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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1903)
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER. ductions in stopping distances were these: Fifty miles an hour, from 840 to 700 feet; fifty-five nilles, 1,030 feet; sixty-five miles, 1,635 to 1,300 feet; seventy miles, 2,010 to 1,530 feet; seventy-five miles, 2,295 to 1,840 feet CHAS. F. ADA B. SOCLK, Puba. THE TOLEDO OREGON. -...wii'.-Ay'yt ' aa Laugh and the bunch laughs with you. Some men have an Idea that heaven lit one long pay-day. You are all advised to give vent to your mirthful feelings. Since the latest auto race In Europe the horrors of war do not seem to dreadful. When you get right down to the true Inwardness of It you will find that a man's best friend is himself. When our shafts fail to hit the mark, we generally have a feeling that It Is because the mark Is too low. With Edison and Marconi working In cahoots, electricity may as well pre pare to give up Its remaining secrets. If a man should fall to hating him eelf and wanted to get even he should sit down and give himself good advice. The arbitration germ Is doing well, considering the backward season, but is still a pygmy compared "with the strike microbe. One preacher thinks the American people laugh too much. This Is the worst case of trouble-seeking that we have ever heard of. All men want to laugh, but most of them are generally discouraged be cause they have been laughed at for one thing or another. If the fish that a man catches would only get away and he could nab those that get away he would bring home more and larger fish perhaps. The humiliating fact remains that with all our losses and disfigurement, the flood record hag not been broken. Old 1344 still wears the championship belt. A poet has been elected president of a railroad. He will probably have a grand career. A man who can work his way up through poetry must have great stuff In him. "Great divinities!" exclaimed the tiliade of Nero, watching the automo bile race. "Could I have had a bunch of them what sights of royal carnage the arena would have been!" Luck has finally turned, and Spain is to secure $300,000 from a British firm that fulled to complete a couple of torpedo boat destroyers In time for service In the Joint naval maneuvers held with the United States off Santiago. An excited Assyrlologlst has disin terred Abraham's old threshing ma chine and the plow which he used to put his upper eighty under, 'way back in the days when the Assyro-Habylo-nlan empire flourished. If Abraham had suspected the interest we feel in hliu he would have bought a stone quarry and kept a cuneiform dairy. It may be a more swell event when waiters from a liotel or club are en gaged to pass the refreshments at a party, but we prefer a party where the hostiH or a neighbor girl urges, "Io have some more." The hired waiter can't get that personal note of appeal In his voice If he wears a dress suit and costs $2 for the evening. The charge that this Is an Irreverent age will have to be wlhtdrawn soon if the celebrations In honor of famous men continue. What with the glorifi cation of the work ami memory of Einurson and Wesley and Jonathan Edwards lu one season, one muNt ad mit that Americans have not lost all regard for the men whose Ideas have affected the religious lilt of the eouu try. Many prophets have been saying that that this will be the woman's cen tury. At any rate, It looks as If the old maid would disappear before Its close. The belles of a generation or two ago were slxteeu or eighteen years old, and a woman of twenty-five was regarded as hopelessly stranded If no man had won her. To-day the unmar ried women do not begin to call them selves "bachelor malda" the most re cent euphemism for "old maid" un til they are past thirty. At a recent convention of airbrake men an Interesting report was present ed showing how the distance required for the stopping of trains had been re duced by the new highspeed brake. A train running eighty miles, an hour was stopped In 2.240 feet by the high speed brake at 110 pounds, where or dinary pressure of seventy pounds took exactly half a mile to bring It to ti stand. Other train speeds and re New York City, according to the latest estimate, has a population of three million seven hundred thousand. Since New York was enlarged by the addition of Brooklyn and other adjoin ing communities It has been the sec ond largest city in the world. London is the largest. The addition to New York of the New Jersey cities within the metropolitan district would still leave it a hundred and fifty thousand short of London's four million five hundred and eighty thousand popula tion, and more than two millions short of the population of the London metro politan police districts. The other cit ies of the world come a long way after these two great English-speaking com munities. Of the fourteen cities which have more than a million population, three are In the United States. Two are In Russia and two In China, if the estimates of the population of Pekin and Canton are trustworthy. No other country has more than one. This fact will not Justify a boastful attitude on the part of ..Americans, for it takes more than big cities to make a great nation. . :t i .-..V-:-- iy.yY.';:fi.u If the world persists in Its persecu tion of the .Tew he win eventually and surely rule the world. Persecution as In other cases Instead of crushing the Hebrew race has raised It In the early years of the Christian propagan da its votaries suffered bloody and cruel persecution. And yet In 800 years that religion was enthroned tri umphant In the Roman government The blood of the martyrs became the seed . of the church. You cannot kill a great cause or a great people by op position. Under the persecution of more than 2,000 years the Jew has kept his racial vigor In a wonderful way. The antonomy of the race is one of the marvels of history. Sub lected to proscription and injustice the Jew has cultivated endurance and ten acity. Discipline has but made him strong. Like the oak tree he has leaned against the storm and sent his roots down deeper. No other people has thus held Its own. Nations and tribes and tongues have been swal lowed up by the stronger and the fitter. Race after race has lost its Identity, merged Into other types. The Jew lives on, magnificent In his Indi viduality. To-day the scattered but vir ile children of Israel are everywhere. In every nation the Jew is a potent remnant. From Greenland's icy moun tains to India's coral strand you will find them resourceful, strenuous, pow erful. He has made every river his Jordan, every mountain top his Zlon, every city his Jerusalem. More and more are the resources of the world coming Into his hand. More and more are the forces of civilization controlled by him. His are already the marts. And slowly but surely will he gather the agencies that make and mold the world's public sentiment. Foolish per secutors! If you will but keep up your racial hatred and remorseless perse cution loug enough the Jew will be master of the world. DISFRANCHISEMENT OF THE NEGRO. By Rev. R. A. Whit: ot Chicago At least five Southern States have disfranchised the negro, and did so be cause he was a negro. To disfranchise even Ignorance in a free republic Is a Questionable nroceeding. To disfran chise a race because it is black is repugnant to our American spirit. The man who must obey the law ought to have something to say about making the law. The man who pays taxes ought to have something to say about their distribution. These are two fundamental American propositions. To abandon them Is fo reverse our noblest history. Such disfranchisement Is an Injustice to the negro. Just as he Is beginning to thrust his head above the wastes of ignorance and Industrial difficulties, the white man steps in and takes from him. the one legitimate weapon of self protection the ballot. It Is taken from him at a time when he was never better fitted to use it safely and Intelli gently, and when the opportunities for the negro were never brighter. The negro now owns $500,000,000 worth of property, or more, accumulated In less than forty years. If the present disposition of the South holds, this class will be t.ixcd without repreteula.Uon, and with no voice In the laws under which It must live. Nothing so un Amerlcan has happened In our history. No race can rise so handicapped. It Is the assassination of the future of the race. rev. a. WHITE. TRADES UNIONISM AND ITS PERIL. 1 w 'mm Andrew Carnegie has denied with great Indignation any Insinuation In London that he Is a member of the "smart set" of New York and New port. Carnegie has been accused of almost everything in his time, but he never before protested with such heat ed vigor. And, as usual when he talks warmly, he had something to say of substantial good sense. "In America, more than anywhere else," he said, "it is "three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.' There is no single hereditary fortune in America thut Is not being split up. Aristocracy cannot exist without primogeniture and en tail, and our laws know neither." This earnest statement has all the more force because of the fact that Carne gie himself Is one of the finest exam ples the world has of the man who be gins In his shirtsleeves and ends with more money than he knows what to do with. Few of our rich and really forceful men begun otherwise.. The whole list of America's multi-million-aires contains scarcely the name of a single man who did not start In life comparatively poor. They began work In their shirtsleeves, and It was the work, with the strength of aspiration and the Quickness of Intellect that work promotes, which made them masters. And there Is an even longer list of men who began life rich and are ending it poor. It Is unwritten but almost infallible law that the boy pampered In wealth has a poor chance In the contest with the poor bov whose mind and muscles have been trained to toll. We talk about "class es" lu this country without knowing the word's meaning. We have social grades, educational levels and ranks of riches, but fixed classes, In society, learning or wealth are absolutely Im possible. The way up Is open to all. and new men are constantly climb ing upward, while others, weakened by wealth, sink back to common service. By Clarence S. D arrow, ot Chicago Many men who have been organized Into trades unions do not understand the movement. Many think It Is an In strument of power. Trades unionism pf to-day, which, with Its army of workmen, seems so strong, to Invinci ble, may dissolve as quickly as the old Knights of Labor or other movements that have passed away. It owes Its ex istence to public oponlon and without that support cannot last or accomplish any objects. It will dissolve unless It Becomes identified with some great c. s. barrow. movement for the alleviation of the suf fering of the human race. The growth of trades unionism Is largely due to the strong public disapproval of the epidemic of trusts and monopolies prevailing during the past few years, and there Is a peril in the growing friendship between large onera- tors and labor leaders. No movement can live, no organi zation can live, wnen it unites with monopolies to plunder the common people. If the effect of it is to help a-selflsh motive It can serve no good purpose. Men like Morgan recognize the trend of conditions and say, "We will deal with trades unions and give them 10 per cent, while we advance prices 50 per cent." I am not condemning trades unionism, but trades union ism Is, after all, only a means to an end, and the Important thing Is to discover the real end and then direct all the energy of the organization toward obtaining It "WARS ARE A NECESSITY." . By Kev. William Hutton. ot Phllaielpnla Wars In the present condition of the human race seem to be a necessity. The teachings of Christ and Christian- Ity make for peace, and if Individuals. nations were governed by the spirit of Christ wa cease. But, unfortunately, this is not the case a" unlfl.hnaco lva tt rmurov Iava f .. . n . .' HDlQOf .v.... V" " v.Tt vt givij' huh rule the h of men. Great masses, of human beings are enth and they must be freed. Ancient and hn. ""t oppression prevail, and these must be overthrow" " reason falls; when all manner of fair compromlwt jocted, then there must be a call to arms t v, war In 1iiHflflhlf not tn ucrtmna . .""'( , , . "wraw, OUt to r tain the right and to overthrow the wron v. lueate. but to set free. w The knot that neither argument nor diploma - happily, but of necessity, the pathway leading to n.V unity, national solidity, and national progress hu w strewn with mvrlnds nf thn bIaIti Tn.,,.. m. i . . ""I it m mat nitki sealed for centuries have been opened; that comm intercourse has been established, and that an omoiim has been given for the preaching of the eosnoi mm An tpon K Th Vltl: ;irr nd yho .01 ken 'tew commerce has been enlnrirml MvM HKn.. . . Ions llhertv won. nnd tha cnatval iino . " , r,. -i a Live entrant nations previously in darkness. The cnf nf Hik nrnm nf thn Inn i lives and in money has been appalling, but good resni! But what hv been the results of thes ni filets between men? Italy, Instead of being a numbers! C. contending states, is a united country, and free from m I f to end for the preaching of the gospel. Germany now, I f arrand united nnUnn nf tromonrimic in 'I ',aif " - """" uuueuce. uur oi country, free from slavery, is united as never before ii Its history. It 1 1 1 1 fur mil MRS. SAGE. ADVICE TO THE CITY YOUNG MAN. By Mrs. Ruisell Si(, No young man should marry m his position In life Is assured, and k New York and other great center k fore a man Is married he ought to bt able to provide handsomely for his wife if he desires to be happy. Marriage Ii Nev York Is a problem very different t marriage in a country village. In tht country simplicity Is the rule. Herein the congested centers congested It point of wealth evidences of extnm gancjs are all around us. Young wlm see nothing but wealth and Its display. Gorgeous dresses. exDens!v lives of luxury and of sase held up as daily examples, gradually arouse in the average woman the spirit of du content She Is a wonferful woman wlio can live on i pittance and have constajitly held up before her gorgeom ness of attire and ease of life, and still be able to conquer the desire to be likewise and her disappointment If tie cannot be. This display on the part of the rich before the eyes of the poor Is the cause of more unhapplnesj ud more divorces and separations than one can think of. And when I say the poor, I nuwn those who are poor by com parison with what some of the newspapers humorouil; allude to as 'the smart ft' PerhaDS the hardest lot h rfiity life Is the lot of the great middle class, If I may on iue lerra-mmuie class in point of wealth. It beboowi young men to give this matter serious thought. Lore on little is quite romantic, to be sure, but human nature Is alike the world over, and women will ever be envloiB of their more fortunate sisters. A man should ho rich, quite rich, before he Is married If he would live hapjUj In a large city like Chicago or New York. 210 !l'" bn All Til se es he ot ei 0! P F tl r b t a ! 1 WHAT A CLOUD BURST REALLY IS Keanlt la an If the Bottom Dropped Out of a Buapendod Lake. When we read In the newspapers that a "cloudburst" has occurred some where and has resulted In great loss of life and destruction of property we are prone to consider the term merely one used for a sudden and excessive rain storm. While, of course, it would be wrong to consider a cloud as a great bag or envelope filled with water, and which has only to burst lu order to de luge the earth beneath, there Is really such a thing as a "cloudburst" as dis tinguished from a rainfall, however heavy the latter may be. The New York Herald gives a clear and Interest ing explanation of Just what a "cloud burst" really Is and a study of the phenomenon will prove of Interest, par ticularly as it was a genuine "cloud burst" which a few days ago practical ly wiped the town of Heppner, Oregon, from the face of the earth and de stroyed some 200 lives. The "cloudburst" Is always preceded and caused by a windstorm or small cyclone, the air whirling In a clrcl an at the same time moving along hori zontally. As the air whirls about ki a elide it forms u sort of cone with the apex at the top. This whirling motion causes an Inrush of air from all sides at the base and these masses of nlr quickly form a powerful and rapidly scendlug current In the heart of the nascent tornado. Now, If the atmosphere through which this windstorm is passing Is de void of moisture, there will be no rain fall, but if there Is a quantity of moist ure In the air the ascending current In the center of the tornado will natural ly, In carrying great quantities of It kywwnl. pile up this moisture In the fwiu of a cloud at the top. This cloud, being in a colder stratum of air, speed Uy becomes densely saturated with moisture. Under ordinary circum stances this moisture upon being eon sensed Into drops would be precipitat ed to the earth, but In this instance the pressure of the upward current pre vents It falling. On the outskirts of the cloud, where the pressure is less, rain does full, but at the apex of Vie wVZtX? OK A CLOUDBURST. rendu It In the air. "r" ludio..:.1!,Jll,' ""'tur-l !,. air upwnrd and wninwlnd. and "B" ibowa how h. "1". .wu'r ntercpu W onnnww aupportiug column of whlrllti h. '""e to ,Ue Srouna tain.) nirm.g air haa been removed by contact with warn I" the ox"11' more whirlwind it continues to become and more dense. Finally the conditions become so that the column of ascending air Is sup porting above it a veritable lake. Now so long as this air pressure is main tained the water cannot fall, but as soon as the storm strikes a mountain the raised land breaks and destroys the whirlwind and the water Is permitted to fall always on the leeward side of the mountain. The water conies down In a perfect deluge, much the same as If a lake had been suspended in the heavens and the bottom had suddenly fallen out. If the "cloudburst." as this Is called, takes place over a narrow valley down which the great mass of the water must flow to And a level one can readily see what a force It must bring to bear on everything which stands In the way. When It Is borne In mind that a single Inch of rainfall over one square mile weighs 00,000 tons it Is not difficult to Imagine what a rush of water follows the sudden downfall of several Inches over a space of even much less than a square mile. A glimpse of the illustration furnish 4 on thU pag. will make yWr Sln the operation of this terribly dealrw- ue phenomenon and convince tw reader that after all the term "cloud burst" Is not altogether a misnomer, though perhaps "cloud collapse" would come nearer expressing the fact. His Idea of Generosity. "Wd you turn that needy friend of yours empty-handed from your doorf "No." answered Mr. Kermudge. "I dldu't let him go away empty-bandei I made out a statement of what b owes me and told him how much In terest he'd save by paylu' cash." Wushlngton Star. Goaaip. "Gossip," said Uncle Eben, '"mln me a good deal of a shootin' match l de street. De Innocent bystander H Jea' as U'ble to git hit as anybodf else." Washington Star. The women are getting even: Wrf of men who have bought Tanania h are complaining about their husband big millinery bills. Love makes some people and ruin1 others.