Lincoln County leader. [volume], September 01, 1911, Image 5

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Philanthropist Gives Kansas
. College a Cemetery
In Time This Unique Gift la Ex
pected to Net More Than One
Million Dollars to Bene
ficiaries. Topeka, Kan. Nearly all colleges
bave large endowments of money, se
curities and real estate given by
friends and by people interested In
the cause of education. The funds are
all Invested in bonds, stocks and real
estate, which do exceptionally well II
they return more than five or six per
cent on the Investment Many re
ligious organizations have similar en
dowments. But Washburn college of
Topeka and the Topeka Yftung Men's
Cemetery Entrance and Donor.
and Young Women's Christian as
soclatlons hare one of the most novel
endowments In the country. It Is a
cemetery and as far as known this la
the only college In the United States
which numbers among Its chief as
sets a share in the profits of a ceme
tery. Many churches have cemeteries,
but the Topeka Y. W. C. A. and Y. M.
C. A. are believed to be the only non
sectarian religious organizations with
an endowment of this kind.
A. B. Whiting, a Topeka merchant
decided to leave a permanent endow
ment to the two Topeka Institutions.
He selected $25,000 as the beginning
of his endowment and then began
casting about for some plan of invest
ment which would actually net the
greatest lnoome to the three institu
tions to which he desired to contrib
uate. He investigated all kinds of
business ventures, bond and stock
returns and real estate Investments
and finally decided upon a cemetery
as the best possible investment for
the college and Christian associations.
His investment of the modest endow
ment is expected to return to the col
lege and the two young people's asso
ciations considerably more than a mil
lion dollars before the sources of
revenue from the sale of lots in the
cemetery are cut off.
Mr. Whiting bought the Mount Hope
cemetery grounds, 160 acres, one and
one-half miles west of Topeka. The
land alone cost $16,000 and left $9,000
to begin the Improvement work. This
was four years ago and the permanent
Improvement work of the cemetery
has been going on ever since and will
continue forever. The property has
been deeded to a board of trustees, of
which Mr. Whiting is president and
aUo general superintendent of the
cemetery. This board has been incor
porated for 1,000 years and It Is bound
to maintain the cemetery forever. No
grave can ever be neglected, as under
the terms of the charter the board Is
compelled to set aside a certain part
KANSAS HAS A STORM DRILL
8chool Cyclone Cellars Are Becoming
Popular Since Twisters Are More
Frequent Pupils Uneasy. ,
Leavenworth, Kan. Under an order
of the school boaYd of Brown county
every schoolhouse within its borders
will hereafter be supplied with a cy
clone cellar, to which the teacher
must lead her pupils whenever any
sign of a twister appears In- the sky.
The cyclone drill Is now a part of
the dally school routine, Instead of
the fire drill In city schools. Brown
county la where fully a third of the
school houses were destroyed by a
tornado. So many pupils were hurt
and scared that It was decided that
a place of refuge must be provided at
each school.
The parents of the youngsters were
unanimous for this reform. Practi
cally every farmer in that section,
which seems peculiarly susceptible to
violent windstorms, has what is
known In Kansas as "a 'frald hole,"
and there Is no reason why their chil
dren shouldn't bt equally protected.
of Its revenue to go into a perpetual
care fund, the Interest on this fund
being sufficient to care for the prop
erty. The college and the Christian asso
ciations receive two-thirds of the en
tire sum obtained from the sale of
lots In the cemetery, and they can
use the money for any purpose they
decide. No one except the actual work
ers In the cemetery receive a salary
and no dividends except to the col
lege and Christian associations are
declared. The college receives about
one half of the total amount received
from the sale of lots. The Young
Women's Christian association re
ceives the next largest share and the
Y. M. C. A. the next division. All the
rest of the money from the sale of
lots and the amount received for open
ing graves and caring for lots goes
into the perpetual care fund of the
cemetery.
CARRIE NATION PASSES AWAY
Saloon 8mashlng Made Her Famous
She Realized a Fortune From
Selling Hatchets.
Leavenworth, Kan. Carrie Nation,
the Kansas saloon smasher, who re
cently died, here, was born in Ken
tucky in 1846. Her maiden name was
Carrie Moore and as a girl, it is said,
she was absolutely fearless. In her
early life she married a man addicted
to intoxicants, which created in her
an intense aversion to the saloon.
When he died she determined to de
vote her life to the suppression of the
liquor traffic. Later she moved to
Kansas and married David Nation,
who sympathized with her temperance
principles.
During her career Mrs. Nation
wrecked hundreds of saloons, using a
hatchet, which became as well known
as she. She was absolutely without
fear, invading saloons, demolishing
mirrors and furniture and assailing
bartenders and proprietors without re
gard for her own safety. She had
many narrow escapes from injury and
was roughly handled on several occa
sions. So great is the extent of her fame
that down in the heart of the Pana
manian wilderness, there is a wayside
native saloon, with the rough sign
conspicuously displayed:
"All Nations Welcome Except Car
rie!" - Carrie Nation regarded herself as a
woman with a1 mission. She declared
that hers was the right hand of God
and that she had been commissioned
Mrs. Carrie Nation.
to destroy the rum traffio In the
United States. The emblem of her
mission was a hatchet, and her cam
paign against the saloon was country
wide. She suffered imprisonment,
abuse, ridicule, was even called In
sane, and at the end of nine years re
tired with money enough to enable
her to buy a farm In Arkansas. A
good deal of her money was derived
from the sale of souvenir hatchets
and the remainder from lectures.
More than $100,000 will be expended
in new scboolhouses in the country,
instead of the old white school house
of pioneer days each will be a "modern
brick building, with a basement for
I. n A I 1 1 V
iuo luiugm uuu u syecituiy construct
ed cellar of refuge.
Dog 8aves Boy From Cow.
Rushvllle, Ind. A shepherd dog
that has been for several years the
companion of John McKibben's son
saved the life of the boy by holding a
cow that bad attacked him until Mc
Klbben went to the rescue. The cow
had knocked the boy down several
times and was stamping him with its
front feet when the dog Interfered,
grabbing the cow by the nose and
holding it
Elbert Hubbard Loses Looks. ,
East Aurora, N. Y. On a bet ol
$500 with William Marlon Reedy of St
Louis, Elbert Hubbard Invaded the vil
lage barber shop and let the local hair
destroyer apply the horse clippers.
Fra Elbertus emerged minus the flow
ing locks he has worn for years. The
$600 was paid to him immediately.
TYPHOID GERM IN ICE
MOST OF THEM ARE DESTROYED
WITHIN ONE MONTH.
Some May 8urvlve, However, end Epi
demics of Fever Have Been Traced
to Use of Polluted Ice.
It may be of Interest to those who
are In the habit of putting up their
own ice for summer use from a near
by pond, or stream, to know that the
use of ice is not so dangerous as the
uae of the water from which It Is
formed, so far as typhoid fever is
concerned. Although the typhoid fever
germ, and the germ of diphtheria, as
well, can withstand a temperature of
310 degrees F. below zero, for several
days, experiments with Ice made from
polluted water have shown that when
the water freezes, the majority of the
typhoid organisms are soon destroyed.
However, the few that do survive, die
off slowly, and it is these few that
outlive their fellows that have been
the cause of serious epidemics in a
few cases. According to Parke, not
one in a thousand lives In Ice longer
than one month, and all are dead at
the end of six months.
Relatively few outbreaks of typhoid
fever have been traced to the use of
Ice; however, conclusive evidence was
obtained to show that the thirty-nine
cases of typhoid at the St Lawrence
hospital, near Ogdensburg, N. Y., sev
eral years ago, were the result of us
ing polluted ice. Several months be
fore it was used the ice had been cut
from the St Lawrence river, about
three miles below the outlet of the
Ogdensburg sewer. Living typhoid
germs were found 'in samples of the
melted Ice examined after the break
ing out of the epidemic Walter Q.
3ackett, Colorado Agricultural Col
lege, Fort Collins.
Novel Dainties.
The kumquats or "little oranges"
that come In boxes at the fruit store
are a source of wonderment to many
persons who have never used them
themselves or happened to meet them
on others tables. The way they are
served by an uptown chef is this: He
covers a palate with endive leaves that
have been chilled and then covers the
leaves with kumquats that have been
sliced very fine and allowed to stand
for an hour or two with a covering
of sugar and sherry. The salad is
dressed with oil and vinegar.
Alligator pears are another mystery
to a good many American housewives
who have departed from traditional
lines. The pears to be delicious should
be a little soft and they should also
be very cold. Cut the pears in half.
arrange them on individual plates cov
ered with white lettuce leaves and
fill each'cavlty with French dressing.
The pears are eaten with a spoon, like
a muskmelon.
When cane seats are relaxed turn
the chair upside down, pour boiling
water over it scour In hot soapsuds
and rinse again in boiling water, when
the cane should be found to have con
tracted. A polish that may be used for floors
and furniture Is made of equal parts of
vinegar, boiled linseed oil and methy
lated spirits. Where the polish hai
worn off this renews It, and when it
Is well rubbed in it gives a brilliant
surface to the floor.
If the painter has left marks of paint
on the floor apply to them a paste
made of equal parts of lime and soda
moistened with a little water. Leave
this, apply very thickly, for 24 hours,
then wash It off and the stains will
be found to have disappeared.
Sweetbread! With Peas.
Wash and clean the sweetbreads
and parboil 15 minutes. Drain. When
cool enough to handle cut In pieces
with a silver knife. Melt two table
spoonfuls of butter in a saucepan, add
the sweetbreads and a can of peas
(French preferred). Cook, stirring oc
casionally until the sweetbreads begin
to brown, add one tablespoonful flour,
mix until smooth, add one-half cup
of milk, stir gently, thicken with a
little cornstarch stirred smooth In a
little of the milk. Serve with dia
monds of toast around the dish.
Eliza's Baked Onions.
Boil tour bermuda onions about ten
minutes. When cool remove the cen
ters. Chop about three of the centers
with ten cents' worth of cold boiled
ham. Mix this with some buttered
bread crumbs and stuff onions with
this. Place in pan, putting a lump of
butter on top of each. Make about
one and one-halt cupfuls of rather thin
white sauce and pour around onions.
Bake covered 45 minutes, remove
cover, sprinkle with buttered crumbs,
and brown 15 minutes.
Knowing
PRISONER OF WEALTH
Her Fortune a Burden to Mrs.
Russell Sage.
Beggars Force Her Into Retirement
and Change Her From a 8weet,
Kindly Woman to One of
Suspicion.
New York. One of the most pathet-
lo figures In the world today Is Mrs.
Russell Sage, upon whom the fortune
left her by her husband imposes a
fearful burden. There is scarcely a
day that she does not weep, one of
her Intimate friends tells us. She
sits and cries at the intolerable bur
den of having $65,000,000 on her
shoulders, at the task of distributing
that huge fortune in the way that will
do the moBt good. She Is 80 years
old and has a New England con
science. She wants to do Just the
right thing with it all, and it requires
an amount of thought and study and
imposes a feeling of responsibility
that Is hard on an old woman who
only wants a quiet corner to spend
her few remaining years In.
Mrs. Sage has aged very much
since her husband's death. She has
grown thin, pale, bent and wrinkled.
Aside from the natural grief over Mr.
Sage's death, Mrs. Sage was plunged
almost instantly into a storm of ap
peals which amounted to a persecu
tion. Her mall for some years before
Mr. Sage's death bad amounted to be
tween 40 and 50 letters a day. It
Copyright. Underwood & Underwood.
Mrs. Russell Sage.
leaped Instantly to 900 a day, and the
entire surplus was appeals for money.
Within vo months after Mr. Sage's
death 7,000 letters were carted away
from her house unopened. Two secre
taries work night and day almost to
handle Mrs. Sage's private mall. If
she attempted to read 10 per cent of
It personally she would be able to do
nothing else.
At first she tried conscientiously to
look it over herself. She T7as aston
ished and disgusted at some of it.
Before Mr. Sage's body was cold In
Its coffin she received a letter from
a New York man whom she never bad
seen asking her to send him a check
for $1,000 by return mall, and he was
kind enough to Inclose a stamped en
velope for reply. She never asked
for advice as to the disposal of this
fortune, yet within the first two
months of her widowhood she receiv
ed letters from more than 1,000 dif
ferent men, Instructing her bow to
give away her money so as to do the
most good.
The letters that really affected Mrs.
Sage at this time were pathetic ap
peals for help from Individuals. Many
of these were to all appearances gen
uine, the appeals of poor and Igno
rant persons, suffering In want and
DESTRUCTIVE PEST IN BRAZIL
Ant Found In Large Numbers Which
Attacks and Destroys the
Native Woods.
Rio Janerlo, Brazil. The "cupim"
Is a Brazilian ant that Is particularly
destructive of lumber. They are
found In the forests of Brazil in great
numbers. They attack the native
woods, hard and soft, as soon as It
has been foiled, working from the out
side directly toward , the heart, and
burrowing longitudinally, they honey
comb and destroy In a manner simi
lar to the toredo.
Pine lumber wns Imported from the
United States for railway construc
tion and until nearly two years after
Its use their attacks on It were not
noticed; after about that period of
time, however, a section cut from a
floor JolBt disclosed the heart prac
tically destroyed.
They work in the dark, building tun
nels of mud on the outside of the
bark, and vertical shafts of mud from
the ground to the under side of tim
ber stored In nllns. They will de-
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hardshlp. and nathetlcallv
that the kind-hearted woman who had
more money than she knew what to
do with would give them the llttls
that would make them happy. Some
of these letters distressed Mrs. Sage
greatly; but they came not only from
every state in the Union, but from
foreign countries. Had she respond
ed to them she would have dissipated
her entire fortune
Individuals all over the world. So
nnaiiy Mrs. Sage gave up her mall.
Now a letter which la manlfentlT tmm
a personal friend Is given her, but
noming else reaches her eye.
It Is not onlv imnnHlhl tn
Mrs. Sage by letter It has become
one or the impossible things to see
her. Mrs. Sage formerly was one of
the most approachable of women.
Not a trace of snobbery or purse
pnae is to De round In her make-up,
A plain, old-fashioned vlllns-n vnm.n
she started her career,, and that she
remains to this day. She never cared
anything about fine clothes nr rwif
and her friends were chosen by pref
erence rrom among the people who
are doing the work of the world.
With professlonaLwomen she was par
ticularly friendly. That period of her
own life between 1847, when she was
graduated, and 1869, when she mar
ried Mr. Sage, was spent In teaching
school whenever her health would
permit, and she never felt above any
one who earned his or her living. Any
one who had ever been Introduced to
Mrs. Sage could see her as easily as
her own home as If she had been the
wife of a clerk Instead of a multi
millionaire. Some one wrote a book once on
Prisoners of Poverty. Mrs. Sage is a
Prisoner of Wealth. Behind this hu
man rampart she arts, afraid that
some one may reach to torment her.
Dogma Leads to Jail.
Centertown, Ark. E. P. Fair, a
banker of this town, has been sen
tenced to Jail for one year and assess
ed a $500 fine for drawing a pistol on
his brother-in-law, Janies H. Stroud.
The trouble arose because Stroud is
a disbeliever in Infant baptism. Fair
Is a Methodist and holds that dogma
as one of his choicest articles of
faith. A baby recently arrived at the
Stroud home, and Fair wanted It
sprinkled. Stroud objected, and the
quarrel followed.
Husband Averse to Water.
Marlon, O. Recently the wife of
Charles S. Winch, a farmer, sued for
divorce. She says her huBband, who
Is forty-one yenrs old, and In good
health, never .took a bath during all
the years she lived with him except
by wading In a stream. She further
says he objected to her bathing their
baby. He never changed his cloth
ing, the petition recites. He put It
on and never took It off until It waa
worn to shreds.
Curiosity Coats Finger.
Wilmington, Del. His curiosity cost
August Farren, aged seven years,
dearly and may result in permanent
injury. He found a railroad torpedo
and after playing with it for a while
became curious to know what was in
side of it He struck the torpedo with
a brick and the explosion that follow
ed tore off several of his fingers, rip
ped open one leg and burned his face.
Couple Married by Malf.
Calgary, Alberta. Lawrence Ilaut
Blngor of Calgary and Agnes Taft of
Jamestown, N. Y., are husband and
wife, although they have not seen each
other. They became acquainted by
mall and exchanged photos. Then a
marriage contract passed through the
malls and was signed by each. Mrs. '
Hautslnger will now come here and
get. acquainted with her husband.
Rat as Fish Bait i
Nashville. Ind. That catfish are not
particular what they eat was demon
strated by John Wilderson, who ran
out of bait while fishing and killed a
rat With a piece of the rat on his
hook he caught a catfish weighing 31
pounds.
etroy almost anything but steel and
concrete. The ridgepoles, three or
four inches In diameter, In palm
shacks have been destroyed In two
months.
Tree Dies With Planter.
Hagerstown, Ind. The . death of
Mrs. Rachael Silvers, 86 years old,
has attracted attention to a willow
tree that is dying on her father's
farm. Mrs. Silvers was married 70
yenrs ago and on her wedding day
she planted a tree, with the remark
that she hoped It would be typical of
her own life. The tree grew well un
til recently, but Is now fnst decaying,
and the woman who planted It Is
dead.
Crow Whips Blacksnake.
Bangor, Pa. In a remarkable bat
tle between a crow and a blacksnake
at the Hazel sandpit, at Mount Bethel,
the bird vanquished the reptile. The
crow evaded the fangs of the snake
and pecked the reptile's eyes out
A man can't expect times to be very
good when he is too lazy to wind the
clock.