Lincoln County leader., August 23, 1907, Image 2

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LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
C r. SOULE. PublUbcr
TOLEDO OREGON
Souvenir fiends stole a medal from a
Jap officer. Why not take the whole
Jap?
Dr. Long will have to admit that the
President has helped him to a good,
bg slice of publicity.
King Edward is going to build a
castle In Spain. But It will be one of
the real kind, with a roof that won't
leak.
Dr. Reitman asserts that hobos neith
er carry tomato cans nor wear long
beards. Does that accord with your ob
servation, Mr. President?
There seems to be no chance that the
written life story of the Standard Oil
Company will ever occupy a place in
the Sunday school libraries.
We have 2-cent postage and the cry
Is for "penny postage." This may be
one reason why the railway people do
not enthuse over the 2-ceut fare
proposition.,
Mrs. Howard Gould wants $4,000,000
In the way of alimony. People who
drop out of the Gould family seem to
have an Idea that they ought to get big
jrloH for on doing.
Just as the rest of the world Is con
sidering a proposition to give up fight
ing China begins to arm herself for
war. The Chinese always have had a
habit of doing things backward.
"The wheat crop is the vehicle of our
prosperity," says a Kansas exchange.
Translated into plain United States,
this means that dollar wheat will soon
enable all the farmers to buy automo
biles. It Is said that the King of Italy is
unhappy because his wife's relatives In
sist on making long visits to Rome. If
even a king hns to submit to that sort
of thing what's the use of being a
king?
With one fell stroke of his anthro
pological snickersnee Prof. Starr am
putates eight or nine centuries from
the proud record of the late Mr. Me
thuselah. Will Methuselah's descend
ants stand for this?
An Osage Indian baby in Indian ter
ritory Is worth $50,000 as soon as it is
born. In lieu of the conventional sil
ver spoon the Osage baby Is born,; fig
uratively speaking, with a few sec
tions of land in Its mouth.
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It Is the modern theory of education
that the best way to teach good man
ners to the young Is to be polite to them
from the beginning. Possibly some
thing of the kind may have been In
the lii I nd of a MaBsochusetts wonxan
who advertises eggs for hatching. Her
advertisement says : "One hundred
eggs sure to hatch for three dollars, if
called for. Will hatch If requested In
Incubator."
In many educational Institutions of
the country the students seem to be
allowed too much leeway In attempting
to dictate to the faculty how the In
stitution shall be conducted. This
probably originated In the institutions
where the support of the parents of the
pupils, as somewhat and in some in
stances Influenced by the pupils them
selves, was depended upon for their
very existence. It is conceivable that
In such cases a timid faculty may have
been weak enough to allow students to
dictate what should and what should
not be. But such an attitude is not
compatible with dignity, even when
adopted as a matter of self-preservation.
So many school children have been
found with defective eyesight that the
school committees of several cities have
considered furnishing eyeglasses free.
It Is a question how far government
should go In supplying citizens with the
necessary things of life. Most Ameri
can parents will prefer to pay the ocu
list In many cities are free dispen
saries where poor children can be treat
ed and receive free prescriptions for
glasses. Parents should be warned
against Incompetent oculists who take
advantage of the reports of the boards
of education on the matter of eyesight
In the schools, and try to get business
for themselves by exaggerated warn
ings to the "parents of school children
threatened with blindness."
Those familiar with the results of
American exploration have known for
a few years that there are threo nat
ural bridges In Southeastern Utah as
much larger than the Natural Bridge In
Virginia as Pike's Peak Is than Mount
Washington. It is only within a short
time, however, that much accurate in
formation about these Utah wonders
has been accessible. In 1005 an expe
dition of Salt Lake City men visited
them in company with an artist and a
surveyor. Pictures of the bridges have
lately been published. The Augusta
bridge, with a span of three hundred
and twenty feet and a height of two
hundred and sixty-five feet i the
largest and so far as known there Is
none larger in the world. The Caro
line bridge has a greater span, three
bundled and fifty feet, but Is smaller
in other ways; and the third, the Ed
win bridge, although not so high as the
bridge in Virginia, has a span several
times as large. As one has to travel
about a hundred miles over a barren
country to reach these marveis of na
ture, the summer tourist will not visit
them very frequently.
In opposition to the suicide clubs,
race or Individual, which have de
manded the attention of the country,
several attempts have been made to
organize hundred year old clubs, or,
more explicitly, clubs composed of
members who will endeavor to round
out a century of human existence. To
a club of this nature belongs Chief
Chemist Wiley, and while he is merely
In his sixty-third year he expresses the
opinion that no man should lire to be
less than a hundred, which Is In truth
scarcely more than a ripe old age. It
must be admitted at the outset that
there are many reasons why human
life should be prolonged beyond former
limitations. Sanitation and hygiene
have done wonders. Diseases that were
considered Incurable a few years ago
now yield readily to treatment or have
been practically stamped out The art
of living rationally and well bus be
come more generally understood, the ex
treme luxuries of a former generation
are now the common, everyday accom
paniments of life, and If the simplicity
of the fathers and their regularity of
living are not quite so strongly In evi
dence the extravagances are possibly
more than offset by the discoveries and
general advance In the medical world.
On the other hand, It 1b not to be over
looked that while sanitation and the
spread of medical knowledge have ar
rested or averted disease, other perils
threaten the would be centenarian. He
must take into account railroad acd
dents, the electric cars, and other perils
of city streets, and, not least of all, the
operations so eloquently urged by the
ambitious surgeon. If be escapes these
and conforms In his mode of life to the
careful hygienic directions, he may live
to be a hundred. But what avails It to
Mr. Wiley or to any other simple liver
that he reaches the century mark If his
friends do not accompany him the
whole of the way? Who cares to be a
hundred, or even the greater part of it
if his children and grandchildren, the
friends of his youth, and the sharers of
his greatest Joys, drop off at 65? What
excesses of pleasure are there at the
disposal of the centenarian that the
sprightly young fellow of 60 should
yearn to emulate his example? What
assurance have we from the honorable
president, secretary, or member in good
standing of the Hundred Year Old Club
that after we have conformed to all the
rules and regulations of sanitary sci
ence and turned the hundredth mile
stone, there will be anybody on earth
who will give us more than a passing
thought or even glance at our picture in
the papers? A record of living simply
to show that Methusaleh and old Parr
do not enjoy a monopoly Is hardly worth
the.whlle. The pioneer In longevity, in
tentionally or accidentally, Is not a hap
py person. Let us live to be a hundred
when living to be a hundred Is the fash
ion. BERLIN'S POSTAX SERVICE.
Connect th Central Ofllce With the
Principal Statlona.
The Berlin postal authorities are
revolutionising the conveyance of let
ters and parcels.
The idea on which they are experi
menting is to have an underground
tube with a large enough circumfer
ence to admit a man In a stooping po
sition. These tubes are to connect the
central postofflce with the principal
stations and with the district offices.
Two sets of rails are built In this
tube or tunnel, one over the other, hot
side by side. The upper set of rails Is
supported on the sides of the tube,
thus practically dividing it in two.
Small carriages, running on two wheels,
are automatically driven by electricity
along these rails.
No locomotive Is used nor Is there
any attendant with the carriage. As
many as six of these carriages can be
run together for conveying letters and
parcels from the arrival station to the
central postofflce and thence to the va
rious districts, or vice versa.
By this means letters can be deliv
ered in any part of the city in less
than a fourth of the time formerly re
quired. So far the scheme is not be
yond the experimental stages, but It
promises to be a success and to banish
from the Btreets the mall van, with all
Its poetry and romance.
How Inconsistent your neighbors are!
They refuse to say that you are a good
man, but after the undertaker gets you
they delight In saying that yoa were a
good man.
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After tne marriage or Edna Slay,
the beautiful American actress, to Os
car Lewishon, son of the New York
millionaire, at the register's office at
Windsor, England, the couple went to
a beautiful vlncclad villa which the
groom had prepared for his bride.
There, shortly after their arrival, they
were photographed standing together
on the porch, a hnndsome pair In a
framework of Ivy leaves and flowers.
In 1890 a little girl with parted hair
und wise, demure eyes went from Syra
cuse, where her father was, and Is to
day, a letter-man, to New York, where
she asked for a position In a chorus.
She was made understudy to Lucille
Saunders In Santa Maria. She was
recognized as a type of girl which Js as
rare on the stage as a rose in a field of
flaunting poppies. That winter was
uneventful and Miss May did no more
than get a nice little start. After a
brief American tour she went to Lon
don, where for several years she was
In mediocre plays which caused little
or no comment In 1904 she was at
Daly's In New York In The Schoolgirl,
and the next year she appeared In The
Catch of the" Season. Since 'then En
gland has been her field of action.
For almost ten years the little ac
A GOOD PIPE.
Shape Has More to Do with Inanrtng
Sncrena Than Hai Material.
Pipes are smoked by millions, and
always will be, yet not one smoker in
a thousand knows the elements of a
good pipe. Engineers have been known
to talk by the hour over the draft of
their Are boxes and never once In half
a lifetime think of the draft In their
pipes which they smoke hourly.
Sage attention la puld to the pipe
material, all of which has little If any
thing to do with the qualities of a pipe,
and generally nothing whatever Is
thought of shape and proportions, the
two things that make a pipe good or
bad. A two-cent postage stamp spent
with intelligence will buy as good a
pipe as there is In the world; every
thing added to that price is ornament,
vanity and especially Ignorance.
The corncob holds a high place
among pipe smokers and deserves this
place usually for the best of scien
tific reasons. When a pipe is built on
right principles the bowl Is as narrow
and deep as Is convenient to fill ; the
lwle In the stem meets the bowl at the
very bottom and In the center, thus In
suring a perfect and even burning of
tress has been besieged with the atten
tion of England's titled sons, and hei
i:i im lias been In the papers constant
ly. That she Is wise to retire In th
height of her popularity cannot b
doubted. Edna May did quite the
proper thing to wed, and the simple
little ceremony which united her to
Mr. Lewisium puts the finishing touch
to her wonderful career. She and her
millionaire husband are going to live
a simple life In a "manor house,''
whatever that may be, all Ivy-grown
and with the conventional swans lu
the lake and hungry deer In the spa
cious park.
Oscar Lewishon Is the fourth and
youngest sou of Leonard Lewishon.
once well known as a "copper king."
Mr. Lewishon, Sr., and his brother
Adolph were both poor when they
laufled in New York from Germany
many years ago. Their first business
venture was made under the all-embracing
heading of "general mer
chants," hut they soon began to spe
cialize In two things only coffee and
copper. ISy degrees they became th
largest operators In coffee, and. with
II. II. Rogers, of Standard Oil fame,
organized the memorable coffee cornel
In 1901.
the tobacco. The cake prevents the
fire from burning the bowl, thus pre
vents making Its bore larger or un
even, which would in proportion spoil
the draft The sides of the bowl are
thick to keep In the heat, thus making
the burning at the same temperature
at the edges of the tobacco as at the
center. In this way a clean, sweet
smoke Is assured.
An Odd Bnalneaa.
In France at this season the banks
of streams are yellow with bonfires
every night About the fires loaf peas
ants, men and women, smoking, chat
tering, spooning.
They keep the blaze going all night,
and at dawn the ground Is an inch or
two deep with May flies, fireflies, moths
little creatures that flew out of the
darkness Into those clear and gem-like
flames, fluttered forth again In agony,
fell and died.
The tiny corpses are sold to the
French bird dealers at five or six cents
a pint, and are resold for food to the
owners of pet birds, finches, thrushes,
canaries, nightingales and the like.
It's to a man's credit If he can truth
fully say that his credit Is good.
COUGHUIG HI CHURCH.
'it la an Opinion of the Sermon ot
Slarn of Wandering. Intereat.
The epidemic of coughing that at
tacks a congregation at times Is re
garded as of sufficient importance by
a writer in the British Medical Journal
to merit discussion in a column article.
He Is of opinion that the cause Is
nervous Irritability, but will not accept
the theory of an American physician
that it is due to prolonged attention,
holding that lack of attentlveness must
rather be held responsible. He goes on
with his investigation thus:
"Persons who will sit out a play or
listening to an Interesting conversation
without coughing seem to be seized, as
soon as they compose themselves to
hear a sermon, with distressing Irrita
tion of the windpipe that can be re
lieved only by violent and continued
coughing. The affection Is contagious,
spreading from seat to seat, cough an
swering to cough, till the church Is as
full of noise as Prospero's Island. As
far as we know, the etiology of this
strange disease has not received atten
tion from the scientific Investigator.
Is It due to sudden changes of tempera
ture In the sacred edifice, or to the
sudden Inroads of malign drafts? It
may be granted that the eloquence of
some preachers has a chilling effect
while that of others Is of a windy char
acter; neither of these things, how
ever, can he accepted as a vera causa.
We note with Interest that the problem
has been attacked from another side
by an American scientist who has
studied thp prvMomte n !t nmr Itj
theaters. He has satisfied himself that
there, at least, the coughing which
sometimes goes far to spoil the per
formance Is due to reflex Irritation
propagated from the ear to the larynx.
"The source of the Irritation, accord
ing to him, is to be found In the strain
on the auditory apparatus induced by
the effort to hear what Is said on the
stage. This suggests that actors of the
present day do not know how to use
their voices. It would be a comfort to
preachers if the church cough could
also be explained by overstrenuous list
ening. We fear, however, that a solu
tion of the riddle Is rather to be found
In what Falstaff calls 'the-disease of
not listening, the malady of not mark
ing.' It Is related that once upon a
time when an author was reading a
new play before the members of the
Comedle Francaise, an actress fell
asleep. When the company were ex
pressing their various opinions, the au
thor maliciously lnslted on having that
of the sleeping beauty on the ground
that the attention she had given to it
would make her opinion especially val
uable. The reply was disconcertingly
to the point: 'Monsieur, le sommell
est une opinion' ('Sir, sleep Is an opin
ion'). In like manner It may be said
that coughing Is an opinion. At a full
dress rehearsal of a new play by Sar
dou, the audience, which had applaud
ed the first act, began to cough In the
middle of the second. The author at
once exclaimed: 'They cough; I al
ways thought that scene was too long.
Preachers might sometimes at least
Iraw the same moral from the cough
ing of a congregation."
SEARCHING SEA DEPTHS.
Placea Where the Long-eat Sonndlna
Line Doea Not Touch Bottom.
The little German man-of-war Planet
of 820 tons, Is at Manila, about a year
out from Germany, sailing around the
Cape of Good Hope to Colombo and
thence to German New Guinea, says
the Los Angeles Times. After this
voyage of about 20,000 nautical miles,
during which more than 200 deep-sea
soundings were made, the ship was oc
cupied some three months on survey
work around the Bismarck archipelago,
off the east coast of New Guinea. Sha
came to Manila from Yap island,
among Germany's possessions In Oce-'
anlca, having followed a very Irregular
course westward to the Philippines, in
close study of the ocean's profile be
tween her point of departure and the
Islands.
The most Interesting result of these
soundings she has Just completed In the
Pacific to the eastward of the Philip
pines Is the discovery of an unusual
depression In the ocean's bed off the
east coast of Mindanao. About thirty
two miles northj 104 degrees east of
Pusan point Mindanao, all her sound
ing wire was In the water, showing a
depth of 4,678 fathoms and no bottom.
Ninety-two miles due north of this spot
she sounded 4,648 fathoms. Later oft
the northeast coast of Samar a depth
of 4,901 fathoms was discovered in a
spot twenty-five miles off Tubabat isl
and and In north 57 degrees east bear
ing. According to Commander Kurtz thesa
are very remarkable results, as the ex
istence of such a deep Philippines de-'
presslon has hitherto not been suspect
ed, and, moreover, suboceanle slopes
showing such steepness as these ara
quite extraordinary.
Plna.
The number of pins manufactured
laily 4n England Is 64,000,000- in
Prance, 20,000,000 ; in Germany ' 10
300,000. It is estimated that about
5,000 worth of pins are dally lost In
Europe.