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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-01
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INTRODUCE WITH LITTLE FUSS
Young Queen Ushered in and Laying
Within Short Space of One
Hour Without Failure.

have sighed for some quick method
of introducing queens, and success has
now rewarded me, and l submit what
/ believe will become the most popu-
lar method of queen acknowledgements,
Gray's flour method, says Joseph Gray,
an English expert apiculturist, In
Gleanings of Bee Culture. / can take
a queen from a nucleus, remove the
old queen, and have the young queen
all right and laying within the hour.
To follow this pian or introducing
I open the hive, find the comb with
the queen on, and remove her. l then
lay the comb fiat so that both hands
are free, dust the bees on the upper
side of the comb with flour from a
fiour-sifter, open the large door of the
cage, shake out the queen on to the
comb and dust her with flour. If a
f1ighty queen, I take the precaution
to dust her with -four before ! open
the cage.
If the queen has been removed the
day previous, there is no need of re-
moving a frame. take off the cover,
ward, and soon a crowd of bees col
lects around the cage. I dust the
whole with flour, swing open the door,
when-out steps her majesty and at
tendants, every one of which will be
accepted-a sure proof Of the reliabili-
ty of the method, for with ordinary
plans all attendants are usually de-
stroyed.
use Potts queen cages, which can
also be used as cell protectors or nur-
series. The differences between these
and the regular Benton cages are:
1. The candy hole is made from the
end, using only half-inch bit.
2. A half-inch hole is made through
the side into the center compartment.
8. The top and side covers are of
perforated metal, and cut so that they
do not catch the clothing.
4. These covers are put on with
screw, which serves as hinge, and
can be frightened with one turn of the
screwdriver, so that the imprisoned
bees can not force open the door and
escape, which I have seen them do
when laid down temporarily.
The convenience and advantage of
these cages will be readily seen in the
following operations:
Go to your nucleus colony and pick
up the comb with queen; grasp it with
the left hand, also hold your queen
cage with the same hand, your thumb
over the opened side door. Now with
the right hand pick off your queen
and she will easily pass through the
half-inch door. A three-eighths or
quarter inch is not nearly so conven-
lent. You can cage as many bees as
you wish, with seldom a sting. The
covers are so cut that they will not
catch the clothing and pull open on
the Way to the out-apiary.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-01
Model for Hen House.

feet high at the front. Cut rear raj.
tiers feet long and front rafters 5
feet long. This will make the peak of
the roof 71a feet high.
The cross section shown in the cut
illustrates the construction. Let the
front and rear rafters of each pair be
tied to the cross beam, feet long,
and under these, both at the ends
and every IL feet from the end, place
uprights 61s feet long, 21s feet apart.
This stiffens and supports the roof
and also serves as door posts. for a
48-foot house should have three parti-
tions dividing it off into four compart-
ments, each IL feet square.
Cover the framework with sheeting.
Use 16-foot boards one inch thick, sur
faced on one side, fitted smooth and
snug. If the house stands up one or
two feet from the ground on posts let
the rear sheeting boards run clear
down to the ground. Cover with the
best roofing paper you can buy ana
then give a coat of hot tar. Repeat
the tar six months later and once
each year thereafter, and this will be
a good roof for 20 years.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-01
Heat for Chicks.

People believe that chicks do not re-
quire heat, or, at least, little in warm
weather. This is a mistake. We have
raised chicks in July and August in
an open field, without shade, success
fully, and we maintained the hover
temperature at 105 degrees. Heat is
just as essential under the hover in
warm weather as at any other time
Of year. When hover is used in a
large colony house the chicks may be
confined around the hover by a hard
ware cloth or board fence until they
become accustomed to going in and
out After three days the fence may
be removed and they be allowed the
range of the building, and, in the
course of few days more, be allowed
to run outdoors. 1t is advisable when
using the colony system to use por-
table runs with the colony houses, and
confine the chicks the first few weeks,
so that in case of sudden storms they
will find their way back and will not
require the attention Of the attendant.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-01
THE FLOWER HAT
Attractive Headgear That Any CleV-
err Girl Can Put Together
at Home.

Attractive flower hats can be easily
made by a clever girl, whose time is
her own. A frame of white silk wire
can be bought at any of the shops,
and there is wide variety of popular
shapes from which to choose.
The frame should first be covered
with fine white material and then the
flowers are put on in solid mass OF
color all over the entire surface of the
hat. The brim is faced with shirred
net or soft silk or satin in a pale col
Or to harmonic with the blossoms.
No trimming is required except,
perhaps, a stiff cockade of wired black
velvet ribbon, forming many-loop
bow at the left side. Black and white
aigrettes are also used on these hats.
A close-fitting hat with turned
down brim, was of geran1ums in all
the tones from the palest pink to deep
crimson. The brim was faced with
soft pink satin and at the left side of
the crown was knot and two loops
of black velvet ribbon. Jet ball hat
pins were worn, and the touches of
black among the flowers were i'm
mensely attractive.
VioIets are charming, slender
sprays of wistaria, scarlet poppies,
tiny moss roses and English prim-
roses make charming hats for wear
with summer frockS.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-01
SCOUTS IDEA OF MARRIAGE.
crusty Massachusetts Bachelor 81
Eighty Years Has Most Decided
Views on the Matter.

Eighty years of single blessedness is
the record of Moses P. Stowe, one or
the oldest residents of Grafton, Mass.
Not a woman crosses the threshold
of his coy home.
at makes no difference who or what
the woman is; she wouldn't get inside
OF this house." he says. Even wom-
en- peddlers create different atmos-
phere when they only knock at the
door.
Marry? Well, should say not. You
don't know what that word means.
Why. look at all of the men in this
country who have fastened them
selves to women whom they professed
to love, and now want to get as far
away from femininity as they can. ]
wouldn't marry the best woman that
ever lived, l tell you, they are trou-
BILE brewers; they always have been
and always will be.
II had lots of girl friends when !
was a young fellow, but when there
was any chasing to be done they were
the ones who did 1t. never allowed
myself to become infatuated with q
girl, as l knew it would be my end"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-01

were the darkest years of Johnson's
life. His mother, whom he had sup
ported out of his lean purse, also died,
and to pay her funeral expenses he
wrote his great philosophical novel
'Rasselas"
Then, in 1855, appeared his great
dictionary. 1t was not only the first
real English dictionary ever pub
lished, but the clearness, scope and
beautiful language of it's definitions
formed new literary era and caused
revolution in literature.
Now that he was successful, the
world flocked to do him homage. A
coterie of writer's, actors and states
men formed about him. He was their
oracle and idol With pompous superb
GRITTY he tyrannized over them,
bullied them, lee
Spoiled by Pros tured them, made
perity. them listen in ra.
spectful silence to his endless ora.
tions. At the Cheshire Cheese and
other places of the kind he was wont
to hold a species of semi-regal court,
with himself as undisputed king and
despot. He grew indolent, Stunned
work of all sorts and lived on his
past record. In earlier years he had
rallied at the custom of pension Civ.
ing, styling it pay given to a state
hireling to betray his country" Yet
when the new monarch, George III,
offered him a pension of $1,000 year
Y1ro,1onf1xy oaoanfod
At about this time he met James
Boswell, a young Scotch lawyer.
Johnson hated Scotland, but took a
fancy to Boswell, saying in explana-
ton: Much may be done with a
Scotchman if he is caught young"
Boswell religiously took down all
Johnson's epigrams and later pub
lished his recollections of the great
photographer in one of the most fas.
cinating biographies ever written.
Johnson filled his house with beg
gars and decayed gentlefolk, whom he
supported and who quarelled among
themselves and bullied their benefac-
tor as he bullied the world.
But at length these mendicants died,
as did many of Johnson's closest
friends. Alone in the world, embit-
tered, and suffering from a combina-
ton Of fatal maladies, the man who
had revolutionized the English lam
guage, and who feared death with a
terror almost childlike in it's unrea-
sonableness, died on December Is,
1884, leaving an unparalleled record
of long and successful battle against
circumstances, and standing out TOR
ever as the oldest, most picturesque
figure in the world of letters.
(Copyrighted.)
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-01
By Albert Payson Terhune


And the result of this study was the
discovery of the great fact known as
1.-THE Attraction of Gravitation." Next
he sought to connect this new discov-
cred attraction" with the force which
holds planets to their orbits and pre-
vents them from whizzing off into
space. Calico, years before, had
proven that falling body drops 18
feet the first second and with arith-
metically increased force for every
subsequent second. Using this
knowledge, Newton began to calculate
the force necessary to hold the moon
to it's orbit around the earth. This, in
spite of many dreary disappointments.
he succeeded. after 16 years struggle,
in doing.
He again startled the world and
made for himself new foes by discov-
ering that rays of white light were
not single in color, but were made
up of countless rays of many colored
light From this followed fresh
working out of the theory of the rain
bow and a mastery treatise on OPP
tics.
Then came the heaviest misfortune
of Newtons life. For 20 years he
had been at work on scientific dis
covery and had at last worked 1t to a
completion All the papers represent
ing that 20 years of labor lay one
evening on his
Work of Twenty study table. His pet
Years Destroyed. spaniel Diamond,
leaped upon the table, and while frisk-
ing there upset one of the candles.
Before Newton could run to the Yes-
Cue the precious papers we're a
charred, undecipherable mass Of
ashes. Instead of flying into a rage
of bemoaning the loss he lifted the
misunderstanding cur gently to the
ground, saying only:
"Oh, Diamond, you little know
what mischief you have done"
Then he set calmly to work on the
20-year task again. But the shock
proved too much for his overstrained
nerves. He broke down mentally and
physically. To make matters worse
he was practically penniless.
LUZ Will dAOJ 5CAO1OoItJ LliC CIV
eminent came to his relief. He was
appointed warden of the royal mint,
and so well did he discharge his
duties that, in 1896, he was promoted
to the office of mint master. Queen
Anne, in 1705, made him a knight.
Thus England was spared the eternal
disgrace of allowing her greatest
scientist to starve.
In 1927, at the age of IS, Newton
died. At his deathbed some fellow
scientists spoke in high praise of the
dying mans profound wisdom.
"Wisdom?" echoed Newton. II
feel like child who, wandering along
the shores of the boundless seas of
learning, has merely picked up few
tiny Shells"
(Copyrighted)
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-01
Hosiery in Style.

The sheer gauze Isle stocking is to
be the stocking Of the season, and to
insure it a hearty welcome this year
it has been made extra long and
turned down to the depth of three
inches. This, it is thought, will over
come it's aptness to break and tear
from the strain it is subjected to by
the hose supporters. Both silk and
Isle hose are shown in the new taupe
shades, long range of bronze, tan,
mustard and champagne tints, as well
as shades to match all the fashionable
colors in dress silks, which include
wistaria, reseda, rose, catawba and all
the dull, soft shades that in millinery
are known as tapestry colors. While
very thin plain stockings are to be
the acme of smartness, lace or open
work hose are shown in no end of at
tractive patterns. Some are made with
lace ankles and the upper portion
plain, but the majority seem to be of
the all-over openwork variety.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-01
WHITE SERGE MOST POPULAR
For the Summer Outfit This Sort of
Frock Is Considered In
dispensable.

A white serge frock is an almost in
dispensable item of summer outfit,
and this season, when soft serges are
well to the fore, white serge promises
to have even more than its usual pop
ularity.
For coat and skirt tailored suits it
has no rival among the white wool
ems, though the French makers have
sent out some models in white suit
ing resembling heavy whipcord, and
the Bedford cord or cotele effects are
liked in white, as well as in colors.
The widewale diagonal serge which
was much used in white as well as
in color last summer is still in evil
dence, but has yielded place, in so far
as modishness is concerned, to finer
weaves, and with the white serge as
with the blue serges, which this year
are very smart in addition to being
always extremely serYiceable, the
hard surface has given place to the
softer, looser weaYes. To be sure, the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-01
SAMUEL JOHNSON---C Crank and
Dictionary Maker.

In the worst rainstorm of the sea-
son, one day in the middle of the
eighteenth century, a man stood on a
street corner of Lichfield, England
He was unprotected from the weather
by so much as a great coat and wait
ed meekly, receiving the deluge of
rain and jeers of passersby. He was
giant in size and strength, enor-
mously fat and clad in shabby, soiled
garb. His swollen, red face was
blotched, SCARED and distorted with
scrofula and twitched uncontrollably,
his great head rolled from side to
side and he muttered constantly to
himself. This strange figure was DR..
Samuel Johnson, greatest man of his
day, and revolutionizer of the English
language. His vigil in the rainstorm
was but one of a thousand eccentric
tiles. AS lad he had refused to go
on an errand for his father one rainy
day. Now 80 years later it had oc-
Cured to him to take this queer way
of atoning for his boyish disobedi-
ence.
Johnson was the son of an old
bookseller. He spent his boyhood
reading ravenously every one of his
fathers books he could lay hands on.
He had the rare faculty of remember
ing everything he read. At 10, though
miserably poor, he went to Oxford.
But his eccentricity, strange appear
ance and overstrung nerves proved
a great drawback. His wagging head,
facial grimaces, slovenly, dirty
clothes and linen
&c ~ and uncouth ways
"reCNeo quo made a bad i'm
cess. preston. If he
were asked to a literary reception he
was quite likely to create diver
sion by snatching off lady's slipper
or clawing her false hair, or by sud
denly shouting line from the Lords
Prayer At the few dinners he was
invited to the halfstaryed genius ate
ravenously, tearing his food like
wild beast and growing over 1t.
The English tongue and English lit
erature were growing. Certain ety.
mologies and iexicons were in use,
but the language had no dictionary
worthy of the name. Several book
sellers combined and hired Johnson
to compile, in two volumes, a COM
plete dictionary of the English lam
guage. For this mammoth work he
was allowed seven years times and
$4,000. He was obliged to employe a
small army of lesser writer's TO help
him, and this quickly ate UP his
profits. He had no rich patron, as
had most writer's of the time, for he
could not truckle to the great. He
worked on In poverty. His wife died,
leaving him alone in the world. These
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-01
INTOLERABLE ITCHING.
Fearful Eczema All Over Baby's Face
Professional Treatment Failed.
A Perfect Cure by Cutlcura.

"When my little girl was six months
old / noticed small red spots on her
right cheek. They grew 30 large that
/ sent for the doctor but, instead OF
helping the eruption, his ointment
seemed to make it worse. Then
went to second doctor who said 1t
was eczema. He also gave me an ONT
ment which did not help either. The
disease spread all over the face and
the eyes began to swell. The itching
grew intolerable and it was terrible
sight to see. consulted doctors for
months, but they were unable to cure
the baby. l paid out from $40 to $50
without relief. One evening / began
to use the Cuticura Remedies. The
next morning the baby's face was all
white instead of red. l continued until
the eczema entirely disappeared. Mrs.
P. e. Gumbin, Sheldon, a., July Is, '08."
Potter Drug Chem. Corp. Sole Props, Boston.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-01
Joke Anglers The Judge.

Judge Balloon was talking to a
crowd on the street few days ago,
telling them the proper way to put
shingles on house. He said:
"The old rule was to allow six inches
of the shingles to show to the wealth
err; but that is too much. You should
allow not more than four inches to
show"
Some wag remarked in a matter Of
fact tone to the Judge: "How would 1t
do not to let any show?" The Judge
replied: 1--WE seen roofs made that
way; but it takes a great many
shingles"
Then the judge wanted to get mad
when the crowd laughed.-Twiggs
County (Ga) Citizen.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-01

What is the three-piece suit? Al.
though it is prophesied and predicted
for spring and summer, no one has yet
clearly defined it, and few seem to
know exactly what it means.
The three-piece suit is really only
a two-piece suit, although it combines
three garments-bodice, skirt and coat.
1t seems to have been originally
dubbed "three-piece" last spring, when
the fashion was to wear a skirt and
blouse of the same shade and a coat
to match the skirt. This was really a
three-piece suit which gave the effect
of a complete dress and coat. Later,
when whole gowns were made and
worn with coats, the name seemed to
cling, although the suit changed its
character.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-01
Rrooder for Youno Chicks.

The colony style of brooder, fitted
with a portable hover, is far the best
for young chicks. 1t can be made out
of a piano box by anyone who can
WELD hammer and saw, or can be
built from the ground. This style of
brooder provides the greatest amount
of floor space, and will accommodate
100 chickens where but so are enough
for the commercial brooders. When
the chickens no longer need heat the
hover can be removed and the brood
err used fora colony house where it
is, or drawn out on the field or placed
anywhere desired. 1t thus serves a
double purpose.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-01
Taking Out Ink Stains.

When ink has fallen on white linen
it should be Immediately dipped in
buttermilk, If it is convenient, other.
wise in sweet milk. Repeat until
signs Of the spots have vanished.
If the ink has hardened several of
the commercial eradicators can be
trusted to take out the spot without
holes. The woman who fears to use
acids will have to fall back on lemon
and salt plentifully applied with hours
in a hot sun.
One colored laundress dips her ink
stained garments in hot tallow, then
washes out the tallow with very hot
water and little borax.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-01

Good Dame Newton, farmers wild
ow, of Woolstrop, England, was in
despair at the stupidity of her only
son, Isaac. To the horror of all the
neighbors the lad could not grasp the
first principles of farming. He neg
lected his work in the fields, failed to
show any interest in crops and was
forever sneaking off into corners to
read some book on science or me-
chanics. He had picked up taste
for such matters at the Grantham
Grammar school, and they weaned
him away from all concern about his
mothers thriving farm. He took to
deVising mechanical toys in off hours,
and even constructed couple of sun
dials.
Isaac actually wanted to be q
scholar A scholar, to the simple farm
folk, meant man in tattered, rusty
gown, who was glad enough to eat
the crust Of charity and who accom-
plished no good in life. Yet for such
a miserable career Isaac begged leave
to throw away an assured future as
a prosperous farmer. And at last,
worn down by his pleadings, the moth
er consented. At IS, in 1860, Newton
went to Cambridge university There
he promptly went mathematic-mad.
He discovered the binomial theorem
and worked out the processes since
employed as "Differential and Integ
ral Calculus" Before he reached the
age of q he was professor of mathe-
matics at Trinity college.
Then the plague swept England, a
scourging epidemic that wasted whole
communities, paralyzed trade and
progress, and killed men, women and
carried out of the cities each day by
the hundred carloads. knowledge of
medicine and of
Discovers "Attrac- sanitation was
ton OF GraVIta- limited and the
tlon." o,,+b,.oo1, oo,,,d ,,o+
be checked. The colleges closed
their doors. Newton, deprived for the
time of occupation, returned to the
WoolstrOp farm.
There, in enforced idleness, he
spent many weeks One day, as he
sat under a tree in his mothers
orchard, an apple fell to the ground,
grazing his head as 1t passed. New
ton started up from the doze into
which he had drifted. The fall of the
apple set him to thinking. Why had
1t fallen? When it had become de-
tached from the limb why did it drop
downward? Why did it not hang in
air or fall in some other direction?
What mysterious force drew all de-
tached bodies to the earth as a mag
net draws particles of steel? Since
the days of Adam apples had tumbled
earthward. Yet no one except New
ton had troubled to consider the rea-
son. The idle scholar set to work on
the problem offered by this accident.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-01
Raising Chickens.

In raising chickens we begin with
the germ in the egg as our foundation;
we must build up with every move.
ment 1 consider vigor as the most
essential point in both sexes from
start to finish, because, lacking this,
we involuntarily meet trouble, first,
last and always. Practice is better
than preaching in the poultry bust.
ness, and the mating of fowls for best
results is a science. The mother hen
should be by herself during the pc.
riod of incubation and while brooding,
as there are many ways for chick
to be destroyed by older ones. The
chicks should be protected from rats
and hawks in a covered wire run until
six weeks old at least.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-01
Abdul the Damned's Graveyard.

An English wrecking company was
employed to recover something lost
overheard in the Bosphorus near the
palace of Abdul the Damned. Two
divers who were sent down from
boat to make the search signaled in
stently to be drawn to the surface, and
when they were on deck refused to
perform the work. They declared
that on the bottom their feet weighted
to hold them down and keeping them
erect, there was a veritable forest of
bodies. swayi1g with outstretched