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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
FAR EAST COMET CRAZED.
C0reans and Chinese Read Various Mean
ingS in the Heavenly Wanderers.

People in the far eastern countries
always sensitive to pertends, are suffer-
ing at present from a comet scare. One
comet has come and they have heard
faint echoes of the promise of another's
arrival; so they are worried.
Reports from Korea say that when the
two tailed wanderer of the heavens
bIaZed out over ~Phyong-yang in the
northern part of the peninsula night aft
er night the natives grew panicky. Some
FASTENED to sell their property and take
ships to the south. Others, believing
that this was but another manifestation
of Japanese sOrcery which threatened
the extinction of Koreans, hired mutang
or sOrcerers. to chant their most expen-
sive incantations in front of their homes
nightly until the comet disappeared.
Other reports say that the Chinese
about Canton read political significance
in the comet. They were sure that the
forked tail was the extremity of. the
great dragon which was to swOop down
on Pekin and devour all the Manchu
rulers of the empire. Placards embody-'
ing this belief and urging the people
to prepare to assert their right to ruiz
when the dragon should have had his
meal were pasted on the dead walls OF
the cities t~hereabout.
Now the timorous Koreans and the
soothsayers cf south China. are preparing
for the appearance of Halley's, comet,
notice of whose coming has seeped into
native papers from foreign sources. The
Koreans are said to be convinced that
this comet is setting it's orbit straight
for Korea. that it will explode there
and tear the land asunder. They even
hope that such may be the case, at least
the most patriotic of them do, for then
the japanese cOnquerOrS would be wiped
out i'll the general cataclysm.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
A MILLION FOR $50 ACRES.
But They Formed the Vineyard of the
Chateau LATTE.

''Tbe most remarkable bit of territory
on the continent of Europe" is the way
Eliot Gregory describes il Scribner's the
vineyard country of the Medoc PENN
sula in France. He travelled by a boat
which skirted the long. sandy stretch of
land-a pilgrimage made by very few
tourists.
SIN a space smaller than New York
island" he writes, "one sees, lying
shoulder to shoulder, those famous vine
yards, the names of which are as ia
miliar in the ear of civilization as the
multiplication table, for these few hum
dred acres have for centuries furnished
the world it's most delicate beverage.
'"That white country house on the
other not half a mile further on, is st.
Estephen. The slopes of Pontet Canet
touch both and the Latour and Leoville
vineyards are just beyond.
This bit of land we are now passing
is the Chateau Laftte estate, for the
$50 acres of which the Rothschilds
twenty years ago paid a neat million.
francs a barrel. but ever at that price
never comes into the market.
"While we have been busy with our
field glasses an awning has been spread
above us and tempting white tables
make their appearance on deck for
luncheon, to which we eagerly sit down,
as the sea air and cur early start have
combined to give us excellent appetites.
"Before the coffee has been served and
our cigars and a glass of excellent Mare,
the inevitable ending to all meals in
southern France, enjoyed we have
passed the vineyards of esserimportance,
les crus bourgeois. Then our boat takes
a sharp turn to the north and the white
cliffs and black pine forests of Royan
- IL. o.o d. > Af1I011- xHc
are being made fast to the stone quays
of that town."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
THE BELMONTS SAIL.
Get Away Without Publicity and Escape
InterviewerS.

August Belmont and his bride, who
was Eleanor Robson, the former actress,
sailed on their honeymoon trip on the
Berlin. of the North German-Lloyd line.
They will go to Naples and will there
Beryl, for a Mediterranean cruise. re-
turning in about three months. There
was a good deal of secrecy about the
departure of the Belmonts. Their names
did not appear on the sailing list, and
they probably would have got away with
only close friends knowing about it had
not the attention of the ship news re-
p~orters been caught by the name "Miss
G.. Smith. maid and valet" assigned to
the captains quarters under the bridge,
ON the forward deck.
81 really haven't much TO say" Mr..
Belmont stammered to an inquirer. Yes,
we're going away, as you see, to be gone
about three months. 1 will have my sec
rotary give you an interview / have writ
ten"
"But will you and Mrs. Belmont not
pose for a photograph together" he was
asked.
'Ill see.' he said, and he also disap-
peared into the cabin. Then the re-
porters heard a loud "NO!"
The secretary appeared in a minute
and handed out typewriter slips in
which Mr.. Belmont expressed his hope
that racing would never cease to be the
great American sport and his belief that
aviation would be one of the future great
sports and that he hoped to have avia-
ton meets at Belmont park.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
Taking Things for Granted.

j. Powell Jones, supervisor of music
in the public schools, had called up a
prominent citizen and talked him into
buying So worth of tickets for the Har-
monte club concert the next evening.
Jones forgot to mail the tickets until
after he'd left the office, but on his way
down Euclid avenue he thought of it
and dropped in at a haberdasher's place,
where he borrowed an envelope, adj
dressed it and sent the tickets ON their
way.
Two or three days later the prominent
business man stopped Jones on the street
and began to talk to him as unkindly as
if he were a beef trust magnate.
you're a nice one, you are" he OBJ
served sarcastically. "You forgot to send
me those concert tickets, and in order to
put in the time that evening l took some
people out to dinner and it cost me SO. /
think I'll make you pay me the nine"
Jones FASTENED to explain how he had
mailed the tickets in plenty of time, men
tioning that he had used an envelope
from a well-known Euclid venue haber-
dashery.
The business man stopped to think
and his eyes dilated. by jingo!" he ex-
claimed. II remember seeing that letter.
head now, but I supposed it was a bill
they were sending me, and I threw it
into the waste basket without so much
as opening it."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
The Will.

The will of William Dodsworth of
New York, disposing of a majority of the
stock of the Journal of Commerce and
Commercial Bulletin, has been filed for
probate with Surrogate Hester at Hack
ensack. The document provides that the
trustees shall not fix a salary in excess
of $4,000 a year for any of Dodsworth's
sons employed on the paper without the
consent of all the heirs. In a codicil the
t~estator increased the salary limit to
$500. The stock in the newspaper is to
be held intact and the proceeds paid to
the estate, which is divided among the
widow and seven children.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
A Plea for Alaska.

A singing Indictment of the national
government for neglect of duty in Alaska
was voiced in the Church of the Epiph-
any in Washington by Rev. F.. Z. Rome,
D. D., bishop of the Alaskan diocese OF
the Episcopal church. '"The government
records" said Bishop Rome, "speak
most eloquently of the inestimable
wealth and future prospects OF alaska.
These vast natural resources-deposits
of gold, coal and other minerals-belong
to the people. They should not be frit-
tered away by unthinking legislators and
officials for the mere pittance of $40 an
acre of land that, with increase in trans
portation facilities, will shortly be
worth many times as much. The prop
erty should be conserved, so no one but
the people will get what rightfully be-
longs to them and them alone"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
THE D PEARL"
Biggest, Most Lustrous, Most Perfect in
Tints and Form.


What is probably the most valuable
pearl ever brought tc this country and
one of the finest. if not the finest, single
pearls in the world, is in this city. 1t is
spoken of as the Dudley PEARL" and, it
is said, was once the property of Lady
Dudley, who possessed a fortune in jew
els. Those who know the value of the
gem declined to tell a World reporter
just how much it is worth, but from an
authoritative source it was learned that
it's value is nearly 100000. The pear is
pear-shaped and perfect in form, luster
and color. 1t is a product of the Indian
fisheries, where some of the richest of
the worlds pearls have been found. This
particular product of nature has a pc
culiar and delicately rich pink tint, which
gives it a luster quite unlike other pearls
of price.
The pearl arrived in this country on
Tuesday. 1t now reposes in the vaults
of Dreicher & Co., jewelers. at $50 Fifth
avenue. 1t is said that it was imported
by the firm on the order of a customer,
a m living in this city, and it is be-
lieved to have cost $150,0O0 in the Euro
pean market. What the appraised value
is the government agents did not care to
say, but it is believed that the duty on
the gem amounted to $4,000. 1t has
been paid.
Mr.. Perrine, a member of the Dreich-
er firm, said: "This is the most per-
feet pearl in the world and the most
valuable. It's weight is 200 grains.
Lord Dudley was the greatest collector
of pearls known to the amateur world,
and his judgment on pearls was equal to
that of the foremost connoisseur."
The Dudley pearl has a history. 1t is
said that it was one one of the jewels
in the coronet of a member of the Span
ish royal family. DR.. George Kunz, the
gem expert, makes mention of a pear
shaped pearl of rare beauty and value
which was sold with the rest of the
jewels belonging to the Dowager Count
ess of Dudley at Chrystie's in July, 1902.
DR.. Kunz, in the course of his reference
in his book to the Dudley gems, says:
The pearls of Lady Dudley were sold
at Chrystie's on July 4, 1902. A
single p~ear-shaped pearl of the fin
est orient mounted with a diamond
cap. as a pendant, and weighing 2O9
grains, was sold for SCI, 500. The en-
tire casket of thirty-one lots realized
$447, $50"
In 1877 the jewels of the Countess of
Dudley were stolen at Paddington. They
were taken from Lady Dudley's maid. a
Miss Scott. They were in a valise
which was handed from a hanson cab
to a guard, who set it on the pavement.
Soon after the valise disappeared.
The jewels were afterward returned,
Lord Dudley paying the thieves to pre-
vent recutting of the gems.-New York
World.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
Savov Hotel TO Be ENLARGED.

The steady influx of American mil
lionaires to London is chiefly responsible
for the decision of the management of
the Savoy hotel to enlarge their premises.
An army OF 1000 workmen will be en-
ployed at the end of the present season
in adding two extra stories to the back
of the building, facing the Embankment.
Those will contain thirty suites of rooms
decorated in the most luxurious fashions,
and fitted with every up-to-date device
for the convenience of visitors. Another
important addition will be a magnificent
ballroom where 300 couples can dance.
This will also be used as a b%anqueting
hall and the estimated cost of the build
ing is $150,OO0. The total cost of the
work will be not far short of $75O,O 900.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
Lives of the Boil Weevil.

Experimenting with the boil weeyil, a
Texas farmer caught a lively one and
placed it in water where it would freeze
he found the water had frozen solid and
the weevil was in the cake of ice, and
the farmer congratulated himself on the
discovery that cold would kill the Wee
vii. But when the ice melted the bug
walked around as lively as before freez-
ing, and that farmer is convinced that
freezing is not the proper means to ex-
terminate the insect. He threw the wee
vii into a hot fire, and at last accounts
was watching to see if it would come out
alive.-Centerville Jeffersonian.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
Sufferers Put in Caves.

DR.. Mary p. Eddy. a missionary of
ly after an absence Of five years spent
principally in Turkey, where she was the
only woman permitted to practice medi-
cine. DIR. Eddy spoke of the work Of
taking care of sufferers from tuberculo-
sis IN Syria. She said that the disease
there had been considered to be as bad
as leprosy. AT one time sufferers were
persons are being cared for at hospitals.
On of the great troubles" said DR..
Eddy, was that the illness was feared
so much that the Syrians would keep
knowledge of it from us. We have
treated patients from Russia, Armenia,
Persia, Egypt and Roumania."
DR.. Eddy said that Mrs. John Hay
had subscribed the first 5000 to start
the health work.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
Deporting UndesirabIes.

Upon orders from Secretary Charles
Nagel of the department of commerce
and labor, inspectors have begun the
work of arresting and deporting foreign
ers in the anthracite region VINO nave
been convicted of crimes in their native
countries within the past three years.
Each one captured will be deported, as
they are considered undesirable citizens.
The first man caught was Galleano
Guaneri of Throop, near Wilkes-Barre,
who was convicted in Italy of various
petty crimes and vas known there as
a bad man. He came to this country
last June. He was sent to Philadelphia
and will be deported.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
Eggs Aged Forty Years.

Eggs forty years old were on the menu
at the weekly breakfast of the Irish
Geological society's council, at Dublin,
recently. The venerable eggs had been
brought from China by Sir Charles
Ball, one of the members. The scientists
were aghast when informed of the age
of the eggs, but a guest who was ac-
quainted with Chinese delicacies recon-
mended them, giving an assurance that
they were quite harmless. Finally some
were tasted by courageous biologists,
who found them excellent eating. The
Chinese egg with age becomes a sort of
Jelly with a very delicate flavor.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
SWEDISH CONvICTS.
They Are Probably Employed on Work
in Cells.

Within a few years the laws of Swe-
den relative to prison labor lave been
modified. Industries like basketry, BRUSH
making and similar work, that the blind,
the lame and the halt can do, have been
taken from the prisons, which now man
ufacture things that can be used by the
state railroads, the postoffice, the tele-
graph service and the army and the
navy. The work is done mostly in the
cells. If the cell is not large enough,
the convict lives in one and works in an
other. After the third year of imprison-
ment, convicts may work together in
open shops; but the number serving long
terms is small, only 155 in ali. Three
prisons have 200 inmates each, while
forty-three others contain from 30 up to
100. Different prisons follow different
employments-tailoring, leather work,
cabinet work, harness making, weaving.
the making of mail sacks, etc. Skilled
industrial superintendent teach these
trades, and the men are fitted to earn an
honest living on release. In 1904, be-
fore the reorganization of the prison
industries, the sum total of revenue from
prison work was only about S45, 900. In
1908 it was over $150,O0O. Sweden also
inds work for her tramps, from a thirty
day order up to three years, according to.
circumstances.-New York Post.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
A Muscular Feat.

The late Representative. Brosius of
Pennsylvania had a tremendous voice
and was a great word spinner.
One day when the Wilson tariff bill
was being debated in the House Brosius
made a speech comparing Thomas B.
Reed and William L. Wilson, the au-
thor of the bill.
s'Why, Mr.. Speaker he roared, eff
Thomas 3. Reed was as much greater
physically than William l.. Wilson as he
is mentally, he could take Wilson with
one hand and cast him with one sweep
far beyond the rim of the earth's attrac-
tion. while with the other he could hold
to his eye a ~spyglassr of sufficient power
to watch his gyrations in inter planetary
space.-Philadelphia Saturday Evening
Post.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
His Last Moments.

Nurses in hospitals are rather apt to
lay too much stress on the advantages re-
ceived by the patients and their duty of
thankfulness, but still it is the poor sol
der who suffers most from always hav-
ing his causes to be grateful flung in his
teeth.
Witness the following true story:
~Chaplain-So poor Hopkins is dead. l
should have liked to speak to him once
again and soothe his last moments. Why
didn't you call me?
Hospital Orderly didn't think you
ought to be disturbed for 'Opkins, sir, so
/ just soothed him as best I could my
self,
Chaplain-Why, what did you say to
him?
orderly-"1f'Opkins,' says 1, you're
mortal bad
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
.s.I am saws e.

81 am says e.
""Opkins,' says 1, Il don't think
you'll get better
No says e.
""Opkins,' says 1, you're. going fast
Yes says e.
"'Opkins,' says I, I don't think you
can 'ope to go to 'eaven.'
IL don't think l cam says e..
well, then 'Opkins.' says L.. you'll
go to the other place
81 suppose So says e..
""Opkins.' says 1, you ought to be
very grateful as there's a place per-
wided for you, and that you've got some
where to go And l think 'e. card, sir,
and then e died."-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
Strange Action of Northern Deer.

The restitution and starvation among
the Indians of the far north last winter
is explained in letters which have recent
ly been received beyond the Barren
lands.
The correspondent states that during
last winter reindeer, on Which many OF
subsistence, made a most remarkable
track away across the Rockies through
Yukon into Alaska from the Barren
lands, going in directly the opposite di-
rection from that usually followed by
the great herds, which have invariably
wintered on the shore of the Hudson
bay heretofore.
The Indians repaired to the usual
hunting grounds, only to find them de-
serted and nearly starved before they
could get back empty handed. No ex-
PLANTATION has been found for this re-
markable freak of the deer.-Fur News.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
somnambulist wades in Snow.

garments, Miss Mary A. Good, 80 years
Old, who lives in Massilon, o., with her
brother, Louis Good, a painter, waded
through the deep snow crying that her
brother was dead. Nicholas Myers was
homeward bound when he spied Miss
Good and heard her cries. Thinking the
woman a ghost, Myers ran for help to
the police station, several blocks distant.
Patrolmen Joseph Helline and August
found Miss Good in her home but suf-
fering from exposure. They found her
brother Louis alive in his bed. He did
not know that his sister had left the
house. Miss Good is said to have sut-
fered no serious effects from her snow
bath.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
AN AGED INDIAN.
Old John Smiths Philosophy in Regard
to Money.

Nv OhA ILL L hIAVoOPhJ IA 1NCSdAN
to Money.
Old John Smith. an Indian brave, vic
tor in many battles and possessor of
several personally collected scalps, was
in Walker. MINI, recently, from his
Mud Lake allotment in Upper Cass coun-
ty on his way to interview Agent John
Frater regarding his pine holdings. The
red man is nearly a hundred years of
age.
Me die soon,' said the old buck;
'happy hunting grounds in little while!
Want money; no good after dead; heap
good now" continued the wizened war
rior as he loaded a ponderous pipe with
kinnikinic and thrust the long stem be-
tween his toothless gums.
The Indian is known as being one of
the oldest Indians of his tribe. Notwith-
standing his age he is able to get around
with those of much younger years, and
while his face is wrinkled with the
passing of many suns there is still the
clear eye and certain litheness of limb
which the we'll preserved members of
the tribe maintain until the Great Father
calls them.
John boasts of killing six Sioux In
dams in the early days, the fight occur
ring at Portage lake, seven miles from
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
A SACRED CAVE.
An Subterranean Place Of Bells Discov.
cred in Honduras.

Andrew H. Blackiston, a New York
scientist who arrived in San Francisco
from Central America on the liner San
Jose, reports the discovery in the noun
tains of Honduras of a sacred cave in
which he found 200 copper bells which
were made, he believes, not less than
1000 years ago. Blackiston visited the
cave, which is about fifty miles from
Pimiento, disinterred the bells and is
taking them to Washington, where he
will give them to the National museum.
The bells range in size from a watch
charm to a set of chimes. Some of
them are decorated with wire work.
Some are cast in fantastic shapes and
others are beaten into faces and figures.
Among the bells was a large ceremonial
copper mask inlaid with turquoise. Near
the cave he found the mine from which
the copper of which the bells were made
had been taken.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
A Census of Mnslems.

Turkish newspapers combined some time
g to make a census of Moslems ill all
parts of the world. They have reached
the conclusion that at this time 270,00O,-
900 of the followers of the prophet are
alive. Turkey proper has 27,O00,0O0 of
possessions have about the same number.
Russia has 24.000,0 900 of Moslems; India,
6O,OOO,O 900; China, 40, O0O,O 900: Arabia,
2O,OOO,OOO; Java, 25,O00,O0O; the Philip
pines, 100000. Africa has from G5.000,-
600 to 7O,O00,00O.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
Fav Tempieton,s Lucky Strike.

The Fay Templeton luck" appears to
have followed that well known actress
into married life. A gas well was struck
recently on her farm back of S~harpsburg,
Patterson, who was Mrs. Fay Temple
ton, much money on a one-eighth royalty,
will light her $4,000 summer home, now
nearing completion. Mrs. Patterson is
personally experimenting the building of
the house, and one of the problems which
bothered her was the lighting, because of
gas mains.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07

operator who ''sasses'' the subscriber in
al hurry, aln diminish their value to their
employers.
There are too many employees of public
utilities who appear to regard everybody
but their immediate superiors as fair
game for browbeating, and there are too
many employers who fail to- realize the
money value of insisting upon politeness
on the part of those who come in con
tact with their customers or. patrons
Boston Globe.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
Inheritance Tax in District of Columbia

Because millionaires retire from active
business and go to the national capital
to live, or rather to die, and are enabled
to escape various forms of taxation in
the District of Columbia, Representative
Miller of Minnesota has introduced-a bill
providing for an inheritance tax in the
district. All estates of $4,000 would be
excluded from taxation and $4,000 is
placed as an exemption limit for requests
to the immediate families of the tesla
tors. Charitable requests would be I'M
taxed. All others up to $4,000 would be
taxed to the extent of 21a per cent, and
those in excess of $4,000 at 5 per cent.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
King Sends for Painting.

The Brussels Patriotic says that King
Albert has sent orders to New York for
the return to the royal palace of the
Rubens picture, ''The Miracles of st.
Benedict sent there for sale by King
Leopold. This painting was said to have
Fortieth street, New York, a short time
ago. The Brussels museum promptly
obtained an option on it for $250,0O0.
King Leopold bought it in Paris i'll 1881
for $35,4OO