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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-01-25

Leaving the house on Saturday
morning the Countess told the jani-
tress she was going to Manhattan to
look for work. Since that time she
has not been seen by any who know
her. She sent n note, saying she
could not endure tho trouble any long
err and asking that her boy be given
to some honorable family.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-01-25

A car on the new electric road to
Occur d'Alene jumped the track Mt
Greenacres yesterday morning. The
passengers got good shakeup but no
one was hurt.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-01-25
NOT.....

call upon tho undersigned ana
make arrangements to buy the
best corner In Noslsr's Addt-
ton, consisting of 1o0xf4a feet.
l will loan you enough money
10 improve the lot at q modest
rate OF interest. providing q
sa!o Ii made In the near future
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04
SHORT TALKS.

A terrible lot of love is wasted on
cats, dogs and unmarried men.
SO many people waste time. Do you
do it? Do you talk. and talk about
nothing?
How we all dislike the child that
has its own way and is impudeDt! All
of us need a great deal of training.
A good many people are like pie
plant-their' good qualities are not
known because no one handles them
right.
When a woman's daughter marries a
preacher she is more firmly convinced
than ever that her children have. adj
vantages she did not enjoy. u
If woman truly loves her husband,
when she is asked how he is she will
say, "Well, he does not complain, but
I do not think he is very WE'LL
If you have a little hard sense it has
probably been beaten into you; very
few have it naturally. SO that, after
all, adversely and criticism are useful.
-Atchison Globe.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04
The Bear He Missed.

Telling in his book of some hunting
experiences near the north pole, Cap
tain Sverdrlp wrote: "Walruses and
seals were harpooned and shot and also
the large arctic hare, which seems to
have contracted the peculiar habit of
frequently running long distances on
it's hind legs. Hunting was not always
easy, the atmosphere playing strange
tricks with the eyesight, as witness the
following account Of the stalking Of a
bear: With the utmost caution, with
his gun ready and his eye fixed mex
orably on the BEAR Sehlei advanced to
the spot. Meanwhile the bear sat wag-
ging it's head, but keeping a good look
out, it appeared, for when Sehlei had
come some twenty steps nearer it rose
and flew away. 1t flew as well as any
bird, which, after all, was not remark
able, for it was glaucous gull
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04
Putting on Style In Arizona.

Every symptom points to tendency
to spread on style in Tombstone, Ariz.
Among other instances in this direction
the boys bought a pair Of beautiful
barber pole suspenders and presented
them to the amiable dispenser who
shoves the amber extract Of cheerful
ness over the mahogany Of the Parlor
saloon, says the Tombstone Prospector.
He promptly donned the innovation,
but claimed that he felt like he had a
fence rail on each shoulder. Then,
when they became overburdensome, he
would unbutton them and permit them
to dangle in front, but he has finally
got them down fine enough to go to
church in. Several old timers, con-
spicuously court attendants from the
other end Of the county, have fallen
into the habit of wearing boiled shirts,
and it looks as if sky blue overalls
might be discarded as a full dress cos
hume. Getting powerful tony" IN
town nowadays.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04
Lincoln and the Mules.

Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew Of New
York. who has carried his prestige as a
reconteur into the upper house Of con-
gress, relates a hitherto untold story
about President Lincoln, says Harper's
Weekly. 1t is apropos of the demand
for an immediate strengthening Of the
United States navy.
81 remember" said the New York
millionaire on the floor of the senate,
"being in the executive mansion at one
time and in Mr.. Lincoln's office when
a telegram was handed to him which
gave the information that a brigadier
general, through foolishness of an ex-
IRENE sort, had been captured down in
Virginia. In his command was a long
train of pack wagons and mules. Mr.
Lincoln read the dispatch. Then he
took UP his pen and said:
"'With that pen | can make briga'
der. general in a minute, but I cannot
replace those mulesr
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04
The Population of the World.

According to an exhaustive stats
teal work by German, of which
Harper's Weekly gives an interesting
resume, the population of the world
today is 1903, 100000. The average
density of population is about ten per-
sons to one square kilometer, and the
distribution among the continents is as
follows: In Europe, 9,723,600 square
kilometers and 392,264,O00 people, or
forty inhabitants for each square kilo-
meter; in Asia, 44,179, 400 square kilo-
meters and S19,556,O00 inhabitants
eighteen to a square kilometer; in Afri-
ca, 29,S20,2O0 square kilometers and
40, 100000 inhabitants, five to square
kilometer. North America, to which
division are rather arbitrarily assigned
the West Indies, Mexico, Central Amer
lea and Panama as we'll as the United
States and Canada, is credited with
20,817,700 square kilometers and 1885,
714,OO0 inhabitants, five to one square
silometer.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04
SERVANTS IN RUSSIA.
The Law Excludes Them as Witness
es Against Their Employers.

The Law Excludes Them as Witness
es Against Their Employers.
The Russian servant is hired for one
year and is told exactly what his par
ticular duty is to be. He then sticks
to that one duty. AS long as each serv-
ant faithfully performs the special
duties of his position all is we'll, but
the neglectful butler or cook or coach
man is sent by the employer with
written note to the police judge, who
after carefully investigating the COM
plants has a right to order bodily pun
ishment or to write a bad mark in the
book kept for this purpose
In great Russian households often
from twenty to fifty servants are kept,
and even the middle class families
have two to four. The pay Of these
servants varies according to the line
Of work. While the chiefs in the
kitchens Of wealthy families often re-
ceive $500 year, cook in an ordinary
citizens employ gets no more than f12
q year, and a maid of all work never
gets more than f5 year. At Easter
every servant gets d pIessbt generally
a suit or dress.
Every other Sunday the servants in
a Russian household are entirely free.
Their work stops Saturday night after
supper, when the servants leave the
house not to return until the next Mon
day morning. The employers never
ask where or how the free time is
spent.
Russian servants will pilfer. Since
Russian ladies leave everything to the
care of the servants the latter do as
they please.
The manServantS smoke cigars be-
longing to their masters and pay fire.
quent visits to the wine cellars of the
house, but a gentleman would consider
it ''demeaning" himself to prosecute a
servant for this.
The Russian servants will talk about
fellow servants, but never about their
employers. Even when they quit one
place and take service in another
family they would never mention any
thing about their former masters.
This discretion goes SO far that even
the law considers it. In Russia the law
excludes servants as witnesses against
their former or present employers
so long, at least, as these servants are
not suspected of having taken part in
the crime-Lopdon Mail.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04

Experiments conducted at the StOrrS
agricultural experiment station for the
purpose of finding out the cost of rails
Ng calves up to the age of six months
show the following results, says Hol-
stein-Friesian Register: Two lots of
calves were experimental upon. The
frSt were fed new milk for four weeks;
then skim milk was substituted for it.
With the second lot this change was
made when the calves were less than
Ewo weeks Old Rowen hay, or hay
cut for the second time in the same
season, was kept before them constant
r.. The first lot was not given any
grain, but the others had grain given
Ehem for the last two months.
The first set gained one and one-fourth
pounds Pc day per calf, the second
sne and one-third pounds, both of
which gains were considered as salts
factory. as these calves were destined
for dairy herd, and it was therefore
not desirable that they should lay on
Fat. The cost of the first set averaged
47.3 cents per week and that of the sec
end 446 cents.
Similar experiments to show the cost
af raising calves to a greater age were
also made, the period Of testing being
ewo years and eighteen days. When
Eed 1S5 days as above, 1873 days at
pasture, with one pound of grain per
Gay; 1S1 days in the stable at 90 cents
ger week, and 1914 days at pasture,
with 12O pounds of grain, the average
cost per animal was estimated at
$33. 20.
Convenient Cow Stan.
The illustration of the so called mod
81 stall, which is taken from Hoard's
Dairyman, shows a single stall with
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04
Testing Milk.
The Cow and the Farm.

Professor Curtiss, at the recent dairy
convention at Cedar Rapids, Ia, told
why dairying maintains the fertility of
taee farm. He said: I'm selling $1,000
worth OF wheat from an Iowa firm at
present prices we sell with it about
$3.50 worth of fertility. In selling ST.
300 worth Of corn we sell about $3.50
worth of fertility-or constituents
which would cost the farmer this
amount if he were obliged to buy COM
mercial fertilizers to maintain the fer
4ility of the farm. But we can convert
&, 200. worth of corn into beef, pork or
mutton and sell it in that form and not
remove over $50 worth of fertility from
the farm, or we can convert $1,000
ygorth of feed into butter and not re-
move a single dollars worth of fertil
Hy with it. Butter is almost wholly
QHEe fat Or carbon, and it adds nothing
30 the value or productive capacity of
ahe SOIL
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04
EXCHANGE OF HARVESTERS.
Plan of Four States In Wheat Belt to
Avoid a Labor Famine.

AVOID a LABOR Fam1ne.
The authorities of the four states in
the western wheat belt-Kansas, Ne
braska and the two Dakotas-have hit
upon scheme to furnish one another
with harvest hands in the hope that
the labor famine, usually attendant
upon the wheat harvest, may be avoid
ed this season, says Lincoln (Neb.)
dispatch to the Kansas City Times.
State Labor Commissioner Bush of
Nebraska has organized a bureau at
Lincoln, with branch offices in various
parts of the state, the latter being gen
orally in charge of railway agents.
The field is canvassed for harvest
hands, addresses are taken, and advice
as to the needs Of Kansas wheat grow
ers, whose fields must receive full at
tention before the earlier ripening Of
the wheat, is furnished by the main
bureau in Kansas. Rates of cent
mile have been scheduled by the rail-
roads, and the harvest hands will be
sent in squads to the points desired
from the three northern states. The
Nebraska harvest will next receive at
tention, the tide Of laborers being turn
ed back to the north and thence to the
Dakotas after the harvest in Nebraska
Is finished. The promoters Of the plan
expect to employ 10000 laborers by
this plan.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04
A Town on American Plan.

Towns are not often deliberately
planned and founded in Europe as in
America, but the fact can be wit
messed at present at Schandau, Saxony,
which is situated in what Germans call
the Saxon Switzerland, says Dresden
cable dispatch to the New York
Herald. Herr Rudolph Sending Of
Dresden hotel fame is father of the
city, which he is laying down as a
novel health resort. New Schandau,
as the town is called, commands a
magnificent view Of picturesque noun
tains and comprises big central hotels,
many villas, streets, rapid transit,
sewerage and lighting, all complete
even to an extensive public park.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04
An Important Difference.

Not long after series of losses at
sea on a certain steamship line two
travellers wee discussing transatlantic
liners. One of the men preferred the
c. line, the other the T line, the
one on which the repeated wrecks had
occurred.
There's one important difference"
said the fist, ''that you don't seem to
have considered, but which weighs
strongly with me-"
what is that?"
'Why, the c. line guarantees to
take you acSoss, but the T line
guarantees to take you only as far as
it goes. "-Harpers Weekly.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04
SOCIETY TO UPL!FT LABOR.
Order Founded by an Illinois MAN
to Be Made National.

to Be Made National.
George H. Center, miner of Du-
uuoin, ILL.,, has gained considerable dis
tinction by founding an order for the
uplifting of people in general and min
ers in particular, says dispatch from
Duquoin ''It reaches men," says Mr.
Center, that the churches can't reach
and that the secret societies won't
have"
The order is known as the Knights
and Ladies Of the Cross, and so great
has been it's success in Duquoin that
Mr.. Center has decided to send out gen
eral organizers. The order has $40
members, 200 of whom are miners The
members bind themselves to meet their
fellow members as equals, not to injure
one of them, not to gamble or carry con-
cealed weapons and to use theirinfueDce
against the use of alcoholic drinks Mr..
Center says few of the members fall,
and that when they do they are helped
up and on agan
Outsiders at DuQuoin are astounded
at Mr.. Center'S success in raising men
from the gutter, and he is almost an
obpect of worship by the families of
many men and by the men Themselves
whom he has helped to their feet.
There are three degrees in the order
Faith, Hope and Charity-the first of
which is public. The order maintains
a public reading room at a cost of
81, 200 a year, which is paid from vol
untary contributions and money raised
by giving socials and entertainments.
No dues are asked of the members and
there is no initiation fee
Mr.. Center's personality is out of the
ordinary. He began work in a coal
mine at st. Johns, north of Duquoin,
thirty eight years ago, when he was
eleven years old, and mining has been
his life work. He is now manager OF
two mines owned by a coal and coke
company.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04

he Company's service. Again, = the
Young man who came to this country
over thirty years ago, penniless and
riendless, and who, during the first two
y"ars, carried only 5000, working beside
tank foul with the smell of oil but
day, there is scarcely a drop of oil
,onsumed in this country which has not
zen purchased from his stupendous
Tganiz4tiou, the Standard Oil Company.
n another walk of life, we see at the
aead of a great college, man who
chopped wood to pay his way through
school. a
The great captains of industry OF to-
lay were the poor boys of thirty years
ago. 1t was not wealthy parent nor an
influential friend who started these men
on the road to fortune; they made their
'wil opportunities they fought their own
DArtles; they have won.
What is the secret of their success !?
What IS that irresistible force which has
enabled them to overcome all obstacles,
% surpass their fellow-men? Every am
ojtlous young man is searching for This
secret. He believes that honesty. So
briefly, perseverance, and determination
ire essentials i'll the foundation on which
to build q successful career, and vet he
realizes that he must possess something
more than these mere prerequisites if he
would achieve conspicuous success .
Those who have studied the lives of
successful men will tell you that they all
possessed a certain force of character
the power to mould the opinions and
direct the actions of others. John D.
Rock efeller has often said that he at
tributes his success largely to his ability
to influence and control the minds of
men. How to acquire that power is told
by Mr.. Edward Box in his Lecture, "Keys
to Success, y the most inspiring address to
young men ever heard from an American
platform Mr.. Box. does not preach
theory; he gives good, sound, practical
advice. He tells young men
they can develop those quail >
pensabie to success, and win botn money
and power. Every word is suggestive
and inspiring. O.
The Publishers of this Lecture, John
L. Morris and Company, 1903 Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, Pa, are desirous
that every ambitious young man should
possess copy of {" KEYS to Success"
and they will send, complimentary, a
complete copy of this Address to everv
reader who will write fer it, mentioning
this pape@. and enclosing six cents to
cover mailing expenses. "Kevs to Sue
cess " is one of the many inspiring
speeches contained in Modern Flo
quence, library Of famous After-Din-
ner Speeches, Addresses and Lectures, in
ten volumes, edited by TIE Hon. Thomas
B. Reeo.S The Publishers believe that
these complimentary copies OF MIR. Bok's
Keys to Success - will prove effective
advertising for the sale of Ex-Speaker
Reeds rema ikable work, hence this lib
eral offer.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04
Cost of Keeping a Cow.

The average cost of keeping a COW q
year has been variously estimated by
experiment stations in different locali-
Ties at from $50 to $40, says Farmers
advocate. The means of keeping the
racord of the income, enabling the
wedding out process, are now available
70 every dairyman. The Babcock test,
which is a simple means of cetermin-
zig the richness of the milk in fat, and
the scales for determining the yield Of
milk enable the farmer to ascertain the
galue of milk and butter production of
each cow in his herd and whether she
4sa source of profit or loss.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04
He Found 1t.

always" said the astute news edi-
tor to the new reporter-"always be on
the lookout for any little touch Of hui
NOR that may brighten up our col
umns''
That evening the new reporter hand
ed in an account of a burglary in a
butchers shop which commenced, "Mr.
Jeremiah Cleaver, the we'll known
butcher, has been losing flesh rapidly
of late"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04
DRY DOCK FOR CAVlTE.
Huge Steel Structure Being Buiit For
the Philippine HarbOr.

the Philippine 1afDOr
The body of the largest steel floating
dry dock in the world, which is being
constructed for the United States gov
eminent at the dock department of a
steel company at Sparrows Point, Nd,
is now above the basin which has been
dug for it, says the Baltimore News.
This dry dock will be entirely of steel
and will be used in Cavite harbor
Philippine Islands.
The dock is 500 feet long and LOG
feet wide between walls, while the
height of the walls will be sixty-four
feet. 1t will. cost $1,124,000. Notwith-
standing the many rainy days during
the past winter, work has progressed
rapidly, but this summer it will be
pushed with all possible haste. The
dry dock, it is expected, will be ready
for delivery in the summer Of 1903.
It will dock a 10000 ton war vessel
which is the largest in the United
States navy, or 10000 ton merchant
vessel. While the work possible for
this big structure is immense, it will
take very few men to man 1t, and g
crew of eighteen men is all that will
be required.
It will be necessary to tow the dock
to its destination-the Philippines. In
order to do this powerful vessels will
be necessary. The government, how
ever, has two very powerful tugs. 1t
will take about five months for the
structure to be towed to it's destina-
ton. The distance around the Cape Of
Good Hope is $4,000 miles, and it is es-
timated that 100 miles a day will be
covered,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04
THE MODEL STALL.

me side entirely removed. 1t may be
IS narrow as one pleases, but the width
and length should be proportional to
she size of the occupant We do not
consider three and one-half feet any
100 much room for the cow Of average
size. The construction of this stall is
such that when standing the rack in
410nt forces the COW back a few inches,
SO that ali droppings fall we'll to the
rear The bar across the stall at the
zaar should be fastened to the floor
Irst in front of the cows hind feet
when standing with her head to the
sack. This bar serves the double pur-
pose Of retaining the bedding in place
and of encouraging the COW to move
forward when about to lie down, bring
ing her head under the projecting rack
The bottom of this rack should be
from thirty-fve to forty inches above
the floor. shallow manger may ex-
tend across the full width of the stall
N place Of the slanting box.
The cow is fastened with haltec
about the head, and instead of remoy-
ing the headpiece every time the COW
Is to be loosened attach stout safety
snap to the end of the rope and snap
this into the ring under the throat, let
ting the COW wear the headpiece all
the time.
Aim of the Ho1stein Breeders.
The aim Of the -Friesian
breeders is to produce milk fit for all
aurposes-for home. village or city con-
sumption, for cheese factory or butter
factory, for the production of cream
aor the creamery, for ice cream or for
BEliage and city use, and the Babcock
aast and centrifugal separator enable
9im to do all this.-M. Fl. Gardner in
Pacific Homestead.
Testing Milk.
Three vital points in testing milk-a
true sample of the cream, an exact
quantity Of the sample in the test bot
Ee and reading the test accurately.
Avoid stable Contamination.
Stables with too many cowy odors
n them are not fit to keep milk in, and
separating should be done in another
Blace
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04

81 expected to find that suit done"
stormed the customer
"Oh, well, here's the other suit dun"
said the tailor, who was a low wag,
and who had bill in his hand.-Buf-
falo Express.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04
They Manage to Escape.

She-So you think that men are
smarter than women, do you? He
Some men, but not all. She-Well,
what men are smarter? He-Ol0
bachelors illustrated Bits.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04
KEYS TO SUCCESS.
Mr.. Edwc.' Bck E6iEor of the Ladies' Home
Jeurnal. Tells oung Men How
succ>s-; IS @o1.

Every ,~'t"E 1:ie1 wants to succeed.
There IS no0nng 50 seIt~satisfying as the
boun.,fll reN,ra3 which await the man
who struggles and conquers. Fame,
aor@s, w,-AllA and power are the laurels
which Success bestows.
The - -5ent century is rep1ete with
Examples &C young men, who, alone and
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-08-04

unalded, have risen to
the very highest PIN
nacle of success in their
chosen calling GHere
we have the striking
example of the presi-
dent of the largest
manufacturing corpora
ton in the world, rising
to this position from one
of the lowest places in
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-12-31
Clearance Sale Of Waistings

French and German Flanneis that sell
for 39c and soc, for ladies' waists and
wrappers, gents shirts and children
dresses. These are Flannsls that shrink
very little. This lot, to close, at 25c
per yard.
Etamine Flannels with French dots, a
new wasting this season. in blue, brown
and white with colored dots, sold for SC.
Now, to close, at 4Oc per yard.
See the above goods in our window.
Cotton Flannel waistings that were
~ lac, now Zoe per yard.
Novelty Flannel Waistiugs, the zoe
grade. They make good wrappers. Now
II lie per yard.
One lot Of loc Dark Outings now 7c
per yard.
One lot Of roc Light Outings now SC
Per yard.
One lot of loc Cotton Wasting. now
2 lie per yard.