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.
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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.
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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.
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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 . .""'(
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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
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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
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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
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country, free from slavery, is united as never before ii
Its history.
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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.
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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.