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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14
SoZODONT
TOOTH POWDER

and its complement, SOZoDoNT Lqali.
The Powder is slightly abrasive, is abso-
lutely free from grit and acid, and is just
the thing for those who have an inclination
for the niceties Of everyday life.
sFoRskss LIQUID. POWDER. PASTE :
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
POULTRY FOR THE FARMER.
He Should Select Useful Fowls Only
and Gull Them Carefully
from Year to Year.

Most farmers are not fanciers and do
not breed fowls to sell for breeders to
others. Only now and then do we find
a farmer that cares to handle a fancy
breed because of the plumage, or of the
ornament they may be to his lawn.
Most farmers want the most useful
fowl that can be found. The farmer
in breeding should keep this point in
mind and should not permit himself
to be persuaded to take up with some
high-priced breed of chiefly fancy
points. IF farmer wants a fowl that
he can show and take a prize on let
him remember that he can do it just
as well with common breeds. provided
they are pure. as with some fancy
breed of high color. But leaving out
the question of shows. the farmer
should breed for some utility point
alone. Say it is egg production. Let
him lose sight of all showing and work
to produce egg layers. Let him select
continually the best layers for pro-
ducers. According to the testimony Of
showmen he will have to say good-by
to his hope for prizes. A noted exhibit
tor Of birds declares that egg laying
gets bird so out of shape that she
stands no chance whatever in a show.
Yet these are the kind Of birds the
farmer wants. The most profitable egg
producing fiocks in the country have
been selected in this way and they are
not purchasable, as their owners can
make more out of them in egg produc-
ing than IN selling them for breeders.
With all such flocks the question Of
selection is a large one. Culling must
be carried on from year to year, and
that, too, relentlessly.-Far Re.
view.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Blue Grass for the Hogs.

The more we see of blue grass and
the more we have to do with it. the
more we believe that John J. ingalls,
meant what he said when he wrote
what he did about blue grass. The lat
est capture" blue grass has made in
this section of the state is in the way
of hog pastures. On our upland it has
come out in a way that plainly shows
it to be head and shoulders above al
falfa for that quality of soil. and when
it comes to a question of lasting with
a herd of hogs running on it. alfalfa
simply isn't in it compared with the
blue grass And as far as we have
been able to observe, the hogs like the
grass every bit as we'll and do every
bit as we'll on it as they do on alfalfa.
There is no doubt al Jut alfalfa having
its place on the farm, but every year,
little by little, it is soaking into our
cavity where set of brains ought to
be that blue grass is crowding it hard
for first place as a hog pasture crop of
a more permanent nat re than is cane
or rape.-Misscuri Valley Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Steer That Weighs Two Tons.

An Omaha man is said to own a
steer that tips the scales at 1000
pounds. The animals measurements
are a reveal ion to cattlemen. They
are: Hams across under loins, 21h
inches; hams on sides, 1 foot 10 inches;
length of hams, 2 feet inches; point
of short ribs, 6 inches; height, feet
2 inches; from ground to hip, 5 feet
inches; tip of tail to nose. II feet 10
inches; body length s feet: measure
ment around body at shoulder blade, 8
feet 2 inches; around loin. 10 feet
inches: hip to point of hip, AZ inches:
hip to hump bone. 81 inches; upper
part of hind legs, 33 inches; front legs,
upper part, 80 inches
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

the Fourth of July, but 1t treats Of ex-
plosIves, so I suppose it will suit you
just as we'll"
The children settled themselves de-
lightedly, and the professor began. He
was a charming story-teller, and the
children sat ,spelbound until he had
finished. The tale made a great i'm
preston, and especially on Clifford.
The next day, when he and his playfel-
lows were lying on the grass in the
shade, too lazy to play on account of
the heat, Clifford told the story To
them, and concluded by saying:
Boys, I've got a scheme. Let's us
get up a 'gunpowder plot for the
Fourth Only we won't have ours just
like the story, for ours shall go off as
it ought. We can have 1t on that va
cant block across the street. Well
dig a cellar and then build sort of q
house on top for the parliament build
ing"
Yes, and make the house of tin
a terrible noise when it goes off," said
Frank Middlebury.
So it went on and soon the plans
were all laid.
The next day they began operations,
and worked desperately, as boys will
for play, all morning. Day after day
the work went on. Both boys and girls
curiosity to know what they were
about, but never a word of informa-
ton could they get from any of the
workers. Even Ruth Gray did not
know what they were doing until she
accidentally overheard Clifford say
something to Clarence about the gun
powder plot" Then she was all in
terest and wanted to join the conspir-
ators herself.
There weren't any ladies in it."
Clarence replied, scornfully, when she
asked him about it.
"Oh, well, that doesn't make any diff
ference and l want to so bad"
We'll, you ask Cliff"
And when she asked Clifford he put
her off very CONTEMPORARY. Then
Ruth began to cry and told him he was
real mean"
But no amount OF teasing made any
difference. Clifford was obstinate.
Ruth was not admitted to the plot.
At last the morning OF the Fourth
arrived. The conspirators had agreed
that parliament" should be assembled
and the gunpowder in the cellar "set
off" at II exactly, as they would all
have returned from the public exer-
cises of the morning by that time.
The day wore on. The usual pop
ping and banging of typical Fourth
of July continued very steadily 1t
was nearing II o'clock and one by one
five boys appeared on the scene near
the parliament building"
Issuing from one side of this "tir
cam house was rope which extended
about ten feet out of the house. The
end of this rope was to be lighted and
then the boys were to run away and
watch proceedings. The rope COM
municated with a quantity of firecrack-
ers underneath the house. All the
pocket money that five boys could save
Gnd earn for a week had been invested
In explosives and stored away there
for the Fourth.
Finally the appointed moment ar
rived. Clifford, who was the Guy
Fawkes OF the conspiracy. touched q
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
HELPFUL LITTLE NOTES.

Quit dabbling-one thing and stick to
it.
If it's worth keeping it's worth keep
ing well.
Are you farming for living or as a
business?
Speak well of an enemy and regain
his confidence.
Life is an age to the miserable, q
moment to the happy.
Good management is three-feurths of
profitable success in farming.
Honesty of soul is virtue that
brightens all that is good in us.
Speaking about .irs and the people
who come to see them, reminds me
that the fellow is always glad to see
you whom you treat fairly.
Cheap beef cattle and high-prited
roasts show that something is radically
wrong. There is an injunction against
the beef trust, but that outfit doesn't
seem to mind it the least bit. Prices
are controlled at both ends by the pack
ers just the same as of yore.-Farm and
Home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Why HOT WEATHER MAKES WOMEN NERVOUS.
Suggestions by Or, Hartman. How
to Combat the Nervous Depression
Incident to Warm Weather.

Nervousness is very common among
women. This condition is due to anaemic
nerve centers. The nerve centers are
the reservoir for nerve vitality. These
centers become bloodless for the want
of proper nutrition.
This condition is especially noticeable
during the warm season. Every sum-
mer an army of invalids are produced as
a direct result of weak nervous systems.
This could easily be overcome by the
use of Peruna. Peruna strikes at the
root of the trouble by correcting the
digestion. Perfect digestion furnishes
increased nutrition for the nerve centers.
Perfectly digested food gives these reser-
voirs of life a vitality which creates
strong, steady nerves, and in this man
ner fortifies and nourishes life.
Miss Blanche Grey, a prominent young
society woman of Memphis, Tenn, in
recent letter from TIA Alabama street,
writes: ITO a society woman whose
nervous force is often taxed to the utmost
from lack of rest and irregular meals,
know of nothing which Is of so much
benefit as Peruna. l took it few
months ago when l felt my strength
giving way, and ii soon made itself
manifest i'm giving me new strength
and health. Miss Blanche Grey.
Pe-ru-na Contains no Narcotics.
One reason why Peruna has found
permanent use in so many homes is that
it contains no narcotic of any kind. Pc
runa is perfectly harmless. 1t can be
used any length of time without acquir-
ing drug habit. Peruna does not pro-
duce temporary results. 1t is perma-
nent in its effect
1t has no bad effect upon the system,
and gradually eliminates catarrh by
removing the cause of catarrh There
are multitude of homes where Peruna
has been used off and on for twenty
years. Such a thing could not be posi-
BILE if Peruna contained any drugs of a
narcotic nature.
At this season Of the year we are
peculiarly liable to inflammations of the
stomach and bowels. 1t is the part of
wisdom to learn how to cut them short
and in the easiest and quickest manner.
Peruna does this by it's peculiar power
over all forms of catarrhal troubles.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
SAMPLE OF FUTURE HISTORY
The Way the Securing of Vice Pres
idential Candidate May Be
Recorded.

Stealthily the stalwart, determined men
surrounded the house, undetected, owing TO
the darkness and the dense fog that covered
everything, relates the Chicago Tribune
Posting one of their number, fully armed,
at>every possible avenue of escape, the lead
er, accompanied by dozen trusty followers
upon whose courage and fidelity he knew he
could rely in any emergency, approached a
rear door.
It given signal they threw their united
weight against it.
The door yielded, and the next moment
they were inside.
Rushing through the house, they soon
found the man for whom they were search
ing.
He was sitting in the back parlor, sur
rounded by his family, unprepared to resist,
and evidently taken wholly by surprise.
Surrender" cried the leader. pointing
his revolver at his head.
Gentlemen said the man, pale but out
wardly calm, 81 see you have me at dis
advantage. But you need not have brought
those handouts along. I'll go with you
quietly"
He had just been nominated by one OF
the great political parties for the office OF
vice president of the United States.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

direct line with G or telling line one
fourth of diameter, which should bring
you into the line marked F and inter-
sect E at bark of the tree. The space
between E and F is sawed but not
chopped out. When this is done start
saw a. D ON other side and saw one
half of at right angles with your fell
ing liae G. which should intersect the
leaniLg line A. but which leaves one
fourth Of the diameter between B and
e of solid wood. If the tree starts to
raise before the line A is reached.
take off one saw handle and start a
wedge at D, and if leaning heavily also
at X One man saws the intervening
space between A and E. while the
other at the same time strikes the
wedges alternately x and D, which If
timber is sound usually brings the tree
in the desired direction. Variations
from this rule must be taken if wood
is brittle or unsound.-Rural New
Yorker
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
The Preachers Evidence.

Roland, H., June 27.-Diabetes has so long
been looked upon as an incurab!e form OF
kidney Disease that sure cure for it must
rank as one of the most valuable medical
discoveries of the age. And every day brings
forth fresh evidence that Dodd's Kidney
Pills will cure Diabetes. Important evidence
in their favor is given by Rev Thos. B. Nor
man, the well-known Baptist minister here.
Mr.. Norman says:
81 had all the symptoms of a bad case of
Diabetes and received so much benefit from
the use of Dodd's Kidney Pills that cheer
fully recommend them to anyone suffering
from that dread disease. Dodd,s Kidney
Pills will cure the worst form of Diabetes"
Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure diabetes,
one of the final stages of Kidney Disease.
Rheumatism, are naturally much more cas-
ily cured by the same remedy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Incubator Is Indispensable.

With the aid of good incubator. it
is possible to bring forth a greater
number of chicks with less worry than
is required to look after perhaps a
dozen or more setting hens. The adj
vantages of using an incubator are
many: 1t is ready to "set" whenever
needed; not necessary to wait until it
gets "broody." 1t will do the work Of
dozens of hens in Matching and isn't
half the trouble 1t starts the chicks
off free from lice and consequently has
advantage here over Matching with
hens. The incubator is as indispensable
to the poultryman as the mower or
reaper to the farmer these days.--Mid.
land Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
The Northwest Particularly Favored.


No other section of the United States
is SO particularly favored regarding trans
portation to the Worlds Fair at st. Louis
as the Northwest, for the reason that the
Minneapolis & st. Louis Railway is the
only road that runs direct to the Fair
Grounds, and is the only line that ex-
clusively has station of its own directly
at the entrance of the grounds.
This feature will play very important
part with visitors to the worlds greatest
show from Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
Montana, Manitoba, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.
1t is also the most direct and shortest route
from the Twin Cities; saves time and elm
mates that most disagreeable feature of
travel that one must necessarily meet with
on other lines, namely, the changing from
one car to another enroute.
The M. & st. l.. trains are composed of
the most modern and latest design of vesti-
buled Pullman sleepers and reclining chair
cars, and with their buffet, library and ex-
Quisite dining cars attached, leaves no want
Of the traveller unsupplied in any manner
Eighteen hours ride from st. Paul or
Minneapolis places one right at the door,
as it were, of the main entrance to the
Fair Grounds Near the Minneapolis &
st. Louis station may be found hotels of
all descriptions, which will save much
worry and anxiety, as well as exhaustion,
to many visitors. For, those who are
compelled to go down town to the Union
Station, where all other roads discharge
their thousands of passengers from the east
and south, must necessarily travel several
miles in street cars to reach the grounds.
One will get a fairly good view of the
grounds from the large observation win
dows of the M. & st. l.. trains, just before
arriving at their exclusive Worlds Fair
station.-W estern Architect.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30

Ernest Thompson Seton Says That as
q Maker of Black Loan he
Has No Rival.

have visited nearly every state and
province west of the Mississippi, |
have awaited myself of the researches
of the agricultural department made
under Dr. c. Hart Merriam's careful
biological survey of the west, indeed,
of all sources of information, and am
satisfied that the ordinary earthworms
are not native to any part of America
south Of the Saskatchewan or west of
the Mississippi valley, exclusive of
the narrow humid belt along the Pa
cific coast.
There exists, nevertheless, fine
stratum of humus in all parts OF the
country where there is moisture
enough to produce annual vegetation.
The black earth in Manitoba is one
foot to two feet thick, an amount
probably not exceeded over any large
area elsewhere in the world. This is
not solid bed of decayed vegetation,
but is thoroughly mixed with the up
per formation, and forms the black
loan.
There is no doubt, then, that in the
absence of earthworms this mixing is
done by a number Of species of bur-
rowing animals, but by far the most
important of these are the Geomydaa,
or photographers.
Gophers are found in the whole of
the region west Of the Mississippi val
ley, as far as the Pacific coast, south
well into Mexico, and north as far as
the Saskatchewan. In other words,
their distribution is general over the
whole region that is without earth
worms, though it is not likely that the
rodents had to do with this limitation
Ernest Thompson Seton, in Century.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
.<sxas Cattle Going to Cuba.

Report comes from a reliable source
that there will be movement of cattle
from Texas to Cuba this summer that
wiz far outrank tt movement Of last
summer, said the Fort Worth Record,
recently. 1t is understood that the
movement will begin on a large scale
within q few weeks, and that already
men are rounding MP $4,000 head for
expectation through the port Of Gal
weston. This number will make a good
start, but it is learned that many more
will be shipped to Cuba via Galveston
before next winter.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
DEVELOPING THE RUNT PIG.
If It Has a Trough to Itself and Is
Literally Fed It Stands a
Good Show.

It frequently happens that there are
one or two runts in very large Ecter
of pigs. These are at decided disad-
vantage from the beginning, since the
larger and stronger ones crowd them
out and get the best of everything.
would not advise killing these. as some
do, as have seen so many runts grow
into fine large hogs after separating
from the rest of the litter and feeding
for rapid growth.
If the pigs have a trough to them
selves, away from the SOW, the runt
stands a fairly good show if he is lib
orally fed. Otherwise he is no better
off than he would be were the extra
food not provided. Keep the trough
full and he will eat after the rest have
finished. The runt should be kept with
the sow for couple of weeks after the
others of the same litter are weaned.
This gives him chance to gain some
before he is compelled to subsist on
what he eats. alone.
At weaving time give him separate
pen, and a very liberal diet, composed
of ground oats. shorts and corn meal
mixed rather thin with sweet skim
milk. If the weather is very cold the
milk should be warmed. If he seems
constipated, add tablespoonful flax
seed meal and two or three handfuls of
bran once day to the slop Or, if pre-
ferred, give once day four or five
drops tincture golden seal in a little
sweet milk.
It Is seldom that laxative is needed
if the pig has all the slop he will eat up
clean two or three times day. Feed
roots or weeds Ii procurable. Alfalfa
hay may be given when green stuff is
out of season.-C. B. Barrett. in
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
A Well Known Canadian Lady Sends
Letter of Endorsement to Pe-ru-na.

Miss Mary Burns, % Spring Garden
Road, Halifax, N. S., writes: Having
used Peruna for indigestion and stomach
trouble and to build up broken down
system with the very best results, 1 am
pleased to state my experience with this
excellent medicine. had been troubled
with stomach trouble and poor digestion
for some years, and although l tried
many remedies and dieting, nothing
seemed to restore my health until used
Peruna In three months had entirely
recovered my health and strength. -
Mary Burns.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Whv, of Course.

They were on the way to India and as
they were crossing the restless bay of Bis
cay one innocent young lady, speaking to
another, said:
"Why do the stewards come in and open
or shut the portfolio at odd times during
the day and night"'
Second and better informed lady:
my dear, they shut or open them when
the tide rises or falls. Chicago Record
Herald
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Chicago Decision.

"John," said Mrs. Stockyaros, looking up
from the woman's page of the evening paper,
"tell me, what's a poetaster!"
"A pork tester!'
"No, no; drop hogs at home. said
'poetaster.'
"Well, Caroline, l guess it's one of them
autopsy doctors at the morgue who runs his
price into the ham hone of found drowned
poet, but didn't 'spose it was necessary for
EN- to taste it, Like as not it means that"
Brooklyn Eagle.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
A Difficulty.

What we want" said the thoughtful
citizen, ''is an old-fashioned Fourth Of
July"
"Of course we do answered the flip
pant person. But you will encounter
the same old difficulty. It's ten times
as easy to set off a pack of firecrackers
as it is to recite the Declaration Of In
dependence. And you'll get 20 times
as many people to stop and pay atten-
ton to ii"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
TELLING A LEANING TREE.
Rules Here Laid Down Apply to All
Cases Where the Wood Is
Not Brittle.

This Is my way az telling trees that
lean in a line away from the direction
desired A denotes line of gravitation,
@ the way we want the tree to fall.
The circle repres .nts the body of the
tree. We begin TO saw at G, and work
around until E touchs A. when we
should be one.third sawed on the line
E. Now chos above the saw; keep in
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Big Drop in Binder Irvine.

We are selling the highest grade standard
5ress in ' anV QUANTITY s4 and at - much lower
price than dealers can buy in carload lots.
For our special inside price, our guarantee
and money refund offer, for our Insurance
proposition against hail or storm, for the
lowest price, the most liberal binder Irvine
offer that will be made this season, cut this
notice out and mail to US today and you will
hear from us by return mail Address
SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., Chicago, III.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-30
Delightful Summer Tours to the East

are made more delightful by taking advan-
tage of the many inducements offered by
the Nickel Plate Road. Recognized as the
Low Rate Short Line between the West and
East, tourists are assured of quick and
comfortable trip to the many beautiful
Summer Resorts located along or within
a short distance of the Nickel Plate Road.
Close connections are made at Buffalo for
all Eastern Points, Mountain Resorts and
famous watering places. The train serv-
ice of the Nickel Plate Road is up-to-date
in every respect and passengers are shown
the best of treatment by the efficient corps
of attendants to be found on all Nickel
Plate trains. Ladies travelling alone or
accompanied by children are given special
attention. 1t is in the splendid Dining
Cars where the lberality of management
is particularly apparent. No stated amount
is required for o meal in these Dining
Cars, but under the system of Individual
Club Meals, carefully prepared menus are
compiled into booklets containing sug
gestions for a breakfast, luncheon or sup
per that will not cost more than IS
cents, and on up to one dollar. Meals are
also served la carte. All trains of the
Nickel Plate arrive at and depart from the
Great La Sale Street Station, Chicago.
When purchasing tickets say ''Via the
Nickel Plate Route"