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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-15
Reason for Excusing Him

IT am telling you. He hasn't been
there I'll day"
"Tha's YER strange" commented
the father; "but l reckon yoh-all haf-
ter 'scue him this mawnin'"
Excuse him? Why?" reared Page.
well, Massa Tom, he's daid."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-15
TRY MURINE EYE REMEDY

for Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes
and Granulated Eyelids. Murine Doesn't
Smart-Soothes Eye Pain. Druggists
Sell Murine Eye Remedy, Liquid, 25c,
soc, $780, Murine Eye Salve in
Aseptic Tubes, 25c, $1.O0. Eye Books
and Eye Advice Free by Mail.
Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-15
The Lawyers Won.

Askitt-Old Skinner left quite a
large estate, did he not?
Notifies; but some of his rela-
tives contested his will.
Askitt-Was there much left after
it got through the courts?
Noitt-Nothing but the heirs.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-15
WANTS HER
LETTER
PUBLISHED
For Benefit of Women who
Suffer from Female Ills
Minneapolis, Mimi was great
sufferer from female troubles which

caused q weakness
and broken down
condition of the
system. / read so
much ofwhatLydia
e. Pinkham's Veg.
etable Compound
had done for other
suffering women /
felt. sure it would
help me, andI must
say it did help me
wonderfully. MY
pains all left me, /
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-15
Her Modest,

DO you read Browning?" asked the
young man.
mot in the original" replied the
modest girl
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-15
The Contest.

"All men," said the earnest citizen,
ARE born equal" ''They are that"
replied Mr.. Rafferty,. But they don't
stay equal after they're big enough
to get together in the school yard"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-15

A mother makes fatal mistake
when she leads her children to be.
Neve that they are wingless angels.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-15

DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure consti
pation. Constipation is the cause of many
diseases. Cure the cause and you cure
the disease. Easy to take.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-15

Be up and doing but be careful
what or whom you undertake to do.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-15

It's awful hard for little woman
to impress people with her dignity
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-15

Mrs. WinsIow-s soothing syrup.
Eor chldren teethng softens the gums, reducesin.
Examination. allays pain cures wind collie. Csc bottle
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-15

Curiosity is all the appetite needed
for a mysterious dish.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-15
Important to Mothers
The Simple Life,

The Simple Life.
Mrs. Knicker-You will have to get
up to light the fire.
Knicker-Unnecessar my dear;
never smoke before breakfast.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-14
A sEMI-ANNUAL WASH DAY.

In Switzerland the Women Do Six
Months Washing at One SwoOp.
In Switzerland the Monday wash
day is unknown. There the cleans
ing of clothes is a semi-annual event
If questioned the Alpine peasant wo-
man will tell you that she is too
busy in the summer with her work
in the fields and caring for the cat
tie to wash clothes, and in the winter
it is too cold. So twice a year, in
the spring and in the autumn, the
women take few days off from 9TH
er work and proceed to wash the ac-
cumulated soiled clothes of the
months between. Each woman has
her turn at the village washtub, a
high trough, always overlooking with
water piped from some glacier.
Through the summer it is used only
occasionally by some young girl who
wants clean kerchief for her head
when she goes to some festival of
the village church.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-14
MISTAKES IN PAINT.

The usual way to buy paint is to
take the lowest price by the gallon.
Mistake; the buyer loses by it; how
much? Depends on the paint; it is
so much a gallon, or so much a year.
How much a gallon or year, do you
think? AS much, perhaps, as the
total price of the paint. 1t may take
twice the number of gallons.
N Avery, Delhi, N Y, owns two
houses, both exactly alike. He
painted one with Devoe and one
with another paint. Devoe gal
Ions; the other -.
Go by the name: Devoe. There S
nothing cheaper. Go by the price;
there's nothing dearer, except not
painting at all. Poor paint is better
than none
What does it cost not to paint at
all? Can't figure it out exactly; say
tenth of the building a year. be-
sides looks.
What is poor paint worth then?
Don't know and don't care; you
don't want it. Go by the name.
Dawson Drug Co. and Peoples Drug
Store.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-14
MYTHICAL SUM WIPED OUT.
$9,7OO,OOO Carried on Book of Treas
ury Is Taken OFF.

So, 100000 Carried on Book of Treas
ury Is Taken Off.
The estimated stock of subsidiary
silver in the United States now
stands at $155, 100000. This amount
was estimated after the mythical
sum of $9,7O0,OOO, which has been
carried on the books of the treasury
for more than thirty years, was
wiped off by Assistant Secretary An
drew, who recently revised the esti-
mate of subsidiary silver existing.
Silver coi8s of smaller denomina-
lions than 81 are called subsidiary
silver by the treasury department.
Each year Americans going abroad
carry small coins which are returned
to this country in time and have been
recorded as coin imported. while no
record has been kept of their going
out. That practice has been going
on at about the rate of 100000 a
year for the last thirty years, until
the estimated amount of $9,7O0,O0O
has been reached. 1t is that sum
that has been eliminated.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-14
GREAT is AUTO INDUSTRY.
Four Hundred Million Dollars In
vested in Factories.

Four Hundred Million Dollars In
vested in Factories.
The growth of the automobile in
dustry has been stupendous. 1t is
estimated that at present there is in
vested in automobile plants in the
United States about 100000, 900,
and that at least 100000 persons
are employed in the manufacture of
automobiles or their accessories.
The automobile makers are paying
to the railroads of the country be-
tween 25,0O0,OO0 and $30,OOO,OOO
annually for freight and consume
over $60,000,000 of rubber, steel,
iron and aluminium. There are in
daily use in the United States at
present approximately $4,000 au-
tomobiles. The 1909 production is
placed at 100000 cars, with an ap-
proximate value of $4,000, 900.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-14

grew stronger, and within three months
l was perfectly well woman.
81 want this letter made public to
show the benefit women may derive
from Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound."-Mrs. JOHN G. MOLDAN
2115 Second St., North, Minneapolis,
MINI.
Thousands of unsolicited and genu-
inc testimonials like the above prove
the efficiency Of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, which is made
exclusively from roots and herbs.
Women who suffer from those dis
tressing ills peculiar to their sex should
not lose sight of these facts or doubt
the ability of Lydia Z. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound to restore their
health.
Ifyou want special advice write
90 Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass,
She viii Observation-Disclosures strictly
confidential. For 20 years She
mas been helping sick women i'm
this way, free Of charge. Don't
hesitate -- write at once.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-14

husband and two sons and who had
been employed all day in making a
fence, lifting the heavy rails above
the heighth of her own head, replied
in a listless way to the question as
to what the men did, with the men
folks they mostly sets on a fence and
chew tobacco and talk politics.
AS usual, the men folks have the
best of the bargain. The woman at
40 looks 20 years older than her hus-
band, who tempers his superiority,
however, by great frequent draughts
of moonshine whisky, which has 30
per cent more alcohol than the
standard liquor" A strong race
that can survive this heroic drink
and years of fried eggs, greasy meat,
or corn pOne with Jumps of saleratus
in it."
Who, once having been a guest
among these hospitable mountain
GERS, can ever forget the windowless,
one-roomed log cagins, flintlocks
hanging from a rafter the trough
washtub followed from a log, the
clay lamp, eloquent of Carthage or
Rome, in which grease is burned
with floating wick" the spinning
wheels, the paper flowers, the "home
woven counterpanes' of old design,
the calico quilts in which the aes-
thetic feeling of the woman is ex-
pressed and outside, morning glo-
ries, phloX, hollyhOcks, dahlias, the
good old-fashioned flowers, invite us,
the feasts, the funerals, the rude dis
trict school, the preachers, some of
whom have been known to distfll
whisky or take a swig in the course
of a sermon; the faithful circuit
rider, going ''creeter back over the
mountains; the hitching post at the
mountain church and the swapping
of 'beasties" that goes on about it;
the primitive agriculture and the
bull tongue plough, not much more
than a sharpened stick with a metal
rim"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-14
NOT A TEMPTING PICTURE.
Snakes, Insects, Beasts and Dreadful
Diseases Along the Amazon.

Snakes, Insects, Beasts and Dreadful
Diseases Along the Amazon.
Voyages up the Amazonian rivers
are not without their dangers, and to
the orderly person they do not sound
inviting, at least the description given
by Maj. P H. Fawsett to the Royal
Geographical Society concerning his
experiences in Bolivia would not
tempt one to take the trip there.
In the rivers there are anacondas
(giant snakes), crocodiles, electric
cells, sting rays, and the peranfa,
small, deep-bOdied fish with razor
like teeth and an unappeasable APP
petite for blood. Men unfortunate
enough to fall into the Paraguay
where the perania is most prolific
may be picked clean before he can
be rescued. The anaconda is ubiu-
uitous, moves by night and has
weird cry.
Insects are legion and render life
a torture. Mosquitoes are the least
offensive. In places one is covered
from head to foot by bees, inside
ones clothes and outside, in ones
ears, nose, eyes, hair and mouth,
if it is opened, pungent-odored and
seeking salt perspiration. Feeding
by day under such circumstances is
out of the question" There is a
whole list of dreadful and obscure
diseases, and the Brazil nut tree,
dropping it's heavy fruit from 100 or
/ 30 fapt often braalyc tho trovoIor,c
head. There is also a tree which
drops a colorless liquid which causes
the body to swell and give acute
pain.
There are rumors which cannot be
disproved, since no one knows the
heart of the continent, of a white
race with blue eyes and red hair.
There are also tales of strange beasts
and huge and ancient ruins, so that
South America may we'll hold for the
explorer surprises greater than that
Of the African pigmy and okapi.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-14
A Reliable Medicine-Not Narcotic

Mrs. F. Marti, st. Joe, Mich, says
Foley's Honey and Tar saved her
little boys life. She writes: Our
little boy contracted a severe bron-
chial trouble, and as the doctors
medicine did not cure him gave
him Foley's Honey and Tar, in which
have great faith. 1t cured the
cough as well as the choking and
gagging spells, and he got well in a
short time. Foley's Honey and Tar
has many times saved us much
trouble, and we are never without
it in the house. Dawson Drug Co.
and Peoples Drug Store.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-14
CARE OF CHILDREN'S TEETH
The Importance of the Matter Shown
by One Who Was Thus Blessed
in Childhood.

Editor of The Dawson News; See
ing an article in last weeks News
on the subject of Children S Teeth,
and observing that DR.. c. F. Crouch
of Dawson proposed to give free lee
lures on dental hygiene before the
children of the public schools of the
county, | feel called upon to write
a short article on my own expert
ence, as a child, on the care of teeth.
Can any child imagine the pleas
ure of going to a dental office, where
nothing was looked for but pain and
suffering, and after being seated in
the chair, and after examination of
the teeth by the dentist, to be in
formed by him that nothing is to be
done; there is not a cavity nor a de-
cayed spot; your teeth needs nothing
but a thorough cleansing?
Now, that is just what happened
to me last month when ! visited DR..
Crouch's office. After a thorough
examination and after polishing and
cleansing my teeth he remarked:
Il have never seen a better pre-
served set of teeth in my life" and
he asked NE to tell him the secret
of my success in preserving my
teeth from youth up.
| think it will interest the chill
dren of Dawson to know that the
whole secret lay in the frequent and
constant use of the tooth brush.
First. My mother, from my ear
Hest recollection, compelled me to
use the brush regularly night and
in o.. hOV O1l
not rest until my teeth were regularly
brushed
Second. l frequently had the dem
/ fist to polish them, so as to remove
all tartar and roughness which was
likely to collect particles of food.
| am sure that if every child will
begin in early infancy to wash and
brush the teeth in a few years it will
become second nature, and the child
could not sleep with an unwashed
mouth
l do not think that parents realize
the necessity of the care of the chill
dren's teeth, and they do not know
that it is in youth that the soft, ten
der tooth is attacked by decay and
rot and that many a child has lost
a beautiful set of teeth before the
teeth have hardened simply because
the mouth and gums have not been
kept free from particles of food,
which have been allowed to cling to
the teeth until decay has set in and
4 the tooth ruined
From personal experience I hear
tily appro the move that is being
made by the proposition of DR.,
! Crouch, that is to lecture on these
subjects before the children of the
public schools of the county. 1t will
result in great good, and save many
boy and girl from untold suffering
and misery, and save many from the
misfortune of an ugly and unsightlv
mouth of decayed or broken set Of
! teeth. Respectfully,
One Who Appreciates Pretty Teeth.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-14
CONTEMPORARY ANCESTORS

/ ly? In Breathitt county a certain
Judge said some years ago that in
the district school near by there
! were 96 children, of whom all but
/ five were related to himself or his
wife" and a Perry county woman
saws that she is related to every
/ body up and down the North Fork
of the Kentucky and along its trib-
utary creeks.
Between II and Is a mountain
I Iassie-usually of rather frail, del
/ iCate beauty-marTies the lank, sin
envy youth of II or l 8 who has been
wooing her-if to his suit may be
applied a term so romantic. For, ac-
cording to the writer, the motive
in marriage is very elemental, be-
traying little of the romantic spirit.
Husband and wife speak of each 9TH
er as my man and my woman. A
girl when she is 20 is put on the
Gull list that is she is no longer
manageable A man is included
in this undesirable category at Is;
after that he can get no one to take
him except some poor wilder WO-
man. as one mountain matrOn eX-
pressed it. adding, gals on the Gull
list spend their time jes' bummin
around among their folks. During
ride of $50 miles, with visits at a
great many cabins, we met only one
old maid: her lot was a sorry one,
living now with a relative, now with
a friend, earning her board by help
ing to nurse the sick or making her
self useful in what way she could.
Hard Lives of Women.
The mountain system of economy
does not take into account the I'M
married woman, so she plunges into
matrimony with the instinct Of self
preservation. Then come children,
and the mountain families conform
to the standard Of the patriarchs A
family of from 10 to Is offSprings
is no rarity, and this characterizes
not only the mountains of Kentucky,
but the whole area of the Appala-
chan system. In addition to much
collaborating all the work of the pio-
neer home, the spinning and weav-
ing, knitting of stockings, sometimes
even the making of shoes and moe
casins,. falls on the woman More
than this, she feeds and milks the
COW, searches for it when it has wan
dered away in the range or forest,
hoes weeds in the corn, helps in the
blowing, carries water from the
spring, saws wood and lays stake
and ridered fences.
"A mountain woman who has q
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-14

Your kidney trouble NAV be of
long standing, it may be either acute
or chronic, but whatever it is FOLEY. 8
Kidney Remedy will aid you to get
rid of it quickly and restore vonr
natural health and vigor. zone bot
tie OF Foley's Kidney Remedy made
me Well" said j. Sibbull of Grand
View, Wis, Commence taking il
row, Dawson Drug Co. and Peoples
Drug Store.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-14

caused a weakness
and broken down
condition of t1e
system. l read so
much fwhatLydia
E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound
had done for other
suffering women 1
felt sure it would
help me, andImust
say it did help me
wonderfully. My
pains all left mo T
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-14
MOUNTAINEERS OF KENTUCKY
PERSONIFY CONSERVATIVENESS.
Girls Decidedly Passe' at 20. Fami-
lies Conform TO the Standard
Of the PatriaTchs.

Of the PatriaTChs.
In eastern kentucky, on the high
est part of the Cumberland plateau,
there live what a writer once called
and truthfully-"our contempora-
ry ancestors; mountaineers who
have never seen a steamboat or a
railroad. Think Of it in this day and
age and in this country. What is
more. they don't seem to care about
it. Contentment with things as they
are and a peculiar something which
almost approaches polite contempt
for the great rushing worIu beyond
their secluded community seem to
be characteristic Of men, women and
children alike.
Scores OF writer's have attempted
to put before the needless, negligent
public mind accounts of just how
these mountain folk live and what
their habits and customs are, but
few have succeeded as has Alice
Churchill SempIe What she has 10
say about these belated AnglOSaXOns
is the truth, and therefore stranger
and much more interesting
fiction. Even in the best season"
she writes, transportation in the
mountains is in the main limited to
what a horse can carry on its back
besides it's rider In a trip of $50
miles through the mountains we met
only one wheel vehicle and few
trucks for hauling railroad ties
which were being got out of the for
ests. Our own camp wagons, though
carrying only light loads, had to
double their teams in climbing the
ridges. All that had been done in
most cases to make a road over a
mountain was to clear an avenue
through the dense growth of timber
so that it proved as a rule to be just
short of impossible.
For this reason the public of the
mountains prefer to keep to the val
leys with their streams, to which
they have given many expressive and
picturesque names, while the knobs
and mountains are rarely honored
with a name. We have Cutshin
creek, He'll fer Sartain, Bullskin
creek, Poor Fork, Sinking, Greasy
and Quicksand creek. One trail
leads from the waters of Kingdom
Come down Lost creek and Trouble
some. across the Upper Devil and
Lower Devil to He'll creek.
The creek therefore points the
highway and is used to designate
geographical locations. When we
would inquire our way to a certain
point the answer was: Go ahead
to the fork of the creek and turn up
the left branch, not the fork of the
road and the path to the left A
woman at whose cabin we lunched
one day said: My man and me has
been living here on Quicksand only
ten years. was born up on Trouble
some.
They Never Travel.
Incredible as it may seem, it is
fact that many of the mountain men
have never seen town or even their
county seat, itself but a small vii
lage. And when it comes to the
women! Well, some confess, and
~ ch, 80
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-14
They Never Travel.

Incredible as it may seem, it is
fact that many of the mountain men
have never seen a town or even their
county seat, itself but a small viii
lage. And when it comes to the
women! Well, some confess, and
not shame-facedly either, that they
have never even Travelled" to the
postoffice or country store. Just
think of this one case. A certain
mountain woman, IL years married
has never visited since her wedding
day the home of her father and moth
er, 10 miles across the mountain. -
is it any wonder that the families
of each district intermarry endless
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-14
WANTS HER
: LETTER
PUBLISHED
For Benefit of Women who
Suffer from Female Ills

Minneapolis, Mimi was q great
sufferer from female troubles which
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-07-21
The Nature Of Germs.

Ordinary air is by no means air
proper. but contains a number Of
impurities, and the air Of all cities
always contains a quantity Of almost
measurable particles Of dirt Witt
this dirt we are sure that small par
ticles OF living matter are associat-
ed. These small bodies, coming into
a fluid rich in nutrient matter, grow
up in 1t and at its expense. To these
small bodies It is now the universal
custom to attach the name germs"
What these destroyers are we do not,
of course, know. We only know that
they exist, and that they commit the
most deadly ravages, wherever they
get the chance. The great problem
Of present day science is TO learn
more about them, that the ravages
may be reduced, If not eliminated.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-07-21
His Light, Facetious Tone.

At a baseball banquet in Cleveland
Neal Ball, the famous shortstop who
made last year the only unassistet
triple play in the history Of the major
leagues, said in the course of neat,
humorous address:
women are more intelligent on
the average than men. OF that am
convinced. Why won't women then
learn to understand baseball? I
have never yet succeeded in making
clear to one woman the difference be-
tween an unassisted triple play and a
foul fly.
80 with the ladies I adopt light.
facetious tone in baseball matters.
A lady once said to me:
at love baseball, Mr.. Ball. 1 love
especially to watch the man at the
bat, 1t is so cute, too, the way he
NVps hitting the ground gently with
rTher bats end. Why does he do that,
tnough?'
Wei, you see, madam said I,
the worms have an annoying habit
of coming up to see who's batting,
and that naturally puts man out d
bit; so he Just taps them on the head
lightly and down they 60. Wash
ington Star.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-07-21
School of Penalty.

The old and modern teaching that
knowledge of vice and disease is an
evil will not hold water in consump-
ton, If 1t does in any other evil thing
in this world. "If We touch, We shall
surely die" was the first lesson
taught in the great School of PEN
atty, and the School of Penalty is
Abw, as it has ever been, the most
sadly, sinfully and tragically neg
lected of all schools. Philip of Mace
don was a wicked, wise drunkard.
He hoped his son, Alexander, would
not follow in his platlegged, stagger-
ing gait and footsteps, SO he showed
young Alex parcel of vilely drunk
slaves. The lesson failed, for young
Alexander died a drunkard; but this
proves nothing against a universal
nethod.-Tlp, in the New York Press
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-07-21

The great baritone, Signor Foil,
when singing in grand opera in his
native city, Cork, had TO sing one Of
his songs from a stage balcony. The
arrangements were not very perfect,
and the manager, fearing the carpen.
ter had not made the balcony strong
enough to sustain the weight of the
big man, told two Of his assistants
to hold 1t up from beneath. The
lengthy signor was only half through
his song when one man said to the
other
BE jabers, Mike, this Oitalian Is
moighty heavy"
Let's drop him, Pat; he's only an
oitalian, atther ALL"
Voice from the signor above: win
ye, ye divils, will ye?"
"Tara-an.ouns! Pat, but he's an
oirishman; hould him up for the
loife OF yez."-Strand Magazine.