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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-24
DR.. CALDWELL'S GUIDE
TO GOOD HEALTH

The natural tendency of people in
this busy age to demand of the d.
gestive organs more than nature in
tended they should perform, frequent
ly results in throwing the entire de
gestive system into disorder. When
the stomach fails to freely digest and
distribute that which is eaten, the
bowels become clogged with mass
of waste and refuse which ferments
and generates poisonous gases that
are gradually forced into the blood.
causing distress and often serious i'll
ness.
DR.. w. B. Caldwell says that II the
bowels are kept regular there will be
much less sickness, and prescribes a
combination of simple laxative herbs
with pepsin that is most effective in
relieving any congestion of matter in
the bowels. This compound can be
bought in any drug store under the
name of DR.. CaldwelPs Syrup Pepsin,
and costs only so cents a bottle. 1t is
mild in its action, pleasant to the
taste and positive in effect, q dose at
night bringing relief next morning.
naturally and without gripping or 9TH
er discomfort. A bottle of DR.. Cald-
wells Syrup Pepsin in the house will
save many times its cost in doctor
bills. Your name and address on a
postal to DR.. w. B. Caldwell, 203 West
ST., Monticello, Ill, will bring a free
trial bottle by return mail. ADV.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-24

If it had been any other than St
Valentines night, l should have set a
doubt against this sudden geniality OF
my companion. She had not been SO
sunny in the hanson, but here she
laughed like brook. We might have
been runaway lovers with no horses
galloping behind us.
'Mademoiselle," | said, 'in the cor
ner yonder by that palm Madame
sailors; the spot is marked with a
mosaic star"
She followed my eye boldly to the
spot, held level glance on the very
glasses of the dragon without flicker
of an eyelid.
"How lugubrious!" she said. There
is such a star in the railroad station
in Washington marking the place
where a president was shot"
Then she shrugged her shoulders
and looked me squarely in the face.
why should they mark with the
sign of tragedy the spot where Mad
anne Bernhard recited-that place
there by the palm?'
l tried to evade the directness OF
the query.
Lay it." 1 said, ito the unimagina-
tive nature of our people. A Latin
would have marked one place with a
mosaic of laurel, and the other with a
black cross. Let us suggest it to the
Players"
She looked at the palm again with
a slow. heavy-lidded glance and then
back to me.
NO" she said, now that I think
it over, perhaps the mark of tragedy is
fittest there" And then, Does not
Bernhard indeed represent the en-
bodiment of tragedy"
/ had new lights on the problem.
The woman was perfectly aware that
a sentinel watched. She knew when
he entered with the porter. She knew
that he sat behind that palm when
she came in to dinner, and yet she
came, and played with me a comedy
of sweethearts crowded with sug-
gestive incident, and overplayed it.
I had barely settled the matter to
my satisfaction, when the man arose
and came through the dining-room
past our table to the door. He doubt
less saw that the woman had discov-
cred him and so deemed 1t wise to
leave the cafe like an ordinary guest
1 observed again that his face was
strong, determined and very pale.
Such a type of person did not become
a detective in New York; but all man.
ner of men came from the great west.
and why not spy with an open, hon.
orable face? The next moment my
last theory went to pieces.
The young woman looked up from
her coffee, smiled and spoke to him
in as pleasant voice as have ever
heard.
"Good-evening, Henry" she said.
The man bowed courteously and
passed on through the door, show OF
color mounting slowly to his cheeks.
I withdrew then from the field of
lie Cooue and Dupin. The mystery
was beyond me. One did not speak
thus cordially to hired trailer, and
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-24

! talking in the adjoining room. There
was familiar tone in the low voice
| that took my attention from the pile
of letters before me. The door was
not quite closed. I arose softly and
/ looked through the crack. Randolph
/ Mason sat in his chair, his fingers
| plucking impatiently at the heavy ma
! hogany arms, his head held a little to
| one side, his eyes wandering aim
| lessly over the room. Opposite him,
| with her two elbows on the table, her
| face pressed together in her hands,
and a long seal coat falling to the
| floor over the back of her chair, sat
| the woman with whom had dined the
/ night before at the Dresden. | could
! not see her face, but her voice was
tense, vibrant, low, packed with emo
ton. If l had not been consumed
with a special interest, I still had not
been able to put away this espionage.
The soft, quivering, overcharged tones
held me like the droning of some in
cantation. | caught the words pour
ing hot as from crucible.
after that he was always at the
door when I came out, heaping on me
things that l did not want-fiowers,
bon-bons, the like. 4 was hideously
poor I mended with my own fingers
the stockings in which l danced every
Wednesday night at the Theater Fran
Gals in the great ballet of the Fata
Morgana. / needed warm clothes,
good food, fire. They said | had
limbs like fairy. l had, they were
starved thin. An exquisite pallor, l
had that, too, but it came from sour
bread, chocolate made with water and
sweetened with sugar picked off with
my nails from the bon-bons l did not
love the man, nor any man. I was a
child. In the place of mother, I
had the warnings OF an instinct. /
feared the touch of a mans fingers
as the beast of the field does; but the
old concierge who had kept life in me
with hot soup every night after the
ballet, took the thing in hand. She
discovered, know not how, that the
young mans father was rich Amer
lean. So she bundled me of to Passe
and handed me over to him, but under
a ceremony of marriage set out fully
on the records of Passe. She was the
only friend ever had, this old,
crooked, evil-featured Madame Du-
rogue. She could more easily have
sold me to him at the door of her
lodge for a hundred louis. After this,
1 was. at least, not hungry. My hus-
band was little more than boy. We
lived over the Seine by the Luxem-
bourg. I did not dance any more at
the Theater Francois, but went every
Monday morning to Madame Duroque
to tell her everything and to divide
with her my handful of francs. Ny
husband studied art under the usual
masters, but it was every morning
thrown away. He was indolent, ut
terIy worthless, wholly given over to
a life of pleasure.
zone noon in May, his father ar
rived, handed me twenty-five napo-
Icons and told me to go down into
the street. l went with the money in
my hand to Madame Duroque. She
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-24

where in Christendom was there a
spy who blushed? The man went out
into the lobby of the hotel, got cigar
somewhere and sat down in a leather
chair by the wall where he could have
a view of the dining-room. Still he
watched, and my Lady Unknown knew
that he watched.
When the dinner was ended, 1 went
with her to the elevator, wondering ii
she would play it out with her fingers
to kiss at the parting. But she only
smiled alluringly and stepped into
the steel cage with her. Even the
Hebrew scriptures scorned the weak
ling who turned back
THE parlors are on the next floor, -
she said.
Then the door clicked and the ele-
yator began to rise. Instantly she
changed as under some hideous sore
cry. Her hands trembled, her face
grew as white as a grave-cloth. When
she spoke her voice clicked like a
steel rail under an express.
Get out here" she said, when the
car touched at the next landing, land
manage to leave the hotel unobserved.
You have done me a great favor. i
thank you"
got out. The car vanished. /
started to go down the steps, when l
saw over the rail the mysterious
stranger coming up. l turned back
and stepped quickly behind the ele-
vator shaft. The man came slowly up
the stairway and went into the public
drawing-room. got into the next car
that came down. AS it descended,
looked back through the wire net over
the roof of the car. The man was
coming out of the drawing-room door
into the hall. His face was purple.
1t was late when 1 got downtown
the next morning. Pietro let me in
and I went at once to my table in the
front office. / was scarcely seated
when I became aware Of some one
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-24
Il wanted him to see with his own
eyes that l was bad!"
The words changed like bell.
became aware then of some

The words changed like bell.
| became aware then of some one
breathing heavily behind me. turned,
expecting to see Pietro. Instead, at
my back, looking over my shoulder,
was the man who had sat watching at
the Dresden. His face looked as
though it were coated with chalk. his
eyes stared over my shoulder into the
next room. saw, too, that the door
of the house stood half open. He had
come In unnoticed by Pietro.
The woman got her voice painfully
in hand again.
Here" she said, here is the
money" And she took up her travel
ing bag from the floor and threw 1t
down on the table among the books.
'Send 1t back to him. You IRE a
lawyer, you can do that somehow. l
have kept only thousand dollars for
Madame Duroque. Let HIN arrest me
for stealing that. If ne likes. l should
be glad of CELL"
The woman's face WIS set How In
a distressing tension.
Madame" said Randolph Mason,
you might have spared yourself this
nonsense. You are guilty of 40 crime
in taking this money; neither was
your husband guilty OF any chine In
keeping 1t, nor yet is the bondsman
of your husband liable for this money.
This money was paid to your husband
as clerk of the circuit court OF his
county, during the vacation OF that
court. 1t was not, then, money paid
into court, to the clerk, as contem-
plated by the statute of the state In
which he lived. 1t, therefore, did noc
come into his possession by virtue OF
his office, and his bondsmen are not
liable for its transportation. Such
bonds require only that the clerk
shall account for and pay over, as re-
quired by law, all money which may
come to his hands by virtue of his
said office. 1t is no crime for you TO
keep the money since it was neither
stolen nor embezzled, but merely ent
trusted to your husband under an lnF
correct idea of the law. The loss,
madam. will fall on the railroad which
paid this money into court-that U.s.
your father-in-law, the one who should
properly lose it."
/ looked to see the woman grow
suddenly radiant; but, instead, she
buried her face in her hands and be-
gan to cry. The tears trickled through
her fingers. She rocked, sobbing, In
her chair. l caught the handle to the
foiding-doors between the two rooms
and flung them open. The woman
sprang up, stammering incoherently.
The man took her in his arms.
Randolph Mason spoke then In his
cold, even voice, but there was almost
a smile on his lips.
PARKS" he said, "go out and en-
gage a stateroom on the KatsST VIII
helm for Cherbourg.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-24
Sterilization of Water by Light

At the recent hygiene exhibition at
Dresden apparatus was shown by
means of which water may be purified
on a large scale through the use of
ultraviolet light This method is now
in use in France on large scale, and
is found to be both practical and eco
nomical. The amount Of electrical
current required to produce the ultra
violet light is small. The efficiency is
so great that the water, after treat
ing, is found to contain not more than
twenty-five or thirty germs to the
ounce, which is far better than any
thing that has ever been accomplished
by a filtering process.-Good Health.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-24
For the legal principle In
voIved In this story sec the case
of State to Use of Blake v.
Enslow ct. all, Al w. Va; T44.
Women Workers In Japan.

The Chugai Shogyo Shimhun has
been investigating the question of fe-
male labor in Toxic, and announces
that various economic causes are driv-
ing women to seek their occupation in
fields which have hitherto been occu-
pied solely by men The total of the
female population is $4,000, of whom
191 900 seek their livelihoods outside
their own family circle. OF these,
maid servants number $4,000, dress
makers $4,000, and shop assistants
24,2OO The barmaids and hotel SER
wants number 10000, while teachers
and professional women are 14,5OO.
The women workers of Toxic form 80
per cent of the total working popula-
ton of the capital Among them
widows and girls, ranging in age from
Is to 60, predominant.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-24

They burned like dull green lamps.
could not eat much for all my
boastings of hunger-no one could I'M
der those ugly syes. They seemed
now to glitter when the leaves of the
palm threw little shadows on spec
tacle glass. That glass added GER
tain terror, the eyes became like one
moving behind a screen, and there
was something sinister In the smiles
and laughter of this charming woman
under an espionage she did not dream
Of. l held my place as carelessly as l
could, under this menace like cooked
pistol l fished a little for clue.
Madam" said, tipping a little OF
my wine into the plate, "the king,
your father, doubtless sends an invisi-
BILE escort with you. / pour out a
lfbation to it."
She put aside the bait.
Il am an orphan" she said, not
even a brother on the throne"
That Topped off one limb OF the
problem, If it were the truth.
"But, madam" began.
She held up her unglOVed hand, as
bare of rings as my own good nose.
That dismissed the husband-n the
ring were not in her pocket.
Il beg your pardon" continued.
How could one hope that you had es-
capped bondage for so long? The men
of your land must resemble that fool
ish people rallied at by the Prophet
She lifted her little chin with a
quaint challenge.
Am I so old, them" she said.
Eyes, Mademoiselle Inconnue," an
swered, quite eighty years old,
think The letters to you have been
published thirty years"
Excellent, Monsieur Merimee," she
said. 1--WE are now supplied with
names, we shall get on better"
could have taken this promise with
a greater joy had 1t not been for the
sentinel behind the palm.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-24

The best definition of Nature is per-
haps Mills in his Three Essays on
Religion" In that most able and in
teresting work Mill says: Mature is
a collective name for all facts, actual
and possible, or a name for the Mode,
partly known to us and partly un-
known, in which all things take
place" Continuing, Mill says: "The
nature of a thing means its entire ca
pacity of existing phenomena. AS the
nature of any given thing is the aggre-
gate of it's powers and properties, so
Nature, in the abstract, is the aggre-
gate of the powers and properties of
all things"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-24
Open Air Schools Grow in Favor.

With the opening of the fall school
term, over 200 open air schools and
fresh air classes for tuberculous, and
anaemic children, and also for all chill
dren in certain rooms and grades, will
be in operation in various parts Of the
United States, according to the Nation
al Association for the Study and Pre-
vention of tuberculosis. All of these
schools have been established since
January, 1907, when the first institu-
ton Of this character was opened in
Providence, r. !. On January 1st.
1910, there were only 10 open air
schools in this country and a year
later the number had increased only
to 20. Thus, the real growth in this
movement has been within the last
two years. Massachusetts now leads
the states with sc fresh air schools
and classes for tuberculous, anaemic
and other school children, Boston
alone having over 80 New York comes
next with 20, and Ohio is third with
Fl. Open air schools have now been
established in nearly so cities in 10
different states.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-24
Hope to Find Buried Treasure.

Enthused by the finding of several
Spanish coins along the beach at Fen
wicks island, farmers from all over
that section of Delaware are neg
Iecting their farms to dig for buried
treasure, of which the coins are sup
posed to be a part. The excitement
was started by the picking up Of sew
eral Spanish coins, most of them dat
ed around 1882. The rumor of the
find spread through the country, and
since then the old story of the wreck
of several Spanish vessels on the Fen
wick beach has been revived.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-24
sirthnIace Of coIumbus.

Garcia de la Riega, the great Span
isb authority on Columbus, declares
himself to be in possession OF docu-
ments which prove that the explorers
birthplace is Porto Santo, small VII
LACE in the vicinity of Madrid and not
Genoa, as popular belief will have it.
This declaration has aroused storm
of protest, and a society has been
formed for the purpose of making re-
searches in order to refute De la RE
gas statement.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-24
Serious Lack.

An old Englishwoman, who was ex-
tremely stout, was making vain efforts
to enter the rear door of an omnibus.
The driver leaned over good-naturedly
and cried:
"Try sideways, mother, try side
ways!"
The old woman looked up breath.
lessly, and replied
"Why, bless We, James, I amt got
no sideways!"-Yo Youths Companion
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-24

Every mother is firmly convinced
that she is capable of picking better
husband for her daughter than she did
for herself
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-24
In ParIs.

"How do you know she is an Amer
ican?"
II heard her talking French
Judge.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-19
THE PEEWSH CHILD
NEEDS TREATMENT

When a. child sulks drowsily, or is
tretful, it Is usually due to some slight
disorder of the digestive organs, and a
mild laxative is very often all that is
necessary to restore cheerfulness and
buoyancy of spirits.
In cases where the use of gentle,
effective laxative stimulant is indi-
Gated, many Of the best physicians are
now prescribing DR.. Caidwell's Syrup
Pepsin. This preparation is admitted
~ the perfect laxative, being mild, yet
positive in its action on the bowels,
and far preferable to violent cathart-
les and purgative waters. It is very
pleasant to the taste and is an ideal
remedy to regulate and strengthen the
stomach, liver and bowels. It's easy,
natural action makes it especially de-
sirable in the case Of children, a dose
at bedtime being sure to have the de-
sired result next morning, with no at
tendant unpleasantness or discomfort.
DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is sold
by druggists everywhere in soc and
$1.00 bottles. If you have never tried
this splendid remedy, write to DR.. w.
B. Caldwell, POI Washington St., MOD.
t1cello, ILL.,, for sample. He will b.
very glad to send trial bottle with
out any expense to you whatever.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-19

Crooked or "SlckIe" Hook.
likely to cause lameness. Blemishes
may indicate tendency to falling.
The hoofs should be ample in size,
sound, smooth and symmetrical in
shape.
The chest encloses the heart and
lungs; it should be roomy in every
respect. A narrow, shallow chest de-
notes poor constitution, lack of endur-
ance and deficient breathing organs.
If too wide the action tends to wad-
ding or rolling. A narrow chest and
high knee action often go together
An ample, wide, deep chest denotes
vlgor, power, strong constitution and
easy keeping qualities.
Poor hooks are common fault in
draft horses. 1t Is important to i'm
prove this deficiency. To that end
breeding animals should have good
hooks and for work horses this also
is imperative. Tie hook mot hind
kneeD is commonly the seat Of some
one of such diseases as bone and bog
mot bloody SPAWN, thoroughpin and
curb. These should be avoided. The
joint should look and feel firm. hard
and with each bone we'll defined, free
from meatiness and of great size. The
point of the hook should be prominent,
clean and sharp and the tendons un-
der it straight, distinct, but free from
bullying.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-19

ciated with upright pasterns. The
shoulders should be smoothly and
deeply covered with muscles and. be
free from coarseness, roughness, sores
and tumors. The withers should be
we'll covered and moderately high.
The arm of the horse extends from
the point Of the shoulder to the elbow
and should be short, heavily muscled
and we'll thrown back.
This part is formed of the arm bone
(humerus) and must be sd laid as to
bring the leg in proper position to sup
port the weight of the forequarter.
The elbows should be prominent.
clean and not held too far out or too
close in to the body. Score OF for
straight, poorly placed or inadequately
muscled arms.
The forearm, extending from the ell.
bow to the knee, should be long, wide,
heavily muscled and free from coarse
ness. This portion of the body of the
draft horse, together with the lower
thigh (gaskin) of the hind leg, cannot
be fattened, but is composed chiefly Ct
lean muscle and bone. The muscles
should be prominent in front and
above and the entire part clean and
free from puffiness and coarseness.
The knees should be straight, wide,
deep, strongly formed and smooth.
So long as these and other joints
are free from puffs, bony growths
and meatiness. they cannot we'll be
too large or too strongly developed.
Knees should be straight and so set
as to perfectly carry the weight of the
body. Sprung knees, or buck knees
bent in the forward direction are as
Objectionable as those of the reverse
type which are known as calf
knees" Examine the knees for blem.
ishes and the cannons for splints
close up to the knees. Splints will be
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-19
ATHLETIC Minister
SITS upon MAYOR
Minnesota Preacher Resents Be-
ing Called Liar by Chief Ex-
ecutive of North St. Paul.
ROW OVER ELECTION
Parson Goes Home After the Insult,
But Returns After Ponderino Well
the Matter and Administers
Enduring Rehuke.

St. Paul, Minn.-North st. Paul has
q fighting parson" in Rev. Martin w.
Kinney, who, following an alteration
with Mayor Pat Murphy after the
close of the village election the other
night neatly and dispassionately laid
the militant mayor fiat on the floor of
the post Office and, with his knee
poignantly planted in the pit of the
magistrates suffering stomach, babe
him ponder on the folly of passing the
lie to a man of the cloth.
Fearing the descending wrath of a
righteous man, the mayor. supine and
taking three-inch breaths, called on
the astounded spectators, lin the name
Of the state" not to mention the name
Of humanity, to make the parson let
him up. This was done and Mayor
Murphy, as gracefully as possible,
considering his late recumbent posi-
ton, dissolved and floated toward the
prairies.
Rev. Mr.. Kinney Is about five feet
eight inches high, of medium build.
peaceful and kindly.
Mayor Pat Murphy Is about five feet
seven inches high, trife under me-
dunn build and probably peaceful by
now.
Late In the afternoon Rev. Mr.. Kin
ney encountered the mayor on duty
In front of the pos Office and accused
him Of permitting the saloons to re-
main open on election day. He also
mentioned that the mayor, who was
elected on a reform ticket, had gone
over to the other side. Said the
mayor:
"You are a liar"
''1nasmuch as l am a minister" re-
piled Rev. Mr. Kinney, according ia