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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1909)
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How much has ; lie left to give away before the time he has set when he will . _ . . again . , as when a . young man , std before the world empty handed , pis coffers yoid and his bank book : blank ? . All these questions are being dis cussed by the curious. 3 . . All through -his life Dr. Pearsons has maintained much reserve regarding his affairs. I "To listen is far better than to talk , " has been his motto , and not even to his _ closest friends has -he confided his ex act financial status. But it has been 4 possible get frbm a , number of per sons who have been connected with him in one way or another a general astimate which , while it may not be 'axactly correct , is at least as nearly so : ; as any one except the philanthropist fi'lllself is capable of giving. If twenty years ago Dr. Pearsons1 S [ 01' tone was , as it is thought. to have 4 be n * , ' in the neighborhood of $6,000,000 , his yearly income , at a most conserva- tive estimate , must have been at least 300000. \ During the twenty years his known gifts" to colleges have amounted to' 52,579,000. And to this . . - he $20,000 gift just made to the Young Men's Chris- } tian Association of Chicago and the $100,000 which he has announced he ivill \ present to Berea College in the near future , and- which , by the way , will be his last college presentation , , and the amount is increased to $2,699- . . ' -r DOO. " M 1 7 V / r + 5 . . Q p 1r4M . , , Q p 0 r u. I 0 ® t J ' " i Jrr Q . t _ r . _ _ . . . : , " J' ' ' bq p p p p AY' ) q0 O 0 1 ' . .r o . r V - , I i .4 ' : 1" 1 . ! : i . . . It IB taken for granted that his , Un known gifts to charities and persons have been in the neighborhood of $2,000,000 , at least. He has , then , within the last twenty years given away about 4699000. This would leave him with $1,301,000 of his in- come still untouched and his capital intact as it was when he retired from business. Besides this he has his magnificent suburban home , at Hins- dale. This , it is thought , may be made- into a home for the crippled children of Chicago , as Dr. Pearsons' big heart has always had a particularly warm spot for these unfortunate mites. All this has been a most conserva- tive estimate , but it shows that the Chicago philanthropist has , to say the least , a monstrous task before him if he would before his birthday dispose , . - . 1 A WILL . I CONTEST r pMwR - . , . which recalls the c,1 u i , r , a TfACnINGS - or 1.jJ1 'i'I ' " - H EMANUet5ftDfN KG I ALF a century ago there died in Lancaster , Pa. , a religiously- H minded man who had become so imbued ! with the philosophic teachings of the mystic ; , Emanuel Swedenborg , that when mak- ing disposition of the wealth which had accumulated he left _ in charge of seven trustees $35,000 for the found-ing of an . academy in which the Swedenborgian doctrine should be taught. ! The name of this follower of Swedenborg was Frederick John Kramph. Beipg a careful mian , who took long views of life , and knowing that the settlement of his estate would take : some time , during which other zealous Swedenborgians would perhaps wax impat'ieat and build an academy without waiting for his money , he had inserted in his will a clause which provided that should such an academy be built in Philadelphia before the ' trustees gained possession of the residue of his estate , the residue should- then go to the trustees of tile established academy. : - . Now , whatever the reasons for delay , the trustees did not build . the academy , but in 1877 , almost a score of years ; after the death of Frederick John Kramph such an academy was built by. others , who , under the pro- visions of the will , claimed the money. ' . /Before either set of trustees could dispose of the .mone ) " , which , if well invested' ; must in the intervening years have considerably increased , a grand- , aughter , Mrs. Eva T. Appel , . loath to see so much good , hard money pass . 'out of the keeping of the " = : ' e family , smarted proceedings against both sets of trustees , claiming that neither vas entitled to the estate , because .the re- ligious denomination of which the grandfather was a lifelong member is an , immoral and Illegal institution and the doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg are in derogation of the laws of Pennsylvania and are repugnant not only to the law of the land , but to.the public policy. " I" . Such a charge .at once enlarged interest i in suit ' the , lifting it from the. realm.of . , : the purely . 1 ' personal ' - to , the ' , broader . field in which 'judges . .had " to . uP ' . , r T . - _ , - of the money he has left , which , tak- ing the above as authority , amounts yet to over 7000000. Following is a list of the colleges and other institutions which have bene fited by his generosity : Beloit College , Beloit , WIs. . . . . . . $235,000 Chicago Theological Seminary. . . 280,000 Colorado College , Colorado Springs , Colo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150,000 . Mount Holyoke College , Massa- chusetts . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150,000 Berea College , Kentucky . . . . . YO' 150,000 Lake Forest University , Lake For- est , 111 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125,000 Whitman College , Walla Walla , Wash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.000 Knox College. Galesburg . . . . . 100,000 Drury College , Springfield Mo. . . 100,000 Yankton College , Yankton. S. D. . . 100,000 Presbyterian Hospital Chicago. . . 70,000 Pacific University , Forest Grove , Ore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,000 Carleton College , Northfield , Minn. 50,000 Fargo College , Fargo , N. D . . . . . 50.000 Pomona College , Pomona , Cal. . . . 50,000 Fairmont College , Fairmont , Kan. 50,000 McCormick Theological Seminary , , , Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000 Chicago Young Men's Christian Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,000 Olivet College , Olivet Mich : : . . . . 25,000 Marietta : College , Marietta Ohio. 25,000 Sheridan College , Sheridan Wyo. 25,000 McKendree College , Kewanee , 111. 25,000 Presbyterian Board of Missions. . 20,000 Grand Prairie Seminary , Onarga , . 111 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,000 i Anatona College Turkey . . . . . . . . 20,000 . ; Women's Board of Foreign Mis- slons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,000 r Chicago Art Institute . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 c Chicago Missionary Society . . . . . 12,000 First Presbyterian Church , Chi- C cago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000 r Public Library , Bradford Vt. . . . 2,000 Unknown college . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,000 a Northwestern University Evans- c ton , Ill. . .J..J..J. . . . . . . . . . . . 30,000 Colorado College , Colorado Springs , L Colo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000 Guilford College , Greensboro N. C. 25,000 Piedmont College , Demorest , Ga. . 25,000 Washington College , Tennessee. . 25,000 i Grant University , Chattanooga , Tenn . . . . . . . . . > . . ' . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000 West Virginia Seminary. Mor- gantown W. Va. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000 Huron College , Huron , S. D. . . . . 15,000 T hold or condemn a philosophy which many thousands of people in this land and elsewhere have embraced as a religion. The orphans' court decided in favor of the granddaughter , this condemn- / IJ ing the work ' of the Church of the New Jerusalem , which is based on the teachings of Swedenborg. Carried to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court , the opinion of the lower court was reversed , the Supreme Court deciding that t the works of the Swedish mystic are not in derogation of. the laws of Pennt . t sylvania or repugnant to public policy. . ' .I In many instances men instrumental in giving to the world what at ' e least a portion of its pelbple accept as religion have been of lowly birth , of'r little learning. Samuel Swedenborg , ennobled with his family by the queen , tJ son of a bishop whohad the confidence and favor of the king and was himb self a learned man , was born into a world of intellectual rather than of emorl tional interests. That the works of such a man should have attracted and s held the attention of thinkers like Emerson , Coleridge and Herder is not t1 strange. He was of their class-as fine , , an intellectual Brahmin as any of s them. But _ that at the same time there should be found In his writings the a basis for a church to which the less learned could come and find * comfort- n that is the amazing thing. to < Jesper Swedberg , bishop of Skava , preacher , teacher , reformer , writer and scholar , was the father of nine children , all born to the first of three G well-beloved wives. "I am fully convinced , " he wrote , "that children ought to be called such names as will awaken in them and call to their minds the fear of God and everything that is orderly and righteous. ? * The name of my son Emanuel signifies 'God with us , ' that he may always re- . member God's presence , and that intimate , holy and mysterious conjunction with tmr good and gracious God , into which we are brought by faith , by which we are conjoined with Him and are in Him. And blessed be the Lord's name , God has to this hour been with him. " Perhaps the good bishop was right and the name 'did play its part in making the son the mystic which he became. The father was a good bishop. Son of a mine owner whose , large wealth was not so large when , divided among , many members of a large family , Jesper Swedberg , whose father was Daniel Isaksson , followed a custom of his country and tdok his name j from the" homestead , called Sweden. It seems a curious custom which thus gives each generation of the same family a different surname , for after the ' \ : Family was ennobled "Emanuel , the son of Jesper Swedberg , became Sweden- ' borg-his father was Swedberg his ; grandfather , Daniel Isaksson , son of ' Isaac Nilsson , who was the son of Nils Ottesson , son of Otto of Sundborg. After- Jesper Swedberg had taken his theological scholarship at the Uni , , . versity of Upsal , he married a wealthy widow and , w'th the aid of her for- tune , traveled extensively , meeting men of learning and profiting thereby. th Returning to his native land , he was made chaplain of the king's regiment St of r life guards. So ardent was he in the performance of his duties that he bI : promised to give a catechism to every soldier , of the regiment who could go read it at the next annual inspection. The first year there were 300 who th demanded catechisms and the next. 600 , so the poor preacher had to beg asgo sistance from the king. & A little later he was appointed by the king memto , ber of a commission to revise the Swedish Bible and toim was so eager to hasten m ; : the work that ' he advanced money -belonging to his wife and children to imaD port .the materials and workmen for printing. ' fle - , w R r ' . 1 . . . . \ fiXING NAllOtJ'S ! GLOCK . ' Careful Methods Washington Naval Observatory to In- sure Accuracy. . DELICATE MECHANISM IS USED , , 'Eow Mean Time Is. . Obtained and the Part Performed by Riefler's Sidereal Timepiece. . A few moments before 12 o'clock nobn every day in the year a young man walks into a certain room of the main building at the naval observa- tory , which is set up on a hill , in the northwestern part of the District of Columbia , the Boston Herald says. He glances at .the various clocks in the room and then goes over to a table covered with electric apparatus. . He watches the clocks to his left closely and waits for the hands to reach 11:55. As the second hand ap- proaches the 60 on the dial he pre- pares to shift a switch. The clock is so finely adjusted that when the sec- ond hand points to 60 it exactly marks the beginning of a new minute and the end of the old. As it touches the 60 the switches are thrown on. That starts a signal that goes out instantaneously over 900,000 miles of telegraph lines. In Washington , New York , Buffalo , Cleveland , Newport , Baltimore , New- port News , Norfolk : , Savannah , New Orleans , Key West , Galveston , Chica- go and elsewhere the time balls go up on their poles. People know that it is five minutes before noon , Wash ington time. The clock which keeps the time in the observatory ticks on. With each tick there is a contact of electric points. A circuit is clos tJd and an instrument on the table .similar to a telegraph sounder ticks away loudly. It goes on to the twenty-ninth sec- ond , then skips one tick , then resumes its steady soundings until the , last five seconds , then there is another gap. These gaps are for the purpose of giving listeners at other ends of the great system of wires a chance to know what part of the minute the clock is on. And so it goes up to the last minute. At the thirty - ' ninth second there is again the skipping of one second. Fi- nally the clock gets around to the fif- t : tieth second. Then the circuit re- mains open for ten seconds. There is } silence all along telegraph wires. ' f The mean time is determined by as- tronomical observations. When cer- : tain stars pass the seventy-fifth meri- fe dian : , caIled "the meridian of WashingI I : ton , it is a certain time. The oper- ator watches for the stars through a fca telescope : , the field of which is covered . with fine wires. As the stars reach a certain point in transit the operator presses a key ) in his hand. A contact is made and I recorded on a. chronograph. The I : chronograph : consists of a cylinder w covered : with a paper. A fountain pen t ; rests on the paper. It is held' by an : c. : arm attached to the mechanism. The cylinder : revolves once a minute and W the , pen moves along the surface of ed the paper , making a spiral line. th A sidereal clock of the finest make h is running in g. vault underneath the di observatory. With each tick of the e < clock : there is a contact , of two points. These two points are attached to vires that lead to an electrogramnet attached to the arm that holds the pen of the chronograph. The clock is so adjusted that each minute the pen is made to jump to one side. Conse- quently there is no break in the line. There are other breaks : , too , when he observer watches the stars cross he lines IB. , the field of the telescope. The mean times thus recorded for ach star after being corrected for er ors is the clock time of the star's transit. Whatever difference there' is etween the clock ' ' time and the side- real time marked by the transit o'f the tars is the error of the clock. From these astronomical observations the idereal time is obtained. The error . . mounts -to - but little , rarely being more , than from five one-lmndredths o ten one-hundredths of a second. GOAT : BUTTS AT HIS OWN IMAGE IN SHOW WINDOW. 01 oi oiC C Bi hi , d5 Pi I t < / PiY tr de as a . r - , - / iw , ' hi rl " / , ' r hi M , iit// be J , li . a i 'Sn.-a bo ) Iii fri ; Vf'/ Stl ne - . "Bill Hector , " a goat , looked' rough the window of a millinery ( ore in Chicago. Amid a display of an g hats he imagined he saw another tat leering at him. He plunged ge rough the window. There was no tat to do battle.with . him , so he ho ok revenge on the hats , to the disbll ay of the milliner and her assist- ants. He had only seen his own re- cy iction. . . . I re . . I . , . . . . - " WISCONSIN WOMAN OF 78 IS ' ' ' " ) ' ! ! TAJrING A "TLLEGE COUESH , ' 1 .i"o1 _ , , _ < m L " kL.1t' , . : : : : : _ , _ : : . : . > : - . . . : : y . ' ? " - . : ; \ < ' " A. . . . : . " $ : tfi . " . ! . t. ' . 'C . . tiv , f , . " " : . .i " * t { ' \ . . , . , , . : ; ; & " . t Af' \ , . , , r * : r' r i. ! r - + r , , t , y , , J VT , : y . . . , ' e j + . * ' . . . - Y : ; 'b _ , " ' gJr. ? " Gf r " . . hY L , . ' . : 'i S b 1 : r- , l r A a' ' o _ . a & m , / , - " - - : ' , ' " : : > - : > < . ' ' . . r 4 - < JlfR..S : Au , ' , . C\.JrN SlfIP4 - , Mrs. A. D. Winship of Racine , Wis. , . ' ; : . vbo is 78 years old , is studying -hard' ' " ' . _ i ivery day at the Ohio State Universi- ' y , and by her diligence puts many ouths and young women to shame. She ; recently entered the college as a , 'reshman. , "I am not going to leave the college. ill I am 80 years old , " she said. "I eel as young as a girl , : and why should' , not complete my education ? In my . firlhocd : we did not have the advan- , . ; i"\ \ ages that girls have now , . though I lad some education , even in those - . , , ' . - ays. But learning is more advanced- : ' * ' low , and I want to get some of it. . 01 course , I have read a good deal , but wanted more of the rudiments. When ' am called hence and go to the next I . vorld I don't want to be placed in * . he A , B , C class. I am going to spe- ' . - .f . ialize on psyschology ; and literature. " , " . Mrs. Winship is a sister of Truman r Vright , who was greatly' ' interested inr . ducation and who gave a college to he city of Racine. She is in robust" ' ealth and declares she is not a fad. I , : ist , but a true seeker after knowl-- _ . , KJge. : 3 . . . 1 - - - - - - - , . BEAR TREES BOY HUNTER. - , 1 i ' ' " j -j , , " . & ' " \ , . yY1 ' " . - I W * ' \ i P .KrviZr T . . . . . . j . . " J ' \ \ Uvgf J4 ! - iJ \ _ j& & W-H Pp 12 = UL/ . = , . . . - " . . . ' - . , , . Yr . " . Treed by a bear within sight of hi : ) vn home was the thrilling experience- . ' - - . : : Dennie K. Birdsall , Jr. , a Watsom , . . ' ( onn. , lad of 14 , as he was hunting. . ; . . . irdsall might be there yet had not : . . . . . ' " is father gone to his rescue with a . . ! . ; , .r- . itchfork and driven off the bear. . a . . " oung ( Birdsall was hunting for par-- idges with his dog Sport , when sud-- ' jnly. : the dog came out from the , brush . ' . ; . though mad. His tail was between-- \ 1 " is legs , the hair of his back was up- : ght | and his eyes were bulging ! froaa . is head. After the dog came a brown. jar. The boy had sand and emptied ? , . th charges of birdshot at Bruin cm his gun , but the bear never , ' - opped. Then Dennie sought the " _ , . - rarest tree. - . > . ; ' . ' SPLINTERS. j , i ' - J , , ' A man doesn't 'have to 'be much oi ' , r . : ; : L orator to be a good speaker. 1' , . " , , ' The girl with the pretty ankle never ' , , - ' , jts : mud on the bottom of her skirt. ' , , v r < ; ; A man doesn't have to blow his ow > x . . . : Z ; ' , . . " 4 am if he has done anything worth . " " - ' . " lowing about. , Man usually shows his inconsisten- _ . by a front seat in a theater and -.fir , " > ar ; seat in church. - i 1