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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27
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WESTERN FARM LIFE.
1t Is Not Always Pleasant and the
wives of Pioneers Are the
Chief Sufferers.

Many farmers wives in the east hard
ly realize the comfort that surrounds
them, even in an old-fashioned house
with few modern conveniences, as COM
pared with the privations encountered
on some of the virgin prairies. 1t is
true that communities build up rapidly
in the, great west, and the sod house of
one generation soon gives way to the
cow enient modern dwelling of the next,
but life is hard for every pioneer, and
some Of it's greatest trials fall to the
women. A witty woman once observed
that her sympathies were not so much
with the Pilgrim Fathers as with their
wives; they endured all the hardships
that the Pilgrim Fathers did, and the
Pilgrim Fathers, tool In like manner,
when we read of the courageous home
steaders who fight drought and cloud
bursts, grasshoppers and billiards, until
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27
NOTES ON THE MULE.

A mule will pine away and die when
rheumatism attacks his hind feet.
Disease is friendly to the drinking
fountain lined with green slime.
In kodaking mule don't focus its
rear, unless you have wheelbarrow
escapement handy.
A mule is a vegetarian by nature and
training, and although he will kill he
will not eat his prey.
A mule never discriminates between a
tramp and a preacher. He is like the
rain-gets the drop on bad and good
alike.
A mule has one great advantage over
less favored creatures; he has no de-
scendants to leave good name and
fame-so leaves neither.
A mule standing motionless with both
eyes half closed is not dreaming sweet
dreams Scientists say he is either
thinking of the man he kicked last or
the one he will kick first.-Rural World.
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USE OF FERTILIZERS.
1t Is a Problem That Western FARM
ers Are Now Facing and viii
Continue to Face.

What is fertilizer? 1t is anything
added to the soil to increase the
amount OF plant food in it or to make
available that plant food. There are
Ia elements entering into plant
gfowth, but ten of these are used in
such small quantities by the plants
and are SO abundant in the soil that
they are seldom taken into considera-
ton in the discussion of plant food.
The four that are considered are cali
CUM, phosphorus, nitrogen and potas-
SUM. Calcium in combination with
water forms lime Calcium is SO
cheap, in the form Of gypsum and lime,
that it is seldom mentioned in connec-
ton with commercial fertilizers. New
ertheless, the soil surveys are show
ing that millions of acres of land are
bearing half crops because they are
too acid, needing but the application
OF lime to enable them to bear full
crops. We have thought too little of
lime simply because it was so album
dant and cheap.
Phosphorus, potash and nitrogen are
the three elements that we find most
difficult to secure. Sometimes the
land becomes SO depleted of a certain
element that the cost of resupplying
it is almost prohibitive. Thus, Prof.
Hopkins, of the Illinois Agricultural
college, says that some of the stock
raising farms of Illinois have been SO
exhausted of phosphorus that it will
require an expenditure of $50 per acre
to bring them back to their virgin
state, as to soil content of phosphates.
The question of fertilizers in soils
is one that must interest farmers to
greater extent than it has in the
past. The increase of our population
points out the end of a system that
depended on getting new virgin soil
when that occupied had been exhaust
ed of it's fertility. The supply of fer
tility in a soil should be as carefully
reckoned for as should the capital
in the vaults of a banker. The use of
fertilizers is matter that our west
ern farmers are now facing and will
continue to face. 1t will be easier to
put on a little each year and thus keep
up the farm than to wait till certain
element is exhausted and then attempt
to supply it.-Farmers' Review.
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LATE BEE PASTURE.
Why 1T Pays to Sow N Little AIsfks
and White Glover on Land
Needing Rest.

In some localities, late in the season,
the honey producing plants fail or their
season passes and the bees find them
selves without anything to work On.
The ordinary farmer considers it too
small business to take into considera-
ton the needs of the busy little workers
when sowing his crops, but when we call
to mind the fact that all bees bring us
is just that much clear gain, with little
or no labor, we can afford to expend
some time and labor in providing for
their wants. Especially is this true
when the crop sown is one that will
bring profit or prove benefit outside
of its value as a bee food. Alsike and
white clover sown in waste places and
on land needing rest and regeneration
will furnish much stock food, as well
as the best bee pasture. There are
many fields and patches about the farm
where the early crops will be taken off
in August, which can be planted in
buckwheat and good crop Of salab1e
grain realized, while the bees can find
the material in it for their winter stores.
Prairie Farmer.
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THE BACHELOR
MAIDS COURTSHIP
Copyright, 1908. by Daily story Pub. CO.,
By SARA LINDSAY COLEMAN

IT WAS April. Outside the rain fell
| in torrents; inside the Bachelor
Man and the Bachelor Maid slipped tea.
The wood fire cracked, the bright lit
tie kettles song was a CHEEKY one.
The tea warmed the Bachelor
through and through. He leaned back
contentedly, looked at the Maid, and
said:
eff you don't mind, I'd like to go on
drinking your tea all my days"
The Maid put down her cup. "Poor
dear" she said. "Your birthday, too.
THE teas made a new way, and you
are too old for innovations"
yes" said the Bachelor, seriously.
sim old. I've said bon voyage to my
youth. It's serious thing to be old
and feel constrained to matrimony;
alone. Now, 1 want to settle. / like
you'll like your tea; so, if you don't
mind"
''But / do mind" The Bachelor Maid
was very pretty when her tricksy dim
Piles flashed and her white teeth
CLEANED. 81 like to have you drink my
tea. If we were-if things were diff
ferent-you'd drink some other wom-
ans tea. Why, the way to lose man
friend is to-is that way. If you don't
mind, you'll settle elsewhere and still
drink my tea"
April fingered when the Bachelor
next called-March had crept into her
arms and frozen her, through. The
Maid leaned against silk cushions piled
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27

the virgin prairie is harnessed to it's
work of feeding the world, we think of
lonely women, like the one who stands
in front of that pitiful little sod house
in Nebraska. shown in the cut. Our
friends tell us that sod house or dug
out is often very comfortable, but the
housekeeper has to renounce many
things that she thought necessities in
the tree empowered home back east. !"
We should like to visit awhile with that
Nebraska housewife, who stands up
so courageously by her front door; we
have no doubt she has met many house
keeping problems, and bravely sur
mounted them, and we hope the rich sod
beneath her feet will produce among it's
other crops modern farmhouse that
will make up for all the privations she
may first pass through.-Rural New
Yorker
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HANDY CHARCOAL SITTER.

fish is bought Cut piece of netting
from WORKOUT ash sitter will do)
about five inches square. Tack this over
the bottom of the box at one end, using
double pointed tacks. Bend the edges
of the netting up against the box on the
outside then tack the bottom of the box
on again, letting it just cover the netting
and project Az inches or SO beyond the
box. This forms handle, and piece Oh
cord passed through two holes and tied
to form loop makes it possible to hang
up the SITTER
This sitter seems small and slight
affair.". but it works much better than a
big one into which several quarts OF
ashes would be dumped at once. Armed
with an old pan and fire shovel, put
ting in only few ashes at a time, the
contents of the ash pan from our kitchen
range will yield over a quart of fine
charcoal.-Orange Judd Farmer.
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HARVEST.

kin see the oxen arnblin down the shaded
country road,
An kin hear the driver singing ard kin see
him swing his goad,
And kin hear the wagon creakfn with Its
heavy harvest Load,
An it brings sense Of pleasure and o.
clover smells to me,
Fer it's just what ] was raised to, an what
/ have always knowed!
They's q red-hot trumpet blossom fanin'
out among the green
OF a vine at wraps q tree trunk In its STIR
rim hustlin' sheen,
And the boughs seems dippin' to'ards 1t,
an the big trees seem to lean
Gorter sheIterin' an Iovin' bout the fragile
little thing.
Trumpet bloom, an road an oxen, it's all
mine, the hull blamed scene!
It's all mine! where birds are nestin' in
the swayin' dippin' boughs!
It's all mine! the tangled thicket where the
jays an cat-birds rowsi
An the sheep beside the roadside where
they lay around or browse!
All are mine! / near EN- beatin' in the
fallin' of the gloam,
An / stand an listen, listen, fer the lowin
of the cows
For the Iowin' Of old Brindle bringin' home
the meek-eyed herd!
Fer the sleeps contented bIeatin' an the
squabbIin of the bird!
An the creakin' of the wagon, where the
roadway dust is stirred
BY the heaVy-footed oxen bringin' home
the harvest Ioadi
Anf, I'm happy, happy, happy! Yes, am !!
You take my word!
j M. Lewis, in Houston Post.
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SOME ODD GUARDIANS.
Birds as Sheep Herders and Jelly Fish
as Protectors of False
MackereI.

The natives of Venezuela and adj
joining countries on the north side of
the river Amazon often avail them
selves of the services of a native
crane to care for their poultry, and
also in the place of collies or shep-
herd dogs, to guard and herd their do
nestle animals, says writer in the
Brooklyn Eagle. This remarkable
bird, which the Indians call yakamik,
and the ornithOlogists psophia crepi
tans, is found in wild state in the
northern coasts of South America and
the Amazon river, particularly in
Venezuela and British Guiana. The
birds never leave the forests unless
shot or captured. They may be trust
ed with the care of flock of sheep or
domestic fowls, and every morning
will drive the ducks and poultry to
their feeding places, and carefully col
lecting any stragglers, bring them
safely home at night. A yakamik
soon learns to know and obey the
voice of his master, follows him, when
permitted, wherever he goes, and ap-
pears delighted at receiving his
careSses
1t pines at his absence and welcomes
his return, and is extremely jealous of
any rival. Should any dog or cat APP
proach it flies at it with the utmost
fury, and, attacking it with wings and
beak, drives it away. 1t presents it.
self regularly during meals, from which
it chases all domestic animals, and
even the negroes who wait upon the
table, if it is not well acquainted with
them, and only asks for share of the
eatables after it has driven away all
who might aspire to favorable notice
from the family
A singular case of guardianship has
just been made known by NJ Gadeau
de Kervllle. 1t concerns the young of
the marine fishes called false mack
erel, which are almost always found
in company with the large jelly fish
known as rhizostomes. These young
fishes swim parallel with the long
axis of the jelly fish, and in the same
direction as the latter. They remain
above, beneath and behind the ami
NAL, but rarely advance beyond it.
1t frequently happens that some of
them introduce themselves into the
cavities of the jelly fish, and are then
visible from the exterior, owing to the
transparency of the host Sometimes
the school of fish wanders few yards
away from the medusa, but at the
least harm Immediately returns with
great rapidity to occupy its former
position. 1t is evident that the jelly
fish very efficaciously protects the
young fish by means of it's innumera-
bic singing capsules. This is dem
onstrated by the fact that when the
fishes become larger they no longer
protect themselves by accompanying
the medusae.
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ENGLISH IN FIFTY LESSONS.
How n FYenehman Cam Acquire the
Language without a
Professor.

| was reading recently what is called
an excellent method for teaching and
learning English without a professor,
which appears in Paris under the title
Of the "Metkode Sanderson." ''The sys-
tenn says the author, which is both
ingenious and simple, allows one to ar
rive easily at reproducing with preci-
sion the sound-that is, the accentuation
exact-of each word in the language"
The Methode Sanderson, which, it is
said, enables Frenchman to speak like
an Eng1ishman, requires SO lessons to
do it justice, writes Paris correspond
ent of the London Pail Mall Gazette.
''Chi haze thimbeul. Thoa haste
theu naife. Oui have theu canndeul. All
have seumme mattcheuse. The have no
meunne."
The unlearned might mistake this for
Chinese. He will, we expect, be con-
siderably astonished to learn, on the
authority of Mr.. Sanderson, that it is
English We confess we should not
have thought it, nor do we suppose that
the ordinary student, whether English
or French, will recognize in so mys-
terious form the expression of such
simple ideas as the following:
"She has thimble Thou hast the
knife. We have the candle. I have
some matches. They have no money"
Yet SO it is. Mr. Sanderson believes
that the words quoted above do actual
ly represent the same words as pro-
nounced in English.
Hi guile have rouleur." What
does this mean? We have spent some
time attentively considering it, and do
not know Can it be "He will have a
ruler?" '"Thao quite have seumme Pc
peur." What is that, we ask again, and
on consulting the method learn that it
means 'sThou wilt have some paper"
"You hadd glaceuze." "The hadd til
keupps." Would anybody on earth but
Mr.. Sanderson recognize in these Ice
landic-looking forms the simple 'You
had glasses tThey had teacups?''
Although this is not the first method
for the rapid teaching of language, it
is certainly one of the most curious
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27
reed for Hogs ON Pasture,

The best swine raisers insist that it
pays to feed hogs little grain while on
pasture, even though the pasture be
clover. A hogs stomach is small and
is not capable of digesting as much
coarse material as a horse or an OK; con-
sequently it is always advisable to give
little grain. The animal remains more
thrifty, seems to assimilate and digest
its coarse feed better, and when the time
comes to put on heavy feed, starts off
more rapidly and does better Orange
Judd Farmer.
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Estill Springs, Tenn, Aug. 24th.-Manv
questions are being asked of MIR. G. ID. Holt
of this place in regard to his wonderful re-
covery.. For two years he has been down with
his back. tie was Sc very bad that he could
not even lace his shoes, and from this con-
dition he suddenly appeared well and strong
as ever.
1t is no wonder therefore that his friends
are asking him How did you do it?''
He tells them all: "Dodd's Kidney Pills
did it, and adds This remedy is a genuine
good medicine and one that | can heartily
recommend to everybody
Everyone around here knows how very
bad | was. / was so weak in my back that
| couldn't do anything that needed stoop-
Dodd's Kidney Pills made me as you see, as
well as ever | was"
They certainly had wonderful effect on
my aSe -
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No CIOudburaf.

There is really no such thing as a
'cloudburst," for clouds do not burst
The word is entirely metsphorical.
Says a meteorological: Rain comes
down in accordance with physical
laws At any given temperature the
atmosphere can hold a fixed quantity
of water-vapor. The warmer the air
the more water-vapor it can hold
But if air already saturated with it be
cooled, it will be supersaturated with
moisture at it's new temperature, and
the resulting flow of rain is literally
the superf1uity. A 'cloudburst' is sim
ply the result of the very rapid cooling
of an atmosphere which was hot and
was also water-saturated'
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CARRIES HER OWN BUTTER.
Woman Railway Passenger Kept 1T
Fresh During a Hot
Ride.

A middle-aged woman, well gowned,
carried a little parcel when she went
in to breakfast on the dining car of a
train which was approaching New
York one morning lately. She sat at
table, put the parcel in her lap and
unwrapped it.
Inside of several folds of things was
a pound pat of butter. She held it in
her lap during the meal and helped
herself from It, spurning the butter
supplied by the company.
I've had her before whispered
the waiter, responsive to an inquiring
look from man across the aisle.
What puzzles me is how she keeps
the butter during this hot ride from
Chicago"
The porter explained it. The wom-
an had stateroom and kept the but
ter on ice in the private washbowl.
Few persons when travelling go to
such pains to get palatable butter.
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high, indolent and graceful, a great
crimson-shaded lamp shining down on
her beauty. The flames leaped behind
sparkling fire-dogs; the room was
warm and still and fragrant with the
faint breath of violets.
I'm going to be married." the Bach
elor announced.
Good" laughed the Maid. "Are you
very much"
AT 20 l was-very much. / wrote
rhymes and lost sleep. But it comes
away from a 20-year-old chap like his
milk teeth. Now, AT so it don't come
away so easy"
Neither do teeth" airily. rs
She"
Very" said the Bachelor. I'm
mensely so for her years. She knows
the Bachelor Maid of to-day is the
spinster of tomorrow; she knows
that a spinster is sort of an orphan
q miserable old woman who looks out
from some little corner in relatives
house at happiness, having none Of
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27
Early Perchine is Desirable.

Some breeders put in their perches al
the start If you do this see that your
perch is simply board three or four
inches wide, running full length of the
coop. Two perches Of this kind are still
better at first, to prevent piling up of the
chicks. Until the past year we have not
put in our perches until the fall, allow
ing the chicks to spread themselves
around on the floor. Early perching is
desirable, in that it teaches the chicks
the habit while young. The floor perch
ers" are hard to teach when older. Even
when put into the breeding houses In
November many of them will persist In
staying on the dropping boards instead
cf the perches. -Stockman and Farmer.
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"I had terrible pains along my
spinal cord for two years and suffered
dreadfully. / was given different
medicines, :, wore plasters; none of
these things helped me. Reading OF
the cures that Lydia IL. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has brought
about, / somehow felt that 1t was
what I needed and bought bottle to
take. How glad am that ! did SO;
two bottles brought me immense re-
lief, and after using three bottles more
I fe,c new life and blood surging
through my veins. 1t seemed as
though there had been regular house
cleaning through my system, that all
the sickness and poison had been taken
out and new life given me instead. i
have advised dozens of my friends to use
Lydia Il. Pinlxham's Vegetable
Compound. Good health is indls-
pensable to complete happiness, and
lydia r.. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has secured this to me.
-MRs LAURA L. BIEMER, Crown
Point, Indiana, Secretary Ladies Keller
Corps. $4,000 forfeit II original of aboue letter
proUing genuineness cannot DC produced.
Every sick woman who does not
understand her ailment should
write Mrs. Pinl1ham, Lynn,
Mass. Her advice is free and
always helpful.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27

The United States is almost goatless
country compared with others, and the
Importance of goatskins, young and old,
aggregate $35, 900, 900 year which rep
resents the slaughter of II 100000 goats
and kids. Germany has 100000 head,
Spain 100000, Austria 1000 900 and
France, Bulgaria and Italy about 1,5OO,-
Oue each. In Turkey there are six goats
for each person, the goat being the most
important source of income.
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Radlsson ON the Chippewa.

A new town in Sawyer county, Wis, on
the Omaha Road. Located on both the
chippewa and Couderay rivers, in center
OF most fertile and promising hardwood
district. Good muscallonge, bass and pike
nshing 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
Write TO postmaster, Radisson, Sawyer Co,
" Is, or TO l. w Teasdale, General PasSen-
ger Agent, =. st. L. nj. q O. R'y. ST. Paul
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A rug has just been made for the
lodgeroom of the Knights of Pythias
in Hartford, Conn. that is AZ feet six
inches long, by 36 feet six inches wide.
or, in other words, contains 1889
square feet, or 149 yards 1t is i'm
mensely heavy, taking Is men to han
die it. Special poles had to be made
for rolling it on.-Chicago Chronicle
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Entitled to Respect

who's de ole guy wat jist went by?''
DE ole guy wild de dinky whiskers?''
replied the Office boy. Jaw he's de own
er of de paper.
.'An' who's de guy wild 'im?"
Sh! Don't git gay! He amt no
guy; dat's de sportin' editor,p-Phil-
adelphia Inquirer.
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InpIacabIe.

ST understand that you spoke in
derogatory terms of me" said the man
who is always looking for trouble.
Mr.. Sirius Barker looked at him re-
provingly and said:
Is it your habit to hunt people up
and interrupt their work simply because
you happen to understand something ~
Washington Stars.
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CHARCOAL FOR HENS.
1t Promotes Digestion and Appetite
and Is Said to Stimulate Pro-
ductiOn of Eggs.

The hen in confinement must have
careful feeding to keep her in health.
Charcoal is cleansing to the system and
promotes digestion and appetite. A sim
pie device for securing charcoal from
the ashes of any wood fire is quickly
made out of Goldfish box
To make the little sitter shown in
the drawing, pry the bottom from one
of the Az by eight-inch boxes in which
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27

In 1871 Germany was nation of
100000 inhabitants, of whom so per
cent. were engaged in agricultural pur-
suits In 1900 it had increased to an
empire of 58,000,000 inhabitants, Of
whom IS per cent. were engaged in agri-
culture and So per cent.-nearly two
thirds-in industry and TRADE.
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stag drinking clear pool admired the handsome look OF
his spreading an much dpeased slim and ungany
appearance of his legs What glorious Of branching horns
said he How gracefully they hang forehead what
able air they give face but for spindle hanks of
heartily ashamed of The words out of his mouth
making toward him.
His despsed placed him distance his followers but
entering the his horns that the
dogs reached him and made end of him. Mistaken fool that
he exclaimed had been for these wretched horns my legs
would have saved life
We rize 5 IS