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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18
Dufferin's Warming Dream.

There are many stories on record OF
the warning dream. The late Lord
Dufferin when in Paris dreamed that
he was in hearse being conveyed to Q
cemetery A few days later, as he was
about to enter hotel lift, he was
startled to observe that the attendant
was the living reproduction of the
driver of the hearse in his dream. He
stepped back. and the lift went up
without him. Before it had reached
the top of the building some breakage
took place in the mechanism and the
lift crashed down to the bottom. every
one in it being killed.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18
A Quaint Introduction.

An old Missourian recalls the quaint
speech with which an old Federal sol
der once introduced General James
Shields to Missouri audience. The
introduction included high tribute to
Stonewall Jackson's generalship. Said
the old Union soldier:
"Friends and Fellow Citizens-Allow
me to introduce General James Shields,
a citizen Of two countries, hero of
two wars, general in two armies,
senator from two states and the man
who came nearer whipping Stonewall
Jackson than any other man ever did"
and here, looking around and seeing
no ladies in the audience, he added,
"but didn't do it by a ID sight!-
st. Louis Globe-D Democrat
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18
Discomfort.

The landsman through stormy street
And shades of night was going.
The ground was paved with shifting sleet,
The wintry wind was blowing.
Heaven pity grant and help" said he,
ITO those who live upon the seal!
The sailor clinched a trembling mast
Mid mountains round him flowing,
While through the darkness thick and fast
The wintry winds were blowing.
Heaven save the landsman now" he said,
with chimneys topping round his head!'
But when the world grew mild once more
This tar, respondent growing,
Said, eff I could but walk ashore,
Though all the winds were blowing!
The landsman thought, Though storms
there be,
would that L could sail the seal
Will Carleton.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18
Made His Heart Glad.

When Dolly Madison was mistress
of the White House, Meley Meley, the
first Turkish minister to this country,
arrived in Washington, and a grand
ball was given In his honor, to which
the beauty and fashion of the town
flocked, curious to see his elaborate
dress and turban. Meley Meley, how
ever, showed perfect Indifference to
the open admiration about him until,
spying large, fat negress on her way
from the kitchen, he rushed to her
and, with much enthusiasm, threw his
arms around her, saying she reminded
him of home and his best and most
expensive wife-"a load for a camel"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18

When we add to this dissipating
and facinating attendant circum-
stances, and especially the modes OF
female dress usually adopted for the
dance, affording exposure of arms.
neck and bosom, it is impossible to
doubt the existence of moral peril.
The form of dress is doubtless in
|nocently adapted. but it is never
rheless vulgar and subtle though
unintentionaI temptation to young
men of both pure and impure mind.
Christian young men who have pre-.
viously been habitual dancers khave
repeatedly made this confession.
One said, when asked wherein
lay its fascination; ITO speak
frankly,sit lies in personal contact.
Said Philadelphia army officer
when first witnessing round dance
IF | should see a man offering to
dance with my wife in that way, /
would horse whip him.
We do not mean to imply that
many ever join in such dance with
deliberate evil intent, but only that
it blunts certain natural instincts OF
modesty and propriety which were
lintented of God for the guarding oil
virtue, by allowing daring familiari-
ties which would not be tolerated
any where else. No wonder that
such a large and liberal-mindt
man as Horace Bushnell should say
of these forms of dance; "They are
the contrived possibilities of license
which belong to high life only when
in runs low
No wonder Gail Hamilton says
in her usual force; "The very pose
of the party suggests impurity."
The Chief of police has said that
s'Three fourths of the abandoned
girls of New York were ruined by
dancing" Even the Police Gazette
once said; Strange that young
LADIES will allow gentlemen to as
sumo positions and take liberties in
the public dance thatthey would not
allow in their parlors. 1t has been
said by still another, THE dancing
hall is the nursery Of divorce and
the training ship of prostitution. "
Now. I do not endorse all this
strong language, but | quote these
sentences because candid anO
thoughtful people know that there /.
at least terrible basis of truth fol
such views. Allow me to make an
o-her quotation from an earnest and
well balanced man. Prof. Amos r.
Wells says, Dancing, like all gaul,
is divided into three parts; one third
! is esthetic, one third is physical
exercise. one third is sensual. AS
to the first, the enjoyment Of fine
music, of beautiful dresses, of forms
of motions, these may all be hac
uader better auspices Kan in the
dance. A woodland ramble, tennis
tournament, an archery club
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18
Foleys Kidney Remedy Acted
Quickly

M. N. George, Irondale, Ala. I.
was bothered with kidney trouble
for many years. Il was persuaded
to try Foley Kidney Remedy, and
before taking it three days could
feel its beneficial effects. The pain
left my back, my kidney action
cleared up. and l am so much bet
ter. 81 do not hesitate to recon-
mend Foley Kidney Remedy. For
Sale by all Druggists.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18
His Record Not Clear.

Charles Smith, jovial negro, was
arraigned before Judge Fawcett in the
county court, Brooklyn, on a minor
charge.
Smith," asked the court, did you
ever commit crime before"
The negro pondered for moment.
"Well. yo' honah," he answered slow
ly, "Ah can't zactly say, but All done
got married one time."-New York
Times.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18
The Dance


Extract FROM lecture on the
Dance by Rev. James Brand D. D.
Experince has demonstrated that
devotion to the popular dance, even
in it's most conservative form, is not
only not fitted to promote the high
est elements of character, but on
the other hand that it makes people
less open and sensitive to religious
truth. The Rev. DIR. HI. M. Penney
vino was for several years the wise
and efficient pastor of city church
where dancing prevailed, says; IT
have found that those under the
spell of these amusements dancing,
card playing etc., are the hardest
to reach with the truth. They are
the last to be reached and the first
to back slide. If others have had a
different exper ience, ] have yet to
hear of it.
If it be said that it is not in the
use but only in the ABUSE of the
dance, that the evil sies, and that
any and every good thing when a.
bused becomes an evil, then we are
compelled to take issue on that
point.
The evil tendency lies not in the
abuse, but in the nature of the
thing. Out of all the multitudi-
Gus forms of amusements there is
hardly one in fifty that is. from its
nature, at all liable TO serious moral
abuse.
The promiscuous dance from it's
very nature, like card playing and
wine drinking, is extremely liable
to such abuse. Not that it is often
engaged in with evil motives; not
that it can not be practised without
evil thoughts; but no one will deny
that there is in the dance where
both sexes are mingled, an undue
excitment, peculiar and absorbing
fascination. an extreme tendency to
excess and dissipation, which is
formed in connection with almost
no other amusement, and which
high spiritual life seldom withstands.
DR.. Jas. H. Jackson of Dansvill,
Al. Y. after speaking of the physio-
logical dangers of the dance, refers
to its disslpating effects upon the
mind; and specifies dissipation, men,
tai perversity. loose habits Of
thoughts, weakened conscience, un-
fitness for public duty, destroyed
sense of allegiance to God, and thus
the person is prepared to be infiu-
enced wrongly in a social way"
This brings US to the real care of
the Christian objection to the dance,
it is naturally dang rous to social
purity.
It's chief facination lies in relation
of sexes. Take the element of sex
out of the problem and the dance
need not be feared. But as it is
generally conducted it brings the
sexes into improper relations to
each other, and thus sets the pas
sion on fire. Is is useless to mince
matters on this point. The danger
of the promiscuous dance lies in the
too familiar handling of each others
persons when the sexes are together.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18

FOR SALE-I offer for sale one
half interest in the building known
as the Opera Block" opposite
Hotel Washburn, of which | am the
owner. also all furniture ard fix
lures of all description, now con-
tanned ia the Opera Hall and saloon.
I am going out of business and will
sell at sacrafice. Call and see me.
JOHN OVERLY
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18
Name Your Farm.

Every in Bayfield, County should his
1t dignity establishes
each peculiarly its
Use stationery with the of the farm it,
The farming
you printed
tonery is worth than the small it will
generally
make
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18
A Card

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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18


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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18
WANTED-DEPUTY, STATE.

WANTED-DEPUTY, STATE,
FISH AND GAME WARDENS for
districts Nos. II and IL comprising
counties of Ashland, Bayfield,, Bur
nett. Douglas, Polk, Price, Sawyer.
Taylor and Washburn. Open only
to male residents OF such districts.
Examination at selected centers
during week beginning May Is,
1911. Address State Civil Service
Commission, Madison, Wisconsin,
for blanks and detailed information.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18
Plenty of Company.

eyes, she went crazy over bridge"
"a sad case"
"Oh, no great harm done. They put
her in a fashionable sanitarium, and
she is playing a better game than ever
now."-Washingto Herald.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18
The Last Hole.

Figg-That was mighty appropri-
ate text the parson took for poor
Brassie's funeral sermon. Fogg-What
was it? Figg-"He has finished his
course. Boston Transcript.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18
Do You Have The Right Kind of
HELM

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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18

Happiness is not the end of life;
character is.-Beecher.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18
SHIPPING TAGS

Name Of farm, name Of proprietor
and address, printed on shipping
tags 24x5 inches in size, at the fol-
lowing Special Prices:
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-05-18

come in and ak US about these
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-12

/ could write nothing but long strings Of
impolite words. 1 wonder when woman will
be emancipated from the superstition that
she is the exception.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-12

to defend myself from my friends in order
to get my work DONE" 1 said.
Then the queer quirk became evident.
oh 1 supposed you and l were good
enough friends to dispense with formality,"
she said stiff1y.
Indeed we arel" I exclaimed. 81 could
enjoy myself doing just that-dispensing
with formality. But the butcher does not
like to have me generous in that way. He
likes cold cash. And the grocer has the
same bad taste. Sometimes 1 think he eats
with his pocketbook"'
But being facetious did not help.
II never supposed that you could make
a stranger OF mel or course, know you
have your work. But you feel that i could
not interfere with that, don't you? Nat
urally, other people might worry you; but
can Just wait till you are done. I'm sure
l never distract you
Well the point of 1t all Is that the queer
quirk in many women is the fact that each
OF them sees herself as the exception; and
she gets indignant and offended II you
cannot see her In the same way. l have
about twenty OF these exceptional friends!
And all OF them disturb me as little as
this one. At any old time they come.
have a day at home. They forget It. Then
they make life burden for me by enraE-
ing the elevator boy and exciting me till
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-12
Primary Astronomy

THE late George Cary Eggleston was
In the confederate army" said a New York
editor, "and, as Memorial day approached,
he would narrate at the Authors club
many a memory of war time.
II liked to hear his yarns about the
child-like minds OF slaves. lie once told
me, for example, about a griZzled slave
named Uncle Cal. body servant to his
colonel.
las Eggleston sat before a campfire one
coolish autumn evening, watching Uncle
Cal mend the colonel's coat, the crimson
and gold glory Of the autumn sunset turned
the talk to astronomy, and Eggleston said;
You see, Uncle Cal, the world Is round.
like an apple, and 1t goes round, too
round and round it goes all the time
a. Hits round an hit goes round said
Uncle Cal skeptically. But what wanter
know is, what holds II up?' @.s
Why you see, Uncle CAL said Eggles-
ton, the world goes round the sun, and
the sun holds it up-by attraction, you
know.
Uncle Cal glanced from his coat mend
ing to Eggleston with a patronizing smile.
Honey he said. An reckon 20 haint
gone far nough ir 30 rsssonif'. Fo, II
yo' surmisaticn wuz correct what would
keep de world up when de sun went DOWN.
Answer me dat, hon!"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-12
The New dan

We hear a great, deal OF talk about the
new womans and very little Of the new
man" but, Of course there is a change in
IpasculiRe, for R,ithOut the new man the
modern woman would be an impossihillty
The amazing young woman We see around
us could hardly exist IL men did not APP
prove and sanction the changes certainly
they would find what is called public opin-
ion far more against them than II is. For
the superior masculine person is. Inclined
to let women take her own line I'M various
land even devious) directions without
any protest on his part. He is disposed
TO allow her the largest latitude In develop
ing her character and personality.
II he has no objection to her being eco
nomically independent of himself. he Is
ready TO admit that he cannot, Iogacally
make harder and faster rules as to conduct
than he does for himself. There are, al
ready a considerable number of newly mar
ried persons, who go so far as to set up
separate establishments in order to avoid
the frets and Jars which do so much to-
ward devastating the married state. And
invariably when that universal topic OF
conversation, womens suffrage, comes up,
as II always does every dinner party now
adays, We find the new man advocating
the claims OF his feminine contemporaries
10 citizenship as strongly as the women
themselves.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-12
Name and Address.

Are many women liars at heart and many
men thieves by design? And will some wo-
men keep on smuggling because they can
not help 1t and some men because they
seek material gain by il? George J. smyth
the special deputy surveyor of New YORK
sees no sex influence in the act of defraud-
ing the customs; the purpose or the end
to be accomplished alone is different.
A woman attempts to smuggle things for
herself or her friends to wear, while man
tries to defraud the government so as to
dispose of struggled goods to his personal
financial advantage, is the conclusion OF
Theodore Bean in the New York Telegram
The customs court of third degrees cen
ters about Mr.. Smyth's office. Mr.. Smyth
is affable, clear sighted, smooth faced
balanced, unprejudiced, but alert.
THE chances are that smuggling never
will be done away WITH" said he. Women
always pursue a bargain, no matter the
price others who have gone before have
paid for the luxury, and any number Of
men won't shrink from making dollar
even II they take risk in the venture.
There are few new styles in smuggling.
Il have observed that women smuggle
things for their own adornment, but men
smuggle to make money. am not speak
ing of dressmakers, milliners ana other
merchants, which are OF both sexes. 1t
isn't that women haven't a nice sense of
honor, but rather they haven't always a
sense of customs, while men know what
they are doing"
What has been the boldest piece OF
smuggling lately noticed by the custom
inspectors?'
THAT OF Mrs. Adriance OF Poughkeepsie,
who brought in a pearl necklace in the
l,,vs huF
How did YOU get the tip?'
From the women inspectors at the
docks"
There are four women inspectors at pres
ent but the number will be doubled In a
month.
THE tight skirt has helped us a lot" said
the older Of the pair Women can't wear
furs and laces wrapped about them with
out having them show We find jewels in
their stockings. the toes OF their shoes in
umbrella handles, in muffs, in the hens
of their skirts"
do they ever conceal them in their
switches or rats?" l asked.
mot so far. We always search the rats
of suspected person"
What constitutes a suspected person.
zone who is either tipped off to the Gus
toms or who betrays the fact by her
/ anxiety, the signs OF which are most fami-
liar TO us. Then We act"
THE funniest thing We have seen was
the woman smuggling in Havana cigars
in petticoat quilted throughout and &C
tually filled with cigars" spoke up the
other ut certainly looked queer under a
tight skirt"
What things make you Inspired to act7''
The younger woman answered: The pas
sengers actions at the pier. The women
frequently try TO pass in articles to friends
who have gone 10 meet them. They say.
Hold my muff while / find the keys 10
my luggage In that muff are often found
jewels and laoes. Sometimes they are hid
den in the lining, but We know the muff
episode means something. and We set about
70 find just what It stands forH
| What the women inspectors did not tell
me Is that for a few francs q week GALES
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-12
Lay Of the Hotel Lobby list

maiden Of poe ry-the modern kind Of hand.
maiden who threatens to leave II you don't
like her work or II she can't have two
days off every week. Why. manys the
time politics has been the reason why
poetry was recited by the yard in congress
instead Of straightforward debate or argu-
ment Take one OF those senatorial war
horses with flowing name and frock coat
with an eplleptic fit and force him into a
corner during debate. Get him to the place
where he has TO go on record as being for
or against. What does h. do but initiate
himself and reel off severSl miles Of poeti-
cal film written by some obscure poet who
makes a living not worth living by plain
and fancy potlng. Political problems boom
poetry. Why, what was that rhyme Bryan
was always talking about?"
II don't know" said the Chair Warmer
What was it?"
"Oh, yes! The rhyme Of '7s," exclaimed
the Hotel Lobbyist
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-12
Military Magician

The story is told Of General Grenvine NJ
Dodge president of the Society of the
Army of the Tennessee, that he was talk
about railroading.
THE best piece Of railroad work | ever
heard Of" he said, was performed in
1854 in Maryland. The confederates were
in great need of a locomotive, and their
only hope was TO capture one So a small
band of men was selected from Lees
army and placed under the command o.
tall Georgian who had been foreman OF
quarry and knew a good deal about der
ricks and rigging.
well, the Georgian took his men into
Maryland, they tore up a section of the
Baltimore & Ohio tracks. tagged the first
train, and, with nothing but a rope, dragged
a locomotive fifty-seven miles up hills,
across streams through woods and swamps
till they struck a line built by the con-
federacy.
when the president of the Baltimore &
Ohio heard Of this feat he wouldn't believe
1t. He went out and personally inspected
the route, and he said on his return that
1t was the most wonderful piece of engi-
neerng that had ever been accomplished
After the war he sent for the tall Geor-
gian and on the strength of that one exploit
made him roadmaster of the whole Balti-
more & Ohio.
Any man. the president said, who
can pick up a locomotive with fishing lines
and carry 1t over a mountain has passed
his civil service examination with me-"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-12

life. What campaign ever opened without
an army of poets suddenly coming out of
Information and hurting themselves into
the fray dealing out poetry at every pore
although much preferring to rhyme with
names like DIX ana Hughes than names
like Stimson or Lorimer. why, politics has
given impetus to, poetry since way back
before those gloFlous, days when some mute.
inklOrtous SHomer or, FmHybe he was only
a base hit Dashed of that two-liner about
>'Tippecanoe and Tyler, too"
The onlys time when politics ever put a
dent IN poetry was wien the. burning issue
only IL was put out promptly-was silver.
The reason for the havoc played with poets
was that there Isn't any rhyme for silver,
and more. than tIIstea is for fifth-a fact
which IL nakifig the poet laureate Of Eng
land ghaw UP pens, and pencils in an alarm
ing manner trying to produce something
nice about George the Five Times in time
for the big .noise.oo.s 4 ~. .ta..
Politics. has, always been the hand
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