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Which
Peary to Tell the Way to the North

the
celestial objects
the
longitude.
1t is called so de-
by braces The the bottom marked off with
attached the instrument give double reflection the objects
half the angular distance between objects which is directly
reflection
Midway opposite
other leg the half vered
the CID At
the frame mirror &C which movable by
(RM called
shifting
making fractional called a
the the horizon wishing bring
the line manpulae child handles
into the RIM
the which
which
tonal vernier
the $685. with radius of SO
delphia Captain Hadley of the British
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and her technique has for that reason
remained very complete for one of her
age. Her talent was in measure her.
editary, since her aunt was a we'll
known harpist in her day. 1t was
through her playing that Rosalie
Spohr, who had begun her musical life
as pianist, turned her attention to
the harp.
A widow for more than twenty years,
1t has been her devotion to her art that
made life interesting to her during all
this time. Her education was sound,
in the first place, for she studied for
two years under the harpist Grimm,
who allowed her to play in public at
the end of that period, although it was
one of his principles that harpist
should study for ten years. Countess
Rosalie has been an intimate friend of
the German royal family, and both
Friedrich and the empress were de-
lighted to hear her play. Nowadays
she is unique figure in the musical
and social life of Berlin and an in
SEPARATION to the younger students, who
see what a joy and consolation an art
may be to one who has acquired 1t
faithfully.
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tic views regarding the Canadian rail-
roads and lands, but his trip has con-
WINGED him, not only of the soundness:
of his views, but it also has established
the conviction that the great expan--
sion of the next few years will be in
Canada's western areas. Il have never
seen such wheat" said he.
1t takes an army of men to handle
the Western Canada crop, and it is.
estimated that $4,000 people have been
brought in this year to assist in the
great undertaking.; there being excur-
sions from the outside world nearly
every day for the past six weeks.
In this article no attention has been
given to the growth of flax which has:
had great attention paid to it in some
districts. 1t is safe to say that in addi-
ton to the 120 million bushels of
wheat, the 10 million bushels of oats
and the 80 million bushels of barley,
there will be over two million bushels.
of flax. The approximate value of all
these crops may safely be put at One
Hundred and Sixty Million Dollars, as
against total of lis million dollars
in 1908.
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to complain off, He didn't know,
though, for the pioneering of his
forefathers was discomfort and hard
ship. The opening up and development
of western Canada, with it's railroad
lines to carry one to almost the utter
most part of it, the telegraph line to
flash the news to the other outside
world the telephone to talk to ones
neighbor, the daily and weekly mail
service which brings and carries letters
to the friends in distant parts; the
schools headed by college-bred and
highly certificated teachers; the
churches manned by brilliant divines;
the clubs; the social and festive life;
what is there about any of this to give
his home the credit of being pioneer!
Nothing He might as well be in any
of the old middle west states.
A few years ago when this country
was not as well known as to-day there
was some justification in long-winded-
attempts to educate the reader on con-
ditions there, to tell him of its geo.
graphical relation with the United
States, but with about 100000 Ameri-
cans now there writing back to their
friends, with the mass of literature
that has been placed in the homes or
farmers in every State of the Union
and the thousands of columns descrip-
tive of the country that have appeared
in newspapers and magazines, it would
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-21
No Complaining.

A writer in Tit-Bits says that a
wealthy gentleman living in North De
Won, who took great interest in the
church, offered to give the choir a
treat, and decided ON the really prince
ly one Of taking them for a week to
Paris.
He escorted them himself to places
of interest and beauty in that charm.
ing city, but not once during their
whole stay, or even on their return
did one of the men say to him that he
had liked the trip or had enjoyed him
self.
Naturally anxious to kmow whether
they had done so. a few days after
their return he asked one Of the
churchwardens, a farmer In the vii.
lage, whether he thought the men had
enjoyed their time In Paris. The
churchwarden cogitated for moment
or two.
well, sir" he said at length, II
amt heard no complaints"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-21
SAVING THE BODY.
May Be Accomplished ON the other
Side of Your Outer Door.

May Be Accomplished ON the Other
Side of Your Outer Door.
There are folks who annually ex-
claim: I'VE simply must go some
where! The idea of staying home all
summer! Why, we'd die!" My friend,
you will not die before your time If
you will get outdoors every possible
chance, and If there is no outdoors
to your home, you had, indeed, better
go somewhere else and stay But purge
your mind that you have to go 100
miles in a sleeping car to get the out
doors and scrape of the moldy notion
that the moment you get outdoors you
must tear around like colt, says f..
L. Freeland in the Circle. Sit perfect
ly still and try to comprehend this
large and everlasting fact: Outdoors
is just like the other side of your door,
waiting, like opportunity, for a chance
at you. IT your door opens upon a
stationary odor piled up from some
noxious industry, you should remove,
exactly as IL the odor were visible
pile Of filth. The prime duty Of every
man is to locate his home so that 1t
is surrounded by unadulterated out
doors. And somewhere in that out
doors, somewhere, you certainly will
have room to swing a hammock! And,
oh, who can tell the worth of a ham
mock! That man can who can truly
estimate the value of utter rest. Lack
Of rest at the right moment, as in a
fine machine the lack of a drop of oil,
throws everything out of gear and
the engineer into frenzy. The wom-
an who never sees the ocean, nor the
hills, nor a stream bisected pasture,
nevertheless can step out of her steam
ing kitchen, toss off her apron and
throw herself into the soothing caress
of a hammock with almost, if not in
deed all, the assurance of the some re-
cuperation that two weeks romp
might give her, if she does it at the
moment when the machine needs the
oil, every time. A hammock slung in
the coolest spot of anybody's outdoors
is salvation of body and mind. Just
because your soul is saved or even be-
cause it isn't, don't neglect your body
and mind Let a man dip into ham,
mock for fifteen minutes after the
days work and he speedily will won
der how he came to be cross with his
wife for asking IL he felt the heat in
the office.
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SIXTY YEARS A HARPIsT.
ROsaIie Spohr Figure in Berlfn's
Musical and Social Life.

Rosalie Spohr Figure in Berlin's
Musical and Social Life.
One of the most interesting charac-
tiers in the musical life Of Berlin is
Rosalie Spohr, the harpist, who is q
niece of the great violinist Louis
Spohr, an exchange says. She made
her first appearance in public on Dec.
1?, 1S49, at concert given by Jennie
Lind. She attracted attention first be-
cause of her distinguished musical de-
scent, but after the world had once
heard her her art made her famous.
There are few women before the pub
lie to-day who play the harp as vir-
tuosi, although one sees them occasion
ally in the opera orchestras. So 1t Is
difficult nowadays to realize that Ro-
salia Spohr toured Europe in triumph.
She found in Franz List devoted
friend and enthusiastic admirer and
he was proud to play with her at Wei
mar as well as give her the benefit Of
his artistic advice. Her career as a
public performer ended after about
six years. Then became the wife
Of Count Saurma and the stage knew
her no more. She still lives in Berlin,
more than 80 years old, but enthusiast
tic in her devotion to the instrument
with which she won the triumphs of
her brief professional career. For three
hours every day she practices the harp,
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seem reflection on the intelligence OIL
the reading public to repeat it. 1t is.
not proposed to do so. It's Topographic
cal characteristics are divergent. There
is the level prairie with its rich deep
loan and underlying subsoil, the high
er and rolling lands with their groves
of timber, the wooded lands rich in
soil The wants of all can be supplied;
some want one kind and some another
and they can all be suited The man
who wants to put in his steam ploW
and force the energies of the soil into
immediate production can be suited.
and so can the man who wishes large
tracts for the same purposes, and at
the same time enjoy the companion
ship of the timber. In many parts II
is possible to have a hundred mile
square of wheat, without break. A
writer says: I'VE were. driven west and
north of Moose Jaw through 20 miles
of dead ripe wheat, acres of stocks and
well worked summer fallows One Of
these fields would yield 40 bushels to
the acre, and another man had oats
that would yield 80 or 100 bushels to
the acre. In this district wheat will
average 80 to 35 bushels. The condi-
tons were never better and through
out the district the people are assured
OF a most prosperous year" In the
Melfort district, three hundred miles
in another direction, we hear of far
mer whose yield of oats will run from
S5 to 100 bushels per acre; then trav-
cling over another stretch of three
hundred miles the Pipestone district in
Manitoba is reached and we learn of
more 80 and 40 bushels to the acre
crops of wheat. So it will be seen that
the splendid crops are not confined to-
one district, but are general throughout
the entire country.
Speaking of his experiences while
travelling through the Canadian West
Thomas C. Shotwell. financial Editor-
of the New York American, said that
heretofore he had entertained optimis-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-21

from $40 to $50 per acre. Already the
homestead and presumption lands sare
being we'll filled.
In the district of Calgary and in Cen
trail Alberta, since the report of year
ago was made, the increased acreage
in crop has been remarkable. The new
ly-arrived settler has got to work and
with the steam pillow and ordinary
methods of farming large amount of
new land is contributing to the wealth
of the country. Railroads have pro-
jected and built branches which reach
out laterally from the main line, and
it is now possible to reach parts rich
in agricultural possibilities that were
not accessible year ago. Towns have
come into existence during that time
that will soon become cities; schools
and churches have been erected
throughout the country districts; tele-
phone lines have been constructed and
an air of prosperity is everywhere APP
parent. There are to be found those
who speak of a pioneering" life in
western Canada, but as one man said,
IF this is pioneering / don't for the
life of me see what our forefathers had
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vested and it is now safe to speak of
results. Throughout the entire grain
growing area of 100000 square miles
there has been a uniform production
and high average. Careful estimates
place the yield of spring wheat at 80
bushels per acre, winter wheat at over
40 bushels and oats exceed 80 bushels
per acre. Barley also has proved an
abundant yield. What will attract the
reading public more than volumes of
figures will be the fact that those who
have been induced through the inf1u-
ence of the Government to accept of
$50 acres of free grant land, or, by the
persuasion of friends to leave their
home State of Dakota, Minnesota
Iowa, Illinois, Michigan Indiana, Ohio
Nebraska or the other States from
which people have gone. have done
well. Financially they are in better
position than many of them ever ex-
pected to be, and in the matter of
health, in social conditions, they have
lost nothing.
The columns of Canadian newspa-
pers are filled with accounts of this
years harvest, writer's vying with each
other in giving the proper coloring to
their reports. These make exhilarating
reading to the man who has interests
in that country. Lethbridge people
claim it to be the keystone of Southern
Alberta, while Calgary people claim
the same for their district 1t was in
this district that the growing of win
ter wheat in western Canada original
ed. Its success there led the farmers
east and west of it to experiment and
what can now be said of one part may
well be said of the whole. In few
years from now these great plains over
whose breadth for years roved hum
dreds of thousands of heads of cattle,
following the millions of buffalo that
once grazed their grasses, will be a
solid grain field covering territory of
over 10000 square miles, and very lit
tie of it but what will yet be worth
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-21
SICK MAN ON WALL STREET.

Effect of jay GouId's Illness and
Death ON the Stock Market.
| Jay Gould was man of frail ply
sique. In the evening Of his career
the state of his health became mat
ter of intense speculative interest in
Wall street. On rumors that he was
dangerously Ill prices would fall; on
these rumors being authoritatively and
convincingly denied. prices would re-
| cover. When there was nothing much
else in the stock market for specula-
tors to think about or trade upon,
days would be spent in ridiculous and
futile alarms At length Mr.. Gould
became chronic invalid, the strain OF
his life having hopelessly undermined
his health, and though by this time
| his affairs were so composed that his
death would not be likely to upset the
stock market. the fiction was kept
alive among spectators that fluctua-
lions in his physical condition were
of the utmost Importance.
The New York newspapers took
part in the discussion, says the New
York Evening Post. and when Mr..
Gould, accompanied by several doc
tors. went to Saratoga Springs, staff
correspondents went along to see for
themselves Their reports disagreed
as hcpelessly as the Wall street ru-
mors.
One morning this paper, whose cor
respondent at Saratoga Springs had
been writing Mr.. Gould up for well.
sent down the story that the subject
of all this commotion had done a FIVE
mile walk across country, had climbed
rail fences and leaped hedges with
the agility of schoolboy, and had
returned fairly glowing with health.
That made day for the bulls in
Wall street. They advanced prices flu
riously. The paper whose correspond
ent had been on the other side que
ried him in harsh terms. Was II trueo
The next day he sent down his story.
declaring it was true that Mr.. Gould
had gone five miles across country:
but it was a terrible pity. His condi-
ton was such that his doctors had
resorted to heroic measures, and car
ried and dragged him over that dis
lance, and had brought him back
tottering, visible wreck. He would
perhaps never be seen outdoors again
That made day for the bears in
Wall street.
Five years after all this Mr.. Gould
died. and the event caused hardly
any commotion in Wall street, Mis-
souri, Pacific advanced.
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Buried Treasures.

For me is buried treasure
BY many a misty coast;
But ah! its tale and measure
Long, long ago lost.
Or if Phoenician mintage,
Or crusted bowls divine
That held Alcinous' vintage
Or late Falernian wine!
If Egypt's jewelled scarab:
Or moonlight CLEAN Of jade;
Or magic dirk of Arab.
Or Scythian idol blade!
Or painted scroll or CULVER.
Or Inca's gold-in- cave;
Or pelf from diamond river:
Grisamber from sea wave;
Or, from Varangian barrow
Some amulet uncouth;
Or but this flinthead arrow
From hilltops roamed in youth:
I count my treasure buried
BY many misty coast
The vanished lives, as varied,
That long ago I lost!
Whereof cloudy token
Across my memory drives;
But no spell lifts unbroken
My many sunken lives.
Edith NJ. Thomas.
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Great Crops in
Western Canada

Canadian Correspondence:
During the early days in the growth
of the crop in Western Canada, as well
as throughout the ripening and garner
ing period, there is yearly growing an
increasing interest throughout the Uni
ted States, as to the probable results
when harvest is completed. These
mean much to the thousands of Ameri-
cans who have made their home in
some one of the three Provinces that
form that vast agricultural domain. and
is of considerable interest to the
friends they have left behind them
The year 1909 is no disappointment:
it will bring comfort and happiness.
wealth and luxury to those who are
following agriculture as pursuit in
the country now occupying so much of
the attention of the world--of this con-
tinent in particular. Reports from the
grain fields warrant the note of opti-
mism that has been SO prominent dur
ing the past few months. The crops of
wheat, oats and barley have been har-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-21
UNFAMILIAR FACTS.

The European capitals are just be-
ing connected by telephone.
The Ohio State University will con-
duct wireless course next year.
Illuminated signs are feature Of
some of the subway cars in New
York. The sign tells the name of the
next stop.
Three million dollars will be spent
in building a subway for electric cars
under the harbor at Sidney, New
South Wales.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-21

DIR. w. e. Buehler of Chicago, who
attended the international congress of
physicians ana surgeons at Budapest,
and yhc was guest of Prof. Struenpell
St Vienna when the latter diagnosed the
case OF e. I'll. Harximan, has returned
home convinced of two things. One i;
that American surgeons are the best ia
the world. The other is that st is the
careless preparation of foods that causes
sickness, since nearly all disorders are
found in the alimentary tract" DIR.
Buehler says that the frying pan and
pastries are the ruination of the stom-
ach. He thinks the Europeans have dis
covered this, but that Americans so far
seem deaf TO warnings.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-21

At the recent Grand Aerie of the Fra
ternal Order of Eagles the grand secre-
tary recommended that local .aeries be
not permitted to incur Indebtedness for
the installation of ssideboards in club
rooms The grand secretary urged
against permitting buffet features to
overshadow the fraternal features of
the order, and said that 40 per cent.
of the suspensions inflicted during the
past year were due TO troubles having
their origin in the buffet. There are 9TH
er organizations than the Eagles which
might profit if their high officials talked
to them with equal eandor.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-21

La Russia. the large landed prOprietors
are now using farm machinery, and DEM
onstrating that when modern methods of
agriculture are generally adopted in the
Cars domain there VIII be a large in
crease in the worlds food supply. The
farmers who use machinery raised 2OSS
pounds of rye and 2196 pounds of winter
wheat per dessiatine (2.7) ACRES in 1905,
against 1892 and 1886 pounds respective
" raised by the peasants who adhere to
their old and crude methods There
ought to be "a good field for the sale of
EARN implements in Russia with show
irgs of this kind to strengthen the ar
xruss,anfS Of .ageIMS
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-21
Faith and Hone.

Doubts may fit around me, or seem
to close their evil wings. and settle
down; but, SO long as imagine that
the earth is hallowed, and the light OF
heaven retains it's sanctity on the Sab
bath-while the blessed sunshine lives
within me-never can my soul have
lost the instinct of It's faith.-Nathan-
lei Hawthorne
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-21

Oshkosh is to be congratulated over
its gift from Mrs. Helen A. Beach of a
family homestead that is conveyed to the
municipality with the provision that it
shall be converted into public school, to
be known as the Orville Beach Memorial
Manual Training School. Industrial ed
ucation is to become general throughout
the United States, and this gift will
enable Oshkosh to take her place among
municipalities that are progressive in
this regard.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-21

"A mortgage on cat is not often
heard of. However. the other dsy there
was filed in the recorders Office at Co
lumbds. o. cllattei mortgage. the con-
sIdrratiOn of which was SO ThJ prop
Grty OH which the n oney was secured
was described as ga cat called John
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-21

There viii be wide popular interest in
the plan reported from Fond du Lac of
putting the Lamartine Peat, Light and
Power Company in position to make ff-
~ tons of peat briquettes day in ac-
cordance with the process now success
fully employed in Germany. There are
millions of tons of available peat in the
west. and one successful enterprise will
inspire the establishment of many bri-
quette factories that will materially in
Iiuence the fuel market.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-21

The British destroyer Swift is credited
with a speed of nearly forty knots an
hour, and is therefore recognized as the
fastest thing in the Kings navy. The
United States has torpedo boat named
the Flusser which has steamed at the
rate of 1877 knots an hour, although she
is much smaller than the Swift. When
Uncle Sam gets ready to try on larger
scale, he will tie knots in the aspirations
of other builders who have speed am
hition.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-21

Illinois has the champion game war
den. He was sent to Fox Lake, in that
state, to watch for violators of the law
in regard to duck shooting, and was him
self captured in the act of shooting
ducks in an official way, for which a
Waukegan justice of the peace fined him
X25 and costs
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-21
Its Place on the Menu.

IT see they are eating cameps meat
in Paris"
yes; suppose they get it about the
dessert course. baltimore American.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-21
EASHRURN PRINTING CO., Publishers

The man who was initiated with bed
slat fitted with torpedo tells a story
which makes some OF the high school fra
ternity stunts assume the dignity of
esoteric rites. what fools these NOR
tolls haf,,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-21

A stock-feed factory has been estab-
Eshed at Beeville, Texas. for the purpose
of making the cactus fit for consump-
ton by cattle by removing the spines
from the same. When Burbank's spine
less cactus takes the place of the present
prickly growth factories viii lbe unneces-
sary; but in the meantime the prickly va.
riety can be had in plenty merely for the
gathering, and the cost of removing the
spines may be so small that the neces-
sity of cultivating the spineless variety
will no longer attract those who have
profit in view through the production OF
a new food for livestock.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-21

The assertion of vessel captain that
there is not a port on Lake Michigan
which cannot be entered by craft draw
ing seventeen feet reveals the progress
that has been made in the improvement
of lake shipping facilities. 1t is not long
since fourteen feet was the average
depth of harbors on the lake.