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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12
Within the Famine Stricken
District Of >Se0eder &&%
6-csrfoms of the SfarOinS Peasant People and Their
Resources Under Ordinary Conditions.

show the farm land to be somewhat
less in extent than the lake surface.
In spite of the fact that it is but
comparatively small area that is de-
voted to agriculture it is still true that
farming is the principal pursuit of
the Swedes. And even if there is only
eight per cent. Of the whole it amounts
in round figures to 8,O27 900 acres. That
is at the rate of possibly a little over
three acres for every single inha bitant
To one not before familiar with the
conditions it is surprising how nearly
this proportion Of three acres and one
person comes to being a practice as
well as a theory. Census returns show
that % per cent. of the entire arabic
land is divided into little homesteads
where the farmer tills less than five
acres; Sc per cent. into farms between
five and so acres each; and the number
of farms between so and $50 acres com
prise only about ten per cent. The
great estates of over 25O acres are only
one per cent. of the cultivated area.
The grain and pod crops average
$75, 900 a scar in value, and the po-
tato crop yields an additional $2O,Ooo,-
600. More than half the land seeded
with grain is given to oats. Rye and
barley come next in Importance, and
wheat is a mparatiyely small crop.
Indian corn never ripens anywhere on
the Scandinavian peninsula, it is only
in the middle and southern provinces
that the wheat can be grown.
Of course hay is raised, asst is every
where else where grass will grow, but
in the far north, the heat of the sun
is insufficient to cure the hay. In
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Eirem en- KiIIe Il.

Milwaukee, Feb. 5.-Chief James
Foley, Capt. Andrew White and Pipe
men Edward Hogan and Thomas
Droney, of the Milwaukee fire de-
partment, are dead, and several other
firemen were in a precarious condi-
ton from the effects of inhaling
fumes of nitric acid at a small fire
at the Schwab Stamp & Seal COM
pany's plant. Chief Foley had been
at the head of the department for 20
years, and was the oldest fireman
on the force. He was the inventor of
fire fighting apparatus used in every
city in the United States. He had
been president of the National Fire
Chiefs associate
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city. What is more to the point, he
nearly proves it. In almost every raid
that he has made some crooked wheel
or table has been brought away. Even
in Canfield's luxurious gambling place
next door to Delmonico's, Jerome says
that the rich man who goes into a pri-
vate room to gamble with ''the sky for
a limit" has not the ghost of chance.
The ordinary odds of the game ought
to be good enough-from three to five
per cent. advantage for the house, ac-
cording to the game that is played.
Because of the cost of police protection,
it. was commonly said, gambling houses
not long ago began openly to use
double o" tables, tables where the
usual odds of the house were doubled
to enable the proprietor to meet his
expenses. Even that wasn't enough,
and the employment at high salaries Of
"slick dealers" and the use of 'phony
boards" made by experts was resorted
to.
These revelations have their effect.
Men who wouldn't dream of "squeel-
ing" on the results Of a fair game are
giving the district attorney tips. The
police under a new commissioner can
now reach gambling house as soon as
the lookout" Informers within
police circles past or present are be-
ginning to whisper in the ear of the
law. 1t has taken year to get ready
for the campaign against the nastiest
forms of vice, but it looks as if Mr..
Jerome were now ready to make things
hum.
And Garfield, Garfield whom the
superstitious believed safe from every
attack, Garfield is in England and bets
are given that he will not be seen in
New York for three years!
In Z A
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stock-fsh, that is, ling or hake cured
without salt.
For the information of mere Ameri-
cans we will say that the Swedish rye
cake is hard and brittle, but is very
wholeso ONE. In fact, a foreigner with
a good set of teeth will soon become
quite fond of it and prefer it to wheat
bread. This hard rye bread is found
all over Sweden, and is eaten alike by
peasant and king. 1t is usually made
up in the form Of circular disks as big
around as a wheeIbarrOw wheel, but
sometimes as thin as a knife blade.
This bread is not baked day by day,
or once or twice week even, but at
much rarer intervals. Many families
have grand baking time only once
every three months. 1t is in this con-
nection that we see that there is a rea-
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Shot and Killed.

Lulu Wright, a young woman who
recently arrived in West Superior
from Schwartz Creek, Mich, was shot
and killed and John w. Steele, who re-
Gently received an honorable discharge
from the army after having served in
the Philippine war, is locked up
charged with her murder. 1t is
claimed that Steele knew the girl in
Michigan and since her arrival in West
Superior has been calling upon her
at the house of Mrs. Winnie Davis,
whers she was STAYING.
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ADDICKS WITHDRAWS.
Candidate in Delaware eady to Quit
Race for SenatOrship If Two Re-
pubIicans Are Nominated.

Dover, Del, Feb. CO. Edward Ad-
dicks, in a statement issued Thursday
afternoon, withdrew as candidate for
United States senator in the interest
of two republican senator's.
In his statement Addicks says that
his withdrawal is on condition that the
republicans of the house and senate
meet in joint caucus and elect two can
didates for United States senator by
majority rule.
Dover, Del, Feb. 7.-Delaware sena-
toriaI deadlock over J. Edward Addicks'
candidacy is without parallel. Only
one United States senator has been
elected since 1889. Both seats are now
vacant. Addicks is said to have spent
SIS 900 in one campaign.
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A wild cat attacked MISS Jennie
Foss in the schoolhouse at the Wash
burn settlement near Florence. The
animal entered. the schoolhouse dur
ing the night, after an encounter
with a porcupine, in which the cat
was covered with blood and it's skin
pierced with porcupine quilts. Miss
Foss kept the animal at bay with an
umbrella while she backed to the
door, when Hayes Bailey, who had
been hunting in the neighborhood,
happened on the scene and shot the
cat.
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Turnkey wants Transnorts.

Constantinople, Feb. 1.-THE Turk
ish government has notified the Idarei
Massousieh Steamship company to
send in a return Of the number of
steamers available for use as trans
ports in view of the possible dispatch
of considerable bodies of troops from
Anatolia Asiatic Turkey to the Eu-
ropean provinces of Turkey in connec-
ton with the Macedonian revolution
AIRY movement.
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New Railway for Michigan.

Lansing, Mich, Feb. 5.-Articles of
association of the Michigan Shore d
Eastern Railway company, incorpo-
rated under the general railroad laws
with $1,OOO,OOO capital, were filed here
Wednesday. The length of the line to
be operated is 1875 miles and in Michi-
gan it extends from Bertrans township,
in Berrien county, on the Indiana state
lire to Kalamazoo. 1t is proposed to
acquire the Benton Harbor, Coloma
& Paw Paw Lake tram railway and the
South Haven & Western.
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Shaken by Earthquake

Chicago, Feb. 9.-An earthquake
shock of sufficient violence to alarm all
the towns in southern and western
Illinois and northern Kentucky passed
from north to south Sunday, beginning
at Alton and extending as far south as
Cairo and Greensboro, Ky. At Harris
burg, H., the clocks were stopped by
the shock, and at Cairo, ILL.,, the tele-
phone operators were alarmed by see
ing all the shuttles on the switchboard
drop at once. .sssss.n.
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IN e rit attention
thar. the rich who
have only riches.
You will find
one of them pic
tured to the life in
a mastery paint
ing by that great
est of living art
lists, Sargent, in
the galleries of
the Metropolitan
museum. In the
old days it would
have been emit
+led SimDly "POr-
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trait of a Gentleman" Now it is in
scribed with the name of Henry g..
Marquand, once president Of the mu-
scum, newly dead and well remem-
bered.
Marquand gave point to Mr.. Carne-
gie's maxim that he who dies rich dies
dishOnored. That's paradox; you've
to understand it comparatively. In Mr..
Maruuand's case it means that he left
personal property of about a million
and a half. He had once been worth
ten times that sum. Twice he gener-
ously spent his money to rescue a son
who bore his own name into Wall
street, and there twice met failure.
The assets" of more than two mil
lions which Mr.. Marquand held against
his sons vanquished firms are worth
nothing. The old man who looks so
sadly out from Sargent's canvas used
every effort to pay for his sons and
his sons associates what they owned,
though he was in 10 way liable.
Marquand might, like Marie, have
been one of New York's powerful mil
lionaires. With his great fortune and
his opportunities as they were 20years
ago, he needed only to go on piling up
money. Instead he piled up gratitude
in the heart of New Workers of dis
elimination until the pile reached the
the roof of the Metropolitan museum.
For that mighty institution, all the
bigger in that it is but three-sevenths
| grown is his work more than that Of
| any other man. Taste, skill and in
clination impelled him to the purchase
of great pictures; the people have the
benefit. Where w. II. Vanderbilt paid
for a single Haunting picture more
than 100000, so that the very price
was part of the advertisement for a
man who knew nothing of art, Mr.. Mar
| quand bought with judgment picture
after picture which had not reached
! their highest value, whose value was
indeed enhanced by his critical APP
proval.
There are some Americans who have
had this gift-Mrs. Shaw, of Boston,
Mr. Marquand, Mr.. Walters, of Balti-
more, and some others. 1t is due to
them that the art of Millet, for in
stance, cannot be studied except by
coming to America. The prescience of
Mr.. Marquand can best be read in the
catalogue of the Metropolitan. He
was money plus intelligence, and the
intelligence was the greater part.
Z L L
Mr.. Schyvab's "Happy Days"
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"He said she didn't have much of a
head"
Gracious! Did she ever speak to
him again?"
"Oh, yes. He made it all right by inn
mediately expressing wonderment at
the smallness Of her feet" Chicago
Record Herald.
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Held as Incendinry.

Charged with setting the fire which
caused the destruction of the entire
village of Bear Creek last July, en-
failing property loss of $4,000, Miss
Lucille Colbert has been arrested and
held under $4,000 bonds. She was
proprietress of the millinery store in
which the fire started and for which
she collected $500 insurance.
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To stop Gambling.

The investigation Of the gambling
INDUCED in by the students of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin which is being
conducted by Acting President f. A.
Birge, of the university, and Prof.
Charles r. Van Hise, head of the de-
partment of geology, has already re-
suited in the forced resignation of q
member of the faculty and in the tenn
porary closing of the dozen or more
gambling Joints in Madison.
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ST. Louis, Feb. William PAUL,
baritone singer with the Castle Square
Opera company, fell or jumped out of
a sixth story window in the Southern
hotel Thursday afternoon, during the
temporary absence from the room of
Mrs. PAUL, known on the stage as Ethel
Gordon.
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business Houses Burned.

Fire partially destroyed the business
section of Rio. The fire started in the
Jackson furniture store, The hard
ware store and stock of Hanson & Will
son, the furniture store and stock of
G. B. Z. Jackson and the residence of
Mr.. Jackson, adjoining, were de-
stroyed and the state bank building
was Quilted. The loss was between $40,-
900 and $4,000.
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Veteran Statesman Dead.

Pittsfeld, Mass, Feb. 6.-Ex-United
States Senator Henry Laurens Dawes
died at SIS Thursday morning in his
home in this city. He was SO years
of age. Mr.. Dawes had been i'll
since Christmas night, when he con-
tracted a severe cold while driving.
The cold developed into the grip,
which undermined his system.
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Endorses Hanna's Bill.

Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 9.-At the
regular meeting of L. E. Lee camp.
United Confederate Veterans, a reso-
luton indorsing the Senator Hanna
bill to pension eX-slaves was introduced
by State Historian Judge c. c. Cum
mings, and passed by an almost I'M
or,irnn11S vote
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Postponed indefinitely.

1--WE might as well consider our en-
gagement as broken, Reginald"
Il don't see why. Your father said
postponed"
postponed until you arrive at
years of discretion, and in your case,
Reggy, dear, you know what that
means'-Tit-Bits
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Candidate for Justice.

Charles V. Bardeen, of Madison,
has announced his candidacy for re-
election as justice of the Wisconsin
supreme court, to which office he was
appointed at the death of Judge
Newman and subsequently elected
for a full term. His term expires in
January, 1904. The election will be
held in April
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OF the Count de
Mon t e S q u o u
Fezensac.
The Count, &c,
C a III e w i t h 3 z
trunks, a pre- $ $
agent, Il bosom
friend a n d t w o
hairdressers, t o
give &c o II f e T.
ences" on topics
semi-literary and
S e IN i-social; o IL
the tasteful con-
duct of life by
aristrocrats, j II
short.
| send a portrait
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Marie?
l almost despair
of it. The times
are different from
those that nur-
tured that dear
old man in his
eightieth Y e ar,
who fell asleep so
gently but the
other day.
Marie was of
French S t o c k /;
the family came to
New York durin 6
-,
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OIL the COuJib ny
Whistler; this is in measure
by request 1t is given out
out by the press agent, with the re-
mark that from it one can see that the
count is not man to be overlooked
in crowd. Look" says the agent
'at the eyes, penetrating, restless and
alert the aristocratic, senSl-
tive face. the tall figure, slight almost
to emaciation." The gray gloves re-
call the deeds of chivalric Spain, and
the malacha (Malacca) stick tipped
forward, suggests the duellists sword
ready to be drawn, so that in Whistler 5
portrait we recognize the poet, sculp-
tor of clouds, -Rn alchemist OF dreams
and a fabricant of fancies."
Over in Paris they refuse to take the
exquisite count seriously. They say
that he was fired with emulation by the
example of M. Helleu, the portrait
painter, who came to this country and
took away 100000 worth of orders for
work to be done.
Perhaps the lecturer upon the art
of life as it should be lived by aristro-
Gratis, at So per listener per listen,
wholesale rates-for you can't get u
seat except for the whole series-will
coin money. He may and he may not.
It's just as it may happen.
< K Z
..Brnce Gambling" in New York.
If NJ. lie Count de Montesquiou-Fez-
ensac really wants to give New Workers
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WouId Not Sink,

'Harry Sapp is young man who will
always keep his head up in the world .
remarked the girl in the Monte Carlo
coat.
Il don't doubt that" said the close
friend His head is light enough
Chicago Daily News.
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Marketed DdTerentIy.

eve make our -four" explained the
miller. las you see, by the gradual re-
duction process.
Il see," said the visitor, "and my
grocer sells it to me on the gradual ex-
pansion principle" Chicago Tribune.
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aSn't Mr.. Mar
quand's knack Of
m a k i n g long
training tell.
Still he gets re-
suits. Mr.. Schwa b,
of the steel trust,
is making grea t
progress with his
pet h 0 b b y, his
children's outing
place on Staten
island. Here at
the edge of the sea
he is causing, like
Kub1a X h n n n
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RIeyv Ont His Brains,

Leadville, Col, Feb. valentine
Casagrande, a miner, blew out his
brains with a revolver, after twice
shooting his wife, who had deserted
him. The woman's wounds are NOR
tai.
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valuab a d Y j C .
upon the conduct
of life he might
advise them t 0
keep away FROM
gambling houses.
Asst o II j S h j II 6
facts are brought
out by District At
torney j e + o IN e.
T h a t a gil e
smasher of illegal
privileges, S a y ,
there is hardly an
honest" g a M
bling house in the
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Paris, Feb. 9.-Official advices have
been received here confirming the re-
port that the sultan of Turkey has
ordered the immediate mobilization
of 100000 troops for a military dem
onstration in Macedonia.
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HITD|@Tf4I Sucn Was the COHcluSIOH
~ A@ reached by a Danish COM
1nander sent against a considera bic
force Of natives in northern Sweden.
''How," he had asked, "can so large
force be supplied with provisions from
this wild country?" Then he learned
that the Swedes were content to drink
water, and could in case Of need, eat
bread made Of the bark Of trees.
Seventy thousand Swedes are to-day
living upon the same slender diet that
enabled their ancestors four centuries
ago to subsist until the invaders should
be driven from their land. They have
been forced to this condition not by
the cxigencies Of war, but by the crop
failure Of last season.
Only small percentage Of the land
has ever come under the pillow, but
Sweden is prominently land of for
est. Therefore, when rye and oats
fail the people, literally as we'll as fig
uratiyely, they take to the wood. Rye
bread forms the staff Of life in Sweden,
but in hard seasons, such as the pres
emit the inner bark of trees and straw
is ground up and mixed with the rye
and the whole goes into peculiar round
loayes which are the NOrseman's
bread. In some of the remOter dis
tricts even moss is utilized as an in
gredient Of the adulterated -four. Near
the seacoast, in times Of famine, this
pine bark bread is made more palatable
by mixing with the bark -four ground
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UndoubxedIy.

Miss Giddy-I suppose you medical
students have some gay times.
Young Medicus-Yes, we do cut uE
quite a good deal.-Chicago Daily
News.
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Philanthropy OF the Old and New
Millionaires OF New York ~ * X

for Mr.. Schwab's guests. He had the
Happy Days" which has just been
launched, planned by expert philan-
thropists of the st. Johns Guild (for
we have experts even in philanthropy,
nowadays; go to Mr.. Riis, We million
aries, or to Mr.. Devine, of the charities
bureau, if you would know how not to
waste money in trying to do good), and
she contains every convenience and
comfort that the needs of aiLing babies
and their mothers on half-hour trip
down the bay might suggest. The big
ness of the plan! The steamer, whose
only task is to convey children to their
summer retreat, a distance that she
can traverse dozen times day, Will
be chartered, to carry 1900 souls. The
children will be caught for Mr.. Schwab
by the Children's Aid society, possibly
by public school teachers in the poorer
quarters of the city.
When one speaks of the men who
have aided, and who being dead still
aid the city, mention of the Children's
Aid society suggests its great founder
Charles Lering Brace, who builded so
well by faith that now his society aids
$4,000 children in year; that of its
| former charges two have become gov
errors, 26 bankers, "A lawyers, % mer-
chants, II doctors, II clergymen and
host are congressman, district attor-
neys, state legislators and minor po-
! tentates. Fifteen hundred children
in year find permanent homes in the
country through its work.
& 4 x
A Funny Freak from France.
The funniest thing that has happened
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stately pleasure dome" to arise, all
for the children. No steamer that
foated last summer was good enough
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Will there ever be another gentle
man of the old school" like Peter
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ga Portrait of a Gentleman"

There are not a few men in New
York who, like Marie, as types better
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Mr.. schvvab's "Happy Days,

The modern millionaire must do
good by main strength, as it were. He
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..Brnce Gambling" in New York.
If NJ. lie Count de Montesquiou-Fez-
ensac really wants to give New Workers
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A Funny Freak from France.
The funniest thing that has happened
in New York in some time is the arrival
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PEOPLE who eat wood and
and drink water, the devil
h i'm s e f cannot subGue.
much less any other"
Such was the conclusion
ronched hr n Danish cn1n-