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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

A British scientist, insisting that
the first born of the family is rarely
the best in quality and is likely to
have defects the younger children es-
cape, argues that the Peers should be
selected from all the children and not
sit in the House of Lords by virtue
of being the first-born. This serves
to recall a popularity of English no
bility which does not obtain upon the
Continent. Only the eldest born of
an English peers family is noble.
Even the second son of a duke is by
law commoner and bears only the
courtesy of Lord, his children not be-
ing accorded even that. Winston
Churchill, although the son of Lord
Randolph Churchill, younger son Of
Duke Of Marlborough, is plain Mr..
Churchill. Even the blood royal in
England carries no nobility to the
third generation. The Duke of Con-
naught's second son, although Prince
by courtesy and likely to be made a
Peer, would nevertheless be COM
moner in law and his children would
of themselves possess even no courtesy
titles. Elsewhere in Europe all the
children are mobiles. In France un-
der the ancien regime If count had
ten sons, each was a noble in law. So
in Germany. Prince Bismarck had
two sons and a daughter. The elder
became Prince Won Bismarck, the
younger was Count Wilhelm Won Bis
marck, the daughter Countess Won Bis
marck. This legal and social pecu-
liarity has had much effect upon
English history. 1t prevented any
such indurated caste as obtains upon
the Continent. The easy transition
downward from nobility to common
atty facilitated an equal ease in transi-
tion upward from commonalty to
nobility, with the consequence that
the House of Lords has been continu-
of fresh blood ever since the Wars of
the Roses so nearly exterminated the
old Norman barons. Thus the English
law of primogeniture, which to-day we
regard as relic of feudalism. an alb
surdity and wrongful privilege, rep
resented in time past an amelioration
and in a sense an exemption from the
principle of caste that oppresses the
Continent even to-day. Compared with
the nobiliary principles of Germany
and Austria, the English primogeni'
ture Is democratic.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

Only 81 per cent Of the total area
Of the world is tillable.
The mines of Butte, Mont, have
combined pay roll Of 100000 a year.
The Argentine Legislature Is con-
sidering the construction of under
ground railways for Buenos Ayres.
1t is Just being realized that the
Trans-Siberian Railroad was a poor
lob from an engineering standpoint
The observed rate for the sound Of
"a" in great" Is 420. and for the
sound Of "a" in ma" ITO waves
second.
The telephone and telegraph wires
Of the United States would encircle the
earth at the equator more than 600
times.
To prevent the alteration of checks
or other valuable papers an inventive
genius has brought out an electric ap-
paratus which burns tiny holes in the
paper as the inscription is written.
Electricity has at last been applied
20 the Teddy bear, Maryland man
having patented one that opens its
Jaws and flashes lights from Its eyes.
nose and mouth, when battery In
Its interior is pressed.
The work on the Jungfrau Railway
Is progressing so rapidly that 1t will
probably be opened next year to Jung
frau Joch. where station and hotel
accommodating 200 persons have been
hewn out of the solid rock.
Though hydrophobia has been
stamped out of Britain, It is still ram
pant in Germany, where every year
over $500 dogs and cats afflicted with
the disease are destroyed.
A patent on a horseshoe designed to
prevent the stumbling Of horses wac
granted in Panama four years ago.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08
WOOD IN USED AIRsHIPs.
Two Reasons Why 1t Is Preferred
by Builders of New DirigibIe.

TWO heuhOnb why II As Ircterreu
by Builders of New Dirigible.
The new dirigible designed by Prof.
Schultz of Dantzig is now in the
course of construction at Rheinau,
near Mannheim. The wooden frame
work is already nearly complete.
Wood has been used in preference to
metal for two reasons, the Kolnische
Zeitung says, to save weight and to
minimize troublesome atmospheric
electrical phenomena.
The airship is to be somewhat larger
than the last Zeppelin. The balloon
proper is 1873 meters long and its
greatest diameter is II meters. 1t is
cigar-shaped, having its maximum
thickness in the first third of it's
length and then gently tapering be-
hind. This form is said to offer a
minimum resistance to the wind.
The wood is prepared In small Sec
tions free from knots a few milli-
meters in thickness. The sections are
glued over one another crosswise to
form Inln, narrow DuL extremely
strong planks. The whole framework
will be concealed from view by the
outer covering of the balloon. There
will be eleven inner balloonets, just as
in the Zeppelin.
The steering gear will be placed i'm
mediately below the balloon and con-
sist of rudder governing lateral
movements and two elevating rudders.
The two propellers will be directly
connected with the motors in the car
Each propeller shaft will be driven by
| two motors. The motors will be able
| to develop in all 600 horse power. The
car is to be so suspended tina. in the
air it will be rigidly connected to the
framework of the balloon, but as soon
as it touches the ground the connec
tions will become slack, thus taking
off part of the weight and guarding
the body of the balloon from injury by
shocks.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08
"a Mite Too Frying.n

Bushby had many natural advan-
tages and beauties, but Mrs. Abner
Crane, who was a brief sojourner in
the place, having been there only a
matter of ten years or so, never appre-
ciated 1t. "She was aching to get
back to Nashuy the whole enduring
time," said one of Mrs. Cranes Bushby
neighbors, "and l was glad to see her
60, feeling as she did"
What was 1t she didn't like about
Bushby?" asked one of the summer
residents, curiously.
"She said she didn't get the news O.
the day quick enough to suit her,"
quoted the neighbor, with as near an
imitation of Mrs. Cranes air as she
could manage.
"As l said to my Asy, what on earth
she wanted more than we have in the
way O. news-spreaders here, l don't
know.
when you consider that there are
Ave telephones in town, a grocery wa
gon driven by Lucy Grants boy twice
a week, Lucy Grant herself to sew for
everybody in town by the day, and all
taking milk from Jed Kimball, don't
know how we could be any better
fixed. I call anybody that wants more
news o the day than Bushby folks gat
. mite too prying myself"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

about waist high to a man. At the
rear of each loom, on slanted bench,
sit the weavers who work the design.
Beneath the warp, and readily visible
through its many tight-stretched
strands, the pattern lies close unde'
hand. 1t is drawn on a monster sheet
of paper and colored with painstaking
skill. Above it bend the weavers of
the cloth, each softly supported with
pillows. One pillow to sit on and one
on which to lean, each workman ad
justs to his needs His colors (the
woofs) are wound on spools, and re.
semble a heap of large-sized. brightly
colored and differently hued caterpil
lars, ready to spin out their substance
There are frequently as many as TWEEN.
ty or thirty of these shuttles beneath
one workman's hands.
1t is wonderful and utterly bewil.
dering to see these craftsmen weave
Their hands out-machine a machine as
they grasp at the warp, to lift two
four, five or any number of strands,
shoot a bobbin in and out, and make
a singular tie, to drop that particular
caterpillar, clutch up another, tie in
its thread, and pounce upon a third
or fourth, and return, perhaps, to mum.
her one. They keep those red, green,
gold and purple caterpillars in a con
slant state of agitation. They grasp
at the warp and play in a strand and
finger new strings, as if the cords
were the wires. of some silent harp on
which they play ceaseless compost.
tion. that expresses itself in color Yet
fast as their fingers seem to play upon
this soundless instrument it is slow,
hard toll with eyes and hands to stitcn
in those units of the scheme.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08
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An electric elevator has been III
stalled in the stairway which leads
to the cupola of st. Peters cathedra,
in Rome. The elevator has a capacity
for carrying ten persons. 1t bears
an appropriate Latin inscription.
Peter the Great. Russias famous
czar, when he was staying in England
had particular liking for the com
panionship of HALEY, after whom the
comet is named. After carousing with
him at Deptford one evening Peter
wheeled the astronomer in a barrow
through. yew hedge and did such
damage that he had to pay handsome
compensation to John Evelyn, the
owner.
Ingenious Germans have experiment
ed successfully with the fiber of the
kapok or silk cotton" tree of tropical
Africa and Asia, and believe they hav.
useful substitute for cotton If thai
is the case, they will have furnished
additional proof that no substance
however valuable, is absolutely indis.
-pensable to man. Cotton long seemed
to be almost so, and there are few;
things without which we should ge,
on so badly. if there were nothing
else to which to turn.
1t is proposed t. establish e. wirelesc
telegraph station at the meteorological,
observatory on Mount -Mirador in the
Philippines, to give warning of ty-
phoons to vessels in the China sea,
and points along the China coast A
similar station will probably be estab
lished later at Santo Domingo de Bas,
co on the island of BataL, for commu-
nicating information of the presence
of typhoons in that vicinity to the
headquarters of the Philippine wea-
tber bureau at Manila
d., G. F. Becker, discussing the pos.
slbility that petroleum may be derived
from carbids of irul or other metals.
points out that Bauer's map of mag.
netlc oeclinatioh in tn, United States
proves that petroleum. is intimately
associated with magneti. disturbances
similar to those arising from the
neighborhooG of minerals possessing
sensible magneti, attraction" and he
adds thai henceforth no geological
| theory of petroleum will be acceptable
which does not explain this associe
tion. A writer in Nature remarks thai
| If these conclusions are confirmed, a
new and important sphere of useful
ness for magnetic surveys will be
opened.
Modern chemistry enables man to
make over some of the most useful
metals very much at his will, and
greatly to his profit. DR., w. Rosen-
hahn, in England, recently made re-
port on the properties of new alloys
of copper, aluminium and manganese,
which show remarkable peculiarities.
An alloy of SS per cent copper, 9.99
| per cent aluminium and 2.01 per cent
manganese showed enormous tensile
strength cold-drawn bar having a
yield Of 40.SS tons per square inch
and an ultimate stress of 52.OS tons
pei square inch. Another alloy is so
hard that it can take a cutting edge
sharp enough to sharpen leadpencil
The British Admiralty is experiment.
ing with these alloys to determine
their resistance to corrosion in sea-
| u,ofar
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08
WEAvERS OF NEW YORK.
Ancient AubussOn Looms Making
Tapestry I'm Manhattan Island.

Tapestry In Mammalian Isi"hu'
The looms we visited are new in the
city of Gotham. They are tapestry
looms of pattern unchanged after
centuries of use. And the art of the
weaver of these fabrics, we are told,
is far too ancient for record.
The art we beheld is almost abso-
lutely unaltered. The looms are in
stalled in a studio place that was once
palatial stable, says Philip Verrill
Mighels in Harper's. They are copies
of what are known 30 the craft as
the Aubusson looms of France. The
men engaged in making tapestries
upon this old device are foreign crafts
men, trained to their guild and won
lrOusly skilled in the art.
1t provided singular sensation to
ieave the busy, noisy thoroughfare of
modernity and ascend to that conclave
Of looms so allied to the past. There
were two great apartments devoted to
this enginery of beauty. Enginery
seems the only adequate word. The
looms we saw are combinations of
huge wooden frameworks. beam-like
levers. twining ropes and Tightening
devices. the whole resembling those
monstrous stone-heaving catapults
inseparable from ancient war.
Unlike the tapestry looms at the
Gobelin workshops in Paris, these are
made to stretch the warp horizontally,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

Floating debts are familiar to treas
urers of churches and other societies;
all of us have floating ribs; a floating
population is the JOY of hotel proprie-
tors; and now Alaska is to learn what
floating judiciary is like. The Unit
ed States court for the district is to
take possession of a steamer this sum.
mer and make cruise along two thou.
sand miles of the coast, administering
justice as 1t goes. II 1t were not for
the fact that the justice administered
will be well grounded and anchored
in the federal statutes, there might be
some dissatisfaction withsthe prospects
of a judiciary all at sea.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

The familiar formula which tells
us that woman Is as old as she looks
goes on to advise us that a man
is as old as he feels. How old, then,
are some of our modern boys? What
is the real age of college student of
IL who deals in the fourth dimension
and in flights to Mars? What is the
real age reached by boy who begins
on the stock market at 16 and, COM
pressing a lifetime into single year,
gives up this restless, anxious being
at II, suicide? Many parents are
troubled by backward boys who can.
not show results to reward parental
sacrifices, or by needless boys who
ignore the sacrifices altogether. But
dull boys and thoughtless boys may
cause less anxiety and distress than
precocious boys. Such a one was
George Dabo, who, forced to maturity
and fortune in the Wall street hot
house and chatting under restraint put
upon him by his physicians, sent bull
let into his head and SO left the
floor" Most fathers and mothers will
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08
Where Letters Are Carried 400
Miles in Order to Get Across
a Io-Foot Hall.
posToFFTcE ON THE BORDER.
Beebe Plain, VT, and Beebe Plain,
Que., Joint Owners of a Pc
culiar Institution.

The queerest postoifice in North
America is probably located here,
where a simple wooden building shell
ters the offices of two countries. a
Beebe Plain (Vt.) correspondent says.
The structure is cut diagonally by the
Canada line, being almost equally di-
vided by the imaginary boundary. The
northern halt. contains the postoffice
Of Beebe Plain. Que, and the south
ern half the office of Beebe Plain, vt.
They are separated only by ten-foot
corridor. using this passageway and
the same door in common. George H.
House, postmaster, looks after the mail
of the two Offices. AS result of red
tape in the postal regulations regard
ing the transfer of mails, letter
mailed at the Vermont oftice for the
Canadian office across the hall travels
29O miles before delivery.
Previous to 1899 the United States
postoffice was located in a dwelling
house and the Canadian Office in a
store. In neither case was the
service wholly satisfactory, but it
seemed to be the best arrange
ment that could be made. How
ever, in 1899 the idea was con-
ceived of utilizing the old stone store,
located right on the line, for both Of
fees, and finally the present arrange
ment was perfected so that most sat
isfactory service has been provided.
Patrons of the double postoffice can
do their postoffice business by making
one call. Two doors, one on each side
of the line, open into the lobby. The
distance between the postoffice boxes
of the two countries is ten feet, the in
ternational boundary line running
through the space between the two sets
dropped into the wrong letter box, it
is passed to the right Office and sent
on it's way.
A letter posted at Beebe Plain, Vt,
for Beebe Plain, Canada, will go south
on the Boston & Maine railroad from
Beebe Junction, VT, to White River
junction. Ill miles on the same route,
and then continues on it's way to
Sherbrooke, P. O., "a miles farther.
There 1t is again transferred and re-
turns to Beebe Plain, P @.
That is, after having a ride of "a
hours and going 29O miles, it arrives
at its destination, ten feet from where
it started.
Or, perhaps, it goes on another train
south on the Boston & Maine to Wells
River, VT, 80 miles. There it is trans
ferred and goes back via Beebe juno
tion to Sherbrooke, P. G., ia miles, to
be transferred again and returns to the
building it started from 80 hours be-
fore. 1t has Travelled 22S miles.
The village has population of
about 100 ON the Vermont side and
about 600 on the Canadian side. All of
the places of business are on the
Canada side, so most of the patrons of
the Office arc Canadians, but they are
very willing t. avail themselves of the
unique arrangement and use either Of
fee that will give the bes1 "esults
The line" itself L. quite narrow
herein fact, it is SC narrow that it
cannot be seen except where the iron
posts appear. Som, persons have
stood in one country and written thei
postcards or letters in the other.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

The desirability of the United States
owning its embassy buildings in for
eign capitals was again emphasized
when the American ambassador to
Germany was forced to vacate his Ber-
lin house, at the height of the social
season, because it had been let to a
permanent tenant. 1t is not in ac-
cordance with the dignity of this coun-
try that its ambassador should be at
the mercy of foreign landlord.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

Professor Jespersen, who, although
a Dane, knows more about the En-
glish language than most of those
who speak it by inheritance, insists
that 1T is me" has become correct
through usage. This will send cold
shivers down the backs of strict gram
marians; and yet do not the precise
and logical Frenchmen say, "C'est
moi?"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

The nation paid out $16,OO0,OOO for
tuberculosis last year. Fresh air
comes high, but we must have it. No
one has yet suggested patrolman to
go about smashing in all closed bed
room windows.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

A New York man IS years of age
has refused to enter a home for old
people because his mother-in-law, aged
lis, is an inmate of the institution.
We declare without fear of successful
contradiction that this is carrying
prejudice against the mother-in-law too
far.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

Congress has had some stormy ses-
sions this spring, but inkstands have
not yet taken the place of arguments.
The Hungarian parliament must be a
sight for laundrymen to rejoice over
after one of its political crises.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

A surgical operation was performed
on the head of California boy re-
Gently for the purpose of curing him
of evil tendencies. 1t is reported to
have been failure. There may still
be chance, though. Perhaps an
operation with serviceable slipper
would have the desired effect.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

The idea of putting in meters to
measure telephone talk is good, but
will it be possible to devise meters
that will stand the strain?
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

A poor woman in st. Louis put all
her money in the oven, and then, for
getting what she had done, made a
fire in the stove. But it was silver
money, and wasn't hurt bit.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

The man who takes an upper berth
hereafter will be under the terrible
suspicion of travelling ION the cheap"
This will make the top bed more un-
popular than ever.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

A good garden and well-kept yard
are sure indications of thrift in the
home.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

Five suspected crooks have been
shot to death in Chicago this season.
Prudent crooks will avoid being sus-
pected.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

Don't worry If you can't always have
your own way. Sooner or later every
man bumps up against stone wall.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

In running a school or in curing
disease the fresh air is immeasurably
better than hot air.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08
Wears the Unmentionable..

Jack-Who was the best man at
your wedding?
TOMMY wife; but didn't know It.
Boston Evening Transcript.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

In some families you are always
placed in the position of having to
take Sides"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08
Topics of
the Times

Mark Twain died a millionaire. l,
pays to be cheerful.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

1t is rumored that the Nicaraguan
naval forces will be doubled by the
enlisting of another sailor.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

Even a truthful man is occasionally
guilty Of exaggeratiol
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-08

One of the prettiest models for dainty
httl afternoon gown of batiste, is shown
above.
The wee yoke is of fine ecru lace, the
batiste being of that color, and there's
Just touch of light blue in the en-
broidery.