davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-30

Every section of this immense store Is af.
fected by this clearance. Ali clothing of every
description for Men, Boys, Women and Children
Is reduced with view of accomplishing quick
clearance of heavy volume of merchandise.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-30

Yelma CLARK 1o9, Azarine 10, Homage 11s,
Malaspina 1o1, Ohio Girl 101
One and nm eighth miles-Star Cotton
81, Frank Woods 107. Illowaho lot. Rio
Shannon 105, Administer 1OT.
Weather clear and track slow
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-19
q ,rza--.-.A...e a
.-..l! Rfssau.a.,.,gs ys,TT .7;7,
81 Nes NIShLNNyAA, - N--z-''"
y 17f{ C.: : WORLD
= -:>SsssSlMSS z%-
OUR SWINE PROBLEM.
1t Consists in Checking the Spread of
Disease and Improving Con-
dition of Breeds.

The United States produces more
than half of the swine used in the
whole world. In the United States
most of the swine are raised in a
cluster of States in the west. The
amount of money brought into the
country and into the section in mind
by hogs is very great. The study of
ways and means for making this crop
sure one is worth the attention of
the people living in the localities in
which swine are being raised. The
abatement of swine diseases becomes
a question of interest to the whole peo-
pie, for the money that goes first to
the swine raisers gets to the others
in the course of time. The swine
raiser is interested in fighting hog
cholera, though it may be a hundred
miles away from him. The problem is
a great one by reason of the fact that
most of our swine are raised on small
farms and by a multitude of farmers.
Great swine farms corresponding to
the western cattle and sheep ranches
are unknown. Numerous swine ham
dlers therefore have to be considered
in this effort to check swine diseases
and improve the conditions of the
breeds. 1t therefore follows that a
campaign of education is about the
only etfectual way to improve condi-
tions.-Farmers' Review.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-19

the real article. Prices would ap-
proach those of real lace, and there
fore the Matitisch machine would
compete with that rather than with
the commoner lace which Noting
ham made Asked who would be
principally affected by the new pat
ent if adopted, he replied, the French
makers, except those at Calais. Eng
lish manufacturers would not be
practically touched at all; but Mat
itsch's machine on paper and work
ing were two different things, and he
could not see where the market for
it would be.
The Vienna Neue Freie Presse char
acterizes the invention as 'epoch
making in the lace industry"-and so
comment runs. Nottingham lace and
machine manufacturers are provepb
tally conservative. Just now, Levers
lace manufacturers are buster than
for ten years past, and are unable to
meet demands. The natural skepti
cism with which all new inventions
are treated, coupled with the great
demand for Levers lace, does not fur
nish much encouragement for an in
vention which, if practically success
full, must eventually have great eff
feet upon the lace industry.
S. E. MCFARLAND.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-19
CARING FOR CHICKENS.
Proper Management Along Lines
Here Indicated Adds Largely to
Poultry Profits.

II. E. Haydocl, of Locust Valley, N.
young chickens, in the New York
Tribune Farmer: "The proper care of
chicks adds greatly to the profit OF the
farmers flock of poultry. OF course,
some will live if not given the right at
tention, but those which die through
neglect represent the loss of the egg
from which they are Matched, the feed
they have consumed, and the profit to
be realized from them if grown to ma
turity. When hen is allowed to run
at large with her chickens, she will
lose most of them, and not infrequent-
ly will be seen clucking about with a
solitary chick, which seems to satisfy
her as much as though she had a doz-
en-. If placed in a coop, situated in a
dry place, as soon as she leaves the
nest this danger is overcome. The
coop should be good one, so that it
will not leak and through dampness
cause disease. Boxes can be obtained
at the general store at little cost, and
from them coops and even breeders
made by any one handy with tools.
It will be found the best plan to shut
in the chicks every night and not let
them out until the dew is gone from
the grass next morning. Wet mashes
frequently cause bowel trouble in
chicks, and are apt to sour the ground
in the place where fed, and thus help
produce the cape worm. This dis
tressing worm thrives best where the
soil is damp, undrained and foul. 1t is
seldom seen in any locality where wild
garlic grows freely, SO the plant seems
to be a good preventive. The best food
for chicks at first is dry rolled oats for
short time only, afterward cracked
corn. A mash of cornmeal and bran
can be used in place of the oats if
baked in the oven so as to crumble
when fed. A hen should not be given
another hens chickens to care for as
well as her own, unless the matches are
very small. She can only hover GER
tain number, and if they crowd each
other some of them are sure to die.
Breeders are a great improvement
upon the hen, as a much larger num-
Der of chicks can be taken care of with
less sCIouple lHdn III any OUner way.
If these brooders, however, are not
thoroughly washed and cleaned before
a new lot of chicks is put in them, they
are pretty sure to harbor vermin.
Chicks in brooders must not be too
closely confined; they should have
good-sized runs so as to get enough
exercise. 1t will be found the care and
trouble given to chickens when young
will be repaid to greater degree than
that given at any other period of their
life.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-19
Hints on Preserving Eggs.

If the eggs are to be preserved il
lime water or lime slaked in water, do
not put them into the water for at
least "a hours after the lime has been
placed there. The quantity of lime to
use should be a lump as large as your
two fists placed together, and to this
add one handful of salt. This will do
for an earthenware pan capable of
holding 200 eggs. My wife has adopted
this principle for years, and finds that
eggs will keep for at least a year, and
can be used for almost anything. They
do not poach well, as for some unac-
countable reason the white of the eggs
separates from the yolk when the
shell is cracked for the purpose of
poaching. 1t is as well to stir the lime
up from time to time with the hand
Prairie Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-19

sating advantages. So far as the
Levers lace trade is concerned, the
machine will not be in the slightest
degree competitor"
The same paper, speaking of the
interest aroused by the machine,
quoted this comment:
There is really nothing new in it
at all" was the first remark of
leading builder of lace machines in
Nottingham, when waited upon to
gain such information as was pos
sible about the machine invented by
Herr August Matitsch. This gentle
man said he had people frequently
coming and showing him specifica-
tons of machines to produce some
thing near hand made lace, and they
most of them looked surprised ard
shocked when he told them it was
not wanted, as there was no marker
for it,
From another machine builder, an
authority equally authentic, we learn
that there is nothing new about the
machine-that is to say, it has been
exploited freely in Nottingham. 1t
the machine was what he believed it
to be, it would turn out lace very
much superior to Nottingham goods
lace which would come very near
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-19

an1mpress1ble manner, an overwhcsm-
ing one. A manner which puts me
altogether into the shade in spite of
the fact that I'm a widow with gray
hairs
''Have you gray hairs? ?" asked Holt,
much interested. II don't see any.
It's a mere calumny."
"There was certainly one there yes
terday. Well, at least Miss WheIan
need never fear gray hairs; her hair
is too pale-colored to show any,
'She has curiously colorless hair, I
admit" said Holt. eft would almost
justify the use of hair dye. Kitty Red
ferns hair is much prettier."
$50 the other one is Kitty? Dear
little Kitty! I like Kitty. Everyone
likes her. 1t would be impossible not
to do so, for she agrees with everyone
and is of your own opinion even before
you've expressed it. She's so beauti-
fully feminine"
Holt assented. "She's like the finest,
the most plastic clay, the whitest I'M
written page"
ION which you write all you wish,
but the writing dries off Immediately,
leaving the surface white as before;
while her Elasticity is of the kind
which takes, but cannot retain an i'm
preston. The moment the pressure
is removed her mind springs back to
it's original form-lessness."
ut is true that her innocence of
any opinions is sometimes perturb-
ing"
For while Echo is charming in the
fable you hardly want her seated by
your fireside."
"And I shouldn't wish my wife to be
a mere mush of concessions"
"You are too intelligent. There are
many men for whom Kitty Redfern
would be ideal; for the man who mere
ly requires a presentable mistress of
his house, a healthy mother for his
children. But you need something
more than this; you need compan-
ion"
with whom can enjoy Greek jokes.
Which seems to bring me back to Mar
garet Whelan, does it not?"
80, but a companion who is also
a good comrade. Some one who can
appreciate your own little things as
well as those of Aristophanes. Now,
1 should scarcely venture to try any
joke on Miss Whelan which was less
than a thousand years old. On the
whole, I don't consider her any more
suitable than Kitty. Less so, in fact.
For if one doesn't want too much con-
cession in a woman, neither does one
want a too strenuous opposition. And
Miss Whelan can be strenuous. I've
heard her"
$50 have l." murmured Holt, remin-
iscent.
Mrs. Eden laughed.
you're exhilarating!" she told him.
"I'm glad I cxhilarate you, for I'm
much depressed myself" said he. 81
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-19

cial machines are not necessary I'd
produce different laces, but that they
can be simultaneously produced upon
this machine by the use of the proper
jacquard cards.
All other machines for producing
the equivalent of hand made lace, IN
GLIDING the Birkin machine of Eng
land, are, it is claimed, in construc-
ton and scope similar to the original
French machine of Mathere. When
the model of the Matitsch machine
was produced in Vienna, an 'exhaus-
tive report upon it was made by Prof.
Max Kraft, professor of mechanics at
the technical high school of Graz,
Austria, to the German patent trib-
unal.
Within the past few days, or since
the sample production of lace upon
the Matitsch machine began, consis,-
cradle attention has been paid to the
matter by the Austrian, London ami
Nottingham press, but comment has
been largely speculative, one paper,
the News, stating:
Those in the trade in Nottingham
who have heard of the invention re-
gard the matter with entire equanim-
ity, though, as one manufactures
wisely remarked: You never know.
/ remember when the embroidery
machine was pooh-poohed by every
body. And 1 have seen simple inven-
tions in the lace trade make the for
tunes of the people who grasped the
possibilities. I shall withhold my
Judgment until I see the machine at
work.
The Express said recently:
1.-THE Austrian government, it is
said, is l1eenly interested. The ma
chine is said by those who are in
position to know something about IL
to be a most wonderful affair-a
monument of mechanical skill and in
genuity. If successful, it would
sound the deathknell of hand made
lace, but, let US hope, with compen-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-19
&aE STe !. = aTEllfS
- y
TOWSER.
q = old trugtv pard.

Here's to that dear old, trusty pard,
Comrade of woodland, street and YARD,
Who ne'er was wanting in time OF need,
And never swerVed from his loyal creed;
With his eager tail and his loving eyes,
His ears up-cocked in attention wise,
His ringing bark and his spirit bold,
His clever ways and his heart Of gold.
Little it matters how goes his name:
ToWser or Rover, it's quite the same;
Be sure that in boyhood's catalogue
His figure is bIazoned as dog-true dog:
Ready to froIic, to fetch, to fight,
To run all day and to guard all night;
T8o follow his lord to the worlds far end
Servant and warder and faithful friend.
Where were the odds that he would not
face,
Where the path that he did not trace,
Where the stream that he could not swim
If well-known whistle had summoned
him?
Snowy or rainy, cold or hot,
Light or darkness, ne faltered not;
Weary his limb or torn his paw,
His masters wish was his highest law.
Oh, stanch companion of by-gone days,
Who asked for naught but word Of praise;
Whose purest bliss, and contentment
sweet
To lie outstretched at his masters feet!
The fields still wait where we used to rove,
The squirrel chatters adown the grove,
The grouse drums loud from the messy log
But deep are thy slumbers, boyhood's dog.
Ed win L. Sabin, in Lippincotts Maya
zine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-19
FEEDING CLOVER HAY.
Some Pointers for Farmers who
Have Been Disappointed in Its
Use as Feed for Horses

The keep of farm teams is cost
ing money this year. Grain is cash
article, whether purchased or grown
upon the farm. Scientists have fig
ured out that clover hay should fur
nish a horse or cow quite well-bal-
anced ration, and many a farmer is
wondering what ails the figures, ex-
perience having taught that clover
hay without grain will not keep q
team in good condition at hard work.
1t will pay to think this matter OUT
right. The clover contains the food
elements in the proportion the sci
enlist states, but with them is too
much bulky, indigestible stuff to
make clover hay alone fit feed for
the horse which has small stomach
and limited time for eating. More
than this, the clover fed alone has
too free an effect upon the digestive
organs. While good clover hay has
about the right proportion of food
elements in it for the working horse,
it is not perfect food, for the rea-
sons stated. 1t can, however, be
made the basis of a ration for horses
at moderate work, with great saving
of grain, if judgment is used Being
bulky, some more concentrated food
in the form of grain-should be
given, and if it is binding, like corn,
so much the better. A little old tim
othy should be added. In this way
the new clover hay of this year can
be made to displace half the grain
ordinarily given to farm teams. 1t
should, however, be good clover. The
cutting should be in full bloom, and
the curing should be done in the
windrow and cock. That prevents the
leaves from becoming dusty. Tie
man who has not fed early cut and
perfectly cured clover hay is not
competent judge of it's value. Over
ripe or overcured clover is utterly I'M
fit for horse, while good clover APP
proaches grain in value.-Farm and
FireSide
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-19
Some Erroneous Impressions.

It is mistake to imagine that mon
grel-bred fowls are harder than pure
bred, though this opinion seems to be
quite generally held. Like a good many
other opinions this lacks support by
proven facts Breeders of fine fowls
claim to have demonstrated its fallacy.
Under the general conditions of the
farm a thoroughbred will stand as
much a a scrub will stand. Light and
heavy fowls should not be kept to-
gether. There must be similarity of
treatment, and light and heavy fowls
do not need the same treatment. Di-
verse treatment can be secured by
keeping the fowls of the two general
classes separate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-19
CURRENT TOPICS.

The best house coal costs $3.50 ton
in England
About 4,475,O0O persons are en-
ployed in the worlds mines.
Texas has a permanent school fund
amounting to nearly $8,000000.
The weekly mail to the English army
in South Africa is 100000 letters.
Dogs are being trained for ambu-
lance service In the Prussian army.
The' final census returns show that
the population of India is 294,266, 701.
Pueblo Indians have proved good la.
borers on Colorado beet sugar fields.
Switzerland has 1,700 hotels-seven
times as many for it's size as England.
About 100000 larks a year are sent
from the continent to the London mar.
kets.
1t is estimated that 767 ,636, 200 tons
of coal were mined the world over in
1900.
A cows hide produces 35 pounds of
leather, and that Of a horse about 18
pounds.
Three-fourths of the people of Cuba
depend for a livelihood upon the su.
gar crop.
Advices from Mexico state that scar
city of labor is retarding railroad con.
struction.
Mayor Carter H. Harrison of Chica.
go, recently completed his forty-sec.
ond year.
The manufacture of sugar in Italy
now suffices for two-thirds of the nat.
ural consumption.
Mails were first sent by railway in
1880 between Liverpool and Man.
chester, in England.
England is going to coin pound
pieces in gold. They will be about the
size of our $40 coins.
A man, walking day and night with.
out resting, would take 428 days to
journey round the world.
London's fashion papers predict that
bell-crowned hats of straw will be
worn there next summer.
The number of pieces of separate
ly assessed real estate in New York is
476 GAO this year--1O6,S02 in Manhat-
tan, S9,147 in Queens, 52,O95 in The
Bronx, 23,768 in Richmond and 1928
in Brooklyn.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-19
COULDN'T STRAIGHTEN UP.

Breed, Wis, June 16th.-Charles +.
Peterson, of this place, Justice of the
Peace for 0copto County, tells the fol-
lowing story:
'For years / had an aching pain in
my back which troubled me very much,
especially in the morning.
81 was almost unable to straighten
my back and the pain was unbearable.
81 did not know what it was, but
seeing an advertisements of Dodd's Kid
ney Pills concluded to try box.
ST can only say that that one box
alone has done me more good than
anything else ever did.
81 feel as well now as ever was.
ST have recommended Dodd's Kidney
Pills to several others who are using
them with good results"
Mr.. Peterson is highly respected
man and one who would not so posi-
lively make statement unless it was
absolutely true.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-19
Escaping Mold in Cheese.

Prof III. L. Russell says: The mold
ing of cheese is, of course, biolog-
ical phenomenon due to the develop
ment of mold spores on the surface
of the cheese, condition brought
about by the proper temperature and
moisture. Mold will invariably occur
when the degree of saturation in the
atmosphere reaches the maximum
point, and under these conditions at
ordinary temperatures at which
cheese is ripened you have more or
less trouble from The molding of the
cheese. We find that~when cheese is
cured at 40 degrees or thereabouts,
these molds will not develop. They
cannot grow to any considerable ex-
tent because the temperature is too
low for them to develop, so that
those losses are to large extent OBJ
waited by the use of these lower cur
ing temperatures.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-19

seem unable to pull this affair off.
You tell me to get married and [ try
to obey you, yet my suggestions don't
find any favor in your eyes. Perhaps
you will make suggestion YOURSELF"
"My suggestion would be such an
exceedingly obvious one"
(which is actually the reason can't
see it for myself"
''It is merely that you should make
in love with"
"But surely I'm more or less in love
with Margaret and Kitty, tool"
"Believe me, very much less rather
than more"
''Dear lady! BY what signs do you
judge me?"
"By these signs" Mrs. Eden told
him. "When you are really in love
with a woman you don't weigh her in
the balance with anyone else. She
stands above everyone, unique and
alone. You don't ask other women
their opinion-of her; you force your
opinion on them. YOU are in her So
ciety as often as you can manage it,
and YOU are filled with solicitude for
her welfare whenever she is out of
your sight. You joke with her, laugh
with her, discuss with her, and disa-
gree with her. You quarrel with her
and make it up again. You lay open
to her the subject you have nearest
your heart, and in any difficulty your
first thought is to take her advice"
"But there's no woman in the world
towards whom I feel like that but
you," said Holt with sincerity. Sand
and-but why-Lord! What a fool
YOU must think mel"
He moved close beside Mrs. Eden on
the sofa and took her hand between
his own!"
''Dear-my dear"-he asked her per-
suasively, ''do you think you could ever
get to love me the least bit?"
Mrs. Eden turned away to hide her
smiles, and having subdued them
turned back with histrionic word
of surprise upon her tongue tip, but,
looking straight into his eyes, she sud-
denly threw away play-acting and
gave him the warm and happy truth.
'You dear and foolish person!" she
murmured, s'could you not see have
loved you for long?"
Now Holt. who hid some wisdom be-
meath much apparent folly, was wise
enough to let this query Chicago
Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-19
Spirit of Cooperation.

The tendency Of farmers, truck
ers, fruit-growers and dairymen
to sell their products by cooper
ating together is increasing. A
tobacco-growers' association is now
being formed in Kentucky for sim
liar purpose. Each grower is re-
quired to give a bond that he will
deliver his crop to the association
managers or else pay to the same
two dollars hundredweight if the
sales are made to outside parties.
The growers in eleven counties have
united in this movement to obtain
better prices.-Farm and Fireside.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-19

HAY-wE1GHING PLATFORM.

most, profitable returns is the prob
lem. When the proper ration has
been determined it is important to
have some means for quickly weigh
ing hay and ensilage. The cut shows
a simple device that can stand at one
side of the feed floor. The construc-
ton is plainly shown. The weights
can be made of small wooden boxes
filled to the required weight with
thrown upon the broad platform till
it balances the weight required
Orange Judd Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-19

ates about 100 machines. From ma
chine engineer he became technical
director and later on, partner, super
intending the building of new ma
chimes. AS the firm also handled
hand made laces, he became practic-
ally familiar with all branches of the
trade and conceived the idea of de.
vising a machine which would pro-
duce a cheap but real torchon lace,
suitable for washable trimmings. In
1882, he had model constructed
which produced a torchon lace, but it
was a technical, rather than prac-
teal, success. He continued the de-
velopment of the idea, and, retiring
from the firm in 1895, devoted his
whole time to the subject. Going to
Nottingham, after completing mod
Ell in Vienna, he, after some effort,
made arrangements with an expert
enced manufacturer to construct the
machine. Herr Matitsch then re-
training of three textile designers, in
order to have proper jacquards ready
upon completion of the apparatus
In June, 1899, this was roughly capa
BILE of working; the designers were
taken to Nottingham and three years
of patient development followed.
Our illustration shows what is
called a fan torchon (Facher tor
chon), a lace which can only be
made with retrograde threads run
ming upward on the goods, which up
to now has not been produced by any
machine.
The other illustration contains diff
ferent lace grounds-Mechlin, Bra
brant, Idria and Chantilly-with webs
Of two and four threads and worked
side by side, demonstrating that spe-