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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21
Must Build His Own House.

Shelter must be provided for teach
ers and pupils, and also for horses,
calves, pigs and chickens. Brick is a
favorite material, for the African
woods usually are too hard to be
worked easily. The minister fresh
from a theological seminary may find
that building brick kiln with moth
ing but African labor is quite as diff
cult as to construct Greek sentences
And that is the beginning. He prefers
not to think of the masonry, the put
ting in of doors and windows and the
thatching of the roof At least he does
not need to worry about the floors.
The native girls take that part of the
building into their own hands. They
simply fill it up with an even layer of
red soil taken from an ant heap. They
rub it and pound it and sprinkle it,
and rub it again till it shines like
black polished marble, and there is
the floor Healthy? Well, no; but it
is cheap. When night comes the ma
tives gather around the fire in the
kitchen or the schoolhouse to sing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21
HOW TO DESTROY EXPLOSIVES.
| Precautions to Be Taken with Gun
powder and NtrogIycerne.

The best way to destroy ordinary
black gunpowder is to throw it into a
stream under conditions that prevent
any harm coming to human beings or
animals through the dissolving of the
saltpeter If no suitable stream is
available the gunpowder may be
stirred with water in tubs, or the dry
gunpowder may be poured out en- the
ground in a long thin line and ignited
with a fuse at one end
To destroy dynamite cartridges the
paper wrappings should be carefully
removed, the bare cartridges laid in
row with their ends in contact and
the first cartridge ignited with O. fuse
without a cap. Even with these pre-
cautions a simultaneous explosion of
the entire mass may occur, so that 1T
is wise to retire to safe distance.
The row of cartridges should be laid
parallel with the wind and ignited at
the leeward end SO that the flame will
be driven away from the mass.
Frozen dynamite should be handled
with special care, as it's combustion is
peculiarly liable to assume an eXplo-
sive character A small quantity Of
dynamite may be destroyed by throw
ing it in very small bits into an open
fire, or the cartridges rnay be ex-
ploded one by one in the open air
with fuses and caps.
Dynamite should never be thrown
into water, as the nitroglycerine
which it contains remains undissolved
and capable of doing mischief. Other
explosives which contain nitroglycer-
inc should be treated in the same way
as dynamite.
Ammonium nitrate explosives may
be thrown in small fragments into an
open fire, or if they do not contain
nitroglycerine may be destroyed by
means of water. Explosive caps
should be exploded singly with pieces
of fuse.--Scientific American.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21
CURES COLDS QUICKLY

A never failing home remedy for
coughs and colds is made from the fol.
lowing formula to be mixed at home,
Two ounces of glycerine, one-hali
ounce of Concentrated pine compound
one-half pint of good whiskey; mix and
shake thoroughly; use in doses of a
teaspoonful to a tablespoonful every
four hours"
Thus will cure any cough that is cur
able, or break up an eacute cold in
twenty-four hours. The ingredients all
can be gotten at any drug store.
The Concentrated pine is pine prod.
uct refined for medical use and comes
only in half ounce bottles, each en-,
closed in a round case, which is air.
tight, but be sure that it is labeled
concentrated"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21
Soul Service.

While we are entirely dependent
upon God, he needs us in his work
and there are some things we can do
for him. By using the opportunities
he places in our way, and by employ
ing our powers, we may accomplish
much work for his glory. AS Solomon
was permitted to build the house of
the Lord, so every Christian has some
edifice of holy, consecrated service to
rear to his master. We may build God
houses Of wood and stone, but the
structure he raises out of us is a spir-
itual temple God works in us more
nightly than we can work for him.
Houses of wood and stone, gold and
silver, are but transient and are moth
ing compared to the un-huilding OF
anything we can do fss him.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21

They pick up tunes with surprising
readiness, and repeating them with
trills and variations is an amuse-
ment that never pals on them.
1t gives the missionary respite for
his letters home or to fall asleep over
a book or to go out and look at the
stars and wonder how it would seem
to talk to man of his own kind or to
hear good music or merely to see cleo
trio lights, to feel hard pavements I'M
der his feet and hear the changing of
street cars. Or he may wonder how
in all the petty worries that sap his
strength he is to keep the freshness Of
mind that will enable him to present
spiritual ideals in the guise to appeal
to a savage people. But in this re-
spect he often feels that he is past
praying for.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21
Great Aid to Missionaries.

Even if the president should not
take an active part in the work. he I'M
doubtedly will visit the mission sta
tions, and the mere fact that a chief
of such bigness that the full scope of
the African imagination hardly can
take in his orbit visits Familiarity with
the missionaries will give very help
full prestige to them in the eyes of the
natives. Respect for his own chief is
the bone and sinew of the Africans
code of morals and is, in fact, one with
his religion Combined with this is a
surprising penetration into the who's
who" of other nations 1t takes an
African native something less than
five minutes to know who is the real
thing" and who merely masqueradeS
in the borrowed feathers of authority.
The hostile attitude toward missions
sometimes taken by individual white
magistrates often has done incalcul-
able harm to the work of the mission
airy. because these magistrates in the
native eye are invested with dignity
as the representatives of the great
white chiefs "pesheya" Con the other
side-meaning of the ocean,. The
coming in person of one of the great
est of these chief to the house of their
own "umfundisi" (teacher) will neu-
tralize the unfriendliness of any resi-
dent magistrate.
On the other hand, President Roose-
welt in his writings certainly will
touch on the practical side of work
of such significance as that of the
Christian missions. The question of
the capacity of the African native for
civilization must be answered at the
mission stations if it is answered at
all
Missionaries have opened the coun-
try to white men, and the chief high
ways penetrating the African CONT
nent still are called missionary
roads," When Livingstone's house
was sacked, his books torn and scat
tered to the winds and his medicine
bottles broken in revenge for his
championship of the natives against
the aggressions of the border ruffians,
this disaster was the impetus that
drove him to his real work as an ex-
plorer. No one ever has accomplished
more with fewer resources. To the
last he remained always the mission
ary. travelling among the natives as
one who sought only their good and
had nothing to fear from them. All
the world knows how Livingstone
work became the inspiration of Stan
Iey's career and resulted ultimately in
the real opening of the dark continent.
Even before Livingstone's time his
father-in-law, Robert Moffat, Travelled
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21

with his wife and babies through
South Africa when no one else dared
venture outside of the white settle
ments, and no. one thought of modest
ing him. He was the only man who
had any influence over Moselikatse,
the most bloodthirsty chief in South
Africa.
The great Norwegian missionary,
Bishop Schroeder, held similar posi-
ton in the regard Of the fierce Zulu
chief Cetewayo, and it was Schreuder's
presence in the English camp that
gave the natives courage to surrender
themselves to the British when they
had been vanquished in the last Zulu
war in 1870 His house was the only
white mans dwelling that was left
standing in Zululand. The savage
army, drunk with temporary victory,
split in two, one division passed over
the hills to the north of Schreuder's
station, the other over the hills on the
south, for the chiefs knew that in the
frenzy of battle their braves could not
be restrained from destroying what
ever came in their way.
Missionary work in most parts OF
Africa has lost much of it's spectacular
features. 1t now is mostly a matter
of hard, grinding, monotonous work.
The popular conception of missionaries
includes two figures. One is that of a
spiritual fanatic bent mainly on teach
ing the savages to sing hymns instead
of bowling war songs, the dupe usual
ly of willy savages who feign "conver-
sion" while laughing in their new mis-
sionary bingham sleeves. The other
ing the childish native to his own adj
vantage.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21
The True Missionary.

There is a third figure, very different
from either. Kipling has written with
sympathetic insight the story of the
obscure official or non-commissioned
officer in his struggle to beat civiliza-
ton into the savage "half devil and
half child" The Sergeant What sis
Name" of the mission field has yet to
find his interpreter-or her interpreter,
for the sergeant is just as often
woman.
Life at an African mission station is
very much the same throughout the
continent. The day begins usually
with the call of the bell at sunrise in
the summer and an hour or two before
that time in the winter, for in the mat
ter of early rising it is the white man
who must adapt himself to the native
habit. After brief sunrise prayer the
boys and girls of the school are mus
tered in the courtyard; they shoulder
their hoes, and it is away to the corn
field or the sweet potato patch. Stand
ing in a row at the bottom of the field,
they lift their heavy hoes far above
their heads and bring them down with
a force that sends the iron blade far
into the ground, lift them again and
let them fall with rhythmic regularity.
AS they do so they chant in slow,
heavy monotone, which is their near
est approach to singing, any incidents
in their life that may be uppermost
in their minds-the ripening of the
corn, the marriage of the chiefs
daughter or any of the happenings of
the day. Sometimes the work lags and
needs the constant impatient "She
shani' (hurry) of the white teacher.
The African holds theory quite the
opposite of Darwin's; he believes that
monkeys were evolved from race of
lazy people that loafed leaning on the
handles of their hoes, until the useful
implements grew into tails, to the
everlasting shame of the loafers.
Breakfast consists of one of the three
staples. sweet potatoes, squash or corn,
either as mush or on the cob. 1t is
eaten from platters at bare table
with a quick lunch effect, rather a test
of discipline, for the native loves to
squat on a straw mat and take his
time about chewing. No greater dis
courtesy can be offered a native than
to interrupt his meal. But the school
bell is memorable.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21

tain English firm the workmen a year
or two ago originated what they called
the Lazy club. 1t was entirely their
own idea, which for obvious reasons
has received neither recognition nor
financial support from the manage
ment, but has been a most excellent
means of reducing the number of late
corners.
Whenever a workman is more than
five minutes late after time he finds
the gate locked and he is not allowed
to enter until the half hour is up.
This half hour is deducted from his
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21
Friendly Advice

IF ever marry" said the bachelor
who was beginning to be old, Il shall
be careful to pick out lady whom l
can treat as my equal"
"Oh, say, old chap" answered the
married man. Il wouldn't do that If
were you. 1 can tell you from ex-
perience that woman who would
submit to such treatment wouldn't be
worth having around the house"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21

wages, but in addition he has also to
pay to the treasurer of the Lazy club
about five cents for coming late
If he is late more than once or so
during week everybody is aware of
the fact, and the second or third time
he makes his appearance after start
ing time he is greeted with a terrific
combination of noises produced on
any available material by his fs.io6
workmen.
At certain periods the accumulated
funds of the Lazy club are divided,
not among those who have produced
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21

~
u "a heroes of the dark
IA continent are not all
W W mighty hunters and ex-
plorers. The hardest
fight that Is waged for
the opening of the continent is not
fight in the open with wild beasts or
bowling savages while the world looks
on and applauds Rather it is Crap
ping in the dark with shadows, the
shadows Of spiritual gloom that loom
so black and yet are SO elusive to the
grasp. It is a fight for the spread OF
light in dark places waged by men and
women unused to physical hardsh1ps
and with a breeding that renders them
peculiarly sensitive to the spiritual
wear and tear of their work 1t is
fight without fanfare, without an audi
ence, and too often without immediate
resu3t3
If President Roosevelt accepts the
invitation of the Methodist Missionary
society TO take part in missionary work
while travelling through Africa he will
have thrown the weight of his inf1u-
ence in the scales for a cause particu-
larIy in need of such help. In the same
way as the presidents declarations
against race suicide unquestionably
have helped domestic life, so perhaps
he can throw some light on phase
of civilizing work peculiarly misunder-
stood by the majority of white people
at home and abroad. 1t requires no
great stretch of the imagination to get
a vision of the president preaching a
eommOn-sense religion to a black au-
dience, just as he has preached do
mesticity, fearlessness, strenuousness
and great many kindred virtues to
the people in America. But it requires
an intimate knowledge of the African
character, it's keen sense of authority
and position, its generation for big
chiefs" of whatever country, to gauge
the tremendous influence his words
would carry.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21

There IS Catarrh in this section OF the country
than all other diseases put together and until the
few years was supposed to be mcurable For a great
many years doctors pronounced it local disease and
prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing
to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurabe
Science has proven Catarrh TO be constitutional dis
and therefore requires constitutional treatment
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by ]. Cheney
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the market. 1t is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to teaspoonful 1t acts directly on the blood
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Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21
DUST EXPERT IN A WAY.
One Man Who Is Constantly Conscious
of the Presence of Gust isa SAe Air.

mo matter where you live k9d how
ever high in the air you alGays find
dust settling on everything every
where, but said the near-sighted
man, ''if you want to realize this fact
as you never did before you want to
wear spectacles and work at some
employment that requires constant
bending over.
Fourteen times a day, or as much
oftener as you look, you will find
your glasses covered with fine par
ticles of dust. Maybe you don't look,
and then maybe some bigger particle,
some speck that is by comparison
veritable bowlder of dust, settles
there square in your line of vision,
where it may not obstruct your sight
but where it cannot fail to arrest your
attention. Then when you take them
off to remove that bowlder you find
your glasses covered with dust in
finer particles, as you would find
them, indeed, however often you
might look
"Over such an area as that of New
York, for instance, there are tons of
dust floating in the air, as though,
perhaps without figuring out it's
weight, many people, such as house
wives and storekeepers, are aware;
but perhaps nobody is reminded of
this so constantly as the man who
wears spectacles and who bends over
at his work, and on whose glasses,
where it is ever before him, dust is
constantly settling"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21
Harsh Language an Obstacle.

AS for arithmetic, it is not easy to
learn the multiplication table, when to
say mine times eight you have to
let out the following mouthful of
sound: ''Tata isishiyangalolonye pinda
nge sishangalombili" But the natives
have an adjunct to difficult enuncia-
ton, a sort of first aid, in the language
of the fingers. Beginning from right to
left, the little finger means one, the
left thumb means six, the left forefin-
ger seven, and so on. If time or energy
fail you, you simply wag a finger, or if
the number goes into the tens, you
wag two fingers, and the deed is done.
Your breath is saved.
The white woman teacher in a
school Of eighty or a hundred natives
is likely to find, even if she has one or
two native assistants, that her position
as the motor nerve of this too, too
solid mass of African flesh is wearing,
to say the least. The industrial part
of the work is not so difficult as the
purely intellectual. 1t is not so hope
less a task to make the African native
fashion something with his hands as
to make him grasp anything with his
brain. The women have learned in
their native handicrafts such as straw
plating a dizziness of touch that make
them fairly apt in the acquisition of
baking, washing, ironing and cleaning.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21
HAVE FORMED LAZY CLUB.
Plan of English Workmen to Discour-
age the Habit of Being Tardy.

One of the best assets of a manu-
featuring plant is the interest of en-
ployes, and when this develops into
friendly rivalry its value is many
times increased. frequently work
men will adopt methods spontaneous
ly that are of great assistance to the
firm.
1 n tia engineering shops of GER
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21
Bible images Familiar.

Glasses and recitations and more
particularly lessons to be prepared Of
fer more violence to the native preju
dices. He likes to hear the Bible
stories or stories of other countries and
to read them for himself when he has
mastered the combination of letters in.
to familiar sounds. The oriental images
of the Bible are perfectly familiar to
him. The idea of the patriarchs of the
Old Testament living in tents as cattle
men and yet being really kings, which
is such a puzzle to. city bred white
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21

Men are sometimes so good and so
great, that one is led to exclaim: oh,
that they were only little better and
a little greater!-J. H. Newman.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21

In both religion
and ethics liberal
ism has attempted
to transfer the
seat of authority
from the will Of
God as revealed in
the Bible to each
ones inner con-
science. Reason
has been exalted
above revelation,
and the ethical
sense is made the
arbiter of right
and wrong. The
fruit of this is that
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21
Missionary's Garden Necessary.

Meantime the boys are engaged in
the work of the farm or in building or
carpentry The pastor of the station
is fortunate if he has a white man to
assist him in experimenting these
branches of the work. More likely he,
in addition to his cares as pastor, is
physician and magistrate, his own
farmer, gardener, builder, architect
and furniture maker. The farm must
provide food for the boys and girls of
the school. The garden must supply
fruit and vegetables for the mission
ary's table, for he soon learns that he
cannot keep his strength long If he at
tempts to live as a native. He must
have a variety of food and, incidental
ly, tablecloths and napkins. A noted
African traveller has said that white
men die in the tropics not for want
of the necessities of life but for want
of the luxuries. Besides, his house and
garden must be an object lesson in
civilized living quite as important as
his preaching.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21

The Best Garfield Tea! Com
posed of Herbs, it exerts beneficial effect
upon the entire system, regulating liver,
kidneys, stomach and bowels.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21

them, it should be noted, but amcag
the entire staff equally. Thus the late
workman is made to pay the early
corners for his laziness. The last dis.
tribution was just prior to bean
feast" and funds accumulated during
u months were distributed, amount
ing to over seven shillings head
System.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21

Many a girl MIRO is looking ior
husband mag discover that even after
she gets him she may spend mast CT
her time looking for him.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21

If Your Feet Ache or Burn
get Csc package of Aliens Foot-IGase. 1t gives
quick relief. Two million packages sold yearly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21

If every man was compelled to act
as his own fool-killer there would be
an epidemic of suicides.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21

All sorrow is an enemy, but it car
ries a friends message within it, too.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-21

Smiles make better salve for trou
BILE than do frowns.
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PILES CURED IN 6 TO IA DAYS.

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of Itching, Blind, Bleeding Protruding Piles III
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~ ASHINGTON. = The

W. w w AOf1INNIOIN. - ne
"a heroes of the dark
IA continent are not all
W W mighty hunters and ex-
plorers. The hardest
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-06

There is more Catarrh in this sec tior of the country than all other dlS eases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be in- curable. For a great many years doc tors pronounced it local disease an prescribed local remedies, and by con stantly failing to cure with local treat ment, pronounced it incurable. Scienc has proven catarrh to be a constlJu' tional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Halls Ca tarrh Cure, manufactured by r. J. Cheney & Co.,, Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the mar ket. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoontul It acts directly on the blood and mucou surfaces of the system They offer one hundred dollars for any case tt fails to cure. Send for circulars and tesimOnials.
 Address: r. J. CHENEY X CO.,, To lcdO, Ohio.
 Sold by Druggists. roc.
 Take Halls Family Pills Tor constI- patton.