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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
St. Johns Episcopal Church

The following services will be held
on Sunday next, April 9th, Palm
Sunday
400 p. m.-Sunday School.
1880 p. m.-Evensong and sermon,
A special Palm Sunday Sermon
GOOD Friday evening service and
sermon on the Passion and Death
Of Christ, $50 p. m.
A cordial invitation is extended to
all persons to attend the above.
Rev. r. ALAN RUSSELL,
Vicar
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

Strength and vigor come of good
food, duly digested. Force, ready
to serve wheat and barley food, adds
no burden, but sustains, nourishes,.
invigorates.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
High school Entertainment

On Friday evening of this week the
High school will give an entertain
ment and social at the Masonic Hall.
The purpose of the entertainment is
to raise funds for the base ball team.
Games have been scheduled with
Ashland, Superior, Iron River and
Bayfield, High Schools; the boys are
III need of funds to organize team.
Refreshment will be served and
program will be rendered by the
High School. Friday evening, April
3rd.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
Nearly 600 Voters Are in Attendance
and CAST Ballots
F. T. YATES HEADS THE TICKET.
He is Chosen by the Caucus For Chairman,
And Will Contest Will. Nels Nelson
For the P1ace.-Results on
Che Other OH ces.

The following ticket was nomin-
ated at the town caucus Tuesday,
Supervisors: T. T. Yates, Chairman
Nose Jerome.
Mike Thorson.
Treasurer: Nels. Lee.
Clerk: r. A. Herring.
Assessor: l.. E. Lien.
Whole number of votes cast, 895.
Some of the candidates who were
in the field before the caucus have
dropped out, but there are still sew
eral aspirants for each of the offices.
The Craftsmanship will be between
Messrs. Nelson and Yates.
The following was the vote on the
different offices of the different can
didates:
FOR CHAIRMAN
Il. Il. Yates 004
n. Nelson $50
FOR SUPERVISORS
John A. Anderson 1876
Sam Bailey 35
Ed Cudmore 1877
NeIs Flonnes $50
VIM. Goedeke 43
Nose Jerome $40
Thos. Moore 222
John e. Rodgers 253
Mike Thorson 271
Ed. White "
FOR CLERK
Jas. Albertson 200
Hans Amply 100
Dick Herring 526
N. OSGrQm 50
FOR TREASURER
H. j. F'instad 178
Fl. P. Hanson 100
E. A. Holt IA
Nels Lee 288
A. Rockstad so
w. F. Young. 232
FOR ASSESSOR
T. Kearns Is
j. N. Kinney 165
Ole Lake AZ
L. FL. Lien 295
Fred Terrell 283
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-17

over the open fire Pappy Ned came to
announce, ''Dinnah done ready, ssh,"
at the same time handing ma Il
"cashew cocktail made from the juIAs
of an aromatic fruit brewed with ru,ii
and stirred to effervescence with q
"swizzle stick"
The grand repast of the day opened
with gumbo soup, followed by fish,
frogs legs and turtles eggs, while in
the center of the table was peccary
roast, danked by nicely Drowned
guinea bird and native wild turkey,
with vast assortment Of vegetables
from my garden. There were no drinks
artihcially cooled. ice being an unob-
tainable luxury in Crusoe's island, but
there were tropical fruits in abun.
dance-pines, guavas, mangoes, oranges
and custard apples-all of which had
been plucked within stones throw OF
my hut
One thing only was lacking-a good
ly company-to enjoy that Christmas
feast in Crusoe's island. But we were
content, for, as Pappy Ned observed,
DE good Goramighty done glib us all
we want, mo- dan we need and a heap
sight mo- dan we desarve."
FREDERICK A. ODER.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-17

is one of the finest British possessions
In the West Indies. The only other is
land which fully answers the descrip-
ton given by Crusoe in relation of To-
cation to Trinidad is that of Tobago,
from which Sir Walter Raleigh prob
ably derived the name of the weed"
we call tobacco.
/ long held the theory that this was
Crusoe's island, and in order to prove
1t went down there on hunting and
exploring expedition, afterward writ
ing book about my adventures which
gives all the evidence, even if it does
not sufficiently establish the facts. At
any rate, played Crusoe" for months
in Tobago, the island of the ancient
mariners adventures. built Il hut of
palm leaves in the forest and for q
time lived as good old Robinson lived,
with the exception that did not have
any goats; neither did | tempt an at
tack of rheumatism by residing in a
cave. | even had my poll parrot, my
hammock under the palms and my
Man Friday only the latter was not
Il Carib, like CruSOe's factotum. but
black man, honest and faithful old
Pappy Ned, who soon finished skinning
those peccaries and was ready to so
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-17

only other in that forest save myself,
my sable servitor, Pappy Ned. He had
been out all night hunting crapauds.
or forest frogs, and was on his way
back to our camp with backload of
batrachians, the legs of which were 10
be served up in q style which only
Pappy Ned knew to perfection.
"Goramighty, NASSAU he exclaimed
In astonishment. WAS dat yo' gun
goin' off pam. pam! lax yo' shootin' Il
g'munt OBJ sogers? Ki, but it's lucky
ole Pappy Ned come long. hey? Dem
hawgs done know Pappy Ned an jes'
crar out when dey hear um a-comin'
along wiv dis yer dawg. Dey don LAX
niggers, an dey don lax dawgs nuther,
sat dey'se death on de buckra man"
well, pappy, the buckra man, as you
call me, has brought death to the pee
carries this time, and they've good rea-
son for not liking me, | fancy. But
you came along just in the nick of
time, old friend, and / owe you another
reward for saving my life second
time" He had nursed me through n
fever n few months before
"Oh, me massa, dat ain muffin. Me
only too glad to sarve me good massa,
TO shuah Yo' jes set down an rest,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-17

while me done cut up an skin desc
hawgs-one, two, three. TO, fibe. Golly,
massa, we done gut huff meat fo' de
Christmas dinnah, ain we? Not to
menshun dis we're bag wiv two dozen
fine fat crapauds in um. sah."
Pappy Ned set to work dressing Tor.
to be exact, undresslng) the peccarics,
being careful not to taint the flesh with
The contents of the peculiar musk gland
which the species carries on its back,
and while he is thus engaged seems u
good opportunity for me to make my
explanation rs to the exact location of
Crusoe's island.
1t Is not, as ninet nine persons in IL
hundred think, the island of Juan Fer
nandez, on the southwest coast of
South America, but 1t is q good many
miles nearer the coast of our own Unit
ed States, in the southeastern part of
the Caribbean sea. | will not waste
any time. either the readers or my
own, In argument. but respectfully re-
fer the earnest inquirer to old Crusoe
himself. Robinson Crusoe, Esq, mar
liner, Of Bristol, England, whose adven-
lures were first written out and pub
lished by Daniel De Foe In 1719, was
somewhere in latitude II degrees north
Of the equator when he was wrecked
that Is, of course, assuming there ever
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-17

was an entity called "Crusoe" in the
flesh. But, whether he ever existed or
not, that is where De Foe placed his
hero when he had him wrecked on the
coast of his island To quote the
words of Crusoe himself. just before it
happened, "The master made an OBJ
servation as well as he could and found
that he was in about II degrees of
north latitude, so that we We're gotten
beyond the coast of Guiana and beyond
the river Amazones. toward the Orino-
co, commonly called the Great river"
Now, that would be evidence suff1-
cient for any sailor but let Crusoe fur
ther explain, as he does we'll along in
his narrative, when he first circum-
navigates his island kingdom: "The
land which perceived to the west and
southwest was the great island of
Trinidad, on the north point of the
mouth of the river Orinoco"
Trinidad, as everybody knows, is Off
the north coast of South America and
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-17


hogs, that ranged the island, had left
camp and started out after them. 1t
was great fun for awhile, for fell in
with herd of about a dozen and had
secured two of the ''varmints" when
the survivors, seeming to think that
turn about is fair play" began hunt
Ing me. Then the situation assumed a
dlferent aspect entirely, for the pee
cary when aroused is one of the most
bloodthirsty of creatures and as re-
vengeful as an Indian. Fortuna tely
for me, great gum tree stood conven-
iently near, and by means of the lianas
that swung from its branches | was
soon safe from harm and looking calm
ly down upon the little black beasts as
they ragged around the trunk But a
peccary, as is we'll known, can enter
tain only one idea at time, and the
idea that possessed the shallow brains
OF my friends below was how to effect
my destruction. After roofing around
awhile they all sat down In an attitude
OF expectation and patiently waited for
me to descend. And they would sit
there, l felt sure, knowing peccary ma
ture as l did, until they starved me to
death rather than allow me to escape.
| had only few rounds of ammuni.
tion suited to their needs but l killed
three more before 1t was exhausted
and peppered the hides of several 9th.
ers so that If they ever had entertained
the idea Of leaving they abandoned il
entirely. l had not a morsel of food
about me. The limbs l sat astride of
were not so soft as they might have
been if they had been made to order,
and l was getting uncomfortable when
| noticed n commotion in the herd.
The leader of the band, n grisly old
tusker with recurved fangs like Turk.
ish scimiters, suddenly stood up and
shifted the air; then he uttered n
"whoof' of rage and despair, struck u
2:1O gait and disappeared in the jungle,
followed by all the survivors. was
saved by black man and a dog.
1t may or may not be true that the
peccary has as intense dislike for
the black man as he has for dog.
but anyway the combination proved
effective In this instance The man
who appeared at this juncture was the
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-17

gun. AS Tobago Is tropical island the
meat would not keep great while, and
we really had much more than we could
eat, but Pappy Ned said he knew of
some black people over ON the other
side Of the forest who would devour
what there was left provided he could
get word to them in time.
There never was more beautiful
situation for a hut than the site of
mine on n hilltop above the forest line,
with views of tropical woods and shin
ing shore, and, as the weather that
Christmas day was simply perfect, l
ordered my man to make our spread"
in the open. beneath the cocoa palms,
sheltered from the blazing sun by the
golden rooftrees only. So he set the
table out of doors and lost no time in
getting ut the cooking which was done
over an open fire. Pappy Ned was as
adept at preparing exquisite dishes
from next to nothing as any Partisan
chef that ever lived. We had n garden
filled with such plants as the manioc,
tania, sweet potato, arrowroot, yam,
etc, not to mention corn and mountain
rice. From wild grove of coffee trees
l obtained the fragrant berry for my
morning beverage; also cacao, or choco-
late, from another copse on the border
of the forest while the cocoa palms
above and around my hut held a de-
licious cool drink in their unripe nuts.
Pappy Ned dried and grated the cassa-
va tubers, making "farine," from which
he cooked great cakes more than foot
across. The juice of the cassava is
poisonous in its crude state, but 1t is
converted into palatable substance by
heat and forms the basis of the noted
"cassareep," or pepper pot. We always
had pepper pot on hand as a stand
by, into which we threw the odd pieces
of meat left over after ordinary re.
pasts, and a goodly amount of the pee
cary flesh was thus disposed of, the
cassareep acting as a preservative as
well as condiment. But pepper pot
was q poor mans makeshift, Pappy
Ned always declare& and the day be-
fore he had walked the beach for sea
turtle eggs, Arveral score of which he
had brought back to camp, together
with fine fish he had caught on the
shore.
After working three or four hours
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-17

Y L Christmas
m o l. IN z not
many years ago
l found myself
up n tree In
Crusoe's island.
I was hunt az
meat for my
Christmas din
ner shortly aft
er daybreak
that morning.
and as the most
abundant sup
ply was prom
ised by the poe
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-17
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with me back to
our hut. Hang
ing three of the
pigs up in n
palm tree to
await his re-
t u II Z p p V
Ned shouldered
the other two
and the sack of
crapauds a N d
toted the load
to camp, which
was distant but
a mile or so.
and l followed
after with my
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-17

Copyright. 1903. by F. A. ober.l
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-12
Monocle.

The single eyeglass, or monocle,
never found many admirers in this
country, and only a few transplanted
Englishmen cling to them In San
Francisco. An oculist, discussing the
use of the monocle, said the other
day: "Dr. Kitchener, back in 1924,
thought 1t a good thing. He advised
its alternate use, now in the right
eye, now in the left one. He said in
his book that he had cultivated the
habit of picking up the glass, each
time he wanted to use 1t, with a diff
ferent hand. OF course, picked UP with
the right hand it had to go into the
right eye, and vice versa. AS mat
ter of fact, the single eyeglass Is in
furious. 1t throws all the work on
one eye 1t destroys the harmony Of
the optic muscles and nerves. I know
an Englishman who has worn, for a
myopic affection, a monocle in his left
eve for twelve years The left eye is
all right, but with the other the man
can see practically nothing. Joseph
Chamberlain wears his inonocle in
either eye alternately, and his son
does the same thing. The habit Of the
monocle continues to live among the
English swells.-San BTancisc0 Ar
RsnARt --L--i--2-Axlia
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-12
some Of Our Bows"

The magnanimity Of Con. Robert E.
Lee is well known, but the daily man.
ifestations of it are not yet all told.
One notable case has, 1t is believed,
never before appeared In print.
Gen. Lee was sitting on the veran-
da Of his Lexington home one after
noon, engaged in conversation VITA
some friends, when Il man, ill-clothed
and covered with dust, appeared at
the gate and timIdly beckoned TO the
General
Apologlzing to his friends, Lee rose
at once and went to the gate. Very
soon his purse appeared and he was
seen to give the man some money.
His friends, knowing the extent of
his charity in any case Of suffering,
real or apparent, looked on with some
impotence, for they knew how slender
his means were then, and how many
calls of the same kind come to him.
General, who was that?" one Of
them ventured, when he had returned
to his place.
Zone Of our boys in trouble was
the half-smiling answer, FOR the Gen
eral knew the remonstrance which
his friend was longing to make.
"What regiment and company did
he belong to-" persisted the friend,
anxious, IL possible, to unearth the
suspected fraud.
ooh. he-he fought on the other
side" was Gen. Lees calm answer -
Youths Companion.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-12
SHARKS RECORD TRIP.

Said to Have Come from Africa ia
Florida In Two Days.
A government official who recently
returned from a visit to Palm Beach,
Fla, tells about seeing huge man
eating shark captured at that place.
It was one Of the biggest sharks ever
caught in Florida waters and was evil
IDENTIFY a sailor of many years. The
monster measured over eighteen feet
In length, had a sword attachment as
long as an arm and was Of the leop-
ard variety, stamping 1t as one of the
man-eating kind.
The shark was caught by fisher
man. He used q large rope for q
Line and had q windlass as a reel. At
the end of the line was huge steel
hook, and this was baited with a
bright tin can. The shark bit at the
bait and was entrapped. he was
landed after the toughest. time the
fisherman ever experienced.
1t was the interior of the fish, how
ever, that excited the greatest inter-
est. When he was cut open whole
porpoise was found in the stomach.
There was also large piece of partly
digested shark and the head of an
ostrich. The piece Of shark inside the
monster was out of the back and con-
tanned the backbone of the dead fish.
A careful examination showed that
the backbones were larger than the
bsckbones Of the captured shark. A
number of scars on his body showed
that he had been In conflict with an
other shark, and the finding of piece
Of the adversary showed that the
conflict and ended in the death OF the
opponent; that the victor had swal-
lowed a juicy portion Of his adversary.
1ne presence Of the ostrich head
in the stomach Of the man-eater was
regarded as undoubted proof that he
had made the trip from Africa, and
that he had made the trip in two or
three days. The head was not digest
ed and the process of digestion had
only just begun.
There is only one ostrich farm in
Florida, and when that institution
was communicated with the owners
said that they had not lost an ostrich
In a year. The ability Of shark to
pass a fast steamer in one minutes
time is well known to travellers, and
fhara &c no douht that the shark had
been In African waters, had captured
q stray ostrich or the head Of one
that had been killed and then started
across the Atlantic, reaching Florida
waters before the ostrich head had
begun to Observation-Disclosures Times.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-12
Retire the America Cup.

The excellent suggestion is made by
one Of the old boys Of 1851 that the
Americas cup should now be retired
from competition and put in the ma
tional museum at Washington, along
with the sword of Washington and the
medals of Grant and the Declaration
and the flags captured iQ the war Of
1872" The prOpOnent thinks that II
any deed of trus, stands in the way,
an act of Congress might be produced
to retire the cup, and so leave the
newer generation free to establish
new contest, if desired. AS it really
does seem that the superiority Of the
American racing machine is now de-
monstrated, why is this not a good
plan? 1t would leave the field open
for a new match on the lines Sir
Thomas Upton, that admirable sports
man, has indicated-of true, service
able, seagoing schooners. Such con-
test would we'll be worth while. Il
would be wholly valuable in develop
ing the most beautiful sailing vessel
in the world-,he American schooner.
Springfield Republican
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-12
New York's Milk Supply.

A million and half quarts-that is
the amount of milk left daily at back
doors, on dumbwaiters, in tenement
halls, milk depots and corner grocer
les for the inhabitants of New York.
Nothing the city eats or drinks is so
generally used as milk; nothing else
is SO dangerous if carelessly handled.
A few gallons of bad milk can do more
harm than a regiment of doctors can
repair, and scatter disease and death
enough to put a whole community in
mourning. When one remembers that
bad milk is no respecter of persons,
the campaign against poor milk DUR
ing the last three years and the con-
structive efforts to get good milk be-
come a reason not only for civic pride,
but for individual thanksgiving.-Cen'
fury.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-12
FOUND IN A cURIo SHOP.
Strange Recovery Of Family Relic
After Fiftv-three Years.

After Fifty-three Years.
Truth is stranger han fiction, to re-
vert to the time .honored and worn
phrase, and II ever an incident proved
it the experience of a Chicago woman
in New Orleans recently does so to a
satisfying extent. Like many who
come down from cast and west, she
first wanted 20 see French market,
and then she made a happy, fanatical
| tour of the curio and secondhand
shops for souvenirs. She thought she
wanted pearls and corals and jeweled
daggers, and one afternoon about a
week ago, with these Turing her along
the quaint, sunny length of the quar-
ter" where others besides Gene Field
have blown in $50 before 10 a. M, but
proved mute, ingorious Millions on
the subject; she entered a shop
dingy, dusty and of delightful prom
ise. In the process Of 'nosing" about
with a yelled eye for finds" she
came upon a broken plate filed with
old-fashioned seals and began half
idly picking them over. Presently she
CHANGED upon one for fob peculiarly
odd, a beauty Of antiquity, with its
heavy carved gold ring. "Tll let you
have that very cheap if you wanner
IT," the man said. It's a locket as
well. an has gotter piece of hair in
side. It's funny sort of hair, gold and
brown, an always seem to me like it's
alive. l can't sell it and that hair in
1t. Most people don wan keep hair
and won take it out because it's bad
luck. The ring, because it's got them
letters cut on it, you see, r. w. W."
ar w. w." exclaimed the lady,
my brothers initials; how stranger
well, you are the first person I've
ever been able to find that had 'em in
any part of the family. Nobody wants
to buy it. III let you get a bargain on
it. I'd have melted the ring for gold
long ago, but l never could git up the
courage to take out that there hair.
Somehow it wouldn't let me-"
The Chicago woman opened the
locket and there was the little shining
curl, seeming still to vibrate with a
beautiful fresh life that must have
crumbled to dust many years since.
'Well. I'll come in before go and
see" she said, and went on her search
for pearls. But the thing haunted her,
and finally impelled her, so she says,
to write to her brother describing it.
"If you want the thing I'll bring it to
you" she wrote. He sent her an i'm
mediate reply "Get the ring at all
costs. Mother says it is fathers and
the hair that of his mother. 1t was
given to him with her blessing when
he was boy and he had treasured it
dearly"
1t later transpired that fifty-three
years ago the father had come south
to Mobile, and the seal fob with its
locket had been stolen by a supersti-
tious black, who, discovering the hair,
was afraid of the ill-luck and a posi-
BILE hoodoO and left it in a bundle on
the doorstep of that same old curio
shop.
So fiftyIthree years afterward the
found by accident the
precious little relic, preserved for her,
until now by the intangible protection
Of the glinting curl of hair-New Or
eans Times Democrat.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-12

1t has long been questioned in our
minds as to how the gopher snake
caught the gophers on which he lives
but H. G. Heitzer tells how it is done,
having witnessed a catch. Mr.. Snake
coiled his tail over the gopher hole,
setting a snare for him. When the
gopher had crawled out Of the hole
sufficiently to permit the snakes tall
to be drawn about the body Of the co.
pher the coil was fastened about Mr..
Gopher as quick as flash,
It was gradually drawn tighter and
tighter until the gopher fell over
dead, the life having been squeezed
out Of him. After the gopher is dead
the snake swallows him whole. and It
is not an unusual thing to find one Of
these snakes with a number of go
piers in him. The gopher is a great
fighter, and If ne was not caught in a
snare as the one mentioned, he
would doubtless make a hard fight
for life, even with a snake.-Tulare
Advance.