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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-10-18
From Isben's Letters,

Many interesting characteristics of
Henry Ibsen are shown in a. recently
published volume of his letters. For
instance. while the dramatist was mis-
erably poor in his early life that cir
cumstance did not reconcile him to
poverty. In later years he establish
ed what in America would be called
press agency. His letters prove that
he often employed his friends in the
capacity of agent, Lorenz Dietrichsen,
as early as 1869, receiving his appeal:
They have applied to me for such in
formation, but do not care to give it
myself, and Mr.. Siebold is, of course,
not sufficiently acquainted with the
facts of the case. You can understand
that the matter is one of considerable
interest to me. Therefore it is that I
come to you, as my old friend. String
some facts together, dear old fellow.
in manner that will suit the Ger
mans. Write as favorably as your
conscience will permit The starving
poet business is no good nowadays;
tell about my pension from the gov
erment and the storthing. Tell that
am travelling, and that I am for the
time being In dem grossen Vaterland,
etc.
In a letter to Laura Keller, also
writer, he says: us it your intention
to pursue the career of an author?
For this something else and something
more is required than talent. One
must have something to create from,
some life experience. The author who
has not that does not create; he only
writes books. Now I know very we'll
that life led in solitude is not life
devoid of experiences. The human be-
ing is, however, in the spiritual sense.
a lOngsighted creature; We see most
clearly at a distance; the details con-
fuse; we must get away from what we
desire to judge; one describes summer
best on winters day."
Many Of the letters display the au-
thor's natural pride, this one not deal
ing with poetry at all, but a dishonor-
ed draft: Yesterday, however, Rayn-
kilde received an extremely scOrnful,
insolent, and, to certain extent, mex
plicable Letter from Baetzman, who re-
turned the draft, making use of the
expression: This sort of thing won't
do here'-words one might use if one
caught a swindler in the act of doing
some rascally trick which one could
prevent. But such words must not be
written about me. The man who
said them to me I would kill on the
spot"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-10-18
THE CURVED BALL.
kt In the Atmosphere Which Causes
It's Eccentric Shoots. -


Its Eccentric Shoots.
Most any ten-year-old youngster can
curve ball, even though he does not
know why he caa do so except that
the leather must be held in certain
way. Possibly half dozen of the
major league twirlers know something
about the science of the curve, but
comparatively few understand why
they can produce their blenders" The
Scientific American gives the follow
ing as the scientific explanation of the
matter.
''The pitcher in the field tells us that
the ball curves because he gives it a
twist, but scientifically this will not Go.
Why will the twist make the curve:
If d ball were thrown in certain Gil
rection ard if the force of gravitation
were not at work the ball would con
tinue on in a straight line forever,
work when a ball is made to deviate in
q curve from it's straight course If q
feather is dropped in vacuum in an
exhausted receiver of an air pump il
will drop like shot, but if it is drop
ped out in the air it will go down ir.
regularly and slowly. shifting from
side to side
at is the atmosphere which causes
the ball to curve. Bearing in mind
that the atmosphere is a cOmpressible,
elastic gas, we find that when the ball
leaves the hand of the pitcher with 2
rapid rotary motion it 'impinges upor
a continuous elastic cushion ami
this moderate resistance, or friction,
changes it's course in the direction
which is given to the rotary motion.
Take an outshoOt of right handed
pitcher, for instance. He impreSseS
upon the ball a rapid centrifugal ro-
tary motion to the left, and the ball
goes to the left because the atmosphere
compressible and elastic. is packed into
an elastic cushion just ahead OF thr
ball by the swift forward and rotary
motion. and the friction. Which is very
great in front of the ball steers it i!
the direction which it is turIIiDg."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-10-18
Perpetual Motion Cradle.

1t hangs on a hook with a spring,
like canary's cage. You give it a
little start and 1t continues to bob
up and down for some time. This ar
rangement keeps the baby satisfied,
while the mother may go about her
housework or receive visitors. The
Babies, say the doctors, are not to be
soothed by such artificial methods as
cradles and sugar plums or rubber
rings. These things are really nerve
destroyers. Opposing mothers then
want to know how 1t Is that SO many
apparently healthy people have been
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-10-18
How Disraeli Descended.

Here is q story of Disrael, the az
thority quoted for it in the diary OF
Sir NJ. E. Grant Duff being Sir Thomas
Sanderson:
A famous diplomatist once went to
see Lord Beaconsfield, conversed with
him and found him very agreea bic
Soon after the waiter who had shown
him up came and asked him for q
present.
But why?"
Don't you rememberT' was the an.
swer. 81 showed you up to Lord Bea.
consfield"
-tWhat Of that?" said the other.
ooh, sir, after you had gone he did
swear at me uncommoa fec falling you
De was at home"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-10-18
TEACHING sPARRows TO SING.
Bird Raised With Canaries Learned
to Initiate Them.


A series of interesting experiments
in which English sparrows have been
taught to sing sweetly is recorded by
Dr.. Conrad. The aim of the expert
menter has been to determine what
are the conditions under which birds
learn and cling to their traditional
notes. For this purpose; says tho
American Journal of Psychology, he
has taken very young birds of nonmu-
steal species and kept them entirely
with songsters, to determine whether
they would thus acquire the musical
notes.
In July. 1893, he put four fledgling
English sparrows into the nest OF
pair of singing canaries. Three OF
them died. but the fourth survived
This one had already acquired SPAR
row chirp: but hearing thenceforth
only the notes of the canary, he went
no further with the language which
was his birthright. Instead he came
gradually when among the canaries,
to give notes different from sparrow
talk. Even when he was silent, if the
canaries were singing he could be seen
moving his throat, as if he were try
ing to form the sounds, much as per-
son often inaudibly follows a song
which another Is singing. At last
these sounds began to be audible, and
increasingly so. He began to give
notes in rapid succession, three or four
tones up the scale, and then repeating
the top note five or six times.
Growing holder with practice and
the sound of his own voice, he soon
INDUCED three or four times in success.
sion, with eight to twelve notes in
each; and in the last days of Septem-
Der, when three months old, he went
up and down and down and Up the
scale, all in one run.
All this while lis voice had been
changing. At first it was harsh, as is
! natural with English sparrows; but
gradually, with the effort or with the
subcOnscious influence of the sweeter
sounds about him, it became softer
and acquired something of the canary
quality
tried the top notes vainly; but, as his
voice became milder he went higher
more easily. He was three months old
| when, growing bold, he essayed his
first trill. 1t was short but musical,
| and he evidently liked it, for he re-
peated it and continued steadily to
practise it. 1t was done modestly.
and after each trill he sat still and ap-
peared to be listening year later,
however, when the report was being
written by the. experimenter, he had
grown to be quite an adept in canary
song, and would trill and sing cont1n-
! ually punctuating his song with COM
| plete circles and semi-circles on his
! perch.
To try the effect of association upon
him, DR.. Conrad removed him for a
time, in his first year, from the can
aries, and put him where he heard on
ly sparrow chatter. Gradually he
ceased to sing and began to return to
the neglected sparrow tongue, out
when he was again hung with the ca
naries he regained all he had lost in
less than a month.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-10-18

Gold is On exhibition in the mining
department, Melbourne, Australia,
found in the New Chum mine, Ben
digo, at a depth Of 1920 feet, the
record depth of gold discovery
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-10-18

One moderate drinker is worth more
TO the devil than dozen drunkards.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-10-18

rocked in cradles, brought up on
rubber nipples fastened to corks and
Jumps of sugar carelessly tied in a
piece of unsterilized cloth. They
want to know If the antiseptic baby
is any better than the old-fashioned
kind. But these old-fashioned folks
will no doubt welcome the new ca
nary cradles picture of which shows
at a glance it's great simplicity and
like a bird cage, it is handy to take
on journey.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-17
MAY EXCHANGE DREDGERs.

The Hawaiian Dredging Company is
negotiating with Captain Conner, the
superintendent of the San Francisco
Bridge Company, with a view to eff
fecting an arrangement whereby the
suction dredger Pacific can be secured
for use at Kahului. The idea of the
local company is to substitute the sue
ton dredger Pearl for the Pacific, in
order that the Pacific can go to Kahu-
lui to perform a contract that the Ha-
waian concern has secured from Alex
ander & Baldwin to dredge the harbor
at the Maui port. If the dredger Pa
cific go to Kahului the expense of in
surance and other trouble would be
saved to the local concern. Nothing
definite has been arranged, however in
the matter.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-17
SEVEN OF THE
PRISONERS LEFT
THE PATRIOTS AND MARTYRS OF
1895 WILL CELEBRATE THEIR
MARTYRDOM.

Purely by inadvertence, two of the
most desperate of the prisoners of 1895
were overlooked in the list published
Monday of those who will celebrate
their imprisonment at dinner Thursday.
These are C. w. Ashford and Manuel
REFS who, loaded with chains, spent
dreary days and sleepless nights on
the reef on account of participation,
real or fancied in the attempt to restore
the monarchy eleven years ago. Ash
ford, as all students of history know,
was afterwards assisted by the point
of a bayonet to go away from Hawaii
for several years, but good man will
not down and here he is again as lively
as ever. Thus there will be seven at
dinner at the Grill | Thursday, the two
above mentioned, f. Harrison G. Ly-
cusgus, F. H. Redward, r. Rawlins and
w. f. Reynolds. In order to lend zest
to the occasion it is understood that
the ex-jailbirds have arranged to have
hollow groans, as though from a tor
ture chamber, emitted throughout the
feast, a boy will rattle manacles at
stated intervals and a death knell will
be tolled on a deep voiced bell all the
evening The festive seven will appear
in ordinary clothes and will not wear
prison garb.
The dinner has been postponed until
Thursday evening.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-17

COLLECTION PROMPTLY AC-
COUNTED FOR.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-17
FOR GIRL TENNIS PLAYERS.

Judge H. e. Cooper has offered a sill
yer cup for tennis competition among
the girl students at Oahu College. The
only conditions imposed are that the
competitions shall be under school aus
pieces and that there shall not be less
than ten entries. AS soon as the tour
naments in singles ad doubles, which
are now already arranged for, are run
off, the tournament for the Cooper Cur
will begin. The winner of this tourna-
ment will secure the cup.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-17
THREE FORECLOSURES.

Three fore closure suits were decided
yesterday in favor of w. o. Smith and
others, by Judge Lindsay. The de-
PENDANTS in two of the cases are Mary
]. Montana and A. A. Montana. In
the other case they are Sarah K. Dun
can, r. NJ. Duncan, Bathsheba NJ. AL
len, Mark P. Robinson, j. O. Carter
and Paul Muhlendorf.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-17
YOUTHFUL GAMBLERS.

The new probation law in the case of
youthful offenders was put into eXecu-
ton yesterday by Judge Whitney. j.
Arong, Alfred Freitas and Manuel I'll
shero and Solomon Parker were given
a year in the reform school for gam
bling but were released for an eight
weeks probation period, If they be-
have they will not be sent to the
school.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-17
COUNTY FRUITS.

The criminal statistics of Kau dis
trict forwarded by Judge Waipulani
for the year just ended, show only Al
criminal cases during the entire year.
In a note to Henry Smith the judge
says this is not due to good behavior
but is the fruits of the county sys-
ton. ~
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-17
DO OR DIE

When your heart fails, you die. 1t is
failing when your breath is short after
exercise, If you have dizzy spells, ire
gular pulse, fainting spells, pains in
chest, etc. Don't Neglect these symp-
toms, they develop very fast. Giveyour
heart lrishment and strength with
Mr.. Miles New Heart Cure, and save
complication If first bottle fails to
benefit, money back.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-17

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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-17

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raveIlers' Credits issued. Bills OF En-
change Bought and Sold.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-17
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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-17
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-19
ENTERTAINM ENTS.
Hyperion Theater.

Camille dArville in stanislaus stange and Julian Edwards newest opera will be the piece de resistance at the Hy- perion November 2S and 24. The title of the comedy is 'The Belle of London Town" As the name implies, it is one of the old school English plays The locale of the piece is London in the year 1700
 The story hinges upon the misunder- standing of Sir John Manners and his beautiful and spirited wife, Lady Be- linda. The latter role is enacted by Miss d'Arville.
 The dialogue is positively brilliant and full of good natured satire. and the music tuneful, meIodious and catchy, without being frivolous. Some of the more popular numbers are: "The Light That Lies in Woman's Eyes" T Pray You Believe" "Echo Speaks the Truth y "If the Truth by All Were Spoken, '' "A Lady of Society" My Anger is Pretended," "When Fortune Smiles, ; Drink With Me, Sweet Love Mine, " "One Smile from Theey y'' 'fThe Old. Old Story"
 In the supporting cast are Carl Stahl, Frank Darlington, Orville liar old, Hal Pearson, Arthur D. Wood, Her man steinman, Edmund Stanley, Joseph Frohoff, Ruth Peebles, Belle Thorne, T4ilda Collins, Kathleen Clifford, Will liam Rothhecker, and Hortense Mazu- rette.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-19

It's wealth of romance and comedy, opens this afternoon at the Bi1ou thea- ter. The piece, as it will be presented by the stock company, will doubtless be the best performance of this play ever , offered in this city at popular prices.
 Lawrence B. McGill in staging the piece has gone to large expense. The costumes used were particularly en- gagged and are extremely elaborate. The romance of western play Is large- ly due to the picturesque costuming of the characters. In this play there is every opportunity to use this pictur- esqueness to it's fullest extent.
 The leather riding brooches of the cowboys, their wide brimmed hats, ! jinging spurs and six-shooters give a devil-may care atmosphere to the play tha of itself lends a certain fascinating enchantment to it,
 The character of Mrs. Weston, played by Maxine Elliott in the long run of | the play at the Knickerbocker in New York, is to be played by Miss Gertrude Shlpman. Mir. McGill will be seen as the halfbreed Indian. Tn this role he has excellent opportunity for a full dis play of his powers as character ar tist, and his interpretation of the char acter will be one of the features of the production.
 The company is excellently cast and the production should be one of the best drawing cards of the season. The usual souvenir matinees will be given on Friday and Saturday.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-19

The people of the East Pearl Street M. E. church had the pleasure yester- day morning of listening to Frederick Thomas on An Up-to-Date Evangel- ism" MT. Thomas, who Is a successful business man of Denver, is a layman who has engaged In successful evangel- ical work. He landed in New York city Saturday evening from a trip to England, where he has carefully stud jed the great work of the American evangelists, Torrey and Alexander, and also of Evan Roberts and the Welsh revival. It was largely through the in- strumentality of Mir. Thomas that Gyp- sy Smith was brought to this country. MT. Thomas delivered very interest ing address yesterday morning. There was a very large attendance yesterday afternoon at the funeral of Wiggo Brandt, held at the residence of 1 his parents, MT. and Mrs. John Brandt, 1S2 Lombard street. Mr. Brandt was the victim of an auto accident in Gen. tral park, New York, on Thursday. The funeral was conducted by Rev. MT. Sie- Der, of the Enlish Lutheran church, and H. w. Crawford had charge of the
 burial in Fair Haven cemetery. The Swedish Singing society was present in body and sang several hymns, and
 members of other societies to which the deceased belonged attended Mir. Brandt, who resided here until about year ago, had many friends, who regret his sudden death.
 The gospel meeting of the w. c. T. U.
 was held at it's hall, F Grand avenue, 1 yesterday afternoon. This society will give an oyster supper at it's hall to-
 morrow from to 7:30, and the officers are hoping to have large attendance. The supper is 15 cents and the proceeds are to aid in carrying on the work of the society.
 At the last meeting of the Ladies Aid
 society of the Grand Avenue Congrega- 1 t,onal church it's name was changed to
 the Ladies Social guild There will be meeting of this society on Wednes- day afternoon at2:3O in the church par lors for work, and a business meeting. at 4 o'clock.
 Supper will be served at the Ferry street chapel on Wednesday evening at 6:8O.
 Rev. E. c. Tullar will give stere- opticon lecture on Travels in the Holy Land" at the City mission Wednesday evening.
 Mrs. William Dorman died at her home, 1O9 Front street, Saturday, at the age of thirty years, after weeks ill., ness from pneumonia. She leaves a husband and two children.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-19
BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXION
Lady of Fifty Looks Like Sixteen.

A Nashville lady found way to beautify her complexion without the use of drugs or face creams.
 "Before I began the use of Grape Nuts" she writes, T was convinced I could not live long. I was sick all the time; heart trouble, kidneys seriously affected, eyesight bad, sense of smell was gone and hearing very poor.
 My family thought I had dropsy and could not get well, and only ate Grape Mute because I slept bet ter afterwards-did not dream could be entirely cured, had quit all treat ment and given up hope.
 'tAfter spending large sum of mon ey, and being under the best physi- clans for three years without relief, I commenced eating Grape-Nuts food three times day and now l am in per feet health, fifty years old and my complexion is better than some girls at sixteen.
 never have a headache, nerves are strong, sight so much improved need no glasses, heart and kidneys in perfect condition.
 Your Grape-Nuts alone cured me and I cannot find words to express my thank to the Postum Go. I have told hundreds of people what cured me. It was simple food that I could digest"
 ''Theres a reason" Name given by Postum O., Battle Creek, Mich.
 It sometimes amazes persons what damage has been done by improper eating, not knowing any better way. A change to Grape-Nuts soon tells the story. Read the famous book, "The Road to Wellyille, in pkgs,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-19
CORRUPT PRACTICE ACT.
GEORGE L. FoX,S ACTITE CRU-
 SADIE IN THE MATTER,

Finds COmnecticut's Small Towns Have
 An Excellent RecOrd-That H0man-
 States Dispute-State's Attorney Sub-
 George L. Fox, who is actively en- gagged in seeing that the corrupt prac- tices act is being thoroughly conformed to throughout the state, has found a very gratifying state of affairs to exist, He says:
 Three weeks ago I sent out circulars of inquiry to the town clerks of 16O towns of the state, which held town elections on October 1. My object was to find how well the law requiring all candidates to file election expenses had been compiled with. One hundred and thirty town clerks have replied and the record is most gratifying to every citi- zen of abiding Connecticut. One hundred and thirty towns have reported and no of these have a perfect record, viz, no failures to file statements re- quired. Those towns where there was any serious deficiency can be counted on the fingers of one hand. They are Glastonbury, Norwalk, Brooklyn and Branford.
 When we consider that the number of candidates varied from twenty-eight to seventy-four in different towns 1t must be acknowledged that this record cannot be equalled by any state in the Union. It is much better than that of Massachusetts. where every year there are from 100 to 200 delinquents, and no i prosecutions,
 Last year some papers unjustly said that the town clerks were conspiring to defeat the law On the contrary, this 7 fine record is very largely due to their faithful and painstaklng efforts, and they deserve high praise"
 In New Haven the state attorney has subpoenaed various men In the Third and Fourth wards. This is over the dispute in the contest between Frank l.. Homan and James N States. State Attorney Williams declines to state the grounds for issuing the summonses and refuses to give any reason for the ac- 1 ton.
 1 No one is accused of wrongdoing, but the witnesses are ordered to appear be- fore the state attorney this morning