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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1908)
yflcience Wiwention The British government In India is considering a project to link together the rivers Indus, Jhelam, Cheuab, Beas, Ravi and SutleJ, in order to equalize the flow of water for irrigation pur poses. Thus when there Is a flood in one of the rivers a part of the water can be diverted to a point where !t may be more needed. In this way it Is believed that the district of the run Jab, a name which means the Five Riv ers, can be assured a sufficient water supply at all seasons.' The Philippine Journal of Science recently published a list of GS kinds of trees growing in the Philippine Islands, producing wood of commercial Im portance, belonging for the most part, to families and genera but little known to the botanists of the temperate zone. The list Includes only dicotyledonous woods, and not the palms, bamboos nnd screw-pines which also abound in the islands. An Interesting fact is that growth rings seem to be characteristic of only a part of the Philippine trees. Many show rings of seasoned growth -vhen young, but not afterward. An Important phenomenon of recent recognition In bacteriology, says Dr. Simon Flexner, Is that of the "mlerobe earrler," by which Is meant an Indi vidual who harbors disease-germs while ajiparently suffering no ill effect him self. The existence of such cases has been known for some time with regard to the bacteria of diphtheria, but more recently the phenomenon lias been Bhown to exist for the germs of ty phoid, dysentery, plague, cholera, and many other Infectious Protozoa. Bac teriologists are also learning, says Doctor Flexner, that while the fore?s of Immunity may be in active opera tion ns far as tests with blond made outside the body indicate, the very bacteria from and against which such forces have developed may be still sur viving In the body. Commenting upon a recent German book on the interior state of the earth, Dr. A. C. Lane, well known for his re searches on this difficult subject, makes a very interesting remark. He says that without making a sweeping state ment at the start, as to the gaseous In terior of the earth, it is perhaps safe to say, In view of what we know, that "some of the elements of the earth's interior are in a gaseous condition, nn.t the earth, for them nt least, might be likened to a toy balloon, but one in which the gas was so condensed, under such pressure;; that one could easier dent a steel ball than it Under con ditions of temperature not easy to dis prove, thnt should be the condition of all the earth's elements toward the center." Dr. Lane adds that the study of seismic vibrations will probablp set tl ) this question. . The average citizen, It Is safe to say, has a very linzy Idea concerning the plze and constitution of the United States Army. A writer in Harper's Weekly gives some interesting facts bearing upon this matter. The gov ernment dreams of an army number ing 70,(KK) men. The present strength is 57,000. Of the theoretical 70,000 soldiers the- fifteen regiments of cav alry, which never lack their full com plement, comprise nearly 14,000 officers and men; the six regiments of field artillery, 5,500; the coast artillery corps close upon 20,000; the thirty regiments of Infantry, 27,000 ; ' the engineers, 2,000, and the remainder consist of the staff corps, Indian scouts, and n small number of native Boldlers In PoTto Ulro and the Philip pines. The total number of commls-. sioned officers amounts to about 3,1)00. LONDON POLICE. Poorly Paid Ilrltlher Who Cannot Bo Bribed. The police of London, England, have Just been through a severe investiga tion by a royal commission which Is a sort of glorified legislative commit tee. All sorts of people came forward with charges against the police, but only two or three alleged that they bad bribed policemen, and In every case the charges were lacking In proof and were regarded as merely spiteful by the members of the commission. Nearly every police magistrate In Lon don gave evidence, and they all agreed hat the police were Incorruptible. High tribute was paid recently to British police court methods and Brit ish policemen by Police Magistrate Ilogan, of New York, who not long ago was a London visitor. He said "F.verybody Is treated alike, and I like the way your police do their duty. They don't seem to forget things over night, as many members of the New York force often seem to do. I should say that the London policeman Is re markably honest and far too good for the Job, considering the pay he gets. The magistrate, whom the cops con sider Jhclr worst enemy In the London police courts, Is Mr. Plowden. Mr. Plowden's treatment of policemen, pros ecuting In the witness box, Is one of tn sights of the town. But even he does not believe that the English policeman would accept a bribe not to 0o his duty. The saloon law Is very strict In Eng land, and the opportunity Is large for the species of "graft" said to be plen tiful In many American cities. The pay of the English police force Is miserable compared with American police salaries. In London $! a week Is a cop's pay ufter a year's probation. With this In view possibly there mlsht be more bribery and corruption, more open "graft," but for the organization and discipline of the force. These are simply superb. The roundsman, ser geant and Inspector In England really work. The constable on the street dares not get off the beaten track. The punishment meted out to erring police men is Intensely severe. There are no mere reprimands. The English cop must be without blemish or Instant dismissal without any red-tape or ap peal results. CEMENT SCHOOL BUILDING. C'ullln wood School Horror Lemla to Citadel grlienie. Following ,the recent Coll in wood, Ohio, school fire horror, In which 109 children lost their lives, an unusual type of cement constructon for school buildings Is proposed In the Cement Age. Use of the new construction, it is insisted, will absolutely gunrd against perils of fire and panic, ption as occurred at Colllnwood. The main feature of the new type U a circular, central citadel, extending from basement to roof, an Independent structure around which school rooms PROPOSED CEMENT CITADEL. can be built. These are connected with the citadel by Are doors. Inside . the citadel, which Is to be fireproof, are stairways of sufficient capacity to provide for the ready exit of the chil dren. Once inside the citadel, the chil dren can take their time in leaving, as It is heat and smoke proof. A stand pipe, running from the water mains to the roof, gives firemen an oppor tunity to work In a protected position, the walls being punctured with numer ous loop holes through wheh the hose can be operated. Striking an Average. The children were not allowed In the kitchen, but nobody had ever forbidden their sniffing outside the door to catch the delicious odors which could be ob tained by a close application of a small nose to a crack. "Why, Ethel," said Mrs. Ilarwooo., who discovered Jhem in the entry Just outside the kitchen door one Saturday morning, "why are you twitching Tommy and slapping him?" " 'Cause he Isn't playing fair, moth er," said Ethel. ' "He's had five smells and I've only had four, and it's my turn." "I am, too, playing fair," asserted Tommy, his utterance smothered as he again applied his nose to the crack. "I've got an awful cold, and I can't smell half as much as she can!" "An Army Contract." In a street of Edinburgh one day a dusty soldier went up to a little boot black and told the boy to brush his boots a:id polish them well. The lad looked at the big Scots Gray and shouted, blithely to another bootblack: "Haw, Sandy, come over an' gle us a haund!" with his hands curved round his mouth to form a speaking trumpet "See wha's here wl me I I've got an army contract." What Man Want. "Man wants but little here below," So some old poet said. Yet he don't close the openings He wean each side bis head. Toledo Blade. The life of a woman whose husband has no bad habits must be rather monotonous. I if$$i' yh, 1 'w'ySJ G h over, Cleveland S?'?Tpi? T r(J. svg. ? t CLEVELAND'S CAHEEB IN SHORT. N icMW v 5e?S8l g t w s' w "?5r EX-PRESlDbNT CLEVELAND Born : Caldwell,. New Jersey, March 18, 1837. Died: Princeton, New Jersey, June 24, 1908. -.is.. 4 x - Born at Caldwell, Essex County, N. J., March 18, 1837. Christened Ste phen Grover Cleveland. In 1841 family moved to Fayetteville, N. Y. Served as clerk In a country store. In 1853 was appointed assistant teacher of the New York institution for the blind. For four years, from 1855, assisted his uncle In preparation of "American Herd Book," and had a clerkship in a law firm In Buffalo. Admitted to the bar in 185D. Appointed Assistant District Attor ney of Erie County Jan. 1, 1803. Defeated for the District Attorney ship of Erie County In 18C5. Practiced law. Ejected Sheriff of Erie County In 1870. NICE JOBS FOR THESE. P. B. LOOM IS. These three men have been named as commissioners general for the United States at the Japanese ex position in Tokyo In 1912. Loomls was formerly As sistant Secretary F. J. SKIFF. of State. He heads f. u. millet. the commission and will receive $8,000 a year for five years, be ginning with 1909. He Is very highly esteemed by President Roose velt. Skiff was prominently connected with the World's Fair In 1904 and Is now director of the Field museum iu Chicago. Millet is the well-known American artist. Skiff and Millet will receive $2,000 a year each for 1909 and $5,000 a year for the next four years. The duty of the commissioners Is to tveommend to President Roosevelt and Congress the cost and character of the United States building and exhibits at the exposition, and later to take s ::':v;?:vi;': .J wmmmm Elected Mayor of Buffalo In 1881. Elected Governor of New. York In 1882 by a plurality of 200,000. Elected President of the United Stntes In 1RS4 Mntnrltv tn tho oloe I toral college, 37. Broke all records by vetoing 115 out of 987 bills. Married Frances Folsom in the White House June 2, 1880. Defeated In campaign for re-election In 1888. Engaged In the practice of law In New York. Elected President of the United States In 1892. ' Settled Venezuela boundary dispute In 1895. After leaving White House in 1890 established home for his family In Princeton, N. J. charge of the selection and placing of exhibits. Natural Toot hlirnxben. Natives of Somnliland have the whit est and best teeth of any people In the world, and the reason Is not far to seek. Whenever they are Idle they may be found rubbing their teeth with small pieces of wood little twigs which nre covered with a soft bark and which ravels out Into bristles. This practice prevents the teeth decaying and of course keeps them in excellent condition. Just as one' might pick n wild flower In the country, so the So mail native picks his toothbrush. They are never without their small twigs. Toothbrushes as we know them are unknown In Somnliland. Their own methods ore undoubtedly the healthi est and certainly the cheapest, and It Is a matter for wonder that we do not take a leaf out of their hook tn thia ra. spect. Dundee Advertiser. Not Gouty. It Is not always a guilty conscience that is taken by surprise, for some times the most Innocent of men will start at a suspicious word. The fol lowing Incident, which occurred In a hardware shop, Is Illuminating: An elderly lady, dressed severely In gray, nnd carrying what looked very much like a bundle of tracts, ap proached the counter. A clerk hastened to serve her. "What can I do for you, madam?" She leaned toward him. "Have you er -any little vises?" she Inquired. When the children of a family are named "Arabella," "Gwendolln," "Ru pert," etc., It Is a good sign the moth ers favorite reading Is not the Bible. mmmmmm&mJmm I EUGENE V. DEB3. fhe Nominee of the National Social Int Party tor President. For the second time Eugene V. Debs is the nominee of the National Social ist party for the Presidency. In 1904 he headed that party's ticket and made an' agresslve campaign. He received a total of 402,530 votes, the largest vote in any State being 09,225 In Illinois. Had the Socialists been united, the re sult would have been even more flat tering, for there was still another So cialist candidate In the field, Charles Hunter Corregan, the nominee of the Socialist Labor party. I Eugene V. Debs was born In Terre Haute, Ind., and began work as a lo- EUGENE V. DEDS. coniotlve fireman. He next entered commercial pursuits, branching out into politics and being elected city clerk of Terre Haute and then member of the State Legislature. lie came Into na tional prominence during the great rail road strike, which had Chicago as a center and in which he bore a leading part. He was secretary of the Board of Locomotive Firemen and president of the American Hallway Union and served six months in Jail for violating a Federal injunction during the con duct of the strke. Since then he has been conspicuous in the Socialist move ment and enjoys a wide reputation as' an orator. He is also an editor and thus from platform and sanctum teach es Socialist doctrine. FRENCH MILITARY ATHLETE. v,--v.a7-- .4' J-()( 1 "3 - i v. FRENCH ABMY'S i STRONG MAN. The French army has many strong men. Muscle Is cultivated sometimes at the expense of other things, but the fact remains that frequently this Por-thos-like attainment conies in pretty handy. The French army In Morocco was kept busy between times at sports and games. One of the diversions of the soldiers was lifting heavy weights and some of thein became able to do astonishing feats, one of which, taken from a photograph, Is here Bhown. The cannon and equipment weigh many hundred pounds, but the soldier picked It up and carried It easily. t According; to lloyle. Rev. Joseph Gravely (giving his views of the evils of card, playing dur ing a pastoral call) As t was saying, I am in doubt Parrot (interrupting eagerly) When you are in doubt play trumps. . And no member of that family has been able to account for the pnrrnt'g utterance to the satisfaction of the pastor. Loudon Punch. A Hard One. Tommy Say, ninnnna? Mamma Well, what Is It, Tommy? Tommy How does a deaf and dumb boy say his prayers when he happens to have a sore finger? Kansas City In dependent. The Main Thing. "She has the face of a seraph !" de clared the enthusiastic friend. "That's all right," -said the practical manager, "but has she the backing of Mi angel?" Baltimore American. Stand up for your rights. People may not like It at first, but they will won learn to keep out of your way. Lucky is the man who Isn't sold whe women go to market I -A
