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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29
A LIFESAvING SPHERE.
Fruit Steamer Carries Odd Device on
Deck for Use in Shipwreck.

The little $50 ton Norwegian steamer
Fagertun. which carries fruit to this
port from Port Antonio, Jamaica, has
encountered some stiff gales and pound
ed her way through high seas on her
many runs to and from the Caribbean
sea. but never has she been forced to
use the odd lifesaving buoy which she
carries aft on her deckhouse. The big
buoy, which attracted attention in every
port the Fagertun visited before she
went into the fruit trade, has given her
publicity in marine circles that ships
three times her tonnage might envy.
When the steamer was built, some six
years ago, she was equipped with the
regular complement of lifeboats, but the
owner and skipper had their own ideas
about life-saving apparatus, and the
Fagertun took on later the big steel
buoy which is dashed on the deckhouse.
When the vessels name is mentioned it
is bound to bring out such remarks as,
''Oh, yes; remember her; she is that
little fruiter with the steel channel buoy
aft; or "She's that freak craft with two
parallel masts fore and aft and the big
balloon on the deckhouse."
There are men on the steamer who
would most likely take to the small boats
if the Fagertun decided to quit the sea
in mid-Atlantic. but the skipper and a
dozen of the crew have an unbounded
faith in the life buoy as a means of
keeping them afoat after their vessel
had plunged to the oceans bottom.
L - L n .sAl -
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29

Do your I don't see why the world should smile upon
women haven't cared enough for the worlds opin-
ion to keep good reputation. It's good deal of buy
and sell proposltion-this living business We pay for
what we want or what think we want, not for what
the person who is trying to sell us the goods wants
to want
know two sisters both Of them clever, both pretty,
Industrious both extremely good business wom
One Of them has bank account, small but safe'
good income and lot Of sincere truehearted friends
The other equally capable Is In debt has two frocks 70
her and is half the time out Of position The
world isn't trying to get with the second sister
it's just paying her in her coin for her own work.
She's lghheaded and vain, and she gets herself talked
about IN every Office where she works Then she won
ders why her sister, who attends strictly to business
and keeps her free from whisper gets along
much better than she does I don't anything
6erul about it. do you? It's lots Of fun running bills
but 1t isn't much fun when the collector begins to
around.
The world treats women just about the particular
in her particular place has treated the world.
wonder why there Is anything particularly pathetic
about that?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29

knew she was booked for the locker of
Mr.. Jones'' said one of the crew re-
Gently. s'we'd simply cut the lashings,
crawl into that steel ball aft, and let the
deckhouse drop from under us. Float!
should say so: we'd drift from here to
Helsingfors before this here balloon OF
ours would sink.
shape. about nine feet in diameter, and
will comfortably accommodate fifteen
men. who are admitted one at time
through a manhole near the top. A cir
cuIar bench would enable entombed sail
or men to sit comfortably and rest after
a fashion until some vessel picked them
up. Under the floor are compartments
for food and fresh water sufficient to
keep shipwrecked men alive for more
than a week if they ate sparingly.
When the last man has entered the buoy
the hatch is battened down, and the
floating ball with it's occupants, is ready
to take it's chances with the sea. Fresh
air is admitted from a sort of telescope
tube. which may be hoisted to various
heights, according to the size OF the
seas.
The inventor of the sphere left no
stone unturned, and provided for the
propulsion of the ball when opportunity
permitted. A sail and rudder are fitted
to it, so that favorable winds may carry
it to the steamship lanes or land it
high and dry on a friendly coast Small
matches are provided just above the wa
ter line, through which oars may be
thrust in moderate weather. and an odd
ly fashioned rudder is adjusted to direct
the course. A large rope fender is woven
around the sphere to protect it from ire
the device has worked well, but there is
a diversity Of opinion among the Eager
tun's crew as to what it would do in
real northwester.-New York Tribune.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29
and rain are the best cosmetics yet dis

and rain are the best cosmetics yet dis
covered.
Englishwomen long since learned the
lesson Of walking for profit as well as
pleasure. And their robust health and
clear compilations always have been the
despair Of their inactive American sis
ters. The distance an Englishwoman
will walk OH her daily constitutional"
is amazing to femininity in other lands.
She thinks nothing Of six or eight
mile tramp, and on occasion can do fif-
teen or twenty without turning a
stops her-wet or dry, snow or blow.
rain or shine, she goes daily.
The reason for the Englishwoman's
fondness for icy baths lies in her supe-
rior vitality, perfect circulation and
strong heart action, due to walking.
The most beneficial exercise is that
taken under enjoyable conditions.
Physical culture" practiced as daily
routine, frequently become distasteful
drudgery and as such does little good
Walking, intelligently practiced, is al
ways enjoyable. Constant change OF
scene and the buoyancy communicated
by light, air and the fresh smells of the
open country give a sugar coating to
the medicine.
But there is secret or two in walk
ing-not in the how. but In the where
and the distance Walking, like other
physical exercise, is harmful, rather
than beneficial, if overdone. A wise
walker will reach home pleasantly, not
painfully, fatigued. The beginner at
walking for recreation should attempt
no record-breaking tramps but should
accustom herself gradually to the exer-
else And to enjoy it one must walk to
somewhere, not tramp idly about with
no objective point There may be some
pleasure in walking merely for walk
ings sake, but the real relish lies in
carrying out planned excursion to
some spot Of interest. Under such con-
ditions the attention is fixed ahead and
not under ones feet.
Walking with a companion, even If
the companion is only a dog. is much
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29
Country Highways are
Roads ToHealth for
Women. In Walking the Ian
6uid and ListlessM Nay flnst
Astounding Vitality andS
Heightened Spirits. 20


AS a pleasant and healthful recrea-
ton cross-country walking was discov-
cred only recently. With the exception
Of a few energetic physical culturists,
VINO went about 1t with an air of this
may -kill-me-bu I've got-to-do-it, those
who walked did SO only because they
hadn't the price to ride. City residents
who were unable to maintain pleasure
vehicles saw the country through car
windows or not at all.
Last summer, however, numbers Of
persons previously stationary realized
that they were possessed of legs and
that these legs were capable of locomo-
ton. Whereupon there was decided
stir and more dust was kicked up by
foot power than ever had been seen on
country roads. And, strange to say,
many Of these converts to pedestrian
ism were women, generally believed to
he totally devoid Of any perpendicular
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29
Americans as Book-buyers.

The writer of casual Comment in
the Dial. stimulated thereto by Prof.
Muensterberg's article in the Atlantic,
deplores the disorganization of the Amer
lean book trade.
In every German city of one hundred
thousand inhabitants, he says, there are
from twelve to twenty well-appointed
bookstores, and there is at least one such
store III any but the very smallest of
German towns, whereas in this country
even large cities are frequently content
to make books a side line in connection
with a department store or stationery
shop. Germany, he goes on, with sixty
millions of inhabitants, issued last year
2S.7O3 new books, while the United
States. with eighty millions, put forth
only SIP.
There are differing conditions to be
taken into consideration, and some of
these the writer of Casual Comment
notes. He speaks of the devotion of
Americans to newspapers and maya
zines. and suggests the absorption OF
Americans IN business-their neglect Of
the art of leisure" and their addiction to
the motor car and bridge whist. As to
the last item, it might be Cancelled in
consideration Of the German penchant
for skat and sechs-und AS for
the motor-car, do not Germans spend
time in gardens which may be cited as
all OuSeL! Inc CASUAL OOulucHldtOI
finds another partially explanatory diff
ference in the greater development of
the public library in the United States
than IL the country of the Kaiser. Cir
culating libraries are certainly inlmical
to a large extent to the purchase of
books by the public. AS Nudes, in
England, grew. the purchase of books
by the English reading public dinin-
ished.
There is a development of recent years
in America to which the Casual Com
mentator does not refer, but which I'M
doubtedly has initiated against the pur-
chase of books. and that is the rage for
living in flats Flat-dwallers have little
room for babies. They have little room
for family portraits. They have no
room for Newfoundland dogs or large
collections of books.
There still are book lovers and book
collectors in America. But old books
compete with new books for their pat
ronage. and so many old books have
been thrown upon the market within the
past twenty years-especially within
the past ten years-that the sale of new
books must have been disadvantageous-
ly affected thereby to a very consider
able extent The general reader who
reads for the love of reading very often
prefers an old book to a new one When
he can procure a good old book for a
trifing outlay, he is unlikely to make
sacrifice to purchase a contemporaries
GUS publication at many times it's cost,
for those who are most enthusiastic in
quest Of books are not always million.
aires.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29
Coming Down Easy.

Inquiries after the welfare Of Pat
rick Conroy were answered by his de-
voted friend, Terence Dolan, who was
at the Conroys in the double capacity
Of nurse and cook. mo, he's not dan.
gerous hurt at ALL was Mr.. Dolan's
reply to a solemnly whispered ques-
tion at the door.
1--WE heard he had a bad fall, and
was all broke to pieces" whispered
the neighbor.
otis big story you've heard" said
Mr.. Dolan, in his cheerful roar.
'Thrue, he fell off'n the roof o. the
Brady stables where he was shingling,
and he broke his lift leg, knocked out
couple O teeth and broke his collar
bone.
mind We, if he'd have fell clear to
the ground, 1t might have hurried him
bad, but sure there was big pile of
shtones and old lumber that broke his
fall
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29

themselves, but arranged without regard
to the effect of the shape, color and
general appearance of one upon the
whole.
In choosing shrubs to grow side by side
consider the foliage and flowers as care
fully as you consider the size and shape
Of rbt o green foliage next to masses Of
dark, or you will have a patchy effect.
BY care in selection as regards Towering
season. you may be sure of having one or
more plants in the border in blossom at
all times during the summer. Two
shrubs that blossom the same time
should not be placed together if the col
ors clash In the summer study your
shrubbeYy border and makes notes as to
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29
ON THE PACIFIC COAST.

Mrs. e. ]. Lord of Honolulu, who
paid 5000 for the privilege of reaching
San Francisco on British steamer rath-
er than wait for the American line and
thus lose her chance OF seeing the Taft
Inauguration, is now trying to induce the
claims her health was poor and that ply
sicans advised her to take the larger
steamer in order to avoid SeasicknesS.
Assistant Secretary Wheeler of the de-
partment of commerce was not inn
pressed with her plea and decided she
must pay. 91
The Legislature of California, which
finished it's work, passed, among other
bills, one providing for direct primaries
and a measure prohibiting racetrack bet
ting. The latter will close the race
tracks in California next month. An
other bill is the first in any way regulat-
ing railroad rates since 1879. Others
provide a standard of insurance, estab-
fish banking regulations, call for a vote
on S1S.OOOOOO of bonds for good roads,
and q vote on $9,OOO,OOO issue for San
Francisco harbor. Among measures that
were killed were batch of anti-Japa-
nese bills that would surely have passed
had it not been for the urgent appeals
of Gov. Gillett, due to President Roose-
yelt's plea for delay, so that the gov
eminent should not be involved in trou-
ble with Japan. The measure, next to
these bills, that excited most attention
was the anti-racing bill. The adoption
of this bill was largely due to repeated
cases of embezzlement due to gambling
by clerks and other trusted employees at
racetracks.
John e. McElroy, who was serving
his fourth term as city attorney of Oak
land. Cal. died from pneumonia, Mr..
McElroy was so popular that, although
Democrat in an OVERWHELMINGLY Re-
petitors and twice secured all party NOM
nations for office. He was graduate
of Santa Clara college.
The supervisors of San Francisco will
soon pass an ordinance forbidding mic
kelodians from showing pictures of
crime The moving picture films sent
ont here contain a large percentage of
views of crime and vice. which exert an
evil influence on the young. Lax paren-
fall control results in hundreds of school
children fiocking to these shows, and it
is to protect these spectators of tender
wears that the ordinance will be adopted
The California Legislature in it's last
DAVIS passed a bill prohibiting saloons
within one and one-half miles of Stan
ford university. This was the result of
persistent work by President Jordan,
who for more than a year has been max
ing war on drinking by students. Rigid
prohibition is enforced on the college
campus.
Stock growers in the vicinity of lava
beds in klamath county, Ore, are much
alarmed over rumblings heard in subter-
ranean passages under the lava. These
are attributed to the giving way of the
walls of some of these caverns, but sew
eral scientists who have examined the
neighborhood declare that under the beds
is still a molten mass of lava, which
occasionally bursts out, causing the curl
Gus rumblings.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29
How to Select Shrubs.

Shrubs as rule are intended as
frame for the yard or garden. They are
planted around the borders of the lawn,
or used to screen the foundation OF the
house, or to fill in corners.
The shrubbery frame for the yard or
garden should be formed on the. same
principle as a picture frame, the border
of a rug. etc. 1t should harmonic with
the picture it encloses, and each shrub
in the border should harmonic with ITS
compani,ns Too often no attention is
paid to this kind of harmony and the
shrubbery border becomes a thing OF
shreds and patches, made up of snowy
bushes, perhaps beautiful plants IN
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29
MEMS FASHION NEWS.

Some of the shops are showing spring
sack suits, the coats of which have a
perfectly tremendous dip in front.
They are buttoned with three buttons.
set very close together, the lowest but
ton being about at the waist line or per-
haps little above it. These coats are
decidedly cut away in front and the fore
part of the coat has crease on either
side. extending from the waist line down
to the bottom of the garment.
Inst at the moment we are having
quite an access of Scotch plaids and
one shop recently had window full OF
shawls and caps made of the plaids OF
the various clans. The women are wear
ing these plaids, too, and the windows
of the post card shops are filled with
post cards having Scotch plaid designs.
Is Harry Lauder responsible for this
particular outburst?
Smart dressed men have suddenly tax
ing to wearing black satin or black bro
cade waistcoats with their evening dress.
These are embellished with either crys-
tai, mOonstone, gold or jeweled buttons
and are cut after the manner OF the
English full dress waistcoats, showing a
great deal of shirt 'front.' -Four or five
of these rich though sOmber garments
will be seen of an evening now where
formerly only a single one was to be
seen in any particular gathering of peo-
pie.
New buttons for overcoats are cloth
covered with cloth of the same material
as that from which the coat is cut.
These fabric disks are surrounded by a
rim of black ivory.-Fairchild's Maya
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29

lie ever there was a man whose MEM
DRY would gain little from the erection
in his name of a monument of stone or
brass, that man was William Shakes
peare. Such monuments are paltry in
comparison with his works. Yet at this
late day movement is on foot in Eng
land to erect a national theater as a
memorial of Shakespeare. At recent
meeting at the Mansion House it was
decided that the sum of $2,5OO,OO0 would
be required. The Lord Mayor announced
the promise of an anonymous. contribu-
ton of $4,000.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29
THAT OLD, OLD PATHWAY.

We cry,
We talk
We laugh,
We walk;
Our mothers pride and joy.
We fight,
We swear,
And pants
We wear;
Our fathers little boy.
We dance,
We smoke,
Hold hands,
And joke;
A girl and then row.
We drink,
We eat,
Play cards,
And treat;
The fellows claim us now.
We love,
We're led,
We WOO,
We we'd;
At leisure we repent.
We work,
We sigh,
And soon
We die;
So many q life Is spent.
Cornell Widow
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29

Although leprosy has recently been
pronounced an non-contagious disease,
the fear of it is still permitting the pow
ers that be to increase the mental suf-
ferings of victims. A Boston dispatch
states that a 16-year-old Upton school
boy was OH Tuesday taken from the
Massachusetts General hospital and sent
to the leper colony on Penikese island.
This immolation OF, bright youth who
had excelled in his studies is a sacrifice
that ought to make medical scientists
take a stand in favor of more enlight-
ened methods.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29
attitude for a distance greater than
three blocks.


Along with the discovery Of walking
as a recreation came a partial appre-
citation of its benefits. With the enjoy
ment Of the visits to the fields and
woods came a realization that there
was a resultant improvement in health
and spirits-a shaking off of minor Ills
of mind and body.
Walking in the open air is the best
known cure for ailing women, and the
only effective medicine that may be self
administered without professional ad-
vice. If all women walked for pleasure
as much as they should (and no more)
there would be no cases Of nerves, :
chronic listlessness, unsightly obesity
nor embarrassing "scragginess. For
an irregular heart, weak lungs or O.
torpid liver, walking is the most effect
i've Of cures And fresh air. sunshine
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29

The new landslide at the site of the
Gatum dam will give the advocates of
a sea-level canal another opportunity to
howl about the dangers of the foundation
of the proposed structure to impound
the waters and create an inland lake.
But there will be slides all along the
canal until the work has so far advanced
that the slopes will be at angles so low
that the seepage cannot dislodge the soil.
President Taft says the foundation of
the Gatum dam is solid, and he has Civ
ell the matter his direct personal atten-
tiOn
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29

The announcement from Spokane that
Indians of the Nez Perces tribe will be
the owners of four-hfths of the stock of
the new bank which is being organized
at La Pwai, Idaho, is printed simulta-
neously with accounts of the uprising OF
Snake Indians in Oklahoma. 1t still
seems like very short time since Gen.
Miles was driving after the Nez Perces
with force of determined troopers
which finally brought them to bay and
forced them to accept the inevitable
The Nez Perces are now in position to
give the Snakes of Oklahoma some good
advice.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29

A Denver man has invented a phono-
graphic safe lock that must be talked
open. The word which locks the safe
is recorded. and the one who uttered
it must repeat the performance or the
mechanism will not bulge. This lock
might be too secure; for in the event
of accident to the voice for which the
safe lock will move there would be
costly work for the locksmith.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29
The Last Resort.

In answer to the returned summer
visitors question as to the welfare of
Mr. Macomber and his whereabouts,
Mr.. Davis replied that Jake was
teaching at the little red schoolhouse
on Bowen's Hill.
"But I thought
"Well, he is admitted Mr.. Davis,
Understandings "an he gets more n
more muddle-headed all the time. But
what else could we do? We had to
put him in schoolmaster to keep him
off the town.
"We amt goin to pauperize man."
he added, loftily, IF we can find any
thing for him to do"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29

pleasanter than walking alone. Tramp
ing through an interesting countryside
is like going TO see good play-it Is
pleasant to have someone at your elbow
to nudge when something particularly
good is seen.-Kansas City Star.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29

now nIonts needed, their color size and
tiew p;' season. and also what old
n nb may profitably be moved. These
pntes will enable you to work accurately
in tbe fall. after the blooming season,
or in the spring. Care in selecting and
arranging the plants in your home
grounds will never be regretted.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29

The North German Lloyd line has
startled New Workers. by landing her
passengers at her regular dock immedi-
ately on arrival at 1920 p. m. Here
tofore steamers arriving at that hour
remained in the lower bay until day.
light next day. Steamboat interests
imagined that something better could be
done. but they were long time in awak-
ening. Imagine a delay of that kind in
passenger traffic at lake port!'
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29

The Congressional reversal IF the
Roosevelt order RELOCATING the marines
from ship service to shore duty ill con-
nection with the navy having been con-
firmed by President T1ft's re-estabiish-
ment of the marine on shipboard, the
soldier who walks the deck wIgh the
sailor will exist until the difference
between the two can no longer be dis
tingushed. They are so much the same
now that the soldier and sailor too can
doubtless perform ship work quite as
smartly as the sailors who could splice
the main braces times innumerable while
they are adjusting one stand of hawser
splicing, and who are far more handy
with the toothpick than with the marlin
SDike
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29

Great Britain is discovering that the
new wire-wound 13-inch guns designed
to throw shells eighteen miles cannot
withstand the strain of discharge.
Cracks develop in the tubes and the guns
become dangerous. Is the gunner reach
ing the limit of his ability to drive heavy
missiles over long distances or through
armor Mating?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-29
WASHBURN PRINTING CO., Publishers

Royalty is taking to the Wright broth
ers, probably because they have demon
strated that they are kings of the "lim-
itless realms of the air."