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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15
MANY MILLION PINS.
GREAT NUMBER USED IN AMER
ICA EVERY DAY.
Daily Demand Is Almost Fabulous
Complex Processes Through Which
the Simple Little Implement Passes
in the Course of Manufacture.

1t requires an average of more than
twenty million pins per day to sustain
the falling skirts, replace the missing
suspender buttons and meet the other
needs of the American people. What
becomes of all these pins Is a question
that nobody has been able to answer,
but there is no falling off in the de-
mand, so that this number must dis
appear in some manner every day.
1t is hard to imagine anything sim
pier than a pin, and it is striking
proof of the complications of our mod
ern industrial system that every pin in
the course Of its manufacture passes
through dozen separate processes, in
volving the greatest skill on the part of
the operatives employed and the action
of great amount of automatic ma
chinery.
The pin makes its appearance at the
factory in the form of barrels of coiled
brass wire. The first process Is that of
Strengthening this wire. The coils are
placed on revolving racks, and fed
from these into little machines, from
the vise-like grip of which they emerge
perfectly straight Thence the wire is
fed into the pin-making machine,
which is almost as complicated as a
printing press. A sharp knife cuts the
wire off into uniform lengths of the de-
sired size. AS each little length of wire
drops from the knife it falls upon a
small wheel, the edge of which is
notched into grooves just large enough
to hold the bits of wire.
Each piece Is carried along by the
wheel until an iron finger and thumb
seize and hold it firmly, while an auto
matte hammer, by single smart blow,
puts head on one end. Then the en-
bryo pins fall upon another grooved
wheel, which revolves horizontally. AS
they move on in the clasp of this Sec
ond wheel the projecting ends pass
over number of circular steel files,
which neatly grind them to a point.
Further on they encouner a pumice
stone, which smoothes off the filed end,
and then they drop into a wooden re-
ceiving box. So far no workmans hand
has touched the pins in their progress
from the reel. The cutting, heading,
pointing and smoothing have all been
done by the wonderful automatic ma
chinery.
From the wooden boxes the pins go
to the whitening" room, where they
are cleaned in revolving barrels filled
with sawdust and receive a nickel coat
ing in big vats. Then they are dried
In the sawdust barrels and are run
through a sorting" machine. 1t is i'm
possible to get the better of this ma
chine.
The big department stores and whole
sale dealers buy their pins by the case.
A case contains l0S dozen papers. $50
pins in each paper. a single order from
the largest stores usually calls for 100
cases, or nearly 50,0O0,OOO pins.-New
York Herald.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15
WAYS OF TURKISH CeNsoRs
Violation of Their Rules Brings the
Most Exemplary Punishment

Violation of Their Rules Brings the
Most Exemplary Punishment.
1t Is well for those having business
with the Turks TO have a good under
standing of the laws and regulations
In force in the sultan's domain If they
would avoid trouble. An honest Ger.
man merchant met with a sad adven-
ture a few weeks ago on account of
something which he had not dreamed
of-violating the laws of the Turkish
censor. The German was in the porce-
lain business, and the only thing that
he ever thought of writing was entries
In his ledger. But he got an order
from a Turkish merchant for 25,000
coffee cups, and he filed 1t, and
straightway he became violator of
literary laws. He had packed up the
coffee cups In old German newspapers,
and that settled it. The Turkish CEN
sor seized the whole shipment. He in
sisted on reading each newspaper, and
only after he had become convinced
that there was neither intention nor
danger of smuggling insults of the sui
tan or of his harem into the country of
the prophet was the shipment released.
Now the German wondering wheth-
er. If he packs his next shipment in
straw, the Turkish censor will hold 1t
up rs being Il reflection on his mental
furniture.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15
Another Article Tabooed

lfa man refrained from eating things
which from time to time are placed un-
der the ban by doctors the chances are
that he would soon starve to death. A
Spruce street physician who is dietl-
clan to the extent of being known as a
crank on the subject is warning all his
patients not to eat celery, which has al
ways been regarded as not only HARM
less but actually beneficial. This doc
tor claims to have discovered that the
soil in which celery is grown is laden
with germs of enterlc fever, and that
In the ordinary process of washing it
Is impossible to remove all of the soil,
any portion of which, he says, If taken
into the system, would contain enough
germs of typhoid to fill an hospital,
And now his patient patients are won.
dering what is to come next.-Philadel-
phia Record.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

At Yale, Charles Andrew Carver of
Chicago, has broken all records for
strength tests. A comparison of the
physical proportions of young Carver
with the best types of ancient Greek
sculpture at the very best period shows
that the American undergraduate to-
day is as good n man as the winner of
the Olymplan games twenty-three hun
dred years ago. Mr.. Carver could
stand up beside the "Dlscobolus" or the
Gladiator with the Strigil" without
being ut any perceptible disadvantage.
The most gratifying circumstance in
connection with these strength records
is that they represent nothing accl-
dental or exceptional, but are the re-
suit of widespread movement in fa-
vor of systematic physical culture
which has now been going on in this
country for more than generation,
and which has developed a higher
standard OF strength--and presumably
OF health-amOng tens and hundreds
of thousands of our young people. The
athletes of to-day are the healthy sons
of healthy parents, They are steadily
improving the American physical type.
And In estimating the outlook for our
physical development Il must also be
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

A queer case came up In the Senate
recently, illustrative of the mixed rela-
tion which Cuba bears to the United
States. Mr.. Stewart presented petit
tion from certain citizens Of that island
in regard to the landing of a cable
there, and moved that it be referred
regularly to the Committee on Military
Affairs. Mr.. Morgan, of Alabama,
called attention to the Senate rule for
bidding the presentation of n petition
from citizens of foreign country. Such
n petition must go through the State
Department Mr.. Stewart argued that
these petitioners did not come under
the head of foreigners, because Con-
gress had power to legislate on the sub
ject concerning which they appealed,
and this view finally prevailed.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15
ELoPeMENTS RARE IN FRANCE.
Parental Consent Required No Matter
What the Age of Parties.

VR
currence in France, fact that is due
In large measure to the popularity of
the French law pertaining to mar
rlages, Not only must the contracting
partles-up to any age-have the writ.
ten consent of their parents, but also
in case of the death of their parents
they must obtain the consent of their
grandparents. Here Ia a case instanced
by a correspondent whose friend gu
Eanne b. was engaged to Henri S.
Both were orphans, yet it was several
months before the ceremony could be
performed because Of the number of
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15
Estimation OF servapts

"Ah, ye niver say her lift finger in
the way o wurruk," said the cook.
"Sich a perfeck lady, shure, as me
furrst mistress was. Niver fussin'
round Il kitchen nor followin' the girl
up after she'd cleaned the parlor. nor
tellln We what nor what not We ought
ter do an how .ye ought ter do it,
Faith, an she didn't know how to do
1T nor what there was to be done. No
tonne had she to bother her head about
my wurruk, for she was too busy dom
nothin'. Ah," with deep sigh in
which the housemaid Joined, my
furrst mistress, she was a perfeck lady
she was" And the present mistress,
who CHANGED to overhear the conversa-
ton, pondered upon the way it tore to
tatters those cherished theories that in
order to command the respect of her
servants a housewife must know all
and more, too, that they ought to know
and be able to teach it to them.-New
York Sun.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

borne in mind that the athletic girl
who is 'far finer, ripper and real than
all the nonsense of your stone ideal"-
has also come to stay and is helping
her athletic brother in giving the solar
plexus blow to the gloomy theory Of
''degeneracY."
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

In Paris nowadays it takes nearly an
army corps to keep the peace at the
theaters If it's war piece. Over here
IT. takes nearly an army corps to play
one.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

There is such thing as too much
prosperity. The discovery Of rich gold
mines in Japan may yet prove men
ace to her Independence especially if
Cecil Rhodes should happen to wander
that way.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15
Big Annie Tree.

A few years ago there was on a farm
near Stuart. Va, an apple tree which
produced at one bearing 130 bushels.
1t shaded at meridian ninety feet Of
ground in diameter.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

The number Of those rules that work
both ways has been increased by an OBJ
server who has noted that a blowout
generally accompanies blowing it in.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

Nickel is common in bicycle orna-
mentation, but an odd fact about the
coppermounted kind is that they les.
sen the tendency to scorch.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

Practically all the women of this
nothing else than the fact that the
Turk has cheated them outrageously
on those rugs.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

A cable dispatch says that Captain
Dreyfus has taken villa in Switzer-
land for the season. Dreyfus, Dreyfus
where have we heard that name be-
fore?
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

The elephant who was recently choked
to death must have realized inisadness
that he could not take his trunk with
him.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

The President of Wellesley College
says that more Wellesley girls marry
than Harvard boys. That all comes of
being asked.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

The total wealth of Europe, personal
and real estate, is estimated at $685.
000,000000. This fact can hardly con-
sole the hordes Of beggars who swarm
in the streets of her big cities.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

Germany expects to have big navy,
and meanwhile is tending to depend on
this country as kind of coaling sta
ton.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15
Put. His Foot in 1t.

Miss Fisher-I really don't think L
shall take part again in theatricals.
always feel as thokgh were maklnfN.
a fool of myself.
PAkins (who always says the wrong
thing)-Oh, everybody thinks that
Harlem Life.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

People should be very careful in try
ing to crack practical joke that they
don't make bad break.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

If the automobile does not spread
over the earth it's not the fault of it's
big tires.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

In accord with the eternal fitness Of
things the use of grape shot would
give the enemy appendicitis.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

Porto Rico plums are the tropical
fruit most interesting to politicians.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

When man gets too lazy to fish
there is no earthly hope for him.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

The most Of our troubles are two
thirds anticipation and one-third reali-
zation.
Rock Island Argus., 1900-10-26
YATES DECLINES TO MEET
ALSCHULER IN A DEBATE.

Chicago, Oct. 26.-Samuel Alschu-
Ter, democratic nominee for governor,
yesterday in letter accepting the in
vitation of n citizens committee to
speak on state issues from the same
platform with Richard Yates, gave in
brief his answers to the questions the
committee propounded. He said he
was willing to meet the republican
candidate either Monday or Tuesday,
and that, if necessary, he might make
room on another day. For fear, how
ever, that the plan for a joint meeting
might fall through, he defined his Po-
sition on the issues that the committee
presented for discussion.
William Kent, president of the Mu-
nicipal Voters league, said last night
that Chairman Rowe, of the repub bli-
can state committee, had informed
him that Richard Yates would not ac-
cept the Invitation of the league to
speak with Mr.. Alschuler in Central
Music hall.
These are the questions that the
committee proposed for discussion:
l. The Merit System-Shall the
present law be retained? Shall the
system he extended in spirit and in
letter to the state institutions?
3 The Park Boards-Shau they be
organized TO maintain parks or TO
strengthen political machines?
5. The Railroad and Warehouse
Commission-Shalli it be so consti-
tuted as to be a guaranty of honest
dealing, or. shall it serve as q cloak TO
fraud?
1. The Traction Question-Shau
he municipalities be permitted by the
Rock Island Argus., 1900-10-26
In That War That is Ended
Over in the Philippine
Islands.
BOLOMEN SEEM FIERCE.
One Thousand of Them Bat
tie With Varied Detach-
ment of Americans.
AND HOLD THEIR GROUND.

Washington, Oct. 26.-The war de-
partment today received dispatch
from Macarthur at Manila, giving an
account of a desperate fight between
40 men of Company H, SD regiment,
60 of Troop l., Sd cavalry, and 400
rifemen and 1000 Bolomen under
command of Juan Villamor, subordi-
nate of Tinos, IA miles east of Mar
Vican.
American Troops Driven Back.
Our troops under heavy pressure
and an overwhelming number were
compelled to return to Narvican.
Our loss was one officer and four
men killed, nine men wounded, four
missing. The loss of the insurgents
is estimated at $50.
Rock Island Argus., 1900-10-26
THAT BIG STRIKE
OVER IN CANADA.

Montreal, Oct. 26.-There are now
on duty at Valleyield guarding
the extensive works of the Dominion
Cotton company 25 officers and 35S
men and non-com missioned officers
and men. The seading of reinforce.
ments was decided on late last night
after the first detachment of Royal
Scots had come into collision with the
strikers, and as a result had nine OF
their men sent to the hospital. Only
one striker was wounded. Four hun
dred more operators joined the strik
ers this morning The town is now
under martial law.
Montreal. oct. 2G.-Over a score
wounded, one fatally. is the result of
conflict between the militia and the
striking mill hands at Valley Field
Que. y couple of hundred men en-
ploycd 10y the Montreal Cotton COM
pauy ON the foundations of a new mill
went out on strike Wednesday demand
ing an increase of - cents a day in
their pay. The company refused to deal
with the union. "Wednesday the strik-
crs prevented the company from ship
ping goods and Yesterday held up the
cunpauy'S coal pile The local police
We're powcrlcSS. The company had To
have coal or shut down. Consequent
" 4 message was sent 10 Montreal ask
ing for military assistance. Ii arrived
at Valley Field at 4:3O p. IN. yeSter-
day and consisted of two companies Of
the Royal Scots. The embargo on the
coal pile was promptly removed.
At dusk a big crowd composed of
strikers and their SympathzerS gather
ed and there was every evidence of
trouble. About $50 the mob gathered
near the Empire mill and began throw
inc stones through the windows, and
otherwise destroying property. The
troops charged the mob with fixed bay
onetS They were driven back and
eight Of them wounded, two Of them
seriously. The strikers had fifteen
men injured. one fatally. Reinforce
meutS were then asked for from Mon
trcal. and 500 men with medical assist
ance left here at once.
Rock Island Argus., 1900-10-26

Hazleton. Pa, Oct. 26.-The mine
workers strike has been declared off
against all companies which have COM
piled with the strikers demands, and
the strike will be continued against
those companies which have not grant
ed the Scranton conventions demands.
The strikers viii return to work Mon
day at the place where tn etie-up is
ended.
The foregoing news was received
with great rejoicing In all the min
ing districts.
Hazleton, Pa, Oct. 2G.-The follow
ing statement was given out for pub
licatlon last night by President Mitch
ell, of the United Mine Workers, be-
ing addressed to the miners and mine
workers of the anthracite region:
Gentlemen: After carefully can
vassing the entire strike situation we,
YOUR officers, district and national.
have concluded that your victory is so
nearly complete that no good end can
be served by continuing the strike long
err The contest has been in progress
for thirty-nine days, and the compan-
les employing YOU have, with few eX-
ceptions, signified their willingness to
pay the scale of wages formulated by
the Scranton convention of Oct. II
and l..
Powder Question and Sliding Scale.
eve are aware that some edisappoint-
ment and dissatisfaction has been
caused by the failure of the operators
in districts l and to separate the re
duction in the price of powder from
the advance in wages. but after care
full inquiry we are satisfied that each
mine empIOye VIII actually receive an
advance OF 10 per cent. on the wages
formerly paid. In the Schuylkill and
Lehigh regions the largest companies
have agreed that the sliding scale
should he suspended, and that wages
should remain stationary at 10 per
Rock Island Argus., 1900-10-26

legislature to work out their own
problems under appropriate general
legislation?
In reply to the communication of
the committee Mr.. Alschuler accepts
the invitation, and in giving. his an
swer 10 the questions propounded,
states that no material change in the
merit system law should be made un-
less with the direct sanction and ap-
proval of the people themselves; that
the parks would be managed so as to
make them of the most service to
the people, rather than the means for
the accomplishment of political ends g;
that the business of the railroad and
warehouse commission should be
managed purely upon business princi-
pies and in a manner befitting the
great Importance of the interests
with which it deals: having voted
against the Allen bill, he would GER
tainly oppose as governor the enact
ment of any similar legislation.
Mr.. Alschuler says further: "In
my public addresses l have made the
statement that under the present ad
ministration the state institutions
and boards, as never before, have
been made the instIumeHtalities for
conferring reward for political ser
vice only, and for Furnishing political
recreancy, with results that have
been productive of much evil. If
elected governor will do what l can
to promote efficiency of management
recognize, however. that the best
results of a permanent nature cannot
reasonably be expected until the leg
islature shall provide By law for a
system of appointments based on
merit and ascertained ntuess."
Rock Island Argus., 1900-10-26
DEATH OF CARRIE WATSON.
Notorious Chicago Woman Passes to Her
Reward-Her Good side.

Chicago, Oct. 26.-Caroline Victoria
Watson died late Tuesday night at
80 Michigan avenue, where she had
been i'll for Il month. She died as Mrs.
Storms, and the burial certificate was
issued in that name. Although Car
rie" Watson was reputed to be almost
n millionaire, she is said TO have died
comparatively poor. The neiGhbors
of Mrs. Storms and even the janitOr
of the building in which she died knew
nothing of her past life or identity.
In the death of Carrie Watson there
passes from the public view probably
the most notorious woman of modern
times. The wOman's life was a record
of social opprObium an dcrimtHal mis-
deeds. She made and spent several for
tunes. Though social outcast this wO-
man had some good qualities. She was
charitable and the list of those TO
whom she acted rs the good Samaritan
was 4 long one.
Rock Island Argus., 1900-10-26
ADVICE AS TO FUTURE ACTION
Other Grievances To BE Pressed, Includ-
ing the Payday Question,

Other Grievances To BE Pressed, Inelud-
ing the Payday Question,
The statement then proceeds to ad-
wise the men what should be done in
the future. 1t says: The companies
agree i'll their notices TO take up with
their mine employees all grievances
complained of We would therefore adj
wise that when work is resumed COM
mittteeS be selected by the mine EN-
plOyeS and that tkey wait upon the sJh
perintendentS of the companies and
present their grievances in an orderly,
buSineSs-like manner, and ask that
they be corrected. Your attention is
respectfully called to the fact that the
laws of the state of Pennsylvania pro
vide that miners should be paid semi
monthly. upon demand; We should
therefore advise that each mine EN-
plOye serve notice on the companies
that he expects to be paid his wages
twice each month. as provided by law.
The practical benefits to the miners
which accrue from thorough organiZa-
tiOn have been so clearly demonstrated
during this strike that it should be
needless for us to urge upon you the
necessity of maintaing your union in
tact. We trust, however, that those
who are now members of the union
will be unceaSlng i'll their efforts to in
duce all other mine workers TO ally
themselves with the United Mine
Workers of America at once, as it will
be impossible for YOU to secure higher
wages in the future, or even to main
tain the present rate of wages, unless
YOU are prepared to offer Il united re-
Sistance if any attempt is made to re-
duce your earnings upon the eXpira tion
of the. present offer.
CAS- there are some few companies
who have neither posted, notified nor
Signified in any other manner their
willingness to pay the 10 per cent. ad
vance in wages and suspend the slid
ing scale, we would advise that unless
the men employed by such companies
receive notice before Monday that the
advance will be paid they remain away
from the mines and continue on strike
until the companies employing them
agree to the conditions offered by the
other companies. and the employees of
the companies who have offered the
advance of 10 per cent. and abolished
the sliding scale are hereby authorized
to resume work Monday morning, Oct.
%. and to be prepared. If called on, to
contribute Il reasonable amount of your
earnings for the maintenance of those
who may be compelled to continue on
strike"
The foregoing is signed by John
Mitchell, president; w. q. Wilson. sec.
retary of the United Mine Workers,
and the district presidents and secre
tarfeS of the regions involved in the
strike.