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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-07-24

The Black Hills, where the red man made
his last stand against civilization, was named
in Indian parlance aHa-Sap-Pa-the
Home of the Gods. The region is justly So
called.
The hills from the distance appear a deep
blue; at closer view they are black, because
of the fir growth covering them. The seem
cry is wonderful! The tumultuous streams
hurting themselves down the hillsides are
abundantly stocked with trout. The scien-
fist would find a paradise there, the geolo-
gist heaven, the miner an earth full of pre-
cious metals Gold was first discovered in
July, 1874, near Custer City, by Mr.. N Ross,
chief scout of Gen. Custer. The Black Hills
are said to be the richest Klondike America
has yet discovered.
In the midst of the Black Hills is situated
| Hot Springs, the Carlsbad of America. The
| weather is summary the larger part OF the
| year-always pleasant and healthful. As a
health resort Hot Springs is exceptional.
The health-giving properties of its seventy
hive springs are phenomenal.
Sightseers from all over the world are
| learning of the interest this locality holds,
| and every year the hotels entertain larger
| lists of visitors.
The Chicago & Northwestern takes the
traveller in Pullman sleeper to Buffalo Gap,
where a change is made for the short ride
| into the Hills to reach Hot Springs.
South of Buffalo Gap is the Cheyenne
river which has cut its way between
banks of shale. In this shale, once the bed
of an ocean, are fossils, petrifed fish and
snakes, and myriads of other animal and
vegetable things found in the bottom of sea.
Horseshoe curve, near Hot Springs is
world famous by now. Crystal cave is also
becoming familiar in the minds of tourists.
Of the town of Deadwood every American
and many European has heard.
After leaving Deadwood one enters Spear
fish canyon, at the bottom of which twists
and foams the Spearfish river. The river
has deep fall in one place, making one of
the prettiest cascades one would care to
see And, by the way, if one is partial to
waterfalls, the Cheyenne river falls should
not be missed. Spearfish canyon, thirty-two
miles long, is a most impressive freak of ma
ture.
Battle mountain, the Wind cave, the
Onyx cave, the many queer-shaped rocks
that are known by various names, the guch-
es and little lakes and rivers, the famous
Dakota Bad Lands the big geyser at
| Cascade Springs, are all wonderful, beau
tiful, inspiring and interesting. The most
| travelled travellers knowledge and enjoy
ment is incomplete if he has not visited the
| Black Hills.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-07-24
UNIVERSITY OF NorRE DAME.

We call the attention of our readers to
the advertisement of Notre Dame Univer-
sity, one of the great educational institu-
t1ons of the West, which appears in another
column of this paper. Those of our readers
who may have occasion to look up college
for their sons during the coming year would
do well to correspond with the President,
who will send them a catalogue free of
charge, as well as all particulars regarding
terms, courses of studies, etc.
There is a thorough preparatory school
in connection with the University, in which
students of all grades will have every oppor-
tunlty of preparing themselves for higher
studies. The Commercial Course intended
for young men preparing for business, may
be finished in one or two years according to
the ability of the student. ST. EDWARDS
HALL, for boys under thirteen, is an unique
department of the institution. The higher
courses are thorough in every respect, and
students will find every opportunity of per-
fecting themselves in any line of work they
may choose to select. Thoroughness in class
work, exactness in the care of students, and
devotion to the best interests of all, are the
distinguishing characteristics of Notre
Dame University.
Fifty-seven years of active work in the
cause of education have made this institu-
ton famous all over the country.
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CURRENT TOPICS.

No fewer than 5S7 languages are
spoken in Europe.
Bishop Potter will make a tour of
Norway after the coronation
North America is credited with 20
volcanoes, Central America with 81.
Four and half million persons are
employed in the mines of the world.
1t costs over $35, 900 to police the
British houses of parliament last year.
Horses, giraffes and ostriches have
the largest eyes of land creatures, cut
fetish of sea animals.
The island of Sakhalin, the great
penal colony of Russia, has splendid
forests of fir and pine
The dreaded fer-de-lance of Mar
Unique disdains to give the friendly
warning of the RATHER.
Probably the first sprinkling carts
were those sent before the kings
coach in England in 1748.
The Cripple Creek mining district in
Colorado is producing gold at the rate
of over s22,00O,000 a year.
In California alfalfa sends it's roots
20 feet into the soil and produces
three crops of hay a season.
For a quarter Of century no new
houses have been built in the Sussex
England village of Slindon.
The appropriations of Congress for
the session just ended amount almost,
If not quite, to a billion dollars.
hn nf of oil
in London has reached 5000, and the
number of deaths from it 1000.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, of saloon-smash-
ing fame, announces her determination
to join forces with the Dowieites.
Mrs. Julia Whitmore, of Weir City,
Kas., has seven daughters Cora,
Nora, Flora Fora, Lora and Clora.
The suicide death rate in European
armies far exceeds the rate of the
country to which the army belongs.
Six tons of gunpowder fired at
Bonawe quarries, Argyllshire, recent
ly, brought down 100000 tons of rock.
Mr.. Schwab, who has money to burn,
contributed $4,000 to buy fireworks for
Pittsburg's celebration of the glorious
Fourth.
During the last ten years more than
| 10000 lost and starving dogs have been
| cared for at the home in Battersea,,
England.
The United States board Of geo.
graphic names has reversed it's de-
cision, and now spells "Bosphorus"
'Bosporus"
The oil regions discovered in Bor-
neo furnished during the last year
more than 100000 tons of petroleum
for export.
1t is said that a 100000 cotton
mill is to be erected near Kansas City.
1t will be the largest plant of it's kind
in the world.
The present status of the work of
medical missions is such as to en-
courage the prosecution of this form
of evangelism.
Miss Mary Morton, youngest daugh-
ter of Levi P. Morton, devotes most OF
her time and income to the aid of IN
| fortunate children.
Acre once meant any field. 1t is still
used with this significance by the Ger
mans, who speak of Gods acre, aliud-
ing to the cemetery.
Mrs Hannah Barrett, whose father
served under Gen. Washington at Val
ley Forge, is still living in Boston.
She is 102 years old.
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IN OLD ANNAPOLIS.
Interesting Associations of RevOlu-
tiOnary Times Recalled by Re-
cent ROchambeau Event.

On the visit of the distinguished par
ty from France, to take part in the
ceremony of unwilling the statue of
Rochambeau, it was appropriate that
Annapolis was selected as the point of
debarkation. For it was from An
napolis that Count Rochambeau and
suite sailed for France, after he had
seen that independence had been Sc
cured, leaving in the French man-of-
war, LIE Esmerande, January 5, 1888,
says the Washington Star. While
there is no record that Rochambeau
was at Annapolis for any eonsidera BILE
length of time, yet it is known that the
French troops were quartered there
for some time. When ordered to the
Head of Elk, in March, 1871, they were
further detained, by being blockaded
by two British sloops of war. Lafay-
cite was then in command, and con-
templated a land march of ten days to
the Elk, when by water but one day
would be required. By sending out
two small vessels, one armed, under
Commodore Nicholson, the enemy was
frightened off, and Lafayette was en-
abled to embark with his army.
Subsequently the old town became
the scene of much military activity
owing to an expected attack by the
British fleet. Several French war YES
sells lay off the town, and recruiting
for the American army became active
there.
In August it became known that the
British troops had been landed at
Yorktown, and by the 26th regiment
(the Third Maryland) marched away
to join the southern army; ten days
after the Fourth Maryland following
for the same destination. In Septem-
Der the army from the Head of Elk ar
rived by transport and landed and
proceeded to Virginia, 1000 French
troops being included. 1t was at An
napolis on October 90 that the final
victory of the revolution was first cele-
brated, Count de Grasse sending the
news of CORVALLIS surrender to the
governor by messenger.
It was at Annapolis also that Wash
ington resigned his commission to
congress, that the treaty of peace
was rat1neQ ana LndJ OIueF 1nIeTeS IIHS
events took place. The legislature of
the state of 1884 in recognition of the
services of Lafayette passed an act
chat the Marquis de la Fayette and
his heirs male forever, shaH be, and
they and each of them are hereby
deemed, adjudged and taken to be
natural born citizens of this state"
etc.
1t was not only the French officers
who were known at Annapolis, for
Count Pulaski's legion of cavalry and
infantry recruited partly in Maryland
was organized there. Baron De Kalb,
too, spent many months there and was
in command of Maryland and Della
ware troops when he received his
death wounds at Camden, S. c., in 1880.
His services are commemorated by a
fine monument in Annapolis erected
under an act of congress of 1883.
Baron Steuben, the valued drill Off
Ger and inspector general, too, was
often in the ancient capital and the
last letter Washington wrote before
resigning his commission was to him
thanking him for his services. The
baron became a citizen of the country
and died near Utica, n. Y, some years
after.
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GENTLEMANLY SPORT IN 1902

Exhibit A, stadium,
Where youths. inadequately dressed,
A loaded cestus on each fist,
Pounded each other. face and chest.
They called that boxing. Then, perhaps,
They'd run 8 thousand yards or so.
They jumped. They wrestled, no holds
barred
They did the twelve-pound discus throw.
And for prize, the victor wore
Two laurel sprigs, or maybe three,
For this was gentlemanly sport
In seven twenty-four b. c.
Exhibit b, a fitting yard,
Where men in courtly manners verseo
Disguised themselves as ironclaos,
And ran each other down, head hrst.
TO push Sir John6oe from his horse
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Music in Demand.

George r. Mckenzie, a sewing ma
chine manufacturer, built two Presby-
terrain churches in Jersey City, and
gave them to the congregations on the
agreement that no musical instru-
ments should ever be heard within
their walls. The prohibition was fatal
to both churches. The congregations
dwindled down and down, and the last
of them has just been closed because of
nonsupport.
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A Disagreement.

The owner of a small yacht has in his en-
ploy a Finn who acts in the double capacity
of cook and deckhand and whom he had al
ways regarded as single. The other day the
Finn admitted that he had wife and two
boys in Finland for whom he proudly boast
ed, he recently purchased 5000 home out
of his earnings as a sailor.
"Why doesn't your wife live over here?"
asked his employer.
well, sir, she don't agree With the eli
mattel" was the response.-N. Y. Post.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-07-24

Minnesota woman has recently discov-
cred powder that perfectly cleans silver,
and. in fact, everything that shines. The
striking feature of it is that it makes water
do all the work, requiring absolutely no
effort on your part This simple, easy,
perfect cleaner is called Silver Salt, and if
you send 25c to the Silver Salt Co, st. Paul,
Mimi, they will send large package by
retlrn mail, and also return your money if
you are not pleased in every respect after
trying it.
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BACH semitic knight his best assaved.

Each gentle knight his best assayed.
Such was the object of the game,
And strenuously was it played.
He Of the stoutest lance might win
His lady's glove, or scarf, or shoe.
For this was gentbemanly sport,
In fourteen hundred twenty-five.
Exhibit c., drawing room.
Where wild-eyed men in evening clothes
Tap fiercely at a small white ball
And, missing, mutter gentle oaths.
RacQuets the size of coffee spoons,
A table and three-inch net.
Fair maideEs by to watch the play,
And there you have ping-poug SCI.
Medals, for this. and silver cups
We feel are but the victor's due,
For this is gentlemanly sport
OF A. ID. nineteen hundred two.
Philip l.. Allen. IN Leslie's Monthly.
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SPECIAL Low RATE EXCURSIONS TO
N. ". CITY AND ATLANTIC CITY.
$500 for the Round Trip.

Via the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Ry. on July 18th and 3lst, also August 18th
and l4th. Return limit twelve days. Tick,
cts good by boat between Cleveland and
Buffalo and Albany and New York if de-
sired. Stop al. Niagara Falls and Chautau-
qua. Full information on application at
The City Ticket Office, $50 Clark St., or to G.
F. DAILY, Chief A. G.. p. A., Chicago.
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Homeseekers, Tickets to the West

Homeseekers can buy excursion tickets
via the Great Northern Railway to points
in Manitoba, Montana, Washington and
the West, at about one fare for the round
trip, on first and third Tuesdays of July,
August, September and October.
Tickets and information from all railway
ticket agents. or F. /. Whitney, q. p. & I.
A., st. Paul, Mimi.
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Great Northern Railway sells homeseek
ers' tickets, ST. Paul or Minneapolis, to al
points West, including Montana and Wash
ington, on the first and third Tuesdays OF
July, August, September and October, 1902
Rate, one fare for the round trip.
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Swell Name.

Mrs Noozie-What are you going to
name the baby, Mrs Reeder?
Mrs. Reeder-O! | found lovely name
for her out of novel l was reading.
"What is it,"
cts Eyetalan, think, I'm going to call
her Femme de Chambre Reeder. Detroit
Free Press.
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Round Trip HOmeseekers' Excursions to
tho 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, O..
P. & T. A., ST. Paul. Mimi.
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"What is the original idea in this novel
of yours" asked the publisher. my hero
and heroine hate each other so heartily,
said the long-haired and wistful-eyed young
author, chat they marry for revenge and
make each other miserable for life."-In
dianannlis News
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Something Needed.

Editor-There is something lacking
about the feet of this poem.
Poet absently)-Perhaps it's shoes, sir.
Ohio State journal.
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Settled,

Now that a learned Judge of Jersey City
has defined the making of goo goo eyes as
an attention without intentions, the world
can go on with a new sense of security
Milwaukee Sentinel
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snake into your shoes

Aliens Foot-Ease. 1t cures painful, swollen,
smarting, sweating, feet. Makes new shoes
easy. Sold by all Druggists and Shoe stores.
Address a. S. Olmsted, lie Roy, N. Y.
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A Seaside Romance.-Miss Hatchetface
Cat the seaside)-"How can / ever repay
you for saving my life?" Gallant Rescuer
Marry somebody else."-N. Y. Weekly.
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True, Too True.

al was to come on the stage stealthily
and say 'HistH" explained the fedgling
actor.
"And-"
"And l said it-and / was" he mourn
fully concluded.-Stray Stories.
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When man has not COED reason for
doing a thing, he has one good reason 70,
letting it alone-Scott.
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''Vas iss der madden NIT you!" asked Di-
rector Schmidtlapp, wildly waving his
baton at the new trombone player. Cant
you see you play ter beat der band Pin
dianapolis News.
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The man who is always calling for the fool
killer would be the first to hide if he saw
him coming.-Chicago Daily News.
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.Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken ct
as a cough cure.-J. w. O'Brien, 80 Third
Ave, N, Minneapolis, MINI, Jan. 6, 1900.
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him her who through the days lessons with
would that lesson
and the class with flying coo But be careful of
heroes they fall Easily learned is oftenme easily forgotten
and the days of final examination drawing
So life after school
have passed The who ahead without first acquiring the
rudments the profession which he has entered
be found the end of the The lesson OF the
yet applicable modern days Flush
along, gradually il you must but push along.
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one middling, well-organized hen will
eat as many bugs as bevy of quails,
and a turkey will eat more.
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stops the Cough

and works off the cold. Laxative Bromo
Quinine Tablets. Price % cents.
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1t takes money to talk through a Panama
hat.-Puck
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THE HARE OR THE TORTOISE
BY MAX OWEN.

ANY are the wonders the plodders of this world have
accomplished. Take history through and you will find
that greatest need of progress to the plod
ders. Don't be ashamed of being of them.
The young man or young woman in school is inclined
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-24
FROM STAR TO STAR.

with inoffensive pace that spinning sleeps
On her soft axle, while she PAGES even
And bears thee soft with the smooth air
along"
1t is seldom that we are cognizant Of
the whrlng progress of this green old
earth: terrestrial affairs obscure our celes-
tial mile posts, and we take small note
of our whereabouts in the universe We
look heavenward chiefly to whether it
is wise to carry an umbrella, and although
we desire the sun. moon and stars to shine
on our mundane pursuits ordinarily we
reckon little else with refernce TO any of
them. Yet we cannot be too grateful TO
ancient watchers of the sky who have
treasured through countless ages the
mythical star-lore, so fragile yet so en-
during, which has chung to the familiar
considerations along our course. 1.-The Old
est Picture Book" some one has called
this blue book, and, when once our interest
is aroused, TO name its stars becomes an
inexhaustible source of delight.
Thou, whose heart,
Whose little heart, is moored within a
nook
OF this obscure terrestrial anchor weigh;
Another ocean calls. a nobler port"
At the hour of 9 the regal night wears
her crown of old magnificence." and a final
glance reveals a glorious field of stars
lone sun by day. by night ten thousand
shine" Westward Virgo, who is Astrea.
the Goddess of Justice seems TO pause
above the hills. The blue star Spica is
suggestive of justice. so pale and pure a
blue it sheds, and charm enduring has
the little grape-gatherer. Vindamia trix. So
called. says Mr.. Sarviss. in four ancient
languages. Above Virgo. Bootes the stall
wart bear-driver whom Ovid names Arc
tophylax, stands erect and in his knee
glows the wonderful orange star Arcturus.
Northward of his outstretched arm that
fine familiar figure. the Great Bear, the
Dipper, the Plough, or Charless Vain,
wins unfailing admiration The long
curved length OF Draco separates it from
the Little DiDper. which swings about
Polaris.
Southwark our eyes return repeatedly 10
acknowledge the graceful curves of Scorpio
or the Kite, pleasing representation OF
Hogarth's line of beauty The rare red star
Antares marks HIS heart while a pair OF
close companion sparklers would win the
interest of small boys as indicating the
singer in his tail Just east Of Scorpio,
close above the trees where sweeps the
Galaxy. is the silvery Sagittarius, the
archer-Centaur. Chiron, renowned as the
tutor Of various heroes. Hercules among
them. The well-known little short-handled
Milk Dipper belongs here. and within the
borders of the constellation shines the
planet Saturn. Yet farther eastward is
Capricornus. inconspicuous. yet dear 10 the
hearts OF woodlanders as the god Pan. and
here Jupiter the magnificent flashes glor-
iously yellow and seems TO view the uni
verse with commanding, godlike mien.
Between Capricornus and the zenith.
where Hercules stretches his majestic
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be able to write comic opera that would
make you sit up. | don't know why such
men don't. 1t was good enough for w. S.
Gilbert. But they seem to look down upon
it,"
81 think Glen McDonough put ii rightly"
said Mr.. Weld, when he laid il on the di-
vision of royalties. When you write play
you earn your percentage. When you write
a musical comedy you divide 1t with the
composer.
"But opera pays better draws better. Fiji
teen thousand dollars receipts a week is
good. But 5000 or 5000 is good for play.
No, It's prejudice. And It's bound TO dis
appear. The public taste is improving and
better stuff is constantly demanded. Comic
opera ought 10 come from the cleverest and
best trained writer's. Gilbert had estab-
lished reputation as a playwright before he
tried his hand at comic opera. Well, PinerO
tried his hand a it couple of years ago.
1t fell fiat William Gillette once wrote a
musical piece produced over here at the
Broadway. 1t didn't go. The task is diff
cult 1t is not beneath the best"
George Ade. suggested Mr.. Weld, lis
taking the field with success. He is the COM
ing man. He has the ability, and he's quiet
and modest about it. His Sultan of Sulu'
is something of a political satire, and a
good show into the bargain. The trouble.
though, with relating comedy to current
events is that if they're sectional people
outside the region are at a loss; and even
if they're national you newspaper men
have such a way of Obliterating Monday S
sensation with Thursdays that the ordinary