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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17
A Double Play.

A London urchin ran into baker shop
and, placing halfpenny on the counter,
asked nervously and timorously: sinister,
ave you 'alfpeny buster (bun)?
eyes, my little man; here is one quite
hot"
Thanks, mister, would you mind
ashovin' it down my back?'
"Down your back, my little mani
Why down your backY'
! "'Cos, sir, I'm only a little 'un, and
if those chaps outside know I've buster
they'll take it, and l am so 'ungry, L
am"
Dear me; how wrong of them! Come
around here, my little chap. There
there, it is down your back"
The boy ran off. In an instant another
entered-a bigger boy.
81 say, mister, as little boy just been
in 'ereY'
yes
'.And did 'e buy 'alfpenny buster?'
= yes
"And did e arsk you to shove it down
lis back, as us big fellows would
take it?''
Eyes"
"Yah! Where's your watch and chain :?
Els got 'em; 'e's just around the corner,
Out rushed the baker. In trlce the
big boy collared the till and bolted.
The shOpman never saw the comic
side of it all.-Strand.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17
DoN'Ts FOR CHURcHMEN.

Don't kill hope if you would avoid
moral suicide.
Don't expect to find rest by retreat
ing from duty.
Don't fail to SOW happiness if you
would reap heaven.
Don't make the mistake Of blaming
fate for the fruitage of your fears.
Don't expect to reap reward until
you have earned it.
Don't consider it less your duty to
cultivate joyousness than to seek holt
ness.
Don't pray with iniquity in your
heart if you want the Lord to hear
you.
Don't expect to safely reach the
shore if you insist on being your own
pilot.
Don't cultivate the habit of serving
superstition if you would avoid enslav-
ing your soul.
Don't fail to see the difference be-
tween the works of friendship and
working your friends.
Don't make the mistake of basing
your honesty wholly on policy for the
tempter can always show you better
premiums.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17
LIVING ADVERTISEMENT.

GLOW of Health Speaks for Postum.
It requires no scientific training to
discover whether coffee disagrees Or
not
Simply stop it for a time and use
Postum in place of it, then note the
beneficial effects The truth will APP
pear.
six years ago / was in very bad
condition" writes a Tenn. lady. Il
suffered from indigestion, nervousness
and insomnia.
"I was then an inveterate coffee
.drinker, but it was long before l could
he persuaded that it was coffee that
hurt me. Finally 1 decided to leave it
off few days and find out the truth.
1.-The first morning left off coffee l
had a raging headache, so l decided L
must have something to take the place
of coffee" (The headache was caused
10y the reaction of the coffee drug
lcaffeine.)
"Having heard of Postum through a
friend who used it, bought package
and tried it. l did not like it at first,
but after 1 learned how to make it
right, according to directions on pkg,
Il would not change back to coffee for
anything.
when I began to use Postum l
weighed only III lbs. Now l weigh
no and as l have not taken any tonic
in that time | can only attribute my
recovarv of good health to the use of
Postum in place of coffee.
MY husband says l am living adj
vertisement for Postum. 1 am glad to
be the means of inducing my many
friends to use Postum, too"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Greek, Mich. Read 'The Road to Well
lville," in pkgs. There's Reason"
Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time TO time.
They are genuine, true, and full
of human interest.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

What do you want me to do?" she
asked temporizing
Il want you to marry me. L hope you
don't mind marrying me? 1t is, l be-
lieve, the usual thing under the circum-
stances"
Marry you'll" She gave a low little
laugh. But you know 1 am only poor
typist, and you-you are-what are you,
| wonder?" She paused to reflect.
My friends he replied, "have most
unwarrantably got into the habit OF
calling me Trifer. A mans friends
are rarely distinguished for an exag-
gerated courtesy in their estimates OF
him. My enemies'-he considered an
instant-"well. cannot at the moment
recollect that l have any enemies. In
actual fact, l am an individual OF eX-
IRENE earnestness and with an absorb
ing passion for acquiring knowledge
and other things; you among them.
Since you left home, a week or two ago,
and decided to exist Independently in a
small though luxurious suite OF apart
ments of your own, you see I could not
very well, being young and giddy
bachelor, call upon you, being a young
and Overwhelmingly lovely spinster, at
| "~S~-O>NS
running some risk OF offending the pro-
1 prieties And so I was obliged, you I'M
derstand, to come here to this office in
order towel, to find out what l want
ed
''You said you-you came to see Mr.
Calthrop!" retorted the Typist a little
resentfully.
II shall see him-later,"l replied the
Trifer, with an airy gesture. ''The fact
is, have already seen him. Calthror
is pretty intimate friend of mine, and
he arranged to give me a clear hour
4 alone with you in the office this morn,
ing; he won't be back for"-the Trifel
carefully consulted his watch-"for an
other ten minutes at least"
"Oh!" exclaimed the Typist, ''you-
you wicked Fraud! Then you actually
had the audacity to arrange it all with
Mr.. Calthrop beforehand"
The Trifer smiled with infinite com
placency as he folded the Typist closer
into his frock coat
"Actually!"- he replied Emeric HUI
me-Beaman in Sketch.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17
HEALTH VERY POOR
RESTORED BY PE-RU-NA.
Catarrh Twenty-Five Years F..
Had a Bad Cough.

Miss Sophia Kittlesen, Evanston, ILL.,.
writes:
Il have been troubled with catarrhi
for nearly twenty-five years and have
tried many cures for it, but obtained.
very little help.
"Then my brother advised me to try
Peruna, and 1 did.
my health was very poor at the time
1 began taking Peruna. My throat was
very sore and l had bad cough.
"Peruna has cured me. The
chronic Cafarrh is gone and my
health is very much improved.
II recommend Peruna to all my
friends who are troubled as l was"
PERUNA TABLETS:-Some people
prefer tablets. rather than medicine in a
fluid form. Such people can obtain Peru
ma tablets, which represent the medici-
nal Ingredients of Peruna. Each tablet
equals one average dose of Peruna.4
Man-a-Iin the Ideal Laxative.
Ask your Druggist for q Free.
Peruna Almanac for 1909.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17
A True Story.

The old lady who was in the habit OF
looking under the bed for burglars every
night after many years actually found
one. armed to the teeth, with dark Ian
tern, jimmy and all the burglars stock
in trade. The old lady, after careful
scrutiny of the armed villain, addressed
him with bright, rather pleased voice.,
as follows: ~,
.Oh, there you are, are you? Why,
/ have been looking for you for years.!
The desperate made no response; as
Punishment disarmed him more effectual-
" than any weapon could have done. He
crawled from under the bed, skunk out
of the room, down the stairs, and out OF
the house, and the old lady, quite hap
py, got into her bed and went to sleep
Strand Magazine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17
A Poor Bath.

Henry Farman. the aviator, was talk
ing in New York about the excellent
bathing beaches of America.
''There are no such beaches in Eu-
rope" said he. "And the sea over there
is not so pleasant to battle in. FIRE.
quently, you know, great pipes empty
sewage into it..
"They who stay late for the bathing
in Nice. for instance, swim about among
lemon peel, orange skins, melon rinds,
soaked but still buoyant newspapers
fearful rubbish.
II once bathed in Nice The Medi-
terranean was warm and pleasant, but
it resembled soup or something worse.
81 heard an American, after coming
out, say to the bathing master:
's'Look here, friend, where do str =, J.,
gers go for a wash after bathing mere!
Washington Star.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17
500 Reward. 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure IN
all it's stages, and that is Catarrh. HAIRS
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh;
being a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrn
Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces OF the sys.
tenn, thereby destroying the foundation or
the disease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and assist
ing nature in doing its work. The proprie-
tors have so much faith In its curative pow
ers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for
any case that it fails to cure. Send for list
of testimonials.
Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O..
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipat ton.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17
Parthenon Days.

/ There were no contractors" in the
days when the Parthenon was reared.
+. Tho men who designed and built that
IMMORTAL temple worked for the work S
! oWH sake, because they loved it and
had their hearts and souls in it. They
were not looking for graft" they were
nots thinking of the dough" there was
! in it; they were thinking Of their art,
Of their city, and of what they could
do for that city's lasting glory.-Rev.
Thomas B. Gregory, Universalist, New
York City.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17
THE EXILE.

The great canella swings its blooms
Like censers down the languid air:
More dear to me the purple plumes
New England lilacs wear.
The sun strides-an exulting god
Too glorious above the plain:
l crave gray skies and April sod
Green from the last long rain.
At night the stars are wonderful
Remote they blaze-aloof-apart:
Oh, northern night-sky, far and cool,
Your stars shine in my heart.
l want the hills of home again:
And aye my heart is yearning-yearnlng
To feel the hill-road up the glen
Caress my feet returning.
Grace Hazard Conkling in Everybody's.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

The announcement that the sale of
100000 of pools by the Burley To-
bacco Society to the American Tobacco
Company will put an end to night-rid-
ing in Kentucky is welcome for the as
surance of peace which it contains; but
it reveals the management of the Burley
outfit to be of the Dick Turpin order.
When that noted highwayman had in
duced the passengers to hand over their
purses he would not shoot.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

1t is stated that the defense of 1. n.
Whang Chang, the Korean who shot and
killed in San Francisco Durham White
Stevens, American advisor to the EN-
peror of Korea, will be that his deed was
prompted by patriotic insanity" PA
triotic insanity is a fine phrase, but no
fine phrase should be permitted to pro-
cure immunity for a murderer. The
death of Durham White Stevens did not
HELM Korea
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17
Balloon Fell Among Fisher Folk.

An element of humor characterized one
of Mr.. Spencer's Indian experiences.
One day after making parachute
descent his balloon came down among
some fsherfolk, who promptly unpicked
the net to use for fishing lines and cut
up the balloon itself to make water
proof clothing. -Captain.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

to prohibit lettering on the streets, in
so far as applied to persons conduct
ing themselves in a peaceable, orderly
manner, is held, in ST Louis VS., Gloner
(NIo.) 100 S. w. 80, - Liza. (N.S.)
973, to be an interference with the con-
stitutional right of personal liberty.
The burial of dog in an adjoining lot
S. w. 2S2. Is Ira. NS.) 100, to VIC
late the property rights of a lot owner
in a cemetery set apart for the burial of
the white race, and for cemetery pur-
poses only
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

The conclusion of DIR. Nicholas Murray
Butler that business questions like the
currency, the tariff and the solution CT
the trust problem, should be removed
from the cauldron of party politics, is
sagacious. But how are they to be re-
moved?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

1t has always been known that the
camel is a dangerous animal when he be-
comes ugly. Perhaps this accounts fol-
the fact that at Lincoln. Nebraska,
Wednesday night, Gov. Shallenberge1
suffered the fracture of a leg while I'M
dergoing initiation by the Shriners.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

One whose passage to, station to take
a train is obstructed for ain unreasonable
time by standing cars is. held, in Louis
Vile & n. RICO VS.. Daugherty, 80 Ky.
Il. Rep. 1892, 10S S!iW. 1856, 10 l.. r. A.
(N.I 81 740, to be entitled to recover from
the railroad for injuries caused by eX-
posture to inclement weather
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

Killing frost in southern Alabama and
northern Florida is meteorological &C.
centricity quite as remarkable as The
mild weather hereabouts. This is big
country. in which wind and weather
have a wide range.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

A cargo of faxseed valued at $50O,OOO
is on the way down the lakes from a
Lake Superior port in the hold of the
steamer d. r. Hanna, which has carried
a larger cargo when the price was not
as high as it is now. Traffic of this
kind is worthy of everything that can
be done to maintain or improve it.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

The haste of Forger Van Vlissingen of
Chicago to secure conviction and SEN
tence was a characteristic display OF
skill in lodging. He is safe in prison and
serving time before the full extent of his
fraudulent operations has been ascer-
tanned.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

International courtesies will be carried
to the highest pitch recorded for this
hemisphere if President-elect Taft of the
United States carries out his intention of
attending the Inauguration of President
elect Gomez of Cuba.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

Tho star6sb. netted, commits suicide.
r. d;ssolyes into many pieces, which es-
cane through the meshes of the net.
Then a kind of resurrection takes place,
each piece growing into perfect star
fish
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17
Needed Doctrines,

In the school, as in the home, God,
Christ, heavens he'll ,4faith, hope, charl-
ty,F duty, all of these doctrines, and
more, are needed Cardinal James Glib
boris, Roman Catholic, Baltimore.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

A deputy game warden and two assist
ants who were seeking illegally set nets
were drowned by the overturning of their
boat on White Lake, Michigan. The in
cident illustrates the perils of game war
denship on the water, where risks must
be taken quite as great as those which
are assumed by the wardens who go into
the woods for hunters who violate the
law
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

The Pekin bank run did not last long,
and indications now are that China
which has borne up under crises OF real
Importance, will survive the shock OF the
Emperor's death.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

Now. that Virginian descended from
the ancient line of Fairfaxes has been
conceded by the committee on privileges
of the British House of Lords to be en-
titled to the rank and title of Lord Fair
fax of Cameron in the Scottish peerage,
he may, if unmarried, be able to win the
attention of an American heiress.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

This is the time Of the year when over
heated buildings are the cause of many
colds. 1t is better to keep residences and
office buildings too cool than too hot. 1t
is also imperative that attention be paid
to keeping in the air due proportion OF
moisture. Hot, dry air is eneryating and
prediSpoSeS to pneumonia.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

Mrs. Howard Gould's schedule of ex-
penditures necessary to maintain her po-
sition in life did not convince the New
York Judge before whom her divorce suit
is on trial She claimed $4,000 a year
alimony and has been awarded $4,000
a year. She will have to cut down on
automobiles, but, with proper restraint
in ordering, she Should be able to pay her
draSSma l<ar
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17
IMMORTALITY OF FRIENDSHIP.

By Henry T. Cope.
'sThat where I am We may be also"
John 14:3.
Friends go on before. but friendships
abide. The grave cuts no chasm
through love and through the dark door
of death runs warm and holds firm the
cable Of affection.
No voice may come to us; no eyes
look into ours; years may dim the
memory Of features, but still within us
is this cherished. treasure of their love
and firm as eternity the faith that they
love us still.
We plant the flowers on the mounds
in the churchyard not because we ever
think they are lying there, but because
our love for them must find some ex-
preston; yelling up within it must
work itself out at hands and finger tips.
Blinded by tears, watering those flow
ers, we weep not with sorrow that they
are gone, but with surfeit of emotion,
more the pain of joy than of bitter
ness, that we can thus in such little
way express our love to them.
Here is a form of friendship alto
gether unaffected by the passing of the
years or by the tides of fortune. It
has laid hold ON that which is eternal.
It's bonds bind not flesh nor clay, but
spirit to spirit and heart to heart.
Friendship defies the fading leaf the
whitening cheek the devOl1rinp worm
it's possessions are in personality, its
treasures are beyond moth and rust and
intruder. @
This would be a dark world for the
living, but for our love for the dead.
1t comes to pass that some Of us have y
the best part of ourselves over there,
and all of us are made more tender by
thoughts of unseen eyes that look. down
on us, measuring us with hearts freed
from the bias and lusts of the world
we yet are in. @s{,3
We need not worry whether we Will
know them again, those friends whose
faces lightened ours in days gone by,
for though they be changed to ga
seraph's beauty, we shall see not their
faces, but their affection. He lives yet
in the dust who worries as to physical
preservation and Identification. This
we all know, who hold deep within US
-.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17
RECENT LEGAL DECISIONS.

The signal of a fagman to cross is
held, in Union p. r. Co. VS.. Rosewater
&C.. G. Al 157 Fed. 1853, 10 l.. r. A.
IN. S. sos, not to relieve one from the
duty to look and listen before driving
upon a crossing
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17
SHORT METER SERMONS.


No man ever overshoots his own,
moral aim.
All worthy education is training of
the will.
=. The dogmatic are always strong on
barking.
Counting your blessings discounts
your burdens.
Character is what we make of life's
conditions.
1t takes more than good living to
make the good life.
1t takes a lot of piety to stand up
against prosperity.
He is a foe to truth who would try
to defend it with error.
The holy life is the one that Is
healthy all the way through.
No day is long enough to waste any
of it in nursing enmity.
Do heavens business and heavenly
beauty will take care of itself.
The unanswered prayer finds it's
fruitage in the disciplined heart.
The man who is going to heaven
never tries to take up all the road.
You do not secure a clean bill for
yourself by indicting the rest Of hui
mainly.
There never can be sufficient public
virtues in a life to balance private
vices.
Whether earth shall be like heaven
depends on whether heaven is in our
hearts.
There are many things we cannot af-
ford to get for less than their full
price.
Some men think the only way to
preserve the landmarks is to sit on the
fence.
When a man gets to arguing with
his conscience you may be sure his ap-
petites are busy.
The minister who is thinking all the
time of the limelight cannot do much
for the lives Of men.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17
WASHBURN PRINTING CO., Publishers

There is no placarding for buck
fever but the disease often proves IA
tai, and indisputably it is contagious,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

A consignor of a shipment over con-
Meeting lines is held, in Wente VS.. Chi
cago B. & Q. r. Co. (Neb.) 115 n. w.
$50, 10 L. r. A. IN. S. 756, to have the
right, upon the arrival of the shipment
at the connecting point, Upon payment
of the charges of the first carrier, to de-
mand a redelivery of the shipment
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

the friendships Of those who are living
In larger life, that love can never die,
that affection enlarges despite the de-
Gays Of time and grave, and that some
thing of the self which Is the basis Of
friendship is immortal.
This sense of the persistence of
friendship is more than state Of feel
ing; it is the first flower Of immortal
ity: it is the eternal and divine in us
answering to eternal and divine In lives
that have been lOosed from our nmlta-
tons 1t has nothing to do with al
legged communications from the other
world. It is the deep, abiding ana
strengthening sense that the web OF
love cannot be cut by the keen edge OF
death, that friendships abide through
all, that love is immortal and loving
the measure Of our Immortality.
No wonder the immortal hope burns
low when unfed by this secret supply !;
no wonder men doubt the future, when
their hearts find no vital contact with
it's life, when they must depend on
what the head may reason from analy-
ses and probabilities.
1 am not worried as to life beyond,
because I know there is love beyond.
The only going out from life need to
fear would be going out into world
where love was not. Precise plans Of
eternal redemption lie beyond my rea-
soning, but on the fact of infinite
friendship 1 rest and know that the
eternal affection will find me and teach
me the larger life of the world where
love shall have it's liberty and shall
be the law of all.
I know not where I shall meet those
friends, where father and mother and
child will wait, but a love light, that
burns clear within, will lead me to
them and 1 shall know them by that
light. Love will come into it's own !;
friendship into its fullness. The bar
riers will have been broken down. We
shall know even as we are known, for
we shall love even as he loves.
So what can do better in these days
than cherish this hope, magnify this
life of loving, make more friends that
| may have greater fullness Of living
there, and if the great hope of that life
be this free fullness of friendship, bring
into this drear world as much of that
life as I may by being good friend to
as many. assI may? 49,. a. -. 41. ~
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

That railroad company is answerable
to its passengers in the same degree fol-
the safe condition of the cars of other
companies used in its trains as for its
own, is held in Morgan VS.. Chesapeake
& o. r. Co. Ky.) $50 S. w. 961, Ii
l.. r. A. On. S. 100, Notwithstanding
it is required by law to take cars of con.
Meeting carriers and haul them on equal
terms with its own.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-17

Failure to adjust ventilators on cars
in which fruit is shipped, resulting in
the freezing of the fruit, is held, in
Schwartz VS.. Erie Railroad company
(Ky.) 106 S. w. 1888, 10 l.. r. A. On. s.
sol, not to render the carrier liable
where there is a well known custom not
to change the ventilators unless instruct
ed by the shipper.