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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-14
ART IN CUTTING DIAMONDS
Peculiar Properties Of the Precious
Gem Must Be Thoroughly Under-
stood by the Lapldary.

A diamond cutter, writing for the
London Mail, relates some interesting
facts as to forms into which diamonds
are cut to enhance their luster. A
diamond Is the hardest, substance In
nature and cannot even be scratched
except with another diamond, while
some stones can be cut only with their
own powder.
Yet the hardest of all can be cleft
by heavy blow delivered in the right
direction; that is, parallel to the faces
Of the eight sides which its crystal
shows. 1t Is this property that permits
the very large stones, such as the "Cul-
Imam" diamond, to be worked.
In spite of this, diamond has the
simplest composition. OF all precious
stones, for 1t is only crystalized car
bon, and near relation to ordinary
graphite, usually called "blacklead."
But 1t has been formed by enormous
pressure in the remotest depths Of the
earth's crust, and probably forced to-
ward the surface by steam.
The principal forms into which a
diamond is cut are:
Brilliants, with an OctagOnal face
surrounded by many smaller facets.
Rose diamonds, with fiat base,
above which are two rows of triangu-
lar facets, the uppermost terminating
In a point.
Table diamonds, which are thin
stones cut with triangular facets.
What makes the diamond so pre-
cious is the presence Of inward fire
the mysterious CLEANS Of blue and red
that change with every movement, and
which makes such an appeal to our
sense Of beauty.
The charm of precious stones lies
In their brilliancy and luster, the In
tensity Of the latter Deepen ding upon
the polish of the surface; for IL the
stone is dull or uneven the light Is
scattered and not reflected.
The only stones at all approac ching
1t are zircon and the green garnet
called "olivine." The luster of all
other stones is vitreous, such as seen
on the surface of broken glass. And
the third type is that shown by resins.
In order to bring out the full beauty
Of stone 1t must be cue In such q
way that the facets reveal its splen-
dor, and the art of the lapidary rests
upon his knowledge of what becomes
Of the light when 1t falls upon the
stone; so he must understand the laws
Of reflection and refractiOn.
When white light Is refracted into
a cOlOrless stone 1t changes and is split
up into a spectrum. Since the refrac-
tive index increases progressively as
the wavelength of the light decreases.
a normal spectrum Is violet at one end
and passes through green and yellow
to red at the other end; for instance,
in the familiar rainbow. The width of
the spectrum also varies, and 1t Is
this dispersion" that determines the
"hre."
1t would be difficult to name any
substance around which has been
woven such web OF romance.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-14
STORIES OF
GREAT INDIANS
copyright. 1s2a. western Newspaper Unio"
SCAR FACE CHARLEY, LEON
IDAS OF THE MODOCS
BQ Elmo Scott Uoison

nNE April day In 1873 q party Of 70
~ soldiers commanded by Capt. Evan
Thomas suddenly found themselves
In q death trap In the lava beds Of
northern California. Within a few
minutes the murderous fire from hid
den enemy had disabled more than
half of the command.
As suddenly as the Indian fire had
begun, it stopped and the survivors
heard voice shouting to them: You
who are not dead had better go home !;
we don't want to kill you all In one
day!" It was the voice Of Scar Face
Charley, the leader of q MOdoc war
party. With force of only q war
riors he had killed 80 and wounded Is
Of the soldiers. Wearied Of the
slaughter, he allowed the remainder
to escape. Afterwards he said: "My
heart was sick at seeing so many men
killed"
The career Of Scar Face Charley
(Chikchikam OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Scar Faced'D, called the "Leonidas
Of the Lava Beds" In the Modoc war
was one Of strange contrasts. At the
opening Of the conflict he had visited
the homes Of many settlers end, warn
Ing them that war was coming, told
them to stay quietly in their homes and
the Modocs would not modest them. He
had fired the opening gun of the war
when soldiers Jumped" the Modoc
camp Ia November, 1872.
When Captain Jack, the chief, want.
cd to make peace Charley was one OF
the warriors who tainted him and
forced him to continue fighting. Then
he protested against the murder Of
General Candy and Doctor Thomas
calling 1t unworthy OF the heart of
O Modoc." When he saw that the
NodOc cause was hopeless he sur
rendered to the military and enlisted
as q scout.
One night Black Jim and Curly
Headed Doctor, two Of the most war
like Modocs, denounced him as q trai
tor and threatened to kill him. Walk
ing over to the fire and standing there
In the full blaze Of the burning logs
he said: Men. put on some more WOOD
for want Black Jim and the Doctor
to have a good light to shoot me by"
His bluff was not called.
Charley continued in the service Of
the soldiers until they had run Captain
Jack to earth. When the chief and
ave others were tried before military
court for numbering the peace COM
missioners, he was one Of the wit
nesses who spoke most earnestly in be
half of the condemned men.
At the close Of the Modoc war Char
ley with his people as military prison
ers were deported to Oklahoma where
the 'Wagon Scarfaced" died Deem
Der 8, 1895.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-14
copyrIsh, r9aa by the MeClur. Newspaper syndis

Directors have been instructed to
educate agents along the lines Of
manufacture and transportation of
industrial and denatured alcohol.
The men will be taught the differ
ences in varities of alcohol and it is
believed that violations of this ma
ture will be greatly lessened.
A signal victory for enforcement
was the recent announcement by a
leading vaudeville circuit that per-
formers would not be allowed to
make humorous reference to the 18th
amendment. Commissioner Haynes
is elated that within so short space
of time such splendid compliance
with a request made by him upon as
suming his duties a little over a year
ago has been secured, and that edi-
torial and news writers, cartoonists,
reporters, scenario writer's, play
wrights, and performers are lending
evey aid to law enforcement, thus
sounding the prohibition joke cath.
Over $4,000 convictions for viola
ton of the 18th amendment have
been obtained in Federal courts
throughout the country during the
past year, showing that courts and
juries are displaying an improved at
titude.
In the opinion of Commissioner
Haynes the most effective weapon in
the hands of enforcement officials is
the paddock" provision, which pro-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-14
GRIND ALFALFA AND CLOVER
Practice In Some Communities Found
to BE Economlcai-Cattle Eat
Moro Of Stalk.

Many of the dairymen who have
more than Is head OF cattle would
and 1t profitable to get a grinder large
enough to grind alfalfa or clover, es-
pecially IL they expect to feed man.
moth clover. The practice is general
in some communities to shred the
slower and feed this to cows. The
cattle will eat more Of the stalk and
the remainder makes very good bed
ding when mixed with the straw.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-14

Feu0fal SfOn1DlClOfl DlTeCUOE JdiHeS
A. Stone, states Commissioner
Haynes has instituted a series of
conferences of directors and other
enforcement officials in various sec
tions of the country to discuss num-
erous problems and map out plans
for solution, and conference will
soon be held in this state. Several
such conferences have already been
held and matters of vital concern to
the public have been considered.
Among the problems on which ac-
ton will be taken is that of rubbing
compounds which bootleg channels
have caused many deaths. Analyses
of several hundred gallons of seized
product revealed quantities of con-
centfated lye, an excessive amount
which remained in the compound even
after Redistribution. Conspiracy sec
tions Of the Volstead Act will be
evoked against cereal beverage
manufacturers who inject such rub
bling compounds into so-called "near-
beer"
Recent conferences have resulted
in recommendation that retail sales
of Jamaica ginger be limited to one
fluid ounce, and exposure of an al
legged German fake preparation re-
puted to produce wine, champagne
and brandy; also the successful sup
preston of fraud to hookwink the
public with so-called Canadian rye"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-14

lying on the counter, he asked the
price. The salesman said 1t was
worthless, but he could have 1t for
the cost Of packing 1t In box.
The mean one directed 1t to be sent
with his card to the lady, congratu-
lating himself that she would imagine
1t was broken while on its way to
her.
He was at her house when the box
arrived, but the effect was hardly
what he had expected. The tradesman
had carefully wrapped each piece In
separate sheet of paper London Tit
Bits. -- ---.--------------
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-14
FALL FREsHENING IN FAVOR
Results In Greater Production Of Milk
and Butterfat. According to
Specialists.

Fall freshening results In greater
milk and butterfat production than
Spring or summer freshening. The
dairy husbandry specialists at the
Iowa agricultural experiment station
who have studied many records say
that fall freshening gives about 10
per cent greater production than either
spring or summer freshening.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-14
NORW. LUTHERAN CHURCH

OHT. OHTISCIdHS0I, L dSIUT
Services next Sunday at 1920 A..
M. and 7:30 P. M.
Bible Study Tuesday evening.
Con6rmants meet Saturday at
1000 A. M.
Saturday school for religious in
struction at 200 P. M. ALI children
from the 5th grade and up are in
vited, if not members of any other
church. No expense. Bring
Bible History.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-14
DISCARD IMPROBABLE COW
Better Than an Empty Stall Providing
She 10 Producing Offspring Better
/ Than Herself.

The improbable COW does not de-
serve any defense nor should she be
allowed to fill a stall In the barn to
the exclusion Of better COW. But
she is better than an empty stall pro-
vided she Is given a chance 70 produce
offspring better than herself. Then
che "a fulfilling q purpose.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-14

q present to one
Of his lady friends
on the occasion of
her marriage. He
entered a crock
cry shop for the
purpose of making
q purchase. See
ing a valuable
statuette broken
in<n a dO1ay1 nfao00
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-14

Certain employees of this Company,
having declined to accept the Deci-
sion of the United States Railroad
Labor Board, and being engaged in
a strike at all points on it's line of
Railway where it employs the fol-
lowing classes of labor and this Com
pany being required to replace them.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-14
METHODIST EPISCOPAL

N6V. u. w. DdVLS
Sunday school 9:45 A. M. Mrs.
Clara o. Beers, Supt.
Epworth League 700 P. M. Opal
Thoreson, President.
Public worship HOO A. NJ. and
300 p. M.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-14

TO MEET THE EMERGENCY
The Customer: What's the idea,
selling bread by the pound Instead Of
by the loaf7
The Bakery Man: Just for this
N >rnIng. My baker didn't put
enough yeast In this batch and IL
turned out heavy. -
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-14
The
- The -
Scrap Book
SMOOTH scHEME DIDN'T WORK
Statesman Just a Little Bit Too Off.
eIous In Wrapping Up That Mar
rage Present.

A local celebrity whose meanness
was a by-word felt obliged to make
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-14
SWEDISH LUTHERAN

INtF. n INOdus pdoCOI
Washburn, Sept. 18th, 1890 a. m.
Ashland, Sept, 18th, 1880 p. m.
Bayfield, Sept, oath, 1920 a. m.
Ashland, Sept. 24th, 1880 p. m.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-14

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The Connecticut labor news., 1922-04-28
United States Must Guard Against
 Japanese Aggression in Hawaii Islands

ese-even though born in exile, to the third and fourth generation.
 Who does not know the story of the Japanese incursion into Califor- nia where, although numbering only two per cent. of the population of the state, they have contrived to wrest the control of the berry, melon and other fruit industries and many valu- able agricultural properties i'll the most fertile farming regions from the original American owners. This con trol they set about systematically to acquire by the most determined, ruth less and cold blooded methods. By working for wages at which white obtained a monopoly of the labor market. This being secured they peremptorily raised their wage de- mands to a figure that the American farmer or fruit grower could not pay without going into bankruptcy. In cases where this did not have the de- sired effect-to force the American owners to sell out-they refused to perform any labor at any wage, offer ing to buy the property with the ripe fruit, but declining to assist in har- vesting the fruit for American own CTS. With ripe fruit ready to fall from the vines and trees, and with no labor procurable, the white farmers were forced to accept the offers of their ruthless alien competitors, and the Japanese on taking control placed Japanese laborers-not a few of them American born Japanese-in the fields at wages that were ridiculously low compared with the extortionate scale that they had exacted from their white employers.
 In Hawaii today they are putting into execution, on a vastly wider scale, the same buccaneering methods that have made their countrymen a menace and an abomination in our Pacific Coast states. Their determina- ton to make continued American control of the fundamental industries and business of the territory pro- hibitively expensive, is evident on every hand. Already they have begun to desert in large numbers the planta- ton fields of the territory in which they unwisely were allowed monop- oly through the exclusion of Chinese competition. They have gone in large numbers on protracted "visits" to Japan; they have entered various
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-04-28
Already Are Beginning to Dominate Affairs There and Will Be Dangerous Unless Steps Are Taken to Curb Their Increase
 in Number.

born parents and the land of the lat ter's origin, proving themselves Jap anese subjects at heart despite the ac- cident of their birth on American soil, It Is a significant fact that the mikado claims and exercises suzerainty, not only over Japanese born in Japan and living i'll foreign countries, but also over their offspring born abroad.
 Yet the island-born are eligible to travel and have citizenship privileges anywhere in the United States; they
 nay move to the mainland, by virtue of their citizenship, and their foreign
 porn parents may accompany them.
 Thus the menace of this condition IS
 lot confined to Hawaii, but the
 American working men of our Pacific
 Coast may expect further and more
 ubtle competition from them in the
 uture as a result of colonization movement shoreward from Hawaii.
 To make the menace more real the Japanese are educating their children in Japanese schools, where, i'll the Japanese tongue, they were instructed in the sacred writings of Japan-lts literature and history-were taught to revere the emperor, to mediate on the virtues of the imperial ances- tors ana tne1r own, ana 10 >SlOIy III the military and cultural prowess of Dai Nippon. The possibilities of the presence of rapidly increasing population of such a character and imbued with such traditions within the confines of the United States, a large portion of them being trained reservists of the Japanese army, should make the most complacent ot our law givers act quickly. To pre- vent the complete Organization of the islands and the setting up of an alien state-minus only the fag-of our Pacific Coast, Congress enacted law requiring that education in American history and other American public school subjects be given in English in all schools throughout the islands, and that such education be compul- sory. | .
 This law has the beneficial results that it compels every Japanese school boy in the islands to realize the pow CT and resources of the country with in which he is living. But this does not and never will efface the feeling of race solidarity and common destiny of the Japanese of Hawaii with the people of Japan. The greatness of Japan and the divinity of the emper- or have a fashion of lurking in the background of the mind of the Japan
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-04-28

skilled and semi-skilled mechanical
 pursuits on their own account; they
 have practised and are practising sabotage and a form of "white
 strike''; and as a crowning act they have set up a nationalistic Japanese labor organization, led by radical aliens, some of whom recently have
 been convicted and given penal sen-
 tences for criminal conspiracy in
 connection with trouble fostered by this Japanese union. Upon the Amer ican owners and managers of the agri- cultural industries of the Territory they have exerted the most drastic economic pressure at every possible point.
 The only source from which the economic competition can come that will put the Japanese back where they belong in the Hawaiian scheme of things, is Chinese labor The Chi nese are the only race that will per form more labor for the same wage, prosperity upon that wage, than the Japanese.
 We now know that the fears that caused the exclusion of Chinese from the islands years ago were ground
 
 though numbering only about 10000 at present, have given an excellent ac- count of themselves. Although some have become planters and not a few have grown wealthy, their success has never threatened American predom- finance in the affairs of the islands. It requires a great deal of Americaniz- ing before Chinese acquire even a
 mild taste for things political. It does not require compulsion to in
 duce Chinese to send their children to
 American schools to learn as much
 about American history and institu-
 toins as possible. The Chinese who sojourn for while in the United States or its dependencies are anxi-
 ous to take back to China as much as they can of what Is best in American life. A strong movement against plural marriages is afoot in China to-
 day, due to the influence of Ameri-
 canized Chinese. The forward look ing Chinese of the young generation,
 regardless of factional divisions ,de-
 sire to align their republic with the
 best thought of America. Chinese
 leaders of all factions realize that the future of their country is inseparably bound up with the future of either America or Japan-and that America
 and Japan are going different ways. They also realize that if it is with Japan, the latter will play the role of
 exploiter. They recollect that their
 struggle for a republic-like the struggles of number of peoples who
 have won independence and self de-
 termination-succeeded because of a
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-04-28

large group of their own people
 working from and under the inspira- tion of America. Ambitious Chinese today desire to be like Americans in
 many vital ways-they have no more desire to be like the Japanese than the Japanese have to be like the Chi nese. Their points of view are as distinct as those of the lion and the
 lamb. The village and farmer folk of China, the element from which plantation workers would be drawn, diferentiate intelligently between those who would give them employ ment and those who would set them selves up as their masters. The Chi nese would regard the re-opening to them of the Hawaiian fields of labor as a restitution of right of which they had long been deprived. Chinese are patriarchal in their genius and respond to the influence of group leadership. The men of standing in the family clans, the men whom the younger men consult before taking such momentous step as going to a foreign country to work, know that China needs the friendship of America now, and needs 1t more than America ever will need the friendship of China at least until America has encoun- tered an adversary stronger and be,- ter prepared than herself.
 Practically every Chinese in the United States and it's territories today is missionary seeking to lis lights and his abilities-better re-
 lations between his people and the Americans.
 Moreover-and here is the vital i'm port of the whole situation-we need Hawaii
 The islands lie 2,1oo miles off our Southern California shore and are the key to the defenses of our entire Western coast line. The operating | radius of battleship fleet is approxi- nately 2,ooo miles, and once securely 1 1nsconced in the Hawaiian Islands m enemy could launch terrihcally de structive drives against our coast cities of the west, land troops almost at will upon the California coast and ! throttle our shipping until we man. aged to dislodge him, which probably
 would require years. With Hawaii securely in our possession no enemy l could capture a naval base in Eastern Pacific waters, or even within striking
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-04-28

distance of our Hawaiian defenses, not to mention our mainland.
 We cannot afford and we cannot permit Hawaii to be turned over to Japanese domination-even economic domination If an alien state, minus only the flag, is to be tolerated with in 2,Ioo miles of our shores, the day might come when 1t would be easy to shift the flag. With a Japanese population of 5o,ooo able bodied men capable of bearing arms, resident in the islands, which it is easy to fore see, it would be easy for the Japanese to seize Hawaii if we pursue orr present policy of sornnolent tolerance. These periodic and extended visits" of the Hawaiian Japanese to the Jap anese homeland are but thin camou- hage for reporting for military train ing, which is to make them an army Of reservists, ready to assemble under arms whenever the cooperation of the Japanese navy shall make such a coup effective.
 We cannot checkmate the imperial istic schemes of Japan more efhcacl-
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-04-28

BUY ONLY UN1ON-MADE GOODS
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-04-28

ously than by checking the Japanese economically, by putting Chinese to compete with them in the agricultural fields of Hawaii. It is there that their encroachments upon our civilization must be stopped, and stopped for all time Else we had best make ready to defend the passes of the Rocky Mountains against an invading host.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-04-28
CLERKS UNION WINNER
 IN STRIKE DAMAGE SUIT

The Superior court of Georgia has dismissed all cases brought against E. H, FitzGerald, grand president, and other officers of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Sta ton Employees, that grew out of an unauthorized strike of clerks employ ed by several Southern railroads Members of the brotherhood brought action to recover strike benefits for the time they were on strike and the union won out in every case.