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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07
CANALS IN NEW YORK.
a Ship Canal Thought Wiser Than
Barge Canal.

When the project for a 1,G00-ton
barge canal from Lake Erie to the HUI
son river was first brought forward ~
Maj. Z. w. Symons, in 1896, this jour
nal was strongly inclined in its favor.
1t was at that time claimed that such
canal could be constructed for not
more than S50,000,000; and the evidence
then available appeared to show that
It would be q, more economical trans
portation route, taking it's cost into
consideration, than any canal of great
er depth.
There had been much agitation pre-
Vious to that time for ship canal con
nection from the lakes to the sea, deep
enough for ocean vessels; but this pro-
ject We had opposed, believing that its
cost would be too great to make Il
commercially practicable and that 2
waterway OF smaller dimensions and
much less cost would answer every
purpose.
1t was not until the results were
made public of the elaborate surveys
and estimates made by the United
States deep waterway commission and
OF the barge canal surveys, made under
direction of the state engineer of New
York in 1900, that an intelligent COM
parison of these different waterway
projects was possible.
We have given careful study to the
reports of those two surveys and we
are obliged to favor the deep waterway
proposed by the United States commits
sion Of engineers as far preferable to
the 1,000-ton barge and canal project,
which the New York legislature is now
considering
The smaller canal will cost a little
more than $50, 100000, while the larger
canal will cost a little less than $780,
600 G00
New York proposes to spend $80,000,-
600 or so to build a canal, half as much
| as the cost of the deep waterway with
its vastly greater certainty of benefit,
| At the present day and with present
| knowledge, for New York to spend
$50 100000 on a barge canal, when SO
much more adequate transportation
route is within reach at SO moderate
an additional cost, would be nothing
less than an economic crime.
But we hear the barge canal advo-
Gates say that the United States would
never undertake such a work. Those
who take this position have reached it,
we USliSfC, IHIOuSu IucII udIIOW way
of looking at every question solely with
respect to New York's advantage The
| fact is that the whole vast and wealthy
| territory tributation to the Great
Lakes, extending from Montana and
| Dakota on the west to Kansas on the
| south, is quite as much interested in
economic transportation from the lakes
to the Eastern markets and seaports
as is New York herself.-New York
| Engineering News.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07
WHERE THE WOMEN woo
In Moravia, For Instance the Girls
Do the Courting.


Do the Counting.
In most countries it is the lads who
do the wooing, the IasSieS are woOed.
But not everywhere. Among the gipsies
of Moravia, for instance, none will dare
presume to court maiden until she mas
notified to the young man of her choice
her readiness. This she does by using
a cake as a love letter, baking therein
a coin, and throwing it into his tent
Qoor at nj It when he is alone He, of
course, is -ot bound to accept. But if
he does it behooves him to be faith
full. The Romany of Hungary knows
naught of breach of promise suits. In
stead, the relations and friends of the
Tilted maiden await upon the inconstant
lover, argue with him, plead with him.
Then, if he still remains obdurate, he
is manned by shot in the leg or arm.
By recent Romany custom, too, the
sighted girl has the right to be present
and to decree in which of his limbs he
shall be wounded In practice, however,
she usually elects to stay away, thereby
leaving the fearful choice to him.
A manageable Burmese girl, as soon
as she has completed her trousseau,
places in her window the 'love lamp"
and according to whether its interject-
ing beams, carefully directed from be-
hind with her own tiny toilet mirror,
shine on this hut or that, the gallant
within knows that somewhere a lassie's
heart is inclined toward him.
When one of the cigarmalzers of
Southern Spain-who constitute sep
arate class by themselves somewhat
analogous to the French grisette-casts
her eyes lovingly on a likely lad, she
forthwith twists her powder puff into
a pompom for his hat If he wears it
at the next bull fight it is considered a
match.
The Andalusian peasant girl sends a
pumpkin pie to the particular swain
she affects. If he eats it, we'll and good,
she is engaged. If not, she tries else
where, pie following pie until success is
arrived at.
Swiss maidens go a-wooing not al
ways and anyhow, but at stated inter-
vals-the ewes of the weddings of their
friends. Then is held what is known
as the feast of the love garlands." All
the unmarried girls who claim acquain-
lance with either bride or bridegroom
assemble at sunset at the latter's house,
dance, sing and make merry. Then,
when the dawn is gray, they take their
departure, each girl bearing away with
her a posy gayly decked with ribbon.
This she hangs, on the way home,
upon the doorknob of the house where
resides the youth of her hearts desire;
or, alternately, filings it through the
open easement of his bedchamber. She
may select whom she will on these oc-
casions, provided she does not stray
beyond the limits of her own canton
For this latter is, according to Swiss
ideas, objectionable. Should she be
suspected of it, a straw puppet is left
dancing presumably as hint of the
fate that may befall herself outside
her chamber window; while the young
r. en- of the village whom she has Jointly
and severely sighted conspire together
to waylay and beat the unluchy
stranger whose offense and misfortune
is to have been the object Of her way
ward choice.--Tid-Bits
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07
THE STUPIDITY OF MEN
Trials of Women Who Must Submit
to Their Blunders AS Hosts.

W He'll o1uuOS4S x1S A4OSI Ss
A group of women were talking
about the stupidity Of men at all times
and their enormous denSeness when
their wives were trying to give them a
hint.
"You know one day we had company
Unexpectedly and we hardly had
enough to go around" said one worn
an. II tried to catch my husbands eye
to convey to him that he was serving
the meat too generously. But he would
not take the hint When he had given
out the last bit there were two plates
still untitled What do you suppose that
shameless man did? He simply called
all the plates back again and scooped
enough off each one to fill the remain
ing two
81 shall always take my husband one
side beforehand md tell him few
things" said an engaged girl.
well, that won't work. said an ex-
perienced matron. II did that one day,
and when | asked my husband whether
he would have pudding or pie for des-
sert he blurted out: Good gracious,
Helen, I've forgotten which you told
me to take"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07
Missouri editor whose wife is

A Missouri editor whose wife is a
strong woman suffragist has sprung the
following on his readers: ''Rock-a-bye,
baby, your mamma is gone; she's at the
caucus and will be there till dawn; she
wore pap's trousers and in them looked
queer, so hush-a-bye, baby, your papa
is here Rock-a-bye, baby, your NAM
mas terror, she's run three. conven-
lions, declared for three fellows; she's
great on the straddle, way UP on vote,
SO hush-a-bye, baby, your papas the
goat. Rock-a-bye, baby, the dishes are
clean, papa's done scrubbing and put on
the beans; your mamma is late, seems
always to lag, but heaven help pap if
she comes home with a Jag
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07
A nd tn e ir
Authors
Fa mi1iar Songs

ny Grimes and jim Duff;
And I've made myself drinking your
health, quite haste,
So think, after that, | may talk to the
priest"
Then Rory, the rogue, stole his arm
round her neck,
So soft and so white, without freckle
or speck;
And he looked in her eyes, that were
beaming with light,
And he kissed her sweet lipS-DOn't
you think he was right?
Nov, Rory, leave off, sir-you'll hug
me no more
That's eight times today you have kiss
ed me before"
Then here goes another says he, ito,
make sure,
there's luck in odd numbers" says,
Rory O'More.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07
THE ANGELS WHISPER.

Lover wrote a series of poems upon
the superstitious fancies of the Irish
people. The tradition concerning this
song is the pretty one common to many
nations that when a child smiles I'M
it's sleep angels are whispering to 1t.
Of the music Lover says: s'The song
was written to an old Irish air Zone OF
the few Moore left untouched, entitled
Mary, Do You Fancy Me- Words have
been written to it, but they were inef-4
fective, and left the air in oblivion,
while mine had better fortune, and
made this charming melody widely
known; and I think it may be allowed
to be pardonably pleasing to an author
that it is now known by the name OF
"The Angels Whisper"
A baby was sleeping,
It's mother was weeping,
For her husband was far on the Wild
raging sea;
And the tempest was swelling
Round the fsherman's dwelling1
AS she cried, 'Dermot, darling, obi
come back to mel"
Her beads while she numbered,
The baby still slumbered,
And smiled in her face as she bende6
her knee;
ooh! blessed be that warning,
My child, thy sleep adorning-
For know that the angels are whisper
ing with thee"
And while they are keeping
Bright watch DER thy sleeping,
Oh! pray to them softly, my baby, with
me-
And say thou would'st rather
They watch DER thy father,
For know that the angels are whisper
ing with thee.
The dawn of the morning
Saw Dermot returning,
And the wife wept with joy her babes
father to see
And closely caressing
Her child with blessing,
Said, 81 knew that the angels were
whispering with thee
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07
That Load of Hogs.

Ten years. ago young farmer SO
years OF age, living in northwest Iowa
took a load of hogs to town, which he
sold for $94, 35. With this money he
paid the collector the taxes on the
farm he was trying to own, paid the
grocer a long-due grocery bill, called
at the bank and paid for an extension
on half dozen notes, paid an attorney
$50 on a mower note sent on for COL
lection and went home with $3.50 in
his pocket. That night the grocer paid
his clerk and delivery boy; the deliv-
cry boy hied him to the skating rink
and the clerk to his best girl, and to.
gether they attended a social ball; the
lawyer sent S27 of the money paid him
to the mower company and, with his
wife, blew in the other So at a church
social, where they met the bank cash
Ter; the tax collector went home and
enjoyed a choice Havana by his own
fireside, while the farmer and his wife
spent the evening porting over a sheet
OF figures trying to figure out how they
were to meet the spring interest on the
farm mortgage. Today the clerk is
still a clerk, the delivery boy is run
ming bowling alley for another par
ty, the cashier of the bank is dead, the
lawyer has gone West and is becoming
some mining schemes, and the tax col
lector is running a snide real estate
office, while the farmer and his wife
come to town in double seated surrey
and this winter are spending several
weeks in California, leaving their farm
in care of a bright 16-year-old son.
The above is a true story and only one
of MANY such
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

BY far the greatest portion of the
worlds supply of cork comes from the
forests of Algeria The annual output
of these forests ranges from so to 100
million pounds. Cork is one of the
longest maturing of all crops. The tree
becomes profitable only after having
undergone a process of stripping the
virgin bark. After this operation a
fresh bark is grown, the aggregation
of the annual growth forming the COM
mercial product. 1t takes, however, be-
tween ten and twelve years from the
stripping of the virgin bark until the
production of cork of marketable value.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07
The Wine Bath.

published report of the progress that
One of the lovely matrons often seer
at Sherry's in the afternoon has at last
given out the secret of her complexion
which all other women, whether jeal-
Gus or not, call divine" She whis-
pered to a bevy of fair friends: ''It is
due altogether to wine. Let us keer
the secret among us, or all complex
ions will be as good as ours" But
drink wine, and my complexion is hor-
rid" pouted one. Drink it?" ex-
claimed the beauty. "How on earth
my dear, can you expect to drink wine
and have complexion ?" you have
just said that yours is due to wine. y
'tAh! but I did not say that l drink
the stuff; | battle in it, Sensation
New York Press.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07
Dr.. SLEIGH. of Berlin in experiment

DR.. SLEIGH, of Berlin, in experiment.
ing with cocaine, to see how weak a
solution would be efficacious as local
anesthetic in minor surgical operations,
accidentally discovered that plain
water, if injected under the skin, rem
ders the flesh at that point insensible
to pain. The effect of the water is to
cause a slight swelling in the form Of
a white blister, the size of the swelling
depending on the quantity of water
used. Half minute after the injec-
ton the place marked by the blister
may be cut without sensation.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07
Seed Corn. for 1903.

The question of seed corn for 1903 is
one of no little concern TO a large sec
ton of the northern part of the corn
growing section. The climatic condi-
tions of 1902 were such that through
the section referred to but little of the
corn raised properly matured, and I'M
less special pains were taken hardly
any of it is fit for seed. A supply Of
seed corn should be secured at once by
those who failed to save it, and such
seed should be tested to determine it's
vitality Men who put this job off I'M
til planting time are likely no have
trouble.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07
Delany's high-speed telegram +,

Delany's high-speed telegraph sys-
tenn, recently perfected, is capable of
transmitting 100 to 5000 words min
ute On the single wire--the speed de-
pending on the distance and the cleo
trical properties of the line, that is on
the electrostatic capacity resistance and
inGuctance of the circuit Eight thous-
and words a minute can be recorded
over line of so miles, while 100 words
would be about the limit owe "a No.
S copper wire between New York and
San Francisco. ID. t4al.I4A..--.-. -.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

The collie or shepherd dog is one Of
the most intelligent of animals and
may be trained easily to do the most
remarkable things in connection with
the care of stock, especially with sheep
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

Give a smart man good COW, 20
hens and half acre of land, and ne
will from them more than half support
himself and family.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

No man can afford to quit his corn
blowing and go with his team and work
On the road for $3.50 per day Every
day in the cornfield in June is worth
at least S..
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

The Boer war used up 100000 horses
and $4,000 mules, most of which died
Of disease within six months after they
were landed.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

If you want to experiment with some
new crop this year, try a small patch
of alfalfa. If it will grow with you, it
will make you the finest hog pasture to
be had.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

Happiness consists largely in want
ing something real bad and standing a
good show of getting it. The actual
getting of it often spoils all the fun.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

The Boston club, which claims to
have founded the Republican party and
to be the oldest dining club in the
country, held its 2,00Oth meeting re-
Gently.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

Iowa, with resources almost purely
agricultural, is still represented by II
lawyers in congress, which is what we
would call an agricultural joke. There
ought to be at least one farmer in the
lot
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

The English apple eaters will pay,
more for Ben Davis than they will for
Northern Spy. This looks like a queer
taste, but most anything with red
face goes in that country.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

The Nebraska experiment station has
demonstrated the fact that a COW
reaches her highest production of butt
ter fat before she does her greatest
flow of milk.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

If you have two or three boys IN the
farm home and any one Of them more
than the others shows liking for and
native enthusiasm in farm interests,
KEEP an eye On him and try to help him
along on these lines, for by the time
you begin to get stiff in the joints he
will be just the man to take the old
farm off your hands. Some men ges
rid of their boys, never thinking about
this time, which is sure to come.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

Most Of the fancy brands Of foreign
made cheese are now successfully lml-
tated and manufactured in this country.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

The sum of $500 invested in barbless
wire fences would inclose a pretty good
sized pasture, but we know of more
than one man whose losses in horse
flesh during the past ten years would
have built two such fences.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

The snow lay on the ground and
chill winter wind blew from the North
when this sower went forth to SOW;
but, as he sowed clover seed on his rye
field, he was all right.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

Thirty years ago the aged OK was
counted as the best grade of beef. To-
day it is rare to find a 4-year-old steer
in any of the stockyards of the coun-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

We know of one or two very liberal
landlords who treat their farm tenants
more as partners in business than as
employees, and we notice that in each
case the landlord makes more money
from his farm than the old skinfints
do If you want your tenant to do well
by you and the farm, you do well by
the tenant.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

The markings of few feathers en-
abled her owner to sell a 4-year-old
hen at late poultry show at Kansas
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

The Wealthy apple behaves remark
ably we'll in cold storage. On the last
of January barrel taken from cold
storage gave but IL damaged apples
and $50 perfectly sound ones.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

The 2-year-old hen best serves hel
country in potpie.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

A Kansas reader wants to know
whether sweet corn at $3.50 per ton
offered by a new cannery in his vicin-
ity will be profitable crop for him to
raise. We should regard it as every
way good crop. The returns are cash,
come in early in the season, he viii
have left one and one-half tons OF
splendid COW feed for winter, and the
crop is not hard on the soil. If he will
sow rye among the corn at the time OF
gathering the ears, he will have a. fine
fall and spring pasture.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

The central butter making station
supplied with cream from the farms
using the farm separator and shipped
in twice a week by rail from territory
anywhere within 100 miles is becoming
disorganizinS factor in existing dairy
methods in the West. 1t is menacing
the life of the cooperative creameries
working under the creamery system
The two things of thus securing bet
ter guilty of skimmilk for the young
things on the farm and the saving Of
the expensive haul on the milk to the
creamery are almost insuring the sue
cess Of the innovation.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

The growth of the rural telephone
service is something remarkable. 1t is
reaching out in every direction and be-
fore long will have the farmers of the
country all linked together, to their
social and financial betterment.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

At late farmers institute which we
attended we heard read by quiet, I'M
assuming common farmer one of the
best of papers on the geological forma-
ton of the country in which he lived,
a paper which would have done credit
to any college professor in the lucidity
and breadth with which the subject
was treated. By and by we are going
right out on to the farm and find our
best Informed men and not to some
lawyers Office or college.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

Nature is often fanatic in the ex-
IRENE in some of her work-in the
growth of a tree, the building of a
mountain crag and gorge, in treeless
canyon, in the rioting of the OCEAN
but in all her fantasies she is always
truly artistic, never makes any color
plumbers or violates the law of har-
mOny or art
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07
Correspondence Solicited.

Bicycles and Belgian hares busted to-
gether.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

City for SOL. This is almost as bad
as Belgian hares at $3.50.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

At nearly all the farm Institutes
held the past winter through the region
of the corn belt the question of how to
improve the yield and quality of the
corn crop has been uppermost. For
the first time the farmers of that sec
ton are becoming alive to the fact that
it is entirely possible to accomplish
great Improvement along this line.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

Cornstalks returned to the soil give
a supply of humus and improve the
mechanical condition of clay soils, but
there is little Or no fertility in them.
Light and sandy soils are better Off
without than with them in a dry sea-
son.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

A laboring man whom we know rent
ed two acres of land last season and
planted the field to Burbank potatoes.
He worked out by the day most of the
time, but managed to care for this crop
at odd times. He harvested 400 bush
els of fine potatoes, which he sold in
the field for 5000, which was as much
or more than he earned at other work
all summer long.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

horticulture in many ways-in plant
breeding, cross fertilization, in the
spraying and limitation of insect pests.
in analyses of all foodstuffs as animal
rations, in soil physics whereby the
soil is fitted for its work, in animal
husbandry, the feeding and breeding of
all domestic animals-in fact, there is
no other business in which man is en-.
gagged where science touches him more
belpfully or with which it works more
tremendously.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

The value of speltz as a crop for the
far North country was well illustrated
last year in northern Minnesota. A
very cold, wet spring delayed seeding,
and when the soil could be worked it
was late in the season. Speltz then
sowed yielded 46 bushels an acre. wheat
seven bushels and oats eight bushels.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

of crops, which is common one in
many sections, it is often found that
the oats crop following but one crop
of corn will grow too rank and lodge
and spoil. This will be prevented by
taking at least two crops of corn from
the land before sowing to oats or q
crop of fax to make the richest land
poor enough to grow a crop of oats
which will stand up.