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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-02

mercy of task masters from whose 5ru-
tally there can be no escape. The fact
that the fatal fire was started by pris-
oner as the prelude to a desperate at
tempt to escape seems like evidence of
conditions within the stockade and in
Red Feather mine from which the con-
victS would flee at any risk.
Alabamas convict system is disgrace
to that state and to the south, in which
the leasing of prison labor to tyrannicaI
taSkmasters may be regarded as a relic
of the feeling toward labor which existed
in ante-bellum days, and which still lin
gers in certain prison systems. including
the one which has just been luridly i'd
vertised to the world.
There is no comparison here with the
prison labor systems which have been in
vogue in the north, because the northern
prisoners have been i'll charge of the
state authorities while serving the vari-
Gus lessees. They have not been leased.
but the product of their labor has been
thus indirectly purchased. 1t is a plan
vastly different from that of turning over
Il convict to the merces of a lessee, who
can indulge in brutality between in
spections by state officials, and easily dis
credit all complaints Of victims.
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GROSSCUP AT MONTE CARLO.
Explanation of a Story About Financial
Loss.

Judge Peter S. Grosscup, presiding
judge of the United States circuit court
of appeals in Chicago, returned on the
Carmania from a three months Euro
pean and African tour. He had some
thing to say about his loss at Monte
Carlo, which was only fictitious, after III,
although a considerable amount was in
volved, and also about the Taft adm: lis
tration and the trusts, which he says re
not harmful. 1t has been cabled FAR
and wide that the judge met with ''heavy
losses" at Monte Carlo. He explained
yesterday what was meant by these yis-
patches. 1t seems that he did not play
at the Casino, but found on reaching
Monte Carlo that he had lost his letter
of credit. On quitting Italy he had
wrapped up the letter in some soiled
linen which in the principally of
Monaco went to the laundress. If the
latter found it she didn't say any
thing about it. The judge had to wire
his American bankers of his loss and in
the interval before they could fix him up
another by cable pay his daily expenses
and tips with l. 0. us Endorsed by his
erudite face. II almost feel ashamed Of
my experience" said the judge, 'for it
will always be remembered of me-"
There was no financial loss.-New York
American.
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MONEY FOR HORSES.
Bequeathed by a Woman Who Leaves
an Estate of $2,000,000.

The will of Mary e. Brinckerhoff, who
died at 10 East Eightieth street. but
whose home is in the town Of Greenburg,
was filed at White Plains for probate.
1t is said that the estate will be worth
close to $2,OOO,0O0.
There are over fifty heirs and the leg
acies include relatives, friends and serv
ants. There is $4,000 left for the care
and maintenance of her two pet coach
horses, Jessie and Fannie. The requests
include: Metropolitan Museum of Art,
$4,000; New York infrmary, $4,000;
Barnard college, $4,000; Sleepy Hollow
cemetery, $4,000; Executor cash, in lieu
of commissions, $4,000; New York kim
man, $500; butler and guardian, $1,000
each; two maids, 5000 each; three nurses,
S900.-New York World.
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Plural Voting in Canada.

Consul Frank Deedmeyer describes
the plural voting privileges of Charlotte
town property owners in the capital Of
the Canadian province of Prince Edward
Island:
'''In election of mayor and councillors
(aldermen) for the city of Charlottetown
all men and all unmarried women above
the age of p years, having paid prior to
the time of holding any such election all
rates, taxes and assessments then due,
have a right to give one or more votes.
The franchise is limited to those possess
ing a freehold estate of 500 assessed
value or over; to renters of real estate of
a yearly rental value of $14; to payers of
an annual income tax of ~ and upward,
and to those who pay poll tax of 81
each year: Non-residents, owners or
lessees of real estate in the city, may
vote at these elections. A voter thus
qualified may vote in the ward in which
he or she resides, and also i'll every other
ward in which he or she owns or occu-
pies real estate. Under this provision, an
elector, residing in ono ward of the city
and owning real estate or being i'll pos
session of premises for business purposes
in the other four wards of the city, may
vote five times at the same election, once
in each ward for one of the candidates
for mayor and for the number of coun-
cilers to be elected from such ward.
voting at these elections is not by
ballot, but at polling place viva voce be-
fore election officers, who register the
choice of the elector, as declared by him
or her in public. In case of tie the re-
turning officer casts the deciding vote.
Contests of elections are allowed only if
notice of contest be given at each polling
place before the closing of the polls. No
person can hold the office of mayor or
councillor unless he is the owner of unin-
0IIn lSf1tn a
specified value. A councillor is permitted
to resign on payment of a fine of $16."
Consular Report.
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HETTY GREEN.
She Will Turn Over All Business to
Her Daughter,

Mrs. Hetty Green, celebrated for
years as the richest and shrewdest bust
ness woman in the world. will soon
retire from active business life and will
turn over the handling of her immense
fortune, estimated at $5O,OOO,OOO, 10
her daughter Sylvia, now Mrs. Matthew
Astor Wilks.
For months it has been rumored that
Mrs. Green's health is failing, and these
rumors have been partially substantiated
during the last few weeks by the irregu-
larity of the aged woman's visits to her
office in the Chemical National bank,
and her feeble appearance when she
does materialize there. Among the few
persons in close touch with Mrs. Green
it is understood that for years she has
been quietly training her daughter to sue
cessfully manage her immense fortune,
and that since her daughters marriage
to Mr.. Wilks, with its accompanying pos
sibility of an heir, this training has been
increased. 1t is reported that the trans
fer of the active control of Mrs. Green's
millions to her daughter for management
is only a question of few weeks at
most.
Hetty Green is 70 years old. Her age,
coupled with her .monotonous business
routine, has begun to tell upon her.
She no longer is able TO put he snap
and dash into the handling of her affairs
that characterized her in the past, al
though her shrewdness, it is said, is as
keen as ever. One of Mrs. Green's
greatest disappointments in life, it is
said, has been the non-inclination of her
son, Edward H. r. Green, who lives
i'll Texas, to become as famous a finan-
cier as herself. At one time she put
$20,OO0O00 into southwestern railroads
for her son, so that he might become a
railroad magnate. The accumulation of
wealth, however, is not a fad with
Edward FL. r. Green, who is content TO
live we'll and carry on sufficient business
at the same time to keep his mind occu-
pied. Sylvia, the daughter, takes more
after her mother, and it is on this ac-
count that the control of her mother s
enormous fortune will soon be turned
over to her.-New York American.
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generation of boys growing up race
Of mollycoddles is shown by the fact
that many of the youngsters in the big
room said in confidence that they would
not swap "The Red Mustang" or THE
Painted Desert" for any book IN the
library.
Pittsburg Women and Fairgrounds.
In 1896 the women of the Civic club of
Pittsburg made the discovery that Pits
burg children did not know how to play.
Every inch of land in the great work
shop of the wOrld'' had been given over
to work. There was Rot playground III
the city. A committee headed by Miss
Beulah Kennard went before local
school board and asked permission to
open few school yards, offering to pay
all the expenses themselves. Their re-
quest was refused. They hunted up po-
litlcal influence, and waited on a second
local school board. This time they got
what they wanted.
That first year the women opened three
school yards, equipped them with play
apparatus and placed kindergarten IN
charge of each. The next year, and the
next, they opened more. The fourth they
got an appropriation of $500 from the
school board. The fifth, the other wom-
ems clubs of the city formed a joint play
ground committee and came into the
work. In 1908 the city's appropriation
was 100000.
Last May the Pittsburg play centers
held festival in Shenley park-a beau
tiful piece of cultivated woodland. The
children came fiocking from the mill dis
tricts-1S,OOO of them some in the cos
tunes of their Tatherlands; some in the
garbs of the various trade guilds of the
Middle Ages; some dressed as Indians, as
early French trappers, as English col
onists, as ''boys of TO- They first gave
pageant depicting the history and de-
velopment of Pittsburg, and then they
marched, and drilled, and sang songs,
and danced folk dances and played
games. They played. The women of
Pittsburg had given them back their her.
itage.-Frances Maulc Bjorkman in Van
Norden Magazine.
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A New Cattle Disease in Texas.

AS a result of the drought in western
Texas, the cattle on the ranges there
strange disease known as the 'creeps'
Thousands have died. The disease seems
to affect the joints. Instead of walking
the animals crawl on their knees. After
a few days they die. While the cattle
are emaciated and hundreds are affected
by the new scourge, the horses are fat
and healthy. 1t is feared that the dis
ease is contagious, and the animals are
being killed as fast as they are found to
be affected. The disease is only preva.
lent where drought has prevailed for a
long time.
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Alabama's Barbarous Convict System.

The prison stockade fire at Centerville.
Alabama, by which twenty-six convicts
lost their lives. will serve to renew agita-
ton for reform in the convict system of
Alabama. Confined within the precincts
of stockade where they are prac-
tically the slaves of the Red heather
Coal Company, which leased their labor
from the state, the prisoners are at the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-02
Forest Lands Thrown Open.

The President has signed eight more
proclamations restoring to the public
domain IT, acres from the national
forests of Washington, Idaho and Colo
RADIO. This is in accordance with the
agreements recently reached by the de-
partments of the interior and agriculture.
which finally will result in approximate
ly 100000 acres being restored.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-02
.Tco Delightful Paris.

Senator Depew, lamenting at a dinner
said:
How delightful Paris is, Almost too
delightful for study.
"A friend of mine sent his son to
study architecture at the Ecole des
Bea1x Arts. Then the following June
in time for the Grand PriX, you know
my friend went over to Paris to see how
his boy was getting on.
THE boy said he was getting on FAM
Ously. Father and son, after a delightful
luncheon under a tree at Armenonville,
went sightseeing. They crossed the
Seine looked at the Whistler and Mac
Monies at the Luxembourg, then turned
riverward again to see a little of the
Louvre
".As they drove in their taxicab down
quiet cld-fashioned street near the Seine,
the fathers interest was excited by
fine, imposing building, with a spacious
courtyard full of fragments of statuary,
fine old bits of stone carving, casts and
so on.
"'What place is that, my boy?' he in
quired.
"'Really. father, can't tell you,' said
the young man. I'm so busy at the
Beaux Arts. you know, l get little time
for sightseeing
80 the father leaned forward and
touched the chauffeur's arm.
"'What place is that, my man? he
asked.
The Ecole des Beaux Arts, mon
sieur,' was the reply. "-Philadelphia
Bulletin.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-02
The Victim.

Senator BOleS EeHroSe, at dinner III
Philadelphia, said of April fool jokes:
AN amusing joke was played on a
phoenixville Democrat By a Wissahickon
Republican one April night.
The two men had been 10 the theater
together. Tne Democrat, on the train
riqe home, tell asleep. lie and his friend,
together with one very braWny stranger,
were the sole occupants OF the smoker.
The WissahickOn man, as his station
drew near. remembered that it was April
l, and he bent over the braWny stranger
and whispered:
Excuse me, sir, but my friend asleep
here is slightly or his base-not dam
gerous, or violent-but not all there, you
know
- see,' said the stranger, in an in
Nov. he's got a ticket for Phoenix
VILE went on the other. He used to
live at Phoenixville. But his real desti-
nation is Norristown; he is in one of
in uniform will be waiting for him on
the Norristown platform. Would you
be so kind as to put him OFF,"
"'Why. certainly said the stranger.
Hell probably object, said the false
friend. Hell show his PhoeniXville
ticket, and all that. But you look like
a sturdy, muscular"
"'Oh, I'll put him OFT, all right, said
the stranger, smiling.
''Then the train stopped and the Wis
sahickon man departed softly, without
bidding his sleeping Phoenixville compan-
ion goodbye.
.'At Norristown the stranger seized the
sleeper by the collar and jerked him VIC
lently to his feet.
Here you are!' he said, running him
down the aisle. Hop off, now, quick
care you crazy? cried the Phoenix
vile man, holding back by clutching at
the seats. 'Phoenixville is my station.
What are you interfering with me for,
a1Off you co.! grunted the stranger,
getting his victim out on the platform.
''But I tell you | live at Phoenix
ville.'
''Oh. yes, we know all about that
"They struggled and the stranger, as
the train was about to start, put forth
all his strength and hurled the Phoenix
Vile man onto the station platform. He
lighted on his right shoulder.
ga station attendant in uniform
bounded up with a lantern. He bent
over the grooming, cursing Phoenixville
man. and the stranger, as the train
steamed out, shouted from the window:
"'Take care of him, keeper. | had the
very deuce of job to chuck him off, =
washington Star.
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Thwarting the Devil.

At the banquet of Pittsburg lodge,
No. II, B. p. o. E., on Thursday night,
r. w. Irwin, past exalted ruler of
Washington pa lodge, told story in
illustration of the necessity for charity
(meaning brotherly love- among even
some ministers of the gospel. He said
that two pastors of rival denominations
were discussing the merits of their diff
ferent methods of preaching. Brother
A always wrote his sermons and read
them from his manuscript. Brother 3
boosted that he always preached extern
poraneously Each insisted that his
method was the better.
Finally Brother B said: Don't you
know that when you write your SER
mons the devil looks over your shoulder,
reads what you write and then goes
among the congregation and puts
thoughts in their minds that cOunteract
your doctrines? When you read the ser
mon the devil already has answers
framed in the minds of your hearers.
The consequence is the seed falls on
stony ground. Now, when l get up In
the pulpit to speak not even the devil
himself knows what l am going to say
-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-02
Whisky His Choice.

Doctor-Now, McTavish.. it's like this:
You've either to stop the whiskey or lose
your eyesight-and you must choose.
McTavish-Ay, weel, doctor. I'm an
auld man moo, an l was thinking I've
seen ABBOTT everything worth SEEM. =
London Taller.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-02

Advertise in this paper, and make your
wants known to your home people.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-02
The Best He Gould Say.

Mrs Starvem-How do you like the
chicken soup, Mr.. Newbord?
Mr. ewbord-O-er-is this chicken
soup?
Mrs Starvem-Certainly. How do you
like it?
Mr. d-Well-er-it's certainly
very tender-The Catholic Standard and
Times.
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FUNNYGRAPHS.
Slow but Sure

Slow but Sure.
.'Fly with mer' her lover pleaded,
AS he pressed her to elope;
I,ut his wishes went unheeded,
For she calmly answered: Nope!
Not while 'aeros, as at present.
Are so apt to plunge and balk;
I.ut." sad she, the weather's pleasant;
Don't you think we'd better wake
-LippincottS.
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Unreconstructed.

81 met a gentle but entirely unrecon-
structed native during a recent trip
through North Carolina, said a north
ern tourist, ''and he was in constant
deterioration of things down there from
what hey were in ante-bellum days. His
regretful comparisons of things then
with their condition now, to the disad-
vantage of the latter, were striking One
evening admiring a remarkably brilliant
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-02

and beautiful setting of the sun, 1 ex-
claimed enthusiastically:
"'What a magnificent sunset! Splen-
did. GOrgeousn
The unreconstructed native, gazing at
it a moment, said, in melancholy tone
and with a deep sigh:
Yes; but, ali! you should have seen
it before the war" ''-Browning's Maya
zine
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-02
A Neighborly Precaution.

The new clerk at the drug store re-
turned the prescription to the old Gus
toner with request that he wait till
the boss returned.
but why can't you fill it out?''
Il could if you was a stranger, but
amt to fill 'em for folks that lives
about here" success Magazine.
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Wonderful Dancer.

81 saw you dancing with Jones just
now. Is he good!'
"A wonderful dancer! He never
touched the floor"
How d'you mean?"
HE danced on my feet!'-New York
Evening Telegram.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-02
Economy.

''Your husband goes to every baseball
game.
Yes" replied young Mrs. Torkins.
''Charlie is economizing. When the
home team loses he's too disappointed
to eat any dinner, and when it wins
he's too enthusiastic" = Washington
Star
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-02
Force of Habit.

'Why did you break. your engagement
with that school teacher?' asked the
friend.
IF / failed to show up at her house
every evening, she expected me to bring
a written excuse signed by my mother"
-Woman's Home Companion.
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Reformation.


you used to be an awful spend
thrift"
Yep. But 1 amt any longer"
"AhI Reformed?'
'N0-I spent it ALL" = Cleveland
Leader
SIS the lady of the house inY' asked
the sewing machine agent.
Dye name me or the woman what
owns it," demanded Bridget.-Harper's
Weekly.
''Who is the man that everyone seems
to know?'
"Oh, everyone knows him. He's our
secret police. "-Fliegende Blaetter.
'Why do people read the advertising
sections in the magazines?'
Say, l guess you never tried to read
the other sectionr'-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-02-18
COUGHS AND COLDS
Catarrh, Group and Sore Throat
Cured by Hyomei

The germs of catarrh cannot ex-
ist in the same atmosphere with
antiseptic Hyomei pronounce it
High o-me).
Breathe Hyomei and relief from
catarrh, coughs, sore throat or cold
will come in two minutes.
Breathe Hyomei and that stom-
ach straining hawking in the morn
ing will quickly disappear.
Breathe Hyomei and kill the
catarrh germs; heal the -inAamed
membrane, stop the discharge of
mucus and prevent crusts romform-
ing in the nose.
Breathe Hyomei for a few minutes
each day and forever rid yourself of
contemplate catarrh.
Breathe Hyomei-give it faith
full trial and then, if you are not
satisfied. you can have your money
back.
Hyomei is sold by druggists every
where and by j. M. Taylor in Brad
ford. A complete outfit costs but
Sl.O0 and consists of a hard rubber
inhaler that will last for years, one
bottle of Hyomei and full instruc-
tions for use. If a second bottle of
liquid is needed you can get an
extra bottle of Hyomei inhalant for
so cents.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-02-18
COL. STEARNS' BIRTHDAY
DINNER.

Mr.. and Mrs f. H. Bic kford en-
tertained Col. J.C. SteaIns, 5. H.
Brigham of Lisbon, Barron Hay,
A. w. Peters, DR.. F. Fletcher, b.
S. Hooker and F. L. Brigham at a
birthday dinner in honor OF Col.
Stearns' 18th birthday, which oc-
CURED Tuesday evening. After DIN
ne7 the men smoked, played cards
and visited. having every bit as
good time as if they had been as
young as they felt knowing that
birthdays and birthday parties
come but once year. and they er.-
loved the occasion to its full \
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-02-18

J. H. Strong spent Saturday
night in st. JohnsbuIy on business
H. E. Parker spent Sunday and
the first of the week in Montpelier
Alfonso Heath has been confined
to the house this week with the
grip.
Mrs. F. A. Quimby, who has been
very ill with the grip, is now i'm
proving.
Hazel Roy of Pompanoosuc spent
the first of the week with hei sister,
Mrs. Angler Grow.
Mrs. T. J. Albee is in Littleton
this week, being called there by the
severe illness of Mrs. S. J. Albee.s
Miss Bessie Hamitt of Roxbury
has been spending several days
with her cousin, Mrs. J. L. Slafter.
Miss Alice Z. Bacon leaves today
for Cambridge, n. Y, where she
will spend a month with relatives.
Mrs f. l.. Adams, Mrs. G. H.
Bagley and Reginald have been
spending a few days In ST. Johns
bury.
Miss Bessie Haskins, who has
been visiting her aunt, Mrs. f. +.
Doe, returned to her home in
Brooklyn ednesday morning.
rs. A. c. Coleman and two sons.
Vernon and Roy, OF East Barre,
spent several DAYS this week with
her sister, Mrs. Emily Prescott.
La t week Wednesday evening
while driving in covered bug
carriage up one of the streets IA
Springfield, DR.. L. 7. Smith net
with an accident which might nave
been serious, although it proved to
be a minor one both to Dr. Smith
and the horse he was driving. The
carriage was pretty well demolished /
A big touring car RAJ into the doc .
tors team before either the occu /
pants Of the team or auto were
aware of the Z nger as the snow
was coming { So and it was grow
ing dark. The carriage was lit and
turned over throwing the doctor
out and 'an..ng him on his face.
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NEZIAH WRIGHT BLISS.

Miss Abbie Bliss has received
word of the death of her uncle, Ne
ziah Wright Bliss, at the home Of
his son, in Marion, ILL.,, Feb. 10th,
following an illness of a very few
days Mr.. Bliss was the son of
Ellis and Mary (Worthen) Bliss of
this town, and was born here Jan.
81, 1926. He was graduated f rom
the University Of Vermont in 1852,
teaching school several terms. He
was admitted to the bar in 1854,
and went West. For a number of
years he was attorney for Marshall
Field Co. of Chicago, Several years
ago his health began to fail and he
bought a farm at Sherman. Mo-,
about twenty miles outof st. Louis
About three weeks before his death
he went to visit his son in Marion.
Although he was in very feeble
health, and not able to 90 out of
doors, he was only in bed one day
before his death. He leaves a wife,
a daughter and several sons. His
sister, Mrs. Susan Clark of Lexing-
ton, Mich, is now the only living
child of Ellis Bliss.