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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09
"Decay of the PARENT a Subject of
Wonder and Woe to English
Periodical.

The decay of the parent is a fea-
ture of the times in this country. The
parents of former days possessed a
fund of experience which made them
respected by their children, and most
useful to them. In those times change
crawled in England; now it races.
The experience of the ordinary par
ent was obtained in circumstances
which have almost wholly been re-
placed by others that are altogether
different and seldom applies to the
new Our standards themselves have
undergone considerable alteration,
and many principles" are now &C
counted as prejudjces.
The children who have had mod
ern education, whose mind is in tune
with the modern style of thought, and
have been influenced by modern de-
velopments. see this. and that they can
teach their parents more than the lat
ter can them. The ordinary parents.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09
GREAT POWER IN THREADS
Simple Explanation of the Ability of
the Spider to Lift Heavy
Objects.

DR.. Phin describes, among other
strange things, how spider con-
trived to lift from the ground a snake
that was, of course, many times heavi-
er than itself. The story is of inter.
est chiefly for the scientific explana-
ton which is given of the way in
which the thing was done.
Some years ago in small village in
New York state a spider entangled a
milk snake in her threads and actually
raised it some distance from the
ground, in spite of the struggles of the
reptile, which was alive.
But what process of engineering did
the comparatively small and feeble in
sect succeed in lifting the snake by
mechanical means? The solution is
easy enough if one only gives the
question little thought.
The spider is furnished with one OF
the most efficient mechanical nipple
ments known to engineers, namely, a
strong elastic thread. There are few
substances that will support greater
strain than the silk of the spider. Care
| full experiment has shown that for
equal sizes the strength of these fibere
exceeds that of common iron; but not
withstanding it's strength the spiders
thread would be useless as a mechani-
cal power if it were not for it's elias
ITCHY.
The spider has no blocks or pulleys
and therefore cannot cause the thread
| to divide up and run in different di.
| rections, but the elasticity of the
thread more than makes up for this
and renders possible the lifting of an
animal much heavier than snake.
Let us suppose that child can lift
a six pound weight one foot high and
can do it 20 times minute. Furnish
him with $50 rubber bands, each cap
able of pulling six pounds through one
! foot when stretched. Let these bands
be attached to wooden platform on
which stand pair of horses weighing
| 2,1O0 pounds, or rather more than a
| ton.
If, now, the child will go to work and
stretch these rubber bands slngly,
hooking each one up as it is stretched,
in less than 20 minutes he will have
raised the pair of horses one foot.
The elasticity of the rubber bands
enables the child to divide the weight
of the horses into $50 pieces of six
pounds each, and at the rate of little
less than one every three seconds, he
lifts all these several pieces one foot
so that the child easily lifts this enor-
nous weight.
Each spiders thread acts like one OF
the elastic rubber bands. The spider
would have to connect the snake with
the point from which it was to be suS-
pended by a sufficient number OF
threads. BY pulling successfully on
each thread and shortening 1t little.
the snake might be raised to any
height within the capacity of the
building in which the work was done.
Youths Companion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09
SUGGESTIONS FOR NOVEL AND
PLEASING ENTERTAINMENT
Two Thoughtful Bon Voyage Gifts
A Most Delightful Musical
Game.
Two Bon Voyage Gifts.

q
For young boy who was going to
Europe for six months girl friend
made this charming gift whereby
many an hour was happily spent, and
it provided amusement not only for
him, but the grown-ups in the party
enjoyed it quite as much.
1t was a blank book, the first pages
containing 80 cleverly illustrated
book titles" The "key" to this was
given to the lads mother. Then
there were a number of pages ruled
off forming diary, covering the
months of the journey.
After this came snap shots of his
own house, the street on which he
lived and of the children who were
his playmates and friends, There
were valentines from these chums,
also Easter cards, April fool jokes
and fourth of July souvenirs. The
special pages were tied together
with mot to be opened till the date, !"
written on the page preceding, and
the boys birthday pages were con-
cealed in the same manner. The
other going away" gift was arranged
for a baby Of three years, who was
to make the long months voyage to
South America, and friend provided
a huge ball of worsted, with the in
structions to unwind one surprise
day. The ball contained all sorts
of little novelties, a top, dolls of va
fious kinds, a tiny bottle of per-
fumery, a gay handkerchief, knife,
pair of round-pointed scissors, small
boxes of odd shapes filed with bon
bons, toy animals, and coarse
needle, threaded, and a number OF
large-holed buttons.
The mother said the surprise BALI
was reserved until everything else
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09

ITO number the hairs of your head
is not a very difficult task" said the
ref1ner of the assay Office to friend
recently. "a very close approxima-
ton can be made by weighing the en-
tire amount of hair on mans head
and thnn weighing single hair. The
weight of the former divided by that
of the latter will, of course, give the
desired number. If you will pluck
out hair from your beard / can show
you" A long and struggling one was
accordingly detached, the refiner put
ling it on a scale which was inclosed
In a glass case and graduated with
extreme accuracy. With little weights
of aluminium he piled ap one arm I'M
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09
FINE SHOULDERS AND CHEST.

whole body, which becomes plant and
supple if the sport is followed with
any degree of regularity.
With little practice the left arm
may be used alternately with the right
for the pitching, so that both sides OF
the body may be developed evenly.
AS to discus throwing, the very fact
that it is revival of Grecian sport
is enough to commend it as productive
of grace, for the Grecian men and
women have furnished the ideal types
of grace for the whole world.
Like quot pitching, wrist, back and
shoulders are all strengthened by the
graceful swaying into which you I'm.
consciously fall in your endeavor to
get the quot nearest the peg.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09
Wall FROM LONDON TRUTH

therefore, are little else than inter
esting survivals of conditions which
have mostly ceased to exist. They
are opposed to motor cars; the chill
dren strive to reconcile them to
these. They abominate the telephone;
that they have to be accustomed to.
They detest the merely rich; the
prejudice has to be removed. They
suspect French dishes; they have ia
be taught that joints are barbaric.
Frivolity terrifies them; they have to
be led to see that it is to be pre-
ferred to solemnity. They dread
change; their fear must be dimi8-
ished. 1t is the children who are
guiding their parents; a situation
which has probably never occurred
before in the history of the human
race-IOndOn Truth.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09
PURELY FEMININE
BEAUTY AND EXERCISE

strengthened by this sport and the
hollows of the neck filled out by it.
Pitching quoits is even better than
bowling as an exercise, in that, while
the motions are nearly enough the
same to call out practically the same
muscles, it is an outdoor game. Be-
sides the direct benefit it has upon
the general health and upon the de-
velopment of neck and shoulders and
arms, and especially for a hollow
chest, there is indirect benefit gained
in added grace and buoyancy of the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09
THE AITCHES AGAIN,

'Once in Banbury," says a writer
in the Baltimore Sun. Il dined with
an English farmer. We had ham for
dinner-a most delicious ham, baked.
The farmers son soon finished his
portion and passed his plate again.
More am he said.
"The farmer frowned. Don't say
am, son; say am
I did say am the lad protested,
in an injured tone.
"'You said ami cried the father.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09

fiercely. AIMS what it should be.
Am, not am
In the midst of the controversy
the farmers wife turned to me with
little deprecatory smile.
They both think they're saying
ami she said.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09
Weighing a Hair.

til an equipoise was reached. The
hair weighed three kilogrammes. IF
you reduce this to figures" said the
speaker, sit would require 5000 hairs
to weigh one ounce, and suppose you
have six ounces, you have $4,000
hairs"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09
To Support the Affirmative.

Patience-How did Will come on.
in that love affair of his?
Patrice-Why, the girl said yes. but
the father said no.
what was the result?"
"Oh, / guess Will is going to sup
port the Affirmative, all righx"--
Yonkers Statesman.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09

HELD A FLAMING MATCH ABOVE 1T.
suddenly came into the gray orbs of
| the boss, and roughly he shouldered
his way to the back of the shack and
drew a small cylinder from his
pocket.
Dynamite cartridge with two-min-
ute TAIL" he said as he sat it upon the
wood box and held flaming match
above it. "You want to dance and fight
some more do you. Well, unless you
| hike out of here you'll all be doing
| quick-step tonight for the devil"
No man knew just how far White
Horse would go in the enforcement OF
an order, and now none waited to see.
Struggling, cursing, roaring they fought
| their way out of the door and went
swarming down the track, while the
boss, extinguishing the fuse, stepped
out on to the trampled snow and threw
his cartridge deep into the woods. Far
down the track the runaways were stag
gering into the distance, wrangling and
bowling insanely.
The afternoon sun sank until 1t
seemed to rest on the tops of the west
ern forest like broad gold piece poised
delicately. And the walking boss, aris-
ing from a log beside his cutter where
he had sat for an hour following the
rout, climbed up to the seat. Back along
the rough woods trail he went until the
cleaning ice road lay before him, then
turned upon it.
AS his half-galloping ponies swung
! around a bend Of the forest road, they
suddenly arose upon their hind legs
with wild pawings at the air. Less than
a dozen yards in front of them and ly-
ing fiat upon his back on the ice, was
the first of the fallen that White Horse
had feared would litter the homeward
route.
The legs Of the lumber-ja jack kicked
spasmodically and White Horse, Short
ening his reins, leaped to the ice. Cant
leave you here to freeze up solid," he
grunted as he dumped the limp form
headlong into the sleigh box behind.
''But I'll make you pay for this ride to-
morrow"
At the next turn of the road the
| first oath that had escaped his lips
that day burst from him explosively.
| Fairly in front of him, locked in each
others arms as they had gone to
sleep fighting, were Jimmp Hard Boots
and Ole Sawlog. Along the next hum
dred yards four more men were strewn
like skirmishers fallen in battle.
| One by one the walking boss labori-
ously raised them and piled them upon
each other in the box, wedging the last
man firmly between the dashboard and
| the seat.
The moon sailed high and the black
shadows of the forest lay heavily upon
the clearings. White Horse, hurrying
back from Camp 2 where he had been
summoned to quell an incipient riot,
drew deep breath as he threw open
the door of the cook shop.
They are sleeping all right now.
THEY'LL be in fair shape to break their
hacks again tomorrow, and most like
" they won't lick up another drop OF
firewater until after the drive in the
spring. Poor devilsi There isn't much
pleasure in this world for them-not
much-not much"
And this is how White Horse deliv-
cred an impossible contract for Findlay
Brothers on time to the dot, with scarce
an hour to spare between success and
a $4,000 loss.
Copyright. 1906. by Joseph B. Bowles)
Dear Girls.
Eva-You were playing whist with
4
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09
A Musical Game.

A Musical Game.
There seems to be no end to mu-
steal games. Here is a particularly
clever one, somewhat different from
the ones which have previously ap-
peared. On cards or slips of paper
write the following questions:
1. Where is the earth?
e. An old mans friend?
3. What do the weary need?
4. A useful article to cook?
5. Found plentifully in most rivers?
6. Part of fish?
z. An important part of letter?
s. What title is coveted by mill
tary men?
8. What do all public speakers do
some time? e
10. Not served in barrooms?
IL. The most popular music with
debutantes?
IL. What locks the stable when the
horse is gone?
Is. The one who guesses the most
answers?
ANSWERS.
1. In space.
2. Staff.
3. Rest.
4. Measure.
5. Bars.
6. Scale
z. Signature.
s. Major.
9. Repeat
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09
Ancestry Of Dion BoucicauI,.

Ancestry of Dion Bouclcadt.
The name of Boucicault is French
in origin. Dion Boucicault was the
son of a French refugee who fled to
Ireland and married an Irish girl. He
was named Dion after his fathers
friend, DR.. Dionysius Lardner, noted
British wviter on physical science.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09

The last of the Lincoln articles in
The Four-Track News appears in the
August number, under the head OF
Lincoln in Bronze;" an article well
worth everybody's reading and OF es-
pecial interest and value to young
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09
The FIabby Chin.

Bathing, massage, hot and cold wa
ter congresses, and oil of camphor
bath will reduce flesh under the chin.
You must be cautious and not dis
solve the fat too rapidly, or it win
leave the flesh loose and wrinkled.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09
IT'S MERIT is PROVED
RECORD OF A GREAT MEDICINE
A Prominent Cincinnati Woman Tells
How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Completely Cured Her.

The great good Lydia f. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound is doing among
the women of America is attracting
the attention of many of our leading
scientists, and thinking people gener-
ally.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09
To Clean Eyeglasses.

To Clean Eyeglasses.
Let eyeglasses lie in alcohol for a
few moments, then polish with
chamois. If the glasses are set into
gold frames, fine camel's-hair brush
will lift the dust from the edges and
make them look like new.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09

If rice is thrown at bridal couple,
it is better, for cautionary reasons,
that 1t should have been previously
boiled.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09
In Recreation Hours

failed, then it provided amusement:
and the last article was unwound as
the steamer went into the harbor of
Rio Janeiro, and life assumed a new
interest in that strange land.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09

PUTIN AM FADELESS DYES do MOI
stain the hands Aor spot the kettle, except
green and purple.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09

A thing ceases to be luxury after
we have money enough to afford it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TRUSTS
To Be Published Without Fear or Favor
THE FUNDAMENTAL FACTS REGARDING MEAT FRUIT, FLOUR,
RAILROADS AND INSURANCE COMPANIES.

City Newspapers and Magazines Controlled by Advertisers Fail to Inform
the Public What Should Solve Great
Questons-The Independent Country Press Take the Field
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09

Dear Girls.
Eva-You were playing whist with
Jack? Were you playing for money?
Edna-No, for kisses.
'Ah, how admire a cheerful loseri"
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-08-02
las RAS DEL
gIA lZ .EN PONCE
60 elias tOmara paltg el campe6n
'Pa1a Fina
Pareee aye Sc dlspHtsTan q primer premls Ne
Vada. AguIIa Blanca .'PelIa FIaa.


El dis " del eorriente, domingo, Sc ce-
lebTar6n en- Ponce las-segundas carreraa
de Ia tempoxada, tomando parte psra dis
eutir 81 primer premio, 81 celebrado cam-
pe6n s'Perla Fina
Aseg1rase que como en- las pasadas ca
rreras, Ia American Rail Road Co. Of
Porto Rico. hara rebaia de precios en- los
pasajes de ida yuelta.
Una banea alemana establecerase como
se hizo para las carreras del 25 del pasado
mes j. 4 Ponce iran otra vez los eampeones
eapitale1os que hasta ahora han estado
vencedcres.
sNevado' "Perlas Fina" y 'sAguila
Blanea" para el primer prenio, sera una
disputa muy interesante en- Is cual 81 ST.
que como hasta ahora sNevado" el cam
pe6n de San Juan, tiene muchas probable
lidades de exito
Sabemos que los poncenos est6n dis
pueetos como siempre recibir con gran
entusiasmo los transsuntea que les visi-
ten, los cuales como en- las caFreras del
dfa % saldran satiefechos de Ia verdadera
cordialidad amistad demostradas por to
das las clases sociales de Ponce.
El Nevada solo ha corrido dos veces
y ha ganado.
a Ia tercera va la vencida
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-08-02

MUEBLES PARA VENBER. -Todos en- buenas
condolences. Ea1nbien una GAIA de musica
marca Estela con 80 pleas agotadas
Pasese al numero S6 Fortaleza, altos.
15v.s
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-08-02
los DEMAS
GusysnliIa tIsns III buen sObrants.


De Guayanilla nos han remitido ell in
forme que da 81 Alcalde don Eustaquio
Torres Torres, eumpliendo Ia secci6n 20 de
la ley municipal.
Aquella municipalidad fue reconstruida
On 10. de Julio de 1905 Su estado eco
n6mico administrativo-m 81 como
sigue, segdn se hace constar en- el !. referido
informe.
Elective ingresado hasta 80 de
Junio 1906 81. 1. .... .3........$ 7,703. 40
Satisfecho hasta Ia fecha. 1851 09
Elective sobrante en eajj,a....,.s 2,142 81
De esta existencia solo $43 so CORES
'ponden & dep6sitos de fianzas S87.27 &
fondos de eaminos
El municipio tiene eubiertas todas las
ateuciones del a1o con un sobrante de
S2!313.47,
eBajas .por economics aparecen por
1915. 46.
La geati6n del aIcalde = conceiales del
munieapio de GuayanilIa ha sido una bus-
ma y laboriosa gesti6n.
+ t
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-08-02

{ ..The New York Timea JIIalio I5, 1906. )
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-08-02

Don Valeriano Virella Tribe, de
Arroyo, representante 4 la CdBnaTa, viait6
este maiiana I'll honorable gobarnador.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-08-02

~
10 restoa ae Emilio Zola descsn d
en- 81 pante6n. El hynor mas grande Que
u Legislatnra francesa puede hacer 4 la
nanoria de un trangf srto.
El Concejo Municipal de Paris ha re-
suelto que MA de las PARTICIPATES Gales de-
stI,a Villa de I.umieFe lleve su nombre
y Sc trsta de erigir monumentos Bu me-
moria On varias parties de Francis.
Todos eatos reeuerdos p6stumos sn
nonbra 10 e ca reconoGmiento de sus
servicios & la hteratura francesa aunque
sus .escritos han llevado 81 idioma frances
4 gran distancia 4 todos lados Escs
servicioa en- verdad no hubieTan sido sufi-
cientes en toda su vida para aspgurarle IN
puesto On Ia Academia Francesa sns de-
mandas de grandezas son todavfa discuti-
dag por soberbios crfticos franceses.
ri tftulo Eeconocido poI Ia Legislature
Francesa, aclamado casi nnanimemente por
Ia prensa sprobado de veTdadero coraz6n
en- tierras extranjeraa donde 81 buer NOM
bre De Ffancia es spreciado es mas fntinno
en este case, d. en cnalquier otTo q. degcanse
en- dones inteleetuales Basase Ell q Zola en-
IN momento crftico, con gTanva or = .riea.
go alz6se q pedir iusticia para el Captain
Drey yfus; ese tribute al veTdadero honor
del ejercito, obtenido ahora, tardfa par
eialmente
Apenaa lhace oeho amos Zola .volo para
Inglaterra escapar de Ia persecution que
seguian 4 sus peticiones
Ahora sus lTestos seran HeVados donde
yacen MiTabeau, Voltaire, Rousseau, Car
not y Hugo hajo Ia inscription de 'Aux
Grauds Homes la Patrie Reconnaissance /"
La repaFaci6n hecha Dreyfus es salts
factoria por que el vive y puede gozar de
ella, por que 10 restituye muy cerca & la
posici6n que hubiera alcanzado, le abTe un
camino Al cual esta q adaptadOy del cual
es ardiente devote en- especial porque,
aegdn su propia suggestion, es absolutamen-
teIibre delos elementos dafinos del dinero
En- verdad la nobleza. de acci6n del 90
bierno frances, que ed esencialmente Ia ac-
ci6n del pueblo frane6s.y 81 resEltado del
sentimiento pdblico leYantado eiIustrado,
eslo mas satisfactorio porla extremada Dig
nidad caballe con las cuales Ia Vie
TINA de ID iniusticia % ha condncido 81
mismo, desde 81 principle.
La injusticia no es menos faerta cuando
be practica en un hombre iDferioT, pero
hay un sentido de cnnvehiencia que nos
toca todoB cuando Ia Victima vindicada
.yiene & ser un hombre superior, quien en-
los iargos tortnrantass sailos6 base guarda-
do tan ibre de amarguras y veDganzas,
como de debilidades Esto agIega para
nuestra admiration, que q hombre cuyo
nombre se repone en- Ia hsta del ej6reito,
u Quien va q ser deaignado para la Cruz
de Ia Legion de Honor, rehus6 tan frme-
mente aceptar dinero en- recompensa, como
rehusa ahora peraeguir asus enemigos de-
tractores en- busca de reivindicaci6n.