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Big Man and Little Woman

She was a demure little woman with
baby. AS the car was crowded she
did not put the little one, who was old
enough to sit up, on the seat beside
her. She carried it on her lap, and
made room for a fierce-looking, big
man with a newspaper
The child kicked it's tiny feet in de-
light at the strange things it saw while
riding along, and its shoes rubbed
against the big mans trousers.
Perhaps, madam" he exclaimed.
you imagine that this conveyance is
your private carriage?"
''Oh, no / don't" was the prompt re-
ply. IF it were you wouldn't be riding
IN it."-Tit-Bits.
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FESTIVAL HALL AND THE CASCADES.

ing 5000 horsepower, besides others OF
a similar type of smaller capacity. This
is the first display of turbine engines
at large exposition, as it's develop
ment is a very recent achievement of
| mechanical engineering and invention.
At the Chicago Exposition the larg-
est gas engine developed only ten
horsepower; the visitor to st. Louis
may see gas engine with the capacity
of 800 times larger than the Chicago
engine. The 5000 horsepower gas en-
CINE is the largest engine of its char
acter ever built. Many other gas en-
gines of various types developing from
], 200 to 1850 horsepower complete this
feature of the exhibit, and there are
many of the more familiar reciprocal
I ing engines of the latest pattern and
highest efficiency.
OF the total number of prime movers
in the Palace of Machinery about one
half are comprised in what is known as
the Exposition power plant, the other
half being exhibitors engines. Nearly
all these engines are connected with
electrical generators and the power is
| transmitted by cable throughout the
grounds to the electric railways, the
machinery in operation in the eXposi-
| ton buildings, the pumps supplying
water to the cascades and fountains,
the refrigerating plant and for other
purposes. The total horsepower used
at Chicago did not exceed $4,000 and at
the Pan-American not over 5000, in
comparison with the 10000 to $4,000
here.
Electricity had only five and one
half acres at Chicago, while at ST. Louis
nine acres are given to the same de-
partment, besides a large display of
electrical generators in the Palace of
Machinery.
No one should be deferred from visit
ing the worlds fair because of the fear
that living expenses in ST. Louis are too
high. If anyone has this notion 1t is
high time that it be dispelled. There is
absolutely no doubt of the fact that one
can find excellent living accommoda-
tions in St Louis now at rates not ex-
ceeding the charges this same month in
New York, Chicago or any other great
American city.
No one need pay more than one dollar
day for good room. That is an aver
age rate, though many accommodations
of excellent character may be had for
less. There are many unrented rooms
at five dollars week. advertised every
day In the newspapers. Hundreds of
restaurants serve meals OF give short
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16

situation The Chinese had not, in
deed, realized what it implied, and the
sinking of the Kowshing, with 1000
men on board, and the crushing defeat
inflicted by Admiral Ito on the Chi
nese squadron under brave Admiral
Ting (September I'D were the conse-
quences. In the present war the con-
ditions were different. The Russians,
having lost all immediate hope of as
sorting supremacy at sea, could not
move a man afioat. To transport
troops from Dalny or Port Arthur to
the mouth of the Yalu was impossible.
Not less impossible was it for them to
risk an action, as the Chinese did at
Pingyang, lest the Japanese should
throw forces ashore in their rear. The
only doubt is whether they were wise,
in view of like danger, in holding the
line of the Yalu at all.
The positions on the Yalu occupied
by the Chinese in 1894 were the same
as those held by the Russians on May
/. and the Japanese tactics were pre-
cisely the same A little reading of re-
cent history should have taught Gen.
Kuropatkin what to expect 1t is par
ticularly interesting to observe how
the same causes have led to the same
effect. If, in the following brief ac-
count of the battle of October %, 1894
Russians be read for Chinese" and
the details taken mutatis mutandis,
the recent events will be found de-
scribed Gen. Sung had under his com
mand about 10000 Chinese, on the
heights about Kiuliencheng, with about
4.5G0 more under Gen. Ikotenga a little
higher up the river. The Japanese had
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16

order service at the same rates
that prevailed before the exposition
opened
It is suggested that the stranger in
ST. Louis, who wishes to find reasonable
clearinghouse rates, make inquiry at
a grocery store or meat market in the
vicinity where he desires to stop. The
grocers and butchers know nearly all
the boarding houses in their neighbor-
hoods, and they are quite willing to
oblige the stranger by directing him to
a place to suit his purse and his tastes.
The want" columns of the daily news
papers also contain columns of small
advertisements for boarders or dodgers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16

reached Wiju, ana made a great DEM
onstration against Kiuliencheng, while
they prepared to overwhelm the Chi
nese left. AS is we'll known, the Aiho
joins the Yalu from the north, and in
the angle formed by the two rivers the
Chinese were posted on the prominent
height of Husan. The Yalu was rapidly
bridged-and it was 200 yards wide
and, early in the morning of October
25 the Chinese were driven from HUI
san, making no very good defence, and
retired behind the Aiho, which the
Japanese forded, and confirmed the
success. Kiuliencheng had become UNI
tenable, and the Chinese, who had
large numbers killed and wounded, fed
in confusion. losing heavily in the re-
treat to Fengwangcheng
The parallel between the actions OF
1894 and 1904 is complete, and it is
difficult to understand how the Rus
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16
THE WONDERS OF The
WORLD AT ST. LOUIS
They Are to Be Found the Great Palaces and Along
"The Pike"

Exhibition; Glass Weaving, Spinning;
German Tyrolean Alps; Golden Chariot;
Grants Log Cabin; Galveston Flood;
Haunted Castle; Hereafter; Hunting in
the Ozarks; Infant Incubators; Indian
Congress and Wild West; Irish Village;
Japanese Village; Jerusalem; Jim Key
Educated Horse Lincoln's Log Cabin;
Moorish Palace; Model Playground;
Miniature Railway; Magic Whirlpool;
Morocco; Mysterious Asia; Naval Ex-
hibition; Old Plantation; Old st. Louis,
Mo-; Old Cahokia Court House; OLD
Virginia Homestead; Observation
Wheel; Palais Du Costume; Pottery;
Weller; Paris and France; Scenic Rail-
way; South African Boer EXHIBITS;
Streets of Seville; Statisticum; Sub
marine Diving; New York to the North
Pole; Trained and Wild Animals; Under
and Over the Sea; Uprer Mississippi
Views; Water Chutes; Wireless Teieg-
Taphy.
What runs in all; what supplies the
power that makes the countless wheels
go round? The majority of visitors are
intensely interested in the mechanical
motive force of this greatest of exposi-
tions, and well they may be. One of
the most striking features is the power
plant Never before at an exposition
has there been even half as much
power developed as supplied from the
various prime movers in the Palace of
Machinery. In large boiler house
standing west of the Machinery build
ing, filled with the latest and best pro-
auctions of skilled boiler manufactures,
steam is generated to supply 10000
horsepower to the various engines in
the Machinery building. In addition
to this about 10000 horsepower is re-
ceived by electric cable from power sta
tons in the city of st. Louis. But the
greatest interest is in the engines them
selves rather than in the large capacity
of the exhibit, for among them is a
giant rbine or rotary engine develop
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16
Onions from Nile Lowlands.

'It does seem like carrying Goals TO
Newcastle for us to import staple yege-
tables when Philadelphia is in the center
If an agricultural community" said apro-
duce man the other day, but we are now
getting onions all the way from Egypt,
and from Ireland and Scotland are COM
ing large quantities of potatoes. For
years onions and potatoes have come
to us from Bermuda, but merely because
the season there is further advanced
than ours Onion raising is practically
a new industry, following the reclaim
ing of the lowlands along the Nile,
where the soil is exceedingly rich. They
have the cheapest labor in the world out
there, and even with the cost of ship
ping they can send us their vegetables
and make profit on them. "-Philadel-
phia Record.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
University's Jubilee.

The semicentennial jubilee at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin ended with COM
mencement, at which 361 regular de-
grees were conferred and SO distin-
guished scholars received the honorary
degree of Ii. d. During the week the
exercises consisted of baccalaureate day,
class and alumni day, and inauguration
day. The feature of the latter was the
Inauguration OF Prof. Charles Richard
Vanhise as president of the university.
President Vanhise was born at Fulton.
Wis, May %, 1857. He was graduated
from the University of Wisconsin in
1879, and ever since 1882 he has had the
chair of geology at his alma mater.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16
Found Dead in a Marsh.

Mrs. Hulda Pratt, over so, had been
found dead in marsh short distance
from her house, near East Orange, in
which she lived alone. 1t appears that
she had become demented and wan
dered around several days before being
overcome by exhaustion and exposure.
One of her eyes had been put out,
caused by falling upon a stub while
wandering around. This accident APP
parently befell her sometime before
death ensued, as blood could be traced
in different places.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16
FRUGAL MEXICAN INDIANS.
They Are Trained from Childhood to
Habits of Industry and
Thrift.

Imagine poultryman who carries his
chickens so LIiles to market on his back.
or an orange grower who trots behind
his pack train of burros three days and
nights of each week to deliver his prod
uct in the city on Sunday, says the Los
Angeles Times.
The speed with which the Mexican In
dian accomplishes these long journeys
is astonishing, but comes from early
training. When a boy reaches his tenth
year his father undertakes his educa-
ton. He is given a new belt or sash and
new leather sandals and clad in shirt and
trousers of spotless white 'manta' he
follows his father out of the little val
ley which has been his world
His pack is only small canteen OF
drinking water, while his father has
strapped to his back crate of peaches
and a jar of wild honey. They cross
rough mountains and deep gorges,
speaking no words and never varying
their pace from slow, regular trot.
The sun strikes pitilessly from q
cloudless sky and the little clumps Of
shade seem but placed to torture those
who cannot stop,
A pause is finally made in the bed of n
canyon, where a little water trickles
from the side of rock to lose itself i'll
a wilderness of powders and sand.
Wash out your mouth, but do not swal-
low any of it," commands the father.
and the boy obeys, though his stomach
feels as parched as his lips.
Now they take a winding trail, going
ever upward, and the boy S feet slip and
shuttle as he strives to keep the pace on
the dusty path. The sun reaches the
zenith and descends slowly toward the
west and hunger begins to gnaw until
the little fellow let's out whimper.
Pull your belt as tight as you can"
says the father; I'VE must not eat or
drink when travelling" When the sun
touches the great ridge of hills in the
west halt is made and soon the dried
meat is simmering over fire. They pass
the night on the ground and, rising be-
fore dawn, continue their journey.
Once in town the honey and peaches are
sold or traded at the market for few
yards Of "manta" or a nest of earthen
dishes.
1t is not uncommon for these Indians
to travel 60 miles by trails so rough that
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16
A Dog Story.

They were talking about the intelli-
gence of dogs, and after each man in the
group had cracked up his own, the
Mount Airy man said: '1have fox ter
rier named Troubles, who not only seems
to understand everything that is said
to him, but who even takes in con-
yersation of a general character that
isn't addressed to him. Our servant
girl has been suffering from bad cold,
and the other day, when she went out
into the yard to hang up clothes, my
wife noticed that the ground was very
5alnp. Mary. you ought to have rubbers
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16
Nav Have Agricultural school.

County Superintendent George w.
Taylor and a number of influential
farmers OF the county have started a
movement for an agricultural school,
to be built in Kenosha county during
the coming year, and petition will
be presented to the county boaal at its
next session asking that an al propria-
ton be made.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16
Body Stolen FOR Reward.

The body of DR.. J. H. Hutchinson.
the University of Minnesota medical
student who was drowned at st.
Croix Falls, was found in the ST. CIoix
river near Marine. While the finder
was at Marine notifying the coroner
at Saltwater the body disappeared. 1t
is suspected that it was stolen for the
reward of $50 offered for its recovery.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16
The News Condensed

The University of Wisconsin cele-
brated it's jubilee commencement at
Madison DR.. John Bascom's bacca-
laureate sermon attacked corruption in
municipal affairs and the tyranny OF
wealth.
Alderman George ]. Schwartz, OF
Green Bay, pleaded guilty to accepting
three brides aggregating $3.50 from
contractors and those furnishing ma
terial used on city contracts. There
are three other indictments against
| Schwartz.
James Dunno, Jr., was found guilty
at Prairie du Chen of manslaughter in
the third degree and Claude Gaskill re-
leased from the charge of murder. The
jury was out Is hours. The men were
tried on the charge of beating Andrew
Overberg to death.
Farmers driving to GAINESVILLE discoV-
cred the dead body of an infant concealed
in a paper box alongside the road be-
meath hazel bushes.
Nicholas Miller, while tearing down
and old wooden building at Racine,
found an old gun barrel with the words
Berlin, 1901"
Michael Robejsck, aged IS, was found
dead in his boat near Prairie du Chen.
A doctors examination showed he had
ruptured an artery in the head.
James A. Stone, of Reedsburg, assist
ant secretary of state, has rendered his
resignation and Fred Hiner, OF Eau
Claire has been appointed as his success
sor
The dates for the west Wisconsin
Methodist conference, which will be
held in Baraboos, have been fixed for
August 81 to September 6. Bishop Fl. w.
Warner, of Denver, will preside.
Four torpedoes were found il the Fox
River Paper company's plant at Apple
ton which would have wrecked the ma
chimes and part of the building had they
not been found in time by the fireman.
Six-year-old Willie Sprackling, son Of
james Sprackling, farmer residing
north of GAINESVILLE, is dead as the result
of being kicked on the head by horse.
Attorney General Sturdevant has de-
cided that any one owing land on both
sides of a stream cannot erect dam
that Will interfere with the passage OF
fish the whole length of the stream,
which. if it were allowed, would deprive
Others of pleasure and pastime.
James Bennett, aged Is and a resi-
dent of Madison since 184S, is dead
He was a charter member OF company
A, Twenty-third Wisconsin volunteers,
and served with distinction dur g the
entire war.
A thief forcibly entered the East
Madison station of the Milwaukee rail-
road and robbed the money drawer of
5000.
Judge Belden, of Racine, has con-
firmed the verdict of $500 damages to
Mrs. Catherine Kanaly, of Racine, in
her case against the Standard Oil COM
pany for damages sustained in blasting
operations near her home.
William Blueman, residing six miles
east of Durand, hanged himself be-
cause of worry over the recent loss OF
his farm buildings, alleged to have
been burned by an enemy.
d. F. Yeck,s of Meredosea, H., who
has contracted with the state fish COM
mission to remove all of the available
German carp from the Madison lakes.
took 35 900 pounds of Objectionable fish
in one haul from Lake Monona.
GUendolen Brown Willis, of Wiscon-
sin. received the degree of doctor or
philosophy at the annual commence
ment exercises held at Bryn Mawr coll
leas. philadelphia, Pa.
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His Unhanniness

You growled at cold weather."
20, yes"
And you'll growl when it's hot?"
That's what"
We'll. what do you reckon you're here
for, anyhow"
MY friend" was the reply, that's jest
what keeps me a-growlin'-I can't find
Constitution.
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A Fish Story.

The king of the pickerel family, so
local angling historians say. was
caught at Fox Lake, by two Chicago
men, G. H. Hermes and A. ]. Miller.
The fish weighed 1924 pounds and was
four feet seven inches in length.
He towed the boat containing the two
fishermen nearly half a mile before he
was captured and towed ashore.
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Novel Trip to st. Louis.

A number of educational people of the
University of Wisconsin have planned
a novel trip to the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition. They will sail out of Lake
Mendoza and Monona June 10 into Little
Catfish river, thence to the RoclIsriveP,
the Catfish emptying into the Rock at
the mouth of Lake Koshkonong. The
party will then slowly descend the Roc k
to the Father of Waters after which 1t
will be clear sailing to st. Louis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16
FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE
Her First Railroad Journey

An old lady who had never ridden on
a railroad car recently visited station
and was shown into the waiting room.
She took chair and prepared to enjoy
herself. After sitting quietly for half
an hour she reached over, and, touching
a stranger on the arm, remarked: 1T
rides real easy, don't it?"--Frisco (Tex)i
Journal
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16
A Truth.

"a man who is in love with himself, .
remarked the Observer of Events and
Things, "has a fool for a fiance."--
Yonkers Statesman
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Or Meet the Bull.

Go in and bear it-as the broker said
when he thought he saw chance to
"knock" a certain stocli.-Indianapolis
News.
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on out there she called from the win
dow. Now, Troubles happened to over
hear this remark, and what do you sup
pose that dog did? He ran to the hall,
picked up a rubber shoe, hustled out
into the yard and dropped it at the girls
feet. Then he hurried back and re-
peated the performance with the other
shoe Don't tell me dogs don't under
stand language. '-Philadelphi Record.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16
Twas Ever Thus.

First visitor-Do you keep servant?
: Second Visitor-Not for long. Three
months is about the ayerago.--Aliy
SloDer.
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dom reechoed the clang of battle. To
a large extent the Japanese plans and
movements in the present war are an
illustration of this, being a repetition
of those which crowned their arms
with victory in the operations against
the Chinese in 1894. 1t is true that
then the enemy approached from the
west, whereas now his line of march
is from the north; but inasmuch as in
both wars the Japanese have had for
their main purpose the occupation Of
Korea and southern Manchuria and
the capture of Port Arthur, with a
view further to the domination of
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16

TUDENTS of military his
tory and geography are well
aware that the same roads
in many countries have
oftentimes heard the tramp
of armies, and that the
same places have not sell
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1t is not uncommon for these Indians
to travel 60 miles by trails so rough that
a horse could not follow them.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-12-19

DROP0sALs WILL BIZ RECEIVED AT TnE
4 Bureau Of Supplies and Accounts, Navy
department, Washington. D. c.. until 30 o clock
A. M. December go. 1904. and publicly opened
Immediately thereafter. % furnish al the
navy yards, League Island, Pa. Washington. D.
c.. and the Naval Academy, Annapolis. Nd,
as specified. quantity Of arc lamp iron poles,
motor. wire. red brick. fire clay. broken stone.
PAach Bottom slate, Portland cement, rivets,
pulieys. u W air drills Little Giant air drills.
Norton corundum wheels. breechbloeks. uni
versai joints Prenfiss vises. miscellaneous
hardware and hand tools. oak. white aud vel
low pine, etc sash. switch ties, pig lead, nick
Il steel. machine steel Crescent spring steel,
sanderson drill rod steel bars and shapes,
plain and galvanized sheet steel, steel castings,
switch points. etc. sheet tin, miscellaneous
metals. ebonite packing, strip and sheet rub
Der ere hose uulined linen hose, play pipes.
Howard hose racks. paints. etc, varnish, Re
nown engine oil Union petroleum oil, Albany
grease. Smiths durable metal coating, asphalt
tun pitch. pine pitch. Gibson soap polish. ma
rine cement. terra Gotta pipe and specials brass
pipe steel tnbes wrought iron pipe, cast-iron
pipe and specials pipe fittings, valves, Mason
traps. black bristies. window shades, etc, lea
ther betting. belt aces, horse and carria &c sup
plies. asbestos inittens, tripoh. felt wheels,
emery, anthracite coal. books, range and can
dies. Blank proposals will be furnished
upon application to the Navy Pay othees
Philadelphia, Pa, and Baltimore, Nd, or to the
Bureau. H. T. B. HARRIS, Paymasfey-Gene,iai
" S.M r2-I-o4 dfo
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-12-19
WGsIGfl Maryland Railroad.
TAKINe ETEEoT DgosMBER .. la.
rrainslsays HiIlsnstation a, fOrlOvs:


DAILY.
40 A. M. Fast Mail, Main Line. Hsgerstou
hayneenorO, n. q w, ny. and the South 81.
eX. sunday +. V X Hanco hambesf
burg, Aartinsourg and Winchsster
70 4. Al. Accom- Tor Union Bridge
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY,
7.15 A. M.-York. b. and h. Div: ana ne
line east q Emory Grove. Carlisle and q.
s.15A n. Main Line, Hsgerstown shippensbuIz
ffederieA- Emmittsburg and n. q ". L.
". ~ A. M.-For Union Bridge. YORK. Gettysbu
rs Z. Macon. Tor Lmory Grove.
DO 7. NJ Accom-. for bmory Grove 3, &
DIV. also ork.
4.l5 7. M.--AccOm. for Union Bridge.
+0.OO r M.-Exp Tor W esi MINISTER. Union Brio
ana thence Accom- 10 HaeeTr town; and Ia
COX. also fre eF5ck, hmniittssu4g aud 81.
peneDurg. (PaTior Carp
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Gettysburg. "a arior Car.)
s5gr. a--Accorn. for EMORY Grove
bl5 (. A-Accom. for Union Bridge
s.UJ =. h.--Accoin. Tor Emory Grove.
SUNDAYS ONLY.
$50 A. M.-Accom. for Union Bridge and Han
YER
z.3, Z. M.--Aecom. for Union Bridge.
4.5O =. M.-Accommodafion for bmory Grove.
sD0es not stop Penna Avenue station.
Tickets and baggage once, AIbaugn's Coz
Charles and Lexington streets.
Trains stop az Union, emma. Avenue. EulLcf
and " albrook North Avenuel Stations.
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