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About Jacksonville post. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1906-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1908)
♦ Topics of ; the Times ♦ ♦ ♦ *«<**********o*«****o*o*** Will Mr. Burbank kindly Invent i /rust proof peach crop? A Chicago elevated road motorman has confessisi to bigamy. Another of »he evils of high life. Grave apprehensions exist thnt the New Yorkers Intend to cull their new tunuels "tubes" or “bores." The President of tlie United States to the assembled governors: “It's a tong time between forests.” A Minnesota woman has been award ed $1.750 for a stolen kiss. It Is never possible to tell what a jury will do. A few “bumps,’’ properly placed, might effect a cure also In the case of the idiot who throws the pop bottle. If It is love altogether, why Is It that none of those titled foreigners ever fall In love will) Anlerlean girls that do not have plenty of money? The Emperor of Austria has been on the throne for sixty years, thus show ing that a man with a rugged constitu tion can hardly be killed by worry. “One way to trim a lmt,” says the Toledo Blade, “would be to cut off about a foot all around." Sounds like the cynical remark of a sad widower. Some of the mon who answered Mrs. Guinness' matrimonial advertisement are simply going to congratulate them- selves on their escape and keep quiet about the matter. An Indiana man recently died from the effects of a penny swallowed sixty seven years ago. And during that time lie doubtless often told his friends that he didn't have a red cent. One curious thing in connection with the career of “Fighting Bob" Evans is that no New York life Insurance com pany has ever offered him $200,000 a year to become its president. Some day. of course, the earth's sup ply of petroleum will be exhausted, and the historian of the future will refer glibly to the Standard Oil Company as “the glory that was grease.” Visitors who were invited to Inspect a tine new hotel in Kalamazoo. Mich., carried away nearly al) the portable property in the building as souvenirs, “Are we a nation of thieves?” with the present office of each and th« [lost from which he started. More than half of the list ure presidents, vice presidents, and general managers, Who»» did these men start? N it one ' of te-ni bears a name of any purtleu- lar note in business history for wealth or high station, over thirty of them started as Just "boys"—office boys, wa ter boys, messengers, shop apprentices, I and the like. Among these were F. A. Delano, president of the Wabash; George B. Harris, president of the Chi cago, Burlington and Quincy, and P. 8. Eustis, its passenger traffic manager; George I.. Peek, general manager of the Pennsylvania lines, and E. T. Jeffery, president of tlie Denver and Rio Grande. Nearly thirty started as brakemen, survey helpers, switchmen, section hands, and the like. Among these were Charles E. Schaff, vice pres ident of the New York Central Lines West; W. C. Brown, senior vice presi dent of the New York Central ; James J. Turner, vice president of the Penn sylvania lines, and James McCrea, president of the Pennsylvania. About twenty-live were “clerks” of one kind or another—always at some minor post In the start. Among these were J. C, Stubbs, traffic director of the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific; John Sebas tian, passenger traffic manager of the Rock Island system; William II. Trues dale. president of the Delaware. Lack awanna and Western, and C. S. Mel len. president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford, and the foremost figure in New England railroading Sixteen started as telegraph operators. Among these were Marvin Ilughitt. president, and M. M. Kirkman, vice president, of the Chicago and North western ; A. J. Earling, president of the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul, and Sir William C. Van Horne, chairman of the Canadian Pacific board of direct ors. He began ns a telegraph operator on the Illinois Central. Ouly about seven began nt posts of any sort of authority. These started as "agents" of one kind or another. The most con spicuous of tills group is Janies J. Hill, who entered tlie service as “local agent” of a little ro.-tu only legally re membered now. There Is a great deal of talk about what “pull” and "influ ence” do to gdt a young man ahead in the world. There is a certain amount of truth In that theory, though not tlie kind which those who advance it lie lieve. The "pull" that counts is that which the youngster makes for him self by hls energy and sound Judgment. We see the truth of tills when we look over tills list of railway officials of high place and great power, and think where they started. They took the “chance” that every boy may take who has the eyes to see it and the will to grasp it. And that “chance” exists and Is Just as wide open everywhere to-day as it Wils’ when these men started. ---------- 1------- REV. DK. OUAYLE, Famous Whom V I'ri-nrhpr III -hop. Among t Methodists In general Baltimore elected bishops perhaps none Is more widely known than Is Rev. Dr. William ' Alfred Quayle, w ho lias charmed audi ences in every part of tlie United States by hls ability as a preacher and lec turer. He is also an author of wide AND SO MAN CAN FLY. T the miracles of invention tlie world no longer wonders greatly, All tilings have become credible. Has a machine been made which will fly IVe no longer doubt. We reply, rather, "We thought so. It was to be expected." After the wireless telegraph, how can we do otherwise? Material limi- tatioiis seem to be dissolving. Time was when wood and flesh were opaque, Then came tlie X-ray, and tlie fallacy of opaqueness was disclosed, To the X-ray eye the board has become ns w indow glass, Time was when tlie unseen forces of the electric world traveled the material road of a copper or iron wire; but there came tlie Inventions of Marconi and invisible messengers leaped through the limitless spaces of the ether. Time was when sounds traveled on the air; in our own generation tlie telephone has transferred sounds by new and unknown roads to distances limited only by the desires of man. And now after nineteen centuries of fruitless effort— Is man r> crown the achievements of tills inventive age by a full mastery of the air? Why not? we answer. Here we are told of a new device able to lift two men— a machine without balloon or gas bag attachment, weigh Ing perhaps a thousand pounds, and yet able to mount ns do the birds and sail the circumambient air! And we say: Why got? Why tins tlie machine been so slow in coming? Of course the problem has been solved. Man will mount, and spread, and grow; and old things will pass away; and tlie earth will grow still smaller—for verily we live in a wonderful, a golden age!—Kes Moines News. n [ NOT AFRAID TO DIE. O\V ninny people could face certain death as bravely as did 1 >r. William II Marsh, a wealthy citizen of Brooklyn, who passed away recently, a victim of hydrophobia? “You will die before Thursday noon; no human power can save you.” he was told by a physician in tlie Pasteur institute, where he had applied for treatment, lie had gone to tlie institution too late to lie helped. Tlie symptoms of the drend disease were already visible to the practiced eye of the expert, and when asked tor the trulli the pliy- sieiiin frankly told it. Dr. Marsh accepted the sentence with fortitude, am not afraid to die,” lie said to ills friends. “Tlie past hides nothing that should make me ashamed to face the future," and he proceeded to put Ins earthly affairs In shape, that his loved ones might be protected. He Instructed ills physician to give him liberal doses of opiates when the paroxysms appeared In order that hls family should not lie terrified at the sight, and then he calmly awaited the end. What a sermon in this sad story! Dr. Marsh was no common hero. Tlie man who goes into battle knows thnt he has more than an even chance for Ids life. Influ- eneed by the prospect of large rewards in the shape of money or fame, mon will face tremendous perils, for there Is always hope. But there was no gamble In the ase of Dr. Marsh. A few hours before, apparently in perfect health, he was walking the streets of Brooklyn, happy and prosperous. Then Ills sentence fell, like a shadow across hls path. And there was no escape from it. Yet hls heart at tills supreme crises was light. 'The past hides nothing that should make me ashamed to face the future,” lie said, ami therein Is found the key to tills wonderful exhibition of courage. Remorse was a stranger to him. for he had lived right ami dealt fairly with his fellow men. To be able to greet death with perfect stoicism under such circumstances is a heaven- born quality.—Toledo Blade. OUR NEED OF WATER. II Y8I01.OGI.8 l s tell us tliat the animal body consists of almost 80 per cent water. Admitting this to be true, it would seem plausible that tills quantity is necessary in order to carry on tile normal physiological processes of tlie animal economy In pro|ier condition. For similar reasons It would also appear plausible that should this quantity In any way be greatly reduced or diminished. either through normal pna-esses of the body or through abnormal proc esses. this 1< st quantity must immediately be resupplied. Should such a withdrawal of water be permitted to be unduly* prolonged, the disorders will assume such grave dimensions that life Itself may ultimately be terminated. Elasticity and pliability of muscles, nerves, cartilage, tendons and even bones depend mainly upon the amount of water they contain. Water also serves as a dlstrrti- liter of bodily heat and regulntes the body temperature by tlie physical process of absorption and elimination, Under normal conditions ami In n proper degree of health tills supply is ordinarily furnished partly by the food and partly by the drink we are daily consuming, An overfndulgenee in tlie use of water provided It is not carried to excess will seldom. If ever, lie productive of any deleterious consequences.—Medical Recorder. A CURE FOR DESPONDENCY. LARGE tieshy man with whiskers told me of a sovereign cure for despondency only yesterday. He had a number of girls in his employ, among them one that he knew was in struggling circumstances and sup porting a sick mother on a none too healthy salary. She had come Into the store and laid her purse and somber widow hat on tlie counter while she did something about the place. The large fleshy man got between her and the purse, and when she was not looking he slipped a $5 bill into it and moved unconsciously about his business. In the afternoon lie noticed that she had a red spot in each cheek ami she was heard asking other girls if they believed in fairies. She never solved the mystey— It was two years ago—and never will unless she reads this. But the $5 bill was very useful In its little way, and the large despondent man felt so good for two weeks that he hlp-lmpped on the sidewalk on Ills way home.— Minneapolis Journal. repute. Is a native of Parkville, Mo., and is 48 years of age. lie was professor of Greek at linker Univer sity for three years, acting as vice pres ident of tlie university during tlie last year of ids professorship. In 1890 he was made president of tile institution. At present lie is pastor of St. James’ Church, Chicago. Arieslnn Wells. '1 he theoretical explanation of the phenomenon is easily understood, Tlie secondary mid tertiary geological for- mations often present the uppearauc» of Immense basins, the boundary or rim of the basin having been formed by an upheaval of adjacent strata. In these formations It often happens that a porous stratum, consisting of sand, sandstone, chalk or other calcareous matter. Is Included between two inqier- meable layers of clay so as to form a flat porous U tube, continuous from side to side of the valley, the outerop on the surrounding hills forming tlie mouth of the tube. The rain Altering down through the porous layer to ths bottom of tlie basin forms there a sub terranean pool, which, with the liquid or semiliquid column pressing upon it, constitutes a sort of huge natural hy drostatic bellows. Sometimes tlie pres sure on tlie superincumbent crust Is so great as to cause an upheaval or dis turbance of the valley. It is obvious, then, that when a hole is laired down through the upper impermeable layer to tlie surface of the lake tlie water will be forced up by the natural law of water seeking Its own level to a height a bi>ve the snrfaee of the valley, great er or less. aeisirdlng to the elevation of tlie level In the feeding column, thus forming n natural fountain on precisely the same principle as that of most a rt I tli-I a I fountains, where the water supply comes from a considerably height above the Jet. THE PYGMY EARTH. Harry Thaw says he will work if they will let him out of the lunatic asy- Vaat Dimension* of the Sun as Com- luin. Some of tlie other young men pared with tlie World. by the prefect, In which case they ure who have Inherited fortunes will nt Some Exiienolve Errors. IN A SICILIAN FRISON. A dime held at arm's length from shown tlie chapel, where there are cu A Western paper once told the story cnee decide that be Is really insane. the eye will much more than cover tlie rious old memorial tablets, with busts of how an error In the price of an entire disk of the sun. If it were To reach the women's prison in Mes and three-quarter figures In bus relief, There is in Ohio a woman who claims article in a department store advertise placed nt the exact point of coincidence sina one must leave the Marina, the representing men In quaint <s>stunies ment, in which n lady's gown was of to have baked 481.000 pies during the and its diameter and distance from the principal promenade and drive, to and attitudes, not as when prepared fered for $18.90, but which read $8.|»I, past sixty-three years. We are not so eye accurately measured, it might be Climb a steep hill by one of tlie few for their last long sleep. There Is some much surprised at tlie number of pies cost If over a thousand dollars, as the used as a means of determining tlie roads that lend to or from tlie town. beautiful inlaid woodwork there, and store tilled all orders and held the pa as at tlie length of time which she con sun's diameter, hls distance Icing As on turns one's back to the sea tlie sacristy Is entirely wainscoted with fesses it took her to bake them. known. Tlie foremost philosophers of mountains and valleys open to the it. Then come the refectory, the kitch per responsible for the error. The de long ago would have been appalled nt view, with here and there a villa half en and corridors off which are tlie partment store took the stand that to Tlie Chicago woman who got a di have done otherwise might have led the true statement of botli the sun's bidden among vines and orange trees. monks' cells, now fitted to contain from vorce on the ground Hint her husbnnd people to lielleve It did not do a> distance and its size, Higher a fort crowns the summit of a two to six prisoners’ beds, according had been drunk 3.000 times ill ten years 'i'he sun's diameter Is about 8<!ii.0<’0 rocky crag, while the ruins of an old to their size; also workrooms, where agreed, but offered tlie price merely to was well within her rights. No woman draw people to the store. L on I iiu II I m (¿rip. miles. It Is bewildering to be assured citadel stand out in bold relief against looms are kept busy and shuttles dart i should feel in duty bound to live witli This incident quite often happens, Field Marshal Count Von Moltke, th« tliat it would take 1.300,000 earths to tile autumn sky. Another turn of tlie backwards and forward like live things, a man who gets drunk oftener than equal the sun in volume. If the in road, and the driver brings his horse where machines have taken the place but we only hear of it nt times when great Prussian strategist, had the ut every other day. terior of that truly gigantic globe were to a stand before the gates of what of tlie more primitive knitting needles publishers want to boast nliout how most contempt for loquacity. On the their pajiers bring results. rare occasions when lie addressed tlie hollow and the eartli were placed at its was once the monastery of tlie Capil- Chancellor l>ay can see no reason The most expensive error of this relehstng. Ins . ....... lies were models of is chilis. It a white building, like a why there should b- any complaint as center with tile moon revolving about kind we have knowledge of was one brevity. At banquets it was hls custom long ns rich men have foolish sons and it nt its usual menu distance of nearly church in the center, with n long wing that occurred recently down in Wall to sit In silence except when he pres at either side, The site was chosen and 24O.OCO miles, there would still exist a daughters who. by Indulging in idiotic street. The banking house of .1 P. posed “Ills majesty, the king." or “The the foundations laid by two pilgrims. | vacuity between the moon and tlie in extravagance, return the money to tlie Morgan & Go. recently ...... offered _____ __ n ____ block I health of Ids majesty the king.” On people. There may be some good points closing shell of the sun of nearly 200,- It was handed over to the Capuchins , of New York Central equipment notes I in the sixteenth century, as is shown 000 miles. This is perhaps tlie most one occasion an officer laid a heavy about the scheme, but isn't It rather of different maturities and nt different wager that at a coming state dinner graphic and impressive illustration pos by an inscription over a low arched rough on the rich men? prices, which price ran into fractions Von Moltke would not use more than sible of tlie sun's colossal bulk. We doorway, which bears the date of 15!X>. of per cents, A mistake was made in must note, however, that the density They continued in possession for near seven words in proposing King Wil Memphis lias decided, through Its one of these fractions and was not I of tlie sun is only about one-quarter ly 300 years, until they were turned liam's health. It hapjiened that on this park commissioners, to restore to the the noticed until advertisement up that of the earth, so tliat it would out by the Italian government In 18»;*;. ocenslon tlie great general «•Id: "The monument of Andrew Jackson the ta peared In all the newspapers. Then health of ids majesty the king, gentle weigh only as much as 330,000 earths. The place lias changed its character scription, “Our Federal Union: it It was too late. All these notes went In very round numbers tlie sun ’ s tlie gate now ; a sentry stands before men,” npon hearing which the officer must be preserved.” The phrase was like hot cakes, for’discerning Investors weight may be stated nt two octillion Over a side door is written "Ussa di muttered: “Ah. the field marshal a toast given by Jackson in 1830, on quickly saw their advantage. The net grows old and talkative.”—Buffalo the anniversary of Jefferson's birthday. tons, which if expressed In figures l’ena per Donne.” Instead of the result was that J. P. Morgan & Co. Commercial. When the civil war broke out the idea would require almost as many ciphers cowled monk who once answered the lost nearly $10.<)00, the difference be was not popular in Tennessee, and the as a newspaper Hue can accommodate. convent bell, the grating of locks is \ noi her GI iim . tween the error ami the correct price. A very comprehensive Illustration of heard, and a warder In blue uniform Inscription was removed. The restora The seventeenth century puritan Tills is. as far ns wo know, the most I tion of it is a sign of the passing of old the pygmean dimensions of tlie earth admits visitors desirous of purchasing expensive mistake In an advertisement preachers talked for two hours or more feelings and the growth of the new na as compared with the sun is to repre some of the work done by the prisoners. not “by the clock.” hut by the hour Mail < trder Journal. sent the latter by a globe two feet in The way leads through the cloisters, tional unity. glass. At least one of them turned diameter ami the earth bya dainty pea. which surround an open court. A Thrifty 1’ngiwiliil, I the glass to humorous account. II« And yet tlie little pea weighs more statue of tlie Madonna stands In the When Paganini was asked runny found himself no further than the mid- Concrete houses are becoming com than six quintillion tons. As to the center, encircled by a hedge of trailing years ago to jdny nt Vnuxhnll Gar- die of the sermon when the sands had mon, and concrete ships seem to be on solar surface, it Is some 12,000 times vines, outside which many varieties of j dens he Inquired bow many persons run out. “Drunkenness” was hls sul>- tlie way. Italian engineers have been trees and flowers grow, such as Japan that of our planet. Yet the sun when i.lect. and, reversing the horologe, “fxd’s the place would hold. working in this direction for ten years compared with its true peers, the stars. ese medlars, oleanders. climbing roses, i have nnother glass,” said I k *. Sir “ That Is Impossible to say, ” said th* or ■ more, one of them recently pro- Is not only not of extraordinary size, Jasmine, lilies, etc. Tlie work is shown jiosed the use of concrete armor on manager. “It Is a large, open space.” Unger r/Estrango tells of a parish but in all probability Is only to be by the well-known nuns G» the order warships, and the Italian government After some reflection the great vio clerk who sat patiently until the ranked among the mf Hum self lumin of Saint Vincent de Paul, whose prlncl- lias agreed to tests. That government linist Inquired, “How many will the preacher was three-quarters through A PRISOM R IN I HF. < I.OÎSTERS. ous bodies which sparkle In "heaven's pul convent Is nt Rome, whence the 1 already owns and employs several con large, open space contain when quit» hls second glass and the majority of ebon vault.” And because of its spot "sisters” are sent to all parts of the j and balls of worsted. As the Mother I hls hearers had quietly left the church. crete steamships of about one hundred full?” tedness it has a place, although a hum world, sometimes for life, sometimes to Superior enters mi-ompanied by visit | Rising at a convenient pause, lie asked tons' capacity, and has found, it is “Perhnps 20.000.” change their nlside again niter a Slav 1 ble one, among tlie “variable” stars. or» all the occupants rise; each seems nMh the minister to close the church <1nor said, that they originally cost only “ Ah. 20,4)00 people! And you of from one to thirty years, There is to enjoy showing her task, ami giad how much?” j when he had done, “and push the key alsmt half ns much as Iron vessels, and Mo Pince to Die. embroidery of every d •rlption, chur-'i | under It, as he and the few that re* • that the maintenance cost Is little or “Tour shillings each.” The soldier of the legion lay dying io work lii silver or gold mingled with to answer any questions about it. These rooms are bright and sunny, mid some nothing. In these novel craft the Algiers. “Four shillings e nnch ! Twenty thou »nn Inert were about to retire.” silks of every shade on grounds of satin frames and beams are made of con A committee of citizens who want or silk, while raised flowers with deli of them command lovely views of the sand at 1 shilling make 80.000; 8O.O0C Ilrlulif Hoy. crete. reinforced with round bnrs of ed to boom Algiers as a health resort cate lace stlt'-h s adorn sheets, pillow ■ i’eioro Mountains, clad in every variety shillings, £4,000. Well. I will play in “What Is the worst thing about rich of foliage, from the prickly pear above Iron, and the akin consists of a single waited upon him. o»!(* concf ’ rt for £3.f>00. and you may es'.'” naked the teacher of the juvenile cases, tea cloths, underllnen. etc., nil or double layer of concn te strengthened "We wjmt you to change your • head- In the most artistic designs. Being en to banks of mnldetl Imlr shaded by have the other thousand.” St. Dm It class. with wire netting and covered with quarters,” announced they. "' You're trusted with this work forms a groat i pepper trees at their base. They form Republic. “Their scarcity,” promptly answered a strong contrast to the d -m.il punish an outside coat of dear cement for hurting business here.”—Pittsburg alleviation to the sorrows of pris the bright youth nt tin* hen I i'hirngo 11 el 111 ng Iler. merit cells, without light except what the purpose of experiment, such vessels life. Some of the women develop a Post. News. “You loved her very much?' have been rammed by larger ships, and strong artistic power, and And real en ■an enter through n small grating over "So much that when her i The Difference of One Word. “no impression was produced.” But a joyment In it, ns it obliterates js-rhaps the door. band died 1 married her that Olive What an It • .... . >>t it wilt “lie used to be in the newspaper for a time the darker pages of mem carefully planned experiment In time of lie If the time ever comes when every- ’When a woman Is violently opposed share her grief and so b>«en |ieace and a rude and unmannerly shell business, but he's studying for the min ory. Besides tills branch of labor, they "And how d'd It work?” ’awl-- ■ an get a seat In tlie street curs. or torpedo In war time might yield very istry now. He says he decided he make etislii >n lace and spin arid weave to all talk of marriage for h<-r daugh "Fine' I'm sorrier now for Violet Oh, I don't know*. A girl couldn’t be a reporter and save hfs linen: also cotton, silk, and wool for ter, It creates a suspicion that in her different results. wo Id never be sure then that she was own marriage she f iumi the seamy than she is."- Boston Post. soul.” underclothing of every texture pretty.—Puck. , side. "Huh! Ills old city editor says he warmth. Opportunities of To-day, a new rn li Few men are ruined by great of t>e a reporter to save hir way magazine, publishes an interesting couldn't fonar», but Whitewash will not hide the freckles most men are sufferer» Some js-ople exercise their rights so More thin this visitors cannot a*' list of 109 Important railway officials, soul."—Philadelphia Press. « imJetMi they have been granted a penult; much they work them to death. on a malia reputation. from the effet-:» of petty folly.