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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-31
ALL FOUND THEIR WAY HOME
Cows Broke From Pasture During the
Battle of Gettysburg, and Reached
Places of Safety.

We had an old cow that had been in
the family for years, and the morning
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-31
Boy Scout Gets Reptile as Trophy Of Chase

TAIL
capable hands that gppe with
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-31
ON MEMORIAL DAY
Time for Patriotic Thoughts as
We StreW Flowers Over the
Graves of Our Heroes.
MOTHER year has rolled around

A MOTHER year has rolled around
~ since we cut the lilacs, the
~ snowballs, the peonies and 9TH
er flowers with which our
yards abound at this time of the year,
and reyerently laid them on the
graves of our soldier dead 1t has
been a year of stress and storm for
many of us, year of war and rumors
of war in the land. We do we'll to put
aside the duties of the season for
few hours and go out to the cemetery,
where we may reflect on the great sac
riflce of the heroes and heroineS buried
there, writes James M. Pierce in the
Iowa Homestead.
Memorial day is to me one of the
saddeSt and loneliest days of the whole
year. l remember the years which
have gone; the father who left the
happy home circle, never to return,
lying today in an unknown grave in
the sunny Southland. l remember the
uncles who likewise gave up their lives
that this nation might be free and
united. / remember the struggles and
the sacrifices of my mother and sisters,
and as l remember them the tears we'll
from my eyes and loneliness comes
down around me and upon me, like
shades Of night. Such goodly COM
pany of brave young men marched
forth, dropping plow-lines and ledger,
with flies and drums quickening their
pulses and their steps; and so few
returned. And of that pitiful handful
which came back, how few we have
left with us today The ranks Of
those who don the old and threadworn
uniform to march out to the cemetery
and honor their fallen comrades are
thinning rapidly; but few more years
and there will be none left among us.
Shall we not honor them while they
are yet here? The poet was inspired,
I believe, when he wrote these lines:
It's lonesome, sort O. lonesome, it's Sum-
d'y-day to me,
1t 'pears-like, moren any day nearly
ever see!
Yit, with the Stars and Stripes above, a.
f1utterin' in the air.
On ev'ry soldiers grave I'd love to lay a
lily there.
Gone are the days when there was
North or South, when there was divi-
sion in our beloved land. Today we
are united as never before, and as we
strew our flowers and reverently lay
our wreaths we do not think of wheth-
er the one we revere wore the blue or
the gray; he was hero and he fought
for what he believed to be right. Let
me give you three of the stanzas of
poem / love that you may read them
over, at your leisure:
So when the summer calleth.
On forest and field of grain
With an equal mumur falleth
The cooling drip of rain;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Wet with the rain the Blue;
Wet with the rain the Gray.
Sadly. but not with upbraiding,
The generous deed was done;
In the storm of the years that are fading,
No drawer battle was won;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Under the blossoms, the Blue
Under the garlands, the Gray.
No more shall the war-cry sever,
Or the winding river be red;
They Danish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves OF our
dead.
Under the sod and the dew
Waiting the judgment day;
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-31

Could we do better than to read
these verses aloud, or teach one Of the
children to speak them at school, or
ask that they be read at whatever ex-
ercises may be held in our cemeteries?
We have been drawn together-we of
the North and the South, we of the
farm and Of the city-within the past
year, in the face of common danger,
as never before. Shall we forget that
there ever existed dividing lines, and
unite, all together, in being true-blue
Americans, dedicated to one another's
welfare and prosperity, the greatest,
most closely knit nation the sun ever
shone on?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-31
REMINDERS OF WAR
Historic Spots That Are Always
Sought by the Visitor to the
National Capital.

A POINT of pathetic interest to
~ visitors to the national capital
~ is Arlington national cemetery,
Evening star., 1917-09-15

American Navy, and it ought, in my
judgment, to be incomparably the most
adequate navy in the world"
The Presidents words are eighteen
months old. When they were spoken
there was no thought of American par.
ticipation in the war. Since then the
aspect of things has changed radically
and six months ago we entered the war
So that if what the President then ad
vised was wise it is hundred fold wiser
today, and should be kept in mind in all
we do in the Navy's behalf. Let it be-
come an incompatible Navy, and sup
ported in that estate.
The talk of disarmament as a fea-
ture of peace should not act as dis
couragement in the matter of the Navy's
growth. If disarmament should be de-
creed by the nations at a peace con-
ference table it would of course carry
only a relative meaning. Not complete
disarmament on either sea or land, but a
reduction of sizes of fighting establish
ments would be the order; and we
should then, as now, have our long con-
tinental coast lines and oversee posses
sions to guard.
We need now, and shall always need,
"an incompatible Navy; and the peo-
pie will support the most liberal provi-
sions for creating and supporting it.
Evening star., 1917-09-15
The Second-Class Cross.

| Herr Fo1ke Cronholm, late charge
d'affaires for Germany at Mexico City,
appears to have been a most obliging
chap. He had won praises for his serv-
! ices in other fields than Mexico before
! he gained the appreciative attention of
| Herr Won Eckhardt, the kaiser's repre-
| sentative at the Mexican capital. But
for all of his zeal in other lands he had
only to show wretched Chinese order.
Everybody knows how cheap Chinese
orders are. Time was when they could
be bought at Peking for but little more
than the price of a sleeve spaniel He
had been sadly disregarded. But the
warm heart of Won Eckhardt beat sym
pathetically for him. He could not bear
to see the Swedish uniform decorated
with a mere Chinese cross. 1t looked so
meager. and the earnest friend of the
kaiser was so useful.
One would like to have been behind
men. Did Won Eckhardt suggest the
cross as bait, or did Herr Cronholm
tender his services without hint of re-
ward? Or did the two men talk in
symbols, as those who understand with
out words? 1t may be, of course, that
Herr Cronholm labored in the kaiser's
vineyard with absolutely no thought of
compensation or honors, for sheer love
of kultur. 1t may be that Won Eckhardt
did not himself think of the second-class
cross until he had secured valuable re-
suits from his messenger-spy colleague.
A pathetic feature of the second-class
cross situation was that if granted the
the war. What a handicap! Herr Cron
holm could have his cross, of course,
and his own government could know of
it mark that, his own government
would have to be told in confidence,
fact which will now be rather embar-
RAISING to Stockholm-but nobody must
see it or hear of it until peace had
come. Something to be put away in a
safe as a dangerous possession, some
thing almost to be ashamed of, and
hidden inviolately.
How many second-class crosses are
now tucked away in safes, for dis
tinguished services rendered to Ger
many in neutral countries during the
wari
Evening star., 1917-09-15
Taft and Roosevelt.

| From Kansas, where he was taken i'll
mer home in Canada to recuperate. He
| has regained his strength. and, it is an
nounced, will attend the Southern Com
mercial Congress to be held in New
York next month and deliver an address.
| Our two ex-PresidentS are busy men,
, and well employed. Mr.. Roosevelt leans
| to martial life and has credit in martial
circles. His receptions at Army meetings
and Navy meetings are exceedingly cor
fighting tribe. He understands his hosts,
and they their distinguished guest. He
was active before we entered the war,
and has materially increased his activ-
ity since His whole influence is being
thrown in favor of an American mill
tary establishment of large and endur-
ing proportions
Mr.. Taft, though trained for the law
and with great credit in legal circles,
y
and is always welcome guest at bust
ness conventions. He talks business un-
derstandingly and we'll When in the
White House he enjoyed the full con-
6dence of the business world. He had
the support of the business world in his
successful campaign against Mr.. Bryan.
At this convention of southern busi-
ness men Mr.. Taft's reception is certain
to be hearty Though opposed to him
politically, and recording herself against
him in both of his presidential races.
the south likes Mr. Taft. She respects
his ability and fairness, and trusts his
general judgment.
And so our two most distinguished
citizens in private life are, to repeat,
we'll employed. Each is doing his bit
according to his bent and influence.
Each is active in the field he knows
best. And the two fields are connected
and interdependent. The combatant
must be supported by the non-com-
batant. The wants of the man on the
firing line must be watched and sup
piled by the producer behind the line.
Each needs the best services Of the other.
The mobilization of business for war
purposes is one of the new lessons
taught by the present colossal struggle.
The European nations had to learn it,
and we are now hard at the task. Busi-
ness men, politicians, soldiers and
sailors all see the importance of it, and
are cooperating in the efforts to meet
the difficulties, which are numerous and
formidable. We have so large a country
and such variety of industries, a
strong pull altogether is necessary to
insure success for the undertaking.
Evening star., 1917-09-15

tor Of the vast wa, Lid. If Cadorna's
men hold this point they dominate the
Austrian positions in the region beyond.
Further retreat becomes necessary for
the Austrians. Laibach is menaced and
if Laibach falls Trieste and Pola must
be yielded without further resistance.
After that, no one can foretell the re-
suits. But they will be disastrous for
Austria. No wonder that the defense
of San Gabrielle has been so desperate,
and no wonder that the Italians have
fought with spirit that has not been
surpassed in any previous fighting in
the war.
Evening star., 1917-09-15
San Gabrielle.

Dispatches state that the Italian
troops have gained possession of the
peak of San Gabrielle, the height in the
Julian Alps for which the italian and
Austrian armies have been battling des-
perately for days. Those who have seen
photographs of this region will appre-
ciate the significance of the announce
ment. Never was fighting ground more
difficult selected by commanders for a
campaign. Ever since the entrance of
Italy into the war the fighting, with few
been in conditions of appalling com
plexity. Armies have been marched up
the face of mountains. Great guns have
been hauled along declivitous paths, sup
plies and wounded men have been trans
ported across wide and deep val
leys by means Of cables, stretched hun
dreds Of yards over dizzy heights. The
fighting has taken place almost continu-
ously in the snow of the upper stretches
of the Alps. Long tunnels have been
driven through drifts. On the noun
tainsides caves have been blasted In lieu
of trenches. Intense cold has prevailed
at all the observation points through
out the year. In winter the troops have
fought mufaed in skins so that they
resembled huge animals. Never was wa,
fought in such conditions. Yet the
Italians have overcome immense diff
culties and have gone ahead. To take
San Gabrielle, the peak Of which has now
been seized, has meant a series Of at.
tacks and hanking movements which
could not be paralleled in any other sec.
Evening star., 1917-09-15
The Navy.

Yesterdays exercises at Annapolis
were unusual and most interesting. The
Navy is filing a large part in our war
equation. We are looking to it for very
valuable services. Everything relating
to it, therefore-its size, its equipme ent
and plans for the immediate future
must be read with closest attention.
Hence the importance attaching to the
address of Secretary Daniels, which was
replete with information the whole coun-
try Will be gratifed to receive Coming
from one with all the facts in hand and
able to appraise their value, the story
will carry far and do much good.
Take this extract:
II am not publishing military secret
when I say that while the increase in
personnel in the past few months has
far surpassed the increase in material,
there are three times as many ships in
commission today as there were six
months ago; and that ships, and more
ships, from enlarged and ever enlarging
shipyards are coming to afford a place
on naval craft to the thousands of pa
triotic young men who have crowded
Into the Navy since the call"
This is good news. None could be
better. It bears directly upon a sub
jeet all are considering, and will hearten
all It points to the common aspira-
tion-for navy equal to the country's
needs, and when obtained to be kept fl
for all future emergencies. Uncle Sam
should be supreme on the water.
The credit for what has been done
md Il now in progress Mr.. Daniels
eWards thus:
~The impulse that has made possible
en- fapidly expanding Navy came from
. speech made by President Wilson in
~ Louis ON the 3D. day Of February
1DaA, whom he declared, There is nc
SAsR navy IN the world that has tl
NH q Usat an area Of defense % the
Evening star., 1917-09-15
Pacifism in the Face of the Foe.

Elihu Root in his Chicago speech last
night drew the line sharply between the
pacifst before war and the pacitist after
war is declared. This distinction should
be kept firmly in mind at all stages OF
this conflict, in which the United States
In now engaged. 1t is not too broad to
say that the pacifst who persists IN his
denunciation of the war and America
entrance into it and seeks to weaken the
American endeavor to win the war Is at
heart traitor to his country.
The true pacifst may be defined as
the man who prefers to settle differences
through reason and justice, rather than
BY force of arms. But when some other
person or some other nation resorts to
arms to carry a point, to enforce do
minion, to negative personal or national
rights, the man who fights in resistance,
in defense, is no less pacifst than II
he folds his arms and allows the out
rage, the theft, the pillage and slaughter
to continue unchecked.
Even the most extreme pacifst will
fight in defense of his home. He will
resist the burglar who attempts to steal
his treasure, or the invader who attacks
his family. He will die, if he cannot
fight and live, for the sake of that which
he holds dearest-his home and his
loved ones. He believes in law, in the
processes of courts, in the right of the
state to command righteous conduct on
the part of all. But in the emergency
he must fight with his own hands or
see his home despoiled.
America is the home of every citizen,
and it should be as sacred and as dear
rs the dwelling of the individual. The
most ardent believer in international
Justice, in arbitration, in disarmament,
in reason as against force for the settle
ment of disputes between nations, can
not halt in his defense of the country
when it is assailed or menaced without
confession of cowardice or proclamation
OF himself dS al luulNluudllSt, uidu
without country.
We are at war. Our cause is just.
Our rights have been violated, our ma
tionals slain on the high seas, our in
dustries bombed and burned by spies.
our neighbors approached with tempta-
tions to attack us in the hope of secur-
ing parts Of our territory. We have
abundant reason to fight in defense.
That we are able, because of the pc
euliar conditions, to fight on foreign soil,
already stained with the blood of mil
lions of victims of the barbarism of
Germany, is our extreme good fortune.
But we are fighting in national self
defense no less than though our armies
we're now forming in our own land to
stem a tide Of invasion. Paciism now
Is treason, for it is designed to aid the
enemy.
Evening star., 1917-09-15
LOftiness.

His thoughts are lofty. Here and there
They seem to wander in the air,
Far from each sordid matter.
He seemed to scorn the petty strife
Of ordinary daily life
And SO much idle chatter.
His thoughts are lofty, it is true.
But through the clouds they don't pursue
Some mystical misgiving.
As every days demand intrudes
His thought keeps climbing as he broods
On the high cost Of living.
Evening star., 1917-09-15
Silver Has Risen.

From the Christian Science Monitor
Mr.. Bryan is only human, and, If he
smiles upon learning that tho Philip
pine peso now has a greater intrinsic
than face value, who can blame him ?
To complete his Joy. however, the long
derided cartwheel dollar. still circulat-
ing in the middle west Of the United
States at par. should command a pre-
MUM from eastern visitors.
Evening star., 1917-09-15

THE DANISH WEST INDIES. by
W. Westergaard, $3.50.
Under company rule G671-
1754), with supplementary
chapter I755-191D and an in
PRODUCTION by H. Morse Stephens;
maps and illustrations.
THE STATESMAN'S YEAR BOOK.
$3.50.
A statistica! and historical an
nual of the states of the world
for 1917. Revised after official
returns A most valuable publi-
cation; 1904 pages.
CRIME. ITS CAUSES AND ITS
CURE, $500.
BY Thomas S. Mosby. with
many illustrations.
PHILOSOPHY AND THE SOCIAL
PROBLEM, $1.bO.
Ey Will Durant. Includes
studies of Socrates, Plato, Bacon,
Spinoza, Nietzsche, together with
several solutions.
Evening star., 1917-09-15
ANOTHER LOT OF
FRUIT JARS.

Mason Jars, in pints and quarts.
Mason Special Wide-mouth Pint
Jars, especially good for canning
peaches and tomatoes.
E. z. Seal All-glass Jars, pints
and quarts.
American Beauty and Good Luck
Jar Rings.
Extra caps for Mason Jars, 4Oc
dozen.
Jelly Glasses with tops, SOC dozen.
Fifth floor, F street.
Evening star., 1917-09-15
Always Unsual.

"How do you account for the remark
able weather"
Haven't tried. To be perfectly frank,
months in the past ten or fifteen years
when the weather wasn't being described
as remarkable"
Evening star., 1917-09-15
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
CynicaIly Defined.

"Father," said the small boy, "what is
a philosopher"
"a philosopher, my son, is usually a
man who is trying to jolly himself into
the belief that he is happy though poor"
Evening star., 1917-09-15
Administer Rugs of Qualities
Worthy of Your Full Confidence,

And prices that make them economical for our
customers than many inferior grades
We the public to know that each and every rug is
perfect of the best wool procurable and dyed with reliable
colors.
Not only you of the quality of these Rugs,
but the makers from whom they noted for quality
Sanford Roxbury Firth Beatte Niagara Overbrook and
others. Both Scanned and Seamless Rugs are included.
time do offer seconds imperfectly woven
dyed Rugs this fact protects at all times
The only offer Rugs of less than perfect quality is
Friday Remnant Days and then only two of
kind that may have become oed damaged in store
scanned ADMINISTER RUGS.
9xl2 feet, $3.50, $4,000 and $3.50
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ox12 feet, $50, $3.50, $345o and $3.50.
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/ 221zx36 inches $3.50.
HALL RUNNERS AND STAIR TRACKERS
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Evening star., 1917-09-15

The situation was too serious to per-
NIT the Kerensky -Korniloff contention
to follow the usual course of contro-
versies and lapse into obscurity.
Evening star., 1917-09-15

The statement that this generation
entered into this war is open to ques-
ton. An impression prevails that this
war was handed to the present genera
ton by the kaiser.
Evening star., 1917-09-15

People in various parts Of Europe who
thought they were neutral are beginning
to wonder whether they are not con-
fronted by conspiracy Of governments.
Evening star., 1917-09-15

Members of Congress are finding that
their constituents have drifted further
and further from the idea that it is the
duty of craftsmanship to obstruct need
full appropriations.
Evening star., 1917-09-15
Exchange

The forest turns to autumn gold,
Which doesn't help to fight the cold.
You've got to get the gold that's good
And turn it into kindling wood.
Evening star., 1917-09-15
Progress.

care you interested in food control? ~
"I have gotten away past it. What
Pm interested in now is appetite con-
troll"
Evening star., 1917-09-15

Russia is famous for her hard winters
and the Prussian forces are likely to
And the winter now at hand one of the
hardest.
Evening star., 1917-09-15

Being a Swedish diplomat should be
classified among the extra hazardous oc-
cupations.
Evening star., 1917-09-15
Have It Over With.

From the Chicago News.
We should have had to tight Ger
many. anyway. for Germany was go
ing to see to that. and 1t IL Just AZ
well, or maybe a lot better, to get 1t
over with reasonably early.
Evening star., 1917-09-15

THE ORIGIN OF THE TRIPLE
ALLIANCE. $1.25.
BY A. c. Coolidge. A clear and
lively account of the doctrines
and events which produced the
Triple Alliance.
GOD AND MIR. WELLS, $1.0O.
By William Archer. A critical
examination of Mr.. Wells
Gospel as outlined in God,
the Invisible King" and Mr..
Britline Sees 1t Through"
THE ESSENTIALS OF EXTEM-
PORE SPEAKING, S1.25.
BY Joseph A. Mosher. A valu-
able book for every one who
speaks in public and wishes to
improve.
COLON HYGIENE. $500.
By J. H. Kellogg.
A SON OF THE MIDDLE
BORDER, s1.5O.
BY Ham1in Garland. A human
document Of rare and permanent
Interest," simple and homely
tale Of the American pioneer.
Evening star., 1917-09-15

The latest assignment Of Bernstorff is
another effort to separate the ideas of
Turkey and Thanksgiving.
Evening star., 1917-09-15

The straw hat should not be consigned
to the trash heap. Sufficiently infam-
mable to add mite to the fuel pile.
Evening star., 1917-09-15

One way of looking at a treaty is to
regard it as a sort of rhetorical camou-
fage.
Evening star., 1917-09-15

The kaiser's apparent purpose was to
make the ready letter writer take the
place of international law.
Evening star., 1917-09-15

Austria is not receiving the consola-
tion from Germany to which her ex-
periences entitle her.
Evening star., 1917-09-15

"De hopeless thing about a mean
man." said Uncle Eben, "is dat he mis-
takes whole lot of meanness foh smart
ness"
Evening star., 1917-09-15
THE BOOK STORE
Is Taking on the Appearance of Autumn.

The Book Store is already taking new appearance
and cases of being rapidly unpacked every day In
nearly every branch of literature notable contributions
being made and quickly placed on sale.
KEEP UP WITH THE TIMES BY READING-An early call
will we'll repay you for the time requires which but
little here because of the very superior classification of
all literature and ready the various titles
Evening star., 1917-09-15

One of the worst investments yet
brought to attention is that 100000
handled by the I. W. W.
Evening star., 1917-09-15
These Are Interesting Days All Over the Store.
Women Will Have No Difficulty In
Getting Fine, Reliable Hosiery Here.

It gives us great pleasure to be able to
announce very large new assortments of
first quality Fall Winter Hosiery at this
time. In doing SO we assure our patrons
of quality that cannot be surpassed, and that
we have prepared to meet their every want
SO far as the market will permit-and even
much more than it will permit today.
We are not only ready with the usual
sorts, but the unusual as well. A great
many importations have reached us, one
especially noteworthy one being the Eng
lish Sports Hose for which there is such
demand, because of their smart fashion for
sports costumes, and they are so warm that
later