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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1912)
T H E T IM E S TH E BEGGAR’S LEGACY. CHAIN CABLES. It Clothas ■ Numbor of Poor Peoplo In England Annually. Gifts o f clothing are made annually in many market towns and villages of Surrey to the |>oor from a bequest left for the purpose by Henry Smith, or Dog" Smith, as he was more generally called, having earned the sobriquet from the fact that he was never seen without a dog at bis heels. This remarkable character lived about two and a half centuries ago and was one o f the best known figures In Surrey. He was originally a silver smith In the city of London and, pros pering in business, acquired estates in different parts of England. Developing eccentricities as he grew aid. he adopted the life o f a beggar. His wanderings were confined almost entirely to Surrey, and he is said to have begged his way through every town and village In the county. At his death in 1981 he left all his wealth to the market towns and parishes o f Sur rey, and the endowment enabled each town to spend $250 and each village about $30 on the purchase o f clothing for its poor. Mitcham, however, was excluded from his benefactions. Smith's explana tion being that on one occasion the in habitants of Mitcham whipped him through the village as a common va grant.—London Chronicle. A BABEL OF TONGUES. Half a Hundred Language*. Perhaps, In the Philippines. The natives of the Philippines are known to have at least twenty-five languages, and some students of the ethnology of the islands have express ed the belief that they have more than double that number o f distinct tongues. For purposes o f study they are gener ally put In two groups: First.—The languages o f the Negri tos. supposedly descendants o f the ab original population of the islnnds, who are distributed in scattered tribes In the Interior of the larger islands. Second.—The languages o f the vari ous Malay tribes which make up the bulk o f the population—Christian. Mo hammedan and pagan. It cannot be said that the Philippine languages possess any very consider able literary value. The old native manuscripts Inscribed on leaves or strips o f cane have practically all been lost. American students o f the Islnnds have found the scanty native literature lu religious writings. Indifferent poetry and primitive newspapers. The natives themselves are profoundly Ignorant for the most part us to their own litera ture.—New York Times. A Good Word For Caviar. Caviar receives a clean bill In the London Lancet, despite the fact that it is regardeil by many medical men as "oily, indigestible and unwholesome.” Numerous analyses huve been made of this sturgeon roe delicncy. which, ac cording to the writer, when averaged, appears to be as follows: Water, GO.92 per cent: protein. 27.92 per ceut; fat, 13.59 per cent, and mineral salts. 7.57 per cent. It differs sharply from the flesh o f fish by containing a much larger quantity o f fat. Moreover, tills fat contains the peculiar oily phosphor us compound known us lecithin, which is a stimulant to metabolism, affecting favorably the processes of nutrition. Caviar is. in fact, highly nutritive, and Its digestibility has been deter mined. the time taken for Its absorp tion being relatively short. I f there Is anything to be said unfavorably of caviar It Is that Its constituents err slightly on the side of richness. Flogging. The Jewish rabbis had a legend which carries corporal punishment back to the days of our first parents* which Is quaintly reflected In that modern schoolboy's play upon names. “ Adam Seth Eve Cain A b e l” O f course there Is, too, the warning o f Solomon, " l i e that spareth the rod liatelh his son." or I lie old Egyptian proverb. "The back o f a hid Is made that lie may hearken to him that beats It." but If we must go on history alone the earliest records belong to tlie Ho mans, who practiced Hogging III sev era I degrees of severity There were the ferula, u Hut strip of leather, a comparatively mild persuad er: the scutlca. a harsher Instrument of twisted parchment, anil the flugel lutn. a cruel scourge o f leather thongs. RUNNING AMOK. THE M cN A M A R A DEFENSE. (Continued from Page J.) We read the other day of a woman who lapsed into a state of coma. Her daughter, supposing her dead, so telephoned to a local paper. The mother recovered and the daughter forgot to notify the | accounting, a public accounting of editor. A day or two later the mother had the unique satisfaction of I the funds? reading her own obituary, (¿ueer tilings happen in this world of ours. This money (nearly a million dollars collected in California A hen near White Slamon brought home two gold-crowned human alone), was collected for a specific teeth in her crop. When hens get to putting on airs like that, they come too high for us. Perhaps the next thing we know turkeys will purpose. be carrying fob chains and ducks will wear necklaces. That purpose was the defense Severe Tests to Which They Are Sub A Mania For Murder That Is Peculiar jected Before Being Used. to Oriental Countries. One weak link in a cable may mean The expression "run amuck” la the the loss o f a great ship worth a mil Anglicized form of a term used In some lion pounds or more, so before being parts o f the orient to describe a form used every one of the great chain of homicidal mania, accompanied by a L-ubles used in the navy or merchant frenzied plunge in uny and every direc eervice is carefully tested. The ap tion. In tbe countries where the mal paratus employed is a most ingenious ady originated tbe word applied to It uue. wus “ amok." The corrupted form of j of the M cNam ara brothers. The cable is laid In a sort o f long It Is now applied In a score o f way#— trough, one end being fastened to au Honest union men would not I without much warrant. enormous steel hawser, which is pass In Malacca. Slam. Java and adjacent j have subscribed a cent had they ed round a revolving drum, the other regions the mental state which causes known the McNamaras guilty. The attached to a hydraulic ram. amok Is well defined and much dread The machinery is worked from an ed. It is attributed almost Invariably case did not come to a trial. We adjoining building, no one being allow to excessive drinking o f stimulants. are repeatedly told that only ed lu the cable shed while the testing Tbe victim first turns morose, gener ' $210,000 was collected. This could Is in progress. I f a chain does break ally remaining In this state for several under the terrific strain to which It is days. Then he is suddenly seized with j not posibly have been spent in subjected It simply smashes every tbe mania for slaughter and starts on i fees. W e want to know where thing near It and may bring the whole his mad run with tbe first weapon be this money has gone. It was to roof down. ran reach. The operator In the next room has Extra precautions against these mad have been spent in a defense of before him an ordinary looking pair of ravages are taken In some o f the more accused men. There are many scales, but the small weights which he civilized places, especially Batavia. things it was not to have been places upon it represent as many tons There the police are armed with what as they actually weigh pounds. Is called a catch fork. The Instant the spent for. It was not to have been While the weights go into the scales victim o f amok starts on his mad dash spent on painted women. It was a loud creaking and groaning is heard | he finds himself hooked by a minion not to have been given away like through the thick partition as the o f the law and held firmly the length seventy-eight foot length of cable, of this odd human spear. He can barm water to labor leaders to do what which is the amount tested at one j himself, but that is the limit o f his In they might with, and without ac time, stretches under the enormous sane power.—Exchange. counting. It was not to be spent pressure. A new cable stretches about ___________ _ two Inches, an old one a good deal to further the political ambitions | V AN ERRATIC VOLCANO. more. of a mountebank socialist. It was The ordinary cable of steel, two and oneeighth inches in diameter, is sub Rose From the Sea, Formed an Island not given out of our ineagre earn and Sank Again. jected to a pull o f over eighty tons.- ings to help buy champagne. It i On June 10. 1810. the Sabrina, a Brit London Answers. was certainly not given to buy ish sloop o f war. observed smoke aris ing from the sea near St. Michael, off nitro glycerine with, to blow up MARK TWAIN’S TRAMP. the Azores, and made for It. believing human beings. that a naval engagement was in prog W e want an accounting! And Hie Quaint Introduction In the ress Her crew found, however, that Enterprise Office. Thank you, gentlemen of the great tongues o f flame were Issuing " I t was the afternoon o f a hot. dusty along with the smoke and that they press, help us some more, and you August day in 1802." says Albert Bige had cleared for action to fight a vol help the true union cause. low Paine in Harper’s, "when a worn, cano travel stained pilgrim drifted laggingly Mr. Breslin’s statement: Forty-eight hours later an island into the office of the Territorial Enter made Its appearance, having risen “ Here, personally, I have been prise. then In its new building on 0 from a depth of forty fathoms in that street, and. loosening a heavy roll of period, and In unother day it was fifty- president of the defense league, blankets from his shoulders, dropped one feet above the surface, with a and some people will be ready to wearily into a chair. length of about three-quarters o f a think I look with favor on the “ He wore a rusty slouch hat. no coat, mile. By July 4 the Sabrina’s people kind of men the McNamaras evi i fuded blue flannel shirt and a navy were able to land on this new shore, dently are. W hy, I wouldn’t have revolver. His trousers were banging which wns then 300 feet high, with a on his boot tops. A tangle o f reddish circumference of fully a mile, with a been connected with the league million dollars if I had brown hair fell on his shoulders, and a stream six yards wide running from for a known the real state of affairs.” mass o f tawny beard, dingy with al the center to the sea. (M r. J. J. Breslin is the Dis kali dust, dropped halfway to his They took formal possession o f it for wulst. hts Britannic majesty, hoisting the trict Organizer of the American "Aurora lay 130 miles from Virginia union Jack on Its most conspicuous Federation of Labor and president City—hard, hilly miles. He had walked point, but by degrees the island sank of the M cNam ara Defense that distance, carrying his heavy load. until about the middle o f October It League.) Editor Goodman was absent at the mo vanished below the surface, with the In Mr. Tveitmoe’s speeches ment. but the other proprietor, Dennis union Jack still on It. like a battleship E. McCarthy, signified that the caller sinking with colors flying after a fatal none of the figures, except his fig ures of speech, dealt in dollars might state his errand. The wanderer engagement.—London Standard. and cents. Union waitresses want regarded him with a faraway look and said absently and with leisurely to know what became of that A Letter of Importance. reflection: The letter 1’ is the most Important in twenty-five cents a week they paid " 'M y starboard leg seems to be un- the alphabet because It leads all others so cheerfully for so many weary iblpped. I'd like nbout a hundred yards In perfection. It Is likewise first In months. of line. I think 1 am falling to pieces. peace and prosperity and gives to Then ho added: 'I want to see Mr pleasure Its proper form. It Is found D ID M c N A M A R S D Y N A M IT E Barstow or Mr. Goodman. My name in every enterprise and aspiration, and (Continued from page 1.) is Clemens, and I've come to write for without Its valuable offices our stanch the paper.’ ” and work was practically at a est anchor o f hope would be but a Too Late. Daniel Webster used to tell a story about an old woman who was very ill and went into a trance. They all thought she was dead, and when she opened her eyes her husband snld In a -urprised tone. "W hy, Mandy, wo thought ye wuz dead.” The poor old woman looked at her husband a mo ment, and then she burst into tears "And ye never bawled a bit.” she sobbed. "Y e thought I wuz dead, and yer eyes wuz dry. Couldn't ye have bawled a little bit. Jabez?" The old man was deeply moved, and he did ac tually bawl then But bis w ife said sadly: "It's too late now. Dry yer eyes. I f I'd really been dead and ye'd bawled 'twould have done me some good. But it’s too lute now.” Insulting. “ Could you sing a ragtime song?" asked Mr. Lobrow "W hy. sir.” spluttered the musleinn who tukes himself seriously, “ c-c-con- fouud your b-b-bone headed impu dence!" "That's a good start." was the com- pluccnt rejoinder "You have a fine Idea of the words. Now see if you can put a melody to them " —Washington Star. commonplace hoe. In importance It Is decidedly the dominating letter. It has no place In history, but Is foremost In philosophy and gives power to the pen. While always first In provocation, tt likewise leads In pardon and possesses great power In persuasion It ts rich in the emotions and virtues. Patriot ism. passion, patience, pity and |x>etry acknowledge It as their very own. No point or picture or port was ever made without it. It leads all others iu power, permanency and preciousncss. Purpose has no meaning without It. and pyramids are built upon Its base —Galuxy. Staining Glass. The art o f coloring glass has been lost and refound, guarded and stolen so many times during the history of civilization that It seems almost Ira possible to say anything new on glass staining Yet a modern orocess for making the stained glass used in win dows is a departure from anything known to the.old timers The glass first receives Its design in mineral col ors. and the whole Is then fired In a heat so Intense that the coloring mat ter and the glass are Indissolubly fused The most attractive feature of this method Is that the surface acquires a peculiar pebbled character lu the heat, so that when the glass is In place the lights are beautifully soft aud mellow I —New York Herald Unreasonable. "Emma has such a sweet disposl- tion?' "H as she? There Isn't a shoe clerk j Books In the Middle Ages. Drew the Line. In the middle ages tiookN were ex In town that doesn't hate her ’ “ Madam." began the man respect • Why'.' changed for a horse or half a dozen fully. "I am very hungry. Could you "She thinks they are all in a con sheep When anybody needed slock or give me a bit o f something?" other property lie often pawned the spiracy to prevent her from wearing a "I will call the dog.” tbe woman re books that he owned, and In the town No. 3 shoe on a No 5 foot.” —Cleveland j piled of Oxford were at one time twenty Fluln Dealer " I am hungry enough to eat tbe dog." chests filled w ith valuable book*, latt the man said, “ but I'd rather have er the tssik fairs helpist to relieve the Conversational Strategy. something else." situation No doubt there 1* a golden " I observe that you never contradict And. woman like, she went Inside mean somewhere between the scarcity any theory that Mr lleftybrane ad and banged the door — Buffalo Ex o f the middle ages and the overproduc vances." press. tion of today Argonaut "Y es." replied Miss Cayenne: “ he's likely to get through talking much [ Msn. sootier if you don't break In and sug- j What a piece o f work Is a man—how The Quarrel Discreet. "W hy do you employ such elaborate gest new topic*."—Washington Star. noble In reason, bow Infinite In fac circumlocution when you tell a man ulty. In form and movement how ex tout you doubt Ills veracity?" Serious Drawback. press and admirable. In action how “ 1 find It better to use the longest i " I aupjtose every woman would Ilk# like an angel. In apprehension how wonts isisslble I f I can compel a man to be a Venus de Milo In figure "* like a god. the beauty o f the world, to consult the dictionary to ascertain "N ot at all." tbe paragon of animals!—Shakespeare. fust w hat 1 mean both our tempers get "H o w can you aay that?” a chance to cool Washington Star "The Venus de Milo couldn't wear The Difference. the present styles."—Washington Her- Miss Oushlngton — Love Is like a kit Scolding Not Successful. Ud. ten It is born blind Mr. Blunt— Many women have attempted to acold les. but It only takes a kitten nine affection Into the hearts o f men, but Her Chance. day* to get Its eyes opened.—Philadel we have never heard of one who suc Husband—You look badly today, my phia Kecoril ceeded -Chicago Hecord Herald love. Is It that you are 111? W ife—No. lohn It's this last year’s hat I'm wear- Will Grow. The heart c f the wise man should iug.—Harper's Bazar Mabel—That story you told about resemble a mirror, which reflects ev Alice Isn't wortb repeating Katie— ery object without being eullleo by Men. like catti#, follow him who It's young yet, give It tim e.-Boston a n y —Confucius. leads. -Byron. Tracer rlpt. j f BAGGAGE STORED THREE DAYS FREE THE , Baggage & Omnibus Transfer Co. standstill for a time. Only a part of the regular force was at work on August 17, when the bridge fell, killing 40 Italians, 19 Cana dians and 15 Americans. 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