
they give away the whole thing, and ad-
NIT that at that time they were reck-
lessly lying. One of these pharisaichal
scoundrels now admits that the increase
of gold has advanced prices and that the
value of money has gone down on ac-
of it, gold on the decline, just like wheat,
corn, calico, or any other commodity,
fuctuating like the prices OF cabbages
or cucumbers. The subsidized press at
last dares to tell the truth to it's victim-s
lied dupes. It feels now that the people
are too helpless to resist or else too stu
pid to understand. It is a glorious trf-
umph for us to feel that the truth of ev-
cry contention that we made in the cam
paign Of. 1896 is being admitted now by
our enemies. These things will open
the eyes and the minds of the people.
and they will not be led again like
lambs to the slaughter. Three years ago
the Republican campaign was carried on
by false pretenses and the corrupt use
of money. The former will not work
again and if they get another president
they will have to buy the election out
and out, and it will take lots Of money
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-21

lis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song:
But the man worth while is the man
who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
For the test of the heart is trouble
And it always comes with the years.
And the smile that is worth the nraisa
of earth
Is the smile that comes throuvb +o.r,
1t Is easy enough to be prudent.
When nothing tempts you to stray.
When without or within no voice Of sin
Is Turing your virtue away;
But it's only negative virtue
Until it is tried by, fire,
And the life that is worth the honor OF
earth,
Is the one that resists desire.
BY the cynic, the sad, the fallen.
Who had no strength for the strife
The worlds highway is numbered to.
day;
They make up the item of life,
But the virtue that conuuers passion
And the sorrow that hides in a smile.
1t is these that are worth the homage NJ
earth,
For we find them but once in a while
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-21
Editorial Endorse e ment.

Under date of Aug 81 we received a
letter from Hon. Ignatius Donnelly.
editor-in-chief Of The Representative.
In which he says: Il see you are adver-
tising Dead Shot extensively. Send me
one-half dozen boxes. I THINK 1T IS
GOOD"
Such orders from prominent men,
who have used Dead Shot, are the most
convincing testimonials we can get.
DEAD SHOT REMEDY CO..
Minneapolis, MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-21
A VOluble Tourist.

Has Kitty been over since she came
home, pa?'' -->s..'O -''o
"Yes, last night: and she tcld us everv-
thing she saw in Europe"
do tell me some of IT,"
II can't: she ratified 1t off so fast ~.
couldn't hear it."-Detroit Free Press