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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31
USES FOR CHICKEN FEATHERS
What Becomes of Those from Ducks,
Geese and Turkeys.

One turkey supplies more different
grades of feathers than seasons re-
ceipts OF turkeys show different
grades of turkeys, and although five
cents pound covers the range of
difference in value of the toughest
old tom turkeys and the plumpest
young hen, the feathers sell at five
cents a pound for the body feathers
up to 40 cents a pound for the fine
tail feathers.
Local poultry men sort six to eight
grades of turkey feathers and the
buyers make even more assortments,
the feathers being used for as many
different purposes. The small body
feathers, which are used for pillows
and feather beds, are worth ABOUT
five cents a pound for common mixed
White feathers are worth more, ac
cording to grade bringing generally
about three times the price paid for
mixed feathers.
The fine tail feathers used for dust
ers are kept separate end sell for
about 40 cents pound and the skirt"
feathers are worth nearIy as much
The wing and point feathers are
also carefully saved and sold to manu-
facturers of featherbOne and other
substitutes for whalebone, and the
larger ones find their way to millin-
ers, after being made over, cleaned
and dyed. Some Of the small feath-
ers are made up into artificial bird
breasts and tails that adOrn countless
bonnets. They may cause the bonnet
owners twinge of conscience for
wearing such a beautiful bird when.
ia reality, they are wearing bunch
of cleverly arranged chicken or tur.
key feathers.
Duck feathers are worth about 35
cents a pound and goose feathers
range from 60 cents pound for white
to 50 cents for mixed. Dealers say
the principal reason that goose feath
ers are worth more than the finest
turkey and chicken feathers is that,
aside from being fiuffier, there is an
absence of odor to them that car not
be overcome entireiy in chicken and
turkey feathers. The reason that
white chicken and turkey feathers
are worth more than mixed, however,
is that they are available for mixing
with the better grades for pillows.
Most of the chicken feathers go in
the five to ten cents pound class, to
be used for cheap feather beds and
pillows, the white feathers being saw
ed separate and bringing good prem
ium over the mixed grades. Fine
tail and wing feathers are saved sep
arate, selling as high as 40 cents.
Feathers shipped from this market
are packed in bales of 200 pounds or
in six foot sacks. The tail and wing
feathers are usually packed in boxes
and sometimes tied in neat bundles.
Five chickens will give a pound of
feathers, and with Indianapolis firms
killing two or three thousand chick
ems day for home consumption and
shipment this market has nearly two
tons of feathers a week to sell. A
weeks output can be packed in twen-
ty bales, 4X5X3 feet each, but if the
feathers were left loose they would
fill house.
A single carload Of feathers shipped
to Cincinnati yesterday contained
about six tons They cost the shipper
more than $1,000. Cincinnati and Chi
cago are good buyers of all grades
Of feathers, most Of the local ship
ments going to those cities-From
the indianapolis News
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31
The Richest Man in the World


The richest man in the world can
not have his kidneys replaced nor
live without them, so it is impor-
tant not to neglecti these sorgans
Ii Foley's Kidney Cure is taken at
tie first sign Of danger, these symp-
toms will disappear and yourihealth
will be restored, as it strengthens
and builds up these organs asxnoth-
ing else will. Oscar Bowman,saaLe-
banon, KY, writes: Il have used
Foley's Kidney Cure and take great
pleasure in stating it cured me per-
manently of kidney disease, (Which
certainly would have Rcost me my
life" @. w. Frost.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31
Grain Shields"

In some form or other the umbrella
was in use many centuries before the
Christian Era. We see it depicted in
the paintings and sculptures OF Egypt.
In China and Japan the umbrella has
been in existence as far back as his
tory can trace, and the full war at
tire of Japanese soldier included not
only fan, but very large parasol.
At the beginning OF the seventeenth
century umbrellas were introduced in
Ii England as a fashionable fad. In
those days they were made OF feath-
ers in imitation of the plumage of
water birds. Later, oiled silk be-
came the ordinary material In the
reign of Queen Anne, as q protection
in wet weather, they became of gen.
eral use amongst women. That the
stronger sex disdained them, although
mems dress was Just as gay and rich
as that Of ladies, is proved beyond
doubt by many writer's Of the period.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31
THE BAShFUL BAcHEIoe

DR.. Newell Dwight Hills, of Brook.
iyn, commenting on the decrease IN
the number of marriage ceremonies he
performed during 1905, as compared
with the record for 1904, attributes
the condition to "the increasing diff
fdence of our young men and their
'ack OF courage to undertake the NAM
tanning of home when they perceive
that wages are not being raised in
proportion to the cost of living. saws
the New York Globe. Half a century
.4go the average young man possessed
a greater degree of self-reliance. he
boldly faced the. problems of exist
ence and preferred to make anv sac
rifices in order to have a home of
his own
Whether the average bachelor il d..
ficient or not in certain kind ot
courage, certain it is the old adaee
man proposes" is subject to more
exceptions than formerly. Elise why
are our clergymen SO strenuously urg-
iEg the young man of the day to get
married? generation ago such ad
monitions were unnecessary. Then il
Tss the fashion rather for our nreach-
ers TO point out the evil of hasty
marriages so often followed by re-
pentance at. leisure.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31
Left 1t to Her.

Ethel" said a clergyman, to one
of his parishioners whom he saw with
heI hair in curling pins, if Nature
had wanted your hair to curl, she
would have curled it for you"
She did, sir, when | was a child y
was the reply, ssbut suppose she
thinks, now, that I am old enough to
do it myself. "-Puck.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31
ONCE A COLONEL ALWAYS ONE

ONCE A COLONEL ALWAYS ONE
A dispatch form Berlin will be read
with interest in Kentucky Georgia
and other parts of the county where
tie colonies predominates. It seems
that a Colonel Gaedke, retired. who had
become military critic of the Taee-
blatt, fell afoul of the War Depart-
ment, which in turn. sought to deprive
him OF his military title. The Colonel.
however, seems to have been worthy
CT both, if readiness to fight for what
he deemed his rights is qualification.
Failing to taunt the court of honor
into prosecuting him he denounced
himself for having violated the decree.
and at a trial just completed has been
trillmp,>s atly acquitted. This means
that in Germany once a colonel al
ways a colonel is good law. no matter
what il may be in military practice.
If Germany, that land OF punctil-
ious militarism, upholds man in
calling himself colonel even when
the whole War Department and tna
Emperor declare he has ceased to
be one, surely our Kentucky and &C.
orgia colonies may be pardoned for
Insisting upon their titular distino.
dnnR
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31

Y The British Medical Journal asserts
that mems necks are longer than they
used to be.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31

Los Angeles has appointed an expert
to report on the feasibility OF munfc-
ipal electric lighting plant.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31
UNFAMILIAR FACTS.

the introduction of automobile speed
contests.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31

Alabaster is called from Alabastron,
a place in Egypt. where is was found
in great abundance.
The first attempt to illustrate news
was made in 1907. It depicted a flood
in Montmouthshire, England.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31
c. ST. P. M. & O. Ry.

PASSENGER TRAINS:
SOUTH NORTH
$3.50 q. m. daily 1926 q. m. daily
II 100 a m. exSunday LAO pm. exSunday
T3:O0 pm. daily 4:30 IN. exSunday
t6:30 y. M. daily 5l5 pm. Sunday only
947 p. N. daily
*COnnect at Ashland Junction with south
bound trains. +Connects at Ashland juno
ton for ST. Paul or Chicago. +Connec6 at
Ashland with Northwestern train for
Chicago.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31

Part of the cargo of the steamship
Korea, which arrived at San Francisco
on July II was $344,500 worth OF
opium.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31

The Florida phosphate beds were
first discovered by the government
biologists about 1884, but nothing was
thought of or done about them until
1889 or 1890
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31

The steamship zealandia arrived at
Seattle from Nome ON July 8, bringing
$1,500,000 in gold dust-Nome's record
shipment
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31

Sir Frederick Treves is authority for
the statement that the use of alcohol
has steadily decreased in the medical
profession during the last rs years.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31

According to the official statement
of the mining bureau of Madagascar
the value of gold produced in that
island during 1904 and exported was
$1,476 900.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31

The London Express gives it's word
that among the latest inventions pat
ented is contrivanve which, fitted to
an ordinary sewing machine, will fan
and massage the operator while she is
working.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31

Pet dogs, in sunbonnets and blue
glass spectacles, are to be seen follow
ing their owners through the streets
of Berlin in hot weather
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31

The Mexican Herald says that CHI
nese proved failure at hard labo
in Mexico. John Chinaman is fox!
enough TO let the other fellow do the
hard work.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31

A lion and a lioness in the zoo at
Frankfort, Germany, roared in terror
and tremblingly crouched in a corner
of their cage because ferret had ac-
cidentally entered it,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31

A concrete chimney completed re-
Gently for Tacoma smelter is 307 feet
in height and is said to be the highest
in the world of it's kind.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31

The authorities of Nordhadsen, Sax
ony, have forbidden the use of the
streets to any person wearing an arti-
Gle of dress that sweeps the pavement.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31

In Manchuria, Siberia and North
China much use is made of Chinese
brick tea, not as beverage, but as q
vegetable, boiled with rice and mutton
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-12-29
WILL BUILD RESORT
Mitchell Butte to be the Site OF
a Nsx Pleasure and Health
Resort.

The following from the Capital News
of Thursday will be interesting reading.
Although we never knew Mr. Bower to
own any interest in the Parma townsits.,
his other statements may be more vera
cious -
N. W. Bower, formerly one of the
owners Of the Parma townsite, who is
stopping at Meridian, was in the city
Yesterday MIR. Bower is great Idaho
booster, and has been in several big
deals which have turned ont profita-
bly,.
He now intends building a costly
health and pleasure resort at Mitchell
Butte, situated ON the Owyhee river, r
miles from Parma. He believes he has
an ideal spot for such resort and in
tends spending SIS 900 in building ho-
tel, bath houses, swimming pool, ETC.
The hot springs there have an enormous
flow of water and their medicinal prop
critics have only to become known to at
tract the attention of the outside work..
The swimming pool is to be 40x60 feet
and all the bath rooms and other ac-
cancellations will he the best The re-
sort will Ire known AS the Grand Central
Hot Springs
A force of men is at at work making
improvements aud although the resort
will not be complete, MIR. Bower states
he will be able to accommodate visitors
early in June
Another feature which will make the
resort popular will be boating down the
river. number of boats have beer
ordered and the river at that place is
deep and very smooth for nearly a mile
Boating for that distance would bt
fine.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-12-29
KEEPING ITUP STILL
Another Hall Million of Acres
Of Idaho Territory PIacsd In
Forest Reserve.

WAsHISeros, Dec. 27.-Assistait
Commissioner Pollock Of the genei
land office today notified the land offic
in the territory directly interested that
for forest reserve purposes 100000 acfes
of land in Idaho and Wyoming. Of viii il
593, 900 acres are situated IL sontheass-
ern Idaho, in Bingham and Bannock
counties, have been Withdrawn from en-
try.
Seven Thousand acres, lying in Wy"-
ming, are in Uinta county. This reserve
includes Plews and Caribou mountains.
II is also announced that us, ,760 acres in
northeastern Oregon, located in Wal
Iowa and Union counties, adjoining
Chesnimusk and Wallowa forest re-
serves. have l'een withdrawn from anv
disposition villa ever, in order to add to
those reserves
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-12-29

the Latin for huckleberry, at any rate, it
can't be spelled in English, or it might
have had reference to the major portion
Of his clothing, which, with hateful per-
sistence remained at the top Of the bush
while he pIowed through it.
He finally scrambled 10 the top OF the
mountain and paused to survey the coun-
try, his tattered garments waving fit
ful signal all the time as the breezes
kissed his bruised and bleeding anato-
my.
Hecould see no deer This astonished
him as he knew it had headed in that
direction and he had kept watch that
it had not turned aside.
He moved cautiously around and fin
ally saw tracks. They were leading to-
ward his house. That looked funny to
him, but the best he could do was to fol-
low the tracks. Strange enough. those
tracks led to just where he had shot at
the deer.
Then he looked up; there. not ten
feet away from him, just sround the
corner Of the barn, lay that deer stone
dead. He had shot il entirely through
the body, the bullet passing through the
heart, with 22-rife at 100 yards dis
tance, and at the first shot. at that.
Taylor didn't get out OF the house foi
a week, and meanwhile, he didn't ever
have night gown to sleep in, the onl,
one he had being distributed in shredi
about the mountain side.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-12-29
ReIi6sous Services.

Special Xmas services at the
Presbyterian Church.
Sunday school at 1870 IA. m.
Preaching at 11:30 a. IN.
Sermon theme: "Wespend our
years as "a tale that is told. -
Psalms.
Evening services-Christian
Endeayor meeting at $50.
Preaching services at 7:30.
Sermon theme: Lessons
from the old year"
Special Xmas songs and An
thems by the Chorus Choir.
Everybody welcome.
S. c. ELDER. Pastor.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-12-29
Long Tennessee Fight.

For twenty yeats W. l.. Rawls,
of Bells, Tenn, fought nasal ca,
tarrh. He writes: 1.-The swell
ing and soreness inside my nose
was fearful, ill | began applying
BucKlens Arnica Salve TO the sore
surface; this caused the soreness
and swelling to disappear, never
to return" Best salve i'm exist
ence. 25c at kirkpatrick Mer-
camille Co. Druggist.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-12-29
TO EQUALIzE
r. r. RATES
Senator heyburnhas introduced
Bill to Amend Interstate Com
msrce Act.

Senator Hepburn has introduced bill
in the senate to amend section four Of
the Interstate Commerce Act under
which railroads are being allowed more
for short than ior i hong haul.
Senator Heybura's hiIfrepresents the
existing controversy between the ship
pers OF the different parts Of the country.
Under the existing law the railroads
may charge "A greater rate to interven-
ing points than Is charged to terminal
points on the ssnie line and under sisni-
lar conditions. This, T course, has re-
suited in concentrating an undue pro
portion oi t.e.busineas ami wealth OF the
country around the seaLvard, aud has
drawn the manufacturing business large
ly from th.. Interior parts -: the country,
where they woui,i in many cslses be 10
Gated, freight advantages being equal.
For instance. railroads now charge 10
Boise, Spokan. and other iiilahd points
the throuyl. rate from points like Chicsi-
20 and st. Louis to Seattle, Tacona AMI
Portland. This is merely AN Instance of
the injustice being practice,i and applies
equally to ali points On I'otn co;lst Of the
/ United States. Oi COURSE this is done
ander the claim that water competition
com peis the railroads To give the coast
points cheaper rates than they would
otherwise do. Senator Hepburn claims
that there is no Justification for this ar
gument.. The present schedules are es-
pecially unjust tn the producing centers
Of the country and deprives them ol
the natural advantage of their loca-
ton.
Senator Hepburn brought this matter
to the attention of congress last spring,
but on account Of his extended illness
was unable to push it to successful is
sue. He has taken it up again and evi
IDENTIFY intends to do his best to have hi.
bill enacted into law. The rate bill set
tied the question of discrimination be
| "a
tween persons in the same place. II
made rebates unlawful and imposed 4
penalty for violation of the act. Blu
the rate bill made no provision agains
discrimination between firm in Bois.
or Spokane and a firm on the coast
This is what Senator Hepburn is trying
to'remedy.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-12-29

Vol. | No. | of the Bull pi5-
neer edited by J. Warren White,
reached our exchange table this
week. 1t is an exceptionally well
edited S-page paper, and its adj
vertising patronage speaks vol
umes for the push and enterprise
nj the citizens of Bull.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-12-29

City Livery & Feed Stable.
Day Line in connection. Haul
ing done TO any part of the coun-
try. Independent phone
Grslnt Hsmd, proprietor.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-04-09
FIREMEN HAVE FINE RACE
Members of Hose Company Mo. Elk
hbit Great Rivalry in Going to
Fire Saturday.

There is great rivalry between the
members of the hose company and the
hook and ladder company, beth sta
toned at the Number 2 Hose House,
and this rivalry came to a head Sat
urday, in responding to an alarm of
fire turned in near the Hoosier Rrill
Works. Both the hook and ladder
company and the hose company were
anxious to reach the blaze first and the
race that ensued was spectacular to
the extreme.
The hose wagon was the first out of
the hose house and the hook and lad
der wagon a close second. Both teams
were driven at top speed and when
the brick pavement on North E street
was reached, the horses were given
the whip. Hundreds of people wit
messed the race and the greatest eX-
element prevailed. The gallant team
of the hook and ladder company, guild
ed by the veteran driver, George Will
son, answered the call made upon
them and came up neck and neck
with the hose wagon team, which was
being urged to top speed by Driver
Rufus Newman.
The hook and ladder team after a
nip and tuck struggle, reached the
scene of the fire first by good
length.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-04-09

and investigating mind, an earnest
seeker after knowledge, and above
all, possessed of a wonderfully sympa-
thetic nature.
In 1s43 she married Isaac Pinkham,
q builder and real estate operator. and
their early married life was marked by
prosperity and happiness. They had
four children, three sons and q
daughter.
In those good old fashioned days it
was common for mothers to make
their own homo medicines from roots
and herbs, natures own remedies
calling in a physician only in specially
urgent cases. BY tradition and ex-
perience many of them gained a won
derful knowledge of the curative prop
critics of the various roots and herbs.
hrs. Pinkham took a great interest
In the study of roots and herbs, their
characteristics and power over disease.
She maintained that just as nature SO
bountifully provides in the harvest
fields and orchards vegetable foods of
all kinds; SO, if we but take the pains
to find them, in the roots and herbs
of the field there are remedies .ex-
pressly designed to cure the various
ills and weaknesses of the body, and
1t was her pleasure to search these out,
and prepare simple and effective medi-
cines for her own family and friends.
Chief of these was a rare combina-
ton of the choicest medicinal roots
and herbs found best adapted for the
cure of the ills and weaknesses pecu-
liar to the female sex, and Lydia E. Pink
hams friends and neighbors learned
that her compound relieved and cured
and it became quite popular among
them.
All this so far was done freely, with.
out money and without price, as a
labor of love.
But in 1873 the financial crisis strucl,
Lynn. Its length and severity were too
much for the large real estate interests
of the Pinkham family, as this class
of business suffered most from
fearful depression, SO when the Centen.
NAL year dawned it found their prop
erty swept away. Some other source
of income had to be found.
At this point Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound was made known
to the world.
The three sons and the daughter,
with their mother. combined forces ia
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-04-09
A BALL OF FIRE.


.
In Paris.
Camille Flammarion in his book
Thunder and Lightning" describes
some Of the phenomena Of electrical
storms. OF the actions Of a ball Of fire
in Paris he says: 1T was in the Rue
st. Jacques, near the Val de Grace The
IRE ball burst into the room from the
chimney, knocking over the paper
guard in front of the fireplace In ap-
pearance it suggested young cat gath.
cred up in a ball, as it were, and NOV.
ing along without using it's paws. 1t
approached the tailor's legs as IL to
play with them. The tailor moved them
away to avoid the contact, of which he
naturally was in terror.
After some seconds the globe Of fire
rose vertically to the height of the
mans face as he sat, and he to save
himself leaned quickly back and fell
over. The fire ball continued to rise
and made its way toward a hole which
had been made at the top of the Chin
the winter, but which, as the tailor put
It afterward, the fire ball couldn't see,'
because 1t was closed up with paper.
''The ball stripped off the paper neat
~, entered the chimney quite quietly
and, having risen to the summit. pro-
duced a tremendous explosion. which
sent the chimney pot flying and scat
tered it in bits all over the neighborins
courtyard and surrounding roofs
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-04-09

They Go a Very Long Way Toward
Making the World Happy.

They Go a Very Long Way Toward
Making the World Happy.
A wild birds song is a little thing
lost in the deeps of n frowning sky.
And yet as it falls on listening ear
and leaves its message of melody
earth's green seems brighter and life
is sweeter all through an autumn day.
The coo of a babe is q little thing
meaningless sound from vacant
mind.
But it's the only sound that all ma
tons heed-the one clear language that
all races know.
A mothers love is little thing-too
soon, alas. forgot!
But it typifies to blind HUMANKIND
the love and trust and hope divine that
bear with patience calm and sweet the
willful wrongs in these lives of ours.
A passing smile is little thing-lost
In n world Of toll and care
And yet the soul with gloom oppress-
ed and the life grown wearied with
burdens hard will happier be in the
afterglow OF a smile that is warmly
kind.
A kindly word is a little thing-a
breath that goes and sound that dies.
But the heart that gives and the
heart that hears may know that it
sings and sings and sings till at last
1t blends with the wild birds song and
the COO Of babes in what men call the
celestial choir.-MilwaukeeJ journal.