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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-12

The seismascope is delicate in
strument used by the weather bu-
reau at Washington to record earth
quake shocks. This instrument
gives exact account of any seismic
disturbance, no matter in what part
of the earth it occurs. Every dis
turbance of this kind starts an earth
wave that passes through the earth
in sixteen minutes. This wave is a
tremor in the substance of the globe
that causes a rising and subsistence
of the ground beneath US, phen-
omenon similar to wave movements
in the sea. These waves are very
long, so long that we do not realize
the rising and falling of the ground
beneath us although the rise of the
ground is often as much as three
inches. Consequently when severe
earthquake occurs anywhere, as in
Japan, where they have three day
on the average, the capitol at Wash
ington, and any other building, rises
three inches. When we look little
further into earth movements we
may learn that when a train of cars
passes through the streets the build
ings on either side incline tow ard
each other.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-12
r. j. Flint, Secretary of State.

r. ]. Flint of Menomonie is being
favorably mentioned as candidate for
secretary of state before the Repub-
lican convention which is to be held
at Madison July II We say he is
being favorably mentioned. The
statement in itself may not mean
much. Many localities in the state
have as a citizen an aspirant for
some state office who is, locally,
favorably mentionea. HE'S SO men
toned because he asks to be. In
most instances Of the kind the candi-
dacy of these persons and the favor
able mention is not to be taken
seriously. Such "honors are easy"
The favorable mention is all that is
expected, both by the candidates
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-12
The population of the Transvaf

The population of the Transvaal
the South African Republic and
the Orange Free State-when the
war began consisted of about $780,
900 people. 1t is said the num-
Der of survivors does not exceed
$4,000. Of the survivors, $4,000
are women and children. The deaths
number 10000, 10000 men are
prisoners and 1900 surrendered.
The British had an army of 325,ooo
men in the field from first to last and
their loss was Io5,628, of which
e ,2oI were deaths.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-12

The Philippine question-whether
the United States should retain or
give up the islands-was paramount
in the Oregon election held the first
of the month. The Republicans
favored holding the islands and the
Democrats opposed. The Republi-
cans elected both Congressman by
very large majorities and majority
of the state Legislature. On joint
ballot the Legislature will stand, II
Republicans and 10 Democrats.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-12

According to Adjutant General
Setback all soldiers widows, who
have REMARKED and lost their second
husband are entitled to have pen
sion Of $I2.oo per month, obtained
free of charge. This is a good law,
and does not make it burden on
the U. S. if some do try to better
their conditions by marrying, even if
they do get a poor stick and he dies
on their hands.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-12

Sensible Republicans in St. Croix
county-and they include such men
as Senator Mosher, Byron Price,
ex-senator Phipps and DIR. Wade
attach no important significance to
the vote of the Glenwood convention
on the Spooner resolutions. 1t was
even less than an incident-rather "a
mere accident-which would have
been rectifed had not the convention
been brought to an untimely end.
The attempt to use it for political
effect in the state contest would be
reprehensible were it not so ex-
tremely ridiculous as to place it
without the pale of serious consider
ation.-Glenwood Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-12
Out of Meat.

class as the family which having the
preacher on hands and being out of
meat was forced to the alternative
of catching woodchuck. Cattle,
four-legged hogs and sheep are
scarce and lean. To add to the
acuteness of the situationit is determ-
ined to collect $4,000 cattle in Texas
to restock the farms of the Beers of
South Africa. In view of these alarm
ing conditions there begins to dawn
upon the people the wisdom of
certain reform law passed by the
last legislature of encouraging
the breeding of rabbits and squirrels.
These heretofore little-appreciated
quadrupeds will furnish meat. They
are equally as good for the CASTRO
nomic enterity as woodchuck. The
Legislature which passed the bill put
ting rabbits and squirrels in the
protected list of game animals has
been ridiculed, lambasted, and roast
ed as a set of incorrigible lunatics
for putting such senseless law on
the statute books. We are forced
to acknowledge that we were in the
wrong. We were obtuse. We
didn't see the point, but the reformer
is often prophet. With clearer
vision he sees into the future and
regulates his actions for the demands
of the coming day. The author of
that rabbit bill foresaw the terrible
drought of last year, and the dearth of
cattle sure to result; he had figured
up how many beeves each British
and American soldier would devour
in foreign lands and how many cat
tie would perish by the drought or
starve for want of sustenance con-
sequent upon the scarcity of feed.
Nor did he forget that the DISPOSE
! ton of the beef trust was largely
composed of greed and would hold
the last ham for two prices. And
now the people see and are prone to
give recognition to the wisdom of
that last legislature in providing a
rabbit preserve with a Gordon of
game wardens to encourage the birds
to multiply and replenish the earth
so that the long-famished people
could regale themselves on feast
of rabbit steak.
This is the closed season for rab-
bits. They are doing business I'M
molested by the small boy or any
other man. 1t is their nesting sea-
son. Every last old doe is on her
nest watched by a numerous retinue
of buck rabbits and game wardens.
The legislature overlooked one re-
quirement in the situation. Rabbits
are the victims of numerous para
sites. Fleas infest them as bad as
they do dogs. Fleas on a dog may
be killed by burying the dog but
this implies the saving process of
killing the dog and as the law con-
templates the preservation of the
rabbits the Legislature should have
provided the game wardens with a
desinfectant and squirt gun with
orders to spray the old rabbits and
their numerous progeny while on
the nest, but the next legislature
will remedy this defect in the game
laws.
When the open season is announc-
ed and it is not any longer crimi-
nal proceeding to kill rabbits we
shall combine sport and profit. I'm
til then encourage the game war;
dens to encourage the multiplication
of the rabbits. Rabbits are valu-
able. 1t costs fifty dollars to kill
one while on the nest. A rabbits's
nest is no ssmare's nest"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-12

Judge Cowan of North Dakota
recently scored two old men, who
had been in the country fourteen and
another sixteen years, and neither
had learned the English language.
They wished to take out their papers
SO that they might file on claims,
but Judge Cowan refused them that
privilege.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-12
Mr.. Gates of Milwaukee owns

Mr.. Gates of Milwaukee owns
much of the county named after him.
He recently bought 10000 acres of
land in that and Chippewa county.
The Gates Land Co. now owns Co.,
900 acres in northern Wisconsin. If
you want quarter section Of it, it
will cost you more than it did the
company.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-12

1t is probable that the disaster at
Martinique caused by volcanic action
and the destruction of towns by earth
quakes in Guatemala will be an occa-
sion for further serious consideration
of the Nicaragua route for a canal.
It is in the belt of seismic disturb
ance.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-12

Many of the newspapers that have
been foremost in developing the fac
tional scrap in the state over the
nomination of some pet candidate
for governor have endeavored to in
duce the representatives and sena-
tors in Congress to participate in the
suuabble. These men have wisely
and properly refused to mingle in
this disgraceful fight. The selection
of United States Senators is one
thing. The election of Members of
Congress Is another. The nomina-
ton of candidate for governor and
for any other state officer is still
another distinct thing. The states
representatives in the national legis-
lature would lower their dignity and
defeat their usefulness in Congress
by mingling in these petty factional
fights.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-12

The delegates to the Dunn Co.
convention that met at Menomonie
last week passed resolution endors-
ing r. ]. Flint as candidate for sec
rotary of state.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-12

Congressman J. ]. jenkins deliv-
cred an address at Arlington, the
national cemetery near Washington,
Decoration Day.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-12
Warming.

If you have kidney or bladder
trouble and do not use Foley's Kid
ney Cure, you will have only yourself
to blame for results, as it positively
cures all forms of kidney and blad-
der diseases. Sold by G, r. Tag.
CART
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-12

d. G. Closson of Oconto is in the
field for the Republican nomination
of attorney general. He was born
in 1860.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-12

Some men have more iron in their
system than others-sorap iron.
The Irish standard., 1902-07-12

The Irish World thinks that the re-
cent speech of John T. Ninerty before
the law graduates of the University Of
Nebraska is the best he has ever made.
Perhaps it is, but Mr.. Finerty has
made so many good speeches during
the past twenty-five years that it is
hard to determine His address in con-
gress on the American Navy elected
high encomiums at the time. Like
O'Connell, MI. Finerty does not try to
do his best: and like Curran he speaks
best when he speaks extemporaneously
and warns up as he goes along. He
is certainly a born crater, but he has
cultivated his gift Of elouuence. We
think Michael Davitt did not eXagge-
rate when lie said that John T. Finer
ty is the greatest orator among living
Irishmen. Perhaps he had not heard
Bourke Cochran before expressing that
opinion.
The Irish standard., 1902-07-12
Kissed the Pepe's Hand.

Mrs. William Knapp, a Protestant
lady, was recently presented to the
Pope After making a low reverence.
then kneeling and kissing the hand of
the Pontiff she writes as follows to q
friend:
I came home feeling as if | were
walking on air, fer the scene Of the
morning had thrilled me through and
through. And even yet, on the third
day. the impression then made upon
me remains.
Whatever there may be of truth or
error i'll the Roman Catholic faith, it
has lived through the centuries with
out a break. and still rules great
portion of the world, While the Protest
ant church is divided into so MANY
sects that you don't know where YOU
are. And most of the churches seem
to have no belief at all.
am no nearer being a Roman Cath
Ollie than I ever was. At the same
time my respect for system that has
lived and strived through all these cen
turtles has increased in the same ratio
that the Protestant churches have
seemed to decrease until some of them
believe nothing Mt all.
The Irish standard., 1902-07-12

Why does not Governor Dole, like
Taft in the Philippines, insist that the
Protestant missionaries in Hawaii
should sell out their vast landed es-
tates? Why not? Because they are
Catholic Columbian. May
it not be because the natives have not
asked for the expulsion of the Protest
ant missionaries? Six months before
Dewey arrived in Manila to destroy
the Spanish fleet, council of the Fill
Pine insurgents had demanded the ex-
pulston of the friars. The members of
the monastic orders are Spaniards and
the Filipinos do not desire them for
their spiritual guides. They are as
obnoxious to them as We're the English
priests to the Irish in the twelfth CEN
fury, Notwithstanding the fact that the
Spanish friars had given them all the
civilization they possess. The friars
stood by the Spanish government and
thus became hated by the rebels. The
best thing for them to do is to sell
out and leave the ingrates to the mercy
of wolves in sleeps clothing.
The Irish standard., 1902-07-12
Knights of Columbus in Michipan.

The knights of Columbus expect to
have big time in Menominee, Mich.
on the 22d of this month, when George
f. Monaghan, state deputy for the or
ganization. of Detroit, accompanied by
fifty members of the order, will install
a class of so new members into the
local lodge. Mr.. Monaghan and fifty
companions, accompanied by their la
dies will make their first stop at Mar
quette, where they will institute new
council on the 18th. From there they
will go to Hancock, and on the Goth
will establish council in that city,
They will then proceed to Menominee
and on the 22d the class of so mem
bers, most of whom are from Mari
nette, Wis. and towns north of there,
will be initiated. The Menominee
council now has 80 members. several
of whom are from Marinette, and when
the new class is installed this will be,
one of the strongest councils in the
state outside of Detroit and Grand
Rapids All the knights viii be ac-.
companied by their ladies, and it is ex-.
pected that there will be 25O strangers
in the city to attend this installation
meeting. The exercises will begin at
2 o'clock in the afternoon, although the
hall i'll which they will be held has not
yet been selected. and in the evening
there will be q big banquet and pro-.
gram appropriate to the occasion.
The Irish standard., 1902-07-12

\ dispatch from Dublin of July 5
says: Addressing q meeting Of the
United Irish League at Limerick this
afternoon John Redmond, chairman Of
the League, called on the Irish to unite
for one great effort. Coercion, he said,
should meet coercion, and the land
schemes of Mr.. Wyndham, the chief
secretary for Ireland, who was one
of the worst representatives of English
rule ever sent to Ireland, should be de-
feated. 1t rested with the irish to win
their liberty" We hope John Redmond
spoke as reported. 1t is about time for
the Irish to defend themselves from
the brutal attacks of the peelers and to
give blow for blow, even if they get
the worst of it. What are blackthorn
sticks for!
The Irish standard., 1902-07-12

has led to the doing of great wrong
(some of us would say, to the commits
sion of a great crime) in the conspiracy
against and the assault upon your two
most interesting republics.
"For the time being, this wrong or
crime is triumphant, and those who are
responsible for it loudly assert that
what they have done is for all time
But the history of the world abundant
ly shows that nothing here is ever done
for all time'-that, in fact. it is
world of constant change; and it is
perfectly conceivable that good will
come out of this evil and that because
of it, the advanced cry of africa for
-Africanders' may yet best describe the
ultimate result"
Such words as the foregoing will
soothe the feelings of the Beers whose
homes We're destroyed and whose
wives and children were placed in fill
thy concentration camps where thou
sands of them persisted. The signers
of this address to the Beers predict
that it is only a question of time when
there will spring up United States of
South Africa by the steady growth Of
free institutions and resolute patriot
ism, and that no grasping hand from
without can ever deprive them Of the
rights Of lf-government in the land
which is drenched with their blood.
The Irish standard., 1902-07-12

municants or members of any church
they should not hesitate to say So In
the 'mother country and other Euro
pean nations religious census is taken
decennially; why not in the United
States?
AS regards the Catholic directory as
AN authority OH population the less said
about it the better. The cOmpilers rely
on statistics from the clergy and they
do not give exact figures. The result
is that instead of showing gain the
directory indicates a loss when other
matters are considered.
The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune says that Very Rev.
]. Il. Slattcry of St Joseph's Semi
nary at Baltimore, has caused SEN
sation in Catholic circles by a state
ment made by him in a sermon at the
priesthood. Father Slattery asserted
that the Catholic church in the United
States is losing ground ut an astound-
ing rate. and for proof he gave the
figures in THE Catholic directory for
twelve years, showing an apparent in
crease of 2,675,390, while during the
same period 2,7O5,1S4 Catholic immi-
grants came into the country.
The loss on the face of the figures,
without allowing for births and con-
versions, is 29,793. This would be an
alarming state of affairs if the direc-
tory figures were correct, but they GER
tainly are far below the mark, and
Father Slattery is off his base. Instead
of the Catholic population being 1O,-
97G,757 as given in this years directory
it is fifty per cent more, at least, if
Catholics We're counted according to
Archbishop Ireland's method of COM
putation.
The same correspondent says that
on July 6, an influential number of
priests and laymen assembled in Wash
ington and suggested that memorial
be drafted requesting the archbishops
who are to meet at the Catholic Uni
versity in October to take measures to
secure a more accurate parochial cell
sus. That is the only thing for the
archbishops to do, and it is not unlike
ly they will set the machinery in mo-
ton to obtain the most exact statistics
of the Catholic church that can be
gathered in every part of the United
States. Then, and only then, will the
Catholic directory be a reliable au-
thority.
The Irish standard., 1902-07-12

A monument will soon be erected at
Fort Greene, Brooklyn, to honor the
memory of American patriots who died
Of ill-usage as prisoners Of war in Brit
ish hulks during the Revolutionary
War. Will Theodore Roosevelt, Chaun-
cey Depew or Whitelaw Reid attend
the unwilling and rebuke the mother
country" for her inhuman barbarities?
OF course not. 1t happened in the reign
of George I'LL, and what is the use of
opening old sores?
The Irish standard., 1902-07-12

Says Father Phelan in the Western
Watchman: I'VE are singing Jere-
miad because the Protestants are get
ting ahead of us in the schools of the
Philippines. This is because we We're
asleep when the enemy came and
sowed preachers among the Catholic
Filipinos. But why was this dark con-
spiracy successful? Because we had not
one Catholic on the Philippine commits
sion. And why was not u Catholic on
that body? When President Mckin-
ley was looking around fer one a Cath
Ole archbishop came to him and told
him the Catholics of this country nei-
ther expected nor deserved representa-
ton in that body" Who was that
Catholic archbishop? Publish his name
or withdraw the statement.
The Irish standard., 1902-07-12
about with him. Oh, yes, John Ire
land has charge of the earler'

about with him. Oh, yes, John Ire
land has charge of the eagle!'
The story of his life is written on
his face and frame, but it will read
like fable to later age. In few men
is the portrayal Of character through
the person so obvious and instantane-
GUS. He is massively healthful and
strong; his mental and moral qualities
are engrafted upon a large and sound
limbed body. From his adopted coun-
try he passed to clerical college at
MeximieuX, in France, and there he
passed the years of development and
change under rigid rule, but amidst
healtl-giving conditions.
The American Civil war took him
from ordinary activities Of sacerdotal
life, and threw him into the midst of
conditions and opportunities which
have been reflected broadly and yet
exactly throughout his subsequent Ca
reer. The military chaplain was so
sincerely and intensely in sympathy
with his work as to become soldier
like. His Americanization to the core,
through every fiber of his being, was
made complete.
The spirit of that epic struggle for
a great human principle over a stub
born national fact, moulded the young
Irish priest into the most aboriginal
American of them ALL
John Ireland has now, at CT, when
he looks 30, an unquelled soul. Only
big things are his concern. He counts
gains. not costs: success, and not loss
es. He is always sure of victory in
the main, and lie always attains it,
He is an optimist. He rushes now with
his services as public man and Cath.
Ole into advanced situations, just as
he flew with his priestly ministration
to the front of the engagements in
which the Grand Army of the Republic
was involved.
Monsignore Ireland, always host in
himself, has advocated i'll every public
way the reconsideration of the Roman
question. He is credited-rightfully,
as 1 know on authority-with the de-
cisive influence in the nomination of
American ambassadors to the Quirinal.
In 1885, at the instance of the Pontiff,
he had succeeded in preventing war
between Spain and the United States
if President Mckinley had acted in
loyal correspondence. He has achieved
Il fuller triumph in establishing nego-
tiations about the Philippine religious
question between the Washington adj
and the Holy See, and in
bringing about the present commission.
He is the Pope of tomorrow Though he
may be always such, and never more)
because of the imperial cast Of his
spirit which makes him the natural
in the New World of
that vast organization which Lord
Beaconstield in his sketch on Nigel
PenruddOck has called ''the imperial
fold"
The Irish standard., 1902-07-12
CATHOLIC DECREASE IN AMERICA.

Last winter the Catholic press of the
United States devoted considerable
space to the denial of statements made
by an Irish missionary in the "Ecclesi-
astical Review" on the loss of the Cath
Ollie church in this country from apos-
tasy. In common with other Catholic
Journals the Irish Standard attempted
to disprove the allegations Of the mis-
sionary and quoted Archbishop Ire
lands celebrated address on "The
Church in America-Its Yesterday and
Tomorrow" delivered in Dubuque on
April II, 1901, in which he showed the
marvellous growth of Catholicity in the
United States from the days of Bishop
Carroll to the present time and referred
to the umeliability Of Catholic directo-
ries on church membership. 81 count
as Catholics" said the Archbishop,
those whom the Holy Church counts
as sucll-who were baptized and have
not by a formal act renowned the
faith"
If Il census We're taken i'll that way
by the government or by THE church
authorities. we believe that the Catho-
lie population of the United States to-
day would be twice that given in the
compilations made by the New York
Independent or the Catholic directory.
In this connection it is pertinent to
ask: Why cannot Hon. William r.
Merriam, Director of the Census, issue
instructions to his enumerators to
classify persons according to their re
ligious belief as we'll as their nativity
and nationality? What is there obiec-
tionable in it? No citizens Of the
United States of either sex should be
ashamed of the church to which they
are attached. and if they are not COM