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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 2, 1915)
INDIANS HAD EDEN STORY DID NOT FEAR FOR KINNAIRD FOUR MILES IN AIR BOTH u m w Invention Designed to Foil Bur glar's Activities. From Description It Would Seem to Be Admirably Adapted for the Purpose Operates From the Outside. A lock that li virtually unplckable and proof against burglar's Jimmy, besides being simple In construction and inexpensive to make, has just been patented by Julius Orossmann of New York. The inventor got his idea when drop ping a bar over a store door on clos ing one night. It occurred to him that If such a bar could be dropped Inside the door by the mere turning of B key outside, It would furnish greater se curity than any other method of lock ing. This Is Just what his lock does. The diagram that accompanies this Is of the lock hb seen from the inside of the door. On the outside It is the ordinary Yale lock. In this 1 Is the bolt that drops into the slots 6 and 7. It is pivoted at 2 and raised or lowered by the tumblers 4 and 6, which re .valve on the bolt 3. This bolt is the inside of the mala bolt of the lock and fs turned from the outside by the key; from the Inside It may be turned by the small handle upon it. At 8 is shown a knob by which the mechan ism may be disconnected from the or dinary latch If desired. With this lock on a door one goes out, closes the door and turns the key. This not only locks the latch as usual, but drops the bolt over the hasps on door and Jamb. This cannot be lifted with a Jimmy, nor can It be raised by anything but the key. Laying Submarine Cables. England makes most of the subma rine telegraph cables nowadays, but some are manufactured in Germany. Cables are made in two-mile lengths, and as each such section is completed, its electrical resistance Is tested by a special machine, and carefully noted. When a cable is made It is put on board the cable ship which Is to sub merge it. There are now over forty smch steamers employed, not wholly for laying cables, of course, but for re pairing them when Injury occurs. By determining the resistance of the ef fective portion of a damaged cable, it fa possible to put a repairing steamer within a mile or so of where the break occurs, and repairs are some times very speedily made, though on other occasions, because of bad weath er or other causes, weeks are often oc cupied in this work. An Atlantic ca ble Is usually laid in little over a week. The last Atlantic cable was laid from Fcnzance, Cornwall, England, to Hay Jtoberts, Newfoundland, in 13 days, by the Colonla, the biggest cable-laying ship in the world. American Review of Reviews. He's Champion Mean Thief. Tiabies In the vicinity of the Violet street playground wore not weighed recently. The new champion "meanest man" crept into the welfare station conduct ed by the city health department at the. playgrounds and stole the scales. To the welfare Btatton came 20 mothers with their babies, but they could not get any orders for milk at the supply station because no one could tell how much the babies weighed. Twenty mothers were dls appointed and 20 babies hungry, but those who came later in the day were accommodated upon a borrowed set of scales. The welfare station is maintained in the interest of underfed and scan tily nourished babies. Los Angeles Times. Father of Thirty-one. Quite recently Auastaslo Chelotti, a newsveudur of Savona, in Italy, cele brated the birth of his thirty-first child, on whom he bestowed the name of Candldo. Chelotti, who is Just turned sixty, remarked at the christen ing, "At twenty-one years of age I married a girl of nineteen, who made me an annual parent of a male child for nineteen years running. Then she died, Before I was out of my fortieth year I married again, and my second wife added another dozen to the fam ily. I have nineteen sons living, all healthy and strong. The twentieth fell fighting in the Libyan desert with the words 'Viva Savolal' on his Hps. Eight of my boys are married and have married children of their own." Federated Malay States. A recent estimate shows that the Federated Malay States have a popu lation of 1,117,000. The chief indus trial enterprises are the cultivation of rubber and the mining of tin. Vast territories are still wild and open to upioitation by capital jf HSH 1 if. iuTw 1 Creation as Told by Brazilian Tribe Greatly Resembles the Biblical Tale. An account of the creation, as re luted by members of the tribe of In dians living In the mountains which divide Brazil from British Guinea, has boon received at the University of Pennsylvania from Dr. William C. Furabee, leuder of the Amazon expe dition of the university museum. The tribe never before had seen a white man, according to Doctor Farabee, and had been cut off from the rest of the world for many centuries. In the account told by them to the explorer It was related that a great tree bearing on its branches all kinds of fruits and vegetables had been In existence, The legend of the tree is that in the beginning there were two gods, Tumln kar and his brother, Duwld. Tumln kar created man and woman and after ward the lower animals, and Duwld brought men and women food from the tree. The people later learned the location of the tree and told Duwld that he noed not trouble himself to bring them food any more. Duwld then told the people that it should be as they wished, but that they would thereafter have to ork for their food and warned them that If they would not starve they should break oil the branches and plant them, that they would grow and bear fruit. The legend goes on that the men started to do as the god said, but soon tired, so that when the tree was cut down only a few of the many varie ties of food which It bore had been saved for mankind. A great rock said by the Indians to be the stump of the original tree, was pointed out to the explorers, who made photographs of It. These photographs were received at Philadelphia with the story. Try to Prove Gas Kills Microbes. Gas companies, faced with the peril of seeing their product supplanted by electricity, are struggling vigorously to find arguments that will prove the su periority of gas over electricity for lighting, cooking and heating. The advocates of electricity urge that electric lamps do not pollute fhe air with the products of incomplete combustion and do not form hot com bustible gases that must be removed. The advocates of gas reply that the great production of heat by gaslight fixtures brings about a natural venti lation effect through the air currents It produces, so that the deleterious gas eous products of combustion are never allowed to accumulate in the air. They also assert that microbes in the air are destroyed by the gas flame and by the traces of combustion like Bulphurous acid, which exhibit an antiseptic ac tion. Dr. K. Ahlborn reports to a German medical magazine on experiments made In the Hygienic institute of the University of Munich. In a room of 67 cubic meters' capacity with arti ficial ventilation the number of bacte ria in a unit volume of air decreased 24 per cent in one hour. Under sim ilar conditions, but with three large gas flames burning, the number de creased 40 per cent in the. same pe riod. , This leads the Journal of the Amer ican Medical association to remark that such a difference, "amounting at best to only 16 per cent, Is too small to possess any Berlous significance from the point of view of practical hygiene." Politicians' Letters. President Van Buren had the reputa tion of being the wisest politician of his day. His political enemies named him the "Klnderhook Fox." Among the political aphorisms attributed to him was this advice to his son, popu larly known as "Prince John:" "My son, never write on political matters, If you can avoid the necessity by mak ing a trip of 150 miles." This was in stage coach days, when a Journey of 150 miles means as much In waste time and practically In money cost as a trip across the continent means today. Politicians generally have been popu larly credited with having taken this advice to heart and followed It as closely as possible; but every once In a while something crops up to show that the popular Impression on this subject Is a delusion. Politicians, like other people, continue to write letters, and letters written In the past continue to appear, occasionally to the confusion of writers, even when the precaution has been taken in writing to attach the injunction: "Burn this letter." Often it is the letter which should have been burned which Is the one and only one to be retained and to reach ulti mate publicity. Good Ground From Garbage. Most cities burn their garbage, and the expense of disposing of it is not small. Seattle, In the state of Wash ington, has hit upon a plan that not only does away with the cost of an In cinerating plant, but Increases the value of city property. A swampy piece of ground near the city limits was se lected, and on this the garbage was dumped day by day and spread over the surface. An antiseptic solution was sprayed over this, to prevent de cay, and porous Band or crushed ashes were used as the top layer. Finally grass seed was sown over the plot, and a highly fertilized piece of ground was the result, Instead of a useless swamp. There Is No Luck. "There is no such thing as luck." "There Isn't eh? Did you ever see inybody upset an inkstand when It as empty f" Judge. THE palace type of modern Eu rope was fixed when Louis XIV transformed his hunting box at Versailles into the stately cha i teau which all the world knows. France nowadays dispenses with kings and emperors, but none the less decrees a semtregal housing for aer presidents. The Tullerles having been burned down, the only suitable remaining palace in Paris was the Elysee, and there the presidents of the third republic have succeeded one an sther, as Indeed Napoleon III preced ed them, during the brief period when lie bore the name of president. The building, which Is not large, was erect ed in 1718, its architect being Molet. Mme. de Pompadour inhabited it when Louis XV was king. Under Napoleon It sheltered the great emperor himself tor a while, and then other members of his family; but the charm that ibides In it comes from Its frolicsome dkys. If It Is not overwhelmingly splen did, it is at least not Imitative. It is the genuine outcome of local French traditions, and belongs visibly to its time and place In the world's history. In England, there has been retained tor the king a palace which has svolved out of a medieval fortress and still preserves many of its authentic features. Windsor is, in part at least, in ancient shell, adapted more or less satisfactorily to modern uses, says Martin Conway in Country Life. It matters not that some of its more medieval looking features, such as the Round Tower, are quite modern. It Is the effect of the whole that counts, the aspect of the total building in Us place, and that is superbly suggestive Df the ancient dignity and long tradi tion which makes English life what It is and what the life of an English ting fitly represents. Palaces of Czar and Kaiser. Only at Moscow and Prague are con tinental monarchs housed in palaces 3ven remotely corresponding to Wind sor. The Hradschin, indeed, hardly jounts, for it is really the remains of i fortified city, the palace within it having been mainly rebuilt during the sixteenth and following centuries, though some fifteenth century parts ire preserved within it. With Mos :ow it is otherwise. The Kremlin be pond question' imposes itself upon a spectator as a great expression of Russia's past. Its assemblage of pal ices, churches and national monu s-y I ml I . III fl I jfcVSW r- t ' IP-. WW J t ju. , -HM-ltM- f-V' t &t . "I The Petcrhof; Russia ments corresponds to the close union still existing between the government and (he religion of the people. Moscow Itself, however, is not the Russia of today; it is the Russia that has gone by. The czar may visit Mos cow; he does not live there. In and about Petrograd he has several pal aces: the Winter palace in the city, Gatchlna, Tsarskole-Selo, and others, but Peterhof is the favorite, and Peter hof was built in 1720 by Peter the great and afterwards enlarged by Catherine II. Here the influence of Versailles is obvious and confessed. The profusion of fountains, and espe cially the long canal leading straight away through the park from opposite the middle of the palace facade, are evident Versailles features, and plenty more might be cited. No less French in style are some of the Prussian palaces. The old Berlin Schloss, indeed, has a continuous his tory of building and rebuilding from the days of Elector Frederick II in the fifteenth century, and though Freder ick, the first Prussian king of that name, Intended to do away with all the work of his predecessors, his big scheme was not entirely carried out, and some of the old survives, while al has a strong German 'flavor. At Potsdam, however, under the or ders of Frederick the Great, thi French style obtained complete con trol and the new palace, founded aftei the close of the Seven Years war, Is I manifestation of the French leanlngi and preferences of that remarkabh personage. This Is the favorite sum mer residence of the court, and It wai here that Frederick III died after hli brief and ineffectual reign. The build lng itself is not large as palaces go but possesses the palatial air plalnlj enough. There Is the central pavilion surmounted by a dome, flanked by twe forward reaching wings at the ends ol the long connecting parts on elthei side of it. Francis Josef's Homes. The emperor of Austria is, perhaps more richly endowed with official rest dences than any other monarch excepl the king of Italy, who seems to have a palace in every city in his kingdom The Important palaces at Vienna ar two, the Hofburg, In the heart of the city and Schoenbrunn, in the suburbs The former is the chief official rest dence, the latter the usual abode ol the emperor when at the capital of the empire. The Burg is not imposing architecturally. It has been the Bite of the residence of Austrian prlncee ever since the thirteenth century, bul they were small people at that time, and nothing remains of the bulldlns which housed them. What exists is an irregular assem blage of edifices of different late dates grouped about a number of courts, to which the public has access, so that there Is a continual coming and going of people in every part. I have not seen the palace for more than thirty years, and my memory of it is vague. Ponderous decoration characterized some parts of it; others were barrack like In their plainness. It consisted then of a number of more or less sep arate residences for royalties and of ficials and of various offices and roomB devoted to the storage of state archives and the great library, while the Augustiner church, in which all the Hapsburgs are buried, is attached to it. The Turks not many centuries ago were knocking at the gates of Vienna; now they are united with Austria in alliance, so that the palace of the sul tan falls within the limits of my scat tered subject. Needless to say, it has no architectural merit whatsover, nor any claims to respect on the grounds of antiquity. Since the time of Sultan Mahmud the Turkish palace that followed has itself been abandoned as a residence, and is only resorted to for certain state ceremonials; much of It in turn was burned down in 1863. It was built by Mohammed II, and often added to in the most capricious fashion. The prin cipal entrance is the Sublime Porte. Within is nothing noteworthy except the Church of Saint Irene, which has been used as an armory. Here also are the mint, the treasury and other of fices, as well as the halls of state, etc., difficult for a traveler to see, when I was there, and not (I am told) worth seeing. It is in the Dolmabaghcheh that the sultan actually lives, a long range of buildings, rather like the sea front of a row of houses, built of stone in a bastard Corinthian style, on the riverlike Bhore of the Bosporus. In ternally it is a gaudy place, with much bright paint and gilding, plentiful stuc co ornament and cupolas of brightly stained glass. If He Came Home With Broken Leg ' It Would Be Somebody Else's, Said Friend to His Wife. Lord Klnnalrd, who has always been noted for his many charitable enter prises, is now actively interesting him self in a fund to provide comforts tor members of the Royal Naval Air service and the Royal Flying corps. In his younger days Lord Klnnalrd fras an enthusiastic amateur football er. He bad the reputation of being a very spirited player, apropos of which fact an amusing story Is told. One day Lady Klnnalrd was tell ing a friend that she feared her hus band would meet with an accident while playing his favorite game. "I am certain," Bhe said, anxiously, "that he will come home one day with a broken leg." "That may be," answered her friend with a smile; "but you may be certain that it will be somebody else's leg!" Some Good Sport Spoiled. An Irishman was out gunning for ducks with a friend, who noticed that although Mike aimed his gun several times he did not shoot it off. At last he said: "Mike, why didn't you shoot that time? The whole flock was right In front of you!" "Ol know," said Mike, "but every time Ol aimed me gun at a duck an other wan come right between us." Prepared. Belle It looks like love at first sight with htm. Beulah Oh, he loved her before he saw her. "Impossible." "No, it's not. He had read about her." "Where, for goodness' sakesT" "In Bradstreet's." r Sign for the Surgeons. "Of course," said the surgeon who had operated for appendicitis, "there will be a scar." "That's all right," replied the pa tient. "Leave any kind of a mark you like that will prevent some strange doctor from coming along and operat ing again." Kansas City Journal. A POOR SPECIMEN. "Hear Dobbs over there bragging about his wife?" "What's he saying?" "He's telling Marks that all he is he owes to her." "Humph! Do you call that brag ging?" A Fantastic Fling. "I understand your husband Is learn ing to dance." "No," replied Mrs. Glumsby. "That report was started by some neighbors who happened to be looking through our basement window just after he had dropped a hot cinder on his foot." Old Style. Humorous Artist I've brought you an original funny joke this time. A friend of mine thought of it. Editor (after reading it) Yes, it is funny; but I prefer the drawing that was published with it in the '70s! Punch. Ruinous. Crawford Why do our officials will fully destroy every natural beauty the city possesses? Crabshaw That gives them a chance in a few years to ask for mil lions to make the city beautiful. Puck. Where They Shine. "I often wonder that women are not employed as street car conductors," remarked the Grouch. "Why?" asked the Old Fogy. "Women are so clever at telling men where to get oft at," replied the Grouch. Up In the Air. "What are Betty and Jack quarrel ing about now?" "Oh, it's one of those wireless quar rels, I guess." ' vVireless quarrels? What do you mean?" "Words over nothing, you know." Different Now. "I used to think that no man ought to be sent to prison." "Now?" "I've changed my mind." "Why?" "Some crook broke into my house and robbed me." Detroit Free Press. A Plagiarist. "Did you say that Gabson was a gifted speaker?" "No. I said a well endowed speaker." "What do you mean by that?" "He's amply provided with the choicest thoughts of other people." WONDERFUL VIEW AFFORDED TO THE AVIATOR. At That Height Two Hundred Miles of the Earth, In Every Direction, May Be Seen Its Effect on the Nerves. Augustus Post writes of the "Experi ences of an Airman." He has been up four miles and tells bow the earth looks from that altitude. "For every mile's ascent," he writes, "96 miles of view open out, so that at the highest point I have reached, more than four miles, one could see 200 mllea on the earth's surface in every direction, unless low-hanging clouds He between the aeronaut and the rest of humanity. Sometimes like fields of polar ice, sometimes opal and rose and gold it is a wonderful thing to see the upper side of a sunset the floor of the clouds, ever shifting, ever taking on more varied shapes, moves beneath you, or you rise through a high-floating one, in a brief white solitude. "One side of the cloud floor may be red above the last rays of the sun, while waves of orange, purple and sul phurous yellow stretch across to the cold blues of the east and the silver splendor of the moon, for it 1b at full moon that long distance balloon races are always arranged to take place. Here and there fountain-like forms rise from the mass stretching beneath you and curl back like giant flowers; they are currents of hot air breaking through the cloudbank from below. "Your pulse rate rises, your respira tion grows faster, perhaps your hands and feet are a trifle numb, as the barograph needle rises indeed, by this time it has risen above the card entirely, for the Instruments common ly in use record only to 16,000 feet, and is making its mark in the metal cylinder; in time it will leave the cyl inder altogether. "If you open a bottle of water the air that has been confined at a lower level pops out as if you were open ing a bottle of charged water. Going higher still for men have reached an altitude of seven miles the air is so thin that one must take along oxygen to breathe, the pressure of sea level being 15 pounds. Up here you are sub jected to only half the pressure; you feel lighter than cork; the nerves are drawn taut. "If you poke a pencil or your finger into your skin the indentation will remain just like making a hole in a piece of putty. Doctors call this 'pitting,' and on the surface of the earth they take it as a proof that life is extinct. There is less 'mountain sickness' than one would think, judg ing from the nausea felt on the high peaks of the earth, but then in moun tain climbing there is great physical exertion, exhaustion even, and here there is absolute calm nothing to do till tomorrow, and that seems a long way ahead with no breeze, no sound, no motion save as some movement of your own Jars the basket a trifle." American Magazine. Achieved Fame Early. It is astonishing how many promi nent players now before the public were well on the road to fame at the early age of twenty-one, says a writer in the Theater Magazine. Patti made her reputation at the age of eighteen, and when she was twenty-one was al ready making a specialty of "farewell" tours. Iij 1904, at the age of sixty three, she made her twelfth "farewell" to America at $5,000 a night, and many predicted it would prove her last adieu, but Adelina, now hale and sprightly at the respectable age of seventy-four, is threatening a positive ly "final" farewell to the land of dol lars next fall. At twenty-one, Maude Adams had emerged from lurid melo drama to become leading lady for E. H. Sothern in "The Highest Bidder." When Minnie Maddern (Mrs. Fiske) attained the age of twenty-one, her career was full of achievement. Annie Russell made her first stage success with a juvenile "Pinafore" company. At twenty-one she became a star as a result of her great triumph in "Esmer alda." E. H. Sothern was twenty-one when he appeared with the late Helen Dauvray, and he did so well that Dan iel Frohman decided he was of stellar timber, and featured him in "The Highest Bidder." War as Seen In the Ranks. The Museum of Hamburg History has begun the collection of soldiers' letters frqm the front to relatives at homes, and the latters' replies, as an adjunct to its archives connected with the war. The aim is to get, not the writings of officers and the exceptionally well educated, but the humble comments of those who have written without any expectation that their words ever would be published, and therefore were completely unconscious. The proponents of the plan want to get an fnstght into the patriotism, courage, hate and love of peasant and citizen, worker and storekeeper by which they were actuated while at tne front, to know their fellngs as they thought of their homes, their rela tives and their families. Decadent Sport "As a matter of fact, a prize-ring is square." "That's true." "And the floor, I understand, must be level." "Yes, but you are speaking literal ly. The average prize-ring is neither quart nor on the level.'