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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1907)
HIDES TO' FBISCO At an age when aiost men are content to sit In the easy chair and watch the youngsters, James P. Foley, 05 years old, captain of the police force of Logansport, Ind., will ride horseback to San Francisco on a $500 wager that he can complete the trip In ninety 'days. This will not be the first time that Capt Foley has ridden over the West ern country. He has fought Indians In the Black Hills and was In Utah dur ing the exciting times when the Mormons sought to exclude the Gentiles. He has ridden over the deserts of New Mexico and Arizona, climbed the Colorado mountain peaks and knows every mile of the great Panhandle range in West ern Texas. The rugged life of his younger days has left the captain a strong constitution. He is straight as an arrow, agile as a panther, and there are few fleeter runners In Indiana. Prisoners who fall Into his clutches and show flght, Invariably get the worst of It. He keeps in training all the time. Each morning, winter or summer, no matter how severe the weather, he takes a gallop Into the country, astride his wiry Indian mustang. Capt Foley has figured that he will be able to make forty-five miles a day through Indiana, Illinois and Nebraska. Through the mountains he Is only counting on averaging from ten to fifteen miles. ignvent.on At the International Conference on Scientific Aeronautics, held recently in Milan, Mons. Telsserenc de Bort pre sented some interesting results of the expedition to the equatorial regions of the Atlantic organized by himself and Lawrence Botch. Contrary to expec tation, he said, they hnd found far lower temperatures In the upper air above the equator than at correspond ing elevations in temperate latitudes. At the equator the temperature goes on decreasing up to the greatest elevations attained by kites and balloons. At the height of eight to eight and one-half miles temperatures were recorded as low as minus 80 degrees Centigrade, or 112 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. The Heroult electric process for the production of steel' Is now In practical operation at Kemscheld Huston in Ger many, and it Is reported that the steel produced Is much superior In many ways to that made by older methods. Steel of great purity and homogeneous quality Is made from ordinary scrap iron rubbish, melted, and then subject vd to the action of an electric oven, In which the necessary carbon, manga nese, nickel and other substances re quired to produce steel of various qual ities are added to the liquid metal. The oven has a capacity of from one and one-half to two tons, and is heated by a curreut of 100 volts. . The new steel is said to be stronger and more re sistant to wear and tear than the old fashioned crucible steel. The Petit Parlslen states that M. Itoudy, a French engineer, has made n sensational discovery In the direction of aerial navigation. The inventor calls tits discovery an aerial torpedo boat, and It Is proposed to make use of.lt In warfare. M. Boudy claims that with the aid of the new machine he will be able to remain for several days In the air and to rise to such a height that nhelter will be afforded from projee tiles. It will be possible, he declares, to rise or descend at the will of the aeronaut, to travel against the wind, to navigate perfectly, and, In addition, to carry shells or grenades for use in war time. The minister of war Is glr lng his attention to the claims of M Boudy, and experiments will shortly be made in connection with the lnven tlon. Examination of a photograph of the spectrum of the brilliant star Arcturus, made by Professor Hale and Mr. Ad ams at the Carnegie Solar Observatory oa Mount Wilson. California, shows IN NINETY days, a very striking correspondence between many of the spectral lines In the light of that star and those observed in spots on the sun. The conclusion seems to be unavoidable, says Mr. Adams, that the physical conditions existing In sun spots and In the atmosphere of .Arc turus are nearly Identical. A similar study of the spectrum of the bright star Betelgeuse, or Alpha Orionis, shows that sun-spot lines are also present there, but even more intense than in Arcturus. It Is Inferred that Arcturus is probably cooler than the sun, and Betelgeuse cooler than Arc turus. An explanation of a curious optical phenomenon sometimes witnessed on frosty nights, which Is called the "psett do-aurora," Is offered by an official of the weather bureau. The phenomenon takes the form of beautiful columns of silvery light standing over electric arc lamps and other bright lights and sometimes appearing almost to reach the zenith. It Is said that sometimes he evening star has a bright shaft be low as well as above, while the rising moon stands In a broad column of light These appearances are due to floating frost crystals, which keep their reflect ing faces horizontal. On examination It has been found that the crystals con cerned In the exhibition were thin, slx- slded plates of ice, never more than one millimeter in diameter. When the wind blows these little plates were up set, and the columns of light caused by the reflection from their surfaces dis appear. Good EnoDgh for Lout. The officials of the Privy Chamber, It appears, showed plainly that It an noyed them to be obliged to eat at the same table with Mollere; so Louis, hearing of their rudeness, said to the actor during the petit-lever: "I hear you are badly entertained, M. de Mollere, and that my people don't find you good enough to ent with them. Perhaps you are hungry.) Sit down here and try my en cob de nult" (a provision made In the evening In case the royal appetite should suddenly require satisfaction during the night) Then, cutting a chicken and ordering Mollere to be seated, the King helped him to a wing, took one himself, and gave orders that the most favored per sonages of the court be admitted. "You see, I am making Mollere eat something," said Louis, "for my valets de chambre don't find him good enough company for them." II. Cbatfleld-Tay lor's Mollere. Not a "Thank Yon." "I never knew a woman who wasn't bound to have the last word with you." "Unless It was in a street car and you were to say, Take my seat madam.'" Philadelphia Ledger. AST OF COEIT-CAXE MAX Ufa. Meal Shonld Be Ground In Old-Fash-lotted War ThS best cornmeal In the world Is made In Tennessee though the output U limited and not much of It reaches the market where urbanltes dwell, says the Nashville American. The steam buhr-stone has driven the water mill almost Into desuetude, only to be In turn crowded out by the modern roller mill. The ancient water mill still lin gers in remote sections and mountain fastnesses where clear waters flow through pebbly channels In sylvan shades. More than one of these Ideal mills may be found on Fighting creek, in Sevier County, under the shadows of the Big Smoky, and near unto Sugar land region, where the untaxed Juice of the corn flows from modest and retir ing stills. There are many such mills In the Unaka region and In various sections of middle Tennessee, where the withering blight of modern civiliza tion, with Its canned goods and packing-house meats, has not yet penetrat ed, and where one may Listen to the water mill Through the livelong day, While the clicking of its wheel Wears the weary hours away. But they don't bring the meal to town. The town-raised person's taste Is too vitiated to appreciate It When he eats corn bread at all with his oleo margarine or canned soup he wants the roller-mill product, which suggest ed the idea of, sawdust breakfast food to a Battle Creek Yankee. The right sort cf corn bread 13 made from meal ground on a slow-running water mill from corn that has been well dried, the little end of the ear shelled off for the chickens or pigs, the rotten grains care fully eliminated and the corn run through a fanmill. Before being made into bread the meal Is sifted through a wire sieve or sifter, the meshes of which are not too fine. Then If good bread Is not produced It is the fault of the cook. The use of sugar in making any form of corn bread should be made a felony. There is as much difference between bread from properly ground meal and the common meal and the common meal of commerce as there is between a Smithflcld ham and a packing-house ham. TRUST IN TIMBER LANDS. One Hundred. Corporation Control Three-quarters of It at Present. A writer who claims to , be an attor ney has expressed his belief that "100 Individuals and corporations own or control 75 per cent of the timber land not still held by the government or at- tached to farms." He declares that this body is subdivided on a basis of species, as the White Pine Association and the like, and that these associa tions are "the claws of the Invisible trust" This Is as It may be and Mr. KIttredge purposes to find out about it. Trust or no trust, the price of lum ber has Increased enormously within the last few years. There are two,whlch prosphorus had been dissolved. known factors in the Increase. Mr, Xlttredge suspects a third and unknown Influence. One of the known factors appears In the sweeping devastation of our forest areas without renewal of forest growth by new plantings. Here we find the simple proposition of in creasing demand, reduced supply and consequent enhancement of value. Tim ber areas regarded as almost valueless a decade ago are bringing farm land prices to-day strictly on a basis of mar ket values. This accounts for a part of the present cost of lumber In com parison with Its cost a few years ago.- The other known factor Is labor. A tree In the forest may be said to have no money value. It represents dollars with the first stroke of the woodman's ax, that being the first step In Its con version into a commercial commodity. Behind that first ax there stand other axes, saws, peaveys, cant books, trans portation and many and various forms of handling. Each of these represents human labor and a pay roll which Is bigger now than It used to be in dally wage rate as well as in total volume. From tree to log, from log to board or Joist or plank and from them to bridge or floor or sash or toothpick, Increased wage increases the cost to the final owner. New York Sun. Getting- the Good. "Do you always leave your piano up so that the keys will show?" asked the visitor of the Southern woman. ies, returned sue, 1 make it a point to use everything In the house every day of my life, to hide away nothing trying to keep it nice for com pany. It Is I who am living here, not the company. I had enough of that sort of thing In the old colonial man sions of the South. The company sli ver, the company linen, the polishing of the steel knives for company, the parlor with closed shutters, the sun shine never allowed to come In, dim, musty, unwholesome, ' the piano down, the keys turning yellow with disuse, and the doors opened only upon the oc casion of a family funeral or of com' pany for dinner. "It was hard to tell which was the most funereal," she finished, "the fu neral or the dinner." Chicago Inter Ocean, Pure Is certain if you take Hood's Sarsaparilla. This great medicine cures those eruptions, pimples and boils that appear at all seasons; cures scrofula sores, salt rheum or eczema; adapts itself equally well to, and also cures, dys pepsia and all stomach troubles; cures rheu matism and catarrh; cures nervous troubles, debility and that tired feeling. Sarsatabs For those who prefer medicine In tab let form. Hood's Sarsaparilla is now put up in choco lated tablets called Sarsatabs, as well as in the usual liquid form. Sarsatabs have identically the same curative properties as the liquid form, besides accu racy of dose, convenience, economy. no loss by evap oration, breakage, or leakage. Druggists or promptly by mail. C. L Hood Co., Lowell, Mass. Guaranteed under the Food and A Singer's Langs. The singer at the end of the practice aria panted heavily. "I sang one hun dred and ninety-six notes that time," he said, "without once taking breath." "Indeed! That must be a record." "No. The record Is held by Cour tlce Pounds. Pounds sang three hun dred and sixteen notes without respir ation In 180S. The record previous to that was held by Farlnelli, with three hundred notes. Norman Salmond has sung two hundred and eighty-seven notes in this way. The average man could hardly sing fifty notes without breathing; to the singer two hundred would be nothing. Philadelphia Bulle tin. Refused Miss Ascum to Wither Away. Jack Hanson Isn't fat, Is he? Miss Newltt Not at all; he'i quite graceful and muscular. Why? Miss Ascum I happened to mention him to Miss Jllter, and she said : "Oh ! Isn't he disgustingly stout?" Miss Newltt Ah, yes. She rejected him some weeks ago and she's mad be cause he didn't pine away. Philadel phia Press. How Colore Affect Mentality. There are good and evil effects even In color, not only in the inartistic ar- rangement of them to the trained eye of an artist but In plain every-day red and blue and green, to say nothing of others. According to Medical Talk for the Home, if a nerson were confined In a room with purple walls, with no color but purple around him, by the end of a month be would be a raving madman. Scarlet has even worse effects. Blue is very depressing; hence "the blues." Green Is quite soothing, and yellow also has good effects on the vision and . plrlts of most people. A Kiss that Broaght Death. Courtship In Spain Is regulated by the strictest etiquette. As Is well known, a young man is never left alone with his fiancee. Near Malaga a beautiful young girl of 20 committed suicide by drinking a cup of coffee in It appears that the girl had been driv en to the deed by the adverse com ments of neighbors who became aware that she had given her sweetheart a kiss. London Mall. Vegetable Preparationfor As similating the Food andBegula ting the Stomachs ar!Boweis of Promotes Digestion-Cheerful-ness and Rest.Contains neither Opium.Morphine nor Mineral AOTI ARC OTIC. Afw afOUDrSMUEUnmai PimpkmSeU' MntKjnm. norm Aperfecl Remedy forConslipa Fion, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and Loss of Sleep. Facsimile Signature of NEW YORK. EXACT COPY or WRABEER Blood I hp Mrs. C. K. Tyler. Burlington, Vt.. Bays : " Th cares of a large farm, so much to do and so little health to do it with, caused almost a complete ores, down: blood poor and thin: no strength, little sleep. Hood's Sarsaparilla gave appetite, natural sleep, perfect health, strength to do all mj work. Drugs Act, June 30, 1906. No. 324. Poor Christmas Fare. A delegation of fellow townusmen re cently called on Rufus K. Combs, of Midway, Ky., to congratulate him on the receipt of a Carnegie medal. As his friends were taking leave Mr. Combs wished them all a merry Christmas. "And I hope," he ended, "that you'll have a more bountiful dinner than fell to the lot of a young friend of mine lnsf year. "He, the poor chap, was stopping at a cheap New York boarding ho,use, and on Christmas day, after he had eaten a turkey neck, a potato and a splinter of sodden mince pie, the landlady said to him, ns h roe jntst as the weak coffee was brought on : " 'Oh, don't leave thme table, Mr. Smith.' " 'I must, madam,' said Smith, grim ly. 'It's bard wood, and my eeth are not what they used to be.'" Hla Constancy. A story Is told of General Sir Alfred Horsford, who believed In a celibate army. A soldier once sought his per mission to marry, saying he had two good conduct badges and $25 In the savings bank. "Well, go away," said Sir Alfred, "and If you come back this ,day year In the same mind you sbaU ! marry. I'll keep the vacancy." On the j annlverasry the soldier repeated his request "But do you really, after a year, want to marry?" "Yes, sir, very ; much." "Sergeant major, take his ! name down. Yes, you may marry. I I never believed there was so much con- stancy in man or woman. Right face. Quick march!" As the man left the room, turning his head, he said : "Tank you, sir. It isn't the same woman." An Effective Illddle. On one occasion when he was busy President Lincoln received a delega tion of men who were endeavoring to hurry the passing of some petty bill When they entered Lincoln looked up gravely, and said: "If you call the tall of a sheep a leg, how many legs will the sheep ' have?" "Five," said the spokesman. "No," replied Lincoln, "it only hnve four. Calling the would tall a leg wouldn't make It one." The delegation departed In dlsconv fiture, Sunday Magazine. For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years mm TNI MNTSUft INPUT, fHW OM SITY. Mir
