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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-26

and revers of heliotrope velvet en-
broidered in silver, the buttons were
of the siver-embroidered velvet, and
set into the basque on each side was a
small, semi-circular pocket daintily
embroidered. A very fetching broad
tail jacket came just to the waist line.
1t was edged with wide black silk
braid, and trimmed with collar and
cuffs of reseda cloth, delicately braided
with fine silk cords in shaded colors.
There was Persian lamb coat, severe
in its simplicity, the distinguishing
feature marking it as modish being the
habit style with cut-away fronts.
But enough Of furs, let us look al
the feathers. Our illustration pictures
a hat which is one Of the fashions ia
vorites. The coloring of the original
of this was very soft and lovely, and
most effective worn with rich furs. 1t
was pale gray felt, the crown of gray
peau de suede embroidered in silver,
the feathers shaded from white to deep
crap.
p r,~y
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-26

rather proud of it at that, was mar
ried through a schatchen. So, also,
was that pathetic-looking woman over
there, who was recently deserted by
her husband, and is now begging pen
MES on the sidewalk.
Her case brings us to the other
class of charlottesville men whose
praitice of their trade makes them q
menace to the community, and whose
ill-gotten gains come to about quad
ripple what the honest schatchen makes
by his legitimate business.
The Crooked Schatchens.
These crooked schatchens have been
little talked about until lately. Their
trade has been so secret, their pre-
cautions so complete, and their team
work., so remarkable that they have
operated almost entirely unobserged.
Now and then the complaint of some
deserted wife has started the police
upon scent which seemed bound to
lead to new and important discoveries
but it was usually found to lend in
squirrel tracks or run up a tree
Even now it is next to impossible
to arrest or convict "swindling
schatchen,' as the police call them
The police have been at work on the
overthrow of several for years, but the
game is a long and arduous one, and
as one young detective declared, cit
would take the entire time Of the force
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-26
Fall Furs and Feathers

Feathers and furs, feathers and furs,
and that's the way my lady goes now
adays. Her fur coat probably is not so
very long. And why? Because pelts
are frightfully expensive this year
she simply cannot afford anything but
short wrap.
But she need not be troubled there
by, because the short fur coats this sea-
son are most attractive; the makers
have done their utmost to concoct
something with style. something not
bungling; and they have succeeded ad-
miraly.
We find the fur Elton continuing in
vogue, many fur box-coats, and few
long ample wraps. Sleeves keep to the
leg-of-mutton in the short jackets, and
broad shoulders prevail here There
are gay little vests on most of the
new models, the exception is the un-
trimmed coat. Braid, velvet, buttons
and embroidery are used for ornamen-
tation, generally with good effect, no
business. But we confess we like a
beautiful fur quite as well absolutely
untrimmed.
In high priced garments we find the
following fashionable furs: Chinchilla,
ermine. mink and sable. An ermine
neckpiece costs quite lot when one
considers how little quantity one gets
for ones money, but it gives an air to
a costume that is unmistakable. Neck
pieces this year do not differ so very
much from those of last, and one piece
can be worn in several ways; the wear
er may put the center in the front,
cross it over at the back, bring it
round again forward; or she may
fasten it simply at one side. Muffs are
larger than ever, If that is possible
it was just about four years ago, was
it not. we saw Maude Adams on the
stage carrying muff that almost con-
cealed her slender figure; and now they
are bigger than that!
Fur-lined garments are more to the
fore than they have been in years; one
can get one very cheaply, too. Black
broadcloth fur-lined wraps fill the
windows; many are very desirable.
We mention certain models recently
on display on some of the best shops.
There was beautiful sealskin scant
ihree-quarters long, with moderate
sized sleeves little over three-quar-
tiers in length. There were revers and
cuffs of sable, the revers crossing on
tn breast, a part of the revers collar,
made so it could be turned up high
when needed. The finishing touch to
this exquisite garment was an embroi-
dered vest Of white cloth. A very SEN
sible wrap and of good style was fur
lined blue broadcloth with roll collar
and generous cuffs of dark fur. The
coat was double-breasted, and finished
at the bottom with several rows of
tailor stitching. A smart seal coat was
made with basques, thu back Of the
coat, tight-fitting, the front blousing a
trids; It was trimmed with collar
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-26
FRUIT TREE NoURIsHMENT.
What rs Taken Out of the Ground In
Growing and Maturing
the Fruit

The Cornell experiment station bull
letin No 10S ON soil Depletion in Re-
spect to the Care of Fruit Trees" shows
that the plant food contained in 20
crops of apples of Is bushels per tree,
and So trees per acre, when the leaves
that are formed are also taken into the
calculation, amounts to 1887 pounds OF
nitrogen, $40 pounds of phosphoric acid
and 1885 pounds of potash. Prof. Voor-
hees shows that 20 years continuous
cropping with wheat, assuming an aver
age crop of Is bushels per acre, and
seven pounds of straw to three bushels
of wheat would remove $50 pounds of
nitrogen, 2l1 pounds of phosphoric acid
and 324 pounds of potash. We can thus
compare the results of 20 years cropping
of apples, after the production of trees,
capable of bearing such crops, has taken
large amounts of plant food from the
soil, for the 20 years cropping of apples
has removed more than twice as much
nitrogen, half as much again of phos-
| phoric acid, and three times as much
| potash as the wheat crops during the
same period. 1t is evident, then, that
an orchard will far more rapidly deplete
the fertility of the soil than the con-
tinuous cropping in wheat. Any farmer
will understand that 20 years continu-
Gus cropping in wheat would be bad
farming and would result in soil deple
| ton. How much more then does the
continuous cropping in apples deplete
the soil. Burn the hardwood of an apple
tree and you will fully understand the
amount Of potash removed from the
| soil in the wood alone.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-26

walk of life is the glass-house les
son more forcibly illustrated.
The men who belong to the bands
and lend themselves to the vile
schemes for betraying and robbing
young girls are all of peculiar type.
Shifty eyes, weak chins, evil mouths
they look and are ready for any job
that may offer itself-the lower the
better.
Escape Comparatively Easy.
But no crook has ever been SO care
less as to prepare job without first
arranging to "get away Many of
the employment agents" have maps of
the city with the 'get Always" all duly
marked. The city is SO large, and the
districts are so distinct and separate,
that whenever he finds it too warm
in one locality, he simply moves on
to another. and all traces of him is
lost. The aforementioned map has
estimates of population in various dis
tricts. and all sorts of valuable in
formation. It's usefulness in an en-
ployment agency seemed rather OBJ
scure, but perhaps the agents are per-
sons who like to be well informed on
all subjects.
One Happy Marriage.
But all weddings brought about by
the old schatchens are not unhappy.
One occurred recently in the Yiddish
quarter which was arranged by an old
patriarch, and the bride and BRIDE
groom looked as happy as any young
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-26
Concerning What Is to Be Worn

Every once in awhile we feel like
agreeing WITH, Give me the luxuries
and I will dispense with the neces-
saries;" and this is our mood to-day.
Let us speak of the luxuries of dress
first, the sheerest of nonsense.
Under this definition the draping
veil comes easily. It has no real use,
it is just pretty" And of truth
it IS often very presentable, makes 8
charming jilusory cloud about a wom-
ans face. Alas, more often It's but a
rag that reminds us of Kipling's un-
lovely description of woman-"A rag
bone and hank of hair"
Well try to say all the good words
for the draping veil we can. After be-
Ing voted common and relegated to the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-26

Seeding. Tongue-graft was the style
used. have tried top-grafting larger
trees, but without success. / have
been told that top,praIung proved sue
cessful near Moorestown. N. ]. Can
anyone in that vicinity give us a re-
port?
In response to this question Mrs,
]. Kay says: Take a small imb on
J. Kay says: Take small limb on
it, girdle it around with bud in it,
then go to Black walnut tree and Cir
die it where you want to insert the
bud. Now remove the bark and fit the
bark from the English walnut neatly
into the stock; tie it up with a string
until you find the saps have united.
The bud will be dormant till next
spring. The diagram explains the
process.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-26

couple entering the holy bonds of we'd
lock could look.
The little bride was as pretty as
colored Autograph, and her veil stood
out like frOst-covered lamp shade
from the white flowers on her small
black head The bridegroom wore a
black suit and tall silk hat, and
smiled and perspired with equal pro-
fusion all through the evening. There
were pretty girls with curly pompa-
dours and little hooked noses, and en-
barrassed youths, and patriarchs, and
stout, aquiline matrons. And there
was music, with a great deal of drum
effect, and dancing, all quadrilles of a
peculiarly wooden and seemingly JOY
Gus nature, and there were strange
things to eat and drink, and a COM
plete absence OF oxygen in the room.
When the ceremony began the bride
and bridegroom and rabbi stood I'M
der a gorgeous fringed canopy, with
long poles held over their heads by
some men, The rabbi talked for a
long time in Yiddish-the service look
three-uuarters of an hour-and every
one wept, especially the brides mother,
dear soul, who babe fair to dissolve In
tears. Then the pretty bride walked
seven times around her husband-the
symbolism is obscure and has been
forgotten by most Hebrews. And final
ly, in a little hush that was rather SOL
emn, on the whole, wine glass was
flung upon the floor for good luck. Inc
little tinkle of splintered glass sound
ed like tiny chime of bells. So they
were married-happily, if one may
trust their faces-and all through the
old schatchen.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-26
POINTERS FOR pA1RYMEN.

Soft, white butter comes from hot
cream.
Too much sourness in cream causes
white specks in butter.
Keep the fresh, warm milk separate
from the old. It keeps better.
Test your milk. 1t is not quantity
so much as the qaality that counts.
Keep the heifer, intended for the
dairy, in thrifty, growing condition.
If you are buying rev milk utensils,
see that all joints are smoothly SOL
dered.
Set milk after milking before 1t be-
comes as cool as the atmosphere. The
cream will rise better.
Have the milk for the calves sweet
and of the same temperature as when
it comes from the COY.
Give the cows plenty Of pumakins.
70 fed with the grain ration they will
increase the milk flow.
The nervous, restless COW, always
tossing her head. should be dehorned
before she hurts somebody or some-
thing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-26
Methods of Schatchens, Straight and
Crooked, Among Girls of the
Yiddish Quarter.
ARE A MIGHTY POWER FOR GOOD AND EVIL
How They Ply Their Trade Among the limo
cent Young Jewish Maidens of the East
Side-Swindlers and Their Subtle
Methods Described.

about her throat. Only one in 80
wears a hat. They move quickly,
casting swift glances, half shy, half
bold, at the men they pass. Their
lives are spent in shops and factories,
gaining a meager living. They never
come in contact with men; they have
no time. Romance has no place in
their cramped, crushed destinies. Love
is not known in their hearts, any
more than joy is known to their lives.
They are the plodders, the workers,
the women whom the gods have for
gotten. And these are the natural
prey of the schatchen.
Advantages of the System.
Perhaps prey is the wrong word,
after all, for when the schatchen is
ION the level" and plays a straight
game" his office may be most useful,
valuable and beneficial one, and often
he carries away from a Yiddish we'd
ding the good wishes of the two con-
tented young persons whom he has
united. The legitimate schatchen is a
necessary factor in Yiddish life of the
girls would find no husbands, and the
men of the vicinity would go to other
districts for their wives. Also, there
would be much more immortality. The
schatchen forestalls the natural mat
ing procllvities of young people and
ties up his clients in pairs, firm and
fast with knots that hold the couples
in comfortable bondage for good and
ALL
One and all of these girls, whom we
see passing and repassing on all sides,
wish husbands. They save their earn
ings for the purpose of massing a dot
adequate to make good showing
with the schatchen and win satisfac-
tory mate. There is not girl among
them who will not go to the schatchen
in time, if she has not already been
there.
There is a young couple. She is
dressed in her best, and he looks in
tensely sheepish. They have just met
each other through the schatchen. In
a week they will be man and wife. 1t
sounds risky, aoes it not? Yet they
will tell you down here that there is
about the same percentage of happi-
ness in these queer broker manufac-
tured marriages as in unions where
choice, romance, and other considera-
lions have a part. That man over
there carrying a baby, and looking
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-26

are entered, their looks and savings
are estimated, and the willy employ
ment agent talks matrimony, the COM
life into the girls ears.
The girls who are amenable to the
agents reasoning find husbands speed
lily for the coming, their small earn
ings are taken away, and Immediately
afterward they are deserted and en-
tirely without funds. They may APP
peal to the police, but the husbands
have gone, and who can touch the
agent? He knew nothing about the
mans disreputable character, of
course, and had nothing to do with
the matter beyond introducing one
young person to another.
Bands Work in Unison.
AS has been said before, the team
work." or concerted action, of these
matrimonial bands is rather extraor-
binary. The interdependence Of the
members is of necessity tremendous,
and the men all stand in with one an
other so successfully as to drive the
police and the plain-clothes men fran
tic. The best chance for the force
comes when some one man, to save
and square himself, peaches" on an
other. and so destroys a little of that
perfect harmony in the organization
of crooks.
Sometimes, of course, broker cheats
one of his men, or man goes back on
the broker and fails to give up the
promised share of the plumber OBJ
tatined from the newest wife, but this
does not help the police. No COM
plant will be made, of course, for, as
may be readily be imagined. in no
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-26

New York.-On the great East side
Of this wonderful metropolis, w1ere
the innocent foreigner naturally drfts
on his arrival in America, to seek his
brother countryman, the schatchen
finds rich field for plying his trade.
The schatchen pronounced shot
ken), better known as marriage
broker, is one OF the most curious SIR
vivals of ancient orientalism watch
one may find in many a days travel.
He is a busy, prosperous man, with
a good business and large following
of clients, and he has developed his
ancient and picturesque trade along
the modern lines of commercial Amer
lea, but withal he remains the schat-
chen-the matchmaker, the trafficker
in young men and maidens, the indie
fatigable, serene. obsequious, popular
marriage broker.
In the heart of the "rogues' dis
trict," where the criminals of all
classes are wont to gather, is where
the schatchen finds his best work
ground. Here it is that he plies his
trade and wins his gains, rightful or
otherwise. And here it is that his
good faith brings a queer, pathetic,
manufactured happiness, even as his
treachery brings suffering and shame.
For good or for i'll, he is a curious and
mighty power in the Yiddish quarter,
thus schatchen, agent of matrimony,
broker in men and women, buyer and
seller of lives.
Business Brokers'"
In older days and older lands the
schatchen wore the dull red and
green and russell robes of the orient,
he jingled with chains and ornaments,
or slipped on silent feet into the
dwellings of the east; in this city he
has card printed stating that he
deals in real estate, and is also a
business broker"
Business broker means but one
thing in the part of town particu-
ularly affected by the schatcnen.
Everyone knows what his business is,
and he carries on an excellent trade.
The schatchen is almost invariably
of one type. He is not very tall; he is
bearded; patriarchal and intensely
Yiddish. He walks silently and
watches every chance passerby with
eyes that are both furtive and keen.
He slips in and out of places almost
without making his presence felt.
When he speaks it is with marked
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-26
Business Qualities.

There are many qualities necessary
to success in modern business life;
but there is none of more Importance
to a man holding position OF respon-
sibility than the power to make
plain, straightforward, business-llke
statement, either by speech or in writ
ing. The quality of fuency is not SO
much what is required as the qualltleS
of accuracy and clearness, definite
ness and brevity, tact and judgment,
writes Prof. w. Ripper, in Tecnnlcs.
If we are not clear and precise it is
certain that those who listen to us
will be no more clear, when We nave
finished, than we are ourselVes-pfoD-
ably much less so. We must have no
vague and misty ideas about the sub
ject, but they must be crystallized and
definite. These qualities of our
thought and speech, however. cannot
be left to chance. They are attended
as the result of effort, of careful and
Independent thought on the subject for
ourselves. of looking at it from many
points of view, and thus satisfying
ourselves and those who listen to us
that we thoroughly understand what
we are talking about. 1t clears ones
own mind in thinking out subject to
talk it over with a colleague, or to
write out a statement of it, or to die
tate it to shorthand writer. Having
decided what to say, and having prop
erly arranged it, the last point is how
to say it. The first essential is to speak
distinctly. then to be natural, straight
forward, lucid: neither to strive after
effect nor to exaggerate, but to give
the impression that we are ourselves
convinced of the cogency and force OF
our own contention.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-26
Man Was Mailed.

The English postal authorities lately
had a living parcel committed to them,
and promptly and safely forwarded II
to the desired destination. A dweller
in the island of Guernsey wished to go
to the neighboring island of Sark as
expeditiously as possible. He accord
ingly presented himself at the post
Office and asked to be sent as par
eel. He was accepted as mailable. A
tag was attached to him and messen-
ger detailed to go with him. The
postage charged was five shillings and
tsnpence.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-26
ELLEN osMoNDE.
Can TT Rep

First Magazine Publisher-Well,
whom do You expose Ia this months
issue?
Second Magazine Publisher We're
sort of mailing novelty of this
months ISSUE
First Magazine Publisher How's
that?
Second Magazine Publisher-We
don't expose anybody.-Chicago Sun
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-26
TO BUD AND GRAFT WALNUTS
The Methods Used by Two Horticul-
turists with Satisfactory
Results.

Referring to grating English wal
nut on Black walnut, writes corre-
spondent of the Rural New Yorker. I
would say did it successfully last
spring. The stock was one-year
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-26
Icebergs.

Patience-What do you understand
is the normal temperature of the body:
Patrice--Well, it all depends. II
most places it is about 100, but In Bos-
ton / believe it is about 1S.-Yonker
Statesman.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-14

some Of the "Mormons" and "Gentlles"
had a most dlsgraceful row. Pistols
were drawn and knives We're brandished
IN the air. one man received shot &C
his feet, which was designed for his
heart Whether any one was wounded
am not able to say; but through the
prompt action OF Judge Snow and the
municipal authorities there, the out
break was soon quelled--the offenders
being arrested and held 10 answer.
IN Justice to Gen. Johnston ! Will
state that he has done all that lay IN
his power to promote order I'm ana
around the camp He has Instituted the
strictest discipline but, az 10 well
known, wherever soldiers are quarter
ed drunkenness RIGHTEOUSNESS ana
their train OF cqncomitant evils cannot
fan 70 exist Women are today Joined
In wedlock, tomorrow abandoned and
soon become dissolute and depraved.
The general, however, has offered the
civil authorities Of Fairfield and Cedar
Fort whatever aid they might Mt any
time require to enforce strictly the
laws and prevent amy disturbance from
the soldierN This has operated AZ a
check upon the crying evils. but vice is
not easily subdued where II is the
reignlng principle.
what other extraordinary circum-
stances occurred during my short stay
In the vicinity OF Camp Floyd. | know
not; but these win probably suffice TO
show the state Of society there
QUIZ.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-14

Twelve hours at Camp Floyd, Lehi,
Dec "A, ls59.-Having lately spent a
short time at Camp Floyd, Fairfield and
Cedar Fort during which time a series
Of such extraordinary circumstances
took place, so fully indicative OF the
state Of things IN that locality, where
the influence Of our boasted "clyiliza-
ton" 20 largely predominates, have
deemed It proper to lay before YOU the
facts as they occurred, 30 far as they
came to my knowledge,
arrived at Camp Floyd on Saturday
night about dusk.
In the early part Of the night there
were five head OF beef cattle stolen from
citizen Of Fairfield, which, ] believe
wer not recovered A valuable watch
dog, belonging TO one Of the most In
nuential mercantile firms IN that vicin-
lty was killed--evldently by despera-
does. 90 facilitate the preparation OF a
robbery, IN which, however they were
defeated A store was broken open
and considerable amount OF goods
eNtpcted. A daring robbery was also
committed In a gambling saloon. At u
place " public amusement there was
not only very spirited exemplihcation
OF confusion worse COMPOUNDED" but
my ears were outraged with hearing
pronsely used, language the most Of
fensiys and obscene; that which,