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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-17
peanI. EAT Les. Bread.

"Well, how's business?' asked a re-
porter of wholesale -four agent. "You
would be surprised" he replied, ito
know that in this time Of general pros
perity we are selling less flour than In
hard times. From 1893 to 1895 I sold
more flour than ever before or since
Business is thriving In many lines, but
the country is too prosperous for the
-four men and the bakers. Why is it?
Simply because the people have money
enough to buy other things than bread
When the country is hard up people get
along on bread as the staple of the Ia
BILE. Now they use the fancy cereals
breakfast foods, can use more meat and
vegetables and generally expand their
diet, which, of course, lessons the de-
mand for bread. Washington Star.
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Notes on Separating Milk.

j. w. Newman, IL talk to Canadian
dairyman, said: milk fresh and warm
as it comes from the cow is in the best
condition for separation. Otherwise
aerate and cool to so degrees. When
ready to separate heat the milk again
above 80 degrees by some continuous
heater that will hold sufficient milk to
keep the separator going at least five
minutes. Butter fat is not a good con-
ductor of heat, not equal to skinned
milk; therefore, sufficient time for ex-
pansion of the fat should be allowed be-
fore milk is fed into separator Heating
milk reduces it's viscosity, increases the
capacity and insures more exhaustive
separation. Avoid vibration, low speed,
overlooking separator, low temperature
or making very heavy cream by adjust
ment"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-17

Crossroads, Tenn, Sept. l4-Orbra Young.
the ten-year-old son of Lester Young, of this
place, is a bright boy, and one who is very
well liked by all who know him.
For some years 0rbra has suffered a great
deal with form of Kidney Trouble which
was very annoying, and which made him mis-
cradle all the time. He had to get up three
or tour times every night, almost all his
His father heard of remedy called Dodd's
Kidney Pills, and bought some for the lit
tie fellow with the result that he is now COM
pletely cured of the old trouble He says:
"Dodd's Kidney Pills soon gave me great
relief, and now | can sleep all night without
having to get up. We will always praise
Dodd's Kidney Pills"
There are many children suffering from
Kidney and Urinary troubles These dis
orders should be promptly corrected. Dodd's
Kidney Pills is a safe and sure remedy for
all suea arrangements.
Master Orbra Young conquered his trou-
bles and made well boy of himself by using
Dodd's Kidney Pills, and any one may do
the same by the same means.
Parents should see to it that their children
are given fair chance in life, and there is
nothing that can undermine the health of
growing child as much as Kidney and Uri
nary arrangements.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-17
Economical Music.

Pomp was an old South Carolina
darby who loved to talk about times
"befo' the wah'' to any one who would
listen.
Talk bout economy an saving" he
said one day, 81 reckon de souf's hav-
ing 'nough oh it nowadays, but de norf
is p'intedly ahead OBJ it in dose days,
ya-as, sab. Wy, dere's a rich man
rich as mud-dat's come down from
de norf an build a house here for to
lib in part OBJ de year; an he's got
two beautiful daughters cold-looking,
ya-as, sab, but beautiful. An wat
you s'pose my granddaughter Sail
dat washes dishes for dose folks tole
me? She say dat it's a truf fact. dat
she's seen dose two beautiful young
ladies practicing on one pianner, at
de same time! Ya-as, sab. OATS a
ting neber happened in Souf Ca'lina
befo' de wah! youths Companion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-17
CARE OF DIRT ROADS.
II Should Not BE Relaxed In the Agi-
tatiOn for More Substantial
Highways.

In driving over number of our dirt
roads last fall I noticed that, almost
without exception, they were in deplor-
able condition to leave for winter 1t is
true that we had hard summer for
roads, but that only makes it the more
| imperative to look after them and get
the water running off properly before the
ground freezes. The side bitches should
be cleaned out and the sluice openings
cleared of silt and fallen grass. In places
| the water had broken across the road
owing to an INSTRUCTED ditch, and there
were fiat stretches where drainage was
so bad that water was almost on level
with the wheel track. When roads go
into the winter in this way look out for
| trouble in the spring, and lots of it. These
roads had been worked" and shaped up
properly in the spring or early summer.
The appropriations had been expended
and the roads were then allowed to shift
| for themselves. I know Of one road
master who makes it practice to go
over his road with shovel Immediately
after every heavy rain. A few shovelfuls
removed here and few added there save
keep the road in remarkably good shape.
One never sees any loose stones in the
road bed in that district, either. But, as
rule. farmers who are usually the road
masters, are too busy with their affairs
at home to think about the roads at such
times
In the agitation for macadamized
roads, 1t is to be feared that the dirt
roads may be neglected-be looked upon
as evils to be endured until the stone
ones may take their place. This should
not be, for however the problem OF taxa
ton of the farmer for stone roads may
be solved, 1t is still true that macadam-
ICED roads for all our rural sections are
about as far off as the millennium. Coun-
try roads in the spring are, as a rule,
something intolerable: but the remedy
Is not in stone roads, but in an improve
ment of the dirt roads and better sys-
tenn of maintaining them. With grad
ing off of hills and filing in of low places,
with under-drainage and with constant
supervision by competent road builders.
dirt roads would be different from what
they are. At the same time, this kind of
work would be preparatory to the stone
surface which would ultimately be
added. The laws in relation to the main
tenance of our common roads need over
hauling, and the administration of them
be placed in more scientific and COM
petent hands than it is at present.-Grant
Davis, in Rural New Yorker.
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LARGEST BOTTLE BLOWN.
One in New York City That Hold
Sixty-Fiye Gallons, Five
Feet High.

The largest blown glass bottle in the
| United States, or in the world, so far as
| the makers know, is on exhibition in a
window in Barclay street, just above
Greenwich. 1t holds IS gallons and is
| shaped something like baby's nursing
bOttle-narrow at the bottom, bullying
at the middle, with small neck and
mouth. The bottle is trifie less than
| five feet high, and is about four feet in
circumference at it's widest part, reports
the New York Times.
The man who blew it at the factory
in New Jersey is just about as tall as the
bottle. II he could manage to squeeze
| through it's neck, he could sleep very
comfortably inside of it. /. If the surface
| area of the glass blown into the bot
tie were spun silk, it would make p
gown for moderately large sized wom-
an. Although blowing by guesswork,
tempered with long experience, the man
exceeded by only half an ounce his in
| structions as to the size of the bottle
IS gallons.
| The firm read in western newspa-
| per of hitherto feat, :"
as alleged, of blown bottle holding 40
gallons. The Barclay street makers
sent one of that size to the Philadelphia
Centennial, more than 25 years ago.
Just to show that it was still in the ring,
this 65-gallon bottle was made. The
manager says that he could blow hun
dred-gallon bottle if he had place to
put it in his window
Pinned to a card at the base of the
big bottle is the smallest bottle in the
world, its appropriate RUNNING mate. 1t
holds just four drops, and must be filled
with a hypodermic syringe. 1t is SO
small that it has to be fastened against
| a jet-black background in order that
persons looking in at the window car
see it. More time was required to make
the four-drop bottle than the 65-gallon
one.
The substitution of machinery for
human labor in glass bottle factories is
not making much Roadway. For the
finer grades of work machinery is no
good at all. Skilled mechanics are at
work improving it all the time, and
they promise to succeed some day, just
as they did with the typesetting ma
chimes. Meanwhile the efficient glass
blower has the call. There is great
deal of boy labor in the factories, which
are scattered throughout New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Ohio and indiana Each blower re-
quires from two to three boys to carry
bottles from the molder to the anneal-
ing oven. In some factories the blow
ers are required to furnish their own
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-17
When the Prince
Came
By ANNIE SHANNON MONROE



TIE had strolIed to the farther end Of
the veranda, found secluded seat
ano lighted cigar. For moment he
looked back on the scene of warmth
and beauty he had just quilted, then,
struggling his shoulders, turned coldly
from 1T, and tried to penetrate the deep
darkness that hid the placid waters OF
the lake.
Presently he leaned forward to shake
free the cigar ash. and discovered her
sitting on the top step of the porch, half
hidden from view by the vines He re-
called having seen her during the past
few days-a new guest at the hotel-and
she seemed to be alone. Now, with the
freedom of the summer time he spoke;
not that she interested him, but she was
alone.
mot dancing?"
mo, not dancing" she answered. Her
words and manner showed an indiffer-
ence equal to his own.
81 was thinking" volunteered she, ''of
my first party"
"And l." he said, was also thinking
of a young girls first party-a girl |
knew once" He pulled at his cigar.
She leaned YEARLY back against the
vine clad pillar, her slender hands
clasped about her knee.
"a man is born" he unused, "and
straightway he begins to work. The CEN
trail thread of his life-loom is to make
money, to have home of his own, and
some day marry a sweet-faced girl
whose hair falls away from her temples,
softly, as does his mothers. That is
all he asks" He paused a moment and
plucked viciously at the leaves on the
vine.
"And them" she asks.
lone night he meets her. 1t is her first
party She is young and innocent and,
he feels instinctively, good. Her hair
curls softly, dimples hide in her cheek
to peep out when she laughs; the
bushes come easily. He Woos her, wins
her, marries her. He is sublimely hap
by. One day he arrives home unexpect-
eddy. A man-his best friend-leaves
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-17

Did you ever go into a factory and no
tice how expert the workers are with
their hands, how almost automatically
the motions are r ade? Did you ever
notice, too, how everything stood in just
the right place and always in. the same
place? How much ster the people could
work than you could? Your hands, also
can learn to work without waiting for
brain and eyes to tell them where to find
things, if your tools and clothes are al
ways in the same place, the right place,
of course. You work at your best when
you do not have to waste thought on
routine work.-Agi icultural Epitomist
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slantingly into the ground to hold the
roller in position. A grooved pulley (E)
runs freely on the wire, and from its
axis is suspended 50-pound weight cd
as shown in the cut given here; the rope
(G) runs over the pulley CHI, which is
firmly attached to the lower side of the
track. The wire rope is made of two
number nine common fence wire
twisted together. When in use the
upper end of the ripe that runs through
pulley H is attached to the hay fork
rope which carries the fork. 1t is thus
carried up with the loaded fork and
brings it back by gravitation when
empty. Try it and see how much labor
it saves you.-Norman Atkins, in Epit-
omist.
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when Horses Get Nervous.

Many time when bridges have looked
"scary" or trolley cars caught me, the
laprobe has been a sure protection
against trouble, and many horse, whose
driver takes his life in his hands driving
into city with its-to the horse-many
objects of fright would drive like the best
with a light blindfold. 1t may not be
considered by some as mark OF horse
manship to blind horse to control it's
fear, but it lessons the danger of accident
greatly. and horse and driver are on
quite as friendly terms when the dan
ger is over, as though q strenuous time
had been risked with doubtful results
John Gould, in Ohio Farmer.
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FEARED A SEPARATION.
Hhe Deaz Little Lamb Was Afraid
Her Father Might BE Put
with the Goats.

Her father had read her the parable of the
sheep and the goats at the day of Judgment.
She made no comment, but that night a
sound of weeping came from her room. Her
mother went as consider, relates Brooklyn
Life.
why are you crying, dear?"
about the goatsl Oh, I'm so afraid I'm
q goat"
why, no, dearie, you are sweet little
lamb, and if you should die tonight YOU
would go straight to Heaven" With this
and like assurances she was finally pacihed.
The next night the same performance was
repeated, and again her mother inquired the
reason,
Its the goats! I'm afraid about the
gosts!"
Didn't tell you, dear, that you were
little lamb!"
"Oh," she sobbed, Pm not crying aboat
myself, but I'm fraid you may be goat"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-17

When night gifts round an supper's ate,
Dad lights his pipe fer smokin',
An gifts tn newspaper an SEE
To me. a kinder jokin':
Now, Bub, I'll take yer wool on less
You hurry up those slippers"
(He knows he cou'd'n, cause it's took
Already with tn clippers)
An then he sets an smokes an reads,
An mother sets a-sewin'.
A-makin' clo'es fer sister-s'prise
You how that kid is CROWN!
An l jes' sorter wait aroun'.
A-hopin dads most through II.
Cause then he'll tell me bout tn tale
IT'S got a giant to ii.
''They amt no news but polykits,"
Bimeby dad seq a-yawnin,
San John Smiths paintin' of his fenct,
An Green's put up an awnin;
So then 1 climb up on his knee.
An he seq: You young urchin,
An rubs his whiskers gainst my face,
An thinks l need a birchin'.
"But, wal" he SEE. .'onct on time
Was Jack tn Giant Killer
And tells about tn dreffiest things,
IT jes' plumb skeer a feller;
An low Jack sworded of their heads.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-17
Selection OF seed Corn.

It is very important to depend upon
home seed corn for the main part of the
crop and not upon imported seed Sc
lect ears of corn for seed which have
kernels of as nearly uniform size and
shape as possible. otherwise it will BE
impossible to secure an even stand with
any planter. The shape of the ear
should be cylindrical from butt to tip;
this means even, regular, deep kernels,
resulting in a large per cent. of corn to
cob. The tapering ear is undesirable.
The rows of kernels should run parallel
with the cob, straight and regular
Rurai World.
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In haste, guilt is written in his face and
in hers. In madness, he denounces her.
She meets his reproach in open-eyed in
rocence as one misunderstood. She
uses her dimples well, her dimples and
her wide blue eyes and her bushes.
Bah! they sicken me. They are but
sleeps clothing. Well, he gives her a
divorce. Society is not SO shocked, for
society is used to these things" He
shrugged his shoulders and lighted an
other cigar.
Society" she murmured, half aloud
"And she marries the other man." he
continues, his voice hard and metallic
land she goes on dimpling and blush
ing. while the new husband loves and
humors and pets and, suppose, trusts
her"
and the first husband ?" ventured the
listener.
HE? Oh, he smokes cigars on summer
hotel verandas and wonders if it ever
comes back to her, that first party"
She sighed.
He pulled at his cigar, looking out to
the water, where tiny light moved UP
and down with the motion of yacht,
harbor bound. Presently she spoke, her
eyes, too, on the swaying light.
"a girl is born and her first dream Is
of a doll. Later the dream children of
her future fill her brain. She names
them; she sees their curls, brown and
golden. They are sweet realities in her
fancy. Still later she begins to dream OF
the Prince who is to come; her noble
Prince who is to love her forever Oh,
how she loves the Prince! long, long,
before his coming. Then, one night she
goes to her first party. radiantly happy;
her heartbeats quicken with the joy OF
living, of feeling admiring eyes upon
her. The freshness, the newness, the
wonder of it all, dazzle her. She has
crossed the border into fairyland out
OF which the Prince is to come. She
waits; someone comes-she was expect
ing the Prince-this must be he"
The light on the mast of the distant
boat had disappeared, and she was lean
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-17
Bacteria In Ice.

Prof. Bujwid found $1,000 dis
ease producing germs in melted
hailstone. Prof. Prudden, of New
York, has shown that the natural
ice supplied in most cities con-
tains multitudes of disease producing
microbes, including typhoid fever
bacteria and other equally deadly
germs. Thousands of persons are
made sick by the use of ice water, not
only because of the germs which the
ice contains, but because of the gastric
debility induced by the large Quanti-
ties of cold water. The gastric juice
destroys germs; but when the stom-
ach is deluged with ice water, the
gastric glands cease to secrete hydro
chloric acid, to the presence of which
the gastric Juice owes its germicidal
properties.-Good Health.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-17
SHUTTING OUT THE SUN

color as the upholstering of the carriage,
is pulled over two bands of elastic
Hooks are ssewed at the ends of these
bands, as show. the hooks being cover
ed with cloth. This little curtain can
then be stretched and hooked to the up
rights on either side of the carriage or
across the back, putting it at the right
height to protect the face from the sun.
1t will also serve excellently as wind
break. If the hooks are covered with
rubber they will be less inclined to slip.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-17
81 90 Mig 5oo-Pound Steel Range oner.

If you can use the best big 500-pound steel
range made in the world, and are willing to
have it placed in your own home on three
months free trial, just cut this notice out
and send to Sears, Roebuck a. CO., Chicago,
and you will receive free by return mail q
big picture of the steel range and many
also receive The most wonderful $l00 steel
range offer, an offer that places the best
steel range or heating stove in the home OF
any family, an offer that no family in the
land, no matter what their circumstances may
be, or how small their income, need be with
out the best cooking or heating stove made.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-17

"To run newspaper" says an Oklahoma
editor, "all fellow has to do is to be able
to write poems, discuss the tariff andmoney
question, umpire baseball game, report .
wedding, saw wood, describe a ire so that
the readers will shed their wraps, make
measure calico, abuse the liquor habit, test
whisky, subscribe to charity, go without
meals, attack free silver, defend bimetallism,
sheer at snobbery, wear diamonds, invent
advertisements, overlook scandal, appraise
babies, delight pumpkin raisers, minister to
the afflicted, heal the disgruntled, fight to
finish, set type, mold opinions, sweep the
Office, speak at prayer meetings, stand in
with everybody and everything IN. Y. Tri-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-17
RadIsson on tho Chippewa,

A new town in Sawyer county, Wis, on
the Omaha Road Located on both the
Chippewa and Couderay rivers, in center
of a most fertile and promising hardwood
district. Good muscallonge, bass and pike
fishing in both rivers. Exceptional oppor-
tunities for landseekers. If looking for a
new location don't fail to see this new
country. For map and full particulars
Wis, or to T. W. Teasdale, General Passen-
ger Agent. c. st. p. M. 81 o. R'y. St Paul.
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Village Life.

The average villager is better OF than
the average dwelIer in a town. His
health is better, he is more content, he
is not afraid to work, he Is righteous
God-fearing man, he is not mixed up In
scandals, he rears a big family, he has
q better time on ten dollars than the
city man has on twenty; but he fought, fol
his own sake, to understand his advan-
tages, to spare the woods and the wa
tiers and the birds, to better his roads
to let the sun shine in at his windows
and not to take criticism SO sorely to
heart-Brooklyn Eagle.
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spain brought us Horses.

The Spaniards were the first to
bring horses to this continent, though
the paleontologists tell US that the
rocks abound with fossils which show
that equidae were numerous all over
America in the eocene period. 1t 10
a singular fact, however, that there
were no horses in America when the
first Europeans came hither.-John
Gilmer Speed, in Century.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-17
Changes of the Eye.

The eye of young child is as trans
parent as water; that Of the youth q
little less so; in the man of 80 the eye
begins to be slightly opaque, and in the
man of 20 or 80 it is dull and lusterless.
This great development OF opacity is
due to the increase of fibrous tissue and
deposit Of waste matter in the eve.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-17
A HAY FORK CARRIER.
Device for Returning n Horse Hay
Fork from the HaymOw to the
Loaded Wagon.

1t consists of wire rope CO. stretched
from the end OF the track (A) to wood
en- cylinder OBJ, inches in diameter and
10 inches long, around which few turns
are given. Two short stakes ODD are
cut from AKA inch scantling and driven
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-17

Mrs. Patty-"Do you really think DR.. Duck
man is skilled physician?" Mrs. Giblin
1.-THE patient) 81 don't know SO much about
that. But he has such quoting way with
him. When | said hoped | shouldn't be
buried alive, he said he ID look out for that.
Wasn't that thoughtful of him" boston
Transcript.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-17
THE FARM CARRIAGE.
The5e L. No Reason Why 1t Should
Not Be Comfortable the
Year Around.

A little device illustrated by the Rural
New Yorker will add much to the COM
fort of riding in a canopy topped car
riage. where annoyance is frequently
felt from the sun shining in at one side
or other or at the back, it may be-
A piece of cloth, preferably of the same
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sounded Tint Why.

We know that Richard Wagner was poet,
philosopher and musician A man OF such
varied genius must also have had humor.
yugend records one witticism of the great
composer.
left hand, !" said friend to Wagner.
eyes" he sadly answered, Il can hear it.
Youths Companion
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S1eam-Turhines.

The first steam turbines were built
in 1890, and the total power afforded
by them at the end of that year was
5000 horse power. The aggregate
power of these motors used to-day is
over 100000 horse power.