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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-07-17

Men are so busy and so inso-
lently strong. There is something
cruel in their physical freedom. q.
A sensible, middle-aged woman once
told me that she and her husband
came to the brink of divorce over the
first house they built (they are rather
an unusually happy couple), and that
the only way she prevented the catas-
trophe was by saying: Have it all
your own way; I will not express an
other wish about this house. Yet
they lived in it comfortably for is
years. :. Something of the BIND
age of maidenhood seems to remain
in a wife. kind of impossibility-
I do not know how to express it-a
power not herself, which makes
for silence, the terrible law which
takes from a woman's love even that
which it hath. and forbids her to WOO
even her own husband. Why
is it that color means something less
to me than it used to do? Once I
should have responded to the tinting
of this room tit is really very good) in
every nerve. Now, somehow, it does
not seem to matter very much. I
suppose that is physical, too Most
things are, to women. Who said:
There is a spiritual body?' Paul, I
suppose. Nevertheless. there is phil
osophy as sound as it is subtle in those
Eve wordsf
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IOF FOREIGN INTEREST.

About C 100000 is Brlton's daily adj
vertising bill.
England has 1882 chimney sweeps
and SCOT merchants.
There are now 1900 British-owned
vessels manned by Chinese crews.
Four hundred and fifty stenog-
raphers are employed on London
newspapers.
Mount Ruwenzorie, in equatorial
Africa, has 20 square miles of
glaciers.
The average number of persons
employed in a British coal mine is
200.
Denmark has 100000 hives of bees
and exports 100000 pounds of
honey.
While the average birth rate for all
Europe is 80 per 1000, that of Aus
tria is now AZ per 1000.
There is New York in Scotland.
It is situated on the west shore of
Loeb Awe, and is therefore not far
from Glasgow.
Quinine is sold In every rural post
office in India at the rate of 20
grains fol a penny. In Bengal last
year 1,440,0O0 five-grain packets were
thus sold.
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UNCLE HEZEKlAH.
Uncle HeZekiah

Uncle Hezekiah
Tucks his napkin meath his collar
But he's given to the widows and the or
phans many dollar
Uncle Hezekiah
SCOOPS his pie up with his knife
But he never cheated others to get money,
in his life.
Uncle Hezekiah
Isn't always dressed in fashion
But the boarding up Of money never was
his ruling passion;
Uncle HeZekiah
Would amuse the gay elite
But he never to gain riches crushed another
meath his feet.
Uncle Hezekiah
Isn't what you'd call scholar
But think he says his prayers without re-
Numbering the dollar;
Uncle Hezekiah
Saws "I seen it, and Il done"
But he never caused another to be heart
sore just for fun.
Uncle Hezekiah
Tries to get all that is Que him
But he doesn't scheme so others SHAH Keep
paying tribute to him;
Uncle Hezekiah's
Eot a gentleman" ror great
sut don't believe St. Peter will detain him
at the gate,
IS. E. Kiser. in Chicago Record-Herald.
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COMMERCIAL
Showing Railways amshp Routes, Telegraph Etc.

projected from BengueIa and Mossa-
medes with the ultimate purpose of
connecting with the "Cape to Cairo
road and joining with the lines from
Portuguese East Africa, which also
touch that road, thus making trans
continental line from east to west,
with Portuguese territory at either ter
minus. Farther south on the western
coast the Germans have projected a
road from Walfisch Bay to Windh oek,
the capital of German southwest At
RIGA, and this will probably be extend
ed eastwardly until it connects with
the great tranScontinental line from
Cape to Cairo which is to form the
great nerve center of the system, to
be contributed to and supported by
these branches connecting it with
either coast. Another magnificent rail
way project, which was some years ago
suggested by M. Leroy Beaulieu, has
been recently revived, being no less
than an east and west transcontinental
line through the Soudan region, con-
Meeting the Senegal and Niger coun-
tries on the west with the Nile valley
and Red sea on the east and penetrat-
ing a densely populated and extremely
productive region of which less is now
known, perhaps, than of any other part
of-Africa.
At the north numerous lines skirt the
Mediterranean coast, especially in the
French territory of Algeria and in
Tunis, where the length of railway is,
in round numbers, $500 miles, while
the Egyptian railroads are, including
those now under construction, about
1,500 miles in length. Those of Cape
Colony and Natal are over 5000 miles,
and those of Portuguese East Africa
and the South African Republic an
other thousand. Taking into consid-
Grafton all of the roads now construct
ed or under actual construction, their
total length reaches nearly 1880
miles. or half the distance round the
earth at the equator, while there seems
every reason to believe that the great
through system connecting the rapidly
developing mining regions of South At
riea with the north of the continent
and with Europe will be pushed to
completion. A large proportion of the
railways thus far constructed are
owned by the several colonies or states
which they traverse, about 1000 miles
of the Cape Colony system belonging
to the government, while nearly all
that of Egypt is owned and operated
by the state.
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A FORTUNATE POSTMASTER,

Kirk, Ark, 14th.-Mr. William S.
brennan, Postmaster at this office,
counts himself very fortunate man.
Mr.. brennan in addition to being
postmaster is a Justice of the Peace,
a member of the Christian Church and
a highly respected and useful citizen.
He has suffered for some time with
what some people would call "ricketts"
or "rigors" of the kidneys-kidney
disease in a very painful form. He
could not sleep, he had dull pain over
his left kidney, was continually rest
less, could not lie still, and had to get
up through the night several times
and was also troubled in this way dur
ing the day.
He used a few boxes of Dodd's Kid
ney Pills, a remedy recently intro
duced in this state and advertised as IL
cure for Kidney Disease, rheumatism,
Malaria, ETC., and in short time was
completely restored to vigorous, good
health. He is very grateful to Dodd's
Kidney Pills.
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CURRENT TOPICS.

Trade schools may be established at
the Indiana reformatory.
New York is making progress In
abating the smoke nuisance.
Wild canaries were not yellow orig
inally, but green or gray in color.
Miss Henrietta A. Kelly, of Charles
ton, S. c., has gone into silk culture.
A complete set of new stamps has
been ordered for Orange River Colony.
In the United States newspapers APP
pear printed in "a different languages.
A $4,000 900 combine is proposed
of so glazed kid leather plants in the
east.
Residents of Buffalo, N. Y, use
more water than any other city in the
world
Among new surgical instruments is
q steam saw for removing diseased
parts of the liver.
Tigers killed 357 persons and
panthers 295 last year in the Indian
central provinces.
uS dhAudA SAOW hAhC VI ShO A1AnAh
Ull.) Gun club resulted In the slaugh
ter of 1896 crows.
Horace Greeley could read a book or
newspaper upside down. He learned
to do so when a boy.
Rev. Dr. John Bancroft Devins and
John A. Oxford have purchased the
New York Observer.
A watch that makes five beats q
second makes 1000 a day, or nearly
158,000,000 in year.
Seven clergymen and 16 lawyers are
inmates of warehouses (alms-houses)
in Yorkshire, England.
Bamboo in Java makes an effective
poison, the hairs on the young root
being mixed with food.
Science has no record of the dis
covery of mercury; history knows
nothing of the discovery.
All the employees of the Barnum &
Bailey circus, now travelling in Eu
rope, are total abstainers.
Forchon lace of any pattern can now
be made by one machine, owing to a
recent invention in Vienna.
The price of medicine in Prussia is
regulated by the state, new price list
being published every year.
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TWO WAYS OF LOOKING AT IT.
The Clever Reasoning That Changed
the View of nm Opponent of
Machine Labor.

A steam shovel had attracted large num-
Der OF spectators, including two Irfshmen,
VINO, judging by their appearance, were both
temporarily out OF employment. New
York paper gives their opinion of ma
chinery.
AS the big shovel at one lick seooped up
half ton of dirt and dumped it on a cart,
one of the Irishmen remarked:
What a shame to think of them digging
up dirt in that way!"
What do you mean" asked his COM
panion.
We'll" said the other, chat machine is
taking the bread out of the mouths of
hundreds of laborers who could do the
work with their picks and shovels."
Right you are, Barney" said the other
fellow.
Just then a man who had been looking
on, and who had overheard the converse
ton, remarked:
''Se here, you fellows, if that digging
would give work to hundred men with
shovels and picks, why not get thousand
men and give them teaspoons to do the
job?'
The Irishmen, with the quick wit of
their race, saw the force of the remark, and
the humor of the situation. They joined
heartily in the laugh that followed, and
one of them added:
You're right, mate! The machines the
thing after all
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-07-17
KEPT HIS PANAMA WHITE.
ny Process Which Some People Re-
IisSe Is Especially Applicable
to Sinners.

The number of Panama or alleged Pam
anna hats to be seen everywhere this sea-
son reminded an old gentleman from Bos-
ton of story the other day, which he pro-
ceeded to tell to another man in the Fifth
avenue hotel, holding his own genuine
Panama in his hand:
Il suppose you have never heard of old
Dr. Ellis down here" he said, relates the
New York Tribune. "But a generation or
two ago he was well -known figure in
Boston, being one of our famous Unitarian
minister, a friend of many of the Trans
cendentalists. He used always to wear a
white Panama hat, which at that time was
much more of luxury than l judge it is
to-day. The same hat did him season after
season, yet it never seemed to lose any of
its fresh whiteness.
Zone day minister of the old persuasion,
and very pronounced in his orthodoxy,
ASKED DR.. Ellis how he kept his hat so
white.
That is easy said the doctor, for it
has been Calvinized.'
WHAT asked the other minister.
How do you galvinize hat"
az said Calvinized,' replied the Unfair
ian.
9" But what do you mean by that?'
Clipped in brimstone,' said DR.. Ellis.
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A STUDY OF COMMERCIAL
CONDITIONS IN AFRICA
Present Possibilities the Continent as Market
Place for the World.

from Lourenzo Marquee in Portuguese
territory and the gold and diamond
fields: another from Beira, also in Por-
tuguese territory, but considerably
farther north. and destined to extend
to Salisbury in Rhodesia, where it will
form junction with the Cape to
Cairo" road; still another is projected
from Zanzibar to Lake Victoria Nyan-
"a, to connect, probably at Tabora,
with the transcontinental line; an
other line is under actual construction
westward from Pangani, just north
of Zanzibar, both of these being in Ger
man East Africa; another line extends
northwestwardly from Mombasa, in
British territory, to Lake Victoria Ny
ANA. while at the entrance to the Red
sea a road is projected westwardly
into Abyssinia, and is expected to pass
farther toward the west and connect
with the main line. At Suakim, front
ing on the Red sea, road is projected
to Berber. on the line running south
wardly from Cairo. On the west of
Africa lines have begun to penetrate
inward, a short line in the French Sou
dan running from the head of naviga-
ton on the Senegal eastwardly toward
the head of navigation on the Niger.
with the ultimate purpose of connect
ing navigation on these two streams.
In the Congo Free State railway con
meets the Upper Congo with the Lower
Congo around Livingstone Falls; in
Portuguese Angola a road extends
eastwardly from Loanda, the capital,
a considerable distance, and others are
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- HE searchlight of modern
n&A civilization has penetrated
W " the darkness of darkest
er's whip or the screams
of his victims were once heard there
is now the click of the telegraph in
strument, the shrek of the locomo-
tive, or the hoarse whistle of the
steamboat. Where children few
years ago played with what seemed
worthless pebbles, are now mines
furnishing 90 per cent. of the dia-
monds of the world; and the gold
of Ophir, lost to civilization for cen
turtles, has been rediscovered and be-
come the richest deposit of the pre-
cious metal known to mankind.
With these developments have
come wondrous changes in the map
of the continent, and instead of the
great blank which covered the in
terror are now accurately shown the
location of navigable rivers and
lakes and the boundary lines into
which the continent has been divided
by the eager nations which have seized
upon its territory, section after sec
ton, until scarcely foot of the nearly
100000 square miles remains unre-
claimed. On the north and northwest,
France claims a territory equal in ex-
tent to the entire United States; on
the east and west coasts conservative
Germany holds possession of an area
one-third as large as that of the United
States, and is establishing experiment
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tai farms, building roads and railways,
and encouraging the growth of the
tropical products which her people of
the temperate zone require; Portugal.
whose great explorers were the first
to round the Cape of Good Hope, holds
valuable tracts of territory on the
western and eastern coasts, and with
the latter harbor through which mil
lions of dollars worth of imports pass
en- route to the interior; Turkey is rep
resented by Egypt and Tripoli at the
north; Italy by her colonial posses
sions on the eastern coast, and Spain
by Rio de ORC on the west; Belgium
administers the affairs of the great
Congo Free State in the very heart of
the continent. and there are three in
dependent states - Morocco, on the
north: Liberia, on the west, and Abys-
siria on the east. And stretching
through the eastern section of the con-
+inent from south to north is an al
most continuous territory in which
the English language and the light
which seems to go with it everywhere
are being spread. From the Cape of
Good Hope northward lie the continu-
Gus links of the chain which Great
Britain has steadily forged one after
another until the contiguous territory
under her control reaches, with sin
ole exception of a few hundred miles,
from the extreme south to the ex-
+reme north of the great continent, or,
literally. ''from Cape to Cairo"
Throughout this vast distance of over
600 miles, from the Cape of Good
Hope to Egypt, British control is con-
+inuous except a short space of about
6OO miles. three-fourths of which is
spanned. by the navigable waters of
lake Tanganyika: and thus the young
est civiliza ton in the heart OF central
Africa sends greetings to the seat of
the Oldest civilization. Egypt, and
sends If in the English language. The
territory under British control in At
RIGA aggregates 2.700.000 square miles,
and If TO this were added the Egyptian
territory where British influence d.
reefs in important affairs. and in part
of which the British flag flies beside
the Egyptian, the total area would
more than equal the entire territory
of the United States.
Railroad development in Africa has
been rapid in the past few years and
seems but the beginning of great sys-
tenn which must contribute to the rap
id development. civilization and en-
lightenment of the dark continent. Al
ready railroads run northwardly from
Cape Colony about 1.500 miles and
southwardly from Cairo about 1900
miles. thus making 2,700 miles of the
.sCape to Cairo" railroad complete,
while the intermediate distance is
about 5000 miles.
Toward this line. present and pros
pective, which is to stretch through
the eastern part of the continent. lat
eral lines from either coast are be-
ginning to make til cir way. A line
has already been cor structed from Ma
tai on the southeast coast; another
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COMMISSIONS OF A WIFE"
same of the Things a Woman Ere
uuentIy Thinks But Seldom
Dares to Speak OF.

The following extracts are from
the instaIlment of Confessions" in
Century:
"A man does not like to be loved too
solemnIy; whereas | think woman
builds within her heart an altar to
an unknown god, and leaves her hap
piest hour to steal away and wor-
ship. Masculine tenderness Is
said to respond to tears. do not find
It so. Rather, I should say that a
mans devotion fades under salt wa
ter. like bathing-suit, proving I'M
serv:aeable in the very element for
which, 70 = supposed to be adapted.
! oegSn to feel now, as | used
+o IN before we were married, that
q woman must not exact too much OF
q mar; she must not expect him 10
understand: she must remind herself
that he is a man, and cannot. For a
time ne have been one, you ana !.
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DR. LLEWELLYN JORDAN, Medi-
II cal Examiner of the U. S. Treas
ury department, graduate of Column
bia College, and who served three years
at West Point, has the following to
say of Peruna:
''AHow me 10 express my gratitude 10
you for the benefit derived from your
wonderful remedy. One short month
has brought forth a vast change and
now consider myself a well man after
months of suffering. Fellow Suf-
fererS, Peruna viii cure YOU"
Peruna Immediately invigorates the
nerve-centers which give vitality to the
mucous membranes. Then catarrh
disappears. Then catarrh is perma-
nently cured.
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MEDICAL EXAMINER
OF the United States Treasury Rec
Onamends Pe-ru-nxa.
The Women Also Recon-
mend Pe-ru-na.

Miss Blanch Grey, TIA Alabama
street, Memphis, Tenn, a society wom
an of Memphis, writes:
"To q society woman whose nervous
force is often taxed to the utmost from
lack of rest and irregular meals 1
know of nothing which is of so much
benefit as Peruna. l took it a few
months ago when I felt my strength
giving away, and it soon made itself
manifest in giving me new strength
and health. Miss Blanch Grey.
Mrs. y. Schneider, 2409 Thirty-sev-
enth Place, Chicago, H., writes:
after taking several remedies with
out result, 1 began last year to take
your valuable remedy, Peruna. I was
a complete wreck. Had palpitation of
the heart, cold hands and feet, female
weakness, no appetite, trembling, sink
ing feeling nearly all the time. You
said l was suffering with systemic
catarrh, and l believe that / received
your help in the nick of time. l fol-
lowed your directions carefully and
can say to-day that 1 am we'll again.
l cannot thank you enough for my
cure"
Peruna cures catarrh wherever To-
Gated. Peruna is not a guess nor an
eXperim EMIT is an absolute Sclen-
tific certainty. Peruna has no substi-
tutes-no rivals. Insist upon having
Peruna.
A free book written by DR.. Hartman,
on the subject of Catarrh In its differ
emf phases and stages, will be sent
free to any address by The Peruna
Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Catarrh is systemic disease durable
only by systemic treatment. A remedy
that cures catarrh must aim directly
at the depressed nerve centers. This is
what Peruna does.
If you do not derive prompt and sat
isfactory results from the use of Pc
rune write at once to DR.. Hartman,
giving full statement of your case
and he will be pleased to give you his
valuable advice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O.
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Supreme Court SuStains the Foot
Ease Trnde-Mnrk.

Justice Laughlin, in Supreme Court, Buff
with costs, and a full accounting of sales,
to issue against Paul B. Hudson, the manu-
facturer Of the foot powder called ''Dr.
Clark's Foot Powder" and also against a
retail dealer of Brooklyn, restraining them
from making or selling the DR.. Clark's Foot
poW va which is declared, in the decision
IF Foot Ease" the powder to shake into
your shoes. Allen S. Olmsted, of LIE Roy,
n. Y, is the owner of the trademark
''Foot-Ease." Similar suits will be brought
against others VINO are now infringing on
the Foot-Ease trademark and common law
rights
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Worthy of Enduring Fame.

President Alderman. of Tulane university,
was one of the speakers of the occasion
when Nicholas Murray Butler, who has just
received the degree of doctor of laws from
the University of Pennsylvania, was in
stalled as president of Columbia university.
MIR. Alderman incorporated several jokes
and anecdotes into his address, among
which was one of Louisiana negro which
deserves rank among the more amusing of
Irish bulls" The negro was asked by an
acquaintance:
where are you going, Sam"
"Ain't gwine nowhair," was the reply.
"Tse done bin whar' Use gwine. Chicago
Chronicle
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meath scattered by Cbicken.

That cats can spread both scarlet
fever and diphtheria among humans
has been well-settled fact for some
time, and now it is thoughtthat chick
ems are often responsible for the pres
ence of diphtheria. In North Wales.
England. it has been observed that sew
eral outbreaks of that disease immedi-
ately followed an epidemic of ''roup.''
which is fatal chicken disease.-N. Y.
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PbTboetor OF 5ays the
four words. 1t was in retort to Senator
Hoar's sarcastic little thrust in a speech
directed at the Green mountain senator.
He said: mo man in Vermont is allowed
to vote, unless he has made $4,000 trading
with Massachusetts people" Wherein
Proctor said: ."And we all vote."-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
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EeehIe Lnnnnese Lnnguage.

And now it is announced that the Jap.
anese language lacks cuss words. The
worst Jap can say to anybody, in his ma
tive tongue, is that he is a fellow" and if
he wants to express Indignation of a
strong variety, he shouts: "There, there!"
The Japs ought to encourage Yankee immi.
gration.-Buffalo Express
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Round Trip Homeseelkers' Excursions "a
the West.

The Great Northern Railway sells home
seekers tickets to Manitoba, Montana,
Washington and all points in the West, on
first and third Tuesdays of July, August,
September and October, at rate of about
one fare for the round trip. Information
from all ticket agents, or F. /. Whitney, G.
P. & T. A, st. Paul. Mimi.
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Don't Get Footsore! Get Foot-Ease.
A wonderful powder that cures tired, hot,
aching feet and makes new or tight shoes
easy. Ask to-day for Aliens Foot Ease
Accept no substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address A. S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, n. Y.
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where Cnnrage FaiIs

even the most courageous editor"
remarked the Observer of Events and
Things. would hardly undertake to
blue-pencil his wife's tongue. "-Yonk-
ers Statesman.
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er Korntop at the ZOO, ''this here lion
pears to be real good-natured." "Mebbe,"
suggested his good wife, cts one O them
social lions we read about in the papers. >
Philadelphia Press