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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20
GIRL DISAPPEARS.
Following Threatening Letter Received
by Her Father.

New York, Jan. 20-Seventeen-year-
old Annie Del Duca, whose little sis
tiers testified against a band of white
slave traffickers last summer. four of
whom were convicted and sentenced TO
imprisonment is missing from her
home in President street, Brooklyn
Fearing that she has been kidnapped In
revenge by friends of the gang. her
sister, Caroline, has asked the police TO
find her.
Annie was last seen by her parents
two weeks ago when she left her homo
on an errand. Her disappearance fol-
lows the receipt by her father of a
series of letters threatening violence to
members Of his family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

with expense for current and the city
would be a mass of white ways
Il am in favor of one-third payment
on the part Of the city and two
thirds on the part of the property
owners-but I am willing to support a
half and half proposition
The Commercial club committee
which visited the city commissioners
this morning is composed of the fol-
lowing men: w. w. Webb, Samuel E.
Lux, n. B. .Burge, William Macferran,
Q. p. Bolmar and A. II. Purdy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20
TRUITT IS MARRIED.
Manager of Majestic Tries to KeeT
Wedding a Secret.

on Wednesday night proved unsuccess-
full for Mr.. and Mrs. Jack F. Truitt,
who were outwitted last night when
Roy Crawford informed members of
the theatrical profession of the event.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

year, came to Topeka several weeks ago
and has been visiting here since. She
is well known to Topekans, having Wis
tied here many times previously.
Mr.. Truitt, who is manager of the Ma
jestic theater, is son of Mr.. and Mrs.
T. NJ. Truitt Of Usage City. He came
here nearly two years ago from Chicago,
where he was identified with the the
atrical business.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06
$3.50 RECIPE CURES
WEAK KIDNEYS, FREE
RELIEVES URINARY AND KIDNEY
TROUBLES, BAcKAc He, STRAIN
ING, SWELLING, ETC.
Stops Pain In the Bladder, Kidneys
and Back.

Wouldn't 1t be nice within week or 50
to begin to say goodbye forever to the
scalding, dribbling, straining, or too fire.
quent passage of urine; the forehead and
the back-of- the-head aches; the stitches
and pains in the back; the growing mus
Gle weakness; spots before the eyes; yell
low skin; sluggish bowels; swollen eye
lids or ankles; leg cramps; unnatural
short breath; sleeplessness and the de-
spondency?
I have a recipe for these troubles that
you can depend on. and if you want to
make a QUICK RECOVERY, you ought
to write and get copy of 1t. Many a
doctor would charge you $3.50 just for
writing this prescription, but l have it
and will be glad to send 1t to you entire
Iy free. Just drop me line like this:
DR.. A. E. Robinson, K-262 Luck Building,
Detroit, Mich, and I will send it by re-
turn mail in plain envelope. AS you will
see when you get it, this recipe contains
only pure, harmless remedies, but it has
great healing and pain-conquering power.
1t will quickly show it's power once you
use it, so I think you had better see what
it is without delay. 1 will send you a
copy free-you can use 1t and cure your
self at home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06

Trouble Avoided In Driving Bean Poles
u Care Is Taken to Sharpen the
Ak Properly.

When sharpening the ends of bean
poles and other stakes to enable them
to enter the ground easily 1t takes sew
eral blows with the Ratchet to obtain
the desired effect.
All this trouble may be entirely done
away with if you take care to sharpen
the ak properly, says the Scientific
American. When sharpening an ordi-
nary ak or Ratchet you first put one
side against the grindstone and then
the other, thus making bevel on both
sides az in Fig. 1. But, instead Of do
ing this, allow one side of the Ratchet
to lie nearly fat on the grindstone.
Then lay the other side on the stone
and put bevel on it in the ordinary
way. Now the Ratchet has an edge
like a wood cutting chisel Gig. p.
When pointing stakes let the fiat sur
face, which must be the left side when
the edge is pointing away from you,
be nearest the wood. Lift up the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06
SCALES ALL OVER HER BODY

about three years ago I was af-
fected by white scales on my knees
and elbows. I consulted doctor who
treated me for ringworm. saw no
change and consulted a specialist and
he claimed / had psoriasis. I contin-
ued treatments under him for about
six months until I saw scales break
ing out all over my body save my
face. My scalp was affected, and my
hair began to fall. I then changed
doctors to no avail. 1 went to two
hospitals and each wanted to make a
study of the case and seemed unable
to cure it or assure me of cure. !
tried several patent medicines and
was finally advised by friend who
has used Cuticura on her children
since their birth, to purchase the
Cuticura Remedies. I purchased
cake Of Soap, the Ointment and the
Resolvent. After the first application
the itching was allayed.
II am still using the Soap and Ointr
ment and now feel that none other is
good enough for my skin. The psor-
iasis has disappeared and every
where feel better. My hands were so
disfgured before using the Cuticura
Remedies that had to wear gloves all
the time. Now my body and hands
are looking fine" (Signed) Miss Sara
Burnett, 2135 Fitzwater ST., Philadel-
phia, Pa, Sept. so, 1910.
Cuticura Soap (25c) and Cuticura
Ointment (50c) are sold throughout
the world Send to Potter Drug &
Chem. Corp, sole props, 1876 Colum-
bus Ave-, Boston, for free book on af-
fections Of the skin and scalp.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06
Takinq Up Our Cross.

The cross is to be met with in little
things as well as in great things; in
the little details of daily life; in ouS
conduct with our friends; in the daily
subsection of our creaturely will; in
the turning aside from those attrac-
tons which lead us out of the way of
duty or the path of privilege; in the
continual preference of that which
sayors of God to that which savors of
man: in always putting his will first
and our own will second; in never do
ing thing merely because it pleases
us to do it, nor shrinking from doing
anything because it is painful, but in
ever endeavoring to be guided by the
desire to become conformed unto the
nature of him who is our leader. 1t
is in such little things as these that
the cross is to be taken up.-Rev. w.
NJ. Hay. Aitken.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06
SpIit-Log Drag.

smooth the earth's surface, and pre-
vent ruts from forming to hold water.
The drag not only smooths the road,
but crowns it, and puddles the mud so
that it is hard when dry.
These drags have been used with
great success on clay or water-holding
soils. Many stretches of black gum
BIO roads in the west are maintained by
the use of this implement alone.
Every farmer should own one, and
after rain he should spend few
hours on the road adjacent to his farm.
If there are many depressions to fill,
the drag should be used when the road
Is wet.
After it has been used long enough
to make the road fairly smooth, the
drag gives the best results if used
when the earth begins to dry.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06
COMING
BY NIGHT
By REV. CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY

observation-disclosures, he that came
TO Jesus by night-St. John 1850.
The gospels are marvels of conden-
sation. There is room for no idle words
in them; super1uous statements are
rigidly excluded. The Importance of
repetition is therefore apparent. We
find in st. Johns evangel a man named
Nicodemus thrice mentioned in connec-
ton with Jesus. In the first reference
it is noted that he came to Jesus Sc
crely and by night. In the next two,
one Of which took place before the
death Of the NaZarene and the other
after, the fact of that nocturnal visit
is related, SO that Nicodemus, the
rich, wealthy member Of the San
hedrin, who was only a half-hearted
disciple of Jesus, Is always and for
ever identified and referred to as a
man who came seeking the truth
secretly and by night.
To trace his career is interesting.
His condition in life has been stated.
Timidity was his prevailing character
istic. He had insight to suspect the
truth, mentality to acknowledge it, but
not courage to live it and proclaim it.
1t is well that that lacking quality
which prevented him from being mum,
bered with the apostles should be
brought to the fore, for he is type of
humanity by no means uncommon. He
knew what was right, but he did not
have courage to shape his life in ac-
cordance with his knowledge. His be-
lief was not operative. 1t was not
practical. In politics he would cry
loudly for reform and yet vote his
party in the final test
The last scene in his life is tragical-
ly typical When the man in whom he
only half believed, whom he had de-
Tended faint heartedly whom he had
sought by night, was dead he came
with unavailing tears and futile gifts
to pay belated tribute, respect and af-
lection. How useless then! 1t re-
quired some courage, doubtless, to do
that He had progressed somewhat
from his nocturnal and secret visits.
Even his sorry touch OF the Master
had wrought that much change. Per
haps that was the beginning of a
greater change which would eventual
ly make him bold adherent, standing
four-square for what he thought and
believed. We do not know as to that.
How often have we looked at our
dead and longed for another oppor-
tunity to show them the affection and
consideration which we withheld in
life and which the great termination
has brought into our being as an IL
Elimination. "Oh! said the wife of a
deceased clergyman to body of men
who were passing resolutions after the
death Of their friend and telling what
he had been to them, ooh, gentlemen
If you thought thus of my husband
why didn't you tell him while he was
yet alive?" and the gentle reproof was
well deserved
Do not be afraid 60 stand for what
you believe. Do not proclaim your ad-
herence to man and creed secretly
and by night, but in the broad and
open light of day. Do not wait until
men or issues are dead, and then seek
to expiate your cowardice by tardy
If expensive, recognition-too late. II
will only serve to show not what might
be, but what ought to have been. In
belief and action hold it firmly, live
1t fearlessly, do 1t now.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06
There is no cure for nodular dis

There is no cure for nodular dis
ease.
Spinach and lettuce will endure q
good deal of frost.
Do not wait until 1t is too late.
Have your seed tested at once.
The Russian sunflower is the most
productive. 1t is also very hardy.
There are over 10000 900 of acres
under wheat cultivation in the world.
Market everything while it is fresh.
You will get better price and hold
your customers better.
Too much emphasis cannot be laid
on good seed as an essential to sue
cess in market gardening.
All clay lands need clover roots to
penetrate and loosen their compact
strata, and to supply vegetable mat
ter.
The best and most nutritious forage
crop is sweet corn; and it also makes
the greatest growth of foliage to the
amount of stalk.
The first silo was built about 1870.
1t is hard for those who use them now
to understand how the world got along
without silos so long.
To prevent backaches a Maine
farmer has invented jointed hoe to
throw potatoes into a net with which
1t is provided as they are dug.
Recent experiments and inyestiga-
tons show that the old sows make
more prolific mothers than young
sows or even those in the prime Of
life.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06
SouI-Thirst For God.

The soul thirsts after God because
nothing else can satisfy. 1t is great
thing to learn that lesson. Estranged
from God through the first transgres-
sion. the soul naturally seeks salts
faction in things material and carnal
rather than in things spiritual and
eternal Not until brought to an over
mastering sense and consciousness of
he utter emptiness of all earthly
things and their inadequacy to salts
fy the higher demands of the soul,
will a man give place to the longings
Of the heart after God. 1t is secono
thirst. Every mans first thirst is af-
ter carnal things, and turning from
these unto things spiritual and unto
unbounded thirst for God, is a most
wonderful transition.
No man ever thirsts after God in
vain. He is both able and willing to
supply every need of all his creatures,
and since the redemption of the soul
is so precious, why should he with
hold any good thing from us?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06
GIVE SEED MUCH ATTENTION
Importance Cannot Be OveresSlmated,
as Quality Has Great influence
on Yield of Crop.
(By w. r. &lLBERT.)

This is a subject which has received
great deal of attention from
thoughtful persons but is still very
little considered by the majority
It's Importance cannot be overestt
mated for the quality of the seed has
a great influence on the yield of the
crop.
Every one likes to get bargains and
many think that bargains and low
priced articles are one and the same
thing while in the matter of seed low
prices and bargains cannot go to-
gether.
Take, for instance, turnips. When
we see one man charging twice the
price quoted by another of course the
higher priced is usually for new and
improved varieties, but we often find
difference Of price for one variety.
One man may charge for seed which
only terminates 30 per cent, while
another charges half as much again
for seed terminating 60 per cent,
while another charges half as much
again for seed terminating 95 per
cent. From this a calculation can
easily be made as to the amount Of
seed required, for it is the low ger
mination that makes thick sowing
q necessity.
The high-priced seed is economy,
inasmuch as so many more seed ger
inmate. When the farmer knows
that termination is poor he tries to
insure a crop by thick sowing, but
there are times when he gets seeds Of
poor termination without knowing it,
probably paying the I'll price for
good seed.
This should be sufficient reason for
testing seed. Considering the mum
Der of purchases of seed each year
there are a ridiculously small num-
Der of tests made. l know of one in
stance where samples tested com
prised all the various crops grown on
the farm. In some crops the average
of samples was reasonably good, but
there were miserably poor samples in
practically every crop.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06

count Oh, l want my boy back. Help
me to get him"
But why didn't you let him go to
SCHOOL,"
Because the bad boys would fol-
low him and entice him away from
me-"
AS eager as Mrs. De GRAF was to
keep her boy by her side, just so eager
was he to get out into the street and
be real boy. He wanted to go to
school, he wanted to play, he wanted
to see the picture shows. His confine
ment of two years had deprived him
of even the few joys of tenement child
hood. and as he sat in the boys room
at the Childrens Society his big blue
eyes gazed in wonderment at the lit
tie tads who romped about the room
shouting gleefully.
He looked startlingly out of place
in that room, his long brown hair
brushing his shoulders, setting off a
pale, but chubby face of girlish beau.
ty.
81 don't want to go back to my moth
0T unless SQ0 S0uuS LIC W SCuOOl duO
lets me go outside. She never hit me
and we always ate four times day
and she taught me to read and write
and count. But want to go to school
and to go outside" he said.
The boys liberation was brought
about by "a note he threw out of the
window which fell into the hands OF
the Morris children, who live in the
same house.
"Git me a pair of pants the note
read. and the Morris boys smuggled
them across the airshaft to him. He
hid them away until one afternoon
when his mother was out marketing.
Then he slipped into them and was
almost frantic with joy until his moth
er returned and threw them into the
fire.
Then Mrs. Morris complained to the
Childrens Society and an agent and a
policeman climbed into the rooms over
a fire escape and found Henry, wear
ing only his underclothing, but eager
to get away.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06
KEPT BOY LOCKED
UP FOR TWO YEARS
MOTHER DIDN'T WANT YOUNG
SON TO LEARN BAD THINGS
FROM PLAYMATES.
MADE TEA AND TOAST FOR HER
Prompted by Intense Mother Love,
Woman Kept Her Child Under
Lock and Key That He Might Not
Associate With other Children.

New York; want my boy to grow
up good and honorable. don't want
him to learn bad things from the boys
in the neighborhood. | want him for
myself, to help me in case l need it."
So Mrs. Annie De Graaf explained
why she had kept her eleven-year-old
son Henry locked up in the rooms Of
her tenement. The little fellow is
now in the custody of the Children's
Society.
One look at the boy is sufficient to
dispel any idea of brutality or i'm
proper guardianship. Mother love, in
tense, almost animal, prompted Mrs.
De Graef to keep the child under lock
and key, to deprive him of all but I'M
derclothing, and to burn trousers and
waists smuggled in to him by the
sympathetic youngsters who lived in
the same house.
There's too much badness here"
Mrs. De Graaf continued. Il have seen
too much of it and I didn't want my
boy to be like the rest of them. He
used to go to school, and he used to
play on the streets, but l was AFRAID.
So when we moved in here I made up
my mind that 1 would keep him away
from everything that was bad, and
teach him how to grow up good and
honest"
Then another phase crept into the
story. 81 need that boy for myself. I
have taught him how to make his
mother tea and toast, and how to take
care of her If she should take sick, or
run and get an ambulance for her.
she said.
Are you a sickly persons" she was
asked.
NO; but one can never tell what is
going to happen to them. His mother
taught him everything that was good
for him and good for her. His mother
taught him how to write and spell and
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06
Feeding PIqs.

Start before the pig is weaned. The
SOW should be fed well with well
soaked ground oats or slop made OF
shorts until the pigs are about eight
weeks old. By this time they have
learned to eat fairly well. 1t is we'll
to feed the pigs near the mother, but
she should not be allowed to eat with
them. The pigs should be fed slop
and corn, together with some other
succulent food; if in summer time
blue grass pasture is good. No more
feed should be put into the trough
than the pigs will eat. Just enough
to keep them growing rapidly is
enough.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06
In %he Mornino

1 desire, Q God, this day most earn
estly to please thee; to do thy will in
each several thing thou shalt give me
to do; to bear each thing thou shalt
allow to befall me contrary to my will
meekly, humbly, patiently, as a gift
from thee, to subdue self-will in me,
and to make thy will wholly mine
What 1 do, make me do simply as thy
child; let me be, throughout the day,
as a child in his loving fathers pres.
ence. ever looking up to thee. May |
love thee for all thy love. May ]
thank thee, if not in words. yet in my
heart, for each gift of thy love, for
each comfort which thou allowest me
dav by day. Amen.-Dr. E. B. Pussy
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06
Fl9-l Fig 2

ak and with slight pressure let II
drop on the end of the wood stake. It
will be found to enter quite easily In
stead of glancing off the wood as
often happens with the ordinary hatch.
ct, and the resulting cut will be
straight, as shown in Fig. 4, instead of
being curved as shown by the dotted
lines in Fig. 8.
With this edge only half as many
strokes and half as much energy need
be used over a job and the work will
possess the advantage of being far
more neatly done.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06

carbon.

Corn and corn meal are carbon
aceous matter, similar in compost
ton to that of cream, and there is no
feed that calf likes so well as shelled
corn or corn meal.
Cream is worth 20 to 80 cents a
pound while corn is worth only about
a cent a pound, hence the economy of
its use. 4 corn meal is fed with the
milk 1t should not be stirred much but
allowed to settle to the bottom of the
pail so that it will have to be eaten
rather than swallowed with the milk.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06
Poles for Vinino Plants.

Vining beans and all other vines
should have pole or similar mechani.
cal supports. Some plant corn or sun
flowers for beans to vine on. This is
the lazy gardeners method. Two
thrifty plants cannot occupy the same
soil space at the same time and
thrive. Plant corn and sunfiowers by
themselves and beans by themselves,
and give the beans good pole support
if you wish to secure big crop.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06
MAKING A SPLIT-L0G DRAG
Implement Shown in illustration Has
Been Used With Great Success on {.
Water-Holdino Soils.

By referring to the accompanying
cut of road-drag, it will be noticed
that the halves of a split log are
framed together by wooden braces so
that the split surfaces of the log snail
be in front.
The face of the drag lies at an
angle of 45 degrees with the line Of the
road, thus drawing the earth toward
the center. The rear log should fol-
low in the tracks of the first
Drags should be used just after
rains, or continued wet weather to
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06

weeks. After that we cut about six
or seven weeks.
I'VE use both phosphorus and stable
manure for fertilization. It takes con-
siderable time and care to cultivate
and keep an asparagus bed clear of
weeds. Asparagus is not unlike other
crops The more careful treatment
you give it, the greater will be your
reward"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06
Pin Made Tour Of Mans Body.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Hrancis McMann
is recovering from an operation in
which a pin was removed from his left
leg. He swallowed the pin nine years
ago and it gave him much trouble but
always kept in the vital organs. Re-
Gently it took a downward course and
physicians removed 1t.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06
DISCOURAGED Dairymen,

A certain observer says that dairy
men are all looking forward to the
time when they can quit the business.
Wonder Ii that accounts for SO many
poor cows7 How about it2
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06
IS EPILEPSY CONQUERED?
New York Physicians Have Many
Cures to Their Credit,

New York, April 4.-Advices from
every direction fully confirm previous
reports that the remarkable treatment
for epilepsy being administered by the
consulting physicians of the DR.. Water
man Institute is achieving wonderful
results. Old and stubborn cases have
been greatly benefited and many pa
tients claim to have been entirely
cured.
Persons suffering from epilepsy
should write at once to DR.. Waterman
Institute, 122 East 25th ST., Branch IS,
New York, for a supply of the remedy.
which is being distributed gratuitously.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-06
His Interest.

"You are going to interest yourself
in this reform enterprise?"
Certainly" replied Senator Sor-
ghum.
But I thought it was unfavorable
to your friends"
ut is. And I'm going to interest
myself in it far enough to let me
offer suggestions that will render it
impractical"