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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27
COFFEE DRINKING.

Doctor Says 1T Weakens the Heart.
"In my opinion says a well-known
German physician, mo one can truth
fully say coffee agrees with him, as it
has long since been proven that caffeine,
contained in coffee, is an injurious,
poisonous substance which weakens and
degenerates the heart muscles.
For this reason the regular use of
coffee, soon or late, causes a condition
of undernourishment, which leads to
various kinds Of organic disease.
"Convinced of this fact, l have often
sought for some healthful beverage to
use instead of coffee. At last l found
the thing desired in Postum. Having
had occasion to forbid people using
coffee, whose hearts were affected,
have recommended Postum as a bev-
erage. since it is free from all injurious
or exciting substances. / know this
from results in my own family, and
among patients.
Hundreds of persons who now use
Postum in place of coffee, are greatly
benefited thereby" There's a Reason.
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well
vilIe," in pkgs.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27
Be Kind to the OI5.

Edward King, bishop of Lincoln, who
is now nearly 80, was once taking an
airing at the seaside when he found
some difficulty in rising from his low
chair.
Seeing his predicament, young fisher
girl FASTENED to his assistance and helped
his lordship to his feet. DR.. King was
profuse in his thanks, but the girl who
had no idea of his identity begged him
not to mention it.
CHATS all right sir, said she with Il
laugh, I'm used to it. I've often had to
take father home when he's been a good
deal drunken than your'-Bellman.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27
A Canine CuriO.

Two or three dogs are nearly always
to be found loaing about every black
smiths shop. This fact is so we'll recog-
nized that detectives, when sent out aft
er valuable dogs that have been lost: in.
variaibly visit grst all the blacksmiths'
shops in the neighborhood.
The reason why dogs frequent black
smiths shops is that they love inordinate-
" the odor and the taste of burning hoofs.
They sniff the odor as a woman shifts a
rose, and they eat the hoOf parings as
gourmet eats truffles.
Landseer, the great animal painter,
knew this old fact well, and in, his IA
nous picture of 1.-THE Smiths Shop a
dog in the foreground is greedily MUNICH
inc sliYers of toasted hOOf.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27
A Little Mixed.

''The late Marion Story, Julian Story's
brother, was great sportsman" said
a New York broker. ''He was a splen-
did angler. / used to like to hear him
tell fish stories, for in his case these
stories were always no less amusing than
true.
mir. Story was once fishing for tar
pom in Florida. He fished in motor boat,
and his companion was crecker-a
Florida cracker.
Suddenly the cracker got bite, gave
a great jerk backward, and then-prestO,
he was splashing and flOudering in the
water. The huge fish had pulled him
overheard.
Drop your rodv shouted Mr.. Story,
and he started the motor, and IN few
minutes reached the cracker and hauled
him back on board.
''The man said, as he began to wiring
out his clothes:
"What | want to know isis this
cracker a-fshin' or was that fish a
crackerin' ?''-San Antonio Express.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27
Bathos.

Prof. Bander Matthews, at recent
dinner talked of bathos with his usual
wealth of apt illustration.
1--WE find deal of bathos in the law
courts" he said. "An excellent example
occurred in a Massachusetts judges sum-
ming up of a larceny case. He said:
For forty centuries the thunders of
Sinai have echoed through the world:
Thou shalt not steal. This is also, gem
tlemen, principle of common law and
rule of equity
''In a murder trial (he accused had
killed a soldier another judge said:
''John Jones, not only have you COM
mitted murder. but you have also run q
bayonet through the breeches of one OF
our august republics cavalry uniforms.
"a Sunapee justice of the peace re-
buked a thief thus:
Prisoner, a bountiful Providence has
endowed you with health and strength,
instead of which you go about stealing
chickens "-Washington Star.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27
Some Factlets.

Snow-shovelers work best on sugar
Americans have the strongest teeth
and eyes.
Good human hair is worth S. an
ounce Wholesale
The snow goes in Lapland on July
and returns again on August 10.
Almost 90 per cent of American
households possess one or more Bibles.
The father of seven or more children
is practically exempt from taxation in
France.
In this country the annual butter CON
sumption-25 pounds a head is the
highest in the world.
The worlds largest bee farm is at
Becton. Canada. There 100000 bees
turn out $4,000 pounds of honey year.
In the times of the Puritans it was
common to hear such names as Weep
not Billing. Kill-sin Pimple, Fight-the-
goodnight White, Meek Brewer, Earth
Adams. Stand-fast-on-high Stringer,
More-fruit Fowler, Goodgift. Gynninges,
Fear-not Rhodes. Be-courteous French,
and Seek-wisdom Hadley.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27

for humanity-a welfare that can come
about only through the personal efforts
of individual men.
Yes, trust yourself when in your soul
is heard not the wish to excel others, to
distinguish yourself from others, to be
more powerful, more important or more
famous, or to be saviors of men, freeing
them from the evil organization of life
(such desires often supplant the wish
for goodness), but trust yourself when
the chief desire of your soul is to better
yourself; l will not say to perfect your
self, for in self perfecting there is some
thing personal, something gratifying to
self-love; but will say to make yourself
such as the God desires who gave us
life; to disclose in yourself the principle,
like unto Him, which is in us, and to
live godly as the peasants say.
Trust yourself and live thus, bending
all your strength to one purpose-the
manifestation in yourself of God; and
you will do all you can do, both for your
own welfare and for that of the whole
world.
Seek first the kingdom of God and His
righteousness; the rest shall be added
unto you.
Yes, trust yourself at that most i'm
portant time when the light of conscious
ness of your divine origin first shows
itself in your soul. Do not eXtinguish
that light-guard it with all your
strength and let it burn more strongly.
In that one thing, the kidding of that
light, lies the one great and joyous mean
ing of each mans life.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27
THE WASHBURN TIMES.
WASHBURN, WIS.
WASHBURN PRINTING CO., Publishers
THE PILGRIM.

No wrathful wrecks of yesterday
Shall shut the sunlight from my race;
Nor bar my upward-climbing way
Nor trammel me in my soul-race
Done deeds are dead. Let those who will
Falter and fall before old ghosts,
For me the sweet, eXultant thrill
Of marching with the conQuering hosts.
For me. no dreaming doubtful dreams,
Nor bordering on gone defeat
Before me lies the road which CLEANS
With all it's triple-millioned feet
That bravey strive increasingly
To reach that far tall-towered helgnt,
Whereon the sun shines daZzllngly
And where there is no bitter night.
No hand NAV help, no word may cheer,
But by whatever Gods there be
Within my heart there turks no fear,
And / shall wreSt the victory!
-Lucius Withers, in Harper's Magazine
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27
THE PLACE CALL MY OWN.

Knowing that in this hour thou thinkst OF
me,
| feel thee knocking at my spirit-door.
Though never mays thou walk across this
floor
And never these four bounding walls shalt
see,
The place / call my own is full of thee .
The place l call my own? oh, more and
more
Not any walls, on any time-built shore,
Are mine, to dwell within-to hold in fee!
Where 1, this moment, ope the door to thee,
There shall not enter one sad murmur,
blown
From down the Past-nOr, from the dim
TO-be,
Shall any fear creep in, with rising
SO shall this place of mine be full of thee.
Edith M. Thomas in Success Magazine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27
Perfectly Willing to Help Out.

There is a good story going the rounds
in Pittsburg of young man, formerly a
stock broker, who dropped many thou
sands in speculation during the early
spring.
One night, shortly after going to bed,
the Pittsburger was awakened by strange
sounds. At his first motion to jump up
he was greeted by hOarse voice. ''If you
stir you're dead man.' it said. I'm
looking for money"
I'm that case" pleasantly answered the
erstwhile speculator, kindly allow me
to rise and strike a light. / shall deem
it a favor to be permitted to assist in
the search. ''-Philadelp Record.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27
Wore Out the Snow.

My old friend Crabtree of the real
early Oklahoma days tells this tale
about an early snowstorm: Zone day
after many days of dry weather a big
snow came and visited our drought
stricken land. The faces of the farm
ers were all smiles, because it meant a
wheat crop But alas! an old time wind
came up from the south that blew about
forty miles an hour and drifted the snow
northward for a day. Then came an
eighty mile an hour wind from the north
that drifted it back south again. This
condition Of wind continued daily until
the snowstorm was blown and worn out
and not a snowflake could be found any
where in the county. "-Watongo Herald.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27
i ! ,if' 4'.: with a,. ThOmpsOn'S
What He Had Done.

Tactful and delicate, even for a
Frenchman, was the reply made by a
Partisan who had not found "a life on
the ocean wave" all which one could
wish. He was sinking, pale and bag
gard, into his steamer chair when his
neighbor cheerily asked:
Have you breakfasted, monsieurY
mo m'sieur," answered the French
man with a wan smile, II have not
breakfasted. On the contraryv- Every
bOdy's Magazine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27
Little Bits.
Coal was first used in 1881.
Hail never falls upon forests

Coal was first used In 1881.
Hail never falls upon forests.
The baobab tree lives often to 5000
years.
There is a lizard in Guiana that runs
erect.
The bamboo often grows 30 inches in
twentyfour hours.
Every four months a man eats his
own weight in food.
The proper pronunciation of "khe-
dive is ''ked-owah."
Boys grow most in their 18th, girls in
their 14th year.
At Welbeck. in Germany, marriage
licenses are not granted to drunkards.
So powerful are the poppies of Turkey
that. if a man falls asleep in poppy
field he becomes narcotized, and, unless
discovered and removed, dies.
The winter in California, the spring
in Virginia, the summer in New Jersey
and the autumn in New England-thus
according to the weather men, one would
live always in a perfect climate.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27

Fond Mamma "a little anxiously)-
Don't you think the baby is a trife-well,
high-colored?
Tactful Family Friend inspecting the
lobster tinted infant)-Oh, he's only what
one ought to expect from the offspring of
such literary man as his father.
that?
Tactful Family Friend-He's just we'll
red.-Baltimore American.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27

At meeting Of the executive commit
tee of the Savannah (Ga.) Automobile club
the request of Mrs. Joan Newton Cuneo
of Richmond, Va, to drive car in the
main event of the automobile races
March Is and 10, was denied.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27
An Adaptable Proverb.

II lost heavily on the races yesterday"
"a fool and his money are soon
parted" replied the sardonic person.
"Ah, but 1 won today"
"a fool for luck Washington Star.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27

The annual convention of the Inter
national Association of Fur Workers OF
the United States and Canada will be
held at Toronto the first week of April.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27

This woman says Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
saved her life. Read her letter.
Mrs. T. c. Willadsen, of Manning,
Iowa, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
81 can truly say that Lydia E. Pink
life, and cannot express my gratitude
to you in words. For years suffered
with the worst forms of female COM
plants, continually doctoring and
spending lots of money for medicine
without help. Iwrote you for advice,
followed it as directed, and took Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
It has restored me to perfect health.
Had it not been for you should have
been in my grave to-day. wish every
suffering woman would try it."
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands Of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, Inflammation, ulcera-
ton, dbroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness, or nervous prostration.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27

During 1907 the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Street and Electric Railway
Employees of America secured for it's
membership an aggregate increase in
wages amounting to $2,346O0O.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27
London Has Sweet Pea Show.

A sweet pea show was given in horti-
cultural hall, London, recently. There
were 5000 punches on exhibition, includ-
ing $50 novelties. The struggle for a
yellow sweet pea is still unsuccessful.
The nearest approach is creamy
buff"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27
Diamond Cutting Increasing.
One Amsterdam factory alone cuts
100000 diamonds every year.
WHAT CAUSES HEADACHE.

From october to May Colds are the most fire.
ouent cause of Hea dache. LAXATIVE BROMO
QUININEremoves cause. e. W. Grove on box Csc
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27

The Bricklayers and Masons' Interna-
tional Union of America has Endorsed
the postal savings bank idea.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27
LABOR NEWS NOTES.

Nearly 5000 organized women in Ger
many are employed as printers assist
ants.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27

The mines of the world employ 5,OOO,-
600 persons, and more than one-third OF
them are in the British empire.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27

The legislative campaign which the
Workingmen's Federation of New York
state has planned this year will embrace
some distinctive propositions, such as the
election of a abor commissioner instead
of his appointment by the governor The
establishment of a minimum scale of %
cents an hour for unskilled labor on
public works is also proposed.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27

1OIaI S1.UU
Above is sufficient seed to grow 35 bu
of rarest vegetables and thousands of
brilliant flowers, and all is mailed to you
POSTPAID FOR 12C,
or if you send Ice, we will add a pack
age of Berliner Earliest Caulifower.
John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse,
Wis. c. n. y.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27
Onions. Onions, Onions.

600 bu. of Salzer's Red Globe Onion
per acre at SOC bu. brings $4,000. That
pays. 81
$4,000 from 3 acres Salzer's Morning
Star Cucumber is we'll worth taking
along.
$40 bu. Salzer's II Fodder Earliest and
Best Pea sold in the green state at $3.50
a bu. makes $4,000 per acre. Such
yields Salzer's pedigree vegetables stand
for.
For 12G
and this notice the John A. Salzer Seed
Co., La Crosse, Wis, in order to gain
100000 new customers during 1908, will
mail you free their great plant and seed
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27

them are in the British empire
John Burns, president Of the board
of trade of Great Britain, recently Wis
tied the labor colonies in Germany with
view of gaining information to assist
in solving the unemployed problem in
England.
The Eight-Hour League of America
is conducting an agitation among the
trades union with the object of making
the universal eight-hour work day. the
paramount issue of the coming presiden-
tial campaign.
At conference of representatives of
national photographic organizations re-
Gently held in Washington, d. c., it was
decided soon to amalgamate the allied
photographic trades.
A petition to be signed by $4,000 vOt-
ers is being prepared by the Ohio Fed
GRAFTON of Labor in favor of the Reyn
olds child labor bill, which is now pend
ing in the Ohio Legislature.
The International Association of Ma
chinists has adopted a resolution prOvid-
ing that each member lay aside one day S
pay each year to 60 into general strike
benefit and emergency fund.
The affairs of the Commonwealth
Trust and Savings bank of Chicago,
an institution organized two years ago
as a strictly labor union bank, are to
be wound up and the corporation is to
be dissolved.
Probably for the first time i'll the his
tory of Consrantinople 200 workmen
went on strike a few weeks ago, de-
handing an increase of wages in order
to enable them to meet the huge in
crease the cost of living.
Denmark leads the way in labor or
CARNATIONS in Europe. Fifty per cent.
of her wage earners are members of
labor unions England, Germany, Swe-
den, Hungary, Austria and Belgium fol
lew in respective order.
The Industrial Workers of the World
is to hold a national convention in Chi
cagO next April to establish zone large
industrial union, with large defense
fund to be used for strike purposes and
to encourage sympathetic strikes"
A national union composed of the
agents employed by leading sewing ma
chine company recently ordered a strike
for a higher commission and the rein
statement of a number of agents alleged
to have been discharged for belonging
to the union.
a union Of hospital superintendent has
been organized in Chicago, which may
be extended to take in medical and sur
gical workers. 1t is called the Chicago
Hospital association and has twenty-five
hospitals in its membership.
The unhealthiest occupation in the
world is said to be that of the Sicilian
sulphur miners. A recent examination
showed that out of 1000 of these miners
only 200 were physically fit for military
service.
The legislative campaign which the
Workingmens Federation of New York
state has planned this year will embrace
some distinctive propositions, such as the
election of a la Dor commissioner instead
of his appointment by the governor The
establishment of a minimum scale of %
cents an hour for unskilled labor on
public works is also proposed.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27

The unhealthiest occupation in the
world is said to be that of the Siciliar
sulphur miners. A recent examination
showed that out of 1000 of these miners
only 200 were physically fit for military
service
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27

John Burns, president of the board
of trade of Great Britain, recently Wis
tied the labor colonies in Germany with
a view of gaining information to assist
in solving the unemployed problem in
England
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27

a union of hospital superintendent has
been organized in Chicago, which may
be extended to take in medical and sur,
gical workers 1t is called the Chicago
Hospital association and has twenty-five
hospitals in its membership.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27

The Eight-Hour League of America
is conducting an agitation among the
trades union with the object of making
the universal eight-hour work day. the
paramount issue of the coming presiden-
tial campaign.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27

At a conference Of representatives of
national photographic organizations re-
Gently held in Washington, d. c., it was
decided soon to amalgamate the allied
photographic trades.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-27

A petition to be signed by $4,000 vot-
ers is being prepared by the Ohio Fed
GRAFTON of Labor in favor of the Reyn-
olds child labor bill, which is now pend
ing in the Ohio Legislature
The sun., 1908-03-18
THE BIG STICK NECESSARY
And Mckinley Couldn't Have Welded IT,.
says Kennedy OF the 18th Ohio.


WASHINGTON March Thames Ken
nedy. successor TO William Mckinley as
Representative from the Eighteenth Ohio
district. told the House to-day why his
predecessor would have failed in carrying
on successfully the campaign for industrial
and commercial liberty and honest bust
ness methods which has been the main
characteristic Of the present Administra-
tiOn.
while admirably adapted he said,
To do the work that he did. he would have
been utterly unable TO accomplish what
Roosevelt has achieved, The work OF
this Administration required big stick,
a big stick that could not have been welded
by NcKnley's gentle hands
Mr.. Kennedy made these remarks and
others In the general debate on the PENSION
appropriation bill. Other speeches we're
ma lie by Mr. Prince Of Illinois, advocating
the Fowler currency bill, which he helped
to put into shape; by Ollie James Of Ken
tucky, a general political harangue charg-
ing the Republican party with failure TO
enact remedial legislation demanded by the
people. and by Mr.. Brundidge OF Arkansas,
who expressed the hope that II Congress
adjourned without enacting the bills recon-
mendei by President Roosevelt he would
convene an extra session before the mem
bers had time to get out OF town.
The sun., 1908-03-18
Mo,ements Of Naval Vessels.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE cruiser
South Dakota has arrived at San Diego,
the hattleship Mississippi at League Island
the cruiser Chicago at Bahia. the collier
Lebanon at Hampton Roads, the repair
ship Panther at Magdalena Bay and the
tug Nina at Bridgeport.
The cruiser Buffalo has sailed from Mag
dalena BAY for San Diego. the gunboat
Eagle from Guantanamo for surveying
grounds, the cruiser Prairie from Newport
for League Island the supply ship Are
thusa from Callao for Panama. the tug
Ajax from Callao for Magdalena Bay and
the cruiser Olympia and tug StRndish from
Annapolis for Norfolk