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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16
REMOVED MANNERS BUMP.
Vienna Surgeon Operates on the
Brain of Young Man with
Queer Result.

DIR. Karl Diwald, one of the best
known surgeons in Vienna, has just
drawn attention to very peculiar
case, says London paper.
A young man who was attending the
military college was accidentally shot
in the head by revolver, and DR..
Diwald, who was summoned to attend
him. extracted the ball and at the same
time removed fragment of the brain.
Serious results were expected, but
the young man speedily recovered and
soon afterward passed a successful
examination.
Strange to say, however, since the
operation took place his manners and
habits have been deplorable, which is
the more remarkable since he was re
puted to have been one of the most
polished young men in Vienna. His
associates now say that they cannot
tolerate him and that even at table he
is constantly guilty of gross breaches
| of good manners.
DIR. Diwald maintains that the por-
ton of the brain which he removed
while extracting the bullet must have
been that very part which controls all
matters relating to decorum and good
| conduct: in other words, that the
| bump of good manners is located in
that part of the brain, and, that, since
he has lost it, the young man finds it
| impossible to display good manners.
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trailing limbs, he was carried down
below, and laid in a bunk. The deck
was tidied up, the men quietly dis
persed. The routine of the ship went
on as before.
The captain was still on the bridge.
The danger might not yet be wholly
past; and his post was there. Some
thing, it may be, was Juggling at his
heartstrings, dragging him below to
his boys side; but he stood firm.
The safety of the ship, the lives of
the passengers, were committed to
his charge. There lay his duty.
In the bright sunny morning, when
the passengers strolled up on deck,
there was nothing to Indicate the
peril they had escaped during the
night. The captains face, perhaps,
was little more deeply lined and a
shade graver than usual. They no.
ticed, too, that as he paced the
bridge he frequently turned a glance
aft, as though expecting Someone.
And presently, as he saw the white
haired doctor coming along the deck,
he quilted his post for a moment,
and met him apart.
"Well?" was all he said.
With hands thrust into his pockets,
his face stern and firm-set as ever,
he listened while the kindly old doe
tor explained to him that there was
little hope of saving his sons life.
He took the blow without finching.
They were now in the channel,
with shipping on every side. His
place was still on deck. Without a
word he turned and went back to his
post on the bridge. His usual inn
perative words of command rang out
to the bustling crew.
Of such stuff those that go down
to the sea in ships are made.-Black
and White.
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one or two officers, were steadily fight
ing the fre-fend They had got the
matches off and were pumping streams
of wa ter down upon the heated cargo.
But that was not enough. Blinded by
the smoke, not knowing where the fire
was seated, they were fighting in the
dark. 1t was necessary to grapple
with the danger at closer quarters to
get out the smouldering bales before
they burst into flame. Someone must
go downtown there into the foul,
sitting air of the hold, the scorching
heat.
And he was ready; young fellow in
the ships uniform, the uniform of an
officer. He had bravely pulled off his
coat, and was binding a wet towel
around his mouth and nostrils, while
they fixed a sling at the end of a
rope to lower him into that black,
reeking cavity.
Up there, in the darkness OF the
bridge, the captain stood and looked
on, looked on, perhaps with a
sudden, tighteneing of the heart,
though no trace of it was, visible upon
his hard+lined face. 1t was the fourth
officer who was going down; and the
young fellow, though the relationship
was never acknowledged on board ship
it was always captain and fourth Of
fcer-was his own son.
Armed with a lantern, he got int
the sling, and was lowered into the
unseen depths of the hold. And there,
working with feverish energy, he
pulled the cargo about until he got at
the smouldering bales, and attached
them to the tackle which had been let
down to him. One by one they were
hauled up on deck and tossed into the
foaming sea. Not until his work was
done, and he had cleared out every
smouldering bale, was he drawn up
himself-scorched, blackened, drip
ping with water, but with a ghast-
ly Wilderness showing through the
CRIME on his face. No sooner did his
feet touch the deck than he collapsed
fell in a huddled heap before they
could stretch out hand to his assist
ance.
The doctor pressed forward and
took charge of him. With limp and
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Telegraph rates in the United States
average double those in Europe.
It is claimed that in regions where
much fruit is consumed there is much
less desire than elsewhere for alco-
holic stimulants.
The total number of farms in Ala
bama is given at 223,22o, of which 129,-
1877 are operated by white farmers and
81, 083 by coIored farmers.
In respect to park area the chief
American cities rank in the order fol
lowing: New York, Philadelphia, Bos-
ton, ST. Louis, Chicago, Cleveland, San
Francisco, Baltimore, Pittsburg, New
Orleans and Cincinnati.
Salem, n. j., was recently rid of a
caterpillar plague by national guards
men. The conclusion of their rifles
when discharged caused the caterpll-
lers to loose their hold on the trees.
Then they were swept up.
Four months instruction in the Min
neapolis school of fine arts has been
offered by newspaper of that city to
the boy or girl who submits the best
work in the weekly contests in the
drawing of artistic and effective adj
vertising designs.
Salt has a peculiar affinity for wa
ter, and as it cannot easily unite with
that substance when the latter is in
the form of ice or snow, it tends to
melt the ice in order to satisfy its crav-
ing for drink. The temperature at
which fresh-water ice melts is higher
that that at which salt water freezes
Otherwise iquefaction would not
take place when salt and ice are mixed
Every head of clover consists OF
about 60 flower tubes, each of which
contains an infnitesimal quantity OF
sugar. Bees will often visit a hun
dred different heads of clover before
retiring to the hive, and, in order to
obtain the sugar necessary for a
load, must therefore thrust their
tongues into about 5000 different flow
ers. Sometimes a bee will draw the
sugar from 10000 different flowers in
the course of single days work,
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Grain for a Dairy Cow.

A correspondent asks Breeders Ga
zctte to s'give ration for dairy cow,
bran costing SO, shorts s24 per ton
and corn so cents bushel. We have
plenty of shredded corn stover and
timothy and clover hay mixed" Shorts
are a good deal dearer than bran at
the prices named. Probably our cor
respondent means middlings, which
are much superior to real shorts. In
any event, use corn and brsn, as they
are the cheaper feeds. Feed five
pounds each of bran and corn to each
COW giving a full flow Of milk, and then
give all of the corn slower and hay the
animals will eat for roughage. The
grain may be given in the dry form pro-
vided the animals are watered once or
twice day. having opportunity to get
all they care to drink.-Prairie Farmer.
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A CONVICT IN PRISON.
Daily Routine of Life In a Dungeon
Cell Described by One Who
Knows.

If I had little work to do in prison,
how did / spend the time? At Auburn,
where l lived the greater part of my
first term, says the,Autobiography of
a Thief. in Leslie's Monthly, the rou-
tine of my life was as follows: After
rising in the morning I would sweep
out my cell, turn up my bed and blank
cts and clean up. Then to breakfast;
then, if there was no work to do, /
would go back to my cell and eat a
small portion of opium. Then l would
exercise with dumbbells and take a
sponge bath with cold water. Next
would come a nap till dinner time.
After dinner / would read and think in
my cell until three o'clock, when
would go to the bucket ground or ex-
ereise in the yard, in the lock-step with
the others, for half an hour. Then
back to the cell, taking with me bread
and cup of coffee made out of burnt
bread-crust for my supper. The count
was made at six o'clock to see that
all was right for the night. After that
1 read in my cell as long as the oil
lasted.
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CALF BECAME CHURN.
Weird Tale just Received from Mich
lean Records AN Extraordinary
Bovine, Tragedy.

Among their numerous herds, Blake
Bros, of Galesburg, Mich, have pre-
MUM Jersey COW with a pedigree w
ing in length with that Of the oldest
family
This cow has always been celebrated
for the extremely rich character of
her milk, and the following startling
tale would seem to vindicate the claim:
Tt is Just one week since Betsy, as the
COW is called, gave birth to fine heifer
calf.
Owing to it's lineage the little bovine
was regarded as being an unusually
valuable specimen, and consequently
was, up to this morning, kept within
the narrow confines of horse stall in
the barn.
But after it's breakfast to-day, which
meal it partook of in the natural way,
it was thought best to give it an oppor-
tunity for exercise, and it was turned
loose in the barnyard, where it frol-
licked to it's hearts content for perhaps
ten minutes. at the end of which period
it dropped dead.
Tt was ascertained on examination
that the milk with which it's little
stomach had been distended had been
literally churned by its playful gam
bols, and that it contained a little
more than six pounds of the golden
product.
It is supposed, says a special to the
New York World, that the immature
digestive organs of the poor little calf
were unequal to the unaccustomed
strain, and it's life was sacrificed in the
effort.
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LEGUMES IN ORCHARDS.
where Now Recognize Their
Value as Fertilizers.

For fertilizing orchards the value Of
m1tted, though they are not yet in
general use. The details of their
growth, cultivation andlutility are sub
Jects for study and consideration, that
we may learn how and when to use the
different varieties tc the best advan-
tage. Their roots penetrate deep into
the soil, making it more porous and
decompoSe more or less OF the hard
est substances with which they come
In contact. The roots also support
bacteria which have the power to
change the free nitrogen OF the air
into plant food. The thick epidermis
OF the leaves prevents rapid evapo-
ration from their surfaces, the heavy
foliage shades the ground, checking
the loss of moisture by the direct ac-
ton of the sun and wind, at the same
time keeping the temperature of the
soil at lower point through the hot
months than if cultivation was used.
The cow pea is the more generally
known, and different methods of cul-
tivation are practiced. The common
plan in my locality is to pillow the land,
harrow it once or twice and plant the
seed with wheat drill or double row
with a corn planter, then leave the
crop to take care of itself. Some
times the seed is sowed broadcast on
freshly plowed land and narrowed in,
there is always some of the seed lost
by this method in a dry time. After
the plants are strong enough to resist
the teeth of the implement in use,
they might be narrowed or gone ever
with a weeder to advantage.
claim better results are obtained
by thorough preparation of the seed
bed, then planting in rows, about thir-
teen inches apart, and cultivating shall
low, keeping the surface level until
they shade the ground. / think the
difference in yield is more marked on
poor Land than on land well supplied
with humus, even then the seed saved
and the benefit to the soil of good Gull
tivation is worth considering. Plant
ing this way one bushel of seed
will be sufficient for four to six acres.
The seed should not be planted until
the ground is in condition to germ1-
nate it without delay. The cow pea
is from warm climate and the seed
will rot sooner than corn in a cool,
damp SOFIA A. Hinchley, in Farm
ers' Review.
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BRAZILIAN AvOCADOS.
Increasing Popularity of the CALI
gator Penr," Which Comes to
This Country.

The increasing popularity of the
avocado, or alligator pear, has brought
the Brazilian variety into great prom
inence of late. As matter of fact, the
fruit is not pear at all, but belongs
to the laurel family. The chief au-
thority on the subject is a picturesque
West Indian who imports these ex-
otic dainties. and who is an enthusiast
on the subject, says the New York
Post.
THE avocado" he said, lis food and
medicine, as we'll as refreshment.
When nature made it she intended it
as the highest development of the
vegetable world. 1t is delicious, but
not cloying. 1t has its own character
istics, but will gratefully accept all
other f1avors. For this reason it is the
only fruit which can be eaten plain,
with pepper and salt, with lemon juice
and sugar, with sherry or madeira
wine. or with a salad dressing. New
Englanders have made it into a sue
cessful pie. and Brazilian cooks convert
it into marvellous custard pudding.
The popularity of the pulp is that II
contains a large amount of fixed oil
which gives it nutritive value superb
or to the olive and the peanut and
makes it almost equal to the egg.
Though stranger in New York, il
is known and loved in every tropica
and sub tropical city. 1t is grown II
the West Indies. Central and South
America, Hawaii, the lar east, north
cru, eastern, and western Africa
Some enterprising Frenchmen have {
small orchard not far from Palm Beach
on the Florida coast. and in. Southern
California there are hundreds of tree:
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Phosphate Fertilizers.

Phosphates promote the formation
of flower and fruit and secure earlier
ripening. They may be widely used
on vines and succulent fruits that are
liable to be cut by early frosts in
autumn, securing early crops with bet
ter prices and avoiding the loss of the
entire crop by untimely frosts be-
fore the most of the crop had ripened.
Fruit trees sometimes blossom year
after year without producing fruit.
This is often caused by storms at the
period of Towering, but it may be
caused by constitutional weakness, in
consequence of which pollen of vital
power is not formed. In such cases
the use of phosphates is worthy of
tria1-Rura1 World.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16
IN A BAD WAY.

Night after night with rest and
sleep broken by urinary troubles.
Painful passages, Frequent calls of
nature, Retention, make the day as
miserable as the night.
Man, woman or child with any
wrong condition of the bladder and
kidneys is in bad way.
Don't delay till dangerous Dia-
betes comes.
Cure the trouble before it settles
into Bright's Disease.
Read how certain are the cures of
Doan's Kidney Pills and how they
last.
John ]. Scharschug, a retired
farmer, residing at 474 Concord St.,
Aurora, Ills, says: "Three years
ago was a sufferer from backache
and other kidney disorders and for
months exhausted all my knowledge
of medicine in an endeavor to OBJ
tain relief. Doan's Kidney Pills
cured me, and time has not dimin-
ished my estimation of this prepare
ton. Not only did Doan's Kidney
Pills cure me at that time but al
though over three years have elapsed
there has not been a symptom of q
recurrence of the trouble. I con
slider this preparation to be won
derful kidney remedy and just as
represented"
A free trial of this great Kidney
medicine which cured Mr.. Scharschug
will be mailed on application to any
part of the United States. Address
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y
For sale by all druggists, price sc
cents per box.
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New Vegetables from Asia.

A New York dealer tells the Sun of
two vegetables introduced about four
years ago and still new to the public.
One is oriental romaine, winter salad
from China, now grown at the south
as far as North Carolina. A head of
it is the length of an ear of corn, and
is about the same size except at the
lower end, which is dubious. 1t is
made up of long, narrow leaves, fold
ed solidly together. 1t sells by the
pound at Is to 20 cents head, weigh
ing one pound, more or less. The other
vegetable is japanese crosue, a salad
garnish, and also eaten cooked, now
grown chiefly in France. 1t is about
two inches long, and half an inch in
diameter. of an artichoke nature. In
Japan they are eaten cooked, picked
and as salad. They are imported in
15-pound baskets, and sell at 40 cents
a pound.
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" Duty First %
An Episode at Sea
BY JOHN ALEXANDER.

THINGS happen at sea-things
fraught with deadly peril to all
on board-of which the ordinary pas
senger knows nothing at the time;
never gets to hear of perhaps. In the
dead Of night. when he is snugly tucked
up in his berth below, Death may come
and take runaway knock at the ship
without his being one whit the wiser.
The dange;' is known only to the Of
ficers; they see it, realize that an APP
palling disaster may result, and Crap
pie with it, quietly, secretly. For at
such critical moments it is vitality es
sential that the passengers should be
allowed to retain their sense of secur-
ity, lest they break into a mad, I'M
thinking panic.
Who Enew, for instance, on that
dark night at sea, when the great Cape
Elmer was heading up the English chan
mel, and her hundreds of passengers
were ut rest in their state-rooms, that
a terri6 g element of destruction had
laid hc5A ON the heart of the ship?
They s;9pt, those passengers, uncon-
sciOus II the danger; ignorant of the
life-and, death struggle which was be-
ing waged up there on deck. If one
or two happened to be disturbed by
something trailing along above their
heads, they probably turned round in
ond thought. And yet if they had
known it was fire hose!
Fire: the most appalling. the most
terrifying word that can be whispered
at sea.
1t had bcoken out in the hold amid
ships. Smoke was oozing in sluggish
wreaths from the matches. The cargo
down there was smouldering. And at
any moment that shoulder might
burst into fierce, ravaging, devouring
flames.
The captain, cool in the presence of
danger prompt to think and act, had
mounted with steady step to the
bridge and taken charge. The firm-set,
bronzed face of him had looked down
upon many scenes of devastation and
terror when lis strong, ruling hand
had made itself felt and quelled the
panic amongst the seething, struggling
mass below. And row, in this sudden
and startling emergency, he had the
same resolute, masterful grip of the
situation.
The ships officers of every grade
were at their posts. Away aft the
purser was on guard 1.-THE head of the
saloon stairs ready tS reassure any
timorous passengers who might catch
the alarm and induce them to return
quietly to their berths. The doctor
the father" of the ship by virtue
of his grey hairs-had slipped out on
deck and had made his way forward,
Tor at sea men do not pause to count
the cost when called upon to face
danger, and his services might be
needed at any moment. There was no
noise, no fuss, no confusion. If an
order came from the bridge it came
in the usual calm, firm tones of COM
mand never once raised above the or
binary level.
Grouped around the burning hold,
where the lanterns swayed with the
roll Of the ship, the men, headed by
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-16
CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS.
New System of Rural Education
Growing in Favor in the
Western States.

The new mandate that has gone
forth is to the effect that neighboring
districts must consolidate in order to
build good central school building,
with several rooms and several teach
ers, and a consequent opportunity for
grading the scholars. 1t is further
decreed that the children must be
brought to this central school on a
cooperative plan, in suitable convey
ances for protection from cold and wet
and fatigue. Further, it is in the air
that the new consolidated country
school must adapt its methods of in
struction to the real conditions of life.
It must be a social and intellectual cen
ter for grown-up people as we'll as for
the children OF the region. It must
have an ample piece of ground, and
this must be kept in the most perfect
order, as one of the primary interests
and duties of the school. Nature study
must enter largely into school life and
work, and a positive taste for rural
pursuits and for the elements of the
natural sciences must be inculcated.
The school grounds must furnish OBJ
iect lessons in the planting and main
tenance of trees and flowers, and, in
so far as possible, may we'll be utilized
to teach practical gardening. A GER
tain amount of manual traininS for
both girls and boys should enter into
the work of the school, and every
neighborhood should strive to surpass
all others in its zeal to secure good
teachers by offering proper induce
ments.-Review of Reviews.
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THE MAYNARD PLUM.

the illustration. He says that the size
is one-third below the average, owing
to heavy crop on small trees. He also
says that the trees of this variety are
ga surprise in vigor, and are early
and abundant bearers" The size of
the fruit is large enough and the color
dark, purplish red. The flavor is rich
subacid, much like that of many of the
Japan type, to which it belongs. 1t
would be pronounced good in quality.
The flesh is firm enough, quite juicy
and tinted with purple through out.-
HE. Van Deman, in Rural New Y orker.
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IN sTee.R y = THUS
3 tEA =
THE WAY OF 1T.

A little child, he sobbed and cried,
Because he could not have the moon.
His kind nurse, to console him, lied
AnG said she'd get it pretty soon.
But still above it shone serene;
IT threw it's beams his window through
Ard Knocked him with its silver sheen,
And seemed to say: I'm not for you.
It was so fair, so round ard bright
That still for want Of it he wept.
They had that trouble every night
Until he got tired out and slept.
Poor little curly-headed lad.
To be denied so slight boon!
1t really was almost too bad
lie could not have that pretty moon.
But time rolled on, he wiser grew
When childhood passed ard boyhood
came.
He did not want the mOon-he knew
Quite well he could not have the same.
But now he has another plan,
All time will prove 10 him its worth;
Nor grown to be a whiskered man,
II seems as # he waRtS the earth.
Chicago Daily News.
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now bearing. The finest variety is not
the Mexican or Venezuelan, or even the
Chinese. as is claimed by travellers, but
the Brazilian, and these the very best
come from the island of Marajo, at the
mouth of the Amazon, just opposite to
Para The fruit is of lustrous, al
most vitreous green. The skin is very
tough, rather than hard, so mSch so
that it should be cut with a sharp steel
knife
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A WifeIy Practice

Smythe Ito seryant1 Bridget, I
have to go out this evening, and want
you to see that your mistress gets this
note as soon as she comes in, without
fail.
Bridget-Yiss, sorr; I'll just lave it
in the pocket of the trousers we just
taken off. She'll be sure to go through
them.-Columbus Dispatch.