Lincoln County leader., July 21, 1911, Image 6

NOTED IN PUSSES
Higginson Was Historian, Auth
or, Clergyman and Soldier.
Famous American Who Was Active In
Many Lines Leaves Enduring Works
to Perpetuate His,
, Name.
.
Cambridge, Mass. In the death of
Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson,
which took place here In his 87th
year, there passes one of the coun
try's most noted men. Historian,
author, clergyman, soldier and aboli
tionist, he was active In many lines
and leaves enduring works to per
petuate his name.
Col. Higginson was a student un
der Longfellow, a neighbor of Oliver
Wendell Holmes, a college mate of
Edward Everett Hale and friend ot
Emerson, Whlttler and Longfellow.
As essayist, historian, biographer and
writer for the young, he made for
himself an unusual place In American
literature. Though the author of a
volume of verse, he never claimed
place as a poet, modestly entitling
this work "Such as They Are."
Col. Higginson was born In Cam
bridge, Mass., In 1823 and graduated
from Harvard In 1841. In 1847 be
graduated from the Divinity school
In Cambridge and the same year was
ordained pastor of the First Congre
gational Church at Newburyport,
Mass.- He left this church In 1850 be
cause of the unpopuJarlty of his anti
slavery teachings, and in the same
year stood unsuccessfully as the Free
Soil candidate for congress. He
then became pastor of a church in
Worcester, Mass., from 1852 to 1858.
Leaving bis charge In the latter year
he devoted himself to literature and
to anti-slavery agitation. For his
part In the attempted rescue of An
thony Burns, a famous Incident In the
anti-slavery days, he was Indicted for
murder, together with Theodore Park
er, Wendell Phillips and others, but
j -" Ilk"
Col. Higginson.
was released ou account of a flaw
In the legal papers. He also took
part In organizing parties of free
state emigrants to Kansas in 1856
and served as brigadier general In
James H. Lane's forces in that state
organized to drive out the Missouri
Invaders.
Mr. Higginson was made captain In
the Forty-first Massachusetts regi
ment in 18G2; In the same year he
was made colonel of a regiment of
colored troops, the First South Caro
lina Volunteers, afterward known as
the Thirty-third United States Col
ored Troops, the first regiment of
freed slaves mustered Into service.
Col. Higginson saw considerable ac
tive service In the war. He took and
held Jacksonville, Fla.; at Wilton
Bluff be was wounded, in August,
1863, and In October of the next year
resigned on account of disability. He
then went to Newport, R. I., to live,
enagaglng in literature, and after
wards to Cambridge. Ho was a mem'
ber of the Massachusetts legislature
In 1880 and 1881, serving as chief of
staff to the governor at the same
time. In 1881-84 he was a member of
the State Board of Education.
He was a fellow of the American
Academy of Political Saclal Science
and a member of the American His
torical Society, the American Antl
quartan Society, the New England
Historic-Genealogical Society, the Mil
itary Historical Soclty, the Loyal Le
gion and the Grand Arm. of the Re
public. 'He bad been president of the
Harvard Chapter of Ph. Beta Kappa
Some years ago he received the de
gree of doctor of laws from Western
Reserve university and in 1898 re
ceived the same degree from Har
vard.
RUINS OF TEMPLE OF T 'EBES
Great Building Was Egyptian City's
Chief Glory In the Days of the
Pharaohs.
Cairo, Egypt. When Thebes of the
Hundred Gates was the favorite resi
dence of the Pharaohs of Egypt, and
the seat of government, when she
could furnish 20.000 chariots, fully
equipped and 'fully manned for war,
Ruined Temple of Thebes.
her great temple was her chief glory.
The glory of that which was Thebes
are the ruins of that temple, erected
for the worship of Ammon, the Unre
vealed, holder of the Sceptre of Power
and the Cross of Love, late the Zeus
of Greece and the Jupiter of Rome.
What is left of It Is colossal; what It
must have been In Its full magnifi
cence many have sought to "-imagine;
that which exists Is but a tenth part
of that which has perished.
The enclrclling waH of raw bricks,
some parts of which are still visible,
enclosed a space of over 320 acres.
The first entrance, from the Interior
of which this photograph was taken, Is
about 367 feet wide and about 136
feet In height, it stands bsfore the
large court shown In the foreground.
On either side of this are columns;
tl en comes the great columned hall.
Its entrance guarded on the right by a
stone Pharaoh. In the inner court
stands an obelisk of Thothmos I The
huge doorways leadings from court to
court are particularly fine. The tem
ple was one of the wonders of the an
cient wor'H
Man and Woman' in' egg Duel.
Parkersburg, W. Va. Because J. N.
Smith, - a grocer, did not wait upon
her as promptly as she thought he
should, a woman customer picked up
an egg and hurled it at him. It struck
him in the left eye. A shower of sick
ly yellow liquid daubed the grocer's
face Infuriated, Smith, It is said,
dived Into the egg basket with both
harfds and hurled eggs, good, bad and
indifferent, at her. The merchant
stopped throwing when the supply was
exhausted. The woman fled after ev
ery egg had hit ner.
THE ELECTRICAL HEN NEXT
Simple Device Attached to an Incuba
tor Gives Astonishing' Results to
a Washington Farmer.
Tacoma, Wash. Sixty-nine healthy
chicks from a setting of 73 eggs have
just been hatched by electricity on J.
Don Alexander's ranch at Reltmeler's
Station, Wash. The Initial test was
to successful that 1,300 eggs will be
placed In the Incubators as soon as
the apparatus can be Installed. The
equipment, which Is not patented, can
be attached to any oil-burning Incu
bator at an expense ot less than one
dollar.
Construction of the electrically op
erated Incubator is simple. Mr. Alex
ander took the lamps from the oil
burning machines and wound German
silver wire around the frames above
the egg trays, connecting the colls
with an Incandescent light circuit
This Is made through a contact device
consisting of a piece of iron fixed on
the regulator arm to dip into a small
cup filled with mercury.
When the temperature in the incu
bator rises to 103 degrees, the natural
matching point, the Iron arm is lifted
automatically, shutting off the cur
rent untlll there is a fall of on
fourth degree.
Born Minus Arms and Legs.
YoYk, Pa. A girl born to Mr. and
Mrs. Robert McClure In Dlllsburg has
no arms nor legs. The child is healthy,
but there Is no sign of any leg, and
stumps about one inch long are where
the arms should be.
Woman Blinded by Stove Polish.
Pottsvllle, Pa. Mrs. Irvin Eisenhau
er is In a serious condition as the re
sult of an explosion of stove polish.
She was rendered blind and her face
and head were badly burned by the
burning fluid.
Pretty Girls Shine Shoe,
St. Louts, Mo. Two comely young
women are employed in a shoe shin
ing parlor here, and are wielding the
brush with a great deal of ardor. They
do not" confine their endeavors to
women customers, either.
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Horticultural Freak of More
Than Us.ua! Oddity.
Abnormally Developed Cabbage Plant
That Has Borne Over a Bushel
of Small Heads and Is Still
Growing.
Santa Monica, Cal. Apparently the
time has passed when country folk
were justified In sneering at the ig
norance of their city relatives for
asking to be sbown the cabbage tree,
or to be permitted to help husk the
pumpkins. It is true that no well
authenticated case has yet come to no
tice of pumpkins that needed husking;
but the cabbage tree is no longer a
myth born ot Ignorance, and persons
who have stood beneath its branches
are agreed that anything is likely to
happen. ,.'
So far as known, the original and
only "cabbage tree" is growing in the
garden of John A. Pool, 1302 Eleventh
street, this city. It is nearly two
years old, and Is about nine feet and
a half high, with a "trunk" 11 inches
in diameter at a height of a foot and a
half above the ground. It has borne
more than a bushel of small cabbage
heads, and many more are yet de
veloping, so that Its days of usefulness
are not yet over. Near the top, it
branches in real tree-like fashion; but
Mr. Pool feels that if cabbage heads
were permitted to develop on 'these
slender limbs they would certainly
break down the tree. So he cuts out
the heads that begin to form near the
top, but permits those that develop
along the trunk to grow to a size
adapting tbem to table use.
Nearly two years ago Mr. Pool
bought a number of cabbage plants
forsaken the annual habit proper to
normal and well behaved cabbage
plants, and has shown by two years
of growth, summer and winter, that
It is a perennial, there does not appear
to be any good reason why it may
not continue to grow indefinitely; and
"Pool's Cabbage Tree," at Santa Moi
lea, may in time become famous sk
one of California's tourist attractions.
At least it is a horticultural freak of
more than usual oddity.
TRAP FOR RIVEP HORSE
One of Many Methods Used by Afri
can Natives In Killing the
Hippopotamus.
Cape Town, Africa. The natives
have various ways of killing the "river
horse." On occasion, they will attack
It with harpoons, to which are at
tached lines ending in floats. The
wounded beast. Its position marked by
these floats, will then be followed up
In canoes, and finally speared to death.
At other times they will arrange great
pitfalls; at others, some such device
as that here illustrated.
This particular method calls for the
use of a strong spearhead fixed in a
Pool and His Cabbage Tree..
from a country woman, and planted
them in two rows running the length
of bis garden. All of the plants but
this one developed normally; but this
particular plant early displayed a ten
dency to shoot up in the air, instead
of producing a round and symmetrical
bead. After growing several feet high,
It began to produce numerous small
beads along the stalk, but with no
abatement of its ambition to keep on
going higher In the world. As it grew
higher and higher, it began to get
top-heavy, and a stout stake was
driven in the ground, to which the
plant is tied to prevent it from being
blown down.
Inasmuch as the cabbage tree has
Killing a Hippopotamu
heavy block of wood, which is hun
from a line passed over a branch of a
tree in the animal's path. The cord
by which the spear is suspended is
made to run across the path, a few
Inches above the ground, and is so
ranged that when the beast stumbles
against it the spear shall be released
to fall and strike it
Well knowing that their quarry.
though badly wounded, may yet take
to the water and escape, the natives
attach to the wood holding the spear
a long line which ends in a float; thus
the great beast can always be located,
whether it be alive or dead.
The hippopotamus is generally In
offensive, but when pursued in boats
by hunters It is subject to fits of rage
and is dangerous. That the hippo is
capable of being tamed and of becom
ing much attached to man has been
proved in many instances where the
animals have been kept In captivity.
The hippo appeared in the ancient Ro
man spectacles and is supposed to be
the behemoth referred to in the book
of Job.
The hippopotamus is rapidly disap
pearing from Its old haunts In Africa,
as Colonel Roosevelt discovered in
his recent hunting tour. The flesh is
highly esteemed by the natives and
the fat, of which there is a thick layer
Immediately under the skin, is a fa
vorite African delicacy and is known
as "lakecow bacon."
Dead Crane Comes to Life.
Lake Charles, la. Carrying a crane
he believed to be dead, Henry Ackers
was walking to town from Coon creek,
where he shot the fowl, when it sud
denly tame to life and began pecking
pieces out of Ackers face with its
bill. It tried for its captor's eyes and
nearly succeeded in getting them. The
crane was of the sandhill variety and
measured seven feet from tip to tip.
Bath Kills Man.
Philadelphia, Pa. Isaac Schneider
took his first bath in two years a few
days ago and it killed him. For many
years Schneider had suffered from
rheumatism and friends had warned
him against letting water touch his
skin, so he avoided it. But lately an
other friend persuaded him that water
was a cure for rheumatism. He went
to a Turkish bath establishment and
plunged into the pool. Friends assisted
him to the edge, and before a physi
cian could be summoned he was dead.
$10 Fine Makes Dumb Swear.
New Rochelle, W. Y. So enraged
was Albert Allen, a deaf and dumb
soap peddler, when Judge Samuel A.
Swinburne fined him $10 for peddling
without a license that he swore. He
was so astounded at recovering his
voice that he stared wildly at the
judge, then without waiting to apolo
gize for the cuss words he threw
down a ten dollar bill and rushed
from the court room shouting and
laughing, leaving a pack of soap behind.
Girl Falls In Boiling Soap.
Winston-Salem, N. C While play
ing with other children in the yard of
her parents' home in Stokes, county,
Gertrude Hargrove, twelve years old,
stumbled and fell into a kettle con
taining boiling soap, sustaining scalds
from which she died.
Farmer Burled Alive.
Shawnee, Okla. Edward 'Wilkinson,
a farmer, was burled alive here by
tons of dirt, when the walls of a well
Saved in on him. While standing on
an iron ring as he was lowered into
the well, the walls suddenly caved in.
Baby Hanged on a High Chair.
Allentown, Pa. As Mrs. Howard
Long was cooking supper in her home
her baby, one year old, slipped from
her high chair, was caught by the
neck on the edgeof the table and
strangled to death.
Britons Get Big Contracts.
London. Contracts amounting to
ever $2,000,000 have been signed in
London for the construction and equip
ment of the waterworks a Buenos
Arret with new pumping machinery.
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