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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25

and he'd start up as scared as he
could be. And many's the time I've
been in there, and he'd start to go
out, and she'd tell him to set down,
and he'd set without a murmur.
Mehitable she bought all his
clothes, an she favored Iong-tailed
coats, an he bein' such a short man.
never looked well in 'em, and she
wouldn't let him have store shirts
and collars, but made them herself.
and she didn't have very good pat
terms, she used her fathers old ones.
and he wasn't no such built man as
Lemuel. and I know he suffered ev-
erything, both in his pride an his
feelin's. Lemuel began to look real
downtrod. He didn't seem like half
such a man as he did, and the queer
est thing about it was: Mehitable
didn't pear to like the work of her
own hands, so to speak
One day she talked to me about it.
"I dunno what it's" said she, ''but
Lemuel he don't seem to have no 90
ahead and no ambition and no will of
his own. He tries to please me. but
it don't seem as if he had grit enough
even for that. Sometimes I think he
amt well, but 1 dunno what ails him.
I've been real careful of him. He's
worn thick fannels, and he's had
wholesome victuals; never let him
have pie
'sLemuel was always dreadful fond
of pie" l said. l felt kind of sorry,
for I remembered how fond poor
Lemuel had always been of mothers
pies, and what good ones he used to
make himself.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
THE FARM ORCHARD.
IT'S Value Consists to al Large Extent
in the Pleasant Sentiment
Connected with 1t.

When we remember the old farm,
there is nothing that comes to our
mind bearing a greater sense of
pleasure than the old orchard. 1T
was the orchard that filled the air
with perfume in the spring, thrilled
us with promises in the summer, and
kept its promises of good things i'll
the fall. What stronger influence is
there binding the sons and daugh-
ters of the farm to their old home?
Every farmer that owns a farm and
expects to live upon it in the future
should have a family orchard. This
orchard is not the one that is to
supply apples and other fruit for
market, but for the family only. The
commercial orchard must contain
only few varieties of fruit, but the
family orchard should contain y
great many different kinds. 1t is de-
sirable that the family have apples
from midsummer to the next spring.
few trees of early family apples
should be set out. Then others til at
rlpen at the end of summer and in
the early fall. More should be
grown that will keep till midwin-
ter, and some that will keep till the
next spring. A great variety oe
fruit will prove pleasing to the fam
lily rather than a few kinds. Then,
too, it is matter of education to
the younger members of the house
hold, for the fruits and the lessons
concerning them learned in child
hood will never be forgotten. The
grower should know the name of
every fruit that grows on his
grounds, and this will add to the in
terest the children show in the or
chard. Lastly, the well-kept orchard
will add immensely to the value of
the farm, if it ever has to be sold.
The value of such an orchard will
not be estimated in the value Of tina
amount of fruit it will produce, bus
to large extent in the sentiment
connected with it. The prospective
buyer sees in the orchard not only so
many bushels of apples, but he sees
in it certain element of pleasure
to his family. He beholds in his
minds eye a mass of bloom in the
spring, the waving of fruit-laden
boughs in the summer, and the glis-
tening of dew-brightened fruit in the
fall He is generally willing to pay
something for these. BY all means,
create an orchard for the family.
Farmers Review
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
CHINESE GIRLS STRATEGY.
By Deceiving Her Lovers She Kept
IA Large Army Constantly at
Her Call.

The recurrence of disturbances in
southern China, reported in the tel
egraph dispatches, make interesting
some details of the personality of
Lao Kuan Yin, the beautiful wOm-
an Boxer, who, during the first trou-
bles, acted as a sort of Chinese Joan
of Arc. She rallied to her standard
large number of well-known des-
peradoes, until her followers num-
bered something like 10000 fighting
men, reports the Detroit Free Press.
She held the chiefs of these forces
faithful to her by making love to
them and permitting them, as many
as six at q time, each to fancy that
he was the chosen one. Soon, how
ever, her duplicity was revealed, and
when she showed special favor to the
youngest and handsomest of the SIX,
the five others, driven mad by Jeal-
ously, passed their swords into the
favored ones body. The rivals then
began to fight among themselves
with the result that three OF them
were killed. Next morning one OF
the remaining chiefs, being old and
hideous to look upon, packed up his
goods and chattels and departed. lie
took away with him nearly all the
troops, and practically the whole OF
the ammunition. Lao Kuan Yin now
found herself with one lover and
very few followers, and when the
government troops appeared on the
SCENE went info hiding
She is now again in power, and has
more troops at her disposal, but she
has learned wisdom, and contents
herself with one lover.
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The Volcano Bird.

One curious result of the Soufriere's
eruptions has been the loss on the is
land of St. Vincent of the beautiful
bird known as Buildings Amazon par
rot. This bird was formerly found
only on the slopes of the Soufriere
and was called the volcano bird by
the inhabitants of the island. 1t was
driven away by the eruptions of IT'S
and sought shelter in other parts of
the Antilles. The great hurricane of
1898 still further reduced its num-
bers, hardly leaving a single bird in
st. Vincent, and now it is feared that
whatever survivors there may have
been were destroyed by the recent
eruptions or have fed from the scene
Not a bird can be found anywhere
within the range of the volcanoes ac-
tivity. Unlike man, birds and beasts did
not risk returning to such a danger
zone.-Detroit Free Press.
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Mon THAT should BE Stunned.

Some men will fairly sit up nights
taking care of their horses and other
stock. but will let their wives wear
themselves out doing work they never
should undertake, and their boys and
girls grow round-shouldered carrying
burdens their fathers should bear.
Such men have something wrong in
their makeup. They belong to the
day when the women and children
were the slaves of their lords and mas
tiers. There should be some way of
shaning them into treating their
wives and little ones at least as well as
they do their dumb cattle.-Farm
Journal.
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Growing Onions Under Glass.

The Farm and Fireside says that
their. is a chance for profitable work
in some sections growing the Prize
taker or other Spanish onions under
glass, and selling the young plants
by the hundred or by the thousand
to those who want them to set ouo
in the spring, and yet do not want
to bother with a hotbed or have no
greenhouses. This method of start
ing onion plants under glass and
transplanting them seems to grow
more popular each year, as it gets
well-ripened onions into market
much earlier than when they are
grown from the seed, and the Span
ish onions seem to be best adapted
to that plan where they can hardly
be grown out of doors.
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is too dry and warm. The pit was
2X4x8 foot. The roots were thrown in
mixed just as happened, spaces be-
tween the roots being filled with the
sandy subsoil. The sand filling does
much to preserve firmness and quality.
The heap was covered with three
inches of straw, then n layer of boards,
then more straw, and finally with six
to eight inches of SOLE. b. Fiske, in
Farm and Home.
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His Ecnnonnv.

SIS your husband going to make
any new resolutions this year?"
asked the visitor.
81 think not" answered the wom-
an who had just been reminded that
it would be necessary to econcmize;
81 am afraid he will have tc con-
tent himself with last years, anade
over. '-Washington Star.
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81 know it," said Mehitable. "He
wanted to make some himself, when
we were first married, but L vetoed
that. l wasn't goin' to have man
messin' round maxim pies, and /
wasn't goin' to have him eatin' of
'em after they were made. Pies amt
good for him. But l declare [ dunno
what does make him act so kind of
spiritless. told him to-day I thought
he'd better make a resolution for the
New Year and stick to it, and see if
it wouldn't put some spunk into
him.
Pretty soon she went home.
could see she was real kind of trou-
bled. She always did think a good
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
Grain Ration for Cows.

A correspondent who says he has
shredded corn stover and mixed timo-
thv and clover hay, asked the Breeders
Gazette for a grain ration for cows,
bran costing $40 and shorts S24 a ton,
and corn so cents per bushel. The an
swer was, use corn and bran, five
pounds of each per day to each COW
in good flow of milk, with all the corn
slower and hay they will eat. Feed the
grain dry if the cows have all the wa
ter they want. Shorts are good deal
dearer than bran at the prices named.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25

A Salem (Ore.) creamery operator
has entered upon plan for the devel-
opment of the dairy interest of his
neighborhood. Whenever he finds an
industrious farmer who desires to pur-
chase cows for dairy herd, but who
has not sufficient capital, the creamery
man buys the necessary COWS and then
sells them to the farmer, taking a
mortgage. This plan has been prac-
ticed previously by creamery men, not
ably large companies operating in
Kansas, and has been found successful.
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%SsZlNSI III years No'ooy 80 =
-Fs1@eTs he'd ever get married at
"a ~ all, any more'n my
brothers Reuben and Silas. The
three had lived together and kept
bachelors hall ever since our
mother died. L was married and
away from home long before she
died. / didn't know how they
would get along at first, but
all Of the boys had been used to
helpin' ma a good deal, and they
were real handy, and when l asked
if they wasn't gOin' to have house
keeper, they wouldn't hear TO IT..
They said they wasn't goin' to have
no strange woman round In ma $
place, nohow. So Silas he took hold
and did the washin' and irOnin', and
Reuben did the sweepin', and Lemuel,
he was the youngest, next to me,
did the cooItin'. He could cook dim
ner equal to any woman, and his pies
beat mine. My husband said so, ana
/ had to give in they did.
Well, they seemed to get on so
nice, and none of 'em had ever seem
ed to think much about the girls, not
even when they was boys, that J
must say / was astOnished when
Iemuel he up and got married to Me-
hitable Pierce. She was little along
in years, too, rather more so than
Lemuel, and a dreadful smart piece.
She was good lookin' and had prop
prtv, but she was dreadful smart and
~, an comm. l could never see how
Lcmuel got the courage to ask her
to have him, he was always a kind OF
mild spoken little fellow Reuben he
declared he didn't. He vowed that
Mehitable asked him herself. He
said he knew it for fact, and he
said it with the tears rOllin' down
his cheeks. Reuben was the oldest,
and he'd always been terrible fond
Of Lemuel. "That poor boy would
never have got in sech a fix eff that
woman hadn't up an asked him, an
he didn't have spunk enough to say
no." said Reuben, and he swallered
hard.
Mehitable had nice house Of her
own that her father left her, all fur
nished and everything, so of course
Lemuel he went to live with her, and
Mehitables house was pretty near
where / lived, so / could see every
thing that was goin' on. 1t want
very long before / said to Hannah
Morse, my husbands old maid sis
ter that lives with us and teaches
school, that I believed Lemuel was
henpecked, though l hadn't anythin'
against Mehitable.
. 81 don't see what else anybody that
married Mehitable Pierce would ex-
pect," said Hannah. She spoke real
sharp for her. I've always kind of
wondered if Hannah would have had
Lemuel if he'd asked her. well"
said ], 81 hope poor Lemuel will be
happy. He's always been such a
good, mild, willin' boy that it does
seem a pity for him to be rode over
rough-shOd, and have all the will he
ever did have trodden into the dust"
"Well that is what will happen,
or I'll miss my guess" said Hannah
Morse. For long while l thought
she was right 1t was really pitiful
to see Lemuel He didn't have no
more liberty than a five-year-Old boy,
and not so much. Mehitable wouldn't
let him do this and that, and if there
was anythin' he wanted to do, she
was sot against it, and he'd always
give right in. Many's the time Lem
uel has ran over to my house and
his wife come racin' to the fence and
screamed after him to come home,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
THE FIRE RITRNS LOW

l.
We gather round the fire.
It's in the bleak December,
The evening shadows curtain us,
We watch the fading ember;
For the year is growing old, love.
The wild winds moan and rave;
The night outside is cold, love,
The naked branches wave
We tell the dear old stories,
We sing the dear old tunes;
The year will soon be seeing
The last of all its moons.
The year is going fast, love,
0 year, so fair and sweet;
IT will soon be with the past, love,
p o year, so spent, so fleet.
We sit around the fire,
Swift pales it's crimson glow,
The hour is late and lonesome,
The dear hearth fire burns low
Twelve months, they seem like one,
love,
So passes life away,
In battles lost ar6I won, love,
In runes of night and day.
1t is the dear December,
But yet the home is bright,
The flame dies to the ember,
To rise in mornings light.
The year is near its end, love,
Another year is nigh,
But friend still clings to friend, love,
Howe'er the years may fly.
Margaret E. Sangster, in Christian In
telligencer.
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EXCELLENT ROOT PIT.
It's Designer Considers IT Indispen-
sable for the Successful Win
tering of Root Crops.

Last winter my beets, turnips and
served in pit; results were wholly sat
isfactory. The root did not shrink and
grow witty as they will in cellar that
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deal of Lemuel in spite of every

deal of Lemuel in spite of every
thing.
The next day was New Years, and
in the afternoon Mehitable came in
again. She didn't have her SEWN as
she generally did, she was a very in
dustriOus woman. She jest set down
and begun twisting the fringe of her
shawl as if she was real nervous. Her
face was puckered up too. II don't
know what to make of Lemuel," said
she, finally.
'Why, what's the matter?" said I.
"He says he's made a resolution
for the New Year." said she, land
that he's goin' to keep it,"
'Well, what is it?" said [.
81 Dunno" said she.
"Well, if it's a good one you don't
care, do you?" said I, "and it couldn't
be anything but a good one if my
brother made it,"
81 dunno what it is" said she.
"WOn't he tell?"
''No, he won't. L can't get a word
out of him about it. He don't act
like HIMSELF
Well, I must say I never saw such
a change as come over Mehitable and
Lemuel after that. He wouldn't tell
what his resolution was, and she
couldn't make him, though she al
most went down on her knees. 1t
began to seem as if she was fairly
changing characters with Lemuel,
though she had a spell of bein' her
self mOre'n ever at first, tryin' to
force him to tell what the resolu-
ton was. Then she give that up, and
she never asked him where he was
goin', an he could come in my house
an set jest as long as he wanted to,
and she bought him a short-tailed
coat and some store collars and
shirts, and he looked. like another
man. He got to stayin' down to the
store nights, an talkin' politics with
the other men real loud. l heard
him myself one night and I couldn't
believe it was Lemuel.
Well, LemueI he never gave in, and
he never told till the next New Years
day, when he said he would tell. He'd
said all along that he'd tell her then.
I'd got most as curious as Mehitable
myself by that time, and New Years
mornin' I run over real early-they
wasn't through breakfast. He was
most through. He was finishing up
with big piece of mince pie, and
he'd made it himself, too. When he'd
swallowed the last mouthful, he
looked up and he laughed, real pleas
ant and sweet, and yet with more
manliness than I'd ever seen in him.
''S'pose you want to know what
that New Years resolution was?"
said Lemue1.
81 guess I can stand it awhile Ion
GER" said Mehitable. Now the time
had come she didn't want to act too
eager, but l showed out jest what I
felt.
For the land sake, Lemuel Bah
bit, what was it?'' said l.
Lemuel he laughed again. ''Well, it
wasn't much of anythin'," he said, in
his gentle drawlin' way. ST didn't
make no resolution really"
'What, Lemuel Babbit!" cried Me
hitable.
''No," said he; II couldn't think of
none to make, so [ made a resolu-
ton not to tell that l hadn't made
ny."-People's Home Journal.
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HANDY FOR DRAWING POSI5.
at hand. The plan portrayed explains
itself. The iron may be round or
square but the points should be kept
sharp. Hammer each into the post
enough to hold securely. The lever
should have nail, cleat or iron on inc
end so the iron hook will not slip Off
J. j. Jones, in Farm and Home.
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POST DRAWING DEVICE.
Homemade Arrangement OF simple
Construction which Is Sure to
Give Satisfaction.

It is not hard thing to pull up a
post or big stake, as a general thing,
if proper conveniences for the work are
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beginning!

Bradds-"Going to make any new
resolutions this year, Spikes?"
Spikes-"New ones? l should say
not! I've got lot Of old ones I've
never used, by jove!"-Chicago Daily
News.
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\ MY brother Lemuel mar
" ~ ried Mehitable Pierc
IS * when he was quite along
sWA.I@ in years. Nobody thought
9@gsk he'd ever get married at
lAA I'll nnr 1nnrn'n my
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-25
The Retirement of Senator Vest.


 With the adjournment of the Fifty seventh Congress the United States Sen ate will lose one of its oldest, ableSt and most highly esteeme members, TOT George Graham Vest of Missouri. who, has served his State faithfully and well for twenty-three years. will voluntarily pas out of public life and hand over his share of the duties of representing Mis- souri to new statesman. He will seek the peace and uuetude attendant upon private life in his home at Sweet Springs, where the last years of his noted career will be spent in comradeship with those who share his honors and his nation gratitude for a work well done. lie has passed his three-score years and ten. and that paralysis which has for three years been slowly but surely enfeeblnS his slender frame will. his physicians say abide with him to the end. to make his declining years more burdensome, per haps, but doubling the solicitudC and tender regard of a nation he helped mould into greatness. With the retire. ment of Senator Vest will also pass away one of the most inpresively pathetic features of the daily. sessions of the Ser- ate, the arrival of the invalid statesman, gray, shrunken and feeble, almost borne In the arms of another gray old veteran of the Senate service, James l.. Edwards, a doorkeeper. Edwards went from Mis- one of the landmarks as it were. of the cs ritol Every morning Senator Vest leaves his home on P. Street in his car riage. An attendant telephones Edwards at the moment of starting. and the old doorkeeper is always waiting at the ent, rance of the Senate side of the Capitol for the arrival of the carriage. Alter the good mornings" are said between the Senator and the doorkeeper. Edwards tenderly lifts Senator Vest in his arms and carefully stands him on the stone pavement until he can close the carriage door. Then. handing the invalid his cane they slowly walk to the elevator inside the building. the Senator's entire weight almost borne on the old doorkeeper shoulder and arm. From the elevator to the Senate chamber the path is thromsh n a long marble corridor, and along tnls they slowly proceed. Up three marble steps, thro,gh the glass. paneled1 ,,5 door too,I Here Edwards lifts Senator Vest into his chair tremendously deposits the gold; headed cane under the desk, bows and withdraws to take up his duties as door keeper on the Democratic side of the body, This procedure is observed. too when the Senate adjourns for the day and Senator Vest is ready to go home.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-25
The Best Physical Culture

Success.
 For arms fingers and wrists washing and wiping dishes will be found admir- able. One is as good as the other, Per haps the water aids in giving suppleneSs tO the joints of the fingers. That is an advantage washing dishes has over wip- ing them. However, there is surely a fine elbow movement in the wiplng.
 Bedmaking. as it is still taught in the homely physical culture academies Of Yankee rarmhouses. cannot be too highly recommended. With the folding or every counterpane. blanket and sheet, the arms are stretched as far apart as they will go. each hand holding one end. Then standing perfectly erect, the chest IS thrown out. Quickly the hands are brought together again and presto, the sheet is folded double, Shoulders, h"dN and limbs arc all developed hY the mat tress turning. Th- eve and thc sNusn [ symmetry learn much from the T"rulAr arrangement of counterpdne and pillows. Of course. this exercise ought not to be carried too far
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-25
SEABOARD AIR Montgomery 8:20a. m.

For Union Springs (via. Fort Davis and U. S. 6 N. R'y) Hurtsborc, Col um5us, Richland, Albany, Amsricus, Corrdele, Jacksonville, Macon, Sa- vannah and all points East. New and elegant parlor cars between Mont gomery and Savannah.
 DELIGHTFUL RAIL To New York, Boston, Philadelphia via. Norfolk 6r Savannah. Apply L. Railway, 6 Commerce St., Montg
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-25
At Aqueduct.

New York. April 24.-Examiner, with O'Connor up, won the Ozone Stakes at Aqueduct today. He was second choice in the betting at to 1. Getting off in about sixth place he had to go around his field and coming up on the outside won by two lengths. Mamie Worth won the last race, but was disqualified for foulins.
 ]. C. Lyman hid Examiner mp tu $l.G0l and bought him in at that figure. Fath- CT "BilI' Daly bid on Carroll D., anu secured him at Sl,050. Jockey Shaw has been set down for the remainder Of the meeting for breaking through the bar rier in today's fourth race. Jockey J. Daly was set down for two days for mis-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-25
St. Louis, 4; Cleveland, 9.

St. Louis. April 24.-Cleveland' raw work in the field allowed the home team to get lead of two runs after the score had been tied in the sixth inning. Owing to the threatening weather the attend ance was only 1000. R.H.E E. St. Louis .............00O O2O200*-4 3 Cleveland .. .,..,....0 0 0O10 000-2 3
 Batteries-Harper and Moloney; Taylor