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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
The Agricultural Engineer.

Agricultural engineering is no longer
fad but necessity. AS the problems
of farm life are studied they are found
to divide into two classes, those which
pertain to the care of the crops from
their planting to maturity, and those
which have to do with the laying out Of
the farm, the arrangement of buildings,
drains, water supply, and disposal OF
sewerage. The character of the agri-
culture of recent years has made farm
buildings almost as complex in design
and varied in use as factories, and
there is wide field of study for i'm
provement in design and for determin-
alton Of the best material to be used in
their construction. Stable sanitation is
as necessary as house sanitation, and
the solution of these problems requires
technical knowledge of a high order
The day Of the agricultural engineer is
at hand, for he will find endless prob
lens to occupy his time and talents
Rural World.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01

THAT 1 MUST BE AN IMPOSTOR%"
ringing a hand bell, to which an, old
darkey responded.
Thank you, L" Ingalls, hesitated as
the majors steely blue eyes fixed him
piercingly-'I don't care if l do, he con-
Guided, Iamely and colloquially
When the servant returned and set
out decanter, carafe. and glasses, and
the preliminary courtesies of greeting
hour in Frank Ingalls, rs years of life
ensued.
The majors only daughter, Helen, was
the subject of the interview, and al
though the old man knew that some day
he must lose girl of her beauty and at
Effectiveness, he did not propose to give
her up to a man for whom he entertained
small regard, and-principa1 cause of
this lack of esteem-whose father had
march to the sea.
When the interview had passed from
formality to incisiveness, then from heat
to recrimination, the major rose and
faced his guest.
Did you, or did you not, say, sir, that
I must be an impostor, because there
was no surviving officer of the confed-
eracy under the rank of colonel?" he de-
manded, with dynamic politeness.
'Tn my younger days. before / knew
and loved Helen, may have made some
such foolish remark" Frank replied,
angrily, ''but | apologize for it now.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
HOW THE GRAFT WAS FORMED.

es in diameter The large limbs are
inches in diameter at the union. He
asks our opinion "of its being and
growth" The accompanying illustra-
ton was made from sketch furnished
by Mr.. Honabarger.
These natural gratis are to be seen
occasionally but this is the first time
we have known of one on an apple tree.
What starts them cannot be exactly as
certained in each case, but in some man
ner the small twig becomes attached to
the neighboring limb and the union be-
comes stronger and more perfect each
year. A wound may have presented the
opportunity for the first connection.
The chances are very small for such
freaks, however, as is shown by the
fact that they are so rare Such con-
aection may easily be made by grating
the end OF twig from one limb into
another limb just as scion would be
inserted into the side Of large limb.
Ohio Farmer
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
TWO STOCK EXCHANGES.
Difference Between That of New York
City and the BOurse of
Berlin.

If any member OF the New York
stock exchange who is entirely I'M
acquainted with German speculation
should visit the Berlin bourse he
would find at every point the most
striking Emergencies from his home
experience. He would be surprised to
see the bourse attended by quite 1000
persons, including clerks of banks,
newspaper men, and even visitors like
himself, Writes William c. Dreher in
'The Berlin Bourse" in Century. Also
he would be interested in the inn
mense size of the hal1-300 feet long,
divided by colonnades into three Sec
lions, one of which is assigned to the
produce exchange. On one side of the
hall several doors open into grassy
court, shaded by trees and surround
ed by pillared lobby, where brokers
sit in dull summer days and float their
latest stock of anecdotes.
That shaded court is suggestive of
deeper differences between the New
York stock exchange and the Berlin
institution. In New York the number
of members is fixed and is small in
proportion to the immense volume of
business done; in Berlin there is a
great horde of small dealers, and the
amount of trading is much less than in
New York. Owing to the easy terms Of
admission, the bourse becomes a mere
place where traders meet to effect
their transactions. There is no sale
of seats. In fact, no membership fee
exists, but only small yearly tax is
collected, which varies from time to
time as the expenses of the organiza-
ton require. Contrary to New York
practice, membership is largely held
by companies and firms. Nearly all
the banks OF the city, for example, are
members, and the more important
ones keep above score of their en-
ployes on the floor. Thus the indi-
vidual New York broker as a rule,
counts for vastly more than a member
of the bourse. New York is concern
trated, is intense; Berlin disperses it's
energy, and is comparatively dull. 1t
knows nothing of those great days of
triumph or disaster that render the
annals of Wall street picturesque; and
it lacks our large, daring operators.
who startle the country with their bold
schemes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
Dinpo.ing of FaIIen Fruit.

In orchards where there is much OF
early fruit there will usually be more or
less that will rot on the ground or other
wise go to waste, says writer in the
American Cuitivator. This should not
be. If the apples cannot be put to more
useful purpose, then give them to tbs
pigs. They will relish good feed at
least once day, and they are usually
fond of them. Where the pigs are kept
in pens or yards some sort of green sue
culent food should be given them, as 1t
will do them much good. In this way the
inferior or wormy fruit can be disposed
Of to advantage, besides getting it out
of the way The writer has done much
of this kind of work and has been well
satisfied with the results, SO can con-
fidently recommend the practice TO 9TH
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
old Coal MINES I'm England.

Coal workings around Cheadle, in
North Staffordshire, England, have been
traced back as far as the reign of Rich.
ard III. The early mining is explained
by local geological conditions, as the
coal seams-instead of being hidden un-
der drift as in other parts of England
we're brought to notice through dark
streaks turned up by the pillow. A late
discovery is an old level that must have
been driven at least 300 years ago for
draining coal tract.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
Higher Criticism.

Once upon a time an ambitious the
atrical manager paid a large price for
a play, and at great expense prepared
it for production on the stage.
On the opening night he was very anx-
ious, indeed, and with palpitating heart
watched for the first evidence of its eff
feet on the audience.
There was quite a suspense, and then
the anxious manager saw that the play
did not meet the approval of the gallery
gods. He tried to win their favorable
criticism, but could not, and the rest OF
the house taking its cue from the gall
lery, the play was an absolute failure
and had to be withdrawn at great loss.
Moral-The most potent criticism
comes from the higher circles.-N. Y.
Herald
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
AID TO EXPLORERS.
wireless TeIegraphy Will Lessen
Dangers of Arctic Travellers
in the Future.

ct will not be necessary in the future
for arctic explorers to die from starya-
ton because they are lost from civiliza-
tion," said Sig. Marconi the other day.
BY means of the wireless telegraphy it
will be very easy for an exploring party
TO keep in daily communication with
their home people. Every arctic expedi-
ton herafter probably will be equipped
with a wireless outfit. Should an ex-
plorer be so fortunate as to reach the
north pole he can announce the fact
to the civilized world. He can tell his
friends at just what point he stands. If
he is in need of supplies he can direct
how these shall be forwarded to him,
and Ct what they shall consist. He csn
announce how long he can wait for
supplies to reach him, and can direct
his rescuers how to reach him.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
The Dynamo.

Few of us can watch dynamo in
operation without feeling akin to awe,
though the inspiration may arise from
very different sources. To the layman
it is little less than a miracle that the
simple spinning of mass of iron and
copper should suffice to light his house,
carry him from place to place and
do all the countless things for which to-
day electricity is operative agent. To
the engineer this feeling comes from a
different source. He knows and under
stands the accepted theory of the opera
ton of the dynamo and is familiar with
its construction. Hence it is the sim
plicity of the thing and the beauty of
us operation that impress him. Of the
action he knows just as little as the lay
man, for our theories merely give US
something plausible to think about and
of themselves prove nothing.-Elec-
trical Review.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
LIME IN THE OCEAN.
A PrOdigious Amount of 1T Is Secret
ed by Various Forms of SUBJ
marine Life.

AS the geologist wades about among
the pools or follows the shore line at
low water, he is impressed with the
prodigious amount of lime segregated
from the sea water by the superabund'
ant marine life exhibited on all sides.
Every pool, every rock, is teemlng
with life of some kind, and most OF
these organisms have secreted a GER
tain amount of lime from the sea wa.
internal as well as external. structure,
says Mines and Minerals. Most of the
pools are lined with so-called sea
mosses," more strictly calcareous,
fernlike corallines of pink or purple
hues, the lime secreted by minute
polyps. In addition to this there ara
many forms of algae, or sea plauts
that secrete lime. Considerable mass
es of a structureless limestone are so
formed in the bay of Naples.
Apart from the vast beds OF sea
shells we know to be secreted in the
mud and sand, as we'll as those shells
like the abalone found under the
gated lime is represented by various
forms of crustacea, particularly OF
the worm or annelid family. incased
in tubes of lime. These tubes cover
the floors of caves, while the walls are
still more densely coated with limpets
and rock barnacles, while in the crew
ices hundreds of little crabs crawl
about and menace you with suspi
cious eyes and formidable claws, and
hermit crabs carrying their whelk
shell home on their backs swarm in
the pools.
With such a teeming superabun.
dance of lime gathering life, the min
ing geologist no longer wonders at thd
vast amount of limestone he meets
with in the marine rocks, in which
his blanket veins of lead and silver
are found, as at Aspen and Leadville,
Col, and throughout the world gener-
ally wherever lead abounds. He sees
now how it is that he occasionally
finds fossil sea shell in the limestone
walls of his mine, and only wonders
he does not find more. In mines far
Their east he would find the limestone
composed of nothing but mass of
sea shells. Deposits of comminuted
shells and coral sands, thrown up on
shore by the stormy waves, may be
cemented into a compact rock. or
limestone, by the redeposit of carbon.
ate of lime between the fragments.
In such a way is formed the shell
limestone" of Florida. and doubtless
many of our old fossiliferous fine
stones were formed in this way.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
MUD VOLANCOES.
Strange Formation of COnicaI Mounds
in Some Parts of the Old
World.

Mud volcanoes are found in north
ern Italy near Modena, in Sicily near
Girgenti, on the shores of the Sea of
Azof and the Caspian, in Central
America, and in other parts of the
globe. The gas frequently escapes
from them with such violence that
mud is thrown into the air to the
height of several hundred feet. Some
times this gas is in1ammable, consist
ing of suiphurated hydrogen, hydro
gen, or some hydrocarbons. and these
gases occasionally take fire, so that
true flames issue from these mud vol
canoes, says Mines and Minerals. In
other cases, the mud volcanoes appear
to be formed by either hot or cold
springs, containing large quantities of
suspended materials, and the liquid
mud issues from the vent without any
violent eruptive action.
Prof. Bunsen. in his account of the
pseudo-volcanic phenomena of Iceland,
describes many valleys where sui
phurous and aqueous vapors burst
forth with a Kissing sound from the
hot soil formed of volcanic turf. In
such spots a pool of boiling water is
seen, in which a bluish-black argyll
laceOus paste issues in huge bubbles.
These bubbles, on bursting, throw the
boiling mud to height of Is feet and
upward, so that it accumulates in
lodges around the crater and base of
the spring.
The formation of new mud vol
cano was witnessed, according to
LyeI, on November q, 1927, at Tok
mali, on the peninsula of Abscheror,
east of Balzu. on the Caspian. Flames
blazed up to an extraordinary height
for three hours, and continued for 20
hours more to rise about three feet
from crater from which mud was
elected. At another point in the same
district where flames issued, frag-
ments of rock of large size were
hurled up into the air and scattered
around.
Near Girgenti, in Sicily, are several
conical mounds 10 tn 80 feet high, with
small craters at their SUBMITS, from
which cold water mixed with mud and
bitumen is cast off Bubbles of car
bonic acid and carburetted hydrogen
gas are also disengaged from these
springs, and at certain periods with such
violence as to throw the mud 200 feet
high. These mud or air volcanoes" are
known to have been in activity for the
last Is centuries. An area of not less
than 1000 square miles, 120 miles north
west of Clutch and the mouths of the
Indus, is covered over by numerous mud
volcanoes. One of the cones is 400 feet
high, composed of light colored earth and
having at its summit crater 80 yards in
diameter. The liquid mud which fills
the crater is continually disturbed by air
bubbles, and here and there is cast up in
small jets.
Who shall say but what Rosita, Sill
yer Cliff and Cripple Creek, in Colorado,
witnessed many such phenomena?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01

"All that applies to the arctic explorer
applies with equal truth to the explorer
in the jungles of interior Africa and
Australia. Had the wireless telegraph
been invented in DR.. Livingstone's
time it would not have been necessary
to send Henry NJ. Stanley to Lake
Tanganyika to find him. He would have
been able to wire for help when he first
fell a victim to the jungle fever. 1t is
quite likely that future African explor-
ers will consider wireless telegraph
equipment as necessary as a medicine
chest
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
Knew His Rights,

The two newsboys had quarreled over
the possession of six cents, of which
the smaller boy insisted he had been
defrauded.
They proceeded to fisticuffs, and che
smaller boy was whipped.
"You licked me, all right" he said,
wiping his bloody nose on his ragged
shirt sleeve, 'but I'll fight we agin, if
We don't fork over two cents O. dat
money"
"What fur?' demanded the other boy.
"Doggone We, got right to claim de
losers end o. de purse, hain't / !'-Chi-
cagO Tribune
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
HORTICULTURAL FREAK.
Dissertation and Picture OF "a NatUrnI
raft Discovered I'm an
Ohio Orchard.

Mr. Ed Honabarger, of Tuscara-
was county, o., writes that last spring,
when trimming his orchard he found
natural graft or ''rung" connecting two
limbs of one of the apple trees He says
that it is about IL feet up from the
ground and close examination failed
to show from which branch the graft
originally came. Both ends are alike
and there is no flaw on either end. Tho
"rung" is % inches long and three inch
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
DRYING SWEET CORN.
Description of House That Assures
Free Circulation of Air i'm All
Weather Conditions.

have for several years been raising
sweet corn under contract, and the ac-
companying illustration will convey
some idea of my drying house, says an
Ohio Farmer correspondent. 1t is also
my granary, the upper floor containing
grain bins on one side. The lower floor
and south side of the upper floor are ar
ranged for sweet corn. The most essen
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
More Paupers Than Ever.

During the quarter ended on June
80 the total number of paupers re-
lieved in England and Wales was
higher than in the corresponding
weeks of the last four years, while in
London the number of paupers
reached a height that has never been
attained since 1872.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01

hungry Wolf day Lamb drinking stream, and
wished frame plausible for making him his
What you by muddyng the going to drink
ercey said he the Lamb Pray forgive me- mey answered the
Lamb Il should be sorry any dspease but the
towards will such cannot be
the case That's all we'll said the Wolf "but spoke i'll OF
behind year ago. May believe replied the Lamb, L
then born 1T have been brother them growled
the Wolf 1T have BEEN for had any, answered the
Lamb Il know of o oned the Wolf; so make
idle He then seized the poor Lamb carried him
off o the woods and him.
nothing
me- OF I'M % - nv" p - t' 80 - - - -
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01

Mrs Furrow-That Deacon Whitehead
is an ungrateful soul
Mr.. Furrow-What's the matter with
him?
why, he prayed for rain; his prayer
was answered; he forgot his umbrella,
caught cold and blamed it on the Lord!'
-Yonkers Statesman.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
How to Kill Them

Ocimumvirides is also fatal to mos
quitoes. 1t is plant. We presume.
remarks the funny man of the Chicago
Tribune, you catch the mosquito and
whisper the name in its ear.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
Good Comparison.

Ida-Helen said she was going out
on the beach to pick up shells. Looks
to me like she was going to pick up
a dude.
Believed, dudes and shells are
very much alike
How is that?''
Nothing in them and easily
broken. Chicago Daily News.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01

The Actor-Yes, I am to recite Ham
let's solioquy-
The Critic-The audience ought to
sympathize with you.
Actor-How?
Critic-Why, it'll be such hard lines
for both of you-Harvard Lampoon.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
A Fine sense of Smell.

The aborigines of Peru can, in the
darkest night and in the thickest
woods, distinguish respectively
white man, a negro and one of their
own race by the smell.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
Profitable.

did those mining stocks prove to be
a good investment
Yes answered, the hard luck man.
.'for the people who sold them to me. p
washington Star.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
Brought IT Upon himself.

Witherby-I made the mistake of
my life this morning. 1 told my wife
l didn't like her new gown.
Plankington-What was she angry?
80, no, it wasn't that; but she wants
snother."-Stray Stories.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01

Figg-You have seen Jones wife, what
is she like? Should you call her pretty?
FoggI might if I were talking to
Jones.-Stray Stories.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01
rta rmerwho succeed..

The farmer must not expect that he
can raise a crop OF grain by sitting in
rocking chair in the shade, or by go
ing to town, sitting on dry goods box
telling stories. He must not wait for
something to turn up, but must take of
his coat and go in and turn something
up, IL he expects to win in the battle OF
life. 1t is the industrious and careful
man that wins in agriculture and
animal industry, the same as in any
other business. The farm cannot run It
self; you must run it.-Midland Farm
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01

The Anjou is the greatest bearer OF
any pear on the farm, rarely missing
a year, says New York farmer
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-01

Each year makes me greater adj
mirer of the Columbian raspberry, says
the editor of the Rural New Yorker
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-27
HanakereksiefB.

Among our spring lmportatiOns
are many handkerchiefs of the
kind that for price and quality
have made this the handkerchief.
store of the whole west. 2ss
Women's, OF pure Irish linen,
hemstitched, 14-inch hens only.
fine, sheer cloth, full laundered,
worth 1870 each, at Sc, III
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-27
WAsSeS' Underwear Under Price
and Won,en's at Less-fban-usuaI Prices.

- S1S "a
Corset Covers, medium
light weights, long sleeves,
high neck, silk finished, at
Stockings, women's plain
black ingram Isle; light, me-
dium, heavy spring weights,
SOC quality at $50. - I
Misses &, Boys Stock
ings, fast black. cotton, in
various weights, at 25c.
10 q. sitar antTn1rs 1o1 oorj ~ J',':t
y, %Fousth apd Fifth AYES. -" u
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-27
GODesLOw Priced

Mems, al Irish linen, hemstltched,
ID and 11s inch hens, full laundered,
Soft finish, worth 18c each, at 121zc
Women's, Of fine, sheer Irish linen,
hemstitehed, inch hens, with
pretty open work initials, full laun-
sdered, worth 121 &c ca ach, ,at 3 for 35c
~. $50. n. s. gThird Avenue
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-27

g1O0dse55OW aS5.25 aDd $1.5U K5d l1z0VeS
anything wrong with gloves the pleasure of
lost Run risks 1t nothing to be the safe
side oodfelow 81 and SO kid gloves than
and S5O kid gloves but the Goofelow kinds and
guarantee only here
ST .25-Strong gloves and $1.5O-Goves that comply
Stylish too gloves for with every whm of fashion
vice. pque stitched. two kind for style of
clasp black white brown gown every shade
tan and mode fitted and and piqus, gace and
wsrranted Fourth Ave. dressed-ftted and warranted
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-27

Misses Underwear,
Swiss ribbed, white or ecru;
vests, high neck, long or half
sleeves; pants knee or ankle
length, usually Csc, 30c and 35c,
Saturday all sizes at 25c. =
W0z,1en'S Underwear,
Sixty union suits of the "Doro-
thy brand, ecru only, spring
weight, high neck, long sleeves,
ankle length; or high nesk, short
sleeves, knee length, $1.50
value, at ,$1.26.~ ii. .,'..