The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-01-14


port of New York is busy one, and the
entrance thereto is quite narrow. There
fore the danger during fogs will always
be great in the vicinity of Sandy Hook.
A wise measure framed by Senator
Lodge has been agreed upon in confer
ence by both branches of Congress. 1t
proyides that steamship companies shall
provide at least five feet of open deck
for each steerage passenger. This will
insure healthful conditions, and make
things safer when cholera and other dis
eases are spreading menacingly in the
Old World.
Prof. H. l.. Bolley of the North Da
kota Agricultural School will have to
employ an amanuensis if he answers
all the letters that people who hate
to see dandelions sprouting in their lawns
are likely to write to him next spring.
The Professor has been experimenting
with view to the eradication of weeds
and is said to have discovered a spray
that puts dandelions out of business.
The tunnel collision on a French rail-
road near Limoges precipitated the worst
possible conditions for the unfortunate
travellers in the coaches which were
wrecked by the colliding freight train.
The fatal wreck lis proof that railroad
perils are universal, despite the tradition
al arraignment of American railroad men
for carelessness. 1t ought to be possible
to provide a clear right of way in a
tube.
The state of Pennsylvania has at last
pushed a number of grafters to the
Threshold of the penitentiary on SEN
fences of two years with fine. The
Swindling in connection with the con-
struction of the state capitol at Harris
burg was so daring and so extensive
that it is surprising the perpetrators
We're not brought to punishment sooner.
There were no retailers among the
Harrisburg grafters. All seemed to be
bent upon wholesale swindling.
The traditional saying that murder
will out" may seem to be discredited
by the fact that twenty-four of the
murders of 1908 reported by the bureau
of records of the Chicago police depart
ment have not been followed by arrests.
But even in Chicago the midnight assas-
sin often brings about his own undoing,
and cases of mysterious murder have to
await developments in the criminal
world before the detectives, can catch
the first thread of unravelment
The steamer Niagara's cargo of l.
100000 feet of lumber, delivered at
TOnawanda, New York, is probably the
record for lake cargoes of that character.
Its handling entailed the loss of consider
able time for the steamer, as no labor
saving devices can be used for the dis
charge of lumber of varying length and
width, which has to be tailed on An
ore carrier can discharge her cargo and
be long way ON a return trip while a
big carrier is discharging a cargo of
lumber
A fanciful artist employed on one of
the Sunday magazine sections pictures
a Twentieth century rescue at sea by
AN airship of the areoplane type which
hOvers over a dismasted ship while her
crew let's down ife-lines and hauls the
endangered seamen to safety in the aer-
ial courser. The spectacle of I'll aero
plane resting in mid-air as lazily as a
butterfly in the motionless atmosphere of
nOontime in midsummer is one that will
probably never be witnessed outside of
"a Sunday magazine section.
The "close CALI of four fishermen on
the New York fishing banks, through
the burning of their sloop after an .ex-
plosiOn of her gasoline tank, should adj
mOnish builders OF motor boats that they
must separate the main fuel supply from
the engine as far as possible, so that
leakages will not involve sufficient oil to
cause disaster in case of ignition. In
stances of the danger of present methods
of construction are multiplying with the
growing use of small boats propelled by
internal combustion engines.
The Mexican government will enact a
game law for the protection of mountain
sheep and other wild animals. TIE mat
ter was brought to the attention of Pres
ident Diaz by William T. Hornaday, the
naturalist, who during a recent Mexican
trip discovered that the country is over
run with pot-hnters. Mexico is in posi-
ton to do what the United States should
have done forty years ago, for the con-
servation of ANIMAL life on the plains
and in the western forests. If she does
not act, the pot-hunter will soon make
action unnecessary
One-half of the exports IF the United
States in the last fiscal year went to
Europe Second of the grand divisions,
gauged by the amount of American ex-
ports it absorbed, was North America.
South America and Asia ran neck-and-
neck, taking 81. 100000 worth apiece. 1t
is not very wonderful considering the
cOntignity of South America and the ex-
tent to which it has needs which the
United States could supply, that hope
is entertained of an ultimate important
expansion Of the export trade of this
country with the republics of the south
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Working under naked incandescent
electric lights was long ago recognized
as injurious to the eyes, yet it was not |
till recently that much attention was Civ
en- to placing them and shading them so
as to protect those who use them from
their dangerous glare. The habitual use
of these lights for reading and writing
is under the most favorable conditions a
risk for people with weak eyes. If ev-
erybOdy is on guard against the danger