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About The Columbia register. (Houlton, Columbia County, Or.) 1904-1906 | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1904)
I Topics o! I I the Times Singularly enough, the mors light you get oa Mormoalsn. tlx darker It looks. Erea being baptised la the Hirer Jordan will not keep torn man oat of A prison cell. Uncle Sam now baa th deed to the Panama Canal atrip. Nothing mora re mains but to dig the canal Th Hoi m the orouna oana rauea the other day for $3,900. , It la no safer than the Old Tarn Sock bank. The suthor of th phrase, "What la the constitution between friends?" bat just died In New York. But Ma spirit goes marching on. The attorney for the defense has a hard time of It In Russia. The ac cused Is usually hanged before a tech nicality can be raised. Japan has made a government mo nopoly of the tobacco business. Ear ing lighted the fires of war, ah In tends to control the smoke. Score one for race suicide. Tennes see courts hare decided that married men must support their mothers-in- law, or else their wives will be entitled to divorce. Emperor William climbed Mount Aetna on foot. His wind must be all right. In spite of those stories con cerning the condition of his breathing apparatus. tFTgemen and all other station em ployee are positively forbidden to ac cept "tips. The reason for this step, the presld-ant says. Is the desire of the road to furnish equal serrlce to all Its patrons, a task which It cannot ac complish so long as the practice of tip ping continues. This phase of the matter the injustice which the man who tips Indicts upon the man who cannot afford or does not wish to tip- on which la not always kept In mind, yet It involves a serious moral question. One accompanies his appli cation with a half-dollar, the other of fers nothing. Human nature would not be human nature It the employ did not feel a little Inclined to favor the man who haa tipped him. But what Is It that the tipper has bought? Not service he was entitled to that by right but precedence and dispropor tionate attentions, things to which he was not entitled and which he cannot have without robbing his neighbor. The tip In such a case Is but a bribe. On cannot, however, dispose of the whole matter of tipptng In a word. The practice Is too well rooted to be blown away with a breath, and even If that were possible. It Is a question' If It would be wholly desirable. Certainly It would work some Injustice and per haps some hardship. There la the tip which speaks of a cordial recognition of special service, performed, perhaps. at some sacrifice of comfort or con venience. That, surely, might remain. There Is, too, the tip which serves ss a cloak for worthy charity and an hon est desire to assist That, also, la honorable, at least on the part of the giver; and those who boast that they "never give a tip" may well be sus pected of hiding meanness behind a mask of principle. The Academy of Medicine at Paris has decided that excessive meat-eating causes appendicitis. It does more. It cause emaciation of the pocketbook and bankruptcy. On of the mysteries of nature Is tho ease with which song birds and gam can be exterminated as com pared with the difficulty In getting rid of the boll weevil. "Winston Churchill collapsed tn ad dressing tile Hons of Common be cause he lost his train of thought H should adopt the plan of American statesmen and learn to talk without hinting. A woman supporter of an "Ism" ad rlsed her hearers to "concentrate their thoughts on what they wanted to ob tain and ther would jret If Good plan; try It on a ton of coal and yon will get It if you pay the money. Looking over the list' of tones In which a man's voice betrays bis char acter. It to noted that the Woman! Literary Club sees nothing admirable In the male voice from low bass to high tenor. The only really good man must be dumb. The example of the American Arbor day Is the text for an appeal for tree planting in Ireland. A writer in the Clare Champion makes a plea for the observance of such a day, and ex presses the belief that It will be as successful as It Is In this country. It may possibly enhance the value of Ar bor day In the judgment of Americans to know that the suggestion is made to Introduce the custom in the Green Isle. Dissatisfaction with present condi tions Is a motive to progress. In speak- .lng on this subject before the Church Association for the Advancement of .the Interests of Labor in an Eastern city, a clergyman recently said that - there was a part of the city where the "people are in the depths of brutaliz ing contentment' Unrest is a good thing because it is a sign of life. Did any on ever see a more restless crea ture than a growing boy? The chief difficulty with the phe nomenal high tide of immigrants has been in the fact that they are read ily, but without good reason, induced to settle in the city and engage In peddling or in digging trencnes or subways, while the West and South, - which need immigrants, remain sealed book to the great majority. In the country districts, where politics ' has not so completely been reduced to an art or a science, there would be fewer temptations because of politics, and better temptations from the greater probability of obtaining work at good wages and with more comfortable and elevated surroundings. It would be better for the country and much better ' for the immigrant if be could be in duced to turn his steps westward or southward. Russia in the past has never been the equal of some of the western coun tries in wealth, finance, Industry, agri culture, education and culture. Yet somehow she has come up. Somehow, with her crude organization and gen eral poverty, she has borne the succes sive economic and political shocks of great wars. Somehow, as her terri torial march to the Pacific has proved, she has shown an incontestable superi- ' ority in force to the Asiatics with whom she has come in contact except possibly the Japanese. Even the war like Turk has succumbed before her. If wars are drastic tests of a nation' economic soundness and political co herency and national fiber, then has . not Russia successfully met them from ' the time of Ivan the Terrible to the present day? A prominent New England railroad lias lately Issued an order by which The development of the trolley sys tem in Now England, where it has made the greatest progress, is begin ning to attract wide attention, espe cially as it promises to become a dan gerous competitor with the steam rail road system. Already rails of the same weight are nsed on the electric as on the steam roads and well nigh equal speed Is made in rural districts, while greater speed Is made inside city Urn Its. The cars are being made nearly as large if not so heavy as thos on steam roads, and in nearly all country places mails and light freight are car ried as well as passengers. Trolley lines are connecting country towns which . only could be reached by wagons, and by bringing them into communication with railroad stations are developing their business. Nearly every State in New England can now be crossed, north and south and east and west by electric cars and in some cases cities as far apart as Portland, Boston, Providence, Hartford and New York hav been connected by - "the broomstick train. One of the latest developments of the system is the use for the first time by a steam and trolley road of- to Mm track. Tb New York Central is to use a stretch of track near Oxford, Mass about five miles from Worcester, for delivery of coal to a section it cannot now reach easily. - This track was laid and is used by the Worcester and South bridge Street railway. The fact that a locomotive and freight cars can be run upon rails originally laid for trol ley cars is opening up a wide field of speculative possibilities among rail road people. The Boston Advertiser says that "the New Haven road has already done something in the way of third rail connections with steam road track, and of course everybody understands that the time will com when steam and trolley roads will be run as parts of one system, the street railways acting as feeders to the main line of steam track. Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. 52 3 X mm The Methodists and Amusements. j US question as, to wbat amusements may be permitted to the members of the Methodist Epis copal Church la one that has caused more dis cussion In church circles than possibly any oth er. "Times change, and men's manners and customs change with them, is an old and a true proverb. It is also true that this change in manners and customs and the inevitable change as to how they are viewed Is as active in the churches a any where else. 'It Is to this steady shifting of ideals and opinions that the question remains perennial with the MethduMsts. In the early Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church In America, the whole matter was dismissed In a prohibition to members against "taking such diversions cannot be used In the name of the Lord Jesus.1 But along in the decades about the middle of the last century the inevitable broadening of Ideas due to the rapid Increase in population, the change from solitary rural life to the hurry and bustle of the city all were liberalising ten dencies. Especially in the cities, Methodists in good stand ing indulged in amusements, etc., which were looked upon with horror by the more conservative, and-hence more strict members In the country, especially the elder genera tion. But the liberals argued that they were well within the prohibition of the Discipline, and that there was no loes of true religion to themselves. It became evident that the clause in the Discipline needed amendment; that the church must authoritatively specify what things could not be permitted to the Meth odist laity. The change was made by the General Con ference of 1S72.V The paragraph which haa stood since then deala with conduct and expressly forbids among other things, "the buying, selling or using intoxicating liquors as a beverage." and "dancing, playing at games of chance, attending theaters, horse races, circuses, d&ndng parties or patronising dancing schools, or taking such other amuse ments as are obviously of misleading or questionable moral tendency," etc But this did not end the controversy. In very many churches, this regulation has become a dead letter. Meth odtst members attend theaters, visit circuses, send their children to dancing schools and play card games In their homes; and they do not feel that they thereby commit any sin. That Is to say, they do not admit that the church has a right to prohibit any line of conduct that la not sin ful; and feeling that these things are not they Ignore the precept The matter was all threshed over again at the recent General Conference in Los Angeles. Toledo Blade. SI NEED NEVER APPEAR OLD. The Question of the Battleship. ERETOFORE, when the public spoke of bat tleships, the breath was bated and there was a gleam In the eye that boded the kindling of destructive pride. Some spirited souls even went so far as to lift the bat when one of our navy's ornaments was named, but something has happened. It has become dangerous to refer to America as sailing the seas Ilka a battleship. We Card to-think of the ship of state as armored and carrying 12-inch guns. We cannot even remember that famous line, "She seems to feel the thrill of life along her keel," without sympathetic shudders. The reason is as follows. Cesarevltch, 13,110 tons, dis abled by torpedo and beached. Fob. 8, at Port Arthur; Retvizan, 12.700 tons, disabled by torpedo and benched at Port Arthur, Feb. 8; Poltava, 10,900 tons, disabled at Port Arthur; Sevastopol, 10.900 tons, disabled Feb. 0; Pobleda, 12.674 tons, damager by mine at Port Arthur, April 13; Petropavlovsk. 10,000 tons, blown up by mine at Port Arthur, April 13. Six first-class battleships, four of them undoubtedly destroyed by submarine engines of warfare. not to speak of the dangers within the ship itself, as we have learned in the cases of the Missouri and the Iowa. It is told that the unfortunate Admiral Makaroff dis approved of battleships on the ancient ground of "all your eggs In one basket" The admiral is desd and a battleship holds his body, a battleship which sank within two min utes after a submarine was exploded under it There are others along the shore of the bay at Port Arthur, all for mer prides of the Russian navy, pointed at by the experts of other nations as perils to peace and warnings for war, ChlcAso Doctor Urges Friend to Stand Erect and Ketala Teatb. "Don't imagine yon must become stoop-shouldered because you are growing old," said a well-known west side physician to a friend on the Lake street "L" road. "Old people do not stoop because they are old, but they get old because they stoop. The stif fening of the tissues, which is the sign and accompaniment of age, is warded off by exercise. Self-indulgence in eating and in drinking and in lazy ways is the sure road to senility. "I hare often been surprised and gratified to find that regulated move ments of the neck and upper truncal muscles, employed for the purpose of accomplishing something else, resulted in a conspicuous improvement In hear ing, in vision, in cerebration and, as a consequence, in betterment in cere bral circulation, also In sleep. Per sons who habitually maintain an erect position in standing or sitting are stronger than those who slouch. A person who stoops and allows the shoulders to sag down and forward and the ribs to fall back toward the spine shortens the ante posterior diame ter of the thorax anywhere from two to five inches. The lungs, heart, great vessels and other important structures in the thorax cannot live, more and have their proper being under such circumstances." Wherefore, the proper thing for per sons who' are not so young as once they were Is to brace up, dress young and feel young. Sitting "hunched up" over a fire won't do Chicago Chroni cle. An Affable Debtor. "I guess there's no use of sending any more bills to that man," said the senior member of the firm. "Does it make him angry to be dun ned?" "Not a bit He invites the bill col lector to sit down and tells him sto ries and prevents him from getting money anywhere ' else." Washington Star. ' now squatting drunkenly In th mud, their hug guns raking th affrighted stars. They hav felt a shudder along their keels, and their glory has dwindled Ilk a leak ing balloon. Th American people ar pron to ask questions when things happen. Something has happened. The colored pictures of our navy are singularly uninspiring Just at present and w desire to know why. It w cannot find out why, we, at least wish to be sur that something was really wrong. So ther 1 th question in th air. How much Is a 10,000.000 battleship worth? it a Japanese cor poral's guard (or th naval equivalent of th body) can take a rowboat, a cap pistol, and a torpedo and sink bat tleships, we desire to be allowed to look oa and possibly make a small bet on our own prospects. Further, some would Ilk to know Just how w ar going to keep the upper hand if our battleships won't battle against th enemy's torpedoes. W ar in a state of doubt San Francisco Argonaut m Chinese Exclusion. T is expected that the new treaty regulating th admission of Chines into th United States, now in preparation, will permit certain China men, not of the coolie class, who ar now ex cluded, to enter the country. Under the eilst Ing exclusion law, Chinese laborers are pro hibited from coming to or remaining in the United States. Registered Chinese laborers may leave the country and return to It under certain conditions, and Chinese officials, teachers, students, merchants and travel ers may come into the country when properly certified. The law has been strictly construed by th Attorney-Gen eral, who ruled that not all Chines persons might enter the country who were not specifically forbidden, but that only those who are entitled to enter who ar expressly permitted to do so. The ruling excluded traders, salesmen, buyers, bookkeepers, accountants, managers, storekeepers. Interpreters, physicians and agents. Persons falling within these designations are not manual laborers, against whom th exclusion law was particularly directed. The classes excluded by the rulings are numerous, and the new treaty may provide for the admission of some of them. Our expanding trade with the East would doubtless be stimulated by a more hospitable treatment of what may be termed the Chinese mercantile and professional element A discreet extension of the privilege of entry could be per mltted.it Is believed, without Injuriously affecting the wages of labor. It la understood that the contemplated regula tions apply to th admission of Chinese of th blghor class es and that there is no Intention to admit coolies. Whether provisions shall be made for use of Chines laborers In the construction of the Panama Canal Is under consideration, and the more extended use of Chinese labor In the Philippines is urged by certain Interests concorned la th development of the possessions. Philadelphia Ledger. w mm The Price of Fame. TIEN one considers how much th people lore to be humbugged. It is surprising .that ther are not more people engaged professionally In the business. A man with a very brilliant mind may make a brilliant address before a brilliant audlenco, and there the brilliancy stops; but a man with a mind about the sis of a shriveled walnut may talk a lot of nonsense to an au dience of no or of average or unusual Intelligence, and Immediately he becomes famous. An educator in a recent religious meeting told a fairly intelligent audience that dancing was the closest approach to Paradise, and to-day his name and theory is known from Maine to California. A University of Chicago professor tell wherein Rockefeller Is superior to Shakspeare, and while the oil magnate mod estly protests, the professor's mall Is overwhelmed with re quests for photographs and locks of his hair. A Harvard professor, who teaches Slavic literature, and, who is native of Russia, expresses . th hope that bis fatherland will be defeated in the Eastern war, and he gets half a column of attention, where his sensible utterances hsd never won him more than very moderato attention. And so, if a man must simply be foolish to become famous, is It any wonder that almost everybody to-day is famous Baltimore Herald. SOLDIERS OF THE CZAR. The uniform of the Russian soldier is the simplest uniform in Europe. In winter a sheepskin coat goes on be neath the gray one. In summer, or during campaigns In hot climates, the Russians, like the Japanese, fight in white dress. , To critics who say that this renders them needlessly conspicu ous, they reply that It is better than khaki; for a man dressed in earth col or Imagines himself invisible, and be haves accordingly. He gets shot' whereas the man who knows he can be seen keeps under cover and comes off with a whole skin. A writer In the Boston Transcript describes the sol diers of the Czar as follows: The Russian campaigner marches somewhat heavily laden. He has his kit-bag with clothing slung over one shoulder, his haversack with two days' rations of bread and salt slung over the other, his greatcoat strapped under one arm. Including his water bottle, arms and ammunition, a section of tent and the uniform he stands in, he car ries something oyer sixty-six pounds. The advantage which offsets the bur den is that at a pinch the Russian foot-soldier is practically independent of a baggage train. He can transport bis modest necessities upon his own back. The Russian cavalryman rides so laden with cornsacks and blankets and greatcoats and wallets and saddle bags and things that he puts one in mind of the much incumbered White Knight in "Alice in Wonderland." Al together bis impedimenta weigh 110 pounds. Fortunately what would op press another soldier is no burden to the Russian. He is sturdlness Itself, Russian soldiers have been known to march thirty miles without rest, and then go directly into an engagement Severity Is .accounted the prime fac tor of Russian military discipline. Bat something better than severity goes to make soldiers of Russian peasants, and that something is a powerful spir it of camaraderie. A high Russian officer does not hesitate to Joke with his men. When the commanding officer mots his troops for the first' time In the morning, he calls out cordially, "Good morning!" The men reply with a pe culiar, long, rattling shout "Your good health, your excellency !" When a maneuver is executed to the commander's satisfaction,- he shouts congratulations to the men, and they respond all together, "We are glad you like it" 13 THE 8UN HOT OR COLD? Bon and a Hot Stove Have the Same Kind of Energy So far as I know, no reasons at all for doubting the high temperature of the central body of the solar system hare ever been found. There are In general three distinct ways in which heat can be transferredfrom one bod to another conduction, convection and radiation. The first two are depend ent upon the presence of matter, the latter will take place across a perfect vacuum, ' We may receive heat from a stove by all three methods. If wo plactt our hands upon it we receive heat by conduction; if wr hold them above it they are warmed by convec tion, the beat being brought to them by the rising current of hot air. If now we stand in front of the store we will feel its warmth, the sensation in this case being produced by the beat wares which it emits. These wares are. similar to the electric wares used in wireless telegraphy, differing from them only in their length. They bear the same relation to them which the ripples on a mill pond bear to the Atlantic rollers. With the instru ments at our disposal at the present time we can measure the length of these wares ss accurately as we can measure the length of a table .with' a foot rule, and we can prove that they will pass through a vacuum, a plate of glass or a tank full of liquid air, without losing their ability to warm our hands. We find, however, that it we pass this radiant heat through cer tain substances, water vapor, for ex ample, its Intensity Is diminished, ow lng to the fact that some of the waves have been absorbed. . It is possible to determine the exact longth of the waves of heat which have been re moved by absorption In the vapor, and If we test the radiation which comes to us from tho sun we find that wares of this same length are absent the water vapor in the earth's atmosphere baring refused to transmit them. This fact taken alone, Is pretty good evi dence that the sun and the hot store are pouring out the same kind of en ergy. Harper's Weekly. Wanted a Demonstration. "John," said Mrs. lituepeaco, com ing out on the back porch, where her husband sat tilted back in bis chair, his feet on the railing, "didn't I hear you tell the minister when he was here that you were deeply interested in tern perance morements?" "Yes," Mr. Makepeace replied, rath er stiffly. "I said so, and you know that I am." "Well," said Mrs. Makepeace, "sup pose you go and make a few of them on the pump-handle. I want a pall of water." WATER IN DESERT CACTUS. Uvea Ar Accsatomed t Tap fleas WkM They Ar Talr.tr. . The marvelous strength of desert plants is well known, but ws ars tt loss to explain th source or rea sons of their, lux urianc .In regions rher only s few Inches of water fan during th year, and that llttl Is Im mediately drunk up by th torrid sun. What enables th yucca to' thrust its bead through thirty feet of gypsum ml sand or th barrel cactus to store enormous quantities of water and to hold th water for months, perhaps years, or th sumach to cling so ten Mnualv to Its around when every thing els Is swept away1, ar ques tions which non can satisfactorily an swer. No less marvelous and Inex pllcsble Is the mesqutte shrub, which, sometimes has roots over fifty feet long, and other desert plants whose hairy coverings and resinous coatings prevent the evaporation of molatur. These secrets may soon b discovered. however, as th Caruegi institution has established a desert botsntcal lab oratory at Tucson to study them. It was smoug th desert bins west of Torres. Mtx. Th Indian rut th top fronra plant about flv feet high and with a blunt stak of palo vera pounded to a pulp th upper six or eight Inches of whit flesh In th standing truuk. From this, handful by handful, b squeezed tho water into the bowl he had mnd In th top of th trunk, throwing th dlscsrded pulp on th ground. By this process be secured two or thrv quarts or clear water, slightly salty and slightly bitter to the taste, but of far better quality than some of th water a desert trav eler Is occasionally compelled to use. The Papago, dipping this water up in his hands, drank It with evident pleas ure and said that his people were ac customed, not only to secure their drlnklns water in this way In times of extretn drouth, but that they used it slso to mix their meal preparatory to cooking It Into bread. National Geographical Magatln. REBUFF WAS CUTTING ONE, Sitting Ketort of "Mad Toct" to an UnffsntUmanly Ktmark. Many stories ar told of McDonald Clarke, known fifty years ago in Nw York as the "mad poot" which show that he had a vein of great shrewd ness, such as is often possessed by people who are counted Insane. On day b was sested at a table In a New York hotel quietly eating his simple dinner when two young men took their seats at the same table. McDonald Clarke was a well-known figure, and th young men at once recognised him, though be did not know them. They were not gentlemen In the best sense of the word, and it occurred to them that they might have some sport with th poor poet Conse quently on of them said in an un necessarily clear tone: - I hav seen almost everything and everybody In New York except Mc Donald Clarke. I have a great ad mirations for his poems, and I would give a great deal to see th man." When h passed the mad poot leaned forward and said with evident gratification: , Sir, I am McDonald Clarke, whom you ssy you wish to see." The young man stared at him with mncb rudeness for a moment and then drawing a quarter from hi pocket, be laid it on th poet's plate. saying, "That's for the sight T Clsrke looked at the coin for an in stant and then placing it in his pocket, h took out a "York shilling," 12 ft cents. This h hsnded to the young man, saying gravely, "Children half price." Natural loo Is Passing. . For several years past the business of the Iceman of former days has been decreasing steadily, and at the present rate ere long he will find his occuds- tion gone. It is no longer necessary to wait for cold weather to secure a supply of the refrigerating product; it can be produced easily and cheaply in the warmest weather by chemical processes. In the State of Maine, where In former years the harvestinir of ice for market in more southern latitudes wa carried to enormous proportions, tho total quantity cut during last winter, which embraced perfect conditions for the securing of a large crop, was but 485,000 tons, against 700,000 tons gath ered in the winter of 1002-3. The advantages offered by chemistry and modern machinery for the pro duction of Ice and the perfect control of temperature at whatever degree do sired, when and wherever needed, ir respective of climatic conditions, ren ders their mechanical acquirements cheaper than can be obtained from natural ice when transportation front remote districts of storing and the great wastage of original bulk through -melting is taken into consideration. In all manufacturing necessity for cooling and for maintaining uniform degree of temporature, as well as certainty of control of such conditions, together with their greater economy, present systems of artificial refrigeration are crowding nature out of the field of competition and reducing the latter to chiefly local value. What Made Him Ask. Paying Teller What is your name. anyway? Indignant Presenter of Check Don1 you seo my signature? Paying Teller Yea Tbafa what aroused my curiosity. Baltimore American. ' , Daily Guide to Table Manners. Never kick on the food except on the cook's day out Otherwise you might lose her. It doesn't matter about your wife, .ShCll stay. Baltimore i inert Can. Feats of Submarine Boats. Two submarine boats made a sham attack on the French squadron at La Rochelle recently in the evening, and so smartly were they handled that it is said in actual warfare the whole di vision would hare been annihilated. - Cincinnati has a deaf and dumb bar ber, but with the aid of a phonograph he manages to pull through. We can't pronounce the Russian def inition for war, but it's synonymous with Sherman's definition,
