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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21
HIRsUTE ITALIAN BARRIERS.
PecuIiarities Noted by an Observing
Hair Tonic Salesman.

Hair Tonic Salesman.
MY best customers" said thu
salesman for the hair-tonic house, &C
cording to the New York Times, "ars
the proprietors Of barber shops, where
all italian BARRIERS are employed
There's a reason for this and a very
simple one. Did you yer see a bald
headed barber in an Italian shop1
Think it over. Rack your memory.
I've been in the hair-tonic business fol-
a good many years and, take my word
for 1t, there is no such thing as a
bald-headed dago barber. No, I cant
explain it. 1t is simply an incontro
vertible fact. That's why / say my
best customers are the proprietors OF
these shops. Would you buy a bottle
Of hair tonic from a barber with a
bald pate? Would you place any con.
fidence in the recommendation of q
barber whose thatch had a NANCY,
moth-eaten appearance? Not If you
are in your sober senses. American
BARRIERS and BARRIERS of other nation,
~alities, particularly the Germans, have
a disgusting habit of losing their hair.
I use the adjective advisedly from my
point of view, for it interferes with
my business. And it's a curious thing
that when a barber loses his hair he
doesn't lose his job. Nor is his sal.
airy reduced. Inasmuch as a conSid.
cradle portion of the event of a shop
consists of the selling Of various
toilet preparations, you would natur.
ally think that, in the interest of ex.
pert craftsmanship, when a barber lost
his hair he would also lose his job.
But the boss barber is a person to be
reckoned with, quite aside from the
purely commercial phase of the situa.
ton. He is loyal to his men and loyal
to an extent that would seem suicidal
to the head of a big industrial corpor-
alton. But that's his attitude, and in
q way it is an admirable one. Still,
that has nothing to do with the fact
that there are no b~ald-headed Italian
BARRIERS. Keep your eyes peeled for
one, and when you find him show
me-"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21

The story comes from Gary that that
mushroom city 'stole a march, on East
Chicago, which had designs on adjoin-
ing territory, looking toward numerical
superiority in the approaching census,
e~d which had annexed Whiting and
Hammond. The Gary council held a
special meeting and annexed East Chi
cago in haste, fearing that East Chi
cago councilmen might work the same
trick on Gary, and they thus took in the
three places. at one swoop. But where
do the people of the Calumet region
come in? Are they legal shuttlecocks
for a game of battledore between Gary
and East Chicago? Evidently the game
is not over, by any means, unless the
Calumet region loves Gary more than
it loves its rival municipality with an
nexation p~ropensities.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21

A retired hon manufacturer who has
had great success in raising mushrooms
in Kansas closes an account of his
achievements with the following: ''Ev-
eryone who comes out here asks ne how
to tell a mushroom from a toadstool.
You can peel 4 mushroom, but you can't
peel a toadstool. That is a certain test.
Then, too, the plants differ in shape, the
toadstool being more conical." Off-hand
information of this kind is valueless and
dangerous. There are poisonous mush-
rooms-so-called toadstools-that can be
peeled, and edible mushrooms that resist
peeling; and there are edible as well as
poisonous mushrooms with conical caps.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21
Robins Bearer Than Beef.

A new method of getting the best of
the meat trust is in vogue among the
Italian section hands of Will county, IL
linois, but, according to the Chicago Rec
ord Herald, it has got one of them into
grief. Joseph Laboti, employed near
Joliet, was caught shooting robins yes
terday and his destruction of song birds
cost him $50 when arraigned before a
justice of the peace. Deputy Sheriff
Williams, who made the arrest, says the
Italians are continually killing song birds
and subsisting upon them rather thar pay
high prices for meat. Another Italian.
also armed with a shotgun, was with
Laboti when the officer discovered them,
but he eScaDed.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21
THE CHAMOIS TRAIL.
Small Herd Still Seen in Alps-Their
Way of Avoiding Avalanches.

Every day at noon at Grindewald
there is a rush of visitors for the tele-
scopes, in order to gaze at one of the
most interesting natural scenes in the
Alps, 1.-The chamois trail
Regularly at this hour a herd Of TWEEN
ty to thirty chamois may be seen passing
in Indian file up the yawning abysses
of the precipitous Mettenberg rocks, sep
arating two glaciers, the male animals
leading the way, the King of the herd
keeping twenty yards in advance, and on
the watch.
At the bottom of the Mettenberg,
where the slope is freed from snow, the
chamois find a meager subsistence when
their usual feeding grounds are under
deep snow. 1t is a curious fact that the
chamois descend to their feeding grounds
at dawn, when there is little likelihood of
~avalanches, AID return to their haunts at
an hour when avalanches-for this por-
ton of the mountain has frequent ava
lanches-have already fallen and the
danger is past.-Geneva corr. Pail Mall
Gazette.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21
ment, stares the switchman in the face

ment, stares the switchman in the face
at every turn. A huge chunk Of coal
may topple upon his head from an
overloaded car, a pin may stick, and
in the hurried effort to right the
knuckle before the cars meet his hand
may be crushed. Unheard trains may
toss him when he rounds the end Of a
string Of cars. While pulling a pin on
a sharp curve to make a drop" he
may be caught between the corners OF
the cars and his ribs STAYED in
Constant vigilance is the price Of the
switchman's life. Occasionally even
constant vigilance" is fruitless.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21

Rear-Admiral Bacon Of the British
navy advocates the construction of larger
battleships because in his opinion, with
proper subdivision of the hull, they are
not as likely to be sunk as a result of
torpedo attack as the smaller ship. There
is something in this, as the weight of
armament carried by a large ship is not
proportionately as large as that on the
smaller ship. But it must not be over
looked that the torpedo is becoming more
powerful under the develop of inventors,
and the damage they infict may be be-
yOnd the ability Of even the best of COM
partmented hulls to withstand.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21

Mayor Gaynor of New York has We
toed the ordinance recently passed by the
Board of Aldermen of that city providing
for the tagging of cold storage products
with the date on which they were placed
in the refrigerating warehouses. He de-
clares that the ordinance could not be
enforced, because inspectors could not
follow the goods through retail channels.
The Danes get around this difficulty
when they place the dates on eggs.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21
New American Saints.

America is to be specially favored in
the matter of canonizing new saints. No
fewer than ten dead North Americans
are to receive the title BLESSED at the
twenty-one sittings of the Congregation
of Rites to be held in Rome during 1910.
The assembly will be very busy making
new saints this year. The total numb~-
already mentioned, North America VIII
get ten. Ireland two and England ole,
The remainder will be apportioned
among the Catholic countries.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21

Does the United States want to estab-
lish a protectorate over Liberia? Would
it be consistent with American protesta-
tons since the first PRONUNCIATION of the
Monroe doctrine? Would. it not be sure
to lead to embarrassment and complica-
tons? How much better it would be
for the United States to refer to The
Hague tribunal the settlement of Libe-
rian boundary disputes. That sort of
thing is what The Hague tribunal is
for.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21
THE LIFE OF A SWITCHMAN.

1t May Not be Picturesque, but
There Are Few More Dangerous.
The frontier is fast disappearing,
and the hardy pioneer who packed his
pelts or harvested his scanty crops I'M
der the eye of hostile Indians is mere
ly an heroic figure in history, writes F.
c. Scoville. But the industrial from
tier and the pioneer workman will new
er become things of the past. The
venturesome spirits who 100 years ago
would have pushed westward into I'M
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21
In a Thousand wards. amid a bewil-

In a thousand yards. amid a bewil-
derins maze Of tracks and switches,
and under the pattering hail Of cinders
the switchman works, seemingly care
less of the perils that beset his every
footstep. Dangerous during the day,
the yards are trebly so at night and
during the winter. One seconds care
lessness, a slippery footboard, an ice
covered grabiron, or even a mistaken
signal by the engineer may cause his
instant death, or, less mercifully, make
him 9 helpless cripple for life.
Death, or his companion, disable
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21

The death of Mrs. Allan Macnaugh-
ton, known to the reading world as Alma
Kelly, cuts short a promising career.
She possessed a genius for observation
and description. Nobody else has writ
ten of the foreign immigrant types in the
New York public schools with the know
edge, the sympathy and the dramatic
and graphic art that she displayed. She
will be widely mourned by thousands
from New York to San Francisco, who
have been accustomed to look to her
stories for instruction as well as de-
light.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21
Flooded by Maple Sap.

A bungalow built Of green maple logs
has lust been completed and furnished
for occupancy by d. S. Yeoman of
Brooklyn, a real estate holder at Kia-
mesha Lake, New York. The sun re
Gently started the sap in the logs and it
partly flooded the building, causing con-
siderable damage.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21

President Taft has thrown the weight
OF his influence in favor of the enact
ment by Congress of legislation which
will provide for publicity of campaign
contributions. Wisconsin has such a law,
and public condemnation Of the lavish
expenditures in the last senatorial cam
paign is certain to have the effect of
lessening campaign expenditures in this
state hereafter,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21
A Blessing in Disguise.

Mrs. Post Cooking up from paperl-
Here's sad news! 1t seems Il Mrs.
Bloodgood, who had just engaged orr
old cook, Della Dolan, was run down
and killed by an automobile on her way
home from the intelligence office.
Post-She had a narrow escape from
Della Brooklyn Life.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21
French Revolution Relics.

A museum is about to be inaugural.
ed in the famous prison of the Con.
ciergerie, which will be peculiarly rich
in articles and papers connected with
the revolution, and especially with Ma.
RE Antoinette, says the London Globe.
The museum will be quartered in the
Sale des Girondins. The Marie An
toinette relics include the armchair
which she used during her long de.
tention, the lamp which illuminated
her cell, the ebony and ivory crucifix
which she kissed before leaving for
her execution, and two pictures repre-.
s%enting the doomed queen at commun.
ion and in her cell.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21

The engagement of he Princess Gle
mentine of Belgium to Prince Victor Ma
2oleon will be looked upon with particu-
lar interest in the present unsettled po-
litical condition of France. There are
imperial possibilities as well as royalist
possibilities in the future. Anything is
noSsihle in France.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21

Chicago's hatpin ordinance is in force,
and one woman has been fined Il dollar
and costs for using a pin which pro
truded from her hat several inches, and
which scratched a mans face during
jostling on a crowded street. The long
hafnin must 90. Q
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21

it, and instead a new continent was discovered. This
was of far greater Importance to tbs oppressed lower
classes of Europe than the accomplishment Of the origin
al purpose would have been and it is Of great relief
even yet.
The world is now becoming rapidly populated, with
no more new continents to discover, and the result must
be that collectivism and cooperation will take the place
of individualism and competition-otherwis slavery
will become universal. Members of the capitalist class.
having pursued each other all over the globe trying to
find a market for their surplus products and finding
themselves up against 1t, are now gradually consolidat-
ing industrially into a trust and politically into one big
fighting machine. Money knows no country and one
country is as good to exact profits in as another. Labor
sees what is coming and is also beginning to organize
internationally. The railroads, the steamships and the
telegraph are bringing all nations closer and closer to
each other and in course of time they will unite into
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21

Prosecutor Garvin of Jersey City ap-
piled to Governor Fort of New Jersey
for extradition papers for ]. Ogden Ar
mour. If Garven succeeds in getting the
Chicago packer to appear for trial in
New Jersey, who will be left with pub
lie spirit enough to institute proceedings
for breaking up the farmers trust,
which, Mr.. Armour says, is starving the
1aop1ot
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21

ING IInu. III TESptCI OF LII GVI ~ " "1 VH01S' W.
need TO remember that hrst steps are the dangerous
steps, first compromises the dangerous compromises.
When men and women are lettering about through
life wondering what they will do next, a serpent not
far away is apt to lift its head and sight the bird.
From the Garden of Eden to the present hour snakes
have loved Eve in q snakes way. Samson has lied and
joked with Delilah, Sappho has loved the young student,
as the devil loves the world. 1t Is a love with the most
beautiful face you ever saw. 1t is love with the most
attractive personality you have ever known. 1t is a
love with what is called temperament, you know
makes a lie sound better than the truth. 1t can make
the red-headed, blackfaced Cleopatra look SO fascinat-
ing that the great Marc Antony is content to be drag
ged behind her barge like a dead fish.
The love Of the hirt is a love that makes men and
women forget their honor, their vows, their ambitions,
their talents. their fathers and mothers, husbands and
wives. and all the great hopes of time and eternity.
The first steps may lead down the marble steps Of a
palace of pleasure. But look at the end!
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21

ing of pity, they are to be challenged to assert In them
selves those things which will make them Independent
Of pity.
No man who has recovered the integrity of his soul
is any longer the object Of pity, and it is to enable him
to recover that lost integrity that the Christian church
is organized. To my thinking, the Christian church
stands at the center not only of philanthropy, but at
the center Of education, at the center of science, at the
center Of philosophy, at the center of poItics--in short,
at the center of sentiment and thinking life. And the
business of the Christian church, of the Christian min
lister, is to show the spiritual relations of men to the
greater world processes whether they be physical or
spiritual. 1t is nothing less than to show the plan of
life and mems relations to the plan of life.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21
The WASHBURN TIMES.
WASfiBURN, WIS.
WASHBURN PRINTING CO., . Publishers

Americas envoy extraordinary TO the
beautiful italian city confronting We
suvius will ignore half of the old prov
erb-he will "See Naples and live"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21

Ex-President Roosevelt has escaped
from Egypt without being made the vic
tim of native fanaticism, whereat his
friends the world over will breathe signs
nf ,.aIiof
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21

following. and. still later, the occupation
of Cuba, kept the strength of the army
up to about 100000 men. This strength
was not maintained after the second oc-
cupation of Cuba.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21
THE HURCH BUSINESS.


The business Of the church is not to pity
men. The business of the church is not to
rescue them from their suffering by the mere
means Of material relief or even by the means
of spiritual reinsurance. The church cannot
afford to pity men because 1t knows that men,
II they would take 1t, have the richest and
completest inheritance that 1t Is possible to
conceive, and that, rather than being deserv-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21
TIE Duke Scores.

Miss Passe-That's the Duke of Old
house. He married a million.
Mr.. Blase-You don't say! Well, he's
got Solomon beat a mile!-Llppincotts.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21

waite thrown on the ice of the Arc
tic regions will crack it, just as boil
ing water will crack a piece of glass.
This is because the ice is so much cold
Rr than water.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21
BRINGING NATIONS CLOSER TOGETHER.
BY Edgar Fuller

1t is easy to perceive from past history how
individualism and competition peopled the
earth. The pressure of growing slavery kept
actuating men to push farther westward, to
where there was greater freedom. America
VISA discovered because the merchants of Ven
ice formed a monopoly Of the East India
trade and levied tribute that was outrageous.
A western route was sought in order to evade
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21
PERIL IN FILTRATION.
BY Rev. Frederick e. Hopkins.

Filtration is the cause OF our social evil.
1t undermines the home. 1t makes marriage
lock- like a failure. The rapidly increasing
number Of women who drink and smoke in
fashionable restaurants shows where stations
on the route are located and the men In the
big, swift touring cars accomplish the rest
of the trip with merciless brevity, but leave
behind the fumes Of a scandal that will fill
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21

one vast cooperative commonwealth. There is destined
to be considerable conflict, however, before this can
be successfully accomplished.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21

this year because they were so expensive that the very
presence Of an aigrette meant that the owner must have
money, or at least had 1t when she bought the hat, and
that black pearls were again in vogue; and that 1t was
bad form to let the bay horse go out with anything but
an ermine carriage blanket.
l wonder If the little girl who lay down and died
rather than to struggle through a world like the one
she lived in wasn't, after all, wise after her kind and
condition? I suppose that poor mother walked the
streets right beside some disconnected rich woman a
dozen times, and unless she walked unusual paths she
certainly went past a dozen young girls who are max
ing their own mothers miserable because they can't
have just exactly the latest thing in jewslry or the
newest thing in automobiles, like the other girls"
If 1 had one of those misunderstanding" daughters
I'd make her spend at least half of her time getting
acquainted with some Of these other girls" like the
one who lay down and died of hunger and heartache
and sorrowful Encouragement the other day. l believe
1t would do her good.-Chicago Examiner.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21

Health, honesty, horse sense and
hard work is a combination you can't
down; if your rival has these qualities,
form a trust with him.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-21
Discomfort OF RICHES AND POVERTY.
By Winifred Black.

A little girl lay down on her sisters grave
and died the other day. And when the mother
went to the drug store to telephone to ask
for help she tainted. and the drug store peo-
pie discovered that the mother had not eaten
anything for nearly two days because there
was no money to buy food.
In the same paper that told this little story
I read that aigrettes were in fashion again
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-08-17

Il is noticeable the republican ne
CATION commodores do not 20 into de-
tail about the state taxes. Cause is
easily ascertained--our state tax lev
les are small Compared with sur
rounding states with greater wealth
we are the lowest taxed people for
state purposes west Of the Mississippi
river. There are certain attaches to
the state republican organization who
do not distinguish the difference be-
tween state and municipal tax and
'tis waste al time TO try and acquaint
them with the tacs. Some people are
never seeking ~. =; some never want
to use them; IN either event matter
the people have no time TO waste on
therefore the facts will avail without
bothering the lunatic association start
Ing the other side Of this campaign.
Guthrie Leader.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-08-17
WINNING 4 LOSING RACE.

This matter Of being on the winning
side is overestimated.
The winning side does not always
win.
II in winning one race a man spoils
his chances for winning better races,
isn't the winning OF one particular
race so costly that its winning is an
actual loss?
When boys choose sides for a snow
ball war, It will be noticed that some
Of the boys hang back 10 the last min
ute in order to get on the stronger
side. They want to be with the fell
lows who are most likely to temporari-
ly conquer But IL the smaller army,
the so-cailed weak army, puts up sucn
a fight that It almost beats the fellows
who outnumber them, who is it that
the next day can come pretty near to
picking and choosing the men" It
wants-and surely wins?
Two boys leave their country homes
and go TO the city One Of them en-
lists in the army Of money-chasers and
grows rich-but at tins expense Of
health and friendships. The other
takes a more moderate course, secures
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-08-17
STATE a. & NJ. COLLEGE.


Our boys and girls often seem 10
lack incentive and ambition in secur-
ing an education, but this is not al
ways the fault Of the individual boy or
girl. In many instances the going
away to college awakens and in
spires young people to make something
Of themselyes-to learn to DO things
worth while Those boys and girls
who desire to complete their educa-
tions are certainly cherishing most
laudabIe ambition. Our state Agricul-
tural and Mechanical college. located
at StilIwater, is proving one Of the
most effective institutions OF learning
in the west or south, and is educating
and training hundreds OF young peo-
pie to nobler lives OF usefulness.
The graduates of the A. & NJ. col
lege can always secure good positions
because the education received there
is liberal, scientific and practical. Our
readers win do wen to write Presi-
dent J. II. connell at Saltwater for "a
copy OF the illustrated catalogue, con
taining two hundred pages Of matter
descriptive OF this great Oklahoma in!
stitutlon Of learning