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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1901-09-05
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"TOILER, EANST THOU DREAMw


Toiler, canst thou dream .as,gg ,sssf{ls9
At the seam, at the plows ssggC
:. Higher heritage than kings NJ
{: Hast thou. TIL
+ S5ssssa
Canst thou read in star or weed, -
Answer to thy hearts deep cry9
Gold nor gem nor loves own crown
So satisfy.
Toiler, canst thou wait
Through the storm black hour, elate,
Ruler of thy recreant will,
Dominant of fate2
Toiler, canst thou trustf
From the dust stand and tell,
Though the tears come streaming, all
All is we'll!
Lulu w. Mitchell in Century.
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SLEEP AND DEATH.

Two sisters they; one wanton, light of heart,
! Who takes us to her breast and laughs goodby;
J One, chaste as ice, in her white room doth lie,
But him she loves she never lets departl
Arthur Stringer in Ainslee's Magazine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1901-09-05
Taken Up.

have in my possession an Irish pointer
which came into my place of business last
week. Owner can have same by calling on
me and paying cost of this notice.
T. HI. Robinson.
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-20
A "FAKE" CONCERN.

1t is not often that this paper i
'taken in" by fake advertising
schemes, but. we acknowledge the
corn in the case of a concern styling
itself the Empire Knitting Mills
Co., Of Fulton street, New York.
They not only got three weeks of IN
advertisement without pay, but they
got the good money Of ourselves and
Of quite a number of our subscrib-
crS from whom We have heard. ami
probably that Of many who have n II
advised Us. This Is the first time IL
many YEAR since We were 50 vic
timizcd, ana we trust it will be- the
last time. The Government secret
>"ryirc j. on the track Of the imDnS-
tors for using the mails for fraudu-
lent purposes. Here's hoping they'll
get thcln.-Tropical Sun, West
Palm Beach.
We have been surprise! for
months AT the number Of Florida
papers running the Empire Knit
ting Mills Co. advertisement for the
reason it was sent To Us upon q
basis that we considered showed
fraud upon It's face, and it WAS there
fole rejected.
When an alleged manufacturing
concern offers to give more value in
goods for advertising space, q little
cash to accompany the order for
goods, it is pretty safe to place
them high in the list Of frauds, and
save your readers the risk Of also
being taken in.
All such schemes are denied ad-
mittance into the columns of the
TALLAHAssEEAN. When a foreign
concern, wants advertising in these
columns, it must come down with the
cash, just like home merchants are
required to do, and when they do
that the chances are 80 to 100 that
they are reliable. Fakirs do not
pay out cash, not even for advertis-
ing. 1t is against their principle, if
indeed it can be designated as d
principle.
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-20
ONE MAN REFUSED.

Ex-senator Wade Hampton re-
fused a good fat Federal job because
of the source from which the ap-
pointment came. Regarding how
the refusal was received at Wash
ingtOn, a correspondent says:
Democrats here are delighted
that ex-senator Wade Hampton
should have refused the Columbia,
S. c., postofice, offered him by the
President through Senator McLau-
rim. The offer is regarded as an at
tempt to bring General Hampton,
with his powerful infence in South
Carolina politics, on the side of Sen
ator McLaurin and against Senator
Tillman. General Hampton is moi
supporter of Senator Tillman, but
he evidently is not willing to accept
office from Republican President
and become an ally of his admins
tration. Senator McLaurin ALREADY
has the support of former Senator
Butler, and had he been able to ado
to that the support of former Sen
ator Hampton, he would have beel
able to bring into line an element o
the older men in the Democrat
party in his State. and might b
re-elected-a situation which is no
contemplated with favor by old
time Democrats here"
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-20
NO MORNING MAIL.

We learn that for some reason,
which we were unable to ascertain,
the night mail from Jacksonville,
which was distributed at our office
every morning, has been diScontin-
ued.
For years past this mail has been
of very great convenience to our cit
liens, and it discontinuance now is q
great hardship. This mail came to
the Tallahassee postofiee in a locked
pouch made up in Jacksonville the
evening before and forwarded over
the Seaboard Air Line Railroad in
the care of the conductors on the
road.
It contained all the Northern
mail, both papers and letters, thai
arrived in Jacksonville from North.
ern points during the day after thu
Seaboard Air Line regular mail ovel
the western division had left tht
city, hence we have always had tht
Northern papers, ETC., delivered
here without unreasonable delay.
Besides the Northern mail, how
ever, all the mail from the Southern
section Of the State was sent for
ward in this pouch and arrived an(
was distributed in our city tn,
morning after it was mailed.
Thus we had a quick and clos,
connection with all Southern points
This was Of great convenience anC
importance not alone to our citizens
here but to the citizens of the entirt
State; because the State officials
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-20

were enabled to get and answer com
municatiOns from nearly all over the
State Oh the same day. Our State
officials were thus put in as close
touch with the Southern correspond
cnts almost as if they were in Jack
sOnville itself.
Our readers can readily see thai
the stopping of this night mail is
not local matter affecting the cit
liens of Tallahassee alone, but al
fects the entire State, and will put
the citizens Of the southern part OF
our State to great and unnecessary
inconvenience. In addition, our cit
izens lose a fast northern mail, with
the late papers, as hereafter all OF
it will be laid over in Jackson
vile from twelve to twenty-fOur
hours. They are complaining bitterly
at the inconvenience put upon them
and very rightly so.
As Postmaster McDOugall could
give us no information as to the rea-
son for the change, we inquired of
Mr.. Hopkins, the local agent of the
Seaboard Air Line Railroad, think
ing he might know why the service
had been discontinued, but could
learn nothing from him.
There are rumors of disagree
ment between the Seaboard Air Line
officials and the U. S. postal author
tiles, concerning the mail contracts
over the Seaboard Air Line We
cannot, however, get any definite in
formation on the subject.
If there is a disagreement it may
be that the railroad officials have
stopped this pouch from being sent
forward in charge of their oonduc-
tors as being outside their contract,
thereby hoping that the complaints
sent forward to the BOstOffice depart
mcnt at Washington because of the
inconvenience thus OccasiOncd, will
compel the department to cOncede
some points in controversy between
them.
B., that as it may, the entire
State is the sufferer because of This
change. Our citizens should send
an emphatic protest to Washington
against such action, and all OF our
Representatives in Congress should
Join with them in an effort to have
the morning mail re-rStahliShed IL
quickly as possible.
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-20

with your job work, it is almost
needless to tell our East Coast peo-
pie that helps to build up your town.
1t is the weekly, home paper that
adyertises your business, your So
cials, your Fourth Of July celebra-
tiOns, your entertainments, your
schools, your churches, your Guilds,
your clubs, your societies, YOUR
dances, your sorrows, your joys;
and it is the weekly paper that gives
you a hundred or more free "puffs"
during the year, and sympathizes
with you in your affiictiOn and re-
jOices with you in your marriage
or prosperity. It is also the weekly
paper that mentions the thousands
Of items along the East Coast you
are interested in during the year
and it is the weekly, home paper
that helps to build up your town
and county, and assists in bringing
settlers here, which adds cOnsidera-
bic dollars to the exchequer of the
merchants. The weekly paper gets
plenty Of free work, but it wants
advertisements and job work inter-
mingled, so that a few dollars may
come in to "keep the mill running %
Just think it over, reader. How
much job printing do you give the
Advocate, to help make it a better
paper than it is?"
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-20
BUYING AT HOME.

The Savannah Morning News
reads to the people Of that city Il
somewhat severe lecture upon the
habit Of prrferring to purchase ar
ticipS made abroad rather than those
Of home manufacture:
IT is tn" hardest matter in the
world. SAYS the News. To pet Sayan-
nah people to Use Sayannah-made ar
ticlrS. even where they are better
than similar articles made elsewhere.
There are some Savannah indus
tries that have to find their local
markets through Philadelphia OF
New York, for the reason that our
people will not buy the goods if they
have not a northern or eastern brand
on them. The local brand spOils the
sale; but let the same, identical
articles come back with a Philadel-
phia or New York label on them and
they will be taken readily with costs
of freight added. 1t is not only a
senseless habit, but harmful one to
the whole community.
ApropOs Of this complaint, there is
a queer story eXtant about a we'll
known merchant in a Florida town
who included in an order he was
sending to New York a small lot Of
canned oysters. Imagine his sur
prise when he opened the goods, to
find that the oysters sent him had
been put up in a Florida seaport,
not a hundred miles from his store.
Freight by rail both ways, profits to
at least one middleman and intense
chagrin at his dullness in not order
ing direct from the factory, entered
into the transaction.
The truth appears to be that the
people of southern towns and cities
have given so little thought to the
advantages of local manufacturing
industries that they have learned to
treat the few that have ventured to
exist with Indifference; and they
have never been able to shake off the
ancient tradition that nothing is
good enough for them but that
which is "made in the North;' p just
as some people in the North imagine
that nothing is good enough fOr
them which is not "made in Eu-
rope" and on the same princi pie
that the New York ''howling swell''
has his clothes made in England,
v know "-PensacOla News.
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-20
TWO GOOD OFFICIALS.

Bro. KOonce, of the Sumter
County Times, who was a MEM
Der of the recent Legislature, clos
ing a lengthy article on the leasing
of the State cOnvicts, pays the fol-
lowing compliment to two Of Flori-
,:da's most excellent officials:
During our stay in Tallahassee
we found the Governor and the
Commissioner of Agriculture both
especially we'll fitted for their re-
spective positions. Though Chief
Executive Of the State, Governor
Jennings is just the same pleasant
gentleman as when a rural citizen
of fernando county, and he has on
every occasion proven his ability and
shown that he wears his laurels
-worthily. Mr.. McLin, too, is ad-
-znirably fitted for his position, and,
without reflection on his predeceS-
1sors. we are sure that the changes
and Improvements he has made in
fhe office and the systematic method
!introduced by him will make the Of
flee 6ne of a great deal more import
zuceand value to the State than evel
hefore. For instance, in the matter
of fertilizer stamps, under the ole
system the stamps did not indicate
the size of the package, and th'
manufacturers could buy stamps fol
a hundred pound package and pu
them on a two hundred pound pack
age. and no one would be any tn
wiser, thus depriVing the State O.
half the revenue for that purpose
Mr.. McLin has provided safe rem
.edy for this. Mr.. McIin was ais
LARGELY instrumental in the perfect
ing and passage by the last Legisla
ture of good law regarding the in
snection and analysis of fertilizers
which Will be a great protection t
tbe farmers and truckers. AltOgethe
orr observations from visits to hi
office impressed US with the belle
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-20

cook, SalIie, the houseslaid, "Old
| Maurfa," who looked aftir the chill
dren sslnd her daughter, hO nursed
the Eaby, and ''Uncle" Dick, who
kept the yard clean, chopped wood
and cared for the family EOrse, Thus
the servant contingent q Insisted or
dinapiIy of five hearty eatsrs, each OF
whom; looked out for OF or more
mouths outside that werF fed from
the employers table. II: the aggre-
gate, therefore, the grOceIy bill took
on large proportions az a cOnse-
quenie of the servants asd their de-
pendants and hangers-9n. Never
ttheless, the old-fashionGd servants
were: faithful, loyal and efficient. If
they iwere not thoroughly honest al
WAYS it was often because they acted
upon the principle that whatever be-
Iongtd to the family Belonged to
thenf as constituent parts of the fam
ily, therefore they took: what they
wanted. !:
Bat the Old-timers arCsabOut gone,
and The survivors are ye$rly growing
fewes.. In their places shas come a
young coIored help that;is inferior,
unreliable and unsatisfactory. The
youhg colored women al poor cooks
and.worse hOusemaids. &They do not
knoF the business and DO not seem
to Rarn.. The same is te be said of
the young men, who apIly for serv-
antS places. 1t seems to be the pur-
posG Of each individual among
therfr to get a living by iendering the
leaa possible value in!return, and
to 10 no work that can possibly be
avoided
What seems to bc ner,led Is a sys-
tenE of training schools that will
tcash young women hog to be good
cooIs and good houseksepers. There
should be such schools for each race.
Young white women need to know
mO:e about houseworE than the
great majority of them 10. As ii mat
trrfOf fact. every woman ought to
know how to cook. keep house and
sew, 80 as to prepare herself for the
duficS Of life. 1t may: he that she
Will never be called upen to put her
knowledge into practice for the pur-
pOk of earning Il living: but there
caIi bc no assurance 0f that. The
mIEtalioHS OF human life often bring
ai,@ut unlookrd-for . conditions.
Tia'rr are hundreds of young women
mithiS city today, wIEO. il thrown
uE9n their own rrSourci's tomorrow,
cod tId not earn the rTit that goes
ini 70 their daily bread. 9Thcy are moi
r0hpctcnt to make hG.n,-> for. or to
prbpcrIy supervise thc,homcs of the
mSn they hope to marry. Bcin"
Raised in idIcncs>, they devote their
Vi toIc time to trashy novels. beats,
si I Y gossip and 'partf9S.% Becoming
VI yes. they soon develop into dead
wiights upon their Husbands; and
nj lny unhappy housc4 holds have re-
81 iTtrd from the uIIlitncsS Of the
vi bmrn to make and manage Il
hi Imc. In this matteI, parents are
Ia ;Irgrly TO blame.
1.-THE organization if schools Of
db bmestic science in Southern cities
Il the proper trailing of house
b bld help, would be snore beneficial
n HbliticaIly and socially than many
4 the so-calIcd patlsotic societies
t bat now have suchs vogue. An
American SOcietys Of Cooking
Iames," or an organization Of
daughters Of Cookery and House
york" could find aI abundance Of
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-20
COOKS AND RUUSEKEEPERS

The question of household help il
becoming about as acute in thu
South as in the North. As long al
the supply of cOlOred servants trainj
ed before the war between the StateI
held out, we had no serious servanI
problem. The supply of help wa;
abundant, efficient and cheap-th!
cheapness being in so for as the inS
dividual wage was concerned. Ths
cooks knew their business thorough
| ly. {
The hOusemaids were tidy, pains
taking and conscientious in theS
work. The cheapness of this hell :
however, was only in the size of tlSt
wage paid to the individual; in tlst
aggregate the. cost was often quis1
large. For instance, in the SoutheG
household of average prosperifE
there would be found Betty, tE
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-20
that the farmers have a friend in the
Commissioner, and the State a
most excellent servant.
FLORIDA'S TAN RATE.


Florida officials that the taxation in
this State, for State purposes, will
remain at p mills, the Savannah
Morning News, always anxious to
say a good word for the Land Of
Flowers" gives space to the follow
ing editorial utterance:
'The people of Florida are not
overburdened by State taxation. The
rate for the present year will be p
mills, although the law permits a
rate of three mills.
''It is doubtful if there is a State
in the Union which has so low a tax
rate except New Jersey. In that
State the trusts have filled the treas
ury, and the people contribute very
little towards the support Of the
State government.
"When it is taken into account
that it has been only six years since
Florida's orange groves were de-
stroyed-grOves which were easily
worth SIS, 5,OOO,OOO-it must be ad-
mitted that the States officials and
lawmakers have managed wisely and
economically.
"And, as far as we know, the pub
Tic institutions are not dealt with in
niggardly manner. The officials
are paid fairly good salaries and the
schools arc literally dealt with Con-
| fcdcrate veterans and the widows Of
veterans are given as generous pen
sions as are paid by any other
State.
"Why is it then that the tax rate
is 50 low, Notwithstanding the heavy
losses the State has suffered in re-
cent ycars-Losses which must have
cut down assessment values very
greatly"
TO all of which the Jacksonville
Metropolis makes this,vcry apt and
truthful reply:
"Thr only reason We know Of is
thai there has bccn economy in the
administration Of the States affairs.
The Legislature meets only once in
two ycar&. Unlike The politicians of
>nnpr States. the Florida politicians
dn not Use the meetings of the Legs
laturc as Il means Of getting together
and planning campaigns for the OF
fees. Then pensions are given only
10 those WHOM the law intends shall
have them. TWo-thirdS of the cOun-
ties do not draw from the State more
money for schools and pensions than
they pay into it. 1t is true the
State has little or no debt, but that
also indicates that the States af-
fairs have been under able and con-
scicntious management. In her pub
lie affairs, Florida is an example to
many States which make much
greater pretenSiOns."
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-20
THE GOVERNORS TRIBUTE.

The Florida State College (more
widely known at present as the West
Florida Seminary has made rapid
strides toward perfection during
the past few years. How much of
this is due to the efforts of one man
only few of US know. That, too,
IN the face Of the fact that every
Legislature except the last, has been
'nlggardly in the matter of making
appropriations for buildings, and for
the maintenance of the institution.
When elected president of The
Seminary, as it was then known,
Prof. A. A. Murphree went to work
to enthuse new life into it, andi to
make it what Middle Florida so
badly needed, an up-to-date State
College. He surrounded himself
with the best teachers that perse-
Teranee, influence, ETC., could secure,
notwithstanding the salaries were
small. In almost every effort in
that direction he won a signal sue
cess.
Then he did something that had
never been done before-he used
printers ink, reaehing every section
through its own local medium. With
the small funds on hand the Board
OF Managers could not help him
much In this direction, but he used
1t all the same, and it was paid for
we suspect out of his own salary.
Under these methods the school
has blOSsOmed from an obscure in
otitutiOn with comparatively only a
local attendance, to a widely known
college whose influence is felt
throughout the State and beyond its
bounds, and which. the session lust
closed, cnjOycd the distinction of en-
rolling students from Manatoc
county on the East TO EScamiia on
West. And We consider it DO r-
Election on those institutions TO say
The students from the Manatcc coun-
try rode BY Stctson University and
the Lake City Coi,c@r, both wealthy
and influential institutions. to come
here.
For the higher esteem in which
the FLORIDA State College West
Florida Seminary is held WAS only
voiced by Governor Jennings during
his speech awarding the handsome
gold medals commencement night
when he said that these medals were
@1'the best eridence of the best
scholarship IN the best college IN
3he State
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-20
THINK IT OVER.

The Indian River Advocate in
its current issue contains the fol
lowing, which applies just as forci-
bly, to other sections of the State
and their local papers as it does to
he Indian River country and t..
Advocate. Read it over, and "think
it over::"
"In supporting the Advocate
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-20
BEAT Us HALF \ POUND

Writing us recently from Rideout.
Clay county, B. N. Frrisbie SAYS:
Il see several articles in the Tai
lahasseean about III and 159 pound
rutabagas. Mr., P. II. Jamison Of
this place pulled up one on May l
that weighed Is pounds even. So
you see Clay county is still ahead.
This is no fake but a fact.7
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-20

MINERAL
SPRINGS
Health and Pleasure Resort

Under the new management of uas.-.
Duvai & Hall take pleasure IN notifvin,
the public that they are now rpadv -
receive guests.
The new tram "Oad meets all passar-
ger trains, with Comfortable and can,
modlOus car, new tram connect, mir
~ral springs bathing, with salt water
bathing at Rock Landing. Broad verando.
just completed arOund Bav View HorsI
comfortable hammucks, swinging chairs
etc. big bathing pool now operated nv
SteAmpump. An abundance of FISH
oysters amt crabs fresh from the GnIf
Oyster bake or crab boiling nn beach At
RICK Ian ting every SATURDAY nIobf
Steamboat nearing cDmplrtion for
Measure parties and excursions ON the
Bay. VIZ
every gar t: ken for tl.t. pleasure aaj
Comfurr o. TIE gue~ts.
Write for particulars ana rn,ia-.
DGNAL & IE.iI.i.
Pa':,::s-;,, fla.
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-20
Valuable toVanu.,,.

Especially valuable to women Is Browns,
Iron Bitters. Baekaehe vanishes, headache
disappears, strength takes the place ~
weakness, and the glow of health readily
comes to the Psilld cheek when this won.
or oroVerworked men it hasnO equal. No hon.
should be without this famous remeJv
Browns Iron :BitteFs is sold BIZ all deqlerS'