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get at their value. AS the chief end of
man is to work, the wise men natural
ly adopted unit that represents the
amount of energy, force or work q
stated quantity of food will yield,
when it is burned in that wonderful
furnace of that most marvellous OF en-
gines, the stomach of man.
That unit of measure of food values
they agreed to make a calOrie, as en-
gineers have named their standard of
energy horsepower. A calorie is that
quantity of heat or energy which
would raise the temperature of pound
of water about four degrees Fahren-
heit; or, to be more exact, of one kilo-
gram of water one degree centigrade;
or, in other words, to lift one ton 1.54
foot By analysis, the scientists can
learn very nearly the number OF
calories in any food. 1t has been said
that as a rule these men are excess
sively jealous for their reputation for
accuracy, and fancy that there may be,
possibly, rivals who would be delighted
to pounce upon, drag out and shake
an error in public places, and perhaps
even cry aloud about it, that all might
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VERSATILITY OF AMERICA.
Our Artists Paint cold Masters" and
ssImported" Soap, Wines, ETC.,
Are Made at Home.

There are some articles which SEEM
ingly cannot be produced in America,
but we must remember that Things
are not always what they seem, skim
milk masquerades as cream" as Gill
bert says We are told that there are
artists here in New York, who are max
ing a good living painting some of
''the old masters" which bring large
prices at auction Imported wines are
now made in California, the labels
alone being French. 1t is very COM
mon-place soap factory that cannot
turn out CASTLE soap, and Maine her
ring are shipped to France, and re-
turned as French sardines, says west
Pocket Condolences" in Four-Track
News. Up in northern New York they
are making all manner of imported
cheese, and down in Kentucky they are
turning out many successful brands of
Scotch whisky. Nor does this Yankee
ingenuity cease in its endeavors to sup
ply the demand for foreign goods, for
western manufacturers are making
maple sugar from ingredients that
never came within the shadow of
maple tree, and are actually buying
Vermont newspapers in which to wrap
the cakes so that the 1lnsuspecting pur-
chaser will think he is buying genuine
Green Mountain maple sugar. The
land of wooden nutmegs is no longer
curiosity.
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good in parliamentary law. They have
come up again and again to the detri-
ment of the dominant party, and at
the same time to the detriment of the
country.
Congressman Perkins, of New
York, says: MANY estimable peo-
ple have decided that the influence
of the house of representatives is
diminishing, and that this sad result
is due to ere rules of that body. The
first proposition is questionable, and
the second is nonsense" That is the
dirctum of one who has been a men,
Der of congress in active service &
little more than six months. 1t is cpl.
grammatic and bold to declare any
proposition nonsense" and it Is
usual with certain class of men %
be aggressively self-assertative, bur
assertion is neither syllogism nor
conclusion.
The congressman, whose gentle life
he's been spent within sight ana
sound of Genesee falls, and whose
home in Rochester is one of the most
lovely in the land. will have ample
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be an ass in the chair, and giants on
the floor, but the ass will be the
master of them all. The rules make
the speaker master of his fellow rep
resentatives; whereas, the constitu-
ton declared that all of the repre-
sentatives should be equal. There is
no reason why one man should be
selected from the majority and unto
him be given all of the rights of the
other representatives.. But that is
the condition of the popular body I'm
der the existing rules"
Those are words spoken from the
brain of experience and from the
heart of an honest man. The great
est absurdity of the existing rules is
the committee on rules. That COM
mittee consists of two republicans,
two democrats, and the speaker; at
least that is the way it looks on pa
per- AS a matter of fact, the COM
mittee on rules consists of two mem
bers of the majority party and the
speaker; because the two members
of the minority party are always out
voted, and usually do not attend
meetings of the committee. Now the
absurdity of having such committee
lies right here.
The speaker appoints the chairmen
and members of all committees. He
is chairman of the committee on
rules, and appoints two members of
his own party on the committee, who
do exactly what he tells them to do;
or else he can turn them out and ap-
point two others who will not hest
ate to "crook the pregnant hinges of
the knee that thrift may follow fawE-
ing" So, after you analyze the COM
mittee on rules, you see that it is
mere makeshift to fool the people.
1t is no committee at all, but merely
gauzy attempt to hide the one-man
power of the speaker himself.
No matter what the rules of the
house may be, it is left to this al
legged committee on rules to decide
what bills shall be taken up, how
long they shall be debated, and when
vote Ghall be taken. The speaker
himself decides all these important
matters, and then calls meeting of
the cOm101UUe6 on rules. IndU seems
big. The speaker tells his two fol-
lowers what he wants done, and then
one of the two majority members adj
dresses the house and says: 81 have
to report a rule from the committee
on rules, deciding thus and So" IT
is then in the power of the house
to vote against the order of the
speaker, thus thinly Disguised; but
because of his power in all other mat.
tiers, the majority party always sus-
tains the speaker in this by-play by
sustaining the alleged report of the
committee on rules. Thus the house
is governed by one man, under the
Reed rules, and it is about time for
the people to understand the play
! for all it is worth.
The people have very little to do
with their government. Very little
| indeed. SMITH d. FRY.
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ing only ia pounds OF food in 100
pounds of the fruit. pound of ba-
nanas furnishes 200 calories; a pound
of potatoes 295 Galleries. If bananas
and potatoes were each priced at one
cent a pound, the money value Of a ton
of potatoes would be 17.6 cents more
than that of a ton of the fruit. Sci
ence seems to have failed this time
TO sustain the assertion of our fruit
dealer. 1t seems to me safe to say that
scientific investigation has not clearly
shown that bananas have As times the
nutriment possessed by potatoes.
A pound of whoIewheat our has
1850 Galleries. This is 1890 more than
a pound of bananas affords. One would
have to eat 1-3 pounds of bananas
TO get as much food as pound of the
-four furnishes. He who prefers to
eat soda crackers instead of whole
wheat -four, can so get from pound
as much food as Z 2-5 pounds of bananas
will give. Rice has about 6 1-3 times as
much nutriment as have bananas.
Here again science appears to be not
comDletely in accord with the Phila-
delphia authority.
Possibly he had in mind an assertion
often credited to Humboldt, to the eff
feet that an acre of bananas will yield
as much food as will "A acres of pota-
toes. Before accepting such state
ment as a guide in laying out bill of
fare, it may perchance be well to in
ouire whether, if Humboldt did say
such a thing, he had in mind the prod
uct of an acre of warm and fertile
farm of Europe, or of one of Peru;
whether he compared the fruit with
the acrid little tuber of the Andes, unfit
to eat before it has been frozen, or with
the big. foury and sweet product Of
modern skill in farming.
The average yield of bananas is 2SS
punches yearly to the acre. The aver
age bunch weighs So pounds, which
makes 14,07o pounds per acre. That
would feed a man three years, four
months and seven days, if he were de-
ing moderate work. No wonder life
goes easily in banana lands; or that
an eminent Mexican declares that the
banana is an institution for the promo
ton of laziness.
In the years 1890 and 1900 an average
of 822 bushels of potatoes per acre was
obtained for each of those years. a
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SEQ and hear. If that is true, it may
be taken for granted that scientists
will be quite careful of their state
ments. and that we may therefore
trust to their published deductions.
have taken the trouble to write AL
this tedious explanation because to
many people the term ''calorie" is new,
and because / wish to prejudice the
Jury so that it will accept, without
too much explanation, the statements
which are to follow. One of these is
that the average man doing hard work
requires each day about ALSO calories
ordinary work gets along on about
3.1S7 calories. while the men who do
light work need but 2,572 calories to
keep their steam up to good working
pressure.
Now we can get back to the notion
that the beef trust may be downed
by eating bananas instead of beef. In
a pound of beef are ga calories, and
in a pound of bananas there are go;
so, to get as much food out of the
bananas as the beef gives, one must
eat 3.63 pounds of the fruit. The ay-
erage bunch of bananas has about Is
dozen fingers of Isl calories to the
dozen. If bananas are worth Is cents
a dozen, beef should be worth 1855
cents a pound. But if beef sells at Is
cents a pound. then bananas should
cost no more than lis cents a dozen
to make matters even.
Potatoes have SIG parts of waste
matter, including water, in 100; while
bananas have $50 parts of waste, leav-
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Five cases of SMALLPOX are report
ed in the family of Charles Dyer, of
Van Dyne.
In the presence of large crowd
the corner stone of the new Baptist
church was laid at Kenosha.
Prospectors who have been work
ing in northern Burnett county since
February have struck copper in pay
ing quantities.
Fidel Kneifel, of New Burgh Cor
ners. is dead, the result of drinking
10 pals of water. Knefel, who was
35 years old, fell from a barn some
time ago and afterward he displayed
queer antics at times.
Judge Joseph B. Hamilton, of
Neenah, aged IS years, former state
senator and for a number of years
county Judge of Winnebago county,
died at his home in that city.
Otto Jaehkel, charged with the
theft of $4,000 from Englebert,
Hardt & Co., of New York, Berlin and
Buenos Ayres, was arrester at Ire
vor.
7. w. Horton, pioneer of the
town of Rome, died of heart failure.
He was a civil war veteran.
A log jam on the ST. Croix river
near Grantsburg contains 100000
feet of logs and is niLe miles long.
One hundred drivers are breaking it.
About 200 Indians, part of them
from tribes in Kansas, Nebraska and
elsewhere, held ten-days' medicine
dance in camp on the Yellow river,
near Westboro, Taylor county.
A switchman named Friday, of the
Milwaukee railroad, dropped dead on
the street in La Crosse.
The common council in Madison
has granted licenses to 81 retail
LIQUOR dealers. This is an increase
of one over the present number. The
license fee is 5000.
Albert Spieker, the 13-year-old son
at the home of his parents near Bur-
lington while being operated upon
for an abscess.
At the state Christian Endeavor
convention in Fond du Lac the sec
retary's report showed a total of
5O7 societies in the state ard an ac-
tive membership of 1881, and many
more associate members.
Ada Raihle, aged IL years, daughter
of Rev. Gottlief Raihle, pastor of the
German Methodist church in Chip
pewa Falls, was drowned in the Eagle
Point mill pond while gathering pond
lilies. The boat capsized.
Melvin i. Youngs, grand lecturer
of the masonic grand lodge Of Wis
consin, died after prolonged illness
in Milwaukee, aged rs years.
Judge Halsey discharged Frank III.
Thompson from the receivership of
the Commercial bank in Milwaukee,
Thompson having distributed $22,-
e72 So among the original stockhold-
ers and paid 100 cents on the dollar.
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man doing m oderate work would be
fairly supported by like amount of
food one year, six months and II days,
which is two years, one month and IS
days less than bananas would feed
him. But "A times as much food as an
acre of potatoes give would feed him So
years.
Again disappointment awaits us,
when we look into the statement that
an acre of bananas will give us 25 times
as much food as will an acre of wheat.
To do that the fruit should support a
man 80 years, four months and 10 days.
1t lacks some 81 years and IL days of
doing what has so often been claimed
for it, Nor does "the result Of scien-
tific investigation" help us much more
when we examine the claim that ba-
nanas give 80 times as much food as
rice gives to the acre.
That we may see at glance precisely
how bananas do compare with the
more common of other foods, let us
put them side by side on a table, and
show the average annual yield per
acre, the actual food value, and the
number of days each will support a
man doing moderate muscular work;
thus:
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Man Missing.

Mystery surrounds the present
whereabouts of August Kossoff, a
grocer and popular young business
man of Menominee. He left home
June 9 to go to Minneapolis, expect
ing to be absent one day. Nothing
has since been heard from him. His
brother went to Minneapolis to look
him up, but could find no trace OF
him. The matter is now in the hands
of the Minneapolis police. Mr.. Kos
soff's business here was in excellent
shape and his family relations were
the pleasantest.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Wealth Disappeared.

Capt. W. III. Hunt died at the Wau-
kesha county poorhouse from the
effects of a stroke of apoplexy. ThiT''
ty years ago he was proprietor of the
fremont house at Marquette, Mich,
which was at that time one of the
best known hotels in the northwest.
He kept his own carriage and colored
driver and was noted all over the
state for his fine carriages and
horses. Later he conducted hotel
at Escanaba, Mich, and subsequently
resided at Green Bay. Reverses came,
however, and his wealth rapidly dis
appeared until finally he and his wife
were obliged to seek refuge at the
county house, where the latter died
in 1894,
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time to revise his views, because his
people VIII probably retain him in
the congress for an indefinite period.
His views have been disseminated in
some of the newspapers Of the east
ern states, but they have not exert.
ed so great an influence as they
might have produced if they had en-
anated from a congressman whose
experience in public life had been
more extended and diversified.
Congressman Morris, of Minnesota,
speaks from six years of experience,
as against six months of the New
York representative, and he says that
the rules of the house of representa-
tives ''simply reduce that body to an
aggregation of pitiful followers of
the man in the chair" He further
SAYS: "There will be no national dan
ger in these rules, SO long as there
shall be a speaker whose patriotism
is bigger than his egotism. But there
is likely to come a day when man
in the chair will WELD the power of
the position for his own aggrandize-
ment. Then you will see a dictator
whose antics may produce anarchy"
Congressman Hepburn, of Iowa,
who is accredited with great aDil-
tiles, natural and acquired, and who
has been in the house of representa-
tives for 20 years, says: ''The rules
of the house make every member
look like a little midget bowling and
scraping to some other midget, who
is magnified by the obsequiousness of
the midgets who have enthroned him.
Under the existing rules there may
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-07-10

Those Learned Graduation EsnMyS.
Each spring when l listen to the
learned gradua ton essays of a class OF
wealthy mems sons at a college com
mencement / feel that won't be able
to hold my job two weeks after those
smart youths get out hustling for their
daily bread in competition with me-"
unused the gloomyeyed middle-aged
man in the back seat. "But on my way
home, as 1 learn that the trolley-car
conductor is college graduate, and
that the clerk at the corner cigar store
is another, l begin to chirp up bit.
and in a day or two get over my dis
NAL fore bodings!"-
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A Close Call.

William Beaver, a stranger, had
close call to being lynched by an in
furiated crowd at Chippewa Falls.
He was operating a skin game on a
corner and many persons were pa
irons. They were losers in the game,
and becoming Infatuated took Beaver
in hand. He escaped and the crowd
followed yelling Lynch him." A po-
liceman caught Beaver and placed
him in the city lookup to protect him.
Later he was taken to the county
jail. He is about 60 years old.
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CrmnI

"How long" asked the youth, "oNght
a young man to be acquainted with a
girl, Miss Flyppe, before he may ven
ture to call her by her first name?"
"How long have you known ?" she
asked in turn.
about six months"
'Well, if he's the right young man
that's a long enough time"
"Then, Susie"
"But you're not the right young man.
Mr.. Spoonamore."-C Chicago Tribune.
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Bananas may be the ''king-pin of the
vegetable world" but those who have
a tooth for sweeties may be glad to
learn that while that fruit has beg
CARLY 260 calories to the pound there
is delightful confection which has
1925, or more than 20 times as much
as bananas, and more than has any
other food easily found. Great is the
virtue of chocolate. Long may it
soothe and sustain from the breakfast
cup; long may it fill the bonbon box.
For it and it alone is the kingpin of the
vegetable kingdom. PAUL BIT.
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BEEF AND BANANAS.
Their Food Value Compared By lien
of Science.
Meat Trust Cannot Be Doyyned by
Eating Tropical Fruit Instead
of Steak-Nutritive Prop
critics of Vegetables.
Especial Correspondence


GcTF YOU want to down the beef
trust, don't eat meat. Eat ba
nanas instead" So a PhiIadel-
phia daily soberly says that a dealer in
fruit there advised, and asserted also
that: ''It may surprise you to know
that the banana is the king-pin of the
vegetable kingdom, SO far as nutrition
is concerned. 1t is 25 times as nutri-
tious as wheat of the same weight, has
As times the nutriment of potatoes and
30 times that of rice, the three staple
vegetable products of the world. These
figures are the result of scientific inyes-
tigation."
That fruit dealer was probably quite
right. Many will be surprised to learn
that the banana has SO much virtue.
Such discovery will astound men who
have made what they imagined were
careful and thorough studies of the
fruit and the tuber, and thought the
two were nearly equal in food value.
In fact, the results of a number of
such studies show that, if the price of
both bananas and potatoes were one
GEM Pouiiu' d Coil "a PoCooocS "o.A"
be worth about IA cents more than
would ton of bananas, as food. /
shall not take into account the differ
ence in palatableness of the food, for
as rule SAVIOR in itself is not known
to be especially nutritious.
Studious men in several parts of the
world, whose habit it is to dig up and
show to the world the truth, the whole
truth even to its minutest rootlet, have
analysed and weighed by wonderful
devices the different parts of almost
every food commonly used by man.
Having learned great deal about
these things, those men agreed on a
standard or unit by which to measure,
weigh or count those parts, and thus
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The Wisconsin weather and crop
bulletin reports that the damage
from rain has been slight. Hot
weather from now on will result in a
good corn crop. Winter wheat and
rye are nearly ready to cut. The
crop is heavy, but the straw is lit
tie weak. Oats and barley are re-
ported in good condition and tobacco
and potatoes are making satisfac-
tory progress.
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Th~ Ruttermilk Cow

Grandma had taken little Roger to
the country for visit over night.
After all the wonderful visits to the
barnyard and pig sly, milking time
came. Roger, cup in hand, went to
see the cows MIXED.
When he was drinking his cup Of
milk he looked at all the cows and
then asked:
Grandma, which cow is the butter
milk ?"-Cincinnat Enquirer.
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The regents of the University of
Wisconsin have chosen f. P. Sand
stem, associate professor of horticul-
ture, Maryland agricultural college,
for the same position in the college
Of agriculture, University of Wiscon-
sin. Mr. Sandsten succeeds Prof. E.
S. Golf, who died June 6. He is
graduate of the Minnesota school of
agriculture.
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Street Fair.

At a mass meeting it was decided
to hold a street fair in Marshtield
this fall No county fair is held in
this county, and in order to give the
farmer a chance to display his stock
and farm produce it is proposed to
offer liberal premiums and utilize the
side streets for this special feature
of the fair.
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Bic. Pine Purchase.

Kelley e. Sprague, mill owners at
Washburn, have purchased 125,0Oo,o0O
feet of standing pine on the north
shore of Lake Superior, in Minnesota,
and are negotiating for the purchase
of another tract almost as large.
The timber will be cut and RATED
across Lake Superior, to be sawed at
their mill in this city.
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Char1ex,s weather Observation.

1t was laundering very loud one day
when little Charlie Horner, aged four
years, said:
Mamma, God must be scrubbing to-
day"
"What makes you think so, Charlie?"
asked his mother.
"Why," said Charlie, don't you hear
Him moving the tables around?"-
Ethel Horner, in Little Chronicle.
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PrOcressive Euchre

SYPHILIS that Harry Scribbler's writ
ing, Kitty?
Kitty-Yes. I'm engaged to him,
yon know.
Sybil-Of course. was engaged to
him last summer.
Kitty-The dear boy! wonder who
he'll eventually marry? = Pearson's
Weekly
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The Boy Guessed Right.

"Do as tell YOU" Tommy's mamma
cried. cts about time you realized
the futility of struggling against the
inevitable. Do you know what that
means?'
"Yes'm," replied Tommy, sit means
there's no use o your washin' my
hands an face cause they'll only get
dirty again. "-Philadelphia Press.
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why the Case was Hopeless.

The dog greeted the customer with
an ear-splitting bark of defiance, and
kept up the disturbing racket until
finally the tobacconist's wife came to
the front of the store and mildly asked
her husband if he could not somehow
manage to quiet the excited canine.
"No," blandly replied the philosophic
man, sit is utterly impossible3 you
know it is female dog. IN. Y. Times.
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Didn't Like the Substitute.

Mrs. Hoyle-My husband is never
satisfied.
Mrs. Doyle-Neither is mine; he has
always kicked because he couldn't find
his collar button, and now he has a
wart on the back of his neck, but he
isn't satisfied with that.--N. Y. Times.