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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-11-08
ON THE RANGE,
Fat Sheep and Good Prices Reward
the Grower.

Fat Sheep and Good Prices Reward
the Grower.
Nature has been in beneficent mood
over the whole range country this year.
Never before has there been such a
wealth of feed. Both cattle and sheep
have been marketed fat, and financial
results have exceeded all expectation.
Recently a drove of native bred
Wyoming Hereford steers, approximate
Ing an average of 1,400 pounds, sold at
$3.50 per hundredw weight. This merely
suggests what the range country can
do.
OF course Wyoming cattle to make
$3.50 are not scrub bred, neither can
they be subjected to vicisSitude from
calfhood. On the other hand, it is not
necessary to winter feed to secure SINH
lar results. Good winter pasture will
suffice There is no practical difference
between a winter pasture with plenty
Of grass and a haystack.
Having produced better article than
is enjoying just reward. He has sent
no trash to the shambles this year.
Quality Of the 1906 lamb crop has been
superb, and abundance of grass has
sent an unusually large proportion d.
rect to the killer At this juncture the
western sheep grower Is several laps
ahead Of the cattleman in the race to-
ward the perfection stage. That the
cattleman has equal opportunity is
amply demonstrated when by adopting
the same tactics as the sheep grower
he has put his product in the same cate
CORY as natives. Both grass and hay
fed beef is able to hold it's own in the
stockyards when it carries the neces-
sary quality, says Breeders Gazette,
Chicago.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-11-08
A Kamr Story.

This Kaffir story is true: A Christian
Zulu-Kaffir was heard recounting to an
other Kaffir vision Of heaven of which
he had had dream. "And saw you
any Kaffirs there?' inquired his listen
err. The teller of the story pondered
awhile, and then NO." said he, "for
l did not look into the kitchen"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-11-08
wv z ak


Weak Kidneys surely point to weak kidney
Nerves. The Kidneys. like the Heart and the
Stomach find their weakness not i'm the organ
itself but in the nerves that control and guide
and strengthen them. DR. Shops Restorative is
medicine specifically prepared to reach these
controlling nerves. To doctor the Kidneys alone,
is futile. 1t is waste of time. and of money as
we'll.
If your back aches or is weak, if the urine
scalds. oris dark and strong if you have symptoms
OF Brights or other distressing or dangerous kid
ney disease, try Dr. Shops Restorative month
Tablets or Liquid-and see what it can and will
do for you. Druggist recommend and sell
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-11-08
prnnitfnnS

An English daily had the following
advertisement: ''Wanted-A gentleman
to undertake the sale of a patent med
icine. The advertiser guarantees it
will be profitable to the undertaken
Christian Register
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-11-08

When you want anything in the
line of JOB printing The Times can
supply your wants in frst-class
shape.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-11-08
A Card

We, the undersigned, 90 hereby
agree to refund TIE money on "a 80
cent bottle Of Green s Warranted
Syrup OF Tar if it fails to cure your
cough or cold. We also guarantee
a 25-cpnt bottle to prove satisfact-
Dry or money refunded. Fox Bros,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-11-08
The Silver Lining.

Mrs. Suburbs (after the crash)-There
is another of my china dishes gone!
Suburbs-Never mind, dear; it has stop
ped the cooks singing.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-11-08

AT one time during the life of John
Bright there were no fewer than seven
members of his family with seats In
the house of commons
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-11-08
The Correct Explanation.

Eyes" said Dudley, the actor, 81 had
splendid part in the show, but Ter
took sick and''-
"Ah," Interrupted Wiseman, you
mean you didn't take wellr'-Philadel-
phia Ledger
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-11-08

Patience is the strongest of stron g
drinks, for it kills the giant Despair
Jerrold.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18

entered there is no room for a mys-
FERROUS white race Even the dark
continent is no longer allowed to have
its mysteries. The photographer sits
on the battered walls of Kano, the
Fulani emperors have passed away.
One may no longer believe in the
existence of strange white people in
the heart of equatorial Africa. Rider
Haggard's splendid race are probably
only the Bahima, originally discovered
by Spoke in southwestern Uganda. At
least, Sir Harry Johnston claims to
have discovered in them the clew to
many of the mysterious white race
legends found in the dark continent.
He was engaged in nothing more
thrilling than a tour of inspection to
Ankole when he came across them.
They are of very light complexion
and are the "aristocrats" of this
region. Sir Harry Johnston says they
are obviously descended from a
Gala, Somali or other Hamitic stock"
and adds that some of them are more
like Egyptians than is the case with
CALAIS and Somalis. Romance disap-
pears before the trend of the explorer.
The dark continent is dark no more.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18
AND vALEciCTOR-
JAMS,

New Bedford Standard.-Ralph
Rose, once the star athlete of the
University of Michigan, was lately
found concealed ia a freight car in
the vicinity of Chicago and was
locked up as a vagrant. 1t was about
time something like this happened,
though sorrow and sympathy must
be felt for poor Rose. But for these
many years the public has been so
persistently told of the college vale
dictorian who subsidized to be driver
of horse carve believe he has
never appeared as a motormans-that
fairness demanded that the athletic
prize winner should have his turn as
an awful example. First and last,
there has been no end of solemn as
surance that while book learning
might or might not assure victory in
the battle of life, no manner of doubt
could be entertained of the sufficiency
of athletic prowess. We suspect
that some boys arc allured by visions
of the soft snap which is going to
open its arms the day after graiua-
ton day for the doughty halfback
or the sinewy stroke oar, because the
magazine stories where they do not
reward him with the sudden favor of
the hitherto unattainable fair usual
ly represent him as we'll on the way
toward railroad presidency. But
as his bookish fellow finds that some
thing more than the book is neces
sary to success, so he finds that
something more than Drawn is essen
tial The better way would be to
combine the two as we'll as possible,
and the case of Rose indicates that
moral strength and character are
necessary as the cement.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18
Wall Street Honesty.

John Alexander Dowie, before he
set out for his Mexican colony, talked
about Wall street honesty. In conclu.
sion he said:
Yes, my friend, the honesty of
these financiers reminds me of that
of the tramp who found a purse.
Two uamps entered a railroad
station to get a drink of ice water,
and one of them, seeing richly
dressed woman drop her pocketbook,
picked it up and returned 1t to her.
His companion was earaged and
shocked.
Don't YOU know better" he cried.
than to give back a purse like that?
Why didn't you keep it for yourself,
you dolt?'
All, john said the other, honesty
is the best policy when a policeman is
lookin, and, besides, there was moth
in in the purse"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18
THE DARWIN THEORY.

Miss Agnes Mahoney, missionary
to Liberia, was visiting Philadelphia
with two African slave girls that she
had bought for SIS apiece.
Miss Mahoney's pictures of Liberia
were comber. They were pictures of
savage physicians operating on saw
age patients with pieces of broken
glass. of men content and happy If
their wives provided them with
enough rice to support life on, of a
climate so humid that a few months
residence there impaired the white
mans health.
She relieved the gloom of her mar.
iative with description of a pilot
This man was character--a shell.
back like those whom w. w. Jacobs
describes in his sea stories.
"The pilot" said Miss Mahoney.
was bringing ship northwards.
The captain, towards sunset, babe
him go below and help himself to a
glass of cold tea.
After taking the tea, the pilot
proceeded to munich a biscuit.
Now the captain owned largo
monkey, and this creature sat drows
ing in corner. The pilot said:
A gusty day, sir and the mon
key shrugged its shoulders.
Tine pilot with affable gruffness
went on:
The south light is away on the
port bow, now, SIR
There was no answer.
''But the pilot was persistent. He
continued:
Wen be over the bar, sir, in an
hour
Failing to get a reply even to this
pleasant information, the pilot went
on deck again, and, taking his place
beside the captain on the bridge.
said:
What a quiet chap your father
is"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18
WILL MAN DIE or THIRST?
The Earth Growing to be Desert
The End Still a Great Way Off.


The End Still Great Way Off.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.-Sc are
able to point out various tendencies
and movements on the part of the
planet earth and it's people which may
result in the destruction of human life
by overcrowding, starvation, cold,
heat or thirst. For centuries biblical
students, starting from the promise
of Noah that mankind would not
again be swept away -hy a food, de-
rived from other texts the opinion
that the "end of the world" would be
by fire. The largest collection of
facts bearing on the point is probably
in the works of Prince Kropotkin,
and relate to the Russian empire and
some of it's Asiatic neighbors.
Explorations in Central Asia have
shown beyond question that vast
areas now desert were once fertile.
Lakes and rivers which within his
toric times were important factors in
commerce have disappeared or are
disappearing. The Siberian lakes
have shrunk since the eighteenth cen
fury. Novgorod, the great market
town of the Volga region, owed it's
early importance to its protection
from Mongol raids By vast marshes,
which have gone dry without any
large effort to drain them
In Africa, Lake Tchad, which loom
ed so large in the tales of early ex-
plorers, is now a half-dried water
bed. Lake Chiroua, to the southwest
of Nyassa, has gone from the map.
Lake Ngami, discovered by Living
stone, and then navigable, has ceased
to exist. And in Australia, Lake
Eyre to mention only the largest
body, has greatly lost in size in fifty
years. In Europe no such great
change can be noted, although Spain
is certainly drier than it used to be.
In America no such startling
changes are recorded, though it is
manifest that such rivers as the Ohio
now flow less regularly, if not less
copiously, owing to the destruction of
forest about their head waters. And
here is the practical point of such col
lections of data as Mr. Whitby and
others have made on this subject. To
speculate upon the ultimate end on
earth of the human race, and whether
it is destined to die of thirst, is to
reach so far into future that no con-
cluson can be drawn. But it Is per-
fectly plain that If this and other ma
tons wish to avoid the inconveni-
ences of an irregular. and probably
diminishing, water supply, they must
take care of their forests.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18
Giving Tips to the Band.

Paw Paw, Kan, Bazoo.-We went
over to hear the band boys practice at
close range and We think that some
day they will be expert tootists. But
a musical critic would probably find
flaws in their playing, it being only
their third rehearsal In the first
place he would likely call for a lesser
grunt from Bilge Pitkin on the big
horn, who certainly blows like Sam
Hill so far as noise is concerned.
Then Phil Henderson, ought to back
pedal on that trombone, the critic
would no doubt say, for he really Jams
1t too hard down his throat. The bass
drum is fine and Slim Hart sure does
thump it with braggadocio. A kind
word would be said, too, for Fred
Bailey, who tweedles the fife in great
shape most of the time. The comets
take the cake. There being four of
them, at least two get there Ely on
the right key in every place.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18
Office Boy-Boo-oo, hoo-oo-oo,
AN ASPHALT LAKE.

There are blue lakes and silver
lakes but an asphalt lake is the best
of all'' said contractor.
Il visited the famous asphalt lake
of Trinidad. 1t looks like a great
black swamp surrounded with a
fringe of cocoanut palms A little
railway runs across it, and men stand
in it working. some on asphalt firm
enough to support them, some on
asphalt in which they keep sinking
down an inch or two a minute, some
on asphalt so soft it is like quick
sand
The stuff looks like a cross be.
tween black mud and pitch. The
lake is 40 acres in size, and its
depth is tremendous. The thick as.
phalt, mixed with water. moves a lit.
tie. aud nov and then an old tree
comes slowly up from the depths
The men work with pickaxes. digging
out the asphalt in Jumps the size of
pumpkins.
An asphalt lake is the rarest ami
most valuable kind to own. woul
rather own one than either Como
or Maggiore, or Geneva, or Lucerne."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18
LITTLE TOMMY AND THANKS
GIVING.

Governor Folk of Missouri was talk
ing about reform.
I'VE all believe in it," he said,
"but we want to see it brought about
at other folks expense. We are like,
too like, a certain Kansas City boy.
This boys mother said to him, on
her return from long days shop
ping in the Thanksgiving season:
NOW l hope my little Tommy mas
taken to heart mammals talk of last
night about charity and selfshness.
Since he has few troubles of his own.
l hope he has thought of Others trou-
bles all day long. Since he has
many causes for thanksgiving him.
self, / hope he has tried to give
causes for thanksgiving to others.
What is my Tommy's report for the
day? How many acts of kindness
has he done? How much woe has he
lightened? How many hearts has
my Tommy made grateful and glad?
I'm this rather mushy way spoke
the good young mother. And her
Tommy replied:
I've done a whole lot of good,
ma. gave your new hat to a beg
gar woman; and / gave the cooks
shoes to little girl in busted rub
bers what ] seen. on the street, and
l gave a poor lame shoestring seller
pas black evening suit-the open
front one that he hardly ever
wears
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18
Accidents and Calamities.

In Monte Carlo" said New York
musician, Il had the honor last winter
to meet Calve.
"Calve was playing 'Carrlen.' She
talked to me of Prosper Merimee. who
wrote the story of Carmen She
knew many anecdotes OF Merimee
once she said. he was conyersng
with the young prince imperial.
What is the difference between
an accident and calamity? the
prince imperial asked.
Just then the lads cousin and IL
val, Prince Napoleon, appeared: and
Merimee, smiling, said:
If your cousin fell into the Seine.
Il would be an accident; IL anybody
pulled him out, it would be calar1-
fly"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18
THE PARROT SPEAKS.

Oh, Mistress Sue,
Warm and fat,
So stylish in your
Feathered hat,
wonder if you've
Ever heard 4
IT'S not fine feathers
Make the bird!
And while we're chatting
Gayly here,
That neither can the
Finest fur
Make pretty lassie
Out of her
Unless her heart is
Good and true
But that | hope, dear,
IS surely you.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18

the backs of Nilega's kinsmen to her
fathers house-and made gifts.
The blood brothers were taken back
to Attn with many presents. a.
bride and groom started for Rara-
Tonga, where the second ceremony
was performed.
And, at the recital of these things,
Danyersport is astonished, forgetting
witches that were burned
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18

The last of the nineteen classmates
of Bismarck who graduated with him
from the gymnasium in Berlin in the
spring of 1882 has just died in that
city. A simple clergyman, Won Han
stein by name, he gave shortly before
his death an eloquent description of
Bismarck the boy-'happy, buoyant,
able and popular" Sixty-three years
after their graduation the five other
survivors recalled themselves to their
distinguished classmate by round
robin headed by Won Hanstein which
reached Bismarck on his birthday,
April l, and received telegraphic
acknowledgment before all the other
messages which poured in on him.
Curiously enough, Won Hanstein by
common consent was made custodian
Of the longer reply which Bismarck
sent, as if with knowledge that he
would survive the others and Bis
marck too.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

Princess Ena of Battenberg, who is
reported to be engaged to the king of
Spain, is the only royal child born
in Scotland for more than 800 years
that is, since the birth of Charles in
1900.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18

Don Felipe Pardo, the new minister
from Peru, is a brother of the presi-
dent of that country and his appoint
ment is taken as an indication of the
necessity of having at Washington an
able representative.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18

Carlton j. Balfour, a blind Kansas
City youth of 20, is a musical com
poser of ability, some of his work
having been published. Usually blind
persons learn music by ear, but young
Balfour has his sister read (not play
the notes for him. He is able to re-
tain the combination a long time in
his mind. He lost his sight through
an accident at the age of years.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18

A. E. Johnson of New York, who has
been created a knight of the Royal
Order of the Dannebrog by the king
of Denmark, is the owner of two
Swedish newspapers in the United
States-the Nordstjernan of Phila-
delphia and the Hemla ndet of this
city He also enjoys the distinction
of being knight of the Swedish Order
of Wasa.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18

| Then, for the first time in all his
| life in those islands, The American
sailor learned that a man without rel
atives could not hope to marry one OF
the native girls. He was told that it
was the custom for the relatives of
the groom to lie down fiat on their
stomachs on the ground forming a
human roadway over which the bride
must walk from her fathers house to
the house o. her husband.
following day, the groom must walk
from his house to the house OF his
father-in-law over the backs of all his
relatives.
For the first time in his life Edging
field realized the value of a family
He wanted relatives worse than he
ever had wanted them since his first
homesick days aboard the Hyperion.
He declared the idea was all non
sense, but he soon saw that it was
not. The old chief ragged. He de-
clarej that death and calamity would
follow the marriage if the feet of the
bride touched the ground between her
own home and the home of her future
husband.
The girl herself, trembling with
fear, hesitated between daring every
thing for the sake of the man she
loved or giving him up.
That night Edgingfield met the girl
down by his little trading station,
and when he kissed her good night,
after the good old Davenport way of
kissing, he told her that he would ar
range matters.
At daylight his little schooner
Neota, set sail. and before two days
had passed he was on the island of
Atiu.
He had an idea--and he was willing
TO try 1t. First, he went to Wakekuga,
the chief and bowed down, with pres
ents of cloths and knives-and even
gun, with ammunition. And the chief
was sore afraid to see the big white
man, who had several times laughed
at him, bowling down for he feared
treachery.
Then Edgingfield gave more gifts
and made a proposition. He proposed
to Wakekuga that he be taken in as
blood brother of a dozen families. He
explained that he wanted the greatest
family in all the world. He wanted
brothers, and he knew of no others
whom he would like so well as broth
ers as the friends and tribesmen of
Wakekuga. Then he unrolled several
more bolth of cloth, and presented
some more knives-and he promised
all his brothers a pleasure trip on his
schooner.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18
BABBLE OF BABES.

Mama. But. dear, the good book
tells US to love our neighbors as our
selves.
Little Ethel-Yes, mama; but peo-
pie didn't live in flats then.
Teacher-Johnny, can you tell me
what hypocrite is?
Johnny-Yes, ma'am. It's boy
what comes to school with smile on
his face.
Office Boy-Boo-oo! hoo-oo-oo!
The Boss-What's the matter, jim
ME?
Office Boy-My g-grandma's d-dead.
The Boswell, don't cry. We've
all got to die some time.
Office Boy-B-but she's g-goin' to
be blurred on h-holiday Boo
hoo-oo!
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18
MANY FABLES OF.
White TRIBES
MYSTERIOUS RACES HEARD OF
IN REMOTE TRoPIc REGIONS.
ANCIENT MYTHS EXPLORED

Arabia, Mindanao and Dark Contin-
ent Credited With Such Beings
Explorations Show, However, That
They Are Creatures of Romance
No More Darkness in Continent.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-18

So the next day Edgingfeld became
a Malay. He became the brother of
12S men of Atiu The ceremony took
place in front of the chiefs house,
and all day Edgingfield stood there,
bare to the waist, while the doctors
cut his arms and his breast and his
shoulders, that he might exchange
blood with each of his new brothers.
That night there was great feast
and Edgingfield supplied young pigs
and goats meat and wine for his new
brothers and was received into the
councils of the tribe.
He was anxious TO be away--to be
back on his way to Mitiero and Mega,
so, at daybreak. his schooner weighed
anchor, and on board were Edging-
field, whose name among his brothers
was HilSilllara, and his 1913 brothers
of the blood, 1t matters not that the
12S brothers We're all drunk or that
they left an island full of hilariously
intoxicated relatives. They were on
their way to attend the nuptials of
their new white brother And, at day.
break on the second day, they came
to the shore where dwelt Nilega-and
Edgingfield marched his brothers. four
by four, up to Moggogu, and intro
duced them to the chief as his broth
ers.
So 1t was arranged that the wedding
was TO take place at noon.
heaven. Nilega, looking from the door
of her nipa house, saw a line of yell
low bodies cleaning in the sunlight
and stretching away toward the trad
er's hut near the sht land she UNI
derstood that they We're the brothers
of her white husband.
So she stepped forward and planted
one perfect bronzed foot upon the
back of the nearest brother and
walked toward the man who was to
be her lord ami master across the
backs of his blood brothers.
1t happened that the distance from
her house to the hut by thu Neach
where Edgingfel6 was waiting was
over half a mile. so. when one brother
had been stepped upon. he arose from
the ground and, running along the
line, he laid him down at the end. and
the next followed, and the next, and
the next
And so Nilega walked from back to
back her beautiful feet never touch
ing the ground until at the end. Jed
Etgingheld stood in the door of the
hut by the shore and, as she stepped
towards him, he clasped her in his
arms and his 1sS brothers chanted his
| praises.
That night Edgingfeld and his
bronze bride sat an looked at the fun
moon rising over the ocean and plan.
! ned their honeymoon and. the next
day, Edgingfield walked bravely over