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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-17

OIL made from besAs by a process Of
sailing them that is unique and agree
ahle to the Taste, used as sauce. It
IS called sol" pronounced sawy). It
ooAS like worcestershire sauce, and
for some purposes is better than that
supreme and only sauce used in Eng
land.
There is a Chinese cook in Foochow
who has way Of broiling beefsteak,
using sol for flavor, that one who once
tastes it will not soon forget. If this
man were at Delmonicos. "beefsteak
"a sol" would soon become a popu-
lar item of their menu.
Sol costs here only about five cents
pint, and could be made profitable
article of commerce, no doubt, if it
were properly introduced into the
American market. We have it upon our
table in preference to any foreign
sauce, and many isn,ilies out here do
the same.
Salt is great government monopo-
ly. 1t is produced from sea water by
evaporation in pans of sand and mud.
These salt fats are very extensive on
this Hinghua coast. Much of the salt
is very dirty, of dull gray color, be-
cause of the sand and mud in it. But
when one watches them scrape up the
salt from this wet mud he wonders
how it is kept so clean. Some of it is
white. 1t depends good deal upon
the locality or the character of the soil.
But, clean or dirty, it is invariably
in large coarse crystals. 1t is salty, at
least; and the Chinese do not mind the
coarseness, as it is only used in
picking, preserving and cooking, and
il IS all dissolved anyway. We get our
table salt from America; the natives
use none. They have sol upon the
table instead
/ The price varies from five cents per
man load of 1873 pounds at the salt
works to five dollars per load, depend
ing upon the distance it has to be car
/ ried overland upon mems shoulders
and the number of Peking officials who
have had their squeeze" off oft. One
of the reasons that population is
sparse in the interior, say, 100 miles
/ from water communication. is the
enormous price of this necessity of life.
The Chinese say that such place is
not populated because the salt can
not get in"
OF course everybody knows about the
bird's-nest soup that the rich Celes-
tial serves to his delighted guests. and
the sharks fins, that cost such fabu-
lous sums. / do not go into details
about these articles because my pur-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-17

all this class of vegetables the Chinese
make a kind of sauer kraut. They
make it after the manner of the peas
antry of the Fatherand, according to
our nursery lore; they Tramp it
with their feet, TO make it nice and
sweet"
The only people who bruise the
vegetables in any other way are the
bound-footed women. They use their
hands. The mass of leaves or tops is
spread ont upon brick or stone pave
ment, and the tramper is far more
careful to wash his feet after the
process than before it.
| have asked several, and invariably
the reply is:
1--WE always wash the salt vegetables
before eating, so it makes no differ
ence if they are tramped upon the
dirty pavement with dirty feet"
This comforting view of it is thor
oughly oriental, and distinctively Chi
nese.
The Chinese compass sea and land
to obtain food for their teeming mil
lions. Even seaweed is delicacy. 1t
brings as high price per pound as
pork. 1t is highly priced by vegetari-
ans. The reason it is so expensive
even upon the sea coast is that it is
found in quantities only in one To-
cality, where the sea is shallow enough
for the people to gather it. They have
10 diving suits.
peculiar kind of vegetable is grown
without soil, of green peas put in
large open jars, and sprouted The
sprouts look a little like potato
sprouts grown in a cellar They are
cheap and quite palatable.
Bamboo grows upon the mountains
in limitless quantity. At the base of
the cane is a sprout like sucker, cone
shaped and solid, the inside white like
a cabbage center, These are a stand
ard vegetable and make a very good
ingredient for soup.
Their celery is in the last stage of
degeneration, green from top to root.
It is not cultivated by killing. as in
America. and no attempt is made to
bleach IL. This degeneration is due in
part, no doubt, to the semitropical eli
mate, but more to the lack of intelli-
gent cultivation.
Vegetable oils are used largely in
cooking. Lard is used to limited ex-
tent; it is more expensive. Peanut oil
is the favorite. Peanuts are grown in
great quantities; the oil pressed out
for light and food and the pulp used
for fertilizer Beans are utilized in
the same way in north China where
peanuts are not raised. But the oil is
much inferior. However, there Is an
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-17
MRS. WITWER INDICTED.
Charged with Murder in First De-
grce-Chemist Has Not Yet
Made His Report.

Dayton, O., Oct. 15.-The formal
charge of murder in the first degree
was Monday morning preferred against
Mrs. Mary Belle Witwer. the suspected
wholesale murderer, who has includ-
ed in her alleged list of victims all four
husbands, and children Of her own
flesh and blood The affidavit is sworn
to by Chief of Detectives Frank Me-
Bride and is based on the death eff Mrs.
Anna c. Pugh, sister of the accused.
1t is charged that death was due to the
administration of arsenic willfully and
purposely by Mrs. Witwer. The expert
chemist, into whose hands have been
placed the intestines of several sup
posed victims, including Mrs Pugh,
has not yet made his report to the coro-
ner and Mondays affidavit is based
wholly on circumstantial evidence. the
police regarding it sufficiently strong
to warrant action.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-17
GETS SAFELY AWAY.
Gen. Bothn Succeeds in Reaching
PongoIa Forest Near Luneburs,
TransvaRI.

New York, Oct 15.-Heavy rains
have temporarily interfered with
communication between the columns
in the field, says a Dundee (NataD
dispatch to the Times.
As was feared, the Boer force. In
trying to make good its escape, has
melted into small groups. Command
ant General Botha and the main body
of burghers, accompanied by three
commandants, have reached Pongola
forest, near Luneburg, Transvaal.
London, Oct. ia special dispatch
from Cape Town says that, owing to
the restriction of martial law, the
pro-Boer South African News has
been obliged TO suspend publication
London, Oct. 15.-The Pail Mall Ga
zette says; Orders have been re-
ceived at Aldershot to hold every
available man in readiness to proceed
on active service. The garrison to-
tails 10000 men.
The above is interpreted as mean
ing that the government is DESTROYS
of reassuring the public, and not as
foreshadowing an immediate demand
for the services of the First army
corps
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A DOLLAR FOR FOOD.
Hcw the Chinese Live on That
Amount for a Month.
Vegetables OF the Coarsest Kind,
Sauce and Salt Give Variety to
q Diet of Rice and Sweet
Potatoes.

Especial Hinghua (China) letter.
IT IKE the Israelites of old, the
Chinese are fond of 1.-THE leeks,
LIZ the onions and the garlic.
These make the standard favors for
many dishes.
Their onions are small and inferior.
Large onions are imported for the for
eign community, but for some reason
the gardeners of Foochow have not
yet succeeded in producing a irst-class
article.
Garlic is eaten in quantities. You do
not have to be told this if you pass
along a residence street during the
hour supper is being prepared. I'M
less the law is laid down very plain
and as memorable as that of the Modes
and Persians, your house viii often
be filed with its odor from your own
kitchen. The cook is preparing a
bowl of refreshment at your fire. You
are fortunate If he is not using your
stewpan as well. If he is you will
know it when he brings on the next
meal. Radishes are grown by the
field. Not the tender little roots we
have in America, but foot or more
long. coarse and fibrous, white, and
growing three or four inches out of
the ground. The trouble with the for
eign radish, for the Chinese taste, is
it is not filling" Quantity is the
main thing with the Monaghan. And
he has it in his fadishes. They arc
sailed and kept the year round.
The cabbage of South China would
not be marketable in America. 1t is
soft and green. The gardeners some
times tie string around it to make
it head. But even that does not make
it solid. They eat every part of it.
We are trying to raise foreign cab
bage in our garden with fair success,
and the way the natives eagerly accept
the leaves or any part of it indicates
that the foreign variety in time will
be substituted for the native, if it can
be kept from deteriorating in this
climate.
With the radish tops, and leaves of
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-17

cepted and mat ne was entitled to the
amount set forth. As a matter of fact
the plans presented by Lundborg con-
tanned nothing of value that was new;
and such suggestions made by him as
were valuable were already in use in
British. French and American war YES
sells. For example, the claimant lays
particular stress upon his tank sys-
tenn of raising and lowering the bow
and stern of vessel. The court of
claims disposed of this contention by
showing that Mr.. Froude, the eminent
authority upon naval construction, had
in 1872 in illustration of this theory
made series of tank experiments
which were well known to the ship
building world, and wide discussion fol-
lowed. 1t was further demonstrated
by the court of claims that the navy
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-17
nefricnded by an Emperor.

While Emperor Francis Joseph of
Austria was residing at Budapest not
long ago, his attention was attracted
to a small boy who always awaited
the imperial carriage at a particular
spot in the Albrecht road, and en-
Enthusiastically waved his cap as the
vehicle passed by. The aged emper-
or became so accustomed to the fer
vent loyalty of his little subject that
he always looked for him at the
same point. 1t happened one day
that the police formed a Gordon
down this street and the boy was
backed into the crowd. The emperor
noticed his absence. and even looked
up to the windows of the house
above, in the vain hope of seeing the
little fellow. The next day a hand
some equipage stopped at this house
and an official sent by the emperor
inquired concerning the child's
whereabouts. 1t was learned that
the boys mother was the pensioned
widow of an officer, and that no evil
had befallen the youngster. The boy
is now a pupil in the government
military academy at Vienna.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-17

One of the African birds does a
very pleasant duty, as its name of
honey guide shows. They lead the ma
tives TO the bees nests in the woods
and elsewhere, in the hope that they
may be allowed not only share of the
honey, but also full freedom TO feed
on the larvae, or grubs, and eggs in the
nests. Some folks have accused them
of being wicked enough to guide men
not to the honey. but to the dens Of
savage beasts. This is, however total,
~ untrue; although the birds have.
like the cuckoo. the bad habit of laying
their eggs in other nests than their
own, giving the Strangers the trouble
of Matching them and rearing the
chicks.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-17
InIinns Not Citirens.

State Game Warden Overlook re-
ceived word from Deputy w. j, MeGee
of his arrest of five Indians in the
woods in oconto county for hunting
without a license and his seizure of
two rifles. shotgun and eight deer
skin which he found in their possess
sion. Justice Frost let them off on
the grounds that they are not citizens
and that their conviction would mean
boarding them at the expense of the
county.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-17

by his master, who was disloyal. The
government will not pay that claim"
One of the most important claims
that has been before the court for a
long time was that of Charles g. Lund-
borg, who demanded judgment of
$250000 for an alleged use of certain
plans and specifications prepared by
him in the construction of vessels for
our navy. Under date of May s, 1885,
the secretary of the navy published an
invitation "to all engineers and me-
chanics of established reputation, and
all reputable manufacturers of vessels,
steam engines, boilers or ordnance,
having or controlling regular estab-
lishments and being engaged in the
business; all officers of the navy, and
especially all naval constructors, steam
engineers and ordnance officers of the
navy, having plans, models or designs
Of any vessels, or Of any part there
of, of the classes authorized by the
naval appropriation act of March 8,
1855, TO submit such plans. models and
designs to the secretary of the navy"
This claimant, Lundborg, submitted
plans which were never used nor re-
turned to him Because the depart
ment did not return his plans the claim
ani has asserted that they were ac-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-17
ADOPTS MARRIAGE CANON.
ington Amendment Excepting
Innocent Party to Divorce.

San Francisco, Oct, Is. The vote on
the Huntington amendment to section
four, canon 30, which excerpts the in
nocent party to divorce from remar-
riage, was defeated in the committee
of the whole by a vote of 155 ayes
against 173 noes
The original secti.@l was then
adopted as il came from the house Of
bishops, which had already passed it
by vote of 1S2 ayes and f53 noes.
The question will now be referred by
the committee of the whole to the
house of deputies for final action.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-17

Gov. La Toilette, who has been i'll for
more than three months and absent
from executive duties, took out a
resident hunters license and went ten
miles in the country to the home of
his physician, DIR. Philip Fox, in the
hope that country air and rabbit and
prairie chicken shooting will fully
recover his health Dr. Fox is very
hopeful, He says the governor took
the longest stroll he has taken since
his illness began and his recovery is
only matter of a short time.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-17
president Adams Resigns.

The resignation of Charles Kendall
Adams as president of the University
of Wisconsin was sent to the board
of regents at special meeting. He
gives as reason for withdrawing
the i'll health of both himself and his
wife, which compels them to seek
another climate. Instead of immedi-
ately accepting the resignation the
regents granted President Adams in
definite leave of absence, without pay,
and appointed Dean e. A. Birge as
acting president.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-17
Judge Zines a Joker.

+. F. Gengnangle, of Dayton, o., and
Alexander Jacques, of st. Paul, both
travelling men, engaged in an alterca-
ton in Eau Claire and Gengnangle was
taken before Judge Gilbertson on
charge of assault. When the Judge,
who had been told that Gengnangle
had threatened to shoot, inquired:
Have you a pistol on your person.
Gengnangle said: Yes, | have, your
honor" Then give it to the officer -
said the Judge, whereupon Gengnangle
brought out pistol an inch and a
half long, of the kind used for watch
charms. The judge fined Gengnangle
five dollars for contempt Of court.
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pose is to give a description of the ey-
eryday life of the common people, and
these luxuries do not enter into our
subject.
The great mass Of Chinese are poor,
very poor, and have to live upon diet
that costs less than two silver dollars
month, or one gold dollar, and more
live on half that than there are who
spend more than one American dollar
per month for food. 1t is plain that TO
live so eheaply requires a largely yege-
table diet, and that, too, Of vegetables
of the cheapest kind, as a supplement
to rice or sweet potatoes.
WILLIAM N. BREWSTER.
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THE MARKETS
Grain, Provisions. Etc.
Chicago, oct. H.

Chicago, Oct H.
wITEAT-st December 70ss@705sc:
May, 7S2sm74lsc,
OATS-Active. December, May, 37d319sc.
RYE-Ruled steady. No ?, 53&05494c.
Choice samples bring premium. Decem-
Der delivery, 55lac
BARLEY-S Steady and fair sale. Screen
ings 40a50c Mailing, off color. light
weight or not clean, 5lM5ic. Fair to good,
55@5IIac and choice to fancy above.
MESS PORK Trading only moderats
and prices irregular Quotations $4,000
400 for cash, $l3S0nl3s5 for October.
$15.1719di5So for January. ana $i5. 2O@i5.S1la
for May,
LARD-A fairly good business transact
ed and prices higher Quotations, 5000
9,42A for cash. 81. 40Q9. f2iz for october.
49, 321kQi9. 42l2 for November. Sg.o5M9l5 for
January and s9.05m915 for May.
SHORT RIB SfDES-'rrading fairly ac-
tive and prices ruled lower. Quotations.
S. 25Gis 40 for cash according to weight,
sS30aS.32ia for October. T92i4mS.99 for Jan
uary, and SS00aS.05 for May
POTATOES Market steadier white
stock. good to choice. G0a62c, fancy rurals,
63d64c; red stock, 55Gf62c
EGGS-Market firm. City reeandled lSc:
good TO choice. 15Gl6he; loss on. 17i4@lSc.
BUTTER-R Ruling quiet and steady.
Creameries. extras. PIC per pound firsts.
lS420c; seconds, 1idl4lsc dalries lSlzMl9c.
LIVE POULTRY-Stead Turkeys.
7GtSc; chickens, 75zlt9e; ducks, TaiSc; geese.
$400a6,00
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sunnectcd or AmfuI crlme.

Louis Murgaw is in the county Jail
in Grantsburg awaiting trial for the
murder and burning of the thsee Bos-
ley children near Orange few weeks
ago. Charles Saunders, under sheriff,
went to Shell Lake, where he took
Murgaw, who had been arrested at
Spooner. Murgaw denies having COM
mitted the murder. but cannot tell
where he was that night.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


After being declared dead by the
courts, Robert Smith Quackenbush
has returned to Black River Falls
to claim his own. He left there with
his father for the west in 1865. His
father died the same year, leaving a
life insurance of $4,000 and other
property to his three sons. The last
heard of young Quackenbush was a
letter written to his mother dated
Portland, Ore, February IS, 1890.
Soon after, for some reason, he
dropped the name of Quackenbush,
taking his middle name, Smith. He
was then lost sight of and il was
thought that he must be dead.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-17

The state board of control has or
dered 113 patients at the Mendoza and
Northern insane asylums transferred
to county asylums. When all the
transfers are made, which will be
within a month, the total number of
inmates of county asylums will be
2 COZ
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80 Ynrk. D. Ia.

New York. Oct II.
FLoUR-Stste and western frmer and
fairly active on spring patents
RYE FLOUR-Steady.
WHEAT-Active and higher ON bulllsh
Argentine crop news. strong cables and
good local buying for short account De-
cember. 76 1905 9-16c; May 70 3-16019lac.
RYE-Steady. state, 55056c G T. f.. New
York car lots. No. western. e0c +. .. b.
afloat.
CORN-Opened firm with wheat. but
yielded to unloading and became weak.
Dece mber. 6lssM62c: May, 62AG62i5c
OATS-Quiet and barely steady. Track
white, 40u47c.
BUTTER Firm State dairy. 1ta2Oc:
creamery, 15a2lc; June creamery, i7m2lc:
factory. 121z1cl5c.
CHEESE-Quiet. Fancy large colored,
9hc; fancy large white, SAC; fancy small
colored, 1O4c.
EGGs-Steady. State ard Pennsylvania,
2I1za2c western candleG. 21&e. western
uncandled, 1Glt2ic.
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Chicago. oct. IA.
HOGS Market active and feeling firm.
Prices Jd10c higher. Sales ranged az 81 600
$40 for pigs, $5.s0G647la for light S5.75n5 80
for rough packing, s5.S5N6 72k for mixed,
and S5.95Qe.77i@ for heavy packing ard ship
ping lots. Bulk Of sales. $600lt635.
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South omaha. Neb.. Oct. n.

CATTLE about steady Native
beef steers. $4.50a625; western steers g. 20
452Q: Texas steers, $35Oa4.30: cows and
heifers l0ni5c lower $2.75a44 40; Gamers,
81. 25ll2 co; stockers and feeders l0@l5c low
er. s2.50ll410, calves g 00lt5. .. bulls, stays,
etc lower 81 00U4.00
TOGS-Market 5Gl0c higher Heavy,
s.. 271z05.40; mixed, $6.271zGs.30: light. S. 10
q6.20. pigs, $J.5046.09; bulk Of sales, S. 27IaG2
$50
SHEEP Market 10ql5c higher. Fair
wethers, $3OOn350; ewes, g. 75n310; COM
mon and stock sheep, S2.eQQ3.25; lambs.
S3.I5a450
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Especial HInghua Cchina) letter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-09-20

East Indian islands, of the Italians in
Abyssinia. of the United States in the
Sulu and Hawaiian groups. At times 1t
masQuerades as "coolie" or contract
labor" traffic. But is frankly slave
trade.
The slave trade was condemned only
when it had just about ceased and the
civilized, or machine and skilled labor
using, nations had small use for the
coarse, slothful labor of slaves. The sin
ternatlonal law" against it was hardly
more than a shot into a corpse. 1t
simply forbade barbarous and eml-bar-
barous nations to do that which had be-
come rofitable-therefore immoral
to civilized nations. But with the rise
of the earth-grabbing mania slave labor
has again become necessary" to the
development of the waste places of the
earth under Providence" And the trade
in slaves and coolies and contract
laborers" is revving, is growing, is
flourishing. And international law
and international conscience" are silent
As with the slave trade, so with the
war. Britain in South Africa Is bound
by no international law" She is free
to do whatever she wills, limited only by
expediency. For instance, as the Beers
take more British soldiers than the
British Boer soldiers, it would be unwise
for Britain to proclaim the Beers traitors
and shoot down the captured-the swift
est way to 'make good radiance of bad
rubbish
international law" is a good, round,
mouth filling hypocricy. 1t belongs in
the vocabulary of governments that
have never been at loss for excuses for
any course which 1t suited them to
follow, or at loss for reasons for con-
demning, any course which conficted
with their interests.