Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-10-14
MODERN METHODS.
Humorous but Striking Review By
Congressman ]. Adam Bede.

Humorous but Striking Review By
Congressman J. Adam Bede.
Congressman ]. Adam Bede of Min
nesota In an optimist and q humorist.
He takes cheerful view Of life and
radiates sunshine by his quaint Ian
guage. In a recent speech on Modern
Methods he said:
When I was boy in Ohio they used
to have a shoemaker at every cross
roads. used to have him make my
boots, because shoes at that time were
considered effeminate. If that shoe
maker is living to-day he is In a fac
tory. The world has changed. The big
factory has come. We used to use a
fail for threshing, but to-day in the
bright lexicon of youth, there is no
such word as nail. Now we have a
steam thresher. And attached to this
Is blower which blows out the dust,
and even the straw is stacked by hot
air, just as we run the business down
at Washington by hot air. My good
mother used to put the milk in pans
and set them on the shelf to allow the
cream to rise. Now we have the sepa-
rator everywhere. Some Yankee figured
out that he was losing the interest on
his investment while the cream was
rising. So he invented a machine to
jerk 1t out at once, and carried the
milk to the pigs as by-product
can remember when a boy that hens
used to set on eggs; but the incubator
does that and the hen goes right on
with the real business now. We used
to keep bees on the farm. and before
they made honey the bees had first to
make tho comb. Now we extract the
honey and use the comb over again
while the bee goes on buzzing like a
laboring man under prosperity. Ny
good old mother, who is now 80 years
old, was born on the shores Of Lake
Erie before the time of railroads, tele-
graphs and telephones. She has seen
more than half the progress Of the
world and is yet living. We have in
troduced new methods and these make
new problems to solve. There is a
woman living in Chicago who can re-
member when there was no railroad
there. In 1868 it cost one dollar to
take bushel Of grain from Chicago to
Liverpool; to-day it can be done for
from II to Is cents.
West little dinky bob cars drawn by
mules. When they tried to run them
in the winter and the mules faced q
blizzard, they would turn around and
put their heads inside the door OF the
car and hold joint debate with the
conductor or take lunch OF the cush-
ions. Now they have large cars pro.
PEELED by, electricity. Rural free de-
livery Of mails has come, and the farm.
er on a rural free delivery route Is
better informed on public affairs, polit
ical and scientific, than the business
men of the cities.
When Lee surrendered to Grant the
price Of products went up in England
for two weeks, because the cable was
broken and Europe did not know fol
two weeks what had occurred. In 1898
when Dewey sank the fleets in Manila
the news went around the world and
was heard in the White House in Just
35 minutes. 1t would almost seem as
II the world was nav creation, with
the electric wires it's nervous system
The great world has been coming along
most rapidly. The only reason why
we cannot at once solve all problems Is
that we can't quite keep up with the
procession.