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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-01-07
Held Services.

Rev. L. A. Goddard of BarabOO
Wis, conducted services at the
Congregational church in this
city last Sunday morning and
evening and also on Monday
evening. He was greeted by
large sized audiences at all of
the meetings. Rev. Goddard is
a good speaker and he held the
attention of his audiences.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-01-07
Tax Notice.
Dec. IL, 1908.


Notice is hereby given by the un-
dersigned Town Treasurer Of the
Town of Eileen that the Tax Roll for
said Town for year 1908 is in nv
hands for collection, and that the
taxes charged therein are Subject
to Payment at my office at any time
prior to or on the 31st of January
1909.
Office at Farm Section Ia 47-5.
New Home Phone.
Chas Ellison, Treasurer,
Town of Eileen
Address, r. F.. d. No 2 Box 5.
Ashland, Wis,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-01-07
Co-Employe Law Sticks.

After three months considera-
tion of the co-employe law the
supreme court this week handed
down a decision sustaining the
law and recognizing the power
of the legislature by statue to
prescribe a rule of comparative
negligence.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-01-07
Notice to LOggerS.

We do logging by contract and
DAD logs by thousand. Also pick
up logs by thousand. If you have
any work of this kind call up or ad-
dress Eugene Newhouse & Willette.
Washburn, Wis.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-01-07

Herman L. Ekern, speaker OF the
last legislature and who was defeat
ed in his home county for the repubi
lcan nomination for member of as
sembly after spirited campaign by
Albert Twesme, has this week been
appointed deputy insurance commits
sioner by George Beedle. =.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-01-07

You would not delay taking Foley's
Kidney Remedy at the first sign of
kidrey or bladder trouble if you
realized that neglect might result in
Bright's disease or diabetes. Foley s
Kidney Remedy corrects IRREGULAR
ties and cures all kidney and bladder
disorders. @ w. Frost.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-01-07
A Card

We, the undersigned, do hereby
agree to refund the money on 90
cent bottle of Green's warranted
Syrup OF Tar if if fails to cure your
cough or cold We also guarante
a 25-cent bottle to prove satisfact-
ory or money refunded. Fox Bros,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-01-07

Miss May Conlin. who has been
visiting with friend at Chicago for
the past two weeks, visited at the
home of her sister Mrs. Chas. King
in this city on her way home to Bay
field.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-01-07

The Adjourned annual session of
the County Board will be held at thc
Court House on Monday next, at
which time a number OF matters or
routine business will be disposed OF.
It is expected that all members OF
the Board will be present.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-01-07

Norwegian Lutheran Church
Services next Sunday morning
and evening at usual hours.
Both services will be held in the
Norwegian language.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-01-07

Besides this number many Of
the sportsmen also received con-
signments of fish fry from the
United States hatcheries so that
the total was large.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-01-07

take the following:
Mum ber put in. ..... ..87
For Lodging. 80. ..72
Drunk and Disorderly. 80
Wagrancy ............ 49,. "A
Assault and Battery 2
Stealing z
AS will be noticed from the
above seventy-two of the entire
number were put in Jail, many of
them at their own request, be-
cuse they were out of funds and
had no place to spend the night.
This is somewhat more than the
ordinary and was due to the dull
times last winter, all of the men
being out of employment. Of
the nine arrested for being drunk
and disorderly. five were given
trials and were sentenced to the
county Jail, The rest were let
go as soon as sober, The four
vagrants were ordered out of
town. Assault and battery cases
were or are to be tried before
the circuit court. The two cases
of stealing were young boys ar
rested and they were let. go on
their promise to be good, no one
desiring to have them prosecuted.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-01-07
We Got our Share.

From a report of the Commi-
sioner of Fisheries Of Wisconsin
just issued it is evident that Bay
field county got her share of the
fish fry during the past season
at least. The following is the
number of fish that were received
and planted in the various
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-01-07
RECORD WAS LIGHT
Jail Record Shows That WaShburn is
Free From Crime.
Very few Arrests Made Dur
in the Year just Ended.
No Cause.

Washburn can perhaps boast of
as clean Jail record as any city
of it's size in the state of WiscOn-
sin for the year just closed.
Chief of Police Oliver Wescott
this week furnised us with a
complete list of all persons that
have been put in the jail during
the past year and from it we
take the fOllOwinU.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-02
SAvAGES AT PLAY.
They Enjoy Themselves and Go to a
DANGEROUS Limit.

dangerous IiHlits
In the Fiji monkey game" laughter
reaches its highest point, for this is
one Of the widest they play, and not
only the children indulge in 1t, but the
grown-up men sometimes take 1t into
their heads to play 1t, when 1t assumes
a very different aspect. With the chill
dren 1t is pure fun, with little or no
danger attaching to it, says writer in
the Wide World Magazine.
A crowd of youngster line up and
move about like monkeys who are
merely enjoying themselves. Sudden
ly one Of them stops and gives vent to
a Shrek Of fear, the others take up the
cry, and Immediately break their line
and run wildly all over the place, chat
tering excitedly. When the simulated
panic Is at its height the smaller boys
spring on to the backs of the bigger
ones and are raced about all over the
place till fatigue puts an end to the
fun. When their elders play the
monkey game" however, they often
become so worked up that they really
behave like a crowd Of monkeys gone
stark, staring mad.
Sir Everard Finn Thurn, at present
governor Of Fiji, relates most trying
experience he went through during one
Of these mad frolics. He says that the
players suddenly burst in among the
20 70 ri n o
great mouthfuls Of thatch away in
their flights, and then dashed into the
rooms, upsetting everything they came
across and destroying food and furni-
ture. 1.-The old man of the settlement
and his wife, in real anxiety for their
goods, tried to protect what they could,
tearing 1t even from out Of the mon
keys hands or throwing food to them
to distract their attention from more
valuable property. At last, with the
help Of two bystanders, the old man
secured the more violent Of the play
ers and, despite some too genuine
scratchings and billings, managed to
fasten them by ropes round their loins.
monkey-wise. to the post Of houses.
The captives screamed and shrieked
and yelled, they rolled as far as their
cords would allow, and tore with their
teeth anything that came In their way
food, clothes, hammocks, pans and
calabashes. The whole mighty uproar
only ceased when all were literally too
tired to do more"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-02

Everybody All Right.-He was
sailor boy of about IS, and his COM
panion-probably his girl cousin
seemed to have met him at the station
and to be conducting him TO spend
some Of his leave at her home, says
the Manchester Guardian. Evidently
the boy had been to see his parents,
and was satisfied with their general
condition, for the conversation went
like this:
And how is your father?"
"Oh, he's all right"
And your mother?'
"Oh, she's all right"
How does Luck get on at school?
She must be a big girl now"
"Oh, she's all right"
Are the boys quite well?"
"Oh, they're all right"
There was quite a long pause after
this, and then the girl tried again
However do you sailors manage to
live on a ship?" she said. You must
find it very monotonous." For the first
time the sailor smiled He answered
the earliest part of the question by
shaking his head. "Oh, we're all right,
he explained"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-02
WORLDS GREATEST LAMP.
Throws Its Nightly Beams From the
Summit of Mount Lowe.

Throws Its Nightly Beams From the
Summit of Mount Lowe.
Lemuel H. Griggs of San Francisco
Cal, speaking to a Washington Herald
reporter Of the worlds greatest lamp,
said that one Of the principal attrac-
tions Of Mount Lowe, famous sum-
mer resort in southern California, was
an INNER e searchlight, declared to be
the largest in the world.
"This interesting searchlight," con-
tinued Mr.. Griggs, who is now on
business before the departments, us
Of 100000 candle power. 1t stands
about eleven feet in height, and its
total weight is 5000 pounds, neverthe-
less, it is so perfectly mounted and
balanced that even a child can move
It in any direction. The rejecting lens
of the mammoth searchlight is three
and a quarter inches thick at the edges,
and 1t is only a sixteen part OF an
inch thick at the centre, and weighs
800 pounds. It's lens is regarded as
marvel or ingenuity ana scientific SKILL
The rays are so powerful that they can
be seen $50 miles away in the Pacific
ocean. The beam of light is so bril-
liant that a newspaper can be read at
distance Of thirty-five miles from the
light. Situated as 1t Is on hill OF
$500 feet above the level Of the sea,
it has every scope for demonstrating
its great power. Thousands who have
seen 1t at night have been astonished
at its marvellous Illuminating powers.
When it is in operation it Is made to
flash this way and that, now darting
on the ocean, now flashing across the
country, lighting up the surrounding
mountains with a beautiful flood OF
light"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-02
MERELY A DUCK STORY.
Nothing About It Suggests Fish-Ex'
cept Its Size.

cept Its Size.
Dick is the name this time, not of
a man nor of a dog, but Of duck, a
big drake mallard living on Mud Lake
in Arkansas, and there acting in the
capacity of live decoy to his fellow
webfooters and Of friend to duck
hunters.
Just as soon as you get in a boat
and go after ducks Dick appears" de-
clares the Nashville Banner, on the
authority of Brodie Finley, a local
sportsman.
He'll sit up there with you and
look as wise as anybody until he sees
a flock Of ducks way off in the dis
tance. Then he'll jump out of the
boat into the lake, get in good feed
ing pocket and raise terrible fuss,
quacking and Tapping his wings.
1.-The ducks will decoy right in to
of every drove. If they don't decoy,
Dick just gets right up out Of the wa
ter and goes away. You think he's
got disgusted and gone off with the
wild ducks and quit the decoy busi-
ness, but I tell you you don't know
Dick. He goes off with the ducks and
pretty soon he's ahead of the lead
duck and leading the drove himself.
"They go on out Of sight. You say
to yourself, 'Good-by, Dick but just
wait. The first thing you know here
comes that big drove Of ducks right
into the lake from another direction,
and the lead duck is Dick.
Hes circled way round with the
bunch and brought them back to the
lake. Before they get in good shoot
ing distance Dicks heads them over
us and then he drops out of the drove.
Just as soon as you kill fifty, the linn
it, Dick will get out of the water, sit
on the seat by you and won't decoy
another duck. That bird beats any
thing you ever saw"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-02

The Prescription.-There is Wash
ington physician who numbers among
his patients his sister-in-law, who Is
something of a hypochondriac, says
Harper's Weekly.
Recently she sought out the doctor,
to whom she confided her opinion, that,
in her present condition, she ought to
60 to Hot Springs for treatment.
THE very thing" agreed the doctor.
81 was thinking Of that myself. I'll
give you q letter to an old friend OF
mine there, a most skillful physician
and I have no doubt he'll take every
care Of you"
The next day, as the patient sat In
her Pullman thinking it over, 1t oc-
CURED to her that, as long as her
brother-in-la had attended her, he
had never given her any precise state
ment Of her real ailment. According
ly she decided to open the sealed let
ter which he had addressed to the Hot
Springs doctor, in order that she might
gain the desired information. The
friend who accompanied her endeav-
ored to dissuade her from this step,
urging that 1t would constitute
breach Of confidence, but this counsel
proved of no avail, and the patient
proceeded to read:
Dear Hallett: Keep the old lady a
month and send her back"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-02

circuit between daylight and dark.
This would not have been very seri-
Gus undertaking under ordinary condi-
tions, but in Tobago I am fully con-
vinced 1t is a physical impossibility to
accomplish the distance on foot within
a week. A man out for days tramp
is never a promising looking object
for a beggar and the frayed suit OF
faded khaki which wore on this oc-
casion was of especially forbidding ap-
pearance. In spite Of appearance, how
ever I headed a triumphal procession
from the time I ambled out Of Scarbo-
rough at daylight until five miles out
Of town I gave up the unequal fight at
noon.
It cost me between five and six shil-
lings, all in pennies, to fight my way
through the half dozen small villages
which I encountered up to that point,
and when I finally reached hamlet
where no pennies were to be had felt
myself in a serious predicament. I
could hardly afford to throw sixpences
and shillings to the insistent blacks,
and there was no way of getting rid of
them with promises. Finally I be-
thought myself Of an old canvas coat
I was carrying against the chance of
the ever imminent rain.
The prospect Of a tropical shower
seemed as nothing to the noisome black
cataclysm which was already over
whelming me, so I threw the good old
coat to the crowd and, Elijah-like,
bolted over the hill, leaving my man
tie to my followers. At the next viii
lage 1 hired a horse, changed all the
money I had left into pennies and thus
equipped managed to fight my way
back to Scarborough by nightfall."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-02

Springing a New One.-"You have
a heard about foxes raising litters OF
rabbits and cats acting the mother to
little MICE" drawled the unvarnished
nature faker as he helped himself to a
slice of cheese, but, gentlemen, have
one that beats these yarns all to a
frazzle. When / was living in the next
state l had an old dog that scared
the hen off her nest and Matched out a
brood of chicks"
Come off, Judson!" chorused the
four and twenty loungers sitting on
the barrels.
Its a fact as l told it. Before that
setting incident in the hen house that
old dog wasn't worth dollar, but af-
ter that sold her to a drummer for
$50 down"
The loungers gasped.
You did,"
Yes, 1 told him it was the finest
setter dog in the country. Chicago
Daily News.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-02

LATEST Man Living.-The LATEST mar
in the world lives in this village. His
name is John Mumera, and he has
been in bed ten years because he Is
unwilling to comply with the rules OF
the Jersey county farm, which say
that every one living there shall rise al
a. m.
Mumera is not sick. He eats regu-
Iarly, and is in perfect health.
II am ready to hold up my hands
and swear that he has kept his word,
said Superintendent Mourning, Of the
county farm. John has been In bee
ten years, and he says ne Will stay
there the remainder Of his life.
HE just lies there and looks at the
ceiling, or rolls over once in a while
and takes a nap. When he talks 1t Is
all about how foolish man Is to gei
up every morning when he knows he'll
have to go back to bed again at night.
-Jerseyville, Illinois dispatch to the
New York Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-02
BEGGARs OF TOBACCO.
Poverty of Natives on One Of Robin
son Crusoe's Islands.

What island and what man did De-
foe have in mind when he wrote Rob-
inson Crusoe? Ask the question In
Trinidad-or anywhere else in the
West Indies-and they will confidently
tell you that the island was Tobago
and the man Pedro Serrano; ask in VAL
paraiso and with no less assurance you
will be told Juan Fernandez and Alex
ander Selkirk, says the Los Angeles
Times. If you show dissent in either
instance you are promptly told to go
and see for yourself. This will prove a
perfectly useless proceeding as far as
shedding light on the moot question Is
concerned, for on each island you will
find a tablet erected to its hero and
Robinson Crusoe's graves, Robinson
Crusoe's lookout and Robinson Cru
soe's everything else to infnity.
Tobago is a small island of about
seven miles by twenty-six, lying ten
miles to the northeast of Trinidad.
This fact is considered strong point
in favor Of the Crusoe theory, as local
advocates claim that in early editions
Of the great novel the hero is spoken
Of as seeing from his lookout an island
by that name to the southwest. Toba-
go was discovered by Columbus in
1893, and after being tossed about for
some centuries between Spain, France
and Holland was acknowledged to be
a British colony in 1914. 1t is now at
tached to the government Of Trinidad,
with its local affairs looked after by a
resident.
During the last century Tobago, like
all the other British islands of the
West Indies, devoted its energies to
sugar raising, and when that industry
began to collapse before the competi-
ton of German beet sugar in the home
markets it was one of the hardest hit.
Sugar land was suffered to return to
original bush for period, but during
the last decade the cultivation Of cocao
has brought much Of it back under
cultivation. Cocoa, however, though a
most remunerative crop, employs
scarcely one person in its cultivation
where sugar requires ten, so that the
change has wrought considerable hard
ship among the islands $4,000 or 90
900 negro population. The poverty Of
all the blacks is extreme, condition
which has made of them the most in
veterate lot of beggars in all the West
Indies. In this connection l recall
with amusement my experience while
endeavoring to walk around the island.
The distance is about thirty-five
miles-a we'll macadamized road all the
way-and I was trying to make the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-02
SWIFT.
Interesting Facts About Famous Brit
ish Author.

ish Author.
Close upon two and half centu-
ries ago was born in a back street in
Dublin the celebrated Jonathan Swift,
author, satirist and wit. Soon after
his birth his mother went to stay with
her relatives at Leicester, leaving JON
athan to the tender mercies Of his
nurse, who treated him as her own
child. 1t was just as we'll, for Mrs
Swift, fearing to undertake the return
journey to Ireland, never saw her
child again for nearly three years.
The greater part Of this period Jona-
than spent in Cumberland with his
nurse, who undertook his education
and succeeded so we'll that at three
years old, it is said, he could read any
his uncle took charge Of him and sent
him to Kilkenny Grammar school,
where he made friends with Con-
greve. Little Is known of Swift at
this period of his life. At the age Of
Is he was entered at Trinity college,
Dublin. 1t was not a happy period Of
his life; parental neglect depressed
him, his studies interested him little,
his tutors thought little of him and
told him so.
In addition to all this he was con-
stantly being fined for breaking the
college rules, and once went so far
as to insult the junior dean. On leav-
ing the university he found his moth
er at Leicester, where he seems to
have become enamoured of a certain
very undesirable young lady. He had
no thoughts Of marrying, however,
his cold nature" as he explained to
an inquiring friend, prevented all idea
Of that; besides, he added, the Leices-
tershire folks were such ''wretched
fools"
While at Leicester the turning point
came in his life. Sir William Temple,
one of the most notable men of those
days, whose wife was related to
Swift's mother, took him into the fam
lily as a sort Of private secretary.
Twenty pounds a year was to be his
salary, with board and lodging thrown
in. There was a proviso, however,
that he was to have his meals apart.
His master seemed well pleased with
him, but Swift, inordinately vain, and
thinking his services insufficiently re-
warded, left him one fine day in a
rage and returned to Ireland, where
he was ordained. But Temple was
lost without him. Accordingly, after
much persuasion, Swift was induced
to return, and lived on terms Of the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-02
BUILDING THE CANAL.
MIR. Taft Just the Man to Keep Dirt
Flying.

Flying.
president Taft Is the right man In
the right place to finish the 1op OF
building the Panama Canal" said Is
ham Randolph of Chicago, a member
of the board Of engineers that has been
inspecting the canal work at the ol-
rection Of President Roosevelt, ad-
dressing a Washington Post reporter
Mr.. Randolph has just returned from
Panama, where he spent two weeks
with Mr.. Taft and the members OF
the engineer board. Mr.. Randolph also
was a member of the board Of consult
ing engineers which submitted plans
for the canal work several years ago.
II was greatly impressed with MT
Tafts comprehensive grasp OF the con-
ditions in Panama. He knows every
detail Of the work, and is as well ac-
auainted with the engineering features
of the undertaking as the engineers
themselves. When an engineer talks
with the president about the Panama
canal he at once realizes that Mr..
Taft knows as we'll as he does what
problems have to be solved.
"I approve of every word Judge Taft
said at Meridian, Miss, when he urg-
ed the people not to be swayed by the
utterance of persons who are hamper
ing the canal work by criticising every
move. The people ought to realize and
appreciate that the men working on
the canal have to remain there wheth-
er they want to or not. They are do
ing a great, patriotic work, and 1t Is
unpatriotic for any person to make un-
lust criticism of work they know
nothing about.
81 was astonished at the tremendous
strides that have been made in the past
year. The amount of earth taken out
last year was more than double that
of 1907, while in the latter year there
was twice as much dirt removed as In
the preceding two years and a half
From May, 1904, when this govern
ment took over the job, until January
1, 1907, there were taken out 6,991,l96
cubic yards of earth; from January l,
1907, to January /, 1908, the amount
removed was 15,764,O95 cubic yards
and last year there was total Of 3d.
136,346 cubic yards taken out. Up to
date the total number of cubic yards
removed amounts to 142,000,000, which
is IL per cent of the work. Last year
25 per cent of the work was accom-
plished. This is the most wonderful
excavation in the history of the
world. Until this work was done we
held the record in the excavation of
the Chicago drainage canal, but the
latter does not compare with the
Panama canal excavation.
1T is all bosh to talk about the
foundations of the Gatum Dam being
unsafe. They have sunk Of course. 1t
was expected they would. In all such
cases there is a mass Of soft earth
everything the rock base, and provision
is invariably made for a settling Of the
earth. This was the case with the
Gatun Dam. The foundations Of that
dam are as stable as the piles in the
River Rhone, some of which were
sunk in the days Of Caesar.
II want to add one thing" said Mr.
Randolph. There has been a great
deal said about the display of big head
among some of the army officers in
Panama. 1 saw no evidence whatever
Of this human weakness; on the con-
trary, every one was desirous to
please, and seemed to appreciate the
work in hand"