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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-09-02

Brownsville has no yellow fever
And needs nothing to relieve her,
For she's growing like the devil every
day. Nc.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-09-02
Wabash
Route.

New York, Boston, Niagara Falls. To
Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago and all Eastern
and Canadian cities.
The shortest and only line from Kan
sas City or St. Louis raining over its
own tracks to Niagara Falls or Buffalo
Time and Fou;n,reut Tr7exceI1ed
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-09-02
ANNOUNCEMENT,

We are authorized to announce the
name of the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-28

one foot gets tired I push the treadle
to the dotted lines, and use the other.
There is no change of position except
% turn the arms and shoulders from
right to left, and reach ahead to the
extractor-no STOPPING. A two-frame
extractor of the Novice type runs very
easily. The treadle is one by two and
one-half inches by three inches long,
with piece of broom wire to the crank.
Whenever you wish to turn by hand you
can do so any minute.
To make brush, cut three-eighths
rope nine inches long; unravel, and lay
out fiat Nail two sticks, one on each
side, and bring the other ends close to-
gether for handle. 1t is ahead of any
thing for me. I learned how to make
brush from a man by the name of Crow
II nails are driven about one and one
fourth inches apart, so the points will
about come together, you will have the
stiffness as we'll as the friction to hold
the rope strands.
1 have made about 100 hives by nail
ing-no halving, mitering, nor dovetail-
ing I have used these three or four
years, and not one has given way. OF
course, most people will buy their hives,
and they can be dovetailed cheaply with
machinery.-A. B. White, in Gleanings
in Bee Culture.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-28
WHEN FARM ANIMALS DIE.
There's Money in Their Hides If They
Are Taken Off Properly and
Promptly Sailed.

Each year there are many thousands
of cows, horses and sheep that die by
sickness or accident whose hides will
bring good prices if taken off prop
erly and promptly sailed and sent to
market. 1t is more important to salt
hides taken from dead animals than
those that are slaughtered, for the
sticking draws out most of the blood
from the hides as well as the meat
of such. Not so with the animal that
dies without being bled; hence the
necessity Of prompt and well sailing.
To do this, it requires a bucket Of salt
to a good-sized hide; smaller ones in
proportion. Such hides if well taken
off and not cut with holes will bring
full value. The wool from dead sheep,
when the hide is spoiled, is worth
saving also. If farmers will carry out
our suggestions, they will thank us for
telling them of it. Take them oft
right, follow instructions on sailing
and they will get number one price if
sent to a good firm. They should not
be deceived by buyers at home, who
tell them that hides and skins from
dead animals are not worth half tha
price of those from slaughtered ami
mals.-Midland Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-28
Proved Bevond q T,onbt

Middlesex, n. Y, July 25.- (Special)-
That Rheumatism can be cured has been
proved beyond a doubt by Mrs. Betsey
A. Clawson, well known here. That Mrs
Clawson had Rheumatism and had it bad
all her, acquaintance know They also
know she is now cured. Dodd's Kidney
Pills did it. Mrs. Clawson tells the story
OF her cure as follows:
Il was an invalid for most FIVE wears
caused by Infammatory Rheumatism.
helpless two-thirds of the time. The FIRST
year could not do as much as a babv
could do; then | rallied little bit and
then relapse. Then a year ago the govt
set in my hands and feet. l suffered un.
told agony and in August, 1908, when my
husband died could not ride to the
grave.
II only took two boxes of Dodo's XIII.
ney Pills and in two weeks / could wait
on myself and saw my own wood. I dug
my own potatoes and gathered my own
garden last fall. Dodd's Kidney Pills
cured me-"
Rheumatism is caused by uric acid in
the. blood. Dodd's Kidney Pills put the
Kidneys in shape to take all the uric acid
out of the blood.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-28
KEROSENE KILLS POULTRY.
It Destroyed the Lice, It Is True, But
Seventy Nice Young Turkeys
Went with Them.

Among other things that attracted
our attention in going about last sea-
son was the quick and extended de-
struction that kerosene oil will bring
to a lot of young chickens or turkeys
where it is used as an ointment to
destroy lice, fieas or bugs. In one
instance a raiser who had fine lot
of young turkeys discovered that some
lice were bothering them little, and
at once proceeded to rub them with
lard in which some kerosene oil had
been mixed.
Always prior to this time this
breeder had been very successful with
the use of lard alone, but the addl-
ton of kerosene having been recon-
mended, it was tried, and over 10
young turkeys were killed by the ex-
pertinent Hundreds of young chicks
have been killed in the same way, and
yet people will tell you to use 1t, and
people will use it in spite of all that
you can tell them. The best and most
innocent remedy to be used in this
way is to dip your finger, or small
stiff brush, into sweet oil and thor
oughly anoint the parts where the in
sect vermin are, and this will kill
them all and in no way injure the
young chick or poultry.
We presume that every paper in the
country interested in poultry in any
way has recorded in it's columns the
danger of using kerosene for this pur-
pose, and yet, as stated above, people
will continue to use it.
Nothing can be more destructive
than are the insect vermin when once
they get foothold among your young
chicks or turkeys. One very success
full turkey raiser carefully examines
every morning every young turkey up
to six weeks old, prior to allowing
them their freedom. When lice are
discovered upon the young turkeys
they are either destroyed by the
thumb nail or touched with sweet oil,
which quickly ends their existence.
This breeder succeeded in raising 70
out of some rs or II that were
hatched-The Feather.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-28
Quail Should Be Protected.

It is conceded by expert authorities
that one of the most valuable and use
full birds on the farm is the common
quail, yet there are many farmers who
encourage the destruction of these val
liable birds. In many places they have
been practically exterminated, and it
would require years of the most careful
protection and cooperation on the part
of farmers and others to restore their
numbers to anything like the proportion
that they should be on the farms
throughout this country. The city sport
is the man who should be restrained
Quail should be protected absolutely,
as in Illinois, where their slaughter for
five years has been forbidden.-Orange
Judd Farmer
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-28
HAVE TO GIVE LONG CREDIT
Dressmakers Who Wish to Succeed
Must Not Be Pressing About
Their Bills.

A recent lawsuit in the courts be-
tween the president and vice president
of smart dressmaking establishment
has called attention to a peculiar phase
of the dressmaking trade-the system
of long credits, entailing large outlay
of capital.
Successful concerns have found that
'long credit" is not only desirable, but
essential to the financial prosperity of
their business. While many in the
dressmaking business have no hest
fancy in admitting their profit to be
100 per cent, they show conclusively
that their expenses are SO enormous
that this 100 per cent. diminishes to
SO per cent. and sometimes rs per
cent. A woman at the head Of one of
the smart establishments says:
"The wives of our multimillionaires
know absolutely nothing of the value
of money and never realize that
modiste who gowns them may need
the money they owe to pay her own
bills with Were she to present this
fact to them she would doubtless lose
their custom and that of their set.
The fiat would go forth: DO not go
to So and Sos. They can't be any
good and can't have much of a trade,
for they are always dunning for their
money
''You needed their money; you
therefore could not make a smart
gown, and they would go to some rival
establishment, where they would be
welcomed with open arms, and because
they had left the first modiste the
second would only too gladly give
them unlimited credit. This is one OF
the reasons why long credit and good
names are essential assets of sue
cessful dressmaking business"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-28
THIS TIME LAST YEAR.

I can't hardly work for thinkin',
OF where I was at last year
Just about this time, an blinkin
Out the winder kinder queer;
For the building over yonder
With the placard plastered wall
Seems a field where wild bees blunde
And a wood where catbirds call
And the street that looks so binding
In the torrid June day sun
Is a country highway winding
Past where shaded streamlets run;
And there's purple clover blowing
Perfumed messages to me
From out yonder, where I'm knowing
Just the city ought to be.
And I'm in the glen and Drawing
At my very feet the stream
That knew last year is calling
Like the voices from a dream,
And huge powders lie all tumbled
Carelessly as they can be.
Like a mighty world had crumbled
Leaving only them and me.
Oh, the sloping hills and meadows,
Wide, wide meadows daiSy-spreao,
Darkened with the fitting shadows
OF the clouG-ships overhead;
And the humming in the clover
OF the bees, and shrill and clear
Songs of birds a-drifting over
Ways I walked this time last year.
-. NJ. Lewis, in Houston Post.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-28
SULTAN HATED BY MOORS.
Subjects Are Offended by Innovations
and Foolish Extravaganza
of Ruler.

An English correspondents descrip-
ton of the sultan of Moroccos charac-
ter sufficiently explains the feelings of
his subjects, which, according to Euro
pean residents, must result in gen.
eral revolution that is already almost
ablaze. The Moors, states the Chica-
go Tribune, naturally hate and scorn
his western proclivities wherewith he
has outraged every Mussulman idea.
While earning their hatred he has not
commanded their fear or respect.
On the other hand, he has outworn
the patience of his European friends
by his countless childish whims. The
sultan's leanings are towards the fol-
lies and not the wisdom of the west.
His army is a worthless rabble. al
though regiment after regiment has
been raised, equipped and drilled by
British officers, only to be disbanded
and the horses and equipment sold be-
low cost to provide money for the sui
tan's idiotic whims.
grotesque to stamp Mulai-Abd-el-Az
as lunatic. For instance. he has ex-
pended thousands upon automobiles,
although the roads of Morocco are not
fit for even a bicycle, and of these he
has scores made of aluminium, which
the slightest obstacles crumple like
paper. He also has gold and diamond
studded cameras and stock of photo
graphic paper worth $4,000. He takes
about four snapshots month. He has
looking glass bedsteads and there is a
never-ceasing procession of packing
cases from Europe, containing trump
cry and gewgaws, musical boxes, me-
chanical toys, cameras. gramophones
and watches.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-28

inch boards are needed, and two or
three pounds nails, the cost Is small.
Cut and peel four poles about five
inches in diameter at small end and
IL feet long. Cut eight small sap
lings ii feet long and three or four
inches in diameter, and four small
pieces, IL feet long, to nail on top OF
the posts. Dig four post holes IL feet
apart and three feet square.
Before putting down the posts, bore
one and one-half-inch holes, 18 inches
apart, beginning at small end. These
holes are for pins for roof to rest on.
Put down the 17-foot posts, set per-
fectly plumb, and nail on the 12-foot
stringers, c, at or near top. To put
on the roof take four of the 14-fooC
pieces, made smooth Halve them
at the corners, allowing frame of
roof, of which these pieces are the
stills, to come outside the posts one
and one-half inches on all sides. This
gives room for the roof to be raised
easily from any corner.
Take four small pieces for rafters.
Place a small block at apex, a, and a
small crosspiece at each corner, in
side posts, b, for foot of rafter to
rest on. The roof may be three feet
higher at apex, a, than at stills, C.
The roof boards should come down
six inches below stills. A foundation
of hay rails, f, keeps the grain or
hay off the ground. This barrack will
hold 200 stocks of oats or wheat, or
four to five tons settled hay. For
bins to hold the roof use iron bolts,
or good wooden pins of oak or birch.
The roof is raised as filed When
the barrack is emptied, the roof may
be let down.. A. Macdonald, in Farm
and Home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-28
WOMAN'S PERILOUS JOURNEY
Mrs. Macmillan, of st. Louis, Leads
Her Own Caravan Through
Abyssinia in Safety.

After traversing Abyssinia at the head
OF her own caravan, Mrs. w. N. MacNIil-
Ian, of st. Louis, recently reached Lon
don. This American is the first white
woman to cross Emperor Menelik's
country from west to east. She accom-
panied the expedition organized by her
husband in November, 1903, as far as
Pokum, at the base of the Abyssinian
hills. Thence Mr.. Macmillan started for
Lake Rudolph and his wife went to Ads
Abeba, the capital of Abyssinia. where
she had a special audience with Emperor
Menelik.
Mrs. MacMillan's caravan took four
weeks to journey from Pokum to the
capital The American met with every
courtesy from the Abyssinian chiefs
while on her way, and although she tray-
ersed a country supposed to be inhabited
by hostile tribes, she saw no sign of uE-
friendliness. On the contrary, hundreds
of supposed hostiles gathered and
formed guard of honor for the caravan
for miles along the river banks.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-28

into his eyes, for away up the street he
saw the grey uniform of the postman.
He came briskly down the street, stop
ping at one house after another, until
he reached the Raggett house.
Monsieur gazed at him, eagerly.
Nothing" said the postman, shaking
his head.
'Rien," groaned the old man, his head
dropping on his breast.
Mrs Raggett laughed scornfully, and
Capt Raggett, who was leaning against
the mantel-piece in the lowest possible
spirits, was so depressed at the non
delivery of the letter that he knocked
nickel clock off the mantel and with it
a mass of papers tucked behind the
clock.
"Orkard idjut," exclaimed Mrs. Rag
gett.
The captain solemnly picked up the
clock and replaced it. Then he gathered
up the papers. There was one bulky en-
velope from some installment house
which had come unsealed and contained
advertising matter. AS the captain
picked this up. another letter dropped
from out of the advertisements.
whats this?" exclaimed he, 'a let
ter for M. M Francois Grande. Where
did this come from?"
Mrs Raggett colored. 81 suppose it
got tucked into that there other letter
and nobody noticed it," she said. Let
me see it"
ct belongs to Musseer Grande," said
the captain and he bore it to him.
With eyes cleaning, with gaelic ut
terances pouring from his lips, the old
man opened the letter. There was the
draft for 5000 francs, and, more, a prom
Use of like sum in two months.
The old Frenchman waved the draft,
triumphantly.
81 was sure, captain" he exclaimed.
at is that am richie. 1t is that We have
a dinner at the restaurant, that the
friends have presents and the children
have bon-bons."
Mrs. Raggett was harsh, but she had
some feeling She declined the invita-
ton to the dinner.
It'd have choked me" she exclaimed.
Monsieur still boards al the Raggett
house. His articles sell again, and in
two months time another draft and an
other dinner, more presents, more bon
bons for the children.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-28
FOR TEACHER AND PUPIL.
A Lesson That Gave Something Of
Value to the Pedagogue and
His Hopeless Charge.

Julia L. Dumont was western
writer of eminence back in the '40's,
and she was also a schoolmistress
who, says one who studied under
her, deserves Immortality" relates
Youths Companion. Mr.. George Cary
EgglestOn, who was one of her pupils,
says in his life of his brother Edward
that her peculiar gift in dealing with
any boy or girl lay in seeing what ap-
peal would, in that particular case,
prove strongest. When Eggleston came
under her care, one teacher after an
other had attempted to teach him to
write, and had abandoned the effort in
disgust
Finally, one writing-master who had
been teaching young and old to make
hair lines for up strokes and heavy
ones for down strokes, and to decorate
the paper with elaborate fiourishes,
called the boy 'dunce" and ''booby,"
and dismissed him from his school.
Mrs. Dumont must have heard all
this, and when the boy, in his morti-
fication, asked to be excused from
writing, she merely said:
'Why, has Mr.. Wilson taught you to
write so well that you can learn no
more?"
"No, Mrs. Dumont," said the humili-
ated lad. 81 can never learn to write. !"
''Who says that?" she asked, quietly.
''Mr Wilson and-every teacher
ever had"
''Let me look at your hand, George"
He held it out. She studied it close
ly, and bent the fingers one after an
other. Then she said: "I hear you
are the best marble-player in town. Is
that 500"
His pockets were bullying with
marbles, and he owned to an excep-
tional degree of skill in the game.
''Yet Mr.. Wilson called you 'booby!'
Now, George, I'll tell you what you and
are going to do. 1 am going to teach
you to write clear, legible and sensi-
bic hand, and two weeks from to-day
you are going to write a letter to Mr.
Wilson. I will dictate it, and you shall
sign it, and he will learn whether a
boy who can play marbles cannot be
taught to write"
The battle was won. The boy re-
solved to make any effort for the
teacher who had believed in him She
advised him to have nothing to do
with up strokes and down strokes and
f1ourishes. Absolute legibility, she
said, was the first requisite in all
handwriting. If one could write rap
idly and easily, so much the better
To the boys establishment, he could
actually read the lines he had written
for his first lesson. At the end of the
two weeks he was master of a plain
and legible hand, very much like that
of Mrs. Dumont. Then, at her dicta-
ton, he joyously wrote this letter to
his former teacher:
Dear Sir: I am writing this letter
at the dictation of my teacher, Mrs
Dumont. Mrs. Dumont thinks you
should be pleased to see that, after two
weeks of instruction, I have learned to
write sensible and 1egible hand, and
that l am not quite so hopeless a
BOBBY as you thought me-"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-28
DISEASE IN sWILL BARREL.
Carelesspess Which Is the Direct
Cause of Immense Loss Among
Hogs on the Farm.

The more closely swine diseases OF
the ordinary character are investigated
the more clearly it appears that they re-
suit almost exclusively from improper
feeding and care. 1t has been discovered
that the ordinary swill barrel is a breed
er of germs that carry diseases of vary
ing character to the animals that con-
sumo the swill. 1t should surprise no
one that this is true, when the contents
of the average swill barrel are inven-
toried. In contributing to that recep-
tacle no thought is given to anything
but the disposition of some waste of the
house in quick and easy manner.
The swill barrel is located to tempt
deposits of everything that no other use
can be made of, regardless of its charac-
ter as food of health or nutrition. So
into it go meat scraps, partially decayed
fruits, vegetables cooked and uncooked.
all the table scraps, greasy, sour and
sweet combined, coffee and tea grounds,
milk in all stages of acidity; soapy and
unclean dishwater, the vllest ingredient
of all; and not infrequently drowned
chicken spices the conglomeration. The
combination is, as rule, in state Of
fermentation, and too often putridity,
adding enormously to the unhealthful
character of the nauseating mass.
The pigs may get it, for the hungry pig
is not fastidious, and he is not well
enough up in hygienic lore to know that
the stuff is unhealthy. But the feeder
should know that it is not proper food,
and should not prepare that sort OF a
banquet for his porcine guests. Rheu-
matism, swollen joints, skin diseases,
sore eyes and diarrhoea are some of the
ailments that have been traced directly
to the alleged food just described. Swill
is all right, and much of the offal of the
house table may be used in it without
danger. But it should be fed when fresh,
or in the first stages of fermentation:
and greasy, soapy, decayed and putrid
articles should be kept out of it. Here
is place to prevent disease that Is al
ways difficult and sometimes impossi-
BILE to cure Indiana State Sentinel.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-28
AN IDEA FOR BEEKEEPERS.
Honey Extractor, Driven by Foot
Power, Can Be Used to Ex-
cellent Advantage.

I took pleasure in showing kink
which saved me one hand or one whole
helper, for that matter. The sketch
shows the arrangement. The comb-box
is at the right hand, and the uncapping
can at the left, and little in front l
uncap two combs and place them in
the extractor; start the crank with the
hand, then work the treadle. While
doing this take another comb, I'M
cap and place it in the comb-box. ]
now turn the frames in the machine,
start it agoing again, and take another
frame; uncan, and exchange the
combs, and proceed as before. When
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-28
Milk Is Good for Poultry.

There is 10 better or cheaper food
for the laying hens than milk. 1t is
not advisable, however, to feed great
quantities OF it in its liquid state, as
it is very 1oosening to the bowels. 1t
should be prepared as follows: Place
thick sour milk in pans and set over
the fire to heat through well, when
the whey may be easily separated
from the curd. 1t should be drained
to dry, powdery mass, when it will
be fit to feed. The curd from two pans
of milk will make a generous feed for
% hens. Be sure to give plenty OF
water, also grit. 1t will be found
profitable feed.-Woman's Magazine.