River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-11-18

we have no title to II, 1naSmuch as,
according to the dictates of Inter
national Law, occupation is pre-
requisite to possessorship. What a
disappointment to American emil
grants.
The Kansas state board of health
has issued the following rule: mo
person or corporation in charge of
or control of any railroad train or
station or public or private school or
state educational institution shall
furnish any drinking cup for public
use, and no such persons or corpor-
alton shall permit on said railroad
train, or station or at said public or
private school or state educational
institution, the common use of the
drinking cup" Other states will
no doubt in the near future follow
the lead of Kansas in this step for
public health, which recent know
ledge of the causes of communicable
diseases makes practically compul-
sorry. Already in Wisconsin num-
Der of schools have installed sani-
tary drinking fountains.
1t is not improbable that in few
years, the great American cities,
which have been distinguished here
tofore for nothing except shops, de-
partment stores and factories, will
become art centers, like Rome,
| Dresden and Paris. New York has
built real theater where the class
ic drama alone will hold sway, as it
does in the Theater Franchise in
Paris. New York and Chicago mil
lionaires are spending millions for
art treasures. Washington is dis
tinguished among other cities as an
art center. Our European critics
glibly charge us with an inordinate
love for the mighty dollar, but the
experience of American tourists
abroad is to the effect that Euro
peans and Asiatics are as avaricious
for the almighty shilling or mark or
franc or rupee as the American is
for his dollar, and far more loath to
part with it, and by no means as
unselfsh in expenditure as is the
| American.
Prof. H. S. Baker, who died Oc-
tober %, at his home in St. Anthony
Park, st. Paul, was we'll known to
many of the older residents here.
He came TO River Falls from Yer
mont late in the SOS and was a
member of the faculty of ]. R.
Hinckley's private school, the ST..
Croix Collegiate Institute, which
was located in the Goodwin house
on Main street. He afterwards was
al the head of the River Falls Insti-
tute, and for two terms, 1868, he
served as superintendent of the
schools of Pierce county. He then
was given a principalship in one of
the schools in St. Paul in which
capacity he served in different
schools there for nearly twenty-five
years. He closed his service there
in 1905, since which time he has
been prevented by i'll health from
active participation in business.
He was a graduate of Middlebury
College, Vermont. He leaves a
wife and one SON Professor Baker
was in the sixty-ffth year of his
age.
The G. & C. Merriam Company
of Springfield, Mass, have just is
sued Webster's New International
Dictionary, based on the Interna-
tional of 1890 and 1900 The revis-
ion has been so radical and COM
plete as to constitute a new book.
The work has been in active prep
aration for many years, by large
staff of experts, assisted by the con-
tributions of eminent specialists,
under the general supervision of
DR.. w. T. Harris, recent U. S. Com
missioner of Education. The num-
Der of words and phrases defined
has been greatly increased, mainly
from the fresh coinage of recent
years both in popular speech and in
the various arts and sciences. The
revival of early English studies is
recognized by such an inclusion of
obsolete words as to give a key to
English literature from it's earliest
period. The title-words in the vo-
cabulary are more than doubled in
comparison with the old Interna-
tional, now exceeding 100000. The
number of illustrations is increased
to over $1,000 The book contains
more than 200 pages. But the
publishers desire to emphasize the
quality rather than the quantity OF