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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-10-26
CAp7AlW &. De CHANDLER AND nc NcCOr
IN THE BASKET. JLtj7 BEFORE. THE A5CENOlON

unlikely that, before congress appro-
PIRATES very much money for balloons
its members will call for persons and
papers" and then the cat wiN be out
Of the bag.
There is no disposition to go too
rapidly in the purchase of dirigible
balloon, for the reason that Capt.
Chandler, who is to become one of the
chief instructors in military aero
nautics, is just now taking his first
lessons in actual "ballooning." His
instructor is Leo Stevens.
Army officers who are interested in
the development of the balloon as an
agent of warfare have encountered an
obstacle in the disposition of the pub.
lie to question the practicability of
military aeronautiCs. This is prob
ably because the American really
knows very little about balloons.
When it is remembered that as long
ago as the siege of Paris the inhabi-
tants of the French capital were en-
abled by means of balloons to COM
muncate with the forces outside the
walls, doubts about the utility of TIE
balloon in time of war should vanish.
More than 20 balloons during that
memorable siege carried dozens of
passengers, tons of mail and hundreds
of carrier pigeons from the city to
were returned to the besieged people
with valuable information about the
movements of the enemy.
In a recent communication to the
war department from Europe, where
he has been gathering valuable inior-
nation on the subject of militar. aero
nautics as practiced in continental
armies, Lieut.. Lahm sounds a np:e of
warning: 1--WE should not fail to APP
preciate the necessity of preparedness
the earth, and when our next war
comes we should not be found want
ing in this particular branch of mill.
tary science"
Germany is at the present time
conducting very elaborate expert.
ments in the use of balloons for mill.
tary purposes, and this branch of mill
tary science has received attention in
the annual manoeuvers of the French
army for the last six years. It was
interesting to observe that in the in.
ternational aerOuautic race of last
year six of the sixteen balloons en-.
tered carried regular army officers,
either as pilots or as assistants. ard
to-day practically all European armies
have their balloon corps.
In the course to be given at Fort
Omaha II Is proposed to instruct the
balloon division not only in the art
of making ascenSiOns, but In the
quickest methods Of initiating. of un.
packing the balloon from the wagon
and Of towing ii, once it is inflated
until the oppOrtune time for making
the ascension arrives, In short it will
be the effort Of Capt Chandler, OF
Lieut., Lahm, and our other military
acr0nauts, to develop a regular form
Of balloon drills, and in time a drill
book giving the various manccuvers
OF imitation how to prepare for ascen.
sions, how to handle the delicate an
purteuaucos that make up tho com.
plete balloon outfit
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-10-26

the simplest of felt outing hats has
gone up peg
1t is the most fatal Of all economies
20 invest in cheap hat. The price
need not he high, but the velvet or felt
should be of the best for then q wet
ting will not injure it, dust may be
readily brushed from it, it retains it's
color and is always satisfactory. Bet
ter have an expensive foundation and
little trimming than good trimming
soft French ones are the only first.
class fclts. In outing hats where a
stiff felt is required, one often has to
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-10-26

S long
a
stitching
face cloth silk
a
bright velvet collar
tuness of the below the Then
brang while the skirt its peangs
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-10-26

City and Country Air.
city air contains Il times as many
microbes 40 that Of the cogntcy.
Willmar tribune., 1907-03-06

That answer is not very clear. for
we do not know very we'll what sleep
is. You will find nowhere a more
beautiful description of the popular:
idea Of somnambulism than in Shake
speare's tragedy of Macbeth, Mod
ern examples are much less dramatic,
but you will let me cite few which
have come under-m observation:
There is a young woman, 20 years ,alr,.
old, whom I will cali Glib. She heard
one day that her niece, who lived next
door, had thrown herself out of the,
window IN q fit Of delirium. She,
rushed downstairs and was confronted
with the sight Of the body In the
street After the first shock she
seemed to be but little moved. q 81 pre-.
pared the body for the funeral and
was quiet and calm. But from that
time on she grew more and NOR more i
gloomy. Nearly every day now she
enters into 4 strange trance. . she
seems as II asleep and she speaks
softly to her niece, calling her by5
name, Pauline She tells &helr. that she
fadmires her courag q that her death,
was 81 beautiful one She rises, goes
AZ the window, pens II and. sif Her 81.
1a1 1fr1iends 81 she eaHonld 81 ur.11 q
Willmar tribune., 1907-03-06

in the United States in 1905, the lat
est year for which statistics are avail
able, was approximately 140,000,000
barrels. A trifling difference of %
cents per barrel, or about one-half
cent per gallon, on this output would
make up the gift in single year.
The Standard is not so much a pro-
ducer of petroleum as it is refiner
and seller. 1t buys from oil-well own
ers most of it's raw product and fixes
the price, which luctuates considera-
bly,. Therefore so slight reduction
as ,one-half cent per gallon in the
amount the Standard pays to produc-
ers would quickly sum up to the edu-
cational gift figures.
Would Pay Interest on National Debt.
Some of the things that $32 1000 900
would do in making, history illustrate
strikingly the power of individual
wealth. That much money would pay
for the running of the governments of
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 liquidated
the nations entire national debt.
Even now by a little more than doub.
Willmar tribune., 1907-03-06
PROFITABLE DIPLOMACY.

:. Doctor" said the lady, addressing
the struggling young oculist, there is
something the matter with my eye.
l wish you would give me- a thorough
examination" = ..s%' 3, = i. (
After she had undergone the vail
Gus tests she turned anxiously to the
specialist and asked him what he had
discovered. III. : :. 1@:.ss,..s- l:.se-I
1 II find that you: are afflicted with, q
very common ailment," he replied. Tn
fact, nearly all people have, it when
the get along about your r. !.
Then he suddenly paused and pull
ed himself together, after which he
continued: IS '; = t;*.l,s 49, 5z>.E y. > :.
E335 AZ I was about to say, nearly
everybody has it in a greater or less
degree, according to the circum-
stances. The trouble is in the optic
nerves. I can easily remedy it, with
glasses. There was q time, you know,
when the wearing Of glasses was sup.
posed to indicate age, but that fool
.ish notion has been & wholly cleared
away AS q matter Of fact. SO per
cen. Of our school children really
ought to- be Wearirx glasses. 4 III ~ 8
Willmar tribune., 1907-03-06

l+
doubtedly throw herself into the
street. - > u f. !. "; y.
Another case, woman IS years
+ old, who was frightened by a lioness
at the zoo.5 She was thrown into de-
liriun,: which lasted eight. days, and
since then she repeats these fits tof
#delirium. She walks i on L all 3:s fours,
srushes on people, tries to bite them,
even seizes photographs Of children
and +chews them up, and acts altogeth-
er as if she were q lioness. }@.so.. s..Ss,z
1s There Els 4 man of so, with both
legs paralyzed. who has been. an in
valid for years. In the middle Of the
night he rises slowly from his bed,
takes his pillow and hugs. 1t close,
walks out OF the room, through Il 3
courtyard and climbs to. Tie top ysof
the house. His friends have difRculty+
81 reach ching him, for the moment he
Sawakes his legs become paralyzed
again. When awakened he does not
nderstand how he has reached the
4housetop and why ne, q. man sick with
palsy, should have been carried there.
gain, there is Il girl, made iflllzWith
despair &C s,helr mot 4r,s deatt Il They
liyyadsinsa garrett and for two months
5sbeter thes moth 81 death the girls MAS
Willmar tribune., 1907-03-06

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
Lubbock's list of one hundred best
books, can be published. and sold to-
day for rs cents each. Eight of such
volumes would cost two dollars. Mr..
Rockefeller's gift would place such u
nucleus Of an education in the hands
of every child of school age in the
United States, or it would place them
as a 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 $1,6O0,0O0 a year.
That sum would give education each
year to so, 900 children. It would more
than pay the entire cost of teaching
New York City's 100000 children for
a year. .;y .-.-~-
Turning aside; from educational fig
ures,, a subject on. which Mr.. Rookie.
feller'ss general education board has
all manner OF. statistics there are
some essential practical things. that
his thirty-two millions would do: For
example, it costs, even at present high
prices, about $4,000 to build house
in Brooklyn with all modern convent
ences and of sufficient size to contain
two families OF five persons each.
Technically these are known. as two
Willmar tribune., 1907-03-06
dynwoHld Fsischman


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-
Rockefeller is able to give away, says
the New York World The United
States census report for 1900 contains
some statistics upon oil refneries.
The Standard Oil company, of which
Mr.. Rockefeller is titular president
owns or controls nearly all the re-
fneries in the country
What Gift Means in Labor.
The census report says that the av.
erage wages paid in oil reineries
to able-bodied men over 16 years OF
age in 1899 was s557 year, or trife
over $40 a week. Dealing with the
matter of labor alone, in the accumu-
1ation of these thirty-two millions it
would require the unremitting work
of an army of 57,450 men giving all
their wages to Mr. Rockefeller for
one whole year at the average rate
Standard Oil men We're paid to make
, up his gift. =
= That would be equivalent to all the
fworkingmen in Providence or Kan
sas City or Rochester turning over
their wages for year to. Mr.. Rookie
feller-a whole city working for him
so that this gift might be accumu-
lated. ~. ,..%& .t:.- ,e.x
The production >of crude petroleum
Willmar tribune., 1907-03-06

"Oh, doctor. do you believe it as bad
as; that? Please give me your prescrip-
ton as soon as it is convenient, and
shall take pleasure in recommending
you to all my friends. That idiotic
doctor across the hall tried to make
me believe that my trouble was due to
my years. Really, I new"
Surely, madam, he must have been
testing. No oculist who knew the least
thing about his business could make
such an absurd mistake"
+ Before go let me hand you my
check. I will sign it in blank. and you
may fill it out as you think proper.
Good-by. I'm SO glad you were recon-
mended to me. Chicago Record-Her
aid. r. Z. I
Willmar tribune., 1907-03-06
= 80 3{' q q - q q s.t.y
CatchWorde Of the Traveller.


FL OF the many children and women in
Nazareth, Palestine, who have picked
up little English, all have a way Of
saying :of course instead of . simple
yes. s.. The expression. which French
people catch up as characteristic* Of
! the = ., American and Eng glishman is al
ways t.oh, syes!!'' Ass correspondent.
Who has cycleds down the Rhone val
ley, about Provence, and along q: the
Rivera, found himself greeted with
''Oh,,S yes! ~ BY b the children III the.
streets of nearly every And he
iscovered, when his attention had
been called to- the point il this way.
thai l,a pa, yes. ii IS really what he
and hisscom ll q panloh i we're ways say,
Willmar tribune., 1907-03-06

under great strain, tending; her moth.
5er and earning her living at the sew.
II ing machine. After the old lady's
death the girl<tried storevive the body,
lifting it to: a sitting position and ap.
pealing to it. She now has the singu'
lar habit of acting these scenes over
again while ina somnambulistic state.
NO actress could rehearsea these lug
ubrious 10 scenes with such perfection. u
Willmar tribune., 1907-03-06

SO vast q sum, certainly would not
give At to pubic charity. = would
regard sthe doing out 81 $50 ;0O0, 900
in aims as a calamity. { / do not APP
prove of extensive charity. It accom-
plishes no permanent results in re-.
=lieving poverty, without removing its
cause. Education alone will do that,
and this gift to higher education will
affect the poor in that it., will work
to create keener appreciation Of JUS
tice. -. :.
:. 1T is unfortunate, however, that
the suspicion should attach to this
gift for the, purpose of leading men to
Willmar tribune., 1907-03-06
Cynical,

Permit me to ask you; madam" I"
said the lawyer, who was friend OF
the family, "your real reason for want.
ing divorce from your husband?"
He isn't the man I thought was
marrying explained the fair caller.
.."My dear madam" ,rejoined the law.
yer, "the application of that principle
would, break up: every home in. the
country. Chicago Tribune.
Willmar tribune., 1907-03-06

the truth, that men who dare teach
the truth as they see it may find their
chairs in colleges vacated.
"Should that money be given to hos
pitals, you ask? I should say no. l
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 incongruous. 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
fellow-man and learns to respect
them, conditions will continue as they
are. Under present social conditions,
gifts to education are the best way OF
disposing of these vast accumulations
of wealth.
Tom Johnson's Opinion.
prompting such gift are questioned
by many people of advanced ideas.
Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland,
himself man of wealth, speaking OF
Mr.. Rockefeller's gift, said: 1T is an
anchor to the windward against. the
time when an aroused people will
curtail the privileges of public-service
corporations. The gift was not in
cash. Most likely it was railway Sc.
curities. Every one of these is a
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 a 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
orphans are in danger; of losing. ;. A
condition will be presented that may
have protective effect for the cor.
pOratlOnS involved.
Gift Is Discussed in Europe.
I Discussion over the gift has spread
to Europe. The Worlds Paris cores.
pondent, in special cable despatch
said: -
'The Rockefeller gift. has excited
astonishment 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
piety as the cause and another sug.
gests that all American millionaires
tremble in dread of laws that may
rob them of their wealth.
THE American temperament, SO
the article continues, is restive
against great accumulations, and this
enormous bequest is intended to stave
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 distinction
He cannot do anything great for lack
of cultivation. He has no art collec
.tions or intellectual pursuits about
which the public hear, therefore he
makes his money talk.
"The Petit Parisien, however, takes
more generous view, believing that
Mr.. Rockefeller, unlike French mil
lionaires, feels deeply that great
wealth imposes duties upon it's pos
SCISSOR and in pure justice is doing
his best to acquit himself"
Willmar tribune., 1907-03-06
Did You Ever Hear ~

Edith (the heroine)-And can you
forgive me?. -
George (the hero)-'can you ask, my
darling? ts.% :
Edith-George! 80. y =.
George - g.
lNote This dialogue Is printed for
the benefit Of the man who really
wants to hear the last line of q play.]
Puck.
Willmar tribune., 1907-03-06

Would give every one Of the 5000, 900
families families in the United States eight best
G. Phelps Stokes, one of the party
leaders, said: -: -.
a.- -. -. IL. y j.,
J: 6. Phelps Stokes Ideas. +" :, ::
while I am not prepared to dis
cuss off-hand how would dispose. of
Willmar tribune., 1907-03-06

That sun' Could Support in Com
sdort 304;762@ Persons for Ono
Year, Con1d 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 Conlbined.
Willmar tribune., 1907-03-06

New York.-Thirty-two million dol
of John D. Rockefeller so overtops
anything ever known in the line of
philanthropic giving that it requires
some analyzing to comprehend the
vastness of the sum. In recent years,
Willmar tribune., 1907-03-06

Socialism Views the Great Gift
With Only Partial approval;
Mayor Tom l.. Johnson Says
1t Is An Anchor Cast to Wind
ward Against the Time that
People Will Become Aroused:
the French Press, Astonished
at Its Size, Differ as to tho
Motives for It.
Willmar tribune., 1907-03-06

nalist, lectured before the Kristiania
Women's Peace Society, and his re-
| marks were often interrupted by ap-
plause. Mr.. Stead thought the de-,
| velopment Of aerial navigation, would
tend to put an end. to all wars,
The stockholders Of, the Ho1efoa
| pulp factory received, a diyidend OF
ten per cent for the past year. !.
i" Ptarmigans (ryper) have been quite
numerous. in Jaderen this winter. j.,
Agnete Olsdatter Vereide, of .Glop-
pen, near sStavanger is over 107 years
old. She is blind and almost deaf, and
her mental powers are also dull, For
many years she has been .nursed by
a relative at Mardal. 1. :.
Some people seem to be IN favor Of
making the seventeenth Of May a pub
/ lie holiday, but the farmers and many
business men are opposed to the pro-
posed change. .c@sE:.o r. Z e.H:* ~ -:
r. st. Johannes congregation, Lavan-
ger, has commenced to publish a news
paper. for its own members -
| Arne Garborg will soon publish a
new book in defense of another book.
Jesus Messiah e$ ~. @%%S * r..
lars Skefsrud, the celebrated mis-
sionary in Santhaltstan. India, intended
to visit. Norway next summer. but he
has announced that he is so over
whelmed with: work that he cannot 60
to Edifop Sfor the next two years. + +
Carl Johan Bjornson, q Kristiania
sea- captain, has been made a knight
i Of the first class Of the order OF St
Olaf, on account Of brave deeds. s.
81 Miss Dr. Karoline steen of Kris,
tiania has accepted a position at the
ladies' normal school at Soro. Den-
mark. s5 d; Ii 4 q s;
An electric raj ilway IS to- be Il built
! from the carbide factory at odda g
1.-The. nearest seaport. II 81,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-30
W omANcELLoRsvILLE.

Tho description Of the battle at
Charlottesville, as given In the RE-
minisccnces" of Carl SEIZURE. In the
current number OF McCluro's. Is in
tercsting reading at THIS time. Ac-
cording to Schurz. the plumbers Of the
commanding officers were responsible
Tor the disaster. According to his
graphic story. Ia the afternoon OF the
second Of May "a number of deer ANA
rabbits came bounding out OF tbs
woods" in front Of the Eleventh Corps
of the Union Army. Then came the
dashiug StoneNal Jackson with 25.-
600 mon. and in one hour and a half
his great banking force had telescDped
the Eleventh Corps with its 5000 men
And driven them back IN retreat. II
happened that they had no reserves
and that the Eleventh's line was facing
the front Instead OF the West flank.
Scaurz had rorcseen the flank attack
and he had begged Gen. @ %, How
ard who was the Eleventh Corps COM
nandcr to be allowed to rearrange his
line and face it west and TO place re
serves in anticipation Of this very flank
movement. but General Howard
thought Jackson was retreating and
would not give orders for a change OF
front. The account in McCure's FUR
ther says
some time before noon General
Howard told me that he was very tired
and needed sleep and asked me. az sec
nud IN command, TO stay at his head
quarters open all dispatches that
might arrive, and wake him in case
there were any OF urgent Importance.
shortly afterwards courier arrived
with Il despatch from General Hooker
called General Howards attention to
the movement OF the enemy toward our
right flank and instructing him 10 take
measures TO resist an attack from that
quarter At once called up General
Howard read the despatch aloud to
him. and put it into his hands. We
had exchanged only few words about
the matter when another courier Il
young officer arrived with second
despatch OF the same tenor At u
later period | saw fhc document in
print and recognized II clearly as the
one had read and delivered to General
Howard on that eventful dag.
ITO my astonshment ! found, many
years later, IN a paper on tHe l4ASN
cuth Corps at Charlottesville writ
ten by General Howard for the CEN
fury Magazine, the following sentence:
General HOoker's circular order 10
'Slocurn and Howard neither reached
me nor. to my knowledge, Colonel
Meyscnberg. my djutant-general'
How he could have forgotten that
! had read and delivered to him that
Identical despatch find 1t difficult to
understand pgppCially as II touched so
vital a point. and as its delivery was
followed by another animated disc
sion between us, in which l most e.r-
nestly-althoug without effect~en-
deavored 70 convince him that In case
OF such an attack from the west. our
right. as then posted, would be hope
tessly overwhelmed.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-30
DEsERET EVENING NEWS THURSDAY MAY 30 1907

York are rather IN favor pf 1t. They
bow before the inevitable and say
that " the commissions are SOM
posed OF honest and fair-mlndcd and
Intelligent men there will be no diff
ticulty. and az a rule, they would
rather deal with such a commission
than suffer the continual auuoyances
that they have experienced from cor
rupt members Of the legislature. They
say that every corporation in the
state has been exposed TO blackmail
that hold-up bills have been intro
duced At every session of the legisla-
tnrc. and that it has been necessary
for corporations 10 keep expensive
ogents AZ Albany to look after such
matters"
That is the point II the commits
sIoners are honest and fair-mindod,
there viii be 40 difficulty. There Is
no difficulty as long as both legisla-
tors ana corporation managers are
honest and fair minded The trouble
comes when attempts are made to get
the best OF the public by the aid of
the trusted representatives Of the peo-
pie. Whether these are called com
mlssioncrs or something else does not
matter great deal. The rest of
the country will be curious to learn
the practical results Of the public
utilities bin in New York.