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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29
IS STARTLED BY ANSWERS
Life Insurance Applicant Has Six
Gunshot Wounds-Once Noted az
Train Robber.

New York.-A modest little IAN
walked into the office of an 5Xamin.
ing physician for life insurance com.
pany and in a low, tintid voice told
the doctor he was ready.
The doctor is also small of stature,
but wears large spectacles, and stern
ly looked at his caller as if to say:
Now, don't dodge any OF these ques-
tons. young fellow Come right out
with the truth" He did.
Have you any wounds on your
jody?" asked the M. d.
yes, sir; / have six"
What kind of wounds?"
"Gunshot wounds, SIR" replied the
timid man. and the doctors eyes grew
larger. Sure enough, there they were,
Ever have any stomach troublet"
asked the M. d.
only once. l think Pm over that
now"
Where did you contract that?"
I'm solitary confinement, sir. after
being shot"
Would you mind telling me your
business?" asked the surprised doc
tor irrelevantly. "This is rather
strange"
I'm lawyer in Oklahoma City"
was the reply. "And have been such
for ten years"
Gust one more question" suggest
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29
CLEARED AWAY
Proper Food Put the Troubles Away.

Our own troubles always seem more
severe than any others. But when a
man is unable to eat even a light
breakfast. for years, without severe
distress, he has trouble enough.
1t is small wonder he likes to tell OF
food which cleared away the troubles.
st am glad of the opportunity to
tell of the good Grape-Nuts has done
for me-" writes a N. H. man. For
many years l was unable to eat even
a light breakfast without great suffer
ing.
after eating l would suddenly be
seized with an attack of collie and
vomiting. This would be followed by
headache and misery that would some
times last week or more, leaving me
SO weak l could hardly sit up or walk.
"Since l began to eat Grape-Nuts l
have been free from the old troubles.
1 usually eat Grape-Nuts one or more
times day, taking it at the beginning
of the meal. Now / can eat almost
anything 1 want without trouble.
when / began to use Grape-Nuts /
was way under my usual weight, now I
weigh 80 pounds more than / ever
weighed in my life, and am glad to
speak of the food that has worked the
change" Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Greek, Mich. Read the little
booklet 1.-THE Road to Wellville," in
pkgs. There's Reason"
Ever read the above letters A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of humaa
interest.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29

feel better than have for years. i
recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound to all who suffer as l
did. Mrs. M. ZEUNER, 1045 New Jer-
sey Street, Lawrence, Kansas.
Montana WOman'S Case.
Burns, Mont. "Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound cured me of awful
backache which / had suffered with for
months. was so weak could hardly do
my work and my head and eyes ached all
the time. Your Compound helped me
in many ways and is great strength
ener. l always recommend it to my
friends and tell them what grand med
icine it is for women. You may use my
name for the good of others. Mrs.
JOHN FRANCIS, Burns, Montana.
The makers of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound have thousands Of
such letters as those above-they tell
the truth, else they could not have been
obtained for love or money. This med
icine is no stranger - it has stood the
test foryears.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29
CONVICT IS SEEN TO SMILE
Has Not Spoken in Three Years-ls
Under Sentence of Oeath-His
Sanity Doubted.

Stockton, Cal-"Stient" Carson, the
convict, who was brought to this city
fr't investigation by alienists, and who
Mas not been known to utter a word
during the three years that he has
been under sentence of death for par
ticipation in prison break, is report
ed to have smiled at one of the hos
pital attendants, and this may break
down the obstacle that has prevented
his execution on a charge of murder.
Physicians who have had Carson
under observation say this is the first
display of any emotion on his part
of which they have record, and that
conclusions heretofore accepted as
proving him insane may be reviewed.
Carson is being subjected to a new
and original system of investigation
by several physicians.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29
Hunter Is Supposed to Have Turned
Dogs in Enclosure and Started
Animals on Wild Career.

st. Louis.-Boon's Lick and other
ticks in central and eastern Missouri
have fair chance again to come into
their own, unless fourteen deer which
escaped from the William Meyer farm,
near Hollow, in the western part OF
st. Louis county, are recaptured. A
herd of twenty-five denizens Of the
woods belonging to John Cafferata of
Delmar boulevard was stampeded by
dogs and all but eleven scaled the
fence.
Cafferata and three of his friends
have left for Gray Summit, Franklin
county, where they hope to form some
scheme of capturing some of the herd
and returning them to their fold.
They have been heard from in many
sections, but the owner never hopes
to regain all of them.
He received a message from japan,
Mo-, twelve miles from Cuba, on the
Little Bourbeuse river, that two OF
his pets had been seen there. Forty
miles out in Franklin county more of
the deer were seen, ana at Labadie
and on toward Union, Mo-, farmers
have sighted some of the flock. CAT
ferata does not know what method he
can employ in capturing them alive If
he can find them.
The deer were shipped from
friend in Maryland recently and sent
to the Meyer farm for safekeeping,
after the fences had been built unus-
ually high. Some former deer hunter
presumably, turned his hounds into
the Enclosure in order again to feel
the thrills of a real buck chase.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29
FEARLESS 14-YEAR-0LD THIEF
NimbIe Youth Keeps Room ip Hotel
Facing Station House While He
Robs London Homes.

London-Fourteen charges of shop
breaking and robbery, to I'll of which
he pleaded guilty, were preferred at
Nottingham children's cSuIt against
Charles Goodwin, rosy-faced Leices-
ter boy, aged fourteen, who was de,
scribed by the police as "a regular
Charles Peace" The Icy was re-
manded to a special cours for all the
charges to be investigated. It was
stated that Goodwin in six weeks OBJ
tanned $3.50 in the city while living in
hotel facing the chief police station.
Able to climb like cat, Goodwin's
method was to break into premises
from the roof. and it was while on the
roof of cafe that he was captured,
at one shop he removed the states
and bored through rafters and ceiling.
The boy was absolutely without fear.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29

From London comes the sad news
that Mrs. Fell, niece of Lord Mac
auIay, the historian, has died in a
workhouse hospital at Manchester,
aged eighty-fve. Mrs. Fell, who was
the widow OF a clergyman, received an
allowances from relatives, but when
she became ill and two nurses were
necessary to attend her she was taken
to the hospital. Why it should have
been necessary to take her to the hos
pital of a workhouse does not appear,
and the explanation in the conclusion
of the dispatch seems to cancel the i'm
pIication of the opening sentence that
the niece of Macaulay died pauper.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29
Don't Prosecute
Your Bowels
How tuberculosis Is Spread.

Based on figures obtained from
cases of tuberculosis reported in
Cleveland, New York and other cities
where thorough registration of con-
sumptives is employed, it Is esti-
mated that for every death from con-
sumption in the United States, Of
which there are on an average 200,-
900 annually, there are constantly
more than five living cases, making
at least 100000 in all. OF these mil
lion living cases, it is estimated that
the health authorities have records OF
not more than 100000 to 100000, or
one in every eight or ten, and that,
for the great majority of cases re-
corded, no hospital, home or dis
pensary care is provided. Practically
nothing can be done to control the
spread of tuberculosis in the unre'
ported cases.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29

When Hannibal was besieging Rome
there were those among the inhabi-
tants who bought and paid good prices
for the land on which his army was
encamped That was the spirit that
made the ancient Romans rulers of the
world. Americans on many occasions
have displayed the same splendid cour-
age and confidence in the face of
danger. They showed it in Chicago in
1871 by planning to rebuild before the
ashes were cold after the great fire.
They showed it at San Francisco, after
earthquake and conf1agration had done
their worst, and they are showing 1t
at Omaha amid the ruin and desola-
ton following the onslaught of the
tornado.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29
DEER HERD IN A STAMPEDE

One of the animals was tangled in
the top wires OF the fence as he
scaled it and thrown in such way
that its neck was broken. Another
broke hind leg in getting over the
fence, and still another was crippled
so it cannot travel fast.
For two or three days the deer re-
NAMED together in the vast acres Of
almost primeval forests north Of AL
lenton and Pacific, but the interfer-
ence of dogs from neighboring farms
is supposed to have scattered them.
One of the crippled animals is being
held by a farmer near Melrose, in
western st. Louis county.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29

A clergyman who preached to con-
gregation of young people recently
selected as the subject of his dis
course, after Marriage-What?" and
gave several excellent practical sug-
gestions. One was that every mar
ried couple should recognize as q
paramount duty their duty toward
each other. Another was that they
should keep up honeymoon courtesy,
and still another that they should es-
tablish a home of their own. BE it
ever so humble" he insisted, "a
home of their own should be the fixed
purpose of every young couple after
Earriage." 1t is a safe assertion
that no connubial venture conducted
on these principles will come to wreck
upon the rock of divorce.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29
81. 426. 422. O51. As q

The correctness of the count is GER
titled to by E. B. Daskam, w. S.
Broughton and P. E. Byrne These
constitute a committee appointed by
the secretary of the treasury to super
wise the count.
Not all the money in the vaults Of
the treasury was counted coin by coin
or piece by piece. The great bulk of
the silver dollars had been counted
when Treasurer Treat turned over the
funds to his successor, Treasurer Nc
Chung. Not only were seals put on the
bags in which they were contained, but
ths bags were put in a strong safety
bin, on which the treasurers seal was
set There has been no access to these
bins since the seal was set until brok-
en- for the present transfer.
The paper money is counted fifty
two times before it reaches the GUS
tody of the treasurer of the United
States. This count is accepted as cor
rect in the treasurer's transfer count
Before the final count is completed all
this paper money is in circulation, pro-
viGing an absolute check on the accu-
racy of the former count.
All the gold coin, amounting to ST.
sos, 1928, was counted by weight.
Such of the silver dollars and subsidi-
accessible was also recounted, as was
all the paper currency of denomina-
tons above $40.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29
FIND CASH INTACT
ST., 426,422,O AZ 2-3 in Uncle
Sans Treasury.
New Treasurer Gives Receipt for That
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Seals Unbroken;
Gold All Weighed; Paper Cur
rency Counted Many Times.

Observation-Disclosures John Burke
has given his receipt to retiring
Treasurer Carmi A. Thompson for ST.
426, 422, O51.4S 2-3, the amount of gov
eminent funds and securities in the
custody of the United States treasury
April /, 1913.
The official count of coin, paper cur
rency, bonds and other securities has
been completed, incident to the trans
fer of authority from an outgoing
treasurer to his successor in office.
This transfer of funds and securities
is always the greatest financial trans
action in the world, both in the amount
of money involved and in the labor
entailed by the count.
The amount transferred to Treas
urer Burke by retiring Treasurer
Thompson Is not SO large as the total
value of funds and securities turned
over to Treasurer Thompson by his
predecessor, Treasurer McClung. This
is due solely to the fact that transfer
accounts with near depository banks
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29
New Idea for RoadWays.

The highway department of the city
of Leeds, England, has recently treat
ed part of a macadam roadway with
granular calcium chloride to combat
the dust. Solutions Of the latter had
previously been tried at greater cost
and without such satisfactory results.
The road is first well swept and two
applications Of the chloride are made
on the succeeding evening of about
one-half pound yard.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29

marry a former squaw of Medicine
Hat. Not two years ago it took the
combined efforts of Miss SullivaKs
mother and the federal authorities to
prevent the young girl from marrying
the Indian. Following her wild prank
she roped papier mache steers and
perforated glass balls with d seven
shooter on the vaudeville stage for
the edifcation of those that respond
ed to the wild west posters on the
billboards.
81 have just returned from Palm
Beach," said Miss Sullivan, YEARLY.
Really, had forgotten all about that
childish escapade. So Plenty Hawk
is to be married l am glad to hear
it. He was a good Indian, but, really,
l can't believe that he is to be mar
ried, because | know that he has one
legal wife now. You see, it would be
quite impossible l am sorry if it
prevents him from marrying some one
of ts2y choice. No, | never heard of
this Medicine Hat woman. don't
know whether she is white woman
or an Indian.
Miss Sullivan read with renewed in
terest the dispatch from Sheridan,
which carried TIE information that
Plenty Hawk had taken out license
to marry Mrs. Medicine Top but that
one Catholic priest had refused to
marry the couple because they lacked
permission from the priest on the res
ervation. Plenty Hawks bride to be
was deck~S out in costume
valued at $500, which was said to
contain several thousand elk teeth
woven in cloth.
1T was all grand prank" she said.
Mother, you should have spanked me.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29
When Bobbie Lost Faith,

The illness of the feminine head Of
the household left Bobbie to the ten
der mercies of the nurse, who pres
ntly reported that the youngster re-
fused to say his prayers Papa start
ed an investigation.
"Why don't you want to say your
prayers, sonnie?"
"Aw," squirmlng and wriggling,
prayers amt no good!"
why, Bob, your mother would be
shocked to hear you. What makes
you think that?"
A long moment of silence before
Bobbie, half angry, half crying, blurt-
ed out:
why, cause / been prayin' for q
dog for long time, an here | don't
got no dog, but mamma gets red
baby that just kicks an squalls!",
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29

ed the doctor, who was beginning to
wonder at his patients extreme tim
idity. How did you get those
wUlnds?"
"Robbing trains, sir. Is that all you
wish?" And he bowed himself out,
leaving the M. D. with mouth agape.
The doctor then looked at the name
on the application, and it was "Al
Jennings"
Jennings at one time was one of
the most daring train hold-up men in
the world, and, upon being pardoned.
became one of the best lawyers in
Oklahoma
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29

And now the town of Essen, Ger
many, has been robbed by a swindler
who, representing himself to be an
auditor and pretending to discover
several thousands of surplus, car
ried it off to the minister of finance at
Berlin, who, needless to say, never re-
ceived it. City government in Ger
many may be on a model basis, but
there is at least one point on which
any American village could give it adj
vice.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29
HER BRAVE TO WE'D

Poor old Plenty Hawk / thought his
hills and forests, his horse sand blan-
kets, were all there was in the world
once. l liked to sit horse and gallop
away-make the dust fly and shoot
in the air. OF course. l know better
now. No, won't compare the con-
veniences of a modern fiat with those
of squaw's tepee. That isn't neces-
sary. I'm glad Plenty Hawk is going
to marry-if he can. He was quaint.
/ wish him worlds of happiness, back
in his hills"
IF the report is true. I'm tickle1 to
DEATH" said Mrs. Sullivan.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29
MORAL INFLUENCE OF CLOTHES. |
WASH BURN.

MORAL INFLUENCE OF CLOTHES.
Let not the fiippant speak lightly
of the suggestion that the way to re-
form women in prisons is to give them
corsets and pretty clothes. The femi-
nine philosopher who propounded this
road to redemption was entirely sound
in saying that there is no reform
without self-respect, and the relation
between self-respect and being we'll
dressed is intimate, says the Philadel-
phia Record. 1t was another feminine
philosopher, one from Boston, who said
that the consciousness of being well
dressed impaired a peace of mind
which not even the consultations of re-
ligion could give. The warden who
thinks a woman is no worse when a
corset is taken off her and no better
when one is put on, perhaps forgets
that in his own prison the convicts do
not wear striped clothes, and the
wardens of some other penal institu-
tons are putting on the convicts plain
clothes under which it is possible for
2 sense of self-respect to grow. The
cropping of the hair and the lockstep
have been abolished from several pris-
bns to avert the psychological effect of
Q personal appearance that is incom-
patible with self-respect. There is
more in this idea of giving women
prisoners corsets and pretty clothes
than some of the penologists, social
reformers and physicians interviewed
thereon recognize.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29

have been taken off the books of the
treasury, relieving it of just so much
big business.
The general business of the treas
ury shows the same steady growth
which makes each count of money ex-
coed the last count.
Treasurer McClung turned over to
Treasurer Thompson $1,519, 100000 in
total, the biggest transaction ever.
Treasurer McClung received from
Treasurer Treat S1,260, 100000, the
third largest transfer Treasurer Rob
erts turned over $1,259, 100000 to
Treasurer Treat.
The funds and securities turned over
by retiring Secretary Thompson to his
successor are made ND as follows:
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29

granted permission to the Associated
Naval Veterans to erect fifty-foot
statue of a goat on the top OF the
island, but agrees that it may be a
pagan" goat or goat rampant" or
both.
Permission to install, erect or SUI
perimpose the goat has been received
by Commodore John A. Browne of the
Associated Veterans from Acting Sec
rotary of the Navy Beekman Win
throp. The news caused some dis
comfture among members of the Ma
tive Daughters of the Golden West,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29
Mad Don hv Parcel Post.

Berkeley, Gala mad dog in a
neatly-tied package was received at
the post office. Mad" it was labeled
and so it turned out, after the bundle
had been examined by DR.. w. A. Saw
yer of the State Hygiene laboratory
The package was sent from the south
ern part of the state, where the dog
hats been killed.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29
E Helm.

why do you insist on having music
with every dinner?' asked the old pa
iron.
1T relieves the pressure" replied
the proprietor, "by giving the people
something besides the food to find
fault with"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29
Plenty Hawk Was Once Suit0r
of Chicago Girl.
Miss Madeline Sullivan Hears the
News From Wyoming With Much
ndifference-Love for Red
Man Is Dead.

Chicago.-Talking to reporter re-
Gently in the reception room of her
mothers apartments at $50 Crescent
place. Miss Madeline Sullivan poured
tea and recalled the days when in
sheepskin chaps and sombrero she las
seed statuary in her mothers home
and sank steel spurs in the mahogany
music bench
The occasion was the announcement
by wire from Sheridan, Wyo., that
Plenty Hawk, richest of all the Crow
Indians, had taken out license to
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29
His Petinent Question.

The gentle little mother was putting
the four-year-old to bed. In the hush
of "Our Father" and Nov lay me"
the irascible father of the family could
be heard downstairs, scolding every
body, as was his evening wont.
Mamma" asked the innocent little
chap, raising his blue eyes after the
Amen why do we have to have
papa?"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29
STATUE OF FIGHTING GOAT
Patheen Rue on Thanksgiving Day
1865, Met and Defeated
All Corners.

San Francisco.-Lovers of old Span
ish names now seeking TO have the
designation "Yerba Buena" restored
to Goat island, in San Francesca bay,
may find that at least the physical
semblance of the hated goat will re-
main.
The navy department not only has
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29

This country imported $42,500,000
worth of precious stones last year and
imposed on it's womankind the task
of carrying that burden on social oc-
casions. Thus does the tyranr man
keep up the ancient injustice of max
ing the women bear the burdens.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29

the other day. He could not keep
loud hurrah" when he learned that
Hon. Wilson was elected presidency
of the U. S. A."
Tadashige Suzuti-that is his name
lis now, after obtaining his degree
of bachelor of divinity at Princeton
Theological seminary, attached to the
mission field in Japan. His letter, III
full, reads:
"Shiroishi, Miyagiken, Japan,
March 4, 1913.
Dear President and Mrs. Wilson:
Il have a great honor to send you
my hearty congratulations for your
throne of presidency on this memora-
bic day
Il am a graduate from Princeton
Theological seminary, and conferred
the degree of bachelor of divinity at
the commencement, May, 1911. left
Princeton soon after the commence
ment for Japan and now am charging
a church in the district of the north
east Japan mission field Last fa!l
when | knew that Hon. Wilson was
elected presidency of U. 8. A, | could
not keep a loud hurrah. How much
we Princeton men were proud with
the matter! In Japan there are many
who were educated at Princeton (Un1-
versity or Seminary and they all
have the same feeling.
"They wrote an applause of you in
the papers and magazines at that
time. Today your portraits are print
ed in the papers everywhere and
praise your good name.
81 remember that when one eve
ming, spring of 1911, we graduating
students were entertained at the
house of Dr. and Mrs. Greene. Mrs.
Wilson gave me her kind salutation
with a cup of coffee. | never forget
such a sympathizing treatment.
pray his holy spirit upon you and
your states. | remain,
Cordially yours,
'TADASHIGE SUZUTI"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29

Out in San Francisco they are going
to teach the high school girls how to
do odd plumbing jobs about the
house. Any education that will make
life easier for the husband ought
to be pretty popular with the men
folks, anyhow.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-29
Her Ways.

"Our cook does the same thing for
different ends"
What is that?"
"She beats eggs to make them
stiff, and beats steaks to make them
tender"