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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16
NO CAUSE TO WORRY.
Mine Host Wanted to Make His Guest
Perfectly Easy as to the Noises
About the House.

ST was stopping with North Caro-
linian whose cabin was wei! up on the
side of the Allegheny mountains %
said our southern tramp, relates the
Detroit Free Press, "and had just got
to sleep after going to bed at late
hour, when he put his head in at the
door and queried:
Stranger, did yo' hear noise as of
somebody fussin' around?'
emo, I didn't hear anything re-
piled.
"I thought yo' mought and so !
got up to tell yo' that it's nuthin' but
an ole bar tryin' to get into the hog
pen. Yo' needn't feel in no trouble
bout that bar
can hour later I heard mine host
lump out of bed and move around, and
| was wondering if the bear had got
the hogs when my door was opened and
the mountaineer said:
"'Stranger, did yo' hear sunthin' or
somebody trampin' around out doahs?'
"'No, I did not replied.
"I thought yo' mought, and so l
looked in to say that it's only Joe
Stivers snookin' around in hopes to
get shot at me. He'll be disapp inted
however, and yo' needn't trouble bout
him.
81 thanked him for his kinGness and
turned over to sleep again, and it was
just growing daylight when I heard
him moving about and talking to his
wife. Presently he stuck his head into
the room and asked:
Stranger, be yo' awaken
ayes
"'Hear my old dawg barkin' like all
git out?'
"sNo.'
"I thought yo' mought, and I've
lest looked in to say that yo' needn't
trouble about it,
"'Was he barking at the bear?'
"tOh, no. He was barkin' at three
revenoo fellers who are arter my still
and I'm jest goin' out and shoot a
few of 'em and scare the rest Off It's
two hours to breakfast yit, and yo' lay
right thar and sleep and don't worry
about nuthin'.'
''He came in as breakfast was ready,
and when | asked him about the rev.
enue men he sourly replied:
''Drat SIGH folks; [ follered 'em
above two miles and never got but one
shot at 'em, and that only knocked one
critters hat off.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

Miss Kate Brown, Recording Secre-
tary of the L. G. B. Association of Kan
sas, in letter from COS n. Seventh st.
Kansas City, Kan, says:
"For seven years Ihave not known
what ii was to spend a wei day.
Icaught severe cold which neglected.
1t was at the time of menstruation and
inflammation set in and Frustrated me.
Catarrh of the kidneys and bladder fol
lowed, my digestive organs gave way,
in fact the cold disarranged my whole
system.
81 spent hundreds of dollars with
docfors,and medicine, but derived bHl
little benefit until began treatment
with Peruna. kept taking it for nearly
nine months before l was completely
cured, but | kept growing better gradu-
ally so that felt encouraged to continue
taking Peruna until my health was re-
stored Ilsend my thanks and blessings
to you for Peruna. Miss Kate Brown
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16
DON'T DREAM, BUT Dol

TITS an easy thing, if you want to know
How sweet the summer is, just to go
Down in the fields, or deep in the wood,
Or fain toward the swash of the sea-
For they all will teach you how heavenly
good
Such wholesome places be.
II you seek the souls warm summer, too,
Don't dream, but do!
Don't sit at home with your brain-born
book
And balance questions and pry and look
Askance at this, or wonder how
That squares with some ancient doubt;
But get in touch with the throbbing NOW,
And Let your heart go out
To your feMow-men who are spent and blue.
Don't dream, but do!
Work in the world for the folk thereof;
With every deed that is done in love
Some crisscross matter is smoothed for
aye;
The spirit sees straight and clear;
And heaven draws close that was far away,
As you whistle off each fear.
Work, for the days are fleet and few.
Don't dream, but do!
You may worry over Gods grinding Laws
You may probe and probe for the great
First Cause;
But IN hour Of life with an honest thrill
or kelf-forgetting joy,
vii! ease your mind Of its moody Ill
And make you blithe as a boy.
The plan is simple; then see it through:
Don't dream, but do.
Richard Burton, in Brandur Magazine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16
A Chronic esrumbIer.

To the large number of stories of the
"meanest man" which are frequently re-
Frenchman, famous for his habit of grumb-
ling at everything and on every occasion.
He was attacked by infammatory rheu-
matism, and was carefully nursed by his
wife, who was very devoted to him. in spite
of his fault-inding disposition. His suf-
fering caused her to burst into tears some
times as she sat at his bedside
One day a friend of the invalid's came
in and asked him how he was getting on.
Badly, badly" he exclaimed; "and it's
all my wife's fault"
rs it possible?" asked the friend, in sur
prise.
yes. The doctor told me that humidity
was bad for me, and there that woman sits
and cries. just to make it moist in the
room!"-Detroit Free Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16
HELEN MOONS CASE.

New Providence, Ia, Oct. 13th.-The
wonderful case of little three year old
Helen Moon continues to be the talk
of the neighborhood and everyone is
rejoicing with Mr.. and Mrs. E. Y. Moon,
the happy father and mother.
It will be remembered that this
sweet little girl was given up by the
doctors with Dropsy. She was so far
gone that her eyes were closed up and
her body bloated till it was purple
After everything else had falled
Dodd's Kidney Pills were used and to
the JOY and. surprise of everyone she
commenced to improve.
This improvement resulted in COM
plete good health and she continues to
keep strong and well and without the
slightest symptom of the Dropsy left.
The doctors are s much bewildered
as anyone at the wonderful cure of
this desperate case.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16
Electricity and Mt. Vesuvius

A protest against proposed electric
railway from Naples to Mount Vesu-
vius has been made by the science de-
partment of the University of Naples.
The railway line is intended to ac-
commodate the large traffic of tour
lists visiting the crater. There is at
present a cable railway for this pur-
pose. The university authorities
claimed that an electric railway as
close to the observatory of the univer-
sity as the one proposed would af-
feet the seismic and magnetic observa-
lions so as to render them valueless.-
Engineering News.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

shadows: but it would be quite incap,
able of carrying any appreciable
amount of water vapor, or of sustain
ing any cloud that could possibly make
it's presence felt across the 100000
miles which separates us from the
moon
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

A neglected cold is frequently the
cause of death.
tits more often, however, the cause of
some chronic disease.
There is not an organ in the body but
what is liable to become Seri ously de-
ranged by neglected cold Diseases
of the kidneys, bladder and digestive
organs are all frequently the result of
neglected cold.
Hundreds of dollars are spent on doc
tors and medicines trying to cure these
diseases. butuntil the true cause of them
is discovered, there will be no use in
using medicine.
Dyspepsia medicine, diarrhea medi-
cine and constipation medicine is of no
good whatever when catarrh is the
cause. The catarrh must be treated.
The cause being removed, the derange-
ments will disappear.
Peruna cures catarrh of the digestive
organs, the urinary organs or any of the
internal organs.
If you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving
full statement of your case, aud he will
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
vice gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

''My dear" said the young husband, "did
you speak to the milkman about there be
ing no cream on the MILK" Eyes, told
him about it this morning, and he has ex-
planned it satisfactorily; and ] think it is
saw" "He said lie always filled the bot
ties so full that there was no room on the
top for the cream. indianapolis News.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

The machinery in the Pacific coast re-
fnery rumbled on in its even, monot-
onous way, and hour followed hour.
while Kenneth went from the great
pans to the other parts of the house,
watchful and painstaking, until dawn
broke in the east. the sun rose. and a
shrill whistle called six o'clock and a
change of watch.
A half hour later Kenneth left the
refinery, going toward the building
where he, with the other employees
of the Pacific Coast refinery, took
their meals and had their rooms.
Entering his, which was small and
clean and bare, adorned only bv three
photographs, one of a gray-haired lady.
whose characterless face still showed
remnants of beauty; one - Mignon's-
beautiful and brilliant, where an all
absorbing egotism was yelled by the
witchery of the face, and third, that
of purer-faced, large-eyed girl, whose
gaze seemed to Kenneth as he took il
up and gazed fondly at its lovely contur
to speak to him of courage and a sym
pathy with his broken hopes.
With a sigh and a pressure of infinite
tenderness: Kenneth put down
Blanche picture and began his method
zeal preparation for the coming
watch.
Kenneth's physical life was spent in
the absorption of work and the ener-
petic hustle of the far-off town in the
northwest.
But his soul was in a garden where
roses grew. in an old house where ten
der memories gathered. where Mig
mons laughter rang out, and his earlier
years had been spent, and, dearest of
all, where picture stood out, inef-
faceable on the background of time
the picture of the woman he loved snlil-
ing up at him, her hand in his n. O
Times-Democrat.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

cleanliness, safety
London system of tunnels Boston ranks the sub
improvements In New York
We building
long underneath the hck populated the world
We are cutting through the bowels of the and above the traffic
goes on unhndered This will S35oooooo It
would have to be built if We about
build the cost of
employ The work continues night and day.
difficulties which have struggle against
already half done Cars building and Is months
they running All this should done long ago.
fore city built up Did pay it off?
The tunnel is a PRODUCT OF THE HIGHER CIVIIIZA-
TON As civilization advances the tunnel will keep with
method transportation in large cities
49, 3 QJue. Svc@ll
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16
A Solitary Execution

"Our officials should understand that
Uncle Sam expects every man of them to do
his duty"
All except the customs officials, of
course. He expects them to collect it,
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

It's mistake to imagine that itching piles
can't be cured; a mistake to suffer a day
longer than you can help. Doan's Ointment
brings instant relief and permanent cure.
At any drug store, so cents.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

Fuddy-"There is one thing about Flan-
ders that | like. He never has anything to
mo, but he's all the time Dragging about
his splendid health Boston Transcript.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

[ am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption
saved my life three years ago.-Mrs. Thos
Robbins, Norwich, n. Y, Feb. II 1900.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

"What became Of the young chap who
was writing How to Live on Ten Cents per
Day?'" asked the caller. Gle left" re.
sponded the publisher. "Why?' Because
we refused to allow him so cents for dinner"
Philadelphia Record.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

Too late to cure a cold after consump.
ton has fastened it's deadly grip on the
lungs. Take DR.. Woods Norway Pine Syrup
while yet there is time.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

Tongue.-"He seemed quite fluent in his
mother tongue" Fluent? Say, he talks
fast enough to make you think it's his moth
er-in-law's tongue. Philadelphia Bulletin.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

Is it burn? Use Dr. Thomas Electric
Oil. A cut? Use DIR. Thomas Electric Oil
At your druggists.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

Putnam Fadeless Dyes color more goods,
per package, than others.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

One trouble with white lies is that they
REQUIRE too much withdrawing Chicago
Daily News
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

''You didn't dig any coal to-day, did you?"
chuckled the striker "No,' replied the
non-unon miner, good-humoredly. II
wasn't in the vein for philadelphia
Press
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

Don't say 81 told you so" to a man in
up to his waist, or he will walk in up to his
neck.-Atchison Globe.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

Never monkey with buzz-saw when it
is busy.-Chicago Daily News
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

The highest exercise of charity is char
ity towards the uncharitabe--Buc
lister.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

Re1s1l.EI Xs2
Water In 1t.

my dear" asked Mr.. Keerful, as he
poked inquisitively at mass of something
on his plate, what in the world is this?"
"Why," explained Mrs. Keerful, you
know the health authorities have adj
vised us to boil all the water we use, and
that is The watermelon you bought for des
Sert. Baltimore American.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

How can we get both IN our large
cities?
By elevated railroads? No;
they are too noisy When rur by
steam they are dirty. When run
by electricity they are dangerous.
Except for short distances
the surface road is out of question.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

A Dose in Time Saves Nine of Hale's
Honey of Horehound and Tar for Colds.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

An agreeable man is one who consents TO
being taught things which he already knows.
Chicago Daily News.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

''Thrice blessed is that boy" quoth the
large-waisted philosopher, who has fa-
ther with good memory for what he did
when he was young. indianapolis News.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

As soon as budding genius finds that il
has been noticed it begins to blow ITSELF
Dull
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

Dyspepsia-bane of human existence. Bur
dock Blood Bitters cures it, promptly, per-
manently. Regulates and tones the stomach.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16

This is age of invention, of industry of abor-savng
nery demand speed and comfort railroad travel
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-04
She Was Always Contrary

Men and women are much the same
the world over. The peasantry of
the south of Russia have an amusing
story the moral of which ought to
appeal to the husband whose wife
once said: There is only one thing
on which my husband and 1 agree.
He wishes to have his own way and
so do l." According to the Russian
story, the cantankerous wife of a
lopg-suffering moujik fell into a
rapid rolling river and was swept
away. On hearing of his loss the
agitated husband set off to search
for the body of his wife, but was
apparently so deranged by the ca
lamity that he started to go upstream
instead of down. Some of his neigh.
bors had formed a search party tc
help him and they tried to persuade
him that the body had been carried
the opposite direction he wished tc
go. "No, no, no." he said, marie
was always so contrary when she wal
alive she must have foated up the
iver."-Chicago Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-04
NEW JUSTICE NAMED
Oliver Wendell Holmes to Succeed
Horace Gray.
President Appoints Son of the Fa-
nous Cambridge Author an As
sOcinte Member of United
States Supreme Court.

The president has accepted the res
lgnation of Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court Horace Gray, which has
been in his hands for over month.
At the same time the president ap-
pointed Oliver Wendell Holmes, chief
justice of the supreme court of Massa-
chusetts, to the vacancy caused by the
resignation Of Mr.. Justice Gray.
Mr.. Justice Gray had a stroke of
paralysis last January. Since then he
has had another stroke. He is man
of great size, with natural tendency
to apopleXy. He has not been on the
bench since he was first stricken, and
his resignation has been expected by
all his friends for several months,
though it has not been known to any
except those who were closest to him
and the president that the request for
the appointment of his successor had
already been made. Justice Gray had
been on the supreme court bench long
er than any other man now there eX.
cept Justice Harlan.
The new justice, Mr.. Holmes, was
not himself an intimate friend of the
president, but he was high in the es-
timation of the circle of Massachu
sets politicians and statesmen with
whom the president had been most
identified. Senator Lodge and those
who move with him in public affairs
in and about Boston have always been
known to regard Mr., Holmes as the
leading jurist of his generation.
Mr.. Justice Gray retired on his full
salary, $4,000. Under the law he
might have retired at any time during
the last two years, as he is IA years of
age. There are three other men on the
supreme bench whose privilege it is
to retire voluntarily on full pay. They
are Chief Justice Fuller and Justices
Harlan and Shiras. The patriotism
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-04

marks the resting place of the dead
confederates. On it is chiseled in
bold letters the word americans"
At the top of the arch is the statue
of a confederate solder in full uni
form. The memorial stands in the
center of the cemetery. Immediate
ly in the rear is the tall fag-post
upon which Old Glory floats.
Col Knauss, through his efforts of
other years has become well known
among the confederate camps in the
south, and this year, for the unveil-
ing of the monument, he invited them
to send flowers. Boxes of blossoms
and plants were received from near
ly every state in the south, and there
were many contributions from both
northerners and southerners who
live in the north.
The cemetery plot contains
about two and One-half acres. The
land was held by the United States
government during the war under
lease. April %, 1879, it was bought
by the United States government
and described as THE Confederate
Cemetery formerly occupied by the
Camp Chase Rebel Prison"
In the inclosure were buried $3.50
confederate soldiers. From virginia
337, from Kentucky $50, from Tennes-
see 239, from Alabama 431, from Tex
as %, from Georgia PCS, South Car
DINA IS, Arkansas So, Mississippi
2O2, Florida 62, Maryland 9, Missouri
s, Louisiana SO and unknown about
ESQ. OF these 135 were buried at City
cemetery, southeast of Columbus,
and afterward removed to this in
closure.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-04
POOR OLD DAD.

Ye kin sca'ce pick up a paper
An its poets corner greet,
'Cept yen see er pirty poem
Bout the mother, sanity, sweet;
But yen have a time a-sarchin'-
Eyes will be er-achin' bad
Ere yell oVertake er poem
Writ about the pore ole dadl
No, 1t isn't willful in EN-
Them that write of mother dear
That thar's never notice taken
of her ole man settin' near;
No, it's never meant to slight him,
But hit looks a little sad
All the bouquets made for mother,
Not bloom for pore ole dad!
True, our mother watched above US
Till her dear ole eyes wud ache,
But ole dad, he bumped to feed us
Till his back would nearly break,
Mother crooned above the cradle,
Gave devotion all she had;
Still, thar wasn't any circus
All this time for poor ole dad!
Do not take one line from mother
When We write the soul-sweet song,
But If thar's a word for father
Now and then, it won't be wrong.
Poor ole soul! He's bent and wrinkled
An 1 know 'twould make him glad
If, while you are praisin' mother,
Sometimes sed for pore ole dad!
Cincinnati Concentration
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-04

and devotion to duty are geneally rec.
ognized, but the feeble health of sew.
eral justices of the highest of United
States courts has made it extremely
gratifying to many that an opportu-
nifty has come to infuse into the court
the strength and renewed energy
which comes with the appointment of
new and active justice.
One of the most prominent lawyers
practicing before the supreme court
said not long ago that while the in
evitable retirement of Mr.. Justice Gray
was to be deplored and regretted, it
was compensating advantage that
court.
Horace Gray was appointed asso-
ciate justice of the Supreme court by
President Arthur, December 20, 1881,
to succeed Justice Clifford. He was
born in Boston, Mass, March "a, 1928,
his grandfather, William Gray, being
one of the most prosperous shipown-
ers of his day, having had 80 or more
ships at sea at one time. His uncle,
Francis Galley Gray, gave largely to
Harvard college, Gray hall being
named after him. His father, Horace
Gray, was one of the most substantial
business men of Boston. Horace Gray
was educated in Boston and at Har-
ward, and was admitted to the bar in
1881. In 1857 he formed a partner
ship with Judge Hoar. In August, 1864,
he was appointed associate justice of
the Massachusetts supreme court, and
in September, 1878, became the chief
justice. His decisions cover a wide
range of subjects and form the basis
of valuable original references in
law.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes is a
son of the author, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, and has been justice of the
Massachusetts supreme court since
1882. He was born in Boston in 1S41,
and was educated at the public schools
and Harvard college and Harvard law
school. Immediately after his grad
uation from Harvard he enlisted in
the Twelfth Massachusetts regiment
and was wounded at Antietam and
again at Fredericksburg, where he
was mustered out as brevet lieuten-
ant colonel.
He took up the law after the war
and edited the twelfth edition of
"Kent's Commentaries, and for three
years was editor of the American Law
Review. He was for time one of the
law faculty at Harvard. He served as
associate justice of the supreme court
until 1899, when he was made chief
justice.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-04
MISS ELSIE MACOMBER.
Qowa Girl Who Will Christen the Cruiser
Dcs Moines.)

be made a state occasion and the gov
ernor and staff and state officers, as
well as the mayor and city officials OF
Des Moines, will participate. Miss
Macomber is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. X. Macomber. Mr.. Macomber
is a prominent attorney and for sew
eral years served as city solicitor. Mrs.
Macomber has travelled extensively in
foreign lands. She is well known as a
lecturer, her subjests relating chiefly
to her travels. Miss Macomber is a
pronounced brunette, with a shock Of
black hair, fine dark eyes, and a com.
plexion that is the envy of her sex.
She is one of the most popular girls
in Des Moines. She spent last summer
travelling in Italy, France, Switzerland
and Spain.