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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
MANlcuREs FOR ANIMALS
Departments to Care for Nails and
Bills Started at Zoo In
Philadelphia.

Philadelphia Pa.-So as to keep the
nails of the animals from the lion to
the monkey and the bills of the birds
from the eagle to the canary in good
shape, well-equipped manicuring and
dental establishment is maintained at
the geological gardens. The depart
ment is under the supervision of Head
Keeper Manley, and 1t moves its
sphere of work from cage to- cage In
the various houses, as the occasion de-
mands. It is constantly at work.
The tools employed by, the mani
curists in connection with their labor
among the creatures differ materially
from the dainty utensils used by the
blonde Venus of the barber shop, and
consist of a hammer, a chisel, often q
Ratchet and saw, and always large,
rugged file about IA inches long A
sharp, strong pair of steel wire nip
pers is also used on the nails OF the
larger cats.
The manicuring establishment at the
gardens was organized by Superin-
tendent Carson Realizing that the
animals could not wear off their nails
on the boards of the cages as quickly
as they could on the rocks of their ma
tive haunts, and that because of this
the claws frequently grew long, turned
and penetrated the soft part of the
foot, Mr. Carson decided that in order
to alleviate the distress caused by in
growing nails these would have to be
clipped
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
HEARS PRAYERS; DIES
THEFT WEIGHED ON HER MIND
Converted at a Revival Meeting, She
Asks Forgiveness of the
Storekeeper.

Devils Lake, N. D.-Remorse for
having stolen an apple from the Quail
ity department store of this city 70
years ago, when she was schoolgirl,
caused a st. Paul woman, who signed
her name as MRS. F. c. Of Dayton's
Bluff, st. Paul, to, send the local
merchant letter Asking forgiveness.
The owners of the store say they
know who the woman is, but refuse to
disclose her identity.
more than 20 years ago" says the
ST. Paul woman, Il was a schoolgirl
living in Dakota, and you were run
ming the store at the trading point,
now DEVILS Lake While on my way
to school one day saw that no one
was looking and took big apple
from a. basket in front of your place
of business. | was converted last Fri
day night In revival meeting being
held in one of the churches in this vi
entity and | want to make my wrong
right both with you and my maker"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
HAS 20 MINUTES SUNSHINE

There is a busy town of 500 inhab-
ltants in Colorado where the sun
shines but 20 minutes out of each "a
hours. This town is River Portal. 1t
Is located in Gunnison canyon and IS
the point from which the great Gun
nison tunnel was run that the waters
OF that river might be conducted 70
the deserts beyond the mountain
range. The Gunnison canyon was
steep and precipitous and opposed
great difficulties to the engineers who
sought to divert it's waters. THESE
engineers cut a road in the solid rock
OF the canyons side and at the fool
OF that road planted a town. This
town was the headquarters Tor the
spectacular engineering enterprise
that they had in mind. In the town
lived the working force which was
driving the tunnel through the noun
tain.
This town was perched upon the
piece of ground at the foot OF the
great cliffs that was most nearly
level. Even this spot, however, Of
Tered an opportunity of placing the
dwellings only in an irregular way
and one above the other. Here in
the mountains has existed for four
years busy little village with all
the elements of modern civilization
brought with it into this isolation. In
the picture Uncle Sans public school
appears as the highest building in the
right hand background.
The strangest thing about this vii
lage is the fact that it has but 20
minutes of sunshine every day. This
is due to the precipitous walls that
rise on each side of the stream and
shut out the rays of the sun. There
is the brief period of 20 minutes be-
tween 1920 and 11:40 when the sun
peeps ever the bluff on the one side
of the stream and before its rays have
been cut off by the high cliffs on the
other side. This one short span of
sunlight is all that these people of
the canyon get year in and year out.
Artificial light bills run high here
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
Suicide of an Eccentric Religious
Enthusiast.
Wealthy Fish Merchant In Washing
ton Market, Manhattan, Retired
From Business and Intended
to Spend Life in Ease.

New York.-After picking out a
burial plot. making his will and carry
ing out other arrangements for his
death, John Elsey, II years old, whose
eccentricities had made him one OF
the city characters, Cammitted suicide
in his home, 90 Jewett avenue, Jersey
City. Just before firing two bullets in
to his head he had his daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Augustus Elsey, read to him sew
eral extracts from prayer-book. He
sent her to her room to do some sew
ing and said he was going to take
short nap Instead he went to bath
room, where he killed himself.
Elsey several years ago was one of
the wealthiest fish merchants in Wash
ington Market, Manhattan. He sold
out his place for s25O,00O and then de-
cided, to devote himself to a life of
religion and ease. Religion was his
main interest in life One of his chill
dren died 20 years ago and he found
ed the Elsey sChapel, in Jewett ave-
nue., as memorial Before that time
Elsey had carried his religious re-
searches to the point of making fire.
quent changes in his faith. When the
chapel was opened he was among the
Seventh Day Adventists.
He became convinced not long aft
erward that the Salvation Army work
ers we're the opponents of his favorite
doctrines and he gave the chapel to
the Salvationists when he was con-
verted. Subsequently it was occupied
as the Church of the First Born, by
the Faith Cure sect and then went
back to the Salvation Army, Elsey
frequently talked from the pulpit and
delighted to tell the influences that
had worked to convert him to a new
faith.
He was married twice. His first
wife divorced him and the second
Mrs. Augustus Elsey, and Mrs. Jessie
Tulley, housekeeper, lived with him
In the Jewett street house. The old
man had other valuable property,
among the realty pieces being man
sion in Duncan avenue that he sold
last April to Edward J. Edwards, state
controller. Several times since then
he regretted the sale of this house.
Two weeks age with his daughter
in-law he went to Cypress Hills Gene
terry, in Brooklyn, where he made ar
rangements for burial plot for him
self and also he picked out one for
Mrs. Elsey. He admitted to Mrs.
Elsey he had made all his plans for
death. However, there seemed to be
no change in his spirits after that
time. He seemed cheerful as he list
ened to several chapters from his
newest religious book, Prevailing
Prayer. After he was found with two
bullets in his head in the bathroom he
never recovered consciousness
II don't know why he should have
killed himself" said Mrs. Elsey. HE
and / have lived to ourselves for
years as fine as princes. He had plen-
ty of money to last him all his life,
but he worried about money he had
lost and about the sale of the Duncan
avenue house. Then he has not been
the same since he gave up his bust
ness"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
Father of One Bird eyroom-Elect Locks
Him Up in Protest-Po!ice
Are Called.

Washington, PA double wedding,
Tor which great preparations had been
made, was marred and but one bride
and bridegroom faced the clergyman
as a result of the sudden determine
ton of James Lennox not to allow his
son 70 marry the girl of his choice.
TIE double ceremony was to have
emitted the lives of Clyde H. Moss and
Annie B. Bennett and Stephen Lennox
and Laura " M. Bennett. At the ap-
pointed hour the guests We're waiting
and the two sisters, society leaders OF
the town, stood ready to begin the
march to the altar
Moss appeared, but Lennox did not
arrive. and finally, in desperation, a
messenger was sent to the EeEnox
lone. Father Lennox promptly in
formed the messenger that his son
Stephen was safely locked up in his
com upstairs and would not be mar
led.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
Victim Of Disease of Eyes Also Is En-
abIed to Memorize Article
at Sight.

New York.-Visual power by which
man can read the entire page Of an
ordinary book at a glance and repeat
every line word for word is the sub
ject Of an article by Dr. George M.
Gould in the current number of The
Journal of the American Medical as.
ISOLATION. That this power is due not
to normal visual conditions, but to
disease of the eyes, is DR.. Gould's con-
tention.
The man with the remarkable eyes
is designated as "Mr. c." This man
can read several books each evening,
and usually he can repeat all he has
read without error. He is fond of
poetry and novels, and a quick glance
at the pages sufices to fix its contents
indelibly in his memory
The case was easily explained by
those who have knowledge of the ply
siology of binocular, or two-eyed Wis
ion. DR.. Gould says. Some time dur
ing the middle years of the mans life
the central part of the retina, the
.macular" region of the right eye, was
destroyed by an inflammation caused
by eye-strain. The fixing" part of
tie retina was obliterated, leaving
there :. blind round space or hole.
The left eye was not diseased and con-
tinued the usual perfection of ma
cular or central vision.
by long, unconscious and forced ex-
ercise,' continues DR.. Gould, the
healthy zone of the right retina sur
rounding the macular was educated to
such a degree that it could. when IN
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15

tom taey had to form new habit,
one that suited their conditions or
life, and in doing this changes in
their appearances have taken place.
Down on the sea floor, instead of
swimming, they have to lie on one
side, and this continued change in the
position Of the body has brought
about change in the body itself
The neWly-hatched skates swim in
the usual fashion. They turn on the
side only when they begin to live at
the bottom of the sea. Before long
the body becomes fattened. and the
eyes and the mouth shift around. If
they. remained in the position they
were before the fish descended to the
bottom, they would be of no use to
them. The fish, however simply
adapt themselves to their condition of
life. Naturalists are agreed that this
Is one of the most remarkable phe-
pomena in the life history of any fish.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
CITY OF BANBURY PASSES
Famous Old Place In England ls Being
DespoiIed, While Many Relics
Are Revealed.

London. glory of Banbury is
departing. It is no longer necessary
to go to Banbury to eat Banbury
cakes; they can be bought in London.
The old cross, dear to the old lady
who rode a white horse and to the
inmatesof countless nurseries, has been
replaced by modern spirelike erec-
ton; but still the pride of Banbury re-
mained, could the old Globe room be
seen; and now that is going, and the
folks of Banbury are angry because
they think it is being despoiled for the
qualification of American antique hunt
ers.
The old Reindeer inn itself bears the
date Of 1862 and is full of quaint pam
eled rooms, with waving, irregular
ceilings and unexpected beams, and In
its courtyard is the Globe room, which,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
PUNCH BOWL CENTURY OLE
Relic of Early New York to Be places
in metropolitan Museum for
Safe-keeping.

New York.-The Morton punch bowG
an historic piece of rare LowestoEl
porcelain which was presented to the
city of New York by Governor Jac0R
Morton in 1912, has just ended 100
year sojourn in the governors rooR
of the city hall, and will now be com
signed for safe-keeping to a glass CASE
in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The bowl is nearly six feet in cir
conference, making it the largest per
feet piece of the ware in existence
It's ample interior carries a huge BIRDS
eye view of New York city in 1903, to-
gether with the seals of the nation ana
state, the frigate Constitution undea
full sail, and presentment Of ship
yard. Its inscription reads:
Drink deep. You will preserve ths
city and encourage canals"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
LIES IN HOT SALT s0LUTlor
Dixie Doctors Tfy to Save Louisville
(ky.) Newspaper Man Suffering
From Burns.

Louisville, Ky.-Charleg T. Rogerr
who for six years was night editor q,
Louisville, and who suffered sewers
burns in fire in his rooming house.
lies immersed in a bathtub filed wish
saline solution kept at q tempera
ture of 100 degrees Fahrenheit This
course was directed by the swgeon AZ
tending him at hosuital as a sas
chance to save his life. Gang enc hiss
developed and the doctors hope 10
this way to cheek IL
MI. Rogers not casy SUITE ed tNraA
upon his limbs. laae ald b.s,sy, BIZ iT
hailed fumes as we,l
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15

gruesome aftermath of terrific strug'
gle in which young Bamberger lost his
life late the other night.
THAT woman ran across thE
street." said a witness. "She slapped
the boy in the face and said XIII
him.
Other witnesses corroborated THAI
testimony
Albert j. Patterson, who did the cut.
ting, was held pending the action oil
a coroner's inquest, while Mrs. Bam-
berger, the dead boys mother. was
held as an accomplish.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
RATTLEsNAKE BITES BABY
Three Hours After Accident Poison Is
Discharged Child Is
Dead.

Goldendale, Wash.-The three-year.
old daughter of w. B. Smith, who re
sides on Crofton Prairie, ten miles
west of this city, was bitten by a rat
tlesnake in the finger and died just
three and one-half hours after the &C
cident.
The child stepped out into the gar
deu a few feet from the mouse to get a
kitten, and as she attempted TO pick
up the kitten she was struck by the
snake The mother corded the arm
at once and applied such antiseptics
as were available.
The accident occurred quarter
nile from where Mrs. r. D. Gray was
bitten and died as resllt about one
year ago. Mrs. Gray was bitten on
the same finger of the same hand.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
HAS BULLET-PRooF SKULL
Dependent Shoemaker Fails in His
Attempt at Suiclte-Physi-
clans Are Surprised.

Ely, Cal-This city will evidently
furnish the state with the first case Of
felony charge under the new law,
against man who attempted to COM
nit suicide and failed.
Joe Loissele. a shoemaker, despond-
ent and tired of life. as he claims.
when In his lodging house room.
placed a revolver to his head and
fred. The bullet, instead of reaching
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
PREoNS QUIT CATHEDRAL.

For hundreds of years pigeons
have estled on the spire of Strass-
burg cthedral," says an English writ
sr. they increased so much that
many Attempts have been made to ex-
hrpate aem, but in vain. During the
last fewyears there has been sud-
den andstartling diminution in the
number c these cathedral pigeons /
am of oplion that this manifest re-
duction islue to the asphalting of the
streets roud the cathedral Between
the stone cts of the pavement the
pigeons wei able to pick up food in
quantity. Il consequence of the as
phalting and ally watering and cleans
Ing of the plces in the immediate
ae.ghborhood he birds have gone"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
Gets Bill Lost Eight Months.

New York.-A $40 bill lost on Broad
way on October II, is in the hands of
the owner, after having been for eight
months in the hands OF Police Com
missioner Waldo.
More than 1000 persons applied to
the commissioners for the money, but
it remained for John F. ]. Sheehan Of
Newark, N. j., to make the successful
claim.
Sheehan explained that the money
was blown from his hand by gust OF
wind. He had witnesses to prove his
claim. ~
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
TO CoNFIscATE GIRLS MAIL
How Postmaster Is to End Practice
He Regards as Evil--To Give Let
tiers to Parents.

Flushing, N. "a new and effective
scheme for curbing misuse of the post
Offices general delivery window has
ben put into effect by Postmaster
Thomas B. Lowerre here. He wi1s
henceforth confscate all general de-
livery letters addressed to young girls
Of the village and turn them over to
their parents or some male member o.
the family. Mr.. Lowerre said he
recently became aware that some Oh
the girls of the village were receiy-
ing mail which he thought would stand
inspection by their parents
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15

immense tract, greater in extent than
the state OF Pennsylvania, he admits
is "larger than any one man should
have" Kidman, when boy of thir-
teen years. left his home at Adelaide
to seek his fortune. he secured work
as a cowboy at five dollars a week.
He finds the atmosphere of cities hard
to breathe and is never so happy as
when travelling in buggy across the
huge tracts where he is monarch OF
all he surveys.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
GREATEST JEWISH CITY

About one-tenth Of the entire Jew
sh race in the world today resides in
he United States, where they form
pout two per cent. of the population.
More live there now than were in the
w4ole of Palestine. Every fifth per-
sol one meets on the streets Is a
He,rew. In every country the Jews
Rreamong the most orderly elements
Of tie population.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
Man Mars Dual Nuptials

Police officers were hurried to tie
Lennox home, but the father OF the
prospective bridegroom remained firm
and refused to give up his son.
The wedding of Moss and Miss An
rie Bennett went on according to pro-
gram, while the bride who had been
left waiting at the altar locked her.
self in her room and vert
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
Man in Tree Dead a Year.

Missoula, Mont.-The mummifieg,
remains of man, believed to have
been E. Kost, globe trotter, judging
from papers found on him, was dis
covered in tall tree. The man had
been sitting above an Old Indian hunt
ing platform. Apparently he had slip
ped and his leg caught in the limb
The body had been hanging for mor&
than year.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
NEW MOUNTAIN IN JAPAN

Japan has brand new mountain,
which started to grow during the erup-
ton of Usu-san. Within month,
houses which were built on gentle
inclination toppled over as the hill
side became more steep. Finally a
height of 600 feet was reached, at the
rate Of five feet day. Some time az
forwards an opposite movement set
in, and the summit settled LAO feet.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
MINE COAL UNDER SEA

What is perhaps the most extraordi.
nary coal mine In the world may be
found on tiny island in the Japan
sea. near Nagasaki. This island has
lust sufficient room upon its surface
for the shafts and the hosting ma
chinery. The workings, which are
very extensive, reach out In all d.
rections under the sea.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
SKATE lsAN ODD FISH.

The skate ancthe founder live on
he sea bottom Fhe ancestors of the
skates, relatives ( the sharks, used
10 swim about Il the upper waters
he same as othe fishes do. When
hey undertook 10 We on the sea bot
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
LABORER'S RICH FIND.

An English laboring man took a
mezzotint into Christie's art rooms in
London the other day and was aston
ished to be told that it was worth
$1,785. 1t was the Children Bathing"
of j. Ward, famous eighteenth cen.
fury engraver and painter.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
MOTHER URGES SONS DEATH
dered by Another Youth in
Baltimore.

Baltimore.-That Mrs. Emma BAN
berger saw mortal wounds inflicted on
her son and encouraged Albert Pat
terson to kill the boy was the startling
testimony in the police court as the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15

loyalty first enlisted the British
being regiments of
Second Gorkas especially proud the honorary trneon
of
Goor<ha 'natio yves silver.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
DUST FROM RUBBER TIRES

The extent of the use of ANTONIO
biles ia New York city may be cstima.
ted from the fact that ~ per cent. OF
the dust collected from tho city
streets is pulyerized rubber
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15

the brain, as would ordinarily be ex
pected, fiattened against the skull
creating only painful wound
The physicians who revived hirr
declare they are at complete loss
to explain how the missile failed t.
penetrate and produce instant death
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15

New York. Jennie Weiss, a servant,
died in city hospital, her jugular
vein having been cut by fragment
of glass when a settler bottle explod-
ed as she was placing it in a refrig.
orator.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
GREATEST LAND OWNER

The greatest land owner in the
world is Sydney Kidman, csttleman
of Queensland, Australia, whose runs
aggregate $4,000 square miles This
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
II Reads Page at a Glance

moved, receive and transmit to tf,A
brain the image Of the entire page
except that part falling upon the CEN
trail portion, which has been de
stroyed."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-08-15
Family Warned BY Mental Telepatl,y

Detroit, Mich.-Mental telepaths
aided Mrs. Richard Meyer to foreteI
her fathers death at st. Louis, Nc
He died shortly after telepathic cora
munication had been flashed to all hts
children. Mrs. Meyer claims that for
years the family has been warned CT
impending disaster by similar flashes
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1912-01-23

Mr.. and Mrs. S. W. Hazen entertain
ed thirty-two of their neighbors last
Friday evening at their country home
one nil. southeast of the city. The
evening was very pleasantly spent
with music, both vocal and instru-
mental, reading and recitations, games,
contests and social conversation. Miss
Ruth Fuller won the prize in the con-
tests, which was a nice box of station
cry. Mr. Gulliland received the conso-
lation prize. At the midnight hour a
dainty luncheon was served, consisting
of oysters, crackers, cake and coffee,
which everybody thoroughly enjoyed.
All departed at an early hour in the
morning, voting Mr.. and Mrs. Hazen
royal entertainers and hoping for the
invitation to come again, as such gath
erings as this is what vanishes home
sickness. Those present were Messrs.
and Mesdames Yates, l.. A. Snyder, F.
G. Dawson, O. t. Fuller, J. G. Ar
buckle, ]. II. Woods, Fred Woodsmall
Fred Gibson, Misses Startling, Myrta
and Clytie Arbuckle, Mae and Arilla
Snyder, Ruth and Dorothy Fuller
Thelma Dawson and Mrs. Ayers
Messrs. Gulliland Dull, George Woods
James McKinster, Oren Fuller, Melvin
Gibson and Robert Dawson.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1912-01-23

T. j. Murphy, editor of the South
ern Idaho Review, located at Hey
burn, has announced himself as can
didate for the legislature. He says he
wants to visit Boise and sees no way
of getting there unless the voters of
Lircoln county will pay his expenses.
He will run Independent.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1912-01-23

]. H. Klaus, who has been in the city
for several days looking for location,
departed for his home in Redwood
Mimi, Saturday morning. He will re-
| turn in about six weeks, accompanied
by his family.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1912-01-23

Miss Edith Dygert of Gooding, Idaho,
has been employed as an additional
primary teacher in the Burley public
schools. The new class of beginners
makes 1t necessary to employ the ex-
ira teacher. Miss Dygert is primary
teacher Of experience and comes to
Burley highly mended.-Burley
Bulletin.