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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-03

and Sir Richard Hem Collins; the pres
ident of Venezuela chose Chief Justice
Melville ". Fuller, and the justices of
the supreme court appointed Justice
David Josiah Brewer. The fifth jurist,
selected by the four already mentioned.
is Prof. Maertens, Russian scholar
whose reputation as an authority on
international law is worldwide. He is
nm official of the Russian foreign office,
professor of international law at the
University of St. Petersburg and author
of ''Maertens' Treatise" the standard
book of reference on all the treaties of
the world. Among the counsel for
Venezuela before the tribunal are eX-
President Benjamin Harrison and ex-
Secretary of the Navy b. f. Tracy.
Whatever the tribunal may decide is
final, and must be considered a.definite
settlement of all the questions referred
10 it by both sides.
The following is a brief outline OF the
history of Guiana, the claims of Great
Britain and the arguments of Nene-
zuela:
Sir Walter Raleigh landed in Guiana
near the close of the sixteenth cen
fury. and soon afterward the Neither
lands and France divided with Great
Britain the control of the country. The
English did not succeed in holding
their own in the newly-opened conn
try. and when Raleigh arrived with an
expedition in 1916 to reassert British
power his forces net with disaster.
Upon his return TO England the in
trepid explorer md colonizer was inn
prisoned and executed. During the war
between England, Holland and France
in the seventeenth century Guiana was
taken aud retaken several times. What
is now Dutch Guiana WAS seized by
Great Britain in 1869. but was coded
back to Holland in exchange for the
Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
now New York. In 1903 the province
of British Guiana was acquired by Eng
land. but was not formally coded by
Holland until 1914. The territory given
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-03
when Company Comes in Country.

Begin to enjoy yourself when your
guests begin to arrive-in fact, be-
fore they arrive. Do not try to serve
such an elaborate dinner that the work
of getting il ready will draw so upon
your physical powers that they will be
strained to their utmost endurance.
When your visitors arrive, greet them
with hearty handsha1e; make them
feel that you are ready for their COM
ing; speak of the pleasure that you
hope the day may bring; compliment
them on their good appearance; notice
the neckwear, the dainty handker-
chief; be thoroughly interested in each
and every one. When the time comes
for you TO prepare the dinner and place
it upon the table, leave your guests as
gracefully as possible. If the dinner be
not too elaborate, and the mental at
mosphere be clear and bright, your
friends will come again. Eat to live, y
and not Live to eat" should be the
motto of every household John
b. Sims. in Ladies' Home journal.
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amply large. y door from each quarter
of the paddock opens into this shed.
AS one quarter is used, the gates open
ing to the other are closed. Gates are
provided in each fence adjacent to the
paddock. The doors are in four sec
tions, the two upper to allow fresh air
and free ventilation; the lower to open
into the various fields as wanted. Pro-
vision for watering will have TO be pro-
vided as circumstances may permit
The crops that may be usefully fed in
such yard are rye, clover, grass, rape,
mustard, peas and oats, barley, turnips
or any others that are used when sheep
are fenced by hurdles. Farm and
Home.
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they stay is surrounded with six-foot
of well-drained land.
The food of the old pheasants is the
same as that of the common fowls, eX-
cept in breeding season that we give
them some barley meal. | estimate
that it costs about one dollar each to
raise the pheasants to six months of
age. The males weigh 21s pounds, fe-
males two pounds. We have but little
trouble with hawks or other pests.
There is no shade in the field and we
provide during hot weather an artificial
shade by means of boards. Pheasants
are very hardy and we never keep them
confined because of wet weather or wet
grass. The young pheasants are fed
largely on patent meal obtained from
England, made especially for pleas
ants. They could be raised on maggots,
but these are offensive to have on the
place where there are visitors. There
is a good demand for pheasants for
stocking parks, game preserves and pri-
vate grounds, the lowest price being
$50 per dozen. When the pheasants get
away they make for brook or run
ring water, hence we can usually man
age to catch them, although with some
difficulty.
During the blizzard of November, in
which the ayiaries were drifted full of
snow up to the very top, under all this
snow were so breeding pheasants. Men
started to dig them out, which took a
number of days, and the sixth day they
supposed they had them all, but it
seems they had not gotten few of
them, which were recovered from the
snow after IL days and lived through it.
Ability to stay showed under for II
days without food or water, and to come
out bright and in good order, is good
enough indication of hardiness.-Amer-
lean Agriculturist.
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DOWNFALL OF LITTLE WILLIE.

Being an exposition of the fact that sci
ence, though excellent in its way anC
perhaps Indispensable. may not be goot
thing all around, after all.
Little Willie's ways are dreary,
He is sick at heart and sore;
Once he cheered us with his laughter.
He is doing so no more.
Little Willie has a sister
Who is fair and twenty-three;
Never was a gentle maiden
Sweeter, daintier than she.
Willie's sister has fellow
Whom she loved with all her might
And he comes to see her with the
Regularity of night
wirie's sisters fellows father
Is a millionaire whose one
Wish appears to be to pamper
The desires of his son.
willie's sisters fellow used to
Ride behind a blooded pair
That could do mile in 90
Without moistening a hair.
Willie used to hold those charges
While their owner was inside
Asking Wnlie's happy sister
To get ready for a ride.
And it used to seem to take her
Long to make her toilet too;
or. perhaps, twas not her toilet
Willie didn't care a sou.
Oft he sat there in the carriage
While the hours dragged along,
Holding firmly to the ribbons,
Pouring out his soul in song.
And his pretty sisters fellow
Gladdened him with many fee
All, the way that child spent money
Was astonishing to see
Nearly all he ate was candy,
He had friends 20 turn away:
AL the boys were out for Willie
Everywhere and every day.
His opinion was their gospel,
They were all on Willies side;
Willie was their saint and leader,
Willie's heart was full of pride.
Gone, alas, is Willie's prestige!
And his friends, Oh, where are they?
One of them gave little Willie
A sad beating yesterday!
Little girls make faces at him,
Who had only smiles before;
Willie doesn't carry candy
In his pockets any more.
Little Willie's heart is heavy,
There's a shadow on his brow
Little Willes sisters fellow
Has horseless carriage now!
IS. E. Kiser. in Chicago Times-Herald.
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THE PARIS TRIBUNAL
1t Will Decide the British-Venezue-
Ian Dispute.
The Greatest Triumph of American
Diplomacy - Events Which Led
Up to the Formation of the
Commission.
So ,ial co1resnondence.l

The British-Nenezuela commission
now in session at Paris, France, is one
of the most important international
bodies which has ever been con-
vened for the purpose of arrang-
ing amicably dispute which once
threatened to lead to a war between
two great nations. In 1895 Great Britain
laid claims toa vast tract of territory be-
longing to the South American republic
of Venezuela. and was about to take
forcible possession of the same, in de-
fiance of all precedent and the protests
of the Venezuelan government. Presi-
dent Cleveland, through Mr. Gresham,
his secretary of state, protested against
the proposed robbery, and suggested
that the points at issue between the two
countries be submitted to arbitration.
Great Britain returned an impertinent
reply, stating that all territory within
the so-called Schomburg line was abso-
lutely hers and that she had nothing
to arbitrate" there. Claims west of that
line she was willing to submit to an in
ternational tribunal for adjudication.
Venezuela. on the other hand, insisted
that the Esequibo river was the reeog-
nized boundary and that the Pumeron
river was, at all events, the extreme
limit of disputed territory. Secretary
Gresham's sudden death delayed the
American answer to the British note
declining arbitration, but when Secre-
tary Olney assumed the state portfolio
one of his first acts was the transmits
sion of this now historic document
which, together with Lord Salisbury's
answer, constituted the basis of Presi-
dent Cleveland's message of December
IL, 1895.
In it the president declared the
claims urged by Great Britain to be
direct violation of the Monroe doctrine,
which he designated as an unwritten
page of the American constitution. He
disavowed all intention of wishing to
interfere with British rights in her
South American colonies, but at the
same time protested against the extern
sion of England's political system. In
order to avoid clash he asked congress
to appoint commission to investigate
and determine the true boundary line
between British Guiana and Venezuela,
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ing since yesterday. This was no day
| to sit cooped up in carriage. At
! least he could walk; the exercise would
be a relief. Telling his man to wait for
him at the entrance to the Bots, Henri
strobe into a shady path that bespoke
solitude and wandered ON, while re-
peating in his mind over and over again
the scene of yesterday. At last sense
of WEAKNESS caused him to rest on n
bench. There he sat brooding and abb
sorbed till his reveries were broken by
the voices of children.
Abstractedly Duval looked up and
watched them at their playa boy of
some eight years and a girl perhaps
two years younger. Gradually his
mood changed, and he became con-
scious of the radiance of the day, the
deep blue sky and the autumn tints
that glinted and glowed in the sun
light. The air was as wine to his
thirsty lungs, and life grew full of pos
sibilities again, and his thoughts took
a new course. Why could he not paint
a soul as well as a body He would win
Blanche yet. He would not make any
effort to see her now, but would work
and wait. His life should prove his
right to win her love. He would paint
picture that even she would praise.
| A hundred subjects presented them
selves to his busy brain as he sat there
watching those TWO children who
| stopped in their play and were crossing
| the roadway. Hand in hand they came,
the boy leading his younger compan-
| ion, now running, now hating, to avoid
passing carriage, until they reached
the grayeled footpath. There they
fingered again, playing on the grass
bordering the path. Both had on blue
| aprons and little wooden shoes. They
were without hats, and typical chill
dren of the poor. Presently, quite I'M
consciously, the little girl fell into a
pose beneath a slender tree, whose
leaves autumn had turned with Midas
touch to pure gold.
The breeze blew her short curls
about her forehead; her apron was full
| of colored leaves the boy had thrown to
her. Just then a rustling above caused
her to look up and a shower of golden
| leaves descended upon her dark curls,
blue apron and little sabots.
"Ah, sweet child Danae," cried Duval,
thou art an inspiration"
A year of work brought forth the pic
ture that made him famous. 1t was a
simple subject-a child with wind
tossed locks, holding open her blue
apron to catch the golden shower of
leaves, sent dancing down upon her by
the autumn wind.
| The public raved over the beauty of
the child's eager, upturned face, the
blue of the sky and the gold of the
tree, but Blanche read the message of
the soul in the innocent eyes, and gave
her heart into the keeping of the
artist who had painted "A Little Danae
in Sabots. Madame
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ANCIENT MEDICAL LORE.
Scientific Discoveries That Reflect
Great Credit Upon Assyr ian
Doctors of Old.

Until recently the only evidence as
to the state of medical knowledge in
ancient Babylonia and Assyria was
derived from the list of ailments pre-
served in the so-called magical cunei-
form tablets, which consist of conjura-
tions against various diseases or in
juries and the respective demons sup
posed to be responsible. Now, how
ever, that the study of cuneiform writ
ing has advanced and the number of
texts published becomes much greater,
documents are coming to light apper-
tanning to medical matters. An Amer
lean student, DIR. Christopher Johnston,
has paid some attention to them, and
from his researches a writer in the
Lancet has derived the following
notes: From Assurbannipal's library
have come several letters from physi-
clans, of which four or five are from
is a report TO the king of his brothers
health. a more interesting relic is a
tablet regarding a person who seems
to have been suffering from facial cry
sipelas, though it may have been case
of ophthalmia. The letter, emitting
the customary address to royalty, is as
follows: "All goes well in regard to
that poor fellow whose eyes are dis
eased. l had applied dressing cover
ing his face. Yesterday toward even,
ing, undoing the bandage which held
it, | removed the dressing. There was
pus upon it the size of the little finger
tip. All is well. Let the heart of my
lord the king be of good cheer. Within
seven or eight days he will be WELL"
Another letter runs thus: with re-
gard to the patient who has bleeding
from the nose, yesterday there was
much hemorrhage Those dressings
are not scientifically applied. They
are placed upon the alae of the nose,
Cypress his breathing and come off
when there is hemorrhage. Let them
be placed within the nostrils, then the
air will be kept away and the hemor-
rhage restrained. If it is agreeable to
my lord the king, l will go tomorrow
and give instructions; meantime let
me know how he does"
This is evidently an instance Of a
patient suffering from epistaxis. Ex-
ternal compression had been tried and
failed. whereas plugging the mares is
recommended. The name of another
Assyrian physician, IquisaAplu, is
known because he was by royal com
mand sent to minister to famous gem
eral named Kudunu, who lay i'll at
Erech, and he was able to report that
he had cured his patient.-Chicago
'TimeS-Herald
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RAISING PHEASANTS.
Who Has Been Engaged In the
Business Some Time.

We usually count on 90 per cent.
hatch of pheasant eggs. They can
set under ordinary hens. The young
hatch in from "a to 90 days. We put the
old hen in a coop in the field and let the
young pheasants run at large in the
grass. They seurry away and keep out
of sight until feeding time, when they
all come back We let them stay here
until they become so large that they
won't go into the coop, then let them
get little hungry until they are will
ing to go inside, then shut them up and
clip one wing. After that they can be
kept within bounds. The field in which
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HANDY ARRANGEMENT.
4 Plan for SoiIing sheep which APP
pears to BE Effective and
Also Economical.

When it is desirable to keep sheep
in yards near the barn for the purpose
of soiling a structure can be made as
follows: A green paddock of about an
acre is divided by fences into four parts.
A partly open shed with feed racks all
around it is placed in the center. For
so sheep a building 20 feet square is
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Thc Rensnn Whr

Freddie, aged five, developed suddenly
a preference for saying his prayers to
his father. His mother commissioned
her husband to try to find out the rea-
son. At bedtime. alone in the nursery
with the youngster, his father said to
him: Freddie, why is it that you
want to say your prayers TO me every
night?"
"0h, that's easy" said Freddie. It's
cause me and you and God are mem
n. u. World.
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GENERAL UTILITY BOXES.
They Are Handy and Keep Clothes In
Better Condition Than Drawers
of Shelves.

There certainly never was time
when there were so many clever little
inventions for keeping ones wardrobe
in order, and If a woman is not neat in
these DAYS it must be her own fault;
with so many different arrangements
for slowing away things there can be
no excuse for untidiness. "A place Tor
everything and everything in its place"
might be taken as the motto of the
times, for there is now to be had some
sort of box or holder for everything,
from the laces and wells to jackets and
wraps, while one of the latest of all is
the utility box, in which the shirt waists
are supposed to be kept. The shirt
waists have always bees rather prop
lem. They take up considerable room
in bureau drawers or on closet shelves;
they cannot be put with a lot of other
things without losing their freshness,
and it requires great care to keep them
in proper condition, so that they shall
look fresh when they are put on.
There are now sold at all the large
shops oblong boxes large enough TO
hold a dozen shirt waists of any size
indeed, they are large enough to hold
mems shirts, and, if the truth were
told, are quite as much used for that
purpose, for the men have discovered
their usefulness. The boxes are made
in different sizes. They may be the
size of the window, and can be used for
window seats as well. They are made
sometimes of very handsome woods;
again, are of the cheapest kind of wood
covered with chintz or cretonne. They
have handles, so that they can easily be
moved about. When they are of the
cheap wood the chintz is put inside as
well as out; when they are of the more
expensive qualities of wood, they are
lined with another kind of wood. The
very newest are those made of ebon-
lied wood, with the designs in the burnt
wood wrought on them. One seen re-
Gently was of ebonized wood on which
were burnt patterns in light wood with
green and red very cleverly combined;
at the corners the ornamentation was in
the light wood entirely.
These boxes range in price according
TO their size. None are very expensive.
The chintz-covered ones are much the
cheapest, and for bedroom furnished
in one particular kind of chintz the
chintz boxes perhaps look better than
the handsomer wood boxes, which are
quite smart enough to put in sitting
room or library to be used as wood
boxes. General utility boxes is the
name by which they go, and a very
truthful name it is.
T., v,uftinu xvnfSfS in those bOxps II &c
possible to stuff the sleeves out with
tissue paper, and arrange them so they
will keep perfectly in shape. While
they are intended for shirt waists, they
are also practical for dress waists, and
are infinitely better than bureau draw
ers or closet Shelves arper's Bazaar.
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"What have you done with the child?'
asked the chief kidnaper.
"Just boxed his ears, replied the eight
assistant accomplice.
Good" exclaimed the chief Now, ad
dress the box to that yellow journal, anc
write the editor that we will furnish exclu
sive clews to the whereabouts of the re
mainder of the child for $4,000, less two pei
cent for spot cash. standard and Catholic
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Doctors frequently have very wealthy
patients who are starving to death. They
have money to buy food, but their stomach
has not the strength to digest it. II lies there
a heavy fermeEted mass, the sole cause OF
dyspepsia, nervousness and biiousness. The
surest remedy TO cure a weak stomach is
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. 1t will restore
vigor to the digestive organs. Nothing is
lust as good. See that private Revenue
Stamp covers the neck of the bottle.
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He Mns ConsIdernte

Cinchly here, old man, why
don't you offer me back that $40 let
you have year ago?
Harduppe-oh l would if | hadn't
been afraid of hurting your feelings.
''In what way?"
"Why, l didn't like to give You the inn
preston that | thought You needed
the money" Philadelphia Record.
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To Cure Earache.

Save the cherry pits, wash in eleaf
water and dry in the sun. When quite
dry put into chintz or cheesecloth bags
and lay aside against day of need.
When that time comes heat exceedingly
hot in the oven and apply to the afflicted
region. The stones will not only retain
the heat for a long time, but give forth
an aromatic odor much more agreeable
than the majority of poultices.-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
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Aurelia (anxiously) Have you seen
George this evening, papa? He prom
ised to call.
Papa les. he did call. and | enter,
tanned him for an hour before you came
downstairs.
Aurelia You entertained him, papa
Papa-Yes. / gave him list of al
the new dresses you had last year. and
the cost of each. never saw man
more interested. yet he left very hur.
riedIv.-Tit-R Bits
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Very Rare.

Stubb She showed me sone rare
paintings.
Penny What did YOU think of them ?
Stubb Well. they reminded me of a
rare beefsteak.
Penn-In what way2
StubbNot very well DONE Chicago
Daily News.
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MarrIages i'm MeIbonrne.

A man can be married in Melbourne
cheaper than in any other part of the
world. Ministers advertise in the pa
pers against each other. One minister
offers TO combine together loving
couples for los Cd, another for is Cd,
and so on down to Is cd. In some cases
wedding breakfasts and rings are sup
pIied.-N. Y. Sun,
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The Two Champion Chumps.

The man who boosted of taking a
oath regularly once a year, whether he
needed it or not, was brother to the
wise men who repair their roads on the
same principle. The time to repair a
road is when it needs it.
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A Poor Provider.

Mrs. Johnsing- air man o mine S
jest good fer muffin, lazy niger.
Mrs. Jackson Why. what's he done?
Gle don't do muffin but fool aroun'
an shoot craps when he oughter be
steaiin' chickings. ~. Y Journal.
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One strike nj Golf.

Good Man-Do you know what becomes of
little boys that use bad words when they are
playing marbles?
Bad Boy-Yep, Dey grows up an plays
golf.-Chicago Evening News.
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A Clean Record.

| II wouldn't associate with her. Why, one
| of her ancestors was a charwoman."
| 'Well, then, she's sure that one of them,
| at least, had a clean record. philadelphia
/ R,t1Iofip