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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14
ing ing e Of the English channel by the avia-

ing ing Of the English channel by the avia-
tor Bleriot in 1909.
Nv. w reless telegraphy, of which the
NlEeteenth Century gave intimations. is
an accomplished marvel of the Twenti-
eIn 0entury opening decade, and ex.
ploratloh III tne twentieth Century has
The discovery Of radium which oc-
CURED just as the old century ended.
opened wide vista of possibilities 10
speculative minds
Invention promises to produce cheap
alcohol from products which heretofore
have gone 10 waste, and is balnessine
waterfalls to light distant cities and
supply power for moving electric cars
New Workers travel through tubes un
der the Hudson to New Jersey, and old
notions of rapid transit have been re-
adjusted by the reduction of the time of
fast steamships in crossing the Atlantic
to less than four and a half days, while
city streets and country roads TEEN with
swift-moving automobiles.
The tall building rises so much higher
into the air of the Twentieth Century as
to dwarf the skyscrapers of the Nine
teenth. The apartment house is larger
and statelier and more numerous than
before.
In the business world organization de-
velops apace. The United States Steel
Corporation, the largest business enter
prise in the history of the world, came
into being in 1901, on the threshold of
the new century, and Harriman's
achievements in the consolidation of
American railroads were effected in the
past decade.
The hundred years which went before
were fairly entitled to be called won
derful century, but the Twentieth Cen.
tury has made beginning which does
not suffer by comparison.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14

eagle. Instead of being allowed to
pose II lofty independence as our pa
triotic emblem, this unitarian in.
ventor has put him to work. A team
Of live eagles, each hitched up in spe-
cial harness, was connected to bal
loon as shown in the illustration, and
formed a means of controlling and d.
recting the fight of the balloon. This
motive power was capable of indefinite
radius Of action and all the aeronaut
had to do was to keep his team of
eagles headed in the direction he
wanted to go, which was done by a
turntaDle arrangement to which the
eagles were secured by their harness.
The inventor in this case was a
Frenchman and his invention was
patented in France before it was pat
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14
WHEN THE FORESTS ARE GONE

How shall the lyric thrushes sing,
On the brink of the silver rain,
When all the hills are bleak and bald,
And all the trees are slain?
Where shall they house their babes OF
When leafy copse and scar
And budding green and autumn brown
Have melted into the dust of town.,
And the babel of truck and car?
How shall the oriole bubble up,
Like a Seraph into the air,
When all the maple trees are gone,
And the boughs are stript and bare?
Where shall he hang his silken nest
To cradle the precious young,
When the last warm feather from his breast
Is torn away from its bower of rest,
And the last sad song is sung?
How shall the wild canary WOO,
When the thistle and the plum
Are torn from the orchards OH the hills
In the years that are to come?
When every blooming cherry lane
Is loud with the rattle and gong,
What ear shall turn to the birds again?
What hand shall house them from the rain,
And feed the mouths of song?
How shall the homing robins rest,
When the trees have melted down?
When towering temples lift their heads
Of marble above the town?
When never an oak or river rush
Shall welcome home again
The lark and the bobolink and thrush
To the song Of the cloud and the under
brush,
On the brink of the silver rain?
-Aloysius Coll. in July Recreation.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14
DANGER FROM LIGHT AND AIR?
British Doctor Ascribes Prevalence Of
Cancer to Modern Conditions.

| Dr. Woodruff's agitation lest harm
come to the blond members of the hui
man race by reason of sunlight seems to-
have raised an English echo A Lon
don dispatch says that DIR. Watkins
PitchfOrd, government pathologiSt of Ma
tai thinks the increase of cancer during
the last seventy-6ye years is attribute
able to sunlight and modern hygienie
conditions. The Doctor says cancer is
found to be most prevalent among those
exposed to actinic stimulation and dwell
ers beside lakes and rivers, agricultural
laborers and masons. He remarks::
Wooden garments largely have been re-
placed by cotton, and black and brown.
clothes by those of lighter color. Mar
row streets and dark houses are no longer
tolerated, and suburban life largely has re-
placed that Of the city. Artificial illumina
the manifest deduction from the principles
have advanced is that cancer Is prevent
able by efficient protection of the body from
light. The natural protection, such IS hair
on the head, should be encouraged while
clothing must be absolutely lightproof
There may be something reasonable
in DR.. Pitchford's distrust of the modern
artificial lighting. No harm would be-
likely to follow his preference for cloth
ing of colors impervious to light
though the latter is subject on which
opinions are likely to differ. But. to-
comes from the abolition of narrow
streets and dark houses and from get
ting out into the open air and the open
country-this will be generally looked
upon as morbid. Every advance in the
direction of opening human habitations'
in the temperate zone TO sunlight and
air has been accompanied by an adj
vance in human comfort and an i'm
provement of human health. OF course
in the hotter countries of the earth the
fierce heat and glare Of the sun are in
furious, and the craving of human be-
is only to avoid ''too much of. good
thing" AS for the cause of cancer, in
the present stage of medical science it
is exceedingly obscure.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14
Paul Revere's Silversmithing

Provision has been made at the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
for a special exhibition in connection
with the Hudson Fulton celebration.
Silver made in the colonies will form an.
important part of the exhibit, more than
800 pieces made before 1925 having been
obtained. Paul Revere, the patriot, was
a silversmith in his fathers shop, and,
twenty pieces made by the Reveres,
father and son, will be shown in the ex--
hibition. Special care has been taken to
collect pieces made in New York and ex-
amples have been obtained of produc-
tions of all the famous silyersmiths of
the Colonial period. Many pieces have
been collected through the efforts of the
Colonial Danes of the State of New
York
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14

One of the curious things about the fearful story OF
death by violence Is that life Is cheapest in the
smaller cities Measured by the deaths by violence hui
life is cheapest In Butler Pa, where the annual
rate is 1874 per 100000 population Pttston, In the
State. stands second, with rate OF $685. iron
Mountain Mich, is third in rank with rate OF 2907
then come McKeesport, Pa, 2901; Shenandoah, Pa,
1885, Pottsville Pa 276 Pueblo. Colo, Is seventh In
the list with Of Qe93 Altogether there are more
than of small cities. half Of them IN Pennsy[
vania in New Jersey Massachusetts, Michigan,
Ohio and Maryland in which the death rate by
violence exceeds the highest rate in any large city
The total number of deaths by violence In 1906 and
the rate per 100000 inhabitants from that cause In
seventeen of the larger cities set forth In the fol-
lowing table:
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14
Chinese Pork.

The complete failure to sell in London
a shipload of frozen pork from China
has called forth many explanations from
correspondents of the English newspa-
pers. Says one of them in the London
Express: 81 have seen the conditions
under which pigs are bred in China.
They are in semi-wild state, and, with
the chow-dogs, they act as scavengers
not only in the filthy streets with which
China abounds, but along the riverside
and seashore They live on the rottei
seaweed and on the dead bodies of AM
mails and human beings which are fire
quently to be seen floating down the riv
ers. I have never heard of a Europeas
in China eating pork. and know for
fact that the men of the China fee
would as soon eat the flesh of the chow
dogs as that of the pigs"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14
Gen. Lees Reply.

After the Civil war many OFFERS y
places of honor and fame came 10 WI
Robert e. Lee. He refused them az
says Thomas Nelson Page, N ms nlo'
raphy OF the soldier. me oniy pos, ,'do
dencV of washington college, with /
small salary.
,,roacbed with the tender of the pres
dancv Of an insurance company at a sa
arv Of $4,000 a year. He declined
saving that it was work with which
was not familiar.
s.Rut. general" said the representati
of the insurance company, you will !
be expected to do any work. What
wish is the use of your name
'sDo you not think, said Gen. Lee, I'll
if my name is worth $4,000 year
ought to be very careful about tax
care of it cleveland Leader.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14

In Chicago violence caused re cent of all deaths
This increase over the preceding decade The
railroad first with total of 800 deaths for the
city falls which caused 283 deaths. Third
Of the street cars. with 1877 deaths
to their credit Vehicles and horses another peril of
street. the seventh in order OF Importance caused
95 deaths
cago must give way to New York In 1908 the street
and railroads the subways of the meropo
lis killed 444 persons and wounded $4,000 AS all
the roads combined carried 1,300000,000 during the
year. this death injury for every 86,e15
passengers. Automobiles killed AZ and injured 100.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14
Indiana Girl Runs Engine.

Miss Harriet Spangler, yet in her
teens, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. r. p
Spangler of Union township, probably
holds the record of being the only girl
engineer in the state However this may
be, she is an engineer and good one,
as any person may see any day should
he find her running the engine for her
brothers threshing outfit.
For several years while her brother
was running his sawmill she often
usurped the position of fireman, which
she performed as well as a veteran, and
the idea grew upon her that she might
also be the engineer She decided that
she could run the traction engine for
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14
The Twentieth Century,s Good Start.

The hundred years which came to
close on December 81, 1900 have gone
into history as ''the Wonderful Century"
but the Twentieth Century is setting out
with achievements indicating that it will
prove no laggard.
The first decade of the Nineteenth Cen
tury gave the world the steamship; the
first decade of the Twentieth Century
has produced the airship. More won
derful than Fulton's demonstration on
the Hudson when the Clermont in 1907
made the trip between Albany and New
York propelled by steam, was the cross
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14

drinking will see that you have a
good POSITION on the surveying corps"
Tom Oglesby did quit drinking, Jen-
nings was elected, and kept his prom
Use to his old friend, who became one
OF the well-known engineers of the
United States.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14
UNIQUE FLYING MACHINE.

Inventor Would Use Team of wild
Eagles to Run Airship.
In these days of successful flying
machines it is interesting to note some
of the curious methods Of aerial navi-
cation heretofore proposed. In United
States patent granted May II, 1887, to
C. r. E. Wulff, and now expired, was
shown a new use for the American
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14

ae ed b aot ,ne h
filling in an ideal manner. She fires the
engine and attends to the mechanism
and can run the outfit on the road while
travelling from one stand to another as
well as any one.--Danville Cor. Indian
apolis News.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14

New Year. and the "Schochtims." the
men who kill chickens in the Jewish
custom. selected this occasion to make
demands for increased wages and threat
ened if refused to walk out ON strike.
DIR. Magnes took the matter in hand,
and through his advice the poultry deal
ers consented to make more satisfactory
terms with the chicken killers, and later
to submit the whole matter to arbitra-
ton.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14

Advices from Billings are to the effect
that 5000 homestead entries were filed
in Montana during the first six months
of the present year. Most of these
lands are in the so-called ..dry farming
section of the state. Information con-
corning crop selection and cultivation
which will be of incalculable value to
dry farmers will be brought out at the
Dry Farming Congress to be held at
Billings from the 26th to the 2Sth of
next month.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14
To Have a Fine Hospital.

Woodhaven, L. l., is to have hos
pital costing 100000. 1t will be built
by the Sisters of the Poor of st. Fran
els, religious corporation controlling
several hospitals including ST. Peters
of Brooklyn, ST. Elizabeth's of Manhat-
tan, and st. Joseph's of the Bronx.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14
Kosher Chickens Insured.

Rev. DIR. J. L. Magnes of the Tenn
pie EMANUEL is receiving congratula-
tons because through his diplomacy the
east side of New York has Just escaped
a kosher chicken famine. With the pros
pective demand incident to the Jewish
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14

The plating of the proposed new town
of Rothschild, in Marathon county, is
evidence that the founders of the village
have been taking an interest in the idea
of identifying cities. Rothschild is to
begin with extensive parks, boulevards,
sewerage and electric lighting systems.
But it does this because it is being
established under financial guidance,
whereas the average village or city sim
ply grows, like Topsy, and when metro
politanism is reached begins to think
about what might have been had the
pioneerds only known what was ahead of
them and their heirs.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14

The public watering trough for horses
was denounced by several veterinarians
at the Chicago convention of the Inter-
state Association of Live Stock SAM
tary Boards. One of the speakers re-
feEred to CHAMBERS in particular, and
said that the public troughs for horses
were great disseminators of the disease,
which menaces the driver as well as the
animal. This conviction cannot be
avoided if the germ theory is to have
any weight in sanitary provisions.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14

New progress brings new dangers. The
surgeon of the French warship Des-
cartes attributes eczema and eye troubles
to the use of wireless telegraphy. The
eczema has appeared on the faces and
hands of the seamen told off to work the
apparatus Therefore the surgeon rec
ommends that in future use Of the wire
less apparatus precautions be taken to
protect these parts of the body.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14

1t is one of the fancies of the year to
thread lingerie with wider ribbons than
formerly, so that the bows are of good
size and the ribbon bands in proportion
to the rest of the garment.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14

ented in the United States. This may
account for his lack of respect to our
national bird-Popular Mechanics.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14
wASHBURN PRINTING CO., 5. Publishers

Burbank would do well to extend his
researches into Africa. Of the dorowa,
a leguminous tree, which fourishes in
the eastern part Of that continent, it is
reported that while the seeds are extern
sively used for food, the pods and leaves,
mixed with crushed stone, make an ex-
cellent cement.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14

The fishing boat Ogle, owned by cor
poration at Erie, Pennsylvania, is to be
sold to the highest bidder by the Cana
dian authorities, at Port Dover, Ontario.
The Ogle was captured while fishing in
Canadian waters, and confscated by the
Canadian government. There has been
no international bowling in this instance,
probably because the Ogle was clearly
violating the law. The Erie corporation
is sufferer, but there is no way other
than strict enforcement to command re-
spect for the law, and American fisher
men have no right to invade Canadian
waters.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14

The Princess Mary, daughter of the
Prince of Wales, is receiving instruction
in the humblest of the domestic arts.
One of her tasks is to assist in darning
the stockings of her younger brothers.
She takes great interest in cookery and
recently, when asked what she would
prefer to cook, replied: Something 1 can
eat myself" Despite the gains which
manual training is making in this coun-
try, there are still some who look down
upon it as beneath their dignity. To
such the example of the little English
princess is worthy of citation.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14

A New Jersey boy aged years has
been bequeathed the sum of $4,000 with
the provision that he must abstain from
cigarettes until he is twenty-five years
old in order to make himself eligible to
receive the small fortune. This is an
easy way to earn money, and it is safe
to say that when the young man gets it
he will have outgrown his desire for the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14

Hair grows at the rate of three
snillionths of a yard a second.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14

The charge is made that the phono-
graph and the automatic piano are low
ering public taste. That is one way
Of looking at the new situation IN the
musical world. These new inventions
are taking music into homes where it
never was before and never would be
but for them. They are doing for music
what the invention of printing did for
the art of reading. There is still liter
ature-and some of the beautiful crea-
ti0ns in literature come from those who
under conditions would never have
learned to read. There may be hope for
music.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14

Los Angeles is SO Outraged over what
she deems inequality in assessments for
the levying. of state taxes, that she has
instituted the Southern California State
League, with the object of separating
from the mother state and setting up a
new commonwealth. The people of the
s'Home of the Angels" should remember
that they have a non-taxable asset that
has been making them rich. The ''glo-
rious climate" cannot be directly reached
by the assessor, so he has probably reck-
oned its value in assessing Los Angeles
property. If the glorious climate" is
worth anything it ought to be worthy
of recognition on the tax roll.
Miss Edith Rebecca Lord, daughter
of the late John Taylor Lord, of New
York, died in Germany, last July, and
left a three hundred thousand dollar es-
tate in charity. The chief destination
of her fortune is the amelioration of the
lives of blind people in England. The
money is to be paid at the rate of ten
shillings week to as many Englishmen
and Englishwomen as fulfill the fol-
lowing conditions: The pensioners must
he more than thirty-hve years old and
must have lost their sight since their
twenty-eighth year. They must also be
of good reputation, never having begged
In the streets or public places 1t is
curious that Miss Lord selected English
blind people instead of American blind
people as benefciaries by the distribu-
lion of fortune made in the United
States. But as to the humanity of her
generous bequest there can be no ques-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14

B all things In the United States that most
enlightened nation. human life Is cheapest.
In hts annual report for 1906 DR.. G. J.
Whalen, Commissioner Of Health for Chi
cago. made this statement as fact too
familiar to be controversial:
sr, .~o or> IN tha JInfta1 States today
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-09-03
MORE ABOUT
TAFT'S TRIP
Always in Touch With White
House
TOTAL MILEAGE l2,759
Roosevelt Travelled One Thousand Miles
More The President Received
Only Few Visitors
Yesterday.
TOTAL MILEAGE 12,759

Beverly, Sept, During his long
swing through the West and South, Be-
ginning sept. Is, President Taft win be
III constant touch with the White House
hy means of speeia wires which the
head Of the executive telegraph depart
ment il now arranging for These
special wires viii be established III
zones, aud as soon as the presidents
train passes from one 0f these to an.
other Che loops into the telegraph room
at the White House Will be re-arraneed.
AT almost any station along the route
it will be possible for the president To
send message direct to the executive
Offices Ii Washington over wire tenn
p0rarily under the control Of the gov.
eminent,
The official itinerary Of the prssi-
dents trip shows The total mileage 10
BE- 1888. OF tins 1.165 miles viii be
made on steamboat down the Miss
issippi river The distance at the trip
falls short Of the long tour President
Roosevelt made To Che coast BY about
1000 miles, but Che addition of three
side trips the president will make out
of Washington Immediately after bis re-
turn here on Nov. ~ would bring the
total of the Journey far above that af
his predecessor.
The highest point the president viii
stop at for any leHgth Of tinAe il the
rim of The Grand Canon, which Il 5000
feet above the sea level The lowest
point fol stop is at New Orleans. which
Us but FIVE feet above the level of the
sea Crossing the Rocky AEseHnta3Hs
however, the presidents train VIII at
tain an altitude Of more than 10000
feet.
President Taft has a number of en-
gagements for this afternoon With
Senator Burrows and National Commit
teeman John " Blodgeit Of Michigan
be viii take Hp some nafters affecting
census supervisors IN Michigan.
Walter r. Clark, the former Washing.
ton correspondent, just appointed cover.
nor Of Alaska, reached here yesterday
afternoon 10 make call Of courtesy