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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-06-04
BREAKING Out the CoIors.

A pretty sight aboard ship is the
breaking out of the flags on reaching
a port. At the appointed time a sea-
man takes his station at the forward
mast and another at the real mast.
In his hand is a small silken bundle,
tightly rolled. This is sent aloft.
When the signal to break out the col
ors is given a cord is pulled, the bun
die u%nrolls, and a splendid silk flag
futters out into the breeze. At the
foremost is that of the nation whose
port the ship is entering, while that on
the rear mast is the flag of the steam
ship company, the ships nationality
being advertised by a large flag at the
stern. The latter is lowered or dipped
by way of salute when another steam
er is passed out in the ocean.-St. Louis
GlObe-Democrat.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-06-04
HOMEMADE TROUSERS.
With a Word to the Woman Who
Makes Her Own Gowns.

Would men ever get anywhere, do
you think, if they fused around with
as many disconnected things as most
women do? And the worst of our
case is that we are rather inclined to
point with pride to what is really one
of the most vicious habits of our. SEX.
We have all seen the swelling salts
faction with which the comedy young
schoolma'am, complimented upon a
pretty gown, announces, Il made it
myself AID we have all heard the
chorus of admiring appreciation follow
ing the announcement-joined in it,
perhaps, and asked to borrow the pat
tern. But really, viewed in the light of
reason, what is there about the feat
upon which she should so plume her
self?
Suppose hat a man should point
proudly to his neither garments and
say: 10! l made these trousers"
have not a mental picture of even the
most economical of his fellow clerks or
mail carriers. or clergymen, or school
'oachers, crowding around TO admire
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-06-04
r tn OR SORCERY

| presume that a modern boy
wouldn't steal a bean and hide 1t
under a stone to cure a wart. The
theft Of the bean wasn't really a
theft. Anybody who had ever been
a boy would have willingly donated
a quart; but that spoiled the charm.
You remember, the bean had to be
stolen, and if you were seen doing
it the wart wouldn't disappear.
1t was a great game. 1t did no
harm, and added zest to boy life in
the small town. Modern boys have
movies" and bicycles. T hei r
fathers may have automobiles. Be-
sides which, really modern schools
are teaching enough science to
knock a lot Of boy out Of
life.
The bean cure of warts was great
treatment, while WE had faith in it.
Didn't our warts disappear-some-
times? And if they didn't weren't
there enough possible explanations
why the cure failed? Besides, every
failure was an invitation to try
again,
| wonder if mothers still tie cam
phor bags at their c%hildren's necks
to prevent their catching some cpl
demic disease. We had faith in
that, too, in "the good olo days"
Didn't many of us escape those
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-06-04
Worrv and seIfishness.

Worry, when you come to analyze it,
is not a social vice. We work chiefly
over those things which concern the
''me." Show NE that what impends will
leave my bank account intact, my
health impaired, my friends and fam
lily out. and any further tormenting
solicitude that / may feel is frankly
academic. / may still take thought and
use preventive measures, but l cease
as if by magic to worry over the out
come. On the contrary, | ran now
work for the accomplishment of my
object better than eve before, for
most worry is not only an arch form OF
s~elfshness. but it is the great inhibition
of action. We say Il am worried" we
Il fear for myself. Elliot Park
Frost in Atlantic.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-06-04
CUPID'S QUEER PRANK.
A Wedding 3lunder That Furnished a
Curious Climax.

A Wedding 3lunder That Furnished a
Curious Climax.
. The other evening we were talking
to Mr.. Bransby Williams, the delight
full impersonator of Dickens charac-
ters, and he told us this story:
The scene was a London parish, and
the period recent. The vicar was sit
ting in his study one morning when in.
burst the verger in a great state of
excitement.
"Mr. -" mentioning the curate's
nance wants you at once, SIR he
exclaimed. HE has married two cou-
pies and married the two men to the
wrong women, and he does not know
what to dor
"Have they signed the register?' in
Quired the clergyman.
NO." was the verger's response.
""Then they can be married again."
said the vicar. 'Tell Mr.. - / will
be at the church in a minute OF two to
perform the ceremony"
In due course the incumbent made
his way to the church and found the
parties gathered at the entrance.
Before he could say anything n of
the bridegrooms approached and said:
we have been talking it over, sir,
and we have made up our minds to
remain as we are"
And they did sO.-Pearson's Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-06-04
unhearahle Perfumes.

The perfume of flowers can make
some people SILVER. A member of the
London ~Spiritualist Alliance tells of a
woman who breads the smell of hya-
cinths. Once at a party the hostess,
knowing her visitors horror of the
flowers, hid them behind a screen, yet
although they were concealed from
view the woman detected them and
tainted shortly after entering the
room. The Princess of Lamballe, a
friend of Marie Antoinette and a vic
tim of the French revolution, would al
ways turn pale at the sight of a violet,
and Vincent, the painter, swooned at
the smell of roses.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-06-04
RE Escaped.

He was standing at the counter Of a
gun store waiting for a clerk when an
acquaintance came in. He was one of
those communicative acquaintances
who catch the victims by the button
hole and talk and talk and say things
owe and over. Presently the clerk
came up.
do you keep the Maxim silencerg'
asked the waiting man.
yes, sir"
us it any goodwill it stop the
noise?'
ut WILL"
"Have you one for a large bore?'
Eve have them for all Sizes
viii they work ON a repeaterT'
They'll work on anything"
'Then put n on Bill here and charge
it to me-"
And in the moment of mystified ST
lence that followed the rude man made
his escape.-Indianapolis News.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-06-04

dreaded diseases while we were
wearing camphor bags? What more
evidence could any of US require?
For most of US faith and expert
ence were enough We'd probably
be going along in the same old way
if it hadn't been for the inordinate
curiosity of a Frenchman named
Pasteur. He wasn't satisfied to
stick to time honored and good old
fashioned faith. He wanted to see
things with his eyes. He satisfied
himself and proved to others that
disease may be due to germs. He
saw them under the microscope and
demonstrated them to others.
Doubt thus created was contagi-
Gus. All sorts of experiments were
tried. When we became acquainted
with the cause of a disease, it was
e that a camphor bag around q
child's neck couldn't kill a germ or
even Tease it. One of our most
cherished superstitions went smash.
What we lost there, however, we
have made up Go the greater salts
faction OF most people) in saving q
large number of our babies.
After all, a low death and disease
rate is worth more than romance
Or, if you prefer romance" to
Science" discovering a new life
saving truth is more romantic than
w~itchcraft.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-06-04
THE PERFECT SPELLER.
Test Him by Having Him Write This
tumble From Dictation.

iest Tim ny Having HIM write ms
tumble From Dictation.
One occasionally comes across a supe-
rior person who tells you he can easily
spell any word every printed in a die
tionary. If ever you meet this type Of
man just ask somebody 10 dictate the
following tumble to him and see how
many mistakes he viii make:
"Antinous, a disappointed, d~esiccated
physicist, was peeling potatoes in an
embarrassing and harassing way. His
idiosyncrasy and privilege was to eat
mayonnaise and mussels while staring
at the Pleiades and Selling peoples tri-
cycles and velocipedes. He was an
erring teetotaler and had been on a
picayune jamboree. He rode a palfrey
stallion and carried a salable papier
mache bouquet of asters, phlox, null
lein, chrysanthemumS, rhododendrOns,
fuchsias and nasturtiEms.
He wore a sibyl's ,resplehdent tur-
quoise paraphernaIia, an ormolu yash-
max and astrakhan ch~aparejos. He
drank crystallizable and d~isagreeable
curacao juleps through a sieve. He
stole some moneys and hid them d
a ~peddler's mahogany bedstead and
mattress.
Like a fiend in an ecstasy of gayety
| rushed after him into the maelstrom,
or melee, and held him as in Il wise. |
could not feaze him, however, and he
addressed me, with %autocracy, in the
following imbecile words. which sound
ed like a soliloquy or a supersedin9
paean on an oboe: You are a ratable
lunamoth, a salaaming viZier, an equi-
noctial coryphee and an isosceles da-
guerreotype.'-New York Mail.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-06-04
Insanity

There has never been a satisfactory
definition of insanity, the best, that of
Sir William Hamilton, that it is "the
paralysis Of the regulating OF legis
lative faculties of the mind" leavine
us far from being satisfied. Like sleep,
like dreams, like life itself, insanity is
a mystery that no man understands.
It's causes lie in the "De profundis"
that no science has as yet explored
New York American.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-06-04
The Candid Friend.

Alleged Composer (at piano)-Listen
to this. He does brutal things to the
instrument. How do you like it? Too
little air and too many variations per-
haps? The Helpless Friend-Yes; give
me more air. Gle opens the Window
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-06-04

and cry: What q splendid way to
spend your time out of business hours!
And it looks just like a tailor made"
Which last is just as truly a lie when
we tell it to u fellow women as 1t
would be if men told it to men.-Mary
Lee Hardness in Atlantic.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-06-04
Not Very Likely.

Did you ever notice n thing about
a Ship"
"What's that?"
"She can't make knots when she's
tied up."-Baltimore American.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-06-04
a Broken Promise

"Did she promise to obey?"
THAT vas in the marriage platform,
l understand, but when she found how
easy he was to boss she rescinded it,
Detroit Free Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-06-04
knew More Than Pa.

Say. pa, what was the longest day
in Adams iife?'
Il am sure don't know"
"But, pa, you are a minister"
II can't answer any SUCH
Il can. 1t was the day on which
there was no Eye.'-Grit.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-06-04
Good Reason.

Maud-You seem to like Jacks atten-
tons. Why don't you marry him?
Marie-Because | like his attentions
Boston Transcript.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-06-04
STUDY Great Men.

To be ignorant of the lives OF the
most celebrated men of antiquity is to
continue in a state of childhood all ii
days.-Plutarch.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-02-12
Thousands Endorse 1t.

Thousands of ladies throuehon,
the world are thankful for New-
brow's Herpicide, because it is to
that wonderful hair remedy ard
scalp niophylaotie shey owe their
soft, long, beautiful hair.
Mary j. Terry, of Loveioy. Ill.
writes My hair came out uni.
there was just scanty cover fo
the scalp, | tried everything ever
heard of or read about until | fina,
ly used Herpicide. There is nothing
like it. My head is row covered
with new hair. | shall. foreve.
praise tIerpicide.
Most hair troubles come from
dandraff. Newbro's Herpicide re-
moves tnis dandruff and prevents
further accumulation. 1t also slim
ulates q flow OF blood which nour-
ishes he follicles. The scalp being
healthy the hair does not come on.
and the new hair is allowed to
grow
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-02-12
ADJUSTMENTS
The Gem Theater.

Inc three acts on the program al
the Gem theater, beginning TODAY
anu continuing with three show.
each day including Saturday night
include Davis and Leroy in clever
singing and dancing act. They
make 4 number of changes of COS
tunes and their comedy is said 70
be especially good.
Barney O'Maa, Irish characte !.
singer comes to this theater hiehlv
recommended as change artist AND
impcrsonator. Mr.. O'Mara is of the
hrst rank in vaudeville and VIII
please the audience with his fine
baritone Voice
Southwick and Dane will prespn.
a novelty act of musical bag punch
ing. This act is said to be some
INNS Kew in the way of amusements
ana scientific bag punching will be
featured
with this interesting program
the usual three reels of motion pic
lures will be shown.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-02-12

tending? ! thought I had several
|, more fights left, but find was
wrong
The crowd cheered him,
Moran was a featherweight when
he first came to the United States.
He was the only teatherweight who
held Abe Atell even when Abe was
at his best. For the last several
years he has had to fight light
weights, though he was well under
that class. He and Jim Dl-icoll--.
the cleyerest boxer since the days
of Youn Griffo-- -haye in recent
years been the only Britons as good
as American boxers of their ciass.
Moran. held his own with America Il
feathers and lightweights, While
Driscoll beat all those he met. Mo-
ran won largely on his gameness
Every one who faced him knew ht
could not be made to quit
He has one accomplishment to his
credit which many American fight.
ers envy,--he knocked out BatthAa
Nelson.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-02-12
AEWBR0S HERP|C|DE
ALWAYS CREATES ENTHUSIASM

| There are other preparations
which they say are Just as good
as Hcrpiclde. 1t is not advisable TO
try them. Instead OF ADDING any
good they may do positive harm
No one is ever disappointed in
Newbro's Herpicide.g The results
are almost always the same, highly
satisfactory, as is indicated by tae
fact that Harpicide has been sold
for years and has thousands of sat
isfied friends. 1t is the only gen
uine, original dandruff germ de-
stroyer." There is nothing just rs
good"
Newbro's Herpicide in soc and Il
sizes is sold by all dealers who
guarantee it to do all that is claims
ed. If YOU are not satisfied your
money will be refunded.
Applications at all good barber
shops.
Send 10c in postage for sample |
and booklet to The Herpicide Co,
Dept. r., Detroit Mich. Paul g.
Schuh & Sons Special Agents. Adyt.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-02-12
MOUND CITY

The Womans club held it's reeiI.
lar meeting at the home of Mrs
Elmer Boyd, on Commercial avenue
Monday afternoon. There were fiji.
teen members present and roll cal
was answered with proverbs. Dnring
the business session favorab BILE rc.
ply from the c. c. c. G st. I. Rv
was read. 1t was concerning the in
stallation OF sanitary water fixtures
at the station.
Mrs. II. NJ Smith and Mrs. f. j.
Easterday, Of this city and Mrs. w.
A. Victor, of Grand Chain, will at
tend the Order of the Eastern Star
school of instruction which will be
held at Centrala Thursday and
Friday.
II. B. Baker, OF New York City.
son OF Rev. and Mrs. NJ. B. Baker,
OF this city, sailed for Londan Wed.
nesday on the 'Lucitania' on Dus-
mess Tor kleybolte and Baker, bank
eis and brokers Of New York City.
Mrs. Harry Poor of Cairo, was
visiting friends here Monday. She
also attended the Womans Club
meeting.
Mrs. Florence Malone has moved
from the Rouse house on Main
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-02-12

owen Moran, eamest and best
OF British boxers. except one other
sent to the United States since tho
days OF London prize ring fighting
has just announced his retirement.
A thlrd-ratc lightweight, Joe
Shugrue, beat him till he could not
go on the other night in Madison
Square Garden, and Moran stopped.
The way he stopped was one of the
gamest things he has done. The
crowd would have said of another
fighter that he showed yellow
streak
Moran was being pummelled all
over the ring by d strong boy. Ha
was weakening fast and he knew he
didn't, have cnance, though in
days gone by Shugrue would have
been Il poor match with him. At
the emf OF the seventh round Moran
walked over to the newspapermen
ana SAID
II am done, am all in. There
is no use going on. haven't a
chance, and what is the use of pre-
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-02-12

street near Railroad avenue, to Iii,
home of her mother, Mrs. w. T
Hayden.
| Robert Looney, of Fisherings
Okla. was in the city Tuesday, Wis.
ting his cousin. Miss Elsie Rodmaa
while enroute to his acme from
Salem, Illinois, where his uncle
THOMAS Jones, of Cypress, is in hp
I. Il II. |. hospital, following an ac-
eident on that road at Cypress last
Wednesday in which he lost one OF
his fee, His mother, Mrs. A. Jones
.ol cypress, who was spending the
winter in Oklahoma. came horne
WIN Mi. Looney and will remain
here, Charles Cunnin CHAM. az
Vienna. accompanied Mr.. Looney to
his home and will spend the remain
der OF The winter there.
Mrs. Floyd yesterday will have
her musicale Monday evening at the
Gong onal church instead of
her nee as was previously an
nou,,
Mrs. W. II, perrlne, who is Wis
ittnG her parents, Rev. and Mrs. N
t. Baker left Tuesday for her home
at Alton, where she will spend few
days.
DR., II. NJ. Mccall, of Vienna, was
the guest of MIR. and Mrs. w. r.
Rodman Monday while passing
through the city enroute to Anna
where he transacted business.
Mrs. Ray Olmsted spent Wedncs.
day with relatives at Olmsted. The
occasion was the ninety-fourth
anniversary of her uncle.
Mrs. Sarah Shoenfeldt, who mas
been visiting her daughter, Mrs. iry-
Ing Coanel, at Mounds. is detained |
here On account of the illness of
Ter sister, Miss Henrietta Mason.
Who mas pneumonia.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-02-12
SAVES YOU MONEY

By doing the work well. cleans
ing your system Of accumulated I'm.
purlties. toning up your liver to per-
form its natural functions and gen.
orally Improving your physical con-
dltion. GRIGSBY'S LIv-VER-LAX
save you much time and money. II
also saves you all the uncomfortable
after-effects that result from the
taxing OF ealomel. No gripping, no
cramps, no weakness Or headaches.
GRlGSBY'S LIv-vER-LAy is on
sale by j. B. Brewer under an alb.
sointe money refund guarantee at
ooc ana $f.00 bottle. Each bottla
is protested by the likeness Of L. K
Grigsby. Get the genuine. Adyt
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-02-12
HOT TEA BREAKS
A C0LD-TRY THIS

Get a small package OF Hamburs
Breast Tea or as the German folks
call it, Hamburger Brust Thee" at
any pharmacy. Take a teaspoonful
of the tea. put cup OF boiling water
Upon it, pour through sisve and
drink teacup full at any time. 1t
is the most effective way to break a
cold and cure the grip, as 1t opens
the pores, relieving congestion.
Also loosens the bowels thus break
ing a cold at once.
IL is inexpensive and entirely veg
table, therefore harmless.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-02-12
Famous Authors Once Sailors.

Perhaps the most celebrated all.
tors who started life as sailors are
Fenimore Cooper, the famous author
OF the Last of the Mohicans," Clark
Russell, the author of Alone on the
Wide, Wide Sea- and Frank Bunen,
the author OF The Cruise of the Ca.
chalet This trio has made excel.
lent use of the seafaring lore which
only experience can give In the long
list OF works for which they are re.
sponsible
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-02-12
IniurInu ChlIdren's Eyes,

I'VE are destroying the eyes Of o
large number of school children by
the burden of continuous near work
to which they are subjected" says a
leading physician. He suggests as a
remedy, In addition TO the use Of eye.
glasses, reduction in the amount of
work dependent directly upon the
printed page, Let us have more
thinking and fewer books" he de.
clared.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-02-12
Bad enee. o. Msoollsh,.

There is scarcely any region on this
globe, from the equator to the newly
found continent Of the arctic cirels
and the lately discovered south pole.
where there is not a general belief in
the powerful and deleterious effects
OF moonlight on fish, newly planted
seeds and to lesser extent on meat
which Is to become food, says q writer
In the New York American.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-02-12
Cow Particular .. to II. rinnl.

A Tralee tEngland) farmer has a
COW which refuses to drink water sup
Piled in the ordinary way. Then she
Is thirsty she leaves the field, goes to
lane where there is a water tap.
turns this on and takes drink. The
story is supported by photographs,
and the cow is credited with turning
the tap on after drinking.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-02-12

Use oxygen for slastlna.

Experiments are being conducted In
Germany to discover the disability Of
liquid air and liquid oxygen as ex.
plcsives for mines, says the Coal Age
The liquid oxygen is mixed with alumni.
mum powder and detonated, producing
a force 2ia times that produced by
black powder. One advantage that 1t
possesses is that no bad fumes are
produced.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-02-12
Inventor Old Good Work.

The De Wick clock, made about 1854.
was a good piece OF work. In fact,
since the year 1900 no important In.
vention has been added to clocks and
watches. This means a good deal
when 1t IL realized that the last 200
years have given us more inventions
than all previously known history.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-02-12

Whether II mar seem p6ff3e3l11l
or not. 1t Is 4 fact in our nature tAlt
without endurance, life ceases q -
enjoyable; with out palms AccspteG
pleasure win rot be permanent AliN
from which everything that hAA ID Il
the element OF pain Is hknithed. ~
comes a life not worth having ate
worse, Of intolerable tediuna and xia4
gust.-James Hinton.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-03-27

These methods, however entailed too much
manual labor where gorse was used in consider
able quantity In such case gorse furze whn
mill, as 1t variousy called In different dis.
tricts was utilized, The whin mill was built after
one of two types; the most common consisted of
circular stone. shaped somewhat like a mill
stone standing on edge, with approximately a
diameter Of four feet and a thickness of foot In
the center of the stone hole was cut, through
which a shaft about IA feet long was fixed. on
end of the shaft was attached to al iron pin firmly
fixed into an earth-fast stone AMI the other end
fitted with tacking to which horse could
be yoked The gorse shoots were then thrown
into circular trough course where they were
crushed the milestone slowly revolved. The
farmer occasionally stirred them up with hay
fork and sprinkled them with wafer to facilitate
the crushing process Crushing want on for about
a couple of hours. by which tima the gorse was
sufficiently pulped to be eaten by the cattle.
In the second type of mill another form of stone,
shaped somewhat like fedroll~r, utilized.
This pattern not commo@ as the wheel
shaped. The roller revolved a fiat circular
course paved with stones, and haG one end rather
thicker than the other to enable II more readily
to turn round the circle.
In process of time these gorse mills gradually
fell into disuse. AS the land became better popu-
lated gorse became less plentiful and cattle food
more abundant. The introduction Of turnps, too,
provided plentiful supply of food IN spring. when
it had formerly been very scarce. Farmers, more
over grudged the amount of labor entailed in pre-
pairing the gorse, and were not unwilling that the
apparatus should fall into decay.