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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1908)
LINCOLN CQUHTY LEADER R COLLINS, CdHr r N HAYDEN. Mmiw Toledo Oregon In the midst of life we are In debt. The more l man doesn't know the less he doubts. Many a wise-looking man Is unable to deliver the goods. A pretty woman's smile often wrin kles a man's purse. The experience a man buys Is always delivered a little too late. . When a sailor falls overboard he feels as If he were all In. Go to a tailor for a wedding suit and to a lawyer for a divorce suit Some men get out of practice because they spend all their time preaching. A woman never asks a man if he loves her unless she is sure of the answer. Did you ever meet a successful man who told you what he was going to do next? Almost every dny the average man wonders why he did such a foolish thing. This Is undoubtedly a dlrty-looklng old world to the man who Is too lazy to clean his spectacles. Rev. Billy Sunday says hell Is full of fudge-eating mollycoddles. What a sticky place It must be. If you would have a peaceful home, all you have to do is to pay the freight and let your wife run It. Once in a great while a woman actu ally believes that her husband knows as much as he thinks he knows. Elinor Glyn thinks Mark Twain is our greatest man. Mark gallantly re frains from saying- what he thinks of Elluor. A 'bitter contest over the will of Wll llnm B. Leeds is predicted. Fifteen million dollars ought to keep the law yers going a long time. A Michigan farmer has cured a snake bite with eonl oil. We hope he Is prop erly grateful to Mr. Rockefeller for the tuct that he could buy the necessary oil. A Paterson (N. J.) woman who pre dicted that sha would die on June 14 Is still alive and in good health. Her husband Is said to have become one of Putersou's worst pessimists. "Why shouldn't Prof. Bell succeed in making monkeys talk .Intelligently?" esks the Atlanta Constitution. Don't know, unless it is because thnt is more than he or any one else can do with a good many men. A magazine has offered President Roosevelt $1 a word for his literary ef forts, but no former has tried to hire him to work In the hayfield for $1.75 a day. There ore times when even a President's versatility is not appreciated. It is probable that in 1912 nn entire day will be set apart for the cheering, and in 1910 it may be necessary for each convention to dovote a week at least to the purpose of beating all pre vious records. We are a great people and we do some wonderful things. ' Contracts for furnishing single and double teams to the city of Boston were recently awarded to a woman. Ilcr bids, tendered in open competition with men, were by far the lowest submit ted, and she demonstrated her ability to fullill the obligations. The award was popular, for tlio uniformity of the figures submitted by the men gave color to the charge that on agreement hod been made among them to maintain a certain price. The woman made her own llgures independently, and won. It is the title thnt appeals to certnln women. To be called a princess or a countess, or even a baroness, they will cast their all into a foreign venture. The prince inny be a miserable rake, the count not half so high as a Ken tucky colonel and the bnron of abso lutely no importance, and yet the glam our catches the title-seeking female and she turns over her money to a person" who could not make $10 a week In hon est work If his life depended uion it But why bother? There will always bo such women, and there will always be such men so long as there is money to be won in tho game of International uiurrloge. The conference of Governors to con elder the preservation of the national resources has already brought forth fruit The Governors suggested that the President appoint a national ov servatlon committee to advise him and to co-operate with similar bodies in the States. ' Acting on this suggestion, Mr. Roosevelt has reappointed his com mission on Inland waterways, with some new members to fill vacancies. He has also constituted commissions on forests, on lands and on minerals, and an executive committee to harmonize the work of all four bodies. Now we may expect to see the growth of the sentiment that the minerals, lands, for ests and waters of the country are na tional wealth, In the conservation of which the whole nation has an in terest whether they belong to private citizens or not It is that sort of sen timent which will be a guarantee against want and barrenness In the dis tant future. - t Leading physicians have declared at international congresses on consumption that really effective warfare on the great white plague involves compulsorj notification and registration laws or or dinances. Much can be done, not a lit tle has been done in the last two oi three years, by education and "moral suasion," but, after all, contend these experts, the world must come to the use of the same degree of compulsion in its fight on tuberculosis that has been found necessary In the handling of other dreaded Infectious and communi cable diseases. In other words, the health authorities and the medical pro fession must hove the courage of their opinion nnd work for the adoption of drastic measures of prevention. It is significant that the New York Legis lature has passed a bill which Gov ernor Hughes hos signed embodying at least the principle of compulsion. The new act marks a step forward. It pro vides that every physician In the State shall report tfl the local authorities the name, age, occupation, place of employ ment and address of every person known by him to have consumption. The rejiort must be made within twenty four hours, and the record is to be kept secret In case of the vacation of any premises by a person suffering from consumption, or of the death of such u patient, 'the physician in charge or the owner or occupant ofthe premises must notify the health board of the fact, and the premises pre not to be occupied again until they have been disinfected and cleansed. In cose the orders of th health board are disobeyed thnt body may post a placard on the premises con taining the following notice: "Tuber culosis is a communicable disease. These apartments have been occupied by a consumptive and may be infected. They must not be occtipled until the or der of the health officer directing their disinfection or renovation has been com piled with. This notice muBt not be removed under the penalty of the law except by the health officer or others duly authorized." There are other pro visions in the act for the prevention of Infection through careless habits, noti fication of the recovery of iersons, etc. A certain amount of discretion Is lodged in the health officers, but none in those whose duty It is mnde to re port cases of tulwreulosls In nny stage. Considerable difficulty Is apprehended In the enforcement of the act, and there are those who fear that some sufferers will hesltnte to consult a physician and bo "reported," lest the secrecy of the records be vlolnted in some wny. Ex perience should throw light on such questions ns these. , Meantime an edu cational campaign will doubtless be necessary to remove opposition to the compulsory notification feature among the more ignorant elements of the population. Three hundred years ago Samuel de Champlaln, the French explorer, founded the settlement of Quebec. In commemoration of Its tercentenary the city of Quebec recently had the greatest celebration In Its history, and one of the greatest ever held In the New World. The City gave Itself up to festivities for ten days, and Ca nadians of both British and French ancestry Joined lu making the event one to be remembered. The celebration was attended by the Prince of Wales, by representatives from all the principal governments and by the greatest collection of warships, comprising English, French and American vessels that ever gathered in the St Lawrence river. The UDited States was represented by Vice Pres ident Fairbanks and Rear Adlniral W. S. Cowles, brother-in-law of the President , Civil, religious, military and naval authorities par ticipated In the various ceremonies and festivities. There were huge and costly pageants, fetes, military parades and naval reviews to charm both eye and ear. The cele bration was attended by Dearly all Canada, and thou sands of expatriated Canadians gathered from the va rious foreign countries In which they have made their homes. Tho lending of Champlaln on the shore of the St. Lawrence and bis selection of the spot on which Que bec, the oldest French settlement in Canada, is built, were reproduced. A great historical pageant was given, illumi nated floats representing different events in the history of Quebec. There were parades In which the various crack Canadian regiments took part Premier Laurier and other noted speakers made addresses. There was a review of the English, French and United States vessels In the St Lawrence river. Thanksgiving mass was held on the Plains of Abraham by the Catholics of the city, headed by the Canadlun primate, and thanksgiving serv ices were held In the Episcopal cathedral. There was a great shore parade and a scene enacted representing tho landing of Wolfe's force, the ascent np the heights and the battle of the Plains of Abraham. Then farewells were exchanged and the British squadron took its depar ture. The next day the French vessels followed suit, and finally the New Hampshire heaved anchor and bade fare well to Quebec. Evolution of the Street Car Three hundred years ago an English coal miner laid some wooden beams In the muddy road leading from his col- , liery, for the wheels of his coal carts I to run on ; the other day a coal mine ! owner from the some country boarded I an electric car in New York and made i a tour of the subway. The boards in j the muddy road were the ancestors of ; that street car, writes B. R. Wilson. The little expedient of the English miner, which made heavy hauling light marked the beginning of the "tram way," the great-grandfather of the railway, the thing which made street cars possible. These wooden beams served their purpose very well until they began to wear out. Inventive genius was. equal to the occasion ; the wooden1 beams were plated with Iron. Thin iron bands were fastened to the top of the beam to take the wear of the cart wheels. This was all right as fur as the top was concerned, but the wood en beams rotted on the bottom ; so they made them out of Iron entirely and laid them on short pieces of wood which could be cheaply replaced when they rotted. .To keep the wheels of the coal carts from running off the rails was the next problem, and they solved It by putting flanges on the outer sides of the rail. In 1789 William Jessop, the father of the street railway, took the flanges off the rails and put them on the cart wheels and the real evolution of the street car began. A clumsy omnibus' car drawn uy horses made trips over this railway, carrying passengers. The car was a big stage coach, or rather three stage coaches in one, for there were three compartments, each of which resem bled a small stage coach, and It had IN THE OLD DAYS THE PASSENGER WAS IN DANGER OF FALLING OFF. BUT NOW HE CAN HAUDLl' GET OFF WHEN HE WANTS TO. attempts at improvement, for in Amer ica, whatever Is a success must be Im proved. ' . People wanted to go faster than the one poor horse could pull the car, and so many were satisfied to go slow that the little car the one horse pulled would not hold them all. They made larger cars and hitched two horses to them, but two horses could not go any faster than one horse since they had doubled the size of the car; so Inventive genius kept the patent office up nights exnminlng their claims for Improvements in street railways. On New Footing. Absalom Foote, an eccentric old gen tleman who had grown tired of life In the city, decided to move to sojne small er town, free from the road of trallle, the bustle and confusion of the throng ing multitude, where he could end his days tranquilly, as became a man of his age. In costing about for a loca tion, his eye chanced to light upon the advertisement In a village paper of one Thomas R. Foote, who wanted to dis pose of his boot ond shoe store nt o bargain, having made up his mind to remove to the city. "That's the very thing," he said. "Selling shoes Is a nice, eosy occupa tion. It will give me Just enough to do to keep me from stagnating, ond it won't wear me out with overwork. I'll Investigate It It's queer, though, that his name is Foote, my name Is Foote, he wants to come to the city and I want to go to the country." A visit to the little town decided him. lie liked Its uppearauce and location. He was pleased, moreover, with "Foote's Shoe Store" and bought It, good will and all, at a bargain. "Well." sold the other Mr. Foote, "you won't have to change the sign." "No," he answered, slowly. "I'll Just add a little to it." The next day he added this, Just be low the sign : "This place has changed feet" The something you get for nothing Is seldom worth any more than that Most people wouldn't believe a can didate for office, under oath PROPOSED NEW DOUBLE-DECKED "L" ROAD IN NEW YORK CITY. the name "John Mason" painted above lie center door. About twenty years later the Sixth avenue street ' railway was built and the street car craze began. It really amounted to a erase, for thirty street car companies began business during the next five years. During the ten years from 1800 to 1S70 eighty-five street railways were built The census twenty yeors later showed 709 street railways in operation. In two years this number Increased to 987. The street railway was a success, therefore It was the object of various The most popular of thefce Improve ments were the "dummies," steam en gines mounted on wheels and boxed up to make them attractive. Their popu larity was short-lived In the cities, however, but suburbanites consented to ride 'behind them long after they had disappeared from the city streets. But until Lieut Frank G. Sprague, U. S. N. (resigned), built the first successful electric railway In 1S8S, the "dummies" were the only things the suburbanites had to ride behind. The Cable 9atem. The gap between the "dummies" and Sprague's electric railway, however, was about twenty years wide, and it was filled with numerous attempts to help the eager passengers to hurry. The first cable road was laid In San Francisco In 1S73 by Andrew S. Halll dle, Henry Root, Am E. Hoevy and William Eppelsheimer. The originator of the Idea, however, was E. S. Gar diner, of Philadelphia, who suggested the plan some time prior to the actual building. ' The cable served its useful purposu for eighteen years, when it was electri fied by the motor car promoters; thnt Is, electric conductor rails were strung In the cable conduit and the wire rope hauled out. The dynamo had been per fected and electricity was a commer cial motive power; therefore, the elec tric street railway of 1888 was o suc cess. Before that, attempts hod been mnde to operate street cars by various kinds of .magnetic engines. In 1835 Thomas Davenport, a blacksmith, built a railway In Springfield, Mass., over which he operated a car driven by nn electric magnet motor, and twelve years later Prof. Moses Farmer brought out another electro-magnetic motor, but they never passed beyond the experi mental stnge. The real beginning of the American electric street railway system was the Union Passenger Railway of Richmond, Va., equipped by Lieut Sprague and opened for service on the first day of February, 1888. It. was a "troller" line "trolley" Is the word in use now. City offlcals soon saw -the danger of over head wires In the crowded city, and their precautions led to the underground sys tem, a system that Is familiar to all, for examples good and bad are on con stant exhibition In the streets of our cities and even in the towns that are Just growing Into cities. t A Chance to Make Good, "Got any babies around your place?" Inquired the candidate. "Nope," answered the farmer. "Ba bies Is all growed up an' married off How'd yon like, to put In tho forenoon plowin'?" Pittsburg Post People are never content for the same reason that a sheep never has feather
