Lincoln County leader., May 08, 1908, Image 6

UHCQLH COITY LEADER
Rt COLLINS, Edker
r H HAYDCN, Maugtr
TOLEDO OREGON
In politics, for every foregone con
tluslon there are a dozen forlorn hopes.
preacher says that playing cards
for prizes is a gamble. Not If you play
badly enough.
It becomes Increasingly evident tbat
the only adequate way to deal with the
Black Hand Is to amputate it
The difference between a doctor and
an enemy Is that tbe doctor charges
for telling you to go to a warmer ell
mate.
An observing newspaper has noticed
that since his marriage Senator Bever-
Idge baa given very little advice to
young men.
Some men never learn how to suffer
In alienee. A Denver man bas made
public complaint that his wife spanks,
him.
If tbe grip germ would only make a
warning noise, something like a rattle
snake, everybody would be leas afraid
f It
No politician who declares that It Is
Impossible to make $1,000,000 honestly
!s going to make friends atnocj those
who have a million.
When all liars are prohibited from
voting, as suggested by a Boston man,
we won't bare to sit up very late await
ing for election returns.
A typesetter committed suicide the
ether day because his work was full of
errors. You never hear of a baseball
player taking his own life for a similar
reason.
A woman arrested for forging checks
says she committed the crimes because
she was lonely. Still, some people pre
fer being lonely to getting Into bad
company.
The English we use In this country
Is practically the same that Is used In
England. It Is tbe slang prevailing
In the two countries tbat Is, unfortu
nately, so different
With the muzzle of a loaded gun
gainst his chest, a man attempted to
how his friends that it could not be
made to go off at half cock. Be was
burled In the family plot
An examination of the brain of
German scientist who spoke fifty lan
guages discloses tbe fact that It was of
ordinary size, shape and texture. It
should be explained, however, that the
scientist never mastered slang.
United States authorities have de
ported a boy to Russia seven times.
The next time he comes they ought to
let him stay. A youngster of his per
severance and determination has the
making of a good citizen in him.
Although In foreign countries and in
some parts of our own land a birth is
announced in the newspapers as a mat
ter of course, a New York man who
advertised the arrival of bis first boy
now doubts the wisdom of pursuing
this practice in large cities. Within a
fortnight he had had calls from thir
teen salesmen, and received thirty-six
letters and circulars, and fifty-eight
samples, all aiming to promote the In
fant's health or happiness by the sale
f some article of merchandise.
"What Is a titled aristocrat?" shouts
a gentleman upon the floor of Congress,
and every good American answers that
he is nothing whatever, and cheers
right lustily as the orator belabors the
American girt who goes title hunting
In Europe, or who Is captured by a
hunter of heiresses In America. And
yet a mob of 5,000 persons, In the larg
est city In America, disputes ground
with an army of policemen with clubs
In an effort to see a real live nobleman.
The crowd Is not composed of the
plainest of tbe common people. Great
er Interest Is not displayed In a prince
of the Mood In any European capital
than the populace of New York mani
fests in the obscure possessor of an
unimportant title In a fourth-rate
European country.
The folly of tbe king system of gov
ernment Is illustrated In the case of
Portugal. Because an 18-year-old boy
happens to be the son of bis father he
becomes the head of the nation. With
out experience, with Immature facul
ties, without proof of aptitude, without
evidence of the proper sort of character
be Is lurched Into a seat on tbe throne.
It la all very well to say that he Is hut
figurehead ; tbat the real responsibili
ties of the government will be borne by
older men ; tbat be is the ruler of Por
tugal In name only, but that does not
Vindicate tbe soundness of the monar
chical Idea. If b,e Is to be tbe actual
fceed vt the government the plan ef gv-
tng him such a position merely because
be Is who he Is becomes for that rea
son peculiarly absurd. If he Is not to
be the actual chief of the government,
but an orniuuent only, the absurdity of
tbe thing Is Just as clear, for what is
the use of having a king If somebody
else is to do tbe work? A king undor
fmch circumstances becomes a rldiculou
superfluity and a sort of relic of the
old days of popular servility to a ficti
tious "divine right"
The decision of tbe United Stales Su
preme court iu an Oregon case affecting
tbe labor of women will establish a
principle of far reaching Influence. The
state passed a law forbidding employ-
cin iiuiu tinging nvuicu lu vwyjim. UIU1V
than ten hours a day. A Portland
lauuuryuiun questioned
the coustitu-
tlouullty of this law. He declared that
It put a limitation upon the power of
contract. From the Supreme Court of
rt-gou the case reached tbe highest
national tribunal. That bodv has de
cided In favor of the state legislation.
The opinion of the court, as stated by
Justice Brewer, calls attention to the
fact that the rights of women can no
more be infringed than those of men.
But on many accounts women are en
titled to greater protection than men.
Whatever theories may be advanced In
connection with women's rights. the
facts remain tbat the sexes differ In
structure of body, in physical strength,
In the capacity for ions continued
labor, particularly that done standing.
The difference is marked when there
13 consideration cf the InSuonce of v!z
orous health upon the future well being
of the race, the self-reliance which en
ables one to assert full riehts and tha
capacity to maintain the strucrela rot
subsistence. Because of these reasons-
the court declares that legislation in
behalf of women may be sustained even
if similar legislation is not required for
men and could not be sustained. The
difference in laws for men and women
is Justified by the Inherent differences
of sex. If some of the burdens which
rest upon women are peculiarly heavv
they ought to have compensation In
other directions. There bas lone been
recognition of the nrlnclnlfi that chni
labor should have Its own laws and
should not be put upon the same plane
as that of adults. This decision places
the labor of women in a distinct rate.
gory also. It does not deprive a state
of the right to refuse to enact laws
regulating women labor, but it makes
It certain that state laws
the labor of adult women which differ
from those affecting adult males, will
not be set Bside by the federal Supreme
Court A state legislature
such a law, however, and the state Su
preme Court hold it unconstitutional.
That was the case In Illinois. Its Su
preme Court made short wnrlr nf low
regulating the hours women should
work on the eround that It w. .n
unlawful interference with the right
of an adult to dispose of her labor.
Some state Supreme Courts have taken
the Illinois view of the cum. vhn
others have been of a contrary opinion.
rrooaDiy m time there will be a gener
al acceptance of the principles enuncia
ted by the Supreme Court- nt th. ttik
ed States. The reasons assrtoi h.
the court will be reeoomlzed .r..
where as having great force. They will
make their appeal to the better Judg
ment of all. Whatever the theories
advanced In favor of substantial equali
ty of women and, men In political, per
sonal, and contractual rights, the fun
damental differences of sex will con
tinue to exist and will be considered
as Important In shaping laws.
Poainm,
Preferably possum should be cooked
over a wood fire in a log cabin and sea
soned with the odorous blue smoke of
hickory and ash as the lid of the oven
is lifted now and again to give a
glimpse of the promised viand to those
who wait with whetted appetites for
the coming feast With the possum
and taters there should be served eith
er tbe ordinary Kentucky corn pone
If such an adjective may be not Im
properly applied to anything so rare
or the Olympian cracklln' bread of the
hog killing season. In Justice1 to tbe
possum It must be said that neither
corn pone nor crackling bread Is neces
sary, but It serves well not only to mop
up the gravy, but also to prevent, the
possum and the yams from melting in
the mouth too rapidly for the fiavoi
to be enjoyed in the fullest The flnesl
possums on earth are found In the
woodlands of the Pennyrlle district of
Kentucky, and they reach perfection
about tbe time the perfumed pawpaw
becomes so ripe that it falls from the
parent stem and reposes In all of Iti
golden beauty In the orange tinted
leaves that the earth has first claimed
as tribute from the trees for her en
richmentLouisville Courier-Journal
The Tarsias tn Worm.
Mollle I wish you were more like
Mr. Simpson. Coddle My dear, If I
were more like Mr. Simpson, I should
have married a woman more like Mrs.
Simpson. St Louis Post-Dispatch.
You bear ef people being afraid to
die. We are afraid to live too long,
old are treated so shabhil j
By Jessie M.PvHor.
Of all the sorrows common to suf
fering humanity, I know none surpass
ing that of a mother whose son bas
gone wrong. Can there be anywhere on
earth r more heart-breaking spectacle
than the endless procession of mothers
who besiege the doors of workhouses,
prisons and correctional Institutions of
every kind, seeking the son who has
sinned? The entrance to every nrison
is a Via Dolorosa, a Way of Sorrow, In-
I '
deed- t0 hundreds of mothers.
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Some
dressed, but
all in tears, they come
Dortunltv.
Not every boy who goes wrong could have been saved, even by careful
training, for there Is always a residuum, the pound of flesh claimed by
heredity, but fortune favors the boy who has been started right When you
teach your son to lie. Innocently, thoughtlessly, as many mothers do, you do
not see the effect on hts after life but it will be there. Such a little thing !
But that first untruth makes a deep Impression on sonny mother quibbles
and evades the truth, so it can't be very wrong! Then you run down his
companions and praise him before eompany, and he quickly learns to hide
hU wrongdoings from you, his mother, who should know the worst and the
best of him. You have taught him duplicity, shown him that it Isn't so
much what a boy does but what Is found out by the other mothers in the
block that counts.
As he gets older you nag at htm and chase him out of doors to play, so
that you may be undisturbed he has no corner Jn the house he can call his
own. I have always been amazed at the number of forbidden things a boy
can do without his mother finding it out He is pestered and laughed at,
his healthy appetite and awkwardness made a butt for family Jokes, and his
mother knows so little about boys, and bU father la so "busy," that he lives
practically alone.
If you enter into your boy's life, not as a monitor, but a companion, you
will know when be "welches" .r shows a streak of yellow In his sports; youH
be there to speak the word of grave warning, laugh at bis silly ideas of
'manliness" furnish the ballast where it is most needed. It is a mother's'
duty to be on hand while her son's character Is being formed.
sJBffvention
The Importance of the charcoal In
dustry In the United States is described
In Popular Mechanics. Originally val
ued only as a heat producer, charconl
is now used as an ingredient In the
manufacture of gunpowder, a decolor
izer of solutions, a medicine for dyspep
tics and a purifier of water. As an
antiseptic and cleanser its power Is
universally recognized. In a hospital a
piece of charcoal will soon absorb and
decompose obnoxious gases and sweeten
the atmosphere. All these are but a
part of its uses.
What man has learned by dint of
thought and experiment some of tbe
lower animals appear to know through
Instinct An Instance is furnished by
the "spiral swimming" of certain or
ganisms, such as the spherical-shaped
volvox and several elongated lnfusor
lans. As they revolve about the axis
of progression, as does a projectile
fired from a rifled gun, the consequence
Is that they are able to travel in a
straight line, as they could not do oth
erwise, the revolution compensating
with absolute precision for any tendeu
cy to deviate from a straight course.
Without such a device many of these
minute creatures would simply describe
circles, making no forward progress.
The Size of the Sea. This refers not
to the area of the oceans only, but to
their total cubic content, which Is reck
oned by Edward A. Martin of the Geo
logical Society at thirty times the cubic
content of nil the hind lying above sea
level. In other words, If all the land of
the globe were scraped off down to tbe
level of the sea aud thrown Into the
ocean, It would fill only one-thirtieth
part of the enormous abyss which is oc
cupied by the waters. According to
Lyell, the mean height of the land
above sea-level Is 1,000 feet, whereas
the menn depth of the ocean Is 12,000
feet. There are mountain peaks. which
rise as high above sea-level as tbe de
pressions of the ocean sink below It, but
the average height of the land is slight
compared with the average depth of the
sea.
Many projects are now under way, or
under consideration, for the utilization
of the numerous sources of electric
power that are furnished by the
streams descending from the- Andes in
Chile." Everywhere In that country
there Is an abundance of water, suffi
ciently constant in volume, and pre
sentjng almost any desired amount of
fall. The city of Santiago Is develop
ing a scheme for supplying 20.000 horse
power from a plant located between six
teen and seventeen miles from the
town. Engineers have recently report
ed In favor of the electrification of the
new railroad which the Chilean and
Bolivian governments have undertaken
to construct between Arloa and La Paz,
and which passes through tbe Andes.
There Is something stimulating to tin
Imagination In tbe thought of those
mighty mountains lending a band to
help man surmount their slopes.
It 'was the invention of the seismo
graph for the study of earthquakes that
led to the discovery of the surprising
sensitiveness of the crust of the globe
to forces that might have been thought
In widow's weeds, some luxuriously
to weep over the craves of lost mv
too Insignificant to cause distortion
Among these forces Is the alteration U
the pressure of the atmosphere during
the passage of storms, causing a percep
tlble tilting of large areas of ground,
A curious case of such tilting in an uu
expected direction has recently been re
corded by Prof. Omorl in Japan. A
storm passing over the sea east of To
kio caused the bordering Innd to till
downward, notwithstanding the faci
that the atmospheric pressure Is les
sened within a storm area. This is ex
plained by the fact that the sea rises
with release of atmospheric pressure,
and the accumulation of water more
than sufficed to counterbalance the de
crease is weight of the air.
YUKON MINERS FIND MASTODON
Huaje Animal la Perfect State
of
Preservation la Dog Up.
John Frollng has Just returned to his
home In this city after an absence of
nearly seven years in Alaska and the
Yukon territory, says a Tacoma dis
patch to the New York Herald. Dur
ing his absence Mr. Frollng traveled
over the mountains and followed the
river and creek valleys of the far north
for years, In a fevered search for the
yellow metal.
Mr. Frollng brings the facts of the
finding of the remains of a mastodon
In an almost complete state of preser
vation. The body of the mammoth was
found forty feet below the surface. Mr.
Frollng says, seven miles up Wood
choppers' creek, a small stream that
flows Into the Yukon about forty or
fifty miles above Circle City.
Several miners there had staked out
claims and were going through the
frosty earth in an effort to strike pay
dirt. They were operating a steam
plant, running down points, and were
one day surprised by noticing a pe
culiar smell of flesh emanating from
the excavation.
Upon Investigating they found that
they were Immediately upon the car
cass of some Immense animal, which
the almost red-hot steam was rapidly
decaying after it had lain in the frozen
clasp of its earthly bed for untold
years.
By great effort they got the carcass
out of the earth, the task proving a
most disagreeable one, owing to the
fetid odors arising from it. Much of
the meat was still in a good state of
preservation and was eaten by the dogs
and wild animals tbat came about the
camp at night The bones of the mam
moth were all Intact and the Inst Mr
Frollng heard arrangements were being
maae to preserve the skeleton.
In his long travels over the Ynknn
country Mr. Frollng found many spots
wnere tne bones of the mastodon were
numerous, everything polntlnir tn a
time when some sudden cataclysm had
brought unexpected death upon all the
animal life. He says these snots Wh (tra
the mastodon bones are found so plen
tiful are invariably sheltered valleys,
where the animals undoubtedly corner.
gated In their extremities to shelter
themselves from the hardships of the
weather.
Whea Joy Weepa.
"What sort of a time did you hav .
the theater?"
"Perfectly lovely" answered voiino
Mrs. Torklns. "Some of the scenes
were to pathetic that I went and th
others were so funny that I laughed
till I 'cried." Washington SUr. ' ' ' 1
WANT HALF PAT.
V ' "
Volunteer Army and Navy Officers
to Urge Their Claims in Congress.
Backed by precedents established
after the Revolutionary War, surviv
ing volunteer officers of the army and
navy of tbe Civil War are to demand
of Congress the enactment of a law
providing for their benefit a voluutoer
retired list with half pay for life. In
the last Congress a bill was introduced
providing for such h lift, but restrict
ing it to volunteer army oklcers. Xt
did not pass, largely because of the
cry of discrimination that was raised
by navalv volunteers and their friends.
It Is now proposed by a committee
of volunteer naval officers to have pre
pared a measure that shall be satis
factory to the navy and marine corps.
Circulars have been sent out to all
surviving volunteer naval officers .'n
the United States calling upon them
to take an active part In the Interest
of the measure. These circulars re
view the history o' legislation for the
benefit of volunteer veteran officers
from the close of the Revolutionary
War to the adjournment of the Fifty
ninth Congress, and it is charged thut
there has always been a systematic at
tempt to eliminate the naval volun
teers from the benefits of such laws.
SKYSCRAPER MENACE.
what a Conflagration Among These
Cliff Dwellers Would Mean.
A GnUnLrophe that wiil eclipse the
destruction of San Francisco is the cheer
ing prospect offered for the contemplation
of New York by the president of the
board of fire underwriters, gays Collier's
Weekly. And it is not New York alone
that in threatened, but every great city
that permits the construction of skyscrap
ers. The underwriters think that there
is not only a possibility but a very strong
probability of a blaze starting in the top
stories of a nest of these aerial hives and
leaping across the canyons that separate
them, raging aloft like a fire in the upper
branches of a forest, and sweeping un
checked out of reach of the helpless fire
men in the street. When office buildings,
go higher than the Washington monument
all the ordinary methods of protection be
come obsolete. No hose can carry a
stream half way to their roofs. No street
mains can furnish pressure enough to.
send water up in standpipes. Of course
there are satisfactory methods of supply
ing the upper floors in ordinary times,
but they would count for nothing In a
conflagration. The experience of San
Francisco has shown, in the opinion of
President Babb, that "so-called 'fireproof
buildings cannot withstand the attack of
a wave of flame." If fire should sweep,
the financial district of New York it
would cause a loss of from one to two
billion dollars; tbe insurance companies,
would be hard pressed to pay 20 to 25
cents on the dollar, title guaranty com
panies, mortgage concerns, savings banks,
and all other financial institutions would
suffer, and the city would feel at once the
loss of revenue from the destruction of
aiable values.
Another menace that hangs over the
skyscraper districts of great cities is the
danger of panic. It is said that if a sud
den shock should send the swarming cliff
dwellers all surging to the streets at once
the highways would not hold the human
flood. The streets of our 'cities were de
signed to match buildings three or four
stories high. When ten such buildings,
are plied one on top of another, and the
same thoroughfares are expected to ac
commodate the people from all of them,
the results are likely to be startling. -
The London fCanaria) T.nhnr mrt
has pronounced in favor of old-age pen
sions.
A maioritv of the mimirinna nf Rnntu
Ciuz, Cat, met recently and organized a
union.
Organized labor in Kpnttln Wnah ha
carried out its proposed plan of obtaining
a coal mine.
Springfield ( Canada I miners ask fni
another board of conciliation to investi
gate the system of weighing boxes.
The building trades of San Francisco
are aiscussing a proposition to settle on a
scale of wages for three years.
The Central Labor Union of Scranton,
Pa., has decided to build a $50,000 tem
ple for the use of the trades unions of the
city.
At a meeting of Engineers' local No. 1
of Denver, Colo., flie finance committee
reported that increased wages to the mem
bers of the union during the last year
amounted in the mrerecata tn Sit Km Tt-
was reported that conditions in this trade
arc very prosperous.
The total number of men killed while
mining coal in the United States during
11108, according to statistics gathered by
the ceoloElcal aurver. 2 nni Th.
number of workmen receiving Injuries In
iois industry more or less serious, but not
atal, was 4,798 during the same period.
Miss Marot aecretnrr nf th W
Trade Union League of New York, a
short time since delivered an aiMnu. 1.
which she urged women to organize in ev
ery branch of industry and co-operate In
union agitation, holding thut in . ...
enly can women compete on equal terms
wiu Ben in toe trades.