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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-03-15

II Is the medicine above all others for en-
tarrh and is worth its weight in gold. Elys
Cream Balm does all that IL claimed for it
b. W Sperry, Hartford. Conn
My son was afflicted with catarrh lie used
Ely's Cream Balm and the disagreeable ca
tarrh all left him. G. Olmstcad Arcola III.
The Balm does not irritate or cause sncez.
ing. Sold by druggists at 30 cts or mailed by
Ely Brothers, 80 Warren It, New York.
The Balm does not irritate or cause sneez
ing. Sold by all druggists at 80 cts or mailed
by Ely Brothers, 50 Warren st, New York.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20

striped shirts and put He on his hair.
supper, they had to send two miles for
me to come over an pacerfy Bingo.
When l showed up that there bar
was shamed as boy caught stealin'
apples. He come along home all right,
an went to sleep in the corner. For two
weeks arter that he went round kind o.
sheepish, which is more'n can be said O.
most men arter spree. Oncet in
while since then he took a nip, but never
none to hurt, an he never went near
McNultys camp agin
''Bingo, he liked music. When I'd get
my old fiddle down arter supper an
scratch out the 'Arkansaw Traveller, the
Drunken Sailor an the Portland Fan
cy' tunes we used to dance to down TO
Bangor fore the town got so fash'nable
it forgot how to dance, Bingo he'd set
there front O. the fire an roll his eyes,
it made him feel SO good, an keep time
with his paws. He liked the 'Arkansaw
Traveller best, an learnt him to dance
few steps o. that. He'd git all worked
up over tall played out SOS he'd have
to take rest arter it. Then I'd give
him nip out O. my little jug. an he'd
go to sleep an snore like one o. John
Ross drivers. But he's gone now
dead an gone, an things is kinder lone
some up home. I'd a-give the best hun
dred dollars ever see to that Teller that
shot him if he'd a-took some other b ar.
for the like O. Bingo amt this side O.
Fort Kent."-N. Y. World.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20
CATCHING AN AMAZON.
Lawyers Wit Turned Aggressive
Woman's Defiant Words
Against Herself.

About a year ago there was tried in a
court of Kansas City a case in which
shere was retained as counsel Mr. Bar
thodt, who is a representative from Mis-
souri, in congress.
Among the witnesses for the opposing
side VINO were cross-examlned by MIR.
Bmtholdt, says the New York Herald,
were a man of diminutive stature and
sheepsh manner and his wife, an indivld-
ual Of Amazonian proportions and a cor
respondingly aggressive air. The husband
was evidently very much cowed by hi5
better half, for when he was being ques-
toned he would from time to time glance
timidly at the lady, as if to seek per-
mission to reply to the interrogatories.
During the cross examination to which
the lady in turn was subjected by Mr..
Bartholdt she evinced considerable inn
patience. Finally, when one question was
urgently repeated to her several times,
ahe suddenly exclaimed in an angry tone:
Nov, you needn't think you can catch
me that way. You've tried that three or
four times already. No, sir, you can't
catch mel"
Madam" observed Mr. Bartholdt, with
the politest of bows, you have no cause
for alarm. l have, l assure you, no
desire whatever to catch you, and your
husband looks as f he were sorry he
did"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20
RYE MAKES GOOD PASTURE
How One Farmer Manages to Get
Good Feed for His Live
Stock.

draw the manure on the sod ground,
pillow and harrow we'll, then plant to
corn and cultivate well, writes a New
York farmer in the Farm and Home
The next spring pillow the corn, top
dress with stable manure and SOW oats.
AS soon as the oats are off, pillow and
top-dTess again, then sow to rye. In
six weeks have big feed and pasture
the rye until it fereZes.
The last of May | cut the rye as soon
as it heads, and the stock like it and
do well on it. In the spring seed on
the rye with equal parts of clover and
timothy. l pasture this in the fall, and
the rye will be headed out the second
time.
cut the grass for hay three years,
and pillow again and follow the same ro-
tation. l manage piece OF land this
way every year, have nice fall feed
and never fail to have big crops. Last
fall got first and second premiums on
my corn at our fair. My rye was very
stout and five feet tall. the grass so
stout that 1 could not cut it with ma
chine until I cleared place for it to
run.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20

kill them, held them prisoners until
they could be dispatched, says FRED y.
Sibley, in Epitomist. The platform A
should be about 20 inches square, and
the drop B consist of hardwood plank
with two holes bored through exactly
middle-way, SO that it will slide readl-
ly up and down the posts supporting the
crosspiece H. Through the center OF
this is hole for the similar action of
the circular post D, which is securely
embedded into B. A piece OF light band
iron is G. which, when the trap is set,
rests on the support H and, being loose
ly fastened to D at by an iron pin, thus
holds up the plank B. The rat enters
and begins nibbling at Indian meal
sprinkled in the groove of the platform
at j, and finally reaching the spindle,
hidden beneath it, agitates 1T enough to
displace the bottom e on the outside;
this, in turn, releases both the string
F and Nband-iron G, the latter of which,
owing to the weight of the plank B, is
drawn upward into groove, sawed
middle-way through D by its sliding
down the hole in the center of H and
rs the motion of B is then exceeding
ly fast, the victim, ere it can scramble
over the sides round the platform, is
caught and killed Provided the affair
is nicely adjusted and nade so that it
operates easily, there is no patented
trap on the market, to my knowledge,
half as good, for it has such an innocent
appearance that the Oldest and most
cunning rat will ultimately be caught
by it, To work we'll the spindle G
should have little play, and the more
lightly the button E rests against the
notch cut in it and yet will hold, the
better. Made on smaller scale, this
kind of trap is also most excellent with
which to catch mice.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20
HUNTERS ODD EXPERIENCE
Fox and Hawk Attempt to Purloin
Quail His Gun Had Brought
Down.

Dr. William Rowland of Pasadena,
who was up at Middle Ranch quail shoot
ing a few days prior to the close of the
season, had a most unique experience,
relates an Avalon correspondent of the
Los Angeles Times.
He ran upon a covey of quail, and,
flushing them, dropped one with his left
barrel, and then, at considerable OF en-
angle. dropped another with the right
barrel. Turning to his first bird, he
was just in time to see fox snatch 1t
up and start to run away with it.
Quickly pumping another cartridge into
his gun, he, let the fox have it. knock
ing him stiff. After accommodating a
minute, and finding his first bird, he
was returning to pick up the second,
when something shot down like an
arrow from the Skis in front OF him,
the object proving to be an osprey.
The quail had bee1 wounded, and its
fiutetring attracted the attention of
the big hawk, which, while sailing
through the ether had an eye out for a
quail dinner, and, darting upon the
wounded bird, was about to cheat the
hunter out of his quarry. DR.. Rowland,
while amazed at the turn OF events.
did not propose to stand for such a
play, and training his ready gun on
the bold robber. with pull OF the trig-
ger put him out of commission, and
saved both his birds.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20
ROAD GRADER.

inches from the top of a a, and made
out of 1x4x30-inch iron, which has holes
in front ends to fasten draft chain to,
also hole in at the right-hand end
to bolt brace, f, on, which is also bolted
to the rear a at h. The guider, f, is 1x2
inches and six feet long, with holes in
back end so the rear a can be changed
at any time so it will properly follow
front a. A seat board, b. is bolted to a
a at when team is hitched at for
ditching, and, at j when smoothing up
the roadbed. The right-hand ends of
are sloped back As degrees to pre-
vent catching in the bank of side ditch.
If properly made of good material, this
is very durable, and does almost as good
work as costly grader.-Farm and
Home
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20

PICKER FOR LOW HEADED TREES.
under side Of the "crane's-bill' to hang
the basket on. The spread of the hind
legs is four feet and four inches. and
from the hind to the front leg is five
feet nine inches.
The stool is three feet high. To get
up catch the thing by the neck with one
hand and put one foot on the horizontal
brace near the hind leg, and with a
little effort you are mounted on some
thing that will not fall over, as three
legs always adjust themselves to the
ground even if on a slope. Place either
end of the stool up or down, and you
and it are all right. This is my own
invention so far as I know, and it is
the best thing to pick apples from up
to nine to eleven feet high, that have
ever seen or thought of. / have young
orchard of 1900 trees. eight years old
last spring, from which the fruit was
picked almost entirely with these stools,
very rapidly and without any danger Of
mutilating the branches. We do not
use any stepladders in the orchard. We
abandoned them many years ago as
neither safe nor satisfactory. The
stools and the ladders are all that we
use to get in reach of the fruit.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20
SONG OF THE PEssIMIsr.

Yes, know tn seasons perfect fer US
farmers-lots o. wet.
An tn fields is gettin' peppered till
they're soaked as they kin get;
Heavy snowfalls is pertectin' an preserv1n'
Of tn wheat,
An tn country is a-prosperin'-y' never
seen tn beat
But these times is always likely t precede
a duller spell,
It's sartin sign o. sickness when y feel
s. awful well
Lots O. wheat will bring down prices an
will make a lot o. toll
An SIGH heavy crops as them is mighty
wearin' on tn soil
Mills is runnin' wheels is turnin' an the
wages all is good;
Times is boomin like tn mischief, Teddy
helped EN- all he could,
Can't see nothin' to distress us-felt tn
same way onct before,
An l learnt it was token that disaster
laid in store.
When yer feelin' best. git busy with yer
most suspicious look,
Fer tn straightest streak o. roadway leads
you to tn sharpest crook,
Kittle water gifts tn stillest jes' before 1t
starts t. boil,
An these awful heavy crops is plum ex-
haustin' to tn soil!
S. w. Gillian. in Baltimore American.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20
TALES OF SAVINGS BANKS,
Romantic Incidents Which illustrate
Some Peculiar Phases of Every
day Life.

A ragged little newsboy entered a
Pittsburg bank one day and boldly
invaded the private Office of the pres
ident. relates William S. Power, in
Success Magazine.
"Say, mister" he said, "can I put
scme money in this bank?"
Certainly you can," the president
answered; 'how much do you want to
deposit?"
"A quarter!" exclaimed the young
ster, pulling handful of pennies and
nickels out of his pocket. The banker
took him over to the receiving teller
and introduced him with all the defer
ence that he would have shown to a
millionaire.
The boy left the city soon afte,
opening the account, but he kept add.
ing to his deposit from time to time.
and, as he was naturally bright and
shrewd, everything he undertook pros,
pered. He is back in PittSburg now.
the head of g. successful manufacture
ing concern and one of the bank s
most valued customers.
A year ago a proud young father
out in Michigan sent $25 to open an
account for his first-born son, then
less than a week old. ''The boy'll need
it some of these days." he wrote, land
we may as we'll begin to save for him
right off" Six months later a tear
dimmed letter came, asking to with
draw the money, to pay the little fell
lows funeral expenses
A working woman in a little town
in New York sent dollar bill in the
name of her daughter, six years of
age. She'll be marrying by and by"
she said, land ought to have some
thing to start life on" That was
nearly two years ago, and almost
every week since dollar bill has been
added to the account. Therell be a
snug little marriage portion for the
young lady some day, if nothing hap
pens.
Not long ago a woman living in llli-
noiS sent five dollars, with explicit in
structions not to let her 'old man.
know about it, as "he'd be after spend
ing every cent of it for drink"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20
THE APPLE MACcoT.
Something About This Orchard En-
envy, and How It May Be Sue
cessfully Combated.

The Maine experiment station, Orono,
Me-. has just issued bulletin No. 10y, up
on the apple maggot and other insects.
The bad work of the apple maggot is
done while it is in the larval stage, or
just after Matching from the egg. The
adult insect is a fly, somewhat smaller
than the common house fly, and is read
lily distinguished by four dark, irregu-
lar bands across the wings. 1t is found
in orchards from July until frost, during
which time the females are engaged in
piercing or singing the skin OF the ap-
pie with Sting-like ovipositor and
leaving in each wound an egg, buried in
the flesh of the apple. Each female can
lay from 800 to 400 eggs. After hatch
ing the maggots tunnel through the
flesh of the fruit and feed upon it until
they are full grown. These tunnels
often lie directly beneath the skin and
on the light-colored varieties thus CIV
ing the insect the popular name Rail
road worm" But although the mag
got comes close to the skin it never
breaks through and is thus always pro-
tected and cannot be affected by spray
ing.
Remedies.-The presence of the mag
got hastens the ripening of the fruit
and much of that attacked drops as
windfalls. Thus the destruction of
windfalls is one of the most effective
steps in the destruction of the pest.
Hogs or sheep should be kept in the or
chard to eat the windfalls. All canning
refuse should be destroyed. The pupae,
or insects in the shell form, that remain
in the bottoms of boxes and barrels in
which apples have been stored should
be destroyed. Orchardists who pasture
their orchards with hogs and sheep re-
port light losses, while others in the
same locality, who do not do so, nor
destroy the windfalls in some other way,
report heavy losses.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20
Low-wheeled Wagons.

Low wagon wheels are useful for hay
ing when loader and horse fork are
used. also for stacking grain, as the
wheels do not cut into the land. Also
to haul manure, gravel and dirt. In this
county low wheel wagons are exempt
from taxes. / have four-inch wooden
wheels So and AZ inches in diameter,
also a set of narrow, high WHEELS
which are used for hauling hogs To sdar-
ket. High wheels run easier or stony
roads. If could have but one kind 1t
would be low ones. If ali farmers used
wide tires the roads would wear longer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20
HONEST CONFESSION.
A Doctors Talk on Food.

n
There are no fairer set of men on
earth than the doctors, and when they
find they have been in error they are
usually apt to lake honest and manly
confession of the fact.
A case in point is that of an emil
nent practitioner, one of the good old
school, who lives in Texas. His plain,
unvarnished tale needs no dressing up:
81 hal always had an intense preju-
dice, which l can now see was unwar-
rantable and unreasonable, against all
muchly advertised foods. Hence,
never read line of the many ads of
Grape Nuts, nor tested the food till last
winter.
while in Corpus Christi for my
health, and visiting my youngest son,
who has four of the ruddiest, health
lest little boys I ever saw, ate my
first dish of Grape-Nuts food for sup
per with my little grandsons. l be-
came exceedingly fond of it and have
eaten package of it every week since
and find it a delicious, refreshing and
Strengthening food, leaving no i'll eff
fects whatever, causing no eructatiohs
with which was formerly much trou-
bled). no sense of fullness, nausea, MOI
distress of stomach in any way.
There is no other food that agrees
with me so well, or sits as lightly Oh
pleasantly upon my stomach as this
does. I am stronger Snd more active
since I began the use Of Grape-Nuts
than I have been for 10 years, and an
no longer troubled with nausea anG
Indigestion" Name given by Postum
Co.. Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
Look in each pkg. for the famous lit
tie book, ''The Road TO MELVILLE"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20
Applied History.

Dear dad wrote the boy from col
lege Eve are studying current his
tory, and / am getting to understand it
finely BY the way, my creditors are
bothering me considerably, SO please
send me 5000 in addition to my usual al
Iowance."
creditors have also been harassing me.
] am, therefore, glad that you are so
familiar with current history, as you
will understand what l mean when 1
say that, until they are satisfied
will have to take charge of your Gus
tom house. "-Pittsburg Post.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20
Twin Lives.

Il is wonderful how alike some
twins are, not only in feature. but in
character. 1t is seldom, however, that
the lives of twin sisters or brothers
are so nearly alike as those of Mrs.
Mary Sissons and Mrs. Ann Dennison.
These old ladies recently kept their
eighty-fourth birthday at Arnold, Not
tinghamshire, near which they have
lived all their lives. The twins were
married on he same day by the same
clergyman. They married brothers.
Both lost their husbands as the re-
suit of accident, and both married a
second time. Both enjoy good health,
and neither has ever seen the sea
London Tit-Bits
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20
EVERY ONE ASKS HIM
HOW HE GOT Rid OF HIS OBSTINATE
MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM.
Mr.. Jones Tells of the Way by Which He
Treated Himself Successfully
When Doctors Failed.

Mr.. Jones Tells of the Way by Which He
Treated Himself Successfully
When Doctors Failed.
SD. physicians, all of them good, one Of
them specialist, had done their best
for Mr.. Jones at different times during
three years, and still he suffered fear
fully from the tortures Of rheumatism.
The rheumatism that had been dor
mant III his system was suddenly
brought to an acute stage by exposure
while he was drawing ice Ill February,
1901. From that time on for a period
of more than three years he was a con-
slant sufferer. He tried many kinds OF
treatment, but the rheumatism wouldn't
bulge. When regular doctors failed,
and one remedy after another proved
useless, many said: 81 should think he
would give it up and save his money. !"
OF his condition at this time, Mr..
Jones says: "My rheumatism started
in my right thigh, but in time it ap-
peared III every muscle of my body. I
lost the use Of my left arm en-
tirely and nearly lost the use OF my
right one. My feet were badly affected,
especially bN0 DOJtOliS VI 11O hOOAo'
When my right side was affected there
was swelling, but the left side didn't
swell when the disease settled there.
The internal organs didn't seem to be
involved at all. The trouble was all in
the muscles and the nerves"
Among the few who still encouraged
Mr.. Jones to think that cure might
vet be found was friend who had rea-
son for great confidence in DIR. Will
lians' Pink Pills, and acting OH her
advice he bought box of them III Sep
TENDER, 1904. The story of what fol-
lowed is brief, but nothing could be
more satisfactory.
when 1 was on the third box" says
Mr.. Jones, 81 could realize change for
the better. I felt sure then that DIR.
Williams Pink Pills were the right
medicine for my case. I kept on with
them for several weeks longer and now
1 am entirely well, and everybody Is
asking what took"
Mr.. William Jones lives at Oxford,
Mich. DR.. Williams Pink Pills effect
wonderful cures in rheumatism, because
they work directly on the blood which is
the seat Of the disease. They are sold
by every druggist.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20
FARM FACTS AND FANcIEs.

Farming is a poor business when the
farming is poor.
Wire fencing is more durable and
cheaper than wood
A farmer without plans is next to a
ship without rudder.
What per cent. of that seed corn do
you think will grow? If you haven't
tested it, you don't know.
The greatest saving of time is made
by the use of the best tools in the prep
aration of the ground, planting the seed,
and after cultivation.
1t is much more profitable to keepland
in good condition than to get it out OF
such condition by one-sided fertiliza-
ton and then try to bring it back.
Time will be saved and you Will be-
apt to be more careful in your selection
if the seed corn is selected this month.
If you intend buying seed, place your
order now.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20
Swell Redskin

Kenekah. centenarian Usage In
dian, went 70 a photographer in Paw
huska Okla, the other day and had
his picture taken for the first time.
He was dressed in a magnificent
blanket, with splendidly decorated
buckskin breeches. Among the bone
ornaments around his neck was one
which he declared to be the claw of a
lion he killed many years ago with
his hunting knife. The claw is pro-
fusely studded with diamonds. Ken
ekah is known as a learned and wise
Indian among his fullbloods who cling
to the old customs and they show him
great faith aud reverence.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20

"The Adirondacks and How to Reach
Them" is nice folder with maps and
references to localities, hotels, boarding
houses, mountains and rivers in the great
wilderness of Northern New York known
as the Adirondack Mountains. If you
visit this region once, you will be sdre 20
go again. A copy of ''The Adirondack
Mountains and How to Reach Them"
will be mailed free, postpaid, to any ad-
dress, on receipt Of two cent stamp, by
George H. Daniels, General Passenger
Agent, Grand Central Station, New York.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20
HANDY PICKING STOOL.
Device Which Will Prove of Great
Service in the Orchard During
Picking Time.

Our illustration shows what is caIied
a goodwill" or picking stool. 1t is all
made of Eastwood except the front leg,
upon which the basket hangs This is
made of a buggy or cart shaft, which
can be had from any hardware store.
The platform is 4 feet long, Is inches
broad and 1ss inch thick. The COR
ners are sawed off, and the ends made
double thickness, to allow two tag
screws on each leg, and are thoroughly
braced The small brace on the I'M
der side is iron, with two screws at each
end A small iron hook is put on the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20

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AN EXCELLENT RAT TRAP.
Homemade Device Which Will Catch
the Most Wary and Cum
ming Rodent.

The only kind of trap proved to the
writer complete success is the dead
fall shown in the accompanying cut.
1t has been used in his family for near
ly half a century. catching, during that
time, an army of rats. Simple in con-
struction, it is, nevertheless, so swift
and deadly in it's action that any rodent,
having once sprung is never escapes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20

Nervousness is very common among
women. This condition is due to
anemic nerve centers. The nerve
centers are the reservoirs of nervous
vitality. These centers become blood
less for want of proper nutrition.
This is especially true in the spring
season. Every spring host of invalids
are produced as the direct result of weak
nerves.