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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20
AS TO FLAVOUR.
Found Her Favorite Again.

A bright young lady tells how she
came to be acutely sensitive as TO the
taste Of coffee:
"My health had been very poor for
several years." she says Il loved
coffee and drank it for breakfast, but
only learned by accident, as it were,
that it was the cause of the constant,
dreadful headaches from which / suf-
fered every day, and Of the nervous
ness that drove sleep from my pillow
and so deranged my stomach that
everything / ate gave me acute pain.
(Tea is just as injurious, because It
contains caffeine, the same drug found
in coffee.)
my condition finally got so serious
that / was advised by my doctor to go
to a hospital. There they gave me
what I supposed was coffee, and
thought it was the best ever drank
but / have since learned 1t was
Postum. / gained rapidly and came
home in four weeks.
Somehow the coffee we used at
home didn't taste right when ! got
back. tried various kinds, but none
tasted as good as that drank in the
hospital, and all brought back the
dreadful headaches and the 'sick-all.
over feeling.
zone day got package Of Postum,
and the first taste Of it took,
said that's the good coffee we had in
the hospital 1 have drank It ever
since. and eat Grape-Nuts for my
breakfast. have no more headaches.
and feel better than / have for years"
Name given upon request. Read the
famous little book, ''The Road to Well
ville," in pkgs. There's a reason"
Postum now comes in concentrated
powder form, called Instant Postum.
1t is prepared by stirring level tea
spoonful in cup of hot water, adding
sugar to taste, and enough cream 70
bring the color to golden brown.
Instant Postum is convenient
there's no waste; and the favour Is al
ways uniform Sold by grocers-45
to 50-cent tin 80 cts, 80 to 1OO-cup TIN
so cts.
A Soup trial tin mailed for grocera
name and 2-cent stamp for postage
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd, Battle Creek
Mich.-AdV.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20

"He shot down the stairs like
flying squirrel" says recent story.
This is the kind OF metaphor that
Prof. Barrett Wendell, who has writ
ten very good book on English COM
position, would condemn. A flying
squirrel does not shoot down the
stairs The purpose was to give one
a vivid idea Of how the man looked
when he was falling. But as no one
ever saw a flying squirrel falling
down stairs, and as few have seen
q flying squirrel in any other enforced
or voluntary exercise, the figure did
not help Now, il one wishes to de-
scribe a flying squirrel and should
say tina. it looked like a person fall
ing down stairs, the description might
not be accurate, but the literary style
would be good. For many persons
have seen child fall down stairs.
Admittedly, the smile like a flying
squirrel has bizarre, "up-and-at'
EN-" manner that is rather taking In
modern story writing. Yet its use
affords good example of how not
to 10 t."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20

1t is quite generally assumed shat
English collegiate education lags
behind American. A knowledge OF
the exact facts about the matter is
Of Some practical value, therefore, es-
pecially because Oxford and Cam
bridge are not the only centers of
learning in England. Years ago a
movement began to found in the prin-
cipal cities institutions having char
acter leading to vocational efficiency;
and today London, Liverpool, Man
chester, Birmingham, Leeds, Shefheid
and Bristol all possess such centera
Of modern equipment. In each case
the founders and heads of the move
ment have aimed to give the estab-
Iishment special quality of attrac-
ton in the eyes of the locality; and
90 the colleges and universities have
been developed With the aid OF the
small givers. AS the expense OF at
tendance is small, a provision sought
from the first, the cities and their
surrounding towns are able to oner
a college education to almost anybody
who wishes it, Thus the situation Ia
apparently more favorable to students
than the college system in this coun-
try, says the Providence Jonrnai.
When a young man or young woman
wishes an education, he or she does
not have to contemplate attending an
institution whose courses are design
ed especially for the whole length and
breadth of the country. Such cur
riculum offers itself. but only along
with the more practical one which
the life Of the local community sug-
gests.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20
TRUCK GARDENING
AND POULTRY RAISING
THESE, AS WELL AS OTHER
MIXED FARMING BRANCHES,
PAY IN WESTERN CANADA.

Truck gardening and poultry grow
ing are two branches of agriculture
in which the farmers near the main
lines of the three transcontinental
lines traversing Western Canada are
much concerned. The abundance OF
sunshine during the long days from
May to September, and adequate mois-
ture in the spring and early summer
permit of a wide variety of crops. The
soil is rich and warm and is easily
worked Close attention to cultiva-
ton has resulted in record yields or
all sorts Of vegetable and small fruits
which bring good prices in the cities
and at the numerous railway construc-
ton camps.
Mr.. Harris Oium, an Alberta farmer.
came from South Dakota eleven years
ago and homesteaded the first 100
acres in his township in 1902, which
was divided between grain and pas
ture. He earned sufficient money to
buy quarter section of railway hand
at $11 an acre. The half section netted
proportionate profits and he gradually
increased his holdings to 1929 acres,
which was devoted to mixed farming
last year. He values his land at $50
an acre.
Mr.. Oium markets from 100 co 1875
hogs and similar number of beef
cattle each year. He has 200 hogs.
mostly pure bred Poland China, 25
head draft horses and 35 head of pure
bred Hereford cattle. BY feeding bar
ley to hogs he estimates that the grain
nets him so cents bushel, as com
pared with 40 cents, the average mar
ket price when delivered to the ware
house. His average crop of barley is
a. bushels to the acre, while oats Az
age so bushels.
BY writing any Canadian Govern
Dsent Agent, full particulars as TO best
districts on which to secure home
steads will be cheerfully given.-Ad-
Vertisement.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20
SCOTT LAST TO DIE
POSITIONS OF BODIES OF DEAD
EXPLORERS SHOW CAPTAIN
WAS ALIVE AT END.
WERE DELAYED BY ILLNESS
Leader of Expedition Found With
Head Resting on Diary-Food Sup
ply Exhausted Long Before Death
Came.

London, Feb. 17.-According to the
Daily Nails Christchurch dispatch.
the position of the bodies when found
proved that Captain Scott was the last
Of the three comrades to die in the
antarctic disaster. Wilson and Bow
ers were lying dead in their sleeping
bags, but the leader was seated with
his head leaning back against the
tent pole. In that position he had
breathed his last, and between his
head and the tent pole, with his last
feeble gesture, he had placed his diary
with the records of his journey and
his last message to the public.
Every ounce of food was exhausted
long before death came to SCOTS par
ty. Only small quantity of tea was
found with the bodies. Possibly an
expedition will be sent for the bodies
next summer. A memorial cross to
Scott, Wilson and Bowers was erected
on Observation Hill. 1t was construct
ed OF Jarrah wood and will last for
ages.
Members of the expedition indicate
the possibility of disappointment at
Amundsen forestalling them took the
nerve out of SCOTS party for the re-
turn journey
First, the party was delayed BY the
illness OF Seaman Evans" Commander
Evans states, land Captain Scott date
the beginning of the failure OF Evans
from the time Of reaching the pole.
For a month after the pole was left
behind Evans delayed the party. In
the descent of a glacier he fell and
suffered a conclusion, making the
anxiety regarding him even greater.
His final collapse came on Feb. IL.
After Evans death the party pushed
on. but once again the condition of
one member of the party (Oates)
caused delay"
Commander Evans again states that
this failure to maintain a higher speed
was due to the failing condition of
poor Captain Oates, who was a con-
slant tax on the energies of the party
and was rapidly weakening them. DR..
Atkinson, one of the search party.
AOA4AN OAoS VA 0GuA w VA bAG ILL &C
dead men.
The puzzling problem in connection
with the disaster is the strange phrase
in Captain SCOTS dramatic message
reading: There has been a shortage
of fuel, for which cannot account"
New light is thrown on the mystery
by Commander Evans, the successor
In command of the expedition, in a
long cable message from New Zealand
to the Daily Express. He describes
in detail the final dash to the south
pole and explains that the shortage of
fuel was due to the failure OF the par
ty to keep up the average speed ex,
pected on the return journey.
mine miles a day was the average
speed prepared for" he says, "but the
records left by the dead heroes show
the average was much below this, fall
ing at times to so low as three miles
a day."
None of the information contained
in the diaries of the dead heroes will
be forthcoming for some time
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20
: HIKE IN ICY Wind
sUFFRAGiSTs' "ARMY" ON WAY
TO WASHINGTON ARE GUESTS
OF COLLEGE TOWNS.
PRINCETON, N. J., IS REACHED
UnmindfuI of the Presence of Presi-
dent-EIect Wilson They Demand
Food, EIot Baths and Beds-Given
Royal Welcome.

Princeton. N. J., Feb. 15.-Gen.
Rosalie Jones and a weary band of
suffragists, unmindful of the wild
demonstration, caring less about
the presence Of President-elect Will
son and desiring nothing but food,
hot baths and beds, limped into this
town on the verge of physical and
mental exhaustion Thursday night.
The hike was over q miles of very
bad roads in the face Of bitter cold
wind.
The troops left Metuchen at 9 a. m.
They strolled into New Brunswick
long enough to lunch, afford an hour
of hilarity for the Rutgers college stu
dents and distribute reams of suffrage
literature to the curious crowds.
There were 13 of them when General
Jones called the roll. Miss Lavinla
Dock of Harrisburg, the surgeon gen.
eral of the army, was not only i'll, but
she found it impossible to get her
walking boots on. They sent her back
to New York in felt slippers. Mrs.
Hetty Wright Graham, who had to be
assisted into Metuchen, was no better
and she was sent back with Miss
Dock. Percy Passmore deserted at
Metuchen.
Shortly before 6 .. m. the vanguard
Of Princeton students appeared and
tried to kidnap Mrs. John Boldt, but
were headed off by the college proc
tor, who rescued her, and by some
strategy got her safely to room in
the Princeton Inn.
Then General Jones and Colonel
Craft, followed by four others, limped
into town. The general said she
cared nothing about the presence of
Governor Wilson nor the student
demonstration. What she demanded
and what she obtained within a min
ute after arrival was dinner, bath and
bed.
One by one the other thirteen
limped into town. Elizabeth AIdrich,
still bearing her banner proclaiming
her voter in California, added to the
general excitement after dinner by
leading in a series of college yells
Nothing like the demonstration has
been seen here sine the news Of Gov
ernor Wilson's election.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20
CeYlon Tea.
vertisenent

Tea plantations in Ceylon have been
in existence only so years, yet the an
nual exports of black tea amount to
nearly $20,000,000 in value Formerly
coffee constituted Ceylon's main in
oustry, but after a disease Of the plant
in 1880 it's cultivation was discontin-
ued. Many planters, however. re-
couped themselves by tea and rubber.
Thanks chiefly to the former article.
the islands old prosperity revived.
Today Ceylon boasts $500 planta,
tons.
Plant necessary to tea cultivation is
costly but very labor-saving. The
work itself is not hard; only the eli
mate makes it irksome. What IS
wanted mainly of employees is TO
watch machinery and feed it from the
stock Of tea leaves awaiting treat
ment. The workers are not Sing
halese, but natives of southern India.
A laborer's wages vary from eight to
sixteen cents day, while foreman's
salary averages 5000 month.--Har
per's Weekly.
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NEWS FROM FAR
Mrw~ MTu@ N wA
AND NEAR


Charleston, w. Va, Feb. 15.-Col.
William Seymour Edwards, candidate
for United States senator, was arrest
ed here Thursday on warrant issued
by Justice Marion Gilchrist, charged
with bribing Delegate S. U. G.
Rhodes, one of the five men arrested
February II. Edwards furnished
bonds.
Fremont, Neb., Feb. 13-Joseph
Speilman was killed and number of
buildings damaged when tho gas
tanks of the Fremont Gas company
exploded. The plant was totally
wrecked Three detonations were
heard, the crash being audible for a
distance of ten miles. The cause of
the accident has not been determined.
Washington, Feb. 13.-President
Taft began Tuesday to make the
White House ready for the occupancy
of Woodrow Wilson. Scores of arti-
cles belonging to the president, Mrs.
Taft and their children, were moved.
Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. M.-Sensa-
tional charges are contained in an
antitrust suit for the dissolution Of
the Cleveland Stone company and its
subsidiaries filed here Wednesday by
order OF Attorney General Wicker
sham. To acquire monopoly in the
building paving, curbing and grind
stone business, the "stone trust" Is
charged with influencing architects
"by a money consideration or by con-
ferring favors" to specify it's stone in
their building plans.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20

There is division Of labor In mod
ern astronomy Some astronomers
are devoted to astro-physical research,
some are mathematicians. others. to
borrow the phrase of Keats, are watch
ers OF the skies. Lewis Swift, who is
dead at Marathon, N. Y, at the age OF
ninety-two, belonged to the latter
class. He was made director of the
Warner observatory at Rochester,
now the Lowe observatory. In
1882. Long before that time he had
discovered many comets, ateroids and
nebulae. In 1878, during total solar
eclipse, he thought he caught a
glimpse of two intra-Mercurial plan
cts. The list of his discoveries OF
comets, asteroids and nebulae would
be long, as may be judged from the
fact that nine hundred of the latter
are recorded to his credit.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20
PATTEN FINED $4,000
SPEcULATOR ENTERS PLEA OF
GUILTY OF COTTON CORNER.
Attorney for Operator Declares Pool
Was Not Formed With Any
Thought OF Doing Wrong.

New York. Feb. ia plea CT
guilty was made in the federal
court Tuesday by James A. Patten,
the Chicago cotton and grain specu-
lator, to the sixth count in an indict-
ment charging him with restraint of
trade in running a cotton corner
The sixth count charges that Pat
ten and his associates, Col. Robert M.
Thompson, Wilson P. Brown, F. b.
Hayne and Eugene Scales, agreed,
under contract, to buy practically
the entire raw cotton crop of 1909
in order to hold it out of the market
until November /, 1910. To the
seven other counts in the Indictment
Patten pleaded not guilty, and they
were nolle-prossed by the court.
Judge Mayer fined Mr.. Patten
$4,000, which was paid Immediately.
The government charged that their
acts constituted restraint of trade.
The defendants demurred and carried
their case to the supreme court.
which recently ruled against them
George w. Merrick. Patterns attor-
noy, ISSUED a statement saying that
his client had entered his plea with
out any consciousness of being guilty
of any moral turpitude or of offend
ing in the slightest degree against
any law or proper rule of conduct"
Although the Sherman law has
been in force for more than twenty
years, it was never before supposed
that a contract of the kind in ques-
ton offended against it.
This long litigation has been a
source of great expense and care to
my client, and he is now, while I'M
afraid, unwilling further to litigate
and so he makes this plea for the pur-
pose of concluding a litigation, that
If continued, would entail still great
er expense, trouble and annoyance
both to himself and the government.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20
NOTORIOUS BANDIT is TAKEN
Robert Webb, Who Slew Sleuth and
Caused Reign of Terror to Chi
cagoans, Is ARRESTED.

Chicago, Feb. 17.-Robert Webb, out
law and murderer, of whom Chicago
has said for nearly month: He'll
never be taken alive" is prisoner in
a cell at the detective bureau.
With six shots from his revolver, all
it contained, he tried on Friday to re-
tain his liberty at the price Of the
life of another detective. This man,
William O'Connor of Captain Halpin's
headquarters staff, fired shot for shot
in a street duel with the cornered ban
dit, and when neither had another bull
let left, O'Connor grappled with Webb
and snapped pair of manacles on his
wrists.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20
HONOR JUNGLE JOE" CANNON
President Taft and other Notables
Attend Banquet Given to the
Veteran Ex-Speaker.

Washington, Feb. f7.-"Uncle Joe"
Cannon of Illinois, former speaker of
the house, was the guest of honor at
a big farewell banquet Saturday night,
given by members of the senate and
house and others in public life. After
nearly forty years of service in the
house, Mr.. Cannon goes out in March.
President Taft attended the ban
quet, and delivered a speech. Other
men high in public life spoke also.
and a feature Of the evening was a
stunt" by the newspaper correspond
ents who have covered" the veteran
member from Illinois for years.
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Rubber Plants Picketed.

Akron, Ohio, Feb. 1S.-Every rubber
manufacturing plant in this city is
being picketed by strikers. and police
and private guards were placed on
watch by the manufacturers. State
troops still are being held under arms,
while the members of the state board
of arbitration are attempting to effect
a compromise between the employers
and the 1000 or more rubber work
ers who are demanding higher wages
and changed conditions The strike
thus far has been confined to the Fire
stone Rubber company.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20
Three Warships at Vera Cruz.

Vera Cruz, Feb. 1S.-Three Ameri-
can battleships, the Georgia, Vermont
and Nebraska are now here. Great
alarm was occasioned Sunday night,
the military and police officials mistak-
ing 80 laborers from an electric plant
for disguised marines. Two hundred
American refugees have reached Vera
Cruz and many others are on the way.
The American consul, w. W. Canada,
has collected funds and supplies for
their maintenance. The federal gar
rison has been increased to 1000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20

Those who discover tyranny" In
the Chinese prescription of derby hats
for business mountaineering which
1t might be conclusive to produce the
official documents-should at least
bear in mind that the Chinese gov.
ernment could as easily have imposed
on its subjects the cylindrical and
funereal stove-plpe.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20
STANDARD CUSTER STANDS
Missouri High Court Refuses to Mod
ify It's Judgment of Four
Years Ago.

Jefferson City, Mo-, Feb. Is. - The
Missouri supreme court refused to
modify the judgment of custer
against the Standard Oil company,
and the original order ousting the
company from the state stands. The
original order was issued more than
four years ago.
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netectlve shot: Killed.

East st. Louis, Ill, Feb. 14.-James
]. Arnold, twenty-five years old, SUI
perintendent of private detective
agency. was shot and killed when he
went to the home of Otto Schaumberg
to arrest him Wednesday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20

Chicago, Feb. -Cattle-Receipts,
$4,000; steady; beeves. $685. @9.15;
Texas steers. $500 a $50; western
steers, $5.750745 stockers and feeders,
$475@7.65; cows and heifers, $3.109
$50; calves, 1913 a 1925.
Hogs-Receipts, $4,000; market firm;
light. $S.050S.35; mixed, $S.00@S.35;
heavy, S50S.3215; rough, S7.S5 $500;
pigs, S6.50@S.10; bulk of sales, $500
sheep-Receipts, 10000; market easy:
native, S4.S0@6.30; western, s4.90@6.50;
yearlings, S6.60@7.90: lambs. native,
$4,000 800; western, $7.00@9.0G.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20

The ginning in Alabama to January
| was 1,2S9,576 bales. To this must
be added about s per cent. to cover
subsequent ginnings and also about
$4,000 bales of linters. A state crop
of about 1,45O,OO0 bales is expected.
as against q crop OF 100000 bales
last year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20

Twin civ Markets.

Minneapolis, Feb. 18.-Wheat, May,
S75sc; July, S9Rc; No. L northern,
S71sc; No , northern, S51sc; No. 1
durum, SS45c; No. 5 corn, 44Rc; No. 3
white oats, 31Ac; barley, mailing, SIC;
No rye, 58c; No. 1 flax. S1.331b.
Duluth, Feb. 1S.-Wheat May, SSBc;
South St. Paul. Feb. 1S.-cattle-
calves, $5.00g9.0O; hogs $7.90@S.S5;
sheep and lambs, $5.15 QS.69
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20
props 10 Stories to Death.

Chicago, Feb. 15.-Falling 10 stories
down the elevator shaft of the McCor-
mick building here Thursday, NJ Ed
win Rubel, member of the firm Of N.
w. Rubel, public accountants on that
floor. met instant death.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20
Train Severely ManeIes Man.

Winchester, KY, Feb. 15.-After
falling from an L. & N. train and hav-
ing his left arm mashed off and his
leg crushed, Green Million saved him
self from freezing by tagging freight
train Thursday.
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81. 600 600 to Art Museum.

New York, Feb. 15.-The will of
James B. Hammond, bequeathing his
s2,000,000 estate to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, was filed In the surro-
gates court here on Thursday after
noon.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20
Rruan returns From cuba.

Key West, Fla, Feb. 14.-W. J.
Bryan returned to the United States
from a trip to Cuba and the Isle of
Pines Wednesday. Mr.. Bryan was CIV
en- much attention in Cuba by the au-
thorities.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20
Gen. s. l. Woodford Dead.

New York, Feb. 17.-Gen. Stewart
L. Woodford, veteran publicist and
former United States minister to
Spain, died at his home in New York
Friday. He had been i'll longer than
two weeks.
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s1no. GOO Eire At Mexico. Mo.

Mexico, Mo-, Feb. 15.-Almost an en-
tire block In the business district here
was destroyed by fire Thursday after
noon, causing loss estimated at
s1OO, 900. Several large stores were
burned
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60 cnodMln LOSES Auto suit.

Los Angeles, Cal, Feb. IA. c.
Harrington, Santa Monica grocer,
who sued Nat Goodwin, the actor, for
$4,000. was awarded $1,000 Friday.
Goodwin's automobile ran the grocer
down some time ago.
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strnnn for Income Tax.

Harrisburg, Pa, Feb. 14.-The
house passed without dissenting vote
the joint resolutions ratifying the in
come tax amendment to the federal
constitution. The resolution now goes
70 the senate.