Lincoln County leader., December 13, 1907, Image 6

LINCOLN MUTT LEADER
R ECOLLINS, Editor
r N HAVDEN, Manater
TOLEDO :. .OREGON
Postal savings bank are another
good thing to push along. '
Senator Piatt seems to hare proved
once more the old saw about Mae and
December. '
Another unpleasant feature of the
Earle Incident Is that It reminds us of
the Uerron Incident.
Cheer up. The Baltimore American
says "the cold frost of Impenetrable
truth will ever kill a flowering lie."
Short sleeves coat a New York girl
a husband. Who would suppose short
sleeves contained so much material ?
A Washington jviper says the new
$10 bill Is very beautiful. To most
people any kind of $10 bill Is beautiful.
The Russian wheat crop Is a failure.
Russia's troubles are equaled only by
those which continue to pester San
Francisco.
The ancient method of torturing the
accused to force confession seems to
have been adapted to the Jury to com
pel verdicts.
A French electrical scientist has dis
covered a means of transmitting energy
without wires. Perhaps the tramp
problem Is solved.
An esteemed contemporary Is called
the Sartorial Art Journal. As It Is
devoted to fits, the choice of the name
may be understood.
Bishop Potter'says that war will last
as long as the world lasts. If what
Sherman said of war Is true, It will
last through eternity.
A correspondent of one of our con
temporaries writes asking how one may
have beautiful hands. Some people
?et them by Juggling with the cards.
Says the St Louis Globe-Democrat:
"It Is better to' be charitable than rich
and you can't bo both." The great
majority, It seems, are finding it hard
o be either.
A scientist says he has discovered
the germ of laziness, but can't find
nothing that will destroy It Perhaps
lie husn't tried hard enough. The germ
may have nabbed him.
Encouraged by the naturalists and
government bulletins defenders of the
crow are springing up in all parts of
the country. No one has suggested,
however, that the crow Is good eating.
A HIghmore (S. D.) municipal ordi
nance prohibits young men and women
from "loitering on the steps of any
church building or doorway for the
purpose of eating candy or peanuts."
This is likely to break some young peo
ple of the habit of going to church.
A critic has discovered In four short
poeins In one magazine the words,
"dunchlng," "planished," "Bkelloeh,"
"beverll," "strepltous," and "riming."
When we look nt the size of the dic
tionary to-day It looks as if anyone
who would Invent new words ought to
be sent to the penitentiary.
Canadian government experts who
have been prospecting in the Yukon re
gion have lately announced that more
thnn sixty million dollars' worth of
gold Btill remains in the valley, but
that careful mining methods will be
required to extract It The superficial
methods employed In the past have
produced nearly a hundred and twenty
millions. This,, of course, applies to
the Canadian Yukon region.
The British youth of the present gen
eration Is- not In quite so bad a way
as the recent discussions of physical
deterioration would Indicate. Atten
tion was lately called to the Interest
ing; condition revealed by a study of
the measurements of the school boys at
Marlborough for the past twenty years.
The 14-year-old boys of 1000 are five
unds heavier and one and one-half
aches taller than the boys of the same
4ge In 1880, and the 10-year-old boys
are eight pounds heavier and three
fourths of an Inch taller. A hatter who
provides hats for the boys In six
schools says that a few years ago he
rarely was asked for a hat twenty-one
and a half Inches In circumference, bt
now he Is frequently called upon for
hats an Inch larger. It is not at all
unlikely that the revelation of the poor
physique of the British youth that fol
lowed the Boer war recruiting aroused
parents to a sense of tho Importance
of getting their boys Into thejfresh air,
where they could take a proper amount
of wholesome exercise.
Ransack history from Eden to Chi
cago and. Los Angeles and you will
find frw great men and fewer good
men whose cradle was not rocked by
a white-souled woman. Turn all the
vile pages of history and you will find
few men of brutal Instincts and de
graded lives whose cradle was rocked
by a woman of .clear .Intelligence, of
high Ideals and of ripe wls-'-nn, Bays
the 'Los Angeles Times. P. ' te rad
ically the source of human society at
the fountain head, motherhood, and
you may build a school house on every
crossroads; you may endow colleges
with the wealth of all the mines In the
world; you may fill the chairs of phi
losophy end science with prodigies of
genius ; you may make your cities like
thickset woods with church steeples,
and fill their pulpits with men whose
tongues are fire. Do all that but you
will not arrest the race in Its down
ward course In vice and degradation.
Unless the mothers of the race lay the
foundations of character, unless the
sisters of the men set before their eyes
,a constant picture of purity and self
devotion, and make virtue appear In Its
true attractiveness, and unless wives
hold up before our eyes some reflex of
the angelic qualities of the soul which
makes the human reflect the Image of
the divine, all your accessories of civ
ilization are In vain and all efforts
must fall. The bestial In the race must
assert Itself and drag ns down to wal
low In the mire of ail uncleanness un
less we are guided by the gentle touch
of a white hand with a woman's love of
all that la pure and of good repute
beating In every vibration of th heart
which vivifies that hand.
It was explained a few days aftet
the uncompleted spaa of the bridge
across the St. Lawrence at Quebec fell
recently that the accident occurred be
cause the span was too heavily loaded
with structural material at' Its outer
end. The span had been built over the
river one hundred and eighty feet from
the pier with no support Even though
the average person may have a general
knowledge of the principles on which
such a span Is constructed, he always
wonders that It does not fall of Its own
weight. Engineers were afraid that It
would fall until a bridge was built
across the gorge of. the Niagara- river
In 1883, the first cantilever bridge In
the world. Now, a cantilever Is a
bracket projecting from the side of a
building or a pier. In a bridge two
such brackets are built from adjoining
piers till they come near enough to
gether to be connected by an Indepen
dent truss. In Its simplest form the
cantilever, or bracket, for a bridge Is
a- series of .connected triangles. The
side of the pier is one side of the
first triangle; a beam projecting from
it at right angles Is the second side,
and a brace running back to the pier
from the outer end of the beam Is the
third side. This third side forms the
first side of the second triangle, and
the end of the first beam is at its up
per apex, and the base of the triangle
Is onother beam extending from the
lowest point of the first triangle at
right angles with the pier and sup
ported at Its outer end by another beam
running from the end of the first beam.
As It Is Impossible to change the shape
of a triangle so long as Its sides and
corners remain rigid, it Is theoretically
possible to extend a series of connected
triangles an Indefinite distance into
space. All that Is needed Is that the
supporting pier should be strong enough
and that the sides of the triangles
should not buckle. The chief advantage
of this method of bridge construction
lies In the possibility of spanning deep
gorges and rapid rivers without false
work to support the uncompleted structure.
Movlnjf Occupied Home Donn Rtvei.
S. M. Depew of Orange, Tex., re
cently accomplished quite a feat In
house moving, having moved C. S.
Relster's residence from its former lo
cation at Riverside, several miles above
Orange, on the Sabine River, to a loca
tion In the southern part of Orange.
The house was placed on rollers and
safely placed on a big barge. Tho
barge was then towed down the river
to a landing opposite the street on
which the lots are located which were
to be occupied by the house, and the
building was then rolled off the boat
and safely located several blocks away.
The work of moving the house from
Louisiana into Texas, across the Sabine
River, was accomplished while it was
still occupied by Mr. Roister, who never
moved out during thot time and whose
house furnishings were not disturbed In
the move.
Fonom'i Reacue of Her liable.
Two girls at Pass Christian, Miss.,
receuty stole eight baby possums from
their mother, says a special dispatch
to the New York World. The next
night the mother crawled through a
window and bore away her little ones.
Girls of sixteen think they are
mighty pretty, and they are, but a
little girl of six or seven, with her
hair done up in a knot on top of ber
head, and her starched skirts sticking
out all around her, can give a sixteen-year-old
girl cards and spades and
then beat her.
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JAMES BBVCC
OUR DEBT TO ENGLISH COMMON LAW.
By British Ambassador Bryce.
How great a part the conception
of the legal rights of the subject or
citizen against the crown or the state
power played In English and Amer
ican history is known. Stintless
need I dwell on the capital (import-.
ance for the whole political system
of the United States of that doctrine
of limited powers which has been so
admirably worked out In your con
stitution, nor of that respect for a de
fined legal right which supports their
provisions.
The life of every nation rests
mainly on what may be called its fixed ideas, those ideas
which have become axioms in the mind of every citizen.
Now, It was mainly by the common law that these fixed
and fundamental Ideas were molded whereon the con
stitutional freedom of America, as of England, rests.
One hundred and thirty-one yara have now passed
6ince the majestic-current of the '.omnion law became
divided Into two streams, which have ever since flowed
In distinct channels. Many statutes have been enacted
In England since 1770, and many more enacted here,
but the character of the common law remains essen
tially the same, and it forms the mental habits in those
who study and practice It "
In nothing, perhaps, does the substantial Identity of
the two branches of the old stock appear so much as U
the doctrines and practice of the law. It is a bond of
union and of sympathy whose value can hardly be over
rated. It Is a bond of sympathy not least because it Is a
source of common pride.
EUROPE LIKELY TO LIMIT EMIGRATION.
By Senator-Dillingham.
The constant and long-continued drain upon
the rural population, from which class the
great niojorlty of emigrants come, uud the
general prosperity which now prevails have
produced a scarcity of farm labor, and, It Is.
claimed, the agricultural industry is suffering
in consequence. Because of this scarcity of
labor the condition of those remaining at home
has, to a degree, been Improved, but the gen
eral condition Is causing much alarm among laud own
ers, and a strong sentiment against emigration has de
veloped. A very large proportion of male emigrants leave their
native countries at a time when they are liable to mili
tary service, and this constitutes a strong objection to
such emigrants. On the cpntrary, It Is true that, In
some parts of Europe at least, emigration Is not with
out its attending benefit, and this is recognized and con
sidered. For example, there is a decided tendency on
the part of aliens of certain nationalities to send back
to their native countries a large part of their earnings
In the United States. The total amount of money thus
transferred each year Is enormous, and the greater part
of It goes to countries where it Is much needed, and
therefore highly appreciated.
Added to this Is a desire on the part of nearly all the"
seaboard countries of Europe to build up a merchant
marine, and as the carrying of emigrants Is in many
cases essential to the' success of such enterprises the at
titude of such governments toward emigration is affect
ed accordingly. These are the real forces that control
the situation in Europe to-day, and the trend of affairs
indicates that more attention and greater supervision
of emigration 'on the part of the countries most con
cerned will result
BISHOP POTTER.
CHURCH SHUNS- POOR.
By Bishop Henry C. Potter.
There Is no more righteous ar
raignment of the church of our time
than its indifference to the social
conditions of the classes made up of
less favored men and women down
In the gutter. The trend of our gen
eration to mechanical devices and
the elimination of the personality of
the workmen, however clever and
valuable in Its material results. Is
a trend to be afraid of. The mod
ern tendency to institutionallsra is
destroying the habit and Instinct
of personal service. It Is only by
personal service that we can lift the man In the gutter.
The church should take active steps to cure the physical
and mental as well as the religious Ills of the people.
Its neglect of this vital work cannot be remedied too
soon. It has neglected Its most important functions.
As a further and great cause of social unrest there
comes that monstrous profusion and extravagance of
expenditure which I am at times inclined to consider
the worst note of our Amerlenu civilization. As I grow
older, I am more and more profoundly convinced that
the Impatience of the masses comes more from the abuse
of wealth than from any other cause. Many of us who
claim to be Christ's disciples are guilty in this partic
ular. We fall to set the pace for the community in which
we live by our own habits. The presence of luxury in
the midst of tenement life has become to the average
worker a source of Irritation. He sees wealth open lav
ishly around him, while he struggles In misery. Is It
any wonder he becomes wrought up at what he con
siders the great injustice of society? The conditions of
modern life are making the average workman a bonds
man to machinery. When you have reduced a man to a
mere machine it is Impossible for him to sustain life
except by artificial methods more destructive even than
the industries In which he Is employed.
FREE AFTER 25 YEARS.
On Being It cleaned, Convict ! Al
to unlit-1 nt World' ProKreu,
Away from the world in prison for
a quarter of a century, then suddenly
set free to breathe cleor uir, to feel the
bright sunlight, and see the monu
ments to Progress erected in a great
city, was the exerlenee of Michael
big hats make them appear topheuvy.
I think the women of twenty-five years
ago were more becomingly attired and
looked sweeter."
Some of Ilackett's experiences were
pothetle. lie hadn't had a ocket In
ills clothes In twenty-rlve years, nml he
felt about in constant fear that he
would lose the things he was carrying.
Ills Derby haf made his head ache, and
MICHAEL HACKtTT. -
Ilackett, former 'New York iKillceiimn,
who was liberated from Sing Sing
prison after serving twenty-five years
of a life sentence for murder.
In all those years Ilackett had
caught no glimpse of the outside world,
and had obtained all his impressions
of Its advancement from occasional
papers and magazines. In 1882 there
were no skyscrapers, trolley cars, or
automobiles here, and Ilackett's sud
den plunge Into the heart of the city
was like a visit to another world. , ,
Liked a child be gazed, wondered and
asked questions: "Was that an auto
mobile that flashed by? What funny
noises It makes! Is that the 'gasoline
smell?' How fast can it go? How does
It run? You see, I never saw one be
fore," he explained to B. J. Sullivan,
secretary to Mrs. Balllngton Booth,
who was taking Hackett to temporary
quarters at the Volunteers' Home.
"How queer the women look 1" he ex
claimed. "Qf course, the women them
selves are lovely, but I don't like their
clothes. Those rich colors are too
flashy, the skirts are queer, and those
brick paired black. The company
makes the claim that it can sell these
bricks at such a price that It will really
be cheaper than wood or coal or gas;
that there will practically be no odor
smoke or gases, and very little asb
from its consumption ; that no kindling
is needed to set It on fire, mid that two
bricks will practically last all day In
either a stove or open fireplace or
grate.
There Is no secret made of the Ingre
dients, which are s.irinclpully waste
products. The very hacktmne of this
fuel. as It may be railed, is composed
of fruit pits from the canneries, most
ly peach and nprieot. About sixteen
tons of these pits a day ure to be used.
The shells are broken up by a machine
.and the Inside pits are slilpp.nl to
France, where they bring 18 cents a
pound to make prussie neld out of.
These shells make such n hot fir
that It has to lie modified with othei
inflammable, but more slow burning.
Material, and so only a percentage of
the pit shells Is used in each fuel
brick. These of her waste materials in
clude crude petroleum, or brea, n res
iduum deposit from the oil Holds, plan,
iuj; mills shavings and pulp from 'the
olive oil mills. The combination In the
propou percentage Is said 'to make a
fire that burns to the last atom. ,
Hut there Is another product In con
i:e Mou with tills fuel which the complin-
will turn out from Its factory.
It will he "smudge" fuel, n!s; made of
vasti' products, but In such projiortion
'- t IN niiilii business is to make a
- K.iioke. which will last for a long
!; This Is proiKwed for the use of
' '!sls to preserve frees uud fruit
' ' f . st, and lias alre.uly been used
. i Lumber of big ranches' with sue-
when lie t:nk !iH HW : .
skyscrapers the light hii: ' . .
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NEW FUEL OF Fr..IjV;i,,,i;
It I Mnilc In the Shaje i IrlcUn
and NcciIn No Klndllnit " M irt (.
Before winter weather begUm a new
fuel will be Introduced by the whole
sale to the homes In Iis Angeles, says
the Los Angeles Times. Coal men are
looking askance at It, but a number of
well known men In this city and else
where, who have used It, ure enthu
siastic over its possibilities.
It Is a block fuel, and the Occidental
Fuel Company is now rushing work on
the erection of a factory at Bay and
Wilson streets, In the manufacturing
district
This fuel Is not In any sense a bri
quet, but has the appearance of a fire
"Bird of a Then."
: h:' most unique theft o:i record at
: ton, n; J., was committed recent
ly when n man entered the house of
Mrs. Catherine Ulttle and stole two
canaries from their cages, says a spe
chil dispatch to the New York World.
The pol Iceman to whom the case was
reported said It was "a bird of a theft"
The One Exception.
"I suppose," said the mnn from the
city, "you 'raise practically, everything
on your farm." .
"Well, yes, everything," replied the
candid fanner, "but the money to make
it pay." Philadelphia PreBg.
The longer a woman has . been mar
ried, the greater her wonder that she
ever thought wedding clothes would
cut ny figure In her happiness.