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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-09-29
One in Dublin Did Him a Favor Be-
cause the Other Was His Fa-
vorite Waiter in New
N0rk

In one of the chats had with
Thurlow Weed when that great politi-
cal figure of ante-bellum and wartimes
was living in the peaceful retirement
of old age, he told me the story of the
brothers Mccarthy.
"On the first excursion that l made
to Europe" said Mr.. Weed, Il went
with my daughter Harriet, and in our
party were Archbishop Hughes of
New York, a warm personal friend of
mine, and. Archbishop John Baptist
Purchell of Cincinnati, both, at that
time, being bishops only. The captain
Of the steamship on which we crossed
learned that we were going to Ireland
as soon as We had landed, so, doubt
less out of respect for the two digni-
taries of the Catholic church, he vol
unteered to save us the trip to Liver
pool by putting us ashore In Ireland
In one of the ships boats. We gladly
accepted the invitation, were rowed
ashore off Queenstown and SO reached
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-09-29
RIDES HORSE WHILE ASLEEP
Lad of IL Years Exhibits Most Re-
markabe Case of Somnambulism
Ever Recorded in Texas.

Taylor, Tex.-One of the most, if
not the most, remarkable cases of
somnambulism on record in this state
just occurred at Jonah, near here.
when Arthur Nygrin, lad of twelve,
arose from his bed at his fathers
home in his night clothes, and without
hat, coat or shoes, saddled horse at
2 a. m. and rode a distance of four
miles.
Stopping at the residence of Mrs.
Oscar Swenson, the boy dismounted,
hitched the horse and went into the
house, stumbling over chairs and chill
dren who were sleeping on the porch.
The intruder awoke Mrs. Swenson
who called out, who is it." He an
swered, Its Dock; l came to tell you
that brother is sick and they want you
to come"
Believing the boy was asleep she
told him to lie down, which he did and
slept soundly until breakfast Mrs.
Nygrin, the boys mother, was away
from home at the time of the boys
WduQ0TluS, UuL WuSu Ills ldLuGI dWOhC
next morning and found his son gone,
he was very much alarmed and be-
came so excited that he tainted in his
hurry to give the alarm. He feared
the boy had ridden the horse over one
of the numerous precipices which
abound along the river near his home
While the excitement was at it's
height, with the father, friends and
neighbors securing the woods for the
boy, he returned home-his mind be-
ing a blank since he retired the night
before until he was called for break
fast that morning four miles from the
home of his aunt Aside from all 9TH
er evidences that the boy was asleep
and oblivious to his movements the ia
Their, who gives this information,
states that ordinarily no amount OF
money or other offering would induce
the boy to venture out of the yard
alone, he being of a decidedly timid
and scareful disposition.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-09-29

The enthusiastic literary gentleman
at Allways-on-the-Go, said London An
swers, had consented to deliver a lee
ture in the village club on Burns. For
weeks beforehand the hoardings and
the boardings shouted announcements,
and when the appointed night arrived
the hall was full to overfiowing. He
began with "The Cotters Saturday
Night" ''Tam O. Shanter," and "The
Jolly Beggars," and was proceeding
with John Anderson" when there
came an interruption from the back of
the hall. What is it, my MANI" in
quired the lecturer. Hi, when are you
goin' ter give us a few 'ints ?" came
the reply. "Hints?" repeated the puz-
zled gentleman. ''Yus, 'ints!" growled
out the man. II paid threepence ter
come in, COS you was supposed to
know all about burns, an there yer
stands, spoutin' POETRY like a parrot,
while my missus, who's upset a sauce
pan Of boilin' water on 'er foot, is
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-09-29
HUNG HER CASH OUT TO DRY
Delaware Woman Forgot Big Roll of
Bills Until it Was Almost
Too Late.

Rehoboth, Del.-A weeks washing
of SIS bills. pinned on a line to dry,
was the result of a bath which Mrs.
Daniel Townsend took and in which
no one can understand why the money
did not drift out to sea.
Mrs Townsend is the wife of a
prominent Rehoboth hotel man, and in
taking her usual surf bath she did
not remove that portion of her apparel
which the average woman uses as her
pocketbook.
During the bath the surf played it's
usual pranks, and, although the bands
used to hold the money in it's place
were several times loosened. the
money was found intact, although re-
duced almost to pulp when Mrs.
Townsend started to remove the bath
ing apparel.
It took several hours of careful dry
ing on an improvised line before the
bills were in shape to be taken to a
bank and redeemed for more SUBJ
stantial ones.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-09-29
STRAW KILLS TONS OF FISH
Has Solved Puzzle Where Fac
tory Refuse is Dumpted.

Muncie, Ind.-A complete investiga-
ton of the slaughter of fish in the
Mississinnewa river, when tons of fish
were found dead in the stream, is be-
ing conducted in Delaware and Grant
counties by State Fish Commissioner
Miles.
The secretary of the state board of
health, Dr. ]. N. Hurry has advanced
new reason for the death of fish in
streams that are used by strawboard
companies. He says that in his opin-
ion there is no poison in the refuse
emptied into the water from straw
board and paper mills that is destruc-
tive to animal life, as has always
been supposed, but that the fish are
killed by minute particles of straw,
from this refuse, entering their gills
and shutting off their supply of oxy.
gen.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-09-29
Problem Was Easy for Edison

Presenting ourselves before him at
the appointed time. we found him
wearing an old linen buster and a
much battered straw hat AS we
stated the object Of our call a queer
little smile passed over his features.
Finally, he said: I suppose you have
had all sorts of inventions offered to
you?
I'VE nodded acQuiescence.
Well. he said. chuck 'em all out.
Most OF them are no good, and, be-
sides. you don't need any invention
I'VE looked surprised and Edison
was clearly amused at our astonish-
ment. Then he proceeded to elucidate.
All you have to do, gentlemen, is to
insulate your wires, draw them
through the cheapest thing on earth,
lead pipes, run your pipes through
channels or galleries under the street,
and you've got the whole thing DONE
1Aere he was telling us in that
simple, off-hand way how to do the
thing we had spent the best part of
year puzzling over; for none of us
doubted that he had solved the prob
lem, and afterward the experiments
which we conducted proved con-
clusively that he had
Before we left Edison we asked
him what his bill was for the advice
he had given us.
Not a cent he replied. DO you
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-09-29
DAD SAID TO "GIT'
THE BOYS DID so, AND EACH
MADE BIG FORTUNE.
Four Brothers Who Left Farm Fifty
Years Ago With $500 Apiece and
Plenty of Good Advice Now
Worth $25,o0o,oo0.

Bridgeport, Gonna little over fifty
years ago farmer named Miller, liv.
ing near Middletown, Conn, called in
his four sons-Darius, Frank, Nathan
G. and Charles-read them a lecture
on the use and abuse of money. gave
them $500 apiece, and told them to go
out in the world and hustle.
Darius, the eldest, was not 80 then,
the youngest was scarcely 20. They
thrived, and recently they met to-
gether in the home of Frank to cele-
brate the golden wedding of Darius
and his wife, they told how they had
multiplied that $4,000 almost ten thou
sand fold. The estimated wealth OF
the brothers today is $25,000,000.
The story reads like one from the
Arabian Nights" The four Aladdins
apparently had but to rub their lamps
to gain power and wealth, and
throughout the story the figures 700
seems to dominate, for away back in
1850 the town of Middletown agreed to
pay their ancestor, Thomas Miller.
$500 for establishing a mill there The
payment was never made, but the fam
lily still holds the claim for the sum
with the compound interest for 200
years.
When the boys left the old farm,
Darius went to New Britain, where he
put his money into dry goods bust
ness that prospered so rapidly that
he is now one of the wealthiest men
in the state, owning big department
store and having other large interests
besides.
Nathan G., the second son, went to
New York to seek his fortune. He
developed talent for high finance,
made a fortune on the stock market,
bought a railroad which he sold at an
immense profit, organized a steamboat
company, backed Thomas Edison in
his inventions and now possesses mil
lions.
Charles Miller went to Waterbury
to invest his $500, and accumulated
money so fast that last January he
astounded his fellow citizens by turn
ing over to his clerks his immense
establishment He holds great
quantity of real estate. and controls
many industrial concerns.
Frank Miller started his business
career in Bridgeport, studied the lum-
Der market and now owns vast tracts
of pine lumber in the south
To celebrate the reunion of the
brothers and sister a group photo
graph was taken-the first photograph
for which Darius Miller had posed
since he left the farm more than a
half century ago.
The brothers recounted their bust
ness triumphs modestly. Throughout
their struggles for fortune they had
kept in touch with one another
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-09-29
Red Cross Christmas Seals.

arrangements for the sale of Red
Cross Christmas Seals for 1910 have
been announced by the National AS
scciStion for the Study and Proven
ton of tuberculosis and the. Ameri-
can Red Cross. "a Million for Tuber-
cuiosis" will be the slogan of the 1910
campaign. Two features of the sale
this year are unique and will bring
considerable capital to the tuberculo-
sis fighters The American National
Red Cross is to issue the stamps as in
former years, but this organization
will work in close cooperation, with
the National Association for the Study
and P. evention of tuberculosis, which
body will share in the proceeds of the
sales. The charge to local associa-
lions for the use of the national
stamps has been reduced also from 20
per cent. to 1914 per cent, which will
mean at least $4,000 more for tuber
culosis work in all parts Of the United
States. The stamps are to be desig-
mated as RED Cross Seals" this year
and are to be placed on the back Of
letters instead of on the front.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-09-29
PRESSED HARD.
Coisee's Weight on Old Age.

When prominent me.' realize the In
furious effects of coffee and the change
in health that Postum can bring, they
are glad to lend their testimony for
the benefit of others.
A superintendent of public schools
in a Southern state says: "My moth
er, since her early childhood, was an
inveterate coffee drinker, had been
troubled with her heart for a number
of years and complained of that weak
all over feeling and sick stomach.
Some time ago was making an of
fetal visit to a distant part of the
country and took dinner with one OF
the merchants of the place. l noticed
a somewhat peculiar flavor of the cof-
fee, and asked him concerning it. He
replied that it was Postum. I was so
pleased with it that, after the meal was
over, I bought package to carry
home with Inc, and had wife pre-
pare some for the next meal; the
whole family liked it so well that we
discontinued coffee and used Postum
entirely.
Il had really been at times very
anxious concerning my mothers con-
dition, but we noticed that after using
Postum for a short time, she felt so
much better than she did prior to its
use, and had little trouble with her
heart and no sick stomach; that the
headaches were not so frequent, and
her general condition much improved.
This continued until she was as Wen
and hearty as the rest OF us.
II know Postum has benefited my
self and the other members OF the FAM
lily. but in a more marked degree in
the case of my mother, as she was
victim of long standing"
Ever read the above IetterS A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true. and full OF human
interest.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-09-29
PRAYERS TIED TO NIGHTIES
New York Woman Has Unique Cure.
All and Lots OF
Patients.

New york.-Difference of opinion
as to the therapeutical efficacy of
scribbling hieroglyphics on note paper
and then tying the paper prayers" to
a lady's affected arm, head or leg led
to the arraignment of Mrs. Eva Stein
before Magistrate Butts in the York
Vile police court. Mrs. Stein is &C.
cused by the County Medical society
of attempting to diagnose the ailments
of patients and of then offering to
cure them by sending them to bed
with paper prayers tied to their nigh
ties and with still other written pray
ers under their pillows.
A woman detective in the employ of
the medical society submitted an affi-
davit which tells of her experience as
a patient" with Mrs. Stein, whose
charge for treatment, the detective
says, is only Is cents.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-09-29
Wizard Quickly Told New York Com
mission Just How Electric Cur
rent Wires Could Be
Placed Underground.

When New York city, back In the
late eighties, passed an ordinance for
bidding the stringing of telegraph and
telephone wires overhead and order
ing the miles of wires already over
head to be placed underground COM
mission was appointed to take charge
of the work of burying them. mem
Der Of this commission was the late
Jacob Hess, at one time very promi-
nent as a Republican organization
leader in New York, and one of the
group of very energet:c young men
who were trained in politics by Ches-
ter A Arthur when he was power
in New York city politics.
''The most impressive evidence
ever had of Edison's genius l received
when l was a member Of what ! be-
lieve was the first authoritative body
to deal with the problem of laying a
city'ss wires underground" said Mr..
Hess to me few years before his
death. And. by the way, our work as
a commission was closely followed by
municipal authorities throughout the
United States and also by some of the
leading municipal experts of Europe.
We'll, when we started out we
knew that it wouldn't do just to place
the wires in trenches and let 1t go at
placed would not work and would
soon be destroyed. So we had au-
thority to spend money to make ex-
periments in order to get at least one
satisfactory system of burying the
wires, and to enter into contracts with
inventors Of satisfactory systems. One
of our first moves, therefore. was to
advertise our needs.
you can't imagine the number OF
inventions that were brought to our
attention-they simply were legion, as
the saying is. Most of them were
worthless on their face, and we were
asked by their inventors all sorts of
prices, ranging from a few dollars
away up into the thousands. One Of
the best of the inventions, as we
thought, was so expensive that it's
cost alone made it's use prohibitive
"One day, after we had been strug-
CLING with the problem for weeks, and
were as far away from solving it ap-
parently as when we first tackled it,
1t was suggested that we call on Thorn
as A. Edison and ask him to invent
something that we could use, or, at
least, give us a suggestion that we
could have worked out. We wrote
HI h. 3wx @1I vf,s% l.
his laboratory in New Jersey.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-09-29
MONKEY THAT TALKS
PROFESSOR GARNER BRINGS US
A WONDERFUL APE.
Animal From Africa Jungle to DEM
onstrate Theory of Chimpanzee
Intelligence, So the Profess
sor Says.

New York.-After living for seven
years in bamboo hut in the heart of
the African jungle with only two
negro servants and wild chimpanzees
and gorillas for companions. Professor
Richard l.. Garner, the anthropologist,
has reached New York with Susie"
the 7-months-old ape, who can talk
and understand the English language
For twenty years Professor Garner
has made study of the animals that
Darwin declared were our ancestors,
and in 1903 he sailed on his fourth
trip to Cape Lopez, Western Africa;
his purpose being, as he said, to watch
and learn the habits CT the chimpan-
zee in its wild state and to observe it's
capabilities without suggestion or
training and most important of all, to
discover if the ape is able to distin-
guish different colors and forms.
He has returned with proof that the
chimpanzee cannot only distinguish
the difference between red, white, and
blue, but that it can tell the differ
ence between half a dozen sha2es OF
red, the difference between a sphere,
a cube and a cylinder and that it has
a language of its own, consisting OF a
vocabulary Of about twenty words.
Susie spent most tIf her voyage in
a cage in the butchers room, but part
Of the time she was on deck. She has
a little chair that she carries about,
and when told to "come here" sit
down" or laugh" she obeys with sol
dierly alarcrity. When a match is
lighted she cries out in a squeaky
voice, "Feu," the French word for fire.
During my four expeditions l have
had total of twenty-five chimpanzees
and nine gorillas in my house." said
Professor Garner. "They were all
young ones, which | bought from ma
tives to experiment with. l let them
have their freedom, but they always
came back at night to sleep. The 60
rillas were not so tractable and occa-
sionally l had to confine and guard
them In my opinion the chimpanZee
is the highest type of the lower ami
mails and has the most brain power"
Professor Garner declared that from
his studies of the chimpanzee he is
convinced that 1t has bad memory
and does not remember a grievance
for very long and that it has not the
resentment of the human being. Mel
Their has the native of Congo, he add
ed, the resentment of the white man.
I'm my opinion, 1t will not be very
long before champanzees will be able
to speak language that we under
stand" Professor Garner continued
They will not only be able to repeat
words, but they will know the mean
ing of what they say and hear"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-09-29
The DANCER of Corners.

In no way is the old proverb "Fa-
miliarity breeds contempt" more true
than as regards corners. The motor
list who has safely rounded bend in
the road with which he is very IA
miliar thousand times is apt to think
that the Observation-Disclosures experience
will be as the others have been, free
from danger, and that there will be no
obstruction, mechanical or animal,
just out of view. But sooner or later
the unexpected happens, and nothing
but great skill and the alertest
promptitude will avert bad accident.
And while 1t is true that in every in
stance and at all times motorist on
the road is dependent not only on his
own actions, but on the actions of 9TH
ers, this is especially true OF corners.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-09-29
Weed and the Two McCarthys

Dublin just in time to secure good
seats at an address delivered by Dan
lei O'Connell, the great Irish liberia
tor.
"Ah, that was oratory! have heard
all of our great American speakers,
from William Writ, who prosecuted
Aaron Burr, down to Roscoe Conkling,
but l never heard by them such ora
tory as that which fell from O'Con-
nell's lips. Then it was that l under
stood for the first time what the
source Of O'Connells power over the
people of Ireland was.
After the meeting was over l said
. to the two bishops: L will go to the
newspaper office and wait there until
| can get copies of the paper with the
speech in 1t, so that / can send them
to the United States by the steamer
which sails tomorrow
Arriving at the newspaper office,
heard the presses changing, but l could
see no light in the editorial rooms.
raped at several doors, and at last
porter came to one of them.
81 am anxious to get a few copies
of the paper | said. and don't find
anyone about the building who can
give them to me-
Faith, then. you'll have to wait
till the morning was the porters an.
swer.
But 1 can't wait l protested. If
get the papers now, l can address
them and they will catch the early
morning mail for Queenstown and sol
get to the United States several days!
earlier than they could in any other
way.
1.-The porter pricked up his ears. Do
you come from the United States of
American he asked.
"'Yes, and with me are two bishops
of the Catholic church, and we have
heard O'Connell speak tonight
"'Sure, then, if you're from Amert-I
ca,'-of course, the porter spoke with
delightfully."- broad brogue-'you will.
know my brother.
Very doubtful l replied 'Ameri-.
ca is big country. What is your
brothers name?
Its Mccarthy, sir
What does he dor
"'He's a waiter in an inn, SIR
Whats the name of the inn?'
Its the Astor Inn, on the Broad
way street in New York city, sif.'
What l said. Your brother,
Mccarthy, is waiter in the Astor
House?'
Sure he replied.
Then said l, I have to tell you
that your brother stood behind my
chair attending to my wants during,
the last meal l took in the United
States before l sailed. He's my friend,
Mccarthy, the waiter, Is.
1.-THE porter was overjoyed, while I,
was amazed, to think that in all the
vast number of immigrants in the Uni.
ted States his brother should happen
to be my favorite waiter in the Astor
House. Then the porter ran to the
press room and returned with an arm
full of papers, and l got them off by
mail And when l returned home
had his brother appointed to a good
paying clerkship in the New York
customs house"
Copyright, 1910, by f. ]. Edwards)
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-09-29
WHY Blaine Left Journalism

lars year, and be was willing to bind
himself for a number OF years to the
Advertiser if he could get the desired
raise of three hundred dollars year.
The proprietor admitted that Mr..
Blaine was perfectly justified in ask
ing the increase in salary, because he
was worth it; but, added the owner,
frankly, he could not afford to pay so
much money. In those days, you
know-back in the late f1fties-fifteen
hundred dollars was large sum of
money down in Maine
well, Blaine thought the situation
over for some time, and finally came
to the conclusion that he was worth
fifteen hundred dollars a year, if he
was worth a cent, and that he did not
propose to hold down his editorial po-
sition for less than what he was
worth. So, parting in a most friendly
spirit with his employer, Mr.. Blaine
returned to Augusta whittier he had
gone to Portland, and he had not been
there long when he was nominated
and elected a member of the legis-
lature. He was four years a member
of that body, and for two years he was
it's speaker, and that before he had
finished his thirty-second year. In
that body he discovered wherein his
real ability lay; and so, say, had he
not returned to Augusta when he did,
and all because he could not get the
raise in salary that he wanted, his
great political career would undoubt-
eddy have been considerably delayed,
and maybe-who can tell?-he might
have become great newspaper edi-
tor instead of a great statesman.
have always believed that Mr.. Blaine
cherished at one time a strong secret
ambition to become the editor of q
great newspaper, and had he remained
in Portland with the Advertiser a Bos-
ton or New York newspaper might
have tempted him thither in time"
Copyright, 1910, by E. j. Edwards)