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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23
LUCK OF THE HORSESHOE
Popular Superstition Has Been Tracee
to an English Demon Of Thir-
teenth Century.

Why is the horseshoe considered /;
sign of good luck? There is nothing
especially pretty about horses cast
off iron shoe, and no doubt not one
horseshoe believer in a million car
tell why he treasures it.
The origin Of the superstition cal
be traced back to the thirteenth cen
fury.
The monk Gervaise of Tilbury in
forms us that at that time there wa:
a kind of demon in England which
appeared as a horse rearing on its
hind legs and with sparkling eyes
Whenever this apparition was seen i
was a sign that confagration woVlf
soon break out.
Hence, as giving kindly warning
this mysterious horse was regarded al
a friendly spirit, and the animal il
general was believed to be benefi
cent mystic power.
A horse tooth carried in the poke
prevented tooth ache; it was a sigI
of good luck to find a horseshoe, ant
one was placed under the pillow of {
child to cure the collie, or nailed
against a building to prevent it catch
ing fire. This led to its general adop
ton as a protective symbol.-Stra,
Stories
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23
Good
| NeighbOrS
~ q III q sSEzga
Bu
VICTOR REDCLIFFE


Copyright, 1915, by w. G. Chapman.)
Gould you lend me your steplad-
der? / want to take out some Of the
window screens"
The man addressed, neXt-dOOr neigh
Dor, Robert Mason, nodded simply. He
was the owner of the house into which
Earle Pelham and his wife had just
moved. Pelham had paid liberal rent
for the place. The unsocial manner OF
his landlord displeased him. The lat
ter simply lifted the article asked for
over the low dividing fence, bowed and
turned away.
"Humph!" commented Pelham, al
most irritably, as he entered the
house.
What is the matter, dear?" inquired
Mrs. Pelham, tracing displeasure IN
his manner and voice.
THAT landlord of ours. Asked him
just now to loan me a stepladder to
get at the screens and he acted as if
he grudged even a decent word"
"Oh, you misjudge him, Earle, in
deed you dol" Mrs. Pelham fastened
to say. 81 feel so sorry for him-all
the town does, l learn. His life is
sad, sad history. A year ago his wife,
a bride of year, had a fit of sickness
which led to a complete nervous break
down. She got so bad they had to
send her to a sanitarium. Two months
ago she escaped. They have not been
able to trace her since. 1t is feared
that she wandered out among the
swamp lands beyond the sanitarium
and persisted from hunger or was
drowned
Poor fellow!" spoke Pelham, his
sympathetic heart deeply touched by
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23
New Idea in Eyeglasses.

In an effort to devise a means OF
mounting eyeglasses so as to avoic
the skin irritation sometimes caused
by the bows resting around the ears
and the bridge pinching the nose, 9
Nebraska inventor has patented ar
odd plan for suspending the lenses
before the eyes. While the arrange
ment cannot be called an attractive
one as far as appearances are con
cerned, it may benefit certain persons
who are compelled to wear glasses
constantly and find the ordinary
mountings Objectionable. Large lenses
each having a straight edge on the
inside so as to fit close TO the nose
and secured at the top 10 an adjust
able yoke. The terminals of this are
fixed in headgear, or cap. In this
manner the weight of the glasses is
supported above tn nose, the lenses
merely hanging in front of tbs eyes.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23
Grain Workers Live Longest.

In a recent discussion of senility
and longevity, DR.. H. M. Friedman
reviews the biological, physical and
mental aspects of old age and notes
that brain workers live longer than
muscle workers and that clergymen
are the longest lived of professional
individuals.
Women live longer than men in
spite of the morbidity of childbear.
ing. Marriage tends to favor longevity
and so does religious life. Heredity
is an important factor in both senility
and longevity.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23


which
$SOO while the and
attended
result committee available
About $4,000 expended painting the buildings and
granite
supplied needed
capitol marble scrubbed
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23
Observatorjes Little EmpIoyed.

In his presidential address at the
last meeting of the South African AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement of Sci
ence, r. T. A. Innes called attention
to the large number of astronomical
observatories, some of them admirably
equipped, which are doing little or no
work, beyond, perhaps, maintaining
time service or meteorological service
of local Importance. He stated that
"at least two of the observatories pos
sessing exceptionally large refracting
telescopes have not contributed one
months work from them in the last
twenty years" At least 33 per cent
of the observatories Rsted in the Brit
ish nautical almanac publish nothing.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23

his recital. 81 will be more charitable
IN my judgments after this.
The Pelhams had not dealt with Ma
son personally in renting the old home
Of Mrs. Mason's family, but through
an agent. After the death of the par
ents Of his wife, Mr.. Mason had moved
into the old home Now he was rent
ing it furnished and had taken up
more limited quarters in the adjoining
cottage, which he owned.
The Pelhams had just moved in.
Mrs. Pelham was busy all day long get
ting the interior in order. Her hus-
band attended to outside matters. He
removed the screens, tidied up the gar
den and both retired that night pretty
well wearied with their unusual labor.
The house is too large for us,
Earle,'' Mrs. Pelham remarked. Il
wish we had taken the one Mr.. Mason
occupies
"I don't know that we could get it,
observed her husband. Il heard he
was going to sell both places if he
could and leave the town. The assocl-
atoms of this old house, where his I'M
fortunate wife was born, must be very
painful to him.
Robert Mason had given up his wife
as dead. In trying to locate her after
her escape from the sanitarium the
searchers had discovered several
clues that led them to believe that the
a..-s&;~,o Lod xrondorod into tho swami
district. This was a dangerous and
interminable swamp spot. and three
days after the disappearance OF Mrs.
Mason a fire had swept the greater
portion of it. There was every reason
to believe that Mrs. Mason had per-
ished.
A distressing feature of her fate was
the fact that the physician in charge OF
the sanitarium had entertained great
hopes of her eventual recovery. She
had been improving for some weeks
prior to her escape.
1t was about midnight when Mr.. Pei
ham, soundly asleep, was aroused
from his slumbers by a quick nudge
from his wife Her voice was tremu-
lous and agitated as she whispered
breathlessly:
Get up at once, Earle!"
why, what is the matter?" in
quired her better half drowsily.
"Burglars!" shuddered Mrs. Pelham.
"Oh, do be careful! I've been over
half an hour lying awake and listening
to suspicious sounds.
"The wind, / suppose"
mo, l thought so at first, but found
| was mistaken continued Mrs. Pei
ham in a timorous voice. First
heard the front door rattle. Then
someone tried the side windows. Then
there was a window lifted in the gar
ret. oh, l am sure someone is up
therel Now, Earle-do you not hear?''
You're right, Rachel assented Mr..
Pelham, after a moment of intense
listening.
There was no doubling the fact that
the floor overhead creaked as hurried
footsteps crossed it. Then there was
a sc1aping sound, as Of someone pull
ing a trunk or box over the boards.
Then a breaking sound.
Mr.. Pelham got out of bed, dressed,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23
FACTS WORTH KNOWING

To avoid discarding a number of
four-wheeled cars a street railway
company in Virginia has joined them
together in pairs with a compartment
between them that permits them to
round curves.
Silk hosiery becomes increasing
popular. American factories turned
out 100000 pairs in 1899, 5,213,OOO
pairs in 1909 and still larger quaint
ties now.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23
Fiber Likely TO BE Found Useful,

Experiments are being carried on III
Cuba with the fiber Of plant locally
known as "malva blanca" which is
said to produce an ideal fabric for
sugar bags. According to the Habana
correspondent Of Sugar, the fiber is
soft and silky, possesses a tensile
strength greater than hemp, is capable
of close weaving, and not susceptible
to shrinkage if wet No special ma
chimes are required for handling the
fiber, those adapted for spinning and
weaving hemp, jute or henequen be-
ing suitable for malva blanca.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23

and lighting lamp got revolver
from a bureau drawer. His wife fol
lowed his example by throwing on a
dress. She was close behind him as
they crept up the attic stairs.
ooh, do be CAREFUL" she implored
whisperingly, as they reached the top
Of the stairs, and a low, vague Groom
ing sound reached their hearing from
beyond the threshold of the attic
door.
Hold the lamp" directed her hus'
band. when | pull the door open
suddenly lift it so l can see where to
fire"
Mr.. Pelham gave the door quick
pull With a trembling hand his wife
lifted and extended the lamp.
Don't - don't shoot" almost
screamed Mrs. Pelham. Its girl
a woman!"
The Pickering lamp fell at1Uss a
woman, singing softly to herself md
taking dress after dress from trunk
she had opened She turned toward
the intruders in a surprised way.
Visitors" she observed in a SOFT
plaintive tone "You will have to ex-
and meet my guests. | have just ar
rived home Some wicked people
stole me from my husband and /
escaped"
ooh, Earle!" gasped Mrs. Pelham,
Juggling at her husbands sleeve,
don't you understand? It's that poor
lady next door they mourn as dead
Oh, quick! quick! run for her hus
band. She has found home at last
and see, that open window. She must
have reached it with the stepladder.'
Mr. Pelham, terribly excited hurried
away. Mrs. Pelham advanced to the
side of the woman, whose garments
were nearly in rags.
Pick out your dress, DEAR she
said soothingly. "Your husband will
be here soon.'
"But-strangers in the housed" be
gan the other suspiciously.
Mrs. Pelham. you will find every
thing in order below"
1t was a great shock for Robert Ma
son when his neighbor advised him OF
the strange arrival of the night. He
Gained himself as he realized the stu
alton. AS he entered the attic, with a
wild cry of delight his wife ran into
his arms.
ooh, Robert! those wicked men whs
stole me away from YOU"
Gone entirely out of our life, my
darling" assured Mason Come tC
your own rooms and get ready to joir
our kind neighbors at little LUNCH
he proceeded, and made a sign to the
Pelhams, who retired.
Half an hour later Mr.. Mason led his
wife, neatly dressed and looking calm
and happy, into the rooms below. The
quick-witted Mrs. Pelham had spread
out a small rejection. To the letter
the program of visitors" was carried
out, and in the eyes Of the poor wan
derer all could trace slow but SURE
returning of reason.
"You will have to keep up the pre-
tense Of going over TO the next house
till l can arrange otherwise" whis
pered Mr.. Mason to Mr. Pelham.
"Oh, you mustn't disturb your wife
with anything" answered Mrs. Pei
ham And besides-we like the littl'
home best!"
Famously good people, the Pelham!
shared the glad, grateful joy of thei;
landlord, as the days went on and Mrs
Mason came back into the full sun
shine of reason and health.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23

Electrically operated apparatus for
Analysing and registering the quality
Of furnace gases has been invented
by a Frenchman.
Paper, guncotton and imitation
leather and silk are few of the arti-
cles that can now be made Of cotton
plant stalks The most interesting
item is the first. The need for a
wood pulp substitute is yearly becom-
ing increasingly urgent.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23

lar firm steady stream OF letters to the bureau brings questions about
conditions specific
considerable
possible
careful
o the deving
information which, will be
foreign domestic
opnfame
in
method of settling
United States by
questions variety caacteres each days
of the attention.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23
Dubious Praise.

81 stand on my record" said the can
didate, pompously.
"Whoopee!" shouted member O
the opposition.
How now, my brother"
eff you can do that you are as sure
footed as mountain goat and as ligh
as thistledown."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23


o
interesting by Washington; the first,
arm a Annapolis Md. December 49, 1888.
separated periods
things which
diversified
in
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23
Boundary Finally Settled.

The old boundary dispute between
Michigan and Ohio, which was keenesi
before Michigan became state was
never settled until the last summer
VIXEN a new line of handsome gr"1itt
markers was set up
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23

George Washington, many of which
are displayed in the older building of
the United States National museum
in Washington. This collection con-
sists of a variety of material gathered
from numerous sources. While COM
posed largely of articles of domestic
and artistic interest owned by Wash
ington at Mount Vernon, the collec-
ton also includes mementos of his
life in the field during the war of the
Revolution, and number of other
roicoaI1ane relics Of greater or less
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23

nave Deen maue SplCK anu SPAN, Itduy
for winter occupants.
Work has been going on since
early in the spring, after congress adj
journed, for this was the first time in
seven years that the national law
makers had taken a recess sufficiently
long to permit improvements upon a
large scale to be attempted. Some OF
the old paving had been down as long
as 80 years and was in disgraceful dis.
repair.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23

pupils school, and are the
field established by the ONCE
OF buildings grounds
talk and the little
started explain and then mmedf
ately:
get it,"
illumination that quarter
molycodde could play the
that
hoped that the high schools
before teams
insttu whilst Elipse
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23

LneIr Classic SL-IU6, anu GV6Iy eye IS
focused on a plot in the center of the
big reservation.
1t is not a regimental review OF
the high school boys in blue, nor yet
an exciting baseball game, or even
dog fight that forms the cynosure for
the surrounding throngs. 1t is some
thing of far more interest. Eighteen
young ladies, CARRIED in the costume
that rarely gets outside of gymna-
SUM, are engaged in one of the most
strenuous sports in the whole cate
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23

bureau of foreign and domestic COM
MERGE every day. Every mail brings
some inquiry for information which
will be of use to the American pro-
ducers in marketing their goods, and
the bureau strives to produce the in
formation in the shortest time, al
though some of the questions involve
great deal of research work. Many
times it is necessary to send to the
commercial agents in foreign coun-
tries, who have to go out and look
for information sought by e. particu-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23
Capitol Building Put in First-CIass Condition

pillars dnched and
wv eunhed and
and the buildings
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23
Personal Relics Of G. Washington in Museum

pertaining the history of this coun
Americans
Of The Father OF HIS country
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23
Commerce Bureau Must Answer Many Questions

INFORMATION tariffs campaign buttons South
locating the American sought of the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-12-23
Hockey Girls on EIIipse Attract Big Crowds

r traffic vehcuar and pedestrian three
White House
choked pulled violently marathoers halt
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-12-22
READING NOTICES
FOLKS NEED A LOT OF LOVING

Folks need lot of loving in the morning
The day is all before, with cares beset-
The cares we know, and they that give
no warning;
For love is Gods own antidote for fret.
Folks need a heap of loving at the noon
time
In the battles lull, the moment snatched
from strife
Halfway between the waking and the
croontime,
While pickering and worriment are rife.
Folks hunger so for loving at the night
time,
When YEARLY they take them home to
rest
At slumber-song and turningout- the-light
time
Of all the times for loving, that's the
best!
Folks want lot of loving every minute
The sympathy of others and their smile !!
Till life's end, from the moment they be-
gin it,
Folks need lot of loving all the while.
Strickland Gillian.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-12-22

then that he knows Of what he is capable
and what his heart demands. And, as
suredly, no thoughtful man ever came to
the end of his life and had time and
little space of calm from which to look
back upon it who did not know and ack-
nowledge that it was what he had done
unselfshly and for others and nothing
else, that satisfied him in the retrospect
and made him feel that he had played the
man. That alone seems to him the real
measure of himself the real standard Of
his manhood.
And so men grow by having response
bility laid upon them, the burden OF 9TH
er peoples business. Their powers are
put out at interest, and they get usury in
kind. They are like men multiplied. Each
counts manifold. Men who live with an
eye only upon what is their own are
dwarfed beside them-seem fractions
while they are integers. The trustworth-
mess of men trusted appears often to
grow with the trust.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-12-22
OUR LAST SERMON

n EWARE of uttering pessimistic
X and cynical remarks about Christ
- mas joys. If only from motives Of
vanity, abstain from grumbling during
the festive season, for nothing so surely
fixes persons age as disagreeable re
marks about the utter futility and absurd
ity of keeping Christmas. However we'll
preserved, however free from gray hair,
wrinkles and other distressing marks OF
devouring Time, be quite sure that your
Christmas attitude will not give you away.
"Heigho for the holly! This life is most
iollyr' is the correct attitude. 1t is The
attitude of the child, and at Christmas
time the immortal child which turks in
every human being wakes to life if we do
not brighten it and allow it to creep back
to it's hiding place for want OF encourag-
ment-EXehange.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-12-22
BOOSTER VS.. KNOCKER

VVyHEN the Creator had made all the
w good things, there was still
W some dirty work to do, so He
made the beasts and reptiles and poison
Gus insects, and when He had finished, He
had some scraps that were too bad to put
into the Rattle Snake, the Hyena, the
Scorpion, and the Skunk, so He put all
these together, covered it with suspicion,
wrapped it with jealousy, marked it with
yellow streak and called it KNOCKER.
This product was SO fearful to contemp-
late that He had to make something to
counterfeit it, so he took sunbeam and
put in the heart of child, the brain of
man. wrapped these in civic pride, COW
cred it with brotherly love, gave it mask
of velvet and grasp of steel and called
it a BOOSTER; made him a lover of fields
and flowers and manly sports, believer
in equality and justice, and ever since the
two were. mortal man has had the priv
lege of choosing his associates.
Author unknown.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-12-22
HOW TT WAS DONE

oEVERAL of the newspaper boys nave
said exceedingly nice things about the
~ Christmas edition of The Gazette. wed
like to reprint some of these compliment
arv things we have carefully clipped, but
Put of the Granite Falls Tribune always
makes such fuss when we reprint any
thing kind that has been. said about US
that we refrain. But each bouquet has
been received with individual appreciation
But the Springfield Free Press goes
step too far. Edit Ericsson is chlvalrous
gentleman and he closes his sentence OF
praise by saying, "It takes woman to
do things artistically." Now that's tlne
only in this instance the woman IN the
case" did little more than to lend the light
of her presence-and it took lot more
than that to get out the thirty-two pages
issued December g. 1t took the master
mind of the Big Boss to wake the neces-
sary responsive chord in the heart OF the
advertisers; a foreman who works with
out growing eighteen hours day il nee
essary, linotype operator who doesn't
make mistakes himself and kicks like the
proverbial bay steer if anybody else does,
and a pressman with the patience OF job
and the kind of vocabulary that helps
when the press bucks.
It's great to sit in the front end OF
print shop and accept the kindly praise
from contemporaries when in the rear
end of the same shop team work" OF the
"staff" is producing the results.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-12-22
GOSSIP OF THE PRESS

There's always one good thing at least
that can be said about hard work. 1t al
ways keeps worrying at respectable dis
tance.-Stillwate Gazette.
4 Il T
All of us like praise and commentator.
Some of us like it so we'll that our sources
of supply drying up, we sound our own
praises Jordan Independent.
t 4 t
Had John D. gotten up the peace ex-
petition, gasoline would have gone up. 1t
remains to be seen what effect it will have
on the price of Fords- Springfield Free
Press.
The Princeton Union wonders what eff
feet the European war will have on the
market price of pauper princes and no
accounts counts. AS they won't be worth
paying freight on, there probably won't
be any in the market.-Red Wing Daily
Eagle.
# It t
A professor of psychology, one Of that
class of men who are nosing into the why
and wherefore of things, recently asked
"why do we laugh" A wag on the edi-
torial staff on the Sioux City Journal
comes to the rescue of the grave question
in human knowledge by naively suggest
ing that there's Henry Ford. "-Luverne
Journal.
Il t t
Make no more giants, God, but make us
men-clear eyed, truth seeing, firm hand
ed. Men who believe in themselves and
ultimate outcome of the life they are liv-
ing. Commercialism, false society, treach-
cry, backibiting friends, all the evils Of
this modern age, come from mean and
low standard of life. The only tempta-
ton to do right should be the conscious
ness of the right.-Exchange.
4 It 4
The president is right in regards his
stand on the war question, as far as it re-
lIates to the European situation and should
be backed up by every loyal, red-blooded,
patriotic American, be he of German, Eng
fish. scandinavian, French or any other
foreign descent. We are all under one
flag. the greatest ever furled to the breeze,
and the protection that that flag affords
us should make us forget everything ex-
cept our God and our country. Chaska
: Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-12-22
FORGIVENESS

4 SWEDISH count has an autograph
n album in which three statesmen
have written a sentence of their re-
spective PHILOSOPHERS. The eighty-year old
French minister, Cuizot, wrote: During
my long life l learned two wise rules; the
one is to forgive much, the other, to for
get nothing.
Underneath these words the French
statesman Theirs wrote: Il have found
that little forgetting does not detract
from the sincerity of the forglvlng.
On the same page there was peace enough
for an autograph of the German chancel-
lor, Bismark, who said: During my lie
have learnt the need of forgetting much
and having much forgiven me" Elk.