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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-28
NOTES ON COTTON GROWING.

About 10000 bales of cotton is this
years crop of the Laguna section OF
Mexico. The Mexican mills will also
require an additional $4,000 bales
from the United States during 1906.
The British charge in Guatemala
has forwarded to London sample OF
weevil-resisting cotton grown in the
Retalhulen district of western Guate-
mala. 1t is called "Pachon," is a
short-season cotton, productive and
with a fiber of good length and tex
ture.
The Turkish minister of agriculture
is about to buy 1900 pounds OF Amer
lean and Egyptian cotton seed for the
improvement of the quality of cotton
raised in Turkey. The seed will be
distributed in the provinces of Adana,
Adm and Salonika, according to the
Levant Herald.
The exports of raw cotton from
southern Nigeria in 1905 declined to
96.3O6 pounds, having been 2S5,639
pounds in 1904. This falling off is ex-
pected to adjust itself during the pres
ent year, when the new plantations
will commence to yield, states the
Government Gazette of the Nigeria
protectorate. 1t has also been re-
ported that there was some cotton
to be shipped from northern Nigeria
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-28
HORTICULTURE
PLANTING A FRUIT TREE.
The Method Has Much to Do with It's
Subsequent Development
and Growth.

Multitudes of fruit trees are annu-
ally lost by being incorrectly planted.
The careless man loses more trees
than any other man simply because he
tries to save trouble in the work or
planting. He. saves work in preparing
the ground for the tree. The worst
method is quite commonly followed,
which is to merely dig big hole in
soil that has been for a long time un-
disturbed. The soil in the hole is
loose. and soil around the sides and
on the bottom is hard packed. Often
this hard packing is made worse by
the men getting into the hole and
tramping it while shoveling out the
dirt. This virtually "puddles" the bot
tom if the soil be moist, and this rem
ders it almost impervious to water.
Stock ponds are made water tight In
that way.
When the tree is set in the hole and
the dirt filled in, the conditions are
ripe for the killing of the tree at the
first heavy rain. The hole becomes a
sort of sink in which the water re-
mains. Air cannot get to the roots of
the tree and hence no food can be Ia
ken into the system of the tree.
When the warm days come, the tree
sends out its leaves, which are devel-
oped from the latent plant food stored
up in the tree from the previous year.
But no new food gets in, as the roots
are immersed in water. After a little
time the leaves on the tree begin to
wither, and the owner wonders what
is affecting the tree. In another
month the tree is dead.
The right way to plant tree, says
Farmers Review, is to prepare all the
ground by stirring it up thoroughly
and providing some way to let off the
water. Frequently the slope of the
ground will do this, if the trees are
not placed in mere holes With the
ground we'll stirred up the water that
falls will not collect around the, trunks
Of the newly set trees, and the soil
will not be for any long time saturated
with water.
Trees should not be set too deep.
Some seem to think that the deeper a
tree is set the better, but most trees
send out their roots near the surface
of the ground. It is allowable to set
a tree one or two inches deeper than
it was in the nursery row, as the
ground is sure to settle some around
it. If a tree is properly set and If it
is in good condition at time of setting
there is no reason why it should not
live.
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BEYOND OUR BORDERS.

An official estimate places the acre
age of timber in British Columbia at
present at 1872, 100000 acres.
The number of quart bottles OF
champagne in the French caves last
year was 100,968,363.
The sugarcane estates of the West
Indies have been made vastly more
profitable by the introduction of steam
plows and other labor-saving devices.
A London dentist has made a pro-
posal OF marriage in one of the most
novel ways which have yet come to
light. He fell in love with an elderly
patient who ordered set of false
teeth from him. When the teeth were
delivered the woman found neat pro-
posal engraved on the plate which held
the teeth.
The British Zeitung am Mittag says
that a Russian some time ago gave
ring worth $3.50 to newspaper seller
in the Friedrichstrass for three copies
Of the Zeitung am Mittag. The period
fixed by law during which the Russian
could have regained possession OF the
ring recently expired, and the police
have informed the newspaper seller
that the ring is his lawful property.
1t is estimated that from 100000 to
SOC, COG natives have died in Africa OF
sleeping sickness in the last ten years.
The disease is, moreover, spreading
with alarming rapfdity, yet nothing Is
done to check it. The weight OF opln-
ion is that no person once infected ever
RECEIVERS. Despite its name, sleep 10
not an important symptom, as 1T oc-
ours only towards the end of the dis
ease in small number of cases.
A curious case of museum robbery
Is engaging attention at Weimar. An
agent offered some time ago to the
Goethe-S Schiller museum a series OF
Goethe manuscripts, which on exam
nation proved to have been stolen
from the museum itself The agent ex-
planned that he had received them IN
good faith from a well-known anti
uuarian in Berlin A search of the an
tiouarian's house brought to light
many other documents belonging to
the Weimar museum.
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FOREIGN FINANCE.

Great Britains public revenue in
April the first month of the fiscal
year, amounted to a418,895, and ex-
penditures, G21 ,360,361.
New capital issued in London from
January 1 to May 5, amounted to
S2SS, 1888, 915, as against $434,216,505 in
the same period in 1905.
Total operations of the Bank of
Japan in the year 1905 amounted tc
s14,578, 1900, an increase of $5,744,-
106, APO compared with 1904.
The annual report of the Banque de
Paris for 1905 shows that net profits
amounted to only 10,804,883 francs,
against 19,411, 421 francs in 1904.
A loan of 10O,000,O00 francs will be
shortly put on the Paris market for
the French colonies in West Africa.
The greater part is intended for Sen
egal and the Upper Niger, to improve
the navigation on the two rivers.
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SUMMER FALLOWING.
Much in Favor in Canada, Especially
in Alberta-Good Where Rain
fall Is Light.

In the Bible days summer following
was in great repute. References are
made in the Scriptures to men who
were so greedy of gain that they
wuold not allow their land to rest.
The Mosaic law provided for rest
for the land every seven years. Some
men have assumed that because fall
lowing was good in Palestine it was
also good throughout the whole world.
But the farmers of Europe and Amer
lea learned long ago that a summer
fallow was lot necessary in land
where rainfall is abundant. AS we go
west towards the Rocky mountains we
find the summer fallow more and
more popular. The farmers of AL
berta claim that it is of no use to
farm without the summer fallOw, but
there the annual rainfall is only one
third OF that of the state of Illinois.
We find summer following is being
practiced in Canada, at least as far east
at Manitoba, but the rainfall in Man
itoba is so much greater than the rain
fall in Alberta that 1t would seem
there almost an unnecessary practice.
Some of the best farmers of Manitoba
are preaching against the summer fall
low. We never expect to see the sum-
mer tallow become again popular in
the United States, says Farmers Re-
view. except in the regions where rain
fall is slight or where irrigation Is
not available.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-28
THE DOCTORS WIFE
Agrees with Him About Food.

A trained nurse says: "In the prac-
tice of my profession / have found so
many points in favor of Grape-Nuts
food that | unhesitatingly recommend
it to all my patients.
cit is delicate and pleasing to the
palate Gan essential in food for the
sick) and can be adapted to all ages,
being softened with milk or cream
for babies or the aged when deficiency
of teeth renders raast1cation impos-
sible. For fever patients or those on
liquid diet / find Grape-Nuts and al
bumen water very nourishing and re-
freshing. This recipe IS my own idea
and is made as follows: Soak tea
spoonful of Grape-N Nuts in glass of
water for an hour, strain and serve
with the beaten white of an egg and
a spoonful of fruit juice or favoring.
This affords great deal Of nourish-
ment that even the weakest stomach
can assimilate without any distress.
my husband is physician and he
uses Grape-Nuts himself and orders
1t many times for his patients.
personally l regard a dish Of
Grape-Nuts with fresh or stewed fruit
IS the ideal breakfast for anyone
well or sick" Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
In any case of stomach trouble,
nervous prostration or brain flag, a
10 days trial of Grape-Nuts will work
wonders toward nourishing and re-
building, and in this way ending the
trouble There's reason" and trial
proves.
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, "The Road to Wellville."
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He Surprised Eliza

A story is going the rounds of the
territory press of a farmer, living
few miles from Henryetta, who wore
his old suit until everybody was tired
of it, and his estimable wife was al
most ashamed of him. But one day.
when selling produce in town, he de-
termined to buy new suit, and a
happy thought struck him. He would
surprise Eliza. So he bundled a new
suit into the wagon, hurried toward
home, and at the bridge. two miles
from town, he stood up in the wagon
and peeled" and threw the despised
old suit into the creek Then he
reached for his new clothes. They
were gone-had jolted out of the wag-
on! The night was cold, and his
teeth chartered as he scurried for
home. He surprised Eliza even more
than he anticipated -Kansas City
Journal
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measure of salt, but fell down and
spilled the salt on the grass, and be-
fore he could get up the bull was so
near that he dassent run, so he laid
down and played dead, and the buffa-
loes surrounded him and licked up the
salt, and paid no more attention to
him than they would to a log until
they had licked up all the salt Then
the bull began to lick pas hands and
face, and pa yelled for help, but we
got behind the ridge and went around
towards the ranch, the ranchman tell
ing us that the animals were perfectly
harmless and that as soon as they had
licked pas face little they would go
off to a water hole to drink, and then
go out and Craze.
We left pa yelling for help, and
guess he was praying some, cause
once he got on his knees, but a couple
of pet buffalo calves, that one of the
rancher's boys drives to cart, went
up to pa and began to lick his bald
head, and chew his hair.
Well, we got around to the ranch
house, where we could see the herd,
and see pa trying to push the calves
away from being so familiar, and then
the herd all left pa and went back
over the ridge, and pa was alone with
his empty revolvers and the peck
measure. Pa seemed to be stunned at
first, and then we all started out to
rescue him, and he saw us coming,
and he came to meet rs.
Pa was sight. His hair was all
mussed up, and his face was red and
sore from contact with the rough buff
aloes' tongues. and the salt on their
tongues made it smart, and his coat
sleeves and trousers legs had been
chewed off by the buffaloes, and he
looked as though he. had been through
a corn shredder, and yet he was still
brave and noble. and as we got near
to him he said:
Got any trailing dogs?'
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-28
AMATEUR AERoNAUTICS.

Do not stick pins into the envelope
even if the balloon is stationary
one.
Never leave the car while in mo
tion-especially when at consider
able altitude. 1t hurts.
Do not throw out empty bottles
when passing over densely populated
urban rural districts; they will only
get broken.
Should your grappling-iron "grap-
nle' a harmless old gentleman and
lift him off his feet, do not be toe
angry with him; let him down gently
When passing over friends estate
try and resist the temptation of drop
ping a sand-bag through his conserva-
tori; somebody may be there, and be-
sides, your friend may be a retaliation
and a first-class rifle shot
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had been in, and what bold things he
had done.
He said, while the object of his visit
to the ranch was to buy herd of buff
faloes for the show, the thing he
wanted to do, above all, was to kill
a buffalo bull in single-handed COM
bat, and have the head and horns to
ornament his den, and the hide for a
lap robe, but the ranchmen would be
welcome to the meat. He asked the
man who owned the ranch if he might
have the privilege, by paying for it, of
killing a buffalo.
The ranchman said he would ar
range it all right in the morning, and
pa and l went to bed. After pa got to
snoring, and killing buffaloes in his
sleep. | could hear the ranchman and
his helpers planning pas humiliation,
and when l tried to tell pa in the
morning that the crowd were string
ing him he got mad at me and asked
me TO mind my own business, and
that is something 1 never could do to
save my life.
Well, about daylight we were all out
on the veranda. and they gave pa in
structions about what he was to do.
The ranchman said it was against the
state laws to kill buffalo. except in
self defense, so pa would have to get
in blind. like the German emperor,
and have the game driven to him
They gave pa two big revolvers, load
ed with blank cartridges, know, be-
cause l heard them whisper about it
the night before, and they gave him a
peck measure of salt and told him to
sneak up to little shed out in field
and conceal himself until the game
came along, and then open fire, and
when his buffalo fell, mortally wound
ed, to go out and skin it.
Pa asked what the salt was for, and
they told him ii was to salt the hide.
Say, I knew that the place they sent
pa to wait for buffalo was where they
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sailed the animals once week, ana
started to tell pa, but the rancher
called me off and told me / could go
with the men and help drive the game
to destruction.
We waited until the ranchman had
gone out with pa and got him nicely
concealed, the way they conceal EN-
stays, and pa looked as brave as any
emperor as he got his two big revolt
vers ready for an emergency. The
ranchman told pa that he had twelve
shots in the revolvers, and he better
begin firing when the big bull came
over the ridge, on the trail, at the
head of the herd, and as the animal
advanced, as ne no doubt would, to
keep firing until the whole IL shots
were fired, and then if the animal was
not killed, to use his own judgment
as to what to do, whether to run for
the house, or lay down and pretend to
be dead.
Pa said he expected to kill the ami
mall before three shots had been fired,
but if the worst came he could run
some, but the ranchman said If he
should run that the whole herd would
be apt to stampede on him and run
him down, and he thought pa better
lay down and let them go by.
Gee, but / pitied pa when we got
out on the prairie and found the herd.
They were as tame as Jersey cows,
and the old bull. the fiercest Of the lot,
with head as big as a barrel, came
up to the ranchman and wanted to be
scratched, like big dog, and the
calves and cows came up and licked
our hands. 1t was hard work to drive
them towards pas blind, cause they
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-28
THE STEREoTYPED SMILE.
Man Wearing Castiron Smirk Con-
spicuous Feature of Philadel-
phia Suburb.

Many daily travellers on morning
and evening train to and from one OF
Philadelphia's suburbs have noticed
for a number of years man, now past
middle age, who wears a perpetual
smirk. This man no doubt thinks he
is smiling and looking pleasant, but
the smile is SO purely mechanical-a
mere contraction of the muscles, eked
out with an oleaginous leer-that the
fixed, set smile is wholly unpleasant
and repellent. He is known as the
man with the stereotyped grin, says
the Philadelphia Ledger.
1t so happens that the man with the
castiron smirk has written several es-
says on the duty of being cheerful and
of irradiating pleasantness in daily
life. He is sociologist and reformer,
and has in mind several benefcient
schemes for the right ordering of tn
universe; but his wife cannot live
ed with him and his sister and his
daughter-in-law do not speak to him.
He started in life with a good idea
-"drill your thoughts, shut out the
gloomy and call in the bright"-but he
failed to put it into practice, because
his smile and his pleasantness are
merely on the surface, while his heart
action is defective.
Almost everyone must have noticed
among his acquaintance a certain
number who, in their casual greetings
on the street, use the mechanical
smile. The muscles of the lower face
are contracted with evident effort. Tn
sudden relaxation of the muscles dis.
closes a blank face, which, by reason
OF the quick transition, leaves a most
unwholesome, forDidding impression
just the opposite of the intention Of
the specifically polite contortionist
A sensitive man with genuine feeling
would much rather be sworn at thar
greeted with that kind of smile.
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of holes. The adult beetle, which with
the larva is illustrated in the accom-
panying cut, is about one-tenth of an
inch long, black with two yellowish
stripes on the back which are some
times broken into four yellow spots.
The adult hibernates in sheltered
places in the field.
Bordeaux and arsenical sprays ar,
applied for exterminating the pest
Where fields have been largely at
tackled during the year, it is wise tn
destroy the leaves and rubbish in the
fall. BY following this practice 3
large number of the adults will be de-
stroyed and future crops curtailed.
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"What you want trailing dogs fcr?"
asked the ranchman. What you want
is bath. Have any luck this morn
ing buffaloing?"
"Well l guess yes" said pa, as he
dropped the peck measure, and got out
a revolver and asked for more cart
ridges. 81 put IL bullets into that
bulls carcass when he was charging
on me, and how he carried them away
is more than / know. Get me some
dogs and Winchester rifle and / will
That bull is my meat, you hear me?''
and pa bent over and looked at his
chewed clothes.
"You don't mean to tell me the bull
charged on you and didn't kill your
said the ranchman, winking at the
hired man. How did you keep from
being gored?"
''Well, it takes pretty smart ami
NAL to get the best of me-" said pa,
looking wise. "You see, when the bull
came over the hill / gave him cou-
pie of shots, one in the eye and an
other in the chest, but he came on,
with his other eye flashing fire, and
the hair on his head and on his hump
sticking up like porcup.ne, and the
whole herd followed, believing and
fairly shaking the earth, but I kept my
nerve. l shot the bull full of lead.
and he tottered along towards me,
bound to have revenge, but just as he
/ 10 xryith wicked
horns / caught hold of the long hair
on his head and yelled Get out OF
here, condemn you," and locked him
in the one eye, like this," and pa GER
! tainly did look fierce, "and he threw
up his head, with me hanging to his
hair, and when I came down I kicked
| him in the ribs and he gave a grunt
and a mournful below, as though he
was all in, and was afraid Of me, and
went off over the hill, followed by the
herd, scared to death at man that
was not afraid to stand his ground
| against the fiercest animal that ever
trod the ground. Now, come on and
help me find the carcass" Pa looked
as though he meant it.
"Well, you are wonder" said the
ranchman, looking at pa in admira
ton. Il have seen men before that
could lie some, but you have got An
nanias beaten a block Now we will
go to the house and settle this thing
and l will send my trusty henchmen
out herching after your bull"
Then we went to the house and got
dinner, and the men drove up the buff
falo into the barnyard and fed them
hay, and we went out and played
with the buffaloes, and pa found his
bull hadn't scratch on him, and thai
he would lean up against pa and ruiz
against him just like he was a fence
post.
The ranchman told pa they had beer
stringing him, and that the animals
were SO tame you could feed them out
of your hand, and that he had beer
shooting blank cartridges, and the
only thing he regretted was that ps
would lie so before strangers. Their
pa bought the herd for the show, ant
next year pa will show audiences how
he can tame the widest of the ANNA
kingdom, so they will eat out OF bis
hand
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ma on the Doctor

A Baltimore physician who boarded
a crowded car in Charles street, no
ticed a woman standing and big Ger
man sprawling over twice the seat
area that was necessary to him. In
d1gnantly the physician said to his:
"See here! Why don't you move a
little so that this tired woman may
have a seat?" For moment the Ger
man looked dazed. Then a broad
smile spread over his countenance as
ne answered: Say dots joke on
you. all right! Dots my vife!"
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Long Distance Lecture.

A pretentious person recently said
to Colonel Green, of Woodbury., N. j.:
How would lecture by me on Mount
Vesuvius suit the inhabitants of your
town." Very well, sir: very well, in
Decd" answered the colonel "a lee
ture by you on Mount Vesuyius would
suit them a great deal better than a
lecture by you in this town." The Leo
ture never came off.-Tatler.
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CABBAGE FLEA BEETLE.
Insect Which Is Destructive Not
Only of Cabbage, But Tur-
nips, Etc.

The cabbage f1ea-beetle is found in
many states. 1t is particularly de-
radishes when 1t is in the 1arval
state; it works mainly upon the roots.
The beetles do considerable damage in
Kidding the leaves by filling them full
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GOD ras+ az the nno.

SuDurbanite Ito visitor)-Oh, how
are you? Come right in. Don't mind
the dog.
yfsftor-But won't he bite?
That's just what want to see.
only bought that watchdog this morn
ing."-La Rive.
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NO Such Temerity.

Meel1ly-Yes, we're going to move to
Swamphurst.
Doctor-But the climate there may
disagree with your wife.
"It wouldn't dare!"-Philadelp
Public Ledger.
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Really an Awful Affair.

Really an AWFUL AlalI.
She-He married her for her money.
Wasn't that awful?
Heidi ne get it?
mo"
eft was Judge.
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There is something wrong about the
father who is not hero In the eyes
of his little ones.
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Few girls wodld improve their INTEL
lects at the expense of their shape.