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Willmar tribune., 1905-07-05

he&d. .of the second Arctic i exped ditlon.
projected ~ the millionaire, two years;
ago, after tho first, under Capt. BALI
win. failed CT Its purpose, The expedi-:
ton has not been heard from for somo
time, and fears are entertained that, It
has ended In disaster. Mr. Nv. IS.
Champ, confidential secretary to the;
late Mr.. ziegler, Is now at Tromsoe,
Norway, ready to so IL search Of the
Terra Nova, Fiala's ship. Should the
death Of Mr.. Ziegler made him deter.
mine to return home. the expedition.
will continue under the direction OF
some one else. #< n .5 e s%.S .S II
Sure Pole Will Be Found.
Z ''Mr. Fiala's expedition may have
succeeded for all that 'is known" re-
piled the boy. But don't think 80.
My fathers plans would not be called
failures il itsdid lot reach the pole, or,
In fact, II several expeditions failed to
do this. Finally, though, after several
expeditions have got further and fur.
ther toward the pole, one will reach it,
am sure. I would like to be the one
to do it, .. ::
The pale, wan face lit up with =
worthy ambition, and the little body,
which needs only the sunshine and the
healing Of time to become as stanch
and sturdy as before the accident.
seemed to take in renewed vigor as ne
spoke. It was plain to see how firmly
the idea Of reaching the north pole has
taken possession of, this youth. .
did you and your father arrange any
Willmar tribune., 1905-07-05

William Brandt, his father being q
half-brother Of Mr.. Ziegler. At an
early age it became necessary for. rel
atives to assume the support of one
or more Of the children, and MIR. Zieg-
ler took the little boy. He and his wife
were childless, and the little chap at
once filled the vacant crevices in their
hearts as fully as their own could have
done. He returned the affection and
between him and his foster father grew
= love that was noticeable to the mer-
est stranger. .%s%*
Shared Fathers Condolences.
They were inseparable, the million
aire and the schoolboy, and when, q
few years ago, William Ziegler began
to crave the distinction Of being the
founder Of an expedition that should
md the north pole, the lad was one OF
the few who shared his condolences,
who listened to his ambitions and sym
pathized with him Id his desires.
All this time, and until William
1iegler died, last Il month, the boy
= :
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this 10 morgue," but to cheer him up
l told him his head must be wrong, and
l pointed to about a hundred dried
corpses, thousand years old, in a cor
ner, with grinning skulls all around,
and told him that was the ballet, and
told him to look at the leading dancer,
and asked him if she wasn't beaut,
from Butte, Mont, and that killed dad.
He leaned against me, and said his
eyes must have gone back on him, be-
cause everything looked dead to him
l told him he would get over it after
awhile, and to stay where he was while
l went and spoke to one of the ballet
that was beckoning to NE, and left
him there, dazed, and went around a
corner and hid.
People were coming along with
torches, all the time, looking at the
cataccmbs and reading the irscrip-
tions cut in the rock, and after awhile
went back to where left dad, and he
was gone, but after awhile found him
standing up with the stiffs: He was
glad to see me, and wanted to knew II
thought he was dead. told him I was
sure he was alive, though he had death
ly look on his face. 'sWell, sir" says
dad, Il thought it was all over with
me, after you left, for man came along
and moved me around; and took hold
under my arms and jumped me along
here by these stiffs, and told me if
didn't stay where belonged he would
break me up into bones, and throw me
into a pile, and thought would have
to do as the Romans do and stay here,
and before the man left me he reached
into my pocket ard took my money,
and said I couldn't spend any money in
there where was going to stay~for a
million years, and, by gosh, was 20
petrifed couldn't stop him from rob-
b1ng ne. Say, Hernery, they will rob
you anywhere, even in the grave, and
II this Catacomb show is over, and the
curtain has gone down, want to get out
OF here. and go to the Coliseum or the
Roman amphitheater, where the wild
beasts eat people alive" And so we left
the Catacombs and went back to town,
and dad began to show life again.
Say, you tell the folks at hons that
dad IL gaining every day, and his va
cation is doing him GOOD. He has PROM
ised to kill me for taking him to the
Catacomb show, but dad never harbors
revenge for long, and l guess yorr lit
tie nephew will pull through. I wish
had my skates. cause dad wants to e
to Russia. Yours,
HENNERY.
Willmar tribune., 1905-07-05
Aim in Life of William ZieSler. Jr., Is
to Realize Ambition Of His @.*.
Foster Father. >*~-~
YOUTH uNSP0|LED BY FABULOUS WEALTH
lnherits $30.000.00O Through Death of His
Uncle-Will Go Through College and Then
Take Up Arctic Exploration Slowly
Recovering from Serious Injury.

New 1ork.-Through the will of his
uncle 14-year-old boy has come into
fortune of $s0,0O0,000. The uncle is
William Ziegler, the millionaire manu.
1acturer of Noroton, Conn, baking
powder king and protector of arctic
expeditions, who died q short time
ago; the fortunate youth is William
Alegler, Jr., his adopted son.
Although but child in years. young
ziegler has been unspoiled by the sud
den inheritance of the fabulous wealth.
By the time he becomes of age the es-
tate will have grown to more than $40,-
100000. His income now is $1,000, 900
year. He is the richest boy of his
years in the world and he will be
among the worlds richest men.
The boy has been brought up to un-
derstand that he is the son of the man
who fitted out polar expeditions. His
books are volumes dealing with ad-
venture in the far north seas. He has
been made to understand that it was
always his fathers wish to have one of
his expeditions locate the north pole.
" S0ALA ANO o0AOACdp
To some 14-year-old boys q fortune
of $50, 900, 900 would be terrible hand
leap. To young Ziegler the money
promises to be anything but draw
back; for the boy, few in years though
he is, seems thoroughly to appreciate
his unique position, to understand the
responsibilities connected with the
possession Of so much wealth and,
what is infinitely better, to have
formed definite object in life, toward
the gaining Of which he proposes to
devote the millions left to him.
He Is manly little fellow, ambitious
to achieve heroic adventures. This is
an ambition which the cherished
dream of his foster father makes it
possible for him to realize. He begins
life now with millions and a mission,
for he is the boy who must discover
the north pole.
The task is not imposed upon him in
the will, nor is it even specified that
he must prosecute the search for the
Fiala expedition. lost in the frozen
north. But the boy is thoroughly i'm
bued with the spirit of the elder Zieg-
Ter, and even now regards the search
for the pole as his life work. -ssvsss
Thought Father His Uncle.
His father, George Brandt, whom he
has been taught all his life to believe
was his uncle, resides in Chicago
Brandt is half-brother to the elder
Ziegler. When the boy was a baby
his father gave him up to the Million
aire, then childless. The baby was le-
gally adopted, was called William Zieg-
Ter and did not know until the death of
his foster father that he was other
than William Ziegler's son.
The greatest care was taken with his
preliminary education, designed to fit
him for Columbia university. He will
Willmar tribune., 1905-07-05

be given a careful business as we'll q
a scientific education, 20 that he may
not only prosecute the biographical re-
searches instituted by the elder Will
liam Ziegler, but may also be fitted 60
look after the vast business interests
1ntrusted to HIM. -.
!, His home. until he is Of age, will be
with his foster mother, Mrs. E. Ma
tilda Ziegler. William J. Gaynor, a
Justice Of the supreme court, and Will
liam S. Champ, q trusted employe of
Mr.. Ziegler, will share with the widow.
the responsibility of directing the boys
education. He will spend his summers
In Noroton, and in the winter will re-
side in the Ziegler mansion in Fifth
avenue. He will not be cooped up and
held aloof from other boys Of his years,
but will be taught democracy asawell
as business integrity and scientific
truth. =, .fsc 4. z d s54 r ss.Sis
He is passionately devoted to Mrs.
]: :Ziegler. His own mother died when he
was a baby. and hir foster mother has
Willmar tribune., 1905-07-05

pie, when you get to Rome and see the
churches thicker than saloons in Mil
waukee, and everybody attending
church and looking pious: you catch the
fever, and try to forget bad things you
have done, and if you get chance 70
see the pope, you may 60 to his palace
just cause you want to see everything
that is going on, and you think you
don't care whether school keeps or not,
and you feel Independent, as though
this religion. was something for weak
people to indulge in, and finally you
come face to face with the pope, and
see his beautiful face, and his grand
eyes, and his every movement is full
of pious meaning, you "penuk" right
there, and want to kneel down and
let. him bless you. by gosh.
Say, ! z:nsycr saw dad weaken like
he did when the pope came in. We
got tickets to go to his reception, but
dad said he had rather go to the cata-
combs, or the lion show at the Coliseum.
He said he didn't want to encourage
popes, because he didn't believe they
amounted to any more than presiding
elders at home. He said he had al
ways been a Baptist, and they didn't
have any popes in his church, and he
didn't believe in '~ln, but some other
Americans were going to see the\pope,
and dad consented to 60, under protest,
it being understood that he didn't care
two whoops, anyway ~ 49,. =
: Well, sir, we went, and 1t was the
grandest thing you, ever saw. There
were guards by the thousand, beautiful
gardens that would make Central park
look like hay marsh, hundreds OF
people in church vestments, and an
air OF sanctity that we never dreamed;
jewels that are never seen outside the
pope's residence, and we lined up to see
the holy father pass. =
Gee, but dad trembled like dog
tied out in the snow, and the perspira-
ton stood out on his face, and he looked
sorry for himself. Then came the pro-
cession, all mobiles and great people,
and then there was q party Of pious
men carrying the most beautiful man
we ever saw on platform above us,
and it was the pope, and he smiled at
me, and the tears came to my eyes, and
l couldn't swallow something which
I s'pose was my sins, and then he looked
at dad, and held up one hand, and dad.
was pale, and there was no funny busi-
ness about dad any more, and then
they set the platform. down and the
pope sat in q chair, and those who want.
ed to went up to him, and he blessed
them. ==.s s>.zss ..,=: 5s . NJ ...
+ Say, for awhile dad dassent 60 up,
cause he thought the pope could see
right through him, and would know he
was ! Baptist, but the rest Of the Amer
leans were going up, and dad didn't want
to be eccentric, SO he. and L went up.
The pope put out his hand 20 dad, and.
instead q shaking II, as he would the
hand Qf any other man on earth. and
Willmar tribune., 1905-07-05
9fl1H Jn111111t1r frn11,
On!t1Hl1tt1{1tt111
BY DR.. ARNOLD c. KLEBs. ii
IS Chicago - .,.. " ( :->-

before other Consumption disease and the laws Of
Moses adapted for living. S'= .&# @"<
The laws Of Moses prescribe bathing abon and the washing OF
hands before eating The who have strictly followed
OF Moses have been by tuberculosis and only late
that the Jews have suffered much from the disease.
The Indians for exactly the opposite immune They
did not live in houses until advent
consumption known to them. y. --.. "~:.
Now that they have adopted of the habits of the
and retain habits that suited living houses they being
wasted by the disease
We are all houdweers Our lives passed necessarily
houses in them work Our problem properly
in houses and to prevent the disease. ~ ar+~..~
Willmar tribune., 1905-07-05

on my head now, and from this out I
would fight any boy twice my size that
ever said word against the pope and
his religion. When we got outside dad
says to me: "Hennery, don't you ever
let me hear of your doing thing that
would make the good man sorry ii he
was to hear about It," And we went to
our hotel and stayed all the afternoon,
and all night, and just thought of that
pope's angelic face, and when one of
the Americans came to our room and
wanted dad to play cinch, he was in
dignant, and said: II would as soon
think of robbing: child's bank" and
we went to bed, and if dad wasn't a con-
verted man, never saw one
Well, sir, trouble, and sorrow, and re-
ligion;;A don't last very long on dad The
next morning We talked things over, and
/ quoted all the Roman stun could
think of to dad, such as ''In that elder
day, to be Roman was greater than
a king" but before could think twice
there was a. commotion in the streets
and porter came and made us take of
our hats, because the king was riding
by, and we looked at the king, and dad
was hot. He said that fellow was moth
ing but a railroad hand, disguised in
uniform, and, by ginger, If we had seen
that king out west working on a rail-
road, with canvas clothes on, he would,
not have looked like king, on bet.
There was nothing but his good clothes.
that stood between the king and dago
digging sewers in Chicago.
After the king and his ninespots had
passed, dad said: when you are in
Rome, you must do as the Romans do,"
and he said he wanted to get that heavy
feeling off his shoulders, which he got
at the religious procession, and wanted
me to suggest something devilish that
we could do, and told him we better
go and see the "Catacombs." He want;
ed to, know If it was anything like "a
trip to Chinatown" or the "Black
Crook" and told him it was worse.
Then he asked me if there was much
low neck and long stockings in the
"Catacombs, and told him there was
plenty, and he said he was just ripe
to see that kind Of show, and so we
took a carriage for the 'Catacombs."
and dad could hardly keep still till we
got there. .-.
I I suppose l. ought to be killed for
fooling dad, but he craved for excite
ment, and he got it. The "Catacombs''
are where Roman citizens have been
Willmar tribune., 1905-07-05
MZMS 50 M

definite plans for reaching the north
pole?" he was asked. !" @-
> 1--WE talked over it many times and in
many.:ways. But thereSis nothing aD-
solutely certain about 1t, for people do
not know much about the geography
up there. BY the time I am ready to
60, though, there will be improvements
in ships and more will be known, so
that conditions will be different.
shall study all about it.. and follow
everything connected with Arctic dis
oovery.' -. e.: :. ~ --,. -. &c., -.
..."You have already reach much about
the north?" ;::..,S:<=s.s. :: j: .=z !.
!: II have read a great deal, all that
has been given to me; but most of
what I know have learned from my
father, who had studied the matter
thoroughly" . :..' ~ :
what good do you think the discoy-
cry of the pole would be for human
ity?" .... - =~s.' E.
Lots Of good. It might show us q
new passage in the northern seas, or
anything that is good for science is
good for everyone, anyway. Beside,
there would be the glory of doing what
50 many others have tried to do and
failed" w.. =
Will Go Through College. @ S., 8.
"1n the meantime, before you become
21, what are you going to do?" "A
eco to college. l am advanced
enough already, they say, to take the
preliminary examinations for Colum-
bia, but shall not be allowed to till
next year. Then, when am 16, hope
to enter and take a thorough course"
'"Your fortune-have you thought
what you will do with that?" !
"1t doesn't seem like. anything real
to me, for couldn't use much money,
anyway, could I? l: , suppose when. I
grow up will find I am very rich, and
then shall try to do as much good as
I can. How? In every way I can
think Of" .:......... y. -, H.. = =.
"You have not thought Of any CO.
reer? profession?" 49,, :.
. II don't know. should like to
write-and then I should like to be q
lawyer. But nothing that would stop
my going on the expedition to the
north pole" r.s: i. :. 81. -, ....-
Willmar tribune., 1905-07-05

buried for thousands of years, in graves
=hewn out of solid rock, and they are
petrified, and after they have laid In the
graves for q few hundred years, the.
mummified bodies are taken out and
stood UP in corners, If the bodies will
hang together, and If not the bones are
piled up around for scenery. .= e.
We had to take torches to go in, and
we wandered through corridors, gazing
at the remains, until dad asked one OF
the men with us what it all meant, and
the man said It was the greatest show
on earth. Dad began to think he was.
nutty, and when laughed. and said:
That is great" !" and clapped my hands,
and said Encore" !" dad stopped and
said 'Hennery. this is no leg show.
Willmar tribune., 1905-07-05

filled her. place with. complete devo-s
ton. His own father is simply Uncle
George" to him.
Suffers Severe Accident.
Since April 1, when young Ziegler
suffered from distressing accident, he
has been laid up. A few weeks ago he
had only bare chance to survive an
operation performed by one Of New
York's best known surgeons. To-day
the boy, always vigorous and strong,
is a. waste of the sturdy young fellow
who started pillow fight on April l
in his fathers home which since has
taken him to the operating table on
three different occasions.
On March 81 Ziegler came home with
two schoolmates in the Browning
school. The boys anticipated the COM
ing of All FOOLS day. Several jokes
had been planned for the benefit of
MIR. Ziegler's valet, The valet slept
in the room with the boys, on a cot
between the brass beds. The day had
hardly begun when Ziegler :awoke his
companions. The valet was asleep,
but he awoke quickly, victim of the
youthful jokers.
Ziegler grabbed pillow and the
fight began. The instigator of the
sham battle was soon exhausted and
sat on the edge of the cot to rest. One
of his friends jumped ON him. Ziegler
was severely torn by long iron hook
on the cot and fell wounded. From
that moment he has been i'll.
But health is gradually returning
the" cheeks thinned by suffering are
filing out and reddening, the .'boy'' is
forcing the invalid" into the back
ground. When he is we'll again he
will be the same willie" Ziegler, with
one difference-when his injury sent
him to bed and under the surgeons
knife, he was just 14-year-old lad,
with boyish thoughts and nothing to
do but enjoy himself; now he is Will
liam Ziegler, the possessor of colos-
sal fortune and "a a definite aim in
life. 1s-s>
Definite Aim in Life.
That aim is the discovery Of the
north pole, the quest that has cost so
many valuable lives from the time of
Sir John Franklin down to the days of
the Jeanette. The elory Of the pur-
pose has been pictured to the boy: he
has thought and read and talked of it
since the late William ziegler began
to be absorbed by it. And now, lying
on his bed in the little room that faces
the ocean, the boy watches the ships
sailing away. and pictures himself as
on one Of them, some day, with her
PROV pointed to the north.
There is something pathetic behind
all this. Yet pathos and romance have
governed the whole career of this lit
tie boy, who was not the child of the
man whom he knew as his father, ex-
cept by adoption. The baby was born
Willmar tribune., 1905-07-05
THE CARE OF LIVE STOCK.

1t is easy to make q horses shoulders.
sore in q very short time if he is COM:
PEELED to Wear q poorly fitting collar. u
The experiment of feeding molasses!
to horses has been found to be econom-i
acal and very effective in many cases.
A ranch in the Ponca reservation,
Lawton, Okla, has purchased from,
q half-breed Indian at Missoula, Mont, ),
. herd Of 20 fullblood buffaloes and win
maintain them for breeding Purposes. +.
6 1t is not = bad thing for man to know!
something about shoeing horses, even
II he does not expect to shoe horses him.
self. It will pay the farm boy In the.
agricultural college to take part of the
course in blacksmithinx.
Willmar tribune., 1905-07-05
FAMOUS FOR HoRsERADIsH:
Bavarian Village Has Reputation for:
Finest Farms in Europe-Its
Yearly Yield.

The little village of Baiersdorf, In
Bavaria, has the reputation of raising
the finest horse radish in Europe.
Over two square miles of land are de-
voted to this crop alone. and the an
nual receipts for the roots total over
$120,000. The average yearly yield Isl
in excess of 6,000,000 pounds. ~-s.
The land is annually plowed and,
made into ridges about 80 inches wide.:
The roots for planting are dug in;
March and are sprouted in moist sand.
When the season is well advanced
these sprouts are set in the soil. the
planter using a sharp stick to assist in;
the setting. Two rows, 16 to 20 inches
apart, are set on each ridge, the
plants being placed eight to ten inches
apart in the rows Before planting:
the little fibers attached to each root
are rubbed of by the hand OK with a
cloth. After the opening is made in
the soil the plants are set in obliquely
and the dirt we'll pressed down. :.
Soon the shoots form ana all OF
these except the strongest xre taken.
of. The ground is loosen ed by hoe
ing and the weeds destroyed. From the
middle OF June till the middle of July
on cloudy days the soil is uncovered:
from the stem and the side roots
rubbed off with soft rags. Care is
taken that the lower roots that nour-
ish the main roots are not disturbed:
In heavy soils this uncovering is neces-.
sary but once, while in light soils it
has, to be repeated once. After the
little fters have been removed the.
soil is again pressed on the roots and:
the beds are well watered, sometimes
with liquid manure.
Between the end of August and the
middle Of September the stalks are
cut off by means of a sickle like knife,
and the end roots are left in the
ground for the beginning ct the new
crop next year.
1t is not an easy matter to change
q horse-radish field to anything else,
as the smallest roots left In the soil de-
velop into full-grown plants If per-:
mitted to do so.-Farmers' Review.