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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-12
Athletic entertainment at the Nor


Athletic entertainment at the Nor
NAL tomorrow night.
Miss Frances Ruff of ST. Paul i.
visiting her friend, Miss Alice Muir
ply.
Eyes examined at Hotel Parker
April 18th and 18th by c. H. Todd
Optometrist.
+ Miss VERNE Enright of st. Pau,
is visiting at the home of her uncle
Martin Murphy.
Athletic entertainment at the
Normal tomorrow night at SOC
O'Clock. Admission 20 cents.
Mrs. Alfred Day returned to her
home at Hudson Monday after a
visit here with Mrs T. w. Nichols.
Athletic entertainment at the Nor.
NAL gymnasium tomorrow night at
800 o'clock. Admission 20 cents.
Odd Fellows are requested to
meet at the hall Sunday al 1000 a.
m. to attend Easter services at
Trinity Episcopal church.
Closing out sale at the Millinery
Emporium Friday and Saturday,
April Is and ID. Hats chiffons, rib
bons, braids, flowers, etc., sold at
cost.
The Misses Ellyn and Alma The
lander are home from their schools
for the spring vacation. The for
mer teaches in Minneapolis, the lat
ter at Phillips.
Ilwaco Spring water is as good as
any in Wisconsin, which is so fa-
nous for it's mineral waters, and
has been put on the market at the
low price of S cents per gallon. Why
pay $1.00 for that which is no bet
ter?
Mrs. o. w. Whip of Ono has
bought through Geo. Theo. Smith,
the Evenson house on East Spring
street. Mrs. Whip will move here
in order that her three daughters
may have the advantages of the
Normal school.
Miss Annie Michaelson of Hud-
son, a milliner of many years ex-
perience, will be at the Gladstone
next Monday, April 16, to take or
ders for trimming, remodeling and
everything in the millinery line.
Ladies, give her call.
Mrs. w. H. Patterson has been
confined to her bed from illness for
several days. Her husband was
called home from Ellsworth and her
daughter, Mrs. Isabelle Larkin,
came down from St. Luke's hospi-
tai, St. Paul, to attend her in her
sickness.
The Beaver Queens have social
Friday night, April 13. Supper at
$3.50 with maple syrup and hot bis
cults the main features. Supper 10
cents. Everybody invited. In the
hall there will be a booth for the
sale cf articles which the ladies
have on hand.
John Davenport, who moved from
here to Washington about three
years ago, died at San Francisco,
CAL, a week ago last Saturday of
hemorrhage of the throat. His
wife died thirteen months ago. He
leaves one son, Arthur, who lives
at San Francisco.
In the League Oratorical contest
to be held here the goth, one week
from tomorrow night, six schools
will be represented. 1t will be a
good entertainment. Each school
will present its best speakers. Let
US give the contestants full house
with the assurance of cordial well
come and adequate appreciation.
We should give the girls good
house in their dec1a1natory contest
at the M. E. church next Tuesday
evening. The girls contest last
spring was fine. 1t will be even
better this year as several of the
best of last years speakers are in
the contest this year with the ben
eft of experience and added train
ing.
WANTRD-A young girl to help do
homework, Apply to Mrs. E. A.
Daniels.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-12

Don't forget the closing out sale
at the Millinery Emporium Friday
and Saturday, April Is and IA.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-12

For SALE.-Team, aged 5 and 6;
weight, $500; sound and true. In
quire of J. M. Locke, r. F. D. No.
4, Ellsworth, Wis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-12

WANTRD-A young girl to help do
homework, Apply to Mrs. E. A.
Daniels.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-12

For SALE-One High Grade Piano.
Will take Good Driving Horse in
exchange. G. F. WINTER.
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Easter dance at Ellsworth April
Is. See advertisement in another
column.
MISS M. LOUISE FOSTER agent for
the Worlds Star Hosiery, wish
es to announce to her customers
that she will be in River Falls about
April Is for her spring orders, and
will solicit the patronage of her old
and new customers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-12

Eyes examined at Hotel Parker
April 18th and 18th by c. H. Todd,
Optometrist.
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more easy and rapid The means of
conveyance. For this the everlast-
ing hills are being tunnelled, costly
bridges are being erected, hills are
cut away and valleys filled to make
more easy and available the paths
of commerce.
We vote 200,o00,0O0 of dollars to
to dig ditch across the isthmus to
save freighters the difference in cost
between water and railway trans
portation but seem to forget that a
large part of the freight must be
drawn from the farms at cost of
ten cents per ton per mile and yet
we demand that the good road, the
railroad, shall transport the same
at one half cent per mile per ton,
and it can be done. That is the diff
ference between hauling on the iron
rail and over the poor roads of the
country is that the transportation
on the latter costs twenty times as
much as on the former largely be-
cause of poor roads.
But as it is the duty of the Jour
NAL only to chronicle the doings of
the club at this time we beg pardon
for the depression and only add,
that the club meeting was success,
the food good and the speeches we'll
adapted for the occasion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-12

GARDENS FLOWED and ashes and
removed.
M. D. SAVAGE, Phone q.
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Ice Co.
An additional rural mail route
has been established from this
place, route No. 6. 1t will run west
on the county line road to the lake,
making Ilwaco in the summer sea-
son but not in the winter. The dis
lance to be travelled in summer is
Is miles; in the winter, 20. 1t is
expected that service will commence
about the middle of this month.
The Omaha has two trains haul
ing gravel from the hill on the lake
side this side of Hudson to the big
fill this side of Ellsworth. Big en-
gines haul these trains. Last week
the engines took cars in a train
but this week they are hauling IL
cars of gravel to trip. An engine
is kept at Hudson to help the train
up the hill while another is kept
here to push up the grade at the
edge of the woods, SO that there are
four engines engaged in the work.
The cars are loaded with steam
shovel. Considerable dirt was put
into this fill near Ellsworth last
summer but as it was mostly clay il
sloughed off when it had got wet,
The gravel being hauled will make
permanent work.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-08-11
The Peril of Il.

A lady at whose house Leigh Hunt
was dining solicitously said to him at
dessert:
Don't you ever venture on an
Granger"
II should be delighted to do 80, my
dear madam" the poet replied, but
I'm so afraid I should tumble or"
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Interest the tourist to recall. when he
reaches the other side of the ocean, that
all OF them wear hats, and pretty ones,
except perhaps an occasional beggar,
or foreigner with a shawl upon her
head, who Is selling crocheted laces
from a basket. Another fact to be re-
membered Is that our American police
men walk one by one, while in Italy
they will be found always marching
about In twos. The skyscrapers are Of
course a distinctive feature There Is
not anything like them In Europe, one
group covering the most valuable ten
ace lot in the world.
The initial prospect Of the steamer
that Is to give the tourist his first run
from home Is not particularly atrac-
tive. The great ship does not look en-
ticing In the docks. The sailors make
great task Of cleaning 1t up after
coaling, and everything Is In confusion
over the handling Of freight and bag
gage. The place Is noisy, too. and the
staterooms are close and musty, redolent
of odors of the wharf. The best friend
to make at starting Is the deck steward,
who Is always pleased to advise the
inexperienced traveller where he will
most enjoy sitting on deck during the
voyage. This Is the more important,
because ones first choice Of a place
will hold throughout the trip at sea.
The great hour comes when the steam
er leaves Its wharf, and the tourist re-
alizes that he is Off for Europe. The
crowds on the docks below wave their
hats, handkerchiefs and parasols In
adieu, and the big ship moves slowly
away from American shores. In many
instances the tourist II fulfilling the
cherished dream of years, and, al
though 1t involves partlngs and heart
aches and personal separations, 1t
means strong and striking beginning
of entirely new things. But anxiety,
nervousness and impatience gradually
wear of. and all eyes turn from the
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out any Insurance because he hRgered
the company was a-chargin' him too
high rate. The third day he went
downtown an took out policy In an
other company an while he was down
town the barn ketched. fire an burned
down 10 the ground. He jest done 1t
In time. He took out the policy at
o'clock an the barn burned about a
quarter 10 3. He collected all right.
but he was mad because the barn
didn't burn week sooner SOS he could
have collected from the old company
sfore his policy expired.
Now I'm insured for a year. he
says, AN there amt one chance In ten
thousand that that cussed barn'll burn
In that time after l build 1t again
Folks used to say there ought to be
a Judgment on Jed, an sure enough 1t
comes at last 1t begun with the hog
cholera. Inside of a week he didn't
have a shote to his name. Then his
COWS got some sort O. epizootic that
cleaned out the best Fart o. them an
the branch flooded an drowned out his
chickens an the seventeen-year locusses
took the crops an he got into a lawsuit
over some fool thing or ernuther an
there was forty-two Of his peach trees
got the ycllers an he broke his leg.
That wasn't the half o what happened,
either. In two years he had the farm
mortgaged an was scribblin' to get a
bare Twin an the intrust out of 1t.
That's what cured Jed Quimby Of his
sinful kickin' an unthankfulness for
his mercies."
Cured him, did itT asked the store
keeper.
well, yes" replied Hancock. zone
day his boy Ellery found coal croppin'
out along the barren ridge by the
braseh an he went an got some fellers
to come an look at 1t an the upshot
was Jed sold eighty acres at $1,000 an
acre an 10 cents for every ton mined.
He didn't seem very enthusiastic
about it at FIRST, but Ellery KEEP a pes
term him after they closed the deal to
say he was satisfied, an then all of a
student he kind O. reeiized his luck an
loosened up for the fust time in his life.
WELL says Jed, stickin' out his
lips, I won't say as I'm satisfied-not
to say satisfied, Ellery, but then after
all it amt SO measly bad "-Chicago
Daily News.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-08-11
THE SONGS MY MOTHER SANG,

And dream? All, fair Queen of the sea,
Not all thy witchings can enthral
And fold the wings of memory!
thousand leagues one tone can call,
A thousand leagues one picture bring
In fadeless form and scene to me;
And through thy Angelus thrillful ring
Out Ger the Adriatic sea,
l hear through all its rhythmics rung
These dear old songs my mother sung!
y angelus-hour to heart and soul,
O angelus-hour Of peace and calm,
When DER the farm the evening stole,
Unfolding all in summer balm!
Without, the scents of felds-the musk
Ut hedge, of corn, of winnowed hay
The subtle affairs of the dusk;
And glowworms like some milky way
Within, as from an angels tongue,
Those dear old songs my mother sung,
From every stormy wind that blows;
Softly now the light of day;
Thou hidden source of calm repose":
Il love to steal awhile away;
My days are gliding swiftly by;
Depths of mercy can there be-:
Jesus look with plying eye;
Rock of ages cleft for me-;
Saviour, on me Thy grace bestow":
Praise God from whom all blessings
how!'
Edgar L. Wakeman.
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REFORMING OF RED QUIMBY.

1S ED kick If he was hung" said
loI The storekeeper, with bitter ioc.
ularlty.
Not If they tied his legs" grinned
Sol Baker.
He must ha' been hittin' the shafts. u
continued the storekeeper regarding the
broken buggy whip, mournfully. 81
don't know why changed it for him,
Because I'm too good-patured an easy
goin for my own good
THAT amt the reason" corrected
Washington Hancock. ITS because Won
KANT afford to lose his trade in the
rust place, an in the second you won't
lose nothin' by 1t. You'll make a roar
to the house that sold you them whips
an make 'em take 1t Off the bill. an
Then you'll sell it to somebody fer a
quarter, bein' the tips broke off. You
aint got no kick, Rufe."
Baker and Parsons staggered.
An yet continued Hancock, "there
amt no denyin' at the OIL mans sorter
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jagged skyline of New York and look
toward Europe.
The steamer passes beneath Bar.
tholdis statue of Liberty, the copper
bronze Of which shines brightly in the
sunlight, and then skirts Governors
Island, with Its old military museum.
This was put into practical use seven
years ago, when war stared us in the
face. Within ten days the tourist may
look upon the coast lines of our Span.
ish enemies Of that recent, though now
rarely thought Of hour. Tho enormous
steamship puts out to sea, proud
Titan Of the deep. 1t Is a fa' cry from
Robert Fulton's steamboat of 1907,
wherein he made a Hudson river trip
Of ITO miles In twenty -four hours, to
the amazement Of every one " no heard
of the exploit 1t Is reassuring to con-
slider that specialization Of ocean indus.
try has minimized the perlls Of sea
travel. especially with the improvement
Of submarine signals and perfection Of
wireless telegraphy. To-day 1t Is less
AoAuAuoub W S1OSb Tie AlluhtlC III AL
up-to date steamship than 1t Is to cross
the American continent by rail.
The usual seasickness, a sharp look.
out for icebergs, the routine Of the three
great events on shipboard, breakfast,
luncheon and dinner guessing on the
days run-all these lead up finally to
the first sight of new land off st. Mi
chaePs, of the Azores. Gray masses
Of rock seem to rise out of the sea-
but as the haze lifts the indefinite mass
resolves itself into outlines OF villages
fruitful lands, marked out by hedges,
windmills, solitary houses, gray cliffs
All about are little fishing boats man.
ned by Portuguese fishermen from the
Islands. Puenta Delgada Is the most
noticeable Of the towns. being Spanish
In appearance, and Its old houses OF
stone and colored plaster have taken on
exQuisitely mellowed tints.
The next land Is Cadiz. "the white
city of SPAIN" which rises out Of the
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MINUTE MEASUREMENTS.


Apparatus that Measures One-Sev-
enty-Millionth of an Inch.
DIR. p. Il. Shaw, Of the University
College. Nottingham. England, after
five years labor, has completed an ap-
paratus making 1t possible to measure
one-seventy millionth part Of an inch,
says the New York Post Consul Ma
hin writes that the invention consists
Of very fine micrometer screw and
a series of six levers acting In con-
junction with 1t which must be sus-
pended by rubber bands from a spe-
cially made frame and inclosed In a
box. The frame Is placed In a vault
under the university and surrounded
with every safeguard against friction
and vibration, but even then" says
DIR. Shaw, ut Is impossible to carry
out experiments to be successful while
there is traffic in the streets. Every
factory, too, where motive power is en-
ployed must be closed, even II 1t is
some distance away" Even a draft In
said to be fatal to the successful meas
uEcLucut VI SuCh as
one-seventy -millionth part Of an inch.
Dust must also be kept from the vault,
and 1t is said that even the buzzing
Of an ordinary fly has made II neces-
sary to suspend experiments till the
insect had been disposed Of.
The apparatus. 1t Is claimed. could
DO made specially serviceable in meas
rring engineering gauges. It Is broad
ly asserted that all scientists recognize
that DIR. Shaw has succeeded in sur
Passing every other form of measure
ment on gauges in delicacy and accur-
acy. There are said to be many other
uses for 1t; for instance, that 1t will
act az a most delicate coherer for wire
less telegraphy and will promote the
study Of nature and possibly of the
movements Of the molecules Of mat
ter.
DR.. Shaw IL still improving his ap-
paratus in the hope Of measuring guam
titles still more minute. The general
principle of the method Ii electric
touch. This explanation Is given: IF
two surfaces. clean and polished. come
In contact the current can at once be
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made to pass through them and excite
a telephone or other sensitive recorder
Previously, 1t has been impossible to
measure the sparkling gap of an cleo.
trio current Of less than thirty-cight
volts, but with DR.. Shaw's appara tus
a sparkling gap Of half a volt can be
measured. If physicists desire to un.
derssand and explain natures happen.
'ngs 1t Is imperative that there should
be exact measurements of very small
lengths. and Of extremely minute ar.
ticles. Seeing that nature deals In
such small quantities 1t Is useless to
attempt to unrayel her secrets with.
out the finest instruments"
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sea like an edifice Of dreamland. Al
first 1t Is like low-lying cloud, grad.
ually pierced by towers and domes, and
then the entire beautiful prospect. Not
far from this city Is Palos, whence Co.
lumbus sailed for the unknown west,
and Huelva. where the great statue to
the discoverer of America stands. Be-
hind them, futher inland, are the snow.
topped Sierras.
The tourist looks back towards his
native land with the feeling that 1t ID
very far away, indeed. He has crossed
the broad Atlantic, and just ahead are
the straits of Gibraltar and the Medi.
terranean, giving a nearer glimpse Of
the actual castles in Spain.
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t9a6{S@aaiS'z$&Sts'qfpe

A person starting from New York
City on a tour Of Europe has much to
anticipate and considerable to regret.
1t Is in the great eastern metropolis
that true American life In Its fullness is
attractively and strikingly depicted.
The buildings, the environment, are not
particularly picturesque, but the rush
Of business, the crowds of people sug-
gest a restless perpetual activity that
will not be met with anywhere In the
old countries. The people are WELL
dressed and ood-looking, and 1t will
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hard to please. He allus was more or
less that away. But he amt as bad as
Jed Qulmby afore he reformed. Jed
would lick whether his legs was tied or
not An he had more luck than any
man In the cOunty-good farm, brick
house, money in the bank an a right
nice family. That was over in Saline
afore NY folks moved here.
Hes got a pension o. $16 a month
from the government on account O. git
tin shot III the arm by pistol he wus
cleanin' The same week he was mus
tered In. That let him right out agin
an he didn't have to hire no substitute
but he couldn't never hit the backs of
his hands together behind him, after
that wound, an he ulster cry when
ever he thought Of It,"
Fifteen dollars a month was pretty
good, though commented the store
keeper.
Jed didn't think So said Hancock.
HE ulster cay, Look at Gin'ral Grant
an what they give him. He ulster wor-
~ about Grant every time he drawed
that $15. ] worked for him a week
oncet an blame II he was satisfied with
me-"
"Shoo!" calculated Parsons. You're
a-foolln'."
HE WAS a master hand to eat" said
> Hancock, "only there wasn't nothin'
that ever jest suited him. I've seen
him set down to fried chicken an mash
ed 'taters mn tixin's an lemon pie. an
then make q row because there wasn't
no salt pork on the table. For some
reason lie allus got the biggest crops
of anybody around him, but II II was
corn he'd pity himself because It wasn't
wheat he'd raised an then II 1t was an
extry good year the prices wouldn't be
as big as II II had been bad year an
he'd say that was Jest like his ornery
luck.
Il remember one year It was dry an
everything was Albumin up. They'd
been a-puttin' up p'titions for rain for
three Sundays hand runnin'. Jed had
In mighty nigh 200 acres o. corn, b'sides
all the garden truck. Well, Just when
1t looked like there's be teetotal fail.
ure, there come rama soker. 1t
opened mp good an strong an. kep'
rainin'. Now an then II 'ud quit long
enough to let the sun come out an warm
things up an after that II 'ud start I'm
ag'in. You could see the corn grow
and everything else shot right up. 1
seen Jed day or two after an he was
goin' around with his face drawed down
like he'd bit inter a green persimmon.
"That was a right good RAIN, I
says.
"'Plague take the rain.' says Jed. Il
didn't know 1t was a.comin' an left
the buggy cushions out leanin' against
the barn an the dad burned things
amt dry yit--sp'iled 'em, I wouldn't
wonder
another time the insurance run out
on his barn an he was two days with
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TACTICS OF ZULUs IN WAR,

Their Crescent Formation Adopted
by British Against the Beers.
Once more the ruling of some Of the
Natal natives has turned mems
thoughts to the famouse Zulu tactics. In
the minds Of most these are associated
with the name OF Ayaka, the ruthless
Zulu conQueror, who welded into the
stock of the Amazulu, the people OF
the heavens, all the young men of the
various tribes he conquered, incorporat.
Ing them into regiments and thus build
Ing up a powerful military nation. Yet
1t was TO Dingisiwayo the Wanderer
that the inception was due. This man.
the son of the chief OF the Umtetwa,
was driven into exile IN consequence
Of an abortive plot to SEIZE the reins
Of power.
During that evile he lived In Cape
Colony and saw the military methods
OF the British. With instructive genius
he saw how the idea could be adapted
to his own nation and on his return
and accession to the chieftainship he
divided his people into regiments, dis
tinguishing them by names and by a
special color OF shield for each regi-
ment, though for time they retained
the umkonto or throwing assegai as
their chief weapon. He heard the great
use made by the British infantry Of
their favonte weapon, the bay onet, and
80 he replaced the umkonto by the lxwa,
or broad-bladed stabbing assegai.
The popularity Of the Zulu tachcs
has earned It the name Of tho crescent
formation for attack and 1t is notewor-
thy that, broadly speaking, II was the
method employed by the Beers in their
invasion of Natal and adopted by Lord
Roberts In his advance through Orange
River Colony, and it was the fear of It's
success which kept the Beers continu.
ally on the run. The best thing with
which to compare 1t Is the head OF the
stag headed beetle. Horns are thrown
out widely on either flank. while the
main body forms the head itsel II. From
the main body small force In detach-
ed to engage the enemy while the horns
creep around the tanks.
This force in the days Of Tyaka was
frequently dispatched with the COM
mand, "Go. sons of Zulu. 60 and re-
turn no more" and death at the hands
Of their fellows was the fate OF those
who returned. While this force was
holding the enemy the horns carried
out their task II possible and as soon
as the two horns had met In the rear
Of the enemy the head or chest was
launched upon the position and in the
upshot, as a rule, the whole force of the
foe tasted the assegai. For In that
war no quarter was given o. asked
South African Sun.