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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
VITALITY OF YELLOW RACE
More Vigorous Than Caucasians It
Flourishes in All Gil
mates.

Before the foundations of Rome were
laid there was homogeneous people
dwelling in China with a form of
government and no mean degree of
civilization. Rome f1ourished for IL
centuries and became the empire of
the western world, then decayed and
passed away and her civilization be-
came the heritage of others. But
China remains as united empire to
this day. In this marvellous continuity
in the past lies the promise of the
future
1t took the nations of Europe 1000
years to advance from barbarism to
their present position. 1t took the
Japanese, branch of the yellow race,
a generation to adopt and apply all
the best results of this long struggle.
We are told that when the present
emperor of Japan was a boy the sort
of training that was supposed to fit
him for the part he was to be allowed
to take in the government of his
country was making artificial flowers.
He is only now just over middle age,
arch over an empire with which the
most advanced and most powerful en-
pire of the west was glad to form an
alliance as with an equal. His navy
has driven the Russian flag from the
China seas. On land the tactics and
strategy, the endurance, self-sacrifice
and bravery, the care for the wound
ed in the field and the splendid hos
pital arrangements Of the Japanese
army are the admiration of the civil
lied world.
In the worlds history there Is moth.
ing like the advance of Japan in the
last generation. We see some of the
results of the adoption of the civiliza-
ton of the west by 100000 of the
yellow race. Will anyone who really
knows him venture to say that the
Chinaman is less well equipped mental.
ly and physically?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
THE MAKING OF BOOKS.
Wonderful Rapidity with Which
Volumes Of Literature Are
Turned Out.

It is wonderful Thoughts are put
into print at the rate Of SO words a
minute by the simple tapping of the
fingers on the keys. A keyboard is
hitched to foundry and the words
go into type almost as rapidly, says
the Independent Into one end of
series of machines the trunks of trees
are increasingly fed, while from the
other end there pourS a stream of
printed books. The hungry presses
clamor continuously for more copy
There are more books written, more
books sold, more books read in almost
every branch of literature than ever
before. Every author of originality
and power has the sheets snatched
from his hands by the impatient pub
fishers as fast as he can write them.
Every person showing any symptoms
of genius is coaxed and petted in a
way that is liable to turn his head.
The reaction time in literature is
astonishingly accelerated. The in
terval between a thought and it's
printed expression is being reduced to
a minimum.
Authors no longer form guild.
The sometime mysteries of their an
cient and honorable craft are taught
in every school. Everybody writes
for publication, all who have anything
of interest or importance to say and
many who have neither get into print
somewhere and somehow New edi-
80 IL 49, Nv
istence with the latest copyrights. No
tariff on the boundary of the century
protects the literary Industry from the
pauper labor of antiquity. The read
ing rooms are filled with diligent stu
dents porting over neglected volumes
in search of ideas so old that they
will be new to this generation. Com
mentators, editors, biographers and
critics swarm around every great
book, seeking for forgotten ideas.
The dumpheaps around all the aban-
doned gold mines of literature are
worked over every few years by some
new cyanide process in the hope of ex-
tracing still more of the precious
metal Old theories, fancies, sugges-
tions, themes, plots, characters, that
appear to have the slightest value to
us of the present are continually be-
ing brought forward again in new
and attractive forms. Everywhere
about us we see the avatars of all the
ancient religions, philosophies and
systems since the world began. 1t is
the age of plagiarism.
Now plagiarism is the fundamental
principle of the universe. In physics
it goes by the name of the conserva-
ton of matter and energy Nature is
the great economist She uses the
same material over and over again
for millions Of years, moliing it con-
tinually into the most useful forms
for present purposes; nevet hesitating
to send to the scrap heap her most
beautiful living machine when it gets
the least bit ansiquated; having no
reverence for antiquity, no regard for
reputation. The things sac values
most she wears out fastest. 1t is only
in neglected corners Of the earth that
the geological relic-monger can find
her old models.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11

Copyright 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
When | was selling Yankee notions
al auction in Michigan | encountered
a CRATER whose special victims Were
the leading merchants Of small towns.
His was shaving soap graft.
However, the soap was of small con-
sheraton. 1t was his skill in palming
and manipulating dollar bills that
brought him success.
He carried single valise and a
small tin box, the latter filled with
very small cakes of soap, cut from bars
OF ordinary washing soap. Each CAKE
was wrapped in a piece of paper.
Upon reaching a town he called upon
the most prominent merchant and re-
quested the loan of a barrel. This he
would roll out directly in front of the
merchants store, and, turning it bot
tom side up in the street, he placed
his tin box upon it. His plan was to
begin operations about two o'clock in
the afternoon, when the merchant vas
least likely to be busy.
As soon as an audience of two or
more persons was secured, he would
expatiate upon the wonderful merits of
his soap After removing the wrap
per from a cake of soar he took a
large roll of money from lis pocket
Then folding a $40 bill lengthwise. and
wrapping it around the piece of soap
in plain view of his audience. he folded
up the soap and the $40 bill in the
original wrapper. Usually by this
time the merchant the CRATER has Sc
lected as his victim was an interested
spectator. The CRATER took the piece
Of soap in his left hand and held mis-
pocketknife in his right so that he
could easily clip off one end of the
piece.
who will give me ten dollars for
this piece of soap?" he cried '1s
there man in the crowd speculative
enough to buy it? Well, just to show
you that some one has made mis-
take, | will clip off the end and show
YOU"
Then he cut off the end, unfolded the
wrapper and exposed the $40 bill.
Gentlemen, faint heart never won
fair lady" he called out. Nothing ven
tured, nothing gained. Remember
my friends, what your eye sees, your
heart must believe. Fortune favors
every scheme, and it's long road that
has no turn"
Then taking out his immense roll of
bills he put back the $40 and Sc
lected 800 bill, which, as before. he
wrapped around the soap. in such a
manner that there could possibly be no
deception. Again he held the piece OF
soap in his left hand, his pocket
knife in his right
who in this crowd has speculation
enough to give me $50 for this?" ne
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
Factory.

he drolly expressed it, he had the Top
part of his trunk and every pocket
filled with dollar bills.
On returning to the hotel, at noon,
asked him if he had any idea that
anyone got cake of soap with money
in it.
He laughed and said if they did it
was a mistake on his part. Then he
explained: In the middle of the tray
about four inches square. with thin,
fiat, steel spring to hold it to its place.
AS fast as he wrapped the money
around the soap, he would place the
cakes upon the trap door, and. press
ing the door with his thumb, all would
instantly be transferred to another
part of the trunk.
Still another soap CRATER, at Mar
quette, Mich, had unique method OF
deceiving his audiences.
He was selling what he called "the
most powerful cleansing soap on
earth" 1t was ''his fathers inven-
ton" and piece the size of pea
would make more lather and actually
do a larger washing than could be
done with a whole bal of ordinary
soap, in much less time.
AS I passed by his room on the
morning of his arrival. I noticed about
two dozen bars of washing soap piled
on the table. He was busy cutting
up a lot of tin-foil to wrap around
the pieces.
That evening he drove out upon the
streets. and after singing few songs
and playing several popular airs on
the banjo he began a very interesting
lecture on the manufacture of soap.
At last he gave small boy a quar-
ter to bring him a basin of water
from the town pump.
Meanwhile he broke off a small
piece from one of these tiny cakes of
soap. and after rolling it to about che
shape of a pea. he said:
''Now. gentlemen. am going to give
YOU the most wonderful demonstration
of what can be accomplished with a
piece of soap, the size of pea. that
has ever been shown, upon the face
of the earth"
Then he produced clean white
handkerchief, and. picking up a
wrench. said:
''My friends. you all know that there is
nothing harder to remove from a
garment than axle grease. Now, this
buggy belongs TO your liveryman, Mr..
-. and to give you a fair s~'loro
test of the worth of my wonderful soap,
I am now going to remove one OF
the wheels from this buggy. and after
thoroughly cleaning the axle with this
perfectly white handkerchief I shall
with no more soap than this piece, the
size of a pea. proceed to wash the
handkerchief in this basin of cold, hard
water. and make perfect job of it. in
side of one minute by the watch.
Climbing out of his buggy. and re-
moving one of its wheels. he wiped all
the black tar and grease from the axle,
completely saturating the handkerchief
| Replacing the wheel, he climbed
back into the buggy, and opening UP
/ the handkerchief said:
Gentlemen, do you believe that
| there is a housewife In this city who
could wash this handkerchief clean IN
| side of 10 or 15 minutes. even if she
/ had a whole bar of ordinary laundry
soap, and a basin of hot, soft water:
Now watch me. Remember, use only
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
Real Dramatic Criticism.

"Tne best dramatic criticism 1 ever
hear1," said the theatrical press agent,
"was made by a man who was in his
cups. The piece, an English comedy,
was dragging awfully. The curtain
had been up nearly half an hour, /
guess, and nothing had happened to
check the yawns that were seen on
the faces of the audience. At this
point our slightly intoxicated friend
Strengthened up, yawned, looked at
his watch. and said in voice heard
through the theater and on the stage:
.tSay. what time does this show be-
gin ?"-Kansas City Times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
NET MILEAGE GAIN SOFA.
Railroads in u. S. Have Remarka BILE
Growth During Year-Big In
crease in Gross Earnings.

New York. - Advance sheets OF
Poor Manual Of Railroads" give
the length of steam railroads in thu
United States on December 81, 1904, as
212, 349 miles, net increase of SOFA
miles in the year.
The heaviest construction of the year
was in the southwestern group OF
states, in which no lees than 1,716
miles were built.
Missouri has to its credit 41S miles;
Arkansas, 262 miles: Texas, 318 miles:
Kansas, 81 miles; Colorado, lat miles:
New Mexico, less than one mile; In
dian territory, 260 miles, and Okla
homa territory 279 miles.
Gross earnings increased $69, $780,
SS7 in 1904 over the earnings of 1908.
or about sos per cent.
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permitted, under any consideration, to
purchase more than one cake of soap.
Now, gentlemen, get your dollar ready
and be in line to receive your part of
this donation"
By this time every man who had a
dollar held it up and, crowding toward
the buggy, yelled at the top of his
voice: "Give me one! Here! Herei :
and to say that the CRATER was kept
busy, would be putting it mildly.
To keep up the excitement, every few
moments he called to some particular
fellow:
No, sir; you have had one cake,
and you can't have another; or you,
either" pointing to still another. Gre
member, gentlemen, you can't impose
upon me; am watching you. Doa't
try to buy but one cake, this must be
fair distribution. Who will have
the next cake?"
All this by-play only urged them on,
and he was kept busy handing out
soap, until it looked as if he had taken
IN more cash than the circus.
When the first ten minutes had
elapsed there was no soap left for the
next ten minutes sale, which The
CRATER had promised.
During the sale, if man handed
him a large bill or anything over q
dollar he would refuse to take it, say
ing:
Gentlemen, make your own change.
Don't give me anything over a dollar;
if you do I'll not change it. Remem-
her, this is donation, not specula-
ton. Don't expect too much of me. .
When ready to close "the Office" as
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
thig Tiny piece Of soar. Gel out your

this tiny piece of soap. Get out your
watches and time me-
Dropping the soap in the BASIN and
the handkerchief. also, with both HANDS
he began scrubbing. Instantly the "a
sin was full of soapsuds, and, inside
of one minute by the watch, the hand
herchief was as clean and white as the
day it came from the factory.
A yell went up from the crowd.
Now" said he, 81 will pass it out
at 25 cents per cake, or three cakes for
so cents"
In less time than it takes to tell It,
the half-dollars were simply pouring
into his Golfer.
keep up the good work." he cried.
Remember, economy is wealth, and
the only road to success-one cake of
my wonderful compound. double dis
titled laundry and toilet soap will go
farther than a dozen bars of ordinary
soap"
When he had finished, every man
was soaped, and the CRATER was loaded
to the brim with half-dollars.
Like all other sgrafters," one night
was as long as he could remain il a
town
A few days after he had gone the
livery man, from whom he had hired
his buggy said to his foreman:
Say, Jack, that little red-geared
buggy needs oiling. It~came in squeak
ing and groaning a few minutes ago"
'Oh, yes" said Jack. ''You know
that soap man who was here the other
night? Well, he took off one of the
hind wheels, wiped off all the grease
and eli, and put on lot of tar soap
in its place"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11

hand trunk with these, he would drive
out in horse and buggy and by va
rious methods attract a large crowd.
He would place soap box upon
the buggy seat, and on top of this his
hand trunk. the object being to bring
the latter up high enough, so that no
one standing on the ground could see
into it.
Taking from his pocket roll of bills
OF large denomination, he would care
fully wrap them around the pieces of
soap; and rewrapping the latter in pa
per would place them in the trunk.
In the meantime he dilated in most
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11

Again he folded the 500 bill length
wise. and apparently wrapping it
around the cake of soap, he again fold
ed it in its original wrapper.
Now, | wonder if here is a specu-
Iator in this crowd with SIS in his
pocket, who will give that amount for
this cake of soap before / cut the end
off, Bear in mind, l am offering the
soap, and the soap only, for SIS. Say,
quick, gentlemen, or off it comes"
The merchant, eager to make $25.
would almost invariably reach for the
cake, and produce forthwith the SIS.
This smooth CRATER told me at the
supper table that for three months De-
fore starting out he practiced the art
Of palming the 500 and substituting a
cne-dollar bill.
He said that at first he had a great
deal of trouble with his victims, be-
cause he worked everybody and any
body. However, he soon discovered
that when he landed the leading mer-
chant" of town, his victim invariably
went to his private Office to unwrap
the SOAP and on discovering the de-
ception. his pride would deter him
from making an exposure.
Another soap CRATER whom / knew
was doing a thriving business follow
ing a cheap circus through the north
west
He carried with him an old-fash-
toned suit case or hand trunk. Pur-
chasing several large cakes of wash
ing soap, he would slice them up into
small cakes, and wrap each one with
paper. After filling the tray of his
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
AWFUL ITCHING ON SCALP.
Hair Finally Had to Be Cut to Save
Any-Scalp Now in Good Con-
dition-Cured by Cuticura.

ct used the Cuticura Soap and Ointment
for a diseased scalp, dandruff, and CON
slant falling of hair. Finally had to cut
my hair to save any at all. just at that
time / read about the Cuticura Remedies.
Once every week shampooed my hair
with the Cuticura Soap, and L used the
Ointment twice a week. In two months
time my hair was long enough TO do up in
French twist. That is now five years
ago, and have lovely head of hair. The
length is six inches below my waist line,
my scalp is in very good condition, and no
more dandruff or itching of the scalp. /
mended to me as good but with no re-
suits. Mrs W. +. Griess, Clay Center,
Neb., Oct. %. 1905"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
A New Rein o..

Shepard, Ill.,, Jan 8th Especially Mrs.
Sarah e. Rowe, who is residing here, says
she feels like "A New Being" although she
is in her ffty-seventh year. Why? be-
cause she has taken Dodd's Kidney Pills,
that well known medicine that has put
new life into old bodies, and has come
as a God-send into homes of sorrow and
suffering She says:-
mo one knows what awful torture l
T s%efGa WITH kn ot mats H. ana dne{
ney Pills. This grand remedy drove the
Rheumatism out of my body nothing else
ever did me any good Dodd's Kidney
Pills are worth one hundred times their
price, for thew have made me, though
am fifty-seven years old, new being |
am in better shape now than 1 lave peen
for many years, and l owe it all to Dodds
Kidney Pills"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
Financially Speaking.

Wedderly-I find my second year
of married life far more expensive
than the first.
Singleton-Why, supposed 1t would
be just the reverse?
"No indeed. You see, it costs an
awful lot for lodge limitations and
club dues. Chicago Daily News,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
Knew Ris Man.

"You seem depressed"
Eyes; I've got to ask my girls ia
Their tonight for her hand"
"Bosh. Don't be alarmed. The
stern father exists only in the comic
papers"
Maybe so; but the borrowing ia
Their is a painful reality. He'll land
me for a fifty to a dead moral GER
tainty. Courier-Journsl
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
Quite Different.

'Pa, what's the difference between a
profession and trader"
"The man who works at a trade quits
when his eight hours are up. The man
who follows profession has to keep on
until his work is done" Chicago Record
Herald
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
Actually the Truth.

A member of a West Virginia foot
ball team tried to commit suicide the
other Gay because his eleven were de-
feated. Yet some people refuse to be-
lieve that boys yho play football are
crazy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
Glad TO nron the Subject.

Stock Broker Ito future son-inlaw)-
I've been making inquiries about you.
Gayboy-And l about YOU
ooh. have you? Then we'll talk about
something else. New Yorker.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
Sinple Process.

Sharpe-Want to borrow my pistol!
What for?
Smple-To blow out my brains.
"Poof! A pair of bellows will do that!"
N " News
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11

1t is sometimes difficult to convince
young man that all the world loves
lover after he has met the dear girls IA
ther.-C Chicago Daily News.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11

Clothes don't make the man; they make
the mans friends.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
THREE GRAFTERS
"SoAP" THEIR DUPES.

Shaving Soap Man Victimizes Lead
ing Merchants - 500 Paid for
Every Cake - A Philanthropist
"Gives Away" Soap Wrapped in
Twenty-Dollar Bills-A Wonder
full Demonstra tion with Laundry
Soap-Grafter Swindles a Circus
Crowd
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11

and Backache of either sec the Vegeta-
bic Compound is unequalled.
You can write Mrs. Pinkham about
yourself in strictest confidence.
LYDIA z. PINKHAM FED. CO., Lynn, HASA
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
DEZzEneSS, EaiIsfness.

Extreme Lassitude, "don't-care " and
ant-to-be-left-alone feeling, excit-
ability, irritability, nervou sness, sleep
lessness. fatulency, melancholy or the
"blues," and backache. These are
sure indications of Female Weakness,
some arrangement of the organs. For
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11

Suppressed or Painful Periods, Weak.
ness of the Stomach, Indigestion, Bloat.
ing, Nervous Prostitution, Headache,
General Debility. Also
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
Reariasu-sNOwEs EeeESnu.

causing pain, weight and headache, is
instantly relieved and permanently
cured by its use. Under all circum-
stances it acts in harmony with the
female system. It corrects
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11

1t has cured more cases Of Female
Weakness than any other remedy the
world has ever known. 1t is almost in
fallible in such cases. 1t dissolves and
expels Tumors in an early stage of
DEVELOPMENT. That
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11
Lydia f.. PkxsNGIsaEa1SS
Vegetable GOSs1E9OMEsd

is positive cure for all those painful
ailments of women. It will entirely
cure the worst forms of Female Com
plants. Inflammation and liberation,
Falling and Displacements and conse-
quent Spinal Weakness, and is peculi-
arly adapted to the Change Of Life.
1t will surely cure.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-02

down from generation 10 generation for centuries Al
of the animals carved by hand. and some families
of peasants manufacture only the peculiar house
boats which boxes to contain the TOW beasts
while other households restrict their production 70
very small range of geological species turning
out. it may be. only elephants and hippopota1i or
COWS and carnes. From father son, for hundreds
of years, the models have been transmitted and
the pigs and rhnoceroSes of tO-Gav's output are
exactly like those which the children OF medieval
Germany loved and PLAYED with
The animals are manufactured by method most
economical OF labor, the inltiel process consisting
i'll saving out block of wood a foot or more in
length and IN cross section OF Just about the ien-
SONS OF the beast TO be represented. y few a1pli-
cations OF a gouge reduce the block 10 such shape
that when one looks at It endwSe il has the general
form, let us say, OF COW. 1t IS then cut into a
series OF slices each OF the proper proportional thick
ness, and is thus converted into TWENTY-FIVE or
thirty rough hewn cows, which require only 70 be
touched up with carving tool, painted and var
nished, in order to be ready for market