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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
Kansas Students Discover New
Use for Buttermilk.
Heretofore Considered Waste Product
Can Now Be Manufactured Into
Brushes, Combs, Billiard Balls
and Other Articles

Lawrence, Kan.-Prof. Robert Ken
nedy Duncan has announced that I'M
portant discoveries have been made
and completed in the department OF
Industrial chemistry at the University
of Kansas which will prove Of ines
Unable value to many industries
throughout the country.
The most important of these discov-
cries probably Is in the manufacture
of casein. e. L. Tague, fellow In IN
dustrial chemistry, has perfected a
process of manufacturing this product
from buttermilk, something chemists
have been unable to accomplish here
tofore. Mr.. Tague spent two years In
experimenting. The donors OF the TEL
lowship, an eastern manufacturing
concern, purchased all the apparatus
and materials needed to carry on the
work.
Buttcrmilk has always been waste
product. Millions of gallons thrown
away by creameries can now be turned
into a practical benefit for use In the
manufacture Of casein, which is ex-
tensiyely used in the sizing OF paper
by paper mills. 1t is also used In
manufacturing brushes, combs. billiard
balls and many other articles.
When Mr.. Tague finally completed
his process and submitted 1t to the
donors the new method of manufac-
turing casein was tested thoroughly In
a practical way and found to be
complete success. The result is that
q million-dollar plant will be built
soon for its manufacture from butter
milk. Furthermore, contract has
been made whereby the inventor is to
receive ten per cent. of the net profits
OF the business.
Archie Weith and Frank Brock are
two other students In the same depart
ment who have made discoveries
scarcely less important. After work
ing year and half these young men
haye found way to make "A enamel
for steel containing tanks that has the
same coef1cient Of, expansion as the
steel itself. BY the use of their pro-
cess of manufacture an enamel is OBJ
tanned that will not crack under con-
ditions OF extreme heat or cold. The
enamel is also resistant, will flow over
the steel properly I'm the enamelfng
process and is resistant to acids. 1t
can be used as lining for steel tanks
and towers in various kinds Of indus
trial occupations.
Professor Duncan left for Roches-
ter, n. Y, to close contract with an
eastern concern which has obtained
the rights of manufacture of this en-
,amel He stated that the inventors.
Archie Weith and Frank Brock, would
receive large royalties.
Two years ago the National Bakers
association granted fellowship pay
ing $500 a year to Henry Krohman to
carry on experiments In search of
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
Latest Rubber Joke.

Two spectators were discussing the
rubber boom, and the question natur-
ally arose as to how long the upward
movement was likely to be main
tanned.
One of them, who has done very
well, was inclined to, be somewhat
pessimfstic.
You know" he observed to his
friend, something will come along and
spoil this boom. If 1t isn't home poll
tics or an outbreak of war it will be
disease among the rubber trees, which,
I'm told, once started, spreads like
wildfire"
"Ah," retorted his friend, "the dis
ease question is certainly danger
point. But I'm all right as regards
that; the company I'm heavily inter
ested in hasn't started planting yeti
London Financial Times.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
Murdered for a Cent.

A quarrel over single penny led to
a murder in Hoboken the other day.
A man from Nebraska. who stopped at
a hotel in Hoboken while awaiting the
sailing of the steamer for Europe. put
a penny in the slot of an automatic
music box in the dining-room of the
hotel, but the box refused to pour
forth the expected ragtime tune. The
Nebraskan became indignant and up
braided the German porter. The lat
ter explained to him that it required
q nickel and not a penny to set the
mechanism of the music-box in mo-
ton, but that explanation did not sat
isfy the man from Nebraska. He be-
came abusive and when the porter
threatened to put him out. he pulled
a revolver from his pocket and shot
the porter dead.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
NEW YORK TO PHONE LONDON


The tests made lead to the belief
that 1t will revolutionize telephone
communication between England and
the continent of Europe. and. as Inn
provements are effected, will bring
spoken communication between Lon
don and New York within the bounds
Of possibility.
At present the only continental
country besides France In telephone
communication with England is Bel.
GUM, but experiments in conversation
between London and Amsterdam, Ber-
lin and other continental cities are to
be made with the new cable, and In
view OF the success of the tests al
ready made, such extensions of the
service are confidently expected.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
SCARE LO0SENS MANS TEETH
Saw a HaIf-breed Indian on Unicycle
and Thought 1t Was
Devil.

Bridgeport, Conn.--Frederick Bar
Der went out on his milk route at the
usual time in the morning. but he
came back to town so fast that all his
milk was jolted out. his hair formed
into a sort of electric pompadour, he
loosened eight teeth by chattering, and
his knees were badly bruised and
abraised by knocking together.
He told of seeing frightful appari-
ton. which came out of pink-edged
cloud and rode "a big rubber tired
wheel like the devil outracing a
comet, and its terrible yells split the
air into open seams"
Investigation proved that BARRIERS
apparition was none other than Dan
Green, half-breed Sioux Indian, who
was riding from Boston to New York
on a $500 wager.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
Man an Aquatic Animal.

Every moderately well-educated per-
son knows that life originated Ia the
water, but not so many are aware that
we are still aquatic animals. Every
cell except those of the outside skin
Is dependent upon surrounding
LIQUID to keep it alive, and II 1t be-
came dry it would perish. A person
who realizes this fact will always take
care to drink plenty Of water, and will
also eat plenty of fruit and vegetables.
since these contain large quantities Of
water. and that in purer form than
is usually available. The pickaninny
shows his good sense when he feasts
upon the juicy watermelon, and In
stead of ridiculing him we might bet
ter go and do likewise.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25

long rural route out of Selma No
weather Is too stormy for him to make
his deliveries and he is so prompt
that farmers wives set their clocks by
HIS appearance mt their front gates
with the mali. His route covers 20
miles.
There Is nothing like outdoor life
for man of my age, or any age" said
he. land surely get my share Of it.
Unless Uncle Sam fires me, expect
to be delivering this route at the age
of a hundred. A man doesn't really
begin to understand things until he is
in the neighborhood OF seventy, and
lots of useful careers have only begun
at that time"
post card shower for Safer was
given recently by the patrons along
the route and he received 500 Of them
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
CANARY BIRD HANGS ITSELF
Tires of Life When Singing Mate Dies
and Proceeds to Commit
Suicide.

Seaford, Del.-Grieving over the
Ceath of another bird, which had
been its singing mate for over two
fears, a canary owned by Mrs. Mar
tin Hammond, who lives near here.
committed suicide by hanging itself in
the top of its cage.
The little bird had made several at
.empts to end it's life, but was always
discovered in time It's method was
TO fly to the top of the cage and push
its head between the metal bars and
then drop it's feet.
Thinking the little songster had
grown tired of confinement, the cage
aoor was opened, but the bird refused
10 come out and afterward would not
eat
It's last attempt to end all was not
discovered until too late to save its
life. The canary was beautiful
songster.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
WHY THE OK WAS MUzZLEDi
Old Welsh PleWman Took Timely
Precaution to Save the Tail
of the Leader.

The oxen were harnessed tandem
fashion; stocky little Welshmen they
were from the western hills, usurpers
there, for the true Sussex OK is red
They eyed me with an expression OF
plaintive inquiry, and l noticed that
the rear ones moist black nose was
guarded by a string muzzle, through
which he snorted at me in a manner
hardly inviting confidence. The old
plowman smiled indulgently while
admired them.
why do you muzzle the rear one?"
I inquired.
Look at the t'other's tail an yen
see," he chuckled.
And certainly the leaders tail was
not so bnshy as it should be.
There aren't many oxen used now
for farm work." asked.
He shook his head "Only a few,
just here an there, mayhap," he an
swered; horses an stem plows a:
done away with 'em. Sides, there
amt many smiths left now as can
shoe an OK. Rare fun it is, tell ye,
stickin' the kews on 'em, throw 'em
we have to tie up their legs an hold
their necks down wi pitchfork. Ha!
ha! rare fun it is, lad"
looked at the wide-spreading point
ed horns, and thought of the usual run
Of village smithies. Il shouldn't imag-
inc any smith would be anxious to
learn the art" l remarked.
The old man agreed with me. He
had the rosy, childish unwrinkled face
of the countryman, his eyes were
gray-green, the color of the Channel
sea below the edge of the Down; his
grizzled head shook as he cut into his
bread with the pointed blade Of big
pocketknife. mo, things amt as they
were" he said slowly.-Mancheste
Guardian.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
Leads In Sheep Farming.

.-Vice-Consul General
Henry D. Baker of Sydney, in re-
port to this government, shows that
Australia leads the world in sheep
farming. The estimated value of the
Australian fiocks is $220.S52, 400, and
their annual gross output is estimated
at 70 per cent. of the value, according
to Mr.. Bakers figures. The number
of sheep in the countries leading in
the sheep industry are given in Mr..
Bakers report as follows: Australia.
7,043,26 Argentina, 1881, 100; Rus
STA, 58,510.523; United States, 54,631,-
600: United Kingdom, 30.01t,83
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
THIS is NIGHTINGALE YEAR"
Also a Cuckoo Year In British Isles
and Also in Country South
Of Paris.

Paris.-There is no doubt that in
France as well as in England this is
what is called nightingale year. It's,
also cuckoo year. Last year both in,
the British isles and on the continent
the nightingale was almost wholly 81
lent and the cuckoo was heard but lit
tie. This year both are filling the
woods with their notes. This Is par
ticularly true of the country south of
Paris, where the nightingales COM
mence their early song of four flute
like notes just before the setting of
the sun.
Tourists in automobiles returning
from the chateau district bring mar
velous stories of the charms of the
sylvan concerts which they heard
whenever they stopped in any shaded
spot.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25

used to be pretty fair, too, in other
days, and went out to see what he
could do. Then every one got started.
But whatever the beginning may
have been, there can be no doubt that
the game has taken complete poses
sion of Blue Springs and that Pryor's
shop is its headquarters. Rain or
shine. winter or summer. there is a
game every day in the shop or in the
street just in front of it. Last win
ter, when the thermometer stood near
zero, game was played in which all
of the contestants wore overcoats.
When those men began blowing on
their knuckles to keep them warm
there was sound like shoal of por-
poises.
Seven games" are necessary to win
Knock the middle marble out the
first shot and the game is yours. Such
shot is called "middler"
Knock any marble out and you must
"clear the rims" all the others
too. to win the game.
If your marble stays In the square
after the first shot, you are "fat." or
dead" for the rest of the game.
II some one else hits your taw you
are dead for the rest of the game.
Lynn Pryor, the blacksmith, stood
at taw, took careful aim, and from IL
feet away spotted the middle of the
square. One game for Pryor and
Ringer! But nobody got excited Mid
dlefs from taw are ordinary occur
rences In Blue Springs. John Henry
Moore holds record of having
knocked out II of such middlers in IA
shots.
A minute later Uncle Dan Stanley
knocked a middler. Capt. George
Webb, the furniture dealer and under
taker. did the same thing. too, as soon
as he had the chance. So did Farmer
George Binger.. They didn't do so all
the time, of course, but middlers came
with an astonishing regularity. And
when there was a game in which all
four men had chance to shoot, other
plays just as remarkable for distance
and accuracy were taken by the gal
lery at the blacksmith shop door as
matter of course.
You must understand" the black
smith said, "that-if man comes with
a horse to be shod, the game stops in
stanter. But when there's nothing 60
ing on, somebody is sure to start a
game. Farmers come in on rainy days.
sometimes from several miles around.
and some of them are good hands at
marbles.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
OLD MEN At PLAY.
Missouri Village Has a Marble
Craze That Occupies Attention.
Men Now Past Sixty Who Find De-
light. in the Playthings
of Their Early
Years.

Blue Springs. Mo.-Horseshoes! Aw,
shucks! Horseshoes do well enough
to furnish a light diversion now and
then, but for serious game of head
work and skill. Blue Springs believes
no game Is half as good as Old-fash-
toned marbles.
For two years the boys and men OF
Blue gs-representatives from all
of Shakespeare's seven ages-have
been playing marbles the year round,
each month with increasing skill.
There is a legend that Uncle Dan
Stanley, who is seventy-four, and
Uncle Tom Holloway, who is seventy
five, were so evenly matched in con-
test arranged last winter that they
Jagged from taw for tive days with
out either man winning an advantage
of a sixteenth of an inch in the strug-
gle to gain the privilege of having the
first shot, and the Sontest had to be
declared draw before it began.
Knickerbocker teams, ten-year-olds,
fifteen, twenty-five, fifty, or seventy
five-year-old teams, or any other age
that challenger may prefer, can be
furnished by Blue Springs on five min
utes' notice. Blue Springs challenges
the world.
Just how marbles got started here
no one appears to remember. Posi-
bly, some gray-bearded citizen of the
town sat on a nail key in front of
Pryor's blacksmith shop on spring
day two years ago and got to thinking.
while he watched the kids" playing
marbles in the street, that he used to
be pretty fair hand at that game
himself in days before the war. Then
he went out and knocked 'middler"
from "taw"-or almost did-and went
back and Dragged about it to some
body else And that other person
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
VALUE OF CASEIN

some means of making salt rising
bread uniform in quality.
The efforts of Mr.. Krohman also
have proved entirely successful. He
also discovered a way to isolate the
microbe which causes the bread to
rise. This means that bakers will be
enabled to supply bread of better
quality and lower in price to consul
mers all over the country.
Out of Is fellowships these three re-
markable discoveries have been
brought about. Other students are
now engaged in experimental work in
various other fields, and Professor
Duncan stated that number of them
will undoubtedly accomplish things
fully as important as the discoveries
already made.
The department of Industrial chem
istry gives practical knowledge to the
public, knowledge which brings
about the utilization of methods new
to the Industrial world and a utiliza-
ton of many produces heretofore un-
known.
The funds for these experimental
purposes come from manufacturing
concerns throughout the United States.
These corporations. of course. refuse
to have their names given out until
exclusive rights Of sale or manufac-
ture of any products or processes re-
suiting from the experiments. In or
der to obtain the fellowship. the uni
versity must sign contract which
protects the donors for a period of
three years, after which all discoveries
made and the names of donors of the
fellowships will be made public.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25

GAINESVILLE. ON an electrical
ftorm lightning bolt struck flower
Ease over the grave of Grover Moore,
In the Rosevllle cemetery. SCATTERING
he vase. the bolt plowed through the
l,arth and found resting place six
feet below the surface, shattering the
coffin and box in which 1t was con-
fined. Both the box and coffin were
easily seen through the hole which the
bolt had bored through the ground.
The damage was repaired next day.
Moore was killed in street car acct
dent in Akron year ago.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
Conclusive.

The girl with the blonde hair and
the dark girl with the dimple were
making various purchases pre-
paratory to their summer vacation.
When it came to bathing suits there
was a disagreement. The girl with
the blonde hair wanted to select de-
cidedly abbreviated costume. and the
dark girl with, the dimple was trying
to dissuade her.
"You are not tall enough to wear it, .
demonstrated the dark girl. Don't
you know that skirt that ends above
the knees makes girl look shorter!"
81 know it makes the men look
longer" insinuated the little blonde.
And that settled the matter.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
Why He SOUGHT Pardon.

Roquelaure, the deformed jester OF
Louis XIV, contrived to get out OF
many a scrape by his ready wit. One
day he went to the king to ask hts
pardon for having struck of the he'll
met of one of his sentinels, who had
failed to give him the military salute.
Louis. who knew his man. wondered
that Roquelaure should crave his par
don for so venial an offense, and
said to him: This Is serious mat
ter, Roquelaure, but will pardon you
this time" 1t afterwards turned out
that the soldiers head was in the he'll
net, and fell with 1t to the ground.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
HE is OLDEST MAIL CARRIER
Veteran Hoosier at Selma Gets Postal
Card Shower From Patrons
Along Route.

Muncie, Ind G. Safer of Selma
is said to have the distinction of be-
ing the Oldest mail carrier in the en-
ploy of the United States government.
Although now in his eightieth year,
he carries the, mail every day over a
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
RUSSIA rs BUILDING AIRSHIPS

The biplane may be changed into q
monoplane by removing one OF the
surfaces. Among the test results,
which were all favorable. one was con-
sidered especially interesting The
model, when set going in an inverted
position. invariably righted itself auto
matically. eftecting o normal flight.
The first aeroplane on this system
will shortly leave the airship building
works.
Altogether six airships now are be-
ing built in Russia.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
Mosquitoes Turn on Foea.

Orange, Tex.-Oil drilling operations
and other outdoor work in localities
along this section of the gulf coast
have been suspended temporarily on
account Of the voracious swarms OF
mosquitoes which prey upon the men.
The pest is the worst ever known in
the lowlands.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
Pigeon Stalls Trolley.

Lancaster, Pa.-Travel on the Lam
caster & Mount jolly trolley line was
held up for two hours, which 1t re-
quired to ascertain the cause. A hon.
ing pigeon landed on the high tension
wires, placing one foot on each. wire,
causing short circuit and putting the
cars out of commission.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
Brain Operation Fails.

Toledo, O.-Brain surgery has failed
to reform Harold Hurley. sixteen. the
original brain surgery patient of the
United States. Physicians admit their
defeat after third operation upon
him. when the boy was arrested for
stealing the other day.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
Lesser of Two Evils.

New Boarder (disdainfully)-I don't
see how you fellows can eat this
bread
ld-Timer-We force ourselves to
EAT it, so It won't come back to us as
bread pudding.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
His Neglect.

$50 you are really a cowboy from
Arizona" exclaimed the romantic
young woman. why, you are not
bit picturesque"
'I'm sorry" replied the cowboy, "but
you see 1 have had very little time to
study up the fiction In the magazines"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
Bio Taruet.

"a Chicago man shot his wife in the
foot so as to keep her at home while
he was away. What do you think of
that?"
"Oh, don't consider that much of
shot"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-08-25
Financial Reasons.

"Why did that young woman marry
that old curmudgeon? He hasn't any
sense"
"No, but he has the dollars"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-20
ANOTHER BOUQUET
Mrs. Fannie f. Morse CompIi-
meEted Once More
FAME PRfCfDtS Her
Assigned for Address on Program
of Illinois Conference of Chari-
ties and Corrections

That the new superintendent OF the
Girls Industrial School, Mrs. Fannie
f. Morse, is known as an expert OF
standing and ability in this country,
is again instanced by the fact that
she is on the program of the fifteenth
annual meeting of the Illinois State
Conference of Charities and Correc-
tions, which meets at Galesburg, Oc-
tober %, %, "a, Is.
Mrs. Morse, who will address this
body on Monday, Oct. "a, at ? p. M,
on the subject "The Reimbursement OF
Children to Life After Institutional
Experience" is one of five prominent
people outside the state of Illinois
who are to appear at the conference
as speakers. The official program for
the gathering has this to say of Mrs.
Morse:
"Mrs. Morse has for the past eight
years been superintendent of the
State Industrial School for Girls at
Lancaster, Mass. where she has made
a special study of the relations of de-
linquency to mental and physical de-
fects, and classified the girls under
her care on the basis of this study.
The problem was to decide what girls
could be returned to society and what
girls ought to be transferred to custo-
dial care. Mrs. Morse has been lee
turer in the New York School of
Philanthropy, and in h e Boston
School for Social Workers. She is
now called to Minnesota to build and
develope new State School for Girls.
putting into operation her own ideas
of the readjustment of girls to family
life along the line of her experience
in Massachusetts"
All of which is more good advertis-
ing for Mrs. Morse, for Minnesota and
for Sank Centre.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-20
FOR CONSTIPATION
A Medicine That Does Not Cost
Anything Unless 1t Cures

The active medicinal ingredients
of Rexall Orderlies, which are odor-
less, tasteless and colorless, is an en-
tirely new discovery. Combined with
other extremely valuable ingredients,
it forms perfect bowel regulator, in
festival invigorator and strengthened.
ReXall Orderlies are eaten like candy
and are notable for their agreeable
ness to the palate and gentleness of
of action. They do not cause gripping
or any disagreeable effect or inconven-
fence.
Unlike other preparations for a like
purpose, they do not create habit,
but instead they overcome the cause
of habit acquired through the use of
ordinary laxatives, cathartics and
harsh physic, and permanently re-
move the cause of constipation or ir-
regular bowel action.
We will refund money without ar
gument if they do not do as we say
they will. Two sizes, Csc and 1Oc.
Sold only at our store-The ReXall
Store. Charles Fiesler.