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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
STRIKING TIME OF CLOCKS.
Not Always Set for the Hour-Reason
for the Variations.

1t is hard to have number of clocks
strike together. according to Ernest II.
Guenther of Pittsburg, Pa, who is in
terested i'll the manufacture of time
pieces.
You see," he said, 'some clocks are
arranged to strike half a minute before
the hour, some a quarter of a minute
before. others few seconds after and
so on. Now, if l regulate them TO
strike at the same instant they will not
be in agreement in point of actual time,
and that is really a more important
consideration.
''Of course if there are great many
clocks in the house it is likely that
several will happen to strike together.
For instance there is one house which
has twenty clocks and one of our men
looks after them. OF these, five or six
strike in unison ana the others all with
in minute, excepting one. He has
orders to keep nineteen of the clocks
at exactly the correct time, but the lit
tie jeweled timepiece in the bedroom of
the mistress of the house is to be kept
always three minutes fast.
mo, he does not get rich at the bust
ness of winding clocks ana seeing that
they keep time, but he makes fair
living at it. The house l just spoke of
is an especially profitable house, of
course, having so many clocks. They
pay him 500 year for his attendance,
which is given weekly. "-Washingt
Herald.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
An Economical Beacon.

On a sunken reef $50 feet distant
from Stornoway lighthouse is a remark
able beacon which warns mariners with
the help of a light which is only APP
parent.
The beacon is cone of cast iron
rives it's light from refracting the rays
emitted from the lighthouse, and the OPP
teal delusion is marvellous Mariners
naturally suppose that there is lighted
lamp on the beacon itself. and many of
them will not believe otherwise But
the object of the beacon is attained when
the navigator sees the reflected light,
which indicates the perilous rock below.
This beacon has been in use more than
half a century and since it was fixed in
position others have been placed in other
neighborhoods to make clear points of
danger.-Technical World.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
CLEVELAND'S LOVE OF NATURE.
Two Incidents of His Sympathetic APP.
probation of Beauty.

There was touch of another imagi-
nation in him president Cleveland than
sometimes appeared when he was out of
doors. A scene of sylvan beauty in the
springtime, especially when the apple
blossoms were coming into flower amid
the greenery, and the songbirds were
back again, moved him to deep silence.
81 can't find word for it," he said
quietly on just such a day, after flood
of sunshine had burst through light
April shower. what makes it so beau
tiful? There is no word good enough.
'Ravishing' comes nearest, | think.
Where does it come from? Do you
know what L mean? 1t is too good for
us. Do you understand me? 1t is some
thing we don't deserve" Well, if one of
our acknowledged aesthetics had said
this to anybody we should not soon hear
the end of it.
Then another incident. One bright
still day in September he was fishing on
a clear lake circled by hills covered with
the green forest, and only here and there
were the leaves touched with crimson
and gold. 1t was too much for him, and
he stopped fishing. Then he gazed long
and TRANQUILITY at it all, as if spellbound
There was look of JOY in his face like
that Fenimore Cooper gives in his novel
to the old huntsman walking through the
sunlit woods in calm communion with
something beyond and back of what eyes
could see. Long afterward he spoke of
it, and with hesitation. He had felt it
all.-Andrew Il. West in Century.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
~ n "a We pay postage and send
u II - AN FREE RED CROSS Pile
! and Fistula Cure.
pREA CO., Dept. 3 S, Minneap polls, Mimi.
BICYCLING IN AFRICA.
Jungle Has Smooth Paths on Which a
Seven Mile Speed Is Possible.

If President Roosevelt should happen
TO read an article by Winston Churchill
(the British one) in the Strand he will
be for laying out a cinder track on the
White Lot. buying a wheel and begin
ming to train.
According to Mr.. Churchill, 'the best
of all methods of progression in Central
Africa-however astonishing it may
scents the bicycle. In the dry season
the paths through the bush, smoothed by
the feet of the natives, afford an excel
dent surface.
even when the track is only feet
wide and when the densest jungle rises
on either side and almost meets above
the head. the bicycle skins along, swish
ing through the grass and brushing the
encrOaching bushes at a fine pace AL
though at every few hundred yards
sharp rocks, loose stones, a water course,
or a steep hill compel dismounting, a
good seven miles an hour can usually
be maintained.
''And think what this means. From
my own experience l should suppose
that with bicycle twenty-five to thirty
miles a day could regularly be covered
in Uganda, and if only the porters could
keep up, all journeys could be nearly
trebled and every white officers radius
of action proportionately increased
Nearly all the British officers 1 met al
ready possessed and used bicycles, and
even native chiefs are beginning to ac-
uuire them"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
Europe'S War Chests.

AT the present time. and for tile fu-
ture as well, there is lying at the Bank
of France, in Paris, a reserve gold
store of E1600O0,0O0, which is in fact,
writes one correspondent, looked upon
as war fund, beside which the 90
100000 of Germany looks very small"
But the German "Kriegschatz,,,, emer-
gency war chest fund, only amounts to-
100000 sterling, and it is lying not
vaults Of the julius tower, in the
fortress of Spandau, near the capital,
against the coming OF Gcrmany's next
evil day. 1t has been lying there as a
dead fund ever since Germany received
from France her war indemnity of $780,
100000, from which it was taken
London Chronicle.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
THE MERRY HA-HA CURE.
Idea All Right-Trouble Is to Get the
Prescription Filled.

1t is all very we'll for a German doc
tor to prescribe hearty laughter as a
remedy for nervous diseases, but per-
haps he will also be good enough to tell
us where we are to get the ingredients
for his prescription.
One cannot we'll sit down and laugh
"till the tears run down the cheeks" at
nothing at all, however anxious to cure
a severe attack of neuralgia.
When one comes to think of it, says
the Lady's Pictorial, few things make
one laugh to this extent, and what is one
persons meat where hiarity is con-
cerned may prove so poisonous to an
other as to plunge him to the very
depths of depression.
There are people who will double up
with merriment when they see some one
else fall down a flight of steps, and
afterward describe it as ''the funniest
thing they ever saw" but most nervous
patients probably would not laugh at al
if in order to effect cure an attempt
were made to excite their hilarity by
throwing relatives and servants down
stairs. Nerve specialists who adopt the
laughter cure will have either to prac,
tice Glowing or keep trained fools to
set their patients Gin a roar"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
FARMING IN INDIA.
Religious Rites Required from the Be-
ginning to End of Season.

" Flu VI StdSOu.
Agricultural practice in southern In
dia from start to finish requires religious
rites.
In the Tamil districts the agricultural
year commences about April. On April
% the cultivators Of village consult a
"Valluvan," who fixes for them the kind
of wood that they should cut and take
away. He is supposed to settle the ques-
ton as the result of astrological obser-
vations made on the commencement of
the Tamil New Years day, which falls
about April Is. Each cultivator then
takes a little camphor, some incense, a
few plantainS and cocOaDut, and with
others assembled for the purpose he pro-
ceeds to the forest where he worships
the tree he is about to cut by burning
the incense and the camphor, and offer
ing the plantains and the cocoanut. Then
he lops off the first branch, taking good
care that it falls on the right side. In
each year the side is different. Prosper
ity to himself and his cattle is firmly be-
lieved to depend very much upon this.
He then cuts away the required quantity
of wood and takes it home. Another day
is then selected, soon after the early
rains of the same month, by the ''Vallu-
war;" and then the greatest event of
the agricultural year occurs. Each ryot
takes the wood he has selected for the
plough, which is newly fitted up and
taken to the field. where the bullocks are
tied to it, and behind it stand other
ploughS with teams of oxen tied to
them, while large crowds assemble
around the teams.
The principal ploughman then daubs
the pair Of oxen tied to the new plough
with aniline powder, and turmeric paste;
he lights camphor and burns incense be-
fore it, breaks a cocoanut and with it he
makes an offering of a pot of jaggery
water and parched grain and Bengal
gram. Then he drives the plough across
the teld. preceded by the other plough
men, and after a few rounds the oxen
are unyoked and the offerings distributed
to those present.-Madras Mail.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18

for in the surging crowd I cannot find
you; cannot hear your voice; | do not
know your face. To all my eager ques-
tioning, to all my hopes, my prayers,
my fears, there is but one answer
silence. Only silence. The future holds
you shrouded To my son and me you
stand like an eastern bride behind the
veil. May all go we'll with you, my
daughter law, until that veil be raised |!
May loving care attend your ways! May
your childhood be laughing one! Fare
well, you little girl; farewell, for many,
many years. Farewell, until that shad-
owy far-off day when we shall meet
again! Farewell!
Meanwhile, I have my son.-Mrs. Israel
Zangwill in the Westminster Gazette.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
vENOMOUS FISH.
A Sting from the Little Viewer Often
Results in Much Pain.

1t is curious that while so much has
been written in our language on snake
bites there has been comparatively little
placed on record concerning the stings
Of fishes.
Snake bites are rare in this country,
but fish stings are very common, espe-
cially among fishermen and fishmongers.
The fishes that most often sting are the
great and little viewers. A prick on
the hand or foot from weever causes
much swelling and inflammation.
Ii the arm is affected the Inflammation
may spread to the shoulder. the swell
ing Of the whole limb being enormous
The pain is agonizing, the patient often
coming delirious. Usually the infamma-
ton subsidies in about three days, fol-
lowed by desquama tion.-Hospitals
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
NEW IDEA
Helped Wis. Couple.


1t doesn't pay to stick too closely to
old notions of things. New ideas often
lead to better health, success and hap
piness.
A Wis. couple examined an idea
new to them and stepped up several
rounds on the health ladder. The hus-
band writes:
Several years ago we suffered from
coffee drinking, were sleepless, nervous,
@allow, weak, and irritable. My wife
and l both loved coffee and thought 1t
twas a bracer' (delusion).
Finally, after years of suffering, we
lread OF Postum and the harmfulness of
coffee, and believing that to grow we
should give some attention to new
hdeas, we decided to test Postum.
"When we made it right we liked it
and were relieved of ills caused by
coffee. Our friends noticed the change
t-fresher skin, sturdier nerves, better
temper, etc.
''These changes were not sudden, but
trelief increased as we continued to
drink and enjoy Postum, and we lost
the desire for coffee.
MANY Of our friends did not like
Postum at first, because they did not
make it right. But when they boiled
Postum according to directions on pkg,
until it was dark and rich, they liked
it better than coffee and were benefited
by the change" "There's a Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Greek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well
ville'' in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A
rev one appears from time to time.
hey are genuine, true and full of
Human interest.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
READ THE Label.

Under the Pure Food Laws baking
powder labels now show the ingredients
OF which the powder is made.
Those who appreciate the Importance
to health and good baking of using a
pure cream of tartar powder will read
the back of the label carefully and make
sure that the ingredients mentioned in
clude cream of tartar.
The food law does not force consumers;
it merely helps them TO protect them
selves. All good housekeepers want
cream of tartar baking powders, and will
not use alum substitutes in the food, if
they know it. AS the ingredients are
printed on the back of the label, all may
know the facts.
Good baking powder is one of the most
useful things in the kitchen; it is easily
obtained at any store; the better it is,
the more economical it is in cooking
materials, and the more it conserves the
health of the family.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
CROWN MADE FROM CANNON.
King Carols Choice When Compelled t,
Wear Royal Headgear.

Neither King Carol of Roumania nor
his queen, known in the world of litera-
ture as Carmen Sylvia, had any desire
for regal honors, and when the assas-
sination of Gar Alexander in 1881
forced them on Roumania's unhappy
throne they went protestingly. Carol fin
ally consented to be King, but declared
he would never sit upon Il throne nor
wear crown.
The Chamber and Senate at Bucharest
insisted, declaring the people wanted and
had a right to expect these symbols of
royalty. Carol protested that corona
ton ceremony would make himself and
wife ridiculous, like actors in play
but was forced to yield and get himself
a crown. .a
But no headgear of silks and precious
stones for him. He sent to the arsenal
for one of the cannon captured from the
Turks, ordered that it be melted down
and from its steel a crown be made lin
remembrance of the brave Roumanian
blood shed for liberty" And with this
he was crowned.
Carmen Sylvia said of her husband
crown: mo crown, surely, ever spoke as
this one spoke in days gone by, when
it roared and Numbered night and day,
and reeked with smoke and flame.
London Telegraph
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
FAMOUS PEARLING GROUNDS.
Fishery on Arabian Seacoast-Collec
lions of Indian Princess.

Prince Ranjitsinhji Ghe Jam of JAM
nagar has lately leased his pearl fish
cry off the port of Salaya, ON the Ara
bian seacoast. to a European concession
aire This fishery, the only one in
Kathlawar, was never properly deyel-
oped before, neither by the old JAM
Sahib nor by the last ruling chief of
Jamnagar. 1t is, as matter of fact,
a most valuable adjunct to the state
Most of the divers are natives, and
they are particularly expert, being lit
Madras, too, has it's pearl fisheries, but
they do not amount to a great deal,
while the we'll known and famous Cey-
lon pearling grounds are to some ex-
tent exhausted.
Not long ago 1 visited the collection
of pearls and diamonds of his highness,
the Maharaiah-G aekwar of Baroda.
These pearls are truly magnificent
never expect to see any finer-and per-
haps the gem Of the collection is a neck
lace of immense pearls and emeralds In
a gorgeous setting. The Gaekwar is
Justly proud of his pearls. Among his
diamonds he possesses, by the way, the
celebrated Star of the South, being the
gem for long time in the possession
of Napoleon Bonaparte, after whose fall
it passed to Parsee merchant of Bonn
bay.
The Nawab of Ramuo, in central In
dia is Mahomedan chieftain who owns
such magnificent pearls that in few
years he has expended sum of about
a million and a half in sterling in their
acquisition. This now represents a far
larger sum than $7,5O0.00O, owing to the
circumstance that Indian pearls have
gone up in price by leaps and bounds.
The Jamnagar collection Ranjitsinhji's)
is very famous, but, oddly enough, it is
more renowned for its emeralds than it's
pearls. The premier ruling chief of In
emerald line. He has also the enormous
diamond known locally as the Miami
Westminster Gazette
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
REAL SIMPLE LIFE.
The Frisky Firms Lead 1t, but The,
Manage to Have Some Fun.

In Finland everybody lives the sim
pie life in summer time. They camp out
on islands in the forests and always
somewhere near the water, for every
body swims and bathes. Almost all
classes sleep and eat al fresco at this
time of the year, and the town coun-
ellis of the towns in this progressive
and altogether delightful little country
provide public freplaces and public
bathing sheds in all places where the
working classes go in search Of fresh
air.
But the simple life. is by no means
dull with the frisky Firms They com
bine it with surprising amount OF GAL
ETY.. They eat, drink and are very mer-
ry in their picturesque little log cabins
outside the cities.
When they are tired of bathing and
splashing, they dance, they sing, they
watch fireworks and practice gymnas,,
tics they all become like children and
are the very happiest merriest, most
good natured, most easily pleased and
most healthy holiday makers. in the
world. We might take many leaves from
the Films book.-Ladies' Pictorial.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
KAISER'S LADY DRAGON.
Guards the Imperial Court Against Fem.
mime Undesirables

There is at Kaiser Wilheln's Berlin
palace an Obcrhofmeisterin. Il lady who
has been described lis court chamber.
lain in pctticoats, who has 10 make per
sonal acquaintance with every lady be.
fore she attends q court.
A ball at the Berlin court is an affai'
of much ceremony. but, curious to say.
there are no cloak rooms in rne palace
and all wraps have to be left III their
owners carriages.
The imperial couple 90 not dance, but
they watch with interest the pirouettine
OF their subjects in the waltz, and they
delight in the graceful nlinuet dancing
for which there has been furore IN
Berlin these two seasons past.
The courts in Berlin are conducted.
with even more state than in England,
says the Gentlewoman. The ladies wear
no trains, it is true, to their court frOcks
but it is expected Of them to spend law
ishly on their clothes, to don magnificent
jewels and never by any chance to wear
black, and black, by the way, is also dis
allowed in St. Petersburg. AT Berlin
they have an odd way of separating mar
ried women and girls. Wives and daugh-
tiers are marshalled off TO separate rooms
before the fun of the fair begins.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
Outward Bound.

Freighted with fancy, golden, frai,
There by the marge of day,
Filled with the breath of the evening gale,
And over the bar of sunset pale,
Into the dreamlight gray,
Fearessly steers for the mystic deep
Into the night away.
Let us be sailing, soul of mine,
Far from the cares of day
Unfurl your sail so fragile and fine,
Filled by the braeth of the night divine,
And over the senses swift decline,
Out of the dream-light gray,
Steer for the deep of the unplumbed sleep
Into the night away.
Ethel Allen Murphy, in Appleton's
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
The Vote in Berks.

''The finest political speech | ever
heard" said Pittsburg man. was
made by a German farmer up in Berks
county, Pennsylvania.
There was a meeting in country
school house and after the speeches a
leading German was called on for a few
remarks He said: Fellow citizens: We
hat bert d. chin music, yes! Und d. time
has now come ven We must all git toged-
der und undo that vich we hat not dit.
All git togedder und roll up such Dem
acratig majority in Berks county that it
will roll und roll und roll undil it rolls
of Pennsylvania, all offer the United
States, will roll across d ocean und will
roll up to Queen Victoria, we're she is
sitting on her throne, und she will say:
Good gracious vot DEMOCRATIC ma
jority Berks coundy dit roll upD' =
Saturday Evening Post.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
Americans Heavy Coffee Drinkers.

According to, statistics published in
leading coffee trade journal the worlds
consumption of coffee in 1907 amounted
to 16,S25,OOO sacks. of which 6,9S0,O00
sacks were consumed in the United
States. 3.O50.000 sacks in Germany,
1,625,OOO sacks in France, leaving
$4,000 for consumption in all other
countries.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
Rabbits a Cent Apiece.

More, than 100000 rabbits were
shipped from here to st. Louis. New Or
leans and Memphis markets during the
last week. The snow last Monday caused
such an unusual slaughter of cottontails
in the Ozarks that rabbits were sold
here at cent each.-Springfeld Cor ST
Louis Globe-DemOcrat.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18

Evidently there are people in the coffee
trade who expect that Congress will put
duty on the fragrant berry, for in spite
of the large stock already in the coun-
try heavy consignments are arriving In
New York. The government Of Brazil
would be the main beneficiary of duty
on coffee. and the measure would even
tually be seriously unpopular in the
IInited States
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18

The stories from Europe about HI. Z.
Prick are mild compared with those
which were inspired by the travels of Cs
NJ Schwab. To a man of Mr.. Frick' S
means the outlay of few hundred dol
lars to go with a party of friends from
Paris to Pau and see an American avia-
tor astonish the Frenchmen was Il very
trifing outlay
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
The Execution.

Darling, like your face so sweet"
The lover said; '.your form so neat,
Your lovely waving auburn hair,
Your forehead, milky white and square,
Your lips that, curve so prettily.
Your azure eyes-in fact with me
Just everything about you goes,
Except-except your saucy noes.
Boston TRANSCRIPT
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18

There is warning for food packing
concerns in the decision of the supreme
court of Minnesota sustaining the pure
food law of that state under whose pro-
visions a man has recovered damages
for illness which he claimed was the re-
suit of using deleterious cooking oil
which had been guaranteed by the label
as pure although it was a compound con-
tanning mineral oil. Perhaps the ben
zoate question may come up, some of
these days, in suit of this kind.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18

President-elect Taft is on record on
the subject of tariff commission. He
said month ago: The great trouble
about the tariff is the difficulty of OBJ
tanning a knowledge of the facts, and
l think we ought to have experts to do
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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
IBurrOak SfockEarrn

Has a very choice lot of imported and home
bred registered Percheron and German Coach
stations and mares; all ages; also extra
fine imported Belgian stallion. First prize win
ner at Chicago International Over fifty head
to select from. Prices and terms right Both
phones. A. R. IVES, Delavan, Wis. On the
C., NJ. & st. Paul R. r.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18

In regard to the Frohman-Illington di-
vorce it must be admitted that as the
twain are to part it is better for them
to do so with expressions of friendly
character than with words of bitter hate
and defamation. By expressing kindly
hopes regarding his retiring wife's flu
ture Mr.. Frohman is setting an example
of courtesy which well may be commend
ed for general emulation under similar
circumstances in the future.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
THE WASHBURN TIMES.
WASHBURN, WIS.
WASHBURN PRINTING CO., Publishers

The proposition that half the battle
ship fleet should be stationed in the Pa
cifc is so obviously sound that heated
argument on that head would seem SUI
perfiuOus