The Stayton mail., June 26, 1908, Image 5

CZAR’S LITTLE 80» .
T R E U NIVE RSE .
H s n 'i
I here are times whan the spirit of
Mu- uw Includes the letter; when Indi­
vidual Judgment linn no pluce III action.
However broad
h
principle may lie. Its
practical value Is destroyed unless It I*
applied by the Individual hiii I (lemon
Ntrated l.y him. J. O. Fagan, writing
In the Atlantic Monthly on ‘T h e Oonfe*
alona o f a Railroad Signalman;“ lllus-
tratea thla truth, and speaking a* a
railroad man, plm-es much of the re-
m | m mallil 111 y for rallwny disaster upon
the disregard o f «■ssentlal regulations.
As far as speed and comfort go. 'her*
Is little to lie naked for In railroad
service.
Hut when we take Into ac-
(ouut the humiiii lives which have paid
t> M to the American system, we can­
not avoid the conclusion that something
Is wrong fundamentally. The popular
discussions In regard to hhs-k signals,
tried employes and faulty rul<*s are
endless and fruitless
Investigations
and penalties are In e f f e c t »eerct, and
the world remains In Ignorance. It Is
the men who know the details o f 'a ll­
road life, the men who pull the signals
and handle the trains, who must bo
lunrd from.
The significant facts In accidents are
the personal conduct o f employes, and
not the nature of signals or the word­
ing of rules. Most o f the trouble can
lie traced to us railroad men, to our
own personal behavior as railroad tnen.
Thera Is a rule tliut a freight train
meat not leave a station to follow a
piosenger train until live minutes after
th« departure of the passenger train.
Th! * seems plain and positive, yet no
attention whatever Is paid to It by the
engineers, conductors or superintend
ents and Its violation Is the cause of
much lists of life. The fault Ilea not
In the rule, hut In downright neglect
on th* part o f the men to do as they
sre told.
A flagman protects s trnln to the very
1* ttc-r o f the rule when It Is manifestly
necessary, hut when. In Ills opinion. It
Is not, he laki-s the chances. I f an en­
gineer encounters a single torpedo, the
rule calls for a full stop. I f ho hap
|s-na lo have a clear track for a mile
or s o ahead he keeps on, and some day
THE POOR
i> Hilda that Ida Judgment wkh at
i ult.
A green light with semaphore norl-
mtal calls for caution. Thla should
it la* Interpreted at will. It demands
it actual, not a theoretical reduction
’ speed. It Is not n piece o f Infonnn-
on to Is* stored away In the engineer's
rain, to be utilized when a rear end
r a broken rail la In sight. Instead,
aln after train runs past without re-
lotion, provided the track looks clear.
should not Inake a particle o f dlffer-
ice to the engineer whether the track
aa clear or n ot; he simply has to fol-
w his Instructions.
Practically there Is no out-aupervl-
oii o f the American rallwny. Repotts
’ employes are depended on for mfor
at Ion In regard to violations.
I n
levied negligence can lie shown to la*
ic direct cause o f nearly nil preventn
e accidents In America.
It In “ up to" the management to en­
ure rules. It Is "up to” the men to
ley rules.
No practical system esn enforce obe-
lence at nil times. The whole business
■solves Itself Into a personal matter.
In up to nil to do the square thing
mployes should be educated to nppre-
nte the fact thst successful and safe
illroadlng depends, not on the multi
Iclty o f safety dev Ires, nor the re'on-
ruction of rule*, but on personal ef-
rt, and the conduct o f conscientious,
lert and careful men
I’ l r s
In
T h is
K le rn llr
S p e c « n od M u lle r.
sf
l.l(*lr
Huaalao V o u i t a s l e r
CoMataid lr Ituarilrd.
W H O HR MET HIB
Who
N «*v
la
Despite early prophecies
that lit
The solur system Is but a fragment
o f the universe. Every stttr Is a sun would grow up a sickly child or pos­
with a solar system. It Is |x>sslble that sibly die la-fore attaining manhood, tbt
there may la* millions o f planets In­ t'zarowltz Alexis, son and heir to till
habited by beings higher or lower than i t'zar o f nil the itiissiiin, la to-day ui
ourselves
What we sec going oil la bright and hearty a little lad as could
what we call the process o f evolution be .found lu any American household.
Hedged In though be Is with courl
from broken fragments to coherent
ceremonial
and
constantly guarded
masses slid to Inhabited worlds, from
against
possible
kidnaping
by Nihilists
chaos to cosmos, a struggle upward of
the universe from something lower Alexis manages to get as much fun out
and disorganized to something higher o f Ilfs ns the average boy of his age
lie Is never happier than when romplni
and organized
As to how life originates on these around the staid and sombre corridor»
planets science Is Ignorant at present. In a game o f tag with his sisters, and
the silent guards stationed at regulai
It Is an entire mystery. I would not
have you think It will always remain a and frequent Intervals fall to attract
mystery, nor would I have a theologian his notice at all, except when one In­
shaken In Ills views If science should
discover something about the nature
ami origin of life. I want you to real­
ize that this process o f evolution Is
not a process which negatives or ex-
eludes the Idea o f divine activity. It
I*. 1 venture to say, a revelation to us
o f the manner o f divine activity. It Is
the way the Itelty works.
The attempt to show that evolution
is Uligulded, that It Is the result of ab­
solute change, fulls.
Wh a t Is [stinted
to Is not unguldcd random change, but
guided change. The other could not l>*
done In time.
What we have to realize In regard
to our place In the universe Is that we
are Intelligent, helpful and active parts
o f the cosmic scheme. We are among
the agents of the Creator. One of the
most helpful Ideas Is eo-o|MTutlon—
helping one Knottier. Oo-o|»eratlon—
this In a new and stimulating sense—
co-o|ieratlon with the Divinity Himself.
Sir Oliver l/islge.
As we reach lower and lower depths
the water becomes colder; the warm
water, being less dense, remains at the
surface. At about 12,000 feet the tem­
perature Is little above the freezing
point of fresh water. Light gradually
disappears, and at 1,400 fret, says
Country Life, absolute darkne** pre­
vails; and aa no plant can live without
light, the vegetable kingdom Is unrep­
resented, except by some boring algae
which have been dredged from a depth
o f over 3,ikM> feet. Further, there are
no currents, oxygen Is scarce and uni­
formity o f temperature prevails.
Prof. A. Ilerschel, in the Quarterly
Journal o f the Itoyal Meteorological
Hocicty. describes Hie extraordinary e f­
fects produced by lightning In the
midst o f an open moor In Northumber­
land. A bole 4 or 5 fret In diameter
was made in the flat, peaty ground,
and from this half a dozen furrows ex­
tended on all sides.
Pieces o f turf
were thrown in various directions, one
8 feet In diameter and a foot thick hav­
ing fallen 78 fret from the hole. Inves­
tigation showed that In addition to the
effects visible on the surface, small
holes had been bored In the earth ra­
diating from the large exeavation.
TCH.
S ten oarap h rv W a n ted tv
O ut A I,nut K m p l a i ' r .
fin d
He was engaging a new stenographer,
and he bit off bis words and hurled
them at her in a way to frighten any
ordinary girl out of her wits, saya
Judge.
"Chew gum7” he askexfc
"No, air."
"Talk slang Y*
"No, air."
"Make goo-goo eye* at the fellows
when you're not busy?”
"No, sir.”
"Know I m » w to *i**ll Vat' and 'dog
corre**tIy ?”
'•yes, air.’1
"♦'bin through the telephone half a
dozen times a day'/”
“ No, sir.”
"Usually tell the office force how
much the Ann owes and all the rest of
Its private business you learn?’’
"No. sir.”
He was thinking o f something else
to aak her when she took a hand in the
matter and put a few queries.
“ Smoke cheap cigars when you're dic­
tating?" she asked.
"W h y —er— no.’’ he gasped. In aston­
ishment.
"Tuke it out of the stenographers
hide when you've had a scrap at home
and got the worst o f It?”
“ Cer-certaiuly not.”
“ Slam things around and swear when
business is bad?”
“ N-never.”
"L a y for your employes with a club
when they get caught In a block some
morning?”
"No, Indeed.”
“ Think you know enough at »out gram­
mar and punctuation to appreciate a
good stenographer when you get one?”
" I — think so.”
"W ant me to go to work, or is your
time worth so little that----- ”
“ You b et!” he broke in. enthusiastic­
ally. "K indly hang up your things and
let's get at these letters.’’
Many readers may recall the surprise
they felt pn reading Darwin's lss»k on
earthworms to find how the great nat­
uralist had lent an Irresistible charm
to so apparently unpromising a subject.
It led them to entertain a resj>eet they
had never previously felt for the hum­
ble borers in the earth. It now appears
that earthworms must Is* regarded as
T h e D o c to r H a b it.
useful otherwise than as simple culti­
vators and renewers o f the soil. Ac­
One o f the tendencies o f III health Is
cording to E. A. Andrews, they nre trre-
to make one morbid. People who are
planters also. They draw tlie flat seeds
constantly thinking als>ut their ail­
o f the silver maple Into their burrows,
ments, worrying atsi.it their troubles,
and such seeds. In district« too dry for
suffering pain, often develop a morbid
N E W WORLD JERUSALEM.
them to germinate if left upon the
passion for sympathy. They want to
surface, sprout from the wormholes, A a r l r n l t a r a l S e t i . .1 ■ ( W . . n , l h l n ' .
tell everybody o f their aches aisl pains,
and grow Into seedlings, which, under
lo describe their symptoms.
S . J . , 1« T a r n In
Out K a rn rr*.
favoring conditions, may Id-ome flour­
Have you ever known n woman who
Is the Jew essentially wedd-d to the
ishing trees.
tins acquired the doctor habit, a wom­
commercial life, or. g:
the
¡.-.r
an who loves nothing In the world
MaJ. W. V. Judson. the government ’ uity, would he again !■•■ vim a tiller of
quite so well as an opisirtunlty to tell
engineer In charge o f harbor work at the soil ns In the old
-
the
<
the doctor of her ailments! She has
Milwaukee. Wis.. is reported by the
lions) life in Pal­
Railway and Engineering Review to lie
estine? natoli Ite
experimenting with re-enforced con­
■ li i r s e l i believed
W IDOW HAT.
crete blocks, made hollow, so that they I i
r they would return
can be floated to place III constructing
to the soil with
advertently stations himself in some
the government breakwater at that
pro[ier encourage
•favorite corner o f the baby prince.
point. The proposed block o f standard
Alexis Amis little enjoyment In th«
size will weigh about fourteen tons,
supposedly favorite game of king'»
but in the ex|»eriments the weight is
son's, playing at soldiers. He finds the
only about seven tons. The blocks will
tin men and tiny fortresses too tedious
consist o f re-enforced concrete walls.
He wants to romp with other children
Inclosing a hollow space. A fter it has
and. tf allowed his own way, would
been towed to the nite o f the work an
spend the day playing with lioys In
o|»ening in the bottom Is uncovered and
the garden, street, or snywherd, as
water is permitted to enter the block
long as he could have fun, active fun.
and sink It. The interior o f the block
and lots o f It. Alexis' happiest mo­
is then filled with sand and gravel, and
ments nre probably iqieiit on his fnth
the open space In the top is tilled with
er's yacht, where, free from dnnger ol
-roncrete.
death at the hands o f revolutionists, h«
ment and opportunity. He established
This question, always interesting foi
can romp with the loyal sailors at w ill
an agricultural school for Jews at
the light It throws on th»* past history
Woodbine, N. J. The result Is a new
of the earth, has had many answers.
PUSS TO T H E RESCUE.
world Jerusalem.
The latest is that of I)r. J. \V. Spencer,
Woodbine is to-day the only exclu­
f l r o n g h t a R a b b i t to H u n g r y P hi l-
who, from recent studi**s on the s|s»t,
sively
.Jewish town in the world. It
adelpbla
taro
Dweller«.
finds that the mean rate o f recession
When the first settlers came to Phil o f Niagara falls at present is 4.2 fret js*r has a population of 2.500, is up-to-date
adelphia. o f course there were nc year, and this has been the rate fo r ap­ In municipal Improvements, and is well
houses ready for them, says Sel In th« proximately 227 years. lint owing to ruled. It has none but Jewish resi­
Oat Journal, so a good many o f tin the fact that originally the waters of dents. Jewish town officials. Jewish
men dug small caves In the bank ol Lake Erie only were discharged over I io Iicemen and firemen; In fact. Jewish
the river.
They would dig several the falls, giving but one-fifteentli o f the everything. Seventy-five |ier cent o f the
fret into the bunk, then build walls ol present water supply, the rate o f re­ people own their own homes.
Atid. the Inhabitants are showing
sod In front o f the little raves. They cession was at first much lower. A sud­
made the roof by* laying branches ol den widening of the gorge above Fos­ the world at large that the Jews of t*«
trees on top, covering these with rush
ter's Flat indicates the position o f the day are as capable o f self-government
from the rlv**r and putting pieces
falls when the other great lakes liegan as they were In the days o f the Judges
sod on the rushes. The chimney vv
to discharge Into Lake Erie. From his o f Israel.
Baron De llirseli’s theory is betwg
made o f stones plastered with clay.
data. Dr. Spencer calculates the entire
These caves were used only until th« age o f the falls at 30,000 years. The vindicated. The school turns out grad-
insured them out to unwelcome ears, to men hnd time to cut timber and build cutting, with the full power o f the four | uaOes »'very year, who are scattered
forced listeners, till she longs for some the houses they wished.
lakes. Is estimated to have lasted 3.500 all over the country managing large
farms or conducting smaller onei o f
One o f the old families o f Philadel­ years.
one who can really appreciate It all,
their own. There are fifty Jewish
who synqmthlzea with her in her trou-1 phia owns a quaint sliver tureen on
farms scattered around Woodbine;
C h i n e s « K a lth in (lln setiK -
hies; so she sends for the doctor, or which Is engraved a eat seizing a rab­
bit. In the enrly days at Philadelphia
goes to see hltn.
Many o f the Chinese believe that many others around Millville, Vnrmel.
This becomes almost r mania with Elizabeth Hard was living with het ' when all other remedies fall, and Itosenhaym, Alliance and other south­
some women, who have few outside ac­ husband In one of these dug-out cave» death is at hand, ginseng has the ern New Jersey towns.
In every Instance the Jew Is proving
tivities to divert them. Their minds while he was building their house. Th« ! power to bring back health and lon­
nnturally revert to themselves
and work went very slowly, and Elizabeth gevity ; hence, when they feel the need himself a capable farmer. The grad­
they think o f their unfortunate condi­ often helped her husband. She brought o f it they w ill pay fabulous prices for uates o f the sehool leave It well drilled.
tion until they become saturated with the water to make the mortar for th« certain kinds o f roots. A root to be Henry W. Heller, agricultural expert.
ttie poisoned thought.— Success Maga­ chimney, and even helped at one end really valuable ns a commodity must Is the superintendent. The college and
o f the saw.
zine.
| come from the mountains of Kirin or Its superintendent are pictured here.
One day she was very tired, fo e sh* be reputed to have come from there.
Practice Make* Perfect,
H a r d H it .
had helped all the morning. Her hus­ It nmst be bifurcated, so as to resem­
At the niqioliited time Edwin Jones
band told her to rest a while and then ble as much as possible the human
"Th ere is one thing I dread,” re­
hml called at tils best girl's home, hut
think about dinner. Mrs. Hard walked form, and be semi-transparent, dry, marked Johnson, “ Rnd that is a prem­
somehow Miss Wrinkle was not there
sadly away.
The food was nearly
ature burial.”
lo greet him.
gone. Only a few biscuits and a little root the better, and us It* Is sold by
“ Don't worry about that,” replied
lie seated himself In the drawing
cheese were left. Just then she saw weight it Is not very uncommon for a B row n; "the thing Is Impossible.
room and anxiously awaited her ar­
her eat coining toward her with a larg« good specimen to bring ns much n» There’s no danger of your being bur­
rival.
rabbit In Its mouth. Mrs. Hard cooked |100 an ounce. The value of such a led too soon.” — Tit-Bits.
Presently the door opened; but, alas,
the rabbit and had a nice dinner ready root is In Its shape. Its texture, the
It was only her eight-year-old brother.
H la k llr Named.
for Mr. Hard when he came for hit manner In which It has been cured
"H e llo !" exclaimed Edwin. "Is your
“ Say. paw,” queried little Tommy
noon rest. Ro kitty helped, although and the region whence It came.
sister busy?"
Toddles, “ what la the bone o f conten­
she did not know- It.
"She seems so,” replied the young­
T h e F a l l Gar-
tion?”
ster, “ but I don't know Just what she
W e Ar « * F n r l n n a l e .
“ I dropped four stories this morn
“ The Jawbone, my eon,” answered
thinks site's doing. She's standing In
“ Bach day brb .
. me new worry,* Ing without being injured.”
the old man, with a side glance at bis
front o f the mirror, blushing Just awful declared the j» sslm t
“ Wh w h a t!”
wife.
and whispering to It, “ Oh, Mr. Jones,
"Which ena ¡«a u» 1
n
the wor­
"Fact.
They'd Just been returned
tills Is so sudden 1”
O th ers W h e n e v e r.
ry o f yesterdn
w is tin optimist's re­ with thanks, and I dr<>p|M*d ’em I d
Some
people
make happiness wher­
ply.— Washing.
Herald
the fireplace.” — Kansas City Times.
The average woman feels proud of
ever they go.— Success Magazine.
her housekeeping every time a bug.
W e have s
Yn that the women
A man does his own love-making, but
seen crawling on the bedroom wall, pay a good »leal of attention to ths he hire* a lawyer when It conica to try
Nobody la so much alive as the dea#
turns out. Not to be a bedbug.
hats worn by bs m illiner*
| beat
Ing to get It undone