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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15

we should have for our dinners. So,
when l raised decided protest against
the young man she was inviting too
often to call upon her, l was terrified
at her resentment and rage at what
she deemed my uncalled for interior
ence. She threatened to run away
from home. If l do not permit this
man-whom 1 know to be worthless
scoundrel-to visit her, she will assur-
eddy carry out her threat. Then my
heart would break"
This is an excerpt from a letter
which tormented mother has written
me, asking what she shall do to thwart
the girls avowed intention of running
away.
We have all heard of the useless
ness of locking the barn door after the
frolicsome young colt that has never
known halter or hindrance has de-
camped to fields new and pastures
green. 1t also is useless to look back
ward and point out what should have
been done in the years that belong to
the past-to cause the daughter to
look up to and respect her mothers
opinion and heed her decision.
We must make an appeal direct to
the girl, endeavoring to show her the
folly of leaving kind and loving hearts,
the roof that has sheltered her and
the fireside around which those who
love her gather, to cast her lot among
strangers in a cold and merciless
world
There are girls who are foolish
enough to believe that they are able
to go from home find position with
the utmost ease, and they will be able
to entertain the company they like
and quite as often as they please.
A fortnight's experience is ample to
take the fine enthusiasm out of the
most determined young woman. Posi-
tons that yield scarcely more than
enough money to hold soul and body
together are quite as hard to secure
as the better ones, where there is sell
dom or never vacancy. Boarding
house landladies do not ask her what
she would like for dinner. She has to
take what is set before her, not daring
to make protest.
In regard to her company, he finds
little welcome. The parlor is for all;
he cannot monopolize it. If he puts
in an appearance three or four times
a week the businesslike landlady
makes no bones in pronouncing, Men
who have no conjunction about COM
ing around to wear other peoples
chairs out, burn gas, and take up
room"-decidedly unwelcome visitors;
in short, nuisances. If the girl
retorts spiritedly, she is soon after
requested to give up her cherries hall
bedroom for some working girl who
has no visitor.
If the girl weds the young man
whom nobody likes, she is apt to find
she has made a still greater mess of
it. There's two in the hall bedroom of
some other cheaper boarding place,
and her scant earnings have to be
stretched to cover the cost of feeding
a husband. What the home folks say
about her lover should have much in
fiuence with a girl. Under no circum-
stances should she run away from a
loving mother and sheltering home
She would have all of her after life
to repent of it.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
COTTONSEED MEAL
GOOD FOR HORSES
Satisfactory Results Secured by
Feeding at Rate of One Pound
Per Head Daily.

In answer to the inquiry, "Is cotton
seed meal good feed for horses?" Pro-
fessor Foster of the New Mexico ex-
pertinent station states that it is, when
fed in small quantities in combination
with other concentrates. A number
of southern experiment stations and
horse owners report satisfactory re-
suits from feeding it to mares, colts,
and driving horses at the rate of one
pound per head daily, mixed with
ground corn or other grain; and to
work horses at the rate of two pounds
per head daily, fed in the same man.
ner.
The Iowa station found that when
fed in connection with corn and oats,
IL pound of cottonseed meal was
equal to Id pound of linseed oil meal
in maintaining the weight of the
horses and enabling them to do work;
and that on account of being less lax
alive than the oil meal, it is better
adapted to the needs of horses at hard
work. Because of it's high protein
content and its peculiar flavor, it gives
most satisfactory results and is eaten
with greater relish when fed in mix
ture with some Of the grains, such as
corn, oats, milo or barley.
In localities where alfalfa is the
principal roughage, cottonseed meal
is not needed to properly balance the
ration for farm horses. Any of the
grains mentioned are sufficient. It's
value is more apparent where farmers
must rely mainly on timothy or prairie
hay or some of the coarse folders for
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
Indian Forced to succumb.


The white man and the Indian never
could mix, and the Indian has had to
succumb. All of us admire the Indian
and would like to see him survive for
all time; but it appears impossible
that with advancing civilization he can
continue. The Indian simply will not
submit to the changed conditions; he
still dreams of the happy hunting
ground and the forest and stream, and
nothing the government can do for
him can reconcile him. The automo-
bile and other things have helped him
along in his reckless career, but tu-
berculosis has been the most destroy
ing element in the life of the Ameri-
can aborigine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
FRUIT GROWING AND
POULTRY COMBINED
Trees Offer Great Advantage in
Providing Shade and Insect
Food for Fowls.

The most important problem for the
digestion of our orchard people is to
get more money out of their places.
For years we have urged the advisable
ity of these people taking up poultry
culture as an adjunct to their business
and we desire to again insist upon the
necessity of considering this matter
seriously, says Denver Field and
Farm. The paid experts have fig
ured out that nice young hen prop
erly chaperoned and provisioned
ought to return net profit of 81 a
year although in all our travels we
have never been able to discover such
remarkable performer in the hen
family. 1t costs at least dollar a
year to run a hen and when such a
layer can return a gross income of 50
she must perfunctorily be cracker
jack such as the most of us do not
possess.
Whether or not we can bring our
laying hens up to yield of $50 eggs
year is not the question however.
The thing is to use the orchard tract
for the running of fowls of one kind
or another that will bring in steady
income so as to make the place more
profitable at the expenditure of but
little more time and money in the
overhead charges
1t seems easy enough to run 100
hens on each acre without materially
interfering with the regular orchard
work so that the one essentially is
to get at it and do it.
One man is carrying an annual flock
of 600 birds to the acre where there
are no trees and we do not see now
the simple matter of trees has any
thing to do in curtailing the PROPOSE
ton when as a matter of fact they Of
fer a great advantage through the
shade and the insect food they are all
the time propagating.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
CRUDE PETROLEUM
AS NANCE REMEDY
Hogs Afflicted Should Be Given
Thorough Treatment at In
tervaIS of Eight Days.

BY M. Fl. REYNOLDS, Minnesota Ex-
pertinent Station)
Treatment of hogs for mango should
begin with vigorous scrubbing with
brush, soap and soft water so as to
remove the crust. A veriety of coal
tar dips are on the market. Most of
these are quite satisfactory If of suffi-
cient strength and warm enough
about ITO degrees, but do not boil.
The hog should be given a good
thorough soaking in the dip, not less
than two minutes. The hog must go
under head and all at least once.
Treatment must usually be repeated
one or more times at intervals of
eight days. Treat the whole herd and
do it thoroughly
An effective dip can be made from
crude petroleum as follows: Four gal
Ions crude oil, 16 gallons of water and
one pound of soap. The soap should
be dissolved in the water by heating.
An emulsion is then made by adding
the oil and thoroughly churning the
mixture. Water in different sections
differs very greatly in the way it will
combine with soap. If this amount of
soap does not give a good emulsion
simply add more soap. Avoid oily
dips in cold weather. While the hogs
are taking the dip, thoroughly clean
and then disinfect the pens. In case
of true mango the fence posts, trees
and everything against which the hogs
rub must also be disinfected Use a
strong disinfectant and plenty of it.
After treatment do not put the hogs
back into lousy or NANCY pens.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
Proud Gity of SMYRNA.

Smyrna can lag claim to a loftier
lineage than perhaps. any other city
on the earth. 1t is her proud boast
that from the earliest dawn of history
down to the present bombardment her
continuity of name and fame is un-
broken. 1t is in this spirit that she
claims Homer tbr citizen. His river,
the Meles, which gave him a name,
runs near the city; and the cave is
still shown where he wrote his poems.
Smyrna has not been slack in appro-
priating Homer, endowing him even
with local temple. The saddest chap
tiers in the history of the city are
those which record earthquakes and
massacres of Greeks by Turks.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
Drink Denlson's Coffee.
Always pure and delicious.
Geometry Required.


Plato is said to have written over
his door: Let no one ignorant OF
geometry enter here" Today such @
restriction would reduce his visit
ing list. Perhaps outside the profess
sional mathematicians he would have
no one at all. All the artists, the
philanthropists, the historians, to say
nothing of those ladies and gentlemen
of leisure whose critical faculties are
so Importantly developed nowadays,
would certainly be absent, and, worse
still, would suffer very little at their
exclusion. Yet going back into the
centuries for guests, distinguished
company might have been assembled
of those who, without being famous
merely for mathematical studies, were
known to have understood and loved
the subject. The Greek philosophers
would have been there in body, All
phonse x, Omar Khayyam, Albert
Durer, Leonardo da Vinci, Describes
Pascal, Napoleon and Lewis Carroll
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
COOLEY, SUMMER GIRL.

I've had good time, a good good time.
Nobody knows how good a time but me.
With nights and days of revel and OF
rhyme
And tears and love and longing by the
sea.
1t must not be supposed that fair
women are the only ones anxious to
select the right place for their summer
outing. Many man scans the resort
column and news with as much en-
thusiasm and interest.
All mems minds do not run in the
same groove; there are those who
choose the fashionable summer re-
sorts, to catch a glimpse of the beau
tiful woman and gay life, to beguile
the fleeting days of their vacation.
Many a bashful young man has put
himself into the hands of dancing
teacher. hoping to be in the swim, at
hop, ball or barn dance.
The resolve is certainly praise
worthy. Such young man is a god
send to the hotel proprietor who is
madly pulling his hair in his eager
search for young men of good position,
character and social prominence as at
fractions to make his hostelry popular
with families with numerous daugh-
tiers. The papers are glad to print the
list of eligible young men who will
sojourn at this famous hotel or that
one this summer. The girls read, but
10! visions of hop, ball, stroll, flirting
and love-making do not turn them
from the plans they have made for
their summer outing.
Instead of filmy lace dresses, white
satin, French heeled slippers, gossa-
mer scarfs and whole bolts of baby
blue ribbons, the girls will show you
blue serge skirt, MILDLY blouses that
can be washed and worn without laun-
dering. thick-soled laced boots, sweat
er and tam-o' -shanter cap. That
means that nine-tenths of the girls
who used to go in for the gay life at
the summer hotel are to have quite a
different vacation this season. They
have danced all winter in tulle and
satin, and have determined they must
have a radical change to bring back
the roses to their cheeks and rest up.
So-it's the camp life they're going IN
for. A crowd of them, all going to-
gether under the wing of some good,
motherly old soul who has houseful
of girls of her own, who knows what
they need and what is best for them.
Even the pretty dimpled t1irts who
imagined they couldn't live without
some chap near by to make love to
them soon forget to sigh for heart
conquests, or to even dream of man
in their slumbers when they have
lived for a week in the open. When
they are all up with the dawn, chat
tering like magpies, how could one
dare to cling to her pillow and hope
to get another forty winks. There's
five-mile tramp to the brook, and an
hours fishing before sunrise, if they
would have a trout for breakfast.
Each takes her turn at frying pota-
toes, broiling ham or bacon and poach-
ing eggs, whether she's a millionaire's
heiress or the daughter of country
shopkeeper. The fried corn cakes
leach girl with mouth watering eagerly
waiting her turn to get one) tastes a
thousand times more delicious than
the finest short-cake ever put together
by the best French chef.
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he is sure to undergo severe quiz
zing, later on when he has well-nigh
forgotten the matter, where he was on
1 certain evening; if he walked or
rode straight home; If he encountered
anyone he knew, and what a two-dol-
lar bill missing from his pay envelope
on that particular evening went for.
The average husband forgets his ex.
cuses as he utters them. 1t is, there
fore difficult for him to think up the
same story twice.
Net one husband out of fifty de-
ceives his wife with deliberate evil in
tentions. He thinks it wisest and best
sometimes not to mention matters
which might raise a domestic row.
No matter how earnestly admonished
to keep silent the husband sooner
or later under carefully prepared quiz
zing discloses the fact that his sister
is i'll and he had been to see her and
where the missing bill went to. There's
no use in talking the quizZing wife
finds her good-natured husband no
A1otCh AOl hCl ClSNcIuCSS III uhCoh LII
ing anything and everything he had
made UP his mind to conceal from her
that she might not be worried.
She keeps her better half constant
ly in hot water. His every word, act,
or glance is apt to be misconstrued.
He spends the greater part of his life
attempting to explain matters to her
satisfaction.
He who has a quizzing sweetheart
who wants to know where he was on
the evenings he was not by her side,
whom he saw and all about it should
beware-take care. He has a long,
rough weary road to travel after he
weds her. 1t is habit that is seldom
or never vanquished by even the most
patient of husbands. It is but a short
step from quizzing to nagging. When
that sets in, happiness is in imminent
danger of being overthrown. No man
loves wife the better for it, indeed,
it more often means loves total
eclipse. The woman who starts in to
quiz her good husband builds a wall
which may eventually part them.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15

If you want heavy drafts-and they
are big sellers these days-stick to a
draft breed and never mix the breeds
IL possible to avoid it.
If you want just harness-horses,
breed the trotters. If you want sad
die horses or park hacks, breed for
them. If you want speed under the
saddle, breed thoroughbreds.
The various breeds have been high
ly developed, their best profits accent
uated and fostered by scientific breed
ers, both in America and abroad
What is more reasonable to suppose
than that these men who have given
years of labor and who have spent
much money in developing the var
ious breeds, should have arrived at
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
Trainina 4abY.

Yells from the nursery brought the
mother, who found the baby gleefully
pulling small Billy's curls.
Never mind, darling" she comfort
ed. Baby doesn't know how it hurts. "
Half an hour later wild shrieks from
the baby made her run again to the
nursery.
why, Billy!" she cried. What is
the matter with the baby?"
Nothing, muzzer," said Billy, calm
Iy, "only now he knows" -Harper's
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the observation
that it does not
augur we'll for a
girls future for
her mother to give
her her own way
from childhood up
to young woman
hood
"She knows just
what she wants,
and from the time
she was ten years
old, and, indeed,
even before, | al
lowed her to Sc
lect her own hats,
cloak ks, an d
dresses; choose
the new rugs, and
even decide what
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
Papa'S PFaver.

A Topeka Sunday school teacher
asked one of her little girls if she re-
membered to say her prayers in the
morning as we'll as at night, relates the
Kansas City Star mo, ma am, but
papa does" replied the child. That's
nice, and what does papa say for the
morning prayer?" asked the teacher.
ooh, he just says. Lord. how / hate to
get up
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
CLEAR YOUR SKIN
BY Daily Use Of Cuticura Soap and
Ointment. Trial Free.

You may rely on these fragrant
supercreamy emollients to care for
your skin, scalp, hair and hands. Moth
ing better to clear the skin Of pimples,
blotches, redness and roughness, the
scalp Of dandruff and itching and the
hands of chapping and soreness.
Sample each free by mail with S2-p.
Skin Book. Address postcard, Cuticura,
Dept. Y, Boston. Sold everywhere. Adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
Hard on the Prosecutor.

A lawyer who was engaged by the
city to prosecute one James Magee for
keeping a gambling house, warming
up to his subject, shouted:
James Magee has kept gambling
house, does keep a gambling house!
l have proved it again and again. :
have said once and for all it is GAM
bling house, and / maintain it"
That's right, your honor" said the
culprit. I'D have failed long ago but
for the patronage of the honorable
gentleman"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15

the most profitable way of raising
good horse flesh.
If farmer visits a reputable breed
ing establishment in this country or
Europe, he will find that every effort
is made to breed along pure lines of
the breed that is to be first developed
and then perpetuated. So in this way
we get the best specimens of any
kind whatsoever.
Sore shoulders and consequently
balky teams are the consequence of
hard work during the spring months
if the harness does not fit properly.
Watch the collar, and unless it is
fitting tight, either use an excess pad
or a smaller collar. The latter is al
ways preferable.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
Just Like Dad.

what makes that boy so fidgety az
the breakfast table?" growled the
head of the family as he glared over
the top of his paper.
II suppose he's waiting for you to
get through with the sport page SO
he can find out who won yesterdays
game" said the boys mother. You're
the same way yourself when the news
man forgets to deliver the paper"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
Prevent Trees From Drying.

Trees that are tied in bundles when
received must be separated before be-
ing heeled in. If this is not done, it
is practically impossible to work the
soil among the roots sufficiently well
to prevent them from drying to Sc
rious extent.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
~ losses SURELY PREVENTED
Grass Widows Grievance.

GTaSS WIDOWS GFleVanCes
That fortune teller got all mixed
up on my husbands" said the grass
widow as she left the seventh daugh-
ter, with an escort holding tight. she
said l had had two; then she wouldn't
say l would have three. l thought
that mean of her. Instead, she kept
on saying what a nice husband 1 had
now, what a fine man he was, and all
that idiocy. Why, my husband is the
meanest little brute that ever lived.
I haven't laid eyes on him for two
years. Now, why do you suppose that
fortune teller kept on saying he was
such a nice husband?" she demanded.
That's easy" said the escort. "She
thought was your husband and she'd
get to tell my fortune when she had
finished yours
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
SPADE Soil for Chicks.

Spade up some of the soil in the
runs and give the chicks chance to
scratch and wallow in it. They will
find many things in that freshly spad-
ed soil which cannot be supplied to
them in an artificial way.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15

weakness. For two
years / could not
stand ION my fe ct
long at a time and !
could not walk two
blocks without en-
during cutting and
drawing pains down
my right side which
in ere a sed every
month. I have been
at that time purple
in the face and would
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
Penair the Fences.

Slip out and see that all the fences
are in good trim. Rails will get
pushed off and boards drop off the
posts now and then. If you do not
find such places, the cattle will, and
that will mean trouble.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
Fond of Powder.

Crawford see the belligerents are
calling out the older reservists. Do
you think that married men should be
compelled to fight?
Crabshaw-Why not? They are
used to it.-Life,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
Best Corn Planter.

The edge-drpp corn planter will drop
Just the number of kernels wanted in
hill 95 times out of 100. With the
rotary drop the per cent of correct
dropping is about so out of 100.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
Quiet Day.

Sergeant-Anything doing in the
trenches, today?
Corporal-No; it was SO quiet you
could hear a shell drop.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15

If it is necessary to make enemies,
choose lazy men.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15

YOUR OWN DRUGGIST WILL TELL YOU
Try Murine bye Remedy for Red, Weak, Watery
Just Eye comfort Write for Book of the Eye
by mail Free. Murine Rye Remedy Co., Chicago
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
That Will Be Nice.

"Well, here is a question settled of
great national importance"
Tell me quick"
Il see men of fashion this summer
are to wear low-necked shirts
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
WOMEN CAN
HARDLY BELIEVE
How Mrs. Hurley Was Re-
stored to Health by Lydia
Z. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

Eldon, Mo. -"I was troubled with
displacement, inflammation and female
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
LallrA@e11l6bey,S
= TWZkH,(N =
GIRLS WHO RUN AWAY FROM
HOME.
rooNel1hZ I2fs ~ mr. hcrZAeE nT1s0eaeER JnNy,47F

When I loved you 1 can't but allow
l had many an exquisite minute;
But the scorn that l feel for you now
Hath even more luxury in it!
Thus, whether we're on or We're off,
Some witchery seems to await you.
To love you is pleasant enough,
But, oh, it's delicious to hate you!
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15

And many chap who talks like
wise man acts like fool.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15

It's the high spots that knock oue
the rolling stones.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15

BY all that I can see or hear, can
learn by tale or history, l am led to