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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22
LISTLESS READING.
The Way to Correct This Fault and
Get Beneficial Results.

Reading can be made a much great
er source of pleasure to those who
now only read when they can find no
other pleasures" said n Columbia uni
versity lecturer on English literature.
"You have perhaps noticed with
what keen sense of satisfaction some
people read the newspapers. Do you
went to know the secret of their abil-
tty to extract enjoyment in this way?
Well, you have probably noticed that
those who can so rivet their attention
to the printed page are the ones who
make it a point to talk about what
they have read.
THAT is the secret. Try it. Read
something, then tell some one about
It. Do this with books as well as with
papers. Soon you will notice that In
reading a story you fix in your mind
the things you want to relate. You
get the writer's point of view, then
You fix upon the points he has pre-
scented.
"At the beginning your story telling
will lack the completeness Of the story
as written, and you viii notice that
your shortcomings in this direction
are due to listless reading. This will
correct itself just to the extent of
your ambition to become a reader for
all there is in reading. l have given
this bit of advice before and have
been thanked many times by those
who followed my directions. Try It
and mark the results. Exchange.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22
stevenson and the Reaaar.

While walking in London one after
noon Robert Louis Stevenson and Ed
mund Gosse met a stalwart beggar
whom Gosse refused TO aid Steven
son, however, wavered and finally
handed him a sixpence The man
pocketed the coin, forbore to thank
his benefactor, but, fixing his eyes on
Gosse, said In a loud voice. "And
what is the other little gentleman 60
ing to give me?' "In future" said
Stevenson as they strobe coldly on, Il
shall be the other little gentleman
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22

A rather pompous looking deacon In
certain city church was asked to
take charge of class of boys during
the absence of the regular teacher.
While endeavoring to impress upon
their young minds the Importance Of
living a Christian life the following
question was propounded:
''Why do people call me Christian,
children the worthy dignitary asked,
standing very erect and smiling down
upon them.
Because they don't know you" was
the ready answer Of bright eyed lit
tie boy, responding to the ingratiating
smile with one equally guileless and
winning. -Lippincott's.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22
PASSING IT ON.
Presence of Mind In an Unpleasant
Situation.

Presence of Mind In an Unpleasant
Situation.
Greatness is thrust upon some IN
dividuals, patriotism on others. When
the patriotism does not belong to ones
own country the situation may prove
embarrassing. Such it was in the case
of Agostino Polidori, the great-grand-
father of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The
incident is given in a life of the poet
by his brother. Polidori, an Italian,
was in Paris at the taking of the Bas-
tile in 1899. He tells the story of his
unexpected prominence and his extri-
cation from the uncomfortable posi-
ton.
| was passing by the Palais Royal
while the populace was running to as
sault the fortress, and, having en-
countered a highly powdered wigmak-
er with a rusty sword raised aloft, I,
not expecting any such thing and hard
ly conscious of the act had the sword
handed to me as he cried aloud:
"Take it, citizenl Fight for your
countryw
1 had no fancy for such an enter
prise so, finding myself sword in hand,
1 at once cast about for some way to
get rid of it, and, lettering my instruc-
ton from the man of powder, 1 stuck
it into the hand of the first unarmed
person I met.
"Take it, citizenv' 1 repeated. Flight
for vO11r count1.vf', Than I naeced IN
and returned home.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22
Proof That Dreams Come True

"Yes'm, I'm goin' to move tomorrow"
said Bertha, the colored washerwoman.
"Yes'm. | kncwed it last week. 1
dreamt it. Whenevah / begins to
dream of packin' my trunk and gettin'
ready to go somewheah the lanlawd
he comes the ve'y mex week TO- the
rent Yes'm, I'm goin to move to-
morrow."-New York Press.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22
The Wrona Place.

A shade hustled up to st. Peter.
my good man. he said, will you
tell me where I must go to procure
souvenir post cardsT"
And st. Peter, eying him sourly, told
him where he could go to.-Puck.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22

The Angry Mother-You've got an
back your ball when you nearly killed
one Of my children with 1t. The Boy
Well, ma'am. you've got ten children,
and we've got only one ball.-Chicago
Tribune
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22
Knew Il ALI.

One Sunday morning little Bobby
showed signs of having something on
his mind. Finally he mustered up
courage and addressed his father thus:
Say, papa, don't you think it is time
for me to graduate from Sunday
school ?'-Chicago News.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22
The Mans WAY.

us your husband suffering from the
toothacheT
We'll" answered the woman with q
tired expression. be says he's suffer
ing. but from the way he's Dragging
about 1t I'm half suspicious that he's
enjoying It,"
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22
II Surely Does.

Bacon-The flea is a coward. 1t
never comes up to the scratch.
Egbert-Well. 1t comes up to tho
place where the scratch is going to b,
all right-Yonkers Statesman.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22

"a man loses his hair only once"
remarked the observer of events and
things, but some women misiay
theirs several times eek."-Yonkers
Statesman
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22
Manufacturing Chords.

'How is your daughter getting on?"
"Splendidly She's busy just now at
Beethoven's works."
what is it-one of those pottery
places ?''-Boston Transcript.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22
More Important.

"Why weren't you at the mass meet
ing Of the unemployed?"
II was looking for a job."-Puck.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22

Snicker-I dreamed last night that
was millionaire Kicker-Well,
might as well have been one for all the
sleep got last night-Bohemian Mag
azine
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22

Riches serve a wise man, but COM
mand fool.-German Proverb.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22

The man who is standing up for you
soon gets tired and sits down.-AtcAi-
son Globe.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30
OLDEST LAND IN THE WORLD
According to Scientists Our Earth
Had Its Origin in the Lauren
tian Highlands.

Stretching across Canada, north OF
the st. Lawrence, and ending in the
regions about the source of the Mis-
Sissippi, is range of low granite hills
called the Laurentian highlands. These
hills are really mountains that are al
most worn out, for they are the old
est land in America, and, according
to Agassiz, the oldest in the world.
In the days when there was nothing
but water on the face of the globe,
these mountains came up-a long is
land of primitive rock with universal
ocean chatting against its shores. None
CO the other continents had put in
their appearance at the time America
was thus looking up. The United
States began to come to light by the
gradual uplifting of this land to the
north and the appearance of the tops
of the Alleghenies which were next
in order. Later the Rockies started
up. The United States grew south
ward from Wisconsin and westward
from the Blue Ridge. An early view
of the country would have showed a
large island which is now northern
Wisconsin, and long thin tongue of
this primitive rock sticking down from
Canada into Minnesota, and these two
growing states looking out over the
waters at the mere beginnings of
mountain ranges east and west. They
were waiting for the rest of the Unit
ed States to appear-The Atlantic.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30

5000 100000 yards valued at than $4O0,OO0OOO!
you the ordinary jublant statistican with
cold analysis of abroad the reonder
apt that, after all, America for years mas
had favorable balance of trade In a recent opu-
misc review of Americas foreign commerce 1T Is set
with much citation that the of exports over
imports the past fiscal year amounted in value 10
$446 600 000 get those figures had to count
in 1882 900 worth of cotton shipped abroad and
if cotton from the record our foreign
reveals export trade considerably less IMAM
import manufactured cotton is sold abroad
through enterprise the part OF America, Dut Is
rather traffic resulting from neglect OF our oppor-
tunity nothing in the totals OF our foreign
traffic to the complacency of our statesmen
There was a time when Yankee packets carried
American wares around the world, but we have aban-
ships they have all but vanished from the
seas The federal hand has been busy building break
waters scooping harbors and deepening waterways
Now we are cutting channel through the hemisphere
Conscious strength and in the presence of bewi
realize that dominion at the shores of our
seas The decline of merchant marine from the days
of great achievements is not the result Of de-
crease national vigor. The energy and genius Of
American people have simply been withdrawn from
the We have expended ingenuity and strength
riches in exploiting the continent at least the
northern and western part OF it, with the result that
have developed between the great oceans the most
successful industrial nation the world has known
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30

story is attached to this mascot. 1t
was sent to the jockey by an old lady
who, requiring certain sum of money
to aid her daughter and not knowing
where to get 1t, had the idea of back
ing the horse ridden by this jockey.
She got friend to make the bet,
and, the horse winning, she obtained
all the money she required. Two or
three days later the jockey received
the little prayer book, with note ex-
planning the circumstances and saying
it was the old lady's first and last bet.
She would never forget the Jockey,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30

Bits OF skin of famous racehorses
of the past are very much priced by
superstitious jockeys, who would as
soon think of riding without saddle
as without this peculiar talisman. Ii
a bit of skin cannot be obtained the
jockey contents himself with a few
of the hairs out of famous race
horses tail.
One well-known jockey was In TIE
maitland so far as the writer is
aware he continues the habit to-day
of carrying a small prayer book 10
his riding jacket. Quite romantic
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30

manner, to jeweled whips and dia-
mond pins presented by owners.
A certain Newmarket stable appren-
tice who has ridden several winners
this year never rides without holding
in his mouth a piece of straw, about
three inches long, which he found
while in the stable one day on the
back of the first horse he was asked
to ride in race. For some unac-
countable reason he regarded the
piece of straw as an omen of good
luck, more particularly after he won
that first race.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30
Paw Paw, Mich,

Another Operation Avoided.
Chicago, Ill. CT want women to
know what that wonderful medicine,
lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, has done for me. Two of the
best doctors in Chicago said / would
die if did not have an operation, and
/ never thought of seeing well day
agnin. I hada small tumor and female
troubles so that / suffered day and
night. A friend recommended Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and it made me well woman."-Mrs.
ALvENA SPERLNG, II Langdon St.
Chicago, ILL.,
Lydia E. Pinkha1n's Vegetable Com
pound, made from roots and herbs,
has proved to be yhe most cessful
remedy for curing the worst forms OF
female ills, including displacements.
inflammation, ibroid tumors, irregu-
larities, periodic pains, backache, bear
ing-down feeling, fatulency, indiges-
ton, and nervous prostration. Itcosts
but a trife to try il, and the result
has been worth millions ~ many
suffering women.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30
CAMEL CARAVAN .LOADED WITH
COTTON GOODS EWRQUTE EOR HBG

requires salesman advertising to make raw COT
popular in all industrial centers from Manchester
O Milan and eastward to japan. If we did not have
plank af1oat could sell cotton to the world
America is not serious competitor for trade oversee
all the of national pride and delusion there
has been greater folly than the present popular be-
lief in the United States that have engineered
commercial invasion abroad The trading nations must
have our cotton and while upward or l9O tarlH walls
fence them of in their rivalry they all feaH America
and carefully put cotton on the free list.
There has been notable increase in the bulk Of
our foreign commerce. but we have merely kept pace
with the whole worlds advance. In fact it is the prog
in purchasing of foreign nations that has
made possible heavy exports of raw materials. We
been Boosting of outborne cargoes that enriched
rivals far than they did America When
cite the totals of our foreign trade without exam
lining nature of that traffic blind ourselves
the magnificent field awaiting American enterprise
abroad.
The rivalry for foreign markets, the improvements
in the facilities for reaching them and cotons
contribution to merchandise have revolutonized
the worlds trade that the commerce Of former
turtles is insignificant in comparison The foreign
fc of any of the leading industrial nations to-day
ceeds in volume and the total foreign trade of all
countries combined a hundred years ago The annual
external trade of even diminutve country the
Netherlands exceeds the billondolar mark. And this
astounding in the trade of nations creating
tualy new earth, is due in large measure to the vol
of cotton manufacture and the worldwide sale of
cotton goods. We fail to keep in mind that in that
world traffic America does not share We have been
boastng of mere bulk-boastng while have been
sending to industrial Europe the raw supply without
which it could not compete with America for year.
Gladstone estimated that the wealth accumulated by
the nations during the first so of the nineteenth
century equaled all that had been stored up by mankind
in the preceding 1900 years, and that their multiplying
fortunes between 1850 and 1870 duplicated the record
of the foregoing fifty So that in those 70 the in
of the worlds wealth exceeded by 100 per cent
the piledup of all lands in all the preceding
centuries the birth of Christ And the accumula
tions since 1870 literally beyond compute.
Such world with it's consuming power is the market
that America the country that alone
the commodity indispensable to the nations. Thus far
we have neglected stewardship. During the last
fiscal year we sold to the old world only little
100000 worth of finished cotton goods. Our best
in that part of the world the United King
dom, which bought from $1S53984 worth. But while
growing foolishly proud over that England was
selling us 1872 worth of cotton goods spun of
material temized columns, placed side by side
reproach to resourcefu America Here is the record,
preserved by our bureau of statistics
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30
JOCKEYS AND ODD MASCOTS

for sixpenee and regard the animal
as an emblem of good luck. I have
christened it Arranmore, and it will
accompany me wherever 1 may be
riding"
Plant is by no means the only
jockey who is superstitious. As a
matter of fact, most jockeys carry
talismans in one form or another.
These range from bits of straw and
horseskin, acquired in some curious
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30
His Proper. Sphere.

Prince Bismarck was once pressed
by a certain American official to rec
ommend his son for diplomatic
place. Gle is a very remarkable fell
low" said the proud father; che
speaks seven languages" Indeed"
said Bismarck, who did not hold a
very high opinion of linguistic acquire
ments; what a wonderful head wait
er he would make!"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30
Like Their Famous Namesakes.

An upper Harlem man named his
twin sons Theodore Roosevelt and
William Taft, says the New York
Sun. A friend asked him the other
day how they were getting along.
"Famously," was the answer. ''Wil-
liam digs steadily into his breakfast
bowl while Theodore yells and pounda
him over the head with a spoon"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30

procured Doan's Kidney Pills and
began using them. This remedy helped
me at once, strengthened my kidneys
and corrected the disordered condi-
ton"
Remember the name-Doan's. Sold
by all dealers. so cents box. Foster
Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30
One Boy Carries Piebaid Rat and An
other a Prayer Book in Riding
Jacket.

'T knew l should ride winner this
afternoon" said ]. Plant, the we'll
known jockey, after he had steered
Arranmore. an outsider, first past the
winning post in the race for the Great
Tom Plate at Lincoln few days ago.
Il bought piebald rat this morning
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30

and asked him to accept the prayer
book as an emblem of good luck.
and" said the jockey some time ago,
81 firmly believe it has been my good
talisman, for 1 have been wonderfully
successful since / received it."-Tit-
Bits.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30
AGE of Trees.

The pine reaches maximum age
of 700 years; the silver fir, 425; the
larch, 275; the red beech, 245; the as
pen, 210; the birch, 200; the ash, 40:
the elder, 145, and the elm, 100
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30

with a disordered
condition of the kid
neys, some backache
and irregular pass
ages of secretions. At
times / was obliged
to get up out of bed
at night, and the
urine was unnatural
in appearance. On the
advice of a friend I
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30
DOCTOR
ADVISED
OPERATION
CuredbyLy .Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

a Sull6I6u JoIIi~
bly, from female ills,
including infam-
nation and conges-
ton, for several
years. My doctor
said there was no
hope for me but an
operation. l began
taking Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound, and
/ can now say / am
q we'll woman"
EMMA DRAPER.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30
The Aid of Fashion.

Ella-What would you do If you 40
tually found a man under your bed?
Stella-Id drop my hat on him.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30

DR.. Pierces Pleasant Pellets regulate and invig.
crate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar-coated,
tiny granues. Easy TO take as candy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30
Imports of Cotton Clothing (knit eoods).

An analysis of this trade in cotton goods reveals that
exports than 100000 worth consists of
unbleached cloths, while of imports more than
S22 100000 worth consists of finer fabrics, including
broideries, aces and curtains Altogether the figures
show that while exported in the 10 months ending
with October 1905 100000 worth of the output of
mills the nations sold to almost 100
cent more than sold to them.
1t is a grotesque and almost unbelievable item in
the commerce this age that resourceful nation like
America producer of the worlds cotton, should buy
back two dollars worth of cotton goods for every dol
lars worth it ships abroad
When competitors buy from us eight or nine mil
lion of manufactured cotton, it is mark of
their enterprise of The greater part of
foreign is the result Of suction from abroad, not
of propulsion from America. The need of the nations
is for and they send their ships to it.
we were aborignes and raised cotton could sell it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30
A GREAT ANNOYANCE.
Kidney Disease Shows Many Painful
and Unpleasant Symptoms.

George S. Crowell, 100 Broadway,
Helena, Mont, says: Il was troubled
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30

No man can pray right while he
lives wrong.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30
Total .$23,165,S92

Such is the inglorious story of our traffic
with our greatest European customer. And
England is adding to its cotton spindles at
the rate of more than 100000 every 80 days!
In the last IL months this increase in the
United Kingdom was 2,76500O. And every
new mill and every new spindle in England
is erected with the confidence that the raw
cotton can be obtained from the American
planter at prices which beggar him.
King Cotton on British Throne.
Cotton is the worlds king, but it sits on
a British throne,
Last year we exported a little over 200-
100000 yards of piece goods, valued at $751;
100000, but at the same time the United
Kingdom was selling abroad more than
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30

significance in the fact that alien
nations that never saw a cotton plant
have long since entered the Kingdom
of Cotton and now divide dominion
among themselves, excluding the
United States-the country in which
the cotton is grown.
The reign of cotton is forever AS
long as the race survives cotton
goods will be worn in multiplying
forms, but the countries that now sell
the finished products of cotton to the
world have no assurance of perma-
nence in that trade Americas ulti-
mate control in the cotton world is
inevitable. Our manifest destiny as
world trader in cotton goods looms
as a menace across the horizon of
European states. Americas future
in this fabric has awakened the
statesmen of all countries save our
own. The wealth and progress of
the United States are enduringly in
terwoven with the coming civilization
OF all cotton-consuming continents
The home for the dynasty of cotton
is in the land of Dixie, not in London
and Liverpool.
Knowing our latent power, we can
afford to look candidly at some con-
temporary facts. They are not fiat
tering to our national pride. They
reveal a world of opportunity passed
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30

N ALL discussions regard;
ing cotton two facts are
paramount; first, that cot
ton controls the world
and second that the ma
tions that reap a prodigal
harvest from the sale of
cotton goods depend upon
America for the raw sup
ply.
The American people
have begun to realize the