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to be parallel as in cotton or linen. Wooden
yarns although hard-spun look and feel light
and fluffy Worsted yarns appear finer and
stronger.
The weaving Of the two kinds Of cloth is
not unlike, at least not to the unsk1lled OBJ
server, except in one particular, and this is a
most important one-woolens are fulled and
worsteds are not. The fulling of the cloth, &C
complished by heat, moisture and pressure,
brings together and interlocks, by means of the
imbrication of the fiber, the several threads
entering into the cloth into more or less
feted whole The cloth shrinks sometimes as
much as onehalf and in such material, as for
instance the so-called doeskins and broadcloths,
it appears and feels like felt.
1t is this process of semifelting the cloth,
made possible by the peculiar lie of the fbers
in the yarn, that distinguishes woolens from
worsteds Formerly, entirely different classes
of wool were used in the two cloths-for wool
ems, the short-staple, highly intoxicated carding
wool, merino for example, and for the worsteds
the long-staple slightly intoxicated or smooth
combing woods. BY modern machinery it is
possible now to use the short-staple woods in
making worsteds.
In practise the raw wool, after being washed
and secured is subjected to q series of comb
ing processes, in each of which the particular
f1bers suitable for a certain purpose are ex-
tracted. The residuum after each combing Is
called a waste, although its value per pound
may have been augmented by the extraction of
the lower-priced f1bers.
According to United States census reports,
manufactures of wool rank tenth in the list of
American industries. The total capital invested
was S310,179,749 and with an output valued at
$296, 990,484 a year In the classification
adopted the manufacture of clothing is not In
cluded. Since 1900 there has been an enor-
nous increase in the wool manufacturing in
dustry, principally in the manufacture Of
worsteds. At the same census the number Of
sheep in the United States was 39,852,967. Since
then there has been 43 per cent. increase in
the number of sheep, as appears by a report
issued by the census office on January 1, 1910,
which shows 57,216,000 sheep in the country at
the present time These valued at an av
erage of $4.0S giving total value of $233,644,
600. BY the census of 1900 the country pro-
duces 276,567, 5S4 pounds of sleeps wool and
961,S2S pounds of mohair and goat hair Esti-
mating the same average clip of wool at that
time, the production of the country at the pres
ent should be about 10000 900 pounds of wool.
In reality it should be greater, on account of
the improvement in sheep breeding.
There are several hundred varieties of
sheep both in the domestic and in the wild
breeds. The former have been under the do
minion of man since before the dawn of his
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-06-16

be classed under two heads-the Spanish and
the British breeds. The Spanish breed is the
Merino, which has modified more or less the
sheep of all Europe, including the British is
lands, North and South America, South Africa
and Australia. The Merino has very char
acteristic appearance, which easily distin-
guishes him from other breeds. He has a thick
covering of wool over the forehead and cheeks,
his horns are large ponderous and convoluted
laterally. The wool is long, soft, and twisted
into silky looking spiral ringlets. The wool
fibers are highly intoxicated and possess in the
highest degree fine telling qualities. The origin
of the Spanish Merino is not very we'll known,
but the breed is known to have as foundation
the original breed introduced into the PENN
sula by the Romans upon which was crossed
certain English sheep most probably the Lei
cester or Lincoln sheep.
Up to the time of the Napoleonic wars the
position of Spain in the wool trade was at the
head. Spanish wool went all the civilized
world and enjoyed a reputation for being the
best. However the peninsular wars, with the
attendant evils following thereon, had most
disastrous effect on the wool trade of Spain
and produced depreciatioc in it's quality and
a consequent loss in expo, lation for the wool
of the famous breed.
Spanish Merinos were taken to Hungary in
1775 and to France one year later-the most
famous French Merino is the Rambouillet.
Spanish Merinos were first brought to Ram
bouillet by Daubenton in 1882, and from this
first importation the breed was developed. 1t is
now known all over the world as one of the
best of the Merino strains. Spanish Merinos
were brought to the United States in the early
colonial days, but the breed was lost in pro-
miscuous crossing with the earlier imported
British breeds. The first Spanish Merinos
whose descendants have been kept pure were
brought to the United States in 1902
Merinos were taken to the Spanish-Amer-
lean colonies almost with the first colonists,
and are the foundation and almost the sole
foundation of the so-called native breeds in all
the American Latin republics, but the breed
was not kept up, and consequently decayed
even more rapidly than subsequently in Spain
following the Napoleonic wars.
While Spain has the honor of having pro-
duced the most valuable single breed of sheep,
bred for wool peculiarly suitable for clothing
the British islands have produced the greatest
number of valuable breeds of sheep bred for
wool suitable for all purposes, and even for
the particular purpose for which Merino wool
is best suited, but little inferior thereto. OF
course in the mutton breeds Great Britain has
always stood without rival, but also in its
longwool breeds it Is without rival in wool Of
this character. The British breeds are classi-
fed as long WOOL short wool and mountain
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mean by YOUR outrageous conduct"
Her wrath was unappeasable save
by the outlet of her expression in
words, apparently. And the feelings
of the gentleman who was now only
too quick to see the humor of his po-
sition as well as the horror of being
thus accosted on a public thorough
fare can only be described by the
word chagrin, which covered a null
tiplicity of emotions-among which
anger at the sharp-tongued and self
deluded lady was strong.
He realized that an explanation
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-06-16

would make more things for her to
scream out aloud and so besought his
antagonist mot to address her re-
marks to him" in tone that implied
that another was to blame. But, as
anticipated, all she appeared capable
of doing was to heap fresh calumny
upon her innocent victim. Realizing
his desperate situation-that she was
incapable of understanding the truth
and his own inability to prove his
story, and also the law which gives to
woman the last word, he managed to
pass on up the street. but his natural
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-06-16
Aroused snor&rnn instinct.

An Irish policeman who was also
something of sportsman. had been
posted on road near Dublin to catch
the scorching motorist. Presently one
came along at 20 miles an hour, and
the policeman saw it pass without a
sign. Next came large motor travel
ing at 40 miles and hour, and the eyes
of the guardian of the public bright
ened. And then one passed at the rate
of a mile a minute. "Begorrah," said
Pat, slapping his thigh, that's the
best of the lot"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-06-16

land, or Germany, or the eastern half of tho
United States, not because of wool but because
OF mutton The fleece is by-product. Just as
the hide of the steer or of the dairv cow ie a
by-product the principal value of the animal 10
its flesh In the new sheep centers of South
America the principal value of the animal is
Its wool, and fortunes were made from the
hocks even when not pound of mutton was
exported or sold
Wool as the word is used In commerce. is
not a product alone of the sheep. It may be
WOOL although 1t comes from the backs of sew
eral varieties Of goats. from the camel the al
paca, the guanaco, the vicuna, or the llama as
well as from the sheep. 1t is the thing itself
and not the geological classification of the ami
nal which determines whether the fiber is
WOOL hair, or fur. Since the classification is
commercial and not scientific the line between
these three classes is necessarily vague and
indistinct For instance the under covering
of the camel may be camels wool or camePs
hair, and so we have alpaca hair or alpaca
wool From the sheep there are many varieties
of wool, long and short, straight and curly,
coarse and fine, and, what is generally more
important than any of these varieties in the
serrations or imbrications appearing on the
surface of the fbers
1t is important in considering wool as a
commercial commodity to keep in mind the
three different kinds of cloth made therefrom
These are commercially known in English as
felts, woolens, and worsteds. The processes in
making these three kinds of cloth are so diff
ferent as to make them entirely different in
dustries, employing entirely different machin-
cry. Felt is made from the wool or fur in
mass, the cloth holding because Of the lock
clutch of the intoxicated fiber. Woolens and
worsteds are spun from threads, but the
threads in the two kinds of cloth are prepared
in a different manner, and the weaving is en-
tirely unlike. Formerly, entirely different
kinds of woods were used for making
the two kinds of cloths, or rather it is more
accurate to say that only certain kinds of
woods could be used in making worsteds. AL
most any kind of wool could be used for ma
king woolens, although some were much more
suitable than others, and, as rule those least
suitable for woolens were best suitable for
Worsteds. In effect, therefore, certain woods
were used for woolens and certain other woods
for worsteds. With the improved modern ma
chinery used in worsted mills these limitations
are fading away, so that worsteds can now be
made from woods formerly not used for this
purpose.
The wool used for making woolens is card
ed; that for worsteds is combed The effect of
these two processes is that in the first the wool
fbers are crossed and interlocked as much as
possible, and in the second they are drawn out
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Man Was Not to BLatUe

doorway of dry goods store, says the
Louisville Times. A benevolent mind
ed gentleman, who catches a joke be-
fore it lands, observed the little girls
maneuver and was metaphorically
jerHed back to earthly troubles from
a rumination of childhood efferves-
cence by the stern voice of the lady
whose arm had been punctured and
dignity RULED.
Sir" she shouted. what do you
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-06-16
But the Outcome of the Unfortunat,
Incident Was Just AS Depressing
AS IL He Had Been.

A human interest story of no small
proportions was enacted on Fourth
avenue on a recent afternoon when a
small girl pinched the feshy arm of a
dignified lady, who was presumably a
relative or close acquaintance, and
then hoped back into the narrow
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tory. Whether these are
derived from any one of
the existing wild species,
or from the crossing of
several or from some
now extinct species is q
matter of conjecture
even to scientists. Vari-
atoms in the different
domestic breeds are very
great and in no other
particular greater than
in the wool. Domestic
sheep, not considering
the Asiatic breeds. may
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-06-16

breeds. The long-wool breeds are
the Leicester. Border Leicester,
Cotswold, Lincoln, Kentish, Devon
Longwool, South Devon, Wensley-
dale, and Roscommon.
The short-wool breeds-this class
includes among others the famous
mutton breeds-are the Oxford
Down, Southdown, Shropshire,
Hampshire Down, Suffolk, Ryeland,
Somerset, and Dorset Horned.
The mountain breeds are the
Cheviot, Blackfaced Mountain,
Herdwick, Lonk, Dartmoor, Ex-
moor, Welsh Mountain, and Lime
stone.
All Of these breeds are English
except the Border Leicester, Chew
OF. and Blackfaced, which are
Scotch, the Welsh which belongs to
Wales, and the Roscommon to Ire
land.
The Leicester from an historical
standpoint is the most important OF
the lOnS-WOOl OhOSP1 S'NN -"
was the great reputation of the
wool of this breed that gave Eng
land in the past its prominent po-
sition as a wool-producing coun-
try. Most important of all, 1t is the
Leicester blood which is the foun-
dation of many of the other best
English breeds and as such has ex-
tended itself over all the world.
The wool is fine, white, and long
stapled.
The Lincoln is the largest and
heaviest feeced sheep. Many OF
the fleeces will weigh from Is to 20
pounds, with a staple 20 inches in
length. The Lincoln resembles the
Cotswold, but has ss-pronounced
tuft on the forehead and the wool
is closer curled.
The wool of these sheep has a
fine glistening appearance which
has earned for it the name of "lus-
fer wool"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-06-16
Willing to Help.

IF we didn't have the children"
she bitterly declared, I'D get d.
vorce from you"
'Tll write and see if can't get my
folks to take them"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-06-16
Cheap Extravauance.

Say, the amount of capital of that
new trust won't fill this head line. y
How much Is it?"
Its 100000. 000."
add another cipher"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-06-16

ly cheerful disposition has tagged
and dampened aspect and he doesn't
dispense quite as much sunshine as
of wore
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-06-16

Mrs. WinsIow's Soothing Syrup.
For chldren teething. softens the gums reduces n-
6amaton alays pain. cures wind collie. 25c bottle.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-06-16

Hope is an excellent thing to have,
but it is one of the things pawn
broker will not advance anything on.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-06-16

DR.. Pierces Pleasant Pellets regulate and invig
crate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar-coated
tiny, granules. easy to take. Do not grippe.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-06-16

One man raised enough potatoes on IL
acres to buy 100 acres Another man.
makes affidavit that he has not lost crop in
fifteen years:
Without irrigation ono mans BOO cherry
trees brought him 5000. Five hundred
plum trees produced $225. One hundred
apple trees gave 800 bushels, $50;
r,4oo currant bushes. three years old.
yielded $225.
Hogs raised on alfalfa, fattened on
corn (also raised on the same FARM,
cost 81 per head (including first cost
of parent stock) and sell at top prices.
Low fare excursions to Denver. Colorado
day with lon6 return
L. M. ALLEN, PASSENGER
236 La Sale Station.
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No Alonzo, a silver cup never runs
when 1t Is chased.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-06-16

Our tears are round to remind us
that God loves the whole world.
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WINDS which swept
over the Mesopotamian lowlands.
The sheep pelt or the wool plucked
or sheared from it was the principal
clothing Of man from before the dawn
of history down almost to the present
day. Now cloth made from vegetable
fibers, principally cotton, has a more
extended use than wool But this does
not mean that cotton and linen are
displacing wool as an article of hui
man wear. Far from it; the use of
wool constantly advances by enormous
strides, and the even greater advance
In the use Of cotton is due in no small
measure to the fact that the supply of
wool can not meet the demand for
clothing. Mankind must perforce wear
the vegetable fibers or go unclothed.
The same fact is true of the product
of the silkworm; the supply can never
equal the demand. Cotton, of course,
has conquered for itself a new field,
the clothing Of the unclothed races Of
the earth. In addition it has supplied
new articles of clothing to civilized
man, whose ancestors wore but little
CA6G Iudu WOOl Inc european or
American of today does not wear less
wool; in truth he wears more, but he
also wears more articles of clothing,
and these, for the most part, are cot
ton. There is a close parallel all over
the world between the cattle and the
sheep industry, but there are some i'm
portant differences as we'll
It has rarely happened and can
scarcely happen again that cattle will
anywhere be raised primarily for their
horns and hides, but the raising of
sheep for their wool is one of the we'll
recognized steps in the industry. Tt is
the fact that this can be done so as
to pay handsome profit that built ND
the great sheep industries in the west.
ern part of the United States. in
Australia and New Zealand, in South
Africa, and now is building up a great
er industry in South America. Free
or very cheap pasturage is the funda.
mental condition for this kind of
sheep raising. Were 1t not for these
new lands, where the cost of feeding
the sheep is nominal, the price of wool
would advance to a point where wool
clothing would be beyond the means
OF any except the very rich. Sheen
raising Is a profitable industry in Eng
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-06-16
Colorado Lands Richer
Than Gold Mines

There bigger profits in eastern Colorado in proper
ton to the cost of land than almost anywhere else.
Coorados agricultural products than double the
value of its mines.
Irrigation is unnecessary: BY deep blowing and con-
tnua shallow cultivation the soil dries during
the growing making big and surprising profits
to 5000 land.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-06-16
What Some Men Have Done:

It's a great dairy and poultry country
where dairy cows thrive on natural grasses
The climate of eastern Colorado is tho
healthiest in the world. Ii makes healthy
families and prolific crops. Good
churches, good schools and splendid mar.
kets close at hand.
Combine business with pleasure.
Enjoy an inexpensive vacation among
the Colorado Rockies and all these Won
derful lands along the Rock Island Lines
on the way. Eow is the time to 80.
See for yourself what delightful 500
ton it is.
g: e: !: :: ::: ::;::. &
mitS IA
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ANS first clothing
was an animal pelt,
and without doubt a
sheep pelt. 1t may
be suggested that the
fig leaf antedates the
sheepskin as an ar.
ticle of wear. This
may be true, but the
fig leaf can be con-
sfdered only as a
temporary eXpedient
which was discarded
with the first cool
winds which swept
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-21
Nome southern war Claims.

And now we hear rimors, Of steadily
increasing emphasis and volume, Of a
so-called omnibus bill at present lurking
IN the hidden bowels Of tho Capitol at
Washington. This omnibus bill is said
20 include all the war claims against
the Government The civil war ended
forty-five years ago. Since AppOmat-
tor millions have been paid out to
Southern claimants for seizures and
depredations, including cotton and
what not. OF late years the Court Of
Claims, u which these claims were
formerly submitted and to which they
ought to be submitted now. has been
growing FESTIVE. in fact unmanageabIe.
One would think tina. in nearly half
q century all honest charges against the
Government might haze been tried
out Undoubtedly there were in
stances OF hardship. In the hurry and
tire emergencies OF war IL was inevitable
that much injustice should be inflicted
but after oil this time and in view Of the
opportunities that have been offered TO
claimants IL would seem that AL Just
petitions and demands must have been
satisfied. Time with its memorable proc
eases must have removed most Of the
alleged witnesses long ago. The mem
cries Of few men run back 10 1888. Yet
here are these claims, clamoro,is AZ ever,
punched and ambushed in some secret
fastness Of the Capitol. Apparently the
promoters do not dare 70 subject them to
inquisition before the Court Of Claims.
eheir natural tribunal. They infinitely
prefer to huddle them in an Omnibus
hili' and await the chance TO precipi-
tate them on Congress in q moment Of
emergency.
Il would be well 10 look out for these
Southern war claiEls' They have a
parioua air.
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bern Of CougEess 10 regard the farmer
a the one constituent for whom some
thing must always be done. and hang
the cost TearN fall continuously when
his solitary life. his hardships and ma
tive virtues. his love Of country and
his generosity In feeding and saving IL.
are pictured, and every appeal in his
behalf on the floors Of Congress h fol-
lowed by applause. Il il idle and un-
grateful TO mention his automobile. TO
say anything above a whisper about his
bOuntiful crops and tire prices he geas
for them. o. 20 refer "a his new Queen
Anne house with open plumbing and me-
lodious mechanical piano. Something
must always be done by Congress to lift
him above sordid care and alleviate his
hardships. He must have better roads, IL
the nation pays FOR them; and the least
that can be offered him In his mail In
the palm Of his rude. call0used' hand
every day. though he drag out existence
twenty miles from a railroad.
Speed the ploughman, especially when
he is able 20 speed the devil wagonl
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-21
PeriIs Of HIfsA Axsaas.

To TEE EDrroR 90 TEE sUx-Sr: ssp q
constant pedestrian upoa Fifth avenue AZ nav
health requires my taking plenty Of walking
exercise. and md 20 my discomfort that IN.
number Of boys and girls using roller skates i.
really DANGEROUS, not "a speak OF the Ineanv,-
sssnee TO peaceful csiEehs. Ny regular walk n,
from Fifty seventh street 10 Forty second street
There. grant you. during the day ws ana the
mounted pslice quito pleuuful and capable Of
undertaking their required duties. but the pro-
lection Dor pedestrians Il n0t up % the require
ments 90 city like New YORK.
Between tho hours of and 0 p NJ IL A.
almost - much a. your life 10 worth % sry 20
walk the sveaue or 20 cross II: not a police.
man In sight and ths automobiles In thouaanAs
The ehauieurs DO not even mink II neceasary a
blow thetr horns 70 warn pedestrians Of Shsar
approach. Ny husband ard I usually s.ke a
walk a. me une before mendoued. and wp have
On several occasions been very much annoyed
and heightened ~ anaomooales Erlshlng "a IA Al
the crossings without ths snghtess wArniur.
Very often ] am made nervous mat my slosp
is DISTURBED for ths whole night
Then ] would jsss nke 20 say one word anou,
the oegSars and vsadsFs tn ne street snd nara.
one ands very htie paaoe On M srsass ne
eauss Of thsss nuisancess ARd 10 d auias su,s
this matter was looked insoA
NBw Ycak. March ~