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gestloiis, or ft failure' to carry out lm- Yet, If he is caught doing It and told,
provement work, 7eth : officials at the -quietly, that there is a homeless family
that cam. In time ot need memorial tablet on thsbig tree nearest "rr"-Vr-,-VX V'aLITi
Indeed. Perhaps the doc- the highway In commemoration of this --r--, ... hTI-riw I "3
by dawn If her mission woman's faithful servlcT to her country. , na,tlm,,.. t,-wvw nort. are chlidrn th- n.,t im. nn a.
m k 11 mat ii n n R A1H Jf
c . u I I I r iv. in iy u. v a ' - .
50OTZMnXAtl&TTl5r p,oneers th, mcalcultble services of r . - ... 111 . " '.
' , this grand pioneer woman were discuss-: Crr'n'nTXT, TTT-TT? CT A T TOTlJrr'CT "TXT TrVTT?
that her pony would pace away from ed appreclately and It has since been D 1 WFirliN 1 lib DJLiXIlU V7ll 1 CiK. 1JN . ''--1 UMIj
the fastest mount Known In early set- uggested by Col. W. O. D. Mercer that,
tiers times In Oregon.- with the consent of the present own
It was a common thing for her to set ers, the pioneer society might well dls-
off alone at night on a call fifty mlls tingulsh rlts . existence and pres a
away. ' And those wera the times when well-deserved tribute , by erecting , a
the friend
-was a. friend
tor would return
... ..,,;.,8anh. .u, wma remain . 1. carefully filed and Ubulated. "Safety pilot and to get-off again as soon us
for, days or weeks .faithfully nursing She passedjaway at the age of, 87. She BuggeBtons. have been arriving at the possible." . , ,
the sick, acting as cook, housekeeper. a native of Pennsylvania, her fam-. of about 1000 for every seven days. There's no difference; In the yards or
and caretaker. All the secret of the y name i being Sluyter . . Her 1;. father, AgtonlsnlngIy practicai th6 jnajonty of the shops. For years a great many of
stork ww Mother Dayls and nobody hut ved to be 107 years old, .'-.v'..'. - them are, too, and veritable revelations the largest manufacturing plants of the
her wdUld do even untif the time when The children of Mr. and Mrs. Davis 0f the reasons why accidents have so country have been trying to have their
advancing years commenced to warn numbered seven, Thera yet survive herf ionR een con8,iered Inseparable from men wear goggles when in danger from
her of the limitations nature set upon I E. Davis, of Taqulna, Mrs. Huddles- railroading. . "chips of metal, wood, eto. Will they do
her endurance. r , ton, Lycurgus and Dr. M. M. Davis, all ' Perhaps, -however,1 the most practical lt?r Not much. In some shops the
' of Eugene. ; ':0 -.- manner of checking the efficiency of the greater percentage of accidents Is in
In Time of Need, "We made our home right among tha local committees is the decrease hi accl- damage to the eyes, yet the workmen
it ttrr, , .m- Callpooylas," said Lycurgus Davis, tell- dents. The first month the system was will allow their vory livelihood to ba
, Ai one iirae me yaney seuiera were lng 0 their coming into the Wlllametta tried out proved an eye-opener, At tha Imperiled rather -thaa protects them-
scourged by an epidemic of 'erysipelas valley. "We built our cabin In a seu-Riverside shops, -in iBaltlmore, the accl-, selves.
or something akin to this disease. It tlement of Indians and made friends dents fell from an average of 20 to an In this respect the1 Baltimore & Ohio
did not seem to be understood Just whit With them. My father waa a if lne peap-, average of four during the last thres officials hope that at least a start has
the affliction was, but In this trrlna "maker, and if It had not been for him months. : " . ' been made. They ara getting the best
T.M-lod Mrs. bavla was bereed tn m more than once we would have had mpst Thus it, ran all along the Una. Ths kinds of goggles for the various classes
penoa mfs. ijsvis was Deggea io go . trmihla. One of auf f-iOH.t success of the "Safety First'' campaign of work, and they are ahowing tha mmi
VJHa i.m y1 L "It- ..:V: calls was among the Rogue River Indl- assured, because the men began to how much safer they ara when their
Day and night she made the rounds Two. braves were hanging around what they could accomplish. Mors eyes, are protected.
STiifMn w.tahHrVhJ il "w camp Our women folks were cook, thanthat they took prlds in avoiding . Out In an IUinols shop, by the w.y,
all within her power to bring the dls- . suDDer when the bucks spit In ths the thoughtless pracHoes that had been there is a most e'ffecUve argument for
casa ' nndar- subJewIoikHeilnlsti--" "p' Z.J'lZ.J91 5 making their work dangerous." the use of goggles. A-oalr covered by
mw U"'W1 -nn-minB. . - t nf miming meir worK asngerous.'
tlons were most effective, and finally ' " t.m T ThftV . It mattered little with' what-branchonee molten metal is nailed up where all
the use of goggles,
.once molten metal ii
The first 0' -the service a man -was connected, he can see it - One man's eyes were saved .
Memory of Pioneer Woman Physician of
Willamette Valley Perpetuated by Fir
Trees SheLoved
rintwefln tvn plant fir treaa that marlr -
Written for the Jouurnal by Dan Cur- when all good neighbors "helped out." an known to ask or expect escort , either side of the (Jrive to the house. " Ilarder Task.
tls Freeman. - Probably more often ; than otherwise , One of her ."boys," Lycurgus. says They are the only reminders of the From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
7 BITTEN high In the annals of those who needed the services of Mrs. he was the hostler for his mother's thick grove of firs that once marked Senator Root at a luncheon at a
1 K I pwneerdom of Lane county Is Davis were not able adequately to com- aibunt. Often, late at night, the (family this spot ' In her lifetime Mrs. Davis Washington country "club, said of war: list and remarks-
, pioneerdom of Lane county Is
the name of Davis. Of sturdy
stuff ifhf the stock the forties
saw Transplanted in the south-
Wlllametto valley,
"good - ; neighbors'
those of the name.
pensate her. But the good Samaritan would hear the clatter of a hard-pressea conceived a great natural affection for "Our arbitration treaties come none
never remembered those little things horse's hoofs on ths "big road.", Tney tnese spieraid specimens or the primeval toeioon.
and she sun alwava nrhmnt in the rnU kn it wui messenrer after the Kooa .forest. When the time came the old war
Useful cltlsens and f a mlniaterlntr angel of mercy. No Samaritan, and- even beforethe rider farm was ahld she stipnlated that the to me
-every one were -matter how dark or stormy the night ' had reached the door one of the boys buyers shouldlnot cut down or other- an English diplomat
The Davis home was for almost a , v L""1 . 'T "l" : realized that he was much safr hen because he -woreJIhose loirBrles.
lirWfflrWTitffacttv warnings before he got hurt. So it goes air along the line.; In the
the L type, surmountlrig the crest of a 2 JLl hm n T. Kirh min and when he helped to guard a pitfall shops the machinery, is being entirely
sightly knoll set back a short quarter ....JT . uft.r thi. i7nrt.. h betore someone fell into it-, And it Is inclosed wherever possible. Dangerous
of a mile from the main highway. Once ,Bi :! Tr 7.ZvJ .oh ,nclate Just this lesson that one gears, cogs, belts, shafting, .ete., are-
a mere Indian trail, this avenue became .jSrlZ'' Vll. u i wifc rh 2 th rtl0Bt eetftlve departments of tha-boxed up so that neither hands nor
the "big road" now It is the "river ?A l . ' VtJf nJ?rt 1 in l,i1leral afet3r committee-is conducted, clothes will get caught In them. ,
road. Here, where the Calapooyia In- L"1 .JL investlgati6n ofr.:TheBZftealn3lgna ara posted warning
dlans 'made friends with' these settlers. '' J men not to oil or otherwise vmon-
tnd eer- iwirme4.r the ilavis family r it
i.. m, ... -a .u ... : . were done for, t But by dint or. mu.cn vitr lnstannn. KrnVoman i. .... vii,. .ir.n ni k.
ders have come along the "big road" t0 Perpuasionand talk ana orrers or ng . coupler. He may be approached fruitful sources of injury than tampr-
. u's UKU lw TirnBAnta " tnv father nearotiatprl neace nhniit t -niA v-. i ... ..J a .1: ...... .
.... . t., m V - wm ujit.H usngeruun, wf wun wiibbib iiini wrr running,
with the chief and we were eflowed to The Information is not news to him.- H In fact a catalogue of considerable"
go on our way." . ... knows that it's dangerous has known length might be made eut from the 4000
it ever since he haa been on a railroad. 1 or 6000 suggestions that are received
But he keeps obT doing it because he's every month by the. general safety com
never the one that's going to get hurt. mittee; but it is hardly necessary to go
But his confidence is somewhat Jarred ; to such extremes,
if hla Informant produces an accident In fact, the Baltimore & Ohio offi
cials feel that the manner in which their
their yard gates,
As one turns in at the big gate the
vista of- theold homestead framed
"So-and-So lost his leg at Wheeling 65.000 employee have entered iota the
the -distance, or from whom the sum-3 was saddling up-the mare that MrsvPa.w'e destroy or mar those trees as long
"Tj,,w)rM J fitting tired of the other day doing the very same thing. 'spirit of the campaign is indeed epoch
Thjs fact was well brought home I don t suppose he thought he was going making, andSthat this, with their dls
the other day by. the remark of to get hurt either. You don't lmAvina-tinrttv nrc-unintinn tn vr.in ...li,.
gllsh diplomat - he deliberately: let his lea- tret cut off. interest ami rarrvinr nut ..v.
"He ssld that at the end of the Boer do you 7" ions as are anoroved nlac.es thir mov.
QUIT RENTS PAID
TO THE KING
oneer motner wnose name , maKes m0ns came, the doctor's horse war vis rode for many years.. This horse as she lived. It is pleasant to note that, war two Unionists were wrangling at It's the sams thing with the nraetlc ment in a class hv ttaeif
Davis family Into western Oregon. The and she was gone: . The midnight Jour- some hlghg grade breed of animal and fourteen years ago,' her wishes have said the first Unionist a lieu- riding on pilots. The men have been
cherished ; recollections- of Catherine neys might be across the paths of wild she could easily outdistance anything been respected, and In all probability tenant of volunteers, 'I went to the war doing It so long they forget when they
8. Davis, good Samaritan, are grouped beasts, along treacherous trail into the in tha , country. "Ride 'on ahead, I'll sentiment will decree that the trees-and defended my country.' starUd. They know there are rulvt
around her lifetime of kind deeds and foothills of the middle .fork, or the Mc- catch you." was one of Mrs. Davis' aay- shall remain as a memorial to her as "'Pshaw, what of thatr the other re-? against It that it'a dangerous. ' But
heroic helpfulness among the; scattered Kenzle, or over to Lake Creek; but nev- ings to the messenger, "but you'll not lopg as they survive. - torted. 'I stayed In my country and de- what railroad man hasn't thought It his
families of the early settlers. . er was this fearless, stout hearted worn- see me again." And It ia vouched for At a recent gathering of Lane county fended ths war. " : natural born right to. ride on pilots?
- r or many years sne was too oniy pny
sician in the whole southern Willametts
valley section. To a generation of boy
and' girls Catherine S. Davis was no
only godmother but doctor nurse, guide,
; counsellor and . friend. ; And when but .
i You Can Garry Your Own Hello' Line Around In Your Pocket Now
a glimpse or two at the pages of her
Inspiring life story are .known, small
cause for wonder Is it that Mother Da- ;
vis was revered for her nobility of
character and -her unselfish devotion to
, duty. , "'.''.,. l; ; ' ...
A little way out of the city of Eu
gene, on the river road, Is the original
Davis hojwfestead. t It was located In
47 and the fifteenth day of October
1. - J 1 , T ... .
Benjamin Davis ana nis wire, tne nr(
woman doctor, were contemporaneous -with
Eugene Skinner, for whom the city
- of Eugene subsequently was named.
Skinner had migrated from California
and had gotten his log and pole hablta-'
tlon half completed when the caravan
from Indiana completed its weary six
months' Jauntriyia the southern route
ot the emigrants, to Oregon. The south- .
ern route, incidentally, included' a tor- :
tuous trip through Cow Creek can'yon.v
The trail , followed by1 the ox ; wagons
mostly was the bed of the creek. Trees '
and drift had to be chopped out of the .
way In passing. Of this party of home
seekers, Benjamin Davis and his good
wife set conspicuous examples of cour
age and fortitude throughout the under
taking. . n UTTJIii
They had their full share of experi
ences with. Indians and other difflcul
'ties' before reaching "their new home.
Lycurgus iDavls, then ji boy of eight
no w sustaining his burden of years as .
becomes vigorous pioneer stock of hale
constitutions tells with pride how he
drove two yoke of Oxen part of the
time three across the continent from"
Plymouth, Marshall county, Indiana.
Aa Olti-Fashioned Practitioner.
To those isolated- families, scattered
for perhaps one hundred miles around
where Lane county's domains are now
defined, Mother. Davis was a benlflcent
Providence personified. She was one-of
those rare, old-fashioned practitioneYs,
The -merits of her herbs may not be
well disputed, nor need they be de
fended, for they often constituted ths
- only choice in case of illness.
Whether the Call; for Mother Davis
attentions were ' for whooping- cough,
a broken limb, or a case for a midwife,
she was infallible. Never was she known
to fall or to refuse to go on her er.
rands of mercy. .Considering the limited
supplies to beb had, her resources for as
suaging suffering and ministering to the
afflicted were in thejlght of modern
times little less than marvelous. Port
land, m rather Vancouver . barracks,
which was the supply point, was a two
. weeks' Journey. Trips for supplies.
riOTnefitieriir-T" J ne very uflu w 1
ter the family ran out of tea, sugar and
coffee and they had no fresh meat i
excepting venison. ' i
Fees were not often spoken of and
sometimes not thought ot la tho&e days
' 11 ii ii if
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A
VBtfT peoket te!niKB baa
bean lBVcmtoa for general
uh It was Invented by a
Gennaa ooocer'nd hae bea tbo
ougaly tried ent tn Berlin, where It
haa been focrnd to wortc fttlsfao
torlly.. .
A compact rqotYr tal transmit
tar fit Into a null circular nickel
caM two and a belt laches in di
ameter and taNquitara of an
-Inch thick. Tba whole contrivance
welzhi only-ieven ounces' and mar
b carried In a ladva handhai er
attachad to tor ehatelalna.
It will be understood; of eouriev
that tall devlca does not In Itself
saabla on to telephone without flnt
eaimtotloff K with tha reaeral tele
phone tTftetn. :;;li
On every ttreet, howeTer, contact
places have been proxlded at very
short distances. Thef are fastened
to waU. doors, trees, lanipposti or
other oonveslent places. , They are
tightly enclosed, so that neither hn
mtdlty nor storms can damage them,
and they ara thoroughly insulated.
Tha adrantaftt of ths contrivance
aa far as tha telephone user la con
eerned Ilea in tha fact that one can
now - telephona wherevar one hap
pens to be. It la so longer neces
sary to enter a busy drug store .or
other pay station and wait one's turn
er to walk a greet distance,., la :
sparsely populated sections, to find
soon atatlon at &1L There are so
many of thaaa contact plaoes that
It la now aa eaay to talephona aa It
la to mail a letter. Indeed, In the
buay portions of Berlin there are
two or three of these contact places
to every block.
fit ooaras, one mines the privacy
of the telephone booth, although the
QJUZJLr
atss th telephone system, the new
contrivance meant a great saving,
as the pay station operators are thus
made unnecessary.
Every person equipped wKh one
of these pocket telephones has a
simple and speedy means of reach
ing the police, the fire houses, the
hospitals or other Institutions need
ed on an emergency, for the tele-,
phone central operaTSTf are dlreoted
to be particularly prompt In giving
the desired con
nection In such'
cases.
In consequence
ef the enormous
expansion of the'
German capital,
there are many
outlying districts
-which are rendered unsafe through
insufficient policing, and the pocket
telephone was readily adopted as a
partial solution of this problem.' The '
sew system Is greatly, favored as
an adjunct to the police system gen
erally, however, for every policeman
Is provided with a pocket phone sod
can communicate with headquarters
' or other city departments whenever
he finds it necessary.
, In the parks and -forests the. eon
tact stations are located on conven
ient trees, and one may now tale
long walk through the woods aad
still be in touoh of city at all times.
The pocket telephone has not yet
found Its way across the ocean, but -It
seems to be so satisfactory that
there Is little doubt that befona long
we, too, will be using it. The police
In many American cities have, of
course, already adopted a aoinewnat
trailer system for communication
between their posts and station
.houses, but they are simply provided
'with keys to boxes fat which ordi
nary telephones are kept. Tha porta-.
bio telephone will be of far greater
., application and would do away with
.the exasperating experiences wnloa
we to frequently .have to endure tn
out drag store pay stations. Uvea
iokeTleleWne sdellcatejyf
CntaeUPIacs Are Located ea Walls and Posts In Every
Street and the Wonus Who Carries a Pocket Tele
phone Need Never Lk4eee-Df -8toe ; "
constructed that on seed speak In,
only s Tery low tone of rolce."
t OoretSfflMAt, -Wfelosv-nef
solved the difficulty, for one is not
always provided with the particular
coin required, and It is not always
aji-easy-inaortobtain'ciuaTe,
1 IX f l Vest-Pocket Ttie
r r 1 i pboner Which Can "Bt -
I I I i Carried in UdrV
J JfT
J A
1
( . sj;,tJ.jiiM,M-aMrtMiiiiiiiJir' ;
A WnQc
' bth
Park '
No Longer
- Places
One Out of
Restcli of
the Town.
Tha
$olwes
.. th.
From the Morning Post.
HE quit-rent services due to the
Crown by the corporation of the
city of London were rendered the
other day with all the formality
of a practice which has lasted
now for 700 years. The ceremony is as
sociated In the popular mind with the,
cutting of fagots In connection With a
piece of waste ground called the Moors
in the county of Salop, and with the
counting of horse shoes and horse nails
in respect of a forge in the Parish ot
St. Clement Danes.
There is a legend in the exchequer of
fice that Henry III, being present at a
great tilting match held by the Knight
Templars on land where the embank
ment now stands, noticed an itinerant
blacksmith who had set up his booth
there. The blacksmith distinguished
himself ' during the teurnement toy his
readiness In repairing the armour of the
combatants and la reshoeing their
horses, and the king was so pleased with
his activity that he granted to film the
piece of land on, which his temporary
booth had been erected, on condition that
he made six horse shoes and 60 horse
nails every year. The other quit-rent
was in respect of a piece of land in
Shropshire, covered with underwood, the
quit-rent service of which was the pre
sentatlon of two "knives," one blunt and
the other sharp. The bill hook was blunt
and the hatchet Was sharp. The grantes
had to present these Instruments to tlm
king and, cut , up . a couple of fagots.
A lease is recalled under which, in addi
tion to the regular payment of rent, tlw
tenant Just before Christmas time hHil"
to provide all the Ingredients for a plum
, pudding. Another quit-rent was a snowball-made
of snow taken froni the top
of Snowdon every year.r. '
In tha recent repetition Of the cere
mony the registrar proclaimed: "Ten
ants and occupiers of a piece of waste
ground called the Moors, in the county
of Salop, corns forth and do your serv
ice." The city solicitor, who has. per
formed the duty for l 5 years, thereupon
cut up one of the fagots with the hatchet
and the other with the bill hook. Pro
. clamation was then made as .follows r
. 'Tenants and occupiers of a cerfjlo
tenement called The Forge, in the Par
ish of Saint Clement Danes, In the coun
ty of Middlesex, come forth and do your
service." Whereupon the city solicitor
counted; out six horse shoes, not' the
' dainty shoes that a Derby winner mtKht
wear, but three-quarter circles of iron
large enough for the Flemish hot, -t
which the Knights Templar- w'r t-,
rid.
"Good number," said, the' king's i
membrancer.
It is said that the Identical lei. i
Shoes have been In the offloo of t ,
' king's' remembrancer for 601 year. :
ty-one nails were also count-"! out, j i
tens, "and "one over."
"Good number," said the kf.i's r
i , re i-m h ra,n r.r r a I ii.
"Has his majesty any cuiiiH.iu .;. ,
respect of the bill hook ; -.
, hatchet?"' asked the city -.,!: ! . -
,. ..the king's rememhranrer' r- '
Will be svibjf t to his riu : u
ure." Andsa tta ecrc;-;-.