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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-16

FARM FOR RENT.-115 acres. For
particulars call on ]. Carruthers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-16

Special for Saturday, regular 10c-
size pure Catsup cents at Allard-
Stewart Co.'S.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-16

10 dozen Ladies' Embroidery Top
Collars, special Saturday only INC
at A11ard- Stewart Co. IS.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-16

For SALE. - House and lot on
North Main street. Inquire of A.
". Lovely, the ice man.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-16
Fred Relander, Prop.
The LOCAL MARKET.

CONNECTED EVERY THURSDAY.
Following are the prices paid by
River Falls merchants and dealers
for farm products, ETC., to-day:
xrxAE. AZ ., m No 81 ns
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-16

For SALE. House and lot on
Main street, village of Ellsworth.
Inquire of Sidney Perrigo.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-16

Special for Saturday, regular 10c-
size pure Catsup 7 cents at Allard-
Stewart Co.'s.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-16

will a cold dry spell.
Rev. William ]. Gray, pastor of
the Pacific Cong regational church,
will announce his resignation to the
congregation this morning, to take
effect May /. Rev. Gray has no
definite plans for the future, but
will probably return 10 Minneapolis
where he was pastor before coming
TO st. Paul in December. 1900. The
pastor has all the time been in per-
feet harmony with his congregation
and the reason for the resignation
is purely personal one. st. Paul
Pioneer Press, March IL.
What are we going to do for JUS
tees and constables this year? The
law requires that constable and a
Justice shall be elected in each ward
but no candidate has expressed a
desire for the privilege Of serving
the people in such capacity. But
in fact these offices are useless here.
The justice-of-the-peace at large
acts for the whole city in trying
suits and the city marshal and
deputy sheriff can serve all papers
required and order-well that is the
normal state of the community
Disorder of any kind is very in.
frequent circumstance.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-16
TUESDAY CLUB.
PROGRAM, MARCH 81

Hostess, Mrs. Weld.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-24
Our Annual Cotton Problem.

In accordance with custom, far
sighted men in the south are endeav-
oring to ascertain what the outturn
of the growing crop will be. The prob
lem is more difficult than it ever has
been, for the unexampled crop of last
year upset all fayorite theories, such
as seed deterioration, lack of labor,
failure of soil, insects and the like
all were knocked in the head by
crop three million bales larger than
the largest previous crop. Until the
crop of last year was picked and baled
and marketed there were plenty of
men ready to assert that this country
could not grow crop of fourteen mil
lion bales. Those men now believe
that If a guarantee of ten cents on the
farm could be made a crop of twenty
million bales could and would be made.
But there is no such guarantee-on
the other hand there is a prospect that
if the crop approaches that of 1904 the
price will not exceed seven cents. It
is conceded that in Alabama the re-
duction in acreage has not been con-
siderable, but it seems to be pretty
well settled that in every other state
reductions in acreage have been con-
siderable. In all the states west of
the Mississippi, wet weather has pre-
vailed a long time, and the weeds
have grown faster than tn } cotton. The
crop in Texas is not only grassy, but
it is late, and this means that the boil
weevil will have a square chance. The
fields east of the Mississippi have been
promising, but If the present damp
weather be much longer maintained
the eastern crop will be as much in
the grass as the western crop. Alto
gether it must be conceded that the
outlook for another big crop is not
promising.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-24
South Cardinals Dispensary System.

The last South Carolina legislature
passed what is known in that state as
the Brice bill. and any county can now
choose between prohibition and the
state dispensary system. In other
words, any South Carolina county can
vote itself dry" and Cherokee county
has already done so, and Union and
Spartanburg counties will soon hold
similar elections. Both will probably
prefer prohibition to the dispensary
system.
The state system constituted by Gov
ernor Tillman has not been adopted
by any other state, and If 1t goes to
pieces in South Carolina, it will dis
appear from our history of the liquor
traffic. The South Carolina plan is
complete and comprehensive. The
state is the wholesaler, and the coun-
ties the retailers, and the monopoly is
tDus complete. Corruption in connec-
ton with the immense purchases of
liquor by the state is almost unavoid-
able, and there are many who think
tie state should not put strong drink
in the way of anyone.
But whatever the objections be, pro-
hibition promises to sweep over the
state, leaving the counties that con-
tain Columbia and Charleston loyal to
IL 11llman plan, and possibly two or
three more. Under the Brice bill q
county that withdraws from the state
dispensary plan must adopt prohibit
ton. 1t cannot set up a county or
town dispensary. nor can it indulge in
high licenses. 1t is a choice between
prohibition or the state dispensary
plan, and the former promises to pre-
vail in three-fourths of South Caro-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-24
Work for the Extra Session.

1t is authoritatively announced from
the White House that Congress is to
be called together on on October is
ito consider railroad legislation" The
President no doubt considers rate reg
ulation the leading issue, but Congress
may differ from him, for Congress
once in session can consider any sub
ject whatsoever. The President has
no power to designate what bills it
shall consider, unless indeed his polit-
ical power be sufficient to control the
members of the two Houses.
The treasury deficit and the Pan
anna tariff policy of the administration
will almost necessarily come up, and
both mean tariff revision. Close OBJ
servers now concede that tariff revi-
sion has, after a spell of Dingleyism
nine years long, become inevitable.
The deficit on June 80 will no doubt be
$35,0C0,000, against Secretary Shaw's
estimate of $1S,000,000. So heavy
deficit calls for a remedy, and rem
edy involves tariff revision. The Ding
leyites, angered by the proposition to
buy Panama canal supplies in the
worlds markets, may bring the sub
ject before Congress, and II they do
the entire subject of tariff revision
will be sprung upon the country wide
open. Every feature of Dingleyism will
be brought out, and the grand educa-
tive campaign of the masses begun.
Only about a dozen extra sessions
of Congress have been called in 116
years, and of them all the one of next
October has perhaps the most intricate
questions to handle. The called ses-
sion will speedily run into the long
session of the Fifty-ninth Congress-,
and if rate legislation AM. tariff revi-
sion can be pushed through the SEN
ate by the administration, a great
work will have been accomplished.
But the ''if'-there's the rub.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-24
PANAMA HATS
Are Completely Gone and Freak
Variety Will Be Worn.

From the New York Herald.
After a season of lingering struggle the
Panama hat has passed. One may be seen
here and there, but It will mark the
wearer as one either of extravagant taste
or having no need to limit his expendi-
ture; for the only varieties on sale in the
high class hat stores range in price from
$50 up. In the Bowery imitation Pana-
mas will be sold at about half price as
compared with even a year ago.
To take the place of the Panama for the
man who abhors a hard hat, whether in
straw or derbies, bamboo straws, with
telescope crowns, will be very popular
this year-at $40 or thereabout. They are
finely woven and have the advantage over
the Panamas in having no stiffening to be
washed out by the first shove. They
are also to be had In the regular Panama
shape, but the latter will not be greatly
in demand.
Another soft straw hat that is expected
to be popular is the MaelSinaw, so called,
though the hats are woven in Japan.
Young men will prefer them in rather
extreme STYLE with crown and brim each
of two and three-quarter inches.
Then there Is a novelty in the way OF
straw coachmen's hats, in black and
white. A very few of these were seen last
year. but they will not be uncommon
this summer, in the Judgment of high
grade hatters. For automobilists there Is
straw cap in various colors which fol-
lows the,lines of the regulation cap of felt
or leather.
For elderly men there is what is known
as the Milan stray, a finely woven hat,
resembling the Panama In shape, large,
but very light.
But, as was the case last year, the hat
that will be seen everywhere, and that
will be sold by the hundred to every one
of the other designs will be the regula-
ton hard straw, with fiat crown and
hard, straight brm. In the extreme height
of crowns and narrowness of brim it is
believed by hatters that the limit has
been reached. 1t certainly has so far as
appearances go. The tendency in this d.
rection was stretched last year, but has
gone still further in the new styles dis
played for this season.
The rough sennit braid will be chiefly
worn, though the split straws at a slightly
higher price 1.:-l be generally In evidence.
Black bands will be most popular, but
dark blue and oxford blue bands will be
seen far more generally than year ago,
while the college youth will be less con-
spicuous in haring colored bands than
he was a year ago.
For those for whom the most extreme
of American-made hats are too moderate
there will be English straws, wit htower-
ing crowns and rims SO narrow as to be
hardly noticeable at a distance.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-24
RrnwnIow,s MoonshIne State.

Congressman Brownlow is still en-
deavoring to organize a state that will
be sure-enough republican from the
mountain sections of Kentucky, Ten
ne1see, Virginia and North Carolina.
1t would be a state largely made up
of moonshiners, for there would be
more Illicit stills in it than in all the
rest OF the country. The moonshiner
is invariably almost republican. wy
he is a republican, it is difficult to say,
unless it is because the republicans
n ade his industry possible by impos-
ing heavy internal taxation upon
whisky. He does not pay the tax,
although he proceeds to make and
market an exceptionally pure whisky.
After keeping Oklahoma, New Mex
leo and Arizona out of the union, lest
they become democratic, Mr.. Brown
low need not think he can lug in
republican state in order to give Knox
vile a state house. 1t is visionary
mere moonshine, and Mr.. Brownlow
of Tennessee and Mr.. Slemp of south
west Virginia cannot put it through.
Congress may pass it, but the states
affected by it will not conspire to swell
the list of true-blue republican states.
The republicans should bring into
the union Oklahoma, Arizona, New
Mexico and the Indian territory be-
fore they conspire to give the moon
sinners a state of their own, in which
blends and various other forms of
adulterated whisky would be uncalled-
for and superiluous.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-24
Fraternal Orders.

Secret societies seem to be Indigenous
to the United States" said a fraternal
order man. ION the continent of Europe
one finds Masonic lodges and Odd Fellow
lodges in the large cities but no other
orders are represented. In Great Britain
the Masonic fraternity fourishes and in
England the Forresters and the odd Fell
lows are quite popular, but these three
institutions complete the list.
'In the United States there are twenty
or more secret societies fiourishing not
including the life insurance orders Ma
sonry came to this country from Great
Britain early in the eighteenth century.
Odd Fellowship came from England in the
early part of the nineteenth century. The
Improved Order of Red Men originated in
the United States about sixty years ago.
The knights of Pythias got a start soon
after the civil war Most of the other
orders were founded within recent years.
The Odd Fellows outnumber all the
other orders in the United States. The
Masons come next in numerical strength.
The knights of Pythias and the Red Men
eachyhave hundreds of thousands of MEM
bers"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-24
WHISKY AS is WHISKY.

From the New York Press.
A man in Cincinnati bought a barrel of
whisky So years ago and kept 1t in a third
story dry room, well ventilated, and in all
the intervening period used only one pint
for testing. There remain today only one
and four-fifths gallon { the original
thirty-four, the rest being lost through
evaporation. A celebrated physician says:
lone small drink of this whisky contains
more electricity and rejuvenating proper
ties than any medicine that can be pre-
scribed." As to quality, connoisseurs agree
that this whisky, considering its pure dis
tillation and great age, is the finest in
the world, and that no King or Emperor,
the Rothsehlds. Morgans, Vanderbilts.
Astors Carnegies, Belts or Clarks, with
all their enormous wealth placing at their
will the Injuries of the world, can COM
mand such. A careful estimate of the cost
of storage and computation of interest
and insurance for 80 years prove the cost
of this whisky at the present time to be
S4S9 on gallon
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-24
The Fair

One of the features of the state fair, ="
said Secretary Williams. will be the
horse show which will be held every night
during the fair. Horsemen from Kentucky
Tennessee and other states have written
the local association that they intend to
exhibit their stock here. There will be
running, trotting and pacing races every
day the association being a member of
the Southern Fair circuit, which opens
in Guthrie, Ky, on August 16. The live
stock exhibit will also be feature of
the fair.
within a short while a catalogue will
be issued and this will be sent all over
the south. The local association expects to
mail twenty thousand copies of the cat
alougue.
THE coming state fair in Birmingham
will be run on strictly business plan.
We have ample capital to back us up, and
fully 100000 will be spent to make the
coming exhibition a success"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-24

1886 it is estimated that lndo-China
had cost France $15O,000,0OO over and
above all provincial revenue. Very
few Frenchmen live in Indo-China,
and perhaps few ever will.
Paul Doumer was long the repre-
sentative of France in the colony, and
he at last put it on a self-sustaining
basis. Peace prevails, and the colonial
budget shows a surplus that goes to-
wards French military expenditures.
It's foreign trade has risen to sSO,000,-
900 a year, and France secures a third
On the trade. All in all it is now con-
sidered one of the most important and
successful of French colonies, and that
is not saying much, for France is not
nation given to colonization. French
colonists and French capital are lack
ing in Indo-China.
AT present france is troubled over
the future in the Far East. She fears,
very naturally, the unfriendliness of
Japan after peace is concluded with
Russia Her national conscience is
giving her an uneasy feeling. She
knows she has not dealt justly with
Japan. Her neutrality was mere pre-
tense, and she fears retribution in
some form. She knows that II Japan
is victorious in the present war she
will dominate the Far East, and some
thing may occur that will render the
held of France upon Indo-Chi pre-
carious.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-24
QUEER FACTS IN THE NEWS.

From the New York World.
A small spaniel escaping from Rock
Island railway magnate's special train
ties up the line for fifty minutes. Bees
in the main street of Versailles, KY,
paralyze business until Ley are induced
to swarm in front Ci court house.
A woman's red polo turban under a troll
ley car occasions 6 bloc transit in our
own Broadway Showing that small
things still have their a., which is not
to be despised.
T great are busy also. Vice-President
Fairbanks saws wood at his Indianapolis
home and is photographed in the art.
Cutting fence posts for 1905 perhaps.
Governor Cummins of Iowa declines a
bathtub at state expense, saying he can
pay for his own. Other governors, other
principles In Iowa democracy is not a
total wreck.
the no-license way. low the town mer-
chants refuse to support the street
sprinkling cart of the Women's Village
Improvement association. Revenge Is
sweet but to Sag Harbor dusty. In
Pittsburg, on the contrary, one man has
coming what it wou.. tai him 20S years
to drink up. It's the million glasses of
beer called for by the order of brewer
grateful for service rendered. Life is too
short for what any of us would like
to do. Let us eat, drink and regard the
queer news items of today, for tomorrow
there will be plenty more.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-24
osLER's SKILL AS A SURGEON.
n Has a Marvellous knowledge Of
the Human Anatomy.

Day Allen in the Critic.
A year or so ago several physicians
gathered in consultation. The case was
complication of ills and the patient had
reached stage when, as the saying goes,
life hung by a thread. All agreed heroic
measures must be taken. but the ques-
ton arose what was best-and here they
differed. The discussion ran into hours
until one of the younger men ended IL
this wise: Lets leave it to Osler." He
came, examined the woman, and, with
out asking a question of the doctors who
had attended her, recommended a GER
tain opera ton. 1t was performed and
she recovered, although the majority OF
counsellers, until he came, believed 1t
would prove fatal.
This is why he is called Osler, why the
young men who have listened to his lee
lures and followed his every movement
at the clinic regard him as almost more
than man-because of his marvellous
knowledge of the human body. He may
use the knife or saw he may compile
prescription, but II is what he directs
others to do--what he knows ought to be
done-in short, his power of correct dag
nosis. He might be called living X-ray
machine with additional eyes in finger
TIPS so familiar with the anatomy that
they detect the growth or displacement
so small that it would escape ordinary
notice. The appearance of the body in
health is so familiar that his eye catches
the faintest tinge which may betoken dis
ease. Perhaps no one in the United
States is so we'll informed on symptoms.
Thus it is that he has been summoned
IN so many instances where death was
knocking at the door that he might be
called the forlorn hope, the last resort
of the afflicted.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-24
The Court House cuspldors.

Il think there is more tobacco chewing
at the court house than at any other
place in Jefferson county" remarked a
man last night who is frequently about
that temple of the law
About the first thing encountered on
entering the building Is a mammoth Gus
pdor and you find cuspidors distributed
a close intervals in every corridor and
in every room. These spittoons are eau
tions, too. In size they are about one
degree removed from a laundry tub, and
to be sure they will fulfill their purpose,
some of the tops are knocked out, expos
ing yawning repulsive depth. All of the
court house cuspidors are of dark
brown color and when the light is dim,
are scarcely diseernible, forming a Sc
rlous menace for the unwary pedestrian,
not familiar with their location Stumbling
over one of the court house cuspidors is
a serious matter too-like walking up
one of our streets while 1t is in the hands
of pipe layers.
but | don't see how we can get rid of
Even on the witness stand, man is not
deprived of his chew. This afternoon L
noticed a witness ON the stand who had
his tobacco in his cheek / couldn't tell
whether he was more attentive to the
lawyer or the cuspidor at his side, still
the lawyer didn't appear jealous, and L
suppose | shouldn't comment"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-24
7. P. A. Convention.

Major Jake w. Weiss of the state lodge,
the veteran of the grip" has returned
from Savannah where he attended the
national convention of the Travellers Pro-
tective association. Savannah" said
Major Weiss entertained the convention
in a most delightful manner. | have al
ways contended that Savannah was the
ideal place for convention and the re-
ception rendered us goes to prove my
contention beyond any doubt
THE people of Savannah simply show
cred us with attentions. Every minute
was one of pleasure and we enjoyed sew
eral ocean trips TO various places of in
terest during our stay at that city.
over 100 delegates were present at the
gathering The next meeting will be held
at Buffalo and l hope that the 1907 ses-
sion will meet at Mobile. We Alabama
delegates are eager to show the conven-
ton that we can entertain just as hospit-
ally as our sister state, Georgia.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-24
SWOLLEN HEADS.
And the Shrunken Minds Which They
Invariably Contain.

From the Saturday Evening Fost.
A young man, inheriting vast fortune,
got the mistaken notion that a great in
heritance makes a great man. In three
years he ran his course and is now
serving as a point to many a moral tale.
Those who were fawning and fattering
a few months ago are n tittering and
pointing as he passes b. And, if the
young man has any brains left, he is
probably in the most pltable state of
humiliation.
1t is an every day occurrence The
office boy who does not know how to
take raise of 10 cents a week is just
as god an Illustration this very con-
spicuous young man And the moral of
his e.sgrace will be missed entirely if
every man, however obscure, does not
take it home to hims IT,
Not always does Swollen head result
in disaster. Most of the very worst PEN
alties in this world are penalties Of MISS
ing great benefits one mi hit easily have
received had he conducted himself with
honesty, simplicity and modesty