Lincoln County leader., October 12, 1900, Image 2

LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
CBAS. F. ADA E. SOCLE, Fob
TOLEDO.
.OREGON
According to the Medical Record
there is in this country one physician
to every GOO people!
After a preacher has made a married
couple one they each Immediately get
to work to find out which Is the one.
In view of various stories that come
from the Flowery Kingdom, It Is not
always well to accept a bare rumor for
the naked truth.
The man who announces that he has
a method of making old bones assem
ble themselves and come to life prob
ably Imagines that he has a rattling
good thing.
A trade journal estimates the Amer
ican "output" of bicycles for the past
year at about 850,000 wheels. More
than 100,000 are exported, and about
700,000 were reserved for home con
sumption. Yet the bicycle Is now no
novelty. It lookB as if the people, who
tiave supposed and declared that
wheeling was merely a temporary fad
would have to own themselves beaten,
and aim their dismal predictions at
the motor-cycle and it he automobile.
No person In the civilized world who
reads of the touching funeral ceremo
nies over the body of Italy's murdered
king can fall to be Impressed by the
fact that anarchy is a very small senti
ment after all, and that It makes a
noiBe out of nil proportion to Its size.
There Is no hope for the anarchists in
the universal mourning for the dead
ruler, and the unanimity with which
the peoples of the world protested
against the stupid crime Is a greater
Mow to anarchy than any of its paltry
and mean successes can compensate
for.
Chicago Is congratulating itself and
with good reason on the steady Im
provement in the health of its inhabit
ants. Records kept by the Hoard' of
Health show a constant decrease In the
death rate during the last twenty
years, particularly among children. Out
of every thousand deaths during the
first quarter of this twenty-year pe
riod, five hundred and twentytwo were
those of children under 5 years of age
During the last quarter the number
bus been only three hundred and th-ir
ty-elght. The gain Is attributed to the
diligence of the Hoard of Health in
spreading a knowledge among the poor
er people of the best way of feeding
Infants during hot weather, and to the
establishment of day nurseries, steril
ized milk depots, floating hospitals and
other admirable charities.
In his address at Cambridge Mr. Hal-
four, who Is one of the many scholarly
and somewhat erudite Hritlsh stales
men, professed a fondness for tin
eighteenth century, lu those days men
occupied themselves much with the fu
ture. Now people go ahead regardless
of it. Instances are found in the thrift-
lestmcsg and wastefulness of Industrial
wculth and the dojiendoiice upon meth
ods- wihlch differ little from those used
lu the time of Watt. "Every new in
vention throws a new strain- ou the lltu
ited sources of power and sooner or
later those sources of nature will give
out." It is proof of the existence of
the conditions of which Mr. Halfour
complains that ids words will not load
io any economy in the use of coal nor
will they Increase Uio slender precau
tions that are taken for the preserva
tion of the forest nor lead to a move
ment for loss wasteful methods of ag
rieulture.
Men used to look about In deserts and
twildernowes for the fountain of youth
(Latterly they are more sensible, and
look each man inside of himself. From
teaching how to be young at 00, they
rweut on to teach how to be young
(though a uouogcuarhui, and then how
to retain youtih's vigor for a hundred
pears. And now n man has written a
Iliook and a mighty plausible book it
,1s-on "The Possibility of Not Dying
Why not live forever? the advauce
jtchool Is saying. Is not the body re
Inewed throughout every few years? Is
'It not merely a machine? Cannot prop
4r care and Intelligence always replace
woruout part with new parts as good
ias the originals, or even better in many
cases? Why not abandon the whole
superstition about the necessity of dy
Ing? There was an account lu the
mows recently of a youth of upward
of 80 who was making century ruus
down In Pennsylvania. A wagou ran
over hlru and broke several of his
tames. He was lu the hospital a few
weeks and then resumed Lis century
ruus, feeling, as Teddy Roosevelt
would say. "like a bull moose." And
'I'hysJcal Culture gives an account of a
(New Kochelle woman of 13 wlio Is a
jrroat dancer, as frisky and Umber as a
girl at her first lull, and who is also a
daring horsewoman and Is only kept
from Jumping the rope und rolling the
lioop by the entreaties of her great
'grandchildren, who do not think It dig
pilled. To resolve to live forvr la a
laudable ambition. It Is a good Idea to
hitch your achievement wagon to a
star. If you don't attain the full meas
ure of your Ideal, at least you will save
yourself from being a whining, shriv
eled, unsightly wreck of a human be
ing at 70.
A Russian architect who has been
traveling in this country to study
American building methods was great
ly Interested in the elevator which he
saw nsed for raising brick In the con
struction of a great apartment house.
He even photographed the device, in
order that he might have visual evi
dence of It to show on his vet urn home.
In his country no other method ol J
holstintr brick Is in use than the nriini-
tive one of carrying them aloft on Ui j
shoulders of men. Suck Incidents oi
of common occurrence. Many of the
labor-saving devices in use in Ameri
ca are unknown elsewhere. Our own
countrymen traveling In Europe, and
more especially in Asia, are astonished
at the slow and toilsome methods there
employed. A failure to make use of
labor-saving contrivances is not always
due to lack of enterprise. Many of
the Inventions most useful to us
would not pay" where labor is cliop.
Efforts to Introduce the trolley car for
passenger and freight t rattle in the
West Indies encountered an obstacle
which the American promoters had not
foreseen. The ten cents for which the
company would carry a package live
miles or- more a rate that would ln-
ro gcncroUo support ht.-i- til J liut
seem small there, for the simple rea
son that many a native could find no
easier way to earn ten cents than by
walking the five miles and carrying
the package on his head. If "a work
man is known by his chips," he Is also
known by his tools. Illgh-prlccd men
do their work with high-priced machin
ery. The engineer of the mammoth
locomotive which Is pulling hundreds
of people across country In a fast ex
press train Is well paid; the poor Ori
ental, dragging his single passenger In
a jlnrlklsha, gets barely enough for his
supper. Not only does the high-priced
worker create the necessity for me
chanical Improvements, but the me
chanical Improvements in turn aug
ment productiveness. The lesson,
then, for nations and for Individuals
Is to make themselves worthy of good
tools. Human muscles were made for
something better than the work which
a few lumps of coal under a boiler will
do more easily.
That there are too many studies In
the public schools, in all grades and all
departments from the primary to the
high school, lu nearly every State in
the Union, Is the general belief of
schoolmen who understand and cor
rectly apprehend the theory of educa
tion. There are no new disclosures,
therefore, in the report of the element
ary school committee of the "citizens'
educational commission," appointed by
the Civic Federation to Investigate tin
Chicago school system. It is gratify
ing to note, however, that the commit
tee's Wport atlirms what has already
boon pointed out by progressive edu
cators. The committee finds that the
course of study In the elementary
grade Is so extensive that It Is
physically Impossible for the aver
age child to accomplish what Is
required without overwork. It found
that the pupils who finish the
elementary schools are, as a rule, lo!l
cient In English and can neither speak
nor write the language acceptably
The committee is also in line with tht
most progressive educational sentiment
when it declares against the teaching
of foreign' languages In (lie grades. Tin
time and money thus expended couK!
be employed to better advantage In tin
study of English and civil government
The plethora of books In the schoolt
results from two causes the giowtl
of the "cramming system" lu the public
schools, and the continuous and per
slstent pressure of the school book pub
lishers. One evil logically follows the
other. Having engrafted the cramming
system upon the schools, the demand
for books is constantly enlarged, and
the book publishers engage lu fierce
competition to supply the demand. The
result Is that the schools are loaded
down with Iwoks and the old notion
which regarded education as a "draw
ing out of the mental powers" instead
of packing the cranium with useless
and Indigestible facts, has been dls
oarded. It Is not an uncommon sight
nowadays to see a 10-year-old -with
spectacles on Its nose, carrying to und
from school a half dozen Imoks. This
Is uot education. The text lunik was
originally designed as an aid to edu
cation. Properly used It Is a guide in
the mental processes that are neces
sary to develop the mental powers of
a child.
Below Zero All the Year.
The coldest Inhabited country appeart
to be the province of WorehoJank, lu
Oriental Siberia. The mean altitude
of the terrain Is about 10" motors (about
o'.H) feet) above the sea. A Russian sa
vant passed one entire year lu this In
hospitable region and kept n dally rec
ord of the temperature, which ho has
recently published, ami from which It
appears that the dally mean of the en
tire year Is 2.74 degrees below zero.
The dally mean for January, 1S9G, ivas
03. degree below zero.
The insect Vedalla cardinalis, Intro
duced to California to feed ou scale In
sects, has succeeded so well in its work
that there Is nothing left for food and
they are now in danger of disappearing
through starvation.
The earth within the Arctic circle
supports a considerable population, but
the Antarctic circle Is without trace of
human life. Upon eight million square
miles surrounding the south pole, the
foot of man has never trodden.
In the Islands near Singapore a new
Industry has been developed, that of
producing pure gutta-percha from the
leaves of the gutta-percha tree. The
leaves are ground up and pounded in
boiling water. Dry leaves contain us
much as 12 per cent of sap.
Two of the largest Ruhmkorff coils
ever made have been ordered in this
country for a foreign government, and
will give an electric spark forty-five
inches in length, expending energy
amounting to three or four-horse pow
er, and having a potential of half a
million volts.
It Is said that the nut trees or-(Le
world aloue could. If necessity arose,
provide food all the year round for a
total poni;!nt!on three times greater
than the present. It has been pointed
out to the Washington Department of
Agriculture that Brazil nuts around
l'ara grow in such profusion that thou
sands of tons of them are wasted evs-rv
year; with cocoanuts it Is the same in
many centers.
Every sufferer from nerves knows
that a gloomy day affects him unfavor
ably, wnile the first ray of sunshine
makes him gay again. It has been
suggested that the green of vegetation,
the blue of the sky nnd the blue-green
of the oceau may thus have a power
ful influence In calming the snlrlts.
Parville. however, cautions his readers
against too sweeping conclusions. All
that we can say is that colors certain
ly appear to affect the organism, and
that the subject will bear further In
vestigation.
In winter months tornadoes oscur
only in the Gulf States, but In duiu-
luer they 'occur in the North. In Ne-
I braska, South Dakota, Iowa and Min
nesota. The average Is twenty-five a
year. They are simple examples of
vortex motion. A mass of air rotating
at a low level runs Into a vortex, and
a tulie Is projected downward. The
velocity of the lower end of the tube
may reach two hundred miles an hour
and It is the partial vacuum caused hv
ho whirl and the sudden inrush of the
out.side air that causes the disastrous
explosive effects. .
i he black sands containlnz cold
which are spread along the shores of
Norton Sound, near Cape Nome, Alas
ka. are said to differ from similar
sands found on the coast of California
and elsewhere, because they show no
Indication of having been transported
by streams of water. The flakes and
nuggets of gold that have been found
jat Cape Nome are not water-worn, but
sharp and angular In outline. A wide
ly accepted theory Is that they have
been transplanted from a treat dis
tance by glaciers, their original source
being yet undiscovered.
The report of United States Coinmls
sloner of Labor Carroll 1. Wright for
l lS'.Kl on "Hand nnd Mnehtnn I.nWi
sets forth some very interesting facts
ahum ny machinery, 4,000,000 men
turn out a product which would re
quire the labor of nearly 40,000,000
men if produced by hand. In America
the advantage derived from machinery
Is about twice as great as In Eurone.
so that the actual population of the
United States Is equal In productive
power to l.iO.OOO.OOO Europeans. With
labor-saving machinery, one generation
of men can do the work of four or flv
generations of hand workers.
SOME EXTRAORDINARY BATTING
How Iluncbnll Game Was Won by
l Itrce U?rutionn witll the Ktick.
"When I was playing right field for
the Hurtling Lilacs," said the man
with the sandy whiskers to the man
with the sun-burned neck, "I was con
sldered au exceptionally strong bitter.
Hut all records made by me, or by any
one else that ever pretended to do
things with the stick of hickory, were
oust lu the shade by the performance
of a tall young man of the name of
Plunk McGuggenheimer, who played
one day with the Lilacs. I bad seriously
hurt my thumb while running bases,
and Pluuk was engaged to take my
place.
The day he covered right for us we
went against the Whistling Thistles,
We wore very anxious to win, as we
had won forty-nine games and had lost
none, nnd we wanted to have fifty
games to our credit with a clean record
"The game began, nnd the Whistling
Thistles went to bat first. They had
three meu on bases, when the batter
knocked a line ball toward third. Those
ou bases thought that It was good for
a hit, and started to run, but our third
baseman Jumped Into the air aud
caught tht ball lie touched third
base, thereby retiring the runner, who
had started for the plate. Then be ran
toward second and met the runner and
touched him out. He had made a
triple play unassisted.
The umpire had called two strikes
on the first man up for our side when
the opposing twirler made a tremen
dously wild pitch, the ball going about
four feet over the catcher's head. Our
batter bad the presence of mind to
strike at It, nnd he easily made first be
fore the catcher could recover the ball.
The second man let the ball hit him,
and the third singled, thereby filling
the bases. Then McGuggenheimer
came up to bat, and we noticed that hia
club was re-enforced with steel bands.
"The first ball pitched, I'luuk hit out,
and, to the consternation of the This
tles, it could not be found. While they
were chasing 'wildly around looking
for it all of our runners scored. Just as
Plunk was crossing the plate the first
baseman discovered the ball. McGug
genheimer had driven it out with such
force that it had penetrated the canvas
of the first base and had lodged Inside
the bag. It was so firmly imbedded in
the saudbng that It took five minutes
to extract it.
"The second time Plunk came to bat
he drove the ball eight Inches Into the
ground, just In front of the plate. The
pitcher and catcher dug frantically, but
before they could exhume the ball
Plunk had scored. Every hall he hit he
banged to pieces, and seven new ones
were used in the course of the game.
'The Whiuiliug Thistles were o ucl'-
vous after that that every time McGug
genheimer batted they threw them
selves on the ground to escape injury.
And they were so generally upset that
we easily defeated them by the score
of 49 to 7.
"At the end of the game McGuggen
heimer had driven the ball Into the
ground three times, and had knocked
four boards off the center-field fence."
SOLID BRICKS OF YELLOW.
Gold Cubes an They Kench the Mint
Need Not Be Avoided.
A paragraph in the New York letter
of the Ledger stated that there had
been received at one of the banks a
lump of gold from British Columbia
weighing 7,807 ounces, lu shape of n
cone, 13 inches high and 34 inches in
circumference at the buse, and valued
at $135,275. At the United States mint
In this city it was stated yesterday to
a Ledger reporter that It was unusual
to ship gold In such large masses. It
must have been cooled In a crucible,
which was broken from It, judging
from its shape. No such masses had
ever been received at the mint.
The usual form of gold bricks Is that
of an ordinary brick, the very largest
being valued at about $30,000 and
weighing about 1,500 ounces. That such
bricks are not easily handled was eas
ily demonstrated by the reporter, who
was allowed to lift from a truck a
brick from the Denver assay office,
8x4x3 Inches In size. It was just the
size of a building brick, only three
quarters of an inch thicker, but It
weighed ninety pounds and was valued
at $21,000. Though small, it could not
easily have been gotten away with.
Very little gold as It conies from the
mines Is received at the mint. A few
small lots brought by the early Klon
dike miners Is all that has been seen
from Alaska. The dust, or flakes, Is
taken to the nearest assay office, prob
ably at Seattle, and there sold to the
Government, which purchases all that
is offered. It usually contains more or
less silver or copper or both metals. It
may be reliued at the assay office, but Is
usually refined at the mint. Many
bricks shown to the reporter looked like
silver, the proportion of one-third of
that metal giving them that appear
ance. Some small bricks, worth about
$5,000 apiece, were shown which had
been refined to DOS parts lu 1,000, prac
tically pure gold. These were for a
prominent watch case manufactory for
use In Its business. Chemically pure
gold is made only for testing purposes.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Amusing a Princess.
When Princess Heury of Battenberg
was a child, she and her nurse were al
lowed to ramble about the Balmoral es
tate, to visit the tenants, and sometimes
to stay to tea.
One farm was a favorite resort, and
one afternoon, tea over, good Mrs. D
looked round anxiously, perplexed to
provide amusement for a Princess, pre
sumably satiated with toys and joys of
every kind. ,
"What can I do to amuse your Royal
Highness?" she asked, and was prompt
ly met by the reply: "Oh, Mrs. D , do
let me dance on your bed; I may not
do It at home, and I do bo love It"
Permission was gladly given, and the
child danced to ber heart's content on
the snowy counterpane.
M. Delbler.
M. Delbler, the French executioner,
has accumulated a fortune of 500,000
francs by his skill In working the gull
lotlue. At an execution in Paris, some
time back, he had his little son with
him, from which it Is supposed that he
lnteuds him to follow the same profes
sion. Some one nsks what house party Is.
It is a party where the hostess has to
worrv about sheets as well u table
clot
MONKEYS IN INUA.
Are Unusually Ludicrous Counterfeits
of Their Unman Cousins.
"When I was traveling In Northern
India," said a gentleman who had re
cently completed a journey around the
world, "I was constantly impressed
with the almost human ways of the
monkeys there. You see they are never
molested, which Is also true of the
birds, and they are as tame and impu
dent as spoiled children.
"I remember that one morning while
we were sitting at breakfast on the
veranda of our hotel suddenly we heard
the noisiest chattering, and down the
main street of the town came a crowd
of long-tailed uioukeys, running a race
evidently. They shrieked and chattered
at every leap, tripped each other up,
pulled each other's tails and seemed to
be having a generally hilarious time.
While we left the table to watch their
antics some Indian crows that had been
solemnly lined up on the veranda rail
watching us eat, made a dash for the
food and bad quite a fight with the na
tive servant before they were finally
driven away.
"But the monkeys of India are surely
the most Irresponsible people In the
world," continued the traveler. "I call
them people because they are such lu
dicrous counterfeits of human beings.
In many of the old temples-there are
monkey settlements. I remember one
in particular wnich was sacred to the
simians. There seemed to be thou
sands of the creatures, and I was told
that 5,000 had recently been taken to
the woods to get rid of them. But In
this temple I saw little simian mothers
nestling and rocking their babies In
their arms for all the world like a
Christian mother. I ventured to pick
up one of the infants that was running
about, and Instantly the baby gave a
typical Infantile squeal and the excited
mother came to me, chattering angrily.
I put the infant down, and the mother,
her eyes still blazing with anger, car
ried the little one to a corner and pet
ted and rocked it, frequeutly turning
to give me a scornful look.
"It Is not uncommon for the monkeys
In the trees to roach down and seize the
traveler's hat as he passes.
'Terhaps the most remarkable sight
in connection with the monkeys In In
dia I witnessed early one morning. We
were riding in the highway and by a
vacant field. Suddenly from the neigh
boring forest a troop of monkeys en
tered the field and began a regular May
dance, taking hold of hands and form
ing a large circle, then dancing round
and round and chattering gleefully."
LAW AS INTERPRETED.
Constitutional mandate of equality of
taxation as near as may be is held, in
Drew vs. Tifft (Minn.), 47 L. R. A. 525,
to be applicable to inheritance taxes
and to be violated by exemptions,
which discriminate between different
classes of persons.
An assessment for a street Improve
ment under a resolution declaring the
Improvement expedient Is held, In Nor
folk vs. Young (Va.), 47 L. R. A. 574,
to be unconstitutional for lack of due
process of law, where the notice did
not designate any tribunal, place or
time where the party could be heard.
Contract to expend $10,000 In "open
ing and developing" mining property
which consisted of a large number of
mining claims, both quartz and placer,
nnd In erecting n ten-stamp quartz mill,
is held, In Stanton vs. Singleton (Cal.),
47 L. R. A. 334, to be one which equity
will not enforce by specific perform
ance. Authority of railroad commissioners
to order a company to build and main
tain a depot or station house Is held, in
State ex rel. Tompkins vs. Chicago, St.
Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad
Company (S. I).), 47 L. R. A. 509, to be
conferred by a statute authorizing
them to notify the company of Improve
ments which they adjudge to be proper.
Power to decide between candidates
for Justice of the pence who have an
equal number of votes Is held, In State,
Crow vs. Kramer (Mo.), 47 L. R. A.
551, to be In violation of the Constitu
tion, which provides for the election of
such officers without any provision for
deciding the tie, while it does make
such provision In respect to other offi
cers. With this case there Is a note
on the decision of a tie vote at an elec
tion. The Work of an Oak.
A single oak of good size lifts 123
tons of water during the months It is
In leaf, says Frank French, In Scrlb
ner's. This moisture Is evaporated and
rises to form rain-clouds. All the trees
are busy doing the same thing, and the
rank ferns and mosses and deep mould
of the forest depths, acting as reser
voirs for the rain which falls upon
them, in their turn feed the springs and
brooks. From this we can gain some
Idea of the immense forces which the
forests exert In equalizing the evap
oration and precipitation, and prevent
ing periods of Inundation and drought
The costliest campaign Is that which
begins when a girl Is 1G, and termlntes
when she Is 20 In her marriage to a $50
a month man.
If a man meets six girls In the course
of the day, five tell him that he la "reaj
lucan,"