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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
clpsies Came From Far East India.

When the gipsies first appeared in
England in the fifteenth century the
name gypsy was given to them by the
English people, who believed them to
have come from Egypt. The French,
by similar mistake, called them Bohe-
mians. But careful study of their
race, and especially their language,
shows that they came originally from
India. The gypsy language is derived
from the Sanscrit, as are the other
Aryan languages of India. A SIM
liar error was made by the English
when they called distinctly Ameri-
can bird a turkey. under the impress
sion that it was an importation from
the Ottoman empire, and by the French
when they called the same bird cog
dTndie, believing that 1t came from
India.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
Lots to Say.

Three OF them had been in one lit
tie room for three days, an American.
q Frenchman and an italian. Came
Red Cross man on the afternoon OF
the third day.
as there anything I can do for
your" he asked.
eyes," replied the American. "you
might get an interpreter Tony and
CASTOR and I have been trading to-
bacco and showing each other our
girls pictures and saying 'our and
ISL and yes for three days now, and
we've got a lot to tell each other if
you can get somebody to help us
ont
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
Timed by Cows Heart Beats.

According to tests made by the
Canadian government, milking ma
chimes to operate properly should
take into account the heart beats of
the COW. Examinations have shown
that there is relatively small amount
of milk in a cows udder at any one
time. Many times that amount can
be obtained in a milking, because ma
ture secretes the milk from the glands
to which blood is supplied as fast
as the udder is emptied. The inves-
tigators making the tests referred to
maintain that milking machine
should create vacuum about AZ
times minute, tallying with the heart
beats of the cow.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
Profits in Swiss Cheese
Reach Large Sum, Report
Of Exporters Makes Plain

The report OF the cooperative
Swiss cheese exporters for the bust
ness year of 1917, found in copy of
the Berner Tagwacht Of June IA, re-
Gently received in this country, shows
that the tales that the Swiss were
planning TO increase the size of the
holes in their famous product in order
to make their business more profitable
have shaky foundation.
After paying all the expenses In
Cured in doing a business with re-
ceipts for the year amounting to about
$3,0OO,00O and setting aside $115,OOO
for reserves, the association was able
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24

labor and the least possible moving of
the ewes in doing the feeding and car
ing for them during the lambing seat
son. A building of this type can also
be utilized for fattening purchased
lambs to be disposed of before lamb
ing begins in the regular farm flock.
A good supply of feed racks, grain
troughs, etc., can be provided at small
expense and will save labor and pre-
vent waste of feed.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
Husband AlIeaes peception.

California man testifies in the oil
7orce suit that when he was counting
his wife she always met him at the
front door with kitchen apron on,
leading him to believe she was domes-
tic in her taste, and after he married
he learned to his dismay that she had
never even learned how to boil an egg,
epd that she gave him the alternative
III b0...A.iIs Or clearing out Houston
Post.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
Cream of Tomato Soup.

Scald quart of milk with slice OF
onion, remove and thicken with four
tablespoonful Of flour diluted with
cold milk until thin enough to pour.
Cook twenty minutes, stirring con-
stantly at first. Cook two cupfuls Of
tomatoes with two teaspoonfuls Of
sugar; add a fourth Of a teaspoonful
of soda and rub through sieve after
cooking 10 minutes; combine mixtures
and strain into a tureen over a third
of a cupful Of butter, teaspoonful Of
salt and pepper to taste.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
Rats Destroy Quantities
of Food; Government Has
Plan to Destroy Rodents

1t frequently happens that losses of
young chickens attributed to the depre-
dations of hawks and to other causes
are due to rats. There is no more de-
structive pest about the poultry yard
the night and usually leaving no visi-
BILE marks of their ravages, they es-
cape, in large measure, the relentless
hunting down that they deserve. Not
only are they destructive to young
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24


to turn over about 100000 to the
Swiss government, $660,000 for divi-
sion among the cheese makers, and re-
tain a surplus of nearly 100000 for
division among the II members OF
the cooperative. These profits, made
at a time when the vast majority Of
the Swiss people is undergoing great
hardships because of war conditions,
caXse the Berne paper to quote sars
castically from a pamphlet issued by
the cooperative last year in which 1T
was. asserted that the association had
been organized especially for the pro-
motion Of the economic interests OF
the Swiss people and the benefit OF
the public.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
Question of Degree.

On a writ of error to the supreme
court of one of the territories. counsel
for plaintiff in error sharply criti-
cized the rulings of the trial judge.
When the counsel for the defendant
in error began his reply, the following
took place: MAY it please your honor.
before / finish my argument, think I
can show you that the trial judge was
not as crazy as counsel on the other
side would make him out to be-" BY
member of the court: "Let me I'M
derstand you; you admit the fact Of
insanity of the trial judge, but deny
It's degreeY-Case and Easement.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
Unnecessary Fears.

OF course the clipping couples roller
skate of car had no chance against
the old mans high-powered roadster.
He soon came up with them.
do not take her back" pleaded the
young man with tears in his eyes.
"Take her back p echoed the stern
parent, "Why, l have come to bring
her knitting outfit and chewing gum
so she would never have an excuse
to come back"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
Wild Burro as a Food, and
Value as a Beast of Burden

DR.. G. G. Young, an Arizona sheep
breeder, wants wild burros OF the
southwest utilized as food. He says
he has eaten burro meat himself and
likes it. In their Wild state the burros
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
Veal and Sauo Soup.

Take 21s pounds of veal finely
chopped, cover with three quarts Of
water and simmer for two hours.
Strain and reheat. Soak one-fourth
of pound or sage half hour in wa
ter to cover, add to the stock and cook
half-hour, then add two cupfuls Of
scalded milk and pour the mixture
slowly over four egg yolks slightly
beaten. Season with salt and pepper.
This is a soup especially delicious; as
it is made of stock it is not regular
cream soup, but is very nourishing.
Good to give an invalid who needs
sustaining food.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
Some Cream Soups.

A cream soup is sufficiently sus-
tanning for large part of the meal.
All cream soups have for foundation
the binding and milk which gives them
their food value. A cupful of vege-
table pulp to pint of milk bound
with tablespoonful each of flour and
fat, the seasonings will vary to suit
the taste. A larger proportion OF
flour and fat is used in some recipes
but that, too, is matter of taste.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
Served Longest.

The longest service as chief justice
of the United States Supreme court
was 81 years, by John Marshall Of Vir-
ginia. Associate Justices Stephen J.
Field of California and John M. Har-
Ian of Kentucky served an equal length
Of time.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24

are pests, he says, but when fat and
about year old can be converted into
dishes tempting to our best epicures.
This is only one side of the matter,
however. The burro is of more worth
as beast of burden than as an article
of food. Why not utilize him to a
greater degree, at least during the
war?-Detroit Free Press.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
1SIS1fISf fSff1f S.SIfE.S7
FIRST AT THE FRONT

Generous, clever and confident
Hearts undaunted and heads unbent.
In khaki clad, on the road they vent.
Comely and tall, with shining eyes,
Americas wealth, her strong young lives,
A star in her crown for each one that
dies!
Singing along the road by me.
Perchance each one to his Calvary,
Perchance a cross each shouldered gun,
And a martyrs crown for each well loved
son;
do not know, but I think 1 see
At length in men divinity.
-E. v. Thatcher.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24

NeufdSIIl0nld,
said Mrs. Beg
gums to her cook,
81 think we will
have some chick
en- croquettes to-
day out of that
leftover pork and
calves liver.
"Yes'm, /" said
N e u r a S t henia,
called Teeny for
short. "An' we
got a little bread
dreSSin' w h a t
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
Rice paper.

OF the great army of cigarette smok-
ers there is probably not more than
one in hundred who knows that rice
paper, In which the tobacco Is
wrapped, has nothing to do with rice.
but is made from the membranes OF
the breadfruit tree, or more commonly
of fine new trimmings OF flax ana
hemp. So light is this paper that 3OU
OF the thy sheets go t. make an ounce.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
Primitive Implements.

In Central America many primitive
agricultural implements are still re-
tanned. The native farmer still uses
for pillow a crooked tree-branch
pointed with iron. The objection to
the modern pillow is that one hand Is
needed for guiding the animals, hence
the Introduction into Honduras OF a
trial modern style pillow with one ham
die.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
Very Much So.

There have been some swell do
ings in the house across the way"
"What kind?''
"All the kids there have the
mumps."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
Mothers Cook Book
Be strong.

! Dc bIIUIIS,
We are not here to play, to dream. to
drift;
We have hard work to do, and loads to
lift
Shun not the struggle; face it. IT'S Gods
gift.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
1T IS TO LAUGH
Being Perfectly Polite About 1t.

Il am so glad to
see yOu," said the
hostess, who was
so Hurried that
she hardly knew
what she was say
ing.
"I'm delighted
to be here" the
man replied, just
to be polite, for
he really consid-
cred the thing an
awful bore.
'It was awfully
good of you to
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
Daily Thought.

The great man is he who does not
lose his child's heart-Mencius.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24

went wild the pork, mum. Shall
| make some apple sauce out'n hit,
mum?''
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24

come. / didn't at all expect you
would when sent you the invita-
tion.''
ut was fine of you to remember
me, but of course 1 shouldn't have
minded it at all if you hadn't"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-24
Hooveresque DeIicacies.

"Neurasthenia,'
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
ANGELO" NOTED BRAZILIAN
 BANDIT, KILLED BY POLICE
"The Man Killer Knew No Fear, and BraveIy Fought Five Officers
 Until Shot Dead.

San Paulo, Brazil, Jan. l7.-Angelo Pedro Pinto, one of the last and most desperate of the bandits who have been terrorizing the people of the adjoining states of Parana for many months, has at last been killed by the police, after chase that was as exciting as most of pintos esca- pades. Hardly week passed that travellers did not bring stories of enc0untering him. lie always worked alone, but his absolute dis regard for danger hade him ter TOT to everyone who went into that part of the state.
 Recently his robberies had become so frequent and the killing of his victims so numerous that the Bra zilians called him Angelo the Man Killer, and the police were ordered by the state government to take him dead or alive. A searching party of five started in seach of him.
 After a march of 2i miles, the seacbing party overlook the bandit  in lonely section known as Cani- vete, which had been the scene of many of his most desperate achieve ments. Angelo was hiding in the house of a friend and the police un- dertook to wait until he should leave his refuge, but their presence was soon reported to the desperado, who mounted his horse and set out at a gallop to meet the police
 When told to dismount and con- slider himself a prisoner, Angelo dashed forward, shooting at the men who had attempted to arrest him. Dismounting and using his horse as a shield, he continued shooting un- til the police began to close in on him, then he remounted and gall loped away, still shooting at the ofli- cers. who dared to pursue him and he was still shooting with revolver when a rifle bullet killed him and he fell from his galloping horse.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
MANY CLEVER TRICKS OF GER
 MANS TO SMUGGLE CLOTHES.
Women Go to Holland Wearing Only a Mantle and Return Clad in Gen
 uine Woolen UndercI0thes.

The Hague, Jan. l7.--EndIess are the tricks of the smuggler Prior to the advent of the cold weather, Ger mans had been discovered crossing the frontier into Holland wearing no underelothing and women wearing only a mantle.
 They were on their way to supple ment this rather scanty raiment at some Netherlands store near the border. thence to return homeward clad in genuine wooden or cotton underclothes instead of the substi- ute materials wherewith Germany is in these days arraying itself.
 To counter this method of proceed ure, the customs authorities have adopted the equally novel method of stamping the underelothes of all persons who regularly or frequently cross the frontier If such travellers are subsequently, found wearing un- stamped clothes these are treated as smuggled goods.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
ANOTHER BILLION
 FOR AIR PROGRAM
The 6f0 Million Dollars Already Ap- propriated Is Being Used and Great IIeadway Has Been
 Madc-Huge Fleet Ready.

Washington, Jan. i9.- More thaa 1000 million dollars. in addition to Che GAO million dollars already asked Of Congress by Maj Gen. George o. Squier to continue tue National airplane program. The exact figures of the estimates which General Squier will submit is SiO32, ,29i ,260 for aviation. with approximately s05 million dollars extra for signal corps work General squier will go before the House military affairs committee on Monday
 Program Is Ahead of Schedule.
 It is probable that the hearing will be behind closed doors and even general explanations made by Genl- eral Squier might disclose informa- tion which it is desired to keep from the enemy. 1t is expected the com mittee may want to know how the huge 640 million dollar program has progressed and whether the Nations s aviation plans are going to material ixe in 1918 as per schedule or in i9l9 Particular interest will be shown in progress already made including number of completed machines, number of flyers trained and in training, development of the Lib- nrty motor and outlook for quantity production of standardizd parts
 In this connection it is permitted Ao be said that the whole aviation program which aims to get pre- ponderance of airplane forces to Europe this year. is in most respects up to schedule and in many insian- ces ahead of prearranged plans. The need for more funds is due primari- nrly to the fact that General Squier has turned the major part of the GAO million dollars into fighting material of some sort without permitting ob- stacles of any kind to block the path.
 A Huge Fleet Already.
 All details are barred by the cen- sorship, but 1t may be stated that the United States today could put more machines into aerial service than the Allies ever used in single day on the entire western front.
 That the American airplane squadron will be in position the coming year to strike effective and powerful blows at stategic German military centers and penetrate into Germany is fully realized. They ha- voc they may create, not only in at lacking fortified places, but striking at ammunition depots and such things behind the German lines, is fully understood by the Germans, who have long been strengthening their own airplane forces, but with little prospect of coping with the avalanche of American machines
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
LUMBERMAN IN DEMAND.
New Ruling Allows Men Beyond
 Draft Age to Enlist.

Washington, January 2i.-So ur- gent is the need for lumbermen and road builders for immediate service in France that the War Department has made an exception to it's pre- vious ruling and will now allow ex- perienced men of draft age to en- list under certain conditions.
 Any man between eighteen and forty-one years of age, who is quail flied physically and by experience, may enlist for this service; but they must obtain permission to do so from Major c. k. Clarke, Chief of Engineers Office. War Department, Washington, D. C., by mail or tele- graph. The men required will be sent to France as soon as they are assembled, without being held here for military training.
 Tremendous quantities of lumber are required by the American troops in France. A special regiment, known as the goth Engineers, is be- ing recruited to cut timber in the forests Of France and manufacture it into lumber. The regiment will include experienced men of every class required in lumber camp oper- ations.
 The goth Engineers needs immedi- ately 2,000 woodsmen, sawmill men, machinlsts and others who have worked at numbering 1t also needs 3000 men who have worked at road building These men are 10 con- struct roads from the woods to the mills and from the mills to the dis depots In connection with both the numbering and road operations complete crews of men experienced in the great va rietv of machinery used and in the camp and repair work involved are required.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
PNEUMONIA THE FOE NOW.
Caused 119 of 235 Deaths ill Army
 Camps Last Week.

Washington, Jan. i6 Pneumonia caused i49 of the 235 deaths report ed among the national guardsmen and national army men training in this country in the week ending Jan. if. The weekly report of the division of field sanitation, made public tonight, shows that eighty eight guardsmen died last week, as compared with i09 the week before, and i57 national army men as com pared with i67 the previous week.
 Camp Doniphan, Ok, led the guard camps in the number of new cases of pneumonia with fifty, and Camp Wheeler, Ga, was second with forty-seyen. Camp MacArthur, Tex, Camp Bowie, Tex, and Camp Beau regard, La, are above the average in the number of new cases with forty-flve, forty-six and thirty-six cases. respectively.
 Camp Travis, Tex, headed the na- itonal army camps with new cases of pneumonia with ninety-four, against seventy-two the week be- fore, Camp Pike, Ark, was second with forty-one cases, and Camp Lee, Va, and Camp Taylor, Ky, reported twenty-four and thirty-four new cases, respectively. The week be- fore there were fifty-nine new cases at Camp Lee.
 Among the guardsmen last week there were 342 new cases of pneu- monia, and in the national army $40 The meningitis situation continued to improve both in the guard and in the national army, while measles continued to decline in most of the camps. Epidemics of German meas les and humps prevailed in many camps. with scarlet fever increasing in the national army and decreasing in the national guard.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
U-BOAT PLAYING
 IN 4 LOSING CAME
British Admiralty Chart shows Height of Submarine Toll in Mer- chmen Has Fallen since
 April, 1917.

London, Dec. i3-(By MaiD .-Dia- grams just issued by the British ad- miralty emphasize the two vital facts in the anti-submarine cam paign-that the tonnage of merchant ships sunk by enemy action has rapidly declined since last June, while the number of German sub- marines sunk has steadily increaseo since September, 1916. While the situation generally has been under stood in consequence of the several statements by representatives of the government. the result of the battle against submarines has never before been placed so clearly in the public mind as it is by these official charts ow issued. Most of the official an- nouncements have been in general terms, such as that made in the House of Commons on December i3, when the head of the admiralty stat cd that the general curves of mer- chant tonnage sunk by enemy action and of German submarines sunk are 
 The curves or diagrams made public by the government covered the period from March, 1916. to De- oember, 1917. They are divided in- to sections, each of three months showing the increase or decline for that period
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
PEACE NEWS IS COLORED
 TO SUIT THE GERMANS.

London. January iG. The Bolshe- wiki government has announced of flcially, according to a Reuter- dis patch from Petrograd that the re- ports regarding the progress of the peace pour parlers sent out by the Wolff Bureau, German semi-olficial agency, alter the real sense of the negotiations. Foreign Secretary won Kuehlmann, the dispatch adds
 has declared to the Russian dele gates that the German government reserves th right Go intercept all communications which might eX- cite the popular masses in Germany.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
HAVE NEW ARCTIC LANDS
 BEEN FOUND KY STEFANSON?
Captain Lane Brings Direct News From the Explorer, Who Is Win
 tering in the Northern Seas.

Fairbanks, Alaska. Jan. i6.-Sev- eral new large Arctic lands were discovered northwest of Banks Is- land in the spring of 1916 by Yilhjal- mar Stefanson, the Artic explorer, according to Captain A. Lane, who has arrived here from the Arctic ocean, bringing the first direct news from the explorer, who, he says, is spending the winter in the northern seas at Bartel Island.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
A HALF MILLION MAIL THEFT.
Two Men and One Woman Are Being
 sought by Detectives.

New York, Jan. 20-Two men and d woman are being hunted and one man is under arrest in connection with a F million dollar robbery from the mails, the postolllce au- thorilies announced today
 Eight pieces of registered mail vanished while in transit between Jersey City and New York. Some of the packages contained jewels and one of them Si25,O00 in S2 bills sent to the federal reserve bank here. Charles J Richardson. 30 a mail wagon driver is under arrest and held on s25000 bail. He has plead d not guilty
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
Drastic Restrictions on Food of Rich.

New York Jan. i7.--Drastic food restrictions soon will he applied to the persons of wealth turnout the nation according to statement made here tonight by F. c. Walcott, personal representative of Food Ad- ministrator Hoover.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
ENGLISH CITY BOMBARrED
 BY GERMAN SHIPS AT SEA
Three Persons Were killed and Ten Iniured-Ilalians Inllict Heavy
 Losses on Enemy.

London, Jan. i6.-Yarmouth was bombarded from the sea Monday night, according to an official an nouneement yesterday afternoon.
 Three persons were killed and ten others injured.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
Failing Mast Kills Jacsies.

Washington, Jan. f7.-Six men were killed and three injured on the U s. s. Michigan when the ship was caught in heavy gale al sea.
 The men were killed and iniuredS Av the feliinv of cage mast. the first accident of it's kind in the navy.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
Italians Make Gains.

Rome Jan. i6.-By an attack in the Monte Asolene region on the north ern front, the Italians have gained considerable advantage an inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, says the war office official statement.