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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-08-25
FROM THE OTHER SIDE.

The only school for women gardeners
In London is at the Royal botanic gar
dens, Regents Park.
M Deibler, a French executioner, is
collecting material for the history of
the death punishment in Europe.
1t Is believed that French prune grow
ers use glyeerine to give their dried
fruit its peculiar glistening appear
ance.
IL Berlin, with population OF about
100000, the number Of new buildings
erected has averaged 2,123 year dur
ing teh last six years.
For the first time in so years small
freight steamers are now plying on the
upper Rhine, from Strasburg to Basel.
The cargoes consist chiefly of coal.
More than half of Russia's profits from
exports come from the sale of grain. The
value of exported butter Is over $780,
100000 per year; of eggs, over $780,
600, 900
A warden of an old English church
found in the lumber-room an ancient
"jug," which proved to be an Elizabethan
"stoup" of a rare kind. It was sold in
London at auction for SIS, 511, which suf-
feed to make some long-needed repairs
to the church building.
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solvent It has the ability to absorb and
communicate heat or cold as no other
agent has it. It's physical nature can
readily be changed from the liquid to
either solid or gaseous state, and IT
is probably due to these three remark
able properties that it owes its great
value as a therapeutic agent, because
by reason of these properties it is most
perfectly adapted to simple and easy
methods of application.
Now, few more valuable points
about water, and then | will begin more
practical instructions. First, by sc1en-
tific experiment you can demonstrate
for yourself that for given weight wa
ter will absorb more heat than any
other body, hence it is used as stand
ard of specific heat" A pound or
glass contains only one-f1fth as much
heat as the same weight of water, while
pound of water contains ten times as
much heat as a pound of copper, brass,
zinc or iron, and 80 times as much as
the same weight in gold, lead or mer-
curry
OCCOAu, Tie T6duIuSSo Will NA4NA
ter will absorb, store and communicate
heat exactly adapts it to our uses i'll
administering or Withdrawing heat from
any portion of the entire body. There
is not known any substance that will
equal it for this purpose, and If we be-
lieve the statement of old DR.. Thomp-
son, that heat is life, cold is
death, then we must realize the great
value that the discovery of this princi-
pie is to humanity.
Again, the specific heat of the hui
man body is nine-tenths that of water,
and as nearly 80 per cent. of the human
body is water, the specific heat Of the
two is nearly equal. A pound of water
at ten degrees will raise the tempera-
ture of a pound of iron from zero to
nearly ten degrees, while quantity Of
water equaling the weight of the body
will, by losing one degree of tempera-
ture through contact in full bath, raise
the temperature of the body little more
than one degree, taking no account Of
any change in heat production or heat
elimination (Kellogg). All of these
things should be carefully studied by
those who intend to make use of the
practical methods of application which
are to follow.
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Copyright, 1904. by Daily Story Pub. co.,

I INA leaned back in her chair and
surveyed the clearly-written sheet
in her hand with dimpIed amusement.
You'll answer it, of course?" ques-
toned Mabel, haf-enViously.
Indeed l shall" Lima responded.
''What's more, since he is kind enough
to presume l have husband, shall
tell him that worthy gentleman never
dictates my correspondence. 1t is a
long way the most interesting tribute,
NAB, that my genius has ever received.
There's always certain risk in
friendly correspondence with stran-
ger" ventured Mabel, oracularly.
Lina's eyes danced.
No doubt it will wreck my domestic
peace" she agreed. Then she shook her
head. This Dwight Hillman is a gen.
tleman, Nab. l Ike him, on paper, at
least You people who see me eating
steak and potatoes every day never
realize how delicious it is to be regarded,
once in awhile, as a creature all intellect
and imagination" She stood up and
stretched out her strong young arms,
with wholesome, ringing laugh.
Suppose his interest should become
too personal?" Mabel suggested.
1T couldn't" Lima declared. There's
the suppositious husband you know"
even an actual husband isn't always
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NOTES ABOUT ANIMALS.

It Is a curious fact in natural history
that no bird can fly backwards.
The largest serpent ever measured
was Mexican anaconda, which was
found to be 81 feet in length.
Durham possesses four dogs to every
pig, while in Lincolnshire there are
four pigs to every dog. In Lincoln.
shire there are more pigs than in any
other county, the number reaching no
fewer than 116.948.
Man has a rival in the art Of shaw
ing in a South American bird called
the 'motmot," which actually begins
shaving on arriving at maturity. Nat
urally adorned with long clue tail
feathers, it Is not satisfied with them
In their natural state, but with It's
beak nips off the web on each side,
leaving only little oval tuft at the
end OF each.
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Care of Household Silver.

To remove medicine stains from silver
spoons rub the spoons with lemon juice
and salt. A little salt rubbed wet on a
spoon will remove egg stains. This
should be done every time the spoons
are used for this purpose, as the stains
are much harder to remove If allowed
to stand. Whiting mixed with ammonia
and water makes a good cleaning prep
aration for silver. 1t can be applied in
the wet method or the dry, the former
being easier and cleaner. To clean sill
yer in the wet method apply the whit
ing and let it dry. Then wash it off
thoroughly in warm, soapy water and
polish with chamois skin. Or, instead
of washing off the paste, the latter may
be wiped off with a dry, soft buster. A
plate brush will be necessary to get the
dried powder out of the crevices. This
method makes a good deal Of dust and
there is danger of scratching the surface
of the plate.
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match the color of the material. Ut is
pink in this instance)
The shade proper is made by looping
and fastening upon the foundation
gauze ribbon, about half inch wide.
The loops are graduated in length, with
the exception of the small ones at the
top, which are formed to resemble a
ruching. A row of narrow crystal
fringe, sewed around the bottom of the
foundation, makes a desirable finish and
a few sprays OF artificial maidenhair
fern disposed among the loops add the
finishing touch. The shade must, of
course, be placed on mica foundation
before the candle is lighted.-Detroit
Free Press.
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AS EASY.
Needs Only a Little Thinking.

The food of childhood often decides
whether one is to grow up well nour-
ished and healthy 90 weak and sickly
from improper food.
It's just as easy to be one as the 9TH
er, provided we get proper start.
A wise physician like the Denver
Doctor who knew about food, can ac-
complish wonders, provided the patient
is willing to help and will eat only
proper food.
Speaking of this case the Mother SAID
her little four-year-old boy was suffer-
ing from a peculiar arrangement OF the
stomach, liver and kidneys and his feet
became SO swollen he couldn't take
step. eve called a Doctor who said
at once we must be very careful as to
his diet, as improper food was the
only cause of his sickness. Sugar espe-
cially, he forbid.
$50 the DR.. made up diet and the
principal food he prescribed was Grape
Nuts and the boy, who was very fond
of sweet things, took the Grape-Nuts
readily without adding any sugar. (Dr.
explained that the sweet in Grape-Nuts
is not at all like cane or beet sugar
but is the natural sweet Of the grains.)
eve saw big improvement inside
few days and now Grape-Nuts are al
most his only food and he is once more
a healthy, happy, rosy-cheeked young
ster with every prospect to grow up
into strong healthy man" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich.
The sweet in Grape-Nuts is the Ma
ture-sweet known as Post Sugar, not
digested in the liver like ordinary
sugar, but predigested. Feed the young
sters a handful of Grape-Nuts when
Nature demands sweet and prompts
them to call for sugar.
There's reason.
Get the little book "The Road to
Wellville" in each pkg.
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A Cement That Will Stick.

A capital cement for broken china
and bric-a-brac that can be made at
home is obtained by mixing half an
ounce of gum arabic with half tea
spoonful of boiling milk and adding
enough plaster of paris to produce a
creamy paste. To use successfully have
the pieces that are to be mended warm
and apply the cement warm with a
small brush. Objects repaired with this
cement have to be set aside for week
before they can be used, but after that
they can be washed in either warm or
cold water with safety. Soaking, how
ever, they will not stand.
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a safeguard" insisted the pessimist;
but Lima laughed again.
Don't croak, cara mia. It's only a
harmless lark, anyway.
So she penned her reply to the I'M
known admirer of her literary handi-
craft, her eyes sparkling over her naive
allusion to the imaginary husband, and
her corrOborative full signature, Lima
Watts Radford." Clever as she was in
misunderstanding she did not realize
how much of her own warm, shy. mirth-
loving personality went into that let
ter.
Hillman's second came with amazing
promptness, so manly and respectful,
with its undercurrent of ardent interest,
that Lima had two minds to put it in her
private drawer, instead of filing it prim-
" with her business correspondence
Remembering Mabel's dismal prophecies,
she sternly denied the leaning. But she
answered it, as the writer had earnestly
begged she should
That was the beginning. Before many
weeks Lima found herself wetching for
the white messengers with a feverish ex-
pectancy even the crisp business mis-
sives of the publishers had never excited
within her.
Hillman had told her that he was 81,
and an architect by profession. For her.
self, she avoided anything relating to
her private affairs, partly from real shy
ness, partly in a spirit of mischief, re-
Numbering his former allusion to her
supposed marriage. They wrote mainly
of current literary matters, her own
methods, plots, or proposed work. Often,
too, she found his frank criticism invalu-
able.
The correspondence ran on for six
months with blissful smoothness. Then
a change crept into HillEan's letters.
They grew constrained brief. Lima, in
doubt and misery, answered as briefly.
A long, nerve-racking silence followed,
broken at last by curt note from Hill
man:
ST have not written, because could
not without betraying what I should
have kept God knows have fought it
hard enough, but through this CORE
spondence I have grown to love you
with all my strength. Forgive my con-
fession, and forget it in the happiness OF
your full life. am going away.
I'D. H.
The words blurred before Lina's
stricken eyes. One fact stood out to
her in naked accusation: she had virtu-
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wicker, the combination being attrac-
tive as well as odd.
Silver and gilt are the metals that
have been combined in the production
of the three branch candelabra in art
nouveau design and also of the mirror
and pin tray. All three pieces are ex-
amples Of exceptionally good workman
ship, the two-toned metals affording an
excellent contrast. Shades of silver
beads add to the effectiveness of the
candle holder.
For. the seeker after odd and pretty
articles adapted to household use or or
nament, the copper, gilt and silver de-
signs that have made their appearance
this season offer an extensive and sat
isfactory field for choice.
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Misplaced Energy.

There's lots O. sights that we've got to
bear.
An lots of injustice, too.
But quarrels, they takes heap o. care
Before you have seen EN- through.
An there's honest work if you'll look
about
At home and in every cline.
It's a great temptation to fight things out,
But, fellers. we amt got time
There's comfort slight in the word of
spite
That's hurled from an angry tongue
An perhaps there's joy in a tyrant' s
might
Our brethren weak among
But the whole world sometimes has to
wait
Because of some selfish crime.
An fightin's bad among small and great
Cause. felers. we amt got time
Washington Star.
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handle. The glasses, taller than the
general style of claret glass, are set in
frames of copper ornamented to cor
respond with the pitcher. The set is
particularly attractive one and
would make an admirable wedding gift.
The wine cooler of hammered copper
shows another use to which this metal
is put these days The ornamentation
is simple but effective and within the
copper bowl is set a metal cylinder to
hold the bottle, the ice being packed in
the copper bowl.
For the watering of the window
boxes or the plants in an improvised
conservatory, say in the bay window,
the sprinkling pot of copper included
In the above group is desirable. As
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MEATLESS DIET HEALTHFUL
Carnivorous Habits Said to Be Un-
natural and Harmful to Flu
man Beings.

1t would be quite foolish 10 become
discouraged on account of strikes
which cause a rise in the price of meat.
If the cost of flesh food went wholly
beyond the means of man, there would
be no good cause for despair. Meat is
not necessity of life. Many think it
is both luxury and an evil. AT best
it is matter of habit" like coffee.
alcohol, tobacco, chewing gum or pie.
Scientific observation in this coun-
try and Europe has shown that perfect
health and mental vigor may be obtain
ed on a meatleSs diet. A series of ex-
periments has just been carried out at
the University of California, which
demonstrated that nuts and fruits are
all that are necessary to maintain
health under all circumstances, and it
may not be amiss to state that the Jap
anese are making a phenomenal cam
paign against the Russians on a meat
less diet. No meat is used in Japan
by the masses. And in Central Amer
lea the natives will cut mahogany logs
about as hard as iron--in the intense
heat of the tropic sun, sustained by a
diet of bananas and rice. No meat eat
ing laborer could perform this work.
Meat is stimulating, just as coffee,
tea or intoxicants are; and it is ordi-
narily thought that the weakness which
follows when one is deprived of meat
shows that meat is essential to
strength. The "goneness" follows when
coffee is emitted. 1t is now agreed that
meat eating is particularly the cause
of many complaints; there is more or
less poisonous matter remaining in the
carcasses of animals, caused by various
: chemical changes, and these toxic ele-
ments gradually affect those who make
meat a staple article of diet. Uric acid
is largely caused by flesh diet.
In nuts, fruits, grains, ETC., we find
a food better adapted to mans needs
than animal food The percentage of
nourishment in meat is small compared
to several vegetable products that can
be had at every grocery, so that the
body may be amply sustained ON veg
etable products at much less cost
than when meats are used.
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Novelty in Invalid Cookery.

Peach foam is suggested as novelty
In invalid cookery. 1t is made by TAX
ing half a cupful of powdered sugar,
the white of an egg and one cupful of
peach pulp Beat with silver spoon
in large bowl for 80 minutes, and the
result is-or should be very velvety
cream. The same authority gives grape
foam, which consists simply of the
white of an egg beaten stiff and added
to two tablespoonfuls of grape juice.
Add a little scraped ice and sprinkle
with powdered sugar.
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VVYHILE the fancy for copperware,
VA useful and decorative, is not so
pronounced as it was some
months ago, there is sufficient demand
for the glowing metal to warrant the
production of various articles for table
and boudoir service that are certain
to appeal to lovers of things artistic.
The distinctive note in these new de-
signs is the combination Of copper and
crystal as shown in the claret set here
portrayed. The tall pitcher is of cop
per- silver lined and ornamented with
a design in relief of grapes, the
decoration extending also to the
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For Table and Boudoir

will be noticed the spout is exception
ally long and the ornamental charac-
ter of the metal permits of its being
added to the list of household appur-
tenances suitable for gifts.
Another article for the flower lover is
the jardiniere, likewise of copper; a
holder of this sort showing to particu-
lar advantage in a den or other apart
ment where dark-toned furniture of the
mission or weathered oak persuasion
predomiIates.
The graceful looking strip pitcher is
Of copper and distinguished by reason
of it's handle, which is overlaid with
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-08-25
HOMEMADE LAMP SHADES.
Easily Manufactured by the
Veriest Novice.

Homemade lamp and candle shades
are quite the thing once more. The
pretty candle shade here illustrated
may be easily manufactured by the
novice and is a dainty ornament. Cut
a piece of stiff paper, in circular shape,
and of the depth desired, and glue the
two ends together, thus making a
foundation. Cover this neatly, inside
and out, with crinkled tissue paper to
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"CoUNTRIFIED. "

DO they call you "countrified?'
Let it be your JOY and pride,
You, who love the birds and bees,
And the whispers Of the trees!
Trust me. friend of flowers and grass,
Little brown-faced lad or lass,
Naught in all the world beside
Equals being "countrified."
Up of mornings when the light
Reddens on the mountain height;
Hearing how the bird-throats swell
With the joy they cannot tell;
Conscious that the morning sirgs
Like a harp with unseen strings.
over which the breezes glide;
This is being ''countrified.
Roaming far, on summer days,
Or when autumn woodlands blaze;
Learning how to catch and tell
Natures precious secrets well;
Filled with sunshine, heart and face,
Or, where branches interiace,
Dappled like the shy trouts side;
This is being "countrifed.'
What though little TT to pose
In the city's ways and clothes?
There is vastly more to love
In the brown Of Natures glove
Health and happiness and tan
Are best fashions for a man,
AL who near to God abide
Are, in some way, "countrified."
james Buckham, in Journal of Agricul
ture
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biggest Buffers In the world

At Kings Cross the Great Northern
railway has just installed five sets of
hydraulic buffers which are the biggest
of their kind yet constructed. Each set of
buffers weighs over five tons, and they
will bring train weighing 400 tons, and
travelling ten miles an hour. to rest in a
space of seven ieet-the length of the
stroke of their pistons.
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Percentage of
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Percentage


Those who crave meat may find a
partial substitute in milk, cheese, and
eggs, and no one need fear that his
health will suffer if he is forced to
subsist on vegetable diet for time.
On the contrary, many common forms
of disease will be greatly diminished by
a natural diet-for nature never intend
ed man to eat flesh.
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Silver Card Cases in Vogue.

The summer card case will not SO
much as suggest leather. It comes in
silk, plain, striped and MORE, and in
silk covered with lace. Bits of point
or Duchess lace may be taken to the
leather shop and they will be made up
to order over silk 70 match the calling
costume Chicago Daily News.
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panama Cleaner.

To clean a Panama hat, mix two table
spoonfuls of whiting with the juice OF
one lemon, brush this all over the hat,
leave for ten minutes, and then rinse well
in cold water. Hang in the air to dry
in position quite shaded from the run 8
rays.
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The Hidden Germ.

Every true achievement has within
itself the seed of something better than
itself The loveliest of blossoms is but
a cradle for the ripening fruit, and
in the fruit lies hidden the germ of
unimagined summers yet to be.-Lucy
Larcom.
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Laundry Hint.

Have SEARCHED things quite dry be-
fore straehing them, and let them lie "a
hours starched, and damp them well be-
fore ironing them.-Roston Budget.
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Polishing Point.

If you have no polishing iron, very
nicely kept fat iron does quite well, Dut
you must dampen the already ironeo
parts before polishing. Good Ltera-
ture
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FEMALE TROUBLE
NOT RECOGNIZED
AS CATARgH.

recognized as being caused by catarrh.
Catarrh of one organ is exactly the
same as catarrh of any other organ.
What will cure catarrh of the head will
also cure catarrh of the pelvic organs.
Peruna cures these cases simply because
1t cures the catarrh.
If you have catarrh write at once to
DR.. Hartman, giving full statement of
your case, and he will be pleased to give
you his valuable advice gratis.
Address DIR. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, o.
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About the only way to avoid trouble
is by not being born.
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go Eleventh Street,
n r. NWFyr

"a short time ago / found my coH-
dillon very serious, I had headaches,
pains In the back, and frequent dizzy
spells which gre w worse every month.
tried two remedies before Peruna,
and was discouraged when took
the first dose, bur my courage soon
returned. In less than two months
my health was restored. Mrs. NJ.
Brickner.
The reason of so many failures to
cure cases similar to the above is the
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fact that diseases
peculiar to the
female sex are
not com IN on ly
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All communications for Ais depart
ment should contain four cents IL
postage, and should be addressed tn
DR.. David H Reeder, Laporte, Ind.