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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-12-12
Adobe Ramparts of Assyria.

Nearly akin to Egyptian house build.
irg methods were those of ancient
Assyria, where, says the Nationa,
Magazine, the stiff clays of the val
leys of the Tigris and Euphrates fur
nished the rude mud walls of the low.
lest shelter, and the mass Of the walls
of the city and it's palaces, temples
and ramparts. While there are. no
lack of gigantic statues and symbolic
monoliths, stone stairs and paved ap.
breaches and the remains Of the ala.
baster and syenite facings, which GOV.
cred the palmer masonry the real
strength of Babylon and Nineveh lay
in the masses of brickwork which, in
mighty Babylon 1t is recorded, formed
the lofty towers and ramparts. which
for forty-two miles girdled a district
five times as large as modern London
with a great wall, whose summit, epe.
battled and forming a continuous
chariot way, rose from 800 to $50 feet
above the fertile plain.
Surely never before or since. in the
history of the world, has the plum,
met. hammer And trowel of the brick.
LAYER played so important part in
securing the safety and promoting the
magnificence of great city.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-12-12
JAMS PRESENTIMENT
1t Was of Disaster, but Every
thing Eventually Came Out
All Right.
BY MARGARET MANNING.

From the first moment of his open
Ing the door Jan Olesen felt a presen"
timent of disaster. There was some
thing in the atmosphere of the board
ing hours. with its stuffy hall, it's gilt
mirrors, it's glazing plush ornamental
ton, that sickened him, so that when
the little maid came forward and
asked whom he wished to see he
could hardly utter Mina's name.
Jan Olesen. fresh from the west,
where he had established himself as
prosperous farmer within three
years after his arrival from Sweden, a
penniless youth, looked in surprise at
the little servants troubled face.
You are from my country" he
asked in his native tongue, and at the
sound of the words the little fair
haired maid-of-all-work broke down
and cried
Il haven't heard the old speech
for so long," she said, and then began
smiling through her tears as the sun
smiles out of a blue sky: And the
twinkling eyes that she turned upon
him we're very blue, and her smile ais
sunny as a Swedish girls smile can
be.
Jan Olesen looked at her in grave
compassion.
DO they treat you we'll here, child?'
he asked
She shrugged her shoulders. Some
of the boarders do" she answered.
Theatrical folks are mostly kind.
But Miss Dalrymple-she's terror.
She's leading lady in the Red Slipper
chorus, you know and, say" she add
ed, breaking into. the easily acquired
slang of America, what do you think?
She's Swedish, too, for all her Ameri'
can airs and English name" r.
Olesen clutched at the wall to save
himself from falling. Before his eyes
mist was swimming. His mind went
back to the day when he, renting a
cheap hall bedroom, almost in the next
city block, had met Nina Jensen. She
was just such little maid as this,
newly arrived from the old country.
He remembered her shy smile, her
engaging frankness. And they had be-
come engaged, and he had gone west
to make hts fortune. Now after three
years he had returned.-to what?
Through the mist broke a scent of
patchouli. Out Of 1t he saw woman
approach, with fashionably. done hair
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and gaudy dress; and through the
floating clouds he saw slim hand
much bejeweled, stretched forth to
his.
why. If it isn't JAM" exclaimed
Nina 81 guess you didn't know me,
Jan. Well, what are you staring at?''
she continued to the girl. Get busy
with your work, whatever it is! Amt
she the impudent thing! Just a
greenhorn, you know! Come right in,
Jan, and tell me- about your self and
if you've brought back wad to
blow-in in New York. And say, Jan,
can that stuff you wrote me about get
ting married and show me a good
time in this burg instead. Nix on a
Minnesota farm for mine!''
He escaped afterward-it might
have been hours or minutes, but the
last thing of which he was aware was
Nina standing at the door of her
apartment, and gazing after him with
a puzzled, quizzical air.
Poor Jan! You haven't learned
much in Minnesota, JAM" she had
said at parting. And her designs on
his pocket-book had been transparent
enough to bring a blush of shame to
his tanned face, so that he could only
raise his hat mechanically in response
to her farewell.
She had refused to discuss their
marriage; instead, he was to take her
to dinner on the next evening. His
love had changed to horror. For
three years her memory, her letters
changed though they y7ere-had been
the spur which goaded him to success.
Now the fabric of ambitions which he
| had built up was shattered
But in the loneliness of his room
| that night his thoughts gradually be-
gan to flow in their accustomed
groove again. He must have been mis-
taken. Surely Nina Jensen, the little
country girl whom he had met in the
steerage, animated by the same hopes
as himself, Graded in the same land,
could not have changed SO. Perhaps
it was he who had changed. Perhaps
he was too slow, had remained a
'greenhorn," for all his success, while
she had progressed beyond him.
He resolved to tell her everything
on the following night: all his aims
and aspirations; to beg her to come
back with him to Minnesota. There,
on their lonely farm, they would set
tie, as the old folks had done in Swe-
den, they would be happy.
He fell asleep at last, happy in his
dreams.
But on the next night the old feel
ing came over him again at the sight
OF the hall, the scent Of perfume, the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-12-12
ORIGIN OF THE CRESCENT
Was Once Emblem of Byzantine EN-
pire and Eastern Church-Now
Regarded as Mohammedan.

London.-Though now regarded as
essentially Mohammedan, the cres-
cent was Christian in it's origin. A
crescent moon was the emblem of the
Byzantine empire and the eastern
church, and the Turks adopted it as a
badge of triumph after the capture of
Constantinople in 1885,
With reference to the crescent the
story of the origin of the crescent
shaped Vienna roll is worth recalling.
It arose in the sixteenth century when
the Turks were besieging Vienna, and
failing to carry it by assault began
to drive mines under the walls. At
that period the citys bakehouses were
in the walls under the Notifications.
and when the mines were almost
through the sound of the work was
heard in the underground bake houses
and the alarm given. 1t was to cele-
brate this event that the bakers adopt
ed the Turkish emblem as the shape
In which the make their bread.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-12-12
LET WOMEN woo THE MEN
Old Custom, Declares English Writer,
Is the Cause of Much Marital
Unhappiness.

Surely the most foolish of all the
many foolish conventions that ruin
human joy is the decree that women
must wait passively to be wooed, de-
clares a writer in the London Chron
icle. Now, why should they? Why
can't they be natural and honest and
show their feelings? Why must they
be compelled to act an indifference
quite foreign to them? Perhaps some
of YOU hold with Shaw and Shakes
peare that they don't wait to be WOO
ed. Some of them certainly don't.
Generally speaking, however, few
women even nowadays have the pluck
to go dead against a convention OF
this sort, which has such tre'
mendously strong hold on the mascu.
line sense of fitness.
If woman's charm is to depend or
this idiotic convention that men have
created around her-namely, that sha
Is a perfectly cold, passive. negative
creature who waits in a state OF sus
pended animation, as it were, until
the man condesceEds to make her
come alive-the sooner the modern
feminists invent some more reason
able tradition of charm the better for
us all.
Now, let us SUPPOSE a couple that
has overcome all the initial obstacles
They have managed the difficult task
of finding each other, have got their
declaration over, and are safely en-.
gagged. What happens next? Every
possible thing that can be done to
create an illusion around them Is
done. They are encouraged to meet
often, but the conditions under which
they meet are as different as can be
from the conditions Of their future
married life. Does that man every
see that girl in any kind of negligee,
or does she see him unshaved, say?
Does he have any experience of how
she will run a house or manage af-
fairs? Does she have any chance of
finding out that he's faddy about food.
CT mean about money?
These are material things. it is true,
and therefore not of the first i'm
portance; but, on the other hand,
what chance do they have either to
discover each others spiritual state?
Don't they, as a rule, and sham
all through, and dress up for each 9TH
err, and spend their time under The
most artificial conditions, pleasure
seeking? Are they ever encouraged
to have earnest conversations with
each other to discuss the more serious
aspects of their future life together?
No, the entire business is conducted
in. the most absurdly irresponsible.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ake-down-all-righ
spirit, which would be comical but for
the fact that the results are often SO
deeply tragical.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-12-12
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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-12-12
WhX He Wept.

At a reception one night, says the
Woman's Home Companion, loud
voiced young man was invited to sing.
Desultory applause followed, and he
responded with vociferous rendering
of My Old Kentucky Home" The
hostess was passing among her guests,
beaming at the success of her enter
tainment and sure that everybody was
having a good time, when suddenly, to
her surprise, she came upon a middle
aged man but slightly known to her,
who was weeping silently but bitterly
in a secluded corner Thinking that
his heart had been touched by the old
song, she asked sympathetically:
why do you weep: Are you Ken
tuckian?'
mo, madam" he replied. Il am a
musician"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-12-12
HANDS BURNING, ITCHING

905 Lowell Place, Chicago, ILL.,
"The trouble began by my hands burn
ing and itching and / rubbed and
scratched them till one day / saw lit.
tie red sores coming out. My hands
were disfgured and swollen, and trou-
bled me so that 1 could not sleep.
They were cracked and when the
small sores broke white matter
would come out. I could not do any
hard work; if / dis the sores would
come out worse. FIR two years no
body could cure my eczema, until one
day thought would tsy the Cuticura
Soap and Ointment. used warm wa
ter with the Cuticura Soap and after
that I put the Cuticura Ointment on
my hands twice day for about five
Dr six months when I was cured.
(Signed) Sam Marcus, Nov. %, 1911
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura. Dept. L. Boston"
Adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-12-12
SUICIDE At GRAVE
Mystery Widow Ends Life in
Milford, Conn.,, Cemetery.
kneeling In Prayer, Woman, Said to
Be From New York, Shoots Hes-
self in Graveyard-Leaves
Note Explaining Act.

Milford, Conn., am going to join
my husband. Please bury me beside
| him."
With only the pencilled note to in
indicate her motive, Mrs. Alice De-
vine, the handsome widow of Horace
Devine, knelt beside the grave Of her
husband in the cemetery here and
killed herself, putting a bullet in her
temple. Her body fell across the
grave of the man from whom she
could no longer remain separated, and
the note was found there
None of the employees of the GENE
terry had seen her enter, nor had any
known that she had committed sui
eide, until her body was found. Only
the earth stains on her skirt showed
that she had been in the attitude of
prayer.
To the dramatic manner In which
Mrs. Devine took her life is added the
mystery of her identity. Although
her clothing indicates that she had
been in comfortable circumstances.
there was no jewelry, or any paper
bearing an address The note was
addressed to an undertaken, E. l..
Nettleton, who had buried her hus-
bands body.
The only information Mr. Nettleton
and John Ives, the medical examiner,
who took charge of her body, could
gather, was that Mr.. Devine, who
once lived in Milford, had told the
few persons in this town who knew
him, that he had married a woman
residing in New York city. Her ad-
dress there he did not tell, but he
had said that she had lived at various
hotels with relatives, and had no per-
manent home.
Soon after their marriage those who
knew Mr.. Devine said the couple NOV
ed to Ohio, where Mr. Devine died.
His body was brought to Milford by
the widow. So far as known there
were no children.
Mrs. Devine, who was Of medium
height, with dark eyes and brown
hair, apparently was about thirty
eight years old.
How long the couple had lived In
Milford, whether Divine had any rel
atives here and who are Mrs. Devlne
relatives in New York city are ques-
| tions the medical examiner is trying
to solve. AS no one appears to claim
Mrs. Devine's body Mr.. Nettleton
buried her at his own expense ana
| granted her dying wish.
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faded tawdriness of it. He nesi
not enter.
And the little maids eyes were red
from tears.
You have been crying, my dear, q"
said Olesen, using the Swedish word
of endearment. What is the matter?
You won't tell me? Yes, you'll tell a
| fellow-countryman. Come, tell mel"
I'm to be sent away" she said, her
voice quavering.
Away? Well, but there are better
places
20, yes. I'm not afraid. But she
said"
"She? Who?"
Miss Dalrymple. She said can't
tell you-well, that | didn't behave
| that | talked to the men here-that
| talked to you yesterday And she
pays twenty a week. so Mrs. Simmons
| is afraid to affront her. And she said
that If | didn't go she would. She
hates me because I'm from the same
country. and-and she doesn't want
| people to know that she was once q
working girl like me-"
Olesen heard a door open softly
above. Down the stairs, horrible in
their glazing carpeting, floated the
faint odor of patchouli For an in
slant he pondered; then, taking the
girl by the arm, he led her to the
door.
MY dear" he said, On the state |
come from there are broad acres Of
| land-land like we have at home, with
forests and lakes. And there are no
Miss Dalrymples there, and women
are treated differently. Would yoC
like to come with me to see the place
I'm speaking OFF" He spoke in Swed-
ISL now. There. don't let those tears
come. No, never mind your hat;
there's department store round the
corner where you can get all you
need But hurry fer it closes at five,
and we've got to get to the city hall
| first and take out our marriage IL
cense"
Copyright, 1912, by w. q. Chapman.l
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-12-12
Usual Kind of office Seekers.

well, how's every little thing, now
that election is over?" asked the re
Gently arrived washing machine agent
"'Bout as they are every place else,
l reckon" bit pessimistically replied
the landlord of the Turgidtown tavern.
1.-THE banker, the storekeepers, the
lumber yard man, the doctor, the stock
buyer, the blacksmith and all the rest
of the business men who have always
'peared to be capable of managing
their various sized affairs successfully,
are going on calmly and carefully at.
tending to 'em, while all the triflin',
one-gallused incompetents that have
never had any affairs Of their own to
attend to and wouldn't be capable of
conducting 'em properly if they had
any, are out hotfoot and hell-beat to
get and manage the post office for the
rest of usi"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-12-12
NEW KIND OF AN FRESHMAN
Definition That by His Own Confess
zion Was Very Little Far
From the Truth.

Apropos of the very telling retorts
that Sam Schepps made to Cross-Ex-
aminer Mcintyre in the Becker case,
Jerome S. McWade, the Duluth con-
noisseur, said:
Il like to see anyone get back at
an impudent lawyer. l got back at
such lawyer myself the other day.
THE man was my counsel in a Gus
toms dispute over some Gobelin tapes
tries that I'd imported. His name had,
like my own, a Mick in it, and l
said to him, as settled his very large
bill:
Are you an Irishman, sir?'
mo- he answered, with a pompous
laugh, but I've made lot of money
Sut of Irishmen in my time
"'Oh, / see,' said I. I suppose we
might call you an Irishman by ex-
traction, them"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-12-12
Man Peers Into Barrel, Loses Balance
and Rolls Down Street-Nails
Cause Him to Howl.

Williamsburg, pam animated
barrel rolling along Kent avenue, near
South Tenth street, caGsed pedestrians
to pause in open-mouthed wonder.
From the headless end of the barrel
protruded a pair of legs. From the
general interior issued muffled bowls
for help.
Within the barrel-but the fact did
not appear at the moment-was & good
deal of Thomas Roach, a machinist
living at No. 80 Norton street, and
some nails. The nails were extremely
irritating to Roach and disastrous to
his clothes, hence the bowls.
Roach-and this also became evil
dent after the man had been removed
from the barrel and the nails from his
anatomy-got into. the barrel and a
large amount of trouble through cur
iosity Wishing to know what was
within ne peeked in. lost his balance
and fell in.
Encountering the nails Roach rolled
into the middle of the street in vain
effort to detach himself. But the
further he rolled the more tenacious
did the nails lay hold of his clothes
and flesh and the greater was his
agony, Roach waved his legs ais an
added plea for help, but none came.
Pedestrians seemed to think the
man in the barrel might be paying a
bet and as his antics were highly
amusing, they set to and helped roll
him until he had progressed a block.
They were still rolling when Police
man Bender of the Clymer street sta
ton appeared. He tried to pull the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-12-12
Youths Come to Grief When
They Board Yacht.
Arrests Follow the Looting OF Many
Vessels at Anchor of Nyack, NJ.
Y.-Leader Told of Huge For
tunes That Awaited Them.

New York-Like a black visaged
swept the sea, was the yarn unfolded
in court in Nyack when four youths
with the lure of the southern deep,
strong In them, we're arraigned on a
charge of burglary following an at
tempt to steal the $4,000 yacht of
James B. Hammond.
Two months ago the gasoline yacht
of II. r. Humphreys, a member of
the Albany Yacht club. disappeared
from her moorings off Tarrytown.
Fine cruising and inland yachts were
stripped of their binnacles, glasses,
charts, canvas and various other
equipment.
Chief of Police Curran, of Nyack. had
had detectives working along the riv-
er shore for weeks, and a fortnight
ago discovered a veritable pirates
cove back of the old Flatrock Com
pany property at Mack. In a machine
shop and a rocky recess were
stored various appliances and ap-
purtenances from steamboats,, yachts
and sailing vessels amounting in value
to several thousand dollars.
The arrest of Doc Lehman follow
ed October %, and three weeks lat
er Joseph Romano, of No. 1873 Wash
ington avenue, and Edward Timber
lain, of Long Island City were made
prisoners on a charge of robbery, it
being believed they could tell much
about the pirate raids along the Hud-
son. Dadinic Cuzio, of No. 1O1 Wash
ington avenue, and Robert Donati, of
Sherman street and Washington ave-
nue., Long Island City, were arrested,
also charged with robbery.
DOC" Lehman, according to the
stories, was the brains of the crew.
He had appeared on the shores OF
Long Island some weeks ago in
fine power yacht He told rosy sto-
riees, Of cruise to the southern seas,
where he expected to find millions of
dollars worth of pearls. He confided
the theft of the yacht, and that he had
renamed her the Serpent. Angelo
Caffone and Joseph Caffone, Dominick
Cuzio, Joseph Romano, Edward Tim
berlain and Robert Donati all fell
into the lure of the sea and started
up the Hudson with Lehman. The
Caffone boys rebelled and were put
ashore. At Troy Cuzio and Romano
left. ! t.s,
But the pirates, embolden by past
successes. now tried the brilliant feat
that led to their downfall. The
Lounger ii. was anchored off the Ham
mond estate at Nyack and was fully
equipped for deep sea voyage, with
gasoline and provisions aboard. She
had been left unguarded for moment
in the night when. discharged. Doc
Lehman and his trusty followers went
aboard her. Lehman was d past mas
ter at gasoline engines and soon the
motor was purring at a lively rate and
the Lounger was slowly nosing out in
to the Hudson.
Suddenly there was a. rude shaking
and the vessel stopped, with her en-
gines pumping ahead. She had caught
on a great cable stretched across the
little harbor to prevent just such an
emergency and there she stuck. I'm
able to move her forward or back, the
pirates took to the small boats and
escaped.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-12-12
BABY is SHOT BEFORE BIRTH
Born With Bullet in Side, Little Eel
low Will LiVe-Man to Be Charg-
ed With Attempted Murder.

Hcnolulu.-To come into the worlC
with .3S caliber bullet in his side
is what baby Cavalho did, and two
hours after birth the little fellow was
successfully operated upon by sur
geons swho now say that he viii I've.
Two days ago Mrs. Juan Cavalho
a. Porto Rican woman, had a row with
her brother-in-law and was shot in
the abdomen. Within twenty hours
the child was born and physicians
found that the bullet had embedded
itself in the little body.
The brother-in-law, whose name is
Ricas. has been placed under arrest
and will face a charge of attempted
murder, though lawyers say this will
be changed to murder in the first de.
gree If the child should die. The doc,
tors say. however. that as the mother
is in good condition and the baby an
unusually strong one neither of them
is in immediate danger.