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house amt got all the charts this
cruise. Why, there are more real live
fish in dry dock when it Is pumped
out than there are in them there har-
Dor craft that go out with cargo of
landluDbers and come. back with all
the ballast in their foretops. Them
fish get shanghaied in the undertow
when the dry dock is opened, and
when she is pumped cut and all closed
they are left marooned on the bottom.
This dog, he just goes down and gets
'em.
Rags is all right. He's low in the
freeboard, bout foot of draught, and
three feet in length, and his armor
plate he must have swiped by jumping
in glue pot and then rolling in a
rag yard. But he's cute. He got a
job here on his face two years ago
from the marine guard. And that dog
can laugh, mister-leastwise he never
stopped since he run afoul of govern
ment rations He goes around the yard
every time picket is posted and sees
them marines do their duty.
when he was piped off that the
Massey was being floated that dog full
steams down to the dock. He shinnies
down the steps leading to the bottom
and takes an observation between the
keel blocks. Then he footed his siren.
Quick as falling off a yard Rags
dove his bow in tween the keel blocks.
Up he comes with four-inch Teller
in his teeth. He flung it contemptu-
ous-like on the dry floor. Then he
dove again and flung six-inch Teller.
Mister, he puts six of them in a row,
and then he just turns around, and
whacks them dead with his tail Sure,
he's a great dog. All the seacops will
have fish for supper. Want an afr
davy?"-New York Times.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-30
THE CHRISTMAS BOX FROM HOME.

When the sidewalks lined with cedar and
the holly berries CLEAN,
And the merry Christmas shoppers seem to
form an endless stream,
And the small boys in his glory with his
nose pressed to the pane
Of the dazzling toy window where old
Then it's ChristmasIyes, It's Christmas
and you feel it in the air,
And you sc it i'll the faces down along the
shopping square;
And the mistletOe and cedar lead you far
and far away,
And remind you of a caller that is due on
"A caller that viii reach you no matter
where you roam,
That's your good old annual vsit-the
Christmas box from home!
There's noise in the hallway and creak-
ing of the stair,
And up comes, an expressman who looks
like he'd love to swear.
His brow is almost dripping and his cheeks
are fiery red.
''By jinks, it must be books, sir! 1t has
the weight of leadn'
And you look the address over and you
find it's here at last,
With half a dozen labels and a rope to
hold it fast;
And it brings the breath of country to the
busy, throbbing town,
With it's browning wreath Of holly and it's
walnutS rich and brown,
And it's little Jars of honey all dripping in
the comb
A store full of good things is the Christmas
box from hOmei
Oh, travel-stained and homely is the country
Christmas box,
AS it's pushed from post to corner by the
rude expressman's knocks;
But there's something sort of homelike in
the little things it holds
The golden-yellow heart cakes baked in
good old-fashioned moulds,
The Jars of ounce and apple-and you set
them on the shelf.
And a little note comes futtering, MA
put these up herself.
Jenny sends the citron; and wear these
mittens do,
For granny sat up late at night to knit
them just for your
By jinks! It sort of gets you, that box OF
little things,
And Merry, Merry Christmas is the mes
sage that it brings.
And no matter where you've, wandered,
from New York clear to Nome,
There is nothing so inviting as the Christ
mas box from home
Victor A. Hermann, in Judge.
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Hioh Opinion of Mark Twain.

Prof Brander Mathews Of Columbia
university in his fourth lecture on Mo
liere at the Cincinnati university. an
swered questions put by one of the stu
dents. Asked what he thought OF the
work of Anatole France he replied:
"Great. He is a great writer, the great
est French writer of today"
"Would you class him as the greatest
living literary man?' was next asked.
certainly not,'' replied Prof. Mathews.
sThe greatest living literary man is
Mark Twain" Regarding William Dean
Howells. Prof. Mathews said: 'Howells
ranks very high. He. is one of the great
est figures in literature, but he does not
rank with Mark Twain" He further
said: "Can anyone say that the man
who wrote 'Huckleberry Finn is not
the greatest author, living? Ten. years
ago | would not have ranked him so
high, but there have been several deaths
in the past decade
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-30
Rats Infected with Leprosv.

In Japan during the present year two
doctors have found leprosy germs i'll rats
in Osaka and Kamamoto. According to
a japanese paper, the Asahi, the first
discovery was made public in April last
when DR.. Kawamura read a paper on
the subject at meeting of medical men
at the Toxic Infectious Disease hospital
Later similar discovery was made at
the KamamOto Medical college. DIR. Ich-
ihara, director of the Fusan Infectious
Disease hospital, also found leprosy
germs in rats recently. He examined
500 animals, two of which were found to
contain the germs. Another leading doc
tor, DR.. Shibayama, is much interested
i'll the matter, and has himself been con-
Quoting investigations. He calculates
that one rat out Of every three or Four
thousand contains the germs. A dead
rat whose hair has come oat and whose
tail is eaten away has almost invariably
bee1 found to contain the germs In ev-
cry rat affected with the disease the
Emphatic glands have been found to be
swollen, but not in the same way as in
the case of plague. The leprosy germ in
the rat very closely resembles in torm
that found in man. 1t is not yet known
whether the germs are Identical and
what connection there is between the
two, and it is not yet practicable to
cu'tiTste those of the rat for testing
purposes.
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CHEERFUL IN BLINDNESS.
The Workers in a Remarkable School in
New York

The New York Association for the
Blind is maintaining school on Fifty
ninth street in that city, which is called
'The Lighthouse" Recently there was
a public inspection of the school, so that
interested people might examine theI
dolls, the linen, the embroidery and thel
woven pillows, as accurate in design asl
If the workers had two good eyes apiecel
to assist the exquisite touch of their fin
gers. Visitors found it difficult to believed
that the robust, bright faced womenI
whose fingers danced in and out so MINI
bly, over the looms and the machines
were victims of what is popularity SUPP
posed to be the worst Of Affections. They
actually laughed over their work. 1T
was not until he had talked for many
minutes with his guide, William Patrick,
that a reporter for The World learned
with amazement that Patrick was stone
blind.
The same spirit of cheerfulness was
found on the top floor, where women inI
a cooking class were making cakes
There wasn't a single note of despair,
and over with her fingers before She
could tell how much -four filed her tea
spoon.
Every piece of work the blind do isl
paid for and they earn regular wages.
The brooms used by the Interborough
and the Jersey Central railroads are
made in the shops of the lighthouse, and
the pillows of college colors found in
many a city home were fashioned by
the fingers Of blind women.
On the second floor was Mrs. Beck,
middle aged, sweet-faced woman, en-
bordering scarf. She won a gold med
al at the Milan exposition for peculiar
excellence in embroidery She had made
a handkerchief for the Dowager Queen
of Italy, and the Dowager Queen was
SO pleased that she requested that Mrs.
Beck make her scarf. 'The gold med
al is hanging here" said Mrs. Beck with
q smile, "but / have never seen it." The
organization has factory classes and
home teaching clubs Its motto is:
Though darkness comes,
None of us here may shirk;
Thou Light of Lights,
Now give us light through work.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-30

J. G. Wilson declared that MS faith
in Christian Science had been
strengthened by test he made in
stepping in front of a speeding New
Orleans trolley car. Surgeons at the
hospital, where the. man was re-
moved, say he has concussion of the
brain, gashes land cuts about the head
and face and that the left leg may
have to be amputated if he RECEIVERS
from the injury to his skull. Wilson
affirms that he does not feel any pain.
II left my lodgings in the morning
with the lines of true thought run
ming through my BRAIN" he said. 81
saw the car coming and instantly re-
solved to put my belief to test. AS 1t
drew within a few feet of me /
stepped onto the tracks. I heard the
changing Of gongs, the shouts of the
motorman and the screaming of wom-
en- as I sprang head first at the car.
Then I woke up here"
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Lost Things to Be Found.

There are thus fields of archaeological
investigation which by contrast make the
charting of polar wastes seem a petty
and unpopular task. The lost books of
Livy, the poems of Sappho and the plays
of Menander are only few of the great
works of antiquity which have supposed
ly persisted. If in some rock-haven her
mitage or sand-buried temple complete
copies of them were to be discovered,
with what exultation would the learned
world hail the achievement TO say that
it is impossible would be absurd; to say
even that it is improbable savors of
rashness, seeing that in Central Asia
classic manuscripts literally by the bar
relful have recently been found. The
moral of Kipling's 'Farwell, Romance
is to be commended to those who are be-
ginning by anticipation to weep because
there are no more worlds to conquer
New York Tribune.
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Flving Machines and Animals.

When Zeppelin III. made the fight
from Dusseldorf to Essen last month it
was observed that horse and cattle ran
wildly about the meadows as it APP
bleatings around their shepherd. From
these facts Count Zeppelin concludes
that the employment of airships Of what
ever type will have a disastrous effect
on furred and feathered game. All ami
mails show fear at their approach; par
tridges, quail and other game birds cover
and hide themselves. and domestic cocks
utter warning crows as if they per-
ceived some gigantic bird of prey. Van
Hoffken, the Swedish aeronaut, when
at a moderate height, watched elk
foxes, hares and other animals take to
fight, and dogs rushed bowling into the
house.-Deutsche Jager-Zeitung.
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SPORT THAT SAVED A NATION.
Skeeing Freed Norway from Foes
Ready to OverwheIm Her.

Skeeing Freed Norway from Foes
Ready to Overwhelm Her.
Surely Norwegians should know
what's what in skeeing. Have they rot
made history with their skee? Would
they be the united, free and independ-
emit little country they are today had
It not been for the skee and their
army's ability to use them? Would
they not be merely a succession OF Ice
free ports maintained for the conven-
fence of England, Germany, and, most
of all, Russia? They had a pretty hot
little war all their own in 1S07-O8, and
If it was short they have only their
commander, Prince Christian Angus
tus and their infantry on skee to
thank, says Charles F. Peters in Out
Ing.
All Europe was busy trying to keep
Napoleon from smudging out the lines
of the map, and nobody would help
Norway, except the already besieged
Denmark She, although willing, was
prevented from sending food and am
munition by the English war vessels
that blockaded the Morse coast, and
with Sweden battering them by land
and England by sea, poor little Nor
way could only sit tight and walt for
the approach of the season when Thor
should throw the hammer and the
frost giants Of Jotunheim would fight
her battles for her.
And 10. the Swedes allowed them
selves to be outwitted. Just as their
army of the west, which outnumbered
the Norsemen ten to one, arrived at
the frontier and brought up their
heavy field artillery, the White Bear
from the land east Of the sun and west
of the moon sent his feathery flakes
and brought confusion and defeat to
the invading forces.
Their fieldpieces were buried, their
men could only founder about in the
deepening drifts, and, to add to their
discontinue, little fiocks of green dots
began to appear upon the surrounding
mountain crests, to skim down within
range, fire carefully aimed rifles, and
glide away again before resistance
could be attempted by the demoralized
Swedish hosts. Thus the entire war
consisted Of much starvation, but only
three battles, in all Of which Norway
was completely victorious, and peace
was made before the year ended.
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PROF. MUNYON'S PHILANTHROPY
Giving to the Nation a Prize That
Money Cannot Buy.

Giving to the Nation a Prize That
/ Money Cannot Buy.
II a0ould rather preServe the health
! OF q nation than to be its ruler."-
Mungon.
This motto, written by Prof. Munyon
about sixteen years ago, was the real
cornerstone of his medicine business.
He felt that the people of the nation
were neglecting their health owing to.
lack of money. With the one thought
in view of helping humanity, he start
ed in the medicine business, paying
large sums of money to eminent spe-
cialists for known and tried formulas,
that were known to have been sue
cessful In curing diseases. After care
fully compromising these formulas and
putting them up In a marketable con-
dition, he offered them to the public
for a few pennies, easily within the
reach of the poorest family. He hired
eminent specialists at large salaries
and offered their services absolutely
free to the public to diagnose their
cases and advise them what remedies
to take. After giving the public all
these benefits he was still unsatisfied
and offered further to those who were
not in reach of the Offices which he
established throughout the country;
he advertised, asking them to write to,
his specialists for free medical ex-l
animation, and to-day Prof. Munyon
is still following out this policy, and
whenever he hears of a new drug or
q new formula that is more effective
than those that he is at the time COM
pounding, he purchases them regard
less Of cost.
Prof Munyon puts up separate
cure for almost every ILL., and these
remedies can be had at all druggists,
mostly 25 cents bottle. In taking
these remedies, you are taking what
might be called a sure thing, for he
guarantees them to produce satisfac-
tory results or he will refund your
money This is a remarkable man
and a remarkable institution, mani
testify fair to all, and firm that we do
not hesitate to recommend to our
readers.
Prof. Munyon's address is SD and
Jefferson streets, Philadelphia, Pa.
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ing it upon the cabinet again, she set
photograph.
"For his wife, she muttered sadly,
and turning, she found his eyes fixed
upon her. She uttered little scream,
and recovered her composure
''Nell-you?" he questioned bewilder-
ingly.
Yes" She bowed to hide her flushed
face, and leaned heavily against the
mantel to hide the fact that she was
trembling.
''And you-you have furnished this
house for me?,"
yes" She choked back a sob, and
continued. II had to do it or-or leave
Brownlow's. And l couldn't do that
without the probability of starving
again"
ITO think you have come to this!"
eve will not discuss my position.
please The tears were filling her eyes,
but she spoke determinedly, and indi-
Gated the empty frame. II have left
that for-for your wife's photograph
And, now, can you tell me when my
services will be no longer necessary"
"Ah! He told you I had married?"
"Mr. Brownlow said you were bring
ing wife home from abroad"
"And knowing that, you-you-
Il did my best for-the firm
For moment there was a tense
silence. She stood with downcast eyes,
vainly endeavoring to conceal her emo
ton, whilst Crewson took from his let
ter-case the photo of girl
Il presume that unless you obey my
instructions now your position with the
firm, as you call it, will be jeopardized?''
he said
"That is So If there is any thing
Gust one thing, please. If you will
place that photograph in the stand you
have reserved for my wife's, think that
will be all.'
She shot a glance at him, and swayed
dangerously. For few seconds she
hesitated, and then stretched out her
hand for the card.
eff you insist she commenced. and
stopped. The room appeared to whirl
round, and her sight was blurred with
unshed tears, but dashing them away,
she looked at the photograph in her hand
again. There was no mistake. 1t was
a picture of herself
"You mean you want me?'' she sobbed.
For moment he did not reply. He
took her in his arms and kissed the
tear stained face until it glowed with
eager happiness.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-30
THE BRENNAN. GYTOScOP1c
GA1

ly he exhibited, on the war Office
grounds near Chatham, 22-ton car,
40 feet long, Is feet high and 10 feet
wide. mounted on a single line OF four
wheels, without other support than
those wheels.
Two horoscopes were used, weighing
three-quarters of ton each and max
ing 5000 revolutions minute IN a
vacuum. A gasoline engine furnished
the power. The gyroscope wheels are
3 feet 6 inches in diameter and are
placed in cab at the front OF the
car. A speed Of only seven miles an
hour was attained on trial.
1t was found that the big car was
even more successful than the model.
1t showed no tendency to leave the
track or to tip. Sudden shifting OF
weights in no way endangered the
equilibrium.
It is expected that this type OF car
will do away with the dangerous and
uncomfortable side thrust which leads
to spreading rails and excessive jolt
and lar, and limits the safe speed Of
the ordinary two-rail train to about
seventy miles an hour.
Moreover, the power of this engine
can be more economically applied, and
it is predicted that safe speed of $50
miles an hour can be attained.
The gyroscope employed is on the
same principle as the toy Of that name
and of the ordinary spinning top. 1t
lends stability to the supporting car
through the fact that revolving wheel
tends to remain In one place.
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The Usefulness of Central"

The telephone subscriber has come
to regard Central as an ever avail
able bureau Of information. The score
of the ball game, the latest election
returns, the location of the big fire the
light from which can be seen on the
horizon, and even the exact time, are
all points on which the long-suffering
operator must be posted.
The other day, according to the Oper-
ating Bulletin Of the Chicago Tele-
phone Company, a man called up a
suburban exchange, and said, despair
in his voice:
my wife has gone out, leaving word
for me to cook the spinach for dinner,
but do not know how long to boil it,"
The operator switched the sub
scriber to the supervisor, who had
been to cooking school, and she
promptly told the man all he needed
to know about the treatment of spin
ach.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-30

the sixteenth and ends with the twenty
third of month not named, and men,
tons the arrival and further travel of
letters forwarded from a local postofice
An entry says: ION the Dist day of the
month at the fifth nour the postal rider
escorting the mail from the south de-
livered to the postal clerk Phanias at
this station two letters These letters
were later delivered by assistant post
master Horos to the postal rider Nike
demos, who departed with them for the
north The papyrus relates also that
the chief officials of the local postoffice
which was perhaps in the neighborhood
of 2tolemais, were the two brothers
Phoenix, who were known also under
the sobriquet of ''hundred-acre men,"
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Quartermaster-Gener Aleshire of the
United States army, declares in his an
nual report that he could reduce the cost
of maintaining the nations military es-
tablishment if he were given more Off
GERS and a new system of selection and
detail. There is waste in many direc-
tons through the inefficiency of civilian
employees and enlisted men who receive
extra pay for performing certain duties
in an Indifferent way. Great savings
could undoubtedly be achieved through
the Inauguration of system and the ap-
pointment of capable men, as push for
preferment tends to load departments
with employees who are chiefly concerned
about the drawing of their salaries.
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AS to Delinquent Subscribers.

All sorts of jokes and near-jokes are
constantly on the boards about the de-
linquent subscriber" Most of us are
familiar with them. Rummaglng through
an old Kansas newspaper file of forty
five years ago this one was discovered:
"a western editor requests those of his
subscribers who owe him more than six
years subscription to send him lock of.
their hair so that he may know they are
still living. In answer to which the con-
temporary says that if his delinquent
subscribers would do this he would be.
compelled to leave off editing and go into
the wig business. kansas City Jour
nal
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Worth the Expense.

The story that Sir John Fisher of the
British admiralty tells with the greatest
enjoyment-and he tells many. and all
flagship who fell into a little money and
retired. One day the admiral visited him
at his country box, to find the old sailor
possessed of an apparently useless man
servant.
what do you want with him?" asked
Fisher.
"H'every morning." explained the old
sailor, Sc comes to me 'ammock and
tells me to roll h'out. The h'admiral
wants to see you e says to me. Hand
| says to i'm, Tell the h'admiral to go to
'ell,' says Hi."-San Francisco Argo-
naut
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Giving It Away.

"A woman just can't keep secret"
he declared, opposing a statement,
"Oh, / don't know" contradicted the
futtery lady. Eve kept my age Sc
cret ever since / was "a
yes he replied, ''but one of these
days you VIII give t away W ~, IN ! Tune you
"Well,' she replied with confidence, II
think when a woman has kept a secret
for twenty years she comes pretty near
knowing how to keep il" Philadelphia
Ledger.
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Letters Registered 1000 Years Ago.

TRANSACTIONS, recently published, Of
some of the latest papyri found in Egypt
lead us, according to Corriere della Sera,
precisely into an office where letters
were registered more than two thousand
years ago. Among other things found
was a statement of account, later used
in wrapping a mummy belonging to the
time of Ptolemaeus Philadelphus On the
back of this papyrus, the front being oc-
cupied by entries made by the bookkeep-
er of a great estate in relation to re-
ceipts and distribution of wheat and
postal diary which certainly was kept
quite irregularly. The diary begins with
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RAGS, THE NAVY YARD DOG.

Able Seaman Jones Tells Some
Large Stories of the Canine.
The battleship Massachusetts was
floated out Of dry dock at the New
York navy yard in Brooklyn yesterday.
Shortly afterward there came out Of
the pumped-out dock a little, lanky
dog. A little fish dangled in his teeth.
The dog was Rags, the canine Izaak
Walton of the marine guard.
where away, sir? Didn't hear bout
Rags, our dog that fishes?" said "Tod-
dy" Jones, able sailorman, to the in
Quisitive visitor "Wallop me, yer pilot
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An Important Condition.

Fiye-yea Fora had been listening
very attent ely to the older ones talk
ing, when one turned to her and asked,
lsWell, Fora, what are you going to do
when you are grownY After drawing
a long breath she answered, I'm going
10 teach school if there are any kids
ieft."-The Delineator.