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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-03
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By H. 8. CANFIELD.
Copyright, 1903, by Daily Story Pub. Coz

ZANE WARE; 80 years old; school
ii teacher in the primary grade of Aid
borough; spinster and orphan; had a
dream. 1t was dream of purple hues,
shot with CLEANS of gold and suffused
with the glow of roses. 1t abode with
her for many years in both waking and
sleeping hours, and she loved it dearly.
This dream was of Europe.
1t seemed to her that If she could
stand within the shadow of the old
palaces of the continent, watch the dust
rise from its older roads and listen to
the stranger speech about her, life would
have little else to offer. The dream
changed it's pattern Sometimes it held
the many spires of Cologne against a
blue sky; sometimes it was filled with
the Jagged SUBMITS of Swiss mountains;
sometimes the Campagna rolled away
smooth and dark before her eyes; some
times she stood upon the Coliseum s
hoary walls mid the chief relics of all
mighty Rome, while the trees that grew
along the broken arches waved dark in
the blue midnight and the stars shone
through the rents of ruin. Jane Ware
knew her Manfred" which is to say
that faded and spinster, she had much
of romance lurking beneath her fiat
bodice.
So, with the numerous, nameless
small economies which only decent
spinsters know how to practice, the
turning of gowns and denial of car
rides and scrimping of luncheons, she
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-03
THE POTATOES MANY USES.
There Are Some Wonderful Products
Manufactured from the Tubcr
In Germany.

To-day Germany fairly rivals Ireland
with it's potato crop and outdoes most
other countries. Fully an eighth Of the
arabic land of the empire is planted to
this nutritious vegetable, says the Prov
idence Journal Half the large yield is
used directly as human food; consid-
cradle other portion is given over to fat
tening stock There still remains an
enormous surplus after that, however,
and it is the success with which the
Germans have met in turning this sur
plus into manufactured products that is
most remarkable.
Among these manufactured products
are starch, glucose, potato flour, dextrin
and starch sugar. each of which ap-
pears prominently on the list of German
exports, all together contributing large
sums every year to the profit of German
manufacturers and exporters. But the
alcohol which the Germans make from
the potato is the most valuable and WON
derful product of all This is a light
produced that fairly rivals the electric
current, it is said.
The apparatus for it's practical use in
cludes lamps, chandeliers, street and
corner lights, in which alcoholic va
por is burned like gas in hooded flame,
covered by Welsbach mantle. So used,
potato alcohol is described as burning
with an incandescent flame equaling the
electric light in brilliancy Indeed, we
are officially told now by our consul gen.
eral at Berlin that potato alcohol is
competing with gas and electricity with
increasing success every year
In the problems of heat and power pro-
duction, too, the lowly potato has been
brought into use, and the alcohol from it
has been applied to warming and cook
ing stoves, to steam locomotives, to
thrashing, grinding, fuel cutting and
other agricultural and mechanical appli-
ances The advantages said to be found
in it's use are immediate readiness for
operation; dispensing with coal, water
and fireman; freedom from doors and
danger of fire, and greater economy of
maintenance. Possibly there is some ex-
aggeration in these claims. But figures
given plainly show that the potato, as
cultivated in Germany, has produced a
real competitor for at least benzine and
petroleum for motor purposes.
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A one and one-fourth inch hole is bored
at the top, about IA inches from the
end. Another hole, the same size, is
bored at the bottom, about one and
one-half feet from the end.
The cut shows the derrick set up for
USE The legs are IL feet long, four
inches thick, and of good, solid tim
Der. A one and one-fourth inch hole
is bored through the top for the bolt
to go through The inside part Of the
leg where the hole is bored should be
made like wedge, go as to fit closely
against the scantlings. The pulleys are
IL inches in diameter, and are made
of wood. The rope should be put over
the top pulley, and under the bottom
pulley. The legs should be sunk in
the ground, so they will not slide and
let the derrick fall. A good strong
hook should be securely fastened on
the rope. A steady horse can operate
this all right, once it is understood
Harry H. Postle, in Farm and Home.
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MIGHTY MFAN TRICK.
One Way OF Scoring a Wife's Extrava-
gance without Raising a
Family Disturbance.

He drew letter from his pocket. GLANCED
at it and hastily put it back; and there pas
something IN the way he qld 1T that attracted
his wites attention. He meant that il
should, says the Chicago Post.
Il wonder" she said TO herself. "what,s
10 that letter? He certainly was nightly
disconnected when he took it from his
pocket"
Later he changed his coat for his smok-
ing jacket and left the coat conveniently
near her.
The temptation was too great to be re-
slsIeo, ana When he was out of the room she
siyy distracted the letter from his pocket,
as he had meant that she should do
her curiosity was satisfied 1t " is the bill
for her latest gown, with comments on ex-
traVagance written across 1T. She wanted
to answer them, but she could not without
Detraylhg what she had done. She was angry,
but she dared not show it. When he re,
turned she had to sit there and snile as
pleasantly as she had before he left the room.
Such a mean man!
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When the trees right in the foreground
Stand out clear, and green, and dark,
And the moisture hangs a-tremble
On the leaf ends and spark
OF red fires in each globule
OF perfumed and crystal dew;
Then the mist is on the river,
But the sun is peeping through.
Then the mist Is on the river,
And you smell sweet perfume
Waited up from unseen valleys
Hidden by the mornings bruno,
Ard your soul is all impatient
Till the morning clouds shall rift
And the sun shall coax and warm them
Till the river mists shall lift.
When the mists are on the river,
Then the morn is cool and chill,
And no bird awakes the echoes,
And the thrush sits sad and still,
And the stream, an oily ribbon,
Noiseless in the ghostly light,
Seems scarcely stirring sleeper
Meath the blankets Of the night
When the mists are on the river,
Oh, the meadow smell Is sweet!
And tie dew bediZened blossoms
Scatter jewels at your feet.
And the trees hold rainbow colors
Where the morning sun breaks through,
When the mist is on the river,
And the blooms are wet with dewI
j. NJ Lewis, in Houston Post.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-03
THE oLD.TIME DAIRY.
Much Fun Was Pol<ed at 1t, Bur Its
Owner Usually Acquired a
Bank Account.

Only under certain condiEoas, the
dairy means wealth to. lie farmer, and
fertility to MS farm. If these condi-
tons be not secured, and maintained,
dairying will exhaust the farm and inn
poverish the farmer more speedily and
more hopelessly than almost any 9TH
er form of farming. When the milk
is sold off the farm, it carries with it
the fertility of the soil, and generally
the net price of the milk is too low to
pay for making it and to replace the
fertility removed with it. This hard
fact underlies all the complaints of
dairy farmers about the protitlessnesS
of dairy farming.
Old-time dairy farming sent from
the farm only the butter, and the old
time farmers made money and We're
the most independent men on arth.
Win farmers once more take up home
churning, dairy farming will once
more become steadily and satisfac-
torily profitable, and dairy farms will
once more increase, instead of de-
crease, in fertility. The most forlorn
IuluSs III Tic ISSiOh thS
large dairy farm, once fertile and OPP
Grated probably by its owner, who
made butter, now WORKOUT ana starv-
ing and working to death the tenant
who occupies and operates it. 1t pro-
duces only fractional crops of grass,
corn, rye, wheat and other crops, and
the milk it makes is poor in quality,
small in quantity, and high in cost.
1t goes away in cans while the churn
rots in the shed or garrett. 1t nets the
tenant IS cents for each dollar he puts
into it. He can't pay his rent. The
owner says he is no good. The tenant
says the farm is no good-and both
are right. The churn, substituted for
the can, would change such farms de-
cidedly and profitably for both owner
and tenant. When will farmers open
their eyes to the business folly i'm
piled in the senseless work that is mis-
called dairy farming?" Butter is the
basis of farm wealth and fertility, but
farmers in these days seem to think
that butter-making is hard work in
comparison with milk shipping. On
this fundamental error they have built
and are maintaining the losing ship
ping business, throwing away the soil
of their farms along with their own
strength, health, work, comfort and
liVeS.-Midland Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-03
p.novated Butter Business.

Although renovated butter is an i'm.
movement over its ancestors, the
thought of eating the rancid putrid
grease which has only been well laun-
dered, is not pleasant one. Removing
the smell and taste from stock" which
is found in most country groceries, in g
barrel in the rear, puts premium upon
had farm butter. In one respect, il
seems to be good thing, as 1t affords
an outlet for the rank, cheesy, notified,
greasy stuff sent to town by the care
less. ignorant and uncleanly farmer
But that very farmer is the main loser
He cannot get enough for his poor prod
uct to pay him for producing it. 1t costs
as much to feed cows and make bad but
ter as it does to feed cows and make
good butter. Rural World.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-03
PROGRESS IN FLORIDA.
Laws Passed by Legislature DevOt-
ing Large Sums to the Build
ing of Roads.

In no state of the union is there
greater enthusiasm among the people
for building good roads than in Florida,
and in no state has more good lesisl&-
ton favorable to road improvement been
enacted during the past year. The leg
islature which recently adjourned en-
acted several general road laws. Their
general purport can be gathered from
the following brief statement by Senator
A. S. Mann, who is state organizer for the
Florida Good Roads association:
"The general public at first glance will
not be preparedeto grasp the Importance
of the present good roads laws. The act
giving the internal improvement fund
to good roads alone in it's entirety in
lands and money bequeaths to the cause
not less than ten or fifteen million of dol
lars. In Florida, where material is
abundant and cheap with little or no
expensive cuts or fills to make and sand
as a foundation insuring perfect drain
age or readbed, an immense amount of
work can be done on this fund alone;
but couple with this the convict money,
one-half of which goes into the general
revenue fund of each county, and may be
used on roads if the county commission
ers so wish, and the levy of three-mill
tax on all values for same purpose, and
all will see that the power to make good
roads has been given without stint"
Another act of the highest Importance
sets aside for purposes of road improve
ment the Indian war claims, the payment
Of which has been authorized by con-
gress. From this alone the state will
realize over half million dollars.
It is an interesting fact that the aver
age swamp land fund and the Indian
war claims fund both come to the state
from the national government; and now
that the legislature has decided to use
them for road building they are virtually
national aid to road improvement. The
swamp lands were granted to the state
by congress about the middle of the last
century A large part of the lands have
since been sold or donated to promote
railroads and other internal improve
ments, but there are still many millions
of acres of valuable land from which an
immense fund can be derived, all Of
which is to be used for road building.
The roads are not to be built by the state,
but by the counties, each OF which will
draw from these funds in proportion to
the total assessed value of its property.
This is not all the road legislation the
good roads advocates of Florida want.
A large and enthusiastic state good roads
convention was held at Gainesville in
July. Resolutions were adopted de-
handing the employment of convicts in
road building; urging joint action Of
counties in building through lines of
roads across the stat in all directions;
pledging support to candidates for Of
fice who will work for good roads; de-
claring for cooperation with the Ma
tional Good Roads association in the
work of organization; and demanding
that the national government aid the
states in the great week of building good
roads throughout the country.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-03
FINDS EVIL IN PIANO STUDY.
Doctor Discovers Much Playing Be-
fore sixteen Leads to Nerv-
Gus Disorders.

1t would usually be considered that to
teach children to play the piano was a
perfectly harmless proceeding the
children. But if there's any truth in the
statements made by a Berlin doctor who
has been carefully investigating the mat
ter it would appear that the learning of
the piano has its risks.
Out of 1000 young girls who began to
learn the piano before they were IA, 900,
the doctor has discovered, were affected
by some kind of nervous disease, while
out of 1 900 other girls who had not been
taught the piano only 100 suffered in a
like manner.
The doctor recommends that the study
of the piano should not commence until
after the age of Is.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-03
The j. P.,n Agree.

Staunton, Ark, Aug. 3lst.-News comes
from Duff, Searcy Co., this state, that Mr..
I. E. Reeves, a Justice of the Peace at that
place, has written letter recommending
Dodd's Kidney Pills in which he says:
Il think Dodd's Kidney Pills can't be beat
for Kidney Trouble, and wish them every
success"
The local J. P. Mr.. L. B. Cox agrees with
his brother Justice on this point for he says:
Il had a bad case of Kidney Trouble and
was not able to do days work without
Kidney Pills and after | had used three
boxes was all right. am as we'll as ever,
and | cannot praise Dodd's Kidney Pills too
highly.
Il have given the other three boxes to
some friends of mine who had found out
torily and quickly and they AL speak highly
III Dodd's Kidney Pills"
No one disputes this unanimous verdict.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-03
s.n,tary cow stables Needed.

II seems to be difficuIt thing in dairy
management to secure cleanly condi-
lions in a COW stable. About SO out OF
100 are far from sweet and clean; the
offensive odors contaminate the breath,
blood and tissue of the animal; and con-
eenuently a first-class article of milk
cannot be produced. The barns should
he busted often and whitewashed at
least once a year; not only to give them
a good appearance and make the stable
lighter, but to purify them and kill any
germs of disease that may have collect
ed on walls or ceilings
Farmer.
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Beware OF oily Strangers.

If a slick talking fellow rides around
your way and makes you some sort OF an
unheard-of offer and requires you SIM
ply to sign a paper for him, do not do it,
advises the Practical Farmer. Ii you
want TO be swindled then sign papers for
strangers, but if you would keep rid OF
swindlers never sign your name to any
thing for stranger, no matter how inno-
cent the paper looks, or what the man
promises. Nine times out of ten you Will
find the innocent paper turning up as
note IN bank. The safe rule for the farm
er is to refuse to sign anything for J
stranger.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-03

WHEN DO YOU SAIL. MISS JANE?"
saved and saved 1t is strange how the
clippings and shavings from salary OF
even $50 a month will grow with the
years, if only the saver have the forti-
tude of Spartan. She began when 20
years old-when the dream of Europe
was five years old-and now at 30 she
found herself the owner of 1000 cash
dollars deposited to her name in the
Aldborough savings bank, concrete wit
ness to the long wearying, but splendid
fight she had fought. 1t was to be given
to her to realize her dream, something
that comes to few of us, and she was
happy.
Spring came, and with each vanishing
day Europe drew nearer. Aldborough
is one of those towns of 5000 people in
which everybody knows and is interest
ed in everybody's business, so the dream
of Jane Ware had been common prop
erty for decade. 1t caused some mer-
riment at first, but that ceased as the
patient, meek figure plodded to it's daily
task and once a month stole with light
step into the savings bank. Now all of
the Aldborough citizens were glad be-
cause she had won her battle. The
old jocular, hooking inquiry: Going
to Asia this year?" was changed to-:
when do you sail. Miss Jane?" to
which she answered with a pleased
flush and g smile that retained it's plain
tive girlhood sweetness: In June,
God willing"
For the Lords sake, Miss Jane, said
John Wright, the mayor, don't go per-
sonally conducted, along with a herd
of other humans. You buy a ticket
three times a day, and they rush you
like you were sheep bound for market.
Every other traveller spots your gang
as soon as it heayes in sight, and they
laugh at you and make remarks about
Your being a cattle-car crowd You
couldn't feel worse if you were band
of conyicts being led about as horrible
examples. / tried it once"
Il shan't go that way Jane said. 81
have been saving long time, Mr. Wright
and have money enough to spend six
months there. | have my leave of alb
sence, too. Oh, think of three months
in Italyi"
In May Jane Wares travelling outfit
was bought and made. 1t was neat
sufficient and inexpensive. Some liar
had written a book IN which he said
that there was no soap in Europe, and
she had laid in supply. She put in
her spare hours studying foreign Ian
guages, three at time, and she gel
the French, German and Italian sadly
mixed She had not less than hun
arad commissions In her note book to
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-03
c,ean MiIking Is important.

Pains should be taken to extract the
last drop, If possible, at every milk
ing. Not only should this be done be-
cause the milk last drawn is the richest
but that cows may be made to main
tain their flow much longer when pains
are taken at each milking. This is q
matter of great Importance to the dairy
man, as it determines the profit or loss
of his business. A poor man cannot af-
ford to keep poor cow.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-03
Hybrid Grating Method

N. F. Murray, of Oregon, Mo-, is max
ing experiments on quite an extensive
scale in what he calls hybrid-grafting.
He takes two half-scions of the varieties
he wishes to hybridize and spices them
together. The worF has to be donevery
carefully with the cid Of magnifying
glass, but he has been able to get 80
per cent. of such buds to grow. He COM
menced the work last year and has OF
course no fruit yet, but from the foliage
he believes that there are at least three
crosses out of a Observation-Disclosures
Farmer
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-03
Unavoidable Delay.

The irate heirs called at the general office
of the life insurance company.
1--WE want to know" they said, "why you
axe so long in paying the $4,000 called for in
the policy our deceased relative carried in
this company. He died three months ago,
and we were promised we should have it in
less than 60 days"
What was bis name" asked the presi-
dent.
Benjamin Franklin Louderschlagel"
"Ah, that is the reason, gentlemen" af-
fably explained the president of the concern.
eff it had been a short, easy name like David
Jones or Thomas johnson the matter would
have been settled and you would have got
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-03
CLEANING FARM WELLS.
How to Build a Derrick Which Faci1-
itates the Work and Is Simple
in Construction.

Every farmer should have his we'll
good and clean for the winter months.
Here is a design for handy well der
rick The scantlings are IL feet long,
two by four inches thick, made of elm.
The three pieces at each end and the
middle are four by fo.,r inches, also
of hardwood, spiked to the scantling.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-03

like the one shown. 1t is much like
those used for logs, but should have an
extra strong handle with pin or ring at
the top. To save wear the lower end
on. The hook iron can easily be made
by anyone used to working at a forge.
l catch the hook at some corner or nook
of the stone, and roll it out upon the
stone boat without any hard lifting
G. H. Gowdy, in Farm and Home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-03
81 90 Mig sOO-Pound steel Range OMer.

If you can use the best big 500-pound steel
range made in the world, and are willing to
have it placed IN your own home on three
months free trial, just cut this notice out
and send to Sears, Roebuck q Co., Chicago,
and you will receive free by return mail D
big picture of the steel range and many
other cooking and heating stoves, You will
also receive the most wonderful $l.00 steel
range offer, an offer that places the best
steel range or heating stove in the home of
any family, an offer that no family in the
land, no matter what their crcumstancesmay
be, or how small their income, need be with
out the best cooking or heating stove made
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-03
Keening BOY. ON the Farm.

A prominent breeder of Short-horns
claims to have found way to keep the
hovs ON the farm. AS each boy reaches
a certain age he gives him a few good
padigreed females, bargaining that he
IS to have all the males while the boy
receives all the females. The father
claims that it pays him well, while the
son soon finds himself with a small
herd of improved animals on his hands
and has no desire to leave the farm.
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Finally, saw Doan's Kidney Pills ad-
vertised and got a box. After few
doses / told my husband that l was
feeling much better and that the pills
were doing me good. When / finished
that box felt like different woman.
1 didn't stop at that, though. l con-
tinued the treatment until / had taken
Eve boxes. There was no recurrence
until week ago, when began to feel
miserable again. / bought another
box and three days treatment restored
me to health. Doan's Kidney PILLS act
very effectively, very promptly, relieve
the aching pains and all other annoy
ing difficulties. have recommended
them to many people and will do SO
when opportunities present them
selves"
A Free Trial of this great kidney
medicine which cured Mrs. Brunei
will be mailed to any part of the United
States on application. Address Foster
Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale
by all druggists, price so cents per box
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Good and Sufficient.

He-And SO you refuse me?
She-l must
1T is because am poor, presume?
mo, that is not the reason"
Because my family is less aristocratiO
than yours, perhaps?
mo"
Il see. You want to marry title"
"No, / have no such ambition"
Hum! Very strange! Then why is il
you refuse me"
Its because / can't bear the sight of
you. STRAY Stories.