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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-16
Disastrous storm.

A heavy thunder storm did consider
able damage in the vicinity of Darlington
to the trees and standing grain. The
storm at Argyle was almost a cyclone.
One building was wrecked and Mrs
Hamstead was killed. A report from
Gratiot says that much damage was done
there, several buildings being moved
from their foundations. Marshfield re-
ports terrific wind and rain storm,
causing thousands of dollars of damage
to growing crops, shade trees. etc. A
half dozen barns were blown down.
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still teaching, unsupported by the
child; he is taught fair play, muscular
endurance, time, rhythm. In the
schools the play element is more
prominent than in winter. The idea
is to attract the children. to make
them feel that the school is their
neighborhood home. Manual training
is to many of them the most potent
lure to the doors of the big school
house. The genius for making things
is as insistent in the little Italian
child in New York as it was in the
children who play with Michelangelo
in Italy.
Great is heredity. They will tell
you in those East side schools where
all the nations of the earth meet upon
the common basis of future American
citizenship, that Italian boys are most
skillful in handiwork. the best gar
deners-and there are school gardens"
even here-the most rich in untutored
taste; that the Jewish boys are the
best students, the keenest intelleCtu-
ally, descended often as they are from
S6uSTdLlO0S OIL EdDD1SJ Willie the COu-
paratively few remaining Irish boys
are the politicians of the schools and
run things" They will tell you, too,
that three centuries of struggle against
England have made the typical Irish
man politician, just as centuries of
oppression have left to the Jew few
activities except intellectual ones.
You can see the working of these
processes to this day in New York. In
the graduating class Of the College of
the City of New York, the summit Of
the public school system, three-fourths
of the members are Jews and practi-
cally all the honor winners; while of
the young women of the Normal college
a disproportionate number are He
brews.
In Columbia university Jewish
scholars are in minority, and scarce
ly figure in social life, in athletics, in
the school publications or in any form
OF student activity, except debating.
The school of All Nations.
But the Italian and the Jew and the
remaining Irish lads are not the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-16

in the newspapers. He never seems to
have had the faculty of getting that par
uicular kind of fame, and yet he is re-
r,ardad in the war department as in
many ways the most accomplished pro-
fessional soldier in the service During
and after the war with Spain he was
Gen. Corbin's assistant in the Office of
the adjutant general. A few months
ago he was promoted to be brigadier
general, and now he is TO be one of the
master minds of the general staff which
is due in so large a measure to his ini-
tiatiye.
AS colonel and assistant adjutant
Gen. Carter made himself Indispensable
to Secretary Root. Whenever Root
wanted to do anything Carter was the
fellow who told him just how it could
he done That sort of assistant always
endsars himself to his superior When
he idea of a general staff came up-no-
body knows exactly whether Root had
the idea first or Carter-the assistant
djutspt general worked out all the de-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-16

Madison merchants and business men.
particularly liverymen and confectiop-
ers, have compared accounts of bad bills
left by university students and united
be hired to take the bills of number Of
merchants, go to the homes of the stu
dents, leaving bills and ask the parents
to pay up Immediately. Legal proceed
ings will be brought against the sons
and daughters If payment is not made.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-16

A panic among 1000 people resulted
from the discharge of the entire stock
of fireworks at the public exhibition in
the school yard at Oregon. Thirty per-
sons were either burned or injured by
the tramping of the crowd Most of
those injured were moved to nearby
houses and cared for by the doctors as
soon as possible before being taken
home
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-16

James M. A. Watson. Jr. the municipal gov
eminent are rubbing their eyes to find
whether they are awake.
A young man named Watson, just
barely of age, has been in charge OF a
fund in the auditors Office which re-
suited from payments made by citizens
obliged to pay one-half the cost of lay
ing sidewalks in front Of their houses.
This sum is pretty large, but it seems
TO have been shoveled into drawer
and into the bank and out again with
hardly any record except what young
Watson chose to keep.
A few days ago it was discovered
that he was supposed to have made
away with $4,000 dollars Of the fund,
and now he is in jail
The disquieting feature of the case,
however, is the fact that this young
man, when appointed to Office, is said
to have already had a criminal record.
It is said that as a boy of II he was
convicted of forgery and sentenced to
two years in the reform school. This
seems to have been known to the Dis
trict officials, and yet he was intrusted
with the care of the funds, and no check
whatever was put on him. He had a
salary of 81 400 a year, and on this
salary he supported wife, played the
races, and cut dash with red devil.
He was known as one of the liveliest
and most extravagant sporting charac-
ters in Washington; and yet though
his superiors knew he was doing all
this on 81 400 a year, and that he had
shady record to boot, they never sus-
pected anything, wrong until the S7O,-
900 had disappeared.
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A Emrinms Storm.

The worst electrical storm in years
ragged at Menominee. 1t lasted five
hours, and the rain fell in torrents.
Streams were swollen out of their
banks and thousands of dollars of dar-
age was done to roads and bridges.
Many houses were struck by lightning
and burned. In some cases the inmates
were stunned, but no fatalities are re-
ported. Much stock was killed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-16

DR.. Guy B. Shepard a leading dentist
at Ripon, was found dead. Not return
ing to his home as usual search was
made and the body, evidently dead some
hours, was found lying on couch in his
office. A coroner's jury rendered YER
dict of death from heart failure. The
remains were taken to Sheboygan Falls
by the Masonic lodge
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-16

LdCHeu 10 great 6S-
Establishments where
many women are
employed. The
first woman so en-
ployed was in
Providence, R. l.,
the first man en-
gagged for similar
work was the So
cial secretary OF
the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company.
The secretary in
a big dry goods
Shon inuoctioq I pS
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ferent type from
P a y n e That is
the fourth assist
a n t postmaster
general, who hap
pens to be at the
head Of the corps
of inspectors to
whom it has fallen
to carry on the in
quiries. There Ii
nothing of the
politician a b o u {
Bristow, although
he was for awhile
coorof orxy ~ + = a
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concentrated at
tention than al
most any other
man in the United
States. Mr.. Payne
is conducting one
of the most search
ing and effective
Investigations that
has ever been con-
Quoted by a public
officer, and the re-
suit of which will
be to purify and
establish on a
more businesslike
footing the most
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Cron Outlook

The weekly crop report of the Wash
ington agricultural department says for
Wisconsin: High temperature, with
frequent heavy rains; corn growing
rapidly, but two weeks behind average;
winter wheat and rye ready for harvest;
oats heading short; barely fair length,
but short heads; spring wheat salts
factory
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-16

Dora-Edith married a very nice
man, l hear.
Clara-He's nice enough, but it won't
be long before there will be a divorce
in that family. He is cross-eyed.
What difference can that make ?"
"She can never tell whether he is ad-
miring her or some other woman
n. Y. Weekly.
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hunts with nicnics ing Diamonds.
and country outings thrown in. If the
geological expert is right, and he says
he is, and declares, further, that in the
last 20 years II gems have been found
within the limits defined, the fair fam
Gee of the Chicago youth is likely to
spurn his offer of a diamond engage
ment ring as being too common for her
dainty hand, and the supercilious hotel
clerk sees his finish as far as the flash
ing headlight in his immaculate shirt
bosom is concerned, for the bellboys and
the porter will soon be sporting stones
which will make his gem a has-been.
The professor says people have
through ignorance been kicking these
stones about as common pebbles. and
then he goes on to tall how to identify
the gems IF a small, round, trans
parent, CLASSY or adamantine mineral
of light color is found, it would be we'll
to test its hardness. II 1t scratches ev-
erything available, and if it weighs
three and half times heavier than its
bulk in water, it may be pronounced a
diamond"
All the gems already found were To-
Gated either in the sand and gravel of
kettle moraines or in the beds OF
streams, and directly in the pathway
Of the glacier which in ages past pushed
its way between the two cities. ut is
possible" the professor adds, that a
common mother lode of diamonds in
this vicinity might be found If the lines
were drawn through the finding places
of the various specimens This pocket
or mine is undoubtedly somewhere be-
tween Chicago and Milwaukee" And
both cities are expectant, and hot
rivalry may spring up to see which city
will first discover the mine.
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from beaten paths.
Comparatively few places on this
continent can point to more successes,
within the past couple of years, in the
field OF comic opera than can Chicago
Every city in America is importing
from Chicago George AIDE has given
us two prime favorites in "The Sultan
of Sulu" and Peggy From Paris :"
New York and other eastern centers
first questioned then approved of these.
Both of these were good, but they were
along recognized lines. The first was
timely, but it was not an experiment
But something out of the usual was
''The Wizard of o." first, and now
'Babes in Toyland." They were made
for children, and the theatrical world
looked rather askance at them and
questioned their drawing power. They
were Chicago experiment, and other
men and other places were satisfied
to let Chicago pay for the experiment
The "Wizard of Or" has travelled
from. coast to coast, and the genius of
Baum has been Landed by children
both old and young in every state and
city Now follows "Babes in Toy
land" even more gorgeous than it's
predecessor. and which passed the ex-
detrimental stage on the opening night
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-16
Had Not Changed His Mind

Young Wife (sobbing)-I will not
keep still! Before we were married
you said 1 had a charming flow of lam
guage.
Young Husband-And so you have,
dear. It not only flows, but dashes.
leaps, bounds, roars, goes over cata-
racts and mill sluices. and there is ar
occasional waterspout as well.-Tit.
Bits.
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only raw material
for whose benefit
t h e vacation
schools are es-
tablished.
o V e r | o oking
what was the in
famous "Mulberrw
Bend" and is now
a pretty park, is
the School of All
Nations" It's mem
bership includes
children born in
20 different coun-
frincs ond ~ aua-xr
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it, the brutal way
in which the not
yet-old is SWEEP
a w ay to make
room for the not
long-new.
Upon the corner
of Fifth avenue
a n d Sixty-third
street stands the
beautiful building
of the Progress
club, the chief so
cial Organization
of the wealthy He
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-16

Assemblyman F. H. Lord, of River
Falls, has been elected president OF the
state board of normal school regents
to succeed Frank A. Ross, Of Superior,
and Senator u. p. Beach, of Whitewa-
ter, has been elected vice president to
succeed Assembiyman Lord.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-16
Tornado Nenr Hanger.

A tornado passed four miles south
Of the village of Bangor, eight miles
east of La Crosse. 1t demolished a
large barn and windmill on the farm OF
George Page, laid trees and all vegeta-
ton low for distance of three miles.
and then rose and passed away.
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Not Necessary.

"Then you do not believe in the
old-stylc way of training a child-to
break its will early in life?"
'.No; the lawyers will do that for
him when he es."-Cincinnati Com.
merciaI Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-16

uCeI WuOS6 COLL
mission dates far
Their back than the
commission of any
other officer of
the military or
naval s. rVic e.
Maj. Gen. Hey
wood entered the
service before the
civil war, and has
served continu-
ously ever since
with a record for
gallantry not sur
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mis- the gap.
Nearly 100 vaca-
ton schools, roof
Fairgrounds and
open-air pl a y
grounds will open
this summer to
accommodate chill
dren who cannot
leave the city, and
who might else
wander about the
streets to little
good.
In the play
IL
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Der or me FL
grim, attempted to
show that Chicago
had a race prob
lem to solve that
presented quite as
many difficulties
as the race prob
lens of the south.
This is quite
true, and the solu-
ton of the prob
lem seems to get
harder each day
rather than easier,
-t - he
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trade commission
men advise GUS
toners to bull the
market. +" w b e n
the commiss i o n
man takes a hanG
in the marketon his
own account h e
usually is found on
the bear" side.
The majority of
the people, and es-
pecially of the peo-
pie of the country,
are optim j S t i C.
They hope for and
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on Henry street,
may be seen one of
the most touching
sights the city af-
fords. 1t is the Sa-
lutte to the Flag.
Every morning,
when the hundreds
of pupils are sit
ting at their desks,
the doors slide
back at the stroke
of nine and a dou-
BILE file of children,
girls on one side,
bOvS on the other.
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Gwendolyn Ethel is to marry
that young Bob Halstey; why. he has
been fitted by half dozen girls.
Evelyn-Case of being well shaker
before taken, suppose.-N. T. Times
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for a long time.
Thieving b a s
been discovered in
the offices of the
District of Column
bia, and the cir
cumstances are so
extraordinary that
the worthy citi-
Zens w h o h a V e
been congratulate
ing themselves for
years on the i'm
maculateness of
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of theatrical pro-
duction.
But Chicago is
not coming, it has
come. Out of this
city of pigs and
quantity there has
been given to the
world stage art
that has proven
r e C ord breaking
attractions, a n d
W h y? because,
like many another
Chicago success in
other lines. they
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ficers of the new
general staff of the
army. That is fit
ting, if there is as
sumed to be any
merit in the gem
eral staff, for, with
the exception of
Secretary r o o t j.,
Carter is response
BILE for it's creation
more than any
other one man.
Carter is not an
officer whose name
has figured much
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boy" there has
grown up in Chi
cago a demand for
play places for the
children.
To the kinder
garten teacher
probably m ore
than to any other
one influence must
be credited the
philosophy of the
necessity or teach
ing children how
to play. The doing
of this has become
zl ~
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city aWakenS to a
realization of the
treasures VIII | C h
lie spread at her
feet. A professor
at the Northwest
ern university has
declared that there
is a diamond mine
somewh e r e b e.
tween Chicago and
Milwaukee, a n d
the most popular
summer diversion
of all classes prom
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Such n DroIl Nurse.

THAT sounds like the charity bawl, .
said the nurse, as the babies in the
orphan asylum began to yell.--Prince
ton Tiger.
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Nasmyth, landscape painter of
repute, helped to compose some of
the finest park and forest scenery
in Great Britain. The estate of the
duke of Athol was disfgured by an
unsightIy crag, the rocks of which
were inaccessible to climbers.
Nasmyth determined to make bold
bid for success with a cannon, which
was at hand. BY his advice tin canis-
tiers were prepared and loaded with
tree seeds. Fired from the lannon's
mouth, these novel shells burst
against the face of the crag and scat
tered their fruitful contents among
the rocky crevices. Nature carried
on the work, and in the course of
wears those barren heights were
clothed with trees of luxurious
growth. Nasmyth's son James, the
Scottish astronomer, is said to have
repeated the experiment with equal
success.
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BUSY DAYS IN
WASHINGTON
Army and Post Office Changes Keep
Things on the Move.
DefaIcation by District of Columbia
OmcIaI-DIaJ. Gen. Haywood to
Retire from Marine Corps
Postal Scandal Gossip.

Washington.-The District of Co
iumbia has had shock from which it
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The salute to the Flag.

In the School of All Nations" and in
one other not far away, the famous one
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a science as the teaching of how
to work and study. Not that
children must play by rule, but
they must be afforded opportunity for
play that is healthful both bodily and
mentally.
There are now in the city eight NUM-
cipal Fairgrounds, maintained at the
expense of the city in just the same way
the public schools are maintained. The
equipment of these grounds vary with
the size of the space occupied. AT some
of them the children must be content
with swings, teeters, horizontal and
parallel bars, swinging ropes, and such
other implements of play as may be
crowded into a comparatively small
snace. At other grounds there are run
ming tracks, pole vaults, high jumping,
shot putting and similar field sports.
over each of these eight Fairgrounds
there presides a physical director and
an assistant. The first is usually man,
who looks after the bodily welfare of the
children, while the second is, in most
cases a woman, whose work is along
sociological lines. During the summer
season thousands of children patronize
the Fairgrounds, and in this way are
kept off the streets, and away from the
influence of the hoodlum element.
The old way of the streets tended to
make criminals out Of the children; the
new way of the municipal playground
makes useful citizens of them
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON
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THE DOINGS
OF CHICAGO.
A Budget of Gossip and Comment
from the Western Metropolis.
An Example of What the City's Black
Belt COntains-The ssBull'' and
the Bear on the Board
of Trade.

Chicago-Paul Laurence Dunbar, the
gifted colored writer, in a recent num-
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There is slump in diamonds at Chi
cago, or there is likely to be when the
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Gen. Carter on the stan.

Brig. Gen. William H. Carter has
been named one of the three general Of
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SUMNER DAYS
In NEW YORK
The Good Work That Is Being
Done by Vacation Schools.
How Gotham Makes American Git
liens Out of Children of All Nations
schools of PhiIanthropy-
The Social Secretary.

New York-In New York the school
year is now year; vacation school
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The Comic Opera .

Some time ago | referred to Chicago
as a coming theatrical center center
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There is another man in the post Of
fee investigation who is of quite diff
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A fashion rapidly growing here is
that of having social secretary" at
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Gen. KeywOOd to Retire.
The United States marine corps is
about to lose as It's commandant an Of
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The E'BuII" and the .'Bear."
Ninety per cent. of the so-called 'red
letters" sent out by Chicago board of
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Like fairy tale is the truth about
the growth of New York, the cost oil
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summer Play Grounds.

Out of the kindergarten idea Of "all
work and no play makes Jack dull
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The school of All Nations.

But the Italian and the Jew and the
remaining Irish lads are not the