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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

The difference between clean COW
and dirty one is strikingly shown in
the picture. The COW on the right
had been running on pasture ten days,
sleeping out at night, when the photo.
graph was taken. Naturally a great
deal Of the filth she had accumulated
in a vile stable had been rubbed off
and washed off by the rains. but
enough remains to show that her milk
would carry poison to hundreds of
gallons when added to that OF other
cows In the dairy. At the Illinois
station it was found that the milk
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

ENVY, nor calumny, nor hate, nor
pain" ventured not to assail him. We
felt, as he left us and walked of up
the quiet, leafy street in the moon.
light, that we had been honored as
by more than royalty.
We went often to Mrs. Davis recep-
lions, where the president never
failed to say kind words In passing,
and sometimes to tarry for pleasant
chat. Always grave, always looking
as If he bore the sorrows of a world,
he was invariably courteous, and
sometimes playful in his talk with
very young women. These entertain
ments of Mrs. Davis. held in the eve
ming between limited hours. were at
tended by every one in deep mourn
ing. The lady of the Confederate
White House, while not always spar
ing of witty sarcasms upon those
who had affronted her, could be de-
pended upon to conduct her salon
with extreme grace and conventional
ease. Her sister. Margaret Howell.
aided TO lend 1t brilliancy. have
always regretted that my path in life
and that of Nine. de Stoeurs have d.
verged so widely since.--Mrs Burton
Harrison. In Scribner.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
HORSE VALUE
is INCREASED
According to Government Reports
Average Price OF Animal In
United States Is $111.67
Increase Of 80.

According to the government re-
ports the average value of horses In
the United States is s111.67, which is
nearly 50 more than it was in 1910.
Since 1900, when the automobile be-
gan to be regarded less as a toy and
more as a possible necessity, the av-
erage value of the horse has in
creased from $4461--a gain of S77.O7
a head. The gain has kept up every
year except one, when there was
loss of ten cents head between 1907
and 1908
The period from 1894 to 1901 was
the low-water marx Tor horses. In
1897 the average value dropped to
$31.51. During tthe years 1895, 1896
1897 and 1923, the figures were under
$40 for the only time in the history
Of this country.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
GEN. LEE AND JEFF DAVIS
Mrs. Burton Harrison's Description Of
the TWO Great Leaders of the
Confederacy.

Our most illustrious caller that
spring was the commander-in-chief of
the Army of Northern Virginia. Gen
eral Lee came one evening, and after
a pleasant talk with my mother and
me. arose to go, we escorting him to
the front door. 1t was broad moon
light, and / recall as If 1t were yes
terday, the superb figure of our hero
standing in the little porch without.
saving few last words as he swung
his military cape around his shout
ders. 1t did not need my fervid i'm
agination to think him the most no
ble-looking mortal had ever seen.
AS he swept of his hat for second
and final farewell. he bent down and
kissed me, as he often did the girls
he had known from their childhood.
At that time General Lee was liter
any the idsl Of the Confederacy. His
moral grandeur. recognized by ALI
lifted him into the region where
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
nrinin Of aRuncombe.n

In historic Buncombe county, North
Carolina, was originated the phrase
talking buncombe." for in this noun
famous country years ago, Col. Ed
ward Buncombe founded his famous
hall. and placed the words ITO Bun
combe Hall, Welcome All" over his
doorway. The expression. IT am talk
ing for Buncombe," meaning Bun
combe county, became current here
abouts by hop,s folks, but unregen.
crate strangers have used it to signify
political blarney or exaggerated
praise.-'In the Land of the Sky" Joe
M. Chapple in National Magazine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
She Lost No Time in Selecting the
Bushes.

She Lost No Time in Selecting the
Bushes.
session. If the trespasser had delayed
single day longer
And then she heard the chug of an
auto, and lost it as the machine
stopped at the gate, and there came
the sounds of mems voices and the
barking of dog. The buyer of Rose
lands was at hand Should the girl
walk out with that bundle of cuttings
under her arm, and her chin held
high in defiance? No, of course not
Should she go without the cuttings?
Should she break her way to the
fields in the rear through the rank
grass and weeds? A shed with vines
climbing over it, and the door stand
ing half open caught her eye, and a
few seconds later she was concealed.
A good looking young man, talking
with his chauffeur, came up the path
and unlocked one of the doors and
entered. Half a dom trips were
made by the two, and when they
came to an end the hiding girl knew
that the chauffeur had driven away
alone, and that the master and his
dog were seated on the doorsteps
within Is feet of her. She scented
the smoke Of pipe, and she heard
the man say to the dog:
'Wey, old fellow, we are here at
last. Wonder IL we are going to he
lonesome? Well put in few days
cleaning up Roselands and then we
must to our canvasses."
IAN artist, Ell? That's what Miss
May had thought as she peered at the
mans face through a crack in the
shed. He had brought the last Of his
effects. and was going to stay right
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
S. Frorn
Under the
Flying
Chaff''.
"a

backing and starring over again.
phosophc mind to expect dollar and be satisfied with
fifteen cents
people do not talk they limited to
tongue
who tells you all he knows will throw something
for good count
hardest work people do is the talking they do about the
lard work they do
ab something by which you not present at
the time you there.
Copyright 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles)
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
Social
Problems
Many Little Hints
That Will be
Found Valuable
By ELIZABETH BIDDLE

EN- because the exactions business allowed to
M pay their social calls Sunday afternoons and during the
l IN An evenings of the week
: ! ; !: :
ENSS No calls upon except at her invitation,
Hxm previously sent her letter of introduction He
hRHs pays preferably her formal receiving day. but
E command the leisure for afternoon call
49, M may ignore the evening, about
In making a call usually leaves his overcoat, stick
umbrella gloves hall before entering the drawing
may chooses carry his hat and stick into the first or
formal call, if it is to be very brief.
put his the hall table the tray offered him
by the servant who opens the door.
should always the right glove before he offers his hand
hostess course offers her hand first and until she
should merely bow formally to all present
should always rise where is standing and only
his place when she S seated.
shakes hands when unless the
but always when introduced to
dine where he has previously called.
the civity demanded by good
and should be left person the day after dinner luncheon
breakfast
brings call upon without having
previously asked her permission.
young girl should calls from the whom she
without asking host hostess to be present. leaving the option
WITH em and she should not invite visit her without first ask
ing permission of her hostess.
behind her tea table she need not rise to greet man
c sa offer his hand and gracefully include him the CONVEX
sation, introducing him to those her.
When another caller a stands up if he is seated
Under circumstances does to the hall
leaving neither should she help
with his overcoat.
Men leave their cards early the upon their acquaintance
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

The heir to the East Indian throne
of Baroda, who is student at liar
ward. had to work on his twenty-first
birthday while his future subjects
were celebrating 1t with holiday and
festivity at home. This Is but an
other instance of the modern way ir
which princes have to stand great
deal to keep their jobs.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

Once again the season is at hand when
we are confronted by the problem of a
stray dog.
We are greatly distressed by the paper
reports of the attacks upon innocent chill
dren and people by poor animals made
vicious through neglect.
Wouldn't it be far better to turn our
attention to the cause of the trouble in
stead of the wholesale destroying of these
strays. 1t is disgraceful condition of
this and other American cities that there
are no watering troughs provided in the
streets for dogs.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

The infant undoubtedly occupies the
most important place in the life of the hu-
man race. From the very first day of its
birth the baby becomes the guide of we'd
ded life. Lying in its swaddling clothes,
it is already promise of future energy in
the community. The Specification of it,
birth is threeiold: A reflection of the past
life's interest in the present and prom
Use of pleasant future -the last being OF
supreme importance.
That the future welfare of che child
as to its mental and physical development
danends greatly upon the nroner care piver
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

New York supreme court has de-
creed that a bill collector must pur-
sue his prey in apartment houses only
by means of the dumb waiter. For.
merry the bill collector was called
upon TO cope only with deafness, but
now he is confronted with both the
deaf and dumb.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

1t has now been demonstrated that
a motorcycle comes off second best In
a. collision with an automobile. TIE
question has interested many persons
who have had to step lively in cross
ing the asphalt.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

A. wife in Atlanta had her husband
arrested because he refused to kiss
her. Husbands are getting very frac
tious these days, and advanced fem
ininity is finding it necessary to drive
them back into harness.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

A government woman expert says
that chickens kept in cold storage
nine months or year are more
heaIthful than those fresh killed and
kept "a hours without refrigeration
1t may be. but she will have time
convincing the ultimate consumer.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

A Pullman car which was filed with
Few York women who wanted di.
vorces arrived at Reno, New, day or
two ago. 1t may soon be necessary
for the railroads to run divorce spe-
Gals. Lawyers could be provided to
draw up papers on the way so that
everything would be ready for the i'm
mediate beginning of proceedings on
reaching Reno.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

Just to make good the proud boast
that every other city in the country
is merely one of its suburbs, New
York, few days ago, sent Pullman
carload Of its women to Reno to get
divorces.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

Wealth is no longer an open ses
anne TO independence" walls a disap
pointed capitalist Too true. Why,
nowadays one cannot wear silk hat
and a short coat without being ridi
cuIedI
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

BARRIERS, alarmed by the advance of
safety razors. are considering the
abolition of tips. They might also
abandon criticism of the previous hair
cut.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

Henry Observation-Disclosures is
the name of man who lives in Mis-
souri, We suppose his friends call
him Hank MISUNDERSTANDING for
short
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

1t is surprising how city man, for
tunate In the possession of a garden
about the size of a checker board, can
spoil $38 worth of clothes planting 10
cents worth of peas
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

Returning from Asian jungles,
acientist announces that man with
q tactfuI wife in a wild country can
get along twice as well as a single
man" Also in a tame country.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
supply Summer Pasture.

We always plant piece of corn as
early in the spring as the weather
will permit, to supplement the pas
ture, which is sure to dry up in late
summer.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

A connecticut Sz.mers daughter
who was obliged to remain at home
with her mother, engaged In raising
Japanese spaniels for a livelihood
She cleared $500 last ySAs
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

The appearance of five aces in
poker game in Pennsylvania and the
resultant death of three men, simply
goes to show that a good thing some
times can be carried too far.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

A New York boy found certified
check for $55, coo and was paid 81 re.
ward when he returned it to its own
er. Notwithstanding this, however
honesty is still the best policy.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

One man gave fortune teller 1915
for the information that he could find
a treasure by digging in his back lot.
He didn't find the treasure, but he got
q lot of exercise.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

Irrigation is fast driving the Great
American Desert out of existence.
There are canals enough already 10
reach across the continent if placed
end on end
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

A boy graduated from Pennsyl
vania high school without ever hav
ing missed half day, and shall such
horrors Of child slavery be unre-
bukedg
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

According to fashion experts In
London and Paris the harem skirt is
dead AS a matter of fact it was
born that way.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
Infant
Occupies
Most
Important
Part i'm
Life
BY MRS. I'D. LIEBLING

in the early period life ncontestabe medical fact and it
depod that few parents are guilty OF negligence IN the early
stages Of the child's life.
order attain the present perfection of the
c life today abong for millions years. moth
ers therefore deciding forces properly and
ousy produced under trying yelled fol
the Ultimate benefit of mankind
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

It's poor rule that won't work either
way.
The prospectus is all there is to some
people.
A biting dog makes no preliminary an
nouncements
We are always ready to confess one an
others faults
A short fire escape is long enough till
a fire breaks out
1t is all some men can do to provide the
unnecessaries of life.
Some people spend their whole lives
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

Even the mosquito is feeling the
impulse of the back-to-the-farm move
ment.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

Western farmers want the weather
bureau investigated because its pre-.
dictions don't agree with their rheun,-
atism.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

BARRIERS who plan to abolish the
tipping evil might also consider the
advisability of cutting out the con-
versation.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

Tbs earth has only 10000 years TO
live, according to a Swedish astron-
omer. Let us then be up and doing,
etc
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
Makes
Strong
Plea for
Stray
. CANNES
By MRS. ANNE STUART

would do well copy the foreign Cities where every few blocks
of chained to the sidewalk
trough for dogs AS lover of ami
mails make the officials OF the large cities to
humane in their treatment of dogs.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

Germany has adopted new gun de-
signed TO bring down aeroplanes, just
as if aviation is not dangerous enough.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

Almost time for some get-rich-quick
man to establish a correspondence
school of aviation.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

Now, altogether: us 1t hot enough
for your
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
Nearly everybody who says Il don't
care is not telling the truth.

When an aviator loses his way in a
fog he cannot ask policeman, AT
least not yet
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

The convicts who struck for the
eight-hour day in the Michigan peni-
tertiary finally decided not to walk
out
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
Claim Great Age for Tree

The village of Remborn, in Ger
many, has linden tree believed to be
1000 years old.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

II they wish TO be Included IN the fOuHd Oh the yer
festivities.
The length of formal call should not exceed
twenty minutes.
mans visiting card is both thinner and smaller
than womans. The usual size is about three inches
in length and an inch and half in width. The mans
is engraved in full without initials and always with
the prefix "Mr." The address of his home or OF his
club may be engraved in the lower right hand corner
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-23
GUMPTION ON THE FARM

Steady, now! Don't rush into the spring work like ''house afire." Take things easy until man and beast get accustomed to the strain.
 The toad is the gardeners S friend.
 When you don't know just what to do, go in and have good talk with your wife.
 Save your metal roofing by giving it a good coat of paint, and do 1t before it is too late.
 The mountain of work before you can aln be worked off if you just keep a cheerey heart and peg away.
 A man with a large family can live better on the f;&r1n, where money grows, than in the city, where money goes.
 Take time to look into every pro- feet that is suddenly sprung upon YOU. Iifes greatest successes come out of the most careful consideration.
 Can't you fix it so that you will not have to buy any garden stuff this year? Of course you can. What any farmer can do, you can. Get right Ut it now and make the best garden in town. Surprise yourself and the neighbors.
 Here is the formula for treating seed potatoes to prevent scab: Soak mixture of one-half pint of formalin (formaldehyde) and fifteeen gallons of cold water; dry the seed, cut and plant in ground that has not recently grown potatoes.
 If you are planning to grow your own aspara gus plants SOW the seed as soon as the ground can be worked. Palmetto is a splendid variety and you will make no mistake in planting it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-23
PUBLIC INJECTED FOR
 "WIDOWS AND ORPHANS

When the average public service corporation is asked to extend its service or to reduce it's rates. it gen. orally declines upon the plea that extended service or reduced rates would cut down its dividend rate to the widows and orphans who large " hold its shares In other words is net earnings are only sufficient to psy proper dividends on stock and the unavoidable interest on bonds.
 When the average corporation of rsis kind finds that, owing to high rates of service and the supply of its service only to the best paying sec lions its net earnings enable the dec 1aration of such large dividends as would invite a demand for lower rates, the usual procedure is to declare "a stock dividend; it's stockholders re- ceive the new shares at slight or no cost, and with the capitalization thus increased, the dividend rate is brought down to a figure which appears to be only a reasonable profit The cor poration's net earnings remain the same, and the stockholders receive the same amounts in dividends. but at a lower rate on larger capitalization. This is one of the methods of stock ''vatering''
 Its principal beauty to the corpora tion and its stockholders is that it enables continuance of the high rates of service. without alarming it's pa irons and without inviting a demand for lower rates.
 There appears to be but one effec- tive method of combating and erad- icating this evil. It is the physical valuation plan which determines what the capitalization should be and, through public utilities commissions fixes rates thereupon that will yield only a fair return of profits. Under this plan, the widows and orphans who hold shares, would receive req sonable dividends. and the general public would profit by reasonable rates
 Quite naturally, the corporations fight against this manifest justice and claim that they do so only in behalf of the widows and orphans" and have little or no other interest what ever.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-23
STUDY IN MILITARY PRISONS.

Another field that the T. M c. A has gone to with it's educational classes, is the military prisons. Here study breaks the deadly monotony of the silent seclusion for hundreds of young fellows. The majority of the inmates of the military prisons are boys under sentence for assertions, in- fraction of discipline and for dissipa- tion in the city where the boys found themselves loose and with money to spend in their pockets. There are five classes in one prison. The ster- eopticon is used with effect to show slides on educational subjects. The captain of the prison at Charlestown said to the secretary, "One of the men who is serving a ten years sen- tence became insane yesterday. I am sure his sanity could have been pre- served by your educational work" And going further with it's educa- tion, the Association has arranged with companies employing large mum bers of men to take qualified electri- cal students among the discharged prisoners into their employ on the recommendation of the captain of the prison and the secretary.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-23

contempt, and that it would cause him to lose his position as a newspaper reporter.
 It is one of the most binding of rules in Journalism, that reporters shall not divulge their sources of in formation, and the Georgia reporter only obeyed this rule. and was quite right in obeying it. There is noth;ug unusual in the grant of informa ion to reporters and editors under pledges of confidence, and it is pleasing to know that the confidence is almost or quite invariably warranted by results.
 Very much information of value to the public Is secured under the general knowledge that the sources will not be revealed: In fact, it could not be otherwise obtained. It is to be re- gretted that the exemption which is given by the law to lawyers, physi- cover newspaper men. AS a Rich mond paper says: Much of the in formation that leads to revelations of graft and corruption, crime, disorder, lawlessness and other evils of society is given confidentially to newspaper men, and if it is to be held tha. the reporter must give the name of his informant, such revelations will cease and wrong will be infinitely harder to detect"
 Until such time as the decision of the Georgia court ceases to be good law, newspaper men will continue to withhold their sources of information, whatever the penalties. Thero IS probably not one journal in the coun- try. which has not, at some tirne or times, suffered in loss of patronage CT otherwise by refusing to reveal sources of information. Yet they continue, and will continue, to so refuse It is necessary to the welfare of their business of news-gathering.