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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

Bose Garth. of Clinton, probably
made the first corn shelter used in Mis-
souri,. Fifty years ago, in 1858, he
devised one from wateroak plank and
tenpenny nails. He used it on his farm
until 1861, when Prices men came
through there, saw it was good thing
where it was used to shell the corn
which was ground into meal for Con-
federate soldiers. The old corn shelter
was lost track of for a number of
years by it's maker, but afterward he
was informed that it was being pre-
served at Washington among other GU
rious trophies captured from the South.
Clinton Democrat.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04
FIT THE GROCER
Wife Made the Suggestion.

Wife Made the Suggestion.
A grocer has excellent opportunity
to know the effects of special foods on
his customers. A Cleveland grocer has
a long list of customers that have been
helped in health by leaving off coffee
and using Postum Food Coffee.
He says, regarding his own expert
ence: 1.-TWO years ago 1 had been drink"
ing coffee and must say that was al
most wrecked in my nerves.
Particularly in the morning was 81
irritable and upset that l could haroiy
wait until the coffee was served, ana
then I had no appetite for breakfast
and did not feel like attending to my
store duties.
Zone day my wife suggested that In
asmuch as l was selling so niucn
Postum there must be some merit III -
and snpeested that we try 1t. TOOK
home package and she prepared II
according to directions. The result was
a very happy one. My nervousness
gradually disappeared and to-day | am
all right. / would advise everyone
affected in any way with nervousness
or stomach troubles. to leave off coffee
and use Postum Food Coffee" There's.
a Reason Read 1.-THE Road to Well
ville." in pkgs.
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, 1908-06-04

brush. The plan was laid out for
building IA feet high, IA feet long and
Z feet wide. He worked with remark
able patience, oftentimes putting in all
his waking hours at his task. After
two years of almost continuous appli-
cation the job was finished.
The walls of the cathedral, the tow
ers and turrets, the galleries and stee-
pies, the ornaments-all are of match
es. 1t took more than 100000 match
es to build the church and more than
100 pounds Of glue used in fastening
the 100000 matches securely.-New
York Press.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04
THE TRUTH ABOUT MEDIUMS.
Perfectly Healthy People often
Possess Abnormal Powers.

Perfectly Healthy People often
Possess Abnormal Powers.
Il have had a good deal of expert
ence with mediums, and I've come to
the conclusion that they all start with
at least some small basis of abnormal
power. Is it not rather suggestive that
the number Of practicing mediums does
not materially increase? If it were a
mere matter Of deception, would there
not be thousands at the trade? AS a
matter of fact, there are not fifty adj
vertising mediums in New York at this
moment, though, Of course, the number
is kept down by the feeling that it is a
bit disreputable to acknowledge posses
sion of these powers.
''There are nice ones. NV own moth
er had this power in her youth SO my
father tells me. Her people were liv-
ing in Wisconsin at the time, and the
settlers from many miles around came
to see her perform. An uncle, when
boy Of four, lid automatic writing,
and an aunt recently wrote to me in re-
lation to my book, The Tyranny of the
Dark, that for two years beginning
when she was about ~ these powers
Of darkness made her life hell There
are many recent people who are posses
sed by strange forces, but are shy Of
confessing these abnormalities. Ask
your family physician. He will tell you
that he always has at least one patient
who is troubled by occult powers. They
call it shysteria,' which doesn't explain
anything Many apparently healthy
people possess the more elementary Of
these powers-often without knowing
it."-Hamlin Garland in Everybody's.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04
snow-Grown Ostrich Feathers.

Every one has at least heard the state
ment that fur-bearing animals kept in a
cold climate produce heavier coats of fur
than in tropical habitat. 1t seems a
long jump from this fact to the raising
of unusually heavy crops of ostrich
feathers by keeping those birds in snowy
arctic regions. One would naturally ex-
pect so essentially tropical an animal to
be killed by the rigors of cold climate,
and the supply of feathers thus entirely
estopped instead of being increased. 1t
appears, however, according to popular
mechanics, that Hagenbeck, the well
known German animal dealer, has an os-
trich farm near Hamburg, where by ex-
posing the birds to cold he has not ONLY
acclimated them to severe weather but
greatly increased their output of feathers.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04
Coppers in Great Demand.

At the rate of four tons day the Brit
ish mint has been turning out copper
coins in an attempt to cope with the
famine in pence in London and other
centers. This stringency always becomes
most acute toward the end of each quar-
ter. Nearly all the English gas COM
panies have adopted the penny-in-the-
slot system of selling gas The automatic
meters are emptied at the end of each
quarter. The popularity of this system
of supplying illumination is shown by
the fact that during 1907, pennies weigh
ing 1886 tons were taken from the
meters in London. This means an aver
age of 100000 pennies day.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

Rear Admiral Coghlan, whose vessel the Raleigh, rem
dered such conspicuous service at the battle of Manila
Bay, tells the Philadelphia Ledger of the important
changes which have taken place in the since that
memorable battle of ten years ago.
1.-THE greatest change said the Admiral, "has, Of
course been the great increase in the strength of
navy. Never in the history Of the world has nation
increased it's within period of ten years
we have since the with Spain. We had then four
battleshps. We have % nearly all of which in
commission. The four others which under construc
ton should soon be ready for service You might
phasize this: that any of these battleshps
which have built since the battle Of Manila would
have been than match for the entire feet which
Admiral Dewey commanded.
"The other advances. They have been notable and
many There is the increase the rapidity of fire. We
have actual rapid fire. But in those days such
appliances were introducing might be described
tending WELL say decrease sowness of fire; that
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

The April movement of marine ton
mage from the port of Milwaukee is
much smaller than that of the opening
month of navigation last year; but the
falling off was expected. owing to the
slowness of lake carrying enterprise, and
Milwaukee's record will be no excep-
ton The decline in tonnage movement
at some of the Lake Erie ports will be
tremendous because of the dullness in
the iron trade.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

Forty cases of typhoid fever at Mar
shalltown, Iowa, traced to something that
was eaten or drunk at church festival
is proof of the necessity of care in the
handling and storage of articles of food
and drink. 1t is an occurrence on the
eve of Fly time which will make many
people more careful during the summer
months
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

The German emperor thinks that his
income should be enlarged ON account
of the increased cost of living. But this
would mean an additional burden Of tax
alton upon the people, for whom the cost
OF living is higher too. One of the rea-
sons why the cost of living has increased
in Germany is that that the Emperor's
expansive policies have called for huge
sums which have had to be raised by
eaxation, and taxation, as usual, has been
reassesSed as much as possible against
the consumer.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

uuence final result should be the evolution
of higher and nobler type of man in America and not
deterioration of the nation.
end process of evolution should be carefully
studied and controlled by suitable immigration laws
tending clinical elements and to
stimulate the admission of elements assmiated readily
by population that tend to raise the standard of
manhood here.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

such painstaking labor as few men are
capable of performing.
For 20 years Lempertz has been
coal miner He worked in the mines
of Germany and America, but a few
years ago he had to give up mining on
he did various things to while away
the time. One day he started to build
a toy cathedral patterned after a pic
ture he saw in magazine. His build
ing materials were matches and glue,
his tools a pocket knife and a glue
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

The breaking out of old feuds in Ken
lucky. and the popping of rifles incident
thereto, may divert the attention of the
Night Riders and thus help to subdue
that outbreak. Many of the Kentucky
tobacco raiders are doubtless in the melee
simply for the love of fighting.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

Andrew Carnegie's gift of 100000 to
the Mechanics Tradesmen's association
of New York is a contribution for the
promotion of public instruction in the
mechanical and building trades, for
which there is now loud call in the
city of New York. Schooling of this
kind is highly desirable, because it pre-
pares young people for the important
duty of caring for themselves.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04
DIVORCES ONLY FOR THE CHILDLEsS
By Prof. Ale.

Throw wide the gates of marriage,
and where children are produced close
tight the doors of divorce. Every child
is entitled, by nature, to father and
a mother, and no people should pro-
duce children who are not prepared
to give them parental care for life.
The grand spectacle is presented to
our eyes of a new people being grad
ually evolved in the United States by
the mingling together of the different
races Of the world in varying proper
L. of ho rroo toSt onnsa=
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

The preseIce of the battleship fleet in
the bay at Monterey displays great ma
tional strength on the Pacific coast with
in sight of the little building upon which
John c.. Fremont in 1S47 triumphantly
hoisted the American flag and declared
national sovereignty, after a land
demonstration following Commodore
Sloat's capture of Monterey.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04
CATHEDRAL MADE OF MATCHES.

A coal miner named Wilhelm Lem
pertz arrived here a. few days ago with
a Cathedral cathedral made of
matches. He came from Port Arthur,
Texas, where he had been employed
until recently. The cathedral repre-
sents two years Of Lempertz's labor,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

You can put mat in front of every
plate, but you can't make fly wipe his
feet before he walks on your food. The
only safe course with regard to the fly
is to exclude him from the house. His
place is outdoors, with the hogs. Get
your screens in early, and avoid the rush
of flies.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

known as our emotions. All emotions should be
der control The choeric man. violent, exuberant is
feeble fellow at the mercy Of his environments With
him the nerves dominate abolish individual in
itiatye He is a creature of impulse, matter where
it originates. He is a moral and social slave.
The man that lively, too petuant dspenses his
forces as quickly they produced He never has
but small amount of energy to concentrate on some
thing really useful although he attacks his problems
with vim and even with violence man who wishes to
have strength the right occasions must husband his
resources and hold careful watch his daily move
ments.
Such man has the advantage in that by his vic
tory Of will power his emotional tendencies, over
his animal centers human instincts he has purified
his Judgment reinforced his mental powers and given
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

A Missourian with a beard six feet
long is running for office. If he is elect
ed it may be interesting to inquire how
lar if at all the result indicates reaction
against the notion of the young man in
DoIitics
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

There will be general endorsement of
the clause of the army appropriation
bill which provides for a fiat increase
of $500 in the pay of officers and 30 per
cent. in the pay of the enlisted men.
Uncle Sam must pay his soldiers enough
to make the army attractive.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04
BANKERS SERVICE TO THE COUNTRY.
By Senator DepeW of

Bankers do not claim that they are
in business for philanthropy or their
health. They do not deny that they
desire to make all the money they le-
ultimately can, to pay good dividends
to their stockholders, and strengthen
their institutions by adding to their
surplus. But no student of finance
can rise from study Of what the
bankers, not only of New York, but
Of Chicago and other large cities, did
in the recent crisis without feeling
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

The "high diver" who plunged into
Chicago river from a height of eighty
seven feet went into the water without
difficulty. Before the drainage canal
diluted the black fluid there was danger
that performer of this kind might have
difficulty in geeting below the surface.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

cered managed by WISE levelheaded exceptionally
able and patriotic
No better public service be rendered by bank Of
cers and directors than to keep the machinery
merce going and maintain strong solvent the
stitutious upon which the credit business the
ployment and the living of the people depend.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

There is probably no great regret over
the fact that fire has destroyed some of
the buildings of the jamestown EXPOSE
ton. The grounds will have to be
cleared eventually, and wrecking is ex-
DenSiVe
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

Chicago seems to be bent on reducing
the smoke nuisance. One business firm
has just been fined $50 on each of nine
counts. making $3.50 in all. This more
expensive smoking than ''two for a
quarter
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

would be the best way to express what doing
then Then the minimum of time required between shots
of the heavy pieces two and half minutes. Now
the maximum is about 40 seconds.
1.-THE improved gun mechanism permitted Of vastly
increased rapdty in firing The telescope sight brought
about vast improvement in accuracy, especially when
firing at long range. One observer become much
impressed with this accuracy that he sought to tell
about it in this WISE The captain peerng through his
binoculars at ship just above the horizon says the
captain of a Six-nch gun: Hit that fellow the
bridge in the eye Aye, ave. says the gun captain,
which eyer"
Among the numerous other improvements the Ad-
mral noted the advance in construction prog
great that the IL inches which the Connect
cut carries has greater resisting power than the 18
inches which the Oregon and class carried Still
another important advance the smoeess powder with
which our magazines supplied this being vastly
superior to the old smoking brown hexagona with which
fought out the war with Spain
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

Now that Chicago civic societies have
banded together to secure legislation for
the suppression of the white slave traf-
fic, a strong impression prevails that
something effective will be done.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04
Broke the Law.

"What got me into trouble? Failure
to ignore the law"
"That seems odd"
"Not at all. 1 couldn't resist the
temptation to give the law a swift
kick."-Louisville Courier-J Journal.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

His Holiness the Pope, undazzled by
the Gould millions, keeps a clear eye on
the seriousness of the divorce evil when
complicated with visions of marrying
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

The Marine Firemen's and Marine
Cooks Unions will not require owners
to enter into contracts this season, and
the Seamen's Union will probably fol-
low suit. Conditions on the Great Lakes
are not such as to warrant conflict with
owners, who in most instances would
quickly lay up their tonnage at the be-
ginning of wage troubles. Those who
are employed in lake navigation should
place no obstacle in the way of amicable
relationships with owners, so that the
number of employed may be made as
large as possible.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

Nearly all Of the Indian colony of
forty families near Bay City, Mich. have
died in the last few years of consump-
ton. The remainder are living in pow
erty. although their white neighbors do
what they can to support them.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04
WASHBURN PRINTING CO., Publishers

To. offset the low temperature and
snow in the South things ought to take
turn toward balmy summer in this
latitude,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04
EMOTIONAL CONTROL BRINGS POWER.
BY SiIVain ROude.

When we yield to an emotion our sentiment
always transforms itself into movement.
Joy, fear, love, anger are expressed in I'M
conscious gestures, in perfectly clear man
ner The strong man is master of his emo
lions and his unconscious movements. In or
der to expend our strength to the best advan-
tage is is needful to give out as little as
possible under that base form Of energy
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

After an affecting scene at a play
the men all blow their noses vigorous
ly, and the women pat their eyes. A
mans way of crying is to blow his
nose.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

We had been married six months
when we had the professor to dinner.
When Elizabeth and he were talking and
let something slip. I didn't say any
thing before him, and they thought
didn't take it in; but [ did.
When he had gone l took Elizabeth by
the arm.
elizabeth" I said, "you cheated your
father about those diamonds"
She looked at me for a long time.
"What are you going to do?" she
asked.
"Tell your father, and give up the
money" 1 said.
Elizabeth gave a little laughing
scream, and caught hold of me. you're
going to keep me?" she cried.
why" said, "of course"
"Then / don't care" she asserted, Eek
cept for father. He will be so sorry that
-that-' She blinked a little.
"That you did it," suggested; and
she wiped her eyes and stamped her foot
"You are stupid" she said. Hell be
sorry that I've been found out, and that
he can't give me his money. If you I'M
derstood it properly"
"Now look here, Elizabeth" I said.
IT understand it my own way, and I
never shall understand it any other
way. You won't get round me by any
of your cleverness; and you may as well
give it up"
George she said calmly. 81 give it
up. You may kiss me-"
/ went round to her fathers office the
next morning. and burst my way
through the clerks into his private office.
He said he had no time to talk to me.
but sat down and told him I'd wait till
he had. That seemed to please him, and
he laid down his pen and chuckled.
whats it about?" he asked.
"The diamonds that the professor
made" I said. "He didn't make them
really"
"Of course he didn't" he said. "Your
hussy of wife-my hussy of daugh-
ter-changed them in the WOOL"
"And-you-knew? I gasped.
He laughed slowly.
"And Elizabeth guessed that I knew"
he told me, eff you come to that. 1t was
her way of saving my face-about not
breaking my word, and now you've
gone and spoiled it like-dash it ALL
like the straight sort of chap I wanted
to marry my girl. She's better judge
of men than she is of diamonds !"-Owen
Oliver in The Sketch.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

making progress church did not care about the
conditions Of labor, l tell you right I'd get out
of the church But the church does Christ gave
no social system He set out to better the Individual
Josh Billings said: Before you can have an
honest you must have honest human race
and guess there lots of horse in that state
ment 1t is not much question of mans surround
ings but what Within within himself, that has to
do with composing the social unrest
The church herself has created this increased social
unrest in showing people the heights to which they might
attain. That is Jesus Christ would have ia health
full dissatisfaction with personal conditions to
how to rise higher
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

himself the capacity for discrimination in other
matters between the important and the insignificant the
useful and the idle
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04
THE CHURCH'S INTEREST IN LABOR.
By Rev. Charles SfeIzIe.

The labor union is not the labor question
If all the unions were wiped out OF exist
ence the question would remain. This is the
era of the common man. The common man.
the workingman, is coming to his own. IN
less that victory is based on sound principles,
the last state will be worse than the first
The square deal for every man should be our
ideal We are making mistakes but we are
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

There is a fortune waiting for some
mechanical genius who will invent a
machine for making rope with banana
fiber. The president of a steamship and
importing company at Galveston declares
that banana fiber is superior to manila
fiber, and if it were utilized a large
amount of material that is now thrown
away by planters would be made valua-
BILE. If banana fiber is superior to man
lila, it will not be long before some Yam
kee is demonstrating the fact in a prac-
teal and profitable way. Rope mater
ial will never 'go begging"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-04

According to a statement by the Brit
islf admiralty, it costs the empire ST.
157.500 a year to keep a 6rst-class bat
tleship in commission. This figure in
cludes interest on investment, deprecia-
tipn. ETC.. and is probably correct. 1t
costs in the neighborhood of 100000 to
keep an American battleship in commits
sion a year, without the items which
financiers add in order to get at the
exact total figure. These facts show
that navies are expensive luxuries from
which small maritime nations may well
shrink in dread of bankruptcy.