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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-07-30
GONE TO RlVERvIEW.

A number OF members OF the State
House baseball team and some outsiders
have game scheduled with the lively
aggregation OF baseballists at Riverview
this afternoon.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-07-30
BLUE CRANE AT ATTlEBoR0.

Frank Semple OF North Attleboro shot
a blue crane. a rare bird in this section
Yesterday. 1t is four feet high and meas
ures, from wing 10 wing. FIVE feet
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-07-30
ADMITTED TO BAR.

Roscoe NJ Dexter of Pawtucket, was
admitted 90 practice I'm the United states
court az attorney and counsellor by Judge
Arthur l. Brown this morning In the
United states district court
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-07-30
BREACH OF CONTRACT ALLEGED.

Orville L. Leach OF Cranston. has
brought suit against Patrick J. Mccarthy
to recover 500 for alleged breach OF con-
tract.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-07-30
GO WHERE evsRYeooY GOES

To the Palm Wine Room and Concert
Gardens. 6s Dorrance street, formerly
Tom Mcceough's. Shay a Burs>. Msus.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-07-30

'Did he fall In love al first sight7'
yes. First sight of her bank ac-
oannt"--Princeton Tiger.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-07-30
The New York Stock Market.

Reported for The News. by n. CURTIS
FLETCHER Is CO., street floor, Banigan
Building.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-07-30

Was Eve n summer girl before the
Bulletin.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-07-30
The Cotton Market.

Reported for The News by DAVIS n
DAVIS, Banigan Building.
Yes
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01
A FALLAcY ABOUT SOIL.
The idea That It Soon Wears Out
Is Declared Not Scientific
or True.

The idea that "soil soon wears OUT
is not scientific or true. Soil may be
exhausted so that it cannot grow good
crops of grain, fruits and vegetables,
but this implies a regular practice of
taking from the soil some OF its plant
food elements each year, and of put
ting nothing back in the soil in the
form of manure, says Prof. ]. L.
Doren.
Where anything at all approaching
a. balance of taking from and giving
back is practiced, the soil is indie
structable. Where the taking and CIV
ing are just equal, the soil remains at
one level of productive capacity, no
matter how long it may be cropped.
Where the taking exceeds the giving,
no matter how slightly, the soil must
lose in productive capacity, and ex-
haustion is only a question of time.
Where the giving exceeds the taking.
however slightly, the soil grows rich
er and richer the longer 1t is cropped.
In some European countries, as Hol-
land, Belgium, Denmark, Germany and
England. land that has been cropped
for centuries is richer now than it was
hundreds of years ago. The farmers
have recognized the scientific necessity
of giving little more than they take.
At least they have not committed the
error of taking more than they give.
In China there are vast areas Of
garden soil that have grown crops for
5000 to 5000 years, and support
swarming millions of people. These
lands, according to the reports Of
travellers, are surprisingly fertile after
thousands of years of service, and to-
day they are producing crops that are
simply amazing to farmers accustomed
to the take-all and give-nothing
methods that prevail in some coun-
tries.
Farmers may draw freely upon their
soil SO long as they return to it all
that part of it's produce which they do
not sell or consume with the addition
of some commercial fertilizer to as
sure the maintenance of the balance
of the plant-food elements in it. The
soil can hardly be worn out or de-
stroyed The worst that even the
worst farming can do to it is to use
up it's available plant food. Even then
it still retains plant food elements,
and when those elements are made
available the soil will return to the
work of production.
American farmers, like the farmers
in all other new and wide countries,
started in to take without giving. Now
they are coming to the true idea OF
farming. 1t is high time to make a
general Improvement in farming
methods, and the soil will promptly
respond to the coming changes in
practice.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01
OFFICIAL CUP OF COFFEE.
Proper Method of Brewing the Rsv-
erage to Be Determined in
Washington.

By direction of the secretary of agri-
culture the bureau of plant industry is to
take up at once experiments to deter
mine the best manner in which to brew q
cup of coffee. To this end, says a Wash
ington report, f. L. Lewton, a specially
trained expert, has been engaged. The
view of the department is that cup of
coffee is good because of the manner in
which it is brewed rather than from the
quality of the bean from which the bev-
erage is made. 1t will be appreciated by
all persons acquainted with the art and
mystery of coffee-making that various con-
ditions, apparently trivial in themselves,
have to be taken into consideration in
producing the beverage
For instance, III the process or roasting
the beans may be more or less damaged
by being under or over done, and the
flavor of the coffee thus impaired to q
corresponding degree. Hence the necessity
for ideal conditions IN roasting. Again, the
effects of water at various temperatures
upon the ground coffee and the proper
period for infusion will, for the first
time in the history of coffee-making, be
thoroughly and accurately ascertained.
The retention of caffeine, the active
principle of coffee, to which it owes its
stimulating effects, and the elimination of
the caffeotannic and caffeic acids, which
are not only injurious to health, but COM
municate an unpleasant, bitter taste to
the beverage, will be, of course, the prin-
cipal objects.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01
STOCK SUGGESTIONS.

Amy animal that is worthy of a place
on the farm has right to good keep.
When fed dry, shelled corn is more
economical than corn meal to feed
to fattening hogs.
Desirable breeding qualities in a
herd are fixed by long line of care
full selection and breeding.
A sheep adapted to every section and
to every breeders surroundings cannot
be grown in the same animal.
When an aIl-corn ration is fed to
growing pigs the muscles of the body
do not develop to their normal size.
To secure the best results care should
be taken to feed the hogs according to
age. conditions ana time of marketing.
In selecting breeding stock it is an
item to know whether they are from
family noted for fertility, as this is
an inherited quality.
Dr. not think that rough usage will
curs a horse of the shying habit He
socn associates the one with the other
ana becomes hard to control.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01

ioor. A team and wagon is able to be
turned at any spot.
mot only is barn constructed In
this way more convenient, but also
stronger. A frame made on the square
basis is more apt to give to one side.
Surprising we wanted to prop up some
thing heavy, say sawlog, we would
not put square under it, but tri-
angle. The slant purline posts serve
the same purpose as do the slant ends
of a bridge. We read a great deal of
barns blowing down or being broken
down by snow. The storms are becom-
ing more and more severe as the for
ests are cut down, and the thinner the
forests the weaker the timber used;
thus we want to give each foot Of lum-
Der it's proper place, where it has the
greatest opportunity to resist pressure,
and also place timber where it is most
needed. The times are past when oak,
pine and beach logs two feet in diam
eter and 80 or 40 feet long were used.
1.-THE timber used in this plan is 90x1O
throughout the whole frame. The end
posts A B are 10 feet long; the bottoms
of these are framed into the ends OF
CD E; the purline posts are 50 feet long,
and are slightly grooved in q. to prevent
them from slipping at the bottom. 1t is
necessary that G be one long log, or il
in two pieces they must be well joined,
SO as to hold the bottoms of D and E
firm. F, the cross beam, is SO feet six
inches long. This beam is kept firm by
double braces at the bottom; these
braces should be about eight feet long.
G G are two plank draw braces, inIaid
in D and f and E f; then two bolts Eut
through at each end. BY having G G
fastened In this way they have a dolS~le
purpose, both as braces and draw
braces. The rafters are two feet apart
and 16 feet long. The rafters only reach
to the top of the plate marked II. Short
rafters, 10 inches long, are nailed against
the others, with a four-inch rise at the
bottom. After the sheeting and shingles
are put on the end roof has bell shape
appearance.
THE three or four inner beams Of
the barn should be made on the above
plan, while the outside ones have to be
made with upright purlines in order to
nail on the gheeting."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01
FORESTS OF PHILIPPINES.
Bureau of Insular Affairs and New
System of Taxes Aid in Their
Preservation.

The bureau of insural affairs of the war
department has received from Manila
copies of the forestry manual containing
the latest news and regulations enacted
for the protection and utilization OF for
est products of all kinds. A forestry bu-
reau was created soon after the Ameri-
can occupation of the archipelago and
has performed vast amount of labor.
The government levies a tax on all
timber taken from the public lands. This
tax ranges from Ia cents per cubic foot
for the best quality down to one cent per
cubic foot for the inferior. Formerly this
tax was uniform throughout the islands,
and the result was that the lumber opera
tions were largely confined to the more
accessible regions, where much lumber
ing had already been carried on, to the
neglect of others, where lumber opera
tions would really improve forest con-
ditions.
To remedy this the provinces have
been divided into two classes. In one
class the former tax is still collected,
while in the other the tax has been re-
duced SO per cent. The amount of tim
Der taken from the forests during the
last three fiscal years and upon which the
tax was paid was 7,453,678 cubic feet, or
SO, 444. 1876 feet board measure.
Licenses are now granted by the gov
eminent for a term of 20 years, not for
only one year as formerly, and the per-
son or corporation taking out license
assumes the obligation of cutting a fixed
minimum amount of timber each year
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01
House the Sheep Early.

l begin feeding early as a shrinkage
in the fall is double loss. A little feed
in the early winter will produce sub
stautial gains, while the lack of it will
result in a decided loss. There is ne
time in the year that you get more for
your grain than in the early winter.
Keep the flock sheltered from all
storms at this season, putting them in
the barn merely to shelter them from
the wind and storms and not to keep
them warm. Keep all doors open, yet
avoid drafts. This keeps the barn at
nearly the same temperature as the
outdoor air. Keep the sheep dry and
prevent drafts and you need not worry
about the cold.-D. d. Deeds, in Farm
and Home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01
MURMURs FROM GROUND.
Strange Sounds Heard for Many Gen.
turtles on the Red Sea
Borders.

A singular phenomenon occurs on the
borders of the Red sea to a place called
Nakous, where intermittent underground
sounds have been heard for an unknown
number of centuries. 1t is situated about
half a mile distant from the shore,
whence long reach of sand ascends rap
idly to height of 800 feet. This reach is
about 800 feet wide and resembles an am
phitheater, being walled by low rocks.
The sounds coming up from the ground
at this place recur at intervals of about
an hour. They at first resemble low
murmur, but ere long there is heard a
loud knocking, somewhat like the strokes
of bell and which at the end of about
five minutes becomes SO strong as to agi-
tate the sand. The explanation of this
curious phenomenon given by the Arabs
is that there is convent under the
ground here and that these monks ring
for prayers. So they cali it Nakous,
which means bell.
The Arabs affirm that the noise SO
frightens their camels when they hear it
as to render them furious. Philosophers
attribute the sound to suppressed volcanic
action-probably to the bubbling of gas
or vapor underground.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01
Preserving the Pork.

find that nearly every recipe for the
preservation of pork that has been
eiven recently in our farm paper con-
uAins certain quantity of saltpeter.
Now, one of the chemical truths that l
learned during my sch~oldays was that
much of the nutritive value of meat is
destroyed by the chemical action of
salt and saltpeter and that the nitric
acid absorbed by the meat is largely
responsible for the diseases common to
marines and others who subsist prin-
cipally upon salt meats. Among these
diseases | might mention scurvy, sore
gums, decayed teeth, ulcers, etc. /
doubt If the effects of saltpeter are so
pernicious as represented, since go
many good people advocate it's use.
but for one am resolved to steer clear
Of 1t. I find that sugar is a good SUBJ
stitute and renders the meat sweeter
and more wholesome and is equally
g~sod as DISQUALIFICATION Jackson.
in Agricultural Epitomist
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01
The Dust Bath

To keep the fowls free from lice
during the winter months nothing is
better than the dust-bath. A large
box is not required if the attendant
will give a little attention to it each
day. Ar this season of the year plenty
CT road dust can be provided. Get a
barrel or box large enough to hold the
winter supply, and store in dry place.
and when cold weather comes you viii
be provided with one Of the very best
lice powders at very little cost. Take
small box and set in the sun, keep
well filled with the fine, loose earth.
The fowls viii do the rest.-Midland
Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01
A Teachers Testimony.

Hinton, KY, Nov. % (SpeoiaD-It has
long been claimed that Diabetes is incur
able, but Mr.. E. j. Thompson, teacher in
the Hinton school, has pleasing evidence
to the contrary. Mr.. Thompson had Dia-
betes He took Dodd's Kidney Pills and
is cured. In statement he makes regard
IT was troubled with my kidneys for
more than two years and was treated by
two Of the best doctors in this part of the
state. They claimed had Diabetes and
there was little to be done for me. Then
I started to use Dcdd's Kidney Pills and
what they did for me was wonderful. 1t
that am now eenioyil@ good health"
Many doctors still maintain that Dia-
betes is incurable. But Diabetes is kid
ney disease and the kidney disease that
Dodd's Kidney Pills viii not cure has yet
To he discovered
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01
STRANGE HAPPENINGS.

Kindiings on the parlor floor,
Locomotive by the door
With its drivers in the air,
And doll with fiaXen hair
Lying on its back, with eyes,
Erst the hue of Texas skies
Gone; poked out; and lips whose smile,
Just ghost of other while,
Is obliterated by
A huge crack from chin to eye
Deathly quiet! Dear, oh, dear!
What has wrought such havoc here?
Farther on beneath the stair
Lies little broom and chair
And off yonder on its side
Lies a rabbit glassy-eyed,
With its cotton coat all torn.
With it's side so sadly worn
Its life sawdust filters through;
Farther lies kitten, too,
Done to death: an apple here
Shows the imprint sharp and clear
OF wee teeth. Say, who can say
What strange thing has passed this way
In the pantry there's clock
Without hands, a building block.
And a tin cup inside down,
And-what's that? A tous,ed crown
And pink dimpled limbs outsprea6
And yellow tousled head
On Simpled arm? Go slow
Put your feet down softly-so:
See the rose-leaf finger tips,
See the smile still on the lips.
Softly-softly-out we creep
Dads best baby is asleep
II. III. Lewis. in Houston Post.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01
A GOOD BARN FRAME.
Here Is a Plan by Which All Posts
Are Kept from the Floor
Space.

The following excellent plan for a
barn frame was recently submitted by
Mr.. Adam Roth, of Ontario, to the Ca
madam Farmers Advocate:
Because of it's slanting purline posts,
this plan is commonly called the bridge
beam. In most of the barns the posts
are vertical. Too many upright posts
in barn floor are hindrance, especial
" in small barns built when timber is
plentiful. According to the proposed
plan not a single post is on the barn
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01
A HANDY SLED.
How a Farm Conveyance May BE
Made to Pull Easy in Dry or
Muddy Weather.

To make a sled pull easy in dry or
muddy weather and answer the pup
pose of a wagon in many ways the de-
vice shown here will be found very
useful. This time of the year a sled
pulls very heavy, but with this i'm
provement, it can be made so II takes
only one-half the power to pull it, that
is one horse can pull what would re-
quire two horses on an ordinary sled.
1t is very simple and easy to make.
Nearly every farmer has self-binder
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01
PLAN OF THE SLED.

for cutting his grain; each binder has
a set of trucks and that is what this
device is made of. Put the trucks I'M
der the top piece of your sled about
two feet back of the center for a r.
foot sled, about three feet back for
14-foot sled. Either wire or bolt If
wood axle; if iron, make a u Clamp
ing around axle and top of sled to keen
rom slipping endwise when loaded
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Epitomist.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01
New York & PHILADELPHIA.

cannot be more pleasantly or convenient
ly reached than by the Grand Trunk-Le-
high Valley Route. Solid .nrough trains,
magnificent scenery, all trans run via
Niagara Falls. Descriptive literature sent
free ON application TO Advertising Depart
ment, Grand Trunk Railway System, 1876
Adams St., Chicago, H., Geo. w. Vaux,
A. G. ?. & T. A.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01
CUTICURA SOAP
The worlds Greatest Skin SOap-The
Standard of Every Nation OF
the Earth.

Millions of the worlds best people use
Cuticura Soap, assisted by Cuticura Oint-
ment, the purest and sweetest of emol-
lent skin cures, for preserving, purifying
and beautifying the skin, for cleansing
the scalp of crusts, scales and dandruff,
and the stopping of falling hair, for soft
enlng, whitening and soothing red, rough
end sore hands, for baby rashes, itchlngs
anC chahngs, and many sanatiye, ant
septic purposes which readily suggest
themselves to women especially mothers.
as we'll as for all rhe purposes of the
toilet, bath and nursery.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01

Lowest Rates Ever Made to Florida,
Florida Fair, Tampa, Fla. Tickets will
he sold beginning November 18th, 1904,
with final limit of 81 days. See that your
ticket reads via Seaboard Air Line Rail
way. the shortest and best route to and
TIN ough Florida.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01
Fitting Ceremonies.

A surgeon tells of a patient who was
about to undergo an operation for appen-
dicitis, but before submitting to the knife
sent for his pastor, so that ne could be
opened with prayer.-Chicago Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01
Willing to Oblige.

The Bride-Oh, Jack! You shouldn't
kiss me before all those girls.
The Chromium glad my little wife is
so unselfsh, and just to please you III
kiss all those girls frst.-Chicago Daily
News
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01

Sir John Madden, chief justice of Vic
toria, who is famous for his prolixity, re-
Gently delivered judgment of 100000
words, the reading of which occupied h IN
seven hours. Sir John kept awake during
the whole recital.--Punch
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01

de man dat tries to make rabbit
foot take de place of hard work." said
Uncle Eben, lis gwlne to lose heap of
his faith in signs one o. desc days.
Washington Star.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01

Do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton has an equal for coughs and colds.-J.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01

Good advice is well enough in it's way,
but hungry man can't make a satisfac.
tory meal of it.-Chicago Daily News.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01

Society is the mother of convention,
and quite often deserves its chlld.-Chi-
cago journal.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-01-20
JUST SOME NOTES.

The girls of the Cheney normal
have organized a basket ball team
and will challenge the High school
team in this city.
Physical Director Myers of the To-
cal branch OF the Y. NJ C. A. is rOund-
ing out some of his men for the
thorough organization of an indoor
baseball team. Some of the young
men are very good players now.
It's up to Eddie Rothrock to ex-
plain to Mr.. Middaugh all about that
four-bit piece. They were up to their
necks in work, Middaugh didn't have
any change with him and the two
went to Davenports. They lunched-
didn't wine and dine. just lunched.
Rocky" passed n coin to Middaugh.
Middaugh. it appears. wears glasses
(broad "a" in glasses). Middaugh's
glasses were placed near his plate,
and without them he didn't see this
certain coin which had been passed
to him. They left the table and as
they arose the waiter does a two
step to the table. picks up the coin,
bows and says. THANK you. gentle
men" Moral: Always tie a cable to
your money in a restaurant