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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-05-13
TO FINISH UP IN WEEK.
lndicat tons Are That Senatorial QuizZers
Will Complete Work on
Friday.

MADISON, Wis, May 81 Special.
Announcement that the senatorial in
vestigating committee hopes to complete
the taking of Testimony by Friday night
next week, was made Friday afternoon,
T. r. EdmOnds from the witness stand
until next Friday. As result of this
announcement Mr.. Edmonds will return
to Madison next Thursday to complete
his testimony.
After Mr.. Edmonds was excused from
the witness stand, Edward McMahon
was recalled and was questioned con
corning the Stephenson campaign in
Manitowoc county.
DIR. Gehbe is from your former home
town, is he not?" asked Senator Marsh.
Yes, SIR" replied Mcmahon.
did DR.. Gehbe tell you at any time
how he spent the money he received
from the Stephenson managersT
DIR. Gehbe told me that $500 was
spent in the northern part of the cOun-
ty.'
Mr.. McMahon was employed in the
Stephenson headquarters during the pri-
mary campaign and on Thursday had
testified that he gained the impression,
while working in the Stephenson head
quarters, that financial aid was being
given to certain candidates for the Leg
islature. lie said that it was n well
known fact in the headquarters that the
Stephenson people favored the election
of Assemblyman 4. L. Twesme rather
than Herman l.. Ekorn and that the
same thing was true of DIR. Frank
Smith. At this point he was questioned
about the campaign in Manitowoc coun-
~. when Asscmhlyman ledvina APP
pearcd on the scene and after interrupt
ing the proceedings explained dramatic
ally:
Senator Marsh, ! think it has been
shown here repeatedly that neither of
the candidates from Manitowoc county
had any opposition.
Mr. McMahon's testimony Friday to
the effect that Or. Gehbe had told him
of giving Ledvna 500 created some
thing of a sensation, coming as il did on
the eve of Assembyman Ledviua's EN-
phatic declaration that he had no OPP
position in the primary" and the in
tended implication that because he had
no opposition it was nOnsence TO think
of his having accepted money.
The committee adjourned until Tues
day afternoon mt , O'Clock.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-05-13
A DRAMA IN REAL LIFE,
Long-lost Heir Turns UP in Massachu-
sets Town After Twenty
five Years.

MELROSE, Mass, May S.-Daniel
Blake Russell, who disappeared twenty
five years ago from the home of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs, Daniel Russell,
has returned from South Dakota. where
he has n cattle ranch. He was % years
old when he left.
His father left property worth 5000,
900, which was to be divided equally be
tween his two sons, provided Daniel ever
returned. and if he did not the entire
property was to go to William, the
other son. Daniel called at the home
of his brother, who has occupied the
Russell mansion since the death of his
father, in February, 1907. Daniel told
William that he was his brother, but
William said he could not remember
him and that he would have TO be identi-
fed.
Daniel is hunting up some of the older
men who knew him, so that he can es-
tahish his identity, which will make him
heir to a fortune of $20U,oOO.
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was % when he died. Her father and
mother also lived long. The reason for
this, they say at the home, is simple.
The family for more than 800 years
has owned string Of amber beads,
Very common beads they are to look
at, giving to the unframed eye no hint
Of their power. Always the eldest
daughter of the house has worn the
necklace, and while she wore 1t death
was warded off The beads were pos
sessed OF marvellous healing powers
and circulated as freely among the
children Of the east side who had the
whooping cough or the measles as gen
erations ago they did between the huts
Of a Russian village,
On Sunday, when her daughter, Mrs
Fannie Kowner OF 80 East Goth street,
visited the old woman, the beads were
given to her.
Take them" said the mother, "for
1t Is not well that | should bear them
longer"
Then she talked Of the beads. which
never before had left her neck for
more than twenty-four hours.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-05-13
CHANGE SYSTEM
OF INSPECTION
vIEBAHN BILL PROVIDES FOR
STATE BOARD OF SCHOOL
INSPECTORS.
LEGISLATURE MAY PROBE.
Joint Resolution Asks for Committee of
Five to Look Into Present
Method.
TAKES POWER FROM UNIVERSITY

MADISON, Wis, May 81 Special /
Believing that the entire system of educa-
ton in the state should be systematized.
Assemblyman Viebahn, the veteran edu-
Gator of WATERFOWL, has introduced a
joint resolution in the Assembly, which
will come up for consideration next
Tuesday, providing for a legislative com
mittee of Ave to investigate the subject
of school inspection. Accompanying the
resolution is bill drafted by Assembly
man Viebahn providing for system of
school inspection.
Provides Single System.
The joint resolution asks for a special
investigation of the subject, pointing out
that there are several bills before the
Legislature to remedy the system of
school inspection If the resolution is
passed three members from the Assem-
bly, and two senators will be appointed
to take testimony. investigate the sub
iect and then draft a bill, copies of
which shall be mailed TO members of
the Legislature at least sixty days before
the converting of the extra session next
January. The members carrying on the
investigation shall receive no compen-
sation, except actual expenses for con
Quoting the work.
Sentiment for the resolution has been
prompted by the debate over the bill to
admit to the university without examina-
ton graduates of free high schools. 1t
was shown that two systems of inspec-
versity to ascertain what schools shall
be placed on the accredited list, and
another by the state superintendent Of
| fee regarding the state aid to be allowed
and the efficiency to be maintained by
the free high schools of the state. The
plan that it is proposed to formulate by
the investigation Is a single system Of
inspection for both the university and
the state department of public instruc-
ton.
Board to Be Appointed
The bill accompanying the resolution
presented by Assemblyman Niebahn pro
yidcs that after July 1, 1910, the state
superintendent shall be assisted in the
supervision of the public schools of the
state by board of school inspectors
consisting of seven members. This in.
spectorial board shall be appointed by
the governor, state superintendent, prcsi
dent of the university, the president OF
a normal school to be selected by the
state board of normal regents and the
president of the Wisconsin Teachers as
ISOLATION. The Office, which is held by
an inspector at the pleasure of the ap
pointing board, shall pay salary OF
4 $1,000 annually and actual expenses. II
be eligible an inspector must hold &
life state certificate and have at least
five years experience in educationa
work. The board shall perform all OF
! the duties of the present rural schoo
! inspectors, besides supervising and out
I lining the work for the high schools o.
/ the state.
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ing crowded, owing to the great num-
Der of their reindeer, are locking for
some part Of the world to which they
can transport their herds and families
and establish themselves anew. The
easily kept than the horse. A prospec-
tor could maintain himself for a year
with ten head Of reindeer If his pro-
visions gave out he could eat the rein
door
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in regiment under his command in the
old Indian fighting days. This corporal
was much chaifed by his comrades for
his oft repeated expressions of belief in
fatality and destiny"
One day il appears that the corporal,
while off duty. was preparing to take a
little horseback exercise and recreation.
A private observed that the corporal
took care to attach a brace Of pistols
TO his saddle.
Hello" shouted tho private 10 tho
corporal. "Whnt are you taking the guns
for? They won't save you if your time
has come
''Trne for you." grimly responded the
corporal. but ] may happen TO meet
an Apache whose last day has come"
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Elephant Ear.

The elephant ear is one of the most
striking plants for use in bedding. Dor
II grows from six to ten feet high and
its large green leaves grow to be three
or four feet long and two and one-half
feet wide 1t has been used with great
success in sub-tropical gardening in the
central and southern states. 1t makes
an excellent plant for the margins Of
aquatic gardens. as it thrives best If
given plenty of water.
1t grows from tnhers which are best
started in pots in sand and grown in
doors until June when they should be
planted out in well drained warm. light
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caribou. but Canadians say they Will
do as well. The caribou are plentiful
throughout the Canadian north. OF
course our people will have to catch
these animals and train them, but to
a people who are building an empire
that is 4 triiing matter.
The most active advocate of using
reindeer or caribou in the development
Of northern Canada is Fred S. Law
renee, who lives at Fort Vermillon, on
the lower Peace River He has made
his home in the north for twenty five
years. He suggests that start might
be made toward demonstrating Cana
dian reindeer by inducing Laplanders
to emigrate to Canada The Lapland-
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END LIVES TOGETHER.
Girl and Young Man Hang Themselves
in Closet After Making Sui
eide Pact.

LIMA, O., May S.-That a suicide
pact existed between them is the belief
of Mrs. William Reeves who found her
daughter, Bella, and Ralph 1iiggin-
botham of Toledo hanging suspended by
the same rope from a raiter in closet
off the bedroom Of the girl early today.
The mother knew nothing of liiggin-
hotham's presence in the house. 4
clothes line was used and the act had not
occurred more than n half hour before
the discovery. Neither will die. Iliggin-
botham is an employe of the Craig Ship
building company.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-05-13
TAFT'S EYE is INJURED.
Foreign Substance Lodges in Optic
While President Is Riding.

WASHINGTON, u. c., May s.
President TAFT has something in his eye
one revision downward" statesman
opiucd that he has had something in his
eye for month, else long ago he would
have seen through the plans of Senator
Aldrich. The President appeared in the
executive Offices with buudage over the
cyc--thc left, by the way. Attorney
General Wickcrsham was delegated To
represent the President at the dedication
Of the Longfelow monument. Whatever
is in the Presidents eye is believed 10
have lodged there two days ago when
he was horseback riding The matter
81 not serious.
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''''N tA'N'~ 'f''' tAiAiN W spare
Earthquake Causes Wreck
Even at Kingston, Jamaica. there are
two wrecks. one of which was due To a
failure TO keep a light burning The
Prinz Waldemar came in the day after
the earthquake. not knowing there had
been such thing, and the steamer was
laid up slap on the beach.
The lighthouse had been riven 10y the
earthquake anu there had been no one
to attend to it. That put the Prinz Wal
demar right near the Prinzessin Victoria
Luise. which about two months before
had gone on the point because the light
was not lighted.
1t was the Victoria Luisc that had on
board piano given by the Kaiser. As
the boat was oil in nice safe spot cf-
forts were made to save the precious
piano. They had the tackle all rugged
up and the piano was swinging at the
rail. when Of a sudden the tackle slipped
and down went the piano into the ocean.
1t ~ still there. The two wrecks of the
German boats have lain as they strand
ed gradually dsintcgratiug.
There is some value in the brass fit
tings of boat, The propcIors of a
steamship are likely to be worth many
thousand dollars, 50 these things when
they are salved help a little TO offset the
great general loss.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-05-13
TO REORGANlZE ARM Y.
Secretary of War Dickinson Includes
Tentative Plan for Change, in
First Annual Report

WASHINGTON, ID. G., May s.
Secretary Of War Dickinson first an.
uual report will include the tentative
plan for army reorganization now being
drafted by the general staff. The plan
will outline a scheme of line and staff
organization based on the needs Of n
regular establishment Of 10000 enlist.
ed men.
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SHE DIES AT LOG.
Thanks to Family's Magic Reads,
MichIa SchilOtzky Lived Long.

~ hu&IC neAuSp
MichIa schilotsky Lived Long.
Mrs. Michla Schilotzky died recently
at the Home Of the Daughters of
Jacob, at 3O2 East Broadway, at the
age Of 100 years, says the New York
Sun. She came to New York from
Asiashuf. in the state Of wilma, Russia,
twenty-four years ago, and had been
at the home four years.
The last year Of her life she spent for
the most part In the hospital of the
home. About Christmas time, how
ever, she attended an entertainment
given by the home at the Grand Cen
trail Palace, where she served as
judge Of a casotzosky, a dancing CON
test In which the dancers were men
who had passed their hundredth year
Mrs. Schilotzky came of long-lived
family. She left nine brothers and sis
ters in Russia, the youngest of whom
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-05-13
Something That Survived

at Is my ambition said the earnest
young man, ito write something that
will be handed down to posterity.
well" answered Farmer Corntosscl
call have to say Is to be careful how
you go about 1t. My grandfather wrote
his name to a mortgage on this farm
Will have to go ahead struggling with
it."-Washington Star.
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ticaly running wild, sometimes APP
preached automobile travellers and ate
from their stock of food These par
ties usually were Of the hunting class
and made 1t point to visit the out
posts with their climbing motor
cars.
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PAPERS b 4np PEOPLE

the surface On landing SKINNED along the surface
rather like toboggan, coming to standstill few
yards from starting point
With regard to the art Of flying Mr. Wright and Ms
machine to work together one unit. The man.
agement Of machine of this kind In breezy weather is
at all easy. At the time it only require
patience and careful practice before Intelligent man
possessed of GOODNESS and good Judgment learn It.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-05-13
Chicago Boy Wins Contest.

BELoIT, Wis, May S. Special r.
leonard J. Grossman Of the Wendell
Phillips high school Chicago, won the
nterscholnstic declamatory contest here
his morning. Second place was taken
G. w. Burns, feloif, and third place
rent TO Walter Anee Aire Of Rockford
II. Fifteen speakers competed.
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step from intense mental concentration to madness
He said he could hardly describe what he felt in the
moments when his sensations abnormally acute
and intense, that everything about him seemed to be
alive that he seemed be raving scarcely
tain that he really existed.
Analogous the impressions Of st. Paul, Netzsche
and Dostoevsk And the illustrious Beethoven says:
Musical inspiration is to that mysterious state in
which the whole world appears to shape Itself into
vast harmony where every feeling and every thought
have to resound within where all the forces
of nature to become instruments for me- where my
whole body seized with violent shivering and my hair
stands end
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-05-13
HELPFULNESS HAS UNITARIAN VIRTUES
Rv Ads Mgy Krerker


Before had achieved the division Of la
e !:
w Dor and specialization single produced
~ a watch which requires several hundred
VI | workmen to perfect. To-day each factory
~ man learns how to make only particular
Y | part of the machine and without his hun
L dred fellow workers would find the
IN watch completed Towns and nations special
go lie in Industries and need all the rest Of
the world to buy what they make and to supply them
with what they do not make Homes in days Of old
tanges of all the handcrafts of domestic inter.
20 est. But they do little but make beds and cook.
All other household labors performed In some
ciaized centerthe curtains cleaned in shop the
rugs in another, the laundry done here the dresses
made there.
The innovator Is the that makes the world
He naugurates change takes things from the old rus,
forms grooves Without him should still be
leading the simple life slmplicimus Of tho savage and
the stone age. With him have wireless telegraphy,
and flying machines, and steam heat and printing
presses, and number Of other things equally pleas
ant
Society will not tolerate weeds 1t will insist
filling the world with flowers Already it is allowing
its women to help in the worlds work and already 1T
is beginning to instruct It's illiterae The al
ready set into motion end in nothing short Of the
education and enrichment all members Of the
munity
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-05-13
BEASTS NOT AFRAID OF AUTO.
Starving Herds Approach Motor Car
Occupants and Coax for Food.

SO commonplace has the motor car
become that it no longer strikes terror
to man or beast In remote sections Of
the world where such things are slow
to penetrate. Instances have occurred
IN utofthe-way posts In European
and Asiatic countries where the starv-
ing herds of the plain and forest have
not hesitated to approach automobile
parties and coax for food from the
occupants of the machines.
This was the case last winter in the
thick forests OF Thuringia Deer, prac-
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soil. A rich soil and frequent waterings

soil. A rich soil and frequent waterings
with liquid manure will produce excel
lent results. In the fall all the leaves
except the central ones should be cut
back TO within two inches Of the crown.
Let it remain in this condition for few
days to ripen and then take up ana
store in any cold frost-proof place.
These plants have variety Of uses be-
sides ornament. In the Pacific tropics
they are made into a drink. The starchy
roots are edible and in Japan IRE used
much like our potatoes. The young
leaves are also edible when boiled.
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ter we all child faculties waiting to be recog
nized and appropriated.
Many OF failing memory mistaken ones, due
to unreasonable expectations. How many grownups
forget as many times day any child does? The
trouble is expect, to compel ourselves to remem
great burden of nconsequent and irrelevant things
that brightest child earth could not remember;
and preoccuped trying TO carry these things
in mind that minds half absent at least, from
the things that are happening and that ought
to have full attention, they would have a chd's
full attenton--The Nautilus.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-05-13
St. Louis Postmaster Appointed

WASHINGTON, u. G., May $
President Taft today appointed Thomas
j. Atkins rs postmaster at ST. Louis. Mo-,
TO succeed Mr.. Wyman. Mr. Atkins is
assistant treasurer 81 the United States
at st. Louis.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-05-13
THE SURE CURE FOR OLD AGE.
By Elizabeth TOwn.

The cure for hurry is the cure for old age
to take time every day, maybe several times
q day, to become again as little child, In
terested in one thing at a time us If that
We're the only thing. Instead Of whirling all
the time dizzily on the rim OF life, we must
take frequent times to get back 10 the cen
ter again for our bearings-back to the silent
Confer MhencA va came At that silent cen
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-05-13
MADNESS AKIN TO HAPPINESS.
By Prof. Cesare Lombroso.

Geniuses enjoy moments Of supernal fe-
lefty These are the moments of creative
frenzy which in 80 many respects resemble
the psychic excuses of epileptcs only, since
not an ordinary brain Is being agitated by
convulsons, but n great mind and instead Of
some atrocious bestality or dark crime there
results work Of lofty character. Beacons-
field wrote that he felt as If there were but
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-05-13

A woman will keep out her best
knives and forks longer for her own
visiting kin than for her husbands
visiting kin.
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A Rough Riders Disappointment.

Young Lochinvar had come out Of
the west.
ITS no usc!" he cried "This I'D.
minlstration doesn't care for cowboys"
Herewith he confined his trip to 70,
mantle adventures-New York Sun.
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this morning" When all ready l took my seat
the flyer. The Of the engines commenced, the
starting weights released, and Off went with
bound Once clear of the ground the feeling Of sccuri
ty was perfect. We tore along at forty miles an
hour The machine at the will of the operator tits
up gracefully when taking a turn. Those accustomed
to motor racing will appreciate the effect Of this which
is that taking curve on & flying machine will be
tually safer than in automobile
Our speed caused tears to roll down our cheeks
After flight of several miles descent begun for
a landing. At the right moment the engine stopped
and came to ground gently that l found It i'm
possible tell exactly when the first touched
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EARTHQUAKE Causes Wreck

looked at the clock, so sure were they
that there was time to spare.
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FLYING ECLIPsES ALL EXPERIENCES.
By Che Hon. G.. S. Rolls

After experience with every form OF loco
motion, including cycle and motor racing a
voyage in a dirigbe balloon Of the French
army, and over $50 trips in an ordinary bal
loon, there is nothing so fascinating or SO ex-
hilarating as flying. The happy moment
may say, of my life came when Mr.. Wright,
with his pleasant voice and quiet smile, said
to me: Mr. Rolls l guess III take you up
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-03-31
WILL DESTROY
AERIAL WAR FLEET
LEWIS NIXON INvENTS SHRAP
MEL SHELL TO REACH OBJECTS
5000 FEET HIGH.

NEW YORK. March 31.--The aer-
ial war fleet. of which we hear 30
much theoretically, is doomed before
ii has real start" said Lewis Nix
On. the inventor and shipbuilder, to-
day, speaking of his new shrapnel
she'll intended TO destroy objects from
1000 TO 5000 feet up In the air.
The new destroyer Is an old six
FOUNDER. three or fve-inch shell with
a new filing. Besides the usual guam
tity of bullets. IL contains semi-liquld
matter. the composition of which Is
Nixon's secret. and is Jealously guard
ed.
"Airship builders and aeroplan ,
builders smiled when German and
French gunmakers threatened 10
bring down their craft by shot from
guns vertically aimed" continued Mr..
Nixon. Perhaps they had right 10
smile at the imperfect destroying ma
chimes invented in Europe. I am sure
they won't laugh when they hear about
my invention.
THE shell contains besides the bui-
lets and motor power glutinous matter
adhering to the bullets and bursting
strike. When the discharge comes
into contact with balloon, a sticky
fire is thrown over it. and all burnable
parts including the envelope will ir-
stantly ignite