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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1900)
^ *♦ X m J . Current Topics « * * *11^********$* *****%*&*»**$% Count JSeppelm. the Aeronaut. Count Zep;.f!In, the Inventor of the great flying machine Iba; made two record-breaking trips urrisa Lake Convince In July and October th's year, thougli r general in the German army, is no stranger to the United States, having served in the civil war, when he made his firs! balloon ascent. He also fought in the Franco-Ger mau war, where ht distinguished him self by his balloon rrronnoissanres: COUNT ZEPPELIN, hut more recently he nos been at tached to the staff of the king of Wurtemburg. It Is said that he has already expended nearly $100,000 on aerial experiments. but In his latest venture he waa backed by n syndi cate with a capital of $250,000. He la seventy yearn old and has been en gaged In ballooning since he was forty. AdriM Stir* All London. . Since Mrs. Patrick Campbell began to produce “Mr. and Mrs. Daventry,” at the Royalty theater, London, last week the dramatic columns of the press are filled not only with com ments on the play, but on the per sonality pf the actress. A composite opinion U somewhat on this order: Mrs. Campbell is an actress of emin ent talent; she has no business to stoop to plays of the Oscar Wilde va riety; Mra. Campbell’s dramatic abil ities, however, would help .to purify society If utilized to infuse a lothing for scenes of depravity so common in the English “haut monde.” Mrs. Campbell \1kf perhaps more \ "V V 'MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL, fervent admirers and more fervent de tractors than any other actress in England. For this reason, no matter what piece she may produce, it will be praised by the former and con demned by the latter. And her friends are so many that even “Mr, and. Mrs. Daventry" is tolerated. .. In private life no one could ever conceive that Mrs. Campbell’s taste runs in anything hut the course of strict ethical purity. At home in Kensington square she receives in an informal way many of the distin guished lights of London. A Chines* War JunK, ’ One of the obsolete forms of sej craft to which the Chinese still c}ing ylth aiTection is the war junk, shown in the illustration, it is picturesque init clumsy, with flat bottom, square bow and high-pooped stern, in shape something like the caravels Columbus used when he znhde hi’s first voyage to America. The sails are usually made of matting, while the rudder is large and is lowered to a level with thekeel when in deep water. These junks are roomy and com fortable and not by any means so clumsy as they appear, for iu the hands of the Chinese pirates, who once scourged the coast of China, they were gften effective in aiding them to ac ppliBh their nefarious designs. XOorK of Yrofe-rsor Zttoed. When Professor H. W. Wood of the physic department of the University of. Wisconsin visited England, in Feb ruary. he gathered other honors and the silver medal of the Society of Arts of lxrndon in recognition of his work on the diffraction process of color photography. Professor Wood was in iu utf' fore the Royal so elety, one of th< oldest un<l most scientific societies In the world; ttfe Royal Photograph ic society and the London Camera club. For his ad dress before the Physical society that body made him a fellow. At Prof. Wood. the solar eclipse last May Professor Wood was a member of the Johns Hopkins party of the government ex pedition stationed at Pinehur3t. He Is at present engaged on work bearing i on the theory of tho solar corona, i Aside from being a fellow of the Lon don Physicnl society Professor Wood ' is a fellow of the American Associa- ! tlon for the Advancement of Science, i member of the American Physical so ciety and the American Astrophyelcal society. Woman's Worf^ in “Porto "Rico. The first woman superintendent of schools In Porto Rico, Mra. Ruth Shaff ncr Etnier, has returned to her home j at Newville, Pa., after eighteen j HI"' 'v MRS. ETNIER. months’ labor in our recently uequired island. In addition to her work as an educator Mrs. Etnier acted as an organizer of temperance societies, and has succeeded even beyond her antic ipations in awakening an interest among the natives in the cause of to tal abstinence. In connection with the latter movement she spoke freely the other day. “One of the most gratifying things 1 noted on the island," she said, “was that there was no intemperance. I never saw a Spaniard or a native drunk. There were no saloons until war begun, and three have been closed since the army's withdrawal. Rev. H. W. Jones, chaplain of the United States tralningship Mononga hela, lying at Old Point, has just been honored with the degree of doctor of divinity from Wake college, North Carolina. The degree was conferred on him because he was chaplain of the only southern named ship which took part in the Santiago engagement, the battleship Texas. Cthe Lot* Capt. Hetoey. Capt. Edward Dewey, elder brother of the admiral, died the other day, CAPT. EDWARD DEWEY, at his home in Montpelier. He was 71 years of age. Capt. Dewey saw service during the civil war, having been commissioned first lieutenant and quartermaster of the Eighth Ver mont volunteers, Jan. 12, 1864. His regiment took part in the chase after Early in that year and was with Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley in the fall of 1864. Besides Admiral Dewey he leaves another brother, Charles Dewey, of Montpelier, and a sister, Mrs. Mary P. Greeley. 1 Women'* Enlarged Sphere. Women earn their daily bread in almost every branch of human in dustry. Women make or help to make coffins, bricks, ties, sewer pipes, tools, boxes, barrels, furniture. They ■ are in all the professions; they are ! stockholders and partners in various j kinds of business, and as to the more conventional occupations of women j they are galore. In the more un usual way we have had a woman an- j thropologist, a woman forester, worn- ] en who mine and women who deal in stocks. One woman spent fifty years making a bead house and late ly was found dead with her unfinished work before her Guided Forces In1o Ftkjn. Rev. Frederick Brown, under whoso guidance the allied forces marched from Tientsin to Pekin, is a mission ary and the presiding elder of the Tientsin district of the Methodist Episcopal mission In North China. Mr. Brown has labored In the land of the Mauehiis and Tartars for upward of seventeen years. In that time he j has traveled much between Tientsin j and Pekin and, thoroughly familiar as | he was with every foot of the way, no better guide for the forces in their march of relief could have been found. When the outbreak of the Boxers oc curred In Pekin Mr. Brown was the last foreigner to get safely away. La ter he went to Che Foo, from which point he sent nearly all of the unoffi cial cable dispatches that came to America describing the situation In China. Ho stood upon the wall of Pe kin during the first engagement, and I'rw"iinii cm REV. FREDERICK BROWN, was within a few feet of Capt. Reilly when that brave officer was killed. He refused all compensation for his serv ices. Slatin Pasha, who was believed to have bidden a final adieu to Egypt, is on his way back to the Soudan, where he will be governor of Khartoum un der Sir Reginald Wingate, the new sirdar. He had, as he thought, set tled down for good in Vienna, but now bears out the ancient Egyptian belief that he who once drinks of the Nile will long to repeat the draught. A Domestic Uragedy. The disappearance of Mrs. Jennie L. Gatewood and Dr. T. W. Tuggle of Lexington, Ky., marka the close of an other scene in a domestic tragedy that has been the topic of conversation in that section of Kentucky for many months. It is believed the couple has gone to New York. Tuggle disposed of his property before departing. In Sep tember last the Fayette c ou n t y grand Jury Investi gated an alleged plot between Mrs. Oatewood and Dr. Tuggle to kill the latter’s wife. A negro, John Lair, Jennie uaiewoou. ioiu me prosecut ing attorney that he had been hired to waylay and kill Mrs. Tuggle; that he was given $5 as a part of the $200 which he was to receive when the crime was committed. Loir weakened and in the quarrel which followed with Tuggle, he says, the plot was over heard. Mrs. Tuggle testified that she wad shot at. The matter was compromised by Tuggle allowing his wife to apply for divorce without contest. Mrs. Gate wood disposed of her property recent ly, and the day after her departure Tuggle also disappeared. He comes of a good family in Columbus, Ga. English papers say that the report that Sir Redvers Buller has been of fered and has refused a peerage should be accepted with great caution. In the first place, no honors will be granted to the leaders in the Boer war until next year, and, moreover, it is said that Sir Redvers will refuse nothing that, may be offered to him. That his name will bo included in the list is considered to be practically cer tain. fiet*> 'Police Chief. He was Indicted last week for inter fering with the work of State Super* intendent of Elections McCullagh. Queen Victoria holds' the title of duke or Lancaster. Most people im agine that her title of duke of Lan caster merges in her superior title of queen, but that is not so, as she would remain duke of Lancaster even if she ceased to be queen. THE 'CUO'RL'D'S DOINGS. Cranberry "PicKing. The cranberry crop in central Wisconsin has been harvested, milled, barreled and is rapidly being shipped to market. Very few people have much of an idea of how cranberries grow or what the vines look like; whether they resemble gooseberry busheB or to- j raato vines. The cranberry Is a very modest little grower and the vines seldom reach a height of over eight Inches, and a patch that is well covered j with berries might be passed over by a casual observer without noticing the fruit at all. One class of people who engage largely in this occupation is the native Indian, and they often constitute one-fifth of those working on the marsh. The Indians travel for miles to reach the chanberry marshes, bringing the whole family in a rattletrap wagon pulled by a team of horses that one would think had outlived their usefulness years before. When they reach the neighborhood of the marsh their tent is pitched, generally in the ! brushiest, meanest place possible to find, and they settle down to house keeping with all the contentment born of a life in the woods. These In dians are generally pretty intelligent people and the men are usually able to carry on a conversation in broken English. The women, however, do not seem to understand much English and avoid the white people as much as possible. The Indians are the last to get to work in the morning and the first to quit at night, and they draw their salary every evenin'* on their way from the marsh. Pre-Eminence in Machinery. The London Chronicle’s correspon dent who investigated machinery ex hibits at the Paris exposition acknowl edges that in the whole group of ma chine tools and minor mechanical ap pliance the United States is tar in the - ■ lead. The chief advantage, he states, is the system of interchangeable parts, which has been so highly praised re cently by other - British observers, notably the correspondent of the Lon don Times, who investigated rather fully American competition with Eng land in engineering. The Chronicle’s - correspondent says that the superior ity of technical education in the United States is one reason for Amer ican pre-eminence in engineering, and he also mentions a point overlooked by most writers, but which in fact is i largely responsible for our progress. This is that “the accomplished opera tive mechanic is a person of consid eration and importance” in the United States, which he is not in Great Brit ain. The lad of good family who has a taste for mechanics is sent to a great university in America, and there Vi’ he receives & thorough technical training. It is, then, the democracy of the American people and the ab sence of the class distinction which have brought about and maintains American pre-eminence in manufac turing and mechanical industries. A statue in memory of Rev. Adin Ballou, the reformer and writer, a gift of General W. F. Draper, lately ambassador to Italy, has been unveiled at Hopedale, Mass. The memorial occupies the site of the clergyman’s home. The lot and the pedestal of the statue were purchased by popu lar subscription. Governor Pingree of Michigan, speaking of his political life, has told the newspapers that they may erect his monument and write his epitaph. He took no part in the late campaign, as his health required quiet and careful nursing. Hart on “Boxer “Rising, The Fortnightly Review contains an article on the Boxer uprising by Sir Robert Hart, who is of all men the most competent to discuss the Chi nese situation. He declares that the rebellion was essentially a national uprising that had for its object the checking of foreign influence in the empire, and it was based upon the mature conviction that a system of volunteer defense would succeed in bringing this about. The foreign min isters had been warned again and again, but none of the European of- : flclals realized the magnitude of the i movement. The most interesting fea- ] ture of the article is Sir Robert's pre- j diction that the Chinese will rise again. The national spirit will, in his opinion, continue to increase, and be fore 100 years at the most the “yel low peril" must be faced by Europeans. When that time comes the Chinese will be well drilled and well armed, for that is the lesson that has been taught the Celestials by their failure. He then argues against further Eu ropean Interference in the affairs of the empire and the pressing of de mands for reparation, although hi fact the facts as stated by him lead ir resistibly to the judgment that Eu ropean control would be the only way in which to stave off the threatened uprising,, for the thorough policing of the empire would serve to prevent another such rising without due warn ing of its imminence, and such warn ing would enable the taking of ef fective measures and would prevent a repetition of the suspense through which the civilized world passed while the legations were under siege. Mrs. Baden-Poweli, the mother of the hero of Mafeklng, is an astrono mer, and has translated into English several foreign books on astronomy. Clearing ft tie of Sbvamp*r. JTEAM&C HAUUHGAWAY A HALT ^5gVEgtP BLOCK Of- THE -3UPP. One of the results of British occupation of Egypt has been the opening of communication between the White Nile and the Victoria Nile, which every year is interrupted by the “sudd" or floating islands of marsh which obstruct navigation in the Nile between Fashoda and Lado. Under the old regime many efforts were made at various times to remove the "sudd,” and some of these attempts wdre temporarily successful, but the effect of the work was not lasting, and soon the channel filled again. Under the Dervish rule, nothing at all was done in this direction. But after the re^nquest Df the Soudan the Egyptian government took up the problem, and last winter began a fresh attempt to remove the “sudd." These “sudd” marshes are probably the largest series of marshes in the world. Although the actual limits are not known, the total area is placed at not less than 12,000 square miles. ‘ The depression which they oc cupy once was a lake. Here grows the papyrus; the Um soof, by which name, meaning "Mother of Wool," the Arabs call a tall reed which is covered with prickly hairs; the ambatch, a tree-like shrub, which is light er than cork, and many flowering creepers which twine themselves through the mass and add to the tangle. Those who are obliged to work in these swamps suffer from depres sion of spirits. The heat, even in the winter, is intense, and the air is saturated with humidity. Malaria is ever present, and from April to Oc tober the rainfall is continuous. The only Inhabitants are a few negroes who just manage to live by fishing. Mosquitoes are countless, and in the night their murmur is like the diapason of an organ. Sir Samuel Baker, the1 African explorer, calls this region “a heaven for mosquitoes and a damp hell for men." HcL'OcLrta, 4? Hail of Fame. r American is not enmiea 10 claim originality in ner purpose to erect a hall of fame at the University of New York. Bavaria originated the idea long ago and a hall of fame exists in that city today. It Is known as “Die Ruhmeshalle,’’ and overlooks the newer part of the city and the Theresienwiese. The hall was begun in 1843. under the supervision of the architect Klens and was completed ten years later. It is in the form of a colonnade, seventy meters long and thirty-two meters wide, and has two projecting wings which partly inclose the statue of Bavaria. This is a gigantic iron figure, 110 feet high, weighing 64,177 kilograms, designed by Schwanthaler. Along the front colonnade of the Ruhmcshalle there are eighty busts of famous Bavarians. These are exposed to the air, but the Doric columns are so arranged that they protect the busts in a measure. ■ Mindotved Cheater*. Robert Stodart, in the current In- " ~ dependent, suggests a new field for philanthropy—the endowment of thea ters. He starts with the proposition that “the way we play influences us quite as profoundly as does the way we work.” He painstakingly refutes “the fallacy that the theater is mere ly a place of amusement.” He fitly deplores “the dramatic chaos conse- ' quent upon purely speculative man agement of our stage.” He truly af firms that “the great bulk of the American people are morally sound, eager to learn, no more averse to listening *up4 than to reading ‘up.’ He correctly declares that “the aim of every civilized nation should be to have its theater truly represent its people.” He concludes that “a wise ly governed and well-trod stage would not appeal in vain, and that an en dowed theater, conservatively man aged, would pay.” General Hawley pays this tribute to the late Charles Dudley Warner: “He was completely a gentleman. He lived a religious life, but said little about it He regularly attended his church, respecting and obeying its observance. I never heard from his lips an indeli cate or coarse story or an unclean idea. He abhorred injustice, mean ness and dishonor. It is a cheerful spirit and a true wit and a Bweet hu mor that we find in all his works.” The Danger from China. The real “yellow peril” will be pres ent when the Chinese are awakened to the full knowledge of the resources of their empire and have their atten tion strongly directed to manufactur ing. What the civilized world has most to fear is the arousing of China from her present lethargic condition to a realization of the possibilities within her reach. The Chinese are in dustrious and thrifty. They are will ing to work and to work for small wages. They can easily be taught to do almost anything. They quickly become expert operatives in cotton factories and it would not be difficult to teach them.to be skillful workmen In all kinds of manufacturing. Seven miles is the greatest recorded height ever reached by a balloon. Mr*. Glad-rtonc* Lart Moment* The dean of Lincoln says that Mrs. Gladstone’s last moments were passed under the delusion that she was with her husband. She scolded the nurse because a carriage which she thought she had ordered for Mr. Gladstone was late, and then asked, as if of him, “Shall you be ready to start soon, dar ling?” v