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Evening journal., 1903-12-15
Household Hints

sor doing work which has made your
ds very dirty. rub with olive oil be-
washing. This loosens the dirt, and
I viii be far less trouble TO get clean
AT iron holders. II lined with a layer
lld soft leather, like the top Of boot.
protect your hand from heat far bet
Than If made in THE ordinary way.
IS well to remember when papering a
IN room that blue in all light shades
|es room look longer. Dark colors or
prs with large patterns have the oppo-
effect.
|scoiored Baths.-To c,ean and remove
|2tafns from the enamel, rub well with
|sh salt moistened with vinegar. This
clean equally well enameled pots and
|B, no matter how burnt or discolored.
] Clean an InvaAd's Room. The best
10 clean an invaiids room Is TO rub
carpet with a cloth wrung out Of am
4 lie. rinslng and turning the cloth as
+ dust and dirt collect upon 1t. Change
water frequently. This is far bettei
i sweeping and raising an unpleasant
Evening journal., 1903-12-15

chimney. a thick candle is fastened
inside. It will burn all night and
longer, and is considered a great con-
venience in houses where electricity
is the only lighting power, and where
q dim light is wished throughout the
night.
The new tiny hand mirrors IN or
molu gilt and enamelled in delicate
colors and designs. would be well
coined by the glrl who loves q dainty
dressing table.
A superhne pack of cards, thin and
slippery. in dainty coiors and designs,
will be welcome gift to the woman
fond OF euchre.
Another trinket for the work bas-
ket is q small brass elephant, very
lifeli1e and with a tape measure rolled
up in its interior This cost 35 cents.
Among the Christmas presents be-
ing produced by women with nimble
fingers are long scarfs Of fine lace,
with the pattern at the ends outlined
with China ribbons. These scarfs are
copied from those seen in Romney and
d Gainsborough pictures. and are thrown
over the neck when evening gownssare
worn, the ends being allowed TO hang
straight down in front. Chiffon scarfs
strewn with tiny spangles are used
for the same purpose and are thrown
about the head on the way TO the
theatre
Evening journal., 1903-12-15

A boycott was declared lately by the
shoemakers Of Bogota refusing TO re-
pair in any way shoes of American
manufacture. having become alarmed
al their cheapness and the hold they
are getting on the market Of Colombia.
Evening journal., 1903-12-15

irish embroidered table mats in
dainty patterns twelve inches in diam-
eter sell for s4.75 a dozen. Six inch
mats are $3.50 a dozen, and those for
large plattersa cost 30 cents apiece. The
mats are of an excellent quality Of
linen and will launder we'll
A small night lamp that costs S2.95
has sterling silver frame and red glass
Evening journal., 1903-12-15

All our merchant tailoring at "a from former price.
Mr. Robert 7. BROMLEY, cutter is guarantee that
you will get good, stylish and we'll made clothrf--~--
Come early while the stock is broken in order e
make good selection.
Evening journal., 1903-12-15
Mems OvercOats.

Mems Swagger Overcoats in Oxfords and Mixed
Worsted, were $lO So and s14, So, So aud S.
Mems Black Thbets in Scotch Chevots, swagger effects
with belts without Were SO, SIS and $50, $50,
50 and $40
Meu's Overcoats in Black and Oxords so inches long,
we're 81, So and $40, now So So aud 81.
Evening journal., 1903-12-15
For Christmas Giving

Inkstands Of dun Vienna brass cost
81. They are about six. inches at the
bottom. but make sharp slant toward
the top, where a small glass ink pot
fits in. They make handsome desk
furnishing. tU.
Evening journal., 1903-12-15

A gift to please the bridge enthusiast
is a morocco case in holiday red or
duller colors, containing two packs Of
playing cards and a couple Of large
score pads. with pencil attached. Eight
dollars and seventy-fve cents win buy
this set.
Evening journal., 1903-12-15

Rain Goats, Genuine CraVenetteS.
Were s25, now $3.50.
Serviceable Rain Coats we're $40, now $40.
Stylish Rain Coats were SIS, now $3.50.
Evening journal., 1903-12-15

Advertise in the evening Journal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-13
HINTS FOR BEEKEEPERS.

Save odd bits of comb and render
into wax.
Give each colony good hive and see
that they have prolific queen.
Everyone owning colony of bees
needs good bee-smoker and veil.
Give the bees proper attention, and
do the work thoroughly. Slipshod
methods do not pay.
Don't leave scraps of honey about
the yard exposed to the bees. 1t makes
them cross, and induces robbing.
1t is not good to have the hive too
high from the ground; but they should
be raised enough to prevent rotting of
the bottom-board
Don't try to get along with home
made hives and fixtures, unless they are
made just right. Better buy good
hives and keep them well painted with
white paint.
Be tidy. Wher eating honey, don't
drop pieces of comb on the ground.
Put in can or box, and close up bee
tight. If visitors drop comb about it
should be gathered up and put away.
Work out such brood-combs as are
crooked or have drone cells in them.
Place them in a top story over queen
excluder. Extract the honey from
them this fall; then render into wax.
The combs may be replaced with comb
foundation next spring. - Midland
Farmer.
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GRINDING MADE EASY.

high and inches wide. The seat -
shown in the sketch. The splasher, A,
is a strip of board fastened close to the
stone, to prevent water being thrown
on the operators legs. The treadle, T.,
is strip one by two inches square, and
is attached to the leg OF the frame with
a half-inch bolt. The connecting-rod is
bent around the treadle loosely, so it
can be moved forward or backward to
suit the operator. A piece of lath, with
bits of wood under each end, nailed to
the leg forms a slot for the treadle to
move up and down in. G is the water
can at the back of the grindstone.
There are what are called bicycle
mounted grindstones on the market, but
when one has a stone he dislikes to
throw it away to get one that is easier
to work. Such stone mounted in a
frame as here described will prove as
satisfactory as a bicycle-mounted one.
Put little sand on the wet stone every
minute or two, letting only enough wa
ter drip on it to keep it damp, and you
can put an edge on any tool. in very
short time. In order to make smooth
edge, finish without sand and with a
good flow of water.-Mr. Grundy, in
Farm and Field.
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The PLAGUE OF INSECTS.
One-Tenth of the Total Farm Prods
uce of the Country Is Com
sumed by These Pests.

Some clever thinkers declare that the
numberless kinds of bugs, worms and
flies which harm the crops are a blessing
in disguise, because they reduce the
output OF farm produce and so prevent
constant glut in the markets, says 2
writer in Massachusetts PloughmaD.
ATTY any rate they put skill and brains
at premium for the farmer who would
successfully fight the new pests that
something OF which the old-timers never
heard. Even with the vigorous war
fare now carried on, an authority of the
National Academy of Science estimates
that one-tenth the total farm produce,
or S500,O00,000 worth, is spoiled by in
sects every year. One-half of this is
reckoned as loss to the staple crops.
Credit is given to various insects about
as follows: Hessian f1y's damage to
wheat, rye and barley, one-tenth, or S40,-
100000; chinch bug, $7,000,000 corn
root worm. 10 to 20 per cent. in many
states, certainly averaging five per cent,
or $37,0O0,000 of the corn crop; total
to growing cereals, $54,000,0 00 In sew
en- gulf states damage to corn has been
estimated at 20 per cent. and at five per
cent. for the whole country, making the
total $40,000,000. All other stored grain
is estimated at three per cent, or $780,
10000, making a total approximate
damage to stored grain amounting to
$60,000,000; grass and hay, $40, 100000;
cotton, by the cotton worm, boll-worm
and boll-weevil, So, 900 900 in 1880. Since
then this loss has decreased, but Texas
in 1894 lost $S.000,000 by the boll-wee-
vii, and $15,000,000 is considered low
annual estimate of it's work on cotton.
Tobacco gave up eight per cent, or ST.
100000, to horde of insects; potatoes,
six per cent, or $10000,000 to the Colo
rado potato beetle. No figures are given
for fruits, truck, domestic animals and
timber, but moments thought will
snow that the loss in these items must
be enormous, although hard to estimate
closely because of lack of separate
statistics for loss by insects. The total
value thus destroyed is vast annual tax
large enough to pay interest on all the
improved roads, canals and schools. that
the most sanguine friends of the farm
ers might desire. Whether such destruc-
ton is a concealed blessing may we'll
be doubted. At least nobody would
care to assert that we have not already
plenty of harmful insects. Rather it
should be leading object of the sci
entists to prevent the introduction of
further costly intruders of the gypsy
moth description.
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SUMMER HEN NOTES.
Mess of Cooked Lean Meat Given
Every Day Will Stimulate Pro-
ductiOn of Eggs.

If the hens must be fed anything at
all, it should be lean meat. 1t is bet
ter to feed nothing and let the hens
pick up all they can from wide range,
which gives them a variety and keeps
them in exercise. But when the hens
do not lay, give them mess of cooked
lean meat once day. This will often
start them laying when everything else
fails Hens will not lay after they be-
not moulting, they should be laying, as
there is no season of the year so favor
able for reproduction as summer.
When the hens are not laying during
the summer there is something wrong.
It may be they are too fat or that lice
are annoying them. 1t may happen that
even on the range there is not suffi-
cient food supply, but it is seldom that
such is the case The majority of those
who feed their hens give nothing but
grain and in so doing they get the hens
out of the favorable condition for lay
ing by making them too fat.
The best summer foods are milk,
meat and grass. The hens can secure
all the green foods they wish if they are
at large, and also seed and insects, but
If supplied with skim-milk they will
need no other food, as long as they are
laying; but should the supply of eggs
fall off, give them lean meat Cut off
every portion of the fat from the meat
and use only that which is lean A
pound of meat will be sufficient for Is
hens. thus giving them an ounce each.
When the hens cease laying, it would be
well to examine them for lice. as that
is where most of the difficulties with
poultry begin. When hens are kept free
from lice, they will usually give good
account of themselves.-B. P. Wagner.
in Prairie Farmer
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Old Girl Graduates.

If the likenesses of girl graduates
which now make an attractive feature
OF many newspapers are true to the life,
and undoubtedly they are in most cases,
doesn't it seem that those leaving the
high schools have remarkably mature
look? In some instances they look to
be quite rs years of age and as knowing
and wise as girls who really have seen
that number of years are usually found
to be in this sophisticated age. 1t seems
rather curious, too, that such young
girls should look so finished" but it is
probably just an evening up of things In
their respective families, as their moth
ers and grandmothers are undoubtedly
engaged in taking beauty-and-yout
renewing cures with years from five to
twenty-five taken from their ages. We
will record it as the result of an effort
of nature to square accounts.-Boston
Transcript.
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silk CaterniIIar

The nests of caterpillar of undeter-
mined species, living in single forest in
Madagascar, offer possible new source
of fine silk M. Thery, of the Madagas-
car forestry department, states that
these nests, which are attached to trees,
are of dazzling whiteness, and are about
is inches long, consisting of silk-lus-
trous, very flexible and very tenacious
much resembling that of the common
silkworm. From 100>to $50 caterpillars
live in a single nest, going out at night
for food. The caterpillars are very pro-
life, and it is probable that they can be
successfully introduced into other for
ests. Experiments are being made to
determine the value of the silk.-Nature.
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pound lighter than the last named. The
origin of the Minorca, like that of so
many others of our profitable poultry
Is much in doubt. Son are of the opin-
ion that they Originally came from
Minorca, an island in the Mediterranean
sea, one of the Balearic isles, while 9TH
ers contend they are a variety of the
Black Spanish. Be that as it may, they
are one of the most profitable breeds of
poultry for the farm that is known. For
table purposes they are good, the flesh
being white or light colored and fine
grained Their chief property is their
egg production. They are nonsitters and
year-around layers. AS winter layers
they are exceptionally good when kept
under fairly favorable circumstances
Farmers Review.
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Food for Little Chickens.

Charles A. Cyphers, who has made
many experiments in the feeding Of little
chicks, writes as follows: Without an
exception bread and sweet milk make
the best food for a day or two, if not
for the first two weeks. At the time of
exclusion the crop, gizzard and intes-
tines are filled with uric acid and other
excretions, of which they should be
cleansed. / have fed on nearly every
food usually employed and killed and
dissected by the third day over 100
chicks OF all the foods experimental
with bread softened with sweet milk
clears the crop and gizzard and starts the
chicks growing the quickest"
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THE BIKER AND HIS LION.
Whee1man in Africa Has an AdVen-
ture with a Fortunate
Conclusion.

On mellow moonlight evening cy-
clist was riding along lonely road in
the northern part of Mashonaland. AS
he rode, enjoying the somber beauty
of the African evening, he suddenly be-
came conscious of a soft, stealthy tread
on the road behind him, relates the
Philadelphia Ledger. 1t seemed like the
jog-trot of some heavy, cushion-footed
animal following him. Turning round,
he was scared very badly to find himself
looking into the glaring eyes Of huge
lion. The puzzled animal acted very
strangely, now raising his head, now
lowering it, and all the time shifting
the air in most perplexed manner.
Here was surprise for the lion. He
could not make out what kind Of an ami
NAL it was that could ROLL walk and sit
still all at the same time-an animal
with red eye on each side and
brighter one in front. He hesitated to
pounce upon such an outlandish being
being whose blood smelled SO oily.
No cyclist since the Romans invented
wheels ever "scorched" with more hon.
est and single mindedness of purpose.
But, although he pedaled and pedaled,
although he perspired and painted, his
effort to get away did not seem to place
any more territory between him and
the lion, for that animal, like Mark
Twain's coyote, kept up his annoying,
calm trot and never seemed to tire.
The poor rider was finally so exhaust
ed from terror and exertion that he de-
sided to have the matter over with
right away. Suddenly slowing down,
he jumped from his wheel and, facing
abruptly about, thrust the brilliant
headlight full into the face of the lion.
This was too much for the beast. 1t
was this fright that broke the lions
nerve, for at this fresh evidence of mys-
terry on the part of the strange rider
animal, who broke himself into halves
and then cast his big eye in any direc-
ton he pleased, the monarch of the for
est turned tail and, with wild rush,
retreated in very hyenalike manner
into the jungle, evidently thanking his
stars for his miraculous escape from
that awful being. Thereupon the bicy
clist, with new strength returning and
devoutly blessing his acetylene lamp,
pedaled his way to civilization.
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Related to a Prince.

Jesco Won Puttkamer, the 14-year-old
granddaughter of Prince Bismarck, is a
press feeder in a job printing establish
ment in Wilkesbarre, Pa. His aunt
Mrs. Mary Roger, with whom he lives, is
a scrubwoman. The boys father, Fran
els Won Puttkamer, was an officer in the
German cavalry. About Is years ago
the boy says, he quarreled with Prince
Bismarck and fed from Germany, Civ
ing up home, position and money. In
New York he was at one time a dish
washer. He married and two children
were born-Marguerite, aged 16, who is
now mill worker in Philadelphia, and
InScO
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A WE z X
OF PLAY
By EMMA SICKLE MARSHALL
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Copyright, 1903, by Daily story Pub. Coz


b A ND so you think we had better
~ Don't say the word you were
going to. 1t sounds harsh and-I think
we can arrange matters without using
such terms"
''But you say there is no use for us
to try to live together longer"
eyes, because we are so-so-incom-
patible. Don't think this decision has
been reached without much pain and
anxious thought. We made mistake
like hundreds, yes, thousands of 9TH
ers, that is all. The world is full of
mismated married people"
"But, Margaret"
Don't ret us prolong the agony, AL
bert. When / am gone your club,
golf, the track, will, absorb you, as
usual, and you will not miss me after
the first few days"
ooh, will I not?"
"Of course not. We will close the
house; / will give out that have taken
advantage of Marian's intended visit
to Europe to accompany her, and you
can move your things down to the
club. 1t will be more convenient for
you. There need be no publicity After
awhile, in year or so, when Marian
returns, maybe she will take the house
and then you can come back here.
That would be pleasant for you. If
not, you can sell it,"
"And your"
81 shall travel with Marian as long
as she cares to roam, and when she re-
turns to America l shall settle down
in Paris"
"Humph! To study music?"
THAT will be as good an excuse to
give the world as another. Yes, to
study music. ar sorry you have al
ways disliked music, Albert"
81 have not always disliked it,"
"Well, you have always censured me
oh, / know, not in words, but in ac
lions, and that is worse. If it hadn't
beerafor my music don't know what
] would have done during the hours
you were at the club and the links,
and especially lately, since you have
become so infatuated with horses"
81 would never have gone to the club
and the links-at least, not so often,
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Mite, L.ked the Tobacco.

Our experience does not confirm the
opinion of the many poultry writer's who
recommend tobacco powder or tobacco
stems in nests to keep insect parasites
away, especially chicken mites Some
years ago, having an unstable crop of
tobacco on hand, we made all their nests
of tobacco leaves, satisfied that we would
thereby exterminate mites. The result
was the worst attach from these pests
we ever suffered. They swarmed the
tobacco leaves by thousands This to-
bacco was very strong Connecticut seed
leaf and was cured deep, dark brown;
but it seemed that the stronger it was
the better the mites liked It as home.
Farm and Ranch.
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FRAME FOR GRINDSTONE.
IL Was Invented by Mr.. Grundy Who
Thinks 1t just the Right
Thing for Farmers.

give sketch of my grindstone frame.
have always had to do my own turning
and grinding, and used to stand on one
foot and pump away with the other I'M
til l ached in every joint Finally set
my brain going on the matter, and
evolved the frame shown herewith
Since it was finished have sat down and
rested while grinding. The sketch
shows plainly how it is built. 1t is all
wood except the rod connecting the
treadle and crank, which is No. wire.
The frame is so inches long, 80 inches
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AIN THE LITTLE OLD TOWN.
NInin Street

Main Street.
It's none of your crowded city streets,
Where the rush and hustle are,
And the wave of constant movement beats
Through the dust and smoke afar.
1t saunters in with a peaceful air
And it slowly passes through
This cheerful, hurryless thoroughfare
With its seeming ''Howdy-do."
1t stops where the roses blandly nod
Through the quaint old garden gate,
Then goes with a placid, patient plod
Where the sidewalks hold it straight.
1t halts again at the public square
For an unbegrudging rest
And a friendly chat with the corners there,
For each cross street is a guest.
Then lazily to the blacksmith shop,
Where it has to pause once more
To see how the blazing clnders flash
From the forge just by the door.
From there to the bridge across the brook.
To hear what the ripples say;
Then on to the walnut-shaded nook
Where the sages sit all day.
Main Street goes on with a calm content
To the summit of the hill.
Then yields to the soothing Establishment
OF the countryside. all still.
It rambles out where the meadows spread.
And the soft, green grasses creep,
And there. on a blossom spangled bed,
Main Street has gone to sleep.
Chicago Tribune.
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The theory of rotation teaches that
to get the best that the land is capable
of, and to avoid insects and disease, no
crop should follow a crop OF the same
kind or family. Melons, cucumbers and
squashes belong to one family, egg
plant, tomatoes and Irish potatoes to
another, beans and peas to still another,
and so on. A root crop should be fol-
lowed by grain or foliage crop, and
top-rooted by fibrous-rooted crop.
But few farmers carry the theory OF
rotation into practice very strictly
Midland Farmer.
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ga young friend of mine" said Senator
Joseph w. Bailey, married, not long ago,
woman of so years. She was rich and
ugly; he was handsome and poor.
The day after their wedding / met the
bride and bridegroom on a Pullman train.
travelling west. The bridegroom went into
the smoking compartment with me, and we
lighted up. He smoked gloomily, He was
silent long while.
well, jack, said l, so this is your
"He smiled grimly. Don't call it my hon
eymoon, he said. It's the harvest moon
with me. IN. Y. Tribune
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FOR EUROPE?"
If your time had not been so fnlfS oc-
cupied with concerts and musicians -
''There is no use for us to thresh that
subject. over again. We are not com
patible. L am drag on your recrea-
tions."
Indeed you are not"
''Well, would be if 1 did not efface
myself, and you"
''Are an obstacle in the way of your
advancement"
mo, not that, Albert, only you do
not understand my. love for music"
81 guess 1 don't. And so we must
say goodby-give up our home" he
glanced around the dainty apartment
which her taste has furnished, 81, to
take to the race track or any old place,
while you wander over the face of the
earth. A pleasant prospect, truly"
He laughed bitterly.
sit is too late for heroics, Albert. 7
simply cannot live this way any lon
ger"
''Do you want a-a-divorce?"
ga divorce? Gracious, no."
''But think of the years, the future
stretching away into-loneliness.'
A look of horror crept into her eyes,
then tears, that did not fall, blurred
all expression out of them.
''If," she began, hesitatingly, ''if the
time comes when you want your free
dom, when you have seen someone
you-you wish to put in my place"
Margaret" His voice was stern
and anger blazed in his eyes
''You might, you know, though not