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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-30
MISTAKES OF SCIENTISTS
History Shows Many Instances Whers
Men of Learning Went Hope
lessly Wrong.

Sir Humphrey Davy's dogmat1c pro-
nouncement against gas lighting ls
not the only instance of clever SCI
enlist being hopelessly wrong. The
early history of submarine cabling fur-
nishes two striking examples. Con-
suited on the scientific side or the
project, Farady asserted that the first
cables were made too small Ihen
he said that the larger the wire the
more electricity would be required TO
charge it," and in this quite wrong
opinion he was supported by other
eminent electricians. AS a result or
this dictum the current was increased
until the operation literally electro
cuted" the wire and the cable broke
down. 1t was Lord Kelvin who by
sending messages through heavy ca
bles with incredibly weak electric
currents proved that Farady was mis-
taken
Sir G. B. Airy submitted the project
to mathematics and arrived at the
conclusion that a cable could not be-
submerged to the necessary Depth
and that if it could no recognizable
signal could ever travel from Ireland
to Nova Scotia. In aviation Professor
Newcomb, one of the cleverest mathe-
maticians America has produced, who
died last year. declared that he had
mechanically investigated all the
conditions operating against the heav-
ier-tEan-air machine and was con-
WINGED that the aeroplane would never
be more than scientific toy; and the
possibility of an aeroplane motor be-
ing reliable in the reduced atmospher-
ic pressure above 5000 feet was by
several experts said to be out of the
question a few months ago. Drexels
carbureter was certainly a bit erratic
above the clouds last week, but he
rose to analtitude of $3.50 feet.-Lon'
don News.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-30
Explosion of Ammonia in Morris
Plant Causes Many Deaths.
BIG PLANT Is WIPED OUT
Men Fight Against Desperate Odds to
subdue confIagratIon-Fire Fight
ere Face Death to Rescue Bodies
Of Their Comrades-Worst
Fire in Years.

Chicago.-Twenty-five firemen, in
Guiding Fire Chief James Koran, were
killed. while engaged in an onslaught
against tornado of flame that swept
into rubbish the new beef house of
the packing plant of Morris & Co., at
the Union stock yards.
Scores of firemen were injured.
The property loss will reach more than
$75O,000.
Fire Chief Koran body was re
covered after repeated efforts to move
the smoldering debris under which he
was buried and removed to the home
of his brother, Daniel ]. Koran, Sixty
first street and Prairie avenue.
Waterman Discovers Fire.
A Waterman VIII was making his
rounds through the structure discov-
cred the fire. He saw flames in what
is known as the hide stOreroOm in the
basement He at once telephoned an
alarm and fed from the building The
flames spread rapidly and with the
arrival of the first companies of fire
men a general alarm was sounded
which brought over Is companies of
flremen to the scene.
The fire broke out at 4 a. m. and
spectacular battle with the flames en-
sued until at a. m. a terrific eXplO-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-30
TROUssEAU FOR BRIDEGROOM
Not Often Heard Of, but Indiana WON
an Thought Son Should
Have One.

should a bridegroom have a trous-
seau?
It may be a pertinent question IN
some places, but it is calculated TO
mean a fight if overheard by certain
newly initiated member Of the grand
old order of benedicts. This pugna-
cious individual, who has recently
settled down, has had his experiences
with masculine trousseaus and looks
for trouble wnen one mentions the
subject.
And it was all due to his proud and
doting mother.
She is typically a woman's woman.
For years she had been widow and
lived in a house full of women down
in an Indiana town, where she saw
her son only enthusiastically and
where all her associations are with
women. And when she heard her son
was about to wed, it was only natural
that the things that appeal to wom-
an at such a time should associate
themselves with her son.
The result was trousseau for him.
It was a surprise, too. In order that
he should know nothing about 1t, the
trousseau was made, sent to Chicago
to the home of the bride with re-
quest 1t be placed in one of the brides
trunks, that Harold might know moth
ing of 1t until they were well started
on their honeymoon.
he SrN
The brides mother opened the pack
age. gasped, and looked again TO see
IL she had read the explanatory letter
which accompanied it Alright Here's
what met her astonished gaze:
Six union suits.
Six pairs of pajamas.
Twelve pairs OF hosiery.
The hosiery was all right-a trifle
variegated as to color, but that could
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-30
second-cIass Carriages Doomed.

Second-class carriages on the Brit
fish railways are doomed. The move
ment is slow but steady, one Of the
principal trunk systems having recent
" abolished the intermediary between
6rst-class and third-class travel. On
II lines which still retain seconds"
the last half years passenger total Is
so per cent. lower than ten years ago.
Having regard to the steady improve
ment in rhird-class accommodation,
whence the greater proportion of
nroft is derived, the disappearance
of tbe intermediate class is not sur
prising, especially in long-distancel
travel.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-30

sion of ammonia in the beef cold
storage section of the building sent
a heavy canopy crashing down on a
SQUAD of firemen who were directing
their operations from a loading plat
form.
Send Many Calls for Help.
The fatalities all occurred in one
place on the loading platform. When
the blaze first was discovered and
an alarm turned in the first of the
fire department forces to arrive on
the scene sent in a All call for help,
Following this came special call AFTER
special CALL until so streams of water
were trained on the blaze.
| A stubborn fight occurred between
NE flames and the fremen. The fire
Eead to many parts of the building
L bite the efforts of the men VINO
to check 1t.
Sharp Blast. Then Death.
hight had continued for an hour
Real News in Past.
grapes of the great vine of
court, London, this year to-
has punches, worth $4,000. An
wspaper man living near the
es says: Il have for so years
the regular crop of news para
about the probable yield OF
Is on the old vine, and now
out the newspapers century age
ere printing the same thing" II
Wl6oks as if the old-timers had TO up
us young fellows off on real news
New York Press.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-30

be overlooked But the rest of the
rousseau!
Both union suits and pajamas were
made Of the daintiest sort of white
stuff, the necks were cut low and
edged with lace, and pink and blue
baby ribbon was run through it where
possible, while neat little bows were
tied on the shoulders.
That's all there is to it. Mother
called in the bride, and the bride or.
dered the "trousseau" carefully hid.
den away until what she deemed a
proper time. When the happy couple
came back from their honeymoon he
was shown his mothers handiwork.
and was able to write the expected
letter Of thanks, while his pretty
things were joyfully accepted by the
rather large and muscular daughter
of the tanitor-although she indig.
nantly declined part of the pajamas.
But the eternal mother-in-law
couldn't keep the joke. That's why
It's dangerous to talk about trousseaus
for men in some Chicago
Tribune.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-30

when the crash came Away up in
the roof of the structure. near a point
directly over the loading platform on
which stood Fire Chief Koran, Bur-
roughs, his second assistant, Lieuten-
ant Fitzgerald and nearly score of
others, there was a sudden, sharp,
loud report like the instantaneous
rending of high-pressure boiler.
Portions of the masonry of the
building fell away like a child's house
of toy building blocks. A large part
of this fell on the canopy over the
loading platform, tearing the latter
ava. and bearing it to the platform
itself, which was crushed like an egg
shell, with its human freight of fire.
fighting meng
Falling Brick Injure Many.
There were scores of firemen stand
ing on the outskirts of where the
bricks fell. Many of these were in
jured, some of them painfully. They
were taken to ST. Demands hospital
and to their homes in ambulances
and police patrols, which were rush
ed to the scene by the score when the
explosion came and it was known
that there would be list of dead and
injured.
Fumes of ammonia filed the build
ing with rapidity. 1t was seen at
once that ammonia pipes forming q
part of the refrigerating machinery
that kpRnC tho Cnt1fh ond IF tho hIIiIn-
ing chilled for the storage of beef
carcasses had exploded.
At once fear became widespread
that many f1remen and their officers
were in the building at the time and
that the ammonia fumes would
strike them to the floor leaving them
easy prey for flames and smoke or
killing them outright.
Firemen Work in Danger.
The rescuers worked under the
greatest danger to their own lives and
ignoring burns and hazard of falling
walls. Despite the fact that they were
aware of the fatality and knew that
the bodies of the victims were buried
under the brick pile, f1remen worked
about the pile, directing streams OF
water into the burning building. Many
of them went about with tears stream
ing down their cheeks. overcome with
grief over the fate of the chief and
his suDordinates.
Begin Rescue Immediately.
Almost as soon as the wall fell
those of the fighters who had escaped
the fate of their companions rushed
ut the ruins to bring to safety those
who might still be alive. Amid the
blazing timbers, the red-hot bricks and
the sizzling steel, the firemen worked
unmindful of the terrible burns they
were suffering.
The peril of the brave fire fighters
did not cease after the explosion and
the falling of the wall on the score OF
men on the loading platform.
Other and smaller sections of the
wall continued to fall and warning
calls from commanding officers to
men who were imperiled from time to
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-30

time by these were heard continually.
Finally an order was issued for no
man to venture near enough to the
building to be caught under any col
lapsing masonry.
News of the fire and explosion
spread rapidly through the stock yards
district and friends and relatives of
the firemen gathered around the build
ing. imploring the fire fighters for
news of their friends. Policemen from
a number of neighboring stations were
taxed to keep them from running into
the burning building.
Main seefhouse of Plant.
The building that was destroyed, for
its loss was practically total one.
was the principal beefhouse OF the
Norris plant. 1t adjoined on the
south the building in which are the
main offices of the company. and was
the largest OF the Morris group OF
structures. II was six stories high.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-30

frage cause at Vassar, j had read the
statement of Professor Tompkins, and
declared the only thing you could say
to such a man was that he didn't
know what he was talking about, and
that the facts didn't bear him out.
college women have amounted to
something, and do" said Miss Presley,
THE logic Of saying that any girl
doesn't amount to anything just be-
cause she isn't married, or that sim
ply because she isn't married she is a
freak, l can't see."
College Experience Valuable.
Another Cleveland girl, who recent
ly graduated from Smith, holds the
opinion that college ought to make a
girl more normal She's been hav-
ing all sorts of things happen to her
in those four years." she said, land
she ought to be less freakish, if any
thing, because she's had so much valu-
able experience" She herself is stay
ing at home since graduating and in
addition to helping her mother about
the house and in entertaining, she has
found time for some social settlement
work and holding library classes.
Many other Cleveland girls who
have been graduated from college are
living what seems to be a perfectly
normal existence at home, taking
much interest in ordinary affairs and
now and then entering into charitable
work of some kind.
In the old days, teaching school was
practically the only way in which an
educated woman could earn a living.
Nowadays, while many professions are
open to her, she still chooses this ca
reer in preference to any other, al
though the proportion Of graduates it
claims is not as large as formerly.
1t was never easier than it is today
for a well-educated woman who
wishes to be self-supporting to find the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-30

opportunity. She may select her pro-
fession or occupation and find abun-
dant chances to perfect herself in the
chosen work The woman who does
something great in art or literature or
who makes a reputation for herself in
any line stirs the feminine magma
ton and soon acquires many follow
ers.
There seems to be great tendency
of the college woman to turn to So
cial work This calling numbers quite
high in the rank of women's acttvi-
ties There are numerous women
physicians, and many private secre'
taries are numbered in the ranks OF
the woman worker.
Women In Many Professions.
The census of 1900 showed among
women workers fifty astronomers, 100
architects, forty civil engineers and
thirty mechanical and electrical engi'
neers. There are 5000 women clergy
men. OF course all these cannot be
traced as to their respective colleges,
but doubtless the great majority OF
them have college degrees.
This is a varied list, but those occU
pations are calling more and more
college graduates. The chances are
that teaching will always call larg5
proportion, not only because 1t IS a
natural profession for a woman OF
scholarly tastes, but because of the
long vacations which are denied to
women in other professional walks OF
life.
SO it would seem that the college
woman, whether she decides to enter
the state Of matrimony or not, gets q
good deal out of life. Married, she
has her husband and her home; I'M
married, she has an interesting pro-
fession. But verify, the world has
changed considerably since the days
of Romeo and Juliet.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-30
Green. All Riuht.

my grandfather"-the young man
smoke not without touch OF pride
my grandfather lived to a green old
age. A singularly green old age
Three times after his seventeen BIRTH
Jay he was taken in by the confidence
rick"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-30
Founder of open-Air School.

Founder of Open-Alr School.
Miss Gardner of Indianapolis is said
to be directly responsible for the
open-air school for delicate children
which has become an institution In
that city. She appeared before the
board of education and by her argu-
ments prevailed on it to give such
school a trial The children pay
three cents a day for hot milk, soup
or cocoa, which is supplied them by
the school. Any deficit is made up
by the treasury department of the
board.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-30
Her Joke.

Madam, your account is overdrawn
and we have had to send number of
your checks back"
How perfectly funny"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-06
The "MarseiIlaise." ;"

1t depends upon what you mean by
''great" If by great you mean the pow
er of firing the heart and rousing the
will, then there is no other national
song" that comes within a thousand
miles of the "Marseillaise." The
sound of it," remarks Carlyle, will
make the blood tingle in mems veins,
and whole armies and assemblages
will sing it with eyes weeping and
burning, and hearts defiant of death
and despots." 1t is the greatest soul.
awakener ever known on this earth.
The famous anthem was composed in
1793 by Rouget de Lisle. The scene
of its birth was not, as some suppose,
Marseilles, but Strasburg. 1t took its
name from the fact that a force of
Marseillaise first marched to its In.
spring strains.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-06

blind Tom was born near the city
of Columbus, Ca, of slave parents,
about the year 1876. He belonged to
General James N. Bethune, at that
time editor and proprietor of the
Corner Stone" Being blind. Tom
would stray away from home and was
often found in the woods. roaming
around and listening to the birds. 1t
was In his whistlng limitations of the
bird-songs that his wonderful musical
ability was first revealed to his mas
ter. He could repeat perfectly any
thing that he heard in the line Of mus.
ic. AS to his idiocy. 1t is generally
understood that. his musical ability
aside, he was very near being mat
tural." outside of his love for music,
he seemed to be quite stupid, and II
not an idiot, he was dangerous near
being one. Blind Tom is still the
standing puzzle of the psychologists.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-06


Much has been said of late in favor
of the extensive cultivation of the
black locust, and one railroad COM
pany is reported to have planted
nearly 100000 trees of this species,
with the view of utilizing their extra
ordinary durable wood. But Charles
A. White of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion points out, in the Popular Science
Monthly, that the black locust pos
sesses a mortal enemy in longicorn
beetle, which bores the wood through
and through. 1t is a native of the
same regions in which the tree
llourishes, and depends upon the tree
for it's own existence. When popula-
ton flowed to Illinois and Iowa, the
black locust was taken along. 1t
flourished luxuriantly for some years,
until its insect foe followed it, and now,
says Mr.. White, nothing remains of
the great groves of black locust in
the middle West except blasted rem
nants. The tree, native east of the
Allghenies, from New York to the
Gulf was also transplanted to Europe
whittier it's enemy has not followed it.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-06
Air Publication,

Publication of the air of great
cities is a subject which continually
attracts wider attention. Recently the
commissioners of works in London,
alarmed by the establishment of fac
tories consuming thousands of tons of
coal a week, have asked Parliament
to consider the matter. They recog'
nize, for the first time officially, says
the Engineer, that the getting rid OF
black smoke would not suffice to cure
the trouble. Other products OF com
bustion besides SCOT, such as sui
phurous and sulphuric acid anil solid
mineral particles, are deleterious to
vegetation, to buildings, to metal OBJ
jects, and to the pictures, marbles and
other treasures contained in museums
The elimination of these impurities
from the air is an important part Of
the problem.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-06

of logging camp and three years lat
er q roustabout on a river steamer. At
sixteen years old he was one of the
crew of a codfishery on the banks of
Newfoundland and afterward served
as a pilot on the st. Johns river bar.
Afterward he became part owner and
operator of a line of river steamers.
In 1887 he gave up the sea to run
a wood yard. The same year he was
appointed sheriff for Duval county, in
which he was born, to fill vacancy
caused by death. BY reappointment
and election he remained sheriff until
1900, when he went to the state legis-
lature from his county. he became
governor four years later.
The mission in life Of the new SEN
ator has been the reclamation Of the
Everglades of Florida. This was the
issue that carried him into the Office
of governor.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-06
rha Lannuanes Of Paradise.

Every language has its admirers. In
'Iucile" the author. owen Meredith,
maintained that when he heard French
spoken as he approved he found him
self quietly falling in love" Edward
Hutton is another instance Of this lin
gual fascination. In stating his, pref
erence in his enchanting "Cities Of
Spain" he recalls an interesting me-
dlaeyal legend. He says:
"And as l listened to the splendid
syllables OF the Castilian tongue that
rang eloquently through the twilight !
remembered the saying Of that old
Spanish doctor Of whom James How
ell tells us in his Instructions For
Forraine Travelp-to wit, that Spanish.
italian and French, these three daugh-
tiers Of the Latin language, were spo-
ken in paradise; that God Almighty
created the world IN Spanish, the
tempter persuaded Eve In Italian and
Adam begged pardon In French"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-06
Tho Hat Straw Crop.

The greater part of the straw en-
ployed for making summer hats comes
from Italy. To obtain suitable straw
for this purpose the wheat is sown as
thickly as possible in order that the
growth Of the plant may be impover-
lshed as well as to produce thin
stalk. The Italian wheat blooms at the
beginning of June and is pulled up by
hand by the roots when the grain is
half developed. Should 1t be allowed
10 remain In the ground longer time
the straw would become too brittle for
the purpose for which 1t is grown.
UproOted straws to the number Of
about five dozen. the size of the com
pass of the two hands, are firmly tied
together I'm little sheaves and slowed
away in barns. After that the straw is
again spread out TO catch the heavy
summer dews and to bleach in the sun.
When the product has been sufficiently
bleached 1t is put into small bundles
and classified. The last step is to cut
1t close above the first joint from the
top, when 1t is again tied up In small
bundles containing about sixty stalks
each and is then ready for the market,
-Harper's Weeky.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-06

NJ Office is hereby given that an ap-
" plication will be made to the
Governor of Pennsylvania on the
21st day of July, 1910, by John E.
Krantz, G. VIM. Sell and William
II. Gibbs under the Act of Assembly
approved April 20. 1874, entitled
IAN act to provide for the incorpor-
alton and regulation of certain cor
porations" and the supplements
thereto, for the charter of an intend
ed corporation to be called the
William II. Gibbs & Co., Incorporate
ed, the character and object of which
are the manufacture of glass, glass
ware and supplies used in making
glass, and for these purposes to
have, possess and enjoy all the
rights, benefits and privileges of said
Act and the supplements thereto.
NJ. L. SIMONS, Solicitor.
51eoi3.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-06
The Noise of Wireless reIearaphy.

Many readers may be surprised to
learn that the electric sparks en-
ployed in wireless telegraphy over
long distances produce a noise that
may be annoying for those living
close by the station. At least this has
been the experience at the Eiffel Tow
er in Paris, where the sparks from an
apparatus possessing a power of 10
kilowatts have proved disagreeable to
people several hundred yards away.
Since it is now proposed to substitute
apparatus of 40 kilowatts' power, with
the hope Of sending communications
direct from Paris to New York, the
generating-station will be placed un'
derground in order to smother the
sound of the sparks.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-06
Wedding Fee In InstaIIments.

Some of the 'squires in rustic New
Jersey seem to be pretty hard pushed
for cash. To get the cash they do not
hesitate to use most unusual methods.
One of these ]. P.'s advertised the
other day that he was ready and will
ing to marry couples at any time, day
or night, for a consideration of So and
that he was willing to accept 81 In
cash down and the rest in weekly in
stallments of 81 until the fee of So
was paid up. The very night after the
first appearance of this advertisement
the J. p. referred to was called upon
to make good" his bluff. Shortly
after midnight a couple which had
come In an automobile awakened him
from his sleep and asked to be mar
ried under the installment plan offered
in the advertisement. And the j. P.
was game and made good