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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-03-13
HTHE MIDDLE EN- AN"
Extracts Taken From an Article BY Mike Kin.
ney, Teamster and Editor, As Published in
''The GimIet," January, 1873.

Has it eyer occurred to you just
why there has been so much writ
ten in the newspapers and maya
zines about the extortionate profits
of the middle man? Have you ever
wondered why almost every publ
cation that comes to your home
takes a shot at the poor. retail mer-
chant? If you do not know, let me
give you the answer. 1t is-AD-
VERTISING. The great metropol
itan newspapers, the farm journals,
and the hundreds of magazines that
are published, cannot and do not
expect any advertising patronage
from the retail merchant. Their
advertising comes from mail order
houses, from manufacturers, and
from department stores that are
seeking TO deal with the consumer
direct Therefore these papers
constantly contain articles encour-
aging the consumer in every section
Of the country to send his money to
some far-away merchant and thus
save the profit of the retail dealer
at home.
The subscription price of practi-
cally all newspapers and magazines
shows loss Often this subscrip-
ton price would not pay for the
amount of plain white paper used
in the magazines or newspapers
you receive. All of the profits of
these publications come from ad-
vertising, and so it is to their in
terest to constantly work for a sys-
tenn of distribution that will lead to
more advertising.
If all goods were bought by the
consumer from his local store, there
would only be advertising in the
local paper. Such a method of dis
tribution, of course, would not suit
the magazines and newspapers.
They, therefore, have been for years
advocating and endeavoring to
build up all kinds of selling plans
which lead to consumers buying
their goods just as far away from
home as possible.
ADVERTISING was the reason
that all of these publications were
so much in favor of parcel post.
ADVERTISING was the reason
that it was next to impossible to
get any articles opposed to the
parcel post in a national daily pa
per or magazine. g.
The parcel post is, of course, in
many respects a very good thing.
In many ways it will be great
convenience. We have, however,
been promised that it would reduce
the cost of living. We have been
promised that it would bring the
city man and the country man in
closer contact. / have been doing
little investigating, and | find
that nearly all of the parcel post
packages are going from the city man
to the country man, while the coun-
try man is not sending back any
packages to the city man. Pack
ages are going from the city 10 the
country, and money to pay for
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-03-13
SOUTH MARTELL

Martin Anderson was sick last
week.
Jul Lund had break down in
the saw mill Monday.
Mrs. B A. Iverson entertained
the Ladies' Aid on Thursday.
There will be services in the
Synod church on Good Friday.
Miss Alma, Hanson, who is work
ingfor Mrs. B. Iverson, will spend
Easter with her folks in Gilman.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-03-13
FARGO

Emil Johnson has purchased the
N. Grendall place.
Albert Wilcox and family spent
Sunday at George Grifey's.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. 6. Carlson re-
turned to Grantsburg last Thursday.
T. B. Peters and family spent
Sunday at the home of G. S. Will
cox.
Add Dopkins and family are
spending few days with relatives
here.
For baby's Group. Willie's daily
cuts and bruises, mammals sore
throat, grandma's lameness,-Dr.
Thomas Eclectic Oil-the house
hold remedy. 25c and 5oc.--adv.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-03-13
Are You Constituted?

If SO, get box of DR.. Kings
New Life Pills, take them regularly
and your trouble will quickly dis
appear. They will stimulate the
liver improve your digestion and
get rid of all the poisons from your
system. They will surely get you
well again. 25c at all druggists.
adv.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-03-13
MeritoI Rheumat SIN Powders

Stand as the results of the highest
medical achievement of modern sci
ence, and are guaranteed to give
permanent relief in all cases of
Rheumatism. If you suffer from
Rheumatism give this wonderful
remedy a trial. c. R. Taggart,
Exclusive Agent.-adv.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-03-13

To feel strong, have good appe-
tite and digestion, sleep soundly and
enjoy life, use Burdock Blood Bit
tiers, the FAMILY system tonic. Price,
.Oo.-adv.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-03-13

A lazy liver leads to chronic dys-
pepsia and constipation, -weakens
the whole system. Doan's Regulets
(25c per box)act mildly on the liver
and bowels. At all drug stores-adv.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-03-13
VIKING

Rev. B. Oakland called at Hans
Gilstad's Thursday evening.
School in District 4 closed Friday
for a three weeks vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Madison and
daughter Pearl visited at @. Olson's
Sunday.
Little Howard Halvorson has
been sick but is better at this
writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gust Sampson of
River Falls visited at Hans Gilstads
over Sunday.
A number of girls surprised Eva
MCKINLEY Saturday, it being her
18th birthday.
Mrs. and Mrs. Martin Peterson
of Pleasant valley visited with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Larson
Sunday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-03-13
Neighborh0od News
FROM CORRESPONDENTS IN THE COUNTIES
PIERCE AND ST. cR0K.
PLEASANT VALLEY

The dance at Martell was we'll
attended.
VIM. Schorn purchased a horse
from Julius Everson recently.
Hans and VIM. Everson drove
through this neighborhood Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. O'Brien
visited at the home of the formers
parents Sunday.
Miss Doshia Clause is having her
usual spring vacation from her
school duties in Pleasant Valley.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-03-13

Itch! Itch! Itch Scratch! Scrat-
CHI! Scratch! The more you scratch,
the worse the itch. Try Doan's
Ointment. For eczema, any skin
itching. 5oc box.-adv.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-03-13
What You Have Been Looking For

WIIdI IOu IIdVe Beet LOOKIIIB TOT
Meritol White Liniment is a
preparation that gives universal
satisfaction in every instant where a
pain killer and healer is needed.
We do not believe you could get a
better liniment at any price. G. R.
Taggart, Exclusive Agent.-adv.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-05-23
Phone 465

ed and at all times in readiness to do
service for our friends and patrons.
THE EMBALMING ROOM
is in every particular modern, being
designed by Mr.. Allen, an expert en-
balmer who has had many years ex-
pcrience in this work.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-05-23
C0GG|NS & HEARD
Night Phone 4l6

Night Phone 4l6
OUR SAMPLE ROOM
In the sample room is to be found
at all times complete stock of cloth,
hardwood and metal caskets, enabling
the customer to have variety of cases
from which to make a selection and
also preventing the delay and incon-
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-05-23
FUNERAL
DIRECTORS
1O7-1O9 Powder Springs St.
OUR LOCATION

OUR LOCATION
Being situated on one of the most
prominent streets we appeal to the
class of trade who demand the best
and up-to.date undertakerS for the
direction of the funeral.
THE CHAPEL
is spacious, comfortable and we'll light
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-05-23
LICENSED
EMBALMERS
Marietta, Georgia

Venience necessary when having to
order selection from the factory or
distant point.
By these means the patron may
see the case ready and trimmed as he
may choose.
All calls attended promptly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-06
RETwEEN SCHOOL YEARS.

The vacation school is rapidly becom-
ing as much of a part of our educa-
tional system as are those of the regu-
lar period.
Children in $50 or more American
cities will continue going to school
during the summer months this year,
according to information received at
the United States bureau of education.
Starting originally as a humanitarian
movement to keep children off the city
streets, the vacation schools have be-
come an important part of the school
system with a tremendous influence in
the demand for the all-year school.
The steady development from Sc cities
in 1909 to 141 in 1912 indicates that va
cation schools represent a genuine ed
vocational demand. and not a mere fad.
Some of the schools keep open as long
as ten weeks, but six weeks is the usual
term. In most cities the session is five
days a week, although eleven cities re-
mort sessions of six days. The school
authorities have generally provided the
funds for the work, but they have
sometimes been aided by tuition fees
or private contributions. Appropriations
for vacation school work in 1912 totaIled
more than $500, 600.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-06
KANSAS CONMENT
THoMPsoN's POSITION.

There has been a good deal of talk
about Senator Thompson and his posi-
ton relative to the tariff bill now be-
fore congress. The papers have point
ed out that the senator is between the
devil and the deep sea-" or words to
that effect. Nothing of the kind.
thompson can only make one mistake.
and that is to go back on his party.
This is speaking from his side of the
question. The majority of Kansas peo-
pie will insist that there should be
reasonable duty on sugar, but the DEM
ocratic party stands for free sugar, and
the people of Kansas elected Thomp-
son TO the senate, knowing him to be
democrat, and what that party stood
Tor. II Thompson wants to make good,
the people OF Kansas will think more
OF MIN, If he holds I'D the hands of
his administration, swallows the provis-
ions or the party tariff measure and
helps to turn affairs wholly and unre-
servedly into Democratic hands There
should be no halfway or hybrid Sari.>
iaws enacted. If the Democrats and
senator Thompson are wrong about
this tariff, let's find it out Kansas
wants no more explaining from states
men sent to congress with the expec-
tatlon that they will do one thing, who
do something else. Kansas voted to
send man to the senate who would
be in sympathy and who would give
his support to the president. Thomp-
son is a Democrat, and believes in a
radical reduction of the tariff. Unless
he is a rabbit, a man afraid of a hand
full of constituents, ne will vote his
true sentiments on that tariff bill. That
may not sound like politics, but it
would be acting the part of a states
man. Thompson has but one guess
coming, and that is to vote for the
party measure and take his medicine
along with the rest of the party.-New-
ton Kansan-Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-06
says UNCLE CIV

| Don't insist upon being at the head
| of the procession until you've become
| strong enough to push the present lead
ers aside. When you have attained
that degree of strength you won't care
where you ride. He who sets great
store upon rank, order, precedence and
the outward signs and symbols of pow
er is unfit to possess them. They may
have their use in getting in your bluff
on the other fellow, but no mark of
artificial distinction ever filed a hol-
low head and strengthened a cowardly
heart.
If you've really made good you no
longer care for the incidents of great
ness. Caesar, when he put the crown
aside, was Caesar still. Tolstoy, in
peasant garb and snoeless was greater
than Tolstoy robed and shod. Christ
bearing the cross was the same who
rode into Jerusalem in triumph. Ger
vantes in the galley was no, less than
he who saw the laughter-making vision
that stripped the withered bloom from
a knighthood that had outlived it's mis-
sion. Cromwell, the unpretentious
Roundhead, would no sooner have
stirred England to her center had he
worn the insignia of kingship.
Work, not place. is the thing-rank
is unimportant beside results. 1t is
a truism that all greatness depends
upon achievement, and If you are go
ing to do anything really worth while,
you have a mans size job cut out
for you without worrying about such
trifes as signs and symbols of auth
GRITTY. 1t matters not whether you make
shoes with Tolstoy or rumble political
philosophy with Bismarck in a palace,
whether you live in a poverty-stricken
cottage with Poe or a walled and pre-
tentious dwelling with Tennyson, the
world will remember nothing but your
work. 1t cares not whether you eat
but one meal a day or four it is in
different whether you are a boulevar-
der or a hermit. 1t wants what you
can give it. and asks no questions. 1t
will not remember tomorrow whether
you are a knight or a commoner, a So
cial favorite or a pumpkin, but it will
recall long after you are dead that
you painted a beautiful picture, wrote
an inspiring poem, invented a labor
saving machine or fashioned better
plowshare. -
The best cure for the itch of fame is
to attain fame. You wouldn't have it
long until you are pining for peace
and quiet. The blareA of brass and
the adulation of the mob never were
very soothing to the toiI-racked nerves
that long for peace and quiet. He who
is given in his hours of ease to the
contemplation of labor well done and
labor still to be finished would rather
that the torchlight procession with the
glaring transparencies would take an
other route and forbear to disturb his
meditations. When you have fought
your way to the zone of sheen and fam
fare, a little silence and a little unil-
Illuminated twilight are glorious things.
If you can't be happy until you head
the procession. go to It.. You'll soon
convince yourself that you're wrong.
You have only to play with a bauble
for a little while to find out that it's
a bauble. The applause of the crowd
grows harsh to the ears that have
longed for it and earned it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-06
LET US HAVE PEACE.

At least the government officials ap-
pear to have discovered what every
body else knew already and that is that
the dissolution of the trust has failed
to accomplish what 1t was supposed to
do 1t will be noted that It is not the
general public that is complaining, but
those outside the trusts who are en-
gagged in similar lines of business. 1t
is cry to the government to help them
hold their own and in that respect is
much like the wall of the manufactur-
ers who demanded a tariff to enable
them to compete with others in the
market.
Attorney General McReynsld's plan
to levy a graduated tax on the output
of the tobacco trust, increasing with
the amount of goods produced looks
like move to curtail business. Itwould
be a radical departure from the time
honored policy of encouraging every
body to do as much business as pos
sible to place penalty upon those who
pass a fixed point.
Probably nothing of the sort will be
done but the mention of it has started
in incipient panic in Wall street.
Theoretically it may be all right to
ignore the street but any long con-
tinued disturbance in that quarter u.s.
ually extends to the entire country.
Will not Mr.. Bryan use his influence
for industrial peace as well as the
other kind? Surely the country needs
a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-06
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

A man never knows how badly her feet
hurt until he marrieS her.
dog with fleas usually seems tn he
trying to make both ends meet.
Everyone favors improvements affecting
the taxes of the other fellow.
While we don't believe in ghosts, every
wife can see through her husband
Accept It from their mother, a Man is a
Brute who won't let the children impose
on him.
Your neighbor should be grateful to you,
for doing so much worrying over his bust
ness.
She made fine talk said Alb Adkins.
until she maintained Sherlock Holmes
wrote good stories.'
Remember when you get the worst of it
that you have again switched over on the
side of the majority.
Most of the Dear Peepul seem to be try
ing to demonstrate that they can afford
those things they can't afford.
Some men are proud because they are
tnveterate smokers, which is another case
of Pride Without Reason.
none of them should be SO particular
about their finger nails as to be late to
work.
Church White: "If you want to find
out where a man is from, without asking
him directly, ask him what town has the
best fire department.
One of the handsomest, best behaved
and most sedate matrons in Atchison,
a child, used to eat red ants spread on
her bread and butter.
Whenever an Atchison mans wife goes
away visit, he advertises his canary
bird for sale, so that a few women will
call on him and cheer up his home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-06
DIMINISHING MEAT SUPPLY.

The diminishing supply Of food ami
mails in the United States is called to
public attention in a bulletin just is
sued by the department of agriculture
which says:
1.-The time has come when we must
conserve our meat supply and take
steps to increase it, and at the pres
ent remunerative prices for food ami
mails it is probable that this will be
gradually accomplished. Farmers gen.
orally, and especially those in the corn
belt, should take advantage of the sit
uation to develop cattle feeding under
the present favorable conditions"
The United States no longer has the
former abundant supplies of cattle
raised cheaply on the open ranges.
The range is being cut up and fenced
off into farms or diverted to sheep
grazing. There has also been a great
increase in the price of corn and other
feeds, which has made cattle feeding
a risky and expensive undertaking,
specially as for a considerable time
the prices received were unsatisfactory
from the feeders standpoint. For
these various reasons cattle raising
went into disfavor, and the present
greatly restricted supply is the result.
There was a largely increased i'm
portation of cattle in 1912, the number
being 325,717 as against 252,413 in
1911, and 211.230 in 1910. These ami
mails were nearly all brought over the
Mexican border for feeding purposes
They help a little, though not very
much, in our beef supply.
The shortage in the supply of meat
producing animals in the United
States is steadily becoming more pro-
nounced, and it is evident that the
country is facing an era of short pro-
duction of meat. In the last six years
there has been a decline of over 80
per cent in the number of beef cattle
in the country, while the population
and the consequent demand for meat
have increased.
More than half of the meat pro-
duced in the United States is slaugh-
tered under government inspection. A
decrease of over 8 per cent. is shown
in the number of animals killed under
this inspection in the first three
m onths of this year as compared with
the same period of last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-06
The water Jag"
a rest.

If you are looking for a strictly
This you still may do with legal i'm
punity in America, but in Germany,
where this form of tipple was invent
ed, stringent laws were passed and
the vice has been summarily stamped
out.
Strange to say-and it may shock
the white ribboner who does not read
far enough-the aqua intoxicating is
more violent and serious in it's effects
than indulgence in opalescent absinthe,
fiery schnapps, head-swelling mescal
or just plain red eye," and the craze
makes one a nervous wreck, it is as
sured, in a few weeks time. Further
more, the intoxicating fluid is just
plain water, of no particular chemical
constitution and not to be sought in
any particular spring or stream-it is
just water.
We'll, what's the joker" we can
hear some one asking. There is no
joke at all; it is strictly true, the only
popularity being that, instead of be-
ing imbibed by the throat, as in the
case with ordinary intoxicants, or by
subcutaneous injections, as in the case
of the more subtle narcotics, the wa
ter is imbibed through the ear.
The operation is simple enough.
Cold water is allowed to drop, to drop
slowly and steadily into the ear. At
first the effect is somewhat painful
and has a boiling sensation. but grad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-06
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record

Il AOAi Tie illAdOSlpnId fNeCOTO.J
The man who can keep stopper in his
family jars is a corker.
There is nothing new under the sum- ex-
cept a lot of alleged antique furniture
A man who marries in haste has no diff
ficulty in discovering what to do with his
leisure.
You can't use cuss words in polite So
ciety, but you can always substitute a
cursory glance
The mere pinch of poverty shouldn't
annoy woman who has worn tight shoes
all her life.
The woman who remains single at least
has the satisfaction of knowing she was
born that way.
A cat is supposed to have nine lives, but
If you try to drown your SORROWS you will
find they have more than that
Some people are such stickle-s for har-
mony of color that they don't mind a hair
in the butter If it is only blonde hair.
. Wigg-'I can read that fellow Bjones
like book" Wagg-"Yes. but he is such
small type of man you are in danger
of running your eyes,
Hook-"Our good intentions should be
coated with asbestos" Nye-'Prfthee,
why?'' Hook-"Well, you know what is
paved with Them
Blobbs-'Scribbler- is always complain
ing that he can't collect his thoughts"
Slobbs-"That shouldn't bother him. I've
frequently noticed that he collects other
peoples"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-06
AYHAWKER JOTS

A farmer living four miles out of
town has been made postmaster at
Marion. -
1t is my idea, says Tom Thompson,
that no one who writes homemade
obituary poetry has proper respect for
the dead.
The 'old man" got out the Marion
died the job shows that he has not
forgotten how to do it.
An agricultural college professor can
kick feet 6 inches high. There are
people in this town who can kick as
hard and as often if not so high.
]. E. Junkin, formerly editor of the
Sterling Bulletin, but now of Miami,
Fla, is soon to start with his family
for three months tour Of Germany,
France, Italy and Spain.
Miss Klara Hartman, of Junction
City, has written an opera, THE Quest
of Prince" OF course that entities
her to the privilege of spelling it with
K.
That Kansas girl who married a
wealthy Frenchman and spent $25, 600
on her trousseau, may be able to get
her money back when she sues for di-
vorce.
With the report Of hundred million
bushel wheat crop in Kansas, Kansas
City, Mo, took a great brace on her.
SELF and began preparations for sea-
son of grand opera in that town
Lawrence Gazette.
Kansas teacher-Where does all our
grain go to, anyway?
Stude-Into the hopper.
Teacher-What hopper?
Stude-Grasshopper. Peli-
can.
Miss Manette Meyers, 1910 graduate
of K. S. A. C., has been appointed di-
rector of industrial education in the
public schools Of New Mexico, and
Arthur Riddle remarks: Kansas girls
need not marry European titles to find
fame.