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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-12

ETC., in wartime, and for several years
experiments have been carried along
the lines necessary for the development
of that idea. The Spaniards in Cuba
were somewhat astonished at the sight
of a string of tandem kites above the
island of Cuba while our signal corps
was making it's observations near San
tiago. At first they did not realize the
full import of the proceeding and look
ed upon the spectacle as one got up
especially for their benefit. After they
found out that the kites were being
flown for q purpose unknown to Them
but having something to do with the
reconnaissance of their position, they
tried to put stop to the experiment by
shooting at the kites with their Maui
sers; but. as the Spaniards never could
hit a barn door, either sitting or fly
ing, they did no damage to Uncle Sans
aerial machines.
That the kite could be employed to
great advantage in actual warfare was
conclusively proved particularly by the
valuable work of Lieutenant Hugh D.
Wise. who had made a study of
aeroplanes and large kites when sta
toned at Governors island, New York
harbor, as we'll as in Florida and Cuba
He is said to have been the first man,
in America and the third in the world
string, and his reputation as kiteflier
has extended all over the world. Near
ly five years ago he made that ascent
which has now become in sense his
toric, rising to a height of nearly fifty
feet in chair attached to a tandem"
and worked by means of ropes and pull
leys. The two other ascents on record
previously were those made by Captain
II. Baden-Powell, brother of the since
famous hero of Mafekin8. who was then
serving in the Scots grays, and went up
100 feet, provided with a parachute, and
one by Lawrence Hargrave of Austria
liza, the famous inventor of the cellular
or box kite that bears his name, who
was contented with only forty feet. All
these men have acquired an interna-
tional reputation by their daring ex-
periments and scientific Investigations
and no article on kitef1ying as science
can be complete without an allusion to
what they have accomplished.
Not only single kites have been en-
ployed for Hitting heavy loads and in>
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-12

concluded at Mene1ek's dictation a hui
initiating treaty by which she lost all
she had gained and had the bounds of
her Red sea colonies greatly restricted.
King Meneiek is himself no great OBJ
server of ceremonials at court, but he
is a stickIer for etiquette in others. For
example, when Prince Henri of Orleans
was in Abyssinia and appeared at
court in shooting costume the lion of
the tribe of Judah" roared out, who
is this person who does not know how
to appear before a king?" On the other
hand, he was amiability itself to some
American explorers who recently visit
ed him at his capital, Ads Abeba. He
entertained them on Christmas day
with cooked and raw meats and gave
them permission to go lion and elephant
hunting within his dominions as much
as they pleased.
Menelek is very fond of presents and
likes to examine the luggage of all new
arrivals in his country. He declares
that if he weren't king he should be a
customs official. Of late, however, he
has grown critical respecting presents
and demands the very best of every
thing. He was particularly fond of
sugar loaf when first introduced to it.
licking 1t with evident pleasure, but as
his standardization has acquired a
thicker coating he has become more
discriminating. Possessed of an in
quiring turn of mind, he delights in TAX
ing to pieces all new machinery brought
to his notice. He at first exercised his
ingenuity on clocks and watches and
then on breechloading guns, of which
he acquired more than a hundred thou
sand from the Italians. A French off,
Ger who had taken him one of the most
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-12

after them. The tradition states that
the thief was lifted above the roof of
the castle. but whether he lifted" the
fish or not does not appear, nor is it of
SO much account as the mere fact that
he was raised a distance from the
ground.
At all events the flying of kites as
pastime has been pursued for several
centuries, but it hardly began to de-
velop into scientific pursuit until Ben
Franklin made his celebrated expert
ment and called down an electric spark
from the clouds. In abiding to this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-12

truth. this country took the lead in
the science OF litefying, although there
are now stations devoted to it in
France, Germany and Great Britain.
There is probably no station in the
world that has given out such valuable
data as the one located at Blue Hill,
Mass. which, in fact, may be called the
pioneer in the field. Established about
seventeen years ago, it has employed
the best talent in kitef1ying and freely
published the results of Investigations
that are in many respects invaluable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-12

years later, or in 1874, two men made a
twenty-five mile voyage on Long Island
sound in a small boat drawn by a kite
measuring eight by ten feet
Scientific experiments with perfected
apparatus began twenty years or SO
ago, when self recording instruments
like the thermometer and electrometer
were sent up to investigate the upper
atmosphere. One of the most noted ex-
perimenters is w. A. Eddy of Bayonne,
N. j., who for the past dozen years has
conducted aerial Investigations which
have attracted worldwide attention. In
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-12

of entertaining, but born fighter. He
has proved his right to be called
fighter and holds strenuously to the
claim that he is not only descended
from the great King Solomon through
alliance with the queen of Sheba, but
is entitled TO be known as the lion of
the tribe of Judah.
Menelek came to the throne in
March, 1889, and is now fifty-nine years
of age. In personal appearance he is
not very prepossessing, being a perfect
type OF the burnt faces as the an
cient Greeks used to cali the Ethio-
plans, but although he is very dark of
complexion, with full lips and the Eth
opian physognomy, he is entirely dis
tinct from the negro. He is short, even
dumpy, in stature and rather stout
with fierce eyes and a commanding air
born of habitual authority. Although
a despot within his dominions, he is
said to be tied to the apron strings of
his wife. the Empress Taoti. who is
both aged and unctuous. but a natural
diplomat and commander in chief
While the king. or emperor, as some
style him, is gentle and courteous as a
rule, on occasions he has been guilty of
the grossest cruelty, his thin veneer of
civilization being hardly sufficient to
conceal his innate barbarism. He is a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-12
MoroRs FOR CHILDREN.

Motor cars are now being made in
New York for the children of the rich.
The millionaire's baby who has passed
beyond the perambulator stage may
now enjoy its daily outings in a minia-
tuIe electric victoria. which is sup
posed to be capable of management by
children of four or five years old. The
wheel OF baby victoria" is but a
foot in diameter. and the seat il but .
foot square. It's cost. however. is NOT
at all in proportion to Its dimensions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-12
UP TO DATE COLLECTIONS.

An electrical contribution box is the
latest American invention. The minis
ter touches a button. and small silver
cars lined with velvet visit each pew ST.
simultaneously, running on a slender rail
back of each pew. Each car returns to
a lock box at the pew entrance and the
deacons collect the receipts after the
service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-12

faith by being immersed in Westmin-
ster's meeting house pond. He
grew up on the farm, attending the
"deestrick'' school and graduating from
the academy, at the age of seventeen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-12

raised a company Of volunteers, Of
which he was made first lieutenant
This was in 1861, and the next year he
was commissioned lieutenant colonel,
in 1868 was a colonel, in 1864 a brigadier
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-12

going to Boston, then the Mecca for all
young and aspiring New Englanders.
There he began life as an ordinary
clerk in Collamore's crockery store.
At the outbreak of the civil war he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-12

journey in the air. He did not do it in
the interest of science, but in the pur-
suit of gain. Tt seems that two of the
minarets on the mikado's castle were
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-12

lie Japanese, who long
have been the cham
pion kitefliers of the
world, have a tradi-
ton that many hum
dred years ago a man
was successfully lift
ed from the ground
by means of kites and
pprforruad uslife a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-12

does not always fol-
low that the man for
the time being highest
in army rank has had
a remarkable career,
but it is true of Lieu
tenant General Nell
son A. Miles. General
Miles has latterly been
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-12

' the "negusa negyst,
or the king of kings .
Menelek of Abyssinia,
carries out his declar-
ed intention and pays
this country a visit
during the coming
summer, it will be no
carpet knight" we
shall have the honor
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-09
Its Own Reward.

George" said Mrs. Ferguson, Il
want you to oil the hinges of the bed
room door. I'm awfully tired of hear
ing them creak.'
Laura" replied Mr.. Ferguson, Il
would do almost anything to oblige
you. but I'll be everlasting rib roasted
If I'm going to take the trouble to oil
any door hinges at this time or
night?"
Mark now the result of his
procrastination.
In the dead of night-that same
night-a burglar, who had gained
entrance to the house through a base.
ment window, crept softly up the
stairway, approached that bedroom
door and pushed it open.
| II gave loud creak like the wailins
of lost soul.
! The historian hopes it is not really
necessary to add that the burglar
went down that stairway in two iumps
was out of the house before George
Ferguson had succeeded in finding his
revolver. and that the hinges of thai
bedroom door are still unoiled.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-09
OXFORD SCHOLARSHIPS.

If college were nothing more than
curriculum it would b a dull place
and not worth going to. Fortunately
most colleges are something more.
Cecil Rhodes knew this when he en-
lowed so many Oxford scholarships.
wise American woman knew it, too.
and in enumerating the reasons why
a girl should go to college she placed
the obtaining of knowledge first. then
happiness, health, friends, ideals and
permanent interests. You viii notice
that most of these things come from
doing something besides reading
books. They come from being a mem
Der of a select community and partici-
pating to the full in that communitys
life. 1t is because there is no place in
the world where the social life is so
unique and valuable that the old Ok
ford is one of the list training schools
for youth.-Woman's Home Com
panion.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-09

forms what are called dunes. Some
of these dunes are 800 feet in height.
One never gets a cle"r, level, open,
straight stretch of sand; and II
breaks the hearts of camels to nave
to go up and down, forever up and
town, their feet sinking in soft, yield
ling sand for hundreds OF miles.
These dunes, hedging the traveller
round, are his greatest danger. They
are formed by frequent sandstorms
which are terrible occurrences-they
make day as black as night On an
average they arise twice a week
that is, in the storm season, which
lasts half a year. They are not hot
rather cold, if anything; it is in the
cold season of the year. While the
storm is in progress it is quite i'm
possible to continue the journey
across the desert and they must camp
in the great darkness and wait until
calm is restored and light returns. A
sandstone in the desert of Cobb may
last whole day, sometimes a day
and half, but rarely two days. 1t is
impossible to travel over the desert in
summer and autumn, as it would be
too hot. North and central Tibet are
the worst portions to travel through;
they are so high that they lack
vegetation and are bitterly cold.
Caravans have to travel in directions
governed by occasional scanty sup
plies of grass, and animals die off
quickly.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-09
HER MISTAKEN IMPRESSION.

Automobile Magazine.-It had
taken considerable persuasion to in
duce the old lady to take a seat in
an automobile, but finally she had
consented to do so because she was
anxious to reach the bedside of her
sick grandchild in a village some 20
miles away, the last train for which
had left some 10 minutes before she
arrived at the station.
When the owner of the big auto
mobile, who was touring through
Long Island, had overheard the old
lady's regrets at being left, he had
insisted on her accompanying him, as
he was to pass through the particular
one of the half dozen or more Long
Island villages named Hampton where
the sick grandchild lived. Every
thing went lovely until the almost
flying vehicle, in attempting to pass
wagon loaded with hay which oc-
cupied the entire center of the road.
went Unexpectedly into the ditch and
rather violently deposited its oc-
cupants in an adjoining field.
Recovering from the shock though
somewhat confused from the rather
unusual method of alighting from a
vehicle, the old lady asked of the
chagrined chauffeur
is this a Hampton?''
NO, ma'am," he managed to gasp,
this is an accident"
"Oh, dear" said the ex-occupant of
the vehicle, then / hadn't oughter
got out here. had -"
But such naivete was too much for
the owner of the damaged vehicle,
and he said the only safe thing for
one in his position to say-nothing.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-09

kind one man can do the work Of
twenty horses, with their drivers.
The gasoline engine, indeed, with
its modern improvements, seems to be
the coming motor for the farmer, and
the one that will enable him TO do
most of his work by machinery and at
much less cost than by horsepower.
Its power is almost unlimited. for it
has been demonstrated that it can
drive huge racing automobile, weigh
ing several tons, over highway at a
speed of eighty miles an hour. 1t can
also be adopted TO the lighter tasks Of
pumping water, running portable
grain elevator, or husking or any
other light machine-even down to a
churn or sewing machine. The fuel
is comparatively inexpensive in COM
parison with the amount of power
generated.
NILn all the multifarious machinery
for doing the work of the farm and
dairy, the American farmer is in line
to become the real aristocrat and cap
tain of industry. For some time the
term poor farmer has been some
thing of a solecism, and in the near
future it is liable to become a posi-
tive falsehood. Inc only poor farmer
will be the farmer who is poor in
judgment and enterprise, and he will
have to get out of the business, while
his successful neighbor merges his
acres and operates his accommodating
farms with up-todate machinery.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-09
The White House China.

Notwithstanding the yellow stories
"nich appear so regularly in certain
prints during political campaigns
ABOUT the vast amount of plate ara
emma in the white house the supply
Is so limited that those pieces which
are used in one course have to DE
washed TO DO service in another. Much
Oh tne SILVER is marked with the words
PRESIDENTS House and many pieces
Oh the china and glass are engraved
with the coat of arms of the United
states All of the best linen is EN-.
orcidered with the letters ~. S" some
Q. the longest ones bearing the letter.
ing IN four different places in their
'en-and-onehalf-yard lengths.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-09
FROM .RAplps AT nIeH1.s

Here at the roots of the mountains,
Between the somber legions of cedars
and tamaracs,
The rapids charge the ravine:
A little light. cast by foam under star
light,
Waivers about the shimmering stems
of the birches:
Here rise up the dangerous sounds of
battle,
Immense and mournful.
Far above curves, the great dome of
darkness
Drawn with the limitless lines of the
stars and the planets.
Deep at the core of the tumult,
Deeper than all the voices that cry at
the surface,
Dwells one fathomless sound.
Under the hiss and cry, the stroke and
the plangeant clamor
ooh. human heart that sleeps,
Wild with rushing dreams and deep
with sadnessD
The abysmal roar drops into almost
silence,
While over it's deep plays in various
cadence,
Numerous voices crashing in laugh
ter:
Then rising calm, Overwhelming,
Slow in power,
Rising supreme in utterance,
1t sways, and reconquers and floods
all the spaces of silence,
One voice, deep with the sadness.
That dwells at the core of all things.
Duncan Campbell Scott.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-09
HOW MODERN FARMER FARMS.
Our Rural Friends Likely to Become
the Real Aristocrats.

'Homeward the ploughma: eiods
his weary way" In the days when
Gray's Elegy was written this was by
no means poetic license-it was literal
fact. But those days have passed.
! The sulky pillow and the gang plow
came in several years ago. The plow-
man nowadays seldom drags his mud
laden feet at the tailboard of the plow,
but sits up aloft, on spring seat, and
handles the reins as jauntily as the
charioteer in the old pictures SO with
other farming processes Maud Mul-
Ter no longer rakes the hay in the
meadow, but trim boy or girl drives
span of lively horses attached to a
mower that cuts the grass and throws
II up in winrows. The sturdy farmers
boy no longer bends his back to the
sweep of the cradle, but engineers the
reaper and binder, or the header. that
cuts the stalks of the grain off at Just
the right height, gathers them in
sheaves and binds them-in fact.
seems to do almost everything but
talk.
But to come back to blowing, the
primary and the most laborious pro-
cess in farming, it looks as if the
sulky and gang plows, which have
done so much to tighten the burden of
the farmer, would soon be superseded
by more formidable engines, and the
horses that draw them turned out to
grass, or sent to join the cavalry. The
gasoline traction engine has made it
possible to attack a battery of ten
plows to platform, upon which the
operator can sit and manipulate a
lever-and prestol what a wide swath
OF soil is upturned as the machine
moves rapidly over the ground. 1t is
estimated that with a machine Of this
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-09

words the light of recollection shone
in Mrs. Cowgill's eyes.
"Silas,' she said.
Sarah, he spoke low as if the word
was sacred.
And, as when the days were young,
they stood with the arms of each about
the other Their heads, nov streaked
with gray, were pressed close to-
gether Silas, half ashamed, told of
his purchase of the six bottles of
"Heartsease. And as his comrade
listened she laughed in the old way
and drew him nearer and whispered
tenderly:
"Silas, dear old soul. don't you know
the only heartsease is love"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-09
ON THE DESERT OF GoBI.
Abounds in Rare Treasures, Sand
storms and Magnificent Ruins.

Abounds in Rare Treasures, Sand
storms and Magnificent Ruins.
The distinguished Swedish explorer,
Dr. Sven Hedin, few years ago
made long journey, through Tibet
and the desert of Cobb. Having made
his headquarters upon the shores of
Lake Lob Nor, which is situated amid
a "howling Wilderness he made
numerous excursions through the
desert and over mountains.
While on these exploring tours he
discovered a series of magnificent
ruins of Chinese and Monaghan
origin, about eight hundred years
old and of deep interest. These
ancient cities of the past thus I'M
covered for the first time to the
knowledge of the present generation
will throw an entirely new light on
the distribution of the various human
races and the migratory movement of
Asiatic peoples, not to mention ques-
lions of physical geography.
He went through the whole of the
northern and central portions of east
ern Tibet, where the most extensive
explorations were made He also
travelled through western China,
totally unknown part of the great
desert of Cobb. He prepared a large
scale map of this region, which was
at that time very important; since
then. however, a great deal of the
ground has been covered by other ex-
plorers. In this region he found the
ruins of the ancient cities, from
which he unearthed some extraordin-
airy sculptures and some extremely
rare Chinese Tibetan manuscripts.
The worst feature of the Cobb
desert is the drifting sand which
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-09
THE wANoERER AT HOME.

OF yore, when Mother Fate was Kind
And / was hale and 1.-the of limb,
/ was the comrade of the Wind
And roved Gods spacious earth with
him.
And now that Age has chained mehere
Where dreams are like tidal sea
He comes and gossips in mine ear
With all his ancient comradery-
He tells me how the Wye still glides
BY Titern in it's cloistral vale
And how by Isis bowery sides
Still pleads the leaf-hid nightingale
He voices the soft songs they sing
Where Venice fronts the ADRIAN
main,
And the faint lyric call OF spring
Across the lone Campanian plain.
He bids me list the Alpine horn
From heights with spectral light
ashine,
And the Young shepherds shout when
morn
Lifts from the Dlue Aegean Dflhe-
He iterates the pilgrims cry
In that mysterious nomad land
Where the Sphinx crouches death
lessly,
Allah-il-Allah DER the sand.
And ere he goes his wandering way
He breathes the fragment of tune
I once heard gem-bright fingers play
Beneath a golden ShiraZ moon.
And so, though may roam no more
About the world from end to end,
Yet can touch the furthest shore
WIS have the journeying wind for
friend.
Clinton Scotland in Home Com
panion.