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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

cial crises occur in cycles, with a
considerable degree of regularity.
But their recurrence is always due
to substantially the same causes. In
general period of depression will
follow one of high prosperity. The
reasons for the extremes in Industrial
and commercial activities are easily
determined. In fact they are but the
operation of cause and effect. Pros
porous times are made possible by
the advancement of enterprises for
development. In these enterprises
the intention is to create greater
wealth, and the intention does secure
larger product of real and substan-
tial wealth. The building of rail
ways, of factories, of ships, canals,
water works, irrigation works, stores,
houses, barns adds immensely to the
aggregate of wealth. This remains
as valuable in real utility while the
condition of depression is on as
when business is booming. The
farm that sells for $4,000 in boom
times is intrinsically as valuable as
when it is sold under foreclosure of
mortgage for $4,000.
The crash smashes bubbles. 1t
sweeps away fictitious values. The
water in ''stock" has no real value.
There is just as much money in ex-
istence in financial crisis as before
it occurred. There is really more
substantial wealth. If the crisis hurt
only those who were responsible for
it, the crash that bursts the bubble
of inflated prices would be uni
versal blessing. The sad part of it
is that the innocent are made to
suffer worse than the guilty.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26
A Financial Crisis Impending.

Some financial writers predict a
monetary crisis for the near future
before the next presidential election.
AS the national election occurs in
1904 the crash, according to these
prophets of evi! circumstances, is
impending. The present methods
in operation in the commercial world
are a menace to stable conditions.
Overproduction in manufactures and
the continued rise in real property
tell the story as plainly as hand
writing on the wall could convey it.
There is a theory that these fnan.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

A joint committee of the legisla-
ture was appointed to investigate
the cause of the shortage of coal.
They examined many witnesses in
different parts of the state and took
500 pages of typewriter testimony.
The committee will report the rea-
son for lack of coal. There wasn't
coal enough minedl How much
did it cost the state to ascertain such
sublime fact?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26
An Experience Me citing.

The experience" meeting held by
the assembly last Thursday over the
Governors message was of great
deal of interest to the constituents as
we'll as of profit to the assemblymen.
"Confession is good for the soul, !"
and sometimes adds a few facts to
current history. The assembly had
passed a bill calling for the appoint
ment of FL additional employees.
The Governor refused to sign the
bill and sent message to the assem-
bly, giving his reasons for the refus-
al to sign the bill and scolding the
boys for their presumption. "No,
boys, you can't have Fl additional
men to clean your spittoons. If o5
are not enough, don't chew SO much
tobacco or clean your spittoons your
selvesp'
When the message was read deny
ing the request for additional en-
ployes the boys began to tumble
over each other in their haste to
make apologies: 81 didn't do it a
purposer 81 didn't know it was
wrongp' 81 was bamboozled into
voting for the bill!' 81 voted for it
because a fellow asked me to-" 81
voted for it because the rest did!''
$50 did Ir' 81 didn't suppose l was
sent here to clean spittoons" at
was the lobby!' "I'll never do SO
againw "Peccavi!" in chorus.
Mr., Cady said the bill was all
right and should pass over the Gov
errors veto. 1--WE did not come
here to clean spittoons and take care
of our committee rooms" Mr.. Frear
defended the veto. sWhen the bill
passed." he said, 81 with several
others understood it provided only
for six or seven additional employees
instead of twenty-one." Mr.. Root,
who introduced the bill, said he
understood it provided for eleven
instead of twenty-one employees,
adding: 'sthere are employees here
now who are not earning half their
money" Mr.. Root admitted that
he had been wrong in assisting to
rush the bill through, but was ready
to correct the wrong. Mr.. Bradford
believed the ninety-five employees
now on the pay rolls enough. He
said not twenty-five votes could have
been secured for the bill if assembly
men had known it provided for
twenty-one extra employees. Mr..
Evans said he voted for the bill sup
posing it provided for seven en-
ployes and be was sorry he had
done so. Mr.. Dahl said he knew OF
employees two and four years ago
who did nothing but draw their
salaries. Mr.. Cowling criticised
the committee sharply for recon
mending bill which its chairman
said he did not understand. "And
there were nine more at the door
and they all said they would take
sugar in theirn."
The veto was sustained. But if
Gov. La Toilette had known that
the members of the assembly had to
devote so much time to cleaning
spittoons that they could not ascer-
tain the contents of the bills for
which they voted he would have
signed that bill for twenty-one extra
| employees without looking at it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

The government is sending agents
into the localities where there have
been extensive filings on public lands
of late to investigate the situation
with reference to the prevailing
rumors of fraudulent filings. There
is evidently to be a stricter applica-
ton of the law. A great many men
will lose their claims and some may
be sent to prison.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

Adams county, the only county in
the state without a railroad, is en-
deavoring to get one. At recent
meeting of the county board reso-
luton was adopted to submit to the
voters of the county proposition to
give bonus of $4,000 to any
company that would build road
through the county from Grand
Rapids to Portage.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

What is called the "anti-gypsy
bill' is one of considerable interest
to country residents, as this gypsy
itinerancy is getting to be greater
annoyance every year. A family
sometimes a "colony"-of gypsies
with a dozen old horses comes along
every few days in summer and
camps on the highway, turning their
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

1t was agreed between the United
States and the French Panama
Company that the deal should be
concluded by March 4, 1903, or it
was "off." 1t is understood that a
"protocol" has been signed extend
ing the time in which the United
States may give its acceptance or
refusal of the proposition of the
Company to sell.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

We thought everybody was in
favor of the primary election! Here
is Racine with the protest and a
delegation to the legislature to give
reasons why the present conditions
are satisfactory.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

Congressman Jenkins is not in
accord with many of his colleagues
on the subject of antitrust legisla-
ton. He, with the rest, thinks the
trusts should be under the control OF
law, but he believes that constitu-
tional amendment is needed to per.
NIT of Legislation that shall be effec-
tive.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

The President has announced that
he will call an extra session of the
senate if the Panama and Cuban
reciprocity treaties are not passed
before noon of March d.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

Senator Hoar of Massachusetts
says that no man should be appoint
ed to an office against whom the
people he is to serve have pre-
judice. That seems like good logic.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26
YOU SHOULD TAKE
The JOURNAL: :: ::

BECAUSE it is the largest
and best local paper in Pierce
and st. Croix counties;
BECAUSE it aims to furnish
all the news all the time;
BECAUSE it never knocks at
local enterprise, but is always
willing to give home people
a helping hand;
BECAUSE it is clean, whole
some, and good reading-ft
for any Preside;
BECAUSE the money so in
vested will more surely help
the town than a like amount
expended in any other way.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

Copper mines are being develop
ed in North Carolina. A Michigan
Company is exploiting the copper
mining in the mountains . OF that
state with fine prospects.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

]. r. Garfield, son of the late
President Garfield, has been ap-
pointed to the position of commits
sioner Of corporations in the new
department of commerce.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

While the lamp holds out to burn
there may even be hope for the
partial sanity of Ben Tillman.
He talked two hours in the Senate
and said several reasonable
things. Give him his due. It isn't
much
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

AS there is summary of the work
of the Legislature for the past week
on the inside of this paper we will
only call attention on this page to
some special features that seem to
'sstrike popular chord"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

horses out to eat all the heritage on
the roadsides, and often get into the
fields. This bill forbids camping on
the highway for more than twelve
hours without getting permit from
the town board.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

The government is to build and
conduct a "war college," school for
instruction in army tactics and the
science of war. The corner stone
of the building was laid last Satur-
day at Washington.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26
YOU SHOULD ADVERTISE
IN THE JOURNAL:::::::

BECAUSE it has the largest
local circulation, therefore
will give you the best returns
for your money;
BECAUSE it is helping to
build up the town, and Incl
dentally your business;
BECAUSE without it the
town would soon be dead, and
no paper can prosper without
a liberal advertising patron
age;
BECAUSE it has steadily i'm
proved and enlarged as its
advertising patronage has
warranted and will continue
to do so.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

The ship subsidy bill is dead some
more. An attempt was made to
call it up in the House Monday but
failed to bring it out of its pigeon
hole. Requiescat in pace-forever.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

The "Sick Man" agrees to intro
duce reforms into Macedonia, and
the extinguishment of Turkey in
Europe may be deferred for a season.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

A fleet of ships loaded with coal
from the British islands recently
arrived at Providence, r. /.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

The Great Northern Railway
will inaugurate four-day train SER
vice between New York and Puget
Sound
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

A bill has been introduced in
Congress making pensions to veter-
ans not less than $I2 month.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

Sound.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26

Of oil kinds executed
with neatness and dis
patch. Prices reason
able.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-03
Cattle Feeding Experiment.

The agricultural department of the
State University is making a series of
experiments to determine the relative
values Of certain foods for fattening
cattle. One hundred head of high
grade steers have been div ided into
four lots, All have grass. In addition
the first lot has corn, the second corr
aud gluten, the third corr and cotton
seedmeal, the fourth corn and linseed
meal. The best gains nave been made
by the lots fed on cotton seed an
linseed meal. Both these have gained
approximately two aud one-half pounds
per day. However, those fed lin
seed meal have gained slightly more
than the other lot, but the cost
of the grain is in favor of cotton seed
meal.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-03
3 Cents

Eight cents a pound is
what a young woman paid for
twelve pounds Of flesh.
She was thin and weak and
paid one dollar for a bottle Of
SCOTS Emulsion, and by tax
ing regular doses had gained
twelve pounds in weight before
the bottle was finished.
Eight cents a pound is
cheap for such valuable ma
terial. Some pay more, some
less, some get nothing for
their money. You get your
moneys worth when you buy
SCOTS Emulsion.
We will send you a little
free.
SCOTT & BOVINE, CHEMISTS,
400 Pearl Street, New York,
soc. and $500; all druggists.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-03

dueed witH Il. A vote Tor the repuo-
lican ticket means that the trusts and
cormorants will continue to rule and
that prices will be showed up q notch
every time they get the chanse. The
people may take their choice.
The case of Miss Todd, the young
woman postmistress in Delaware who
was fred by Postmaster General Payne
for 10 other reason on earth than that
she was obnoxious to the Addicks fac
ton of the republican party in that
state, is causing much untayorable
comment here and likewise causing
some high republican officials a few
bad half hours. The statement o
Postmaster General Payne that Presi-
dent Roosevelt was fully aware OF the
deal that had been made for the diVi-
sion Of the spoils of office in Delaware
Is rather tough on a civil service refor
mer such as the President processes to
be. 1t no doubt, also. IS especially
disheartening to those republicans who
we're hopeful that their party and their
administration would not be disgraced
by completely IN the attemct to Add
icksize the state of Delaware, and assist
him in the purchase of the United
States S~enatorship from that state. 1t
was expected and anticipated that
Payne would give Addicks his share of
the political spoils, being a machine
politician himself, but 1t was a shock to
the lovers of decent government that
the President should have acqulesed in
the Addicks game. Miss Todd has
committed no offense for which her dis
missal should have been requested.
There was no work against her person
al or official conduct, no petition from
the patrons of the Office or the remov-
al. She simply was against Addicks
and thar was crime enough IN the eyes
Of a machine politician like the Post
master General. What will Roosevelt
do? Will be reinstate Miss Todd or
stand by the action of the Postmaster
Generalp He may do a lot Of talking,
but, as he says, swords are good only
wnen backed by deeds.
CHARLEs A. EDWARDS.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-03
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.

Some of the things that are being
discussed here by the men who come
to the national capital on business be-
fore the departments and for other pur-
poses, are the conditions that now exist
in the world of speculation. Things
have gone to cussed smash over in
Wall street in any number Of stocks
and yet the men who are manipulating
the game that catches suckers are still
looked upon as the conservative bust
ness element Of the country, as the
creme de la creme of responsibility and
business ssgacity. The real truth is
that if the people of this country had
ems enough to sit down and think
c%onsecutlvely for ten minutes they
would know that Cthis ~so-called cor
servative business element" is a thor
ougbly discredited class of high-bind-
ers, f~ree-booters and commercial Bashi
Bazouks; that they are robbing the
people OF the country every day and
laughing at them. Take the United
States Steel Corporation, for instance,
and see what has happened. The off.
cials Of that gigantic trust seem actu-
ally to be proud Of the number Of VIC
Tins they have feeced in the past year.
They continue to give out Boosting
statements of the rapidly increasing
number Of Its stockholders, though it
is apparent to the most causal observer
that every man who invested in these
stocks since they were placed on the
market has lost money. The total
shrlnkage is more than 80 points on
both common and preferred stocks. 1t
takes $500, 900, 900 to measure the
loss of the victims Of this trust, and
still the spider continues to sit in his
little parlor and lure his victims and
still they come and have the likelihood
sucked out of them. A statement was
given out the other day that the num-
Der of holders of this stock had increas-
ed over 6 1000 IN the past three months.
During this Increase of over 5000 In
the number of holders of common
stock in this corporation it sunk from
80 to 20 a share, and two days more it
had gone down to IS, Thus, some who
bought three months ago have already
lost one-third of their in vestment.
These highway robbers are playing a
game like the niggers' corn trap-u
catches 'em a comm and a goin',
They rob the purchasers of their pro-
duct in this country where they charge
more than they do foreigners, because
the tariff wall gives them The privilege,
and they rob the buyers OF their stock
by manipulation on Wall street,
Yet this IS the detachable gang OF un-
considerable scoundrels who are every
day held up to us as the paragons Of
business integrity and to whom we
must bow in all our national elections;
that we must select candidates who are
acceptable to this g ng of thieves. If
the democracy does SO it deserves de-
feat.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-03

Catalogues 4-s5 circulars are being
Distributed E100C-ei1g T. B. Camp
bel sd sors Ezao1 sale of fine sad
die E3d harness 55Fzes, at Graceland
Park. Ggti niles ssss of Lexington,
Sept. q Twsn,y eight pedigreed
horses q great merit and promise will
be offered, besides 3 lot of mule colts,
thoroughbred bull calves and yearling
steers Don't forget the date, Sept. "a.
I'd
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-03
Lafayette countisn.

Alban Stewart, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
A Stewart, Of this city, is Il typical
Odessa boy, who being endowed with a
fertile intellect studied diligently for
several years the course OF palaeon-
tology and is gaining recognition every
day in that branch Of scientific work.
Mr.. Stewart is now an expert prepare
teur 10 the National Museum. a de-
partment Of the large Smithsonian
Institution at Washington, D G That
his work is regarded by men who know
as being first class, the following clip
ping from the Washington Post will
show. Mr.. Stewart will start home
tor a vacation in about two weeks, and
will stop at Columbia, where be has
been asked so mount several specimen
recently secured at the University
museum In a lengthy article the
Post speaks as follows regarding Mr..
Stewards work:
"For the past two months visitors to
the museum have observed that the
hall in which the museum collection of
fossil mammals, birds, reptiles and
fishes are exhibited has been closed,
and more than one person has won
dered what on earth was in progress
behind the closed doors through which
none save the officials and workmen
might pass. Their wonder will be In
creased when, during the lei week or
80, the doors will be thrown open
and they will have an opportunity Of
behOlding the most remarkable object
in the museum. The Post has several
times stated that of the wonderful
collection of fossil dinosaurs and ter
tiary mammals ~excaVated by the late
Prof. 0. G. Marsh, of New Haven,
Conn, which he wIlled to the National
Museum, over two-thirds Of it remains
in storage. Early during the present
year, however, the museum secured
the services of Mr.. A.ban Stewart,
formerly of the American Museum of
Natural History in New York, an ex.
cellent preparateur, who has turned
his attention to the Marsh collection,
and for the past summer has devoted
his entire time to preparing the more
striking and important specimens for
exhibit. Among other specimens in
the Marsh collection was a complete
skeleton Of The gigantic dinosaur
Claosaurus Anuectens, Of which there
are only three complete skeletons in
the United States The one in question,
one in the Yale museum, at New
Haven. Conn and the other in the
AmCA tChu NluoCuA vi NuluAhl lllolOll
in New York. The skeleton in ques-
ton was removed by Prof. Marsh from
a mAtryx of gray sandstone IN Wyo.
ming, and Mr.. Stewart has mounted it
against a background OF plaster, made
of portland cement and several other
ingredients, initiating TO a nicely the
color and general appearance of the
original sandstone mstrix, and in
which unimportant parts, or rather
one side Of the skeleton is covered,
thus holding 10 position and causing
the whole to look as it did when Prof.
marsh removed one.half of the stony
matrix revealing the skeleton IN full.
Moreover the position Ct the skeleton
is that which was most common to the
reptile during hfe."
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-03
CuRES oHILLs M FEYER.

G. w. Writ, Nacogodches, Texas,
says: His daughter had chills and
fever for three years; he could not find
anything that would help her until he
used Herbine. His wife will not keep
house without it, and cannot say too
much for it, SOC. Sold BY Crenshaw &
Young, 10-3ml
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-03
Team Pan Away.

HigginEvilie ~JeHersonian.
A team belonging to w. H. Lewis,
the Iiveryman, while driven by Leo
nard Emery became frightened near
the Alton depot Wednesday and ran
away. Just after they past the court
house both horses fell on the brick
street and one of the horses was SC
badly hurt that tt died a little later.
The other horse was badly injured,
Leonard was not hurt, fortunately the
buggy not being turned over.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-03

In these times Of trust prosperity let
the man with the fixed income, such as
clerks and wage earners, whose incomes
do not increase with the increase in the
cost of living, ask themselves how
much Of the prosperity they are gett-
ing out Of the times If the answer is
satisfactory then let them continue to
vote the republican ticket and ''stand
pat' with the trusts who are shouting
that IS their battle cry 10 their cam
paign that IS approaching. Lot them
''stand patti and continue to "let well
enough alone, and they will continue
to pay high prices for their living aud
their salaries and wages will continue
10 stay in the same place. A vote for
the democratic ticket means that much
nearer The time when the tariff wall will
be reduced and the cost OF living re-
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-03
300 REWARD. s1OO.

The readers Of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure In all its stages and
that is catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
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and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and as
sistlng nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in Its
currtive powers, that they offer one
hundred dollars for any east that it fails
to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
F, J. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggist, 75c. 1O.9m1
Hall's Family Pills are the best.