The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-15
wAsHBURN PRINTING CO., Publishers

There will be great disappointment in
certain speculative circles if the govern
ment decides not to place a duty on
coffee.
While in Chicago yesterday, William
Jennings Bryan paid $2S75 for an auto
mobile and admitted that he had his eye
on a seat in the United States Senate.
He is restless in private life.
That Chicago preacher who declares
that clergymen are in constant danger
from willy women-isn't he unusual!
Possibly the trouble is that he is too at
tractive, but it's more likely that he is
too conceited.
Tolstoy has come out with another
blast against war. He says
If only the nations would recognize the
Christian teachings in their true Slgnl1i-
canoe an end would once for all be put 70
fratricidal wars ana all tne HialpracliceS
of governments.
There can be no question concerning
the truth of this utterance. But I'M
fortunately II SldTtS Will a NOIJ OiS k
a Chicago physician claims to have
discovered that the dangerous disease
known as Rocky Mountain fever is corG-
municated by the woodtick, and expects
in the near future to announce an anti
toxin for it. Heretofore Rocky Noun
tain fever has been deemed incurable.
The progress of incidence is one of the
chief marvels of the age.
Fourteen of the twenty automobiles
which started for Boston from New
York city Oh an endurance run for tro-
ply reached their destination in good
order. This is a higher percentage OF
survival than was achieved only a few
years ago, in test runs of this nature,
and il is evident that the automobile
manufacturers are now turning out We
hicles that will ''stand the racket"
Steel has solved all the problems of
lighthouse construction except those Incl
dent to securing a foundation for steel
columns upon which the skeleton struc-
ture can rest. The steel tower of the
proposed new White Shoals lighthouse,
which has been erected by the Milwau
kee Bridge company in a sample of the
beacon tower of the future at all danger
points where the lighthouses must be out
in the water in order to be effective.
What are the girls coming to? Two
fires in the dormitories Of the seminary
at Pennington, New Jersey, recently
are believed by the county officials to
have been caused by carelessness of
young ladies smoking cigarettes in their
rooms. 1t is due to the girls to add that
the trustees and faculty scout the Of
fetal theory and deny that the young
ladies smoke. They insist that the blazes
were started by an incendiary.
In Chicago, where high school frater-
mites have been banned by the board,
they still find means, it is said. to car
nv on their promiscious activities. That
these activities are frequently perni-
cious is beyond dispute. Evidence on the
subject is at hand from Dunkirk, New
York, where, a boy who was branded
on the cheek with acid while undergoing
initiation to a high school fraternity. the
other day, will carry the scar for life.
The determination of the Confederate
veterans to raise the first torpedo boat
of the Civil war from the bottom of
Lake Ponchartrain and utilize it as a
monument to the naval engineering skill
of times in which genius had to struggle
against tremendous difficulties will great
ly interest all American naval architects.
The naval constructors OF the Confeder-
acy were pioneers in the production of
submarine craft for torpedo service, and
their achievements in that direction will
always have a prominent place in naval
history.
An educational development worthy of
notice is reported from Manitowoc, where
the school board will provide a night
course of ten weeks in the North Side
High school, for the benefit of young
men who through force of circumstances
cannot be students in the day school.
This plan is in harmony with manual
training and trade developments through
out the entire country. School author
lCloS every WueIc are UclAS COuNiASCu VI
the Importance of trade instruction for
the proper equipment of young men for
the work of bread-winning.
French scientists have discovered that
the ultra violet rays emitted by Kro-
mayors mercury vapor electric lamp ster-
ilize water or milk in which the lamp
is placed, acting effectively for a dis
lance of nearly five feet in every direc
ton. Here is a means of doing away
with pathogenic microbes which may
prove superior to pasteurization. In the
first place it accomplishes the result
without heating, thereby obviating the
loss of any essential characteristic of
the fluid treated. In the next place it
is easy and comparatively inexpensive.
1t is notable of the Dimmock- Hall col
lision on the route from Boston to New
York, that the stranded and crippled
steamer was able to call for assistance
with her wireless telegraphy outfit, as
was the case after the collision between
the Republic and the Florida. Had the
colliding steamers been able to flash mes
sages to each other prior to their violent
meeting, the result might have been diff
ferent. Wireless telegraphy ought to
make collisions less frequent by estab-
fishing communication between ships
when everything is obscured by fogs.