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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13
WOLVES ARE WARY ANIMALS.
Montana Ranchmen Go Armed for Them
but Kill or Trap Few.

One of the prominent men of the Big
Hole section who was in the city ex-
pressed the opinion that there were only
a few wolves left in that country, but
that few made it mighty interesting for
the stockmen. He says these wolves
are very hard to trap, refuse to take
poison and that the most expert hunter
might try for weeks without getting
within rifle shot of one.
''There are not more than a dozen
wolves in the whole watershed of the
Big Hole river" said the gentleman.
''And one of the best hunters in this
country, Fred Francis, who is familiar
with every. nook and corner in the val
ley, is of the opinion there are not more
than half a dozen. l am willing to adj
NIT. however, the few there are make
life a burden for the stockmen and keep
them in constant fear of a midnight raid
on their animals.
evolves kill for the sport of killing
and it is seldom an animal survives aft
er being bitten by wolf, the merest nip
usually proving fatal. Only one wolf
has been killed there in the last two
months. and that one was trapped by
Fred Francis. Its capture was purely
a matter of luck.
every man in the Big Hole carries a
rifle, whether on horseback or travelling
with a team to trade at a store or at
an opportunity to kill wolf and secure
the big bounty offered for the scalps.
Two of the prominent ranchmen and
stockmen who reside near Chalk Bluffs
have secured several hundred dollars in
subscriptions from the ranchmen to pay
a bounty of $50 for each wolf scalp in
addition to the bounty of $40 paid by
the state. 1t is said that not more than
twenty wolves have been killed in the
basin during the last six years, but in
that time thousands of dollars worth of
stock has been destroyed by these pests.
so far as known only one wolf has
been poisoned in the Big Hole, and that
was thirteen years ago. They are more
wary and cunning than a fox and can
smell trap mile away: they refuse to
are committed in the early dawn or in
the night it is seldom that one is seen,
even by the most astute hunters. So
all in all the wolf question is difficult
proposition to deal with" Anaconda
Standard.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13


It's poor excuse that a woman
won't accept when she wants to because
nobody else will.
The way a woman judges how sick
her husband isn't is by how much fuss
he makes about it.
When girl wants you to squeeze
her hand it's sign she will make more
fuss about it than If she didn't care.
There's always a lot more enjoyment
in smoking when your wife worries for
fear you will spill the ashes on the
floor.
To maintain her social position a
woman needs to have things in her
wardrobe whether she can wear them
or not.
There's something about the clothes
women wear in summer that makes you
think how different they would be if
they were dressed.
Something a woman can never learn
is that when man who works hard
all year gets little holiday he'd rath-
er spend ii enjoying himself than Wis
iting her relatives or have them visit
him.
Every woman would like her son to
go into the ministry except that she is
afraid it would stand in the way of his
being President.-New York Press.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

disturbed by Senussite propaganda. the
French officers have been able to estab-
Ilsh friendly relations with the Tuareg
and other Berber tribes, and have or
canned a chain of posts right across the
desert connecting Algeria with French
West Africa. The route for the tele-
graph has been surveyed and a wire
less installation is being established.
Meantime, by the last mail from Da-
kar the governor of French West Afri-
ca reports that he has instituted a month
~ service by couriers between the Niger
ana the Mediterranean. The southern
point OF departure will be the ancient
town OF Gao on the Niger, some 200
iillIes DeloW Timbuktu. and the point of
departure from the north InsaIah in the
oasis OF Iuat. which is some 200 miles
south OF the rail head in the Snd Drama
SIS. intermediate posts have heen estoh-
lished at Agades and the Ahogoar Tbc
oversight of the new route covers fnliv
1000 miles of desert. -''''
Much is expected in the wav Of accns-
toming the wild tribesmen of the Saboro
to the new order of things from the re,,'@
lar running of this service, and possibly
some development of trade may follow.
But at present it will be useful chiefly as
a means of rapid communication between
the French military posts. 1t is intend
ed that officers selected for service in or.
returning home from the Niger districts.
shall make use of the transsaharan route,
which will be more direct and less costly
than the journey from or to France via
Senegal or Dahomey. Both horses and
camels will be used on the new service
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13
GIVE BACK THE RIVERS.

Once They Were ThorOughfares and
They Should Be Made So Again.
In early days our rivers were thor
oughfares, says the World To-day
They continued to be thoroughfares un.
til the middle of the last century. Now
they are used mostly for sewerage and
drinking water.
Yet sooner or later nature knows
that human nature will come to its
senses. 1t takes no great genius to dis
cover that the Ohio, Tennessee. Illinois,
Mississippi, Missouri and the Arkansas
might very easily be joined by the
canals Of the great lakes. They are
raw material ready for a transporta-
ton system which will make the Nile
look like a strip of litmus paper.
The rivers themselves seem anxious
to work. Not having farm products to
transport they are transporting farms.
There is good deal of agricultural
land of Missouri and Illinois, not to
mention half a dozen other states, to be
seen in the Gulf Of Mexico. Dig up a
few sand bars, build few levees, and
blow up few dams, and the rivers will
be sobered Then the region between
the Alleghanies and the Rockies, the
Gulf of Mexico and the north pole can
get its goods to market without worry
ing about the shortage of freight cars.
If it is for the interest of the country
that we should have harbors on the
Pacific and Atlantic, it is just as neces-
sary that there should be wharves and
lighthouses and fourteen-foot channels
on the big rivers.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13
TOO MANY.

l knew four girls in Springfield, Mass,
Long, weary years ago,
And thus some trouble came to pass
AS I'll proceed to show.
The girls were witty, sweet and cute,
Adorable and tall.
And seeing each was such a beaut,
needs must love them all.
1t isn't cheap to love quartets,
My friends, for who adores
A bunch like that buys violets
And candy-gifts by tours.
But II spent my money free
They never thought me mean;
Yet ah, all looked so good to me,
l couldn't choose between.
All smiled on me-yOu bet your life!
All loved me-take my world
But could they all four be my wife?
The question is absurd.
The years slipped by without a break,
AS years have ever done;
/ could not think just which to take,
And so-ah, me!-took" none.
They kissed me goodby now and then,
The UnfOrgotten Four
Eftsoons they married other men
And I'm a bacheldore.
Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

is to whom falls in greater part the training or
population the of beauty and in appreciation
of the worth of beauty.
Who keeps the flowers blooming In the average house
lot? Who fills the one southern window with plants in
tin cans and broken pieces of crockery? Who
the florist keep the rich house filed with flowers
through all the For whom the beautiful OBJ
jecs in rich produced and set forth? Always
by and for the woman Who teaches the little children
enjoy the beauties Of nature and of art? Always,
almost always, the woman.
forward therefore, to the future Of the higher
education for women as great influence in the perfect
ing family e of civic fe of household joy and good
-Harper's Bazaar
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13
TO DRAIN TREASURE LAKE.
Georgia WOman's Husband Owns
Waters Hiding Boats of Caesars.

Georgia Woman's Husband Owns
Waters Hiding Boats of Caesars.
Few Americans who come to Italy
fail to see the famous Lake OF Menu,
the Mirror of DIANA" as the ancients
called 1t, says the Rome correspondent
of the New York World. The splendid
castle mirrored in its waters, once the
property of the Colonnas. then the
Frangipanis, the Cencis and the Or
SIMS, Is now owned by Don Enrico Rus
poll, the second husband Of an Ameri-
can woman, whom he married in Wash
ington six years years ago, Mrs. Bru-
tons, whose maiden name was Eugenia
Berry, and whose girlhood home was
at Oak Hill. Ga.
On the borders of the lake, where
now the strawberry beds cover the
ruins, stood q temple Of Diana, once
renowned for magnifcence. 1t was pre-
sided over by a priest, whose sole quail
fcation was that he killed his predeces-
sor and always carried sword in his
hand to prevent being served likewise.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

The fatal wounding of a farmer near
Butternut, who walked into a set gun
that somebody had placed in a deer run,
gives the authorities of that county an
opportunity to get after violator of the
law. Set guns are prohibited at all
times, and the shooting of deer is limited
to a short time in the fall.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13
WOMEN AND COLLEGE EDUCATION.
By President Eliot of Harvard.

The main object Of the higher ed
ucation of women has not been kept
sufficiently in view. OF course, there
are other objects, plenty of them
training for the professions; train
ing for all the varieties Of work
that women are now engaging in !;
training for all that enjoyment and
usefulness that come with knowl-
edge Of the fine arts, and with ap-
probation of the artistic spirit, and
of what the artistic spirit can do
for the activities of a nation. 1t
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13
An Aged Maine Pedestrian.

Andrew L. Powers, % years old.
walked to Bath recently from Phipps-
burg, took dinner, bought a big wheel
barrow and wheeled it home. He said
that he was in a hurry for it. Mr..
Powers apparently did not mind the trip,
is carpenter by trade, and has worked
of late on many houses in the vicinity.
He was born in Georgetown in 1S15.-
Kennebec Journal
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

The fact that the steamer Ohio; on the
Seattle-N Nome route, was held for month
in the ice foes of Behring sea ought to
advertise Alaska as a summer resort.
Fasteners who have been sweltering in
a hot wave can find continued GOODNESS
in Uncle Sans far northern possession.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13
Bohemia.

Bohemia is youth. Youth is every
VIII are. 1t is bounded on the north and
east by the barren desert of middle age,
and on the south and west by the steep
and impossible mountains of success.
The true Bohemian is drunk ON nothing
but ambitions and ideals. and though
these leave no headache, they frequently
leave an emptiness of the stomach. The
true Bohemian has an appetite the morn
ing after, but there is often no breakfast.
Sydney Bulletin.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

The Common Council of Cleveland sets
an early example by passing with an
overwhelming vote an ordinance prohibit
ing the use of firearms or fireworks in
the celebration of the Fourth Of July.
Other cities should follow suit, and thus
give the movement for a safe and sane
celebration of Independence Day win
ming momentum.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13
Rakinr up the Past.

"Say, Borroughs," said Markley,
show about that $40 you've owed me
since last year,"
"Oh, come, old man." said Borroughs,
"why can't you let bygones be by
cones Philadelphia Press.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

monizes organism to environment that each responds per-
fecy to the other his pu battles for existence will
to an end. Wealth will abound Trivial toll Will
supply all the gentle luxuries he needs and his superb
mental and spiritual forces will be set at leisure to
gage those noble which their proper and
worthy employment.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

In establishing gasoline car service be-
tween GAINESVILLE and Fond du Lac, the
Chicago & North Western railroad is fol-
lowing the trend of the times in passen-
ger transportation. There is no reason
why the regular steam lines should not
put on cars of this kind wherever serv-
ice can be established without incurring
danger through interference with the
regular schedules.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

The remaining of the San Jacinto for
est reservation after Grover Cleveland is
a graceful tribute by President Roose-
welt to the recently departed statesmans
interest in the cause of forest preserva
ton. Mr.. Cleveland in 1897 signed the
proclamation which created the reserva-
ton which is hereafter to bear his
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

An aeronaut at New York whose air.
ship became disabled and shot earthward
like rocket landed on the feed wires Of
an electric railroad, from which he sue
ceeded in letting himself down to terra
firma. These wires were completely in
sulated. Had they been ''live" wires the
sequel of the ascension would have been
sensational and aeronauts would be APP
prized of a new danger in making land
ings where power plants are distributing
iectric energy.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13
c0URIERs ACROSS SAHARA.

Though a journey across the Sahara is
sun an undertaking of some magnitude,
the pacification of the central region by
the French has been wonderfully rapid
during the last five years.
Removed as it seems from the exciting
influence of events in Morocco, and I'M
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13
Self Satisfied.

Look at the self satisfied dub! Now
what commendable trait does he pos
sess ?"
well, that of being easily pleased. .
Louisville Courier-J Journal.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

And now Nathan Straus of New York
has given the city of Vienna milk
pasteurization plant, and promises if it
operates successfully to install similar
apparatus in other Austrian towns.
American babies, Irish babies, Austrian
babies-babies the world over-are
deemed worthy of a chance for life by
Nathan Straus; and he is providing it
for them at his own expense, by putting
pure milk within the reach of the poor
of great cities. He is a great philanthro-
pist. and his name should be honored
by his contemporaries as well as by the
babies when they grow up.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

The Third regiment has won the dis
tinction Of being the shooting regiment"
of the Wisconsin National Guard. This
title is worth striving for, and the mem
bers of the other regiments will doubt
less practice with more assiduity at their
company ranges in order to wrest the
title from the Third next year. Rivalry
of this kind will surely make things in
teresting on the Camp Douglas rifle
range
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

If auto-catchers in suburban towns
must shoot, would it not be more hui
name to plump their bullets at the tires
than at young ladies on the back seats?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

That story of the practice duels be-
tween Frenchmen in connection with the
Olympic games in England reads like an
invention of yellow journalism.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

requires four porters to carry 1t. Such
men are paid from three to five cents
day for their labor, so that the cost
of Transportation is not heavy.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

"Round the shore where loud Lofoden
whirls to death the roaring whale"
Those lines. when Campbell wrote them,
must have seemed to most of his read
ers like feat of sheer imagination. Yet
the monsters of the deep are subject to
accident, despite their bulk. Dispatches
from New York relate that the steamer
st. Louis which arrived at that port
yesterday encountered a school of ten
whales and ran into one of them, 81
feet long, cutting him nearly in two.
1t is as dangerous for a whale to disport
about steamship as for a dog to run
in front of an automobile.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

It will now be in order for friends of
the Mexican revolution to maintain that
it was good, on the evidence that it died
yOung.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

fine buresque Hebrew and the impossible Irishman OF
vaudeville to a wesustained, welacted play, and you
have found one who cannot discriminate between the
merits of Raphae's madonna" and the "Newlyweds"
and "IIappy Hooligan' of the Sunday supplement
We cannot blame them, but educate them.
Begin at the beginnngn the home in the schoolroom
give the men and of the future start in the right
Objectionable result will follow.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13
THE THEATER AND THE PUBLIC.
By Otis Skinner.

AS is the character Of the community and
the age, so is its theater. 1t cannot lead; 1t
must follow, for it reflects life and tendencies
the very age and body Of the time" If the
public selects the trashy play or exposition on
which to lavish its favor, it Is because that
portion Of the public possesses cheap and
trashy minds and uncultured tastes.
Find the man who prefers the educated dogs
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

too easily led away by their immediate and objective
side of things thus lose sight Of their inner mean
ing, mysterious and divine.
The beautiful the good and the true are harmonious
in nature the glory of art consists in making this
harmony apparent Left to themselves the uncult1vated
grasp only what strikes their grosser Senses they see
nature under its ugest and most usory aspect 1t is
the mission to make them feel the lndwelllng
beauty which, like truth, always has existed Art is SO
profoundly related to humanity that before knowing what
the art of tomorrow will be must know what Will be
it's science and philosophy.
If art does aim capitalization Of thought one
we'll may ask the for it's existence The average
picture has no inspiration for Unimagnative land
scane is one of the egitimate art but the i'm
aginatve landscape which suggests the cosmic beauty
with which the artists soul has communed enters truly
into the domain of art and gives mere physical
impression, but mental vision Of nature.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

Medicine Hat, the Canadian home Of
the "cold snap" is burning natural gas
night and day because it is cheaper to
use the gas during the entire twenty
four hours than to employ men to light
the lamps in the evening and put them
out in the morning. But daylight burn
ing of gas is wasteful, and Medicine Hat
may find eventually that a proper high
use of the product would have been
cheaper in the long run.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13
MISSION OF ART TO UPIIFT MAN.
BY Jean DeIViIIe.

There perhaps never has been period IN
the history of man or in the annals OF art
when nature was more beloved and more ap-
preciatively studied than by the poets and men
Of science and artists of our own time. And
unquestionably this has had fruitful lnhu'
ence in many ways upon the modern mind and
the sensibilities of mankind as whole. But
we are too greatly fascinated by the visible
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

vulgar thus to do violence 10 ones aSe 10 ones DELL
cacy elegance It is vulgar to solace with soft
sentiments instead Of expressing ourselves with art and
beauty 1t vulgar souls by denying them
what they require to chain them to earth when they
winged to fly heaven. For piteous povertys de-
formities of the body ravages the life of
are sadder. BY ugness and squalor the heart is bru
talized the soul Scared Millions Of men and
are crippled suted, diseased Of mind and morals by
reason of their beggary.
Less idle as the world is ordered, the
ations of philosophy and religion There is lot
ever base paltry but yields Enthusiastically lavish
COMPENSATION to an heroic heart And there is soul
so but buds and flowers In some beauty peculiar
to ITSELF be its environs they will When the civilized
man so attures his life to his surroundings har-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

The Interior and Agricultural depart
ments will jointly investigate the effects
of the grazing OF herds of sheep and
goats on watersheds in national parks
which are of vital Importance to irriga-
ton schemes. 1t has frequently been
said that goats in particular will deyour
brush and small trees as well as the
grass. As the underground in forests
is of value in the conservation of mois-
ture, its destruction would injure the
watersheds,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13
ADVANTAGES OF BEING RICH.
BY Ada May Krecker.

If riches have worth at all it is in relieving
the mind Of thoughts of money 1t is in letting
soul and sense freely flower unimprisoned by
paltry pennies. The ignominy Of poverty is
the barbarous necessity Of interpreting all ones
experience in terms Of dimes and dollars Of
counting pennies over food. shelter, amuse-
ments, charities. everything; of choosing evil
things for lack Of pennies to get the good. 1t
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-08-13

The extent and capacity Of the new
docks which the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul railway is con-
structing at Tacoma, Washington,
should impress New Workers. who are
croaking about the decline Of their export
trade with the Importance of making
dock facilities ample and up-to-date.
Port inconvenience and charges consti-
tute obstacles to shipping, which follows
the lines of least resistance.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-02-09
Slayer Of Parent Cries for AHePclI
al Side Of Coffin.
aOTHER kHELT At sI0E OF SON
Funeral Of the Judge Held Yesterday
Amidst Strange surroundinas-No
HearSe in the Town. and the Body
Was Carried.
(By Associated preas. !

JACKSON. KY. Feb. s - Beach
iiargis, who shot and killed his IA :
ther Judge James Hargls on Thurs
day. was permitted today TO stand
by the coffin and look at the face OF
the dead. Turning away with smoih-
efeu sobs. the son knelt by the body
and murmured, Lord. have mercy"
While he was kneeling his mother
came into the room and fell by his
side. They remained for only Il short
time, when the son returned to the
jail. He did net attend the funeral,
which was set for eatly In the af-
ternoon.
Many friends and relatives of Judge
Hargis came To Jackson for The fu-
neral. a large crowd from the coun-
ty also gathered here. The funeral
services took place in the little fam
lily burial ground ON the crown of a
knoll around which flows the North
Fork of the Kentucky river.
Nearby are the graves of Judge
iiargis' three brothers. all of whom
died OF bullet wounds inflicted by no
litical enemies. The casket of ma
hogany and steel. with solid silver
handles. had been constructed for
Judge Hargis recently on the judges
special orde-.
The body was taken across the
bridge TO the town bend" side OF
the river. placed upon push car ON
the tracks OF The Lexington & East
ern Railroad, and taken for half a
mile to the narrow guage railroad of
lumber company. where It was
placed upon similar car for jour
ncy OF n mile. where the river was
crossed on the Pan Handle" side.
Thence the body was carried about
800 yards 10 the grave.
The attendants walked, forming a
procession on the track behind the
cav There Is no hearse In the town
Neither IS there a professional un-
dertaker in this region.