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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19
PUZZLE SOLVED.
,ores at BOTTOM of Trouble.

Coffee at Bottom of Trouble.
1t takes some people a long time to-
find out that coffee is hurting them.
But when once the fact is clear, most
people try to keep away from h e'thing
which is followed by ever-increasing
.detriment to, the heart, stomach and
nerves.
until two years ago 1 was a heavy
coffee drinker,' writes an I'll. stockman,
"and had been all my life. / am now
So years old,
About three years ago began 10
have nervous spells and could not sleep
nights, was bothered by indigestion
bloating, and gas on stomach affected
my heart.
II spent lots of money doctorlng-one
doctor told me / had chronic catarrn
of the stomach; another that 1 la
heart disease and was liable TO oie d.
any time. They all dieted me unlh
was nearly starved, but l. seemeu ~
get worse instead of better.
Having heard of the good POSTUM
had done for nervous people, discard
ed coffee altogether and began to use
Postum regularly. | soon got +Det'er
and now. after nearly two years
can truthfully say | am SOUND anu W..
81 Sleep well at night, do not na
the nervous spells and am not bother
ed with Indigestion or palpila'ror
weigh 81 pounds more than when l De-
gan Postum. and am better every way
than i ever was while drinking coffee.
I can't say too much in praise OF
Postum, as I am sure it saved my
life "SThere's a Reason
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Greek, Mich. Read ''The Road to Well
VILE" in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter.? A,
new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true, and full OF
human interest. $3.50
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19
Casualties Expected.

During one of Speaker Cannon's bit
ter political fights in his district in ILL
nois, the opposition resorted to desper-
ate tactics. Among other things,
friends Of Uncle Joe were summarily
dismissed from positions they held in
the public service. Some of his friends
became alarmed at this, and one Of
them called on the Speaker at his resi-
dence, and said somewhat excitedly:
"Joe, Smith and Jones have lost their
positions in the postoffice. What are we
going to do about it?"
Uncle Joe took another puff at his
cigar and then answered, with a benev-
olent smile. Nothing. If you go into
a battle, you have got to expect to have
some dead and wounded"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19
AT THE DOOR OF A HEART.

you, who, in all certainty,
Will here inhabit after me,
l leave this certain word, no more,
To bid you welcome at this door
your least hand-touch swinging free.
Long since l entered here, as one
Enters in darkness and alone
A house deserted, barred and chill;
l but a transient tenant, still
Twas my hand gave it to the sun.
I lighted it with cheer, 1 brought
The best of mirth and hope and thought
To make it beautiful. Be true
To this fair home / leave to you.
Seeing twas but for you l wrought.
All, here a gentle mistress be
Nor close this wide door utterly
On those who stand without and bring
Their sorrow to this sheltering,
Since in your hands must rest the key.
And some day if a word should wake
Thought of one tenant passed, but max
A sister prayer for her, and say,
Though in this heart she dwell one da
She left it lovelier for Loves sake" =.
-Theodosia Garrison in Smart Set.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

stood resolutely by the mainmast,
though his father lay cold in death.
So much moved was the captain that
he had a coffin made in the boys honor
out of the floating fragments Of the
POrient and sent it to his friend and
patron, Lord Nelson, with the story Of
the boys bravery, and expressing deep
regret for the young hero's untimely
end.
Nelson had the coffin placed in the
cabin in remembrance Of the boy, and
Capt. Hallowell himself told the tale
to the then widely known poet, Felicia
Hemans. Her sympathies were imme-
diately excited and she immortalized
the boy in her sentimental but i'm
mortal verses, and she named him
wisely, ~"Casabianca, White Soul"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

to his congregation, but enables the
clergyman to give more im-pressiveness
to words and passages than could be
obtained from the simple spelling of
words on the fingers
Many young men and women are
helped to positions by their rector.
They become proficient and are well
paid. The late Sir John Blundell Maple
made it a point to employ as many as
he could and always paid such appren-
tees regular wages from the start. In
that way he INDUCED in a form Of prac-
teal charity. but it was a bit Of phil
anthropy which inflicted no wound upon
the pride of the beneficiary.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19
NOT A MYTH.

Story of s.Yhc Boy Stood on the
Burning Deck" Founded on Fact.
Few people know that the boy on
the Burning Deck" is not a myth, but
an actual fact, and still fewer know
that the man who gave the order for
the destruction of the vessel, on whose
deck the aforesaid boy stood. was born
in Jamaica Plain, and lived there till
his royalist father. who objected siren
uously to the American revolution,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

transplanted him to England, where he
served under Nelson in the battle OF
the Nile.
The boy was French, son Of the adj
miral Of the French ship fOrient, and
that was the vessel that blew up with
the immortal boy standing by the
mainmaSt.
The boys unconscious destroyer,
Capt. Benjamin Hallowell, was born in
the old Boylston house still standing at
the corner of Boylston and Center
streets. in Jamaica Plain. The house
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19
Something LACKING

A certain drill sergeant, whose Severity
had made him unpopular with his com
pany, was putting a squad of recruits
through the funeral exercise. Opening the
ranks so as to admit the passage of the
supposed cortege between them. the in
structor, by way of practical explanation,
walked slowly down the lane formed by
the two ranks, saying as he did so:
Having reached the end. of the party,
he turned round, regarded them with a
scrutinizing eye for a moment or two,
then remarked:
Your lands is right and your leads is
right, but you 'aven't got that look of re-
greet you ought to 'ave.'-TitrBits
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19
AIDS THOUSANDS OF MUTES.

London Rector Talks to 1000 in His
Church and Gives Needy Help.
London has 1000 deaf and dumb per-
sons who attend st. Savior's Episcopal
Church In Oxford street. the rector of
which is the Rev. E. w. Gilby. who, al
though not a deaf mute, is a son of
parents thus afflicted. His congregation
is mixed, including aristocrats and even
bootblacks. He makes his signs as pic
turesque as possible. which action not
only quickens the process Of speaking"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

Surgeon General Wyman thinks that
the source of a recent typhoid visitation
in Georgetown, ID. c., is a woman mixer
who has been capable of communicating
the germs since she had the disease
eighteen years ago. This looks like an
alarmist conclusion. 1t is certainly inn
portant if true.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

The first fatal mistake of a hunter for
the season of 1908 is reported from Chip
pewa Falls, where a man took another
for a bear and fired into the brush, kill
ing him instantly. When the woods are
overrun by hunters looking for game it
is criminal to fire into thickets on the
supposition that a moving object is a
Gonna animal
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

The American "Jackies" didn't paint
Toxic RED when they landed. The well
coming japanese did it for them, and
the visitors f%raternized with their hosts
in a ''blaze of glory" Capt. Hobson
should make note of this fact.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

The Mexicans have refused to enact
the article of the proposed new mining
law which provided that all mining COM
panies should be incorporated under the
laws of Mexico. The enactment of such
a provision would have been regarded
as a serious step toward the discourage
meut of American investments in Mex
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

As might have been expected, the at
tendance at the night high schools is
large enough to warrant the belief that
they will soon have to be enlarged in
scope. The desire for an education is
strong in American youth, and propin-
guilty increases attendance wherever
schools are opened either for day or
NIGHT courses
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19
The Bitter Bit.

Hewitt-Who was that fellow who
in a fit Of absent mindedness tried to
light his cigar from the electric light?
Jewett-He's a joke writer who makes
a speciality of jokes about c%ountrymen
blowing out the gas.-New York Press.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19
| AM
A MO

How many American women IN
lonely homes to-day long for this
blessing to come into their lives, and
to be able to utter these words, but
because of some organic derange-
ment this happiness is denied them.
Every woman interested in this
subject should know that prepara-l
ton for healthy maternity is
ACCOMPLISHED bY the use of
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

Europe's "cold spelr' is a forerunner
of similar experiences in this side of the
Atlantic. But it is to be hoped that
rains will be experienced before winter
sets in, as farmers cannot do fall work
because of the fintiness of the drought
parched soil.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

Nebraska's blue laws having been sus-
tanned by her supreme court it is now i'll
order for those who object to the pro-
visions of the troublesome statutes to
repeal them by the regular legislative
process. The decision of the court will
be of assistance, in accordance with the
view that the best way to secure the re-
peal of a bad law is to enforce it.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

Those Southern night-riders do not
confine their luminosity to the tobacco
trust. The victims of the Tennessee
murder bee were men who had given of
Tense by insisting on the enforcement
of the game laws.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

The first shipment Of coal from the
Routt county coal fields was received at
Denver with great eclat. The supply
of fuel now available for Colorado and
other states of the West, through the
building of a railroad into the Routt
county diggings will bring about re-
markable economic changes. The Colo
RADIO coal is said to be almost as good
as anthracite.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19
still She was Loved.

Il can not sing the old songs"
Her promise short and terse
She kept. But then she went and sang
The new ones-which were worse.
Boston Traveller.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

faulting good citizens who neglect their duty to the COM
munity are responsible for graft in public life, for boss
ism in States and cities and for practically every in
inuity of American politics. This is a fact which is
known to every practical politician and to every man
who has ever run for public office. If they would do
their duty we would have clean politics. We never will
have clean politics until the exercise of the right Of
voting is made compulsory by every person who is en-
titled TO cast q ballot.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
c~ompany's announcement that it will
build another line through the grain-rais-
ing provinces of western Canada to the
coal district of southern Alberta is in
fulfllment of implied promises that were
made when settlers began to pour into
the new agricultural section. The rail-
roads generally lead in the settlement of
countries. and where settlement precedes
transportation facilities the farmers are
never without help in that line for any
great length Of time.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

A dock slide at Manitowoc, where one
hundred tons of coal went into the river
with a dock that had been undermined
as a result of deep dredging, illustrates
what would happen in Milwaukee were
a twenty-foot channel dredged near some
of the old-time docks upon which the
rear walls of buildings practically rest.
A good many docks along the lakes rest
upon short piling which was sufficiently
long when the channels required were
only twelve to fourteen feet deep.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19
RESPONSIBLE FOR POLITICAL GRAFT.
By Fl. c. L~0udenSIager

We will never have really pure politics in
America until we devise some means for COM
polling voters to perform their duties. At the
present time the percentage Of men who shirk
their responsibility, particularly at the pri-
maries, is enormous. The result is that the
political game in America is played too often
only by an inferior class Of citizens, who could
easily be outvoted by good men. These de-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19
Speaking for the Chickens.

A southerner. hearing a great commo-
tion in his chicken house one dark night,
took his revolver and went to %investi-
gate.
who's there?" he sternly demanded,
opening the door.
No answer. ,.
"Who's .there?. Answer, or I'll shoot"
A trembling voice from the farthest
corner.
Deed. sab. dey amt nobody hyah
'ceptin' us chickens. "-Everybody's Mag
azine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19
WASHBURN PRINTING CO., . Publishers

When automobiles get into trouble
they invariably lose their number tags.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19
LYDIA :. PINKHAM'S
COMPOUND

Mrs. Maggie Gilmer, Of West.
Union, S. C.,writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
81 was greatly rundown in health
from a weakness peculiar to my sex,
when Lydia E. Pinkham' s Vegetable
Compound was recommended to me. 1t,
not only restored me to perfect health.
but to my delight I am a mother"
Mrs. Josephine Hal, of Bardstown,
KY, writes:
81 was a very great sufferer from
to help me. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound not only restored me
to perfect health, but / am now a proud
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19
PUBLIC SCHOOLS LACK INDUSTRIAL TRAINING.
By Audrey S. DrapeI

by AHuTSW %. DT6DcF.
F7 The length Of the school period and the pro-
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M ductive value Of the citizen are closely re-
W. lated. Industrialism is the great basis of a
WI nations true strength and real culture.
M Knowing this, we have seen that there is
not sufficient articulation between the educa-
" tional and the Industrial systems Of the coun-
IN try. We have seen the indefinite expansion
60 of instruction and the unlimited multiplication
Of appliances leading to literary and professional and
managing occupations without any real solicitude about
the vital industrial foundations Of the nations happiness
and power. A situation m~anifestly unjust to the greater
number, even unjust to those for whom it has done the
most, has resulted.
Notwithstanding our boosted universally of educa-
tional opportunity, there has grown up an absurd hiatus
in the educational system which denies the just rights
Of the wage-earning masses and grievously menaces the
Industrial efficiency and the material prosperity of the
country. There should be an open chance for every
American child. The influences of the schools must not
lead boys who might become excellent cabinetmakers into
being no-account lawyers and girls who might be first
class breadmakers into being fourth-class music teachers.
The school system has grown deformed; it is one-sided
and not broad enough at the base.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

Hence, every glow of esthetic appreciation, every thrill
aroused by heroism, every pulse Of religious aspiration
weakens by Just so much the potential energy OF passion,
because it has found it's kinetic equivalent In a higher
form Of expression. 1t is from this point OF view that
some of our German c%olaborers have even gone so far
as to advocate a carefully-selected course of love stories,
chosen so as to bring out the most chivalric side of the
tender passion at this age, when it is most plastic and
capable Of idealiZation; while others have advocated
theater-going to selected plays, palpitating with life, ac-
ton and adventure, that emotional tension may be dis
charged not merely harmlessly, but in an elevating way.
American Magazine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19
THE SENSATIONS OF YOUTH.
By q. Stanley Hall.

Young people need to Jingle with sentiments
and the appetite for excitement and sensation
is at it's height in the teens. Here is where
the principle Of NERVOUSNESS gives the teach
er one of his chief opportunities and resources.
Excitement the young must have, for Feelings
are now their life. If they cannot find 1t In
the worthy. they are strongly predisposed to
seek it in the grosser forms Of pleasure.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

A woman in Montclair, New Jersey.
built a home Of concrete, bossing three
concrete workers and doing much of the
work with her own hands, while her in
valid husband took care of the chill
dren. There is something fascinating in
the comparative ease with which con-
crete can be handled for the construction
of walls. The building of substantial
homes is a comparatively easy PROPOSE
tion where good gravel is abundant. The
home of the future is to be a concrete
structure, and in the course of time
experiment such as that of the resource
full Jersey woman will develop methods
by which the labor and the cost of con-
fruction can be greatly reduced.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19
A GOOD HUSBANDS HARD LOT.
By Louise Satferfhwaifhe

z Sometimes, it seems to me, that worn and
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M worried wives and mothers forget, or at least
W. neglect to remember, that good husbands bear
WI their equal half Of the burden. A woman who
W runs a house and cares for children has no
sinecure; this is the truth; but the man who
u has to find every cent to pay for it all has no
IAN easy snap Of it, either. A woman's work is
go never done, the old saying runs, and where
there are children it truly is, never done; night as well
as day the mother forever has the yoke upon her neck;
q thousand trihing duties and exasperations pursue her
like a cloud Of midges. So, If she sometimes complains,
who can blame her? Though there are thousands who
never utter one word, but do their best always and cheer
fully, 50 long as they live. But to the woman who be-
lieves that all that husband does is to go downtown and
there while the hours away till 6 o'clock in joyous free
dom I would say that 1 would like her to really know
what it means.
To many q man it means being virtually a slave. The
mother, at least, while she may be slave to her work.
can order it as it suits her but the man who is servant
of another must take what is said to him, obey orders
and put ~pride-and in many cases principle-in his
pocket. On such a husband rests always the haunting
responsibility of maintaining the home. He can never
forget that mother and children look to him and to him
alone for bread and shelter and food. This burden is
no slight one. He must stay for every day in the week
in one room at one place. be it bright or dark. clean or
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

The open hearth department of the
Carnegie company at Homestead a
started the double turn.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

There is now more tonnage in COM
mission on the Great Lakes than can be
forwarding of freight. The Unitc1
States Steel Corporation is said to be
reducing it's shipments to the capacity of
its W tonnage, and this will make
idle many independent steamers which
have been assisting it under charter.
The outlook is therefore for one of the
dullest closes in the aistory of naviga-
ton on the Great Lakes, to mach the
dizziness Of the opening of the Season.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

Those who last winter neglected to
shovel the snow from their sidewalks
and who find that neat little sums have
been tackled onto their tax bills to com
pengate the city for its outlay in the
employment of men to do the work, will
be likely to pay more attention TO their
walks during the coming winter Those
who cleaned their walks in a ~siovenly
way May also through fear of visitations
of the ward gangs and hereafter do the
work more thoroughly and therefore
more to the satisfaction Of pedestrians.
Due-billS are very influential reminders.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19

Hunters in the vicinity of Marquette,
Michigan, are planting wild rice in the
swamps to provide food which will at
tract ducks and other wild fowl and in
crease their sport. If sportsmen gener-
ally would take a like practical interest
in the welfare of the ducks, and supple
menE planting of wild rice with assist
.ance in the rigid enforcement of the
game law, ducks and geese would soon
be more plentiful on waters from which
they have been driven by a lack of food
and a multiplicity of hunters, both in
and ont Of season
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-19
FOR SICK WOMEN.

For. Thirty. Years Lydia e. FINK
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs; has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
andhas positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, Inflammation, ulcera-
lion, fbroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, fatulency, indiges-
lion, dizzinesso nervous ~prostration.
Why don't you try it?. q T.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Arizona republican., 1908-03-10
WORD BY WIRELESS
 FROM MAGDALfNA BAY
The Worlds Record at Target Prac. tice Broken by the Cruiser Albany.

Cruiser South Dakota, Magdalena Bay, March s, (via wireless.)-The cruiser South Dakota arrived here this afternoon, Sunday. from San Fran cisco. on a shake down trip, making an average speed of from II ito F knots, using eight boilers.
 Swinburne's squadron leaves for the north tomorrow morning, (Monday) after nearly two months of target prac- tice. The ships that are leaving are the cruisers Charleston, Milwaukee and St. Louis: also the destroyers Perry and Preble. The Albany steam ed north this evening, Sunday fly ing the cruiser trophy. She broke all previous records in this country in ra- pidity by fire and accuracy. The per formance is considered wonderful. Ac- curate figures cannot be given out at this time.
 The Califorpia remains in the harbor which, with the South Dakota, the Buffalo and two colliers. are awaiting the arrival of Evans fleet. This com prlses the total of ships here. The Charleston and St Louis were in com munication with Admiral Evans last night (Saturday) The Atlantic fleet is expected about March l3. Yesterday 1t was approximately 1900 miles south.
 The message contained the news of the death of a sailor and his burial at sea.
Arizona republican., 1908-03-10
ARlZoNA's LEADING OPTlClAN

There was a nan of great renown, Came one day to Phoenix town, Hunted up and hunted down, Till Donofrio's Cactus Candy he hac
 found.