Lincoln County leader., March 27, 1908, Image 6

LiHCQW COUNTY LEADER
R COLLINS, Editor
r N HAYDEN. Maaaaer
TOLEDO..
.OREGON
It's a waste of time to follow tne
weather predictions In winter. A man
can't go Ashing, anyway.
A Norfolk, Vs., boy hit a mule with
a rifle, and Is dead. The gun wasn't
loaded, but the mule, as usual, was.
The tendency among trained nurses
to marry sick men Is probably due to
the fact that they are Insured patient
husbands.
Every one admits that great wealth
Is a tremendous strain on a character;
but every one would like to put this
test on his.
The man who wrote the latest song
success. "There's Always Something
Wrong," must be the unhappy owner of
an automobile.
We agree with Andrew Carnegie that
a man feels young at 70 If he Is In
possession of a good, healthy appetite
and 1 100,000,000..
There may be food In alcohol, as a
Chicago doctor claims, but entirely too
many families In this country are de
prived of food by alcohol.
James Hazen Hyde declares that he
will never return to America. Would
It not be proper to get up a testi
monial of some kind for Mr. Hyde?
Part of the cone of Mount Vesuvius
fell Into the crater a few days ago.
It might be a good thing If the old
volcano were to swallow herself com
pletely. A New York Alderman proposes an
ordinance to prohibit women smoking
In public. No such thing as liberty,
equality and sorority when It comes to
the cigarette.
Two Chinamen being smuggled into
the United States were nearly smoth
ered In a Pullman car. This shows
how utterly unsulted they ore for
American citizenship.
One way to make the army attrac
tive to young men out of employment
would be. to Increase the wages during
those periods when there is little or
nothing to do In achieving glory.
It has been discovered that there are
1,400 more Islands In the Philippine
archipelago than were originally count
ed. If they And auy more Uncle Sam
may begin to feel that Spain cheated
him.
Automobiles abroad have developed
the ability to Jump like a kangaroo
and to break through Iron fences. Evi
dently the flying machine was discov
ered none too soon If human kind Is to
urvlve.
Fraunce'a Tavern In New York, where
Washington said farewell to his offl
cers, now the property of the Sons of
the Revolution, has been restored to Its
original condition so far as 'possible.
The new owners took formal possession
on December 5th, and marked the oc
casion by the dedication of two memo
rial tablets. This Is one of the historic
buildings regarding the preservation of
which there cannot be two opinions.
The coin-collector is always alert.
Within a day or two of the announce
ment that the government had stopped
coining the new Salnt-Oaudens double
eagles, the coins were selling at a pre
mium of six dollars apiece, and a few
days later this bonus had advanced to
ten dollars, so that each twenty-dollar
gold piece was held at thirty dollars.
Meanwhile the collectors carefully en
ter in their records the history of the
coin and how mRny were minted, for
the guidance of those who come after
them. Twenty-dollar gold pieces have
always been hard coins to collect. The
premium Imposes an added and discour
aging burden.
The period of financial depression
nd "tight money" has worked hard
ship to many persons of larire menna
and still greater hardship to some of
very small means. On the other hand,
It has proved a golden opportunity for
auch frugal and prudent persons of the
middle class as have been able to place
their hand on ready monev. for thorn
have been real bargains In the market
In the way of good securltlea The
books of some of the railroad compa
nies show what has been done. In
some cases, It Is reported, the number
of shareholders has been doubled dur
ing the last six months. The effect of
turn increase will be Interesting to
watch. Popular ownership may be the
government ownership of the future.
Education Is that which eaulns men
to become good citizens, useful to the
world and a benefit to their fellows.
There Is a good deal In the curriculum
that Isn't educational In the true sense.
You can't educate tact, and Justice, and
generosity, and honesty ' Into a man,
any more than you can educate a voice
Into htm. You can't make a first-class
man out of a fourth-class boy, any
more than you can make a good singer
out of a man with no voice. But you
can help to make a boy more apprecia
tive of his rights of citizenship and of
the rights of others, whether he be a
first-clans or a fourth-class pupil. The
education that falls to do this falls to
educate. There is a wide margin be
tween book-learning and education. We
have neglected this practical side of
the problem so long that we have bred
men who core nothing for Justice, who
have no regard for the rights of their
employes, or even their own families;
who are deaf to reason and seek by
force what they could readily win by
tact and honesty, had not their educa
tion been along the wrong lines. It Is
time to wake up to this before It Is too
everlastingly late. Educate the child
to be a good citizen, to regard the
sacred rights of the Individual and the
vested rights of the majority, and you
have a graduate who -represent the
highest type of nan.
To most people a mummy Is a mum
my, worth while for one visit to a
museum, strictly out of curiosity, and
thereafter the less said the better. To
the professors mummies have endless
varieties of Interest of their own. Not
until recently, however, has a thor
ough and comprehensive study been
made of the processes by which mum
mies were manufactured. For the last
three years Dr. G. Elliot Smith, a Brit
ish member of l'lnstltut Egyptleu, lias
been Investigating the methods In use
in the twenty-first dynasty and inci
dentally accumulating Information
about later and earlier methods. He
has had forty-four mummies on the dis
secting table, If such It may be called,
and the wonders he has reported are
endless. In the earliest days the pre
historic inhabitants of upper Egypt
were accustomed to preserve their dead
by a successful sun-drying process, but
this was a primitive method, not to he
thought of when the great Egyptian
dynasties were in power. It was not,
however, till the twenty-first dynasty
that the embalmers began to try to
make their output look as natural as
life. Previous to that the mununtei
were shrunken wrecks of bodies. The
practice then Introduced was a sort" of
combination of embalming and taxi
dermy. The brain was removed and
the cavity filled with linen and resin.
The body was opened and the viscera,
excepting the heart, removed ; all parts
were given a prolonged saline bath, and
finally the viscera were returned and
all parts of the body, including the
limbs, were stuffed with mud and linen.
Finger and toe nails were' carefully
fastened tight, artificial eyes were sup
plied as far as necessary, men's bodies
were painted red and women's yellow.
and all was ready for that long preser
vation In the tomb which hns ended
with showing so well to the world the
vanity of life. In later dynasties this
process was discarded as barbarlti and
uncouth, and In place of It a system of
external bandages was developed tor
give the mummy the shape and plump
ness It had had In life. One can im
agine the mummymaklug artists of
those days dilating on the grent Indus
trial progress of their times and look
Ing back with contempt on- tuo feeblo
efforts of their ancestora It was not
till the sixth century of the present era
that mummy-making ceased to be prao
.ticed.
Confidence Abuaed.
Miss Slmple--What? Your partner
hasn't had a mouthful of food for a
month? It is hard to believe!
Mr. Couski You ought to see hi
mouth 1
Hard o Kill.
Church Our cat was run over bj
an automobile to-dity. .
Gotham What did you do
Church Called In a doctor.
Gotham I'll bet even that didn't
kill it! Yonkers Statesman.
A Pair of Qnerlea.
The Doctor How can a man be a
lawyer and obey the commandment,
"Thou shalt not steal?"
The Lawyer How can a 'man be a
doctor and obey the commandmeut,
"Thou shalt not kllir
L COST
T BE
Amount First Considered Necessary
Has Been Increased and May
Need Stretching Again.
IT'S ONLY A BOUGH GUESS NOW.
Colonel Goethals Expects to Make
Forecast Next Year Unknown
Difficulties May fie Met
Washington correspondence :
The wonder Is growing among Sena
tors and Representatives on what ba
sis the original estimators fixed the
proDame cost of the Tanama Canal.
There Is a halfway susnlclon that thp
first estimators didn't know their busi
ness or were afraid to give out a truth
that they thought might be appalling.
With the characteristic bluntness of a
soldier Colonel George, W. Goethals
has said that he can only guess at the
total cost of the canal, but that he be
lieves It will not exceed 8250.000.000.
excluding the original purchase price.
as another has nut It. "the estimnt.
ed cost of the Panama Canal keeps
pace in the 'ascending scale with the
cost of living. Every year the nrlce
the United States will have to pay for
ine water way Is marked up." First
estimates put It as low as $140,000,000.
Then came what was called an authen
tic estimate to the effect that the conn-
try would have to expend $184,000,000
Derore the canal could be completed.
Colonel Goethals' guess Is $300,000,000,
and he is frank to say that the limit
may have to be raised at least once
again.
Hma Appropriated Eighty Million.
Up to the present about $80,000,000
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has been appropriated by Congress for
the canal work. July J, 190?, $31,000,
000 of the sum remained unexpended.
When Colonel Goethals succeeded Mr.
Stevens last March as engineer In
charge he found that circumstances
warranted an Increase of the working
force and nu enlargement of the plan
of the work. It was In August that
the soldier-engineer told the Secretary
of War that If the work was to be
pushed at the rate at which It has been
pushed since the army took charge the
appropriation which had been made
for the year ending June 30, 1908,
would be used up by the first of the
calendar year.
This bit of information, which was
cheering to those who hoped for a
speedy completion of the canal work,
was given to President Roosevelt, who
at once ordered Colonel Goethals not
to stay his hand, but to go ahead at
the same labor rate and incur a defi
ciency. The Colonel, like a good sol
dier, obeyed orders, and now the ap
propriation made last year, which sup
posedly was large enough to provide
for the continuation of the work until
July 1, 1908, Is exhausted and an ur
gent deficiency bill calling for $11,000,
000 Is pending In the House
The Secretary of War has told the
Senate committee on Interoceanlc ca
nals that the work was kept going at
high speed and that the deficiency was
incurred because It was his belief there
was greater economy In going ahead
than In lagging.
Of the Increased cost of the canal
over the original estimates the Secre
tary of War has said : "The widening
of the locks in accordance with the re
quest of the Navy Department has
been approved, and It means an addi
tional cost of about 10 per cent In the
construction of the locks. The locks
themselves as now "projected will cost
$32,000,000, and this means an addi
tion of $5,000,000 to the price."
In talking to the Senators Colonel
Goethals used the word "guess" when
he was telling them about the price
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THE FAZE FOLLOWS THE FLEET.
of the completed canal. At first the
Senators didn't approve the word, but
they came to understand that the actu
al cost was past the power of man to
estimate accurately, and so they fell
In with the soldier's Idea and feel that
it was better to have Indefinite state
ments than definite statements which
might bring In their wake disappoint
ment. From all that has been said by the
engineer In charge It may be expected
that the cost of construction will run
up to $400,000,000, but-as soon as It Is
ascertained that the price Is to be high
er than has been believed the country
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will be told. It seems that the canal
is to be dug. and dug quickly, no mat
ter how much It will cost, and proba
bly that Is what the people want
Why More Boy Bablea Die.
Dr. Francis Warner, senior physician
of the London hospital, has drawn atten
tion to a curious sex problem. Taking
the births of 1905, he showed that 57 per
cent were boys, yet the death rate of
boys was so much higher than that of
girls that of 5-year-old children only 43
per cent were boys. Further statistics
showedthat 27 per cent of boys, aa com
pared with only 22 per cent of girls, died
in the first year. Dr. Warner attributed
the preponderance of females in .England,
despite the more numerous birth of boys,
to the fact that a much larger proportion
of males had the same physical defect. A
minute examination of thousands of chil
dren showed that 9 per cent of boys were
physically defective, as compared with 7
per cent of girls, but taking the children's
medical wards, where practically all were
physically defective, the mortality of de
fective girls was higher than that of the
boys. Hence he deduced that while the
female sex apparently approaches closer
to normality than the male, yet when
normalities are found equally In both, the
girls . have less vitality, a fact which
causes a more rapid breakdown under an
added strain. It was also noted that
while the male Bex supplied a great ma
jority of criminals, yet in murders com
plicated with lunacy women were In a
great majority.
ODDS AND ENDS.
Two hundred students at Kiev Russia,
were arrested to quell an Incipient riot. '
Richard Croker announced his inten
tion of leaving Ireland to spend the win
ter in Egypt.
The Pope postponed until January the
consistory which was to have taken place
in December.
Admiral Sir Francis Leopold McClln
tock, a mainstay of the British navy,
died In London.
The King of Spain was entettained at
a ball given In the subterranean palace
of the D ike of Portland.
A stone hurled through a car window
In St. Petersburg Injured tho Austriaa
ambassador, but not seriously
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NEARLY BURIED ALIVE.
Man in Burial Casket for Twenty
Four Hours Now Getting WelL
William Young of Savannah, Mo
barely escaped being burled alive, re
gaining consciousness only an hour be
fore the time set for the funeral. Young
had been ill a long time, and a few
days ago he apparently died. A physi
cian was at his bedside, and he said the
man was dead. The body was pre
pared for burlol by an undertaker and
placed ln.a casket
Friends of the dead man went to the
house to express their sympathy to the
family, among the visitors being Rev.
J. E. McLaughlin, pastor of the church
to which the Youngs belong. .
The mourners had assembled for the
burial, and the time was only an hour
distant when Rev. Mr. McLaughlin
went Into the room where the corpse
lay to take a last look at his lifelong
friend. While gazing at the face ho
thought he detected the twitching of a
muscle, ne looked again, and for the
second time was sure he could see a
slight movement
The body of Young hnd been lying
In the casket 24 hours and was cold.
The minister feared that he had been
mistaken, and not desiring to cause
excitement among the people assembled
for the funeral, went quietly out and
summoned a physician, who soon found
that Young was still alive. Then the
preacher went out and announced that
the funeral would be postponed. At
that time Young was sitting up In his
coffin and was seen by some of those In
the next room. They fled from the un
canny sight.
Young was removed from the coffin
and placed on a bed, and It Is believed
that he will fully recover.
m m.ji n luuutuuu ut mar
per mem charge of 50 cents for the use of
freight cars Is being considered by the
American Railway Association. This 1
due to the trouble with the New York,.
New Haven -and Hartford, and also to.
the fact that the falling off of business
has resulted in a plentiful supply of cars.
The executive committee of the Order
of Railway Conductors and the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen at Chicago
has determined to hold In abeyance the
demand for an Increase in wages and im
proved working conditions upon sixty-five
railway companies east of the Mtniu!nr,l
The vote of the men asked that the same
rate of wages and the working conditions
adopted for the western lines a year ego
be put into effect UDon the mtiim
but because of the financial flurry snd tli
condition ot tlie freight traffic thu com
mittee deemed It unwise to carry on nego
tiations with the general
railroads at this time.
The New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad has adopted a new style
of sleeping car for the midnight ex-'
press on its shore line. Instead of
berths, the car Is divided Into compart
ments the size of the average single room
In a hotel, with two berths in each room
and fitted with toilet conveniences.. The
rooms open upon corridor running the
length of the car and are so arranged
that they may be taken in suites. The
finishing is rare, the woods used being
such as tigerwood, which resembles the
markings of a tiger; Jlgne wood, Spanish'
mahogany, coubaril, and a wood fion
the Philippines of which the sneclea ha
not yet been determined by the experts.-