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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1907)
LINCOLN MOT LEADER C r. SOULC. Publisher TOLEDO OREGON It will be bard to put a permanent coat of whitewash on the licorice trust. When a girl Is pretty she doesn't have to learn housekeeping to get mar ried. - The man who doesn't want anything from the public has a way of helping himself. Indications are that the Interurban Is going to make Itself a characteris tic of 1907. Can you think of anything that is easier or that pays better returns on the Investment than pleasing a little child? Professor Lowell says there are ca nals on Mars that are thirty-flve miles wide. This may be accepted as a rath er broad statement Now that several Frenchmen have been accidentally Injured In duels, we may soon expect a clamor for the de- Drutaiizing or me sport. . The world Is certainly growing Dei- ter. Fewer public olliclals are riding on free passes this year tliuu lii uiij former year for a generation. It' is explained that the robber who held up a train In Virginia recently cot nothlmr. That Is unfortunate. He should have got five years at least All Mural 'the new Shah of Persia, Is described as a man who possesses a"d that they may lie In some coua .n iron will. Also he has more step- try graveyard, perhaps, within sight of mothers than any other ruler now ex- jjk The new pure food law does not, as we understand, prevent the mauufac- turers putting pictures .on the cans that will make our mouths water to look at them. The Standard Oil crowd may be fined $58,000,000 by the Ohio courts. Don t however, make any big, wagers that the maximum penalties will be lin- posed. Nobody Is now talking about annex- lng Cuba. It seems much more satis- factory to have the United States mill- tary down there, with Cuba paying the expenses. The Howard Goulds are again being sued. Mr. and Mrs. Gould have for some years past been enabling the New York lawyers to keep from being over taken by anything like ennui. Diamonds are reported to be going down in price. This is probably due to the fact that general prosperity has made It possible for so many people to have diamonds that they have become common. , The Czar has written a poem In Which he expresses the belief that sad ness will pursue him through life. If Badness ls the only thing that ever gets after htm Nicholas will be luckier than most of the other prominent Rus sians. With a view to facilitate the trans action of business, the London Times Company has been converted Into a limited liability corporation. The shares of the private company which publlshes the Times have become so subdivided In the course of descent through four generations that tliero are now about one hundred and fifty proprietors, some of whom hold as lit- tie as, one-fiftieth part of the one:bun- the publishers he took to writing "Sun dred and fifty-second part of an orig- day stuff." Soon the matter-of-fact at Inal one-fifth. titude of the workers around him, with Assassination never yet won a victory for an individual, a party ox a cause and it never will. The murder of Lieutentant General Pavloff adds an other to a shamefully long list of sim ilar crimes In Russia, but like all those that have gone before this one will bring no fruits to the assassin and his friends. A class of people. whether under a Czar of a president, who resort to the torch and the bomb are not entitled to liberty. The man who slays In the dark or who shoots down In cold blood and the party which supports such a man are unfit for self- government The yoke of national op. .presslon can't be broken by murdering Individuals. A corporation recently paid more than a hundred and fifty thousand dot iars In. flues Imposed by the court for breaking the laws relating to rebates. This was an Important episode In the moral nousecieauing to. which Ameri- can business Is being subjected. But It Is not so important as another pay ment that was made within the same week. A prominent citizen of New York voluntarily paid the city twenty- seven thousand dollars back taxes which be bad bad deducted because he misunderstood the law relating to the exemption of mortgages. How many Americans pay the taxes which they know they owe, even If the amount Is more than the assessor determines? Joseph II. Choate tells lawyers that they should be courteous In the cross examination of witnesses. lie also ex presses the Judgment that rudeness and discourtesy hurt the lawyers who employ them. Lawyers as a class are not loved. Most men at some time or o,ther have had disagreeable experi ence with them and while they may respect Individual lawyers their feel ings toward lawyers In the mass Is not one of respect and affection. The badgering of witnesses under cross ex amination which small lawyers delight In and which Judges permit when they should not Is an old evil which creates for the badgering lawyers the cordial dislike not only of the badgered victims but of most of the laymen whq witness the performance. There Is a homing Instinct among men as there Is among birds. It Is a pretty fact In what may be termed Innate psychology that men as they grow old and see the end approaching have a disposition to return to the places where they were born to await the summons. They do not always qbey this prompting; Indeed, It Is dl rGgardea , more cns'es thnn',t ls heed- But th hl8tlnct ig there. It is declared by students of biology that tne iove of one.s birthplace Is congenl tal nn(j tnnt ninn wll0 was Dorn nenr the sea, for lusuiuee, will uUvuys Lave a yearning to return to the ocean, even though he dwells far inland from In fancy to old age. Another phase qf this homing iristinct Is the desire that men experience to be buried among their kindred. It ls this instinct which accounts for the transportation of dead boaies over thousands of miles or lana farmho.use deserted half a century ago. The author of "Waverly" com pared tne course of a man through tne world to that of a hare, which Is start- ed from her form and after a long chase and making a large circle ends by returning to the nest from which sne started. Like the wounded deer. man yearns to reach home to die. Any eastbo.und overland train contains evidence of it in the poor consumptive wno, having vainly sought the climate 0f Arizona or California In the hope of prolonging life, turns his face home ward whpn nil linno la at nn onri "(in- , h . , . t , ht , ... rollfltprai trt this In- 8tlnct and ak)n t0 lt , orlgln ,g the desire which city men of country birth experience for rural life as they grow older. This yearning for the country ls. Indeed, not confined to the country bred. Nearly all men experience It and this ls the result of atavism In herited love for the soil persisting through many generations of city dwel lers. As man grows old he desires to get back to nature. So that in these things, as in many others, we are really not free agents, but the creatures of heredity, governed literally by the In stincts and .tendencies of ancestors dead for centuries. Our forefathers live In us and It Is a picturesque thought It promises an Immortality that we can all understand and np predate. WHERE IDEALS QUICKLY DIE. Commercial Atmosphere of New York Cltr Act am Cramp on Genlna. What ability or skill the great man of the provinces brought with him to the metropolis may be only the foun- datlon for real work. There will sure- My be extensive revising of Ideals and methods. A story Is told of a poet who arrived In town with a complete epic, This found no acceptance, so after cursing the stupidity of the public and the practical view of the market he acquired, led him to doubt the literary value of the work he had done in the sentimental atmosphere of bis native place. Presently a commission to write a column of humor a week came to him and he cut his epic In short lengths, tacked a squib on each fragment and eventually succeeded In' printing it all 08 humor at a price many times larger than the historic one brought by "Par- ndise Lost" Another newcomer brought unsal able plays and high notions of the aus terity of the artistic vocation. Three months after his arrival he was de- llgkted to get a commlsslpn to write the handbook which a utilitarian pub lisher proposed to sell to visitors seek lng the mutropolls. This commission brought not only a fair payment for the manuscript on delivery but Involv ed a vital secondary consideration. The title of the work was "Where to Eat In New York," and Its preDaratlon made It necessary for the author to dine each evening for a month In a different cafe at the proprietor's ex pense. Atlantic. As long as Father retains any rights at all, be Is pretty sure to remove his shots out bv the sitting room firs. Probably the most picturesque phase of American railroad operations Is found In the manner In which the steam roads of the West battle with the giant snowdrifts of the mountain if gions. This novel activity is seen In Its most spectacular form on the higher levels of the Rocky mountains. The largest rotary snow plow In the world Is In service on that engineering mar vel, the Moffat railroad In Colorado, and the manner In which lt bores through the great white banks that block the steel-tracked highway haB solved one of the most perplexing prob lems of operating a railroad more than 11,000 feet nbove the level of the sea. In the early days of railroading In the region beyond the Mississippi river the familiar hand shovel was the main dependence for clearing the tracks, and after-every heavy fall of "the beauti ful", an army of men that Included ev ery available employe of the road was hurried to points where blockades might be expected. Locomotives, In sitings of two, three or four were also burled against the drifts in an effort to dislodge the troublesome masses of icy crystals. - As a solution for this last-mentioned makeshift some genius Invented the push plow, a huge wedge-shaped struc ture on wheels, which "bucks" the drifts, impelled by the force of several powerful locomotives behind lt, and If the snow barriers be not too heavy, can force a pathway through the mass. However, the fact that even the heavi est snow plows are ofttlmes battled by the drifts in the mountains indi cated the necessity ,for a yet more pow erful type of snow fighter, and thus In time there was evolved the buow plow known as the rotary, which has revolu tionized the methods of lighting snow and ls represented In the rolling stock of every railroad that ls liable to feel the grip of the western blizzard. In the principle of Its operation the totary Is radically 'different from all other designs of snow plows, for In stead of being anything In the nature of a scoop or shovel that shoves the snow aside. Its chief working median-. ism consists of a monster wheel which burrows through the snow, tossing the more or less fleecy material In every direction. The wheel or snow screw IN OLD "LYCEUM" DAYS. The golden days of the lecture plat form are past, and the lecture bureau ls no longer the active feature of the Intellectual life that It was fifty or even twenty-five years ogo. At one time almost every town. East ana Nesr. had Its lecture course each winter Many were the adventures experienced by the lecturers as they penetrated the provincial ports of the country to ue llver their messages of wisdom or amusement. Sometimes a concert by the Mendelssohn Quintet Club, or some other musical organization, was sand wiched in between two lectures. Thomas Ryan a member of the fam ous quintet club In "The Recollections of nn Old Museum," tells of the recep tion of a young woman lecturer in a small Wisconsin town: , It was a young men's society which had summoned her, made up o.f very youthful members. When she reacueo. the station the entire association was lined up to meet her, and she was cere moniously Introduced, then and there, to each one. As the weather was ex tremely cold, the process was an ordeal. This over, the leauer wiped nis Drow and looked abo.ut as If asking what to do next. Miss Andrews suggested the hotel. A one-horse sleigh was produc ed ; the leader handed the lecturer In, got In himself and offered her the reins. She d(!dlned. saying he knew the horse and way better than she. The young man seemed relieved, and quite satis- fled that he had shown the guest of the society every courtesy possible. That evening the whole assoclalinu again met and escorted the lecturer to the ball. The room was packed. On the stage was an old-fashioned settee with legs In the middle and at each end. When Miss Andrews sat down the affair tilted with her. large, heavllv built clergyman came' In and seated himself on the other end. Up went the settee, and up went Miss Andrews until her feet no longer touch ed the floor. The audience giggled and at the forward end of a rotary resem bles the propeller of a steamship or a giant electric fan, although, of course, it has many more blades than either of these. The wheel of the average rotary snow fighter ls from 8 to 12 feet In diameter and consists of a series of hollow, cone-shaped steel scoops, each equipped with a knlfe-llke piece of metal. As the wheel revolves at high speed, these blades strike the snorir and Ice loosening lt and throwing lt Into the scoops. The wheel proper Is Inclosed In a metal hood, at the top of which ls a square opening or funnel. By the revolution of the wheel, the snow caught up by the scoops ls thrown through this opening with great force, and the funnel Is so shaped that the bpow is hurled In an oblique direction and caused to fall at a" distance of from 50 to 100 feet from the side of the track, according to the speed at which the wheel ls being operated. Moreover, the hood ls Inclined inward, so that the falling snow does not descend upon the top of the rotary and bury the machine m a drift of Its own making. The rotary plow, like the old-fashioned type of push plow, is propelled by a couple of powerful locomotives, but the power for operating the great propeller Is contained within the plow Itself. This Is supplied by an engine somewhat resembling a marine engine, but capable of developing almost as much power as n locomotive. The ro tary must withstand the force of push ing engines behind, as well as counter act the side motion of the great whir ring wheel, and consequently the roof and sides,' as well as the framework, are of metal, and the machinery ls set as near the ground as possible, In or der to help "steady" this energetic me chanical toller. The weight of the av erage rotary, complete with tender for fuel and water, is more than 100 tons. At the forward part of the plow ls the pilot house, wherein ls stationed the pilot who directs the operation of the rotary and communicates the necessary Instructions to the engineers, of the lo cjmotlves In the rear. A giant rotary can force Its way through almost any snow barriers at a speed of from four to six miles . per hour, as a minimum. The ponderous, knife-armed wheel spins around at a speed of from 150 to 300 revolutions Miss Andrews laughed ; there was noth- ng else to do. The lecturer scanned the house. foremost, leaning with folded arms on the edge of the stage, sat a young nan In a red flannel shirt who never took his eyes off the lady on the plat form. Finally the reverend giant rose to In troduce the lecturer. This suddenly let Miss Andrews' end of the settee dawn with a thud. The clergyman was long-winded, and ;he red-shlrted young man became rest less. At last he called out In Impatient tones : "Dry up. old man ! Give ihe young al a chance!" AMERICAN OFFICER. INSULTED BY KINGSTON GOVERNOR. Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis, who was practically ordered awny from SCAB ADMIRAL DAVIS. Kingston, Jamaica, by the British gov ernor, won fame in the Spanish war as the man to whom the town of Ponce, Porto Rico, surrendered. He ' p I - niiii II 1 it milium mi I I per minute, according to the weight aiyl character of the snow and Ice en countered. Close and continual watch fulness ls necessary on the part of the pilot, for the character of the snow mass encountered may change with' scarceiy a moment's warning from loosely drifted flakes to densely packed snow incrusted with Ice, and mayhap with Ice formations four or live inches thick scattered through It. Into some portions of the vast snow coverlet the rotary may plunge with Impunity at a speed of only 400 or at most 000 feet 11 minute, while banks of soft snow ptrmlt a speed of say twelve miles per hour. However, an Indicator In the pilot house records every fluctuation In the resistance offered by the snow bar riers and a pneumatic whistle enables the pilot to quickly signal for any de sired change of speed. The snow depths at some of the high er altitudes of the American Alps are almost incredible, but a big rotary, working like a herculean augur and toeslng aside Its snow borings like chips driven out of a fan blower In a planing mill, could actually burrow to any depth If there were any way to get rid of the snow thus excavuied. The whole principle of the armored car with the big wheel churning the snow before It ls so 6lmple that once lt had bi-en, devised railroad men wondered that they had not hit upon the scheme long ago. There are places where the work of the rotary plows In keeping open the trail for the Iron horses ls ably aug mented, on the principle of prevention, by great snowsheds stout fences or wooden tunnels designed to keep the. snow from drifting over the tracks but it ls probable that had the effi ciency of the modern rotary marvels been anticipated, many railroads would not have expended as much money as they did some years ago in construct ing snowsheds. Thirty-two miles of snowsheds, costing ?04 a foot or nearly $11,000,000 In the aggregate, represents the price one transcontinental railroad had to pay before lt could successfully operate Its trains over the Rocky moun tain division. Nowadays the rotarles cost something like $10,000 each, but even at that price tbey represent a great saving over snowsheds which, aside from their first cost, eat up thousands of dollars in re pairs every year. Moreover, the ro tarles have been Instrumental In saving countless lives not merely by carrying aid aud food to snow-bound trains and snow-bound villages, but also by reduc ing the number of casualties among railroad men engaged In fighting the snow. Waldon Fawcett a St Louis C! lobe-Democrat. 1 was then In command of the gunboat Dixie. He Is a native of Massachu setts, and was graduated from the naval academy In 18G4. He was con nected with several expeditions to de termine differences In longitude, was superintendent of the naval observa tory for a short time and served on the Anglo-Russian North Sea commis sion at Paris. With ThnnUa. Notices to the public are usually made with little regard to politeness. The wayfarer ls likely to meet with warning or a caution couched In strong but curt terms. "A Wanderer In London," however, reports one in stance where the regard. of the passer by Is taken for granted and is ac knowledged. At the hospital Just opposite the en trance to the East India docks and the Blackwall Tunnel under the Thames . notice boards are set up asking the drivers, for the sake of tnose who are 111 within, to walk their horses past the building. That Is a common enough request, but what gives It a peculiar Interest here ls that the carter, having com plied or not with the modest demand, ls confronted at the other corner of the building by another board, saying, "Thank you, driver." Abaent-Mt tided. The Judge was at dinner in the new household, according to the Philadel phia Public Ledger, when the young housekeeper asked: "Did you ever try any oflmy bis cuits, Judge?" "No," replied the Judge," I never did, but I dare say they deserve It" Mahonej-'a Forethonght. Dentist I've filled all your teeth that have cavities, sir.- Mahoney Well, thin, fill th' rlst av thlm, too thin whin th cavities come they'll be already filled, b'gobs. Puck. When a woman gets a letter, from her kin, her husband waits anxiously till she gets through reading It, to learn who ls coming this time.
