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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-09-12

phone your news items 20 the
Journal. Phone No. 20.
Gentle horse to let for the winter
Inquire at'this Office. -adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest White of
saltwater visited in the city over
Sunday.
The Ladies' Aid of the Swedish
Mission church meets in C h u h
Sept. 10.
Mrs. L. F. Webster left yesterday
for San Jose, Cal. where she will
spend the winter.
Mrs. Ella Plantz Of Minneapolis
visited over Sunday at the home of
her son, |. r. Osborne.
Ed Anderson went to Eau Claire
Monday where he is to serve on the
jury of the u. S. Court.
Raoul F. Gendron, left Wednesday
for Prairie du Chen, where he will
attend Campion College.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Dickinson
and son of Kenmare, N. d are
spending week with relatives here.
Mrs. C. E. Randall and Mrs. VIM
Olson of St. Paul visited at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. G. M. Stewart Fri
day.
David A. Green has sold his home
on the West side to Henry Lunger.
The deal was made by w. H. Put
nam.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Symes re-
ceived word yesterday that their
son Frank h a d arrived overseas
safely.
Mrs. ]. w. Allard returned Mon
day from three weeks visit with
relatives at Davenport Iowa, and
La Crosse.
Mrs. F. M. Ulrich and daughter,
Miss Rose Cheney went to ST. Paul
to visit with friends until the first
of next week.
Book keeper wanted by the First
National Bank at once, bright
young woman with some experience
preferred. adv.
Mrs. Roy Huddleson of Hudson
returned to her home Tuesday af-
ter a visit of several days with her
parents near Prescott.
Mrs. Thomas F. Wilson of Baker,
Mont, arrived in the city last night
and will spend the winter with her
daughter, Mrs. H. E. Hayward.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Simpson and
daughter, Miss Lila, returned Mon
day to their home at Melrose after
a weeks visit at the home of their
son Harley Simpson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Deans are
spending their vacation at Ilwaco
Springs this week. Misses Suzanne
and Mary Kranz of Hastings are al
so spending a couple of weeks at the
Springs.
Miss Laura Weld went to ST. Paul
to meet her mother who was to ar
rive there last night from Boulder,
COL, where she has been visiting her
son the past two months. They are
expected home this evening.
Prof. Glen Junkman, a former
Ellsworth boy who has made gener-
ously good in the educational world,
and who has taught school at Wa
bena, this state, for some time past,
was here over Sunday on a visit to
his grandmother, Mrs. Cope. He
has secured a teaching position at
the River Falls normal school and
returned to Wabena to pa k his
household goods and return to Riv-
er Falls.-Ellsworth Record.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-09-12
HOUSES FOR RENT

For Rent Modern 7 room house
corner of Fremont and Cedar sts.,
West side. w. H. Putnam.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-09-12

Three "Barieycorna" in Inch.
The inch was formerly subdivided
into three "barleycorns," these divis-
ions being originally the length of
well-dried grain of barley.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-09-12
FARMS FOR SALE

have several houses for sale and
also several farms near this city.
N. G.. Nicholson.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-09-12
MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

For Sale-2 pure bred Short Horn
bulls II to IA months old.
Leo Hastert.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-09-12
Home Culture Club

Wednesday, Sept. Il
Venezuela
Mineral products, Railroads, Cities
La Guaira, Caracas.
Leader-Mrs. Ada Bliss.
Hostess-Mrs. Mabel Flower.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-09-12
CLASSIFIED ADS.
ROOMS FOR RENT

Furnished Rooms for rent. In
quire at this office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06

lowing the discussion with unfagging
attention.
This Army bill will contain matter
of kind calling for scrutiny and dis
cussion. The time allowed for debate
is short. But it will be ample if no
more interest is shown in this instance
than was shown in the case Of the
revenue bill. If a bare quorum re-
spends, and sits out the discussion Ian
guidly, the week, so, far as the oppor
tunity is concerned, will be largely
wasted.
A week from the l4th will bring US
to the 2lst. Only some ten days of
the congressional campaign will re-
main. Whatever excitement has been
aroused will be at its height. What
ever need there may be for further
stumping will be pressing. Candidates
for reelection will be anxious. Hence,
there will be hurry again to get away,
and willingness to take risks even
on a measure having to do with the
war and its weighty obligations. :,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
The Chrysanthemum.

The chrysanthemum is calling upon
the people Of Washington to acclaim
it the king or the queen of autumn
flowers. 1t makes this call each year,
and the public to large extent in
dorses the claim of the flower. 1t was
not because of the giant blooms Which
one sees in the greenhouses and the
flower shops that this flower was given
its classic name. 1t was not called
chrysanthemum because of the pom
pons and tufts and long and wildly
flowing petals Of pink, dull red, pale
yellow and white. The chrysanthemum
which earned the name is the persist
ent and loyal golden-yellow flower
that grows outdoors in the gardens of
Washington. 1t has been growing
here since the first Europeans settled
in this neighborhood. It came with
the first families. 1t was not Greek
who named the chrysanthemum
Though the flower is as old as the
legends Of Greece, it may be that the
Greeks did not know it. 1t is an Ash
attic flower and seems to have found
its way to Europe in the seventeenth
century. Linnaeus gave it the name
"chrysanthemum," very handsome
way of fixing upon it the name
"fower of gold" But it was not the
first Of the flowers tr be called chrys-
anthemum. Some one Of the old herb
alists of Europe gave that name to
a marigold-the corn marigold-but
Linnaeus shifted the name from one
flower to the other.
The chrysanthemums of Washington
are as large, wild and colorful as the
"mums" of any other city in the world.
Not at Kew Gardens, where chrysan-
themums have been under cultivation
since 100, can more conspicuous speci-
mems be seen than in Washington.
Not even Japan, which adopted the
chrysanthemum as it's national flower,
produces finer "mums" than Washing
ton. Here, in the government green
houses, the commercial greenhouses
and the private Conservatives, it is one
of the features of the season of golden
sunshine, mists and red, brown and
yellow forest leaves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06

From the New York Tribune.
The kaiser is beginning to talk about
popularizing the German government.
With a wry face as well as heavy
heart he is turning toward the people
as the last prop of his falling dynasty.
From the New York World
Without Bulgaria there is no Mittel-
europa. no pan-Germanisnn. no pros
meet whatever of a victory that is
worth a fraction of its cost. That is
what the German people have been
taught to believe, and consequently
that.is what they do believe,
From the New York Sun.
|. Germany takes the Bulgarian de-
lection as calmly as cat having its
first fit.
From the New York Herald.
One fact which energies from the
complete submission of Bulgaria ls
that the nation has asserted itself
against the king.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
The surrender of Bulgaria symbol
ICES what is going to happen to her
partners in the mad enterprise OF
making the world safe for autocracy.
From the Baltimore American.
Keeping the hell of war outside Ger
many Is the Hun idea, but the scheme
isn't working: American big guns are
dropping shells inside the Metz FORTH
fications, and almost every night Brit
ish and French air sQuadronS are
dropping bombs on German war-plant
towns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
Capitulation or New Peace
Offensive?

Germany is about to capitulate to
the demands of the entente allies or
Germany is playing her highest card
. in the insidious and determined peace
offensive recently launched by FORMER
Chancellor Won Hertling and Baron
Burian of Austria. Prince Macmillan,
say unofficial reports, has proposed
immediate suspension of hostilities.
d: Coupled with this is the declaration
that the allies will be asked to sug-
gcst their terms Furthermore, Prince
Macmillan is reported favorable to
the fourteen principles of peace laid
down by President Wilson. In this
latest peace move Turkey and Austria
Hungary apparently join.
Whether the first step in capitula
tion or new peace offensive, the move
is of prime importance.
= Counteracting the good that might
appear in the original statement is the
j.. declaration that the new German cham
cellor would have the belligerent
l.. powers dispatch emissaries to a neu-
trail point to discuss the creation of
. a federal Austria, discuss the self de-
termination for Russian frontier states,
: discuss the restoration and indemnif--
cation of Belgium which has 1een de-
{ spoiled by the Teutons Infamous prac-
tees and discuss autonomy for Alsace
and Lorraine, the complete removal of
which from Teutonic influence is de-
manded by the allies.
President Wilson not ten DAYS ago
answered the proposition of peace by
Negotiation. His words were chron-
icled as voicing the sentiments of all
allies. He declared there must be no
compromise, no bargaining in the set
Element of Germany's sins, declaring:
"They have convinced us they are
without honor and do not intend jus-
tice; they observe no covenants, ac-
eept no principles but their own in
terest.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
Interest in Reconstruction.

The postwar reconstruction problem
grows in interest in Congress. It has
been presented in both Senate and
House. Mr., Weeks led off in the Sen
ate, and was promptly followed by Mr..
Overman. Mr.. Madden led in the
House, and was followed in turn by
Mr.. London. Thus We see that in re-
publican, democratic and socialist cir
cles the problem is now under discus
sion. Let us hope that action of some
kind-the best kind possible-may be
the result.
There is large room for debate as
to ways and means. The problem, is
wide, and embraces many questions.
Some are of foreign, some Of domestic,
relation. All are important, and some
altogether new. None should be neg
lected or undervalued.
The problem in general is non-po-
litical. Everybody, without regard to
party, wants to see the country pros
porous and progressive on restored
peace basis. A greater America is the
ardent wish of all. But how best to
realize the wish will, in the nature Of
things, produce divisions of sentiment.
Here is where politics viii come in.
Old questions, like the tariff and the
merchant marine, will present them
selves. The financial question, in the
largest form it has ever taken, will be
knocking for attention. The railroad
question and the wire question, both
growing out of the war, will have to
be dealt with. And there are others.
In the settlement of all these mat
tiers Congress must, and will willingly,
bear very large part; and we shall
see the members of that body divide
on party lines. Old lines may not be
strictly followed, nor new lines traced
by those in agreement as to the old.
Here and there, about this thing or
that, some new positions may be taken.
But we shall be in the swing of poll
ties once more, with all that that means
in our public affairs.
Now is the time to make a beginning.
1t will be considerably to the good to
take up the subject in its general aspect,
and prepare for going into details
later. We should not be behindhand
where so much is involved. We should
not get off on the wrong foot where a
misstep might prove exceedingly e1-
pensive. Reconstruction cannot be ac-
complished all at once, but the proper
start will guarantee much.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
PUTTING UP THE MONEY.

From the New York World.
Many towns and some states else
where have reached their allotments
and are passing on to greater things
New York state and city cannot ella i'm
as yet to be fairly started.
From the Birmingham AgeHerald.
While the fourth liberty loan cam
! paign was started with plenty of
noise. it's the quiet. heart-to-heart
talk that gets results.
From the New Orleans Times Picayune-
Success of the fourth liberty loan
is of supreme Importance. No man
can afford to "let down" or hold of
on it.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
And we shall give with the more
enthusiasm by reason of the news We
get from France and elsewhere.
which indicates that there will not
be need for many more war loaAA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
BEATING DOWN THE HUN.

/ From the Chicago News.
The kaiser has the wrong idea. The
war will end when he asks for peace
terms, not when he proposes them.
Prom the Detroit Free Press.
Germany has begun to dread the end
of the war.
From the Birmingham Age-Herald.
What with q 'nibble q day." and the
application Of "pincers" now and then,
Gen. Foeh is drawing nearer his OBJ
jectives.
From the New Orleans Hmes-Pieayune. =.
The kaiser is fond of ranting about
these Iron times" II the allied armies
recover the stolen ore fields in Lor-
raine and northern France he and his
subjects will be up against some iron
less times.
From the Columbus Ohio State Journal
It does ones soul good to hear Of the
Belgians whipping the Huns. And also
Of the Serbians capturing city after
city and retaining their own coun-
try. Never was a country outraged as
these two countries were.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The western front is cracking. Along
almost its entire length battle OF
unprecedented fury and proportions is
being waged. Positions are falling in
a day that in past seasons resisted the
allied attacks Of months. Both tanks
Of the HindonbuYg line are being
crushed inward, and huge gaps are
being daily torn in its center.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06

Back from the Maine woods with
the latest thing in draft stories came
a friend Of mine last week.
He and q friend were padding UP
the Magalloway river one day shortly
after September IL. that big day when
10 ,OOO.O 900 men went quietly to regis
tration places throughout the United
States to sign up for Uncle Sam.
Buck, a backwoods guide. consti-
tuted the third occupant of the canoe.
Was he backwoods7 He was SO far
backwoods, it is declared, that beyond
him was nothin'. They don't come
any more backwoodsy than Buck A
young old fellow, gray haired. tanned,
quiet, determined, there is only one
Buck in the world. friends say.
Sometimes his eyes twinkle. They
did that time when campers who had
telephoned him to come at once were
forced to wait for hours.
where have you been, Buck?' they
asked. I'VE thought you had an
automobile" :,,,,
Times have got so only the ricn
and the poor can own autonoplles.
Us middle-class folks can't
Once Buck was stirring up tne
breakfast flapjacks. The hre olaZeo
warmly through the cold winter air.
Buck" said the camper. what are
those fapjacks made Of!
"Weu." answered Buck, carefully.
there's a little flour and little
cream of tartar and niue sI * T.
and il I'm not careful there'H be
little tobacco juice"
Nov We can return to the Magal--
1oway river. upon the surface OF
which float Buck and his two passen-
gers. They were going through the
5hie eddy when all of sudden. out
of the clear sky. came the SOUNDS OF
WHATS that?" said one camper.
Buck took few paddles before he
answered.
piled. :,
men who frequent the big woods.
They usually are blustery fellows.
who affect to make comrades of the
guides, who. in their turn, secretly
despise the sports. A Bangor sport
is one who. though he may be good
camp to borrow tobacco when your
stock is running low.
Sure enough. there on promontory
could be seen the sports. One was
dshing for trout, while the other
with a 81 rifle. was popping away at
a target. The Bangor sports could
not as yet see the canoe and its oc-
cupants.
Then the canoe rounded into sight
of the men. The man with the rifle
lowered his piece. and looked across
the eddy.
'Wen, we'll, WE'LL" he shouted. IA
miliarly "If there amt old Buck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
Congress and the Campaign.

Acting Leader Rainey put members
of the House on notice Friday. On
the 14th. the Army deficiency bill, now
in course of preparation, will be taken
up for consideration, and he will de-
mand a quorum. Debate is expected to
last a week. and quorum should be
present to pass the measure. Why not,
then, quorum during the whole de-
BATE
The measure is the record for size
1t viii carry seven billions of dollars.
Surely, therefore, it is not unreason-
able to expect representatives to rally
to. and stay on. such job.
Big figures, however. having become
familiar, have lost some of their for
mer impressiveness in Congress. Mem
bers now accept them with too little
scrutiny as to details, and quite in
o matter of fact spirit
f.. This appeared conspicuously during
the brief debate in the House on the
war revenue bill That measure was
the record for size in that line. 1t car
yied eight billions of dollars, and was
full of matter of widest and keenest
moment to the country.
And yet there was but beggarly
attendance of members Greater in
terest, indeed, was manifested upstairs
than down. While many seats on the
floor were vacant, those in the gal
leries were occupied in numbers. The
spectacle was amazing to casual Wis
itors, who had imagined = crowded
-shamber, with everybody alive and fol-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06

always manifested friendship for the
policy of protection Twenty-four
years ago when Mr.. German, then the
democratic leader of the Senate, was
inserting some protection duties into
the Wilson tariff bill the House had
passed, James Smith, jr., then a mem
Der of that body from New Jersey,
helped him do it. He was one of the
big four Mr.. Cleveland, then President,
censured.
With two seats in the Senate and
ten in the House in contest, New Jer-
sey during the coming four weeks
should look alive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06

From the New York Times.
II the worlds biggest loan is to be
taken promptly, as it should be, there
is need of new subscribers and also Of
Greater generosity by old subscribers.
From the New York Sun.
Berlin may now be truthfully. ad-
vised that America Is breaking down
under the strain of counting liberty
loan subscriptions.
From Financial America.
The liberty loan won't need any
begging. It's a better investment than
YOU are offered in any other proposition,
besides being testimonial to your pa
triotism.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The loan drive j..s has to keep up
with the drive the boys are making
ON the battle front, but 1T 10 going to
take pretty lively work to do 1t. Now
is the time to subscribe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
POLITICS AT HOME
The War and Politics.

Here aud there in the congressional
campaign the admonition is uttered on
the stump, "Put none but Americans
on guard"
This has partisan tang, and has q
partisan object. 1t is an effort to
capitalize the war for partisan pur-
poses. It will fail. There are no votes
in it.
Outside of few districts-not half a
dozen in all-where the socialists are
strong, there is not q candidate any
where for a seat in the House who, if
elected, would speak or vote in op-
position to further war supplies. All
candidates of the two old parties are
committed to the war and its success
full prosecution.
This is true in even greater degree
of candidates for the Senate. There is
not q single state which the socialists
could possibly control. Hence, not a
single candidate for the Senate with
a chance Of election holds other than
decided pro.war views. All, without ex-
ception, indorse the war, and pledge
themselves to support, if elected, meas
ures for triumphant conduct Of hos
tilities. .,.,
No matter which party wins in No
vember, Americans will be on guard
in the next Congress, as they are in
the present one. No man could be
elected Speaker whose Americanism
was open to question. The committees
Of neither House nor Senate could be
organized on any other than an Ameri-
can basis. An American Congress
could not possibly be put to anti
American uses.
A better and filter admonition would
be, Put none but Americans on the
stump. Neither of the old parties
should eountenance any claptrap in
party orators at this time. There is
too much at stake There is the great
est necessity for keeping the war and
politics completely separated. They
have no natural relation, and should
not be permitted to acquire an unnat-
ural one.
Politics is all very we'll; and it may
be mentioned that there is a good deal
Of the article to the square inch in the
country at this time. Let votes be So
licited on party lines for party uses.
The next Congress will organize on
party lines, and have a great many
party questions to deal with. In case
peace should come during its lifetime
something that looks very likely at
present-politics will dominate the
body thoroughly. The war has changed
much, and may change more, but, no
matter what its length or increased
virulence, it will not destroy party
government in the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
New jersey and Suffrage.

The Presidents trouble over the suf-
frage question is not confined to the
United States Senate. It has cropped
out in his home state. A resolution in
dorsing votes for women was defeated
the other day in the New Jersey demo-
cratic convention. The republicans, on
the other hand, are committed to the
proposition. So the question enters
into the state campaign.
James r. Nugent, at one time the
democratic boss of Jersey Blue, and
still an active and influential man in
the politics of the commonwealth, led
the anti suffrage forces.
Mr.. Nugent is rated as an anti Will
son man. He supported Mr.. Wilson for
President in both of the latter's cam
paigns, but with no great enthusiasm.
In the second campaign New Jersey
voted overwhelmingly against Mr.. Will
son.
The trouble between the two men
grew out of the Smith MARITIME contest
for the Senate. Mr.. Nugent is a
nephew of former Senator James
Smith, jr., who wanted to return to
the Senate. Mr.. Wilson, then Gov
ernor of New Jersey, gave his sup
port to Mr.. MARITIME, who won.
Democratic prospects in New Jersey
this year are not bright. Faetionism
exists on other questions besides wom-
an suffrage. Personal ambitions have
FLASHED to the injury of the party.
There, as elsewhere, however, the
President is his party's most valuable
asset. 1t was desired that he express a
preference as among the democratic
aspirants for the senatorial nomina-
tions-there were two-but he would
not be drawn in. Now, however, he
must show his hand. His party's nomi-
nees are entitled to his support, and, of
course, will receive it.
The tariff issue is stirring in the
state. The next Congress is likely to
tackle the issue. New jersey Is . man.
|ufacturing stronghold, and as such has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
The Squanderer.,

The Squanderer.,
When wake up at six o'clock,
Or maybe seven or eight,
A sunbeam key seems to unlock
A store of treasures great.
The day is full Of moments bright
Which shall gayly spend,
And count the profits up at night
AS restful shades descend.
When it is time for turning in
i wonder where they went,
These moments that 1 thought must
win ..
Rewards as they were spent.
Too often at the curfew's stroke,
When busting day is through,
I feel a. one who has gone broks,
And has to start anew.