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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-11-21
FIELDER JONES Is AL
LAS A FREE AGENT

manager Of s the Chicago ss'o Americ aan;
when they won a worlds champion
ship in 1906. is a free agent at last.
Jones retired from the leadership Of
Comiskey's team and from active base
ball after the season Of 1908, but every
autumn up to this fal. he was included
in the list Of players which the south
side club reserved. in the hope. 1t was
said. that he might return to the game.
The club did not include his name
this year.. and he is now free to play
ball wherever he pleases.
Whether his release has anything to
do with reports that he will assume
the management of some club is not
known. Rumor here has named him as
leader of Cincinnati. A few years ago
Jones a q chance to become part
owner Of the st. Louis American
league club and take Its management,
but differences between President
Hedges. of the Browns. and other
the transaction. Jones is still presi-
dent of the Northwestern league.
Portland. Ore, Oct. s1.-Fielder
Jones. president of the Northwestern
league. said yesterday he had not. me-
q view to purchasing an interest. He
had. always carried such a plan in
mind. he said, and now that he had
been released by Chicago would seek
an in terest in a minor league team.
Cincinnati, Ohio. Oct. 31.-President
August Hermann. OF the Cincinnati
team, stated here yesterday that there
was not a sembiance Of truth in the
rumor that Fielder Jones might be-
come manager Of the Cineinnati cam.
WAMTa ri III 0eAaAMna
WITHOUT APPEARANCE
New York. Special: David L. Fultx,
president Of the Baseball Players fra
ternity. hopes that International COM
mission will grant the demands CT the
fraternity for revision Ct the terms Of
baseball players contracts without the
necessity Of q hearing. and therefore
there will be no reason Why he should
have to 60 before he commission in
person to urge the cause OF the play
era. He said 30 in replying to . state
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15
TWO HAVE PERFECT FEET

described as being one of the two
most beautiful women in America.
this was the verdict of the well-known
New York author, c. w. de Lion
Nicholl.
The other woman VINO approached
the ideal of beauty is Miss Kathleyne
Elliott of Racine, Wis. who is spend
ing her first season in Washington as
the guest of Mrs Henry A. Cooper,
the wife of the Wisconsin congress
man.
1t was during the recent southern
relief ball that the author discovered
Miss Elliott and pronounced her the
most beautiful woman In the country
save one. She is perfect type of a
blonde, and is the daughter of Mrs.
Lucius ]. Elliott of Racine.
In making the statement regarding
the feet of the Washington women
the dealer remarked that his custom
ers had, as a general thing. very
small feet and that the average size
shoe worn by the bellies of the capital
was a 3, and that very seldom was
anything over 5 asked fer.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15
Neinhhorlv Hint

People as keep ems" observed the
lady at No. II Acacia terrace, SHOULD
keep em at 'ome. One o. these odd
days, when your fowls come scrappin'
in our garden, you'll be missin' some. p"
The lady of No. 10 shifted the air
in defiance. eff you was to feed your
cat prop'ly p'raps it wouldn't go
untin' round for bulbs" she observed
Then you wouldn't lay the blame OH
ems what belongs to your neighbors. !"
A week later the lady of No. II
again addressed her next-door neigh
Dor.
Thanks for your int about treatin'
our cat better" she said.
PLEASED you found it pay" return
ed No. 10.
1--WE should never abound out what
wonderful cat it was if it 'adn't been
for you," smiled No. II. Since you
spoke about it l made it up couple
of straw beds in the tool 'ouse and
sprinkled a little barley about, and
blest if that cat amt laid two nice
eggs every mornin' since"
And next day there was wire fence
round the hen house at No. 10 that
an elephant couldn't break through.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15
Short kiatpin law.

We have observed a disposition in
the newspapers outside of Massachu-
sets to belittle the law against long
hatpins that will become effective
early in April. There is one eXcep
ton, however The New York Sun
which used to boast that it shines
for ALL" takes a sane view of the mat
ter. "The protection Of life and limb,
declares the Sun, cannot be deemed
Bumptuary legislation. Is it not rea.
sonable to approve the Massachusetts
5 statute just passed providing that the
deadly end of hatpins worn in public
shall be sheathed? The rapier is not
less beautiful with a foil. The hat
pin scabbard can be made esthetic;
the fears of man can be allayed, his
miserable life spared. Sovereign wo-
man can still Stay with her eyes; she
needn't put out the other fellows"
No, she need not, and it is within her
power to make the penalties of the
new law harmless by setting the fash
ion of wearing a protector. Let her
heed the advice of the Sun and make
the scabbard of the hatpin esthetic.
AS already suggested, let the feder-
ated clubs address themselves to this
troublesome problem and the affair
can be settled to everybody's satisfac-
ton within very short time.-From
the Lynn Item.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15

A dispatch from Paris says that a
movement has been started in the gay
city to substitute less meaningless
phrase for the popular salutation,
How do you do?" In the first place,
the French idiomatic phrase of greet
ing cannot be rendered into the Eng
lish How DO you do?' but literally
translated is How do you carry your
SELF" How do you do?'' is not insipid,
but graciously suggests regard for
ones friend by making it the first con-
sideration to obtain assurance that he
is in good health. This is the fOunda-
ton idea of forms of greeting in all
parts of the world including such spe-
cial inquiries as that of ''How's your
liver?" which prevails among the Eng
lish in the trying climate of India. The
probability is that even the mercurial
French would not be likely to yield
readily to an invitation to change in
a day a custom Of centuries. But Paris
correspondents often are more con-
cerned about amusing their readers
than instructing them-and this dis
cussion as to altering the form Of sal
utation may afford an illustration of
that fact.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15
American Girl Tells Experiences
as Wife of Prince
Found Cousin of the khediVe of Egypt
Subtle, Cruel and Treacherous At
ter Marriage-Was Compelled
to Leave Him.

New York; told him that there
was something else in this big world
for me to do than to be shut up and
cry"
Thus an American girl issued her
defiance TO a king. 1t was her retort
to the khedive of Egypt's plea, one
we have all heard more times than we
have dollars, or even pennies: "A
womans place is in her husbands
home"
BE it ever so unhappy" she fin
ished, adding to the discontinue OF
the occupant of Cleopatra's throne.
They were saucy words to be spOk-
en- to a monarch, and the speaker
might have been punished as are the
contumacious women of Turkey-by
a sack and silence and the waters Of
the sea.
She is an American, though she
bears the title of princess, bestowed
upon her by her husband, the Prince
Ibrahim Hassan, cousin of the ruler
of Egypt She is primarily an Ameri-
can girl. She was Californian, and
one of the handsomest of that state
of handsome women, before she be-
came a princess, and to a woman the
habit of saying what she thinks
clings.
That is the reason why she said
without fear and without wavering:
IAN oriental husband is like small
boy that delights in tying tin can
to a kittens tail or in pulling fly
to pieces, wing by wing, leg by leg,
eye by eye. There is something in
him that makes him like to see suf-
fering."
Princess Hassan was explaining
why she is in this country.
The most foolish act a girl can
commit, except suicide, is to marry
an oriental" said the tall woman in
black velvet and gray fur, her tiny
foot tapping. THE inhabitants of
these opposite sides of the world are
as unlike as oil and water, and they
will assimilate no better.
I'm America a wife has chance in
a mental contest or in a conflict of
wills with her husband. In Egypt or
Turkey or any other part of the orient
the American wife is powerless, for
he uses against her the mighty weap-
on of concentration.
Association with Europeans is
slowly doing away with the harem.
The younger princes do not often
avail themselves of Mahomet's per-
mission to have four wives. But, -
Princess Hassan lifted eyes that have
wept; they are unfaithful. My hus-
band had no harem. l am his only
wife, but he continued old fiirtations
and associations. While Prince Ibra-
him was wooing me I was a goddess.
He approached me fguratively on his
knees. But afterward he was very
different
1T is true lived in palace, but |
soon learned that it was a prison.
Almost Immediately after the mar.
riage ceremony ! noticed change in
Prince Ibrahim. Before all suavity
and almost cringing Difference, he
turned dictator. He was the jailer of
my prison. When he wanted to see
me he expected me to be within call.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15
ADMITS ATROCITIES IN PERU
Official of Company Involved, How
ever. Blames 1t All on Subor-
dinate Employees.

London, Observation-Disclosures Caesar Ar
ana, the rubber king" appeared be-
fore the committee investigating the
atrocities in the Putamayo rubber
fields in Peru.
Arana has been held responsible for
the system by which many Indians
were killed or cruelty maltreated. He
admitted in his testimony that the
forced labor of the Indians revealed in
a book written by an American civil
engineer and in consular reports was
true, but declared that the cruelties
had been exaggerated. He asserted
that he and the British directors of
the company were ignorant of the con-
ditions in the rubber fields until they
learned of them through consular re-
ports. Arana said the guilty persons
were employees Of the company.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15
PlGTAIL rs A BLESSING.

DR.. John Budberg, an Englishmans
has entered a defense of the China
mans pigtail He says the pigtar
owed It's origin to hygienic motives
According to our authority, the effect
of the pigtail is more active ctrcula-
ton of the blood, which benefits the
brain He wrHtes: 1.-THE observation we
hear now and then that Chinese with
out pigtails show less intelligence
strikes me as not altogether unreason-
able, as an active circulation of the
blood will not fail to influence the
nourishment and development of the
brain" He states that the head Of a
newly born baby is shaved, and no
cloth, cap. or soft pillow is allowed to
interfere with the circulation of the
scalp. When the child grows bigger,
the hair is tied together in punches,
SO as to expose the skin to the air, and
thus promote perspiratiOn. Later the
hair is grown so as to form pigtail,
and superfluous hair is shaved away.
The effect is a high and smooth fore
head and a face free from wrinkles,
and hense even old Chinese have
smooth faces and a juvenile appear
ance. When rolled up on top of the
head, the pigtail acts as substitute
for cap and protects the head from
the glare of the sun and the cold of
winter. It is also neckcloth and a
pillow. It is likewise ever at hand to
check hemorrhage should a cord be
needed for that purpose.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15

mers' boys a ready reference publica-
ton by which they may tell at a
glance which birds are valuable and
which are harmful. It gives some fig
ures which show what a large amount
of good to agriculture birds do in de-
stroying insects and eating weed
seeds.
He points out that birds are voca-
cious eaters and have to work indus
triously not only for their own food,
but for the food demanded by their
ever-hungry nestlings. In this con-
nection he points out that the stom-
ach of single unobtrustive field spar
row taken in New York contained
three-quarters of an ounce of noxious
weed seed. On this basis it could be
calculated with fair accuracy that the
sparrows alone in New York state de-
stroyed annually S45 tons of weed
seeds.
Many of the other figures given are
equally interesting and surprising.
The author says that nearly all birds
are useful either as insect or weed
eaters. Even the birds of prey, like
hawks and owls, that have bad
name among farmers, do much more
good than harm.
In the case of single OWLS nest
there were collected from the neigh
borhood 5000 skulls, mostly those. of
gophers.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15

Exports from the United States to
South America will approximate
$15O,000,O00 in the
South American fiscal year 1913,
Trade Grows. against $4,000
600 in 1903, $685.
600 in 1893, $3O,000,OOO in 1883 and
$30,000,000 in 1873. Imports from
South America will approximate
100000, against $107, 100000 in
1903, S102, 100000 in 1898, $4,000, 900
in 1883 and $67OOO,O00 in 1873. In
both imports from and exports to
South America the chief growth has
occurred during the last decade. the
growth having been more rapid in ex-
ports than in imports.
This rapid growth in the exports TO
South America is especially interest
ing in view of the fact that manufac"
lures form over SIS per cent of the
total merchandise sent from the
United States to that grand division,
while they form but about 80 per cent
of those sent to Europe and AZ per
cent. of our exports as a whole.
This growth in the exports to South
America is distributed among large
number of articles and practically all
the leading countries of that CONT
nent To Argentina, for example, the
total exports increased from $32,00O,-
600 in the fiscal year 1908 to $53,OOO,-
600 in 1912, the chief growth having
occurred in mowers and reapers,
which increased during the five years
In question from $1,000,000 to $780,
600; plows and cultivators from $751;
495 to $1,722 ,095; automobiles from
S72,396 to $860,350; steel rails from
$290,343 to $862,511; iron sheets and
plates from $460,7S4 to $1,77S,2S3;
sewing machines from $440,045 to
$724,134; steam engines other than
locomotives from $259,4S1 to $1,342,-
57S windmills from $7S2,429 to ST.
072,4S9; glazed kid leather from
$6,S64 to $1,141, 661: boots and shoes
from $94,661 to $377,407; naphthas
from 1882, 76O to $1,642,477: cotton
seed oil from $239,139 to $6OOSS1;
printing paper from $16S,923 to $733,-
O03: soap from $61,219 to $37O834;
and lumber including only boards,
deals, etc, from $3,e21 ,O74 in 1908 to
$685. SAT in 1912.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15
NEWS FROM STEAD
Daughter of Dead Journalist Re-
Ceives Another Message
"Some Are Quiet Spirits, Some Are
Impetuous Like Myself" Say Vic
tim of Titanic Disaster-Com-
munication Is Not Easy.

London.-"Those are together who
think together. Some are quiet spirits,
some are impetuous like myself"
This was one of the message"
from the late w. T. Stead, which his
| daughter, Miss Estelle w. Stead de-
livered to a crowded gathering of the
London Spiritualistic alliance in the
salon of the Royal Society of British
America.
Miss Stead, who explained that she
was neither a lecturer nor "a public
| speaker, made very promising debut
In both capacities. In proclaiming
what spiritualism means to me"
she said the one fact that stood out
clearly was individual responsibility
and the unlimited power of self-de-
velopment in this life, while away
ahead lay long road of development
for the SOUL AS to the possibility of
communion with those who had passed
over she was as certain of it as she
was of anything.
For some the veil between was very
thin, and she herself had had some
of the most splendid proofs of anthem
tic messages.
1t was sometimes very difficult, how
ever, to get into communication with
those beyond. Her father, in recent
message, said:
would that you could see how rare
it is for clear direct spiritual inter
sitting in circles who are the victims
of the lower spirits"
Her father, said Miss Stead, found 1t
difficult to communicate through her,
because her mind was apt to jump to
conclusions, but many messages had
come through others. In one of them
he spoke of the horrors of the battle
field and "of all those hurried over
here untitled for the spiritual life.
They come in great bands and even
the archangels are powerless to raise
the spirit-it must grow of itself.
In another message he spoke of
the narrowing scenes witnessed by
him during the war Some of the
victims" he said, "were higher than
others in the spiritual plane, but most
gravitated to the prison houses and
the darkness of the spheres"
Il think" Miss Stead remarked,
that my father has found it more diff
ficult to get absolutely correct state
ments through than he had any idea
was the case when he was on this
side. Many things that we may have
taken to be correct then, feel now,
with the greater knowledge, he wishes
me to be careful about. He has since
told me that some of the earlier mes
sages were distorted because his emo
ton in getting back to earth condi-
tons made it impossible for him to
hold the mediums brain, and his mes
sages were colored by the thoughts OF
the sitter Just now / am very in
terested in some messages | have re-
ceived from America, for my father
has corroborated them in a very won
derful manner, which l did not think
possible"
These messages Miss Stead hopes to
make public later.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15
Giddy Life in a Small Town.

The Fort Scott Tribune tells of q
Kansas City man who visited recently
his country cousin" in Fort Scott.
The man from the city, wishing to ex-
plain the joys of metropolitan life,
said: 1--WE have certainly been hav-
ing fun the last two days. Thursday
we automobiled to the Country club
and golfed until dark, then we trollied
back to town and danced until morn
ing" The country cousin was not
stumped in the least, SO he began tell
ing of some of the pleasures of simple
life. eve have purity good times here,
too. The other day we buggied out to
Uncle Neds and went out to the back
lot where we baseballed all afternoon.
In the evening we sneaked in the attic
and pokered until morning. kansas
City Times.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15
BIRD BOOK ISSUED
Agriculture Department Pub
fishes Valuable Work.
Farmers Are Informed That All the
Winged Creatures Are Helpful! in
Destroying Pests That Injure
Crops-All Are Voracious.

ashington.-"E'ifty common birds
OF farm ami orchard" is the title of
one of the most remarkable bulletins
that have been issued from the de-
partment of agriculture for long
time. The first edition is chiefly for
distribution to members of congress,
but the bulletin is of such general in
terest that it's likely to run through
many editions and take a place with
the departments famous Horse
Book" as one Of the classics of agrl-
culture.
The bird book consists largely of
pictures, but, as the introduction says,
these are given prominence for spe-
cific purpose. They are small color
drawings, made by an artist who is
also an ornithologist. The picture is
used in each case as an idetif1cat1on
of the bird and the $50 words of text
that accompany the picture relate
merely to the birds habits and range
and the character of it's food.
DR.. Henry Henshaw, chief of the
biological survey, from which the
book is issued, says that the records
it contains are the result of the eX-
animation of about $4,000 bird stom-
achs by the experts of the survey in
twenty-six years. He adds, however,
that these stomachs were obtained, so
far as possible, from scientific collec-
tors, because the birds themselves are
too valuable national asset to be de-
stroyed when avoidable, even for the
sake of getting data on which to base
laws for their protection.
DR.. Henshaw says that the object Of
the book is to give farmers and far
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15

The benefits derived by our farmers
from the pleasure of the motor car can
hardly be estimated. 1t is certainly
equal to the happiness given by the
car to people in other walks of life,
says Leslies. 1t can also be claimed
that in the purchase of the automobile
by our country friends there is an eco
nCmic future. 1t enables daughter
or son of a farmer living several miles
from the village to market poultry,
eggs, butter, and similar products, do
the buying, and return home in two
or three hours. In the old times
this would require the loss OF the
services of a man and a team. OF
course, it cannot be claimed from this
standpoint alone that it's advantages
are commensurate with the cost Of the
motor car and the upkeep. Another
factor is of more value. The general
use of cars by the farmers has given
great popularity to this method.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15

The same proposition applies to the
young women if they desire to submit
such proposal to young men, but as
this is not leap year, Mr.. Cameron acc
knowledged he did not expect to have
any calls from the young women.
"This proposition is made for the
reason that there are at least two dozen
young men in the church who should
be married before the end of June"
said Mr.. Cameron in outlining his
plan. "The only conclusion to be
drawn from the fact that many OF
these have been keeping company for
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15
WILL ACT AS MATCHMAKER
Pastor in Muskogee, OKLA, Will Pro-
pose in Behalf of Young Men
of the Congregation.

Muskogee, Okla.-ReV. e. ID. Cam
eron, pastor of the Central Baptist
church of Muskogee, has offered to
take upon himself the duty of propos-
ing marriage to any young woman of
the congregation in behalf OF any
young man in the church who desires
to marry her.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15
Much of World unexnlored.

Despite the discovery Of both poles,
a large portion of the earth still re-
mains unexplored. Roughly, it is esti-
mated that about 100000 square
miles, or approximately one-eighth of
the total land surface of the world, is
still a mystery to civilization. Includ-
ed in this area are vast tracts of polar
region, portions of Arabia, jungies and
mountains in South America, spread
ing wastes in Australia, regions in
the Himalayas, dark haunts in Bor-
neo, and the Congo basin, and
stretches of the Sahara.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15
Dense Stuniditv-

'Is that clock right?" asked the Wis
itor, who had already oItstayed his
welcome. His hostess yawned.
"Oh, no." she said. That's the clock
we always call the Visitor"
1.-THE Visitor?" he remarked. What
a curious name to give clock"
His hostess ventur0G an explana-
ton.
you see," she cooed, sweetly, I'VE
call it that because we can never
rake it CO."
And even then he failed to see the
9oilst.--London Answers.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15
Oil Price lars Rockefeller,

Sea Breeze, Fla.-William Rockefel-
Ter was obliged to pay rs cents a gal
lon for gasoline at garage here, the
owner and manager seeing no reason
why Rockefeller should not pay the
price he asked The Gil magnate re-
marked that he would like to have a
motorboat in Florida, but thought the
price of gasoline too high.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15
Police Raid Opinm Joint.

Trenton. N. AFTER battlins
fiercely with the police in an effort
to escape, twenty-eight Cinnamon
were arrested in police raid on
gambling and opium den. The police
were forced to club many of the in.
mates into submission
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-05-15
Girl Thief Rlames lixpnotist,

Seattle, Wash.-AsseYting that she
was under the hypnotic influence of
Peter Berharaz when che committed
the crime of which she is accused,
Miss Emma Williams, alias Pearl Tur-
ner, eighteen years old. has confessed
that she committed IL robbers in Van,
couver and seven in Seattle.