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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19
NOT SPOILED BY POSITION
President of the French Republic
Pleased to Greet Humble Com
panion of His Boyhood.

A pretty little incident that throws
a pleasing light upon the character OF
the president of France occurred re-
Gently at banquet given by the
French bar to President Poincare.
At the close of the dinner M. Poln-
care called up the waiter who had
watched over his comfort. Thank
you, Jacques" he said quietly, and
shook him by the hand. At the same
time the president managed to slip a
bank note into the walters palm.
81 won't have it," cried jacques,
and to the amusement and astonish-
nent of the guests there ensued a
friendly struggle between the waiter
and the president of the republic.
M. Poincare ended the amicable dis
pute by pushing the note into the
mans pocket and good-naturediy slap
ping him on the back. The waiter
could not resist this sincere geniality,
and finally, after another handshake.
retired. wreathed In smiles.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19
NAMES OF PLACES
Different kationalities Have Own
Particular Version.
Reason Is Ascribed to Contemptuous
Indifference to Things Foreign
That Exists More or Less in
Every Land on the Globe.

Florence, Italy.-The city we and
the English call Florence" is by
Italians called Fiorenza. The name of
the British capital is, to the French,
Londres, and to the Italians, Londra.
By English-speaking peoples the Aus
TRAN capital is referred to as Vienna,
whereas the Austrians spell it Wien.
In addition to these differences there
may be cited Dunkirk and Dunkerque
Cologne and Koln, The Hague and La
Haye, Geneva and Gent.
What is the reason for these differ
ences? Is it to be sought in philologi-
cal influences alone, or is it to be
found in that contemptuous indiffer
ence with reference to things foreign
that exists more or less in every land {?
In the aforementioned case, it has
been pointed out that, had the word
London" existed at the time the
French word "Londres" came into use,
the French would probably have adopt
ed the English form. But, the French
contend, no London" name was in use
when "Londres" was coined. The
Latin name whereby the British town
first became known elsewhere was
Londinfum. The locative case form of
this noun (the one most often used in
colloquial style) was Londini. 1t fol-
lowed that, in the continuous inter
change of words and their develop
ment into modern speech, Londini
very easily became Londri in the
speech of the Frenchmen. Then, as
Il" is an indication of a Latin plural,
a new difficulty arose. When Londini
was accepted by the French it was for
some time treated, quite mistakenly,
just as French plural noun would be
and spelled accordingly - Londres.
Londres made it's way from France to
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19
In a FIorenic CIoister.

Italy. AS the last two letters were
silent the Italians rejected them, re-
placing them by the favorite unaccent-
ed final vowel of their tongue, "a" with
the result that the name of the British
Capital became Londra.
Vienna in English and Italian and
Vienna in Spanish are simply relics OF
the medieval days, when Latin was
the universal tongue of the learned,
and the French Vienne Is but slight
variation Of Vienna. Geneva may be
explained In the same way.
The nations have taken great liber-
ties with the name Of the Dutch capt.
tal-Gravenhage. For the English
The Hague and the French La Haye
we have cause to be grateful. the
Spanish shortened the cumbersome
Dutch name into Haja; the Italians
converted it into Ala; and even the
Germans, cousins, in sort, to the Hol-
flanders, boiled it down--into Haag.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19
CHAPTER l..
The Crash.


Failed" calculated John Valiant
blankly. and the hat he held dropped
to the claret-colored rug like huge
white splotch of sudden fright. The
Corporation-failed
The young man was the glass OF
fashion, from the sillzen ribbon on the
spotless Panama to his pearl-gray gait
ers, and we'll favored-a 1.-the staiWart
figure, with wide-set hazel eyes and
strong brown hair waving back from
q candid forehead.
Never had his innocuous and but
ter-fy existence known surprise
more startling. He had swung into
the room with all the nonchalant hab-
It's. the ingrained gertrude Of the man
born with achievement ready-made in
his hands. And a single curt state
ment-like the ruthless blades of a
pair Of shears-had shipped across
the one splendid scarlet thread in the
woof that constituted life as he knew
It. He had knotted his lavender scarf
that morning a vice-president of the
Valiant Corporation-one Of the great
est and most successful of modern
day organizations; he sat now in the
fading afternoon trying to realize that
the huge fabric, without warning, had
toppled to it's fall.
How solid and changeless it had
always seemed-that great business
fabric woven by the father he could
SO dimly remember! His own invested
fortune had been derived from the
great corporation the elder Valiant
had founded and controlled until his
death With almost unprecedented
earnings, it had stood as a very Glib
raitar of finance, a type and sign OF
brilliant organization Now, on the
heels of a trusts dissolution which
would be nine-days' wonder, the vast
structure had crumbled up like card
board The rains had descended and
the foods had come, and it had fallen!
The man at the desk had wheeled
In his revolving chair and was looking
at the trim athletic back blotting the
daylight, with smile that was little
short of a covert sheer He was one
of the local managers of the corpora
ton whose ruin was to be that day s
sensation, colorless man who had ac-
quired middle age with his first long
trousers and had been dedicated to the
commercial treadmill before he had
bought safety-razor. He despised all
loiterers along the primrose paths, and
John Valiant was but decorative fig
urehead.
Valiant started as the other spoke at
his elbow He had come to the win
dow and was looking down at the
pavement How quickly some news
spreads!"
For the first time the young man
noted that the street below was filling
with a desultory crowd. He distin-
guished a knot of Italian laborers talk
ing with excited gesticulations - a
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19
ENERGY FROM A SUGAR DIET
Experiments Have Shown That 1t Has
Wonderful Effect Upon the
Human Eody.

The psychologist who discovered
that your liver and your muscles
manufacture sugar while you sleep
has been supposed by the German
physician who uses sugar dissolved in
water as an excellent surgical dress
ing for all sorts of wounds.
Drs. Jacques Pansot and Pierre
Matthew have declared that when AMI
mails eat sugar exclusively for long
periods their weight at first decreases
soon begins to mend and then fall
away again as the diet continues.
DR.. H. Head of Tacoma Park, D. G.
disagrees with the laboratory findings
He says sugar is comparable to gaso
line. AS the latter is the fuel OF the
internal combustion engine, so sugar
is the fuel of the human machine
Sugar, he says, is the staff OF life
and man can produce more energy
from sugar than from any other food
a distinguished British heart spe
~4AEia-& hos lately proved the efilcac.
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of lump sugar in the treatment of a
man nearly eighty years old who was
dying with a vicious disease of the
heart. After all the usual remedial
measures had failed one of the maids
asked if there was any objection to
feeding tho sufferer lump sugar. The
physician gave his consent and four
Jumps were given in little water.
These were repeated every four hours.
and in a week he was a we'll man.
Dr. Berzeller recommends to one OF
the German medical societies the use
of powdered sugar in the treatment
OF old, ill treated and neglected can
GERS. He says the application OF
sugar to the fetid parts lessons the dis
agreeable odor and discharges. Fur
thermore, the general condition of the
patient improves and all hemorrhages
cease. Indeed, unless you have had
long experience with cancer patients
you are liable to be deluded into the
belief that the cancer has healed.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19
CHAPTER III.
The Turn If the panc

John Valiant stirred and laughed, a
little self-consciously, for there had
been drops on his face.
Presently he took a check-book from
his pocket and began to figure on the
stub, looking up with wry smile. ITO
come down to brass tacks," he NUT
tered, when I've settled everything
(thank heaven, don't owe my tailorD
there will be little matter of twenty
eight hundred odd dollars, passe mo-
tor and my clothes between me and
the bread-line!"
Everything else he had disposed Of
everything but the four-footed COM
rade there at his feet "But I'd not
sell you, old chap" he said, softly;
mot single lick of your friendly
pink tongue; not for a beastly hum
dred Thousand"
He withdrew his caressing hand and
looked again at the check-stub. Twen-
ty-eight hundredl He laughed bleakly.
Why. he had spent more than that a
month ago on ball at Sherry's! This
morning he had been rich; tonight he
was poor!
What could he do? He could not
remember a time when he had not had
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19
CUPID WINS AFTER so YEARS
Banker, SO, WEEDS Widow Who Tilted
Him .'When She Was Pussy
Miss" Many Years Ago.

Hartford, Gonna romance that
began more than half a century ago
reached happy chapter in the par
lors of the Garde hotel here, when
Wilfred H. Nettleton, lightweight
years old, director of the Bristol Ma
tional bank, and one of the states
wealthiest men, and Mrs. Mary X.
Baldwin, sixty-eight years old, were
married.
"Why didn't you marry her fifty
years ago?" hes was asked.
Lord knows, 1 tried to. But she
was a fussy young miss Of eighteen
then, and 1 was nearly forty. So
she picked a younger, but I'll be
burned if he was handsomer man.
Mrs. Baldwin's husband died seven
months ago.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19

The white hand on the coverlet
had beckoned to him and he had gone
close up to the bed standing very
straight, his heart beating fast and
hard.
john" the word had been almost
whisper, very tense and anxious,
very distinct John, you're little
boy, and father is going away"
Toto Wishing House?"
The gray lips had smiled then, ever
SO little, and sadly. mo. John"
Take me with you, father! Take
me with you!" --.--.
His voice had trembled then, and he
had had to gulp hard.
Listen, John, for what l am say
ing is very important. You don't
know what / mean now, but some
time you will The whisper had
grown strained and frayed, but it was
still distinct. II can't go to the Never
Never Land. But yo may sometime.
If you if you do, and if you
find Westinghouse, remember that
the men who lived in it be-
fore you and me were gen.
tlemen Whatever else they were,
they were always that. Be !"
like them, John. will your?
yes, father
The old gentleman with the eye
glasses had come forward then, hasti-,
~.
Goodnight, father"
He had wanted to kiss him, but a
strange cool hush had settled on the
room and his father seemed all at
once to have fallen asleep. And he
had gone out, SO carefully, on tiptoe,
wondering, and suddenly afraid.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19
"CASCARETS' FOR
SLUGGISH LIVER
No sick headache, sour stomach,
biliousness or constipation
by morning. s
Get a 10.cent box now.

Turn the rascals out-the headache,
biliousness, Indigestion, the sick, sour
stomach and foul gases-turn the
out tonight and keep them out with
Cascarets.
Millions of men and women take a
Cascaret now and then and never
know the misery caused by a lazy
liver, clogged bowels or an upset stom-
ach.
Don't put in another day of distress.
Let Cascarets cleanse your stomach;
remove the sour, fermenting food;
take the excess bile from your liver
and carry out all the constipated
waste matter and poison in the
bowels. Then you will feel great.
A Cascaret tonight straightens you
out by morning. They work while
you sleep. A ,10-cent box from
any drug store means a clear head,
sweet stomach and clean, healthy liver
and bowel action for months. Chill
dren love Cascarets because they
never grippe or sicken. Adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19
Rabbits Know Geography.

Since the Connecticut game law
went into effect there has been much
trouble along the state line. Nover
Rhode Island shooters coming over
to this side. Connecticut game ward
ems and protectors are scattered all
along the line looking out for law
violators who plead ignorance of the
state line whereabouts.
Two Providence men were fined
$30.44 for each rabbit "holed" for
they hadn't caught any,.
One of the men said:
Them gosh hanged rabbits appear
to be well posted on southern New
England geography, and coax us over
the Inc SO you darned loafers can get
a chance to make money by roping
us in."-East Killingly Comm INA;
patch to N. Y. Herald
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19

In the morning after rising and at
night before retiring wash the feet
and legs as high up as the knees in
cold water, then rub them with a
rough towel and massage them till
the skin is red and glowing In addi
ton to this, snuff tepid water up the
nose frequently during the day and sip
with a teaspoon a glassful as hot as
can be borne an hour before each
meal and at bedtime. A few days is
often quite sufficient for simple cases
and obstinate ones yield if the treat.
ment is prolonged. No medicines are
required. If taken in the first stages
Of the disease a cold is broken up
which might otherwise become a Sc
we're case Of bronchitis lasting many
days or weeks.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19

fidential secretary of the man he had
come to face stood in the gloomy
doorway.
81 want to see Mr.. Sedgwick.
You can't see him, Mr.. Valiant
But l will" Sharp passion leaped
into the young voice. "He must speak
to me-"
The man in the doorway shook his
head. He won't speak to anybody
any more" he said. mr.. Sedgwick
shot himself two hours ago.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19
Mo ENnert.

The horny-handed son of toll who
had just inherited a fortune went to
see a manicure. "Can you do any
thing with these, ma'am?" he asked,
exhibiting his hands, Eyes, sir" she
said, after you've gone to surgeon
and had those cracks stitched up.
don't NEEDLE with jobs that belong to
the regular practitioners"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19

all that he wanted. He had never bor-
rowed from friend or been dunned,
by an importunate tradesman. And
he had never tried to earn dollar in
his life: as to current methods Of max
ing living, he was as ignorant as a
Pueblo Indian.
He rose grimly and dragged his
chair facing the window, The might
was balmy and he looked down across
the darker sea of reefs, barred like a
gigantic checker-board by the shining
lines of streets, to where the flashing
electric signs of the theater district
laid their wide swath of colored ra-
dance The, manifold calls Of the
street and the buzz of trolleys made a
dull tonal background, subdued and
far away.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19
FALLS WITH LIMB HE SAWS
Rival for Champion Absent-Minded
Man Hurt When He Undermnes
Support.

Ellen Chapel, Pa.-Harry Kochen-
derfer Is in a precarious condition
from injuries sustained when he took
a header of 20 feet from a tree he
was trimming. Like Spoopendyke,
he sawed away his support, falling
with the ladder, fracturing his nose,
knocking out four teeth, cutting his
tongue and suffering minor injuries.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19
Ejttinu STYLE,

For whom are you buying that cot
tage-shape hat?"
For a suburban girl If she had
been a city girl she would have pre-
ferred fiat"
The wise man is thankful for what
he has, and for lot of things he
hasn't. 40
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19

we d oFnItn' der. Dodd's Kidney
Pills cured me of that and the Kidney
Trouble. l take Dodd's Kidney Pills
now to keep from having Backache. l
am II years old and a farmer. You are
at liberty to publish this testimonial,
and you may use my picture in con-
nection with it." Correspond with Mr..
Smith about this wonderful remedy.
Dodd's Kidney Pills, soc. per box at
your dealer or Dodd's Medicine Co..
Buffalo, N. Y. Write for Household
Hints, also music of National Anthem
English and German words) and reci-
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Adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19

mudged plasterer, tools in hand
clerks. some hatless and with thin
alpaca coats-all peering at the voice
less front of the great building, and
eli. he imagined, with thrivine fear
in their faces. AS he watched, wom-
an, coarsely dressed, ran across the
street, her handkerchief pressed to her
eyes.
The notice has gone up on the
door" said the manager. Il sent word
to the police Crowds are ugly some
tines"
Valiant drew sudden sharp breath.
The corporation down in the mire,
with crowds at it's doors ready to
clamor for money entrusted to it, the
aggregate savings of widow and or
phan, the piteous boarded sums earned
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19
.(TO BE; CoNTINUED9

When the president turned back to
the table he noticed the perplexed
looks on the faces of the guests, who
did not know what to make of the
scene
you see," he explained simply, Il
was at school with Jacques at Sam
pigny." Companion.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19
wovtd Prevent Hastv MARRIAGES.

Chicago bureau to prevent hasty
marriages Is being organized here. A
ard index system and court record OF
very person entangled In domestic
roubies is being gotten up. Pastors
ire requested to look up the index be
ore tying a marriage knot.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19
Alderman Not Worried.

Chicago.-'I should worry" said Al
derman John H. Bauler when the Mu.
nicipal Voters league applied the term
"amoeba" to him. Il don't know what
the word means and neither does any.
one in my ward" The "amoeba" is the
lowest form of animal life.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19
To Break Up a Cold.

The hydropathic treatment of cold
in the head is more reliable than any
other one which scarcely requires the
aia q , physician It Is as follows:
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19
Easily Rounht.

Mrs. Cashit--Mrs De Style has so
much aplomb about her dresses.
Mrs. Comeup-Then I'm going to
ask my dressmaker why she don't put
none of it in mine.
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not think | would be
alive today if it
were not for Dodd's
K dn y Pills. I
strained my back
about forty years
ago, which left it
very weak. / was
troubled with in1am-
nation of the blad-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19
a GRATEFUL OLD MAN.

Mr.. w. d. Smith, Ethel, KY, writes:
II have been using Dodd's Kidney Pills
for ten or twelve years and they have
done me a great deal of good. do
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19

strict confidence. A woman can freely
talk of her private illness to o woman
thus has been established a confidential
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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-03-19
HeIpinu Him Out.

Helping Him Out.
Jones-I have a quarter, I think
I'll go and get a haircut.
.Brown--Here's a dollar Get them
all cut
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FREE ADVICE
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Women suffering from any form Of
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Lower coast gazette., 1914-06-27
REBEL GENERALS JOIN VILLA
Fifteen Rebel Leaders Renounce Car
rama as constitutionalist FIRST
Chief Recognize Villa.

Laredo. Texas.-Fifteen generals OF
the constitutionalist army, command.
ing a combined force estimated at 80
900 men, renowned Gen. Carranza as
"first chief" Of the constitutionaist
movement in a note sent to his head
quarters at the time Gen. Villa re-
signed. villa did not sign the COM
munication. This and other details
suppressed by a rigid censorship u
Saltillo became known at the borde
with the arrival Of travellers from sal
tillo and Monterey.
The communication, 1t was author
itatiyely said, informed the man who
has been the leader Of the constitu-
tonalist movement since its inception
that the generals would continue to
fight against Huerta, but would hold
themselves subject to Gen. Villas or
ders and would not recognize Car
rama.
Before the travellers left Saltillo the
breach had not been healed by the
compromise since announced and lead
ers in the constitutionalist movement
fearing disintegration Of the force
which they had built up, had sum
moned every available man OF 1nllu
ence to bring the factions together.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-06-27
MONARCHs ACT SURPRISE
Old Lady Thought It Undignifaed That
British Monarch Should BLOW
Hs Own Nose.

When King George Of Great BRIAN
came to the throne there were WHO
rumors that he took SO little interest,"
in horse-racing that the turf Wouio
suffer. This year, however, his mai
esty has attended a number OF the pig
race meetings.
One recalls the story told OF On ear-
lier royal visit to Dorchester. An OLD
Yorkshire woman had gone on the
course for the sole purpose OF seeing
ROYALTY, and she called out excitedly::
(Which Is the king? Which IS the
king?"
There he Is" said some n near.
That's him with the handkerchief IN
his hand.
All" gasped the old lady, q toucn
of reyerent awe in her tone.
Just then his majesty, who had q
cold in the head, performed o com
monplace little operation.
Goodness mel" the old lady ex-
claimed aghast. "He-he blows his
own nose!"