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
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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.
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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.''
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