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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05
KAISER RICH IN DECORATIONS.
Has Been Known to Wear as Many as
AZ at Once.

Emperor Williams recent visit to
Stockholm has enriched the orders and
decorations on his breast by a very
beautiful specimen of gold work, the
grand cross of the Wasa order, with
its accompanying chain. The highest
Swedish order, the Serafine order, has
been in the emperor's possession for
years.
1t is not exactly known how many
of these brilliant things the emperor
has, but it is supposed that he owns
323 orders and decorations. Certainly
he has more than either his father or
grandfather had, and has been seen
with as many as AZ on at one time.
He possesses the highest deccra-
lions of all European and Asiatic
states, including the much coveted
Garter Of England, which he is very
fond of wearing.
Since the Bourbons have been on
the throne of Spain there is both an
Austrian and Spanish Golden Fleece.
EmDeroy William has only the Span
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05
LAME BACK PRESCRIPTION

The increased use of whiskey for
lame back rheumatism is causing con-
siderable discussion among the medi-
cal fraternity. 1t is an almost infal-
lible cure when mixed with certain
other ingredients and taken properly.
The following formula is effective:
ITO one-half pint of good whiskey add
one ounce of Toris Compound and one
ounce Syrup Sarsaparilla Compound.
Take in tablespoonful doses before
each meal and before retiring"
Toris compound is product of the
laboratories of the Globe Pharmaceu-
tical Co., Chicago, but it as we'll as the
other ingredients can be had from any
good druggist.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05
Savaqery in Civilization.

1t is no time to say that man can
not, in civilized society, be guilty OF
cannabilism. / tell you there are
more cannibals in New York than in
the isles of the Pacific; and if to-day
you were suddenly to take away the
support that comes from eating men
there would be thousands and thou
sands of empty maws tomorrow in
that city.-Henry Ward Beecher.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05
Revelations of the Breakfast Table

To girls about to marry one would
tender the advice that they study
their intended victim at breakfast. II
he is feeding like forty, reject him as
the direct descendant of Circe's herd
of swine. If he is melancholy, be,
ware of the abrupt curves of his tenn
permanent. If he be boisterous and
facetious, remember that an empty
drum gives the greatest reverbration
and a chatterbox at 8 a. m. is as tire
some as Chanticleer at o'clock in the
morning. By their breakfasts you
shall know them.-Saturda Review.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05
IN THE RAPIDS.
Every Man Who Drinks in Danger OF
Going Over the Brink.

"Woe unto them that rise up early
IN the morning that they may follow
strong drink" 1t should be said that
intoxicants are not really strong
drink" If they were, trainers of ath-
letes would not bar them out. Mr.!
Reginald Rankin, who has won fame
by accomplishing the ascent of Aeon
cagua, the highest peak of the Andes
mountains, speaking Of the effects OF
alcohol upon the mountain climber,
says: Though alcohol is a bad thing
to climb on, it is an excellent thing
to toboggan down on when you have
reached the summit of your ambition
and never want to see it again"
Isaiah pictures here the man so fond
of drink that his first waking thought
is a craving for his 'eye opener" as,
his last thought in the day is for his
"nightcap," with continued"
thought all day for his next chance to
drink. Such a man is in the rapids
Just above the Niagara of hab1tual
drunkenness, and his friends often see
it, but seldom does the victim himself
know his danger. / heard OF a man
who suddenly discovered at seven
O'Clock in the evening that he was
longing for nine o'clock, when he was
wont to take his usual bedtime glass
to promote sleep. 1t was 70 Ain tia
discovery of a chate ia quit at once,
and before day had passed discov-
cred in his hard struggle how nearly
too late he had been. Challenge your
friend, who thinks drink has no hold
upon him, to give it up for week,
and in many cases he will find how
strongly he is already bound. If he is
not bound, let him keep himself free.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05

almost instantly into a storm Of APP
peals which amounted to a persecu-
ton. Her mail for some years before
Mr.. Sage's death had amounted to be-
tween 40 and so letters a day. 1t
leaped instantly to 900 a day, and the
entire surplus was appeals for money.
Within two months after Mr.. Sage's
death 1000 letters were carted away
from her house unopened. Two secre-
taries work night and day almost to
handle Mrs. Sage's private mail. If
she attempted to read ten. per cent. of
it personally she would be able to do
nothing else.
At first she tried conscientiously to
look it over herself. She was aston
fore Mr.. Sage's body was cold in it's
coffin she received a letter from a
New York man whom she never had
seen asking her to send him check
for 81, 900 by return mail, and he was
kind enough to inclose stamped en-
velope for reply. She never asked for
advice as to the disposal of this for
tune, yet within the first two months
of her widowhood she received letters
from more than 1000 different men,
instructing her how to give away her
money so as to do the most good. One
of them, the president of a college,
wrote her that if she would give him
charge of her entire fortune he would
invest it so that it would support his
college forever And, far from men
tioning the gratitude of his college in
such an event, he told her that she
ought to be thankful and grateful that
she had an opportunity to do such a
splendid work.
THE letters that really affected Mrs.
l Sage at this time were pathetic
appeals for help from individuals.
Many of these were to all appearances
genuine, the appeals of poor and ig-
norant persons, suffering in want and
hardship, and pathetically confident
that the kind-hearted woman who had
more money than she knew what to
do with would give them the little
that would make them happy. Some
of these letters distressed Mrs. Sage
greatly; but they came not only from
every state in the union but from for
eign countries. Had she responded to
them she would have dissipated her
entire fortune in small checks to indi-
viduals all over the world. So finally
Mrs. Sage gave up her mail. Now a
letter which is manifestly from per-
sonal friend is given her, but nothing
else reaches her eye.
1t is not only impossible to reach
Mrs. Sage by letter-it has become
one of the impossible things to see
her. Mrs. Sage formerly was one of
the most approachable of women.
Not trace of snobbery or purse pride
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05
When the Lights Go Out.

Mrs. Baker-Isn't it odd that, ac-
cording to the newspaper accounts,
most of the people who are very sick
seem to die during the night?
Mrs. Barker-The sick men my hus-
band sits up with seem to drop on
about . q. m.-Harper's Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05
The Hinhest Character.

The highest of characters, in my
estimation, is his who is as ready to
pardon the moral errors of mankind
as if he were every day guilty of some
himself; and at the same time as
cautious of committing a fault as il
he never forgaye one.-Pliny the
Younger
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05

Gains method.
of treating Abel
represents o n e
p h a S e of the
worlds treatment
of the church. 1t
1t was open oppo-
sition, radical.
cruel, decisive.
He simply killed.
him and thought
thus to end him
and his cause.
The tactics of the
world, however,
h ave changed;
the descendants
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05

AQ Sage has new velvet car
~ =SS#N pets in her home at No.
"2AG lMa 632 Fifth avenue-soft,
@9W rich and beautiful, with
w. deep, thick pile into which
the foot sinks.
Il am glad" said a woman who has
known Mrs. Sage for years, that she
could have those velvet carpets before
she died. In all the years of her mar
ried life down at the house at No. sos
Fifth avenue she had nothing but
ancient Brussels carpet on her parlOr
floor. 1t was one she had when she
first went to keeping house, and had
those great, set medallions in it that
they used to use for carpet patterns
40 years ago. The nap was worn off
all over it so that the brown warp
showed through. When it finally got
SO bad that it was impossible to use it
longer mating was put down in the
parlor, as it long had been in the rest
of the house. She always used the old
horsehair furniture she had when she
was married, such as one saw in coun-
try parlors 40 years ago, and there
were great cracks in the parlor walls
of the house at Forty-second street
which went for years without fixing.
Mrs. Sage suffered from mortifca-
ton at such things just as much as
any other woman would, and I'm glad
she's able to have the velvet carpets
for a few years before she dies. But
they came too late to give her much
pleasure. After they had all been put
down and the furniture was in place
she walked through the house observ-
ing and admiring, and then sat down
and cried. She said not a word in eX-
PLANTATION, but it was easy to under,
stand. She was thinking of all the
stinted years when she might have en-
joyed such things, and now she has
them when she is too old to care very
much.
There scarcely is a day that Mrs.
Sage does not weep" continued this
old friend of hers. "She simply sits
and cries at the intolerable burden of
having $65, 100000 on her shoulders, at
the burden of distributing that huge
fortune in the way that will do the
most good. She is so years old and
has New England conscience. She
wants to do just the right thing with
it ALL and it requires an amount of
thought and study and imposes a
feeling of responsibility that is hard
on an old woman who only wants a
quiet corner to spend her few remain
. ing years in"
MFRS. SAGE has aged very much
I'VE since her husbands death. She has
grown thin, pale, bent and wrinkled
Aside from the natural grief over Mr..
Sage's death, Mrs. Sage was plunged
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05
Need of JOY In Ones Work.

Joy in ones work is the consummate
tool, without which the work may be
done indeed, but without which the
work will always be done slowly,
clumsily, and without its finest per
fectnesS.-Phillips Brooks.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05
BID South African Industry.

Next to mining, the greatest indus.
try of South Africa is sugar growing.
The amount of money invested in this
is $7,300000. The production of the
present year is estimated at 10000
tons, with a valuation of about 500 a
ton
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05
WORLDLY
/ ALLIANCES
By REV. A. c. DIXON, D. D.,
III Pastor of the Chicago Ave. (Moody's) Id
A Church, Chicago. N

The sons of God saw the daughters
of men that they were fair, and they
took them wives OF all which they
chose. Gen. go.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05

You don't have to go to a rink to
see a lot of cheap skates.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05

good firm to ship your cream to
MILTON DAIRY CO., ST. PAUL.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05
FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thirty years Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
andhas positively cured thousands Of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, Inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fibroid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, tiatulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness or nervous prostration.
Why don't you try itY
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05

neys who were working passage back
to the home land.
He is a man of Peters mold; an
apostle Of outdoors. l don't know
whether his sermons or his stories of
tarpon fishing are the most inspirative
for the clean life and the wholesome
lifel
While the ascetic teaches a stiff,
clever little system he has found in
books that he is not sufficiently wide.
awake to understand, the clergymen
who fish learn, in the big silences and
swift activities of the open, the natural
life.
Not clergymen only, but all Of US.
lawyers, from the village squire to
our president; liter'y folk, from the
bard of the coal barges to Maurice
Maeterlinck with his beehives and au-
tomobile, all of us can gain from the
real world a touch on life which will
help US advance toward that millen-
MUM in which we shall beat our
spears not only into pruning hooks.
but also intc-fsh hooks.-Outers'
Book.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05

Cost of Putting Bible in Type.
The simple cost of setting up in type
q new edition of the Bible amounts to
&S 600
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05

Mrs. WinslOw's Soothing Syrup.
For children teethng, softens the gums, reduces n
hammaton, aays pain, cures wind coliC CSC bottle
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05

others when cash was needed and she
could not give and would not explaia
why. Her lack of command of money
went to almost incredible eXtents at
times. An old member of the Emma
Willard Alumnae association recalls
an incident at a meeting which took
place at Mrs. Sage's home years ago,
with Mrs. Sage presiding. The asso-
citation was obliged to count every
penny, and when some committee
member made a request for some post
age stamps to send out in letters there
was discussion as to whether or not
the stamps should be sent. The
amount asked for was only SO cents
worth, but Mrs. Sage let the discus
sion go on till finally a self-supporting
woman arose and said: please don't
let us waste any more time over this.
} will pay for the stamps"
n NE woman who knew Mrs. Sage
~ we'll in the years when she lived
at No. sos Fifth avenue declares that
she never had more than $50 a week
to run that house and pay all her own
expenses. Some of her earliest expen-
ditures of money after she became a
widow are rather pathetic to one who
can read between the lines. One of
them was to remove the remains of
her grandparents on her fathers side
from their almost forgotten burial
place on a farm near Troy to the fam
lily burial plot in Troy. Another was
to repair the tombstOnes OF her mater
nal grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Pierson, at Sag Harbor, and frame
them in granite to keep them from
falling and crumbling away. One of
her few personal indulgences has been
to buy an automobile, thing that Mr..
Sage never owned. The difference in
giving to the things in which she al
ways was interested is very apparent.
The million to the Emma Willard
school has been mentioned. She has
given $125,000 to the Home for Aged
Women at Amsterdam avenue and
One Hundred and Fourth street.
TO THE cynic who sneers that great
4 wealth is a burden easily gotten
rid of it may be responded that Mrs.
Sage is getting rid of hers as fast as
she can reasonably be expected to-.
Following is list of her benefactions
to date:
Autumn of 1906 School building
fund of Sag Harbor ..............$ 0,000
versity ........................ 9OO, 900
tute .,..................... 1,OOO, 900
girls LOO. 900
1907, Sage foundation ............... 10000, 900
society .......................... 900
Beirut Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
1907, Building for international
committees of Y. M. c. A. and !.
1907, '" School T. building fund Sag ''0'O0'
Harbor. additional. .............. $4,000
1907, Bed in Syracuse hospital. 5000
Brooklyn ......................... zoe, 900
New York City hospital ..... 300, 900
Females Observation-Disclosures. 125, 900
of Syracuse ....................... 100, 900
City ............... -, 80 100000
room in New York city hall 80. %, 900
1908, Princeton university ........ 25O, 900
1908, American Bible society (con-
amount ........... ISL. 500, 900
trail park $50. $4,000
1908, United Hebrew Charities,
emergency fund for unemployed 5000
sag Harbor .... go. $4,000
1908. Constitution island for Unit
ed States Military Preparatory
school ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5O,UOO
Total ....................... .$15, 19O. 900
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05

Few Cary Life Insurance.
OF those who die only about II per
cent. are insured.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05

EW YORK.-Mrs. Russell
Sage has new velvet car
pets in her home at No.
632 Fifth avenue-soft,
rich and beautiful, with
deep, thick pile into which
the foot sinks.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05

The wind frequently turns an um.
brella, but borrower seldom returns
it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05

MRS. SAGE has aged very much
I'VE since her husbands death She has
grown thin, pale, bent and wrinkled.
Aside from the natural grief over Mr..
Sages death, Mrs. Sage was plunged
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05

ID ESIDES this there have been many
ID lesser or indefinite gifts. She gave
$50, 900 in a lump to the Margaret Sage
Industrial School for Girls and Boys at
Inwood, l.. l., and has promised $4,000
a year endowment. She has pledged
the National Suffrage association
$1,000 a year for the next five years.
She gave $4,000 for a memorial win
dow in the First Presbyterian church
Of Syracuse, and various smaller sums
to the Woman's Exchange and the Pas
cal Institute. She financed the legis-
lative movement against racetrack
betting. She gave the relatives of Mr..
Sage $650000, doubling the requests
left them by him. She tips number
of the Central park laborers five dol
lars every New Years. January 1,
1907, when she tipped 225 of them,
was her largest bestowal of this kind.
The Sage Foundation to Improve
social and living conditions in the
United States" has financed, among
other things, the playground and the
anti-tuberculosis movements. June 20
last she gave a lawn party to 900
school children of Sag Harbor and per.
sonally superintended the distribu-
ton among them of 1000 bricks of ice
cream and 500 pounds of cake.
Nevertheless, a detective guard
watches her grounds all the time; and
when Sag Harbor celebrated the open
ing of the new school building for
which Mrs. Sage gave the money they
assured her that if she would attend
a special guard should be provided for
her for the day at the city's expense.
A prisoner of wealth, victim of sus-
picion, weighed down by heavy respon-
sibilities when she asks only a few
quiet years at the end of life, the
eighty millions that Russell Sage
shaved to amass have been singularly
unproductive of happiness to the one
person in the world that he cared for.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05

TO THE cynic who sneers that great
4 wealth is a burden easily gotten
rid of it may be responded that Mrs.
Sage is getting rid of hers as fast as
she can reasonably be expected to-.
Following is a list of her benefactions
to date:
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] AM
A MOT Her

lonely homes to-day long for this
blessing to come into their lives, and
to be able to utter these words, but
because of some organic derange-
ment this happiness is denied them.
Every woman interested in this
subject should know that prepara-
ton for healthy maternity is
ACCOMPLISHED bY the use of
Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-09-02
BIDS EXCEED $25. 900
APPROPRIATE ION FOR
NEVILLE ST. SCHOOL
Lowest Figure More Than $1,000
Above Sum Allowed Board
y Holds Matter Over.
-----
WILL CONFER WITH COUNCIL

Bids for erecting. heating and
ventilating an eight-room brick
school in Neville street were re-
ceiyed by the Board of Education at
a special meeting last night, but, as
the lowest bid exceeded the appro-
priation of $4,000 by over $4,000. a
motion was adopted that the propos-
ais be held for further consideration
and that the certified checks of
$1,000 be returned to all of the bid
ders pending a conference of the
board with the city council.
The bids for erecting the school
we're opened at $3.50 o'clock, and, of
the nine bidders, Henderson Broth
srs' figure of $26,729 was low.
Kelly & McAlinden were low on the
heating, their bid being $3.50.
The total Of the two bids was
$30.269, which is over $1,000 in ex-
cess of the appropriation.
AS soon as all of the bids had been
opened, the board took a recess to
consider them, with Architect ]. X.
Jensen, who drew the plans for the
building. The board was not out
long and on its return, President
Bradley stated that the contract
would not be awarded, as the bids
were over the appropriation.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-09-02
WATER BOARD
WANT 100000
ISSUE OF BONDS
Send Communication 10 Board
Of Aldermen Requesting Ap-
prOVal Of Ordinance.
PAYMENTS ON PAvEMEATs


The water board sent communi-
cation to the Board OF Aldermen last
night anent the desired 100000
bond issue. 1t was referred to the
committee of the whole. The coun-
Gil is requested by the water board
to approve an ordinance passed by
the water commissioners on May
last.
Five property-owners petitioned
that Paterson street, between Madi-
son and Brighton avenues, be graded
and curbed They waived the pre-
liminary assessment. 1t was grant
ed.
Among the warrants ordered were
eight for 81 each for the election
officers who served yesterday In the
third ward.
A final payment to Meagher &
Smith on the Jefferson street pave
ment of $419.59 was ordered. Like
wise $1,433.95 on Maple street.
Hardiman & Diederickson got first
payment on the Second and First
street sewers, for $2,094.12. The
Hastings Paving Company, the State
street PAYERS, got a payment, the
third, $9,98741. The Standard
Bitulithic got the fourth payment,
$9,O81, on the Prospect street paw
ing. Martin Hansen got the final
payment on the Elm street sewer
work, S1,460.41.
Alderman-at-Larg Voorhees, and
Aldermen Cannon, Garland, Larson,
Dalton and Schultz were present.
The next meeting will be held
Tuesday, September 8, the regular
session falling on Labor Day.