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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
FORGOT HER MAIDEN NAME.
Here Is a Truly Remarkable Lapse OF
Memory.

Poor memory for names is COM
mon defect, and probably most per-
sons have been embarrassed by it oc-
casionally. Certainly many person
has owned up to a queer sort of alb
sent-mindedness which, for instance,
would cause him suddenly to forget
the name of friend upon whom he
had gone to call. After the doorbell
had been rung the unfortunate caller
would discover that he did not know
who to ask for when the servant
should appear. But such performances
as this have been completely cast in
the shade by an exhibition OF memory
failure given by a Mrs. B., who lives
UP town.
On account of the death of distant
relative she was obliged to go to the
surrogate's Office to attend to some
matters concerning the will. 1t was
necessary, in the course of the pro-
ceedings, for her to sign to certain
document her maiden name.
But to clerks surprise-for she had
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget Gathered by Our
Special Correspondent at Madison.
IIiteracy Increases in Wisconsin.

Illiteracy Increases in Wisconsin.
Despite the fact that the popula-
ton of the state is rapidly increasing
at a rate of about $4,000 annually the
attendance of children to the schools
of the state shows no increase. From
the reports submitted to the state
superintendent office for the past
year it is evident there has been no
increase in attendance over the year
before. Ten years ago the state of
Wisconsin was ranked as eighth in
the list for illiteracy by the commits
sioner of education of the United
States government; now it ranks
twelfth. The number of people who
cannot read or write, according to the
federal statistics, is rapidly increas-
ing in the state. The reports show
that the number of persons of school
age in the state on June 80, last, was
772,516. During the year the at
tendance of the schools was 522,276,
which is $4,000 less than the number
which are in the school age limits.
The compulsory education law has
operated quite successfully in cities
during the past year and about 81
per cent. of the children of school age
were in attendance. In the rural dis
tricts only about 70 per cent. of the
children were in attendance. The re-
port of the increasing illiteracy in
the state melted the recent legislature
to p2s5 q law compelling children
to attend schools "a weeks in
the year The enactment Of this strin-
gent compulsory education law also re-
quires that the children shall have en-
rolled within the first month after the
school has opened The amount ex-
pended for the county and city schools
during the past year was So 1894, 012.S6.
OF this amount there was expended on
the city schools, $4,000, 3S0.01; and on
the schools in the counties $780,
623.S5. AS a result of the common
school tax, amounting to $1,379, 410,
collected upon the state assessment
announced a few days ago, every
school district receives an amount of
money in proportion to the number of
| children of school age within the dis
trict. Last year each child of school
age brought to the district as the re-
suit of this tax $2.16. This year the
amount each child will bring will be
about $2.26-an increase of ten cents
as the result of the increase of the tax
to be collected.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31

Madison.-The decision to make no
change in the membership of the new
ly organized Observation-Disclosures League
of Professional Baseball Clubs, which
succeeds the Wisconsin State league
of the past season, is probably wise
one. To try to split up the old league
and form two new ones would have
been confession of weakness from
the start, and might have operated in
a number of ways to create friction
and confusion detrimental to the
game. The Wisconsin league is now
pretty well established, and although
there has been a slight change in the
name the retention of the same mem
bership will start the league on next
season with the advantage Of its
former prestige, and a clear under
standing by the fans" of the various
cities represented as to just what kind
of ball they can expect. For a minor
league there is no question that the
teams which have played in the Wis
consin league during the past season
are considerably above the average,
and the result has been some very fine
exhibitions of ball playing, which have
been greatly appreciated by the fol-
lowers of the sport. Although the
winning of the state pennant by the
Freeport team probably caused trif1e
of dissatisfaction to some, who could
not hear to think of the strictly state
teams being outclassed in this man
ner, nevertheless, the FreepOrt play
ers and the Freeport people have done
their full share to keep up interest in
the game and the honest and impartial
fans are free to admit that the pen
nant was won fairly and squarely, and
that Freeport is entitled to the credit.
By hyphenating the name of the new
ly organized league, a certain amount
of recognition has been given to the
Freeport club which was no more
than it's due under the circumstances.
On the other hand, it will not look so
queer" another time to have an Illi-
nois team win the Wisconsin pennant,
should F'reeport happen to again be
the lucky one. In the same manner
and for the same reason it will be an
additional honor to any Wisconsin
club which captures the league pen
nant in the future, for it will become
the champion team of ''Wisconsin-Illi-
nois," instead of Wisconsin alone.
Thus a substantial and satisfactory
basis has been laid for successful
season of baseball next year, under
conditions that should prove even
more advantageous than prevailed
during the season which has just
closed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
VALUE OF DAIRY EXPERIENCE.
Dairy Experience Good for the Man
Who Uses His Thinker.

The value of dairy experience de.
ponds on the man that has the ex-
perience. The man that thinks and
sees and figures and calculates makes
something out of his experience, while
the man that never sees and never
changes gain nothing in particular
by his experience. He is like the race
horse running round and round in
the ring. He may in time gain lit
tie extra muscle and be able to go a
little faster, but he gains nothing else.
TO the progressive man experience
is worth much. He is a scholar and
is In the school of experience Every
day brings a new lesson and every
day he is more able to do we'll with
his work than he was the day before.
He figures and calculates. He weighs
the milk of all his COWS and learns in
a few months which cows are Civ
ing little and which much. He tests
the milk of his COWS and with the two
kinds of information he is able to
pick out his poorest cows and discard
them. On the other hand, he is able
to pick out his few very best cows
and breed them to males that will give
him excellent mixers. This kind of
experience he turns into money while
the other kind of a man would not
even lay hold of the facts in the case.
The value of experience depends
on the man, says Farmers Review.
Many men run in a circle and are al
ways contemplating the same facts.
A few men try hard to get out of their
circles and do this by a close scrutiny
and analysis of the facts they see, by
which they are able to mark out for
themselves new circles on broader
plan. We all run in circles in spite OF
ourselves, but we can enlarge our cir
cles if we try, and there is nowhere
a greater necessity for trying than
in dairying.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
Far east is east and west is west,

Far east is east and west is west,
And never the twain shall meet.
1t IS not improbable that Rudyard
Kipling saw the gulf dividing the two
civilizations in his early acquaintance
ship with Bahia Bharati when both
were journalists in India 1t is GER
tain that Bharati saw it, for he came
to the Occident avoWedly to study the
possibilities Of bridging it. Now, after
five years among us he has gone back
to his own people, never, he says, to
return. And with his perspective of
time old ideals of civilization and dis
interestedness Bahia Bharati, Citizen
of the universe" ascetic, philosopher
and apostle of the purely spiritual
life, sees war impending between east
and west; a war, not of the west
against the yellow peril" but of the
east against what he calls the white
peril" of aggressiveness and material
ism
THE Orient will rise and drive the
white man forth. This will happen in
a very few years. By 1915, | believe,
this conflict will be well under way.
This is my own prophecy, but | find
that Lafcadio Hearn made virtually
the same forecast some years ago. 1t
is the White Peril from which we suf-
fer in the Orient-Caucasian aggres-
siyeness and soul-killing civilization"
Such was Bharati's parting message
to the western world.
Baba (Father) Bharati is not to be
COMPOUNDED with the type of pic
turesque Hindu charlatans who. with
appropriate scenery and costumes, have
come to America from time to time
to wheedle dollars from silly women
and men who wear thumb rings. His
sponsors were men of like standing
with Rev DR.. r. Heber Newton, Prof.
Charles Il. Lanman, of Harvard, and
DR.. Felix Adler, of the Ethical Culture
society. He is Brahmin of the first
order. His father was a magistrate
and his uncle a judge of the high
court of Calcutta. Twenty years ago
he was editor Of the Lahore Tribune
when Kipling was a newspaper writer
there Later he became the editor
and proprietor of society paper in
Calcutta. Then his religious instincts
asserted themselves, and for II years
he became an ascetic, hermit, living
a life of austere simplicity in Brinda-
ban, most holy of Indias holy lands.
While here he met the great joyce of
Barada, giant in stature, and be-
lieved to be the most spiritual man in
India. Under his teachings Bahia
Bharati came to believe that he had
a message to carry to the Caucasian
world. He did not wish to go, and for
a time he struggled against what he
deemed command from on high.
Then he went forth, and now he re-
CARDS his work well done. He is hap
by in the thought of return, yet has
learned to love the American people
and feels pangs of regret at leaving
them forever
The Orient for OrientaIs.
Large of frame, with the PRAYER
cloth of his 'Krishna.' yellow and in
scribed with wondrous words to the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31

taken except one, this one vacant seat
being in the aisle end of one of the
cross seats with its back toward the
front of the car. That seat I took,
and then, of course, the car was ex-
actly full.
"At the next station a man came in
at the rear door of this car and walked
forward opposite the one in which
was sitting, and at the next station
the person sitting by the aisle in this
cross seat opposite me got up to go,
and then the gentleman who had been
standing by that seat, instead of in
stantly taking it, looked across at me
and said politely:
would you prefer this seat?' mean
ing that perhaps I would like to
change so that l would sit riding for
ward instead of backward.
''It made no difference to me- and
said so, and then he took that seat
himself But it was very polite of
him, wasn't it?
"And in what strange form I shall
next meet politeness in cnrs / don't
know, for it would seem as if with
these offers of a strap, back and a
forward riding seat the possibilities
had been almost exhausted
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
BABA BhARAV

Hindu faith, wound around his turban,
long raven black curls dropping down
about his shoulders, with all eye as
clear as Rhenish wine and a face of
peculiarly benign mien, yet strongly
chiseled, combining as it does a GER
tain acquired western vigor with the
placidity and calmness of the Orient
Bahia Bharati is a striking figure. He
has studied the Occident and it's ways
and declares that the aggression, the
tremendous conceit and the blindness
of the white race are going to bring
about the uprising of all Asia-that
Asia will Sc free at last from domino
ton and oppression by foreign hands
and that new Monroe doctrine will
be called into being and the Orient
will be for the Orientals alone.
The western coast just now is
aroused over the Hindu PERIL" as it
is called. Hundreds, even thousands,
of Hindus are coming across the Pa
cific, and the western states and west
ern Canada fear very deluge. So
great has been the feeling in some
places that the white laborers have
driven the dusky invaders out, as the
Chinese were sent forth from certain
western cities in early days. But
Bahia Bharati declares there is no such
thing as the Hindu Peril" 1t is
rather the Japanese Peril on this
side of the Pacific, or the white
Peril on the other side of the ocean.
''The Hindus that come to the
American shore are really not Hindus
in the common acceptance of the
term; rather they are half Hindus,
sikhs from Upper India, with a differ
ent religion and different IDEAS" said
Bahia Bharati in an interview | had
with him at the Hotel Stander just be-
fore the Minnesota sailed. He contin-
ued: There is no cause to fear an
invasion, for only a few of the sikhs
will come. And they are not an ag-
gressive people. If they find they are
not wanted they will not cross the Pa
cific. There is no cause to fear"
The Hindu philosopher and sage
talked for an hour or more on this
western world we know, his eastern
world, religion, literature, modern
conditions, his own life and expert
ences, ais hopes, ambitions, and made
predictions of such amazing nature
regarding the future readjustment of
relations across the Pacific as to
startle any person who thinks on the
shadows that portend coming events
In this interview he summed up a mes
sage he wished to convey in farewell
to the America he is leaving.
1.-THE New York Herald gave me and
my mission most helpful publicity, and
then followed my first success since
leaving my own shores. 1 was to
lecture. Thirty persons came to hear
me, and when 1 had finished speaking
they placed upon the table $50 in
money. | almost wept. Then l ex-
planned that a Hindu cannot take coin
for sustenance he gives either to the
body or the soul. One can travel all
through my country without being
able to buy cooked food, and spiritual
ity is not for barter and sale, either
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
Farm Einures.

These figures are large, but inter-
esting: There are 10,438,219 farmers
in the United States, with 5,739,657
farms. worth $40, ,OO1, 1898, the pro-
ducts of which are worth $3,764,177,-
706. and who feed not only them
selves and the rest of the eighty.four
million Americans, but send 117,71S,-
est bushels of wheat, to say nothing
of 13,919,048 barrels of flour, to for
eigners. The foreigners pay $62,O61,-
$50 for the corn and $2S,757517 and
s59, 1O6,S69 for the wheat and flour.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
Blaze Trail Through Forests.

William Fredenberg and Albert
Schultz, of Oconto, have returned
from trip that, they claim, compares
favorably to the rides the settlers of
80 and SO years ago were forced to
take. Accompanied by an Indian
guide, they rode on horseback from
Surfing to the Menominee reservation
to see the dances and pow-wows. They
were led into the darkest recesses of a
virgin forest, over hills and prairies,
their path often being blocked by
windfalls and large stones which the
horses could hardly pass. The three
men covered go miles in all.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
Cabbage Growers Ask Relief.

Cabbage growers of the village OF
Union Grove have applied to the state
railroad rate commission for relief,
claiming that the Milwaukee road
is responsible for a car short
age, and that empty cars which
are assigned for Union Grove
never reach there, but are sidetracked
at Corliss and other places near Chi
cago, with the result that all stations
west of Corliss are left without an adj
equate means of shipment The resi-
dents of the village have also asked
the state commission to take action to-
ward the removal of the railway stock
yards at that place.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31

would say of the richest man in Amer
lea, asked him for his opinion of the
president of the Standard Oil COM
pany.
1T is envy more than anything else
that makes the average American con-
denim Rockefeller" he answered. ''He
thinks that Rockefeller has some Of
the millions that he should have.
please do not think that 1 am Sc
we're with Americans 1 do not mean
to be, but cannot help observing how
they contrast with US of the far east.
The Americans will lead all the white
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
COMPLETES Tax APPROXIMATION.

ct is announced that Secretary of
State Frear has completed the work
of appropriating the state tax of ST.
556,637 and special charges of $685.
452.28 among the different counties
of the state The special charges are
for principal and interest on school
loans, cost of maintaining the chronic
insane and other similar purposes.
The total amount of taxes to be col
charges is 1890, OS9.28 and is appor-
toned among the different counties as
follows:
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
LUcINDA'S EXPERIENCES.
PoIiteness in Various Strange Forms
Offered to Her in City Cars.

$50 many queer experiences l have
in the carsi" said Lucinda.
81 had had a man give me his strap
to hold on to. The car was crowded,
people hanging on to all straps as
well as filling all the seats, this gen.
tleman shifted his hand to the next
strap, to hold on to that with an
other man, and said to me:
""Will you take this strap
Polite, wasn't he? And once had
yet stranger offer.
In a crowded car had worked my
way down toward the cross seats, and
presently, as l stood there, gentle
man who was standing leaning against
the back of one of these seats STEP
ped aside and said:
"'Win you take this back?'
"And that seemed odd, his giving
me that seat back to lean against,
but to-day I had stranger expert
ence STILL.
I'm this car there was nobody stand
ing, and every seat in the car was
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
Granted Writs of Certiorari.

Upon petition writs of certiorari
have been granted by the United
States supreme court at Washington
to the court of appeals for the Seventh
circuit in several cases of interior
Wisconsin. One is the case of the
Milwaukee Rubber Works company,
petitioner, against the Rubber Tire
Wheel company. The other is that Of
the J. I. Case Threshing Machine COM
pany, petitioner, against the Indiana
Manufacturing company.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31

what could America do but &C.
cede, at least for the time? Yet how
could such a condition continue? The
great conflict is coming, and while l
hate to think of it, while regret that
peace cannot always prevail, still, the
people of many countries will be bene.
flied and those of my own India will
be free.
''This seems harsh prophecy to
make upon leaving America for all
time, but it is something neither you
nor | can control. 1t is the newt.
able" IN. Y. Herald.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
Increased Value of Land.

The annual report Of Register OF
Deeds Inenfeldt of Menomonie shows
the average price per acre re-
ceived for farming land sold in DUMP
county during the last year to have
been s27.27. This shows gain Of
four dollars per acre in value over the
preceding year, and 1906 showed
practically the same gain over 1905.
Figures for the city of Menomonie
show a marked advance in the price
of lots over the year 1906. Increases
almost as large are reported from
other sections of Wisconsin.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
School Savings Banks.

School savings banks have been es-
tablished in Superior and the rules for
the working of the bank have been
formulated. The children are al
lowed to make deposits from one
cent up to So The teachers receive
the money, turn it over to the prin-
cipals and they in turn put it in the
bank. Each school voted on the bank
it would have for a depository. After
the children have once put the money
in it is impossible to get it back with
out the o. K. of the principal of the
school.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
Get All the Butterfat.

The dairyman who is using hand
separator should be careful to get al
the butter fat out of the milk. The
writer has heard farmers say that they
did not care if the butter fat was not
all extracted as the skim milk was
then unfit for calf feed. Oil meal at 2
cents a pound is just as good as the
butter fat which will bring as high
as 25 and 80 cents pound, and the
successful dairyman must not lose
sight of this fact.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
SNAP Matches Cost State Heavily.

Wisconsin has paid a penalty of
s106,327 in the past so days for using
"skyrocket' or "red-headed matches"
This is the result of an investiga-
ton which has been carried on by
the state fire marshal's department
during the last two months. "The
snap or skyrocket match, of
the so-called parlor or searchlight
variety is a worthy rival for the
lightning bolt" declared State Fire
Marshal T. M. Purtell, in speaking of
the recent reports to that department
and the causes of the same.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
Ball Club Must Report.

The secretary of state has notified
the American League baseball club of
Chicago, which was incorporated I'M
der the laws of the state of Wisconsin,
that it's annual report must be filed be-
fore January 1, 1908, or the rights and
privileges granted under the articles
of corporation will be forfeited. The
notice is just formal proceeding and
the report will be of the same ma
ture.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
Barn of Cement Blocks.

$1,000. Mr.. Gaskill made the blocks
himself, thus reducing the cash out
lay very materially. The barn is 70
feet in diameter, SO feet to center
dome, 14-foot side walls. Stall room
next to out wall all the way round.
Accommodates so head of cattle and
eight head of horses.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
wisconsin Has 2s.eos Pensioners.

The report of the commissioner OF
pensions for the fiscal year ending
June 80, just issued, shows the num-
Der of pensioners in Wisconsin was
26. 6O3 and amount paid them $685.
127.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
Beet Sugar Harvest Good.

The harvest of the beet crop in Wis
consin has begun and from indications
the yield will be enormous. The sugar
content is very large, considering the
unusually wet season, running as high
as 1853 per cent.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
FIorin Gets State Job.

State Fire Marshal T. NJ Purtell ap-
pointed Judge J. E. Florin, of Menom-
onie, as attorney to the department, on
a salary of $1,000 annually. He
ranked second on the merit list,
Charles Lamb, of Madison, ranking
first.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
cheesemakers Name MEETING Date.

The cheesemakers will hold their
meeting in Milwaukee January $40
inclusive. u. S. Baer, of Madison, is
secretary of the organization, and he
says the attendance may be 1000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31
A GOOD ROUND BARN.
One Which an Indiana Farmer Built
at Moderate Cost.

The illustration shows a round con.
crete barn, built by ]. A. Gaskill,
Greene county, Indiana, at a cost OF