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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29
Old Methods of Rubber Gather
ing Cost Many Lives.
Peru Failed to Keep Promises Made
Second Paper by Sir Roger Case
ment Shows Appeals for Re-
form Have Been Ignored.

London. A sensational second
chapter in the expose by Sir
Roger Easement, the British con-
sul-general at Rio Janeiro, VINO
was sent by the British govern
ment to the Amazon to investigate
stories of outrages on natives in the
rubber district, came out recently III
the shape of a supplementary report
to the foreign office. which shows that
there has been practically total fail-
ure on the part of the Peruvian gov
eminent to respond to the demand ior
a reform of the rubber atrocities IN
the Putumayo district, says London
cable.
A mass of official correspondence,
which also was filed, completes the
story and indicates generally the cor
dial cooperation of the state depart
ment at Washington with the British
foreign office to secure remedy lor
the abuses.
The second Easement report indi-
Gates that Peru not only did nothing,
but seemed to have no intention OF
taking any action. All the measures
taken by that government were diia-
tory and feeble and wholly ineffective.
None of the reforms promised by
Peru. according to Sir Rogers report,
has been carried out. The clvlnzeo
methods of the plantation have been
abandoned and the old rubber col
kecting methods resumed. The re-
turns show that the $4,000 tons OF
rubber collected in II years pro-
duced from $5,O0O,000 to $7,5Oo,OOo
and entailed the death of 10000 In
dams. whose bones are scattered
through the forest and have made GER
tain places resemble battlefields.
The responsibility for this, accord
ing 10 Sir Roger, is strictly British
as the whole output of the region is
placed on the English market and con-
veyed from Iquitos in British bottoms
Some employers are British subjects
and the commercial future OF. the dis
trict is dependent on British capital
In July Sir Edward Grey, after so
liciting the cooperation of the United
States. pressed Peru harder not only
to punish the criminals. but to enact
legislation making slavery criminal
offense. The president of Peru was
reminded of mis- treaty obligations to
Great Britain and was also urged to
establish religious mission in the
Puturnayo district, with headquarters
in Iquitos, with government backing
and substantial subsidy.
Just about this time the United
States stepped in and brought pres
sure to bear on Peru. On June 20
| 1911, DR.. Paredes, the head Of the
Peruvian investigation commission
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29
New Yorker Remembers Service
on Constitution.
Emmanuel j. Rauch, Eighty-Six Years
Old, Who Was on Vessel 70 Years
Ago, Said TO Be the Only One
Of the Crew Left.

New York.-Emmanuel j. Rauch be-
lieves that he is the Oldest survivor OF
those who served on the United States
ship Constitution He was born In
Chester County, Pennsylvania, on No
vember 6, 1926, and is far from show
ing his Sc years.
His discharge from the Constitution
is dated February 1S43. He looks like
a man of about SIS and we'll preserved
at that.
1t was on July Is, the hundredth an.
niversary of the escape of Old Iron
sides frcn a British fleet, that re-
porter called on Mr.. Rauch. The date
suggested to Mr.. Rauch that in 1886
or the anniversary of that event, ne
witnessed at the Philadelphia navy
yard the launching Of the United
States line of battle-ship PENNSYLVANIA
then the largest sea-going vessel in
the world.
"The Pennsylvania was what was
called four-decker." said Mr.. Rauch
although she really had five decks
She was pierced for lao guns, but real
ly carried 160-they were cast iror
guns in those dGys-of which the
heaviest were contemporaries
'The Pennsylvania had been start
ed about 1911, but for years had lair
halfway out of the ways and hac
nearly rotted to pieces when the gov
eminent decided to finish her. She
was never really equipped, but tool
the spars of the Ohio and sailed tt
Norfolk, where she became schoo
and nursing ship. She was not AM
good sea-going vessel"
'How did you come to take to thu
scar" Mr. Rauch was asked.
I'm 1889 congress, anxious to get
better element into the navy-Uncl'
Sans sailors were a pretty hard 10
in those days-passed bill allowing
lads between the ages of thirteen ant
fifteen to be apprentices for three
years and then, after having passet
an examination, which included Frencl
ard Spanish, to become full-blown mid
shipmen.
"Thas induced me to ship, which
did in Philadelphia In 1871. l la.
around on receiving ship until tn
steamer Mississippi, the first rea
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29

The other day steamship from
Glasgow arrived at New York with a
passenger list of sixty people. one-half
of whom were young women engaged
to be married. Thirty young men
their prospective bridegrooms-we
waiting at the pier to receive them.
There are those who look upon the in
cident as blow to native industry.
American legislators have been busy
protecting home products of many
kinds. There are laws on the statute
books forbidding the Importation of
contract labor. Home grown potatoes
are protected, but there IS no law
guarding the homegrown girl from
foreign competition by forbidding the
importation of contract brides. The
marriage market in America is open
Go all the world. So far no voice has
been raised in protest against this
anomalous state of things. Perhaps
ft is because young manageable
American women are unorganized and
without vote. Perhaps 1t is be-
cause they do not fear competition.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29
CALLS SON BY TELEPATHY
Mothers illness Draws Him From
Mountain Camp to Pasadena
Hospital.

Los angeles. Telepathic messages
called Oril Sutliff from mountain
camp 10 his sick mothers bedside in
Pasadena hospital, according to a
statement he made. He said mystic
rious manifestations turned his
thoughts to- home and caused him to
worry about his father and mother
and experience the sensation of crop
ing in the dark for an object which
he instinctively knew was there.
He told a. companion and when the
feeling returned, shouted: IT have
it! Mother is sick. l am going
home" When he reached his home
in Pasadena his father told him his
mother was in the hospital. Compare
son Of dates showed the first feeling
of uneasiness came over him the day
his mother became ISL
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29

Surely the science of chemistry
mas made long strides since the days
of Paracelsus, when men can analyze
elements at distance of ninety-five
millions of miles and undertake to
pronounce upon the characteristics of
q form Of matter which so far has not
been encountered on earth, but has
been discovered to exist in the sun.
Prof. ]. N Nicholson of the British
Royal Astronomical society, says there
is reason to believe the spectrum is
now revealing III the corona of the
sun more elementary form of mat
ter than any yet discovered on the
earth It is proposed to call this ele-
mertary substance "nebulium." Pro-
fessor Nicholson says the spectrum
of the far-distant nebulae in the
depths of space indicates that they
are composed of this same "nebulium, .
which is coming to light in the solar
radiations. "Nebulium" is considered
as being lighter gas than hydrogen.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29
SURVIVOR OF SHIP

man-of-war the United States pos
sessed, was launched in December,
1912, when was assigned to her.
81 left her to join the Constitution,
which had been overhauled at Norfolk,
but she was quite unfit to go to sea.
Meanwhile one of my frierds had ap-
piled to the secretary of the navy to
have me made a midshipman and dis
covered that when congress passed the
bill of 1889 it had failed to revoke a
previous bill on the same subject, so
all my dreams of becoming an officer
were shattered; in fact congress had
played a rather mean trick on ambi.
tious lads who had apprenticed them.
selves in Uncle Sans navy"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29

An instance Of the composition of
The death lists from heat was afforded
in a report from Chicago concerning
the mortality. Some specifications
were given concerning ten deaths. Of
those three we're drowned, two had
necKs broken from falls, one man cut
his throat, another fell from a build
ing. an infant, four days old, died
without medical attention and two
dropped dead, both being inside of
buildings when the fatal stroke came.
This way of manufacturing heat NOR
taIity lists would be humorous If II
were not so likely to be injurious.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29
GOOD POINTS in
MAKING DAT HAY
When Allowed to Almost Mature
There WIFI Be Greater
Amount Of Grain
How to Cure.
lBy r. B. RUsHING.)


When the bulk of the grain on top
of the head begins to turn yellow Is
the time to male oat hay. At that
stage these top grains are in the
dough state, and the remainder is
mostly in the milk, and stalks and
blades are still green
While as a usual thing stock does
not relish oat hay as much as mixed
timothy or clover, it will always be
found good substitute.
1t must be well cured, as it is one
of the worst crops to draw moisture,
heat and cold. 1t should be put
into the barn when the least tough or
damp.
| have made good deal OF oat hay
and find it fairly good if cut at the
right time and properly handled.
Many farmers allow it to get too ripe
to make the best hay.
When allowed to almost mature
there will be a greater amount OF
grain, it can be more easily cured, and
there will be less danger from mole
ing. but it will not be oat hay; it will
be oats in the straw.
When handled this way the animals
will eat the grain readily but will only
eat the straw when driven to it by
! hunger, and will get but little good out
of it.
Nor should they be cut while too
green. as IN that case it will be very
hard to cure sufficiently, while green
oats cut in the milk makes very good
feed for milk cows, but the curing is
very difficult owing to the long pc
Rod necessary for properly drying and
the difficulty of getting good weather
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29
10000 WE'RE SLAIN

confirmed all the atrocity stories. Two
hundred and fifteen arrest warrants
were issued, but there were only four
arrests. All the others had naturally
used the six months delay to vanish.
The United States at this period
was actively urging Peru to realize
the reforms. Strong representations
made in February, 1912, met with
general professions Of good intentions
by the president of Peru, but the gov
eminent of that country sought new
delay by appointing new commits
sion to reorganize the administration
of the Putumayo district, with orders
to report on June %, 1912 The COM
mission, however, was stillborn, the
members refusing to serve. For this
reason the patience of the American
and British governments finally was
exhausted and they decided 20 appeal
to the public sentiment of the world
through the publication of Sir Roger
Easements reports.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29
PIN IN LIVER 20 YEARS; DIES
Operation Apparently Successful, But
Brooklyn Girls Strength Fails
First Case of Kind.

New York-Miss Kathryn Roche,
Brooklyn, died in the Prospect Heights
hospital, and surgical examination
into the cause of her mysterious i'll
ness revealed the fact that for 90
years a small pin had been In her
liver.
No similar case has ever come to
the knowledge of New York surgeons.
Twenty years ago Miss Roche was
taken to Seney hospital. 1t was then
thought that she was suffering from
an ordinary stomach malady and the
doctors sent her home. A recent op.
Grafton was apparently successful, but
the vitality of the patient was not
sufficient to carry her through the
reactionary perios.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29

six years of age the nippers become
worn down even with the middle
teeth; the inner edge of the corner
teeth is also worn OF.
At seven years of age the tushes
show a dull, rounded point, both edges
of the corner teeth are worn smooth,
and the cavity on the face of the teeth
is small From this until ten or eleven
the incisor teeth Of the upper jaw
are usually examined for determining
age.
The age is now indicated approx
mately by the amount of wear upon
the face of the teeth and by the
gradual disappearance of their marks
or cavities. The marks in the corner
teeth become obliteratetd at the age OF
from seven to eight years; the same
process takes place in the fore teeth
of the upper jaw more slowly, and
when these changes have occurred in
the upper teeth the horse may be
looked upon as ten years Of age or
older
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29

1t is absolutely necessary that the
fodder be dried before storing.
When the surface Of the ground is
smooth / cut the oats with mower,
and let them remain several days,
then turn them over, repeating this
operation until thoroughly dried
1t usually takes me about week
to cure my oats properly. When the
weather is not favorable and / fear a
rain before they have time to dry in
the windrow l build very large cocks
and build them so as to turn the
water as much as possible.
These cocks go through sweat
and may stand If necessary two or
even three weeks, after which they
must be stacked or put into the barn.
When unloading every two loads
can be sailed thoroughly and tramped
down, it will then go through another
sweat.
Such hay when fed with clover will
prove excellent for horses and cattle.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29
DETERMINE AGE OF HORSE BY
EXAMINATION OF ITS TEETH
Average Animal Reached Usefulness
at Twenty-Five Years OF Age-Shape of Front
rfo1arS Gradually Changes With Growth
AT Five Years Mouth is Full

another grinder on each jaw. The set
Of milk teeth is then complete.
At the age of from thirteen to six
teen months the cavities in the face of
the middle fore teeth are effaced or
RACED; and the same process takes
place in the corner teeth by the end
of the second year. The shedding of
the teeth and the beginning Of the
second set or permanent teeth occur
at from two and one-half to three
years years CT age.
The first OF milk teeth may always
be recognized by their shortness,
wilderness and by construction or
neck. The middle front teeth are
shed first, the intermediate ones fol-
low at the age of three and one-half
to four years, and the corner teeth
are shed at from four and one-half to
five years of age.
The determination of the age OF
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29
The Washburn Times
wAsHBURN, WIS.
WASRBURN PRINTING CO. Publish,
pgoNlEs AND WILD ROSES.


The modest Quaker beauties, the
wild roses, FIJI the woods and the gor-
geous queens of Sheba, the peonies,
Che gardens. On old-fashioned lawns,
when the cultivation of pinks and
pansies, hollyhocks and morning
glorfes almost exhausted the horticul-
fural knowledge and experience, the
peony came as some Nell Gwynn, tri-
fnphant in satins. flush with beauty,
and radiant in health, to startle the
serenity of proper and decorous
communicates if she stepped sud-
denly into the quiet of the place,
laughing, and did not know that won
dering eyes were peering through the
blinds from all the houses along the
streets She did not come as a
Madame Pompadour, fascinating, but
dangerous, nor wonderful. but SIMS
ter, like princess of the Borgias,
nor poppylike, a drugged beauty, but
wholesome even If a kings favorite.
And precise places drew back bit
as If this radiant thing were apt to
.Overpower well schooled senses and
send sedate old gentlemen into in
considerate courses after blameless
lives, says the Chicago Tribune. 1t
was too gorgeous arising by the de-
Irure pansy and sweetscented pink.
TO greater horticultural sophistication
the peony now comes like a laughing,
robust maid with arms akimbo. with a
complexion Of marvellous red and
white She would not languish in a
drawing-room with perfumes and
sweets. but must be out in the sun
light
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29
FIND HAMS 100 YEARS OLD
Meat Discovered In Rhode Island
Ashes Sells Readily at 81
Pound.

Providence, R. 1.-The recent dis
covery of several choice 100-year-old
hams In an underground passage near
a historic colonial mansion on Pru-
dence island has started Prof. David
Greenberg Of Columbia university OF
a systematic search of the old cellars
on the island. Prof. Greenberg has
been on the island several months,
studying the soil and the peculiarites
of the natives.
The hams found are packed in wood
ashes. Their flavor Is so excellent
that they have been readily marketed
at 81 pound
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29
CUPID GIVES WEDDING TRIP
How Jefferson, O., Pastor and His
Wife Got Money for a Journey
to California.

Jefferson, O.-When Rev. Joseph A.
Goodrich, pastor of the First Congre-
gational church, and Mrs. Goodrich
were married they took wedding
trip. Soon they start on another.
The prospective wedding trip will
be to California and of considerable
duration The expense will be de-
frayed by Cupid, Mr. Goodrich, accord
ing to orthodox ministerial custom,
having passed on to Mrs. Goodrich all
the fees handed him by happy bride
grooms, and Mrs. Goodrich having
carefully boarded them in anticipation
of the time when their growth might
admit of a trip for two to the Pacific
coast.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29
Rape and Pea Fopsqe.

The annual forage crop for swine
which has given best results at the
Missouri experiment station is rape
in which have been sown few oats.
Rape may be sown as early in the
spring as the ground can be worked
or about the same time that oats
would be sown.
1t is rapid growing, succulent
crop and hence it is well adapted for
swine pasture. The Dwarf Essex is
the variety sown for this purpose.
Good results have been obtained by
sowing five or six pounds ahead of
the drill and then drilling in one-half.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29

horses between the years of five and
ten may be made with considerable
certainty by experts from study of
the front teeth of the lower and up
per jaws. Naturally these teeth under
go a progressive wearing process
which changes their appearance as
the animals grow older.
In general, it should be remember
ed that the shape of the front teeth
gradually changes with age; in young
horse they are wider from side to
side than from front to back, while In
very old horses they become wider
from front to back than from side to
side, having in many cases TRAN
gular shape.
AS already indicated, a horses
mouth is said to be full, or dentition is
complete, at the age of five years. AT
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29

who a short time after died, but the
child lived. If any one can give any
information about this kindly write to
c. J. Nyholm, 47S North Third street,
Philadelphia"
Mr. Nyholm is an insurance broker
and at his home he told the story or
an aged and grief-stricken old man
who in his reclining years desires to
give the child of whom he is the father
100000. He has not seen the child
since 1888, when 1t is thought that
the young man went to Lancaster,
being somewhere in the farming sec
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29
FORTUNE FOR ILLEGAL SON
Father Adve rtIses for Kin, Now Fifty
two Years old, Whom He Plans
to Give 100000.

Philadelphia, Pa.-The following adj
vertisement in the newspapers tells
remarkable tale of an old wrong,
with the attempt of the father to right
himself after fifty years of silence:
TN the spring OF 1850, few miles
from Lancastsr. boy child was born
to a German girl named Caroline.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29
BAR HATPINs FROM CARS
for the Election of Offend
ing Women.

Hamburg-The police authorities
have issued an order whereby any
woman who enters street car with
unprotected hatpins Is liable to ejec-
ton by the conductor. For the bene-
fit of strangers the company has pro-
vided its conductors with hatpin pro-
tectors, which they are now selling for
a cent apiece.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29
Maintaining Humus.

The use oS commercial fertilizers
can never do away with the necessity
of maintaining humus content of the
coil Commercial fertilizers used In
connection with manure or green for
age crops plowed under will produce
astonishing results. On very poor
soil commercial fertilizers will fire."
quently stimulate the young plants to
make an amazing early growth. but II
we obtain profitable results from their
use we must supply some form OF
vegetable matter to the soil to I'M
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29

dividual teeth. This is usually an ac-
curate method until the tenth or
twelfth year. After this period the
general appearance of the teeth and
the bones of the head are relied upon
in determining age
At birth the foal commonly has no
teeth in the front of the mouth and
only four grinders in each jaw. After
a few days the middle fore teeth ap-
pear and after month another grind
er breaks through on each side of each
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29

the diver up to the solid stonework of
the cathedral, showing like roof OF
rock overhead.
While the work underground was be-
ing carried on, patiently and thor
oughly, seven anxious years, the
cracks In the walls, vaultings and
arches of the fabric were welded by
the injection of liquid Portland cement
from a squirting machine, process
known as grouting, capable of being
SO manipulated as to fill either shall
low crack or rent through the thick
ness of massive wall.
Every crevice is now being repaired,
every flaw and displacement remedied,
every trace of instability in the foun-
dations removed, and the cathedral
seems to stand as solidly as the
strongest building in the kingdom.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29
SUES FOR PARENTS RICHES
Daughters Novel Action REEVES In
ternationaI Romance at
Baltimore.

Baltimore, Md.--Alice wilkins Won
Buckwaldt, Baltimore girl, wife OF
Captain Won Buckwaldt of the Ger
man army, has begun suit here to
get possession of the estate left her
by her father, who died many years
ago, amounting to $25O.000. Alice was
the youngest child and her mother
took her to Germany soon after her
fathers death When twenty-one
Alice attempted to get her property,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29
Arrested for Shooting Spirits.

st. Louis. Sergeant Barlow arrest
ed man giving the name of c. r.
Drayton when the latter was caught
in the act of shooting at evil spirits.
AS praying in the streets, Drayton
started firing and explained that a
spirit was alter him.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29

prove its physical condition. This is
3 point that farmers frequently over
| look 1t is waste of time and money
to apply fertilizers to soil that is not
adapted to their reception and econ
omy
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29

enc of Philadelphia's most aristo-
cratic citizens is to drive a cart IN q
parade as a Renaissance of the day
when his ancestor held the garbage
contract. Why not? II was useful
work and it raid well.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29

A suit which had been pending for
ninety-two years was settled in New
York the other day with $4,000 left
after the lawyers had taken their
share. The amount involved at the
start must have been immense.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-29

A Finn, taking part in the Olympic
games at Stockholm, has succeeded
In throwing the discus SO far that the
Greek who invented the discus would
probably be unable to find it if he
were there. Thus we see how the
world has progressed.