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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19
ROSE LEAF HOPPER.
Professor Surface Tells How to Ex-
terminate the Pest


At this season Of the year, when the
roses are in bloom, the damaging effects
of the leaf hOppers, or white bugs I'M
der the rose leaves, are most noticeable,
because everybody is attracted to the
beautiful blooms, and then confronted
with the spectacle of bleached, and with
ering leaves and bushes being denuded
of foliage.
The rose hopper is most active in it's
operations about the middle of June
Prof. 81. 4. Surface, the state zoologist,
Harrisburg, says: 1T has piercing or
suctorial mouth, and consequently does
not eat away the tissue of the plant,
but injects poison and sucks the juices.
Owing to their immense numbers they
cause considerable damage. The. eggs
are laid on the under side of the leaves.
The young are matched there, and first
look like small white plant lice, but are
active and run quickly. The white cast
off skins remain on the under sides of
the leaves. The young insects have no
wings and, therefore, do not fly. and can
not escape the insecticides applied as
sprays. When full grown they are light
in color and winged, and jump and fly
away quickly, and may escape the spray.
Where the hoppers are at work the up
per sides of the leaves will present
grayish appearance along the mid-rlos.
The whitened leaf denotes their pres
ence
SPRAY the under sides of the. leaves
with solution made by dissolving one
pound of whale-oil soap in six gallons of
wafer. or with very strong tobacco de-
coction. or per cent; kerosene emulsion,
or with strong e sol insects OF tb any kind
he killed by the arsenical poisons, which
are used effectively against the chewing
insects. If the insects hop to the gronnd
You can kill them by spraying the.
ground with a stronger solution which
will not there do any injury to the.
plants"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

His clothes said he was a tramp,
but his brow was high and his man
fler grand. Madam, may l request
the favor of pair of your husbands
cast-off trousers? These are some.
what passe." This, with sweep of a
tattered hat, brought results in the
shape of a pair of hubby's Oldest,
which were just about two degrees
better than those the tramp was wear
ing. After critical survey of his ac-
QUESTION, instead of the polite words
Of thanks the good woman was wait
ing for, the tramp volunteered, with
deep, long-drawn sigh of regret:
Madam, / see your husband discards
from weakness. Puck
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

What is true of the fever of germ
disease Is false altogether in the fever
of sunstroke. In this case the fever
is the disease. 1t Is not a regiment
Of infantry, but confagration, and
1t must be put out as quickly as pos
sible, and by all the means at ones
disposal-cold baths, ice-packs, ice
water, anything that will beat it
down.
The character of a fever is a great
assistance to diagnosis In many cases,
and this is why a physician should
always be asked to sit in judgment
on 1t.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

1t transpires from further talks by
Lieut.. Shackleton concerning his near
approach to the south pole, that he
would have reached that haven of am
bition despite the exhaustion of his
ship biscuit and pemmican had not
his last pony fallen into a deep crevasse
and become a total loss, both as an
assistant and as food. The lieutenant
was in position to repeat the shout Of
Richard I'LL, "A horse! A horse! My
kingdom for a horseI'
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19
Soap Bubbles in School.

Blowing soap bubbles is an exercise
which has been adopted at school in
HARLEM, Holland. on the advice of a
pleasant method. as ingenious as it is
simple, was thought of because of the
difficulty in getting children to do ordi-
nary breathing exercises thoroughly and
regularly. On three days in the week
all the children have placed before them
bowl of soaDy water and a pipe. The
windows are opened wide to admit as
much fresh air as possible Then COM
petitions are arranged as to who can
blow the biggest bubbles. Periodical
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

The Esquimau boy, Meme, otherwise
known at William Wallace, who was
brought to the United States by Lieut..
Peary and left behind when the explorer
sailed on his last expedition, has no love
for Caucasian civilization. He thinks
that he can lead party of his country
men to the discovery of the pole, and
thus fout Peary and all of Peary's race.
Meme has been a trial to his white
friends. They owe him no grudge, how
ever, and would not belittle any success
he might achieve
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

future the methods of modern business will 30 change
that the man. per Sc, will be in demand than
he Is now Economic PHILOSOPHERS to the effect
that in general the who has grown old ought to
have a competence upon which to retire Cold hard
facts that ndisputable show how impossible this is
Probably in majority of where earnest
honest men have worked at chosen work that old
age problem is met If, until the end, the worker is
privileged to work To die in the harness by thou
sands considered ideal ending of an ideal life Ac
cumulated money and idle have shortened thou
sands of lives the expense of conentment For this
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19
A Novel Offer.

A novel offer has been made to the
prohibitionists of Texas by the brewers
of that state. The proposition of the
brewers is to pay the expenses of a COM
mission of twelve, one-half to be APP
pointed by the brewers and one-half by
the Prohibitionists, to visit and investi-
gate the liquor traffic IN the so-called
dry states. If this commission does
not discover and report that more liquor
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

The idleness of geo lake steamers
representing an investment of $4,000,
600 is said to be due to the existing
strike: but the scarcity of coal cargoes
at the present time, and the fact that
shippers of ore are not bidding for car
riers by Offering rates higher than for
merly, is evidence that there is plenty of
tonnage in operation for the work ia
hand. There would have been idleness
all along the lakes had harmony existed
from the opening of the season between
owners and employees.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

Experts in connection with the I'm
tied States Geological Survey estimate
at S3SOO0,000 the value of the peat ~
ing undeveloped in the swamps and boys
of the United States. Wisconsin is a
state very rich in this unutilized re-
source. Perhaps something will be done
with peat now that any one who wishes
to is welcome to use the recently invent
ed Astor machine, which converts peat
into uaS
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

is sold in the .dry" than in the wet
states, the brewers are to give 100000
to any charity that may be named by
the Prohibition state committee. The ac-
ceptance of this offer by the Prohibition
lists and the subsequent developments
hardly likely that it will be entertained
Schenectady Union.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

Traditions of the American southwest
in the period Immediately following the
Civil War are recalled by the informa-
ton from GERMANY that brigands held
the highway between Augustowe and
Lipsk on the Russo-German frontier.
one day last week, and captured fifty
or sixty travellers, taking all their mon
ey. Most of the victims were horse
dealers, carrying large sums, and the
total haul is estimated a. $4,000. That
such things can be in an old settled
country seems astonishing to Americans
and is probably in part attributable to
the political commissions of the past four
years in Russia.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19
WASHBURN PRINTING CO., Publishers

Great Britain played her Dreadnought,
and Germany planked down several.
Great Britain now "sees" Germany's
Dreadnoughts, and prepares to produce
four uperdreadnoughts. It's an inter
esting game, and very like that which
used to flourish in Deadwood.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

The students of Queen Margaret's
college, Glasgow, Scotland, have estab-
lished the first college paper to be de-
voted to the cause of equal suffrage 1t
is called Jus Saffragi Alumnae, and is
said by its admirers to be full of wit and
fire.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

The world at large will be likely to
extend good wishes to the Prince de
Sagan and his American eonsort OH
the birth of a son, which took place yes
terday at Paris. Anna Gould had a
trying life with the Count Boni de Cas-
tellane, for whose illicit extravagances
she is still paving. The court only the
other day made her defray the cost Of
$4,000 necklace which B0ni bought
for gift and which she mas never seen.
In the Prince she has husband whose
title is higher, and whose conduct so far
certainly has been greatly preferable
from the standpoint of wife. The one
person not likely to view the arrival of
the little Prince de Sagan with friend
illness is Boni. The more children Anna
has, the smaller is the chance for Boni
TO handle more of her money.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

A farmer near Alton Illinois has by
feeding ducks with potato bugs during
Imprisonment in an enclosure so culti-
waited an appetite for bug that he can
rent the ducks to neighboring farmers
for service in potato patches. Here is
an opportunity for Waupaca county far
mers who raise millions of bushels of
potatoes. They can grow the tubers
under the soil and attract bugs to the
foliage, then put in ducks enough to make
another paying business Ducks COM
mand a good price in the markets, and
if they can be used by potato farmers
the latter may eventually pray for bug
years instead of buying paris green. But
the Alton story may be only duck yarn,
after all.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19
PAINTINGS APPEAL TO THE DILErTANr,
By Marcel Provost.


l Paintins, believe, is getting to be the
! ! !:
M most tempting art for the dilettant, more
~ tempting than music There are more
III | painters than there musicians, writers,
E | than everything else almost There are In
| II finite numbers of them. The most modest
II banquet of painters reunites hundreds of
lM | guests. At every exposition modern paint
60 ings cover q large area of space. And what
does honor to these volunteers Of art is the fact that
financial bait induces the greater part of these paint
ers to follow this vocation.
In justice to these dettant Of the brush 1t must be
said that many them pretend that they will
gain either glory fortune by their paintings Less
presumptuous than poets, less chimerical than must
clans, many of talent who hang up their pictures
in salons from time to time admit that they paint for
the pleasure of painting only.
The pleasure of painting is complex. While giving
occupation for the painters fingers painting is not
exactly thing to stir the soul of the amateur The
positions and to pick out the most difficult faithful
reproduction Of house at the edge of stream and the
amateur has gained the of artist Painting
within the limits In which the dettant exercises it is
of those arts where invention and originality have
been greatly reduced. successful copy Of picture
of great master with them passes for work of
The most mediocre painting has thousand times
Of chance to be than literary masterpiece has
the to be read It Is for these that can
and brush stand In danger Of remaining idle
But WIN art gain by It? That Is another question.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

No man ever fell in love with a
suffragist; when you find man mar
ried to a suffragist. he fell in love
with her before she became one.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19
The Cause of the Feud.

First Fair One-Let me see. Who
is the Oldest person in the Bible?
Second Fair One-You're down in
your family Bible, aren't you?-Brook-
Ign Citizen.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19
GOLD MAN. PROBLEM FOR YOUNG MAN.
By John A. Rowland

Young men, middle7aged men and old men
have been interested alike in the problem of
the "old man" IN business. That specific COM
plainr Of the old man Is that he is not want
ed. Modern business admits the fact But
young men and men In the prime of their
lives must grow old. What are the young
men and the men Of middle age going to do
about It? It Is not likely that in any near
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

Henry Savage Landor, famed as an
explorer into unknown lands among mys-
FERROUS peoples, contemplates the organ
ization of an Anglo-American south pole
expedition. He faEors the policy of
''flying light" that is, of going into the
polar regions with the least possible
amount of impedimenta, and combining
the luggage to food as much as possible.
Mr. Landor may be right i'll his views
as to the proper way to proceed, but it
will be safer to take pointers from men
who have been there and know whereof
they speak when they tell of the diff
culties of polar travel.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

Rat exterminators had to be engaged
their other day by the Leeds England
public library. The chief librarian was
openly defed by great rat and the
women assistants were in a constant
state of terror.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

exists which is entirely unconnected with this of
We know that the fruit slightest act goes
laundering down the ages that nothing is eaced
that everything Is Of infinite eternal consequence
And II 1t leaves a permanent mark the material
universe 1t will affect also all invisible universes This
reflection may give new zest to present form of
existence To pierce into the innermost OF
nature to mold natural forces to WILL to make life
happy and glorious for ourselves and kind to
ser supremacy disease and DEATH to conquer
and rule this universe in virtue of the infinite power
within us, such is our task here and
The individual is withdrawn towards that center of
sentient life where all souls with the great
SOUL What this future fate may be need not now
inquire Should it become necessary to enter upon
and pursue such inquiry may be sure that full
acquaintance with the laws of present visible uni
will form the best preparation for It, these
laws shall apply with the greater confidence when
we know that they suffice to interpret only our own
universe but the other worlds just discernibe on the
horizon of present faculties
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

After all, is there any one in the
world more stupid than the man who
comes in at the wrong time?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

chest measurements have proved the eff
fcacy of the arrangement, increases be-
ing noted in each Individual case.-New
York Sun.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

The electrolysis of water and gas
mains in Boston and vicinity is said to
he proceeding at greater rate than
ever before known.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

The convention of cattle breeders OF
the United States which has been called
to meet at Denver next January will
have for its chief topic the rising price
of beef There is said to be danger that
meat will go to prohibitive prices, and
this the cattle men are anxious to avoid.
Effort will be made to reawaken inter-
est in the ranching industry, which has
fallen off of late. The effort will be
viewed with favor by all who relish that
diet which is referred to in the scrip
lures as food for strong men.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

Roosevelt and Taft are the only
Presidents elected from the same towns
in which they were born
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19

The panic-stricken geologist is having
his periodical inning. His latest out
giving in regard to the durability of
Americas mineral resources places the
exhaustion of coal at 2040, the final ozz-
ing of petroleum at 1889, and the end of
iron at thirty years from the present
time. All this, of course, is predicated
upon the amounts ''in sight" But it
is the amounts not in sight that will
keep the people of the future from want
while their biologists continue the
lamentation of the biologists of the pres
cnt
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19
MANS MIND PART OF UNIVERSAL MIND.
By g. e. Fourier d'AIb

We are gradually and inevitably drawn to
the conclusion that mind Is everything and
matter but an expression of the universal
mind. A table, house or machine Is the
embodiment Of some human mind. stone
is the embodiment Of some mind at present
inaccessible to us, Of some will at present
inscrutable.
or one thing wa NAV ba certain-no unf-
The Washington herald., 1909-02-28
Where They Differed.

I vss passing 4 comfortable looking
farmhouse in New Jersey as I drove
across the country with horse and
buggy. when sH old man came TO the
door and waved fer me 10 halt. and when
he had come down 10 the gate with g
bottle in bis hand he explained:
Stranger, I've hsd a lame bsck CT ne
FOR s week past"
'.YesT'
'The old woman went TO town yester-
day and had a druggist put me Up some
thing for IL Here II is"
IT should think that would be good for
it. said IS I drew the cork and smiled
az the contents.
Read what Il says on the label
cit says for external use only.
That's It - that's Il that's what II
says, and that's what we have been row
ing about ali night. WHAT does external
meant
why, to be rubbed on the outside"
why by7"
by anybody"
That's exactly what contend. but the
old woman contends differently. She con-
tends that it means II she rubs It on I've
get 70 give her 81 TO buy pair Of
shoes with
The wife had been slowly coming down
the path as We talked, and as she arrived
st the gate and heard the husbands re-
marx she said.
Yes. and Internal means that he's got
to give me a dollar and half more 10
buy a calico dress as well!''
saw that IL was q case that could only
The Washington herald., 1909-02-28
All Arranged For.

He locked Ike prosperous Srocer-ons
who mixes the small apples in the barrel
With walnuts snd sells the mixture for
winter pesrs-and as he turned his news
paper over snd over there were some who
thought he was hunting for the market
reports. There was one man, however,
who was not quite sure, and be asked;
.Do you expect that onions have gone
up?"
Il don't care hang whether they have
or not" was the reply. I'm looking 70
see If there is any news from Panama-"
4 see. Interested in the canal, are
your
"As an American and taxpayer, yes
Say. It looks to me as If they were going
TO make a muddie Of the whole thing. +"
"0h, dunno"
"But have you kept track OF thiugsw
"Yes, pretty fairly
You've read that they are building
that Gatun Dam on a blue-clay founda-
tion?
Certainly"
"And you've read that the Istbmus Of
Panama is liable TO be shaken by an
earthquake any day in the weekT'
For sure
Then. sir" continued the grocer, as he
turned on the other. suppose an earth
quake comes along some day aad shakes
down that GatuB Dam!'
''Yes, but that's ali provided for. you
know
But how provided forT"
by having 8 second earthquake come
along next day and shake It into place
again"
JOE KERR
The Washington herald., 1909-02-28
her RECKLESS
PASSION. -

r E b c { ca-Vssn {
dat q nice luf Iedder
I whets yer, Ky,
tesrf
ny Yes, Beceyi
but make 1t shorter
negst dime. I bad
to bay two cent?
hostage on dat let
ter.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-28
Gentle March Is Here.
6be Grocer Wilted.

Il don't know" Said the farmer as be
was unloading potatoes at the grocery,
7 don't know as I ought to have done 1t.
but he looked Ike al honest ycung feller
to me"
what was that?' was naturally asked.
why. Just as got into town a young
feller stopped ne and wanted 10 know
If I wanted 10 make five dollars. OF
course I said I did. Then he said feIler
was down in a saloon Offering to bet
twenty dollars 10 ten that Abraham Lin
coin was still alive He said II I'd put
IN half I could make I've dollars"
"Brt you didn't do itY replied the
grocer.
But I did. I'm not skipping any
chances to make Eve dollars"
But you've been taken In and done
for. Why. man. that fellow must have
taken you fer feol."
II don't see why"
Because you bit at his game. He was
a conscience man. Of course. ZOO ought
TO have known II at once Well, we'll.
AS often as you nave been coming 70 the
city. 10 be taken in this way"
But he looked honest" protested the
farmer
But he was sharper. They ali Iook
honest enough You viii never see your
i've again. Honest. Why, those fellows
would steal their own grandmothers'
grsvestonesr'
At that moment keen-looking young
msn came up and handed the farmer ten
dollars and ssid:
4 wen the bet. Of course. and here is
your share Of It Much obliged for your
confidence in me-"
And the grocer looked up, turned pale.
and with wobbling knees be sunk down
On bag Of potatoes aad mUTmured:
after this the delUge.'
Joe KERR.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-28
No encouragement

The tramp had brought the lady Of the
house to the door TO ask her a question.
and she had replied IN the negative and
was about TO close the door on him when
be said:
Madam, I called here last fall and
asked If you wanted your sidewalk
swept"
Yes. I know you did, and I said no"
That's what you said I called again
In January. and asked Il you wanted the
snow cleaned OF"
"And I told you 10"
That's what you did. called again
last month and asked if you wanted the
ice picked Of"
And I said no again"
That's what you did. I have now
called TO ask II ron want your sidewalk
scrubbed with sand and soap, and
you
And say no-enphatically, noF'
That's what you say, madam, and I
want 70 ask you 10 go IN and sit down
and give the matter careful thought and
see Il you are taking the proper way to
encourage the industries Of the United
States and assist ia q complete recovery
from the financial panic"
JOE KERR.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-28

victim-This thermometer is 10 good.
can never tel By it how cold tae room
is
DeaIer-My dear madam, do you not
know the word thermometer is de-
rived from two Greek words meaning "a
measure Of heat? Naturally. therefore.
il isn't meant 10 measure cold.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-28
SHE WAS on.

Mrs. Boozer t2 A. M)-ThIs IS a nice
time for you to be coming home Where
have you been?
Mr.. BOozer-Been setting up. ny dear
est. wiz q friend
Mrs BOozer-How many drinks did you
set up7
The Washington herald., 1909-02-28
THE REAL SIN
NERS

Dick-Do you think
some men make q
mistake IN adopting
politics ss a careeFi
Tonne. the mis-
tske IS made By the
fools 70 elect them.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-28

FILLING A NEED.
Urchin - Mister, It Is so bitter cold
C-can't yer spare ne a uiekies
Citizea-Yes. ny boy. Here's a nickls
for you
Urchin-Thanks. mister
CitizeH-ARd now suppose, you are
going 70 buy fuel with 4?
Urchin-Nope. An ice cream soda
The Washington herald., 1909-02-28
BETWEEN TIE ACTS.

FIRST Senator-It Is odd what an sf5n-
fty the presidential office has for work.
ing in wood.
Second Senator-Whst do you aiea2f
First Washington cut 50rn a
cherry tree. Lincoln split rails. and al
the presidents have been cabinet makers
The Washington herald., 1909-02-28
SAD, INDEED.

Mr. Wilson - She
seems 70 feel her
husbands death very
keenly.
Mrs. Wilson - Oh.
yes, indeed She had
Just gotten her new
spring outfit
The Washington herald., 1909-02-28
com STORAGE

Bronscn-Just think OF it. Egss are
nearly five cents apiece.
Woodson-Yes. and l shouldn't mind Il
so much II they only tasted more Ike
eggs.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-28

be settled after Z Senate Investigating
committee had made its report, and
touched Ep the old horse and passed on.
JOE KERR
The Washington herald., 1909-02-28
his IDEA

The B AT q er-
Rather odd butter
dish.
Lsndlady-Yes; it's
been in the family
for years.
The 3 are q er-
And its contents. too.
I daressy.