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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31

ty of the native soldiers. Each man
knows that when his time of usefulness
has expired the government guaran-
tee of pension sufficient to purchase
a yearly suit of white cotton, and rice
for his daily meals, is assurance of
sufficient provision for his old age.
The religion of the country prohibits
the use of animal food. As available
funds of the relief committee are only
sufficient to reach about Is per cent.
of the sufferers it is feared that wan
dering groups may resolve themselves
into armies of bandits who. having
disposed of their homes through want,
will for years constitute a menace TO
the safety of the more fortunate in
habitants of India. Crowds of cis-
tressed human beings are daily stream
ing into the cities, and even in Bonn
bay people without means of obtain
ing food starve in the streets. Famine
prices prevail. Owing TO financial de-
preston mills are closed down and
in many eases the wages of those still
employed have been reduced. What
suffieed perhaps for mere existence in
prosperous times means now slow
starvation covering a period of weeks
or even months. Those dying in cities
are buried in bitches, if in the open
country they lie where they fall. Near
some of the relief works men are con-
stantly engaged in burning bodies;
often large numbers of them together.
1t is fearful sight, but seems the only
way of protecting the living.
The suffering seems to be largely
among the agricultural classes, of
which 50 per cent. of the population of
India is composed. Large sections OF
the arabic lands depend entirely for
their productiveness upon irrigation,
the source of which is in rivers and
streams which are supplied by rains.
Every recorded Indian famine may be
traced to failure of rainfall. a number
of years ago the Indian forester am
nounced his theory that the response
bility for droughts might be placed
upon the great herds of goats (some-
times $4,000 or 100000. always appar-
emily starving, which attack the shoots
of every young tree in the course of
their depredations. Thus when old
trees die off there are no young ones
to take their places. Rains, which de-
pend so largely upon the existence of
forests, fall short, then famine and
plague follow. The early rains come
in June, are known as the southwest
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31
NIBBLED AT POKER CHIPS.
Joke of a Philadelphia Merchant At
the Expense of sportiye
Employees.

Business sometimes drags during the ait
ernoons down among the Water street
wholesale houses, and on the principle that
when the cats away the mice VIII play tue
clerks often amuse themselves with quiet
little poker games, says the PhliadelpRia
Record. The proprietor Of tea and Gomez
warehouse left the other day about three
o'clock. But he changed his mind about
two hours later and discovered tour q ms
trusted employees engaged in game OF poker
They were caught dead to rights, and there
was nothing TO do but bluff 1t out. mere
wasn't anything going on, explained tne
banker, so we thought we would try llttie
poker-just for fun, you know.
AS matter of fact, they were playing
25-cent limit game, and in lieu OF chips grams
Of raw coffee represented five cents each and
roasted coffee grains were p cents 4 II
Just sit and watch you for awhile, SAID the
merchant, who is something OF sport hlm-
self He pulled a chair alongside the fellow
who had the most coffee in front OF HIM,
and the game proceeded. At intervals ne
would reach over, pick up a couple OF roast
ed grains and chew them, meditatively. AT
he end of a half hour he had eaten $40
worth of coffee, and the erstwhlle winner
could make no protest. When he hnaliy
left the store there was twinkle IN ms eye.
The banker hasn't succeeded in getting hls
affairs Strengthened out yet.
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81 soil for development in the fevcrisll
impoverished bodies of the starving
people And now the water supply has
become so short that, with the limited
means of transportation, it is difficult
to send sufficient supply into the ! :
calties where it is entirely exhausted
to enable each inhabitant to receive
even few drops daily.
Early in the history of the famine
masses of the people traded all their
worldly possessions for bread. Next,
many of them sold their girls to the
Mchammedans, receiving in return, in
some instances, but IS cents. The boys
are not marketable and are turne
adrift and may be seen in great home
less groups, sometimes so together.
literally starving to death. They Gag
erly lick up the sweepings of the grain
houses, and are so emaciated as to be
hardly recognizable as human beings.
The natives may blame themselves
largely for existing conditions. Their
religion demands that they follow old
customs and they refuse to adopt mod
ern methods of farming. Again. while
most animals are to them sacred and
must be provided for to the best of
their ability, the high class Hindoos
not only fail to aid those of lower
caste in any way, but are rewarded for
their inhumanity by the sense of recti-
tude bestowed by an approving COLI
science. Probably the inclination t.
aid never suggests itself. they are so
hedged in by religious regulations
which, viewed in certain light, are
certainly monstrous. There are some
among us who prefer the teachings of
Buddha to those of Christ, but if they
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31
WAR ON FOREST WORM.
school Children in Central New York
State Are Helping to Save
the Trees.

In the villages throughout central
New York parties of school children
go about daily examining the fruit
trees in gardens and orchards. They
break off and make bonfires of the ten
der twigs at the ends of the branches.
They are destroying, by the only sure
means known up to this time, the for
est worm, which last year invaded the
state in myriads, stripping the forest
and fruit trees of foliage and almost
running the apple crop in many re-
gions.
How to preserve the trees from the
ravages of these prolific and ravenous
pests is a problem which has received
much study, and the general conclusion
is that the only sure way is to destroy
them by fire as soon as they appear.
None of the solution or drenchings
that ordinarily serve to protect trees
from predatory insects ayails against
the forest worm. Nothing short of
complete humiliation is effective
against this pest.
Last fall the caterpillars, into which
LHP IOFeSJ. worms were transformed,
went to the trees and at the very ends
of the twigs they laid bands of eggs
completely encircling them. The band
looks for all the world like a circle of
shoemaker's wax. These bands are full
of tiny holes, each of which contains
an egg, and from these eggs the bands
of forest worms are now Matching by
millions and starting out to destroy all
the leaf and fruit buds they can reach.
In many places the boards of educa-
ton and village officers have offered
rewards to the school children and
prizes for the greatest number of worm
rings destroyed by each. 1t is found
that each little brown band around a
twig contains about 200 worms, and it
IS these that the boys and girls are
breaking off and making into bonfres,
to save the trees. In the village of
Herkimer in the last two days the
high school pupils have destroyed more
than 100000 forest worms. There is
a contest as to who will kill the most,
and more than 10000 egg rings have
been destroyed by the children among
the village fruit trees.
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Gen. kitchener.S Optimism.

\ few months before the Transvaal
war broke out Gen. Kitchener was in
Paris y French Journalist whom
know called on him and brought away
a very definite impression, says
writer in the Philadelphia Saturday
Evening Post Gen. Kitchener is
calm, self-centered. steely man. who
has only one passion and one aim in
life-his business of being soldier
His opinion of women * any thing but
fiattering probably because he is not
married In Egypt he used TO assure
his young officers that falling in
love ruins more good soldiers and
spoils more promising careers than
anything else" 1t is the old theory
OF the painter who loved his art" and
feared that. should he marry, his
paint brush might be jealous of his
wife
what do you think of the project OF
disarmament and u@iversal peace"
Gen. Kitchener was asked.
Il don't think of it," said the general
do you think there is any chance OF
European WARP"
.well." said the general, thoughtful
IL. this confounded peace has been so
violent it can't possibly last much
longer"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31
THE GLOUCESTER APPLE.
(Three-Fourths Natural Size.)

ing illustration will show, but it is
small enough to meet the require
ments of the fastidious table deco
rator, and besides is exceedingly
handsome in appearance. The skin
is almost as glossy as satin, and the
creamy white ground color with
brilliant pinkish blush on one side
shows off the apple to great advan-
tage.
The flavor is mild sub-acid, the flesh
is almost as white as chalk and very
soft and tender, yet juicy and crisp
enough 10 be pleasant to eat. Among
the other good points is the fact that
it may be kept for the Thanksgiving
and midwinter holidays as far south
as Kentucky The tree is also said
to be very productive and regular
bearer, which cannot be said of the
Lady. Those who wish to plant few
apple trees for the strictly fancy
trade should endeavor to get some of
the Gloucester.-O Orange Judd Farmer.
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GOD MADE THE MOTHERS.


God made the mothers, and His projects
vast
Which span futurity and all the past
Have motherhood for stars from rim to
rim
OF destiny's horizon domed and dim,
Which arches DER the ages and uprears
Its mighty structures over countless
spheres.
For who may measure what the mother
can
Accomplish in the making of the man ).
For powers and purposes which span all
With miracles amending and sublime
Bridging the vast abyss tween Heaven ana
earth.
Winning great triumphs over death and
dearth.
Linking with tircless trust and endless
These neither worlds to radiant worlds
above.
The mother shapes the little man or maid
Into great souls in which by love inlaid
Are possibilities of untold joys
Blossoming forth in other girls and boys,
Whose mission shall project thoughts wide
and free
Into the laps of centuries yet TO be.
BE careful, then, lest warping these they
fall
Into the vileSt vice beyond recall.
Weigh well your mission, mothers Of the
race
Who doom your babes to grandeur or dis
grace;
Priestesses are We. worshipinE in deeds
Far mightier than world-wOrn words and
creeds;
We are the arbiters of faiths and fates,
Custodians of Heaven and hel's barred
gates,
Makers of manhood. womanhood and ways
Which lead souls on through endless deeds
and days.
I. EDGAR JONES.
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would for a time leave the contempla-
Hindoo religion and study the details
as they affect the people more, there
would certainly be a diminished num-
Der of followers i'm the wake of some
not overly clean looking East Indians
who have secured for themselves no.
toriety in our large cities during the
last few years. While wealthy Hin
docs are comfortably following the
dictates of their morally famine
stricken consciences and refusing the
help they could so easily render tothe
poor of their own land, Christian mis-
sionaries are doing all within their
power to alleviate the suffering. BY
the aid of native preachers they gather
in all the furnishing children possible
and care for them. The English gov
eminent is doing its utmost, but the
people often refuse to be placed on the
relief list until too weak to recover.
The viceroy recently declared that con-
ditions are steadily growing worse.
The plague is spreading alarmingly
and another drought is Threatened.
He announces his intention to spend
all the money in the treasury for the
relief of the sufferers. Outside con
tributions have been made, but avail
able funds are inadequate to meet de-
mands.
A full-grown man at the relief works
may only receive four cents per day.
However. five cents daily viii keep
Hindoo alive indefinitely. for. in his
land, the supporting Of life on mini
mum of cheapest food has been reduced
to an art. A few grains Of rice, sup
plemented with roots and grass seed.
viii furnish him fair meal. When
the garrison of the British fort at the
siege of Lucknow were reduced to
5aily rations of four ounces of corn
made into Cruel. some Of the Hindoo
auxiliaries offered to live for week
on the water in which the corn was
boiled. II the whole civilized world
would unite in the work of assisting
people who are satisfied with 50 little
the worst features of this famine. The
"details of which are too horrible 70 de-
scribe or read. would be alleSiated.
To their ahstemioasness the Eng
ish are largely indebted for the loyal
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31
A FEW DAIRY POINTERS.

Use great care in turning to pasture
Give good feeding of hay in the morn
ing and do not leave them out ali
day.
Take the world over there are more
good COWS and sensible men than there
are poor cows and fools. The trouble
is to get the wise men and good cows
together. When we do this fewer men
will be complaining that "dairyin' don't
pay"
Sour milk may not be relished quite
so much by calves at first. but it is a
good thing % raise calves on if they
cannot have ii sweet invariably. 4
change of food from sweet TO sour oc-
casionally is detrimental to growth,
and often begins scours.
1t should cost you about seven cents
a day to feed your cow-S25 a year.
Ifyou practice good principles of farm
ing. her manure should offset the cost
of shelter and labor. Now, if you don't
get enough 10 pay for the feed, don't
keep her. Farm journal
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31

monsoons and originate in vapors
drawn from the Indian ocean and the
Arabic sea. Breaking on the Malabar
coast for three months, they may be
expected to flood India, the average
fall of water being about 1GO inches.
At such times crops are abundant.
But when these rains fail, as was the
case last year, famine is the result.
The later" rains or northeast mon
soons arrive in November and Decem-
Der from the Bay of Bengal These also
failed last year, Insufficient rainfall
emay be expected at intervals of from
five to twenty-five years. Existing con-
ditions are the worst recorded. The
present drought, following so closely
that of 1897, has rendered the ground
so dry that there is a scarcity of wa
ter, even for drinking purposes. here
tofore unknown. EDWARD JULIAN.
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STARVING TO DEATH.
Direful Results of the Famine Now
Prevailing in India.
MIIIIons of Men, Women and Children
Are Os in. by Inches In City and
Couatry-Disnster Caused
by Drought.
Ispecial correspondence.l

a BONE the noise of everyday
N events, the clamor of political
intriguers, the din of more or
less disreputable warfare, the erJ of
starving India, increasing in volume
from day TO day, so demands for itself
a hearing that it can no longer be dis
regarded How much longer the lives
Of white men in the outlying districts
viii be safe. while the natives are eN-
periencing death in its most CHASTITY
forms, is a question which is beginning
to agitate that portion of the public
mind which is personally interested III
the fate of that unhappy country.
White men are already regarded BY the
ignorant classes as responsible Tor q
great amount of the suffering; but,
while there may be grounds for COM
plant, it is certain that no nation
would have accomplished more than
has England while laboring at such
disa dvantage. Of course, mistakes
have been made. In the distant past,
conditions, to a certain extent, righted
themselves. During years of drought,
followed by famine, the population
was so .decimated that in the succeed
ing years of plenty there was an
abundance for all. But, as it was noted
that the drought usually affected bat
one or two provinces at a time, the
government caused the poorer people
to be moved around from place to
place, thus preserving life, until. at
present, in a territory but little over
half as large as the United States,
there is population or 500, 600, goo Of
people. During the last two years the
drought has become general and now
13O,000,000 are suffering from the
famine which. with slow insistence,
seems likely to desolate the entire
country. In its wake follow bubonic
plague, cholera and smallpox. The
germs of all these diseases find the best
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31
NATIONAL AID NEEDED.
But Each State should Also Contrib
ute Toward Making the Good
Roads Movement n Success.

The agricultural department calls
attention, in recent circular, to the
fact that 81 states have created labor
bureaus or bureaus of industrial statis-
ties, while but half dozen have high
way commissions with jurisdiction
over road affairs.
The average state legislature is start
lingly prolific in measures for regulat-
ing almost every conceivable BUSINESS
that is carried on within the state.
1t does not stop with regulating the
activities of mankind, but occasionally
takes shy at the laws of nature, sus-
pending them or repeating them ac-
cording 10 their own pleasure. Singu-
larly enough, the most important ques-
tion that vitality concerns the indus
trial prosperity of the state-that of
good roads and how to provide for their
constructions almost entirely ig-
nored by the legislatures. Some of
the states whose legislatures put in
their time fixing passenger rates for
the railroads provide nothing but mud
roads on which the farmer must haul
his products to the market.
The first steps in the inauguration
of good roads movement in each state
should be to legalize a bureau of high
ways or the appointment of nonpar-
tisan highway commission, whose du-
ties should be to establish capable
engineer in each county. to systematic
local laws and locate suitable material
for road purposes. The system of
working out road taxes" should be
abolished and the poll taxes should be
collected in cash. This, combined with
the principle of state aid, is the only
practical solution of the good roads
problem. In addition to this work on
the part of the state congress should
appropriate funds for the offices of
public road inquiries or the establish
ment of a national highway bureau to
cooperate with the states in educating
public sentiment concerning the inn
portance of good roads and how to
construct them.-Chicago Times-Her-
aid.
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TOO STRONG TO WORK.
she Had Her Speciality and Could Not
BE Induced to Depart
from 1t.

A few days ago well Unknown Washington
lady, being unexpectedly bereft OF her
kitchen assistance, advertised Tor eolored
work, says the Star.
The first caller in response to. the adyer,
tisement vas a malatto damsel, bedecked
with ribbon and finery. From her airs and
graces she might have been a graduate OF a
seminary. She announced that she had no
ticed the advertisement and was desirous
of securing employment.
'Are YOU a good cook" inquired the lady
of the house.
'Are you good washer and ironer!'' was
the next query, -.
foo hard on the hands," declared the caller
"Can you sweep" the housewife then
wanted 10 know.
''No," was the answer, and il, was a pos,
tive one. "I'm not strong enough for that.
"Well, in the name of goodness, what can
you do?" said the lady of the house, exas'
perated. The placid reply was;
81 dusts."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31
THE GLOUCESTER APPLE.
A Fancy Fruit for Winter Consump-
tIon That Originated In Virginia
Many Years Ago.

Among the fancy little winter ap-
pies, the Lady has long been almost
alone il the market and on the tables
of those who seek for "A small dessert
apple 1t is indeed beautiful and
well-hayored little favorite, but it is
not easy to secure good crops Re-
Gently there came from Cincinnati
market an old but little known apple
called Gloucester, that originated in
West Virginia many years ago. II
is not quite so small nor so fat in
shape as the Lady, as the accompany
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sporty Golf Links.

Every man who has attempted country
courses in all their varied development has
The twinkling eye Of the friend who tells
him, while leading him over to the prospec-
tive course, that it is a trifie sporty" But
here are the true sporty" links in the
course at Singapore:
equator. 1t averages about 80 degrees at
midnight. / played golf once, just nine
holes, and then quit, and was spectacle
fairly wet through. We played over a Chi
nese graveyard, around the lunatic asylum
and hospital, and finished on the lawn of the
orphan asylum
@The links are very sporty, the tombs
serving for bunkers and other hazards,
while a ball driven over the wall OF the
lunatic asylum is lost and you lose
stroke and distance. The tombs are
slowly being hacked to pieces by the wild
efforts of the players to get the balls out OF
the crevices in the bricks" = Golfers
WaeEIv
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HEDRICK, IOWA, March g, 800.

and prices Of your binder Irvine as soon as ready
asst three seasons and find il satisfactory and con-
c ask for same. / sent you large order last year
send you still larger order this spring as soon as
YOU every success, l remain,
ours respectfully, JOHN II. SHOkI.
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SAYS ours was the best Irvine he ever had

Montgomery Ward Co, Chicago. Ill.
Dear Srs: Please give the prices of your binder
ne as the Irvine got OF YOU last year the best
have had yet. Yours truly. ,,.r
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PnrticnInr Ahnnt III. So.

A western couple who were on a visit Ia
New York for the first time put IN al the
Waldorf. Astoria during their stay in this
city, and what was LETT Of their first day
in New York they largely devoted Ia view.
ing the decorations Of the hotel. The myrtle
room, the Astor gallery and the great ball.
nificence of the appointments and oppuient
decorations left them bredthless. They
said little, however, in comment, but that
awe was one OF the feelings that what they
had witnessed gave rise to was evidenced
by the husband, who, upon retiring for the
night, when he was asked BY his faithful
spouse, If according to his usual custom. he
was not going to put his shoes outside 10 be
backened, emphatically replied: Not
much. Ii | did they'd gid them."-N. Y.
Tribune
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31

To illustrate the feeling of Ireland toward
the predominant partner, an actor who has
lately been touring tells the story OF an old
waiter in a Dublin hotel. when are you
going to get home rule in ireland, John -
was the question. See We here, sorr," SAID
the old man, the only way well get home
rule for ould Ireland viii be if France-an
RUSSIAN Germany-an' AUSTRIAN
maybe Italy-if they would all join together
to give those blaygiards OF English rare
good hiding That's the only way We'll get
home rule, anyway" Then, as he looked
cautiously around, a twinkle of cunning and
smile Of courtesy were added to the ex-
preston. And the whole lot of EN- showed
together couldn't do it. he said. "0h-it's
the grand navy we've got!"-London Chron-
inln