The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-12-31
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The Chicago crusade for ventilation OF
the street cars is likely to bear fruit. 1t
will 90 long way toward preventing the
spread of disease and promoting the gen.
eral vigor of the population. The ex-
ample of Chicago in this respect should
be widely followed.
How do you spell Hayti? Some peo-
pie spell it Haiti. How do you spell
Haytian? Some people spell it Haytlen.
The good old American formulas are
Hayti and Haytian. Is it well that revo-
buttons in American spelling should be
as easy as revolutions in Hayti?
The report from London that bill is
to be introduced in the House of Com
mons to prohibit the use of hop substi-
tutes in the manufacture OF beer HoW's
this? Americans have been led to be-
lieye that brewers in the ''old country"
do not resort to tricks of that kind, but
give consumers beer from the real stuff.
1t is reported from Ionic. that
sbrapnel grenade suitable for use with
ordinary army rifles has been tested with
success by British and foreign military
experts. But as the range of the grenade
is only from 500 to 1000 feet, the new
missile will not be Of much service, as
the modern long-range rifle compels
armies to fight at distances far beyond
such short throws of shrapnel.
One of the Herreshoffs having turned
to the manufacture of automobiles,
yachtsmen are looking for the produc-
ton of something that will put existing
records in the shade. But there are limita-
lions in mechanics beyond which wizard
nv in shaping an automobile cannot go,
and there may be disappointment such
as has not been experienced with Her
reshoff productions for sea service.
Marathon races are becoming so nu-
merous that there is danger of OVERRIDING
on the part of ambitious young athletes.
To run or to skate twenty-five miles at
the highest possible speed is to put the
heart to a severe test, and no athletic
association or skating club should ar
range for Marathon contests without
providing for medical examination of
would-be contestants as necessary pre-
liminary.
The Great Northern railroads pro-
posed line from the boundary to Winni-
peg has been surveyed, and construction
will begin in the spring. This will make
another commercial tie between Canada
and the United States, which are to
know no boundary so far as traffic move
ment is concerned. Freight will follow
the lines of least resistance, and rail
road enterprise will endeavor to estab-
lish such lines.
A New Yorker writes a newspaper of
that city the confession that he made
mistake in retiring from business at 30.
Now, it seems, he finds himself doomed
ito read daily five hours, walk three
hours, and attempt to sleep seven
hours,'' which still leaves ''a residue of
about nine hours for dreary introspec-
ton" There is pleasure in work for
those habituated to it, and there is dull
monotony in idleness.
The hunting season closed as tragical-
ly as it opened. There were killings up
to the last moment, both of game and
of hunters, and the cost of the sport in
sorrow and suffering has been infinitely
greater than the financial outlay, which
is always high il comparison with the re
turn in sport and venison. Latterly the
real zest of the sport for many has been
in the risks which ventures into the
woods entail.
Congress will doubtless heed the re-
quest for an adequate number of Golfers
for the navy, made in his annual report
by ReaI-Admiral William S. Cowles,
chief of the bureau of equipment. There
is room for differences as to the need
of additional battleships and cruisers,
but there ought to be no dissent from the
proposition that everything should be
done to keep the efficiency OF the existing
navy up to the top notch.
Ensiand fears a meat famine as a re-
suit Of the outbreak of the foot and
mouth disease in the United States. This
fear is not among her farmers, how
ever, as they are willing to provide all
the beef that may be required at famine
prices. The embargo upon meat may
have a benefcent influence in showing the
Britons where they are att in the mat
ter of meat supplies, and make them
more considerate of American products.
The steamer Meacham is ON the way
to Buffalo from a Lake Superior port
with a cargo of 421 900 bushels of wheat.
This is a valuable load for dangerous
closing run, but there is no reason why
the Meacham should not get through to
her destination without trouble. In the
days of sailing craft which loaded down
to the covering board" navigators
sneaked through to Buffalo from Milwau-
kee between gales sometimes as late as
the middle of December.
The epidemic Of the foot and mouth
disease in this country at the present
time is now said to cover a wider field
than in 1923. when 100000 was re-
CURED to pay the expense of stamping it
out. The department of agriculture may
feel obliged to ask for an emergency
appropriation of round million dol
lars to meet the exigencles of the pres
ent occasion. It's good deal of money,
but it will be we'll and economically eX-
pended if it stops the epidemic.