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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
TO R
A Sensational Crime Recalled by An
nouncement of Engagement.

In all the annals Of Italian crime none
caused a greater sensation than the muir
der of Count Bonmartini. The crime has
just been recalled by the 4-anA0uncemenc
that Signora Theodolinda Murri, widow
Of the murdered count, Will shortly mar
ry Prof. Ergidi of the Royal Academy
of Fermo.
Signora Theodolinda Murri is the
daughter of Il Bolognese professor, con-
sldered the most eminent physician III
Italy. Her marriage with Count Bon
martini, the head of an old family in
Bologna, was extremely unhappy, de-
spite the frequent Intervention Of the
archbishop OF Bologna.
Coun Bonmartini's body was found in
one of the rooms of his palace III Sep
TENDER, 1902. He mad been stabbed
twelve times, and apparently the murder
had taken place some days before. Pub
he sympathy was at first manifested on
behalf of his widow, but anonymous
examination of certain servants employed
by Countess Bonmartini, who implicated
the countess in the murder.
Prof. Murri then astounded the au-
tAorl.les by ~denouncing mis- son TulliO.
for co:lplicity il the crime. When ar
rested he first alleged that he had killed
Count Bonmart;ni during a quarrel
~ LLOLn ulllO = EeLlOllSIIducG
against the i'll treatment Of his sister.
Countess Bonmartini, her brother Tul-
Ito, and two doctors named Secchi and
Naldi, were placed OH trial at Turin.
three years after the murder. The trial
lasted six months and was filled with
dramatic incidents. 1t was proven that
the prisoners had conspired together to
kill Count Bonmartini, and that DR..
Naidi, because of his skill as IA surgeon.
inflicted the fatal blows. Tullio Murri..
DR.. Secchi and DR.. Naldi were sentenced
to thirty years solitary confinement. and
are still in prison.
Signora Murri was sentenced TO ten
years Imprisonment for completely in the
murder. After spending a year i'll prison
she was liberated on condition that she
live at the villa of her father. Prof.
Murri, in Porto-San Giorgio. The authori-
ties granted her an unconditional release
last May.
According to the Express her acquaint-.
ance with Prof. Ergidi was brought
about through her children having re-.
ceived instruction from him at Fernlo..
He became a friend of the family. and
later accompanied Signora Murri and her
children on Il trip to Norway and
Sweden. Prof. Ergidi is an ardent So
~cialist, and has written 4 plumber of
books on economic subjects.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
The Perverse Comma.

chat curious and now ~stereotyped
bIunder of punctuation which gives
us God rest you, merry gentlemen,
as an inferior substitute for the
quaint old greeting, God rest you
merry, gentlemen" turns up regularly
every Christmas. 1t is a pity for the
ancient formula to be thus perverted
since God rest you merry" or REST
you merry vas a recognized form of
sanitation in Elizabethan days and
may be found in the works of Shake
speare and of many contemporary
writer's, while for the modernized
form, which obscures the original
sense of the phrase, there is, of course,
no authority whatever. If any one
will have the curiosity to look up the
old Christmas carol which begins with
the words III question he will find them
correctly OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES World.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
A Titled Ranchwoman,s Opinions.

Lady Grace e. Mackenzie, who owns
$1,000 acres of grazing lands i'll Crook
county, Mont, returned on the steamer,
La Savoie, recently. from her nnuai
visit to Scotland and Paris. Lady Mac
kenzie, who has been seven years in the
cattle business, owns five ranches. on
which Craze $4,000 sheep and 1000 head
of cattle. ''The cattle producers are at
the mercy Of the trusts and railroads.
she says. Il think the price of meat will
go up, and 1 hope Americans will stop
eating it. | wish that prices would get
higher. so that England would buy all
our cattle" Lady Mackenzie contradicts
the trade reports as to the relative prices
of American meat here and abroad. She
denies they are lower in England.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
BE A COOL LISTENER.
Who VIII Be silent Is I'm De-
mand by Clever Hostess.

cues Who Will Be Silent Is I'm De-
mand by Clever Hostess.
Be a good listener. If you can't
talk, listen. Don't chatter, says the
North American. Guests have been
"bidden forth to dine for their listen
ing propensities alone. The cautious
hostess is a veritable Charles Lamb
in her appreciation of ears. They are
valuable appendages indeed, and should
be strenuously cultivated by those who
only jabber when they talk.
We can't all talk: to some of us it
is almost a physical impossibility to
get out a sensible word in company.
We may be entertaining enough to our
selves, but let something definite in the
way of conversation be expected of us
in an assemblage and we throw up
our hands.
It's only a form of stage fright, this.
We could perfectly we'll enter into the
argument that's going round the fes-
tive board if something would only
let us, but fear, the monster, holds lis
in his. grip.
Enforced silence draws one inward
and the tongue cleaves to the roof of
the mouth; the very lips are sealed.
All the air about one seems a panied
witness to ones discomfort. Every
thing has got alive and taken on a crit
lcal attitude, but is ominously silent
while 1t thinks of you-only you-and
not another living, breathing soul. But
l. you keep on letting the quiet thicken
round o it's going to get very dense,
indeed.
Break the spell always, but. better
still, prevent it from settling over you.
Learn the interested listener part and
you won't be in the center of the stage
enough to f1uster VOL
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

The address on swamp drainage by
Chairman Yoakum of the st. Louis q
San Francisco railroad, before the New
Orleans Chamber of Commerce, will re-
suit in great good to the south If enter
prise there is turned TO drainage under
lakings. There are thousands OF acres
of rich soil In the south that could be
made fruitful by drainage, and inciden-
tally more healthful for jewellers near by.
Irrigation systems are making heretofore
arid portions Of the west exceedingly
fruitful, and a few examples of similar
improvement through drainage opera
tons might soon lead to the reclamation
of valuable areas in the southern states.
to the advantage of consumers of farm
products as we'll as to the owners of the
land.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
THE DOG.
Gives Warning of Gamekeeper's APP
preach and "HuntS Silent"

During the recent trial of a poacher ut
Liangollen. North Wales, it came out in
evidence that his canine companion on
forays acted as an advance scout and
gave him notice of the presence and
whereabouts of the gamekeepers. Ac-
training. and when the training runs in
families the habit becomes quite in
stinctive. so that with the pups of old
poaching dogs very little teaching is
necessary. The best type of dog for
that purpose is the '~'lIrcher," produce
Scotch collie, especially if the dog is
TO be used for hare poaching after dark.
A highly trained dog OF that stamp
hunts ~silent"-that is, it never gives Il
whimper in the chase. A dog of inferior
instinct often whimpers, and if it finds
it's prey outmaneuvering or Outdistanc-
ing it gives utterance to loud yelps-a
perilous thing to do on a dark, still
night, as it may be heard for a mile or
more around.
An old Ayrshire poacher of a past gem
GRAFTON had a wonderfully trained dog.
Starting from home, he and the dog
went in opposite directions the dog
often making a circuit of many miles
out never failing to meet its master ut
some appointed place. That dog also
acted as a spy on gamekeepers, especial
ly those of the old tipping, rufianly
SCHOOL, now almost extinct.
Dogs of that kind, so highly trained.
and ~instinctively hunters, otter cooper
ate among themselves in forays and by
skillfully initiating lessons taught them
by man often do an immense amount of
injury. The writer adds: II knew two
collie dogs that showed great skill in CO.
operative rabbit hunting, and when they
snapped more than they could carry to
their respective homes (wide apart,
they hid the carcasses and removed them
bit by bit" Night sheep worrying by
dogs is a curious Instructive" survival
Of a trained habit neolithic or palace
lithic man taught wild canidae long be-
fore Cadmus or any other pundit brought
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
Veteran Telegranner Dead.

oldest and best known ~telegraphers in
the country. died of angina pectoris at
Plainfield. N. j., recently, aged rs years
He was born at HARTFORD, Pa. At the
age of II he became an operator in New
Hope, Pa. one of the first telegraph
Offices opened in the country. Later he
was transferred to Brooklyn, where he
Western Union Telegraph company.
opened in that city. Duringr the Civil
war he, was stationed at Burlington.
the headquarters of Gen. Sewell. andz
received the news of Lees surrender
unofficially over the wire in a message
he was transmitting.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

10 1uad of the laboratory at the University of Brus-
sells made a similar investigation on the flesh eating and
nonfesh eating students, and he reports that in endur-
ance the nonfesh eaters surpassed the meat eaters from
so to 200 per cent. They also found that the vegetar-
ians. recuperated from fatigue far more quickly than
the meat eaters, hence this great authority recognized
the nonfesh plan as the best system for workingmen.
How often we hera the expression that a certain man
Is as strong as a Turk" And those who have seen a
Turkish porter fling a heavy trunk unaided upon his
shoulders will do we'll to remember that these men rare
ly taste flesh food in any form whatever. George Allen,
the man who walked a thousand miles across England
and Scotland in seventeen days and a few hours, outdis-
tancing his flesh eating rival by nearly seven days, was
q strict vegetarian.
The Rev. Newell Dwight Hills says: "A little fruit,
a little cereal and wheaton bread, a glass of milk
these are within the reach of all, even the poorest la
borer; anything more is at the peril of the eater"
1t is more than likely that if several hundred thou
sand workingmen shall carry out their present resolu-
ton to live without meat for a couple Of months half
of them will experience so much benefit that they will
continue the experiment indefinitely.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
To Go to the Pacific Fleet.

According to advices received at the
Puget Sound nav yard, the armored
cruisers North Carolina and Montana.
which have been ordered to Buenos
Ayres to represent the United States at
the centennial celebration there in June,
will proceed to the Pacific coast with
the cruisers Tennessee and Washington
after their stay at the South American
port is ended. With the addition of the
Montana and North Carolina, the Pacific
fleet will contain ten tirst-class armored
cruisers.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

There is objection to the appropriate
ton of half a million dollars by the
Congress of the United States to build
a foundation in the harbor of New York
for a statute t~ypifying the American In
dian. If John Rodman Wanamaker
wants to erect a colossal monument in
remembrance of the American Indian,
who shall say him nay, provided he
bears the whole cost himself? To take
half a million from the national treas
ury for the purpose of constructing a
feundation for the monument would look
like indefensible extravaganza to those
who are aware of the present condition
of the national exchequer.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

The New York World, commenting
ON the Rockefeller Foundation, remarks:
What is called business varies greatly
from age to age. In many respects it is a
desperate game even now. Those who get
money ruthlessly and those who keep it in
miserly fashion are still in evidence. There
should be praise of good deeds not only for
the encouragement of the well-disposed but
for the instruction of those who never felt
ton to their fellows.
In the present illumination it seems
hard to find any angle from which the
Rockefeller Foundation does not appear
n cOod thing.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

The steamship Ionian struck a derelict
at a point about n thousand miles west
of Tory island, Ireland, but happily was
damaged only above the waterline. 1t
is believed the wreck was that OF the
missing Dutch steamer Prince Willem
IL. which left Amsterdam on the DIST
of january with fourteen passengers and
a crew of thirty-eight. The Ionian's ex-
perienee shows the Importance of inter
national cooperation for the destruction
of drifting wrecks. The United States
maintains a vessel especially constructed
and equipped for such work
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

The four thousand tons of spoiled eggs
that were taken from a Boston old
storage warehouse yesterday-by a gov
eminent inspector-aTe to be treated with
carbolic acid and disposed of to tanners.
Had not the food Inspector interviewed
they would have been chemically .deodor-
lied and sold to bakers, who would have
put them into cakes and pies. There are
people who think the cold storage bust
ness does not need watching. They are
cold storage people.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

February fire losses in the United
States and Canada were light, aggregat-
ing only $15 ,4S9,350, which brings the
total for the first two months of the
present year to $30,664, $50. For the cor
responding period of 1909 the fire loss
was 3S,S60,000, and for that of 1908.
$48.071, 700. In respect of fires the
year 1910 has made an excellent start.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

boat and was as helpless as a jelly
fish out of water.
Il don't know how to explain it. The
eyes Of this fish are no bigger than
the point of your little finger. but there
is something that ONES out of them
that makes you tumble all in a heap.
Many a time after that did l have a
similar experience, and l know of a
lot of men who have felt the anne eff
feet. The only explanation l could
suggest is that the sharks eye has
some sort OF mesmeric power"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

As long as the use of the hatpin in en-
counters between women and men is con-
fined to defensive warfare it will be
sanctioned by enlightened public senti-
ment. Its employment for aggression is
sure to be condemned. At Louisville,
Kentucky, a Judge yesterday fined Eva
Tanguay forty dollars for utilizing a
hatpin to indicate her Misrepresentation of
a Sfopp-bald
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

A doctor who claims to have discov-
cred the toxin of fatigue" thinks that
he has also found the anti-toxin of ia
tigue, and hopes to be able to overcome
physical WEAKNESS by the simple process
of injection. Those who have the time
and the opportunity to take Il good sleep
instead will be likely to find that old
fashioned recourse IL simpler and safer
remedy.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

The d~isgraeeful devices by which the
sugar trust Systematically swindled the
government for a long period OF years
have made it loom large in the minds
of the people as an example of a bad
trust. The preparations to drag the
trust into court in a struggle for it's
life. by beginning proceedings against
il under the Sherman antitrust law are
viewed with no little interest. The sugar
trust is said to control 80 per cent. OF
the sugar business in this country 1t
the organization Of the sugar trust is
in defiance of the law, it is high time
that the fact should be made plain and
that the Law should be enforced
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

The enactment Of a pure food law has
given consumers Il more direct Interest
in the news from Vermont that the sap
IS flowing in the sugar woods" and
that an early supply OF new maple sugar
NAV he eXDected.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

In legalizing the pooling of tobacco
in Kentucky. the Legislature Of that
state has given its support to monopoly
of the belligerent class-monopoly which
~caioles it's victims with the arguments
of the Night Rider.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
WASHBURN PRINTING CO., . Publishers

Reforestation is a good word; but there.
are enthusiasts bent upOn using it in po-
litical campaigning who employ stronger
spelling than the dictionary authorizes
and are shouting for 'reforestration.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

rest during the HOuTS OF ne HISHI' HdH 10 III UHIy
rebel against the inexorable law.
Many are the men, and women, too, who go to bed at
2 or 8 o'clock in the morning and then wonder why
they ran accomplish so little. All our great men, in every
line, of activity, early realize the value of time by max
ing the best use of the morning hours. Among the an
clients. they who lay abed in the morning were branded
with the stigma of shame.
Gladstone was ever up with the lark. Leo, the great
est of all the popes, was an early riser. So was Bis
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

The theft of Miss Spooner's ten thou
sand dollar Millet. "The Shepherd and
His Flock" from the Golden Gate Park
Museum at San Francisco will not en-
courage private collectors in the practice
of lending their valuable paintings to
the public. =
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
r RISING SUCCESS.
By DIR. M adisOn G. Peters,

BENJAMIN Franklin said: Six hours sleep
for a man, seven for a woman and eight for
a fool"
advise you to take eight and get at least
one to two hours of the eight before mid
night. Night is the God-appointed time for
rest. The birds of the air, the animals of the
forest. the fish of the sea, even the trees,
shrubs and flowers obey natures behest, and
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

Although his name is Philander young
Mr.. Knox married the girl. He Will
have the sympathy of the multitude, and
if he shows a manly spirit of self-heip
he will doubtless regain the favor of his
affronted father,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

These days it seems to be more i'm
portant to have an old mahogany ia,
bic that belonged to q grandmother
than to have had the grandmother.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

is on. He wins. But to quit when you nave won ana
give your opponents a chance to win their money back
is more or less of a disgrace. He plays again-and
loses. Then he wants "a chance to get his money back.
He first plays only in the evening-an hour alter supper.
Then, If be can get away from work at 4 O'Clock and
play until supper time, he will do so, just as scores OF
government clerks do, where the hours are easy. Satur-
day night the game goes on until daylight.
II four men start in to play poker with $40 each or
a 81, 900 each, it is just a matter OF mathematical cal
.culation before all of them will have nothing. All they
have will go for cigars and drink and the midnight
lunch, which they would not need If they went to bed at
a reasonable hour. Do not imagine that all the gam
bling is done in the cities. Hardly a village in America
is free from the scourge.
Gambling means blurred vision, weak muscles, shaky
nerves. Loss of sleep, lack of physical exercise, irregu-
lar meals, bad air, excitement, form a devils monopoly
of bad things and the end is disgrace, madness, death
and the grave. Bows, we need all the brains we have
in our work. If by concentration and cutting out folly
we succeed in a degree, we do well. But | do not be-
lieve we can reasonably hope for success unless we elm
mate the pasteboard proclivities. This is a cold bust
ness observation-disclosures Examiner.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
rs FLESH FOOD ESSENTIAL TO MAN?
By DR.. David PauISOn

The fact that thousands of working men
are temporarily adopting a nonfiesh dietary
naturally raises the practical question as to
what extent flesh food is really essential for
health, strength and endurance. The result
of this experiment, carried out on such a large
scale, may yet prove to be a greater contribu-
ton of popular dietetics than even its infu-
ence on the market prices.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

At 81 Renni planned n built the
London bridge; Tescot, the Louvre:
Christopher Wren was commissioned t"
rebuild st. Paul's. London.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
PLAYING CARDS FOR MONEY.
By Ebert Hubbard.

AS a cold business proposition, let me give
you this: 1 would not trust an amateur gam
bier as far as you could fling Taurus by the
tail. The amateur gambler is not necessarily
a bad man-primarily his intents are honest.
He plays first simply for recreation; then, to
add interest, the game transforms itself into
penny-ante. From this to betting all the money
he has is a very easy evolution when the fever
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

Advertise in this paper, and make your
wants known to yoIr home people.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
Ready to

Suitor (to her father)-Sir, I love
the very ground your daughter treads
on.
Father (griInly)-Well, young man,
you amt the first party that's had an
attachment for 1t. Howsomever, if
you love it we'll enough to come and
help pay up the mortgage on it you
can marry Sarah.-Exchange.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

Many a man has kicked himself out
of a good job.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-16
BRITISH CITIZENS
TO FORM SOCIETY
This Course Decided Upon After
Adopting Resolutions on
Kings Death.

Resolutions of respect regarding the
death of King Edward, which We're
adopted Saturday night by a general
mass meeting OF citizens of Richmond
and vicinity claiming British birth,
are being engrnssed. and when COM
pIeted will be Gent to the secretary OF
foreign affairs, who will forward them
through, the proper channels to Queen
Alexandra and King George,
The meeting was called by British
Vice Consul Arthur Wilmer. 1t was
held In the directors rooms Of the new
Y. NJ. sc. A. building. several hundred
people attending.
MIR. Wilmer presided and called the
assembly t= order, making short ad~
dress outlining the purposes OF the
meeting, and showing why the citizens
of Virginia born in Great Britain
should do honor To the memory OF the
late king.
Among Others who spoke were
Messrs. John Munce and f.. b. Thorn
Hsun. both IF whom heartily endorsed
the call which had been issued by Mr..
Wilmer. and expressed the belief that
the king had no more loyal supporters
anywhere or the globe than In VAR
ginia, although these expatriate Brit
ish were at the same time. the deciar-
ed. loyal and true TO their adopted
flag. ------
The resolutions. which were prepars
ed. read and unanimously approved
were GRATED by committee composed
OF Vice. Consul Wilmer, Mr.. r, A
Brine. late vice. consul. who acted as
secretary. the Rev. Fl. ID. c. Maclach-
Ian and Messrs. Ivan Malthy. John r
Glenn, A. L. Adamson, John S. Munce
and j. r. Jackson.
At the suggestion of the vice. consul
a committee was appointed TO organize
q society, to be known as the british
Society OF Richmond Plans should
first be formulated. Mr.. Wilmer said
and as soon as the preliminary ar
rnngements are complete general
meeting should be called. This COM
miftee consists of the Rev. Mr.. Mac
la chlan and Messrs. Wilmer, Maltbs
and Adamson.