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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-04-10

Kept back for the present by the force
of regulars that was guarding the
work, the savages were swarming,
watching this invasion of their hunt
ing grounds with deadly hatred in
their eyes, and plans of fiendish retail
alton in their hearts. But hourly ia
rniliarity with the danger was making
the white men careless of it,
In the slanting sunlight of the sum
mer evening five soldiers, two of them
cavalry officers, We're returning to
camp after a days shooting. Some
miles back they had barely escaped
stumbling upon the eneampment of a
war-party, which had forced them to
make wide detour; and they had just
struck the trail again
Suddenly the foremost trooper
refined in his horse. Look, colonel!"
he exclaimed.
The others glanced up. Over the top
of the hill to their right dozen
mounted Sioux were coming into view.
Were in for it now said the little
colonel. There's nothing to do but
to try to outride them" And the five
horses swept on along the trail.
\ yell from the savages told that
they had taken up the pursuit. A
single arrow came whizzing through
the air, followed by a shower of
others; but they all went high; and
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CORN DIET FOR HENS.
Many PouItrymen Advocate Its At~
though Grain Is Not by Amy
Means an Ideal Ration.

One reason why farmers do not re-
alize more from their poultry, believe.
is because they make corn the main
diet. Corn is considered by them to
be the cheapest feed and the handiest
to feed, for, by throwing it out on the
ear, the hens are given more or less
exercise in picking it off, hence the
owner is saved the labor of scattering
the grain in the litter for the fowls
to scratch out. But have little faith
in this plan of exercising and feeding
fowls, says V. NJ. Couch in the Poultry
Monthly. With n good many farm
ers corn is probably cheap food, but
even this depends somewhat upon the
season of the year, the climate and
whether the hens have free range or
not. In cold weather corn may be fed
quite literally TO laying stock without
injury, and also to fowls having farm
range, but when given in the way that
many feed it, by spreading it on the
ground before the hens three times
a day, all they will eat, believe thatit
is expensive hen feed. Very many at
tribute the increase of eggs to corn.
when, in fact, the corn has produced
eggs more by keeping the hens warm
than through the supply OF egg ele-
ments afforded.
Eggs cannot be made to any great
extent by corn alone, or for n long
time, for the reason that hen fed
nothing but corn will be unable to
supply the mineral elements of the
eggs, and while she may by eating
largely of corn find sufficient nitrogen
for an egg, she will sooner or later be-
come excessively fat from too much
carbon. A very economical and good
feed for winter egg production is
mixture of clover, cut in half-inch
lengths and scalded, with corn meal
and bran. This is very complete ra-
ton on all the elements necessary for
eggs. 1t supplies bulky food, promotes
digestion, affords u variety and costs
less than any other food that l have
been able to get. When hen leaves
corn for other feed, it means that she
wants something not fully supplied
by corn. Without exception, the best
results may be had from a varied diet.
and while hen may do very well on
corn, she will do better on a variety.
1t is not an easy matter to make up
a perfectly balanced ration for lay
ing hen. While she is producing eggs
she will use a vast amount Of raw ma
terial, but if she stops laying a corn
diet will soon ruin her. A concentrate
ed food for hens should be avoided.
Milk added daily to other food assists
largely in supplying many needed ele-
ments not easily obtained from other
sources. Glover, vegetables, milk.
meat and corn or wheat are better than
any single article.
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MATERIAL FOR SHELLS.
Laying Hens Must Have Rntions Con-
sistinE of Grains Containing
Lots of Lime.

The gizzard is competent TO render
very fine the hardest material, not ex-
cepting the diamond and sharp edges
of glass are worn smooth by it. But to
do this it must be assisted by gravel,
shells, sand or other sharp-cutting ma
terial. These materials may pass out
of the system unless dissolved, which
can be done by vegetable acids that
separate the primitive elements of the
various forms of lime. Bones are phos-
phate of lime. They are insoluble in
water, and cannot be appropriated by
the hen until they are entirely changed
in chemical composition by some sub
stance that unites with them. Plaster
is soluble, but may prove injurious if
used freely. The best way to feed lime
is in the grains, such as wheat, oats,
buckwheat and barley. Glover hay is
rich in lime, and so are peas and beans.
The action of mineral substances is
mostly mechanical, but while they may
be insufficient, so far as providing lime
is concerned, yet it is only theory,
and they may be really more useful.
Many persons have provided their hens
with all the oyster shells required and
yet they laid soft-shell eggs. 1t can be
considered, however, that the difficulty
may be weakness of the egg-making
machinery. An egg traverses quite a
distance before it is surrounded by the
shell, and hens are subject to many
disorders. Overfat hens, inbred hens,
and sickly hens, are thus Affected
Midland Farmer.
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ful purpose. Going further, he says:
In summer weather, if fashion so
1ecrees, the front will f1ere away from
the face and leave the eyes exposed to
The binding sun. In somber autumn
lays, at the command of the same
ickle dame, the brim may reach to
he tip of the nose. In no case is the
shape dictated by any utilitariau con-
;ideration.
's1he bonnet offers no protection
against cold. No woman ever claimed
hat it does. II is not even shaped so
that it will stay on without being
skewered to the hair.
being then strictly an ornament,
the hat must be considered as work
Of art and, as such it must be taken
rs the absolute criterion of woman's
taste or lack of taste. And the word
absolute" is used because for cen
turtles woman has had the exclusive
Voice in the matter of her headgear."
This being true, the world will have
to accord women new place in the
world of aria place that has, as a
rule. been denied them-for the hats
Of this season especially, are works of
art of the highest type, and they are
distinctly feminine with all the little
touches that make them SO, the flow
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ers, the ribbons, the light gauzy ef-
fects, the feathers, in fact, every form
of adornment that is considered
strictly feminine. There is nothing
mannish about them.
The millinery stores these early
spring days offer to the interested Wis
itor whole art exhibition in them
selves. This may be seen in charm
ing toques, round hats, modified tur-
bans, etc, in satin or mixed fancy
straw, garnished with straw bows, and
needing only couple of gardenias,
handful of violets Or posey of small
roses tucked in at the rear behind
one ear. or prominently in front to
elority it into a very dressy little
head ornament.
If flowers are considered too perish
able, ieweled rosette with quill or
handsome buckle and bow of rib
bon is what the milliner suggests, for
there is never but one decorative touch
needed for these light yet sturdy
chaDeaux that will cross the continent
or appear at spring garden party
with equal grace. It is in these hats
that the women of moderate means
score heavily against the limitations
of her purse. and it is only on the point
of rear decorations that she must re-
member to give attention. With the
low dressing of the hair all hats must
make concessions. A big bow of straw,
or wings of that material, couple of
lace iobots or an arrangement in rib
bon bows and ends must be so set on
behind that no hiatus appears between
the ending of the rear brim and the low
set coils of hair.
How gracefully this treatment is car
ried out in the more costly hats was de-
lightfully seen at the informal hat
exhibition held in the show room of a
prominent importer the other morn
ing. All the beautiful millinery was
quite fresh from Paris and convincing
Nv illustrated the sustained popularity
of the lace and chiffon hat of white
roses: and also the growing influence
of pearl ornaments in big bead ro-
settles, decorative pearl headed pins
ana in looped chains of pearls.
An apropos Of this vogue in hair
dressing let us notice few of the Golf
fures adapted to the new hats. All the
shapes are cut, bent and trimmed to
harmonic with the hair when dressed
low, and the woman who says she
won't put her hair down is grandly dis
ciplined when she finds that her new
hat won't sit on SO long as her hair is
pinned up.
A big three roll, or big winged
eight is the most satisfactory arrange
ment the coiffeurs have yet arrived at.
For the morning the roll is unadorned.
save for occasional adornment pins;
with afternoon dress clusters of little
corkscrew curls are tucked in behind
the ears. to make way, inthe evening.
before long Gainsborough ringlets
that hang upon the bare shoulders.
When twosextremely long curls are
drawn forward on either side of the
neck they are appropriately called
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Spring and Summer Hats
Hre Xeritab1e Works Of Art
They Typfy Luonae,'s Hrtistic Taste, nd
This Season Distinctly Feminine.

Lady Teazels, and not infrequently the
hair is given a dash of powder to ac-
centuate the eighteenth century quail
ity of this style.
1t was almost inevitable with the low
arrangement of the hair and the wa
terfalls of curls, that the nets OF 1860
and whereabouts should come back to
favor. Women first began to wear them
as a joke, but now they have accepted
them in earnest, and invisible nets,
nets of silk, with chenille spots, and
nets of beads, are multiplying with
amazing rapidity. A net, for two
sound reasons, is almost necessary
with the new couture. 1t is re-
quired to keep the bulky mass OF
back hair taut and neat, and when
a paucity of natural chevature brings
quantity of false braids and
switches into requisition the net as
sists in holding these securely in
place.
Some of the most prominent hair
dressers are actively pushing the use
of pearl Juliet nets. These are
round or diamond-shaped. They hit
on the crown of the head, and, in
some cases, point of the net will
come forward to the forehead and
there branch up in the form of pearl
butterfly wings. A great many wom-
en- have looked askance at the tiny,
three-cornered bead and chenille nets
that are to be pinned directly on the
top of the head. They are to be
worn by day, and their utility is not
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There is much land that will not
be again valuable for generations
except to the state. In the refor-
esting of lands the adjacent prop
erty is often as greatly benefited as
the area in forest. The state can
thus derive a larger revenue from
the work than can any private indi-
vidual. The state can afford to re-
forest land even if the annual direct
income from the reforested area be
only one per cent, for the people of
the state reap other benefits from it.
No private individual can afford to
invest money with so slight annual
retnrns.--F Review.
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HOME MADE BROODER.

lamp box is 24x24X1o inches high. As
but half of the brooder is heated it
makes it practically proof against
over heating. The top of the drum
is two inches larger than the body.
around which is placed wire netting to
keep the chicks from coming in con-
tact with the heated drum. The sheet
iron is bedded in plaster of paris and
the wood floor above is seven-eighths
inch stock; thinner floor will warp
and become too warm.
The top is hinged on either side of
a strip four inches wide, fastened
across the center, the side over the
unheated part having a glass 1oxf2
inches in the center. For an indoor
brooder fiat top is all that is re-
quired. / have used breeders with CEN
ter heat but prefer this one as | raise
much larger percentage of chicks in
them than any of the many styles used.
Orange Judd Farmer.
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Er.sb Vegetables for Hens.

Hens deprived of green foods will
not lay as well as when their needs in
+bis direction are attended to. All the
turnips, beets, carrots and roots of
all kinds, large and small, should be
saved and given them. These veg
etables and herbs are good for poultry,
COWS and hogs. They are good sub
stitute for green food for hens. Peel
ings Of potatoes, turnips and veg
etables of all kinds, including apple
peeiings, should be saved for the poul-
try. Cut up fine and boiled and mixed
with mash feed for the fowls, this
furnishes them splendid food. Such
savings will be worth dollar bushel
in winter and will do the hens more
good than they could do the hogs ii fed
10 them-Eastern Shore Farmer. /.
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IN STORY 4 !. = q TsllfSs
y - y
WHAT ARE YOU 2

Some folks are always pratihS
About their noble blood;
Ard trace their genealogy
TO back before the hooc.
IT'S very plain
That most who claim
Such lineage to be true
Eank IN the dead for their support;
The world says: What are you:
Some claim the ancient Puritans
(T'he first at Plymouth Rock)
Were their great. great, great something
eve know they were sooo stocN''
Please don't disgrace
Your ancient race,
But make yourself great, TOO;
The world has judged them long ago,
But now asks: What are you!
That overpeoplcd MAY Flower
"A bank for pedigree
dixie gciors of George Washington,
AS numerous as the trees)
In language PLAIN,
IT'S for their gain
To drop such talk, IL true;
The world may look at pedlgrees'
Yet still asks: What are you?
Recession and progression,
Traits true as truth can be;
II your ancestry were on the top
You've come down from the tree.
Don't give 1t voice
Though take your choice
Much talk may make you rue;
The world will make comparison.
Again ask: What are you?
Let your acts DO the talking;
"Blue blood" will show, don't fear;
Generations of refining
Are reflected very clear.
When family pant
BY time is faint.
Restore it's color true;
Then YOU won't mind the question should
The world ask: What arc you?
Henry Cook, In Philadelphia Press.
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PRACTICAL BROODERS.
The Kind Here Described. Although
Homemade, Has Always Been
Used Successfully.

] have been using homemade brood.
ers for several years with very salts
factory results, raising from so to 9S
per cent. of all chicks put in them.
They have hot air top heat aud only
half the floor space is directly heated.
The drum and hover are both adjust
able to the requirements of growing
chicks. The floor of the unheated part
is hinged at the center end and is held
in position at the other end by a cord
by which it may be lowered to the
angle indicated by the dotted line,
making a run that the chicks will
learn to use much more readily than
any outside arrangement, besides
shutting off any direct draft on the
hover.
The opening in the end of the brood
err is four inches high and extends the
full width of the end. An ordinary
copper brooder lamp is used. The
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far to seek. Since all the bulk OF
back of the head there is literally
nothing to which the hat crown can
be pinned in order to hold it firm.
If, however, a tiny net is first made
fast to the top of the head and the
hatpins then caught through its
meshes gale of wind will be re-
quired to unseat the pretty piece Of
millinery or knock it even askew.
Some women, who don't wear jew
eled or chenille nets in the evening,
have found almost as much comfort
in the use of fanciful hair scarfs.
These are made of chiffon, silk mus
lin, liberty tissue, oriental gauzc,
caught to the hair behind with jew
eled clasps, and then brought for
| ward and the ends fastened just
above either temple with begemmed
brooches.
Parasols are not to be outdone by
the hats, and they are indeed gor-
geous to behold. They have attained
sumptuous colorings and materials
and elaboration in detail, that an
other real novelty does not seem
possible now or at any future time.
A dozen seems to be about the num-
Der for a fashionable woman to pos
sess if she would have her parasoI
harmonic with her summer cos
tunes.
The new parasol is certainly for
effect, with incidentally a little grain
of usefulness thrown in. The latter
quality depends on your selection,
however, for the dainty white chif-
fon CONNECTIONS inset with lace and
trimmed with frills are hardly pro-
lection from the sun. There is a
great variety in these just the same.
Then there are pretty white silk
parasols also with cream point APP
plique made to fit the frame
stretched over the silk from the top
to within a few inches from the
edge, which is finished with three
narrow chiffon ruches.
Festoon designs of lace in either
black or cream are inset very eff
fectively in white, black and colored
parasols, but the real novelty is the
lowered silk parasol as varied in de-
sign and coloring as veritablc flow
er garden. Insert lace motifs com
bined with embroidery form another
elegant mode of decoration, but with
all the fussiness and elegance in this
| department, there are as of old the
same pretty plain silk parasols in all
colors, built entirely to serve the
purpose for which they were in
tended. ELLEN OSMoNDE.
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DIFFICULTIES OF ENGLISH.
Sentence for Translation Which
Was "a Puzzler for "a First
Lesson.

One who speaks the English Ian
guage fuently says in the New York
Press: i did not know word Of your
tongue until past my sixteenth year.
therefore | may be credited with hav-
ing made excellent progress. My chief
difficulty was with words having diff
fcrcnt meanings, spelled differently
and pronounced alike or nearly so.
One day my teacher gave me this sem
tence to translate: The yenial sins of
the veoal politician are as demoraliz-
ing as a corpuscle of veinal blood clot-
ted III a yenule Of the BRAIN I was
,Arcc years in arriving at a perfectly
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carload of glucose money, sent re-
Gently to Chicago, under the guise of
..nure clover honey" has been con-
demncd by the state pure food inspect
ors and barred from the market. An
ANALYSIS of the "honey" showed that
Il contained from so to GO per cent.
Of glucose. The consignee had the
choice Of selling it as a glucose mix
ture or sending it back, and he chose
the latter course, at the same time
canceling other orders. Glucose honey
is not regarded as an injurious mix
ture, but is worth only about one
fifth as much as real honey.
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The owner of big stock farm in
New Jersey has been testing I'M
thrashed oats as feed for horses.
About so head were fed on this ration
regularly, and the proprietor pro-
nounced it the very best feed for
horses that were not working. Every
fair day the horses are turned out in
the large paddocks, and when taken
up are supplied night and morning
with mess of unthrashed oats as
we'll as hay. Oats fed in this way are
cut before they are quite ripe, cured
thoroughly and then stcwed away for
winter food. If the oats are run
through a cutter before storing in the
NOW mice will not harbor in them as
i'm oats in the bundle or long straw
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national nations for Colts.

No general rules can be laid down
for the feeding of colts; but, as in the
case OF the calf, it is very necessary
that proper care should be exercised
in the selection of foods. Cows mix
NAV be substituted, if necessary, for
that Of the mare. The colt should be
taught to eat grains, any of which may
be fed to advantage; the choice would
depend on ruling prices. At times,
when the colts are teething, it will be
found more profitable to warm and
moisten the grain ration. Hay OF first
Quality. preferably alfalfa, should be
fed in conjunction with the grain, so
as to properly develop the digestive
SYSTEM n L. Jaffa, in Farmers Re-
view.
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clear understanding OF that odd state
ment. To beginner the slight differ
ence in the pronunciation of yenial,
-venal, veinal and venule is not notice
able. The lesson was given orally to
me, so that l had to write it down in
my own way before translating. /
think this was the first effort, after
an exhaustive study Of the book of
synonyms for the variations of 'venal:
The salable sins OF the mercenary poll
tician are as demoralizing as cor
puscle of basely-borght blood in a
money-goyerned BRAIN How I was
laughed at But your language is
allied with similar freaks"
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TIMELY POULTRY NOTES.

It never pays to have bad egg in
the basket.
Look out for draughts in the poultry
house. Draughts mean roup.
In cold weather the fowls will enjoy
a feed of warmed grain occasionally.
Give them corn parched until black and
crisp.
Oyster or clam shells (broken)
green stuffs and plenty of pure water
should always be at hand for the lay
ing hens.
Breed the fowls you like best. There
is no best breed. Quite as much de-
ponds on the man as the fowl. Choose
one or two good breeds, and stick to
them.-N. Y. Trihune-Farmer.
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"A Red Devil
BY SOPHIE HAMMOND.

TT HERE had been a hot sldrmish;
but the sayages had given way at
last. and the men had driven them pell-
NELL across the river.
Private Barnes, galloping back By
himself from the chase, felt his horse
suddenly swervc, and saw in the tall
grass "a red, naked figure, wriggling
out of his path. The cruel light of bat
tic sprang into his eyes again; his
sabcr flashed out.
What are you doing?" shouted a
sharp voice. Don't you know it's the
act of coward to strike wounded
man?" And the young second lieuten-
ant of his company dashed up behind
him, with angry eyes.
The trooper put back his saber some
what sullenly. He had seen a good deal
OF showing mercy to Indians, and he
didn't believe in it.
The wounded savage ma gnificent
young brave, with deep scar across
his lower lip-had writhed over on his
back, his hands clenched in the grass,
and his glazed, wide-open eyes staring
straight upward.
Hes dead, without your help" said
the young officer, looking down at the
rigid figure. ''I'm glad you didn't
touch him. It's awful to strike man
in his death agony"
The trooper grunted. Indians amt
men-they're devils, sir" he said,
grimly. "But you've got that to learn"
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in successful use by Del poultryman.
IT is Or feet wide, including three-foot
passageway, and 20 feet long, divided
into six pens with corresponding yards.
The windows in the slanting fronts adj
NIT the winter sun to all the pens. The
cost is less than for the same number
of pens in single row, while the care
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Love.s consideration.

Young Wife-Darling would you
have married me had l not been
rich?
Young Husband - OF course. not.
my dear. loved you too much to
have ever asked you to share my
poverty Chicago Daily News
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what did he say Then you promihsd
to be sister to hin?"
s.He looked at me earnestly for a
moment or two, and then said it would
be much more consistent if l would
make it an aunt" -Cleveland Plain
Dealer.