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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16
LIBRARIES OF OLD
STORED SOURCES OF
INFORMATION.
Gatherings of the Present Day Really
Are Very Little, If Any, Ahead
of Those of the Past
Generations.

In the matter Of numbers the Bib
liotheque Rationale of Paris is gen.
orally accounted the first library n the
world, with over 100000 volumes.
The British museum stands second
with 100000, and the Imperial Ii
brary of st. Petersburg has about
100000, which, also, are the figures
to be assigned to the library of con-
gress at Washington. The New York
public library, according to some au-
thorities, is in the same class as the
big library at the national capital, and
there are several libraries in the
United States that display on their
shelves more than one-half of a million
volumes.
In a way, however, the modern Ii.
braries are far behind those of ancient
times, when 1t is considered that,
since the invention of printing, the ac-
emulation of books for the great H.
braries has offered no very great diff.
f1culties; and that, in the case of the
ancients, every volume of their collec.
tons must, perforce. be written by
hand. -
It is therefore somewhat startling
to read that the Alexandrian library in
Egypt numbered no less than 100000
volumes two centuries before the
Christian era. This library, founded
B. c. 200 by Ptolemy Softer, entirely
overshadowed the more or less myth
cal collections alleged to have pre-.
ceded 1t, such as, for instance, that
of Osymandyas, who reigned in Egypt
1t Is said, some 100 years before
Christ, and the library mentioned by
Diodorus Siculus as having been SET
up at Susa, the capital of the Persian
kings.
To the collection started by Ptolemy
Softer there was added another by
Ptolemy Philadelphus, which was in
time further augmented until, as al
ready stated, it numbered 100000 vol
umes.
In At B. G. the library in that sec.
ton of the Alexandrian institution
known as the Bruchion 100000 vol
umes) was accidentally consumed by
fire during a visit by julius Caesar and
his auxiliary soldiers. The library in
the section known as the Serepeum,
however, increased in numbers till II
exceeded the whole of the former col
lections.
One interesting donation to this
library was that of 100000 volumes
from the Peruragean library, present
ed by Mark Anthony to Cleopatra.
The library at Alexandria suffered
plunderings on various occasions, but
it remained practically intact until A.
D. $50, when it was destroyed by the
Saracens under orders of the Caliph
Omar. Thus disappeared a noble col
lection that had endured some $50
years.
1t is a curious fact, in view of the
allegations of Omar, that, ''if the wri.
tings of the Greeks agree with the
Koran, they are useless, and need not
be preserved; if they disagree with
the Koran, they are pernicious, and
ought to be destroyed" that Saracens
should afterward collect large libraries
of infidel literature, such as those at
Tripolis in Syria, and at Cordova in
Spain. which latter collection en-
braced 100000 volumes.-Harper'f
Weekly.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16

his part Of our at least implied con-
tract. He had it in him to take the
position in society that his family
and name warranted. But he never
cared to go to the assemblies nor to
the gay bachelors ball, and as for
Newport and Narragansett, they bored
him.
No, he would rather stay at home
writing verse and composing music
and outlining those clever produc-
tons of the Mask and Wig club. oh.
Charles was clever That is why |
feel aggrieved. l had to do all the
social campaigning myself, and after
our little boy was born Charles seemed
to care less for it than ever.
My toillettes were the talk of Mar.
ragansett. l never quite attained New.
port. But If Charles had been as keen
to take his rightful place as he was
to turn out those Mask and Wig
shows. we would have been leaders in
Newport.
However, 1 did the best l could to
keep up the family traditions. OF
course. l was greatly alone most of
the time, and so was Charles. But II
one is in society one owes a certain
duty TO society.
am artistic. / am not convention.
al What has she that l have not :?
1t grew intolerable to be always in
the position of pulling Charles away
by his coat tails from a f1gurative can.
can with that dancer. So l decided
not to do any more pulling.
No, cannot understand It. Here
am I. original. witty. fascinating. cul.
tured, beautiful and of exquisite taste
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out happily, and every one thought it
would.
My ideals are not entirely Ameri-
can. 1 spent my early years abroad,
and my sympathies are with the Old
World rather than with the New.
Some day l hope to live there per-
manently.
Prompted by my ideals, I did not
always act in the conventional Amer1-
can fashion, but should think Charles
would have found this divert1ng. Alas!
he did not seem to. | created Tor
myself the most striking toilettes, and
| designed our house on De Lancey
place as an epoch house for Ph1la-
delphia. 1t was Elizabethan with rich
carving and sombre, massive beauty.
It's low ceilings, it's loaded windows
and huge fireplaces recalled an old
English castle.
My boudoir was all Of pale rose vel
vet hangings, amid white and gold fur
niture. Garlands Of roses climbed
over it's snowy walls. Great golden
vases we're always filled with orchids
and roses and into it's scheme | slipped
as a harmonious living feminine note.
How could my husband prefer this
dancer in her commonplace surround
ings-for they must have been COM
monplace to mine-to what he had?
She was poor, she stood upon the
stage for the applause and admira-
ton of all who cared to pay to see her.
One could hardly call her exclusive,
now, could they?
Our first break came when l saw
that Charles simply would not keep
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16
WAY AHEAD OF AUTOMOBILE
Progress Of Aviation Is One of Won
ders of Modern Human
Daring.

The development of the aeroplane
into a mechanism of practical utility
in the arts of peace and war is even
more rapid than was that of the auto
mobile in it's early days.
1t seems only yesterday that the
Herald was chronicling the first strug-
Cling flights of a few yards made by
M. Santos Dumont and today we re-
cord the journey Of nearly five hun
dred miles made by M Alfred LIE
Blanc within a period Of less than II
hours.
1t is only a few weeks ago that the
first flight across the British channel
electrified the world. This was quick.
ly followed by fight across and re-
turn. ana now we have an American
aviator making the cross channel trip,
carrying as a passenger his burly
mechanician.
While the accident to Moissant's
machine mars the startling record he
promised to make between Paris and
London. his achievement is none the
less wonderful in its promise OF the
possibilities of aviation in the immedi-
ate future.
Development of the automobile from
a toy into its present development was
stimulated by bringing the inventors
of the world into international COM
petition by the offers Of prizes and
honors. In like manner the aeroplane
has been improved, and is being per-
fected through the international emu
lation of inventors and aviators. The
marvel of yesterday in flying has be-
come the commonplace Of today, and
nearly every issue of the Herald
chronicles some record-breaking feat
of aviation.
The defiance of Mr.. Moissant of the
strong winds blowing on the English
channel and the fact that the contest.
ants in this long fight were ignorant
of the route and steered their way by
compass, brings aviation more nearly
into line than ever before with actual
navigation. Every day exhibits more
advance in the science and the art OF
sailing the air, and he would be a
bold man who would dare TO fix a
limit to its possibilities in the immedi.
ate future.-New York Herald.
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An Odd GREETING,

A Milwaukee woman, who formerly
hailed Appleton as her home, and who
now delights in returning to that city
to visit her father and mother, and
her sisters and brothers who still live
there, recently made a short trip to
that city. She did not announce her
coming and, of course, there was no
one to meet her and escort her to the
home. She travelled the way alone,
however, and logged her grip with her
as the walk from the depot was short.
At the gate she met her seven-year-
old nephew. Instead of shouting a
happy greeting, he showed his hands
down into his pockets, and looked up
at her rather pityingly:
Gee, but youse has a poor baseball
team In your town." he said.-Milwau
kee Evening Wisconsin.
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Gwyn to his picturesque wife? Why,
II the charges are true. did Mr.. Gil
pin prefer Miss Gwyn? What was
lacking in the society leader that was
present in the dancer? The case in
many respects is unusual, and analy-
sis might throw some light upon the
rapidly increasing tide of divorces
among society men and the increas-
ing number of marriages with women
of the stage, declares writer In the
Chicago Examiner.
The principals will not, it seems,
dissect, for the good of humanity, their
motives But perhaps a review of
each side. in the form OF a soliloquy
by the two women as they might give
It If they wanted to and based upon
the facts and their knowledge of tenn
peraments, may help.
one might present the two sides of
1t like this:
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16
CHEWING Gum,

Chewing gum is nothing but chicle
mixed with sugar and f1avoring; and
chicle is the gum Of tree that grows
plentifully in Mexico and Central
America and that of recent years has
been cultivated on a large scale in
Yucatan, where the American Chicle
company owns several million acres of
it. The chicle tree is not unlike the
India rubber tree, and the gum was
first shipped to America by men who
believed that In it they had a perfect
substitute for rubber. In this, how
ever, they were mistaken, as it was
found that the chicle gum was in
soluble. Not to this day has any me-
dunn. acid or alkali, spirit or ether,
been found that will dissolve 1t.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16

were in a skirt of woods, and we
would lie fiat on our backs and loat
our guns. then rise up, fire, and droI
on our backs again. 1t was not lone
before my comrade next me was lyins
dead; shot through the head. | be
came more alarmed than had previ
Ously been, and stretched myself fiat
on the ground and was try ng to stick
my head under the sod, when a shell
cut some bark off a tree near me, anG
it flew and struck me on the back anG
| gave an awful grOan, thinking my
time had come, for l thought | had
been shot in the shoulder, but greatly
relieved was l when | discovered !
was not hurt. l passed through the
latter part of the war without being
hurt badly, and | never was scared
any more as badly as l was at the first
battle l engaged in.
THUS the war passed. with much
suffering from myself and comrades.
until the ninth day of April, 1865.
when We were engaged in battle at
AppomattoX. We saw the flag of
truce, and heard the command to
cease firing, then we awaited with
bated breath for long hours. All at
once we caught sight of a man riding
along the line, white flag in hand. and
the cry was echoed, Lee has surren-
dered!' The shout was taken up and
passed along the lines, Lee has sur
rendered. Lee has surrenderedp
Never before was seen such a waving
of hats, such shouting and hallooing
as was seen upon the field of Lees
surrender on that historical day.
Il don't know how my comrades
felt, but as for myself l felt as If
had nothing to live for If Lee sur
rendered. | was not sorry that the
war was at close, but was think
ing Of Grant, the man who had us in
his power, and | felt sure we would
all be lodged in prison for the rest
of our lives. You can imagine NV
feelings of horror at the thought NJ
being shut up in dreary prison for
life.
But we were ordered to stack arms
and march to the courthouse. and
there, when the treaty of peace was
signed, that noble man, General Grant
gave each of us a pass, told us to
take our horses, and go home to our
families.
Il felt then, as | do now, ;hat there
never was more kind and generous
man ever lived than General Grant
I'VE took our passes and reached
home without much difficulty. subsist.
ms sometimes on corn, parched that
we dug from out the frozen ground
where our horses had been fed On
our way home we came to an old mill
where a small boy was grinding his
last bushel of corn for his old mar.
ents, but we took half of it, in spite ne
his supplications to the contrary
ground it int hominy, and poured wa.
ter in 1t, and baked It on a fat rock.
but l thought | never before or since
tasted anything so delicious.
IF live 10 be as old as Metbuselob
will never forget the day, and how
felt at Lees surrender, and I also cor
never forget the kindness and gomez
osity of General Grant to the no..
soldiers who had caused him 60 nroh
trouble"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16
THE DANCER.

r WON'T discuss Mr.. Gilpin, but here
are few little problems society
woman who aspires to be leader
may ponder over.
am not poor; my father was mil.
lionaire rancher in Australia. l toured
the world when l was young and re.
ceived quite as good an education as
any society woman.
married Mr.. Mccartney. He was a
poor miner. There was no thought in
my mind of family in return for my
money or anything except my love for
Mr.. Mccartney. Our marriage was 'un.
fortunate and We were divorced.
Then l went on the stage because l
felt l had something beautiful in my
wanted to do something; because l am
an artist and because by dancing is
artistry.
If my object in life made me pose
before hundreds does not the society
leader strip herself of exclusiveness
when she poses in her new gowns be-
fore other hundreds at the opera, on
the Newport beach, at the Casino, on
Fifth avenue. She parades herself,
but she is like peacock, showing only
it's fine feathers. We dancers parade
ourselves, but we are not parading
fine feathers; we are showing our art
If woman knows that her husband
does not care for the life of society
man, she should make up her mind to
do one of two things: Let society go
or let her husband go. She has her
choice, and If, choosing, she loses one
or the other, she should not complain.
But if a woman loves her husband and
has his interests at heart, which would
she choose, do you think?
There are men who are children at
heart, artists despite their birth, who
turn to the sympathy and companion
ship of artists, naturally. If a woman
marries a man like this, let her make
up her mind to meet that sympathy
and give the man what he needs. If
she cannot make up her mind to do
this, then let her not complain if she
loses her husband.
Society is conventional Society
women are the most conventional Of
beings! The very unconventionalities
which some assume is nothing more
than the exhibition of their manacles
Of convention!
Did the society woman ever do a
conventional thing-which is the ma
tural thing-and meet and fight other
women in fair field for the husband
that is in danger Of being lost? No;
she goes to the conventional remedy
the divorce court. She takes the con-
ventional view Of marriage-that it is
a bond which when once tied needs no
further inspection of the knot. When
she finds the knot slipping or broken
her little world is overturned. She
has no resource-for the divorce court
is not a resource, no more so than the
blow Of a brute's fist is an answer to
an argument.
Study your husband, you woman of
society! Study what it is in us that
is more and more attracting your best
men! Throw off your conventionalityl
be natural women for while! Perhaps
then you may hold them!
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16
TOLD OF LEES SURRENDER
Characteristic Story of Confederate
Soldier of Scenes in Army on
Historical Day.

The following story of how a mem
Der of a North Carolina regiment OF
cavalry felt at Lees surrender was
told to me some time ago. will Try
and place it before my readers In as
ne;r the narrator's own words as
can, writes G. B. Sutherland, In an
exchange. He says: After | had en-
listed in the army, the first battle we
had almost scared me to death, but J
gradually took courage and soon was
doing some of my best shooting. We
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16
Same Thing, ANYWAY.

A philosophical individual once re-
fused point blank to lend $50 to a
bosom friend. well, did not expect
that of YOU" said the would-be Dor.
rover, rising ard preparing to leave
Indignantly; II will never forgive you
for this refusal" "Of course you
won't, my dear fellow" replied the
philosopher, with the utmost calm.
ness; "but If I'd lent you the $50, you
wouldn't have paid me, and we should
have quarreled about that; so it's as
well to get the row over at once Good
morning"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16
THE LADY.

0F course, when l married Mr.. Gil
pin. he gave to me social stand
ing that the Berwinds them
selves did not have. although my
sister, Mrs. Bobby" Suaworidge,
and my other sister, the Bar
oness Won Boecklin, married equally
as well. But then | brought TO the
Gilpin name the millions they did not
have. Besides-I am not plain. nor
stupid nor lachrymose. am, IN fact'
rather original and rather extraordl-
narily good looking. 1t would seem
that our marriage should have turned
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16
JUST A FEW WORDS.
ON THE FOLLY OF TAKING LIKES
AND DISLlkES.
analysed the Practise Is as Rldicu-
lous as Ii Is Iniurious-Set Aside
Moment or Two and
Reflect.

Il don't like that man." you say.
Cut it, DO; cut it! the Baltimore
Evening Sun remarks. You don't
know what you're talking about
You're just making your head roar
without making any Roadway toward
the Improvement o. the world or add
ing to its intelligence. Just making
noise, that's all.
Don't like him, Ell? Condemning
everything about him. My, but that's
silly stunt, mighty silly. Besides, it
isn't true.
tendencies and things like that A
mans deeds don't make him at all.
They are just signs of the qualities in
him. \
A whistle doesn't make q sawmill.
1t just tells you there's one in the vi
cinity. it isn't sawmill because it
whistles-it whistles because it's
a sawmill. A bee isn't bee because
it makes honey-it makes honey be-
cause it's a bee.
Now, there are all sorts of quail
tiles and impulses in man-in every
man. You know yourself that there is
a fight between two or three elements
in you before you do the commoRest
thing
You don't like that other fellow, Ell?
Yes, you do, some of him.
Don't you know that quality in your
hot io1y &C. nrfn "
sweet and noble? The man whom
you claim to hate has that quality.
Maybe not so we'll developed as yours
maybe he hasn't had the chance to
develop it. But he has it, and you
should like that much Of him, because
he has it common with you.
That is true of every one of those
qualities you recognize so proudly
in yourself
He has EN-, too!
Then that thing in him that you
observed that led to your remark of
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES got it, boy,
you've got it!
You may have succeeded in hiding
1t, or perhaps even in smothering it
some and making it keep it's head
down and not have much to say about
your actions, but you have that quail
ity!
The thing that you deplore in the
other man is somewhere in you, moro
or less dormant or undeveloped.
Maybe he has been placed in cir
cumstances that developed almost ir
resistibly in him that the thing you
have had a chance to kill off or hold
in leash. But he has the quality, and
you have it.
And that, even more than the likable
quality he has in common with you,
should make you his friend-at least
should place you in the attitude of
sympathetic willingness to be his
friend if the useful opportunity ever
offered.
Quit this hate. especially in hot
weather.
Liking folks cools you off nicely and
makes you fit in with the scheme of
the universe.
Hate lifts your temper and your
temperature, and you sweat and tickle
and squirm and stew.
Besides, if you have sense and
imagination enough to look at a thing
from some other than your own mar
rowly selfish standpoint, remember
that time you found somebody else
hated you-didnt that hurt you, clear
to the heart?
Your hate hurts the other man just
that way, and-well, don't do it. If
be died tomorrow you couldn't look
the Lord in the face.
Like folks!
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16
ComnercIsIIzed Sport.

why didn't you get up before the
referee counted ten?" asked the dis
appointed hacker.
'T was a little confused" confessed
the vanquished pugilist. 81 thought
he was counting up gate receipts, and
/ was listening for bigger figures
Washington Star.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16
At the Desk.

Clerk-You cannot pay your bill?
GUEST cannot.
Clerk-What do you mean by
taking a room, If you haven't money
enough to pay for it"
Guest-I had money enough when l
took It, but knew nothing about the
union rates for walters and l have
since given one a tip.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16
WILLING 10 Help.

First Doctor-Now, the first thing
ts TO reduce the fever and allay the
thirst.
The Patient (overhearing)-I think,
gentlemen, that If you get the fever
away. I could overpower the other
,art of nv complaint myself.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16
a Natural Inquiry.

This genius states that he attained
success through using the ideas of
brighter men"
AND over what humorous column
did he preside?"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16
Proving the Suddenness.

Your poor husband met a sudden
death, didn't he?"
That's what we're trying to prove"
replied the widow. but the chauffeur
swears he wasn't going over twenty
miles an hour"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16

ezA3-AZAo@1s against her husband, so
ciety man, clubman and writer OF the
lyrics and music for the exclusive
Mask and Wig Club of Quakerdom.
Mrs. Gilpin says that her husband
paid too many attentions to Nance
Gwyn, who is known the most beau
tiful dancer on the stage. Some time
ago Miss Gwyn-or Mrs. Mccartney
was divorced by her husband, who
claimed that she was too fond of Mr..
Gilpin.
Mrs. Gilpin is, as one can see from
her pictures, very beautiful She Is
witty, sprightly, and possessor, with
her two sisters, Mrs. Bobby Straw
bridge, of Philadelphia, and the Baron
ess Ruprecht Won Boecklin, of share
of the millions of Charles E. Berwind,
railroad director, financier and coal
operator.
Mr.. Gilpin is studious, artistic, mu-
steal, and has been considered some
what of a social recluse-if that is
not too much of a contradiction in
terms.
Nance Gwyn is daring, unconven-
tional, intellectual and sprightly, and
also beautiful, as her pictures show.
Of as good a family as Mrs. Gilpin,
too.
AS a trio they present quite social
problem. Why, if Mrs. Gilpin's charges
are true, did Mr.. Gilpin prefer Miss
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16

and rich, ambitious to have Charles
fill the place his family warrants him
in taking, and he neglects me for
dancing girl. Is it not inexplicable?
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16
Force of a TweIve-InoL -

The projectile of the 12.inch q,,n
penetrates 22 inches of armor plate
and has pierced 20-foot concrete wall
heavily reinforced with steel beams
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16

Eat, drink, and be merry, for to-
morrow our heirs will make things
hum.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-16

- Mrs.
Charles Gilpin. Sd, called
the most beautiful wo-
man in Philadelphia, has
brought suit for divorce
against her husband, so