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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

"Thehe is no telling woman's age
after she passes g." sagely enunci-
ates a contemporary. On the con-
trary, every friend she has cheerfully
tells it on her.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28
nRan.Timev Relation.

Chicago.-"There is rag-time re-
ligion by the rag-time music. Some
people can only get religion by the
rag-time method. l use it when neces-
sary," says Rev. d. Nj. Tompkins OF
Rogers Park M. E. church.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

TOO bad about those forty Des
Moines millionaires who can't get
shaved Sundays" Does anybody be-
lieve Des Mones has forty million,
aires?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

A Buffalo woman says she can't live
with her husband because he is bald.
1T must also be that his ears are too
small to afford good hold.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

The car ordered the baniehment of
Bishop Hennogenes and he went to
Zhirovitzky monastery in g. private
car That's better than Siberia and
walking.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

Labouchere, the English editor OF
Truth, left ten million dollars. If that
is the result of Truth, what is the use
of so much lying?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28
Startinq in Hoos,

The amount of capital required to
launch an energetic farmer in the hog
raising business is not great, and if
care is exercised, fair profits will be
obtained the first year
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

One of the new novels is entitled
"He Comes Up Smiling" The first
man who ever retrieved a collar but
ton from under the bureau, probably.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

A scientist has figured out that a
bee travels $4,000 miles In collecting.
the material for a pound of honey.
What a beautiful price basis for
new trust!
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

A Harvard professor advocates a
course in aviation at all our universe
ties, just as If the average college stu
dent is not Eighty enough.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

A Boston minister tells men to vote
as they pray. With good many OF
them that would be never until they
are about to die.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

The Denver man who travelled 5000
miles to take unto himself a wife can
hardly be said to be the victim of a
leap year proposal.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

How tickle is humanity. In summer
we kick about the high cost or ice,
and in winter we trample it under
foot.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

The coming towers on the battle
ships outnumber and outrank the Gu
polas on the temple of peace at The
Hague.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28
Guarding Against Scratches.

One of the best preventives OF
scratches in horses is to keep the
feet clean. If mud is permitted to
dry on the fetlocks irritation is likely
to enSue.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

Kitty Gordon tells us that it costs
5000 a week to be beautiful, and yet
few women are complaining about the
high cost OF beauty.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

A Baltimore man has been on the
operating table "a times. He must pc
the fellow who casts the scattering
vote
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

They call it the United States of
China, but the states are about as
firmly linked together as mess OF
chop suey.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

A doctor told woman's club how
to make child sick His talk could
be spread usefuliy for the benefit OF
grOwn-ups.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

A Pittsburg school has established
a course for brides" The course for
2 good many brides these days is first
to Niagara Falls and then to Reno.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

Wrestlers may win in straight falls,
but aeroplane racers, never.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

The man who pays $4,000 for
Bible does not expect to get $27.O0V
worth Of reading out OF 1t.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

Automobiles would be even more
popular If they did not smoke.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

and other insects that are drawn by
decaying matter will give trouble if
cider is made in this way.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

A wealthy soap manufacturer adj
dressed the hobo convention at Cln-
cinnati and escaped without scratch.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-03-28

A fireproof building is always fire
proof as long as there ia no lire In the
vicinity.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01
THE "PoLlTIcAL BOSS"

A great deal of unsavory shingS
are being said about our friend, Mr.
Charles F. Murphy, chief of the Tam
many organization, by the 'goody
goody" New York World and it's sat
elites throughout the country for be
ing a boss" There, however, may
be good and bad bosses" as there
are good and bad trusts" but know
ing our ground we say very profound
" that the political boss" is a ne
cessary adjunct to our system of gov
eminent. Don't all you progressive
and 'goody, good" newspapers become
startled, please, because we are quot,
ing from Governor Woodrow Wilson
himself.
In his chapter on party govern
ment' in his Constitutional Govern
ment in the United States" the pres
ident of Princeton, and our candidate
for president of the United States,
says:
They-the political parties-are alb
sclutely necessary.
There are so MANY officers to
be elected that even the preparation
Of lists of candidates is too compli-
Gated and laDorious d business to be
undertaken by men busy about other
things. Some one must make a pro-
tession OF attending to it.
There must, therefore, be an eXte-
rior organization, voluntarily formed
and Independent of the law whose
object it shall be to bind them-the
various officials-together in some
sort of harmony and cooperation.
That exterior organization is the po-
litical party. The hierarchy OF it's Of
ficers must supply the place Of hier-
archy of legally constituted Officials
Whatever their faults and abuses,
party machines are absolutely neces-
sary under our existing electoral ar
engagements. and are necessary chief
~ for keeping the several segments
OF parties together
No party manager can keep his
lieutenants to their business who has
not control Of party nominations
1t may be laid down as a political
maxim that whatever assigns TO the
people power which they are natu-
rally incapable of welding takes IT.
away from them. They nave under
cur constitution and statutes been as
signed the power of filing innumer-
able Offices: they are incapable Of
welding that power. because they
have neither the time nor the neces-
sary means Of cooperative action;
The power has therefore been taken
away from them, not by law, but by
circumstances and handed over to
those who have the time and the in
clinarion to supply the necessary or
ganiZatiOn.
They (the officials of government
must obey an outside master
We have made it necessary tina.
we should have bosses" and chat
they and their lieutenants should as
sign offices by appointment.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

We believe in giving the devil his
dues" and do not agree with a num-
Der Of our brethren Of the press who
say that the republicans nominated
Geo. c. Crom of Ocala for state comp
troller because of the Similarity Of
his name to that of the late lamented
A. c. Groom. who held that office for
a number Of years. We think this
was merely a coincidence, although
it is a good plan to caution all demo-
Gratis that the democratic candidate
for comptroller is Hon w. V. Knott,
who was appointed to that office upon
the death of Mr. Groom. Monticello
News.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01
GOV. WILSON'S VIEWS ON WAGES
AND PRICES

Il do not want any man in America
to fix prices and fix wages; I want
them to fix themselves. | want mems
wages to be sold in the open market
for what they are really worth, and
mems goods to be sold in the open
market for what they are really
worth and then America will have re-
covered her old virility and her pow
er TO stand up with any nation Of the
world. From Speech Of Gov. VIII
son at Gary, Ind, Oct. 4.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

sod bless the flag! Let It float and
all
The hky with It's beauty; our heart
strings thrill
TO the low. sweet chant OF its wind
swept lars,
And the chorus OF all its clustered
stars
Embrace II. o mothers! and heroes
shall grow
While It's colors blush warn on your
bosoms OF snow
Defend It. G fathers: there's no sweet
or death
Than 20 float It's fair folds with a sol
dierr last breath!
And love Il. o children! be true to the
sires
Who wove II in plain by the old camp
nFes.
Samuel L. Simpson.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

There are men in Bradentown to-
day worth several thousand dollars,
who, a few years ago, were very poor
men. They have been made rich by
the enhancement of the value of their
property, following the expenditure
of money for public improvements
Let's keep the good work going on by
extending the public improvements
to every part of the city.-Manatee
River Journal Here is a sermon in a
few words, and it ought to cause ev-
cry citizen to think twice before he
opposes any move that tends to i'm
prove his town. Every dollar intel
ligently expended in public improve
ments increases the values of abut-
ting property greatly, and makes a
market for property that previously
had little market value. No intelli-
gent man can deny this-Apalachi-
cola Times.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

The Times-Union of Thursday
prints a picture of the Olustee mon
ument, and pictures of General Will
Hams of Jacksonville: Miss Roselle
Cooley, state sponsor; Miss Helen
Beggs of Madison, maid OF honor
Miss Mary Paris of St, Augustine,
maid of honor, and Miss Nadia Len
gle, sponsor The unwilling marked
an epoch in the history of the state.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

\ man is only expected to do his
best. If he is sincere and will truly
plant the seed, diligently till the soil
he can reasonably be sure of harvest
ing a crop. This applies in morals as
well as in filling the soil.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

The bullet of one assassin made
Roosevelt president. But lightning
rarely strike twice in the same place
and history sometimes, but rarely,
repeats itself.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

\ Georgia judge reeled off this in
handing down an opinion: Persons
who go to churches must not carry Ii
quor or have liquor either on their in
sides on on their outsides. "-Pensaco-
Ia News.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

1t is claimed that the Balkans have
Won a strategic point against the
Turks, and that they now have an I'M
obstructed route to Ardianople. The
Turks are beginning to see their fin
ish.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

The Confederate Veterans did fine
job when they selected Pensacola as
the place for their next annual con-
vention. The Deep Water City will
treat the old heroes royally.-Pensa-
cola News.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

Governor Wilson has already writ
ten the letter that is to be delivered
in all parts of the United States on
Wilson day.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

Mr. Thomas A. Edison has come
out for the bull moose party and
woman suffrage The inventor is go
ing the whole hog
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

\ street car strike is on in Jackson
ville-one hundred and eighty men
refused to go to work Monday morn
ing. There is no disorder
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

There is a superintendent of edu-
cation in Alabama named Jeff SoX.
What a pity his parents didn't name
him Red-Pensacola News.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

1t is announced from the depart
ment of agriculture that the wheat
crop is 100,000,000 bushels larger
than thta of last year.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01
"THE HIGH COST OF LIVING

This earth is like a big bombshell
The high cost of living is the fuse
The fuse has burned nearly to the
shell. Something is bout to happen
Either the fire will be put out and
all will be we'll, or the fire Will not be
put out and all will be hell. The
French revolution was caused by the
high cost of living. And a woeful wo-
man, walking the streets of Paris
beating a drum and crying bread,
was the spark that set off the SHE'LL
Albert L. Benson, in Pearson's Mag
aZine.
The CRY for bread caused by a
great famine in the land, and the
cry for bread" caused by the high
price of foodstuffs, are different prop
ositions.
The whole fabric of government,
indeed the whole fabric OF existence,
rests upon the success or failure OF
agriculture
Success or failure radiates largely
from the farm When the farmer
makes good crops and obtains good
Drcies, good prices in all other lines
follow and prosperity obtains.
We can remember what distress
there was in the land some years ago
when the farmers of the west were
compelled to burn their corn for fuel
because of the low cost OF prices"
When the farmer can get dollar
for all the corn, and all the wheat, and
all the potatoes that he can grow
forty and fifty cents per dozen for his
eggs, fifty and seventy-five cents for
his chickens, and one dollar and fifty
cents and two dollars for his turkeys.
he ought to become prosperous, and
when he is prosperous the country
is prosperous.
These are the conditions that are
obtaining today The farmers are
getting bigger prices for their pro-
ducts than at any other time that we
can remember. so if they are not pros
porous, why not?
The prosperity of farmers causes
prosperity in other directions. Has
anyone ever known the price of lum-
Der to be as high as it is today? Has
anyone ever known the price Of skill
ed and unskiIled labor to be as high
as it is now?
Who are getting the benefit Of high
prices? If not the producer, then,
who?
And why should there go up a cry
for bread?"
What do the farms disclose? Here
are the estimates of the yield for
i912:
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01
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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

Seven were injured in a collision
yesterday on the L. and NJ at Knox
Vile.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

Some of these days we may get a
democratic nominee who will please
Tom-cat Watson-Pensacola News.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

Governor Wilson has resumed his
campaigning. He will speak in Penn
sylvania.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

Joy is not in things it is in US
Charles Wagner.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

Frank Mayes of Pensacola is well
again and says that Florida is, in
deed. the real land of promise
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

Secretary Wilson says that the tar
if is the only issue
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

We do not believe that "Mr. Black
Jack" Johnson will visit Tampa this
winter or any time soon.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

Duluth's first white child died Mon
day at the age of 70.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

Jacksonville will soon erect an i'm
posing opera building.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

Bradford county is strongly in ia
vor of good roads.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

Before another twelvemonth a new
map of Europe will have to be made.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

Georgia has contributed $4,000 to
The Wilson campaign fund
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

Thomas Edison, the great inventor.
gave $500 to the Bull Moose party.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01


Wheat bushels. ....... 720,333, 600
Oats, bushels .. .....1,417172.0 900
Barley bushels ...... 224,619,000
Buckwheat. bushels. -. $4,000 900
Irish potatoes, bushels. 401, 100000
Flax bushels.... ..... 29,000,000
Rice, bushels ....... $4,000, 1000
Tobacco, pounds. ...... 974,0G0. 0O9
Hay, tons - \. .... 72.425. 900
The Manufacturers Record, a close
student of conditions. says that these
estimates show an increase over the
1911 production Of 4S5,000,00 bushels
of corn, 9S,995,000 bushels of wheat,
l94,S74,000 bushels of oats, 64,379,0 900
bushels of barley, los, 900, 900 bushels
of Irish potatoes, 100000 bushels of
fax, 100000 bushels Of rice, 90. 000,-
600 pounds of tobacco and 12,509,0 600
tons Of hay The average in 1912 in
corn, buckwheat, potatoes, tobacco,
flax and rice was greater than that OF
1911; the production per acre was
greater for each of these crops ex-
cept tobacco, and for corn, buck
wheat, Irish potatoes and rice the
acre production was greater than the
average for the five-year period, 1906
1910 The 1912 figures of production
are, of course, preliminary, but the fig
ures of acreage and the statement of
conditions indicate a bountiful har-
vest, embracing practically the whole
country and representing a value
close upon S9,0OO,000000. In that
fact is a part explanation of the ac-
tiyity in lines of manufacturing in
dustry and trade.
Do these estimates show a famine
in the land? And with the present
prices of foodstuffs why should not
the farmers OF the United States ride
in automobiles over smooth surfaced
roads?
And with mechanics obtaining four,
five and six dollars per day 6 hOurs)
in wages, and unskilled labor nine
and ten dollars, and even more, per
week, why should they send up a cry
for bread?"
We were just reading in the writ
ings of Thomas Jefferson where Pierre
Charles L'Enfant. who planned Wash
ingron City and designed the capitol
and the presidents house, received
only five dollars per day-and a day
then was reckoned from sun to sun.
The cry of the socialists is a play
TO the galleries. Their assertions are
mere assumptions, none of which will
bear analysis because they are not
backed up by facts.
There never was a time when the
laborers in shop and field and mine
obtained such a high recompense for
their labor as at the present time.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-11-01

The Turks continue to be routed.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1912-11-15
Resolutions,

Whereas, Our Heavenly Father, in
His infinite wisdom, has called our
beloved sister, Mrs. Pearle Bryant
Ellis, to that better land, where all
tears are wiped away and where shall
be no more sorrow nor signing, and
Whereas, Our dear sister was one
of our most interested and efficient
workers, and by her devoted service
to the cause of Right, and her sweet
geniality of spirit, endeared herself
to us all, therefore, be it
Resolved, That our deepest and
most heartfelt sympathy be- extended
to the bereaved, whose loss we feel
also, to be our loss and whose hope
is our hope Be it further
Resolved, That a copy of these res
Olutions be sent to the following: The
bereaved husband, Merton G. Ellis;
the sorrowing mother, Mrs. Susan
Bryant; the grieving parents-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Ellis; to each of
the sorrowing brothers and sisters,
and for publication in The Dallas OBJ
server and the Falls City News.
Signed by order of the Falls City
w. c. r. Z. in session assembled.
Committee:
MRS. CHLOE A. SEYMOUR,
MRS. BELLE GOTTFRIED.
Falls City, Ore, Nov. -, 1912.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1912-11-15

The observer doesn't believe in
too much self-praise, in blowing its
own horn" so to speak but it cannot
refrain from calling attention to the
fact that it has once more demon
strated it's position as N1WSPA-
PER. Last week the first election
table, showing the result on the
county ticket, compiled from unoffic-
ial returns, was printed two days af-
ter the election had been held and
this week, as usual. it was the first
newspaper in Polk county to give its
readers the complete official count.
1t has been able to do this because
of its superior equipment and compe-
tent mechanics and further for the
reason that its publishers believe that
the subscribers of this paper are enti-
tied to the best and no pains nor eX-
pense is spared in giving it. The big
table in Tuesdays issue was set en-
tirely on The Observers linotype in
four hours, a feat that could not have
been duplicated in a hand shop" in
two days or even more. This is only
another evidence that Dallas is in the
front van of progress and modern
methods in the newspaper, as well as
other lines.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1912-11-15

would exercise their best judgment
But they do not so inform themselves
They do not take the trouble. Rather
they go upon the broad theory:
Vote No on all propositions you
don't understand" and it is so much
easier to do it that way, they let it
go at that Future regulations
should be extended to the initiative
If 1t is to prove the real benefit to
the people. The number of meas
ures should be limited, thus prevent
ing the multiplication of bills which
are sure to prove too great Job Tor
the average busy voter to untangle.
Thus the people would be more apt
to look into the questions submitted
and by personal investigation and
discussion through the medium of the
public press. would be able to vote
intelligently If that were done in all
cases, The Observer has confidence
to belive that the people of Oregon
would decide all questions and that
their verdict would be beyond cavil.
The defeat of the single tax prop
aganda is an illustration in point.
This question was discussed with
much vigor throughout the state Ev-
erybody had an opportunity to post
themselves. They knew whether or
not they wanted it, and the emphatic
way in which they killed it shows
that the judgment of the people is
true and honest. Had the millage
bill been given the same attention
The Observer does not doubt that it
would have carried.
Taken in the main, the Oregon
system is all right, but it could be
vastly improved by the embodiment
Of additional restrictions which would
permit the electorate to inform itself
and intelligently vote upon all ques-
tiOns submitted to it. In its broader
sense the doctrine vote no and be
safe" presupposes inability to under
stand, which is a SANDER upon the
people of Oregon. In another sense,
however, it is rnanifestly impossible
for ali TO famiiiarize themselves with
half a hundred measures such as en- /
numbered the recent ballot and the
only safe and sane method is to re-
strict the pseudo-lawmakers who
flourish in Oregon like a green bay
rec