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The Washburn leader., 1913-08-15

An Old Fable Told In Q New Way.
A Shepherd Boy was sent every day
to watch flock of sheep not far from
the Village. Every once in awhile he
would pretend Wolf was coming and
would cry out so that the Village Peo-
pie would come running to rescue him
from the Wolf. And when they had
rescued him each time he would laugh
ut them for believing.
But one day Wolf really did come.
The Shepherd Boy screamed and
shouted for Help. "Oh," he cried, "the
Wolf is killing the Sheep! Help!
Helpy'
But, Of course, since he had told un-
truths SO often the Villagers did not
believe him this time and no one no
ticed his cries. The Wolf killed all the
poor Sheep. If the Shepherd Boy had
been truthful this would never have
happened, for the Village People would
have come when he called and chased
away the Wolf.
The Washburn leader., 1913-08-15
GOOD ROADS AND CHURCHES.
II the Walking or Driving Is Bad Pee.
pie Stay Home.

pie Stay Home.
Churches and schools. the two great
agencies for the upbuilding Of any cih-
zenship. are sufferers from the Ills
which come from thoroughfares Of an
inferior type, says James r. Marker,
state highway commissioner Of Ohio,
in recent report. Decreased atten-
ton during periods of inclement wealth
er, when either to drive or walk i'm
poses at the best a hardship and is Of
ten an impossibility over poor roads.
cannot help but be the natural result
It cannot be expected that children
will be compelled to walk to school IL
a sea Of mud furnishes the only foot
ing, and this is too frequently true in
places outside the urban centers and
often SO in the latter. Nor is 1t to be
hoped that the horse will be employed
to find his path along the reacherous
road in order that the children may not
miss their lessons. Those who deal in
statistics claim that good roads every.
where would increase school attend
ance not less than 25 per cent.
Preachers bear striking testimony as
to the effect miserable roads have
upon the attendance at the churches.
They can gauge It with accuracy. and
the percentage Of decrease there 10 no
less than in the schools. Good roads
point not only toward larger audiences.
but larger contributions and less dona-
hon parties. Thus they become pow
lrful agency for spiritual and educa-
dOnal growth.
The Washburn leader., 1913-08-15
RURAL SCHOOLS AND ROADS.

lmpassabIs Highways Seriously Handi-
cap the Country chiId's Progress.
, The most serious charge yet lodged
against the rural school is that the
rate Of rural illiteracy is twice the
urban rate, despite the fact that three
fourths of our immigrants are in the
cities. and illiteracy among native
born children Of native parentage is
more than three times as great as
among native children of foreign born
parentage. says A. G. Monahan Of the
federal bureau of education.
With $4,000 one teacher school
houses. of which 5000 are log build
ings. we face the fact that the rural
school is alarmingly neglected. Al
though more than 60 per cent Of the
children Of the entire country are en-
rolled in country schools. the aggre-
gate attendance is only 81 per cent.
Inquiry as to why children do not at
tend school longer in many communi-
ties will almost invariably bring the
reply that bad roads, blockades Of
mud. snow drifts, washed out bridges
and the discouraging factor Of long
tramps through the cold weather keep
them away. Even the consolidated
school is limited in its usefulness by
the impossible highway.
While the one room school and the
inexperienced teacher are serious de-
fects, we should put most Of the blame
where It belongs-on our abominable
highways-which had better in most
cases be called lowways. With good
roads the little red schoolhouse might
free itself Of many Of the charges It
now bears.-Country Gentleman.
The Washburn leader., 1913-08-15
GOOD ROAD T,ps.

After roads are laid out hills
will have to be excused. but II
the roadway remains filled with
cobblestones 1t shows rather bad
taste for the community.
In selecting road overseers 1t
is well to forget pets" and poll
tics and instead select a man
who can do the work.
A width Of eighteen or twenty
7eet for a local road grade and
not too high in the center will
cost less in grading, make less
wo:k in dragging, and it does
not leave so much space for
weeds as a wider grade.
A team drawing a heavy load
generally has enough to do in
moving along with its burden. to
say nothing of the torture that
the end Of wagon tongue makes
in etrik,.k their sides and ierk-
ing their collars because of rocks
in the roadway.
The Washburn leader., 1913-08-15
7 ne WAS IN THE GAME.
70 Prove Il He Showed Whore the
other Side Made Hit.


Frank 1. Cobb, chief editorial writer
Of the New York World, was great
baseball player while he was at college
In Michigan. During vacations he ac-
cumulated strength and little extra
money by working" In lumber camp
and playing catcher on the camp team.
(The word working" is put in quota
ton marks adyisedly) Young Cobb
and his pitcher, Flanagan, formed
splendid battery, and all the players
and their camp mates won their bets
In games against rival camps with
great regularity. The battery worked
80 we'll that on certain dull Saturday
they were hired Mt $40 each and ex-
penses to play on the team Of Svenson
& StefanssOn, score of miles away.
They had to pretend to be Swedes, of
course, and they were down ON the
score card as Larsen. pitcher. and o.
sen, catcher
At dinner in Washington not long
ago Mr.. Cobb had the pleasure Of meet
ing Senator Julius c. Burrows of Mich
igan and found him delightful COM
panion. Mr.. Burrows seemed to find
the dignified young editor very enter
tanning. too, especially when the talk
turned to baseball, for Mr.. Burrows
was a "fan" in the superlative degree.
'"The boys in my lumber camp have
a team" he declared. "that has never
been beaten"
didn't the team from svenson &
stefansson's camp beat them some
years ago, senator2" asked Mr.. Cobb
innocently.
''No, sir!" cried Mr.. Burrows. turning
hot as If the battle were again going
on before him. mo. sir! They didn't
beat 49, Confound 'em. they put in two
ringers as a battery and were leading
our boys by to 4 in the eighth when
we found out about 1t and ran 'em on
the field and most of the way home.
1.-THE score was z to 8, wasn't 1t. Sem
ator?" asked Cobb politely.
"No-o-o-yes, I believe 1t was" Mr..
Burrows admitted. ''That's so: the um.
pire didn't allow our fourth tally be-
cause the runner didn't touch second.
But how did you know the score?"
II was there" said Mr.. Cobb, turning
the left side of his head toward Mr..
Burrows. "See that scar? That's
where they caught me with half
brick as l was going over the fence. I
was Olsen."-Harper's Weekly.
The Washburn leader., 1913-08-15
Animate Seen In the Sea.

Animals Seen In the Sea.
Many kinds Of animals and birds
have their titles taken by dwellers in
the deep sea.
Perhaps the most curious is the sea
mouse, which does not resemble the
land mouse In the slightest. It is .
worm Of curious shape and lives on
land beyond the tide mark. Often,
however, Il is thrown up on the beach
by storms.
Another funny inhabitant Of the sea
is the sea owl. It is not a bird at all,
but fish. It's more common name is
the lump sucker. Its curiously form
ID mouth, by which It fastens itself
to the rocks, resembles that Of an owl;
hence the name.
The Washburn leader., 1913-08-15
A HORSES PULLING POWER
Determined BY GRADES
Dean Raymond Of Iowa University
Brings Up New Question.

A totally new element has been
brought into the good roads question
by Dean William g. Raymond, head
Of ) the college Of engineering Of the
State university Of Iowa, in an address
before the johnson county good roads
convention.
Althangh Dean Raymond is working
for permanent roads, he wants the
state to 60 in with its eyes open and
consider all the problems. This one
relates to grades.
with dirt roads," said Dean Ray.
mond, "the pulling power Of team Of
horses is limited more by the condi-
ton Of the surface Of the road than by
the steepness Of the grades. But with
concrete. brick or macadam roads the
pulling power Of horse on the level
is immensely increased, and it is the
grades which determine the size Of
load that can be pulled. Consequently
in order to get the benefit Of perma-
nent roads it will be necessary to cut
down the grades.
"The practical effect is about as fol-
lows" says the dean:
"A team of horses can exert steadily
on dirt road pull Of $50 pounds,
which is enough to pull load Of two
and one-half tons on the level. and the
team can pull the same load over short
hills Of a rise of from five to eight
feet in the hundred by extra exertion.
"But on a concrete road the team
Of horses can pull load three or four
times as great on the level. When 1t
comes to a hill. however, the team can
not pull this added load over the same
grade that it could travel over with
the lighter load on dirt roads,"
Dean Raymond figures that the max
imum load for level concrete roads can
only be pulled over 2 per cent grade
that is. over a hill that rises two feet
in the hundred.
In his address he went into the cost
Of permanent roads, urging short time
bonds, and said he considered perma-
nent roads more of an investment than
an expense. The $4,000 or $4,000
mile invested in a permanent road is
not loss. be said. The money is spent,
but the community has the road, and
before the road is worn out it has its
value in use and in increased value of
property.-Iowa Homestead.
The Washburn leader., 1913-08-15
The ussful stoeI.

+ Many women have found that It IL
much wiser to sit down to work at such
tasks a. washing dishes, preparing
vegetables and even ironing. Hulling
strawberries. grating various mate
rials, ETC., all become pleasant and easy
tasks IL done sitting down. A high
once stool should be In every kitchen.
It can be slipped under the sink or the
kitchen table and relieves the strain
from many tasks. Such stool can be
bought for about &1.26. It 10 generally
too high, but q few inches taken from
each leg viii suit It to your individual
nseds.
The Washburn leader., 1913-08-15
GAINING BY GOOD ROADS.
The Farmer, Not the Motorist, 10 ssns.
flied Most.

The Farmer, Not the Motorist, 10 Bone.
flied Most.
It is not unnatural that a wrong i'm
preston prevails as to the class of peo-
pie who will be most benefited by good
roads. The enthusiasm of automobile
owners for good roads and the large
number Of cars seen in all parts Of the
country have given the impression that
the automobiles will be the largest
gamers. This is. however. an errone-
GUS idea., as a "road census" taken
would show that the motorcar owners
are in the minority. and the people de-
riving the greatest benefit are the
farmers.
While the users Of motorcars may
assist in the work Of creating public
sentiment in favor Of road improve
ment. the real benefit to the country is
in the saving to the farmers in trans
portation and in the enhanced farm
production which better marketing IA
ciities engender. Many farmer will
take to market over good roads q load
Of early potatoes for which he can get
$1.5O a bushel. while with bad roads II
would not have occurred to him to
plant them. The difference to him II
between a quick trip to town early in
the morning over an improved road or
q slow, laborious trip. taking prac-
tically an entire day over bad roads.
It is everywhere admitted that with
the Improvement Of our roads, farm
lands win greatly enhance in value.
All Of these arguments in favor Of q
strong agitation for better roads should
receive the earnest attention Of every
farmer.
Our faithful servants. the horses ana
mules. should also be considered in
this matter. % It Is nothing less than
cowardly to let these patient, dumb
servants Be lashed through mud and
ruts. straining every nerve to serve
Farm Press.
The Washburn leader., 1913-08-15
Their Message.

The evening callers were chatting
with their hosts when there came Q
patter Of little feet along the hall.
"Hush," whispered the hostess. rails
ing her hand. 1.-THE children are COM
ing with their good night message. 1t
always gives me feeling Of rever-
ence to hear them. They are so much
nearer to heaven than we. and they
The Washburn leader., 1913-08-15
on the Winas q the Wind.

On Sho Wings 0S xHO WJnos
When you put money in the postal
savings bank at the postomce you gel
a check or certificate Of deposit, which
shows how much you put in. You
have to return this check In order to
get your money out again. Well, after
the Omaha tornado the carrier on q
rural postal delivery route in Iowa,
100 miles from Omaha, found such q
certificate Of deposit bearing the name
Of an Omaha man. He sent It to the
Omaha postmaster. who found the
3wner and returned Il to him. II had
been blown away when the storm had
broken mp the owners house.
The Washburn leader., 1913-08-15
The Best Lioht,

Treat man with as much Difference
as you would picture-lOOk at him In
the best light.-EmersOn.
The Washburn leader., 1913-08-15
Riddis..i

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slass;.' IN IS
NJ third = n '.sioomy::,,'' my fourth = 4
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tariso; ~ s3s! iS s
NJ Whale u ! hiid TINT AnaeE3eans psasA
4 .Answer.-Easie.9 ss ISL
The Washburn leader., 1913-08-15
hs Loved Not the N.assaes.

Mrs. Ponsonby, visiting Paris. Il rs-
ceiving her friends at a ''little even
ing" and. thinking to have pleasant
change after talk. suggests to q guest
..And nov, N. Dubois. shall we have .
rubber7 "Ah, madame" said II. Du-
bois, with perfect politeness but pit.
eously, "a thousand thanks. mais 10
1s-n'aims pas 10 massaget' .....
The Washburn leader., 1913-08-15
zHs ,nssAar CAM n a SHALL wH1sP11.

speak from the fullness Of their little
hearts never 20 freely ~ when the
dark has come. Listen!"
There was q moments pause, and
then the message came in q shrill whis-
per. Mamma" It ran, willie found
q cockroach In the bathtub. Ladies'
Home Journal.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-21
Protestant Pastors
 Are Now In Favor Of Modified Confessional

Denver, July 21-The adoption of a modified confessional by Protestant churches has bee napproved by many Denver ministers. The Rev. Charles M. Sheldon of Topeka, in a speech at the Christian Endeavor convention at Los Angeles, urged that this step be taken. He said that for years he had devoted two hours each Sunday to hearing the tribulations of his con gregation.
 '.Frequentiy I can direct man to employrnent,'' he said. land sometim es estranged wives and husbands are reconciIed through the medium of the confessional.
 The Rev. David H. Pause of the First Reformed church says:
 fI believe in the modified confession al. Friendly counsel. at such times means a great deal to a troubled soul This should be part of the minister's work
 Other leading Protestant ministers favor the proposition, among them the Rev. I. B. Bill of the Capitol Hill Bap- tist church.
 This, it seems to me, is merely part of the minister's duty. and all good ministers from the beginning have done so,'' he said. However, we do not undertake to obtain forgive ness for mans sins.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-21
MANUFACTURERS TO" AID FIR. KOMARA IN
 HIS SOCIAL WORK
Will Contribute Towards Furn- iShing ParochiaI Build ing for Education
 al Work

To aid Rev. Andrew B. Komara, rector of St. Johns of Nepomuk, SIo- walks, A. c. church, in providing bet ter conditions for his people, the Man ufacturers' Association in it's latest bulletin endorses the work of the priest and urges members of the asso- citation and others interested, to give the pastor all the assistance possible. It is said that about 65 per cent. of the Slavonians of Bridgeport are To- cated in Father Komara's parish.
 Father Komara proposes to equip the basement of his large parochiaI school building with bowling alleys, pool tables, shower baths, a library, etc. By this means Father Komara hopes to promote a higher social and civic life among the Slovenian peo- pie.
 His work in this direction has been carefully investigated by a special committee of the Manufacturers As sociation and at meeting of the ex- ecuttve board of the association held July 3, it was voted te endorse FNath- Komara's work. Notice of this ac- ton has been sent to every member of the association.
 Father Komara needs from $1, 500 to $2,O00 to complete his plans and any one interested in helping him secure the necessary fund may feel assured that the cause is a worthy one.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-21
Londonere, HeIpleosness.

It was not the brightly polished boon of the Lendoners that most impressed an old Canadian whom took to see the sights of the metropolis some time ago. It was his first sight of us, and he was frank. He conhded to me chat he was most struck by our general helplessness'' and illustrated his mean ing by telling me that in the towE he came from the lawyer thought it no shame to carry a sack of four through the street, Che doctor might be seen spending his leisure by painting his house or the parsen engaged with spade and pick like any navy And now myi Canadian found he had arrived sn a. country where a man could not even carry his own portmanteau to the sta ton. Of course defended our British point of view and discoursed of iFou conventions, but could not avoid feel ing that Canadian sentiment is health fer than eur own in these things.-Lon- don Chronicle.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-21
LAST MANS BANQUET
 AT SALTWATER TODAY
Bottle of Champagne For Surviving Civil War Veteran Is Still
 Uncorked.

St. Paul, July 21-The Hast mans banquet will be held at Saltwater M1pn-, today Eight men will attend and 2S vacant chairs. draped in black, will occupy places at the table, on which will rest a cedar chest con tainfng bottle of c11ampa gne.
 Some day, when death has depleted the veterans of Company B, First Minnesota, to one man, this survivor will attend the annual banquet and after calling the roll he will drink to the memory of his thirty-one gallant comrades, who fought shoulder to shoulder with him at Bull Run and at Gettysburg.
 The sentiment began in 1886, when Louis Hospes. father of one of ''the boys presented the wine on condi- ton that the bottle remain unopened until the Hast mans banquet That last banquet is going to be far more heartrending than any of our battlefield scenes" said one of the vetcr ans, ''and none of us hopes to hear the cork pop.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-21
DONOVAN IS NOT
 CONVERTED TO IDEA OF EQUAL SUFFRAGE
"We'n Get the Ballot Just the
 Same" Say the Suffragists
tBy Our Staff correspondent.)

NBy our SCah CoTTeSpOnQenL.1
 Washington, July 21.-The Connec- ticut Association opposed to Woman Suffrage is flooding the members of the Connecticut delegation with let ters opposing the ballot for women. The majority of the members of the antis are women. Their slogan is We believe in Woman's RIGHTS to be exempt from the responsibility of gov ernment. The majority of women do not want to vote. They depend upon the men not to thrust Suffrage upon then.''
 A delegation from the Women's s Suffrage organization waited upon Congressman Donovan last week and asked his aid in securing the ballot for women. He received them courte- ously but stated that he had not been suffrage, and he entertained the opin- power to lessen the burdens of women instead of increasing them. He was also of the opinion that as man was the first to take up the question of suffrage that man had a great way to go before man suffrage in all of it's elements was realized, despite the fact. that he had held the power of the ballot for many years
 The Congressman from the Fourth Connecticut lost an opportunity to be- come popular with the ladies right away, and the delegation departed stating that they were going to get the ballot just the same.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-21
FLOOD CARRIES
 AWAY HOUSE WITH
 $2,2OO IN SAVINGS

Price, Utah, July 21-sudden rains, resulting in torrents in Price Canyon, have carried away railway bridges, houses and sections of the Midland Trail, completed last week at consid- erable expense and after nearly a thousand residents of this city had turned out to work on the roads. Most of the damage was done last night. house occupied by a Greek was washed away, carrying with it a trunk irl which he had placed $2,200 savings. A bridge went out after stage in which twenty passengers had just traversed it. Several houses in Cas- tie Gate, near the east end of the Canyon was washed away. The dam age is estimated at between $50, 900 and S1oO,oO0
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-21
BRANDEGEE OBJECTS TO LONG DISTANCE
 FORENSIC EFFORTS
Opposed to Senators Use of Congressional Record for
 Newspaper Controversies
ey Our Staff corres.)

Washington, July 21-Senator Bran degee has given notice to his col leagues in the Senate that in the fu- ture he will object to reading into the Congressional Record editorials from newspapers. He takes the ground that he has no hostility to the newspapers, but that the editorials are anonymous, as a rule, and that the Record is in- tended to be authoritative of the do- ings of Congress.
 His position is if an editorial states a proposition better than any senator can present it himself, he has no ob- lection to the senator reading it, but he objects to the secretary reading the newspaper article, and then having the senator who asked for the reading pro- ceed to deliver a verbal answer to the editorial which is the product of an editor seated behind desk miles away, and who can answer back at will, always having the last say, and not being subject to the paxIiamenta- ry rules of debate.
 The Connecticut senator believes that if any of his colleagues want to carry on newspaper fights that the Congressional Record should not be made the official organ of the news paper fighting senators.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-21
Aid of shouttna In War.

Lord Woiseley, who was in charge of the advance sap close to the re doubts at Sebastopol, once attributed the success of many Of the engage ments in the Crimean war to the sim pie expedient of shouting ''I don't be- heve,'' he said, that we had twenty five fellows the last time we attacked We we're shouting, shouting, shouting, and afterward I could not speak for four days, while some of the oficers lost their voices for a week. We fired from behind a heap of dead bodies, and I told tse bugIer to blow his very Ioudest, while we cheered, and so the enemy thought we had plenty of men in the rear" The trick is as old as Gideon, and the Homeric hero was ''boe agathos''-gOod in shoutfng.-Lon- don Standard
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-21
SUFFRAGlST AUTOS
 STORMING CAPITOL

Washington, July 21-scores of suf- fragist laden automobiles are hasten ing toward Washington bearing pet- tions to congress for constitutional amendment granting Universal Suf- frage, and by the end of this week, leaders of the National Woman Suf- frage Association said today that these automobiles would be number ed by the hundreds. The Senate and House are to be stormed by the mo- toring women July 31.
 Already a number of state parties of women are on their way here awheeL An official announcement says that delegationss are now on the road from Montana, Tennessee, Virginia, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsyl vania, New Jersey and several other states.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-21
RUN ON SAVINGS
 BANK IS STOPPED

New Haven, Conn.,, July 21-Condi- tions at the New Haven Savings Bank on which there was a run last F'ri- day and part of Saturday were prin- cipally normal this morning, it was stated at the bank. Many of those who drew out their money last week put it back again. This return move ment was increased by an announce ment from the bank that all such de- posits made today would continue to draw interest as if they had not been taken out.
 Mrs. Otto Theis of 174 West Water street reported to the police Saturday that S2OO which she drew out of the New Haven Savings bank on Friday was. stolen from a sugar bowl in her pantry The police have been expect ing a number of thefts of money from sorae of the depositors who withdrew their money and hid 1t in their homes