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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1908)
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER RtCOUINS. Edkar r N ItAYDEN. MaMccr .TOLEDO.. .OREGON The rase of Carnegie and Weston ra. Osier seems to be going against the de fendant. It coats $15,000 to paint the Eiffel tower. It la cheaper to have a white elephant on band. when the bandits near Fes stoie those harems we suppose they mur mured the Moor the merrier. The Judge who says that marriage Is a cure for drunkeauess should produce a few statistics as an evidence of good talth. "Father of twelve loses his liberty,' announces a morning paper. Evidently the poor man was sentenced to support his family. The reappearnnce of the Congres sional Record hns also relieved the wrapping paper stringency in the coun try newspaper offices. An austrailau physician Is booming sour milk as the elixir of life. We'll have to admit that sour milk Is all right for people with whom it agrees. It certainly wearies one, after ra- dlum has gone down to $1,000,000 an ounce, to hear people declare that the soet of living Is as high as it ever was, What Is to become of our boasted lib erties If the lordly sophomore cannot haze the pleblnn freshman without be ing dragged before an uneducated court md made to pay a vulgar fine? These new dogs for the New York police "are trained to regard with sus picion everyone who does not wear a uniform." The average American citi zen Is trained Just the other way ound. James. O'Neill announces that he has played the title role in "The Count of Monte Cristo" 2,000 times. Teoplo who bare had to see the play three or four times will extend to him their leartfelt sympathy. Mrs. Cobden-Sanderson, the English suffragette, soys American women are Interested In nothing but themselves. Mrs. Cobden-Sanderson . has evidently never heard two or more American women discussing clothes. "Richmond Pearson Hobson's fame ts secure," Bays an exchange, "but who re these pert paragraphers who are continually Jabbing him?" Why, they re the hard-working gentlemen who have helped to make his name secure. A tea-kettle containing $3,000 In gold was dug up recently on a Connecticut farm where It had evidently been bur led many years ago. The man who burled It was probably one of the fool ish people who Insist on hoarding, and It Is only proper, therefore, that some body else Is to have fun with his money. . Queen Victoria's letters, which have recently, been published, are an impor tant contribution to the Intimate his tory of an age of English thought and literature which bears' her name. Her letters to Tennyson, published some years ago, and other first-hand records of her which have trickled Into print, have long since dispelled the idea that she was only a symbol and a name. The new volumes show more abundant ly that she was a keen, vigorous think er about men and events. If she had a genius for statesmanship, she had also a genius for an art quite us rare, the rt of letter-writing. An unusual method of construction has been adopted for the Michigan Cen tral Railroad tunnel under the Detroit river. Instead of boring a hole under the river and lining it with masonry or Iron, the tunnel Is built In sections t a shipyard In St. Clair and floated down the gt. Clair river and across St. Clair Lake' to the place In the Detroit river where It Is desired to run trains across. A trench has already been dredged In the bottom of the river, and the tunnel section Is sunk Into the trench and encased with enough ce ment to hold It down. Each end of the section Is, of course, plugged to keep the water out, and as a new section Is sunk Its ends, are bolted to the ends of the section already In place. Each section Is a steel tube two-hundred and Ixty feet long and twenty-three feet and four Inches In diameter. Ten of these will be laid In the trench In the river bottom, making a total subaque ous length for the tunnel of more thnn twenty-six hundred feet The total length of the excavation, Including the land approaches will be nearly two and one-half miles. The runnel Is to be completed In June, 1000, at a cost of f 10,000,000. The St. Clair rlver.'under which the trains of the Grand Trunk Railway are carried, was tunneled bjr ths more common method of boring bole through the ground under the riv er bed. Talk of conscription to till the Unit ed States army and navy naturally brings the Inquiry why conditions are such that there are not plenty of young men willing and eager to enter the serTloe of Uncle Sam. Although vari ous theories bare been advanced, few of them are satisfactory. One gener ally accepted theory is that young men hare been offered better Inducements In business life and that the financial returns in other callings and vocations are so much better that young men will not enlist. While the salary may have something to do with the small num ber entering the service of Uncle Sam and while the wages should be Increas ed so as to provide at least the amount paid a farm hand for labor, there is reason to believe that reforms in the army and navy are needed In order that recruits may be attracted. The glamour of army life would hold young men If the privates were treat ed as they should be, Instead of being made to serve petty officers who wish to show their authority. There Is too much flunkeyism Iii both the army and navy, and if something more of a dem ocratic spirit existed between the men and the officers, there would not be the great number of deserters as now reported. Any young man who has red blood in him objects to being made a menial and compelled to blacken the officers' shoes or perform other humili ating tasks that ure oUvu ui.aigijt.-vl him. A conspicuous example of the insolence of some of the petty officers was shown a few years ago in Con necticut, when a private resented the Insult of a sergeant at a theater by shooting him, ond the story Is well known of Gunner Morgan In the navy, who was denied promotion because he was not up in ball room- etiquette. The tendency of some of the officers to be on dress parade was shown recently, when objection was made to the as signment of the rhllippine squadron to Sublg bay, which Admiral Dewey urged was the most effective point for service, the ridiculous argument being advanced that this assignment would deprive the officers of the social privi leges of Manila. In the civil and Spanish wars, men did not desert their colors. Despite the carping critics of the regular army, the volunteer sol dier In the militia who was treated somewhat on an equality by his officers was on hand - when wanted. Disci pline In the ranks Is essential to ef fective service but when off duty a feeling of fellowship between officers and men shotld be encouraged . as tending to Improve the morale of the army. America Is a democratic na tion and must depend on the patriot ism of Its citizens for defense in time of peril. But the tendency to make a lot of strutting peacocks out of army and naval officers and allow them to wipe their feet on the private soldier Is rapidly bringing the military Into; disfavor. To invoke conscription would Ae fatal. The American people would never consent to It In time of peace, and they would eliminate the present standing army rather than force young men into the army now. Improve con ditions surrounding the life of the reg ular soldier, stop the monarchist flun keyism, give the private a chance to advance, provide' a system of training where he can reach even the positions now held exclusively by West Point graduates, and, above all, Inject a lit tle democratic spirit Into the army and navy, and the young men of the coun try will do the rest "AmerlcanltU." The manner In which Americans "do" Europe Is a constant source of bewilderment and amusement to the foreign mind. The Rev. John Watson, Ian Maclnren whose death occurred In this country, gives in "Our Neigh bors" an account of a "snap-shot" visit he once received. It Is now several years ago that a tall, thin man followed his card Into my study with such rapidity I had barely time to read It before the visit or was In the room. "My name is Elijah K. HIgglns and I am a busy man. You are also busy und have no time to fool away. Four days Is all I can give to, the United Kingdom and I wished to shake hands with you. Good-bye, I am off to Drumtoclity." I calculate that Mr. HIgglns spout thirty seconds in my study. t Ho left so swiftly. I only overtook him at the front door. I asked him If he knew where Drumtochty was. "Guess I do. Got route In pocket Northwest from Perth." In two seconds he was whirling away In a fast hansom. As I returned and Imnglncdmy visitor compassing Great Britain in four days, I was for a moment roused from that state of com parative lethargy which we In England call work, and added six more engage ments to the afternoon's program. For days after, as often as I was tempted to rest In my chair, the remembrance of that whirlwind gave me renewed vigor. When you give a man a 'dlg," re member that be will probably "get even," Men barber fudges. MINERS ENTOMBED FOE WEEKS. Three Men Buried a Thousand Feet Underground in Nevada. One morning early in December a sudden crash, of timbers, a muffled clatter of rock and cloud of dust told the engineer of the Alpha mine, near Ely, Nev., that the five men be had Just sent down in the cage were buried. He gave tne alarm and a thousand men, eager to be of service, gathered about the shaft. Supt. Gallagher care fully picked the men he wanted, noti fied others that he might call upon tliem later and at once began efforts to communicate with the entombed men, hoping some might have escaped death. Before nightfall he learned that two Greeks were caught in the cave-in and buried alive, but that the three Ameri cans, Bradley, Brown and McDonald, were in no immediate danger." A six inch pipe runs from the mouth of the shaft to the bottom and by removing the cap from Its base the Imprisoned men managed to talk with Gallagher. They told him they had a little food and water enough for two or three days. ' With rubber devices Gallagher passed food and liquids down the pipe and was soon able to supply the men. He started a drift toward them and ut first it Boemed probable that he would reach them In a week. Before that time the unforeseen hnppened and the rescuers were compelled to make new plans. It was then announced that ten days would be suflicieut to get to the miners, but fresh accidents beyond the pale of prevention delayed the work ers. Now Gallagher declines to make predictions and simply snys that he will continue his effort as long as he has strength to direct It The men can - be saved, be declares, and he will lave them. The entombed miners spend their long days far more cheerfully than might be expected In such circum stances. To safeguard them In case the rescue party is delayed Supt Gal lagher has supplied them with enough provisions to last three weeks. They receivo cooked food, eggs, milk, and tolmcco by means of a six-Inch pipe running down the shaft. They have connected the mine telephone with an electric cable, and are able to talk daily with their families and friends. They ore well supplied with news, and have shown much Interest In the Goldfleld crisis. They have plenty of light and room to move about, so that if they can endure the long delay they can wait for rescue with confidence and comparative comfort. The rescue party Itself has dangers to face. A cave-In below the tempo rary platform of timbers upon which It Is working might precipitate It hun dreds of feet Each man works with n rope about his waist, so that If all suddenly find thomselves without any footing they can be hauled to safety. Col. Goetbals and ex-Senator Black horn have returned from Panama and tell President Roosevelt work on canal-is procrcsajng satisfactorily. . SATE NOW. BUT IT WAS SCARY FOB AWHILE, THBEE MEN BURIED STEAM PIPE WATEJ PIPS V&LD TO eim 3WPUE&. soorrLEYELwmi CAVED rROU THIS- POIIiT TO BOTTOM, CHAMBER AT WOO!! LEVEL MEEKT0MSED TO LIMIT IMMIGRATION. Japanese and American Officials Out line Flan at Tokio. There is reason to believe that the entire question of emigration of the Japanese to America has been satisfac torily settled, at (least for the present after n series of conferences between United States Ambnssudor O'Brien and Minister of Foreign Affairs Haynshl in Tokio. It Is understood that nt their last meeting, the representatives of the Jap anese government outlined a plan by which it Is agreed to limit emigration to students ami commercial men hav ing moans of Rupport, and entirely to prevent Japanese IalHU-ers from going to America. This arrangement will en tail the closest supervision on tho part of the Japanese authorities. As the ogreemcut is verbal, Ambassador O'Brien accepted it provisionally, hut maintained that any violation of its terms would seriously embarrass a friendly government It Is said that Foreign Minister Ilayarfil will exercise absolute control. A Greek, bound to fatherland, took wrong train out of Chicago and went to San Francisco. i I tea vnukv y id in I Ki II VI I -r ii 1' i I I I IS A NEVADA MINE. 4 1 WEWA0H1NGT0M MONUMENT COMPARED WITHSHAIT IN MUCH MEN AJZ. BURIED a a TELEPHONE Girous mine, Nevada, and dia grams showing plight of three miners.' TOLD IN A FEW LINES. The Russian war department has or drred the formation of a military auto mobile corps, to be based on the German model. Pierre Jules Crsar Jansaen, the cele brated French . scientist and director of the Mcuhon observatory, is dead in Paris. He was born in 1824. William Crosby, a publisher of IV ton, who died the other day ut tho tige of 8!) years, once refused poens that wer offered by Longfellow, Gov. Harris' of Ohio pardened Wiiiam Houck, serving a life senten on liivic tion of the murder of Mrs. Sarah 1!m, t Bladensburg, Knox county. .t. W. II. Williams, member of tiib board of review of Columbus, Ohio, rih d 0f a stroke of paralysis. He was oiio of the best known Demoeratio poIili-.-ia.aii la Ohio. Thomas W. Lawson of Boston an nounces that ho is going to start a new political party and run Roosevelt for President and Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota for Vice President Elinor Glyn, the English writer, whos book, "Three Weeks," was the cause of her being snubbed by the Pilgrim Moth ers In New York, calls the mothers, la an Interview, "an aggregation of dowds, frumps and tabby cats a lot' of breast less, slab-hipped, pancake-footed fright of things.'' I K 1 it li.-VirmfmnnViriiiid f