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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19
Works as Brain Food.

Language is sometimes called the
instrument of thought. But very wise
man says that really it is the nutrient
Of thought; the atmosphere in which
thought lives: a medium as necessary
to the activity of our mental powers
as air is to the lungs. Coleridge said
that every new term expressing fact
not previously defined was a new organ
of thought for the mind that has
learned it. To think new thoughts.
then. new words are necessary. Like
food for the body. they become food
for the mind. and by the subtlest of
all mental chemistry they become
Transmitted into ideas.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19


cess; it may have been the one thing
necessary to round on. beautiful life
or it may have been the one thing that
would have brought us disappointment.
but whatever it was we know that we
longed for it with all our heart and
because it never happened to us, and
never will happen to us as far as we
can see, we continue to want it and to
feel hurt and injured because we have
not obtained it. We may not look
upon such condition as blessing
in disguise because most of US prefer
our blessings in plain view and be-
yond all shadow of doubt or misunder.
standing. Charleston News and Cour.
fer.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19
A Liberty Trail.

1t has been figured out that IL the
100000 people who subscribed for
the third Liberty loan had stood by a
window entering their subscriptions
one at a time, they would have formed
"queue" extending, from the treasury
department all the way to San Fran
cisco, thence to Boston, and with a tail
reaching back to Detroit. This reckon
ing allows only two feet for each sub
scrlber.-Los Angeles Times.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19


feet ahead call hey you oo
back here
The aVe you ever Dee
taught to salute the sergeant would ASK
To this question the would reply in the decdeu
WELL would say pointing 10
flag.
The the first me would blush and start 70
That's lets you do it right now
while his girl would
affair." Camp soldiers around would SMILE
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19
introduced Himself.

Grandma was out walking with her
small grandson when large dog came
running along the walk. The little
boy started to pet the dog when grand
ma warned him not to. saying that he
was strange to the dog and might get
hurt. AT that the little fellow walked
over to the dog, made bow, and said |:
I'm Ford Bradley. Now you know
me. don't your"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19
Quite NaturaE.

Tinwafer had never been what you
might call plump, and since rations
had become general he certainly hadn't
been putting on weight.
II say" he remarked to a friend.
IT met Fuller yesterday, and he told
me that was getting fatter."
"Well, it's only natural that he
should say So" was the answer.
Tinwafer looked surprised, and ask
ed why.
"That's easy" replied the friend.
"You were looking Fuller in the face"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19
State of ohia. city Of Toledo. Lucas

State of ohit,. City OF Toledo Lucas
County-ss
senior partner Of the firm Of #. j. Cheney
& Co., doing business in the City Of To-
ledo, County and State aforesaid, and that
said firm will pay the sum Of ONE HUN
that cannot be cured by the use Of
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In
A. D. 1856.
(SeaD A. w. Gleason, Notary Public.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is taxi
en- internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces OF the System.
Druggists, Csc. Testimonials free.
r. J. Cheney e. Co.. Toledo. Ohio.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19

ALSO she WAS IIiu tHUuSH 20 UItC uuIIo'
She said so. Having expressed her
willingness to partake Of cold iron
she paused for the woman with her
to wedge in sympathetic remark
which was where she made her mis-
take.
81 don't see how you could expect
store to take back goods you have cut
into. You were foolish to have bought
it in the first place, seeing you are too
chunky for checks"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19


baby que handled end the baby chue
the
looked the pride of one who And when the baby
himself
q happyun understanding children.
old bachelor
a with ladies'"
little accepted
especially the mother smiled nscutab
they
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19
skin Troubles That Itch

Burn and disfgure quickly soothed
and healed by hot baths with Cuti-
cura Soap and gentle anointings of Gu
ticura Ointment. For free samples,
address, "Cuticura, Dept. x, Boston"
Sold by druggists and by mail. Soap
25. Ointment Is and 50.-Adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19

your own self, with lot of passengers
wishing you and your child were in
Halifax-make it Jericho, it sounds
farther-and you could see she was
worried half to death. But the baby
lacked the finer emotions. He merely
considered his lungs. OF course, it
might have beef she-being, but IL
didn't matter. 1t could bawl either
way.
The woman was getting more wor-
ried every instant, and the baby
baWlier. when the Oldish man who had
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19
A German Mark.

"Pop?" "Well, Junior?" ''What is a
German mark 2" There are two kinds"
"Oh !" Zone is a coin" yes" "And
the other is any poor boob who is
obliged to stand for the kaiser's gov
nt."-Youngstown Telegram.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19

each marine had girl on his arm.
Just within the gate to the camp,
and to one side of the guardhouse, was
an American flag, standing in the sod.
1T was not large flag, neither was it
small one, just medium-sized Amer
can flag.
Each marine passed through the
gate with his girl on his arm, all right,
and each marine failed to see the flag.
When 1t was taken into consideration
that the flag was just without the
range of vision and the girl was we'll
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19

Do belong TO Inc
by
wheels"
keeping
oko
stopped that
ekedit a standstM
hghheeled slippers and fppy
coum
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19

IN
filing of that nothing need be said
filing
the children Of the land how into w moral youngsters
yousho
when
Washington addressed
something ike this Sine
the issued position in Office you ar
But vii
Washington will give position IN - ohc at
lower
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19
OF Course Her Middle Name Was Generosity, But

CHE knitting all over green moons set
in wreahed with moons
grapes and her feet classy enough for store aas
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19

here to win six wars, it sometimes
seems to casual observers-that is, If
clerks would win wars-which they
won't. OF course, they do their bit.
But some people have an idea
there are just few too many clerks
md stenographers gathered here from
the four corners of the nation.
AS sample of just what SO many
Jerks and stenographers may lead to.
he man told the following:
A'young woman in a middle west
,rn state was appointed as filing clerk
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19
The Trouble.

She--Alice and / can hardly under
stand each other over the phone.
He-Well, talk one at time.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19

The proper material for umbrellas is
watered silk.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19
Dare Death and Injury Under Trolley Car Wheels

majority the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19
Seemingly Can't Keep Track Of Women Employees

sTENoGRAPHERs would win the conflict already
others of the feminine holding down a Jobs
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19

Northampton, Mass, finds communi-
ty market plan O money saver.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19
!, WASHINGTON 81
a. IE5l, SIDFL>IGF1T0 -
w. $3.50
Visiting Marines Made Victims Of Soldiers Joke

VIZ AsHINGToNTh baseball the Florida avenue military
wv
marines to town to see the game and
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19
Anyway, OIdsh Man Had Way With the Babies

WOMAN with baby shoulder seat offered to
red ebaamenyou how would feel
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19

and looked ahead with an ever-watch'
full eye.
Each time the car stopped to let a
passenger get on or off people scut-
tied across the track with the same
apparent inscrutability that makes a
hen cross road. No one seemed the
least afraid Of being run over. Such
reckless Irritation with danger sur
prised at least one stranger-looking
man who sat on a front seat and could
see what was going on.
"Say, motorman, I'm new to this
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-09-19

Copyright, 1918. by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-09-17
Mdenbendent of Hun Products.

The scientists of Kaiserland bthely as
sorting season two ago that American agri-
culture would perish without imports of potash
from their country and that when peace terms
came to be made the United States would bow
down in supplication for a renewal of the Ger
man supply In striking contrast with that ipse
dixit is the report of the National Fertilizer AS
ISOLATION showing that the amount of potash pro-
duced in the United States this year would be
greatly in excess of the thirty-two thousand tons
turned out in 1917 and that "by mobilizing the
waste material at blast furnaces and cement mills
it would be possible to reach annual output
of five hundred thousand tons"
The significance of these resources is better
appreciated when recalls that total i'm
ports of potash from Germany in the year just
preceding the were two hundred and eighty
twice that quantity already in sight and with
other of production available this country
never again will have need of German Potash
Likewise in England we learn, through the New
York Times, potash is now taken from blast
furnace dust by a cheap and simple process. One
factory Birmingham is ready to pro-
duce from four hundred to five hundred tons a
week. Others to be built in the iron dis
tricts, and the output can easily be increased to
fifty thousand tons year
Germany will find upon emerging from her
cloud of mlitarism that fields of industry
which she held virtual monopoly have
Allied peoples, far from being dependent upon her
for anything, able both to sustain themselves
and to make others independent of German
resources.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-09-17
"WeU Wm in I9I9"-U.
Send US men, guns and supplies quickly,

and wel win in 1919"
This is the word from General Pershing. His
statement. which accords with the general opin-
ion of competent Allied observers, is not to be
taken as implying that can win short of the ut
most exertion. To the contrary, the most arduous
and in some respects the critical work of
the war is ahead For America the brunt of the
struggle has hardly begun. We just emerg-
ing from preparation major action; our first
field army has just been organized; fewer than
half OF the four million troops must have at the
front to assure success to plans yet in
France. The task of mastering, transporting and
maintaining these vast forces puts the nation
mettle to it's highest test. There must be slack
ing but a speeding up from the greatest functions
of the Government down TO the humblest duties
of the citizen if the stream of supplies guns and
men essential to victory is duly forthcoming. All
hopes of crushing the enemy by the beginning of
1920 are based upon gigantic performances by the
United States, that any failure or any delay in
our program would darken the entire outlook.
But if the American people measure up to their
responsibility the prospect of winning the war
within another twelve eighteen months should
grow continually clearer. This is indicated pri-
mariy by the complete and nervous defensive to
which the enemy already has been reduced. Along
the entire battlefront he has been deprived of the
initiative and put to taking blows which fall so
he is at a loss as to how to parry them. The
continuance of this strategy will exhaust him in
both numbers and morale regardless of whether
he fights on the Hindenburg line on the
Scheldt and the Meuse on the Rhine. No soon
err does he stiffen his resistance at one point,
checking the Allied advance thereabout, than he
finds his defense caving in some other sector.
When he steadies himself in the region of st.
Quentin, where he slipping disastrously, fate
comes laundering upon st. Mihiel, and his clutch
on that vital salient is destroyed So continually
from end to end of the Western front. And un-
der each of these bewildering blows he loses not
only valuable positions but thousands of men. At
St. Mihiel alone he lost upwards of twenty thou
sand prisoners to the Americans, and, immediate
ly ON the heel of that event thousands more to
the French and the British in their respective
thrusts toward Laon and in the Lys sector.
Thus while the striking power of the Allies
steadily grows, reinforced by fresh American in
crements the defensive power of the Hun de-
creases with the ceaseless drain upon his re-
serves loss that he cannot replace. Thus,
too does his morale at the front and at home
deteriorate as the Allied blows keep falling and
the shadow of invasion creeps nearer This trend
continuing, there is good reason to expect de-
cisive victory for our by the close of 1919
or thereabouts provided of course that Americas
part is duly performed. Our boys at the front will
rise heroically to their duty; and certainly their
people will not fail them
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-09-17
THE MARCH OF THE SHADOWS
BY DR.. Frank Crane.

BY Dr. Frank Crane.
| went to my friend in the hospital He
had been there month with bad foot. His only
loeomotion being lifted from his chair to his
bed and back.
When 1 called l found him sitting in the twi-
light looking out of the west window.
''Why in the dark" inquired.
Don't light the light" he said. Come and sit
down / tired of reading. 1 have been now
five hours in this chair.
81 am watching the march of the shadows.
Look They are filling the street, crawling all
over the houses, rubbing out the sharp outlines of
the picture everywhere. -
Men attacking with street-lamps, but it is
useless. They only make stronger shadows
The dark is oozng over the sky. 1t has faded
all the red and yellow clouds into dull lead.
Shadows! The unconquerable shadows! Be-
fore them the roaring city becomes still. The
streets empty. Men flee, take refuge little while
under artificial light, then surrender and-sleep.
Darkness at last has its way with us.
'AI the human race, all but a thin edge, inhab-
it shadow land. Only about a billion are alive Bill
lions and billions have disappeared into oblivion.
The mighty past is all shadow.
Think Of it! Kings and bishops and conquer
ors poets and lovers and adventurers all etern-
ally quiet now, in that soundless land. The mag
nifcent ones, great Caesar, Timour and Rameses,
Napoleon, and French Louis, are but dim shapes
against the DINNER background of aforementioned
See! The shadows invade my They are
under the bed, behind the wardrobe and huddle in
every
LAS the rim of night creeps the earth so
the rim of oblivion creeps over history. rms
fringe OF light, the present, CONTINUALLY uIOpS oH
into the twilight past. All that exists is steadily
being precpitated into the nonresident.
Shadows invade the mind We forget. An;
we forget! Loves hopes, work, beauty, pain, all
drop and flutter down, like leaves, into the lndls-
tinguishable mold.
1.-The shadows swallow the creeds. What men
once fought over they smile at or forget.
1.-The shadows invade bodies. The teeth go,
ewes dim legs weaken-we on our way back to
dust. Pilgrims of the night!
THE shadows They are so silent and so in
evitabe."
Not a very cheerful mood you're in said.
Come come" he answered, do no intrude
YOUR cheap optimism of health upon the exquisite
melancholy of sickness There are moods when
tears are far sweeter than laughter.
And the March of the shadows is not without
a certain imperial beauty. And tenderness, too. Is
not forgetful death like a great motherlng bird
gathering her troubled fedgngs to her soft-feath-
cred bosom?
'"There is a beautiful passage in Landors
'Aesop and Rhodope' that recall:
There are no fields of armaranth on this side
of the grave; there are voices, o Rhodope, that
are not soon mute, however tuneful; there is no
name, with whatever emphasis of passionate love
repeated of which the echo is not faint at last
Copyright 1918 by Frank Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-09-17
The Farm Behind the Fighter.

Ii is to the farmers, as the Triton Gazette re-
minds us, that we are chiefly indebted for the lift
ing of restrictions on the quantity of -four that may
be purchased. BY increasing the wheat acreage
twenty-five per cent in response to the Govern
ment's appeal and thereby adding upwards of two
hundred and twenty million bushels the harvest,
the planters assured the surplus which warranted
the Food Administration in relaxing its strin-
gent rules. Credit for this happy situation is
shared by those who raised bountiful crops of
or other grain for in building UP the general sup
ply of cereals they conditions all the easier in
respect to wheat
When the history of service is written,
spacious chapter must be given to the soldiers of
the soil Besides furnishing much of the sturdest
material in our forces at the battle front and in
the training camps, the American farm has carried
forward a campaign of production unexampled in
the worlds agricultural records Think of the
labor the planning the militant patriotism that lie
back of the years twenty-five per cent increase in
the wheat acreage. And think of the fresh sinews
which that effort has put into the Allied cause.
Add to this the fruitage of other farm activities,
measurable.
Every vocation of the American people con-
tributes Loyalty and richly to the maintenance of
our fighting forces Artisans, business men and the
professions, all play an admirable part. 1t is OBJ
vious, however, that behind all these, sustaining
them as well as the fighters, stand the basic pro-
ducers Of the nation, whom all industry and all
efforts lean for sustenance. Great is the
sponsibilty of the American farmer and greatly is
he meeting it.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-09-17
For Cr0wn and Dynasty.

Continued refusal by the Prussian Junkers to
grant any measure of franchise reforms brings
from Chancellor Won Hertling the rather portentous
comment that much more is now involved than
ministerial responsibility. According to my
honest belief" he tells the stubborn disciples of
autocracy lit is a matter of the protection of the
crown and the dynasty"
The remark is characteristic of what passes for
craftsmanship in Germany. Junkerdom is APP
preached with a final and desperate appeal for
certain reforms, not the ground that the peo-
pie are entitled to them but for the exquisite
reason that If they not granted the ancestral
trinket and tyranny of the Hohenzollern family
may be imperilled. Official Germany subscribes
now as it ever has to the present Kaiser's dictum
only one is master in this country. That
is |. Who opposes me, | shall crush to pieces.
All of you have only one will, and that is my
will: there is only law, and that is my
3 law"
Whether Germany be a product of autocracy,
or autocracy product of Germany, the fact is that
the superstitions of crown and dynasty permeate
the nations government and sentiment that there
is no such thing truly responsible craftsmanship
in the Hohenzollern realm The Imperial Chancellor
speaks on a matter of the gravest public concern,
not as a minister of the people with
a mind of his own, but trembling lackey of the
Potsdam criminal. Such is the Germany that essays
to kuIturize the world. Such is the Mediaevasm
that seeks to swallow up the Twentieth Century.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-09-17

thinking all the talking this question. The
American people concerned to such a degree
in this matter that they should not delegate to
any man or body of the task of thinking for
them. They should do their own thinking and
when they have had time to formulate plan
that looks feasible and thoroughgOing they should
say to their servants at Washington. from the
president down:
Here! You put this through along the line
we have laid down. 1t is time for fOoling or
for doing party politics. Put up the bars and
spike them fast, so no one can slip them We
have a stomach full and must have time to
digest it before swallow any more"
Then get busy with the American of foreign
birth and AmericaniZe him or throw him over
the bars, to the soil that bore him. We have no
room in America for the man who shouts, "Hur-
rah for America" and follows it with whisper
of "Gott sci dank Ich bin Deutscher
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-09-17

Atlanta this year takes pleasure in announc-
ing to Georgia and her neghboring states that the
Southeastern Fair will not only hold its annual ex-
hibition at Lakewood Park. but will hold bigger
and better exhibition than ever before, and will
make it a "Wn-the-War" exhibition in honor of
the struggle our boys waging across the seas
One OF the features OF the fair, and probably
the greatest in popular interest will be the series
or special exhibitions installed by the United States
Government TO portray different angles OF the
great war program.
In this series, which has been arranged through
the Committee on PuDIc Information Tor the pur-
pose OF turning the big throughout the coun-
Try TO educational patriotic advantage, will DE
represented the war department, the Navy De-
partment, the L. ). AIR service, The Department
OF Agriculture, ana other branches the Govern
ment which taking direct part in the prose-
Cution vi the
Inc management is able to announce that the
cattle exhibit this year will lar surpass even the
splendid EXHIBITS the past, due the fact that
Dallas. Tex, tair will hold exhibition this
fall, ana breeders OI the great southwestern
prairie ranges coming Atlanta to display
their stock. This EXHIBIT will likewise be a
feature OF great interest value in connection
with the growing cattle industry Ia Geor-
gia and adjoining states. in the present food
shortage when the United States is called upon to
feed herself anu keep her Allies abundantly sup
piled, the Georgia farmer not only makes d paying
investment for himself, but renders direct con-
tributiOn winning the war, when he buys choice
stock and begins the raising OF beef cattle.
The war exhibit and the live stock exhibit will
be only features of the Southeastern Fair.
There will be many others OF diversified interest
Ard in the department of amusements there will
be an abundance OF wholesome fun, including the
annual meeting Of the Grand Circuit harness
drivers, who plan to bring the worlds greatest
trOtting horses TO Atlanta this fall.
Atlanta is able in hotel facilities to accommodate
a thrOng of visitors. Her peoples homes are open
in warm-hearted hospitality to the kinsfOlk and
friends Her streets viii not be so brilliantly il,
Illuminated they used TO be when coal was more
plentiful. but none who will fail to find the
way to a Istchstring that always hangs outside.