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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27
To simplify Sugar Beet Culture.


The Department Of Agriculture Is
experimenting with view to obtain
ing a single germ beet seed. Last
years Investigations were successful
in Increasing the. percentage of tbs
single germ seed to so per cent, as
compared to 26 per cent for the year
previous BY methods of selection
from single-seed plants this percent
age may be still further increased. ID
The ultimate establishment of a sin
gle germ beet will reyolutionize sugar
beet growing, since the several sprouts
sent up by the ordinary seed, all Of
which must be carefully removed by
hand, constitutes the most difficult
problem in beet raising.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27
Hogs for Turning over Money,

The hog commends itself to the gen
eral farmer on account of its prolific
qualities. A sow will produce two lit
tiers Of six to a dozen each per year
and the farmer can turn his money
over several times with hogs while he
is waiting for other animals to ma
ture.
Hogs require a little more care at
times than other some animals, but
the man who likes to work with them
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27
A wOMAN,S CATCH.
She Lands a Big Salmon in Seventeen
Minutes

To. Lady Edith Trotter belongs the
distinction of having captured the big
gest salmon of the season, on the
Sprouston water of the Tweed. 1t
turned the scale at 1919 pounds and was
landed in seventeen minutes. The fish
was SO inches in length and u inches in
girth. "No larger fish this season or for
many seasons has been recorded as
caught, with rod and line in British
waters'' said Mr.. MarstOn. editor of
the Fishing Gazette. ITO take so large
a fish is certainly a great achievemnt
for a lady The time i'll which it was
taken is also remarkable The rough
and-ready rule for large fish is pound
a minute. A y-eight-pound fish might
have taken another half-hOur to land"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27

The TRANSMISSION of particles of diff
sferent kinds sof4 metals through the agen.
'cy of electrical current has been held by
some to take place just the same as 'in
the caseso electrolytes III
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27

and is wiling to study their needs anl
give them regular care will find them
a most profitable adjunct to the farm
They can be turned into money OF
food as the owner chooses.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27

Sits, is stretched across the barrel
head in the one case and light cover
of wood hinged on. rod in the other
plan. The best bait is usually food of
a kind that-the rats, do not get in the
vicinity
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27
BETTER THAN SPANKING.

Spanking does not cure children of baS~
wetting. There is constitutional cSEsn
for this trouble. Mrs. M. Summers EsfE
4, Notre Dame, Ind. will send free aRS
any mother her successful home sEssnE'
ment, with full instructions. Send Hap
money, but write her to-day if your GaEkA
dren trouble you in this way. D0m't EsxmsS
the child, the chances are it can't hslm at
This treatment also cures adults and aaaal
people troubled with urine difficulties sg
day or night.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27
A Theatrical Paradox.

There is one contradictory thing act
ors seem to do s
:, .:What is that?''
=. THE longer they are at one stand, the
more. they consider it run. Baltimore
American.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27

A German writer declares that slut
.tering can be cured by simply enforcing
the rule: "Dosnot open your &mouth till
you. are quite clear in your head exactly
what you want to say
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27

Several French schools are using ma
chimes which will suck dust from the
leaves of books. spray, them with disin-
festant and dry them with hot air.;
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27

DIR. Pierces Pellets, small, sugar
coated easy to take as candy, regulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and bow
els and cure constipation.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27
Method of Pulling Stumps.

A very handy device for pulling
stumps from old orchards, and can
pull 200 or more day by this means,
is shown The limbs are ca off and
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27

The German navy, which in 1888
cost 100000 marks, in 1890 cost $780,
600. 900; in 1900, somewhat under 20O,-
100000; in 1908, 33O,OOOOOO; the budget
for 1909 STIMULATES All 100000.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27

According to government experts, the
great Salton sea. although in places fif+
,teen miles wide and forty miles long, viii
disappear by evaporation BY 1925. =
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27

British manufacturers of backing
purchase large crates of beeswax. The
beeswax imported from China is in large
cubes. each done up in written guar
antee of purity and quality.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27

n MRS wINSLOw'S SOOTHING SYRUP for
Children teething;s softens the gains, reduces in
dammation allays pain. cures wind collie. 20
cents bottle :s r
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27

PILES CURED h TO II DAYS
PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any
case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding
Piles in to IA days money refunded. SOC.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27

DON'T NEGLECT THAT COUGH
1t certainly racks your system and may sun into
something serious. Alien Lung Bdlsa1n W. III check
1T quickly and permanently. For sale druggists
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27

The new bridge over the Ganges
river at Sara, India, for the Eastern
Bengal railway. is to cost S6,5OO,OOO.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27
only one "BRo1o eUrNINEo

That is LAX ALIVE BROMO QUININE. Look
for the signature of f. w. GROVE. Used the
world over to Cure Cold in One Day. 25c.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27
barrel Traps for Rats.

Barrel Traps for Rats.
Two effective devices for trapping
rats are made with barrels as shown
here. Coarse brown paper. with cross
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27

DAVIS PAINKILLER
has no substitute. No other remedy is so effective
for rheumatism. lumbago stiffness neuralgia or
cold OF any Put up in Csc, Csc and 50c bottles
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27
ilwaukee Newsp Union & Madison Lists.
ST.. .,'' s,s., =. rs. THOMPSON EYE WATER

ABOUT TOBACCO and its effects Book for to-
bacco users and non-users.l Instructive reading
Send $1OO for copy and Agents terms, to the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27

Madge-Yes; but you see she's not to
get it till she's 30. and she'll never own
up to that.-Boston Transcript.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27

ElSie--M'by is Clara always so short
of money: Didn't her father leave her a
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-27

WkNTEEa Active ana ambitious yo0Eg BASNMszEA
Nv FslS Ike PaAAXER& for 1910 inIHmcr IexaRNs
teams take tho pieee OF players drafe nnaluxs
league clubs. Address Asox SOss Roekessezs NJ III
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-01
EASY" FOR THE SHOE CLERK.
No Trouble to "FooI" Men by Chang
 ing Size Marks on Shoes.

From the New York Morning Telegraph. pet theory, offers the following proof that mans conception of happiness and con- tentment depends largely on the state of his imagination.
 "A short time ago." he explained, 'one of my best customers came in and asked for a pair of shoes. It happened that I had in stock at the time the exact thing the customer called for, and everything considered. 1t looked as if I would make a quick sale. However. despite the fact that to me the style and fit of the shoes were perfect, the customer, upon stand ing up, declared that they were too tight and that he wanted the same thing half size larger.
 Now I was absolutely convinced that the shoes, which were size 8, were large enough, and not having on hand a pair of S14, I decided to test a theory of mine regarding the relation of the imagination to contentment. Taking the shoes to the rear of the store l picked up a stamp and next to the figure affixed the frac- tion E. Returning to the prospective pur- chaser with the identical pair Of shoes that he had had on, quickly laced them up for the second time and asked him how that pair felt. After a few steps up and down the room he exclaimed, im- mensely pleased:
 Now. these feel something like it; they're just the thing
 And" supplemented the shoe man, "can you imagine selling a woman pair of shoes by convincing her that they were a size larger than they really were?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-01

and rush o fsuch streets elsewhere.
 The typical Baltimorean Is the pes- sessor of a small inherited income ane is satisfied to augment 1t by languie and unenthusiastic practice of one os the professions until 1t is of sufficient proportion to support his family in way that Baltimore deems sufficient
 If it be true that the happiest lives are the uneyentful ones, then surely is Baltimore n paradise; even her houses show a pleasant sameness of cheerful red brick with white marble trimmings; street after street stretches away in long vista of blocks of three-story brick houses, and countless front steps, os glistening marble-spotless through the daily securing in which the colored serv- ant rejoices. Every inch of those milee of white front steps is scrubbed daily, and the hour for step scrubbing reveals curious phase of Baltimore fifei fo- then the colored servants come forth with pail and brush and cfiamofs, and for an hour or so, from house to house, and even from one side of the street to the other, their mellow voices call cheerily; it seems to be their subs titute for afternoon teal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-01

Few modern households are so har- moniously adjusted as was the home of MT. and Mrs. Jack spratt. The story of that home is best told in the classic lines of familiar memory;
 Jack Spratt could eat no fat,
 His wife could eat no lean,
 And so, betwixt them both. you see
 They licked the platter clean.
 No doubt much of the extravagance of the period arises from the fact that individual tastes cannot be fitted to each other as they were in the Spratt family, and this is why housekeeping is a difficult art. All housekeepers are not equally economical and successful.
 But all housekeepers do not deserve the censure that James J. Hill, adviser in-chief to the nation, filings at them when he says
 "If a housekseper, instead of stand ing before a telephone to order the family supplies, would go to the mar ket and learn which foods are cheap and just as good as the expensive kinds she has been ordering there would be less of this kind of talk"
 This may be the way the matter looks to James J. Hill as he rides along in his private car, but as plain fact there are few better economists in the country than the women at the tel ephone They know where the best and cheapest articles of food are to be found, and they know closely what they are worth-much more closely than MT. Hill does. The keenest econ- omists we have are the wives who do the family marketing, either at or away from the telephone. They do not as a rule spend a cent that can reasonably be saved Mr. Hill should in his screeds of wisdom stick to subjects he understands. He knows how to gather in millions by stock consolidation and manipulation, but it will trouble him to prove that his transportation schemes render any lighter the eco homie problems in the households of the land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-01

great historic buildings will be stand ing intact and unharmed. Notre Dame, the Palais de Justice, the Louvre, the Madeleine and the historic bridges will all be saved.
 The damage done is chiefly to the lower parts of buildings, and the city will be fortunate if it escapes an cpl demic of typhoid fever. The health of the city has not thus far been affected by the flood, and despite all railroad interruptions the food supply of the populous city has been well main tained. It will soon be the gay, happy city of old, for the waters are now re- ceding
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-01
Another Railroad Coming

The Union Springs and Northern railroad is to be extended twenty miles to Milstead on the Western Railway of Alabama 'In short time says the Montgomery Journal, 'the road will be built to Birmingham by way of Rockford, and it will open up section fo country heretofore not reached by railroad"
 This is but another indication that all railroads in the southeast lead to Birmingham. Directly or indirectly every railroad in the entire southeast now comes here, and it is safe to say no railroad in the future in this section will ignore this great tonnage center.
 The Union Springs and Northern will prove a very useful railroad, and it will be welcomed here. Possibly, too, 1t may be extended to the gulf, thus becoming another line for the movement of the heavy products of this district to tidewater.
 All roads at any rate lead to Bir- mingham, and no sooner is one road well located here than another begins to appear on the horizon headed this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-01
A HABIT IN BALTIMORE.
Step scrubbinq a Curious Phase of
 Ideal Homo Life.

Step Scrubbina Curious Phase of
 Ideal Home Life.
 Edith Barnhard Delano in Good House.
 keeping for January.
 It Is always difficult to analyze a city's charm: we are apt to recall New York's kaleidoscopic swirl of business and pleasure, Boston's culture and his- torical interest, Philadelphia's aristo- cratic repose; but every visitors first impression of Baltimore is one of hos pitality Whatever she may possess of the qualities that make other cities loved, in hospitality Baltimore stands supreme.
 The day is not so very long past when the city we were taught to know as the Monumental. might appropriately and proudly. have claimed different title The Largest Village in the World. Now numbering about 6Oo,ooo souls, the larg- est city of the south. the leader in some of the great industries = cotton duck. straw hats, fertilizers. canning and others-the business section still seems remarkably small; in parts, the streets of the wholesale district look strangely deserted, compared with the erowdins
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-01
REVISE YOUR SHOPPING LIST.

From the Detroit Free Press.
 Battling with our own sense of mod esty, walloping the proprieties into sub mission and stepping into the breach with & courage born only of past exper- fences, we hereby announce that we don't want:
 Hand-painted neckties.
 A silk hat
 An automobile horn.
 Sofa pillows.
 Hand painted salts and peppers.
 Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress"
 Shaving papers.
 An ink well.
 burnt wood pipe rack.
 An ash tray.
 Or anything that will do for both of us." If we are on your shopping list for any of these articles, revise it. We have a drawer full of hand-painted neck ties last months magazine makes this months shaving papers and gifts that are intended for Doth of us' always go to one of us. and we're not the one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-01
ESKIMO coURTSHIP.
rom Harper's Bazar.

From Harpers Bazar.
 If European death scenes astonish, the consenting yes of a bride at marriage shocks an Eskimo woman. Not only must a bride show herself unconsenting she must, if she respects herself and tribal traditions. scream and struggle with all her might when her wooer or his envoy enters her family residence and laying hold upon her, drags her usually by the topknot-to her new home She may be presented with a new lamp and waterpail by her bridegroom, and she fig, as a general thing, nightly pleased at her change of estate. But she is far too eircumspect to show her pleasure or af- lection, and keeps up noisy demonstra- tion until she feels that she has done all that a well-bred maiden should. If she does not exercise proper discrimination in this matter, her lord sometimes scratches the soles of her feet so that she cannot run away to her parents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-01
eraee and remembrance be to you
 both. Winters Tale.
Wait for Halley'S Comet

Comet A 1910 should be called the Doc Cook comet, for it has no records. It is listed nowhere, and its action is bizarre and peculiar. It has butted 1n at a time assigned to Halley's well-au- thenticated and historical comet More than seventy years ago the coming or Halleys comet was arranged for, and that well-seasoned programme cannot be set aside by a hobo comet that no one knows anything about.
 Astronomers know very little about comets anyway. They are gaseous things, hurtling in an orbit through space. They are bright chiefly be- cause of the heat of their own matter. The earth has, it is asserted, passed through A tail of~a comet without ln- curing injury or even notice.
 Be this as 1t may, wait patiently for the appearance to the naked eye Of Halley's comet It will be brilliant spectacle, even if it be 14,000, 900 miles away. It may be visible next month, and all it's prenomena will be carefully studied by the scientists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-01
Income Tax Progress

Kentucky has seconded Alabama Dy ratifying the proposed tax amendment to the federal constitution. Twelve other legislatures are or soon will be in session, and a good share Of these will ratify the amendment.
 The Interests led by Governor Hughes are scheming to find twelve Legislatures, all told, that can be in- duced to reject the amendment, and they may succeed in New England and the Middle East, but if the New York legislature rejects the amendment the downfall of the republican party in that state will follow.
 Senator Root promised to support the amendment before the legislature, and he is yet to be heard from. Thus far he has not discussed the subject. The campaign subscribers are pulling against the amendment, while the masses of the people are pulling the other way.
 There is really no reason why in an emergency the general government should not have the power to impose an income tax, but the plutocrats do not want to pay the tax and they are therefore opposing the amendment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-01
standardIzlnq Cotton Grades.

At last there is official action by the department of agriculture at Washing ton in the matter of preparing standard grade samples for the governing of sales of cotton by contract and olass,' said man familiar with the cotton business.
 ''The curse of the cotton business has been. first, the rascally chasing of cotton by interruptions men; second. the tender ing of unspinnable cotton on contracts in New York: third, the splitting np of grades until there was 32 different full and half grades. All this is changed now.
 "All cotton will be classed to full grade of eight classes and all cotton below the spinnable class will no longer be tenderable on contracts. For years there have been in New York few thousand bales of nondescript cotton kept to tender on future contracts.
 "It will prove interesting to some per sons to know that for many years bale of cotton was classed for the lowest grade in 1t of any appreciabie quantity. In the matter of deliveries of spot cotton on a declining market the buyers would frequently take every advantage of class ing, and on a rising market there was frequently squeezing of class; that is. stretching the grade from, say, really strict-low middling to middling. Thousands of dollars have been made in this way. The seller can sometimes squeeze the grade upward on an advanc- ing market. A long and very important step has been taken in the matter of cot ton chasing with the new types"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-01
APPLES CURE DRINKING.

Des Moines Qowa) Cor. Philadelphia Rec
 ord.
 Dr. Sampel Bailey, one of Iowa's best known physicians, threw the delegates attending the Iowa Horticultural Conyen- ton into furor when he declared that apple eating will not only abate the ap- petite for liquor, but will cure any drunkard, providing the drunkard eats enough of them.
 That this is fact" said Dr. Bailey, 'can or could be proved in many in stances, if a little care. caution and viz ilanoe were .resorted to. As 8 rule, the habitual user of alcoholic stimulants is rarely a lover or consumer of apples There seems to be a peculiar combna- ton in apples, possibly in the acid. that allays or relieves so-called appetite for liquors
 "I am also of the opinion that the keen appetite for tobacco is limited by the use of apples, and am convinced that any man who Is lover of whisky and is in a condition when he thinks he must have a drink, can, if he eats an apple, assuage his craving"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-01
From the San Francisco chront

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
 @ ROM siren to sand locker and can of the cooks galley. the steamer Siberia Is yielding up opium. Even the piano has added its quota. all adduced by the heroic treatment pre- scribed by Customs Inspectors Enlow. Benninger. sackett, Head, Toland and Huffaker.
 In all 25 fve-tael tins of opium. worth about 5000 here. have been discovered and seized and the search still continues.
 There seems to have been likely scheme of the opium-smuggling ring thwarted by one of the discoveries that of the tins of opium in the life pre- servers. The inspectors noticed four life preservers branded IS. s. Kansas City," and thought it strange they should be aboard the Siberia Inspector John K. Bulger. of the steamboat inspection ser- vice, was called on, and informed the customs people that as these life pre- servers did not bear the government stamp of "Approved,' they were undoubt- edly part of the five condemned on the
 
 Kansas City at this port on Noyem- Der 1.
 It Is concluded that these condemned life preservers had been shipped 10 China, one of the panels ripped open' the opium substituted for the cork or tube packing and the panel stitched up again. The life preservers are capable of sustaining 21 pounds. and in none of them were over three pounds of opium. Thus prepared, they could have been thrown overheard and would have floated until picked up by confederates from the shore. On opening them the inspec- tors found six tins of opium each in three of them and eight tins In the fourth.
 Twelve tins had been secreted in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-01
BEFORE HE SAILED AWAY.

From the New York Globe.
 The day before Admiral schroeder's squadron sailed out of the Hudson a youthful, clean-cut, almost bashful jack tar sat in northbound Broadway car. Tn his hands was a matinee programme, which he rolled and unrolled nervously. He sat between two women-one very young and prepossessing, the other per- hops 30. sweet-faced and of serious mien.
 The trio were one party and sufficient unto themselves. When the young girl was not addressing the jackie animated ly tho elder was putting some questions to him in earnest undertone. while her se- rious gaze searched his face solicitously.
 It seemed easy to read chapter of the story. It was the jack tar's first home visit since enlistment. On one side sat his sweetheart, who waited the expiration of his service. On the other sat his elder sister, devoted to him and acting in place of mother lost. Tomorrow he was to sail away, and none could tell the time of his next visit.
 The chapter may not be accurate as written, but 1t fits fieeting picture that was of lively human interest.