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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09
LIVES DUAL LIFE u YEARS
University Athlete. Lost in 1894 Liy.
ing as laborer in Indiana

Madison, Wis.-After being mourn.
ed as dead for Il years Charles Nc.
Gee Williams, the famous pitcher who
disappeared in Chicago in 1894. has
been found at Merrillville, Ind.
He has been living there since July.
1894, as an ordinary workman. He is
married and owns his own home.
According TO Williams story he
suffered mental alteration when hs
mysteriously disappeared from hotel
in Chicago. Williams said:
On July 6. 1894. | suddenly found
myself in Hammond. Ind ! had no
recollection Of how | got there, and it
was only by asking strangers that
found where | was and what day OF
the month and year it was. l began
to trudge away without purpose. and
found myself some days later here il
Ierrillyille."
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09
MAINE LOGGER HAS NARROWING
EXPERIENCE AFTER TAKING
DRINK IN A BROOK.
SOME COLD WEATHER TALES
Trout Pond Froze Up Solid-Cow's
Tail, Too, Froze in Trough and
Had to Be Chopped
Out

Ashland Melt certainly does get
cold In Maine now and then and as
the wind occasionally blows at the
rate Of 40 miles an hour when the
mercury is between 80 and 40 degrees
below zero, it seems colder than it is
John Pierce says that up in the
Stevens logging camp it stayed cold
so long last week that small
trout pond near the job froze solid
and the men were able to chop out all
the fish the camp needed. Some Of
the trout dug into the mud to save
themselves, but this also froze. So
intensely cold We're the fish that they
cooled pail of scalding water with
out limbering up,
When Long jim Weston came in
the other day with his whiskers off
and his hair still down to his Shout
ders, folks thought it queer until he
explained Jim said that few nights
ago he drove against head wind to
get a doctor and that 1t was this trip
which cost him his luXuriant beard.
AZ was dDoul ~ DCloW LSio, put hC
thought little of this as his fur coat
and whlskers kept him warm. He
was jogging along at fair rate when
he began to get amazing thirsty. This
was because he ate salt mackerel for
supper.
Finally he could stand it no longer
and, coming to a brook, he got out of
his sleigh, bent over and took long
drink. Then he got back into the
sleigh and drove along. 1t wasn't
many minutes before his whiskers
felt stiff and putting his hand to his
face he found that they had dipped
into the brook and frozen solid. This
didn't bother him because he knew he
could thaw them out He would have
IT, while hitching his horse, the doc.
tors dog hadn't started the animal,
The horse ran, Bill pitched forward
on his face and the brittle whiskers
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09
Gift Is Discussed in Europe.

Discussion over the gift has spread
to Europe The Worlds Paris cores.
pondent III special cable despatch
said
The Rockefeller gift has excited
establishment in the French press.
Several studies Of his temperament
have been published in which the
writer's seek for reasons which
prompted the giving away of such an
enormous sum. One editor suggests
gests that all American millonaires
tremble in dread Of laws that may
rob them of their wealth.
THE American temperament so
the article continues, is FESTIVE
against great accommodations, and this
enormous bequest is intended to staye
off public action or the individual act
of murderous jealousy and envy.
Still another writer says that Mr.
Rockefeller wants to be talked about
for other than financial distinc ion
He cannot do anything great for lack
of cultivation He has no art collec-
tons or intellectual pursuits about
which the public hear, therefore he
makes his money talk
THE Petit Parisien, however, takes
a more generous view, believing that
Mr. Rockefeller, unlike French mil
lionaires, feels deeply that great
wealth imposes duties upon its pos
SCISSOR and in pure justice is doing
his best to acQuit himself"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09
Rockefeller's $32,000,0O0
Gift to Education

ers would quickly sum up to the edu-
cational gift figures.
Would Paw interest on National Debt.
Some Of the things that $4,000, 900
would do in making history illustrate
strkingly the power Of individual
wealth. That much money would pay
for the running of the governments or
Denmark and Greece combined for a
year, countries that maintain royal
families that are related to nearly all
the thrones Of Europe, 1t Is several
millions more than the annual rev
enue Of either Norway or Mexico, and
far exceeds the income Of lot OF
second-rate nations. With it he could
pay the interest for year on the ma
tional debt OF the United States. In
1856 this gift would have lquidated
the nations entire national debt.
Even now by little more than doub-
ling the amount Mr.. Rockefeller could
render Norway financially free and
perhaps win the Nobel peace prize.
Mr. Carnegie believes that books af'
ford the best education The best
books that were ever written, those
OF the kind that are found In Sir John
Lubbocks list of one hundred best
books, can be published and sold to-
day for % cents each. Eight Of such
volumes would cost two dollars. Mr..
Rockefellers gift would place such a
nucleus of an education In the hands
of every child Of school age In the
United States, or it would place them
as library in possession Of every fam
lily In the country.
1t costs about $40 a year to educate
a child in the public schools Of small
communities The interest alone on
the Rockefeller donation amounts, at
five per cent, to $1,000 900 year
That sum would give education each
year to 10000 children. It would more
than pay the entire cost of teaching
New York City's 100000 children for
a year.
Turning aside from educational fig
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09

Mr.. Rockefeller's gift, said: TT Is An
anchor to the w1ndward against the
time when an aroused people will
curtail the privileges Of public service
corporations. The gift was not in
cash. Most likely 1t was railway ~
curities. Every one of these is q
mortgage against the future. Some
day it will develop, perhaps that the
special privileges which these rail.
roads enjoy will be threatened.
1t will result in q sudden squeez.
ing of the water out of these stocks.
Then there will go up CRY that these
great educational interests, dependent
upon the returns from these securi.
ties, are being threatened. There will,
be talk, also, of what the widows and
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09

toward the curtain, Then, when with.
in few feet of the window, Mrs
Gaffney sprang upon the intruder She
did not stop to pull aside the curtain,
but getting a half Nelson hold about
the mans neck. she jerked him wrap.
ped in the curtain, TO the middle Of
the room
The mans feet were entangled in
the curtain, and he fell 10 the floor
Before he could free himself. Mrs
Gaffney bound the curtain about him
Finding it useless TO resist, the in.
truder tried TO convince Mrs. Gaffney
that he was not a burglar But she
was too intent upon tying him up in
the curtain to listen. To keep him
quiet she showed the end OF the cur.
tain into his mouth.
Having made a portable bundle az
her visitor. Mrs Gafney carried him
20 the front door There she waited
until Policeman Ctaucey OF the Fifth
avenue station appeared Mrs Can
ney said to him
Here policeman is a burglar for
You ] inst caught him In the house.
The prisoner on finding himself in
the a7Z1s OF the policeman pulled the
wai q curtain from his mouth
Yes, he said take ne with YOU
s-el safe now
Ar the police station the man denied
a. be vas a burglar
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09
WRAPS UP BURGLAR;
HANDS HIM TO POLICE
ATHLETIC BROOKLYN WOMAN
BUNDLES INTRUDER IN FOLDS
OF A CURTAIN.

New York.-Mrs. Mary Gaffney of
Brooklyn, has not forgotten the physi-
cal training she received when she
was a member of the basketball team
of the girls high school So when
she saw a man hiding behind a curtain
in her parlor the other morning she
did not faint or run away.
Instead, Mrs. Gaffney, without let.
ting her visitor see that he had been
discovered, began to shift the chairs
about until she gradually moved over
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09

hired man had cut in the trough just
before the dog got loose and while
the animals were standing there the
water froZe solid.
Finally the dog tried flank move
ment and the COWS turned suddenly.
AS they turned Hen saw that they
were moored SO securely by the tails
that if he didn't hurry they would
drag off the trough He got an axe
and cut out the tails just in time TO
save the frantic COWS from injuring
themselves. Hen says it was only 30
below when this happened He has
seen it go to AZ.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09
FROZE BEARD;
BREAKS IT OFF

broke off close to his chin. A few
spears on the sides were saved, but
he had to cut them off to match the
rest Of his face.
When Hen" Carson heard this
story he told of an incident he feared
to relate before because he thought
no one would believe it. He bought
new dog at Christmas and next
morning found it worrying couple OF
COWS in his barnyard. The bovines
were backed up to the watering
trough. where with lowered heads
they made passes at the dog. Their
tails sunk through an ice hole the
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09

and from which he made his wealth,
owns or controls nearly all the re
hneries in the country
What Gift Means in Labor,
The census report says that the av-
.rage wages paid ia oil rednercs
10 able.bodted men over is years OF
age in 1899 was S551 year. o. trihe
over sic n week Dealing with the
matter of labor alone in the accumu.
lauon of these lhirty.lwo millions 1t
would require the uuremurug work
OF ~ army OF 5Il5o men Swing all
their wages to Mr. Rockef,llar lnr
one whole year at the average rate
Standard on men We're paid TO- make
UP his gift
That would be cQuNaIvu. 10 aI tho
workingmen In PruNidcnCr or KAN
sas City or Rochcstcg turning over
their wages for 4 year to Mr. Rookie
feller-a whole city working for him
30 that this gift might hc occumu
lated.
The production OF crude petroleum
In the United states in 1905, The la
est year for which statistics arc avail
able, was approximately lIoneoo0l
barrels 4 triflinE difference OF -
cents per barrel. or about one hall
cent per gallon. on this outp, woull
make up the gift IN a single Year
The standard is not 50 much a pro
ducer of petroleum RS ii is a refine
ard seller 1t buys from oil."eiI oWn
ers most OF its raw product and IKE
the price. which tiGetdates CONSIDERS
bly. Therefore SO slight reduchoi
as one-half cent per gallon In IN
amount the Standard pays y produ'
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09
China Seeks Customs Duties

China has received from Japan
$1,000 GOO Of the customs collections
made q, Newchwang during the Jan.
anese occupation Of that city. and IS
nov seeking to recover from Russia
ne similar collection made during ths
Russian occupation. amounting %
nearly 5. 500 00n
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09

That Sum Could Support in Com
fort 3O4, 762 Persons for Ono
Year, Could Build Homes for
100. 900, Could Pay One Years
Interest on the National Debt,
and Could Provide for All the
Yearly Expenses of the Gov
ernments of Denmark and
Greece Combined.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09
j. G. Phelps Stokes Ideas.

While | am not prepared to dis
cuss olfhand how | would dispose of
so vast sum, | certainly would not
give it to public charity. | would
regard the doing out of $%2 600 900
In aims as calamity | do not APP
prove of extensive charity. 1t accom-.
plishes no permanent results in re
lieving poverty, without removing it's
cause. Education alone will do that,
and this gift to higher education will
affect the poor in that it will work
to create a keener appreciation OF jus
tiCe
1T is unfortunate, however that
the suspicion should attach 10 This
gift for the purpose OF leading men to
the truth that men who dare teach
the truth as they see ii may find their
chairs in colleges vacated.
Should that money be given to hos
pitfalls. you ask? | should say no.
would have the hospitals supported
by the state. Disease is the result
of conditions created by man. And
TO have the individual turn around
and give back to society part of the
money he has wrung from it TO allevi-
ate the conditions he himself has ere
ated is homogeneous That is the
function of the state,
Education is the only hope for the
relief of the conditions OF the poor.
Until man is taught the rights of his
fcllow.man and learns to respect
them conditions will continue as they
are Under present social conditions.
gifts to education are the best way OF
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09
Tom Johnson's Opinion,

On the other hand the motives
prompting such a Eit, are questioned
BY many people ot advanced ideas
Mayor Ten l. johnson o. Cleveland.
himself a man Of wealth speaking ol
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09

New York. --Thirty-two million dol
lars for education' This latest gift
OF John d. Rockefeller so overtops
anything ever known in the line OF
philanthropic giving that it requires
some Analysing to comprehend the
vastness OF the sum. In recent years
the American people have had their
financial sense Of proportion unduly
expanded by talk Of millions tossed
about to various institutions.
1t is worth while to look first into
the enormous amount of labor requir-
cd 10 produce this sum which Mr.
Rockefeller Is able to give away, says
the New York World. The United
States census report for 4 900 contains
some statistics upon oil retlneries
The Standard Oil company, Of which
Mr. Rockefeller is titular president
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09

Views the Great Gift
Win Only Partial approval;
Mayor Tom L. johnson Says
IT'S An Anchor Cast to Wind
ward Against the Time that
PcopIe Will Become Aroused:
the French Press, Astonisbcd
at Its Size, Differ as TO tho
Motives for II.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09

sum would do wonders. It's mere
interest income, amounting TO $4,323
day. would forever feed Fleisch
man bread line Of S6,5S0 men, giving
one loaf Of bread every night That
line would extend not merely around
Grace church, as at present, but %
miles up Broadway to Tarrytown.
Would Build Another Subway.
1t could build another subway in
New York city like the present one,
the most marvellous railway in the
world, carrying more passengers in
day than many great lines do in six
months. 1t could construct trunk
line from New York 1890 miles west
ward to Kansas City, at the rate Of
$4,000 mile, which is all that roads
cost under normal conditions.
The things that could be done for
the material benefit Of humanity with
the sum Of 1872 100000 are of great
number The question arises whether
the money might have been better APP
piled to some of them.
Mr. w. II. Maliock, the eminent
English antagonist of socialism, was
asked how he regarded Mr.. Rockefel-
ler's bequest.
'To pass any competent opinion on
piness would require careful study"
he replied. Such an enormous gift
so overtops anything We have had in
England that | hardly know how to
gauge 1t.
'ln one sense | should say that the
individual who by extraordinary abil-
ity and talent makes a great fortune
would do better not to attempt giving
it away himself, but pass that duty
on to his sons. His genius has been
that of work and money.making. The
sons would not necessarily be brought
up in the same line Of accumulation.
They could devote their time and tai
ent, therefore, better to the question
of proper distribution.
Mr.. Carnegie's requests to librar-
les have produced much criticism in
England because Of the burdens he
imposes on the taxpayers. In this
respect the giving failed Of due appre-
citation.
Gift Should Benefit Labor, Too.
You ask me how | should have
liked to see this bequest of Mr. Rookie
felers applied differently? / cannot
answer, as | have not examined it full
~. TO a certain extent | would have
the phlanthropic gifts so made as to
benefit labor as well as education,
For example. a gift that would enable
the excavations of Herculaneum and
other buried cities to be uncovered
would afford not only labor but in
crease our sum of knowledge.
Whether such enormous donations
will affect the theory of socialism is
a question yet to be answered. In
one form 1t certainly is distribution
of wealth. The scale on which it is
being conducted In the United States
fairly bewilders one"
Socialism views the Rockefeller be-
quest with partial approval as a
means toward the end it desires j.
G Phelps Stokes, one of the party
leaders, said:
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09

orphans are in danger of losing. A
condition will be presented that may
have protective effect for the cor
porations involved"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09

sum would do wonders. It's mere
interest income, amounting TO $4,323
a day, would forever feed Fleisch-
man bread line Of $3.50 men, giving
one loaf of bread every night. That
line would extend not merely around
Grace church, as at present, but %
miles up Broadway to Tarrytown.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09

and from which he made his wealth.
owns or controls nearly all the re
hneries in the country.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-09

ers would quickly sum up to the edu-
cational gift figures.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-05-10
BARRE TEAM STOLEN
Officers Looking for en- Italian Who HAS
Gone 10 pisttsburs.

Barre, May "a man named A..
Ponuzi hired q team OF Palm Bros.
Tuesday afternoon saying he was 90.
Ing 10 Montpelier and would be back
early 10 the evening. As the man did
not return when expected the matter
was reported TO Deputy Sheriff II. J..
Slsyton who found that the man had
been 10 JonesvIlle, where he exchanged
the team for another. lie went by
train 10 wlnooski and telephoned back
for the team.
IL is thought that he took the team
W Plat,sburg on the steamer. The
Plattsburg officers have been notified
and IL Is probable that Mr. Slsyton
will 20 there In pursuit Of the property
which Is valued at $500.
Pounzi Is an Italian who came from
Rhode Island recently and had WORKED
In Montpelier.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-05-10
ELEcTslc ROAD SOLD
Barre and Montpelier Traction Co. Changes
Hands

| HANDS.
Montpelier, May 9.--The property OF
the Barre & Montpelier Traction Co.
has been sold TO Frank NJ. Cory. Il.
II. Deavitt and |. NJ. Frost. Mr. Cory
Is president OF the First National bank
has been mayor OF the city for three
terms aud Is one OF the most prominent
business men OF the city. Edward II
Deavltt Is state treasurer. M Frost
Is an electrician and until the sale Of
the ]. 3. viles Electric Co.'S plant, was
its manager.
The deal was closed yesterday, when
the deal was closed with j. j. Finn
and A. o. Humphrey OF Burlington,
majority stockholders. The price paid
Is not announced but II is thought to
be betweeff 500. 900 nd 1850, 900. Pos.
session will not be given until July |
BY this deal the purchasers will con
roll the electric road between Barre
and this city, nine and one.third miles
long, the Dewey Park property, the
Kinney mills W. ter rights on the road
10 East Montpelier. They will control
practically all the capital stock, shares
valued at few thousand dollars be
Ing held by Barre parties.
A franchise 10 build the road was
granted 10 the Consolidated Lighting
company In 1892 and the charter was
amended In 1896. A company was or
ganized In 1897 and the road was built
and was opened June ~, 1898. Itcost
about ESQ, 900 The receipts have 10.
Gre ased from year to year, the gross
receipts last year being between $40.
900 and s5o, 900. II is said. No divi
dends have been paid, all the profits be
Ing put into permanent improvements.
THIS policy will be continued 10y the
new owners. This Is consi dered the
sec ond best piece OF electric road In
the state, the Burlington Fraction Co.'S
line being classed as the best.
The fumors that the road was pur.
chased for the Consolidated Lighting
Co. aud for other parties as a specula
ton, has been denied
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-05-10
NORTH BENNINGTON.

Last evening the chimney at the car
barn OF the n 4 Ma railway caught
ahre. The Gre company was called
ont and the Gre ex,inguised before auy
damage was done.
A. the annual meeting Of the Up
sorth League last evening the follov
Ing officers we're elected. President,
Mrs Earl w. Lewis; ist vice pres.
Miss Ida j. White, snd vice pres Mrs
W. Il. White, Ord. Miss Hope a LYON
4 h, Mrs John Davis; secretary, II. G.
Armstrong; treasurer. Mrs J. j. Brlm
mer; organist, HiramJ J. White.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-05-10
HIGH PRICES FOR JEwELRY.
Sseoad Hand Dsslu Planned 10 ssks Q Good
Profit.

The Knights OF PythIas watch charm
belonging 10 $. A. Burt and which
Was 10 the jewelry she's case at Bur,
Brothers store on the night that Bur
glar Charles 0alusha made his arsi
visit. was recovered At Troy from the
second hand dealer TO whom the thief
had disposed Of his plumber. This IL
the second time that the piece has been
stolen aud recovered.
The Troy second hand man had 90
eye 70 business. In the stolen jewelry
there we're . lot OF cut buttons vhlcl
Burt Brothers had been selling for q
cents q pair. When recovered Il va,
found that the prices on these goods
had been marked up 10 sl.76 and s2oC
a pair. Inasmuch as the Troy MAI
had bought al. the jewelry and I've
suits OF clothes for 81 he was planning
~ mako fairly good profit.