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SUCCESS NOT DUE TO LUCK
Photographer viii Not Admit That
Element of Chance Enters In
to His Work.


When the amateur photographer 3
friend asked him why he looked
peeved the other was glad to explain.
"A friend of ours just asked me
to come over and take a picture OF
her baby" he said. She apologized
for aksing, which was unnecessary be-
cause was glad to do it, but she spill
ed the beans by giving her reason that
I had such good luck taking pictures. :"
Well. you do. don't you?" inquired
the friend.
There you go" the photographer
exclaimed. There's no such thing as
luck in my photography. What vexes
me is that every one seems to consid-
er them inseparable.
Photography is as exact a science
as running a survey nowadays with
those who know how to handle cam
era. With the photometer and expos
IRE tables, proper developer and a
thermometer for determining its tenn
Derature, every last element OF luck
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-08-13
In a LIGHT Comedy Roe.

Two washerwomen were one day
telling of the progress made by their
various lads in their chosen work.
TELL me, Mrs. Casey" asked Mrs.
Clancy, what's your son, John, doing
now" Johns on the stage-he's q
light comedian" answered Mrs. Casey.
.'Ye don't tell mel" exclaimed Mrs
Clancy, "an' would we moind tellin' me
what light comedian is?" well. "
explained Mrs. Casey, 'in me sons
case it's this: He plays a silent part
behind black curtain with his mouth
to a hole, and in front Is candle, and
when Alkali Ike shoots at the candle,
John blows It out."-Saturday Journal.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-08-13
Comparing Their Husbands.

The girls were talking about their
husbands.
Il have the dearest husband in the
world" said Maude. eff he Just
wouldn't play cards and drink SO much,
he'd be perfect"
My husband doesn't gamble, and he
never took drink in his life," put In
Mabel. He would be model man, IL
l only could know what he does when
he stays away from home at night"
"Ah!" smiled Margaret, my hus-
band is all that you wish yours could
he. He has no bad habits, he comes
home on schedule, he denies me moth
ing, there is no mystery about him.
Why, he goes to church every Sunday
or at least he used TO-"
Used to!" echoed the chorus. "Aha!
Why doesn't he go to church now?"
"He found that it interfered with his
golf"
Margaret was voted winner of the
prize package. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-08-13
sssese.esssss.ee..s.e.ee.s
CAUGHT BY CAMERA
BY MILDRED CAROLINE GOOD
RIDGE.
"DOughnuts!"

"Doughnuts!
Ned Travers shifted the air deli
ciously, smacked his lips and peered
through the trees towards neat little
farmhouse on the edge of the town.
From its kitchen there came con-
slant odorous steam. 1t made Ned
think of home and mother in Its pat
ent suggestiveness OF brown, crisp
dough putting up into comely knobs
and rings. Then he saw through an
open window dainty bustling young
lady with tucked up sleeves and
aproned and Ned thought of his sister.
And then as the pretty maid set q
great earthen bowl in the window,
piled high with the creamy golden
faxed results of her labor, Ned caught
a full view of her winsome face. 1t
gave his heart a warning thrill--and
then twinge.
Wherefore the latter? His pride
answered promptly. Contrast brought
a sudden blur to manly longing
heart. The picture before him was
so sweet, so solacing that he would
have liked to become vital part of it.
OF course the lovely face Influenced
this particular sentiment.
Ned was fairly down and out. Worse
than that just at this especial moment
he was dust laden, travel worn, thirsty
and hungry. He had but one posses
sion OF value with him, oddly out OF
place for negotiation just here and
now This was his rather bulky out
fit for taking moving pictures.
Ned had been out for month with
a movies" crew that had gone to
pieces for lack of capital. A lesson
well learned at heart, he was return
ing home, wiser, though chastened.
So he had little part in or claim
to the social or esthetic phases of
life just at the present time. With a
sigh, for he was poet and dreamer
at heart, he started in the direction
of the near village. Just then, how
ever, the fair cook came out of the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-08-13
Family Secrets.

A man with an uncanny mania for
Juggling with figures produced pencil
and paper and commanded friend to
put down the number Of your living
brothers. Multiply by two. Add three.
Multiply the result by five. Add the
number of living sisters. Multiply by
ten. Add the number Of dead broth
ers and sisters. Subtract $50 from
rne result" 1t was done. :
Now" he said with a cunning
smile, ''the right-hand figure will be the
number of deaths, the middle figure
the number of living sisters, and the
left-hand figure the number OF living
brothers"
And it was so.
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removed from exposure and negative
making. The same is true of the
printing processes. You know in ad-
vance how much light you have and
how much you need: factorial tables
tell you how long TO leave plate In
the developer; every step is timid
with a stop watch. And that's why
it annoys me to have people say that
my art is luck proposition.
Before / had taken as many pic
lures as stand to my record now.
there was sometimes luck, mostly bad.
Although, as il appears to me at pres
ent, | got better results than | should
have obtained Eut if man with a
little experience and the proper out
fit exercises as much intelligence as
ia necessary to boil eggs, photography
is no longer a matter OF luck, and
thank nobody to call me lucky.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-08-13
Another "Rr in the School.


Reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic, the
three RS" OF the schoolma am in the
little old red schoolhouse on the hill
may have to make room for another
''R"-roads.
The Iowa state highway commission
is Of the opinion that the child mind
is a good place to start good roads,
just as good as 1t is to begin the null
DUPLICATION table, the first reader and
how to write.
The highway commission and the
state superintendent Of public In
struction, A M. Deyoe, are co-operat
ing in the working out of plan tc
use the rural consolidated school
houses in the state to disseminate
good roads gospel to the fathers and
mothers.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-08-13
Ship,s Dentist.

Modern liners have every kind OF
luxury, and a ships dentist is the
most modern innovation. Unlike other
innovations, it did not originate in the
brains of the steamship managers. but
was due to Partisan dentist. Hav-
ing occasion to go on sea voyage for
his health, he was struck with the
need of a dentist on board ship. and
on his return he promptly engaged a
suite of rooms in one Of the French
transatlantic vessels. He received
many clients, and since that date sew
eral steamship companies have car
ried ships dentist, who can extract
the aching teeth OF thu passengers.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-08-13
His Tender Spot.

AS certain young artist of New
York sat upon his stool on day in the
Adirondacks doing bit of mountain
stuff" there approached him from the
rear a native, evidently with ideas OF
his own touching art.
did you ever try photography p
asked the newcomer.
NO" was the curt response of the
young artist, who continued his work
TITS good deal quicker" suggest
ed the native.
Il suppose it u.s." surely assented the
painter. with another dab of the
brush.
And" the native added, with g
dash of malice, "a good deal more like
the place. "-Lippincott's
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at viii Work In Well In Some Good
Movies Story" He Told Himself.

house and went to the well near by.
An inverted goblet decorated the
pump post. She drew 1t full Of water
with healthy farm girls will, drained
1t and returned to the house.
The sight of the clear. sparkling
water aggravated the thirst Of the
weary wayfarer He boldly entered
the yard and took half a dozen cool
refreshing drafts. There was a
rustic bench near at hand. He sat
down to rest, approaching the haven
of peace about him. Then his glance
fell upon the piled up heap OF rich
cookery set to cool on the window SILL
wish 1 was a boy again. MUIR
INJURED Ned. ''It makes me think of
the old happy days." and then he
arose quickly from his careless atti-
tude of repose. Either the young
lady was lonely or she had noted his
ardent glance at the doughnuts. She
came tripping towards him, plate In
her hand well loaded with the product
of her labor.
II thought maybe you would be
obliging enough to test my first at
tempt at dodghnuts," she said quaint
ly.
II am hungry enough" admitted
Ned, in love with that bonny face
twice as much as before.
She stood near by as he devoured
the first of her kindly offerings with
~ brfoh% eoffchad emile
well, what is the verdict" she
challenged with teasing eyes.
"More!" answered Ned calamity.
This must be the original land Of
milk and honey
81 was f1ustered, feared I might
have spoiled them said Eva Dodge
with sigh of relief.
They will be spoiled quick enough
| if you are as liberal with others as my
SELF" he responded and then Miss
Dodge told of prospective barn dance
with. the accomplishments Of dough.
nuts, cider and chicken sandwiches.
She pouted anon as she looked at the
sun and told of how her brother Alan
should have reported two hours agone
TO help trim up the barn.
Suppose l try to earn the most
famous meal have enjoyed in year
by acting as his substitute" suggested
Ned.
They were like old acquaintance
within an hour, she directing, he nail
ing up wreaths and festoons OF shrubs
and flowers. And just as she had
clapped her pretty pink palms In de
light at the general effect, brother
Alan appeared.
Nothing would do but that the
stranger must stay for the evening
and for the night and when they
learned that Ned played the violin
they were more insistent than ever.
Ned felt as If he was leaving para
disc as he departed from the Dodge
homo the next afternoon. He carried
with him a memory of his charming
hostess that he knew would be abid
ing.
It was probably an hour later whel
he passed down lane to notice q
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-08-13
SYNOPSIS.

John Valiant, a rich society favorite,
suddenly discovers that tbs, Valiant cor
poration, which his father founded ana
which was the principal source of his
wealth. had failed. He voluntarily turns
over his private fortune TO the receiver
dor the corporation. His entire remaining
possessions consist Of an old motor ear, a
white bull dog and Damory court. neg
iected estate in Virginia. On the way TO
Damory court he meets Shirley Dand-
ridge, an auburn-haired beauty, and de-
cides that he is going to like Virginia I'M
tnensely Shirley's mother, Mrs. Dand-
ridge. and Major Bristow exchange rem,
iniscences during which it is revealed
that the major, Vaiiants father. ana q
man named SaSs0on were rivals for the
hand of Mrs. cambridge in her. youth.
Sassoon and Valiant fought4G duel on her
account in which the formeT was killed.
Valiant finds Damory court overgrown
with weeds and creepers and decides to
TehabiItate the place Valiant saves
Shirley from the bite of snake. winch
bites him. Knowing the deadliness of the
bite, Shirley sucks the poison from the
wound and saves his life. Valiant learns
for the first time that his father left Vir-
ginia on account of a duel In which DOC
bis fathers seconds. Valiant and Shirley
become good friends Mrs. Dandrluge
faints when she meets Valiant Tor the
first time. Valiant discovers that he has
81. fortune in old walnut trees. The yearly
tournament, a survival of the jousting OF
feudal times, is held at Damory court: At
the last moment Valiant takes the place
OF one of the knights, who is sick. and
enters the lists. He wins and chooses
shirley cambridge as queen of beauty 10
the dismay of Katherine Fargo. former
sweetheart, who is, visiting in Virginia;
The tournament bali at Damory court
draws the elite OF the countryside. Shir-
ley is crowned by. Valiant as queen OF
beauty Valiant tells Shirley of his love
and they become engaged. Katherine
Fargo determining not to give up Vail
ant without a struggle. points out to Shir-
ley how terrible it would be for the Wom-
an who caused the duel to meet Valiant
who looks so much like his father Shir-
lev. uncertain, but feeling that her moth
er was in love with the victim OF vail
ants pistol, breaks the engagement. Major
Bristow is fatally wounded by Greet free
King a liberated convict. who he had sent
to prison, but before dying Bristow con-
fesses to Mrs. cambridge that he had
kept letter Valiant had written to her
after the duel. Valiant decides to leave
Danory court and writes Shirley that ne
will love her always. Mrs. cambridge
learns from the thirty -year-old letter
that Valiant expected her to answer the
note if she wanted him TO return. For II
was Valiant she loved
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CHAPTER xxxIv.-continued.

Shirleys breath stopped. She felt
her face tingling and a curious weak
ness came on her limbs. Why, indeed
unless and the thought was like a
wild prayer in her mind-she had
been mistaken in her surmise
thoughts came thronging in panic
haste: the fourteenth of May and the
cape observation-disclosures might point
no less to Valiant than to Sassoon,
But her mothers fainting at the sight
of the son-the eager interest she had
displayed in Shirley's accounts of him,
from the episode of the rose and the
bulldog to the tournament ball
seemed now to stand out in new
light, throbbing and roseate. Could
1t be? Had she been stumbling along
a blind trail, misled by the cunning
Aovetailing of circumstance? Her
heart was beating stiflingly. If she
should be mistaken now. She dashed
her hand across her eyes as though to
compel their clearness. and looked
again.
! It was Beauty Valiant's face that
lay In the locket, and that could mean
but one thing: it was he, not Sassoon,
whom her mother loved!
The lamplight seemed to grow and
spread to an unbearable radiance.
Shirley thought she cried out with a
sudden sweet Witness, but she had
not moved or uttered a sound. The
illumination was all about her, like
a splendid cloud. The impossible had
happened. The miracle for which she
Historically prayed had been wrought!
When she blew out the light, the
shining still remained. That glowing
knowledge, like a vitalizing and phys
ical presence, passed with her through
the hall to her room. AS she stood in
the eIfish light of her one candle, the
poignancy of her JOY was as sharp as
her past pain. Later was to come the
wonder how that tragedy had bent
Beauty Valiant's life to exile and her
mothers to unfulfillment, and in time
she was to know these things, too.
But now the one great knowledge blot
ted out all else. She need starve her
fancy no longer! The hours with her
lover might again sweep across her
memory undenied. She felt his arms,
his kisses, heard his whispers against
her cheek and smelled the perfume of
Madonna lilies.
She drew the curtain and opened
the window noiselessly to the light.
Only a few hours ago she had been
singing to her harp in what wretched-
ness! She laughed softly to herself
The quiet night was full of his voice:
Il love you! want nothing but you'll
How her pitiful error had tortured
and wrung them both! But tomorrow
he, too, would know that all was well
A clear sound chimed across the
distance-the bell of the courthouse
clock, striking midnight. One!
Twoi How often lately it had
run discordantly across her mood;
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-08-13
lnSatiahle-

George A. Birmingham (Canon Han
nay), the versatile Irish clergyman
playwright and novelist, was talking II
a New York reporter about the Ameri
can business man.
I'll tell you a story" he said
which hits off the American business
man well.
"A wife, still young, turned from
the window OF her sumptuous nine
teenth-story apartment and said to hel
husband: al
George, ten years ago you prom
Used me that when you made million
you'd retire from business, and ther
we'd travel and enjoy life
Here she began to cry.
you've got your million now!' she
sobbed. Why do you still keep OF
working?'
George, as he hurried into his over
coat, growled:
"'Ah. that's just like you-neve'
satisfied"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-08-13

The preparations for his going had
been quickly made. He was leaving
behind him all but a single portman-
teau. Uncle Jefferson had already
taken this-with Chum-to the sta
ton. The old man had now gone sor-
rowfully afoot to the blockhouse. a
half-mile up the track, to bespeak the
stopping of the express. He would go
back on the horse his master was
riding.
The lonely little depot ffanked a
siding beside dismal stretch of yell
low clay-bank gouged by rains. Its
windows were dark and the weather
beaten plank platform was Illuminated
by single lantern that hung on a
nail beside the locked door, it's sickly
flame showing bruise-like through
smoky streakings of lamp-black. At
one side, in the shadow, was his bag,
and beside 1t the tethered bulldog
sole spot of white against the melan-
choly forlornness lying with one
splinted leg, like swaddled ramrod,
sticking straight out before him.
In the saddle, Valiant struck his
hand hard against his knee. Surely
| it was a dream! It could not be that
he was leaving Virginia, leaving Dam
DRY court. leaving her! But he knew
that it was not a dream.
Far away, rounding Powhattan
Mountain. he heard the long-drawn
boot of the coming train flinging it's
sky-warning in a host of scampering
echoes. Among them mixed another
sound Of a horse, galloping fast and
hard.
His own fidgeted. flung up wide nos
trils and neighed shrilly. Who was
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-08-13
Hose az Aoueduct.

A hose for water main served q
section of the city OF Paso Robes,
Cal. for several days after the bridge
CARRYING the regular supply had beer
washed out by great January storm,
A rope was put across the river and
a fire hose suspended from it. The
hose sustained the pressure Of the
big pumps. Later on 1t was re
placed with a four-inch pipe suspend
ed from three strands Of threeeighthD
inch guy wire.- Engineering Record
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-08-13
CHAPTER xxXv.
The Song of the Nightingale.

Along the dark turnpike John Val
liant rode with his chin sunk on his
breast. He was wretchedly glad of
the darkness, for it covered thou
sand familiar sights he had grown to
love. Yet through the dark came
drifting sounds that caught at him
with clutching hands-the bay of a
hound from some far-off kennel, the
whirring note of frogs, the impatient
high whinny of horse across pasture
bars--and his nostrils widened to the
wild braided fragrance Of the fields
over which the mist was spinning its
fairy carded wool.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-08-13

vote of the deputies, with the explana-
ton that sthe part taken by women
in associations with political ten
denotes is well known, and, under the
circumstances, can scarcely be pre-
vented" This bill has been sent back
to the deputies for further considera-
ton. The women of Austria have been
leading an agitation against the rise
of prices which they. as housekeepers,
feel most acutely. They have been
successful in cheapening coali in Vienna
and milk in Brunn. The leaders of the
movement have been elected to mu-
nicipal committees, and for the first
time woman has been put ON a COM
mittee of town council, viz. that of
Housing.
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tanned from a piece of white-hot wire,
heated by the passage of an electric
current The wire must be inclosed in
glass bulb from which the air has
been exhausted, otherwise it would
quickly be burned up and consumed.
The wire filament is now made OF
tungsten, which resists the flow OF
electricity with so much vigor that
the current, in working to get by the
obstruction, heats the wire to mean
descence, hence. the name.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-08-13
No Necessity for Stamps.

In New Zealand the postoff1ce pro-
vides big firms with machines. with
which they stamp their own CORE.
spondence. A specimen letter re
ceived bears an oblong postage
paid" stamp which Is put on by a ma
chine In the business mans Office
Periodically postal collector calls
round, reads the total on the machine
and collects the money.
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Kent Out of Politics.

In Austria women are forbidden by
law to take an active part In politics
or to join any political association.
Last spring the chamber of deputies
decided to cancel the prohibiting
clause, and the political committee OF
the upper house has now Endorsed this
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-08-13

1t rose and swelled exultant 60 break.
and die in a cascade of golden notes.
But in their hearts was the song
that is fadeless, immortal.
THE END.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-19

working. Then she went to Europe. then to
Newport, and finally to Reno. where she not
only secured her divorce. but her second hus-
band.
Down from the mountains day came an
old Newport playmate, good looking. hard.work
ing Julian Little OF course he Tell IN love with
the girl who had played with him when they
were children
They we're married almost immediately and
then the training began. Al the end or two
years Mrs Little pointed with pride at her hand,.
work and said: Look at my work Behold the
perfect butterfly"
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own counsel She sang for her guests whenever
she and Mr.. Kip entertained In their splendid
home. and. ostensbIy she happy as she
was pretty.
boy was born. and for a few months she was
entirely devoted to him. Then suddenly one
Spring. instead OF going to Newport as usual,
she went to Paris and again enrolled herself as
one of de Reszke's pupils.
Fanny will surely go into opera" said her
friends Very soon other things were whispered
over the teacups. Fanny wants to live in Paris
She hates New York. and she wants Henry TO
give up his business. sell the town house and
Join her in Paris" said society
During the Newport season the gossip centered
around the Henry Kips. Mrs. Kip had long been
a favorte. She original. so pretty. SO
ready to do startling things. and the Circus Set
sure that 1t her duty to return to New
port and help the colony amuse itself During
Horse Show week Mrs. Kip did return. but not
to her husband and home She went to the Reg
nald Vanderbts at Sandy Point farm. and from
there issued her ultmatum to her patient. still
nlove husband II somewhat as follows.
whispered society over its highball glasses and
teacups: Give up your job. or will give you up
We have money enough to support u.s. and why
should you not devote yourself to me rather than
to Wall Street,"
There 1t was in nutshell But Mr.. Kip was
made of stern stuff. He refused her ultimatum.
just he had refused to give in to her former
pleadings.
He had suffered much at the hands of his beau.
tiful WIFE, Almost from the very first she had
tried to make butterfly of him. Returning
from their wedding trip. he having large inter.
ests down town." wanted to go to his office
every day. Mrs. Kip cajoed, pleaded, wept
stay home Just to-day; let us go motoring in
the country let us take luncheon at sherry's:
let us stay home and practice my newest songs"
Ihus every day she pleaded And she did more
She sent out invitations for dinners, dances.
iuncnes, musioales, picnics. for every kind of an