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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
A Parable Tmpeached.

The parable of the wise man who
built his house upon 4 rock and of the
other man who built on the sands was
uttered before the "house with modern
Improvements" had made it's appear
ance or modern sanitary science had
been evolved. A rock foundation IS I'M
improbable for stability, but it may
be very bad when it comes to a matter
of drainage, whether it be for the dis
posal Of sewage or of surface or ground
water. A cellar eXcavated i'll the rock
is usually a wet cellar, because the wa
ter leeches through the crevices and
seams in the rock, and it is both diff
cult and expensive to trench and drain
properly about the walls of building
in a medium so hard to eXcavate. To
be sure, if the rock drops away quick
ly on a sharp grade this difficulty may
be altogether a minor one. A good
gravel soil is one of the best to build
upon in respect both to drainage and
to the stability of the house, and COM
pact sand, if not subject to the action
of running water, Is a most excellent
foundation and a thoroughly good me-
dium.-COsmopolitan Magazine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14

staying a month with her sister,
Mrs. Thomas Carmichael.
Allie Carmichael went to Red
Wing Friday to visit his sister, Mrs.
Ben Montgomery, for week.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Johnson and
their guest, Mrs. Victor Mcdonald
of Oregon, spent Thursday at I.
Carmichaels.
Mrs. John Greer and children OF
Olivet is visiting her father, George
O'Brien, few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Austin spent
Sunday at the home of her father
VIM. Mealey.
Miss Edith Clifford has returned
from Elmwood where she had been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Charles
Olson.
Steve Peterson made a business
trip to Ellsworth Tuesday.
w. J. Otis was at Ellsworth or
business Tuesday.
Miss Maude O'Brien and Mark
Green visited friends at Ellsworth
Saturday and Sunday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
DIAMOND BLUFF.

The lecture by Prof. Sims last
Thursday night was we'll attended
and interesting. The teachers from
five surrounding districts were pres
ent.
w. r. Niles was at home a few
days last week on account of i'll
health.
Geo. Hope was home over Sun
day.
c. E. next Sunday evening led by
Mrs. E. M. Sparks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Erb Of Red
Wing spent Sunday with Mrs. L.
{. Burke.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Nash, who
recently moved to Red Wing,
brought the remains of Mildred,
their only daughter, back to their
old home where the funeral was
held at p. m. Saturday, then fol-
lowed by large concourse of sor-
rowing relatives and friends, the
remains were laid to rest in the
Diamond Bluff cemetery.
Edwin Niles came home last
Saturday.
The D. B. S. S. will observe
ChiIdren's Day.
The w. M. S. meets Thursday
afternoon with Mrs. NJ. L, Sparks.
H. L. Niles has been painting A.
r. Mcro's house on Main street.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
short andLonp Courtsbins.

Young ladies in Russia are not at all
averse to long engagements and use
all sorts of articles to stave off the
wedding day as long as possible, while
in Siam, where old maids are unknown,
as all girls marry, the recognized
length of an engagement is one month.
If an engaged man in the Argentine
Republic dallies beyond a reasonable
time in leading his fiancee to the altar,
he is heavily fined, and if a resident Of
the republic should fail to marry he is
taxed until he reaches the age of
eighty. In no country in the world are
courtships so abnormally long as in Bo-
hernia, where engagements commonly
last from fifteen to twenty years. In
fact, there recently died at the age of
ninety-nine an old man who had been
counting for seventy-fve years and who
was married on his deathbed
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
CLIFTON.

VIM. Edgar of this town has just
been granted pension of $I2 per
month. Mr.. Edgar has resided on
the old Judd farm since last fall.
Work will soon be commenced
on the hills on each side Of the
Hollow. The SITS granted by the
county will be expended there.
New babies are reported at the
homes of Messrss Marks, Wolf and
Gathers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Smith gave
a pleasant little dance to some of the
young people last Friday night.
Otto Peterson and August Stark
are out at the Club" on the jury.
Walter White of Prescott has
several of the Clifton farms listed
for sale.
Highway overseers have been
appointed as follows: Dist. No. 1
Frank Kuschel, No. Lewis Will
kinson, No. 3 John Trulson, No. 4
II. Feidler, No. s Al. Filkins, No.
6 August Stark, No. 7 John Elliott,
No. s Chas. Eastman, No. 9 f. A.
Wells.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
Political Economists.

! While great fortunes and great in
dustries have almost invariably been
created by uneducated men, parvenus
unembarrassed with learning, who
taught themselves what they found
necessary to know, we find, on the 9th
er hand, that those men who have made
commercial science, political economy,
their study have not shown any sue
cess in business and have remained
theorists. Most political economists
have had to live on their pen. Mr.. Cob
den went bankrupt in business. 1t is
true that Ricardo was we'll off, but he
was stockbroker by trade, and with
him political economy was only hob
by, not a serious result. 1t is strange
how few business men of the first rank
have good word to say Of political
economy.-Nineteenth Century.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
Bismarck and Grant.

Sidney Whitman in his Personal
"reminiscences of Prince Bismarck
says:
''Bismarck's intimate friendship with
Motley, the historian, is we'll known.
He was also particularly attached to
George Bancroft, so that when it be-
came a qlestion of Bancroft being re-
called from his post of United States
minister at Berlin Bismarck wrote spe-
cially to his friend Motley and begged
him to intercede with the president to
allow Bancroft to remain, and he did
remain.
Bismarck told me that when Gener-
al Grant came to Berlin he accOmpa-
MED him to see one of the reviews at
the Tempelhofer field. Grant was not
well that day, and they had to drive
out in a closed carriage. Grant looked
downcast and told Bismarck that it
worried him to think that he was to
meet the Prussian soldiers sitting cud-
died up in a carriage like any ordinary
civilian. Never you mind that, Genera!
Grant Bismarck said. You may sit
here hidden from view, but our sol
diers are well aware what sort of fight
ing man is in this closed CARRIAGE"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
Prond nf the Cure.

William r. Travers. the New York
city broker, on one occasion desired to
go to an address in suburban Brooklyn,
but, being unacquainted with the local
ity, accosted a stranger and asked di-
rections. 1t so happened that the stran-
ger suffered and stammered quite as
badly as Travers, who after the man
had made two or three Intellectual at
tempts to answer grew angry under
the impression he was being Knocked
and hotly inquired:
"How d-d-dare you t-t-try to m-m-mock
me?"
! ''Ex-ex-excuse m-mew exclaimed the
stranger. 81 have an im-im-imped1-
ment in m-my s-s-s-speech.
''Oh, I s-s-s-eeI" stammered IraVers'
tbe look Of anger giving way to look
of sympathetic concern. "W-w-why
d-d-don't you g-g-go s-s-see D-d-doctor
S-s-smith? He occurred m-me. "-Pnli-
adelphia Times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
ROCK ELM.

Miss Nellie Fox, daughter of D.
Fox, died here May 3, of consump-
ton, aged IL years.
Will Kreisal of Waverly broke
his leg Sunday while wrestling.
Supt. Ingli and Prof Sims lee
tured here last week to large audi
ence.
f. B. Churchill's horses ran away
last week and the driver, Farley
Burgess son, was thrown out. A
wheel passed over him, breaking a
rib and inficting other injuries but
none considered serious.
Miss Gladys Rideout has been
dangerously i'll with appendicitis,
but is somewhat better.
Mrs. Frank Whitney has been
i'll, but is recovering.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
KINNlCkINNlC.

Mrs. Wilson has had two sisters
visiting her.
Mrs. Peter Everson is to remove
soon to her home in River Falls
which she recently purchased.
Albert Wilcox and wife were
callers in town last week.
We hear that James Jackman has
rented Mr.. Piccott's farm for three
years.
Mr.. Piccott will go to River
Falls to live il. his new home there
near the Catholic church.
The social at the church was but
a partial success owing to the I'M
settled weather.
The local last week should have
read Miss Alice Crawford is i'm
proving, not Clara.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
A Marble slab.

A writer in London Nature describes
a white marble slab 2 inches thick and
So by 20 inches, which is supported on
stone posts and says in the middle
three inches out of level. 1t furnishes
evidence that marble is in reality q
fluid of enormous viscosity. This has
some bearing on the question of the
frigidity of the rocks composing the
crust of the earth and the gradual ad-
Justment of the earth's contour under
gravity. The slab was placed in its
present position in 1853.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
WHAT COLONEL POPE SAYS,
An Interview With the New
Head of the Greatest Bicycle
Business in the World.

A few days before the announce
ment of the transfer of the holdings
Of thr American Bicycle Company
to the new organization which he
heads, Colonel Pope was asked to
give some outline of his campaign
plans
Il haven't any cut and dried
plans" he said. eff had I would
MT give them away. 1t is not good
generalship on the field of war or
in business to advertise what one is
going to do. Besides, any plan is
held subject to change with chang
ing conditions. What is good bust
ness policy to-day may be mis-
fit tomorrow.
Let me, then, say briefly that l
prefer to stand on fu1fllment rather
than promise. What | have done
is the best assurance can give of
what l will try to do or am likely to
do.
| have sought, in the past, to run
the bicycle manufacturing and sell
| ing business on sound business
principles. | have tried to let no
chance slip to promote and expand
it. | have pushed through every
opening in sight and never stopped
searching for new ones. | have
worked year after year for the ex-
tension of good roads and tried to
forward in every way the interests
of the League of American Wheel
men and Of riders generally in every
country. l have never aimed to get
ahead by pushing others down.
Stirring competition is a constant
spur to improvement and to the ad-
vance of an industry in popular
appreciation and demand. l have
tried to keep faith with the public
and do as | would be done by.
In the Pope Manufacturing Co.'S
works at Hartford, we had notices
that we tried to live up to: One for
All-and All for One'-'Men not
Things In no works in the world
l think were there ever more willing
and able workmen. This was to be
seen in their output, for it might
be said of our standards in the
words of old Ezekiel, the spirit of
the living creature was in the
wheels
We never expected to sell our
wheels-no matter how good they
were-without telling people what
we had to sell. So we advertised
from the start in the daily and
weekly papers and magazines, and
we kept on spreading our advertis-
ing, and the more we advertised,
the more we sold. Nobody can
value more highly than l do the
service of printers ink arousing
and fixing public interest and Great
ing a demand. l would as soon try
to pull myself up by Juggling my
boot-straps as to try to pull my
business up without advertising.
l am not worrying about the
sickness of the bicycle business.
A healthy recovery is bound to come
with common sense treatment. The |
bicycle is indispensable. 1t will
carry weight with less resistance
and travel faster with less power |
than any other form of vehicle.
Legions of riders are using it to-
day for cheap and swift conveyance,
inspiriting exercise and sport. It's
use is sure to grow with the spread
ing of good roads and the growth
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
PLEASANT CORNERS.

Miss Maude O'Brien visited with
friends at Harshman Mill Thursday
George HUM made a business trip
to St. Paul Tuesday. He purchased
a span of horses while there.
John O'Brien was kicked by a
horse one day last week.
Mrs. H. L. Bennett of Spokane,
Wash, arrived here Tuesday and
will spend a month with her pa
rents.
Miss Katie O'Brien returned home
Friday from Olivet where she had
been staying with her sister, Mrs.
John Greer.
Mrs. Barney Traynor returned to
her home at Harshman Mill, after
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14

The salary of the postmaster at
this place has been raised 500 in
the recent reapportionment, taking
effect July l. This, the second ad-
vance in two years, shows that Ellis
worth is prospecting and growing
rapidly, as there is no truer index
of a city's growth than in the bust
ness of the postofice. A few years
ago our people got a pouch full OF
SO of mail every day. now score or
more are required.-E1lsworth Her
aid
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
Reason In Lowly Brains,

Bees know the time of day. Expert
mentors who feed them at a certain
time each day find that they make no
mistake in the hour.
The pigeons of st. Marks, Venice
can tell tourists, who feed them as a
matter of duty, from natives who do
not. How? By their lettering? By
their red guidebooks?
American horses driven without
cylinders" are said to be less liable to
fright than English horses which are
made to wear them.
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3 NETOHBoRHOOD NEWS. :
FARGO.

Miss Della Dopkins returned
Tuesday from an extended visit
with relatives at Fond du Lac.
The Ladies' Aid meets with Mrs
Edgar Wilson Thursday, May IL
Cash Baker of Beldenville bought
potatoes here last week.
Archie Reynolds came out from
the Falls Saturday evening and re-
NAMED until Sunday afternoon, Wis
iting at the home of his grand
mother, Mrs. Mary Reynolds.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
Farmers.

If you have land to sell list it
with me. have had II years ex-
perience in selling farm lands and
have many friends and customers
wanting to invest in good soil. If
your price is right can sell your
farm. Yours truly,
c. w. RING.
Cat Glover Station.) River Falls,
Wis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
New imposition.

Harris-Walters has been looking
pretty sad since his daughter got mar
ried, hasn't he?
Correli-Yes. You see, he had no
sooner got his daughter off his hands
than he found he would have to put
her husband on his feet.-Town and
Country.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
GOOD Bread

is knocked out in one round when
bad flour is used. Likewise the
cook 1ooses her reputation for cook
cry when an inferior article of flour
&c 11ca1
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
c OLD NJ BAL

is the Best, and the best results fol
low it's use. The cooks of this
vicinity have an opportunity to i'm
prove their reputation by the use of
GOLD MEDAL FLOUR. Because
you have had fair success withfs some
other brand is no reason why you
should not try GOLD MEDAL,
where greater successes await your
efforts. Progress is the order of
the day. The cooks of this country
buy new spring millinery. Why
use the old flour and not the old
hat. The stomach rules the head.
The cooks can increase their popu-
larity by the use of GOLD MEDAL
FLOUR. For sale at
Walkers, S1son's, Ham,
items, Heinrieh's or
Wholesale and re-
tail It -
CASCADE MILLS.
w. n. PU tina Nj.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14

their markings. 1t would seem as
if some system of marking might
be hit upon that would not admit
of such wide discrepancy in the,
results of the judges. 1t is true
that speaker may be very good in
some features and very poor in
others-the average making him
medium. This poor feature may
not be taken into consideration by
the audience in general but the
critic is bound TO make that promi-
nent, and inasmuch as the princi-
pal object of these contests is to
suggest mistakes and emphasize
the necessity for improvements, we
suppose there lies the advantage in
the present system of marking, but
what strikes US as queer is how can
one educator decide that contest
ant is first among twelve and
another mark the same contestant
last?
The judges were Prin. Webster OF
the East High, Minneapolis; Miss
Austin, Central High, st. Paul;
Prof. Innis, Ham1ine University;
Prin. Thomson, Glenwood; and
Dist. Atty. Geo. Thompson. Els
worth.
PORTS OF JTDGFS
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14

If you want TO buy good farm,
residence, business property, COW
or second hand farm machinery
call OH w. H. PUTNAM.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
Judgment at the Hammond
Contest.

Below we give a table showing
the markings of the judges at the
declamatory contest held at Ham
mond the 1st instant We repro
duce this table to call attention to
the absurdities of the Individual
markings. The table is a study,
and after one has studied it a while
he will conclude that judgment is
a curious thing. There were twelve
speakers. Among the curiosities
of the markings it will be noticed
that one of the speakers, one repre-
senting the Prescott school, was
marked as .highest-No l, by one
Judge and lowest, No. II, by anoth-
er. Miss Lawson got three high
marks, 1, 2, and 4, but the two low
ones 6 and 6 brought down her
average. Miss Ode11 got four good
marks, l, l., and 5, but the re-
duced her total to second place
Cummings, the winner, was mark
ed 1st by one judge, End by one and
Sd by two. On this one speaker the
judges were all not far apart il
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-14
THE LOCAL MARKET.
CORRECTED EVERY THURSDAY.

Following are the prices paid by
River Falls merchants and dealers
for farm products, ETC., to-day:
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-02-20
A AND

The testimonial to Georgia Cayvan in
New York netted over $4,000.
Miss TriXie Friganza has joined the
"Sally In Our Alley" company.
William Faversham is to appear next
season in Gilbert Parker's Right of
Way"
Rehearsals for Miss Elsie de Wolfe's
new comedy. Cynthia" have been be-
gun in New York.
Ida Gabrielle, one Of the s%oubrettes
In 1.-THE Jewel of ASIA" was originally
discovered in the chorus.
Ezra Kendall is to dramatize Eugene
Fields Little Boy Blue" for a star
ring tour of Arthur Dunn.
Hattie Williams has been engaged to
appear in musical comedy in both New
York and London by Charles Frohman.
Fred Frear, who plays the part of
secretary to Ki-Ram in "The Sultan of
Sulu,' is an old hand at comic opera,
but still amusing.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-02-20
That Will Do You Good

We know OF no way in which we
can be Of more service to our readers
than to tell them Of something that
will be Of real good to them. For
this al W. want to %acquaint
them with what we consider one of
the very best remedies on the market
for coughs, colds, and that alarming
complaint, Group. We refer to Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy. We have
used it with such good results in our
family 10 long that it has become a
household necessity. By it's prompt
use we haven't any doubt but that
it has time and again prevented
Group. The testimony is given upon
our own experience, and we suggest
that our readers, especially those
who have small children, always
keep it in their homes as a safe
guard against croup.-Camden IS. O.
Messenger. For sale by L. .. Gale,
druggist.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-02-20
PROSPER.

Prosper, Feb. 18.-The many young
friends Of Carl Hoffman are sorry to
learn that he is very ill with pneu.
monia at the home OF his parents.
DR.. Bobb, of Mitchell, is..the attend
ing physician. Miss Freda Hoffman
is also on the sick list and unable to
resume her studies at the D. q.
Henry Riggert made d flying trip
to Bard one day last week. Wonder
what the attraction is over yonder?
MI. and Mrs. Frank Scheick enter
tanned a number of their friends over
Sunday evening.
Miss Agnes Schaub came up from
Tobin township last Saturday to at
tend the basket social and visit her
parents.
The basket social and school enter
tainment held at the railroad school
house last Saturday evening was. a
grand success and pronounced by
many to be the best of it's kind eyer
held in this vicinity. a fine program
was prepared and carried out without
a failure on the part of anyone.
A bout IS baskets were disposed Of to
the highest bidders, the highest prlce
paid being Sl.75. The proceeds from
th sale eof baskets amounted to $24.-
Is, which will be used in buying cur
tains and blackboards for the school
house, after which the remainder
will be used in purchasing books for
the school library. The teacher,
Miss Hofstetter, has sent to Chicago
for the blackboards, which are to be
the same as has been ordered for the
Mitchell city schools and WILL be
something good, and what is badly
neeGed in the railroad school house.
A large number of young people from
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-02-20

Emsley, Feb. l5.--If it don't get
warmer pretty o we will all have
to follow the ground hogs example.
Earl jerks is on the sick list.
Miss Snow commenced a term of
school in No. II, Tobin.
Art. Gardeners baby hurt its arm
quite bad last week.
B. E. Barnard sold a team to Fred
Miller near Mt. Vernon.
Most everyone attended MI. Inks
sale last Tuesday. Mr.. Ink has
rented his farm and will move to
Mt. Vernon.
John Altman bought a thorough
bred Hambletonian mare, pr1 ce
fourteen hundred cents.
Having seer or heard nothing of
Charlie Atkinson for two months we
drove oyer one day and found him
busy tending to his own business,
herding cattle and raising whiskers.
Clyde Livingston bought a team at
Mr.. Inks sale.
willie Atkinson spent Sunday at
a. A. jerks.
Some of the young people attended
the dance at Clarence Warfield's Sat
urday night.
Maude Atkinson has a new man
dolin.
VIM. Markla marketed hogs in
Ethan Wednesday.
Ford Shane is working for Mr.. Ink.
Bert Cropsey has been working for
C. Atkinson the last two days.
E. V. Green, Vim. Markla. j.
Altman and a. A. jerks took a
pleasure trip to Mitchell Saturday.
Rather cold, but walking vas good.
Fred Moses sold 80 tons Of hay to
Harker Bros. They also bought 20
tons of Clyde Livingston and twelve
of John Altman.
Mrs. E. V. Green visited Tuesday
ut Clarence Welch's.
Irwin Stevens folks have moved
to Mitchell.