The Washburn times. [volume], September 06, 1906, Image 3

About The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976

Image provided by: Wisconsin Historical Society

                
HOW DOCTORS CAN HELP.
Practical For Securing:
(iotMl Roads.
In an article recently in the Auto
Advocate, Dr. H. H. St. John of Edina,
Mo., told how physicians might help
secure good roads as follows:
“If any one man on the face of this
earth knows how to appreciate a good
road it is the physician. Except it
might be a fireman on the call of duty
In the suburbs of some town or city
hone can appreciate better than he or
she who has a life to save the ines
timable advantage of a good road, par
ticularly when compelled to drive over
it at night. What then can the physi
cian do to assist in the promotion
thereof?
“There are at least three practical
ways or suggestions offering them
selves —via, one is the education of the
people, the showing to the practical ev
eryday taxpaying farmer that good
roads are good investments and pay
over 300 per cent on the net cost.
“Educate them, show them the aw
ful waste, the actual loss of money ev
ery time they haul load or empty
wagon over a poor robd, the wear and
tear on their buggies, wagons or carts;
show them that the cost of building a
good road is but little greater than that
of keeping up a little dirt in the cen
ter and that a road once well built is
easy to repair and is a good road for
many years. What roads have ever
superseded those In Great Britain,
many of which are in existence yet.
but all of which owe their firmness,
solidity and durability today to the old
foundations built by the Romans cen
turies ago when Britain was nothing
but dense forests, plains and ever
glades?
“Who, then, better than the physi
cian, who has the entree into our
homes and is imbued with all the free
dom and privilege of an exclusive
member of every family he visits, who
has a better right or is better capable
of doing a right loyal part in the fight
for good roads? He is revered, re
spected, looked up to, and his views
are accepted with a degree of positive
ness and assurance bred in the minds
of his hearers by his calling and his
higher education.
"Secondly, let every physician who
owns or controls a section of roadway
along his property set the example of
building and maintaining a good road.
Then his teaching will have effect
among his hearers, his efforts in try
ing to establish county and state good
road funds, uniformity of road build
ing, etc., will have weight and effect.
'"Thirdly, let physicians as a class, a
special class, express their willingness
to sumbit in the cause of humanity to
a special nominal tax per annum to a
state fund apart from whatever other
ordinary taxes they in common with
others have to meet, said tax to be
known and recognized as “the phy
sicians’ own good road subscription,”
and it will become before long such a
source of pride and glorification of phy
sicians as a class that not only will it
react as a special lever to their teach
ing qualities, but other professions and
classes, like sheep following a leader,
will be anxious to emulate them and
from a sense of pride to see who can
furnish the largestpro rata per an
num in the state. Teen will come the
golden days of good roads In earnest.”
CALL FOR PAVED ROADWAYS.
Landowner Willing: to Pay |2 an
Acre For tlie Improvement.
“I would tax myself $1 an acre if my
neighbors would join me for the pur
pose of paving the road with brick,”
said William Jackson, a farmer living
on Spring Hill road in Chillicothe, Mo.
His suggestion was taken up, and he
found others even more liberal than
himself, says the St. Louis Post-Dis
patch. Among these is J. T. Jackson,
who lives on Trenton road. When
Jackson heard of the plan he said un
hesitatingly :
“Why, I would give $2 per acre to
pave Trenton road, and I believe there
are others who would do the same. 1
know one other farmer on the road
who would do it. The money collected
this way would be enough to pave the
road with brjck and chert rock. Of
course chert rock is cheaper. The road
need not be wider than sixteen and a
half feet, and it could be put up for
$3,000 a mile, I think.”
Jackson is actively trying to get the
opinions of his neighbors, and be thinks
with them he will start to raise a fund
for paving the road'
Prizes For Good Roads.
At a recent Kansas good roads con
vention the county good roads com
mittee made the following recom
mendation to the convention: That
each township give $25 in prizes for
the five best half mile stretches of road
made in the township by the use of the
King drag and that the city of Law
rence give a prize for the best stretch
of road on the nine rural routes run
ning out from Lawrence, the mail car
riers to be the judges.
When to Drag.
When the smiles of spring appear
Drag the road;
When the summer time is here
Drag the road;
When the corn is in the ear,
In the winter cold and drear,
Every season in the year,
Drag the road.
When you’ve nothing else to do
Drag the road;
If but for an hour or two,
Drag the road;
It will keep them good as new, '
With a purpose firm and true,
Fall in line; it’s up to you;
Drag the road.
Would you do the proper thing?
Drag the road;
Set the system on the wing,
Drag the road;
Give the drag a lively swing,
Toss the laured wreath to King.
Hats off! Everybody sing
Drag the road.
4 . —National Stockman and Farmer.
anjLPii
Children Grow Toward Nor
mal Through Exercise.
EASY METHCDFOLLOWED
First Principle Training Muscular
Action —Process Slow and Un
limited Patience Required —Med-
ical Treatment Has Resulted in
Improvement Mentally and Phys
ically.
In the educational world Springfield,
Mass., is known as the city of special
school for feebleminded children, “th
eludes eight or nine schools devoted to
special training. But perhaps the
most interesting experiment is its
schoo for feble minded children, “the
special preparatory,” as it is tactfully
called. This has a threefold aim—to
rid the ordinary public school rooms
of pupils who are a drag on both the
teacher and the normal children; to
benefit the child himself, and to make
him a more useful member of society.
To teach these children is a slow
process, requiring unlimited patience
on the part of the instructor, as noth
ing so confuses and bewilders a feeble
minded child as a cross word. The
instructor is careful to act as if she
regarded the children as normal, and
their devotion to her is pathetic.
The first principle in training thesy
children is to quicken their muscular
action. They are invariably sluggish
and muscularly lazy, and therefore
fully one-half of the school session
is given up to physical exercises. As
defectives have difficulty in thinking
and moving at the same time, special
exercises are given to cultivate this
power.
The teacher gives two children each
a ball, placing them about six teet
apart, one with his back to the oth
er. One of the pupils then throws the
ball and turns around quickly to catch
the ball, which is being thrown to
him. This seems simple, but for new
comers at the school it is an impos
sible feat. In fact, simply bouncing
a rubber ball is beyond the skill of a
newcomer. Another feajt is to walk
through the rungs of a ladder placed
on the floor. A newcomer is told to
skip one or two rungs, and he always
makes hard work of it.
Balancing helps to steady the mus
cles, and anew pupil is asked to walk
a broad beam placed on the floor. ,This
achieved, he is then asked to walk
a higher, narrower beam, which he
tries with much fear as a normal per
son does a narrow plank over a brook.
Another feat is to throw balls to
one another between the rungs of a
ladder placed on two chairs. At first
the ball flys widely about the room,
but finally the pupils learn to catch
them quickly and deftly. The ten
dency to giggle during these games,
or, in fact, at all times, Ss one of the
most difficult things a teacher has to
overcome in the children.
In the winter the boys and girls
are encouraged to slide on the ice and
coast, and to run hard, that they may
breathe deeply. The boys have made
a sled (for manuji training is one of
the most important parts of the in
struction), and this is used for all
sorts ov mad rides in tae school yard.
Every vhild who goes into the school
has to have special attention. One is
high strung to a fearful degree, an
other is anaemic and lifeless, heavy
and stupid, and a fifth is as quick as
lightning in grasping certain things
and totally deficient in learning oth
ers. To quicken their sense of sight,
they receive packages of many colored
sticks, w r hich they are required to di
vide into little piles of the same color.
To cultivate their sense of form they
have blocks in the shape of cubes,
cylinders and balls, which they must
string in this order; Firt a ball,
then a cube and last a cylinder. Nine
times out of ten the blocks are piled
higgledy-piggedly, and it is only al
ter trying again and again that the
proper arrangement is made.
Medical treatment of these pupils
has resulted in a wonderful improve
ment., both mentally and .physically.
One little girl, who appeared helpless
ly stupid, was operated on twice lor
adenoids and soon became bright
enough to go back into the school for
normal children. Ears are inspected
for deafness, and often it is found that
a child’s dullness is largely caused by
inability to hear half that is said to
him. Properly fitted glasses have re
sulted in brightened intellects, and po
eraiions on the nose have also been
beneficial.
The school has paid in every way,
for many of the pupils after a law
years in the “special preparatory'” go
out to work in the mills and factories,
earning from 60 cents to $1 a day.
Those who never develop far enough
to be wage-earners learn habits of
personal cleanliness, gain higher ideals
of living, know how to busy them
selves about something and are bet
ter equipped to live happy, useful
lives.
Sealskins to the number of 3,128
were shipped from Alaska last season.
An elephant has so delicate a sense
of smell that when in a wild state
it can scent an enemy at a distance
of 1,000 yards.
Steps are being taken to utilize the
500,000 horse-power of* the Victoria
Falls for industrial purposes, care be
ing taken not to mar the scenery.
(no! mi
City on the Bay a Metropolis
by Act of God.
HER NATURAL RESOURCES
Only Port for a Flourishing Country,
Rich in all Things Fresno
Largest Raisin Shipper in the
World—Heavy Beet Sugar Inter
est.
San Francisco Is to be rebuilt. Even
though the capitalists involved agree
by mutual consent to withdraw from
the peninsula, they will have to re
build on the shores of San Francisco
Bay, for this a metropolis not by the
hand of man but by the act of God,
says the New York Tribune.
It does not exist because lines of
transportation have agreed upon it
as a site, but because It is the only
natural site, the only possible site for
the port of entry and the metropolis
of Califbrnia and all the country
which lies back of it to the* Rockies.
Seattl®, on the only good harbor to
the north, been pressing it close
for some of the Pacific trade and has
nearly taken away the Alaskan
trade, which used to be in the hands
of Californians, but It can never be
the port of entry and of exit for the
country of central and northern
California and for the mountain re
gions further inland.
These are the resources of that
part of California w r hich lies tribu
tary to San Francisco:
There are two great interior
valleys running for 400 miles be
tween the Coast Range and the Sier
ra Nevada, and tributary to the Sac
ramento and San Joaquin Rivers.
San Francisco Bay is at the mouth of
these rivers, which are navigable
through their richest districts.
Once, these valleys were all in
wheat; now, when the bottom is cut
of that crop, they are beginning to
break up these rich lands into small
tracts and to raise concentrated
crops. In these valleys, but more es
pecially in the smaller valleys, like
the Santa Clara, flourishes the great
dried fruit Industry of the United
States. There was a great industry in
fresh fruits for the Eastern markets,
also, and most of the fresh deciduous
fruits sent to the Eastern markets
come from the North.
The orange and lemon industry is
mainly is. the South through the
country tributary to Los Angeles,
but lately it has been found that
oranges do well in the hot interior
valleys at a latitude even with Phila
delphia; and the orange industry of
the north was increasing. Every year
more and more wheat land was go
ing into concentrated crops.
Fresno ships more raisins than
any other city in the world; Petalu
ma is one of the greatest "hen
towns” in the country. The Santa
Clara Valley, beginning just below
San Francisco and running for sev
enty or eighty miles down the coast,
is one great orchard.
There is a heavy beet sugar indus
try. The little Napa and Sonoma
valleys are the center of the wine in
dustry, which is growing steadily as
the wine men win out in their fight
for the improvement and recogni
tion of California vintages. This is
only a narrow and brief summary of
the agricultural resources.
Up the coast, north of San Fran
cisco stretches an unbroken forest,
one of the few considerable tracts of
forest land left in this country. The
State is a steady and persistent pro
ducer of gold—sl7,ooo,ooo last
year. Once, it led in this respect, but
Colorado has passed it. This comes
in the main from the mother lode of
the Sierra—and the end of the
mother lode is not yet in sight. This
mining country is naturally tributary
to San Francisco; so is all Nevada.
California is the only State which
produces quicksilver in quantities,
and these mines lay in the bay re
gion. The copper industry is grow
ing. The base metals of the Sierra
are hardly touched, and Californians
have been howling for Eastern capi
tal to come in and do something.
One tiling the State lacks —coal.
There is only one bed, and that of
inferior quality. The fuel coal is
brought from Washington. Although
the power transmission lines, which
have turned the torrents of the Sier
ra into light, heat and the whirl of
wheels are industrial wonders of the
world, there can never be any great
and general manufacturing.
The backbone of California wealth
is the incomparable richness of the
lands, which, under that soft, grow
ing climate which makes all things
large, has an immense producing
power. Secondary, but still impor
tant, is the mining wealth, by uc
means fully developed.
Hard to Kill an Ant
Ants are really long lived, consid
ering their minuteness. Janet had
two queens under observation for
ten years, and one of Sir John Lub
bock’s ant pets lived into her fif
teenth year. _ 1
Ants are very tenacious of life alter
severe injury. Following loss of the
entire abdomen they sometimes live
two weeks, and In one case a head
less ant, carefully decapitated by
aseptic- surgery, lived for forty-one
days. A carpenter ant after being
submerged eight days in distilled
water came to life upon being dried,
bo that they are practically proof
against drowning.
They can live for long periods
without food; in ope case the fast
lasted nearly nine months before the
ant starved to death.
Bailiff—What did they do with
the deaf prisoner?
Attorneys —Gave him a hearing.
“Mama” and “Papa.”
German chauvinism penetrates
everywhere nowadays. Some earn
est Teutons have started the idea
that German children must drop the
words “Mama” and "Papa” In
of "Mutter” (mother) and "Vater”
(father.) "How,” say they, "can
anybody prefer the unmeaning Ma
ma’ to the deep and impressive
'MutterT’ Nothing can. replace for a
German the word ’Mutter,’ certainly
not the French "Mama.” A certain
philologist, however, asks how it can
he suggested that the word "Mama”
is derived from the French, seeing
that it is probably to be found in all
languages of the world. In the nu
merous dialects of Africa and in In
dia the word for mother is "Mama”
which Is given as a title of honor to
every elderly dame deserving of es
teem and respect. "Mama” and
"Papa” (Baba) are so generally
used m all parts of the world that
they probably date back some thou
sands of years.
BOUDOIR CHAT.
Don’t worry. Worry wears you
out quickly.
When the hands are in bad condi
tion of chapping or redness cosmetic
gloves will heal them more quickly
than anything else.
Don’t wear rings that are too
small; the inevitable result Is dis
figurement—red and swollen hands
and knuckles.
Creams containing animal rats are
liable to cause & growth of down,
and for that reason should be
avoided.
For the hay flower bath fili a
small bag with the blossoms, put in
a kettle of water and boil fifteen min
utes. Strain and pour the decoction
into the bath. This bath, according
to Father Kniepp, opens the pores
and dissolves the effete matter shut
up in the body.
FOIEYSHONEMAR
Cures Colds; Prevents Pneumonia
Sold by Q. W. Frost.
' Announcement
The summer meeting of the Wis
consin State Horticultural Society
will be held at Bamboo August 29.
It will be a one day session devoted
largely to a discussion of the value
of native shrubs, vines and flower
ingplants for cultivation.
The establishment of park sys
tems in villages and small cities will
be treated by a competent landscape
gardener.
Liberal premiums will be offered
for both native and cultivated flow
ers in bloom at that time.
F. Cranefield,
Sec. W. S. H. S.
Scrub yourself daiiy, you’re not
clear inside. Clean insides nwaus
stomach, bowels, blood, liver,
clean, tissue in every organ. Moral:
Take Hollister’s Rocky Mountain
Tea. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets.
—Fox Bros. Pharmacy.
FOIEYSHONET™TAR
for children; safe, sure* No opiates
Sold b\r Q. W- Frost.
28,000 ACHES 28,000
LANDS.
In All Parts of Bayfield County.
Owner Not Agent,
E s y Payment and
Interest at 6 per cent
Call on or write,
D. M MAXCY,
Washburn, Wis.
28,000 ACRES 28,000
There is nothing so pleasant as
that bright, cheerful, at-peace with
the world feeling when you sit down
to your breakfast. There is noth
ing so conducive to good work and
good results. The healthy man
with a healthy mind and body, is a
better fellow, a better workman, a
better citizen than the man or
woman who is handicapped by some
disability, however slight. A slight
disorder of the stomach will derange
your body, your thoughts and your
disposition. Get away from the
morbidness and the blues. Keep
your stomach in tune and both your
brain and body will respond. Little
indiscretions of overeating can be
easily corrected ard you will be sur
prised to see how much better man
you are. Try a little Kodol for dys
pepsia after your meals. Sold by
M. M, Sweet.
I-
Children like Kennedy’s Laxative
Honey and Tar. The pleasantest
and best cough syrup to take; be
cause it contains no opiates. Sold
by M. M. Sweet. v
A PuzzleWortn Having
Dr. G. G. Green, of Woodbury,
New Jersey, whose advertisement
appears in our paper regularly, will
mail to any one sending a two cent
stamp to pay postage, one of his
new German Syrup and August
Flower Puzzles, made of wood and
glass. It amuses and perplexes
young and old. Although very diffi
cult, it can be mastered. Mention
this paper ,
i
\
In this state it is not necessary to
to serve a five days’ notice for
eviction of a cold. Use the original
laxative eough syrup, Kennedy’s
Laxative Honey and Tar. No opia
tes, Sold by M. M. Sweet.
FOLEY’S
KIDNEY CURE
WILL CURE YOU
of any case of Kidney or
Bladder disease that is net
beyond the reach cf medi
cine. Take it at once. Do
not risk having Bright’s Dis
ease or Diabetes. There is
nothing gained by delay.
50c. and SI.OO Bottles*
REFUSE SUBSTITUTES.
Sold by Q. W. Frost.
♦
The Most Perfect
BLOOD
PURIFIER
That Can Be Found Is
Matt. J. Johnsons
6QBB
cures all kinds of blood trouble, Liver
and Kidney trouble, Catarrah and Rheu
matism, by acting on the blood, liver and
kidneys, by purifying the blood, and con
tains medicines that pass off the im
purities.
For Sale and Guaranteed Only By
M. M. Sweet, Washburn, Wis.
H. A. Robinson and G. B'roman,
Pratt, Wisconsin.
A W man's Complexion.
It is rank foolishness to attempt
to remove sallowness or greusinesd
of the skin by the use of cosmetic*,
or “local” treatment, as advocat'd
by the “beauty doctors.” The only
safe and sun way thu a woman can
improve her nmplexion is by purify
ing and enriching the blood, whicii
can only b<> accomplished by keeping
the liver healthy and active. The
liver is the seat of disease and blo.nl
pollution. Green’s August Flower
acts directly on the liver, cleanses
and enriches the blosd, purifies the
complexion. It also cures consti
pation, biliousness, nervousness, and
induces refreshing sleep. A singls
bottle of August Flower has been
hnown to cure the most prenounced
and distressing case of dyspepsia
and digestion. New trial size bottle
25 cents; regular size 75 cents. At
Frost & Spies.
DRT PINE
WOOD
Delivered to any part
of the city onOshort
notice.
Call up ’
THOMAS L. DDXELOW.
Both Phones-
ORDER YOU
I
next lot ofD
• *
POINTING
A
1
, from)
“THE TIMES”
We have a great var-
S
iety of papers to sel
ect from.
In Printing We Lead!
'L'! MED
TABLES,
iso a .
TRAINS,
®TIMP CARO ,
TRAINS
FOR WASJiBBRj!
West Bound : Arrive : Depart
No. 573 Washburn and Ir -ft• ~T
River Ex pi ess : ■ 7:15. m
feast bound : Arrive : DepS.it
No. 574 Washburn and Iron :
River Express 7755 pm:
Through tickets to all points in the Unih 1
States, Canada. Alas’ a. < • ua and Japan.
A. M. Cleland G. P. A. aui. Minn.
VY . B. Du if y. Agent.
C. St. P. M. & O. By.
PASSENGER TRAILS:
SOUTH NORTH
*8:30 a. m. daily 10:35 a. in. daily
11:55a.m. oxSunday 1:40 p.m. exSnnday
$8:00 p.m. daily 4:30 p m. exSnuday
46:30 p.m. daily 5:15 o-m. Sunday o ly
9:17 p.m. daily
•Connect at Ashland Junction with some
bound trains. % dourect* at Ashland June*
tion for St. Paul or Chi -.go. tConneet
Ashland with Northw. stern train for
Chicago.
WIS. CENTRAL TRAINS *
V
<*p
FROM ASTTEAND. A UR, DEP’L
Through mail and Ex
press (daily l. Wpm 8:40 a¥h
Limited (daily) 7 15 am 7;25 he*
L
, *
Orders for t ickets can be procured of *4
W. Frost, Druggist Washburn, Wis.