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, The Washburn Times WASHBURK, WOHUN RUNS A EANK WIS. WASHBURN PRINTING CO. Publisher* Dogs Sp Sister of Jane Addams Heads What a lot Infant emperor of Wonderful the Kansas Institution. China knowß for his age! / ' * -v'-v visiting sun. Six comets are the ( Located in Girard Twenty Years Ago Stumping the system? x : solar ; (3a and r* B^t: tl:l on the Death of Her Hus- u \ •. J band Became the Bank's seems to St.Bernard An election in Switzerland attract about as much attention as its i\ IPII President ; navy. % — HEILIG SI v' Kpfcs * STERLING- —— -= I &§| m m J wtrtA r sssft f I Girard, Kan.—The morning sunlight I 'r can a •V p||g.L^ filtered through the window in Few headline writers tell of ' little * //\ Vll#! | I1 fall of snow without allusions to ‘The v J i H the back office of the State Bank of " ■ Beautiful.” •} Girard, and the bars across the window cast a network of shadows on the ■ floor. The A town of 4,000 has not seen '•* woman who sat in the Texas /. s • . s: a wedding in three years, but has had heavy office chair behind the desk two lynching parties. was fifty-eight years old, but her face showed scarcely a wrinkle, and the to shoot white in hair It cost a Missouri man $35 HAVE Just quit forty of the her glinted now and a redbird and it coul<y not have been then by way of proof that it once Sly most magnificent dogs In the such great either. was gold. The woman sport, w °Hd—as big as calves, as was Mrs. S. Alice Haldeman, and she is husky as bears, as intelligent as \\ the bank’s -f president. About all that can be said in favor folks, pedigreed princes, as Mrs. Haldeman has anoth- _ as as of a double chin is that it has some er claim meritorious as saints, and as to distinction, for she is the prestige in an argument. sister pure and plain-living as their of Miss Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago. masters, the Augustine canons, Capt. will try lo* Elmer Baldwin to who, after fifteen years of a “Well, yes, I’m the president,” she cate the north pole in 1915. It may climate that is nine months ice admitted to a visitor, “only I don’t run be a common jaunt by then. and snow, break down com- the bank myself; we all run it to- \ pletely, joints, im- gether—the two men and I.” Grapefruit Is beginning to crowd with swelled ffxgwußcaMmndli poverished blood and chronic It was 20 years ago that Dr. and out the cantaloupe, and the latter no Mrs. Haldeman came to Girard. The doubt sees what its fate is to be. rheumatism. The dogs are as aristocratic as the kings physician’s health was poor, and the who ages collars of move was made on this account from The megaphone would be a valuable in the middle sent them gold; Bernards, ances- the home of their childhood in Illinois. thing on the farm, where It could be because the first their tors, already spot, aiding trav- ‘ used to call the hired man at 4 a. m. were on the W My husband became interested in elers in an amateurish way, when St. Bernard :r\ the banking business shortly after we de Menthon went up from Aosta and founded ttejaair- % W Mrs. said, The financial success of some of our m - ‘ J makes a stay over night at the top practically came here,” Haldeman “and the Hospice, A. D. 962. Their ancestors, bear- TlßiiiT" he founded a bank of his own. We popular actors is indicated by the necessary. With old-fashioned courtesy the fighting dogs Charlemagne’s court, had amount of alimony they are able to of old tourists are cor ducted to their rooms by an are the oldest bank in the county and been mountaineer chiefs, Pay. ' left with certain abbe, and after meals are shown round the have weatheVed three panics. among neutrality, other payment for aid and church, the kennels and museum, quite as “Dr. Haldeman died five years ago," by Bernard, Charlemagne, We base our prediction of a long an eurlier uncle of guests in a country house. Never a bint of she added, “and—and with the last army D. cold winter on the fact that this when he marched an by this route A. pay. Every tourist knows —it Is universal con- words he ever spoke he asked me not to year’s chestnut worms are fatter than 773. versation and all guide books tell it—that each leave the bank. So I took charge, and usual. Thus the great dogs of imperial court race tourist ought to put into the alms box at least I’m very glad that I did, for I love were near the spot when St. Bernard and his what he (or she) would have to pay at a hotel. the work. But, pshaw, it’p not inter- Taxes have gone so high In Japan companions built their famous refuge at the . All tourists similarly know in advance that esting to tell you about myself—you that the little nation may not feel like apex of the pass; and to understand their evo- ■Jj the Hospice has grown poor in modern times whipping anybody for several years lution—why the good monks began training by continuing to feed, warm and lodge 23,000 to come. them not to be like other dogs—they must have mingled rich and poor annually—the grants, an idea of this majestic short-cut of antiquity :.r/7 rents and annuities that once made it rich On the Isthmus of Panama there from north Europe into Italy. having shrunk and dwindled. This being so, 4,786 are bachelors and only 187 ' you imagine 6,000 gay arro- Nowadays the tunnels take you through by .--u-yV. ; what do the and spinsters. Go south, young woman—- rail, in three-quarters of an hour, but before ’l-P,' gant tourists last summer put into the alms go south! such modern engineering wonders it was dif- box? Less than 1,000 would have paid at a ferent. Why has Napoleon’s—or Hannibal’s— hotel! That Is to say. an average of one tour- College women do net indulge in di- passage of the Alps remained so striking? Be- ist in six paid up honestly. The rest sneaked vorce, says one of them. To the pros- it. cause a great army, with its baggage, camp they affirm, for a mile and pective • marrier this should be warn- material, supplies, cannons and ammunition leading This is not why the dogs have a far-away, ing J; a half, the driver enough. They knpw why carts or yet more ponderous elephants, Irrupted !-■ his horses behind, and almost disdainful look. do not unexpectedly on the fertile plains of the south. keeping mighty He they are almost hard up for their soup and Reports from Los Angeles '' ' close. indicate They fell, really, from the clouds—the clouds the sleigh and valises biscuits. Once they wore gold collars; now that a drunken Japanese with a load- left hanging round the snow capped wall of moun- was no moment for they go about contentedly in leather dotted ed gun is as dangerous as a drunken —lt They do tains! Otherwise, Napoleon must have led fancy work. When the with brass nail-heads. not even know Caucasian. buy his army round by the Mediterranean, inter- good canon and hie two that rich tourists have tried to them for sums good canons gently re- minable journey that would have surprised brown brothers, with rein- large —w’hich the A masseur has been fined for prac- nobody. fused; they would never send their dog friends ticing forcements of four more medicine. It will soon be un- pant pine thick, of Otherwise, Hannibal, wandering with dogs, came hurrying after down to and in the hot air safe to put a wet towel on a sick his HBSwf plain. They nobody. Th<?y simply hundreds of war elephants from Spain up into the canine first aid, it was the disdain friend’s brow overheated, France would have been obliged to wander possibly a little earlier do not like our smell—the smell of overfed, gross bodies, burning oxygen back or stay there. Instead, he followed the than they remember. The tourist The difference between a banquet and letting poisonous gases furnace. Rhine val’ey to the entrance of the Great St. two miles or more of 10 off like a and a dinner is that the former con- friends, abbes, Bernard, old road, up, to cent, up the Their the brothers and clean- sist of a great deal of talk without climbed the grand up per climb all, the smelling wood choppers of the heights are much to eat. its snow uid Ice, elephants and and de- long windings, over ¥ plain livers, down, muscle, scended oh the vines and fig trees of Capua, dreary Comb of the Dead trained all their immense surprise through the ava- very clothes free from the grease and microbes They logic colleges to the of the Romans. and teach in and gallery, seems to of the fettering plain. How, then, if they yet the football compared The first army to risk it was a Gaulish one, lanche scores when —"" avoid us. are they willing to bound off through 150 years before Hannibal. The Romans used them a fantastic dream of occasionally lead to some most il- 3f=- The enow* and night and hunt out—w'hat they it as B.