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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04

But be that as it may, the conditions
along the strip are surprisingly free
from disorder and crime. A newspaper
correspondent. who made the trip
among the labor camps at night re-
Gently, reported that notw outstanding
the fact that it had been pay day at
many points there was almost an entire
At Corozal there were a few lights in
the big hotel where the white employees
live, and fewer among the laborers
quarters near by. There was no noise
and apparently everybody was asleep.
At Mirafiores there was not a light,
and at Pedro Miguel and Paraiso,
where there are hundreds of men, only
a sound now and then from an accordi-
on or note of negro song could be
heard. At Culebra, populOus camp,
most of the quarters were as still as
death, and it was only nine o'clock. At
Empire, one of the largest camps on
the line, a few laborers were taking
a parting drink at the canteen, which
the proprietor seemed anxious to close
up. They were well-behaved, though
somewhat noisy. At Bas Obispo, Mata-
chin, Gorgona, Barbacoas and other
camps of unsavory memory from the
French days there were now and then
life and music and laughter, but no
disorder or unseemly scenes.
Such a condition of affairs reflects
much credit upon the chief of the zone
police force, Capt. George r. Stanton,
whose qualifications and training seem
to have peculiarly fitted him for the
task required Of him. He was formerly
rough rider, having been captain of
Troop c, Torrey's rough riders, and
having been reared in Wyoming, he
has had touch of ranch life and pos
sesses all the skill of the cowboy with
gun and lasso and can ride anything.
He used to be with Buffalo Bills Wild
West show, and was known as the
liking of the cowboys" His giant sta
ture-over six feet of sturdy American
manhood-together with his known
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red lemonade which the butcher
smashed him with, and the colonel
cried because the lemonade was all
water. and he was afraid it would
soak into him and cause him to warp.
When the lemonade butcher apollo
gized. and the usher told him it was all
a mistake his being seated with the
niggers, the colonel wept on their
necks and invited the whole crowd to
go to his distillery and help them
selves.
When we got to the next town every
man in the show dad a crouch and a
Katzenjammer, and their hair was so
sore it was murder and suicide COM
bined to comb it.
The way pa escaped injury was
cause he had to take the place of the
fat woman on the platform with the
freaks, as the fat woman was over
come with the heat and had to stay in
the car.
The way they fixed pa up to resem-
BILE the fat woman was scandalous.
They have some rubber things in the
wardrobe tent that you can blow up
and make big arm, and big leg,
and big stummick, so anybody
couldn't tell the difference, and they
fixed pa up with bowed up clothes of
flesh colored rubber, and but for his
chin whiskers you couldn't tell him
from the fat woman. He said he
wouldn't cut of his whiskers for any
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It as long as he could, when he took
the colonel by the collar and sat him
down so quick he didn't come to for
couple of minutes, and when the
colonel got his senses, and found that
the usher had ushered him into seat
between two gaily decorated colored
women the trouble began. The colonel
never forgot that he was a gentleman,
for he rose up, took off his hat to the
colored women, and said: "You must
excuse me- ladies, but / shall have to
go and kill the sconndrel who sat me
down with niggers," and he got down
off the seats and struck the usher with
his cane, and the usher yelled: "Hey,
Rube!" and all the circus people made
a rush for the colonel. The colonel
said, MEN of Kentucky to the rescue"
and before l could crawl under the
seats the air was full of baggage,
seats, tent pins and white hats, guns
were fired, and blood flowed, and the
police pulled everybody, and the eve
ming performance was given up.
One of the proprietors of the show
got wen on his head as big as foot
ball from being struck by handle of
revolver, and the colonel VINO started
the row was knocked silly by tray OF
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04
Some. of Misaouri,s Boasts.

Missouri has % state institutions; It
never had general crop failure; it is
the leading clover state of the union;
it has more stock farms than any other
state; it has the largest acreage of blue
grass of any state; it has the largest
permanent school fund in the United
States; it raises one-tenth of all the
corn raised in the world; it<produces 80
per cent of the zinc mined in the world:
it has one-third more apple trees than
any other state; its farm land has ad-
vanced 40 per cent. in the last four
years; it has the largest yield of cotton
per acre of any state in the union; it has
the lowest rate of taxation OF any state.
Kansas City Journal.
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The problems which have arisen in
connection with the building of the
Panama canal are many, and all do
not relate directly to the kind of a
canal to be built or how it is to be
built In other words, there are 9th
ers besides the members of the canal
commission who have knotty tangles
to unravel. Just now it is Gov. Ma
COON, who presides over the ten mile
strip along the canal route, and which
is American territory according to the
treaty made with the republic of Pa
mama, who is having troubles, and
when one considers the varied charac-
ter of the people who go to make UP
the population of the district it is not
to be wondered at.
The building of the canal has drawn
to the isthmus hundreds of the most
desperate characters from the turbu-
lent countries lying about 1t is esti-
mated that there are now $4,000 labor
ers from all the fighting republics OF
South and Central America, and every
island in the West Indies, together with
Italy, France, Germany and even Rus.
STA and far-off China and Japan have
contributed their quota. And when
the actual digging is begun there will
be $4,000 laborers of all nations work.
ing and living in close contact in the
narrow strip, 10 by AZ miles in ex-
tent.
With the peculiar racial habits and
tendencies to be found among these
people it is not at all strange that
questions should arise which require
more than ordinary discretion and
Judgment in deciding. 1t must be ad-
mitted that the Same standard of eth.
les which would be used in determin.
ing matters of conduct in the United
States cannot be applied with inf1exi
BILE rigor in such a district as the canal
zone, and just now Gov. Magoon is
face to face with condition which
makes him realize that this is true.
Some few weeks ago when the news
papers throughout the United States
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| skill at "gun play" and "broncho bust
ing'' command profound respect.
His force of men numbers at pres,
ent 1876, but with the increase of labor
ers he is going to ask for $50, he says
| These 1875 men are principally negroes
and, according to the judgment OF
Capt Stanton, they make better po-
licemen than the whites, that is, for
duty in the canal zone. On this point
he says:
''The necessity of black policemen
was clear at the start Their fitness has
been proved am proud of their de-
pertinent. Only Jamaicans and Barba-
dams are employed. The zone is heav-
lily populated with Jamaicans. Barba,
dams, Martiniques, Fortune Islanders
and black Colombians. Our black po-
liceman has had from three to ten
years experience among these people.
The English laws, especially those of
the constabulary. are about the same
as those that regulate the zone. Our
black officer has them by heart. He
can read, write and speak English and
Spanish, and many of them understand
French. They know when and how to
make an arrest and, what is by far
more important, when not to make
one. That is my test of a good man.
You can lead these negro laborers,
quiet and orderly as they seem, into a
riot in quick time. We regulate them
not by force, but persuasion, firmness
and square DEAL They naturally
turn to one of their own color for adj
vice, and they get placed in proper
channels. If they won't go they catch
it and are made lasting examples. You
won't find a finer looking body of men
anywhere than Uncle Sans Jamaican
constabulary."
In speaking of the freedom from
crime which marks the district, he de-
clared that he believed that life and
property are safer on the zone than in
New York city. We have never had a
ho1d-up, and only two murders in 1S
months. One was of black / found in
the bush, and the other was of the
keeper of the canteen at Culebra, who
was robbed. I shall get the slayer of
the last man. If I Lad dogs / would
have him now. I have sent for six
dogs, and they will be of future SER
vice, for we shall have more crimes of
this nature. There are no gambling on
the zone and no opium joints. You can
stake your life there won't be- The
crimes we have had are petty, stupid
forgeries of pay checks, sneak thiev-
ing and drunken assaults. We are
watching the known bad characters.
There are professional crooks among
them, but active police strung along
the line, well guarded ports and the
great, black, impenetrsble forests On
both sides keep them quiet"
The thing which Capt. Stanton fears
most is that gambling may get start,
but with characteristic grimness that
means something he said: But IL it
does, will have a hand in it, and
don't think il will run long"
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tured his tire to his dying day, but h

tured his tire to his dying day, but he
didn't know it was me.
Gee, it looks to me as though pa has
been engaged to act as the easy mark
in this show. Say, they got pa to
practice on roaring like a lion, so he
could stand behind the cage when the
lion has a sore throat and roar, and
scare folks. and pa has been going
around behind ths cages, every eve
ming, when the menagerie is closed,
and the crowd in The main tent, max
ing noises that have made the animals
look at each other rs much as to say,
"Well, what do you think of that?'
The rhinoceros was so disguised at
Paducah that he reached out his nose
and took pa on his horn and held him
up to the scorn of the other animals
until pas pants gave way and he was
a sight, and he was so scared that he
got out of the tent and made run for
our train, chased by the police, who
thought he was q burglar that had
been eat by a house dog.
The worst thing we have had on pa
was at Louisville, where we stayed
over Sunday. Another fellow and I
got system on slot machines, and one
day we beat the machines out of a
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04
ZONE POLICE ST ALTON AT EMPIRE.

published the report that shipload OF
women had been carried to the 18TH
mus for immoral purposes it created
something of a sensation, and steps
were at once taken to ascertain the
truth concerning the matter. Upon
investigation it has been found that
the circumstances are about as fol
lows:
A shipload of women were brought
from the island of Martinique and
turned over to the laborers who had
come from that island and the island
of Jamaica, and made by the latter
their common law wives, in some cases
it being even claimed that they were
the women with whom they had been
living before in Martinique. The bring
ing of the women 10 the canal zone
was the work of those who have charge
of the hiring of the iaborers, and was
done with the purpose of making the
latter content to stay and work on the
canal. In fact, it was stated that if
the laborers could not live upon the
isthmus under the same conditions
which surrounded them in Jamaica
and Martinique they would not re-
main.
1t ic contended on the part of those
responsible for bringing the women to
the isthmus that there is no question
of immortality involved, for the woman
with whom man is living is regard
ed as his wife without any marriage
ceremony. In fact these laborers de-
clare for two reasons they object to
ceremonial marriage. One is that it
costs too much, because of the fee and
the better furniture and clothes the
woman would insist on having, which
would average about $65. The other
reason is that a woman who makes a
good common law wife thinks she
owns a man after ceremony, and no
matter what she does he cannot get
rid Of her. To keep the upper hand
the man prefers to be able to put the
woman out of the house if she does
not behave.
AS soon as information as to the
state of affairs reached the ears of
Gov. Magoon Immediately began in
vestigation, and issued orders to the
zone Police to make a canvass and re-
port the number of unmarried couples
living as man and wife and to urge
such to get married as soon as posi-
BILE. Orders were at the same time sent
to the board of municipal judges, most
of which are composed of native Pan
ama1ians, to cooperate with the po-
lice to the same end. 1t was then that
a peculiar and rather amusing compli-
cation to the problem was discovered.
The secretary of the board replied that
it would do its best, but there was not
much hope of success for every mem
Der of the card had wife but was
never married ceremonially and didn't
want to be.
But the American judges on the 18TH
mus say it is impossible to recognize
such a social condition as legal in the
naturally resultant cases that are null
tiplying in their courts, and that seri-
GUS trouble is bound to come, for all
the women brought over thus far are
not behaving well, and good llany OF
the men are showing indecision in
making a fnaI choice Of q common
law spouse
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shotbag full of nickels, and when we
showed up at the tent all the fellows
wanted to know how we did it, and pa
said it was gambling, and we ought not
to do it, but he also wanted to know
how we managed to win, and when we
told about it pa said it was no sin to
beat a slot machine, cause it was an
inanimate thing, just a machine, and
anybody who could beat nickel in the
slot machine at his own game was
equal to a Rockefeller.
So after everybody had got excited
about our nickels told them how to
beat the machine | told them l didn't
get excited and go rushing in where
angels fear to tread. and feed the
slot machine on good hard earned
nickels Of my own. but waited until the
countrymen and tenderfeet had fed it
on nickels until it was too full for ut
terance When the machine swelled
out like it was blowed up, and it kind
of wheezed, like it was ready to cough
up, and was only waiting for an ex-
cuse, I put a cough lozenger about the
size of nickel in the slot and turned
the diaphram. The machine shud-
dered minute and then had a regular
hemorrague, and coughed up tin cup
full of nickels into my hand. and the
machine seemed to rest easy, and take
nourishment again from the silly fell
lows, who thought they could beat it.
Well, sir, the whole crowd was SO ex-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04
Largest Ocean Steamer.

Consul General Guenther. of Frank
fort, says the worlds largest steam
ship is the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria
ga feet long, $4,000 tons, which was
launched August "a, at the Vulcan
yards. Stettin. He writes that the
new boat will have a net tonnage OF
$1,000. The engines indicate 1920
horsepower; the speed will be IL knots
an hour, so that the trip from Europe
to New York will be made in seven
and one-half days. In addition to the
regular dining-room, the ship will be
supplied with a restaurant a la carte
and with electric elevators and an
electrically lighted bathroom.
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body's circus, so they fixed veil to
cover part of his face and put the fat
woman's dress on pa, and put him up
beside the skeleton, the midget and
the giant.
Pa said he didn't want to do it..
cause it seemed too much like fraud,
but they told him the fate of the show
depended on our all being willing to
take any part assigned to us, and 80
pa sat down and began to fan himself,
and tried to look hirty like a. woman.
The other freaks never noticed but
what it was the fat woman until the
show was half over. 1t was too much
for me. and / just LATED at pa. | got
I'D behind him and told him in whis-
per that | wanted dollar to play the
slot machine, and he told me to go to
thunder, and get out OF there.
couldn't stand it to be insu1ted by my
own father so | TOOK hat pin out OF
the hat of the bearded lady and
punched it into pas blowed up rubber
shirt, and pa began to sis, like soda
fountain. and the wind struck the liv-
lUS Sh6lGIOn anu OlCh hAA OFOA INV q
cyclone, and by that time pa was
blowing off wind in a dozen places that
| had punctured, and he was scared for
fear there wouldn't be anything left of
him, and the giant saw the fat woman
slowly fading away, and the coward
had heart failure and lay down on the
platform. Somebody shouted that the
fat woman was all melting away, and
a fellow who was watering camel out
of a bucket came 20 the rescue and
threw the bucket of dirty water all
over pa, and then thought better go
away in tother tent and see the fight,
but pa was taken to the dressing room
and rescued from the shrinking rub
Der balloons that were busted, and he
said he would hunt The man that pune
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BOYS TERRIBLE ECZEMA.
BANDS Pinned Down-Mirac-
ulous Cure by Cuticura.

"When my little boy was six months
old, he had eczema. The sores extended
so quickly over the whole body that we at
once called in the doctor We then went
to another doctor, but he could not help
him, and in our despair we went to a
third one. Matters became so bad that
he had regular holes in his cheeks, large
enough to put finger into. The food
had to be given with a S, Don, for his
mouth was covered with crusts as thick
as a finger, and whenever he opened the
mouth they began to bleed and suppurate,
as did also his eyes. Hands, arms, chest,
covered over and over. We had no rest
by day or night. Whenever he was laid
in his bed, we had to pin his hands down;
otherwise he would scratch his face, and
make an open sore. | think his face must
have itched most fearfully.
"We finally thought nothing could help,
and l had made up my mind to send my
wife with the child to Europe, hoping that
the sea air might cure him, otherwise he
was to be put under good medical care
there. But, Lord be blessed, matters came
differently, and we soon saw a miracle. A
friend of ours spoke about Cuticura. We
made trial with Cuticura Soap, Oint-
ment, and Resolvent, and within ten days
or two weeks we noticed a decided i'm
provement. just as quickly as the sick
appear, and within ten weeks the child
was absolutely well, and his skin was
smooth and white as never before. 4.
Hohrath, President of the G. L. Hohrath
Company Manufacturers of Silk Ribbons,
4 to 20 Rink Alley, South Bethlehem, Pa.
June 5, 1867
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since. used to have such pain in my
back that once l tainted. The kidney
secretions were much disordered, and ]
was so far gone that l was thought to
be at death door. Since Doan's Kid
ney Pills cured me | feel as if had
been pulled back from the tomb"
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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The Fatal Question.

do you think the baby looks like
me?" said the fond mother.
"Oh. no" replied the old friend
thoughslessly as he leaned over the
cab, II can't say as I do What a
bright little face he has, hasn't her"
Detroit Free Press.
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Chilly Return.

'I love you devotedly, lmadly!" lyrically
declared the ardent swain ITO be your
companion through life, darling, | would
tions, ambition, honor, fortune"
Didn't know you had all those nice
ing"-Sporting Times.
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a TT e + da Y - don t
worry. Doan's Kid
neg Pills have cured
thousands of women
in the same condition.
Mrs. A. lehman of
Saltwater, M in n. ,
SAYS: " But for Doan's
Kidney Pills | would
not be living now.
They cured me in 1899
and I've been well
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Averted.

Miss Sharpe (gusningly)-Oh Mr..
Cynlc, do you believe people ever fall
in love at first sight?
Mr.. Cyn1c-Oh, yes, and tau out
again at second.-CasselPs
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Possible EXPLANATION.

Little Willie--Say, pa, why do the mem-
bers of trolley party loot horns?
Pa-They probably inherited the habit
from their iish-peddling ancestors, my son.
Chicago Daily News.
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''Don't be mischief maker said Uncle
Eben. DE mos good you kin do in dis
world ain much, but de mos harm you
kin DO is a heap. Washington Star.
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I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption
saved my life three years ago.-Mrs. Thos.
Robbins, Norwich. N. ". Feb. II, 1900.
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This has been an eventful week with
the show. We have had heat prostra-
tions in Kentucky, nearly the whole
show got drunk on l6-year-old whisky,
and if it hadn't been for the animals
keeping sober this show would have
been pulled for disorderly conduct.
Nobody knows how the row started,
but pa says every man in Kentucky
carries a blue gun and bottle of red
ticker, and they wear white hats, so
the red, white and blue business is all
right, only it is a combination that is
death on circus. / think one of the
ushers, at the afternoon performance,
told an old colonel that he must move
along quicker, when the colonel began
to talk back, and gay, who is you
talkin' too, gah?" And the usher stood
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DON'T DESPAIR.
Read the Experience of a Minnesota
Woman and Take Heart.

If your back aches, and you feel
sick, languid, weak and miserable day
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Virtue and honesty are twins. Each is
Its own reward
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Copyright by ]. B. Bowles.J

Pa Takes the Place of the Fat Woman
with Disastrous Results-A Ken
lucky Colonel Causes Row-Pa
Tries to Roar Like Lion and the
Rhinoceros objects-Pa Plays the
Slot-Machine and Gets the Worst
of It.