Heppner gazette., August 31, 1905, Image 2

CANAL IS 2,500 YEARS OLD.
At X,east the Corinthian Was Under
Cont-.-:np!ation a3 Long
Ago as That.
Speaking of raiials," said the
nfjiiuMT who had bwn talking
wiboul lVuiania, "a vrry interesT
rii catial, and ono rot nmcii heard
f. is that coniu'cted with tho gulf
tf Corinth and the fciiif of Aegina
i;i (ireece.
'It's some older than any w'
have in the western hemisphere,
".'po, for Periaader, tyrant of
'orittth, proposed to cut throujjl
t he isthmus as lonjr ayo as (MM1
vears liefo.-e Christ. Superstition
stopped him, however.
"Julius Caesar and Caligula
look it up aain when Koine had
iiiOid of Greece, but it was too
-v.i'-h rW them. Then '!!!o Nero,
md lie went at it with vigor, but
3 he work slopped when he died.
'Others kept pounding away
:U it fo.' the next several hundred
years, but it wan not until 1881
that real work of the. Xero en
gy was put. upon it. Then den.
T;::t, aide-de-camp to Victor Km
iiiiinuel of Italy, organized a com
y.w.y and worked on till the mon
y jrave out in 1S30. the chief oh
i'tacle being some kind of flint
which dynamite couldn't break.
"Al-o,i! ;"!0,0!n.?:00 was spent
up to ISM, ar.d then Mr. Syngroe
no! hold. org.:r::'.ed a new com
.-ay. with '?!!''. working cap
' and iM-islxM1 th job in 1303.
::.iy al'.cu; font1 miles long,
"out it is ('; fe"t wide at the bot
j :-'.o-:f F-0 feet wide at vr-t?r-"iri.
. '.' f:ct and three inches-
in water, and it is cut nearly
.:!! I' e way through solid rock,
vc - i-'-r t nine points for 209 feet
ah e th.e canal.
"It ir like a canyon, and ships do
"of t;?ke kindly to it. the entrance
? ..ing bad. ; strong wind blowing
? avouch it as through a great air
-haft, and there is at times a
strong reverse current.
'lt is an interesting trip
Through the canal, and it saves 123
Tii'iles of very rough water and 20
"hw.irs of time; but so far skippers
i vi'er to go through the peninsula
rather than through the caaal,
though with some changes wtsWl
will be made it is believed G
'Miial will become of general nt
vr soon as a few ships begin to use
H and remove the prejudice now
xisting against it."
CM RUSSIAN RAILWAYS.
IktM Are Mre Accidents Tban an
Any Other Continental
System. :'
Although railway traveling In Rus
is slower t'aan in any other country
. T Europe, thcr ire more accidents on
j. .Ru.-iian then on any other conti
: . . -ji.il b v.-1 ;. ..... s an Odessa ccrrespon-
i", of U;o Lo.;don Times. The aver
stti of a i):;jscns--r train is 36 miles
'.. ur, a nd that of tLe so-called "fast
-.f;" 42 yni'.os. Approximately
. ing, there are cow about 29,000
vT.'S f railway in European Russia.
V-'-ordrr.g tn an official return lately
Hjiifctjed, the n'liuber of accidents last
--a: amounted to 9,890. Of these 1.212
vsts collisions, and 1.521 derailments,
".e thousand Ave hundred and twen--y-tine
persons were killed, and 7,908
?-jtrretL The damage done to railway
. ocli was estimated at l.00,000 rubles,
-j wtltry sum as compared with the ter
- loss of life and the number of peo
5 injured.
Ttv greater part of the permanent way
ihls country Is laid without either
i-'iairs or flsh-plates.theold and insecure
vrefhod cf rivets stap3 being atil!
In vogue, a fact which largely accounts
Tor the enormous number of accidents.
Rare- Prejudice In Meslc.
In a recent report to the state de-
rv.rtment United States Consul LeRoy,
f. Durango, Mexico, refers to "race
:'judice" as "a common American ten
t'fiivy, which militatts apainst us in thU
- untry (Mexico." He .ays that Amer-
-ce who go there to invest, to push
Susiness connections cr to locate and
aake their own way, are too prone tc
r'now contempt for the people of the
-xjontry. "It is a narrow, short-sighted
idea of 'patriotism,' " says Consul iue
iloy. "and a not wcil-founded race preju
tlt, which Is, epeaking of this partic
ular district at least, a drawback to the
txten&ion of American commerce.
Whatever Americans may choose to think
of the Mexican peon class, it Is undoubt
dly progressing, even In relatlrely back
ward parts of Mexico. A well-defined
ail4?; class is already apparent and
the building of factories, railroads, etc.,
and the work of the schools are con
stantly increasing It"
uNEToF LONDON'b bKiutS.
When the Southwark Span Was Con
structed There Was Something
of a Turmoil.
At first sight there appears
nothiugromantic about the South-
walk bridge, whose reconstruc
tion is now being debated. But
there is a wonderful little story
behind it, after all, says St. dames'
(Jazette. There was the ."r.evita
bio fight over its construct ion.
Street traffic and the necc-sitie
of pedes! nanism might go hang so
Ong as the traffic of the river was
aot interfered with; ami it wa.s to
et over tire opposition of the cor
poration and conservators that
the Kennies had to make such
enormous spans the largest ever
attempted in the history of en
gineering up to that period. This
noccK.utn the use of h'o ks o'
granite grcier in extcri I in::: had
ever been quarried since the days
of the ancients. It could net bo
done, masons declared. Sir -John
Ronnie on his part swore that it
could and should. He went to Ab
erdeen, and at Peterhead found a
block of granite weighing 25 tons.
That he would have whole, ho
said.
By excessive wages and unpre
cedented largesse of the native
wine, men were got to cut and de
tach the mass from its moorings.
IV.? t then it had to be taken four
miles along the road to port.
Such a thing had never been heard
of. Sir John managed to fake up
a carriage, and after a journey of
a day and a half, part of which was
spenr in div;ring the monster out
of collapsed roadways. 12 or 14
horses got it do the vessel which,
after extraordinary difficulties,
the engineer had succeeded in
chartering. There were no cranes
to lift such a weight. They had
to build a scaffolding in the bed of
Lhe harbor to get the block
iboard. Eventually the thing was
accomplished, and although ever'
mariner save the one who had un
lertaken the commission believed
that the enterprise would send
the vessel to the bottom, the gran
ite was safely brought to London,
and a new era in engineering in
augurated. One curious feature
in the history of Southwark
bridge is that it was opened at
dead of night. As the clock of St.
Paul's chimed midnight it was de
clared free to the public.
LONDON'S SOCIETY SPIES.
They Are Employed to Keep Tab on
the Wealthy and Post the
Tradesmen.
The out-of-work man in the
smart set, who formerly lent him
c!f, for a consideration, as a
-guinea pig" director, "toted" for
tradesmen on commission, or sold
furniture, country houses, or mo
tor cars, has found a new profes
sion. It is that of "society spy."
According to a correspondent of
London Truth (who signs him
self "A Shopkeeper and a Gentle
man";, the "society spy" is inval
uable. If a West end man is in
dilllculties, or his wife has over
rated his patience, the "society
spy" informs tho trade at once.
I f a West end man who has been
for years on the brink of bank
ruptcy wins a large sura at th
card table there are intimate
friends who profit by making th"
jfood fortune known. At a time
when there are so many who are
rich, or appear to be rich, whos
names are unfamiliar the shop
keeper might make serious mis
takes were it not for the informa
tion which is so given.
The tradesman is only too hap
py to pay for infomation which
enables him to avoid a severe loss.
Tradesmen in former days sel
dom ventured to ask such ques
tions; and their customers, as a
rule, supported each other.
Now, says Truth's informant,
the difficulty shopkeeers have
to contend against is that
most of their customers, especial
ly if they are intimate friends,
have not a good word to say for
?ach other. Modern English so
ciety is to day an "association of
nemies who profest to be
friends."
SENATORS 'FROM KANSAS.
Hoodoo Which Seems to Attach U
Line of "Fated Succession" Bad
Luck Follows Them.
John T. Ingalls' "fated ucceealon"
la Tiridly recalled to mine by th?
present trouble In which Senator
Burton findss himBolf. The brilliant
Atchison statesman so designated th?
llhe of Kansas United States senator;
that started out with Gen. James H
Lane.
Those In the "fated succession,'
says the Topeka Capital, were Jame:
II. Lane, Edward G. Ross, Robert
Crozier, Alexander Caldwell, Jame?
M. Harrey, Preston B. Plumb, Bish
op K. Perkins, John Martin, Lucler
Baker and the preset Senator J.
Ralph Burton. Lane committed sul
cide. Roas committed political sut
cide by Toting again: t the impeach
ment of Andrew Johnson, and wa:
driven out of his party. Crozier
who served about a year by appoint
ment, died without leaving a stnrk
mark by which hTa brief senatoria
career can be remembered. Caldwol
resigned after two years' service tc
escape investigation.
Harvey, although he had beer
governor of his state and had mad'
a f?iriy pood reputation as sue',
made a very insignificant senator, ar
was, after throe years' service, de'oat
ed for reelection and dropped out o.
political life. Plumb died in ofiici
at Washington. Perkins served f
brief term by appointment and i;
rcnrcely remembered aa a senator
Mr.rt:ti served two years, and left tht
Fenr.te poorer in purse and with les
:3tige than he possessed when 1m
went in. Baker war. r.lmort a tola
failure, and hia crushing defeat lo
reelection at the hands of Burton i:
6W11 warm in the memory of the peo
pie of Kansas.
DISEASE NEEDS WATCHING.
Whooping Cough Not Simple Litth
Affair Many Suppose Nearly
as Fatal as Scarlet Fever.
Eliza H. Root culls attention, cays the
Woman's MeUIccJ Journal, to the fnci
th at this?
ispaso is too little drsaded b:
i ,--o!.-s::ion and that it is !:;.
u:e simple affair that man
v: ore.
the n-.f-.ii-":
no in: an s
sefm to s".i
i-"roa; i!,e
;;t(i L-:.ates census or
we find Af;:t Qi:C. in Mew York 1w.-t.
whooiir"- -(,! -h an.! Mi) from tcarioi
fever. In Chicago Mi .tied from wl-oo;,-ing
coufch and S7?. :'rom scarlet fevr;
Philadelphia. 179 from whooping fO'.ij h
182 from scarlet fever, and so on in trr
different, cities. Death from whoopin?.
coujrh occrrs mott frequently fiom
pneumonia a? a complication that in
duces bert fsilure, or a bronchitis r2
occur that rnds in suffocation. Asphyxia
or nurruin-.us one to the continued eject
ing of tr.s food or lose of appetite may
cause death.
Even when death doea not occur, se
vere disturbance of the neryous system
tray rrnn'n. as -weakness of the intel
lect and '.):' mory. imbecility. Visual de
fects, s;r?biornus. blindness and deaf
ness, par'sal or complete, and even iesi'
mutism may remain. Whooping conui.
it is evident, sho i!d be under the con
trol of l-.-.f.iih authorities, subject to
quarantine and other preventive meas
ures as much ae scarlet fever.
NO "DAY OFF" FOR A JUDGE.
Barristers in Great Britain Can Apply
for Injunctions at Any Time
and Plaeew
Illustrating the proposition tbat a
Judge never p-its aside his Judgeship, Uu
Wsstruinf'.f.r Gazette haa the follow-in;'-.
"Tesfevoav Mr. Jintloe Buri niil w?s
surprisoti on U;e liaks bjr a baj rioitr who
preiected an urgent raquest for a cer
tain injunction. His lordship puspended
his game, and after dua consideration of
the facts made the order, which was at
once tPlepr?phed to Cardiff, and no
doubt too1- effect the sampnf'ernooo.
"On another ocrasion a barrister on
a similar quest is rumored to have found
his quarry bathing at Brighton. With a
commendable devotion to his client's In
terests, he hired the naat bathing ma
shine and rapidly Joined the Judfie In the
water. The Judge's surprise at beinj;
suddenly accosted In the well-known
formula. 'I hare an application to make, i
my lord, in a rery :rgent matter,' may
be Imagined. The law sometimes atones
for Ita proverbial delay by theae light-
Ding injunctions."
Fal corny In Turkeaian.
In a remote part of Turkestan Dr. Sren
Hedin. the explorer, a few years ago j
discovered the ancient art of falconry Id
full flower. "Among the horsemen were ',
eight falconers, " he writes, "two ol .
whom carried eagles, tha others falcons. I
all duly hooded. In tais part of the ;
world falconers form an Indiepensab'.e ;
idjunct In any formal pmrade or proces- j
ion. I.ter in the day they pare us an .
exhibition of their birds' powers by let-!
ting them kill four hares and a dear,!
all of which were presented to me."
Call at the Gasette office and learn of I
our clubbing offr with the Week Ore- J
Dowle'a New 7. Ion.
Zion Ciy, III., Auk. 21. "Paradise
Plantation" is the name John Alexan
der Dowie, First Prophet, "Elijah III,"
and General Overseer, has given his
proposed colony in Mexico. He issued
a letter to his followers todiv, announc
ing the plan for financing the new
colony.
In older to raise the funds to pur
chase mote tban 4000 square miles ef
land and establish ports and cities, 7
per cent intsrest-bettrintr land warrants
will be exchanged for laud under cer
ain regulations. The First Propbet
also ca Is for a special loan of $500,000
for one year at 7 per cent for immediate
use in Zicn City.
The same rules now obtaining in
Ziou wiil be enforced in the Mexican
colony, with the possible exception of a
relaxation regarding cigarette-smoking
and a tnfie more freedom in the matter
of comthliip and marriage. It is
Dow e's p'ari to ship the people back
and forth with the seasons, thus utiliz
ing their fir I lato. the year round.
TiM Mexican colony is expected to
grow rapidly, as the ru!es requiting
niartieu c -up es to produce one cliiM
each ypar wil: b'aiu there also.
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EXCHANGE ON ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD BOUGHT AND SOLD
Collection! made on all poiati on reasonable terms. Burp maud undivided profit $35,000.
Stilton Offers Hand.
Ju'o, A a. 18, via Manila, Aug. 20.
Secretary Taft and party anived here
at noon, and immediately proceeded to
the parade grounds to witnt-ss en
elaborate programme arranged for their
entertainment. The Sultan of Sulu,
with his retioua and other Moro digni
taries occupied seats on the craudsiand
along with Mr. Taft and M.ss Roose
velt. Thousands ot Moro resiJents of Jclo
and from the neighboring islands were
present to t.-.ke part in the festivities,
which were wonderfully picturesque.
In the afternoun there were cnribou and
bull fights of au amu ing but not blood
thirsty character.
Mr. Taft and Miss Roosevelt were
presenled with many Moro presents by
the Sultan, who offered bis hand in
marriage to iilias liooseveit and would
mike her 8ul ana of the Sulu Archipel
ago, ea.iing that liis people desired her
to email) among them.
The Fimt National bank at IVosser
has bea bought out by the Proper
State bank, and absorbed by it. The
State bank will at oocc increai-e ita cap
ital to 150,000.
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