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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1912)
Men in fa Engine Room 3-W 7 1i l I W'mfm if JTA&BQA&D ENGINEDF FREIGHT on a sailing ship from New York to London used to be 14 shillings a quarter of wheat; now It is Just over a philling a quarter by steamer from New York to Liverpool. Not all of the en gineering which has brought about this result has been done In the draw ing office and the factory. Much of It has been done by workingmen who took the raw inventions out to sea, struggled with their crudities and put the needful improvements into the minds of the designers ashore. In big ships and little the process is going on and it is a stern one still in spite of modern refinements. In the old days, When boiler pressures were so low that a steamer had to slow down to raise enough steam to whistle with, an upholstered settee was often pro Tided In the engine room for the use of the man on watch, so that he need, not stand more than was absolutely necessary. Today It is probable that not one seagoing vessel could show such a thing. A man who cannot walk about for four hours In the tempera ture of a Turkish bath is not wanted now. While the ship is at sea all the en gineers except the chief keep two watches of four hours each In the twenty-four. The same man always has the same hours. The third engi neer takes the 12 to 4 a. m. and p. m. watch, the second takes the 4 to 8 and the chief's watch, 8 to 12, la taken by the fourth engineer, or by the donkey man, If there are only three engineers carried. In this case the chief Is al ways within call. The duties of watch keeping largely lie in seeing that this or that does not happen. As well as the main engines there are the pumps and other auxiliary machinery and the boilers always seeking to go wrong If given a chance. Then In port all hands are busy with the adjustments that have been noted down as neces sary while the ship was steaming, and these entail the handling of tre mendous weights with band tackle on ly. Such work does not seem very for midable, perhaps, but seagoing engi neers know that Commander Willettn, U. S. N., spoke truly of their work when he told the American Institute of Naval Engineers that "It requires the most strenuous and exacting atten- ORIGIN OF FAMOUS PHRASE Belief that Common .Political Term Sprang From a Horse Race Held ' In Tennessee. Tb9 political term "dark horse" Is thought to have had its origin in the following circumstances: In the last century there lived in Tennessee a "character" named Flynn, an elderly person who dealt In horses. Flynn generally contrived to own a speedy nag or two for racing purposes If he could arrange for "a goodhing" during his peregrinations throughout the state. The best of Flynn's flyers was a coal black stallion named Dusky Pete, almost a thoroughbred and able to go In the best of company. One day Flynn visited a town where a race meeting was In progress. He entered Pete. The people, knowing nothing of the horse's antecedents and not being over impressed by his ap pearance, backed the local favorite heavily against the stranger. , ' Just, as the beasts were bring sad 414 for the race, a certain Judgt Mo 1 3 MODERN" 1TNER tion of any known pursuit, and, while requiring skill and intelligence to ao complish well. It has to be performed under such severe stresses and In such dirt and heat as to rob it of all interest except In its speedy completion. In the Silent Hours. An engineer does not readily forget his first voyage or that first night in the "graveyard" watch (12 to 4 a. m.) when he sat on a bucket to considpr the novelty of his surroundings and re vue tne neat, and woke up from a few seconds of -troubled sleep to find the chief engineer vigorously kicking the bucket away from under him. In a few weeks he becomes ashamed of wanting to sit, even in the tropics; but he has not conquered human weak ness even then, for after a few voy ages nature will have provided him with the trick of sleeping while he solemnly paces the engine room. Usu ally this only happens after a spell of exhausting labor, such as is conse quent on breakdowns, and usually it only lasts until he walks into the boiler-room bulkhead and wakes, feeling foolish and "uncanny, after, perhaps, fifteen seconds of Jerky somnambula tion. Then he learns to keep a bucket of cold water handy to dip his head in to, and the same intelligence that con trives this antidote warns him that It were unwise to mention the circum stance in the messroom. Indeed, a hint of even feeling sleepy is as hor rifying to the ear as the smell of a heated bearing Is to the nostril. A hot bearing once smelt Is never for gotten. It is not bv anv mpnn n overpowering smell Just burning oil dui to tne man on whose watch It occurs it reeks of certain When he has eased the engines and nears the other engineers warned by the change of sneed. comlne t down the ladders, while he is franti cally searching for the source of the Smell he WOUld elve five veara nf Ma life to undo the oversight of the last Ave minutes. Desclpllne in the merchant Horvlra begins well enoueh at the ton hut it does not work all the way down. It stops at the lowest grade of man who has a certificate to lose, the liinlor en. gineer. In the evidence at a recent nautical Inquiry one read of a man Mlnamee, who was the "oracle" of mat part of the state, arrived on the course and was made one of the race Judges. As he took his place on the stand he was told of the folly of the owner of the strange entry. Running his eye over the track the Judge instantly rec ognized Pete. "Gentlemen," said Mc Mlnamee, "there's a dark horse in this race, as you'll soon find out." He was right. Pete, "the dark horse," lay back until the three-quarter pole was reached, when he went to the front with a rush and won the race. ' Built Ships In the Woods. In Colonial days the shipping for our home trade and for sale abroad was built chiefly In the district of Maine and In New Hampshire. These two colonies built rather more than one-half the entire American tonnage in the days immediately preceding the Revolution. The older ports could not compete with the new set tlements amd the timber. When the great trees had been ex hausted on the river, banks, gangs of shipwrights went a mil) or two vJJf s. h if ? Mi? si y fWfc . :l ..v 1 smilingly Informing tha was ashore having a last drink while he should have been on board joining In boat drill. A Junior officer or en gineer, dare not do such a thing. The law and the owners deal severely with him. He Is supposed to behave with naval obedience himself, while his own authority Is frequently flouted by those nominally at his command. Any thing less like the navy could scarcely be Imagined. The idea that engineers are given to chastising firemen with any handy weapon is often found in fiction. It is fiction. In real life disci pline below decks depends almost en tirely on the good nature of the fire men. . Surroundings Are Degrading. Socially the merchant service engi neer is equally remote from the naval type. His accommodation does not often rise above the level set by oil clothed tables and kitchen cutlery. Such conditions have not an expand ing effect on- the intellect. His conver sation in the messroom is commonly personal and bitter. If he comes from the "upper middle classes" his rela tives too often find him morose at 40, or vulgarized, or disappeared altogeth er from their ken. If he resists the social influence of his environment the result is often a curious mental com bativeness which seems to arise out of the well nigh incompatible require ments that he is supposed to meet an artisan with supposedly the pres tige of a lieutenant and actually less authority than a corporal. The better educated men strive to rise above sea faring. Examinations must be passed and they can only be entered for by men with a certain amount of sea serv ice to their credit. Twelve months at least must be passed at sea to enable a man to go up for a second class cer tificate of competency that is to say, the certificate which legally qualifies him to act as a second engineer or on a very small ship as chief engineer. Alter oDtaming that he must serve an other year as engineer in regular charge of a watch on board an ocean going steamship before he may sit for his first class certificate, which on. ables him to sign on as chief engineer oi any sort oi vessel, rrom an excur sion steamer to the last thing in At lantic flyers. When he is "up for second" he has to nick out the answers to nnutinm about, say. the temneraturA nf tKo hn well under imaginary and distressing conditions aear 10 tne hearts of ex cous laughing nights ashore and of aays ot anxious vigilance over racing engines, when the propeller would h flung clear of the wintry western ocean ana the ship quiver as though from earthquake. When he is "up for cnier he is set more difficult ques tions, but still not beyond the reach of simple arithmetic. If he asDlrea tn the honorary examinations chief" it Is called the questions be come more academic, and he unlorkn the brain cell which contains th int. gral calculus. The calculus Is prob ably stored next to visitors of the most important objects which it is to achieve for him a surveyorshlp or superlntendentship ashore, a nice lit tle home In Forest Gate or North Shields, and wifely companlonshin im. broken by voyaging, or perhaps the protection ot a widowed mother. The Japanese Houaa. The new members of the hnns f representatives are classified in th- following occupations: Barristers 49. bankers 43, farmers 42. journalists so merchants 27, ex-government officials 8. government officials 8. trnrWa i land owners 3, cattle breeders 3,' weavers z, ex-uuatmist priests 3, edu cationalists 2, printers 2, notary pub lic, tea trader, sake brewer timh merchant, communal mayor, transport agent,, notei proprietor, marine prod ucts trader. 1 each; while those hav ing no fixed occupation number 153. Japan Weekly Mall. To a Finish. Poet (to his wife) "Now. let's hava a race and see whether you finish your cake first or I my sonnet." Fliegende Blaetter. Into the forests, and here on the up lands they would build a vessel of 100 tons or more, mount her on strong sledges of timber, hitch on a team of 200 oxen and drag it n one steady pull over the snow to the frozen sur face of a navigable stream. Such a team of oxen would be a quarter of a mile long, and it took the teamstershlp of a major general to start them all at once. It was called "raising them." and this work once done nothing must stop them till the ship rested on the ice Very Unusual. "From Chicago, isn't she?" "Yes. A verv unnfimi -, ----- "umun. Bn8 has such remarkable luck in keenin her help." " "How's that?" "Why she told ma ah ho u... bands and only one cook." Undeslred Superlative. -He-If you'd only consent to mam me you would help to make me a bet ter man. She I can't do that; but I'd be will Ing to help make yet: a best man. iff SHE BLAMES "SPIRIT WIFE" Mrs. William Phelps Dcdgo Divorced Husband Because Uncanny In fluence Ruled Him. The uncanny influence of a "spirli wife" is said to have been responsible for the divorce action which Mrs. W'U Ham Phelps Dodge has just won against her millionaire husband. The decree, which was signed in Philadelphia, would have been grant ed several weeks Bgo, it Is under stood, but the judge wanted to make a longer Investigation of the unusual charges brought by the girl wife of the widely known author and lawyer. According to the papers in the case, Mr. Dodge, who Is forty-eight years old, met his young bride here at Sher- I rv'n nn elonttnn nttrht 10.no. onI on Impetuous wooing, married her In London on January 10, 1910. Prior to that time she and her sis ter had been in the chorus of "Ha vana," a musical comedy playing at the Casino. Despite the difference in their ages the bride was only eighteen the couple lived happily for a couple of months after the wedding. Then Mrs. Dodge charges that the 'spirit or Mr. Dodge's first wife, Ethel, appeared be fore him and began to "pick on" her successor. Young Mrs. Dodge said that when ever she wore a Jewel, a veil or any thing that the first Mrs. Dodge had possessed, the latter's spirit would ap pear before her husband and demand that he have it removed at once. And, according to the girl-wife, the spirit-wife was always obeyed. This treatment got on the nerves of the youthful Mrs. Dodge finally, and she packed up and returned to this country, leaving Mr. Dodge In London. Immediately on her arrival here, Bha applied for the divorce through her mother, as guardian, and charged that cruel, barbarous and Inhuman treat ment had been inflicted upon her by her husband. New York Eveninp MalL Red Cross Ball Blue pivos double value for your money, goes twice as far as any other. Ask your grocer. Show Yourself. Little Marjorle was showing her new birthday toys to grandpa, when her mother told the girl to let grandpa show them to himself. Marjorle was unwilling to do this because she wished to do the exhibiting. Then an idea struck her. "Here, grandpa," she said, handing him a toy at a time as sho spoke, "show yourself my dolly, Bhow yourself my blocks." And thus she went through the collection. Tudge. The Best Way. A correspondent wants to know how to pronounce Chihuahua. The best way Is to say Chy-hewa-hewa and then laugh is through you knew better. If it Is Hone artistically you can get away with It nearly every time. The same treatment has been frequently applied V) decollete with great success. To Breal' In New Shoes. Always ahake In AUcn'r Foot-Ease, apowrter. .t euros hot, sweating, aolilnu, swollen feet, i.uri-s ponin, lnrowniK naile and bullions. At U ilriigitims anil shoe Mercs, 2"ic. Dont accent inyauustlttite. Sample mallMlFREK. AdUresi Mleu s. Olmsted, U Kov. N. Y. The Wandering Jew. Matthew Paris and Roger Wendovcr Identified the Wander Jew as Carta phllus, a porter in the household of Pontius Pilate. Other authorities Identify him as Ahaauerus, a cobbler ; of Jerusalem. The legend Is far older than the eventB which it proposes as Its central feature. In the course of its popularity throughout tho middle J ages it has acquired many foreign ele- i TMuts by accretion. Mothers will find ?Ir. Wlnilowi Sonthlna Syrup the beat remedy to uso lor lueit cuiidrej curing t .a tuetiilug ocrlod. Preserving the Beaver. The efforts to prevent the extermi nation of the beaver In the Adiron dacks have been bo successful that there are now more than twenty large beaver colonies on the Raqtiette river alone, and there Is fear of serious damage to poplar timber through the activities of th h"r Httlo fellows. Need of Greater Production. If every Immigrant that shall enter the porta of the United States and Canada during the next decade were to engage in cultivation of the soil th production resulting would be none too great for the reasonable needs of the people who have to be supplied. New York Sun. Treachery In Kansas. ' A great many people spend all theli time talking and call It fighting lor principle. Emporia duett. REDUCE YOUR LIVING EXPENSES Eat Golden Ceml Food and recommend them to your aeqnalnt ancea. You get better quality and more for your money. They an mude In your home etata from tha best Oregon Oata and Wheat. Large packagea contain a Handsome Franium and all gooda ara guaranteed. Ask your grocer. Golden Rod Oats. Golden Rod Pancake Flour. Golden Rod Wheat Flakes. Ralston Select Bran. Golden Rod Wheat Nuts. 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It is not an all day job, but the function of tha supreme man, who can dominate a babbling assembly, anxious for food, and hold them with "Pray, my lords, ladles and gentlemen, silence for grace by " and the reverend gen tleman gets up and bleats under the patronage of the toastmaster. London Chronicle. Be thrifty on little thlnirs like bluing. Don't ae, copt water for blutnR. Ask for Ked Cross Bull Blue, the extra good value blue. Walnut Tree as Bell Towel. A church bell hung on a walnut tree at Therfleld, England, which for 10 years had summoned the villagers to divine service, has been taken down and now forms part of a peal in the oewly erected tower of the church. When the present church was erected a tower could not be built owing to lack of funds and a bell from the old church was hung on the walnut tree, vhlch Is near tho church. That Active Germ. A single germ in a forty-quart can of milk, if the conditions be favorable, will divide once every half hour, so that at the end of 24 hours it will have Increased to 281,474,976,210,658. At the end of the 24 hours one cublo centimeter of the contaminated milk would contain more than 7,438,000,000 germs. This Is the report made by the New York Milk Committee in th government's weekly publlo health re rorts. What'B the use? nAKV FIV VII I ED Blac.4 an... J2 w.LI tract, and Vl l. M , aw Aim, IS eat, clean, nrtiHtnftnittl, oouvrn Innt, choup, Lut all .vion. Matin of met it I, can't pill or tip over will not rmll or Injure anything. Oimranteed etTctiv Bold by dtaUrti of 0 fmt prapuid for SL HAH0LD BQldERo, liOUeKaJb Ave.. BrooUju, N. Y. Prisoner Went on Strike. A "one-man" strike occurred, not long ago, in the Perth (West Aus tralia) jail, when a man who is serv ing a seven years' sentence and who was employed In the tailoring room, went on strike on the ground that h wns competing unfairly with outside. trade. Because of his unlonlstlc prin ciples he was sentenced to three days solltnry confinement, and was ordered 4o resume work. For the Hair Arc you so fortunate as to be well satisfied with your hair? Is it long enough, thick enough, rich enough? And your hair does not fall out? WeIl,weIl,thatisgood. But you may know of some not so fortunate. Then just tell them about Ayer's Hair Vigor. They will surelv thank you alter using it. If not be fore. Remember, it does not color the hair. Show the list of ingredients to your doctor. Let him decide their value. He knows. ifaae by tha t. O. JT CO.. tewall. lraH. P. N. U. No. SS-!! WHETI TMna; to acTertlaen. plaaaa aa