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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-01-29

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When Will Washburn People Learn
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But if you find tits from the kid
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That serious kidney troubles may
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lis the statement OF a Washburn
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When 1 worked or tried to do any
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y and were always worse when
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My kidneys were weak and my
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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-01-29

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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-01-29

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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-01-29

FOR sALE--Fine eight room
residence in good location, city
water and nice lot and barn. Cheap
il taken at once. See W. A.
Robinson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-14

Frederick l.. Goss of printing press fame. who died recently in Chicago was born in Wales 67 years ago. He came to the United States when young man and entered the printing business. He was married in Milwauke in 1873 and a few years later moved to Chicago, where he organized the printing firm which bore his name and of which he was vice pres ident at the time of his death. R. Hoe & Co. introduced rotary printing press early in the 70s, in which continuous roll of paper could be used This type of press did Very well for while. although 1t had many disa dvantages, such as lack of ink that would dry quickly, i'm perfect paper and the difficulty of cutting the sheets properly after they were print ed In 1889 New York man named Firm, foreman of publishing house, built what was known as a straight line press. His
 first production was a simple tandem press with three sets of cylinders placed in a straight line. Afterward 1t was an easy matter to build presses in tiers in stead of tandem. The press Firm built for New York paper was so crude that it was condemned. He had little money with which to improve his invention. MT. Goss saw the possibilities of Firms in vention, however, and bought the rights from him, taking Firm into the Goss Printing Press company. There was a pressmakers, but their difficulties were
 finally settled. It was the principle. of the straight line press, which was first taken up by Gloss, that made the modern newspaper possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-14
Another Likely Story

The humorous side of war frequent- ly appears in stories told by people who don't suspect that they are more apt to evoke laughter than to arouse pity.
 With all due respect to an officer in the United States army medical re- serve corps, who has just returned from long stay in Belgium, his state ment that Germany is running short of lead and that secret order has been issued requiring all music stores to turn over the lead used in pianos and other musical instruments to the government sounds rather dubious ct least, at the present time. Later on Germany may be forced to adopt such heroic measures as were witnessed in this country in days gone by when patriots melted their pewter to make bullets, but it is not probable that the we'll organized resources of the fath- erland have yet reached such low ebb. No doubt the stoppage of mines in Galicia and Silesia has been felt in Germany, but that country has made
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-14
Higher Price of Cotton

The business situation in New York and in the country generally Is improving. Several things contribute to the improvement. The prosperity prevailing in the west caused by the demand for its enormous grain crops at high prices is benfiting the country at large. The heavy exporting of grain has unquestionably had a most bright ening effect on New York.
 Another fact that is of wide benefit and of the utmost importance to the south is the higher price of cotton. The advance within the last four or five weeks has been steady. Cotton is sell ing for A cents a pound more than it was a month ago. The farmer finds no difficulty in getting "A cents for his crop, or so much of it as he may desire to sell. A few weeks ago the lIldI Wlbll COItOIl IO luclhCb Wpo oOitiG we'll if he got 6A cents pound. Ex- perienced cotton buyers predicted that it would go as low as cents. There is no such talk now, nor will there be any more of it. The probability is that 8 cents will soon be offered.
 If nothing else had developed to bring about substantial results in business conditions in the south the advance in cotton would greatly help to start this section on an era of very solid prosperity. There is, of course, a sentimental side to the upward trend of the cotton market that makes for optimism, but the cold dollars-and- cents side is what bankers, manufac- turers and merchants alike reckon with in their calculations and in their hope for an early revival of thrift all along the line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-14
Prohibition in Virginia

While the people of Virginia voted for statewide prohibition in the special cleo tion held in September there are pro- visions in the act under which the vote was taken allowing wine and beer to be manufactured to be sold and shipped out side, but not within the state" said George Cole Scott of Richmond, who, with his brothers, and other capitalists of the Old Dominion, have large invest ments in the Birmingham district
 Statewide prohibition does not go into effect until 1916. This will give the large wholesale liquor interests an opportunity to close out their stocks without pecu- niary loss. Virginia, as is generally known, has been almost dry for some years. There are only few cities in which liquor is legally sold. I voted on the side of local option but those of us who voted that way are in favor of strict state law enforcement. Many local op- tionists believe that with rigid prohibi- ton there will be in time a reaction so that large cities like Richmond and Nor folk can return to high license and reg ulation."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-14
VICTOR MURDOCH
From the New York Times.

P TOiH liic 4>cW 1OTh l1HleS.
 Regret that Victor Murdock of Kansas will be forced to retire to private life for two years after March 4, 1915, will not be confined to the comparatively few still faithful members of the progressive party. to the general collapse of which alone his defeat is attributable. For 10 years MT. Murdock has represented the Eighth Kan sas district in the House of Representa- tives, and so strong has been his hold on the voters of that part of his state that no opponent has dared to appear of late to contest his biennial reelection. He has been free in the political cam paigns to lend his oratory> to >other dis tricts and other states. But MT. Mur- dock chose this year to carry the pro- gressive banner in his contest for the sen- atorship. and he has found that party fidelity is still stronger in the John Brown state than personal popularity
 He will be missed in the next session of Congress, especially by Uncle Joe Can- non, who must have been looking for ward eagerly to renewing his relations with the Kansas young man. But while MT. Murdock's enforced rest from the po- litical routine will give him time to put new fire and energy into his newspaper the Wichita Eagle, the pursuit of jour- nslism so remote from the national cap- ital will scarcely lend free play to his talent. That he will return to put spice, vigor and personal humor in the proceed ings of the Sixty-fifth Congress goes without saying. The orif1ame has been furled, but it will wave again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-14
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 man will treat his wife as though she was poor relation and then wonder why she likes to talk to other men.
 woman can get a bargain when she pays 7s cents for something worth $1. But she will spend $500 for trousseau when she marries a 30-cent man.
 The old-fashioned man who used to wear pulse warmers now has son who would catch cold If he forgot to wear his wrist watch.
 There was time when girl didn't blush unless man spoke to her. But nowadays some of them wear blush that nothing but turpentine and a scrub brush will remove.
 There are whole lot of unsolved mys- teries But why is the pocket on the inside of a vest?
 A camel going through the eye of a needle is a piker compared with a fat woman getting into straight-front cor set
 The old-fashioned man who used to say that he was driven to drink now has a son who phones for taxi when he gets a yen to accumulate a bun.
 When a girls face is SO thin that her cheek bones are the most prominent feat ure she gets a lot of satisfaction out of the fact that she has dimples where you can't see them.
 Once in awhile you see a man whose Adams apple is bigger than his chin. If man finds one of his wifes hairs in the butter he gets so mad that he wont eat any dinner. And a few hours later he will stop at a street corner wagon restaurant and eat five frankfurters made out of mule meat and enjoy them. This is free country. That is the reason why an honest working girl who spells education "ejakaton' can have a whole room filled with college pennanti if she wants to hang them up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-14
The American Road Congress

The fourth American Road con- gress in session in Atlanta this week has been of unusual importance, es- pecially to the men and communities interested in building material and the latest and most approved road machinery. Many prominent engi- neers from various sections of the country participated in the discussions. One of the most animating papers sub- mitted was by President Fairfax Har- rison of the Southern railway, and among other notable papers was that by W. s. Keller, state highway engi- neer of Alabama. Along with other discussions it was printed in full in one of the Atlanta papers and in the Manufacturers Record. Mr. Keller is not only an able engineer but he writes convincingly and with lively touches of humor. These are some of the pithy paragraphs in Mr.. Keller's paper:
 It Is almost impossible to convince many county officials that an engineer ]! can easily save his salary several times over by making certain changes in location and grade and by eco- nomically administering the affairs of the county. As a general rule, a county gets more in return for money spent for engineering services than for any other single item connected with road construction. good engineer is a dividend producer for county. Someone has said that an engineer is man who can do as much with s1 as a fool can with g. Evidently he did not have reference to the fool engineer.
 The most expensive fool Is the fool engineer. He is to very great ex- tent responsible for the prejudice many have against engineering super | vision of road construction. There is l absolutely no excuse for county em- l ployng an incompetent man, now that the government, through the office of l public roads, stands ready and anx-
 ious to aid any county in securing a
 good engineer An engineer applying
 for position should be indorsed by
 those for whom he has worked and
 by men competent to pass judgment on engineering work. It Is an easy matter
 for a man to get inducements from
 friends who have perhaps known him
 in social way, but such are only
 beneficial to prove his good charac-
 ter. An engineer with only a good
 character will build a road without
 any character
 A highway engineer should have a
 good technical education, and, to be
 successful, he must be practical and he must be a diplomat. He should be
 sober honest, energetic and think
 more about the work he Is trying to do than the pay check he will receive
 at the end of the month. When talk
 ing charge of county's road affairs he should convince the commissioners
 that he knows more than they do about
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-14
THE DREAMER

By Iheodosia Garrison. The gypsies passed her little gate
 She stopped her wheel to see A brown-faced pair who walked the road
 Free as the wind is free; And suddenly her tiny room
 A prison seemed to be. Her shining plates against the walls, { Her sunlit sanded f1oor,- The brass-bound wedding chest that helt
 Her linens snowy store. The very wheel whose running died
 Seemed only chains she bore. She watched the .foot-free gypsies pass;
 She never knew or guessed The wishful dream that drew them close
 The longing in each breast To some day know home like hers
 Wherein their hearts might rest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-14
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Wheat and Oats

"The farmers of north Alabama have been quite busy this fall sowing wheat and oats,'' said William P. Redd of the Grasselli company.
 Jefferson used to be a fine wheat coun- ty. Large wheat crops were made here abouts before the war, and now Jefferson is swinging back into the grain line. It is well.
 North Alabama has more than held it's own in agriculture. There has been great progress within the last few years, and people generally have no idea how much the farmers in the section be- tween here and the Tennessee line have got ahead by their brains and industry. Next year promises unusually we'll for this part of the state. and as far as I can see for the state as a whole"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-14

study of war, and every possible contingency of war, for the past 40 years and it is hardly conceivable that so important and necessary a metal as lead should be exhausted so early in the struggle.
 The medical officer who brings back the lead story says that the govern ment's order has "aroused feelings of the deepest dejection in the music trade" It is easy to imagine that such would be the case, if it were nec- essary to convert all the pianos in Germany into junk for the negligible part of lead they contain, not to men, tion other musical instruments.
 If the music stores are called on to sacrifice their instruments, how long will it be before all the patriotic citi- zens of Germany will be ordered to give up their pianos and horns? Im- agine the consternation of Herr Pro- lessor, whose livelihood for these many years has come from his be- loved piano! And imagine the plight of the 'leetle German bandt" deprived of it's noise producers But maybe all the musicians are at the front-as all the teachers are reported to be-and only prosaic tradesmen remain behind, with pockets that may be hurt but no artistic temperaments" to be affected by the sacrifice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-14
Compared With Other Cities

"Busipess is looking up in Birmingham; is in fact improving in most parts of the country" said w. D. Nesbitt, the we'll known Warrant warehouse man and cotton statistician. 'The fact that cot ton has advanced 1A to 1h cents within the last few weeks is big fact in it. self. It means much to the individual farmers and to the south in general Birmingham, of course, will share in the benefits of the advancing cotton mar ket.
 Speaking of Birmingham, it makes a splendid showing in comparison with other cities of approximately it's size. While many of the industries are oper- ating at reduced capacity, the pay rolls are still large. If one will travel around and find out about the conditions in some of the commercial and industrial cities that are viewed as marvels of pros perity and see how depressed they have been recently, they will think more of this city than ever. Birmingham would then look to them like pay roll center indeed-would look like a city with a big pay roll every day."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-14
Desiqnated as Bank Reserve City

For several years efforts have been made to induce the treasury depart ment to designate Birmingham as reserve bank city, but only now has this effort been availing.
 Under the new currency law the federal reserve board has full author ity in such matters, and in view ot Birmingham's steadily increasing inn portance as a financial center 1t did not hesitate to select this as one ot the cities in which national banks within certain territory may deposit a portion of their re- serve cash. Charleston was also designated, but the petitions of several ambitious cities were rejected, and the federal board announced that in the future no city under 100000 would be considered in the matter of establishing it as reserve center.
 Until now the only reserve cities south of the Ohio river were Louis vile and New Orleans; and since there are only about fifty reserve cities in the United States the selection of Bir- mingham must be regarded as quite a compliment.
 It is of no special interest to the general public, being as it is a matter only relating directly to banks; but it is a curious fact that the financial world classes all banks in centers not designated by the government reserve centers as "country banks" It must have puzzled readers of the Financier and other banking journals to know why the First National bank of Bir- mingham, for instance, was referred to as a country bank. The classified tion being technical, the term "coun- try" for nonreserve cities, had no especial bearing on the situation, but it will be pleasure for the boosters of Birmingham to know that we will no longer be city of country banks. ' The First National and the Traders will be henceforth known officially as city banks.
 What will result from the change |? The national banks have to keep a certain proportion of their cash re- serve locked up in their vaults. A certain other proportion may be de- posted in banks in reserve cities These proportions are in round mum. bers about half and half. There will now be a tendency to concentration of money from banks in Alabama, section of Florida and a section of Mississippi, in Birmingham. The &C., tion of the federal reserve board shows that Birmingham has got so strong as business center that it could no longer be ignored when it came to the reserve city proposition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-14

building roads, and then proceed to
 prove it by doing good work. Unless
 an engineer can absolutely convince his
 board of commissioners that he knows
 his business, he had best resign.
 The public has already been edu- cated to appreciate the economic value of good roads; what remains to be done lies in the direction, as MT. Kel- Ter makes plain, of engineering.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-14

From Frances Nimmo Greene's "One
 Clear Call" published by Scribners.
 Men may be hungry, but the grocer knows that that is no affair of his unless the coin comes across the counter. They may be cold and in darkness, but the coal man anl the light man feel no added responsibility. They may be ragged, but clothier except a chance to sell to some- body whose patent business it is to clothe the naked.
 But let a man be sick in body and in spirit, and whether he have the price or not. his condition at once becomes the business of the doctor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-14
FROM MEMORIES BOOK
m the Milwaukee Journal.

From the M1lWaukee Journal.
 When one is past middle life, memory begins to unfold it's pages He sees his youth, not as his own, but as that of an other. He is touched with sadness and pity as he recognizes the plans and am- bitions, the high hopes in the youthful breast that experience has shown him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-14
LITTLE TRAGEDY IN FRANCE

prehend their tears, though I am yer, far from tears myself-only full of grea pity for the old woman. The officer turns quietly and says thre, brief words to the sergeant. The ser geant and two of the men step forward and around the front and sides of thu coop. There is sudden crashing o woodwork, and the coop is torn apart Then-an old women screaming wildly, in sanely, and vast fiuttering and cluckins of outraged chickenhood!
 They lift the old woman. fighting ana kicking, out of the ruins of the coop and the. soldiers catch the chickens as they come soaring and clucking out in al directions.
 The sergeant and his helper take tn, old woman into her little house, ana there. I presume, help her to pack, for few minutes later she comes out, very white-faced and rigid, carrying a smal bird cage and clock, while the sergeant carries bundle on his broad back. tied up in bed quilt.
 The old woman Is not allowed to pas, near the coop, but is taken to the rear and put aboard light wagon along with 6 number of other unfortunates. sTaes
 The sergeant comes back and the of ficer whispers something to him, and ] notice that he passes him a couple oi 20 franc pieces. rt6fo,a.z
 The big sergeant mutters something nodding toward the disrupted coop, ans after a moment the officer mods. ''Very well, Jean," he says. Just one but no more. We can't cart all the liv, stock on the countrysde!'
 Five minutes later we were ready ts move on, and I went to the rear to ses one of the loaded wagons start off to tn. southwark In the tail end of it the old :, woman sat upon her big bundle, done ur in the old bed quilt. In one hand wa, her bird cage The other was gripped or q doubt noD the lieutenants twp gold pieces. In her lap reposed snugly two things-her clock and one of her hens which I guessed the big black-pearded sergeant had begged for her.
 The wagon went away to the southward and we moved forward on our errand o mercy and pain; for we had to see thai all the country for a certain area wal empty of non-combatants.