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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
MOOSE SCENTS DANGER.
Remarkable Intuition of the Animat
When Anything of PerilOus
Nature Is Near.

For some minutes he had been thus
pleasantly occupied, when suddenly an
obscure apprehension stirred in his
brain. He stopped feeding, lifted his
head, and stood motionless, says a
writer in the Metropolitan Magazine.
Only his big ears moved. turning their
wary interrogations toward every point
of the compass, and his big nostrils sus-
piciously testing every current of air.
Neither nose nor ear, the most alert Of
his sentinels, gave any report of dan
ger. He looked about saw nothing I'M
usual, and fell again to feeding.
Among the wild animals, as far as man
can judge, there are occasional intui
ticns that seem to work beyond the scope
of the senses. 1t is not ordinarily so,
else would all hunting, on the part of
man or of the hunting beasts. be idle.
But once in awhile, as if by some unwil
ling telepathic communication from
hunter to hunted, or else by an obscure
and only half-delivered message from
the powers that preside over the wild
kindreds, a warning of peril is con-
y
the peril is far off and unrevealed The
great moose found his appetite all gone.
He backed off the sapling and let its top
spring up again toward the empty blue
He looked back nervously over his trail
shifted the air, waved his ears inquiring-
ly The more he found nothing to war
rant his uneasiness the more his I'M
easiness grew. 1t was as if death, fol-
lowing far off but relentlessly, had sent
a grim menace along the winnings of
the trail. Something like panic came
into the dilating eyes of the big bull.
He turned toward the fir forest, at walk
which presently broke into a stumbling.
rapid trot; and presently he disappeared
among the Somber and shadowy colon
nadeS,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
USE ABSORBENT BEDDING.
It's Need in the Stable Is Known in
Theory, Although Much Neg
lected in Practice.

Too much emphasis cannot be placed
on the necessity for having plenty of
absorbent bedding in all stables for
two reasons, namely, to promote the
comfort of the animals and to save the
manure, especially the liquid excre-
mert, which is the most valuable part
of it. The need of clean, dry, abundant
bedding must be generally known theo-
retjcally, although much neglected in
practice. The value of liquid manure
is, however, a thing people in general
are very slow to learn or to do any
thing about Among the best absorb
eHts may be mentioned sawdust, straw
and land plaster, Sawdust, an excellent
feI tilizer in itself, retards the decompo-
sition of the manure, but rots quickly
when mixed with it. Where it is cheap
and accessible, nothing better can be
had AS most farmers have more straw
than can possibly be used for feeding
purposes, this is most common and
on the whole most excellent bedding
Land plaster, where obtainable, is an
excellent absorbent for stables, especi-
ally to hold the excessive ammonia in
horse stables-Prairie Farmer
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
TROUBLE WITH THE KEYS.
Or Rather with the Irate Nan Whs
Tried to Put Them on
the Ring.

Mr. Finkenbinder makes a point OF
carrying his keys, of which he has
two dozen or more, all on one ring,
relates the Chicago Tribune.
His old key ring having yielded to
the inirmities of age, he purchased
a new one the other day. 1t was one
of the kind you have always bought,
with a split in it. You slip key in
at point where the split comes to the
surface on one side and push it around
until it energies at the place where the
split comes to the surface on the other
side-and there is your key in the
ring, all right.
The time Mr.. Finkenbinder chose for
transferring his keys to the new ring
was just after his evening meal, while
he was sitting comfortably by his fire.
side, in his dressing gown and slip
pers.
He slipped several of the smaller
keys into the slit, after one another,
and proceeded to push them around
When they were about half way 10
the goal he dropped the bunch on the
floor Picking them up, he resumed
the pushing process.
Greatly to his surprise a lot OF them
dropped out of the ring.
Whats the mater with the blamed
thing?" he muttered rs this a
trick?"
Determined to test the matter he
thrust dozen of the keys into the slit
and pushed them around again, yigor-
ously
This time more than half of them
dropped out. apparently at the place
where he had slipped them in.
Mr.. Finkenbinder lost his patience
and used strong language.
"Dad-bust it," he exclaimed. tits
trick ring, and know it! It's dog
gone SELL"
Once more he tried it, with the same
result
Then he threw the ring, with the
keys that were half way in, violently
to the floor.
Here his wife interposed and asked
him to let her try it.
But how he roared that he would
give her five dollars if she could get
the blamed keys on the beastly ring,
how she explained that when he had
dropped the bunch the first time and
picked it up again he had pushed the
keys the wrong way and they natural
ly came out where he put them In,
how she took the keys and got them
inside the ring, one at a time, in two
hn lOHn
than ever and said 1t was confound-
ed trick and she was at the bottom of
it-behold, are not all these written in
the chronicles of the Finkenbinder
family?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
Peaches in Cold Storage.

The Hartford Day Spring says that
an experiment which has been success
fully conducted this season by a num-
Der of South Haven fruit growers is
the placing of peacher and pears in
cold storage. Early in October. 1903,
several bushels of peaches and pears
were carefully picked, sorted and each
piece of fruit wrapped in tissue paper;
this was then wrapped in white print
paper and placed on shelf in cold
storage. January the fruit was taken
out and places on the local market in
as good condstion and finely favored
as though freshly picked. The price
thus obtained was nearly three times
that which she fruit from the same
trees sold for at the time it was put
in cold storage.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17

They have value or not" he says, ''as
such standards are recognized as valid.
Once they are accepted they become actu-
arial tables of success"
DR.. Jacob Gould Schurman, president
of Cornell university. is also of the opin-
ion that a college education is vital
condition Of success.
Prof. Arthur T. Hadley, president of
Yale university, is in doubt on this sub
ject, and expresses himself as not be-
ing convinced that persons whose names
are contained in a biographical diction-
airy have invariably won success.
1T is hard to define success in life alb
stractly," he says. You cannot reduce
the matter to statistical information.
Two American biographical works
were the basis on which the figures are
estimated. In one of them, cyclopedia
of American biography, there are more
than $4,000 names. OF these persons,
more than one-third were college bred.
The other was a standard biographical
dictionary containing 1851 names of
living men and women in the United
States, and of these SITS, or so per cent.
have enjoyed college education, while
4,S10, or AZ per cent, are college gradu-
ates.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
A FEW BUTTER BRIEFS.

Butter should be worked as little as
possible; just enough to make it COM
pact and expel the superfiuous mois
ture.
There is no apparatus that can get
more butter out of the milk than the
cow put into it. But care must be
taken to get all the cow puts in.
In the dairy only the purest salt
should be used. Salt that will not dis
solve readily in water is unfit for but
ter. The quantity is a matter of taste
and the better plan is to consult the
taste of the consumer. Generally from
three-fourths to one ounce per pound is
used.
When the cream is made too warm
before it goes into the churn in one
sense the globules are cooked together
causing the casing to- be attached,
rather than the globules, and as the
yellow of the butter is obscured by this
envelope of casing the butter comes
white and soft.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
I'M STORY !. ! .TelleS
- y
MANIPULATING THE KEYS.

Ny Sarah AIMS beauty, there isno doubt
OF that,
She dresses Il. he most bewitching style;
Her frock is most becoming, and likewise
is her hat
When we go out all nature seems to smile.
She's got a grand piano which claims her
time at night,
She plays it with the very greatest ease;
call on her each evening, and always take
delight
When Sarah Ann manipulates the keys.
Ny Sarah AIMS no sluggard, she works
hard every day,
And working brings the roses to her
cheek
She's in lawyers office just over cross
the way,
And earns her fifteen dollars every week.
She owns her own typewriter, and does her
work up well,
And all the day she's busy as the bees,
I like to sit and watch her, and hear the
little bell
When Sarah Ann manipU!ates the keys
I'm looking to he day when she VIII be
my loving wife.
That happy time IS not 50 far AVA.
! hope I'll always love her, as 90 we
my life,
And never have an unkind thing TO say.
For ne she says.-no .atch-key in winter
spring or fall,
No matter If plead on Bonded knees;
] think see my finish-Ill not get out at all
When Sarah Ann manipulate9 the keys
--Yonkers Statesman.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
Extracted VS.. Comb Honey.

Here in the east the comb honey in
attractive shape commands a far larg-
er call than the extracted does and more
so during the last few years. The light
weight foundation, pure and nearly
transparent, has done away with the
hobo of tough center comb which the
consumer kicked on. What looks more
pleasing than fine cake of comb honey,
well filled? On the other hand extracted
honey cannot be put on table in as good
form, though it be put UP in packages to
suit the eye The consumer has such
fear of adulterated goods that he pre-
fers the &C NIB money which he knows is
pure.-Geo. H. Townsend, in Ohio
Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
Over One Wire.

The Electrotechnical Review mo 4,
volume 2D, of Frankfort, contains an ar
ticle written by the inventors, Prof.
Bruno and Engineer Turchi, describing
a new system of telegraphing and tele-
phoning over the same wire, which has
been patented in the principal countries.
The essential part of the invention con-
sists in the feature that existing tele-
graph wires can be made to serve for
telegraphing and telephoning through
the insertion of 'differential SPOOL -
The adjustment of the differential spool
to the existing telegraph system is mex
penSive.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
DIAGRAM OF ORCHARD.

arrangement shown in the accompany
ing illustration is a very satisfactory
one First plant the trees at the point
marked by X Then add the ones
marked o. In this way a certain
amount of ground will support almost
one-third more trees and the trees will
not be crowded. Care must be taken
to get the rows straight, for slight
variation will result in crowding.-
Orange Judd Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
The Girl in the
e ckground
BY FRANZ II. SWEET
Copyright. 1905. by Daily story Pub. Coz

DRONCO BUSTER stepped to the
r door of the saloon, holding his glass
so he could see the cOlors of the sun
light through the liquor The street
was comparatively deserted, for when
cowboys were in town it was customary
for the inhabitants to bethink them
selves of needed duties indoors. The
color of the liquor proving satisfactory,
Bronco's hand dropped from it's signltl-
cant position on his hip pocket, and his
eyes swept the street.
Hike here, you fellows" he yelled
suddenly. Wonders Billy Patterpat
turnin' the corner Let's cover the
street and corral him, an then make
him dance"
"Aw," drawled another cowboy, who
was leaning against the counter, empty
ing glasses and finging them at who
ever he thought might not be able to
dodge, and holding his revolver in read
mess to meet possible objection to his
playfulness. "Patterpat won't dance
He's joined the little party of Mennon-
ties up country an gone plain. Amt
you heerd? Billy amt frivolous no
more"
We're goin' to give him drink fust, :"
significantly There won't be no
trouble then. You used to know Billy"
The figure at the counter Strengthened.
''Why, of course. of course" he con-
ceded "a good drink will be lie for Pat
terpats feet. | did use to know Billy
The only trouble with him was that all
his brains and fun an everything was
jest in his feet, an with them gone plain
there couldn't be no Patterpat any more
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
STYLE BRINGS BIG MONEY.
Wholesome Advice of Chicago Conn
mission FTan to Fruit Growers
OF the Middle West.

Benjamin Newhall, Chicago fruit
commission merchant, in a paper con-
tributed to the last session of the
Illinois state horticulturists, said:
Quality pays; style pays still bet
ter; and both together best of all You
growers know this, but probably we
dealers realize it even more fully.
For instance, recently we received a
car load of apples most of which sold
at SO per barrel. but in that car were
some that sold at $3.50 per barrel
Both were called No. ], but the 50 ap-
Piles were high in flavor and color,
and perfect as to shape, put up in an
attractive package and finely packed.
The $3.50 apples were sound, but were
dull and uninviting in color, of poor
flavor and put UP in a slovenly look
ing package and were poorly packed.
I'VE sold Seckel pears at So and 81
per barrel this fall on the same day,
and we got full price on both. 1t was
quality and style that made the differ
ence. Not once, but many times we
have sold Jonathans, sound and fresh
ly received the same day at 81 and
$40 per barrel. In fact this very thing
is one of the chief annoyances of our
trade Few shippers realize the value
of just a little of nature S tinting on
the skin of an apple or how slight a
difference in this line will mean a diff
ference of from so cents to $100 per
barrel in the price.
TnnRC n
pies at SIS straight and for mine you
got only 81, both packed by the same
man on the same day, the orchards
within mile of each other. How IS
this?" What hopeless task to reply
to such question! my apples were
Just as good as his, just as large, just
as smooth, just as carefully packed,
with just as good cooperage." All this
is true, my friend, but they were worth
$1.00 per barrel less in our market
just the same and are harder to sell
at the difference. And why? 1t is ex-
cellence set off by style. That is why
the fruit from sunny valleys OF
the far west outsells the best selec-
lions of the middle west 1t may not
have more intrinsic merit, but 1t has
style.
Quality pays. Choose your varieties
wisely; take pains with your orchard
treatment Study the market needs;
but above all cultivate style in fruh
packing and package, and when to
this style you add quality, you have a
combination that will sell your fruit
at prices that will often surprise you.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
LOW-HEADED TREES BEST.
A System of Trimming Which Is Be-
coming Popular on Account of
It's Many Advantages.

The Southern Agriculturist gives the
following reasons for the trimming of
fruit trees to develop low head:
1t might be difficult to state just
which is the most important. The
great saving of expense and the great
er ease and comfort in gathering the
fruit is certainly an important one.
Another is the greater convenience
in spraying, pruning and thinning
fruit Again, if an apple drops to the
ground it is not ruined by the fall.
Another great gain, and perhaps the
greatest advantage of all when the
life of the tree is considered, is the
protection given to the roots from the
hot sun in summer. Trees thus pro-
tected make a better growth, and seem
more healthy, and / believe, will en-
dure much longer.
There is one other advantage to be
derived from this low training and
shading 1t is the effect on the growth
of the branches. They being always
shaded and so near the ground. it
causes the under side of the branch to
make thicker group every year, there
by causing a more upright growth. Ii
one should cut off one of these branches
and examine the cut he will find that
the heart is much nearer to the upper
side or above the center, and rings
showing the annual growth will be
much further apart at the under side,
whereas, if branch is cut from tree
with a high head and long trunk
Clover branch) it will be found that
the heart is growing in a more horizon
tai direction. Such branches, when
laden with fruit, are much more like
ly to bend down to the ground than
those which start near the ground and
grow more uprightly. One can there
fore cultivate more conveniently
among the low headed trees than he
can among the higher and more spread
ing heads.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
EDUCATION AND SUCCESS.
DR.. Finley of New York City Gives
Statistics Showing Former Is
Conducive to the Latter.

Whether or not college education is
conducive to success is a question on
which men of learning and practical
business men have been at odds for
years. 1t in fact has been the argument
of the self-made type of merchant that
a university man is untitled for bust
ness career. DR.. John Huston Finley
president of the College of the City or
New York, however, has reached a def
mite conclusion on the subject, which he
bases on statistics provided by the state
board of regents.
According to DR.. Finley, one in 40
college bred men succeeds in life, while
only one noncollege man in 10000 has
a chance to gain distinction as public
man. These figures indicate the college
man has $50 chances to one for the non
college man to win success.
It is admitted by DR.. Finley that the
question Of success in these statistics is
calculated by the standards CT biograph-
ical dictionaries.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17

Wen lie EN- with Billys special timber
err" He hurled his last emptied glass
straight at Bronco's head, but not SO
quickly as to prevent its being caught
and hurled back with such instant and
unerring precision as to be shattered
into a hundred pieces against the hat
crown of the sender. But instead of
angering him. the cowboy at the coun-
ter only chuckled hilariously as he
rubbed his head and shook the pieces
of glass from his hat brim. He liked
horse play that was mutually danger
Gus.
AS they filed out, a newcomer from
Texas looked discontentedly at Bronco.
Amy special Involvement bout that
Patterpat's feet?" he inquired. Il
been pretty comfortable settin' on the
counter. We have dancin' down to
Texas"
Better go back there" CURLY, cor go
set on the counter if you like, AS to
indoocement there amt only one
dancer, an that's Patterpat. I've been to
Frisco an to Kansas City an to Chi
cago. an I've seen dancin-leastways
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
Feeding Cows for Butter.

The reason why butter is long time
coming and sometimes will not come
at all is that the cows are not properly
fed. Cows fed on prairie hay and corn
stalls can hardly give milk that con-
tains much butter fat, and what there
is, is In such small globules that it is
difficult to gather. There is an excess
of casein in such milk and it makes it
froth as it is agitated by the churning.
The remedy is to feed the cows some
cornm~al, bran and clover or alfalfa
hay.-sWentieth Century Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
Essay on. Man.

This story of an Oklahoma girls coEa-
position on Men" shows that the seed
of the women's club is sown on the ter
ritorial prairies: Men are what women
marry They drink and smoke and
swear and have ever so many pockets,
but they won't go TO church. Perhaps if
they wore bonnets they would They are
more logical than women and always
more geological. Both men and women
have sprung from monkeys, but the
women certainly sprung further than
the men"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
7 ITiI

suggested in the cut, with lock and
key. Let the creamery man have key
to fit the lock, and the cream can be
set in and left for the driver to collect
when he comes along. Leave openings
in the rear to ventilate the closet that,
being closed, it may not be overheated
by the sun. Several neighbors on
crossroad can unite in the use of such
a closet, each one putting his name on
his can, taking turns in carrying the
cream.-Farm Journal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
Advance in Land Values.

The advance in land values has been
very marked during the past six years.
Good agricultural lands are steadily in
creasing in price, and there is no pros
pect of a reduction or decline. Our
population increases steadily while
there can never be any more acres OF
land on the earth's surface than at
present 1t annually requires more OF
farm products to feed the increasing
population. and prices must therefore
rule higher and higher and farming
become more and more intensified and
remuneratiye.-Midl Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
ECZEMA ON HANDS.
Red, Rough Hands, Itching, Burning
Palms and Painful Finger Ends
One Night Treatment.

Soak the hands on retiring in strong,
hot, creamy lather of Cuticura Soap. Dry,
and anoint freely with Cutlcura, the great
skin cure and purest of emollients; Wear,
during the night, old, loose kid gloves
with the finger ends cut off and air holes
cut in the palms For red, rough, cshapped6
palms, with shapeless nails and painful
finger ends, this treatment is SIMPLY won.
derful. Complete external and internal
treatment for every humor from pimples
to scrofula, from infancy to age, consist
ing OF Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills,
may now be had of all chemists for $lOO.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
1890 Miss Agnes Miller, Of @
Chicago, speaks to young women
about dangers of the Menstrual
| Darind

"To YOUNG WOMEN 81 suffered for
six years with dysmenorrhea (painful
periods), so much so that / dreaded
every month, as knew it meant three
or four days of intense pain. The
doctor said this was due to an inhamed
condition of the uterine appendices
caused byrepeated and neglected colds.
eff young girls only realized how
dangerous it is to take cold at this
critical time, much suffering would be
spared them. Thank God for Lydia
IL. Pinkham'S Vegetable Com
pound, that was the only medicine
which helped me any. Within three
weeks after / started to take it, L
noticed a marked improvement I'm my
general health, and at the time of my
next monthly period the pain had
diminished considerably / kept up
the treatment, and was cured a month
later. / am like another person since
I am IN perfect health, my eyes are
brighter, have added - pounds to my
weight, my color is good, and | feel
light and happy Miss AGNES MILLER,
25 Potomac Ave, Chicago. Ill. - $4,000
forfeit if original of above letter proving genuine
ness cannot be produced
The monthly sickness reflects
the condition of wOman's
health. Anything unusual at
that time should have prompt
and proper attention.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
His Insniration.

MY DEAR said the long-haired verse
maker, Il wish you would take the chill
dren out of the room, I'm going to write
a poem"
Are you sure you feel inspired"
asked his wife.
ooh, I've got the inspiration all right"
replied he of the unbarbered locks, Il
need the money. Cincinnati Enquirer.