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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
Keep Alive Love for Flag.

AS each year rolls around some patri-
otto city is asked TO welcome the G. A.
r. in a grand runeion, striving to out
do some other city, which with out
stretched arms has welcomed the g. A.
r., in a grand reunion, striving to out
to life dormant spirit of devotion to
the old flag and a resolve that this
union of states will never be dissolved.
Without the G. A. r. to refresh the
memory of the people of this country,
they would be apt to forget the great
sacrifice this nation suffered that this
union should not be dissolved.
Again there is another wing to the
C. A. r., the Sons of Veterans, organ
lied to go hand in hand with the G..
A R. to perpetuate their memory for
generations to come, to keep alive the
love for the old flag, as the strength
of the nation depends on the love of its
people to defend it in time of danger.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24

cut shows how to make such fence.
The posts are made of narrow strips
of board, as shown, the opening being
wide enough to admit the ends of two
panels. To turn corner, says the
Farm Journal, use hook on the end
of one panel and staple at the side
of the post-or better, two hooks and
two staples.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24

the middle west.
1t attacks the
plant by feeding
on the stalk
when very young
The adult beetle
Is a hard, oval
insect with stout
beak. by means
of which it drills
holes in the corn
stalk near the
surface of the
ground and feeds
ON the interior.
AS the corn con-
ffn-0e
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
Day OF Sacred Memories

patiate upon the true significance Of
this anniversary, and draw lessons
therefrom for the guidance of those
who were too young to fully realize
the Importance of the stirring events
that occurred in their youth.
The speakers can also very appro-
priately point out to newcomers to
our land what American independ-
ence, liberty and patriotism really
mean, and that solemn duties citi-
zenship in this grand republic impose
upon them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
Glove of Country Alone. %

Love of country alone could have in
spired 100000 men to die for the union.
Nothing less sacred than this love Of
country could have sustained 175, 900
brave men who suffered and starved
and died in rebel prisons. Nor could
anything else have given comfort to the
100000 manned and diseased who
escaped immediate death in siege and
battle to end in torment the remainder
of their patriot lives" William Nc.
Kinley, July 4, 1894.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
LOW Temperatures for Churning.

OF late years low temperatures have
been advised for chuJ aing. Where
conditions are right, butter can be
churned at So to SO degrees in summer
and 81 degrees in the winter Cream
churned at lower temperature pro-
duces butter that requires a minimum
amount Of washing and one that is
firm and very desirable. -Orange Judd
Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
TRIBUTES TO THE PRIVATE.
"Let Us Care for Him y

with malice toward none, with
charity for all. with firmness in the
right as God gives us to see the right,
let us strive on to finish the work we
are In, to bind up the nations wounds,
to care for him who shall have borne
the battle, and for his widow and his
orphan-to do all which may achieve
and cherish a just and lasting peace
among ourselves, and with all nations"
-Lincoln's Second Inaugural.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
Fpitanh in Shorthand

A tombstone has BEEN erected IN
the West Hampstead cemetery over the
grave OF Mrs. Louisa Day, the inscrip-
ton on which, including a verse OF
poetry, Is in shorthand.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
HOP CLOVER.
A Forage Plant Which Makes Good
Feed for the StcCk-Not as Good
as Cultivated Clovers.

Yellow clover or hop clover (Tri.
folium agrarium) was introduced into
this country from Europe, and is fire.
quently found as a naturalized plant
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
Rush Beans in Corn Patch.

A veteran gardener recommends
planting bush beans in the sweet corn
patch. He says they do not rust SO
badly as where planted in the open
and unprotected from the west wind.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
"Heroic Years of America. y

I'VE begin to realize that the years
we have so recently passed through,
though we did not appreciate at the
time, were the heroic years of Amer
lean history. Charles Francis Adams,
on 'The Double Anniversary" July 4,
1869
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24

on the farm j.
They will come
Unto play" a doz-
en- times during
the season. The
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24

First Rank of Militant Nations"
The record of both sides places the
people of the United States in the first
rank of militant nations. Col.
Thomas L. LiVermore.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
Real Regret.

A man has to lose good deal OF
money on the races, says the New York
Press, to feel as bad about it as hs
does when he gets stung for small
subscription to a charity.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
Ianan,s Rank Profits.

The six principal banks in Toxic and
Osaka, Japan, made profits OF from 10
to 19 per cent. in the last half Of 1905.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24

Some people think that first-class
piety is simply feeling Of pity for
the third-class passenger on the glory
train
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
e.Unfon Dearer for Their Blood. b

"Union Bearer for Their Blood"
God bless the union! 1t is dearer to
us for the blood of the brave men
which has been shed in it's defense. -
Edward Everett at Gettysburg, 1863.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
PORTABLE FENCE.
UP and Taken Down as
Need Requires.

One need not enumerate the advan-
tages of a few panels of portable fence
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24
GARDEN
COMMON CORN BILL BUGS.
Found in the Middle West and De-
stroys Plants by Feeding on
the Stalks.

The corn bill bug is most commonly
found in the corn growing states Of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19

sketches of Phil May and Tom Browne, Is off the map as far as the ordinary tourist Is concerned. It Is not easy to find, and only artists go there-artists and Americans. When I was there not one Engllshman was in the place. but eleven Americans sat down at table c note.
 Only once have I met an American on the continent who did not thoroughly en- joy himself. He was clergyman at Venice, and he was gazing moodily along the beautiful twilight vista of the Grand Canal from the Giardino Reale by the Pazetta. where the children play in the evenings. He was out of sorts, hated the gondola and prophesied that all the canals, save the Grand. would some day be filled up and converted into ordinary streets He made me feel quite despond- ent But, as rule. the effect of an American company on you Is just the re- verse. The continent Is less vivacious where the American Is not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19

When he'd gathered up a little pile he'd sell out his mine, whether he'd worked 1t out or not. and away he'd go up in the mountains, alone. He seemed to think he could discover the mother lode with out any one. Of course. he never found 1t. When his stake was gone he'd come back and dig in again to make another.
 Next time I saw Lem was at Nome. was one of the first ones to go there from the states, but Lem was there ahead of me. We staked claims in the same locality and Lem worked faithfully. and did well.
 You'll soon have enough laid by to make you independent I said to him one day.
 "Yes, Pm doin fairly well, consld- erin, " he said.
 " You don't think you'll find the centre lode up here, do your I asked.
 !" Not if I keep diggin' away here he replied, somewhat sourly I thought. l wondered then if he still olung to his crazy idea, but didn't say any more. A few days later he disappeared. l felt pretty certain as to where he'd gone. I'd heard other talking of finding the mother lode in the Klondike.
 "One day several months later met 1OlnSter In DaWSOn. Ills nfSl eXpeul- tion had failed; he had returned, made another stake and was going out again, His recent experiences had told on him; he didn't look fit for another journey into those unknown regions.
 Lem, I told him, don't you be a fool now You're getting on fairly well here and you ought to be satisfied.
 :" Fairly well!' he sneered. /" Better than lots of the boys I ar gued What you've got doesn't look big here, but down in the states 1t will. You won't have to work any more if you live to be 15O if you keep on at placer and hang onto your findings
 Its too slow and too hard he re- piled T might as well be working on the section. I've looked Into this mother lode matter carefully and my other searches have taught me lot I'd be a fool to give up now. Why, I'm on the point of finding 1t. That's straight.
 "I might as well have argued with the i wind He never came back.
 q got pretty much interested in the mother lode theory myself, but l never got the idea into my head that l could find It. Not l. I'd seen too many of its l victims"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19

To the Voters of Jefferson County:
 In a number of recent editorials in the News, reference has been made to the fact that Mir. Miller candidate for the senate, is my brother-in-law; and it has been stated that Mr. Beddow, his oppo- nent, favors placing the clerk of the crim- inal court (which office I hold) on a salary.
 As Mir. Beddow's platform Is announced to be "equal rights to all and special priv- ieges to none" he doubtless favors also putting all other county ofieials-sheriff probate judge, clerks, registers and tax offielals-on salaries also as the mera fact of my relationship to MT Miller which began some sixteen years ago, and was due to my regard for his sister rather than to any expectations to his views as to the compensation of county of fleials, hardly furnishes sufficient reason for singling out the office I hold for this innovation.
 So "the public would like to know" whether Mr Beddow's position as to the salary of the clerk of the criminal court is merely one of personal antagonism to me, or is a matter of principle.
 Since the only changes suggested by his organ, the News, with reference to sal- aries, relate to the clerk of the criminal court and county treasurer. which offices the News finds much satisfaction in dis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19
Jacobs Pharmacy
 Birthplace of Cut Prices. Agents for VinOl, Orrine, AbbOtts Rheumatism Cure.

ble of the imperial chatelaine and DOT traits of Egyptian pashas that Napo- leon brought with him from his cam paign among the pyramids.
 The most romantic of all the treas ures is a little box in mahogany. You would say it was intended for woman and had contained gloves and ribbons; but it's purpose was much more seri- ous. It was the private casket of Ma poleon and hid some of his most secret and confidential papers. There Is a slit in the lid, not at first apparent, through which glided the documents. The box is closed by lock dissimu- lated under a small steel ornament. No jewel case of a famous lady could tell more secrets than this unpretenl tious casket, which has sheltered an Emperor's intrigues.
 There is also a bureau fashioned in mahogany and cunningly ornamented with figures in bronze. It, too, played its part in the inner history of Napo4 leonic enterprise. In one of it's draw CTS the Emperor kept his military plans with, I dare say, his precious scheme for the invasion of England It is said that, sitting at this bureau, Napoleon prepared his great campaign of 1895, which concluded with the vic- tory of Austerlitz. Before the desk stands the armchair that the great captain used, so that you have the feel ing that this Is a real trophy of the times-something of the atmosphere" of Malmaison.
 After the Napoleonic dispatch box the next most fascinating object is the harp upon which Josephine played, and with which, doubtless, in the early days of courtship she charmed the ears of the young lieutenant of artil- lery, Napoleon Bonaparte. It is a pa- thetic object. Some five or six of its strings are gone-a fact eloquent, is it not, of the broken melody of Jose phine's life fe?-and the stars and bees of the decoration have also in part dis appeared.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19
 BRADLEY PUTS POINTED QUESTIONS TO BEDDOW

covering are held by myself and the brother of Mir. Miller respectively, and since 1t is known that there are other far more lucrative county offices on tho fee basis, the public are likely to think that MT. Beddow's platform Is for polti- cal effect only
 If Mir Beddow Is -in earnest about re- dueing the compensation officers get, he might begin at home and advocate a law fixing the fees which attorneys for plain tiffs Cwho are officers of oourD in cases where damages are awarded for the loss of life and llmb at something less than one-third to one-half of the recovery, which is now exaeted by himself and tho firm of which he is member from the unfortunates to whose complaints he has been described as so ready to lend his cara willingness which in view of the third or more which he gets of the price of the blood of the dead and injured, Is not hard to understand.
 Will Mir Beddow, along with his advo- eaey of putting the clerk of the criminal court on a salary, advocate a law looking to reducing the fees charged by the firm of Bowman, Harsh & Beddow, of which he Is a member, and thereby lessen the speed with which he Is accommodating the fortune which the News refers to with so much satisfaction?
 JOHN c. BRADLEY,
 Birmingham. Ala, August IS, 1906,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19
Newspapers In Arqentina.
From the Pittsburg Post.

From the Pittsburg Post |, La Prensa," the famous newsnaner of Buenos Ayres, has a building snr- mounted by golden statute of a voung woman. It also has a 5OOO-horsenowar steam siren. When there is big news. an appalling disaster, whoop! goes the siren "A deuce of a row." writes a corresnond- ent "up and down the scale. defiant shriek, gurgling groan, for varying period, according to the importance of the vent, the horrid din resounds through out the city.
 The local government exacts a fine for this performance-$1O0 a minute. I be- lteve, with minimum of s2OO-and if the fine Is not paid on the nail the charge is double, so fhen one man is sent to op- crate the screecher another is sent with $200 bill to the courts.
 'The next operation is to drape the young lady's statue, with red velvet in case of catastrophe, with crape in the event of a death. All this causes the most extraordinary sensation. It is. of course, only on great occasions that this takes place. I heard the siren go the other afternoon for the first time, when the news came through from San Fran cisco.
 within a few minutes the Avenida, In the nighborhood of the Prensa' office. and even in Plaza Mayo, was packed with an excited crowd, awaiting the cir culation of the news.
 The evening papers followed suit, in feeble style, by letting off bombs, and for the rest of the afternoon the town was A perfect pandemonium."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19
A SORRY FIGURE
Is Evelyn Thaw on Close Analysis,
 Says a French Woman.

From the New York Globe.
 Hysteria has Stalked abroad since the killing of Stanford White by Harry Thaw. Women who are ordinarily reticent and gentle grow shrill and vehement in condemnation or cham pionship, men who are usually well balanced and judicial wax sentimental and talk like the maudlin heroes Of cheap melodrama.
 In the hubbub we seem to have lost sight of Evelyn Thaw, the woman, the really central figure In the tragedy.
 What does Evelyn Thaw really look like? Ask a dozen persons who have seen her, and each will give you dlf- ferent answer. Some will tell you that she has an innocent face, guile less childish and sweet. Others say that a vicious temper and a weak mind are writ large upon the mobile fea' lures.
 The eyes of the girl for whose sake murder has been done are hazel. They are large and long and have that cellar, liquid softness that only Murillo ever succeeded in painting. They are un- usual eyes, in that they have the length and shape of what we call Ori- ental eyes, but have none of the Ian guor and stupidity of the average eye of the harem." Evelyn Thaws eyes are bright and sparkling, alight-not with intelligence or thought (that pretty head is sadly lacking in these useful attributes), but with the hres of youth and merriment. Long lasnes fringe these bright eyes, aud exquisite ly arched dark brows give character to the fair forehead, with the dark hair growing low around the piquant little face.
 The nose of this beauty is not per feet, as the Greeks understood perfect features. It starts out proudly to be Roman and contents itself (and oth- ers) by remaining merely little high nose, with a well-raised bridge, and full nostrils. This nose gives the seri- ous note to the almost plastic perfect face. If 1t were a mere prim, little straight affair or an inconsequent frlv- olous neg Watteau, the pretty face would become at once a mere dolPs mask, nodded and tinted in lines and tones of mere prettiness.
 The mouth of this slip of girl whose pretty face has been the cause of a mans death, and of sybarltes being placed in a stifling cell, tells her story more truly and more plainly than her voice can tell 1t to the jury. It is the full, voluptuous mouth of the unthink- ing pleasure lover-the mouth that temperamental artists give to sirens. It has beauty of outline, but there is no firmness or strength in its amorous curves. The clear-cut, fine-lipped mouth sometimes degenerates into sharpness and thinness. The soft, too-human mouth becomes coarse. A painter of words and a student of human pas sions said that Salome had mouth like the one painted in this picture.
 Like a ripe pomegranate cleft in twain"
 Evelyn Thaw's ear Is not the small. shell-like ear of song and story. It IS long and rather large, though the rim is perfect in its curve. Evelyn used to say that she had musical ear. The other girls in the chorus said her ear
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19
MOTHER LODE FEVER.
Miners Who've Spent Lives Seeking
 Great Source of Gold.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 'If you are going to hunt for gold, don't fall to get inoculated for the mother lode fever," says a man who has been digging for precious metals for forty-odd years. "In my time In California, in South Africa and in the Klondike. I have seen many experienced miners fall i'll of that disease
 You get out among a big gang of men where verybody is struggling to unearth treasures and you get fin that frenzy that makes you work with superhuman strength and endurance. But if you have heard or read somewhere that those de- posits of precious metals in the streams and all others that are located similarly have been washed down from up there in the hills that story will echo in your ears while you work, and at night it would be the subject of your dreams. Then you'd have the mother lode fever
 That is, you'd have it unless you were an uncommonly well educated miner or one endowed with a rare quantity of good tBense, or one of those lazzy beggars that thinks it's true that everything comes to him who'll wait.
 'In many ways the theory of the moth or lode seems plausible. Even the scien- tists haven't decided for sure that there s nothing Tn II. II IS SuBEeSltu lndl lHo gold discovered in the streams, as so much of 1t was in California and the Klondike, comes from the mountains and was lodged there by convulsions of na- ture in bygone days. The theory of the mother lode Is that in those convulsions great quantities of gold were deposited 1n the mountain ranges and that what the average miner finds Is that part that has been washed down by the water Sounds plausible enough doesn't 1t?
 "One who has set his mind on reaching the great fountain head fthe stream of gold Is thoroughly convinced that some where back In the mountains, where the mining explorations have not yet been made lies the Great Deposit. To be sure, he might pack and wash here in the stream and gather together enough to give him n fair competence for life; but why potter about with the small things when there, just above, lies wealth that would make of him a modern Midas?
 "Ever hear of Lem Hollister? l first met Lem in California, and found him hot on the trail of the mother lode-so he thought Placer mining was not very profitable then-it had been played out I didn't know much about the mother lode theory then; nobody did, l guess. for 1t was something new. Lem had picked up the theory somewhere and he was sure 1t would pay him in the end.
 "He was a secretlve cuss, Lem was. He'd work at placer mining for quite spell. never saying anything to us but always seeming to be thinking a lot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19

but it was a poor and pathetic make believe. On stone bench in the gar den sat Napoleon on the eve of his de parture for Elba His dejected air showed only too truly that the death knell had been sounded to his fortunes. So the house is saddened thr ugh and through with history.
 It came into private hands, and through private hands it has become state property as free gift from M. Osiris, Greek gentleman. There was some hesitation on the part of the state to accept, because there was no furni- ture to put within the walls; but that difficulty has been overcome. the house has been furnished, ani this week it will be opened to the public in a completed state. The real inter- est indeed, of Malmaison resides in the furniture; the house itself has changed, grievously changed, in gen eral appearance and in decoration since the days when it had an imperial occupant. But the authentic furniture is there to speaek unerringly of Ma poleon and his abandoned consort and of the whole family of Bonapartes
 Certain of the furniture has come from the national stores, and all has had close and clear connection with the house, but the most interesting pieces are the gift of the aged Empress Eugenie, whose still stately figure is occasionally to be seen in Paris This furniture had been gathered together by the Empress herself and by Queen Hortense. daughter of Josephine and the Comte de Beauharnais, who mar ried Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, and was thus the mother of Napoleon III.
 It has hitherto been conserved by the Empress Eugenie, in her Chateau Arenenberg. by Lake Constance. These are real relics of the great man, and are of priceless value. For the mo- ment they have been placed, without much attempt at order. in the hall ad- joining the chamber occupied by the Empress Josephine. Among these new objects is an admirable bust in mar