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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-13

Modern Example of Good Breeding
One of Stations Bred by the De-
partment of Agriculture at Buffalo,
Wyo.
ward with the guy line at the same
time you give the command "get up"
Repeat the process Of stopping and
starting until the horse shows no
signs of sef-will. Use the guy line,
and use it severely, on the slightest
intimation that the horse is going to
balk. After few of these. lessons the
horse may be hitched to the wagon.
The trip ropes and guy line should be
kept on until he is well broken OF the
habit.
A horse that kicks when something
touches his heels i is dangerous to
drive. TO overcome the habit, put on
the harness and the trip ropes. Take
a stick and pole him all over. After
he becomes submissive to the pole,
tie sacks Of hay to the traces and
breeching, and continue the lesson un-
til he pays no attention to them.
Fasten long pole on either SIDE
with one end to drag on the ground,
the other end to be fastened to the
shaft carrier. Drive him around with
these, and if he attempts to kick COM
mand STEADY and pull him to his
knees. The lessons should be contin-
ued until he submits to the poles drag
ging between his legs and round him
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-13
Farm
Live Stock
CURING HORSES BAD HABITS
In Case of Chronic Baker Course o.
Training Will Be Needed to
Overcome Fault.

Horses that have been properly
handled and trained are not balky,
neither do they have bad habits.
When horses with bad habits are en-
countered careful Study OF each case
should be made i'll order to ascertain
the cause, and, if possible, to re-
move it.
The most common cause or DalK-
mess among horses is punishment 10
make them do something that tney
cannot do or that they do not under
stand how to do. Another common
cause is the forcing of horses to draw
heavy loads without allowing them TO
stop occasionally to rest and regain
their breath. The use of the whip or
spur in such instances should be
avoided, as the pain inflicted. Will be
very likely to provoke further ana
more stubborn rebellion. If morse
balks the bearing Of the harness
should be examined to see IL IL Is
hurting him. If heavy load is be-
ing drawn and the horse is not al
lowed to rest and regain his breath
md strength he may become sulky
and refuse to pull. Give him a short
rest, and while he is resting rub his
nose, pick up front foot and tap the
hoof a few times, or adjust the har-
ness, and he may forget his grievance.
Take the lines and give the command
to go ahead, turning slightly to the
right or left to start. If the horse
does not start it is either case or
overload or a chronic baker. II the
load is SO heavy it cannot be drawn,
unload. If the horse is chronic
baker a course of training Will be
necessary to overcome the habit.
In older horses where the habit OF
baking is fixed the horse should be
trained to obey all commands with
promptness without being hitched to
the wagon. First put on the double
trip ropes and use them until the
horse stops and stands when he hears
"whoa." Next put on the guy line,
which should be managed by an as
sistant, while you drive and attend the
trip ropes. The guy line is a rope
fastened around the horses neck and
half hitch over the lower jaw. 1t
is very severe and should not be used
to excess. If the horse shows any
tendency to balk, give the command
whoa" before he stops of his own
accord. When ready to start, the as
sistant should take position in front
of the horse and smartly jerk him for
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-13
slLAGE FOR PRODUCING BEEF
Missouri College of Agriculture Out
lines Satisfactory Plan With
Young Steers.

Highly satisfactory beef can be
made from two-year-old steers by
feeding corn as silage, together with
linseed meal and clover or alfalfa hay,
instead of full feeding shelied or ear
corn, according to the Missouri Col
lege of Agriculture.
One acre, yielding 40 bushels of
corn. or eight tons of silage, if fed as
silage, together with 1,733 pounds of
linseed oil meal and 1910 pounds of
alfalfa hay would produce 1868
pounds of beef and 11.3 pounds of
pork. If, however, the corn be fed as
shelled corn (full feed) and silage, to-
gether with 3O82 pounds of linseed
meal and 1852 pounds of alfalfa hay,
it would produce 291.6 pounds of beef
and 68.5 pounds of pork.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-13

mite purpose in a hive. Huber, famous
bee student, has answered it by de-
claring that males must be numerous
SO that the queen in her bridal flight
will have the best of chances to meet
one. Were there but two or three to
a hive they might miss the departure
Of their queen altogether, or else fail
to find her on her flight. Her stay in
her flight must be brief, for a sudden
wind may blow her from her course
or beat her to earth where, wet-winged
and chill. she would die or fall prey to
a bird.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-13

The British act prohibits the impor-
tation of dyestuffs into Great Britain
for ten years, which, government ex-
perts declared, will enable that coun-
try to build up her dye industry to a
point of complete independence from
the outside world.
Poison gas and dyestuffs both come
from coal tar, it was explained, and
from the manufacture of the CONNER
cial article to the production of the
military weapon is but another step
III continuous process.
BY insurlng the development OF the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-13

Heidenstam, the Swede; and after a
gap of three years it is now the turn
of Knut Hamsun, the Norwegian. Evil
IDENTIFY if Americans are to keep up
with the times they must pay more
attention to the Scandinavian lam
guages or put the .ranslators to work.
1t is no impeachment Of the judges
fame should have been so long In
crossing the Atlantic, although his ro-
nance, Hunger" was published as
long ago as 1883. The Nobel prize,
under the terms of the founder, is to
be given annually ito the person who
shall have produced the greatest work,
in the ideal sense, in the world of let
ters." The names are apparently those
of authors with wide continental rep
utation rather than those most eS-
teemed by their own compatriots.
Hamsun is evidently born writer.
Perhaps his boyhood in the Far North
helped to make hipi a writer, poet and
dreamer. The long arctic nights may
have brought out the hereditary trait.
For such a nature as his is described,
"paradoxical and rebellious as it is
poetic and picturesque" seems neces-
sarily the final fruit of powerful he
reditary tendencies, and his peasant
forbears are said to have been marked
out from their neighbors at least once
in each generation by an artistic
tendency that made of them skilled
craftsmen. At any rate, from the
time he learned TO make his letters
he was striving at literary creation,
and when at seventeen he consented
to be apprenticed tc a shoemaker Il
was in order that he might earn the
money to have printed at his own ex-
pense his first two complete works,
short novel and long poem.
The next use he made of his APP
premiership was to jump the job with
some more savings and go to Chris
tiania, where he hoped to work his
way through the university. But
in that hope he, failed. There were
two reasons for this failure. The
more important was that be had
hoped to pay for his lectures by sell
ing stuff to the Christiania publishers
of newspapers and periodicals and
he couldn't do it. They did not want
his poetry, his fiction or his essays
This failure produced the second rea-
son why he could not remain at the
university. He became either an I'M
pearable nuisance to his fellow stu
dents or the butt of their jibes. They
did not understand him and he made
no effort to be understood. So he
left the university and came to Amer
lea.
Hamsun, like other geniuses, was
apparently born to be misunderstood.
Anyway, shallow SOIL" published in
1898. was the result of Hamsun's life
among the Bohemians of Christiania
after his street car experience in Chi
cago. It does not seem to have been
q pleasant period in his life. Evil
IDENTIFY he was 40 better understood
or liked by the bohemians than he
had been by the students at the uni
versity dozen years before. Ham
sun took his revenge by his violent
attack on the bohemians in "Shal-
low Soil" The same life has been de-
scribed by Strindberg in much more
good-humored way.
Hamsun's career and final success
seem to point anew the moral that 1t
is hard to keep a good man down. He
had hard life, and success seemed
mere ignis fatuus, but he kept on
trying.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-13
THE THIRD HEAVEN.

According to an ancient Jewish opin-
ion there were three heavens: ID that
wherein the birds Ay, (2) that where
In the stars move, (3) that where the
Highest and His angels live. In IL Cor
tnthians st. Paul's reference is to the
heaven Of heavens. the place of Gods
ruling over angels and all powers, as
distinct from Paradise where the souls
of the faithful dead abide, to which
bIest place sse was raptufed, also. as
he says in the same passage.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-13

dye industry, chemical experts here
said, Great Britain has laid the ground
work for possible widespread use of
gas in warfare, as chemical factories
can turn from the manufacture Of
dyestuffs to the production of poison
gas practically at will.
An influx of German dyes would
mean. officials stated. that develop
ment Of the American industry would
be hindered and the United States
would fall behind other nations in abil-
ity to produce poison gas in the event
of war.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-13
Wealth in Old Stamps

An OLD trunk, decayed and crumbling
to pieces. discovered by workmen in
an attic in Philadelphia, containing
nothing but bundles of letters. mas
been found to be worth a fortune in
old stamps. 1.-THE man In the street"
would never recognize the worth Of
such mass of apparent trash. but
philateIists say the stamps on such
old letters, crude, inartistic little stick
ers though they are, now are worth a
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-13

kings ransom. Examination of few
of the letters reveals the fact that
the entire collection of correspondence
once occupied the files in the law Of
fee of one William Morris Meredith.
a man of large acquaintance, who re-
ceived letters from persons In all parts
of the country and abroad.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-13
Chinese Lily Fine Plant

One of the most successful bulbs for
house culture is the Chinese sacred
lily, a variety of the narcissus which
is imported from China. Place in
dish about three inches deep. put in
one and half-inches of sand, and COW
er with one inch of gravel, white peb-
bIes, or broken marble. On this set
the bulbs TO prevent them from float
ing. Place them in a sunny window.
and they will bloom perfectly. The
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-13

Danish newspaper, Hunger" placed
Hamsun in the first rank Of Scandi-
navian authors. His novel Of the
same title, Hunger" made him world
famous. The mastery and impress
i've analysis of the human soul in
Hunger" is characteristic Of all of
Hamsun's writings.
His great success and fame not
withstanding, Knut Hamsun con-
tinues to live a solitary life; he did
not care for honors. When his fifth
eth birthday was celebrated through
out Norway and the Norwegians
rhapsodized over him as the greatest
living poet" Hamsun retired to hut
in the forest near Gulbrandstal.
When he had reason to assume that
his admirers would find him there. he
went further north to the Hamsun
farm, where he lived when a little
child. From there he issued his en-
ergetic Honor to the Young" coming
out for youth against age, in defiance
OF the accepted theory of the superb
ority of the old.
That he himself had not aged he
proved by his novel, "a Wanderer
Plays With the Sardine." Suisse
quently he wrote the wonderful satire
of the drama, Gotten by the Devil"
which showed that the high quality
of his own dramatic creations was
not adversely influenced by his con-
tempt of dramatic art and technique.
His other dramatic trilogy "At the
Door of the Wealthy" Queen Ia
mara" CHS best drama), and "Munken
vendt'' Ian impressive picture of the
life of a debauched theologian)-is
powerful.
Still better are Hamsun's novels,
among them Mysteries" Editor
LANCE" and the love story "Pan." All
these writings are a strange mixture
of rude realism, dreamy mysticism
and impulsive sentiment. On the one
hand, Hamsun lets loose the reins of
phantasy and introduces us to a
world of wonderfully dear dreams;
on the other hand, he is cold critic
of the human soul, who exposes the
weak side of modern life with pene-
trating intellect.
1t is said that 65,OOO,OOO pages of
Hamsun's work have appeared in %
languages. but it is safe to say that
the average well-read American had
never heard of him. In short. the
award comes as distinct shock. By
what mischance all these years has
he overlooked the Norwegian writer's
name suddenly to.be Inundated by his
own ignorance? If he subjects to ex-
animation his acquaintance who have
earned the reputation of being explor-
ers in the world Of books, it may be
some consolation to find that they are
no better informed about Hamsun and
his works. Have American publishers
done their duty to country whose
forests are rapidly being depleted in.
the cause Oh literature in sighting an
author held worthy by the Stockholm
Jury Of signal honors?
In former years when the Nobel
prize-winners we're announced there
was no such cause for self-reproach.
AT least it was reassuring to know
that they were persons of worldwide
renown, however widely read. SulIy-
Prudhomme. Mommsen, Bjornson,
Mistral, Echegaray, Sienkiewicz, Car
ducci. KipIing, Paul Won Heyse, Mae
terlinck, and the rest, whether French,
German,> Norwegian, Spanish, Polish,
Italian, English, or Belgian, for the
occasion needed no Introduction. Then
in 1916 came the GROWING of Werner
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ductOr Dack III the ei6he
les. Anyway, Knut Hamsun, who is
Norwegian and lives a nea. HERMIT lie
in the wilds of Norway, has been
awarded the belated prize of 1915
whereat most Americans are vastly
astOnished.
Some old-time Chicago residents OF
Scandinavian blood remember Knut-
they seem to think in those days
that it was spelt with three letters.
why, sure, ! knew him; knew
that Knut Hamsun," said DR.. Anders
Doe, for many years prominent in Den
Norske club. HE was such an out
at-the-elbows lad; he was very poor.
No, he had no money. That was in
the early eighties, when he came to
Chicago after working as plowboy
on the virgin North Dakota prairies.
He got job as conductor on the old
Halsted street line. The horses pulled
the cars then. And, my, it was cold
on the back platform. / still remem-
Der Knut's chapped, red wrists, where
his coat-sleeves forgot to meet his
mittens. And he carried books in his
pockets. Always books, Euripides,
Aristotle, Thackeray. Such dream
err! The passengers used to get mad.
He would forget to pull the rope. Trey
missed their corners"
And so disaster befell Conductor
Knut Hamsun. The Halsted street
horse-car was not for him. He couldn't
remember the streets. On pilgrimages
down the line he used to call out
"North avenue" for division street."
One Cay an old lacy asked Hamsun
if the car was southbound. Hamsun
scratched his scraggled blond hair. He
ran forward. trampling over the pas
sengers' feet.
Are we going soGth?" he asked the
driver.
I'VE are going to HI" growled the
driver.
And so the superintendent of the
car barn gave Knut Hamsun the sack.
He said the Norwegian was too stupid
even to cruise as skipper of a Halsted
street car. Hamsun went to New
York. He got berth or a Newfound-
land fishing-smack. Later he worked
his way to Norway as a seaman.
1t is restless life, full of adventure
that we find in HaInsun's writings,
which are properly called the au-
thor's confessions. He is truly rep
resentative Of the Scandinavian bohe-
mians whom he lets look in the glass
in his novel, 1.-THE Earth"
Born in Gulbrandstal on August 4.
1860, Hamsun wrote little poems when
young shoemaker apprentice. He
did not like that trade.
His progressive longing for adven-
ture drove him to the United States.
where he tried to make living as a
cabin boy, miner, store clerk, horse
car conductor, and what not. During
that period he wrote a sketch or poem
once in a while, or was an aggressive
agitator Of atheism and anarchism.
When he believed he was a consump-
tive he was, for short time, a preach
er and devoted his spare time and en-
ergy to the study of religious mystiz
cism.
In all dilemmas of his adventurous
life Hamsun was homesick. When he
landed at Copenhagen he was without
money or friends. Disguised with
life, he hid in a garnet to starve him
self to Death.
His sketch Hunger was the off
spring of the struggle between volun-
tary starvation and the instinct of
self-preservation that could not be
conquered by the longing for the
great unknown" When printed in a
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-13
ALARMED OVER BRITISH LAW
Act Prohibiting Importation of Dye
stuffs Into That Country May Seri-
ousIy Affect American Interests.

Washington.-By the passage of the
dyestuff import regulations act, Great
Britain has definitely accepted the the
ory that poison gas will be the su.
preme weapon of the next war and at
the same time opened the way for the
entry of German dyes into this coun-
fry
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-13

flow 1rs are white, with yellow-tinted
CUP, the stems having a truss, with
from three to seven blooms. The Chi
nese cut away the hard skin on the
top of the bulb. which seems to fa-
cilitate the growth, but in cutting. one
must be careful to cut only one-eighth
of an inch in depth, or the leaf growth
will be injured.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-13

Relations between France and Ger
many reached another critical stage at
the end of the week, when Berlin,
through the undersecretary for foreign
affairs, warned the British and Italian
ambassadors that 1t would be impos-
sible for Germany to resume the con-
ference on reparatiOns at Brussels
January 10 unless France withdraws
it's demand for the dissolution of the
civil militia, which is called the elm
wohnerWehr. In this way Germany
seeks to take advantage of the some
what strained relations between Paris
and London and Rome.
BY the Spa agreement Germany was
to complete her rehabilitation by
January 1, and if this is not done, as
her intention appears to be at this
writing, France will have the right to
occupy the Ruhr district or Frankfort.
Plans for the necessary military opera
tions already have been drawn mp by
Marshal Foch and General Weygand.
The report of General Nollet, the
French chief of the interallied COM
mission of control in Germany, was
what precipitated the matter He told
the council of ambassadors in Paris
that the civil militia was a real mill
tary organization of nearly two million
soldiers, camouflaged as policing
force, and he presented the case in
such warm language that the ambas-
sailors did not know just how to
handle it. So they passed it up to the
supreme council, which is to meet
early in January in Nice or Cannes.
Premier Lloyd George said he could
not take it up because of pressing do
mestic affairs, and Premier Giolitti of
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-13

Corn and hogs go together, but the
hogs go better for the addition of soma
supplementary feeds with the corn.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-13
Economical Poultry Feed.

Oats are coming to be more and
more strongly considered as an eco
nomical and well balanced poultry
feed.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-13


In the effort to carry out the Re-
publican promises of reduced expenses,
the house appropriations committee
cut $42Oot4,192 from the estimates
for the sunf.ry civil bill for the fiscal
year 1922, leaving $3S3,611.292. The
largest single reduction was $147,O00,-
600 of what was asked for the federal
shipping board. The committee also
recommended a cut Of more than elev-
Ell millions in the post Office depart
ment appropriation bill y but the to-
tal reported is $573,964,721, which is
nearly seventy millions more than the
appropriation for this year.
The Democrats pointed out that the
total carried by both bills adds about
seventeen millions to the cost of rum
ming the government; but the Repub-
iicans retorted that they had made
large cuts in the sums asked by DEM
ocratic heads of departments. Those
who are clamoring for a reduction in
federal taxes may draw their own con-
illusions as to the prospect.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-13

According to secret information re-
ceived by the French foreign office,
the Russian Reds not only are threat
ening to overrun and absorb Armenia,
Georgia and Azerbaijan, but also are
preparing for another attack on Po-
land and the Baltic states, and pos
sibly on RoumaEia. In the Minsk re-
gion soviet troops are being concen-
trated in large numbers, threatening
especially Lithuania and Poland and
farther north about $4,000 of them
were said to have crossed the Latvian
frontier and occupied several towns.
Esthonia, too, was alarmed by the
presence of large bodies of Red cav
airy on her borders. Negotiations for
permanent peace between Poland and
Russia were broken off by the soviet
representatives, who said in effect that
the Red victories elsewhere made the
treaty unnecessary to them. In Podo-
liza the Russians are gathering heavy
forces to compel Roumania to evacu-
marshes are frozen over and cam
paigning will be possible until March.
Meanwhile all efforts of the soviet
authorities to arrange for resumption
of trade seem to have fallen fat, owing
partly to their impudent bad faith in
trade matters and partly to their fail
ure to stop spreading their propaganda
in other countries. The United States
government decided that Martens, the
soviet envoy" should be depOrted,
his work here and submit. Most of
the nations are now coming to the
view that bolshevism in Russia will
die out before long if left to itself, and
are proceeding on that theory. Evil
dence that the bolshevist leaders
themselves are changing their policy
lies in the fact that they are now
granting many concessions to foreign
ers, which is absolutely contrary to
bolshevist principles. In addressing
the soviet congress in Moscow Lenine
explained that this was temporary
necessity, as the country must have
materials for it's economic rebuilding.
Information received by our state de-
partment is that the bourgeoisie are
more numerous than ever in Russia
and are gradually regaining control,
and that the tendency is toward the
formation of an autocratic govern
ment.